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Charles F. Crisp,
Attorney at Late*
AMKKICUS, GA.
declfitf
B. P. HOLLIS,
Attorney at JLaw .
AMKKICUS, GA.
Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank
building. dec2otf
E. G SIMMONS,
Attorney at Latr*
AMERICUS GA.,
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Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort&
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.JT. A. AWSLKY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AM) SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’
Clothing Store, Americus, Ga.
After a brief respite I return again to the
practice of law. As in the past it will he
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
faithfully and look to their interests. The
commercial practice will receive close atten
tion and remittances promptly made. The
Equity practice, and cases involving titles of
land and real estate are my favorites. Will
practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia,
the Supreme Court and the United States
Courts. Thankful to my friends for their
patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf
Dr. J. A. FORT,
Physician and Surgeon,
Offers his professional services to the
people of Americus and vicinity. Oilice at
Or. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can
he found at residence on Furlow’s lawn.
Calls will receive prompt attention.
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X offer my professional services again to the
good people of Americus. After thirty years’
of medical service, I have found It difficult
to withdraw entirely. Office next door to
Or. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square.
janlTtf 11. C. BLACK, M. 1).
Dr. D7 P 7 HOLLOWAY,
DemtisT,
Americas, * - Georgia
Treatssuccessfully all diseases of the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth by tlie improved
method, and inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
over Davenport and Son’s
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Americus, Ga.
We are prepared to do any kind of work
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reasonable terms. Having had years of ex
perience in tlie business, we feel competent
to give satisfaction. All orders for con
tracts for building will receive prompt at
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Milwaukee, Budweiser and Aurora Beer,
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at fine Brandies, Wines, &c. Good Billiard
Tables for the accommodation of customers.
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Commercial Hotel
G. M. HAY, Proprietor.
This popular House is quite new and
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centre of tho business portion of the city,
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none, among its permanent and transient
guests, on account of the excellence of its
cuisine.
Table Boarders Accommodated on
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BOOT Ml) SUM MISEII,
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on Lamar St., invites the public to give him
tbelrwork. Ho can make and repair all
work at short notice. Is sober and always
on hand to await on customers. Work
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1883.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY BEV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish
ed in pamphlet form by Geo, A. Sparks,
48 Biblo Ilouse, New York. A number
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GREAT ACCIDENTS.
“Go to now, ye that say, to-day or to-mor
row we will go into such a city and continue
there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain;
whereas ye know not what shall be on the
morrow. For what is your life? It is even
a vapor that appeareth for a little time and
then vanisheth away.”—James iv., 13-14.
The eighth wonder of the world had
been built. Multitudes of people eith
er through their own eyes or through
vivid description had gazed upon it.
People who had been compelled to
spend all their lives in these cities, and
had not seen many ot the wonderful
sights of the world, had the satisfac
tion at last of seeing the greatest. Tra
jan’s bridge across the Danube, Xerxes’
bridge across the Hellespont, Ciesar’s
bridge across the Rhine, Darius’ bridge
across the Bosphorus, Niocrischo’s
bridge across the Euphrates, the Pons
/Elius across the Tiber, seem to be
eclipsed by the greater wonder uniting
these two cities. The opening ceremo
nies had just closed, the roar of the
cannon had hardly ceased its reverber
ation, the two cities had hardly taken
off their gay girdle of hunting, when
all our hearts are shocked with a great
tragedy. Thirteen lives sacrificed.
Eerty people reported as wounded. A
long roll of casualties that will never
he known. A woman stumbles and
falls, and there is an outcry, and peo
ple imagine there is something the mat
ter with the bridge, and others are
impelled by a morbid curiosity, and
there is a rush, and a trampling, and a
massacre, and a bereavement of many
households—fathers and mothers, and
brothers and sisters pushed out of life
in most sudden and horrible manner.
Was there anything the matter with
the bridge? No. That stands firm as
the eternal hills. The next century
will have no power to weaken it. This
generation will cross it, and the next,
and the next; and the next. In that
case, as in nine hundred and ninety
nine cases out of a thousand, there was
nothing the matter-absolutely nothing.
When will people learn that amid great
excitements the safest and the best
thing is to sit or stand still? What a
sad thing it is that one fool, or one
ruffian, can turn thousands of people
into a herd of buffaloes! <>ur deepest
commiseration is aroused for the suffer
ing, and our prayers are for the bereft.
Oh, the sudden reversal from hilarity
to heartbreak. To go out on a bright
excursion and come home with only
part of the family! Some of us know
the horror of the contrast. Those peo
ple who were sacrificed were in nowise
to blame, but they were the victims of
a heedless crowd, the victims of a vast
number of people rushing there to see
what was the matter. So we have seen
again and again. A person taken ill
in some public assembly—five hundred
people rising to see what is the matter.
A person carried out—a great crowd
gathering around to see what is the
matter, until resuscitation is almost an
impossibility. Horse running away
with a vehicle—who get hurt? Those
who jump. Who come off' with few
scars? Those who sit still. These
people trodden under foot by a great
crowd of heedless ones rushing ahead
to see what is the matter. There are
in this great calamity a worldly side
and a religious side, and the worldly
side says: “Keep cool, don’t lose your
equilibrium; never go to see what is
the matter unless you can be of practi
cal help.” If there be a riot on Fulton
street, go down Schermerhorn street.
If people fall on a bridge, walk the
other way, and give them an opportu
nity to get up. Your curiosity will
only make things worse. Some say
that all this was the result of the work
of pickpockets, and others charge it to
the incompetency of officials. It was
a pure accident and no precaution
could have hindered it. As good and
as wise men as there are in these cities
gave their entire time to the considera
tion of the subject for a long while be
fore and made every reasonable precau
tion. Curiosity to see what was the
matter on the part of a great multitude
trampled these poor victims to death.
The tendency at such a time is to blame
the bridge trustees, and such blame at
this time is especially unfair. After
twelve or fourteen years of suffering, of
calumny, being charged with taking
too long to build the bridge, and too
much money to build the bridge, and
not like this, and not like that, and
not like the other thing, I tell you they
need no new installment of abuse.
They did their work grandly—mag
nificently; did it under all possible dis
couragements, and were no more to
blame for the disaster than you are, or
I. < >h, how wise people are after any
thing has happened! ‘I told yon so!’ To
hear us talk you would think we were
better engineers than Roebling, and
the bridge trustees made the great mis
take of their life when they did not call
us into their councils. Who are the
critics of these bridge trustees? The
people who put their thousands and
their tens of thousands of dollars into
the enterprise’/ No. Notone of them
made a larger investment than one
cent of toll at the gate, and having paid
that one cent of toll they think they
have bought the right to boss every
thing. I have my ideas as to how the
bridge might he bettered, and there are
500,000 people in these cities who have
their ideas as to how the bridge might
be bettered, and if the Board of Trus
tees of the Bridge Company would only
take all our advice what a bridge we
would have. The present wonder
eclipsed by the greater cariosity span
ning the East river! My- hope is that
as those men have had strength given
them to endure the abuse which came
before the bridge was opened, they will
have the strength to endure the abuse
that comes after the bridge is opened
The applause of dedication day has its
recoil. It is always so. The cry of
hosanna always followed by the cry
of “Crncify him!” But this calamity
has a religious side, and some people
immediately say we ought to live as
though every day were our last, which
is the great heresy of the age. You
put that theory into practice and you
will be a nuisance to the world instead
of a help to it. Live as though you
were to have a long life on earth, lay
ing out all your plans with reference to
a long life and the eternity that comes
after it. It ought to be our ambition
to live right and then we will die right,
whether we go through long decadence
of our faculties, or through sudden
calamity, as did the unfortunates of
last Wednesday. Healthy and intel
ligent Christians do not set gravedig
gers’ spades on their sideboard, nor go
worrying about quick transit from this
world to the next. You consecrate to
Jesus Christ your life, and do jour
best to make people happy, and your
death will be a beautiful peroration.
It seems to me that there is in this
great calamity a good, solid lesson of
sympathy. We opened the papers and
read the list of the wounded and the
dead. The first question in your mind
and mine was: “Did we know any of
them?” They were all stangers to m;e
perhaps they were to you; and yet our
heart thrilled with sympathy. Their
grief, our grief; their calamity, our ca
lamity. Oh, it is beautiful to see this
chord of sympathy running through all
human hearts. Mines in Wales fall
in upon workmen, and all nations feel
the suffocation, i’rince Albert dies,
and Queen Victoria has the sympathy
of all Christendom. Earthquake rocks
down a Mexican city, and all the world
sympathizes. Famine stalks across
Ireland, and all nations send cargoes of
breadstuflfs. Our President lies wound
ed at Long Branch, and simultaneous
ly people gathered at the bulletin
boards in Washington, in Savannah,
in New Orleans, in San Francisco, in
London, in Parrs, in Berlin, in St.
Petersburg—all nations at once read
ing: “better,” “worse,” “dying,”
“dead!” So there is one great chord
of sympathy running through ail our
hearts, and it is that chord of sympathy
which thrilled last Wednesday when
we heard of the misfortune, which is
yet going to bring all nations into ac
cord, binding them all together and
then binding them to the heart of God.
And the ship of war that lies anchored
in the harbor will be turned into a mer
chantman, or swing into the navy yard
as a specimen of barbarous times, to be
looked at just as we examine scalping
knives or thumbscrews; and the great
towers that tolled alarm and woe will
strike another sound—Scotch kirk and
American church and mission chapel
and great St. Paul thundering tones of
Christ’s victory,and Marsellaise Hymn
and Bonnie Doon and God Save the
Gueen mingled in one great doxology,
rolling like the surges of the sea, roll
ing like the thunder of the skies.
“Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omni
potent reigneth!” Oh, it is the chord
of sympathy. Paul struck it right
when he said: “Of one blood all na
tions that dwell on the face of the
earth.” But there is in this great
calamity a background for the better
understanding of the question of my
text: “What is your life?” In most
of our lives there are few staccato pas
sengers. Most of our days and years
are in a monotone. If you are forty
years of age, you have lived fourteen
thousand six hundred days, and with
out a memorandum you could not give
an account of fifty of them. We rise
in the morning, we breakfast, we go to
our occupations, we attend to the busi
ness of our life, we lunch, we dine, we
come home, we sleep. Wednesday is a
copy of Tuesday, and Thursday an
echo of Wednesday, and it needs some
great arousal, some groat calamity,
some great misfortune to arouse in our
soul the question of the text: “What
is your life?”
Well, if in the presence of this great
sorrow you pross that question, I an
swer, life is a test. Every new ship
must have a trial trip. If you take
someone into your employ and a crisis
comes where his behavior will make or
break you, say, “Now I will test him:
now I will see what is in him.” And
my friends, our whole life is a test, and
we are all on a trial trip. Men, angels,
devils the spectators; heaven, earth and
hell watching. Every word spoken
and every action having ten thousand
echoes. You are watching me to see
if lam faithful or unfaithful. I am
watching you to see if you are faithful
or unfaithful. Every man and woman
in solemn, unmistakable, stupendous
test.
If you still further press the question
of the text, in the presence of this
calamity, “What is your life?” I tell
yon it is an apprenticeship. "We study
eight or ton years and we get our pro
fession, we work five or six years and
we get our trade, and then we go forth
to the work of life. But this world is
not our workshop. Have you any
idea that those people who perished on
the bridge were annihiliated? Oh, no.
They ony passed into another state.
This world is to be destroj-ed, but do
you suppose that because this world is
to be destroyed all the affairs of the
universe are to stop? How many hands
and feet and eyes are necessary for the
carrying out o( the business of this
world, and how many activities will he
required for the business enterprises of
eternity? That woman, that Christian
woman who is busy taking care of the
sick in the back alley will be regnant
in a realm of light and love and joy
celestial. That man who this morn
ing could hardly get to church on
crutches will beja ministering apirit Hy
ing to the fmtherest outpost of God’s
dominion. Wo are only getting ready
to work in this world. We are ap
prentices, and we have got oui diplo
mas. Death is graduation day. Death
is commencement day.
But il in the presence of this great
calamity you still further press the
question of the text, “What is your
life?” I tell you it is a conflict. Have
you not found it so? Struggling, those
people were, in the last moment of their
life. Their whole life had been a strug
gle. So has yours. So has mine.
There is no person in this house to
whom life has been happier than to me,
no one who has had more kindness
than I have had bestowed upon me, no
one who has had better health, no one
to whom the world is brighter than
this world is to me now, and yet I have
found it a conflict, Is it not so with
you, my brother my sister? If you
have never tried to curb your temper,
if you have never tried to subdue your
passions, if you have never tried to be
better men, better women, then you
know not what I mean; but. ifyou have
tried to do better, and wanted to be
better, and struggled to do better, then
you know that Paul was not only
graphic but accurate when he described
life as war with the world, and war
with the flesh and war with the devil,
it may- have been conflict with your
selves. it may have been conflict with
poverty, it may have been a conflict
with higher social position, with an
unhappy family name, with the perse
cutions of the world; but I warrant
your liie lias been to the most of you
a hand-to-hand fight. There is only
one peaceful encampment in the world,
and that is the white tent, the white
tent of the grave. Fife a conflict—so
tlie Bible declares it. Life a conflict
—so your own experience ratifies it.
Must 1 bo carried to the skies,
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas’”
But if in the presence of this sorrow,
the great calamity, yon still further
press the question of my text, “What
is your life?” 1 answer, it is a prophe
cy. What you are now you will in
all probability be forever, only on a
larger scale. On banks of celestial
light walks the consecrated Alfred
Oookman. In dungeons of starless
night .sits John Wilkes Booth. Are
all your preferences toward the bad?
The probability is they will be so for
ever. Are your preferences toward the
good? Do you want to bo better? Do
you long after God as an eternal por
tion? I tell you plainly that you are
on the way tograndeurs which no sum
mer night’s dream had ever power to
depict.
But if in the presence of this great
calamity yon still further press the
question of the text, “What is your
life?” I answer, it is a preparation.
If we are going oil a long journey we
must get ready; we must have a guide
book; we must have apparel. If we
are going among dangers we want to
be armed. We have all started on a
road which has no terminus, and once
started wc will never come back. Are
we ready for the future? When death
shuts tlie door of the sepulchre the an
gel of repentance never opens it. “As
far as I can understand your case, my
brother, your groat need is to have your
sins pardoned. I know oi no way to
do that, or have that done, except one.
“The blood of Jesus Christ cleansetli
from all sin,” and though yon may, by
the grace of God, become the best
saint. “Where sin abounded, grace
may much more abound.”
But if in the presence of this calami
ty you press the question of my text a
step further, an 1 ask me, “What is
your life?” I answer, it is a great un
certainty. Of those people who per
ished on the bridge, there was not one
who expected to quit life in that way.
Some no doubt had said, “Well, 1
shall leave the world under this disease
or under that disease.” Another per
son said, “There are so many perils in
my style ol business, in that way l
shall come to the end of my earthly
life.” Not one ever expected to go in
that way, to perish on the bridge, and
to every man the step) out of this life is
a surprise. I never knew any one to
go in the way he expected. You see
someone who has been ail invalid for
twenty-five years, and he always de
parts suddenly. You hear of some
friend who, after thirty years of illness,
lias departed, and you say, “Why, is
it possible?” Our life is struck
through with uncertainty. Our friends
change, oiir associations change, our
circumstance change, our health chan
ges. All change. We know not how
our children will turn oui. We do not
know what we ourselves may be tempt
ed to do. Better men than you and I,
naturally better, have made shipwreck
for this life and the life to come. Ido
not like to hear a man say, “I couldn’t
have done this,” or “I couldn’t have
done that.” Do not have any bragga
docio about this life. If God should
let you go you could do anything which
is bad. So life is struck through with
uncertainty. But, blessed be God,
there is a rock on which we stand, the
Bock of Ages. It is no autocrat at the
head of the universe. My Father is
King. Though the mountains may
depart and the hills remove, Ilis kind
ness and His love and His grace will
fail us never, never. In that hope I
have lived over thirty years, and though
I should he very sorry to think that
there is in tliis house any one who lias
been more unworthy than I have been,
still I know enough of this religion to
commend it to all the people. And I
tell you that the grandest and the lov
ingest and the best friend a man ever
had is Jesus Christ. 1 know Him. lie
lias never betrayed me, and lie will
never betray you. But do not take
my testimony. Take the testimony of
those who have been long in the Chris
tian service. Ask those who are in the
very evening of their life, when Christ
betrayed them, by what sick-bed, in
what dark passage, in what awful cri
sis. Just ask them. They will tell
you, “When I was sick, the best phy
sician was Christ, and when I took the
last kiss from lips that never again
could speak to me, and when I stood
by a grave so deep it buried all, Christ
was my comforter.” And those per
sons would go on and give you testi
mony that their brightest anticipation
of the future is the presence ol Him
whom, having not seen, they love, and
in whom believing they rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory. Ob,
my friends, is life a test ? Make it a
successful experiment; is life an ap
prenticeship? Make it an industrious
one. Is life a conflict? Fight the
brave fight. Is life a prophecy ? I.et
it foretell glorious results. Is life a
preparation? Make sure work. Is life
a great uncertainty? Get the divine
insurance. You say, “I will do this,”
and “I will do that,” and “I will go
into the city and get great gain,”
whereas you know not what shall be
in the morrow; for what is your life?
It is even a vapor that appeareth for a
little time and then—vanisheth away.”
The stoutest voice that comes from
thatcalamity says: “Be ye also ready.”
Your first, your second, your hundreth,
your thousandth, your last necessity is
a heart changed by the converting
grace of God. 1 do not. think that
cowardice is a characteristic of my na
ture, but 1 tell you plainly that I would
not dare to take another step in life; I
would not dare to pass down the street,
I would not dare to cross that river, i
would not dare to live another hour,
did 1 not feel that whatever happens to
my body, my immortal soil! shall go
free. 1 boose God fur your eternal
portion. The air is full of perils. Pe
rils flying tdiis way, perils flying that,,
perils above, perils beneath, perils on
all sides. Oh, you want God’s pro
tection as a canopy and marshaled
around you like an armed host. And
oh, you men and women of God, take
congratulation this morning that the
revolution of the days and years is
bringing you toward your last hour ot
earth and y. nr first hour of heaven.
Waking, sleeping, your heart is beat
ing the double-quick step of an immoi
tal spti'it. Sec you not through the
fogs and mists of earth looming up the
shore on which the white-robed walk?
And hear you not coming across the
waters the sound of harps that never
felt the twang of woe, and the trumpets
pouring forth the victory of uncounted
multitudes? See you not the trees of
life, and resting under them the toil
worn of earth looking down toward
you, ready to shout at your coming
amid the rustling of palms and the
clang of towers, “Hail, hail, hail!”
Sympathy tor those who stay. Con
gratulation for those who go.
They Hit It Again.
Whoever it was, he will enjoy
learning that the 150th Grand Month
ly Drawing of the Louisiana State
Lottery, at New Orleans, on May Bth,
resulted as follows: Ticket No. 71,-
189, sold as a whole for §5 to a weal
thy Cuban at Havana, drew the first
capital pirize of 875,000. No. 47,803,
sold to a New Yorker as whole, drew
the second prize, $25,000. No. 23,433
drew the third capital prize, §IO,OOO,
and was sold in fifths, at $1 each, to
Messrs. Jas. J. McMillan, through
Messrs. Jones & Hamilton, Caldwell,
Texas; to Mr. Sam. Jones, of Los An
geles, Cal.; Mr. I’. Schumacker, of
Allentown, Lehigh Cos., Pa. Nos.
10,229 and 20,203, drew each the fourth
capital, §O,OO0 —sold in fifths at §1
each—among others to Henry Ehr
hardt, S. W. cor. 10th and Market st.,
St. Louis, Mo.; J. F. Albert, 014 Lo
cust st., same city; two-fifths collected
by Messrs. C. 15. Richard & Cos., No.
01 Broadway, New York city, for a
party in San Francisco, Cal. Many
winners among those who captured
§205,500 in prizes desired their names
withheld. The next drawing occurs
Tuesday, July 10th, and M. A. Dau
phin, New Orleans, La., will furnish
any desired information on an appli
cation.
One strong enemy is worth more in
the building up of a man than two
slippery tongued friends.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is a highly con
centrated extract of Sarsaparilla and
other blood-purifying roots, combined
with lodide of Potassium and Iron.
Its control over scrofulous diseases is
unequaled by any other medicine.
Pure ground Spices, Cloves, All
spice, Cinnamon, Mace, Ginger; Mus
| tard, Pepper, Ac.
I)r. Fldridge’s Drug Store.
{ four dollars per annum.
ALONE!
ln'l II!
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NO. 76.