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fjiE mon hoe ai>u;kh.m;k. offiualjoijrn aTofkonrocounty ~ TEEMS or SUBSCRIPTION: Per Annum. Cask in Advance - $1.50 Six Month*, “ “ “ 75 fcD'lt< /ih(iT*"l in tlif I'-i-t Office of For syth, Ga., a* w*oiml das* matter. Wf'TiiE .Monroji, A dvkktiskr ha* a large Circulation in Monroe. Butts. Jones. Jasjter, and other Counties. IMJH.rsIIKn KVKRY TUESDAY MOKMXO. 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 CHICK ERIN G, MASON A HAMLIN, BENT, WEADALL & MARSHAL, AKION, BEIIR BROTHERS, HAL LET & DALIS. ORGANS MASON & HAMLIN, PACKARD, BAY STATE. All sold on Long Time. LOWEST PRICES, 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 tllO eXJVUWU “xWlUUii 111 ,|C SCTH* fnDvbv 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 JOB PRJ_NTI NO Business Men if vou Want Sill Heads, Note Heads, Cards, Letter Heads, Enevlopes, Statements, Dodgers, Circulars, Programmes, Hand Bills, Or any other kind of Jon Printing done, send it to the office of the Monroe Adver tiser. I have on hand a large stock of printing material of all kinds and of the latest styles. Work done neatly and Promptly. oxide An vkktisek Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Hovai. Baking Powder Cos., lU6 Wall street, New York. 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 h- ■ Rawa patvv A k-LU 4-1. i'r -.A 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.