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THE HUSTLER OF ROME. tteooau-claM Mall Matter. PHILG.BYKD, j E S“ d daily and Sunday. ▼ MS OF SUBSCRIPTS 10 ceut - weak or $5.00 pur auuum FF'ICE: Corner Broad Street ano u 'iitn Avenue. Os the city <>f Rome, and Foyd, the “Banner coui-ty" of Georgi a. DEMOCKATIC TIC K E 1. For Governor, W. Y. ATKINSON, of Coweta, For Secretary of State, &LLEND CANDLER, of Hall For Treasurer, .3. D. HARDEMAN, of Newton. For Comptroller General. WxM. A. \\ RIGHT, of Richmond For Attorney General, J, M, TERRELL, of Meriwether F-cr Commissioner of Agriculture. J.?. T. NESBITT, of Cobb. For Congress. John W. MADDOX, of Floyd. For State Senator, W. JI. LUMPKIN. 6? or Representative, Fioyd Co, ROBT. T FOUCHE, JOHN H REECE, MOSES R. WRIGHT. .Hoe’s American press was intro duced into London in 1858 J The Count of Paris must be t Democrat —even his spirit refuses te \»e ‘counted’’ out. ♦ Talking sbout demagogues — John Temple has “clouded up” ■but he will never reign. Though the Hoorn at the present writing, is as usual on the rye. It’s the bloomers on the bicycle girl Thai catch the public eye.—Tonw Topties When a fellow owes everything • to his wife or mother he is seldom forced to make an assignment. Tootles of Tatnall seems to be the “concert” of the A atson H ines circus. Queen Victoria is now sleeping . n her Balmoral. —Augusta Chron icle. How shiftless! The flypaper lay o': the window siP, Where all v.lib passed might see ; , Au d it sing this song to the hapless fly : “Art willing to gum to me?’’—lndianapolis Journal. Willie Jones of Girardville, Pa.. <8 trottint around on rubber shin -boii-f. his own having been lost by /blood-poisoning. George Gould accepted the hon ors of the last race, but spurned the money. George knows what he * ns “short on.” Before the convention a politi cal is “in the hands of his friends —afterward, he gets into the hands • jf his enemies. The counties in Oklahoma are 'lettered, not named —“A” C< unty. ‘■■‘ar” County and so on—but the sys tern isn’t liked, and will be chang es _____________ Poor old Dr. Felton is carrying .the light for the “dark l/.ntern crew.” which will, ere long, go out and leave tfhem all in tlft dark.- Paulding New Era. The Athen Banners was issued under its new management Sun day. It calls attention to its new telegraphic service. Express char ges 25 cents per box. Col. James R. Randle has re turned to his home in Augusta. His letters from Washington have been among the brightest written from that Senate kussed city. - “If you lie to your lawyer you’ll ioal yourself,” says the Chicago Herald. I’his is a great truth. L“t your lawyer do whatever lying may •<•£ necessary. • One of the brightest papers that .-e.r? nnt-ed for the exclusive use of matter of newspapers, is the Fourth Hst&te. published in New York. Hvery number is a big Jem. Mr. Walter Howard, has been made city editor of tbe Atlanta Jour nal Mr. G. N. Hurtel. who former ly held that position is now in charge lof the slate news department of the ■pap« r • Congressman Bryan, like Toni i mie Watson has saddled a tripod and is now riding a Sanctum —and while Bryan is trying to lasso the 1 devil, Tom is getting himself stam peded bv the democrats. It is permissible as well as per tinent for the Augusta Evening! Herald, being an original Evans paper, to ask' '‘What would Graves have asked had Evans been nominated?” A big oil mill is being erected ; at Pelham, Ga., Think of that and also that the Hustler of Rome j is now eight pages to stay and tell your neighbor he ought to sub scribe, ——— Fifteen-year-old Robert Stanley was riding a mule home from church in Mount View, Neb..when the mule fell over a cow lying in the road. Stanley’s skull was frac tured and he died scon. The Democrats are not only the makers of history, but of Geogra phy as well. They are’now add.ng to the Union the State of Inocus Des ultude and there propose to colo nize the pops after election day. An ingenons Pittsburger has de vised a clothes wringer which is operated by electricity. It works automa’ically, and when the last piece is squeezed out a bell rings and the washtub is turned over and emptied. Here’s a sensabie squib: A giraffe is seldom worth less than $5,000. A giraffe is very different from a human being, for plenty of the latter who hold their heads high are not worth an) thing like $5,000. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange anou. 1 report figures the cotton crop for 1893-94 at 7.519,817 bales or over the crop of the year before. Tbe crop now being hurvesteted promises tj show an increase of as muqh more over the crop of the year jast clos rJ Theie’s a man in Possum Trott so ugly that he has to get up in the night and let lis face. rest. — Macon Telegraph. And the enterprising editor of the Possum Trott Gazett has hired that face to keep off mosquitoes, and night mares. Now that congress has adjourned, Coxey’s army has disbanded and Debs has disappeared from the stage of public notoriety, what will the poor paragrapher do?—Colum bus Ledger. Try to picture old Li Hung’s “yellow riding coat” and find out where Watson is “at”—poor Tom. Hon. John W. Maddox was nom inated by the democratic conven tion of the 7th congressional dis trict at Dalton, hist Wednesday,to succeed himself in congress. Judge Maddox has made a good record in congress, and, of course, will be returned. He will beat the Dr. so badly he will not know where he ;S at. —Paulding New Era. Ambition to rule the society of Gptham wrecked the happiness of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, and estranged her from her husband. As plain Alva Smith, rose-lipped joy tiilled her life. As Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, the wife of the richest man in the world. She is a misera ble and disappointed woman, os. tracised from the society she wish ed to rule. Onr new city editor threw a de linquent out of the window, kill ing a paying subscriber who was making for the ladder leading to our sanctum, then when the “C. E.” aforementioned, hastened to get on the coroners jury, the de linquent pulled himself together, climbed back into the loft, licked the stuffin’ onten us and run the devil up the chimney. Dam such— rivers as the Etowah. The summer wanes,and m a few days the straw hat and Alpaca coat will be tenderly laid away and Then lots of poor fellows will have a hustling time of it for sev« oral weeks getting overcoats out of the pawn shop. Dr. W. H. Felton, the great poli tical acrobat of North Georgia, is now playing a season with the third party circus. We never voted for Felton but once, and, have been in mourning ever since.—Ringgold New South. Here’s what Col. Gus Fite of Bariow says of his neighbor, “Dr Flopper Felton:” “He is perhaps the most unscrupulous demagogue that ever deceived a people and the most venomous and treacher ous monstrosity that ever slander ed an eunny or betrayed a friend.” Governor Noriheu’s official ma jority in 1892 was 71,502. About 200,000 votes were cast, of which W. J. Northeu received about 135 000 and W. L. Peek 65,000. This will give our populist friends a basis to figure on, and as they will have to do a heap of figuring they cannot begin any too soon . Griffin News. Nickel aluminum is the latest metal. Its color resembles silver, and it is far more ductile than steel. A bar 18 incnes iong and 113 •16 inches by 1-4 meh thick had a permanent set of 1 1-8 inches It took 400 pounds to deflect the met al that much. A similar piece of steel 66,000 pounds tensile strength took exactly the same load. “Pick” Hunter, a colored boy, called out loudly :"Came seven come eleven!’’and went into a game of craps at Hardin, Ky„with only one dime. On not getting the desired throw he dropped dead. The other boys |pushed him t side, thinking he was only drunk, but they soon discovered their mis take. ■ No, Maud, dear, tbe man that committed suicide in Chattanooga, was not a Roman, He was an av erage Atlanta man who, | whiie drunk, let 48 hours slip by without bragging on the coming exposition. There are some things »hat even an Atlanta man cant endure and —live. One of the gr< atest living author ties on earthquakes, Professor John Milne, of the Japanese Imperial Uni versity, in a recent article in the Seism obgical Magazine, July, says that the results of experiments aid investigation on a possible connec tion between earthquakes and mag netic and electric phenomena do not allow us to admit any such connec tion. Il is not likely that earthquakes ever result from electric disturbances, and it has not )et been proved that they ever give rise to any such, though when large masses of reck ere displaced, as in Japan in 1891, slight local changes in magnetic curves have resulted. The Albany Herald tells this story: A case that is puzzling the d ,ctors is reported from Oglehorpe county in this State. A negro boy had a bullet shot into his brain last i hauksgiviug Day. The pul sation of the braiu can be distinct ly seen iu the hole m ide by thefaul let. The boy has worked uearly all the year on the farm and says his memory and braiu power are as good as ever, also that he has nev er felt the slightest pain from the wound. Brickbats and bullets have no terrors for the utorgia Negro, wheu they strike him ou the head. Hon. Felix Corput, of Floyd, who has loi g been prominently connected with the Georgia Al liance , has tendered his resigna tion as chairman of the finance committee of tbe organization. Uapt. Corput assigns a reason for withdrawing that the financial af fairs of the Alliance are in such a condition that it will require a great deal of the time of the com mittee to put them upon a sound basis, and his private business will not permit him to continue on the committee. It is pretty gener ally understood, however, that the Alliance is on its last legs, and Mr. Corput is smart enough to know when to get out. —Montgom ery Monitor. 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