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|cfmblicsm C. W. HANCOCK, DJDITOB JLNJD PBOPEIETOB. AnEBIOUS, GEORGIA. Wednesday, December 6,1882. Official Organ of Sumter County Official Organ of Schley County. Official Organ of Lee County. Official Organ of Webster County. In Key West, Fla., the other day, Lieutenant-Governor Bethel insulted editor Pendleton, of the Democrat, in open court. When court adjourned Pendleton spit in the Lieutenant-Gov ernor’s face and cow-hided him. Served him right. Pendleton, it will be remem bered, is a Georgia editor, hailing from Valdosta. . -ii.i .♦ Secretary Folger’s statement of the Public Debt of the United States for the month of November has been re ceived. The report shows the aggregate of the interest bearing debt to be sl,- 418,066,800, interest due and unpaid, $1,645,032.73; accrued interest, $9,- 009.275.84. Debt on which interest has ceased, $545,055 26; interest due and unpaid, $441,409.66. Debt bear ing no interest, $472,112,160.17. To tal cash in the Treasury, $286,867,183.- 93. Frank James, the red handed mur derer and robber, who is in jail at Inde pendence, Mo., astonished a crowd of visitors the other day by denouncing Bob Ingersoll. James firmly avowed his belief m a God and a hell, and said that the followers of Ingersoll would certainly go to the latter place. Among other strong points made by James was the following; “Ingersoll goes about assailing the Saviour, and in this city 2,000 people turn out to hear him, while a man for using an indecent word when drunk is confined for thirty days. My God! how can such things be!” Our Rapid Transit. From the Detroit Free Pross. I had olten read of the slow speed made by southern railroad trains, but noticed nothing unusual until reaching Macon. The train pulled out at about fifteen miles an hour, slowed down to twelve and the waits were long and tedi ous. Some ot the crowd didn’t seem to care if we never got there, but the drum mer for a Philadelphia house took on terribly. He was blasting away when the conductor came along and inquired what ailed him. “Why, I’ll be left!” hotly exclaimed the drummer. “Let’s see? You go to Thomasvillc?” “Yes, sir.” “You change cars at Smithville?” “I ought to, but the train will be gone.” “Not a bit of it. That train is two hours behind time.” “Well, I’d rather wait in Smith ville.” “You couldn’t wait in that town two hours without being asked to drink some of the worst whisky ever made, and if you refused you’d have to fight.” “I could go to the hotel.” “Then you’d have to walk a mile in the sand. No’buss comes down until our train whistles.” “I might drum up a customer.” “You couldn’t drum nothing. The last northern drummer in Smithville had to fly for his life.” “Couldn’t I wait on the platform?” “No, sir. Them is no platform to wait on, and if there was, you’d be sus pected of wanting to start a turpentine fire.” “Well, it’s awful slow.” “What of it? The other train is still slower; no dinner can be had until we get there; there is nothing to see; the depot won’t be open; you can’t sell a paper of pins in the town; you can’t get on to Thomasville; no one in the town plays poker; you can’t find a decent cigar there, and from what I know of Smithville I can assure you that it has at least thirty citizens who would take a pop at yon on general principles with in six minutes of your landing there.” Soon after our speed was reduced to ten miles an hour, but the drummer had nothing more to say.— Detroit Free Press. The above does our sistercity great injustice. The hotels are in a few yards of the road, while the dinners are the best in Georgia. There is no whisky sold in the place, as there is a local op tion law forbidding it. Smithville is the most quiet, law-abiding people any where to be found. There are some good merchants that well informed drummers find it to their interest to see. 1 ♦ ■■■ Sheriffs Shot by Horse Thieves. Topeka, Kas., Nov. 29.— Sheriff Bush and Deputy Sheriff Miller, were shot yesterday, the former in the ankle and the latter in the hip, while attempt ing to serve a warrant on Charles Wil liam and John Cook yesterday morning at 3 o’clock. The Cooks are charged with horse stealing, hog stealing and breaking jail in lowa and Illinois, and are said to be desperate men. They all escaped from the house in which they were fotind, and stole three horses and fled. ' There is a general com plaint, all over the State, of the rotting of sweet pota toes. We have known them to be suc cesfully kept, the year round, by hill ing them in an open log house, well covered over head. Dry corn stalks and pine straw should be URed in cov ering them—with such a thickness of dirt as will koep them from freezing in cold weather. THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. He Reviews the More Important Matters which Appertain to Our Foreign and Diplo matic Intercourse. He Shows that the Excess of Reve nues Over Expenditures Reaches Nearly One and a Half Ulll liou Dollars* A PROSPEROUS COUNTRY. Washington, D, C., Dec. 3.-— The following is a faithful abstract of the President’s Message to Congress, which will be sent in on Tuesday at noon. He prefaces his message with a review of the more important matters which ap pertain to our foreign and diplomatic intercourse. He recites the fact of the passage of the immigration treaty with China, and announces that under the direction of the State Department, ar rangements have been effected for carry ing its provisions into operations. The South American troubles are treated at length, and comprise a succinct review of what has been done by the Govern ment in the direction of an amicable adjustment of the pending difficulties between the belligerents. The mission of Mr. Trescott and Walker Blaine to Peru and Chili is recalled, and reference is made to the reports submitted by them, which were the subject of full discussion in Congress and otherwise, officially, last spring. Tho apparent prostration of the effort made by this Government at that time in the inter ests of peace did not discourage further efforts in the same direction, and the appomtment of Mr. Logan as Minister to Chili was intended to convey to the Chilian Government assurance that the Government of the United States was still desirous, so far as might be proper and acceptable, to interpose its good offices. The President ventures to hope that the apparent obstacles which have so far confronted our Minister to Chili may eventually be overcome, to the credit of this Government and the satis faction of the hostile powers. On the subject of the movement for an International Peace Cengress to as semble in Washington City, inaugu rated under the administration of his predecessor, the President recites the fact of its interruption by his own order, and states as his teasons for giving such order that upon careful research and earnest reflection he had been unable to reconcile the customs that have prevail ed in the diplomacy of this Government with a proposition so far reaching in its scope and so doubtful in its effect, and that since upon Congress must de volve the development and ratification of such a proceeding, he had felt it in cumbent upon himself, in the interest of public policy, to transmit all the cor respondence which bore upon the sub ject, as well as the subject itself, to Congress. The President does not in timate an unfavorable attitude toward the assembling ©f such a Peace Con gress, hut prefers that if it shall assem ble its character and object shall, have been first the subject of thoughtful con sideration, and by the representatives of the people rather than by an Executive head of the Government alone. In this connection the President suggests the advisability of measures looking to the settlement of international difficulties by arbitration, which method, be re calls, has been the subject of profitable discussion, satisfying him that the ob ject is well worthy the attention of Congress as a means of securing pro longed peace. The President notifies Congress that, pursuant to the confirmation by the Senate of the Special Commissioners nominated by him, arrangements hare been progressing for a commercial treaty with Mexico, and the departure of the Commission will not be long de layed. Mention is made of several copyright and international treaties, notably with Spain and Belgium. The President treats briefly the mat ter of the arrest and imprisonment of American citizens in English jails, re citing the fact ef the arrest and of the inquiry regarding them on behalf of this Government; of the demands made through the State Department and our Minister to Eugland for the prompt trial ot the suspects or their release,and acknowledges the reparation subse quently'accorded by the English Gov ernment. This statement is supple mented by the announcement of the transmission to Congress with the mes sage of voluminous correspondence and other papers covering the subject. The President next reviews the oper ations of the Treasury Department. The ordinary revenues from all sources for the fiscal year ending June 30,1882, are shown to be as follows; From cus toms, $220,410,730.25; from internal revenue, $146,497,595,45; from sale of public lands. $4,773,140.37; from direct tax. $160,141.60; miscellaneous, $31,- 703,642.52. Total net revenue, $403,- 525,550.26. The surplus revenue was $145,543,810.71. The ordinary expen ditures for the same period were: For civil expenses, $57,219,750.68; for the military establishment, including rivers and harbors, $43,570,404.19; for the naval establishment, $15,032,049.26; for Indians, $9,736,747.40; for pen sions, $61,345,193.95; interest on pub lic debt, $71,077,206 79. Total ordi nary expenditures, $257,981,439.57. The receipts of the Government show an increase over those of 1881 of $22,- 251,054 23, in the revenue from cus toms; $11,233,209 94 from the internal revenue; $2,551,277.20 from sales of public lands; $6,707,416,34 from mis cellaneous sources, making a total in crease in the net revenue of $42,742,- 057 71. The total net revenue was $403,525,250.28. The net expenditures decreased from $260,712,887.55 to $257,981,440.20, a reduction of $2,- 731,447.39. which added to the increase makes $45,474,405 10 in the surplus revenue applicable to the reduction of the public debt. The expenditures, on account of interest on the public debt, show a reduction of $11,431,534.- 39—from $82,508,741.18 in 1881 to $71,099,206.71 in 1882. The excess of revenue over expendi tures was $145,543,810.08, and the amount applied to the reduction of the debt $166,281,505.55. The amount standing on the books of the Treasury to the credit of tho disbursing officers of the United States at the close of the fiscal year, was $36,067,872.48. The receipt for the fiscal year on ac count of the post-office department, were $31,836,062.30, and the expendi tures $39,265,268.43. Of thesejamounts $20,211,991.78, or about one-half, was received and expended directly by the Post-master, without being deposited in the treasury. The unavailable funds of the Treasury decreased from $29,- 521,632.72 to $28,517,275.32. The exports for the last fiscal year were $733,239,732, as against $883,- 925,947 during 1881, a decrease of $150,686,215. The value of our ex ports ot cotton was $109,812,644. The value of the exports of breadstuffs amounted to $182,070,528. The im ports during the year amounted to $724,639,574. The balance of trade in onr favor, in face of ourdecreased ex ports, aggregated nearly $26,000,000. The President congratulates the country upon its prosperity, and favors a rigid economy in public expenditures and a reduction of the internal taxes. He endorses the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury that the tax on distilled spirits, tobacco and fer mented liquors be reduced to a minimum consistent with sufficient revenue to meet largely in part the ordinary de mands of the government. He tavors otherwise the abolition of internal taxes, leaving spirits, tobacco and fermental liquors to bear the burden. A considerable of the message is de voted to a report of the operations con nected with the refunding of the 3 j per cent, bonds into 3 percents. From the fact that these latter bonds rule at a premium, the President suggests to Congress that in his opinion the time is now ripe for legislation which will enable the Secretary of the Treasury to further continue to refund the debt. He thinks the experience of the year conclusively shows that the bonds of the nation bearing 3 percent interest can be successfully placed. He aggre gates the amount of interest it will re quire to pay the 4 and 4js if they re main outstanding until maturity, and concludes that wise statesmanship ought to find out some means of escape from the burdens of such heavy drafts upon the Treasury on account of in terest. He recommends no specific plan; but, if some portion of the bonds are not funded, favors a modification of the law so that tlie National banks may in some way have the advantage of the premium on such bonds as are held by the United Mates Treasurer to secure their circulation. Touching the tariff, the President re news his recommendation of laßt year, that the existing laws need revision. He expresses the hope that the labors and the report of the Tariff Commis sionjmay be so enlightened as to facili tate Congress in dealing with the sub ject. The President also renews his recommendation for the early retire ment of the silver certificate, on the ground that they form an unnecessary addition to the paper currency-, which he thinks can be supplied in sufficient amounts to meet the demands of trade by the National Banks. An interesting clause of the message is devoted to the gold certificates. Of the issue authorized by the act of July 12, 1882, $138,000,000 has been order ed printed for issue; up to November Ist $21,790,005 had been issued, and $14,827,000 are held in the vaults of the several United States Sub-Treasu ries, leaving actually outstanding $6,- 962,280. Up to November Ist last there had been coined under the act of February 28, 1878, $128,359,880 standard silver dollars, of which $93,- 006,382 remain in the Treasury vaults, and $35,323,498, are in circulation. The President favors the repeal of the law which requires a fixed coinage for each month, and recommends that it be left to the discretion ot the Secretary of the Treasury. Alluding to the National Banking system, the President directs attention to the fact that up to October 31st last, over 170 banks had been organized, with an authorized capital of $15,767,- 300, and to which there has been issued circulating notes aggregating over $6,- 000,000. The total number of Nation al Banks is nearly 2,300. Since the passage of the act of Congress author izing National Banking Associations to continue their corporate existence, more than fifty banks have reorganized. In reviewing the report of the Post office Department, the President calls the special attention of Congress to the reductions in the cost of the Postal Service for the last fiscal year. The Star Route service, it is estimated, will cost for the fiscal year $5,500,000, which is more than $200,000 less than the cost of this service for the last fiscal year, and $1,750,000 less than the amount appropriated for the current year. He favors the suggestions of the Postmaster General for the establish ment of a Postal Savings system, and directs the attention of Congress to numerous recommendations circulated to promote cfficency and secure econo my in the postal service. For the next fiscal year the receipts are estimated in round numbers at $50,000,000, and the expenses at $47,000,000, and estimated excess of receipts over expenditures of $4,000,000. That portion of the message which relates to the War Department is of interest chiefly because of the concur rence by the president in the views of the Secretary touching an increase of the army and the curtailment of appro priations for public works. The Pres ident advises Congress that of the amounts appropriated in the last River and Harbor Appropriation Bill there remains on hand a large unexpected balance, which could not be applied during the year because of the late day at which these amounts became availa ble. Proceeding on the theory that taxation is to be reduced) the President joins with the Secretary of War in the hope that Congress for tho next fiscal year will make no appropriation on ac count of rivers and harbors, except in so far as may be necessary to prosecute work already begun, and for which the appropriation will have been exhausted at the end of the fiscal year. The operations of the Nary Depart ment are very briefly reviewed. The attention of Congress is invited to the report of the Board of Advisors of the Navy, in various recommendations ad vanced to promote its efficiency. The President concurs with the Secretary of the Navy in his recommendation for placing the navy on a better footing, both as to ships and armament. He also endorses the recommendation that the Revenue, Marine and Life Saving Service and Coast Survey be transferred from the control of the Treasury De partment to the Navy Department as a means of combining under a single head all similar services. He also states that since the adjournment of Congress a board has been appointed which is now engaged in an investigation of the circumstances attending the loss of the Arctic steamer Jeannette; also, the ap pointment of a commission to inspect the various navy yards now established, and to report upon such as can be dis pensed with without detriment to the public service. The policy of the Secretary of the Interior with regard to Indian affairs meets the President’s approval. H urges that such treatment of the In dians as will tend to civilize them should be encouraged, and calls atten tion to the firm and humanizing influ ences which have been thrown about them during the past year, resulting in an exceptional season of freedom from turbulence. The importance of a law to allow the Indians to hold their lands in severalty is also urged, on the ground that it would best tend to promote the welfare and permanent advancement of the Indians. The President congratulates Con gress upon the passage of last session’s law for the suppression of polygamy in the Territory of Utah. The com missioners appointed, under the law, have been engaged in their labors in Utah, and have made commendable progress. There were, and remain, obstacles of no mean order to be over come, which the President hopes may disappear without occasion for more stringent legislation. The failure of the people of that Territory to execute the law in its full spirit, was, he says, perhaps to have been expected, to some extent, because of the radical change in the election system heretofore prevail ing, and the natural aversion to the law of the great majority of the people of the Territory. He recommends the continuance of the commission until it shall have been demonstrated that is no longer practical necessity for it* use. The estimates required for the pay ment of pensions for the current year is $100,000,000. This is an increase over last year’s estimates, accounted for by the adjudication of a greater number of claims because of the increased cleri cal force organized at the last session of Congress. The President recalls the prosecution of the Star Route cases under the De partment of Justice, announcing the progres already made, and the deter mination of the administration to secure a full investigation and a satisfactory outcome in the courts. He declares it to be his purpose, as it is that of the Department, to obtain only a just result and one that will commend itself to intelligent and fair-minded opinion. But the administration will not suffer obstruction at the hands of its own offi cials, as has been shown by removal* from office as the penalty of official de partments from a correct course of ac tion. The President takes care to em phasize the infliction of these penalties as having been prompted wholly in a spirit of loyalty to the reasonable de mands ot the Government, and heC"in mends the action of the Department of Justice in this respect, referring to the Attorney-General’s report and corres dence transmitted from the Department of Justice. Nor does the President forget the Civil Service. He is still in favor for its elevation, and some plan which will improve it by reason of a more stable tenure. He is opposed to removals save for inefficiency, neglect or malfeasance. He makes no recommendation as to what should be done to reform it, taking the ground that it is within the ample ju risdiction of Congress. The message concludes with a review of the operations of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. It recites under thiß caption the fact that the im provement of the Potomac flats has been begun, and that it will he prosecuted to the earliest completion in the interest of both the commerce and health of the National Capital. Clergymen Charged with Murder Columbus, 0., Nov. 29. —The coro ner concluded the inquest yesterday concerning the murder of Fanny Creigh ton at Lithopolis. The verdict was death from unknown hands, but the evidence aroused strong suspicions against Joseph and Charles F. Creigh ton, father and son, ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They are brothers-in-law of Mrs. Creighton, who killed her husband. A special to an evening paper says their arrest will probably be made to-day. 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If he can conceive of nothing else, he forthwith tackles the code.” Fetas and Advertiser: A young white man named Lovett was arrested by Sheriff Edwards in Worth county Tuesday, and lodged in Dougherty oounty jail, to await a visit trom the sheriff of Decatur county. The young man is wanted in the latter county to show evidence why he should not be sent to the penitentiary for forgery. Eastman, December I.—lt is report ed here that the horso and buggy driven by the mail carrier between Hawkins ville and Jacksonville, Telfair county, was found yesterday in Cypress creek, some twenty-five mileffsouth of Haw kinsville.and the mail carrier had mys teriously disappeared. Some seem to think he may have fallen into the creek and was drowned. The Uplands hotel is being painted a beautiful shade of olive green. It will present a handsome appearance when the finishing touches are put on. It is said the Scofields, who formerly had charge of the Up lands, will keep the new hotel recently built by Messrs. Asburn and Litch. Three more negroes were tried and Convicted of r< scuing a prisoner, and were sentenced each to a term of twelve months in the county chain-gang to be releived on payment of one hundied dollars and costs each, the costs in each case amounting to $25. The names of these negroes are Alexander Dillard, Aaron Dillard, and Nelson Riley. They were indicted, with a dozen or more others, upon the charge of rescu ing a conple of prisoners irom officers Wm. G. Hunt and Thomas E. Taylor These officers went to a colored peo ple’s party on Saturday night, 18th inst.,and arrested with bench warrants a negro man and his wife. The officers were surrounded by a howling mob of negroes armed with pistols, knives, fence rails, etc., and their lives threat ened if they did not release the prison ers. The negroes cursed the officers for d—d sons of b—hs, and punched them with pistols and sticks, and the officers were compelled to surrender the prisoners.— Hawkinsville Dispatch. seur JuliTsectmcnts. BRICK BRICK. BRICK 1 have THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND good new brick, which I will sell cheap. Apply at once. * dec6lm R. E. COBB. Teachers’ Examination Office Sup’t. Pdbic Schools, \ Americus, Ga., December 2, 1882. j The committee of PuhlicScbools will hold a session on Thursday, December 14th, at 9 o’clock A M., for the purpose of examining applicants for the position of Principal of High School. Applicants will be required to stand an examination in Latin, Higher Mathematics, English Grammar, and such branches as are usually taught in High Schools. By order of Committee on Examinations, etc. JOHN NEELY, Supt. dec6td Valuable Plantations for Sa'e I offer for sale my Plantation, one mile north east from Depot at Adams Station, S. W. R. R. Containing four hundred and live acres. Five room dwelling house and nec cessary out buildings. Two hundred and twenty five acres cleared, average fencing. Will sell at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, cash, about half its value. Also another Plantation, one and a half miles southwest from Adams Station, con taining four hundred and five acres. New Gin, Screw, Gin house, sugar mill and ket tles, Blacksmith shop, and four tenant houses, good cribs and stockade for mules. One hundred and thirty five acres cleared, part fresh land. I offer this place at §3.00 per acre cash. Also eight good mules, corn, fodder and cotton seed. Persons wanting homes, or good farming lands, will do well to look at these places, they are very convenient for raising vegetables and melons forshipment. For further information apply to T. M. BOOKER, deefilm Leesburg, Ga. Application for Leave to Sell. GEORGIA—Sumter County. To All Whom it May Concern. Whereas, 8. Y. Hall, administrator on the estate of Francis Hall, late of Sumter county deceased, having filed his petition in my office for leave to sell the real estate be longing to the said deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish al 1 parties interested whether kindred or credi tors to show cause on or before January termof said Court to be held the first Mon day in January, why said letters should not be granted to the said petitioner as pray ed for. Witness my hand and official signature, this the sth day of December, 1882. deofl-30d , T. H. Stewart, Ord’y. For Bale. The Berrien County News and Office outfit, including two presses; an eight column Washington Hand Press, and Gordon jobber, in good condition, is offered for sale during the next thirty days. The {taper is in its eightli volume, and its circu atlongood. Address, “NEWS,” dec2tf Alapaha, Ga. Millinery. Millinery. Mrs. M. B. 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THE MADISON SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY Will present its great New York success of last season, the exquisite domestic drama ESMERALDA By Mrs. Frances Hodson Burnett and W. H, Gillette, as presented at the Midison Square Theatre for one year, i Beautiful Hum >ic Love story. Scenes in North Carolina and Paris Produced with special Scenery for each act from the Jladison bquare Theatre. ISTReservcd Seats at Mrs. Elam’s Milli nery store. Reserved Seats, @1.00; Admis sion, 75c.; Gallery, 50c. Curtain rises at 8:00 r. m. precisely. ESMERALDA. Those who have been so fortunate as to witness the famous play of “Hazel Kirke,” as produced by the Madison Square Theatre Company, must feel a natural desire to see the drama which is universally conceded to be the successor and rival of the former great play. 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I HAVE MATERIALS OF ALL KIND IN ALL THE NEW STYLES, Applique Figures for Table-Cov ers, Lambrequins, Tidies, Applique Silk Embroidery for Bannerettes, Pincushions, Watch Cases, Etc, Embroideried Slippers from 50c to $2.50, Slipper Cases, Perforated Panel Pictures for Embroidery, Plaques and Palettes for Painting. JU T RECEIVED I A LOT OF Beaver Hats and Turbans WHICH 1 WILL SELL VERY LOW. JfMrs, Jft, TANARUS, Elam* nov29tf FALL MILLINERY ! A splendid assortment of IN E W F- L. Xj MILLINERY AT THE STORE OF Mrs. M. I RAINES. The Ladies and all desiring to purchase something New and Fashionable i in Millinery, will find it to their advantage to examine her stock at an early date. STORE AT THE OLD STAND, Jackson Street, west of the Public Square, Americus, Ga. octl4tf New lliillnery LATEST STYLES OF HATS, TRIMMINGS/ RIBBONS, LINGERIE, HANDKERCHIEFS, . AND FANCY GOODS, A NEW STOCK OF SPIT ZEPHYR I In all Colors, Just Received* k a.tb kino . 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