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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