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TRAVELERS’ GUIDE.
G ADSDEN AND RED LINE STEAM
ERS— U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. 11. Elliott. Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday .8 a m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .6 a m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .8 a m
Arrive at Rome Thursday aud Sunday 7 p ra
Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Rome Mondays aud Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive Gadsdeu Tuesdays aud Fridays— 2am
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays unci Fridays 9am
As rive at Wednesdays and Saturdays 7pm
Oilice No. 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telephonic connection.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
XV. T. SMITH, Geu’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On aud after Monday, March 19,1883, the trains
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN.—MORNING.
Leave Cartersville 9:45 a m
Arrive at Stilesboro ....... 10:17 am
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:85 a in
Arrive at Rock mart 11:10 am
Arrrive at Cedartown 12:05 a m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 2:05 p m
Arrive at Rock mart 2:58 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 3:38 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 3:51 p m
Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm
PASSENGER TRAIN.-EVENING.
Leave Cartersville 4:30 p m
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville . . . . - . s:22pui
Arrive at Roekmart o.'oo p m
Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 p m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown am
Arrive at Roekmart 0:53 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2g a ra
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:40 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:20 am
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
no. 1.
Leave Rome 6:10 a m
Arrive at Kingston 8:55 am
NO. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m
no. 3.
Leave Rome 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston 5:30 p m
no. 4.
Leave Kingston 5:55 pm
Arrive at Rome 0:50 p m
no. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00 am
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
no. 6.
Leave Kingston 9:20 a in
Arrive at Rome 10:10 a ra
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and G will run Sundays only.
No. 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T..
Va. A Ga. R. R.. for points south.
EBEN 11 ILLYER, President.
•L A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER —UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:30 p m
Leave Kingston 4:55 pm
Leave Dalton 0:34 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 p m
NIGfIT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Dalton 4:32 pm
Leave Kingston 6:03 p in
Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 p m
UAY PASSENGER—CP.
.leave Atlanta 7:00 a m
Lea vp Cartersville 8:55 am
Leave Kingston 9:2lam
Leave Dalton 10:56 a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 a in
Leave Dalton 9:46 am
Leave Kingston 11:15 am
Leave Cartersville 11 :42 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm
ROME EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm
Arrive at Cartersville pm
Arrive at Kingston 7:00 pm
Leave Kingston 8:06 a m
Arrive at Cartersville 3:32 am
Arrive at Atlanta . . . . . 10:37 am
Don’t Forget
That you can be suited in a clock at
J, T. Owens.
VOLUME V.
Diamond Dyes, only 10 cents per package, a
Word’s drug store.
Farmers and others desiring a genteel
lucrative agency business, by which $5
to .S2O a day can lie earned, send address
at once, on postal, to 11. C. Wilkinson &
Cos., l!b"> and I!>7 Fulton street, New
York- dec2l-6m.
Lamps, beautiful, elegant lamp , sold every
where at $1.50 to $1.73 are sold by Curry atsl to
sl.lO.
Ladies
Hive yon seen that beautiful line of lamps
displayed at Curry’s Lrug gtore? Nothing like
them either in quality op price ever offered in
Cartersville. The prices are extremely low.
Another big lot of Wizard Oil just opened at
Curry’s, and everybody is g -mg to “try another
bottle or two’’ aud all it costs is four shillings.
C'urr> sells more cigars and b itter cigars than
any man iu Cartersville.
Just received at Curry’s the largest lot of paint
and whitewash brushes ever before seen in Car
tersvillc, worth from 15 cents up.
Ice cold soda water aud ginger ale, drawn
from one of Tufts’ Arctic Apparatus, can be had
at Cel Word’s drug store.
Cel Word’s Horse and Gattle Powders give
perfect satisfaction. Try them.
RRADFIELD’S
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BRADFI ELD’S
Female Regulator.
Is a special remedy for all diseases pertaining to
the Womb, and any intelligent woman can cure
herself by following the directions. It is espe
cially efficacious in cases of suppressed or pain
ful menstruation, the Whites and Partial Pro
lapsus. It affords immediate relief, and perma
nently restores the Menstrual Functions. Asa
remedy to be used during that critical period
known as “Change of Life,” this invaluable
preparation has no rival!
HOLMES’ LINIMENT
Is an INESTIMABLE BOON to all child bear
ing Women; a real blessing to suffering females;
a true
MOTHER’S FRIEND.
When applied a few weeks before confinement it
will produce a safe and quick delivery, control
pain, and alleviate the usual dread, agonizing
suffering, beyond the power of language express
PRYOR’S OINTMENT
Is a sure and speedy cure for Blind or Bleeding
Piles, Sores, Ulcers, Tumors, Fistula, Burns
Corns, Felons, Sore Nipples, etc. Its effects are
simply marvelous, and it is an inexpressible
blessing to all afflicted with either of the above
complaints. Try it!
For circulars, testimonials, aud full particu
lars, address Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer
of these THREE GREAT REMEDIES!
J. 3RADFISLD,
No. 108 South-Prvor Street, ATLANTA, G A.
:&45,00 S-X5.00
COTTON 'CLEANERS.
Davis’ Seed Cotton Cleaners
tCheapcst and Best in the World.
PRICE ONLY FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
WARRANTED TO IMPROVE DIRTY,
trashy or poddy cotton from $5 to S2O per
bale, and perfectly white clean cotton $1 per
bale, and to make one-lourteenth to one-thirti
eth more lint out of the same amount of seed cot
ton; saves saws cleans 13 to 17 bales per day;
pays for itself in day; one-half horse power
will run it; can be run in connection with any
horse, water, or steam power. Only two bear
ings to oil. If machine does not do all claimed
for it, re-ship at my expense. Sent on five day’s
trial to responsible parties. Warranted to be
better than any cleaner and do more and better
work. A 14-year-old boy can with it clean cot
ton for 80-saw gin.
Send for circulars, etc. Agents wanted in
every town ra Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Texas. W. L. GOLDSMITH,
nov9-3m. Atlanta, Georgia.
tW It IT A L IT SS r r ATE
ACEN C Y .
Towers Ac Cos.,
ROME, GEORGIA,
A GENERAL REAL ESTATE Busi
ness and look after wild lands in any part of the
Cherokee section.
INTO MEXICO.
An interesting; Letter In Regard to the
Land of the Greasers.
We are moving swiftly notv. Our road
is narrow guage, but is as comfortable, as
well equipped and makes as good time as
any of the broad guage roads over which
we have passed. Rest and refreshments
have cheered us up, and we are eagerly
looking out to see some new scene or
discover some object of interest.
INTERPRETERS.
There are on board with ns several
Mexicans, returning from the convention
at Waco, who speak English well and
seem to be posted in regard to the differ
erent localities in sight and the history
of the country on either side of the rail
road. One of them, pointing to the west,
said, “Do you see that mountain?” and,
looking m the direction indicated, we
saw a curiously shaped mountain that
seemed to spring right up out ot the
plain. It was separated from the range
of mountains near by by a canyon and
resembled in shape a truncated cone.
Said he: “There are twenty-four square
leagues of level land on that mountain.
There is a valuable cattle ranche on it,
owned by an American named Milmo.”
Then, turning our gaze eastward, our in
terpreter pointed to a spot on the moun
tains in that direction, and said: “In
1770 there was a nourishing mining
town there named San Iguana. The
Spaniards and natives worked the mines,
which were said to bo exceedingly rieli
in silyer. The entire town was destroyed
by a band of North American Indians,
who were out on a maraudng expedition.
Since that time no effort has been made
to re-open these mines until recently.
Now they are in the hands of a Colorado
company, and we may conclude that, if
anything is to be found in them, it will
not be long before it is done.” Certainly
the American is übiquitous.
Our interpreter called our attention
next to a very curious, and in some re
spects, valuable plant, a species of the
THE FREE PRESS.
Aloe, called Maguey. The natives use
the leaves for covering their houses, and
the root yields a spirituous liquor called
Pulgne. Lest some might build false
hopes upon the capabilities of this plant,
let me say, it flourishes only in its native
soil.
Five diflerent kinds of cactus are to be
seen now, the most noticeable of which
is the one called Spanish Dagger. The
cactus, which we know as prickly pear,
grows here to an enormous size, bunches
sometimes growing higher than a man
can reach. The Mexican teamster, when
lie can do no better, makes himself a fire,
then gathers these immense cactus leaves
and, by burning the thorns off, procures
a good food for his oxen. Cattle never
eat them with the thorns upon them un
less pressed by hunger.
At this point the valley is about twen
ty-five miles wide. The railroad runs
nearly in the centre all the way up
to Monterey.
The atmosphere is so transparent that
it is hard for our guide to convince us
that those mountains just out yonder are
twelve miles off.
TROUBLE AGAIN.
This time it is a dinner house at a way
station called Bustamante. One of our
Mexican brethren, without thinking of
the responsibility, telegraphed to this
place that about two hundred men would
want dinner; but when we readied there
only about a dozen wanted dinner, for
most of us had eaten while waiting at
Lampazos for the Monterey train. When
those who ate offered to pay mine host
he refused to received it, lie said that
f\vo hundred dinners had been ordered
by telegraph, he hud prepared them and
wanted pay for them. Some said, “We
will not pay for what we did not get;”
but others said, “lie must be paid.”
“Yes” said our Mexican brother, “if lie
is not paid I will be put in jail.” We
took up a collection (that is a way with
preachers, j T ou know), and paid the Mex
ican dtoougli to cover the loss of all in his
whole establishment. The man had
opened, it seemed, every can containing
fish, fish or fowl that his house afforded,
and had it on the table in some shape.
There was nothing hot about the dinner
but the coffee. At Bustamante we are
101 kilometres from Monterey, and be
sides, are two hours behind time.
THINGS BY THE WAY.
The conductor promises to make his
best time as soon as he turns the grade,
which is not far off. llow desolate this
whole region looks, it reminds me of
what Sheridan said in regard to the She
nandoah valley. Bird nor beast, it
seems, could cross the valley at this
point without carrying their rations. And
yet, in the distance, a hill is crowned
with a beautiful Catholic church. Who
worships there it seems hard to guess, as
the church is the only building ia sight.
A broad, smooth road leads up from the
valley to the church, and some of our
p irty say that worshippers sometimes go
up this hill on their hands and knees.
There must be some settlement in this
region somewhere, for at the last station
hacks were in waiting as if for passen
gers. Only two towns, however, were
visible from the railroad between the Rio
Grande and Monterey.
N'ght is coming on, and we are many
miles from Monterey. Our conductor is
redeeming his promise. We are making
fine time. The lights in the city gleam
in the distance, and ere long we are at
the depot. Here we are reminded that
baggage, in a foreign land, is examined
lest some contraband goods get in cus
tom free. Those who haye valises are
asked to deposit them until morning that
they maj r be examined. Streetcars meet
us, and we go up into the city to cur ho
tel, where our Mexican brethren and sis
ters are waiting to greet us. As soon as
we reach our destination, the welcome
invitation, “Walk right into supper,” is
heard. Then songs of praise are sung,
prayers and thanks offered to God, and
we lie down to sleep, perchance to dream,
until the morning. It. B. 11.
A LADY’S ENGINEERING.
A Trenton correspondent writes as fol
low s: “While so much has been written
about the Brooklyn bridge and those who
have had a share either in planning or
building it, there remains one whose
services have not been publicly acknow
ledged. A few days ago the New York
papers mentioned that Mrs. Washington
Roebling, the wife of the great engineer,
had driven the first team over the bridge,
but they did not state how fitting it was
that she should be accorded the honor.
’Since her husband’s unfortunate illness
Mrs. Roebling has filled his position as
chief of the engineering staff,’ says a
gentleman ot this city well acquainted
with the family. ‘As soon as Mr. Roe
bling was stricken with that peculiar
fever which has since prostrated him,
Airs. Roebling applied herself to the
study of engineering, and she succeeded
so well that in a short time she was able
to assume the duties of chief engineer.
Such au achievement is sometimes re
markable. To illustrate her proficiency
in engineering one instance will suffice.
When bids for the steel and iron works
for the structure were advertised for
three or four years ago, it was found that
entirely new shapes would be required,
such as no mill was tl en making. This
necessitated new patterns and repre
sentatives of the mills desiring to bid
went to New York to consult with Mr.
Roebling. Their surprise was great
when Mrs. Roebling sat down with them
and, ty her knowledge of engineering,
helped them out with their patterns and
cleared away difficulties that had for
weeks been puzzling their brains,’
Among those who have had occasion in
the course of business at various times to
test Mrs. Roebling’s engineering skill is
Frederick J. Slade, treasurer of the New
Jersey Steel and Iron Company, of
Trenton.”
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 14. 1883.
PROHIBITION DENOUNCED
By a Distinguished Divine of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church.
The Maryland State Temperance Alli
ance is excited, the churches are aroused,
and the Protestant Episcopal ministry
very much exercised throughout the en
tire state over the views recently ex
pressed by the Rev. William Kirkus, LL.
D., I). D., rector ot the Protestant Epis
copal Church of St. Michael and All An
gels, Baltimore, on Sunday laws and the
temperance question. Dr. Kirkus is an
Englishman, and what is known in the
Episcopal church as a high churchman.
He has had some lively discussions with
other ministers in this diocese relative to
ritualistic matters, and in defense of the
forms and ceremonies of the high church.
The Sunday law and temperance ques
tion have excited considerable pulpit and
secular discussion in Baltimore recently,
though the bold doctrines advanced by
Dr. Kirkus at his lecture at the Academy
of Music February 23 have astonished
everybody, and are causing great com
ment. The subject of his lecture was,
“Liberty, Individuality, and the Suicide
of Liberty.” Few persons who went to
hear him lecture that evening had any
idea that he was going to launch out as
boldly as he did, though he is said to be a
plain-spoken man. Some of the newspa
pers, not anticipating what the lecture
would be, had neglected it, and did not
fully report it. Some highly exaggerated
reports of it and the effect it created have
been telegraphed over the country, and
no doubt some things haye been attribut
ed to the reverend gentleman that he did
not say.
TOINTS IN THE LECTURE.
In opening his lecture he first discuss
ed the Sunday law, and said:
One of the avowed objects of the Sun
day laws is to promote a better observ
ance of Sunday, and incidentally to lili
the churches. Now, every clergyman has
a direct professional interest in this very
thing, possible, a yet profound
er and more unreserved sympathy with
the object which is intended to be.se
cured by the purpose of “prohibitory
laws”—l mean, of course, the diminution
and even the entire suppression of habits
of intemperance. The language of these
excellent people is often very grossly ex
travagant and more grossly uncharitable.
We are told that intemperance is almost
universal, and that it is not only inju
rious to health, but very largely destruct
ive of human life. And yet we are as
sured by careful and competent inquiries
that the average of longevity is higher
than it ever was. We are told that in
temperance is absolutely incompatible
with mental power, m- <t ..ny rate with
the retention of mental power to the end
of life, whereas it is a notorious fact that
in England, in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, there was scarcely
an officer in the army or navy, scarcely a
great statesman, scarcely a judge on the
bench, scarcely a brilliant wit, who was
not habitually and grossly intemperate;
and j’et many of them lived to extreme
old age in the full enjoyment of their
mental faculties, and died in harness.
We are sometimes told that every brewer,
and distiller, and wine-merchant, is a
wicked man, deliberately making gain
out of the damned souls of men, and
wholly indifferent to their awful doom.
Of this I must be permitted to say, in
plain English, that it is an impudent
and palpable falsehood.
PROHIBITION.
And now I come to the far more com
plicated case of the proposed—alas! in
not a few states or counties no longer
merely proposed, but enacted—the pro
posed law’s for the prohibition, under se
vere penalties, involving possible impris
onment, of the manufacture, importa
tion, sale or purchase of intoxicating
drinks; or, to put it more briefly, the
proposed law that everybody shall be
liable to fine or imprisonment who re
fuses to become a teetotaler. And note
that it is to be a law’, not advice or “god
ly admonition.” It is to be a command
of the sovereign power, and executed, If
resisted, by the whole physical force at
the command of that sovereign power.
This is, of course, intended by its advo
cates. And, indeed, if this were not in
tended, such a law, in addition to all its
other evils, would be too absurdly farci
cal to gain any large number of support
ers. A law left unexecuted is only a
clumsy device for bringing the whole
system of government into contempt. It
is, moreover, a law which, if it be carried
and made operative over the whole coun
try, would produce, with or without
bloodshed and riots, an enormous social
revolution.
TIIE BENEFICIARIES.
And for whose benefit are the proposed
laws intended? Clearly not for tiie ben
efit of their promoters. They need no
such laws. They promote them for this
very reason—that they are all pledged to
the absolute disuse of alcoholic stimu
lants. They are perfectly free to abstain
from.them. Nobody proposes a law com
pelling them to drink'. They have no
personal grievance, and the proposed law
would confer upon them no privilege
that they do not already possess. Legis
lation tor them of the kind proposed
would be as absurd as a law allowing
them to go to sleep or to kiss their wives
and children. It must be intended then
either to benefit nobody or to benefit the
people who do not want it, who regard
it as a monstrous tyranny, and who will
certainly resist it by every possible
means at their command. Now, what do
we mean, for the purpose of legislation,
by a man’s benefit? We mean, and can
mean, only, what he himself believes
will promote his happiness. No doubt
there are various kinds of happiness,
differing widely both in quality and In
amount. Not very long ago gangs of
well-meaning but fanatical women were
allowed to go loose in Some of our large
cities. They swarmed into lager-beer
saloons and liquor store?; they crowded
out the regular customers; they extem
porized In houses that did not belong to
them, and into which they had not the
slightest right to intrude, religious ser
vices, hymns, prayers, and impassioned
and often highly abusive discourses ad
dressed to the proprietors and servants
in their employ. Iu this remarkable be
havior they seemed to find intense enjoy
ment. It i? very safe to say that tens of
thousands of modest women in the Unit
ed States, who still retain some sense at
once of decency and of the ridiculous,
would rather have been shut up in jail
the rest cf their natural lives. Similarly
there are many hundreds of infatuated
human beings of both sexes who find a
mysterious pleasure iu drinking them
selves drunk.
REAL TEMPERANCE.
Again, theie are countless multitudes
who find pleasure, and who believe that
they obtain real benefit, in tiie moderate
use of aleholie stimulants. They have
wine or beer at dinner. They take it at
home, at the houses of their friends,
whenever and wherever they think prop
er. They please themselves, and they
are guilty neither of fraud nor violence
towards others. Many of them are de
voted Christians, patriotic citizens, and
among the most benevolent of mankind.
Now, what would be thought of a law
compelling everybodj’ to some particular
course of conduct because not he himself
but somebody else finds pleasure in it;
every woman, for instance, to perambu
late the streets with a gang of fanatics,
take forcible possession of other people’s
houses and interrupt the lawful business
of her neighbors; every man to drink
wine at dinner or to have a drunken
spree every six weeks? Such laws
would be impossible from their sheer
absurdity; but they would only differ in
degree, not at all in principle, from the
proposed prohibitory laws. For who is
to judge what is necessary to the real
ha'ppinesss of the whole population of
the United States in such a matter as
private habits of eating and drinking?
We have not only teetotalers among
us, but vegetarians and anti-tobacco so
cieties. These also have their views of
happiness and benefit. Some vegetarians
regard eating meat as a beastly vice,
others as a sin against God. They
would believe that they had conferred a
“benefit” upon anybody if they could
persuade him to live on cabbage and
eggs. Do we propose to allow them to
confer tbi3 benefit upon us by the
Aid of the policeman, and to send us
to jail if we eat a tenderloin
steak or a dozen oysters on the shell ?
And would the intrinsic absurdity of
such interference with our private habits
and private opinions be in the slightest
degree lessened if the vegetarians should
become a numerical majority? You
cannot get even a single wise man by
simply setting a million fools to play at
ballot-boxing.
INTEMPERANCE A CURSE.
Of course the proposers of these mon
strous laws set out their reasons at con
siderable length. But they seem really
to amount to no more than these—name
ly : Intemperance is a sin against God; it
is a gross extravagance and waste of
wealth that coul 1 be better employed ; it
is destructive to domestic happiness; it
tends to make men criminals, and is,
therefore, dangerous to society. I know
no reasons offered to us by the promoters
of prohibitory laws better than these.
Of course I have expressed them with
great simplicity, I am not appealing to
your feelings or prejudices, but to your
calm judgment. Is it within the legiti
mate functions of government to protect
men, by physical force, from all the pos
sible temptations or occasions of crime?
Is it even possible to accomplish this?
Would it be desirable if it were possible?
What kind of monastic institutions and
rigorous seclusions would not be neces
sary to protect men from every tempta
tion or occasion of breaking, for in
stance, the seventh commandment? I
think that I have disposed, then, of ev
ery one of the reasons actually urged in
favor of the prohibitory laws. It is not
within the legitimate functions of gov
ernment to prevent by general legisla
tion either sin against God, or extrava
gance or the disturbance of domestic
happiness.?, or all possible occasions o£
offenses against the public peace.
SUMMING UP.
In concluding, Dr. Kirkus summed up
as follows :
Now the amount contributed to the
leveuueoftbe country by “the liquor
trade” during the last twenty years is
$1,000,000,000, or $50,000,000 per annum.
This would be absolutely annihilated by
the prohibitory law. The population of
the United States is roughly estimated at
50,000,000. Every man, woman and
child, therefore, would, have to pay $1
per annum for some time to eoine as tiie
price of the privilege' of gratifying tiie
private crotchets of the most fanatical of
the temperance agitators. In fact, they
would have to pay more, foV the number
of persons able to pav taxes at all would
have been seriously diminished. The
brewers, distillers and wine merchants
would have been ruined. Their em
ployes—about 1,000,000 persons—would
be out of work. By far the largest pari
of their capital would have been annihi
lated, and a long time would be required
for the remunerative investment of the
poor fragment that might be recovered.
There was a large audience of leading
citizens present at the lecture, and Dr.
Kirkus was frequently applauded, though
a few of his hearers in their indignation
arose and left the hall. Since then the
ministers of all denominations excepting
the Catholics and Presbyterians have
been in an uproar. Columns upon col
umns of interviews have been prin ed in
the newspapers. Dr. Kirkus has been
called a crank, a rogue, a sensationalist,
and all sorts of names.
‘•JACK PLANE,’’
He Spends a Pleasant Day With the In
sane at Alltledgev Hie.
Savannah News.]
Macox, June 3.—At the invitation of
Col. L. X. Whittle, President of the
Board of Trustees of the Lunatic Asyl
um, l visited this noble institution on
Thursday last, it being the day appoint
ed tor the annual picnic of the inmates.
This institution is appropriately called
“Georgia’s greatest charity.” Xo one
after a careful or even a casual investi
gation, will dispute this declaration.
We were met at the door of the main
building by Dr. Thos. 11. Kenan, the
first assistant physician, the Principal.
Dr. T. O. Powell, being indisposed, and
not able to leave the room. Our party
was at once conveyed through the main
hall out into a large area, surrounded 1 y
high walls. Here was a beautiful grove
ot shade trees, a spacious dancing pavi
lion, a bush arbor, under which, as well
as under the shade trees, were long
tables. These tables were being tilled
with everything to satisfy the appetite.
Here we found four or five hundred pa
tients enjoying themselves in all manner
of ways. The coming of visitors w’as
welcomed by these unfortunates in the
most cordial manner. They gathered
around us, and shook hands with us and
gave every evidence of gratification at
our presence.
Through the courtesy cf Dr. Harris
Hall, Drs. Kenan and Hafliushed, we
were carried to the pit where twenty
six carcasses were being barbecued for
the. It was a novel sight.
Individually, I was turned over to
that most courteous of gentlemen, Capt.
Wilcox, the chief engineer of the institu
tion. He carried me through all the
machinery halls, explaining every piece
of machinery and the part it plays in the
running of this, great institution. So
numerous were the different pieces of
machinery that it would be impossible in
a newspaper letter to go into details.
But every belt aiul every wheel had its
peculiar work to perforin, and the lack
of which would be felt in every depart
ment of this immense institution. It re
quires an active brain as well as constant
labor to keep all this vast machinery in
motion and in working order. Captain
Wilcox moves about among it with as
much composure as one would look at a
sewing machine work. Yet his attentive
ear would catch the least jarring sound,
and his hand would touch the right
spring or lever to remedy it. lie showed
me a twenty-horse power engine made
in 1855 in the repair shop. It had under
gone a thorough overhauling, but was
doing as good work as when it first came
out of the shop.
The most interesting and in many re
spects the most important of all the ma
chinery is to be found in the kitchen.
It is one of the most complete outfits to
be found in any institution in the United
States. Capt. Wilcox visited a great
many of the largest asylums and public
institutions in the country before com
pleting his arrangements in this depart
ment, and availed himself of every im
provement known. The principal part
of the cooking is done bj r steam. The
machine for kneading the dough and
making biscuit and crackers is of tbe
latest pattern. The Captain is proud of
this department, and he has a right to be.
When we returned to the picnic ground
we found the crowd had greatly augment
ed b} r the incoming of patients and visi
tors. The dance and the music were at
their highest pitch.
This day is looked forward to by the
inmates with great anticipation and sa
tisfaction. I never saw children enjoy
a festal day more heartily; old and
young enter into the sports of the day,
and they are greatly benefited thereby.
And I must confess my own astonish
ment at the results. I entered the yard
expecting nothing but melancholy feel
ings as I looked upon these children of
distress, but this gloominess was dispell
ed by the cheerful faces and the gladness
with which the inmates enjoyed the oc
casion.
lam glad to learn that the authorities
are erecting an amusement hall, where
these unfortunates, as they begin to be
restored, can find congenial companion
ship and recreations calculated to hasten
their convalescence. This is a wise pro
vision, and the beneficial results can be
readily discerned by the improvement of
the patients.
Time will not permit me to speak of
the wonderful improvements going on,
and especially lor the colored depart
ment. The house is something like the
main building now occupied by the
whites. It is three stories high and has
over 500 rooms. The frontage is about
370 feet, and has two wings extending to
the rear of 271 feet. It will be furnish
ed comfortably. The ventilation, it is
said, will be superior to the building oc
cupied by the whites.
There are now all told 1,045 patients in
the asylum. The accommodations are
not equal to the demand. At times the
number of applications on file for ad
mittance reach • nearly 200. As soon as
the new building is ready for occupancy
there will be room to receive the unfor
tunates now confined in jails. The num
ber of dismissals are increasing which
shows what is being done for the per
manent cure of these unfortunate in
mates.
The recent visit of the joint commit
tee of the legislature has caused consi
derable comment. They made a very
thorough investigation, but the manage
ment are confident of being fully sus
tained. I know nothing of the points at
issue, and shall awipt the committee’s re
port in July, 'ahere was a meeting of
the board of trustees on Friday, and
perhaps some changes may be made.
I must acknowledge my indebtedness
to all the officers for their many courte
sies, and the day spent in the walls of
tbe insane asylum will long be.remem
bered. - .Tack Plank.
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NUMBER 47.
CEO HO l A NEWS.
l’erauibu I*l ing Pi omisruniisly Among
Pungent Pnragraphers.
RomeVnew Banii f church will coT
$17,000.
Wrightsville is without a marshal, and
feels the need of none.
In Brooks county Judge Morton has
1,100 melons in one patch.
Emanuel county expects a good reve
nue from her wool clip this year.
Daniel Dowse, aged 70, and Rachel
Jones, aged 7*5, of Burke county, were
married last week.
'l'he Waynesboro ehinamen are going
to leave the town. They made an un
successful effort to get away without
paying tlitir rent and clerk hire.
A movement is being made to have
the Twenty-third Georgia Regiment, one
of Gen. Colquitt’s old regiments, hold a
a reunion at Canton in July.
The fourth annual reunion ef the
Twenty-first Georgia regiment, and all
other soldiers of Campbell and Douglas
counties, will be held at old Campbellton
June 10. Ex-Governor Colquitt has
been invited to deliver the address.
Real estate sales are still the rage at
Atlanta.
An old blind man in Atlanta makes his
living by trapping birds, the screaming
of a young mocking bird acting as a
decoy.
John 11. James, of Atlanta, claims to
receive $22,000 in yearly rentals from
one of liis blocks in that city.
The recent heavy decline in the price
of turpentine had somewhat discouraged
distillers.
The survey of the Meridan route of
the Thomasville, Tallahassee and Gulf
railroad was completed last week.
In Macon on Tuesday, several sales
were effected. Ten shares of First Xa
tionai Bank stock, I. C. Plant, President,
sold at $139 50 a share; ten shares of
Exchange Bank, SIC 9 per share; ten
shares of Lanier House stock, $8 per
share; the brick store occupied by
Johnson & Carver at $8,300.
The Remizer says that thepmpers on
her beneficiary list now cost Emanuel
county about $l5O per month in the ag
gregate. Mr. John L. MeLemore pro
poses to take charge of the disabled
poor of the county for a period of three
years for $1,200 the first year—payable
quarterly—ami SI,OOO per annum for the
next two years. He proposes to furnish
them a good healthy home, substantial
food and clothing and all necessary med
ical attention. The county commission
ers are not empowered to touch this
matter without a recommendation from
the grand jury.
Culloden has an inventive genius in
the person of William J. Goodwyn, who
has invented a plow with a wheat sower,
cotton seed planter and cotton chopper.
He cla ms it will save the use of from
two to three mules and three to four
hands labor the year round. He lias
exhibited it to our most practical farmers
and they all agree with one accord that
it is the most perfect thing yet invented
for cultivating cotton. He has also in
vented a “car coupler,” which is auto
matic in all its actions, and will couple
on two cars regardless of difference in
height of bumpers.
The Macon Telegraph arul Messenger
says: “Col. Ira Jennings came in from
the Warrior district yesterday and re
ported that a negro man cropping for
himself on the Jones place out in War
rior became insane on Saturday. He
witnessed the hanging of Bailey and
Wimbish on Friday and walked back in
the heat of the day, a distance of thirteen
miles, and on Saturday became so vicious
that it became necessary to chain and
lock him up in a log house. lie bit his
wife fearfully and then fastened his
teeth i.ito the flesh of one ot his little
children, injuring it so severely that it
will hardly recover. His wife was plow
ing in the field w hen the fit struck him,
and he ran after her like a tiger after its
prey. After biting her and the child he
ran into the w'oods and was not seen
until Suuday morning, when he appear
ed with nearly all his clothing torn from
him, but as mad as the evening before.
The good people out in Warrior are
puzzled as to what can l>e done with
him.”
I)r. Alexander Means, one of the
oldest and most prominent citizens of
Oxford, died at that place on Wednesday,
June 6th. Ilis death, though not unex
pected in view of his long illness, has
cast a gloom over the community; for
he was admired and loved by all who
knew him on account of bis* affable
manners, tender and sympathetic feel
ings and generous and noble disposition.
He was actively engaged in the ministry
try for the greater part of his life, and
was thoroughly consecrated to his work,
lie bad been a diligent and constant
student, and was a man of extensive in
formation and great scholarly attain
ments. He was a remarkably fluent
speaker and Ins oratorical powers were
of a higli order. Among tlie offices of
honor and trust to Which be had been
called were the following; A professor?
ship in the Atlanta Medical College; the
presidency of the Southern Masonic
Female College at Covington; a prn
fessorshib in Emory College and also the
presidency of that institution. He was
quite an old man, being upwards of
eighty years of age, and yet he contin
ued to labor faithfully for the good of
man and the glory of God up to the time
at which, he was stricken down by dis
ease, seveial months ago. He was well
and favorably known abroad, and there
are thousands' who will b$ pained to
learn of his death.