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FOURTH YEAR
the people
oOF*
northga.
, 5 ALABAMA.*
Hard timesand the scarcity of
„ v b-m forced the price of cot
ton down io 6 cents .
Wanes and everything else is
low and we propose to put the
price of Groceries and Dry Goods,
etc, down in proportion.
We are the only large dealers in
our line in Rome that don’t belong
an association or combine of
some sort to keep the prices of
goods up.
WE HAVE BEEN
In business, in Rome
about 15 years, and
have never joined an
association of any kind
that to cut prices
fcr us to sell by.
We began with a sing
le little grocery store,
but by selling cheapfor
cash and never trying
to get more for goods
than they are worth.
We have built up a
trade that any body
might feel proud of.
We now have six
stores in the Fourth
Ward. 2 with Grocer
ies, two with dry goods
and shoes, and one
with Clothing and gent’
Furbishing goods and
or-: with Crockery,
Glass Wareand stoves
Our Crockery Store.
And in addition to fliese we
have one at 1’36 Broad street with
a Mammoth Stock of Stoves,
Crockery, Glass, Tin Wear and
House Fm .ishing Goods.
We buy i. large lots as cheap
a» uny whole ale merchant and can
buy and sell ‘hem as cheap as
we please.
We Wholesale and Retail and if
you have a little money to spend,
we can and will sell yon cheaper
than any body in this city.
Look Ata Few Prices.
Good Green Coffee 6 lbs for $1
Good sound Tobacco 11 inch plug
a - 5 cents. Good Rod Flannel
Guaranteed all Wool at 10 cents yd
Heavy J fanß jo cents a yd,
Gotten Check cents and up
yard wide 4| cents a yard
Cotton Flannell 5 cents a yard
b ‘ ached Cotton yd wide 5 cent yd
Dress Gingham 4| cents a yard
F lour, Meat, Sugar. Etc. Luder
yh .prices of the Association
If you are a merchant come
0 and we will save you
a de y hy giving you our lowest
prices.
Lanham & Sons,
31 6.318, 320,322,3-
24,326 Fifth Ave
AND.
236 Broad St.
THE HUSTLER OF HOME.
HEAD CRUSHED
Munroe Long, of Adairsville, Cruel
ly Beaten and Robbed.
LAST NIGHT BY NEGROES
His Skull is • Crushed in, and
the Chances for his Recov
is very Doubtful No
clue to the dastard
ly Fiends.
He thinks that he was struck by
a rock, but tbe physicians today
are of the opin ion that the work
was dene by a stick.
Long wandered down s he street
almost er zed by the fearful blows
that had been showered upon him.
Mr. Tom Moody, who was on
extra police duty yesterday and
last night, was the first to discover
the wounded man and carried him
to ths hospital
Drfl, Frank Wynn, Will John
son and Hammond were called m,
and gave such attention as was
ne-essary. The skull was found
badly crushed in, aud the broken
bones resting on the brain.
Young Munroe Long, who lives
two miles from Adairsville came
to the Circus yesterday, and today
lies in the Martha Batty hospital,
< n Broad Street, at the point of
death.
Last right about 11 ;30 Mr Long
was walking towards th? city from
the crcus ground and was on the
8 eel just back of the Colord Bap
tist Church on Broad.
He was not dreaming of any
danger to himself, when suddenly,
he recieved a terrible blew on the
heal, just above the right eye.
Long fell, and then two mulatto
negroes eommenced beating him
about the sac« and head,until the
young man was stuned and half
uncoscioun.
This morning the physicians
JUST RECEIVED
One of the most com
plete assortments of
TOILET 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 OCTOBER. 17 1894.
consulted togetner, aud decided
that the only hope for Long, was
to remove the broken skull that
rested on the brain, They impart
ed this information to the you g
man, ami he readily consented to
the operation, but requested that
bis father and mother be sent for.
A message was sent to th°m and
they will reach the city this after
noon and the extreinly delicate
operation will be performed. Tne
ehauues for Long’s recovery is ex
ceedingly slim.
The dastards who committed
the crime were bent on robbery as
they took S2O from the pockets of
Long, No clue to the jobbers nas
beet, attained aud the police have
no'hiug definite to work on. exsepi
that they were two young mulat
ters.
Three koons have been arrested
on suspicion, Jeff Bohanan, Jeff
Burnett and Charlie Anderson,
and are in jail. From the evi
dence obtained, suspicion points
pretty strongly towards these ne
groes as having been the assail
ants. The police are working dili
gently on the case, and the pros
pects are that the guilt of the
right parties, will be established
soon.
OUR DEFENSES.
Fatal Weakness of tne Mississip
pi’s Mouth to be Remedied.
Washington, October, 16. —Judge
Advocate General Lemly, of the
navy, has just returned to Wash
ington from New Orleans, where
he completed the purchase of a
tract of land adjoining the site for
a dry dock at Algiers, opposite the
city.
The price paid was $47,000. If a
small estimate submitted by the
Bureau of Yards and Docks is al
lowed by Congress the ground will
be cleared up and put in such
shape that work can begin on the
new dock soon after Congress pro
vides the means.
A CIGARETTE CAUSED IT
Two Boys Fatally injured by Pow
der Exploding.
Mokelumne Hill,Cal., Oct. 16. —
George and James Tipp, nine
teen and seventeen years respec
t vely,were probably fatally wood
ed yesterday by the explosion of a
box of giant powdei cape.
They were fouud on the road
locked arm in arm, staggering from
from side to side, both terribly
mutilated. The left baud of James
was gone. His sight was destroyed
aud his bead, face and upperpart
of his body were cut and I scarred
by fragments of metal.
One of George’s eyes gone and
he will lose the sight of the other.
The first aud second fingers and
the thumb of hia left band were shot
off. James’s hand was found near
the place of explosion, still holding
a half burned cigarette, a spark from
the cigarette emsiug the explosion,
A WEST VA SCHOOL
One Boy Shot to Death and another
One Fatally Stabbed.
Cincinnati. 0., Oct., 17.-At the
close of school yesterday at Brigh
t>n,a village in West Virginia,
near Parkersburg, a quarrel among
the boys devoped into a serious
fight, in which Willis Gardner, fif
teen years old, was shot to death,
aid his little brother, aged eight
years, was fatally stabbed. The
teacher. Morris, Pickering, was
also terribly cut while trying to
restore order. -
Big drive in shoes at
W. H, Cokers 81 Co s,
, monday.
THEJWJS
The Best Show Ever Seen- in
Rome.
IMMENSE CROWDS SEE IT
Wonderful Performances by!
Trained an d high Class Ar
tesi--Season Closes
Saturday Night
Oct. 20th.
m
The big oircus has come and
gone, aud everything has settled
down to the normal state.
The crowd in the city yesterday
was enormous, and everybody
seemed beu£ on having a good
time, and a'l succeeded, except
those that ran afoul of the pick
pockets.
The Barnum <fc Baily show is
bigger and better then ever, this
I season, and all of thj features arc
of great merit.
Fully 9000 people saw tne after
noon performance, but only about
half that number weut out at
night.
The animals exhibit is splendid,
and is much larger than any cir
cus ever seen here.
The congress of nations is a v ry
interesting featuie of the B'iow,e*nd
includes Smgalese, Japanese, Chi
nese Turks, Bedou ns. Slamts -,
Sikdis, Cossack, Dahomegans,etc
The acting in different rings and
stages was brilliant and every per
former was best in his o her lin< .
Master Alfred Nelson, ia only
twelve years but if there is
anything in the way of startling
feats of tumbling aerial perform
ances and such that he caiut do t
hasn’t been heard of yet. 1 i
special acts performed on the feet
of his father who lay on his back
were wonderful.
The marvelous Eugenes, Thomas
Charles and James are truly nam
ed. They are the finest aerial art
ists in the world, and the wonder
ful leaping from mid-air of one
brother to the hands of another,
who swings head down from a
trapese, causes the spectators to
hold their breath in fear. But
these human catapults never made
a slip, calculating every leap with
the unfailing accuracy.
Altogether the Barnum & Bai
ley show was highly pleasing and
everybody went away well satis
fied. They go from here toChatta
inooga, and Saturday night will
close the season in Bradford, Va.
They will disband then and go to
the winter quarters in Bridgeport,
Conn.
OHIO PEOPLE AROUSED.
Over an Outrage Committed by a
Colored Man.
Columbus, Ohio., October 17, —
A special from Washington Court
house, 0., says that William Dol
bin, a young colored man, under
arrest for rape committed upon
Mrs. Mary C. Boyd, will undoubt
edly be lynched, but no attempt
is likely to be made tonight.
The crime was committed a
week ago Mrs. Boyd is fifty-two
years pla, and lives nine miles in
he country. She was alone in the
farmhouse when Doi bin, who had
just been let out of the Washing
ton Courthouse’jail, after serving
a sentence for a misd mean >r, call
ed and demanded something to eat.
As she turned to give an alarm,
he seized her, and, throwing
her to the floor, he ravished her
and left her half dead. She is still
prostrated. Yesterday Dolby was
arrested on suspicion of being the
guilty man, at Deieware, 0., and
the sheriff arrived at Washington
court-house early this morning.
He was taken to the Boyd farm and
positively identified by Mrs. Boyd
and a neighbor who saw him as he
left the house.
Threats were made so freely
against the prisoner, that Sheriff
Cook took special precautions
against lining surpri ed at the j: il
by a mob, an' l called out the local
company of militia.
The troops are now dismissed,
but are under arms at their homes,
ready to respond in a moments no
tice to the sheriff’s call, while at
the jail he has a strong barricade.
The colored people of the neigh
borhood are as bitter r a s Dol
by as the white people are.
A WOMAN’S GRIT.
She Holds a Desperate Prisoner
Back From Escape.
Greftuvil e, S. C.Oct. 17 There
was considerable excitement at the
jail this mo n ng, the being
tbe attempt of a prisoner to e c pe
In tbe absence of the jailer, ins
wife, Mrs. A D. Gillard, went to
the upper story to release a pris
oner whose time had expired
Anderson Davis, a negro await
ing trial for assault and battery,
had concealed himself iu the hall
or corridor, and awaited tne open
ing of the door which leads into
the cells,
He made a sudden rush ’for the
door and a desperate struggle en
sued., Che door opened iu and gave
the burly negro the advantage.
Mrs. Gaillard held on with all
strength, the negro pulled the door
j open several times but she forced
him back. She continued the fight
gamely, although her arm was be
ing crushed against the stone wall
with every effort of the negro to
force the door open.
She held her ground, calling for
assistance, which brought a color
ed “trusty,” who quickly settled
the negro Davis aud all was made
secure.
Mrs Gaillard’s arm is severely
hurt, but she was attending to her
house work this afternoon. She
showed grit and nerve, aud should
be proud of her game work.
IHHMnHHHBaDr -a.-. MBMHOKEMDOOHD
8. M. STARK.
I desire to inform my
Friends and Patrons
and the Public gtner
ly, that my elegant line
of Fall and Winter
WOOLENS
•
Has been received,and
are now open for in
spection, And I willfur
ther state that I am
now better prepared
than ever to turn out
FIRST CLASS WORK
AND
FIRST GLASS GOODS,
At prices never before
heard of in JRome,;
8. M. STARK,
MERCHANT TAM
16 ARMSTRONG EOTEL
1 O CENTS A WEEK
C.A. 2ST
■u-
Conclusion
Quickly When
the facts are be
fore You?
WE PRESEN T to the purchas
ing public oneo l ' tbe great f jumia
tions of mercantile success,. EX
PERIENCE.
THIS gives the knowledge who
the most desirable mercantile
products can be procured.
THIS enables us to become ac
quaint.d with the taste and need®
of our customers.
THIS secures the articles desir
ed at the lowest market value.
Self Interest
Will prompt you to examine our
stock. Ever since the arrival ok
our gigantic assortment of fall and',
winter goods. Our store has been,
thronged with eager purchaser
and zealous lookers; some exclaim
ing ‘ Ob, how pretty,“ others cry
ing vehemently, How very cheap,.,
and others remarking, “I wonder
if they will sell al these goods.
To say that we. feel preud of*
these crowds and compliments
doos not begin to express our ap~
precation; in fact words »r» in
adequate to express same.. The best
evidence that wo know st to prov&
our appreciation, is ’o continue in
the figure the same squareness and
fairness in our business th<t ws
have so successfully coo due tea
for nearly twenty years.
DRESS GOODS
OUR purchases inthisliiw have
been unusually large, and pre
sent some of the handsomest’ pat
terns of the season: Camel’s hahr
serge, Henrietta, bedfords cor<B,.
boardcloths, cashmere plaids,, bur
ette and various tew wears. falfr
and winter.
Ladies wraps
WE cant be be beat in tbesK
goods. Every lady should seo our
stock before placing her order else
where. It is to your interest. Our
Ladies Misses and childrens wrapt*,
nave got to go aud they will. go,,
for the quality, style and price
attached to them can but make
them sell. We are pleased with
last weeks sales, and this- week
you c-.ii reap the harvest of bar
gains in any of our departments -j
Well we cant converse vi<th. you
much longer, for our space
ted, but before we say good by, ws»
want to say another word about
OUR CARPETS,
For now is the time for you. tc
place your order. It is absolutely
useless for us to attempt to des
cribe the beauty and merits es ear
slock, but we can cordially iureta
you to come and look through thia
department.
THOS. FAHL