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C. W. HANCOCK,
UDITOB. PROPRIETOR.
AnEltlOV§, GEORGIA*
Wednesday Morning. March 7, 1883-
Official Organ of City of Americus.
Official Organ of Sumter County
Official Organ of Schley County.
Official Organ of Lee County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
The American Legion of Honor,
which was started four years ago with
ten members, has now 1,100 councils,
located all over the United States,
with over 40,000 members.
Governor Boynton has issued his
proclamation ordering an election to be
held on Tuesday, the 25th of April, for
Governor, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Governor Stephens.
Also, convening the Legislature to
meet together on the 9th of May, to
count the vote or elect a Governor in
the event of no election.
It is to be hoped that a large assem
bly will meet at Glover’s Opera
House on Thursday afternoon next in
honor of the deceased Governor.
Doubtless every citizen will feel in
clined by his presence to express the re
spect he feels for his State and Gov
ernor. No apprehension of a tumultu
ous assembly need detain ladies or in
firm persons from being present. Let
all come and do respect to to the hon
ored dead.
The new five-cent piece, which wen
thought to be such model* of artistic
design, have to be melted and coined
over again because the mint authorities
forgot to include the word “cents.’
The letter “V” indicates only partially
the denomination, and without th<
word “cents” a good counterfeiter
would have very little difficulty ii
gilding the coin and passing it for a
five-dollar gold piece. Besides, a sec
tion of the Revised Statutes prescribes
that a designation of the value of the
coin shall appear on it.
Not long ago an old pioneer, win
had lived in Texas in the days of the
early colonists, was boasting of the
g“od old times. “Why, sir,” said he.
"I was once offered a league oflaud for
a pair of old boots.” “Didn’t you
take it?” said the party he was talk
ing to. “No, sir; I didn’t.” “No-ac
count land, I reckon?” “Why, Hess
your heart, sir, it was the best piece of
land outdoors. Grass five feet high,
clear stream of water running through
it, and an undeveloped silver mine in
one corner.” “And why didn’t you
make the trade?” said the other. “Be
cause,” said the old man, in a sad and
regretful tone ut v< ice, “because I—l
didn’t have the boots.”
Gov. Stephens’ Successor.
While with bated breath in honoi
of the departed Governor, conversation
runs respectfully, yet the question
still recurs who can fill the vacancy ?
who will he acceptable to the people ?
who has the proper measure of com
petence ? While engaged in these con
versations a disposition to answer
them springs spontaniously.
Georgia has so many good men,
available in ail sense of the word, that
it is hard to choose between the names
that spriugtothe surface.
While we could name several in
Southwest Georgia, and even in Ameri
cas, yet on the spur of the moment,
the one who seems to be most accept
able is a resident of our sister city
Macon, Hon. T. J. Simmons, young,
vereitileiu resources,administrative and
commanding by nature, modest and
nripretensious, he seems to have struck
the public sense as the proper man to
succeed the great Stephens. In yield
ing to such, a conviction, we do no vio
lence to the well founded claims of
many others whose names have been
honormiy mentioned *n other journals
an I who ever shall be esteemed worthy
to don the Gubernatorial mantle, will
me *t our hearty support and gratula
tio is Every aspirant will of course
be nioroughly sifted and his qualifica
tion < brought to the front and his defi
cienc es mastered into line for inspec
tion. Under this state of facts we have
no fen's for T. J. Simmons. He will
pass a most scrutinizing investigation.
Of con -e we do not know his pleasure
In the premises over and above what
we see puohsheii in the Macon papers,
which 'late that he has not fully de
termined upon a candidacy. Hoping
that h ■ will be a candidate we com- j
mend oim to the consideration of the
people.
A said the child in Time. Do not
wait u itil an army of worms have
been re ruited and the health of the
child destroyed. A few doses of
Shriner s Indian Vermifuge, the in
llalible remed; r, never fails to do the
work w ‘ll, if us ted according to the di
rections.
In the Midst of Life We Arc in
Death.
How true and yet how sad it is that
our hopes and contents are in a moment
dashed into dust. A. H. Stephens,
the most unexceptionable man who
ever wore Gubernatorial honors, has
shuffled off his mortal coil and left a
State, yea, a Nation,in sorrow. Gifted
beyond the aspirations of man, learned
in Constitutional and statutaay law,
schooled in all the aethics that enter
into the com position of the great orator
versed in the philosophy of social life
and necessities, he sat without a peer
in the lapse of ages, the Governor ol
Georgia. Having filled all the posi
tions of responsibility and trust in the
gift of his section except, one and ex
cluded from that by the arbitrary re
quirements of tyrany, he led from early
manhood a preeminently brilliant careei
to the date of his death. The great and
fearless commoner of Georgia breathed
his last on Sunday morning at 3 o’clock.
But what rendered him great was his
earnest devotion to truth and right, in
defense of which, as he conceived them,
his heart was as fearless as his body
was delicate and feeble, as incorrup
tible as Aristades of Greece, or Cato ot
Rome. His example will shine as a
beacon to guide the youth of his
country for ages to come. But we will
leave it for other pens to portray the
<alient features in the perfect character
if this great Georgian, and call atten
tion to the last hours as well as thi
ceremoniis which we dlip from the
Post-Appeal, for the benefit of our
readers.
Truly a great and good man bas
fallen. In the language of our con
emporary, the Atlanta Everting Star.
“His memory will live in the hearts oi
bis people. He would need no better
epitaph than the one suggested by tbs
poor country boy who, wanting help
toward his education, and reaching
Crawfordville, where he had been ad
vised to go and see Mr. Stephens, and,
orgetting the name of the man he hat
been sent to see, asked; ‘Where is the
man who educates poor boys ?’ ”
In addition we would add to the re
marks above that Mr. Stephens is tin
only Governor who died in office ex
cept Governor Rabun. The history ol
whose death is familiar to the leading
publie.
Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine.
The April number cantains even
more than the usual attractive features.
The Rev. Moses D. Hogo contributes
“What is Presbyterianism?” being No.
IV. of “Religious Denominations in the
United States;” the editor Dr. Tal
cnage, has a characteristic article,
“Mending the Bible;” Edwin DeLeon
continues those deeply interesting pa
pers, “The American Pilgrim in Pales
tine,” etc., etc. There are serial and
short stories, a large number of very
excellent sketches, some admirably
written essays, a sermon by Dr. Tal
mage, “Homesickness,” several poems
of great merit; a record of important
events, Personal Notes and Comments,
Editorial Comments, Obituary Notes,
etc. The miscellany is most compre
hensive, entertaining and instructive;
the number, in fact, overflows with
good things, and abounds with illus
trations. The price is only 25 cents a
copy, or $3 a year, post-paid. Address,
Mrs. Frank Leslie, Publisher, 53, 55
and 57 Park Place, New York.
The May number will contain tlie
first of a series of papers by Lieutenant
Fred Schwatka, the Arctic explorer,
entitled, “Among the Natives of the
Nortn.”
One Experience from Many.
I have been sick and miserable so
long and had caused my husband so
much trouble and expense, no one
seemed to know what ailed me, that
I was completely disheartened and
discouraged. In this frame of mind
I got a bottle of Hop Bitters and used
them unknown to my family. I soon
began to improve, and gained so fast
that my husband and family thought
it strange and unnatural, but when 1
t<*ld them what had helped me, they
said, “Hurrah for Hop Bitters! Long
may they prosper, for they have made
mother well and us happy.” —The
Mother.
The Evening Stal
ls the name of anew afternoon paper
just started by the Star Publishing Cos.,
which company has been incorporated,
and of which Mr. Erastus Brainerd, for
merly of the Constitution, is the editor,
with Mr. 11. H. Cabaniss, well known in
journalistic circles, as the business
manager. In their card the publishers
say the Star has sufficient capital to
meet the demands it is likely to make,
and has no favors to ask beyond those
the public always accords to a legiti
mate and honest enterprise. The num
bers before us are very neat typograph
ical specimens, and its pages show a
vigorous idea of the duties of journal
ism.
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A NATIONS LOSS I
Governor Alexander Hamilton
Stephens, ex-Vice-Prcsident
Confederate States
is no More.
The Last Hoars cf the Great States
man-Disposition of the Remains.
Post-Appeal.
The evening shades gathered over
Atlanta in sadness, on Saturday,March
3rd, 1883.
There was a hushed calmness that
seemed to pervade everywhere, which
was only disturbed by the softinqniries
if anxious people passing to and fro
along the streets as to the condition of
Georgia’s illustrious Great Commoner
Alexander Hamilton Stephens.
That he was approaching death rap
idly seemed to gain credence as if by
institution. There was that fond lin
gering hope that this “spell” might
prove to be as so many that have pro
ceeded it—only temporary, and one
from which the great patient sufferer
would soon recover. Precedent seemed
to have established the impression in
ihe minds of even those - closest to the
Governor that he would soon rally and
ae “as well as ever.” There were only
a few who seemed to know that the fiual
tissolution was near at hand. Even
Governor Stephens’ private Secretary,
Colonel Seidell, believed up to the very
last moments that his illustrious patron
would be “all right in a few days.”
The morning of Sunday, March 4th,
1883, dawned beautiful and bright.
The glistening rays of the rising sun
shone first through the boughs of the
iioiant trees and ascended the arched
tome of heaven in majestic splendor.
Seven o’clock came and then the people
who had been getting their Post-Ap
peal at six o’clock caught the first
rliinp.se of the faithful carrier boy’.
Many knew that something dreadful
nad happened. They had talked in
muffled tones the evening before in con
gregated groups and knots hero and
here about the streets of Atlanta, and
bey anticipated the worst by the late
iess of the arrival of their morning
paper.
Said one gentleman yesterday in the
-treet car who resides some distance
mt Peachtree street: “I got the news
first in the Post-Appeal, but 1 knew
from the lateness of its coming that the
Governor must be dead.” The great
Georgian, ho who has long been appro
priately apostrophized as The Great
Commoner, passed quietly and peace
fully to eternal rest without a shudder
or a murmur.
The life of Alexander H. Stephens
is its own eulogy. But a synopsis of
his history follows this, written by his
eloquent historian while living, Col.
Henry W. Cleveland, who of alt men
in Georgia is most fitted for writing a
ketch of his life since he is dead.
There are those now who think that
lie should not have consented to run for
Governor but adhered to his determina
tion to retire at the end of his Congres
sional term.
A SINGULAR ANOMALY.
It will be observed that his Congres
sional term would have expired just
three hours and twenty minutes before
he died, as the Forty-seventh Congress
expired at 12 o’clock Saturday night,
and Governor Stephens breathe! in*
last breath of life at twenty minute*
after three. As to whether he would
have died at the same time had he re
mained in Congress and hot become
Governor, is a matter that no one
knows save Him who Knows All
Things.
The writer of this, who Mr. Steph
ens always greeted cordially as “Met,”
because of that signature to his news
paper letters—saw him last alive last
Wednesday mosning. There were then
only a few persons in the chamber.
We approached his bed-side, and his
thin white hand was stretched forth
from under the cover, when there was a
warm, cordial grasp that still linger in
memory. We then looked in his face,
and at his palid, emaciated neck as it
lay bare to view, and saw that death
was not far away. The feeling came
up and could not be banished. Alec
Kent, hi3 faithful valet, came in with
a plate of gruel, and said to him that
he had fixed him a little something to
see if he couldn’t eat it. Governor
Stephens asceuted, and we withdrew
with the gravest of fears.
IUS LAST RATIONAL TALK.
The dear, good man, who had never
turned a deaf ear to suffering humanity
had indorsed the bond of a colored man
at Crawfordville, who was charged with
a crime. The colored man was in At
lanta and wanted to go down and plead
guilty and release his Mars Aleck from
further responsibility. Colonel John
A. Stephens, the Governor’s nephew
had to take him down. Sunday, yes
terday week, Colonel Stephens said to
the Governor, “Now, if you are not
better I shall not go down yonder to
day.” The Governor said he felt bet
ter than he had in some time,and really
did seem to be so cheerful and so much
better that Col, John Stephens did go
down to Crawfordville. lie returned
on Wednesday, arrived in Atlanta at
12:55 p. m. Going to the Executive
Mansion and getting into the Gover
nor’s chamber as soon as possible he
was informed hy the Governor that a
private conversation was desired. Col
onel Stephens closed the doors and sat
down beside his bed. The Governor
then inquired particularly about how
everything was getting on “at home.”
Just then, Linton, one of the servants
opened the door when Mr. Stephens
told him to “remain outside a while, as
he wanted to talk privately with his
Mars John.” Colonel Stephens then
began to tell his uncle all about "home
affairs,” when soon he discovered that
his auditor was asleep. Soon it was
discovered that he was talking in his
sleep, and upon awaking he was uncon
scious and that waß the last talk he
made. Once or twice between that
time and his death he recognized some
of those aronjtd him, particularly when
his attention’was called specially to
them. For instance, he was asked by
Colonel John A. Stephens if he knew
him, when he replied, “Its John.”
Again his old and tried physician, Dr.
Steiner, upon arriving Friday afternoon
from Augusta confronted the dying
statesman And enquired if he knew him.
Mr.Stephenß pleasently replied, “Why,
doctor how are you? Is Mrs. Steiner
with you?” Upon another occasion
when Dr. Thomas Rains, his faithful
attendant physician during his last ill
ness was turning him in bed when he
said “Oh, doctor, you hurt me!” These
are said to be his last words.
DESCRIPTION.OF TilE ROOM.
This wonderful man lay upon a
single bed in the southwest corner of
the southwest room of the executive
mansion, on Peachtree street, his feet
pointing a little east of north, but
square with the room. Tho long tabic
where his Secretary, Col. Seidell, per
formed his last labors—which was the
reading and correcting the proof of his
Sesqui-Centennial speech, which had
been put in proof for him by the Post-
Appeal, was still in tho same position,
and in the north corner of the room
was the couch whereon slept his ser
vant, Alec Kent. The now historic
roller chair had been wheeled into the
south parlor and stood motionless in
the centre of the room. The little
terrier dog that loved Mr. Stephens so
well and was loved so well in return,
moped strangely about the room with
a muzzle over his nose to prevent his
bitting those whom he thought in
truders. A door on the east side oi
the room into a small private or library
room, where the Governor most alway*
held his private conversations while
visitors remained in his chamber. A
door on the north side opened into the
large hall just opposite the dining
room. Mr. Stephens always slept on
the ground floor, if he could got that
accommodation. This he dii at the
Mansion and used his chamber as his
office for the transaction of business.
HIS LAST MOMENTS.
Dr. Steiner, of Augusta, who for
many years had been Mr. Stephen’s
physician, and who had brought him
safely through many severe attacks,
was telegraphed for and arrived here
Friday afternoon. He said from the
first that Mr. Stephans was worse than
he ever knew him before. He, how
ever, hoped for the best until he could
make a diagnosis on Saturday morning.
When lie had examined the Governor
on Saturday morning he at once fore
saw the end, yet was reticent about ad
mitting it. At six o’clock Saturday
morning all hope was discarded. It
was this news that spread over the
city and produced a dreadful feeling.
At 9 o’clock when tlie editor of ttie
Post-Appeal called at the Executive
Mansion, all was stillness. The fam
ily of Col. John A. Stephens, who
have been dispensing the hospitalities
of the Executive Mansion—the Gover
nor being ah unmarried man—and the
inmates of the mansion, went to their
apartment. A mustard plaster was
applied to the wrist of the dying man,
and it had a slight preceptibleellect,
and Dr. Steiner again hoped. At
length his feet and hands began to
grow cold. Dr. H. V. M. Miller,
Dr. Henry 11. Steiner and Dr. Thomas
Rains had remained with him patiently.
They could not devise a method by
which to make him sleep, which,
above all things else, was required,
except by the administration of chlo
ral, and that was deemed inadvisable
for the reason that death had already
seized the patient and chloral might
hasten it. Dr. Miller remained with
his friend while Drs. Steiner and Rains
took a nap. At about 3 o’clock they
were awoke, and soon the three phy
sicians were by the deatli bed of the
greatest of all Georgians. Besides
these there were present Mrs. Linton
Stephens, the widow of his beloved
brother, Mrs. J. G. Grier, Mrs. Col.
J ohn A. Stephens, also her husband
and Col. C. W. Seidell, private secre
tary: Col. John T. Henderson, Com
missioner of Agriculture; Judge Hall,
of the Supreme Court; Mr. A. L.
Kontz, Mr. R. lv. Paul and Mr. T. B.
Brady, as well as Alec Kent and Lin
ton Stephens, the two good servants.
Dr. Miller held the dying man’s wrist
and tried to feel his ebbing pulse,
while the others looked on in silence.
Dr. Steiner leaned over tho bedside
and, looking intently into the face, saw
nothing but a corpse! Life had fled !
The statesman was gone! The greatest
friend humanity ever had lay still in
Death ! Hero ! Statesman ! Philoso
pher ! Patriot ! Friend of Humanity !
Scholar and Historian ! Honest Man ! !
Those were attributes of his and others
beside.
Prepirations at once began for the
proper disposition of the body. By
six o’clock the mortal remains of Alex
ander H. Stephens were lying on a bier
in the north parlor of the Executive
Mansion, extending diagonally across
the room, but with the head to the
west and to the east.
JIOW HE LOOKED.
He was dressed in a pUiu bpad
cloth suit—dress coat—with full
bosomed white shirt, old familiar pair
of'gold stud buttons, black silk neck
tie, knotted as was his custom. The
eye glasses he had used so long hung
from their accustomed place on the
right side of his coat lappel. His hands
were eimaspd in drab colored lisle
thread gloves and his feet in his usual
walking shoes neatly blacked. The
left leg a little shorter than the right
and the shoe with a raised cork sole.
His whitish gray hair was brushed
back carefully and the body rested on
a bier was uncovered, and reclined at
an angle of aboutthirty degrees. The
head rested on a pillow over which
was thrown a plain white satin ploth.
The appearance of his features were
very remarkable and life like. He did
not appear at all as if dead, and those
who knew him best say that he looked
better than he has in forty years. The
color cainc to his face and thero was a
beautiful smile pervaded which seemed
to indicate that be was in the act of
opening his glistening black eyes and
speaking pleasantly to those persons
around him.
\ isitors began to arrive before seven
o’clock aud there was a continual
stream during the whole day. At
many times the large parlor tvas crowd
ed, also the hall.
The case of Mr. Stephens is not dif
ficult to understand. His physicians
are not of the opinion that his visit to
Savannah was even the remote cause
of his death. To those who knew
him best it even seems that tho roar of
the multitude, the brilliant military
array, the almost royal reception given
him on the anniversary of the landing
of Oglethorpe and the founding ot the
city a*Btl the Stale one hundred and
fifty years before, was only giving the
food on which he has always lived;
and more likely to help than harm
him. The weather was very bad,
damp and ra .v and no doubt he missed
tho perfectly even temperature which
was always regulated by the thermom
eter in his room. He decline ! the trip
to Florida more from a wish to bo at
the post of duty than from inability to
go. His nephew and chief heir, 001.
John A. Stephens, met him with the
carriage on his return, and he said in
his usual pleasant way: “I am feeling
very well.” At the Executive Man
sion, he got out and said he felt cold
and would get in bed to get warm. As
he had so little warmth in his slight
body, this was usual with him. He
had no chill, no congestion, no fever.
A slight bowel derangement was at
onee and easily corrected by Dr. Rains.
But about ten days before the end,
something happened that his old phy
sician, Dr. Steiner, of Augusta, had
long feared. lie bad been at work,
and it was with difficulty that his
secretaries had persuaded him to con
tinue'some perplexing election cases.
But if over work was the cause it wa>
only the breaking of the long strung
bow-string. He said to one oi' the P.
A. staff just before the Savannah trjp:
“I believe that Senator Brown and
myself were the two hardest working
men in Congress.” When asked why
he did not delegate some of tho official
ditties, such as the answering of ordi
nary correspondence, and all simple
cases, to his very able secretaries, he
said, “I have all confidence iu these
gentlemen, but it lias always seemed
to that the humbler the applicant oi
writer—well, I will not say, the more
he is entitled to respect and attention,
but that he is just as much so as the
greatest.”
A colored minister of Griffin, Ga.,
then came in and was cordially received
and presented with a book. Such hab
its of bard work, universal audience,
and even giving literary receptions,
were far too much for a man who
was seventy-one years old in February.
As said, his stomach ceased to show
any action to either food or medicines.
He had to be stimulated; and at the
same time opiates were given to in
duce the needed sleep. After this thp
question was, will his constitution, that
he has has never abused, and his iron
will produce the rebound that is need
ed? He saw the peril, and his system
might not recuperate from such a
shock, and this might be the time.
He was fully conscious the most of the
time, and even on the last day would
say, when asked, if he knew friends,
“Yes, this is John,” and the like. He
was gentle and docile as a child. Even
at the last, when the hours were num
bered, and the last effort to revive his
circulation with mustard was given
over, he evidently had flashes of intel
ligence. The kindling eyes showed
that he knew the friends to whom he
could no longer speak, and who could
only sit and pray God to relieve his
pain, and open wide the gates to the
heaven that in all its splendid ranks
holds no more upright soul. He real
ized in death that ideal of Bryant, of
one “who folds the drapery of his
couch about him, and lies down to
pleasant dreams.”
At first it was thought to bury him
at his own graveyard beside Liberty
Ilall, but it has been decided to keep
the remains in state at the Capitol un
til Thursday at 10 o’clock and bury
him in Atlanta, at least temporarily.
Thus has passed away the model
man of the age. He is a hero to be
worshipped and emulated by all young
men in future generations,. He knew
nothing but right. He loved his God,
his country and his fellow man. Look
ing down through the vista of years
that are gone there is not in all history
a man like him. His must have been
a mission of God. We shall never
look upon his like again.
He was my friend, and in his dark
est hour of need he said to others that
he knew I would not desert him—and
I did not. M. E, T.
MR. STEPHENS' RELUHOUS BELIEP.
A few moments after death had taken
place, someone remarked on the calm
ness and tranquility with which Mr.
Stephens had faced it from the first.
Ur. Steiner said: “ Such a man as Mr.
Stephens could have faced any sort of
death with perfect calmness.”
Someone asked about his religious
belief. Dr. Steiner said:
“I was with Mr. Stephens several
years ago when he was very low— he
thought he was dying and I was very
fearful. I was going to Augnsta for
the night when he stopped me. He
said: ‘Doctor, I want you to see me
die. Except Toombs and my family,
I think more of you than of any man
on earth. 1 want you with me when
I die. I agreed to stay with him.
Shortly afterwards Dr. Irvine came in.
He said: ‘Mr. Stephens, I will go out
and see Harry and his family, and when
I como back, if you have no objections,
I will read a chapter in the Bible, and
we will have a prayer.’ Mr. Stephens
said quickly:
“I do object and most decidedly. I
have no objection to prayer, for I her
lieve in it, but I do object to dei'h-bel
repentance. I have made it the i tile of
my life to rive each day as if it were
going to be my last. In the heat of
politics I may have sometime forgotten
myself, but I am no better to-dav on my
death-bod than I have tried to be every
day of my life, and I have no special
preparations to make and no special
pleas to offer.’
“That was Mr. Stephens’ creed and
belief. I heard him say on another
occasion, ‘Real prayer means to throw
yourself at the feet of Jesus Christ and
to pray trustingly. My prayer is the
Lord’s prayer and the publican’s
prayer.’ Mr. Stephens’ creed was sim
ple, but it would have sufficed to have
carried him without a tremor through
the most terrible death struggle. It
was the rule of his life to live every day
as if it were to be tho last.”
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sandy; tlie farm is well watered. The im
provements consist of an eight-room frame,
shingle roof, dwelling; two rooms about. 1G
feet square; two,fifteen feet, and two shed
rooms, good frame kitchen; frame shelter
for stock; gin house; screw, with improved
horse power; corn crib, and four laborers’
houses; all in good repair; good water; }wo
bored wells; healthy location. Has orchard
of peaches, apples and pears, and a good
vineyard of black and white scuppernoug
grapes; ought to yield ino gallons of wine a
year. For price and terms, apply to
W. J. DIBBLE,
niar7-tf Real Estate Agent.
- For Salfe
A desirable improved farm, only one and
three-quarter miles southeast from Ameri
cus, Ga., in good neighborhood, healthy, a
good school within half a mile; excellent
water, both well and spring; place contains
16G 2-3 acres; 73 acres cleared; balance tim
bered. Barn, carriage house and stable,
and laborers’ houses all in good repair. I lie
dwelling and outbuildings are framed,
shingle-roofed, and everything in good re
pair. Dwelling contains six rooms and five
fire-places, two front rooms plastered, two
just in rear ceiled; two back rooms not
ceiled; a piazza in front of tho house, cook
room attached to the rear of the house by
covered way. This is a choice farm and a
good home, and while tlie owner does not
care to give possession before next fall; say*
if the purchaser will pay him for his time
aud labor in sowing corn, etc., lie will move
out at once, if desired. The improvements
are worth §3,000. For price and terms, ap
ply to W. J. DIBBLE,
mai'7-tf Roal Estate Agent.
Application for Homestead.
GEORGIA— Sumter County.
To all whom it may Concern.
Whereas, M. M. Suggs has applied to
me for exemption of personalty and setting
apart and valuation of homestead, and I
will pass upon tlie same at U o’clock on
Saturday, 3lst day March, 1883, at my offiec
in Americus, said county.
Witness my hand aud official signature,
this Gth day of March, 1883.
TUOS. H. STEWART,
mar7-td Ordinary.
Mrs. M.T.EL&M
- HAS GONE TO
NTRW YORK
TO BUY HER
SPRING GOODS
Americus, March 7, 1883.
SALE OF PUBLIC SQUARE
A Cliancc for Investment in
Very Valuable Property.
Sealed bids will be received by the under
signed until TUESDAY, APRIL 3,1883, for
the purchase of tiie Public Square in Amri
cus, Ga. The square is about 310 feet by
320 feet. All the property is offered, includ
ing thp Court Iloqse building, except qqe
hundred feet square on the northwest coir
ner, alroady sold to R. J. Pony.
Terms, one-fourth cash, one-fourth Ist of
October, 1883, one-fourth Ist of April, 1884,
and one-fourth Ist of October, 1884, with in
terest on deferred payments at 7 per cent,
per annum. Possession of the property will
be given at once, except -that the Court
House building, twenty feet around it and
twenty feet leading to the streets on the
south and west 3ides of the Court House, is
reserved to be used by the county until Oc
tober, 1884.
The Commissioners reserve the right to
reject any and all bids.
Titles will be perfected when the last pay
ment is made. For any further informa
tion apply to the undersigned.
Done by order of the Commissioners of
Roads and Revenue for Sumter county, this
March sth, 1883.
J. W. WHEATLEY,
mar7-tf Clerk Board.
FITTERS
Invalids who are recovering vital stamina,
declare in grateful term t their appreciation
of tlie merits as a tonic of Hostetler's Stom
ach Bitters. None only does it impart
strength to the weak, but also corrects an
irregular acid state of tlie stomach, makes
the bowels act at proper intervals, gives ease
to those who suffer from rheumatic and kid
ney troubles, and conquers as well at pre
vents fever and ague.
For tale by all Druggists and Dealers
generally.
FOR SALE.
100 bushels GROUND PEAS of my own
raising, at §1.25 per bushel.
GEO. W. GLOVER.
nCIMM A reading London
He la iral all Physician establish**
1® 11IV anotuec in New York
gjfii jjg ■ Mk far the cure of
| I O epileptic fits.
(WB am Mae! Am. Journal of Medlctno.
Dr. AD. Meserole (late of London), who makes a spor
clalty a' Epilepsy, has without doubt treatodand cure 4
more c.tbos than any othorllvlnfr physician Ills suer
ccss has simply been astonishing; *8 ]>ave bo*rd of
poses of over 20 years’ standing successfully cured by
him. 110 lias published a work on this disoaso, which
ha Bonds with a large bottle of his wonderful cure frtH
|o nny suff-ror who may send their e*presa and P. Q
Addresa. W i advise any one wishing a cure to address
Pi. AU. ME3EROLB, Ho. to John Bt., Hew York,
WALL P \PhK.
Fashionable Colors and Designs.
For Parlors, Chambers, Halle, &c.
Send for samples aud bottom prices.
Mailed free.
BUY OF TUB MlXtl tCIU EKS,
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20 minutes of New York. Position# for all worthy
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patronage. Write forcircuhirs. II.COLEMAN.Pria
CONSUMPTION.
I have aposltlvo remedy for the above disease; by 1U
thousands ofcusesof the worst jtlnd and of long
standing have been cured. Indeed, so strong Is iny faith
in it* eißca-v, t hat I will send TWO BOTTLES r'KKK,
t <■ -rhor with n V A I.ITABLE TREATISE on this dismiss,
to any suio 'rr Give Express and P. O. address.
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ADVERTISERS by addressing GEO. P.
ROW Ebb & GO., IQ Spruce .Street, New
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Administrator’s Sale.
Will be sold on Thursday. March 20th,
1883, between the legal hours of sale, at the
residence of the late Dr. G. F. Cooper, de
ceased, on College Hill, the following de*
scribed property, to-wit: One 30-cell gal
vanic battery, one farad'o battery, and one
case of eleotrodes, one fine physician’s
microscope, a collection of theological, medi
oal and miscellaneous books, one revolving
book case, one case amputating end other
surgical instruments, one fine desk, book
cases, wardrobe, etc., one set (7 pieces) hair
cloth parlor furniture, one piano; also,
chairs, tables and Other house-furnishing
articles. Also, one fine doctor’s phieton, one
cow, and other things belonging to the es
tate, Terms cash.
raar7-tds W. J. DIBBLE, Adm'r.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA— Sumter County:
To all Whom it may Concern:
Whereas, S. H. Hawkins, administrator
on the estate of James W- Fyrlow, late of
said county deceased, haviug filed his pe
tition in my o’tloe for letters of dismission
iron said estate,
These are therefore to cite and admonish
dll parties interested, whether kindred or
creditors, to show oause on or before the
June term of said court, to be held on
the first Monday in June next, why the
said letters should not be granted to the
said petitioner as prayed foi.
Witness my hand and offleial signature,
this the sth day of March, 1883.
THUS. H. SIfWART,
mar7-td Ordinary.
Webster Sheriff’ Sales for April.
Will be sold before the Court house door,
in the town of Preston, Webster connty, on
the first Tuesday in April next, during the
legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
Lot of land No. 216, in the 25th district of
Webster county, Ga. Levied on as the
property of W. P. Jowers. Property point
ed out VV. P. Jowers, defendant, to satisfy
one Superior Court fl fa. in my hands in
favor or John G. Sidy.
Also, at the same time and place will be
sold, lot of land No 196, in the 2otli district
of Webster couuty. Levied on as the prop
erty of W. P. Jowers, to satisfy one supe
rior Court fi fa. in favor of S. T. Crawford.
Property pointed but by plaintiff, this March
3d, 1883.
mar3tds DAN DAVIS, Sheriff.
Dee Sheriff’Sale for April.
Will be sold before the Court house door
in the town of Leesburg, Lee county, Ga..
between the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in April, 18831 the following prop
erty to-wit:
One-half of lot of land No. 275, in the 14th
district of Lee county. Levied on as the
property of G. M. T. Pool by virtue of a tax
n fa. issued by the Tax Collector of said
county against the said G. M. T. Pool for
State and county taxes for the . year 1882.
Levy made ana returned to me by J. L.
Hines, L. U. JAMES SALTER,
mar7-td.s Sheriff.