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C. w. HANCOCK,
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AitIKKIIIH, UEOKVIA.
Satmrday Morning, July 28.1883.
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 Legislative committee to whom
was referred the choice of a picture of
Hon. B. 11. Hill have selected the
painting of Horace Bradley, of Atlanta.
Mr. Ray’s bill to allow pleas of fail
ure of consideration in suits on notes
for fertilizers passed the House Tues
day by a vote of 88 to 61; just a con
stitutional majority.
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M. A. Dauphin, the great lottery
man, has entered suit in the District
Court at Washington against Walter
Q. Gresham, Postmaster-General for
#IOO,OOO damages on sccount of that
official’s recent decision.
Atlanta Journal: There is no Sen
ator more faithful to the interests ot his
constituents than Walker, of the 12th
district. While he is not given to
much speaking, he always votes intel
ligently and to the best interest of the
State.
The contested election case from
Camden county, in which Anthony
Wilson, colored, claimed the right to
the seat of Daniel R. Proctor, was de
cided Wednesday last in favor of the
man of color, by a vote of 87 to 61,
and he took the oath of office.
The House of Representatives that
meets in December will have 3123 mem
bers, divided politically as follows:
Democrats 191, Republicans 119, Re
adjusters 6, Independents 5, Green
backers 2. The Democrats have a
majority of 50 over the combined op
position.
In the last issue of the "Georgia
Truck Farmer and Mirror and Ad
vertiser,” of Fort Valley, Mr. E. T.
Byington announced that he had dis
posed of the Truck Farmer and that
his connection with the paper ceased
with that issue. Messrs. I. H. Bran
ham and H. B. Mathews have pur
chased the paper and will continue its
publication.
An immense quantity of opium has
been imported into this country in an
ticipation of the increased duty to $4
per pound. Since the enactment of the
new tariff bill 4,347 cases have been
received at San Francisco. These
cases contain 41 pounds of opium each,
It is said $3,000,000 has been advanc
ed by San Francisco bankers on this
drug, which they hold as collateral
security.
The “sham battle” ot the Second
Regiment of Alabama Volunteers, at
Mobile on Friday last, came near bring
ing on a real engagement along the
whole line. A contest between the
Montgomery True Blues and another
company for a color became so anima
ted and exciting that the flag was torn,
and several contestants were knocked
down. The Colonel with difficulty
separated them and restored discipline.
The New York Truth makes the
following stalwart suggestion: “Let,
therefore, someone now adopt the tac
tics employed last summer by the ship
pers, and apply for a mandamus com
manding Western Union to keep Its
franchise alive, and to promptly dis
patch every message offered. The
Courts have said that the railways
must take and forward freight, not in
their discretion and in their own time,
but as fast as it was offered. The courts
will doubtless now say that Western
Union cannot shut up a single office nor
delay a single message, nor accompany
the receipt of a message with any re
strictive conditions.”
Many of the smaller towns through
out Georgia were visited not long ago
by a Turk and his wife, who made
their living with a performing bear. In
St. Clair county, Alabama, last week,
the man was arrested for using profane
language. A guard named Sprewell
started for Ashville with the prisoner,
but after they had gone some distance,
Sprewell told the Turk that if he
would pay him SSO he could go free.
The Turk agreed to this and pulled
out a roll of money and paid the sum.
Sprewell seeing that the man had more
money, carried him a short distance
further into a thickly wooded spot and
stepped behind the ignorant man, shot
him twice in the head with a pistol.
The man fell to the ground, and Spre
well supposing him dead, robbed him
of S4OO. It transpired that both the
shots made only scalp wounds and
when the Turk regained consciousness,
he found his way back to his wife and
bear, where he reported the outrage.
At last accounts Sprewell had not been
arrested.
From Atlanta.
The resolution bringing on the elec
tion of Associate Justice of tho Su
preme Court on Thursday, the 2nd of
August, was adopted.
Senator Livingstone’s resolution for
investigating the u eof convicts by the
Marietta and North Georgia, was refer
red to a special joint committee^
The special order to fix the Hill me
morial for next Saturday was discharg
ed. The day is to be fixed for some
other time.
The memorial services in honor of
Governor H. V. Johnson were observ
ed and were very interesting. Speeches
were made by Senators Smith and Du-
Bignon, and their eulogies were pro
nounced superb.
In the House, a motion to reconsid
er the action seating the negro member
from Camden failed.
The general local option bill was
made the special order for Wednesday
next.
How they Voted.
Messrs. Hawkes and Wilson, of Sum
ter, voted against Mr. Ray’s bill pro
viding for a plea of want of considera
tion on notes given for commercial fer
tilizers. Mr. Hudson of Webster, Mr.
Murray of Scbley, and Johnson of Lee
voted for the passage of the bill. The
fate of the bill in the Senate is consid
ered very doubtful.
Polk’s Penalty.
The jury in the case ofex-Treasurer
Polk brought in a verdict of guilty of
embezzelment, fixed the penalty at im
prisonment in the penitentiary for
twenty years, and imposing a fine to
the full amount of the embezzelment.
The Difference.
“C. A. N.,” the Atlanta correspond
ent of the Telegraph and Messenger,
writes that paper the following:
“About ten years ago two young
men, in good circumstances, were doing
business in a town near Atlanta, each
for himself. Soon they were overtaken
by the necessities of fortune, and forced
to suspend. Both failed for about the
same amount. As it happened, their
principal creditor was one of the largest
firms in Atlanta. One of the young
men came here and effected a settlement
with his creditors, paying them 25
cents in the dollar, saving enough to
buy a comfortable home in Atlanta,
furnish it and a healthy bank account
besides. The other young man, under
the pressure, perhaps, of the early
training of honest but unworldly par
ents, came to Atlanta and paid his
creditors dollar for dollar, giving up
everything to the discharge of his debts.
Both young men settled in Atlanta, and
a short while ago the last named, who
surrendered everything to his creditors,
applied to this big firm, whom I men
tioned before, for employment. They
turned him off, but the other young
man—the 25-cents-in-the-dollar young
man—was in their service at a salary
of $5,000 a year.
Peanut Flour.
An exchange says no doubt ere long
peannt flour will be an important pro
duct of the South. The crop of the
country has averaged $3,000,000. Vir
ginia is set down this year for 1,100,-
000 bushels. Tennessee for 250,000
and North Carolina at 135,000 bush
els, these being the chief States engag
ed in their cultivation, and those in
which it was first introduced from Af
rica. In Virginia they are called “pea
nuts, in North Carolina ‘ground peas,’
in Tennessee, “goobers,” and in Geor
gia, Alabama and Mississippi, “pin
ders.” Virginians are beginning to turn
the peanut into flour, and say it makes
a peculiarly palatable “biscuit.” In
Georgia there is a custom now growing
old of pounding the shelled peanuts
and turning them into pastry, which
has some resemblance, both in look and
taste, to that made ef cocoanut, but the
peanut pastry is more oily and richer
and, we think, healthier and better
every way. If, as some people believe,
Africa sent a curse to America in slav
ery, she certainly conferred upon her a
blessing in the universally popular pea
nut, which grows so well throughout
the Southern regions that we shall soon
be able to cut off their now large im
portation altogether.
The courts have decided that the
railroad corporations shall perform the
duties laid down by law at whatever
cost—that is to say, freight shall be
carried.no matter if the employes strike.
There is good grounds for belief, that
the same law is applicable to Telegraph
Companies and they cannot avoid their
liabilitities by sticking up a placard
stating that all messages are taken
subject to delays, and the conditions
printed on their blanks. They are
subject to a penalty for a failure to
transmit a message at once, and are li
able for any damage the sender ofa
message may suffer on account of any
unnecessary delay. They can’t plead
that a strike interrupted their business.
Bright’s disease of the kidneys,
diabetes and other diseases of the
kidneys and liver, which you are be
ing so frightened about. Hop Bitters
is the only thing that will surely and
permanently prevent and cure. All
other pretended cures only relieve for
a time and then make you many
times worse.
BUTCHEKY.
DETAILS OF A COLD BLOODED AND DIIDTAL
UURDEU.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
Vienna, Ga., July 24.—Later devel
opments in the Cason-Clifton homi
cide, of Sunday last, bring to light
what is apparently one of the most
cold blooded murders known to the
annals of crime in this section. A
brief resume of the train of circum
stances leading to the fatal culmina
tion above mentioned, may not be un
interesting.
In 1881, Samuel Clifton, a youth of
seventeen, was employed on the farm
of Mrs. S. A. Cason, and her son,
Sampson Cason, Jr., familiarly called
“Sampse.” Clifton was unmarried,and
supported a widowed mother. Some
time in the fall of that year a misun
derstanding arose between the parties,
which culminated in a hand-to-hand
fight between Clifton and Cason (the
latter being the attacking party,) in
which Cason was severely worsted, be
ing badly cut by his opponent. Cason
had acquired the reputation of a great
fighter and bully, (and he undoubted
ly was game and a veritable athlete,)
and his pride was considerably wound
ed at the result of the rencontre. Bad
blood has ever since existed between
the parties as manifested on various
occasions, especially by Cason, though
they were on speaking terms. On
Sunday last, the usual congregation
had assembled for religious worship at
Line Church, situated about fifteen
miles east of Vienna, in asparcely set
tled scope of country, and within about
seventy-five yards of the Wilcox coun
ty line. Services had not begun, and
the crowd was mostly out of doors. A
path led from the church to a spring
some fifty yards distant. Sampse
Cason and Sam Clifton were both on
the grounds. Young people in couples
passed and repassed going to and from
the spring. Clifton was seen to start
from the spring on his return to the
church, when Cason, who was in a
crowd near the latter, arose and started
down the path toward the spring.
They met. When within three feet of
his victim Cason raised his knife, and,
saying:
“Sam, God damn you, you have
been talking about me,” made the dead
ly plunge, the knife entering just above
the left nipple, cutting entirely through
two of the ribs, and laying open the
heart, which was fully exposed to view
through an aperture four inches in
length in which could have been laid a
man’s arm. After receiving the blow
Clifton stepped back, drew his knife,
made a step or two toward his slayer,
staggered, fell and expired. Cason
cooly stepped to the spring, washed the
blood from his hands, returned to where
the dead man lay, looked at him, re
marking, “It’s ad—m bad gash. Then
turning to the awe-stricken crowd he
bade them adieu, mounted his horse
and rode home, ate his dinner and left.
He has numerous relatives and kins
men in the vicinity—related to near
ly every family in the neighborhood,
which is called Cason’s settlement. No
attempt was made to arrest him. He
is notad for his fighting qualities and
prowess, though othei wise his reputa
tion has always been excellent and he
has been considered honest, clever, hos
pitable and kind, and had hosts of
friends. His victim, Samuel Clifton,
was an honest, quiet, clever young
man, eighteen years of age, and liked
by every one. He was a splendid spe
cimen of manhood physically, being
well developed and of magnificent pro
portions. He was equally as game as
his antagonist, and phisically his su
perior, and is alleged that a knowledge
of this fact prompted Cason to take the
advantage he did in making the attack
unheralded and unexpected as he did.
It is hardly necessary to add that tardy
justice has as yet scarcely moved in the
matter, and Cason is probably in an
other State ere this.
The coroner’s jury returned a verdict
of “willful murder,” and the coroner’s
warrant has been issued in accordance
therewith. Q.
A Birmingham Strike.
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY BOLLING MILLS
MEN OUT ON IT.
Iron Age.
The employes of the Birmingham
Rolling Mills company, numbering
about 450 men, struck for higher wages
yesterday. The mills were shut down
several weeks ago to allow repairing
and the putting in place of machinery lor
new plate and sheet mills, and the op
eratives were not at work. It seems
they had time to deliberate upon the
situation, as they promised to be when
they resumed work. The result of
their deliberation was that they deter
mined to object to a reduction recently
made by the company to Pittsburg
prices. Last year puddlers were paid
fifty cents above this scale, and the
strike was made against the change
from this rate. Knoxville, Chattanoo
ga, and all the mills in the South were
working at the Pittsburg rates, except
the Birmingham mills, who concluded
that they could not compete on such
unequal terms.
A relay of puddlers on the way to
the Brierfield works were persuaded by
the Birmingham men to join in their
demand.
From all appearances it is likely
the Btrike will last some time. The
company seems reconciled to it, in view
of the depressed condition of the mar
ket.
The reason why the people at large
sympathize with the striking telegraph
ers is because the Western Union Tel
egraph Company is a bloated monopo
lv. With an actual capital of $20,-
000,000, this monopoly has issued
stock to the amount of $80,000,000,
and upon this investment, after paying
all running expenses it has been real
izing seven per cent, of $80,000,000
to divide among its stockholders. The
masses cannot be expected to side with
such a grinding monopoly.
Terrible Calamity.
SCORES OP EXCURSIONISTS MEET DEATH
NEAR BALTIMORE.
Baltimore, July 24.—A terrible
calamity occurred at North Point,
Tivoli, an excursion resort, on the
Patapsco, ten miles from this city,
about ten o’clock last night, by which
many lives were lost—the number be
ing. estimated at between 60 and 70.
The accident was occasioned by the
giving away of the outer portion of the
pier, on which seven hundred persons
congregated, awaiting a boat to return
to this city. The locality is on a small
bay, distant about two miles from the
North Point Light House. It was
formerly known as Holly Grove, and
was the first regular excursion place
fitted up near the city about fifteen
years ago and was a most popular re
sort at that time and for several years
afterward. Yesterday an excursion
was given to Tivoli under the manage
ment of the Mount Royal Beneficial
Society of the Catholic Church of Cor
pus Christi, of which Father Starr is
pastor. The excursionists went down
on the barge Cockade City, which was
towed by the tug Amanda Powell.
The barge was formerly an old canal
boat which had been fitted up with
several decks for excursion purposes
and used as such for several years.
Yesterday she made three trips, the last
being made from this city between six
and seven o’clock last evening, and
reached Tivoli before ten o’clock. Dur
ing the day she had taken down about
500 persons, and on her last trip about
100. A large number of those who
went down during the day had iemain
ed intending to return on the last trip.
When the barge approached, all those
on the shore made a rush for the wharf,
which is several hundred feet long and
were closely packed together at the
gate, about twenty-five feet from the
end, impatiently awaiting admittance
through the gate. As the barge came
alongside, and struck the wharf it sud
denly and without warning gave way
and a large portion of the crowd was
precipitated into the water, which is
about ten feet deep. Many were able
to save themselves by fleeing toward
the shore as the outer end of the pier
crumbled and fell. Darkness added to
the confusion and terror, and little
could be done at once to rescue the
drowning, most of whom were women
and children. The first news of the
disaster reached this city a little after
two o’clock this morning, when the
barge landed at Henderson’s wharf,
bringing a number of the bodies of the
drowned. Up to this hour it is said
sixty-ono bodies have been recovered.
Terrible Tornado.
Several Persons Killed and Others
Injured—Destruction to Prop
erty.
Detroit, July 25.— Details are just
coming to hand of a tornado which
passed over Ingham county Monday.
The house of Mrs. Elizabeth Barlow,
was picked up by the wind and torn to
pieces. Mrs. Barlow, who was in the
house, was instantly killed. Her body
was afterwards found two rods from
where the house stood, with her neck
broken. The tornado struck two miles
east of Eaton Rapids, Eaton county,
destroying a large amount of property.
Several barns were demolished. Eu
gene Henry’s house, one mile east of
Winfield was blown to atoms, his wife
and seven children were inside at the
time. Two of the children were found
dead forty rods distant. Three others
and the mother were badly hurt. The
baby was unhurt although the crib in
which it was sleeping cannot be found.
Onech’ld had its neck broken and an
other its skull crushed.
Rue Perrin’s house, on the line be
tween Eaton and Ingham counties, was
also wrecked. His wife was injured.
Fences, orchards and forests were swept
away along the track of the storm,
which seems to have been about four
rods wide and extended over a track of
country two miles long in this vicinity.
Yellow Fever.
ONE DEATH AT NORFOLK PROCEEDINGS
TO STOP ITS SPREAD.
Washington, July 24. Surgeon
Glennon, ot the marine hospital ser
vice, at Norfolk, reports that one man
died last night of yellow fever on the
steamer Andean. The steamer was
lying at quarantine at Cradey Island,
but put to sea to hurv the man. The
following was immediately sent to Sur
geon Glennon: “Employ a physician
and one nurse for the barge Selden, and
remove the sick to the barge immedi
ately. Advise the health officer to for
bid any infected vessels from going to
Craney Island.”
The Newport board of health has
been advised that a message was also
sent to Col. L. Bremond, president of
the board of health at Newport News,
Va., as follows:
“In my judgment, the sick from the
steamer Andean should be immediately
removed to the hospital barge Selden,
at Willoughby’s Cave, opposite Rip-
Raps. Please send the steamer Andean
to that point to anchor. All persons
having had any communication with
that vessel should be isolated for ten
days and their clothing fumigated.
| Signed] “A. U. Hamilton,
“Surgeon-General.”
The Surgeon-General says that he
has advised the removal of infected
vessels from Craney Island, because
from a personal inspection he has be
come satisfied that it is too near Nor
folk for the safety of that city, being
distant about two miles, and experience
shows that previous outbreaks of yel
low fever at Norfolk have always pro
ceeded from Craney Island, when that
point was used for quarantine purposes.
Secretary Folger telegraphed to the
collector of customs at Baltimore, this
afternoon, as follows:
“Instruct revenue steamer Ewing to
stop all foreign vessels entering the
Capes. If any sickness be on board,
require them to anchor near Ocean View
until boarded by a health officer.”
Hard on Editors.
Atlanta Journal.
This is hard weather on editors.
Edward Spencer, of Baltimore, died
last weok. McCullaugh, of St. Louis,
is at the point of death, and Storey, of
Chicago, is beyond hope of recovery.
With all of them it was the same dis
ease—nervous prostration.
A Missouri Man’s Cycle.
Grand Junction (Col.) News.
The man who is born in Missouri is
of few days and full of trouble. He
Cometh to Colorado like a hopper
grass, and runneth for office on the
Democratic ticket like a jackass, and
is cut down like a sparrow grass, and
there is no health in him. Selah.
What Bill- Arp Knows.
Cor. Atlanta Constitution.
I know a man who sold a lot of land
the other day for eight hundied dol
lars, and he gave it in at eighty. He
is a rich man, but he is a dodger, an
artful dodger. He has dodged death
and taxes for a long time, but Pm
afraid he wont be able to dodge the
devil when his time conies. Governor
McDaniel alludes to these cases in his
message and I hope the Legislature
will provide some remedy that will
reach ’em. Some folks have an idea
that it is no sin to cheat the State, but
when a man cheats the State he is
cheating every man and woman in it,
for the less he pays the more they pay.
If we could all cheat alike it wouldn’t
make any difference, and I reckon we
will all have it to do to keep even.
Dr. Lovick Pierce.
The LaGrange Reporter says: “A
distinguished Methodist minister in
formed us the other day that the preach
ing of Dr. Lovick Pierce was once heard
a distance of three miles by a gentle
man who recognized his voice. Our
informant himself, on one occasion,
caught his words in conversation with
others seventy-five yards away. The
great preacher’s voice, in its prime, was
like a deep-toned bell. The doctor, in
a sermon, was relating some of his
losses and crosses in the ministry. In
loud, strong, energetic notes, that rang
out like a clarion peal, he declared that
among other sacrifices made he had
worn out the finest pair of lungs that
God ever gave a man. Of course the
smile went round at the good doctor’s
bull.”
The Fate of Genius.
A company out in Arkansas were
telling of the brilliant boys they had
worshipped as heroes, and how badly
they had ended in life. Here is one of
the affecting anecdotes: “I used to wor
ship a hero at school. He was a brill
iant orator, and chalenged the admira
tion of the most prominent citizens of
the town. Every one supposed he
would be a great statesman. Well,
recently I visited the neighborhood,
and, I, like you, could not help but
muse over his brilliant prospects and
take a sadder view of life.” “What
was he doing? Cleaning out wells for
a living?” “No, sir.” “Clerk in a hide
house?” “No.” “Conductor of a hod?’
“No.” “What was he doing, then?”
“He wasn’t' doing anything. He was
dead.”
Reward of Strong Love.
A LITTLE GIRL COMPOSES, AND TELLS HOW
STRONG LOVE WAS REWARDED.
Just as the boy ot five years begins
to yearn for the time when he can stand
up and make a speech “all by himself,”
so does the little girl hanker after a
chance to show that she can write a
composition. The funny part of the
thing is that the little darlings always
tackle some subject that they know
nothing about, and as they generally
want to wind up with a strong mora' r
they make some amusing mistakes. A
friend of ours, says the Albany Argus,
stopped us on the street the other day
and told us the following, which he
will Bwear is true, and as we have
never caught him in a lie, we are con
strained to believe him. He says that
a little girl who attends one of our
schools was told that she must write a
composition, which she did. On the
day appointed she got up, and, in a
strong voice, she announced her subject
as “Strong Love Rewarded.” Her
effort was as follows:
Once there was a real nice young
lady, with pretty eyes, and pretty hair,
and pretty teeth,and gay pretty clothes
and she loved a young man, and he
was poor and handsome, and he loved
her, too, but her parents were down on
him because he couldn’t put on style.
But she loved him with a strong love,
ana he loved her with a strong love,
and it was rewarded—afterward. One
day he won a big lot of money, and
then her folks said he was a daisy, and
they got married—not the folks, but
her and him—and they still loved each
other with a strong love, but nobody
brought them no little babies, and they
didn’t like it, because they wanted
some to play with and take out in the
evening. But nobody brought the ba
bies, and a cruel war sprung up, and
the loving youDg man joined the army,
was taken prisoner and waß kept for
seven long years, and never saw his
loving wife, but ho loved her through
it all with a strong love, and she loved
him through all his absence with her
strong love; then the war got stopped,
and he come home, and what did he
find? Seven little children that his
loving wife had presented him with in
his absence. Thus was strong love
rewarded.”
Not a particle of calomel or any
other deleterious substance enters into
the composition of Ayer’s Cathartic
Pills. On the contrary they prove of
special service to those who have used
calomel and other mineral poisons as
medicines, and feel their injurious
effects. In such cases Ayer’s Pills
are invaluable.
The fact has been established be
yond a doubt, that seed of the Ger
man Millet grown in Middle Tennes
see will produce a very much larger
yield of hay than seed grown in the
Western or Northern States. Ten
nessee raised genuine German Millet
Seed for sale at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
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We must have room for these NEW GOODS, and we must
have Money to pay for them. If you want
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Ladies’ Hats, Parasols, Linen Lawns,
Figured Piques, Muslins,
and other SUMMER GOODS, call early, as
We are Offering Them Without Regard to Former
Prices!
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Can be had CHEAP for the CASH!
ttEXTN’ STRAW HATS, ’
Nobby and Nice, at “Rock Bottom”-prices, and no mistake.
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(Laundried and Unlaundried), is conceded to be
THE BEST SHIBT IN THE MARKET!
In the BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT, we are pre- I
pared to give the best values ever offered in this marke t.
Our Stock is Simply Immense, and Mast to Reduced.
It is impossible for us to specify all the bargains we are now
offering, and you will never know how much you have missed
unless you give us a call and inspect our goods and learn our
prices. This we cordially invite you to do. y
JOHN R. SHAW’S,
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Forsyth Street* Jlmericus Ga.