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SOUTHERN HEROES.
Continued from Fourth Page,
’twinkle »f a single star, roll their portentious
thunderings, “and nature writhing in pain
through ail her works, gives signs of woe.”
The fruits of years of industry are swept away
in an hour; the landmarks of ages are oblitera
ted without a vestige; the sturdiest oak that
has struck deep its roots in the bosom of the
earth is the plaything of the maddened winds;
the rock that marks the formation of whole
geological periods are rent, and deep gsrges in
the mountain side like ugly scars in the face of
the earth tell of the force and fury of the
storm. Such was that period to uor social, do
mestic and political institutions. Law no long
er held its benign sway, but gave place to the
of petty diet ators enforced by the bay
onet. What little of property remained was
held by no tenure but the capricious will
of the plunderer; liberty and life were at
the mercy of the conqueror, the sancity of
home was invaded; vice triumphed over
virtue; ignorance ruled in lordly and haughty
■ dominion over the intelligence; the weak r.ere
qppressed; the unoffending insulted; the fallen
■warred on; truth was silenced; falsehood nn
blushing and brazen, stalked abroad unchal
lenged; anxiety filled every heart; apprehen
sion clouded every prospect; despair shadow
ed hearthstones; society was disorganized; Leg
islatures dispersed; Judges torn from their seats
by the strong arm of military power; States
subverted; arrests made, trials and sentences
without evidence; madness lust,
.hate and crime of every hue, defiantly wicked
and diabolical ruled the hour, until the very air
was rent with the cry, and heaven's deep con
. cave echoed the wall:
“Alas! Our country sinks beneath the yoke;
>it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is
added to her wounds."
All this Georgia and her sister States of the
• South suffergd at the hands of her enemies, but
more-cruel than wrongs done by hostile hands
were ths wounds inflicted by some of their own
children. They basely bartered themselves for
■ the spoils of office. They aligned themselves
with the enemies of the people and their liber
ties until the battle was fought, and then with
Satanic effrontery, insulted the presence of the
virtuous and the brave by coming among them,
and forever fixed upon their own ignoble brows
the stigma of a double treachery, by proclaim
ing i hat they had joined our ene-
mies to betray them. They were
enemies -to the mother who had nur
tured them. “Thoy bowed the knee and spit on
her. They cried -‘Hail!’ and smote her on the
cheek; they put a sceptre into ner hand, but it
was a fragile reed; they crowned her, but it was
with thorns; they covered with purple the
wounds which their own hands had inflicted on
her, and inscribed magnificent titles over the
■ cross on which they had fixed her to perish in
ignominy and pain." They had quarrelled .with
•-and weakened the Confederacy out of pretended
love for the habeas corpus, and now they sus
tained (..government that trampled upon every
- form of law and every principle of liberty.
■ They had been foremost in leading the people
into war, and now they turned upon them to
punish them for treason. Even some who were
still loyal at heart, appalled by the danger,
that surrounded, overwhelmed by the powers
that threatened us were timid in spirit, and
silent witnesses of their country’s ruin.
Others there were, many others, as loyal, brave,
noble, heroic spirits as ever enlisted in free-
■ dom’s cause. They could suffer defeat in hon
-arable war, but would not without resistance,
though fallen, submit to insult and oppression.
Their fortunes were destroyed, their fields de
solated,’their homes laid in ashes, their hopes
■ blighted, but they would not degrade their
manhood. To their invincible spirit and
heroic resislance we are indebted for the
/peace, prosperity, and good government we
■enjoy to-day. Long live their names and deeds.
Let our poets sing them in undying song; let
ous historians register them in impetishable
records; let our teachers teach them in our
schools ; let our mothers recount them in our
homes; let the painter transfer their vsry
forms and features to the canvas to adorn our
.public halls ; let the deft hand of the sculptor
-chisel them out of the granite and marble to
beautify our thoroughfares ; let every true
heart and memory, born and to be born, embalm
•them forever.
Among all'the true sons of Georgia and of
the South in that day, one form stands conspici
nous. No fear blanched his cheek, no danger
daunted his courageous soul. His very pres
ence imparted courage, his very eye flashed en
thusiasm. Unawed by pawer, unbribed by
honor he stood in the midst of the perils that
environed him brave as Paul before the Sanhe
drim, ready for bonds or death, true as the men
at Runnymede, and as eloquent as Henry kind
ling the fires of the Revolution. As we look
ibaok upon that struggle one fignre above all
others fixes our admiring gaze. His crested
helmet waves high where the battle is fiercest,
-the pure rays of the sun reflected from his glit
tering shield are not purer than the fires that
burn in the breast it covers. His clarion voice
rang out louder than the din of battle, like the
bugle blast of a Highland Chief resounding over
hill and mountain and glen, summoning his
-clans to the defense of home and liberty, and
thrilled every heart and nerved every arm.
It was the form and voice of Hill.
Not only is he entitled to the honor we confer
■upon him by the events of this day, and higher
honor, if higher there could be, as a Georgian,
but as a son of the South. The great West
boasts that it gave Lincoln to the country and
..and to the world. New England exults with pe
culiar pride in the name and history of Webster,
.and one of her most distinguished sons, upon
the recent occasion of the completion of the
Washington monument, in anoration worthy of
his subject, did not hesitate to. say: “1 am my
self a New Englander by birth. A son of
Massachusetts, bound by the strongest ties of
affection and of blood to honor and venerate
the earlier and the later worthies of the
old Pnritan Commonwealth, jealous of their
fair fame, and ever ready to assert and vindi
cate their just renown.” Why should not we
■cherish the same honorable sentiment, and
point with pride to the names with which we
have adorned our country’s history? What is
jthere in our past of which we need be ashamed?
What is there in which we ought not to glory?
They tell us to let the dead past be buried.
•Well, he it so. We are willing to forget; we
this day proclam and and bind it by the high
-est sanction —the sacred obligation of Southern
honor—that we have forgotten all of the
past that should not be cherished. We
stand in the way of no true pro-
gress. We freely pledge our hearts and
hands to everything that will promote the pros
perity and glory of our country. But there is
a past that is not dead—that cannot die. It
moves upon us, it speaks to us- Every instinct
of noble manhood, every impulse of gratitude,
ererv obligation of honor demands that we
■cherish it. We are bound to it by ties stronger
than the cable that binds the continents, and
laid as deep in human nature. We cannot
cease to honor it until we lose the sentiment
that has moved all ages and countries. We
find the expression of that sentiment in every
memoii-1 we erect to commemorate those we
love in the unpretentious slab of the country
church yard, in the painted windows of the ca
thedral, in the unpolished head-stene and the
•costliest wausolem of our cities of the dead.
It dedicated the Reman Pantheon, and has
tilled Trafalgar square and Westminster Ab
bey with memorials 01 those who for centuries
have made the poetry, the literature, the science;
the statesmanship, the oratory, the military
■and naval glory—the civilization of England.
It has adorned the squares of our own W asn
ington citv and filled every rotunda, corridor
and niche of the capitol with statues and mon
uments and busts until we have assembled a
■congress of the dead to instruct, inspire and
guide the congress of the living, while, Higher
- than all surrounding objects, towering above
the lofty dome of the capitol, stands the obelisk
to Washington. Long may it stand, fit
but inadequate symbol of that colossal
character. Os all the works of man it lifts its
head nearest to the bright luminary of nature,
so that every rising sun joins all human voices,
and with the' first kiss of the morning pro
claims him favorite of all the family of men.
Mav it and thecharacter it teaches abide with us
until the light of that sun is extinguished bv
the final darkness that shall mark the end of
the davs. , , . ,
Taught by these high examples, moved by
this loftv sentiment of mankind, we this day
renew the allegiance of ourselves, and pledge
that of our posterity to the memory of onr
Southern dead.
THE EVENING CAPITOL: ATLANTA, GA. SATURDAY. MAY 1. 1886
No sen of the South had higher claims upon
our gratitude than he whom we this day honor.
Against his convictions he followed the South
into secession and war. True to her in the
days of that war she waged for separate nation
ality ; true to her in the darker days that fol
lowed that ■ war, when she was de
nied admission into the Union, after her res
toration he stood in the House of Representa
tives and the Senate Chamber the bravest and
most eloquent ' of her defenders, re
sisting every invasion of her rights
and defiantly and triumphantly
hurling back every assault upon her honor.
Not only as a s- n of Georgia and of the South
does be merit the tribute of our highest praise,
but as a citizen of the Republic. He was a pro
found student of our system ci government, aud
his knowledge of that system was not only dis
played in his public utterances, but is written
m the lives and characters of the young men of
Georgia who learned from him at the State
University, and who in all the departments of
the public service are entering into careers of
the highest usefulness and distinction. “Me
lius est peters fontes quam sectari rivulos.”
Madison and Webster were his teachers. Never
did student have better teachers, never teach
ers better students. Webster was not more in
tense for his love for the Urion as originally es
tablished by the founders of the republic. With
the underlying principles of that Union he was
familiar. To him the American Union was not
the territory over which the flag floated and
the lows were administered. It was a system
of government embracing a general gov
ernment of general purposes, and local gov
ernment for local purposes, each like the
spheres in the heavens, to be confined to
its own orbit, and neither could invade the do
main as the other without chaos and ruin. In
■ the solution of all problems, in the discussion
of all questions, in the shaping of all policies he
looked to the constitution. As the fierceness of
the storm only intensified the gaze of the
mariner on the star that shall lead him out of
darkness and danger, so the greater the peril
the more earnestly he contended for the princi
ples of the constitution. He regarded the
American system of government as the wisest
ever devised by the wisdom of men, guided by
a beneficent Providence which seemed to have
chosen them for the highest achievements of
the race. He esteemed it not only for his own,
but for all people the greatest production of
man, the richest gift of heaven except the bible
and Christianity. But to him the States were
as much a part of that system as the general
government. His indissoluble union was com
posed of indestructible States. He opposed
sectionalism uuder any guise, and from any
quarter. As long as it spoke the truth, he hon
ored and loved the flag of his country. For
so long, wherever it floated, from the
dome of the national capital at home, or
under foreign skies ; leading the armies of
the republic to deeds of highest valor in
war, or signalizing the peaceful pursuits of
commerce; at all times and everywhere, at
home and abroad, on the land and on the sea, in
peace or war, its stripes uttered one voice—of
good will to its friends and proud defiance to its
enemies—while the stars that glittered upon its
ample folds told of free and equal States. Thus
looking at it he dould exclaim with patriotic
fervor; Flag of the Union! Wave on, wave ever!
Wave over the great and prosperous North;
wave over the young and expanding West;
wave over our own South until the Union shall
be so firmly planted in the hearts of all the peo
ple that no internecine war shall break our
peace, no sectionalism shall disturb our har
mony! Flag of the free! Wave on until the
nations looking upon upon thee shall catch the
contagion of freedom! Wave on until the light
of knowledge illumines every mind, the fires
of liberty burn in every breast, the fetters fall
from every limb, the bonds are loosed from ev
ery conscience, and every son of earth and an
gel of heaven rejoices in the universal emanci
pation. There never was a time in his distin
guished career when be Would not, have
arrested and stricken down any arm lifted
against that flag speaking the truth. But he
would have it ware over “States not provinces;
orer freemen,not slaves,” and there never was a
time, when flaunting a 1 ie,bv whomsoever borne,
he would not have despised and trampled upon
it. This was true American patriotism.
Though loyal to Georgia and the South dur
ing the period of seara ion, he rejoiced at their
restoration to the Union. No mariner tossed
through long nights on unchosen and tempestu
ous seas ever hailed the day of return to tran
quil port more gladly than he billed the day of
the restoration of the Stated. N# sen driven
by fortunes he could not control frem the pater
nal roof, ever left that roof with sadder parting
than he left the Union, or returned from the
storms without to the shelter of home With
wilder transport of joy than he felt when the
South was again admitted to “our Father’s
house.”
Permanent peace and unity in resublic or
monarchy cannot be secured by the power of
the sword or the authority of legislation. Eng
land, with all her power and statesmanship, has
tried that for centuries and failed and will con
tinue to fail until her people and her rulers
learn what her formost statesman has recogniz
ed, that the unity of all governments of every
form must rest in the respect and confidence of
her people. If this principle had been observ
ed after the war between the States that dark
chapter in our history that must remain to dim
the glory of American statesmanship would
have been unwritten. Wisely appreciating this
principle after the admission of the true repre
sentatives of the people in Congress, with voice
and pea, he devoted all the powers of his great
mind, and all the impulses of his patriotic
heart, to re-establishment of that cordial re
spect and good feeling between the sections up
on which alone our American system, more
than all others, depends for permanent union
and peace.
The great and good do not die F.orteen cen
turies ago the head of the great apostle fell be
fore the sword of the bloody executioner, but
through long ages of oppression his example an
imated the persecuted church, and to-day stim
ulates its missionary spirit to press on through
the rigors of every climate and the darkness of
every heathen system, to the universal and final
triumphs of that cross for which he died. Four
centuries agone the body of John Wickliffe was
exhumed and burnt to ashes, and these cast into
the water, “but the Avon to the Severn runs,
the Severn to the sea,” and the doctrines for
which be died cover and bless the world. Half
a century ago the living voice of O’Connell was
hushed, but that voice to-day stirs the high
born passions of every true Irish heart though
out the world. The echoes of Prentiss’s elo
quent voice still linger in tho valley of the Mis
sissippi. Breckenridge’s body lies under the
the sod of Kentucky, but he lives amsng her
sons an inspiration and a glory.
And the day there comes to us, and shall
come to those after us, the voice of our dead,
solemn with the emphasis of another
world more eloquent than that with which
be was wont to cbarm us. It says to
us: Children of Georgia, love thy mother.
Cherish all that is g od and just in her past.
Study her highest interests. Discover, project
and foster all that will promise her future. Re
spect and obey her laws. Guard well her sa
cred honor- Give your richast treasures and
best efforts to her material, social, intellectual
and moral advancement until she shines the
brightest jewel in the diadem of the republic.
Men of the South, sons of the proud earlier,
bound together by common tradition, memo
ries and sentiment, sharers of a common glory
and common sufferings, never lower your stan
da-d of private and of public honor. Keep the
church pure, and the State uncorrupted. Be
true to vourselves, your country and your God,
and fulfill the high destiny that lies before you.
Citizens o’ the Republic, love your system of
government, stud r and venerate the constitu
tion, cherish the Union, opposeall sectionalism,
promote the weal and maintain the honor of the
Republic. “Who saves his country save him
self saves all things, and all things saved do
bless him ; who lets hts country die lets all
things die, dies himself ignobly, and all things
dying curse him.”
Illustrious citizen of the State, of the South,
of the Republic, thou hast taught us to be
brave in danger, to be true without the hope of
success, to be patriotic in all things. We
honor thee for tha matchless eloquence, for thy
dauntless courage, for thy lofty patriotism.
For the useful lessons thou hast left us, for the
faithful service thou hast done us, we dedicate
this statue to thy name and memorv. Telling
of thee it shall animate the young
with the higbeat and worthiest as
pirations for distinction; cheer the
aged with hopes for the future, and
strengthen all in the perils that may await us.
May it stand enduring as the foundations of
yonder Capitol, no more firmly laid in the earth
than thv just fame in the memories and hearts
of this people. But whether, it stand pointing
to the glories of the past inspiring us with hopes
for the future, ar fall before some unfriendly
storm, thou shalt live, for we this day crown
thee with higher honor than Forum or Senate
can confer. “In this spacious temple of the
firmament,” lit up by the splendor of
this unclouded Southern sun on this
august occasion, dignified by the
highest officers of municipality and State, and
still more by the presence of the most illustri
ous living as well as the spirits of the most il
lustrious dead, we come in grand procession—
childhood and age, young men and maidens, old
men and matrons, from country and village and
city, from hovel and cottage and mansion, from
shop and mart and office, from every pursuit
and rank and station, aud with united hearts
and voices, crown thee with the undying admi
ration, gratitude and love of thy countrymen.
The Unveiling.
There is one article in general use whose
beauties and superiorities have already been
unveiled, and whose usefulness is equalled only
by its perfection.
We speak of the new No. 8 sewing machine of
the Wheeler A Wilsen Company, whose office is
No. 71 Whitehall street.
It is a recognized beauty and friend in the
household of every well regulated family. The
number of makes of machines on the market, ot
course, are very numerous, but the new No. 8
have so many points of superiority that it at
once recommends itself to every lady.
CHURCH SERVICES FOR TO-MORROW.
BAPTIST.
Sixth Baptist—West Hunter street. Elder ,J. H.
Weaver, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
by Rev R H Buckley. Sunday School at 9:30 a. m.»
J. C. Wilson, Sup’t. Special services at 3 p. m.
Prayer-meeting Wednesday night. All are cordially
invited to attend.
Fifth Baptist—<Cerner Bell and Filmore streets, Rev.
V. C. Norcross, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m., and at
7 ;30 p. m. by the pi stor. Sunday at School 9:30 a. m.
Wednesday evening, prayer meeting at 7 o’clock. A
cordial welcome to all.
Central Baptist Church —Corner Pe'era and Fair
streets. Rev. H. D. D. Straton, pastor. Preaching
at 11 a. ai. and at 7 :30 p. m by Rev. R. B. Buckley.
Sanday-schaol at 9X,o’cl° ck *• Judge J. A. Ander
son, Snpt. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 p. m.
Teachers meet Friday 7:30 p. m. All art invited/
METHODIST.
Payne’s Chapel—Corner Hunnicutt and Luckie
streets. Rev. Job” M. Bowden pastor. Sunday School
at 9:30 a.m. Preaching at Ila. in. by pastor. Class
Meeting at 2:30 p.m. Preachiig at 7:15 p. m. by the
pastor. Celebration of the Lord’s Supper at c’sse of the
11 o’clock service. All, especially strangers, invited to
attenn.
Payne’s Chapel Misson on the Dillon place near cor
ner ot Marietta and Curran street. Sunday School, at 9
a m.. L. M. Cannon, superintendent. Preaching at 7:15
by Rev. T. C. Puckett. Prayer meeting Thursday
■igt. All invited to attend.
Evans’ Chapel Church—Corner Stonewall and Chapel
streets. Rev. H. J. Ellis, pastor. Preaching at 11 a.m.
and at 7;30 p. m. by the pastor. Regular prayer
meeting every Wednesday evening. Class and experi
ence meeting, Friday 7:15 p. m. All are invited.
Pieroe Church, on Ira street, near KT, V&G shops.
Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7 p.m. Class meeting at 9:30
a. m. Sunday-school at 3p. m., Frank A Hull, sun’t.
Members will be received into the church at the even
ing services. All invited.
EPISCOPAL.
St Luke —Rev C Minnegerode, D D, rector of St
Paul’s Church, Richmond, Va., will preach at St Luke’s
Cathedral to-morrow at 11 a m and at 745 p m
St. Philps Mission of the Redeemer—Corner West
Fair and Walker streets. Easter Sunday. No morn
ing service. Sunday School Easter Celebration will
take place at 7:30 p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Third Prespytkrian Church, West Baker near Marl*
etta street, Rev. N. Keff Smith, pastor. Rev Dr E H
Barnett will preach at 11 am, and Rev Geo A Caldwell
well at 8p m. Song service before preaching at night
conducted by the pastor. Reception and baptism of
new members at morning service
CHRISTIAN.
Church of Christ—Hunter street, between Pryor and
Loyd. Elder Thomas M. Harris, pastor. Preaching at
11 a; rti. and 7:30 a. m. in basement of Courthouse by
Rev Dr R ¥ Herring. Seats free, and all are cordially
invited to come. No service at night. Sunday-school
a 9.30 am, Lr R I Henley, Superintendent
Mr Herring will preach at the Mission, 654 Marietta
st at 8 p m
Decatur Street MissiON-"SUhday School at 9:30
o’clock. Gospel meetings every Tuesday evening at
7:30 o’clock. God is with us, and blessing every one
engaged in tois woik. Come out and join your
hands with ours.
Spiritualists.—The Spiritualists will meet in Good
Templars Hall, corner Whitehall and Hunter streets, at
7:30 p.m. G W Kates will speak upon ‘‘Present Hu-,
ham Development.” Miss Zaida Brown will psycho
netic readings a d tests. All invited
Js®*“Several notices were received too late for io
iay’s paper. Please send them in before 9 am.
Moxie is manufactured at 96 8. Pryor st.,
Atlanta.
JEFF DAVIS
HAS LARGE CROWDS TO SEE HIM,
THAT IS NOTHING COMPARED TO
THE LARGE CROWDS RUSHING TO
SEE THE FINE FURNITURE AT THE
C. F. H. I. G. P. H. SNOOK.
Lost.
Society editor’s badge Evening Capitol.
Reeeive reward by returning to Capitol office,
48 S. Broad street or W. Trox Bankston, Kim
ball House.
CFHIG
Furniture that is beautiful for cash or
on easy installments less than manu
facturers’ cost P H SNOOK.
Moxie removes the tired feeling.
Moxie is nature’s food for nervousness. Drug
gists sell it.
FINE CHAMBER SUITS.
WHY, THEY CANNOT BE BEAT,
THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL. I AM SELL
ING THEM CHEAP FOR CASH OR ON
INSTALLMENTS, AT THE C. F. H. I.
G. P. H. SNOOK.
WALNUT SIDEBOARD
These are fine. Call at once. They
are bargains P H SNOOK
P H SNOOK
I claim to have the largest stock in
the South, and have it in the greatest
variety and sell at the lowest price
CFHIG
THEY ABE BEAUTIES.
What ? Those 50 Walnut Suits just
received at the C. F. H. I. G., selling
less than the cost of manufacture.
P. H. Snook;
FINE CHERRY SUITS.
A LARGE LOT JUST RECEIVED.
THEY ARE OF THE LATEST PAT
TERNS, AND ARE BEAUTIFUL.—
CALL NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO
LATE. AT THE C. F. H. I. G.
P. H. SNOOK.
100,000 WORTH
Os Furniture at less than manufactur
era prices, at the C. F. H. I. G. P. H.
Snook.
WHY DON’T YOU
Furnish your house when you can buy
Furniture so cheap for cash or on easy
installment plan. P. H. Snook.
THE FINEST
SOME OF THE FINEST SUITS JUST
RECEIVED FOR PARLORS AND
CHAMBERS EVER SEEN IN THE
CITY. MUST SELL THEM. CALL TO
SEE THEM AT THE C. F. H. I. G. P.
H. SNOOK.
A PURE STSHY.
Something About the Sweets of Life
in the Gate City.
The city to-day is thronged with thousands
of visitors enjoying the doings and taking in
the sights to be seen in our beau
tiful city. Many will remain several
days and visit our mammoth
stores, our handsome art galleries aud bustling
factories, one of our most clever and enterpris
ing merchants, Mr. G. Johnson, the candy man
ufacturer, improves this opportunity of inviting
all visitors to call at his factory, No. 24 Ala
bama street, on Monday, to see how his candies,
which are noted for their pure quality, are
made.
He is now manufacturing all kinds of fancy
candies. Mr. John H. Bonner, a man of 20
years experience as foreman of one of the
largest candy factories of Boston is
foreman of this department and is showing bis
skill and talent in turning out for weddings
and parties, orange, maccaroni, fruit and candy
pyramids, which are indeed exquisitely beauti
ful. a Cakes are also most handsomely ornament
ed on short notice.
His stock is complete and fine and all who
want pure candy should call on G. E. Johnson,
the “boss” candy man.
How is it that Smith A Turner can sell the
best shirts in Atlanta for 85 cents, when others
get SI.OO for goods not near so desirable. Call
on them for the explanation.
We shall Open on
Monday Morning,
20 cases Porcupine Braid Hats all colors,
all shapes, at 30 cents, sold elsewhere at
50 cents.-
32 cases American Milan and fancy
braid Hats,beautiful shapes at from 25 cts.
to 75 cents, worth just twice the money.
22 cases Sailors, new designs, at from
15 cts. to 60 cts. each. They are special
bargains. Call early.
“Surprise Store.”
If you want anything in the Furni
ture line, and want to make the best
bargains in the city, call at the C. F.
H. I. G. P. H. SNOOK.
How the Indies are delighted with the elegant
line of Embroideries that Smith A Turner are
selling at less than half the prices others
charge for the same goods.
Talk about cheap furniture, you can
not buy as cheap anywhere in the city
as at the 0. F. H. IG.
P. H. SNOOK.
For Fine
Tennessee Mutton, Veal, and the Choicest Beef
etc., go to C. A. Ranschanburg, 133 Whitehall
street. Telephone 466.
Boys’ Straw. Hats
At the
Surprise Store.
We have just received 10 cases of Boys’
Straw Hats, beautiful goods at extremely
low prices.
40 dozen Boys 1 straw hats at 35c, worth
50c.
28 dozen Boys’ straw hats at 40c, worth
60c.
32 dozen Boys’ straw hats at 50c, worth
75c.
24 dozen Boys’ straw hats at 60c, worth
SI,OO
All colors, fine grades, big bargains.
Ribbons, Ribbons!
Big sale of Ribbons
next week at the
“Surprise Store.”
Moxie is to the nervous system what beef
steak is to the stomach.
PARLOR SUITS.
If you want very fine suits to furnish
your Parlors with, call at the C F H
IG. I can suit you and will sell at lass
than manufacturers coat for cash or on
the installment plan. Do not miss this
chance as they must be sold.
P H SNOOK.
Ask your grocer for Helme’s railroad tnacco
boy snuff. Every can gives entire satisfaction.
It has no superior.
FURNITURE, FURNITURE
is what they cry as they rush to get
the best Bargains in the city, sold for
cash or on easy installments at the C.
F. H. I. G. P. H. SNOOK.
THE finest lot carriage Up dusleru ever seen In the
State of Georgia and tor less money. D. Morgai,
80 Whitehall.
A JOB LOT riding Raddles and buggy harness. Deal
ers will And this a good time to buy. D. Morgan,
80 Whitehall. -
RR, CONTRACTORS will find cart harness of every
• description, bottom prices, at D. Morgan’s, 8u
Whitehull.
SPECIAL Inducements in currycombs, horse brushes,
harness oils and soaps, at D. Morgan’s, 80 White
hall
STRAYED —From No. 24 Collins street, one white
horse, with dark spots on head, ears and back.
Will pay any person for the safe delivery to No. 24 Col
lins or 80 Peachtree st.
OH! OH!
JUST SEE
Lagoma rsino’s
FINE CONFECTIONS
—AND—
Imported Domestic fruits I
I WHITEHALL and 19 PEACHTREE STS.
“IVIE"
Flue FhoKpfc
401-2 Whitehall.
‘•TWENTY YEARS AFTER.”
A SOLBIEH BOY’S STORY OF TRIAL
ANO SUFFFIHINO.
A Southernized Yankee and Confed
erate Soldier Tells What He
Knows About it in an In
teresting Manner.
*
SaMUXL DUNLAP.
“When the war drum throbs no longer
And the battle flags «re furled,
In the parliament of man.
The federation .f the world.”
Genial, hearty, honest, whole-souled, Sam
Dunlap 1 Why, every man. woman and child,
from the “Great Smoky” to the Gulf, and the
Tombigbee to Ihe Atlantic, will smile back a
recognition to the pleasant countenance we pic
ture.
Born in C< nneclicutf, while yet a young man,
in 1854, he came South, and located in this
State, first at Fort Valiev, and removing from
there shortly afterward to Americus, where he
first developed his capacity for a commercial
life. After some years residence here he asso
ciated himself in business with I’. H. (Hirer, at
Albany, building a large store. At Albany he
was unfortunate enough to lose his wife, by a
stroke of lightning and shortly after returned to
his first love, Americus, where the outbreak of
the civil war found him, He enlisted, serving
first in the company of his relative, Capt. I. R.
Branham, of Co. B, of the
MACON VOLVNTKERB,
and afterward in the cavalry under Major B. G
Lockett.
The close of the war found Mr. Dunlap
stranded in Macon, but his indomitable energy
soon recuperated his fortunes, and the firm of
Dunlap & Usher, fancy goods dealer, was well
and widely known until they burned out. After
this, for a short time, he was in business at
Rome, from where be entered into that for
which he was intended by nature —a salesman.
In this capacity he has been connected con
stantly with some of the best and
MOST WIDBLY KNOWN
of the Eastern manufacturing houses. In 1874
he removed .with his family to Atlanta, and baa
been a resident of this city since.
The above cut gives a very good likeness of
him. He is a stout, well-built man of what is
usually termed “comfortable” proportions,
tuddy complexion, and a magnetic temperment.
Obliging to his iriends and agreeable and
courteous to every one. Meeting him on the
street during the week the reporter was greeted
with a hearty handshake and earnest:
“How are you, my lad?”
“Pretty well, Sam; how are you?”
“Sound as a dollar, my boy; although if 1 had
met you ten days ago I could not hare said as
much."
“Why, how was that—been sick?”
“Well, you must know that for the
“past tbn ybabb
I hare been Buffering with kidney disease,
which every now and again would grow bad and
gire me serious trouble. About two months ago
1 began to have one of my bad spells, and for
the past eight weeks 1 have been suffering some
or most of the
“tortureb of dantb’b 'inferno.’
“I have tried all the physicians and medicines
that I could read or hear of, and their name, as
you know, is legion, but until a week since the
disease has held undisputed sway. It is not a
pleasant thing, my boy, to know that a disease
which some of the most noted physicians of the
country hare pronounced as the most fatal to
humanity, has a mortgage upon your vitals, I
tell you. It sort o’ takes the good
HUMOR OUT OK A FELLOW.”
“And what miraculous dispensation has oper
ated in your behalf, Bam 7” queried the re
porter.
“Nothing miraculous. I just had a glimmer
ing of common sense, that’s all. About four
years ago I had a severe attack of rheumatism,
which completely disabled me tor the time, and
which developed into what is commonly called
“chronic:” attacking ine when least expected,
and laying me up entirely, incapacitating me
for any kind of business, and cansing me as
much suffering in a day as should be crowded
into a life time, After one of my most severe
attacks, and when I bad just got able to bob
ble around, 1 met J. M. Hunnicut, an old friend,
and he said he could make a remedy that
WOULD CURB MB, AND
bv gracious he did.
I took two bottles of his stuff, prepared from
roots and herbs, and I have never had a twinge
of rheumatism since. The medicine was not
prepared for sale at that time but was manufac
tured by Mr. Hunnicutt for bis friends. About
six months ago it was determined to place it
upon the market, and a firm was organized for
that purpose. Two weeks ago, in the midst of
my sutering, I noted in one of their advertise
ments that it was good for kidney troubles also.
I knew ft would cure rheumatism, and I bought
half a dozen bottles at once and determined to
give it a fair show at a kidney disease of long
standing. It may seem extravagant, but the
first day’s use gave me relief, and before I had
completed taking one bottle my disagreeable
symptoms had entirely disappeared. I hare
used two bottles up to this time anil
HAVE NOT FELT A TRACK
of my disease for a week. I believe It will cure
sie completely, if it has not already done so.
That is a pretty strong statement, but I make
it honestly and sincerely, and am prepared to
verify it in any manner.”
“During my travels in the last four or five
years I have met with many cases of rheuma
tism and others diseases arising from impure
blook, among my friends over the South, and I
have in every-ease recommended its use. When
ever they have been able to procure it the rem
edy has done just what I said it would—effected
a complete cure. I can instance a half a dozen
cases of rheumatic, and blood diseases, some of
the most severe kind, and in every instance it
has cured them.
“Can I publish what you have told me, Sam?”
“Publish it? Certainly you can. Cry it from
the bouse tops and post it all over the world if
you like. It is truth and should not be ashamed
of itself.”
Johnson & Co ,
Importers
We deal direct
with the factories
and have no com
petition in the
Southern States
on many classes
of goods. Our
Second Spring Stock
Is now in. Out
trade has been
unprecedented
this season, and
we were forced to
buy our second
Spring stock,
and now every depart
ment is filled with choice
goods of the latest de
signs in
Wools and Silks.
We deal in the Very
latest styles, ignoring
all catch penny jobs
that some brush up and
sell as first-class goods.
GUARANTEE QUALI
TY AND STYLE
But we guarantee the
quality, style and prices
of our goods against
any retail house in the
U. S. When quality is
taken into considera
tion in
CARPETS,
We have lead the van
for twenty years, and
now since we have per
fe ct e d arrangements
which enlarges our en
larges our entire busi
ness nearly double, im
porting direct from
England from the doors
of the factories into
our very city. No mid
dle man to pay for
handling, reshipping
and repacking. We find
NO COMPETITION in
this country, not even
in New York. In other
words, we can and wiil
sell an English Carpet
for less money than the
same goods can be
bought in in New York
city at retail. There
can
BE NO DISSATISFAC
TION
When a man or woman pays not more
than the intrinsic value of merchandise.
Every reasonable person wants to do this,
but they want and have a right to expect
square dealing in every channel of trade.
We Handle the Best!
The Best is the Cheapest!
We Guaraatee Quality I
We Guarantee Prices 1
We Defy Competition I
Even from New York I
Get your New York samples with prices
and width marked and come to us and
you will buy your dress. Also in
Shoes 1
We sell the same Shoe for Pess money
than it can be bought in Philadelphia or
New York. ’
Sea Our Stock Before You Buy I
And remember we sell Dry Goods, Milli
nery, Carpets and Shoes, and don’t for
get that we have the Largest Store, the
Largest Stock and the Best Goods (all the
latest styles) in the South 1
Chamberlin! Johnson & Co.
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