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General Notes- Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson announces that he will not lecture next winter. One paper in Texas alludes to another as “ that attenuated spider.” The Wisconsin Republican State Conten tion is called, to be held at Madison on Wednesday, August 27. The fanners’ granges in Iowa will hold a State Contention in Dee Moines on Wednes day, August 13. Chief Justice Batler of Connecticnt be queathed his taluable library to the Fairfield county bar. Cleveland. Ohio if happy in the assurance that it shall speedily hate a new opera house, with all the latest improvements. A valuable illustrated work on * -The Oreat Workshops of France” is promised by Os good A Co. Norwegian girls, who have been doing kitchen work in Iowa, at $3.50 a week, are hiring ont to work in the harvest fields at $2 to $3 a day. Fire alarms in Newbnryport, Maas., are hereafter to be given by»steam gongs on man ufacturing establishments, ewhich will sound the number of the ward. Gen. William F. Barry has rescinded his or£ der iorbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors at Fortress Monroe, and thirsty Summer visi tors feel more at liberty. A court in Grayson County, Texas, has sent one man to prison for fourteen years for .stealing a horse, and imprisoned another for five years for committing a murder. Canadian papers note regretfully the fact that the Governor General did not issue a proclamation inviting the people to observe Dominion Day as a public holiday. Two old gentleman met casually in a store Mass., a " St.Louis Railway. CENTRAL SHORT ROUTE! To tin West Dl Mvest SUMMER SCHEDULE, 1873. TO MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK. Leave Attest* 8:30 a. M. 10.-00 r. x. Arrive Chetteneogo. 4:28 r. x. 6:00 A. x. Arrive Naabvitte... 1.30 a. m. 12 :16 T. M. LeaveKeehvine.... 1:46 a. x. 12:30p.M. Arrive McKenzie... 7:50 a. m. 6:60 p. m. Arrive Memphie... 3:16 p. m. 3:30 4 7:00 p. M. 1 :U5 a. M. 8:30 a. M. Arrive Little Bock.. 6:16 a. m. 7:30 r. m. TO ST. LOUIS AND THE WEST. Leeve Atlanta. 8:30 a. m. 10:00 p. M. Arrive Chattanooga. 4:28 r. X. 6:00 a. m. Arrive Neehrilte.... 1:30 a. x. 12:16 r. x. Leeve Meehviile.... 1:45 a. X. 12:30p.m. 7:00p.m. Arrive Union City.. 9:50 a. x. 7:35 p. x. 3:00 a. m. Arrive Colnmbu*.. .11:00 a. x. H :40 p. x. 4:10 a. x. Arrive St. Louie.... 8:55 p. x. 7.00 A. x. 4:20 p. m. TO CHICA00 AND THE HORTHWEST. Leave Atlente....... 8:30 A. x. 10:00 p. m. Arrive Chattanooga. 4:28 p. x. 6:00 a. x. Arrive Meehviile... 1:30a.m. 12:15p.m. Leeve KeahviHe.... 1:45 a. x. 12:20 p. m. 7 00 a. x. Arrive Union City.: 9:50 a. m. 7:36 p.m, 3:00 a. m. Arrive Colambue... 11:0O a. x. 8:40 p. x. 4:10 a. x. Arrive Chicago 7:57 a. m. 4:45 p. x. 7:67 a. m. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Southern Department COMPRISING THE 8T\TES OF GEORGIA, H. All S. CAROLINA, E. FLORIDA AND E.TENN, OF THE OLD AND RELIABLE NEW ORLEANS MUTUALMtalittatoi rum ipr Route in Salem, Mass., a few days ago, who were prisoners together in Dartmoor Prison in 1814*15, and had not beiore met since that time. The pay of the Providence police has been increased. The captain gets $1,500 per year; roundsmen, $3 25 per day, and patrolmen, $2 75 per day, or, if they have served over two years, $3 per day. One of the Aldermen of St. Louis is held up by a city paper as one who “does a larger business in expressing his opinions, on a smaller amount of intellectual capital, than any other man in seven States.'* Two hundred men in Stamford, Conn., are reported to have formed a building associa tion on a new plan. Each member pays $3 a week, and as fast as houses are built, lots are drawn to see who shall be the possessors. A New Hampshire paper says that imme diately after the passage of the Salary bill. Senator Cragin declined to accept the back pay. Probably he will now turn it over for mally into the Treasury, in view of the recent decision. A young Texas man, who was kept on jury duty forty-eight hoars, complains that he got seven letters from his wire inquiring why he stayed away ao long, and that he had a very affecting interview with his mother-in- law as soon as he was released. A little girl three years old, in Erie county, Pennsylvania, is said to reproduce correctly upon a raelodeon any tune she hears played once, although she has never received any instruction. It requires too innch of an effort to believe such a story in this warm weather. A conscientious Pittsburgh man promised his wife the other day that he wouldn’t drink another drop as long as he had a hair on his head. That very night he had his head shaved smooth, and then got drank with a proud consciousness of having faithfully kept his promise. The following notice is said to have been recently found posted in the vestibule of a church in Scotland: “The person who stole *• Songs of the Sanctuary ’ from pew No. 32, should improve the opportunity of singing them here, as be will have no occasion to sing them hereafter.’ A nicely dressed gentleman applied for a marriage license at Dover, Tennessee, last week, but when he spoke the lady’s name, the polite connty clerk suggested that if it was all the same to him, he would prefer that he would name some other party, as the one mentioned hud become his wife the previous evening. A drummer for a house in Albany took a carrier-pigeon with him to Poughkeepsie, and on Tuesday afternoon at 4:12 o’clock set him free trom the roof of a hotel with his orders tied to its leg. The bird rose, made a few circles in the air, and disappeared. It reached Albany at 6:20 the same evening. The Bnreau Veritas of Brussels gives a list of maritime disasters to vessels of all nations reported for the month of April last, includ ing 155 sailing vessels and filteen steamers to tally lost. Oi these seventy-five sailing ves sels and eight steamers were English, and nine sailing vessels and four steamers Ameri can. In the total number, thirty-one sailing vessels reported missing are classed among the lost. In digging a well in White Plains, Nevada, recently, a stream of water of boiling beat was reached at a depth of eigbty-two feet. This is probably the first artifical well of boil ing water ever made. An exhibition is announced in Paris of specimens of the art of “padding,” and of other methods whereby artificial beanty and unreal charms are successfully imposed upon credulous and devoted men. It is suggested that persons who go about with their Cashmere shawls turned inside out to show that they are genuine, should adopt the custom of walking on their heads, to show that their boots are soled. A Chicago paper lately fell into the trifling error of giving its readers a profound criti cism on a performance of the overture of “Tannahauser,” when it was the overture to “William Tell’ which was performed. The Shah of Persia is prohibited by eti quette from ever walking np stairs, and be is therefore reduced to the necessity of sleeping perpetually on the ground floor, unless there should happen to be an elevator handy. The culture of rice is prohibited within one mile of Savannah, the radius being known as the “dry culture limits.” Twenty-three squat ters were arrested the other day for violating this prohibition, and ordered to destroy the growing ctop. The old Tabard Inn, in the borough of 8outhwark London, from whence Chaucer’s Pilrims started Tor the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at Canterbury, is advertised for sals. A semi-converted Japanese gentleman, just before his death, is reported to have begged that a Bible and a book of Confucius might be buried with him, as he believed “the t is the same in both.” An indignation meeting of gas-takers in South Boston has really persuaded the com pany that it is advisable to come down twenty-five cents a thousand in the price. Retribution overtakes them sometimes. North Crrolina paper speaks of s farmer’s wife who milked several cows a few days ago, then went to the spring, and there shortly after was found in the last agonies of death. Capt. Estes, of a Lake Ontario steam-tug, reports that while he was on his way np the lake a few nights ago, there suddenly ap peared into view the City of Oswego—thirty one miles distant—with the gas-light in the streets and all the appearauces that a bril liantly-ligbted town would present from a bill in the inmrdiate vicinity at night. The light-house at Oswego also, as well a dozen others on the lake shore below as far as Bsckett’s Hefbor, were distinctly seen. The dhpUf. he ajserts, was witnessed for several «*miv , nd 'ucu slowly fit*d into darkaeo. TO LOUISVILLE, KY., AND THE EAST. Leave Atlente 8:30 a. x. 10:00 r. x. Arrive Chettenooge. 4:28 p. m. 6:00 a. m. Arrive Neehvllle... 1:30 a. m. 12:16p.m. Leeve Nashville.... 6:00 a. x. 1:35 P. x. Arrive Louisville-.. 2:25 r. x. 10:16 p. x. MarCsll for your tickst* to Memphis snd Little Bock vie Chettenooge end McKenzie, Tenn. To 8t. Louis, Chicago snd the Northwest, vis Chattanooga, Nashville snd Columbus. To Philadelphia. New York, Boston end the East, vie Nashville end Louisville. For farther information, address ALBERT B. WRENN, Southeastern Passenger Agent, Office No. 4 Kimball House—P. O. Box 253. W. L. DAN LEY. General Poasenger end Ticket Agt. J. W. THOMAS, General Bup’t, Nashville. Tenn. junel5-tf (Fire) Insurance Co. (ESTABLISHED A. D. 1815.) SECURED BY RE-INSURANCE IN TWO FIRST-CLASS NEW ORLEANS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. COMBINED CASH ASSETS, $2,773,672 63! Losses Adjusted with Liberality and Paid Promptly. HAS THE BEST SHUTTLE.! NO FRICTION ON TRo 13 oh) To i XX. 1 “ FAMILY” HAS THE ®BEST TENSION! NO STRAIN ON The Thread! FAVORITE I NO DEPENDENCE On Springs ! 1 NO CONCEALED MACHINERY: : S E W I NO ITS MOTION 1st Positive. ITS MACHINERY i m simfxje: MACHINE! BOARD OF REFERENCE. {BY FBZIMXS8XOU. I A. AUSTELL President First National Bank. JOHN T. GRANT President Citizens’ Bank. JAMES M. BALL President State National Bank. JOSEPH E BROWN President Western and Atlantic Railroad. BENJAMIN E. CRANE President Chamber of Commerce. W. L. GOLDSMITH Comptroller General. JOHN NEAL Director of the First National Bank. A. K. Merchant. DAVID MAYER of Cohen & Co E. W. MARSH °f Moore* Marsh. W. B. LOWE of W. B. Lowe & Co. A. C. WYLY. of A. C. & B. F. Wyly. H. H. BOYLSTON of Crane, Boylston * Co. C. L. RED WINE of Redwine * Fox. THOMAS M. CLARKE of T. M. Clarke * Co. A. J. McBRIDE , Of McBride * Co. HENRY BANKS of Henry Banks * Son. JOHN R. WALLACE of Wallace & Fowler. JOHN H. FLYNN of Stephens * Flynn. E P CHAMBERLIN of Chamberlin, Boynton * Co. W. J. GARRETT of Garrett & Bro. G T. DODD °f P* * G. T. Dodd * Co. J W. RUCKER °f Chapman, Rucker * Co. J. L. WINTER. Tobacconist. MARK W. JOHNSON Agricultural Implements, etc. GEORGE W. ADAIR Real Estate Agent. JOHN H. JAMES .Banker. PERINO BROWN Cashier Citizens Bank. W. H. TULLER Cashier First National Bank. J. W. GOLDSMITH CaBhier Georgia Banking and Trust Company. Auditing Committee and Committee on Claims. PERINO BROWN Cashier Citizens’ Bank. W. H. TULLER Cashier First National Bank. J W. GOLDSMITH Cashier Georgia Banking and Trust Company. PETER LYNCH, 92 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCER, And Wholesale Liquor Dealer, and Dealer in ftUMWARI, CROCKERY, PROVISIONS, COUNTRY PRODUCE, AC. Gibson’s Fine Whiskies made a specialty in the Liquor line. Jnst receiving now a large lot of Seed Irish Potatoes, Land ret h’s Carden Seeds, Onion Sets, Gardenin Tools, Ac. Terms CASH. All Northern Points and Virginia Springs. I8ITORS TO THE VIRGINIA 8PBING8, NORTHERN CITIES, NIAGARA FALLS, AND ALL NEW ENG- lend Summer Beaorta, should note carefully the Price Lieta and Time Cards of thia Line—iu choice of ALL RAIL AND BAY LINE ROUTES! its unbroken movement by either, end abeence of all disagreeable and midnight changes—and be certain and buy their ticketa via Wilmingtou, and leave Atlanta by 8 o'clock a. x. train for Augusta, connecting there with Through Sleeping Cars to Wilmington and Through Trains to Baltimore, ALT. RAIL, or to Portsmouth for BAY LINE. 8ee Time Cards, Price Lists and small bills, for all information. Tickets on sale at all hours at Union Passenger Depot. A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. F. M. CLARKE, Assistant General Passenger Agent. junel7«dlm H. M. COTTINGHAM. Gen'l Western Ageo* Tie Great Mem Freight aid Passenger ROUTE TO AND FROM NEW YORK Via Savannah, Georgia. _ YORK, to connection with the CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA, EVERY TUE8DAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY. Make aa quick time and have superior accommodations to anv Steamships on the Southern coaat^ 4®- THROUGH FREIGHT carried at as LOW BATES as any other route. All claims for loss, damage or overcharge settled promptly. PASSAGE FE0M ATLANTA TO NEW Y0BK, $27 50, MEALS AND 8TATE ROOMS INCLUDED. All other information furnished by application to the undersigned. GEORGE A. Nl’CLESKEY, Traveling Agent, Steamship Co.’s 1 ine!4-d3m Office, No. 4 Kimball House. Bath Tubs for the million! WHO WOULD BE WITHOUT A BATH TUB? WHEN YOU CAN GET A GOOD, SUBSTANTIAL AND WELL-LINED BATH TUB, COMPLETE, WITH PLUG TO LET OUT THE WATER, FOE $10. ONLY $10. Agents Wanted.. Address WEED S. M. CO., june!5-dlm Atlanta, Ga. JAMES H. LOW, (Formerly Wood A Low, and late President La. Equitable Life Ins. Co., N. Orleaus,) General Manager Southern Department. Atlanta, r>. o. Box xoe. ISRAEL PUTNAM, Agent, Office No. 9 James’ Bank Block, Whitehall street, Georgia. WILLIS WALKER. FRANKLIN & El HBERG, Nos. 14 and 16 Whitehall Street. r-:t- Also, KEFBIGEKATOKS, ICE CBEAM FREEZERS, PUMPS, RAMS, GAS FIX TURES, CHANDELIERS, METAL ROOFING. junel-tf SEAY A WALKER, ROME, OA. MANUFACTURERS OF COPPER STILLS, PLUMBING GAS AND 8TEAM FITTING, ! A2TD EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOB Rote Hollow Ware aM Store Manufacturing Company. All Kinds or Brass aafl Iron Gasliags KADE TO ORDER. M>2d (ESTABLISHED IH 1854.) m 'w s » Wholesale Confectioner, STEAM Gaud; anil Cracker Mamifactory, AND DEALER IN Fruits, Nuts and Preserves. — ALSO — A. STEWART. . D. ADSTIR- E. L. WXKHAM Stewart, Austin & Co.. Merchant Millers, Atlanta 1 Geornia. MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED FFF, FF, AND FAMILY Brenda of Flour. on the market u soon aa the grain ia in condi* tton to be gjonnd; and wa announce with pleasure, hat wa have engaged the services of Mr. C. B. LIN as Traveling Agent. jy*J-12t FOR SALE Tie WWtflBia Flonrim Mills. Toys, Willow Ware, Whitehall Street, dfce., J. W. BURKE <St CO. PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, —AND— BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS, MACON AND ATLANTA. Wholesale and Retail. Choice Note and Letter Paper, All Kinds of fine fancy Tinted Paper, A large variety and heavy stock of Envelope*, Beautiful styles of Initial Paper, Blank Books, Memorandum Books, Pass Books, Full Board Records, A Fine Assortment of Twine. RTED STOCK AND A NEW AND SPLENDIDLY ASSO Of everything in the Book and Stationery Line. Call and see us. J. W. BURKE & CO., July2 Corner Alabama and Whitehall streets, Atlanta, Ga. National INSURANCE Life mmrwt The United States of America, Atlanta, march22d2m Ga orgia The Scofield Rolling ATLANTA, - - - Company, GEORGIA, MANUFACTURERS OF Mait M Bar Iroa, Fisk Bar, Spikes, Bolts, Nats, Etc. LARGE STOCK constantly on hand, and ordera for Wrought, Cast and Scrap Iron, delivered at tha Work*, a promptly filled. Liberal prioes allowed Works, in exchange for Sat Iron. HAULINB AND SHIPPIN6 BRAIN And its manufactures, not enjoyed by other Mill*. It baa a fine reputation, and ia now iu complete order and doing a good business. Parties who desire to invest in Georgia could not And a better opportunity than ia hare presented, aa they win by this purchase immediately step into a fully organized and profitable business. The property will he »old on very reasonable terms. For particular* apply to W. C. Til,TON & CO., jyS-12t • Taiton, Ga. RE-ROLLED IRON RAILS! Warranted equal to any made. A limited quantity of NEW HAILS made on short notice. SOUTHERN RAILROAD MEN Are especially invited to call at our Works and examine the quality of our RAILS, and the way that they are manfactnred. Capacity of the Works, 15,000 Tons per Annum. Offloo and Warehouao a t t lx o Worltn’ ~W~ftwli Ington, D. O. Cash Capital $1,000,000! Jf'UUi PAID. Cash Assets .... BRANCH omc*. Philadelphia, where the buelneM of the Company 1, trmnacted. - $2,563,911.63. OFFIGIRIt E. A. ROLLINS President. JAY COOKE, Chairman Finance and Executive Committee. HD. COOKE, (Waehington) Vice-President EMMEBSON W. PEET Vice-President and Actuary JOHN M. BUTLER, Secretary FRANCIS] GURNEY SMITH, M. D. Medical Director WM. E. CHANDLER, (Washington,) Attorney. JAYCOOlit, 1 * 8, mNCKLkroJutr, CLARBNCK H. CLA&K, QEOBOK P. TYLKB, WM. G. MOBEHKAD. JOHH W. ELLIS, H - PAHNESTOCX, L. SCOFIELD, Jr., Superintendent and Secretary. imiy28-tf SCOFIELD, Preaident and Treasurer. BENJAMIN B. LAY, of Atlanta, General Agent for Georgia. Ag*nt* wanted In every Town end county in the State. Addrees— m»y 13-d-tf. COL. B. D. LAY, General Agent, at National Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia.