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IBITLBU-GOMIWiII
THE HUSTLER OF ROME
established, 18tc.
~HE ROME COMMERCIAL
Established, ils>.
tsu*d every svsßing. except Satui*-?. 1
Snaday and weekly,
PHIL G. BYRD,
EBITOR AND MANAGER.
■BaßHaHMLi.'uv
Dani th* Etowah !
Ma) or Seay continue to
please the people.
The Georgia University feet
ballists can’t play, even a little
bit.
With cotton at 4 cents, its
time for the tarmes to wring th.
chamgee.
—■ l.' W.J —•
The negro problem is becom
ing quite pronounced in the ?r
--my.—Augusta. — Augusta Chronicle.
The distance from the farther
eet point of polar, disc*veiy to
the pole itself is 400 miles.
Diplomacy as she is practiced
i» bluff in all its scientific intri
caees pure and simple— so to
•peak.
Where is the fellow that said '
that Allen D. Candler would
not be governor after Le was
elected ?
Some men get very indigo: nt
when they fee a woman doing a
man’s work'—that is kissing an
other woman.
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Dewey continues to wear;
well. Make hie fare well—dif
ferent to the farewell of Samp
son and Shafter.
And now it is proposed to
float the Maria Teresa again,
•nd next time start her across
in a floating dock.
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Anniston is having a hot time
with Alabama “coons.” So far
all the victims have been plant
•d in the negro cemetery.
Bnw 11..I 1 .. H 11 W' 1 ""
Uncle Sam has more use for
Cuba than for unweildly Cana
• da. Cuba can be made self sus
taining—Canada, never. J
Gen. Breckinridge is evident
ly of the opinion that there was
too much Michigan in the lat*
war.-—Atlanta Constitution.
*■ Shafter, Alger & Co., (limit
ed) will retire from public life,
permanently when McKinley’s
term ends. Mark that prediction.
Why should Senator Stewart
despair of re-election I There are
only forty-five members of the
Nevada Legislature—and Stew
art is no pauper.
Spain has taken the Columbus
monument at Havana down and
shipped it Lome, we can replace
it with one in memory of Schley.
—Waycross Herald.
Th* Georgia Legislature ba*
■ot disgraced itself so far, and
theJub’h* of the City-by-thc-
Kimball draweth nigh. Lwt ev
erybody car-shed tears of joy.
City smoke-houses and corn—
cribs come high, but the 4 cent
cotton farmer is the supply mer
chaat’s petted horny-handed
•on-ef-toil, and must have ’em.
Wherever negro troops ‘have
been thrown with the whites in
the volunteer camps, clashes
have resulted, and it goes with
saying that the governmen
been tauget a thiug or tu<,
will not be forgotten next
time an army is to be raised.—
Albany Herald.
Po’ r old Frank Evans I We
- i:der what kind of a Tbanlcs
iv.ri; day he spent. Orphaned
in L 'by-hoo.l, bound out and his
( hi.'d-liood spent under a cruel
am’ ielent’ess stranger ; no ad
vai * .es amj not even a chance
unit s he made it for himself
.nder adverse circumstances, a
stranger, al.>ne in a strange
land, knocked down by a man
of superior physical strength, a
man whom l e had been drink
ing with and who was much so
berer than he. Thon, while still
un eiiscious or dazed from the
io v that had felled him, he is
alleged to have tired the fatal
shot ; tried, and the jury held
out for a week and forced to a
verdict, and then condemn toed
imprisonment. Red handed
murderers in Floyd go fre* 99
limes out of a hundred —and al
ways if they have money for a
se—but here is this lon*
boy, generous-hearted to a
fault, frank of nature, and over
o[ en-hearted, doomed to a life
time imprls t.inent, Why not
b. g of the brave, just man ntfw
governor, a pardon for this boy
nee . i let him taste of
:ty. Give him
another chance in life.
—
3 rigli t:“Tbe
holders of Spauish.bcndsbought
i them at rates which they con
d a good investment, and
It; y took th?m subject to any
contingencies that might arise
ifleeting their value and securi
ty. The government that issued
i. era still exists and is responsi
lie, and to that and that alone
the Spanish creditors must look
f payment. The United States
i iias a plethoric treasury, but
there is not a dollar of Amern
can m. ney available for paying
off Spanish debts.
Ah.sk a is a veritable wonder
land. The iaore it unfolds itself
rhe greater the amazement. A
ew clays. ago an unparalleled
discovery of gold was announced
—afi :d which out-Eldorades
I idorado. On the heels of this
: ! •'ligence came advices from
Lieut. Sparr, that he had dis
covered a new range of moun
tains, 400 miles long, with an
average height of 7000 feet. On*
can almost hear the expansion
ists exclaim : “And it’s all ours !
All ours!”
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Fancy the peace commission
ers of two great nations, each
costing its government a per
diem that wnuld buy a wholesale
dry goods house and a small
retail bar room, after having
met and kept steady company
for six weeks, just fancy one
writing ths otlier a note and
asking the other if he really
meant what lie said at first I Oh,
i’aree, gay Paree! thou *nter
tainest a drove of jassacka t.,at
are thoroughbred lulus !
1 1
Alphabetically ai_d in point of
■hied, Rear Admiral Schley has a
w yof coming out strongest'Jn
t!. : fit h act, lie waited with his
hying Squadron at Hampton
i ds tili Dewey had sent up the
I ■-.•st grand rocket, te waited off
antiago till it was time for the
ist horn to blow, and now he has
jus' c me 'ut of ths Hobsoniau
gHiitkt with color* flying arid
tho much,as a black aye. Once
■ more we congratulate the heroic
- Schley !
I he spiiitof that “nigger pa
triot’ who put his uniform
i a ' Must the cow-catcher of Jesse
j Waiter’s buiLgineon the South
ern at Silver creek, is doubtless
b lug taught to dodge imps and
give Go!. Satan's through line a
. I car right-of-way. 11 is supposed
th. it the spirit of the mat who
struck Billy Patterson is the
artful dodger spirit acting as
, tooter.
!■ n< i., but an arbitration
will do . tin, why, we agree
Wuh th luatgomery Adverti
ser, and :..gestDowey, Schley
and \\ . ler for America’s side.
We ji told that th* fanners
are in a id way. Well, the) de
serve the punishment, for didn’t
I f
lus new aper men warn em
agin pitciiin’ a 4 cent cotton
I crop?
Tne highway rubber finds
more m. yin “shootin’ ” craps
than in lootin’ 4-cent—cujtton
farniers— specially when the
dicj ami the farmers are botli
“loaded.”
- ■ JJ*. >U1 —
Chic; > has a woman who
tried sev n times to drown her
self and still alive and well .
If the n ne of Chicago’s river is
jiot “A u then that woman
must be cat.
LTic" ain’s civilized Indians
threaten to go wild again, un-i
less t! e overument pays th*
money . u > them. It does make
a man . savage when a fellow
can pay nd —won’t.
, . .. wOMsnssssHr. .r»s.n-M
A Mu uri youth has just mai-
the f‘pm;>ther of ni* step
mother. 'o should n®w elope with
aa or; i and rescue bjßM»lf
prompt rum the meshy mazy
meshes . o »hich he has fallen.
. MUI it
Schh did the work, but only
gets pub c approbation, a few
jeweled voids and tho privilege
of brusi iig a poor man’s hair,
bampsc the pretender,, gets
the priz money. It wus ever
thus.
'Hie S .vtli negro regiiopnt at
Macon still under arrest, and
has be*placed at hardworb . If
tbeyw'.e put in stripes and
marched into the penitential v
but few innocent men would
suffei.
The v <y the people's- money
has been appropriated and spent
extravi c utly by the legis
lature is enough to justify a
man in 1 dodging” tho full re
turns of ‘lie property. Mariet
ta Jour 1‘
Yes, J ie, dear, it’s your duty
to be th-v kful, with the accent cm
the that ' “Also at the samw
time ami ’ac»” it’s y<»ur duty to
tell your ' rother that it is not his
duty to 1 thankful—with the 4ac
cent on 'full.
If Torn Reed has promised
Alger protection from congres
sional fire, all well and good—
for Algo - —otherwise the Michy
gan’ei 1: ;d better be equipping
his ma-ked batteries with
srnokeh Powder.
The fi. t thing some one knows
Huntsv. will make a leap from
15,000 , uianent citizens to 30,-
000. 1 11 do* their pars, bear ».
portion < the burden, have no sap
suckers n the back of the columns'
of progr ■, we will succead be
yond qua lion.—Huntaville Tri
bune.
——r—. mu-
Youn men, with co’d'-slaw
crysant > .ums and ’their hair
par ed e middle spend lot of
time in rry company, in ladies
parlors, fnrls, why do you make
them wait iiy their lonelies for
only a iiM.ll hour? You seem to be
• leaping ver fine opportunities for
mi»»iona v work—while the heath
ens rug-4 think vain thinga.
It is ither singular that both
St. Ste'. '..9, the first territorial,
capita', ;d Cahaba. the capitol’
of Alai i, have passed from th*-
face of I eanb. Both were thriv
ing citi< no l , and boasted hand
some tv > and three-story brick
building . C rn and cotton now
grow v. I e Cahaba once flourish-*
•d, and t 3 proud littl* city of St.
Stevens !• s been supplanted by a
I forest oj : ill pine trees,—Eufaula
I Times.
Baking lewder
Made frcmi pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food '
against alum*
Alam bakinr powders are the greatest
menaces to health of the present day.
ROYAL BAKINff ROWDfefl CO., NEW YOIM.
■■■ ■arc- ■ ■ ■■—■ -■ —— ——?
Both the joker ami the cook
have finished’ roasting the tur
key, and what the common peo
ple did Io the subject was a
plenty. The scrapping will be
over tonight.
Gev. Leedy, of Kansas, also
went down m the leceut wreck.
Ther* is some compensation for
i republican success when it rids
pub.ic life of such a freak as Lee
dy.—Birmingham News
—'* —* 7-
Secretary Gag T flop f*r ex
pansion is on tiie same old line
of Carlisle’s fl q> from silver to
gold. Over the door of the cabi
net council shou Id be written:
“Prepare to flop who enter
here.”—Aujus'a Chronicle.
»».• wMMKrmc ■ T t*y
Windy BilleAlleii denies tint
there is any cool, - s i etweeo ( o'.
Bryan and hims- ii, .nd declares
that he reeogniz is i i the colonel
“one of the greatest living Ameri
can statesmen.” Bid himself is the
other, of course. —Memphis Scimi
tar .
TVHMMarWiMWW-*»-MB, tl—Pi—*r
Penning the ch iff, it takes the
North Georgian to beard the
wheat whan it stalks forth and
heads his w»y ; nd, while it
may b ;.!■ b king as binding,
its the s< i . a *i: n indicates the
direction tl th* uinds of pros
perity.
Comniibsionei of Agiicultu’e
Steven, adds bis urgent advice
to the demand which hus gone
out .all ever the s?uth, for an
abandonment of the all cotton
crop, and urges upon the farm
ers of Georgia the importance
of planting wheat-
—IT "* y •
Justice Boddam, of the
Madras High couit, has just
given at a festive function what
he describes •* “the degrees of
comparison” applying to baris
t«r.«. Tha first is “to get on,”
'tne second “to get honor” and
t?he third “to get honest.”
Blanco has resigned but the
Cuban “reconcentrado” still has
the yellow f*vt r, the yankee.
negro soldier and starvation
gnawing at his vitals, If he sur
| yives he deserves to be made a
'ward of the nation and put on a
parity with th* reservation In
dians.
• Roberts, the new congress
nan from Utah, has three
wives. The Springfijld Repub
lican says he “will not take
them to Wash ngton. His seat
may be disputed because of po
lygamy, and betides, Mrs. Rob
'ertses might embarrass Wash
ington sosiety.”
Put little prize-monsy-Samp
son-the-pretendei, in Dewey’s
place for a minute and for tin
balance of his life lie would look
like a “G. D.” cap on an old
ai mymus k et, a nigger at the
; mule end, a hog at the pepulist
end and the gun cocked. Samp
will never get in Dewey’s 4
mile limit.
' '-wtiaMr
For Kidney, bladder, and
stomach troubles.gdrink Ingram
Lithia, for sale at the soda
founts of Curry-Arrington
Co., Jervis & Wright and J. 'I.
Crouch.’
N to M i-
■'O:i itte’ , . •I) i |j—
i(mi . lou heri railway
be< •u t I. tr.;iu - ■i. -nt! ily
kiile<! rn; of t eir i 'ufades.
|,Bv«ry d me icidvnt
•■ 1 ■ . that
the negru i unlit for * . i ice as
a soldi, ’in 1 j volun r army*.
—Col imbns Enquir • . ff
iit ■ goto ■■ - nal
says C.ipt. Pirn Jones pu's it
thus : “zk f irm ir b big ; a bale
.if cotton ’ • ; 1 ci’ r i’i !it f tch
es only 4 > into commu-
nity. 4hr ■ nton f;< 1 rias briim
a hide oi < tin into d commu
nity, ma inf lure it into cotton
cloth, ami-it fetuhe U*o.” Let’s
have nr r ■ <• ttmi i" .ries.
A Cot-’mj Grower’s Conven
tion his b< ii call; 1 to meet at
Vicksburg; the olj ’jii f the
mcetin., i* Ur the pii’posa of
reducing th next year.
1 hat it n ?< v ar’s crop
will lie even 1 irger than this
years’. •
■ is is season wtiea the
supply t.. . i l.ant is I■, Iding-up
I the ft I mur w.. . > mce I to
plant so mat*y acres to the ,D3ule
for the vilege 1 rr.ising 1
cent cotti :• and h'.tv iyz.a smoke
house and < .■im erib in the city.
ROuTC. HE.TI ’UBLE.
“My h al h wis very poor,
owing to' im /ii e ondition
i
>no to t..\ Ho-j l’s : rs iparilla
and I In a ■ time I
:at. .
three bo 1 w . a’i. right , I
gladly . .. on-- i' Sar-
ril 1
Fermin lie , Florida.
Hood - s ur ' ver Ills.
Mail d f : by . . I. Hood A
Co.. Lowe 11 ■ as
k/ I V > —» -i ajj w
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««*.-* aXMMffiiOU-'. -aexm aaare
Wl.’l send a letter t? ».-w
i joint in L’ncli. 3 ini's big '■'*£.■•
domain.l For this very J’kj,
treason, if; c-e ick. *tj t? '
eori or su.i Uta rSSHV
I wet y trifli *
May E f V..
lifnl s'
L“vt , it 'You can
........ v.t ■ in lett ■r, < ,i . !? Wall.lt
will take just two ctnts to c«.i y it to the
“WasKiigtsa Medical & Sargisai listltirti.
Aila’ih, Georgia,”
And the fam < ialist v »•. m the etef
of that Institute are able to ?ive you advice and
-■ ■ i
eon to the city. Thie is t > aiistali Thei are do
tar it event day. They sow have patient* in
•H the adjoinit , lutes, some ol t> >u hundred*
of miles awsv.-tid their cures arc sltnplv sea
derful.
euRES r dive
COHSULTATiON FIIt LI
' 1 • v f Spine a, Club Foot,
i icel cav alto
- in uh forms of Bkin sad Blood dis< rdera,Rheunt>
tiam, aoatica, Catarrh of th« Nose. Throat
Lttngs, Siota;: :h oi any vital or .n, J.ive; Kid
ney and bivd.ler troubles, Nervous Weak
aenesof either men or woman, dtaeasea of the
sexual . ■ r-ry other b . Biction that
ughlv trsiu.tl - ia'ista alone c des 1 with.
write 1 ts you nothing If we un
?* rt *J t * y 0 1” anall -• 1 yot qiaation
' W .. eK. 1 ' ’ «■< <■ is
-ur tu b , und pcr.kct scion•x- WE
sIiaLL Clik -. IT.
That first ‘ d''damp may gave yottr life. Al)
•ettcrs altered! v ■ tivatc.
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HOW'S TH
We oiler One Hundred
lars Reward for any c a<t
i Catarrh that cannot b* eura.l k
; Hall’s Catarrh Cur*. T
F. J. Cue-. ev <fc Co , Tnled. «
We, the undersigned,
known F. J. Chenei fi r th* l Mt
15 years, and beliey* him t* bt
financially abl* to carry out * My
obligation made by their firre.
West <t Truax, Wholesale Brt lg .
gists, Toledo, O.
Walding, Kinnan A Marvin
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo.ff.
Hall’s Catarrh Cur* is taken
internally, acting directly ups*
the blood and mucous surfar**
of the system. Testimonials sent
freo. Price 75c per bottle, gold
by all Druggists.
Hall’s Family Pills ar* th*
' est I*
Coke cheaper than
Coal- Can. be used in
stoves for heating and
cooking purposes. No
soioke or scot. Clean
and economical. For
further particulars
see ROME QAS OO
mffssiom ciidj.
ATTORNEYS.
J. BRANHAM,
Law Office 200, East Firstreerst,
CHAS V*/. UNDERWOOD
Artornay at Law,
Crcporaloß T.aw OrJyr
•W. J. NEEL
Attorney at law. Will practice tn all «cnr».
special attention given ■to commercial law
and the exatnicallon cf land titlee.
offlec in King building. Rome, 6a.
-XAZaAILTHNR HARRIS
Attorney at law and J. F*. Office over F. J.
Kane & Co. ’s.
L I PSCOM EJ *r .WILLINOH AM
Commercial Lawyers.
Office In Arnstrong hotel huilding, Reae, *a
M B EUBANKS,
Atterney at law. Office Ki ng •nildrag.
Some, u*.
VZ H .ENNIS,
Attorney at Law ,Will PraoUoe in all oourte
office, MMonio Temple, Rome, Ga,
J. SANTA ORWF O<
Attorney at law, Rome. Ga. Collection* •
specialty. •
Masonic Temple. Rome, *o.
MOSUS r KIGHT. *ARPBR KAMN.TON
WRIGHT A HAMILTON
Attorneys at Law.
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CHARLES E. DAVIS '
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O-llectioß a special. y. V ill praerfee e<
eotiiM.
Waeonic Temple
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DENTISTS.
J. A WILLS, D. D. S..
Office 84C 1-2 Broad. > Over caetreU A *we»
J. L. PENNINGTON. D D S..M »
RNTI«T
-office, AJ6 1-2 Broad street. Otm BaeHß FU*
niture 00.
PHYSICIANS.
O. HAMILTON, ML D-
Phytdolan and Surgeon Wffioe, MeduAi
Buildlug Rome, Ga. O , ce ’phene No. t®.
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Li F KA.LIMOKO. M. D-*
Physician and Surgeon, Office to Mediae
outldlug. Residence, No. 4*JB West First tft
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IONSORAL PARLORS.
LEWIS BARRETT,
The -’Old Reliable,” operating the Ceett
hotel Barber Shop, invitee you to give Mix*
nal, and promises to do the rest. Only »2in*d
men employed on the eliaire.
HOWELL C. TAYLOR,
Himself a skilled barber, employe orly the
very best artiste in his tonsoral ettrdio, th th*
Uttrry Building, opposite the Ariastraeg. Were
'eit are made comfortable while your work rt
being done.
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T he only Germ
Pre of Filter in th®
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pure " and :clear fo J
sale by The Hanson
Supply Co