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FAHY S plush capes.
FAHY’S SEAL CAPES.
FAHY’S CLOTH CAPES.
FAHY’S FINE CLOAKS,
KHY S STYLISH CLOAKS.
These goods are the
subject of conversation
among all the ladles
who have seen them.
They are handsome in
the extreme and the
prices are so low that
none need go away un
satisfied.
FAHY’S BIANKETS,
FAHY’S COMFORTS,
FAHY’S COUNTERPANS, %
FAHY’S UNDERWEAR.
FAHY'S FLANNEL COOPS.
The greatest bar-s
gains ever offered the;
public are in t he « e
goods, and they are
most superior. No
shams, but genuine
qualities.
01 '
lISIIiiSS
Notions
In great profusion.
They are lovely in
desd. Something to
c harm the fancy of all.
See our fancy Ward
r°de,Thisis most uni
que,
letallthe
PEOPLE come.
W FAHY
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THE HUSTLER OF ROME.
HARRY HILL
Has Some Slick Friends at Work
®n his Petition Filed
WITH THE GOVERNOR
But When Notified That the
Prosecution Wanted to be
Heard They Withdrew
it. They Never
Came Back."
The following interesting story
is from Blackburn's Atlanta Com
mercial of yesterday:
Ihe petition for a pardon for
forger Hairy Hill, has been pre
sented to Governor Atkinson and
Unexpected opposition caused
the circulators to delay its presen
tation.
A few days ago the petition was
handed to the Governor signed by
nearly every member of the legisla
ture by a committee of Hill’s
friends and relatives. A certificate
as to Hill’s bad health was attach
ed to ths paper.
No argument on the merits-of
the case was made as the governor
quitely notified the committee that
he wotfld hold the matter in abey
ance until the parties interested in
the prosecution could be heard
from. *
This was a surprise to Hill’s
friends and they showed it by with
drawing with their documents.
They notified the governor that
they would secure additional docu
ments and return. They did not
■say when but they“would return.”
The petition was circulated so
'quietly and was surrounded by
suck .a deep air of secrecy that its
promoters expected no opposition
ar.d'when it arose were unprepared
for it. This is evident by the with
<dmwal of the petition.
TME GOVERSOr TkLK4.
The petition was presented to
roe-several days ago,’’’ eaid Gover-
Atkinson today, ‘-feint was not eon
sidered. I informed ttee parties who
brought it to me that I been noti
ces by personal intereated in the
prosecution that they desired to be
heard whan the petition was pr-»-1
■sen ted ”
"It was a petition from th« -leg
ielature. When I informed the par
ties of the desire of the other side
tc heard they took the petition
paying additional docutnenta would
fee secured and returned later.
None of the parties interested ii:
the petition could be seen and it i«
not known what direction the Mat
ter will now take.
S. 13, STARK
5 desire to inform my
Friends arid Patrons
and the Public! gener
ly, that my elegant line
of w Fall and Winte
WOOLENS
Has been received,and
are now open for al!
spection, And I willfur
ther state that I am
now better pre paed
than ever io turn out
FIRST CLASS WORK
AMI
FIRST CLASS GOODS,
1... -i--
At prices never before
heard of in Rome,
S.M. STARK,
MERCHANT TAILOR
16 ARM STR TNG HOTEL
ROME GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING DECEMBER. 12 1894.
‘FLO PPER” FELTON
Has Filed his Contest end Served
“Our John” With a Notice.
CHARGES CORRUPTION
In Floyd, Cobb and ‘ Old Bar
tough" on the Democrats.
Mad Because Judge
Maddox got Five of
the Idiot Votes.
Washington, December 12—
Judge Maddox was served yester
day with a notice of contest by a
Washington lawyer from Dr. Fel
ton. In his notice Dr. Felton bases
his centeet on various grounds.
He save votes for him in Flovd
county ? were put in the wrong box
and not counted, and ’he charges
that the election officers knowing
ly allowed hie friends to put their
ballots in the box at the polls put
there to receive ballots for o
against county bonds .
lie also states that the election
officers in Floyd were not sworn
as required by law. Ho charges
that the tax collector of Floyd coun
ty fraudulently prevented a great
many of his friends from register
ing, thus depriving, them of the
privilege of voting for him.
He further charges that third
party men who had not paid their
taxes and registered in Floyd coun
ty were not permitted to vote,
while democrats in the same con
ditio n were permitted to vote .
Dr. Fulton futher charges that in
Rome votes were purchased for
•Jufige Maddox with his knowledge
ar<3 consent —“the consideration
es such purchase being tickets to
a barbecue. ” In the county votes
■were purchased with whisky and
( fw idiots were voted for him for
. ■the keeper as the poarhouse of
Kloyd county.
I In Cobb county Dr. Felton
■dtearges that democrats were al
; Jewed to register after the regis
; tration books had been closed;
[convicts were allowed to register
laad vote and minors were allowed
to do the same; democrats who
I lad not registered voted, while
populists 'could not; men who
voted for him by threats were
i forced to vote for Maddox; votes
were purchased with whiskey and
forth.
I ALL SORTS OF FRAUD CHARGED.
In Bartow county Dr. Felton
elmrges that the tax collector
marked black lines through the
mimes of 300 or 400 of his sup
porters who had registered for the
October election and they were not
permitted to vote, and the tax
collector was heard to say a few
days before the election that he
had fixed about 300 populists so
they could not vote.
He says democratic white caps
in Murray county by threats pre
vented 200 of his friends from
voting.
Dr. Felton charges democratic
fraud in nearly all the counties.
Them he eavs th’ returns give
Judge Maddox 1,562 majority. He
claimed that all the votes of Floyd
county should be thrown out and
also the votes of Cohncounty. Then
he says in Bartow 400 votes should
he added to his majority, in Polk
100 votes and in Chattooga 200
votes. He closes by saying that he
was elected and should have the
seat.
As a matter of fact Dr. Felton’s -
notice of contest charges every va
riety and quality of fraud among’
the democrats. But with all that (
does not nuke a caso tha' will car
rr him through. I
Judge Maddox is not worrying j
over it but is sitting easily in the j
boat so to speak. 1
THB WIY THE «K ’R«HAN« VCTfD f
The bill permitting railroads to f
[Continued on ’’<*• 4 5
I REVJAMJUNES
I Says There are “Rings” Even in
the Good old M. E. Church-
STRIKES THE BISHOPS.
. Speaks out for Reform and Re
bels Against old Customs.
Bishops Should be
Elected for Four
years, That’s What!
Richmond, Va., December 12.
Rev. Bam Jonse, the noted Georgia
1 evangelist, lecturer and edUor
thinks the Methodist church needs
reform along several lines,
I He is open and pointed (n hia
c declaration against s h« bishopric
i as now conducted. Being aaked
“ this evening if it was his purpose
or that of his paper, The Tennes
see Methodist, to force a split in
the church, he replied:
i “No, but. rather to get rid of con-
1 ditions that will split, the church
3 if they are not weeded, out. Ours is
' an nnti-eccle°iasticaL paper, loyal
to Methodism but death on rings.”
; He went on to say that there
were rings in the church as there
j were in politics, and that they
r were doing their work. Tae trouble
was that there were many good
, men in these rings and did not
know it. He proposes to open the
wyes of the pesple and to smash
the rings.
r Speaking of his reform move
„ naent, which is making things
t lively already, the Rev. Sam said:
j ‘‘The paper ©f which I have be-
4 come associate editor, has always
I been loyal tfco the doctrines and
r discipline ©if the Methodistchurch,
f As <to the pal icy and methods of
dab-ng some things, we simply
j claim the right under the consti
tution and laws of the United
States and the boasted religious
. liberty of tikis county, if we do not
r 1 ike a thing to say so.
j “In the first place,” the preach
, er-editor continued, “our bishops
a are not unifarm in their ruling*
51 and constructions of the laws. We
3 think prejudice sometimes has
. more to do wuth decisions than has
j the golden rate. We regard that
an official le »i»t a boss, but a ser
vant of the peapie, in church or
state.
We hold that a bishop, like other
r officials of our church, should be
3 elected at least every four years,
and that as any other official cf the
church who has demonstrated his
incapacity, ought to be invited
down and out.
We claim, that taxation without
representation is unconstitutional,
’ in church or State, that a people
who support a church and pastor
* ought to have some voice and
some choice in whom they shall
have as pastor, and not be turned
away as a party of well-dressed
gentlemen interfering where they
have no business. The great body of
our preachers are loyal,noble men.
“Many of them are dissatisfied
at the way things are going. The
laity of our church are restless and
thousands of them will join in the
effort to reform certain abuses and
to correct certain methods. Per
smally, I have nc grievance. I
will at any time surrender my
parchment as a Methodist preach
er, but my pen, my tongue and my
I convictions I shall hold on to for
the present.”
i With a twinkle in his eye the
evangelist added:
“Our idea is that bishops should
be elected for fouryears, with elig
ibility to (re-election, if they be
have themselves. They will then
kiss the babies and look after their
fences. But when a fellow is elect
ed for life, he’s got a cinch and J
you can’t get at him.”
A GALLANT lAO
Kept a Kool Head and Saved his
own and eight lives.
AFIRE CHIEF’S PISTOL
Played an Important Part in the
Great Drama Which was
put on in Louisville Yes
terday Afternoon. A
Big Fire.
Louisville, Dec, 12.—A sensa
tional scene was enacted at Levy’s
five-story retail clothing house, at
Third and Market streets late yes
terday afternoon.
Fire on the lower floor commun
icated by the elevator shaft to the
fourth story. The occupants of the
upper three floors were driven to
the roof, and were prevented from
leaping by Fire Chief Hughes
drawing a revolver and threatening
to kill the first one who tried it.
About 75 clerks and others were
rescued on ladders. Fire loss, $30,-
000. Balance of stock ruinsd by
smoke and water.
On the fifth floor were eight em
ployee, including one woman, Miss
Kate Fogarty. Seeing that every
avenue of escape had been
cut off from below, they made
their way to the roof.
A shout went up from the crowd
below, when they were discovered,
and a ladder was quickly run up
by the firemen, but it was found
to be too short. The little group on
the roof was beginning to despair,
when Janies Lee, a boy secured a
ladder near the flagstaff, and fast
ened to the roof, but it also was
too short to reach the roof of the
Turf Exchange, adjoining.
Lee still kept a cool head, and,
at the risk of his own life, he ran
to a wire and cut it in half. Then
he pulled enough of it in to suit
his purpose.
Attaching one find of the wire to
the latter, he caught hold of it and
elid in ssftv to the roof of the Turf
Exchange. Encourage by thia dar
ing deed, the others, wi*h the ex
ception of Miss Fogarty, who was
too weak to move, followed the boy
and reached the roof in safty.
Miss Fogarty was later reeaued
by firemen She was badly burned
about the face and her hands were
cut by falling glass. Her condition
is not regarded aa serious.
Louis Brown, the window dens
er was injured internally.
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