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AltlEltlUUS, GEORGIA.
Wednesday Morning, August 8,1888
Official Organ ofCity of Americus.
Official Organ of Sumter County
Official Organ of Schley County.
Official Organ of Lee County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
The New York Times thinks that
the telegraphers’ strike will prove ben
eficial to the Southern speculators in
cotton futures. It says they cannot
tell what August or September cotton
will be worth without their regular
communication with New York, where
the price is fixed, and that they always
get “cleaned out” before the end of
August.
Judge Hilton, who controls the
Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga, has
gone out of his way again to insult
the Hebrew race. A grand party was
given at the hotel recently to which
0,000 invitations were issued. Gener
al invitations were sent to the proprie
tors of all the hotels that their guests
were expected to attend, but that all
Israelites would be excluded.
The Manhattan for August, an illus
trated magazine published in New
York, is received, and is filled with
choice reading matter which must be
acceptable to the literary public. The
Manhattan has been recently estab
lished and in its own behalf says: “But
liberal in spirit, catholic in taste,
humane in sentiment, entertaining as
well as instructive in character, and in
spired by a high ideal of literary ex
cellence, it hopes to prove in the strug
gle for ‘the survival for the fittest’
that it is fit to live.”
A Chautauqua letter in the Chicago
Times contains this spicy paragraph:
There are hundreds of young women
here whom, at first glance, you would
not call beautiful; but if intelligence,
thought and earnestness can beautify,
they take first rank. At one of the
boarding houses, a few days ago, a
young student from an Eastern college
said: “I am opposed to the co-educa
tion of the sexes, for when a woman be
comes highly educated she begins to
have a purpose in life, and when she
has a purpose she ceases to be attrac
tive.” They carried him out gently
and dropped him into the lake. His
head was so light he wouldn’t sink.
The young fellow ought to have
made it a “purpose in life” to marry
one of the intellectual girls with a good
bank account. Perhaps, however, she
would not have him.
The New York World has figured it
out as follows: “There are now dem
ocratic governors in 25 states of the
union, republican governors in 12 states
and a repudiation governor in the re
maining state, Virginia. * * * If
the republicans should retain all the
states they now hold, including Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, and
should redeem Connecticut, Kansas,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada and
Pennsylvania, they would still leave
the democratic president with a major
ity of 17 electoral votes. Instead of
redeeming all these states the republi
cans are likely to lose Indiana, Ohio,
Oregon and Wisconsin, and probably
Illinois. The signs of the times all
indicate that the country, especially on
national issues, repudiates the repub
lican party. The people have made up
their minds that there must and shall
be a change!”
The Whirlpool.
This great feature of Niagara River
has attracted the attention of the curi
ous from time immemorial. Nothing
that goes in ever comes out. The re
cent sacrifice by Capt. Webb of his own
life, has induced the following expla
nation of the mechanism, so to speak,
of the wonder: “It seems to me a big
hole in the bottom of the river running
off into subterranean channels. The
volume of water in the river fills it up
for a minute or two, and as the water
rushes into the basin it makes these
high waves. The hole in the bottom
lets the water out, and it begins to cir
cle round and round till it comes to
the pit, just as the water runs out of a
water basin. We built a log raft some
twenty feet square and shoved it out
into the pool. When the water caught
it, it began to circle round, and then it
tipped up as it gave a dive, just as
Webb raised his hand; and that was
the last we ever saw of the logs. Why
that same winter the Niagara river was
frozen over below the falls, and the ice
was piled up sixty or seventy feet
high. I saw great bergs as big as a
whole houso go into the pool that
spring when the river broke up, and it
swallowed them up as easily as it did
our raft. What chance do you think
Captain Webb would have there? He
would be like a fly. I don’t think it
likely his body will ever be seen again.
When he raised his hand he felt it
sucking him in like an undertow, and
he knew his time had come.’'*
A Sensational Announcement.
A Washington City special telegram
to some of the leading Western papers
makes the rather sensational announce
ment that “a member of the Executive
Committee of the Brotherhood has
written one of the operators here that
unless there is a settlement of the diffi
culties between the strikers and the
companies before the 21st of August,
the master workmen of the Knights of
Labor will be convened in Congress in
Philadelphia on the 10th proximo, to
consider the situation and discuss the
advisability of ordering out every wage
worker who is a member of the Order.
There are about 1,000,000 of the
Knights of Labor representing their
branch of industry, and should all of
them quit work as quietly and peacea
bly as the operators have done, the dis
aster to the business interests that
would immediately follow is incalcula
ble. The leaders assert that they will
do so. They say that for the first
time in the world’s history labor is so
well organized as to defy the power of
capital, and that the paralysis of in
dustrial enterprise that must immedi
ately follow an order from the constitu
ted authorities of the Knights of Labor
to stop the work of 1,000,000 men,
will bring the middle classes into alli
ance with the wage workers, and sound
the death knell to monopolies.”
Southwestern Changes.
It will be seen by the following cir
cular, which has been received by the
railroad officials in this city, that there
is a change in the Southwestern road
in which Mr. Kline becomes superin
tendent September first:
Savannah, July 25.—Mr. W. F.
Shcllman is hereby appointed Traffic
Manager of the following roads: Cen
tral railroad and leased lines, Savan
nah, Griffin and North Alabama rail
road, Mobile and Girard railroad, Mont
gomery and Eufaula railway, Eufaula
and Clayton railway, Columbus and
Western railway, Port Royal and
Augusta railway. Appointment to
take effect August Ist. Office in
Macon, Ga., till further notice.
T. D. Kline is hereby appointed
Superintendent of the Southwestern
Division of the Central railroad, to fill
the position made vacant by the pro
motion of Major Shellman; appoint
ment to take effect September Ist.
Office, Macon, Ga.
Major Shellman will continue his ad
ministration of the Southwestern Di
vision, in connection with his other
duties, till September Ist.
W. G. Raoci., President.
A Touch of flic Romantic.
A Cave Spring correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph and Messenger in a
recent letter to that journal says: “In
a few days a marriage will take place,
which smacks strongly of romance.
Little less than a year ago a lovely
school girl went from here to a neigh
boring city to visit relatives. Walk
ing out one afternoon with an admirer
of hers she was persuaded to give her
happiness into his keeping. Seeking a
minister they were soon married. The
next hour her relatives forced her into
a room and turning the key she was
kept in close confinemement until her
father arrived. Without being permit
ted to see her husband she was carried
back home and sent to school again.
As she still clings to her chosen part
ner tor life, in a short while the school
girl bride will take upon herself the
second time the solemn vows of matri
mony—for which extensive prepara
tions are being made.
Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine.
The September number could scarce
ly be excelled in the variety and excel
lence of the contents, it is overflowing
with good things. Rev. C. E. Cheney,
Bishop of the Diocese of Chicago, con
tributes No. VIII. of “Religious De
nominations in the United States—
What is the Reformed Episcopal
Church?” The editor has a charming
article, “The Ministry of Tears;”
“The American Pilgrim in Palestine,”
and “Among the Natives of the North”
are continued, and the other articles
are by popular writers. The serial,
short stories, sketches, essays, etc.,
afford delightful and edifying reading.
There are poems; a sermon by Rev. Dr.
Talmage, “Gnats and Camels,” Edito
rial Comments, Record of Important
Events, and a Miscellany that abounds
with interest, entertainment and in
struction. The number is profusely
and beautifully embellished. Price 25
cents per number; .$3 a year, postpaid.
Address, Mrs. Frank Leslie, Publisher,
53, 55 and 57 Park Place, New Y’ork.
The Brunswick A Western.
Atlanta Constitution.
The rumors that the Central railroad
had purchased the Brunswick dc Wes
tern grew out of the fact that Captain
W. G. Raoul, the President of the Cen
tral, had been considering the matter
some time. About two months ago he
went over the road from Albany to
Brunswick. There has been no trade
made for the road, and it is doubtful
whether there will be. It is altogether
probable, however, that there will be a
running arrangement between the two
roads that will result in their working
harmoniously together which will pre
vent the extension of the Brunswick &
Western to the Chattahoochee. This
is now under consideration between the
two corporations.
A PERILOUS PREDICAMENT.
Harrowing Scene Near Hurricane
Falls at Tallulah—An Atlanta
Man Suspended by a Twig Over an
Abyss Two Hundred Feet Deep.
Atlanta Journal.
Last week Mr. Emmet Stewart, a
clerk employed at Mark Berry’s shoe
store, on Peachtree street, determined
upon taking an extended vacation of
some ten days in length. In casting
about for a place to spend his time
agreeably he finally lit upon Tallulah
Falls, a natural curiosity now celebra
ted throughout the length and breadth
of the land. Accordingly last Monday
found him there enjoying the cool re
freshing breezes of the mountains.
There are many interesting sights to be
seen in the neighborhood of the falls.
There were several young men from
other towns in Georgia recreating there
at the same time that Mr. Stewart
sought those classic shades. An expe
dition was planned. It was determined
to visit a mountain of some celebrity
about a half mile below Hurricane
Falls. Their plans were perfected, and
all necessary arrangements having been
made in the premises, Mr. Stewart and
three other young gentlemen set out on
their tour of inspection. All the
morning of Monday was spent in
mountain reconnoisanecs. Noon found
them absorbed in the contemplation of
the majestic Falls from the summit of
a contiguous peak two thousand feet
high. When their vision had been
surfeited by the sublimity' and gran
deur of the scene, they began their de
scent from the altitudinal position.
They had reached a point one-eiglith
of a league from the top cf the moun
tain when they were halted in their
downward career by the intervention of
a precipitous embankment. This,
upon measurement, was found to be
about ten feet in abruptness. After a
short consultation, it was finally decided
to explore the cavernous depths below.
A bold leap, made simultaneously,
brought them to the bottom of the
bluff. The surface upon which they
landed was sandy, and to add to the
horror of their situation, it was found,
upon investigation, that all egress from
the place was effectually debarred.
What could be done under such cir
cumstances ? To remain there idly
without making an exertion for safety
was death; to make a move in any
direction was probably destruction.
Horror seized them. The exigencies of
their position demanded peremptory
proceedings. A scout was detailed to
survey the surroundings. lie returned
in the space of a few seconds and re
ported a happy discovery. While ro
connoitoring the exterior verge of the
cavern he discovered the existence of a
ledge about ten inches in width, which
extended around the mountain and was
lost in obscurity. If all were brave
enough to essay this perilous path,
safety might be found at its termina
tion. They agreed to try the pass.
They sallied forth in single file, Mr.
Stewart bringing up the rear. The
van was soon lost to sight in the con
vexity of tlio mountain’s side, and Mr.
Stewart found himself clambering alone
on the edge of a precipice at the appall
ing height of 200 feet from the ground
below. The surface upon which he
was treading was about nine
inches broad. He began to trem
ble, becamo giddy, reeled, his feet
refused to sustain him longer, they
slipped from under him and he fell
with a horrible crash into nothingness.
Fortunately for him, while he was fall
ing he luckily grabbed a projecting
limb that was strong enough to sustain
the weight of his body. Dangling be
tween earth and heaven he clung to the
twig with a desperation intensified by
the dismal surroundings. In the mean
tims his companions had gained a place
of safety and began to look round for
their unfortunate friend. “He has per
ished,” was the unanimous opinion
voiced by one of their number. Mr.
Stewart heard them as he clung to the
delicate branch that suspended him be
tween eternity and corporeal existence.
He essayed to cry for help, but his
tongue was, as it were, frozen by terror
and death seemed imminent. The
boldest of his three companions return
ed to obtain ocular evidence of his de
struction. He found Mr. Stewart cling
ing with a desperate energy to the
fragile twig. He cautiously' advanced
to the rescue. And the great good
fortune of Mr. Stewart is recorded
when it is said that he was eventually
saved. They descended the mountain
sadder but wiser men.
An Honest Confession.
Charley Pendleton, editor of the Val
dosta Times, but at present a member
of the Georgia Legislature, thus writes
to his own paper:
“I have almost come to the conclus
ion that as a legislator I am a failure.
I have so far been unable to contribute
a single bill or resolution, or even a
speech to my country—and worse, near
ly every bill that I have voted for hag
been defeated and as many voted against
have passed the House. I am nearly
always with the ‘gallant few' who go
down under the bane of ‘minority.’ It
will be-remembered by' the readers of
the Times that 1 got into this unlucky
channel in the famous campaign of
1880. I find myself in the condition
of the twelth juror, who asserted that
he was associated with eleven of the
most unreasonable and contrary inen
he had over peon—because they would
not come over to his side of tjie case
under consideration.”
The curative power of Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla is too well known to
require the specious aid of any exag
gerated or /fictitious certificate. Wit
nesses of its marvellous .cures are to
day living in every city and hamlet of
the land. Write for names if you
want home evidence.
Earliest Bloomsdale Red Top Tur
nip, anew variety. The quickest
growing turnips known. Try it. AH
other Turnip Seeds at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
AMATEUR THEATRICALS.
A Couple of Living Examples—The
Bov and the Girl who are Stage-
Struck and Wiiat Becomes of
Them.
From the Milwaukee Sun.
Amateur theatricals are all right
enough for people who are old enough
to know when they have got enough,
and who are settled in life, and have
got sense. In such cases a great deal
of amusement and instruction can be
obtained. But for these young things,
these kids, who are just beginning to
wear tight pants and long dresses, and
who have not learned that they didn’t
make the world, amateur theatricals
are worse than scarlet fever. Take one
ot these simpering boys, who is just
beginning to feel an itching on his up
per lip, ami who has only recently had
a cavity in a front tooth filled with
gold, and who keeps his mouth open
to show the gold until his teeth got
sunburnt, and let him sit up nights
and burn midnight oil till he has learn
ed twenty lines of a heroic speech, in a
dizzy play, and ho is no good on earth.
He will neglect business and imitate
the stylo of a ham fatter, and comb his
hair down on his forehead like Booth,
and fold his arms across his six inch
chest and walk slow, dragging his feet
alter him, and poising them on the toe
for a second, and his eyes will roll like
a steer that has slipped the yoke, or a
calf that has swallowed a whole turnip.
He thinks it is genius, and so does the
calf with the turnip half way down his
neck.
Such a boy will make his friends
want to kill him. He will play as an
amateur a little while, and will follow
off a traveling theatrical troupe, get a
job handling baggage, and write home
that he is a “leading man.” He will
be in luck if he gets a chance to lead a
dog for an Uncle Tom’s Cabin party.
He will think it is an evidence of gen
ius to become a hard nut and after he
has been on the road a month he will
tell you confidentially, more scandals
about honest men and women on the
stage, than you can believe in a life
time, and some day an actor will fiear
of his lying, and maul him, and kick
him out of the company, and he will
get a ride on the trucks of a freight
train, to his country home, and he will
put on theatrical style, and say his
company is taking a vacation, and that
he has offers from a dozen different
companies for next season, and when
you ask him about his black eye he
will say he fell through a trap door in
the Opera House at Omaha, and ask
you to go and take a drink, and he
will take four fingers of raw whisky.
Next season lie will take a job driving
a team to haul slabs from a saw mill,
and say he has quit the stage on ac
count of the footlights hurting his
eyes.
With country girls of sixteen ama
teur theatricals are worse yet. A girl
who has been told she is as handsome
as a red wagon, will go into theatricals,
and learn a part, and when she gets so
she can come on to the stage in the
country town without falling over her
self, and stand up straight without
holding on to anything, and go through
a scene of love making witii a “dude”
and say “No, Hennery, it cannot be.
Henceforth we are strangers. I have
trited my ploth with a nothei. Go!
go hens, I say, and let me ne’er see
your face again,” she is all broke up
for any use at home. She reads the
weekly paper, which gives an account
of the entertainment, and when she
reads that “she was lovely, and when
she rendered the immortal lines of the
author you could hear a pin drop, and
at the parting with Hennery there was
not a dry eye in the house,” she be
‘gins to ape Mary Anderson and Clara
Morris, and her mother can’t get her to
make her own bed.
About this time some traveling thea
ter masher makes her acquaintance and
tells her she has a genius that will take
her to the highest pinnacle of fame, if
it is properly developed, and she goes
off to the city. She comes back after a
few months, on a visit, and has a seal
skin cloak, and diamonds, and a pug
dog and paints her face, and puts on
style, and breaks an assorted lot of
hearts in the country town, and goes
back to the stage. Some day merchant
from the old town goes to the city, and
attends the theater, and away back on
the stage, with a dozen other girls act
ing as peasants, or a chorus, he sees
the country star, wiggling on one foot,
at six dollars a week, and he goes home
and tells about it, and that settles her.
She don’t want to go home any more.
Nine times in ten such a girl is never
again the sweet, innocent girl she was
at home, and her life becomes a burden,
and we draw a veil over the foolishness.
If the kindergarden youth of a country
town have got sense, they will keep
out of the amateur theatrical business.
The Lucky Man —Raleigh Again
Gets a Big Prize.
In the drawing of the Louisiana
State Lottery, June 12th, one-tentli of
tlio grupd priyse of ijilso,ooo was won
by a Raleigh man, Mr. Gqstayp Rosen
thal, who deserves every smile fortune
may give. He sent through the ex
press, and received the drafts on New
York for the #15,000. The transac
tion was a prompt one. Mr. R. has
long been recognized as one of the
brightest of our business men. He
was born in Germany and came to this
State in 1859. In the spring of 1861
he came to Raleigh; has twice been a
member of the board of aldermen,
being chairman of the most important
committee. He bus for years been
Secretary of the Falls of Nense Manu
facturing Company.— llaleigh ( N. C.)
Mews and Observer, June 24th.
Real genuine and pure Port wine,
also fine cooking sherry, imported
French br&pdjps, gin and pure whis
keys for medical purposes at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
Apple vinegar, white wine vinegar.
Guaranteed absolutely pure and
strong—will not destroy pickles, at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
The Strike—Railroad Operators
Ordered to Go Out.
Chicago, August s.—The telegraph
operators on the Wabash railway sys
tem have given notice of their demand
for an increase in pay of #lO per
month, for extra pay for Sunday work,
and that they ha not required to han
dle Western Union business during its
pending controversy with the Brother
hood ot operators. The company is to
be given till Monday to return an an
swer. The Chicago and Alton rail
road officials dony having knowledge of
the contemplated strike among their
operators, but from the br therhood
the statement comes that the men will
go out on Monday.
St. Louis, August 0 —The following
order issued from here last Saturday
fell into the hands ot the telegraph
officials to-day:
To all Operators and Agents on the
Iron Mountain Railway.
Unless otherwise notified all mem
bers working for the Iron Mountain
road will suspend work at noon, St.
Louis time, Tuesday, August 7, 1883.
Agents should not refuse to perform
their duties as agents, but absolutely
refuse to touch the key. Mail me at
once a notice of your concurrence with
this order.
By order of the executive board of
the Brotherhood of Telegraphers of the
United States and Canada.
[Signed] M, D. Shaw.
Secretary.
Notice of Dissolution.
The firm of BOSWORTH & JOS
SEY was dissolved by mutual consent, on
August Ist, 18S3, L. 13. Bosworth having
purchased the interest of P. F. Jossey, and
assuming all liabilities of the late firm.
Parties indebted to the late firm will make
payments to L. B. Boswortli.
[Signed,] L. B. BOSWOUTII,
B. F. JOSSEY.
Thanking our many friends and custom
ers for their liberal patronage in the past,
and hoping by strict personal attention to
business, and attending to the wants of our
customers, that 1 will he favored with a
share of their patronage, when in want of
any articles in my line, Respectfully,
augß-tf. L. B. BOSWORTII.
CASH.
STRICTLY
CASH.
ON AND AFTER THE FIRST DAY OF
SEPTEMBER NEXT, OUR TERMS
WILL BE
STRICTLY CASH.
WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY,
and our friends will save unpleasantness to
us, and perhaps mortification to themselves
by recognizing the fact at once.
Persons indebted to us are requested to
call and settle their bills as early as possi
ble. We are determined to close our books
speedily, to
“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
M. H. FORI) & CO.,
Lamar Street, Americus, Ga.
augl-3m
REiVIOVAL.
Can be found on and after September 1,
at tlie Store on Cotton Avenue, now occu
pied by James G. Edmundson, where we
.will lio glad to welcome our customers and
friends. We will keep
A SELECT STOCK OF
HEAVY AND FANCY GRO
CERIES.
Thankful for past favors, we are
Yours truly,
Schumpert, Roney & King,
Americus, Ga., August 1, 1883.
A Yaluable Plantation
FOR SALE!
I offer for sale the plantation located
three and a half miles northwest of Ameri
cus, on the Muckalee Greek, containing
Eight Hundred and Fifty Acres
of land, about four hundred acres in a good
state of cultivation, and known as the John
Teel place. There is a good Gin house, ten
ants and other out-houses on the place, and
Is supplied with excellent well water.
Parties wishing to purchase will call on
me on the place, or address me at Americus,
Ga. WM. USRY.
augl-2ni
WOOD for SALE.
The undersigned is prepared to furnish
any quantity of good dry stove pine, witii a
few oak polls mixed in with the load. The
pine was split up last spring, and is well
adapted for cooking purposes. I will de
liver it at 80 cents a load, or J 1.75 a cord.
Those in need of such wood would do well
to call on me or leave their orders at the
store of Messrs. Joiner & Nicholson,
augl-tf WASH WALKER.
M. B. COUNCIL, J. J. WILLIFORD.
COUNCIL & WILLIFORD,
Proprietors
Georgia Warehouse,
Northeast Cum er I’nbJlc Square,
AMERICUS, - - - GEORGIA.
Having leased the New Brick Warehouse
on Troup Street, wo invite a share of the
patronago of the cotton planters of this and
surrounding counties. Our facilities for
storago are ample, our warehouse secure
against fire, our advantages for showing
and sampling cotton fine, while our advan
tages for unloading are not equaled.
e are also agents for the celebrated
IP GiNli. < jqlylijtf.
L GEORGE ANDREWS,
BOOT MU SHOE MAKER,
At }ijs chop in the rear of J. Waxelbaum
<fcCo. y s store, adjoining tfie livery
on Lamar St., invites Hie public to give Jlfm
their work. Ho can make ahd repair aj|
work at short notice. Is sober and always
on hand to await on customers. Work
guaranteed to he honest and good.
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Hats, Umbrellas, Etc.
We must have room for these NEW GOODS, ami we must
have Money to pay for them. If you want
Bargains !
Bargains !
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Ladies’ Hats, Parasols, Linen Lawns,
Figured Piques, Muslins,
and other SUMMER GOODS, call early, as 4
We are Offering Them Without Regard to Former
Prices!
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Can be had CHEAP for the CASH!
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Nobby and Nice, at “Rock Bottom” prices, and no mistake.
©WM reiEf,
(Lapndried and Unlaundried), is conceded to be
THE BEST SHIRT IN THE MARKET!
In the BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT, we arc pre
pared to give the best values ever offered in this market.
Our Stick is Simply hum, and Must be Reduced.
It is impossible for us to specify all the bargains yye j#re npw
offering, and yop will never kpow how much you hfjve Bpsspcj
unless you give us a call and inspect our goods and opr
prices. This we cordially invite you to do.
' J.
JOHN R. SHAW’S,
Forsyth Street , Americus Ga,