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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1884.???TWELVE PAGES.
OUR ANTI-LIQUOR FIGHT,
[We solicit short letters giving the evil effects of
liquor in communities, as witnessed by the writers.
We don't care for arguments. Wo want facts and
figures. Send them In, mothers, fathers, wives,
sons, everybody, and help in the tight against this
terrible and growin gevil.J
The prediction of Geuernl Neal Dow that
prohibition will soon become an accomplished
fact in all English speaking countries is re
garded as too sanguine and extravagant. It
would be more in accord with the signs of the
times to say than an enlightened publis
opinion, high license and local option will
greatly reduce the extent of the liquor evil.
At the present rate of progress the Americans
will soon be the most tern pc rate people in the
world.
Ustold St r.JF.RiNc.s Caused by Ixtempkr-
axcr.???Praiseworthy efforts have been made
from time to time to collect statistics of the
ravages caused by intemperance. ??? But how
much ot its deadly work can never bo meas
ured by statistics! Who shall tell of the
hearts that are broken, the happy homos made
desolate, the loving ones forever wrecked by
dfink???s satauic influence? No internal reve
nue report can give the list of these, and their
names and suffering cay be known only to the
pitying Father of all. Few persons appreciate
the great number of these sufferers until some
striking incident in proof thereof is brought
to their notice. For instance, some time ago a
young man in Loudon committed suicide, lie
was a stronger in the city. No oue at his poor
lodgings knew his name, and when ho was
found dead in his room, having shot himself,
his body was taken to the morgue for identi
fication. A letter was found in his room with
out address or signature, nml giving no clue
to the circumstances of his life, save the fact
that he had left a good home, and had been
brought to this state of degradation and
misery by the cursed habit of drink.
This letter was published in the London
papers and within the two mouths following-
ana here is the point and pathos of the inci
dent???no less than three hundred letters were
received by the ehuritnblo associations that
buried the youth, from heart broken mothers
all over the united kingdom, giving descrip
tions of sons who had left them, and begging
to know if some memento had not been left by
the dead lad, if they could see tho letter he
wrote, etc.
# Not long ago our attention was called to a
similar instance which occurred in a small
town in this state.* A sharp fight had been in
progress between the respectable element nml
the snlocn, and in this fight tho local newspa
per had given some sturdy blows for the right.
In one issue it mentioned the fact, which had
been reported to the editor, to whom, however,
the name of parties concerned were not given
that a mother and several little children in
the town were actually starving to death, while
nearly the entire weekly wages of tho hus
band and father went into the till of one of the
thriving saloon-keepers of the town.
This fact was published without giving
names, as we said, nml during the following
weok the editor received five letters reproach
ing him for having made the painful case pub
lic. fio the editor was assured that the mi4-
chief wrought by the saloon-keepers was five
times greater than he supj>osed, and like a
worthy champion of tho truth, did not refrain,
but redoubled his blows.
Similar instances to tho nbovo might occur
anywhere, so much greeter is the actual sum
of the crinto and consequent suffering growing
out of the liquor business than any one person
is likely to suppose.???Union .Signal.
A MIDNIGHT MURDER.
! A MILLION DOLLAR PIE S d fc f
hopeless one,
Mr??. Chari*. I???.n.l by u lJiirglni-; ~ ??? - ????? bi7argument tftnt Uio??d*ci??ion o??f tho court
Last Wednesday Night. | TO BE CUT FOR THE BENEFIT OF would be with him. Although tho argument
On Wednesday night last one of the most horrible
murders that ever occurred in Atlanta was perpetra
tod a, an humble house, No.?? Hazard street. Tho ???
VARIOUS PERSONS,
Who tn the Fast or Present Have Held <
Thr FRoniBiTORY Law ix Kansas There
are in this city several anti-prohibition ????Jub
secret and oath bound, enrolling u large nun
ber of young men who art* not yet ready i
give up their ???tod." But in no case can can I
yet find any of these same young inon read,
to shout themselves hoarse for tho re-election
of Governor Glick. They all desiro a resub
mission, and would work to defeat the law,
but they do not want to soo the law violated
or rendered nugatory by the action of the ex
ecutive of the state, as is done by Govornor
Glick, who so freclv uses the pardoning power
in cases where juries of twelve men, ninny of
fbem anti-prohlhitionists, find men guilty of
repeatedly violating the law. Nor do they in
dorse the action of the democratic convention
which voted John Foster n hero and a martyr
because he refused to do his duty as county at
torney. While they ary opposed to this one
law, they are in favor of enforcing it while it
is n law. their only aim being to rcjieal it.
Regarding this low, I camo Across a curious
phase of the popular vote that seems to have
been entirely forgotten. By comparing tho
vote enst for and against the prohibition
amendment, I find that it received, in propor
tion to the total vote cost at that election, about
30 [K*r cent more votes than any previous
atitutionol amendment ever received. Tho
records in the office of the secretory of state
show that no other amendment voted upon by
the people came as near receiving the full vote
polled. Now, Is there any record of a d.-imim'
for rcsitbmUnion of any of those former amend
incuts? I give this ns n matter of .curiosity
only.???To|K*ka Letter to tho Kansus City
Journal.
Nral Dow Maker a Prediction.???General
Neal Dow, of Maine, with his accustomed in
temperance of language, thus closes a long
letter to the Toronto (Cunada) Globe:: ???Tho
doom of tho liquor traffic has sounded through
rill English speaking countries. The tropic
will surely protect themselves from this tre
mendous evil. The liquor sellers see tho eud
coming and strive to prolong the time by false
ly affirming that in Maine the uttempt had
failed to suppress the trade by which they live,
while by it hundreds of thousands are slain.
Prohibition was enacted bv this state iu 1851,
and it stauds stronger to-efay in the hearts and
Consciences of the people than at any former
time for its wonderful results for good. And
in September, by an overwhelming majority,
they will put it Into the constitution, that in
Mai ine the manufacture, sale, and keeping for
sale, of intoxicating liquors, except for medic
inal and mechanical purposes, and tho arts,
shall be forever forbidden. To tbit proposition
there U no opposition, organised or otherwise.
It is objected to by no party, and by no person
who has any connection whatever with any
temperance movement. And the secret liquor
dens which now infest our cities and larger
towns will be swept away."
???A Bio Door ix Whisky.???The above is the
heading of a dispatch from Cincinnati. It
concludes by saying whisky had ???dropped 10
victim of the atrocious crime was the young wife
of Charles Hose, night ynrdmaster of the Air-Line
railroad. After catiug his supper at the usual hour
Mr. Rose went to his work in the yard of the Air-
Line, leaving his wife and little child at home
with a young lady, Mls&X. M. Frasier. About 12
o???clock Miss Frasier was aroused by the sharp re
port of a pistol. There had been a light left burn
ing In the room and when she opened her eyes she
was astounded to find that the light had
been extinguished. She at first thought that
Mr. Rose had entered the room and in the dark
ness had stepped upon a mutch,
???Jennie," she called to Mrs. Rose.
There was no response, but Instead the young
lady heard the rustllng???of hurried footsteeps and a
man darted through one of the rooms and sprang
a window and was gone.
She arose from the boil much excited,
and with a trembling hand lighted tiie lamp. She
walked over to the bed where she supposed her
sleeping friend lay, when a most distressing specta
cle met her gaze. The sleeping baby was literally
spattered with blood, while on the right side of the
mother's head great clots of black blood lay. The
dying woman raised her left hand, w
the young lady caught It In her c
The hand of the dying woman fell to her side,
gasped feebly once and was dead. The young lady
in the wildest state of excitement, but without
uttcriug a cry, sat down the lamp, ran out of
house, and into the yard. The moon was shining
through the clouds, but no one could be
The man who had done tho terri
ble deed had gotten well away.
Miss Frazier ran to a neighbor's house audguve
the alarm. A number of people, men and women,
proceeded to the place, while others telephoned
the news to police headquarters, and a detach incut
of policemen weut out. The husband was sent
for, am! when he reached bis home and found his
wife murdered he was wild with grief.
The house was a small woollen structure,
two rooms. Mrs. Rose was sleeping iu the end
toward the city. The burglar, for such he has
proved to be, entered by a window at the opposite
end of the house. He placed an ordinary chop
ping block oil tho ground under
window, while he cut the putty from
around a pane of glass, He then ran his hand
and removed two unlls that were over the sash
The window was then raised and a stick placed uu
dor it to hold it up. He then crawled In and went
into the room where lay sleeping the two women,
On the mantel lay a pistol owned by Mr. Rose,
is supposed that this was the first thing he took,
and with it in oue hand proceeded
to rummage u trunk at the bedside of Mrs. Rose
While he was in this act it is supposed that she
awoke and raised up In bed. Tho burglar quickly
raised Ids hand and fired tho cruel shot, then
hurriedly extinguished the light, sprang through
the open window over a buck fence and was gone.
These are all the facts of the brutal midnight
murder that startled the eastern side of the city,
the details of which will send a thrill of horror
the heart of every man who reads them. Wednesday
pay-day with the Air-Line employes, and it
supposed that the burglar thought there
money in the house, while in fact there was none
of cousequcncc. Nothing, so fur as known, was
missing.
Pointw About People.
cent*,
We simply rise to state that we have ob
served a ???big drop" in whisky for many
years.
If has dropped mrihy of ??ur friends. .
- It has dropped character.
It has dropped happiness.
It has dropped wives.
it has dropped husbands.
It has dropped children.
It hat dropped position.
It has dropj>ed reputation.
It has dropped the My.
It has dropped the soal.
It has dropped 10 cents eight billions of
times in the last twelve months.
Newspaper Gobbled Up.
Cincinnati. June 9.???The sale of the News-
J turaal to Edgar M. Johnson, trustee, has been
onfirmed by the court. John A. McLean, ot the
Enquirer, has taken pocwwrion of the property.
The Man who Wrote the Rhymes.
Hartford, Conn., Jane 9.???Henry C. Work, the
noted song writer and composer, died here yester-
Jkxxy Lind's oldest son has just married
English girl.
An for Fitzjohn Porter, he still sits with his
legs crossed mid out-Jobs Job.
C. 1L Lewis, better known ns ???M. Quad,
numerous writer, Is to go to Ncwburg, N. V.,
live.
Jay Gould has been spending considerable
money on his library of late, and is now said
be the i>o.viL???iMor of the most valuuble collect Ion
New York.
Baker Pacha still suffers severely from the
wound he received in battle, and his visit to Lon
don is for the purpose of seeuriug the best tncdieul
attention.
Queen Victoria*m purchase of a $200,000 set
f pearls for a wedding present to Princess Beatrice
conveys the impression that the stock of India
shawls has been exhausted.
All Miss Braddou's novels are being trans
kited into TelugN aud Canarese, under the editor
ship of Mr. Cudwulludcr Wnddy, who was formerly
on the stuff of the Belgmvia Magazine.
Mr. Ferdinand Ward occupies the cell once
inhabited by that distinguished financier, the late
Mr. Tweed, and ns the latter didn't get away with
the cell it is reasonably secure, i??erhups, duriug Its
tenancy by Mr. Ward.
Louia Kossuth still clings to the Lutheran
faith in which he whs brought up, but docs not de
ny that Byron may have been right when he wrote
that ???religions take their turns, and other creeds
will rise with other years."
It is whispered that Rutherford B. Hayes
on being asked a short time ago what he thought
the result would be, replied: ???Well, I put fifteen
eggs under tho speckled hen, but don???t think
more'll ten wifi hutch out."
Mtsirt UosMiTEK, of West Philadelphia, who
is at the head 4 'of women silk cylturists in the
United .States, is only 17 yean of age. 8he bus the
largest and handsomest collection of objects per
taining to her occupation in tiie country.
Professor Wilson of Cornell, President Bar
nard of Columbia, ami President McCosh of Prince
ton, are the only persons in tiie United States who
have received the three degrees of doctor of
divinity, doctor of laws and doctor of literature.
Mrs. Spurokon, the invalid wife of the faul
ts London preacher, has established a ???book
fund" from which shq supplies books to poor min
isters of ill denominations. By making frames
for photographs she lias earned 1250 which she has
devoted to this work. List year she gave away
more Uuin 7,i*J0 books, and during the past six
years site bos distributed nearly 42,000.
A memorial on behalf of the Tichbornc
claimant Li being gotten up in the house of com
mons. It prays that he may lie released from
prison, and at the same time be relieved from the
.ncoiiveiifcnceof a ticket of leave, his period of
servitude having now nearly expired. It also asks
that Arthur Orton, now alleged to be a lunatic at
Paramatta, shall be brought to England at the ex
pense of the state.
Gkkxral Louisa, recently a pasha in the
Egyptian serviee, has a cane,the large Ivory head of
whicii was brought from tiie Soudan by Miss Mil
dred Lee, daughter of General Kol/ert K Lee, and
, malum brought from
Hingupore by another friend of the pasha.
Prince Victor, who is now at Cambridge,
U giving special attention to the study of history.
He will not go to Oxford for a part of the course,
as was expected, but will complete his university
career on the Tarn. The London World commends
this decision as ???sensible,??? for the high aud potent
reason that a change would make neccwiary ???the
forming of an entirely new set of acquaintances."
Bishop Whipple is an interesting character
In Mluncsota. A correspondent recent? j.r.r-
neyed to Fafrhault and spent the day with the old
missionary. ???His work Is well nigh done upon
earth,??? writes the correspondent,"but ft was beau
tiful to see bis heavenly face and listen to his
humble words of trust in Christ. He told me that
in his nearly forty years among the Indians he
had ridden over thirty thousand miles on horse
back."
Thr late Judah P. Benjamin was noted at
the New Orleans bag for his readiness of re par* tec.
On one occasion be was In his third day's argu
ment before a justice of appeal who was politically
unfriendly to ntm, and who, upon being asked an
incidental onotion by Mr. Benjamin, said, with.
???a IUIVIIUI71 aucviu. "Oh. do not ssk me; you
have been beyond my depth for several hours.???
Whereupon the advocate, in a pleasant tone, re
torted??????Then I shall cease diving for pearls, and
gratify your honor by coming to the muddy *ur-
On Tuesday Inst the supreme court of Geor
gia decided the most important case that has
been before it for years.
In 1847 the Southern Mutual insurance com
pany was organized iu Grilfin, Ga??> ami later
was moved to Athens,where it has had its head
quarters ever siuce. The company was purely
mutual in its organization aud charter provided
after paving tho louses and expenses tho bal
ance should be divided ninoug its policy hold
ers. Borne years afterward to iucrease the
confidence in the company and its ability to
stand any unusual losses a resolution was
passed wliish provided that ten per cent of its
profits should be passed to u reserve fund.
Binoe that time the reserve of tho company
has increased rapidly until about two years ago
when it amounted to a million dollars.
At this (mint inquiry begau to be made:
???To whom does this million dollars of sur
plus belong?"
There were those who held that it belonged
to the policy holders who hud policies nctuuily
iu force. Others claimed that it belonged to all
|H)rsoils who had ever held nollcie* in the com-
jinny and should be divided equally among all
was made before tho supreme court in Februa
ry, tho decision was held back week after
Hold Poll- , week, and not delivered until now???, when four
months have elapsed since tho case was sub
rnitted to the court.
WHAT THE DECISION DECIDES.
The decision is full and absolute, and is
made without n dissenting voice. Hid of its
legal verbiage, it decides:
First. That tho surjdus of the company be
longs to every person who has held a policy
at anv time, and by paying in a premium has
thereby contributed to making the surplus.
Second.???That the eomjmiiy w'as organized
ns a purely mutual company ni??d still con
tinues such, and that the directors have nc
authority to retain any amount for a surplus
beyond what the recognized rules of insurance
would allow as security for their business.
Third.???That it is ior tho jury??? under, in
structions from the court, to fix what that
aiiiouut should be.
Fourth.???All of tho surplus nbovo the
amount fixed by the jury ns necessary for the'
security of the company???s business, should be
divided among the policy holders past and
present, whoso premiums have made up this
surplus,
k ifth???Ttat when the amount to which each
person interested is entitled shall be fixed by
proper calculation the company shall divide
the surplus above tho ordinary reserve, pay
ing to each jmrty tho sum so fi*Ad.
A MILLION DOLLAR FIR Ti^K CUT.
It is estimated that under this decision about
who could bring j>rOol that they
lmd over held policies either past
or present. Fending this inquiry tho
oilieors of the company mado everv effort to
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ascertain if any decision hud ever been made
settling tho disjiositiuii that should
bo mado of the. surjdiis fund of a mutual
insurance company that had grown beyond
the limits for which it w*as intended. Among:
others, an njqieui was made to Mr. Ed wart
Atkinson, tho renowned publicist. Ho was very
much interested in the matter, and spent sev
eral months investigating it. He finally i
ported that no where was there a record
any court liaviug decided (he
owuershiji of tho surjdus fund of
mutual insurance company and thnt the nu
thoritic* which he had consulted were at vnri
ance iu regard to it.
TIIE COMPANY OOKB ISTO COURT.
About this time the directors of tho company
themselves decided to take the mutter into the
courts and get instructions as to what they
should do with the income of the surjdus, thus
incidentally deciding to whom the hotly of the
surplus belougcd. They employed Kx-Senn-
tor l*ope Barrow and Colonel 8. P.Tkurinond to
rejiresunt the eomjmny. In their bill they
divided the jwdicy holders into various clneat-r
that might be generalized under two hends,
namely: the jiresent policy holders and the
old policy holders. They designated two
men from each class to represent the clnss ns
del'ciidnnU to the bill and jirayed that each
class thus represented might be bound by tho
decree made as to the jinnies defendant. Her
vice was jKjrfected ujxm these various jiarlie
defendant nud the two representatives o
j>res??nt policy holders appeared in court and
admitted all the allegations of the bill, and
claimed thift the entire surjdus
fund ns well n-s the income de
rived therefrom belong to tho class represented
by them*
CAPTAIN HENRY JACKSON ENTERS THE CASK,
(treat difficulty was exjieriuiiced iu getting
judge who was qualified to try the case as ei
cry judge njqiroachcd had been interested in
the eomjmny either directly or indirectly,
Judge Hneed, of the Augusta circuit, was tho
only judge who was found to be qualified, lie
entuo to Athens to hold court that this itnjior-
tant tase might he tried. A final decree might
have been obtained without further litigation
delay settling the ownership of the fund in
tho jicrsous who hajijicncd to
jHdicy holders at the time the directors
decided to make a division cither of the inter
est or jiriucijml hud it not been for the entrance
of n now element into the litigation.
Cajitaiu Ifoury Jackson, of this city, received
a retainer of five hundred dollars cash from
certain. jmrtics who represented the
old stockholders in the coinpnny and who de
sired him to njijiear in their behalf, lie, in
npiM
conjunction with Mr. J. II. Lutupkiu, of this
city, and Messrs. Carlton and Lu * '
mpkin, of
AtFious, ujqicarcd before Judge Suend, r??q??re-
senting not only the j??ersons who
hud retained them, but lurgo numbers
of policy-holders
They ciuimed iu the ??
pauy had no right to uaiup the men who
should represent the various classes at iutorcst
but that under the constitution of this country
???nd the very ^spirit of our institutions that
any body of men hud the right to decide who
should be tbeir representatives. Tho court
sustained this jwidtiou und ordered that the
judicy holders represented by tho gentlemen
named should bo made parties to tno litiga
tion with right to atuwcr. Tho court tbci
adjourned without any definite settlement of
the matter.
THE IHMUK BECOMES A POPULAR ONE,
III the mcaiitUno hundreds of jxdjcy holders
nil over the state u ho bad held policies iu this
coinjmiiy, but hod allowed them to exjrirc, sent
their jinnies to Captain Jackson and his asso
ciates and jmt their interests in their hands,
The issue thus became a jiojmlnr one, for there
if people iu ull sections of thi'
mid other states who had been at some time iu
sured in this company, and who felt thnt they
might have an interest in tke enormous surjdus
that it hud accumulated.
Cajitain Jackson nud his associates then filed
cross bills not only for the benefit of the past
[wHcy-holders who had directly employed
hem, but of all others standing in like relation
to the comjiauy, claiming that the charter had
instituted u purely mutual eoinjmny, and that
its entire jirotiU belonged pro-rata to the jier-
who had contributed hi the way of jircin-
to the creatiou of the surjdus'. At the
next term of Clarke superior court, tho caw
ante on for trial before the Hon. N. L. Hutch
ins,when elaborate arguments were heard occu
>ying several days, Hon. N. J. Hummoudhav
ug in the meantime been cmjdoyed by the
eomjmny to, represent it, as against Captain
Jackson and his associates who had been cm
ployed by the policy-holders.
Upon Colonel Hammond???s entrance into the
case a demurrer to the cross bills was jirotnjdly
filed and ujxm these pleadings an argument
was had. After several days consumed in the
discussion it was discovered that the Georgia
Kailroad and Banking Com j/any held jmlieies in
the company and that Judge Hutchins was a
director of that road, and therefore dis
qualified to jtreside. This caused an immedi
ate siisjiension of the discussion, and the case
went over to the next term of the court. This
term was held by Judge Kstes, and again be
fore this judge ihe same questions were dis
cussed. lie sustained the demurrer to the cross
bills throwing the case out of court. Excep
tions were immediately filed by Cajdain Jack-
son aud bis associates, and the case carried to
the supreme court for review.
When reached in the supreme
court, Colonel Hammond came
from Washington for the jmrjiose of making
the argument in behalf of the company, ami
together with Ex-Senator Barrow jirescuted
: ts side of the case. Major William S. Basin-
;er, of Savannah, represented the present pol
icy holders. Captain Jackson and Mr. J. If.
Lumpkin submitted elaborate arguments in
behalf of all persons who had ever been^nh???r-
ested as policy holders in the company. Colo
nel Hammond consumed au entire morning in
arguing the case, and made an uble
sjieech. Mr. J. H. Lumjikiu
made the opening argument for the
policy holders and a surprisingly able argu
ment it was. Captain llenry Jackson con
a million dollars will be divided among the j>ol-
icy holders. Under tho laws of New York ami
various other states, it is settled that a safe re
serve for a fire insurance company is an
amount varying from forty to fif
ty per cent of its annual premium
receijits. Tho annual premiums of
the Southern Mutual company amount
to about $250,000. Taking the highest
rate of reserve this would call for only $125,-
000 ns a safe surplus fuud. The history of this
company itselt shows thnt never in its
history, unless the year just ended,
has the losses of any one year amounted fifty
j>er cent of its jiremlums, and ns its surplus
now is suid to amount to about $1,200,000 it
will bo'aoen that even allowing it $200,000 ns
a surjdus there would bo one million dollars
to divide.
HOW Tntrt MONEY WILL DK DIVIDED.
The first thing for tho court to do is to settle
tho amount due to each policy holder,
past or present. To do this nn
auditor will doubtless bo appointed by the
court. Ho will have access to the comj>nny*s
books nml will cxainino each claim as it np-
ponrs on tho books. As soon fis this is done n
definite time will bo fixed Upon by tho court
for tho jiersjns so appearing on tho books to
present their claims lor jmyment. As there
arc thousands of jioojdc, jierhrifis, to whom
there are amounts duo on the books of the
comjmuy who from having died or moved
away from tho state or taking no
interest in t}ie matter will not njqriy for the
amount** duo them, there will of course be a
large fund left after tho first division. The
court will then order a second division among
those who have ciuimed their rights under the
decision to cover the fund that is left until the
whole ninouut has been divided down to the
ordinary surplus, which the company under
the decision or tho court will be jtermiUcd to
carry.
CAX THERE BE AN AFPRAt.?
The inquiry was frequently made Tuesday
can tho eoinjmny appeal from this decision.
It is held by Beverul lawyers to whom wo qj>-
plied thnt there Is no chnneo for nu npjHnil to
tho United States su pro mo court ns there is no
question arising upon tho eoustition and laws
of tho United States, therefore, it is jirobnblo
that this decision is final.
; _ , ??? /jcoTcin Crop Nows.
Crops look well III Milton county.
Georgia will make a good peach crop.
Htarnls of cotton good in Carroll county.
Crop pros|H?ct???excclleiit In Baker county.
Monroe county has n promise of fine crops.
Wheat crop of Ftewiui county i< n good oue.
The cherry crop in * u. ??* ??? ***.??(/ in very large.
The honey crop of Newton county is a fine one.
Troup county will have an abundant fruit croji.
Crojw iu Hcrcvcn county uru on a regular boom.
The oat crop in Berrien county is almost a fall-
re.
Crop* arc looking remarkably well In Calhoun
county.
Cotton And corn prosjtcctof Washington county
very fine.
E???romlslng crop rcjwirt* conic from all scctloua of
Quitman.
Corn and cotton looking find doing well in Ma
con county,
Houston county will moke more oats than at first
anticipated.
The stand of cotton In Franklin county was
never better.
Froajwcts very flattering for a flue com crop In
Early county.
Newton county will make more wheat than she
did lust year.
Talbot county will make a better oat crop than
she counted ou.
A prospect for an Immense sweet jxitiito crop in
Houston county.
Half breed Jerseys are becoming plentiful In
Houston county.
Mr. H. Harris, of Bartow county, has thirty acres
of excellent oats.
But a small area planted In sugar cane in Hous
ton county this year.
Peach trees about White I'lnins, Grcelio county
re loaded with fruit.
Crops in Dooly, Worth and Irwin counties are ill
flourishing condition.
There will be nn excellent yield of grajMn in
Houston comity this season.
Dooly county has the finest jirosjicrt for a jieueh
crop that she lias had for yean.
Crop rcjxirts are very fluttering from Hull coun-
drain never looked better.
Barry???s Luxomni.
gem of female remedies, specially adapted
iblwi of pregnancy, used during tno last two
iiiuiiiiis of pregnancy It relieves all sense ot light-
n??*s and weight, so unnoyiug to the condition.
Luxomni relievcscmtnp*, false pain.*,and jw
mote* rest and comfort at night; It greatly ameli
orates the pangs of child birth, shortens labor, pre
vents after pain*, and facilitates recovery.
For disordered and painful nicnstnintlon,
it jins no equal, and is a superior remedy for lien-
ralglcs, convulsions, and other troubles connected
with the uterine and ovarium diseases.
Luxomni lq no liquid prcpiimtion, but n
combination of vegctnbtn plants from which a
simple tea is made, and is without doubt tho gem
of fcnmlo remedies. Price, fl.00 per package. If
your nrt.1^ H,c
Drawer 2S. Atlanta. (Ia.
E AGENTS WAXTKDto take order* f????r our ft
LEGANT PORTRAITS
muile from *m*ll plrtnrni of all kin,l>. MviullJ
for Iran,. H. c. -nrilimui A Co.. Annum. N.Y.
COLD UEDAL, FAUIf], 1273.
BAKER???S
Breakfast Cocoa.
Warranted nbaolutvli/ pure
Cocoa, from which tho uxcaos ot
Oil tins been removed. It lm* then
times the strength of Cocoa mixed
with Btarcli, Arrowroot or b???ugr.r,
and is therefore fhr moro economi
cal. It D delicious, nourishing,
strengthening, easily digested, and
admirably adapted for Invalids u
well as for persons la health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
$1,000
W ILL UK PAID TO ANY ONE WHO WILL
llml a piirtfclc of Mercury, PoUub, lodlut A,-
Knlc, or any poliumotu.uUtuuoo in
MFTSi
specific after I had most signally failed with the
Mercury und Potash treatment."
F. A. TOOMEli, M. D., Perry, Gsl
"Swift???s Specific has cured mo of Scrofula of II
years standing. Had sores ns large ns my hand.
ight I w??? -* ??????-
___ ?????? ,.. v ,,,'tor tiltvi
mcdlduc laid failed."
R. L. HIGH, Lonoke, Ark.
???Give like n Christian, speak In deeds;
A noble life???s the best of creeds;
And he shall wear a royal crown
Who gives a lift when men are down."
A AAA would not purchase from mo who*
qJlUyUUU Swift's Specific has done tor me. 16
cured mo of Uheuniatlsm mused by maiaria."
AHClllJi THOMAS, Sprtugllcld, Tata.
CO,, Dortetcr, Mass.
CANCER
AND
TUMORS
Trsated adantlfleally
and cured without thn
knife. Book on treat
ment sent Free.
lira. Umllonv ??e .Vo rrts,
801 West t onrfli ftt,
Cincinnati, O.
IN OUR NEW STORE.
We are at iaat In our New Htore, ss Whitehall,
and with mort and brtter room and tetter Debt, we
are batter prepared than nn before to renr. onr
,u-t<mit???r*. We are red Tin* New flood* bought
' * F day. under iHreanutanrea the
buying thorn low and are pre
pared to Mil Clothlua at prlcea lower than bar.
ever boon named for ti.. n,J?? for,, Clothing for Mu,
bora- and children at Baton l*h!n,ly low prfrea.
Our nock of Furnbnlux 0<*??l* ia in alnptnt
hape, hariuz redred lanre addition., during the
|,re-,tit week, of Noveltiee In that line. Price* are
''lye hart a .plendld .took of Puri Hat*, Soft and
SUIT, aUo Owlmere, MJk and Straw, In all the
late fashionable abapea, at pricea that cannot be
???"uur???Sercbent Tailoring Department I* oneof
_ie mort complete in the South, and with one of
the Snat Cuttere in the country, we are prepared
fS**y*/?? Natpor. resulting from abuses anil
Sffif /SJEaes
FimphEtfre., Wrei? ?????? ,ur
EOI.TAKJ flKLT CW??? jHarehnlt. Silt*.
U POfSk'Jl't V t, I- caa*. a- a., ..
ill
3DZ7- 2i??A.X03:32<8J??
Golden Specific.
It enu bn given in n cup of coffe*? or tea
without Hi n kno v ledge of the (M-rsuu taking
It, effecting n speedy nud pern-nurnt cure,
whether (lie jwf lent is a'moderule drinker
or an nleoholle wreck. Thousands of
drunkard* have been made temperate men
who have taken the Holden Hpeclttc In their
coffee without their knowledge, nud to-day
believe the/ quit drlnkinryor their own free
will. No ht.r (ill effect from Its
administration. It ptirlflr*; ir..d enriches
the blood, allay* nc *??ou*m*???*s, and * licit cs to
healthful action all the organs of digestion,
r ??? ??? IMMM* *V IM
Goldca HpettU Cw, I HA limes Ktrcrt, CTiwfaaatf, O.
FOIL SAZiIS X3Y
MAGNUS & IIIGHTOWER
Druggists,
'J???l. ANTA. OKORQ1A.
ROSE
Polytechnic Institute.
TKRIIK HAUTE, INI).
Statement of T. L. Mussrnburg,.
Macon, (in.
I have known much of ftio use of Swift's fl
ami have seen many of tho wont cases of
Taint mat Wood Poison cured with It, after having
tried all other sorts of treatment; In fact, I have
never known It to fall when taken properly. I????
cite tho case of a young man win* lmd Wu trmteft
by tho host physician* for Blood Poison, but allto
uojnirposc; aud os tho time for his marriage wna
approaching, ho wits nearly distracted. He finallj
t<K??k Swift's Specific, and was cured ns sound ns a
like raising one from 2ho dead. I could go on andT
toll you of a hundred cases.
Our treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free to applicants.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer it, Atlanta, Ga.
N. Y. ofilce, ISO W. 23d St, bet. Ctli and 7th Aveo.
Philadelphia nfllcr, PJDft (Chestnut Bt
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CAUTION TO CONSUMER*
nm-iiiiuiiiK ??? *,11 ??? nn in iirrvivu vih- iiiinary, w
would roquest the punlir.M-r to see that the rod lith
ographed tin cans in which it (s pocked always tmar
Our Name nml Trade-Mark*
i Inferior article tut the genuine costs.
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this inatrtmMfiii, ri??r*m
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nd vrHi-cd lo c an, nil Urn
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CANCERS CURED.
NO CURE, NO PAY.
rtuJM for the policy holder., makin* , B I lortre tha moat mnpte aatUtoctlon inOoodiaud | _???
arjfumeni that wa. brilliant, elo.fu.ut an,fcoo- j ASD hKZ lf . |
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Address 4,
O.MK\VRV,)l.D.
GBIFFUV. GA*
A. 0. M. GAY,
court. Although be went into the court with ! onrl RrtTr*'
the decision ofthe i-fiurt belowsquarelv against 1^1611 S aDQ ???Oy i
biro, and although his case had been de- 35 WHITEHALL
??? .IMtSOftfU...
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wUh**vTfc
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Gate City National Bank Building, comer Ala
fauna aud Pryor streets, Atlanta, Ca.
SUMMER SCHOOL OF SHORT COLLEGE
Conducted by Professors MOOHK asd
BOWMAN of the College Faculty.
f THE FHWT WEDNESDAY IN JULY Pl??-
\J fa*or* Moore and Itowninn will open the n>??
lur res*ion of the Summer Hchool ol Emory Ckd-
!??? gc: the school closes the last school day In
This school furnishes the best opportunities Is
young men who need to ???bring up??? certain rtudies
preparatory to entering coIIibc next fall. In pre
vious sewious some have saved a year by concrw
{rating for throe months on the branches iu whiefc
they were lacking.
Those who wish to improve only their Kn/JaJi
and business edurntlou will huveevery Hiivantsav
Professor Hough???s hVhool of Bookkc pfiir wtH
op. ii the entire session.
**)Tcwrhcr????? whether men or wnracn-srbo w
field!t iu some branches w ill find in this Sus??-
n??-r Ik???hooi what they need. Instruction iu Krruris
ill be given in m
???He:
il CliLM
rm; orflT'-O
u.
tom il uv to f i
nth;
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