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THK MACOH TELEGRAPH: WEDHESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1894.
0» TBE GREAT RIVER.
fit. Louis and the Mighty Waters
of the Great Missis
sippi River.
A RIVER MAN'S DOLEFUL VIEW.
Changes Wrought by the Railroad-
A Blaming at tho Levee—The
Canal Traffic—In ter fere nee at
Bridges W 1th Navigation,
[Special Correspondence.)
8t. Louis, Dec. 20.—It is with the
greatest reluctance that old time river
meu are Riving up their pet notion that
without a booming traffic on the Mis-
ussippi tlieir loved city of St. Louis
must inevitably go to tho bowwows. It
is of no nse to point oat to them that
the town is now gottiug along very well
with tho railroads, or that it has so far
ridden tho waves of the present financial
difficulties better than most other cities.
The river men insist that withont a big
river business St. Louis will never reach
her possibilities. This is not a surpris
ing thing, since it was not nntil the de
cline of river navigation that Chicago,
with its ever growing lake business, be
gan to forge mightily to the front in tho
race for commercial supremacy and
size. There are many, it is true, among
the business men here who believe that
the railroads are now doing almost as
muob for the town as the river could,
but tho majority of these men are young
and were never inoculated with the fe
ver of river adoration. It would bo hard
indeed to find among tho older business
men any who aro in a measure even
reconciled to the decline of business on
the imperial stream. If yon so muoh as
mention such an Idea to ,an old river
man, yon will be treated to a burst of
gennine indignation that wonld make it
impossible for yon to enter into any ar
gument whatever in controversy of his
views. Tho first man to Whom I spoke
npon this topic was aflame in an instailt.
The Wall ot an Old River Men.
"The river’s place taken by the rail
roads!" he exclaimed. "Yes, so it is for
all purposes bnt that of patiently bear
ing great hulking barges of coal down
stream and for a few other despised
sorts of traffic that it doesn't pay the'
ncoursed railroads to do. Bnt tlio palmy
days of tho river have gone, as every
body knows, and with them forever tho
chanoe of commercial supremacy on tho
part of St. Louis. The river loved St
Louis as the railroads do not. The rivor
gave as well as reoeived. Whilo the
river was busy St Louis distanced all
her western rivals. St Lonls was then
dominant Now what is she doing?
A ST. LOUIS AND NEW ORLEANS STEAMER.
Playing second fiddle to Chicago and
hidden by day and by night and by
night and by day in a smudge of black
smokol
"Yon think I speak with nndno host
perhaps, and that possibly I have a per
sonal grievance against the new order
of things. Well, I have a personal
grievance, and I don’t know why I
shonldn’t be hot whenever I think or
talk abont the river. 'What am I now?
Nothing bnt a night clerk in a hotel.
That's all I ever will be too. What
wonld I have been if tho grand old riv
er hadn’t petered out? Why, man, I’d
have been a pilot now, or maybe a cap
tain of sneb a boat aji the Mary Bell, or
the Robert K. Leo, or the Natchez. I
tell yon the days when the Lee and the
Natchez need to race np and down this
river were days when it was worth
while to live. It was the evil one him
self, sir, in my opinion, that put it into
the heads of the railroad men to make
all their roads of nnlform gangs. Be
fore that time the grand old river had
some show. Bat that action settled the
fate of the Mississippi. Before that we
could carry grain to the seaboard cheap
er and quicker than thoy could. Then
they had to stop at St. Lonis and half a
doaen other point* and transfer the grain
from oars on a 4 foot gauge to oars
on a fi foot or a 6 foot gauge, or from a
wide to a narrower one, as the case
might be.
"Later aomo one devised the scheme
of lifting the oar bodies, all loaded, from
one set of tracks and lowering them to
another set by means of hydraulic jaoks.
That expedited matters a good deal, bnt
still wo had tho whiphond. But when
they all adopted thesamo gauge, making
it possible to carry grain to the seaboard
without breaking bulk, tho river was
done. Every year since then the tonnago
has been less than it was the year be
fore, every year fewer new boats have
been built, and every year, thongh old
fjt. Lonis has steadily grown, she has,
relatively speaking, dropped behind in
the race. Tho everlasting cutting of
timber on the upper waters has also hur
ried the decline of river traffic, for,
whilo just as much water passes down
tho stream in a year as there ever did,
it goes down. in a hurry in the spring,
just like one big wave, so to say, and
the summer period of low water, when
the river is practloally not navigable, is
longer u very year. All this time, too,
the railroad fiends have been insulting
the boautiful upper river with bridges.
When tho big bridge hero at 8t. Louis
was built, all the world was amazed,
and no one more than the river men
themselves, who held that it could nev
er be done successfully. Now I don't
know how many bridges thero are be
tween here and St Paul. There are so
many that it’s like trying to run a boat
through a tunnel to navigate the upper
stream. As for tho Missouri, yon can’t
do anything at all with it The Missou
ri was always worse for shoals and bars
than the Mississippi, and the railroads
have been meaner there. They have
built their bridges with tbe piers nearer
together, and it's almost impassible to
get a boat through without smashing
into them. In places up the Mississippi
where the piers are too close together
for safety the railroads have put booms
in above tho bridgoe that help wonder
fully, hut they won't put in booms on
the Missouri.
A Hernias on the Lena.
"If you want to see a pitiful sight,’’
ha west on, "yon go down to the levee
and see how dead it is down there. And
you take notice how the railroads have
insulted the river by putting elevated
tracks along the street that parallels
the levee, so as to get everything away
from the boats they can. These olevated
tracks are in addition to the two tracks
on the ground. I tell you the railroads
are a greedy lot"
The next morning 1 did go down to
the levee, and the sight was not one
likely to bo inspiriting to a man wrap
ped np in a lively river trafflo. Thero
are many readers dcnbtloss who have
never seen a Mississippi river levee, and
for their benefit I will describe the fea
tures that struok me as interesting. In
the first place, there is nothing that ap
proaches a wharf or pier in appoarauoe.
The river at a low stage of water is
many (eet below tho level reached at a
high stage. Piers built out into the
stream when the water is high would
bo far inland when the water is low,
and any built for low water would be
far .below the water’s surfaeo when the
stream Is swolleu.
Accordingly the levee is built at a
steep inclino, tbe work consisting mere
ly of a block stone pavement, ■yvhlch
prevents tbe current from washing it
away. At this time the stream is at its
lowest stage, and the whole broad ex
panse of the levee is high and dry. Ly
ing in the stream at the foot of the levee
and moored by hnge iron chains to
anchor blocks of stone, set in the levee,
are great barges that servo in the place
of piers. Upon these barges the boats
discharge their cargo, and from them
they do' thoir lading. Tho barges aro
oohneoted with the levee by movable
bridges, and when the stream rises the
barges and bridges are moved higher up
the levee. It is said to bo an inspiring
sight, this levee, when its length of up
ward of a mile is lined with stately
steamers and its eloping surfneo is
swarming with ronstabonts and crowd
ed with heavy wagons bearing cargo to
and from the boats.
The morning that I devoted to tho
lovee, however, thoro was littlo activity
visible of any sort. One big side wheel
boat only lay in the stream, and her
fires were dead, her cabiH3 empty, her
wheelhonso deserted and her decks
bare. Sho had not been running for a
month. The lading barges wero almost
as empty and forlorn—quite as much, so
far as any actual business was concern
ed—and but for the fact that the offices
of tho transportation companies aro lo
cated thereon would have been absolute
ly tonantless. Tho only lifo to bo seen
anywhere was at tho landing stage cf
the ferryboats.
Coal From Illinois.
These ferryboats are queer craft in
the eyes of anyone not familiar with
them. Their smokestaoks aro on ono
side, their exhaust pipes on tho other,
and they present a decidedly ono sided
appearance when approaching head on.
Tho engine of a St. Louis ferryboat is
of a type novor seen away from western
rivers, the oyllnder being 8 or 10 foot
long and not more than 20 inchos or 2
feet in diameter. Tho engine is of tho
horizontal type, and the “arm”—"con
necting rod” it would bo termed elso-
where—is generally of wood nnd very
largo and heavy. The hull of tho boat
is built double aft, and the single small
whsel lies between the two parts aft of
tbe bifurcation. Tho obisf business of
these boats is tho transportation of tbe
soft coal of the Illinois mines to St.
Louis.
This ooal is loaded upon immense coal
wagons on the Illinois side of the river
and hauled to and upon tho boats,
which, when all the deok spaoo is occu
pied, make for the Missouri shoro. Tho
horses that haul the wagons are heavy
draft animals of a mixed breed, a pair
of which is oapable of hauling an im
mense load, but not powerful enough to
haul ono of these big wagons up tho
Bteep incline of the levee. Accordingly
when tho wagons are got oil tho boat
extra horses, sometimes one pair, some
times two, are attached, and than with
mnoh creaking of wheels, snapping of
long, heavy whips, swoaring of drivers
and occasional falling of horses to thoir
kneea tho heavy load is dragged to tho
level of the street above.
There was nothing doing on tho levee,
during' the several hours 1 devoted to it
beyond the arrival and departure of those
ooal wagon laden ferryboats, hut it
must not be understood that because tho
river is praotioally idle jnst now it has
no trafflo whatever. On tho oontrary,
its trafflo is very largo in tho aggregate,
only seeming insignificant because it is
much less now than it was in the old
boom days.
Mississippi Tonnage at St. Louis.
1 have not at command the figures of
any of the rushing years, bnt in 1803
the total was more than 1,100,000 tons.
In 1802 the total was 1,180,41S tons; in
1801, 1,030,805. It would take a large
fleet of lako stoamers to handle this
amount of freight every year, and there
are now employed in the trafflo some
thousands of persous. It is, moreover,
tonfldently expected that when the
operations at present under way for the
improvement of tho channel .shall be-
oome effective the total annual tonnage
will be vastly increased.
M. L Dexter.
HARRY GREEN’S WAY
HE PLAYED HIS FAVORITE GAME ON
MR. SMITH OF CHICAGO.
ffiho
RLo
So
Mr Fmn on Shaving Mug*.
A fad which bids fair to become fairly
popular la now blossoming quite exten
sively In Washington. When the young
lady thinks ho la dear enough to bavo her
photograph, she has a miniature painted
on a ahavlng mug or mustache cup, or,
better still, sorao bit of china bric-a-brac.
In order that It shall stay fait tho painting
1h burnt in. As amateur artists have of
ten been employed in this work, tho re
unite have not been very satisfactory. Tho
chappies have sent their photographs to
New York to have tho work carefully done,
and some good result* have been rcochcd.
Of courie, in caeo of a rupture and the se
lection of new love*, the china can be as
eailly broken as if It worn in tho hand# of
•omo of our kitchen mechanics. It has
not advanced far enough to heacrazc, and
the cost may confine It to those who can
make It rather exclusive.—Washington
Star.
Dobbins has been retired to the stud
and will race no more.
The Chicago Derby for 1895 will be
worth $25,000.
Utile Pete, the loading Chinese gam
bler of San Francisco, has opened a track
tor the accommodation of Chinamen.* He
has made big winnings at the race* thin
season
Four Aces Will Always Beat Four Kings,
but In This Ciue There Was Another
IIand. Held by an “Outsider," That Was
In it the Showdown.
Do you know how to play pokerf If you
do am) chance to meet au old man who
looks llkoa stockman from Montana, with
money to burn, just looking for a good
time, don't. If you do, you will bo sorry.
A well known business man, who at
one time kept a furniture store on State
street and has retired from business, paid
$1,400 for liia experience with tho Mon
tana stockman.
As every one knows tho furnlturo man,
he mny as well bo called Smith. Mr.
Smith, since he Is not engaged actively In
business, has been spending a share of hi*
time In a down town buckot shop overy
day. Ono morning whilo Mr. Smith
was watching the market nnd listening to
tho vuloo of tho caller a stranger who
‘'happened" to ait next him engaged him
in conversation.
"Wheat is dull today, isn’t itl" said tho
stranger.
"Yes," drawled Mr. Smith.
Tho ioo had boon broken, and the stran
ger, whose appearanco indicated that ho
was a westerner, became communicative.
Ho told Mr. Wraith lio had just como from
Montana and was taking a littlo roat. Ho
declared he had enough money to have
some fun and pulled « big roll of fifties
and hundreds out. of hla pocket to prove it.
"By gosh, I will have a good time, and
if I don’t it won't bo no fault o' nilno,"
said tho Montana man ns ho got up to
tako a walk about tho room.
Mr. Smith paid little attention to tho
incident until a man who hnd justcutored
and was leaning against tho wall, and
who had seen tho stockmun display Ills
money, stepped up to him. Ho asked Mr.
Smith if ho know tho "old fellow." Mr.
Snllth said ho did not, but tho man had
told him ho was from Montana and had a
good deal of money.
"Yes, I saw it," sold stranger No. 2.
"And do you know I think I could got
It if wo could got him into a poker gamo?"
After consideroblo persuasion Mr. Smith
condescended to ask tho stockman if ho
would play a littlo poker.
"Well, I don’t mind," said tho stock
man, and arrangements wero madoto play
In a down town hotel In tho evening.
In tho mcantlmo tho stranger had a
quiet talk with Mr. Smith. Ho told him
lio was a professional gambler and know
how to "fix" tho cardti. They were to get
tho old man’s money and divldo tho
spoils. Tho plan w as as follows: A deck
was to bo fixed up In which wero two
hands. Mr. Smith was to get four aces
and tho stockman four lsln^s. Tho hands
wero to bo sprung in tho btockman’s own
deal. Stranger No. 2 fixed tho cards and
said: "Now, you keep tho cards on your
lap, nnd when It is the granger's deal I
will attract his attention when ho gives
;ho cards to' you to cut, and at that mo
iont you substitute this dock for tho one
o hands you. But wo must havo another
man. Wo can’t play threo handed.”
Mr. Smith know a great many roon, ho
said, but they wero all business men, nnd
all of them were too busy to play. At tho
stranger’s suggestion thoy started out to
gether to look for tho fourth man. Thoy
dropped into tho Saratoga hotel, and
stranger Nq. 2 saw a man who appeared
much bored sitting noar tho window.
"Perhaps ho will play. -Shall I ask
him?”
"Go ahead," said Mr. Smith.
Stranger No. 0 said ho playod pokor, but
not for money or with strangers.
No. 2 produced the card of an Iowa
firm. "That’s my card," said he.
"You’re nil right, then," said tho
stranger.
Mr. Smith thou said, "I’m Mr. Smith,
nnd overy ono around boro knows mo.
Tho stronger was still a littlo shy, but
finally yicldod to Mr. Smith’s persuasions
and agreod to sit in tho gamo. Tho stock-
man was found in tho barroom of tho ho
tel. Tho quartet went around to a Mon
roo street hotel, and tbo gamo began.
Tho gnino dragged along for awliilo
without incident. After an hour or so it
camo tho stockman’s deal. Ho shuffled tho
cards clumsily nnd handed thorn to Mr.
Smith to cut. At that moment tho stock
man was seized with a fit of "snoozing,"
and strahger No. 2 gavo Mr. Smith a sig
nal to run in tho "cold dock." Ho did it
successfully. In tho deal Mr. Smith got
four aces, according to progrninino. lio
made a good bet, and tho stockman, as ho
expected, raised him handsomely. But to
Mr. Smith's surprlsu and gratification tho
Saratoga hotel stranger also staid. N6. 2
dropped out, of course.
Ho bet with confidence, and so did tho
stockman, and, to Mr. Smith’s continued
delight, tho stranger kept coming in. He
didn’t rniso any bets, but just staid.
Tho hotting was livoly and lasted until
Mr. Smith came to tho end of his pile and
had $1,400 on tho tablo. Ho was kicking
beenuso ho didn’t havo more, but had to
call for a show.
"Well, I am sorry for you, my friend,*
said tho stockman, "but I havo four big
kings," and bo Btartod to rnko In tho pot.
"You needn’t feel sorry, old man," ex
claimed Mr. Smith triumphantly. "1
havo four ocos. Tho money Is mine. Did
you think I was bluffing?" and bo started
to grab tho monoy and checks.
1 "Hold on, hold on!" spoko up No. 8.
"Ain’t I In this? I’vo got a straight flush.
1 It was llko u voice from tho tombs to
Mr. Smith, and tho gamo broke up.
An adjournment woo taken to tho bar,
but tho straight flush man and the stock
man got away os quickly as possible, leav
ing Mr. Smith nnd Ids friend. His friend
proceeded to givo Mr. Smith a •terrible
roasting.
l "Confound you," said ho, "I thought
you said you knew how to play poker.
You’vo rondo a nlco moss of It. Here wo
nro broke, and tho mukesblft that wo
picked up goto all the money. Wo might
just as well havo had all that stockman’s
money and the other fellow's too!"
I Mr. Smith’s friend talked in this strain
until Mr. Km 1th was convinced that ho
was a doublo distilled idiot and knew
nothing about the noblo American gnino.
Then .Mr. Smith’s friend bado him n sor
rowful and Indignant good night and loft,
lcaviug 1dm to wonder how tho outsider
got thn straight flush.
* If Mr. Smith had only known that the
stockman was Harry Green, ono of tho
smdolhctt confidence men and gamblers
in tho world, all Would lmvo been different.
He has played that saino kind of a game
for 20 years and in that tlrno has caught
many a fish. Stronger No. 2 was his Bal
timore partner, Fred Porter. Ho and
Harry Green made barrels of money years
ago on tho big Atlantic liners, and stran
ger No. 8 was a well known Chicago gam
bler who camo in for a sharo of tho "div
vy. ’—Chicago Tribune.
MACON BONO AND STOCK REPORT.
STATE OF GEORGIA BONDS,
Bid. Ask’d.
T per cent bonds, Jaa. and July
coupons, maturity 1896. 106 101
4tt per cent, bonds, Jan. and
July coupons, maturity 1915.... 115 116
A% per cent, bonds. Tan and July
coupons, maturity 1920 116 UT
$V6 P* r cent bonds, Jan. and July
coupons, maturity long date. .100 101
MUNICIPAL BONDS,
Savannah 6 per cent, bonds 164 106
Atlanta bonds, price as to rate
of Interest nnd maturity... 100 1M
Augusta bonds, price aa to rate
of Interest and mat:irtty..100 116
Rome bond*, 8 per cent )<MH *<*
Columbus 6 per cent, lands ... .191 104
Macon 6 per cent, bonds, quar
terly coupons ...112 118
RAILROAD BONDS.
July coupons, due 1900 10) 104
Savannah, Amorlcus and Mont
gomery railroad 6 per cent,
bonds, Jan. and July coupons.. 50 81
Georgia Southern and Florida
railroad 6 per cent, bond* Jan.
and July coupons, due 1372.... 8$ 87
South Georgia and Florida rail
road indorsed 7 per cent, bond*
Jan. and July coupon*.... MB
Northeastern railroad indorsed
6 per cent, bonda, May and
November coupons 108 196
Macon and Northern railroad
certificates of bonds, March
and September coupons....... 44 46
Charleston. Columbia and Au
gusta railroad 7 per cent bonds N 161
RAILROAD STOCKS AND DBB19N-
TURBS.
Central tMlroad common stock.. 18 13
Central raJlrcad 6 per cent, de-
beturea 26 S3
Southwestern railroad stock.... 70 73
Georgia railroad stock 162 166
Atlanta and West Point rail
road debentures 90 92
Atlanta and West Point railroad
■tock 90 0
Central railroad joint mortgage
7 per cent, bonds. Jan and July
coupons ...................... UO lfio
Georgia railroad 6 per cent,
bonds. Jan. and July coupons,
duo 1897 102 109
Georgia railroad 6 per cent,
bonda Jan. and July coupons,
July coupons, due 1900 1
Georgia railroad 6 per cent,
bonds. Jan. and Juty coupons,
due 1923 110
Montgomery and Eufaula rail
road. 6 pe: cent, bonds, Jan.
and July coupons, due 1909,... 102
Ocean Steamship bonds, 5 per
N due 1920 *.
Columbus and Western railroad
6 per cent. July coupons 110
Columbus and Rome railroad 8
per ceit. bonda Jan. and July
coupons ... II
Augusta and Knoxville railroad
7 per cent, bonda Jan. and
LOCAL BONDS AND 6T0CKSL
Macon Gas Light anl Water
consols, May and November
coupons -
Wesleyan college 7 per cent.
bond*. Jan. *nd July coupons..109
Macon Volualeers* Armory 7 per
cent, bonds, Jon. and July cou
pons ...191
Bibb Manufacturing Company 6
per cent, bunas, April and Oct. ^
coupons.
106
ANSWER this question.
Why do so many people w# see
•round us «eem to prefer to suffer aud
be made miserable by indigestion, con
stipation, dizziness. loss of appetite,
coming up of the food, yellow skin,
when for 75 cents we will sell them
Shiloh’s Vitalizer .guaranteed to cure
them?
Sold by Goodwyn A Smin Drug
Oomparfy. corner Cherry greet and
Cotton avenue.
118
VUUjJUUO. ••#••••
Progress Loan anil Improvement
Company , N
Southern Phosphate Company
stock It
Acme Brewing Company liw
BANK STOCKS.
First National Bank itock M
American National Bank .tock..
Exchange Bank stock
Union Savings Bank and Trust
Compnny stock
Central Georgia Bank stock
Macon Savings Bank stock
Central City Loan and Trust
Company stock
DRUGS. PAINTS AND OIL3.
Correoted Every Saturday by Henry J.
Lamar * Soda
Clnamon Bark—Per nound. U to ltd.
Cloves—Per pound. 15 to 25c.
Drugs and Chemicals—Qum xuatra-
tlda, 25c pound: camphor gum. 65 to 55o
pound; gum upturn 12.40 to 12.50 pound;
morphine. 1-s.a. 52.25 to 12.45 ounce; qui
nine (according to alse) 55 to 54 rant,
ounco; sulphur. 4 to to pound; aalte, Ep
som, 2 1-2 to So pound; Copperas. 2 to 50
pound; salt petn., -9 :o 12o pound: bo
rax, 16 to 18c noundi bromide potash, 54
to 56o pc pound; chlorate, 25 to 50o per
pound; carbolic acid, 60c to 51.75 pound;
chloroform, 76c to 51.40 pound; calomel,
8So to 51: logwood. 16 to 24o pound;
errata trrtsr. commercial, 25 to 50a.
DRY aOODg.
Corrected Every Saturday by ft. Wtxeb
bium A Bom
Prints—Berwick. * t-5o; standard 4 1-1
to Cc: turkey red. 4 to 6 l-5c; Indigo blue,
4 to 4%c.; solid*. « to t centa
Sheetings-l-iariL *a4o.; 4-4M-A I rants.
Ticking*—From 6 to 12c.
Checks—5 1*2 to 6o.
Bleaching.—Fruit of the Loom. I 5-4
to 7 1-2C. «
" FRUITS AND NUTU.
Corrected by A A Cullen. ’
Figs—r>ry, choice, 12 1-2 to II cents.
Peanuts--North Carolina, 1 1-2 cents;
Virginia. 4 and b cent*.
Lemons—3,50x4.00.
Nule-TSrregonla almonds, IS cents pet
pound; Naples walnuta it centa; rreaee
walnuts. >0 cents; pecans, Is centa
Apples—Sun dried. I to 7 cant* pit
pound
Raisins—New In market, 1.75 per box,
London layers, 2,00 per box; loose Mu.
cate!. 52 per box.
Irish Potatoes—13.» pee see*.
CANNED-GOODS. 7
Corrected Every Saturday by ft. R.
Ja<iu«s A Tinsley Co.
Apple*-*-**!** cans, 8UB psr Buwa
Blackberries—2 pound cans, $1 p#f
dozen; 3 pound cirs, $1.05 per dozen.
Corn—2 pound can*. 90 cents to $1.60
per dozen.
String Beans—2 pound cans, 90 cents
per dozen.
Tomatoes—2 pound cans, per dozen, 89
cento; 3 pound can*. $1.
Okra and Tomatoes—2 pound none,
$1,10 pe~ d«**n.
Juno Peae—2 pound can*. $1.2$ p«r
dozen.
Red Cherrios—2 pound cans, $1.69 psr
dozen.
White Cherries—t pound csne,$L7l per
dozen.'
Lima Beans—$1.2$.
peacbee—2 pound cons, $1.86
dozen*
pineapples— 1 pound yens, $1.60 to $3.26
pet dozen; grated. T- A W„ $2.26.
Kanpbetrie*—2 pound cans, $1.86 per
dbzen.
gtrawberrlee—2 pound cans, $11# pgr
dozen.
Peaches, pie—2 pound cam, $LS$ per
dozen.
Apricot*. California—$ pound i
$2.26 p*" dozen,
peach**. California—$2.38.
Pig Feet—3 pouna cane, $138 per
dozen.
Roaet Beef-’l pound cane. $1.24 per
dozen:4 pound cans. 82 per dozen.
Corn Beef—2 pound cans, $1.86 per
dozen.
Potted Ham—1-4 pound cans, 66 cent*
per iozen. i-2 pound cans, $1.26 per
dozen.
Lunch Tongue*—4 pound cane, $3 per
dozen.
Tripe—3 pound two*. $1.$6 per dozen.
HARDWARE.
Corrected Every Saturday by Dunlap
Hardware Company.
Bucket©—Paint*, si.sc pec doses: oe-
dar, three hoope, 32.26.
Card*—Cotton, 34.
Obaine—Trace, $8,69 to $4.8 per
dozen.
Well bucket*—73.26 per dozen.
Rope—Manilla, 14c; elael. So; cotton, 18a
13 cent*.
Rhoee—Horae. 34; M'Ue, $6.
filwovele—Amos, $10 per dozen. |,.
Shot—Drop, $1.36 per sack.
Wire-Barbed. 2%c per opund.
Corn Beei—a pound cane $2 per donas.
Rail*—$btt ba*a wire; out, $L26 base.
>aee.
Tuba—Fainted, $2.25; cedar, $4.60 pec
meet.
Broom*—$1.26 to $6 epr.dosen,
Haznca, iron bound, $3.
Meaaurea—Per neat, $1.
Flow Btade*—4 cent* per pound.
Iron—Swede, 4 l-2o per pound; refined,
2c basis.
Plow ■ tocto—Hndmen, $1; Ferguson,
too.
HIDES. WOOL. Era I
Hide*—Green salt, 3 cento pec pound)
dry flint, 514 centa per pound.
Goat eklnzr-10 to 20 cent* each.
Sheen Skin*—20 to 60 centa each.
Beeswax—16 to 22 conts.
Wool—Weflhed. ib to 20 cents per
pound; unwashed, 18 to 12 cents; burry,
7 to 10 cent*.
MISCELLANEOUS GROCERIES.
Corrected Every Saturday by tbe 8.
Jdauera & Tinsley Co.
The following are strictly wholesale
prices:
Fish—Kit, white fish, 60c; In half
warrels. $4: mackerel in half barrels.
No. * $6.75; No. 2 in kit* K cento.
Flour—Best patent, per barrel, $8.26)
■econo patent, $3.15; straight, $2.75; fain*
lly, $2.60: low grade*. $2.26.
Sugar—Standard granulated, 4% cents;
extra C Now York, 3% conts; Now Or.
leans clarified, 3^ cents.
Hay—We quote «oday No. 1 Timothy
at <18 and fancy. $19.
Meats—Bulk sides, 6% cents.
Corn—68 cents per bushel.
Oats—Mixed, 45c; white. 48c.
Lord—Tierces 8 cent*; can*, 814 cent*;
10-pound cans, 9 centa
Oil—lie.
Snuff—Lorlllaud'a Maccaboy snuff,
stone jarr 45o per pound; glass jars.
46c per pound; 2-ounce bottles, $9.9(H)
per gross; 2*ounce cans, $3.60 per gross;
1-pound cans, $3.Uti per gross; itatiroua
snuff, 1-ounce glass, 6c; 1-ounce tin*,
$4.25 per gross.
Tomato catsup—Pints, 90c; quarts,
$1.25.
Hominy—P^r barrel, $3.75.
Meal—Bolted, 65 cents; plain, 55 cents.
Wheat—Bran. 85c.
Hams—10^4 to 13 cents.
Shoulder*—9 l-2o.
LIQUORS.
Correoted Every Saturday by L. Cohen
A Co.
Whisky-Rye $i.l(r to $3.50; corn, tl,»
to $1.50; glr, $1.10 to $1.75; North Carolina
corn,$1.10 to $1.50; Georgia corn, $1.60,
Wines—30 cent* to $1; h^rh wines,
$1.2$; pore and sherry, $l to $3; claret,
$6 to $10 ca.se: American champagne,
$7.60 to $8.50 per case; cordials, $12 per
dozen; bitters, $8 per dozen.
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MEATS.
Corrected Every Saturday by W. L.
Henry.
Fresh Meats—We*tern beef, 644 to do;
Georgia beef. 4 1*2 to Cc; dreaded hogs,
0 to 6V4c; Western mutton, 744 cent*; na
tive mutton. 6 l*2c; atnoktd pork sau
sage, 8 l-2c; fresh pbrk sausage, 8o; Bo
logna sausage, 6c.
JUANITO MANEN.
ftomothlng About the ApftnUh Viollnlptlo
“Infant Prodigy."
Tho musical season in Now York has
boon markod this year by tho advent of
many violinists of noto, but among thorn
nono perhaps, with the oxooptlon of
Ysayo, has boon rocelved with the marked
favor accorded to Juanito Manen, tho il-
year-old Spanish boy who mado his debut
In Now York recently.
Muster Manen ia a handiamo, interest
ing lad, entirely freofrom any artificiality
that might indicate forced talent, nnd hla
perfect boyishness bIiuwh tho young artist
off tho stage to bo a child.
Juanito Manen was born in Barcelona,
Spain, In March, 1888, and from early
childhood displayed marked musical tal
ent. When but \ l A years, ho commenced
to study solfogglo and piano under • special
method arranged with a view to the dlffl*
JUANITO MANEN.
cultlcs presented by tho tendcHage of tb*
boy. His advancomont In plnno playing
was rapid, and when but 6 a violin was
placed In his bands, and without any pre<
vloui Instruction he played some simple
airs familiar to him on the piano, which
he transcribed Impromptu. It was then
decided to instruct him in violin playing,
and to this Instrument ho ha* slnco de
voted his entire time.
At first the small size of Juanito’*
hands hanl'y mastered the first position
of the half violin, tho smallest to bo found
In Barcelona, but In spite of that obstacle,
which ho overcame in three months'study,
he was enabled to play tho entire scene of
"Miserere" from tho fourth acfcof "Trova-
tore," transcribed from tbo third position,
with such finish and spirit of expression
that It called forth the admiration of all
who had an opportunity to hear and ad*
mire it.
His fathor, realizing tho necessity of
serious and prolonged study, placed hie
son under thocarcof Sarasate, with whom
he continued to study until an American
tour was decided upon.
Master Manen has played in the royal
palaco In Madrid, ono concert being in
honor of tbo Infanta Isabel de Bourbon
and another in honor of tho queen regent,
both 6f whom are great admirers cf tho
gifted little violinist.
Countess Oyama, tho wJfo of Field
Marshal Connt Oyama, who ia com
manding tho second Japanese army in
tho vicinity of Port Arthur, is described
m ono of tho most charming and accom
plished ladies of Japan. Sho was edu
cated in an American college, either
Wellesley or Vassar, and speaks Eng
lish fluently. She was ono of tho lady
ttmintasioners appointed by the empress
)f Japan to gather and send an exhibit
to tho World’s fair.
Ucuk at SacceM.
fitem Father—He who eows the Wind
reaps the whirlwind.
Prodigal Son—Well, be raise* the wind
Anyway.—-Detroit Tribune,
MYSTERIES!
The Nervous System the 8eat
of Life and Mind. Recent
Wonderful Discoveries.
No mystery has ever compared with that of
human life, ft has been the leading subject
Of profeMlonal research and study in all ages.
But notwithstanding this fact it is not gener
ally known
that, the seat
of life is loca
ted in tho up
per part of the
spinal cord,
near the huso
of the brain,
and so sensi
tive is thin
portion of the
nervous sys
tem that even
the prick of a
needle will
cause Instunt
death.
trol of the nerve centers, located in or near
the base of the brain, uud that when these are
deranged tho organs which they supply with
nerveltuid are also deranged. When It is re
membered that a serious injury to the spinal
cord will cause paralysis of the body below
the Injured point, because the nerve force ia
prevented by tho Injury ‘
paralyzed portion, It wilf
orangoraent of the
the derangement of tho various organa
which they supply with norvo force.
Two-thirds of chronic diseases aro duo to
the Imperfect action of tho nervo centers at
tho base of tho brain, not from a derange
ment primarily originating In the organ it
self. The great mistake of physicians in
treating these diseases la that they treat the
organ rather than the nervo centers which
aro the causo of the troublo.
Dr. Fhakkum Milks, tho celebrated spo-
cialUt,has profoundly studied this subject for
ovor 20years, and has made many Important
discoveries In connection with it, chief among
them being the facts contained In tho aiiovo
statement, aud that tho ordinary methods of
treatment aro wrong. All headache, dlzzl-
no«w, dullness, confusion, pressure, bluer,
mania, melancholy, Insanity, epilepsy, St,
Vitus dance, etc., aro nervous diseases no
matter how caused. Tho wonderful success of
I)r. Miles' Restorative Nervtno is duo to tho
fact that It Is based on tho foregoing principle.
Ur. Miles’ Restoiutivb NcuviNHlasoldby
all druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent
direct by J)n. Mu,ns Medicai* Co., Elkhart,
lnd.. on receipt ot price, fl per bottle, six
bottles for 65, express prepaid. It ootttoiiu
neither oplatos nor dangerous Urus*'
VITAL TO MANHOOD.
r*. E. C. WEST’S NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT
WENT, a specific lor Hyeterln, IMzzlnon*, Fils, Nsti ,
ralgin, Henrtnche, Nervous Prostration coucod bj
alcohol or tobacco, WnkefulnoM, Mental Dopre dou
Horton In g of Brain, musing insauity. misery, rtaeny
(loath. Premature Old Ago, lhxrreuuose, Loss a
i*°wor In either so*, Impotuucr, Leuoorrhtca and nl
Fomaln Weakness^*, Involuntary Losses, Hperraa
torrhoea caused by over-exertion ot brain, Self
abuse, over-Indulir«noo. A month's treatment, fl
C for 15, by mall. With each order for 0 boxes, witl
f 5 will seud written guarantee to refund it not cured
GuaranteatiMUod by agent WEST’S LIVEll PILL*
cures Hick Headache, ijiilousness, Liver Complain*
Sour Stomach, Dyspeiwta and Constipation,
r* ' • •
GOODWYN’8 DRUG STORE.
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
By virtue of an order passed nt the
December term, 1891, ot Bibb county
court of ordinary, will be sold before
the court house door in Macon, Bibb
oounity. Ga., ot\ the first Tuesday In
January, 1835, between the legal lioura
of sale, the following property belong*
deoemsed, to-wlt; Ten shares of the
ing to the estate of J. Warren Johns,
utoek of the Union Savings Bank nnd
Trust Company of Macon, Ga., and
threo (3) shares of tho .stock
of Ocmulgee Land and Improve
ment Compnny o>f Macon, Ga., said
stock is to be sold for the purpose of
paying the debts of Kild ostnto for dis
tribution. Terms of sale cash.
Q. I. JOHNS.
Administrator Estate of J. Warren
Jiofons, Deceased.
OEonaiA, bibb county—a. j.
Collins, administrator estato of Mrs. B,
Scanlon, Into of Haid county, deceased,
having applied to me for ieavo to soli
the following described property be
longing to said estate, to-wit: One
hwwe and Jot, fronting on Troup street,
in Miicou, Ga„ being f»2 1-2 feet by 210
taet (near the reservoir) and accord
ing to thto mn<p of Macon, known as
part ot lot 2 in block 31, and being
city number 1537, and to be sold io
pay debts of said estate and for dis
tribution. This I* to notify all con
cerned, to file objections If any they
have, on or before tho flrnt Monday la
January, 1896. C. M. WILEY,
Ordinary.
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY.—Jullen
. Rodgers, administrator estate Hardin
It. Johnsou, late of B.Ud county, de
ceased, having represented to this court
that he ha* fully settled with tho Ma-,
con Having* Bank, the temporary ad-^
mlnlstrator of said estato, therefore
haw discharged nil Uhe duties of hi*
trust, now fl*ks fr>r his letter* of dis
mission, this is, therefore, to notify all
parties concerned to file objections, if
any thoy have, on or before tho first 1
Mkrnday in March, 1895, or else tetter*
of dismission will then be granted us
sked for.
C. M. WILEY, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY—Mr*.
Laura I. WlBtHtnfi, twwlng applied to
me for letters of guardianship, for tho
person and property of Clara L. Le-
Quinn and Anna L. LeQulun. This 1*
therefore, to notify all parties con
cerned, to fl?e objections, If any thoy
have, on or before tbe first Monday
In January, 1896, or elso letter* will
then be Issued a* asked for.
C. M. WILEY. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY—J. H.
ftojley having applied to me for letter*
of administration on the estate of MUm
Eliza Rttlley, Into of snirkeemiuty, de-
ceased, Thl* 1* to notify nil parties
concerned that letters of administra
tion will be Issued to J. S. Raltey uh
aeked for. If objections is not filed oii
or before the firwl Monday In January,
1895. C. M. WILEY, Ordinary.
NOTICE TO DEWrvmS AND CREDI
TORS.
All persons having claims against tho
eSt'ate of C. H. Freeman, late of h.sW
Bibb county, deceased, ore hereby no
tified to present same ai the place of
buslnesH of <t>bo undersigned. . AH p<*r-
«onshowing money to »ald outttfto oto no
tified to pay to the (Macon Giving*
Rink, Administrator of the estate ot
C. H. Freemv.ni.
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY.—Mrs.
Laura B. Johuaon having applied to
me to have an administrator appointed
on the estate of Hardin T. Johnson,
late of said county, deceased, and ha*
named the Macon Savings Bank for
thl* office, this is, therefore, to notify
all parties concerned to fllo their ob
jection*, If any they have, on or before
the first Monday jn January, 1895.
C. M. WILEY, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY—The ap
praiser* appointed to set aside a twelv*
mouths' support te Mrs. Laura B.
Johnson and tu-r two minor childreu
out of the estate of Hardin T. John
son, late of said county, decensed, hav
ing filed their return in this offlee; tms
is therefore to notify <t!l partpw con
cerned to file.their objections, If any
they have, on or before the first Mon
day In January, 1893, why said return
should not be made the Judgment of
thl* court.
C. M. WILEY, Ordinary.
Notice 1* herby given, that Josoptt
A. Wdlnwrlght, reaMerot in the state
of Ne-w Jersey and duly appointed iho
executor of tb** laatiwill an<l testament
of Lovey Ann Judd, Jeo^med, intend*
to transfer and sell flWv-ODe share* of
the capital stock of the Southwestern
Railroad Company, standing In *h<*
name of said deceodent. 'December
1$, 1694.