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Newspaper Page Text' T WHP«riosf : " -u . SUBSCRIPTION RATES. — One copy one year ^1 5° i One copy six months 75 ! Ono copy three months, 40 ; (3ff* Will club Tht tfEnsr.D *xi) Ad- ] ykrtiser with eithei of the following • named publications at $2 50 per annum j for both papers: Atlanta Weekly Con- ! stitution, Macon Weekly Tele'graph. | Louisville Weekly Courier-Journal, Sou thern Cu-tivator. jgT Remittances can be made by P. O. I Money Order, Postal Note, Registered | Letter or Express. HERALD AND ADVERTISER. VOL. XXII NEWNAN, GA., FR1 D&V, MARCH 25. 1887. NO. 23. (gettetal Directory. 3ut>iciary. UNAWARES. every one who knows him is glad to Newnan is the county-seat of Coweta county. Ga., and containb a population of g r 500. It is situated on the Atlanta and West point Railroad, the main highway to New Orleans from the East and North; In 39 miles from Atlanta, 4o7 miles from New Orleans, 36 miles from GrifUn and 24 miles from Carroll ton. The .Savannah, Griflic and North Ala bama Railroad (running from Grlflln to Car rollton} intersects the Atlanta and West Point Kailroad at this point, making it the only Im portant railroad junction between Atlanta nnd Montgomery, Ala. Tlie people are enter prising. Intelligent and sociable; the locality as healthy as can be found In the South. Four religious denominations are represeuted In the community — Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Episcopal ian — and six churches furnish ample accommodations for church-going people. One female college of COWETA CIRCUIT. S. W. Harris, ----- - Judge. H. M. Reid, - • - Solicitor General. Campbell—First Monday in February and August. Carroll—First Monday in April and i October. Coweta-First Monday in March and September. Douglas—Third Monday in January We were sitting, after waltzing. On the stairs. He, before I could forbid it, Stole a rose, ere yet I missed it. And, as tenderly he kissed it, Swiftly iu his pocket bid it, aee him forging ahead once more. 4* THE THIEVING TARIFF. Senator Hearst is another mining U tia wares. made on tbe Comstock. In early be made some money there, but be FMUrti., Again,! Cheap Goad, toy Pricy,/ the world, are worse in this regard than Rusaia, the most despotic power which claims to be civilized. millionaire, but hismUliona were not. Hon Barnkt,taWasWugton Ga.) Chronicle.] Such is the valuable protection af- and July thirty-four years r standing, one male semi nary aiid numerous private school* comprise tbe educational facilities of the community. There are now in tmcceasful operation in the city twenty-five dry goods aud grocery stores, three drug stores, three millinery stores, two hardware stores, one shoe store, two book stores, one Jewelry store, two leather and har ness shops, two livery stables, two carriage repositories, two meat markets, one tin and stove store, three hotels, three restaurants, two coal yards, one furniture store, two tailor shops, two bakeries, several shoe shops, ono clgnr and tobacco store, two barber shops, one photograph gallery, one Job printing office, one billiard saloon, one real estate agency aud two newspaj>erR. Two national banks, amply capitalized, furnish all tbe accommodation needed in the business community. Between fifteen and twenty thousand bales ot cotton are received annually and four large brick warehouses are required to store anu handle It. Liberal cotton buyers, representing New YorK, Savannah aud Atlanta, are in the mar ket every season. A handsome opera house, three stories high, with a seating capacity oi seven hundred, does duty as town Uall and theatre. Most of the leading theatrical troupes visit us during the fall and winter season. A public library, comprising over a thousand volumes, is one of the populur institutions of the town. A mineral spring, whose curative properties have been thoroughly tested and proven beneficial In hundreds of Instances, is located within a stone’s throw of the town. The Cureton Springs, also noted for their health-giving virtues, are situated only six mile* distant. The mystic orders are repre sented by three Masonic lodges and one lodge of Odd Fellows. The various manufacturing enterprises that contribute to the life and per manent prosperity of the towu (one of which iurnishes employment to seventy-five or one hundred hands the year round,) may be clas sed as follows: Wood works, foundry and ma chine shops (known as the “R. I). Colo Man ufacturing Co.”); ono furniture factory; two whiskey distilleries; three wagon repair shops; one manufacturing jeweler; one ci gar factory; one guano factory; one cotton seed oil mill; one marble works; one tan nery; one tin shop; one grist mill; one gun smith shop. Between two and three hundred skilled mechanics of all classes find constant and remunerative employment nere. The different professions are represented as fol lows: twenty-five lawyers, nine doctors and three dentists. Our merchants and business men are uoted for their enterprise aud liber ality, and their several branches of trade are as firmly established as can bo found in any town In the State. The trade of the town is drawu from a wide territory, extending into all the adjoining counties, and Is annually increasing. We were talking, after waltzing. On the stairs. I had said that he should rue it. And a lecture I intended. Which I think he apprehended; I was kissed before I knew it, U na wares. September. IIeard--Fourth Monday in March and September. Meriwether—Third Monday, in Febru ary and August. 'I’roup—Third Monday in April and First y ondav in November- We were silent, alter waltzing, On the stairs. I had stormed with angry feeling. But he spoke love, never heeding. And my eyes fell ’neatn his pleading. All ir y depth of love revealing, t? na wares. got in with the notorio.in J- W. Pear- j forded by ♦he tariff. It protects us sou and lost a fortune in Idaho oper- frois abundance, mud gives us the full ations. Then being a first-class ex- I benefit of scarcity. It protects us from t pert, probably the best to-day, be j competition and consigns us to nion- ' formed a connection with J.B. Hag- ! opoly. It-enables us to pay more gin and Lloyd Tevij, and has been a j for oar goods' and get' less for our potent factor in all their great opera- j money. It secures' us dear goods, MEN OF MILLIONS. 5- i hi i o! o 2 *§ *>= I - Wz If —C's 3 "*- 7. IIow .John Maekay Married His Wife in Nevada. Virginia City Cor. Philadelphia Press.] John Maekay, the suddenly enriched aud oue of the ‘‘bonanza” kings of I jt will be a cold day indeed when he 1875 in Nevada, is perhaps the best gets up in the Senate to make a speech. ' tions for I he past ten years. He Is now j about 60 years of age, of slight bjild, j erect, full gray beard, a merry twinkle ! in his eye, fond of good company— | that is, genial company, in front of a well-stocked bar—and charmingly il- ! literate. He has an income of $60 000 per month. He can read and write— the latter with some difficulty. But a - i < % * o •§■^s k ; ~ Ohr h «z = s = aF ic'H 2*2 fc|j ilgssss Sifgsgg Hatlroab Scfyebulcs. ATLANTA & WEST POINT R. R. MANUFACTURERS. Tiie It. I). Coi.k Manufacturing Compa ny.—EHtnbliHhed 1854; incorporated 1884. Manufacture steam engines, boilers, saw mills, corn-mills, power cotton presses, shaft ing, mill gearing and castings ol all kinds; lumber, sash, doors, blinds and moulding; house contractors and car-builders. Employ 125 hands in various departments. It. 1). Cole, 8*, nresident; M Cole, vice-president; K. i). Cole, Jr., superintendent; M. F.Cole, secretary and treasurer. The Willcoxon Manufacturing Com pany.—(Mills located at Ixidi, 6 miles west of Newnan, on the 8., G. and N. A. It. It.} Or ganized October 12th, 1868. Manufacture yarns, knitting cotton, and carpet warp. iearly consumption of cotton, 700 bales. Average number of hands employed, 75. Stephen D. Smith, president; H. J. ^argent, secretary nnd treasurer. The Coweta Fertilizer Company.— Manufacture several brands of high-grade commercial fertilizers. Capacity 100 tons per clay. Employ .‘10 hands during working sea son. H. C. A mail, president; J. a. Hunter, vice-president; W. J. Drlskill, superinten dent; il. C Fisher, secretary aud treasurer; Geo. 1. Jones, general agent. Furniture Factory.—Y. II. & J. C. Thompson, proprietors. Established 1807. Manufacture all kiuds of house and kitchen furniture. Employ from 8 to 12 bauds. Cigar Factory.—M. Salbide, proprietor. Manufactures all grades of cigars, employing both domestic leaf and best clear Havana. Wholesale uud retail. BANKS. First National Bank.—Established 1S71. Capital stock, 160,000; surplus, $70,000. W. B. Berry, president; John 1>. Berry, vice-presi dent; H. C. Fisher, cashier; I*. B. Murphy, assistant cashier. Newnan National Bank.—Organized in 1885. Cash capital,$50,000. Charles C. Parrott, president: J. 8. Rigby, vice-president; R w. Andrews, cashier; John S. Hollinsheud, teller. CHURCHES. Baptist Church—Rev. J. H. Hall, D. D., Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath at 10.30 a. in. and7:30 »•. in. Sunday School at 9 a. m. Prayer Meet ug Wednesday night at 7:30 clock. Young Men’s Prayer Meeting every Monday night. Methodist Church—Rev. W. R. Foote, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday at 10:30 a. m. and 7:15 p. lii. Sunday School 9 a. m. Class Meeting at. 4 p. in. Ladles Prayer Meeting every Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Young Men’s Prayer Meeting every Monday night. Soeial Meeting every Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society meets on the first Monday afternoon iu each month at the church, at 4 o’clock. Presbyterian Church—Rev. Jas. Stacy, D. I)., Pastor. Preaching on the first and third Sabbaths in each mouth at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 8 a. m. Prayer Meeting every Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock. Communion quarterly. Episcopal Church.—Rev. E. Dennison, Rector. Second Sabbath in each month, at 10:80 a. m. February 3d, 1887. .Up Day Passenger Train—East. Leave Montgomery 7 35 a m “ Grantville 11 37 am “ Puckett’s 11 50 a m “ Newnan 12 03 p ro “ Palmetto 12 14 pm Arrive at Atlunta 125pm Down Day Passenger Train—West. Leave Atlanta 1 20 pro “ Palmetto 2 20 pm “ Newnan 2 47 pro 4 * Puckett’s 3 02 pm “ Grantville 8 18 p ro Arrive at Montgomery 7 15 pm Up Night Passenger Train—East. Leave Selma 2 35 p m Leave Montgomery 8 15 pm “ Grantville 12 25 a ro “ Puckett's 12 40 a m “ Newnan 12 52 a m “ Palmetto l is a m Arrive at Atlanta 2 15 am Down Night Passenger Train—West. Leave Atlanta 12 20 a m “ Palmetto 1 20 a m “ Newnan 1 49 a m “ Puckett’s 2 05 am “ Grantville 2 17 am Arrives at Montgomery 6 45 a n Arrives at Selma .... 11 00 a m Accommodation Train (daily*,—East Leaves LaGrnnge 7 00 a m Arrives Grantville 7 50 a m “ Puckett’s 8 05am “ Newnan 8 23am “ Powell’s 8 37am “ Palmetto 8 56 a in 44 Atlanta 10 00 a m Accommodation Train (daily)-West. Leaves Atlanta. 5 05 p m Arrives Palmetto 6 09pm “ Powell’s .. 6 27 p m “ Newnan 6 42 pm •* Puckett’s.. 700pm “ Grantville 7 13 p m “ LaGrange 8 00pm CECIL GABBETT, C. H. Cromwell, || General Manager. Gen’l Pass. Agt. |j S. G. & N. A. R. R. CIVIC SOCIETIES. Newnan Lodge, No. 102. 1.0. O. F.—J. T. Carpenter, N G.; T. E. Fell, V. G.; Y. C. Thompson, Sec’y; W. B. Berry, P. S., W. C. Snead, Treasurer. Meets every Friday night. Ruth Rebecca Lodge, No. 12 —Meets every second and fourth Monday nights at Odu Fellows’ Hall. W. A. Mitchell, N.G.; W. E. Avery, Sec’y. Coweta Lodge, No.60, F. A. M.—Regular Meetings 2nd and 4tli Tuesday nights in each 12 T W \l W A \f month. G. L. Johnson. W. M. W. A. Mitchell Secretary. Newnan Chapter, No. 34, R. A. M.—Regu lar Meetings first- and third Tuesday nights euch ''month. R. W. Freeman, H. P. W. A. Mitchell, Secretary. Hiram Council No. IS R. & S. M.—Regu lar meeting first Monday evening in each month. Orlando McClendon, T. I. M.; R. W. Freeman, Recorder. A. J. Berry Council, No. 75S, R. A.—Reg ular -meetings second and fourth Monday nights in each month. L. R. Ray, Regent; Daniel Swiut, Secretary. Newnan Lodge, No. 37, A. O. V. W.—Regu lar meetings first and third Saturday nights In each month. Geo. H. Carmical, M. W.; Daniel Swint, Recorder. PUBLIC LIBRARY. President—J. s. Powell. Vice President—A. C. Pease. Secretary—Miss Annie DeGraffenried. Treasurer—H. C. Fisher. Directors—R. W. Freeman, G. H. Carmi cal, J. T. Moore, J. E. Brown, J. P. LeveretL Librarian—Miss Annie DeGraffenried. The Library Is open on Wednesday’s and Sat^ CITY GOVERNMENT. Mayor—W. B. Berry. Aldermen—J. J. GooUrum,H. C. A mail, U. W. Andrews, J. S. Powell. Treasurer—R. W. Andrews. Clerk of Council.—L. S. Conyers. Marshal—J. E. Robinson. Deputy—J. A. Lee. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Superior Court—Daniel Swint. i Ordinary*—W. H. Persons. Sheriff— j George H. Carmical. Tax Receiver—J. J. Fanner. Tax Collector—I. N. Farmer. ; Treasurer—H. L. Jones. Sury'EY'OR—J. B. Goodwyn. Coroner—H. F. Dnncan. COUNTY COURT. J. W. Powell, Judge; P. S. Whatley, Solici tor. Monthly sessions—Third Mondav in each month. Quarterly sessions—Third Mondays In January, April, July and October. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. J A Hunter, Chairman: P O Colllnsworth; ‘ J D Simms, J N Newell, W W Sasser, Com- 1 inissiouers. R W Freeman, Clerk and At- j tomey. Meet first Wednesday in each month. POST OFFICE. BostmASTER—J. R. McCollum. Office hours from7:30 a. m. to 6 p. m. _ CLOSING THE MAILS. The up mail closes at 12:4S p. m. and down : mail at 4.11 n ... .....i 1 .(none r*t £ o No. 1— Leave Carrollton 6 10 a ro ArriveAtkinson, T. O ... 6 26 a m 44 Banning 6 42 a m “ Whitesburg 7 00 am “ Sargent’s 7 18 am “ Newnan 7 40 am “ Sharpsburg 8 30 am “ Turin 8 37 am 44 Senoia 8 58am “ Brooks 9 30am “ Vaughns 9 50aro 44 Griflin 10 10 a m No. 2- Leave Griffir. 11 40 a m Arrive at Vaughns 12 00 m “ Brooks 12 16 pm 44 Senoia 12 50 pm 44 Turin 1 20 pm 44 Sharpsburg 1 35 pm 44 Newnan 2 15 pm 44 Sargent’s 306 pm 44 Whitesburg 3 26 p in 44 Banning 3 42 pm 44 Atkinson, T. 0 4 02 pm 44 Carrollton 4 25pm Wji. Rogers. Gen’l. Supt. Professional <£arfcs. I\ S. wTllcoxon. wT c. Wright. WILLCOXOX & WRIGHT, Attorneys at Law, Newnan, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of the Dis trict and circuit. All Justice Courts atten ded. Office in WiUcoxon building, over E. E. Summers’. Orlando McClendon. R- W. Freeman. mcclendon & freeman, Attorneys at Law, Newnan, Ga. Pract‘ce in all the courts, collect tons made, conveyancing, and all legal business attended to with promptness Office over James Parks east side public square. W. A. TURNER, Attorney at Law, Newnan, Ga. Practices tnal> tbeStateand Federal Court*. Office No. -I Opera House Building. W. Y. ATKINSON, Attorney at Law, Newnan, Ga. gm- Will practice in all Courts or this and adjoining counties and the Supreme Court. J. S. POWELL, Attorney at Law, Newnan, Ga Collections made. G. W. PEDDY, M. D.. Physician and Surgeon, Newnan, 3a. (Office over W. E. Avery’s Jewelry Store.! Offers his services to the people of Newnan and surrounding country. All calls answered promptly. DR. THOMAS J. JONES mail at 2:11 p. m. Gtiffin mail closes at 6 m. and the Carrollton mall at 3 p, m. Office rfiroiu3:30 ~ open onBundky £| Respectfully otters his services to the [jeople in Newnan and vicinity, "fflre on Hepot street, R. H. Barnes’ oldiowelry omce. Res idence on Depot street, third building east of A.*w.r.<i5St, known of all tbe men who made millions during the days that Nevada poured out her treasures to enrich the lucky and persistent Irishmen. John Maekay, tbe ope-time miner and laborer, now mixes with the great | world of two continents. I saw him a j short time ago—the same unassuming | man as of yore—quiet, gentlemanly, of ! plain attire, sporting a 12.50 nickel j watch without a chaiu, and wearing j absolutely no jewelry. He was ac companied by a well-known Com- stocker, one Dick Dey, a sort of groom of the chambers or jumping jack to keep oti strikers. Maekay spends most of his time in this country per sonally looking after his banking and telegraph interests, while ‘‘Madame la Duchesse,” as some envious Califor nia dames have ironically entitled Mrs. Maekay, spends all her time in Europe. The rise of the “bonanza” firm sounds like a miracle, but Mrs. Mackay’s career has been still more striking. The daughter of a resident of Ne vada City, Cal., she was early noted for her rich, voluptuous beauty’. She married a practicing phy sician, who, “early in the game,” became addicted to the wine cup. Hoping to better his fortunes, and possibly to reform his habits, he migrated to Virginia City previous to 1S70. Here be gave free play to his appetite for whiskey, and it was but a short time ere he “passed in his chips.” His wife fi ns left pen niless. With true American “sand” she started in to make a living for herself and children. She kept a boarding-house, and, as the Paris Fi garo satirically saida few years ago in a notice of madatne: “The miners were united iu their judgment that it was a« good a boarding-houses as there was in the diggings.” About this time Maekay had got his first $100,000 together, and began casting sheep’s eyes at the fair widow. He paid her some attentions, aud some one laugh ingly rallied her about it, and sug gested that she would do well to mar ry him, whereupon there ensued a large pout and a string of adjectives not altogether complimentary to the swain. I do not vouch for this. I only re peat the current Comstock gossip. At all events she did marry Maekay; and what a change was there, my coun- men! It looks not unlike a marriage of convenience, as niadame moves amid foreign scenes of grandeur, and “haughty halls of light, all in her silk attire,” while her lord and master drifts around in a $12 suit of tweed and wonders what niadame finds so very entrancing abq^t Paris. She has the fiuestdiamonds inexistence, gives the grandest fetes, reclines in palaces and—has pie everyday if she wants it. It must make Flood, another mem ber of the “bonanza” firm, laugh a sort of hoarse, gloating laugh when he reflects that a score of years ago him self and “Billy” O'Brien kept the “Auction Lunch” saloon on Wash ington street opposite tLe post office in San Francisco, and the lunch was brought down regularly’ at 11 o’clock every morning by Mrs. Flood! round of beef, a few potatoes, some bread, butter and radishes. O me! California and Nevada have furnish ed three boodle Senators in the persons o'fT5WtfWh7"Fa!and Hunt. -They were aud are conspicuous only for their wealth, without which none of them could have been elected. This may’ induce you to believe “Barkis" Maekay “is willin'.” Not a bit of it. He was sounded on tbe subject once in 1B76 by tbe agent of a combination desirous of tapping bis barrel. “What is $5,000 a year?” he said. What, in deed, to a man with an income of $10,- 000,000 a year! But this was not all he said: “I’m not competent to fill the bill, and I know it. There are lots of other fellows not competent, but they don’t know it.” Which led me to re mark right there and then that John W. Maekay has a great big head full of horse sense. Beautiful Landscape. Cor. New York Times.] In ^peaking of the Bermudas, Rev. Jebn Snyder said: “One of the pret tiest sights I be.ieve I ever saw was when I went up into one of their !:ght-hoi>?e? aud looked out upon the islands below on tbe one baud and the wide ocean on the other. The land scape was green wi’h pal me and all kinds of tropical plants, and the earth was carpeted with grhss. The natives build in small villages which dot this lovely country on every side, and the white tops of these village bouses, down among the palms, and with a carpet of green grass for a back ground, make a picture one must see to appreciate. The air is balmy, and said to be a wonderful curative for consumptives. General Hastings, of whom I made mention in your former interview, was positively ‘-ctared by this climate. He went there twenty- years ago in what was thought to be the last stage of consumption, and now he is a-well man.” “Of what material do they Ituild houses iu Bermuda?” “Of coral; that is to say, of a stone found abont two feet under the soil at almost any point. This is the work of the coral insect and has been covered by the soil in the process of foiming the island.” “Does the stone stand the weather and answer for all building pur poses?” “Yes, its durability is somewhat re markable when we consider what the ston“ is and the way in which it is ob tained. The masons go out and re move the two feet of soil that covers the stone, and they- find it as soft as wood, perhaps softer than some kinds of our hickory. They cut it out into blocks of any desirable size or shape and leave it exposed to the air a short time, where it becomes as hard as real stone and stands the weather ac cordingly.” “You spoke of the village housetops being white: what makes them so?” “Every peasant and resident of the Bermudas is supposed to paint his housetop at least once a year. Tbe covering of stone is sometimes al most flat, and as cistern water is their high prices, low wages and bard liv ing. Such is tbe catalogue of the blessings conferred by tbe tariff. It protects us, moreover, from an open market, and confines ns to a restricted market, both in buying, and, by con sequence, in selling. Indeed, we are told that, but for protection, for eigners would flood this country with chesp goods, and we should be inun dated with all sorts of desirable things at redaced prices. What a catastro phe U> contemplate! To swim in plenty—to be inundated with good things! Against such a calamity we are pro tected by the tariff. We are kept in full possession of low wages, and a pinched standard of living. Our means are decreased, and the cost of living increased. Has language lost Its meaning? Are not the dangers against which we are warned the very object of bur anxious toil and daily self denial? Welcome cheapness, welcome abun dance, welcome freedom—freedom of production, freedom of exchange. And hence, avaunt forever roe su perstition of “protection,” and the chains which biDd our free limbs. Welcome the world wide freedom which accepts the gifts of the Almigh ty to the whole world, and the whole race, and exchanges free according to mutual interest, to mutual advan tage. The doctrine of protection proves too much; one of its catch words is, pre serve tbe national market for the na tional industry. A beautiful allitera tion. Who drives fat oxen, should himself be fat. Bnt if we preserve our national market, will not others preserve theirs, and so both are losers? Each iosea as much as it gains, and exchanges a superior market for an inferior. If not to their mutual inter est, they will not exchange. Already three thousand miles of freight “pro tect” national industry-, besides insur ance, delay, risk, etc. If we can over come that, we would do best to swap goods. But if a national market for national industry, why not the State marset for State industry ? The alliteration is just as fine. State and State are just as parallel as nation and nation. Nay, carry it further, and keep the county market for the. coun ty industry, neigh hnrluot far wrtgb- only source of water supply, they A j paint their roofs, that they may better turn the water into their cisterns. Very often you can see about the forts Omy! But the wonderful lamp must large surfaces arranged in this way to have been lying around on some of tbe j turn water into the cisterns. The back shelves, and certainly “Jim” earth is removed off a large space of b Iood must have rubbed up against it atone and this is so arranged as to turn by accident, for it Is related that when the water into a common cistern. The the genii appeared and asked to know their wishes the partners were so overcome with surprise that they treated five people who were in the sa loon. Billy O’Brien finally made known his wishes. “All I want,” he said, “is enough to keep full for ten years.” He got his wish. He lasted just ten years after he got his pile, and stone is all painted, and as I said, looks very besutifnl when one looks down from the light-houses at this snow- white substance among the green grass.” borhood, family for family, and to get to the rock bottom of the business, work for the exact things only you yourself want; keep your personal market for your personal industry, be your own carpenter, bricklayer, shoemaker, tailor, aud cook—and a very poor one of each. The outcome ofitallis—stopswapping. Butswap- ping—exchanging—is the very begin ning of civilization. Go back, then, to savagery—“protect” yourself against the chief means of progress—competi tive industry-. If protection i9 needed against foreign competition, itis need ed, a fortiori, against State competi tion. Inter-State protection tests on stronger ground than international. If tbecoinpetition of Europe is danger ous, with an ccean intervening, much more so the competition of State indus try with State, separated only by an imaginary line. Why not protect Vir ginia from Pennsylvania, and Ken tucky from Ohio? Why not upper Georgia from lower Georgia, and east ern North Carolina from Western. America is a fine, thrifty youth— only half grown as yet. Nature has done immensely for her, and has had a splendid chance. Free trade throughout her own borders has been the leading factor in her prosperity. Oar Bojs. Whenever I walk through the streets of a country village in the evening, I am disgusted at the specta cle of men whose principal recreation seems to be smoking, spitting and talking idly and uoprofitably, on tbe steps of saloons or hotels; bnt worse than this, is tbe sight of small boys (the men of the future,) whose chief aim in life is apparently to imitate their elders. Were their efforts in a good cause as effective, their success would be admirable; as it is, it is dis tressing, heartrending. A taste for reading- will save a boy from much trouble and mischief. If he makes reading his accustomed recreation early in life, tbe habit will become as firmly fixed as'tbe bad hab its of the ordinary boys. I can scarce ly imagine a greater hardship than to deprive an kehilnei reetlii. el. kinks and papers. Boys in the country are quite likely to be eDVious who have migrated to thedty^aud who return occasionally to the old home for a brief vacation. The well fitting clothes, the ready Btock of small talk, and the little airs and graces which seem to become the property of country boys who are employed in tbe city, cause admira tion and envy. But that a boy lives in the country is no reason for his not appearing well if he has the necessary intelligence. I have no patience with the country boy who will allow him self to talk with a nasal twang, or to use ungrammatical language when be knows better. Instead of bemoan ing the fact that their lot is cast in the country, they should read the biography of great men to learn that the best of all places for study and intellectual culture is tbe quiet country home. I would not underrate city advantages; but the boy who is struggling for life in a city; who has no home except a crowded boarding bouse, has little time and no inclina tion to study. A noted author wrote, a few years ago, to a hundred of the most prominent men of our land for the purpose of learning where they were born, and under wbat conditions they were reared. He learned that eighty were born and brought up in the country, most of them in impe cunious circumstances, but nearly all of them traced their success to strong- minded, self-denying mothers; though another great element of success was their physical health, the result of ab stemious living and out of door occu pation. NO MORE FREE PASSES. A Problem for Statesmen. New Republic.] It is scarcely worth while to call the attention of the office-seeking demagogue to any real issue that en croaches on the sequestered domains of smothered conscience; but for tbe thinking man or woman who earnest ly desires correct information and safe guidance, wehavesome figures. They seem incredible as they stand, but they tell only half of the awful truth. The latest statistical accounts from Great Britain and Ireland show the fallowing items of annual expenditure by the people: For liquors £S36,000,000 For bread 70,000.000 For butter and cheese 35,000,000 For milk 30,000.000 For sugar 25,000,000 For tea, coffee and cocoa.. 20,000,000 For woolen goods 46,000,000 For catton and linen 20,000,00fi For rent on farms 60,000,000 For rent on houses 70,000,000 These startling figures plainly show that the annihilation of the liquor- traffic would do more for England and Ireland than all the Utopian schemes advocated in Parliament during the last two centuries, and for that matter since the foundation of tbe English Government. Tbe a olition of the drink curse would give Ireland Home Rule; it would feed the starv ing thousands that are wasting away in squalor and want under the shadow of the church-spires of that rum-cursed This prosperity the protectionists at- . , . ,, , tribute not to Providence, but to their ! la , n ? : 11 would “ ak * th f op P res8Iona own quackery-not to the bounty of j of the voracious landlord vanish like nature, but to the violation of natural ! m,8t ^ <ore the morn,ng 8UQ i and the laws and the obstruction of human ; freedom. This wonderful “protec tion” is a juggler, and marvelous at lie Didn’t Jump. Detroit Free Press-J Sunday afternoon a man suddenly died after a big spree, leaving more appeared at a third-3tory window in than $9,000,000 to be divided among an unfiuished building on Grand his sister's children. River street and seemed to begin pre- Flood asked for the earth, aud has been • parations to commit suicide by leap- trying to get it ever since. He has got ing to the pavement. A crowd of for- sleight of hand; for behold, it raises prices and lowers them; it raises wages to the workman and lowers wages to the employer. Blowing hot and cold is a small matter to protec tion. , We build ships (not so many now,) and construct railroads to remove ob stacles to exchange. We dig tunnels with the mocking wind in whistling worn-out campaign tuneB, would cease to prey on the ignorance and credulity of the masses. To the intelligent and honest student herein lies a valuable lesson; to tbe conspiring, dodgi ng dem agogue, only a stumbling-block is pre sented. Do You Blame Her? Chambers Journal.] The “fair girl graduates” have their and bridge rivers to smooth the way. ! own triumphs—triumphs neither few By this means we reduce the cost of : nor insignificant; but over the lives of transportation, say ten per cent; and men their triumphs have not extended, then we put-up an artificial impedi- I drawing room, the despised co- a mortgage on a big lot of it, too! His ! ty or fifty people speedily gathered in I ment of 43) j per cent, as if exchange | quette is queen regnant, and there the bouse at Menlo Park is unequaied on alialf-circle below, and althongh all ! were a bad thing. We are engaged at : P a,e student, the class room’s glory, is j Reagan, there is nothing in the bill for- this continent. Architects and build- seemed to be aware of what was going the same time in building ships to let : simply nowhere. The coquette knows bidding the Central issuing a trip pass ers received carte blanche, and now on, not a voice was raised to prevent : goods in, and custom-houses to keep ^ er P° wer ®nd revels in it. In self de- j from Savannah to Atlanta, or the 8a- IXwttMte* to be Cut Off After Man* 31* t. Savannah News.) The Central railroad and the Savan nah, Florida and Western railway will stop issuing all free passes on the last day of this month until further orders from the beads of the compa nies. Trip passes that are issued now are made out “good only until March 31.” The ancient custom of chalking bats from Savannah to New York or Chicago and return will ceaae. Migh ty Senators and Congressmen will have to draw ont their purses after April 1, unless they boldannuals, and the annaals will expire- with the year. Many are the letters of inquiry that the companies are receiving daily about the effect of the inter-Sate com merce bill on passes. The deadheads grasp at tbe smallest straws. Bish ops, presiding elderB and regularly or dained clergymen can travel at 'in duced rates, but their wives will hive IS^jrayTtfsTTh. dox sinner citizens, Railway presidents, general officers and employes can be granted free rides over their own road, and the principal officers of roads can ex change passes. Their wives and chil dren, though, will have to pay full fare tickets over their husbands’ and fathers’ lines. Temperance lecturers and tract distributors were left out of the chosen few. Marshals, deputy marshals,sheriffs, judges, lawyers and tbe scores of others who hold annuals are all right for the remaining nine months of the year, so far as the an nuals are concerned, but the trip passes will be shut down on in just nineteen days from date. The mer chants who shin car-loads of freight every week, the factors who control shipments of cotton and naval stores, tbe great shippers of cattle, of horses, of groceries, of oils, of iron, and of lumber, will have to be refused when they request a trip pass. All the following will have to pay full fare: Theatrical companies, base ball players, bicyclists, theatrical ad vance agents, students, laborers, lum bermen, Indians, United States offi cers and soldiers or their families, in mates of national homes of disabled volunteer soldiers, city police, mcm- b|p of the press (as courtesies,) hotel employes, freight shippers, charity cases, dumb or blind people and tem perance workers. The inter-State bill prohibits the pooling of passenger earnines and the charging or accepting a greater or less compensation than the rates as estab lished and published. It only infer- entially permits giving reduced rates to ministers of religion, but clearly forbids redaced rates or free transpor tation to any other class. The law inferentially permits first, second and third (emigrant) classes of passengers, if the accommodations are as varied as the classes. Children un der 5 years of aee, accompanied by parents or guardians, may be carried free; children of 5 or under 12 years of age may be carried at half-fare. It inferentially permits special addition al charges for special trains or other unusual service, a variation of charges based upon restricted availability of tbe ticket, and the assurance of mile age, excursion or accommodation passenger tickets, but does not permit a discrimination in favor of any organ ized body—religious, secular, secret, etc.,—must be contemporaneously available to any person. It forbids any undueornnreasonable preferences to any person or company, firm, cor poration or locality, and greater com pensation for a short than a longer haul over the same line and ih the same direction. Commercial travelers and tourists for pleasure will have to pay up. Even President Cleveland will be charged the full fare unless the rail road companies find some way to get around the bill. Some of the dead heads may offer their services to the companies in order to come under the employe class, but judges, legislators and Congressmen can scarcely get on tbe favored list in that way. Special rates may be given under certain cir cumstances, but the privilege will have to be open to all, as, for Instance, a cheap rate to a military prize drill. The whole public will en oy the same rate that is given tbe soldiers in uni form. Congressmen Reagan and Cullom, who are considered authorities on tbe bill, say that it does not prohibit the railroads giving passes to any one for use between points in a single State. Others think differently, and tbe rail road officials, determined to be on tbe safe side, will not Issue any more free passes, so they say, until the Commis sioners make some ruling on the point. According to Senator-elect ADVERTISING RATES. - - - $ 2 no - - - - 3» - - - -?itoo 10 00 One sqpare 1 month, - One square 3 months, One square 6 months, - One square 12 months, Quarter column 1 month, - - - 5 00 Quarter column 3 months, - - - 12 00 Quarter column 12 months, - - - 30 00 Half column 1 month, - - - - - ? S® Half column 3 months, - - - - 20 00 naif column 12 months,- - - - GO 00 One column I month, ----- 10 00 One column 3 months, ----- 25 00 One column, 12 months, - - - - lUO OO thousand years ago.. There is still tha sheik, the ass, and the water wheel. The merchants of the Euphrates and the Mediterranean still “occupy” these “with the multitude of their wares.” The city which Mahomet surveyed from a neighboring height and was afraid tp .enter, "because it was given to man to have but one par adise, and for his part he was'resolved not to Save itih this'vrbrl<F,”‘is to-day what Julian called the “eye of tha East,” as it waaiatbe time of Isaiah, “Tbe head of. Syria. 1 ' . , From Damasqus came the damson, or blue plums, and delfcfous apricot of Portugal, called dantasco; damaslr, or beautiful fabrics of cotton and silk, with .vines and flowers raised upon a smooth, bright ground; the damask rose, introduced into Eugland at tha time'of Henry VIII.; the Damascus blade, so famous the world over for its keen edge and wonderful elasticity, tbesecret of the manufactureof which was lost wbeu Tamerlane carried off iC artiste into Persia; aud that beau- 1fnfaylng~Vu<Ml and steol with gold, a kind of Mosaic engraving and sculpture united called damaske ing, with which boxes, bureaus, swords and guns arc ornamented. It is still s city of flowers and bright waters) Ths streams of Lebanon and the “river of gold" still murmur and sparkle m the wilderness of the Syrian gardens. About Wearing Beards. Chicago Herald ] Oue reason why neither whiskers nor mustache eon Id be tolerated du ring the last century and the early part of this was the fasbiou of snuff taking, aud il was not until that habit began to disappear that tbe revival of tbe beard was even talked of. Dur ing our civil war beards came more aud more in general fashion, and it was frequently suggested by the press to 51 r. Chase, who, in rais ing the enormous expenditure nec essary at that time bad proposed to Congress taxes on almost every ar ticle of food aud clothing, that a tax be laid upon beards. It would have had a despotic precedent, for Peter the Great laid a tax on the beards of bis subjects. His object was to abolish beards in his dominions, which he succeeded in doing. It was not until the time of the great Empress Cathe rine that Russian subjects were again permitted to wear beards. The only law in our free country re garding beards concerns our navy. Our gallant tars are not permitted to wear beards or moustache. The same ordinance applied to the army at one time, but it was repealed many years ago, the only stipulation being that the beard should be closely cut. The poet Campbell is said to have calcu lated that a man who shaves himself every day and lives to tbe age of three score years and ten, expends in his life as much time in the.act of shaving as would suflieo for learning seven langnages. Tbe great French Natu ralist, Culver, said that he found him self wasting as much time with the shaving brush and razor as amounted to at least four days in the year, and he resolved thenceforth to waste no more precious lime iu that way, and so let his beard grow. # With us fashion no longer controls, and each can do according to his will. But this word in your ears, my mas ters, whoever bath not a well-shaped neck aud chin would better grow his beard. Drawing; a Dentist’s Eye Teeth. Chicago Herald.] You believe in the Bible; do yon not?” asked a man with yellow hair to a Lincoln street dentist. “Certainly,” replied tbe tooth car penter, fastening his forcepB on a stomach tootn of his questioner. “Believe Cain killed Abel?” “Yes.” “Believe iu tbe injunction ‘Honor thy father and thy mother?’ ” “Of course.” “And the story about Jouahand the whale?" “Eh, eh.” “Believe the Bible right through, eh?” “Yes, sir." “And there is nothing that would induce you to go against the grain of a single sentence.” “No, sir. I am a firm believer in the Bible and try to practice what it preaches.” “Good. You tliiak it’s all right to take a life for a life?” “The Lord thought so; that’s good enough for me.” “And an eye for an eye?” “At all times.” “And a tojth for a tooth?” “You bet, every time.” “Well, just pull these two rows and give me a set of false teeth in ex change.” Me Iiord Flood,” late of the “Aue- the stranger from carrying nut his de- tion Lunch,” lays off in state, sips his signs. He removed his coat and wines or ice cream at will, throws his : looked down as if estimating the dis- feet upon the piano, and, causally wip- tance. Then he removed his vest and ing his lips on the lace enrtains, con- looked down again. Some of the eludes that life is worth living. crowd asked each other in low tones Senator Fair, the other member of if his iutention was to jump, and were the firm, is a member of the firm no answered that there was no doubt of longer, himself and Maekay having it. The man removed his collar and them out. The latter ars the most fetise, the exercise of such a power has ' vannah, Florida and Western giving successful. They acts as dam9, both been thrust up.n her. She is not—or ways; they prevent imports, an ,i , was not always—heartless. She knows thereby prevent exports as well. If'—who better?—that this light trifling obstruction be the desirable thing, pile ' 8 ig n °ble. It is not the life she would on the tariff, but stop ship building ; have chosen had the choice been giv- and obstruct your rivers and harbors. en b® r i but there is magic in it. The It is by far the cheapest way. Tbe sense of swa J 18 delightful to her; the policy of pro ted ion among States was sweets of adulatiop, like a subtle poi- one to anybody from Savannah to Folkston, but it would be a violation of the law to issue a pass from Folk ston to Jacksonville. The railroad companies propose to shut off the deadheads for a little while at aDy rate. had a misunderstanding which result- tie after his vest, and then spit on his | well illnstrated, some years ago, in ' 8 ° n t intoxicate their victim with a ed in him (Fair) retiring. Maekay and , hands and took his position square in ! the Westminister Review. A ring of transient rapture; and she knows that Flood own the Nevada Bank, Maekay the window. No one below moved a ' monkey cages was arranged around while she is yonngand has health and and J. G. Bennett, of the New York foot. There was a half minute of si- . the circle of a menagerie. When the 8®ycty, she can hold her own. And Herald, own the Commercial Cable, lence, during which everybody men-j inmates were fed, each monkey was afterwards? But why dream of the and Maekay has a big interest in the tally calculated on- the exact spot he j occupied in stealing his neighbor’s . stormy morrow? To-day is fair. Why Bankers’ and Merchants’, the new would strike, and something like a dinner;hi9 neighbor, meanwhile, was trouble as to wbat the end may be? Pacific Coast Lines and the North shudder passed over the crowd. Then , just as industriously stealing his.' In the mean time she will laugh and American Telegraph Company, of the unknown spit on his hands once . The result was great inconvenience flirt and be fitful and charming, viva- days before Abraham—a centerof trade Minnesota. His fortune is estimated more, raised them above his head and ail around, and no monkey gained by cious, dreamy, cruel, kind; she will an( j travel—an island of verdure in the at $3^,000.000. Flood is said to be calmly remarked: his petty villiaay. Mbch was spilled attract and repel, draw hearts to her, ^ desert, “a presidential capitoi,” with worth $20,000,000 and Fair about $12,- j “My friends, this is to inform yon by the way, and each lost part of'his j who** homage her own levity will j martial and sacred associations ex- 000,000. : that I Bhall occupy this building No- own quiet-dinner. The most abaxrd j quickly alienate; she will be wonder- tending through thirty centuries. It Senator Jones, another of the old vember 1st with a large and well-se- monkey of the whole ring is repre- ; edat, censured, admired and perchance was near Dmmascns that San I of Tar- Comstock miners who made millions : lected stock of staple and faDcy gro- seated now by our own country, with ; * ove< *> hut until the sun shall dawn on \ gug nw tfae light above the brightness Tlie Oldest City in the IVorld. letters from the Old World.; Damascus is the eldest city in the world. Tyre and Sidon have crum bled on tbe shore; Baalbec is a rain; Palmyra is buried in the desert; Xin- evah and Babylon have disappeared from the Tigris and Euphrates. Da mascus remains what it was in tbe early in the 70s, then lost them all in , ceries. I shall do a strictly cash bns- the least exease for robbing its neigh- 1879, has again come to the front j in ess, and it will be my aim to ” j bore. We are tbe worst offenders of through some lucky strikes iu Alaska! But the last one had turned the. all, with the least excuse. We, who mines. He is a man of nerve, and f corner. . tXMtt of being the freest Republic In that nnknown country where men are : of the gun . the gtreet w hich is called constant, leal and true, tbe land where ! . .. . ., ... unobtrusive kindliness is dearer to . 1,1 which it is said he pav- tbem than feigned flatteries and be- ] ed,” still runs through the city. The witching arts—she will Do s coquette! T caravan conies and goes as it did ■ Bia Life hail Been Wasted. R. J. Burdette.) An old soldier lay dying in a little town in Pennsylvania, one day last week. “Is there anything on yonr mind that troubles you?” asked his pastor, as an expression of grave con cern passed over tbe veteran’s face. “Yes,”said the dying man; “there is. I have not made use of my opportuni ties. I was in the wafabbut four years in many battles, and thought I tried to do my duty. But I never picked np alighted shell, with its burning fuse spattering close to the shell, and threw it over the parapet of the fnrr. I have been a regular attendant upon army reunions, and'I have read the news papers since the war, and I find that I am the onlymanintbe Union Army who did not perform that feat, al thongh I had plenty of opportunities. My lifehas been wasted.” “But why,” asked the pastor, kindly, “did you not do it when you had an opportunity?” “Because,” said the gallant old sole dler, “I wanted to save the shell. I al ways knelt down and pulled the fust out with my teeth!” And then tbe no ble life went out with a soap like # friction cap.