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by the people. It is thought by infcoy that
the janl* lues's busiuessao<i time m occupied
in sundry small purchases of rags, hides, etc.,
trom old and decrepid negroes, or little ne
groes who gather them up in small quanti
ties from the gutters and back yards. This
is not a fact There is different classes and
grades of all articles in every branch of bu
siness, and more especially so in this busi
ness. The junk men bny most if not all of
their stock from other merchants, who bny
tbem up from first bauds. They, therefore,
do not come in contact with the class of sell
ers, at least that that a correspondent under
the title of “Justice,” m the Herald of Sat
urday last tells about. rhejank dealers do
not end their business or their importance
simply with junk materia*, but they have
connected with their business the paper,
paper bags, twines, rope, etc., trade of oar
city, and with some of them the field of their
operations extend over a variety of articles,
and have sales rooms and. stocks entitled to
especial notico-ntid consideration.
Stock Report.
BY A LEADING 8TOCK DEALER.
At the clo»e of the war accommodations for
stock were comparatively nothing—having
only one livery and feed stable, which would
accommodate 150 head of mules and horses.
Up to that time not more than 5,000 head of
males and horses passing through our city
during one season. Now we have accommo
dation for 4,000 bead. Herewith give a list of
our stable and stock-yard men:
O. H. Jones «fc Co., Clint Taylor, L. P. Ba
ker and Jo. Wooten. Stock-yffrds, Fields,
Wetherspoou & Co., Jones & Beatie, Taylor,
Latham A Co., (now constructing on the Ma
con Railroad.) Last season they were fed
with our stable men over fifty thousand head
of horses and mules, and we can safely say
there were 20,000 heads changed hands here
last season One Kentuckian bought and
shipped at this place lust season 1,100 bend.
The epizootic during tbe months of Novem
ber and December caused a great fall off hist
season. : . f
HOG TRADE.
Before the war but few hogs changed hands
here. It has become (or grown) almost be
yond our calculations. At a rough guess we
will say that 100,000 head were fed in our
stock-pens last season. Several days there
were from 2,000 to 4,000 in the yards at a
time. Out of the above numbers there were
20,000 sold here to planters and retail dealers
to be packed in the surrounding country.
We can safely say that there were 20,000
more slaughtered here for fresh eating and
packing purposes. We predict that there will
ue 20,1 MiO Log* packed, here if they can l>e
bought at 5c, grofcs— nothing weighing under
225 Jbs. A wZf
CATTLE TRADE.
This branch of tbo trade has increased
wonderfully—as much or more than any other
branch, as our citizens are beginning to learu
that so much hog meat is not so essential for
life. We w ill make no figures on this branch
of the trade. It is openedjfrom one season to
another. Our friends, Fields, Wetherspoou &
Co. are receiving cattle every week from
Nashville and Middle Tennessee two to three
cars per week, all sold on arrival to our
butchers. The
SHEEP TRADE
has increased with equal position to the other
branches. Our prediction is that the stock
trade will be much larger this season than
ever before. Oar stock lriends in tbe West
say the supply of stock is good, and crops
never better. We must say that the cotton
crop in Middle and Upper Georgia is good.
Taken all into consideration, we look for a
good trade this season.
Boot and Shoe Trade.
lhe boot and shoe trade of Atlanta has in
creased forty per cent this year over last. Tbe
shipment of Loots and shoes for the full trade
is far in advance of any previous year. Be
tween 10,000 and 12,000 cases of shoes have
been shipped the present fall ; about 8,000
were shipped last fall.
The trade is reaching out to Alabama, Ten
nessee, South Carolina and North Carolina.
The prominent dealers are Markham A Holder-
ness, Henry Barks & Son, G. H. A A. W. Force,
and others. Though Messrs. Moore <fc Marsh,
and M. C. & J. F. Kiser A Co. are properly
dry goods merchant**, the immense business
they do in this line entitles them to mention
under this head as well as dry goods.
Markham A Holderness commenced tbe
wholesale Boot and Shoe business in this
city about one year since. Tbe increase of
their business this year over that of last year
is more than one hundred per cent. Which
shows certainly a more rapid increase of trade
than an expose of any other shoe house in
the city would demonstrate. They are
now selling goods to five States.
Their success speaks more for their goods
and for themselves than any commendatory
indorsement that we could give. Hence, we
will only add that they have received nothing
more than they deserve. Mr. Markham has
had five years experience in the business and
is a good buyer and thoroughly versed in all
tbe lines pertaining to this business. They
intend adding capital to the business and
making an extensive enlargement this fall.
They occupy one of the centre stores in tbe
Republic Block on Pryor street, opposite the
H. I. Kimball House.
Oar Drag Trade.
Not until lately could it be said that Atlanta,
iu keepiug with its other great branches of
commercial industry, established a trade in
drugs commensurate with her progress. The
greater distance from the main markets of
merchandise and the comparative nearness of
our sister cities was undoubtedly one cause,
and for a numbei of years the lack of capital
the other. Never since the birth of the pro
gress of oar city, did there appear such dire
mishaps as characterized the drug trade—a
singular commercial fatality indeed, only to
be followed in the natural order of things bv
a vigorous growth and substantial basis; and
a basis formed too upon hard earned capital,
until now; even in the drag trade Atlanta’s
representatives permeate every section of
Georgia and many sections of Alabama, Ten
nessee and Florida, inducing merchants to
supply themselves with this certain line of
goods at figures sufficiently low to make it
their object to buy from us. Our great dis
tance from seaports would seem to preclude
the possibility of a competition with our sis
ter cities, were it not that railroad facilities
enable us to purchase in large quantities,
thus offering splendid inducements to mer
chants wanting a fall supply of all that a first
class drug trade can offer.
It is not our purpose to particularize or dis
criminate in this notice, either for or agaiost
any house doing business; sufficient there
fore that we call general attention to the men
of enteiprise who sake known their wants in
the Herald.
To this hard laboring and energetic cIam of
oar merchant*, we beg to call especial atten
tion-knowing full well that, without much
capital, and the mishaps of tbe late war bang
ing over them, the 6troggle has been long and
the fight a tough one indeed. As they are,
speak for thsenselves, and are in keeping
with the mammoth enterprise of oar great
city.
The extent of this branch of industry is
felt in every section of Georgia; or would
Savannah and Augusta strive to retain what
was once their especial monopoly?
Their representative, in the drug way, meet
us in open field, and so far it seems that our
success is certain. It is not capital surely.
What is it? you ask. We answer that it is
pluck and energy, the wealth and stamina of
a people bound to win.
Jackson’s Balsam has proven itself to be
just what it claims to be—a complete master
of pair. P. Van Alstine, Proprietor,
Barnsville, Ga.
The Great Southern Stove Hoaie.
We have no doubt Mr. L. B. Langford,
whose advertisement appears in our paper
this morning, has tbe largest stock of goods
in his line of any house South of Louisville.
He is a working man, full of indomitable
energy. He began business here in 1865 with
less than fifty dollars; now he has tbe largest
stock in his line of business ever seen iu this
country,
He Las jast fitted up that very convenient
and well located store, 09 Whitehall street,
lately occupied by Messrs. Guilford, Wood A
Co., and is now’ moving into it He has any
amount of very handsome goods, which will
be very handsomely arranged in his new
store; and he invites the ladies specially to
call and look at hem.
And we take pleasure in calling the atten
tion of merchants who trade to this city. He
is prepared to do a large jobbing trade, and
^offers special inducements. We have no
doubt goods can be purchased from him at
wholsale upon as good terms as any where
else. It is worth while to examine this mat
ter.
Furniture Trade.
Amount of furniture sold annually will
reach $300,000, with an increased demand,
which will probably reach $400,000 for the
coming year. Large per cent, of the above
is in common and medium goods, most of
which is manufactured in Atlanta, and in
order to compete with the West is sold at
very short profits. Manufacturers and dealers
are making extensive preparations for a heavy
fall and winter trade, and Atlanta will offer
for the season of ‘’73 and ’74” a large and
better assortment than ever heretofore, a large
portion of which is selected with a view of
supplying merchants and (\ealers elsewhere, j
In this respect Atlanta often? superior induce-
meDts to the Wes:, with a guaranteed price
list fuliy as low, and a difference from fitteen
to twenty per cent in freights in favor of the
former. This alone should induce thinking
men to patronize home industry, and help to
foster and support our manufacturing inter
est to attain that success so readily achieved
in New England and the great West
The Toltarro Trade.
We shall call the tobacco trade the pioneer
trade of Atlanta. Iu tbe first place the tobacco
merchants inaugurated the system of “drum
mers” in this city, and if we mistake not Char- i
ley Meador was the firot drummer who ever j
left Atlanta. Even now the Atlanta tobacco
men sell their goods in scores of towns that I
do not buy another item of trade from Atlanta, !
their travelers covering four States. The j
trade by our best statistics reaches fully
$2,000,000 a year, and is constantly growing. I
The tobacco merchants stand exceptionally
high in tbe financial registers. Meador Bros.,
one of the oldest houses in Atlanta, is one of !
the best, aud headed by young men, will be- i
come in the years ahead of us, a pride to
Georgia as well as to Atlanta.
Messrs. Boroughs A Wing, another firm of j
young men, are pushing their trade way up j
into the “hundred thousand,’' and making j
character and fortunes. They probably sell '
as much snuff, of which they make a specialty,
as any four houses in Georgia.
OUR MANUFACTURERS.
What Atlanta is Doing in the
“Producing” Way.
A GLIMPSE AT OUR LEADING MANU
FACTORIES.
Tl»e Georgia .Mute Lottery.
A leading institution of Atlanta, and one
highly to be commended is the Georgia State
Lottery.
The law authorizing the establishment and
conduct of this Lottery was passed by the
Legislature of 1866, when Charles J. Jenkins
was Governor, and the Act from its benevo
lent promise received his hearty approval.
The object of the grant was to afford the
means of starting and perpetuating an Or
phan’s Free School, and for the benefit of tbe
children of the State, a large portion of the
rising generation being from the loss of for
tune or lathers by tbe war, utterly unable to
iaise the wherewithal to pay tuition fees, anJ
to aid in the support of needy and deserving
widows who had been wrecketkby the war.
To show how faithfully the theory of the
grant nus been cajtied oat, %e need bat 8*y
that there has been, first and last, over 800
marticulates in the school, educated under
the tuition of such noble women as Mrs. Judge
E. Y. Hill, Mrs. Judge W. T. Colquitt, Mrs. ;
Greenlee Butler, Mrs. T. J. Boen, Mrs. Rea- j
gan. Miss Bomar, Miss Hoyle and others, j
There are now employed five teachers, with j
two hundred pupils in attendance, and the
school was never more prosperous. Besides
the tuition, the books, stationery, and ivery-
thing of the kind is furnished free.
All this is supported without a single draft
upon any public treasury, without a single
appeal to public charity, without a single
assessment upon any corporation. A fairly
conducted legitimate Lottery, conducted
openly by gentlemen of absolute integrity of
intention and action, is the so'e treasury from
which all funds are drawn. There is scarcely
any computing the extent to which this in
stitution may grow. It is carefully managed,
the funds are prudently invested, and the
wnole scheme is successfully working. The
gentlemen who control its matters have high
ideas and enlarged aspirations for the Or
phans School, and it may before many years
assume proportions that will challenge the
admiration of the whole people of Georgia.
The Trustees of the institution, Mrs. Wil
son, of Atlanta, widow of Col. W. T. Wilson,
of the 7th Georgia regiment, killed at the se
cond Manassas; Mrs. Williams, widow of Gen.
Chas. Williams; Mrs. Doles, widow of Gen.
Doles, killed at Cold Ilatbor; Mrs. Pearson,
widow of Major C. G. Pear«on, killed at Rich
mond; Mrs. Pember, matron of Chimborazo
Hospital, Richmond.
Under these trustees, its able Atlanta board
of management, it is bound to succeed. It
is very popular indeed with the people, and
the BAles of tickets run up to sometimes 6,000
or 8,000 a day. The Drawings are conducted
with the utmost fairness, and prizes cashed
promptly, and those who wish to patronize
lotteries will fred the “Georgia State” the
best they can find. Study over their several
schemes, and you will find an opening for an
investment any where from 25 cents to $20.
It is not at all no frequent for the Lottery to
pay $10,000 in prizes in a siugle week.
McConnellsville, York county, S. C.
P. Van Alhtine—Sir: Enclosed find two
dollars, f<»r which yon will send mo two one
dollar bottles of Jackson’s Magic Balsam.
Send promptly to my address. I am also re
quested by a practicing physician iu this
neighborhood to inquire of you whether you
make any deduction in price to physicians
who wish to introduce said Balsam into their
practice. Very respectfully yours,
Rev. J. Lorov Wilson.
School Books.—We ask special attention
to the advertisement of Dr. S. H. Stout. He
is an old school teacher, highly educated and
talented, aod a Southern man of high char
acter. He knows what a good school book
is as well as any man. Teachers and others
would do well to consult with him by letter or
otherwise.
Wm. Stevens, at Tho Rock, Upson county,
Ga., has a son who has been afflicted with a
severe scrofula swelling as large as a hen egg
for the last two years. Two bottles of Jack-
son's Balsam has entirety removed the swell
ing, and to use the woTds of his kinfolks, “he
is getting as fat as a pig.”
Jackson’s Magic Balsam is making its way
by the power of its own excellence.
The drug stores and general stores sell it,
and the proprietor gives it away. Ho has an
agent on the railroad giving it to passengers.
J. Woods, of Mucen, says hw son was cured
of a severe pain and swelling of his ankle by
one 50 cent bottle of Jackson’s Balsam, after
tbe different pbysicions had given him up as
a confirmed ciipple.
I Jackson's Magic Balsam is winning ho.*>tsof
friends ami not one t-neuiv.
While Atlanta has not any very immense
manufactories that run into the millions,
(save the Scofield Rolling Mill.) she has hun
dreds of small and snug factories that give
employment to thousands of mechanics, and
add millioos to Atlanta’s capital. For in
stance, flouring mills, that have a capacity
of 1,000 barrels of wheat a day; a cracker
factory, using eighteen barrels of flour per
day, and shipping often 600 boxes of crackers
per day; candy factories making six thousand
pounds a day, of the very finest candy; plan
ing mills and sash factories, working eighty
to one hundred hands. These, and hundreds
of other industries, combined with the rail
road shops of several important roads, gives
Atlanta a perfect wealth of strong-armed me
chanics, and a wonderful producing power.
Several important schemes are on foot and
will be consummated during tbe present
year, that will give us an unpetus in this
healthy direction, hardly to be estimated. Of
these, more anon. Below we present a par
tial record of Atlanta's manufactories, and
direct attention thereto:
Block''* Candy Faelory.
If we desired to take a stranger into ft sin
gle establishment in this city to give him a
full idea of Atlanta's prosperity, and an evi
dence of that spirit that gave it its magical
growth, we don’t know but that we should se
lect Frank E. Block’s Candy Factory as that
place. It is one of the largest and completest
Candy Factory in the South, and in f«ct, the
only French Candy Factory. Occupying two im
mense buildings, every inch of which is oc
cupied.
ON THE FISRT FLOUR
we find the office, the sample room and the
packing rooms. Iu tbe front part may be
seen clerks checking oft' orders, or exhibiting
samples, while the back part is made lively by
packing clerks and porters with huge elevators
at command plying from ^cellar to garret, de
livering to their hands packages of goods.
On tbe second floor of the first room is the boil
ing room, in which a dozen boilers, (some of
them holding one thousand pounds of sugar, )
heated by steam, are bubbling away, attended
by careful workmen. In another room are
hundreds of moulds of all styles and patterns
for the French candies, there handled by men
whose wages run way down into the thou
sands. In another room the candy rollers(some
twenty in number) are at work, making the
purest and best of candy. This room alone
is capable of turning out 6,000 pounds a day
of the best stick candy. In yet another room,
men and women are at work making boxes for
the candy, of which hundreds upon hundreds
are daily needed. Passing from tbe box room
we reach the packing room in which boys and
women are engaged in packing tbe candy into
boxes for the sales-room. Iu the next room
we find
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF CHRISTMAS
CANDIES,
such as candy cats, dogs, horses, flowers, toys,
etc., over which the children go into such
ecstacies, and which have been aggregating
all the year for the Holiday trade. Ia the
last room, and which may be called the “gem
room” of the establishment may be seen two
candy artists making all the Christmas can
dies, and building all thCM.ady toys; working
here in Georgia to produce the same marvels
in sugar that they did in Paris or Switzerland,
or wherever they came from; and besides
them there are four girls arranging the can
dies, and pasting on the kiss verses, mottoes,
etc. These artists are put to work the day
alter Christmas getting ready a stock for the
next Christmas rush. Mr. Block informs us
that during some weeks in November and De
cember he finds it absolutely impossible to
pack the goods fast enough to fill orders.
This trade is increasing every day. He sells
to new territory every year, and beiDg the
only French candy manufacturer in the South,
frequently gets orders in one week from six
different States. He is a courteous and elegant
gentlemau, of high business qualifications,
and a perfect master of his business in its
every detail, and is destined to occupy a very
important place in Atlanta’s commercial his-
torv. Would that we had a dozen like him.
Scofield’* Rolling Mill.
The Rolling Mill lot is 40 acres. The build
ing is 330 feet loDg, 180 feet wide and 52 feet
high. The Foundry and hail Factory is 100
feet long and fifty feet wide.
This Company has 11 furnaces in operation
—6 heating and five puddling. The motive
power is supplied with eleven boilers and
eight engines, with 650 horse power. There
are two squeezers, the Crocodile aud n new
one, the Coffee Mill, weighing ten tons.
Besides this there are nut cutters, bolt cut-
tors, straightening machines and pinching
machines. A new punchen cuts, four holes
at the Bame time in the fish bar for the fish
bar rails. Upon an average five car-loads of
coal are used daily. The mill turns out upon
an average 50 tons of finished rails, 5 tons of
merchant iron, 20 tons of puddled iron, and
5 tons of spikes per day, or 15,000 tons of
rails, 1,560 tons of merchant iron, 6,240 tons
puddled iron and 1,565 tons spikes per
annum.
The Fish Bar iron is made here, and the
Foundry makes all the castings needed lor
the Company.
The water is forced up from the Walton
Spring branch, half a mile distance, at the
rate of 150 i gallons per minute. The rese-
voirs at the mill have a’capacity oi l,500 hogs
heads. Several hundred operatives are em
ployed, lo whom are paid over 810,000 per
mouth, or $120,000 per annum for wages—
upon an average of $600 to each hand.
Have just purchased a new 100 horse-power
engine, and are putting in an entire new
train of rolls for merchant mill.
Messrs. L. Scofield A Son have a largo store
connected with the mill from which the ope
ratives can purchase all their supplies from a
hair pin to a beefsteak as cheap as elsewhere.
It is a great convenience to the hands.
The rolling mill is adding much to the ma
terial wealth of our city, causing millions of
dollars to flow into it.
Mr. L. Scofield has enlarged and improved
it, and under his experience and tact it is be
coming more valuable than a gold mine. He
has built fourteen rolling mills. To his ex
perience is added indomitable energy and a-
go-abead disposition. To such an enterprise
all w'e wish is success. The regret is that we
have bo few of them. We need more factories
and more live men like Col. Scofield.
L*wl»’ Cracker Factory.
A year or two ago a young man of energy
and rare ability, Mr. If. Lewis, saw that the
surest and safest, if not the fastest, was by
producing and making rather than by selling
alone, determined to establish a cracker facto
ry. It was an e xperiment that required pluck
and nerve, but Mr. Lewis was equal to the
emergency. Quietly but with indomitable
energy be set to work building up ft trade,
bnklng a barrel a day of flour, and then sell
ing whut be bad baked: not becoming foolish
in the flush of success, but moving cautious
ly, prudently and firmly on, enlarging hi-*
| trade no ta-ter thin his capital would permit
or the demand suggest, until to-day he is
shipping goods to four States, and getting as
many orders as he can fill, although he has a
capacity of twenty-two barrels of flour, or
two hundred and twenty boxes of crackers
per day. He makes an unsurpassable cracker
of all grades, and can easily compete, freights
considered, with any Western factory. He
has a complete establishment, an immense
building, capacity susceptible of indefinite
enlargement. Not content with taking flour
and adding an increased value of, say twenty
per cent, to it, he has determined to go fur
ther back and get a profit out of his flour.
Hence, he has established a fine flouring
mill with a capacity of 160 barrels per twenty
four hours, aud grinds his own flour. In this
business he has a leading partner, Mr. Hen
drix, a gentleman of rare good sense and a
miller of most excellent judgment.
Mr. Lewis is a young man, but with an old
man’s head on his shoulders. He is highly
esteemed by all who know him, and in the
commercial community is honored and es
teemed. He is on his way to a princely for
tune. His brother is lately associated with
him and seems to be a chip off the same
block.
BY J. A. STEWART.
To the Editors of the Herald:
In compliance with your request I have to
remark on the subject selected for me, that
Atlanta’s first flouring mill, after a short ca
reer of operation on a large scale, proved un
profitable to its owners, and was closed by
them in 1857. During the autumn of 1858 a
small mill was put in operation near the pres
ent rolling mill. It had a capacity of twenty-
five barrels per day. The flour was popular
and the mill made money until destroyed du
ring the siege of Atlanta in 1864.
Atlanta was then without a mill until the
year 1867, one was put in operation that year.
The business iu that line proved profitable,
not only in Atlanta, but every where else in
Georgia, for three or four years after the close
of the war, so much go that a large number
of mills w ere erected at favorable locations,
all competing with Atlanta in the flour trade.
But such are the advantages of Atlanta in tbe
milling business, that no foreign competition
has been able to retard its progress. The
situation is so desirable that a mill of con
siderable capacity was removed to Atlanta in
the year 1871 from the city of Rome. The
large mills in Marietta have not been re
moved here yet; but the proprietors have
found it necessary to establish their head
quarters f:>r the sale of their flour in the city
of Atlanta.
There are now in this city three flouring
mills in operation, and one idle; but which
will be in operation soon. The product of
the Marietta, or Kennesaw mills, is all sold iu
Atlanta.
The combiued capacity of all amounts to
about nine hundred barrels per day of various
grades, from strictly fancy aud choice down
to extras and superfine, giving general satis
faction as to quality and price, and bringing
to Atlanta from $8,000 to 810,000 per day in
cash. In fact we have flour so superior in
quality that Western millers with twenty-five
cents per barrel (as compared with freight on
wheat) in favor of their fl^ur, can’t compete
with us successfully.
Our people prefer home ground flour from
pure winter wheat, unmixed with spring, or
corn meal. They are judges of flour, and
when they find tbe best they patronize the
mills that make it, to the extent of their
wants. Thus supported the Atlanta millers
feel sure of maintaining their present high
reputation, and of securing lor Atlanta —her
millers and merchants—an increasing demand
for home-made flour.
COKING AND HEATING STOVES—Every kind.
Mantels and Grates,
Tin Ware, Wood and Hollow Ware,
Sheeet Iron, Zinc,
House Furnishing Goods, Etc.
lawson B. Langford,
69 West Side Whitehall Street.
ATLANTA. CA.
I MV HAVE ON HAND THE LARGEST STOCK OF GOODS IN MY LINE EVER
1 BOUGHT to this market.
Stoves, Stoves, Stoves!
Tbelebratod Charter Oak Stove—tbe n»o*t popular and most extensively used in tbe United Ststes. Agent
for t!“ Atlanta" Cook Stove. Heating Stoves—all kinds and sizes. Have for sale all the most popular Stoves
now ijbe market.
♦TOWARE—Of every kind and in tbe largest quantity. A full supply always on hand, and anything made
to or^piomptly.
Very Large Supply of
Tin ,tc and Tinners Flndinn*. Sliest Iron: Sheet Zinc; Slab Zinc; Block Tin; Solder, Etc.
A Lae and well selected stock of Light Hollow Ware; Wood Ware of every kind, such as Buckets, Taos,
Wasbbrds, Flour Pails, Sugar Boxes, Wood Measures, all sizes; Brooms, Well Buckets, etc.
A Largjiiantity of
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY.
Silver Plated Ware
Dojartment for tla.© Iiadloa:
.Toilet Sets, etc., are well arranged forinspec-
Mv las stock of handsome House Furnishing goods, Va
tion. 1> Ladies are invited to call and see the.a.
I havaid in a stock lor a large
V H O L E S A L E TRADE.
In my.ne, and invite the attention of merchants to the same. I can offer special inducements over any
°*OrderS«>ra a distance will be promptly attended to. Goods skilfully packed, and every advantage of the
m ? r ^m or moving into my new store, 69 Westaide of Whitehall street, lately occupied by Guilford, Wood L
Co. Thenblic are invited to step in aud look at my new store and new goods.
L. B. LANGFORD.
HMCITT & BEUINERATHS.
iS"o. 1*3 Marietta Street,
ATLANTA, GA.
LUMIIKS, STEAM AND GAS FITTERS, end contractors for rooting. Also Galvanized
Pipe,Pumps,
Goods.
Have omand nnd to arrive adarge assortment ot
lie pub lie Life Insurance Company.
We clip the following from the Baltimore
Christian Advocate. The Georgia depart
ment is iu the able bauds of Mr. William
Goodnow, with chief office iu the Republic
Block:
Common sense has at last been introduced
into the business of life insurance, and the
same business rule applied to it that we ex
pect to find regulating every business trans
actions done among business men, i, e., giv
ing an equivalent for the money received.
When you purchase a bill of goods, you do
not expect to reduce its cost to you by partic
ipating in tbe business of the Reller.
Suppose, of two grocers seeking business,
one should offer on every 8100 worth sold, to
pay back to his customers a per centage at
the end of the year, if successful, and the
other should offer to sell the same goods ex
actly for $70 to $80, without any “dividends,”
who doubts that the latter would do all the
business ?
This is tbe view that the Republic Life In
surance Company, of Chicago, takes of its
business in giving so much insurance for so
much money.
In place of tbe high rates of the mutual
companies, they have adopted a rate ranging
from 25 to 50 per cent, lower, bringing the
cost of insurance down to the true value and
basis.
By this method, the uncertainties of divi
dends are done away with and the business
made simple aud plain.
By it, every applicant for life insurance can
obtain 25 percent, more for an equal sum of
money, or make a large saving in the cost on [
an equal amount of insuraoce.
Its policy contracts are simple and plain,
and free from the vexatious restrictions which
encumber so many policy contracts.
They have also brought into use a system
of commercial insurance, tor the special ben
efit of business men. If life and thought are
capital, they should receive the same protec
tion for the creditor as your house, or your
stock of merchandise; and the Republic Life
Insurance Company will protect it for you at
about the same average cost.
Before increasing your life insurance, give
the plans of this popular Company an inves
tigation.
Heating and Cooking Stoves.
Prominent among tbe Cooking Stoves we wonld mention the
Improved Columbia Cook,
whioh is nmufactured especially for Hunnicutt and Bellingraths, and is made of the best
material, ad by the best skill that money can procure, and size, weight, and durability, power
ot heat anctapidity of baking and roasting, it is withoui a rival. Also the
Celebrated Six Hole Excelsior,
with Eesevo- and Hot Closet. It is so arranged that when the Resevoiris removed two more
holes are gaied, making a very LARGE SIX HOLE STOVE, with a very large closet beneath,
making this t once the largest, heaviest, most durable, economical, convenient, and by far the
Cheipest Stove of tlie Kind
In the SArket. If yon want to keep warm this winter, call and get one of H. & B.'s
T eto or Yulcan Heating Stoves,
the very best he market affords; and in fact, you can get supplied in the house furnishing
line, and anyhing you want, or want made, from an egg-beater to a 50 horse power boiler.
Call on H. & 1, No. 1'2 MARIETTA ST., and they will supply you. seplltt
VICTORIOUS.
jt
V LL American Sewing Machines have re
ceived a medal at the late Vienna Ex
position, bnt the HOWE was awarded the
+ GRAND DIPLOMA OF HONOR,
the highest premium ever awarded a Sewing
Machine in the known world.
iThe New Howe.
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£5 The new Howe is the lightest running
machine extant, and the only machine that
5S will do all kinds of family work satisfactorily
>■ and never get out of order. This company
2 is now manufacturing one thousand ma-
S 3 * chines per day, being more than twice as
many as any other company, and yet can
P not supply the demand.
This branch of tho insurance system has
assumed great aud deserved importance
throughout our eutire country, and, indeed,
the civilized world. No argument can be ad
duced against it, but, on the contrary, every
thing is in its favor. It may bo said indeed,
that a moral obligation rests upon every one,
and particularly heads of families, to havo
their lives insured. No better investment can
possibly be made, provided care is taken in
selecting a good company, managed judi
ciously and conducted by honest, responsible
gentlemen.
Atlanta represents her lull share of compa
nies. About tweuty-five companies are doing
business m the State, nearly all of which are
represented in Atlanta. Several, however, do
but little busiuess in the State. Quite a num
ber of the Atlanta agencies, and the general
agencies of the State, and some of them for
several of the adjoining States. Among the
leading companies may be mentioned the
Altna, of Hartford; Equitable, of New York;
Life Association, of St. Louis; Southern, of
Memphis; Piedmont and Arlington, of Vir
ginia; Cottou State**, of Macon, and Repub- (
lie, of Chicago. These companies are repre- 1
j sented by gentlemen of ability nnd creditably
to their respective companies. Atlanta is the
■ controlling aud distributing point tor several
| States nnd aggregates here immense capital.
I The Republic Lite Company have built a block
J ot buildings in Atlanta, not surpassed in the
1 South. Onr agents are active, reliable and
| able.
The Howe Machine Company.
I Are making greatp reparations to still further increase their already large business in Georgia,
! having very receitly bought out two other leading Sewing Machine Companies, besides all
1 the valuable improvements heretofore used in other machines, and combining all the good
I points of the various machines, and abandoning the bad ones, have now produced a Sewing
Machine
Far Beyond Competition,
Something that hie long been needed by the people, and has only to be seen to be appreciated.
From these facts, this is necessarily the only perfect Machine ever yet offered to the public,
being the result ot twenty-seven years’ experience of all tbe inventive genius ot the entire
Sewing Machine fnternity, including Elias Howe, Jr., the original inventor. This new feature
is now on exhibition at the Howe Machine Company’s offices throughout the State, and will
be on exhibition at the State Fair. We guarantee the above machine to be substantially, as
represented, and introducing it to tho public, ask a comparison of machines, and defy compe-
THE HOWE MACHINE IIIMPiW.
The Cheapest Furniture House in Georgia.
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cured lor its hi
Use it lor colic,
cuts galls, brut
1 advertiser.
Oormr Marietta and Peachtree streets, Atlanta Ga., manufacturers and dealers in all grades of
bedroom, Parlor, Dining Room and Office Furniture. Fifty Thousand Dollars’ worth NOW
iu store ’ All enquiries cheerfully and promptly answered. This is the largest, best select-
l horse lotion has se-1 ed and CHEAPEST assortment of Furniture ever brought to Atlanta. Parties wishing to
world-wide reputation, j save money WILL DO IT by calling before buying elsewhere. Goods carefully packed and
it for wounds, sprains, shipped free of charge. rxuTTwnvnuv
,d you will bo its best P. II SNOOK. “• T - CAS1LLRERRV
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