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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
SATURDAY, APRIL 34, 1875.
THE COST OF LIVING.
When it is considered that a man
who got married on a salary of SSOO
per annum, before the war, was not
looked upon as a lunatic, but, on the
contrary, as a sensible fellow ; and
when we know that a young fellow
who dares to commit such au atrocity
now is regardod as either very insane
or very daring—we state a proposition
whicli points a moral and adorns a
tide.
In the times before 1860, when every
thing was cheap," SSOO went a long way,
and the man who had reached that en
viable position might safely hope to
do something for posterity without
incurring an immediate resort to the
Alms House. But the evils of war, and
the war since the war, have changed all
that. Not only has the cost of
living become a serious barrier
to matrimony, -but the ideas of
both men and women have suffered
transfermation. We never knew, either
at the North or South, how happy, how
blest we were, until the prospect shift
ed from flush times to hard and grind
ing seasons. For a while, large salaries
prevailed to make amends for increas
ed expenses, domestic and otherwise;
but the inevitable collapse has come at
last and left many of us high and dry
on a beach of mild despair. How are
we to adapt ourselves to altered circum
stances? That is the question. The
only way we perceive is to practice the
severest economy ; to make everything
we purchase go twice as far as it did
before; to cut off all surplus ser
vants ; to do much of the work that
hired help has hitherto done; to
have the courage of wearing old
clothes; to bring back the women folk
to that almost lost art of mending,
darning and patching their own rai
ment as well as that of their husbands
aud children; to indulge in nothing for
mere show; to rent smaller houses,
and, if possible, remove from town
altogether; to restrain habits of appe
tite, or abandon them altogether; to take
eare of small change, and not squan
der it because it looks like such a
trifle; to imitate, in a word, those of
foreign descent, who grow prosperous
by knowing how to exist comfortably
on what we waste without any neces
sity for so doing. These are not
easy or pleasant things to do,
but they are what the stringency
of the time demands. On the other
hand, the landlord must be in line, if
he can, with the new dispensation. Is
house rent too high ? Then it must be
lowered. Are any of the necessities of
life too far beyond the reach of the
majority of purchasers? Then they
must be marked down. Upon this
theme the New York Times has an ar
ticle so full of sense, aud so liappilv
put into expression, that we give it
conspicuous insertion. The drift of
the article is in unison with the de
mands of the American Babylon, but
it applies, pari passu, to all portions of
the country. We quote:
“Some prices have fallen consider
ably. Some have hardly sunk at all.
Rentals have resisted obstinately
They are yet out of all proportion to
the income of the average tenant. The
firmness with which rents 'maintain
themselves is very easily explained.
Houses are not like stocks of goods,
constantly renewed. Money once in
them remains in them usually for some
time. If Mr. Stewart’s dry goods fail
to go off, he drops the prices, and buys
in anew stock at the lower figures.
But if Mr. Astor’s houses and stores
fall in rent, the reduction looks like a
permanent diminution of income. The
actual loss may be the same; but your
dry goods merchant looks forward to
a turn in the market, while your land
lord complains that his money does
not bring him “simple interest.”
“But most real estate throughout the
country which changed hands between
18G3 and 1873 is bound sooner or later
to rent at rates that wili not pay a net
interest of seven per cent, upon its
purchase money. The difficulty is to
make landlords see this fact, and
meantime tho tenants suffer. That is
one important item in the extravagant
cost of living, and it is quite an inevi
table one. The others are, perhaps,
less so. We believe that most of our
readers will agree with us in thinking
that dress, for men and boys as well as
for women and girls, is more expensive
than formerly. The several articles
cost more; fashions change more fre
quently; the changes are more radical,
and the subserviency to fashion—it is
a hard word but a just one—is greater
in a marked degree. Leaving out
of the question, for the time being,
the ladies, who, perhaps, have had
their full desert jn the way of criti
cism, does it not accord with the gen
eral observation of men of forty that
young men and boys from twenty-two
down to fourteen dress far more ex
travagantly than the same class dress
ed twenty years since? The school
boy, whose coat Is not cut in the latest
style, or whose hat and shoes are not
as fresh as if their wearer’s income
were of his own earning and unlimited
jn amount, is an exception. Linen
made up at home is a curiosity almost
unique, though the oost of material
forms but a small part of the price of
•furnishing’ goods, and the cost of
labor could readily be saved. ‘Style*’
we -believe, is the ‘missing ingredient’
which home-made linen lacks,
which youngsters of modern times de
mand. To secure this, as much is
spent on many a half grown
stripllug’s shirts and collars and
euffs as would have bought his
father a whole suit when at the
boy’s age. The girls, meantime, are by
no means behind their brothers. They
hav e their fashions, as inexorable, as
\ ariable, and very nearly as costly, as
those of the mothers or grown sisters.
If by chance simplicity reigns for a few
months, the charming “misses” soon
tire of it, and something new, and ex
pensive as well, is introduced. This is
a matter certainly capable of correc
tion. There is absolutely no sense to*
it, and no excuse for it, except that
Mrs. A. does not like to have her boys
and girls looked down upon by those
of Mrs. B, while perhaps at the same
time Mrs. B is straining every nerve to
keep up with Mrs. A in the extrava
gance of the young ones’ clothing.
Perhaps if a dozen sensiblo women,
whose children associate with each
other, were to come together and agree
upon a combined movement toward
simplicity and economy, they might
make a beginning of the end to the
heavy burdens the fathers’ purses are
now compelled to bear.”
The extracts above given are rather
longer than we have space for, but
they are entitled to a careful perusal.
There is one element not touched upon
by the Times, but which deserves con
sideration. It is this: When misfor
tune enters a family it should be the
signal for every member of it to rally
to each other, not only with a beautiful
zeal for the common good, but also
with a love transcending the love of
prosperity. How easily can the father
and husband bear a reduction of his
salary, if the wife and children show
him they appreciate his struggles and
are determined not to add a feather
weight to them. How much more de
votedly will the wife and children strive
to make the husband and father content
ed if he takes care to lot them know that
they are dearer than ever to him, and
that his sacrifice* for their well-being
abroad have not made him a brute or
a sore-head at home. “Sweet indeed
are the lessons of adversity,” if they
be accepted properly. If they are, on
the contrary, met with hatred, discon
tent, defiance and abuse of Providence,
they grow into torments, and become
like perfidy,
“the bitterest drops of woe
That bubble in the cup of life.”
THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING.
If the Centennial celebration of this
■year and the next shall have the effect
of producing an era of good feeling be
tween the North and South, it will be a
matter of general rejoicing. Wo wish
our brethren of the North to under
stand that the true results of the war
ard accepted by the South in good
faith. We yield, for example, the doc
trine of secession and emancipation,
and accord to the soldiery who “wore
the blue” the same justice they accord
to the “men in grey.” But the result
of the war since the war—the crimes
against Constitutional Liberty and the
spirit 0f,1776—we can never, while true
to ourselves and to our common coun
try, acknowledge as valid. Neither
should they ask us to consecrate these
infamies which have only eventuated
in universal disorder. The New York
Journal of Commerce, impressing upon
the country the necessity of complete
union, thus speaks:
Every commemoration of the sufferings
and triumphs shared by our ancestors,
North and South, does something to bring
back the charmed epoch of union and
brotherhood. The people of North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia will read with
pleasure aud pride the glorious reminis
cences awakened at Lexington and Con
cord. But there is only one way in which
the hearty co-operation of the South can
be gained for the Exposition of 1876, and by
the same moans not merely that object,
valuable in itself, will bo attained, but the
peace and harmony of the entire Union will
be restored in the fullest measure. What
is wanted now is the extension of universal
amnesty to the South, and the abandon
ment of the hateful policy of military
surveillance and domination in that
section, and the full recognition of the
right of sovereign States to govern
them selves in all matters of lo
cal concern. Congress was guilty
of shameful inconsistency which gave the
national sanction Centennial Fair on
the ground that it would bo promotive of
the peace and welfare of all the States and
all the people, while, at the same time, the
boon of “amnesty, grace and oblivion” was
sternly denied to many of the leading men
of the South whose misfortune it was to
have taken part in the rebellion. Had a
general amnesty been declared on the same
day when the bill incorporating the Cen
tennial Exposition became a law, we ven
ture to say that the prospectof that under
taking would be much more promising
than it now is. To the 44th Congress will
belong the duty and honor of tendering the
olive branch of general amnesty to our
Southern brethren: and until this is done,
the season of centennial observances upon
which We have entered will fall far short of
accomplishing the great result of bringing
back the lost peace, happiness and pros
perity of the Union.
The hostile legislation of every Con
gress since 1865 has been the fertile
source of all*,our woes. If we are to
have peace and amity between the
States, the laws which have put bar
riers in the way of a just and genuine
restoration must be removed. If they
be not, the Lexington and Concord
celebrations are mere phantoms of
mockery, and are just as foolish in their
experiment as sending up a sky-rocket
in order to extinguish the light of the
sun.
Boyton.— And now comes one Capt.
Stone, who claims that Paul Boyton is
a fraud. A correspondent of the Bos
ton Traveller declares that Stone in
vented the marine suit, tested it suc
cessfully, went to Europe with it, and
jumped into the sea on a stormy night,
ten miles from Havre, and floated
around smoking cigars aod firing rock
ets for some hours. Subsequently
Stone exhibited his invention ou the
river Seine, before 50,000 Frenchmen,
and was honored by being elected a
life member of La Soeiete de Sauvetage.
Columbus had his Americas Vkspu
cius, and here is a big Stonh attempt
ing to drown Paul Boyton. If Paul
can swim with that Stone on him, he
may wear the laurels of Leandhr.
The Hog Question.— Sometime ago,
the Northeast Georgian, in a capital
article, stated that the way to test the
question of raising meat, at home, for
Southern consumption, was to offer
a reward of SI,OOO in gold for the best
hog raised In GeoYgia. The Grangers
ought to try that experiment. A prize
essay on cotton growing is excellent in
its line, but au offer of SI,OOO in gold
for a prize hog would go to the root of
the matter and demonstrate that we
need not keep smoke houses in the
West unless we choose to do so.
■ —i 1 r
Spelling. —There will never be a
good spell of weather until this ortho
graphical mania shall eome to an end.
We hope the “busy bee” will let gar
den truck have a little chance.
Bosh.— The Washington Chronicle pub
lishes the editorials of the Avgusta C'onsti
lulionalist as capital for the Radicals. Thus
do wo load the guns of the enemy.— Atlanta
Herald.
Well, if the enemy can stand the
loads of sound sense, invincible argu
ment, patriotic sentiment, and pure
Democratic principles which charac
terize the editorial columns of the
Constitutionalist, we of the South
should not complain. We hope our
worthy contemporary will continue to
load those Radical guns.— McDuffie
Journal.
Grasshoppers. —Although we have
winter weather here, the people of
northwest Missouri complain that the
atmosphere is so warm that grasshop
pers by the myriad are hatching out.
The very sight of a grasshopper would
be delicious in the “Sunny South.”
LETTER FROM*ATLANTA.
Bard Pere et Fils—Tho Ninth District
—Bribery and Corruption—Ebony
Citizenship Bloody Hand and
Scalping Dick Literature. Judge
Hopkins and Club Sauce—Foot
Notes.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Atlanta, Ga.., April 21.
It was doubly unfortunate for Gov.
Bard when his son John thrust his lit
tle knife into the groins of poor Willie
Spencer last night. However bright
and cheering his prospects were for
his retention, the Governor lost his
hold then. Bard the younger and
Spencer had a few words in the armo
ry of the Fulton Blues. Spencer re
marked that the armory was no place
to quarrel. After the drill was over,
Bard went out and waited for his man.
They met, a few hot woirdp passed, a
blow from Spencer, and then the knife
was plunged into the side of the vic
tim. Bard concealed himself in the
rear of Hook and Ladder Co.’s truck
hoqse, but was found and promptly ar
rested by the police and placed in
limbo.
To-day he was carried before a mag
istrate, but the physician could give no
definite statemont as to the result of
Spencer’s injuries, aud Bard was re
manded to jail. Now, whilst Sammy is
in nowise responsible for this mad
freak of his fond son, the people, with
that characteristic aptness to mix the
two together, hesitate —bedad, some
flatly refuse—to affix their sprawling
autographs upon the several hundred
petitions his Excellency to “revoke
the suspension of Gov. Sam Bard.”
Therefore John’s unwise action last
night threw cold water on his father’s
efforts to save his five thousand a year
salary as postmaster. The prominent
Republicans have sent on petitions to
Washington urging the commissioning
of your Augusta man, Conley.
Many are curious to know the cause
of Bard’s removal. So ardent in his
affection for Grant, so loyal to his par
ty, and—it must be confessed—the able
manner in which he has conducted the
affairs of the office, would, it seem%
give him a long lease on the appoint
ment; but an office under the present
regime is like the festive flea under the
linger. Grant’s profile still ornaments
his office room; the legend, “let us
have peace,” still stands out boldly on,
his letter-heads, and he dings to the
President with all the tenderness of a
strawberry tendril—yet he stands
upon the ragged edge of anxiety and
knows not what day will shut him out
from the sweetness of his appointment
and send him adrift to start anoth
er paper with government adver
tising. In the meantime, we sigh for a
respite from the struggle, and hold our
breath in readiness to cry amen to
Grant’s never-failing wisdom.
the troubles of the ninth.
Was there ever a more transparent
fraud than a nominating convention?
Give us the old-fashioned, fair-play
way of pushing out our best men, and
deciding the matter at the polls. The
Ninth District want a man for the
Forty-fourth Congress to fill the place
occasioned by the death of Hon. Gar
nett McMillan. The people of that
district have sent delegates to Gaines
ville to nominate a man . Besides Ben
Hill and Bell, there are several hank
erers for the office, and heaven knows
how many more are lying in wait to
spring out from party obligations aud
go on their own hook for it. This con
vention has balloted and balloted, and
yet they have not made themselves
happy in the choice of a man. Hill
says there is fraud in it. Of course
there is. Hill says ho will strike out
and run if he fails to get that nomina
tion. Of course he will. He wants the
office muchly, but he ought to have
eome square out and said so at the
first, and not have submitted his name
to tricking conventions. Guess Ben
was a little afraid to venture out too
far. You know there has lurked for a
long time a bothersome humble-bee in
Ben’s political pantalettes, and his
past record wouldn’t carry him safely
over the election breakers. But wheth
er the people elect him or not, they
ivatit him. He has brains, even If he
lacks the necessary judgment, and
hang me if brains isn’t exactly what
we need just now. None of your fos
siliferous mummied brains, but real,
live, working brains!
The day of election (May sth) is fast
drawing nigh, and the Ninethers have
but little time to centre on a man and
elect him, if they should accidentally
centre on one. They have been fooling
away a deuced lot of valuable time.
The convention failed to agree, and
Hill’s friends earnestly advise him to
take the field at once. If he does, he
is certain to be elected.
BRIBERY.
Atlanta, in imitation of cities of lar
ger growth, now lets fly the cork from
her municipal bottle, and discovers cor
ruption among her city officials. Capt.
Tom Jones (rather too common a name
for a romance of this kind—wholly un
like Tweed, Garvin, et al.) comes to the
front with charges, which if proven,
will oust from the people’s love and
admiration Messrs. John F. Morris and
J. B. Goodwin, who now hold office as
Counoilmeu. Tommie asserts most
positively that he contracted with them
to secure him the office of Chief of
Police aud that he actually paid a por
tion of this naughty money to one of
the above named gentlemen. A special
session of Council to pan out this mat
ter has been put down, when the facts
of the case wil be 'presented, and the
matter settled to suit the people.
fire.
A $5,000 lire occurred here to-night.
Two dwellings, one on Whitehall and
one on Decatur street, were totally de
stroyed. Some insurance. Verily the
incendiary is at work. Whitehall street
is a ragged mouument to his torch, and
the smile of the fire fiend is simply
awful.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
The boys in black have announced
their Intention to hold a grand glorifi
cation (?) centennial jamboree on the
3d of May, in celebration of the pas
sage of the “odorous swivel rights
bill.” They propose, per handbill, to
have as orators Fred Douglass, John
M. Langston, Hon. R. B. Elliott, Hon.
H. M. Turner and Dr. H. E. Baldwin,
and other youths to fame unknown.
The hewgag will be sounded aud the
buzfuz giggled to the tune of “John
Brown’s body is a moulderin’ in the
ground,” and. they will wind up their
foolishness with a grand supper at
James’ Hall.
LITERARY.
Prof. William Henry Peck, who was,
I believe, President of the Masonic
Female College at Covington in ante
bellum days, is coming to Atlanta to re
side. The Professor has written more
“Bloody Hand” and “Scalping Dick"’
romances than any man now living.
Confessedly a man of rare intellec ual
abilities, he has never soared t > any
thing above the average New York
Weekly stories, and has given nothing
to the world that was pure enough to
place him among the best literati, a
position his talents could at any time
place him. However, we extend the
hand of welcome, simply because r?e
want literary men in our midst. He
will sail from New York on the 24th,
aud perhaps favor your city with a
day’s stay.
olub sauce.
The little bird with which our Judge
Hopkins toys and dandles occasionally,
has circled around the private social
(?) club rooms of our bon ton gamblers
aud has inflicted a moral and distress
ing surprise to some of our best (?)
citizens. You see, when Col. So and So
wants to try his luck with the ivories
aud stimulate himself with the ardent,
his sensitive conscience deters him
from going into the regular faro bank,
so he pokes his little key into the pri
vate keyhole of his club room, and
there tackles the tiger in an aristo
cratic and respectable way. Believing
that gambling is gambling, justice
loving Judge Hopkins sends out his
little bird, and in the neatest way you
could think of, he has a grand jury
busy making out true bills against
these club room loiterers. It is said
that no less than one hundred true
bills have been found against the bon
ton gamblers, and during the next sit
ting of the Superior Court there will
be some tall surprises for offenders, to
say nothing of the annihilating sur
prise in store for their society—upper
crusted families. The professional
gambler is in ecstasies. He has felt
the lash so often on his own back, he
now grins at the prospect of seeing it
well applied to others.
DOTS.
Anna Dickinson lectures here Mon
day night. John E. Owens, in “ So
lon Shingle,” Friday and Saturday.
Strawberries tint the air and we smoke
our pipes over them at a cent apiece.
The (s)eent is about all your corres
pondent can stand until they get
cheaper. Roanoke.
To Passengers and Shippers.
the present or during the heavy
movements of Fruits and Vegetables,
the Steamships “Georgia” and “South
Carolina” will sail from Charleston on
TUESDAYS, instead of Wednesdays, as
heretofore: to be followed by the "Cham
pion” and on alternate
Saturdays. _For Stite Rooms to New
York, Liverpool or Glasgow, with dia
grams, apply to the undersigned.
Freights to all points North and East
guaranteed as Low as by any other com
peting Line. W. STEVENSON,
Agent of Steamship Lines,
apr23-3 No. 22i Broad street.
Reduction of Freights
Via Charleston, W. C.
rj!HE following Reductions have been
I- made on FREIGHTS from Now York,
Boston, Providence. Philadelphia and Bal
timore to Augusta. Ga., commencing from
point of shipment on April 2oth :
Rate ou Sixth Class articles from Now
Yerk, Boston, Providence and Philadelphia
reduced from 60c. to 50c. per 100 lbs.
From Baltimore, 65c. to 45c. per 100 lbs.
Arrow and other Ties, Bagging and
Gunny Bags, will be reduced from Fifth
Class to Sixth Class.
S. S. SOLOMONS,
Superintendent S. S. R. E.
F. K. HDGER, Agent. apr23-5
Auction Sale of the Noted
Trotting Horse, Gen. Hood.
BY consent of the parties interested, a
sale at Auction of the Trotting Horse,
GEN. HOOD, will take place at the Fair
Grounds, on TUESDAY’, the 27th inst., at 4
o’clock p. m., for a division between the
owners.
LEWIS JONES AND OTHERS.
apr.3-i __
TAKE NOTICE.
GEOBGIA— Morgan County.
'VroriCE is hereby given that Capt. J. M.
Xl BURNS is no longer my agent, for
any purpose whatever.
apr22-law4 MARY W. ANDERSON.
Groceries! Groceries!
WE respectfully call the attention of
consumers to the following lino of
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES:
MAGNOLIA HAMS,
BREAKFAST BACON,
BEEF TONGUES, MACKEREL,
PICKLED PORK AND BEEF,
SUGARS, all grades,
CAN GOODS, CRACKERS, all kinds,
MUSTARDS, Gordon & Dilworth’s
Preserved and Brandy FRUITS,
Cross & Blackwell’s CHOW CHOW and
MIXED PICKLES,
PEARL GRITS,
WHE ATEN GRITS,
Irish and American OAT MEAL,
JAVA, LAGUIRA and RIO COFFEE,
PARCHED JAVA and RIO, and
GROUND JAVA COFFEE.
Also a full assortment of
Wood and Willow Ware.
TUBS, BUCKETS, MEASURES,
Durrel Cover* and Churns.
13ASKETH.
Ladies’ Work and Traveling Baskets.
Work Stands,
Fruit and Flower Baskets,
Market, Clothes and Hamper Baskets.
FEATHER DUSTERS, all sizes.
HAIR BROOMS aud DUSTERS, COB
WEB BRUSHES, BLACKING BRUSHES,
SCRUB BRUSHES, long and short handle.
WRAPPING PAPER aud PAPER BAGS.
JAMES G. BAILIE & BRO.
We are agents for
PERRIN’S HONEY,
Put up in Tumblers and Cans, from to 5
lbs. each.
Also MAPLE SY’RUP in half and one
gallon cans. | sq>r2l-tf
NOTICE to PLANTERS and
GAMERS.
A FEW Hundred Bushels GENUINE
CLAYED COW PEAS for SEED.
Those who are in want will call early and
leave their orders. The PEAS will be here
by the middle of May.
Apply to M. HYAMB,
apr2o-5 Mclntosh street
FRUITLANI) NURSERIES,
AUGUSTA. GA.,
P -T. BERCKMANB, Prop’r.,
ORDERS for TREES, PLANTS, BULBS.
SEEDS, etc., left with the undersigned
will be promptly attended to
. „ , GEO. SYMMS,
dec6-3m-m Agent.
Safe Deposit Boxes.
IhE NATIONAL BANK of Augusta is
prepared to lease small SAFES Inside its
Fire Proof Vault, at moderate rates, for the
reception of Bonds, Securities, Deeds, Le
gal Documents, Plate, Coin, Jewelry, and
valuables of every description.
G. M. THEW,
je26-ly* Cashier.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
MEMORIAL DAyI
The Order of Procession on MONDAY,*
26th inst.—MEMORIAL DAY—will be as
follows, and the Line will be formed
promptly at 2:30 p. m. on that day, at the
Bell Tower:
Order of Procession.
First Division.
Richmond Hussars.
United States Post Band.
Augusta Independent Volunteer Battl’n.
Police force of Augusta.
Deutscher Sehuetzen Club.
Second Division.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Knights of Pythias.
Different Societies of the City and Coun
ty—National, Benevolent and Religious.
Good Templars.
The Gornet Band of the Bremond Speci
alty Combination.
Augusta Fire Department and Independ
ent Fire Companies of Augusta.
Third Division.
Soldiers of the Late Confederate Armies.
The Survivors' Association.
Citizens Generally.
Members of the Bar of Richmond County.
Medical Faculty and Society.
Judges and Officials of City and County
Courts.
Clergy of City and County.
The Masonic Frateruiiy.
Fourth Division.
Representatives from Richmond County
in the General Assembly.
Mayor,City Council, and Clerk of C ouncil.
Orator of the Day, escorted by Commit
tee of Ex-Confederate Officers.
Officers of the Ladies’ Memgrial Associa
tion, and Ladles generally.
Organizations and individuals intending
to participate in the Procession are re
quested to report punctually at 2:15 p. in.,
as follows:
First Division—On northeast corner of
Greeno and Jackson streets, to Col. Wilson.
Second Division—On the north side of
Greene, midway between Mclntosh and
Jackson s'reets, to Capt. Eve.
Third Division—On the south side of
Greene street, in front of the Augusta Free
School, to Col. Snead.
Fourth Division—On the south side of
Greene street, iu front of the Baptist
Church, to Maj. Craig.
Route Of the Procession,
Up Greene to Gumming, through Gum
ming to Broad, and down Broad to the
Central Hotel, where the CORNER STONE
of the Confederate Monument will be laid
by the Masonic Fraternity, and an Oration
be delivered by GEN. O. A. EVANS.
The Procession will then re-form and
march down Broaa to Elbert, through El
bert to Watkins, down Watkins to the City
Cemetery and there be dismissed after
witnessing the Decoration by the ladies of
the Confederate Soldiers’ Graves.
Capt. PRITCHARD, in command of a
detachment of the late Washington Artil
lery, stationed at the intersection of Broad
and Mclntosh streets, will Are a salute of
Thirteen Guns—one for each of the late
Confederate States—as the Procession en
ters Broad street.
-A.Haista.nt NTarghals oi the Day.
Col. It. J. Wilson, Col. Claiborne Snead,
Lieut. James L. Fleming, Maj. Wm. Craig,
Capt. Frank Tiraberlake, Jas. P. Verdery,
Esq.; Capt. F. E. Eve, Capt. L, A. Piequet,
and Capt. M. F. Nelson.
Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Citizens
Generally are requested to organize in front
of the Augusta Free School, at 2 p. m.
By direction of the Officers of the Ladies’
Memorial Association.
J. V. H. ALLEN,
apr24-2 Marshal of the Day.
Girardey’-s Opera House.
MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 26TH.
GRAND
Instrumental Concert!
BY TUB OBIiEBBATED
Columtoia, Post Baud,
FOB THE BENEFIT OF TUB
Riclnno 11 and Hussars !
PROGRAMME.
FAIiT FIBST.
1. Contennial Grand March Downing
2. Overture—Fra Diavolo Auber
3. Waltz—“On the Beautiful Blue
Danube ” .Strauss
4. Golden R bin Polka . Maier
5. Caratina—A La Favorita Donizetti
PART SECOND.
6. Overture—La Dame Blanche .Boieldien
7. Song—“ Departed Days” Hags
8. Serio-Comic Pot Pourri Ringlebm
2. Quadrille—Without a Title Strauss
10. Vi vat Galop and Dixie
Members of the Richmond Hussars have
a limited number of Tickets for Sale-
Price, 75 cents. No Reserved Seats. Con
cert will commence at 8 o’clock.
The Bremond Specialty Com bination, who
were to have appeared at the Opera House
on the above night, having generously re
signed possession of the same for the Ben
efit of the Hussars, the Hussars embrace
the present opportunity to acknowledge
the kindness, and announce the appearance
of the Bremond Troupe Tuesday and Wed
nesday Evenings, April 27th and 28th.
apr24-2 _____
FOR RENT,
The RESIDENCE OF MR. JAMES W„
BONES, on the Sand Hills. Apply to
BONES, BROWN <fc CO.
apr24-sutulwthsa2wlm
LIME. LIME. LIME.
Alabama and Georgia lime at Kiln
price by car load. We have special
rates of freight to points in North and
South Carolina and Georgia. We sell low
by barrel and car load. Our Alabama Is 98
per cent. Carbonate Lime. None purer
In the world and white as snow. Orders
solicited.
SOIPLE & SONS,
api 21-10 Atlanta, Ga.
The Housekeepers’ Friend.
WILSON’S CELEBARfED INSECT
POWDER AND POWDER GUN is
thus testified to by our own citizens:
Augusta, Ga., January let, 1876.
The undersigned hereby certify that they
have used the Powder and Powder Gun of
Mr. Thomas R. Wilson, for destroying
Roaches, Boil Bugs, Insects, etc., and heart
ily recommend it for the purpose for which
it is used.
E. W. HAItKER, M. D., Dentist, 187 Broad
street
F. S. MOSHER, Augusta Hotel.
PLATT BROS., Furniture Dealers.
J. T. <fc L. J. MILLER, Grocers, 216 Broad
R. M. ROBERDS, Mansion House.
JACOB RENTZ.
P. MAYVGIobo Hotel.
MBS. W. W. THOMAS, Central Hotel.
MRS. E. A. MAHARREY.
CHARLES SPAETH.
TELFAIR & JACKSON.
For sale by
J. H. ALEXANDER,
apr22-7 Wholesale and Retail Agent.
NOTICE.
Change of Schedule on the
Macon & Augusta R. R.
ON and after SUNDAY, April 18, 1875,
aud until further notice, the NIGHT
TRAIN on the Macon and Augusta Rail
road, rum ing between Augusta and Ma
con, will be discontinued.
S. K. JOHNSON.
aprlß-7 Superintendent.
ANALYSIS
OF THE
LAGER BEER
fhom
E. ANIIEUSEK & CO.,
131 ST. I .OTIS. MISSOURI!
U. S. NAVAL LABORATORY, I
New York, September, 1874. J
The “ST. LOUIS LAGER BEER” of E.
Anheuser &, Cos., at St. Louie, Mo., having
been analysed, gave the following results:
Specitie Gravity 1.02 per cent.
Extracted Matter 7.32
Carbonic Acid 0.16 “
Alcohol 4.89 “
Ashes 0.24 “
From these figures it will be readily seen
that the “St. Louis Lager Beer” proves a
heavier specific weight than all other beer
now manufactured m our market; its sub
stance of carbonic acid is superior even to
the Scotch Ale, Salvator Beer, Braun
schweiger Mumme and Munehener Lager
Beer; its substance of alcohol comes near
the “Munehener Hofbrau,” and its extract
substance proves to be between the “Zacherl
Doppelbier” and the “Salvator Beer.”
CONCLUSIONS FROM THE ANALYSIS OF THE
QUALITY:
The quality of this Beer, as shown by our
analysis, is superior by its pureness, as no
extraneous matter could be detected. The
largo amount of extract substance (malt be
ing used in extraordinary great quantities,
which, having been roasted, gives the beer
that peculiar flavor of fresh bread) makes
this beer a very nourishing and highly re
commendable drink for medicinal purposes.
Another good quality of this beer is that it
keeps in good condition under all circum
stances. W. C. CONRAD, ,
Chemist of U. S, Naval Laboratory.'
The above Lager Beer for sale in Pints or
Quarts. i£. K. stllM K.iDEll,
ap!4-lm Agent for the Brewery.
FOR SALE !
rpHE following desirable PROPERTY, be-
JL longing to the estate of the late Robt.
Campbell, is offered for sale on reasonable
terms by the Executors:
The three-story Brick Houso, corner of
Mclntosh and Reynolds streets.
The two-story Brick House on Reynolds
street, second dwelling below the Christian
Church.
The two-story Brick Offices on Mclntosh
street, next to Heard’s corner.
One Vacant Lot, on Mclntosh street,next
to property last named.
The Fine Brick Double Ottiee on Mcln
tosh street, occupied by Messrs. J. J.
Doughty <fc Cos.
The Brick Storehouse, adjoining Mus
grove’s Warehouse,on Mclntosh street.
The Double Tenement Dwelling, corner
of Watkins and Twiggs streets.
Three desirable Building Lots, corner of
Taylor and Mclntosh streets.
FAIRVIEW, the former residence of Mr.
Campbell, on the Sand Hills, with 30 acres
of land. s
One hundred acres of Pine Land near
the U. S. Arsenal.
Apply to J. B. BEAN,
National Exchange Bank.
Also, For Sale,
The Dwelling and Lot. containing six
acres of land, known as the Clark property,
in the villago of Summerville, opposite the
residence of Frank H. Miller, Esq.
npr2o-tilmay2l
OFFICE OF RECEIVER OF )
MACON AND BRUNSWICK R. R.,'
Macon, Ga., April 7,1876. )
IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDER
issu and from the Executive Department
of this State, published herewith will be
sold on the FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE
NEXT, between the hours of 10 o’clock a.
m. and 4 o’clock p. m., at the depot of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company,
in the city of Macon, Bibb county. Georgia,
at public outcry, to the highest bidder, the
MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD,
extending from the city ol Macon to Bruns
wick, in Glynn county, Georgia—a distance
of one hundred and eighty-six miles, with
the branch road extending from Cochran to
Hawkinsvillo, a distance of ton miles, and
about five miles of side track on the main
line of the road, and about two miles of
extension in the said city of Brunswick,
together with the franchises, equipments
and other property of said company, con
sisting of its road-bed superstructure, right
of way, motive power, rolling stock, de
pots, freight and section houses, machine
shops carpenter shops, grounds, furniture,
machinery, tools and materials connected
therewith.
Also, the following property of said com
pany, to-wit: Tracts or parcels of laud
Nos. 1,3 and 4in District Twenty, and Nos.
124,126,127, 144,145, 146, 151, 105, 156 and 157,
in District Twenty-one, all lying and being
in Pulaski county, Georgia, and containing
each two hundred and two and a half (202%)
acres.
Also, a certain tract or parcel of land in
the city of Brunswick, known as the Wharf
Property of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad Company.
Also, one-half (undivided) of lots Nos. 3
and 4 of block 37, in the city of Macon,
known in the localitv as the Guard House
property.
Also, city lots Nos. 1, 2 and a portion of
No. 3, in square No. 55, in the city of Macon.
Also, a tract or parcel of land in said city
of Macon, there known as “Camp Ogle
thorpe,” containing ten acres, more or
less.
Also, city lots Nos. 1 and 7, in block No.
10, in southwest Macon.
Also, city lots Nos. 3 and 5, In square No. •
13, in saiu city of Macon, v/ith the buildings
thereon.
Also, tractor paicel of land No. 217, in
District Three, Wayne county, Georgia,
and four hundred and forty shares of stock
in the Southern aud Atlantic Telegraph
Company, certificate 1,009.
The foregoing property will be offered
for cash, for the bonds of this State, or the
first mortgage bonds of the company, en
dorsed in behalf of the State under Ihe
authority of the act approved December
3d, 1866. E. A. FLEWELLEN,
Receiver Macon and Brunswick R. R.
Executive Department, )
State op Georgia, -
Atlanta, April 6,1875.)
Whereas, By virtue of tho authority
ifiven in the second section of an act en
titled, “An act to extend the aid of the
State to the completion of the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad, and for otner pur
poses,” approved December 3,1866, an order
was issued from this department on the 2d
day of July, 1873, seizing: and taking posses
sion of all the property of said railroad
company, and placing the same in the
hands or an agent for the State, to be held,
managed, and the earnings applied in ac
cordance with the provisions of said second
section of said act; and,
Whbbbas, Among other provisions- of
said second section of said act, it is ex
pressly provided that, after the seizure of
all the property of said company, as afore
said, the Governor “shall sell the said road
and its equipments, and other property
belonging to said company, in such mann r
and at such times as in his judgment mav
best subserve the interest oi all concerned
and having become satisfied that it will be
for the boat interest of the State and all
concerned that all the property of tho
company seized under said order he suld at
an early day, it is, therefore,
Ordered, That all the property seized as
aforesaid, now in the possession of Edward
A. Elewelien, Receiver of the proper tv of
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Com
pany, under said order, be sold to the high
est bidder, at public outcry, at the depot of
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Com
pany, in the city of Macon, between the
hours of 10 o’clock a m. and 4 o’clock p.
nn, on the first Tuesday in June next.
The said sale will be made for cash, for
bonds of this State, or the iirst mortgage
bonds of tho company, indorsed in behalf
of the State, uuder the authority of the act
approved December 8,1866. It is further
Ordered. That the said Edward A. Biew
ellen, as Receiver aforesaid, make out an
advertisement under this order, setting
forth with requisite particularity ail the
property to be sold as aforesaid, juid pub
lish the same in such public gazettes in this
tato and in the city of New York as in his
judgment will give proper publicity to said
sale.
Given under my hand and the seal of the
Executive Department, at the Capitol, in
Atlanta, the day and year above written
JAMES M. SMITH, Governor.
By the Governor.
J. W. Warren, Secretary Executive De
partment, apr!4-law7t
CLOSING OUT Sat.tr
gains can be had during the week in Boots
Shoes. All stock remaining will be
sold at public outcry for CASH,, at the
SJ°, No. 309 Broad street, next above
the Planters’ Hotel, on Thursday Morning,
April 22d, at 10 o’clock—sale to continue
from day to day, beginning at same hour
until stock is ail sold. Also, will be sold,
at same time and place, the Fixtures ana
Store Furniture. ADOLPH BRANDT,
&priß-ti!22 Assignee,
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