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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . ATLANTA. GA. TUESDAY OCTOBER 28 1884. TWELVE PAGES.
OUR ANTI-LIQUOR FIGHT,
[W?? solicit short letters gl vIor the evil effects of
Ilijtior in communities, as witnessed by the
writers, vie don???t* are for arguments. We want
facts and figures. 8eud them in, mothers, fathers,
SfifiKSfiig^owiugevIM ???* ^
ff???rcm the Philadelphia Times.
In parlor 25 of the Continental hotel there
???were gathered together at???10 o'clock yesterday
???evening four men. One of them, tall, gaunt,
military looking, with gray hair and drooping
moustache, was Governor St. John, of Kansas,
ihe prohibition candidate for the position Mr.
Jamca Gillespie Blaine will be elected to fill
??ext November. Next to him sat a short,
???tout man of 50 year* of age, with a little boy
on his knee. This was the prohibition vice-
presidential candidate, the lion. William
Daniel, of Maryland. The other two gentle-
men wore Gearge R. Scott, editor of tho Week
ly Witness, the great hebdomandal temperance
tract of New York, and the genial Samuel P.
<3odwin. of this city, who likewise lookethnot
upon the wine when it is red or any other
color.
On the paarble center table' of No. 25 was an
emblem of sovereignty in tho shape of a
pitcher of ice water.
??? At this moment a liveried menial, with his
???kin in deep mourning, knocked, and enter
ing, handed to the governor tho card of a
representative of the Press.
???Show him up," said tho ???governor. Mr.
Daniel.leaned over and muttered something,
???mid which were audible the words, ???bo
mighty careful what you say."
???Governor," said the nowspaper man, after
ihe forms of presentation had been gotten
through with, ???How do you feel about the
???ituatfon?"
???I have reason to be very well satisfied with
it."
???How do you think your vote will run in tho
ttcighborina state of New Jersey?"
???Judge Morrow, of Belvidere," nut in Mr.
Daniel, ???told me a sharp, shrewd politician
put the prohibition vote of New Jersey at 40,
??00.
???We are going to poll a surprisingly large
vote," continued the governor, ???and if-tho
???chances keep on improving as they have dur
ing the last thirty dayr, the politicians of this
country may have a surprise in store for
them."
???Yes, indeed," remarked Mr. Scoot, excit
edly, ???and if thero were four mouths between
now and the election to work for St. John and
Daniel they would be certain to carry tho
country."
???In which states do you think you will
get. the largest voto, governor?" asked tho
???cribo.
???It wouldn't do for me to soy," was the an-
???wcr. ???The party in cacn state think that-
thclrn will be the heaviest vote of them ail
??uch is the case I know in Michigan. Wisoon-
???in, Illinois and New York. I don't earo to
specify; thero might bo somo little feeling
???bout it. I have addressed meetings in Wis
consin, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Now York
???nd Pennsylvania, and will speak in Balti
more to-morrow night. I do nut liko to say
Anything that looks liko boasting, but there is
??? principle involved."
???At somo of these meetings," remarked
Mr. Scott, ???25,000 peoplo wero present, and
we bad audiences of 10,000 in somo of tho
country towns. I took a trip with tho gov
ernor to see how his causo was getting on.
Tho average correspondent did not do justico
to tho sizo of tho meetings. In somo places tho
S vOrnor'a audiences wero larger than thoso
at attended tho meetings ot any other politi-
calji'omlidate."
???What sort of progress has tho prohibition
cause made during tho last ten yoars, govern-
or?" was tho noxt question.
???Iji Kansas and Iowa prohibition has, with
in a few years, been adopted by a voto of tho
people, and is growing more popular with Clio
masses there every day."
???And it is growing rapidly in the south,"
observed Mr. Daniel. ???In Maryland four
teen counties out of twenty-threo are for
prohibition, and with tho two wo expect to
???dd to the fourteen in Novomber, two-thirds
of tho state will be with us. In Georgia wo
havo ninety ccuntios out of 137; in South
Carolina pretty much all the state outside of
tho larger towns and cities, in Alabama ten
to fifteen parishes, in Louisiana a number of
parishes, several counties in Texas, thirty in
Missouri, twenty-seven in Kentucky and
S irtions of every other county in tho state.
slf of Tennessee don't allow a grog shop
within four miles of a schoolhouso under what
Is called the four-mile law."
???All you have to do to mnko a liquor saloon
move," said Mr. 8cott, knowingly, ???is to put
up any kind of a shanty for a schoolhouso a
mile or so from him aud he???s got to go."
???Wo have made great headway iu Florida,
too," continued Mr. Daniel. ???.Every state in
the south except ono or two will havo our
electoral tickets ready for distribution when
tho tiiiio comes. We havo thorn in Texas,-
Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky and
West Virginia. Conventions have been culled
Sn North Carolina and Delaware. That in
the former state meets on the 21st. I speak at
Newark, in Delaware, next Wednesday
Sight.
???You are surprised at our strength in tho
??? southern states, uud would bo still moro if I
told you that the great bulk of our strongth
in those states comes from tho democratic
Let .me tell you a little story," put in
Governor St. John. ???I learn from an old sol
dier who served under me during the war and
who is now district attorney iu Rockwell
county, Texas, that there has not been a saloon
there for nice years, not a murder thero in
???even and not a prisoner iu the county jail in
lour years. These facts tell their own story."
???In Maine after thirty-two years of statu
tory prohibition the jieoplo were so well satis
fied with the result that tho law was made
constitutional on the 8th of last month by
pearly 60,000 majority, showing its strengtn
to bo as least 30,QUO greater than tho republi
can party. Vermont has had statutory pro
hibition for thirty years, and to-day thero is
as much territory under prohibitory laws in
the old slave states as in tho northern spates,
showing that it is not confined to any particu
lar section, and will eventually become the
policy of the whole country, because it is
right."
???What do you mean exactly by prohibition,
governor?"
???Prohibition is intended to suppress the
manufacture, importation and solo of all in
toxicating liquors as a beverage. This does
pot exclude its use in medicine or the n??ei
chan leal arts." ' ???
???How about Ohio????
???I hop?? everything will turn out all right
there. All l ean spy now is we shall seee."
???And New York?"
???iVie are well satisfied with the result
there."
???Hew do the Germans stand?"
???We have a great many friends among
them.???
???Fire thousand Germans voted with us in
lows," remark**! Mr. Daniel.
???While the Irish," continued tho governor,
???have a total abstinence society numbering
ICO,CC0 members, many of whom will vote
the prohibition ticket."
The newspaper man rose to take hia leave,
???Are you a drinking man yourself?" asked
the governor.
???In moderation???yes."
???Well, never mind. Plenty of men who
Pie spirits will supports because they don't
Wish their sons to use it.'
CosfRfiTrrjoXAUTV or Paonrairiox.???Ak a
time when ko much is being said about amend ???
ing constitutions as a means of reaching pro
hibition of the liquor traffic, it may be well
to note tome things which the able jurists
have said about the possibilities of such legis
lation under our constitutions as they are.
Mr. Joel P. Bishop, in bis able %work entitled
???Commentaries on the Law of Statutory
Crimes," in discussing the constitutionality of
prohibitory legislation, observes, ???thequestion
of the constitutionality of the statutes to be
discussed in this chapter has??? been moro fro
queutly agitated than any other constitu
tional question presented to our tribunals. It
arises under the constitutions of the several
state*'and of the United States. On jgenerel
principles, and qside from the particular terms
of a provision which it may be claimed .this
legislation violates, or the particular nature of
the provision itself, the question is a plain
one, and the doctrine on which this sort of
legislation proceeds has already been stated in
the present volume. It is that every man is
bound'so to employ both his physical volitions
and his property at not to injur?? others. And
in tho nature of things it is one of tho founda
tions of legislation, without which legislative
authority cannot exist, to determine what acts,
whether of the person or the property, do in'
jure or tend to the injury of others, aud to for
Did them under penal sanctions, such as ini
prisonment, fine, or forfeiture. And whether
the legislation is wise, or intrinsically just, or
not, it is within the powers inherent in legisla
tive authority, therefore it can not be resist
ed.???
Judge Trumbull ssys that, ???the power of
the several states to regulate or even prohibit
the retail of spirituous liquors within their
limits, is expressly sanctioned by the supreme
court of the United States." Thou, after citing
his authority for the statement, aud furnishing
several pertinent illustrations of the general
legal principle, ho shrewdly observes that, ???a
government that did not possess tho power to
protect ittelf against such and similar evils,
would scarcely be worth preserving.???
In the Missouri circuit court, Judge Napton
observed: ???Tho state legislatures have, the
power, unless there be something in their own
constitutions to prohibit it, of entirely abolish
ing, or placing under restriction, auy trade or
profession which they may think expedient."
The Hon. Justico Grier affirmed: ???It is not
necessary to array the appalling statistics of
misery, pauperism and crime which have their
origin in the use and abuso of ardent spirits.
The police power, which is exclusive in the
state, is competent to the correction of these
great evils, and all measures of restraint or
prohibition necessary to effect that purpose are
within the scope of that authority, and if n loss
of revenuo should accrue to the United States
from a diminished consumption of ardent
spirits, kho will be a gainer a thousand fold in
the health, wealth and happiness of the
people."
Mr. Bishop further remarks very truly that,
???the question of tho constitutionality'of tho
enactments has been put lor ward, in this coun
try, os an obstruction in their way; tho
question of their expediency has also boon
waged against them, aud the question of thoir
intrinsic rightfulnees has entered largoly iuto
the controversy. There is no law which is
resolutely resisted by tho utmost ingenuity of
the human mind, and by the ablost talent as
tho statutes against tho traffic in intoxicating
Vet, for all this, thoso who will bo to tho
troublo nf examining tho very exhuustivo pre
sentation of this subject, in tha work abovo
referred to, will probably bo surprised at tho
unanimity of judicial utterance,, covering tho
entiro ground of prohibitory liquor legislation.
The most advanced advocates of prohibition
find nothing to bo desired in this respect, and
havo little ts fear in tho future treatment of
tho question from tho judiciary of tho coun
try. Even with the constitution as it now is,
there is probably not a sttto in the union
whero tho legislature might not enact a com
pletely-prohibitory statute with perfect pro
priety.
Much of this talk about constitutional
amendments is instigated by nothing deeper
than a vain endeavor to evade the nocoisity of
encountering the question as a party issuo.
Temperance people have only to cducuto thorn-
eclvcs to n fuller and clearer comprehension of
the great public question which they havo
undertaken to manago, and by united action
put tho matter in direct Issue, whether tho
traffic in alcoholic drinks shall bo protected or
ppressed by tho authority of civil law.
When in their discussions of tho subject
they are all nblo to rise superior to raorosonti
??? * sody, and to discuss with be
ss tho solid principles of social
and political philosophy underlying tho ro'
form in its entirety; when thoy are able to
understand that law and politics rightly
understood are as pure as prayer and plodgo-
signing, and quito as necessary to ultimate
success; and that great principles involvo tho
??1 agencies ana organizations adapted to
give them effectiveness; when thoy unito an
citizens, and not merely as sentimentalists, to
demand tho excrciso of tho royal virtues of
truth, right and justico in the condemnation ot
public vice and iu tho punislimout of wrong
ucers, then, and not until Gun, may wo
reasonably hopo for signs of solid and lasting
progress to attend our labor iu this most in
viting field of reform.
Hon. Alvan D. Freeman gives tho following ro-
tukelto the republican agents who would seek to
divide tlio democratic vote in Georgia, and at tho
same time ruin the temperance causo;
Nkwkan, On., October 20,???Editors Constitu
tion: rieaso permit me to announce In Tins Con
stitution to those whom It may concern, that
while yielding to no one aa being moro devoted to
the cause of temptrauco thnu myself, I reapost-
fully decline to allow the use of my name as elec
tor for the fourth congressional district of Georgia
on the prohibition ticket. I havo been honored
by the democratic party with position of alternate
elector for this district, and I have been doing
what I could to secure tbo election of Cleveland
and Hendricks and I shall continue to do so.
In my opinion no good can-be accomplished by
putting a prohibition ticket In the field. But on
tho contrary, the tcmpcratico move
ment, 1 fear, will be Injured there
by, for her opponents will measure
her strength by tho small number of votes cast for
the ticket at tho comlog election, aud take cour
age therefrom. Yours truly,
ALVAX D. FfJKJUN.
Athens, Ga., October 30.???{Special.]???-In ad in
terview with Mr. Hush, the prohibition elector
from thefclghtb district, we asked if his name had
been placed on the ticket with bis authority. He
said he was a Cleveland man all over, and inten
ded to cast bis vote for him. He knew nothing of
bis appointment until he saw it In the papers, and
will positively ref us?? to allow his uarao to b?? used
In any such infamous scheme, to draw support
from the democratic ticket. The Good Templars
of Alhcus do not propose to mix their cause with
politics. Captain V. C. Oliver, one of the tem
perance leaders in Georgia, says that the order in
Athena has no sympathy with the new move-
meat.
Mr. Daniel, who is running in cahoot with Gov
ernor St. Johns on the national prohibition ticket,
spent Sunday In Atlanta. He was accompinicd
by Mrs. Daniel, and arrived In the city Sunday
morning and left Sunday night
Mr. Daniel Is making an electioneering tour, of
the south, and poised through Atlanta en route to
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky.
In each of these states he has appointment* and
will advocate Fending tempcr<|n<c men to the
white house. During Mr. Daniel???s stay In the
cily he ass Fought by a Constitution reporter to
Whom he stated his belief that a temperance ticket
would carry the conntrjr In 1884, Mr. Daniel is a
small man aud greatly resembles J. G. Thrower.
Atlanta???* great temperance worker. He Is about
5 icct 4 iiichts iu height aud will weigh 13) oouadi.
His face is idcu??aiil and his manners are gonial.
He calks m an coy. moderate tone, and con
vinces hi* hearer that he believes thero H
nothing like cold water, and that a tidal wave of
that drink will yet lloul him or somebody else Into
the thief executive???s chair. Hi* wife it much
taller than he hand is a remarkably duo looking
??? dy. She talks fluently.
??????Yes.??? said Mr. Dsntei, In response to a question,
we expect to poll a big vote this lime and will
???on sec the temperance ticket elected, fit. John
thinks the party will win iu 1M2, eight yean from
now, but 1 believe it will win in ???88.
'what vote will you get this fall?"
Something over a million. You see thlstsa
grand cause, and every body will yet come to us.
The Urn pecan* c cau*e???'"
???You mcau God???s cause, Willie,??? broke In Mrs.
Daniel, as she bit tho end of a Georgia pear, ???will
yet com?? out?????????
???There, now, 1 had a notion to leava you at
home,??? ??nld Mr. Daniel,turning from the reporter
to Mrs. Daniel, ???and I wish I had. You will not
only ruin God's canse, but you will ruin the tem
perance come or any other cause you take bold of.
But. as I whs saying, we will get the biggest??????
???Here, ttliife, let me say what I want,??? put In
the lady again, as she made another diva at that
pear. ???We will yet see the temperance ticket
elected, and I want you to pray to God for the suc
cess of that ticket and the salvation of your chil
dren and my children-"
???Yta, b???ib, I will," said tba reporter.
???Well, now she's done,??? said Mr. Daniel; The
temperance party will succeed like tho aboiitic
party, only its suecets will bo more rapid. Ol_
paity stands to-duy where the abolition party
stood In ???52, and we will poll a heavier voto now
than they did then.???
???Where will you get your heaviest voto????
???In New York. There we will get a hundred
thousand. In Illinois we will get 60,000;
in Wisconsin wo will get 50,000;
in Missouri wo will get a
big vote: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. West
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa, Kansas,
Texas and Mlchigau will corno nobly to tho
cause."
???Will you cam- a single state????
???Maybe New Jersey. Maryland will corao up
handsomely.???
???From which party will you draw your votes?'
???Both parties. In Missouri, from the democrats;
Illiuois, from tho republicans. In Wisconsin wo
will lose the state to tbo democrat* by drawing so
heavily from their rauks. Wo will draw from ev
ery quarter.???
r ???Tes, it Is God's cause,??? again put in Mrs. Dan
iel, ???and we will get the best men in both parties,
and leave thesenm of both parties out.???
Montgomery, Ala., October 20.???[Special.]???'Wil
liam Panic!, the prohibition candidate for vice-
president, arrived to-day with his wifo and pro
ceeded to Union Springs. He spoke thero to-day
to a good audience, aud returned here to-night,
stoppiug at the Windsor hotel. He will not apoak
here, but goes to Birmingham to-morrow to ad
dress the peoplo there.
Birmingham, Ala, October 20 ???[Special.]???Mr.
Wm. Daniel, candidate for vice-president on the
prohibition ticket, speaks her?? to-motfbw. He has
strong opposition hero.
THE MULLIGAN LETTERS.
Further Froof ot Maine's Career in Con-
gross.
The following series of Mulligan letters, another
batch, to published from tho Chicago News, to
which it*was sent by Its Boston correspondent.
It Is only further proof of the unbridled Infamy
which characterized Mr. Blaine???s career in con-
gress
???If an;
terror wL_
tinted tho
letters of bL
James Mulligan, It is afforded in thoso obtained by
the Dally News correspondent to-day. That
letters remained in Mulligan's p ?????? *- 1
Mr. Blaine is directly traceable t<
he seized the batch which MullL
ington in Ma^???, 1876. When Mr. I
respondent to-day, ???that Mr. Blaine should havo
taken those letters in the way ho did. Mr. Mulli
gan has never forgotten him, and ho nevor will.
After Mr. Blaino refused to return thoso letters
Mulligan had lent him to look at,
nothing within Mr. Bluino's power to
give or promiec could have bribed or lu-
l I, J ULUl, Him tlU llll'l II lUUrf t'MUtl-
at the Fifth Avenue hotel. Ho then asked
me what 1 thought Mulligan would take aud give
Up the letters ho still held. 1 told him tlmt I did
not believe thero whs enough money iu tho coun
try to buy them, llo told mo that he was willing
to pay any price, but that
he must have them.
I asked how much ho would pay. Ho said, ???Any
thing, but get them.??? Isold, ???Well, there must
be fome limit,??? and this was what prompted him
to name fiO.UU as tho sura that would be forth
coming In the hands of Mr. Gumming. Elisha At*
laid Mr. Blaine???s offer before Mr. Mulligan, lint
immovable. IIo spurned tho proposition,
jtned to lie more settled than over In his de
termination to hold on to tho letters.???
On June 5,1876. Mr. Blaino made his dramatic
explanation to 4-1,000.1)00 of his countrymou, and
read iho letters bo had practically stolen from
Mulligan. At tho request of Mr. Blaino tho com
mittee investigating his case adjourned from fiat-
urday, June 10, to tho following Mondny, in conse
quence of the absence of his colleagues, Messrs.
fJaie and Frye. -
Mr. Hayes was nominated by tho national ro-
publican convention Juno 16th, and ou Monday
following, Juue iwth. Mr. Blaino mado a ratifica
tion speech in Washington. As tho date for tho
w.. >f tho cominitteoof investigation np-
Blaino???s health failed rapidly, and
J *??? 27th, ho left Washing-
homo in Augusta. On
??? and Mulligan arrived
In Washington to continue thoir testimony.
Mr. Blaine on the very night ot his arrival at his
home In Augusta wrote the following urgent let
ter to Mr. Fisher, published hero for tho first time,
tho emphasized words being $Ir. Blaine's:
Wednesday, (28ni) Ev*'o.~Jfy Dear Hr. Flabor:
I want to sco you just as much as before you went
to Washington. You can leavo Boston at 12:30and
re turn same night if you desire, though I would
prefer to havo yon stay over. Com* directly to
my house. It is, I think, os Important for you to
see me ns for me to see you. Come this week.
Don???t fail. Come to-morrow lfposdbb.
Yours, J. G. Blaine.
This was on Thursday, and tho following letter
was written two days lator:
[Private.]
Augusta. Saturday Evening 1st July. '76.???My
Dear Air. Fisher???I write from my sick bod. I
want very much to sec you. I am very sorry you
dJd not come to Wnsh???ton when 1 requested. Can't
ou come to Augusta by train Monday? Express
that leaves at twelve or twelvothirty
noon, and gets here about eight p. in. You can
return same night, do com* quickly. Bay noth-
lug touuy one. Butdocumo. Your* sincerely,
J. G. Blaine.
(8eo over.)
Important to you as well as mtsklp that you
come???V KEY.
(On other sldo of sheet.) Don???t let any human
bieng except your wlfo know you are coming
down. But do not fall to come???whatever you do
do not fail. You will regret ft it you don???t come.
Could anything be more ubjcct In its pleading
than this? But It was not the losC of this remark
able series of letter*. On tho following day ho
wrote again as follows:
Sunday Evening, (July 2) 1876.???My Dear Air.
Fisher: if you have not started when this reaches
???in, I pray you leave for Augusta at once. I am
7 sick, but 1 know whatll am talking about,
it is largely ro* your sake tiiat^ desire to
e you, and to sco you at once. Doirt delay. It
may be too late. Don't refuse a sick man.
J. G. B.
Yon ran go back on return train. Ono hour will
do here. Come directly to my house* Don???t go to
hotel.
Can anyone read these letters, urging, beseech
ing, and furtively threatening Afr. Fisher, and not
sec into the very heart of Mr. Blaine's disease?
???**??? * * ??????* by bfe sick-
_ then that ho
could not walk out from his sick room a well
man until the terror ot Mulllgau???s and Fisher's
knowledge against him wo* removed.'He knew
Flslicr was a man with a tender heart, and ho also
knew bow to Hatter Mrs. Pbdier, who had the
stronger will of the two. Only one familiar with
Air. Fisher???s character and surroundings can fully
appreciate the force of Afr. Blaine???s letters, aud
how they appealed to hb kindly nature. But
Afulligau and not Kbhcr held the letters.
On July 10 Dr. Hill certified t j Messrs. Hate and
On Jnly 10 Dr. mu certified t j Hours. Hale an??l
Frye: ???Anything that tends to excite Mr. Blaine???s
mind or to dccplv Interest U certain to seriouily
delay and may even prevent hb recovery. What
he needs and mu??t have b absolute rest from all
nsi luu uriiga iu win uiiirurne. wn juij ii,
rcprcsentatknsof Messrs. Hale and Frye, tho ju
diciary committee after a stormy scssiou pod
poned the further investlgaUnu of the Uuion Pa
cific rsilrcad???s Little Hock bonds until tho next
session* . . .. ???
Lost August a gentleman In Boston wrote to a
I c! Kin a I friend iu Kentucky to obtain from J.
???roetorKnott, the chairman ot the bouse Judi
ciary committee of 1676, none (infinite information
as to why the investigation was never resumed.
The inquiry provoked tbo following characteristic
letter from Air. Knott, now governor of Kentucky,
the names being left blank in compliance with
the request of the writers: .
Fbankiort, September 13* DSL???Dear Sir: In
reply to yours of the :td Instant. enclosing letter
*-om , of August 89,1 Tutvc to ruiv that
*eversaw Mulligan's memorandum book, and
have nc idea what has become of il. nor do I know
why the testimony iu Blaine's Little Bock and
Fort fimfth investigation taken subsequent to Juno
never printed. You will remember that
pored soon after Air. Blaine was snnstruek In
Washington and Cincinnati until the next session
at the request of bb friends Frye and Hale, upon
the alleged grounds that he dexired to embark ia
a short time for Europe, and that in their judg
ment a further prosecution of Inquiry by the
committee would permanently unhinge hb In
tellect, if ft did not destroy bb Hie. I thought
there wax about ss much probability
ot hb coming to an untimely end from that
* ??u-e as thero was that he would die of situ-
stroke. I confidently expected that the matter
would be resumed nest aer-siou at leait. Why it
wssnotldo not know. I supito-ed that ali thT
tapers bad been returned to the file room. If they
cannot be found there, il b possible that they mty
be in the pots* scion of the vandal who chuwelud
the figure off of bb child's tombstone, I felt no
personal Internt in the matter, and paid uo fur*
tbenattention to it after 1 exposed hb villainy
with regard to tba Caldwell telegram. I am very
| truly your friend, J. Paocro* Kxorr.
THE WAY OUT.
A Talk With Mr. Horn, One of the Oontraotora tor
tbo Mrtetlon of the New Capitol Touching the
Used Ocorgla Marble In the Bulldiug-
Aaothsr Appropriation Neats*ary,
A'great deal has been said lately concerning
a change in the plans of the new capitol, so as
to have it built of Georgia marble or granite.
Tm Constitution has been earnest iu sea
son and out of season in urging that this be
done. It has urged the owners of Georgia
material to put their bids to such a figure as
would enable the contractors to bid for the
building within the limits. This, after three
separate biddings, they failed to do. It Is
just to them to say they failed because they
were unable to furnish the material at as low
figures as oolitic limestone could be furnished
at by ontaidersl
The contract has been made within the
limit of the law. The commissioners had no
discretion in the matter. There was only one
bid that they could positively accept under
their oatjis and under their duty. This bid
they have accepted. The contract has been
formally closed and the contractors have
already started work. Tho honor of tho state
is pledged, and sho ia legally bound to carry
out the contract
This much is irrevokable. The capitol will
be built, and the work on the various parts
of the capitol lias already begun. This
contract may be modified by order of the
commissioners and by consent of the con
tractors. It appears from an interview with
Mr. Horn, one of the'contractors, printed
below, that he is perfectly willing for the
commissioners to say that the building shall
be mode of Georgia granite or marble, pro
vided:
First???That the owi*rs of Georgia marble
or granite will furnish him the material and
put it in tho building on the same terms aud
for the same price, and under the same spec
ifications as are given him by tho owners of
the oolitic limestone.
Second???If tho legislature will appropriate
nn additional snm suilicient to covor the dif
ference between the actual cost of the mar
ble or granite, to the contractors and tho
actual prices at which tho limestone is of
fered.
This amount Mr. Horn estimates to bo any
where from $100,000 to $200,000.
It is clear fo any observant and just man
that tbia is the only way in which the modi
fication can bo brought about. After two
separate biddings Messrs. Miles *t Horn were
awarded tho contract in strict compliance
with the law. Their contract waa based on
limestone at a certain price, which enabled
them to bid within tho appropriation. ??? Thoy
now say they are perfectly willing ](to
have the commissioners to change the mate
rial of the building, provided it la not done
to I heir injury and that the niargiu of costs
between the material on which their bid wm
based and the material to which the commis
sioners change shall be met by an additional
opproprition.
A Desperate Niblllst Arrested.]
BT.rrrtRMJURO, October 23.???LnPntlu, a nihilist
leader! wa* captured to-da/ wliilo walkln* on the
ncwaklrcrapcct. IIo fought desperately, butthopo-
11 cc flnaily overpowered n 1 m. Ifo erf e*f to tbo cro wd
Hint had bet n attracted by the atruiralo, to tell hli
rlcmls that ho siu a prisoner. lie luu boon
wanted by the police for four year* on the charge
of linvlnx Iktu implicated in tho murder of Goa-
TIlltEi: DAYS AND NIGHTS.
A Citizen la Attacked With Vertigo While
In the Wooda???Found Insensible*
From the Dawcon. On., Journal.
Tueiday morning of last week, Mr. Bon La-
ncy, who resides about ten mile* from town,
went to Kinchafooneo creek, near hi* hou*o,
to feed hi* bog*, lie did not return up to 12
o'clock, but bis family raid littlo attention to
it. thinking that bo baa business that delayed
him. When night came, bowover, and ho
???till did not return, they bccaino alarmed,
and suspected that ho had bean murdered, or
aomo terrible accident had hnnpoitcd to him
ho bad nevor bcioro stared
away without notiiying his family.
The, next morning tbo whole com
munity was notified of the fact and much ex
citement provailcd. Search wan immediately
instituted and not until after tho third day
aud night did any signs of him bo scon, when
they lound hia hat and corn sack, aud tho
g round around looked a* though there bad
ccn considerable scuffling. This only in
creased the belief that Mr. Lanev had boon
foully dealt with, and tho Marchers became
moro diligent, and several hours afterwards
they found him several miloa from homo in
tho wooda, in on insensible condition. Ho waa
token homo where ho immediately received
medical attention, and will, in a few days, bo
out again. It aoems that whilo on tho crook
ho was seized with vertigo ond wandered
further from home. Ho was gono three days
and nights.
THE CHOLERA RECORD.
IU Rapid Spread Due to llio Drinking of Im
pure Water.
Washington, October 21.???Tho United States
consul at Genoa, in a dispatch to the depart
ment of state, under date of September :10th,
reports that the total number or duaths in that
province from cholera, from iU first outbreak
to September 24th, waa 017, and tho propor
tion of deaths to cases waa 75 por cent. Ex
perts, who have investigated the matter, report
that the spread ot the epidemic in all parts ot
tho city was caused by tbo uso of impure
water, Tbo United States consul at Amoy,
China, reports that tho cholera existed to a
considerable extent in that city up to August
15th, but has since abated very much.
Cincinnati, O., April 14, 1884.???8. B. Skits
k Bao., Covington, Ky.???Esteemed Sirs: I
have been troubled with ??? serious kidney af
fection, and seeing your advertisement, eon*
eluded to try a bottle of your May Flower,
though without much hope of being benefited
by it. The first bottle worked splendidly, and
persevering with IU use, I am entirely relieved
of my painful illness. Any one can write to
me ana I will reiterate what is hers written*
Has. E. With**,
Walnut mils, Cincinnati, O*
The crop of Virginia chestnuts Is said to be very
Decline ot Man*
Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, Impotence,
fiexuai Debility, cured by ???well's Health Ue-
newer, $1.
Hough on Buts.
Clears out rate, mice, roaches, flies, ants
bed-bdgs, chipmunks, chipmunks gophers
Ac. Druggists.
Low water in the tOcklockonco county. Fla. is
briOKtng' the big aJIlgutoni to the sun-uro. One
killed in the river went of Tallahassee lut week
was m Mg ss a floor barrel and measured fifteen
feet three nehes in length.
Greenville, Ala., is to have artesian wells*
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??? Believes and cures
RHEUMATISM,
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QUINSY. SWELLINGS,
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And all giving perfect aati,faction.
AGENTS WANTED.
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will outlast any two woodon i
AGENTS WANTED
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Retail price, 17. Ssmplo to Agents, $3. Also, our
celebrated
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Address
iu, F. ADAMS Ac CO.,
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Belies of> Dsad Industry.
Compared with Bension???s Capeine Plaster*
all others are crude and unsatisfactory^ Pries
2$ cents.
Cholera Cure
1 ST AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ATLANTA
Constitution Dr. 8. T. Blggcra, principal 01
e Georgia Kclcctio Modical oollogo, states that
during ills experience with the cholera In Noth
vllle, he prescribed one tablespooiiful of the Tiuo.
turoof I ted Pepper to one bottle of RIQGKR9
SOUTHERN UKMKDY with almost unfailing suo
cess and The Constitution ail vires its readers to
ever keep on hand a botUe whIch^ by^ 1 ts timely
uso will save so much pain and
A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN OF ATLANTA
prescribes Dr. Bigger* Southern Remedy in aD
bowel ana stomach afflictions, and atatat that for
rcatorln* the little child that 1* wanting away bi
the dally drainage upon its system it lsuueqiialod
ss it is also (or Dlarener
ss it is also for Dlarrhroa, Dysentery. Crampl Colto.
TG TAKETt' 1 *??? ^ *** CJLLLH IS PLCAUhli
BARILI,
of the Atlanta Female Institute, states that un
dcr no circumstances would be suffbr his family to
be without a bottle of l>r. Bigger* Southern Rem
edy, the timely uso of somo bavin* r cl loved al
most etciy member of his family ol somo bowol
orstomacn trouble.
THE OLD GRAND MOTHER
when called to the bedside of the littlo child am
feringwith that night fiend to children ami hor
ror to parents, CROUP, tbo old grand mother used
to send for mullein and make* tea and at onos
relieve It-made Into a to* uow aud combined
with sweet gum it presents iu Taylor's Cherokee
Remedy o! Sweet Gum aud Mullein a pleasant and
effective cure for Croup, Whooping-Cough. Cold*
and Consumption. Price 26cts. and 11.00. Ask
your druggist for It. Manufactured by Walter A
Taylor. Atlanta, Ga., proprietor Taylor?????? Promi
U Beiid??u U ceiit stamp tor Taylor's Littlo Rlddls
Book, not ouly for the amusement of tho litUo
ones, but containing Informal tor tbo *??? IfXre
of ??very home.
or TIIE BLADDER AND KII*
^???NKYH have always been poteut factors In tho
rearing of ueath???s Imrveit. Mo matter ot what
nature or how long standing the** complaint!
may bo, aura and speedy relierla offered in
Smith???s Extract of Mayflower..
niter. ??a-,o thnu who coh.fe to bo r.fhrTol. If JOB
a two ctcntnUmp with your address to
S. U.??M*TH*BHO.. CoWc;
The Catholic Mirror
Will rtiMl.li all nlHnlal m.ttnnt pcrulnln. to tho
TIIIIIII I???LKMAKY COUNCIL, which nonvonei
N0VRnl. rH, .t tb?? C??th.<tmt, In lultlmnrc.
Hi,, lllu.tr,it,cl HutipU-mcuM 1,-ui ???l ???Inrlu. ??ho
mmIdiu nt Uis Council will be found ol grout In-
tnrertto Ihnteitiint. nnd cntholle*. ??
on receipt nl wi.no It will he* :, nl from Ooinhar
,l??? Jiin.tv I, ??wci, .n<l fnr *3.011 tnmo&fr
BITTERS.
UwllwmU|MiilwUlug-i??
JBEKUL
c. iv. tfcrrxmm, ion Mm,
tl BtP+DWXT, r. X.
Saved His Life.
A PHYSICIAN???S TESTIMONY.
X wm oUled to ko Mr. John Punon, who
wu confined to hi, toil with what.ppevod
to bn coniumptUm of the wont form. A,
*11 of hi. f. silly had dlod of tint droid dhc
cue (except Ills half brother), his death
wm regarded is cortetn and soon. After
exhausting Ml tho remedies, I dually aa*
last resort, rent for * bottlo ot Brewer-*
Lung Restorer *nd It acted liko ma;Ic. If.
continued tho tue of It for some tlmo anil
has been fully res to rod to health. So far
Ml could discover, he had consumption,
and Brewer-. Lung Restorer laved hts life.
J. O. EOLLOWAV, M. D???
Bartlesville, Oa.
ANOTHER RESCUE FROM DEATH.
In 1881, while sewing on a machine, my
wlfo was taken with a severe pain In her
???Ido, which was soon followed by pernor-
rages from her lungs, severe cough and fe
ver, and could neither eat or sleep, and in
a few weeks was reduced to a mere skele
ton. Her stomach refused to retain any
food, and tho physician thought one other
lnngs was entirely gono. At a final consul
tation of two physicians her case wss pro
nounced hopeless. I tried Brower???s Lung
Restorer by advlco of ono of tho physi
cians, and sho began to improve after tho
third dose. 8he continued' the medicine,'
and is now lu cxoellent health, and is
better than she haa been in several years.
I believe Brower's Long Restorer saved her
life.
BENJAMIN F. HERNDON.
Yatesville, Ga.
Brower's Lnng Restorer Is a purely vego-
table preparation, contains no oplum???*mor-
phine bromide, or any poisonous aub-
itance. Bend for circular of long list of won
derful cures.
LAMAR, RANKIN A LAMAR.
Macon. Go.
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.
BAKER???S
firtfest On.
Warranted absolutely pure
Cocoa, from which tha excess of
Oil bss been removed. It bos thrte
timet tht tlrength of Cocoa mixed
with Starch, Arrowroot or Bugor*
and is therefore far moro economi
cs]. It is delicious, nouriahlngf
strengthening, eaully digested, and,
admirably adapted for invalids M
wall as for persons in health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
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SMITH???S
Extract of May Flower
FGft WOMEN. -j
i-lKCROUT RABUN COUNTV-A7TiLAL()6K,
IT administrator of Mlfam Ilal), decease*!, repre
sents to tho court lu his petition, that ho has fully
administered MIrani Hall???s estate, 'rids is, thsro-
fore, to cito all persons concerned to show ca two.
if any they ran, why said administrator should
, administration on tho first Monday
In Novornlwr next.
August 6th, 1884.
DeLoach Water Wheels.
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.mall mill can afiorfi on., Brail lor lareo u rail'J-
ted catalogue of wheel, and, oncral mill itiripUau
-Tho marUrtt-mlllilono* from our quanta am
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