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> BUSTLER OF tOJE. secoua-claas Mail Matter. eaiLG. Byrd. daily am> Sunday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 10 cent u. week or ss.ooper annum OFFICE*. Corner Broad Street ana nth Avenue. ONLY OFFICIAL ORGAN. Os tfv? city of Rome, and Floyd, the “Banner county ’ of Georgia. •DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Governor, W. Y. ATKINSON, of Coweta, For Secretary of State, 4JLLEN D CANDLER, of Hall For Tieaeurer, «a.D Hardeman, of Newton. For Comptroller-General, WM. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond For Attorney General, •J, M, TERRELL, of Meriwether S'er Commissioner of Agriculture, «R. T. NESBI IT, of Cobb. For Congress. .fo’au W. MADDOX, of Floyd. For State Senator, W. H. LUMPKIN. For Representative, Fioyd Co, ROBT. T. FOUCHE, JOHN H REECE, MOSES R. WRIGHT. The man who is “always right’’ is very « ft* n left. Motey to buy school bucks would %e just that much taken from the school funds Face value on some matrimom al bonds is sometimes above par — but oftener below her ma. The annual meeting of general passenger and ticket agents will be held m Quebec Sept. 18th. In Atlanta last week nine ne* groes were convicted for gambling And fined SSO each or six months in the penitentiary. r — 'Tlbe Acworth Post and the At lanta Gazette are a lovely pair of democratic dux—just such a pair as Turn Watson loves to draw to. From this time on the North Africa “Society will train its missionaries in ‘book or literary Arabic before they leave England. A school or this purpose will be established. The widow t of Senator Hearst. < f California, is said to be the mos. fceavily insured woman in this coun ty. Sie has policies amounting to $300,000 on her life. Vacderkilt paid $75,000 for Rosa * Ktafcuef's masterpiece,“The Horse Fair, ’’ now in the Metropolitan .Museum at New York The artist .kherse'f received $5,000 for it. AVe imagine that a woman who studies to be a doctor would have to be examined as to how quick she <sould get up at night and dreis Atchison Globe. Its sad to dwell upon the subject but the season of the year is at band when the summer girl aud the dude will find thev have not been fcoltng each other very badly Atter all. -Judge Maddox told the truth, -And the boys all know it. Then why not all vote for him and the party he represents? We say’ it’s «mr duty to do it.—Buchanan Ban ker. The statistics of life insurance people show that in the last twen ity-five years the average of man’s Jiife has increased five per ceut, or itwo .whole years, from 41.9 to 43.9 WIiTS.. ThifL Hidon Post Office requires men to have every unbound tooth id if, heir heads pulled out before they are eligible for employment as postmen. The ether day an unfortunate girl dark was c ndemned to have four teen teeth extracted before she was ■eligible for promotion. Her tongue was tet ied also, but like any oth°r womai?*tocgue was found to be very •wsoubd .” It was not pulled, Penelope—-‘ I suppose he brol e > your heart eveuiualh?” Perdita l ' rar woise • lou don t mean to s'iy he broke the engagement? “No , he played poker with papa and broke him* —Truth. A train which runs at the rate , of eighty-five miles requires a mile I in which to stop, when going at] i full speed. Jimmie Hines’ train — but let that pass, it could be stop ped within a rod and a half. SB A bull charged upon an engine j on the Colorado Midland. His head was cut off neatly, and the Pullman cars stayed on the track. The apologue: Don’t Debsy with the engine.—New York Sun. The Pennsylvania Steel Com) a ny will, it is said shortly engage about 1,000 additional workmen for its Steelton works. Orders are in hand which will keep the plant busy’ for the next six months. Editor Ham, of the Georgia Cracker, wants to know “what 1 will become of Judge Hines when Watson has to go home to his can vass in the Tenth district and no longer has time to draw crowds for him. ’’ If enterprise and energy will ac complish it, The Herald will be made the peer of any afternoon paper in the South. Keep your eye on The Herald. —Augusta Herald. Huh—you’ve done done it, if we are any judge of a sheet in the wind. “In a square inch of the human scalp the hairs number about 1- 000, and the whole number on an adult scalp is about 120,000.” The above may be true but one would have a hard time convincing Dr. Curry or H. M. Tanner of its being a fact. The Augusta Chronicle rises io remark, Judge Hines' unauthoriz ed and unjust stareinwuts that the advocates ot Geu. Evans, for the gubernatorial nomination wornd not support Mr.Atkinson.are draw ing out the emphatic contradictions they deserve It is estimated that Florida’s cr< p of pineapples this year will aggregate 50,000 crates, or fully 2,300,000 pine apples. The growershave been doing ! so well financially that the acreage set to pines is int r lasing very rapidly and it is expected that the crop of 1895 Will amount to 100.000 crates. For a man of his age, Dr. Fel ton is wonderfully agile-just judg ing by the number of his political somersaults. If any political party, in the Seventh has ever been hard up for a candidate, Dr. Felton has always been ready to say, “Barkis is willin’’—Cedartown Standard! Frosts and drought have cut short the cranberry crop for this year, The owners of the Massachusetts cran berry bo„8 are bolding their cran berries at $8 per barrel on board the cars. In the meantime the wind is wl istling through the whiskers of the goblers on a thousand hills in Old Dixie. The Chattanooga Tradesman says: “Merchantile business throughout the Southern States is very’ satisfactory. Sales are large ly and steadily increasing, collec tions are fair, and the condition of the crops encourages the belief that | fall and winter trade will be un-I usually’ good.” With Crisp, Bartlett, Lester, Lawson, Maddox, Russell, Living ston, Moses, Tate and Black in the house of representatives, and Ba con and Gordon in the senate, Georgia's delegation in the Fifty fourth congress will size up with that of any’ state in the Union, — Macon Telegraph. The construction of the Henne pin canal, a work that will connect th<- waters of the lakes with those of the Mississippi River, has al ready been commenced. The num-! borof men employed is small— less than 125—but by the middle of September over 2,000 men will be a t work constructing the chan nel and making ready for the locks —Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. THE HUSTLER OF ROME, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER,9 1894. The English Churchman express es some alarm at Mr. Gladstone’s recent article, and concludes with the following words: “Space for bids our dealing more particularly with the clever but dangerous , teaching of this article, which leaves ns in doubt as to w hether this marvelous man will die a Ro man Catholic or a Baptist. Neith er would much surprise us.” . ; The State Geologist of Alabama is reported as saying that the Warior coal fields of that State alone contain 108.394,000.000 tons of available coal in semasof 18 inches or over in thick ness. This is three times the amount ! of the available coal in the bituminous fi Ids of Pennsylvania In the mines at the present prices this Alabama coal is worth $150.000 000 000. cr 1,000 times the value of the whole property ot Alabama in 1800. The price of corn in Russia has shrunk so low, in consequence of the splendid prospect of the har vest, that many’ farmers are send ing their cattle into the fields, as the cost of harvesting would ex ceed the price of the corn. In the Caucasus barley and wheat arc cut green and given to the cattle. For ty-five pounds of corn are worth a cent and a half. Electric wedding has been used to remedy blow holes in defective castings by’ first drilling or chip ping out the defects and then heat ing the casting around the blow hole in a gas or oil flame blast. Scraps of steel are then introduced . and the electric arc is applied to melt them. The result is said to be a perfect joint, without seam or flaw of any kind. When Phill Byrd succeeds in hiving the Etow ah dammed he wil] not only have done a grand work for Rome but will supply the pow er to run the cars on that Dummy’ Line the Herald has called for so persistently.—Cave Spring Herald. And we will see to it that the said power is furnished the dummy line afore mentioned. In the mean time when ever we think of the no ble Etowah we think dammit, Tne smallest woman living to day is said to be M’lle Pauline of Holland, of a respectable family, who is eighteen years old, weighs ten pounds and is one foot nine inches tall. This is about the onliest woman that we have heard of who would prove eligible, from a physical standpoint, of becoming the wife of the honest element of the Third party. FOL'R JOKES Lawyer—Did he call you a liar in so many words? Client —Well, ihe called me a weather reporter. Lawyer—That is sufficient ;vou are sure to get damages . —Tid-Bits, Lemuel —Here’s a piece in the naper tolling how men get rich in Wall street waterin’ stock. Mrs. Lemuel—lts prob’ly them ’lambs and bulls. —Truth. Jimmy—What is this moral courage .that the Sunday-school teacher was tollin' us about? Tom my —As near as I |kin guess it, it’s the kind ot courage that, kids has that’s afraid to fight.—ludisnapo 1 lie Journal. St, Peter —You were a salesman in a |dry goods store on earth> weren’t you? Spirit(tinidly)—Yes sir. St Peter—Then sit down "at once. You needn’t be afraid. Your employer won't disturb you here. —New Y’ork Herald. take M. A. THEDFORD'S LIVER MEDICINE. 7STIVENESS Sick or Vervous- HEAOACHE. AU ND ICE TSS OF Appetite None Genuine Without The Likeness . .no Signature ofM A.Tneoford on FrontOf Each Wrapper. M.A.Theoford Med.@* —— Home.GAi «THE BIGGEST# I THING ROME Furniture, Carpels, ifclliojj ft. * • I We carry the largest stock in the state. We buy cheaper than any house in the state We sell cheaper than any other house in the state. We do business on business principles. Our customers are always pleased i with their purchases. We have < The Best Goods ■ *«*AND LOWEST PRICES. We are always pickicking up big bargains for our customers. Once a customer always a cus tomer. Solid Oak Suits $15.00 to $25.00 Call and see our $20.00, PARLOR SUITS. We are just overflowing with bright new Furniture • It is a pleasure to show you these goods. Call and see us. McDONALD-S?»-Coii)panv. 1.3& 5. Third. vetiue; >