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rtly Neighbor's Compost Heap.
BEAUREGARDS RECORD.
Mr. Editor: My neighbor’s crop of
cotton yon will remember was one bale
to two acres. Out of this cotton comes
one thousand pounds of seed to the
bale, or five hundred pounds to tbe
acre. . Preserving ono hundred pounds
per acre for planting, you discover be
has four hundred pounds for manuring.
Put as bis corn and cotton crops are
equal in area, and the cotton seed must
be divided between them, he has two
hundred pounds per acre for both corn
and cotton crops. This is within a frac
tion of seven bushels of cotton seed per
acre.
Now my neighbor has an admirably
arranged barn and stables for his mules,
which I shall describe more particularly
in a subsequent article.
He is therefore enabled to save all
the stable manure that accumulates, and
preserve it from injury by exposure.
Here is an interesting calculation
which he makes, both by figures and in
practice, of the amount of first-rate
manure that can be raised from each
mule or horse, to-wit: His regular feed
per mule, each day, is twelve pounds
corn, six pounds fodder and six pounds
of cut oats per day. This makes twenty-
four pounds of food per day for each
mule. In the pasturing season the
mules eat fully as much, and iudeed
more, by weight of food, than this. The
solid portion of their droppings will of
course equal the amount of food they
consume, and this gives for the year of
.*105 days, 8,760 pounds of solid manure
for each mule, for the comfort of the
animals, if for nothing else, it is neces
sary to add from time to time a littering
of straw and other materials to their
stalls, these being added to the above
amount, and making a liberal deduc
tion for unavoidable waste, he gets three
tons or six thousand pounds of first rate
stable manure to each mule. Now you
remember he plants thirty acres
plow, so here is two hundred pounds of
.-table manure per acre to be added to
the cotton seed. My neighbor’s resour
ces for increasing his compost heap are
not yet exhausted, Mr. Editor. He fat
tens his hogs in floored pens, and from
this he gets a considerable quantity of
the very beet manure, which he saves
carefully. Then his poultry house is
cleaued out every week, and the drop
pings carefully put. away in barrels and
boxes, under shelter, and thus he has
a fine lot of gur.no, equal to Peruvian.
Now my neighbor’s wife is a famous
poultry raiser, and thus it comes to pass
that this source of supply adds no little
to my neighbor’s compost heap.
Not to be tiresome, Mr. Editor, my
neighbor is wide awake to all the means
of increasing the available supply of
manure, and allows uone to escape. From
all these together he finds but little diffl
culty in accumulating at least a ton and
a half to the mule, or one hundred
pounds per acre, to be added to this cote
ton seed and stable manure.
Add these several amounts togethi
and you find he has five hundred pounds
of homemade manure for his whole crop.
But my neighbor is not satisfied with
this, “For,” says he, “there are certain
portions of the crop raised on the farm
that are shipped off and sold, and never
returned to the soil.” For example
the lint cotton, two hundred and fifty
1 pounds for every acre. Now this should
be replaced. If not, I shall be debtor
to my land, and the land will get poorer
unless the debt is paid.” So he makes
it a matter of conscience to buy one hun
dred pounds of some good fertilizer for
every acre of his crop to be added to
the home manures. And thus you
he has six hundred pounds of manure
to the acre.
Now for the compost heap: All the
materials oi the stable and other home
manures, have been carefully collected,
and put into convenient places through
the year, and the bought manure has
been brought home. Early in January
he proceeds to compost all together. He
begins by putting down upon the ground
a layer of cotton seed, and making them
wet. Next a layer of stable manure,
then of the fowl house, hog pen, and
other manures, and then the guano,
each layer being proportioned in thick
ness to the quantity of manure he has
of its kind; then another series of lay
ers, always taking care to wet the cotton
seed—and so on, till all the materials
arc exhausted. Finally he covers over
the whole heap with a layer of earth
two or three inches thick, to absorb the
gasses that would escape from the inte
rior of the mass. It is thus allowed to
stand until he is ready to distribute it
upon his crop. Now, Mr. Editor, let
any man go and look at my neighbor’s
compost heap, as it stands there, with
all its stores of fertility, and let him re
flect how it will make the corn and the
cotton rejoice in summer, and the barns
and gin houses groan in autumn, and if
it don't set his “mouth to watering” it
will be because he’s no farmer.
Yon bet your bottom dollar, I’m go
ing to have me one of those heaps next
year, and if it is not as big and rich
my neighbor’s, I’ll make it as big and
rich as I can. More aoon.
Old 16th.
FFANK SHERMAN AMD HIS RANCOROUS
UTTERANCES PUT TO SCORN.
Below will be found a very readable
letter from Gen. G. T. Beauregard con
cerning the invidious remark made by
Gen. Frauk Sherman at the recent meet
ing in Chicago when the question of in-
viing the ex-confederate to participate
in the national reunion there was nndrr
consideration. The letter is in response
to one from Gov. Porter to Gen. Beaure
gard on the subject and was received by
the governor yesterday:
New Orleans, La., April 23, 1875.
Bobbie No More.
Jnst six months have passed since, with
a number of the faculty and pupils of the
Gainesville college, we attended a prize
declamation contest at the State fair, in
Atlanta, in which Captain R. E. Park had
put up some valuable prizes to tbe best
speakers, under sixteen years of age.
There were about forty contestants from
the beet schools in the State, and, in
breathless anxiety, we listened to them
all. We never saw fo large a number of
brighter or moro intelligent ooy*, noT
heard so many speak so well. There was
one among them who stepped forth as tbe
subject, “Gen. Robert E. Lee was an
nounced—a bright and lovely boy of
fourteen summers, with broad, massive
brow, pale with thought and study—and
our hearts bounded with pride as bis
beaming, beautiful eyes took '
new favor nf L 18 I » mense throng before him, and withal-
Dear Sir: lour favor of Ihe 18lb lost. —„„„„ „„i ' ,
99* The Southern Baptist Convention
will meet at Charleston in the Citadel
Baptist Church on the Gth of May, and
will comprise over four hundred of tbe
most intelligent and representative min
isters and laymen of that denomination
at the South. It will be composed of
delegates from the States of Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina,
.Sooth Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Flori
da, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri
A id part of the Indian Territory.
has been icceived, enclosing the form of
an invitation adopted by a general meet
ing of the soldiers, sailors and citizens of
Chicago, to be sent “to all who recognize
the American flag as an emblem of nu
tionality undivided and invisible, to at
tend a grand reunion of all the soldiers
aDd sailors of tbe United States, to be
held at Chicago, May 12, 13 and 14,1875,
and inquiring how much truth there is in
the remarks of a certain Gen.Frank Sher
man, who objected to the invitation be
ing extended to me, as “he was not in
favor of extending au invitation to a man
who had said he was in favor of shooting
ill prisoners taken onder the American
flag.” I had hoped that the passions and
enmities occasioned by the late war were
replaced by kindlier feeling, bnt it seems
that there are hearts still rancorous
enough to be even anxious to again stir
into a flame the dying embers of the v
In this section of our country such
hibitions of animosity are confined to
those who, daring the war, were farthest
from the enemy, gathering op tbe spoils
in the wake of the contending armies. Is
not this General Frank Sherman
those despicable characters?
Not from any regard for such windy
declamation, nor for the man mean
enough to sink to such base pandering to
popular passion, but out of respect for
myself and to that cause wLose high and
holy purpose history will some day vin
dicate, I will very briefly and frankly
state the position I took in regard to the
conduct of the late civil war, as concerned
federal prisoners.
Aiter the buttle of the first Manassas,
when it was first reported that the federal
government refused to recognize confed
erate prisoners os ‘prisoners of war,’ that
Christian hero and able soldier. General
Thos. J. (Stonewall) Jackson and myself
advocated that the confederate govern
ment should then proclaim a “war to the
knife,” neither asking nor granting quar
ters. We moreover thought that the war
would thereby coroe sooner to au end.
with lees, destruction, finally, of life and
property. We thought, also, that such
a mode of warfure would inspire greater
terror in tbe armed invaders of our soil
and reduce greatly the number of army
followers, bummers, etc., who
the curse of all armed invasion*.
Subsequently, when the federals had
penetrated certain portions of tbe south
aud developed a system of warfare to
diametrically opposite to one practiced
by the confederates, when they invaded
Maryland aud Pennsylvania under the
great commander, Gen. R. E. Lee, and I
saw tbe emaciated forms aud wretched
condition of our returned southern pris
oners, I again advocated the hoisting of
the black flag, willing at any time to for
feit my life in the oeadly struggle.
Notwithstanding thtse views I always
treated my prisoners with humanity and
proper consideration. I had the fortune
of taking many thousands of them at Ma
nassas, Shiloh, Charleston, Drury’s Bluff,
Bermuda Hundreds and Petersburg,
most of whom are still olive, I suppose,
and can (and certainly would) testify to
the fact.
After the fall of Fort Sumpter in April,
1861, I granted to tbe garrison the same
considerate terms which I had offered
before the attack.
Through my intercession the federal
surgeons and ministers of the gospel,
taken at Manassas, were released without
exchange by the confederate government.
The day after that battle one of tbe fed
eral officers (whose friends I know
New York) applied to me for a small loan
for himself and friends, which I furnish
ed at once from my private funds. It
was faithfully returned.
Shortly after the battle of Shiloh, I
sent, under a cartel, a certain number of
ablebodied federal prisoners to General
Halleck, who, several weeks ufter, re
turned an equal number of convalescents
from St. Louis to Fort Pillow; the officer
iu command there refused to receive
them because some of them were just
from a small pox hospita'. Gen. Hallcck
failed afterward to make good the ex
change.
At Charleston I authorized Admiral
Dahlgren to send supplies of clothing,
etc., to the prisoners we had taken from
him; those supplies were scrupulously
issued to them.
At Bermuda Hundreds, in May, 1864,
when passing in front of a large body of
federal prisoners, who had gallantly de
fended a position which I considered in
dispensable to os, I took off my bat to
them and they answered the salutation
with cheers.
Terribly os I desired the effects of the
war to fall on all armed invaders of our
country, I wanted exempted from them
the non-combatants, that is the old men,
women and children, and wished also
that private property, not contraband of
war and not needed by the contending
armies in the field, should be entirely
protected from seiznre or deatrncti. i
Snob would have been my course had 1
penetrated with an army into federal
territory, unless it were in strict retalia
tion for material departures by the fed
eral force from this civilized mode of
carrying on the war.
In the statement made above relative
to the system of warfare adopted by tbe
federal, drametrically opposed to that
practice by the confederates, I had refer
ence to their operations in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Virginia, and the inex
cusable burning of Atlanta aud Colum
bia, and the destructive march of Gen.
Sherman through Georgia and South
Carolina, whose track was marked by
smoking ruins and blackened chimneys;
to the suggestion of Gen. Halleck to de
stroy Charleston and sprinkle salt on the
site, that not even grass should grow
thereon, to which General Sherman re
plied that no Ralt wonld be needed, as
one of his most reliable corps formed the
right wing of his army, and that it al
ways did its work thoroughly; to tbe de
vastating march of General Sheridan
through the Shenandoah valley, relative
which he reported to the generalJn-chief
of the United States armies, that “a
crow flying over the country would have
to carry its own rations;” but he did not
say what became of tbe old men, women
and children, who then lived in that fer
tile valley.
With regard to the mortality of prison-
* on both sides the Washington Union
(radical), of October 1868, contained the
following article:
“In reply to a resolution of the house
of representatives calling upon the sec
retary of war for the number of prison-
era of either aide held and that died dnr-
in the war, he makes the following re
port: Number of Union prisoners south,
260,940; died, 22,596; number of confed
erate prisoners north, 200,000; died,
26,435.”
That is, 2 of the former ont of every
22, and 2 of the latter ont of every 15.
Comment is here unnecessary in view of
the condition and resources of those two
sections of country. I remain, dear sir,
yonrs most truly,
_ G. T. Beauregard.
To His Excellency Got. Jjm. D. Porter,
Nashville, Tenn.
most magnetic power calmed tbe noisy
and tnmnltuons rush in floral ball. There
were among those present, judges, and
orators, and statesmen, aud we marked
with exultant joy the effect of our dear
little favorite’s eloquence upon these ex
perienced men. He had not progressed
far in bis speech till the intelligent faces
of that dense tbroDg were all streaming
wilh tears. And when the contest
OVI r aud it was announced that the first
prize was unanimously awarded t<» our
dear little boy-orator, each a unanimous
feeling of satisfaction and rejoicing per
vading the entire audience that old and
young, male and female, united in a long
and deafening roar of applause.
We mention all this because we want
those who wept with us for joy then, to
weep with ua for grief aud sorrow now. We
want those who shed tears for our dear
old chieftiaD, Lee, as they listened to the
eulogy so faithfully and feelingly deliv-
Mome About the Murder of Colonel
Jones.—A correspondent at Dawson
sends to the Macon Telegraph and Mess
enger the following additional particulars
of the mnrder of Col. Jno. B. Jones:
Dawson, Ga., April 28,1875.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger'. Much
excitement is manifested here this morn
ing over recent discoveries made from
the killing of J. B. Jones. It seems two
og men, Bowen and Jackson, who
been in the employ cf Jones are the
parties suspected. They have been ar
rested and are now having their prelimi
nary trial. It is said a negro h^ been
hired by Bowen to kill Jones, aod after
recanted and moved to Webster county
and told it there to a white man, who did
not give any credit to tbe report All
this was before Jones was killed.
Other discoveries have been made
which it is not considered advisable to
mention now, but it is the opinion of all
that these young men are the parties who
committed the foul murder.
ered by this youthful orator then, to shed
tears for the loss of this noble boy »i
We need scarcely tell his name, for
papers published far and wide—over all
the land, the name of Robert S. San
ders, son of Dr. M. D. Sanders, of Smith-
ville, Ga., as tho Victoria this spirited
and famous contest. And now Bobbie’s
dead! In the first flush of life, “bless
ing and blessed,” he has passed away.
How the hearts of his father and mother,
and sister, and relatives swelled with
cherished hopes of his prospectively
bright and glorious future. How easily
he mastered the various sciences aDd
branches of his collegiate course. How
gracefully ho arose in the meetings of
bis literary society to make his speech '
debate; aDd how silently attentive we
the members of the society when e\
the name ot “Bobbie Sanders" was call
ed. How pure and good; how frank aud
generous; how gentle and polite to poor
and rich—to young and low. God bless
the fond parents, tbe loviDg, gentle sister,
thedotiDg relatives, all that have to suf
fer this great affliction. May heaven
modify and gently lift this dark shadow
from their hearts, and enable them to
cherish the memory of their bright, good
boy. with ns much fouduess and pleasnre
as they have heretofore cherished bright
hopes of his future. We would not come
to those loving hearts with a cold, stern
philosophy that says “do not weep.”
There is a relief and an agonizing pleas
ure in tears shed for a loved one taken
from us. But we would plead that while
they weep for the loss of Bobbie on earth,
they look away through their tears to a
lovely spirit land, and rejoice in theii
hearts that their saintly boy is basking
in the geniality of an incorruptible and
eteu.nl sunlight. His weeping sister asks
“Will we meet Buddie there—will we
know each other there?" Dear friend.
Faith with her white wing fans away all
doubts and shadows, and whispers in
answer to your fond and earnest inqui-
Kt-asoa may say it is hard,
incongruous, and unnatural for one
promising aod so young to die, and
sink aghast from the sad contemplati
but Faith, loveliest of boons to mortal
man, dispels our darkening thoughts
and we snbmit to it as tbe workings of
“Him who doeth all things well.”—
Gainesville Eagle.
Brains.—Usually a large brain accom
panics a large intellect, aDd sometimes,
as in the case of Byron, a very small head
is provided with a brain of unusual mag
nitude. The Cincinnati Gazette, calling
attention to the fact that a blacksmith,
who recently dropped dead from drink,
in an Indianapolis saloon, had a brain
weighing sixty-one ounces, says:
If the posterior base of a brain i
usually developed, it may add to tbe to
tality of cerebial t eight, bnt not neces
sarily to intellectual power. Daniel Web,
ster’s brain weighed fifty-seven onnees-
and those of Culver, Napoleon and James
Fisk, Jr., still more.
The drunken blacksmith had a bra
outweighing the brains of genius, but he
was a stupid fellow. The fact is, much
more depends upon the quality than
quantity of brain. Of course, where
quantity and qnality are combined, men
tal power is predominant. There is i
hidden secret called the soul. That ii
the power behind the intellectual facul
ties, and that we caDnot measure
weigh. It is not the gnn that conquers,
but the man behind the gun.
An Editor in a Fix.—Mr. W. F. Find
ley, editor of
r*. tie ia an ardentsupporter
s>i lieu. Hill for Congress, and had
placed his name at the head of his paper,
when he learned that his father, Col. J.
J. Findley, had announced himself as s
candidate. Findley the younger, how
ever, stuck to his first love, and the name
of Mr. Hill remains at the bead of the ed
itorial colatns of the Southron. In giving
his reasons for not supporting his father
Mr. Findley says he has always differ
ed with the old mau iu politics, aud c
eludes thus: “As matters now stand
are the worst mixed np man in tbe whole
country. To advocate the claims of Mr.
Hill on one side and oppose our father
on the other is not au enviable position,
Wonld that it were not so; but as we have
espoused Mr. Hill’s cause we will stand
by him to the end.”
Circumstances alter cases. George
IIL once presented John Hancock, of
revolutionary memory, with a handsome
coronet signet ring as a token of his high
appreciation of Hancock’s inestimable
qualities. Subsequently the same mon
arch offered a reward of 950,000 for the
head of the same Hancock. Happily tbe
monarch’s big reward was not a sufficient
temptation to the sturdy patriots of the
revolution, and Hancock’s name stands
boldly identified with all that is grand
and ennobling in onr early history. The
ring presented by George is still in ex
istence, and would have formers part of
the revolutionary relics exhibited at Lex
ington oe. the 19tb, had it been for the
poor railway accommodations between
Boston and the place where the celebra
tion came off.
rAn honest fanner being asked why
hei did not subscribe for a newspaper, ex-
olaimcd: “When my father died, he left
me a good many, which I have not read
through yet.”
Woken as Fellows.—M. D. Conway
writes from London that the Royal An
thropological Society of Great Britain
and Ireland, ufter a remarkable discus-
1, have decided that in fnture, women
may be admitted as fellows of the Socie
ty. Some of the members were strongly
opposed to the move, declaring that many
of the physiological discussions of the
society were of a nature not fit for wo-
to be present. But the most emi-
of the members, among them Hux
ley, Lubbock and Galton. thought tbe
study of physiology was just as fitting
for women as for men, and a subject
which is quite as much for their interest,
if not more, to understand thoroughly.
This is the age of progress, and science,
like poverty, makes strange fellows.
Withdrawn.—Col. J. J. Findley, In
dependent Republican candidate for
Congress in the Ninth District, has with
drawn from the canvass. He asserts that
circulars signal by prominent Republi-
are circulated over the District,
stating that Price bad been led to expect
the Radical vote. In his address to the
voters of the District, published in
Atlanta Herald of Sunday, he handles
Potash Ferrow and other leading Repub
licans without gloves, and places Price,
who professes to be a democrat,
very unenviable position.
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Special attention is invited to the NEW and NOBBY
STYLES OF
Quinine.—A shipment of quinine to
China turned out, upou analysis, to be
only a clever imitation of that iebrifuge
anti-malaria), without any of its spe
cific virtues. The New York World says
the bogus medicine is sold iu bottles la
belled as follows : “Sulfate de Quinine
de Pelletier, Delcn lr*> »-t L» Vaillant; I
once Anglaise; Arrnet de Lisle ot Cie.,
Successeurs ; Paris line Mulber 18.”
“The
I iogi-
jr-Snys the Atlanta Herald
Gainesville Eagle takes strong a
cal grounds against Ben Hill as “au aris
tocrat.” We belitve that Mr. Hilt does
wear clean shirts, bnt there is uot a man
in Georgia whose heart is kinder, whose
impulses are more geuerous, aud who is
more in sympathy with the people—uot
even a man who wears » dirty shirt .and
matted hair.”
Clay* The property of “Boss Tweed,”
lately attached iu New York, includes the
magnificent stables of tbe great ring-mas
ter, fitted up with walnut trimmings and
elegautly furnished. Tweed had private
rooms above his Loreee, where lie met
his friends to concoct plans for plunder
ing the city, and drink deliciously flavor
ed punch from a lingo silver bowl.
A peculiarly sad case of elopement
is reported from Millsbury, Mass. “The
wife who eloped was twenty*»one years
old. having been married (even years,
and the husband whom she left was sixty-
seven. The husband’s two sons by a pre
vious wife were married to his recent
wife’s two older sisters, and her brother
is the husband of her husband’s daugh
ter.’
tey- Tho New York Financial Chroni
cle says that the bondholders of the Ma-
con and Brunswick Railroad held a meet
ing in New York last week, and appoint
ed a committee to buy in the road at the
coming sale, if necessary, and to operate
it or make sutfh arrangements as they
deemed desirable.
The present fashion wonld be
splendid for smnggling costly goods
across the water without paying doty.
The ladies could take a bolt of forty or
fifty yards, put on a few yards of it, and
pin or tie the balance on their backs. It’s
cruel to burdeu the poor creatures this
way—but it’s the fashion.
A Fiendish Outrage and Quick Re
TRiBUTioN.--Dan Wright, a negro, at
tempted to violate the persou of a widow
lady in Memphis, on the 29th alt. Her
cries attracted her son, when Wright fled.
Subsequently he was captured and
hanged.
#©^Rev. W. Watkin Hicks, L. D., L-
L. D., F. R. S., Reformed Lutheran,
Methodist, Straight Democrat, Radical,
Lecturer, and in fact, anything that he
finds profitable, has squutted himself in
tbe editorial chair of the FernandiDa
(Fla.) Observer.
j@r“Am Beecher a big’mist ?” asked
a colored woman of a companion in a
street car, last evening, to which he an*
swered : “No, honey ob course not; he
am a preacher. Missus Tilton am a
Mormon.—Courier-Journal.
Well Said.—At the recent Lexington
Centennial, an Englishman present at a
banquet responded to a toast of “Tbe
Qneen,” thus: “Gentlemen, I nm happy
to be with you on this occasion, and glad
I was not here one hundred years ago.”
R H. Whitely, the notorions rad
ical ex-Congressmau of the 2d District,
is going to emigrate to Florida. Dick
probably thinks his chances better for
office down there than in Georgia.
The Grand Opera House at Chi
cago has been temporarily closed because
Manager D. H. Jones, who has sunk
thirteen thousand dollars in it, can’t pay
his bills.
5* A newspaper biographer trying to
say hfs subject “was hardly able to bear
the demise of his wife,” read it next
morning “wear tbe chemise of his wife.’*
s AlUliniry eatubliebm;:
L SCPEKUrn QCALIT7 C
Davenport & Smith,
IlDfitlHI'
LAMAR STREET.
Americus,
Georgia.
O FFER A FULL STOCK FRESH DRUGS,
Pure Chemicals, Reliable Patent Medi
cines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Toi
let Articles, Lamps and Fixtures, Garden,
Grass and Flower Seed.
PAINTS and OILS!
Strictly pure Leads, Linseed Oil, Turpen
tine, Coach. Copal, Japan, Demar and As-
phaltum Varnishes. Large Stock of first
class colors. Our “A” Green, is unequaled
for this climate.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
Fine Toilet Soaps! Lubin’s, Low’s,Pear’s,
Albert Company’s Transparent Balls and
Mayflower Glycerine Soaps.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
Chandeliers, Lamps, Brackets, Pendants,
.unterns, Globes, Shades, and all fixtures.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
TOBACCO—A supply of Virginia and
“Capt. Jack” still on hand at low figu:
april 22 tf
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
Smith’s Fluid Ext. Buchu. Uva Ursi and
Hydrangea, is superior to all others, in dis
eases of Bladder, Kidneys, &c.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
Davenport’s Liver Medicine, for Sick
Headache, Billiousness, Constipation, and all
Liver Complaints.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
IMPERIAL Granurn, for Infants. Also,
Fresh Condensed Milk, Corn Starch, Bermu
da Arrow Root, Tapioca, Pearl Sago, &c.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
Full assortment Hair Brushes, also Tooth,
Nail, Flesh, Scrub, White Wash, Kalsomine,
Paint and Varnish Brushes.
DAVENPORT A SMITH.
Hosford’s Bread Preparation is tho best
made, we also have Prices, and Engle Brands
always on hund.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
I. X. L. Cutlery. Choice assortment
Knives, Razors and Scissors.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
Fresh Flavoring Extracts and Ground
Spices. The latter ground by ourselves,
and warranted pure and unadulterated.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
Smith’s Chill Ilenedy. Sure cure. No
Arsenic, Strychnea or Mercury. Best Tonic
out. $1.00 per bottle.
DAVENI'OT & SMITH.
Guinness’ Stout (genuine). Pure French
Brandy, Old Rye Whiskey, Port, Maderia,
and Sherry Wines, for Medical use. Cheap
Sherry for cooking purposes. Younger's
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
The Great Southern Blood Purifier, icill
cure Syphilis, Scrofula, Erysipelas, Pimples,
Blotches and all impurities of the blood Try
it and the first bottle will convince you.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
00 ounces P. & W.’s Quinine 40 of Su’.ph.
Morphia, 150 lbs. Assafoetida, 10 lbs. Iodide
Potasseum, 30,000 improved Co. Catb. Pills,
20 ounces Sulph. Ciochonidea, 50 lbs Spts.
50 lbs. Alex. Senna. Sifted, 75 lbs. Buchu
Leaves, Blue Mass, Calomel, Mercurial Oint
ment, Cream Tartar, 8alta, Sub. Nit. Bismuth
Chloroform, Ether, &c., all fresh goods, and
low for Cash to Physicians or dealers.
Kerosene Oil, wholesale and retail at low
est Cash price.
DAVENPORT & SMITH.
WANTED!
100 Head of good fat b eef Cattle.
50 Head of fat £heep. *
rpHE highest market price, in CASH, will be
X paid for them. Ten or twenty head will be
Go to Cotton Avenae Beef Market where yon
can got good beef and mutton daily, to suit
your taste. Nothing but the beat aent ont.
aprl3-lm ..........
W. A. GIBBONS'
Best Kerosene
E. J. ELDBIDGE’S Drag Store.
KEROSENE OIL.
CHEAP FRCASE
CIGARS,
TOBACCO and PIPES.
swmm®
Which are Offered
For Sale.
STOYES TINWARE.
T HE under*
of Amcric
* hat ho has a
hand of his «
MANUFACTURE,
which he c ff.-rs to sell CHEAPER than
honee,^according to quality. He also keeps
CHEWING and SMOKING
TOE A.CCO.
Also a large at-sortment cf PIPK8,
He offers the above goods to the public at
cheap prices, and guarantee satisfaction in
all cases.
J. GEARING. *
oprii ltf Lamar street.
Hotels.
BARLOW HOUSE
AMERICUS • - - GEORGIA
WILEY JONES Proprietor-
T HE above named Hotel is m the busines
centre of Americas, and the Proprieto
flatters himself, from his long experience in the
business, that he can and will give general sat
isfaction.
Peb Dav.. 1200
SiJtQLE Meal 50
Tbe house is kept open at ail hours during
the day and night. The Omnibus meets all
trains, and attentive porters will carry all bag
gage to and from the depot free of charge.
•3_ In connection with the House thei_ „ »
first-claas BARBER SHOP, where gentlemen
can alwavs bo accommodated. may 81
H. L. FRENCH. J. S EASON
FRENCH HOUSE,
Public Square, Americus, Ga.
T HE undersigned having taken charge of the
above House, and thoroughly refurnished
the same,announces that it is open to the public,
and a liberal share of patronage is solicited.
No effort on the p irt of the Proprietors will be
spared to render their guests comfortable and
pleasant.
Good rooms, good fare and site
vants, guaranteed, at moderate rates.
TERMS:
Board and Lodging per month $25 CO
“ without ** “ *‘ • .... t 20
Single meals
Give us a trial.
FRENCH A EASON.
jan.lOtf
LEESBURG HOTEL,
NEAR RAILROAD DEPOT,
Leesburg, ga.
T HIS house is situated within a short distance
ol the railioad platform. My table will al
ways be supplied with the l est that can be
afforded. The rooms are all well ventilated,
and furnished with an eyo to comfort. Every
Mrs. M. A. JOHNSON,
apr2-3uj* Proprietor.
BROWN’S HOTEL’
OPPOSITE PA8SIXOEB DEPOT,
Mucon, - Gcorgin.
E E. BROWN A SON, Proprietors ol this
• Popular Hotel, vro Id inform their numer
ous friends that they have reduced their rates
to $3.00 per day. They return their grateful
thanks for the verv liberal patronage extended
10 theUouso fbr near twenty years, and assure
their many friends that they will use their beet
endeavors for the future, to give the same sat
isfaction that they have in tbe past. Every at
tention given to ladies and families. Large
rooms always in readiness for Commercial
Travelers. E. K. BROWN A SON.
septS-tf
’MARSHALL HOUSE.
A. B. LUCE, Proprietor.
Board per day, $3 00.
JAMES OTONNEL,
Edwin S Frink, Chief Clerk.
Assistant Clerk.frblltf
W. P. BURT,
D ENTIST,
AMERICUS, GA.,
VyERFOBMd skillfully all Dental operations,
X and at reasonable prices. Oflice over J.
Greenwood; roomsformeily occupied by Mary
Andrews as a dress making Establishment.
*— 19 tf
For Sale. ’
A bouse and Jot situated on Church street
near the residence of Dr. Holloway, can be
bought cheap. Apply to J. W. J. Fora, at Dr,
Eldridge’s Drug store, Or to the Editor of this
paper.
april 17 tf. -
LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE STOCK IN SOUTH-WEST GEORGIA, j
J. W. Sheffield & Co’s.
We would call special attention to the
“Maimaai fi*I«w Stock,”
hick is made of best seasoned Whitcoak timber, with a Wrought Iron Foot, adjusts-
le to any kind of land, nnd especialfy adapted to Red Clay Lands, where other Stocks fail
do their work. Any common Plow can be used on it, without Point or Sharpening.
With ordinary care the Stocks will last frem
Ten to Fifteen Years.
e keep a large supply on hand, and any urchaser not satisfied, after :
1 return the Stocks
For a full cxplanatic
A Few “Monumental” and “Allrijnt” Cooking Stoves yet on hand.
We are prepared ta Repair Old Stoves, at short notice, a
" it. All kinds of Tin Work dono to ord<
. --id make them nearly good .
rder. Agents for R. Findlot’s Sons te
“Eclipse Cotton Screw,” Fairbanks Scales and Dawson and Manufacturing Company's
t Corner Public Square, Americus, Ga.
J. W. SHEFFIELD & CO.,
TBS S9BSSC
The undersigned would respectfully inform the Citizens of Sum
ter and adjoining counties, that he has now, and will keep con
stantly on hand, at his Stables, in Americus, Ga., a large lot of
SELECT
Horses and -Mules,
which he proposes to sell on reasonable terms
FOR CASH, or ON TIME for GOOD BANKABLE PAPER-
In addition to the above he has in store, and to arrive, a fine
assortment of
Buggies,
Buggy Whips,
Buggy Harness,
Bridles, all kinds,
Saddle Cloths,
Curry Combs,
QtTAUCTV!
Wagons,
Wagon Whips,
Wagon Harness,
Saddles,
Spurs,
&c., &c-
A.Li. of suPEmon quaxitv :
STORE ROOM IS SITUATED ON COTTON AVENUE, ONE DOOR SOUTH OF
BANK OF AMERICUS
While the money is preferable, yet to those not prepared to
pay Cash for any article in his liue, he would say, come, make«
good bankable paper and the article desired is yours.
US=*No trouble to show Stock or Goods.*®#
Also, Agent for the
BEST STANDARD FERTILIZERS.
J. W. JORDAN Jr-
T HE books are now open for the purpose ot
receiving'City Tax ft* the present rear.—
Brew peracn li*We to City tn, will come for.
ward without delay and b&v un an thnliw dimoia.
Every person liable to City tax, will come for.
ward without delay and pay up as tho law directs- u CB0 , w.u *c
The city ia needing the money to meet demands house of- Mesara. tvneau
coming due. No one muat delay expecting in< t turn Avenue. I wfll be In
Person
_ desiring to communic
uess, will leave thefr urd
houae of«Messrs. Wheatie;
I will be in A