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TH E E VGL E.
BY bed W.JL IN E fc HAM.
_J’ri<lay Morning, May 2, 1879.
We shall see now of what sort of
stuff the democratic back bone is
built.
Mr. Hayes forgets to state to the
couutry how a repeal measure can
bo revolutionary.
The whirr of the Junebug, and the
whiz of the grasshopper will soon be
heard in the land.
There is beauty in her step, and
heaven in her eye, a club at the door
and a boot close by.
The democrats will hold a caucus
to determine their policy on the ap
propriation bill. We hope there wil\
be no higgling, but a square stand
up fight.
Hon. Emory Speer, our immediate
Representatives, can now say some
thing if he desires so to do. We
have some curiosity to see what
stand he will take on the veto.
And still another. The Macon
Sunday Ledger has been sold to the
Central Georgia Weekly, and Bridges
Smith has become only a cherished
memory in Georgia journalism.
Mr. M. Sikes becomes editor of the
South Georgian. Bob Burton re
mains as associate, and when not
piling primer and burgeois, will so
lace his off hours by tantalizing the
cat gut as of yore.
Mr. Brunswick, of St. Louis loved
his sweetheart with platonic love, and
with that understanding she married
him. Then he wanted to drop the
platonic foolishness, and she did not.
They are divorced.
If John Christian is still in the
land of the living and the home of
the free, he will confer a favor by
teleerapbing us at once. We sigh
for the sound of his voice or the glit
ter of his shirt studs.
The Augusta Evening Sentinel has
suspended. The proprietors say
they can not make it profitable dur
ing the dull season. Billy Moore
can now unsling his satchel and Bit
down to lunch and rest.
Charley Pendleton of the Valdosta
Times announces that he may not at
tend the Presß Convention. We hope
this matter will be settled at once.
There is nothing so unnerves a man
as this harrowing corroding uncer
tainty.
Hayos claims that if there was any
fraud in the Presidential count ho
was innocent of it, He is not inno
cent, however, of making an ass of
himself by vetoing the same sort of a
measure for which he voted when in
Congress.
Eugene Speer set foot again on his
native heather last week. Hearts
once bowed down are now pulsing
again with joy, and when the polish
rhetoric of his verby salutatory shall
once more be hung out to dry, we
will all hip hurrah with universal
abandon and unction.
An Illinois man got mad with an
editor about something he said about
him in his paper, and three years
afterward an intimate friend of his
took the lumbago from eating dried
watermelons and died in great ago
uy. Let this be a warning to people
with tire and tow tempers.
When Col. Shivers of the Warren
ton Clipper goes out of his way to in
timate that our defense of Gov. Col
quitt from the inane inunendos of
newspaper whippersnappers is from
interested motives, he is simply guil
ty of a piece of ridiculousness that
does him and his Journal little cred
it.
Col, Tuggle said lately that he did
not oare for the fee involved in the
Georgia claim against the Govern
ment, that he wanted to secure it for
political effect and expected to be
Governor of Georgia. Shakespeare
said:
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.”
Coal tar and asafcetida make a var
nish that smells to high heaven, and
a Summit street man is annointing
his front gate with it. He says that
if his girl wants to dawdle around
with any animated tongs, she will
baye bring them inside where the
dog can have a fair shake. He is
drilling the dog in his duties too.
Georgia has received the $72,000
of which we have heard so much of
lately, minus the fees for collection.
The trouble is not yet over though.
By that fee hangs a tail, and there
will be more music in the air anon,
unless a certain prominent member of
the legislature loses his grip on his
backbone. We hardly think he will
either.
Last Saturday was a red letter day
in Atlanta’s calendar. The congre
gation of the best citizens from all
parts of the State, the military dis
play, the address of General Lee, all
and each were in themselves a high
tribute to Atlanta’s enterprize in con
cocting and pushing to such a happy
consummation, the celebration of a
day that will live in song and story
when all of us who can remember the
sad memories it enbalms shall have
crumbled into the dust of which we
are made and to which we return.
Hayes and the Veto.
On last Tuesday Mr. Rutherford
B. Hayes, President, by the grace
the Florida and Louisiana returning
boards, and the famous seven to
eight commission, returned to the
house of representatives, the army
appropriation bill without his signs
ture and giving in a special message
of some length his reasons, therefor.
Briefly summarized, his reasons are
that the repeal measures attached
thereto take from the United States
the power to supervise and control
by means of the army what Mr.
Hayes is pleased to call “national
elections” which in his judgment is
“a dangerous violation of the spirit
and meaning of the constitution.”
That Mr. Hayes is a fraud, and not
the lawfully elected president there
can be no doubt. That he becomes
by this act the usurper of a power
that no president from Washington
down has ever dared claim, is equal
ly clear. That he has made of him
self a painfully inconsistent and ri
diculous thimble-rigger cannot be
gainsaid. Asa congressman from the
State of Ohio some years ago acting
under the same oath, to support the
constitution of the United States, he
voted for exactly this same sort of
legislation. Either that he violated
his oath and became a perjured par
tisan then, or he has done so nov, is
a conclusion from which he cannot
escape.
The monstrous error into which
he has fallen is made the more pal
pable, when we reflect that the leg
islation, to defeat which he proposes
to starve the government, is an act of
repeal. The constitution is the su
preme law of this land. Legislation
which sought to change or add to it
might be revolutionary, and in vio
lation of its spirit and meaning.
Repeal legislation cannot be. By
this veto he puts himself in the
ridiculous position of asserting that
what was lawful and right in a re
publican congress, is unlawful and
wrong and in violation of the spirit
and meaning of the constitution in a
democratic congress, and that tLe
use of tho same means to repeal a
law by which it was enacted is revo
lutionary and illegal.
The issue is now squarely joined.
Mr. Hayes has laid down all his fail
words und become a republican par
tisan of the baldest type. It rtmaits
to be seen what the democratic con
gress will do about it. If they are
true to themselves, their record,
and their country, they will strike
camp and stay. Let Mr. Hayes as
sume all the responsibilities, and go
to the country upon the issue. We
believe the people of this land, are
in favor of a government by and for
tho people, without outside- interfer
ence by the general government.
We are willing to trust them on this
issue. Let them say whether they
have the right to govern themselves
in their own way, or whether the
creature which they have created
shall place the mailed h tnd of power
at their throats and govern them in
its way.
Making Brick Without Straw.
We are of opinion that there is not
another profession in the catalogue
of human'employmenfsjjthat does as
much hard, unprofitable work as that
of the average [journalist. Look
around about you upon the magni
ficent monuments of political power,
the huge edifices of personal popu'ar
ity, and reflect how they have been
builded in the sweat of the scribbler’s
face, and how he has made, day after
day, and week after week, his tales
of brick, and often without straw.
Starting with the very smallest sort
of timber, he plans, and molds and
fashions his man into the popular
modern two-storied statesman; pias
ters over his rotten spots here, ve
neers his windshakes there, and pre
sents him, at lastja comely and pro
portionate patriot, to the admiring
eyes of his idolatrous constituency—
a perfect man.
The worship begins. The idol is
set up, and the people fall down and
worship. In the whoop-la and hey
day of political pow wow, the creator
is forgotten in the admiration of the
work of his hands; and too often the
man himself, in the giddy exaltation
of his high position, forgets the stir
rups by which he has mounted the
Rosinante of fame, and rides away
without so much as a “thank you. ”
We have done some of this sort of
work in our time. We are quits of
it now, Hereafter we shall copy
those who succeed in the same world
in which we have drank tho dregs of
bitter failure—we shall look out for
number one, and let others do like
wise. He who would ride our nag
to water must be willing to divide
when he gets there. Our convictions
we shall stand by, let come what will,
and those who do not admire our
style need not describe parabolic
curves on ti e swinging section of
our wall.
The trial of Edward Cox for the
murder of Col. It. A. Alston com
menced in Atlanta on Tuesday.
Quite an array of counsel is employed
both for the State and the defense.
A motion for continuance was made
by the defense and overruled by the
court.
Would it not be a good time low
to adjourn and come home? Let
Rutherford try financial loneliness
awhile, and see how ho will like
it.
Tile Deadly Arch of an Instep.
Complimenting a fair lady’s foot
is what cost Mr. Curtis,of Richmond,
Va., his life. He was a clerk in a
shoe store. A young lady came in
to purchase a pair of shoes. He
fitted her, and when she had button
ed them on, and raised her dainty
skirts the least wee bit to admire the
arch of her shapely instep, the gal
lantry of Mr. Curtis prompted him
to offer her a pretty compliment upon
the beauty and shapeliness of the
daintily-encased extremity. She
blushed, smiled, bid him adieu and
walked out.
Some weeks afterward she casually
mentioned the matter to her fiancee,
Mr. Poindexter. He, in the bellicose
belligerency of his happy-lover man
hood, felt called upon to go down
and, without allowing Curtis to apol
ogize, or avow his innocence of anv
intention to insult the lady, set upon
and chastise him with a cowhide
Curtis, burning at the shame heaped
upon him, goes and gets a cane.wal!
into Poindexter’s place of business,
attempts to pay off tke score in kind,
and is shot dead. Poindexter i Q
tried, and sentenced to two year.s in
the penitentiary. All this because
of the pretty arch of a girl’s instep.
There is danger in insteps. A new
made mound, and a chained felon
attest it. A pretty ankle, without
common sense to overtop it, is worse
than an adder in his coil- Miss
Whatever-her-name-is, was short on
the latter commodity. Had sue not
been, there would have been none of
this sad story. Had she possessed
that subtle refinement of the true
woman, one glance of her eye would
have barred her from insult as the
flaming swordguarded the garden of
Eden, One swift kindling arrow
from her lash-fringed orbs would
have brought down the spirit fof any
man who dared offer an insult,“or, if
none was intended, an humble apolo
gy. In this she was weak; and, per
consequence, the man who avowed,
while the life-blood ebbed from his
breast, that he had no intention to
insult her, is lying beneath the
daisies; and the man whom her folly
has made a felon looks out from the
bars of a gaol; and the honeymoon
is indefinitely postponed
The lady must feel very pleasant
The cause of a murder, th ofiancee of
a felon, the unwived maid she hoped
no longer to have been, hers is a sit
uation that even a pretty instep can
not make pleasant. Should she ever
write a book of proverbs she will
probably say: Look not upon the in
step when it is arched, when it giveth
its shape in the shoe; for at the last
it is the cause of t.ho shedding of
blood, and giveth the penitentiary a
new boarder.
Should Pistols be Taxed ?
Anent the absorbing subject of
the crime growing out of the prac
tice of carrying concealed weapons,
and the proposed remedy’s therefor,
the Hartwell Sun discourses as ful
lows:
“The practice is altogether too
prevalent, and obtaius the support
of too much respectability, so-criied.
It ought to be broken, or everybody
allowed to carry them; because, as
the matter now stands, nobody carry
them except those who dare and are
willing 10 violate the law, and it is
violators of the law in whose hands
these fatal instruments are the more
dangerous. The evil can never be
prevented as long a* the facilities
are so great as now for every boy in
the whole country to know right
where he can go and get him a two
dollar pistol. He will scrape up
enough money to buy one, and the
next thing anybody knows, on s une
little provocation, he outs with a pis
tol and takes human life. The root
of the evil should be reached. The
axe should be laid at the very root
of the tree. The facilities for dis
seminating these dangerous instru
ments should be diminished, and, if
it can be done constitutionally, the
sale or advertisement of these dan
gerous weapons should be restricted,
as well as the carrying of them pun
ished. Then the young bloods would
cool off before they had time to Rend
off to get their instruments of death
and if they would fight, they could
use such arms as God and nature has
i supplied them with. And ere long
human blood would flow less freely,
and the business of the courts would
be considerably diminished.
Georgia vs Ohio Civilization.
Georgia is a good ways off f:om
anyplace, and we may be excused
for inaccuracy in,her statistics. Won’t
the ‘Gainesville Bald Eagle,” of
Gainesville, Gainesville county,
Gainesville township, Georgia, tell us
just what proportion of the adult
population of that Commonwaalth
can read and write ? We won’t be
mean and mention “spelling.” Cin
cinnati Post.
As it is our pleasure always to give
information, we cheerfully comply
with the Post’s request. A casual
reference to official figures, census of
1870, informs us that 89 1 3 per cent,
of Georgia’s white population could
read and write. Tho same authority
informs us that 82 3-10 per cent, of
of the Ohio population could read
and write. These figures put down
Georgia’s illiterates at 10 2 3 per
cent., and Ohio’s at 17 7-10. Does
the able editor of the Post like the
comoarisou? Perhaps the census
of next year may change these fig
ures. If so, the Post shall be
promptly notified.
In tho gay gambol of tho spring
lamb there lurks a deadly menace of
the stately canine. This should not
be forgotten.
GEORGIA NEWS.
WUii tile Liocal see aaj hear,
Lawroncovillc has hucka revival.
Lawrenceville is sighing for a mar
ket.
Eastman is erecting anew church
edifice.
Atlanta is moving for anew guano
factory.
Lumber city will have.a tournament
on the Btlx.
Mrs. Malcom Gillis, of Montgomery
county, is dead.
Mr.F. O. Welch, an old citizen of
Albany, is dead.
Eiberton is getting out- the timber for
a fair association.
Brunswick is to have a fair, com
mencing on the 21st.
Memorial day was duly celebrated
throughout the State.
The press convention meets in Car
tersville a week from next
There are a number of cousins of the
late Madame Bonaparte in Hart coun
ty-
This is a good time to start newspa
pers. Two of our most valued exchanges
died last week.
Brother MeCurry, of the -Hartwell
Sun, is the father of a bran new bounc
ing baby boy.
The hog law is worrying the average
citizen. To impound or not iiViound,
•hat’s the question. f
Mr? and Mrs. R M. Hear<T7?of El
bertou. celebrated their "cryS®?* wed
ding a few days since.
A negro ferryman was drowned by
the capsizing of a boat at Blackshear s
Ferry, Laurens county, last week.
Says the Conyers Weekly: We make
a move that we take all of the pistols
and shoot all the dogs and then burn
the pistols.
Bill Arp, the genial, will welcome the
press association to Cartersville. Ora
torically speaking Bill is an arp of a
thousand strings.
An election will be held to-morrow at
Lawrenceville for a president and six
directors of the Lawrenceville Branch
railroad company.
Jody Carter, of the DeKalb county
News, has arisen in his might in defense
of the dogs. We like to see a man
stick to his friends.
Hanleiter wants to see an opossum
with a pocket full of young ones. We
would rather see a certain editor .we
know of with a pocket full of green
backs.
Dr. Miller lias been subjected to
much adverse criticism because he took
occasion ,to make a political speech
when he had been invited by the Ro
mans to deliver a literary address.
Bill Moore, of the Augusta News, and
Shivers, of the Warrenton Clipper, have
organized the largest sort of a mutual
admiration society. Jord White, of the
McDuffie Journal, wants to get in, but
he is afraid Shivers will black-ball him,
if he undertakes it.
Mr. Vance, of Carroll county, missed ,
some corn from his crib, and set a trap
gun. Hearing a report shortly after
dark he went out and found the body
of Levi Bonner, colored, lying at thof
door. The coroner’s jury returned jf
verdict of “involuntary saicida.ff▼. f~-
The May number of the Southeiji
Farmer's Monthly is on our table,
is one of the handsomest and most in
teresting numbers of that always hand
some and interesting publication. Like
everything turned out from Estill’s fa
mous publishing house, it is first class
in every respect. No farmer who is
pires to be thoroughly informed, and
practical in the management of his
business, can afford to be without it.
Meriwether Vindicator: Said a young
lady to the editor a few evenings since,
“My sweetheart is a farmer and has
great, large corns in the palms of both
hands. But though his hands are
hard, rough and tanned, he lias a kind
and noble heart.” We asked if the
young swain had 100 acres and a mule
of his own. The reply was that lie
owned 200 acres and two mules.' We
pronounced him a bonanza king and
told our fair friend to catch him if s lie
could. We advise ail our lady readers
to be on the lookout for all such
chances. These hardy ploughmen are
the independent sovereigns of the laud,
the salt of tlm earth. Would there
were more of them.
It is a notable fact that the legisla
ture, at its last session, passed a law
providing that a jury might in any
murder-case “recommend the Jprisoner
to mercy* ’ and that this recommenda
tion should reduce the sentence from
death to life imprisonment. It is sug
gested that possibly, in the course of
the comiug trial, the defense may rest
upon an appeal for this saving recom
mendation. It is curious that this law
was framed, advocated and finally put
through by the earnest personal exer
tions of Colonel Alston himself. It
will be a strange fate if the first man
that pleads for his life under this saving
clause should be the man who is tried
for the killing of “Bob” Alston !
To the people who think an editor
has nothing to do, but eat spring vege
tables, drink iced cider, and take the
world easy we commend the following
from the Atlanta coi respoudenee of the
Augusta Evening News. It is the histo
ry of the daily work-of every man who
publishes a newspaper that is worth
reading: “Mr. W. T. Christopher, the
brilliant and popular editor of the At
lanta Sunday Phonograph , does more
hard work than any newspaper man in
Georgia. He works steadily on an
average of fifteen hours out of every
twenty-four. As every reader can see,
there are hundreds of short, crisj), pun
gent, pithy paragraphs in his journal,
nearly every one of w jieh is penned
between the hours of seven and twelve
at night. True, when not otherwise
engaged, he writes during the day. He
looks after his job department, some
times going to the press and taking the
part of a pressman, sets type when the
paper gets behind, keeps his own books,
solicits subscriptions and advertise
ments, canvasses the towns near the city
occasionally, and attends to his corres
pondence. ”
CsJKRENT OPINION.
O.ieof Hie very best.
Albany Advertiser.
The Gainesville Eagle has become
one of the very best papers in the State
since Ham’s connection with it.
Bourn! 10 Get Mad.
Maine Standard.
The Whig is bound to be dissatisfied
in either case. It is mad because the
democrats in the senate seated Bell
(rep.) and it would have howled if they
had not. Poor Whig !
What it will Determine,
Augusta Chron. & Con.
The verdict in the Poindexter ca e,
now on trial in Richmond, will deter
mine whether a man may lawfully put
to death a clerk in a shoe store who
compliments the foot and insists on
buttoning the shoes of the young lady
to whom he is engaged.
Tilt Bondholder is a, Sucker.
Newark Press.'
How can a man be healthy and hap
py when two-thirds of the blood in bis
body has been absorbed by leeches ?
How can a nation be prosperous when
two-thirds of its life blood, (money)
which formerly pulsated through every
vein, artery and channel of trade, has
been withdrawn from circulation ?
The Gainesville Eagle.
Planter & Grange.
This meritorious journal is one of the
best in the State. It is conducted with
ability, and exceptional dignity and
moderation of sentiment. It never has
am intemperau* word upon men or meas
ures. It is n wsv too, keeping up full
with the progress of public events.
Such papers are a credit to the State,
and deserve the support of the people.
It is Cowardly.
Greenville (S. C.) Mountaineer.
11l a state of peace, it is cowardly to
go armed; and indicates either society
at large so disorderly as to require the
arming of ones self or that the individ
ual himself is a ruffian. Sncli a state of
society does not exist in the Southern
States. Law and order ai'e maintained -
and pistol carrying for personal pro,
tection is unnecessary, wrong and ab
normal.
A Dig Bird,
Irwinton Southerner.
It is with pleasure we present to our
readers this week, in another column,
an advertisement of the Gainesville
Eagle. See the card. The paper is as
good as it is claimed to be, and you
need have uo fear that you will not get
the worth of your money if you sub
scribe. The Eagle is a big bird among
the Georgia weeklies ami wc value it in
a high degree.
A Sprightly Paper.
Albany News.
The Gainesville Eagle is a sprightly
paper and no doubt meets with favor
wherever it circulates. It’s motto is,
Redwine & Ham. This is an attractive
feature about it. Hen and women have
sought both red wine and ham so long
that the memory of man runneth not to
the contrary. The good book tells us
to “look not upon the wine when it is
red,” but we are afraid tins injunc
'ion will be often violated - during the
next session of the press convention.
Wide Awake.
Cuthbert Southron.
We take pleasure in calling the at
tention of our readers to the advertise
ment of tho Eagle in this issue. The
Eagle carries 32 columns, and its gen
eral make up shows it to be a wide
awake “bird of freedom” and nothing
of interest escapes its watchful eyes. It
clinches its sharp claws through tho
radical party with unrelenting fury, and
hashes up the current events of the day
in a style that is relished_by everybody.
The Eagle is now fed by Redwine <fe
Ham, and its screams attract the in
habitants of this “land of the free
and tho home of the brave.” It can
be had three months for iifty cents.
At, oilier licmedy.
Jefferson News.
But as long as the murderer is un
punished we may expect to see murders
committed, regardless of the existence
of the pistol. When you expect to sup
press crime by the abolition of the pis
tel, you must also include the pocket
knife, which is tho more dangerous of
the two, in our opinion.
Let the moral sentiment of our peo
ple be raised to the point where it will
look upon the murderer in the same
light that the people in Adam’s day
looked upon Cain. And when a mur
der is committed let the wrong doer
be punished, and we predict that the
habit of carrying concealed weapons
will find but few if any followers.
Demociatic t’lilnn or ii King.
Ns w York Sun.
Would the democrats of the United
States—especially would the distracted
democratic party of the State of New
York—unite to prevent the overthrow
of our republican form of government,
aud the substitution in its place of an
hereditary monarchy ? Would they
unite to oppose a king ?
Very likely it will prove to be for
nothing less that they are now asked to
remove and forget all minor differences,
and combine together for the defeat of
General Grant.
To be sure, there is no provision in
our written constitution prohibiting
more than two terms of the presidency
to be held by one and the same man.
But there is a tradition hardly less bind
ing and sacred.
If the traditions and examples of the
fathers arc to be disregarded, how long
will the provisions of the written consti
tution be treated as obligatory ?
Grant is a military man, a firm be
liever in military power, and with very
little real respect for constitutions or
for traditional usages. He longs to be
a king. He would be better pleased if
the delegations from our legislature and
the legislature of Pennsylvania and'oth
er bodies which are to welcome him
home were to lay at his feet a crown,
and ask his acceptance of it.
Grant if elected a third time, will
never leave the White House again vol
untarily.
Let the people heed this warning.
Will the democracy unite against
Grant—will they unite to oppose a
king ?
JOXX3U 3K3ESKSX'Sr 9 558
SPRI N~ G; A. .N' 3ST OIT IST O EMEN T-l B'7 9
NO BOMBAST !NO “PETER FUNKISM !” But a statement of t lie quantity of goods which he has to offer; their quality,
anti the extraordinarily low prices at which he is enabled to sell them. As to how and where he bought them, it is too long a story,
and too uninteresting to the public, to inflict it upon them. So fo the subject proper.
I have just returned from New York,having spout the past few weeks there, and from the various sources whence they came I have
the pleasure to place before the public the largest and cheapest, as well as tho most desirable stock of dry goods, shoes, gents’ furnish
ing goodsand boys’ ready-made clothing over ofiered in Atlanta Prominent among this magnificent stock will be found the following:
SILKS. SILKS. SILKS.
2,700 yards Black Silks, 65c yard, always brought 75 before; 3,200 yards Black Gros Grain Silks, 75c yard, worth 90c; 2,683 yards
Black Gros Grain Silks, 85, selling at $1 everywhere; 3,700 yards Black Gros Giain Silks, 90c, always brought SI 25 before; 2,900
-yards beautiful Black Gres Grain Silks, SI, worih SI 45; 1,000 yards of the best Black Silks for SI 25, in Geergia; 2,000 yards of the
best Black Silk for SI 35, ever seen in Atlanta; 2,300 yards of the best Cashmere Silks, from $1 50 per yard up to the finest grade
made, warranted cheaper thau'elsewhere; novelties in Black Brocade Silks for combination; 5,000 yards best 50c Spring Silks in Atlaa
ta; 1,700 yards best 60c fancy colored Spring Silks in Atlanta; 2,000 yards of the best 75c Spring Silks (known; 1,800 yards of the very
best solid colored Silks in Atlanta; a superb line ot goods.
DRESS GOODS. DRESS GOODS.
In this department, great care has been bestowed upon the purchase of the stock under its head. I offer, among innumerable
other things: 7,500 yards geauino Colored Buntings, 10c to 15c per yard; every variety in plain buntings, lace striped buntings, and
figured buntings, best quality. 3.000 yards Pitin Black Grenadines, at from 10c to 50c yard, embracing the best silk and wcolgosdi;
1,200 yards silk and wool Grenadines, colored, tost grades made, 50c yard, worth SI 25; 1,500 yards of fancy black Grenadines, in'
Dammassee, tufted peringo, and other styles. Prices low
1,500 yards beautiful brown dress linens, 12$c yard, batiste finish; 2,700 yards navy blue dress linen, full yard wide, from the
great fire in Worth street, 15e, worth 35c; 3,600 yards beautiful brown dress linen, full yard wide, from the Worth street fire, 15# yard,
worth 30c; not injured nobceab y. 4,000 yards of the best 20c and 25e brown dress linen in Atlanta—great bargains; 1,000 yards yard
wide buff dress linen, very best quality made, l'2.}c yard—l have sold it at 50e often; 1,200 yards twilled checked linens, very be*t
quality, tuU yard wide, wet at Worth street fir's 20c yard, well worth 50c but for the water which fell on them, and which disfigured
without injuring them.
Black Cashmeres, beautiful shades of color, black Maltelasse, and Basket cloths, all wool, for summer wear.
Besides, 1,000 yards double-width French novelties in dress goods, 86c yard, worth SI 75, if I had not literally “picked them up;”
1,200 yards double-width French novelties in dress goods, in fine grade, half price; Momie oloths, all wool deßeges in single and double
width, for spriug wear; Dairassee dress goods, in black and colors, both in cheap and line goods; Palermo suitings in light worsted
as well as in silk mixed effects, beautiful goods; lilac, pearl color and white French Mohairs for , wedding purposes; dress goods of all
grades, from 8c yard up to $5 per yard.
5,000 jards of beautiful new style wash;Poplins; 4,500 yards of the best and handsomest 12$ dress goods in America. But why
attempt to particularize, when such a task would be endless where the viriety is so great ?
In the line of PARASOLS I defy any merchant south of Mason and Dixon’s Line to show one-half the stook, and to come within
50 per cent, of my prices. Here are a few of my prices—match them who can ! 150 all silk parasols, 30c each, worth 65c; 211 all silk
parasols, 50c each, worth 85c; 300 twilled silk parasols large size, SI and SI 25 each; Novelties in shell handled parasols, pearl handled
parasols, and celluloid handled parasols. And remember, if these parasols are not from 50 to 100 per cent, below their value I will
yield my claim to truthful advertising.
EMDUOI DEIUES.
40,000 yards of Hamburg Edgings and Insertions actually in stock at the moment of writing, and not one of them but stands high
above the reach of all competition at the prices named. I have elegant Hamburg Edgings, fof a yard wide, for flouncings, etc., of the
finest grade made, v. hich-1 will sell for less than some houses ask for similar work 4 inches wide. I have the finest grades know to the
ale in Hamburg Edges, in every variety of width, from fof a yard down to $ inch wide, aud in every possible gradation of width and
quality. Now, I did not pay as much as half price for a single one of thes9 goods, aud, as I will sell themfat a small advanoe, I cannot
have successful competition in this class of goods. No such a line of Hamburgs is on exhibition at retail to-day in New York city.
HOSIERY AND GLOVES.
Bargains that are bargains speak louder than . mere empty pulls. Unquestionably tho largest and handsomest line of ladles’
misses’ and children’s Hosiery which I have ever seeu in Georgia, embracing everything now in White and Fancy Infants’ Cotton Sock#
and Hose, Ladies’ and Misses’ White, Colored and Brown Balbriggaa Hose, including delicate solid pinks and blues, white' with
colored clocks, every variety of fancy mixed Hose of all conceivable designs and combinations of color. 1,000 dozen men’s half l>r
two pairs for sc, from the Worth street fire in New York. ’
In Gloves, I am prepared to show anything to be found in the most fashionable Northern Marts, embracing Misses’ Lisle Thread
Gloves, beautiful quality, 10c pair; Ladies’ Colored Kid 2-buttons, good gloves, 35c pair; 50c, 75c, $1 00, and SI 25 for the verv best
French Kid Gloves, such as usually sell for $2; ladies’colored Lisle, with lace tips; ladies’ black and colored Lace Mitts long' from
50c a pair up to the finest grade ; everything in 3, 4 aud 6 button white aa-1 opera Kids, cheaper thau ever before. ~ ’ *’
Cassimeres and Linens for men’s and boy.;’ wear. 1,500 yards good boys’ cassimeres, 10c yard; 1,250 vards excellent cassimeres
12$c yard; 1,000 yards good cassimeres, 12c yard; 1,850 yards of the prettiest and best cassimeres for 50c* per yard to be found anv
where; 5,000 yards of gne cassimeres from 60c to $1 25, embracing Harris and Harrison’s in new designs.
1,500 yards good linen pauts drill, 10c yard, worth 20c; 1,800 yards of the best 12$e linen pants °dri lin the State. Best grades of
linen pants drill proportionately low; Broadcloths, blue double Yacht Cloths, worsted coatiugs, etc., in great variety K
MOURNING DEPARTMENT.—In this department will be found choice lines of Black Bombazines and Henrietta
Cloths, Byzantine Cloths, Australian Crapes, Tamiese Cloths in extra widths, jet black cashmeres, mourning silks, Lama cloths and a
thousand other chess fabrics, besides everything desired in black Crapes, Crape Collars, Mourning Rouehiugs, Collars aud Cuffs Tie#
Black Crape and Love Veils, Handkerchiefs, etc. All of which are in immense quantity, and at nnapproachably low prices. ’ ’
Special JEJa/rg-ain !--WindLialls I—JPicLcedL tip any ar xdL Everywhere !
1,500 Ladies’ Linen Suits, warranted half price. New choice Goods. 1,200 Misses’ and Children’s white aud colored fine Pin,,,
Suits, one-third their value. 1,200 beautiful Calico Wrapders, at loss than ever before. 2,000 of the prettiest Aprons ever shown in
Atlanta, in Calico, Percale, French Cambric, striped and checked Nainsook, Pique, and every variety of fabric of the most tastv and
even “jaunty” styles, at from 20 to 60c. each, worth three times that sum. ’
100 pieces Nottingham Lace for window curtains, half price. 200 pieces plaid and striped Book Muslin for window curtains
positively half price. • 1,200 Ladies’ Victora Lawn Skirti, fine goxls, 50 and 75c. each, positively half price 500 white and coined
Crochet Shawls, one third their value. 7 bales of goods, tine, wide, heavy Sea Island Cloth, wet slightly, 5c yard wor h 8
Not one of the goods embraced under this head would have been purohased by me in such quantities, but for the price.
.IU A-NC Y Cjt OOI> H jO EI s A RTMENT.
This department is literally replete with Novelties viz : 150 pieces Torchon Edgings and Insertions, Breton Laces real aud imi
tating Valenciennes Laces, Black Laces in every popular make, Maltese and other desirable Laces, thousands of Rcuchinss Corset# in
any grade from 250. each up to the bast Roman Corsets made. 200 dozen Lulies’ White Lawn Ties, 10c. each, etc , etc. b W
"Wlii-te Goods, Liinenas, Etc.
The largest stock of White Goods ever off red in this city, aud consisting, in part, of : 200 pieces of White Victoria aud Bishop’s
Lawns at all prices from 10c. yard up. 300 pieces white, striped and checked Nainsooks, very cheap. 200 pieces nlain Nainsnnlr nA
Jaconet Muslins, cheaper than ever before. Everything made in Tucked Muslins, Organdies, Swiss, P India Lffiens Idsh Linens etc
GE IV H 5 E URNIBHING GOO r> tS .
The Best Linen Bosomed White Shirt at 50c. in the State. The best White Shirt at 75c. ever offered in Atlanta The iw
31-00 White Shirt possible in all numbers. The best 50c. Checked Nainsook Undershirt in the city. The best 35c GanJe uSahirt
made. The best 50c. Gauze Undershirt in Georgia. The best fitting Jeans Drawers made. The best line of Gents’ Collars etc etc
to be found anywhere. Also Boys’ Clothing in great variety,(which is anew department, will be found worthy of inspection! ’’
SHOES! SHOES I SHOES! SHOES! SHOES! SHOES!
In this line my slock has never beer* so complete, nor so invifing. No effort has been spared to make the assortment “first class.”
April 18 ’ IS7 °- __ • SOHSi Corner Whitehall ami Hunter Streets, Atlanta, a.
D A V ID* H. DOUCrHEKTY.
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS
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35 PEACHTREE _STREET, ATLANTA, GA.
My Stock is Large and Fine, and My Prices Suit the Times.
I have just returned from the Northern and Eastern markets, whore myself and resident buyer have spent several weeks in gettin
ray present stock, and I assure you that I have taken every possible precaution and pains-taking to make it complete in eve ry depart?
meet and have no hesitancy in saying that an examination will satisfy the most expert and fastidious buyers that this stack surpass
all others hat it has been my privilege to exhibit. It is brilliant m all the Novelties and New Designs in Dress Goods and
tho entire house many lines ot choice and fancy goods are to be seen not heretofore displayed in this market ougnout
The Curtains will Rise To-morrow Morning at Seven O’clock, and it is my desire that you all procure season tickets early for I
have the inside iraekand am stnl running on my “Short Proht Flan.” S > thore is no monev in it let’s mike it finny J ’ 1
I will be pleased to have as many of you call as can conveniently do so without leaving the children alone. But ‘if circumstances
are such that you can t call, then send your child, “tor it can buy Here Just as Cheap as Yourself ” I will bo n!ease l n
for samples and compare prices, for in a multitude of wisdom there is safety. wIU b3 pleased to ha ™ you send
Dress Goods! Dress Goods! Dress Goods!
In this department my stock is unsurpassed in the South. In it can be found all the new designs in French and Eradish Nnveltv
Sailings, Mourning Cloth, Hack in.Silk and Wool (very handsome), Pure Camels Hair Debege IndfaCashmee
Snk Warp Ciepe DeChine, bilk Warp Tramise, Henriettas, Taffetas, ReG French Buntings. Tifiis Brocades etc I can’t find ra
ItiSh6re ' Andaniaspectionof lhese good# Will post you as to the newest
NAJTJ !Ni?S AND VELVETS!
A superb line of Black Dress and Trimmings Silks, also Colored Dress an 1 Trimming Silk in an endless variety inHmli.m all
new shades. Black and Colored Damase Silks in Summer weights—in tho finest and combinations and newes'd ° n * uuf
and Satin Mixture for Polonaise. The elegance of these goods is beyond dtscrlpti m Black and
desired. Splendid line of Black and Colored Velvets, also Black and Colored Cashmeres. In these I tZd the mark\
he suited here in what you need and give some money too. To save the dollar is what we try-Sin you °“
Fringes, Buttons and Trimmings.
You know that it is just as important for a merchant to have a good line of Trimmings as it G for him in
Dross Goods, and so do I. Consequently, when I was getting up my stock R was my desire to m£th s a haadsom ®
attractive as any other. My experience has taught me That to be deficient even in a hue of Buttons wilUften h2rand
Hence tne magnificence of this department. Better use vour glasses when examining these soods lest tu le , of a dr6Bß '
dazzle the eye. BUD IT WONT HURT YOUR POCKET. .vuou examining cnese goods lest the hues of the rainbow might
LACES, HANDKERCHIEFS AND HOSIERY.
variety" of'othw handsome?stylishtnanand U ‘ 11 DatchLwe * Italiaa aad a great
r} A mSn ? K'" T^.\ lrtmon S It “' lch enlar S ed nnl hon%a can mitch your money.
Whi2 ,mue Sd Pint 6 AKo ufd°G^t Children including Children’s $ and | goods in
of 50. Call and look at these goods before buying and you will buy before leaving! 8,1 y ° aUi m ' ,a froai 0 ydars old t 0 l>°y
Table Linens, Napkins, Doylies and Towels.
* *>tu. , ly i„ „„
S.V “it Malh M£-“ and b 1 ” B * > * Wo’ ri® k-pta, with th, old ad g , “A Pe.oj
booghLSgt^oTtet,”.'' 8 “* F " lh9 '“ CBr '“ inly " * 8r "“ rhoy are mad. ot Cotton, Linon and Craah, and wore
> i:< I< WIC.V li. <i l. V XC to., Eto.
In Ladies’ and Gents’ Neck wear my stock comprises all th’ new an 1 iftr.citra ~
my line is unusually large and tho styles very handsome. SplTn lid rss .rta !p of Silk rm, viS*® 83^ ou r ‘. , Ia Goods especially
My assortment of Ladies’, Misses’ and Gents’ Kids was never so win nn] it style aud pricTs. ’ lu aa,i S,lk 1U LlCd etfjcU
SHOLB! SIIOLn! SiiOES ! 8IIi)ES! SHOES! SHOES!!
n,v oX" y IdS *>< thorn being m anufactured especially to
FINE GOODS. * om.r.otciii. ,n,r “ a!ld ro P ,Ult, °“- Ia this department I make a specialty of
wll i i > Goods, Corsets, Etc., Etc-
Camilles, L ;’“ W>> Tirol*
An immense stock of Corsets of the best styles and fi r v . !j. s of p„. t V „ ,- Url . J> Wal H Egared and Biome.
Doeskiaes, Fancy Cassimere, etc. Ilue of 1 aut Good * aU(I Coating in the market-B oid Cm.ns, U.,ick
I itiin a Wholesale Bourn Separate from My Bet nil Department.
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Trade of this p'ace since the late wir and don’t hesiute t. cfh'* ~ to bi to und. I have been identified with the Jobbing
in my line for buying goads cheap Then Ido not 0 iVv.U VSSSIf o/gm L uT * “***
‘LARIrE SA.LKS A\ 1) SUVLL PROFITS ” is )I V HI OTTO !
every sa“. d6tormiaed l ° P3Hp:akQ ° W thatlausl,liu^',ol ’ c!la b>, and thereby avoid the necessity of making a speech oyer
my 1 - 1 waahl b, pleased to have you cUI and examine
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April 18,1873.
DAVIS H. BiUGHI£RXV.