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THE HOSTLER DE LOME: Bee'jnu-€ias* Mail M attar. PHILG. BYRD, JOHN C. REESE I ‘ 1 Y \ EDITOR. daily AND sin hay. 10 cento » week or $5 00 per annum ONLY OFFICIAL ORGAN of ne city of Rome, and Floyd, the "Banner county" of Georgia. ;<>wen went into the prize ring once too often. Poor Bruits! The pipe-line connection between the gold reerve and Europe is in perfect working order again. Was it Ben Tilmans famed “Pal metto Brand” that tempted Gro ver to “fish” in South Carolina? It wi' J'S the impartial v rdic of history that Mr. Reuben Kolb’s performance was not up to the j promises set forth on the bill boards. It may be that Senator Gonnan I has lost his grip in Maryland, but it should be rem mbered that he has until 1899 to get a n< w t n * or to recover the old one. Ben Harrison serves notice upou bis party that he his ready for that “extremes pressute” which will be rec sary to make him r. presileu tial candidate. Secretary about income returns ought to be a bonanza tor Internal Revenue Collectors. Each one of them «an start a little commercial information bureau on the dead quiet, At Reid’s Station on the South ern Railway, thieves managed to steal a car load of cotton. A most terrible offense, considering the present price of the fleecy.—Alba ny Herald. The death ol tie Canadian pre mier will doubles serve as a warn ing to our Nor hern neighbors against the dangers of going to England to participate in drra y court funcHona. If the Federal Government sb 11 prove successful i" its latest exp ri mente for a smokeless powder, M* srs. Reed and McKinley will hie to pour hot shot into one her without causing public ' men*. veruor Atkinson has approved <i bill changing the time of hold ing decticns f< rcouutyofficers from January to October. This will give a three years term to the officers to be siecfed next month. —Griffin News. Os course the nineteenth century is far in advance of the days of ancient Rome, as may readily be seen by comparing one of the atrocious old gladiatorial contest of the earlier time with the prize fighting contests of New Orleans. Capt. Hinkey of the Yale foot ball team has been cleared of the charge of “rough playing” in the recent conte a t with Harvard. The idea of anyone imagining that a ' lotball player could be rough!— lacon Telegraph. An action has been pending for long time in England witu re jereuce to the amount of duty the Duke of Hamilton should pay for the Hamilton collection of pictures which he sold in 1882. It has- now been compromised by a payment of 20,000 pounds. At- the Harvard-Yale football match a baker’s dozen of pretty Boston girls in lieu of muffs wore “sure enough” footballs from which the ends had been cut. They were whaleboned and stuffed in siie. and made an exceedingly pretty show. Behind this feminine ruiith line came a cadaverous youth bearing a pasteboard horn that fer size and capacity has probably never been equaled. Governor Atkinson and the At -1 n a Ir. yer an 1 politicians don’t s em to “gee-haw” very well to gether. But the governor has ths ••all on them, and seems to know h w to keep in ths middle of the road. The governor knows, too, that he wouldn't be where he is if the Atlanta lawyers and politicians had ha I their say. —Albany Her ald. Dr. Edward S. Hidden, director, o" the Lick Obseiv.itory, has just] received, through the secretary of state of Saxe-Meiningen, the di-1 ploma and cross of commander of j the Saxe-Ernestine order. Thisor d r was founded in 1690 and re-or ganized in 1833. and is given in re cognition of distinguished services in high official position, either military or civil. There seems to be an element in Atlanta who “say” they think Gov ernor Atkinson has ruined the At lanta City Court by appointing Judgi Berry to its bench. But then this same element “said” th y thought it woul I about ruin th ' State o ’ Georgia to elect Bill Atkinson governor. The Hustler of RoMkis not personally acquaint ed with Judge Berry but on gener al principles we heartily endorse him. When Ibsen writes a new drama he goes about it so secretively that not even the members of his own family know what the subject is. He copies the manuscript himself, and it is said that a printer has never received neater copy. The punctuation is perfect and the pa per spotless. Finally, just before the manuscript is sent away it is read to the assembled family, but net even then does the playwright reveal the title. That is added at the very last. Last week for the first time Queen Victoria heard Adelina Patti sing. This will sound atnngely to the many who do not know that for many years there has not been the kindest feeling between her maj j sity and the famous singer. Ttie coolness arose when P -tti de clined to appear before her. Ou that occassion she said: “There are many queens’ but there is only-one Patti!” The trouble, such ai it was must have been fixed up. Patti is now in her fifty-third year, and has of course, lost much of her charm. For forty years she has been before the public as a pro fessional. LI HUNG CHANG For a plutocrat Li Hung Chang appears to be experiencing a hard winter.—Washington Poet. Li Hung Chang reports to the Pekin government that he ie un able to check the advance of the Japanese. Li is rather slow about bringing in the news, but there can be no doubt that it is correct. — Boston Transcript. Li Hung Chang is credited with having made a “secret” report to the Pekin government, wherein he confessed his inability to check the advance of the Japanese ar mies. Why the viceroy should have maintained secrecy concerning a fact which has become obvious to the whole world is a veritable Chi nese puzzle.—Philadelphia. Rec ord. BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA TARRH THATCONTAIN MERCURY as mercury will surely destroy th sense of smell and completely de range the whole system when en uring it through the mucous sur faces. Such articles should never he used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co,, Toledo, 0., contains no mer cury, and is taxen internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and is ma.de in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & CmTestimonials free £W*Sold by Druggists, price 75c perbottlej THE HUSTLER OF ROME,WEDNESDAY DECEMBER. 19 1894-. THE VENABLE BILL. Govenor Atk nsoj has signed the Venable insurance broker’s bill, and it is now a law. The effect of the law, if its pur pose is realized in actuid operation, will be to reduce the costof fire in surance by giving companies which have no deposite of S2S,(MR) with the State Treasurer an opportunity to p'ace business in this State 1 thr nigh brokers. It was intended by the author of the law to strike a death blow j to the Southeastern Tariff As-ocia tiou, but the probability is that it will fall short in that respect, as all companies having agencies in | Georgia will continue to be mem- j here to the combination. There will j be two distinct classes or grades ; of fire insurance. One will be the I old companies, or those with ipu ciea within the S'ate and having complied with the $25,000 deposit law, and the other will be risks p’aced by companies having no agents in this State and no deposit in the treasury. Under the Venable law the insurance man who takes a risk is the agent of the insured, net of the insurance company. It is claimed that the insur-ince placed through these brokers will be at a much lower rate than that fixed by the Southeastern Tariff Associ ation, and that consequently this c repetition v ill result in a gener al decrease in the cost of insurance on the other hand, it is not denied that the gates are opened to ine sponJble wildcat companies, and some people may suffer at their hands, but the theory upon which the new law is based is that every man is entitled to transact his own busines without paternal interfer ence by the State and that every mau must look out for himself and not be cought for a “sinker'' — Griffin News, THE JEWS IN CHINA In the London Monthly Biblia a highly interesting article is pub lished that in the district Kai-fung su there are still two hundred Jew ish heads of families who are desig n ited by the Chinese people as prehistoric immigrants, upon which term some philological dif ferences seem to prevail. These Chinese Jews, who wear the same fashions and epeak the same language as the Chinese, have no temple. Notwithstanding, two marble tablets were found among some ruins in the year 1850, with Chinese inscriptions dated re spectively 1488 and 1511, of which English translations have been made. It is intimated therein that the Jews had immigrated in the fifth century to China. It is evident that these Jews had known tfio Mishna, because the text in the tablets refers to the six “classics” so that it might be transmitted to later generattons. The author thinks that the term “classics” meant a Chinese figure of calcula tion. But there is no doubt that when one takes the text together in its general meaning it refers to the six divisions of the Mishna. It is spec ially made clear that the scripture could only be made clear by the “eternal wisdom.” If anything, it should be read “tradition.” Isiah’s prophecy, that the Jews shall return from the land of the “Sinim,” is liter ally true. The celebrated traveler, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen, who made a journey through Chi na, relates that he discovered in a Southwest province a Jewish com munity. Although they spoke only Chinese and had the same manners as the Chinese they had the Jewish type of physiognomy very distinct ly impressed. He made inquries regarding them and found that they had immi grated many thousand years ago, and had possessed sacred writings, of which many are well preserved. Richthofen himself had seen tem ples which had Hebraic inscrip tions, which the people could not read. Thora scrolls, of which they also know very little, exist there.' Only since a few geuerattons past did these immigrants intermarry with the Chinese, and they have now no knowledge of their origin. 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