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PHIL G. BYRD.
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
If the tightneis of his hat band
is acriterion Aguinaldo ought
to favor expansion.
The peace protocol did not
bring any cessation of hostilities
for Secretary Alger.
The Dreyfus infamy is rusting
the bright prospects of ilie Inter
national Exposition mightly.
Fitzhugh Lte tells Bob Cramer,
of the Atlanta Constiution that he
ia unequivocally out of politics.
Blanco has consigned his type
writer to the cellar. Thus the
fruits cf victory come our way.
Make your plai.s so that you
can go to the polls next Wednesday
and vote a straight Democratic
ticket.
Whether it be revolution or
no revolution, Dreyfus must be
retried. This is written in the
horoscope of Frsnce.
The Empress Dowvger is not
the Emperor of China’s mothi r-in
law—only his aunt. This may ex
plain why he is still alive.
There are two Hawaiians on
the Yale football team. Who
said those islanders were not fit
ted for American citizenship?
After submitting to the embrac
es of Tom Cat Platt, Colonel Rooss
velt ought to go into quarantine
and have his San Juan laurels
fumigated.
The greatest walkover that has
been known in Georgia po'itics,
where there was an alleged contest ,
will be the victory of Colonel Can
dler next week, -
China’s Empress Dowager
does not propose to allow’ an
adulescent Emperor to stand in
her way. She prefers to make an
angel of this “Son of Heaven. ”
A railroad man is authority for
the statement that more bales ol
hay are imported into Georgia than
bales of cotton are exported from
the slate. There is no txiuse for
this.
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Despite the iact that hundreds
of persons have killed themselves
because they have been ruined by
the Vienna Municipal Lottery, the
Viennese continue to regard ihe
institution with favor, it keeps
dow n ths Taxes.
A Kansas girl has brought suit
against her pastor fur kissing her
alleging that the kiss was so coil
that it made her shiver. The Mont
gomery Advertiser suggests that
the poor girl should come south
and tangle labia with a returner
soldier.
Mies Winnie Davis was the only
Daughter of the Confederacy, by
reason.of the fact that she was th*
only child born in the White House
ot the Confederacy. The movement
to select Miss Davis’s successo’
will not prove a very popular on
for the reason stated. —Calhoun
Enquirer.
Lrt every person in North Geoi
gia who can get ’to Dalton next
Monday, be sure to come in and
hear Hon. Fleming dußignon and
Senator A. S. Clay speak. It wi 1
be a big occasion, and you will
hear two of the finest speeches
ever made in Dalton made by tw<
of the cleve r est, nicest men in the
s ate. The ladies are especially in*
vited to attend. — Baltcn Argus
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The populi is oHtried thirty-two
cotinties in Ueoiglk two yearn ago,
but if there is ahything in the
surface indications of the political
waters of the Btat« they will not
carry half that many this year.
The populist leaders have aban
doned party and principle in form
ing an alliance with lhe repub
licans wherever the latter are
found to be i.i Pi.fficent numbers
to form a contingent for a bargain,
This has disgusted the better
element of the original populist
party of th“) state, and many of
them are coming back to the
democratic party. The fact is,
many populists are anxious to
comeback to the democratic party
anyhow to vole for Allen D. Can
dler for Governor —Albany Her*
aid.
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The city of Monroe, La having
almost completed the construction
of a bridge across the Red River at
that point, has just discovered
that the structure will be ninety
• eel too short to reach from bank
to bank. The municipal author
ities have declined to be responsi
ble for further work on the bridg
unless it shall be made long
enough to be of use, and the con
tractors are in a quandary. It
seems that the engineer who drew
lhe plats took his figures from an
old and inaccurate Government
map instead of making the meas
urements personally and his time
saving method has been the cause
of ail the trouble.
The people of Saltillo, Statu o,
Coahuila, Mexico, have called th
attention of the United tlatn*
Government to the fact that the
bodies of over 500 American sol
diers lie in unmarked graves near
that cityv They were the victm 8
of the battle of Buena Vista, the
scene of which was fourteen milei
from this neglected military cem 1 -
etery AfUr the battle the dead
were conveyed to Saltillo and in
terred, and an adobe wall was built
arc und the graveyard. The ground
is owned by a Mexican, who now
contemplates utilizing it for othei
purposes.
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\ irgil blue an old colored man
of Fatquier Court House, Va.,
called at the W ar Department the
other day to inquire about two of
his sons who were wounded
at Santiago. He said that he had
thirty-five nephews in the colored
regular and volunteer regiment—
“sort ob a fightin ’ crowd”—and
that he used to enjiy a “tussle”
himself.
“The chief beauty of the cli
mate of the East is that a perscn
may survive it tor years,” says a
Los Angeles writer. “Easterner
who have not been sunetruck up
to this writing stand an excellent
chance to escape it until next sum
mer if they do not nave pneumo
nia in the winter.”
George Clark, of Merrit m’s
Corner, near Concord, Mass., was
plowing the other day and, glanc
ing over his shoulder at the up
turned furrows, saw something
glistening in the sun. It proved t<
be a eix-pence of 1652, a splendid
-pecimen of the rare “pinetree”
currency, the first coinage of Nev
England. In 1654 the General
Court prohibited the transporta
tion out ot its jurisdiction of mor*
than 20 shillings “for necessary
expenses” by any *; e s n. Officer
were appointed to “examine all
packs, persons, trunks, chests,
bcxse cr the like.” The penalty
vas the seizure cf the whole estat
>f the offender.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
If a waiuan’s bite is venom
ous, is a kiss only a pleasant
neighbor to infection*'—l lorida
Times-Union .
Hobson is in Santiago, and
probably will not dare to ven
ture North again during the
heated term. —Chicago Times-'
Herald,
The proposed alliance be
tween Japan and China suggest*
that between a locomotive and a
freight traiu t =—Philadelphia j
Public Ledger.
Jim Corbett anil Kid McCoy
are saving some very hard things
of each other, and the public is
supposed to indorse it all.—
Washington Post.
There are lots of sympathetic
people going about shouldering
the griefs of other people who
would break down entirely if
they had troubles of their own.
—New Orleans Picayune.
The governor of Kentucky is
•aid to be discouraging the car
rying of pistols. Great Scott!
One of these days some one will
be trying to discourage the
drinking of whisky.—New York
Tribune.
The first Filipino congress
•eems to be a big improvement
on the Spanish cortes and the
Austrian reichsrath. There was
not a single fist fight during
the entire continuance and only
one cussing match.—St. Louis
Republic.
French is the diplomatic lan
guage of the globe, but before
many years English will be the
commercial language. The An
glo-Saxon triumphs in two con
tinents within a few months
have a great significance.— Cin
cinnati Commercial-Tribune.
EDITORIAL HASH DISH.
There are lots of people wlr,
when it comes to civil office
around Santiago, will take any
thing. No immunes exist in
this direction.—Philadelp lia
Times.
It is a trifle difficult to distin
guish where champagne leave->
off and sham pain begins in th i>
discussion over the christening
of the Illinois.—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Mr. Bynum will not lead
many gold Democrats into the
Republican party. Men are not
given to following a person who
is being propelled by the toe of
a boot.—Washington Post.
Don’t forget, please, that the
names of the peace commission
ers of Spain are Rios, Cerero,
Abarzuza, Villarrutia and Gar
nica. Perhaps it might be well
to chalk them down.—Boston
Herald.
It is stated that the kaiser will
postpone his visit to the holy
land. This announce ment does
not come as a surprise. It was
expected from the day that the
czar stole his Mount of Oliv-s
sermon.—New York Sun.
SPAIN’S GREATEST NEED.
Mr. R, P. Olivia, of Carcelon
ia, S. C. Weak nerves had caus
ed severe pains in the back ot
his head, On using Electric Bit
ters, America’s greatest blooc
and nerve remedy, all pain soon
left him. He tays this grand
medicine is what his country
needs. All America knows that
it cures liver and kidney trou
ble, purifies the blood, tones up
the stomach, strengthens the
nerves, puts vim, vigor and new
life into every muscle, nerve
and organ of the body. If weak,
tired or ailing you need it. Ev
ery bottle guaranteed, oulv 50
cents. Sold by k Cwrry| Arring
on,’druggists.
TAX NOTICE.
The last half of tax for 1898 is
now due the city of Rome. All
persons owing taxes are hereby
notified to call at the Clerk’s of
fice at the city hall and settle.
Sept. 16th 1898.
Halsted Smith, Clerk Council. 1
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