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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN.
ESTABLISHED IN 1854,
ByCHAS. W. HANCOCK. f
VOL. 18.
The Sumter Republican.
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Charles F. Crisp,
Attorney at Law,
AMERICUS, GA.
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B. P. HOLLIS,
Attorney at Law,
AMERICUS, GA.
Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank
building. dec2otf
~e7g SIMMONS,
Attorney at Law,
AMERICUS GA.,
Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of
Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort &
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J. A. ANSI KY,
.ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’
Clothing Store, Americus, Ga.
Aftor a brief respite I return again to the
practice of law. As in the past it will be
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 eases involvingtitlesof
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
O A RI ).
I offer iny 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
Dr. Eldridge’s drugstore, outlie Square
jan!7tf B. C. BLACK, M. D.
I>r. J. A. FORT,
Physician and Surgeon.
Otters his professional services to the
people of Americus and vicinity. Office at
Ur. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can
be found at residence on Furlow’s lawn.
Calls will receive prompt attention.
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Dr. D P. HOLLOWAY,
D^wtssT,
Americas. - - - Georgia
Treatssuccessfully all diseasesof the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved
method, and inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
r t3T"OFFICE over Davenport and Son’s
Drug Store. marllt
J. B. C. Smith & Sons,
fIITUM! MO BUILDERS,
Americus, Ga.
We are prepared to do any kind of work
in the carpenter line at short notice and on
reasonable terms. Having had years of ex
perience in the business, we feel competent
to give satisfaction. All orders for con
tracts for building will receive prompt at
tention. Jobbing promptly attended to.
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Commercial Bar.
This ■well-established house will he kept
in the same first-class style that has always
eharacterized it. The
Choicest Liquor and Cigars,
Milwaukee, Budweiser and Aurora Beer,
constantly on hand, and all the best brands
of fine Brandies, Wines, &c. Good Billiard
Tables for the accommodation of customers.
mayfitf JOHN W. COTNEY, Clerk.
Commercial Hotel,
G. M. HAY, Proprietor.
This popular House is quite new and
handsomely furnished with new furniture,
bedding and all other arlicles. It is in the
centre of the business portion of the city,
convenient to depot, the banks, warehouses,
&c., and enjoys a fine reputation, second to
n®ne, among its permanent and transient
guests, on account of the excellence of its
cuisine.
Table Boarders Accommodated on
Reasonable Terms.
may9-tf G. M. HAT, Proprietor.
BLAM JOHNSON, JOHN W. M’PHKItSON,
STEVE K. JOHNSON, JAMES B. WILBANKS.
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TER, CHICKENS and EGGS,
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LOUiSIANA STATE LOTTERY CO.
“ We do hereby certify that we supervise the
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of our signatures attached, in its advertisementss”
Commissioners.
Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by tire
Legislature for Educational and Charitable
purposes—with a capital of sl,ooo,ooo—to
which a reserve fund of over 5550,000 has
since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its
franchise was made a part of the present
State Constitution adopted December 2d,
A.D., 1879.
The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed
by the people of any State.
It never scales or postpones.
Its tiraud single Number Drawing,
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I SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
win ttumivi:. EIGHTH GRAND
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LEANS, TUESDAY, August 14, 1883—
159th Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths in proportion.
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1 CAPITAL PRIZE of 575,000
1 do do 25,000
1 do do 10,000
2 PRIZES OF 56,000 12.000
5 do 2,000 10,000
10 do 1,000 10,000
20 do 500 10,000
100 do 200 20,000
300 do 100 30,000
500 do 50 25,000
1000 do 25 25,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approximation Prizes of 5750 6,750
9 do do 500 4,500
9 do do 250 2,250
1967 Prizes, amounting to $265,500
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It tells the exact number of miles driven to
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ure Drivers, Physicians, Farmers, Sijr
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Address
McDonnell odomei eit co.,
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IjgTSend for circular. ju!2s-w3m
Mrs. M. E. HAINES
Is now opening her stock of
Spring Millinery 1
She will have on exhibition iu a few days a
full line of
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NECKWEAR,
HAIRGOODS
AND
jewelry:
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will do well to call and examine her goods,
as they have been selected with great care,
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male and Female Department*. Sit
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1883.
AYER’S
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attack as those affecting the throat and lungs:
none so trifled with by the majority of suffer
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Horace FAinnßOTnuß.”
Rockingham, Vt., July 15, 1882.
Croup.—A Moilier’s Tribute.
“While in the country last winter my little
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it seemed as if lie would die from strangu
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Mrs. Emma Gedney.”
159 West 128th St., New York, May 10, 1882.
“I have used Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
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“ I suffered for eight years from Bronchitis,
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“ I cannot say enough in praise of Ayer’s
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No case of an affection of the throat or
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by the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
and it will alicajs cure when the disease is
not already beyond the control of medicine.
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Dr. J.C. Ayer & Cos., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
ITTER s
No time should bo lost if the stomach,
liver and bowels are affected, to adopt the
snre remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters.
Diseases of the organs named beget others
far more serious, and a delay is therefore
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kidney weakness, bring serious bodily
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Foutz’s Powders will cure or prevent almost every
Disease to which Horses and Cattle arc subject,
Foutz’s Powders will qive Satisfaction.
Sold everywhere.
DAVID E. FOUTZ. Proprietor,
BALTIMORE. MD.
AYER’S
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IS WARRANTED to cure all cases of ma
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mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever,
Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Com
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dealers are authorized, by our circular o)
July Ist, 1882, to refund the money,
Dr.J.C. AyerACo., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
M. B. COUNCIL, J. J. WILLIFORD.
COUNCIL & WILLIFORD,
Proprietors
Georgia Warehouse,
Northeast Corner Public Square,
AMERICUS, - - - GEORGIA.
Having leased the New Brick Warehouse,
on Troup street, wo invile a share of the
patronage of the cotton planters of this and
surrounding counties. Our facilities for
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against tire, our advantages for showing
and sampling cotton fine, while our advan
tages for unloading are not equaled.
EifWe are also agents for the celebrated
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239 B’way, N. T.
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mSCTE.I/LVftY.OYSS.
AN ANGEL IN A SALOON.
A TltfE INCIDENT.
Oue afternoon in the month of June,
1870 a lady in deep mourning followed
by a child entered oue of the fashion
able saloons in the city of N .
The writer happened to be passing at
the same time, and impelled by curios
ity' followed her in to see what would
ensue. Stepping up to the bar and
addressing the proprietor, who happen
ed to be present, she said:
“Sir, can you assist me? I have no
home, no friends, and am not able to
work.”
He glanced at her and then, at the
child, with a mingled look of curiosity
and pity. Evidently he was much
surprised to see a woman in such a
place begging, but without asking any
questions, gave her some change and
turning to those present, he said:
“Gentlemen, here is a lady in dis
tress. Can’t some of you help her a
little?”
They cheerfully acceded to the re
quest, and soon a purse of two dollars
was made up and put into her hands.
“Madam,” said the gentleman who
gave her the money, “why do you come
to a saloon? It isn’t a proper place
for a lady, and why are you driven to
such a curious step?”
“Sir,” said the lady, “I know it is
not a proper place for me to be in, and
you asked me why I am driven to such
a place. I will tell you in one short
word”—pointing to a bottle behind the
counter labeled—“that is what brought
me here—whiskey!”
“I was once happy and surrounded
with all the luxuries which wealth
could procure, and with a fond and in
dulgent husband. But in an evil hour
he was tempted, and not possessing
the will to resist the temptation, fell,
and in one short year my dream of
happiness was over, my home forever
desolated, and the kind husband and
the wealth which some called mine,
lost, never to return, and by the ac
cursed wine clip,”
“You see before you only a wreck of
my former self, homeless and friend
less, and nothing left me in this world
but this little child, weeping bitterly
she affectionately caressed the golden
curls that shaded a face of exquisite
loveliness, llegaiuing her composure
and turning to the propiietor of the
saloon, she continued:
“Sir, the reason I occasionally enter
a place like this is to implore those
who deal in the deadly poison to de
sist, to stop a business that spreads
desolation, ruin, poverty and starva
tion. Think one moment of your loved
ones, and then imagine them in the
condition I am in, I appeal to jour
heart, for I know you possess a kind
one, to retire from a business so ruin
ous to your patrons.
“Did you know that the money you
take across the bar is the same as tak
ing the bread out of the mouth of the
famishing wives and children of your
customers? That it strips the clothes
from their backs, deprives them of all
the comforts of this life, and throws
unhappiness, misery, crime and deso
lation into their once happy home!
Oh! sir, I implore, beseech and pray
you to retire from a business which
will make you blush to own you are
engaged in before your fellow-men,ana
enter one that will not only be profit
able to you but to your fellow creat
ures also. You will excuse mo if I
have spoken too plainly, but I assure
you that I could not help it when I
thought of the misery, the suffering
and the unhappiness it has caused me.”
“Madam, 1 am not offended,” he an
swered in a voice husky with emotion,
“but I thank you from the bottom of
my heart for what you have said.”
“Mamma,” said the little child—
who meantime, had been spoken to by
some of the gentlemen present—taking
hold of her mother’s hand—“these
gentlemen wish me to sing ‘Little
Bessie’ to them. Shall Ido so?”
“Y’es, my darling, if they wish you
to.”
They all joined in the request, and
placing her in a chair, she sang in a
sweet child like voice the following
beautiful song:
Out in the gloomy night sadly I aoam,
I have no mother dear, no pleasant home;
No one cares for me, no one would cry
Even if poor little Bessie should die.
Weary and tired I’ve been wandering all
day
Asking for work, but I’m too small they say.
On the damp ground I must now lay my
head,
Father’s a drunkard and mother is dead.
We were so liappj till father drank rum,
Then all the unhappy troubles begun.
Mother grew pale and wept every day—
Baby and I were too hungry to play;
Slowly they faded till one summer night
Found their dead faces all silent and white
Then with big tears slowly dropping l said
Father’s a drunkard and mother is dead.
Oh, if the temperance men only could find
Poor, wretched father, and talk very kind;
If they would stop him from driuking, then
I should be so very happy again.
Is it too late, temperance men? Please try
Or poor little Bessie must soon starve aud
die.
All the day long I’ve been begging for
bread;
Father’s a drunkard and mother is dead.
The games of billiards were left un
finished, the cards were thrown aside,
and the nnetnptied glass remained on
the counter; all had pressed near, some
with curiosity, some with pity beaming
in their eyes, entranced with the musi
cal voice and beauty of the child, who
seemed better fi ted to be with angels
above than in such a place.
The scene I shall hever forget to my
dying day, and the sweet cadence of
her musical voice still rings in my ears
and every word of the song as it drop
ped from her lips sank deep into the
hearts of those gathered around her.
With her golden hair falling care
lessly around her little shoulders, her
face of almost etlieral beauty and
looking so trustingly and comfortingly
upon the gentlemen around, her beau
tiful eyes illuminated with a light that
seemed not of this earth, she formed a
picture of purity and innocence worthy
the genius of a poet or painter.
At the close of the song many were
weeping; men who had not shed a tear
for years, now wept like children. One
young man who had resisted with scorn
the pleadings and entreaties of a loving
mother to strive to lead a better life, to
desist from a course that was waisting
his fortune and ruining his health, now
approached the child, and, taking both
her little hands in his, whilo tears
streamed down his pale cheeks, ex
claimed with deep emotion:
“God bless you, my little angel!
you have saved me from ruin and dis
grace, from poverty and a drunkard’s
grave. If there are angels on earth you
are one; God bless you!” aud putting
a bill in the hands of the mother said:
“Please accept this trifle as a token of
my regard and osteem, for yottr little
girl has done me a kindness I can nev
er repay. And, remember, whenever
you are in want, you will find me a
true friend, at the same time giving
her his name and address.
Taking her child by the hand, she
turned to go, but, pausing at the door,
said:
“God bless you genlemen. Accept
the heartfelt thanks of a poor, friend
less womau for the kindness and cour
tesy you have shown her.” Before
any one could reply, she was gone.
A silence of several minutes ensued
which waß at length broken by the
proprietor, who exclaimed:
“Gentlemen, that lady was right and
I have sold my last glass of whisky;
if any of you want more you will have
to go elsewhere.”
“And I have drained my last glass
of whiskey,” said a young man who
had long been given up as utterly be
yond the reach of those who had a
deep interest in his welfare—as sunk
too low ever to reform. There is a
temperance organization in this city
called Temperance Honor, and at their
next meeting, I shall send up my name
to be admitted. Who will go with
me?”
“I—l—l—and I,” several exclaim
ed in a chorus, and fifteen names were
added to the list.
True to his word the owner of the
saloon where this scene was enacted,
disposed of his entire stock the next,
day, and is now engaged in an honor
able business. Would to heaven that
lady with her little one could have
gone into every hamlet, town and city
throughout the country and met with
like results.— Ex.
PECK’S BAD BOY.
His CJncle Ezra Comes Back from
Chicago, and They Get Up a Joke
on His Pa and Have a Regular
Circus.
From Peck’s Sun.
“I see your pa wheeling the baby
around a good deal lately,” said the
grocery man to the bad boy, as he came
into the store one evening to buy a
stick of striped peppermint candy for
the baby, while his pa stopped the ba
by wagon out on the side walk and
waited for the boy, with an expression
of resignation on his face.
“What’s got into your pa to be a
nurse girl this hot weather?”
“O, we have had a circus at our
house,” said the boy, as became in af
ter putting the candy in the baby’s
hand. “ You see, Uncle Ezra came
back from Chicago, where he had been
to sell some cheese, and he stopped
over a couple of days with us, and he
said we must play one more joke on pa
betore he went home. We played it,
and its a wonder 1 am alive, because }
never saw pa so mad in all my life.
Now this is the last time I go into any
juke on shares. If I play any more
jokes I don’t want any old uncle in to
give me away.”
“What was it?” said the grocery
man, as ha took a stool and sat out by
the front door besido the boy who was
trying to cat a box of red raspberries
on the sly.
“Well, Uncle Ez>-a and me bribed
the house girl to dress the baby up one
evening in some old dirty clothes, be
longing to our washwoman’s baby, and
wo put it in a basket and placed the
basket on the front door step, and put
a note in the basket and addressed it
to pa. Wc had the nurse girl stay
out in front, by the basement stairs, so
the baby couldn’t get away, and she
rung the bell and got behind something.
Ma and pa, and Uncle Ezra and me
were in the back parlor when the bell
rang, and ma told me to go to the duor
and I brought out the basket and set it
down, and told pa there was a note in
it for him. Ma, she came up and look
ed at the note as pa toro it open, and
Uncle Ezra looked in the basket and
sighed. Pa read part of the note and
stopped and turned pale, and sat down,
then ma read some of it, and she didn’t
feel very well, and she leaned against
the piano and grated her teeth. The
note was in a girl’s hand writing, and
was like this:
“Old Bald Headed Pet. —You will
have to take care of your child, be
cause I cannot. Bring it up tenderly,
and don’i for heaven’s sake, send it to
the foundling asylum. I shall go and
drown myself. Yottr loving
Almira.”
“ What did your masay?” said the
groceryman, becoming interested.
“O, ma played her part well. Uncle
Ezra had told her the joke, and she
said ‘retch,’ to pa, jubt as the actresses
do on the stage, and put her handker
chief to her eyes. ‘O. brother, that I
should live to see this day,’ and 1 said,
as 1 looked in the basket, ‘pa, it looks
just like you, and I’ll leave it to ma.’
That was too much, and pa got mad in
a minute, lie always gets mad at me.
But he went up and looked in the bas
ket, and he said it was some Dutch
baby, ana was evidently from the lower
strata of sooiety, and the unnatural
mother wanted to get rid of it, and he
said he didn’t know any ‘Almira’ at
all. When he called it a Dutch baby,
and called attention to its irregular
features, that made ma mad, and she
took it up out of the basket and told
pa it was a perlect picture of him, and
tried to put it in pa’s arms, but he
wouldn’t have it, and said he would
call the police and have it taken to the
poor house. Uncle Ezra took pa in a
corner and told him the best thing he
could do would be to see ‘Almira’ and
compromise with her, and that made
pa mad and he was going to hit Uncle
Ezra with a chair. Pa was perfectly
wild, and if he had a gun 1 guess he
would have shot all of us. Ma took
the baby up stairs and had the girl put
it to bed, and after pa had got mad
enough Uncle Ezra told him it was all
a joke, and it was his own baby that
we had put in the basket, and then he
was madder than ever, and he told
Uncle Ezra never to darken his door
again. I don’t know how he made up
with ma for calling it a Dutch baby
from the Polack settlement, but any
way, he wheels it around every day,
and ma and pa have got so they speak
again.’
“That was a mightj mean trick,
and j r on ought to be ashamed of your
self. Where do you expect to fetch up
when you die?” said the grocery man.
“I told Uncle Ezra it was a mean
trick,” said the boy, “but he said that
wasn’t a priming to some of the tricks
pa had played on him years ago. He
says pa used to play tricks on every
body. I may be mean, but I never
played wicked jokes on blind people,
as pa did when he was a boy. Uncle
Exra says once there was a party of
four blind vocalists, all girls, gave an
entertainment .at the town where pa
lived, and they stayed at the hotel
where pa tended bar. Another thing,
I never sold rum, either, as pa did.
Well, before the blind vocalists went
to bed pa caught a lot of frogs and put
them in the beds where the girls were
to sleep, and when the poor blind girls
got into bed the frogs hopped all over
them, and the way they got out was a
caution. It is bad enough to have
frogs hopping all over girls that can
see, but for girls that are deprived of
their sight, and don’t know what any
thing is, except hv the feeling ot it, it
looks to me like a pretty tough joke.
I guess pa is sorry now, for what he
did, ’cause when Uncle Ezra told the
frog story, I brought home a frog and
put it in pa’s bed. Pa has been afraid
of paralysis for years, and when his
leg, or anything gets asleep, he thinks
that is the end of him. Before bed
time I turned the conversation onto
paralysis, and told about a man about
pa’s age having it on the west side,
and pa was nervous, and soon after he
retired I guess the frog wanted to get
acquainted with pa, .cause pa yelled
six kinds of murder, and we went into
his room. You know how cold a frog
is? Well, you’d a dide to see pa. He
laid still, and said his end had come,
and Uncle Ezra asked him if it was
the end with the head on, or the feet,
and pa told him paralysis had marked
him for a victim, and he conld feel that
his left leg was becoming dead. He
said he could feel the cold, clammy
hand of death walk up him, and he
wanted ma put a bottle of hot water
to his feet. Ma got the bottle of hot
water and put it to pa’s feet, and the
cork came out and pa said he was dead,
suie enough, now, because he was hot
in the extremities, and that a cold wave
was going up his leg. Ma asked him
where the cold wave was, and he told
her, and she thought she would rub it,
but she began to yell the same kind of
murder pa did, and she said a snake
had gone up her sleeve. Then I
thought it was time to stop the circus,
and I teached up ma’s lace sleeve and
caught the frog by the leg and pulled
it out, and told pa I guessed he had
taken my frog to bed with him, and 1
showed it to him, and then he said I
•did it, and he would maul me so that
I could not get up alone, and he said
a boy that would do such a thing
would go to hell as sure as preachin’
and I asked him if he thought a man
who put'frogs in the bed with blind
girls, when he was a boy, would get
to heaven, and then he told me to lite
out, and I lit, and don’t you think I
done right. I gness pa will feel bet
ter when Uncle Ezra goes away, cause
he thinks Uncle Ezra talks too much
about old times.
Well, here comes our baby wagon,
.and I guess pa has done pennance
long enough, and I will wheel the kid
awhile. Say yon call pa in after I take
the has y wagon, and tell him you
don’t know how he would get along
without such a nice boy as me, and
yon can charge it in our next month’s
bill.” _ _
Anew supply of He-no Tea, Blank
Tea, Greeh Tea, Chocolate at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. .
FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NO. 88.
LETTER FROM MARION.
Draneville, Ga., July 23, >B3.
Dear Republican; Again death
has visited our already sad little burg
and taken from us a good naan. M.
C. Cliambless died last Friday morn
ing at half past two o’clock. He died
of typhoid fever, after a short illness
of one week. He was a young man,
strong and healthy, full of spirits and
life, yet in the very bud of manhood
his Master called him to his long
resting place. We will miss him in
our society because he was loved by
all who knew him. I never in my
life, while I was acquainted with
him, ever heard of him doing one
single act that was wrong. He greet
ed his friends always with a smile,
treated them with profound courtesy.
He was pious to the letter, worship
ped his Master in his quiet, simple
way, and kept the commands of Him
whom he loved, as nearly as possible
for human to do. While earth lost,
heaven gained. It would be well for
our young men to follow the precepts
of our dead young friend, Mark
Chambless.
Mrs. Lela Chambless is still quite
feeble. Her little babe is quite sick
with dysentery—had the Dr. with it
Sunday morning.
Miss Alice Park was right sick last
week with sore throat, she is now
convalescing.
Mr. Joe Crawford’s family are about
to get over the effects of measels.—
There are no new cases in our neigh
borhood that I know of at present.
The severe drouth is injuring the
crops very badly in this section,
thougli there will be plenty of corn
made and to spare. Corn sold in
Draneville last week at forty cents
per bushel. A good many of our far
mers held their corn last spring for a
better price in summer.
We were invited to attend a Reun
ion, at Dr. J. A. Parks’ last Saturday
and as a matter of course, Mrs. J.,
being one of the Doctor’s little fellows,
we accepted, and I don’t think we
will ever have occasion to regret our
sojourn with happy Dock and his
very pleasant wife on that day. It
was a day long to be remembered —
all of their children that are living,
except one was there. All of their
grand-children was present, twenty
one in number, from “sweet sixteen”
down to three months old. It will
probably be a good while before he
gets them all together again. When
he does there may be more to count.
After we all arrived and had pleas
antly chatted awhile, the Doctor an
nounced the cutting of water-melons.
We walked out in the back yard, un
der a cool shady mulberry tree. And
behold the tempting critters. Your
humblo correspondent waltzed
around on the opposite side of a long
table, and eagerly seized a large slice
and waided into it. Stand back Mr.
Editor, don’t scrouge, it was nice,
sweet, good, lucious, O, ,1 hate to
dwell on such topics. It does seem
to me that the Dr. can raise some of
the best,- largest and sweetest melons
I ever ate. After we had filled of the
delicious truck of the vine, and walk
ed back into the house, chatted awhile
longer we were invited out to his
grape vineyard. We found the ar
bor laden with the largest and sweet
est grapes I ever tasted. We did not
mind any persuasion to partake of
the tempting things. It was getting
along toward noon and I remember
ed that the Dr. had told me that he
was going to kill a fat pig, and also
being aware of Mrs. Parks’ expert
ness in the culinary department, I
sorter took up on the grapes, and sug
gested to the Dr. that they might
make us sick. He said no, that grapes
were very healthy, and it was a long
time till dinner but he could not fool
me, I knew what I was thinking
about, aud he did too, so we went
back, and it was not long before Mrs.
P. announced dinner. The goodies,
the goodies she did have, baked shoat,
chicken pie, fried chicken, tarts, cov
ered and uncovered, in fact every
thing that was good—l would not
mind the Doctor’s having a re-union
every week. After we had rested
from dinner, the Doctor called all of
his grand-children out in the front
porch placed them in a row and count
ed twenty-one as fine looking grand
children as any man in the State can
show at fifty-five years old. Long
may the Dr. live to have Re-unions.
Our farmers are a little despondent
about their cotton crops, but there is
time enough yet for a good crop to
be made, if we have seasons from
now on. Mr. J. T. Persons thinks it
will not rain any more till Christmas.
Cheer up Johnnie, don’t look on the
dark side.
Miss Ory James, of Eufaula, is vis
iting relatives in Draneville. We are
always pleased to see Miss Ory. She
is interesting.
Mr. Erastus Jackson has returned
from the “Land of Flowers.” Ras.
says Florida does not suit him.
Mr. Emit Reese is now a citizen of
Draneville. We extend a hearty
welcome to you Emit; may your so
journ with us prove both to you and
to us, a source of great pleasure.
Dr. G. B. Merritt has not resumed
his school yet, which delay was occa
sioned by the measels. We hope he
will be able to get a school ere long.
Let it rain. J.