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THE HUSTLER OF ROME.
WITH AN ICE SfiW
A Jackson Negro Severes an M. &[
0. Conductor’s Hand.
HIS HECK IN DANGER j
But Governor Turney Propos
es to Save him. Execite
ment at Fever ,heat
but the law Will
Take -ts Course
Jackson, Tenn., September 18.—
Late this afternoon an ice wagon
driver named Bob Brown struck a
horse belonging to George Lums
den, a prominent Mobile and Ohio
railway conductor.
Lumsden remonstrated with
Brown, who replied in an impu
dent manner. Lumsden struck
him over the head with a riding
whip. The infursa’ed negro seized
a heavy ice saw and aimed a blow
at Lumsden’s head.
The latter threw up his hand and
caught the force of the blow, which
would probably otherwise have
killed him. His left hand was cut
nearly in two.
The negro fled, but was caught
by the officers, who immediately
hurried him to jaiL It was none
too soon, either, for him to escape
the rage of Lumsden’s friends, who
would have made short work of
him. Feeling is high tonight. Pre
caution has been taken to insure
the negro’s safety.
Capt. J. L. Base, has just return
ed from a tcur of th» Baes
stores in Carrolton, Griffin, and At
lanta. He buys the goods for all
those houses including the two big
stores here. He is in the strictest
sense of the word a hustler, and his
houses enormous quantities of
goods.
JUST RECEIVED
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One of the most com
plete assortments of
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TO'LET SOAPS
AND
TOILET ARTICLES
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. CROUCH & CO
Medical Building.
ROME GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER. 19 189<k
THE BIC SHOW
Sells Brothers Gave two Maer.ifi
cent Petformances.
' SHOWS REORGRNiZEO
For SouthenTour. Thousands
of Peoole in the Cdyview
the Monster parade ana
Enjoy the Menag
ery and C'rcus
The circus was a success.
On account of the appearance of
two shows in Rome this season,
the advertising has been exten
sive, and Sells, which was here yes
terday, vied with the Barnum A
Bailly show, in the promises of
something unusually good in their
circus.
The streets were crowded with
people all day yesterday, but not
exceeding one half of the crowd
went insite of the great white can
vas. Their only excuse for not
doing so, was that they didn’t have
the price.
Because of delay in getting to
North Rome, the street parade did
not take place until lo’ clock. Is
was a splendid parade considering
in what a short space of time it
was gotten up.
Yesterday was undoubtedly a
feast for the street car line, as six
cars were kept running to North
Rome and every one was packed
with happy humanity.
Sells Brother’s linquestiona! ly
have a first-class circus, and this
fact will be testified to by every
body that attended the two per
formances yesterday. The crowd
that paid the admission price and.
: went iu, was not as large as the
Bariium & Bailey show will have.
Simply because the country
people have not sold any cotton
and did not have the money.
Colonel Seeley, one of the man
agers of the show, escorted a Hust
ler reporter through the tent and
gave some interesting facts con
ce uing the circus .this season,
“Everything we have now is
practically new,’’ he said. “This
tent was put up for ihe first .tirfte
in Louisville, and this is the fourth ,
time we have showed under it. It
cost $4,800 for the cloth and mak-
A
ing of it.
••Those Bengal tigers there, ar?
the largest and rarest specimens
ever in captivity. Their market
value is SIO,OOO though they did
not cost us ihat. They are doubly
royal because they are from the
private collection of the Prince of
of India.
Very few people have any idea of
the enormious daily expense of a
large modern circus like ours.
When rain or any kind of an acci
dent occurs to prevent us from
giving a performance, it is a dead
loss of several hundred dollars,
because expenses go on just the
same.
“All this stuff about our being
a second class show is utter bosh
but you can see that for your self.
We have something over 300
horses, and they are all fine high
priced animals.”
The crowd during the day was a
noisy, but good natured one, and (
with the exception of a few drunk- i
eu infli’., nothing unusual occurred
to mar the day .
The Barnum & Bailey show will
be hero October I6’h, and it
is expected that the largest crowd
Rome has ever seen will be here.
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25th. Anniversary. f
Tomorrow night Oostanaula Lodge
of Masons will celebrate their 25th
Anniversary. A full attendance of the
members is especially desired, The
Third Degree will be conferred on I
two members,
STEAMER LEO FA.
Os the Gmiment’s Coosa River
Construction Works.
IS OMTHE ETOWAH (
She Arrived in the City this
Morninc and W'th Barges
end men Will Beg n
Dredg ng Horse Leg
"Shoals.
lie G<n»;ncit I< at “1.e0t0.l
came up from Lock 1, this mornings
aid is moored i-t the wharf at the
foot of Broad Street.
It is in charge of Col.D. M. An
drews, and the work of dredging
Horseleg Shoalswill commence at
once.
Col. Andrews was seen by a
Hustler of Rome reporter at noon,
and gave some of the plans of
making the Coosa navigable,
‘‘We have a force of hands at
work building lock No. 4. over
200 miles below here. Another
crew is at work between lock 2 and
3, dredging the gravel where it has
filled in. It has been eighteen
years, you know, since that was
first done.
; ‘‘Now lam here, and we have a
, fleet of barges at Horseleg Shoals,
and will go to work there as soon
as the river goes down a little. So
there will be three squads nt work
opening up a fine winter way.
“On the trip up wcJiad consider
able difficulty in navigating in
some places, and had to pull up
with ropes. The “Leota”/draws
more water than any of the boats
going out from here.
“The last congress appropriated
only SIIO,OOO to this river which
t is not nearly enough to finish up
the work. Still we can do consid
erable with that sum . We will be
able to continue through October
and next season will take up the
work where we leave off.
“The day you see an open water
way to the gulf a new era of pros
perity will sqt in for all the coun
try traversed by the rivers Rome
being the terminial station will be
incalculably b°nefited.
“Some enterprising man here
ought to build a fiae boat and
equip it ejegaufly <>nd he would
coin inoifey. ’’
This is a work that every citizen
of Rome feels a vital interest in.
ana it is one that means much for
the future prosperity of this
section.
PASSED THROUGH ROME
Will Myers, a YoungAtlantian who
is Wanted There.
This mornings Constitution gives
a graphic story of the disappear
ance of Forest Crawley and Will
Myers.
Meyers proposed to buy some
mules from Crawley, and the young
men leftßosswell , Ga. for Atlan
ta. After reaching Atlanta, they
left the city in a buggy and young
Crawley has not been seen since.
It is known that he had between
S3OO and SSOO on his person.
Yesterday afternoon Meyres pass
ed through Rome. Sam Whitmire,
Jim Brett, and Henry Stausburry
came up on the tram that Meyer’
was on. - 8
Meyers seemed deeply troubled
about something and told Whit
mire that he was on his way to -
Louisville. , ’, '
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Armstrong Concert Tonight
Ford’s orchestra will give their
regular weekly concert tonight in
•he Armstrongs palatial parlors,
“Flarencia” a new aud beauti
ful waltz , compossed by Juan
Hernaudey Cuevan ;aud arranged;
for oichestra by Mr Buchanan
will be a special feature of the
programs. These waltzes can be
had for piano at Phillips & Co,
Atlanta, Ga,
POPULAR POPE
He Left THis Morning for Bruns
wick and St. Simons
I
'WILL BE ABSENT A WEEK
As Ths Hustler of Rome's
"Most Popular Salesman,
He is bound to have a
Big Time While En
joying his T r iP
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Popular Henry Pope Wooten, of
Lowry Brothers drug store, the
“most popular salesman” in Rome,
left this morning for Brunswick,
St. Simons, Cumberland and oth
er points, and will be absent on
this his “prize trip” for a week or
ten days. '
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H. Pope Wootten, the Hustler <f
Rome’s “Most Popular Salesman ”
Pope Wootten is a son of Mr. L.
Dempsy Woctten, now of this city,
but long one of the most, substan
tial planters of Texas Valley, in
this county.
In the recent Hustler of Rome.
contest in wh’ch about. 10,000 cou
pon ballots from this paper were
voted, Mr. Woottea’s friends ral
lied to his support and won for
him the honor of being “the
popular salesman in th u
City” with a free trip and a w. ; k*
board at St Simons, attached
• Mr. Wootten is a valued em
ployee of the Well known and
popular drug house <■ f 1.0 v.. v
Brothers. That he will have a
glorious trip goes without saying.
S. M. STARK.
I desire to call the attention of
my patrons and the public general
ly to the fact ’hat
ON i>EP’T 10th.
My large and well assorted new
stock of FALL AND WINTER
WOOLENS
Will arrive, and furtherjthat I am now
prepaired and will turn out
FIRST CLASS WORK
FIBST CLASS GOODS,.
Cheaper 2 thau everbefofe. Paste
fhis in YOUR HAT apd remenibef
your own interests
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S. M. STARK,
MBRCHANT TIHOB
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16- ARMSTRONG HOTEL.
Eight Pages.
l O CENTS A WEEK
YOU
Are Invited To Pte
i Feast!
i The greater portion of our
large fall stock has arrived,
and w»- are now ready to en
tertain you. We arc crowd
ed to overflowing with the
most complete and e’e.iant line
of new styles ever s own. in
I this city, and e ery one of
[them a positive bargain in
[quality and price. 'I he latest
novelties, U-e newest ideas,
a d the most original concep
tion of leading manufactur
ers in our own and foreign
countries are represented in
our splendid stock. We ex
pect to show you merit in
quality and styles ata satisfac
tory price in order to self
goods Now A-e are going.UA
say a lew words to you, regar
ding our truly beautiful and
stvlish
DRESS GOODS.
We have always been known
for our taste displayed in this
line. Woman never dressed
more n -atly, prettily or be
coinin; ly than at the present,
time. The di\ ss’goods man
ufacturers have happily com
bined pattern, material and
grade in haimony w in favor
able p/efcia uces 'or shade aiu
uo;or. e cap 1 he climax by
showing an assort ’lent so va«
ried in prices as to meet the
purse of all. We have a tru
ly superb line of Plaid Cam
el's hair, 54-inch, Lovely 50*
inch Broadcloths, Silk Warp
Henriettas, black and colors
abound, Cashmeres, Flannels,
Bedford cords, English and
French Brocades, F'ine Linen
in black and colors Our Silke
are unusually beauttfid. Any
desired kind, quality or uriceA
HOSIERY. ’
The best selections and poj>~
u’ar styles prevail in thro., de
partment. ihe scope of uiioiec
is so varied that we, of course
carry ail grades. We lead the
trade in Hosiery, because we
sell the best grades at favor
able prices. We have ach oice
s!()••!< oi Ladies, Misses and
Childrens, in ftjlk, Woolen
and Cotton. We carry a Huq,
that can disappoint no n -
j quircinent.
LINENS.
A refined taste ana goodd
judgement may be exercised'
in selections from this branch
of our stock with pleasing re
sults, Full lire of stamped.
Sham«, Splashers, Tidier,,
Scarfs, fray Covers, Napkins,
and Towels. Tne prettiest
line ever shown in Rome. In
Towels we carry an immense
assortment, graded to meetev
ery requirement of the house
hold. Table Linen is the pret
tiest pattern you ever saw;
fineness., firmness of tex'ture,
variety of pattern and style.
CARPETS.
It is really not necessary
that we should say anything
regarding onr carpets, for
every one who knows Fahy
knows that he ha& always
lead the Rome market in tliese
goods. However we will mere
ly say as a passing remark
we now have the most
cohiplete stpek ’eviy exhibitec
in our house.
Ims. Fahv.
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