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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, MAY 16 18RT
IN THE W1REGRASS.
WHAT DODOE COUNTY IS CAPABLE
OF DOING.
Tho Architectural Beauties of Ea traan arsfl It* Bus!.
dm Enterprise—County Bulldlajts and Park—
The G, neral Beaourcrs of 'ho County—
Candtdatea for Public Honors.
rificarion-ot Mr. Herbert* letter to show die stuff a» originally announced. We congratulate the in
of which reportsabout the small pox lit All-in h are on their wisdom in coming to this conclusion, ana
made. The .savannah News will doubtless .-ee the l welcome them will the perfect knowledge that
justice of printing what we have written.
Yesterday a Constitution reporter called • 'it Mr.
Herbert at his residence on Fillmore sheet and
said:
••Major, you make some statements In your Sa
vannah News letter of the 9th which 1 desire to ask
you about."
“All I have to say," replied Major Herbert, “is
this, that the letter could not and would not have
been written at any other lime. The letter was
written under peculiar circumstances. It could not
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Fskthan Mnv 11 This little cite tl,~ have been written twenty-four hours earlier and
LA STM an, way II. 11113 little city, the U^d not have been written twenty lour hour*
queen of the “wire grass,” is on a regular later. At 'he time the lettei was written the facts
boom. The stroke of the hammer, the whir
of the saw and the click of the trowel make next to where Mr. C. K. Maddox lives had the
music on every side. There are now just com- "“^V'waf told so at the time, but it turns out that
pitted or about to be completed, four brick h e a j d ”°. 1 the disease.”
* - “You state that there are cases hid out. ti til you
stores, two concrete buildings ana a large | mention any of them to me?"
hotel. The stores are being filled with large
stocks of staple and fancy dry goods, general
merchandise and notions. Messrs. Ashburn
•t Peacock, who have just completed the
largest and most imposing of these buildings,
have opened in the lower story a wholesale I bcr Lt , ‘**J
and retail grocery store thus supply, ng a want ^^mk^ut^resh, whendie Ii«ar the quatantiue camp, and say s tout he finds
long and scnously felt by the lumber and tur- ggStotSSSfMtWbSS^wri^l. “ ! D "
pontine men of this section. The upper story four hours earlier, nor could it have been written
is to be furnished in the twenty-four hours later. AS to what I laid about
IS to oc lumisnea in tlie most ornate style, lhe y 0 u„„ mttI1 ne xt where Mr. Maddux lives, that
will, appropriate staging and scenery as a first-1 case, of course, has turned oqt not
II and tin ' 1 *
Ido not care to give you the facts for publica
tion.”
••Why?”
“Because I do not care to mention the names of
those who informed me.”
Why can't you mention their names?'-’
Because I do not wish to implicate them."
Being pressed further for au aotwer, Muj»r Her-
t -aid:
The letter was written ou the morning when the
be small pox A negro went to Hr. Fred
King, and showed him his vaccination scar
and asked him if he thought it would be safe /or
him to nurse a case of small-pox. He said he knew
w here there was a case, and that he could get fi e
dollars per day for nursing it. 1 wrote the letter
on information gained from parlies who are in
spectors. They gave It as their opinion that there
were cases concealed, and said that It was their
class hall and theater.
OK A PUBLIC NATURE.
The county and municipal authorities are
jointly engaged in enclosing the court house
with an excellent wire fence. Two sections
of land; embracing about two acres, were
donated by Mr. William Pitt Eastman.
with the design of making a park of no mean I opinloimhat the disuse was spreading aud was
pretentions. I nder the plan of Mr. Eastman I going to spread.”
1 • Then you do not know of any cases that are
concealed ?”
No.”
Your statement was based on rumors?”
Yes."
Let me understand you, Major. You say that
you ba«ed your assertion, that there werecasescon
cealed here, on the fact that a negro told Dr. King
ttiat lie knew of a case and on the assertion of some
ins|>cclors that it was their opinion that there were
cases concealed?"
Yes.”
As the reporter took his departure Major Herbert
taid
I told Mayor English to-day that I would send
the Morning News a dispatch explaining the situa
tion.” .
THE MAN WHO DID NOT HAVE IT.
The reporter came on back toward the city and
the grounds are being laid off most artistically
and beautifully. The drive and walks will
be most handsome, and the whole park is to
be ornamented with rare shrubbery, splendid
shade trees and beautiful flowers. It will
indeed be “a thing of beauty and a joy for
ever,” n more lasting monument to the mem
ory of that good man, Mr. Eastman, than
the towering marble or costly cenotaph
A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT.
There is no town upon the line of the
Macon and Brunswick railroad more attrac
tive in its appearance than this. The Uplands
hotel, the largest wooden hotel in the state, the
church a perfect gem of architectural skill, the
magnificent court house, aud the modern and
tasty style of architecture of each residence, I stopped at Hi. next door to the residence of Mr.
nil i’oiii hi iia tfi ronclpr fh<* finnourniifp <»f tho I He walked to tlic uoor ( gave a gcullc tap
^.Hu, ™ HZa lI i® ?,P p /L“ and awaited the answer. The place wore a rather
town metropolitan and excite the admiration I deserted aspect, and no one seemed to be living in
of visitors. No town in Georgia gives higher I the house. However, the rap was speedily answer-
evidences of substantial growth and material I ed by a young lady. The reporter said:
prosperity than Eastman. “I want to sec the young man who is said to have
DODOE COUNTY 6FT FOPTII I pOX DUTC.
fiod^c county is u now countv made in 1870 I reporter was conducted into the presence
V • . $ ir U,U ^ 1,1 • i n 10 # I a young man who was sitting up
vet it is worthy of mention, as an evidence of I and gave no indication whatever that he was in
the wonderful resources of Georgia, that it I any way sick. He arose as the reporter entered
has a court house the equal of any in the I *ud was introduced by the young lady as Mr. B. F.
state, a brick jail, good roads and bridges, and Jo .'.V?;„ , „
.1 u nr • a| ♦ „.. n ,, I Vou do not seem to have small~pox,
does not owe a cent, w it. 11 yi97>85 in the treas* J ihe reporter
ury. The insolvent list ou the Uix digest was I - i have not had it," he replied. "On the contra-
only $6.80.
EASTMAN'S ENTERPRISES.
Among the enterprises of Eastman which
evince the inetro]>oiitan ideas of its inliabi-
tants may be mentioned the liandsonte drug
store of Armstrong it Fisher. All the fix
tures and appurtenances ure first-class and
“citified.” Visitors from New York, Brook
lyn and all the large cities speak of it in most
ry, I have had the mildest possible case of measles.
1 was taken about a week ago and I am almost
ready to go to work again.”
“Did the family really desert you?"
“Well, they were gone before I knew it.’
“To what place did they go? ’
“To Conyers.”
“Whose family was it?"
"The family of Mr. Taylor.”
"Did he go also?"
vn and all the large ernes speak of it in most ,. oh » thc nll left Bnt they wU1 be bnck iu
flattering terms, and purcliasc largely of its a day or two. Mr. Taylor is already here, and has
splendid assortment of drugs, toilet articles, | written for his family."
perfumery, cigars anti tobacco.
FOB PUBLIC HONORS.
There are already three candidates in the
field for legislative honors. Of these aspi
rants, Mr. W. B. Sapp, the slieriff of th
The reporter came on to Dr. King’s drug store. In
reply to a question Dr. King raid:
■ "Yes, a negro came to me and showed me his vac
cination mark and asked me if it would be safe for
him to nurse a case of small-pox. He said he knew
of a case aud could get five dollars a day for nurs-
connty, is by lung odds the strongest man in- Digit.’’
telleetuallv and in lKtpular favor, and lie will I " What did you tell him?"
have a walk overai things now are i« I
probable Unit Colonel Lanier, of Pulaski, will | p A TAIK with j/ayok English.
have no opposition ill the senatorial conven- I As soon ns Mayor English had seen the article In
tion, and lie will be nominated by acclama- I the Savannah News, he sent for Mr. Herbert and
lj 0 n I asked the authority upon which tlie dispatch was
a factor in GEORGIA’S GREATNESS. ^asc' 1 Mr Her^rt smted that his authority was
Th» vioi.t .,*■ mnuroin^ in clw, 1 rumor onlyand gave Pledger, the collector of
The > icld of turpentine Tor this year, in the I custums as „ ne 0 f his authorities. Mayor English
event of no disaster, will exceed that of last. I then said to him:
Should it do so, with the increased acreage I ‘ I will give you one thousand dollars in cash if
and facilities, Dodge county will certainly I you will produce for me a single case of small-pox
equal the best counties in the actual income I
citizens. No section of Georgia offers printed totto
greater inducements to tlie thriftyandsub-ldeirimentofAilantathafuierearenotafewsup-
stnntinliinmigrant.orinsures agreater percent 1 pressed and hidden cases.’ This statement
upon the capital invested than this 1 **"* h ”“ """
there is not the slightest danger iu their coming
here and Etaylng a- long as they please.
»T. Louis, May 13.—Kev. J. H. Martin, D.D., At
lanta, Go.: Letter received; also te eg ram from J.
R. Wilson. Assembly will meet In you' church as
appointed. Please publish. It. P. Ferris.
T he above telegram Is referred to in an official
announcement, published elsewhere.
THE OFFICIAL REPORT.
Hon. James W. English, Mayor—Sir: Total num
ber of cases of small-pox for twenty four hours, to
3o’clock p. m. this day:
May 13. - none.
White none.
Colored none.
W. S. Armstrong, M. D.,
James B. Baird, M. D., President
Sec otary Board of Health.
Atteste: J. W. English, Mayor.
It will be seen by the above official report that
thete were no new cases of small-pox developed
yesterdav.
A VISIT TO THE HOSPITAL
Yesterday a Constitution reporter went up to
the quarantine camp to see Dr. Harris and see how
matters were progressing. The doctor is shut out
from civilization, was looking a bit bonier than
has been his wout aud stood in need of a rasor and
shaving brush. Tne wind was whistling over
the hill, but inside the tents everything was comfor
table to a surprising degree The tents were pitched
by experienced men and being ditched around are
perfectly Ury iuside. Dr. Harris sleeps in a tent
air the quarantine .. ' _
It in no way nncomfortable or disagreeable. He
said also that generally the patients prefer occupy
ing touts rather than staying iu the house. In re
ply to a question, Dr. Harris said:
"We are all doiug very well out here, and every
thing seems to be satisfactory,”
•How many patients have you?”
' You published tlie list last Sunday. Since that
time I have had some new cases. I believe I have
some cases that have developed out here that- you
have notbad I understood that you would be out
to-day and I have counted my patients.”
liow many are there ?'.’
There are for y-one now.”
Then some have recovered?”
Oh, yes; there are quite a number who will be
ready for release next week—some twenty or thirty
' suppose. . There have been some deaths also."
"Which dues have died during the week?"
Albert Martin died Sunday; Anna Jackson died
this morning; Eugene Booth and Henry Beckham
died ou the 11th, and Ella dyans aud Austin
Thomas died on thc 9th. Stephen Turudee is also
dead. You have published most of these.”
“How many have developed cases in the quaran
tint camp? '
Fourteen.”
That fourteen added to what have been sent you
from the city make seventy-one.”
“Oil, no. I have from first to last had only sixty-
nine names ou my book. Somehow or other you
credit me with two more cases than X have had.
guess that is because the negroes hare so many
names. You hardly ever see one who has not two
or three names. They frequently give oue name
in town aud another out here, and much confusion
caused by their doing so.”
“Who are the critical cases now on hand?'
“Sam Harris, Charles White, Jarrett Henderson,
Lou Mann, Elizabeth Davis, Flemming Barks and
Jim Andrews,”
“Who will get well?”
“I gave you about a dozen last week. In addition
to those you may say that Manda Carter. Mattie
Cobb, James Gardner, Josephine Carter, Sarah lien
dersou, Blanche Sorrels, Henry Sorrels, a little baby
named Sorrels, Pearl Jones, GuiUord Holmes, Man-
dy Conley, Dora Conley and Charles Jackson will
get well.”
“Are any of them entirely well?”
“Yes, several of them Guilford'Holmes is driving
wagon for us. Everything is going ou well, aud l
believe everybody is satisfied. X am having no
trouble here whatever.”
“How many are there in the quarantine?”
"Sixty. I counted them just before you came.”
Tlie reporter returned to the city, but on his way
back drew from his hackman the confession lion
the hospital was not by any means such a tenin.e
place os it is pictured.
VACCINATION.
All the ward vaccination offices will he open to
day, and vaccination will proceed as usual. This
is done for the benefit of the working people and
others who have not had an opportunity of being
vaccinated during the week, ft is requested by
the board of health that all ministers and
others who have access to numbers of people at
gatherings of any sort announce this morning that
the vaccination offices will be open during the day.
This is a very important matter, aud it is to be
hoi ed that there will be no hesitation about thus
aiding in checking the spread of the diseases. This
matter is especially urged upon the colored minis
ters.
THE SMALL-POX.
No Tam Developed Y«.tcrdsy-Tha Board of Ilraltk
and M Xrirspnpcr I'ormpondt-nL
The following api*ared In a letter to the Savan
nah News and was written by Mr. Sidney Herbert:
For myself and family I have given up In de
spair, and settled down to meet the worst. Wo now
have
Small-pox to thc right of us.
Small pox to the I of us,.
Small-nax to the rear of us,
Small-pt
l-pox in rear of us.
And six or eight times a day the pest house ambu
lance or thc city carts, carry the disease by my resi
dence. I cannot move without coming in contact
W Only last°nigbt, a few doors irom me, and next I KS^Slhe'&tvannah^cws-^Your ci
loor to Colonel Charles K. Maddox, die private T®m
over your name has gone abroad. Now
it is true, you should make its
trutli apparent, ana I hereby announce that I am
ready to give you one thousand dollars in cash if
you will produce me one single case of small-pox
unit has occurred in this town that
has not been reported. While you pro
fess interest In Atlanta and great friend
ship for our people, the writing of that article does
not sustain you. 1 don't think yon should have
made such a statement, based on rumor. You
should have secured your information from myself
or other officers of the city, and what you found to
be facts should have beeu,pu Wished as facts.and the
rumors should have been given as rumors. I think
you should have called on us, unless you believed
as your article implies, that we would purposely
conceal the true condition from you and from the
public.”
WHAT THEBOARD OF HEALTH DID.
When the article was seen by the members of the
cor-
door
k*CrCinrj ui ni-unuir «mim;iiu c. im/wii^’nuiic ioim- i
l}ic house wUh^suiaH-Dox 11 ^ * JWUnB the pMSSif^air-pox here. Every paragraph
U Thus if is fttPcadiniMMui beinc soread among the 1 1,1 l " e artlcle before us> is untrue. It isashameful
inus u is fppcauing aua oeing spread mmon* we ■ i M1Mm tfcn dtv And hpr hpalth Anthnritiex.
recretao'pf Senator Joseph^E. Brown,* white fami; | M^^I^OT^aJv^^nisrepresent'the^acts concerning
white families of thc city and not a few cases hid
out mid suppressed from public attention.
Of course the disc se is more prevalent among the
negroes, anil bas not taken foothold in every part
of the city goueraby as in the fourth ward, yet a
few days will serve to develop it throughout the
entire city.
The above is untrue in every essential particular,
os we shall proceed to show:
1. The ease "next to Mr. C. K. Maddox” was not
small-pox, but was measles. The reporter of The
Constitution called at tlie house and talked with
the young man, and found that he had never had
the small-pox. but had been slightly sick with the
mcades. This is a fait sample of the rumors on
which excitement is fed.
libel upon the city aud her health authorities.
Small-pox has not become epidemic.
W. S. Armstrong. M. D.,
President Board oi Health.
James B. Baird. U. D.,
Secretary Board of Health.
W M Olaifc, secretary of the state board of health
of Tennessee, telegraphed from Nashville to know
if it would be. safe for the “Whe Men” to hold their
contemplatiMl meeting here. Dr Bair 1 answered
that it would be perfectly safe.
MEETING OF THE BOARD.
The hoard of health met in the mayor’s office
S esterday evening. The usual routine work was
one
The president reported that he had purchased four
mules aud one new wagon for the use of the depart
ment. Inspector King made bis usual report of
number of leads hauled, etc. The secretary of the
board was instructed to buy two new two-horse
2. “Thus it is spreading and being spread among . d , waRons and harn£ss to suit, the whole to
the white families of the city.” So says Mr. Her- r not exceeding $500. The wagons will be
berL Now, there have been only five white persons j bought with a view ^to extending the sanitary
sick with small-pea In the entire city—Messrs. Ivic,
Mower, and Guest and Mrs. Dyer and Mr. Roberts.
Of these five, three occurred two weefcc before Mr.
Herbert wrote. We submit that these facts do not
show that the disease is. “spreadiug among the
white farailie* of the city.”
S. “Not a fewjcares are hid out and suppressed
froip public attention.” Mr. Herbert when called
limits. Judge Hoyt, of the com
missioners of roads and revenues, was present and
consulted with the board in reference u» uniting in
the management of small-pox both iu the city and
the county. The commissioners and the board will
set in unison. Mayor English spoke, referring to
the ba«ely exaggerated reports that are circulated
by cities and people that desire to injure Atlanta.
The following was presented f »r publication:
Hon. James W. English, Mayor—Sir: Iu view of
the exaggerated and unjust reports concerning the
upon to show one of these “hidden and suppressed I existence of small pox in this city that have gained
* , , „ . ,, h „ I circulation aud received credence abroad, it is
coses could not do so-for the simple reason that deome< , proIH . r ftn( j ri ght by the board of health of
there are none to show. As a stimulus to Sir. Her- I Atlanta to Issue daily official reports of the number
bert, or any other man. who says tnere are “sup- of eases which may develop each day.
s i-n,„ Mr I These reports will be made every afternoon at
pressi d or hidden cases Mayor Engli. h one ref . Ir | 0 - c y 00 t. and will be continued as long as the
Herbert $100 for proof of one single ease, white or I disease exists in the city.
black', that had not been reported and published. I Total number of cases to date-
So much for the '"hidden cases.” I colorei".”."."'. .i"™."”!™”™.".""."
And six or sight times ft day thc ambulance I Total number removed to hospital
carries the disease past my residence." Only once W
since the disease has there been eight ease* in one I T ® ta j num be r permitted to remain in city under
day—only twice has there been as many as six cases s tat e quarantine laws
in one day. The average has been less than two a 1 Whlte^ -
day. I Total number now in rxty inner strict quaran-
I cannot move without coming in contact I tine - - -
with it in some manner.” The writer has “moved" I — -
about the city pretty lively for two months and has I T®talnnmt«r for^to^day,"‘i2iV.'.'.*~.’Z."«——’".".None
never seen a case. Of seven men now in the pres- | white - None
Colored — —— -...None
dice of the writer—all active men of business—only
one has ever seen a small-pox patient; none of
them have cvercorae "in contact" with it Of th*
50,000 people in Atlanta, Mr. Herbert is the only
one who
tact with it in some manner.”
6. “Small-pox to the right, left, rear and front of
us." Let us see. There have been less than sixty
cases in all. Of these nine were not developed
when the letter was written—fourteen were dead-
twelve were convalescent and eight sick at the pest
house. Thc few remaining esses would have had
Respectfully, James B Baird, M.D.,
Secretary Board of Health.
W. S. ARMSTRONG, M.D., President
... . . I hereby certify that the above report is true
■cannot move without coming in coo- | ^^“rioSsfeme^ ^fityVov-
cratnent. J. W. English, Mayor.
THE PRESBYTERIANS COMING ASYHOW,
One of the most unnecessary scares of the whole
season has been that which induced the Presbyte
rians at a distance to order the meeting of their as
sembly changed from Atlanta to Columbus. As
soon as this most unexpected notice was served
upon our people, feeling that it did injustice to At
lanta, they suggested that a thorough inquiry be
to been placed with great discrimination and geo- j^de into the actual situation. They expressed
graphical accuracy to have entirely surrounded the
unhappy Mr. Herbert.
“For myself and family I have given up in de
spair, and have settled down to meet the worst"
This is probably true. We certainly have no right
or disposition to contradict it
themselves as willing to abide the decision reached
bv the moderator and the officeis in charge alter
tfiey had ascertained the teal facts. In accordance
with this an investigation was had and resulted in
the moderator ascertaining that there was not
the slightest danger in holding the session in
this city as originally intended. The following dis
patch was received on yesterday, from which it will
We have thus carefully gone over the various spe- 1 be seen that the Presbyterians will meet in Atlanta
GEORGIA CARRIAGES.
THE COLLINS’ MANUFACTURING
COMPANY AT MACON
Competing with Northern Work-The Largest Car
riage Factory in the South, Not Sven Excep
ting Louisville, Kentucky- The Pioneer*
in Georgia Carriage-Malting.
THE BOYS AND THE GIRLS.
From the Covington Enterprise.
There is more than a dozen handsome fac
tory girls in Newton county.
From the Oglethorpe Echo.
There is a young lady in Lexington who has
two engagement rings, and as each fellow
calls she wears the ring he gave her. They
both called at the same time not long since,
and she was in a box.
It has become customary for the boys to
give their sweetheart a silk handkerchief.
We judge from what we saw last Sunday it
cost that boy one dollar and twenty cents.
From the Dalton Citizen.
The paralyzing girl graduate, decorated in
aesthetic habiliments, will soon make her ap-
S earance upon the stage to recite her school-
ay pleasures, and read to her less gifted com
panions the lessons of life. Her sophomoric
mind fears no heights.
From the Summerville Gacette.
After dinner the children collected around
the swing to amuse themselves, the young
men and u.aidens gathered in groups under
the trees (two in a place seemed to be the fa
vorite number), and the older ones gathered
it) large groups to discuss the general news.
There was some more singing, but threaten
ing clouds made it seem prudent to disperse
•early.
From the Greensboro Herald.
Jim McGaughey’s sweetheart recently pre
sented nim one of her photographs, aud he
on bended knees, swore that he would ever
cherish it and keep it next to his heart. On
a recent visit, in pslling his handkerchief
from his back pants pocket—lo! the picture
fell at the lady’s feet. She says, “he is either
a liar, or else his heart is in the wrong place
for her.”
THE SPRING CHICKEN.
From the Athens banner.
Bob Yerby, of Winterville, has a four-legged
chicken.
From the Thomasville Enterprise.
That Mrs. A. Melton found among a lot of
goslings one that had three legs, the third
leg being directly behind the’ two used in
walking. It is living and doing well.
From the Oglethorpe Echo.
Colonel William Gilliam had a chicken to
hatch out with four well developed legs aud
feet, and could run about as "well as any
chicken, using all .of its legs. Mrs. Gil
liam turned it out one morning and it myste
riously disappeared, and has not been seen
since. Mr. Gilliam says some one must have
stolen it.
From the Newnan Herald.
Mr. James Millians, ©f the fourth district,
told me about a forward chicken. that was
hatched at the widow Mize's, in that district,
a few days ago, and when only twenty-four
hours old it "crowed, and would go through
with all the etiquette of a grown chicken,
move that chicken be saved, for this country
needs an early kind.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Macon, Ga, May 1.—As I have already
stated in my former resume of the general
history and business of Macon, there
seems absolutely nothing to prevent her tak
ing rank with any city in the south in point
of general commercial interest, while the tide
of new industries that is sweeping over the
city is so great as to be absolutely startling to
an ordinary looker-on. Go where you will,
in any part of the city, and if it is not the
hammer's ring, the white breath of steam is
pouring out from factory after factory.
“Do you know,” said a gentleman here a
few days ago as we were walking down Third
street, “that Macon is fast becoming a vast
manufacturing center?’’
“No," I replied, “I 'had not thought of it
that way, though I knew the city was on a
boom, the like of which she has never before
experienced.”
“Well, we are going to manufacture every
thing, nearly, that can be made out of new
material, and in few years from now you will
hear tiie hum of more machinery than can be
heard in any city of the same size in the
whole south. This is not an exaggerated
statement by any means. It is based upon
facts and I presume your week’s stay with ns
has given you an opportnnity to find it out.
Now yon will be surprised when I tell you
that the preseiit year will show up a clean
million dollars in general improvements, but
it is nevertheless true. Tliree-fourths of this
is already under contract, pnd there are num
bers of people with capital in quantities just
holding back their investment simply for
lack of men and material with which to
build.”
How many times I had already heard this
statement The Constitution already knows,
but this is the way all of Macon talks. Every
body is pulling for the town, and this is what
is going to build it up. There is noth
ing like talking up the town.
But no idle talk has been said of
Macon. She is solid from “A to Izzard.” and
has back-bone enough to pull her through the
heaviest storms that ever come about her. It
takes back-bone to win, and Macon’s ability
in this direction is clearly shown by what I
have previously written. That man who
thinks Macon is slow should come down here
and take a look.Iam still an advocate of the plan
of making the town council put a corset on lier,
tiowever, for she needs to be squeezed togeth
er. A system of public parks ought to be
adopted in the middle of all these 250 feet
wide streets, or let them do as A ugusfa once
had to manipulate her si reels—build the
ioresbutin front on each side.
THE COLLINS MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
During the convention last week of the
Georgia carriage builder’s association, I had
the pleasure of mixing up considerably with
that body of representative citizens. It was
on one of the uptown jaunts with some of
the meiub.rs of that convention that I hap
pened to take a tour through the mammoth
carriage factory over wnich Mr. W. VV.
Collins presides with such ability and sagac
ity. Mr. Collins is the head of the company
and is quite a young man to be entrusted
with sucU a charge. He is jmst turning
thirty, aud yet he is at the head of the
LARGEST CARRIAGE FACTORY IN THE SOUTH.
Such assertions as this are often made with
no care for veracity, but the statement is pos
itively true and correct in every particular.
There is nothing like the Collins manufactory
south - of Cincinnati. Even Louisville, Ken
tucky, with all her boasted wagon and carri
age interests cannot make theshowing tliatthis
Macon concern does. Atlanta has no such
carriage interests, nor has Nashville, New Or
leans, Mobile, . Richmond, Savannah oi
Charleston. I have been led to believe that
a Richmond factory exceeded this, but I have
since learned that it will not approach it by
one half. The Collins’ are born carriage men,
all of them,-and their natural adaptation to
the business, together with a nerve of iron
that it took to grapple an enterprise hitherto
unattempted, has given them a measure of
success uever before attained by any similar
establishment in the country.
THE SUCCESS OF SOUTHERN MANUFACTURING,
The great trouble with pur southern man
ufacturers,” said Mr. Collins, to a little group
that had gathered around him to hear him
talk about his business, “is that we have all
been afraid to meet tbem on even ground. I
find, from a long and close observation, that
the only way the south can ever hope to cope
with the outside world is to stand Equare up
to the notch and not back down in anything.
We have simply got to show them that we
mean business, and the only way to whip the
devil is with fire. No sane man-can or will
doubt for an instant that all our available re
sources far surpass those of any other section
in the world. We have the finest land, the
finest timber, the finest iron aqd the fittest
climate in America. We have stood back
long enough and the Collins factory is no
longer to be a sluggard. We propose to force
the people to encourage home industries, but
propose to do it in a mild-mannered, legiti
mate way.’ •
COMPETING WITH EASTERN WORK.
■Continuing, Mr. Collins said: “We hate
now every possible facility for competing
with the best quality of eastern work, and we
are fully capable of catering to the largest pos
sible trade. We have every facility for it,
and simply mean business—that’s the situa
tion in a nutshelL”
“How have you bees enabled to da this?”
I asked.
‘Simply by having a new and complete
delightful springs ’That natty .spring that if you want a sure cure for backache, get a I’onio-
has no jolt. \\ e made i50 last seastn rov sl’etroline i’oroused Plaster at PinsouwDn-iier’s.
alone.” marts w:tm
“You say your machinerv is all new?”
Yes, there is not a machine in the konse
BITS OF GOSSIP.
From the Gumming Clarion.
Ha! ha!! ha!!! Two young ladies hunting
mullen in an old field by which to try their
fortunes! What next?
“What," inquires an editor, “shall we do
with oar girls?” He can do what he likes with
his; but we warn him to let ours alone.
From the Jackson Herald.
A smart young lady of this county walked
twenty-seven miles in one day recently, and
did not get tired either.
Colonel Sanders was accompanied on his
trip to our town by his estimable lady. She
is the first lady to make the through trip on
the Gainesville aud Jefferson railroad.
From thc Early County News.
An old lady walked home from church some
nights since.’behind a young lady and young
gentleman, and was not a little amused at the
oft repeated importunities of the y. g. fora
kiss from the y. I. The o. 1. is not informed
as to whether his request was finally granted,
but she wants us to advise him to buy a cake
&a’.a J usis A ton double bkam "agon scale, Piice'«t*rAA
pay* til* fretcu, Bor now and P*7 at GlnnlDt. S.-ad for frro B~-k. Kvtry .ire —iU,l!r low. S60a
Address JONES of Binghamton, Binghamton, N. Y.
may 16—wlw nol
outfit, and by having {nothing but the best
material. This is the only way we can com
pete-with the north.
A NEW SOUTHERN IDEA.
“We have adopted the regular varikee plan,
too, in our business, which will show for itself
in its final results and eflicacy. We have
separate men to separate jobs. For instance,
here’s a body maker who does nothing else
but make bodies. Tlieo there is a man who
does nothing else but saw out the bodies; an
other who finishes the wheels, and so on
through the entire factory. Trimmers, black
smiths, painters, silver-platers, and all doing
only one thing.”
WHAT COLLINS IS DOING.
“What Amount of business are you doing?”
I asked.
“Well, about $175,000 annually now, bnt
we shall have to get out of these present
quarters within less than a year—two years at
the outside.”
“Why?”
“Because onr business is increasing so rap
idly. Last year we made 1,500 one-horse
wagons alone.”
“What else did yon make?”
“From 1,200 to 1,500 buggies and carriages.
We are averaging about twenty a week now."
“How many hands do you work?”
“At present not more than seventy-five, but
that is a great many for a carriage factory.
You see our business extends over a large
territory, and as we are making nothing but
the best quality of work, we are obliged to
employ a large force to fill the orders prompt-
^“Are you up with your orders now?” _
“Not'much. We'have over $5,000 in or
ders right now and they are coming in every
day. We intend increasing our capacity as
soon as we can settle upon a place to estab
lish a new factory-”
“Tell me something about the style of your
vehicles?”
“We make, as I have several times said,
nothing but the bestquality of work. There’s
a fine job just turned out for a gentleman of
that is not brand new and that is not the lat
est, newest pattern.”
AMONG THE MACHINERY.
Leading the way, Mr. Collins then carried
) on a trip through the factory
and our eyes were never more
widely opened to the greatness of any south
ern enterprise than they were at this one.
The engine is the finest made, a thing of
beauty, fifty horse power, nnd symmetrical
beyond expression. The boiler is coated with
a covering of cement and plaster, something
no southern engines carry. By this means,
every^particle of heat and' steam is retained
and utilized. A perfect world of wheels and
julleys, long lines of shafting and zig-zag
jelts almost bewildered us, but we got
through at last i« safety. ’
"Right in there,” said Mr. Collins, “is the
largest stock of carriage material carried by
any house in the south,” pointing to a large
room on the third floor, whither we had gone
on the elevator. “We use the Roger Wheel
company’s wheels altogether.and never think
of putting on a wheel that has not been here
three or four months.”
SIX MEN TRYING TO BREAK A WHEEL.
_ Taking down a small buggy wheel, Mr. Col
lins threw it on the floor and requested six
men to stand on the rim. “Don’t be afraid,”
said he, when we hesitated for fear of break
ing every spoke from the liub.“breakit if you
can.” The six of us, each weighing one hun
dred and fifty ^pounds, then got upon the
outer rim, joined hands and bent the felloes
to the floor. Not a spoke cracked, and when
we got off, they sprang back with a force that
would have sent an arrow three
hundred yards into the air. They are made
of second-growth hickory and cannot be
broken.
“There is nothing like the Roger wheels for
strength,” said Mr. Collins, and Major Mc
Cracken, who stood near, representing them
from the Cincinnati. house, chuckled all over
with supremest satisfaction. “Ibis hub
band,” be continued, “was put on with an
hydraulic pressure of seventy tons or 140,000
pounds.” Continuing on through the factory
I found men busy everywhere, eacli one en
gaged on some separate part of a buggy, car
riage or wagon.
75,000 SQUARE FEET OF ROOM.
“We have in all, on the four floors, 75,000
square feet of flooring, every bit of which isj
utilized, and still we have not enough.
That you know is nearly two acres. Lately
we have added a new feature to our business
whereby we do all of our own
“SILVER AND GOLD PLATING. ■
We have a man who does nothing but put
on plating, nnd lie does it very handsomely.
Come, and I’ll show you the process.”
Entering a room tilled with the smoke and
fumes of burning rosin, we noticed a little
man standing over a seething ladle of boiling
tin. He was turning tlie iron preparatory to
plating it with silver and gold. The silver
comes in solid sheets like stencil brass, aud by
a late process is put on in that condition
without the old way of electrotyping.
POINTS.
The Collins company might well be termed
the pioneers in the carriage business in Geor
gia in the present new departure. Their’s is
undoubtedly the largest in the south, having
a paid-up capital of $75,000 and being regular
ly chartered.
It takes as many as twenty-four coats of
paint to finish the finest vehicles, though
nothing is turned out with less than a dozen
coats. Nothing but the finest velvet carpets
are used in covering the floors of the Collins
buggies and carriages. They are also manu
facturers of harness of every kind,
It would be impossible, in a notice of this
kind, to tell all about so extended an estab
lishment as that run by the Collins manu
facturing company.
Mr. W. W. Collins is a man of as much
yim and energy as I ever beheld. He’s a
walkin bnndle of enterprise. C. T. L.
HoESFORD ACID PHOSPHATE,
A Sleep Inducer.
Front my experience, I would say that as a
nerve restorer in exhaustion from any causa,
and as a sleep inducer, Horsford’s Acid Phos
phate is of the greatest value.
_ „ J. E. Locwmk, M. D.
Indianapolis. Ind.
There is a man living in Marion county, North
Carolina, who has 17 children by one wife, 13 of
them being girls and 4 boys.
No Uora Anodjne*.
A gentleman who procured Compound Ox
ygen for his daughter, writes thus of. the
effects: “Improvement was steady and rapid
though chloral was still used to procure slecj
but in smaller anil smaller doses. The con
tinued use of Compound Oxygen soon gat
her healthy and refreshing sleep, and all ano
dynes are abandoned.” Treatise on “Com
i iound Oxygen” sent free. Drs. Starkey
’alets, 1109 aud 1111 Qirard street, Philadel
phia, Pa.
Ilacry Lowiter, a Texas boy, student in thc law
department of the university of Virginia, has taken
the too gold piCze metlai to the best debater, thirty
students having contested for the prize.
Decline of Man.
Nervous VV-ytkness, Dyspepsia. Impoteney, Sexual
Debility, cureby “Wells’s Health Renewer.” $1.
Dej.ot, Lunar, Rankin & Lamar, Atlanta.
, TJ 10 compauy between Richmond and Lex-
lugton, Kv., has an old horse that haa been in tho
sendee thirteen years.
Connumptloti Cured.
An old physician, retired from practice,
having hid placed in his hands by an llfet
India missionary the formula of a simple veg
etable remedy for the speedy and permanent
cure for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh,
Asthma, and all Throat and Lung A flections,
also a positive and radical cure for Nervous
Debility and all Nervous Complaints, atfijr.
having tested its wonderful curative power?
in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty Or
make it known to his suffering fellows. 'Ac
tuated by this motive and a desire to relteya
human suffering. I will send tree of charge to
all who desire it, this recipe, in German,
French or English, with full directions For
preparing and using. Sent by mail by act-
dressing with stamp, naming this paper, W.
A. Noyes, 149 Power’s Block, Rochester, N.
deefi—weow 13w pu rd mat
The Kentucky legislature has voted $5,000 to ho
used for stocking thc rivers of the state with choice
varieties of fish.
If you want a sure cure for pain in the side, get a
Pomeroy’s Petroline Poroused Plaster at Pinson &
Dozier's. marls \v:t'm
The newspaper office of the future will be sup
plied with a private cremation furnace Lr the ex
clusive use ot poets.
Corns cause more suffering than neuralgia. Ger
man Corn Removereasily cures them. 25c. Druggists
mar31—d&w3m 8
Quantities of sturgeon are fouud in Hillsborough
river, Florida. One weighing400 pounds was caught
lost week.
Elixir Vitas far Women.
Mrs. Lydia E. Hukham, 233 western Avenue,
Lynn, Mass., has made the discovery I Her Veget
able Compound is a positive cure for female com
plaints. A line addressed to this lady will elicit all
necessary information.
mayl-4—dlw sun, wed & fri Jew It
According to an arithmetical exchange tiie pro-
rortion this year is about four liars to one trout.—
New York Commercial Advertiser.
If you want a certain remedy for rheumatism, get
Pomeroy’s Petroline Poroused fluster at Pinson.&
Dozier’s, maria w3m
On 150 sheep bought six months ago by Messrs. V.
- Stroud and Ranison Allen, of Walton county,
they have made their money hack.
of Irish soap, then supply himself with some t u aconi worth $300, cash. I am building a
good oak or hickory ashes and a com cob and ; i anc j eau f or $1,000. Our buggies are simply
go vigorously to work to clean up bis con- i par excellence, and Colonel H. H. Jones
science. cnce alluded to one of them, speaking of the
An Apitl Shower Thut Ifiroosht tiny Flowers.
On Tuesday, April 11th, tlie 143d Grand Monthly
Distribution of tlie Louisiana state Lottery oc
curred as it always does on the day fixed. Generals
G T Beauregard of Louisiana, aud Jubal A E-triy of
Virginia, had ns usual the .solesupervision. THD
amount scattered was $tHi,400—next time 1: will ho
over half a million of dollops. The first capital was
sold in halves tcosting eacli only one dollar) ana
was drawn bv ticket No <8,(137—one-half to Lquls
Hauser, a well known jeweler at No 223 Cal homy
treet. Fort Wayne. Indiana; the other bv \&
Whitney, a locomotive engineer on the Wabash
railroad, of No 41S Broadway. Forest Wayne, also.
This city seems in luck. A few months before too
capital went there. T lie second capital. S10.000,alsp
sold in halves to No PO.7-16—one half to .State Senator
J B Judkins, through the German hank of LittfO
Rock, Arkansas; the other to.s L Hatfield of Boston,
Mass. The third capital, $5,000, was sold- to tic^pt
So 78,912, Messrs PhflomeneLament, No 315 Char
tres street. New < h leans. La The tw o fou rib capi
tal prizes, $2,500 each, to ticket No 18,191, in halves
—one of wiiich went to J W Colieu. of No 630 I'enn-
sylvania avenue, and A M McDaniels, No 1900
Fou teen th street, Washington, D C; and the other
to No 35,720—sold In lpilvi s to parties in Chicago,
111, and Providence, R 1, and wuose names are
withheld by request. The next Extraordinary
Semi Annual Drawing will occur June 13th,"of
which M A Dauphin, New Orleans. Louisiana, will
give any one inquiring full patticulars.
may!) d&wlt
The wool clip of Worth, Berrien, Colquitt, Irwin
and coffee counties promises to he much larger
than usual. The lambs have increased almost one
hundred percent as compared with last year.
Agents can now grasp a fortune. Outfit
worth $10 sent free. For fall particulars aa
dress E. G. Rideout <fc Go., 10 Barclay st.,N.Y.
oct25—wljr
Clergyman, who hits caught a boy stealing—'
“Don't you know that the devil gets xaughty
hoys?” Boy—"I know it now.”
If you ate afflicted with spine or hip troubles, gel
a Pomeroy’s Petroline Poroused Plaster at Pinsond
Dozier’s. marl3 w3ih
So many peachc-.s on the trees in Whitfield county
that it will be necessary to thrash off some to pro
vent the limbs from breaking.
I.adies ami si'okly girls requiring a non-all
coholic, gentle stimulant, will find Brown’s
Iron Bitters beneficial. may9—d&wlw
A bear weighing 350 pouuds has been killed near
Tallahassee, also a rattlesnake live feet long and
nixe inches-in circumference.
fortr ¥e*n*ExD«>ieaM of an Old None.
Mrs. Winsu>w’8 soothing Syrup is the prescrip
tion of one of the best female physicians aud nurse*
in the United States, and has been used for forty
years with never-failing success by millions of
mothers for their children. It relieves the child from
tain, cures dysentery and diarrhcea, griping in the
bowels and wind-colie. By giving health to the child
it rests the mother. Price & cents * bottle.
nxar2r—dlv sat «un wea&wly
Falls county, one of the great cotton counties of
Texas.has gone into thc small grain business.
Nervous debility, the curse of the American
people, immediately yields to the action of
Brown’s Iron Bitters. may9—d&wlw
Mrs. Boatright, of Leon county, Fla., Intends to
have a silk dress this winter. Six thousand worms
are at work for her benefit.
Don’t Trifle with the Teeth.
If our teeth were renewed as ournails, they might
not need constant care. But teeth don’t repeat
themselves after childhood. The proper thing to
do is to use tOZODONT, which preserves their
health and beauty, ft never fails.
may 14—dlw sun.tiles,thnr.satd:wXt
Leon county, Florida, tomatoes ajre nearly as large
as ooeoauuts, some of them measuring 14 Inches hi
circumference.
ANGOSTURA BITTERS do not only distinguish
themselves by theii flavor and aromatic odor above
all others generally ustd, but they are also a sura
preventive for all diseases originating from the di
gestive organs. Beware of counterfeits. Ask your
grocer or druggist for the genuine article, manu
factored by DrJGB Siege rt <fc Sons.
mavl2—dlw fri sun wed Awlw
A Swiss genius has succeeded in making a watch
of paper. But a man can forget to wind it, same as
the other kind.
Fatherls GctUnc Well.
Mv daughter- say, “Mow much better father is
siut-e he used Hop Bitters. He Is getting well after
his lou: suffering from a disease declared incurable,
aud we are so glad that be used your Bitter*.—A
lady of Rochester, N. Y.
Com, pinders, potatoes, canc end chufas. havo
been planted liberally in Macon county. There
has been a .shortening iu tiie acreage of cotton
planted.
L4DIES,
For $3 we will send the Dressmakers’ Magic
Scale nnd Instruction Book by which you can
cut ladies’ and children's clothing of all kinds
to a perfect fit without, trying on or making
any changes. 1 f not satisfactory return it ana
get your money, except 50 cents retained to
pay'expensc aud trouble. Garments of all
kinds cut and made to order. Agents wanted.'
Send for circular. G. K. Woodward & Co.,
65 Reach tree street, Atlanta, Ga.
915apr25-sun&w-t£
Mr. Frank Bynum, of .Terrell county, shows
wheat which was harvested the 20th of Ay 11.
For sprains, stiffness of the joints and kindred
complaint, use Pomeroy’s Petroline Poroused Pas
ters, which you can get at Pinson & Dozier’s.
marl3 w3m
Peach trees around Dulton are bending under
huge loads of half grown^penches.
A bottle of Dr. Fuller’s Pocket Injection with
syringe combined cares wi hout nau-eous medi
cines. $1. Dr. Fuller’s Youthful Vigor Pills cure
nervous debility, impotence and nocturnal emis
sions. $2. By mail. Lamar, Rankin A Lamar, and
all druggists.
apr 11 U&wly toes thnr sat
A good deal of grain ready for harvest!eg in lions
ton county. No complaint of f*i--m labor.
My Wire,
for over three years, has been afflicted wi,
and fever, contracted in Illinois, and with
•-5a of long standing and a genera! debility of
svstem. rhe has.used three bottles of i-iinmon’s
Live'-Regulator—her chills arc entirely cuieitaiid
tile dyspepsia ak.iort vanished.
N. W. EVERHART,
- Hampton, Ya.
ills
A brash light company, with a capital of $500.-
009. has been organized in Memphis, Ten noised,
and will put in lights at once.
Duty t* Others.
Chamrersburg, July 25,1S75.—This la to let tho
people know that I, Anna Maria Krider, wife of
Tobias Krider, am now past seventy-four years of
age. My health has been very,bad for some vears
past. 1 was troubled with weakness, b.ij cough
dyspepsia, great debility and constipation of the
bowels. I was so miserable I could hardly eat any
thing. I heard of Hop Bitters, and was resolved to
■.ry them. I have only used three Dottles, end I
feel wonderfully good, well and strong again Mv
bowels are regular, my appetite good, and cough
oil gone. I fee! so wed that I think it my duty to
let the peoDle know, as so many knew how ’.ad"T
was, what the medicine has done for me so thev
can cure themselves with it. ’ ey
ANNA M. KRIDER, Wife tf Tobias Krider.
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