2997. Bank of Rome (Rome, GA)

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Georgia Affairs. The citizens of Rome want somebody to run 8 skating rink in that city during the coming season. The Courier thinks if a rink were perly run it would prove a bonanza, Rome is about to organize a Y. M. C. A., with every prospect of success. Great interest in the movement is expresssed by the good people of the community on the subject. The Rome Female College Was opened this season with eighty pupils, and every day adds to the number. Present indications point to over one hundred and fifty students by the 1st of November. The cyclone struck Griffin about 9 o'clock Saturday night, continuing until 9 o'clock Sunday morning. No damage was done to human life, but the damage to buildings, trees, fencing, and standing crops was great. The chinaberry trees throughout the city were almost universally broken down and several buildings unroofed. It was the worst storm known in Griffin for years. Three children in Louisville have been bitten by rabid Spitz dog. Mr. Frank Leverett was elected Mayor of Eatonton on Wednesday last, and Phil. Sanford Marshal. There are several breaks in the road between Milledgeville and Macon, and it will be two or three days before trains will run regularly between the two cities. The trains will arrive at Milledgeville up on the usual schedule and make connection at the breaks beyond Millidgeville, The public schools of Columbus resumed their duties on Monday, with a fair attendance. although there was a falling off as compared with last year and the year before. The attendance on Monday was 912, against 960 last year and 1,055 the year previous. On the 9th instant, in the United States District Court, Judge McCay sentenced John Thames, a sixty-year-old farmer, who lives near Red Oak, to six months in Fulton county jail, and to pay $500 fine and costs for violating the revenue laws. The Democratic primary in Baldwin county on Saturday last resulted in the nomination of Dr. Mark Johnston, Jr., as the Democratic candidate for the Legislature. A revival in Lithonia has so affected the only saloon man there that he desires to sell out and leave. The Democrats of Monroe county will select, by primary election, on Saturday next, two candidates to represent the county in the next Legislature. Ex-cadet Whittaker, the colored man whose West Point experiences are familiar to all, lectured at Athens on last Tuesday night. His subject was, "Ears and the color line at West Point.' Hon. A. H. Stephens arrived in Columbus at 1:40 o clock Tuesday afternoon, and was met by a committee of citizens composed of Messrs, W. H. Young, J. M. McNeil, John King, C. B. Grimes, G. Gunby Jordan, Reese Crawford, Porter Ingram, and C. A. Redd, who accompanied him to the Rankin House, where he rested Tuesday night. He addressed the citizens last night at the Opera House, which was packed to its utmost limits, the ladies turning out to greet the next Governor of Georgia in numbers. At the preliminary trial of Frank Sims, Jr., for the stabbing of Mr. Hollis, at Cusseta, held on Saturday last, the defendant was held to bail in the sum of $750 to answer the charge of assault with intent to murder, and was committed in default of the same. Hollis is in a most critical condition, but his relatives and friends are more hopeful than ever of his recovery. Judge L. P. D. Warren, of Albany, and brother of Hon. Josiah L. Warren, of Savannah, died of consumption at his home in Albany, on Sunday morning last. He was born in Twiggs county on the 22d October, 1828, and in 1816 was admitted to the bar by special act of the Legislature before he was of age In all the relations of life, social and professional, he was a man of uncompromising integrity and decided character. His funeral took place Monday morning, the members of the Albany bar acting as pall bearers, and the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a bright member, buried him with Masonic honora The Commissioners of Oconee county have decided not to issue atiy more licenses to sell liquor. The Walton News says a rock thrown by one of the blasts on the railroad extension last week went through a window of a house near by, striking Mr. W. A. Bain on the head and killing him instantly. There are ninety prisoners in Fulton county jail, and the institution is about full. The crops in the vicinity of Crawfordville have been injured 30 per cent. by the storm. The Georgia Railroad Company have de" clared a quarterly dividend of $2 75 per share, payable after October 15. Carroll county has voted for fence by a large majority. Monroe Advertiser: "Four persons have been killed in Dodge county within a month. Dodge county is a good county to dodge. The receiver of the broken Bank of Rome has paid into the State Treasury on the account of the State, another $2,000. making in all $25.paid in'so far, leaving a balance of $26,is 98 still due the State. When the war closed the High Shoals Fao very runed one hundred thousand Confederate bonds that have been lying in the safe for sev euteen years. a regarded as worthless. The other Mr. Geo. W. Felker took them to Atlanta and sold the pile for $650 in curreacy. It's an iii wind that blows nobody good" was verified in the experience of a Sumter county farmer, who says, that all the ears of corn at were pointed in the direction the wind caree from Saturday night were already shucked when he got up Sunday morning. the wind heat blow the shucks back, leaving ear exposed The grand jury of Monroe county. in its BODER general pre sentment, say: "We congrathiate our people for the evidence of mercy the blessings showered in rich profusion 4 them the present year in the way of dient harvests freedom from epidemics, arthemani estations among people support good order, for the