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Os the city of Rome, and Foyd, the
"Banner couuty of Georgia.
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I want to be a soldier
and with the soldiers drill.
I’d like to be a private
In the armies of Brasil,
Sometimes a long headed man
dont have “Bobb sense,”
The growlers dont want work
half as bad as they do good wages.
A mau may be in the swim and
get tied and still not touch water
or be tidy.
Labor agitator;—a wood pile
and an axe, between the tramp and
breakfast.
As between Mary Ellen and Lew
Ellen, seems as if bleeding Kansas
bad gone a Ellen.
Our devil is not a dentist, h»-
draws the line on “pulling our
leg.”
Many a fellow could easily re
cognize his former friends —it hi.-
debts were paid.
The watch may spring but the
watch dont jump—neither, does
the bull frog—when the pig is on
ica.
Governor Waite now has a dai
I}’ paper of his own. It will never
float for there is too much Wait*
about it.
In Florida the Mitchells remrm
her the fate of John L. and agree
that ir is “more blesced to give
than to receive.”
“Queeu” Lil should “draw” th<
“other three” from the deck. She
couid then afford to try the Blufl
—instead of the begging.
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The piano crop is said to aver
age three hundred per day. The
crop of good players is about one
in three hundred days.
The oil sold in Rome is not o
the “midnight” variety—but most,
it throws an “in the gloaming ’
light.
While intemperance has had its
victims, the undertaker does not
sneeze at the cook book —he knows
his business.
One fellow in Savannah, be
lieves that ther» is money in the
newspaper business —h- is runing
Editor Stovall for SIO,OOO.
Sandow, the strong mau, is to
marry Lillian Russell. Later on
he will see his wile many another
man —Its away she has.
Texas is a great State for draw
ing. It draws the nere-do-wells and
as so m as they hit it they begin
drawing on kin-folks for funds on
which to return to “Gods county.’
Some men are fortunate, and
women wild. Love however, laughs
at every thing; and a Toronto
heiress takes ip a man that is earn
ing bm 30 cents a day.
Lots of good home made heath
ens are sutYeiing 1 e ause of the
balance of trade being against
them, and in favor of the foreign |
element. i
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THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR. ,
If this stat* prop' scs to be demo- j
/ cratic, and Gt neral Evils las not t
voted but twice since the war how "
couid you call it democratic if he be
elected Governor? Gen* Evans made
a good soldier t.nd is now agi od t
preacher, and as such should contin- t
us to do the greatr st good to the c
greatest Lumber.—Enterprise G. - (
REGRET.
Ire been bittin brie all evenin' a cryin’ in in
Mir,
Over a little soiled book from off the garrett
shelf.
I s been twenty irars and ever since I hev
seed the book,
An ’o-night I feel so lonely like 1 thought I’d
go an' look.
Fer it. Fer somehow all these years I’ve hank
ered for the b-ok
A lyin’ there so lonely like in that deserted
nook;
But I couldn't trust my feelin's, an' so I let It
lay
All dns’y on the garrett shelf until this very
day.
Tou see it h’longed to little Torn, who died
long years ago;
It seetns to me but yesterday, though time
does drag so slow
I alts ost see his little head a bending o’er the
book,
A lookin at the pictures in it, as children likes
to look.
I almost hear his little voice a ringin’ln mer
ry glee
As he’d And a pretty picture and tell of it te
me.
With his sunny cluster curls jnst a techin of
the book,
While he looked at the plcters as children
like to look.
I eould etas' the loosin' of him, though time
does drag so slow,
Ff it wasn't fer what I done, mor,n twenty
year’ ago
'Twas one hrilin dav tn Bummer, an' I’d been
a workin hnrd,
Been a bakin’ an' a waahin an’ a weedin the
yard;
When little Torn cotne runnin’, a holdin’ up
the book,
Fayin': "Eaa see is picter, mother, Oh mother
wont you look."
Rut I was warm and tired, and stead of look n
to see,
I turned and slapped the child, and cried
• quit bothrin me." |
An’ I can see the grieved look yet, that well
ed up In his eyes
But how could I know baby Tom was ripening
for the skies?
An' that day wus the very last he ever fetched
f the l>ook;
He went an put it on the shelf with such a
sorry look.
An’ that night he was taken sick, an’ all the
time e'd say:
"Oh mother, I won’t bother you ; I ll tase my
book away.”
I hear it (lurin’ all the da’, I hear it all the
nighl,
■ It comes to me with every sound, it comes
with svery sight-.
An’when I’m ssttin here alone, an' memries
j round me crowd.
Then plain I see the little faee, so dimpled
soft and fair;
The big blue eyes brim full of tears, thecu-ly
yaller hair,
I An'the little voice draws nearer, so plain it
seems to say,
“Oh mother, I wont bother you ; I’ll take my
book away.
Maley Bainbridge Christ.
in ster ing (Ky) Democrat.
a Mrs. William Tarbox, of Natick,
s R. I,is a weman of high aims A
burglar got iuto hr r house the
other night, and she fired three
1 shots at his head. The souvenirs
H he Mt. behind were a iWit with 8
1 bullet hde m the crown and «
s etion of the lobe of one of hit
en re,
p HON. W.Y. ATKINSON.
p After seeing th t reception ten
dered Mr. Atkinson ou Friday
night and yesterday, the Hustler
of Rome’s expressed opinion, that
’ he will carry Floyd couuty is but
empnasized.
While here, Mr. Atkinson was
mat by numbers of Democratic
citizens from every walk in life,
and from nearly all of them In
was assured of a hearty support.
Mr. Atkins >n appears to them. a
broad minded, wide awake, prac
tical legislator, tlu is recognized
as a statesman and one ou whom
A 1 lanta with her sordid eye looks
with fear and trembling.
He is a inin, young iu years, but
old in experience and rich in leg
islative observation. He id the
choice of t heWool hat boys of the
State of Georgia and has a rec -rd
of which thiy are proud.
The only objection raised against
t»nn, eminated from Atlanta, and
has been takeu up by outsiders
and pushed for various reasons; 1
lint to date, no mau has said '
aught against his name, or insinu
ated a charge against hie hon sty
or his democracy.
Mr Atkinson is in the field as a
candidate of the democracy of the 1
State of Georgia. He has led them to ’
victory before and now that the wool 1
hat boys have called for his services '
he responds with the old time ardour '
and promises to lead them to another ‘
victory.
How well he will do it remains to ‘
be seen—but when the fight is over
st far as he is concerned, history wil a
but have repeated its self— Demucl 0
r. ey will be vifctoriouß and W. Y. a
Atkinson will make Georgia one of c
the best Governors she has ever had- f
“M irk that prediction.
General Evaus lives in Atlanta,
the third party convention is going
to meet iu Atlanta aul the Demo- (
crate are going to elect Atkinson R
Governor and send him to Atlanta
—you cant keep Atlanta down.
HIS ANSWER LOOKUP ’ (
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Parted from him in life, the came,
At last hi* love in death to claim;
And kneeling there she breathed hi*name,
"Oh, love of mine, where ere yon are
Whither now near or yet afar,”
Still be my souls gni ling Mar,
For unwavering faith in Goii and you
Thus far this life h' c led me through:
Now I grow weak and doubting ton.
O, you t<« whom Dea’h’s mystery
Is solved, give, him I pray the - back to me *
A light that 1 a* well may see,
"Is dying what the scripture saith?
Is living but the merest breath? ’
and do our longings end iu death?
Our lave so beautiful ami true
That gave war lives a brighter hue.
Is it a "sonieting" dying too?
And is the harp, which here you trilled,
Now broke, and its tnusie stilled?
Are those dear hands forever chilled?
Is hope a semething God doth lend
Pure human nature to befriend?
And death of everything the end?
"Oh ! is this cold form, lying here,
Tho ‘ All’ of wh it I hold so dear?
God help me, how I doubt and fear!”
Her face in anguish drooping low,
Her hands together clasped in woe.
. Told of the pains such soul* may know,
But all was silent save the breeze.
That restless wandered through the trees.
And made the meadows into seas,
None seemed to hear the mourner’s prayer ,
Who knelt in such deep anguish tl ere;
And darkness settled everywhere.
And then again, aleud she cried :
"Oh. love of mine, If I had died.
Could I bo silent by your side?”
Sue listened now, but not a sound.
That in her breast an eche found,
Caine to her from the sodden ground.
And still she cried : “ O God, above,”
Thou by whose will, we live and move,
Bay, is this all of Thy great love?
• and have I lived this life of mine,
In worship of Thy light divine,”
To find, at las', it does not shine?
Her eyes which were with tear drops dim—
For sorrow filled them to the brim—
A moment, questioned even Him.
Bnt silence reigned supremely there.
“Robin” was gone, Rod did not care
Fer woe like hers, O, dark despair I
Nanght but the silence of the dead,
and tro es above the inouraers head ■
Was there except the heart that bled,
But. suddenly, a breeze that came.
Swept o’er her brow as might a flame ;
That whispered: Can't you, wont you see?
My little love “Look up” for me!
Could it have been only a star,
That she saw g ittering afar,
With light that Slid: “How blind you are!’,
Minnie Lise Aunold.
Ford, Ba., Jan., 17, ’»♦
An Indian woman who has not
spoken in twenty four years has
recently commenced. Her neigh
bors are trailing her husband
through the wilderness —poor fel
low,
PURELY POLITICAL
Evans clubs are forming ii
many parts of the state. The eld
rebel yell is going along the lii e
— Macon News.
Yes, and when the hattie of the
ballot is on you will hear the
echo thunder back—mo’t of the
boys who wore the grey, are dem
ocrats and will stand by a comrade
of recent c mpaigns, to accom
plish the b‘Bt good to the com
monwealth. The patriotism which
carried them to the front in ‘6l
now prompts them ta stand to W.
Y. Atkinson.
From the way tho Atkins?n pa
pers speak of Gen. Evans, one
would suppose the General is now
in hie dotage, The truth is that
he i* but sixty years of age, a
time of life when a ma« is at bis
b st mentally.—Calhoun Times,
Yes and you Evans dux ar
trying to make out that Atkinson
is in his sboat-age, and, “the truth
is that he is” ‘bout 40, “A time
of life when a man is at bis best
mentally—and pbisically. Now
what ?
P3LITICS IN GEORGIA.
The \\ aycross Herald puts its
brethren of the press on rot ice in
the following manner: “The Herald’s
candidate for Governor will be the
nominee for the Democratic party.’
- Albany Herald
The Gubernatorial question hrs
been exciting a’tention for sevi ral
weeks in Georgia, and soon the cat -
didates for the Senate and House of
Representatives in the Legislature
will be heard from in the different
counties. Politics will be hot all
over Georgia in a little while.—
Athens Banner.
The race for governor is not as
altogether a one-sided affiii as si me
of the papers would like to make ir
appear. Col. Atkinson has a gieater
jlaim on the democratic party than
3en. Evans —Enterprise Gazette.
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STATE POLITICS.
Gen Evans is only sixtv years old.
4e will be several years older before
le becomes governor of Georgia.—
lingold New South.
r
Why don’t somebody tell us! Does s
General Evar.s know how to be Gov- i
el noi?-C ive Spring Herald. '
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A. O. Bacon will succeed Alfred |
II C ilquitt as United State s senator ]
• tom Georgia —Bremen Chronicle’ '
\Vno opr nod the cauipnign for
fiviiim? The Atlanta papers, in
pushing the claims of General Evans
V\ ho wants the people to go slow
•.bout organizing? These same illus
’lious journals. What caused this
remendous change of front? Why,
they’ve stirred up the democracy
.nd the votes don’t eoine their way.
—Athena Banner.
AMONG THE PAiUCES.
The Hustler of Rome calls Harry
Hill the Atlantain with a mouth.—
Augusta News.
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The New Era of Paulden is oae of
the best weeklies in the state its ev
ery appointment is jam jump.
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A red hot stove is sometimes the
cause of a heated discussion Augusta
Sews.
Yes but its oftener the case that
the heated argument about who’s
turn it is, to get up and tire the cold
stove, produces a coolness.
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We do not believe the story that a
- Texas woman set a speckled hen on a
dried apple pie and in three weeks
the hen batched out fourteen night
mares with blue ribbons on their
tails. Mobile News.
The Mobile News man has evident
lv been dreaming and that’s about as
near to ‘’Dried iq pie pie he hashed
since black berry time. A mar»s nest
and hence the blue.
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Howell E. Robb is the name of one
of the most honorable and honest
men in Memphis.—Rome Hustler.
1 Perhap" the question of Howell E.
F R >bb has not been settled to his sat -
isfaction }e . —C ilhoun Times.
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The. pen Phil Byrd is a bright one,
and we would like to see it enlisted
m a worthier cause than the attempt
o make a statesman out of the most
blataut. demagogue in Ihe State.-Cal
-1 1 oun Times
Bro. Wilson is an Amoosin kuss.
Think about the Democracy of Geer
? gia electing a ‘ blatant demagogue’ as
chairman ot the state executive com
? mittes—think of a democratic house
< keting a “blatant demagogue’’ as
speaker—.and in a few months think
of the Calhoun Times recording his
tory—Governor Atkinson. Brother
Wilson is thoughtlessly thoughtless.
1 UNCLE SAM’S CATS
Some 300 and odd cats are main
tained by the United States gov
ernment the cost of their support
e being carried as a regular item on
v the accounts of the Postoflice De
,t partment. These cats are disfribut
a el among about fifty pestoflices,
s aud their duty is to keep rats and
mice from destroying postal mat
e ter and c.invass mail sacks, Their
o work is of the utmost importance
i whenever large quantities ot mail
e are collected, as, for example, at
t the New York postoflice, where
v from 2,000 to 3.000 I »ags of mail
matter are commonly stored away
in Ihj basement. Formerly great
damage was done by the mischiev
-8 ous rodents, which chewed holes in
i the sacks, and thought noth ng ot
s h iring clear through bags of let
s ters in a night Tioubies of this
sort no longer occur since the of
ficial pussies keep watch. Each of
( postmasters in the larger cities i(
( al owed from $8 to S4O a year for
the keep of his foline staff, Each
I sendi >g his estimates ior “cal
. meat ’to Washington at the be
ginning of each quarter—New
York Suu.
PENSION FRAUDS.
Following close upon the discov
ery of extensive pension frauds in
West Va ~ lowa, Nebraska an J Balti
more comes the announcement that a
single Buffalo pension agent has
fraudulently secured for pensioners
at least $1,000,000 and that ‘ this is
oily the begining of the unearthing
of the most gigantic frauds over per
petrated in the Pension Depart
ment. (
These frauds are the natural, legit
imate, inevitable outcome of the Tan
ner-Raum method of “busting the
surplus.” The profl ga y of Congress
n the matter of pension legislation
lias almost justified pension rgents
ind others in holding that any scheme
lor looting the Treasury is jusfigable
provided it is carried out in the name
of the ‘old sol tier;” an I successive
Pension Commissioners have winktd
at “rulings” that have made pet y
retail frauds secern almost respectable
by (ompaiison.
Commissioner Locbern will deserve
.veil of his country if he will not only
stop the wholesale frauds perpetrated
through “rulitigH,” but check the
minor Lut still monstrous frauds that
are at work of dishoneat agents and
jieijareA pension grabbers. No one
desires to deprive the desening et
eran, disabled iu the liue of duty, of
his country ’o bounty. Bi t the bounty
jumpers, deserters, cheats aud frauds
must be stricken from the roll as fast
as discovered. Only iu this way can
the pension-roll be maintained as a
‘roll of honor.”—New York World.
O rHER COUNTIES HEARD FROM
There is an effort being made to
buy the Exposition grounds and
have an exposition iu Rome uext fall.
Why not?—Paulden New Era.
Editor Walsh, of the Augusta
Chronicle, should receive the hearty
co-operation of every Georgian in
bis splendid work to induce accepta
ble immigrants to come South.—
Albany Herald.
While things are looking blue for
labor just now, we believe there are
good times coming and there will bo
work for every body. Congress will
pass the tariff measures, business
will pick up, and the occupation of
the “calamity howler’’ will be gone
aud he will have a chance to regret
the part he has played in depressing
business for political purposes. —
Macon News.
Rev. George W. Duvall gave a
stirring sermon at his church in
Rome last Sunday, in which he han
dled the liquor trafli? without gloves.
Incidentally, the Cherokee club re
ceived a broad side. Athens Ban
uer.
The people of AVilkinson tounty
should be spotting a candidate for
the legislature who will pledge him
self to introduce a bill to iepeal the
»ct creating county commissioners.
—lrwinton World.
Floyd comity, with a force of 71
convicts, builds one mile of macade
mized road, monthly. This heats
Gieene county. AVe have about that
number in several penitentiary
camps, but the lessees are the prin
cipal beneficiaries. Meanwhile, many
of our roads are almost impassible.
—Greensboro Herald Journal.
The Rome Tribune has a colum n
of editorials on the “Old Time Aris
< crat. ’ The main question of the
day, however, is on another line.
BrunswicK Times Advertiser
IN SMALL PACKAGES.
Advertising makes new business
and enlarges the old.—Waycross
Herald
\\ e have been having pretty
spring weather since before Christ
mas. Every body expects a late, cold
spring iu consequence.—Vienna
Progress.
We saw a live snake in Covington
on Thursday—Covington Star.
This is a good lime for the farmer
boys to stick to the old farm.—
Milledgeville Union Recorder.
Pink knots and good ualured peo
ple are somewhat alike, in that they
are generally fat. - Augusta News.
REUNION AT BIRMINGHAM ALA
The convention and reunion ot
Lulled Confederate Veterans at
Birmingham, Ala . will be a grand
affair. Georgia is expected io be
fully represented on that occasion.
Gen. Evans has issued the follow
lug general oi’uer:
“Headquarter* Georgia Division
U. C, A’ ,65 71 Ivy street and Edge
wood av“., Atlanta Ga., —General
•rdwr No. 3: The gen»ral com
manding ths United Confederate
A »lerane having announced the
convention and reunion of United
Confederate Veterans at Birming
ham Ala , for April 25, 26, 1894,
all camps of this division will se
lect delegates without delay. Con
federate soldie rs are urged to form
camps in places where none exist,
and elect delegates. For iuforma
liou address W. G. Whidby. secre.
tary Georgia Division U C. V., at
the«e headquarters. “By order of.
Clement A. Evans,
“Major Gen. Cnmmand’f ‘
“A. J. West, Adjt. Kgu. c
“W. G. Wh dhy, Sec’y,
GORDON’S FLAW OF TRUCE.
It would be bard to find a more a
musing instance of the beggard con
d ion in which soldiers of the field
are sometimes found thin that Hven
years ago by Gen. Gordon in an ac
count of various scenes connected
with the surrender of Lee’s »rmv
says the Youth’s C« mpauion.
AVhen Gen. Gordon determined to
sand a fl ig of truce to Gen Sheridan,
he summoned Major Hunter, of his
staff and ordered him to carry a
flag of truce forward
“General, I have no flag o f truce ’
replied Mnj< r Hunter.
"Getone, ’said the Genera’, cuitlv
‘’General,” ue iepbed again, “ We
have no flag of truce in our command."
"Take yonr handkerchief and put
it on a stick and go forward.
U have no handkerchief general.’
“Borrow one and go forward with
it.”
“General, there is no handkerchief
in the staff.”
“Then major, use your shirt.”
“You see, general that we all have
on flannel shirts.”
At last one man was found who
still had a white shirt; a part of it was
torn off, and with the remarkable ea|
biem tied on a stick the major went
forwaid toward the enemy’s lines.
EVANS CONFOUNDED.
Some few people in Georgia
have mistaken Gen. Clen eit A.
Evans, who is now a candidate
before the Democracy for Govern
or of Georgia, for the late Rev.
James E. Evans, says the Savan
nah Press. The later has been
dead several years and his monu
ment is about to be erected in the
city of Macon. The fact that he
was a member of the North Geor
uia Conference and that he held
pastoral charge in m»i y Georgia
cities caused turn to be confound
ed, with Gen. Evans. The late Rev.
James E. Evans was about 80
years of age. The present Gen.
Evans is on the sunny B ide of 60.
Ihe Rev. Jernes E. Evans has
long since closed his earthly la
bora and passed to his reward.
Gen. C. A. E cans is still actively
at work, as he has always been, for
the people of Georgia.— Augusta
News.
1 It ho hae not already been paid
. for his services, let him make out
a his bill aad present it to those he
t served. If his calling has prevent
-7 ed his serving democracy, let him
- ask no reward at its hands. “By
f his fruits” applies as mush to
• services to the democratic party
as any where else. If the General
u cau show any democratic fruits
then his claim of democratic re
e ward should be considered—until
then, life is too short, besides the
good of the party and the state
demand? a different course,
} INTEREST TO MANY ROMAN’S,
; ‘‘Ms L id” Beresford may be a ti
tled personage after all. His stupid
ity gives him a right to be classed
with the nobility.—Augusta News.
“Lord” Beresford did very well,
but did not sustain his reputation as
a “Slick duck. ” The idea of a “Lord”
being trapped in a bagnio!—Albany
Herald.
Howard’s confinement in prison
has awakened on him an ambition to
write a book. Guess he wants to ri
val Lord Beresford.—Campbell Coun
ty standard •
“Me Lud” Beresford, the English
nobleman (!) who cut such a figure in
Rome society and was afterwards
sent to the penitentiary for fraud,
escaped a day or two ago, but was
recaptured within twenty-four
hours.—Bremen Chronicle.
BRAZIL AND FLORIDA.
Two negroes filled with whiskey
who jumped at each other for two
minutes in Jacksonville, did not have
any effect on the governor of Florida
He is still playing ’possum. —Augue
’a News.
When Johnny starts to v.sejh is voic
He never will desist;
I gness he'll be a congressman
Or else a pugilist
Campbell County Standard
John L Sulliv .u says rorbett
Mitchell are sj r t rs. If it is appk - '
cable to their langurge Mr Sullivan
s certainly right.—Albany Herald
