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' 188 BUSTLER OF BOMB.I
aecono-cI&M Mail letter.
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’DAILY AND SUNDAYS
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10 cent u, week or $5 00 per annum
Corner Broncl Street and
viAvenue.
Os the city of Rome, and Foyd. the
“Banner county of Georgia.
-afTor representatives of h ioyd :
JMaj >r Bob Fouche,
■C.ipl. John Reese,
and plain
“Mister” Moze Wright.
Andthiy will ba electai. .o
mark that prediction.”
The Ice nabob grows fat wofu
ng on water.
Tke budding woman begins to
rear the bloomer cost nine.
The marriage rate in .England is
j® r ei at present than ever before.
The President of the French is
-Saidto possess a private fortune of
$2 5,*00,000.
Who ruint them water works?
V.trd who is going to deliver Rom a
jf lfcm hermuddy cups.
Iu the army of Alexander the
the order was so close that
in the interior files could
juot turn.
JJiahopJohn M. Walden, of the
Ifethodist Episcopal (Church, begat
on an Ohio 1i er fl’tboat His
-waJaty was 50 cents a day,
■Coxey’s Army iod Coxey to a coi.-
gcessina! nomination. Dobs strik<
. A 'ems to have been a blow in the
stnie direction.
Aifter all, it seems that some ol
* ’fae plans have miscarried and thai
rack “bluff 'on Third Ave. remain-
dizzy in its proportions.
That was a'level headed editoi
■who refused to publish an article
.tfefided“ Powder and Shot,"and
Have as his reasons that its class
made it“mag»zu>e stuff.”
The Thomasvill Advertiser calle
tin party.” Nff so. not so.
T4«y will never live to see the day
av hen they will poll one third ot
votes in Georgia. —Dalton Ar
Siiollyg)ster Ram, who is oat in
’Texas, has struck a town in which
>fcc gayso "Tuey tell me they can
•atake.-cotton without rain, but a
■ v.wc cr thre * years’drouth cuts off
ftte e )rm»n»l oat cr yps a little . ’
' xing “Rich ird Coear de Lion's
• paid to Emporor Henry
•T,,iu. 1193 was equal to ab">ut $2.
’ *WO.OOO in U ill it cosl
i -*he- Tribune that much 'to-capture
'ViKacurisn lion, now roaming Floyd
%escuujy?
It will be Representative Law
. •»« again—and let us hope, Rep
- -«»autative Turner. — Angus!a
♦J&rouicle.
Vv Whether you“staud Pat’-’or not,
that's what it-will be and-—it-wil l
Senator Bacon too.'Mark that
jpr e d i c t i on.
r3m3k'm.<?ss;powder has been fol
£*w»d by-a chemical combination
awlletk a‘ fog creator” A German
Itsihm is the inventor. It i-s a shell
■kkh, when it explodes,enshrouds,
on darkness the troops at whom it
-aided~lt-also causes soldiers to
3JJE.gh
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Georgia Lawyeis have captured
fdtn city es Atlanta today and will
•*r« the town over to the Justic-B
af-dse Peace tomorrow, who will
vjeapair it for the great Democratic
convention ouJThur ri
•day. Verily Atlanta is arrayed n
kw glory this week .
The Proles ait population of
Europe is about 30,000,000, or equal
to dual of the United States; but
«fuilu<ontinentai Europe has only
-about -eight per of the Sunday;
©f the world, the United
States has forty-nine per cen* . or
nearly one-haff.
HE HAD BEEN THERE-
“W w-where are you g g-C-J*c°
ing?” a led oue.
“G g-g going t-t t-t-to the stut
stut-stut :tuniniring institute,” said
the other.
“G g g g-g-g>od pup-pup-pup
place,” sai 1 the first. “They kick
kick-kick-cured me,” —Boston Journ
ai,
The encounter between Col
Wimpy Mid Judge Hines is grow
11.g lively, and promises to cut»
urge figure in the populist leader’?
campaign, up to date Col \\ impy is
i jepublicau populist and will op.
pose Col. Livingston for Congr-ss
in the fifth district. He is not sup
porting Hines for GoVf rnor.—Col
umbus Ledger.
According to Mrs Oberholtzer,
there are now 310 school savings
banks in this country. Pennsylvania
takes the lead, but some very flour
ishing banks of this kind have been
established in Colorado, Kansas and
North Dakota. As a rule 3 per cent
interest is allowed for $3 aud over
During the time that has elapsed
between 1880 and the year 1894
there has been an increase in mi
leage of railroads in the United
States, in round numbers, 84,000
miles. This would extend over
three and a third time around the
world and shows the wonderful
growth of this great public bene
factor.
A wire message from New York to
Aukland traverses a length of line of
19,123 miles, nearly three fourths cf
which is submarine cable. It has to
be repeated or rewritten fifteen times-
The longest cable is between Ameri.
ca aud Europe, say 2,800 miles, and
the longest land line is across Austro,
ha fro n P.rt Darwin to Adelaide,, 2,
50 miles
Replying to a letter addressed to
him by the Anti Gambling League
protesting against horse racing, Lord
Roseberry in the course of hi« letter
s-iys; “Mr position is simply his.
Like Cromwell, whose official potition
was higher than mine, and the strict*
ness of whose principles cannot be
questioned, I possess & few race
horses, and lam glad when one of
these happens to be a good one,
The South is the most prosper
ous section of our country at pres
ent. —We are freer from debt than
any other country, and the prog-,
peels are brighter than at any pe
riod since the war. The eyes of the
emigrating World are upon our
fields, and the capitalist with his
idle hoards is only waiting the re«
suit and settlement of national
legislation, to develop our varied
resources.—Acworth Post.
The amount of railroad stock pav
ing no divi lends during the year
was $2, 9-50.334,572, being G 1.24 per
cent of the total stock outstanding-
Os stocks paying dividends, 5.25 per
cent of the aggregate stock paid from
4to 5 per cent, 11.62 per cent paid
from sto G per cent, 521 per cent
paid from Gto 7 p-r cent, and 5.35
per cent paid from 7to 8 per cent
lue total dividends pail was sll.
929,881,
Three thousand three hundred and
forty one ships, of 7 659,000 tons
passed through ihe Suez Canal i,J
1893. yielding $68,010,000 in due- 1 .
Three thousand and eight - .vo of
the ships, or 92 1-4 per cent, passed
through by night. As to the nation
ality of the vessels, the English were
2,405, German 572,French 190,Dutch
ITS, Austia-Hungarian 71,Ttalian£67,
Norwegian 50, Ottoman 34, Spanish
29, Russian 24, Portuguese 10, Egyp.
tian 5, American 3, Belgian 1, Bra
zilian 1, Japanese 1
The populist profess hostility to
corporations. How do they recon
cile this fact with the other oue
thit the r candidate for governor,
Judge Hines, is the president of a
railroad company, and the regular
attorney for four other corpora
ions? How can corporations be
crippled or h mpered by plac
ing their officers aud attorneys in,
coutrol of the government? Our
friends, the enemy had best take
down some of iheir candidates, or
shut up about corporations.—L iw
reucevi'le News .
MATTER OF CONSTRUCTION. |
Two respectable looking m n f
middle age were talking quite)
earnestly and quite audibly in a
Cold Spring car the other even
ing.
*D d you o to see her?” ask
one.
“O'i, yes, certainly !’’ rep'ied the ;
other.
“How do you like hej?”
J I
“I think she is perfect be iuty.”
was t'ie rapturous reply wb r--i.ii
ill the pastengers looked that w< y.
and a young woman direc'ly <-p
--posite the speaker blushed and
tried t > pretend she wasn’t iisn u
mg.
“Yes I admire h ( r very much,”
added the man. “I like hei styb,’
“Elegantly built and fitted ou‘,
isn't she?”
‘Yes, and she’s pretty fast too, 1 .
The young woman accross the
aisle could stand it no longer. She
nodded confusedly to the conduc
tor and get off at the next cross
ing.
The respectable looking mtn
didn t notice anything and kept
right on with their gossip.
“I would't mind owning her ”,
“I wouldn’t object myself, She’ll
be a paying investment —that is,
if she did today. Let’s see, what’s
that her name is? I’ve forgotten."
“The Northwest”
And the other passengers
smiled.—Buffalo Express,
TOTAL CLAIMS FOR PENSIONS.
The Commissioner of Pensions
June 12 last issued a circular di
rectiug Assistant Commissioner
Murphy, under whose supervision
the work has been done, to make
a thorough examination of the
records of the Pension Office with
a view of showing the present sta
tm-j >f the Bureau.
The means employed and the
results attained are gratifying t<-
Judge Lochren. For the first time
since the establishmen of the Pen
sion Office an accurate, complete
aud comprehensive investigation
has thus been made, aud the re
suits are very satisfactory.
The work was carried up to July
1 last, and it shows that there are
now 619.027 claims pending,
against 711,150 on July 1, 1893, or
a decrease of 92,123 claims. The
total number of claimants 227,-
205 are already on the pension
rolls, showing that there were but
I 237,209 Qlftimauta who a were uql
receiving pensions. The claims are
as follows:
Service piior to March 4, 1861 8,826
Service since March 4, 1861, under genera
laws i 05,435
Underact June 27, 1890118,4)0
Invalid claims under same act 86,-05
Widow claims under act of June 27, 1890 consol
idated with prior applications under former
laws 13,389
Widow claims under act June 27, 1890, consoli
dated with applications having prior titled2,los
Army.nurses.*... 498
Increased invalid and wi low under general laws
and act of June 27, 1890, 159.519
accrued.l2,9sl
Total ... 619,027.
Os the total number of claims
pending on July 1, 1884, including
increased claims, under act of
June 2~, 1890, there ars 162,637
iuva'ids 68,161 widowsand 49,891
increase, making a of 280,
779 The number of claims nj-ct
ed under gpu ril laws was 93,289;
and?r act of June 27.1890,109,005 ;
other laws, 144,378; Army nurses,
164, making a total number of
346,836 rejected claims, with 44-
451 claims abandoned. Commis
sioner Lichreu sees before him
289,209 claimants who are not re.
ceiving pensions, and he proposes
to put the whole clerical force of
the office at work adjusting these
claims
Now as the East Tennessee rail ,
road c'aauges bands on the siroke of I
12 o’clock tonignt at midnight,! want
to make this prediction: Handsome
happy, hustling Cal Smith, who has
such a “pull ’ on the tixv .Hing pubi c
of this city will be retained where he
is, and he and his entire pay roll w 11
continue to give Rome the best ser
vice ever ottered the local traveling
üblic of this city, Cal is as good as
the best that ever smote a stamp or
punched a ticket—but Lis firtis
“sellin em” and he will hold the fort.
M irk that prediction.
-THE BIGGEST FU.UITURE BOUSE SOITIL
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Why should Bomans or citizens of the surrounding country go to
Atlanta, Chat'anooga or any ottv r city except Rome wh-n dV y want
to purchase furniture? The Hustler of Rome asks the q
seriousness and after you have looked over the cu's of bea itiful
household furniture, as presented on this rage, and noted
ably low figures that set forth the selling price, we thin : - , ; w : I un
derstand why we ask the question.
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Thai the McDonald Sparks-G ewart Go., is the bigges 4 ’furniture
ho.xae ’n the south,all you have to do is to call and enquire for a piece
of fur.Jture and then look through the grand assortment and make
yo’ur Ge’ec ion. The Hustler of Rome knows whereof it speaks when
it tells Ts readers that the good j advertised by this great firm are
ju3t as represented-
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