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benate a few days ago expressed the hope that the., country would pay as much for pensions as it paid for the cost of the war, whieh was about $5,000,000,000. The chances are that Mr. Ingalls will lire to see his hope realized. The growth of the pension list has been astounding m the last few years. Few people realize how rapidly the appropriations on this score have increased. These figures, showing what pensions have cost and how they have swelled, will surprise many readers: 1874 | 29,038,413 1875.. ... 29,456,210 1876 28,257,395 1877.. 27,463,752 1875 27,137,019 1879 „ 35,121,482 1580 56,777,174 1581 50,059,279 1882 61,345,193 1883 66,012,573 1S84. ... 55,429,22S 1S85 58,102,267 .18S6 63,404,864 18S7 75,029,101 1888 S0,2S8,508 1889 87,624,779 1890.. .. [partly est.] 107,000,000 1891 [est.] 200,000,000 In 1862, with the 'war extending from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, the total cost of the army of the union and all its expenses were less than 8400,000,000. Now we have the queer picture pre sented of a pensioi# list nearly thirty years later calling fo: one- half the amount required to sus-, taiu the army in the midst of war. There are now, in round numbers, 500.000 pensioners on the rolls; 200.000 applications are pending as a hundred hens and eats more. We would not deride the family cow, but would make a nlea for the domestic hen. Give her’a place worthy of her valuable prod- Unior May 14ih, 185S. The high silk hat was worn as early as 1589, as pictures of Albert Durer show. at lowest market -price. James Hicks, aged eighty-five, has just been-arrested in Indiana for stealing,' alter haviug spent forty-five years in prison. Burwell Spence, who lives in the Navajo country, New Mexico, sports a beard seven feet long. He generally has it braided and coil ed inside his vest. Probably the largest commer cial traveller in the country is Leonard H. Bliss, of Bloomington, 111. He is twenty-three years old and weighs 450 pounds. The colored man Fine Parlor and Church Organs From Standard Makers, to be dosed out at SPOT CABBl PRICES, with years to pay in. NEW PLAN OF SALE- Bented until paid for— S3 to 83 monthly. GreatestiBargains in our 20 years trade. Sale limited. Send quick for Bargain Sheet and SPECIAL GOLD OFFER. Every Organ will go inside of 60 Days. DON’T MISS THE CHANCE! If you ever want an Organ, buy it now. Astronomers say’that "the fabu- jU W ) p|ptbefepf.2Q.00O,O0O.8tars. all aglow, can be seen with a power ful teldscppe:: /Wheniwe -consider that the nearest<^f these-.is 200,00.0 times as far from us" as "the sun, “find*tlmrWwoTtid take from three and a half to twenty -one years for the light which reaches us to cease, if th^wgfe uxtiDfrnfehed: we can n&t grasp; and Bold the vast con- cejJtjgAtfLbjy.miBds,. ... Yet it is supposed that each of with its own colony of planets circling round it, which in size are vastly superior to those of our own solar system, and are traveling through space with such spaed that it is impossi ble for Us to comprehend it The' star Sirius is said to be moving fifty-four miles a second, or 194,- 000 per hour, a flaming mass, lead ing itsT^rpod'of planets through , illimitable .space.—Arena. 4 - Here.is a snake story from the land of the Hawkeye: A MANUFACTUEEBS OF AND DEALEBS IN who takes charge of the hats of the guests who enter the dining-room of a noted Chicago hotel says that he remembers people by observing 'the shape of their noses. The school teachers of Spain are an ill treated class and ‘suffer se verely from poverty. A teacher at Yelez-Malaga literally starved to death, though the _ community owed him 81,500. The greater part of the water courses of Australia can scarcely be said to exist, except during the rainy season. In dry weather the It is a feet that we have the inside track on Pianos, and aotually 8A.VJS purchasers FIFTY D OILAJSS ON FACS FIANO. Our 8225 Piano ia sold regularly hy largest dealers at $275, and it is well worth it, too. No other House in America selling High Grade Pianos at Low Grade Prices* No cheap, inferior Pianos sold. Our cheapest are perfect and durable* Guaranteed from ground up. Write us. We will SAVE YOU MONEY* now pensionable; not widows whose husbands died thirty years after their military service from causes that could be tracsd back to now land of the Hawkeye: A mare be longing to Thomas Ballard, living near Montezuma, la., gave birth to a colt that had a lump on its jaw wTnclT prevented it sucking. The lump was cut off, and oh being opened was found to contain a lot of small-sized nattlesnakes. Mr. Ballard says .the:'d$y a^ter themare wafe bred she ! wks bitten by a rat tlesnake^ but. suffered no serious effect. 1 ' The quastioh that puzzles the civil war, for these are pensionable. But 75,000 widows whose husbands at one time served m the army, but died years after the war from causes wholly uncon nected with their military service. A large proportion of these widows did not marry until loDg after the war. The greater part of the men who made up our armies were young unmarried men. The tens EBRT IBCOTIEZD PEMETs TE ATTENTION GIVEN ALL GUESTS. COMFORTABLE ROOMS. TABLE SUPPLIED WITH THE BEST EDIBLES THE MARKET AFFORDS. Backlog's Arnica'Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Colds, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped ands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi tively cures Piles or no pay re quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money re funded. Price 25 cents per box For sale by Holtzclaw & Gilbert. Don’t allow your ice bill to be handed m till the season is over, if you want to keep cool. -*«♦ r Shiloh’s Vitalizer is what you need for tion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Yellow Skin? Shiloh’s Vital- Holtzclaw & Gil- Liberal reduction by the week, or by the month. ever they die from old age or acci dent or disease not traceable to the military service, their widows may become pensioners. These. Georgia is interested to a large extent in South American trade, according to the report of the Brazilian Mail Steamship Compa- ny?"Tht!r , faltie of a recent cargo shipped from New York was 8301,- 417, and the. To cure Biliousness, Sick Headache, Consti pation, Malaria, Liver Complaints, take the safe and certain remedy, SMITH’S are not war widows. The pension office estimates that there are over 75,000 of these peace widows, ready to take immediate advantage of the act, and our experience with the widows of the Revolutionary war and the war 1812 shows that in 1965 we shall be paying nen- sions to a long list of widows who >oods came from te in . the Union, ! thirteenth on the list in the valuation of shipments. Many;,interioiv. states; al.so make large shipments, which shows that the seaboard states are not the •only ones interested in extending •our trade with South America.— iSavnunah News. We* Have a Complete Stock and Full Assortment of Commercial Stationery, and duplicate Macon or Atlanta prices in this class of work. Satisfaction guaranteed. GIVE US J TRIAL ORDER Use the SMALL Size (40little Beans to the bottle).'- They abb the most convenient. Snitablo lor all Agos. Price of either size, , ' p? “ !5c. per Bottle. wBMumsMm I C CUITU S. ....... - izor is a positive oure. bert, Perry, Ga. Emperor "William has conferred the order of the Black Eagle upon King Christian, of Denmark. Shiloh’s Catabkh Remedy—a posi tive cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria and Canker-Mouth. Holtzclaw& Gilbert’s. were not born till after the war in which their husbands served with out incurring disability bad closed. J.F.SHITHa.CO.iaitmor-iaLEDEAXS/'ST.lOUIS Koi Children born 25 years after the war closed, whose fathers left the PASSENGER SCHEDULE AND FKEIGIiT SERVICE In effect March 16th, 1890, via the army without incurriing any disa bility, will be pensionable, and as the fathers die off from natural causes the sum of these children’s pensions is likely to increase for lllLtl VltKHLH Kl’SCUU. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, 111., makes.the statement that she caught, which settled-on her lungs; she was treated for a month, by her ’family • physician, but grew •worse.. Ho. told her she was a hopeless victim of consumption mud that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King’s New Discovery for Gon- the next ten or fifteen years." — A' Remarkable Showing’. Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson is on a visit to San Fran cisco. RATLSOAD.: SUWANNEE RIVER ROUTE TO FLORIDA Standard time same as Macon city time. GOING SOUTH No. l No. 3 So. 11. Lv.Macon 10:35a.m. 7:00pirn ti:00'a.w Lv.Cordclc . -1:3d g. nt. 0:44 p ni 1:45 p m Ar. Tiftou 2:58 pm 11:18 pm 0:20 pm . (No. 13};. Lv. Tiftou 2:5Sam 11:18pm 0:30 am Ar. VaMosta 4:42 p m 1:01 a. m. 10:50 p m Ar. Jasper 5:50 pm 2;llam 3:30 p iu Ar. Lake €ity 7:00 p m 3:22 a m 4:30p m Ar. Jacksonville 9:45 pm 0:35 a m >i. Hampton, 8:52 p m 4:55 a iu- • 8:50 ani Ar. Palatka, 10:45 p m 0:20 a m 10:43 a m Ar, St. Augustine, 10;25am GpINC SOUTH. No. 2.^ No. 4. No. 12 Lv.St. Augustine, 3:f;6pw Lvl’alatka, 7:00 am .7:30 hm 1:00pm Ar. Hampton S:2G a m 8:52 pm 3:10 p in Lv Ja’cksonvillc, 7:o0 a m 7:50 p m Lv. Lake City 10:00a in 10:40pm 7:00am Ar Jasper 11:05 am 11:51 p m Air. Valdosta 12;l2i> m 1:01 a m Ar. Tiftou 1:48 p m 2139 2;08p m 3:24 pm- ____ 5:45 pm- 0:30, Why will you cough wnen Shiloh’i Cure will give immediate relief. Price lOcts.,‘,50 cts., and SI. Holtzclefw & Gil bert. Perry, Ga BETWEEN MACON, FONT VALLEY, PEBBY AND COLUMBUS. (Southwestern Division.) Schedule went into effect March 30th, 1890. (Standard Time, 90th Meridian.) A letter is wiser than some peo ple. It Dever attempts to give in formation until after it has been to her c fitted fr iihued ] bottles, The Eev. Geo. H. Thayeb, of Bonr- bon, Ind., says; “Both myself ’and wife owe our lives to SumpH’s Consumption Cube. Holtzclaw & Gilbert Perry, Ga, 11:10 » E:3jpi No. 12 2;50a m 7:0Unia *' <V " m 12:23 pm in 7:50pr_i ... Sleeping Cars. on No a. 8an4 4. Trains 1, 2, 3 and 4 arrive and .depart from Union depot, Way freight and ac commodation trains II and 12 arrive and depart from Macon junction. A man generally feels consider ably upset when he steps upon 3 banana peel. For the first time since its foun dation a Jew, Prof. Julius Bern stein, has been elected rector mag- nifieus of the Halle University. Up to within a comparatively short time no Jew was permitted even to teach there. influenza, etc., are common, it is almost «a sacred duty to take Smith’s Tonic Syrup occasionally, as by this means the good health of the family is preserved. The stomach contains 5,000,000 glands by which the gastric' juice is secreted. In China there is now, according to intelligent estimates, one mis sionary to about every 200,000 people. efts and dispatch. C, J3. WILDUBN, J. T. HOOE, GcnH Freight Agt. Uen’l Pass. A. C. KNAPP,. Traffic Manager: • use only W.W. C. -This is tfie beat time of the reported in year to subscribe for the Home 'Totsuvit. . ' i Fbr’furt] to-Of call u •articnlars relative to ticket rates, schedules, best routes, etc . writf E.'Mi FTJLLEB, Agent, Perry; J. C. McKENZIE, Snpt. Macon - -' E. T. CHARLTON, Gen’l.Pas. Agent, ;> ■ Savannah," Ga-, as-a tonic-and a boon. j sick Headache and W. W. C. are in- Subscribe for the Home Journal '-'" Tar ^ Asiatic cholera is France. ■iaiol ■* jiU 1 -Bufl" 'U'* tt a special run on Ladies’ $2.00, in, and if you will send 11s one or- Money. CHEAP LUDDEN& BATES SAVANNAH, GA. qprp 1 a 1 CLEARANCE SALE be small thiDgs and. pay more attention to poultry. Fix _ . :: ; en house and make goou w^iier-proof coops, and sepa- ratfe runs for the little chickens. Let’s read up more on poultry and try and improve the laying quali ties of our fowls. The women love to have a fine looiring lot of chickens about the so {lathe children. Its miglity nice too, to take a good of eggs to fown and oily groceries in exchange for them. We should think about^these things, and give the fowls more attention. : 1 20,000,000 Stars. r .'nited f "of icebprgs. Most New A Virginian, one hundi-ed and ope years of age, has just wedded a Virginian dame ninety-one years of age. Aunt Peggy Barnes, a colored woman at Peteluma, Cal., is said to be one hundred and five years old. 8S, and General Merclandiss, 453 MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GEORGIA. Handling Country Produce a Specialty. MAGOISr. GA. CLOTHIERS m FURNISHERS, DOIT'S. FULL STOCK OF SUITS 'a. large line OF. 27,137,019 35,121,482 C. E. White, of Pomona, Cal., cut 150 pounds of honey from a bee nest under the cornice of his dwelling house. ae- rst dose. She coii- 1 after taking teu . nerself sound arid ler own housework andis aswcll as she "ever was. Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at Holtzclaw & Gilbert’s Drug Store, large bottles 50c. and S1.00. $3g=For customers outside the city we will furnish anything ordered, ! Hats and-Underwear, Shirts and Heck-wear tlmbre'lr- fibber Goods and Overcoats Call bn them, and yc goods and prices to snit von. I I KOBJTH. SmTH,Late-of Smith A-Mallory. CIIAS. II. IIA 1.1,. Jr. saai'T’h: &d hall, MACON, - _ - GEORGIA, | -DEALEK3 IN OTES X p ^ “ST, . STEAM ENGINES, Boilers,! BEDDING & BALDWIN, -368 Second Street, Macou G n . Saw Mills. Grist Mills, Gins, Presses, Mowers, Hay Rakes; wood <Sc leoihriD. CHEAPEST Ldchinery Snpplies. Oilico sii: Coleman & Kay ’s VV areliouse. SASH. DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, MANTELS. PAINTS. OIL. LIME, - MACON, - - - - - - GA- Furniture and Carpet House Tii.© ox CrSOXg'is,, Call and See ns a,nd get Prices, and Look the Finest Display in Georgia. NEXT TO HOTEL LANIER MACON, GA.| if ms mm V. E. WALTON. C. L. BATEMAN. RYRON, WALTON & BATEMAN, DEALEBS IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Farm Supplies Gents’ Furnishings, Staple and Fancy Articles. BEST GRADES OP GUANO A SPECIALTY No. 3. No 1. i | No. 2. | No. 4. 3.15 a. m. 3.29 “ 3.35 “ 3.42 “ 3.5S “ 4.07 “ 4.25 a. m. 1.50 p. m. 2.05 “ 3.10 “ 2.17 “ 2.34 “ 2.43 “ . .. 3.00 a. ni Leave Macon. Arrive Arrive Wise, . Arrive Arrive , Rutland Arrive Arrive Walden Arrive Arrive Byron Arrive Arrive PowersviUe Arrive Arrive Fort Valley Leave 10.25 a. m. 10.08 •' 10.03 “ ♦ 9.58 “ a 9.42 “ 9.45, “ 9.20' a. m. 1140 p. m. 11.25 “ 11.20 “ 11.15 “ 10.59 “ 10.50 “ 10.35 p. m. BETWEEN FOUT VALLEY AND PEBBY. 8.15 p. in. 9.00 p. m. 11.35 a. m.- 12.20 a. ni. Leave Fort Talley Arrive Arrive Berry Leavo 9.00 a. m.l 8.10 a. m.| 3.50 p. m. 3.05 p. m. . 3.05 p. ni. Leave Fort Valley Arrive 9.20 a. m. 3.23 “ Arr Everett’s Amve 9.03 “ 3189 “ Arrivo Beynolds Arrive 8.50 i 4.00 “ Arrive Butler Arrive 8.32 « 4.12 p. m. Arrive ficott’s Arrive 8.20 “ 4.25 “ Arrive Howard Arrive 8.08 “ 4.37 “ Arrive Bostick Arrive 7.57 “ 450 Arrive Geneva Arrive 7.30 «• . 5.U0 “ Arrive Juniper .Arrive 7.20 5.08 Arrive Box Springs Arrive 7.12 “ 5.23 “ Arrive Dpatoie Arrive 6.56 « , 5.43 “ Auive Schatulga Arrive 6.35 “ 6:10 p. m. Arrive Columbus Leave 6.05 p, m. _^_TooiXLt atlift® otiifff ¥ N D THE LOCAL NEWS THEREOF SU8SCRIBEKATONCE FOE THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL PUBLISHED lw? A T- »»iiiv tsat-ieiA* NOWIN ITS TWENTIETH VOLUME' 8 subscription; price,' $2 a tear. 3no. B.. HoDGes, FuWisber.