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CAPITAL ECHOES.
TIIK VARIEO CONGLOMERATE OF
HAPPENINGS IW ATLANTA.
lion J. C. Clement* Felton'* ■•Moun
tain Colt"—JayGouldand Our Gee.--
eta Iload*-Piophecy and Railroad
' —Georgia'* Pivotal Position— Major
• Campbell Wallace Our Railroad
r Commission—William H. Crawford
About Gov. Rabun—Senate Pres dents
. As Governors—Georgia and the United
- states—Speculation In Futures— De*
“ Give’s Opera Hout..*.
(Corree. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Ztijlnta, Ga , April 28.—C01. J. C.
Clemente, the member of Congress from
the Seventh District, has been in Atlanta
during the last week. He is the solid
young “mountain co’.t” that left that sharp
racer. Dr. W. H. Felton, behind in two
heats. I have known him many years.
He comes of a good, worthy stock.
His father is a well-to-do farmer and
physician Ihiog at Villanow, in Walker
county, midway between Dalton and Lr
byetto. The old doctor’s boys have all
done well. One son represented Whitfield
county in the Legislature. He lived at
Tunnel Hill. Another son was for years
the excelhut solicitor of the Rome Judicial
Circuit. Judson, the Congressman, the
youngest of boys, is only 34, but has
made steady progress in public esteem.
He was a member of the House of Repre*
gentatives from Walker county in 1873,
State Senator in 1878, Congressman in
1881, and is new enjoying a second term
in the national councils. He took the Dem
ocratic nomination in his district when it
was considered a forlorn hope. He won by
his quiet power
an unexpected
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it", he La« a f.-ir
and stands gamely
■'-r. Not brilliant, and ab
Clements is yet one of
tical, honest men that make
valuable public servants.
T' It seems to be pretty certain that Jay
Gould is turning his attention to our
Southern railway systems. The papers
atate that he has been negotiating for some
interest with Mr. Seney, and his colleagues
in the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia Railroad. Gould has a magnificent
net-work of track in the West, extending
into California and Mexico. He is un
doubtedly now seeking a Southern connec
tion for bis colossal enterprise. In 1881
in Avery’s History of Georgia occurs this
intimated prediction which is finding cu
rious realization.
“It is another evident contingency of this
consolidating phase of railroadism, that
the still larger combinations of the North
and West may be expected to have an eye
to the South sooner or later, and with their
illimitable capital and herculean enter
prise, we may look for disarrangements oi
our Southern syndicates. Jay Gould has
twelve thousand miles of railway to Cali
fornia and Mexico. Railroads are secured
by purchaeo of a bare majority of their
atock. When it becomes to the interest of
Gould or Vanderbilt, in the rushing de
velopment of Georgia and its enhanced
value in a commercial view, to turn a long
ing eye here, we may not unreasonably
anticipate a flutter and displacement of
our present syndicates.”
This prophecy is finding its speedy
verification. Georgia holds a peculiarly
important railway position. The great
Etlanger scheme and the greater Seney
system find their Atlantic outlet at Bruns
wick, in this State. The strong Central
Railroad combination pivots upon Savan
nah, with its ocean link to New York,
and has been practically sympathetic
with the vast Louisville and Nash
ville extensive web of track. The
Air Line and Georgia Pacific has
its centre in the Gate City, welding
the Middle States to the Mississippi, and
catching rich tribute from the coal and
iron fields of the South, North, East and
West, and coasting upon our borders are
huge iron lines of transportation that either
end or concentrate in our pivotal State.
Five colossal combinations of railway, ag
gregating three hundred millions of capi
tal and 15,000 miles of track, make their
focal campaign upon Georgia. And the
day is at hand when foreign commerce
shall pour its opulent streams through the
two Georgia ocean-ways. Savannah and
Brunswick, to the great West, on to the
Pacific slope.
It has been quietly rumored that Major
Campbell Wallace has been contemplating
the resignation of his office as Railroad
Commissioner. His term expires in Octo
ber and bis place will have to be Ailed
then. It is said that he desires to get out
be'ore his term ends, and has recently
in ended to offer his resignation immedi
ately. And other rumors are to the effect
that he has upon urgent solicitation re
considered his purpose and will remain as
Commissioner until October. He is 78
years old, and while very hearty and
hale, he naturally seeks the repose from
business cares due to his advanced
age. He is in excellent pecuniary
condition and can comfortably retire.
In filling his place the Governor
who selects his successor will be
limited to a practical railroad man.
Governor Smith is the lawyer on the com
mission and Col. Trammell the business
naan. The law requires the selection of one
railroad man, who shall have no employ
ment under any railway, nor own any rail
road stock or property. It will be difficult
to replace Maj. Wallace. Maj E. A. Bacon,
the cl rk of the commission, would make
a good man. Gen. E. P. Alexander would
be a choice selection. The only trouble in
getting such leading spirits as Gen. Alex
ander is the meager salary of $2,500 which
is paid to the commissioners. Railroaders
like him command from $5,000 to SIO,OOO
sa'aries. Another excellent railroader now
disengaged is Mr. Houston, who was so
long connected with the Air Line Railroad.
The Railroad Commission, as now or
ganized, is a very strong body. It is both
an able and honest commission. Mr.
Trammell has proven a very valuable
member. He has a quality of practical
tact that is exceedingly useful in settling
the complications that so frequently arise.
He is an admirable hand to tackle per
plexing conflicts of interest Maj. Wallace
and Gov. Smith are both rather aggressive
men, and Mr. Trammell is a good balance
wheel in the commission machinery.
A paragraph is going the rounds cf the
press in regard to the death, recently,
of William H. Crawford, in Arkansas.
He was the son and namesake of
that brilliant Georgian, who grazed
the Presidency of the United States so
•losely, when Clay, Calhoun, Crawford and
Jackson were the candidates and Jackson
won the good prize. Mr. Crawford had a
stroke of paralysis. He had three sons and
one daughter. The Wm H. Crawford,
who has just died, was his third son and
youngest child. He had much talent, but
was a homely little fellow. He was in the
same class with Governor Stephens and
■hared the first honor with him. His
father’s great name and character gave
him prestige. He was a member of
the Georgia Legislature in 1845.
He ran for Congress in 1847, not
against Gov. Stephens, as has been
erroneously stated, nor as a Demo
cratic candidate, but as a Whig down in
the Second District, he ran against Col.
Seaborn Jones, a Democrat, who defeated
him. He moved to Americus to practice
law with his sister’s husband, and after
wards devoted himself to farming in Ter
rell county. He moved West before the
war. It has always seemed to me a mis
take for men like Crawford to leave their
own State for new countries. While we
have no hereditary transmission of honors
in this country, there is a powerful trans
fer of family influence and illustrious pres-
CHRONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1883.
tige. Men with talent go up easier if they
follow successful progenitors. Where a
name is known honorably and widely, i:s
inheritors fight the battle of life with su
perior advantage. A man's chances are
bst’er where his name has a hold upon the
public esteem.
Looking over old records and volumes
I find that Governor William Rabun, who
died in the executive office like Governor
Stephens, and was succeeded by Matthew
Talbot, president of the Senate, was him
self first Governor by reason of being the
president of the Senate, and afterwards
elected Governor by the Legislature. On
the 4th of March, 1817, Governor D. B.
Mitchell was appointed by the President
of the United States agent of Indian affairs
for the Creek Nation, and resigned his
office of Governor. William Rabun, the
president of the Senate, assumed the exec
utive duties immediately. The Legislature
did not convene until the 3rd of Novem
ber, 1817, eight months after, when it
elected him Governor. He died, however,
before the expiration of his term, Octo
ber 25th 1819, when Matthew Talbot, the
president cf the Senate, assumed execu
tive dutv. The Legislature met on the
3rd of November, 1819, and on the 4th
elected John Claik, Governor, and Mat
thew Talbot was elected president of the
new Senate.
In connection with tbe point made that
Gov. Boynton was not authorized to as
sume the title of Governor, the journals of
tbe L c gislature from 1817 to 1820 con
tain a number of official recognitions as
Governor of the gentlemen who became
Executive by reason of being President so
tbe Senate. On the 4th of November,
1817 a resolution was passed appointing a
committee to “wait on the Executive” and
inform him of the organization. In every
way did the General Assembly recognize
him as the Governor and so designated
him. This forms a precedent, which ful
>v sustains Governor Boynton I’D signing,
himself MGoverr'jjg '
of 1817
■BRnative evidence to the auto-
of Alexander Hamilton, bec-
HBtary of tbe United States Treasury, show
ing that the new obstacle to tbe payment
of the Trezevant claim in the revival of a
continental indebtedness in 1777 is not a
valid one. Tbe messages of the Governor
Ftate that the United States government
had paid directly to the State of Georgia
$),250,000 in payment of lands in the
Mississippi Territory ceded to the general
government. And by a curious coinci
dence William H. Crawford was the Sec
retary of the United States Treasury who
issued his warrant to tbe State of Georgia
for the money. One payment of $375,000
was made in April 1817. The last pay
ment of $375 was made in 1818. Had
Georgia then owed the United States a
dollar it would have been offset against
those payments.
Talking with a gentleman posted on
the speculation in stocks and futures
here, he said : “ The business has
fallen off very much. There is net near
as much of this speculation as there
was. Men have been hit badly. At one
time there was much of it. Steady heads
were drawn in. There is a fascination in
it akin to gambling. A good deal of money
has been made, but much more lost. Tbe
South has been the heaviest customer of
the brokers in futures, and our people
have been victimized to such an extent
that they have rather drawn out. Atlanta
went in strong at one time. The bucket
shops were filled every day. Men that you
would suppose" were too conservative for
such bnsine-s were singularly fascinated.
Day after day they would be sitting
around the blackboard, watching the
figures. One cool young fellow tackled
the problem thoughtfully and with all the
close calculation and study he could bring
to bear upon it. He was in the thing
eight months, buying and selling, alter
ternateiy bull and bear, as he figured it
out best. At the end of the eight months
he cleared out finally with about $2,500,
as the result be said, of the hardest work
ever did in his life. There are men who
make their little investments of $25,
dipping into grain, or cotton, or pork as
the chances happen to strike them favor
ably. watching the markets with a feverish
eye. One man put in $25 and got $268 in
a week or two. But they all strike a time
when their fervent prayer is to be able to
"let go” and come out even. That time
comes sooner or later. It is to be hoped
that the falling off in the futures specula
tion will continue. It is pure gambling.”
Mr. DeGive is fixing the front of his
opera house very attractively. He has
put on it pillar mouldings with handsome
filagree at every story, a heavy cornice at
the roof, a broad ornamental verandah and
a large adornment at the top, in the cen
tre. Tbe pillars are brown with gilt
trimmings, the walls a sober green and
I the facings a still deeper green. An im
mense gilt head of the goddess of Tragedy,
surmounts the whole and the golden words
“Opera” in large letters explains the
building, it has taken a good deal of mo
ney and much taste to transmogrify the
plain brick face into the glittering front
that now draws the gaze. Every dollar
spent has been for shew. The com
fort of the building has not been in
creased one jot, and yet the comely
structure is enhanced in value, and the risk
of competition by a new theatre is much
diminished. Mr.* DeGive shows every dis
position to keep up with tbe progress of
theatrical art, and to satisfy the public.
He is an enterprising and very con
scientious theatrical purveyor, and de
strves well of the citizens. He does all he
can to keep up a high standard of theatri
cal performance.
001. M. E. Thornton, who has offered
the Post-Appeal for sale, is having a good
many applications to buy—a number from
Northern and Western-parties. Atlanta
has a general gaze upon her from abroad,
and capitalists and business men are look
ing here for investments. The phenome
nal success of some of our newspaper en
terprises cannot but stimulate the faith in
Atlanta as a good newspaper point.
Mr. P. Wallace McKittrick, of Memphis,
Tennessee, by telegraph informs Governor
Boynton that one million silk worms await
his order for free distribution. Governor
Bovnton promptly responded, accepting
tbe generous offer, and instructing him to
ship them to Judge J. T. Henderson, the
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Richmond.
WARREN COUNTY.
A Quiet Town—Memorial Day.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Warrkneon, Ga., April 30.—1 f your
people desire a quiet place, where they
will be unmolested by the rattle ot wagons,
let them spend the spring in a country
town. Our people rise and fall with tbe
seasons. The farmer and the merchant
alternate in their feelings. In the spring
time, with tbe farmer all is expectation
and hope, while the merchant, tired of tbe
long waiting “to sell,” becomes “glocmy
and peculiar,” and takes to fishing. In
the fall, however, the farmer sits mid shat
tered hopes, with responsibilities made in
the hey day of spring, which he is unable
to meet, while the merchant realizes that
waiting—patient waiting—has its reward.
Memorial day passed off very pleasantly.
Warrenton has two well attended Sunday
schools—one Baptist and one Methodist.
They will be represented at the State Sun
day Schoo! Convention, which is soon to
convene in Augusta. H.
KATE KANE'S TROUBLE.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Milwaukee. April 30.—The decision of
United States Commissioner Ryan, re
leasing Kate Kane, the female lawyer, on
habeas corpus proceedings, because Judge
Mallory, of the criminal court, committed
her verbally for contempt, in throwing
water in his face, was this morning re
versed by Judge Hamilton, of the Circuit
court, who reviewed the case on a writ of
certiorari. Miss Kane was remanded to
jail. Bai! was offered, but Judge Hamil
ton decided that the case was not bailable.
The prisoner said she would never pay the
fine if she stays in jail all her life.
ATHENS BY RAIL.
HOW THE CITY IS PROTECTED BY
HER ROADS.
The .Vortheaatetn Railroad of Georgia—
Extension of the Athena Branch—The
New Georgia Railroad Depot and
Equipments How the Town is Build
ing Up—The Banks and Their Busi
ness.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist)
Athens, April 26.—Lit any one who
has any doubt of the future of Athens visit
her railroad depots and inspect the amount
of business transacted there. Six years ago
that part of the city back of the old resi
dence cf Gen. Thos. K. R. Cobb was an
overgrown glen flanked by bald hills and
corrugated by deep gulleys. To-day the
gulleys have been deepened into railroad
cuts; the valley of the Oconee lined with
large buildings and the hills crowned with
innumerable cottages. The construction
of the Northeastern Railroad of Georgia
was a great thing for Athens. It was im
portant in that it opened up a new coun
try for trade and secured terminal rates.
It was especially significant and cred
itable, because it represented the un
aided efforts of home enterprise and
home capital, and was the first time Athens
had asserted itself as an independent com
mercial centre. The road has been a suc
cess from the beginning. It was a mistake
that the Georgia Railroad did not at that
time subscribe liberally for this line and
make it an extension of their great s\ stem,
beyond Athens. It would have drained
this rapidly developing section of the
country, and besides benefiting Athens,
k would have been a flank movement upon
the Air Line from Atlanta. With the
Northeastern Railroad in her control
and the Elberton route in her pos
session, Augusta would have drawn
these thriving Georgia towns into most
profitable relationship, and might now be
commanding the trade of the Oconee and
Savannah valleys. The Northeastern Rail
road was backed by State aid. Its bonds
were signed by the Governor and its grad
ing was largely accomplished by the spade,
linked with the ball and chain. It was
wisely and prudently managed by good
men, and always continued to pav the in
terest on its bonds. In April, 1881, this
road, naturally enough, fell into the con
trol of the Richmond and Danville, which
had also leased the Air Line system. It is
still worked economically and well, and
every advantage is given the business men
of Athens. Whether it will remain under the
operation of the Clyde Syndicate must de
pend upon the general success of that sys
tem in the South. Much has been said
against that combination; but it has al
ready accomplished great good for Georgia
and the Carolinas. If maintained up to its
past high standard cf acccmmodation and
enterprise, this line may have nothirg
to fear from temporary stock depressions
and ephemeral business lulls. The North
eastern Railroad is managed in Athens by
Superintendent H. R. Bernard, and its
lical business is looked after by Mr. R. M.
Smith. It has done a large amount of bus
iness for several seasons. It has shipped
this year about twenty-two thousand bales
of cotton and has brought most of
the Eastern freight to this city. Along
its line, in the excellently timbered coun
try. are several saw mills which have been
furnishing material for the buildings so
extensively put up in Athens of late. The
depot and its neighborhood is every day a
busy scene, and bear marks of vigorous
pioneer work. The large cotton compress
of Messrs. Thomas and Smith has already
worked 19,000 bales this season and
almost in its shadow the same enterpris
ing firm are putting up tbeir large grain
elevator with a capacity of 250,000 bush
els. Athens, it is contended, is likely to
be a distributing point for middle Georgia
and such an industry, it is believed,
will prove profitable. The ice factory, now
being built, ia also near this depot, and
other smaller industries will from time to
time group themselves about. The Rabun
Gap extension of this road will be prompt
ly pushed through next season, the con
tractors promise, and this line may be
one of the first to reach the connecting
system of Tennessee and the Carolinas
which will bring Knoxville into promi
nence as the Gate City of the Southeast.
The Old Reliable.
The Georgia Railroad has just been
completed to the city of Athens. True,
the cars have been running to the top
of Carr’s Hill for forty years, but it
remained for Major Green and the
present able management of the road, to
bring the rails into tbe town. What the
approach has been to Athens during that
time, everybody who has visited the place
can remember. The roughest portion of
the trip was the memorable hack ride over
impassable hills, dark bridges and ex
cruciating rocks. It was death to carriage
springs and young children; demolishing
to freight and tantalizing to passengers.
The detour from the old entrance into
the town has been described in the col
umns of the Chbonicie. What amount
of heavy work in the way of cuts,
embankments, trestles and iron bridges,
had to be made, could hardly have
been foreseen; but that work has been well
done, and the trains now run regularly
into the heart of the city. The regular
visitor to Athens is now perplexed as to
his whereabouts. He is confronted by a
broad flat of side tracks, evidently excava
ted from ledges of rocks and filled with
cars and buildings. The freight depot and
passenger station are models of their kind.
The entire new building ig over 200 fest
long, a handsome and substantial brick
structure, with cosy waiting rooms, neat
offices and roomy and accessible stere
apartments. No city in the South
has more complete accommodations
than Athens. A second storing depot
has been added a short distance be
low the depot and a commodious round
house for the locomotives is being put up.
A patent force pump from the river fur
nishes the water for the tanks, and every
equipment for railroad business is afford
ed Dr. H. N. Harris, the egsnt, and Mr.
Burrows, his assistant. This enterprise
on the part of the Georgia Railroad is a
great concession to the growing import
ance of the city and is appreciated by the
business men The business of the Athens
Branch beg been steadily increasing year
by year and has been especially large this
season. It has transported for through
shipment twenty-seven thousand bales of
cotton besides doing the bulk of the Wes
tern business. The cotton compress of
Mr. J. H. Rucker has been at work here
this year and has booked a paying busi
ness. The importance of the relation of
the Georgia Railroad to the city of Athens
cannot be estimated. If that line were
secured indifferent to the business of this
place, it has more than made that up by its
recent efforts to accommodate business
and travel to this point. Three passenger
trains a day leave the city and as many re
turn, The mail, freight and passenger
accommodations are not to be excelled,
for the town enjoys daily fast mails
from Augusta and Atlanta, besides
the regular afternoon express, and
either one of their termini may
be reached by a few hour’s ride. Athens is
in fact one of the most accessible places in
the State, and, besides a large encourage
ment of local travel, is becoming a promi
nent point for the assembly of the differ
ent State conventions. Viewed from the
new depot of the Georgia Railroad the
growth of Athens across the river is most
apparent Dozens of new cottages around
the factory and higher up the stream attest
the increase in the number of laborers’
cottages. This part of the town seems to
have grown as rapidly as the Land Compa
ny’s lots in Augusta and the neighborhood,
and in a few years a rival city may confront
Athens across the river. Property in this
part of town, in fact, has increased rapid
ly in value on account of nearness and con
venience of the new depot and buildings,
and the business of the city generally, has
been given a great impetus. Mr. Wadley
made high acknowledgement to the glow-
ing value of the railroad connections of
Athens when he confessed that the North
eastern should be attached to the Georgia
Central system, and when he gave orders
for the extension of the Athens Branch
into tbe ci<y, Athens ia now making
efforts to connect at Jug Tavern, in Walton
county, with the Gainesville, Jefferscn
and Southern Railway, now being com
pleted down towards Social Circle. How
rapidly this city ingrowing then as a com
mercial center will readily be recognized.
Mr. R. L. Bloomfield, one of the most solid
and enterprising men in Athens, has been
elected president of this road.
The business facilities of this place have
been greatly advanced by the operation of
two banks. The older and larger of them
is the Athens National Bank, of which
Capt. James White w presi lent. The capi
tal stock ot this bank is SIOO,OOO, the re
serve fund $125 000, and its stock is worth
$248 a share. It is a strong, wealthy insti
tution, and its depositsand discounts have
heavily increased of late years. Tbe Bank
of the Unix'ersity took the place of the
branch of the Georgia Railroad Bink in this
city, and has a capital stock of SIOO,OOO.
Its stock brings $lO4. Its president is Maj
M. Stanley, and its cashier Mr. A. P. Dear
ing. This bank has also booked a greatly
increased business during the past five
years, and with growing trade of the town
both establishments will, inn their trans
actions up to high figures.
The manufacturing features of Athens are
numerous and important. The quality and
variety of check and white cotton goods
made here are proverbial. Besides her three
cotton mills and piper manufactory there
are an extensive carriage factory and plain
ing mill which supply material, running
gear and whose contractors are putting
up bouses for much of tbe country in this
section of th estate. What these and the
smaller iriftustries are and what they are
doing, other treaties at other times, it is
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SWOP Os HJPOPOOMHS”
FeLLOWES’ SYRUP AND McARTHUR’B
SYRUP OF HYPOPHOSPHITES, at
J- H. ALEXANDER’S Drug Store.
Mas sanetta
MINERAL WATER
CURES MALARIA—IT DRIVES out BLOOD
POISON.
So says Gen. Lindsay Walker, a well known
Confederate officer, of Richmond. Read care
fully what he says:
Richmond, March 27th, 1883.
A. S. Shafer <fc Son:
Gents—ln August, 1881, I suffered from
enlargement of the spleen, and hemorrhages
of the bowels consequent upon malarial poi
son.
I suffered from nervous prostration continu
ally, and was reduced from 215 lbs. in Au
fust, 3881, to 125 lbs. in February, ’B2, when
procured a case of the Maseanetta. I com
menced to use it, having little faith in its vir
tues, but after taking 48 bottles, I discarded
all medicine and have not taken a doee of any
thing since.
I feel that I owe my life to the effects of that
water, and my health has continued to im
prove until now 1 pull down the scales at 212.
Yours respectfully, R. Lindsay Walkeb.
Sold in cases, 1 dezen gallon bottles,
S 5 F <>. at J. H. ALEXANDER’S Drug Store.
BAY RUM I
Genuine imported bay rum. su
perior quality.
J. H. ALEXANDER’B<Drug Store.
FORAGE CROPS!
EARLY AMBER CANE
■V EW SEED, FROM THE BEST SOURCES.
-xa Recommended as the most reliable varie
ty lor syrup and for forage.
Price per pound 25c; by mail postpaid, 42c.
Pole Beans.
PLANT NOW for Snap Beaus, from July to
November, THE SOUTHERN PROLIFIC
POLE SNAP.
Also, Large Lima or Butter, Small Lima or
Sewell; also, all varieties of quick Bush Beans
for successive crops, at
J. H. AEXANDER’B DRUG STORE,
Golden Dent Corn.
GENUINE AND TRUE Early Golden Dent
CORN. Seed grown in Pennsylvania.
Makes the earliest Corn or Forage. Is the
only Corn to plant after harvesting small grain.
Price $3 per bushel, or $3 25 if boxed for
shipping.
BUIST’B GARDEN SEEDS—full assortment.
Mail Orders attentively cared for. Address,
J. H. ALEXANDER’S Drug Store,
Augusta, Ga.
Hungarian Grass
QA BUSHELS new Seed and sound Hunga
rian grass, $1 50 to $1 75 per bushel,
according to quality. At
J. H. ALEXANDER’S DRUGSTORE.
GASTRINE
(In Liquid Form)
Cures Dyspepsia
IMMEDIATELY RELIEVES
NAUSEA,
DIZZINESS,
FLATULENCY,
HEARTBURN,
PALPITATION OF HEART,
ACID STOMACH,
CONSTIPATION,
COSTI VENESB,
BAD TASTE IN MOUTH,
DEFICIENT APPETITE.
OPPRESSION OF CHEST,
GENERAL UNEASINESS,
And ail other distressing symptoms, the result
of interrupted digestion.
GASTRINE
GIVES TONE TO THE STOMACH,
RE-ESTABLISHES ITS FUNCTIONS,
PROMOTES THOROUGH DIGESTION
INVALUABLE TO LADIES,
and all leading sedentary lives.
For sale in jobbing lots by W. H. BARRETT
and T. F. FLEMING, Augusta, Ga , and by
Wholesale Druggists throughout the leading
cities.
AT RETAIL, ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE,
BY ALL DBCOGIST3.
Manufacturing Depot.s9 Murray St,New York
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None genuiu« nrand- K
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DESIRLVtTO CLOSE OUT M¥
LINE OF
WALNUT GOODS.
I WILL offer during the coming week Fine
WALN UT BUIIES at prices never before
offered in this city. A full line of everything
to be found in a GENERAL FURNITURE
STORE, including Refrigerators and Window
Shades- Easy payments taken.
L. F. JPadg-ett,
ap29 1112 Broad Streot.
"DECENTLY RENOVATED and Improv
-Lv ed, with table of Superior Excellence,
offers First-Ciass accommodations to the Local
and Travelling Public at moderate rates.
BRO WK,
ietlS-lydxw Manager.
NOT EXTENDED.
New Advertisements.
liiiiiimciise Spring Stock!
OF
Shoes, Hats and Slippers for the People
at
BARGAIN PRICES.
X:O:X
yX rE SAVE NOW IN STORES 722 and 913 Broad Street a most Complete Line of
T ▼ SHOES, HATS and SLlPPEßS.embraciog the Celebrated Lines of ZIEGLER’S
MILES. EVI L’TS and SoLLERS, which we offer our friends and the publm at the
LOWEST PRICES. We also many BARGAIN LOTS among which mav be found
the following:
INFANTb’Kid Ankle 2 ies Ito 5 25 _ L ADIES’ Kid Foxed But. Shoes 3to 8.. 91 (5b
a £. ld an I d^ e ?2’i le l hceß \ tO 5• • ’ £2 t at l ies Kid Batoned Shoes 3to 8 103
Child’s Kid and Pebble Shoes 4tu 7.... aO Ladies’ Fine Calf Shoes 3to 8 i 25
Child’s Pebble Shoes 7to 10% 75 Ladies’ Fine Kid Shoes 3to 8 1 25
Child’s Kid Buttoned Newports 6to 11.. 75 Ladies'Fine Kid Con cress Gaiters 3to « i 25
Child’s Durable School Shoes 7to 13.. .91 00 Ladies’ Fine Kid Vassar Ties ’> to 7 1 50
Child’s Fine Kid Buttoned 7to 10%.... 150 Ladies’ Fine Kid Oxford Ties Ito 6 150
Misses’ Cloth Gaiters 11 to 2 75 Gent? Carpet Slippers 6to 11 ” 50
Misses’ Kid Foxed Gaiters 11 to 2 75 Gents’ Single Sole Brogans 6to 11 75
Misses’ Kid Newport Ties llto2 75 Gents’ Grain Leather Slippers 6toll “ 75
Misses’ Pebble Lace Shoes 11 to 2 100 Gents’ Gr’n Leath’r Newp't Ties 6to 9 ” 100
Ladies’Web Slippers 3to 8 15 Gents’Patent Leather Ties 6to 11 ‘”100
Ladies’Cloth Slippers 3to 8 40 Gents’P. Calf Strap Ties Bto 11 100
Ladies’ Kid Opera Blinpers 2to 6 50 Gents’ Calf Lined & Bound Ties 6to 13” 100
Ladies’ Kid Croquet Slippers 3to 8 51 Gents’ B. Calf Strap Tie •6 to 11 ” 150
Ladies’ Kid Newport Ties 3to 8 75 Gents’ B. Calf Prince Alberts 6toll ' ” 150
Ladies’ Cloth Gaiters, Lace, 3to 7 75 Gents’ B. Calf seamless Oxford Tie 6to 1 i 200
Ladies’ Cloth Gaiters, Congress, 3to 8.. 75 Boys’ A. Calf Dress Tie Ito 5 75
Ladies’Kid Buttoned Newports 3to 8.. 90 Gents’and Boys’Fine Straw Hats 50
Ladies’Kid Sandal Slippers 2to 9 100 Gents’Wool Hats .. 25
Ladies’ Kid and Pebble Shoes 3to 9.... 100 Boys’ Wool Hats 15
Ladies’Kid Foxed Gaiters 3to 9 ICO Gents’,Boys’and Childrens’Straw Hats..' 05
OUR WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT is well supplied with seasonable goods.
ORDERS BY MAIL receive Prompt and Careful Attention.
OUR MR. MULHERIN will visit the Leading Shoe Markets of the country in two
weeks to look up BARGAINS for the Summer Trade.
TO REDUCE PRESENT STOCK we will make low prices to Cash Bayers for the
next thirty days.
TAKE A LOOK at our Goods and Prices.
WM. MULHERIN & CO.
TWO STORES
722 & 913 BROAD STREET.
NO BOMBAST!
BLT LIVERY I3A.Y
By Express. Steamship and Railroad We are Receiving
New and Choice Goods at the Lowest Possible Pri. es.
OURFSTOCK !
IS NOW PERFECTLY IMMENSE IN
Silks, Satins, Dress Gooos,
BLACK GOODS, HOSIER?, GLOVES, CORSETS, GAUZE UNDERVESTS, HOOP SKIRTS
BUSTLES. DRESS ORNAMENTS, LACES,COLLARS, EMBROIDERIES. CLOTHS
CABBIMERES. TABLE TINEN, TOWELS, SCARFS, PERFOMEBIES
DOMESTICS, SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS AND EVERYTHING
PROPERLY BELONGING TO A FIRST-CLASS DRY
GOODS HOUSE, AND THOUGH WE
SAY IT OURSELVES
OU K PRICES
For the same quality of Goods are as low or lower than they can be bought North or South,
and this is demonstrated almost daily by customers coming with samples from Northern and
other houses for comparison and giving our goods preference. WE DO NOT BUN ON
TRASH OR AUCTION STUFF, OR USE BOMBAST in advertising or recommending our
Goods, but come down to the solid facts in qualities and prices and polite attention to tne
wants of our customers and give the best value for the least money, and if you want to see the
GRANDEST DISPLAY OF SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS IN THIS CITY, call at the
FREDERICKSBURG STORE, CORNER BY THE PLANTERS HOTEL.
V. RICHARDS & BRO.
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BLACK PANTS FOR FIREMEN I
AT COOKE’S CLOTHING AND HAT STORE.
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Largest Line of SUITS for Men, Youths and Boys in the city. BTBAW HATS for Men and
Boys. Examine our Goods.
jL. "W. BLANCHARD,
For J. C. Ludlow & Co.
Grand Complimentary Sale!
IMMEIW mmsTIROW! CROWDS!
THE GRAND FORCED SALE!
OF
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Etc., Etc.,
HAS MET WITH THE MOST PRONOUNCED SUCCESS !
S. H. MYERS.
SUCCESSOR TO MYERS & MARCUS,
IS FULLY DETERMINED TO CLOSE OUT ALL GOODS REMAINING ON HAND. AND
TO ACCOMPLISH THIS HAS MADE OTHER AND
More Startling- Reductions !
The Stock embraces all new and desirable Goods, and the assortment is complete in all lines
usually found in a large RETAIL STOCK, Among other bargains thia week we offer
Table Linens, Honey Comb and M&rsaillea QuiltSj Handkerchiefs, Towels, Doylies,
Ladiee’ and Misses’ Slippers, Gent’s Hand and Machine Sewed Shoes, and
other Goods too numerous to mention, at figures that *’SIMPLY ASTON
ISH THE PURCHASER.” All Goods at strictly New York coat, which
means to the buyer 39 percent, less than smaller dealers require.
REMEMBER THE PLACE.
“CLARA HALL,”
838 AND 840 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
Terms Cash. Sale Will Continue Until Stock Closed Out.
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•-Hri STEAM
m BOILERS.
CARfIY ENGINES and BOILERS IN STOCKfor IMMEDIATE