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MACON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7.1881-PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TUiUUi,
TRADE ISSUE.
ELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, PUBLISHING CO.
NO. 9978
RECTIFIER AND
WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEM
SOM STMT. «M. MUCH.
SOLE AGENT FOR
MACON,
The Beautiful!
The Citr of Palaces, the CentralCity
and the Queen of the Hills.
ller Homes, Avenues, Business, Basil
roods. Hnnurnelnres, Public Build
lugs, CoIIec**, Chare bus, Park*,
Trades, Works, Cemeteries and her
People.
No city of the size in tbe United Stsles
bears such a favorable reputation amongst
travelers as tbe city of Macon,^situated
among tlie bills and valleys of that Eden
of tbe future, middle Georgia. And no
city strikes the eye more plessantly, or
leaves upon tbe mind fairer scenes than
Georgia’s central metropolis. It has been
called the “Queen of tbe Hills,” “Tbe
City of Palaces,” “The Beautiful,” and
the “Central City,” respectfully. Its pe
culiar situation gives it advantages
over any Georgia city. It offers quiet
homes in pleasant valleys, homes upon
tbe stretching levels, and homes upon pre-
cepitous bills, homes m tbe highlands, and
homes whoso foundations are washed by
the rippling river waters. However the
city’s location may have been intended,
certain it is that taste and wealth have
disposed and arranged it in a faultless
manner. The business portion of Macon
lies in an almost level valley sur
rounded on three sides by hills and ro
mantic sleeps; in a dry harbor, as it were
from live to six miles wide and ten miles,
long, and from the gateway of which
flows downward tho Ocmulgee river.
In the upper or northern corner of the
harbor is the business portion of the city,
the residences stretching out right and left
and to the north, covering the levels,
climbing the steep ascents and reaching
far away into the country. There are no
narrow streets to check the view or inter
rupt the breezes; they are from 160 to 200
feet wide alternately and broken up into
squares and triangles to relieve the monot
ony of ono form. Much of the original
growth of timber yet remains. In the
heart of tbe city pines rear their heads as
they did sixty years ago, when Fort Hawk
ins, on the eastern side or the nver, guard
ed the limits of civilization, and frowned
upon the red man’s tents sprinkled along
the slopes where the finest residences of
the whiles now stand. And as though to
}> t more vary the scenes and please the
eye, tbe private residences themselves
have originated from or abided by no set
architectural fashion. There are stately
homes that stand hack from the streets,
with Corinthian capitals, and imposing
columns; elegant palaces with mrable
fronts and carved architraves; more mod
ern but yet equally elegant cottages with
mansard root's, and cosy grounds; the
good old fashioned southern resldenco
with its airy rooms and marvelous veran
dahs, and hundreds of designs in little
well kept cottages, where the sweat of toil
is cooled, aud tbe aching musle^calined in
repose. These homes, in tbe valleys, upon
the slopes and on the hills, with their
wealth of shrubbery, flowers and luxuri
ant shade, furnish the visitor with an al
most endless panorama of beauty. No
wonder that a wandering tourist should
have christened it the “City of Palaces,”
or that an invalid returning from Florida,
should have wafted back a new name still,
when she crossed tbe river and bade a last
“farewell to Macon, The Beautiful.”
ITS BUSINESS.
In our columns this morning we present
the claims of some of Macon’s merchant
princes. Had our facilities for producing
a larger sheet and the time left us to work
in being greater, it would have been a
pleasure with us to have set forth every
business In the city. This work has been
done by one man, In, altogether, less than
one day’s canvassing and but a few days
advertising in these columns. It was not
designed to fill these eight pages with ad
vertising type, but to make up such a
sheet as would in all portions afford in
formation to and interest the reader, re
serving for next season, and our new press,
tho complete compendium of the city.
The business of Macon since the war
has been immense. She now lays claims
to the wholesale trade of Oeoagla, and
does more of it, in all its branches, than
»ny city in tho State. By reason of her
position, she has become tbe grand distri
buting point, and tbe Increase of her trav
eling agents and her business bouses,
prove how her superior position is being
(Continued on fourth page.)
The Latest Thing
—nr—
HOSIERY.
• All .
114 Second St.,
AIncon, - Georgia.
Have always displayed tlio-
—largest and cheapest line of
DRESS GOODS,
TRIMMINGS
-AND FANCY GOODS.
Satinsi
—AND—
Damassee Trimmings
W. Cubhedge,
BROKER
—aKD—
BEAL ESTATE AGENT,
MACON, GEORGIA,
—Dxax.3 In—
STOCKS AND BONDS
Giving particular attention to their pur
chase and sale on order, also, to the
PURCHASE, SALE and RENTING of
BEAL ESTATE.
Office in tho old Oity Bank.
“Bo sot 1st your chances
Like sunbeams pass you by,
For yoa’il never miss the water
Till the well runs dry-"
chon.
.hi
Always alive to tho exigencies of the times,
have abandoned tho antiquated methods
of old fogyism in the dry goods trade and
made immense rednetions in prices on all
classes of
DRY GOODS,
particularly in dre33 goods. It has been
the haDit with mercliants who are wedded
to the customs of the ancients to reduce
their prices at the end of the fall season,
when buyer and seller have become equal
ly tired and weary of looking at and show
ing goods, bnt
J. W. RICE & CO.
ring.
are determined to m&ko all transactions
mutually advantageous to their customers
and themselves, with a view of
Saving Time and'Money,
have made snch prices on their stock of
Dry Goods ns will induco all who favor
them with an inspection of their stock to
BUY AT ONCE.
All visitors to onr State Fair, which
opens within a few days, are cordially in
vited to visit onr establishment to mako
their purchases of Dry Goods, and thereby
combine pleasure with business.
Quick Sales and Small Profits
i Is our motto. The great problem of this
1 ptogreesivsageishow to eoonomize time
and monoy. J. W. Bioe A Co. will aid yon
to solve this perplexing pnzzle when yon
visit theirestabliabment.
J. W. RICE k CO.,
TRIANGULAR BLOCK.
W. A. JUHAN & CO
J. G. YaSMIe & Co.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
House-Fornishing Goods, Hardware, Tinware
Stores, Crockery, EIcl, Etc.
Plumbing is made a specialty
One of tbe neatest and at tbe same time
busiest establishment in Macon is the
House-Furnishing Emporium ot
MESSRS. J. C. VANSYCKLE & CO,
No. 116 Third Street.
The lionae is now in its third season, and
its progress is astonishing. It keeps upon
the road at all times those two courteous
salesmen, J. E. Martin and C. L. Stubbs,
and their goods are sold all through
Georgia and Alabama. The head of the
house is Mr. J. C. Vansyckle, formerly
with Carhart & Curd, a young man of
sterling integrity and untiring energy. By
devotion to business, and with finely de
veloped business qualities he has worked
his way to the top, and ia to-day one of
Macon’s most successful and trusted busi
ness men. His right band man in tbe es
tablishment is Mr.H. E. Oliver, formerly
oftheflrmof Oliver, Douglass A Co.,
which at one time did business in the
same establishment now occupied by
VanSyckle A Co. A crops of efficient and
experienced cletks make up the force.
The house doea a large and growing
business In crockery, glassware, wooden-
ware, tin and stamped ware, stoves and
honse-furnishing goods generally. At tbe
outset it was determined to keep in stock
only the very best of everything. The re
sult has shown t the wisdom of
this policy. Dealers rely upon tbe firm
and send in orders, confident that no spu
rious goods will be put off upon them.
The establishment is especially popular
anfong the ladies aud retail customers.
The handsomest specimen* of crockery
are kept displayed at the establishment,
and the finest grades of cut glass and
hardware. In tin, tbe boose furnishes
everything that can be desired, having
shops, which are run in connection with
tbe establishment. The business ot tbe
house required that addition should be
made to the building, and to meet this
demand for room a rear extension two
stories high and running back sixty feet
Is now being computed. Tbit will give
tbe firm a store 160 feet deep and two
stories high. We note with pleasure this
evidence of growth and prophesy for tbe
house an nnexampled success.
This enterprising firm comes to tbe front
this season with everything new in dress
goods, shoes, hats, domestic millinery and
dry goods generally. Its mammoth estab
lishment is the wonder and admiration of
all visitors. It occupies in all six capaoions
stores, covors more than a half aero in ex
tent and opens upon Seooad and Cherry
| streets and Cotton Avenne, and bos sepa-
( rate and distinct departments for all of its
multifarious lines of goods.
The main entrance is upon Second street,
where the visitor is ushered into the de
partment of dress goods. In this depart
ment will be found tho Urgest display of
olegant dress goods ever brought to Geor
gia. Also, a vast atoek of I aoes, embroider
ies, ribbons, sashes, trimmings, hosiery,
notions and fancy goods generally. Here
at all hours may be seen crowds of the fair
eex, and the whole soene is one of activity
and bustle. Fassing straight back the vis
itor finds himself in three large stores, all
thrown into one, and supported by grace
ful arches. In the first is an ammense
stock of honse-furnishing goods, snch as
linens, blankols, towels’doylies, etc., eto.In
the next, a perfeot ooean of prints, percales
and an immense stock of cossimores and
nobby patterns for men’s wear. Adjoining
this is the flannel and woolen departments,
containing everything that could bo dosir-
I. The stock of heavy goods and domes-
cs is very extensive, and oontains enough
to supply a hundred plantations.
The millinery department is one of the
prominent features of the house. It was
to accommodate this rapidly growing de
partment that the firm was forood to se
cure the large drug store formerly occu
pied by Ellis for drugs. The store is beau
tifully located for suoh a purpose. It has
openings on two streets, and is cut off from
the other departments. The millinery de
partment is in charge of skilled modistes,
and has adress-making branch up-stairs in
charge of a large and skilled foroe of ladies.
The hats and bonnets sold by this firm are
equal in beauty and taste to any thing over
brought to Macon. Up-stairs also is a
large and well stocked esrpet department,
filled with an elegant line of goods and
very popular among the house-keepers.
Adjoining the Seoond street store is the
large and commodionsthree-story building
oocupied formerly by Singleton, Hunt A
Co. Here Juhan A Co. have opened a large
and well selected stook of bats, shoes and
clothing, and make a specialty of these ar
ticles. It is in charge of a gentleman who
has spent years in the business and it is
now operated in the most successful man
ner. This completes the list of features
prominent in this widely known and pat
ronized establishment. •
Eleven years ago Mr. Johan’s name ap
peared above the first named store. As
time rolled along the remarkable success
whioh marked the oouree of the business
from the beginning enabled him to add
new features until to-day the vast estab
lishment, with its six store* and forty em-
iloyes, appears. Iu hie business Mr. da
mn has born ably seconded and assisted by
hit partner, Mr. C. B. Ellis, wed-known in
Maoon as oue of tbe most affable aud pop
ular dry goods men ever in the oity. The
suocess has bees earned, and will, we trust,
continue.
n
S. T. Coleman & Co. Jobbers.
A FULL STOCK OF
DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, LOO IS, SGOES. DATS
and many other articles of practical utility always to be found
in this establishment.
*!»•« ' . , f . , ...
Look for the largest Store in Macon and see our Sign No.
— Third Street.
I am ordered to give all parties notice that tbe trash, etc, they clean off lots, at the
cemetery, must be carried out at the gates of the cemetery. Hereafter ail parties
violating this ordinance will be reported to tbe mayor.
J. J. CLAY, City Sexton.
UNDERTAKER'S STORE,
Opposite Post-office.
I have tbe only regular coffin and undertaker’s store in Macon, andjeeep the
FINEST AND HANDSOMEST CASKETS.
I sell coffins from two dollars, up. Parties needing “burial suits” tor ladies and gen
tlemen will save money by calling on me. Fine carriages, gentle horses, always on
band for funeral*at “bottom figures,” and yon will save time, trouble and money by
calling on me when you need anything in my line. I will give my personal atten
tion to all orders entrusted to my care, and they can rely npon everything being at
tended to.
Embalming Bodies a Specialty;
And in all casesl am prepared to take charge of corpses and prepare them for inter
ment.
I will be in connection with the TELEPHONE in a few days and will receive or
ders by that way. Parties calling at night at Davis’ or Timberiake’s Livery Stable
can find me iu ten minutes. So when you need me some and see me and I will treat
you right.
General Undertaker.
THE above excellent cut represents the’main establishment of
JOHN W. BURKE & CO.
PUBLISHERS, BOOK-SELLERS, BOOK-BINDERS,
AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Stationery, Inks, Printing material, Books, Blank-books, Etc.
THIS is without doubt the largest aud aud most extensive establishment of its kind in the Southern States. Its trade
is immense, and extends to every portion of tbe United States and even into foreign countries. The bead of the firm is REV.
J. W. BURKE, of whom we recently pufal, sbeil a sketili, giving all tbe details of the years of push and energy, which have
brought him into such prominence before the people and into such success among business men. The business is in the
hands of a joint stock company, having a regular board of directors, wbo meet annually, and a secretary and treasurer. Tbe
gentleman filling the last named office is Clias. Canning. Esq., who came to this city with the Southern Christian Advocate
from Charleston years ago, aud who is greatly esteemed ]tu this community as a sterling business man, and prominent member
of tbe Methodist Churcl’.
Entering the front of the capacious building, which is situated on Second street, between Cheny and Poplar, the visitor finds
himself in the retail department, and surrounded by an immense stock of historical works, works of fiction, books of travel,
of poetry and all the writings of tbe best authors. Tho show cases shine with a large stock o'i fancy articles, bric-a-brac, gold-
pens, knives, etc., etc., while the long rows of shelving are loaded to their utmost capacity with school-books of every descrip
tion. In this department will be found its presiding genius, Mr. G. F. Barfield, formerly of Randolph county, and hU able
and courteous assistant, Mr. W. D. Williams, Jr. Passing to the rear, and passing the office wherein presides Mr. W. W.
DeHavens, tbe bookkeeper, we come into the blank-book department, and a stock of goods in that line larger than any carried
by a Southern house. Here, too, is Mr. J. W. Edwards, who lias for eighteen years been connected with the establishment, now
in charge of tho order department. Further iu the rear still we find the job room, from which Is constantly turned out the
most elegaut specimens of work ever shown in Macon. This depa tment is in chargeof Mr. G. A. Hall,a veteran in the tmslnese.
Below is the pressroom, where is printed the publications issued by the firm. Up-stairs is the composition room, with a com
of skilled workmen, in charge of Mr. O. N. Dana, another veteran. Forward, we find the extensive book-bindery and blank-
book manufactory, in charge of tiiat well-known gentleman, Mr. John G. Doitz. From this department there Is also issued
work which cannot be improved upon.
To meet tho demands for space made upon them by the immense stock of blank and school books required by the retail
trade, tho public schools and colleges, the firm has recently opened, at No. 7 Cotton Avenue, a second store which is well
stocked and largely patronized. It is in charge ot Messr.s Thaddens G. Parker and Edward Burke.
J. 77. Burke A Co. do business on a grand scale, and operate with a capital that is practically unlimited. We are informed
by the Southern Express Company that their shipments are larger than any five houses in the city combined. The establish
ment is an honor and credit to Macon and to the South. Mr. ft. D. Claucy is the popular traveling salesman for the house.
The Lanier House
Is larger than all the hotels in Macon combined!
It is the only well located hotel, being in the center of the citT. The
rooms are large and well furnished; the table ia supplied with the beet
of everything.
LANIER HOUSE FREE OMNIBUS WILL MEET ALL TRAINS.
Stewart & Powell, Proprs.
[M, and B. Division,]
AND WAYCEOSS SHORT LINE.
WE bfg to announce to the mercantile community of Macon tbe unsurpassed
facilities enjoyed by this route for the prompt handling and movement of freight, and
the rapid and careful transportation of passengers. This route enjoys equal ratea
with all competing lines, freedom from drayege transfen, and unequalled steam con
nections.
The extraordinary facilities offered by this route topasiengen forali points to
and from Florida must be tested in order to be properly appreciated. In a word, it is
THE SHORTEST LINE,
THE QUICKEST LINE,
THE SAFEST LINE,
AND THE BEST LINE
*• Of/ fee* Si
The attention of tourists and travelers, for health and pleasure, is called to tbe
doable daily service in operation on this old and reliable line.
SUPERB SLEEPING COACHES
Between Maeon and Jacksonville without dangor. Double daily trains, steel rail,
fast time, and sure connections are some of tbe leading features of this first class line.
The traveler will find many points on this route both classical and historical.
The traveliDg^public may met assured of receiving polite and courteous attention
and all tbe comforts and luxuries of modern travel. Try it, and be convinced.
As a freight route, to and from tbe East, via Savannah, Florida and Western rail
way and ocean steamships, this line is not merely unrivalled bat unapproachable.
Any frirther information desired will be cheerfully and promptly furnished.
J. J. GRIFFIN, Asst Genl- Freight and Pam- Agent-
J- X- EDWARDS, Superintendent-
JOHN W. XeDAYIEK, So Pam Agt. Jacksonville, Pin-
THOS. WOOD’S
Establishment.
Prominent among the business enter
prises of Mmoon is the old established
louse of Thomas Wood, situated on
MULBERRY BTBEET, NEXT DOOR TO
THE LANIER HOUSE.
He re can be found at all times everything
desirable in
FURNITURE,
CHAIRS,MATTRESSES, SPRING BEDS,
CAR PETS,
WINDOW SHADES, WALL PAPER,
AND MATTINGS.
The house oontains nothing bat first-class
goods. Among the many attractions am
all the latest novelties in ohaim.
THE UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT
Is constantly stocked with olegant
Coffins, Burial Cases and
Caskets
in all woods, while tbe orders left are filled
promptly. On* faster.of this department
a the rapid filling of orders telegraphed
from surrounding point*. If the order
oomse fifteen minutes before train time the
casket goes out upon tbe train.
The third department is that of
Music, Musical Instruments
Sto., of whioh a large and fresh stook is al
ways carried.
READ THIS
FURNITURE
At Manufacturers’ Trices for the next
Thirty Days.
NEW STYLES,
NEW GOODS,
Everything in onr store being new, yon
will not get any old style goods. We
bought before tbe rise in lumber and will
give you tbe benefit of the arrangements
Which we made with manutacii era. We
have a splendid stock, with prices un
heard of in this vicinity. Nona can un
der-buy us,
Non* oan Underset! Us.
You are invited to call and see ns; mo
trouble to show goods. We am at Miners.
May A Co’s old stand,
NOS. 116 & 118 CHERRY ST.
Maoon, Georgia.
W. S. PAYNE & COw