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FOURTH year Fire Crackers 2cts ? Pack. They are new goons fu'l size and futl count and at Mlfthe prices others ask oi them SEE OUR SHOW WINDOWS TUESDAY \ ♦ Santaclause will make our window his head quarters and will be there to amuse and in struct both old and young. BssarH) bi i a ul m- the children, We have an immense stock of Dolls Toys Games etc forthe lit tle ones, and fine China bric-a brac Dinner sets Toilet sets, and a thousand and one nice things! suitable for presents for the Holl-; days. All of our good a re new selected in pers in the market of the East. No old shop w Plugs but bright games T c} s Dolls tic i e price than any whe'-e else Remember we are the original when it com to cutting srices, COME AND BUY BEFORE THE LAST DAY. Dont buy until you see our goods, LANHAM & SON 236 Broad St I BB—« . " ■■■■ 11 "■ ■ DAINTY Glffi M HIE HuLID.fIS; LEATHER GOODS, HANDSOME BOOKS. Raphael Tuck’s Christmas Cards, Japnaes Goods, Children’s Books Foreign Illustrated Papers Prices Away Down t New Books of Mrs. Burnett, Page, Percy Moran, ete. Pictures fram ed to order in new and artistic mouldings. HMTANNER 521 Broad Street Christmas SLIPPERS, There is nothin} you can give a loved one or a friend that will afford the comfort nnd supreme satisfaction to be found in a pair of these elegant sippers WE HAVE THEM In endless variety and cord ally in vite you to call and examine them be fore you make your Holiday purchase. *<HCanircll & Owensiw* 240 BROAD STREET- THE HUSTLER OF ROME. ROME GEORGIA. MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER. 24 1894. "FALLOFNINEVEH" M ny Sinners Kawt in the Krismas Krash. A GREAT “VARIETY” In Which Christmas "Jags,” plain and with the varia tions were rendered most exqusitly. Special police ChriiiiibaH has arrived on time at the “Fall of Nineveh.” This was evidenced this morn ing by the big crowd that was in ittendance on the Recorder’s Court Os course it was the big docket thiit drew the big crowd. At 10 o’clock, hi« Honor, Re corder Spullock, occupied the throne in the upper chamber, while Lieutenant Guice sat apon his right and at times read from the great Book of Troubles and Tribu lations. The first Daniel brought to Judgement was n .»t a Daniel, but was a son of Ham, bearing the name of Robt. Hooper. The young toon is a star actor in the Fall of Ninevah, and a man familiar with the habits of the police. He was fined S2O or 40 days, for kussin another koon and drawing his bnife on the ‘same. Frank Ne?son, the young white man from Cihcinatti, who snatched a pair of pants from in front of the Great Eastern Clothing Co’s store last Saturday, was bound over in the sum of $75. John Jones, a white man who is spending a few days in the city, was fined $5 for kussin a kid. Win Ish, col, was fined $4.50 or 9 daysjfor wearing akrismus ‘‘jag ’ with ruffles and frescoed fringes on it. Charley Richardson, also of Darkftowu, kontributed five dollars to the cityexchquer for indulging in a bloodless fight. John Column, a youthful rooster wa# fined five dollars for n it being 21 rears old before he entered a S. 1 STARK I desire to inform my Friends and Patrons and the Public gener iy, that my elegant line of n-w Fail and Winte WOOLENS Has been received, and are now open for all spection, And 1 willfur ther state that I am now better prepaed than ever o turn out FIRST CLASS WORK ANO FIFST CLASS GOODS, At prices never before heard of in Rome, S.M. STARK, EK9UIT UILDB 16 ARMSTRONG HOTEL bar room. Fax Dodd, the verj’ colored ue gro who wor'<s at the gas w >rk», got n't a in-ilium siznd ‘ high lone torn” and paid $3.09 .« h pr vii •dge. Lou Tbhns u and M la, two middle aged sisters < t *h.rk tosrawers up for having a rucus at a negro dance in a “joint” twixt the Nitwnervister and Ruiub w Hall, Ti»ay paid $2 OC each for the fuu they had. Dau Julies, Au i.Herprising eon of Ham was bound over to city court in the sum of $75. It seems that Dan became a ‘‘Daniel brought to Judgement” after a most exci’- ing tussel with officer Joe Sharp; The scene us the same being laid en Fifth Avenue nesr the Second Bauist Church and the time abeut 3:80 o’clock yesterday morning. Officer Sharp noticed a couple of coens whose burdens looked suspi cious and darted around the block beaded them off at the church and ordered tnem to halt. Seeing that they were inclined to run the plucky officer grabbed one of them, when the other made a dash for liberty. While scuffling with his prisoner Officer Sharp fired two shots after the flying coon who, encouraged by the whist ling balls, ran completely out of his old overcoat and, by this writ ing, out of Floyd county. The man captured proved to be Daniel Jones and he was laden with one third of a b x of “News Boy” chewing tobacco, a 50lb sack of “Purity” flour and one third of a bolt of jeans. Messrs. Lanham <k Son swear to the goods but do not know how they were obtained by the thieves, as their store was not burglarized. The missing negroe’s name is Hen ry Graham. And the Fall of Nine veh was over. A half dozen extra police were sworn in this morning and are now on duty. By order of Mayor John D. Moore, the barrooms of the city will close tomorrow and it is hoped that the glad Christines tide will slip by without any serious inci dent or casualty resulting. JUST RECiEVED 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 BRUSH They have no superior on this or any other market SOLE AGENTS CANDIES J. T CROUCH & CO Medical Building AN AUGUSTA KOON In a Siege and Running Fight Shot Four man Killin* Three SATURDAY NIGHTS WORK The Murderous Murderer had Murdered a South Carolina Negro. Augusta Threat ened With mob Vi olence. Augusta, Gi„ December 23. | —A blood-curdling affair occured f esterday about 2 o’clock near the North Augusta bridge. A negro desperada and murderar from South Carolina shut three police officers and an old white man and two of the officers detect ive Murry and Policeman Stringer are both shot iu the head and will probably die. Police Wrenn is shot in the leg and Davia was ehot so e where in the breast and has since died. It is the moat terrible affair that hae occurred in Augusta in modern times An attempt was made to night to attack the ja 1 and lynch the negro, but Sheriff O’Conner had the jail strongly gu irdod and pre vented the mob from entering. L»st night James Wiggiu", who liven at Granitevil e, waited on the road about six mile- from Augusta iu South Caro!inn for another negro named Anderson Williams and murdered him in cold blond. Wiggins th.n want another jld man’s house and ir.r I to kill hi.n but the old fellow < irap -d. Wiggins fled to Augusta where he was located. A detection and policeman broke into ihe house, one from front, one from rear. Wig gins shot each in the head and darted out, about 1,000 people joined in the chase and the Caroli na aegro, a low bullet headed coon, shot two others , one fatally before ho was captured. A mob ot 500 men formed and were marching on the jail last night when cooler heads met end persuaded them to disperse Gov ernor Atkinson has wired Col. Clark to protect the prisoner with his regiment, if Sheriff Oconnor thinks it necessary. TRADGEDY AT CENTER. Green Brook ki! e-l and His Son Fatally Wounded. Birmingham. Ala., Dec. 24. Details of a fatal combat came from Confer, in which Green and Marion Brook and Thomas Mc- Creary wers participants. McCrea ry had been discussing the charac ter of Green Brook a little too freely, when the latter and his son Marrion, went to McCreary armed with pocket knives. They began to carve him up, when McCreary opened fire on them wit h a double barreled shotgun, Green Brook re ceived injuries from which he af te’ward died, and hissm is also fatally wounded. HE’S RICH, Ahd Claims the Affair is a Put--up job to get his weatlh. Dayton, Ohio, December 24. Cyrus 11. Baldwin, a well-known attorney of this city, was arrested to-night charged wth assaulting Mrs. O. C. Huddleston, wife of an East Fifth street photographer. Baldwin is 79 yesrs old and quite wealthy. Mrs. Huddleston is only 80. Mr. Baldwin vigorously pro tests hi# inn< c hico and denounces thecharge asattemp ed blackmail. Ho has been boarding with the Huddlestons for some time. IO CENTS A WEEK Come And EXAMINE Our $ 1 6!s 18’& . dollars suits, _ Made to your or derZ Trimmed and made? elegantly, Y ~4f you dont say they are worth 50 per cent more than we ask for hem, .then we wi 1 B ■ r eat k J ■ Treat you to a show? of the ’argest and bew selected Stock of pant: goods you ever saw and at prices you ne e— er dreamed of. Prices that make ready made d eater ashamed of his busi ness and wish that he? could buythem at the prices we win gi ve you. Come and see us.. - We will self you if you come and willgive yrotr more than satisfaction - ! BURNET TAILORING (I 220 BROAD STBEET ROME, GA.