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V'OL. IV. gsF* Aetn&l Number Issued To-Day, - 5,800 Actual Number Issued to Subscribers, 5,328 limited by Capacity of Press. Anyone having an item of personal mention or news happening, will confer a favor by handing it te one of The Capitol staff, each of whom wears a silver sac simile of the above signet* Second Edition. The poker pulling policemen are on the war path. The Atlanta Capitol band plays at Grant’s park, to-morrow afternoon. Hampton’s Boys and Girls Weekly is the latest Atlanta press venture. Out to-day. We wish it success. There is a petition going the rounds regard ing the renumbering of bouses. This work is a great necessity. The most exciting Congressional race in the Empire State will be in the Seventh. Fain and Clements are the men who will so bitterly con test the Congressional honor. Oub character sketches of Atlanta celebrities to-day, is interesting. At considerable ex pense we had cuts made of them for preserva tion as familiar objects of our streets. Coachmen have ha’d their day. Baseball players for millionaires’ daughters are now re commended by the various grades of society as the coming man for runaway marriages. The political game of baseball at Social Cir cle yesterday between Glenn and Felton result ed in a score of 9too in favor of Glenn. The old war-horse of the Seventh did not get in a base hit, while the young mountain colt of the same district got in several home runs. A Peculiar Case. Dr. Hobbs, the eye, ear and throat physician, has operated on a boy from Washington, Wilkes county, for treatment of his eye. He is one of 26 children and their mother is only 31 years old. The boy is 7 vears old. The mother had four triplets and four twins, and there are only three boys in the family. His father’s name is Jordan Sherman. Dr. Hobbs, who is thoroughly reliable, as sures us that he has investigated the peculiar case, and is certain that the above facts are true. He has talked with Mrs. Sherman’s sister and has received a letter from a responsible gentle man in Washington, Ga., who knows the facts to be true. The case is most certainly a very strange one and out of the usual order. AT YOUR PRICE Thousands and thousands of yds. of short lengths in fine impo rte d dress goods, to close at your price. Chamberlin, John son & Co. For nice fresh vegetables at wholesale or re tail Culberson & Cameron are your men. We Know Whereof we Speak. Our stock of hand-made harness and saddlery is unexcelled in style and quality, and now is the time to buy, as we are selling at extremelv low prices. C. W. Motes & Co., 9# Whitehall cfrpot SEUDW OLD Hats for repair to Bussey, Marietta St. We now manufacture the best dry air refrigerator, milk and water cooler and ice saver ever invented. Want everybody to see it before buying. Moncrief Bros., 20 South Broad; W, R. Jester, 25 East Hunter. Commencement Week. Next week will be commencement week of the public schools in Atlanta and the great struggle of life will be commenced with many of our young ladies and men we have not any advice at present for the young men, but we think it would be wise for the young ladies who are going to learn to run a sewing machine to have their parents get a new No. 8 Wheeler A Wilson, “the best machine in the world.” New York has a police force of 1,900. People say it is easy enough to get rich when trading with Carlton & Son, the Cheapest Cash Grocers in the world. UNCANVASSED HAMS. We are headquarters for the above. Carlton & Son, Cheap Cash Grocers. THE FAMOUS Water Ground Patent Flour Is still a favorite. Sold only by CARLTON A SON. Wrtß*. That beautiful gold watch and chain of J. N. Dykes wae not raffled on June 15th, but will be raffled next Monday, June 21st. at 8 on’clock, at 200 Decatur St. (ci u t 1. TELEGRAPHIC Leaving Camp. Special to Capitol. Mobile, Ala., June 19.—The First Alabama Regiment, which has been encamped here for past week, was reviewed yesterday afternoon by Governor E. A. O’Neal. Several thousand of people were present, and after retreat, min gled with the soldier boys, and with their hosts partook of the numerous delicacies that have been showered upon them. The camp breaks up this evening. The Public School examinations closed yes terday. jin the High SchooU, 21 girl graduatis— one boy, the first boy for 20 years to graduate. ' W. House. Associated Press to Capitol. Warhinoton, June 19.—The Speaker laid before the Ilouife a message from the President announcing his approval of the shipping bill, but pointing out a defect which he discovers to exist in the measure. The messagb is as fol lows: •‘To the House of Representatives: Upon ex amination of the bill originating in the House of Representatives, No. 4,838, entitled: An act to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to the shipping commissioner, seamen and owners of vessels, and for other purposes. I find that there is such fail ure to adjust existing laws to the new depart ure proposed by the bill as to greatly endanger the public service if this bill should not be amended or at once supplemented by additional legislation. The fees which are at present col lected from vessels for services performed by the Bureau of Inspection and which made up a fund from which certain expenses appur tenant to that bureau were paid are by the pro posed bill abolished. But no provision has been substituted directing that such expenses shall be paid from the public treasury or any other source. The objects of the bill are in the main so useful and important that I have concluded to approve the same upon the assurance of those actively promoting its passage that an other bill shall at once be introduced te cover the detect above referred to. The necessity of such supplemental legisla tion is so obvious that I hope it will receive the immediate action of Congress. Grover Cleveland. Executive Mansion, June 19, 1886. Mr. Dingley, of Maine, stated that he was in structed by the shipping committee to intro duce a measure to remedy the defect pointed out by the President, and he asked a unanimous consent to introduce it now and put it upon its passage. Mr. Morrison objected, and the message was referred to the shipping committee. The House then went into the committee of the whole (Mr. Crisp in the chair) on the naval appropriation bill. Yachting. Associated Press to the Capitol. New York, June 19.—The yachts entered for the Seawanhaka Yacht club regatta, are pre paring for the start and are getting into line awaiting the signal. A brisk wind is blowing from the north-northwest. Four big sloops, the Priscilla, Atlaptic, Puritan and Mayflower will again sail against each other for a special prize offered by the club. 11:30 a. m.—Yachts have started. Puritan crossed the line first of four big sloops at 11:12 ; Priscilla 11:17; Atlantic at 11:20; Mayflower 11:27; Schooner Grayling crossed 11:12; Sloop Gracie 11:27; seven knot breeze blowing. Sandy Hook, 12:02 p. m —Light breeze; the yachts have taken in their spanakers. The Puritan is on port tack coming toward Hoffman Island; the others are on starboard tack head ing for Coney Island. The Puritan is way ahead. 12:20—The Puritan is still leading, followed by the Priscilla; Atlantic 3d, about a quarter of a mile astern; the Mayflower about the same distance astern of the Atlantic. 12:30.—1f the wind does not increase it is doubtful whether the race can be sailed within the time of limit. 12:50.—The Puritan passed Dix Island at 12:35; Priscilla at 12:44; Atlantic at 1245; May flower at 12:48. Severe Rain Storm. Associated Press to Capitol. New Orleans, June 19. —A special to the Times-Democrat from Alexandria says: “ Com mencing at noon on Monday last and continuing until Wednesday afternoon, this section was visited by the most severe rain storm ever re corded here. All that portion of the town ex tending from Third to Tenth streets and from Madison street to Morgan depot was entirely submerged to a depth of three feet. During this rainfall the river rose very rapidly, the total rise being 25 feet 1% inches. Two colored men in the swamp were drowned by the over flow. Total Visible Supply. Associated Press to Capitol. New York, June 19.—The total visible »up ply of cotton for the world is 2,964,887, of which 1,464,687 is American, against 1,997,270 and 1,416,370 respectively last year. Receipts from all interior town, 12,325; receipts from planta tion, 11,248. Crop in sight, 6,419,305. Liverpool Cotton market. Associated Press to Capitol. tarxarooL. June 39. noon—Cotton- Quiet, without change ;uplands. 5J4l Orleans, 5 3-16; sales, 6,00 bales ; speculation and export, 500; yesterday’s increased by late business by 3W bales, Brazilian; receipts, 7,100 bales, ah American; futures dull. June 5 3 64; July and August, 5 3 64: August and September. 6 4-64; Sep cember and October, 5 1-64; September 55 64 Wheat—Quiot, steady, with poor demand; holders off er freely. Corn —dull; deman poor. Liverpool, June 19, 1 p. m.—Sales, American, 7,000 bales; June, 5 3-64, buyer : June arid July, 5 3-64 do; July and August, 5 4-64, se Jer: August and 5 5-64 do; September and October. 52 64 buyer; Oct. and November, 4 62-64 seller; November aod December, 4 61-64 do; •ecember and January, 4 61-64 do; Septem ber. 5 6-64 do; futures cloaed firm. An egg phosphate made from eggs laid by those rari-colored Easter chickens on exhibitian at Wilbs Venable’s is a luxury. Step in and try one. Silver watches at factory eoat, to close oat. 7 Peachtree street. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING. JUNE 19. 1886 SOME OF ATLANTA’S CELEBRITIES Reviewed by The Capitol. Remove your bats, gentlemen, while the pro cession passes. Tbb Capitol has to-day dived into the slums and alleys of the city and gath ered a few items of interest for its readers. See 1 a well-known figure commands the squad. ’Tis none other than Limerick, the pride of the Gate City and the chief of vaga bonds the world over. Let him pass, and as his history has just appeared before the public, we will reproduce briefly below; and cast 111 .' your eyes upon that burned charger, impa tiently champing his bit as he looks eagerly around for some tender sardine can with which to satisfy the cravings of his inner being. “Gim me a nickel I can’t walk” handles the lines and mercilessly plys the lash upon the bide, of his stubborn goat. Who is it, living within* a hundred miles of Atlanta, that has not seen Franklin the paralytic. His home is on Valen tine street, a small street that crosses Wheat, and every morning he is driven to his place of business, Marietta or Peachtree corners, bv a young moke, who drives the goat back home and returns with him in the afternoon. This goat is as independent as a wood-sawer, and when any delicate morsel in the shape of an apple core greets his watchful eye, he makes for it ; no matter how much his master may pull on the lines, he don’t whoa worth a cent; and when he reaches it he quietly kreels down, re gardless of the lash laid on thick and fast, and secures the prize, when be pro ceeds homeward, with a calm and dignified bearing. The goat is never in a hurry, and rain or shine he never breaks hi* majestic walk into anything so unbecoming a well-behaved goat, as a trot or gallop. While we are talking a pair of crutches comes BIB! lit ul vU/ I ft W I before us, supporting the decrepid form of “One Legged John,” the old b otblack. Who is it that has has not seen his face light up with a smile, as be gets down on his one knee to black a pair of shoes? John has seen a hard time in this world ever since he was a small boy. He was born on a plantation near Greensboro, Ga., and when quite a small boy his mother left him in the cabin alone. By some means it caught fire and before John could be gotten out he was was badly burned; one leg bad to come off and the other foot was twisted out of shape. The poor old man has never known the comforts of home, but has been kicked about from pillar to post until he landed in Atlanta, where he ekes out. a misera ble existence, shining shoes and taking any scraps that may be given him. He sleeps in one of those dens of iniquity near the Willing ham building on Ivy street. To the bootblack on the street This life is just as sweet As to the rich man riding by; When locking to the sky From dry goods box <»r shed Where he has made his bed, He dreads to think off death, And to prolong his breath He fights the wolf away, And hopes a better day On him may dawn With the rising of the morn. A man manage to walk with both legs off, did I hear you say? Certainly, look and see for yourself. £ fcWIJC’ZT llt I I V Watson was a slave, living about a mile and a half from Colambus, Georgia, and one day in the year of ’62, be, being then only twelve years old, was driving a load of cotton to town, when the mules became frightened and ran away, throwing him under the wheels that crashed his legs so that amputation was necessary. About eightyears ago he was cast upon the hospitality of the Gate;city. His constant companion is a medium-sized brindle dog, that he has owned for the last five yearr, raising him from puppyhood to his present dignified position of a full grown town dog. Watson walks with one crutch and a stick and has one wooden leg, the stump of the other one resting on the wooden member. The scheme by which he obtains money is in going from store to store showing his worn leg and begging for money with which to buy a new one The writer has contributed to no leas than three new legs, the excuse being that the last time he did not get up quite enough money to buy a leg. He makes the saloon on the corner of' Broad and Hunter streets, bis headquarters, and most of his I money falls into the till of the bar-keeper. He I has learned the way of the professional beggar to perfection and works the city for all it is worth. What howling beast of prey have we //% J I—'/Jh 1 —'/Jh ft te R e wg' 4WJ ca vfl captured and put into the procession, did you sav? Don’t be alarmed, it’s only the ice cream cake vender, and only your pocketbook is in danger. The ice cream cake first came into ex istence upon the sunny slopes of Italy, and bv some cruel stroke of fate these Ital ian peddlers were cast upon the shores of the Capital City, where they have taken quite a hold upon our citi zens, who seem deaf to their cries, and those of the woolly headed, strong-lunged Africans, who have converted our streets into a perfect pande monium of howls and yells as they wheel their little red machines from one side to the other. Even as I write, at my home on the outskirts, an ominous sound is wafted to my ears on the evening breeze. Shades of Sheba I I hear it again, “Icy kremer caker,” sung out loudly and defiantly from the throat of a squatty Italian, with his little box strung to his back, as he gaily wends his way toward Pence de Leon. Shall Atlanta be overrun by these noisy ped dlers 7 Shall we rest supinely on our backs un til we are choked to death with this frozen corn starch? Oh, city fathers, forbid 1 Rise up in your majestv and oanish these howling Africans from our streets. I3W® MOW! “ Why not reform 1 That’s easily said; But I've gone through such wretched treatment; Sometimes forgetting the taste of bread, At d scarce remembering what meat meant, That my poor stomach’s past reform ; And there are times when mad with drinking, I’d sell out Heaven for something warm To prop a horrible Inward sinking.” Old Limerick I Ignoble specimen of noble manhood I Talked about and written about and knocked about. The dread of saloon keepers, the foe of po licemen and the scorn of the prohibitionist. THE OUTCAST’S BIRTH. On the 27th day of March, in the year 1800, William Powers was born in Limerick, Ireland. He was of goodly parents, and in the year 1832 came to America with bright prospects and an ample fortune. He settled in Virginia and in 1854 he moved to Georgia and shortly afterwards began the use of intoxicating liquors and has since drank enough whisky io float the Great Eastern. He had been educated for the bar and rose to considerable distinction as a member of the legal fraternity, and is to-day well acquainted with everything about a bar. Whisky soon had William Powers a beggar and has kept him so ever since. After he com menced pleading at his new bar, his friends de serted him, and when the war commenced he picked up a musket, as he was liable to pick up anything lying around, and went to the war. History leaves no record of his life as a soldier, but as soon as the sanguinary strife was ended we find him again in COMPANY WITH A BOTTLE, and he would be there now if the bottle hadn't deserted him. fiince the war Wm. Powers’ greatest drawbacks have been corks. For 20 odd years the old man has lived in At lanta, and during all these years he has spent two-thirds of his time in the city prison and stockade. There is scarcely a man, woman or child in Atlanta who does not know the face in these columns. “Series of Sermons for ttae Times.” Rev. J. W. Lee, of Trinity, on last Sunday night, commenced a “Series of Sermons for the Times,” in which be will discuss some of the practical and burning questions of the day. A Urge crowd was present last Sunday night and enjo'ed the discourse very much. To-morrow night be will preach the second of this series. We bespeak tor him a full house. Atlanta’s Prosperity. A Capitol reporter had an interesting inter view with W. H. Brotherton, the enterprising dry goods merchant at 103, 105, 107 and 109 Whitehall and 2 and 4 West Mitchell streets, this city, this morning. He said that his trade since the Ist of January last, had been 25 per cent larger than for the corresponding months for the past five years and that he attributes his increase of business to the low prices he is offering and to Atlanta’s growth and gen eral prosperity. As a sample of the great bar gains he is now ofiering he gives the firices of a few goods in the different ines he carries. Read and remember the fol lowing: Gents white vests 50c; nothing larger than 37; men’s and boys’straw bats very cheap; 2,000 pieces ribbons at less than half price; fig ured lace bunting in delicate shades, 12%®; la dies’ and misses parasols at your own price; colored chambrys in assorted shades 7 Crinkle seersucker prints 7c; checked nainsook 8c; Crinkle seersucker, cream color, 10c; plaid ginghams, sc; ladies and miss es shoes, 75c; stripe dress silks, 25c; misses’ and children’s shoes in bronze and cream color, 50c; ladies’ serge slippers, 25c; 4 oz. zephr for 25c; 2,000 pairs ladies and misses’ kid gloves, 10c; colored satins in all shades, 25c; solid col ored bunting, 10c; men’s and boy’s clothing greatly reduced. See his 5 and 10c counters. Vegetables, fresh and so cheap that it aon’t pay to measure them, at Carl ton & Son’s. Black alpacas, light mohairs, and all other styles of light summer clothing at 82 Whitehall street. Watermelons have made their ap pearance at Carlton & Son’s. Our Stuck Os cassimere and worsted suits is too large. Will offer them at cost until reduced. Eiseman Bros., 55 WhitehalL MsWta The promise to sell from 25 to 50 per cent, lower, without giving prices, is the argument of both the fool and the knave. PRICES: S.S.S., large 99 S. S. S., small 59 B. B. B 75 Brewer’s Lung Restorer sft Brown’s Iron Bitters 74 Harter’s Iron Tonic 7ft Lemon Elixir,small 39 Holmes’ Liniment, the Mother’s Friend 88 Simmons’ Liver Regulator, pk’gs 8 Allcock’s Plasters 10 Sozodont 58 Phillips’ Em. Cod Liver Oil 7ft Scott’s Emulsion Cod Liver Oil 74 Tutt’s Hair Dye 70 Davidson’s Family Syringe, No. 1 $1 7ft DavMson’s Family Syringe, No. 2 1 fto Fellows’ Syrup Hypophosphates 1 18 Magnolia Balm 50 Hall’s Hair Renewer 73 Warner’s Kidney «nd Liver Cure 83 Bradfield’s Female Reghiator, large 83 Ayer’s Hair Vigor 73 Beef Wine and £on, pints 60 Swan Down Powder Ift Blue Mottled Soap, per bar 18 Brown Mottled Soap, per pound 8 White Castile Soap, per pound 13 Guinn’s Blood Renew er 125 Moxie. 40 Delectalave 40 Exact Change Given! Medicine Tumblers and Corkscrews Given Away to Customers. BANKRUPT SALE AT MENKO’S CLOTH ING HOUSE. This entire stock of Clothing, Shoes, Hats and Gents’ Furnishing Goods will be sold in the next thirty days, regardless of cost or value. Call quick and secure your bar gains I Will remain open at night until 9 o’clock to enable all to have a chance at this slaughter ofgoods, Menko’o Cloth ing House No. 3 Whitehall street For goodness sake read Thorn’s ad. ONLY $2.00! Also Lowest Price on ■— ——Freezers, Tinware, Garden Hoes REQUIRES COMPLETE AND itself. Hardware! A GEO. EIIN6 & CO. Cor. Peachtree and Wheat. Let ’em kick, but if you want Groceries eo you can live, call on 8. W. SULLI VAN, the Cheap Grocer, Cor. Thurman and Mangum St*. Dove Hams lie Best N. 0. Syrup ... 65c I Best Leaf Lard... I Good Coffee 10c Side Meat 7c Good Kice 5c | Country Butter 20c I Beat Coffee 12J4c Sugar C Shoulders.. 7?aC’ Best Rice 7%c I Best Cheese . .. 12>£c I Jelly §c Patent Flour 80c Eggs 15c | Sugar, Brown, 151 bs. 1 00 | Soap 4c Good White Flour.. 70c Canned Tomatoes... B)£c I Sugar, Granulated.. 7%c|B<ap 3J<c Good Flour 65c Hay 1 00 | Cabbage 3c I Bran 100 N. O. Syrup 40c Oats.... 55c I Meal.. 65c I Corn 65e Shorts 1 10 I J Dried Beef 13c Garden Seed, Crockery, Glass and Tinware at Bottom Prices. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR Dr. Francis’s’Tonic and Blood Purifier. Only 40c for a Quart Bottle. Read what Col. Baum says: “Acme Company, Atlanta, Go. —Gentlemen: have tried the Dr. Frances Tonic and Blood Purifier, manufactured by you, and consider it one of the finest bever ages that has been brought to my notice, and with the roots and barks from which it is composed it must necessa rily lie very efficient in purifying the Blood and for General Debility, Lastitude and Nervous Prostration. Tours respectfully, J. W. HardWoodLumber HAVING PUT IN MACHINERY EXPRESSLY FOR WORKING HARD WOOD LUMBER, lam now prepared to furnjjih the same Rough or Dressed as may be desired. I also do Wood Turning,|Bcroi Sawing, and Re-Sawing in the b^st mange-. Newels, Rails and Balusters Always on hand. Also Thin Wood for Bracket Sawing. I have two steam Dry (Kilns, and will|be|reaay3 famish Kilo Dried Lam her when desired. lard and Nil!!, 40 Collins St* J. C. PECK. THE DRUG STORE 1 OF ißeniamin&Cronheim Is Doing an Enormous Business. In Prescriptions, because the people are finding out that they can obtain Pure and Fresh Drugs compounded by Competent Pharmacists, ■ and save from 25 to 50 per cent. Patent Medicines as Low as tie Lowest. And no OVERCHARGE on Prescrip tions and Family Medicines to Make Up For It. SOAP, SOAP. Blue Mottled Castile, - -20 c per bar, Brown Mottled'Castile, -10 c per lb., White Castile, - - - -15 c per lb., Toilet Soaps 40c. per doz. and upwards. Try a box of our “CREAM OF LILIES” Soap, only 20 cents. Telephone 570; NIGHT BELL. Packages delivered te any part of the city. Benjamin & Cronheim, 101 Whitehall St. Cor. Mitchell ZACW BROS., MILLERS. Kiln Dried Pearl Grits Granulated Roller Meal, Corn Flour, Graham Flour, Mixed Feed, Stock Meal, etc. Try our special brands of Flour. Our grades are equal to any. Telephone 331. Mill on W. & A. R.R. near Cotton Factory. B. F. LONGLEY A CO?, (SuccettHors to Nace, Winburn & Co.) MANUFACTUttKRS OF Doors, Sash and Blinds, and Dealers In all Kinds of Building Material. Factory and Wareroom, 285 Decatur street. Telephone No. 48. Orderß can be left at 36 Decatur street. NO. 69