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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* ???STHE GREAT GERMAN ) REMEDY FOR PAIN. ??? Believes and cures RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, UACICACHR, HE a daciia:, toothache, SORE THROAT, QUINSY. SWELLINGS, SPRAINS, Soreness, Cuts, Bruises, FROSTBITES, BURNN, NC'AI.D-V, And nil oUyr^bodlJy aches FIFTY CENTS A BOTTLE. Bold by all Druzslats and Jcalers. Directions in U languages. Ito Charles A. VogeVer Co. (Smwmot* t* A. TOOZUR S CO.) Ualtliuore, Bid., U.N. A* ??? THE KEYSTONE WASHER. Over 300,000 in. Actual Use And all giving perfect aati,faction. AGENTS WANTED. ???11/ILL WASH tE?? u ;r??? dm e a better Washer. allonge auy uauuiacturcr to pro- EVERY MACHINE WARRANTED FIVE YEARS, will outlast any two woodon i AGENTS WANTED Kxcluslvo Territory. Our agents all over tho country are making FE0M $75 TO $200 PER MONTH. Retail price, 17. Ssmplo to Agents, $3. Also, our celebrated KEYSTONE WRINGERS AT . Lowest Wholesale Prices. Circulars Free. Bcfcr to editor this paper. Address iu, F. ADAMS Ac CO., oct28???wkylSt Krlo, Fa. Belies of> Dsad Industry. Compared with Bension???s Capeine Plaster* all others are crude and unsatisfactory^ Pries 2$ 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. CO., Dorchester, Mast 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. sim rne IIYMPKI ?? CURS! Kir iianFaCS iM-npinnriaR, fM4reaBr.W.W.??itW0Sv.Cb??lutu^uUn>UHt. S IMPI,BIT ANU UHBABBIT MANUKAOJUBr rel .ml perfect mtUtutlnn gnurntitcftl. r.very .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 ujourpMKd, and Bu0 j wky Atlanta, Oa. LE PAGE???S A LIQUID CLUE. c JS\ UNEQOALLEDKOn OKMENTINO ISKs?? ' WATCHES. Don???t buy until you find out the now Im provements. 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