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Olivet, Ky.] Physician, Surgeon,Obstetrician and (lynwcologlst, Cassville, Georgia. X. u —Special attention given to Surgery in a I its braches. ___ 0ct682-tf SHELBY ATT AWAY, A. M’ O It N E Y -AT - L A W, \\7ILL PRACTICE TN ALTNf IIE COURTS W of North Georgia. n _ Qt-jV Ufllee with Col. M. U. Stausell, Bank Block. ' ' ' . ; GEORGE 8. JOHNSON, A. r V XQIt NE Y-AX-LA W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE, West Side, Public Squaro. fpegr Will practice in all tho courts. R. W. MURPLtEY, X X ORNEY-AX - L A. \V, CARTERSVILLE, GA. jFFICE fun-stairs) In the briek building, cor ner of Mam A Erwin streets. _ julylß.__ J.M.NKKL. J. J. CONNKK. W. J. NKKL. NEEL, CONNER Si NEEL, AX * OKNKYS-AX-LAW CARTERSVILLE, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of this state. Litigated cases made a penalty. Prompt atteutiou given to all business ni trusted Jo us. , .. , . „ < Mlice in northeast corner of courthouse. fel)9 M. L. JOHNSON, A X X O RN K Y - A X’ - L A W CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. OiUce in the brick house next to Roberts’ .very stables. Hours from B>£ a. m. to 4>£ p. ui. jpjgy- All business poomptly attended to. apr29 r. W. MILNKU. J* " • HARRIS, JB. MILNER & HARRIS, A XORNEYS-AX-LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. ()Jftcd on West Main Street. julyls JoUN H. WIKLK. DO GRASS WIKLK. WHILE Sc WIKLE, A X X O K N E Y S- A X-L A W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Oilice in court house. Douglas Wiklo will give special: attention to collections. leb - 4 _ JNO. B. F. LUMPKIN, A X X OItNK Y-A X - LA W, ROME, GA. i COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. OFFICE V j in rear of Printup, Bros. & Co.’s Bank. ALBERT S. JOHNSON, A X X ORN E Y-AX-LA W, CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE : WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. Will practice in all the Courts. Business vvi 11 receive prompt attention. 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 Q G R 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. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will l*e inserted at the rates of One Dollar per inch for the- first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. Space. 1 mo. 8 inoe. | 6 ntos. I year. One inch, $2 50 $5 00 ?7 50 fio 00 Two inches, 8 75 7 50 10 00 15 00 Three inches, 500 10 00 12 50 20 on Four inches, 600 12 50 15 00 25 CO Fvuith column 7 50 15 00 20 00 80 00 Half column, 11 00 20 00 40 00 60 00 One column, 15 00 .10 00 00 00 100 UP 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.