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BY AN UNARMED MAN. Italian With the Shotgun and Pistols Was Slain Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 27. —A sensational shooting affray occur. •1 ibout seven miles South ofNaeh wD a at 10 o'clock this morning, in jvhich Henry Clay Ezell, a wealthy jßtocJkman, was instantly killed ,by Purdv Ellis, n young man who was .in charge of Ezell’s dairy. Before he was killed, Ezell shot ■Kilis and his wife. / ■The cause of thy tagedy is a wystery, as Ellis,.declines to dis or.ris it. Ellis’s Wife is a niece of Mrs. Ezell, ai/1 the families were ♦ <u» jhe best Zs terms, the Ezells •pending Zesterday with the Ellis iiaxni ' morning Ezell, sent word y>r Ellis and hie wife to come to his h ome. When the couple came, Eze'l srel them with a double-barreled . abotgun and fired once at each Hrs. Ellis had all themustleof her eight arm blown away, whilv Mr. Kilis was peppered in the left arm. Setting the gun down, Ezell •irww two pistols, and had fired •nr shots *1 Ellis when the latter (grappled with and threw him to tee ground. Ellis then took one of tb-e pistols and shot Ezell through head, killing him instantly. Airs. Ezell, witnessed the t ige- Ellis gave himself up. Ezell] -w’at a violent man, while Ellis is a ■nietand industrous young fe'low. •Illis refuses to discuss the cause of he trouble at present. SRONG HAN CONVICTED. Jte Served Five Months Before the Mistake was Known. Jacksonville, Fla., December 28. —-W. A. Daniels, a middle-aged Wb'.t* man, is in the city in a partly destitute and crippled con - >ii Daniels says he is just out I <*f Zhe state penitentia r y, where he ■was sent to serve a sentence of I even months for stealing S7OO. Us was in the prison five months, • hen the authorities found that -ry.e was an innocent man. In the ’?n«antiine the guilty parties were discovered, arrested, convicted and WFitenced to five years. Daniels aa&ys he was released last Monday. He;teEs a woeful story of his lierings while in the penitenti ary. He says that when he went there he was a well and sound : .-vraai. that he is now a cripple, •suffering with a cancer on each leg, .which he contracted while in pris on. He will probably bring suit j£or false imprisonment. SHOT BY THE ROBBERS. Nhw Lisben, 0,, December 28 ILast uight tbreft masked men eu i-ijured the house of William John -»on, six miles South of this place 'While one of the gang covered the tfineily with rovolvm-4 the others .aueacked the house, securing SBOO . ind some jewelry . While the theives were at work *♦ll6 of Mr. Johnson’s daughter <e«Tou««d near-by neighbors. Several roaea ran to Mr. J ihnson’s house j#.ud the robbers began to shoot. Mr. Johnson was shot through bowels and a man named Mc vCord wasahotin the band. McCord esnot at the maraudsrs, but naissed them, and they made their egcapa. Johnson ie a farmer sixty years of -agw, and "ill die from his wound. JHE EX-SHERIFF'S BODY. ' Greenweed, Ind., Dec. 28.—Ex- Sheriff James R . Curry diad two weeks ago after ac illness of long zduratvon which beffltd the best physicians in the state. A great deal of interest was manifested in the case by reason of the myster ious ailment. It was discovered today that the grave in which the ex-sheriff had been buried had been opened . In vestigation showed that the dody had been stolen. The family of ihe dead man is rich and powerful a large reward will be offered Kb* th reevove ryes the body. WIFE-SLAYER SHOT. i Thomas Pritchard of Springfield 111., Protects his Sister-in-law L Springfield, TIL, Dec. 28.—John . Williams, of Ridgely, while pursu - ing his wife with a butcher knife i to-night with murderous intent ’ was shot and instantly killed by - her brother-in-law, Thomas Prith ; ard, who came to the woman’s de fense. Williams had Just been released from jail, where his wife had him locked up two weeks ago for threat ening to kill her. Yesterday she relented and secured his release by having Pritchard become his sure ty. Williams went to the home of Pritchard tonight, where his wife was staying, and, seizing a butch-' er-knife. start'd after her, declar-| ing he would kill her. Pitchard sprung between them and the woman escape.!. Williams then turned on Pritch ard and made several lunges at him with the knife, whereupon Pritchard avoided him and grasped an old single-barreled shotgun! that had been standing in a corner tor a long time. Williams contin ued to follow Pritchard and the latter took aim and fired. The gun was heavily loaded and the charge literally tore the top off of Wil liams’ head. After firing the fatal shot, Pritch ard sat down and quietly awaited the arrival of the sheriff, who ar rested him and placed him in jail. The trouble between Williams and his wife was due to her refusal to give him money. He had inherit ed some property from his mother, but owing to his worth’ ssness it had been placed in his wife’s hands for the benefit of his children. ACTIVITY AT THE SOUTH Cotton Mills Running day and Night. Naw Mills daing Built- Baltimore, Md., December 28. — Special reports to The Manufactur ers’ Record show for the closing week of the year afa r degree of activity in the general industrial interests of the South. Cotton mills are reported as very busy with a good many of them running night and day. A number of new mills are being pro jected and several New England people in the South looking for good locations for mills. There, is considerable activity in coal mining operations, especially in West Virginia and Alabama, the output of the coal in Alabama be ing reported as very large. The gas works of Atlanta have been purchscd by Philadelphia people, who will, it is reported,ex pend $500,0)0 in improvements. Among other industrial projects reported during the week were a $200,000 company to engage in rice cultivation and manufacture and also to establish a rice mill in Florida; a $20,000 coal mining company, machine works and saw mill in Alabama, a SIOO,OOO min ing company,s32,oooelectric plant and a SIO,OOO iron mining compa ny in Tennessee; a sloo,ooocotton mills in South Carolina, the pur chase of a large water power for the purpose of building a $500,000 cotton mill and contracts let for the equipment of another cotton mill at a cost of about $100,900 in I the same state. 808 HIGGINS IS DEAD. Mrs. Dempsey who Shot him Will not be Prosecuted. Gadsen. Ala. December 28. Bob Higgins, who was shot by Mrs A. J. Dempsey Monday while he was trying to enter her home in a drunken condition, died this morn ing. As the shooting w «s justifiable she was not prosecuted. Sidney Cox. who w s so sori ms ly cut. Christmas inorni ig by Charles Harris, is not expected to live Cox is an amateur detective and had a copy of a reward in his pocket for Harris who is wanted in Kentucky for murder. He was also nuept-cied of being a counterfeiter. Harris has skipped. THE HUSTLER OF ROME.FRIDAY DECEMBER, 28 1894; CLUSTER OF BULLS EYE SHOTS lam a'ways apposed to Lsis •nd belting, al! the Ram« I have • ways noted fbaf nmn who back neir judg > ment generally hav< •lopes of wi jning—-■ap<’cia | ly hav- I found this true in p i'lt io < I races. \'ow let me «ay this —I e°e no om- tf'-ring to hut money against .1 P. McConnell’s • lection to th-* ffice of sheriff m the n -x t el -ct ion, Os c«utflp I k..ow of a. few bet,,, bd 'g jutuplut al I < f 11 cm i»r< dther on districts in th“. coun*v or on Sheriff McConnell s M»jori •v. Some oth s tri'm fs are evei tiering money on a 500 majori ty —and finding few Inkers. * * « This cold move business ge's right c'ogn up in touch with . tie people , bor my na-r if 1 hi I a choo-iu’of the weather I wool I not under sketo m >nk°y with any hiug except in tin mini <r of -•bringing on a bi zzci! ” Wh "u a speii I ike this si ips up o.i a gang >f people —vnewl somebody gets I hurt, * * I am gla 1 to so j R > n 9 bl hi > n ing into the New year with such flattering prosoo -ts, but while the coming building season m>y bring her eight or ten c itton fac tories, a cannery, a cheesery, a pair of spoke and a trio of hub factories, forty or fifty new busi ness houses, and a metrop ilitan Union Pasenger Depot on the levee. I don’t want the Etowah lost in the shuffl?—Dammit! that is it, dammit 1 * * w Rom* is the best town on earth —and has got ths kleverest re corder this si le of th • borders. For proof of the assertion, read today’s. Fall of Nnsevah and sew h"w mer cifully he dealt with the Christ mas drunks. Judge Spullock, we congratulate you and conmend. your course far —Christmas comes hut once a year and human nature is human nature. That Floyd con nty has a match less set of officers is evinced by the ‘•walk over” which the people are acording Tax-Collector, John J. Black, Trersurer James B. Hill, Clerk, Wm E. Beyiegel and the almost unanim >us support they are promising Deputy Sheriff J. P. McConnell, whom the are calling to su ?ceed the fearless and onliest Jake C. Moore. ♦ * * Depty McConnell, our next sher iff is a Floyd county boy, having first seen tho light over near King ston. H, is old enough to wear m iny scars left by wounds receiv ed while at tho front during the late war. Brave as a lion, gentle as woman and as goneroui of na ture as he is full of loyalty aiid business qualification-like his pre decessor, under whom he has serv ed so ably for the past four years, he was born to be a sheriff and one of the best counties in the South. His majority will be a flattering one.‘‘Mark that prediction. ” TRAGEDY IN VIRGINIA Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 27.—A terrible tragedy is reported from Rickley’s Mills, Va. , in which J. W. Williams shot and killed Bass Bickley. They were in Walter Dickenson’s store when Williams accosted Bickley and told him he wanted to talk to him. As they started out of the store, Williams shot Bickley twice, kill ing him instantly. The first shot penetrated his breast near the heart, which turned him around, and the second took effect in the back near the spinal column. The murderer has not been captured , but he cannot make his escape for there is a large posse pursuing him. The murder has created a great sensation and if Williams is cap tured he may be lynched. Williams is a low, heavey-set man with dark hair and mustache, and' is about thirty-five years of age. Uh form erly resided at Marion, N. C. TO KILL fl WITNESS. NffS Finding ths nhi he Wa Scomber Shirt The toman Meridian, Miss., I) camber 28. Another featurein the are m case, for whi mR »b »rt Bj!k an I Dudley S • »tt w■ • ■ itiT.Hf ■'! by D'b'.-tivo Horn', id 1 1 b- William Scharn-’ her la T H ty, cr »pp id oft Christ mas HI; ht. B ■!k and Sci/tt weiv> tried it July for vhe burnings and acquit eL Indictment* were found against Schamber for arson in two east's and he will he tried next week. Belk and Scott will be the state’s main witnesses. St •hum her on Christmas night engaged a hack to go out and kilt R ibert Belk, who had been driv ing over tow.i late in the after noon. When West End was reach ed Schamber asked the where he (the driver) iiad left B ik. The d~’*’“r answered that lie did not KuUW. Schamber, believing that the driver was misleading him, drew his pistol and fired a 41-caliber ball through the driver’s neck and right arm and disembarked from the hack and left town. The driv er was brought 'o town, but un able to talk, as the ball had lacer ated his tongue. No arrests 1a e yet been made. HI HEURY’S IYIIIISTRELS. The piess in general accord to Hi Henry’s Premium Minstrels the palm for representing a fine entertainment. They number for ty first-class stars aid w ; ll appear at Nevin’s Monday, Decemlier 81st. The Indianapolis Journal says: ‘‘Those who beli ve that the min strel show has passed into history changed their minds if they were at English’s last night. There are s great many people who never enter a theatre except when there is a minstiel show, and these peo ple, along with enough to fill the house, greeted Hi Henry. The per formance was the most satisfac tory ever seen in years. The part includes such st ir commedians as Frank McNis, Larry Mack, J Mar ciu Doyle and Matt Diamond, and such well-known singers as Louis La Londe, Master Edward Percy, George D. Lambson, Michaelis and Blair. The stage s'tting throughout was elegant, and there w; s not a dreary word or act throughout the whole perform ance. Hi Henry's company gives a show replete in every feature, and new and refreshing from the open ing to tne close of the programme. BETWEEN NEIGHBOR Nashville Tenn., Dec. 28.—A sensational shooting took place about five miles from this city in which Clay Ezell, on « of the most prominent s'ockmm in this state, was fatally wounded by P. M. El lis, a farmer an 1 neighbors of Ezell. A number of shots were exchang ed and both Ellis and his wife were slightly w winded. Ellis m ide his escape after the shooting, but offi ;ers are in close pursuit. The shooting was the result of an old feud existing between the two families. LAVIGNA RELEASED New Orleans, La., Dec., 28. Kid Lavigne and party were dis charged this morning by Judge Aucoin on the finding of the cor oner’s jury that Bowen, the prize fighter, had met his death by con cussion of the brain, produced by striking the unpadded floor of the ribg ‘ A CARD. To the vot»rs of Floyd County: After fully considering all the cir cumstances of the present cam paign, I have concluded to with draw from the race for tax receive*- of Floyd County, thanking my friends fortheir past support and kind promises for the future. I would be glad for them to give heir support to Mr. R. L, Foster M . D. McOsker. Pay your water tax, will shut oft’ water after Jan. Ist. if tax n not ■ paid. James McGuire Supt. Sk V b&a» ‘Fii 1 J IWWwAK’ & jt'Agy Wvd teiiK ff --m,'.TT Z r! -irni -.T-auiEa* T ' njr WTIM ~ 03 i‘ I tUinfhonn • limmiA IdOlSuii • .11118. ZETOT TCT s Mad.son Aven •an 58 ( ,S. <(-et Nc W Y<.,: wv. s>o per day an <up Am Tican P’- n FIR-PROOF AND F RST-CLASS ’N EV£RY PARTICULAR. Iwo Blocks from the I'hird and Sixth Avenue Elevate Radroods 1 he Madison and Pon th Avenue and Belt Line Cars pas* the 1 Joo r, H M. Cls AUK proprietor Passenger E evator runs all night. SS waTiSmaw MANUFACTVRERS AND DEALERS IN Mln ait Wil, luMßdsts, cajin, Oo sal f. Wilt &pi PeficiEg, Um Vacos, Autsnsß •tacTOrdar What You M ant and G>l \t bat You Order. S HEM STR EE' 1 ' Mgr, Chattanooga Tenn. 11 IB Market Street. A. J. BANKSTON General Agent Ringgold Georgia SHiNCIES, Wens ake them and sell them at bottom prices, HUME & PERKINS THE ROME BAKER’S AND It E A TUR A. \d\ J. T. V\ ..tie, Proprietor. No. 228 Broad Street. FM BREAD !WF MADE EVERY DAV Restaurant supplied Wmi the best the market affords Special attention to wedding orders and ornamental cates FRESH OYSTERS RECEIVED EVERY DAY. Polite waiters, S ttisfiud) a it-autee I. g' ve ,ne ac l THE LITTLE RUBY BARBER TONSORIAL PARLOR Il y ou want work In mv line call at my P a Frank Taylor, The old reliaDie