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syth, Ga., a* w*oiml das* matter.
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large Circulation in Monroe. Butts.
Jones. Jasjter, and other Counties.
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CHOLERA
OTJJI
DANGER
the Great Southern remedy
—— FOR
BOWEL TROUBLES, CHILDREN TEETHING, DIARRHEA,
DYSENTERY AND CRAMP COLIC.
I \R. RIGGERS' IKICKI.EBERKV CORDIAL .houM 1* kept in ever, household,
v . ??* of ,hc most P icasant ••"d efficacious reme.lies there is for summer com
j.Umts How necessary .t is. at a season of the year when violent and sudden attacks
, , ' < ’" cls y *<> frequent, you should have some speedy relief at hand. It will save
much pain and anxiety, as well as large doctor hills. The wearied mother, losing sleep
Ihs V f I* 1 " n r R '* 7 " Ur T R l,Ule one sufferl,l 1 such a drainage upon its system from
the rfl'.cts of teething, should use this invaluable medicine. For sale hy ail druggists
at 50 cents a bottle. JtoSTSend 2c. stamp for Riddle Book, to bB
WALTER A. TTAVf.OR, Atlanta, ia.
NOTICE
TO THE FARMERS AND PUBLIC
J AM STILI, AfJENT FOR Til K
DANIEL PRATT GIN CO.
Those in need of Gins, Feeders, or
Condensers nnd expect to buy for use tne
coining season will do well to see me nnd
get terms and price# tx-for< piirclinsing
elsewli(>re. You can see snni)der of (jins.
Feeders mid Condensers at the office of
James I). I’roetor - warehouse
W I LKY L. S>l ITU. Am.
Forsyth, Ga., May 25th. 1885.
Bramblett & Bro.,
UNDERTAKERS
FORSYTH, (1 A.
HA \ 1 NO purchased the stock of under
taker’s goods recently controlled by
the late F N. Wilder ;is agent, we are pre
pared to carry on tile tin: undertakers busi
ness in all its details. We have added a
l ew line of goods to those already in stock,
with new and complete stock of goods, ele
gant new Hearse and good reliable team,
prompt and careful attention we hope to
merit the patronage of the public. Burial
Kobe.- for gents and ladies, much nicer and
at half the cost of suit of clothes. The
Hearse will he sent free of cost with coffins
costing H2O and upwards, where tin- dis
tance is not too great.
BKAMBLKTT * BRO.
D. H. GREEN & CO.,
BEPAZR
CLOCKS, GUNS
Piitoh, ewiag Maoliiuos, Etc.
AII Kinds of tigtiir* KtYpalring executed
promptly atm faithfully. We give strict
attention to business, and expect to merit
patronage by good work. Also we keep on
band a good stock of
CONFECTIONERIES, STATIONERY
Tobacco and Cigars.
Give us a call in tin.' post-office building,
Forsyth, Gn
CENTRAL & SOUTHWESTERN
SCHEDULES.
Head down Head down
Nool. From Savannah. No oil.
10:00a in l.v--.Savannah...Lv S:-15 pin
11: 45 pin nr \ngn.sta Ar 5:50 am
0:25 pm ar Macon ar 1!: 45 am
11:25pm ar Atlanta ar 7:.20 am
152 am ar Columbus...ar 12:112 pm
ar Kiit.illla ar 2: Hi pm
1 15 p m ar Albany ar 12: 20 pm
ar..Milledgeville..ar 10:20 am
ar—Kabuiton ar 12: .20 pm
No IS From A turns! a No -0 No 22
!l: t'i am Iv Auir-lv 9: 00 pm
3:30 {tin ar Suv’h arii: ;!flam
<>: 25 p in ar Macon -
11:25 j> m ar Vtlanta
-4i 52 in ar Columbus ;
11: 15 pin ar Albany
No 54. From Macon No 52.
12:00 am Iv Macon -Iv 8:05 am
0: 30 ain ar Savannah ar 3:30 pm
ar Vutrusta ar 3-'4o pm
ar Katonton ar 12: :50 p m
No 1. From Macon No 3.
7.50 am lv Macon !v 7:15 pm
Jt: 10 pm ar F.ufaula ar
12:20 jt mar Vlbany ar 11: 15 pm
No 5 From Macon No 19
S: 15 a m lv Macon- lv 7:35 pm
12:33 pm ar Columbus ar 4:25 am '
No 1 From Macon no 51 no 53
S :15 am lv Macon—lv 7 ;30 pm...3;57 am
12:25 pm ar atlanta-ar 11 ;25pm-7 ;30 am 1
no 28 From Fort valley no 21 j
S ;55 {tin lv Fort valley lv 0 ;45 am ;
5* ;20 p in ar lvrry ar 10 ;S5 a m :
No 2 From Atlanta so 54 so 52
2 ;50 pm lv- \tlanta-lv 8 ;10 pm...3 ;55am ,
t>;so pm ar-Macon—arl 1 ;45 am—7 ;36am |
ar Kufaula ar 3;ltipin !
11 ;15 i>m ar Albany ar 12:20pm
.4 ;25 am ar colninltus ar 12 225 pm
' Millet!,irevillo ar 10;29ani j
ar Katonton ar 12;30piu '
ar Augusta ar 3 :45pm !
ar savannah ar o;3v> am...3 ;3 )pm
no 0 From columbus no 40
1;00p mlv —columbus lv 9:53 put
5 ;42 p m ar Macon ar 0 :00 a m
11 ;15 {i mar Atlanta ar 12 ;20 piu
ar F.ufaula ar 4:4(5 pm
]1 ;15 pm ar vlbany ar 4 ;05 pm
I.oeal sleeping cars on all night trains
between savannah and Augusta, savan
nah and Atlanta, and Macon and Mont
gomery. Pullman hottd sleeping cars W
twetfn chieago and Jacksonville, Fla., via
Cincinnati, without change.
The Milledgevilie and Katonton train
runs daily Monday} between Gor
don and Katonton. ami daily except sim
ilar: between Katonton and Gordon.
Train no 20 daily except Sunday.
F.ufaula train connects at cutlibert for
Fort Gaines daily except Sunday. rerry
accommodation train between ivrrv and
irt valley, runs daily, exeept smniays,
▲lbanv and nlakely accommodation train
runs daily except suuday, between Alba
ny and nlakely.
At savannah with savannah. Florida A
western railway ; at Augusta with all lines
to north and east: at Atlanta with Air
line and Kennesaw routes, to all points
north, east and west. M m. RogKjjs.
G A WIIITKItFAI), Sup't
Gen Pass Ag’t, Savannah.
FORJSALE.
The six-room cottage on Main St. oc
oiipied by Mr. Banks Alexander, A. nm>
lot. good gar-leti >pot, good water, excel
lent out-houses. House and premises in
thorough repair, will 1m? sold on accom
modating terms- Apply to
Jas- P- II At? PI SON.
Atlanta Ga.
VOL XXX.
PRECAUTION!
DR. DIGGERS’
CORDIAL.
THE
Georgia Music House
(Branch of Ludden & Bates,)
MACON, - - GEORGIA.
Southern Distributing Dopot for
PIANOS I
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WEADALL & MARSHAL,
AKION,
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ORGANS
MASON & HAMLIN,
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All sold on Long Time.
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EASIEST TERMS,
BEST INSTRUMENTS.
Special discounts to Teachers.
Special discounts to Ministers.
Write for Catalogues and Terms, and
you will be convinced that you have
found headquarters.
tmr Don’t buy until you have con
sulted our prices. Can’t possibly lose
anything by writing.
E. D. IRVINE, Manager.
HRIRIEIIsr OINL
WINE COCA!
STRENGTHENS & EXHILARATES
A l'ertet tlv Reliable Diffusible Stim
ulant and Tonic.
Tt sustains and refreshes, aids digestion
ami assimilation, imparts new life and en
ergies to the worn and exhasted mind and
body, and excites every facility of mind and
bodv to healthy and natural condition.
COCA !
is a wonderful invigorator of the genital
organs, and removes all mental and physi
cal exhaustion. The best known remedy for
sterility importency Antidote and substi
tute for the
MORPHINE AND OPIUM HABIT.
The greatest blessing to all afflicted with
Nervousleomplaints, sueli as Sick Headache.
Neuralgia. Wakefulness, Loss of Memory.
Nervous Tremor. Loss of Appetite. Melan
choly, Blues, Etc, Etc.
‘ FRENCH WINE COCA !
will vitalize your blood and build you up
at once. Lawyers. Minister. Teachers. Or
ators. Vocalists, and all who use the voice,
will find in the Wine Coca, taken half an
hour previous to appearing before their
audiences, the most remarkable results.
One trial of.
WINE COCA
will establish its wonderful good effects,
call on your duruggists. or Dr. J. S. Pem
berton vX Cos., and get on the wonderful
proerties of the Coca Plant, or Sacred
Herbs; also the French Wine Coca. For
sale bv Druggists. Wholesale bv
.1. 8. PEMBERTON A CO..
Manufacturing Chemist and Drug and Oil
Brokers, 59 Broad st., Atlanta. Ga.
For sale by Alexander & Son and Ellison
& Smith, Forsyth, Ga. apr3
I. W. ENSIGN.
BOOK SELLER,
STATIONER,
NEWS DEALER,
All the Standard School Books on
band.
Miscellaneous Books and Station
ary tor stile at
LOWEST PRICES!-
Subscriptions received tor all
standard Newspapers and Periodicals
Agent tor CHRISTIAN INDEX^
OPIUM D \ B ™ LEV
HA PIT Reliable evidence gir
PA Dll ~n an j reference to
pnnrn tcured patients and
CU REDiphyseians.
Send for my bv>ok oq the Habit and its
•urc. Free.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8. 1885.
electric Hands.
The Wonderful Faith Healing Powers
of a Georgian in Texas.
Near the village of Jewett, in Le
on county, Texas, resides John
Quincy Adams Daughtry, a good old
hardshell from Georgia, who for
years past has made himself the
wonder and admiration of that sec
tion of the lone star state on account
of the marvelous cures performed
by him, simply by the laying on of
bands.
So famous is the faith doctor that
thousands of people go to him for re
lief every year. The correspondent
of the St. Louis Globe Democrat
thus describes the crowd he found at
the time of his visit.:
About half past eleven o’clock we
drew up in front of the doctor s door,
in every direction were canvas-cov
ered wagons, with horses and mules
contentedly munching corn or grass.
There was very little of the latter, as
campers had long since tramped the
last vestige of it out, and except
where it was covered with remnants
of straw and scattered corn cobs the
earth was as bare as a plank floor.
The whole hillside has the appear
ance of a perpetual camp-ground for
an army of soldiers, and though
fresh air is rather scarce on account
of the thick woods surrounding the
place, the scene was interesting and
picturesque. Women and children
were in and about the wagons, sit
ting, lying, standing, laughing,
groaning. Here a woman was
clasping a baby to her bosom with
one hand, while the other hung limp
at her side, paralyzed ; there a man
was lying on his back with one
bandaged foot elevated to a degree
with an imaginary mantlepiecc,
while under another wagon was
stretched a young fellow with a pal
id face fairly crying with a rheumat
ic leg, and next him a boy with
paralyzed limbs.
The patients fell the most re
markable stories of their recovery.
Men and women of intelligence and
standing all certify to the doctor’s
extraordinary power. The eorres
pondent gives the following account
of
MKETINQ THE DOCTOR.
At 1 p. m. the doctor sent me
word that lie could see me for a few
minutes before dinner, hut I must
promise not to keep him long, as he
invariably took a nap at noon time
before resuming his labors. The
doctor’s office is provided with scant
furniture, consisting of two chairs, a
-'l'kni lvnie.h r n<4 to the IsaA M tn
door a small looking glass, presuma
bly for the use of the ladies in ad
justing their toilets and arranging
their bangs after the course of treat
ment is over. At one side is a low
bed, with undress, sheet and pillow,
upon which the doctor treats the
male patients; at the other side is a
little more comfortable conch for the
female patients. Three windows
furnish light and air, and in one cor
ner is a bucket of water, wash pan
and towel.
1 was agreeably disappointed in
the doctor. I had, from outside ap
pearances and casual remark tunn
ed the opinon that he was
a very ignorant common look
ing person, but as usual, I
met an altogether different looking
person from wdiat my imagination
had pictured. As introduced to me,
Dr. Jonn Quincy' Adams Daughtry
is a man of sixty years of age, with a
stout, though not obese frame, and
nearly six feet high. He lias a
square jaw-and chin, an intelligent
and honest face, straight nose and
gray eyes, a thick crop of iron gray
beard of the same color growing un
der the chin, and a slightly tiorid
complexion. His hands are small
for the size of the man, well shapped,
with the leaders looking like whip
cord, apparently having the grip of
a vise, and as red, almost, as blooil.
He was very affable in manner,
shaking hands, and motioning the
reporter to a chair, himself took a
seat on the side of the Ded.
A MARVELOUS GIFT.
John Quincy Adams Daughtry
was born in the time-honored state
of Georgia, in Houston county, a lit
tle more than sixty years ago, and
besides being the father of seventeen
children by his present wife, is as
strong and hearty as any young
man of thirty. Hailing from the j
state which produced Alexander |
Stephens, Ben Hill, Bob Toombs and
Dick Hubbard, not to speak of the
renewed Lula Hurst, it is not re
markable that he should in some re
spects be an extraordinary man.
Georgia is famous for intellectual
and physical wonders and peanuts.
Up to thirty years of age John
Quincy Adams Daughtry followed
the vocation of a farmer. He is a
man of very little education, though
of more than ordinary intelligence!
and common sense. He went to j
school very little, never took a dose j
of medicine, or allowed a member of ]
his family to do so, and when sick
has always cured himself by the use*
of his gift. He really does not un
derstand the source or secret of his
power, but devoutly believes it to
be a gift from the Lord, obtained by
prayer. At about the age ot twenty -
eight he professed religion and be
came a member of the Hardshell
Baptist church. At this time he be
came convinced that the Lord meant
for him to perform some great and
holy mission in the world, but had
not revealed the nature ot the mis
, siou to him. For nearly two years
he prayed earnestly and continually
that he might be made to know what
his mission in life was to be. Seeing
so much misery and suffering in the
world resulting from sickness and
disease, and from peculiar and inex
plicable feelings, which always came
over him when looking at persons in
distress, lie became convinced that
his mission was to go out into the
world and heal the sick. But
though he became confident that this
was the work laid out for him by the
Lord, he did not know how to go
about it. He prayed for direction
from the Lord, hut none came.
IDS FIRST CASE.
One day while in a room with a
friend, who was suffering intensely,
lie was suddenly impelled by some
unknown power to cure him, and
•Haying, involuntarily, ‘ J can euro
you, he began to press with his
hands the diseased parts, and m a
lew days the man was well and
hearty. This was so long ago tha the
does not remember how the man was
afflicted, hut from that day to this he
has been healing the sick, whom je
lias cured by thousands, ands; -
that by the laying on ofhis hands he
can cure any disease where a cure is
possible, lie is firmly imbued with
the idea that lie works under a spe
cial dispensation or “gilt’’ from the
Lord. He declares that this power
has never “left the people that if
asked and prayed for in the proper
spirit others could wield the same
jiower for good hut that the worship
of wealth, the lascivousness, the vain
glories and the vices of the wor i,
have divested them of the power of
doing good to their fellowmen. II< H
has twice “run awry” from it, tiring
of the ceaseless work and confine
ment, hut wherever he has stopped
he has invariably been drawn hack,
to the work by a power lie could not
resist, and declares that he will try [
to escape it no more, but will go on. •
performing his duty till the Lorif
calls him home. Ho has healed tin J
sick in several states, and was for
several years in Houston county,,
Texas. He settled in Iron county
about two years ago. Last year lie
treated 6,000 cases, for every disease
in the calendar, and this year has
disposed of 2,000 cases.
HOW THE DOCTOR OPERATES.
At 2 p. m. the doctor began oper
ating on the male patients and the
scribe was invited to witness the
performance. Too office was crowd
ed with men, all more or less dis
eased. There is, it is said, aiways j,
dispute over who shall he treated
first, so eager are they to feel ltic.
doctor’s magic touch, and such im
plicit trust do they place in his pow
er to give renewed strength and vi
gor to life and limb. The first jt
take the chair was an old gentleman
from Arkansas who had traveled all
the distance to he relieved of neural
gio pain in the jaws, head and eyes.
“Well, Arknnsaw,” said the doctor,
“I’ll take you first.” Arkansawstrip
,j.uyl bis shirt took M*
chair. The doctor began to priss
his hands over the face and hands of
the patient, and ail went well until
a slight pressure was made on the
upper lip just beneath the nostril.
“Arkansaw" st-rated violently and be
gan to screw around in his chair as
if a genuine electric current had
struck him, his joponing jaws and
working convulsively, while a stream
of waterrolled from his left eye. Ti c
doctor asserted that the pain had been
removed by a former operation from
everywhere save the one little nerve
in the upper lip. Whenever his
hand touched this spot t he pain shot
back toth*eeye,and the torture suffer
ed by the patient was intense. After
considerable manipulation “Arkan
saw,” declaring that lie tell much
better left the chair to be occupied
by the next man a lean and 1 uo
gry looking fellow, who was suffer
ing from a complication of diseases,
including a great lump on each side
When the magic fingers touched tin
leaders of the neck the man groaned
aloud and jumped like he was shot;
Then the disease was gradually
worked down into the body and
limbs, the purpose being to drive i;
out at the toes. Whenever the hands
touched the place wiiere the disease
or pain was located, the man groan
ed and writhed about on the bed in
the most excruciating agon)', which
was invariably kept up until the
hands were removed.
PHILOSOPHY OF PROHIBITION.
The'Human Nature in the Question —
An Interesting Paper.
Constitution.
With many temperance people,
the support of prohibition is a mat
ter of feeling. The cry of woman's
heart'’ is in it; and as Elizabeth Cleve
land lately pointed out, the cry_Jnia
a power that outweighs argument.
With the liquor dealers opposition
to prohibition is simply a matter o:
dollars and cents. Over and beyond
these narrower views, there is a phi
losophy of the subject which take. l
into the account the past and the fu
ture ot the race, and which deals
with the established tendencies of
human nature and ot institutions
To formulate that philosophy briefly
and succinctly is the object of this
article.
THE BARROOM A MODERN ARTIFICIAL
INSTITUTION.
The world lived throughout the
centuries preceding the Christian era
and for seventeen centuries after
wards without a barroom. When
Jesus of Nazareth, the great teacher,
er, was on earth, he went about
among all classes and in ail the cit
ies and towns and country of Pales
tine. He saw all forms of human
wickedness, but he never saw a sa
loon. lie saw all forms of human
sin and degradation, but he never saw
a drunkard. Drunkenness has exis-
ted sporadic illy since the days of
Noah, but the great modern 'paten
ted and warranted process for the
manufacture of drinkers is not over
two hundred years old. Mr. Lecky
describes its origin in the seventeenth
century. 'The license system then
sowed the prolific seeds of the vast
harvest of intemperance by setting
up and multiplying the gin shops of
England
THE HCM AN NARI'RE IN THE QUESTION.
The theory of prohibition does
not blink the fact that stimulants
have been known and used among
all peoples, nor that this use has
been excessive in many eases, and
lias produced intoxication. But where
human nature lias been left to itself,
what has been the result ? Wo have
only to look to ancient history for
an answer to tins question. In the
absence of drinking places sanction
ed by law and established for the
purpose of making men drink as
much as possible, so as to make
as much money as possible, drunk
enness has been comparatively un
common, and public opinion has
made it odious. The laws even of
savage tribes have everywhere been
severe against intemperate drinking
—the penalty in c.oinc cntion 1.0 in
. Turning to the more cultiva
ted nations of antiquity, we find that
in India severe punishments were
inflicted upon drunkenness. A man
who drank to excess was prohibited
from marrying. (Modern legisla
tion could hardly improve on that)
In Athens the Greek gentleman al
ways mixed his light wine with wa
ter. intoxication deprived a citizen
of political privileges. In Sparta, it
was necessary to manufacture a lot
of drunkard once a year, so as to ex
hibit them to the Spartan youths as
object lesssous in temperance. Ac
cordingly a number of helots or
slaves was chosen ; drink was forced
down tneir throats, and in the dis
gusting beastliness of intoxication,
they were exhibited to the hoys of
Sparta as warnings. There are so
many helots now that the lesson has
iost its power.
THE MANUFACTURES OF TIIF, AOE.
The great contrast, therefore, be-
tween the past and the recent pres
ent, on the subject of intemperance,
is in the establishment of places for
iri n k.
Now the effect of this cab best he
understood by analogy.
Let us illustrate by the tendency
observed in human nature to deal in
chance—to gamble. The games of
the parlor and the home are not un
der legal ban; but most goverinents
have felt that this principle in hu
man nature was too dangerous and
too .demoralizing to tie community
to justify the state in patronizing it,
in giving it the respectability of a
•license and the opportunity thereby
uffostering and stimulating the gam
bling habit. Hence gambling is pro
hibited ; not annihilated, of course,
but driven to the disgrace of dark
ness and the humiliation of outlaw
ed biding. Not so, however, with
t: '-’tv of of Monaco. The prince of
L litUe I calm ‘O iva-is
fr iii the splendid gambling saloons
which he licences. How does the
gambling in Monaco compare with
the gambling of Atlanta? Nobody
Jenies there is some gambling in At
lanta, hut how does it compare with
what would exist, if two hundred li
censed gambling saloons were set up
all over the city? it would com
pare just as the amount of drinking
would compare under prohibition
and licence.
MODERN POMPEII.
Another illustration may betaken
from a tendency or passion of hu
man nature, which is tar more uni
versal in its operation than the ten
dency to use intoxicants. We refer
to tnat which in its improper exer
cise makes what is called the social
vice. The recent excavations in the
city of Pompeii show that in its last
degenerate days this vice was li
censed openly in that ill-starred
city. It was shamelessly advertised.
Its places of resort were along the
public thoroughfares; signs were
over the doors; screens furnished
the half concealment which is the
prompting of prurient appetite. And
what was the result? it is unfit to
be described in language. Even the
books written for the eyes of learned
scholars alone are compelled to si
lence.
This, .Messrs. Editors, is what the
liquor license system does for mod
ern society. If there be in human
nature a tendency to use stimulants,
all absorvation shows that the ten
dency, when it is left without the in
citement and reminder ot a saloon at
every glance of the eye, is easily
controlled. The towns of St. Johns
burry, Vermont, and Pullman, Illi
nois, have never had a bar-room,
and consequently very little drink
ing. No police court and no use for
a jail. Society and the state, to say
the least, owe it to the drinking ten
dency of human nature (a tendency
which really has been much exago
rated) to give it a fair exemption
from unnatural and artificial temp
tations.
These facts are those which have
doomed the license system. It is
guilty, at the bar of God and human
ity, of this great crime ; that it cre
ates, fosters, solicits, incites, stimu
lates, and multiplies intemperance.
The open barroom holds the whisky
glass to every man’s lips at every
corner. Its social usage of treat
ing. established by itself, double and
quadruple the promptings to indul
gence. It turns every town and city
into a .Monaco and a Pompeii of the
drinkig vice. These are the facts
which give the terror of truth to the
denuciations which have been heap
ed upon the traffic, as now carried
on. Lord Cheste field first said,
(surely not from overpious stand
point] : “Vice my lord, is not proper
ly to be taxed, but to be suppressed ;
any heavy taxes are sometimes the
only means by which that suppres
sion can be attained. Luxury, my
lords, mat* very properly be taxed.
But the use of these things which
are simply hurtful —hurtful in their
; own nature, and in every degree—is
ito be prohibited. If their liquors
are so delicious that the people are
tempted to their own destructon, let
us at length, my lord, secure them
from these fatal draughts by burst
ing the vials that contain them. Let
us check these artists in human
slaughter, which have reconciled
their countrymen to sickness aud to
ruin, and spread over the pitfalls of
debauchery such baits as cannot be
resisted. \\ lien I consider my lords,
the tendency of this bill, 1 find it
calculated only fur the propagation
of disease, the suppresssion of indus
try, and the destruction ofmankind.
For the purpose, my lords what
could have been invented more etfi
catious than shops at which poison
•Day” be vended ; poison so prepared
as to please the palate while it wastes
the strength and kills only by intox
ication ?’ ”
Mr. Rucker says that the business
is the “most gratuitous form of assas
sination known to civilized life.”
The grand lodge of Masons of Ohio,
thou* nation aololy oti tUo Gol
den Rule, has declared that no man
who retails liquor is eligible to mem
bership in the order. Tlio cold sleet
of a hostile public opinion is now
beating steadily in the face of every
man engaged in the traffic. The
patrons of the bar-room may well
ask themselves if public gnzzling is
respectable. Why do they* refuse to
meet as a social equal the man that
stands behind the counter
Because the license system has
made and is making a hundred
drunkards where human nature un
terapted by it, would make only one
or two, it has been decreed in the
judgement of providence and of the
American people, “that the barrooms
must go.” 11.
THE BILL TO AMEND THE RAIL
ROAD COMMISSION CAWS.
18ax r annah News.
We publish in another column
this morning the full text of the sen
ate hill to amend the act of Oct. 14,
1879, creating the railroad commis
sion of Georgia, and prescribing the
duties of the commissioners.
The proposed amendment is fair.
First: It provides that the railroads
shall make a schedule, each for it
self, of rates of charges for the trans
portation of passengers, freight and
cars which shall he just and reason
able ; this schedule they are compell
ed to publish once a week for two
weeks in some newspaper in the cit
ies of Atlanta, Augusta, Albany, Sa
vannah, Macon, Rome and Columbus,
and to post at all of their respective
stations, but no increase of rates can
he made without thirty days notice.
This change is wise and enables the
railroad companies to have oontrol
over their income.
No business can he conducted suc
cessfuully unless the management of
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Every prudent business man be
fore creating obligations and incur
ring expenses calculates the resour
ces of and the anticipated income
from the business.
Under the law in force the rail
road companies arc deprived of this
right. They may on Sept. 1 appl}*
the peesent rates of the commission
ers to the anticipated business ot the
next four succeeding months, and
make large contracts for engines,
cars, depots, etc., to be paid from the
expected returns to the business, j*et
the commissioners can, under the
present law, after the contracts are
made, without notice of any kind,
reduce arbitrarily the rates which
thot* hail before declared were just
and reasonable, and thereby se
riously embarrass the companies.
The commissioners in the past have
often, by their circulars, made these
reductions and by thus rendering
extremely uncertain the income of
the railroads, have impaired the
credit ot the old companies and de
stroyed many new enterprises.
Cspitalists are not apt to invest by
loans or otherwise in any road in
Georgia, so long as the income to be
derived from them is dependent up
on the pleasure of three commission
ers whose chief qualification is that
they are not to have any interest in
the property they manage.
The companies themselves should
be allowed to make the rates, con
trolled by the constitution and the
law. The rates should be reasona
ble and just; they should not he un
justly discriminating, nor should re
bates of any kind be allowed.
Second. The amendment further
provides the mode of compelling the
railroads to perform their duty in
the premises. Every person, com
munity, town, city, or corporation af
fected by any section of the railroad
companies is afforded most ample op
portunities for carrying their com
plaints before the commissioners as
now organized, who are to hear and
determine the same as judges and
not as legislators.
This change in the old law is con
sistent with our constitutional prin
ciples of liberty embodied in the
code, section 5,015, viz : “The legis
lative, judical and executive powers
shall forever remain separate and
distinct, and no person discharging
the duties of one shall at the same
time exercise the functions of either
of the others, except as herein pro
vided.
Under the law as now administer
ed the commissioners are a legisla
ture to make rates, rules and regu
lations, and the rates when made
are declared to be evidence. They
are at the same time a court to try the
railroads for violating the rules
which they' have made, and the evi
dence that is introduced on the trial
is the schedule of rates which has
been made by them ; and if, after
such a trial they find the railroads
guilty, which must be a matter of
course by section nine of the act, it
is made their duty as executive offi
cers to recover from the railroads a
penalty not to exceed five thousand
dollars, and not to be less than one
thousand dollars for having the te
merity to disobey their rates, rules
or regulations.
A combination of the legislative,
! executive and judical powers could
NUMBER 33.
not be more complete than in the
commissioners under the present
law. Montesquieu said: ‘There is
no liberty if the power of judgment
be not separated from the legislative
and executive powers.” Mr. Madi
son said : ‘ That the union of these
powers may bo justly pronounced
the very definition of tyranny,” or
to use Mr. Jefferson’s language. “It
is precisely the definition of the des
potic government.”
The senate amendment in allow
ing the railroads to make their own
rates, and the commissioners to de
cide cases only which may be
bn night before them, under rules of
evidence made by the legislature,
removes this great objection. The
amendment takes away legislative
functions and confers judical powers,
witli tlio right to make rules ailtl
regulations liko tho judges of the
superior and supreme courts, not in
consistent with the laws of the state
and of the United States.
Third. The amendment provides
a very simple mode of an appeal.
The appeal is to the superior court
of the county where the complaint
originated. The party complaining
has the right to call upon the solici
tor general of the circuit, and his fees
are to be taxed to either party as in
equity cases.
The appeal is to be tried at the
first term unless continued for provi
dential causes ; is to have precedence
on the docket and is to be tried as
an equity case, which allows the
molding of a decree to suit the cir
cumstances of any case.
This right of appeal is more in the
interest of the people than the rail
roads.
Our forefathers, when they land
ed upon the shores of the Atlantic,
brought with them as an inalienable
and inherent heritage the right to
petition the government and appeal
to the courts.
Legislators should hesitate long
before fastening upon the public
policy of this state a system which
impairs this right.
The senate amendment restoring
it after its temporary partial suspen
sion, by the act of Oct. 14, 1879,
should receive the most careful con
sideration from the legislature.
INTERESTING VITAL STATIS
TICS,
The Atlanta Constitution says al
though marred i>y* some imperfections
the eleventh volume of the census
reports for the year 1880, is a valua
ble work. It has just been comple
ted, and the student of mortality and
vital statistics will find it a mine of
in for m niton. —*
It Seems that the annual number
of deaths in this country' is 756,893.
The annuel death rate of the ag
gregate population is fifteen in 1,000.
The proportion of deaths among
the whites is 14 74 in 1,000 and of
the blacks, 17.28.
The white male annual death rate
is 15 35 in 1,000, and the death rate
of the females is 14 81. The excess of
white males over fermalesisßßl,Bs7,
in a totel population of 43,402,970.
There was an excess of deaths of
colored females to males, in the pro
portion of" 1,017 to 1,000. The pro
portion of males to females in the
population was the reverse of what
is stated of the whites, the excess of
females being 74,5G3. The propor
tion of deaths, also, in the two sexes
of the colored people is different, as
appears by the figures.
From a well digested summar}*
containing the main points ot the
report we extract the following facts
and figures:
The six cities whoso registration
reports discriminate between the
whites and the blacks are Louisville,
Washington, Itichmond, Baltimore,
Xew Orleans and Charleston. In
each of these cities the females out
number the males, and this is true of
each race ; while at the same time
there is a remarkable excess of deaths
among the ma.es of each race over
the females. But in all the excess of
deaths among the blacks, as com
pared with the whites, is more re
markable. Thus in Louisville the
death rate of the whites is 20.04 in
1,000 per annum ; that of the blacks
is 34.76. In Washington the death
rate among the whites is 17.80, and
; that of the blacks 35.45. In JRich
mend the death rate of the whites is
19.12 in 1,000; that of the blacks is
31.96. In Baltimore the deatn rate
among the whites is 22.71, and
among the blacks 37.61. In Xew
Orleans the deatli rate among the
whiles is 22.41, and the blacks 35,61.
In Charleston the death rate among
the whites is 23.78, and among the
blacks 45,
An examination ot the health re
ports of Xsw York some months
ago showed similar results to the
above. Table two of the introduc
tion shows the proportion of deaths
in 100 of white and colored children
one year old in thirteen ot the south
ern states with the District of Co
lumbia. In Alabamm the death rate
of white children of that age is 7.64
in 100, and of colored children the
death rate is 11.30, In Arkansas
the white children under a year old
die at the rate of 9.91 in 100, and? of
colored children 10,96. In Dela
ware the death rate of white chil
dren is 11.96 in 100, that of colored
14.81. In the District of Columbia,
whites 17.32, blacks 32.10. In Flor
ida the figures are 5.93 whites ro 7,33
blacks. In Georgia the proportion
is 8.21 white to 7.33 blacks. In
Louisana, 9.24 whites to 11.17 blacks.
In Louisana, 9.24 white to 10.08
In Maryland, 15,25 whites to 18.87
blacks. In Mississippi, 6.07 whites
to 8.70 blacks. Xort-h Carolina, 8.87
whites to 11.74 colored. South Car
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olina, 7.46 whites to 11.32 colored.
Tennessee, 9.75 whites, 13.37 colored.
Texas, 9.80 whites 10.78 colored.
Virginia, 9.46 whites, 13.91 colored.
It will be noticed that the death
rate of this class, according to the
figures, is far greater in the District
of Columbia and in Maryland than
in the other states. This difference
may be partially accounted for by
the fuller returns likely to be made
in Whashington and Baltimore than
in country districts. But the gener
al testimony of the census and other
sources of information is that the ne
groes die more rapidly in the cities
than in country. The same is true
to a less extent of white people.
Another table presents the death
rates in the several states and Euro
pean countrcs of children under ono
year old. The average in this coun
try will not much exceed 10 in 100,
but in some states or districts where
there is reason to believe that the
greatest pains are taken to arrive at
tho truth, the figui\s run up much
higer. Thus in the District of Co
lumbia the death rate of children is
23.52 in 100, and in Maryland tho
rate is 16.20, in New York 15.70,
while in Idaho and Montana tho
rate is under 6, and in Dakota and
Florida under 7 in 100. Such dis
crepancies are scarcely explainable
on the assumtion of accurate returns.
The death rate in Europe of children
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A tabic showing the proportion ot
deaths from disease, suicide and ac
cident to the sexes, states, that 5,267
males die of “alehoholism” to every
1,000 females in the whole country,
while the proportion in fifty cities is
2, 371.5 to 1,000; that there are
4,052.3 male suicides to 1.000 females
in the United States, and in the fifty
cities the proportion is 3,666.5 to
1,000. Jn tiie United States there
are 2,732.6 of male deaths from ac
cidents and injuries to 1,000 female,
and in the fifty cities the proportion
is 2,975.5 to 1,000.
The writers who take the position
that the blacks are increasing more
rapidly than the whites, will find in
these figures abundant food for re
flection. They will see that even if
the birth rate of the blacks is great
er than that of the whites, their
death rate is also far greater. There
is a fearful disproportion in tho
death rate of the two races, and the
signs of time do not indicate an}'
changes in the eonditoi s which
produce these results. While the
census figures show that the mortal-
ity among the negroes is greater in
cities than in the country districts,
the returns show that even in the
latter it far exceeds the death rate of
the whites. Students of the raco
problem should analyze these impor
tant vital statisics before making
their speculations and predictions
public.
Burned to Death, and Restored to Life.
I know of a man near Maxcy’s
Ga., who for ten or twelve years was
almost a solid sore from head to foot.
For three years his appearance so
horribly repulsive, he refused to let
any one see him. The disease alter
eating his flesh, commenced on his
skull bones, lie tried all doctors
and medicines without benefit and
no one thought he could possibly re
cover. At last he began the use of
B. B. B , and after using six bottles,
hirs sores were all healed and was a
sound man.
He looks just like a man who had
been burned to death and then re
stored to life. The best men of tho
county know of this ease, and several
doctors and merchants have spoken
of it as a most wonderful case.
John Chawfohd.
Druggist, Athens, Ga.,
The number of emigrants landed
at Castle Garden since January 1, is
about 30,000 less than during tho
corressponding period ot last year.
Easy to See Through,
llow can a watch—no matter how
costly—he expected to go when the
mainspring won’t operate? How
can anyone be well when his stom
ach. liver or kidneys are out ot or
der? Of course you say, “He can
not.” Yet thousands of peop'c drag
along miserably in that condition ;
not sick abed, but not able to work
with comfort and energy. How
foolish, when a bottle or two of Par
ker’s Tonic would set them all right.
Try it, and get back your health and
spirits.