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(Every Evening except Sunday.) •INSCRIPTION—By Mall, 10 cents a week; 35 cent? a aontb; 11.00 for three months; $4.00 a year. DELIVERED anywhere in the City by Carrier for 6 • lite per week, pavable to the Carrier advertising rates and affidavit of circula loo cheerfully furnished upon application. Communications on vital public questions solicited. Address, THE EVENING CAPITOL, 48 8. Broad Bt., Atlanta, Ga. Telephone No. 445. Os as. 8. Atwood, I. W. Avkht, Preset. A Bus. Mang’r. Editorial Mang’r. entered at Atlanta P. O. an second-class matter. AN ORGANISED EFFORT FOR MAN VFACITRES. Some weeks since we touched upon this eubject, Hiiggenting the importance of an organized effort in behalf of manufactures. That the future progress of our city in population, commerce and wealth depend very largely upon the establishment and maintainance of manufactures no one who lias given the subject even a superficial examination will deny. Without a large production of new val ues a city occupies the position of the middle man, a go-between, a convenience to the producer and consumer. An interior city cannot be built up be yond a certain point on the jobbing of imported values alone. Whenever it has covered the territory naturally tributary to it there it must stop. Its increase of trade from that time is inexact proportion to the natural increase of population with in her territory, and that is too slow for the growth of a modern city. We have a email manufacturing inter est, which in spite of our neglect manages to live, but it is not strong and confident of the future. Nor are we doing anything to strengthen their future prospects. It is a rare occurrence that we give their goods the preference over the imported article at the same price. We not only fail to do ourselves justice, but we do them rank injustice. Our policy towards them is exactly what theirs should be to us were they to patronize the merchants of New York and Boston in preference to our own. All this should be changed—in fact must be changed, before we can become a manufacturing city. The first step to wards an improvement on our present policy, or rather the want of a policy, should be an organization whose aim and objects should be to encourage and build up our manufacturing interests by every legitimate means at our command. This organization should be known as the Atlanta Manufacturers’ Association, it should embrace our manufacturers, merchants a*d business men generally. The association should have rooms cen trally located and comfortably furnished, with a competent secretary in charge, whose duties should be to collect all the information to be obtained in regard to the manufacturing interests of the city, the line of manufactures most needed and most likely to succeed at this point, the location of manufacturing sites and their price; in fact any and all information that a manufacturer looking for a location •would desire to know. He should main tain an active correspondence with North- 1 ern and Western manufacturers, with the purpose of locating them with us; in a word, his whole time and energies, backed by all the influence of the association, should be devoted to the building up of Atlanta manufactures. Frequent meet ings of the association should be held, at which the business interests of Atlanta should be fully discussed, especially those appertaining to manufactures. The wants and difficulties of the manufacturer should be discussed and every effort made on the part of the association to meet those wants on the one hand and the removal of the difficulties on the other. Such an organization, composed of our best citizens working together for the com mon good, can make whatever they please of Atlanta. Failing in this, we may drift along as in the past, without a fixed policy, and our city fail to meet our predictions and ex pectations, as it surely will. Who wftl be the first to move in this matter? We are willing and anxious to do our part. We repeat it, that, working together for the common good, we can make whatever we please of Atlanta? Shall we do it? NATI HAL GAS, Don’t be alarmed, gentle reader, we do not propose to speak ot the gas with which we of the South are so abundantly sup plied, and of which we make so generous a use, but of the natural gas formes! in the. coal fields of Pennsylvania. It is estimated that the utilization of natural gas for manufacturing purposes has already reduced the annual consump tion of coal in Pittsburgh 47,450,000 bush els. This will dispense with the labor of alsmt 5,000 men in the coal fields, and and with the use of about 625 cars for the transportation of the same. It is proba ble, however, that the increasing uses for coal will more than compensate for these losses. Whether the supply of gas will hold out remains to be seen. We can see no good reason why it should not prove as inex haustible as the supply of coal oil has thus far proven. If this should prove to lie the case, this great natural agent will work a tremen dous revolution in reducing the first cost of iron and steel, but it will also furnish motive power for manufactories of all kinds at a mere nominal cost, as compared with coal. This gas is found only in bitu minous coal fields, and thus far its discov ery has been confined mainly to Pennsyl- vania. As the bituminous coal fields of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama and Tennessee are but the continu ation or elongation of those of Pennsylva nia, it is reasonable to suppose that they also contain the name great power in in exhaustible quantities. If this should prove to be the case, this, with ether superior natural advantages possessed by us for the very cheap produc tion of iron, would forever settle the ques tion in our favor, and make the South the leading iron producing section in the world. The importance and value of this new motor is so great, its effects so wide spread in their future results, that it should receive the attention it deserves at the hands of those engaged in the de velopment of our iron interests. Our coal fields should be thoroughly tested for this cheap power, the cheapest known to man. OI K POSITION APPRECIATED. Col. J. W. Anderson, the long-headed editor of the Covington Star, says: “Everybody in the city longs for the early disposal of the whole prohibition matter. Business is crippled and the city injured materially by the wrangling.—At lanta Evening Capitol. “An honest confession is good for the soul.” At least this is the old saying. The Atlanta Evening Capitol was one of the most earnest and zealous workers in the prohibition cause in Atlanta. It is an honest, conservative journal, and does not look one way and go the other. It looks straight to the front all the while, and never fails to see a thing just as it ex ists. Hence we consider The Capitol one of the most reliable journals in the whole country. It strikes a genuine chord in many a heart, in the above little item, be cause it tells the truth about the matter referred to. There is no question about Atlanta’s business being greatly injured by the prohibition trouble. CAPITOL CRAYONS. A Solid Ru.lne.x Man Conimendi The Capitol’. Article.. Editor Atlanta Capitol: The Capitol, for the last two days, has been the most valuable of any edition of any newspa pers I have ever seen published in Atlanta. The articles on manufactures, No. 1 and No. 2, come up to the demands of enterprising, progressive journalism. If every newspaper in the city of Atlanta would devote the same space and energy to man ufactures that they do to base ball, and the cit izens would agitate as thoroughly and continu ously the subject of manufactures as they do such questions as prohibition and anti-probibi tion, fanaticism and anti-faticism, politics, bo-, cial gossip, and even scandal, and all would lend a much needed encouragement to manufacturing enterprises, as they do to the above mentioned topics, Atlanta would soon be seen to “blossom as the rose.” The hum of hundreds of indus tries would booij respond to the moral and material encouragement of the cittizen of At lanta. In the articles in your paper you have well put this question, brought out the very sugges tions to which I refer, and by this partial repe tion, I desire, if possible, to give emphasis to what you have so well said. Also to lift to lift mv hat and say “well done," and through your columns to other papers, I would say “go thou and do likewise.” I congratulate you on the departure from the beaten path of daily journalism, in the produc tion of your two articles on “manufactures,” and 1 hope they are the beginning of more to follow. I hope tbit your presentation pf this practical question may be regarded as the key note, and that every Atlanta journal of every character, and every public spirited citizen may fall into line and agitate and demonstrate the vital im portance to the future growth and prosperity of Atlanta, of fostering and encouraging such a diversity of manufacturing enterprises as will bring Atlanta into conspicuous notice as South ern headquarters for manufacturing. Atlanta must look well to her laurels. Chattanooga is making rapid strides. It would be surprising to the average Atlantian to see the substantial and rapid growth of Chatta nooga, based solely on the encouragement her citizens are giving to manufactures just in the manner you have indicated.) Nashville has an organization of represent ative citizens whose object is to encourage the investment of capital in manufactures in Nashville, and this organization is doing a grand work in building up that city. Fifty thousand dollars judiciously invested in encouraging manufactures in Atlanta, together with the united moral support of her citizens would accomplish more for the enduring pros perity of the city than the location of the State fair or any railroad that could be built. ScßAicn-E-TsRHT. Baseball. Some ardent lovers of this great national game have recently been accusing the Capitol of having been the means of its decline in this city. I'erhaps they are right perhaps they are wrong. Oae thing is certain, the managing directors here hare, in our judgment, invited the ill-will of both the evening papers. But the real cause of the decline is due to a great many things, more perhaps than we are aware of. The truth is the clubs come to the city, play their games, and beyond the mention of the qualities of the game by the papers the next day but only a few know that the club had been iu the city. No pastime, no amusement, no excitement, will thrive these times unless interest is kept up by all proper modes of advertising. If the daily papers are of any value use them. If “dodgers” are of any value, use them. Get a band of music with banners and parade the streets, and by all such hurrah methods awaken interest in the game. Our humble opinion is that had the Southern League spent some mopey in this way the game would not now be at such a discount. As to our position regarding the game, we frankly state that we admire it. As a means of recreation it has few superiors. We hare, in short, naught to Bay against it, and we deeply regret the short sighted policy of the league thus far in running it on such an economical basis as to have badly crippled it. It is not too late yet and we hope the Atlanta managers who are men of known business qual ifications of a high order will set the example in the matter of enterprise, and by a little “hur rah” business fill their grounds to overflowing. THE EVENING CAPITOL: ATLANTA. GA_ FRIDAY, JULY 23. 1886 OUR GEORGIA EDITORS. Quaint Notion* and Witty Quips off The State Press lueaderso SIDNEY LEWIS. Editor is not as well posted on Georgia politics as we had thought him to be. The nomination of Gordon will be no small triumph if it shall permanently elim inate Felton from Democratic politics in this Btate. J. P. LITTLEFIEL®. It is said that a regular jug train has been put on the road between Atlanta and Griffin. A New York firm makes boots for dogs with sore feet, and is thinking of invent ing a style of hats for politicians with sore heads. W. T. CHRISTOPHER. Old probabilities gave Atlanta the month of June as a kind of “ wet” parting salute. PAT WALSH. Green grocers of Atlanta are beginning to be afraid to display dressed poultry on the street, or to display a slaughtered lamb without his wool on. * NEWNAN ADVERTISER. The Evening Capitol, of Atlanta, is a year old. and is the liveliest paper of its age in the State. On beholding the likeness of my little pet daughter, Willie Ben Williams, born January Ist, 1884, and died June 21st, 1886 : I see thee now, thou lovely child, Ah when thou wert of earth; The smiles that decked thy infant face, Thy gladsome tones of mirth ; I s_e thee now, as when with us, Thy form of artlesi- grace, And little dreamed so soon ’twould lie Cold iu the grave’s embrace. Thy dark, bright eyes, the ruby lips, Thy lovely, childish brow, And dimpled cheeks, with health’s rich glow, Are all before me now; Too pure a flower to bloom on earth, God bade thy infant voice Mingle with angels* chop in heaven, For thee a bli sful choice. No ar Ist touch can paint thee now, Earth can produce no dyes, For the bright sun’s own darling rays Each artist’s skill defies; But heaven was pleased in thee to find Sobright, so pure a gem, And called thee hence to net thee in A seraph’s diadem. But I will ever think of thee When like this picture bright, Thy face was ever radiant With smiles of sweet delight; Neither shall time, nor space, of thee. The smallest thought destroy, And I will meet thee yet on high, Where all is peace and joy. Atlanta, Ga., June 21, 1886. He Fell. The little eight-year-old son of Mr. Welch, who resides on Fortune street, fell off of a wood shed this morning and nearly cut one of his feet off with a saw. The wound is very painful,but the little fellow is a hero and endures the misery with great fortitude. At noon there was a report on the streets that there was a boy shot, out in East Atlanta, but arose from the above. OPERA HOUSE "AmstroDg Lecture Association.’' LECTURE BY RE¥. J. fi. ARMSTRONG, D. D. SUBJECT: JULIUS C-ffiSAR. At DeGive’s Opera House Friday night, July 23d, 1886, atß o’clock. Admission free. The parquette and dress circle will be reserved for ladles and their escorts. Laurel Wreath Seminary, 233 WHITEHALL S T., ATLANTA,GA. Exercises of this School will be resumed September 1. Full coyps of Teachers. Music and Painting with regu -1 ar literary course well taught. For terms, apply to MISS BUNNIE LOVE, Principal. HARRY LYNAN, RAILROAD TICKET BROKER AND STKAMSHI AGENT, 30 Wall Street, ■ Ju st opposite entrance Union Depot. Member Amei* an Ticket Brokers’ Association. NERVOUS debilitated men. Ys«ar. .llowvd atrial aftMrtv iay< ot Um atWi'r Dy.’t Cel.t>ruwi T.ltue Mt with MM*A. auqtansor, Applt..... tor th. ipwdy NMut pwmMtl wiwr JWrww. lom .FRMBv - Maaitii, MB »n kte troaklM. AJMtarjMBV OUMV tfaiiMM, Cw»l.w rMtor. Eh t. EmUu, *a4 JK*hm< rurasiMd. Kith. W, L. BRYAN, Watchmaker and Jeweler, 82 Decatvb St., - - - ATLANTA, GA. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Repaired at Short Notice and Satisfaction Guaranteed. Repairing of Music Boxes, Brass Instruments sad Student Lamps a specialty. 12 years In business in At lanta. Copartnership Notice Atlanta, Ga. July 21,1886. • F. G. Hancock and J. C. King having purchased the. entire interest of Mr. C. A. Collier in the business of F. G. Hancock, the style of the firm will hereafter be HANCOCK & KING, who assume all liabilities of the late firm of F. G. Han cock. and will collect the indebtedness. The business so long and favorably known will be' continued in all its branches at the old stand, corner of Broad and Alabama streets. F. G. HANCOCK, • J. C. King W. H. PATTERSON, BOND AND Stock Broker, N». >4 PBI4B STREET, Atlanta * * * Ga. Teas—Coffees—Teas. Do not be prejudiced nor mialed. Just give me ONE TRIAL. Let me give you better goods for Lees Money. Be eure end read my advertisement another column. Chas. C. Thorn, 118 Whitehall St. REMI-ANNVAL STATEMENT OF THE Atlanta Home Insurance Company, Furnished the Governor of the State of Georgia as re quired by the Act of the General Assembly, approved October 3, 1879. NAME AND LOCALITY Name of the Company—Atlanta Home Insurance Company. Locality—Street, Broad, No. 15> a , City of Atlanta, county of Fulton, State of Georgia. CONDITION ON JUNE 30th, 1886. I.—CAPITAL STOCK. Amount of the capital stock |200,000 00 2. Amount paid up in cash $160,000 oe 3. Amount in unpaid subscriptions 40,000 oo . II.—ASSETS. Unpaid subscriptions 40,000 oo 2. Cash on hand and deposited in bank to the credit of the company 6,20 l 37 3. Cash in the hands of agents, in the course of transmission 2,386 76 4. Loans secured by Bond and Mortgage on real estate,Atlanta, Ga., Stone Mountain, Ga., Griffin, Ga., Rome, Ga., Columbus, Ga., West End, Ga., Newnan, Ga., Hall county, Ga 102,157 5e 5. Other Loans 80,300 oo Secured thus: $11,000.00 secured by $20,000.00 Exposition Cotton Mills stock. $2,500.00 secured by $3,000.00 Central Pres byterian Church first mortgage bonds. |1,000.00 se ured by $3,900.00 Atlanta Fe male Institute stock. SBOO,OO secured by $1,000.00 Georgia Pacific Railroad first mortgagee per cent bonds. $7,000 oo loaned to E. Van Winkle & Co., in dorsed by J. W. English. $4 000.00 leaned to Nunnally <fc Rawson, in dorsed by E. E. Rawson. * $4,00a.00 secured by two Central Railroad bonds of $1,000.00 each, and two Atlanta Street Railway bonds of $1,000.00 each. 6. Stocks, (par value,s4.loo), market value 4,100 oo DESCRIPTION. No. of Par Ma’kt shares. value, value. Atlanta Gaslight stock. 120 $3,000 $3,000 National Exchange B’k of Augusta stock.. 11 1,100 1,100 Office furniture 1,071 52 7. Interest actually due and uncollected 1,029 oo 8. Premium notes on hand upon which poli- cies have been issued 7,783 89 10. Bonds 48,100 oo DESCRIPTION. No. of Par Mar’kt Kind of bond. bonds, value, value. Atlanta City 8 per cent bonds.... 11 $ 9,000 $ 9,975 Atlanta City 7 per cent bonds.... 7 T.ooo 8,030 Atlanta City 6 per cent bonds.... 10 5,000 5,155 Macou and Au gusta Rail road Ist mort gage 6 per cent bonds. ... 1 1,000 1,000 Georgia Pacific Railroad first mortgage six per cent bonds 10 10,000 10,550 Southern Agricul tural W orks 8 per cent bonds 4 2,000 2,e00 Georgia Railroad six per cent bonds 1 1,000 1,e70 Mobile and Gi- rard Railroad 8 per cent bonds 1 1,000 JL,050 Western Railroad of Alabama first mortgage 8 per cent bonds 2 2,000 2,190 Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 7 per cent bonds 8 2,000 2,000 Atlanta Street Railway 8 per cent bonds. ... 2 2,000 2,080 Atlanta Bridge Works 8 per cent bonds 3 3,000 3,000 Total Assets, actual cash market value $243,130 o 4 III.—LIABILITIES. Capital stock $200,000 oo 4. Dividends declared and remaining unpaid 576 99 8. Re-insurance, reserve 26,553 o 5 9. Surplus beyond capitol, as regards policy holders 16,000 oo Total liabilities 243,130 o 4 IV.—INCOME. (During the preceding six months.) Ten per cent, additional call on stock $20,000 oo 1. Cash premiums received 23,483 66 2. Notes received for premiums 3,254 5o 3. Interest money received 6,556 46 4. Income from other sources 28 74 Total income $53,323 36 V. EXPENDITURES. (During thd preceding six months.) 1. Losses paid $ 6,H0 61 2. Dividends paid 21,341 45 3. Expenses paid, including fees and commis- sions to agents and officers of the company 9,189 91 4. Taxes paid 1,642 34 5. All other payments and expenditures, for . re-insurance 1,237 49 Total expenditures $39,521 8o VI. RISK. Greatest amount insured in any one risk. slo,ooo oo- ROBERT J. LOWRY. President, JOEL HURT, Secretary. STATS OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF FULTON—Per sonally appeared before the undersigned, Joel Hurt,who, being duly sworn, says he is the chief officer or agent of the Atlanta Home Insurance Company, residing in said State, and that the foregoing statement is true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information and belief. Joel Hurt. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 21st day of July, 1886. JOHN T. HALL, JR., N. P F. 0. Ga. IN ORDER TO MEET the requirements of the New Prohibition Law, I desire to dispose of my line of MEDICINAL LIQUORS, - - - Imported Sherry and Claret Wine, ; FRENCH BRANDY, HOLLAND GIN, JAMAICA BUM, Etc., Etc.,. AT COST! at Schumann’s Pharmacy, CORIER WHITEHALL and HUHTER STS. Opium Reliable evidence given anc ft WHISKY rence lo <ared patients anc nuiuai physicians. •B>MB Cure .SM P. J. FALLON, Mason and Buildei Brick and Frame Buildings Erect* Sewers and Drain Pipes Laid. All Work Promptly Attended to. left at 8 Kan Alabama er ITX WM. ballatrw. POTTS & HADLEY, HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTERS. Hird Wood Finishing t Specialty. Beters to H. W. Grady, 1. P. Howell and Juliw L. Brown. 43 SOUTH BROAD STRKIT, ATLASTa, GA. Liebermann, Kaufman & Co.’s TRUNK FACTORY On A Boom! It Looks like every Tourist Leaving for Summer Resorts is Supplied with Trunk or Valise by Lieber man, Kaufman & Co. S 3 WteM Street is the Place, Just two doors from the Grant House, be tween Hunter and Mitchell Sts. THE GREAT BARGAIN HOUSE ! FOWLER’S LATEST IMPROVED FLY FAN! Only a Few left. Only $1.75 each. Sent to any part of the country on re ceipt of price. W. J. WOOD, Stovier, 87 Whitehall &94 Broad, Atlanta, Ga. FURNITURE! FURNITURE I j WE ADVISE ALL THOSE WANTING FURNITURE OF ANY KIND TO GO TO JOHN NEAL & CO., Nos. 7 and 9 South Broad Street. As they keep a Full Line, which they are selling at LOWER PRICES than can be|had elsew room Sets from $17.50 up, etc. Don’t forget our address. SEMI-ANNUAL statement of the Williamsburg City Fire Ins. Co. Furnished the Governor of the State of Georgia as required by the Act of the General Assembly, approved October 3, 1879. NAME AND LOCALITY, Name of the Company, Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company. Locality—Street, Broadway, No. 13; city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York. CONDITION ON JUNE 30, 1886. I—CAPITAL STOCK. 1. Amount of the Capital stock $ 250,000 60 2. Amount paid up in cash 250,000 OO 3. Amount in notes of the stockholders, none. II—ASSETS. 1. Real estate held by the Company, located ia New York City and Brooklyn, NY, actual cash value $ 553,886 45 2. Cash ©n hand and deposited in banks to the credit of the Company 32,013 58 g. Cash in the hands of agents and in course of transmission * 61,553 89 4. Loans secured by bond and mortgage on real estate located in New York, Kings and Queen counties, NY 270,450 00 5. Oth*r loans '‘ " 1,350 00 Secured thus: Par value Market Loan Greenover Ils. stock $250 $562 50 $350 Union Ferry stock 600 840 600 Lafayette Ins Co stock 1,000 900 400 6. Stocks Market value, 130,399 00 DESCRIPTION. Par Value Market val Grand Street and Newtown Railroad stock $33,000 $33,000 Long Island Bank of Brooklyn stock 10,000 12,000 First National Bank of BrooklynfstoOk 4,900 13,965 People’s Gaslight Company of Brooklyn stock -. 13,000 9,100 Metropolitan Gaslight Company of Brooklyn stock 5,000 4,350 Citizens’ Gaslight Company of Brooklyn stock 7,120 4.984 Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad Company of New York stock 20,000 32,000 do do do scrip, 20,000 21,000 7. Interest actually due and uncollected... 10,211 71 8. Premium notes on hand upon which policies have been issued ..... none 10. Bonds 134,970 50 DESCRIPTION. Par value Market val United States Registered 4,s of 1967 $15,000 bonds $15,000 $18,900 United States Currency 6’s, bonds 40,000 53,200 Grand Street and Newtown Railroad bonds 21,000 21,000 Geargia 6 per cent coupon bonds 25,000 26,0e0 Broadway Raikoad of Brooklyn bonds 3,000 3.150 Richmond, V*., 4 per cent bonds 12,350 12,720.50 11. Due for rents 8,53 r - 73 Total Assetts, actual cash market value $1,203,365 86 111.-LIABILITIES. 1. Losses due and yet unpaid ) 2. Claims for losses resisted by the Company ? $25,893 29 3. Losses not yet due, including those reported to Company, on which no action has yet been taken) 4. Dividends d dared due and remaining unpaid 415 00 5. Dividends declared but not yet due, none 6. * 22,355 21 8. Re-insurance 391,793, 19 9. Surplus beyond capital, as regards policy holders 762.909 17 Total Liabilities $1,203,365 86 IV. —INCOME, (faring the proceeding six months.) 1. Cash premiums received $ 262,816 41 2. Notes received for premiums none 3. Interest money received 9.237 36 4. Income from other sources 12,105 13 Total Income $ 284,158 90 V. —EXPENDITURES. (During the preceeding six months.) 1. Losses paid $ 153.509 25 2. Dividends paid - —t —— 24,785 00 3. Expenses paid, including fees and commissions to agents and oLcers of fha Company 115,974 27 4. Taxes paid 4.078 38 Total Expenditures 3 298,346 90 VI.—LARGEST RISK. Greatest amount insured in any one risk $ 20,000 06 M. S. DRIGGS, President pro tem, • X. W. MESEROLE, Secretary. STATE OF GEORGIA—COUNTY OF FULTON Personally appeared before the undersigned, W. W. Haskell, who. being duly sworn, says he is the chief officer or agent of The Williamsburgh City Insurance Company, residing in said State, and that the forego -Big statement is true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information and belief. W. W. HASKELL. Agent. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 23d day of July, 1886. P. F. CLARKE. N. P. F. Co., Ga.