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FOURTH YEAR TROUBLE The Well known Firm of Lanham t Sons ofThe 4th Ward. CIUSE SERIOUS TROUBLE To the Merchants of this en tire Section. Theycutprices so low that Competitors are knocked out. Start ling Figures. The well-known firm of •Lan ham & Son, of the Fourth Ward, are causing serious trouble to the merchants of this city. They cut prices so low that none dare compete with them. Just think about it! large heavy BLANKETS 20c EACH. A GOOD COMFORT QUILT FOR 25c. LADIES ALL WOOL HOSE, 12 and aha 1 f cents per Pair. Jeans as low as 1 Oc. All Woo! Flannell 10c. Sea Island yd wide 4 4l a half cents. Yd wide Bleached Cotton 5c CHECKS 3 1-2 c * SHOES SHOES! SHOES! Baby shoes as low as 20 cts. Clothing cheaper than anywhere, else in the city. CRESS GOODS. No tions and everything e lse in ipropotion. Sugar Coffee Flour and Groceries at whole sale or Retail below the regular price. Tinware, Stoves, Crockery etc, at hard time prices. LANHAM &SONS 316T0 326 STH AVE. & 236 BROAD STREET Tn I? nriQTi at? i JLlllii HUbiLrjn Oil KulVlE. SH£SLEEPS Mrs Maria Summerhill of Eenon falls on Sleep. A NOBLE MOTHER Has Been Gathered home af ter a long and wearysom Journey here Below. For Sixty years a Mem ber of Eenon. This morning at 6 o’clock, the *oul of Mrn Maria Summerhill, of Armurchee, was unfettered of its Aged tabtrnacle and borne on the pinions of angelic messengers was wafted above into the unending day. Mrs. Summerhill came to this eountry while the Indians were fitill here . For sixty years she has been a member of Enon church. “She was the wife of Mr. Sanford Summerhill, who at the age of 84, mourns her loss, even with one foot in the valley of the shadow. Her surviving children are Mrs, Jennie Wade, and Mrs. Ruth Free man of Birmingham, Ala.; Mrs. Amanda McKinney and Mrs. Hat tie Ball, of this county; Mrs. Hen rietta Carithers, of California; Mr. Allen Summerhill, of Tilton, Ga. and Rev J. A. Summerhill of Texas. The Funeral will occur tomor row afternoon conducted by Rev. W. M. McKinzie at 3 o’clock p. m. and ths remains will be laid to their long rest in the family lot at Farmers grave-yard. Nicaragua Trouble Settled. Washington, Nov. 16. —Dr. Guseman the Nicaraguan minister here, has received reports from Blueflelde which are very gratify ing to him and to our own govern ment as indicating a most satis factory settlement of ths troubles which have for eo many months afflicted the Maequito reservation. S. M, STARK I desire to inform my Friends and Patrons and the Public ge ner ly, that my elegant line n p w Fall and Winter WOOLENS Has been received,and are now open for n spection, And 1 willfur ther state that 1 am now better prepared than ever Io turn out FIRST CLASS WORK AND FIRST GLASS GOODS, At prices never before heard of in Rome, 8. M. STARK, BfflMT TAILOB 16 ARMSTRONG EOTE ROME GEORGIA. FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER. 16 1894. HIS BRIDLETOUR H. J. Neal, Borrows an Overcoat and Skips JUMPS HIS BOARD BILL And Numerous other Creditors in the Lurch So'c a pair of Bridles and pulls out. Took the bits in his Teeth. About six weeks ago, a seedy looking young num with letters of strong recommendation from sev eral newspapers, arrived in the city, and said he was “strapped” both for grub and work. The Hustler of Rome gave him a chance to earn a suit of clothes, and paid for a week’s bond for him. Neal was a rustler, and for the three weeks he was canvassing for this paperh e “kept going.” His new clothes spoiled him and he went to loafing, and lying and playing pool. He had a plausible tongue and made bills “hither and yon.” Last night lie went to Mr. J. S. Henderson, the Broad Street har ness man, and represented to him that he had sold two heavy blind bridles to Mr. Joe Robinsou. the up town Livery man and saloon keeper. He said Mr. Roberson would give him $4,50 for them. Mr. Hen dersen instructed him to take the bridles and collect the money aud he would allow him a small com mission for the sale. Neal, has been around Mr. Hen derson’s placeof business a num ber of times and said to Mr. Hen derson: “All right, let me wear your overcoat up to the stable; I will be back in half an hour with the money.” He put on a S2O overaoat, took the blind bridles —and he went on a bridle tour, “and he never earn* back.” , He seld the bridles and got the money aud skipped. At 6: o'clock he cam'’ to Tmk Hustler of Rome office laat night to bid the management an affec tionate good by, saying his people in Chicago h»d wired him a ticket to come home on. This morning Mr Henderson put Chief bhropabire on his trail, aud the wires have been kept hot today but no tidings have been received of the man who “bridled' tLe other man’s wealth. Perhaps be took the bit in his teeth and is still running awaj. SECOND BAPTIST Program of Entertainment at the Church tonight For the benefit of the Ladies Mission society of the Second Bap tist, the following program will be put bn tonight. Everybody cordially’ invited to attend ; admission only 10 cents. PROGRAM I, Anthem —Be Telling of his salvation. 2. Je us Loves Me, Recitation by 12 girls. 3. Little Motto Bearers. By three girls. ■L Duet and Chorus -Why Stand Ye Here Idle? i. Where S'<all We Find God? Class recita tiou. £ «. Vocal Duet— Bethany. 7. Fnriians on the Way to ( hurch. (Tableau 8 Floral Rainbow 9’ New Sunday School Scholar. Dialoguo. 10. Vocal Solo Anchored. ,1 LLtile (ir.delieu. An illustrated rea ting 12. Duel aud Chorus—Hosannah to Jesus, 13. Wisdom’s Treasure. 14. Rock of Ages. Tableau. 15. V- il |Duet, Softly and Slowly Music Should Flow. Ifi, Building the Ladder. 17. Jacob’s Ladder. Tableau. 18. Anthiru—They That ffli win Texas Shal Kca,> in Arkan a a ELECTRIC TELEPHONE Sold outright, no rent, no royalty.. Adapted to City, Village or Country. Needed in‘every home, shop, store and office. Greatest cou»»»- lenoe and best seller on earth. Agents make from to 830 per day. One in a residence means a sale to all the neighbors. Fine instrument*, no toys, works anywhere, any distance. Complete, ready for um, when shipped Can be put up by any on*. Utt"-■never out of order, no repairing, lasts. a lite ■MHtime Warranted A money maker Write HJSw. P. Harrison & Co , Clark 10, Columbus, 0. A LOST ARMY But the Soldiers were all of the China ware KOREANS JOIN REBELS Whomtheyare sent to fight. Japan resents the overtures made by John Bull. The Big War in The East. Chemulpo. Corea,- Nov , 16. The Corean government officials who have a pro-Japanese leaning, are engaged in preparing a consti tution which will be promulgated early in 1895. Numbers of Corean soldiers who have been sent against the Tong-Hake, have joined the rebels whose numbers are increas ing daily. The country south of Seoul is in a state »f great turmoil A LObTARMY. Tien-Tsin, China, Nov, 16. The present where abouts of the Chinese army which was defeated at Kiu-Lien-Cheng is unknown her«. Colonel von Hannekdn has been given supreme command of the Chinese naval forces. RESNET GREAT BRITAN’« OFFER. Yokohama, Nov.. 16 —The news papers here resent Great Britan’s offer of intervention, which they regard as entirely in behalf of Chi na. They add that Great Britan influence intheEaßt is in jeopardy by this offer, which wounds Japan ese feeling The newspapers of this city say that the defenses of Port Arthur are reported to be stronger on the land side than on the sea fron’. Fully 100 guns are said to be in position. The Japanese expect that if the Chinese make any defense the as aault will be bloody. FROM A CHINESE SOURCE. Sien-Tsin, November 15 —Chi nese reports received here from Port Authur say that the Japanese have not yet captured Talienwan. It is stated that two forts there are still holding out against the Japan ese and that in spite of the desper ate fighting whieh has taken place the assaults of the enemy have been repulsed. From the same source, it is sta ted that the Japanese are far from Port Arthur, whose defenses have been greatly strengthened, and it is likely that the place will offer a determined resistance to the Japa nese. It is also reported that a portion of General Sung’s army has re captured Kinchow, and that the Japanese have been driven out of Metieii on the road to, Peking by the Chinese, who afterwards pur sued them for several miles. CARICATURING LI HUNG CHANS I London, November 16, — The Shanghai correspondent of thee Central News says that the emperor of China received the foreign mil - isters to day within the precincts of the Peking palace. Li Hung Changie vicissitude* have had a noteworthy effect upon his hold on the popular mind, a caricature publihed in Tien-Tsin and pasted on the walls represent him on the back of a tertoise with a cannon under his arm, sinking a Japanese cruiser. Another show s him as a fish on the point of being hooked. In one placard Li Hung Chang is called wougpa, lowest name of derision. Mr. Jack Davis, manager for E, E. Forbs, Rome music house, has moved his big stock of Pianos, Or gans and other musical instru ments also his bicycly stock,to the furniture house of Hanks & Co, in Shorter Block. 11 15-3 t. SIX WIDOWS Testii'y in the Memphis Lynch- Murder cases. THEY HAVE TAILS OF WOE That Crests a Profound im pression on the Jury. They tell of the arrests of Hus bands and bring home of bodies Memphis,Tenn., November 16. — The sensation today in the murder trial of Smith and Richardson charged with the sextuple lynching was the appearance on the witness stand, one after another, of the six widows of the murdered men. They told the circumstances of the arrest of their husbands by Detective Richardson, and showed that he might have taken the pris oners to Memphis by train instead of in a frail wagon, over a rough road at night. They also told of the bringing home of the bodies of their hus bands, shot full of holes. It devel oped today that the warrants upon which they were arrested were drawn up by Richardson in Lis own office. Banker Arrested. Johnson City, Tenn., November 16. —J. E. Crandall, president of the First National Bank of Johnson City, was arrested by Marshal Con don this morning at the instiga tion of Bank Examiner J. M. Mil ler, Jr. The charges are “false re ports to the government.” Presidential Appointments. Washingt* n, November 16. —The president today appointed Edward K. Lowry, of Ohio, second secre tary of the United States „legation at Pekin. JUST RECEIVED One of the most corn plete assortments o 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 CANDIES J. I CROUCH &CO. Medical Building. 10 CENTS A WEEK BURNEY TAILORING CD \ Is the place to get & First Class Tailor made, suit at a most reason able price. WE BUY MORE WOOLENS Than any firm in Rome hence can make you a suit to order for less money than you can get the same from any other Tailor in this city or section. WE BOAST THAT WE Do turn out finer werte .and better fits than any of our competitors, for we are better pre paired to do that thing- * * *’• WE CAN MAKEIYOI! A pair of pants for less money than any body, Our pants are acknowledged to be the leaders of theftown. They are the standard as to fit, workmanship and quality of goods. Dont forgetthat we are the tailors. J- ..i • j - %■K. ’ x . * i BURNEY TAILORING CO ‘220 BROAD STREET ROME, CA.