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TBE HOSTLER OF ROME.) aecona-oIMS Mail Matter. nvmr\ (Editor, and PHIL Ct. in RD, ' yj auagelt daily and slnday. T-kMS OF SUBSCRIPTIG 10 cent., week or $5 00 per annum FFICE: Corner Broad Street ana rriuc. c-Hth Avenue. Os the City of Rome, and Foyd. the “Banner county of Georgia. democratic ticket. For Governor, W. Y. ATKINSON, of Coweta, For Secretary of State, ALLEN D. CANDLER, of Hall For Tieaeurer, R. D. HARDEMAN, of Newton. For Comptroller General, W A. WRIGHT, of Richmond For Attorney General, J, M. TERRELL,’of Meriwether For Commissioner of Agriculture, R. T. NESBITT, < f Cobb. For Congress, John W. MADDOX, of Floyd. For State Senator, (BARTOWS CHOICE.) For Representative, 1- ioyd Co , ROBT. T. FOUCHE, JOHN H REECE, MOSES R. WRIGHT. The engines of a first clues man o war cost about $700,000. Berlin has added 1,000,000 to its population since 1840. The days of the panic and third. { party arejgrowing beautifully shorter He i fleet of tn n ctia cn the (oai p oi< ii is directly cj pcsite that o arsenic. Che r les II was called the Mutton Eating King, from his fondness for pfing lamb. Ansto was the M uiitr Scott of It aly, because of his skill in the line of histciieal romance. Ii takes not less than 2,G00 red ce dar trees to supply ‘be pencil manu facturers of this country. During the el even months ending May 1, 1894, Unc e Sam expor ed 181,003,500 pounds of copper. In 1800 the public common school funds of the United States amounted to $118,423,942 Griffin is mourning for a circus and will not be comforted Rome gets two this season but Rome has no State Encampment. • The New York Sun wants to know, ‘ where are the ‘snipes’ of yesteryear.’’Why they were the toast of the long Hg.,. Bud Boyd, senator from the thirty-fourth! A min honored,who will honor the position. Os course he will be elected. —Blairsville Herald. Ibe town of Hubbard, O , isrun fling itself, Both the mawrand city marshal are in jail, the forme.’ for intoxication and the latter lor no obeying orders Accobdixo to the dispatches it cost Rev. J. M Wilder, of Blackfor*’, Ida ho while in Denver, S4B to learn that it isn’t safe to het on an ace iul] on ten: against a professional gam bler. The trolley car has carried its ben efiits to the utino’t parts of the earth The quiet streets of the city of Jerusalem, in Palestine, echo now with the z’zz of the trolley wheel and the bang of the nerve-killing gong. Tommie Watson Lae at last discov ered in old Dr. Flopper Felton the grandest political here c f ihe age. But what did Tommie think of ‘Dr. Flopper’ in 1890 when Le wuf> de Bouncing Tommie and the “Allow anceV’Suppcse Ttmmiehas hss pt- 1 }>er to publish some cf those grand 1890 speeches. I The test for symmetry is to turn a man with his face to the wall. If he is perfectly formed his chest will touch it, his nose will be four inches away, his thighs five, and the tips of his toes three. Only one marble statue of the human figure with eyelashes is known. It is the sleeping Araidne, one of the gems of the Vatican, and was found in 1503. Old enough to have whiskers on it. The man who hasn’t had appen dicitis will soon boa back number. —Savannah Press. And the man who lias will have “gone before ’’ —Chronicle. That last remark is the ghost of a grave joke. Chicago has the largest ropes in the world in the engine rcom of h r cable car rypd.ni. There are 12 of them each measuring three inches in diameter, 11 inches in circumference and 12G0 feet in length. The tenth annual report of the Rome Public Schools are out and re flect. credit on the Board of Trustees, the Superinrendent and “Smith the Printer” who has done himself proud on the typographical appearence of the catalogue. A Methodist minister in Fosto. ria, (J. married’a mullato the oth er day, The congregation gave him Ins conge and locked up the church Os course Ohio advocates social equality —for Southern people.— Augusta Chronicle. This year it is expected Florida’s crop of lemons will aggregate 200,000 boxes, which is nearly four fold the product of last year. Now let jthe Sugar Trust buy up the stock, water it, squeeze out the juice and Lemon Aid the trust ridden country. Fish Hooks are precisely the same in shape to-day as they were twenty centuries ago . The only difference is in the materia!; then they were made of bronze, now they are made of steel. Ami have a bottle attach ment to i early every fisherman. A woman at Sewallville, Ale , the other day, when getting her ironing board ready to iron a sheet, noticed a long wrinkle in it and on trying to smooth it out found that it was caus ed by a two foot snake that had crawled in while the sheet was on the line.—Mail and Express. Czar Tom Watson, of the Pops, compare his books and writings to those of Alexander II Stephens! But then Tommy swears that he has pure Jeffers nian Democracy coursing his political veins. Poor Tommie, its been a longtime since he knew where he was “at ” Dear Tommie : We were “raised’’ here in the good city of Rome, Now where were you raised Tommie —we mean up to the time J. C. C. Black lost you over in the Tenth? Ot course, every body understands that you have never known where you were “at” since. Women freely travel about in Korea until midnight, a writer on the Koreans says, while the men are required to be in the bouse at 8 p. in. Only the married men are permitted to wear hats, and the- inference is that, their wives are watchful how the wearers use them for conversational purposes.—Augusta News. The Macon News thanks us for in formation which we recently submit ted as to who Gallagher is, and wants o know where Ga’lagher let her no to. That is more than we know. Ask Phil Byrd —Columbus Ledg er. We told him to “go to” blazes and ‘dam the Etowah!-’ Tooth* of Tattnal is to be as fa mous as Dink Botts. Tootle has been nominated for the legislature by the pops. Mr. Tootle’s footer will toot lor the great calamity ■ platform of his fellow calamity ' footers, but Tootle of Tatnell will 1 hardly have lils vanity tickled ' I y au i lection, says the Dispatch I - ’ Mr. Spbingeb, an expert in tariff figiir •», «ta’«, Gi t • wir cl the /ew Jaw will save io the fnmi lies of the United Stales ri ll,(ItIo 000 a year. It means better and cfleiqx-r clothes, carpets, etc, and a turning over the stock of the retail merchant < • just that much faster. The McKix lei nonstroiitv is not in it. Tom Reed opened Ihe repaid) can campaign, at Otd Orchard, Me., gu Saturday. H* forgot to note in charging the democrats with giving the sugar trust $12,- 009 protection, that it is milli-h.s less than the McKinley b : ll gave, and Reed voted for it, and forced it through the House when he was its autocrat. —Savannah Dispatch H u- A. O. Bacon is proving him self eminently qualified to fill the high office for which he is a candi date. His speeches show that he is in lliorugh accord with the grea ptinciples of democracy, and that his mental attainments and integrity of of purpose are on a parity with the highest standard of statesmanship. The Democrats of many counties have expressed tne desire that he should be our next United, States senator. —Perry Home Journal. I the a»p seena of Cleopatra Miss Lillian Lewis, now in England, will use a live snake. For this purpose he has had two milk snakes trained, and will use one in ner production of Cleopatra. She is in daily practice w’th the slimy reptiles. The people want realism, says the actress, and they shall hare it. If the public want to see Cleopatra apply a live snake to her breast in the death scene they should see it, and they wi 1. The saltest lake in the world is Lake Urumia m Persia, situated more than 4 000 feet above the level of the sea. It contains 22 per cent of salt against 8 5 per cent of the Dead Sea. —Hustler of Rome. The Georgia Populistic candi dates, so we understand, are to go on an excursion to Lake Urumia, this fall. The tour will be person ally’ conducted by’ Tom Watson. Here-to-fore their tours been only’ a trip up Salt river, but this fall they propose to take a more dis tant and a more salty journey.— Columbus Ledger. PENSION FRAUDS IN INDIA. A regular personification of de ceased pensioners has been discov ered at the station of Dapoolie. This is a delightful healthy place in the district of Ratnagiri, about five miles from the sea, at an eleva tiou of GOO feet. It was the residence of veteran Sepoys, who had been pensioned after doing good service iu 1857- 58. An annovm in petition brought to ight »b<j diotressing tact that pensions Ind drawn long af ter tbe dec . 2 oi ;he real incum bents, and that there w"®, besides an organized scheme by which pensions still due to survivors had betn intercepted,!,nd were iu the mam enjoyed by money lenders iu the bazzaar aul by the native clerks of the department. A long investigation followed, in which the millitary authorities were all but baffled the conduct of an Englishman m the ordinance d> piriment, and of au intelligent Pirsee, books were seized, rolls were inspected and was found that one fannak, who had origiua'ly been intended for k the army, had been in the habit of dressing him self up as pensioner and drawing the allowances. This enterprising individual, from bis photograph and from the letter press must have had a lively “ense of humor, He was sagacious enough not to personate more than rwo pensioners ou the same day One in the morning and one in the evening, except on special occasion when he appeared five times. His millitary salute was admir <l 1! y giVrti and he subsequently re lated, with just pride how he had menvpd to draw the allowance of he buhbadar major and of Sirdar Ramnak Bahadur for. lour years Os course this gifted actor had g'fl Ills own “commission” every t’nip lh.e sharpness of the English superintendent in the native ac count Jooka Would have done cred v tO 3 the^ eßt offieerß in Scotland lard—l he Saturday Review. ' ‘ T'’ # • i • i Uliß Dip :;x.T pm ITHRF da nop .*JL - A AUi vi MJL JL kJ »** .< At A.J . -lA J L./ ''' 1, ai f iMHBi _ I ; SICA J I Why sh -DJic! Homans or citizt.ns of surrounding cocnt o 0 t( [ Atlanta. Ch -Ha: ooga or an-' oa ' < . .-x: eci. Rome \1- t, i ( , '^ van to purchase f u niture? Th-; Hester f home a ksCu-qt.ev Uinal seriousne s and after you hav oo • -'/-r t'-.j u s h .tifu household urniture, as p.> seroea u < ne rage, and < eo he remark . ably low noures that set Ut th--. b-ulir.g p: ice, w-o :.h rk\ou v; o un . derstand wbv we ask. the qoetoc 0.. i —Jr ■ feu t ifefai L, fo'’'. Jit, 1 pl , oil I S2OOO, ;ui‘. .■ u That|the McDonald-Spark-- Q ewart Go., is thr bigges' urniture 1 house in the south all you have to do is call anc; enquire fcr a piece of turn it urea nd:»»lck b' ■ ‘ • i the grand a- bo*"! m* nt ar • make 1 your select on. The Huskier of Forme knows whe - eof it speaks when it tells its readers t the gc-vcu adver ~sed by th.i> treat Dim are just as represented. t WBw MBfew .Fl k '-®r 4 Wwi ■ Ii i wWF |fß&/ Jl 1. I’ - Birfi °‘ hr c, ( z O, t '"' * ‘ / K../ « Ctewart •I?O ME G K ORO iyr.