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ri)E WEEKLY REPUBLICAN.
HOME AFFAIRS-
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Shake!
Thera’s music in the air.
*’A plisint marning till yeea.”
Health of the city and county good.
Gen. Frank Siegel votes mit Tflden.*'
If the devil is mate he's well, tliank
yon.
y ft John Shaw and wife, and Mr. J.
'gooey have returned from tbo Cen*»
tennial- The warm weather at the North
shortened their visit about two weeks.
Beware of unseasonable fruit and veg
etables.
Water gone to aleep,” is not now in
demand.
>ew Peat Office.
Bj direction o( tbo Postmaster General
,0 office has been iocatod at Lamar,8am-
county, eleven mile, south east of
Americas. Mr. 1). H. Hook, is post-
master.
Gardening prospects d—oooedlj on.
favorable.
ltajn.
(%>|iitni9 rains have fallen iu portions
j ,i lt . county witbiu the past week, bnt
I r r,. are some localities that need rain,
ini late corn and sweet potatoes are be-
(iDUlDg
to suffer in consequence thereof.
Fine rantaloapev.
We sro dne and hereby retarn thanks
to Mr*. Col. Cnttn for a lot of tbe finest
i» D ulou|*os we have seen Ibis season.
A wept oar best thanks Mrs. C. for tbe
tangible compliment. It was well timed
,n.l duly appreciated.
We are under many obligations to
frieod H., from tbe country, who told os
the other day that he liked tp have
U. nght ns a fine melon when he <
ia town that day. We have no scruple*,
whatever, friends, about eating melons
ufan) kind this hot weather.
.(burnt.
The members of the Methodist Church
o( this city have granted leave of absence
to their pastor, Rev. T, T. Christian, for
uouth. He left last Monday for the
mountains in Georgia to enjoy the fresh
breezes, fine fruits and delightful water
,.f that section.
Our birthday has just past and we mast
return thanks to friends and others for
their kind remembrance of the same
We arc due thanks for various useful
t eles and some luxuries. We had an
Tite to an ice cream eating and done full
j i>tice to it we can assure you. Other
things lay around in great profusion, but
a, i he icecream and ice ten was only
pomm-nsurato with the extreme hot
weather,we abounded in that. We reveled
io these ice elements till we hardly knew
shelter we were a man or an ice chest.
&
rill have cl
Good manners are the bloMoms of
good sense.
•‘Poll down yonr eye.” is the Macon
way of putting it
“Go feel around yourseir,” is the latest
elegant euphemism.
Picnic remembrancer—“Still so fond
ly o’er me creeping”—red bogs.
Days are now shortening at the rate of
two minntes every twenty-four hoars.
Oar schools are drifting in the right
direction. Mix them by all means.
Go ahead dar !” is a new military
command—made to fight Indians,we pre
sume.
Tbe sweet little rose-bad's fragrant
cape jessamine still thrives. Ta ! ta!
beauty.
Handkerchiefs are in gieat demand
and ablation n daily requisite to health
mod comfort.
Three negroes are resting their weary
carcasses iu Iho county jail on the charge
of cow-stealing.
Onr warehousemen are preparing for
a mammoth crop of cotton. The signa
are encouraging. •
Ben Hill is “not afraid” to go to Con-
ots again. Send him on, gentlemen of
ie Ninth district.
People forgive a great man's ftults
much more readily than they praise a
small man's virtue*.
Sioux sqnaws do not wear striped
stocking*. Three streaks of green paint
are cooler and cbeaj>er.
Gardens have succumbed to the ex
treme beat of the past two weeks and
continued want of rain.
“Did Mary got dot medicine vat I
brescribed ?” “Yah, I dink so, I saw
some crapes on derdoor bell yoost now?"
The n an who rushes in breathlessly to
tell the editor what kind of campaign ar
ticles to write is numerously abroad just
Felder & Son will have chargo of the
Grange Warehouse this season; Toole &
McGarrah the new warehouse on Cotton
Avenue, and Harrold, Johnson & Go.,
their old stand, corner of Cotton Avenuo
and Forsyth street
Americas received her nsaal yearly
supply of earthenware yesterday, in the
nhape of jags, jars, churns, crooks and
bowls. Seven wagons from Crawford
county disposed of their stocks yester
day at remunerative prices.
Freeh currents of air oontinnally pass
ing through the Avenue seem to have
caused a radical change in the tempera
ture of chess-players. While very dili
gent they are as mnte as mioe—haven't
heard of a difficulty In a week.
The previous minors of the death of
Sitting Boll are confirmed. Mrs. Sitting
Boll didn't put on moorniog, yon bet
Twss too egpenshro—but she has invest
ed largely in stove polish to
beantifnl red faoe she p nines
Onr imp has leased the famous Metro
politan hotel, south west oorner of public
square, and intends fitting it up in
herb style as a rammer resort Booms
on first and second floors all engaged.
For farther information apply above.
Anatomists say that a lady's foot should
equal in length one-seventh of her height
bat there are a good many ladles wbo
would not be at all prond of such a per
fect foot. According to this role a lady
who wears a No. 3 boot should not be
over flke feet in height
Women havo began again to exhort
and pray in liquor saloons. Wouldn't
>re Christian-like for them to do
their praying at home and spend their
leisure moments in assisting worthy char
itable objects living almoct within the
ihsdow of their residences ?
The following counties have held meet
ings and sent instructed delegates to vote
for Gen. Cook for Congress:
Macon 4
Good bread, hot rolls, and choice cakes
baked doily and to be had always fresh
at the new Bakery ol 8. M. Cohen on
Lamar street.
Another exquisite floral offering greet
til our eyes yesterday morning while the
early dews of Heaven yet sparkled npou
tUir delicate petals like so many atars in'
tbe firmament. They were very grateful
to our olfactories as well as a feast for
our sight. A florist’s pen could
do justice to this flowerlett and 1
will not attempt a description that we
know would prove a failure.
We nre indebted to Mrs. 8. H. Haw
kins for this beautiful gift, and hereby
return thanks in behalf of Mrs. H. and
or little daughter for the same.
We clip the following little local from
tbe Butler JlcraUL We are much obliged
t» you friend Mathis for the compliment
to our little daughter. Many others were
with you in the opinion yon have ex-
|> reused :
“In an issno of the Sumter ltopnbli-
ran, some time since, tbere were several
compliments paid onr College and its pu
pils, also some of onr citizens, though the
writer failed to take note of one of the
i*st readers, Miss Grade Hancock,
•laughtewf its editor. Sho read an orig
inal essay with flnenoy, and did credit to
tbe reading also to the subject. We will
copy tho piece in fall in oar next issne.
Fine Colognes, Robins and other Ex
ists for the handkerchief. Bay Bom,
Hair oils. Hair Restorer?, Hair Dyes, Ac.
(t Dr. Eld ridge's Drag Store.
Hon. Allen Fort.
We take the following brief notice of
<>nr fellow-citizen from a late number of
the New York Herald:
“Hon. Allen Fort represented bis Con
cessional District as delegate to the Na
tional Democratic Convention. Mr. Fort
was appointed by the Chairman of the
Convention on Committee of one from
each State to inform Gov. Tilden of his
nomination, and was also appointed on a
anb committco of five to wait on him in
person to this effect. He waa the young
est man in the Convention. A talented
lawyer iu his seetkra of oonntry of broad
and well-established reputation. The
coming man for Congress in his District
Palatial Accident.
Mrs. P. H. Williams of this city, ac-
c impained by her two children, started
°ff in a baggy Thursday morning abont
seven o'clock, to visit her father, Mr.
Howe, residing abont three miles from
town. While passing rapidly down
Lamar street, the hone attached to
th« vehicle made a quick turn opposite
the entrance of the alley in rear of
Messrs. Waxelbanm A Gyles* store,
throwing tbe oocnpanta of the boggy
violently to tho ground. In the fall tbe
youngest child, a boy abont eighteen
aonths old, received a severe wound
the aide of the head, causing uncon
Piousness, and for. some time it was
thought would prove serious, but we
we pleased to learn at this writing the
little fellow is mnch better and his early
recovery confidently expected. The
Mother and daughter received
painful bruises, thoogh not of sucb a
tatare as to confine them to their rooms.
The horse took fright as the occupant*
Ml from the vehicle, and dashing up the
alley, demolished the buggy before he
®° Q ld be stopped in bis mad career.
NO. 1
SHIRTS
PARTLY MADE,
$6 50
PER HALF BOXES,
Messrs. Gian berry and Barlow are sell
ing off a specified lot of goods at cost.
Give them a call and yon will get a bar
gain.
Look here niggera 1 $onr own loved
Massacbnsetta has, by law, disbanded
her only militia company of colored
troops.
Blackstono tells na that when society
began to form itself men met on a plain
and selected their largest companion for
a ruler.
Only fifty cents is asked for an ordi
nary peach in New York. A year ago
this fruit was selling for fifty cents a
bosket.
For the eleventh time in ten days we
were once again threatened with rain. It
oommenoed “grizzling” at G o'clock last
evening.
Two thousand children died in New
York in twenty-five days daring the
heated term. Came—filth and the want
of fresh sir.
You never saw my hands as dirty
that,” said a petulant mother to her lit
tie girl. “No, but your madid, I’ll bet,'
is the reply.
Tbe decided change in the atmosphere
yesterday was appreciated by our peo
ple. It was quite a cooling off. The
mercury fell to 75°.
The weather in this locality is too hot
for newt to circulate, tbe gentle sex, yon
know, cant exchange often, hence the
dearth of this entertaining article.
The authorities are doing some lively
rork abont the city. The free use of
rock in oertsin portions will save the tax
grumbler many a dollar in future.
A cadaverous, fishing-pole looking.in
dividual, leaning against Buchanan’)
china tree last Saturday, wanted to know
if Hazenwheeler didn't live in Americas.
As tbere are only two gallons of whisky
per year manufactured tor each inhabi
tant of the United States, it is a elear
case that somebody's got to go without.
Come now, Probs., old feL you're not
doing tbe sqnare thing by ns. We
quite thirsty ; wo want “oodles” of rain,
so tarn yonr water spout in this direc
tion.
Corsages, out heart-shape in the neck,
both back and front, are intended '
wear over a chemisette of white muslin
nainsook. Yes, and they're right
pretty.
Tbe next visitor to this office
qnires abont the state of tbe
will be securely fastened to tbe
tbe west ond of the building from 2 till
5 p. m.
Blind Tom, tbe negro pianist,
fully manipulates the keys to the tune
seven thousand pieoea* Wade in Thoa.
and make it ten, ere yon shuffle off and
leave us.
The “City Bines," a colored military
organization of this city promenaded
around promiscuously yesterday. A pic
nic in the northern suburbs was part of
tbe day’s programme.
It.is reported that Gen. Crook's com
mand has been straightened by the red
skins. This positive Indiat way of
business is getting monotonous. We'll
have to offer onr services.
Wo are going on an exploring expedi
tion down Muckalee creek shortly. The
devil's had a dream of hidden treasi
on its classic banks, and that's what
are after—not the banks—the treasure.
If you want some of the finest parched
ground peso you ever saw or tasted, call
at the grocery store of L Rosenblatt &
Co., adjoining entrance of Republican
Office, and you will be sure to get them.
The many friends in this city of Mr.
Tom J. Jossey, of Macon, will regret to
learn that be was seriously cut *
in the bock and neck
Ccaeial Cook’s
Communicated.
Stewart.
4
Coffee ....
Dooly ....
Telfair.. ....2
Lee.. ...2
Pulaski 2
Wilcox 2
Dodge 2
Montgomery 2
Americus, July 25,187G.
Pnrsnant to a call of the Executive
Committee of the Democratic party of
Snmter county, the delegates of the rev-
oral Militia Districts convened at tbe
Court House to-day for the purpose of
ling [delegates to the Congressional
Convention to be held at Macon on the
6th of September.
On motion of J.JBL Qlack, Judge A.
J. Williams was elected Chairman and
J. B. Felder requested to act as Secreta-
Jndge George A. Brown left Wednes
day for Porter Springs, near Uahlonegs.
He has gone in search of a more genial
clime dnring the heated term. After a
pleasant sojourn at this popular rammer
resort,we trust he will retarn to his home
with renewed strength and vigor.
Watermelons, imitating the thermom-
ter, are rapidly declining. Five oenta is
now a healthy price—can't vouch foe the
melon, though. It's a terrible struggle
with the ordinary soffiage-slinger to de
cide whether his last nickel shall be in
vested In the delicate molasses colored
cake or the beantifnl green striped lns-
cions frnit. At last accounts melons
were ahead.
City tax assessors, appointed by the
Mayor and City Connoil, have been bnsi-
engaged the past few days in bringing
this tax business to the proper standard.
jnst and proper equalization of the
expenses of city government is what
aimed at, and in this, as well as in eve*y
good work they have accomplished, our
oity fathers have tbe cordial support of
all right-minded citizens.
'Specks,*' tbe Philadelphia corres
pondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist
says : “Tbere is in troth enough of in
terest here to occupy a man's attention
for at least a month, yet we Americans
are so rapid that we can know everything
1 honr. It took Phil Cook one day
'see it all.” George Adair took
three.” Judge Eiddo managed the af
fair in “four.” Hon. Allen Fork did it
well in a week. Jnlins Brown studied
two weeks, while others have been here
two days and never left the mnsio 'pavil-
lion.’”
•Joe" stopped by the wayside
homeward bound trip. Tbe last Thom
son Journal goes for the boy in this
style: “Mr. Joseph C.Roney, formerly
of Ibis county, bnt now of Americas,
his return from the Centennial boa stop
ped over at this place for a visit to his
friends and relatives. He says the Cen
tennial it the biggest show in the world
and well worth a trip to Philadelphia.
Joe, besides being clever, ia one of the
finest looking young men we know, and
—ought to get married.
On motion of J. B. Worrill the roll was
called and the delegates all being pro
tbe meeting proceeded to business.
On motion of Mr. J. H. Stevens the
following gentlemen were unanimously
elected delegates: Capt. 0. F. Crisp, B.
P. Hollis, Esq., J, H. Black, and Capt.
John A. Cobb, with authority to appoint
alternates if ueoessary.
The following resolution presented by
Capt John A. Cobb was unanimously
adopted.
services and endorsing the
distinguished fellow-citizen, Gen. PbiL
Cook, in Congress, and in response to
the generally expressed desire of the
Democratic party of Snmter, we request
to the Congressional Conven
tion of the 3d District to convene in Ma-
con oh the 6th of September.
On motion of J. R. Worrill, Esq , il
Resolved, That the meeting endorse
ie plan of tbe Executive Committee of
tho County in calling this meeting
that each Militia Distriot send dele
to the County convention); and b)
ing that it will give more general satis
faction than any other plan, we recom
mend tbatal)[fatare conventions be called
in the same manner.
On motion of Dr. E. J. Eldridge the
8umteh Republican waa requested to
publish these proceedings.
Meeting adjourned.
A. J. Williams, Chairman,
J. B, Felder., Secretary.
The following sections of laws have
been enacted by Congress and approved
by the President:
Sec. 3894. That it shall not be lawful
to convey by mail, nor to deposit in
poet office to be sent by mail, any letters
or circulars concerning lotteries, so-called
gift conoerts, or other similar enterprises
offering prizes, or oonccrninj?
devised and intended to deceive and de
fraud the publio for the purpose of ob
taining money nnder false pretenses, and
• PfnMty ■* * ■'
; the
FOR
Cheap Hats
CALL UPON
Mrs. M. E. Baines
Lamar Street,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
Mu. Editor : On Friday last I waa of
fered transportation in kind and an ur
gent invitation to visit Ebcnczcr Church
iu Scbley county, which I endorsed and
accepted. To say this was tbo Ebenezer
referred to by the poet Watts in the line,
“Here I raise mine Ebenezer,” wonld
l>e a stretch of the imagination, for being
an Englishman be was never in tbefoiney
woods. Mr. C. C. Sheppard was onr ci
cerone, and to him we were indebted for
that considerate attention which springs
true hospitality.
CROPS, RATES, AC.,
On the road to Ellaville tho crops are
generally good ; tbere had been quite a
nice rain from Mitchell's Mill insiue the
corporation of Americas to seven miles
northwest. All the crops in this area
jubilating in the refreshment Mr.
John Howell's farm was a cslean as dili-
ice and well plied industry could make
and thongh the fields are old they
promise food to the eater and pay for
husbandry. His corn was exoellent, po
tatoes, peas, Ac., ditto. Mine host also
has an exoellent crop, oorn, cotton, peas,
potatoes, ground peas, sugar cane, and
last but jnst as good, chnfaa. I suppose
will make on six acres of ohnfas and
six of ground peas, five or six hundred
bushels of these articles—enongh to fat
ten fifty head of hogs. This class of es
culents are beet suited to the thrift of
swine, as nature has organized them for
the bnainetta of gathering food in tbe
earth. He is nhw promoting the arelfare
this essential part of plantation rap
port, by boiling peas, collards and cotton
and treating his swine daily to a trough
full in addition to pasturage. He
feeds his males on peas mado this year.
Saturday morning we journeyed be
yond the line of Snmter county. The
crops abont Shiloh, Messrs. Joe McMath,
Underwood and Books, were fine and
promising, both corn and cotton. We
oonld not from tbe road see any others.
We did see a fine field of oorn which we
understood was cultivated with oxen in
place of the inevitable mole. A small
part of Mr. Buchanan’s place exhibited a
field of good cotton, and as we passed
on Sunday evening, we discovered the
merchant farmer sitting in his hall in
% dig. as thongh he had just dis-
the half of a large melon,
ad tbe line which severs Snmter
from 8chley—There is a “curious” sen
sation steals over the soul when you
know you are crossing a line which sep
ara»es two peoples. I havo placed one
foot on Georgia and one on Florida soil
and felt—well! more than the Colossus
Rhodes. This part of the road is through
hilly broken oonntry,—crops not so
good. We saw a freed woman as we went
on plowing a melancholy specimen of the
horse family, the cotton was poor and so
was the horse, and progressed abont as
fast “as shadows o’er tho mead.'
onr retarn four or five darkies were hold
ing a wake over tho dyirg steed. There
ought to be a law prohibiting such cruel
ty to animals, as arises often apparently
from necessity by parties trying to own
and use a horse, who haven’t the means
to feed it. No donbt tbeso negroes be
lieved, as they looked, that Providence
was to blame and not themselves.
Meeting of the Executive Com
mittee.
Americus Ga., July 25ib, 1876.
Democratic Executive Committee met
pnrsnant to adjournment
On motion the following resolutions
ero nnanimo nsly adopted.
Resolved, That there be a County Dem
oeratio Convention held at the Court
House in the city of Americas, at 11
o'clock, a. m., on the fifth day of Septem
ber next, for the pnrposo of nominating
two candidates for Representatives in the
State Legislature.
Resolved, That the members of the
Democratic Party of each and all the Dis
tricts in the county are hereby requested
at 11 o’clock, a. m., on the 26th
. of Angost next, and that they do then
andjthere elect delegates to tbe said Con-
Resolved, That each County District
shall have three delegates, and the town
District have five to said Convention and
that each delegate shall have one vote.
Committee adjourned until the fifth
day of September next.
A. S t; CuTM, Chm’n.
DuPosr Guerbt, Secty.
_ , _ _ of not more than five hundred
dollars, nor less than one hundred dol
lars, with cost of prosecution, is here'
imposed upon conviction, in any Fede
Coart, of the violation of this section.
It will be seen by this section letters
and circulars relating to all lotteries,with
out regard to the eharacter of such lotte
ries, are declared nnmailable, and that
the depositing of such letters or circulars
in a poet office to be sent by mail
offence to be punished, npon conviction,
by a fine of not less than one hundred
nor more than five hundred dol
lars, and the coat of proaeontion.
Sec. 15. That transient newspapers
and magazines, regular publications de
signed primarily for advertising purpose*,
or for free circulation at nominal rates,
and all printed matter of tbe third class
‘ unsealed circulars, shall be ad-
to, and transmitted in. tbe mails
at tbe rate of one oent for every two
or fractional part thereof; and
ider of any article of the third
class of mail matter may write bis or her
name or address therein, or on tbe out
side thereof, with the word “from” above
POSITIVELY AT COST
We are determined to close out the fol<
lowing goods
AT COST FOR CASH:
Beantifnl printed Freooh Jaconets,
Elegant Plaid Grenadines,
Handsome Black Rtriped Japanese
Silks and Printed Piques.
GBARBERRY & BARLOW.
Americas, Jaly 19th, 187G.
Day Changed.
It will be seen from tbe followiog that
the time of holding the Third Congres
sional District Convention has
changed from the 1st of Angost to the
first Wednesday io|September:
At the suggestion of several members
of the Executive Committee, a Conven
tion of the Delegates of the Third Con
gressional District is directed to be held
at the Brown House in Macon. Georgia,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876, St "
. as heratofore
purpose of nominating a candidate
Congress. R. W. Anderson,
Chr. Ex. Com. 3d Con. Disk
preceding the same, or may write
briefly or print
r on any package the num
ber and names of the articles inclosed.
Publishers of newspapers and periodicals
may print on the wrappers of newspapers
or magazines sent from the office of
pnblieation to regular subscribers the
time to which subscription therefor has
1, and addresses upon postal
In these hard times a good retarn for
honest labor is desirable. Any active
young man or young ladv can earns
handsome ram by addressing, for par-
been paid.
ticulars, the Managers of The Cosstitu
tat political and family jour-
tiov, the great.
•lisbed at the Capital of tbe'8'tate.
either written, printed, or affixed
to, at the option of the sender.
On unsealed circulars and all
matter of the third class other t
designated in the aforegoing
postage will be charged as heretofore,
one cent for each onnee or fraction
thereof.
nal pnb] ^
Constitution Publishing Co.
Atlanta. Ga.
julyl2ti
Tbe first gun of the campaign will be
beard in North ’*
_ Carolina on the first
Thuisday in next month. Ex Governor
Vance leads the democratic hosts as can
didate for Governor, and Hon. Thomas
Settle heads the Republican columns.
Settle is a strong candidate, a man
i several
Judge Settle is a strong candidate, a man
of high integrity and altogether the
1 nomination the Republicans
THERE IS MONEY IN IT.
you have no kxcusk.
Have yon any excuse for suffering with
Dyspepsip or Liver Complaint? Is there
Letter from Schley.
Ellaville, Schley Co.. Ga., I
July 25,1876. f
Editor Sumter Rxtueucan : I send
you four ran of corn out of my 5 acre
patch. There are some large ears in tho
i and some smaller ones. Accord
ing to my eon’s connt there are in the
1 fifty -one thousand one hundred
and six ears. Allowing 135 cars to tho
el, there won Id be 378 bushels, a lit
tle over 75 bushels to the acre. The
laud is very common pine land which of
itself with ordinary cultivation wonld not
havi made over ten or twelve, bushels
per acre. The outlay for this year in
manure is—
100 bushels cotton seed . . . 15 00
HOOlhs. Wilcox & Gibbs
and 9001b*. Etiwan Gu
anos . . . ’ 50 00
The Colquitt Column.
Appling,
Total 665 00.
The land has however been heavily
composted for three join until it Is as
rich as a garden—save one aero and a
half which has been bronght into culti
vation for the first time this year. The
oorn ia a double eared oorn that I got at
York, Penn., three years ago, and will
yield i more on rich land, in my opin-
i, than tbe common variety will. It is-
also abont or nearly three weeks earlier
than the ordinary corn. Bat it is sub
ject to weevils, else it wonld be almost
invaluable on acoonnt of its early matur
ity and immense yield.
Yonrs truly,
J. R. Rest ass.
Disastrous Fire.
On Saturday morning last, about 2
o’clock, the alarm of fire-was given and
soon the oitizens of our quiet town were
aroused to witness the destruction of a
large two story house on Broad Street,
pied by Mr. A. T. Fort.
the fire was too far advanced to admit of
saving the house or even any of its con
tents. Mr. Fort and family barely had
time to get np and get out before the
whole building was in a blaze from floor
to roof. The fire originated in the atove
room, but as the family had an early sap
per on Friday evening and members of
tbe family were in the room as late as 11
o’clock that night, the idea that it caught
from the fire in tbe stove seems to admit
of some doubt. It may have been the
work of an incendiary, but nothing is
known that would lead us to strongly sus
pect that such was the case. The boose
was owned by Mrs. 8. M. Godfrey, the
mother of Mrs. Fort, and was insured for
$1,000. The furniture, household goods
clothing Ac., belonging to Mr. A. T. Fort
and Mr. James A. Fort Sr., in the house
at tbe time, was all destroyed save a very
few articles of trifling value. The loss
they sustain will likely resoh the sam of
one thousand dollars npon which there
was no insurance.
Mr Willie Williams, who occupied
of the upper rooms, awoke to find him
self in a close place. The staircase
on fire and his retreat to the lower floor
cat off, so he was forced to make his exit
from whence he retreated down one
fencing around the lot.
The premises of Dr. W. A. Gregory
ere in great danger and bnt for the ex
ertions of onr citizens his kitchen wonld
have caught. Other houses adjacent
required attention to keep them from
burning and until daylight the bncket
Is a small church four miles southwest
of Eilsville, and this occasion was a “two
days sing.” This custom, is an instita-
tion of the land, and looked forward to
with deep interest The girls have their
gala “fixins” in trim and the yonths save
their shoes and cravats for the event.
The green corn dance of the red man of
the forest, and the Feast of the Passover
aro not more a matter of thought to
those people than this. (Much enjoyment
is anticipated and tnaoh is had. Ye
town bred hero with glossy staple hat,
glowing boots, kid gloves and silk
brella may turn np yonr nose at “the
sing”—but, air, the pleasure of these oc
casions is neither enhaooed by nor de
tracted from, by what he may say
•The sing” goes on like the mnsic of the
spheres.
Mr. J. 8. Allen was elected Chairman
i this occasion, and appointed C. L.
Battle, J. T. Bivine and J. T. Chambliss
a committee to order basin ess. 'The sing’
led by the President with arait-
able song and prayer by O. C. Sheppard,
and Messrs. Allen, Daniel, Chapman and
Joseph McMath led the different lessons,
The classes were well drilled and sang
well. Your correspondent, by invitation.
Saturday night with Jadge C. L.
Battle. The Judge is a nice man. He
has but one son, but is the father-in-law
of three or four happy sons-in-law, and
there are two more charming girls left,
who are not only pretty, modest and
sweet, bnt are cultivated in all those do-
mestio arts which make woman eo desira
ble and essential at home ; and I would
advise any man who ought to have
good wife, and has none, to make his
devours in' that quarter soon if not
We passed over a part of the Judge*)
farm. He,ia and has been one of tho
successful farmers. His oorn was e
lent, chufas, cotton, potatoes, and
—suffering with drouth, and every grow
ing thing was thirsty for rain. We hope
that carolled section haa been visited by
Bnt we most not omit a part of this
visit which filled more eyes and stomachs
than yonr correspondents. We refer to
the loaded tables on Saturday and Sun
day, which, in good order, came on after
the festival of mneice. The mnltitudea
were filled and twelve basketafal were
taken np after.
Yon may like to know bow I am pro-
an ar'ist. I have the satis-
to announce progress, having at-
twice in two years, I certainly
Fah.
Reduced Rates.—Bread tickets 25 for
one dollar at S. M. Cohen's ne> Bakery.
Two or three a
CUBERXATQRIAL CONTEST.
Banks,.....
Bullock,
Batts,. i..........
Bryan, V.
Coweta,
Crawford
Campbell,
Calhoun,
Carroll,
Chatham,
Chattahoochee,
Cherokee,
Clarke, 2
Clay, 2
Clayton 2
Cobb 4
Coffee, 2
Columbia, 2
Colquitt, 2
Chattooga, 2
Catoosa 2
Camden, 2
Dade, 2
Dawson, 2
DeKalb, 2
Dooly, 2
Dougherty, 4
Douglas, 2
Early 2
Elbert 2
Echols, 2
Effingham, 2
Fannin, 2
Fayette, 2
Forsyth, 2
Franklin 2
Glynn, 2
Gwinnett, 4
Gordon,... .7...... v 2
Glasscock, 2
Hall 2
Hancock, *. 4
Hart, 2
Heard 2
Henry 2
Houston, C
Habersham, 1
Irwin, 2
Jasper, 2
Jackson, 4
Oor
cot-ion j
• Ahkiuous, Ga., Ju1_
No. bales reccivod to data..
Trice 9 cents.
.c.,rr«o!o<l oipramly for M.«-
*\-M .McmiiKST a shaW, oarxro*.
These, are atricUy Retail Trices.
likCON—ar Ribbed tffac...
124© 13
Shoulders..
hulk Clear Bibbed Sidt*.
Hulk Shoulders.
Ham*--Sugar Cored Can.
UOBN—Wldte choice
MEAL—White, • .]
OATS—Yellow and Mixed.........
HAY—Mixed
FLOUB—FAnoy .... ..
Extra Family.
Family,
Exits,...
LARD—Prime Leaf.
NCflAK' Cnt I
1*0*4., Crush, and Grand
Bx“G”T
COFFEE—Rio choice,
mime,
fair,
BUTTEB— Choice Goshen
Gauntry, buy’g 20. selling
CHEESE—Pino Apple
Extra Cream
CHACKERS—Ginger Soaps.
Milk and Cream
Soda
BOGS—Buying 12|c. Selling
CANDLES—Paraflue,
Star,.
TALLOW, (buying) , j
BEESWAX
FIELD PEAS
PEARL GRITS
BICE
IRISH POTATOK8—Wbueh ......
price
MATCHES, (perdozen boxes)
OYSTERS, 111* can, j»cr doxen
2R, osii “
OIL—Kerosene,
Machine,
STARCH— Peart GIoch,.
Common,
SOAP—Family
Common,
SALT— Liverpool V sack,
per sack,
Liberty
Lumpkin,
Laurens,
Madison
Marion,
Milton,
Mitchell
Monroe,
Murray,
Muscogee,
Macon,
Newton
Oglethorpe,
Quitman,
Pike
Pickens,
Palaski, #
Randolph
Rockdale, .
Schley
Sumter
Tatnall,
Twiggs
Troup, '.
Thomas,
Talbot
Upson *
White,
Walton,
Warren,
Ware
Washington,.
Webster,
Whitfield,
Worth
Wayne,
Common,.
-Liverpool « sort
Virginia, fi “
SHOT— Drop and Buck, t
TOBACCO-Plug
Smoking, 5
SWEET POTATOES
VINEGAR
WHISKY—ftUl proof. ...1 S
Rule Nisi to Forecolse Mort
gage-
To tus-Scpzaioa Cocet
Sumteb County. / or Sumtbb County ;
HIE PETITION OF MARTHA C. STAN
FORD shewetb, that on the eighteenth
enty-three, William £
ditioned to bear interest from date at the
of one per cent., per month, and
the interest to bo paid monthly.
And for the better securing the payment ot
the said promissory notes, the said William
Sirrine then and now of the County of Orange
State of Florida, executed and delivered to
your petitioner his certain deed of mortgage
i city
a certain storo house and lot u
of Americus, said county, the same being on
tho east side of tho publio square of said oity,
and known then as the carriage reporitory
and brick building then occupied by William
Sirrino and Son as a carriage repository,
with the rights, members and appurtenances
Kind friends have
diate wants of Mr. Fort, and his family
bnt it will require years to replace all his
losses. He has the sympathy of all our
citizens.—Lumpkin Independent 22d insl.
8. M. Cohen offers Fanoy Family Gro-
series at very low figures for cash.
Darby's Fluid, Browns Chloralnm,
Chloride Limo, Chloride Soda, and other
Disinfectants, at Dr. Eld ridge’s Drug
Store.
Eighty-nine Counties
Tho Johnson Column.
Baldwin,
Floyd,
Green
Habersham
Jefferson,
Johnson,
Jones,
McDuffie,
Paulding,
Polk
Richmond,
Snmter ....
Scrivcn,
Taylor,.
Taliaferro,
Telfair,
Terrell
Walton,
iNmvoRiAn.
Died, on Sunday lGtliinst., at the
idence of Capt. Smith Davenport, Mrs.
F. S. Bell in the GOth year of her age.
Again has the shadow npon tbe sun
dial crept around, a bright light has
faded, a sweet voioe has been hushed,
and our hearts aro left bleeding and des
olate. Onr friend has passed away, not
dead, ah 1 no ; bat sleeping a sweet sleep
of rest Her tired hands are folded, and
the weary feet that liave so long trodden
the chequered paths of life, have found
rest at last. It was the privilege of the
writer to live for some tic.e in her fami
ly, and it was there her many virtnes of
mind and heart sbouo forth so beantifnl
ly. A more devoted mother and friend
I never knew. Her constant thought
and prayer was for her children. How
hsppily has she been rewarded. Her life
lias been truly a chequered one. Though
snch a pure, spotless Christian,
ehe certainly had more ills and afflictions
to bear than oommonly falls to the lot of
woman. Yet she bore it all as her por
tion, often saying, “God will not give
me more than I can bear.” Her in
fluence was felt by all around her. Her
Walker
Wilkes,
Twenty-one counties.
The Doubtful Column.
Bibb
Brooks....
Clinch
Decatur,
Emanuel,
Gilmer
Harris,
Irwin
Montgomery,
McIntosh,
Pierce
Stewart
Spaulding,
Wilcox,
Wilkiuson,
precious words of wisdom will long be
remembered,
itaal Costive—
. Palpitation of the Heart, Heart
Burn, Waterbrash, Gnawing and
pains at the pit of the stomach, Co
Tongno and disagreeable taste in
;b, Coming np of food after ea
spirits, Ac. No 1 It is positi .„ rf
own fault if yon do. Go to Dates-
& Smith, Druggists, and get a hot-
f Green’s August Flower for 75
Jon
doubt ths
Poro Fort, Madeira and 8herry Wines
French Brandy and Whiskys for medical
use at Dr. Eldridge's Drag Store.
Low spirits, &a
yott |
PORT
tie of
cents,
ar! Genuine cider vin-
Horses, Cattle and Dogs. Will destroy
is positively insects on fowls and plants, for si *
Go to Da yen- Dr. Eldridge’s Drag Store.
and thongh she was called
npon to suffer great afflictions of body
and mind, 6he ever felt that she bad a
Friend who would never desert her. 8he
waa conscious during her last illnoss that
the end waa fast approaching, and gave
directions with regard to her funeral and
plooe of bnrial. Sho spoke of her wishes
with great calmness, bidding her child
ren and friends “to meet her in Heaven.'
Daring her last hours she was often heard
toaay, “lam provided for.” What a
comfort ahonld this be to those who are
afflicted. She haa gone on a journey we
are all participating in—some heedlessly,
somo thoughtfully—a journey down a
fair nod in many places, a beautiful val
ley, opening at lost into a heavenly coun
try, where joys have no end, or into a
dark and dreary one, for it is a void,
wanting the presenoe of God. We
iieve that this dear “Mother in Israel”
has found the “better land,” and oh 1 we
pray that her dear children, especially
the dear abeent ones, may heed her aweet
and live here so as to
yonder, when life shall end. We have
gently laid her amid the quiet avenues of
the “city of the dead.” How softly blow
the breezes and how playfully play the
moonbeams o’er her lowly grave. Bnt
she is at
Fifteen counties,
Tlio McIntyre Column.
Charlton
Berrien,
Thomas,
Lowndes,
Four connties,
Tho James Column.
Fulton
Tli© Roes© Column.
Morgan,
Tho Underwood Column.
Haralson,
Tho Warner Column.
Meriwether,.........’
Whole number of counties IS7
Heard from
Not heard from ;
Whole number of delegates,
Majority vr ..,.
Chosen ...
To bscbooeu,....
Colquitt has S9 votes more than a majority of
the whole number, with 7 counties electing
20 delegates to hear from.
Communicated.
Mb. Editor : God haa greatly blessed
the husbandmen of 8chley county in their
fields this centennial year. A very large
cane, peas, potatoes and cotton are
of promise. While I write, the heavens
overcast with clouds'pour down a. most
timely blessiog.
The crops of two of
Sigor
ss.
upwards
the s
conditioned for the better securing the a
tho payment of said three promissory i
Your petitioner shews that tho interest on
said three promissory notes has been paid up
to tho SGlh day of March, eighteen hundred
and soventy-six, and that on the note due
eighteen months after the dote thereof, one
hundred and fifty dollars ($150.) was paid
of Decern'
the twenty-fifth day or December 1874;
and fifty dollars ($50.) on the twenty.sixth
day of April eighteen hundred and seventy,
five, leaving due on said three n
principal with interest a
cent per menth on said principal sum since
.i :.l «.—- - - —
said three promissory notes, which notes and
deed of mortgageorehcreto the Court shown.
Yet your petitioner avers that said William
Sirrine and George 8irrine although so in
debted and to pay the amount due on said
three notes often requested have not paid
said three notes in Axil, but the amount due
thereon have hitherto refused and yet refuse
to pay. Wherefore your petitioner prays
that such rule and order may be passed and
to tho statute in such caso made and provi
ded.
N. A. SMITH, Pl’lFs Att’y.
April Term 1870.—Apr. 15,1870.
GEORGIA, Sumteb County.—In Superior
court:
MarthaC. Stanford,^
William Sirrine.
,) Mortgage, etc.,
[ April Term, 187C.
J April 15th, 1870.
ie petition,
:d by the
the eight
hundred
eeuth day o _
and aeveuty-threo, William 8irrinemaa« ana
delivered to said Martha C. Stanford his
deed, to secure the payment of three
_ _ry notes, each for the sum of five
id and ($550.) made on said eighteenth
day of November eighteen hundred and sev
enty-three and due respectively twelve, fif
teen and eighteen months after tho date
thereof, conditioned to bear interest at the
rate of one per cent, per month from the said
date, and that the interest was to be paid
monthly the said mortgage having been giv
en to secure the payment of said three prom
issory notes, ihp interest due on said three
notes having been paid up to the 26th day of
March eighteen hundred and seventy-six,
and one hundred and fifty dollars (^60 )
having been paid on tho note duo i „
months after ita date, on December twenty-
fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
and fifty dollars ($50.) on the twenty-sixth
day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-
five, leaving duo on said threo notes said
March twenty-sixth eighteen hundred and
TfU--, „JWLr
said March twenty-sixth at the rate of one
percent, per month. The said mortgage
deed having been made upon a certain store
houso and lot in the oity of Americas said
husbandmen,
no extra good. Tho farmer plonted a
largo are* with corn and from many an
acre ho will gather twenty bushels. On ;
red hill Bides and hill tops which havo
their forty-filth crop on thorn this ;
and which waa prononn
ten years ago, Mr. J
Square, in said oity, known at
rine and Son as a carriage repository, with
the rights, members and appurtenances to
tbo same belonging.
And it further appearing thatthesaidbal-
ance on said three notes remains unpaid, it
is therefore ordered that said defendant do
pay into Court on or before tho first day of
the next term thereof, tho principal, interest
and costs duo on said three notes or show
cause to the contrary if he can. And that
on failure of defendant so to do, tho equity
of redemption in and to said mortgaged prem
ises bo forever thereafter barred and fore-
osed. - < - *1j Hfitin
And it is further ordered that 1
Nisi bo publish- ’ ,v
months in the •