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THE HUSTLER OF ROME.
E|Bi» ’ ,,£AR
If IS SWIG.
L R!)K' IS-
I Surrett. Their Ad
■' S . Aoent, in the Clty
I to say o' the b,g
■ Shows.
■ t the small boy S rejoice and
ii!,v " :i " '’pp ertuiu ‘
■o carry them to see the am*
I' S IL Ihirrett. advance agent
■ ‘ bin menagerie and
sU « »■ tbe c iy
Ktagtte««y fo ' a <lay for h,s
■ as full
KJ I/,■and minimscenees as hi
■ U s business-and without- a
R ljt he is a hustler from taw.
K Barrett says: Sells big shows
Ki their tents in Rome on the
■l/v| umber an I will prove to
■e who attend, the biggest circus
■beir lives, He says fat the Sells
■euses are larger than ever before,
K okY! tiiev are on.y
■ tHmw of tiity cents.
■. nrinv along month
Ke the masses have had an oppor-
to see a circus of any kind and
K longer since they have had an
o f scei’iu a big sh-ov.
> inn" for tin- small boys
to sue ln> cigar‘tt money
K hold it o', er against the 18th of
even “circus day.’
I ANOTHER HORSE.
■ Picture man” gets a Fine ng
■ From Ed Colclough
- - fun uomi a young man
K»g Me name as J, R. Harper,
registering at the Central.from
I., Mr. Ed Colcluughe
and obtained a horse and
with which to go 7 miles m-
country,
■n-' u ’ln had not returned
Mr. Colclough became suspi
■ius and reported the matter to
office.
■Dqn'i - Meth nv 1 and Turner
■once put tti 1 ' wires to work and
morning heard fiom the “pic
mm" and turnout having
■<'.-’ u'o yesterday
■L::n- i-snioo'h faced, dark
■nplected, grey eyes, slight build
■lark coat and grey pants. The
■ee is a bay, with white spots in
face and three white feet.
■tched to a light, top buggy.
I LIGHTNING'S WORK-
Battereil a Shade Tree and
II Shocked Mrs, Jim Baily.
Kw. Jim B a n v , of near Ronjo)
Coosa was badly shock.
■ '-\. a Hash of lightning yester
■' afternoon,
■ wasatonA o’clock and Mrs.
■“Mas in her kitchen near the
giving some instructions
■7 c ? ok wh en the bolt struck a
■ ■■* e tree only ten feet away,
■'» out a ple CH o f li v j n g tim-
■ idburlmg it over the roof of
c i°n and into a cuttou field
■'wet away.
■!. r L B f lly was not knocked
■ „ '/ nt was badly dazed for
■ t a L Ih n Ur - Theco <>k was
K ly badly shocked.
Ku.’• stron S lue ’i to move
tilnber from tho
carry it to the
■Sn' , ? r tb ;? l ? posite side of the
■hil ? 11 tree a large
■l i sed nd n the flyin S th «-
■ house, it cut
■ the peach-tree w
donewith
■ing’i’aiV'm'"' 1 1111,1 the ground
■ acai ' ” n '^ h to
■ about thr' i “'s . s,Tutten tree
■nslittl,'. j, sape5 ape r " In death
I Ul ' miraculous.
KLOSTER OF
BULL’S EYE S6OTS.
i One of the city fathers asks me
1 to state to Mr. “S. 8. Kicker ’ thi t
i Mr. Sam Kiug paid for all the dirt
used in rasing his sidewalks and
streets around his new store, and
further that the city is ready and
willing to l°t all others elevate on
the same terms. Kiever, ant it?
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Dr. Corput headed au expedition
ut about 60 men and 80 dogs last
night and went chasing the “Mex
ican lion” ot Silver Creek settle,
meat. H > says that he had suck
egg dogs, rabbit dogs, koon dog*-,
possum dogs, and fistes but Quar
ry a lion dog—that is to say nairy
a Mexican lion dog was there in
the pack. Hence therefore for th B
lack of the proper dog material
the expedition failed of success
and the wild and viciouss beast
continues to Rome the junghs of
Reese burg,
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Mr. Jot Camp remarked th s
forenoon: “You can just say to
Jehu W. Maddox that so long as
he has any business to attend to
in congrees or elsewhere, he can
devote himself to it with his mind
well at ease so far as his next cam
paign is concerned. Why sir Mad
dox could beat ten Dr. BY 1 ton’s
and not half try ’’ Andi find that
Mr. Camp voices the sentiment of
fully nine-tenths of the people m
this neck of the woods.
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Clever Will Rhudy, the best
story teller in North Georgia and
one of the finest furniture men in
the south, came up from his big
branch house in Atlanta this fore
noon and spent the day in the city
looking after Ins many interests
here. He was very busy all day,
but found time to spring many
new yarns on some of his Rome
friends.
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Messrs. John Berry and Guy
Cothran, while about 8 or 10 mile 4
out in the country had their horse
frightened by the Mexican lion or
something, last night. The hors?
ran away.and so sprained the ank
le of the buggy that the young
gentlemen were forced to march to
the city a-la-Coxey’s army. Each
shouldered a buggy shaft and ar
rived at the outer end of the street
car line in time to make connec
tion with the first car this morn
ing. Theirs was truly a narrow es
cape.
sis ♦
Willie F. Harbour, who has been
spending a few weeks of the heated
term, with his father’s family at
their delightful suburban home in
North Rome, has returned to bis post
of duty Willie is a very pleasant
young gentleman and numbers his
friends by the score, and while he
has been with his present employees,
Messrs J, M. High & Co, Atlanta
Ga., has added to his list of friends.
Peonle from almost every city in, the
State as well as many of the Gate
City’s best people, all of whom will
be glad to know that he is again at
his place of business, where they will
find him in his accustomed cheerful
spirits and many there are who will
call for Willie Harbour when they go
toJ, M. High & Co. Knowing full
well that he will sustain Rome/ rep
utation for sendingout representative
men in every calling. Me wish him
much success and will always be
glad to see him when he comes to
Rome.
—4»
Mrs. S. E. Bailey, who hes beeu
visiting her daughter Mrs P. E-
Clement and family in ,or l ,
Rome, for the past mouth, will
a turn to her home in Carralltou
omorrow.
Miss Lydia May Clement after
spending three mouths with her
grand-parents, Mr and Mrs. J. A.
I Clements in North Rome, returned
to her home in Anniston Ala.
Tuesday.
ROME GEORGIA. THURSDAY EVENING AUGUST. 16 1894.
HEADLESS SANTO
*
He was Guillotine at 5 o’clock
THis Morning.
THE ANARGHIST’S WAIL.
The Last to Fall From his Lips
Even While the Deadly
Knite was Cleaving the
air. CarnotlQulckly
Avenged.
Lyons, France,August I(s.—San
to Gaesario, the murderer of Pres
ident Carnot, was guillotined at 5
o’clock this morning.
A few minutes before 5 o’clock
the condemned man was led from
his cell to the guillotine. His
arms were firmly bound behind
him. When the attendants seized
him to lay him under the knife he
struggled fiercely to free himself.
At 4:45 o’clock all was ready.
Caesar io shouted:
“Courage, comrades! Long live
anarchy! ”
The knife fell at 5 o’clock pre
cisely and Caesaiio’s head dropped
into the basket.
GOLD AND SILVER
A Hunter Turns up a Pot Contain
ing sio,ooo in Money
Indian Bay. Ark.. August 15. —
While B. L. Sanders, of this place
was squirrel hue ting across the riv
er this week, found a pot con
taining upward of SIO,OOO iu silver
and gold American coins, none of
them minted later than 1860. The
money was unearthed by the roots
of a large tree, which was blown
over by a severe windstorm a few
weeks ago. The find was made on
the farm of M. D Cartwright, of
Ripley, Miss. Old settlers aver
that the deposit was made by the
uoti-d bandit, John A. Murrell, S.
A. Murrel, a relative of the bandit
who formerly lived here,was known
to dig for money twenty years ago
in the locality where this find was
made.
NEGRO BR’JTE LYNCHED
Marshal Boston Hanged by a Ken
tucky Mob.
Frankfort, Ky., August 16. —
Mrs. Martin Nolan, living near
this city, was walking along the
pike near her home yesterday when
a negro named Marshal Boston
halted her and demanded money.
She had none. The brute repeat
edly outraged her and left her al
most lifeless.
The negro was caught, fully
identified by Mrs. Nolan and then
taken to jail.
Last night a mob took him out
and at 12:45 this morning hanged
him to a beam of the new bridge
across the Kentucky river and
riddled his body with bullets. It
required over an hour to break in
to the jail, but everything wa 8
done in a systematic manner.
Boston was recently released
from the penitentiary, having
served ten years for rape.
STRAW RIDE.
The straw ride party which
starts tomorrow night at 8 o’clock
from the residence of Col. M. A.
Nevin, promises to be a most de
lightful affair. The parlors and
grounds of Mr. A. B. McDonald
will be open to the party, and eh '
gant refreshments will be served.
The entire expense for a couple
will be only one dollar, including
conveyance and refreshments, and
all and every dime goes to help the
Woman’s Auxiliary of the Keeley
League in their noble work of res
cue and redemption.
A SCOUNDREL
Abducts a Prettv Young Wife and
Mother.
KEEPS HER IN A CAVE
Until she is but a Skeleton
of her Former Self. She
Escaped Home and
her Husband is
Hopping mad
Chattanooga, Tenn., August 16
—Mrs. Henry Gentry, the wife of
a well known farmer living near
the “suck,” a wild place on the
Tennessee river about six miles
below this city disappeared in a
mysterious manner last week. Yes
terday she turned up, a ghost of
her former self and tells a start
ling tale,
From her story the facts gained
are these: Tom’ Massingale, a
young mountaineer, was neeply in
fatuated with her, and one day.
last week intercepted her in a lone
ly spot and at the point of a pistol
forced her to accompany him to a
wild cave iu Signal mountain.
He kept her there until yester
terday, when she escaped aud im
mediately came co this city for a
warrant for her abductor. As the
offence was committed in Marion
county a warrant could not be se
cured. Massiugale has fled to the
Wilds of Signal mountain and is
beyond hope of capture.
Mrs. Gentry is young, rather
pretty and sevwral childred.
Her husband is sweariug ven
geance against Massingale, who is
a brother to the Massingale mur
derer who escaped from jail at
this place.
COLONEL NO KIDNAPPER.
The Case Against him Heard and
Then Dismissed.
The charge of kidnapping
against Colonel Hamilton Yancey,
°f Rome, was dismissed by Justic e
Perkersou today. The case was
called at 11 o’clock, Colonel Yan
cey being present.
Several witnesses were examin
ed for the prosecution, but the de
fens offered no evidence except the
papers which were made by the
ordinary of Floyd couniy binding
the child over to Mr. Yancey.
The judge decided that there was
not sufficient evidence to cause
him to suspect Colonel Yancey ot
being guilty of kidnapping aud
dismissed the warrant. —Atlanta
Journal.
Miss Faunie Trammell will give
a delightful sociable at her resi
dence on Calhoun Ave. iu North
Rome tomorrow night,
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J. G. K4RMISON. Presidenu.it
A MOST BIDING OATH.
To a Chinaman is to swear him
on a Rooster Head.
An event of unusual interest took
place in the municipal court yester
day afternoon during the trial of Ch a
Cuew on the charge of assaulting and
robbing Cin Gee Long iu the Wa
Chong Block, June 15, says the
Seatt e Post-Intelligencer
The truth was obtained through
the assistance of j. E. Gardner, the
missionary, whose sneaks Chinese as
fluently as he does English, and who
is well-known on the Pacfic coast as
having been of Chief of Police Crow
ley’s right bower iu breaking up the
San Francies highbinders.
Gardner introduced the “chioken’s
head oath,’’ under which no China
man dares tell an untruth under pen
alty of becoming a walking ghost,the
greatest of Chinese horrors. The bind,
ing effect of the oath may be judged
by the action of the defendant’s prin
cipal witness, who arose and declared
that he would not swear by the
“chicken’s head’’ for SIO,OOO, and
immediately left the court-
Clerk Ciawford learned that Mr.
Gardner, who is now living at Victo
ria, was in the city, and persuaded
him to appear in the municipal court
as inretpreter in the case. The def
endants: Chiu Chew aud Chiu Dong,
demanded separate hearings, and it
was decided to proceed with the case
of the former.
Mr. Gardner was first sworn as in
terpreter and then as a witness to
testify to the oath nec< ssary to bind
a Chinaman to tell the truth. Mr
Gardner tola the court how the truth
was extracted in China from witness
es.
He said there were three metnods
in vogue, one called ‘ swe '.ring by the
light,’ which consists in burning a
paper, at the sane time repeating
the oath; the second was breaking a
saucer, but the best and most bind -
ing consisted iu having the witness
cut off e rooster chicken’s head, at
the same time taking an oath calling
on all the gods they know to curse
them, their children and their chil
dren's children if they falsify .
Judge Glasgow enquired why it
was that the oath was specially
binding, aud Mr. Gardner replied
that Chinamen think a great deal
about being honored after death.
According to the oath not only
they die if they falsify, but their
childrens children.
This leaves no one to worship
them and they become wandering
ghosts, the most horrible thing a
Chinaman can think of.
Once iu a great while a China
man will falsify, but as a rule nut
one out of t< n.
jHe then spoke of a case in British
Columbia, where a Chinaman took
the eath, falsified, aud in less than
a mouth died from worriment.
Chin Gee Long, the prosecuting
witness was anxious to have the
oath administered but Chin Chew
the defendant refused absolutely to
t»ke it. It was discovered that
Ah Kim the states important wit
ness was missing aud Detective
Corbett was sent af f er him with a
bench warrent.
In the meantime a tall small
pox-scarred Chinaman who had
beeu called by the defence arose
and informed Mr. Gardner that he
would not take the oath propsed
for SIO,OOO and then stating that
he knew nothing of the case left
the room
After the detective returned
with Ah Kim Mr. Gardner said it
was necessary to administer the
oath iu open air so the prosscuting
witness Ah Kim aud Ah Gar an
other states witness were taken in
to the alley at the back of the city
hall aud the ciremony perform
ed.
Ah Kim didn’t want to swear
but finally concluded he would.
Chickens were brought fourth joss
sticks were lighted oaths written
iu Chinese charecter ou along strip
of paper aud knives with keen
edges.
The oaths were taken separately
but without variance of manner.
The Chinaman touk the chicken
in his hand and as he cut its neck
repeated tho oath.
Then he burned the paper aud
ate some of the Chinese food.
After everything was ever and the
chickens all killed the defendant
suddenly came to the conclusion
jbat he was not afraid to take the
oath.
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Hon Gus Fite of Bartowo Chai -
lenges the Doctor, but
FELTON FAILS TO FITE
He will not Meet the Plucky
Young Democrat on the
stump, nor anywhere
else for that matter.
Has been there/
The following interesting arti
cle appears iu this weeks issue
of the Cartersville Courant :
Editors . Courant-American.
Last Saturday I addressed tc Dr.
W. H. Feltou the following letter-
Dr. W. H. Felton, Cartersville
Ga. Sir: In your speech here OD k
the 4th instant, you nut only: de
nounced the democratic pany, its i
leaders and its principles, but
made an attack ou my politiiaJ
and official records, and denied
me a hearing ; but you expressed
a desire to meet me in joint debate -
some time iu the near future,.
Therefore I respectfully mvitfe •
you to meet me iu joint discuss
ion of the political issuse involved
in the present campaign, at the
court, house iu Cartersville, a: 10
o’clock, a. m., on Sa'urday,
the first day of September. 1894.
During the discussion I will reply
to your attacks on me, and will
have something to say about your
public record. You shall have a
fair an and equal division of rime.
Please acknowledge the receipt
of this letter and notify me of
your acceptance, and oblige. Youcb
respectfully, A. W. Fite.
Yesterday I received from him
ia reply, a most remarkable doc
ument of three full pages of legal
cap, cl >sely writtea Irjm top to
bottom in a small hand and coll*
tainiug about one thousand words.
With the exception of a few
dirty personal flings, so character
istic of “Near Cartersville,” it re
a synopsis of his speech delivered
iu Cartersville ou the 4th, instant.
The reason he assigns for not
meeting me, although he said in
his speech he won d meet me aud
his f. ends boastingly said he
would do it, is as follows:
“As you said you were not a can
didate for office, and I know I am
no candidate,! would inquire r»*h*C>
ihere is to discuss about, eithei’
us, that could possibly affect
issues of the present campaigns
And the reason he gives fcr not
allowing me to repiy to him in the
meeting of the 4’h. instant is
this:
“I was giving my opinion of
Piesideut Cleveland which I had
a right to do, aud I deny your
right tn reply unless you had been
invited to express your views in
that meeting.”
Tuese remarxabie reasons may
be satisfactory to the doctor, but if
they are he is very easily satisfied.
I have never bad but one joint de
bate with the doctor, and that was
in the house of repesentatives, in
1884, when I gave him a good,
sound threshing which the Consti
tution of that date said was >
Waterloo for him I am told that
the doctor, although he has forgot
ten many things, has never forgotten
that lesson, and it does seems as.
The truth is, the doctor is mad with
the world, and I now pass on, leav
ing him where Dr. Hawthorne left
him. Very respectfully.
A.WxFite.
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