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!HE HOSTLER OF LOME. ueci>na*cl»Rs Mail 'latter. PHIL G. BYRD, { K M , 2aa ll « d daily and Sunday. T MS OF SUBSCRIPTIG 30 cent - week or $5 00por annum VFI^E - Corner Broad Street ana "mh Avenue. Os the city °f 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 Treasurer, R. D. HARDEMAN, of Newton, For Comptroller General, WM. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond For Attorney General, J, M. TERRELL, of Meriwether .■'or Commissioner of Agriculture, R. T. NESBII’T, of Cobb. For Congress, 7 Tn W. MADDOX, of Fioyd. For State Senator, • W. 11. LUMPKIN. gbr Representative, Fioyd Co , ROBT. T FOUCHE, JOHN H REECE, MOSES R. WRIGHT Felton may carry a county in this district, but we will have to «3© the returns first. £ South Carolina has had several inurd'*rs since the red-handed gents it Rome got in their last work. Fall goods are ariiving daiiy and the merchants are planting their adds because they bought tnose goods to pi’ll. Sop? The tariff question having been •settled, now watch the country re • cover. from the panic which has hoven d. ov< i> it for months. Did Tommie WaUon have any thing to <lo with the nomination. • I‘Dr. “Fh>pf>i*r” Felton? Honest ■njun. now Tommie. In times of war the armies of Sjnopean nations can be raised to '!.<•(><)men, tlie daily expeiiso. .will b“ nearly s'2o,(X>o,ooo. With such men as Zach Hargrovi and Win. 11. Felton to lead them, pops will play smash with in making a purity movement. If no itics are too bad for John Temple Graves in Georgia he aaigl d-op over to South Carol ina for a year or so —Griffin News. When a man steals a girls love he generally returns it, — Augusta News. Y ep, if he be a man he dots, but ■sometimes he marries her first. The roar o’the lion can be heard ''farther than the sound of any living crest ire —\nd the growl of the Mexican lion,’' —have vou heard it? The elections in New South Wales resulted in the return of forty eight Free Trader, thirty-nine Protect on ists and twen y eight Labor cai d. dates. One inhabitant in every 180 in <his country owns a bicycle, and Sias lots of luu keeping the other 179 dodging for dear life. —Ac •worth Post. In four of the cities of the Unit ed States, viz: New York, Brook lyn, San Francisco and Jersey City there are 1,200 Chinese laun- I dries. .And Rome, will Romp; the gem *city of the mountains, ever have a union passenger d<*pot? We will 4 ‘d«:n the Etowah’ first.— Mark 'that prediction. The French are turning the desert us Sal a”a into ag: rdeu. By means of arks an wills, 12,000 000 acres of land leva been made frui fu . There £. r t still 900.000,000 acres to be reeKumed After they have practic ed on Sahara they might be induced to take tie acid waste among the mumbckull popes.—The French are <ju?er people. The biggest piece of political r it we have read inqiite a while jb John Temple Grave’s letter iuSuu day’s Constitution. Been a nan Banner. Experiments are being made with a pneumatic paper tire tor bicycle wheels. It is said to be less than half as costly as rubber, equally elastic and twice as dura ble. Him -. Watson and Felton have degenerated into common, every day hard times liars and calamity howlers. They preach nothing but “demnition bow-wows." —Dal- ton Argus. Populists might lift a mortgage olf of Tom Watson’s farm if Tom mie hud a farm and mortgage. Bui it will mver lift a mortgage from the little home' of the average populist voter. It is stated that Tom Watson is I aid one hundred dollars a day for speaking, and fifty-six dollars a w» ek for editing his paper. It is a money making scheme which Thomas has struck. In Russia no man or woman can marry more than three times and unless they mnrrv before they are ighty, they are doomed to spend their second childhood i i single bl esse in ess. Dr, W, 11. Felton,has been nom inated for congress in the seventh district by the populists, He won’t know he’s living when Congress man Maddox and the Democrats of the seventh get through with aim.—Canton Advance. Dr. W. H. FeliGu has been nom inated for congr°es by the populist of the Rome district. Dr. Felton has beer, an iudipendeut, republi can. democrat, and now is a popu list. — Sandersville Progress. Baily, the astronomer, calcul:it' » the earth as weighing i f»,049,836.- 'AM 1,0)1),(1(H), ‘ tons. And just to think —all .that.and more is down on the kahunity.howler and Wat soiiinn worshipers. From Haralson, away down in the hot bed of populism, comes a message Iroin Populist Republicans ami Democrats, all saying. tliev will' support John W. Maddox agatnst Dr. “Flpppey’’ Felton. The Hon- John E. Russell is fa vorably spoken of for the nomina tion of governor by the democrats of Massachusetts. The party there is united, and there is a fair pros pect tor the state to go democratic at the next (‘lection. It is reported that numbers of the strongest and most ii fluential members of the populist party u this county have stated most em phatically that lhey would not sup port Dr. Felton f--r congress.— Summerville News. Great as is the cattle industry, the value of poultry and eggs pro duced in the United States annual ly is but little less. The ‘‘lay ’of thu land around Macon was worth millions to Mrs Lease in the shape of advertising. A verdant youth, who desired to know how tu become rich sent a qu.r er in answer to an advertise ment, and received the following valuable receipt: ‘ Increase your receipts and decrease your expen ditures. Work 18 hours a day.and live ou hash and oatmeal gruel.” The next great issue iu this country will ba trust and anti trust Tne trusts must go.—Savannah Dispatch. Ds done gone and done it, up this way. Even our devil won't trust us any more, but wants bis pay two and three times a year. J. \\ . McGarrity, the charming orator of the 7th district, feels like the boy whom the calf run over, since those "who control’’ forced him out of the race to make room for the' grand old eloquent political acrobat.—Douglass New South. A vote for Hines and populist candidates for the legislature is » vote to add about two million do - lais, ai l ually to the state taX‘S. It will require that much money to furnish '.ext books to the pupils of the public schools, and the j op ulist party is pledged to that poli cy . —Sparta Ishmaelite . John Temple Graves is probably sore and disgruntled because I’res. ident Cleveland would not appoint him to a foreign consulate, hut this is no reason why he should give aid and encouragement to the People’s Party by abusing the par ty that has given him the only prominence he ever had.—Newnan Herald. ' Watson no doubt thought he was adding strength to his party when he had Dr. Felton nominated for congress in the seventh con gressional district but there is nothing that could have give, it a black an eye. It goes without say ing that Maddox will beat Felton three votes to one —Buchanan Banner, reports are com ing from all sections of the coun try. It is said the People’s party is stronger and in better shape than ever bifore —People’s Party Tribune Alabama is not included in any section of this county, we presume or had you nut <- hearn” from Ala bama as “yit.”—Buchanan Ales seuger. -a ■■ ■ ii ■■ Hon. Scab Wright will be a get ting mad along with Dr. “Flopper” Felton next. If seems that the an cient "Hopper" has no inclination to clear the tracK for the modern “Hopper.”. Butthen, letumflop. The strawberry is known all over the world, and was used as an article of food by the ancients. Even good King David was a straw berry blonde before the first dude sucked a cane. The. Lome Evening N w hi s the nail ou the head with direcnie s and precision in .t.lx'3 f< Rowing sensible paragraph:: r. i e <.< n,< <i t c prin ciples are good enough for any good md honest man to five by. The trouble is that ‘ihoso vho control’ in the democratic party are in t>o many cgses corrupt, putrid politica blather skites and henchmen ’-Ac worth Post. The Savannah Press says that "li - gers ’s doctrine of suicide, of course is infamous It has wrought con siderable havoc already among weak and morose beings There is no tel ling where such vicious teachings may lead. Ingersoll believes that man is a ruoftt, floating in the air without divine creation, and tending to no immortal destiny. To destroy such a speck of humanity is no crime To destroy one s seif may even be desirable. It is not hard to see t > what vicious ends such doctrines tend. To justify self-murder may be a step in the directio i of homicide and manslaughter.’’ With all due respect to Mr. Ingersoll, we would suggest that he practice what he nreaches CHINESE WARRIOR’S VICTORY. In far away Grotesque Catbay, Where the 100 100 sings all night In a willow tree z By a sad, salt sea, Biave men went forth to tight] There were Li Hung Chung And Ki Wu Lung And bold chee cni choo < ham, With chang Wun citing Ami Sam Moy Sing And fierce Wan Wee Woo Warn, There was a sword tier gnn, But each brave one A tomtom wildly beat And they all cried '‘Boo!'’ At the foe and flew To a safe and snug retreat. There were Si Hung Chug And Ki Wu Lung And bold chee chi chocham. No blood was spilled, No one was killed. ' But they all marched home once more. And to til's day tell How they drove pelluiell The foe from the sacred shore. There were Li Hung Chung And Ki Wun Lung And bold chee chi cho chain, Wilh 1 hang Wang Ching And Sam Moy Sing And tierce Wall Wee woo Warn Miss J •imio Walsh, after a plea-s ant \ isit to her sister, Miss Nate, atCapt. O'Neill’s, returned to her home in Chattanooga yesterday. *TRE BIGGEST. FUBITURE BOUSE SOOTB.* TOT f OBi 11 Jl l ' .gw ii •MK - wllr lililP 1 ill- ■iilH ■pi - - ( 8 13)) Why should Homans orcitizens of the surrounding country go to Atlanta, Chattanooga or any otht r city except Rome when they want to purchase furniture? The Hust er of Rome a ks xhe question in all seriousness and after you hav ? coKeci over tie cu-s or beautiful househeld furniture, as presented on this page,r nd noted the remark ably low figures that set forth th (j selling price, we think vou will un derstand whv w e as k the questicn. 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