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by the people. It is thought by infcoy that the janl* lues's busiuessao<i time m occupied in sundry small purchases of rags, hides, etc., trom old and decrepid negroes, or little ne groes who gather them up in small quanti ties from the gutters and back yards. This is not a fact There is different classes and grades of all articles in every branch of bu siness, and more especially so in this busi ness. The junk men bny most if not all of their stock from other merchants, who bny tbem up from first bauds. They, therefore, do not come in contact with the class of sell ers, at least that that a correspondent under the title of “Justice,” m the Herald of Sat urday last tells about. rhejank dealers do not end their business or their importance simply with junk materia*, but they have connected with their business the paper, paper bags, twines, rope, etc., trade of oar city, and with some of them the field of their operations extend over a variety of articles, and have sales rooms and. stocks entitled to especial notico-ntid consideration. Stock Report. BY A LEADING 8TOCK DEALER. At the clo»e of the war accommodations for stock were comparatively nothing—having only one livery and feed stable, which would accommodate 150 head of mules and horses. Up to that time not more than 5,000 head of males and horses passing through our city during one season. Now we have accommo dation for 4,000 bead. Herewith give a list of our stable and stock-yard men: O. H. Jones «fc Co., Clint Taylor, L. P. Ba ker and Jo. Wooten. Stock-yffrds, Fields, Wetherspoou & Co., Jones & Beatie, Taylor, Latham A Co., (now constructing on the Ma con Railroad.) Last season they were fed with our stable men over fifty thousand head of horses and mules, and we can safely say there were 20,000 heads changed hands here last season One Kentuckian bought and shipped at this place lust season 1,100 bend. The epizootic during tbe months of Novem ber and December caused a great fall off hist season. : . f HOG TRADE. Before the war but few hogs changed hands here. It has become (or grown) almost be yond our calculations. At a rough guess we will say that 100,000 head were fed in our stock-pens last season. Several days there were from 2,000 to 4,000 in the yards at a time. Out of the above numbers there were 20,000 sold here to planters and retail dealers to be packed in the surrounding country. We can safely say that there were 20,000 more slaughtered here for fresh eating and packing purposes. We predict that there will ue 20,1 MiO Log* packed, here if they can l>e bought at 5c, grofcs— nothing weighing under 225 Jbs. A wZf CATTLE TRADE. This branch of tbo trade has increased wonderfully—as much or more than any other branch, as our citizens are beginning to learu that so much hog meat is not so essential for life. We w ill make no figures on this branch of the trade. It is openedjfrom one season to another. Our friends, Fields, Wetherspoou & Co. are receiving cattle every week from Nashville and Middle Tennessee two to three cars per week, all sold on arrival to our butchers. The SHEEP TRADE has increased with equal position to the other branches. Our prediction is that the stock trade will be much larger this season than ever before. Oar stock lriends in tbe West say the supply of stock is good, and crops never better. We must say that the cotton crop in Middle and Upper Georgia is good. Taken all into consideration, we look for a good trade this season. Boot and Shoe Trade. lhe boot and shoe trade of Atlanta has in creased forty per cent this year over last. Tbe shipment of Loots and shoes for the full trade is far in advance of any previous year. Be tween 10,000 and 12,000 cases of shoes have been shipped the present fall ; about 8,000 were shipped last fall. The trade is reaching out to Alabama, Ten nessee, South Carolina and North Carolina. The prominent dealers are Markham A Holder- ness, Henry Barks & Son, G. H. A A. W. Force, and others. Though Messrs. Moore <fc Marsh, and M. C. & J. F. Kiser A Co. are properly dry goods merchant**, the immense business they do in this line entitles them to mention under this head as well as dry goods. Markham A Holderness commenced tbe wholesale Boot and Shoe business in this city about one year since. Tbe increase of their business this year over that of last year is more than one hundred per cent. Which shows certainly a more rapid increase of trade than an expose of any other shoe house in the city would demonstrate. They are now selling goods to five States. Their success speaks more for their goods and for themselves than any commendatory indorsement that we could give. Hence, we will only add that they have received nothing more than they deserve. Mr. Markham has had five years experience in the business and is a good buyer and thoroughly versed in all tbe lines pertaining to this business. They intend adding capital to the business and making an extensive enlargement this fall. They occupy one of the centre stores in tbe Republic Block on Pryor street, opposite the H. I. Kimball House. Oar Drag Trade. Not until lately could it be said that Atlanta, iu keepiug with its other great branches of commercial industry, established a trade in drugs commensurate with her progress. The greater distance from the main markets of merchandise and the comparative nearness of our sister cities was undoubtedly one cause, and for a numbei of years the lack of capital the other. Never since the birth of the pro gress of oar city, did there appear such dire mishaps as characterized the drug trade—a singular commercial fatality indeed, only to be followed in the natural order of things bv a vigorous growth and substantial basis; and a basis formed too upon hard earned capital, until now; even in the drag trade Atlanta’s representatives permeate every section of Georgia and many sections of Alabama, Ten nessee and Florida, inducing merchants to supply themselves with this certain line of goods at figures sufficiently low to make it their object to buy from us. Our great dis tance from seaports would seem to preclude the possibility of a competition with our sis ter cities, were it not that railroad facilities enable us to purchase in large quantities, thus offering splendid inducements to mer chants wanting a fall supply of all that a first class drug trade can offer. It is not our purpose to particularize or dis criminate in this notice, either for or agaiost any house doing business; sufficient there fore that we call general attention to the men of enteiprise who sake known their wants in the Herald. To this hard laboring and energetic cIam of oar merchant*, we beg to call especial atten tion-knowing full well that, without much capital, and the mishaps of tbe late war bang ing over them, the 6troggle has been long and the fight a tough one indeed. As they are, speak for thsenselves, and are in keeping with the mammoth enterprise of oar great city. The extent of this branch of industry is felt in every section of Georgia; or would Savannah and Augusta strive to retain what was once their especial monopoly? Their representative, in the drug way, meet us in open field, and so far it seems that our success is certain. It is not capital surely. What is it? you ask. We answer that it is pluck and energy, the wealth and stamina of a people bound to win. Jackson’s Balsam has proven itself to be just what it claims to be—a complete master of pair. P. Van Alstine, Proprietor, Barnsville, Ga. The Great Southern Stove Hoaie. We have no doubt Mr. L. B. Langford, whose advertisement appears in our paper this morning, has tbe largest stock of goods in his line of any house South of Louisville. He is a working man, full of indomitable energy. He began business here in 1865 with less than fifty dollars; now he has tbe largest stock in his line of business ever seen iu this country, He Las jast fitted up that very convenient and well located store, 09 Whitehall street, lately occupied by Messrs. Guilford, Wood A Co., and is now’ moving into it He has any amount of very handsome goods, which will be very handsomely arranged in his new store; and he invites the ladies specially to call and look at hem. And we take pleasure in calling the atten tion of merchants who trade to this city. He is prepared to do a large jobbing trade, and ^offers special inducements. We have no doubt goods can be purchased from him at wholsale upon as good terms as any where else. It is worth while to examine this mat ter. Furniture Trade. Amount of furniture sold annually will reach $300,000, with an increased demand, which will probably reach $400,000 for the coming year. Large per cent, of the above is in common and medium goods, most of which is manufactured in Atlanta, and in order to compete with the West is sold at very short profits. Manufacturers and dealers are making extensive preparations for a heavy fall and winter trade, and Atlanta will offer for the season of ‘’73 and ’74” a large and better assortment than ever heretofore, a large portion of which is selected with a view of supplying merchants and (\ealers elsewhere, j In this respect Atlanta often? superior induce- meDts to the Wes:, with a guaranteed price list fuliy as low, and a difference from fitteen to twenty per cent in freights in favor of the former. This alone should induce thinking men to patronize home industry, and help to foster and support our manufacturing inter est to attain that success so readily achieved in New England and the great West The Toltarro Trade. We shall call the tobacco trade the pioneer trade of Atlanta. Iu tbe first place the tobacco merchants inaugurated the system of “drum mers” in this city, and if we mistake not Char- i ley Meador was the firot drummer who ever j left Atlanta. Even now the Atlanta tobacco men sell their goods in scores of towns that I do not buy another item of trade from Atlanta, ! their travelers covering four States. The j trade by our best statistics reaches fully $2,000,000 a year, and is constantly growing. I The tobacco merchants stand exceptionally high in tbe financial registers. Meador Bros., one of the oldest houses in Atlanta, is one of ! the best, aud headed by young men, will be- i come in the years ahead of us, a pride to Georgia as well as to Atlanta. Messrs. Boroughs A Wing, another firm of j young men, are pushing their trade way up j into the “hundred thousand,’' and making j character and fortunes. They probably sell ' as much snuff, of which they make a specialty, as any four houses in Georgia. OUR MANUFACTURERS. What Atlanta is Doing in the “Producing” Way. A GLIMPSE AT OUR LEADING MANU FACTORIES. Tl»e Georgia .Mute Lottery. A leading institution of Atlanta, and one highly to be commended is the Georgia State Lottery. The law authorizing the establishment and conduct of this Lottery was passed by the Legislature of 1866, when Charles J. Jenkins was Governor, and the Act from its benevo lent promise received his hearty approval. The object of the grant was to afford the means of starting and perpetuating an Or phan’s Free School, and for the benefit of tbe children of the State, a large portion of the rising generation being from the loss of for tune or lathers by tbe war, utterly unable to iaise the wherewithal to pay tuition fees, anJ to aid in the support of needy and deserving widows who had been wrecketkby the war. To show how faithfully the theory of the grant nus been cajtied oat, %e need bat 8*y that there has been, first and last, over 800 marticulates in the school, educated under the tuition of such noble women as Mrs. Judge E. Y. Hill, Mrs. Judge W. T. Colquitt, Mrs. ; Greenlee Butler, Mrs. T. J. Boen, Mrs. Rea- j gan. Miss Bomar, Miss Hoyle and others, j There are now employed five teachers, with j two hundred pupils in attendance, and the school was never more prosperous. Besides the tuition, the books, stationery, and ivery- thing of the kind is furnished free. All this is supported without a single draft upon any public treasury, without a single appeal to public charity, without a single assessment upon any corporation. A fairly conducted legitimate Lottery, conducted openly by gentlemen of absolute integrity of intention and action, is the so'e treasury from which all funds are drawn. There is scarcely any computing the extent to which this in stitution may grow. It is carefully managed, the funds are prudently invested, and the wnole scheme is successfully working. The gentlemen who control its matters have high ideas and enlarged aspirations for the Or phans School, and it may before many years assume proportions that will challenge the admiration of the whole people of Georgia. The Trustees of the institution, Mrs. Wil son, of Atlanta, widow of Col. W. T. Wilson, of the 7th Georgia regiment, killed at the se cond Manassas; Mrs. Williams, widow of Gen. Chas. Williams; Mrs. Doles, widow of Gen. Doles, killed at Cold Ilatbor; Mrs. Pearson, widow of Major C. G. Pear«on, killed at Rich mond; Mrs. Pember, matron of Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond. Under these trustees, its able Atlanta board of management, it is bound to succeed. It is very popular indeed with the people, and the BAles of tickets run up to sometimes 6,000 or 8,000 a day. The Drawings are conducted with the utmost fairness, and prizes cashed promptly, and those who wish to patronize lotteries will fred the “Georgia State” the best they can find. Study over their several schemes, and you will find an opening for an investment any where from 25 cents to $20. It is not at all no frequent for the Lottery to pay $10,000 in prizes in a siugle week. McConnellsville, York county, S. C. P. Van Alhtine—Sir: Enclosed find two dollars, f<»r which yon will send mo two one dollar bottles of Jackson’s Magic Balsam. Send promptly to my address. I am also re quested by a practicing physician iu this neighborhood to inquire of you whether you make any deduction in price to physicians who wish to introduce said Balsam into their practice. Very respectfully yours, Rev. J. Lorov Wilson. School Books.—We ask special attention to the advertisement of Dr. S. H. Stout. He is an old school teacher, highly educated and talented, aod a Southern man of high char acter. He knows what a good school book is as well as any man. Teachers and others would do well to consult with him by letter or otherwise. Wm. Stevens, at Tho Rock, Upson county, Ga., has a son who has been afflicted with a severe scrofula swelling as large as a hen egg for the last two years. Two bottles of Jack- son's Balsam has entirety removed the swell ing, and to use the woTds of his kinfolks, “he is getting as fat as a pig.” Jackson’s Magic Balsam is making its way by the power of its own excellence. The drug stores and general stores sell it, and the proprietor gives it away. Ho has an agent on the railroad giving it to passengers. J. Woods, of Mucen, says hw son was cured of a severe pain and swelling of his ankle by one 50 cent bottle of Jackson’s Balsam, after tbe different pbysicions had given him up as a confirmed ciipple. I Jackson's Magic Balsam is winning ho.*>tsof friends ami not one t-neuiv. While Atlanta has not any very immense manufactories that run into the millions, (save the Scofield Rolling Mill.) she has hun dreds of small and snug factories that give employment to thousands of mechanics, and add millioos to Atlanta’s capital. For in stance, flouring mills, that have a capacity of 1,000 barrels of wheat a day; a cracker factory, using eighteen barrels of flour per day, and shipping often 600 boxes of crackers per day; candy factories making six thousand pounds a day, of the very finest candy; plan ing mills and sash factories, working eighty to one hundred hands. These, and hundreds of other industries, combined with the rail road shops of several important roads, gives Atlanta a perfect wealth of strong-armed me chanics, and a wonderful producing power. Several important schemes are on foot and will be consummated during tbe present year, that will give us an unpetus in this healthy direction, hardly to be estimated. Of these, more anon. Below we present a par tial record of Atlanta's manufactories, and direct attention thereto: Block''* Candy Faelory. If we desired to take a stranger into ft sin gle establishment in this city to give him a full idea of Atlanta's prosperity, and an evi dence of that spirit that gave it its magical growth, we don’t know but that we should se lect Frank E. Block’s Candy Factory as that place. It is one of the largest and completest Candy Factory in the South, and in f«ct, the only French Candy Factory. Occupying two im mense buildings, every inch of which is oc cupied. ON THE FISRT FLOUR we find the office, the sample room and the packing rooms. Iu tbe front part may be seen clerks checking oft' orders, or exhibiting samples, while the back part is made lively by packing clerks and porters with huge elevators at command plying from ^cellar to garret, de livering to their hands packages of goods. On tbe second floor of the first room is the boil ing room, in which a dozen boilers, (some of them holding one thousand pounds of sugar, ) heated by steam, are bubbling away, attended by careful workmen. In another room are hundreds of moulds of all styles and patterns for the French candies, there handled by men whose wages run way down into the thou sands. In another room the candy rollers(some twenty in number) are at work, making the purest and best of candy. This room alone is capable of turning out 6,000 pounds a day of the best stick candy. In yet another room, men and women are at work making boxes for the candy, of which hundreds upon hundreds are daily needed. Passing from tbe box room we reach the packing room in which boys and women are engaged in packing tbe candy into boxes for the sales-room. Iu the next room we find THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF CHRISTMAS CANDIES, such as candy cats, dogs, horses, flowers, toys, etc., over which the children go into such ecstacies, and which have been aggregating all the year for the Holiday trade. Ia the last room, and which may be called the “gem room” of the establishment may be seen two candy artists making all the Christmas can dies, and building all thCM.ady toys; working here in Georgia to produce the same marvels in sugar that they did in Paris or Switzerland, or wherever they came from; and besides them there are four girls arranging the can dies, and pasting on the kiss verses, mottoes, etc. These artists are put to work the day alter Christmas getting ready a stock for the next Christmas rush. Mr. Block informs us that during some weeks in November and De cember he finds it absolutely impossible to pack the goods fast enough to fill orders. This trade is increasing every day. He sells to new territory every year, and beiDg the only French candy manufacturer in the South, frequently gets orders in one week from six different States. He is a courteous and elegant gentlemau, of high business qualifications, and a perfect master of his business in its every detail, and is destined to occupy a very important place in Atlanta’s commercial his- torv. Would that we had a dozen like him. Scofield’* Rolling Mill. The Rolling Mill lot is 40 acres. The build ing is 330 feet loDg, 180 feet wide and 52 feet high. The Foundry and hail Factory is 100 feet long and fifty feet wide. This Company has 11 furnaces in operation —6 heating and five puddling. The motive power is supplied with eleven boilers and eight engines, with 650 horse power. There are two squeezers, the Crocodile aud n new one, the Coffee Mill, weighing ten tons. Besides this there are nut cutters, bolt cut- tors, straightening machines and pinching machines. A new punchen cuts, four holes at the Bame time in the fish bar for the fish bar rails. Upon an average five car-loads of coal are used daily. The mill turns out upon an average 50 tons of finished rails, 5 tons of merchant iron, 20 tons of puddled iron, and 5 tons of spikes per day, or 15,000 tons of rails, 1,560 tons of merchant iron, 6,240 tons puddled iron and 1,565 tons spikes per annum. The Fish Bar iron is made here, and the Foundry makes all the castings needed lor the Company. The water is forced up from the Walton Spring branch, half a mile distance, at the rate of 150 i gallons per minute. The rese- voirs at the mill have a’capacity oi l,500 hogs heads. Several hundred operatives are em ployed, lo whom are paid over 810,000 per mouth, or $120,000 per annum for wages— upon an average of $600 to each hand. Have just purchased a new 100 horse-power engine, and are putting in an entire new train of rolls for merchant mill. Messrs. L. Scofield A Son have a largo store connected with the mill from which the ope ratives can purchase all their supplies from a hair pin to a beefsteak as cheap as elsewhere. It is a great convenience to the hands. The rolling mill is adding much to the ma terial wealth of our city, causing millions of dollars to flow into it. Mr. L. Scofield has enlarged and improved it, and under his experience and tact it is be coming more valuable than a gold mine. He has built fourteen rolling mills. To his ex perience is added indomitable energy and a- go-abead disposition. To such an enterprise all w'e wish is success. The regret is that we have bo few of them. We need more factories and more live men like Col. Scofield. L*wl»’ Cracker Factory. A year or two ago a young man of energy and rare ability, Mr. If. Lewis, saw that the surest and safest, if not the fastest, was by producing and making rather than by selling alone, determined to establish a cracker facto ry. It was an e xperiment that required pluck and nerve, but Mr. Lewis was equal to the emergency. Quietly but with indomitable energy be set to work building up ft trade, bnklng a barrel a day of flour, and then sell ing whut be bad baked: not becoming foolish in the flush of success, but moving cautious ly, prudently and firmly on, enlarging hi-* | trade no ta-ter thin his capital would permit or the demand suggest, until to-day he is shipping goods to four States, and getting as many orders as he can fill, although he has a capacity of twenty-two barrels of flour, or two hundred and twenty boxes of crackers per day. He makes an unsurpassable cracker of all grades, and can easily compete, freights considered, with any Western factory. He has a complete establishment, an immense building, capacity susceptible of indefinite enlargement. Not content with taking flour and adding an increased value of, say twenty per cent, to it, he has determined to go fur ther back and get a profit out of his flour. Hence, he has established a fine flouring mill with a capacity of 160 barrels per twenty four hours, aud grinds his own flour. In this business he has a leading partner, Mr. Hen drix, a gentleman of rare good sense and a miller of most excellent judgment. Mr. Lewis is a young man, but with an old man’s head on his shoulders. He is highly esteemed by all who know him, and in the commercial community is honored and es teemed. He is on his way to a princely for tune. His brother is lately associated with him and seems to be a chip off the same block. BY J. A. STEWART. To the Editors of the Herald: In compliance with your request I have to remark on the subject selected for me, that Atlanta’s first flouring mill, after a short ca reer of operation on a large scale, proved un profitable to its owners, and was closed by them in 1857. During the autumn of 1858 a small mill was put in operation near the pres ent rolling mill. It had a capacity of twenty- five barrels per day. The flour was popular and the mill made money until destroyed du ring the siege of Atlanta in 1864. Atlanta was then without a mill until the year 1867, one was put in operation that year. The business iu that line proved profitable, not only in Atlanta, but every where else in Georgia, for three or four years after the close of the war, so much go that a large number of mills w ere erected at favorable locations, all competing with Atlanta in the flour trade. But such are the advantages of Atlanta in tbe milling business, that no foreign competition has been able to retard its progress. The situation is so desirable that a mill of con siderable capacity was removed to Atlanta in the year 1871 from the city of Rome. The large mills in Marietta have not been re moved here yet; but the proprietors have found it necessary to establish their head quarters f:>r the sale of their flour in the city of Atlanta. There are now in this city three flouring mills in operation, and one idle; but which will be in operation soon. The product of the Marietta, or Kennesaw mills, is all sold iu Atlanta. The combiued capacity of all amounts to about nine hundred barrels per day of various grades, from strictly fancy aud choice down to extras and superfine, giving general satis faction as to quality and price, and bringing to Atlanta from $8,000 to 810,000 per day in cash. In fact we have flour so superior in quality that Western millers with twenty-five cents per barrel (as compared with freight on wheat) in favor of their fl^ur, can’t compete with us successfully. Our people prefer home ground flour from pure winter wheat, unmixed with spring, or corn meal. They are judges of flour, and when they find tbe best they patronize the mills that make it, to the extent of their wants. Thus supported the Atlanta millers feel sure of maintaining their present high reputation, and of securing lor Atlanta —her millers and merchants—an increasing demand for home-made flour. COKING AND HEATING STOVES—Every kind. Mantels and Grates, Tin Ware, Wood and Hollow Ware, Sheeet Iron, Zinc, House Furnishing Goods, Etc. lawson B. Langford, 69 West Side Whitehall Street. ATLANTA. CA. I MV HAVE ON HAND THE LARGEST STOCK OF GOODS IN MY LINE EVER 1 BOUGHT to this market. Stoves, Stoves, Stoves! Tbelebratod Charter Oak Stove—tbe n»o*t popular and most extensively used in tbe United Ststes. Agent for t!“ Atlanta" Cook Stove. Heating Stoves—all kinds and sizes. Have for sale all the most popular Stoves now ijbe market. ♦TOWARE—Of every kind and in tbe largest quantity. A full supply always on hand, and anything made to or^piomptly. Very Large Supply of Tin ,tc and Tinners Flndinn*. Sliest Iron: Sheet Zinc; Slab Zinc; Block Tin; Solder, Etc. A Lae and well selected stock of Light Hollow Ware; Wood Ware of every kind, such as Buckets, Taos, Wasbbrds, Flour Pails, Sugar Boxes, Wood Measures, all sizes; Brooms, Well Buckets, etc. A Largjiiantity of HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY. Silver Plated Ware Dojartment for tla.© Iiadloa: .Toilet Sets, etc., are well arranged forinspec- Mv las stock of handsome House Furnishing goods, Va tion. 1> Ladies are invited to call and see the.a. I havaid in a stock lor a large V H O L E S A L E TRADE. In my.ne, and invite the attention of merchants to the same. I can offer special inducements over any °*OrderS«>ra a distance will be promptly attended to. Goods skilfully packed, and every advantage of the m ? r ^m or moving into my new store, 69 Westaide of Whitehall street, lately occupied by Guilford, Wood L Co. Thenblic are invited to step in aud look at my new store and new goods. L. B. LANGFORD. HMCITT & BEUINERATHS. iS"o. 1*3 Marietta Street, ATLANTA, GA. LUMIIKS, STEAM AND GAS FITTERS, end contractors for rooting. Also Galvanized Pipe,Pumps, Goods. Have omand nnd to arrive adarge assortment ot lie pub lie Life Insurance Company. We clip the following from the Baltimore Christian Advocate. The Georgia depart ment is iu the able bauds of Mr. William Goodnow, with chief office iu the Republic Block: Common sense has at last been introduced into the business of life insurance, and the same business rule applied to it that we ex pect to find regulating every business trans actions done among business men, i, e., giv ing an equivalent for the money received. When you purchase a bill of goods, you do not expect to reduce its cost to you by partic ipating in tbe business of the Reller. Suppose, of two grocers seeking business, one should offer on every 8100 worth sold, to pay back to his customers a per centage at the end of the year, if successful, and the other should offer to sell the same goods ex actly for $70 to $80, without any “dividends,” who doubts that the latter would do all the business ? This is tbe view that the Republic Life In surance Company, of Chicago, takes of its business in giving so much insurance for so much money. In place of tbe high rates of the mutual companies, they have adopted a rate ranging from 25 to 50 per cent, lower, bringing the cost of insurance down to the true value and basis. By this method, the uncertainties of divi dends are done away with and the business made simple aud plain. By it, every applicant for life insurance can obtain 25 percent, more for an equal sum of money, or make a large saving in the cost on [ an equal amount of insuraoce. Its policy contracts are simple and plain, and free from the vexatious restrictions which encumber so many policy contracts. They have also brought into use a system of commercial insurance, tor the special ben efit of business men. If life and thought are capital, they should receive the same protec tion for the creditor as your house, or your stock of merchandise; and the Republic Life Insurance Company will protect it for you at about the same average cost. Before increasing your life insurance, give the plans of this popular Company an inves tigation. Heating and Cooking Stoves. Prominent among tbe Cooking Stoves we wonld mention the Improved Columbia Cook, whioh is nmufactured especially for Hunnicutt and Bellingraths, and is made of the best material, ad by the best skill that money can procure, and size, weight, and durability, power ot heat anctapidity of baking and roasting, it is withoui a rival. Also the Celebrated Six Hole Excelsior, with Eesevo- and Hot Closet. It is so arranged that when the Resevoiris removed two more holes are gaied, making a very LARGE SIX HOLE STOVE, with a very large closet beneath, making this t once the largest, heaviest, most durable, economical, convenient, and by far the Cheipest Stove of tlie Kind In the SArket. If yon want to keep warm this winter, call and get one of H. & B.'s T eto or Yulcan Heating Stoves, the very best he market affords; and in fact, you can get supplied in the house furnishing line, and anyhing you want, or want made, from an egg-beater to a 50 horse power boiler. Call on H. & 1, No. 1'2 MARIETTA ST., and they will supply you. seplltt VICTORIOUS. jt V LL American Sewing Machines have re ceived a medal at the late Vienna Ex position, bnt the HOWE was awarded the + GRAND DIPLOMA OF HONOR, the highest premium ever awarded a Sewing Machine in the known world. iThe New Howe. 55 £5 The new Howe is the lightest running machine extant, and the only machine that 5S will do all kinds of family work satisfactorily >■ and never get out of order. This company 2 is now manufacturing one thousand ma- S 3 * chines per day, being more than twice as many as any other company, and yet can P not supply the demand. This branch of tho insurance system has assumed great aud deserved importance throughout our eutire country, and, indeed, the civilized world. No argument can be ad duced against it, but, on the contrary, every thing is in its favor. It may bo said indeed, that a moral obligation rests upon every one, and particularly heads of families, to havo their lives insured. No better investment can possibly be made, provided care is taken in selecting a good company, managed judi ciously and conducted by honest, responsible gentlemen. Atlanta represents her lull share of compa nies. About tweuty-five companies are doing business m the State, nearly all of which are represented in Atlanta. Several, however, do but little busiuess in the State. Quite a num ber of the Atlanta agencies, and the general agencies of the State, and some of them for several of the adjoining States. Among the leading companies may be mentioned the Altna, of Hartford; Equitable, of New York; Life Association, of St. Louis; Southern, of Memphis; Piedmont and Arlington, of Vir ginia; Cottou State**, of Macon, and Repub- ( lie, of Chicago. These companies are repre- 1 j sented by gentlemen of ability nnd creditably to their respective companies. Atlanta is the ■ controlling aud distributing point tor several | States nnd aggregates here immense capital. I The Republic Lite Company have built a block J ot buildings in Atlanta, not surpassed in the 1 South. Onr agents are active, reliable and | able. The Howe Machine Company. I Are making greatp reparations to still further increase their already large business in Georgia, ! having very receitly bought out two other leading Sewing Machine Companies, besides all 1 the valuable improvements heretofore used in other machines, and combining all the good I points of the various machines, and abandoning the bad ones, have now produced a Sewing Machine Far Beyond Competition, Something that hie long been needed by the people, and has only to be seen to be appreciated. From these facts, this is necessarily the only perfect Machine ever yet offered to the public, being the result ot twenty-seven years’ experience of all tbe inventive genius ot the entire Sewing Machine fnternity, including Elias Howe, Jr., the original inventor. This new feature is now on exhibition at the Howe Machine Company’s offices throughout the State, and will be on exhibition at the State Fair. We guarantee the above machine to be substantially, as represented, and introducing it to tho public, ask a comparison of machines, and defy compe- THE HOWE MACHINE IIIMPiW. The Cheapest Furniture House in Georgia. 1 Jackson's Balsam, ns cured lor its hi Use it lor colic, cuts galls, brut 1 advertiser. Oormr Marietta and Peachtree streets, Atlanta Ga., manufacturers and dealers in all grades of bedroom, Parlor, Dining Room and Office Furniture. Fifty Thousand Dollars’ worth NOW iu store ’ All enquiries cheerfully and promptly answered. This is the largest, best select- l horse lotion has se-1 ed and CHEAPEST assortment of Furniture ever brought to Atlanta. Parties wishing to world-wide reputation, j save money WILL DO IT by calling before buying elsewhere. Goods carefully packed and it for wounds, sprains, shipped free of charge. rxuTTwnvnuv ,d you will bo its best P. II SNOOK. “• T - CAS1LLRERRV | sepH-tf P. O. Box St