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■ ...... ..resident T. J. SIMPSON, Acting Cashier
,lACKKI > ■’ w P. SIMPSON, Vice President
Merchants National Bank
OF ROME GA.
, nTCR EST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS.
\H accommodations Consistent with Safe Banking Ex
nur Customers,
■the finest line
-AJSTZD
BEST USSORTENT
Feather Dusters
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ROME JkT
Trevitt & Johnsons,
Rome Mutual Loan Association.
HOME OFFICE ROME GEORGIA,
325, Broad Street.
A National Building and Loan Company,
Purely Mutual, safe Investment and
Good Profit Made by small
Monthly Payments,
OFFICER-.
J. A. GLOyER, President. J. D. MOORE, Sec'ty & Treas.
CHAS. I. GRAVES, Vice President. J. H. RHODES, Mgr’ Land Dept.
HALSTED SMITH, General Council.
E. C. ATKINS & CO, CHATTANOOGA TENN,
MANUFACTURERS OF
('IRCILAR, BAXD, GANG,
CROSS CUT A>D HAXD
SAWS, ETC.
WHOLESALE
Mill Supplies and Machinery 5 Saw Repairing a Specialty
ffllffi INI ami COMPANY
MANUFACTVRERS AND DEALERS IN
M ami Granite, Moments, Com, Wire and
Wt ton Fencing, Lawn Vacos, Fsnntains &c.
MuOrder What You Want and Get What You Order.
S HEMSTREE’ r Mgr, Chattanooga Tenn.
1116 Market Street.
A. J. BANKSTON General Agent
__ Ringgold Georgia
LUMBER,
All kinds of Rough
Lumber sawed to or
der on short Notice,
Callon or Address,
•JOHN C- FOSTER
_ Foster’s MUlls Gra-
Blacksmithing.
1 have moved Black smith and re
pair shops from Fifth Ave. oppos’te
New Court house to my Old stand
pa Fifth Avenue in The Fourth
Ward.
w. T. DRENNON,
-A_t old stand
-sth AVENUE FOURTH WARD.
8-12 ts
ErIXDIGO’S TREASI'iti,
Twonty Tons of Gold from One
Mino in Fifteen Years.
RlchneßA of the Australian Gohl Fields-
Men Who Made Great Furtunefl by In
vestments There—First Discovered
by Two Colored Men.
J. F. Markos, managing editor of
the Australian Mining Standard,
contributes to the Engineering Mag
azine an interesting article on “The
Gold Fields of Bendigo.” The dis
covery of golden stone on Bendigo,
he strj’s, is placed to the credit of,
two colored men, who found an out-I
crop on Victoria bill at the end of (
1853. They soon sold out to Mr.
Theodore Ballerstedt, who in six
years cleared £243,000 from their
claims, while various small holders
on the same hill are said to have
realized £600,000 concurrently. :
These fabulous figures might have
been even larger if the miners had
not been handicapped by the great
cost of labor (£1 per day), crushing j
(£6 10s per ton), and inefficient gold
savers.
The Ballerstedt estate on Victoria
hill was bought subsequently by
George Lansell, the quartz king of
Bendigo, and his mines there are
knovj-n as being on the New Chum
line, the farthest west of the famous
trio of reefs which have made Bendi-1
go (under the name of Sandhurst)
famous. These three main lines of
reef are the New Chum, the Garden
Gully and the Hustlers. These
three reefs run about twenty de
grees west of north, and, roughly
speaking, have been or are worked
for a length of five or six miles each.
Their great peculiarity is their “sad
dle” formation. They exist in this
form at the southern end of the
lines, and occur in regular series,
one below another, to all depths yet
reached. The apex of the saddle is
generally poor, while the legs are
richer, but apparently no precise
rule can be laid down as to the depo
sition of gold. It runs in shoots,
and a barren stretch may at any
time give place to a gold-bearing
patch. The quartz throughout the
district is, generally speaking, of a
clear white character, mottled with
slate near the walls, and commonly
thickly impregnated with pyrites,
galena and blende, which usually
occur in veins or laminations, in or
near which most of the gold is found,
though it can always be discovered
also in the body of the stone. Many
very beautiful specimens showing
the rich metal protruding from the
quartz are met with.
Bendigo had a “boom" in 1871 to
1874, and, in consequence of the
over-speculation of that feverish
period, a decade of depression fell
upon the district. Large numbers
of mushroom companies had to sus
pend wortt or were swallowed up by
more powerful concerns. The year
1884 saw another revival, and now,
after a further interval, the result
of the splendid developmental work
which has been undertaken is evi
dent to a gratifying extent in the in
creased yields derived mainly from
new strikes of reef at great depths.
There are now on Bendigo twenty
four shafts 2,000 feet deep or more,
the deepest of them being that of
the “180” mine owned by Mr. Lan
sell, a Bendigo millionaire. It is
now down 2,850 feet, and cross-cuts
are being driven at 2,800 feet.
Should they strike a paying reef,
very great excitement will be mani
fested. Ten of these deep mines are
now yielding golden stone.
Bendigo has long since created its
millionaires. The late J. B. Wat
son is supposed to have taken twen
ty tons of gold from the Kentish
mine in fifteen years, representing
a money value of £2,5004)00. One
“Christinas cake” from this mine
weighed 6.500 ounces. Mr. Wat
son’s memory is not very highly
honored in Bendigo, for all that, as
he spent or invested all his wealth
in and about Melbourne. George
Lansell, on the contrary, is a thor
ough Bendigonian, living amid the
roar ot his beloved stampers, and
overshadowed by the huge poppet
heads of his pet mines. Mr. Lan
sell was originally a soap-boiler, and
if tradition is to be trusted, earnest
ly eschewed mining until some scrip
which had come into his possession
for a bad debt suddenly brought him
in rich returns.
A New Telephone Appliance-
A special mouthpiece for public
telephones has been introduced in
Germany with the object of avoiding
the spread of diseases carried by the
condensed moisture of the breath.
A pad or a large number of disks of
paper, with a hole in the middle, is
inserted in the mouthpiece, and the
upper disk of paper is torn off after
every conversation.—Electricity.
’Twould Seem So.
The English language is now
spoken by one hundred and fifteen
million people. And there are times,
when one has something particularly
important to say, in which it does
as if the whole one hundred and fif
teen million were speaking at once.
—Boston Transcript.
THE TELEPHONE NUISANCE.
How a .’’an Got Rid of Neighbors Who
Wanted to Vue His 'Phone. /
“A business friend of mine has
finally succeeded in ridding himself of a
great nuisance," said Earnest F. Ed
wards, of Boston, who was at the
Southern, to the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat. “His office, happens to be on a
floor in a building where there are a
large number of tenants, but no other
telephones besides his own. The re
sult is ho has been for months bored to
death by telephone deadbeats, many
of whom have used his telephone a
great deal more than he has. The
nuisance got so bad at last that it was
quite usual to have two visitors wait
ing for each other at the ’phone. He
tried various devices for a long time,
but finally took the company into' his
confidence and got them to give him a
new number, but not to change the
plate on the 'phone. He specially noti
fied central on no account to connect
anyone who called up the old number.
The scheme worked like a charm. For
a day or two the nuisance was in
creased by the importunities of pa
trons of his telephone and their indig
nant protests when they fai’ed to se
cure connection. It did not take long,
however, for them to realize that the
telephone was of no further use to
them, and the way my friend echoed
their protestations and lamentations
was most interesting. He has the tele
phone all to himself now, and Is not
troubled inanj’ way."
ANCIENT AZTEC
Flttle Known Remains In the Mountain
Region# of Arizona.
An old-time prospector lately arrived
in Prescott, A. T., for a three months'
sojourn In one of the most interesting
and least-known portions of the terri
tory, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat. The wonderland from which he
has returned is the country lying be
tween the Mazatlan and Verde ranges
of mountains. Mr. Court thinks that
section contains more Aztee ruins than
any other portion of America, evi
dences of human habitation being
found from the highest peak to the
lowest valleys. In one place he found
a road or street of three miles in
length, -perfectly smooth and straight
and sixty feet in width. On either side
of the street, the entire distance, are
ruins. The road was evidently built
prior to some mighty earthquake, as it
ends abruptly at the brink of a yawn
ing chasm. He dug up and found ly
ing about a great number of skeletons,
which were in a fair state of preserva
tion. the heads of all being alike, very
large over the eyes and receding and
almost flat toward the back of the
head, jaws well developed, but front
upper and lower teeth short and sharp.
The ruins show the people to have
been workers in stone, some fragments
of work in turquoise being found.
Every available foot of land had once
been cultivated. The region, although
little heretofore has been known about
it, is very accessible, and will no doubt
become an interesting resort for trav
elers.
ONE OF OMtNA‘B CITIES.
Caston, Where the Plarue Cornea Fra—,
•nd 1* ler*t ■tarprteinc.
A line ar two from Mrs. Archibald
Dunn's new book gives a striking pic
ture of the horrors of life m Canton.
“The circumference of the city walls
measures from six to seven miles, and
within their inclosure there exist one
million Chinese people. I had been In
many oriental cities and had smelt
many oriental smells, but those of Can
ton," says Mrs. Dunn, “were giants to
them all. The passage-like streets are
open sewers, every description of refuse
being cast into them and forming con
tinuous heaps on either side of the way.
The water supply is raised from wells
in the streets, the mouths of which are
on a level with the ground, and a
shower of rain, or drippings from the
buckets in which they lift it must carry
back the surrounding filth in away
horrible to think of. Through miles
and miles of these high, narrow alleys
did we travel, through the most fetid,
airless atmosphere that human lungs
could cope with, through the most evil
and noisome odors that could assail hu
man nostrils, past the most loathsome
sights in the shape of abnormal butcher
meat —sueh as dogs and cats, skinned
and dressed ready for cooking; rats,
both dried and hanging alive by the
tails; frogs and unnatural-looking fish
in tubs of water, alive, and awaiting
death and consumption.”
•
Uncomfortable Corean Houses*
The “kang." the Corean house fur
nace, renders the atmosphere of the
inns where travelers take their rest,
almost insufferable. It is pictured as
a primitive, though effective, means of
heating the houses throughout the
kingdom. A small fire of brushwood
is lighted in the small furnace at one
side of the house, thence numerous
flues under the mud floor conduct the
smoke and hot air to an upright
chimney or hole in the wall at the op
posite end or side, and a little fire
suffices to thoroughly heat a large
house. Capt. Cavendish says he is not
surprised to find coughs and colds
common, for an indoor temperature of
seventy or eighty degrees and an
outdoor one of zero form trying ex
tremes. Moreover, the constant
warmth seems to keep alive the numer
ous flies, fleas, bugs and cockroaches
with which most of the houses swarm.
Origin of the Chinese Cue.
It seems that it was not the custom
of the ancient Chinese to shave the
head and wear a cue. That was a cus
tom brought in by the Tartar invaders,
nearly three hundred years ago, and
they forced it upon the conquered
provinces. The result was that many
Chinese were driven into Corea, and
the inhabitants of that province when
they yielded to the suzerainty of the
Tartars stipulated that they should be
permitted to preserve their ancient
dress. So the Coyeans do not shave the
head, but wear their hair as their an
cestors wore it four thousand years
ago, a manner which is seen in China j
only on the stage.
PROFESSIONAL COL'D
DENTISTS
J A. WlLLS—Deutut—2*lßl-2 Broad-He *•
over Cantrell and Owi-ua store.
attorneys
J. H. Spu lock, Attorney at Law, Masonic
Temple Ibiildidg
Temple Building Home Georgia.
JAMES < NEVIN-Attorney at Law Offii
Poverty Hul posto.lic> Uiir.ior Jrd Avenue
CHAS. W. UNDERW MID- Attornej ar
Masonic Temple.
Rome, Ga.
RAeCF. -S DENNY -Attorneys at law. OlHc
in Masonic Teinuie. Home, Ga.
WW. VANDIVKR'-Artorney and Cour
seller at Law—Rome, Its.
WH. EXXIS—.Ino. W. STARLING-Ennit
& Starling. Attorneys at Law, Masonic
* Temple, Rome, Ga. feb23.
WH. SMITH, Attornoy-at-Law. Office u
Masonic Tomide Home Georgia.
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WS. M HENRY, W. J. NUNNALLY, W
J. NEAL— M’Henr,, Nunnallv & Neal
* Attorneys-aV-atLaw, office o»er Hah
Davidson Hardware Co., Broad street, Rome, G<
PHYSICIANS Am SURGEONS.
DH. RAMSt 3—Physician and Purged
Office at residence 614 aveaue A, Foun
* ward.
LP. HAMMOND— Physician and Surgeon-
OfTtrs his j rofessioiial services to the pec
" pie of Roue ami surrounding countrj
Office at Crunch and Watson's drug store, zo
Broad street.
DR. W. D. GOY r-Offloe a* C. A. Treviti
drug sto-s. J o. 331 Broad street Telephon
110. resides <e. No. 21
DR.C. F. GI F FIN-Physician and Surge
—Office n ( r Masonic building. Resident*
300 4th as me.
Frank A ■ Wvnn, Physi< ian atdSurgon
office at Tre ir.t .V Johns >n drug store
Telephone 13 Resilience 406 Second Ave,
Prompt a tention given all protessicu >1 call
take
M. A. THEDFORD'S
LIVER MEDICINE.
Alts .' 34 \£cstive/ii£SS
dyspepsia Wj IfS I Sick on
Indigestion
Soudness oss or
None Genuine Without The Likeness . .no
: Signature ofM A.Thecford on FrontOf
Each Wrapper. M.A.Theoford Med.©-
' Rome.GA.
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The comparative value of these twocards
Is known to most persons.
They illustrate that greater quantity is
Not always most to be desired.
These cards express the beneficial qual
ity of
Ripans • Tabules
As compared with any previously known
DYSPEPSIA CURE.
Ripans Tabules: Price , 50 cents a box,
Os druggists, or by mail.
RIPANS CHEMICAL CO., 10 Spruce St., N.Y.
Valnahle Farms for Real or
We have On hand a
number oy good farms
for rent or sale. These? -
farms have come into
our hands at very rea
sonable figures, and
we are in position to
offer them at low
prices and on most
favorable term-l Ten
antsand buyers would
do well to consult us
before trading. We can
rent or sell. To good
parties, wishing time
on Farms we are
pared to offer bargains
Come and see us
Hoskinson &i Harris.
Road Citation,
GEORGIA, FloydCo! m y:
Whereas W E. Smith, etal., have netitioned
the Board of Conn lissioners of Roads and Rev
enue of said County, asking that these'tlement
road now leading and rui.iiirg direct from Se
uey, Georgia, and running directly by what ie
known as Rodgeis old Barn Place and Henry
Drun inond’s dwelling house and intersecting
with the public road known as the Pleasant
Hope church road, at or near Drummonds
schoolhouse, lie made a second class public
road, and the Road Coirmissioners of 1504 Dis
trict G. M ■ of said Conntv having reported the
proposed roim to lie of public utility. Now, this
is to cite all persons having objections thereto
or claims for damages arising therefrom, to
make the same known to the Board of Coimris
sioners at the next meeiinr to be held on the
first Monday in August IW4.
Witness the Hon John C. Fostei Chainnanof
the Board, This July Sth. IssM,
d-30-d. Max Meyerbardt, Clerk.
TO MY F KIE OS AN D PATR OKS
I lihvh opened up ths Beauna
Vinta Hotel, upwly furnished and
renovated and am now ready to
accomodate tt.e public at reason
able prices.
9-1 ts. Mr Lou Echols
oAngM
BLOSSOM
fs as safe and hs.irnless as a
seed poultice. uxeaponi,
tice, drawing out i- . er ar*d pain*
and curing al? diseases peculiar
to ladies.
“Orange Bios 1 >n” is a pas*
tile, easily used at any time; it
is applied right to the parts*
Every lady can treat herscß
with it.
Mailed to any address upon r©»
ceiptofsi. Dr. J. A. McGill &Cau
< Panorama Place, Chicago* I3L
Sold bv
D, W. Curry Druggist.
C R & C R R Schedule
I
In effect May 18th, 1894.
PASSENGER TRAINS.
Arrives.
From Chattanooga 10:27 anr- ■
From Carrollton 3 31 n ,
Departs.
To Carrollton -32 z m
To Chattanooga 3 ;3L p m
FREIGHT TRAINS;
Arrives
From Chattanooga n ;<5 p ui
From Chattanooga 1 '
From Carrollton 4:00 a n<
From Carrollton 1139 a ex
Departs.
To Carrollton 11A5 pm
To Carrollton 1:03 p re
To Chattanooga 4:99 a tn
To Chattanooga 3 JSO ar» .
Passenger trains run into and depart from tire
Union depot at < haitaunoga. The freight trains
depart from C. R. <s (’..shops, and parties using;
them must buy tickets at the depots,, ami a<r
cept such accommodations as they find in a ca
boose.
The passenger train leaving here at a
arrives at Cedartown 11;12, and at Carrolltssu
12:45 p m. The One leaving at 3:31 pm, reael<.«-
Sumuierville at 4:45 p m, and Chattanooga. 3*
6:30 pm. ’
C. B. WILBORN, Gen'l Sup«
EUGENE E. Jf)NES, Reclever.
Western S
Atlantic
AND—
C. J ST. L KILWIS
—TO —
ChicagD
-Louisville-
Cincinnatti
•v ZN a. LjO US
ivusds Lity
Al cmpliisr
-AND-
The West
Qnick t|iY»c and Vsstibuled trains
Fulliuan Sleeping c<&rs. For any infor
call on or write to
J A SMITH
General Agent, Rome Ga.
J L EDMONSON
Traveling Pass. Agt. Chattanooga Tenn.
JOS. BROWN.
Traffic Manager Atlanta, Ga
C EHARMAN
General pass Agt Atlanta Ga.
iiffiii.it iffiiE
AND
W.&AR. R,
Sifest and n ost desireal4c line betwe er
Illi AM)
Chattanooga, Nashville.
No waiting on connections tta'jjs.
All trains leave on schedule time fn*m l-crßt*- ♦
Railroad depot, foot of Broad street
Jtfr'Oidy one block from Armstrong Hotel
- P O'dy four blocks from New Central Hole J.
No change of Cars .Thro ug h
Coaches on all trains Be
tween Rome and Atlanta,
Close connections in Union depots at,
and Chatttanooga with all trains Utsergiag.
Leave Rome, daily at 9:15a xr, XtjdV n» r
Arrive Atlanta ** “ . .12:5.>ar re
RETURNING.
Leave Atlanta daily at 8:0.5 am
Arrive Rome “ •' 11:30 am 6 m>
For maps, foldersand any desired inf irrua
tion, call on 01 write. C. K, xyer ,
J. A. Hume. Ticket Agt. Q y'A»--
W.’F. AYERT. M.