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TatSSsT Till- HUSTLER OF ROME. Eight Pages. FOURTH YEAR Have moved across the street to the Medical Building, next ' 0 Pfl door to Crouch & Co’s, Drug store, near Douglas & Co’s, Stables- PThITC 1» Da mC Hui til W uUi Go there Tor Bargains in Dry-goods, Notionsand Shoes, Ties Etc ULil I U I uilmuliLllU 1 2 Spools cotton for five cents. 5 Papers pins for five cents, FOULLY MURDERED 1 ; Chinese Sou Ifed Murder a Ptes byterian Missiaaao. * [MURDERERS DEMIHOED i Butoff cers Fearto Surrender : Them. German Catholic Priests Seized by Rob bers and held for Ransom. San Francisco. Cal., September 17. —News is at hand per steam ship Oceanic, of the murder of a Scotch missionary named Rev. James Wylie. A new Chang correspondent of the North Chinia Daily News, writ ing under date of of August 20th, says: “On the 14th instant, at Lyong, fifty miles above this port, J soldiers en route for Corea from [Tien Tsin, attacked Rev. Mr. Wy l lie, a member of the Scotch Pres- Ibyterian mission, with knives and «sticks. Alter cutting him about the head ami face mid him with sticks, they left him lying on the ground in lie* public highway, where his colleagues found him ■ locor.ficious «u-.| b'e«deng from iiis wounds. !h> l«»w**r jaw was I r ‘ken in two plucks atnl he had -several wounds ilxnit the head amt face. These wounds hawever, were not so seri ous as the i .jurr-s in the brain’ caused hv blows or kicks. He di*’d at O'clock on ths morn jug of 16 n uisiaut. “The attack was-entirely uupro voked The higher native authori— t iea, it is said, are ae’iug•energeti cally iti the matter. The local mag i s’rate demanded Trona the officer in charge of the reginamit the sur render of the guilty soldiers, but this was refused and one is not MT RECEIVED" I One of the most com i plete assortments of t>let soaps AND TOILET ARTICLES 4> I i I Ever brought to the city. See our line of fine IMPORTED TOOTH BRUSHES They have no superior on this or any other market SOLE AGENT FOR CANDIES j.t.crduch & co Medical Building. ROME GEORGIA. MONDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER. 17 1394. surprised, for if the officer hsd dared to comply with any such de mand, he wQuld probably hav' been the n>“xt victim. Thera is ft rumor to the effect th >t 1 his' • fiicer is to lose his head,” On August 21st the follow!; g telegram from Chee Foo whr re ceived at Yokohama: “'rhe G< r mnn fathers, belonging to tho Catholic mission at Kennen-Ch<»w in southern Chantung, have been seiz'd and held for ransom by ban dits, whom the authorities are un able to capture.” THE CIRCUS TOMORROW The Remarkable Record Breaker- Sells Brothers United Shows. This season greater, grander .than ever before. Refulgent dawn of a new era orginating and inau guarting new ideas and features; improving and perfecting its mag nificent performances; equalising low prices of everything by cut ting its admission fee to 50 cents admits to ail Combined Shows. People's popular prices reign. A fearle-s stroke of Managerial policy sending terror into week kneed rivals whose pigmy, brains have been racked to meet exigenc ies of dull times. Other showshave reduced the capacity of their can vas, curtailing salaries, abandon ing from one-third to one-half their railway cars, at least tlireby .decimating their attractions or presenting those that are inferior and engaging cheap taknt which must not only be disastrous but suicidal. Sells Brothers, now tearing their twenty-third annual season, have adopted diametrically the opposite! course. They have do&ibied their attractions, -enlarged their already euwrmous 'canvasses. -increased rather th«u reduced salaries, dis carded no ret .or artist of proncc neutly aufpient rather than deptat ed their acceptable all-over-sh idew iiig coufedera io i, and have initi ated the price oi admission wirk'in reach of everybody. 50 c<*uts. There j-g not now— there nerer has been —there never can fee a like opportunity of witnessing a supereminently attractive aggre gallon such as Sells Brothersis ail its positively undivided aud«n dimished excellence, with no feat orfeature„no coni ractiou,but out he contrary, vastly re-euforced by all that is superbly .amusing ami in structive. The glorious three-ring circus presents wary act and feature as represented, embracing all thecel ebritiesof the arenic world, two hundred .-startling acts in three separate rings and two elevated stages. I®, the menagerie fifty mammoth cages filled with rare wild beasts, trained Hippopotami, trained Sea Lions and Seals, per forming Elephants, flodt of Os triches, trained Storks, Rooster Orchestra , Pig Equestrains, train ed Kangaroos, lordly Lions, state ly Ind hs Tigers, and marvelously trained wild and domesticated an imals. Introducing in the gala hippo drome, races realistic, imposing and stupenduous, revival of an cient Rome, chariot races, hurdle races, fiat races, tandem races, donkey races, pony races, camel races, elephant races, 80-horse ri ders, equestriennes, equestrians, jockeys of all nations, educated horses, trained ponies, comical clowns, jolly jesters, acrobats, aerialists, gyntnast, riders, char ioteers, gladiators, byciclists, roll er skaters, leaperft, and, in fact, all the champions from every land under the sun grouped in an un precedent programme, alone worth a dozen times theories of admis si< >n. Watch for the most elaborate, attractive, resplendent’street pa rade that has ever visited your city, at 10 a. m. on the day of the exhibition. Special excursion rates will be issued on all lines of trav el. . „ ...... .■- - -<•- - SHERIFF’S NERVE.! I 1 Saved the Black Brute From a I Band of Avengers. j She had killed a ch .d. 1 I » AfteilTrepting her Most!tHorri"| biy, she Identified him ’as uShe lay 'with the Life Blood Streammg From her Throat. Thomasville, Ga. September 16. ;—One of the most fiendish and brutal crimes in the history of south Georgia was committed in this county last night. Dave Goosby, a burly black brute, assaulted in a most brutal manner and afterwards cut the throat of Susan, the twelve-year-I old daughter of Martin Butler, a | white man living about seven miles west of town. The girl had been to the spring some two hundred yards from the house for water, when the black brute "seized her and holding the half dead girl with one hand, took bis knife out of his pock et with the'other, opened it with, his teeth and deliberately cut her throat. Thinking the girl was dead lie then went home. The girl was found shortly after and taken to the house by her fa ther She, was covered with blood, which gushed from, a gaping wound in the side of the iivck with every breath, but was conscious and told her parents who it was who as saulted Ker, She said it was Dave ’Goosby and described him. Goosby was found st his house , preparing to go to bed. He iva ß 1 taken te the dying, girl And she prompt!*’ identified him as the man. ]-'■• t ore Goosby was ’caught a messenger was .seat to town for Sheri a-- .utferson and his dogs from ißainhrldge by special train. MTieei he 4irriwd at the home of the girl’s giareuts a igood sized crowd was there guarding the ne gro. They turned, .him■•©ver to the hid. by this ititrie the feel ings of those there had been wrought-lisp’.to :such a high pitch" that it looked doubtful whether the sheriff wotld be able to get off with his Anan. With a drawn revolver, however he forced his way though the ex cited .crowd and placing his pn. - oner in ;& iwagvHi drove rapidly oft’. The crowd started iu persmt ami succeeded iu surrounding the sheriff’s wagcu. By exercise of rare coolness and presence of mind the eheriiff iniauaged ta elude the ’ now hwwliug JMob amiiget the pris oner szfe 'freon their reach They tried .for some time to find where the -sheriff had gone, but were uueuooessful. He ««turned to town late this afternoon, but will not tell the vrberesbou'e of the negro. Hesay-a, however,that be is in a safe place and wili beproduc ed at the propwer time This county has rarely been wrought to sutA a high pitch of excitement, and if the negro can be located he will certainty be lynched. The girl died a few hours zftea being found. THEY MARRIED Helen Busby and Frank ClarK are Married In another column of this pape is aaaccout.t d the troubles of Hele Busby and Frank Clark yesterday. The strangest part of the whole proceeding is that the old folks brought the girl back to town today about noou and she and her sweetheart were married at the home of the groom's broth er, Mr. Ed. Clark. The young people left at ouce for the bride's home as happy as happy could be. FROM EUROPE. Judge Branham and Mr. Denny are Heme Again. A rs- ver d months spent iu tour ing Europe,-Tudge Joel Branham aud Mr. R A. Penny have relu Dtd to the city. Mr D 'iny came iu Friday, uhi e Judge B. tLiili.iin went to Birmingham and dil lot teach Rome until this morning. Tney had a m ignifi •ent trip and both are iu splt n.lid health They visi ed all the points of inteicnt in Eng and, France Switzerland, Italy, etc Mr Martin Grahame liai also re turned lr >in England. He spent pari of the summer iu Canada a id -vent from there io England. He will buy cotton again this season. CITY COURT. Several Cases Disposed of Last Night. City Court commenced the sec ond week’s work of the term, and business was attended to. Henry Cook stole a $4 coat from the home of Mr. H. T. Landers, and went to the chaingang 11 months to repent of the act. Henry Dennis, John Williams and Joe Camplxdl are three of the negroes discovered in the act of gambling out by the furnace last Friday night, were sent for three months each. Henry McConnell, plead guilty to the charge of assault and bat tery. Verdict SSO and costsor eight months in the chaingang. Jack Slide found not guilty of ga me»ng Douglas Samuels, charged with misdemeanor, sentenced to p®y all costs er servo three months in the gang, Tbo court is t rying Jane Wood—, n- we go to jw.-s, for knocking a negro womami in the head. SHORTER COLLEGE, Use Fall Session Commences Wednesday. Shorter College will commence its fall session Wednesday morn twg. The youn r feviy - students are coming iti on ev'-ry train, t.nd the itidicatious are that there will be a v<*ry large attendance. Shorter has the reputation of being ot of the best schools in the South for young ladies, and it is kept up to the highest standard iu everything that is conducive to the most finished education. All of the faculty is in the ci y, and are prepared to do splendid work after a pleasant vacation spent in different portions of the county. Dr Battle is very hopeful that this wili be a successful year in the history of the college. C. H. King, of Marietta, is at the Armstrong, Mr. C. L. Bacou, of Gadsden, is stopping at the Armstrong. All verities of new Turnip seel at Trevitt aud Tr vitt & Johnson. Richards«t Lansdell are at Rhudy’s old staud, 337 Broad Street. Richards aud Lansdell have com menced receiving their new stock of furniture, coffins and caskets. Yesterday evening at the resi dence of the bride’s uncle Mr.Dau J’ucker Phillips, in the Fourth Ward Mr. Rufus J. Moore, and Miss Etta Carter, were married. The ceremony was performed by Dr. C. S. Harris A reporter saw a cut this morn ing of Richards and Lansdcll’s new hearse, which will be here in a few days. It is being made es pecially for them in Cincinatti, and it will be the handsomest ev er seen in Rome. IO CENTS A WEEK fELT-DNALLSIDES Dr. J. B. Hawthorn Must Have hafl the “Aged Flopped !N HIS MIND’S EYE When he Opened his Sermon-, in Atlanta yesterday- WiH 1 Mrs Felton Deem the Remarks necessary, a Letter?" Dr. J. B. Hawthorner cerauuiy had somebody in his mind yester day when he stood “il+nt for, while looking out over hie congre gation at the First Baptist ehurc ti and filially burst forth wi-OH soar*,- slight display of deep passion, utidil said: “One of the most pitiable ot Iml. - man wrecks is an old wiecketf poK tician—one who has always uiisc read the signs of the times and:' tried every party in the hap# oi getting office from it. It is sad to see this- melancholy victim of his own folly wagging liis •> feeble tongue in a diatribe again st the people who have refus'd to 1 honor him with their suffrage*. More pathetic than lud’«rou», to. 1 me, is the bravest of his filial fare well to one political household, and his frantic rapping;at the door of The lesson of thaH man’s life is, that i>is a disastrous mistake to seek promotion at, tfiv sacrifice of convic-tfen, truth, anrii honor. If one meai.itio be a loyal and use ful servant of Ims generation, he must hold with unflinching firmness to ■ what is true aud right, regardless of the trend of public feeling. -Such a course will provoke the rage of his - adversaries, and diminish his follow" ing for a time, but in the evolution of society, under the administration that Goil who is always and every where the friend of truth, the people will swing back to him, and accepfc him as their oracle and guide ” Dr. Hawthorne spoke Mils ra ar-x slow measured voice and evidently " meant what he had said to apply to somebody he had in his mindU at the time. Men and women about tfeb-.t church were seen to lock at eacix. other at the close of the sente ice with an air that spoke plainly,. “D’ye know who he moans? 1 do.” But the question is still who?' S. M. STARK. I desire to call th& attention of my patrons and the public general ly to the fact that ON bEP’T I Oth’ My large and well assorted new stock of FALL AND WINTER WOOLENS Will arrive, and furtlierjthat lam"now 1 prepaired aud will turn out FIRST CLASS WORK A M> _ Fl® WOODS, Cheaper than everbefope* Fasia this in YOUR HAT t and remember your own interests S. M. STARK, MERCHANT Hl® 16 ARMSTRONG HUTBIi.-