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▲ddraaa, THE EVENING CAPITOL,
48 8. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga.
Telephone No. 446.
CI4B. B. Atwood, I. W. Avbby,
Pree’t. A Sue. Mang’r. Editorial Mang’r.
Entered at Atlanta P. O. as second-class matter.
15am Jones and Bam Small are at the
Loveland (Ohio) camp meeting to-day.
The Enquirer-Sun says lhat crops in
that section are finer than for ten years
past. <
The prospects for a prosperous exposi
tion at Cincinnati this fall are very bright.
Exhibitors are coming in with applica
tions thick and fast.
As long as pure butter, one of the most
delicious of products, can be purchased
there is no necessity for the fatty prepared
compound, oleomargarine.
Rome is succeeding well in getting sub
scriptions to the new base ball associa
tion proposed for the city. We hope they
■will succeed, as there is no more innocent
or enjoyable recreation than to witness a
game of base ball.
The anarchists’ trials have developed
the fact that detectives claim that they
had joined the anarchists some six
months previous to the outburst. Our
opinion is that if the detectives knew that
the anarchists were going to have an up
, rising, and they did not report it to the
police and have the affair nipped in the
bud, that they, the detectives, were worse
than the anarchists, and even by their
silence assisted in the loss of life.
TRnim TO CLIMB THE FENCE.
The Augusta News says “from recent
editorials one would infer that The At
lanta Evening Capitol is trying to climb
over the fence onto the wet side.’.’
Now we did credit the sprightly News
with more judgment than that.
We could not blame hot-headed prohibi
tionists in the city if they had complained
at every kindness that The Capitol in the
interest of justice had shown the liquor
snen, but for the cool, level-headed editor
of the News to engage in such twaddle ap
pears ridiculous to us.
We can also understand how that the
local correspondents of other city papers
would warp their opinion to suit their
jealousy on account of The Capitol’s un
precedented success and with the hopes
of hurting The Capitol in the eyes of all
good citizens who admire consistency even
in an enemy, they’ harp away on the
idea of its trying to get on the wet side
just because it says something in the in
terest of justice and fairness for the liquor
men.
But we say again that we cannot under
stand how an editor in a distant city,
where there is no excitement, no bitter
ness, and who is a pronounced friend of
the paper, can say that The Capitol is
trying to get on the wet side just because
we advocate justice and fairness to liquor
men.
No, The Capitol’s course is consistent.
It has not said aught in favor of anti
prohibition, because that question is now
on trial before the public and they can
form their own opinions as to its desira
bility.
What This Capitol has done and what
it will ever do fearlessly and openly has
been to descry this wholesale persecution
(as it looked to us) of good citizens of the
city, when they had unconsciously broken
the law, if they did really break it at all,
of which there is much doubt, some two
weeks before the cases were made.
Furthermore The Capitol is proud of
Hie position it took entirely unaided, for
no other city paper has uttered a word
about the matter editorially, and because
we are always proud when we are coura
geous enough to speak for the right re
gardless of the consequences.
All good people in the city of Atlanta
agree with us.
Prohibitionists are waging war against
liquor and not against the private
citizens of the city, and many of the most
ardent of them, including several promi
nent clergymen, deplore the recent use
less prosecutions of the quart license men
as done recently before the recorder.
•lust keep up your talk, gentlemen, if it
will do you any good. Don't let us deter
you, but don’t get it into your brains that
the people of Atlanta, and the red-hot
prohibitionists at that, don't sustain The
Capitol in its late position, which has
nothing to do with anti-ism or prohi-ism,
for they do and do it liberally.
Bi-LLBOZINU.
A esterday a gentleman informed us
that one of the inspectors said he would
make a trip to the Capitol office and de
mand that our defense of persecuted, hon
est Denicke be stopped, or he would use
np the inmates generally.
All right, gentlemen, suppose we all go
back on him; jump on him now that he is
down and crowd him out of sight anyhow.
Then, again, supjose we don’t, and the
Capitol will be one of those who don’t.
We have no fear of any man or men
who would persecute a man like him.
If Denicke had the means to get tue
necessary information from Washing-on
he would open the eyes of Georgians and
Floridians.
In this connection we will simply re
mark that there is a rule of the United
States service which forbids a man run
ning any other business and still draw pay
from the government.
But keep your temper, gentlemen, and
don’t show by undue anger that the Capi
tol has hit too near the truth.
Fighting out a whole newspaper office
will not right a wrong or an unjust perse
cution.
THE OLD U. C. IFcOLOHN.
There was lost in 1861 in a battle at
Laurel Hill, Va., the old standard of the
Gate City Guard.
It was captured by western troops, and
there is a strong desire on the part of the
command here to regain their old colors.
It is hoped that if anyone knows the
whereabouts of these colors they will no
tify the Gate City Guard of the fact.
Papers extending this request will con
fer a great favor upon the soldiery of At
lanta.
The Southern passenger committee will
meet next Wednesday in Old Point Com
fort, Va. Among other important work
they will change the name of the organi
zation to Southern passenger association.
The Brunswick Breeze is growing senti
mental. It offered a prize for the best
couplet for its paper, and now- it offers ten
dollars to the young man who furnishes it
with the most locals during the next
month. What next?
The Rome Bulletin is agitating the in
adequate water supply of Rome. It says
that in August and September there is
not enough to fight heavy fires effectively.
The Bulletin suggests some new plans,
but urges immediate attention. Fire is as
bad as a freshet or worse.
CAPITOLCRAYONS.
Tin ice dealer now has his day.
Blackberry peddlers are a nuisance.
The ice cream cake has lost its popularity.
Some of the wells in the city are going dry.
Coal dealers are figuring on winter prices.
The officials at the State House are a clever
set of gentlemen.
Men who don’t use stimulants can stand the
warm weather the best.
The most of the improvements now going on
are in the suburbs of the city.
Look out for mad dogs. Anything is liable
to get mad such weather as this.
Smart Alecks speak knowingly of “ blind ti
gers,” but show us one in Atlanta.
Everybody and' everybody’s children now
visit Grant Park in the afternoons.
Coi’NciLMAN Angier, has a clear head for
business and sticks to what he thinks is right.
Little children are beginning to play with
the artesian hydrants and the water is wasted.
Tue candidates in the local election at Bir
mingham, Ala., are calling each other liars
quite promiscuously and 1 carelessly.
The new State capitol is assuming the pro
portions of handsome building, and is attract
ing the attention of visitors to the city.
There has been a sudden rise in the price of
lemons, but this will have no effect on the pink
water dished out at Sunday-school picnics.
Tue general employes of the E. T., V. and
Ga. railroad, go by the name of “Streaked,” so
it is said, and are known by that name in rail
road circles.
Odd gas pipes leaking have caused many
shade trees in the city to die. One citiien
threatens to bring a damage suit against the
Atlanta gas company.
Mobile, Ala., is trying to scare up another
boom ou the deepening and widening of her
channel. She has been waiting many years for
her “ ship to come in.”
There is no such place in or around, or near
Atlanta as “Tight Squeeze.” The excellent
citizens who’live in the section of the city once
knowu by that name, are “North Atlantians.”
There ought to be an ordinance prohibiting a
person from carrying anything on the sidewalks
longer than three or four feet. A man walking
up any principal street with a sixteen-foot lad
der on his shoulder is liable to hurt somebody.
Tas Capitol rejoices modestly when it ob
serves the dailies of the State copying its plan
of short paragraphs in editorial and local
writing. Short pithy paragraphs are far more
interesting than the long half-column para
graphs that have been in vogue in the State *o
Gog- <
Our Small Indnetries.
Messrs. Boyd A Baxter, the furniture dealers
on Marietta street, have just issued a neat cat
alogue of their various styles of goods manu
factured. It shows a large assortment and re
flects great credit on the house. This is one of
the prided industries of Atalnta of which, if the
city bad a score, they would be of untold benefit
to the city.
The firm of Boyd A Baxter use only machin
ery of the latest and most improved patterns;
their workmen are skilled and practical me
chanics, and cabinetmakers are superintended
by a thorough and experienced furniture manu
facturer.
Their materials are the best that can be
bought. Their finishing room is in charge of a
well known, experienced furniture finisher from
the North, and they guarantee that their goods
will equal if not excel any in the market for fine
and elegant finish and latest styles.
They hare lately largely increased the capi
tal of business and added an entire line of
new improved machinery, and now elaim that
their facilities for manufacturing are unsur
passed.
We csll attention to these facts, not for the
purpose of advertising these gentlemen, for
Tns Capitol never writes editorially for pay,
THB EVENING CAPITOL: ATLANTA. GA. SATURDAY. JULY 3'. 1880
but we do it that the public may know that
such goods are being manufactured here now,
and that they may give to the establishment
the fullest measure of patronage.
Keep all your money possible in circulation
here in the Bou*b.
The Boston Globe says as regards a man who
was acquitted of crime in shavinga man on Sun
day: "Judge Barker, in his charge to the jury,
held that “shaving, hair cutting and shampooing
are works of necessity and charity for which
men would not be indictable if they did it them
selves, and for which a barber is not indictable
if he does it for them in a suitable and ordinary
way.” This was a test case.
The Working World says : “If there ever was
a time in Atlanta’s history when judicious, dis
creet men should exert themselves, that time is
now. Conservative, earnest men, who are in
terested in Atlanta’s future must come to the
front. We cannot afford to hand this city with
all its interests over to the rabble, neither are
her interests safe in the hands of itinerant fa
natics.
The Working World says, editorially: “For
indiscreet action, arbitrary and dogmatic ruling
by judges, (ecclesiastical or judicial) we will
match an Atlanta bishop and recorder against
all comers. Gentlemen should ever be govern
ed by a very keen aense of propriety and never
sit in judgment in cases where there is even the
shadow of suspicion or prejudice for or against
the accused. While we are in favor of enforc
ing laws in every particular we think the ad
ministrators of.law are subjects of the laws of
propriety.”
Two Letters.
“My datUng wife,” (he writes), “come home;
I cannot do without you;
Throughout these gloomy rooms 1 roam;
My thoughts are all about you.
“But If you think it best to stay,
Why, do so —perhaps you’d better.
Don’t think at all of me, I pray”—
And thus winds up the letter.
Quickly a smile goes o’er lil& face,
As in the ink again he dips.
“Dear John” (he writes), “you know the place,
And don’t forget to bring the chips.”
—Tom Masoa.
EDITORIAL SCISSORINGS.
GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
The New Orleans States has a word
which it thinks should accompany the
word “boodle” in the dictionary which
President Porter, of Yale, is now editing.
It is “joobahaw.” A “joobahaw,” it ex
plains, is a man who shoots off his mouth
tor no other reason than that he has a
mouth to shoot.
Every town, however insignificant, has
one or more, and if the reader will but
think a moment, he will call to mind a
local “joobahaw.”
ELAM CHRISTIAN.
The whiskey men in Atlanta are having
a hard time convincing the world that
prohibition don’t prohibit in that goodly
city. Several of them have paid the city
SSOO for positive information on this im
portant subject.
SIDNEY LEWIS.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Macon
Telegraph seems to think that patriotism
begins and ends with opposition to prohi
bition. Brother Niles ought not to be so
alcoholically rampant.
Governor McDaniel’s last term is ap
proaching its close. lie has made a good,
conservative, clean-handed executive. So
far as the Ishmaelite knows or believes,
there is not a spot or wrinkle on his offi
cial record. He has shown himself a true
man in the proudest acceptation of the
term, and will retire from office, as he
entered it, without fear and above re
proach. ■
HERE AND THERE.
Focal Thought* About the City.
“ Tub Capitol's little but she’s loud.” Such
was the forcible if not elegant tribute I heard
paid our sprightly little sheet,one day last week.
The sentiment was uttered on the evening of the
issue that contained a notice to the effect that
cases would be made against parties allowing
grass to grow on their sidewalks. If there was
in my mind any doubt on this subject, it was
dispelled the next morning on my wav to the
office. On turning a corner 1 saw a darkey, hoe
in band, in front of the residence of a prominent
citizen, chopping down grass and weeds as if
bis life depended upon the rapididy of his
movements. He had a quick by-the-job lick,
and none of your poky, by-the-day jerks.
Mr. Prominent Citizen, thinks I, Jreads The
Capitol. A little further down on the same
street was a good lady wearing a sun-bonnet
toward off the mornin g'sun, as she directed her
two boys in chopping down the offending grass.
I turn another and almost run into the portly
form of a middle aged man in a stooping pos
ture, the sweat rolling down his face as he
Culled the green blades from between the
ricks, where they had become rooted. A little
further down was a colored citizen with a hoe
hard at work, in front of his two-room cabin.
And so it went all the way from Jackson street
to Pryor, where I saw no less than a dozen per
sons diligently at work to escape the clutches
of the law. I therefore emphatically empha
sized the sentence, “The Capitol’s little but
she’s loud.”
The new drive from Peachtree to Ponce de
Leon, down Ponce de Leon circle, will soon be
completed. With the completion of this new
road will doubtless be destroyed one of the few
remaining landmarks of the stirring days of
’62. The object of which I write is an old pine
tree standing on the right hand side of the
street car bridge on Ponce de Leon avenue.
The top of the old tree has been carried away
by a cannon ball: up the trunk on the western
side can be seen strips of wood nailed about two
feet apart to a height of about twenty feet from
the ground. The old pine seemed a sacred ob
ject to me, in the happy days of boyhood, when
with my companions we would stop under its
shadow and examine the strips of wood nailed
through the bark into the tree. “I’ll bet tbere’a
many a poor soldier been knocked out of the top
like a bird,” and other like sentences were
uttered by our boyish lips as we looked upon
this old Confederate hero, for we had learned
that the old tree had been used by the Confed
erates as a point of observations. If this was a
sharpshooter’s tree, and that is what I have
been told by old soldiers, let it be preserved by
all means as one of the many objects of interest
around our city.
Atlanta is regarded by her own people and
the outside world, as one of the healthiest cities
in the Union. That she retains this reputation
is a wonder. There are no less than six good
sized creexs, or branches, as they are called,
running through some of the thickest settled
portions of the city. These branches are uncov
ered, and the odors that they distill, is not cal
culated to arrest the passer by with their de
lightful aroma. Some of them, especially one
of the most highly odoriferous, the gas house
branch, hare had sewers built over them. At
lanta is increasing day by day, and if these sou
smelling streams are not confined, will they not
bring on some epidemic? Take, for instance,
the one that starts near the old Longley A
Robinson planing mill. It is covered a short
distance, say to Foster street. From there it
mosses uncovered, Wheat, Houston, Cain, Har- i
ris, Baker, Forrest Avenue, and Pine streets.
Should it cause an epidemic how wide spread
would it be? So it is with all the others. If
these branches were covered, the small and.
worthless cabins along their banks would also
be done awav with, better houses would be built
and the value of the property would be increas
ed a hundred fold. This surely is a matter
1 worthy of attention. J acksox Hill.
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 RUM, Etc., Etc.,
AT COST!
AT
Schumann’s Pharmacy,
CORNER WHITEHALL and HUNTER STS.
JAMES A. ANDERSON & CO,
1 C
/. k: J |
A CHANCE FOR ALL.
OUR ENTIRE STOCK
—OF—
Cassimere and Worsted Suits
—FOR—
Menjßoys’iChildren
AT COST.
We have too many Boys’ and
Children Suits and we are de
termined to sell them.
It is customary to wait until the season is over before
reducing prices, but we have determined to give out
customers the advantage when they need the goods.
James A. Anderson & Co.,
41 WHITEHALL ST.
PKOt'faMllOlUL LAKHS
Architects.
L. W.BL Pern’s,! Architects, Atlanta, Ga-
OFFICES:
Fourth floor Chamberlin & Boynton’s building, corn*'
Whitehall and Hunter streets.*
tor Take elevator.
L. NORR MaN,
Architect.
24% Peachtree street.
«. LIND, F. A. I. A.
Architect and Superintendent.
63 Whitehall Street.
JgRUCK A MORGAN,
ARCHITECTS,
Sd Floor, Healey Building.
Corner Marietta and Peachtree streets.
jUa* w yera.
WM. A. HAYGOOD. EDMUND W. MARTIN
Haygood & martin,
Lawyers,
17% Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga.
Telephone 117.
rpHOMAS L. BISHOP, "
ATTORNEY AT LAW. •
Room 2, Brown Block,
28 Wall street, Atlanta, Ga.
ustin & blackburnJ
Lawyers,
14% Whitehall Street.
Atlanta, Ga.
J M. ARROWOOD,
Attorney at Law,
Room 34, Gate City Bank Buliding,
Atlanta, Ga.
Collections and office practice a specialty.
J. ALBERT;
• attorney at law,
No. 2% Marietta St., Room No. 7.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Commercial law a specialty.
LIFFORD L. ANDERSON,
Attorney at Law,
Room 18 Gate City Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN A. WIMPY,
Attorney-at-Law.
11% S. Broad St., ATLANTA, GA.
J A. ANDERSON.
Attorney at Law.
Room 26 James Bank Block, 16X Whitehall st.
CARROLL PAYNE,
• Attorney at Law,
Room 4 Centennial Building.
3% Whitehall St.
yy A. WIM BISH,
Attorney at Law,
Room 16 Gate City Bank Building.
A LOCHRANK,
0. A. LOCHRANE,
ELGIN LOCHRANE.
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
I have resumed the practice of law in copartnersh
with my son, Elgin, at
Atlanta, Ga.
O. A. LOCHRANE.
J NO. D. CUNNINGHAM,
Attorney at Law,
Room* 19 and 20, James’ Bank Block, 6X Whitehall 8t
Atlanta, Georgia. Telephone No. 386.
AFRERGHW
WINE COCA
IARVELOUSIIVIGORATOE-THE GREAT IERVE TOIiC
Delicious to the taste : Sustains, Exhil
erates and Refreshes both Body and Brain;
Cures Morphine and Opium Habits and
Desire for Intoxicants.
Sold by all Braagists. Price SI per bottle, or sii fbr $5.
Read Pamphlet on the wonderful effects
of Coca and Damiana and Wine Coca.
PEMBERTON CHEMICAL CO.
Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers. Atlanta, Ga.
NEW SHOPS IN FULL BLASTI
A. A. DeLOACH & BRO.
«
Have leased the shops formerly owned by the Georgia Machinery Company, a d in addition to the manufacture
of their Water Wheels, Portable Mills, Millstones, Mill Gearing of all kinds, Shafting. Pulleys, etc., are
fully prepared to do all kinds of Job and Repair work both in Iron and wood.
Planing Lumber for Lumber Dealers a Specialty.
We are now in a position to serve our home people, and solicit their
patronage, and promise Prompt Attention and Satisfactory "Work.
OFFICE AND WORKS: 361 to 373 Marietta St. Telephone 307.
G. O. WILLIAMS & BRO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS, BRICK, LIME AND HAIR!
And Anything Else You Need in the Way of building Material.
It will be to your interest to get their prices before making your purchase.
Office and Yard 234 Marietta Sheet. Telephone 338
DrßiQQer s
U W&NTERY
CHILDREN TEETHING
’’KOI,
P. J. FALLON,
Mason and Builder
Brick and Frame Buildings Erects*
Sewers and Drain Pipes Laid.
All Work Promptly Attended to.
left at 8 East Alabama or 27% WW
hall street.
W, L. BRYAN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
82 Decatvb St., - - - ATLANTA, GA.
Watches, Clo< ks and Jewelry Repaired
at Short Notice and Satisfaction
Guaranteed.
Repairing of Music Boxes, Brass Instruments aad
Student Lamps a specialty. 12 years in business in At
lanta.
Teas —Coffees —Teas.
Do not be prejudiced nor misled.
Just give me ONE TRIAL. Let me
give you better goods for Less Money.
Be sure and read my advertisement
another column.
Chas. C. Thorn,
118 Whitehall St.
Wheal’s Rheumatic Cure
Positively cures all kinds of Rheumatism, Blood anc
Kidney Diseases.
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR IT,
Or call and see us at the Chamber of Commerce Build
lug.
WHEALS, KOERNER & CO.
Special Inducement Offered
DURING THE SUMMER SEASON TO
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Until the rash of fa'l trade. I will DYE or CLE AN all
kinds of FALL and WINTER CLOTHING. BLAN
KETS,SPBEADS.CARPETS. LACK CURTAINS, Etc., at
35 per cent Reduction.
Now is your time. Drop a postal card and I will call
for and deliver city orders without charge.
Goods made like new.
JACOB E. KRIES,
7 W.PETERS STREET.
POTTS & HADLEY,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTERS.
Hard Wood Finishing a Specialty.
Refers to H. W. Grady, E. P. Howeil and Julius L.
Brown.
43 SOUTH BROAD STREET. ATLANTA. GA.
THE WASHINGTON SEMINARY,
16 East Cain St., Atlanta., Ga.
HOME AND DAY SCHOOL for Girls and Young
Children. For Circulars applv to
MRS BAYLOR STEWART, Principal.
Call on Doyle Bros.,
THE LIVE FURNITURE DEALERS,
And examine their stock of Furniture, Looking-Glasses,
Clocks and Mattresses. Excelsior Mattress a specialty
and mad? to order.
Easy terms given to purchasers. Prices low. 144 Ma
rietta st
And Don’t Forget It.
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST FLOUR IN
THE CITY IS
KNOXVILLE LEADER
PATENT.
Have your grocer to send you this brand
and yo» will De pleased.
Every sack guaranteed to please or
monev refunded.
TH. PATTERSON,
BOND AND
Stock Broker,
N». S 4 PRY9R STREET,
Atlanta - Ga.
B ESTABLISHED 1860.
A. EEGENZINGEB,
MAXVrACTVRKR OF
CPHOLSTEKING DUNE IN ALL ITS
BBANCHK&I
Strictly fint-clua work at low price, foe
cut. 13 E. Evans STREET.