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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. • ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - - S4OO Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in ADVANCE.® All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising 1 Bates. Ono Square first insertion, - - - - ?1.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .50 CSTTen Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisefiients not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements to occupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. Eosser & Gunnels. SALOON. Messrs. G. S. EOSSER and P. W. GUN NELS have opened a Ear and Billiard Sa loon in the new building of llamil Bros., on Cotton Avenue, where they have a fine stock of pure Brandies, Wines and Whiskies ! Also the National Drink, ANHUESER beer, the best in the land. The best Cigars and Tobacco always on hand. Our Billiard Saloon is one of the best in the city—everything new and good. We in vite the public generally to give us a trial. In afew days our RESTAURANT will be opened, and we promise that it shall com pare with the best and be surpassedjby none. ROSSER & GUNNELS, septßtf Americus, Ga. SCHOOL HATS ! A LARGE LOT OF SCHOOL HATS. JUST RECEIVED AT Mrs. M. T. Elam’s, Americus, - - - Georgia. SCHOOL HATS! sept2otf The Agonies of Bilious Colic, the in diseribable pangs of Chronic Indigestion, the debility and mental stupor resulting from a costive habit, may he certainly avoid ed by regulating the system with thatagree able and refreshing Standard Preparation, Tabrant’s Seltber Aperient. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. DR. STRONG S PILLS! The Old, Well-Tried. Wouderful Health Bene wing Remedies. Strong’s Pectoral Pills insure hearty appetite, good digestion, regularity of the bowels. A sure remedy for Colds and Rheu matism. A precious boon to delicate females, soothing and bracing the nervous system, and giving vigor and health in every fibre of the body. Strong’s Sanative Pills for tlio Liver. A speedy cure for the Liver Complaint, Regulating the Bowels, Purifying the Blood, Cleansing from Malarial Taint. A perfect cure for Sick Headache, Constipation and Dyspepsia. Sold by leading druggists. For circulars and almanacs, with full par ticulars, address Box 650, New York City. Sllflji In legitimate judicious speculation in Grain, Provisions and Stocks on our perfected pian, yields sure monthly profits to large and small Investors. Address, for full particulars, R. E. KENDALL & CO., Commission Mer chants, 177 & 179 La Sallo St., Chicago, 111. MKDICAL TUD ENTS. For announcements and full information, address the Dean of the American Medical College, St. Louis. Geo. C. Pitzer, M. D., 1110 Chambers Street, St. Louis, Mo. Kenmore University High School. H. A. STRODE (Math. Medalist U. V.), Principal. Preparatory to University of Va. Charges moderate. Session begins Sept. 7. For particulars address Principal, Amherst, Virginia. ADVERTISERS ! Send for our Select List of Local Newspa pers, Geo. P. Rowell & Cos., 10 Spruce St., New York. _ ... 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 healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after ineals, or sleep less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors* Bills will he saved by always keeping the Regulator ' in the House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never be out of place. The remedy is harmless and does uot interfere with' business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE, And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or 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., says; Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. “The only Thing that never fail* to Relieve.**—l have used many remedies for Dyg. pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never have found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex penence in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice I have been and am satisfied lo use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. only the Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark and Signature of J. H. ZEILIN & CO. . FOR SALE BY AI.L DRUGGISTS. TUTTS PILLS A DISORDERED LIVER IS THE BANE of the present generation. It In for the Cure of this diaeaao and ita attendants', SICK-HEADACHEi SILIOUSNESSi DYS PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILBB, a to., that TTJTT'S PILLS have gained a w.orld-wide reputation. No Remedy has ever been discovered that acta ao ZBntly on the digestive organs, giving them vigor to as similate food. Asa natural result, the Nervous Bystem is Braced, the Muscles ere Developed, and the Body Robust. ORllla and. Fever, B. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says: My plantation la In a malarial district. For several years 1 could not make half a crop on account of bilious diseases and chills. I was nearly discouraged when Z began the use of TDTT’S PILLS. The result was marvelous: my laborers soon became hearty and robust, and I have had no farther trouble. They relieve the engorged Liver, cleanse the Blood from poisonous humors, and eauee the bowels to act naturally, with out which no ono can feel well. Try this remedy thirty, and you will gate a healthy Digestion, Y igorous Body .Pure Blood, Strong Nerves, and a Sound Idver. Price, ascents. Office, 85 Murray St., IV. T. TUTT’S HAIR DYE. Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy- Black by a single application of this Dye. It Imparts a natural color, and acts Instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of One Dollar. Office, 33 Murray Street, New York. (Dr. TVTT9 MANUAL of Falus6la\ Information mn& Uoeful Moomiptm I will be mailed FKXE on sfpMeaftoN./ jjOiOD^ Fitters That terrible soourge fever and ague, and its congener, bilious remittent,besides affec tions of tlie stomach liver and bowels, pro duced by miasmatic air and water, are both eradicated and prevented by the use of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a purely vege table elixir, indorsed by physicians, and more extensively used as a remedy for the above class of disorders,as well as for many others, than any medioine of the age. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. Macon Commercial College, Macon, Ga. First-class Business School. Send for Clrcu ars. (June2l-ly) Pi of. W. McKAY, Prin. TO RENT; _ A comfortable dwelling on College Street, Possession given on the first of September. Apply to s. P. BOONE, julyiatf Americus. Ga. TO RENT. Dwelling House to rent on Lamar Street, citerms apply to aaayiatf. Mrs. A. SIMMONS INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS. AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. 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 rior to Cod liver oil as a nutritive, and 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. World’s Dispensary Medical Associa tion, Buffalo, N. Y. Always endeavor to speak to some purpose. It would be well sometimes to ask ourselves if what we are about to say will impart any valuable infor mation, whether the one addressed 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. Personal To Men Only ! ! The Voltaic Belt Cos., Marshall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye’s Celebkatkd Electro- Voltaic Belts and Electric Apflianceb on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete destoration of health and mauiyyigor. Ad dress as above. N. B.—No risk is incurred as thirty days’ trial Is allowed- 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*.