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Official Organ
Of.the city of Rome, and Floyd, jthe
••Banner couuty of Georgia.
In 1237 the English coined gold
pennies that weighed l-I2oth of a
pound and passed for 20 pence.
The great six-day-gc-as-jou
pleas bicycle race in New York City
has ended. It was won by Schock
who covered 1,600 mile/.
Baring says that in I/ iidon dm ng
the crisis of IRI7 it was found impos -
sible to boi row any money whatever
on a sum of £60,000 of silver.
The Parisians annually consume,
per inhabitants, 144 lbs. of apples,
120 of pears, 183 of plums 5 of ri p
berries and 13 of strawberries.
Two counties in California have
over 50,000 beehives and export 6,
000,000 bounds of honey, besides
800,000 pounds of comb end 20,000
-of wax.
Numismatists say that no human
head was impressed on coins until
after tbe death of Alexander the
Great. All images before that wen
of deities.
Tire United States has 1 225 light
houses and beacons, 32 I’ght sb’ps,
107 fog signals worked by steam, 1.87
by clock work, 1,761 river lights and
4,286 baoys of different kinds.
It is estimated that the world’s > u
cumbers are worth $8,000,000 annu
ally to th ■ gar loners who raise th m,
and twice that sum to the doctors
and druggists,
A HELPMEET INDEED,
Hon. W. Y. Atkinson has the
good fortune in t his campaign to
have a wife who is a helpmeet, in
deed She is very ambitions for
her husband and is an intellectual
and high spirited woman, with
plenty of tact and zeal. It is known
to her friends that during the lasi
Democratic campaign Mrs. Atkin
eon aided the chairman of the
State cojumittee, her husband, in
1 is correspondence, and that she
wrote no less than 1,800 letters for
him into all the counties. Mrs
Atkinson also took great internet
in the formation of the girls’ nor
ma! and industrial school at Mil
ledgeviile, of which Mr. Atkins, n
was the mover in the legislature,
and is herself one of the lady man
agers. She was Miss Susie Cobb
Milton, of Florida, and graduated
from the Lucy Cobb Institute, i
v Athens, Ga., in 1876. Shortly af
terward she was married to Mr
Atkinson, who graduated the same
year at the University of Georgia.
It was a genuine college-boy and
a«hool-giri romance, which has
deepened into mature and lasting
affection. Mrs. Atkinson is rela
ted to the Cobbs, Rutherfords and
Lamars of Georgia,—Savannah
- Press
STATE POLITICS.
The campaign is now open. M•,
Atkinson is undoubtedly the mn w t
prominent and active political factor
in the state to-day. While General
Evans, his competitor, was mute, Mr
Atkinson lead the Great fight in the
late campaign foi Democratic unity
n Georgia. We believe his entrance
nto vi e field will in a great measure
destroy the boeiu of Gen. Evam,
gotten up by some of the daily pa -
pers.
Gen. Evans is a thoroughly good
and competent man, but now we
want a governor thoroughly in touch
with the political needs and demands
•f the people. Atkinson is a leader,
a powerful campaigner, a patriotic
champion of needed political reforms;
and his distinguished services to his
■feitate will not be passed by at this
Rtim®. —Waltoa News.J
There was a cheeky kaus named Kaox
And he blasted he never wore sox
He’s a very high flyer
He.and Samuel Whitmire
They are on the road for *’ie rex.
Mister Knox shook his long eu ey lox,
Sawed his witt efT in Rome by the blox,
lint the folks didn't lass
At his last soa»ans ehaff
And his name will attract smaller flox.
NATIONAL POLITICS.
Well, well, well I And now comes
the cheerful intelligence that the
price of pig iron is steadily ad
vancing and business generally
becoming more brisk—all since
the new Democratic tariff bill was
made public, too. Wonder how all
this pleasant news fall upon th**
•‘protection” Democrats and «ther
calamity howlers inside the party
lines with one foot only?—Colum
bus Herald.
Benjamin Harrison, late presi
dens of the United States,is laying
his plans for a renomination. Al)
right, Ben, the Democrats will b<
ready for you—or any other man,
m 1896. —Thomasville Times-En
terprise.
A tax upon the incomes of cor
porations is not a tax upon the
incomes of rich men. need a
law of some kind which will com
pel those who are able to help the
poorer classes pay the expenses df
our government, and an individu
al income tax is what we need for
this purpose. —Jesup Sentinel.
If congress is going to tax in
comes, as it ought, it should levy
the tax equally upon the profits es
corporate, partnership and Indivi
dual enterprise. There is absolute
ly no ground whatever for any
discrimination in the matter.—
Athens Banner.
PURELY POLITICAT,
W. Y. Atkinson has been in pub
lic life a number of years and has a
record of which any man might be
proud. “Peace hath her victories as
well as wir.”—Chattooga News.
Two geutlemen Lave announced
that they are candidates for the gub
ernatorial nomination of the Demo
cratic party. Are there any more can
didates'? Are there no other Demo
crats who are anxious to be governor?
If there are, they ought to make
their announcements. Neither Gen.
Evans nor Mr. Atkinson has been
backward in stating his ambition auc
purpose. The ambition is an honora -
ble one. The office of governor ot
Georgia is a great one, and the hon
or of filling it any Georgian should
be proud to have. It is about time
the people of South Georgia were
presenting a candidate for the
governorship. There are among them
men who could fill it acceptably.
The people o* North Georgia will
soon begin to think, if they do not
now, that the office belongs to them.
In fact they seem to think that about
all the offices belong to them.—Sa
vannah News.
The Democratic ox that kept his.
neck against the yoke last year is
entitled to the gubernatorial fodder
And he’ll get it. Mark that.
In this year of candidates for gov
ernor, many will be called and but
one chosen. His name is higher up
in the alphabet than E.—Madison
It adi lonian.
Tiie Herald is not getting excited
over the gubernatorial race. There’s
plenty of good timber in Georgia be
sides Atkinson and Evans, and there
is plenty of time to make a selection.
—Waycross Herald.
POSSUM TROTT GAZETTE.
Our “devil” says he may not be
as innocent as a baby, but he feels
like one—he cant stand alean.
Some of the statesman, in th#
woods around Poneurn Trott, may
have sense, but if they have, it is
of a fungus growth.
Since the noontootly corstitua
tors have got onto our delinquent
list, we have lost our popularity
and we could not be elected for
dog petler in those coasts.
imequaled advantapw to young m >n desirinr a bill
J. 6. AARMUiIN, Fremdent. Rowe.
A KLUSTER OF
BULL’S EYE SHOTS.
This talk about all the old sol
dier# being for General Evans is
not to I besrd numbers oftle n
talking and while they honor theii
old comrad#, they are not blind n
the geod of the democratic party. 1 ,
have tall ed to numbers of them
and I know that they believe that
democracy owes a vast amount to
such brave lances and unterifi d
young democrat as Hon. W. A. Al
tirfson, our next Governor.
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One of these 1 call te mind now
is Dr. Hoyt. Do you know whore
Dr. Hoyt was raised? A friend of
lis told me to-day that Dr, Hoyt
was bora and raie#d at Athens, Ga
I bad thought that he was from
the north. Dr. Hoyt graduated
from Philadelphia and practiced
in that city a few years, afterwardr
te returned to Georgia and the
next time he tried to get into Phil
adslpkia he was surgeon of the 17th
Georgia R*g’t. and did net go fur
ther than Gettysburg. But whm
he changed his mind and started
home he had lots of company
Good company too.
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Dr. Hoyt entered the servict
aud was for a while assigned to
duty in the Georgia Hospital ai
Richmond. Afterwards he got a
transfer to the front and was'made
Surgeon of the Seventeenth Geor
gia and was for a long time with
Toomh’s old brigade, He’was with
the boys from Chicamauga to
Knoxville and all the fights back
to Dandridge.
* *
He was finally datailed and
placed in charge of the Second Di
vision of Jackson’s Hospital in
Richmond, and was there to the
end, I secured the above data in a
roundabout way and made tht
remarks at my own peril, feeling
safe however, in the knowledge
that the very modesty which would
prevent Dr. Hoyt giving mt
•‘points” will prevehthis doing mi
bodily violence. If I ‘ made any
errors I give notice bow that I shall
correct them,
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Dr, Hoyts acquaintances are his
warm and personal friends and in
his quite way he is so near to the
hearts of the Rome public that
they will never know how they es
teem him untill his place is va
cant—may that date be in the dim
and distant future. Dr. Hoyt n
one of the most practical men in
Rom# a trait of character so
marked that he carries it into hit
politics—He is therefore an Atkin
son man,
The Hill City Cadets hold their
tirs.t meeting fer the new year to
night. and the meeting will doubt
less be a most enthusiastic one
For-two years the Cadets have not
asked the peeple of Rome for a
dollar —strange but true, The Ca
dets are in good shape how g»n#r
ally speaking, but they “need a
f«w funds.”
Mr Thomas Warters, with fair
Cigar Factory, ie now established
in the handsome new brick ho s
recently finished by Capt. M. A
Nevin, next to Colcloughe Liven
stable. Mr, Warttrs has a number
of men and boys at work and s
turning out a most excellent lin
of cigars. His goods are handled b\
every wide uwake retailer in the
city. Rome needs more of these
small biiterprises. Enough of then,
will make her a powerful city.
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Said a well known Roman to in#
to day, ‘‘do you know that there is
no law in Georgia to prohibit a
prize fi rht?” Now thate a pretti
howdy do. And here is the fellow
Lyi.ch Atlanta trying to get
Corbett and Michell to deeerl
Florida and bruise each other ah
over the Gate City. Georgia needs
a law different from this proposed
Lynch—lawlessness.
* *
Will Rhudy, the uptown furni
ture prinee is now well established
in his new stand on “Council
Bluff,” formerly Kinkaid Korner
on Broad Streets. Mr. Rhudy has
a number of large floors, and th#y
are all well stored with the choic
est bargains in Furniture. I notice
one thing about Mr. Rhudy, when
he once sells to a party he mak*a
■i lasting customer out of said par
ty. Its a habit wi>h him.
AMUN’S THE PRINCES.
If that prize fight must occur, it
should be fought at; Cripple Creek,
Colo. That is about tbe toughest place
that has yet put in a bid for the mill
—Augusta Herald.
—o —
Atlanta's cup of bitterness is over
flowing. Her leading lily livered dude,
ner own, her very own Sammy II rl]
will shako the Peachtree dust from
his exclusive ieet aud dvsell hereafter
in New York. Even now he is adver
tising his bric-a-brac for sale. Atlan
ta’s loss is Murray H'll's gain-—Ma-
con News.
—o —
John Cain aint much on preaching
but he can quote some of the best
scripture ever sent to the heathens.
How’s this for a text?
Blessed is the wan who forgets no*-
the printer. Yea, who thinketh on
him about a do A/s worth!
An ingenious little instrument cell
ed the gaiterphone has recently been
invented which, attached to my ladv's
garter, registers the distance sh e
walks every day Next!. —Waycross
Herald. The next is a little instru
ment to hitch to my huv>’s j-r-;ewel
of a mouth which will record the
number of weds she speaks in a day
Then it will be “walks and talks ’
Chattooga News.
)
Mclntosh wants to see the mellen
ium and make this suggestion:
Now, if everybody instead ol talk
ing hard times all the time would turn
about and talk go©d times th #y might
talk the latter into existence.
The Hustler of Rome, after noting
the improved condition of Senator
Colq nit’s health, expresses the hope
that he may live to a ripe old age—
“as a private citizen.”—Calhoun
Times.
—o —
Montgomery M. Folsom, the ver
saile poetie genius who presides so
acceptably over the “Georgia Crack
er Column” of the Atlanta Journal,
paid his Christmas respects to the
brethern of the Georgia press iu a
characteristic manner, of which the
following is a sample:
‘•That Hustler bard, rare Byrd as Rome,
May his dreams be of “Home, Sweet H»me,”
While figuring Cooper clears his head
And munches a turkey leg instead.
May Editer Dortch leave off her taunts
And have all the dressing th <t she wants;
While Editor Williams skips the rope
And sweeps the skies with her telescope
Loud let the uainsville Eagle scream,
The Nugget of Dahlonega gleam,
Thy Standard Wave, oh Cedartown,
While Christinas chimes come Russelliug
■down,
And twinkles like a new-born sun
The rising Star of Elberton.”
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■EXPLANATION.— The following picture contain, four faces, a man and his three daughters
Any one can find be man’s face, but it is not so easy to distinguish the faces of the three young bait,
Th picture was published ir a few newspapers some time ago, and attracted considerable xtttntion»
■ remedies. W. now offer a new prize competition inconne :tion with it. the sole obj«
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not to tornpete ha this one. As to the reliability of‘The Ford Pill C 0.,” and the .-stimation in which thei
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and Harness, valued at S6OO, (delivered free in any part of the United SnA
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service. !° the-A/Z/i will begnena Koaak Camera. To the sixth, a Swiss Music
French Mantei Clock- To the suhth, an Banquet
a pair of CfOWH Derby Vases. To the toith, a compl’ei LaWtl
P rizcs in order of merit. Every competitor must cut out the above
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