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ON Tria; tewWe Week And the virdict of th** peop e has been re duced directing buyers for Xmas and Holiday foods to the China Stoie of W. H. Steele. he jury ©sing polled the verdict was unani mous t'.atathi storeis now displayed the ni cest selection and var iety ©f first class goods ever shown in Rome. Our China show window commands the at tention and admiration ofaJL Nothing cheap and sho idy„ Our goods were celected and bought with the greatest care Every thing first class. Others may have the CHEAPEST BUT WE HAVE THE BEST, which Is always the cheapest. OurHari’and China Sets, in p'a'n, wh'te, and decorated are without comparison with the cheaper German and Porcelain China. We will receive new goods direct from Hari land Potterins this week. Come and see. In fancy China, Dresden Lamps, Bouquet Lamps, Cut Gia s, Table Cutlery &c it is the verdict of the ladies of Rome that we have the BEST of ALD. Prices low for first c’ass goods and just as low as anyone for Fire Crackers. Tin Horns &c Dont you be deceived by catch advertise ments. Core iio our store and get just what you want and • xact y as represented. -»B+Carver & Ha'pers old 4«W. H STEELE,M- 241 & 243 Broad Street. SELL RICHARDS. WINK LANSDELL Richards & hh Mh Lansde 11 Dealers In FdRNITfciRE COFFINS ANB QASKEIS W. A. RHUDY’S, Old Stand. 337 Broad Street, Rome Ga. COME TO SEE US. A- L- Hoclrholzer UN & LOCKSMITH. r All kinds of Machinery Repaired o i Short notice. Scv ir g Machines and’ Bycles repairing a speciality. ■E All.kindsjof mat hinervjan IpStati >n repaired wit'i andjtepatch. ttVi I it-K Strtel , Rom i Georgia THE HUSTLER OF ROME,MONDAY DECEMBER, 24 1894, RACE WAR Negro Lawlessness rouses the Whites of Brooks cob >ty SEVEN NEGROES KILLED In the fighting which follow ed. A Reign of mob rule now has the country in Jts grip. The offoers are helpless. Thia moningi Constitution con tains the following special frn-n Quitman: A race war seems imminent in this county over the murier of Mr Joseph Isham. Seven negro lives were taken yes le’day and last night to pay the penalty, and this seems to be only the kegianing of the end. Your .correspondent visited the scene of action this afternoon and sound a posse of three hundred covering a *pxee of about five miles. The largest crowd was congregated one. and a half miles from Isham’s house consisting of 100 men well armed to the teeth, and about one and a half nailes further oa there were a mob of negros about the same number, armed with Win chester tides, pistols, axes, clubs, and every hi g else conceivablef waiting for the white mob to come on to them. DISCOVERY OF A CONSPIRACY. It has been discovered that n number of negroes had conspired to Kill every man that was in the posse that arrested Jerry Jeffceth for the killing of Mr. T. Moulden a few weeks ago, and that the kill ing of Mr. Isham was the com mencement to carryout this awful conspiracy. Wh it the outcome of this will be in the next twenty-four ho ■ cannot be foretold. No action has been taken to stop the mobs so far Captian E. Tillmiti, the father inlaw of Mr. Isham is doing all in his p >wsr to prevent further troub le, aud is sending all uv«r the country for coussrvative idhu to come aud assist him in prevailing ou the mobs to eeaan ao imi. LTSTtFTHB KILLED The uam s of the killed ar : Sam Taylor, Eli Fraz-r, Sam ike. H irry I and three th a v your c trrespnud nr did net get. Nj wince nuu hav i been killed s » far . PlKH’tt wIFI UNDER ARRE T. Taylor was Pike’s stepfather ai.d the other two negroes his cl«g pals, all of whom were suppose I to know of Pike’s whereabouts. I these negroes knew, they refused to e , and the penalty of not tell ing was death. Pike’s wife wni ten to slip into hit h>uae at 4 o’clock this in >rn : :i<. She wav sup posed to hav • kn «n where the murderer w> , ... every » flfort wat rn ide to mak.< to <!'v; g .1 he mob till has her B.e«uroiy ueld, an« may succ-ed in making her tell. The negroes killed were all shot down oil this side of the Ocopilco creek, about ten miles above Quit man. The reportia that a second posse which was scou ing the woods north of the Oc p : lco, have killed four other negroes. This wholesale killing is terri ble. but the people of thatcommu nity have had terrible provocation. Hardly three weeks ago Tip Maul din, a respectable white man, was brutally murdered on the public r ad in the same neighbornood by two worthless negroes. The people were greatly incensed oyer this murder, but the law took its course ai d the murderers are now in jail awaiting trial. Numbers of negroes exulted over this murder and even went so far as to hold a war dance a few nights afterwards around the spot in the road where the murdered man’s life blood oozed out. This of course, enraged th* pso pie still mors, and when Isham, the best citizen in the community, was cowardly murdered by one es i his same gang, the pent up rage end vengeance was turned loose Ail of the negroes killed sra Jtho»s 1894 -fCHSisrns and «e« veab i- HOLIDAY OPENING- H A SMITHS. BOOK AND MUSIC STOKE A beautiful line of entirely new Bisque, China, Royal Articles just imported and suitable for Christmas and Birthday pres!. PhOTOCRAPH Albums. Autograph Albums, Photograph fraaines, Comb and Brush Sets Cuf" and Collar Boxes, Shaving and smoking Sets, Writing Desk?’ Bronzes, Fancy InKstands,Thermometers, Box Games, ABC Block?’ Juvenile and Story Books, in cloih and linen, Pocket and Family Bi’ b es, Testaments, Prayer books and hymnals. Standard Poets, Stand' ardsof Fiction insets, Stationery,celluloid and aluminum Ornaments and Novelties in endless variety, useful and ornamental. All a t Lowest Possible Prices Booklets Christmas and New Year Cards. No trouble to show goods. Public respectfully invited to see us. New line Wall Paper and Border just received, at lowest prices. TLTDISrTT TT SMITH BOOKSELLER & STATION ER- 41 3 Broad St Rome Ga. intimately connected with Ish-m’s j murder end tb.osp supposed •« be aiding in r h«» '■soup* of the or. or w*»re in the gang which held the exulting dam e mrer po r Mauldin s lif blood The arresting and jailing of Mau Id in’s murderers had no re straining or supprptsing effect on other lawless negro s in the neigh borhood. Mauldin’s murderers themselves have no more regrets for their deed and no more com punction of conscience than a dog. The posse which did last night's terrible work is still banded to gether doggedly and determinedly looking for Waverly Fike. The re cord of tonight and tomorrow re mains to be seen. Brooks county is aroused. The wholesale killing of negroes not directly connect d with Isham’s murder is severely | condemned and it is hoped that the avenging mob will do no more of this mad work. Don’t so get that W- N. Hawthorne has; greatly reduced price' of Coal for the Christ-j mas season. Cali him at Telephone N 0.120 FIRE IN SELMA. Threi Houses Burn -Thought to be Ircandiary. Selma, Ala., December 24. Th s morning at 4 o’clock fire broki out in a house of ill fame on Lawrence street, and before the lire department reached the scene it and two more houses were de -8 royed. Loss, $2,500. There was a quar tet in the house in the early part of the night before and a fight in the street and threats were m tde I to burn the building. The carousal wound up at 3 o’c'ock and an hour i later the alarm was turn d in. The women lost everything they had, amounting to about SI,OOO. .. I To-nigh at Nevin’s Amy Lea,: t’.e charming Soubrette in P.<.wn I Ticket IT, > HOLIDAY G O O DS. Do you want a beautiful Gold watch, guranteed in every re spect, for about half price ? If you do come at once and make a selection from our beau tiful line of New goods. Doyou intend making an ele gant Christmas present?—Then call and look through my Holiday goods—Diamonds, Pins, Rings and notions of every variety and at the sametime inspectmy com plete stock of Silver novelties. J. K. WILLIAMSON. BROAD STREET, ROME GA N. B Repairinga specialty