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SIXTH YEAR. s. S. King SC), the Hustling Retail Crocerii Sells Warters Rome Made Cigars. Best in the Market. IWO ELEVENS Will Contest da The North .ux - Roms field FOOT BALL GAVE On Saturday October 17th Rome Will Meet Cedartown. Y v Can Bank <>n The R me BoYS. —» There will be no exciting game of foot ball on the North Rom« Field on Satu d y. The R >me eleven is comp >st-d of strong, brainy, Htheleiic’ young men wh - are Dot afraid to tack e or to be trampled m der loot. They have been in the hands of Cliff Bayard Seav who was i-clio 1- ed in the te hnicalil ies < f the .game at the in?ti’ute over jo Auburn, Ala.—The place where you have to p ay and play hard Cliff Seay will coach the hoys on Saturday and they are going to' spring several new tricks on the Cedartown crowd. The Cedarto.vn team is being bandied by Stubbs who w .s Ca >- tain of tbe Athens-ieam last year. H- makes them do good work » nd the R one cr »wd know i.e II make 1 MINISTER TORTURED Rev. William Tucker was in Agony Many Years. Un No Foil m Though Ho Had Bom Stabhad by a Thaus uidKalyta. Ha waaStrickM Blind and Faared Ha t'Mld Lass Rio Mind. IHThlsinlMlaneaaF Hw Bast Medical Skill His Rectvtry | Looked Upon M t Miracle. <Ae 2Vew RWs, ©rieewMssrv, M, ’ F ■' , I' r REV. WILLIAM TUCKER, It was publicly talked all over Decatur *ud Ripley counties for some time before the otew hru sent a reporter to Pierceville to }hlly investigate the Tucker matter. The Tuckers are. prominent people and are all farmers. The Rev. William Tucker, subject of all the talk, was pleased t° allow us an interview. Mr. Tucker looked well and healthy, although he is •eventy-five yeflfs old, and forty years ago nr began preaching in the faith of the F ree baptists. This is his story as he told the **porter: “ I was born and reared on a farm and be -BAn preaching at an early age. 1 was al *a7s subject to rheumatism, even when Tute young. Pains, sharp and acute, would "loot across my body, causing me much suf .lering. The doctors pronounced it then a s Pinal disease. The pains kept getting worse , the time from day to day as the years °.lled round and I experienced many years suffering. Although I much regretted to, I was impelled to retire altogether from my i” ibe religious cause. The pains ould first start from my spine and limbs, ’*d afterward begun shooting from all parts ‘ the Imdy it neemed’as though a thous knives were sticking me. After these | would first come on, my entire body •n” I sudden] v grow cold. 1 would lienumb > Over ami all mv muscles would be asleep. 1 would then turn'suddenly blind. I often - X in this condition for hours, and generally w as conscious and knew what jyiis going >“■ but the suffering was ititense and un- No words ca» describe it. , frequently, in going about my place or I would be away from home, these TnE RUSTLER OF ROME them work for the goal. Ihe Rom < team in cooujoterf of: Norman Clyiu*, Cap 1 V Dick Maddox Mngr. B. .lone-, Ctftlh, Glover McGhee jlighi Guafd. Wil L-ahtter U t . guard’ Rob Harper R Ig V tackle D - Pow «l Les tack'c : 'F. Huffaker Bight p.-Mnddox Left Kuor Dick Maddox Quarter Back John Bailey Full Back ‘.Word Right Half-« N nnian Clyne Left Half “ The substitutes are Will Me- , Williams and Joe Patton. - i The game wip be culled at 3:80 sharp. Will Speak Thursday Hon. W. L. Massey, republican candidate f> r congress will ad dress the peopl nt he cotiri house pnßomeun Thursday Oct. 15th ( at 2 :80 o’clock. ' Stv-rai soui.d money men will al -ospeak on that dr y. . .. j Vi ith two little children subject ipb croup - we do not rest easy wi.th- I out a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in the house, for ihe most severe attacks quickly succumb to a few doses ot it. —— ornsoii, Colo ~ Bud. Fi>r sale at ‘35 ami 5U cents pet uotile by LCiw r, Bros., Druggist Rome. PIERCEVILLE, INDIANA. burg, but they wid ra^ L ?** I “ "“A prom.nent doctor of TolSo, Ohio, di-.i«ed me as «d 1 gave up in 1 least medicines but none of t "i)r WHli^’Pink WE I □ no faith in them, for good but 1 tried them as a last , 4^ ,ng I taken Over a dosen boxqsncw feel that 1 P crn ’’ in ? J ' WOU M come la-fore, as the suddenly on me in walked became numb. Many a nme j ( . nn the floor in agony an 4 appetite | sleep perfectly aoun- , weigh more i« T r ' hHn v e vX fecHlmt*l owe my life to the Pink I His. nnt ' r,iek Z\ a hi" r teltimon> for his family doubt n word o > - h< _ gpoke will vie. with him • in all the Dr. Williams’Pmk Hfe an d elements restore sheered richness to the • boxes (rtf’ver m nerves. Th hvt ß he dozen or hundred) at 50 IX Ki, - » 3 tndy, N. V. ROME GgORPIA, TUcSDAY EVENING OCTOBER 13, 1896 W HWW Continues to Set in Msl De- Wmk The mattress factory ———A Zat 1 O’clock Thb MorMpKg. Beyond a Dortr The Fire Was of IncejM diar Origin, At a few minutes after* 1 o’clock the tower alarm was sounded fro in box No. 15, calling many from their firpt and soundest slumbere of the night. None responded more promptly than the fire laddies. The run was quite a long one, out Broad St., to the Rome matress factory,; lo cated near, Jlortb Rome. The fire, however, had gained such headway that it wat useless to put water on the blaze. Nd. I connected with * plug on Gibson| street, about 150 yards away, and by prompt worls saved a tenement house near the burning factory, the property of Deputy Sheriff Bill McLepd. The Rome mattress factory, a small gtist mill and wood yard— all connected and under the same roof, were owned and operated by Messrs. Pat and George Allen. Their loss is nearly |l,ooo with only $382 insurance; the latter with the Mechanic? Mutual, of Atlanta, Those who first saw the fire state that the building was burn ing at the frent, with no signs fire about the engine shed. Mr. George Allen was seen by the Hus tler of Rome this . morning and asked about the fire. Mr. Allen stated that he had used the engine yesterday morning, that he used wood in firing and that no fire had been about the place ail the after noon. , * He was of the opinion that 8| rat and a match might have ori ginated tbe blase, but he really believed the source to have been an ideeudiary match . He suspects no one of the crime, however. The fire laddies made a fine run, every thing considered, though the tongue of the Houk & Ladder truck was crac ed at Cains store crossing, going out and was brok en at the same crossing, returning •o the city. .The factory building was the property of Messis J. A. Glover ana Charles Hight and was un in sured. Many people have talked over the . fire bug problem, on the streets, today. The truth is the majority of Romans are of the opinion that afire bug or gang of fire bugs are operating in the city. The three past weeks show four very m> sterious fires, each of them entailing seriou® loss and great in convenience to the owners toFproperty and the public. Human life may be held cheap: in this city, but if a fire bug is caught the public is certain to be treated to a neck stretching con vention to which all will be invit ed. MILLERY. Bass Bros. & Co., as in thb past, are doing the leading Millinery business of Rome. Ihe Basses are leaders in everything they under take. Mrs. Ramey in charge of the sales department and Miss Myn son the artistic trimmer ’are both unequled each in her department while their stocks are drawn from the largest, most up-to-date sup ply agencies in the country. L you want the best to be had in millinery, go to Bass Bros. 111 • Smoke the El Regalo 5 Cent cigar' at Curry’s. CANE ANDPISTOL Solicitor George Brown Pun ished A D famet BWDGR’S POOR PISTOI ’and Pad Vai KrWAkfßir All i TwXtSaved Mr BRowN’t-Cuv. FIGHT OcqURRED At CIID- T'.n Yesterday. Th’s D>or.iing’B Constitution con tains th'- i owing report »<f ;a fiensat’oo D fight CaiT'm, yes terday: /■ . Y‘: Tom Blodgett, who is well known in Atlanta, shot at Solicitor Gsn eral George Rrown, of the Blue Ridge circuit, yesterday, and came .very near killing him . The shooting.occurr-d-durnu a fight at Canton, Cherokee county. Blodgett, who is a son of the late Foster Blodgett, made a political speech during the morning in the Cherokee county courthouse at deuton. The republicans of that seation were ho ding a political meeting. The speakers were Colonel Farrow,'republican candidate fur congress >n the ninth district; S. A. Darnell, formerly JJni’ed States district attorney, and Tom Blod gett. The lust named farms in< Miltdn county and take-* an active interest in republican politics. In ihe course of his speech yes terday morning he used language about like the following; ‘‘Thb judge who presides over this c<airt is a disgrace to the He offered to grant roe a new tnitl and to nnl pros my case if I would take the stump in the state campaign for Atkinson. I Would not do it and vo*ed the eu J lire populist ticket.’’ The case to which Blodgett re ferred was one against him for perjury, of which he had b«-en con victed, mid he is now under a sen* tence for four years in the peni tentiary, but a motion for a hew trial is pending and he is out on bond. The judge to whom he referred was Judge George Gober, of the Blue Ridge circuit. Judge Gober was not in Canton, but Solicitor General tiecrge Brown was, his home being there. The accusation made by Blodgett was reported to Mr. Brown and he sent a friend, Colonel G. I. Teasely, to see him and asK if the so icitor general had been coupled with the alleg ed proposition ; o quash the in dictment against him. Blodgett replied to Colonel Teasely that he had meant to associate Solicitor General Browi: with tbe matter, and.declared Jba* Mr. Brown was connected with it. When this was repea ed to Mr. Brown he w»s en raged mid started out to look lor Blodgett. The la ter was found at the ticket‘»ffioe of the Marietta and North Georgia railroad in the act of buying a ti Mr. Brown approached him, and, touching him said: “You are t be infamous scoundrel wLo slandered Judge Gober and myself in a spe<ch here today. ” Blodgett wheeled around, and as the two men faced Brow'll struck him over the head with a cherry wood which he carried in his hand. Blodgett bucked and attempted to def-nd himself. Brown brought his cane down with both hands “nd omjffi V© ITS itor .—I have an absolute remedy for Consumption. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been already permanently cured. So proof-positive am I of its power that I consider it my duty to send two bottles free to those of your reader’ who have Consumption,Thrcpt, Bronchial or Lung Trouble, if they will write me thair express and postoffice address. Sincerely, T. A. SLOCUM. M. C., I*3 Pearl St., Bew York. Hr Tbe Editorial and Baainoja Managemant et tbie l'a*xr Guarantee tbia ceneroua Proposition. Highest of all in Leavening Strength.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ‘ Powde? ABSOLUTELY PURE Mruck four or five blows. Then he 'afanftbird □ver a chair and fell to floor. As he fell Blodgett drew • pistol and snapped it. Before Bro»n was on hi« feet again Blod gett had snapped it two or three times. As Brown arose on his feet one cartridge wus exploded, but the bullet missed the solicitor. Mr. Brown ran out of the office and in a moment reap|>eared with a pistol, which he had secured in the agent’s private office. By this time a erow'd had rush ed into the Waiting room and seiz-d Blodgett. Mr. Brown was surrounded by friends, and the men were kept apait. Blodgett’s pistol was ex amined, and it was found that every cartridge bore the mark of thei>hamtner, indiejating that every chamHer had been snapped jn the fight. One who saw the tight say that if the first chamber had been discharged. Brown certainly would Would have been killed, as the weapon was right against his head. Tbe train for Marietta came along in a few minutes, and Mr. Brown got on board and came on to Atfanta,. where he spent the night, Blodgett wos arrested and put in jail at Canton. A telegram from Canton says that it is presumed that Blodgett expected trouble, and went prepared for it. Mr. Brown was seen last night at the Kinball, but he declined to make any statement for publica tion, He said that he had resented some slanders which Blodgett had UtteF-d against him and Judge audthat Blodgett had fLed at him once. He did not. know that Blodgett had been jailed. The solicitor general said that he in tended to go to Gilmer county this morning to attend court, which is in session there this week He will be bac< in Cherokee in a day or two 'o answer any charge that may be brought against, him. The perjury case against Blod gett grew out of a judgment which was obtained against a far mer ofMiDon county by a woman. Blodgett swore that e had bought the farmer’s property, and it wii, proved on the trial for per jury that Blodgett had not bought tno property, but that there was a plot on foot to defeat the judg ment creditor. Blodgett was con victed and sentenced by Judge Gober to four yeais in the peni tentiary. She defendant moved for a new trial, and it is pending now. Mr. Brown says that Blodgett’s charge in regard to a settlement of his case is absolutely false, and was such a malicious charge that he could not allow it to go un noticed. The solicitor general bore no marks of having been in a fight when he arrived here last night. Servant's $300,000 Fortune. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 13. Mrs. Orpha Stearns, a domestic employed by Jerome Palmer, cf No. 10 Peck street, is probably heir to a S3OO,(XX) fortune. Her father Nathan Lattin, died recent'y in California, and left a fortune of about $900,000. ' 1 WAS INTERESTING The 1-cture of Lahib B. Jureidin nt the First Presbyterian church . on Sunday night was very inter esting. Rlpans Tabulee: gentle cathartic. IO CENTS A WEEK Found »n Guauaquii, E*eru Time Debris is Moves’- MANY SOUGHT SHELTER I From the Fire in The Water, And Were Drowned, Other Attempts of An Incen diary .Nature • - - I- - New York, Oct., 13—The Her ald’s special cable from Panama says: “News has been received from Guayaquil, Ecuador, that fresh at tempts/ff an incendiary nature have been made. Several alarming fires have occurred in parts ot the city not torched by the great con flagration, but the vigilance of the firemen prevented them from spreading. Several more, arrests have been made in connection with these fires. “A large meeting was held Satur day, at which a commission was appointed to procurp relief funds and provide ten'* and other tem porary shelter for homeless citizens *’More than 100 charred bodies have already been found .tin the ruins and others are discovered whenever the d'.bris left by the fire is disturbed”. It ie now known a so that many persons were dri ven by tbe flamee to the water and Were drowned.’’ ” COUGHED UP A LIZARD. - New London, Conn., Oct. 13. Elisha Hotctiki«a,of Preston, has astounded th? rniidical fraternity about him by disgorging a live lizard seven inches long from his stomach. The man has sulTerey with j stomach pains for some years, and thinks he drank the iizard when it was quite small in waler sever al years ago. Since he dislodged the creature Hotchaiss has gained iu strength, he says, and feels easier. To vouch for his story Mr. Hotchkiss has the lizard in alcohol prsserved to show.th * incredulous. Physicians say that the man would soon have died hail he.not coughed up the lizard, as hi was greatly emaciated. SLAIN AT THE HUSTINGS. Louisville. Kv , Oct. ’l3. While Congressman John W. Lew is was speaking at. Chaplin, Ky. last night, Joe Prather slipped up behind William Keeling, who was in the crowd around the* speaker’s stand, and shot Keeling three times, killing him instant lv. After a frightened horse had trampled the body, it was remov ed, and the speaking went on. DEATH LURKED IN THE BISCUIT. Lima, O , Oct. 13.—The mem bers of the family of Granville Harbert were taken violently eick after. part»kiny heartily of hot biscuit. Harbert and his daughter, Mrs. Albert King, have since died, a.id the remainder of the family are in a precarious coßaition. Flour with which rat poison had beeujmixod was used in making tbe biscuits. Wanted-An Idea Protect jour ‘dear; they inny bring you wealtk. Write JOHN WSDDEKBURN A CO, Patent Attot seys, waabington. D. C., for their 11.81)0 prise oSm aad list of two hundred JitveuUons wanted.