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_ ... For Dyspepsia,
HITITTIIUdI Cos tire ness,
Headache,
Chronic Diar>
0 rhooa, Jaundice,
_ Impurity of the
JPI Blood, Fever and
Ague, Malaria,
W it] If and all Diseases
caused by De
rangement of Idver, Bowels and Kidneys*
SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER.
Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
Eain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful sensation of leaving undone something
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cougn '
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complains
of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled;
feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would De bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try R—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
ot the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred wnen but few of them existed, yet
examination after death has,shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.
It should be used by all persons, old and
young, whenever any of the above
symptoms appear.
Persons Traveling or Living In Un
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IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE,
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Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects.
A Governor’s Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my
family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a
valuable addition to the medical science.
J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga.,
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Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a
further trial.
“The only Thing that never fail* to
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Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min
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A DISORDERED LIVER
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ORllla and. Fever,
B. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says:
My plantation la In a malarial district. For
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account of bilious diseases and chills. I was
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They relieve the engorged Liver, cleanse
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eauee the bowels to act naturally, with
out which no ono can feel well.
Try this remedy thirty, and you will gate
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1882.
Written for the Republican
Reminiscences of Alabama.
NO. 5.-
THE ELOPEMENT.
Sweet September moon! Ever dear to
lovers and planters who gaze upon fer
tile fields with their gorgeous colors and
half melancholy shadows. How thy
holy light makes the path plain to the
loverß trnst and flings ghostly shadows
in the dismal swamps when the old
time happy darkey invaded the homes
of the coon an de ’possum. When
corn shuckings and full rich tables, fat
males and healthy sluggish cattle, pro
claimed the corpulent good-natured
planter lord of the soil and independent
of guano, liens on crops or mortgaged
homes. He would have valued scien
tific fertilizers at the same rate and
worth, as a ton of sand perfumed with
the carcase of a polecat. His very
slaves could obtain credit with the mer
chant where the farmer fails to get it
now. The sections in the “Code”
hardly numbered hundreds; now they
number thousands. Her opposive and
inoperative laws of the present was not
even dreamed of then, and very little
money was required to grease the
wheels of government. But with all
these ancient blessings men had to steal
girls then and probably will when all
the traditions of the past are forgotten.
On Eufaula creek was the plantation
of Jacob Fluker. In person he was
diminutive and his face was puckered
like one whose daily food was green
persimmons. He took no newspapers.
Outside of planting and the ordinary
scandal of his neighborhood -Big Hun
gry—he had no information whatever.
Once in his life he heard that Andy
Jackson was President, and in 1857
Jake thought he was still President.
Not a thousand yards from his house
Oceola was horn, but he knew it not,
yet he lived there thirty-three years in
ignorance of the name of the semi-
Napoleonic warrior of the everglades.
He ?vas vain of his own ignorance. It
kept his mind serene and he would not
have exchanged it for all
“The vasty wilds of wide Arabia.”
It was his natural inheritance, accu"
mulating from age to age, as far back
as the reign of Barbarossa. But strange
as all this resivoy of ignorance may
seem, he had as pretty a daughter as
ever captivated a Persian Monarch.
Neglected as she was, her mind was
intelligent, her graces natural and her
affection pure. She was his house keep
er, his only child, the only companion
of the long, stoled, purplexing hours of
dreaming ignorance. A dutch french
man, by the name ot Fishbeck, wooed
and won her heart. He proposed and
was accepted. But to get her father’s
consent was impossible. Fishbeck im
portuned him after the following man
ner:
Mr. Fluker, vot for you no give me
Mary.
’Case, said Fluker, the gal’s mine
and I haint got no house keeper, and 1
don’t want her too marry an Irishman.
Dunder ant blitzen, Morhlcan, Par
blue La Diable, me von Irishman? you
bees von ganache (blockhead) I gits
my blunderbus unt I makes you dink
all dis vorld bees chuck full of fiddles,
I be dam! said Fishbeck.
See here, rejoined Flucker, If it goes
to a fout, I’ll not leave an in’ard in
your dod drotted hide. You can’t pan
tanker ’round me with them cussed ab
lushon close on, and think you can
scar’ me, you confounded grubworm.
I’m h—l when I git in one ot my
cahoodlesnapper way’s
Fishbeck left the house full of rage
and disappointment. His only chance
was to steal Mary, and he knew she
would he well watched. Through one
of Fluker’s negroes he conveyed word
to Mary to meet him or his friend, near
the house, at the old china tree, at
eleven o’clock on a certain night, and
they would take the up train at twelve,
to West Point, and get married. Mary
received the message, consented and
both eagerly awaited the appointed
hour.
The sweet September moon full orb
ed, moved in the deep blue liquid ether.
What emotions and raptures she awak
ens. How the eye dilates and pene
trates the illimatable vortex were in
creasing masses of worlds, unnumbered,
fling their light across immensity, that
final home of the departed, the residence
of eternity—bat hark! Yes! Two bug
gies come through the heavy sand beds
and halt some distance from the donble
log house of Jatcob Fluker. Fishbeck,
with his three friends. Bat Clarke,
(alas poor Bat,) Big yaller, and Goober
Pea Miller. One buggie is driven
down to the chehaw road which crosses
in front of Jakes honse. In case of
emergency, either buggie can he used
by the elopers. They soon learned from
one ot the negroes that Fluker is watch
ing the house with a donhle-harrel
shot gun. Matters began to look seri
ous. Bats' fertile brain soon hecam
stratgetical. Fishbeck was to remain in
the buggie on the chehaw road, the other
horse tied to a tree where it was. Big
Yaller and Goober Pea milller, were to
cross the field to tne left, and come np
the chehaw road, seemingly intoxicat
ed,' and qnarreling about, a matter of
indebtedness, until they got to Fluker’s
gate.
There they were to have a sham fight
and one was to cry mnrder, and call
for help at the same time; but was to
come around by the hack side gate and
give the signal. Each acted his part
well. The fight at the gate, twenty
yards distant, brought Fluker to the
spot. It took him some time to sepa
rate the combatants, and when sepa
rated they cuss’d and made considera-
ble noise, then flew at each other, they
grappled. Fluker set his gun against
the fence to part them again. Big
Yaller was down on his back, Miller
choaking him, he reached out his hand
and accidentally seized the gun, resting
it’on his antagonists shoulder, fired both
barrels in the air; then the conflict end
ed. A long explanation detained all
three some time—time enough for Bat
.to get Mary and seat her in the empty
buggy. He then told Mary to drive
slowly while he went to Fishbeck, then
they would hurry to the depot. He
informed Fishbeck that “the whole
matter was a flunk and his two friends
were shot at the gate.
“Got in Hamil, said Fishbeck, “draw
dat pistol vot you got and plow my tarn
prains out. Tunder unt vater, I visli
I pc’s dead pefore I pe’s born.”
He wept bitterly. Just then Mary
drove up in the buggy. Id an instant
he was seated by her side and reached
the depot just in time to get on the
train. They were married in West
Point the next morning at sun rise.
Jake Fluker never forgave Mary. He
sent her a wash-board and tub for a
bridal present.
Beautiful Mary, with her husband,
settled in New Orleans, and in time be
came well informed and wealthy, never
forgetting the adventure on that bright
night of the sweet September moon.
Jacob Fluker was ignorant of the strate
gy amply to obtain Mary, so all his in
formation on that subject was added to
his other stock of ignorance, and both
became oblivious in a common grave.
Poor Bat died a violent death. Goober
Pea Miller, during the late war, became
a distinguished hospital rat, and Big
Yaller, with a “numerous wife” and a
select family of children, pens this
history. H.
Dates Worth Remembering,
1110—Glass windows first used for
light.
1238—Chimneys first put to houses.
1252—Lead pipes lor carrying water.
1290—Tallow candles first used for
light.
1290—Spectacles invented by an
Italian.
1332—Paper was first made from
linen.
1335—Woolen cloth first made in
England.
1440—Art of printing in oil.
1449—Art of printing from movable
type.
1468—Watches first made in Ger
many.
1546—Pine first used in England.
1550—Variations of the compass first
noticed.
1603—Theatre erected in England
by Shakespeare.
1610— Thermometer invented by
Sanctifevous.
1690—Telescopes invented by Por
tin and Jansen.
1690—Jupiter’s satelites discovered
by Jansen.
1704—Tea brought to Europe from
China.
1540—Circulation of blood discover
ed by Harvey.
1625 Bricks made of any re
quired size.
1626 Printing in colors invented.
1629 Newspaper art established.
1630 Shoe buckles first made.
1630—Wine first made of grapes in
England.
1640—Pendulum clocks were invent
ed..
1611— Sugar cane cultivated in the
West Indies.
1646—Air guns invented.
1649 Steam engines invented.
1650 Bread was first made with
yeast.
1662—Fire engines were first invent
ed.
1658—Steam engine improved by
Watt.
1759—Cotton first planted in the
United States.
1648-Stereotyping invented in Scot
land.
1728—Animal magnetism discovered
by Mesmel.
1832—The telegraph invented by
Morse.
1881—Telephone invented by Bell.
Advice to Consumptives.
On the appearance of the first symp
toms—as general debility, loss of ap
petite, pallor, chilly sensations, fol
lowed by night sweats and cough,
prompt measures of relief should be
taken. Consumption is scrofulous
disease of the lungs; therefore use the
great anti-scrofulous or blood-purifier
and strength-restorer, Dr. Pierce’s
“Golden Medical Discovery.” Supe
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unsurpassed as a pectoral. For weak
lungs, spitting of blood, and kindred
affections it has no equal. Sold by
druggists. For Dr. Pierce’s treatise
on consumption send two stamps.
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Always endeavor to speak to some
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to ask ourselves if what we are about
to say will impart any valuable infor
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will receive any profit, whether it is
anything worth saying, or whether
there is any object to be gained in
speaking. Much useless talk will
thus be avoided.
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HER FIRST IMPRESSION.
BY ESTHER SEBLE KENNERH.
“It must be the first impression that
works the charm!” said Nellie, resting
her beautiful cheek pensively on her
fair hand. “Or else lam a little spoil
ed by fortunes favors. But I think it
is first impression. For I really wish
I could love one of ray lovers, and mar
ry happily. It is sadly lonely at the
Cedars.”
And this lovely recipient of beauty
and fortune leaneJ back in her easy
chair and looked past the satin and
lace of the plate glass window at the
shimmering sunshiny lawns and shady
groves of the Cedars, whereof she had
been mistress for a brief three months.
“Possible I am too fastidious,” con
tinued Nellie. “If so, I wish I were
not, I’m sure I don’t expect perfection
—I am too faulty myself to be at ease
with a perfect person; but 1 cannot
marry without love, even if I did not
long for the joy of loving with my
whole heart!”
And, having made this confession,
Nellie turned her proud head quickly,
as if fearful that someone was listen
ing.
But old Aunt Wealthy was asleep
among her velvet cushions at the other
end of the long drawing-room, and
Prince Charlie, her silky spaniel,
blinked unconsciously at her feet; and
Nellie sank hack to her meditations.
“I wish someone would command
my homage! But I suppose I am long
ing for the ‘unattainable and dim,’ as
Mrs. Winslaw says.”
And, with a sigh, Nellie rose and
shook Prince Charlie off the folds of
her soft, gray dress, as she went about
her duties.
******
“Isn’t it perfectly lovely, Uncle
Teddy?”
A distinguished-looking gentleman
of thirty, hearing a gold eye-glass on
his handsome aquiline nose—Doctor
Edward Carlisle; Trudie, a wee bit of
a girl—Miss Gertrude Grey, his niece,
a seven-year-o'd, ecstatic over the re
turn of Uncle Teddy from Europe.
“Isn’t it—isn’t it perfectly lovely?”
lie repeated.
Her uncle’s bright smile of assent
satisfied the little creature’s enthusi
asm.
In all his wanderings, Doctor Car
lisle had seldom seen a fairer scene than
he now beheld,gazing through the great
arched iron gate of the Cedars.
Across the shimmering lawns,high on
its verdant terraces, among bowery
elms, rose the graceful mansion, with
its pillared colonnades, like a fairy
structure; while crimson roses, cascad
ing over arbors, and chaste and snowy
statues among the dark cedar trees,
contrasted with the silver of the wide
spread lake beyond.
“It’s always so beautiful here in
June, Uncle Teddy!” continued Trudie,
an aggrieved expression stealing over
her face. “And every summer, until
this, we’ve had our picnic here. Isn’t
it too bad?—for the old gentleman it
used to belong to (Mr. Roseborough)
is dead, and his step-daughter (Miss
Hodges,) who lives here now, can’t
bear children,they say—for the grounds
aren’t public any more. Mr. Rose
borough was a philanthrofer, you
know!” exclaimed Trudie; “and every
body could walk here, and the boys
used to fish in tlie lake. But Miss
Hodges—she must he horrid!—gives
orders to the gardener to keep the gates
locked; and when the minister sent
word that we should like to have our
picnic here as usual, this year, she sent
word that the Cedars would not he
available. Isn’t it awful?”
Uncle Teddy smiled at hie small
niece’s success at getting over the hard
words she so ambitiously understood.
“I suppose Miss Hodges had the
right to decline your company if she so
choose, Trudie.”
“But isn’t it a pity, when there’s no
other place but the grove, where it is so
damp, and the common, where there’s
no shade?”
Uncle Teddy said “Yes,” and the
two walked on.
But Doctor Carlisle heard more
about the picnic and Miss Hodges’
cruelty at not allowing the Sunday
school the use of the beautiful grounds
of the Cedars, since they “had always
had them.” His widowed sister, very
proud of her handsome brother’s escort,
required his company at the church
and social meetings of the village, and
everywhere he heard of the complaint
against this lady. She was selfish,she
was proud, she was disobliging. It
was such a pity—such a loss to the
community—that Mr.Roseborough had
died!
“I am sure I don’t know what can
be done,” said Mr. Blake, the minister,
a little arbitrary man, who heat his
pulpit cushion to rags twice a year. “I
do not feel inclined to make a second
appeal to Miss Hodges. So cold and
distant a person is very hard to deal
with.”
“Let me try,” said Dr. Carlisle.
The general disappointment of the
children, and Trudie’s special pleading
had prevailed upon him to make the
second attempt to induce the awful and
obdurate Miss Hodges to grant once
more the accustomed favor of allowing
the picnic party the use of their grounds.
“She cannot more than refuse me,”
he said; “and then the matter will be
settled.”
He had a secret impression that per
haps Miss Hodges had not been ap
proached in the right manner.
The committee snapped at his offer.
Certainly it would be a great favor if
he would do so.
Followed by the heartfelt sympathy
of his small niece, he set out that after
noon for the cedars. The gardener, a
reserved man with a gloomy brow,
whom he met near the gate, informed
him that his mistress was “beyont”
pointing in the direction beyond the
house, and assuring the man that he
would find her, Doctor Carlisle set out
to do so. But pausing a moment to
admire a climbing rose, a tossing vine
kuucked his gold eye glass from its
perch upon his handsome nose, and any
near sighted person will understand at
once the intensity with which he sought
for them. To find a lady in such a
wilderness of shrubbery was almost
impossible without them, and Trudie
for one, would be broken hearted if he
gave up the attempt.
Lifting his head from the search at
last, and wiping his perspiring brow,
as lie stood with his straw hat in his
hand, he espied some fluttering dra
pery in a field afar off.
“That must be Miss Hodges,” he
said, taking courage, relieved inex
pressibly to find his pathway thus
made smooth.
He passed rapidly over the smooth
turf, and finding his way crossed sud
denly by a pair of bars, was about to
take them down, when a feminine voice
called:
“Don’t do that!”
The wind was blowing in his ear,
and the voice seemed to come from the
wearer of the very singular drapery,
with which the breezes seemed taking
singular libeeties. Still, she did not ad
vance a step, and with a dim impress
ion that the lady might be delicate on
the subject of ankles, he was about to
relieve her of the necessity of crossing
the intervening space in the wind by
leaping the bars and advancing to her
side, when the voice again said:
“Don’t do that!”
Doctor Carlisle paused; but the next
moment all was made plain by the ap
pearance upon the scene of a large and
very belligerent bull, who stood at a
little distance, pawing the earth and
tearing up the sod with his horns.
“Unfortunate woman!” he thought.
“Yet how brave and very heroic! In
peril herself, she yet warns me away
from danger. I can see her arm wav
ing me off. Good creature! she shall
be saved!”
And the Doctor was about to gal
lantly leap the bars, with no weapon
in hand but his heavy golden-headed
cane, when a voice exclaimed at his
side:
“Please do not cross here. You will
enrage that animal so much that he
will breake the wire fence which di
vides his inclosure from this field of
young corn. I will show yon a shorter
way to the lake.”
The doctor saw a young lady in gray
with a fair face under a straw hat, but
he was not in a condition to heed how
beautiful it was.
“Miss Hodges!” he exclaimed; anx
iously. “She is in great—extreme
danger!”
A puzzle look, a momentary shak
ing off the fair shoulders. There could
be no mistaking the cause of the gen
tleman’s solicitude, for he never re
moved his handsome, short-sighted
eyes from the figure with the waving
drapery.
“You are making a mistake, sir,”
said Nellie. “That is a scarecrow put
up to frighten the blackbirds from the
corn. And lam Miss Hodges. Did
you wish to go to the lake?” continued
the young lady pitying the gentleman’s
confusion. “Or,” with a sudden
thought, “did you wish to see me?”
“I—l came to have a few moments’
conversation with Miss Hodges.”
Dr. Carlisle could hardly have told
which was most overwhelming, the re
alization of his terrible mistake, or the
error of presupposing Miss Hodges
(who certainly had not an euphonious
name) to he old and ugly.
Pitying his confusion, Nellie led the
way to the house, doing her best to be
easy and sociable with the crestfallen
gentleman, who accompanied her, at
first, in almost total silence. .
But by the rose-vine, Nellie found
the gold eye-glass and restored it.
“That is mine,” exclaimed Dr. Carl
isle, at once. “But for its loss I should
never have made such a ridiculous mis
take.”
Nellie blushed, for she had laughed,
and then blushed again, her compan
ion’s gaze was so piercing through the
recovered lenses.
“If you are Miss Hodges,” he said,
“allow me to introduce myself as Dr.
Carlisle, a friend of the children at the
village,” and then went on to make
his plea.
‘I have no hesitancy in saying that
I do not think too much gratitude can
be expressed for the favor of being al
lowed to spend the day in these grounds,’
he said. “And perhaps what all have
left for others to do, none have done,”
he added.
“Yon have guessed it.” said Nellie.
“My step-father made common proper
ty of the advantages of the Cedars for
many years, and the result was that he
was at much grief and expense, often,
to repair the depredations of lawless
boys, who broke his rose-trees, spoiled
his paths, and injured his boats; and
he was never in any instance, that I
know of, thanked for the service ren
dered. I think any reasonable person
would be adverse to such a state of
things, and I have declined to have my
grounds made common use of for the
future. But if the request is made as
a favor, and appreciated, that is a very
different matter.”
„ "I am certain that it will be a very
great favor, and that now it will be ap-
FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NO. 4.
preciated,” replied Dr. Carlisle, warm
ing his heart with anticipations of Tru
die’s raptures.
“I will have the gardner put up
swings, croquet arches and rustic seats,
immediately,” said Nellie.
And she came herself to the picnic,
a very lady Lady Bountiful among the
delighted children, who told her to her
face that she was the prettiest lady
they had ever seen, and were so great
ful and good that their champion had
no cause for regret at this interference.
Indeed, he already suspected that it
was a blessed event in history, for he
could hardly eat or sleep for thinking
constantly of the beautiful mistress of
the Cedars.
Nellie certainly could not complain
longer that they were lonely, his visits
became so frequent; and when at last
he offered his heart, hand and fortune,
they became engaged. Another June
saw their marriage.
“I love you, dear, with my whole
heart, and with all the joy I ever im
agined,” said Nellie to her husband.
“But I don’t believe it is on account of
first impressions!”
DON’T BUY
Groceries
BEFORE EXAMINING
GLOVIM PERRYS
LARGE STOCK!
-AS THEY—
WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD !
On any article in their line, hut
propose to
UNDERSELL!
WILL PAY highest price for
Georgia Seed Rye !
COUNTRY MERCHANTS
Will find that they can buy ot us
Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot
and Matches! !
For less money than they can order.
GLOVER & PERRY,
ssp9tf Americus, Ga.
OLD BUGG
COMES TO THE FRONT THIS SEASON
WITH
DRINKS*
FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR
TEN CENTS.
OYSTERS, FISII AND GAME ON HAND
AT ALL TIMES.
MEALS
FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE AND AT
ALL TIMES—DAY AND NIGHT.
BILLIARDS
5e per game • two games for 25 cts—cash.
POOL
2M CENTS PER CUE-ALL CASH.
Come one, come all, and see it you don’t get
tlie best—nothing charged at these rates.
Best Cigars and Tobacco Always
on Hand !
BOTTLED LIQUORS
ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM.
.T. P. CHAPMAN.
Americus, Ga., Sept. sth, 1882. o.lm
Mis. M. I MINI
IAS JUST 333EIVED A
NEW LINE OF
MILLINERY
CONSISTING OF
Lace Straw Bonnets,
Leghorn Fats,
Bound Hats,
Long Finises in ill Colors,
LACES AND FLOWERB.
Those who have not yet purchased their
Spring Bonnets will find it to their interest
to examine her new goods. She has also
FRENCH CHIP HATS
IN white: and black.
mayl7tf
MITE SNUFF for the destruction of .
mites ob chickens, can be had at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug St*r*.