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THE HOEH HF hOME Mecona-daai* Mail Matter. HULG.BYRD,|™X*” d JOHN C. REECE,' EDIT „„. daily and Sunday. -10 cents » week or $5.00 per annum ONLY OFFICIAL ORGAN '..be city <>f R cme. and Floyd, tr •‘Banner county" of Georgia. • NOTICE TO SUBSCUIBERS . -If you fail to reeeivu your Jpaper regularly, •iudly repor. the aaiuu to lliiti office. Tnrei- n ;wts will sec'JiT .. oj a., to a route Wj’* funeral. Subscribers will be protected. NOTICE TO ADVEHSERS. IF»u will confer a favor on .ur add art.st bj aanding in changes for display adds by or be -•re 9 o’clock a. m. < f the day you ex»ect it to -auapear. lEooal aud trail cient advertising reasonable. •Tributes of Respect, Funeral notices, Notices •!' Xutfcrte i aients,'Obituaries, and like notices of ■‘aso.nable length, free of charge. a.nu»uucetnents of Candida es, same old price —-for hard times—ss 00. Tita Hostleh of Rome is the people’s paper —All home set matter—and if you'want to reach ■tmasses as well as the classes now is the t ame to plant yout advertisements. If cotton don’t go up the farm ers will, ‘‘thats straight ” South Georgia Conference con venes at Waycross, Dec. 12. David B. Hiil says he “amt did yet ’’David is good authority. The Jesup Sentinel thinks the Democratic party is glad that the Republicans took the job out of its stands. An Athens student has been fined $5. for hissing in a theater, ami i now all is kain and screen uniting ■the stars. Dora Richardson may think th i ! her Cassius is Clay in her hands, but ere long she will find 'hat be Ta an old brick. Athens should act promptly in . regard to the proposed new road to —Athens Banner. But if Atlanta Objects? tshurehernng is the fishy name •jf one of Wisconsin's new con gressmen—Perhaps he will makes , ’iu-de-aiecle statesman. Th* Waycross Herald very truth fully remarks: “It would be al rood thing for the South if n< t an were of «otton was planted next » • -•year. , It really looks like the Chinese would save time, money and blood w just lying down before the Jap anese and telling them to take hem. —Albany Herald. Tom'Watson kas got the itch .. eroffice, Democratic salve is the ~e<aedy that wi 1 cure him. —Thom *«rOln Advertiser. IVLatverwauter Salve him fir? taome galoot pied a form era 3Dountai» editor last week and the scribe tays that he ’’ought to be wfaot out of a cannon through a barbed wire fence into ’he bottom ''<9BB pit of he’d ’’ Says Editor Glessner, of the is.sn.fli it Nows and Sun: “The new baby bonds to be is sued by the government may make their father walk the floor o nights.” Willie Waller says a college de r mands too blamed much when it akpects her to travel with football team? and have their he»' s kicked off for the glory of the in-| etituliou which is educating them.| Imong ihe 11'l-aU - elected to the >x»xt House during the recent land slide. New Hampshire sends — down a lulu. His name is “Gy .Sullowav. He is a member of the ..Salvation Army, and his wife is a Salvation lassie. He is six feet six inch *s tall, and is said to be 1 flu ent tu ker. He is a comparatively young man, but in his career he .isA* been a lawyer, a preacher, a I -d<> r ‘.t.o■ a greenback, a denmera k i < n republican. Let’s havn it Greater Augusta. . Suppose we adopt Hamburg, Grove i t »wn, Summerville and Atlanta. I It would be very litt ® additional expense, and tl en it would kiud’er -month off our rough places.—Au gusta News In making it “Greater Rome’’ we will meet you <n Peachtree Street and g« Atlantering with you, brother. ■ . —j Two important bills relating t' übli<’ 'bod l.evel <en intrcc; c-j ,i I ml Ik b ginl.’il lire. One is for I the < stablishmeni uni maintaii ance by the state, of night schools In cities of 25C0 inhabitants and over Another provides for the | election of the Slate School Conn missioners by the people.—Colum bus Ledger Tom Watson and Dr. Felton have already indicated their inten tion to contest for congressional seats. They hope for favors from a republican congress, because of re publican hostility to democrats. Do not Watson and Felton claim to be Jeffersonians of “the most straitest sect?” —Merriwether Vin dicator. “There are words in the Chinese language that have is many as for I v <hfferei:t meanings, each depend 'ng on the intonation used in pro nouncing it.’’ That may betrue in army circles bu* we uetice that wh'-n the command to “fall back' s givi-n that the soldiers ail do i a runnin one way. Ihe Philadelphia Times say that with flour in that.city at $2.80 t> *3.50 a barrel, bread should come down below five cents a loa J \\ ith cott >n about five cents down South, the wonder sometimes is that cotton goods have not fallen more in price.—Macon News. Ph i lade I ph i a pM ic’niui who h ave bicycles have been detailed Io sun press rhe nuisance of fast ridm-i i»v r-ck‘ess cvclisis. It a he *1 t<> catch a wheel, you se<, Tnat j ro'nably ac iouuts for tbit m >V' <n the pir of the Phi a del ph 1 a | olic 1 nu t buri r ies A lunatic has escaped from the asylum at Milledgeville and is pt large. It he had gained his liberty a little sooner, the Populists would probably have had one more vote. —Columbus Ledger. And possibly another defeated candidate. Colorado elected two of her daughters to tne legislature and another to be superindent o schools, but then Colorado was prepared fur such a kalamity—she had been goveren d by In-blud-to his-bridle-hits Waite. The town marshal has three I large hogs in the pound, marked ' as follows: Swallow fork and un- i der bit in right ear —two barrows I and a sow, which will be sold soon i if notclained and paid out. —Dah- lonega Signal. I 'the Atlanta Journal says Pre»i-■ dent Cleveland ami Secretary Car-j lisle are working in harmony J while the Atlanta Constitution ' says they are not doing anything of the kind. It was ever thus.—Al bany Herald. The Augusta Chronicle very correctly says that “ballot reform and fewer elections in Georgia is a live issue before the legislature.”— Wonder what our assembled states men are going to do about it. Mr. Pefftjr s talk on his return ( to Washington, has in it a bray of i 'such loud and unusual proportion ; | that it is evident he has spent the I Ireaess in aclos i study of the states man’s ear book. Young Neal, who skipped from I Rome with an overcoat and u pair !of blind bridles is doubtless seek ing for a night-mare in some new pasti r ■. Sarah Bernhardt is to be decoio ted into the French Legion of Hon < r. Sarah deserves it. She has been decorating all Gaul w.th her art! i for many years. THE HUSTLER OF ROME. MONDAY NOVEMRVR IQ, if. 94 HUNDREDS DEAD Scicily and Southhrn Italy “all Broken up” 47 DEAD IN fl CHURCH Millions of Dollars Worth of Property Gone Down in the Crash and Scenes of Heartrending Grief on all Sides. Rome,Nov 19.—The * ar' liquid- 1 io Sicily and southern It l v caus d !• ui-id'Table damage Iho tele graph lines and detai s ”! the ph. nomena are coming to hi nd alov w It is known, uowevt-r, th.-.i tl province of Reggio di Cfth.br.. -uttered the severest damage I the seismic disturbances. L' e damage was done in Reggio, i (J .- capital of the province, but there wae great l< se of life and much damage to property elsewhere pro vince. Seventeen communes were in volved in the disturbance, the cen ters of which were in the vicinity of I’almi, twenty-one miles north west of Reggio and Ragnara, on the gulf of Gioja, almost directly opposite Punta del Faro, Sicily. The village of San Procopie, near J a'mi, wasalmost entirely dt - stoyed. Here sixty pers.ns were killed. Forty-seven of these met their death in a church to which they had fled for refuge. Their bodies are still in the ruins. At Bagnara several persons were killed. Eight lost their lives at Mamertino and San Eufmia,being crushed to death, while many oth ers were injure !. The inhabitants of this place ar< obliged to camp in open air. PriraejMinister Crispi has sent a large sum of money for the relief of the sufferersand has placed tv o vessels at the disposal of the pre fect of Bagnara. In the Calabrian towns of Triparni and M Beto many houses w r ere destroyed arid a num ber of persons damaged. Much damage was also done in the adja cent province of Catanzaro, The inhabitants of Messina were in a condition of panic last night. They were in great fear of a renewal of the shocks and passed the night camped out in the squares of the city, in railway carriages and on board vessels lying in the harbor. Large electric lights have been erected to illuminate the channel until the lighthouse, destroyed, by the earthquake, shall have been re built. Reoewed shocks were felt tonav at a !owu eighteen miles west, of Mee-ina. So severe were the m>>v ments of the earth that great seam*- ppesred in the walls of many iiuuses. The inhabitants are st i 1 j badly tngbteued aud remain camp -led in the open spaces, fearing i. j returo to their homes. Nofuithes shock* have been reported frosa I other places. j Cook bills and Bill Cook’s • bad and worse. I Am-wg the stars* it only pays ’ iur Hit females to “kick.” D . Parkhurst should ba crow*. »d King of the tiges huuteri. Huje J. Grant paid $17,000 so. the chances which St auss didn't necd-in-his-busi liens. How much did the powder and squirrel shot of the recent cam paign cost uuc e Grover. I‘here s ems to be a good ce il ol I doubt in Brazil as to whether or ' Hal INix ito hanmalariH. Flammarion say.-that the earth is cooling very rapidly. Europehi.s lost live degrees this century. Preachers and jjoets do not usu-i ■ ally leave their heirs large estates, and Oliver Wendell Holmes and Prof. Swing were exceptions to the I rule. The Boston poet left his son I a fortune of $300,000, while Prof. Sv ing’s estate is worth about SBO, (XX). It consists of a handsoim ; residence, and of -tc.eks, bond- ami m .Jgng-’s. IMOW-S CO. TI IF ’’l ' FSTTFTING AT ROME, ■. . teg r ® « Is fj Her .re*"! wsa 11 if j * W ® g solid Oak Suit $20.00. OakTMilp, «2 5). J I jl 1 L I: d&ll j It- ggjgl Er® 4JIP* I® B] V (■' re -.;,.--' ■'“ re re A- » ■ 'i ’i-a-re-r ’.J ifrft l^ M |f re- -w.’ ’ i IPreTre- ...re*--' redli! t-i’l J n ■df if! —if t/ i--• 7 ~— ---•——Rattan Rocker, S2OO. 1-11 M.id i e ih r > f’4.50. Rattan Seat Chai, 40c. Cane Seat, 50c, j *• .ijrej ---- - l, rqfrijreiff irHj. j 5 8 MlwwW/1 it “IF Bi ALi ’I'lK- { m •V-re- .ft Q a j < Chcvule Dresser. Bevel Oak Dresser, Bevel Glass, Glass 18x40, SIO.OO "b 22x24, $7.50. ‘ inwf Tni ____ It H F Hk Crib SI.OO. El Centre Table, 75c, | ■ |BM| m MMISSM > fl % 5 i j ’7 ft 1 HdjSulllS fff el "■ V re- B far ■ 4 ; li™ HA. t'JC J ■; L'* _ 1 - j-'--*7. S . .IWItBM /. 1 * ’ O 0" r j,“ Large Rocker, $1.50. Oak Waahstansl 25. NWOmmB ONLY A FEW OF OUR THOUSAND BIRSM i ComnanY Cwpsts, Far i amnd UndertakirgHt mepla.