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' 188 BUSTLER OF BOMB.I aecono-cI&M Mail letter. s y?JJILG. BYRD, |^X’g£ d ’DAILY AND SUNDAYS ■*■ ‘ MS OF SIJ3SCRIPTIG 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 - ' —- i 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 tM leL j ~'JgSO ' - I tn ■ jY'; • JI __ 7 _. " O, 10.00 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. fiEHHI a- ' Swhß mn igSß| i H3is» dill lilt u»w»wi>rw j *rw —««—Tkel-i P ■>//.,,'4 1 ■ I I ‘ rSSfirri 1 -=2S-- vflL&. MB! ,T Nylv&\ ° i Tfiant- iiWAu n___; HwvJ JL I $20.00, S 10.00, 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- MLLIh 1 • -r-Jn s i “I w W Hi® BIsBWIW j i iiii Is W ! wKiif I J i»L i '(Hi® : iy r I W® nil ||L J||l ■t «■[ iR I I il™ 53.50, ®5.0 □, Company,*4* •ROME GEORGIA.'