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[HE HUSTLER OF ROME.
THIRD year.
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ne Di S eu«erthe funding of
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ministration wIH have a
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Editor Hustler •
Every tax-pay er in Rom ® 18
personally interested in »he ques,
al* 10" rat’ » f
j D t,rest, the eight P« ”nt ’Uy
foods, maturing in 1896-
The amount of those bonds now
standing is about >175,000, and
th» important consideration is, at
w hat rate of interest can we rea
tonably hope to place them?
Iu this connection it ie interest
ing to know the rate of interest
paid by neighboringcities on thei r
btnded indebtnesa,
I have before me letters just re
vived from the City Clerks of At
lanta, Macon Augusta, Savannah
and Chattanooga, giving the
bonded debt of those cities and the
rate of interest paid by each in the
several issues of their bonds.
Atlanta with a poupulation (ac
cording to the census 0fJ65,533, and
a bonded indebtedness of $2,954,-
000 is able to place her bonds
readily a* 4 per cent.
Augusta with a population, by
the last census, of 33,330. and
bonded debt of $1,750,000, easily
dispose! of her bonds at 4| per
cent.
Macon has a population of 22,-
746 and a bonded debt of $555,-
8000. These bonds were issued in
1880, to run for 30 years at 6 per
cent. The Clerk writes that any
new issues would not exceed 5 per
cent and could probably be placed
at a premium.
Chattanooga shows a bonded in
debtedness of 1900,000 and in the
last issue pays 5 per cent.
Savannah has a population of
43,189, and a bonded debt of $3,-
500,000. The lastissure of her
bends was made in 1893. and d aw
5 per cent iuteres 1 .
I’he entire bonded debt of Rome
is not less than $3000.000 ; the ex
act figures being $294,400, with 8
population which is now certainly
ji n ‘ Ip ßs than 10,000, and taxable
Pi r..y ai-.C a^5,000,000.
lherecan be no possible doubt
as to the absolute solvency and
safety of Rome city bonds. While
times are so hard and money scarce
with the masses there is no lack
of money in the hands of the few,
and the great consideration with
these is to find investments that
are safe, and that will yield a
prompt and reasonable income to
the investor.
The reserve of money in the
ands of the banks is far in excess
0 the legal requirements, end
“lousy i 8 really cheap if the . q _
V| atm nt offered is safe and the
interest sure.
His believed that Rome bonds
CRn 1)6 at 4 per cent inter
eg t; certainly they should be read
“ye°ld at 44 per cent. It will be
remem >ered that government bond
Wer fi, ‘d at 3 per cent, and if I
Member correctly were sold ata
premium.
, "hheßome bonds would not
y® the same commercial rating
Iva/ k° n da. they are practical
ana as Bure payment
perce°ut Slt rCady Bale at 4
W. J. Neil
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'■ ro *M red lines oq wnjip*.
THEY ARE WINNERS.
here’s A TICKET IHAT WILL “ot-T
there'’ in great shape,
Seventeen years ago,a boy
known on the streets of Dalton >8
Cieve Trevitt. decided to cast his
lot in the county of Fioyd, and
‘ grow up” with the city of Rome
Hefiist entered the service of
the big drug house of Jaynes & Me
Donald where he served faithfully
as a prescription clerk, later he
was employed by Dr. R. V, Mitch
ell wheie he served in the same
dapicity.
From this house, he went to the
big drug house of Hoyt & Co where
for 5 long years h i continued to
study business. Then he went into
the service of the wall know drug
business of D. W. Curry where he
worked faithfully until 5 years
ago when he decided to ‘‘tote his
own skillet“ for a whib.
And with a small slock of goods,
on the first day of April 1889 he
opened out at his jr seni up town
stand No 331 Broad Street. Suc
ceeded? Why of course he has
succeeded —He is built that way,
and today he has a business which
even a pauie year has doubled
in the past twelve months and
now what?
Why he and F. A. Johnson bet
ter known Gus Johnson have
purchased the entire stock of goods
good will and business of the well
known firm of Crouch & Watson
at No 206 Broad Street
This is Gus Johnson’s first venture
in business on *aisown hook” and
he seems to have been peculiar!. | so •
tunate in securing Cleve Trevitt for
a partner, and as Trevitt & Johnson
securing such a stand, bus
iness and prospects as goes with the
fresh, clea”, drug business of Crouch
& Watson.
Gus Johnson has aerved for 5
years with the firm of f£>. W. Curr v ,
and when it comes to knowing the
drug business, is a “past graduate. ’
With Mr. Buruey Hale iu the
Cr«uch & Watson stand, and Charlev
Gr en in the C. A. Trevitt Stand tl e
new firm of Trevitt & Johnson will
play a conspicuous part in the future
‘•history making” of Rome’s Drug
business. They are going to succeed
and dont you forgot it.
THE MIDNIGHT ALARM.
FIRE IK NAT SULLIVANS CLOSET IN THE
FIFTH .WARD.
At midnight an alarm was turn
ed in from box 51 by officer Tom
Moore.
No. 2 and the hooks responded
promptly but bofore their arrival
the fire had been extinguished,
The blaze was in ac o et in the
residence of Nvt Sullivan, on
Main street eposite Capt, Peppers
home in the Fifth Ward.
The principle damage was the
burning of some bed clothing and
a few dresses. Several candidates
were on hand to see that no voters
perished in the flames.
WANTED: 35 GOOD CATS
The Southern Expaess office of
this cityis being over run with rats
and mice and as the small boys
with their poarlor ribs have ki’’-
ed all my cats I find it necaary to
advertise for a number of good
mousers I will pay 35 to 50 cents
each for all cats delivered at my
office before 9 o'clock tomorrow
morning. Parties furnishing cats
must leave their names as a guarn
tee of good faith, for I have n -
time to be imposed on by practi
cal jokes. Bringing good mousers
and get your money.
Dock Lowry at Southern Ex. office
Letters of Admsnistration.
GORGIA, FLOYDCOUNTY.
T« all whom it may concern:- Thomas
E. weems having in proper form applied to
me for pernanent letters of administrattion on
the estate of Jacob w«em», late of said county.
This is to cite all and singular the creditors and
next kin of Jacob Weems to lie au, l appear at
my office within the time allowed by law and
show cause, if any they can, why permanent ad
ministration should not be granted t° Thomas
K, weems on jacob weems estate, witness
my hand and official signature this sth day of
February 1894
John T, Davis
Ordinary Floyd County
BROWN’S IRON BITTERS
cures Dyspepsia, In
digestion & Debility.
ROME GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORMNG MARCH 4. 1894,
i M SM.
Thnt» the way Local Politics
now Look.
MOORE’S MASS MEETING
Held at th. City Hall en Friday
Night. Sonia "Tallinf Spaaehes
That Told” a Good deal more
Than had been nttered ba
fora
Friday night a majority of the
registered voters of the city of
Rome assembled at the City Hall
io attend a mass meeting held in
behalf of the Moore ticket.
And it is safe to say, that never
in the city of Rome was
there a larger and more enthusias
tic meeting of the yoemanry, of
the bone and muscle, of the intel
ligent middle classes and the
thinking negroes, who packed the
house to its utmost capacity.
At 7 o’clock, fully one hundred
had assembled and Col. Bill Ma
lone, col., was called on for a
speech. Bill has many friends
among the people of the city and
when he opened up his batteriei
began firing hot shot along the
line, the enthusiam burst forth
and when his 30 minute speech
had closed fully 300 men were
present and cheering him lustily.
After Billy went down, old Un
cle Bob Holmes, one of the quick
est wilted old-fob de-wah-darkies
iu all North Georgia, was called
on the stand.
Bob was not a stranger to his
audience which was a big point in
his favor. He began at th) begin
ning and was “chipping the stone”
well down to a smooth face of un
polished facts before his time ex
pired.
Bob contended that the most of
ihe work on the streets was being
dore on the lower streets of the
city, and by convict labor at that.
That the negro laborer under the
past administration had bean dis
criminated against and that the
Johu Seay ticket, if elected would
be the prepetuating of the order of
things as they new run.
He contended that the Moore
ticket was the ticket of the masses
and was to be trusted sooner, by
the negro than was the “Seay com
bination.”
He spoke most sensably of the
relati m of the negro to the white
man, and showed what manner
of siuce-the-war white men could
be trusted to rnle a community in
the best interests of white and
black.
When Uncle Bob’s time expired
h° had an audience of not less tha
500 voters and bad worked them
up to a ripe harvest for Professor
Mack Parker the colored lawyeJ
and school teacher —and natural
born orator
When M. C. Parker, col., took
the stand there was a burst of ap
plause that lifted the roof—and
then order prevailed.
He opened his speech by laying
down four propositions, advanced
by the speakers of the Seay ticket,
and stated that they were the only
four advanced by, even Moses Bai
ley of Chulio, in "behalf es “Capt.
Seays ring”
Ihe first, was Capt. Seay’s a’ i -
ity*
The Second, that Capt. Seay was
said to “be worth $40,000.
The Third was, that Capt. Seay
owned and run a steamboat and
employed certain negroes.
And the fourth was, that on a
certain occasion he buried a negro
who had died while in his services.
One by one he picked the claims
of the opposition to peices and tore
fl imsey arguments to shreds. Every
word was will chosen, every argu
ment based on facts an ! clothed
in reason backed with plain com
mon sense. Every sentence was
gramaticly composed and eloquent
ly uttered.
He said if Capt. Seay had given
work to others, that he had done
so to make money, and deserved
no more praise for it than the
horny handed laborer who made
a{dollar a dty and gave it to the
support of his loved ones and the
pay of taxes to sunport his church
his state and h's coui T .
That no man deserved reward
because he did right—that it was
his duty to do right any how.
He said, “now they argue
against John D . Moore like this:
Two years ago when John D-
Moore was in tha race for mayor,
his own brother, sheriff Jake C>
Moore oppesed him, now I want
to carry you back one race previous
to that and show you another con
test.
Most of of you remember that W
\V. Seay was pitted against Al
Walton —now tell me for whom
did Capt. John J. Seay vote, and
for whom did he make a red hot
fight.
Gathering himself together
Parker then scored the point that
Capt. Seay had foug ht his brothei
Now John D. Moore has the ad
vantage in this case for his broth
er is doing noble vork for his
and the city’s cause —and on the
sixth of March will by our help
seeJJohn D, Moore eulcted mayor.
Then he proved by an undertak
er who hapened to be in the auui
snee that John D. Moore had help
ed pay for a hundred coffins to
bury negroes who had died in
poverty, even though they had
never worked for him.
Again he proved by a citizen in
the audience ’hat John D. Moore
had given the negroes of West
Rome one acre of ground on which
to erect a church and make a grave
yard, in which to bury their dead :
and that these were but instances
snatched from the record of a man
of the masses, a man who hada
generous heart and a mammoth
back bone.
He then crawled on to the neck
of the street overseer, and showed
how that officer, with his own pri
vate line of drays had monopo
lized the entire hauling business
of the city, said he . “I am reliably
in formed that a colored draym; n
of the Fifth ward, who could ■ ot
pay his $4 street tax, had asked to
be permitted to “haul it out’
that he had been refused such a
privilege, had been summonsed
before the council, and had been
compelled to work the streets fif
teen days .(This was a stunner.)
He then showed how this same
overseer was said to b° operating
a. fr.-m iu the Fourth Ward—The
Hamilton s e-’H , ind that tha
city was actually paying him to
haul the ci y s manure onto this I'
(Here some one exclaimed: “yes, c
thats why the Hamiltons are for c
the Seay ticket they want their
lands enriched’ ) i
He then showed, how, by street
tax license and heavy fines in the Re
corder’s court, the negros paid $7,000
into the city treasury per year, and
naked them where, oh where is that j
niuuey going? does it reach the
streets in the negro sections of the '
city? (Here the 250 negro voters pres
ent cheeced wildly.)
Parker’s speech was one of which
any voter might feel proud, and it is
safe to say that every negro, who
heard his grand effort was proud of
such itn in havin’ sp -ting from his
race.
Hon. W. J. Neel of the Moore ticket,
representative to be, from she Second
Ward, was called on, and closed the
speaking of the evening .by a
manly and impassioned appeal to the
voters to stand together and whip the
fight on next Tuesday.
Mr Neel said. Two years ago I was
in the race for representative from
Floyd to the Legislatue. When I en
tered it I was told I would have to
buy liquor to give to voters. I then
said no, and I want to say no now, in
behalf of the good name of the negro
voters es Rome and Floyd county,
that! was elected by nearly 1,000
majority and never spent one dime
for whisky and, so help me G >d, as
-HTHOS FAHY’S,
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Our tremend'ons spring stock is arriving and
never in the history of the Dry Goods business
in Rome has the public had placed before them
as great bargains in beautiful stylish, fresh and
ch rming goods as we place before the trade
this season.
->gUNEQUALLED IN STYLE,
BEAUTY ana PRICES.
oA CHARMING STOCK/
Fine dress goods, Point do Ireland lacep,
Beautiful trimmings, Tedon lacep,
Superb silks, Guipine laces,
Fine art challies, Chautillia laces,
Figured Dimities, Silk > nd cotti n lace*.
Lovely organdies, Fine Linen laces,
French ginghams, Spring underwear,
Scotch ginghams, Mammoth hosiery stock,
Criterian cloths. Specials in Kid glcves,
Cuylock cloths, Ladies’ and gents’ haudk’fs,
“Dandy” chambrays, Full notion department.
“Toile-du-Noids,” Children’s caps,
Great Britain cloths, Full stock Ribbons,
Fine white uoo ’e, Lace curtains,
Embroideries, Window shades,
Dotted Swiss, Fine Portiers
Persian lawns. Carpets, rugs, and mats,
India lawns, Full line of mattings,
Silk mulls, Full domestic department,
Profusion of laces, Trunks, satchels, etc.
+ ft ft +
Fine India silks 50/ for 25/. Duubridge clothe for 10/,
Japanese silks 45/ tor 25/ Silk stripe chailies for 25/
Changeable silks SI.OO for 75/. Greylock cloths for 10/
Cashmeres, all shades for 25/. I hirty-Bix inch sheeting 5/«
Casbemire-de Paris for 12/, Indigo calico 8 4j/,
Westminsters suitings for Shirtings 44.
French suitings for 10/ Gihghams 4%e
Ebblii.g fwi.h for 10/ Silk umbr.ll.. »I,X)
Brocade Henriettas for 10/. Ladies sun shade, 25/.
Big drives in kid gloves.
Cosbeco eatiuee foi 1 . , Big bargains in hosiery.
Dorf-de-Havana tor 11/. , Domestic bleechings 74/.
In all depatmeuts we are prepared to show you a most
beautiful and complete line of goods.
And now as regards prices. Better value for a dollar has
never been offered than we are prepared to give you. this
B easonin goods of unquestioned worth. We have laid in.
our stock at hard time prices with the determination to sell it
at hard time price s, and it will go on the smallest bargins
known to reputable trade anywhere.
We want to tell you right now this is not our year for
getting rich. The times admit of nothing better than living
oargains, On that basis we propose to turn our stock and
give aid and satisfaction to our friends and customers Ly
means of unprecedented values for every dollar expended
with us.
THOS FAHY 248 R .S r .“ c d s st
long as I live’shall never 1 e found
debauching the voters of my country
or my community.”
The effect was magics l , and the
big meeting went to pt ices in a storm
of enthusiasm.
This was the first Moore meeting
icld at the city Hall during the cam
paign, and was an “eye opener” to the ,
half dozen Seay men who were pres
ent, for it was twice the size of their
best one.
When a vute was called for, just
before the meeting broke, there were
hardly half doze i men who did not
vote for the Moore ticket—and next
Tuesday will find the massee voting
the same way.
IT YOU FEEL DROWSY,
du 1(1, inox press! bl v
f tired or debilitated,
)/ 111 Vhave loss of appe-
/'/■''k? furred tongue,
xlrA I♦ r q / frequent headaches
fggjy/ \v with or without
\ dizziness, chilly
■F sensations, and oc-
casional nausea
F V \ vk then you are bil-
' % V ious. Your liver
j V\Xv. needs the gently
\\ \\\ stimulating and
powerfully invigor
ating effects of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets.
These little things will put you in complete
order. _ ,
They follow Nature’s own way. They re
the smallest, the easiest to take, and the best.
They absolutely and permanently cure Bil
iousness, Constipation, Jaundice, Dizziness,
Sour Stomach, Bick or Bilious Headaches,
Indigestion, and consequent stupor or drow-
guaranteed to give satisfaction, in
i every way and in every case, or your money
is returned. You pay only for the good you
Nothing else urged by a tricky dealer, ou
, 6e’“ just aTgood” for yoU to M-
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IO CENTS A WEEK.
GORTONS CELEBRATED NEW
OKLEAN‘B minstrels, the best, of
TOMORROW NIGHT AT NEVIN’*#.
Dewitt Cook, an artist of an ex
ceptional grace and skill in expert
jugglery with Indian Clubs, is one
of the strong features with Gorton 4 #
Minstrels Mr. Cooke does same of
the most intricate work imagina
ble with one, two and three clubs,
and never makes an error. Nor
does he ever fail to wiu the heaCt
iest approbation from the audi r
ence.
Mr. Cooke trade a most pro
nounced hit during the recent en
gagement of this organization at
the Grand Payret Theatre, Havana
Cuba.
The engagement is for on®
night, Monday, March sth.
Do ’t miss the Free open air
Concert in front of the Oper House
tomorrow Monday, at 12 o‘clock
and street arade.
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