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THE HUSTLER OF ROME. YEAR NEW YORK COST TO CLOSE OUT EVERYTHING V. B- McArver Co- have decid ed to make a change in their Busi ness and throw everythingin their I -house at New York cost. Dry goods, Notions, Hats, Shoes and Oxford Ties- Everything in this house will be sold at New York cost for cash- We have decided to make the change and evervthing must Be sold. Come and get your share of what you need. A.8./AcARVER&CO. 401 NORTON CORNER. McDonald-Sparks-Stev/art Company. ave bought 500 of these Rockers ‘Old will sell them at the extremely low price of $2.00 eaeh t forget our Matting sale. We havi just icceived. another large ship ment and offer this week Matting f cr 8 1,2 cents per yan • J * Matting for 10 cents per yard, - Matting for 12 1-2 per yard, tent Atting tor 15 cents per yard, «»t Matting for 17 p. 2 ccnts pcr yard u "I Matting for 20eents per yard, ■"‘ lltm g far 25 cents per yard. in $2.00» 852.00. ?2.00 M *sms -Stewart Co.|l, 3 and Third Ave Rome, Ga. ROME GEORGIA. TUESDAY EVENING JULY. 17 18P4. r WH » . j &T ’ / >. RATTAN ROCKER a » o MI BATHE. Alabama Gone Spilled over the Earth. STRIKERS FIRE ON MINERS And are in Turn fired Upon by the Guards. Troops, Homeward Bound are Halted and Ordered: ’-To the , Rear: March !’* Birmingham, Ala., July lv—. A bout 5 o’clock this afternoon a large body of men, armed with Winchesters, were discovered near slope No. 3 of Pratt mines, of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company, seven miles from Bir mingham It was the hour when the men at Work in the mines came out. The men at work were negroes who had taken the placesof striking miners, and the attacking party were strik ers and their sympathizers. As the negroes came out the strikers, who were squatting around behind bushes and fences, opened lire. The people who heard it sup posed it v.as a Gatling gun in the hands of the troops. Several hun dred shots were tired before the strikers scattered. Guards stationed around the mines returned the lire, but they were few m numbers. The casualties are: B W. Tierce, white guard killed, A negro min-r name unknown, killed. One of the strikers a Frenchman name J Racquet was badly wounded and will die. Several on both sides were wound ed. One of the wouuued strikers was dragged off by his friends. It was a deliberate attack by th-- strikers on the miners put to woik in their place?, and they shot to kill Two local military companies were hurried to the scene and are in the neighborhood tonight All companies some ten in number, which had been here from other cities for a week, on account of the railroad strike, 1 a been ordered home last night, Tuis afternoon the Montgomery companies were stopped en route and turned back, and all the others will be here in the morning for duty at the min '- - —« . - - • I L 11 t 1..« 1—■ I, 4k £, ing camps' ihe mining strike has been on since the middle of April,and the feeling is growing bitter, being accentuated by the railroad strike. Governor Jones saw the miners committee -this afternoon and beg ged them to accept the compro mise lately offered but they de clined. The proprietors are, proceeding to open ail mines with such labor , as they can get, and Governor J Jones is of the opinion that troops will be needed here indefinitely.. ibe attack this afternoon fol lowed in less than two hours after the departue of the troops. The bitterness of the strikers as illus trated by the captu red Frenchmen. He was kneeling behind a cowpen fence firing his winchester when a builet from a guard knocked him over, He raised up and emptied his gun. He could not speak a word of English. The negroes scattered in all directions when fired on. Only a tew had got out of the mines when the firing began which accounts for the small loss of life. A GUABNTEED LARGEST SIZE MADE A FIGHT AT FKATT MINES. A second battle was fought at slope No. 4. of the Pratt mines simultaneously with that at No. 3. ’and the total dead reaches six with at least a score wounded. Another mob of strikers had ambushed themselves near the mouth of No. 4. whence the ne groes came in box cars. The train had proceeded but a short distance from the mine, when the party in ambush opened fire. The first shot went through the window of the engine cab, flicked some hair from the head of Aline (Superintendent J. J. Moore and nearly killed the engineer. The deputies returned the volley with vigor and in a short time the mob began its re treat towards the centre point, SIX DEAD BODIES FOUND. Posses of scouts were hastily formed m the vicinity of the mines and the work of searching tor tne dead and woundeo was en tered upon The miners made their escape, except tho.-e unabe to walk for their wounds, Ten bod i s were picked up, of which six w're lifelepH. Many wounded were helped Hva’ by their comrades. The names of the negroes dead are unknown. George Campbell, one of the ne„.o laborers, had his leg broken a> 4 a bullet passed through bis chin. He says the strikers came mi him after he was shot, down, beat and kicked him and then fired the bullet through his face. lhe remains of the dead were all brought to Birmingham. Great excitement prevails here, the streets being crowded with terror stricken people. Every precaution has been taken to gaard the mines against further depredation. The Third regiment of the staje guard has been ordered into camp here, and altogether there will be 500 soldiers in this vicinity by morning, ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A MINE. An attempt was made todaj r to blow up Lockhart mines, ii Walk er county where the negroes were fired simultaneously in the mines and serious damage done, James Kelley, a colored driver, and his mules were instantly killed. No clue to the guilty parties —Consti- tution. , IN BED FOR 30 YEARS. SISTERS ALTHOUGH NOT SICK, REFUSED TO G..T UP. Canton, Pa., july 16, —The death of Harriet Sackett, who lived near Smith's Mills, ended a strang> life. Thirty years ago. she and her sister Julia, although suffering m no way, went to bed and refused to rue afaia. They were then young, and no amount of coaxing could iuduce them to leave their - bed. The mother cared for them, bu* she died. Afterwards other mem bers of the family carried food to them. In time Harriett became a hopeless paralytic. About four years ago, Julia cue day astonish ed her friends by getting up, and she has since acted as other per sons, z Ilaerir'.D rar n o » I -W. .T. .. __ 1 J Harriett was always cold, no matter how hot the weather, and usually slept under a mass of dressed sheepskins. They mv r gave a reason for their odd con duct. t NEALY A SWOHDEISH’S VICTIM THRILLING EXPEKU'XCK <)F A BOLD FISH EKMAN OF PORTLAND. Portland, Me,, July 17-C. EcVey, a fisherman, reports a thrilling ex peri nee. He returned yesterday from a sword fishing trip that came near being his last. Ha was out in a dory and had jdstjgiven a swordfish the iron, when it turned and maJ.j a rush for his dory, > t iking t b ead on and sending its sword completely through the boat, overturning it. <t was the last ttffort of the big fislu All McVey could do was lo hold to the bettor.i of his boat. He was four hours th ere bofore he. was taken off, but he saved the dory and the big fish. CANADIAN R. R. SUBSIDIES. GTEB $1,500,000 VOTED IN THE J IST HOUHS OF LEGISLATION. Ottawa. July 16.—Tne Dominion Government at a late hour last night just ou the eve of the prorogation of Parliament brought down a resolution granting over a million and a half dol 1 lars subsidy to the railway companies of the Dominion in the course of con struction and to he constructed. The average amount to be paid is $3,200 per mile. The government is seriously censured for delaying these resolutions uniil the last moment for the purpose of rushing them through after om -half the members had It f "to their homes. Mr<. Edward Pennington and Miss Liela Pennington left this morning for Saint Louis Mo., where they will spend the summer’ I O CENTS A WEEK A Ku 11 ml, Kandy, Koonlet Kiddiet Kaptured. CHIEF PINK SHROPSHIRE* Runs the Young Thief to Cover and/ 4 imls in him, the Burglar who tend the Regidenee of Mr. Elbsn McGee some days ago. Chief of Police, Pink Shropshire* got in some sweet work on a sugar coated koonlett named Kid Robqr son. this forenoon. The Roberson kid has been, uu der the eye of the Chief for mon than a week, and yesterday after noon when he bugged a 4Q Rj. bucket of candy from the Itbrse Candy Factory he only hastened the closing of the meshes of the. law. The Chief ran the coon kid fcc • cover this this morning and then pinned with the other charge, viz: that of having burgalizod tLe resi dence of Mr, Elbert McGhee and carring off among his bjoty a gold watch an i some money. Tne fid made a c e n bieaet ct it and said that he bad left the watch with a white man in East Rome who was going to charge Birr $2 to? repairing it. The Chief eariied the young negro to East Rou.e in search of tbe man ln t fai’ed to find him, Roberson is fi ima 1 koonlet oi about 12 years but is deoididly one of tne slickest ducks that Rome has known since Lord Beresford departed those coast. Commissioners Sale. GEoRgIA, Floyd County : Wiiibe sold on tne SiTtc 1 tie .- day niAugust next, 1894, at the Court house door in said covaAj . with iii tbe legal bouts of sale, to the highest bidder upon the-termft as hereinafter mentioned, tba fol lowiugproperty to wit: PaXsof lots . i of lai d Nos. (182) one- hundred t ana eighty-two and ('-183} one hut.dred and eighty tkree iu the 24th District and 3rd.. Section of said county, nine more I or less in the nortb-we&t wirner of . said lot (182) one hundred- and eighty-two and s-H' that part of . said lot number 6.182) one hnn- i . “• ■m3 .izin, I day of July 1894. > Jake C. Moore, Sheriff and Cbm m.SHioner of the Superior Court Ct' said County. Application for Letters of Dis mission, * ’ ’ FI J >v i> g< >cnty ; Oohen, ' 1 duly filed, tl’ it she li hi . U1 *‘ r wsiti.m hens estate. This is t.ielrf “!® tered MatniiCe-. ed, kindred and creditors lo* * l }’ erßon * < ’ n,l<, fn»- they can, why said Guardian J? “’' v .‘ iui »e. U aujr <'har K ed from her ilminiXi™. ~ n <* '* rt «* dred and eighty-tirvo that lies on the east side of the road running . inreugh said lot; also mat part ot h t number (12.),0ne hundred and eighty-two that is described as be ginning at a certain walnut bush ur stake, running north forty-four rids (44) to EllisMiue, thence east io the East Tennessee Virginia & Georgia Railroad twenty-two rods (22) rods, thence south down said daiiroad forty-tour rods, thence west to-the beginning: also thir teen null two-thirds (13$) acres of land more or less, bounded as fol lows: beginning at the south-east corner ot lot No. one hundred and seventy-nine (179) in the 24'tb. Distract and 3rd. Section of sa d JL7IOVICSUV cl 4-1 M OHM. UUVVIUU Bft Ct county, thence west 24 30-100 chains to a stake, thence Berth 19| E 6 25-100 chains to a stake, tneuce east 21 85 100 chains to the original east line and south to 1 he said pioperty known wm ttei Giles place and whereon W. L, tb* Deft, formerly resid'up. iSftid land j HV ted on, as the properly of W.C satisfy* an execution issued fn perior Court of said (ten. vor of Jno.M. Vandi^r\ g . said W. U. Giles ” * vrues. lhe terms o. sale are one-fourth eash, baL ance in three equal installments payable respectively on the firs’ days of November 1894. 1895 an | 1896 all bearing interest at sew per cent per annum. This ifHF