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PROUD nOTHEKS.
iGtoryt Cooper, in BaUMnlt Monthly. ]
If all the mothers of all the birds
Should happen to meet some day—
Tu gUde or glen.
Or where or when, *
No matter—and one should say,
• Which are the brightest and best of
birds r
What would be each proud mother’s words—
Robin or skylark-wren or crow
"Mine are the sweetest birds I know !”
If ali the mothers of all the girls
- And bovs were to meet some day
Prom countries grand
Or far Lapland,
No matter —and one should say,
"Whose are the sweetest girls and boys.
Spite of their roguish tncks and noise?”
I know a mother would whisper true,
' Slat are the darling* !**—meaning you !
THE VIOLET.
WILLIAM W. STOUT.
O faint, delicious. Spring-time violet!
Thine odor, like a key,
Turns noiselessly in memory’s wards to Ist
A thought of sorrow free.
The breath of distant fields upon my brow
Blows through that open door
Ths sound of wind-borne bells, more swest
and low,
And sadder than of yore. •
It oomes afar, from that beloved place,
And that beloved hour.
When life bung ripening in love's golden
grace,
Like grapes above a bower.
A spring goes singing through its resdy
grass ;
The lark sings o'er my head,
lirownsd in the sky -O pass, ye visions,
pass'
I would that I were dead !
Why hast thou opened that forbidden door,
From which I ever flee?
O vanished joy O love that art no more,
Let my vexed spirit.be !
■© violet! thv qflor through my brain
Hath searched, and stung to grief
This sunny day, as if a curse didutain
Thy velvet leaf.
THE XEURO* REPUBLIC,
• Sum* Plain and Startling Statements
About Affaire la Liberia.
[From the Cincinnati Commercial.]
Mr. George R. Stetson of Boston, has writ
ten some queer chapter’s about the Repub
lic of Liberia, on the West coast of Africa.
It was founded by philanthropists in the
United States, some fifty years ago. It was
to be a speck of paradise for freed slaves
from America. Good people were to send
them there, set them up in a republic on
their own hook, and then put the whole
Dark Continent into a ferment of Christian
. civilization.
In the period of their enthusiasm, the
American Colonization Society spent mil
lions ot money on the freedmen's paradise.
As far back as 18r9 they had sent 10,000
American negroes there at an expense of
$lB3 per head. About half of them went
to a paradise by a shorter route than even
the Colonization Society dreamed of. They
died.
In beating the American bush foremi
grants to Liberia, tunefnl agents harped
much on the extroardinary richness of
African soil. It had only to be tickled with
a wooden hoe to smile back a luxuriant har
vest. Fruits, grain, and vegetables, all
that made glad the Unman stomadh, grew
in unlimited profusion. one side
of the story. The silver tongued agent told
that side.' The other part was that every,
foreigner who touches the coast of Liberia,
though he remain no longer than a week, is
stricken down with a horrible miasmatic
sickness called the “acclimating fever.”
The blistering sun, alternating with heavy
rains, and the rank vegetation from that
very soil whoso richness the agents exalted,
arc the cause of the terrible malaria.. Ague
gets the better of civilization. It kills every
white - man who remains there a few years.
The savage African aborigines do not ap
pear to. suffer from the malaria. Like the
Florida Indians, who are proof against mos
quito bites, they appear to- be soaked so
full ol poison that it does not hurt
them. But the American-born negro suf
fers nearly as much as the white man. The
mortality of the fever may be judged from
some facts given by .Mr. Stetson. On one'
.occasidn a coasting vessel made a trip to the
delta of the Niger. She had a crew of fif
ty-five persons. Of thdse, these-twenty
five died. Another vessel was sent to the
same pAace with a crew of twenty, men.
Ten of them died within four wepks.
It will--be remembered that a passion for
emigration to Liberia suddenly seized the
colored people of Georgia and the Carolines
three years ago. They sailed thither by
hundreds. One ship, the Azor, took 250
emigrants from Charleston at one load. It
was flue fun-the smarting. All shared the
devout belief that they were going direct to
the promised land.’ But all their hopes
turned to the bitterest disappointment.
The disgusted pilgrims died off like sheep
in a Colorado blizzard. In many cases of
negroes yuigrating to Liberia,from Ameri
ca whole families died, not one being left
•live. One family of ten persons from
Georgia sailed in the Azor. Three died on
shipboard and two at Monrovia. The other
five begged money and fled back to Geor
gia before the acclimating fever took them,
too. Many others of the oolonists who
sailed within a few years to Africa are send
ing for money to bring them home. Libe
ria. the country of fertile soil and beautiful
iandsc ipe, is so sickly that the very horses
and mules die that are taken, there.,
" Concerning other aspects of life in the
model negro Republic, educational, indus
trial, social, and political-the testimony is
Bo less emphatio. The term “lazy African”
is probably only understood in its truest
sense in. Africa. Under the scorching snn
the laziness strikes in. The climate affects
even the industrious freedman from Amer
ica. In time he, too, gives up the struggle
and ceases to work.
He turns to politics as an easier way of
Setting a living. ■ He seeks “them ’ere of
eea” with enthusiasm. Thus he, at least,
shows his capacity for the highest civiliza
‘ tion. Liberian elections are quite as loud
and lively and as frequent as in the great
"moddle” RepuMio of the United States,
which the little African one was patterned
after:
.Liberian exports have been steadily de
clining for a number of years. A bare sub
sistence is not hard to obtain among the
naked aborigines What is the good of
working when one is not obliged to do it ?
• It is Dot agreeable.to record the faot that
slavery exists throughput the negro Repub l
lie. Its horrors dqwn. South never sur
passed the like horrors among these Liberi
ans. whose slaves are of their own-oolor and
kindred.
In other respects the Africans who rule
Liberia have shown their ability to acquire
a high civilization—the very highest in
deed. They have got a bonded debt. *lt is
so large a one that there Is no prospect
whatever they will ever pay it. Moreover,
it is all owned in London, every penny.
Putting the two facta together, and con
necting them by a link of reasoning with a
well-known peculiarity of the noble British,
nature, it is not hard to make a propheoy
concerning the future of this, the one black
Republic on the face of the earthy
Some very singular - facts de
veloped in the history of Libe’ria. nobody
was more enthusiaatio in the cause of Afri
can colonization from this country than the
■churches and the religious community.
Millenaries went there .by the hundred,
iabored among the black savages, and died
martyrs to their Christian devotion. Who
does not remember for years -“Afrits’s sun
ny fountains” a& the objective points of
missionary work in America? ,
What has come of all this work, of the
sacrifice of all these unselfish lives ? Chris
tians everywhere expected the Christiani
zation ot all Africa as confidently as the
Second Adventists looked for the end of
the world. The happy result never follow
ed. One of the wild negro tribes that joined
the Liberian Government was Mohamme
dan in religion. There are forty wild ne
gro tribes in the whole country. Inatead
ot these naked heathens coming under the
gentle influence of the Bible, the one Mo
hammedan tribe among them is converting
them to the faith of the Turk with amazing
rapidity. There is actually a prospect that
at no distant day a majority of the inhab
itant* of Liberia' will be followers of the
crescent and the Koran.
Such is slated to be the present condi
tion of Liberia. Instead of civilizing the
native negroes, there really seems rather to
be danger that the civilized negroes who
went there will relapse into barbarism.
They are the merest handful among so
many. They suffer horribly from the cli
mate. and are growing poorer and poorer.
Meantime an insidious British influence
grows stronger and stronger. English
men-of-war cruise along their coast and. fie
at anchor in their ports. English goods go
into their country in larger and larger quan
tities every year, and they are inveigled
more and more into debt to Great Britain.
The certain end does not seem many vears
off.
Under the circumstances, Mr. Stetson, of
.Boston, considers it high time somebody
publicly and emphatically gave the nu
ler'ns Atnericrn negroes who think of mi
grating to Liberia the advice Pancfi gave
those about to marry—Don’t.
A RAILWAY PLUM
Which csi-'ix'l Cot* Ha* Been Looking
At for a Long Tine.
- Cnccr>-iTi. May 1-4 —The trustee* of the
Cinconati Southern Railroad to-day passed
* resolution to advertise for proposals at
onoe for a lease of the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad for 25 years, bids to be opened
August IS. Bidders are requested to bid
for each of three plans. First, gross earn
ingf;; second, rental plan, nnwr which th®
lessee is to pay a specified rental Waled for
different vears; third, guaranteed plan, un
der which the lessee is secured in a certain
ptr e*ni. on his investment and pay* the
city the remainder. The Sinking Fund
Commission must act upon and approve this
aotton of the trustees before it can go into
effect.
An award was made this afternoon of il,-
800.000 ot consolidated first mortgage 5
per rent, bonds of the Dayton and Michigan
Railroad. The bonds were sold in lots.
The highest price paid was 5 per cent, pre
mium acd accrued interest for a small lot.
Other lot* brought and 3 85-100 for
larger amount*. A bid for the whole lot,
or any part thereof, was put at l per cent,
premium and accrued interest.
laavutn. .*
Make from $25 to SSO per week' selling
goods for E. G Rideout & Cos., 10 Barclay
■tredt, New Fork. Send for catalogue and
derma. *u2o-wly
THE.TIDE OF IMMIGRATION.
HOW AMERICA'S POPULATION IS'
SWELLED.
Active Scenes at Cnatla Garden—The Ar-
Qrivml* This Y*nr Likely to Snrpaaa All
Prrvtona Years—From What Cannedea
the Immigrants Came, and Where
They Oo Upon Their Arrival Here
A Talk With Inperintrndent Jackson
[.Vete York Tribune.]
Oqe of the most interesting piaoes in the
city to visit jn*t now Garden on a
day when the immigrants are landing. The
varied costume*, the oonfaaion ot tongues,
the strange types of humanity, representing
nearly every nation, and ai) gathered in one
straggling mass, form a scene not to be wit
nessed in any other part a( the world. The
officials at the Garden find great difficulty
in attending to the wants of the great and
increasing number of immigrants and their
facilitie* are overtaxed, bat by working at
night and using extra exertion* they are en
abled to care for all that come. The efforts
now being made to secure the passage of a
1 bill through the Legislature to increase the
means at the disposal of the Commissioners
will, they think, meet with success. The
proposed measure provides for a tax of $1
on each immigrant, the amount to be col
lected from the steamship companies. This
money is to be used for the inspection and
care of the immigrants, and will enable the
Board to do much more for them than is
possible nnder the limited appropriation
now at its disposal. The better the care
which the immigrants get on this side, the
greater the number that comes, as past ex
perience shows.
The knowledge that they will be afforded
protection and assisted in securing work has
induced many persons to emigrate to this
country. The renewed prosperity of the
Nation, however, and the hardships of mili
tary service in Europe, are regarded as the
principal causes for the increasing tide of
emigration which is now setting toward
these shores. In 1877 the number of immi
grants who came to this country was less
than 150,000. Last year the number
reached 457,257. Of these 327,371 were
landed Afthe port of New York. Judging
from the arrivals at Castle Garden so far this
year, Superintendent Jackson estimates that
the arrivals at this port this year may reach
500,000. The arrivals at this port for the
first four months of last year, and corres
ponding period of this year, with the coun
tries from which the immigrants come, as
shown by returns madeto the United States
Treasury Departments, were as follows :
4 months 4 months
Nationalities. ending ending
May 1, May 1,
England 11,224 10,574
Scotland 2,667 2,310
Ireland 17,639 11,006
Germany 23,113
Austria 2,148 2,763
8 sveden 9,982 A ,850
Norway!. 1,976 1,680
Denmark . J’Zqs
France 1.Q68 1,098
Switzerland 2,653 'i’Wi,
Italv 3,399 5,418
Holland 1,200 3,335
p
Poland 691 823
Hungary :..... . W },294
Other countries. 541
Totals 82,646 109,123
Th<- rate ot increase this year Is nearly 33
per cent This would give a total immi
gration of over 600.000, - of which about
450,000 would be due at .this port. The
rate of lu arcane for New York, however, ac
cording to estimates of the Commissioners
of Emigration, will probably be greater, as
owing to the’backwardness of the season
this year and the late dates at which the
Scandinavian ports were opened, the tide
was kept back. In the first ten days of the
present month 27,393 immigrants arrived
at Castle Garden, and it. is estimated that
70,000 will arrive this month, against 45,-.
578 for the same fime last year. On Mon
day of this week 6,521 immigrants arrived,
the largest number on any day yet this
year. Yesterday the cumber of arrivals
was 3,203. f
The greater part of the Immigrants ar
riving consists of men under forty -years of
age, who would be RUbject to military duty
if they remained in Europe. 01 the 109,-
123 Immigrants who arrived,in the first
'four months of thin year, 72,773 were men
and 36,350 women. In the same time last
year rho men numbered 54,985 and the wo
men 27,661, the proportion being the same
eaoh vear.
Wire re the Immigrant* Come rom.
The number of iimmigrants arriving at
this port last year-337,000 - was greater
than in any previous ypar. In 1854, 319,-
223 immigrants arrived—ths largest plum
ber in any year previous jto 1680. The ar
rivals at Castle Gardefi |pr eleven years past
with the five leading nationalities were as
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The total number of immigrants brought
into this oountry since the establishment of
the Union, not Including those arriving in
- Of this aggregate
Ireland and Germany-furnished about 3,-
009,000 each, England 900,000, Franco
313,000, Sweden and Norway 306,000,
Switzerland 83.000, and other countries
ranged from 70,000 for Italy to 61JJ for
Turkey and 383 for Greece. .Very few im
migrants pow come from Spain, Portugal or
Turkey-. In 1874 a considerable emigra
tion began from Bohemia and Hungary,
whiub has been steadily increasing. The
emigration from Russia also increased
rapidly, but owing to the impediments now
thrown in iketr way by the Russian Gov
ernment very few immigrants are arriving
now ffoin that country. A family la ppt al
lowed to emigrate from Russia until the
various members' of it subject to military
duty hare serwed their terms in the service.
The German Government also discourages
immigration, and until within a short time
no public address was allowed to be de
livered in Germany on the subject of im
migration to the United States Bismarck
established a bureau -from which he dis
seminated throughout Germany accounts
of the saff -ri&gs aud. privations of immi
grants in this country, bqt with all his ef
forts he cannot overcome the efforts of the
steamship agents and the encouraging Jotters
sent from this country by immigrants to their
frjends in Germany. Taxes have greatly
inere*tw.j in Germany since'the Fran co-
Prussian *, nd the cost. Of living has
also increased, tum induced many to
emigrate. The German immigrants nearly
-U bring considerable money with thorn,
estimated on au average from five hundred
to tw.O thousand dollars each. Each immi
grant is to add at lea3t one thou
sand dollars to tuo ;r>i!th of the country,
in addition to the money brings with
him... At this rate the United Stoics will
have Over sit hundred million (lolittrs add
ed to its wealth this year by means of emi
gration.
The poorest class of immigrants come
from Austria Che Sclavonians. Many of
them arrive here ufiteriy destitute. - Some of
them in Castio Garden the ouiey day were
with entire suits of sheepskin, the
woolly eujj! being turned inward. Qthers
had trousers and jackets of dressed leather.
The men were dark, tall and angu
lar, and the men, wonjej? phildren all
wore boots, which, with their whi*# cloth
ing and the short frocks of the women,
made the group a very noticeable one.
A gycat many of the Italians come here
without tneiy’families, sending for them
later. When the Usi&n wife arrives, her
husband generally meet* hey with an Ameri
can bat and a calico drees anl Ahawi, which
she immediately puts on, and they then go
walking np (Latitf* ts as if “to the manor
born."
Superintendent Jaekaan a y
Perhaps no person in this oountry has
had so wifie an experience with immigrants
as Superintended Jackson, of Castle Gar
den. A Tribune reporter asked him yester
day in what direction the were
mostly going. .
“lh.ey ecliar, themselves,” he said,
“pfetty widely oyar the West and South
west. ’There-is a growing demand for their
services in the South, and South
Georgia and Kentucky are - molting special
efforts to induce immigrants td settle there.
Kentucky appointed an agent to form a
Swiss colony in Laurel county. We. sent
eigtytxn families to South Carolina Satur
day.' The** better class of Irish coming
this year and most or them go West to set
tle on farms inatead of retpaibirg in the
cities as heretofore. There is a brisA de
mand for fan# laborers, and if we had the
necessary mass* at our disposal we could
provide work for si} the immigrants at
cnee. Many employees bjaita£e to advanoe
money to pay the transportation expenses of
immigranv&om this city to distant point*. ’
“Where do the Italians go?”
1 They hare two d^*^**stions , only. One
is Bc.xta* - street, and the other California.
Those going iff California engage’is th£
manufacture of wine ;ud in grape growing.
A number have gone to OM? for the same
purpose.” ~
“Are there many old perrons coming here i
this year r
“Very few. There are a few, of eonrse,
and some paupers; bat the efforts made to
stop the abipjpent of that class of persons
have been in good part successful,”
“Have yon many ptyron* now here want
ing employment?"
“Several hundred. We could find em
ployment for dll had they the means to g
where their services are wanted."
••Do many of the immigrants bring
money with them ?”
CHEONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST. AJJGUSTA, GA., WEDESDAY„ MAY 25.'1881..
“Yes, a good mahy. It jg difficult to get
any correct figures. One man recently had ,
5d,000 francs in his possession. The
Swedes and Germans nearly all bring con
siderable money. Immigrants with
have an idea that thqre is some tax to be*
imposed, hence they generally understate
what they have, while those without any
money fear being sent back as paupers, ana
claim what they have not got.”
A dispatch from London, received, a few
days ago, stated that contracts had been dos- -
ed with a steamship company to bring about
80.000 Scandinavian immigrant* to the
United States. The report could not be con
firmed in this city yesterday. % lt was stated,
however, that the great* increase of immi
gration this year had taxed the steamships
beyond their capacity, and that many per
sons who wanted immediate transportation
coaid not be accommpdated. In view of
this state of affaire., the agents have been in
structed to sell tickets .for steamers which
will not sail for a month or more, and
thousands of tickets have thup been sold;
hence, instead of there being a lnUr in im
migration after May closes, it will probably
continue du(ing the'Summer. Of those who
have thus eDgaged passage a large percent
age is Scandinavian, who not ODly wish to
better their condition on the unoccupied
lands of the West, but who are also learving
Norway and Sweden in anticipation of
church troubles. .
THE JUBILEE OF KINO COTTON. ‘
Merry May Festival—Railroad ToplceA
The PcoplaS* Star Chamber Commis
sion.
[ Correspondence Chronicle ami QonstitutiortUpiL.].
Atlanta, May 11, 1881.—Our city papers
display a neat cut of the Cotton Exposition
buildings and grounds, as it is proposed to
have them, and give something of reality
to the grand symposium that is to make At
lanta a conspicuous figure in the public eye*
for many months to come. Expectation is
raising itself on tip-toe. The Constitution,
ever prompt to seize a strategical point, was
the moving spirit of the enterprise, spe
cially in the selection of this city as the
scene of its fulfillment, and has achieved a
signal victory in journalism in thus work
ing up a festival of industry that is to at
tract so much attention to the Empire State.
All honor to its splendid strategy and per
sistent energy. The city owes a debt of
gratitude for much of its marvelous growth
to this live paper, which will be repaid with
a reflex tide of prosperity destined to make
it one of the very toremoSt journals of the
New South.
May picnics are the order of the day.
Juvenile festivals are agitating all circles.
Badges and banners flaunt and flutter in our
faces at every street corner, with proces
sions of happy faces going and returning.
Similar scenes are being enaefed in all this
sunny land, while countless hearts are
beating with merry thoughts, bright
dreams and lively hopes —a blessed and re
cuperating relief from “the evils that flesh
is heir to” in our sublunary experiences.
For the nonce all trouble is put aside, busi
ness suspends its dull tread-mill routine,
speculation in the booms of the hour halts
in the Exchange and on the curbstone—all
doffing their hats in honor of the Queen of
j the Calendar, the merry month of May.
This festive interlude of the drama, how
ever, will soon close, the serious problems
anil schemes of life be resum n d, most of the
actors at the quiet game of plodding lcfbor,
but many in the startling scenes of cornered
stocks and in the bedlum of the Exchange,
where the battle of fortune rages wjth a
desperation that wins or loses in a day. The
staid and sober South begins to furnish
more of the latter class -a natural sequence
of the force of circumstances produced by
the necessity of holding our great corporate
interests with a grip of steel in view of the
machination of designing men, who would
lay our section under tribute to more North
ern markets and Seaports. It is well that
there are men of brain, pluck, energy and
resources with ns equal to the occasion in
such a crisis. The stakes were high, the
players bold, resolute and of unyielding
nerve, and the magnitude of the victory,
lately achieved by the leading railroad men'
of Georgia is not yet fully comprehended
by th 6 masses of the people, nor even by
many reflecting minds. It is essential to
take a whole view of the field from a central
point of observation and inquiry in form
ing an intelligent estimate of the recent
movements and combinations that have ter
minated in this new, and-, to the public
generally, stunning change in the phases of
the sjtuatio'n. To effect it, resort was had
to the strategy of the enemy who found in
Wadley and iiis 00-adjutors apt scholars in
the modern school ot financial tactics.
This brilliant battle of the giants, and its
results, will fbdound to the advantage of
our State in awakening renewed attention
to ,our resources, and the probabilities of
our future progress, from capitalists, who
hitherto, in the tergiversations of politics,
have withheld confidence, and shaken their
heads in doubt and distrust. ' It is a practi
cal demonstration of will and power more
eloquent and convincing than all the ora
tory wo have inundated the country with
for half 9 century. Another" happy effeot’is
to join together, in one common cause,
strong, trained and practical minds lately
and long at war with <;ai-.h other to the em
bittering of the relations between their- re
spective We may reasonably,
anticipate a pleasant change in their con
current action and sympathies, that prom
ises better results in eJery point of view
and a more cordial union of -ali sections of
the State.
Iu the meantime, a vexed question still
disturbs the public pulse, tonohing the
unusual powers conferred' upon the Com
mission which alarmists in legislation, with
mistaken' judgment and zeal, appointed to
virtually dictate the management of vast
and complicated interests, thus binding, to
a degree, the hands of men trained in this
school of enterprise, and menacing a prop
erty upon which thousands directly subsist,
and all are more or less dependent. This
sfYcics of star-chamber, nominally in the
interest of the people, has the power, if it
choses, as the retroa'ctlve law now stands, to
cripple, if not destroy,*’ a magnificent
property accumulated after years of trials
and disasters, after a strict compliance with
the terms of their chartered franchises,
and in full confidence of the public
faith. The honored gentlemen composing
this Commission cannot, by their vir
tues, alter its character in being at variance
with free institutions.
Advocates are. found for even a general
seizure by the National Government of all
the great corporate investments in the land
under the specious plea of crushing out
monopoly without, apparently, reflecting
upon the direct tendency of such summary
measures towards the subversion of all re
publican government and private rights.
They insist, in getting rid .of a few so-called
monopolies, upon installing a grand political
monopoly that.would inevitably fasten its
mailed‘hand eventually upon the throats of
the people themselves who propose to in
vest it with such undemocratic powers.
Better, far batter, endure a few fancied
monopolies than risk the chances of such a
consummation! But repeal the despotic
features of these commissions—give capital
a free rein -and the evils conceived by the
distempered fancy will disappear. Com
petition, so much desired by the people,
bnt now discouraged by the natural timid
ity of capital to incur the dangers of un
limited and uncertain interference, will be
renewed and prevent the possibility of
realizing any of those vain alarms as to
monopoly. Such fears will then soon give
way to, sounder views upon the rights of
property, the public faith and the dangers
to popular liberty in enlarging so incon
siderably the powers of government.
The extraordinary crops of the past two
years have enabled the railroads to rise
superior, temporarily, to the exigencies of
this anomalous institution, under the sanc
tion of Democratic law; but this is no argu
ment in its favor as a factor in this result and
its unjust and dangerous tendencies; for its
friends who stand by it in its present shape
claim that it has proven a positive benefit
to the roads. Certainly it was not created
for that purpose, and according to their
views it has then-failed to subserve the in
terests spepially and carry out the wishes of
its framers—an amusing conclusion by an
inductive process through singular incon
sistencies that might seem to imply doubts
as to the success of the law itself in effecting
the object of its creation. The truth is,
•nothing but the abnormal and enormous
volume of business offering has prevented
serious annoyance to the public interests
from this unrepublican commission, as now
constituted, for the common weal is closely
allied with, and dependent upon, the pros
’■perity and efficiency of these great high
ways to the outside world.
The large space which these subjects'now
'occupy in the public eye is my apology for
..referring to them at a length not antici
pated when I took up my. pbn, and I will
reserve other matters of interest more im
mediately connected with the State capital
for a male - ieite*. Elhobe.
BROKEN-DOWN CLERGYMEN.
Why Ministers of the Gospel Lose Their
Henlth.
[Prooi the Detroit Free Press.]
Why do ministers break dawn so early ?
The pulpit loses some of its’best men bet
fe?re they get much beyond the line of mid
dle age—sometimes before they reach it.
The late Dr. Chapin was a man of splendid
physique, and should have been good to r
several more years’ service. Just before he
bagep to give way, any one would have
thought bin. Jn his'nrime. It was the same
wav with Dr. Washburn, vhb died soon af
ter'him. When I saw Dr. Washburn, some
thing over* year ago, he looked like a man
who might easily have gone through twenty
years of church work. Mr. Frothingham,
the apostle of “Free Religion, who did not
want any oneto call him “Reverend,' 1 gave
up preaching wholly on account of his
health. Had he kept at it he might now
be on the list of the’ departed. Some per
sons smile when thev hear that a minister is
feeling poorly. They don’t believe that
ah Urea, ycjk is very hard, and they can’t or
won't understand why preachers get sick
and have to retire or take long vaurnaies.
Bob Ingersoll Is facetious over one sort_
of trouble that ministers suffer from—bron
-hdis. He calls it “parsonitis,” and says it
Aa pOre But there are plenty of
people who dbn’t rid* Ingersoll’J. hobby, by
any means; and who yet feake Ugh? of “in
disposition” in the ranu. of the preachers.
Seme c? these people are now —ying it U
nratfcv w®!!. Tbut is sick*list again and
Kfila A?Am sospea* V)i| *“SSb
S~i rK , P> *W
best work. Bnt it must be said of tbe
younger Tyflg that be has not spared him-
Llf in any way. He'earned a
steam from the first, and no doubt his pree-
ent condition is largely due to.*the extra frio
j tion of keeping up a steady rush. None of
J the active workers in the church were bettqr
than 'Mr. Beecher, and very few as well. •
Just after the famous trial a good deal was
g<id about signs of breaking down, but the
signs. If they ewer really existed, have dis
appeared, raid Mr. Beecher seems to be ca
pable of as janth* work now a* at time*
in bis life.
Boyton'a Terrible Tlfclei.
* , #*
Boyton, the swimmer, is back again from
Peru. *Ju an mtervieV' - published he was
asked : * . ,
“Were the Peruvians gjme ?”
“Not over gtsDae, and-some feW of them
cowards. The battle .of Miraflores was_ the
hottest kind of a fight. The air was filled
with bullets as with n swarm ot flies. * The
foreign Ministers were-scared .almost to
death. I saw Minister Christiaacy running
under full srfll *acroßaffthe fields toward.
Lima. He was in his shirt sleeves. It was
a go-as-you-please race for life.”
“How were affairs in Lima when you
left?” r
“Words can uopjjaint the horrors. The
Chilians are and. they are
brutal. It was a common sight to see a
squad of Chilian soldiers out of the
barracks.followed by a few wretched, hol
"low-eyed Peruvians, bareheaded and in
chains, priests in their robes beside them,
Lading up the arucifi* and offering consqla
ttm. At the first public square they would
halt, fasten the poor devils ttf posts’or trees,
1 shoot'them down like dogs* Even
-courts martial ignored* I have seen
Chilian soldiers tie up the poor Peruvians
in the main streets and flog them until
' their backs were covered with'blood, • The
women, thank’ *God 1 were not .molested;
Thev are very pretty, and braver than thtf
meD. They intensely hate the invaders,
but generally keep in doors. As I lett Lima
I saw a frightful,, horrible scene. On the
battle field of Miraflores there were many
dead—s,ooo Chilians and 3,500 Peruvians.
The wanquished had fled; the victors were
too intend on plunder and rapine to turn
grave diggers. The corpses were swollen
into enormous proportions under the tropi
cal sun, and emitted the foulest’ odors.
Something had to be flone, so the Chilians
hired a lot of Chinamen to burn the bodjes.,
The heathen would punch holes in eaoh
dead body, pour in coal oil. and then apply
fire. As I passed •by the battle field at
night, a blue flame issued out •of each
corpse, giving a still ghastlier hue to the
swollen and. distorted faces of the dekd.
The horrid 'sight willbe with me to n uiy
dynghour.” .
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With the convulsing, spasmodic .tortures of fe
ver and ague and bilious remittent, when Hos
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~ real cufative of malarial fevers, will eradicate
the c%uae of so much suffering. No less effec
tive is't£uß*beuignaut alternative in oases of con
stipation dyspepsia, liver complaint, rheuma
tism and general debility and nervous weak
ness. For sale by all druggists and' dealers gen
■efally. ' my2-satuth&wlm
liSL
This Is the only Lottery ever voted on
and endorsed by the people of any State.
UNPRECENTED ATTRACTION !
OVER .HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED
Louisiana .State Lottery Cos.
Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the
Legislature for Educational and Charitable pur
poses—with a capital of $1,000,000, to which a
a reserve fund of over $420,000 has since been
added.
By an overwhelming popular vote, its fran
chise was made a part of the present State Con
stitution adopted December 2d, A. D. 1879.
; ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAW
INGS will take place monthly. It never scales
or postpones. Look at the following distribu
tion:
Grand Concert,
During which will take place the
lH3d Grand Monthly
AND THE ' '
Extraordinary Semi-Annual frawing,
At New Orleans, Tuesday, June 14th, 1881,
■Under the personal supervision and manager
nient of ~
Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, of Louisiana, and
Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Virginia. .
Capital Prize,' - SIOO,OOO
Wot ice—Tickets ore Ten ’Dollars only.
Halves, $5. Fifths',‘s2. Tenths, sl.
LIST OF.PRTZEP.
1 Capital Prize of $100,000.. SIOO,OOO
1 Grand Prize of . 50,000... 50,000
1 Grand Prize of 20,000. .. 20,000
2'Large Prizes of 10,000... 20,000
4 Large Prizes of '■ 5,000 .. 20,000
20 Prizes of 1,000. . 20,000
50 Prizes of ; • 500.... 25,000
100 Prizes of . 000... 30,000
200 Prizes of 200... 40,000
600 Prizes of 100... 60,000
10,000 Prizes of .10 ... 100,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes of $200.. $ 20,000
100 Approximation Prizes of' 100.. 10,000
100 Approximation Prizes of 75. 7,500
11,279 Prizes, amounting to .... ...$522,500
Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, of Louisiana,
and Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Virginia, Com
mfesioners.
Application for rates to clubs should only be
made to the office of the Company in New Or
leans.
Write for circulars or send orders to
M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans,
or M. A. DAUFHIN, at.^
No, 313 Broadway,'ttew York,
mylO-wesa&w
HAS NEVER .FAILED
wr on used according to the printed direction*
Inclosing each bottle, and is perfectly tafe even
in the most inexperienced hands.
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IS RECOMMENDED
By Physicians, by Missionaries, by Ministers,
by Mechanics, by Siirses in Hospitals,
OTJEVERYBODT.
' PAIN KILLER S*£ffi, c ?SS
'lhroat, Chills, Diarrhoea, Dysentery,
Cramps* Chdcra, end all Bowel Comphunh.
■ W# have Innumerable testimonials from
panic® in all parts of the world who have used '
PAIN KILLER
Internally with never-failing success in case*
of sickness of almost every nature. -
PAIM VIII CD h the best
I Min IVILLEn REMEDY known
to the Worlft for Sick Headache, Sea
Sickness, Bain In the Beck, Pain In th*
Bide, Rhetunatlsm, and Neuralgia.
unquestionably the 1
BEST LINIMENT MADE
eeual haring never yet been found.
PAIN KILLER in !
rases of Cuts, Bruises, Sprains, Scalds,
Severe Barns, etc.
PAIkl Iflll CD B the wen-tried end
TNIH IVILLCn trusted friend of the
Farmer. Planter, Sailor, Mechanic, and
In feet all classes wanting * sure and *a f
medicine which will always be at hand, ,
aud can be freely used* Internally or ex- 1
irrnsily without fear of harm and with
certainty of relief, ,
* P AIM ■III CD * Medicine Chest In
F MIR IVILLCn Itself and few vessels
teare port without a supply of It
PAIN VII ICD should have place In ,
* Mill IMkLCI! ewry Factory Machine
shop and Mill, on every Farm and Plantation,
and in every Household, ready for Immediate
use not only for Accidents, Cuts, Bruises,
Sores, eta, but in esse of Sadden Sickness of
any kind.
So fecnly can safely be without this invalu
able femeoy iu the house. Its price brings it
within the reach of all, and it will annually ,
save many time* its cost in doctort bibs.
For sale by all druggists at 3*o, aOc., *nd .
•l per bottle.
PERRY DAVIB ft SON,
PROVIDENCE, R. I.
1 preprltoro-
A POSITIVE cure 1
'Without meffirinss, .
Allan’s Soluble Medicated Heugte*.
Patented Oct 16, tm One box
N6.1 will cure any case in four days or lees.
No. i wffi rare the most obstinate case, no matter
ef bow tong stanom*. ~
No nauseous doses of cubebs, ccDaib*. ,
sandalwood, that are certain to proiiuceayspepsia
%sss on
, ’WsSiH-vYißSft
-anS-astuAth
- • ' New AdYertiseifieuta. •
THBSUMMER
Is Upon Us, But By Galling at the
TRADE PALACE
' .- . -OF
DELANE & HICKOK
* - V * YOU. WILL FIND A
CHOICE ASD COMPLETE 111 OF ORB ROODS
TO KEEP COOL IN.
WHITE LAWNS,
SWISS MUSLIN, NAINSOOK, INDIAN LINEN, CAMBRICS,
_ - DOT TED MUSLIN, FIGURED MUSLIN LINENS,
„ AND EVERYTHING NEEDED IN - •
The White Goods Department.
Colored Lawns,
Figured Lawns, Ginghams, Percales, Etc
OF EVERY STYLE. HUE AND PATTERN-ALL SUMMER GOODS-AND
MUCH TO BE DESIRED, WITH THE THi EMOMETER AT
• y ITS PRESENT STANDING.
LACES FOR OVER DRESSES,
AND THIN GOODS OF- EVERY DESCRIPTION FOR SUMMER WEAR.
CALI, AND SEE OUU
GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF IT GOODS AND NOTIONS.
N
If you needjßnything in that line, and wo GUARANTEE you will not regret it.
DEE ANE & HICKOK,
630 BROAD STREET.
WE SEE
A Consummation Devoutly to be Hopede
Before the Skillful Manipulation of
Our Vast. Resources Rivalry in
Full Retreat, Resembling,
• in Their Terrible Dismay,
“Tam O'ShanterV’
Dash For the
Brig o’ Boon,’
BUT HERE
No “Gallant Gray” to Save? instead, a
Nemesis.
CRAY PURSUES!
He Dins in the Stunned Ear of Competi
tion, and Makes Music For the
Purchasing Public With
Such Terrible Prices as These
Nine Hundred and Seventy Dozens, or Thereabout--
In Fact, Our Entire Stock, Croken Lots, Fancy Hosiery
Sold at Sixty, Fifty* Forty and Thirty-Five Cents Per
Pair,. Now Piled in Confused Magnificent
Carelessness on th© Centre Counters--
A!! Without STeserve Slaugh
tered--At 25 Cents.
QOn PIECES—A TERRIBLE SACRIFICE OF RAPIDLY. SELLING GOODS—LACE
Oi’lJ BUNTINGS, reduced from fifteen cents to 8 CENTS A YARD.
1 A PIECES ALL-WOOL BUNTINGS, marked down to close out the entire lot to 15 cents
ICU a yard.
285 PIE^ES STJMMER DEBAIGES, NEW AND FASHIONABLE GOODS, at sc.
CA PIECES.FRENCH CHECK NAINSOOKS, in FIFTEEN STYLES, worth twenty cents,
TOVy at 10 cents a yard.
■: WE
Publish Our Prices, anti While the World Wonders, the
Thronging Multitude Crowds to Our Counters
% to Partake the Wondrous
Figures We Name.
3.C/'A/"Y YARDS PRINTED UNION LAAVNS, % wide; in their tremendous reduction they
photograph a recent tumble in the New York Market. Last week they were eight
, cents, now they are 5 CENTS.
6 >iniA .YARDS of YARD-WIDE COLORED LAWNS, with side bands and assorted in the
Newest Styles and effects, but a few days ago worth twelve and a half oents, TO
DAY cut down to 10 CENTS.
1 SiTO YAET -> S of YARD AND A QUARTER WIDE WHITE VICTORIA LAWNS—
A,O I U Goods which are considered pretty fair value—at 8 CENTS.
"I AA PIECES “LINON DE SYRIA,” reduced from last week’s price of thirty cents on
J- Vaccount of the tumble in*Lawns, to 20 CENTS a yard.
LENGTH,
In Unopposed Magnificence, Cray’s Ponderous Forces
Seize the-Victory. Competition Hears Its Doom in
The Thunder of Our Prices!
n BALES SEA ISLAND SHIRTINGS, cut under both Manufacturer and Agent, to 5 cents
a yard.
n, CASES of Yard-Wide Soft Finished BLEACHED SHlßTlNG,*illustrating how little need
to misrepresent WAMSUTTA or FRUIT OF LOOM, when we name for this Bc. a yard.
17C\ CTTT'RT'G AT length we thunder out
livj LH7/jrji\ olllli 1C EUREKA! We have the best UN
LAUNDRIED SHIRT EVER PLACED .ON SALE IN GEORGIA; guaranteed perfect fit,
Linen Bosom and .Cuffs, Wamsutta Body, and reinforced, at ONE DQLLAT EACH.
WEARY.
BUSINESS ROUTINE, EVEN UNDER THE ASCENDING THERMOMETER, LOSES ITS
UNPLEASANTNESS BECAUSE OF OUR STRICT ADHERENCE TO
OUR ANCIENT RULE,
POLITE AND COURTEOUS ATTENTION GIVEN TO EVERY VISITOR, WHETHER PUB
CHASER OR NOT.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO.
200 Rolls New Canton Matting, in Fancy
White and Red Check.
POSITIVE CLEARANCE SALE
—OF—
CARPETS,
Window Shades, Lace Curtains!
WINDOW CORNICES, FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, TABLE OIL "CRUMB CLOTHS.
Ruga, Door Mata, Ciuomos, Picture Framea, Ball Fringes, Hair Cloths, Upholsterers’
Trimmings, Cocoa Slatting, Stair Oil Cloths, Loops,. Tassels, Buggy Mats.
Wall Papers, Borders and Fire Screens, Picture Cord, Tassel3 and Nails.
Unparalleled Bargains ol Good Goods,
' —AT MY
NEW STORE, CORNER BROAD AND OPElli HOUSE ALLEY,
AT.T, OF WHICH WILL BE SOLD VEBY LOW, as I have not room for my stook. Bale
will continue from day to day until all is sold, together with a full stook of
GROCERIES.
EVERYTHING CHOICE TO EAT IN THE GBOCEBY LINE ; BASKETS, WOOD WARE,
BROOMS and BRUSHES, under the management of Mr.
JOHN BAKER.
With a better light, concentration of stock and force, I am prepared to do still a better bu*i
ness, and invite the attention of the public to an inspection of my Stock in both departments.
CrEO.RO'E .A# BAIJLIE^
BROAD BTREEI\_COR : _OPEBA_jIOUBE_ALLEY : V
& r mrm
Dr. Harter's Ibov Toxic is * nrenaration of Protoxide of Iron. PernvUn Bark and the Pboe
r**—* associated rota tbe Veeetabre Aromatics Endorsed by tbe Medical Profession, and recom
meaded Of tfem fot'nepfiß. Oeaeral Debility, Female Dlieaae*. Wantof Vital.
MuuitaM ij me MEME S&, No. 213 Norm Main Street, St. Louis,
WMJom
DYSPEPSIA.
TH3
BLOOD.
THE CODE SYSTEM.
Tbe Great Syndicate—Yew Road* to Be
Built—An Immense System.
\Special Dispatch fo the Constitution.]
New Yobk, May 16.—1 t was my duty to
telegraph to Georgia about two years ago
the first news of the coup d’etat by which
Col. Ei W. Cole, the railroad king of the
South was dispossessed of his system.
I to-night wire the first details of a much
vaster and more comprehensive trade by
which the “king comes into his own again."
You will receive by the press the follow
ing intelligence that Col. Cole has, through
a syndicate, purchased the the East Tennes
see and Virginia system, embracing the
Selma, Rome and Dalton Roads and
the Macon and Brunswick. The de
tails of .the trade have just been closed,
although the contract was closed on Satur
day al 3 o'clock. The syndicate that backs
Col. Cole is composed of strong men, and
men who have the highest confidence in his
ability and in the vast system he proposes.
Mr. George I. Seney, the philanthropist so
well known in Georgia, is one of the leaders
of the syndicate, and expresses much inter
est in Georgia and satisfaction that ho is
now identified with her development.
Colonel Cole 6ays to-night : “You may
promise your people the road between At
lanta and Maeon will be running by the
first of January. I will have a road from
Atlanta to Rome direct running by the
first of March. I could run the road from
Rome to Macon through Atlanta running by
January, except that there is a little heavy
work between Rome and Atlanta, and will
show your people, however, the fastest rail
road building all the way from Rome to
Macon that they have seen in some time.”
Colonel Cole leaves New York for Atlan
ta to-morrow night, and upon his arrival
will at once put the entire line under con
tract, and will have a number of forces of
hands at work as soon as the bids can be re
ceived. He says he must have the trains
running in January next and will do so.
This will virtually give Atlanta two new
lines, one to Macon and one to Rome. An
immense depot for the lines, and shops for
the hands will be built as soon Colonel Cole
can reach Atlanta and determine on the
site.
Colonel Cole is now in actual possession
of the entire system of roads embraced in
the purchase, the transfer having been made
on Saturday evening.
A contract was closed to-day for eleven
thousand tons of steel rails, to be delivered
at Brunswick, commencing on November
Ist.
It is understood that Mr. Wilson, who re
tains an interest in the syndicate, but none
in the management of the road, will go to
Europe for his health. Colonel McGhee
will, probably, remain with the system.
It may not be out of place to remark that
the Georgia Western is just as certain to
come as these roads are. H. W. G.
DISASTROUS FIRE IN NASHVILLE.
FIVe Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth
of Property Burned to the Ground— The
Losers.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle. V
Nashville, May 17. —Robert Lowery’s
planing and turning mill was destroyed by
fire last night. The loss is about $12,000;
insurance light.
Cincinnati, May 17.—A great fire is re
ported raging at Nashville, Tennessee. No
definite information concerning it has yet
been received, but it is rumored that four
squares are at the mercy of the flames.
There is no wire from here to Nashville.
Louisville has a wire. The Maxwell House,
tbe American newspaper office and the West
ern Union Telegraph office, are burned.
The Mayor of Nashville has telegraphed to
Louisviile that there is danger of the whole
city burning. Louisville is sending fire
engines. No further particulars are obtain
able just now.
Memphis, May 17.—The manager of the
Memphis telegraph office has been instruct
ed Jo send all spare instruments and sup
plies by the first train to Nashville, as the
office there has lost everything.
The fire is reported to be beyond the con
trol of the fire department, and now in
cludes four squares with the Noel Block as
a center.
Nashville, Tenn., May 17.'— A fire caus
ing a loss of $500,000 occurred here at 10
o’clock this morning. The Western Union
Telegraph office, in Noel Block, was among
the first buildings destroyed, which cut oft
all communication by wire. The fire com
menced in Warren Brothers’ paint shop, ig
niting and consuming Phillip Sohneider’s
furniture store, Atwell & Freid’s furniture
store, T. & H. Miller’s mattress house, P.
Blnmenthal’s chinaware establishment,
Noel Block, the northwest corner of Church
and College streets (valued at $70,000), the
American office; and partially burned Cheat
ham & Pearce’s whisky house, Ryan &
Ryan’s whisky house, the Penitentiary
warevooms, Geo. A. Diekel’s whisky house,
M. S. Hyar’s rag house, and a large num
ber of smaller buildings, including one
half of each of the four squares,
Just Received.
Hathorn water.
CONGRESS WATER.
ROCKBRIDGE ALUM WATER.
Guaranteed genuine. At BARRETT’S.
DALMATION!
The BEST INSECT POWDER ever used.
Pan be had in any quantity at BARRETT’S.
Finest Teas.
The LARGEST LOT and LOWEST PRICES
IN AUGUSTA. At BARRETT’S.
A Positive Cure !
FOR ALL DISEASES of the LIVER—GIL
DER’S PILLS. All Druggists sell them.
mylO-tf
Always the Best.
Clinton’s Ginger Ale and Soda Waters.
Fqual to the Imported in strength, flavor
and color. Orders from the country filled
promptly and shipped by express in my Patent
Four-Dozen Shipping Cases. Manufactured
at CLINTON’S BOTTLING WORKB,
1348 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
mhll-dAw3m '
DiSANFOkj^i
mmmtm
Only Vegetable Compound that
acts directly upon the Liver, and
cures Liver Complaints, jaun
dice, Biliousness, Malaria, Cos
tiveness, Headache. Itassists di
gestion, strengthens the system,
regulates the bowels, purifies the
blood. A Book sent free. Dr.
Sanford, 162 Broadway, N. Y
FOR SASA2 *-Y iAUi.
jeßo tuth&saeow ly
GILES’
LINIMEMT IODIDE AMMONIA!
NO Bugle, Trumpet, Fife nor Drum, is re
quired when a really scientific and valu
able remedy, like GILES’ LINIMENT IODIDE
AMMONIA ia brought before the public. It
telle jte own tale and epeake its own merits. It
alleviates and cures. It is no ignorant com
pound, puffed into notoriety by the usual ad
juncts of a showman, but was discovered and
utilized by Dr. WM. M- GILES, of New York,
the late surgeon of the 69th Regiment N. Y. Y.,
and Medical Purveyor to the Army of the Po
tomac.
Scrofulous Swellings, Eruptions, Skin Dis
eases, Varicose Veins, Swelled Joints of the
hands and feet, Female Troubles of all kinds,
wonderful cures of the Falling of the Womb
being effected by its use. Dr. GILES will pre
scribe and cure, Free of Charge, all cases of
sickness, no matter bow long standing.
Write to Dr. GILES, at 120 West Broadvtv
New York. * •*
Paralysis, Deafness, Running Mores, Salt
Rheum, Impotency, Nousaigia, Indiscretions
and Errors of Youth, are all cured by Giles’
Liniment lodide’ Ammonia, and Giles’Pills
Diseased Liver, Bright’s Disease of the Kid
' neya, trouble in the Prostate Gland, Diabetes
Stoppage of Water, Discharges of all kinds
Cither in male or female, Catarrh, after all phy
sicians and remedies have failed.
Write to Dr. Giles, who will care you without
fee or reward.
GILES’ LINIMENT AND PILLS are sold by
all pruggisti throughout the world. Trial bof
tles, 25c.; Pills, 25c.
Beware of counterfeits; the genuine has a
foe-simile of the inventor’s signature,' WILLIAM
M. GILES, over the cork of eaoh bottle.
Trial bottles, 2&o. Sold by
mys-weamfcwly-2 W. H. BABRETT.
1
Will b* nailed mi to mil applicant*, mad t q customers witheu t
entering tt. It contain* five colored plate*, G 0 enpravlrfrt.
abort 900 page*, *nd fall de*crtption, price* and direction* ( r
- planting 1500 vartette* of Vegetable and flower Seed*, P:or •
7°**%, He., liwaloable to all. Michigan grown *eed* wit:
found more nMU for planting in the Sent l than thow grown
ni V w * n *f r , We make a specialty of wippiyia?
Planter*, Trockaen and Market Grden*r*. Address.
D* X, TEXET ft CO. Jtetroit Jlish.
Advertisements*.
GREAT luilim SALE
OF
FINE DRY GOODS
COMMENCING
MONDAY, MAY 16th,
At Which Time J. B. White & Cos. Will
Offer Over a Quarter Million Dollars
Worth of Choice Dry Goods
AT AN AVERAGE PRICE OF
Fifty Cents On tlxe Dollar !
THE DIFFERENCE.
900 YARDS PLAIN COLORED CRO CRAIN SILK; Price
now 34c., Old Price, 75c. ’
785 YARDS PLAID SUMMER SILK; new price, 37%e.; old price, 75c.
811 YARDS FANCY SUMMER HILK; new prioe, 450.; old price, 85c.
777% YARDS BLACK GLACE SILK; new prioe, 340.; old prioe, 65c.
278% YARDS AItMURE SILK; new prioe, 250.; old-price, 50c.
900 YAItD_S BROCADE SlLK—quality sublime, in lengths from 9to 15 yards at 760 to
$1 50. The 750. Goods are worth $2; the $1 25 and $1 50 Goods are worth $2 5 j and $3 80.
REMEMBER, THAT THESE LOTS ARE ONLY IN SHORT
LENCTHS.
LYONS’ and ZURICH SILKS, BLACK and COLORED SATINS at Inst 500. on the dollar
We propose dosing our entire stock of SILKS and DRESS GOODS, and will place before th.
public over '
$225,000 Worth of Fresh and Choice Goods
AT AN AVERAGE OF NOT OVER 50 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR.
2,875 Yards Black Grenadine at 3%c. a yard; 298 pieces 7-8 Gray Dobaige at 4Wc a vard
-1,099% Yards Lace Bunting at 10c. a yard; old price, 20o.; 899% yards Crepe Armur.
Bunting; price, 12%0.; old price, 25c.
375 Pieces Khybor Cloth; new price, 150. ; old prioe, 35e.; 115 pieces Gauzeline Fabric
new price, 24c.; old prioe, 50c.
168 Pieces Crepe Do Cliene; old price, 40c.; new price, 20c.
178 Pieoes Australian Plaids at 7%c. a yard; old price, 15c]
147 Pieces Basket Brocade, down to Bc. a yard ; 931 pieces Ooaohing Cashmere down to
10c. a yard.
MISSSES’ and CHILDREN’S HOSIERY
THE STOCK IS FULL TO OVERFLOWING, EMBRACING,
AS IT DOES, 184 DIFFERENT STYLES.
1,0 £2 5^ 6e8 ’ HOSE at 10c. a pair; 38 different stylos MRS. FANCY HOSE at 2So
50 different stylos at 3o and 40e.; 9o styles Mrs. Fancy ifose, in tine grades.
LADIES’, GENTS’ AND CHILDREN’S GAUZE UNDERSHIRTS,
IN IMMESE VARIETY, FROM 25 CENTS UPWARDS.
1,100 Dozen LACE TOP GLOVES at 25 to 50c. a pair.
WILL CLOSE THIS ENTIRE LOT ON MONDAY WITHOUT
RESERVE.
100 Pieces WHITE MATTING, 40 yards to Piece, for $5.
100 Pieoes FANCY MATTING, 40 yards to piece, for $6
UNDERGARMENTS.
WE HATE TmEDTOjSEEI. TEE. M.DT.BE
PEREMPTORY. THEY MUST GO.
65c. NIGHT ROBES for 38c.; 75e. Night Robes for 50#.
$1 25 Night Robes for 75c.; $1 50 Night Rohes for 85c.
$2 Night Rohes for $1 25, and so on through the entire line
50c. Cuemises for 25c.: 65c. Chemises for 38o.; 75c. Chemises for 48c.
$1 Chemises for 68o.; $1 26 Chemises for 78c.; $1 50 Chemises for 98c
$2 Chemises for $1 25, and so on through the entire line
DRAWERS.
50c. DRAWERS for 30c.; 650. DRAWERS for 38c.; $1 DRAWERS for 080
WHITE SKIRTS.
75c. WHITE SKIRT for 48c.; 85c. WHITE SKIRT for 60c.
$1 25 WHITE SKIRT for 80c., and so on through the entire line.
THESE SALES ARE POSITIVE. THE STOCK WILL BE
REDUCED RECARDLESS OF COST.
J. B. WHITE & CO.,
Monument Place and Ellis Street.
TIS A FACT!
THE MASONIC HALL IS TO BE PULLED DOWN, WORK SOON TO COMMENCE AND
RATHER THAN' HAVE OUR STOCK RUINED BY THE DUST FROM
THE WORK, WE WILL COMMENCE OUR GRAND
CLEARING OUT SALE
MONDAY liNt;.
We, 11. T.Anderson & Cos,,
HAVE PUT THE KNIFE IN AND THE CUT WILL BE TERRIFIC. Como ev*rv dav a*
vo will continue to pile goods on tho contre counters until the entire stock is Hold All ( ,t
our goods will bo marked in plain figures and placed on the counters, so our crowds of rnstomera
can readily see what bargains we are offering. We always like to quote prices in our seven se
mente, but this time we will have to ask you to see the prioes in the store. You will find n mark
ably low prices at ANDERSON’S this week. We must sell our goods, and tbe grand toVl'mu.t
be realized in a short iime.
WE HAVE MADE DEEP CRTS IN
S B,cTi n o g o B dL 06 -
Lawns. I Crapes. Ladies’ Hose.
Pants Coods, Ca ico. Lawns.
Silks. Cenghams, Dusters.
! Shirts. Lace Ties.
MOURNING GOODS.
THOSE WHO BUY GOODS IN THIS LINE WILL FIND TAMISE, SUMMED OASHMFUE
HENRIETTA CLOTH, GRANDINE-t, BLACK SILKS BLACK ALPAOAB CRAPES
CRAPE VEILS AND EVERY THING IN THIS DEPARTMENT AT HALF MICE
Parasols. Parasols.
THE BIGGEST SLAUGHTER IN THESE GOODS EVER KNOWN IN AUGUSTA.
S2O Parasols, reduced to $10; sls Parasols, reduoed to $7 25.
$lO Parasols, reduced to $5; $0 Parasols, reduced to $3.
$4 Parasols, reduced to $2: $2 Parasols, reduced to sllO.
$1 50 Parasols, reduced to 05c. And all the way down, down to 45c. 36a 26c
15c., 10c. and sc. each. . ~,
WE WILL DO OUR UTMOST TO SERVE ALL WHO FEEL AN INTEREST IN SUPPLY
ING THEIR WANTS FROM THE GREAT SLAUGHTER SALE AT ANDERSON’S.
Prints, at 40.; Lawns, at 5c.; Corsets, at 250., in a basket.
Lace Scarfs, at 15c. s worth 40c.; Piques, at 6%c.
Buntings, at Bc., lOe. and 12%c.; Jeddo Silks, at 100., 12%e., 15c. to 25c.
Fine Dress Goods, reduced from $1 50 to 600.
Fine Dress Goods, reduoed from $1 25, $1 and 750. to 250. and 49e.
Every Tiling* at a Slaugrliter.
100 Dozen Uniaundried Shirts, at 25c,
50 Dozen Undervests, at 25c., 35c. and 400.
?: 25 Dozen Drawers, at 250., 350., to
WE,POSITIVELY INTEND TO CLEAR OUT OUR STOCK RATHER THAN iIAVE THt
DUST FROM THE MASONIC HALL RUIN IT.
BARGAINS FOR ALL,
A M) KH SON ’S
rpHE GREAT APPETIZER and BUBE CUBE for Coughs, Colds, Bronohitia, Asthma, Oonwnn ( .
■X- tion, and all diseases of the Throat and Lungs. The most aoceptable preparation tn ti
, .known World. By adding to TOLD BOCK and BYE a little Lemon juice, yon nave an crccllen*
•f Appetizer and Tonic, for general and family use. The immense and increasing sales and the nil
merous testimonials received daily are the Dost evidences of its virtues and popularity.
Put up in QUART size Bottles, giving more for the money than any article in the market
A TT r FT ( IXT „ DON’T BE DECEIVED by unprincipled dealers who try to ps
vAU J. lUiv upon you common Bock and Bye m place of onrTOLD MX ,y . l'~
RYE, which is the only MEDICATED" article made, the Genuine having a Government 8 _ , * ‘
each bottle. on
Extract from Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue:
• TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF INTERNAL RF'/rv-r r ,
Washinoton, D. C., January 28th, 18P,, ' !
Messrs. LA WRBNCE & MARTIN , 111 Madison St., Chicago, la. : *
Gkntlemes—This compound, in the opinion of this office, would have a ...
the BALSAM OF TOLU to give it all the advantages ascribed to this j n Doctoral”
plaints, while thewhisky and the syrup constitute an emulsion renderin', n aj _.L J .v, 0 "
to the patient. Compounded according to the formula, it may properly
preparation under the provisions of U. 8. Revised Statutes, and gp stamped mav
by Druggists, Apothecaries and Other Persons without rendering ‘diem liable to oaV suedll t 3
as liquor dealers. 1
Yours Respectfully, [Signed] GREEN B> BAUM, Commissioner.
LAWRENCE A MARTIN, Proprietors, Chicago, life, Srild by Druggists, Grocers and r
ere everywhere.
Sold by REAB & O’OONNOB, Wholesale lienor who will supply the trade at V*
seplO-dAwt
’THE
McCORMiCK HARVESTING MACHINES,
.Wins AND TWINE BINDERS,
-FOB
SIWPLIIMY, DURABILITY AYD EASE OF MAYGEVEYT,
-AND THE
VAST SAVING OP LABOR AND* GR/ All g
* WHICH THEIR USE ASSURES,
AUB UNEQUALLED.
CALL AYD EXAMINE SELF-BIYDER AT OU% STORE.
TERMS OF PAYMENT TO WTJIT PUBOHAMBR*
Bone®, Dougherty & Cos.,
mavl—d<twtf . HARDWARE MERCHANTS,"AUGUSTA, Ga