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the HUSTLER OF ROME. HIRP miff iiSPAUSED. " ,IS I late convention. ■ ht c f his Mother, who <° Attend and I witness his Nont.na- ■ hai a Domonhz- I tlo jngEffect_ Ijawßi awu, rs Kgo to the Floyd delegation, as i E'rw-««^“* liG " °' “ ■n Mr. Atkinson’s acceptance speech Lore the State Democratic conven- Hioo* .q” uere was an incident in the pro ceedijlrß of the late state convention wni cb all observed but few were able to understand. Men Hod. W. Y. Atkinson was [irmaliy nominated for governor and broU gbt before the convention by » regularly appointed cmunittes to ac cept the hen or that bad been confei redon him, he looked the very im personation of composure. As he began his address his eyes spoke that determination which had characterized mm in ail his tights for Denneracy, his manner was confi dent and his every bearing indicated courage and force. Suddenly a slight tremor was no ticed in bis voice, his eyes became moistened, and tor the time, those who observed him closely appreciated that the speaker was laboring with great effort to control himself. It was all momentary—a minut of intense anxiety m which all the elements of sympathy, anxiety and curiosity figured—but it was soon I over, and the hero asserted himself and delivered to the vast audience a speech that stirred to the depths every Democrat present. After the adjournment a close trie.id of Mr. Atkinson spoke to him of the incident, and asked if the sight of his wife did not cause the faultering. “Did you notice it,’’ inquired the brilliant young leader.‘-Well,” said he, “the presence of my wife "as not unobserved, and yet it did not produce the faultering to which yon allude. As Hooked upon her I thought -‘ my lovable mother, whose ex treme age had kept her from Bl inding the convention, and invol uniary thought of the great delight tnat the occasion would have giv her bad she been present.” Ibis thought,'’ he continued, his -= mmsiing,"gave me embarrass Xi ' ut ’ tor tbe moment came “ gb overwhelming me, and it was great effort that I asserted m^“ech 0 ’ tr ° l t 0 proceed with honor?!^? of Geor K ia has unoii h IlPaiße ' veß io calling vEorv ? t 0 IGad theiu aipsjfnn a^ atte agaiUßt the eni "ho nod u ' ar government. One allow h>, , r - 6U , CI c °oditioDß, will and mo! “ IDd tO . to home Deeses th ’ 'V eader who pos 81 ‘° rdliet Mr d ail ° nc occa sioo has was mad(> nßon de,UoUßtrated that he in this Ir U ° CoQilaoQ mould » and hag exhibited 7' rtspects he a PP ea ‘to the fitT at l ribUteS that intense Xt " 81^68 ° f vol Ge ° rgia will in - Splenaid Young leSlt V bleBS t be 6u Prem e nr eaderwho > m such a M "'“u re ' hougW «*' OOi»»,?|u'‘’ Mrpus before d'nary deci 1' ? ? esterda y> the Or- I'areutg led to her foster r9n - ra tber'thn ? IrS Gwae Wttr - T°wen gQllc j ? ° father Mr, onea w ay ’« ° gaVe the tittle } a year ago, CLUSTER OF BULL’S EYE SHOTS. The watermelon season now in its glory, will never be forgotten by Ro roans. Never before has there bee 11 B uch abundant crop in this section, and never before have 40 pound, choice of the vioe, melons been sold from the wagons for 15 cents each Think of it, 15 pound beauties going at 5 cents and thousand more of them where these come from. Its hard on soda founts, but who cares so long as the heavenly fruit is in our midst * * 4 When the Japs get tired of hai vesting “pig tails’’ and decide that they have feasted on victory long enough, I most respectfully submit to the “Mucawdu’’ that all he needs t> do is to state to the washee-washf e folks that be is ready and able to rat-ify a treat-ee * * * Floyd County must have n>t lets than fifteen Democratic clubs organized in side of the next thir ty days. This county is going to give Democracy’s f nominees, from Governor down, not less than 1000 majority. I speak after ob taining the coiuensus of opinion from the leaders of b »th the Evans and Atkinson democratic ele ments. * . * * And right here I want to say that at this wriTng, I know of not over a half dozen men who fought General Evan’s light in Floyd who who will desert the standard of the gallant old commander when he to Democracy's choice. I'here may be sore heads in other counties, but in Floyd quite all of the men who went into the prim aries are democrats and will abide the will of the majority, * * * I was talking to Chairman John J. Black of the county democratic executive committee, on yesterday and found him jubilant over the news from Alabama. Mr. Black, be sides being born a tax collector, has been reared as a Democrat and what he don’t know about Floyd County politics, aint worth learning I asked him what he thought Mr, Atkinson’s majority will be, and after studying a moment he replied: “Nearly a hun dred thousand.’’ The old ship is weighing anchor and it’s time to“ get on board, little ehillun, ’ and etc. * * * If you dont want to read a few verses about W. S, Beresford, the only “lord ’ that some people in Rome ever knew I, hereby warm you to avoid this column tomorrow. That’s lair, aint it? ♦ * * M y ‘ ‘Chinese puzzle’’of yesterday s Bui's Eye Kolumn caused a whole passel of talk and not only tickled lots of folks but gave my friefid John of Reeseburg a spell of Mexican fe ver which I found to be almost con tageovs —at least I came very near “ketchiu it”, The “lion ’ does not show up very natural like, but this is caused by masquerading in the skin of the “Kat that kame back,’ Then again h looked a little like a dog but so would any body else, if they had eaten all the dogs iu Polk county. Gnoinystxeqk Will not be recognize! as an ordinary English word. A word Is the expression of an Idea. The above combination of letters express an idea, for no one will look at It without having impressed upon his mind the fact that a new style of type has been designed which Is at once the most modest, the most handsome, and the most aesthetic that has ever been , used in the “art preservative of all arts.” Expressing as it does this idea of Superlative Refinement In printing, it might well become a recognized English word except for the fact that any other combination of letters set in this style of type would give the observer the same Impression of modest beauty, while this same combination of vowels arrd consonants would fail to express any such idea at all if it were set in any other style of type. 4 J, W. Ewing, one of the leading attorneys of Rome, was in town on business last Monday, —Summer- ville News, ROME GEORGIA. THURSDAY EVENING AUGUST. 9 1894. FOR KiD NAPPING. One of Rome's Foremost Citi zens Arrested in Atlanta. ON HIS OWN COGNIZANCE * - - - - .He was Permitted to go and To Carry the Little Negro With him. There is nothing in the Case. The following special has been sent out from Atlanta : “Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 8. —Col. Hamilton Yancey, of Rome, Ga., was arrested here this afternoon on the charge of kidnapping, just as he was about to leave the Kim ball House lobby. It is needless to s iy that a sensation ensued. It seems that about three years ago Co l . Yaucey, took charge of a Negro boy by consent of the boy’s mother, tor five years. While Col, Yancy was in S >uih Georgia about two Aeeks ago, the relatives of the boy telegraphed to Rome that his mother, who fives in Atlanta, was dying .The boy was sent here and his mother died. To-day CoL Yan cey got the boy and was taking him back to Rome to have him s-rve out his term of five years, wh n two bailiffs approached him and arrested him on warrants sworn out by the boy’s auut. Col. Yancey gave bond for his appearance here next Tuesday.and went away still in possession of the Negro,” A Hustler reporter tried to see Col. Yancey t< diy but as he is absent at his suu merlioiue near Cave Spring found it impossidle. From good authority however we learned that Co - . Yancey has the boy regularly bound to him ami that the boy wants to stay with him. More th n that Col, Yancey did not have to make bond but was per mitted to go on his on recognizance until next Tuesday when be will go down to Atlanta and show his author ity f< r Lol ling the boy. DEATH OF MR. KIGHT. On yesterday afrernoon at 2 o’clock the spitit of Greenbury Kight, of Cbulio district, 8 miles from Rome winged its flight from its earthly abode to the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem. Mr Kight was one of Floyd’s old est and best citizens and though a quiet, modest, every day sort of a man he, was loved and respected by all who knew him His remains were laid to rest this morning at 10 o’clock in the ceme tery at Antioch, near East Rome. GRIMM-FELTON. Rome and Cartersville in This Alliance. Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’cock Miss Retha Rose Grimm and Dr, Howardd E. Felton will be united in marriage at the home of the brides parents in this city. Miss Grimm is one as Rome’s pretty and popular young ladies who has a wide circle of friends. Dr. Felton is a rising young phy siciou now located at CartersviLe and is the son of Hou. W. H, Fel ton of Bartow county. The Cere mony will be pronounced by the grooms father who is not only a retired physician and an exCon gressman but .a minister of the Gospel. After dinner which will imme diately follow the ceremony the young couple will leave for their future home in Cartersville, cart} - iug with them the best wishes ot an host of friends. Says the Cartersville Courant; Mrs- S.P. Jones left a sample of an orange watermelon at Word’s drug store Tuesday, which was a beuutiful yel low and of excellent flavor. It was the only one in the patch with 6U«h a distinct orange color, and was| quite a curiosity. “CARTERS OATS.” Is the Brand of the Seed That Yielded the Alabama Harvest. KOLB KRIES KALF ROPE. And his Lieuteants are "Down injthe Mouth." The Dem ocratic ChairmanlShowes his Claims to be Baseless. Montgomery. Ala., August 9. The eiectien returns today have not materially altered the footing of yesterday estimate. The changes in most cases f avor the democrats and the best esti mate tonight gives Oates a major ity of 26,086 Autauga reports 423 majority for Oates, Bibb 517 for Kolb, Blount 140 for Kolb, Calhoun 407 for Oates, Chambers 469 for Kolb, Cherokee 770 for Kolb . Oate’s ma jority is increased to something like 6,400 in Dallas, to about 1- 179 in Monroe and to 6,000 in Wil cox, Jefferson county goes for Oates by 117 majority. The ma jority in Hale will be reduced probably within 2,000 and in Lowndes to within 3,500. Mareu go ivill also drop a hundred or so and the democrats are claiming Pickens by about 400. Kolb gets 52 majority in convingtiou. The Koblets here appear to have surrendered. They are evidently awaiting the instructions of the conference at Birmingham. It was figured out tonight at the demo cratic headquarters here that the democrots have 63 of the 100 mem birs of the lower house and 23 of 33 state senators not counting Mr. Moofly of the Tuscaloosa district. In ini interview today Chairman Tompkins.of the democratic exe cutive committee, said: “Kolb’s claim that he ha-> been defrauded out of his election, considered iu the light of Jiie undisputed facts, is so absolutely baseless as to be ridiculeus. His majority, in counties carri ed by him, amount in the 'aggre gate to 14,000 Oats’s majority in the'counties carried by him leav ing out Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, Hale. Lowndes, Marengo, Madi son, Montgomery and Wilcox, the only counties which Kolb chal lenges amount in the aggregate to 12,000, leaving Kolb only 2,000 a head. The white vote in nine counties left out of the above calculation, according to the census of 1890, amount in the aggregate to 16, 000‘” “It is a well known fact, too weL to be disputed, that not more than one-tenth of those white vot ers were supporters (of Kolb. It is equally as well known that the number of negroes who have for years, ever since they were given the eufferage, voted the democratic ticket in those counties at Iwaet equals the whites who are suppor ters of Kolb. ‘'Oats’s majority in those nine counties could not have been less than 15,000, From this it is shown that, even admitting everything that Kolb claims, it is clear that instead of being elected Kolb is defeated by not less than 13,000 Many negroes openly voted the democratic ticket. Tuis was particu larly the case ia Kolb’s old county, Barbour, and in Oats’s old home, Eu faula, Ala ,it was natural that they should have done so and it would have been very strange if they had not. In the recent riots in Jefferson county the governor used the whole power of the state to protect the ne groes against the murderous ussult of those who were supporters of Kolb. This action of the governor was un iversally endorsed by the democratic press, speakers and people, while the p ress and speakers of the opposition as universally condemned the g<>ver nor for his action. If lie negrops under circumstance had not supported the democratic party itnould have shown that they d d not possess even ordinary gratitude, Governor-elect Oates was open and avowed of his endorsements of the action of Governor Jones and natur ally the negroes voted for him. This man Kolb has always cried fraud. He, according to his own ad mission, has frequently been a party to fraudulent practices in elections; he assumes that the demo r ds use the same means to obtain their majority that he admits having used himself. “The two counties not heard from reported today. One. Baldwin gave a small maj iriry for Cates, and the other, Covington, about offset it with a majority for Kolb. This set tles the democratic majority at 2G,- 000. The legislature will stand; Sen ate, 24 democrats and 9 opposition; house, 63 democrats and 38 opposi tion. KOLBITES SOLEMN. They Read the Hand Writing on the Democratic Wall. Birmingham, August 9. —The conference of Kolb leaders has been in session all day and up to 1 o’clock this morning. They finally adjourned without completing their resolutions or ad dress to the public, which they promised to give to the press to morrow afternoon. There is an air of mystery and solemnity about them when they appear on the streets, and they decline to talk at all. CARTER’S SEED “OATS” There are but a few Kolbs in Dal las County. Selma. Alabama., August 9. The official count has been com pleted . she total vote po'led in Dallas county was 5.882. The coun i ty gives Oates 5.757. Kolb 129 I Oates’s majoritv, 5.627. i THEY FAILED, The “Lion" and the “Bear" a r d the “Pig Tails." Shangbi, August 9 —lt is offi ’ oiaily reported form Tieu-Tsin that efforts of Great Britian and Russia > to bring about peaceful settlments of dispute between China and Ja pan have failed . China is willing to pay it.demni ty, but she refuses to surrender her sovereignty over Corea. The Chinese government has i dotted Amping and Tokio iight— houses on the island Formosa. A WEBB OF DEATH. A Contractor Commits Suicide at Birmingham Ala. Birmingham, Ala., Agust 9. —W. L. Webb, a contracting railroad constructionalist of Lament, HL, suicided last night in the South ern hotel by shootiug himseif through the head with a pistol. No one heard the shot when it was fired, neither does any one know why Webb took his life. Mr. Robert Hargroves, of Ro me has been stopping at the Majors springs for several days past. — Chattooga News. Alias Ella Nee 1 , after spending two weeks with relatives aud frieuds aud friends in Gordon county, returned home Monday,—Courant American. Mr. J.E. Mullens, of Rome came down to witness the Pythiaus in stallation last Friday night. He is an enthusiastic and zealous Knight.—Cartersville Courant. Sheriff Lee Buri o igh and Deputy R. L. Griffiin, who have served Bur tow County faithfully for the past two yours, will stand for re election in January and will be a hud team to down. 10 CENTS A WEEK MADDOX LEADS The Minority in a Forlorn Hope Yesterday SAVED THE TREASURY From Being Looted of Vbout $15,000,000 Dollars “Our John” Proves • a Fighter From taw This Morning’s Constituticx • contains th's special from itfr- Washington correspondent, Washington August, B.—Speak er Crisp’s forethought and Judge Vfaddox, with a few other etalvzart demacrats, kept the treasury from being raided today to the amonui of .$lO 000,000 or sls 000,000. Th* day had been set aside for the cor»- mittee* on public buildings and grounds. No soonir had the da s business commenced than a D-amaioth combi~ nation of the east and west, Lewie,! by the Chicago delegation, which warned $4,000,000 for a building and New York, which wanted $3,000.0(X> more for a new appraisers’ building showedits leai'. Besiles two claims nearly every district between the two sections want <1 something from a $50,000 to a sloo,oo<> appro rriatjon. Tiie combination was the strongest wiiich had appeared in congress this season, for it was able to carry every rpproj riation in the combination through, There were about six demo- Tats who fought it. Judge Maddox, was t,Le leader of the stria 1 minority, and he noted every time a quorum was lacking and demanded the same When not doing this he was de manding the tellers and the ayes and nays. This continued until 7 o'clock when the combination began to call for members, intending to get a quo rum and adjourn over the legislative day. But for the foresight of the speak er they would have kept this up until every appropriation iu the enrobina i m, amounting to about STS,CI>C,O<X> b id been passed- Finally some one called the attention of Bourke Cockran to the rule which set aside the day The usual term, “legislative <lav” did not apnear in h-> rule, but instead was inserted j “calendar day.’’ The calendar day ends always at midnight, whereas legislative day can be continued indefinitely.. But with Maddox, Bland and oth er watch dogs on deck, the comb a nation gave up the fight and the house adjourned. Mr. (.■tellings said Speaker Crisp feared some such combination and precluded the possibility of the raid by the wording of his rule. A e'I.OSE WATCH BEING KEPT The conferees on the civil sun dry bill are holding pa’oiemgid ses sions each day, but little progreee seems to be made. The Georgia delegation are keeping a tab on the conference every hour it is in session. Senator Walsh and Gor don are keeping the private eom ferees up to the line and Repre sentative Livingston is keeping watch over Mr. Sayers. Mr. Liv ingston said today that he had no fear at all for the appropriation. This was in response to many tele grams from anxious friends.. KAPTURED THE LION. It was reported this morning that Mr. Vince Sanford and others had, with a pack of 60 dogs, chas- - ed the Mexican Lion, until the varmint had been forced to board the Steamer, Resaca, while she was loading freight at a down the river landing. A reporter on another paper heard ot the capture and t his morn ing went to the Resaca s landing to investiga «. He was assured that the story was based omfact and Captain Kirkpatric took him back and showed him “tin - terror of North West Georgia - ' —as 'w.b'- raccoon. ij.ic.-s u lequater’ tr.gcs to young mm desiri* < *-“ es-» «iii< atton Shorthand. Course thor 'ugii anc> • * •uense« low Free ar fare to Rome Circulars fr;e J. L-. HA.RMISON, President. \