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FOURTH ' EAR LA ’HAM &SONS Are now hustling for the “indurin -Christmas” trade. They have so’d stacks and stacks ot Holi day goods before Christmas and now have only a lot of bargains left over from the Holiday Lines. * • These goods with all remnants of Holiday stocks must go there fore you are cordially invited to call and get what you want at almost any price. Lanh am & Sons, pack away no from one season to another, its against their business rules and betides they have no time for such work and so storage space for such goods. For Holiday Bargains during the Holi days Go to LANHMM & SON Broad St dim GUTS FOB THE HOLIDAYS; LEATHER GOODS, HANDSOME BOOKS. Raphael Tuck’s Christmas Cards, Japnaes Goods, Children’s Books Foreign Illustrated Papers Prices Away Down • New Books of Mrs. Burnett. Page, Party Moran, eta. Pietaraa fram •d to order in new and arfiatia mouldings. II MTAXXER 521 Broad Street JEffl OFBI kIW j WDHEsoimisar. >juun 2. ENG \GBM ;n r of MRS. POTTER, MR. BELLEW And thsir Munificent C 'nipany Presenting the Greatest suc cess of twj ye i s Charlotte 4- -4 Coiday A dramatization of thi «tory of P ,e famous Freii'-h heroins b ‘ ~l 5 eate ’ ’’ Ar, J latte > • sna-,, ‘ 'lHtic*! 01 e . * Ln ’- '•‘•ner.U a I ..N-t.m. Par iaiierj2sc - THE HUSTLER OF ROME. «&?/j «»W^aitta? ter*’ >W sas safe and c ’"nless as a fla *ed poultice. 1...? ;f= uxeapo”- icc, drawinc outie .'era: .nd curing al’ iissases peculifc u la Grange Bios- ~rp” is ” pac *iv, <.a? • - sed at any t;,aie; u applied right to the part? Svery iady can treat hersei ,/ith it. Mailed to any address upon re 1 ;eiptofsx. Dr. J. A. McGill &Cg i ; Panorama Place, Chicago, 11l Sold bv D, W. C irry Druggist There is a joke going the rounds telling how a land-lady put niekles in the hash in order to give her boarders a change of diet. ROME GEORGIA. FRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER. 28 1894. A MOTLEY KREW Gathered on the Boards at the Christmas Fall of Nireveh. DARKTOWN ON TOP And her Sons and Daughters, Warriors and Amazons told the Recorder “How cum it." “Hard Time" Fines Hadthe Right of way The Mercury god was monkey ing with his “occa sional subject,” Zero, there was a large invited audience who met Recorder Spullock on the serena of the Fall of Ninevah this fore noon. At 10 o’clock, cold, Lieutenant Guice opened the Book of Tribu lations and order reigned through out the borders of the city’s Tem ple of Justice,’the only noise ris ing from the gaping doors of tin “Catacombs,” where, restive and bandaged headed, the bucks of Timbuck and the black sheep of Darktown, lay fettered for the shambles. rhe first name called was “Jim Johnson” and a good natured son of Darktown ambled out before the Recording Angel of the Impe rial City He and his tale of woe were sized up by Judge Spullock anl a fine of |I.OO was collected. The size of this five caused a stampede of humble supplicants who were eager to enter pleas of guilty to all sorts of charges. Marion Dillard, of Darktown koondom paid $2 for wearing a plain Christmas “jag ’ Charles Hintou, thejinger kake kullurd John who drives for Col. Chas. D. Wood, wore a jag cut out of the same jug and perfumed with the same korn. Jean, Joe or Jim Roberson, De fendant had forgotten whicn, who works for Mr. Berry on the Sum merville Pike had swallowed a whiskey capsule, gotten detained aad fallen paralyzed before he S. M. STARK I desire to inform my Friends and Patrons anH the Piihlin rronar ly, that nr y elegant line of Fail and Winte WOOLENS Has been received,and are now open for all spection, And 1 willfur ther s a‘e that I am now tetirr pttpaed than ever o turn out FIRST CLASS WORK ANI> FIRST CLASS GOODS, At prices never before heard of in Romp, S.M. STARK, MERCHANT TAILOR ARMSTRING I CT t . reached the city's limits. $2. Sam Montgomery, n dark angel frum the land of Canaan—com monly called Flatwoods, said, “Boss I wus full as er goat but it ’us crismus licker an I’m heer ter do de coat’s pleasure. I’ze er bird is de kage”—and he smiled a “dry ’ smile. $2. > John Leonard, a little duck-leg ged son of darktown went over to Mr. J. F. Austins, in the Fourth Ward for fire works and tried to hoodoo Mr. Austin out of a Roman candle. The case was hardly plain enough to bind, so he was lectur ed a chapter and liberated. Hiram Orr, a gawky, flip tongued darktown youth called a man a lie—with an impediment acros= ’t —for apologising to him. The court held that Hiram was ex hi sa ble as the apologee had stepped on the young koons right fore foot Mr. Will Brown was fined $2. 0 for pulling Jim Cook’s coat-tail and ge ting knocked down with a mule shoe. Mr. Robert Rentz, the confec tioner, had been too busy to read ,the Mayor’s proclamation and fired a couple of rockets in the fire limits. Lectured and lib irated. Charley Turner, a big doul e jointed six-footer, wearing an over coat and a kinky pompadour, had blockaded the sidewalk and when told to “move on” had kiissed Of ficer Wimpee. He was locked up and fined $5.00. Alex Ware, a representative of Foster’s Mills darktown circle, was in the city on Christinas Eve. Got full and knockad down a young countryman named Lemming. Mr. Wyatt ordered him out of the sa loon and Ware lit into that gentle man. Officer Copeland and Special Officer Whitfield appeared on the scene. Ware knocked Officer Cope land down and then the officers used their billies on the frenzied coon until he was floored. They locked him up. This morning he plead “no recollection of anything after Igotdrunk.” Recorder Spul« lock thought he had been punish ed enough and discharged him Young Lemming had not spoke i to the negro before he was knocke I down. Will Reece and Nick Richie, a pair if good looking mulattoes got into a rucus last night at an up town liar. In the rucus a knife was used on Rieoe an l a jug smashed over Richie’s head; both were ‘‘cut up some” and each was fine 1 $5.00. Estelle Harris, the voungSarih Burnhardt of Rome’s darktown’s dain’est and most sophisticated blackartdom hud fHad a R »man candle near tn * f -U'lda’io iof the Masomi sisa >e. Ib irlv pilici nm had ktdnano*d and ahduoted her to th* sniCam of rtie “Fal 1 of Nineveb,” where another rough man in uniform had tak n her nsme in vain and told her to come bask he eFrd iy m 'ruing at 10 o’clock “and I am h®r«” —and she was, and ’he non aesthetic crew o f vulgar m u a-«uu 1 hir w ire audi bly gigling Th« poetic son' nf the Record* wa» “tounh-d’ an i in a voice ful of pathos h«ord“ r ed h“r “dischai, ■ eu’ -'b s eifa/ed VIISB E-1 1 le- Sarah- Btirubt d-H »rria that sh trembled with pts-ion and —Sun iflowerse 1 stin' k down out ot ler hair ornaments. Big Cut in price of Coal for- pot cash. See rn at 2 30, Broad Street- Ofice, Tele phone No. 93. Tee phooe at Residence No .90. C. I.Gvaves “Orrange Blossom” removes all obstuctio s a id creases a healthy, natural flow of all secretions. Sold |by D. W. Curry. CAPITAL COMING S reams of it Selling into Flow on The Hill City TWO COl TON FAC TOBIES A. d a Spoke and Hub Factory Have Agents in the City Negotiating for Loca tions. RomeWillCap ture all Three With the coming of the New Year the city of Rome takes on re newed lite and steps inf© the van of material progress with brigter prospects han ever before. Tn his rambles in the clear crisp Atmosphere of Broad street this morning, the Hustler us Rome reporter learned of a prominent and leading business man that ne gotiations were row pending and that a foreign company with am ple capital would soon consumate a trade forth j Old Fair Grounds. “And,” said he “the object of *his deal is to put up a 5,000 spindle cotton factory.” Another item of good news was gotten ©ut by the reporter, while talking to another citizen “who is on the inside” and that is, the presence of a gentleman in the city who is neg 'tinting for a tract of land near Rome, v hieh will b * suitable for a Spoke and Huh Fac torv. Then to >, there is this item, which is al o good news, Mr. Sam Innman has an agent here inspect ing the Rounsaville Mill property and other properties on Silver Creek, with the ultimate intention of locating the big Innman Cotton Mills, to be erected soon th»re on. Then are other projects for new industries in and around Rome, but theie threw have taken on tan gible form and are not only prob able but al tnos* certain of material izing Floyd county, with her super fine cotton fiber product, and her mighty water powers of rippling, laughing, crystinl waters, in a cli mate that is matchless, is an ideal section for cotton factories and— the manufacturers in the frozen North are finding itout. As for a Spoke and Hub factory the primeval forests, ©n thousand ot broad acres i n th® empire of Floyd, will fur fish a boundless quantity of the raw mateial. The eyes of the world are turned on the South and Rome is the “Cymoueare.” JUST RECIEVEO One of the most com plete assortments of TOILET SOAPS I AND TOILET ARTICLES Ever brought to the city. See our line of fine IMPORTED TOOTH BRUSH They have no superior □n this or any other market SOLE AGENTS CANDIES j J. T CROUCH & CO Mddiual Building IO CENTS A WEEK A. AJTerrjr Xmas, A. Happy New Year to one and All- The Burney Tailoring i ' *** * • i « Has had an un preci ci ted large trade this fall and winter, anti wishes to thank the&r custo Tiers and friends, for the most liberal patronage they hav& read and promises to do all in their power next year to merit at still larger trade,. We have got somf bargams in our stoma for you after Xmas and those who call will ix convinced that we just as we say. Come and see us when urr need of a cheap Soiit or a pair of pants, come and see us when yot» want.a nice Suit, Come and see us when you want a fine- Suit, ata most reason able price. f W BV BURNEY J TAILORING. CO 229 BROADfSTREEIT ROME, GA.