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Ask to see our Fur Alpine Hat at SI.OO, Also our 1 105 or V. M. C. for $2.50, Mr. W. T. White, will be in charge of this depart ment, ready to serve you. W. H, COKER & CO No's 19 & 21 Broad Street, GEORGIA- wife a lesson. He dragged her to an open weß aud lowered her by the heels, bead first into the water. Several times he soused her aud held her under until she was nearly suffocated. When he thought hehad given her sufficient punishment he allowed her to go The next day she se cured a wartant for ais arrest. Tn a Justice’s court he was fined $5 and costs, the Justice taking into consideration the fact that the wife has been giddy and deserved some pusishment. NOTA MOCK WEDDING. An Indiana Girl who Married in Fun now Wants a Divorce. Muncie, Ind., Sept. 7.—Over a month ago Harry Hobbs and Mirs Anna Austin, of Albany, were se cretly married by Rev. Ashby. The young man came to Muncie, secured a marriage license on the representation of Frederick Chil cote, cashier of the Bank of Albany who, with Hobbs, made afiidavit that the girl was over eighteen years of age. It develops that her parents, Mr and Mrs. Austin, objected to the match, and that the girl was un I NK )®@S ® @ @ @ ) not aware of the fact that there is an establishment right here in ring all kinds of Blank Books, that would be creditable to any Book er cities. If you use a Ledger, Journal, Cash Book or other Blank of lUH'.vj or printing, you can have it done at home, and have the he work progresses. You can got almost any style of binding and paper desire !. Recently I have made Blank Books to order for the T. Wilkerson, Rome Gas Light Company, Rime Cotton Fact ry, the 8. . '* ]o:i ■■ ? '..■’v' examine • volume that needs repairing, bring it to me and I ll make it look l small sum. Rave done work of this kind fc.. c. Rowell, Dr. others, c. iu ici l »;«•. Dru ms Ircm them. which proves ”• ?.;ow rebinding a full set of Commentaries for Dr. Goetchius.* The J value of file work. £W“LbTTERING IN GOIS done while you wait. 'CHEH SAJITTH, BROAD GT., ROME, CA. Site if loiMS® SMSIMiS Ider eighteen. The father of the ■girl, who is the proprietor of the ■Albany Paper Mill, threatened to ■prosecute Hobbs and Chilcote for ■perjury, but it has been settled by ■m agreement for a divoice. ■ Mr, Austin filed a complaint, ■isking that his daughter’s maiden ■ name be restored and a divorce ■ granted. He alleges that Anna is I under age, and that she did not r know she was being married when the ceremony was performed, and that the couple have not lived to gether. Anna says she thought the marriage was a mock weeding. Indiana Populist Ticket- Muncie, Ind., Sept. (>.—The Populists today nominated the fol lowingcounty ticket: Representa tive, Thomas Marshal] ;Prosecutor, I). W. Gilmore; Auditor, I). W- Bynum ; Clerk, J. I). Clark ; Treas urer, Wm. Hughes: Recorder, 0. L.' Ross; Surveyor not named; Coroner, W. H. Cotfy; Commis sioner First District, W. H. Brown ; Third District, Samuel Dragee. —————— • ■ NeW Tin Plate Mill Started. Middletown, Ind., Sept. <j.—The Irondale Tin-Plate Mill, which has 1 just been erected in this place, at; -H cost of $200,000, was started yes-' terday afternoon for the first time. The plant will be run day and] night, and will at present give em ployment to one hundred and fifty men, divided into three shifts. Train Robber Sentenced. Cairo, 111., Sept. 6.—The trial of the train robbers, Brown and Breckenridge, at Wyckliffe, Ky., for robbing the Illinois Central train several months ago, was clos* ed today. Brown turned State’s evidence and was acquitted. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty in Breckinridge’s ease, and gave him ten years in the penitentiary. O. Bryan, the leader of the gang, was tried several weeks ago and was cleared. He lias been re-ar rested on a charge of perjury in } connection with his trial. DON’T FORGET . The Cundell Eumber e Co.,sells Cheap shingles a I 1 t grades. „ Cheap lumb era I I grades. Cheap ceiling and e flooring, sash, doors, L and blinds. 9-7-1 mog | REMARKABLE FEATURES •i With Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth, Every year for many past, the press and public have be°n wildly enthusiastic over the extent aud magnificence of the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on earth, which win be seen here exactly as it was in New York. But what will be said of it this year, superior as this season’s show is to all previous ones? In deed the big show has been vastly improved and enlarged in all de partments to ». most wonderful ex tent. Now in thecircua department i alone one hundred acts are given atjevery performance, afternoon and evening by as many daring champion athletes, gymnasts jugglers and acrobats. There are twenty actß in which perfectly trained animals are seen with twenty comical clowns. Sev eral of the -latter were acknowl - edged to be the funniest fellows in Europe before Barnum & Baily engaged them. After the acts in the three cir cus rings and on the two elevated stages numerous hippodrome races .take place. And after these the re markable exhibition of trained an .imalsin the specially constiucted iron-barred arena, in which lions land lambs tigers and goats bears and sheep ponies and elephants and other wild and domestic beasts tkke part. Then.there is Chiko and his bride Johanna, the giant gorillas only two of the world at present in capivity. The grand Ethnological Congress ofjsavage and idolatrous human beings,Jwith representatives from nearly all the savage and . heathern countries in the world, i an equestrian exhibition by wild . and fierce Cossacks and hundreds , of others. . Besides the most marvelous feats in mid-air the whole entertainment, , is of such a grand character as to I amaze eyeryone. A Chidren circus, too, especially provided for the ‘ delection of the little folks. The new million dollar free street pa rade will take place on the morn ing oT the show's arrival, and is said to be the finest of its kind ' on earth. It will all be here’ on October IGth. 1 FAIR WARNING. I Aft er this date I will not pay any account made iu my name by anyone outside of my immediate ’ family. ■ 9-3-6 f. Fletcher Smith,