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tKKwn CANCER OF THE WOMB. My mother, Mrs. F at>-ers, lias had a cancer of the womb for many Last winter the told us it was cancer, and could no be cured. Five different physi clans in private practice have snid the same thing. We took her to the woman’s hospital of this city, and there they repeated the same story. Dr. Emmett told us it was cancer and she must die. M e then took her to the New York College Hospital, and they told us the r ante thing there —that she bad cancer and could live but a very short time. She was then carried to my house, where she awaited patiently the coming of death as het only relief. We saw the advertisement of the Swift Specific Co,, and as a “drowning man grasps at a straw,” we went to the office of the company, and the physicians told me to try it—that it could do her no pos sible harm, and that it would cure her. She had lost a great deal of flesh and strength, and it seemed folly to give her medicine after what we had been told. How ever, we commenced the S. S. S, and kept it up a month before she began to see any improvemi nt. From that time on her general health improved, and she was soon raised from bed. The discharge increased so much that it frightened us, but we kept on, and the cancer came away in greatsloughs and lumps. For two months now there has been no hemorrhage, no sign of a discharge. Tha. k God, my mother is well. Mrs. Rebecca Cramer, 275, 7th Ave. New York, December 2,1885. TERRIBLE CASE CURED. In 18781 was poisoned by contact with poison aak. My face and neck .swelled terribly, and the itching and burning sensation was almost unbearable. I tried both the homoeopathic and allopathic treatments, but both failed of a cure. I went under treatment of one of the most distinguished physicians of New York city, then to Dr. Agnew, of Philadelphia, and these failed to effect a cure. I tried Hot Springs, Ark., and Blount Springs, Ala., where I found temporary relief only. For two years I suf fered on, and alternated between comparative relief and suffferings that seemed beyond my power to bear: It s*med, no matter what I did, as if it were impossible to rid myself of the poison. In 1884, in October, when in desperation, but having very little faith in it, I com menced using Swift’s Specifl After I had taken a number of bottles I felt that my digestion and general health was improved, but so far as I could tell the poi son was still in my system. After 1 had finished the sec ond dozen bottles, I began to see a change for the better Nearly every sign of my dread affliction had disappeared, my skin was dear and in its normal condition, and again I believed that 1 was forever free from this terri ble affliction. I have now completed my forty-eighth bottle, and I feel free again, with no sign of any eruption but a few pimples, whieh I believe to be the last faint signs of the-result ol my terrible blood poisoning. I cannot say too much in praise of the S. S. S. Mobile, Ala. J- K - SratMAN. JEFFERSON DAVIS. ■ 1 1 i The Life of the Ei-Preaflent of tliß DeaaSouthenConfeilcracy. The Sole Chief Exeutive of a Colosal Na tionality of 4 Years Existence. A .CAREER MARKED BY SINGU LAR PURITY AND HEROISM. The Isolated Head of the Grandest Lost Cause of Human Annals. Jefferson Davis was born on the 3d day of 1808, in that portion of Kentucky which is now Todd county. His family removed to the then territory of Mississippi, while he was a child of tender years. He commenced his education at the Transylvania University, Kentucky, but left it for the West Point Academy, where he grad uated in 1828. AS A SOLDIER. He followed the fortunes of a soldier until 1835. He was a cadet from 1824 to 1828; Sec ond Lieutenant of Infantry from 1828 to 1833; First Lieutenant of Dragoons from 1833 to 1835, serving in various campaings against the In dians; was Adjutant of Dragoons, and at differ ent times served in the Quartermas ter’s Department. His military lite gave considerable promise of distinction. To the surprise of his companion Lieutenant Davis abrubtly quitted the service, resigned his commission, and betook himself to the widely removed occupation of a cotton planter in Mississippi. A short I while afterwards, it was known that he had married the daughter of Colonel Zachery Tay- ; lor after a romantic elopement, and that he had founded a quiet borne in the neighborhood of | Vicksburg, where for a long time he was with drawn from the notice of his former friends and associates. IN RETIREMENT. For eight years after his resignation from the army, , Mr. flavis remained in the close retire ment of private life, occupying himself ob scurely with domestic and personal cares. He was a successful planter, living in comfort but averse to much society. His retirement to which we have referred was rather that of the scholar than of the planter. He improved it by studies the most various; he adorned his solitude with books; he undertook a course of reading and of literary cultivation, of which he never weaned, and evidences of which strangely appeared in his subsequent memora ble career. MB. DAVIS ESTERS POLITICS. In 1843, Mr. Davs emerged suddenly from his seclusion, and with brilliant rapidtiy and a becoming ease won the honors of public life. He entered the arena of politics in the midst of a great excitement and at a time auspicious for an adventurous candidate for distinction. The State of Mississippi was then unusually agita ted bv a campaign for Governor, and parties were also being organized for the Presidential, THE EVENING CAJfTTOL: ATLANTA. GA. SATURDAY MAY 1, 1886. Swift’s Specific! THK GREAT VESTABLE BLOOD PURIFiEEI! Endorsed over the whole American Con tinent ! jmij |IM g . - Interesting Treaties on “ Blood and Skin Diseases” mailed free to all applicants It should be carefully by all. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga contest of the next year. Mr. Davis was placed as a Presidential elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket, and so rapid had been his progress as a popular speaker and so conspicuous bis part in the critical Democratic Success of 1844 that the next year he was sent to Congress, and in De cember, 1845, took his seat in the House of Representatives. COL. DAVIS IN MEXICO. Mr. Davis was sitting in. the House of Repre sentatives when the war with Mexico was pro claimed. It opened a new road to his ambition, and one which led back to his first passion for arms. He resigned his seat in Congress to accept the command of the Mississippi Rifles— a regiment of which he was unanimously elected Colonel —overtook his men at New Orleans, en route for the theatre of the war, and by mid summer of 1846 reinforced General Taylor on the Rio Grande. We have neither the space nor design to admit here the details of his mili tary career in Mexico. He played an important part at Monterey, where he charged, without bayonets, on Foil Leneria; he led his command through the streets to within a square of tbe Grand Plaza, suffering a storm of musketry and grape; and on the subsequent field of Buena Vista, he per formed one of the most dramatic incidents of of the war, receiving on a suddenly conceived formation of his lines a charge of cavalry, and with a plunging fire from right and left repelling it, the last desperate effort of the Mexicans to break the American line at the close of the day. This was the famous V movement. D. 8. SENATOB. On bis return from the Mexican war, Mr. Da vis quickly re-entered political life, this time withan ascent to the Senate of the United States. He was elected in 1847 to fill a vacancy; but a few months before Ibe expiration of his senatorial term, he returned to the field oflocal politics in Mississippi, and was an unsuccessful car.didnte for Governor in the campaign of 1850. From that contest he passed into the Cabinet of President Pierce, ond for four years discharged with uninterrupted sati«'action to the army and to the country the duties of Sec retary of War. In 185 , he returned to the Senate, and his term would have continued thereuntil tbe 3d of March, 1863, had not the war translated him to that career wherein we shall find the dominant interest of his life. AS AN ORATOR IN THE SENATE. The qualities of Mr. Davis as an orator were of rare and cultivated type. His person real ized all that the popular imagination pictured for an orator. His thin, spare figure, his almost sorrowful cast of countenance, com-1 posed, however, in an invariable expression of i dignity, gave the idea of a body worn by the | action of the mind, an intellect supporting in its prison of flesh tbe pains of constitutional dis ease, and triumphing over physical confinement : and afflict on. Observing him in a casual group of three of I the then most distinguished public men of the ■ South, sitting in abstracted conversation in the i Chamber of the Senate, a writer thus describes him: “Davis sat erect and composed; Hunter, listening, rested bis head on his hand; and ToombS, inclining forward, was speaking ve hemently. Their respective attitudes were no bad illus tration of their individuality. Davis impressed the spectator, who observed the easy but au thoritative bearing with which he put aside or assented to Toombs’s suggestions, with the no tion of some slight superiority, some hardly acknowledged leadership; and Hunter’s atten tiveness and impassibility were characteristic of his nature, for his profundity of intellect wears tbe guise of stolidity, and his continuous industry that of inertia; while Toombs’s quick utterance and restless head bespoke his nervous temperament and activity of mind.’’ AN INCIDENT. He recollects him in one of tbe passages of the debate in the Senate on tbe famous Kansas bill when be shone as tbe impersonation of de fiant pride, and threw his haughty challenge in the face of a political enemy. Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, had twitted some of his Democratic friends for what he declared their alleged defection, and had promised certain conditions to them when he was able to dictate , their restoration to the party. Mr. Davis rose suddenly to his feet, with erect and dilated figure, and, striking his breas’, exclaimed proudly and passionately. “I torn your quar ter!” HIS FAREWELL TO THE SENATE. The farewell speqch of Mr. Davis in the Sen ate was memorable. The State of Mississippi I seceded from the Union on the 9th of January, 1861, but her Senators lingered at Washington until the 21st before they withdrew. The lan guage was very fine, the spirit of the address dignified; and those who witnessed its delivery by Mr. Davis, will rec llect how the Senate hung on the slow and unimpassioned words, and how tears even were shed when he walked forth from the chamber, "released from obliga tion, disencumbered of the memory of any in jury he had received,” prepared for a new career, the most important and dramatic of modern times. In the close of his sveech he showed an unbounded personal ge. erosity, begged pardon of all whom he bad ever offended, and, directing his attention to the Republican Senators, declared that be carried away no hos tile feeling, and sincerely apologized tor what ever of personal displeasure had ever been occa sioned in debate. ELECTED PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT CONFEDERACY. When elected Mr. Davis was at his home, Brierfield, Warn-n county, Miss , to use his own language, “repairing his fences!” Mr. Davis rode from Brierfield to Montgomery in the blaze of bonfires by night aud the acclamations of multitudes by day. He bad one continued ova tion and made twenty-five speeches en. route. He was inaugurated at Montgomery Monday, the 18th of March, 1871, on a lovely day amid intense enthusiasm. He said: “Experience in public stations of a subordinate grade to this which your kindness has conferred, has taught me that care and toil and disappointments are the price of official ele vation. You will see many errors to forgive, many deficiencies to tolerate; but you shall not find in me either want of zeal or fidelity to the cause that is to me the highest in hope, and of most enduring affection.” AT RICHMOND. Ob the 21st of May the Confederate gove’n ment moved to Richmond. It came to Rich mond in a storm of popular applause, and with an exaltation of spirits almost indescribable. President Davis travelled through scenes of ovation. Everything wore for him now the color of the rose. HIS HEROISM AT MANASSAS. The President galloped forward to learn the state of the field. No one could tell him amid ; the roar and confusion. As he rode swiftly ' through a stream of strugglers, it seemed as if he was in the midst of a retreat, breasting its ■ bad and dusty current. At that moment his brother, Joseph Davis, gallopped to his side, and said, “the day is lost; let us go no further.” “No,” said the President grandly, “if the army is defeated so much the greater season that I should be with my brave men and share their i fate.” They were the words of a personal | courage which nothing in his life ever turned or daunted: MR. DAVIS AS PRESIDENT. Mr. Davis was simple and democratic in big habits. His figure, habitually clothed in Con federate gray, was familiar on the streets, or might be seen almost every evening mounted on the horse on which he took -egular exercise. He invited the approach and freedom of tbe commonest men. PERMANENT PRESIDENT. On the 22d of February, 1862, Mr. Ravis was inaugurated as permanent President for six years, when disasters began to pour on the young Confede’acy. DAVIS’ COVBAGE. In bis vis visit to Hoods Army in Georgia, Mr. Davis as one illustration of his indomitable spirit said: “Those who see no hope now, who have lost confidence, are to me like those of whose dis torted vision it is said, they behold spots upon the sun. Such are the croakers who seem to forget the battles that have been won, and th* men who have fought; who forget that in tbe magnitude of those battles and tbe heroism of those men, this struggle exceeds all that his tory records. We commenced the fight witbou Swift’s Sjecffic! YE 3ETABLE Blood Purifier! CURES Cancer, Catarrh, Scrofula, Eczema, Di cers, Rheumatism, Blood Taint, Hereditary or Otherwise, Without the Use of Mer cury or Potash. INTERESTING TEXAS GIRL CASE. The Swift Specific Co , Atlanta, Ga.—Gentlemen: In answer to your inquiries as to the health of my little girl, I state: Her health is good. For ten years she has been afflicted with diseases of the hip joint, and al though she has been rendered permanently lame, her abscesses have he< led and her aealth is good. I have every reason to believe that she owes her restoration to the use of S. S. 8., by which her blood has been purified and she invigorated. In all she has taken some fifteen bottles, and is still keeping up its use. I charge noth ing for saying that 1 have great faith in S. S. S., and to its healing and blood purifying properties I attribute the restoration of my little girl to perfect health. Yours truly, A. P. Boyd, Editor North Texan, Paris, Texas. January 20, 1886. FATHER AND CHILD. Two years ago I contracted blood poison, and after nine months of treatment by physicians with no benefit, I have been cured by Swift’s Specific. When I began taking S. S. S. I had run down in flesh from 181 to 132 pounds. There were three large sloughing ulcers as large as the palm of my hand on my leg and on my head. Now they are all cured up, and 1 have regained fifteen pounds of my lost flesh. lam feeling thoroughly well and gaining every day. Swift’s Specific has also cured a child of mine of “king’s evil” or scrofula after two doctors said it must die. It had large swellings in its neck, sore eyes, and a chronic discharge from one •ar. It was the cure of the child which led me to take it myself, and for the good of others I am only too glad to have them referred to me, that I may tell what this wonderful medicine has done for me and mine. C. Van Hoesen, M. E., 154 West Stieet. New York, Dec. 26,1885. an army, without a navy, without arsenals, without mechanics, without money, and without credit. Four years we have stemmed the tide of invasion, and to-day are stronger than when the war began. It is not our purpose to trace the fortunes of the Confederacy. THE END. When the historic scene of Appomatox Court House came, with its memorable surrender of the army of Virginia, and its consequent col lapse of the Southern cause, it was Georgia’s Gordon that divided with his great chieftain, Lee, the sad celebrity of that heroic but irrepar able conclusion of the grand drama. On the 2d of April, 1865, Lee’s line at Peters burg was broken, and Davis and bis cabinet left Richmond and went to Danville. On the 9th of April, Lee surrendered. On the 36th of April, Johnston surrendered, and in swift succession followed other surrenders up to the 25th of May, when the great war was ended—forever. The President and his cabinet, the small nu cleus of the dead Confederate government, the helpful representatives of its defunct authority, <ere fugitives and uncaptured. The State of Georgia was not to be balked of its curious fate of a foremost agency in the revolution, even in the final matter of being the arena of the last order of Confederate power, and the theater of the dissolution of its administration and capture of ite President. As soon as Richmond fell, Mr. Davis and his cabinet went to Danville Remaining there a few days, he proceeded to North Carolina. When the armistice was arranged between Sherman and Johnston, Mr. Davis determined to go to Texas. A company of Dibrell’s brig ade of cavalry was assigned as escort. Mr. Davis arrived at Washington, Wilkes county, Ga., the home of General Robert Toombs, on the 4th day of May, 1865. General Bragg, General J. M. St. Johns, commissary general, General A. R. Lawton, quartermaster genera), and a large number of Confederate of ficers arrived there. The various heads of de partments all had left Richmond together, and they remained with Mr. Davis in W ashington, Ga., until they all dispersed. LAST OF THE CONFEDERACY ADMINISTRATION. It was a singular coincidence that the Davis i government should have finally dissolved in a place having the same name as the seat of gov ernment —Washington—the objective goal of the war efforts of that administration. It was a fitting conclusion of the young government that, after four years of unequaled resistante to a power that had been backed by the civilized world, it marked its last act of authority by a thoughtful loyalty to the comfort of its penni less and starved defenders. Ou this sth day of May, 1865, the Confederate administration thus gathered at Washington, Ga., and standing shorn of every vestige of au thority, means, support and power, helplessly fugitive, its long fought cause done forever, dissolved and scattered, never more to meet. General Breckenridge, the Confederate Secre tary of War, went in one direction; General St. John, tbe Commissary General, in another; General Lawton, the Quartermaster-General, in still another; while Mr. Davis and Mr. Reagan, the Postmaster-General, fled leisurely at the rate of about thirty miles a day into the interior of Georgia. mb. davis’s capture. A Federal force of about two hundred caval ry, under Lieutenant Colonel B. D. Pritchard, of the Fourth and Second Michigan regiments, finally captured Mr. Davis and his pariv near ; Irwinvilte, Georgia, at daylight en the morning | of the 10th day of May, 1865. The Federal ■ caralrv was divided and ran upon one another I unexpee'e ily, firing and killing several soldiers. F< r a long time the Northern press circulated ’ the statement that Mr. Davie was capturedin ; woman’s clothes, but tbe statement was false, ■ and was undoubtedly fabricated to throw ridi ; cule npinhim and tbe cause he represented, i Tbe report was an ungracious piece of malig | nanev, as ungenerous as it was malicious. With the capture of President Davis on Geor , gia soil, the final blow was given to the Confed- I erate government and the Southern cause that lit represented. The first act of war bad been i committed on Georgia territory, and the ulti mate ending, by a providential fortune, came From Alabama. I have been afflicted with rheumatism over three years. Two years of the time I could not walk a step— could not even stand on my feet. My joints were all swollen and*kome of them running sores. I commenced taking S- S. S. and in six weeks was walking. I con sider that I am cured of the worst case of rheumatism that I ever heard of, ami Swift’s specific did the work, Salem, Ala., Jan. 21, 'B6 Ikk Pruitt. We know tte Above statement tc be true. We gave him themed!, me S. S. S.) The day we gave it to him he actually could not stand upon his feet—had no use of his limbs whatever. We make this statement cheer fu’ly, as the result of ou own observation Adams Bros A Co., Dealers in General Merchandise. Salem, Ala., Jan. 21,1886. It is solid Facts the World wants- It is Truth only that commands respect of mankind. | S.S.S. I These we give from the lips of living people. You ask for Results. We give them. Read ! Ears Almost Eaten Off. About eight months ago 1 contracted blood poison. I was treated by a private phydeian on Thirty-first street, and then for a month at the New York hospital. Finding 1 did not improve, I began taking Swift’s Spe cific. Up to this time I had a drowsy and sleepy feel ing continually, with no appetite, and was losing flesh rapidly. I was covered the ankles, arms, neck and face with sores, and it seemed that my ears would be eaten off. 1 have taken a seven bottles of S. S. S., and the sores are all gone except a few on my forehead, and they are nearly all out of sight; my < ars are entirely well, ( my appetite is splendid, and I have gained five pounds in weight. I feel so perfectly well that I know in a short tljne I will be soundly cured. Frask K. Kkf.nk, 405 W. 71st St. New York, Feb. 13,1886. A Business Man’s Opinion. Chicago, 111., November 1,1885. Two years ago I took S. S. 8. for a case of rheuma tism, which had been afflicting me for ten years. I have waited this long before writing in order that I would be sure that I was cured, and that there would be no re turn of the disease I was laid up for two weeks, and the disease seriously affected my feet. I never fall io recommend Swift’s Specific on every occasion to those who suffer as I did. I know 1 cannot say too much for it. One should always be proud of the bridge that takes him over the stream. R. J. Gunning. here too. The brilliant beginning and the ca lamitous conclusion both belong to Georgia, and with her other masterful instrumentality in the mighty episode, weave together a story of he roism, power and disaster, that will live in all ages. AT PORTRESS MONROE. What he suffered, lying as a prisoner in a casemate of Fortress Monroe for two years, and for the first few weeks degraded by fetters, and especially the manner of his suffering,displayed him in an attitude so touching, and in conduct so becoming and noble, that, when released on bail in the month of May, 1866, he found himself welcomed by every heart in the South, and hailed with a • ride and tenderness. Atjthe term of the Unileu States Circuit Court, held in Richmond, December, 1868, a nolle prosequi was entered in the case of Mr. Davis, as on an indictment for treason, and the prose cution on the charge, at least, was thus dis missed. Since then Mr. Davis has lived a quiet dignified uneventful life, true to his memories, self-respectful, and bearing his isolation with tbe genuine manhood that belongs to the man. Ponce de Leon Spring;*. A reporter went out lo tbe springs yesterday and found everything in trim for the summer, Mr. Starks was busy mending up the circular railrway. Several stands are there for the ac commodation of hungry, and the pool tables are standing there to tempt the players, thus when the people go out there everything will look somewhat natural. Grant’* Park. It is the opinion of many that tbe way every thing is going on at Grant’s park it will prove detrimental to the visitors and the park. People don’t like the idea of the policeman taking off their bouquets as they enter the gates. A reporter heard two young men, who aye members of the I. 0. R. M. speaking about how the officer out there wanting to relieve them of their signal tassels which they had fastened to their ceat breasts. They both became furious ily angry, and why should they not? A reporter, on Sunday, noticed how many ladies were forced to throw away nice flowers in order to get inside the park. Innocent people should not be treat ed thus on account of those who did wrong. Labor’* Haiti* Agralnat Labor. Florida Times-Union. The way to do a booming business isjto get boycotted for maintaining your rights. With a moral in it for Women. Jersey City Journal. At a recent theatrical entertainment s youns , lady with a three-story hat immediately in frt>n of a newspaper man. Noticing that her head : gear obstructed the journalist’s view of th< i ; stage she took it off and placed it in her lap I The newspaper man was profuse in bis thanks The next day he caught a severe cold, contract ed pneumonia and died a week later. When hi will was read it was discovered that be hai added a codicil, giving the young lady who sa in front of him in the theatre $2,047,468. An A palling Conflict Cominf. Brooklyn Eagle. Senator Plumb, of Kansas, and Gen. Loga> have declared war oa one another. It is going to be a terrible conflict. If the English languagi interferes in the affray it will be fatally injured Since Gen. Logan announced that the country was standing on the bringing of an abscess i nothing more severe and startling hag been uttered than hi* remark that Plumb was insati ated to attack him by a man exterior to the Senate. Telegraphic Hew*. Remember that The Capitol is the only evening paper that hag regular press telegraph ic news. We have a bona fide regular tele i graphic service. ITS BOOM I Heard Everywhere. Lung Trouble Relieved. Three and a half years ago I gave up niy business on account of consumption. 1 spent two seasons In Florida and one In California. 1 have been under treatment of physicians all the time, among them some of the most prominent In this city, and I have kept growing worse and worse. I got to be a mere shadow and could scarce ly walk. On the 14lh of last September 1 kept my bed, tor 1 was not able to got out of It, and the doct rs as well as ray friends all expected-me nerer to come out of It alive. I was having frequent and profuse hemor rhages, and on three different occasions I bled until I became Insensible. About six weeks ago I heard of S. S. 8. and began taking It. Its effects have been won derful. I have not had a hemorrhage since I began It. I was soon able to sit up and even dress myself. My appetite became good. I could eat and retain my food and my osier returned. I gained flesh and strength rapidly; and I am now walking about town wherever I wish I o go. It is certainly a great surprise to nil and everyone who knows me, Ixmg since’hoy have all ex pected me to die. I am willing and wa it all who suffer with lung disease to know of me and my case, and I advise all such to take Swift's Specific and live. These are not idle words, but absolute fao s, whlcn will with pleasure be substantiated for any one who mag doubt. Louis T. Clark, 346 West Twelfth Street. New York, Feb. 9,1886. i GRAND I Zouave Drill AT ATHLETIC PARK. THE BUSCH ZOUAVES, OF St. Louis, Saturday Afternoon, May Ist, AT 3:30 , To be followed by Exhibition Drill by ’ GATE CITY GUARD. A day full of interest to all who can visit Atlanta, a» well as to the citizens. 5 In the morning the ceremonies connected with the an* vei Ing of the statue commemorative ot Senator B. H, r Hill will be observed. ' In the afternoon the public will have an opportunity, J of IriHpectlng the ; Zouav and Skirmish Dr ill , By the finest Zouave company In the world. Ilillllß NERVOUS DEBILITATED MEN. BtavUdc Suspensory Appll.WM for P- W» risk Is Incurred. IllusknS*! uwmphlat In rrnfrfl t- iii jxt CO, MaxAall, Mtak, is id _ y. H. L. Davis,. . Wholesale Com. Lumber fieaier. • re CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED L OF ALL KINDS Lumlier, Shingles ani Laths. References: The Entire Retail Lumber Trade of Atlaata. Office 37 Marietta st., Atlanta, - ~ Ga. 3