Newspaper Page Text
GEORGIA BRIEFS.
Newsy Paragraphs From Over
the State.
The Central Railroad of Georgia has
been leased to the Terminal system for
uinety-niue years.
Rome is to have a ehh'itnblc hospital.
The eminent surgeon, Dr. RobeitBattcy,
is the donor. The buildings have been
selected and they will be equipped at
greatly once. For some time a hospital has been
needed and the people of Rome
have talked a good deal about establish¬
ing one.
The alliance of the ninth is reported to
be red-hot against an appropriation for
the world’s lair. All the county alliances
looks are passing like the resolutions against it, and it
alliance members ■will vote
solidly against it. They say that the
manufacture!s who will reap the benefit
should pay .for the show.
Comptroller of tlii Currency Lacey has
issued his abstract o! the condition of
the Georgia national banks, from repoits
made to him. There are thirty-two
■national banks in the state, with re
The sou-ees liabilities amounting to $15,‘255,2G6.93.
leave a reserve of 26 24-100
per cent, the legal reserve being 25 per
close cent. Although limit. this Mr. is running pretty
to the Lacey regards it
as satisfactory.
Dr. J. B. Shearer, president of David¬
son college of North Carolina, and Dr.
G. B. Strickler, of Atlanta, members of
the board of regents for selecting a site
for the situation of the Presbyterian
terians university to be built by the Presby¬
of Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Florida, visited LaGrange
recently, inconsequence’ of which the
people of that city are expecting the lo¬
cation of the university there.
Mr. J. It. Ward, of Genesis Point,
Bryan county, has just had finished one
of the greatest flowing artesian wells in
the south. Its outpour is 1,500 gallons
per minute, 2,100,000 gallons every
twenty-four hours. Mr. Ward has spent
about $35,000 in experiments on wells.
His perseverance has at last been awarded,
and he now has a well that he says is
worth $20,000 per annum for irrigation
purposes. The well is 438 feet deep.
A libel suit for $10,000 is brought
against the Alliance Farmer Publishing
Company of Atlanta. The suit is
founded on tw r o articles which appeared
in the Alliance Farmer on February 3,
1891. Waites L. Mims, a merchant of
Waynesboro, Burke county, is the plain¬
tiff. The articles said to have been li¬
belous were the manner in which a legal
advertisement was reprinted and an edi¬
torial on the Twitty bill founded on the
advertisement.
A recent meeting held at Smithsonia
of the stockholders of the Smithsonia
and Danielsville road resulted in the
election of Colonel James M. Smith,
president; president, Judge Colouel G. C. Daniel, vice
and D. W. Meadow,
secretary and treasurer. The road will
be built at once if the citizens of Madi¬
son county will raise $15,000. They
will do this and when finished the road
will probably connect with the Georgia,
Carolina and Northern railroad.
The Atlanta and Florida railroad ha<
changed management. Col. I. Y. Sage
was made president aud an entire new
board of directors was elected. The new
board is composed of I. Y. Sage, Henry
Jackson, Tom Cobb Jackson, Henry
Rothschild of New York, McAllen B.
Marsh, W. A. Heath, Joseph N. Moody,
John Hightower, jr., G. N. Tiler of New
York, Edward S. McCaudless, II. M.
Atkinson and W. T. Ashmore. It is the
intention of the new management to ex¬
tend the line from its present terminus at
Ft. Valley to some point on the Atlantic
coast, but just where does not seem to
have been determined.
The cold storage companies of Atlanta
have paid tbe $500 tax to the city under
protest. The tax and cost together
amounted to $530.20 in each case.
Colonel Hammond, in making the pay¬
ment for the three companies, the At¬
lanta Beef Company, the Armour Pack¬
filed ing Company and Nelson, Morris & Co.,
a written protest against the collec¬
tion of the tax. He also filed a protest
with Tax Collector Stewart. The pay¬
ment being made under compulsion,
should the supreme court decide the act
to be unconstitutional, the state will
doubtless be called upon to refund the
money.
Macon is determined to stop the spread
of infections diseases, as the tenor of the
following ordinance passed by the city
council will show: “Be it ordained by
the board of health of the city of Macon,
and it is hereby ordained by authority of
the same, That there shall not be a public
or church funeral of any person who has
died of smallpox, diptheria, scarlet fever,
yellow fever, typhus fever or Asiatic
cholera, but the funeral of such person
shall be private; and it shall not be law¬
ful to invite or permit at the funeral of
any person who lias died of any of the
above diseases, or auy contagious or pes¬
tilential disease, or with any services con¬
nected therewith, any person whose at¬
tendance is not necessary, or to whom
there is danger of contagion thereby.
An Error.
A big error has been discovered in the
appointment of commandants of the state
military encampment to be held in (Jhick
mauga in July. Colonel John Millege,
of chief Atlanta, of was appointed the commander-in- fourth
the camps for week.
If the Augusta toops go into camp, by
right Colonel J. C. Levy, of the Augusta
battalion, shou'd have been made com
mandant of the camp that week. Colo¬
nel Levy received a letter from Colonel
Milledge, stating that an error had been
made in liis appointment as commander
ofthecanjjis should the forth Colonel week Lew, and who Ihe
honor fall to
w as eimikul t<. ditif e as lie whs senior
colonel. Colonel Levy’s commission is
da'od seven’y-five days before that of
Colonel Midedge. in the appointment
of commandants, seniority has priority.
I * n ii (I iii nr It m I > i nxi ppcitring.
The old hist- rical landmarks in and
around Augusta are, disappearing fust,
I ho two-story fuune house that stood on
•he Milledgeville road, is gone. It was
the first government building, or post
ofliee, used in Augusta, and was moved
to -the Turpin place, three miles out,
wheie it stool a landmark for many
years. Another building in Augusta
once sheltered George Washington, the
lather of this country, on the occasion of
a visit to the city, then a lonesome little
village. Another historical house, but
one in the Host state of preservation,
graces the right bank of the Savannah
i iver in the lower part of the city. Its
historical recollections tell of the patirotic
and courtly Lafayette, who was once ou
tertuiued under its hospitable rooftree.
Under a New Name.
The old Macon and Covington road is
now the Macon aud Northern. In April
last Judge Miller, of the Bibb county
superior court, entered a decree foreclos¬
ing the mortgages on the Covington and
Macon. These liens were in favor of the
Mercantile Trust company, of New York,
and, as Judge Miller rendered the de¬
cree of foreclosure, he apponted Mr.
John C. Key commissioner to sell the
road. At the recent sale the property
was purchased by Mr. Alexander Brown
and Mr. Skipwith Wilmer, of Baltimore,
for $1,000,000. When the auctionrer
knocked the propeity off, it was gener¬
ally understood lhat it had been bid in
in the name of the bondholders. The
purchasers, Messrs. Wilmer and Brown,
however, announced that they had bought
the road for themselves and their asso¬
ciates, and, upon that fact being re¬
ported to the court. Judge Miller ap¬
proved and confirmed the sale, and
ordered the court to make the purchasers
a deed to the road. This was done, and
the purchasers at once secured a charter
from Secretary of State Cook in com¬
pliance with the haws of Georgia, incor¬
porating the themselves under the name of
Macon and Northern Railroad Com¬
pany. Messrs. Brown and Wilmer then
conveyed the road to the new company,
the Macon and Northern. The capital
stock was placed at $1,000,000.
A Trade on Tapis.
At a recent meeting of the stockholders
of the Macon Construction Company, at
Macon, a proposition made by a Baltimore
syndicate to buy the entire stock of the
company was discussed, but no decision
was reached. Not enough stock was
represented to take action. The Balti¬
stock more people proposed to pay for the
if they could secure a controlling
interest. The sensational feature of the
proposition is the rumor that it comes
from Robinson. Robinson, it is said, is
still anxious to secure the Georgia South¬
ern, and in making this trade gets it
about one-third cheaper than by the
former agreement. It may not be neces¬
sary to hold another meeting. The stock
is all that is wanted, and if the individual
stockholder chooses to sell, it’s all right.
Still, the bidder requires to be assured of
a majority of the stock. It is said a ma¬
jority of the stock held in Macon has
been willing bought at par, and the holders offered, are
to dispose of at the price
as they will have suffered no actual loss.
Experienced financiers say a sale will be
made. It means more for Macon than
the stock in its present shape.
lijnn’s Jtifi: HreiLk.
The Steve Ryan failure is the largest
ever recorded in the history of Atlanta,
and one of the largest ever known in the
South. The collapse of this great dry
goods house came like a bomb-shell to
the citizens and created a wave of ex¬
citement throughout the state; for what
citizen of Georgia has not heard of Ryan
and his great bargains? The early estimate
of the extent of the failure seem to have
exaggerated the true state of affairs.
These estimates liabilities were placed at $2,000,000,
but the will probably not ex¬
ceed half that amount. The assets are vari
ously estimated at from $500,000 to
$800,000, so the loss to the creditors will
probably in no event be very great. The
effect of the failure will not be felt by
Atlanta financially. The banks are the
only Atlanta creditors, and they are am
ply secured. What will become of the
immense stock of goods which Mr. Ryan
carried, is one of the most interesting
questions of the failure. It is _ especially
lnterestmg to the Atlanta meichants.
Nearly every merchant. in Atlanta says
fo°o°se SSI S? InTwhat’woSt “ neighbor
the result. Open the doors and sell the
stock piece by piece under the sheriff’s
hammer. Steve Ryan’s cut prices would
be no where. Give it to a receiver, who
would go in to sell out as rapidly as pos
sibli*. It would still resemble Steve
Ryan’s scalping knife. The merchants
are apprehensive of something of this
kind, and are vigorously opposed to it.
So the matter stands.
GENTILES IN CONTROL
Of the Leading Mormon News¬
paper in Salt Lake City.
A dispatch of Monday from Salt Lako
City, Utah says: A controlling interest
in the Salt Lake Herald has passed into
Gentile bands. The Herald has been a
lending exponent of the Mormon church,
and this practically breaks the back of
the church of the latter day saints as a
factor in Utah politics. The Herald will
be made a strong democratic paper, ad¬
vocating the admission of Utah into the
union. The old parties are broken up
in this political revolution, and hence¬
forth all issues will be on the national
party iines :
___
If you want to reach the people you
should advertise.in this paper.'
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Bacon is cured with hops.
Dyspepsia is oue of the most common
causes of baldness.
An Ohio young man lias turned green
from the effects of cigarette smoking.
Gotobed Fenn is the name of a farmer
diving in Dickinson County, Kan.
Rev. R. L. Kidd, a Canadian evange¬
list, can recite the entire Bible from
memory.
A man was in Athens, . Ga., recently
exhibiting a bulldog with oue foot ex¬
actly the shape of a hoof.
Turkish soldiers, in a recent taget con¬
test, proved that not one in twenty could
hit a man at twenty paces.
Mr. Tapling’s famous $100,000, colection of post¬
age stamps, valued at has been
bequeated to the British Museum.
The United States is said to be tht
greatest candy country in the world,
$5,000,000 worth being consumed every
year.
In France a medical man can not be
compelled to divulge, even in a court of
law, the nature of the disease for which
he has treated a patient.
Three hundred to four hundred tons
of coal per day is the amount used in
some of the large passenger steamers on
the Atlantic. This is about one ton per
mile run.
The Queen's favorite dogs, upward of
thirty in number, were photographed
during last week at the royal kennels at
Windsor. The animals are Pomeranians,
collies, fox terriers and dachshunds.
An elderly New Yorker, whose busi¬
ness takes him to Europe twice a year,
always makes a special contract with the
steamship company that if he should die
on the voyage his body is not to be buried
at sea.
Thor was a god of the chase and was
represented as being seated on a couch of
skins with twelve stars over his head and
a sceptre in his hand. Thursday or
“Thor’s day” was the day Thor was wor¬
shiped.
The Horaestake Mine, in the Black
Hills, is generally supposed to be the
richest gold mine in the world. « Each
month from $150,000 to $200,000 in gold
is taken out. The vein is 300 feet wide
and about two miles in length.
All Hohenzollcrn Princes are baptized
with -water from the Jordan. A great
porcelain jug of this water is kept in the
shop of the castle apothecary, and after
every baptism, the water left in the font
is carefully returned to this receptacle.
Stories of human beings with their
hearts on the wrong side have occasional¬
ly made their appearance, but Cincinnati
come3 to the front with oue about a man
in that city who has his brain placed
placed wrong side foremost An ^his head.
The first goldfish brought to Europe,
from where this country received its
earliest supplies, were of the poorest aud
commonest breed; they were of a golden
color, hence the name of the entire genus;
and it will thus be understood why peo¬
ple speak of black, white, red or blue
goldfish. The old fashioned goldfish
lives now in a wild state in this country,
and is in fact counted among the native
fishes of North America.
In order to tell the day of the week of
any date take the last two figures of the
year, add a quarter to this, disregarding
the fraction; add the date of the month,
and to this add the figure in the follow¬
ing list, 3-6-6-2-4-0-2-5-1-3-b-l. one figure standing for each
month: Divide
the sum by 7, and the remainder will
give the number of the day in the week,
and when there is no remainder the day
will be Saturday. As an example take
March 19, 1890. Take 90, add 22, add
19, add 6. This gives 137, which, di¬
vided by seven, leaves a remaiudei of 4,
j which Wednesday. is the number of the day, or
His Ox Wasn't Gored.
A good story is told of Bay Middle
ton, whose name in England is a house-
1 hold word for jokes and escapades of all
I kinds. It seems that in the house was a
guest, who, tor some reasou, did not
bring a smoking-jacket with him, and
committed the henious offense of appear
j n g smoking-room in a dress coat.
Bay Middleton vowed vengeance f against °
h - an(J iged him hat if h
^ffeuse e re .
P-ted the he would tear Urn coat
from hls bad 5’. Tbe lowing ^ the
Illau a PP e ^ re< l m th e smoking-room very
wea ring, as usual, his evening coat,
his position before the fire
plaoe, with his # arms on the mautlepiece,
gazing contemplatively into the fire, and
presenting his coat-tails in a tempting
fashion to Bay Middleton. The offer
could not be refused, and Bay seized the
coat-tails and jgplit the coat up to the
collar. The victim never moved or said
a word. The joke seemed to fall flat.
Some one asked him of the split coat
why he did not make any objection, upon
which he said: “Why should I? As I
came down-stairs I went into Bay’s room
and put on his evening coat.”— Argonaut,
Will Tunnel a Yolcano.
It is proposed to drive a tunnel into
the very crater of Popocatapetl, Mexico,
and to build from the mouth of the tun¬
nel a railway to connect with the inter
oceanic road at Ameacameca. The par¬
ties who are negotiating with the owner
of the volcano are said to represent a
rich French syndicate, who expect to
get at least 100,000 tons of sulphur an¬
nually from the very bowels of the old
Mexican land-mark.— St. Louis lie,pub¬
lic
THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN
l IRVINE TONIC
•AND
Stomaeh^Liver Cur©
The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery ot
the Last One Hundred Years.
It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar . 1
It Is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk.
This wonderful Nervine Tonic Las only recently been introduced into
this country by the Great South American Medicine Company, and yet its
great value as a curative agent hal long been known bj the native inhab¬
itants of South America, who rely almost wholly upon its great medicinal
powers to cure every form of disease by which they are overtaken, i
This new and valuable South American medicine possesses powers and
qualities hitherto unknown to the medical profession. This medicine has
completely solved the problem of general the cure Nervous ot Indigestion, System. Dyspepsia, also Liver all
Complaint, and diseases of the It cures
forms of failiug health from whatever cause. It performs this by the Great
Nervine Tonic qualities which it possesses and and by its the great bowels. curative No remedy poweni
upon the digestive organs, the stomach, the liver
* compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder ana
6trengtberier of the life forces of the human body and as a great renewer of
a broken down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in ths
treatment and used cure of diseases of the Lungs It is than marvelous any ten consumption for rem¬
edies ever on this continent. a cure nervousness
of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period known
as change in life, should not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic almost
constantly for the space of two or three years. and It will carry them inestimably safely
over the danger. This great strengthener because curative is of will
value to the aged and infirm, its great energizing properties
give them a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives of
many of those who will use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year.
CURES
Nervousness and
Nervous Prostration,
Nervous Headache and
Sick Headache,
Female Weakness, Women,
All Diseases of
Nervous Chills,
Paralysis, Nervous and
Choking Paroxysms
Nervous
Hot Flashes,
Palpitation of the Heart,
Sleeplessness, Mental Despondency,
St. Vitus’s Dance,
Nervousness of Females,
Nervousness of Old Age,
Neuralgia, Pains Heart,
in the
Paina in the Back,
Health.
All these and many other complaints cured by this wonderful Nervine Tonic,
NERVOUS DISEASES.
As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy ha3 been abl®
to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which i3 very pleasant and harmless in
all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individ¬
ual. Nine-tenths cf ail the ailments to which the human family is heir, are
dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired digestion. When there is an
insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a general state ot debility of
the brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. ^Starved nerves, like
starved muscles, become strong when the right kind oi food is supplied, and
a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as the nerves recover. As tha
nervous system must supply all the power by which the vital forces of tha
body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition.
Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment
v pessary to repair the wear our present mode of living and labor impose*
upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be
pplied. This recent production of the South A merican Continent has been
found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue
is formed. This accounts for its magic power to cure all forms of nervous
CitAWFOtfDSYiLLE, Ind., Aug. 20, ’#*,
To the (?) cat South American Medicine Co.:
De. n Gf.nts I desire to say to you that I
have suffered for maDy years with a very seri¬
ous disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried
every medicine 1 could hear of but I nothing
done me any appreciable good until was ad¬
vised to try your Great South American Ncrvina
Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, and since
using several bottles of it 1 must say that I am
surprised at its wouderful powers to cure the
stomach and general nervous system. If every¬
one knew the value of this remedy as I do, you
wcuid not be able to supply the demand.
J. A. Hardee,
£x-Treas. Montgomery Co.
ST. VITUS’S DANCE OR CHOREA.
Crawfokdsville, Ind., May 19,1886. af¬
My daughter, twelve years old, had been
flicted for several months with Chorea or St.
Vitus’s Dance. She was reduced to a skeleton, swal¬
could not walk, could not talk, could not
low anything but xnilk. I had to handle her
like an infant. Doctor and neighbors gave Ameri¬ her
up. I commenced giving her the South
can Nervino Tonic: the effects wero very sur¬
prising. In three days she was rid of the ner¬
vousness, and rapidly improved. Four bottles
cured her completely. I think the South
American Nervino the recommend grandest remedy it ever
discovered, and would W. to every¬
one. Mbs. S. Eksminoer.
State of Indiana, 1. “
Montgomery and County, j to ’ before this May
Subscribed sworn me Public.
19 1887. Chas. M. Tbavis,
INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA.
• The Great South American Nervine Tonic
Which wo now offer you, is the only absolutely unfailing remedy ever discov¬
ered for the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, of and and. debility the vast of train the human of symptoms
and horrors which are the result disease stom¬
ach. No person can afford to pas3 by this jewel of incalculable value who is
affected by disease of the Stomach, because the experience and testimony of
thousands go to prov^ \;t this is the one and only one great cure in th#
world for this uni\ .estroyer. There is no case of unmalignant diseasa
of the stomach whiSS an resist the wonderful curative powers of the South
American Nervine Tonic. „*•
Every Bottle Warranted.
Price, Large 18 Ounce Bottles, $l.25.Tria1 Size, 15 cents.
NEILL Sz ALMOND,
Sole Wholesale and Retail Agents
HARALSON COUNTY. CA.
Broken Constitution,
Debility of Old Age, Dyspepsia,
Indigestion Heartburn and and Sour Stomach,
Weight and Tenderness in Stomach,
Loss of Appetite,
Frightful Dreams,
Dizziness and Ringing in the Ears,
Weakness of Extremities and
Impure Fainting, and Impoverished Bloed,
Boils and Carbuncles,
Scrofula, Ulcers,
Scrofulous Swelling and
Consumption Catarrh of the of Lungs, the Lungs,
Bronchitis and Chronic Cough,
Liver Chronio Complaint, Diarrhoea,
Delicate and Scrofulous Children,
Summer of Infants.
Mr. Solomon Bond, a member of the Society hava
of Friends, of DarliDztoti, Ind., says: “I
used twelve bottles of The Great South Amerf*
Clin Nervine Tonic aud Stomach and Liver Cura,
and I consider that every bottle did for me one
hundred dollars worth of good, because I have
not had a good night’s sleep for twenty year#
on account of irritation, pain, horrible dreams,
and general nervous prostration, which hat
been caused by chronic indigestion and dys¬
pepsia of the stomach and by a broken down
condition of my nervous system. But now I can
lie down and sleep all night as sweetly as a think baby,
and I feel like a sound man. I do not
there has ever been a medicine introduced into
this country which will at all compare with
this Nervine Tonic u a euro for the stomach.'*
Ckawfordsville, Ind., June 22, 1S87.
My daughter, eleven years old, was severely
afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. Wa
gave her three and one-half bottles of South
American Nervine and sko is completely re¬
stored. I believe it will cure every case of St
Vitus's Dance. I have kept it in my family for
two years, and am sure it is the greatest rem¬
edy in the world for Indigestion and and Dyspep¬ Failing
sia, all forms of Nervous Disorder*
Health from whatever cause.
John T. Mjsh.
State cf Indiana, County, \ .
Subscribed Montgomery and J to ' before this June
sworn me
22,1837. Chas. W. Wright,
Notary Public, i