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Facts and Fancies. Tin shirt floats are the fashion at Norwich, Connecticut. Mr. W. E. Sheridan has become leading man in the Park Theatre company, Brooklyn. The yellow fever is raging at Key West and the Dry Tortuga?. Oysters don’t thrive in Salt Lake. They take Ann Eliza s view of it. A new morning paper is talked of in Chi cago, under the editorship of ex-Scnator Doolittle. An English jury recently returned a verdict of “Not guilty; but we believe he broke into the house for all that.” * Something is the matter with a field of green com near Kansas City. The kernels shed blood instead of milk. Nilsson’s real name was Tornerujeim, but she couldn't risk the ruination of her voice every time 6he had to tell who she was. A commission has been appointed in France to “suggest some remedy” for earth quakes. A bank cashier iu Turner's Falls, Mass., is under indictment for balancing hia accounts on the Sabbath. An Omaha girl introduced a romantic mode of homicide. She stuffed her lover’s letteis down her throat until she suffocated. A Newton county (Ga.) widower advertises for a wile, and fastidiously adds that no school girl need apply. Lady equestrians should discard hoop- skirts. One of the Indiana Mrs. Smiths wore one, and did the most ot her riding at the horse’s heels. In the year 1872 there were 3,970 petitions presented for grants of letters patent in Eng land, and stamp duty of £5 was paid upon each. The Scientific American says that mothers- in-law never have the nose-bleed, simply be cause they move their jaws. Try it, all who are so afflicted. A Dutch amateur has bought in Brussels, for £5,000, a small picture of the “Marriage of Henry IV..” authentically declared to be the work of Rubens himself. A couple of California gamblers lodged six bullets in each other and then went the same way together, so the minister said. The first morning chore of a Montgomery, Alabama, clerk is to smear the curbstone with tar as an admonition to loungers. The Marshall, Texas, Iron Age gives the officials of that town particolar fits in a two- act drama in the blankest of blank verses. A Minnesota editor says that he had rather j pick a pocket than write a sounet Possibly he is more used to the former occupation. A New Jersey Justice said that* the word “testimony'' had an “r” in it, and the lawyer who disputed him was fined $10 for contempt of court. A Detroit bootblack has a bank account of s>l,100, much to the surprise of all who know how ranch blacking is required by the average Michigan boots. “Man never is. but always to be blest.” The hi an Antonio, Texas, Express was pre sented with a keg of lager. Still unsatisfied, the editor called for sausages. Mis3 Nellie Thurston still thirsts to cleave the “viewless causeways of the air,” and ascended the other day at Antwerp in her pet balloon. A gentleman reading a newspaper a day or two ago asked a friend, “Wnat’s tho meaning of Bohemian Diet, about which we hear so much of late?” “Free lunches,” was the reply. It is said that General Meyer, “Old Probs,” began life as a poor barefooted loy. Since then he has succeeded in covering his feet, but he has become barefooted on the top of his head. Daniel Pratt, the great “American traveler,” has made a very lair offer to General Butler, viz: to support Butler for Governor of Massa chusetts, it the latter will support him for President. A Louisiana man puts a twc-ounce can of nitro-glycerine inside of a chicken, tosses the chicken to an alligator, and the bayou which cnce knew the alligator knows him no more. In view of the Brooklyn frauds, the Chris tian Union asks: “ What next ? Is American society at last tunnelled by corruption, and slumbering on shafts and catacombs of rotten ness ? ” A Cincinnati serrent gill was looking through a key-hole, when some acid struck and destroyed her eye. She sued for dam ages, but the court only told her she might keep her damaged eye. A man who came home from a Saratoga ball in a crowded coach declared that be had no objection to rings on his fingers, but he had a decided objection to “belles on his toes.” We stand ready, says the Gallipolis Journal, to make one of a mob to fling dead cats at any young man who is caught in our streets between 5 o’clock a.m. and 11 p.m. whistling “Mollie Darling.” An unfortunate in Indianapolis, who lost several toes by a car-wheel, was consoled by an Irishman near by with “Whisht, there, you’; e making more noise than mony a man I’ve : een with his head off.” The memory of Philip Embury, the found er of the Methodist Church iu America, is to be honored by the erection of a massive qranit'* monument over his grave at Montpe lier, V«- rmont. A woman in the Joilet Penitentiary cut off her rig‘.t forefinger, tho other day, so that she wo uld not have to sew, but they ate going to keep her washing dishes. Citizens who came over in tho Mayflower will be glad to learn that Plymouth, Mass., has made a gain of $100,000 on her valuation last year.] A Pure Stimulant. Century Whisky! THE CENTURY WHISKIES A PURE ! ATLANTA DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN LIFE insurance Company. ASSETS JANUARY ltrr, 1873 $1,534,483 97 THE LEADING Life Insurance Company OF THE SOUTH. GEN. JOHN B. GORDON PRESIDENT ANNUAL INCOME ABOUT $1,000,000 T 1UEY ABE DIFFERENTLY PREPARED FROM . any Whitky in the market, and are driving many old, and until now favorite brand-;, out of the market, because tho principle upon which they are made ifl superior. They are first carefully distilled from se lected stock and stored away until uliey have attained a certain age, when they are by a. Peculiar Piocess, which extracts tbe fusel oil, but retaios tho essential oila of the grain. It is the fusel oil which possesses tbe poisonous properties, and imparts tbe sharp, acrid flavor noticeable in many brands of whisky; it is the ferment and essential oils which impart the rich, oily, mellow flavor, and it is principally in EXTRACTING THE FUSEL OIL, and retaining the essential oils, which constitutes the superiority and peculiarity of this process. At the time of re-distillation, the package! are thoroughly cleansed and steamed out, refilled with the perfected product, and again stored away to ripen and mellow with age, which Jt does in a much greater de gree tkao is possible without such treatment. We di vide it into different grades, according to age, desig nated as X, XX, XXX and XXXX, and the latter chal lenges comparison with ANY WHISKY, Without Regard to Age or Price. The almost universal testimony of those who have used the CENTURY WHISKIES is that there is an en tire absence of headachea and other disagreeable after effects so often experienced in tbe use of other brands. This is a direct consequence of the Parity of the Century Whiskies, and the impurity of many other brands. They are ABSOLUTELY PURE ; five prominent chemists cer tify to this fact, viz: Professor SILLMAN, State Chemistof Connecticut. Professor C. U. SHEPARD, Jn., State Chemist of South Carolina. Professor W. C. TILDEN, Washington, D. C. Professor JOHN DABBY, Professor A. MEANS, Allot whom agreo in pronouncing it “WITHOUT FAULT,’’ and “FREE FROM ANY DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCE WHATEVER.’’ It has now been some time in use for hospital and other medical purposes where stimulants are required, and it has been noted that in delicate and critical cases where used, that there was an entire absence of the nervous prostration and reaction which so often fol lows the use of ordinary stimulants. XXXX Century Whisky Received a medal and diploma of merit at the Vienna Exposition, being the only brand out of five on exhi bition thus honored. For sale by druggists and first-class dealers through out the United States; wholesale by H. K. THURBER k CO., General Agents, sep!9 Cm New York City. ECONOMY Is the Watchword of the Company. ROMP In adjusting and paying losses. GEORGIA State Lottery FOR SEPTEMBER. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE Orphans’ Home & Free Sclool. DRAWINGS DAILY, AT 5 P. M. MACON ADVERTISEMENTS. L. W. RASDAL, WHOLESALE LIQUOR HEALER, T NO RESTRICTIONS On Travel or Residence. The Southern Life Offers advantages that cannot be surpassed. Gen. A. H. COLQUITT VICE PRESIDENT J. A. MORRIS. Secretary. FINANCE COMMITTEE: A. AUSTELL. E. W. HOLLAND. MEDICAL BOARD! . V. MILLER. M. D. J. M. JOHNSON, M. D. L. E. BLECKLEY, Counsellor. THE SOUTHERN LIFE nks as one of th9 FIRST Companies of the Continen SUCCESSFUL AGENT3 WANTED. ROGERS & LEMAN, General Agents, Macon. Ga. MILLER & LAWTON, General Agents, Augusta, Ga. BLACK & WARING, General Agents, Columbia, S. C. nov21-dtf Third Street Macon. Georgia. THE CARPET STORE. 5fcw Carpets now in Store and Ar at the Carpet Store of CHaierliii, Boynton k Co. In larger quantities, finer qualities, and more beauti ful in design than ever before offered at any Carpet Store in tbe South. o UR STOCK CONSISTS IN PART OF Wiltons, Moquetts, Axminsters, Velvets, Body and Tapestry Brussels, Three-Plya, Ingraina and common Carpet^, Floor Oil Cloths from 3 to 18 feet wide, China and Cocoa Matting, Window Shades of all sizes, Real and Nottingham Lace Curtains, Coatalines, Brocatelles, Satins, Reps, Damask. Ac., Ac. for Lambriquin Curtains and Furniture, Cornice, Mats, Rugs, Wall Paper and General Housefurnishiug Goods. We make Liimbriqnins to order, from $10 to $100 per Window. We are prepared to contract for furnishing house?, The advertisements which adorn the rocks i churches and nails, throughout, with Carpets, Mat- and fences near Belgrade, Me., are so hide- j ting, Lambriqulns, Engs, 4c. ous that tho people say it is impossible to ; wo Lave tome OBEVT IiAROAINS to offer the conn- drive any save a blind borse alODg tho high-; tr y dealers in CarpetH. ways of that placo. When a man in Salt Lake City goes into a restaurant, gets a meal, and tells the proprie tor lie will pay him when he gets the money, he is put into the ehain-gaug and furnished three inealsa day for shoveling sand. They are letting up somewhat on charges at Niagara Falls. A visitor at one of the hotels there recently used two matches to light his gas with, and wasn’t charged extra, though the landlord told him he musn't do it again. Hail stones three inches in diameter fell in Shawano county, Wis., recently, and did con siderable damage to the crops, knocked a man off a load of hay, killed hundreds of chickens, and demolished any number of um brellas and spring bonnets at a camp-meet ing. A South Boston woman of wealth who had run up a milliner's bill, when it was present ed, gave the money to her husband to pay it, Abut he instead of putting the money in his 9 pocket gave a forged receipt to bis wife. After several months of waiting, the creditor dunned the lady for the money. ‘ ‘Why,’’ said she, in surprise, “your bill is paid, and I have your receipt in my pocket” Thus was the forgery discovered; but it is hardly necessary to State how that woman whirled out of that shop and went for that recreant husband ; she “saw” him and the bill was paid before night “Jones avenue!'' yelled the brakeman. Three minutes afterwards, as the cars were beginning to start and the brakeman re-en tered the car—“Jones avenue, did you say?” inquired a gentleman seated near ths door. “Yes, sir; please hurry!" replied the bmke- man, seizing the brake with one hand and tbe bell rope with the other. “Oh, I'm not goiDg to get ont here," said the interlocutor, “I have friends on this street, I thought it looked familiar. Do you know ihe Months?" The brakeman shut the door with a vicious bang. We invite the inspection of a’l in search of either | PRETTY GOODS OR GREAT BARGAINS, i believing that we can and will make it ‘o'’ v %**«»*t | of all purchasers to examine our sto< i. < <■ imy ng. CHAMBERLIN, BOYNtOi'i & Cti. DRY GOODS. CHAMBERLIN, BOYNTON & 00. ARE now daily receiving in their Dry Good* depart ment one of the finest selections of Staple and Fait; Dry Goods, Silk*, Lares, Gloves, Hosiery, Shawls, Cloaks, Ac., Ac., Ever before offered by them, and invite inspection from all in search of desirable'goods. Parties at a dia tance supplied with st tuples by mall upon application. CHADlBKRLIIf, BOYNTON A CO. sepl4-8an2t Job Work. STEAM PRESSES! FINE PRINTING HAYING ADDED NEW TRESSES AND NEW MATERIAL TO OCR OFFHJE, AND SECURED THE SERVICES OF Reliable and Experienced WORKMEN. THE lerali Pnlslig Comply IS NOW PREPARED TO EXECUTE EVERY DISCRETION OF BOOK AND JOB PRINTING SUCH AS BILL-HEADS, LETTER-HEADS, CIRCU LARS, MONTHLY STATEMENTS, SHIPPING RECEIPTS, SHIP PING TAGS, BILLS OF LAD ING, NOTES, DRAFTS, INSURANCE BLANKS, CERTIFICATES OF STOCK, FINE LABELS. BLANK CHECKS, LE - GAL BLANKS, RAILROAD BLANKS, INVITATION TICKETS, E SECTION TICKETS,BUSINESS CARDS, VISITING CARDS, CERTI FICATES OF STOCK, ENVELOPES PROGRAMMES, HAND BILLS, PAM PHLETS, ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC NEATLY, PROMPTLY, ACCURATELY AND AS Cheap as the Cheapest! THOSE WHO FAVOR US WITH THEIR ORDERS MAY RELY UPON ALL VROIII SES BEING FAITHFULLY CARRIED OUT. PLEASE REMEMBER WE HAVE ONE PRICE FOR ALL ! AND THESE PRICES WILL COMPARE FAVORABLY WITH THOSE OF NORTH ERN CITIES ; IN FACT, RANGE FROM TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. LESS THAN MANY OF THEM. jfgS~ Send in your order for any kind ox PRINTING. Orders from abroad will re ceive prompt attention and only a reasonable per centage on actual cost charged for the same. HERALD PUBLISHING CO. ALABAMA STREET OFFICE GEORGIA RAILROAD. A lot of Roll Bagging from Boston, marked Dia mond A, at Georgia Riiltoad Depot. Consignee want ed to tako possession, or it must be stored. ED. A. WERNER, Agent. Capital Prize $7,000.00 30,31 G Prizes, Amounting to $53,253.20. Tickets $1.00, Shares in Proportion 76,076 tickets and the drawing of 13 ballots, there be 220 prizes. «-ach having three of the drawn num bers on it; 4,356, each having two of them cn; 25,740, each having one only ot them on; and also 45,760 tickets, with neither of tbe drawn numbers on them, being blanks. To determine the fate of these prizes and blanks, 78 numbers, from I to 78 inclusive, will be severally placed In a wheel on the day of the drawing, and 12 of them drawn out at random: and that ticket having for its combination the 1st, 2nd. and 3rd drawn numbers. will be entitled to the capital prize of $7,000 00 That ticket having on it the 4th, 5tb. and 6th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 7th, 8th, and 9th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 10th, 11th. and 12th drawn numbers, to 650 0C That ticket having on it the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th drawn nnmbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 3d, 4tb and 5th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 5th, Gth, and 7th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 6th, 7th, and 8th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 8th, 9th, and 10th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 9th, 10th, and 11th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 1st, 2nd, and 4th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 1st, 2nd, and 5th drawn numbers, to 217 60 That ticket having on it the 1st, 2d, and 6th drawn numbers, to 217 60 All other tickets (boing 207, with three of tho drawn numbers on, each 20 00 Those 66 tickets having on them the 1st and 2nd drawn numbers, each 10 00 Those 66 tickets having on them the 3rd and 4th drawn Lumbers, each 5 00 All other tickets (being 4,224) with two of the drawn numbers on, each 2 00 And all those tickets (being 25,740) with one only of the drawn numbers, each 10 CAPITAL PBIZE On Mondays capital will be $7,000 00 On Tuesdays and Fridays capital will be 4,500 00 On Wednesdays capital will be 6.000 00 On Thursdays and Saturdays 5,000 00 For further particulars send for schemes. No ticket which shall have drawn a prize of a supe rior denomination can be entitled to au inferior prize. Prizes payable fo’ty (40) days after tbe drawing, and subject to the usual deduction of 15 per ceut. All prizes of $20.00 and under will be pai l immedi ately after the drawing. Prizes cashed at this office HOWARU & CO., Managers, !T9p-feb21 ATLANTA. GA. Has now on hand The Largest Stock of Wines, Liquors, anti Liquor Cordials. Of any House in. tlio State of Georgia Septli dlw RICHLAND BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS, 145 Lanvale street, near Park Avenue, Baltimore, Mil. . . JOraduates of the University of Virginia. French and German taught by experienced native maaters. Session commences September 15th. Catalogues with full particulars sent to any address. Refers to Rev. It. B. Elliott, Gen. A. R. Lawton, R. J. Davant, Savannah; Samuel Lawrence, Marietta; John Martin, Augusta. jy29-2m BERND BROTHERS Manufacturers of and Who'esaie and Retail Dealers in HARNESS SUES, COLLARS BRIDLES, LEATHER, HARDWARE, Ac.. Ac.. Nos. 44 ami 46 Third Street, Macon, Georgia. EMPIRE STONE WORKS MACO IST. C _/Y. SOUTHERN NURSERY. IRWIN & THURMOND. W E are offering to the public a selection of Frait adapted to tbe Southern climate, consisting of Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Quinces, Grapes, etc. Our Floral and Ornamental Shrubbery Department is completo. We have everything usually found in a well conducted Nursery, and of varieties wo have tested and know to be suited to the Southern climate. We are determined to make good stock and sell at reasonable prices. All orders by mail attended to with promptness and care. We have reliable agents, either local or traveling, in many localities in this and other States South, and wo prefer, where convenient to our customers, to do our business through them. We will, upon appfication. furnish gratis our catalogue aud price list. Address P. O. Box 565, Atlanta, Ga. 2Uly24-dly IRWIN k THURMOND. ON TIME. THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD! Xa ZEUE SMITH The Girl of the Period, and at last his efforts bavo been crowned with success. He is ab.e now to present to his old friends and the public generally one of the neatest and coziest resorts to be found anywhere. He has opened the season with a freah stock of pure old Brandies, Whiskies, Wines, Gins, kc., and a stock of real Havana Cigars, as well as those of domestic manufacture. Call on him on Marietta street. eep7-tl Graves, and almost everything else , 67 Cherry street, will truiebts in which stone i P. H. WARD, Proprietor. } prompt attention. r. McDaniel, GEO. A\ r . PAAAixGTT & I3RO., COTTON WAREHOUSE & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Cor. Pryor A Hnnter^ % sep2-lm ATLANTA, v»x- Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company of California, CASH CAPITAL £300,000 OO CASH ASSETS 619,«21 OO aug27-tf JNO. C. WH1TNER, Agent, 38 Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. GAMP W Meals, HOUSE, ITHIN ONE HUNDRED YA11D8 OF PA88EN- ger depot. 50c. I Lodging 50c. J. B. CAMP, Proprietor. GriffiD, Georgia. REMOVAL. A. AN SLEY 100 Holes Standard India Bashing. 2 Car Loads Kentucky Hemp Da. 20 Blits, choice Sew Orleans Molasses. 20 Bills. Prime Lard. 300 Boxes Tobacco, common and medium grades. 20 Cases double Anchor Durham Smoking, and sundry other Goods. Representing some of the most reliable business houses iu St. Louis, Louisville, Baltimore and Savannah, will buy for a brokerage such goods as may bo needed by the merchants of this city. Cotton bought aud sold on commission. aepl-lOt DAVID McBRIDE, SUCCESSOK TO McBRIDE & SMITH. MANUFACTURER OF Fine Carriages, PHAETONS, ROCKAWAYS AND BUGGIES. Repairing Promptly and Neatly j Executed. DAVID McBRIDE. mar4-tf 85 Decatur Strew SEED RYE AND OATS. is Great Mira Freipt Passeapr ROUTE TO AND FROM NEW YORK. Via Savannah., Georgia. n^HE FIRST-CLA88 SIDE-WHEEL STEAMSHIPS OF THIS LINE SAIL FROM SAVANNAH AND NEW 1 YORK, in connection with tho CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA, EVERY TUESDAY. THURSDAY and SATURDAY. Make as quick time and have superior accommodations to anv Steamships on the Southern coast* jBS* THROUGH FREIGHT carried at ae LOW RATES as any other route. All claims for loss, damage or overcharge settled promptly. PASSAGE FROM ATLANTA TO NEW YORK. $27 50, MEAI-S ASP STATE ROOMS INCIXPED. EXCURSION TICKETS | To New York ami Return. Good to 1st Oetobe MEALS AND STATE BOOMS INCLUDED. i All oth^r information furnished by application to the undereigu«*d. $45.00. jimel4-d3m CEORCE A. M’CLESKEY, Traveling Agtnt, Steamship Co.'s Office, Iso. 4 Kimball House. 200 BUSHELS Pure Red ruit proof OATS. U* tb w lected aud c.eaued exprmaly for REI D, at SAM’L A. ECHOLS, feu!3-2t ( ommiMirn Merchant. Marietta street. IISrOOItPOIlATED 1830. GEORGIA HOME Insurance Company of Columbus, Ga. CASH CAPITAL AND ASSETS $510,000. Losses paid in Atlanta since li>65. over $50,000! NO TROUBLE IN ADJUSTING LOSSES—OBI.’ CHONS PROMPTLY MET. Among the many, refers to tho following persons, to » ■ •*** h,u-o 1 'en , . T.-m- J. Hightower, Samuel M. Inman. Dr. F. D. Thurman. Hiraeb. William V Powers* Son, John A. Stephens, Amos Fox, George \V • oilier, J. O. Fiucher, A.-AT-t J. S. Boyd, Dr. A. J. Bell. B. B. Crew, aud City of Atlanta. J. B. BRIDCES, Agent, No. 4 Jamea Bank Block, Majroc’a Office, Whitehall 3t. • : AT*. GA