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Have moved across the street to the Medical Building, next 11 ’iniirn 0 PH door to Crouch & Co's, Drug store, near Douglas & Co’s, Stables- PChITQ Fl I IM CL DC ft. Ji f b Hilf Lil UUj Co there for Bargains inDry-goods, Notionsand Shoes, Ties Etc ULI! I U I U 111 Ul -flu 2 Spools cotton for five cents, 5 Papers pins for five cents, • HAM AND EGGS. I am not fully posted on the ethics of the prize ring, nor have I ever had the pleasure of seeing a real, sure enough mill, but it strikes me that there is something queer in Jim Corbett’s persistently ignoring Lanky Bob Fitzsimmon’s ehallenges. I have seen both men f in sparring exercises and it occurs j to me that Bobby could give the (•hampion a better go than Clmr ' Ue Mite ell did. - Fitzsimmons likes a fraction of being as heavy as Corbett, but his reach and movements are as good as the Californians. Fitz has clear ly shown that he is a fast and furious fighter, by the quick man ner in which he put Creedon out in two rounds. I can’t imagine anything fairer than Bobs offer to spar four rounds with Corbett, be fore competent judges, who shall then declare whether Fitz is worthy to go up against him. So much hedging does not gain Corbett any fri nds, and he should come up to the scratch. Yesterday closed the season in the National baseball league, and all of Baltimore and the greater portion of Maryland is filled with a surging howling mass of cranks, because the Orioles won the pen nant. And honestly I am right glad myself that the flag is tossed to the breeze ovr Southern soil. The series of nine games between Baltimore and New York for the Temple Cup will begin in New York city next Thursday. Four games will be played there, four in Bal timore, and if it is a tie the last one in Pittsburg. I have said before and still stick to it, that 1 honest ly believe the Giants will win the series. They have the advantage of the Orioles in the box. Meekin and Rusie are the greatest pitchers in the profession today, and in fielding the New York’s are equal ly as strong if not stronger than Hanlon’s men. If the Balti’s have any advantage of New York at all it is in batting, and I believe that Ward's boys can do as much hit ting as their rivals. When it comes to hustling, I am impressed with the idea that Nick Ayer, will average up with the best of them. Whenever he takes a no tion to run an excursion over the ‘reliable riverside rout,” he neither eats or sleeps until hq has made a howling success out of it. No charges whatever for this notice. I am simply giving a small recog nition to one of Romes best and most progressive young men. “U- No-Nick.” A prominent attorney of this city will not take the side of the prosecu te uin auy case before the courts. It is rather a peculiar idea, but he re iigiously adheres to it, and he ba ß never been known to be on the side of prosecution. Many people will regret to learn that John Baptiste has decided to leave Rome. For eight years he has been selling candy at his present stand on Broad street and there are few persons that have not eaten bis excellent home made candies. He tells me that he has about come to the conclusion to go directly to Dal matin instead of California In fiist intended. The people of far away Dalmatia speak a varietv of languages, Slavonic, , Turkish and Italian. Baptiste has traveled over a good portion of the world and he is a man cf broad and varied knowledge, He will leave here proba bly the first of January. Young ladies with a edilection for writing anonymous communica tions regaiding the urgent need of a tonsonalj artis.’s attention to my physiognomy, should turn their literary talents to some field that promises better results. I have quietly and unostentatiously started out to raise a beautiful and flow ing beard and if it pains any one to grze upon the hirsute growth that covers my face, then they can look the other way. I will state emphati cally for the public weal that those whiskers are going to stay there until it is my good pleasure to shave them off People may call me “Wandering TftE HUSTLER OF ROME, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER, 30 1 894. Willie,” Weary Raggles,” “Stale | Muffins,” or any other name popular ly credited to tha gentlemen of mi gratory and purposeless proclivhi, J but I will haughtily and peisistemlv refuse to be coerced into doing winch is didaetelul to my elf. Send your )e levs in the future to Alt Haip *r, Cba'lie Warner or Hurt Smith. If I had the slightest idea that n.v whiskers would ever present as,un sightly an appearance as those toils of hair that (Infillvies the chssiia proseniumof Alfed bh >rter Harpers, head, th'-n the advice vtiu'd be ac- I cep. able. It shows that wi’dness and abandon in growth that commonly oelongs to the genius Capra yet I l ave heard no one say a disparaging word con cerning nim. Strange, pissing strange is the way of the world. But if Alf looks tough. Chari Jeremiah Warner looks woe'u ly | tougher. It is reported that disapp in •ment in lova earned him to take th i step, I think he is only making i,n effort to claim tLe honors of being i the ugliest man in Floyd, and am satisfied his claims are just . Rosy Hart Smith’s wl i-kers are ti o, utterly too too. If you would see the colors presented in the solar spectrum .gaze upon him. jThey are a kind of Joseph’s Coat,and Hut could make a neat sum by putting j himself on exhibition and advertise’ as the man with a varigated beard. ; STORY OF AN OLD VIOLIN. 1 Mr Edwad Buchanan, lh° ci’ie > j young musician of this city.has a rac ' an lvsluable cl I violir, which has a remarkable history. During the war th s violin was h i aproperty of an old negro It was o d. and iiaitere'i and he thought it of no I vilue and gave it to his son to plai i wtb. For along while that little pic kamnny us“d it for a play wagon by j attaching a strin- to the end, and I would haul sand in it. When the little darxey grew to be i man the violin was thown in an 1 old 1011, the varniso ail rubbed off,, and the top sadly broken in. For years and years it lay forgotten and j unnoticed in that out of the wad place.’ One day a prominent dealer in | musical instruments and one who knew the value of rare specimens come across it, and realizing at a glance the worth of it, he got the violin from the old negro for a pittance. Inside of the case were the magic words “Jacobus Steiner, 1754,’He ' cleaned and repaired the instru-1 ment and Mr. Buchanan boughtit I at the handsome sum of $l5O. Twice that sum would not buy it from the present owner. It has been pronounced by au-1 thorities on that line, as a genuine Stein r, and of immense value. Mr. Buchanan favored me re cently with a few selections on, this violin and the waves of exquis ite harlnony that he draws from this old instrument is wonderful. The tone is deep, rich, and as clear as the notes of a Hute. As 1 sat and listened to him it seemed as though the masterly touch of the bow was drawing my soul out, with its rapturous strain. It seemed that I heard the icy blast of the Northern winds as they shrieked and howled through the barren trees, Then visions of a tropical scene came before me, with the Wurm fragance of the flower laden air, and the thrill of a mocking bird sitting upon the | top most branches of a green shrubbery. When the last sad notes of de licious melody died away, 1 looked up into the glowing face of the young violinist, and thought what a rare gift had been given unto him, and how well he used it. Love Apples. When I first knew Covent Gar den, tomatoes in their raw state were habitually known as “love apples;"it was only when they were preserved in bottles to be used as sauce that they took the name now universally applied to them. Very rarely were they eat en raw as a salad, or cooked, stewed or stuffed, or ou gratin. THE STUDY OF LICHENS. A Delightful Branch of Science With Which to Become Acquainted. They are a difficult branch to study, for the descriptions are shrouded iu a mysterious language that needs an un abridged dictionary to translate it, and a good microscope is necessary if one wishes to examine their internal struc ture and spores. Bat they are. a delight ful and easy branch of science to be come acquainted with by observation. They are to bo found all the year round on stones and fence rails and on trees. They are easy to mount and are so fascinatingly ugly or beautiful that they make an interesting collection. In almost any wild bit of country there are from 50 to 70 kinds to be found, and even in the most civilized place, at one’s own hearth, there arc auro to be seven or eight species growing on the sticks of wood laid for the fire. They are so like and yet unlike that they sharpen the powers of comparison and observation until one feels that the keen bladed knife and pocket lens, which are con stant companions in a lichen ramble, are dull compared with one’s own bright mind. Lichens—and, by the way, they are pronounced li-kens, not litch-ens—grow in three ways, which can be easily dis tinguished at a glance. There are crus taceous lichens that grow close to a stono or bark and have no leafy part, but are simply a few warts or dots or a stain. There are foliaceous lichens that lie flat They are green or brown or yellow leathery plants that are something like leaves, and that have brown or red or pink disks on them, and there are fruti cose lichens that grow upright like lit tle shrubby bushes, with bright col ored knobs. Go to any birch tree, and there will be seen within a stained circle some cu rious little black marks like elfin hiero glyphs. They are the fruit spots of a common licheu called, very appropriate ly, Graphis scripta. Almost any tree one visits will have some irregular cir cular stains upon it, especially if the bark is quite smooth, and in the center there will be some brown or black or white specks. It is easy to collect such crustaccous lichens by slicing off a thin strip of the bark, large enough to show the outline of the stain, and by writing the name of lhe tree from which it was taken on the bark, but it is quite a dif ferent matter when one sits down beside a bowlder.—New York Independent. SENATOR VANCE MET THE ISSUE. But the Reporter Failes! to Get a Big “Scoop” All the Same. “I once had an experience,” said an old newspaper man at the Press club to a reporter, ‘‘with the late Senator Vance which I shall never forget. It was during Crisp’s first contest for the speak ership, and, as you all probably remem ber, every newspaper man in town was hustling for inside news. The sources of this, as usual iu such cases, were very few, and Senator Vance, who was act ing in the capacity of an advisor to the nominating caucus, had to spend most of his time dodging journalists. ‘‘So wary did he become that he dis continued taking his lunch in the senate restaurant and had it served in a com mittee room. One day, however, I caught a glimpse of him passing through one of the lower corridors on the house side. Determined not to let him escape me, I at once hastened forward, and in the most innocent manner possible be gan asking him about his health, which was rather bad at the time. He answer ed all my questions in the kindest manner possible and was about to leave when I said: “ ‘Oh, by the w/y, senator, who do you think will get the nomination?’ “ ‘I don’t know exactly, ’ he replied, ‘but they will have to fight if they want to win. ’ ‘‘Certain now of my information, I began to see the letter 1 was going to re ceive from the home office, after they had published my big scoop, telling me in the most flattering terms that the paper had decided to raise my salary on account of my good work. “ ‘Which side? senator?’ I asked, al most in a whisper for fear some one would be lurking in the dark recesses and hear the reply which was to make me the most noted hustler for news in the ranks of journalism. “ ‘Both sides, ’ he replied as he disap peared iu the door of a committee room. ‘‘And the letter that 1 looked for never came. ” —Washington Times. Generalship. ‘‘The Clahtys does be slow returning what they borry, ’ ’ said Mrs. Dolan. “Yis, ” replied Mrs. Rafferty. *‘Oi niver forgit the throublo Oi had gettin back the flatoirons Oi lint ’em wanst out o’ the koindness av me heart ” ‘‘An how did yez git ’em?” “Oi sint my b’y Teddy to holler out that the Clantys wouldn’t be in this country on’y St. Pathrick chased the snakes out av Oireland. Thin the oirons cem over the back since fasht enough. All Tiddy had to do wor to dodge ’em. ’’ —Washington Star. The Mexican Agave. The Mexican agave is a vegetable growth used in making an intoxicating wine. According to a tradition of the country, it was the first plant God made. Another species of the agave is used for the same purpose as soap, its leaves when broken and rubbed together pro ducing a cleansing lather. It is also employed in poisoning fish to be eaten, this poison, like so many others, having no effect upon the person who eats the fish.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. To brine butter take a pound of gran ulated sugar, a tablespoonfnl of salt peter and 3 gallons of brine strong enough to tear an egg. Boil the brine and strain when cool. The butter should be wrapped in cloth before placing in the brine. San Diego is the oldest city in Cali fornia, and the ruins of the mission of 1769 are still preserved. THE FINEST LINE AND lest Assortments SHOES! SHOES! SHOES! BARGAINS IN SHOES AT *etCanirell & Owensie* 240 BROAD STREET. ®No. 304 Broad Street.• FALL MILLINERY, EMBROIDED SILKS, and ZEPHYS, At lowest cash prices, Call on us. Respectfully, JV- o. GA RRARD. I THE LITTLE RUBY TONSORIAL PARLORS, If you want work In mv line call at my Shop. Frank. Taylor, the old reliable,'# Wlffl W Jill BUM tow MANUFACTVRERS AND DEALERS IN Mln anil Granite, Monuments, Coning, Wire ami Mt Iron Fencing, Lawn Vugos, Fountains &c. What You Want and Get What You Order S. HEMSTREE' 1 ' Mgr, Chattanooga Tenn. 1116 Market Street. A. J. BANKSTON General Agent Ringgold Georgia Blacksmithing. I have moved Blacksmith and Repair shops from Fifth Ave., opposite New Court House to my Old Stand on Fifth Ave., in the Fourth Ward. W. T.DRENNON?I -A_t old stand -sth AVENUE FOURTH WARD. 8-12 ts SHOPS REMOVED To my patrons and’the public 1 wish to state that I have removed ms Carriage Waggons and Blacksmith Shops From the old stand in the Fourth Ward to the buildin opposite the New Court house where I am always readv to do guaranteed Carriage buggy, wagon and Blacksmith work Repairing and Horse Shoeing a specialty M. A.. WLMPEE, JR- > RESTORED; ■KI \ V guaiu.ilfvu .oe.ue nor vine diseases.such u>. o eu,. Aiouiorj • Nervous- SRf k'l Power, Headaclu ,V. Irelulness, Lost Manhood. ''iKhtly Lmisslons,» cause( j Rf ***?) Sr •» ness.alldraies:. :i .’lu. sot powerinGenerativ.-Organa of either ’" orßtlnl . \« v-J J by overexertl 'n. ,»r u. lifm errors, excessive useol tobacco, < p- arrje( jjn 1 ulnnts, which lean'.o !nt‘.riri!tv. 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