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[HE HUSTLER OF ROME. THIRD year. Hl \]l’l llUii, n. JJ' ne Di S eu«erthe funding of 11 the cry debt home' AJ ministration wIH have a T »4 Arnott of Impel tant workto 40. - ■ 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 Au a , h °wn s ißrtw h „' llsonler, « t&k « K, d *tenkeenit <A Ron »Mk uJI Q “«*nel»8 '■ 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, —■——“■'■■■■ ■■ ■ —«• a» ' ■ 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- / 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. 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