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THE WEEKLY
ESTABLISHED 5 18M
By C. W. HANCOCK
DEMOCRATIC IN POLITICS. AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND GENERAL PROGRESS.
Term: $2 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
VOL. 27.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1880.
NO. 40.
One Square, first inaerUon,..
Each subsequent insertion,..
of Minion type, solid, o
Into a square.
All advertisement* not oontracted for will q
charged above rates.
•Paring the length o
time foe which they are to be inserted will be
charged 23 per cent. above regular rates.
I8«v. \
1880.
Jewelry and Music Store.
“In Eastern lands they talk in floi
And they tell la a garland their lot
Each flower that Ueems ia their garden
bower*
On its leetss a mystic language bean.
JAMES FRICKER.
The honeysuckle implies “I dream ef thee.'
And roaemary, always, ••remember
'Arbor Vitse denotes •■unchanging friend-
OVER THIRTEEN YEARS IN YOUR MIDST.
a for CLOSE ATTENTION TO BL'SIXEPSand SELLING RELIABLE GOODS,
►old GUARANTEED TO BE AS REPRESENTED If any article sold at my
' come up io the guarantee, call and GET TOUR MONET BACK. I am*#*
Gloxinia tells of •dove at first sight;"
siXETfiSffiS?*
Variegated pink, “Forever wk part."
Let ns part friends." tpja the trumpet
Primrose answers, “Tour friend for an
i»ys,“Keep yonr *
•VKI.KTS, NECKLACES,
YlIAUMf-. LOCKETS, SOLID SILVER SPOONS,
FORKS. CASE GOODS, SILVER-PLATED CASTORS,
CAKE BASKETS, PICKLE DISHES.
CUPS. GOBLETS, TOILET SETS, SPOONS,
ETC., ETC.,
Plum blooi _ * ^
And rose geranium, “Thou art preferred.’
Apple bloom asks -Hilt thou be mine?"
replies, “My heart is thine.’
gsy coqi
Balloon vine proposes to “Kiss and make up, 1
( LOCKS FROM $1.50 UP
A Full Line of Spectacles Always on Hand.
the music department
t.l of a fint-ela*' Musi.
Now l he people are realising that they can buy a PIANO. ORGAN
OR ANY OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENT »t home cheaper than
W.u/Zi.... m .1 k. i. My trade in this line warrants mo in KEEPING A FULL LINE OF
PIANOS, ORGANS, VIOLINS,
BAKJOS, ACCORDEONS. AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENT}
SEWING MACHINE DEPARTMENT I
HEADQUARTERS FOR THE
DAVIS MEWING MACHINES
I J le l".if on any other Machine, call and see it work before buying other malt
THE WILLIAMS SINGER.
PAY SPOT CASH FOR EVERYTHING IBUY.
only get the ordinary .
Work IDeiDa.rt23Q.erLt
Everybody knows or ought to know by this time that noth
ing but first-class work is turned from this establishment
Watches that have been injured by incompetent workmen
put in thorough repair and warranted Customers’ watches kept
in one of my Fire Proof Safes every night.
Jcicelrg, Clocks anti Setting Machine*
REPAIRED IN THE BEST MANNER.
MIS ill 111 JEWELRY HE T9
K2*Customers Watches, Clocks and Jewelry left for repairs
re kept insured against fire. JAMES FRICKER,
oct2*ly UnderBarlow House.
The Cheapest Hardware Store in Town
VOWWf.
language of flows
—FtrdraL
“lfy only hope,” the American cowslip;
dwells in the bright
A ROUSING WORD.
i Exhibit tub Aoilitt <
r ErroBT
Youth Pbovxs tht Auvaxceot Declixi
Years—Mam, Arp a*d thr G»u Pbbpix
Trrovou thr Crack*—Ix Ahrxicc*.
Atlanta Constitution.
been diggia My taters.
t Into Scripture, lata Hini
harm and Under a Bus.
Me and
the children have been looking forward
to this interesting side show to the
farming basinets with pleasant antici
pations. I always did love to' follow
after the plow and see em roll ont and
tnjpble up, and pick up the big
a Candidate.
Eloquent Description ot the Hypo.
and feel the weight of them, bat 1
didn’t calculate on having to make a
full hand. For two whole days my
boys pressed me into service, and 1 got
awful tired of picking np and toting
crltlcatl ltepubl
i United Stole*.
off in the baskets to the end of the rows
where the vines would be handy to
np. My fanner boy stripped
the vines with a horse-rake of his
invention, and it done it better and
cleaner than I ever saw done with
plow. Then ran a one-horse twister
“faithfulness;" hare-bell, “grief;"
iys the beautiful phlot
“Constancy" abides with pretty dwarf box.
Of “h
And “gratitude’
berry belL
cottage" Portulaca doth tell.
ind in the Center-
ixpreesed by the blue morning
lily of character” by magnolii
is found in the Virginia
high on the bright holly-
We find “fascination" always in fern,
8ympathy”i n balm, and “life” in inc
:n gather a wreath from the garden
each side, and me and the little
chaps kept np pretty well, aud when
he split open the middles and throw
’em np right and left we all had to'move
np lively, I tell you. My legs
right, bat I don’t believe my back is
as limber as it used to be. I got awfnl
tired, and tbs plow business seemed to
go long so smooth and oasy I ventured
to exchange work for a while. I could
run round the rows pretty well, but
when I come to splitting open the mid
dles the plaged thing seemed to get
cranky and would ran ont and run in,
first on one side and then on the other
and the farrows I lelt behind looked
like the track of a crazy snake. I used
to coaid plow bnt it looks like I have
lost the lick. My boys was a lookin
at me and smothering their fan, and
abont the time I was willin to quit I
observed Mrs. Arp and the girls a per-
nsin me through the crack of the fence.
They was mighty nigh dead from laugh
ing, which I dident enjoy, bat the sym-
patbizin woman suddenly composed
herself and remarked that I was
workin’ too hard considerin’ my age
ad infirmity. “Yon are all over in a
veat of perspiration,’’ said she, “and
thought you had a touch of St. Vitae
dance, as yon was following that plow.
Let the boys do it and come to the house
and rest.” But 1 wouldent. I’m not
going to get old before she docs—nary
time. So I stuck to the patch nntil
the job was done and I got the sticky
turpentine juice that milks out of the
yams all over my hands, and the stain
died my fingers Injnn red, and
wouldn’t wash off nor sconroff, bnt i
all honest, and is a sign ef work. For
two days and nights we let the taters
lie out and dry, covering them at night
with the vines. Then we sorted ont
the big ones from the little
banked ’em up under a good shelter
and put cornstalks around em and an
overcoat of dirt with a hole in the top,
and if they don’t keep sweet and sound
they aro not like the taters I used to
dig when I was a farmer boy. Mrs Arp
W ft. b° railed by all the rest of the world, bine and
She interposed her broad and impene
trable shield, repelling the poisoned
shafts that were aimed for my destruc
tion, and vindicated my go->d name from
every malignant and unfounded asper
sion.” Theodore Frelinghnysen, the
illnstrions New Jerseyman on the same
ticket with Henry Clay, was called a
"vinegar-faced Presbyterian,’’although
o more genial man ever lived. Daniel
Webster, under political assault and
neglect, died of a broken heart at Marsh
field. At his nomination for the Presi
dency the derisive cry was: “Who is
James K. Polk,” although he had been
a long while in the councils of the na
tion and Speaker of the Honse of Rep
resentatives. I tell yon now who he
was—the man who added Texas, in
respects the richest of all the
states in the Union, and did more than
any other man in this country to open
our way to the possession of everything
clear to the Pacific Coast. Yet there
were millions of people, who, daring
his administration, never mentioned his
name without a sneer of contempt.
There is not a man in mid-life who does
not remember the fact that all tbe terms
of obloquy were beeped upon Abraham
Lincoln. The filthy joker, the whole
sale butcher, the buffoon, the gorrilla
of the White Honse, where the gentler
i refined of the epithets.
Brooklyn, Oct. 24.—This morniug
services ia Brooklyn Tabernacle were
opened by singing:
“My country ’lis of Ihee,
Sweett land of liberty.
Of thee 1 ting.”
Dr. Talmage taking - bis text from
Galatians v. t 13—“Brethren, ye hat-
been called 4 unto liberty,
liberty for an occasion
preached as follows:
“The Presidential Contest.'*
of the quadrennial
A VIRGINIA TRAGEDY.
FRANK A I. LI SON KILLS HIS FAIT1II.
WIFE AN 11 HER PARAMOUR AT
WOODLAWN.
Oct. 26.—Intelligence
has just been received hereof a horrible
tragedy in Carroll connty, near 'lie
Grayson line yesterday. The high
social standing of all the parties
cerned, tbe intensely sensational
roundings of the affair and its deeply
tragic termination have caused the
wildest excitement in this part of the
State, where the actors in the tragedy
Allison, a well known merchant and
citizen of high standing at Woodlawn,
Carroll connty, took in with him as a
partner a young man by tbe,name of
Hawkes. They kept a flourishing
country store, Mr. Allison’s business
in other counties frequently took him
from his home for several days at a
time, during which the store was left
in the charge of the young partner,
Hawkes, who was unmarried. On the
same lot with the store Mr. Allison’s
P rivate residence ia situated, and here
s lived with his wife and an interest
ing family. Some weeks ago Mr.
Allison was startled at hearing that his
J. W. HARRIS & CO.,
ARE NOW RECEIVING A LARGE STOCK OF
Mm, Stoves, mil Tinware!
CUTLERY AND GLASSWARE!
Wa §| n ubber d Beltuig. Agricultural Implements c
:ind,
GUNS, PISTOLS, WINDOW GLASS, PAINTS, OILS, PUTTY,
Axes and Plows of nil kind, nod in fact everything to be feund in
n First-Olaes Hardware Store ! 1
We have the Best Assortment of Pocket Cutlery. Scissors and Rarer*
in the city, which we will sell Very Low ! I
WE PAY CASH FOR OUR GOODS
inj have bo -cbt since the (lerlme and ara ab’e Ia give onr customers aa low price* ft* they
here. EVERYBODY I i ItLQUESIEDTO CALL and get oar price# b efor* purchai
AGKNT8 FOB
WraoiTELD* ENGINES ASD COTTON PBE^ER-Every noe wsrrmted.
liLYMfc.ii M ANUFAi TURING COMPANY'S CANE MILL AND EVAPORATOR-,
Also, tbe contra ted TIMES COOK STOVE.
partner and his wife had besn too
mate dating his absence from home.
At first he treated the suggestion with
indignation bat certain circumstances
at length forced him to be suspicions.
Finally, goaded to desperation, he de
termined to test the matter, and see
hether or not his wife was faithless
him. Accordingly, Saturday night be
kissed bis wife good-bye and told her
that he would be absent nntil Tuesday
nigbt. He then rode off. but only a
short distance iq the woods, where he
tied his horse and remained \
He had armed himself with
freshly loaded and primed, with a terri
ble purpose of revenge if his road fears
ire realized.
Abont eleven o’clock he stole back
the house. His wife was not there.
He then with his night-key softly
opened the store door. In the rear of
the building was the bed-
Hawkes, his partner. He saw through
light shining in the roon
softly to the door burst
open. Here he found his wife and
Hawkes together, and witbont saying
word and unheeded the startled wo-
tan’i cries of the confnsed exclama-
ons of the gnilty man with her, he
drew the revolver and began firing. He
first made sure work of his partner and
oivn us .
J W. Harris & Co.. -- Cotton Avenue, Americus. Ga.
I<e CONTE PEAR. For Sale or Rent.
mWO THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND. ’
X r “ 4
This Hybrod from the Chinete
Sand is a blight-proof Pear.
0^° t*o-Uilrd* in on* of tb* finest groves
I —- - Lonu * comity, Ga.. (or In the world.)
lo of5er ***• genutn# young tree*
Srr... ,ro ® four to seven feet high,
SSpttrir cwn Mock for aal*. BenoidJ
•lock r ’***• cSsring tree* grown on other
than lu own stock. Addr***.
W. W. THOMPSON,
Bo niter connty, Georgi*.
ig on tb* water, of Ktncbafeooeo and Portl*
sks, and adjoining Ian i* o( Wsa. H Daewoo
!>tlic-re, being a v—— — — __
men by Judge N Wylie, dseeaaed For
■ appiy to tb*«
or to Wm. H. Dm
BU&jf EMM&DAT.
*Pl«m
BmitbTlile.Ga.
BOARDERS WANTED
BEENE.
mi—,0a
shot three of the ball
though the first shot did the work, and
him instantly. Turning from
the dead body of the roan who had
wronged him, he sent two shots from
the smoking weapon into his wife’s
breast, mortally wounding her. When
there were no more halls to fire he turn
ed from the ghastly scene, and, leaving
the two bodies where they fell, he went
ont and surrendered himself.
The affair caused the wildest excite
ment. Mr. Allison is .beyond middle
agp. and stands high in the community.
Presidential excitement, and this
; and next Sabbath morning, as a
iristian patriot, I have some earnest
things to say. I have no partisan let
ter on either hand or either foot. The
instructions come neither from Chicago
nor Cincinnati, bnt from the throne of
God. It is fortunate that the ministry
this country are not tempted by gov
ernmental patronage. There are lands
where the State does everything for the
church. St. Peter’s at ltome has cost
the Government $200,000,000. Xerxes
took from the temple of Belas $100,-
000,000 of gold. England pays $75,000
a year to her Archbishop of Canter
bury and $770,000 in all to her bishops,
while 18,000 of her ministers are paid
by tbe Government. Our ministers
have no such temptation to surrender
judgment to the dictation of
the state, but still clergymen have pow
erful pressure to make them think this
ay or that, preach this way or that,
d vote this way or that. Yet the
minister of religion mast shake off the
prejudices of the hour and rise above
the instructions both of the congrega
tion and of the printing press, amt take
message from the Lord,
There is one word in my text that
stirs the blood of every genuine man,
and that word is liberty. “Ye have
been called to liberty.” Paul
that under Nero, the tyrant hated of
all ages; the Emperor, who, incognito,
roamed the streets at night for the
pleasure of robbing passengers, bedaub-
made ns pick ont all the big ones
said they looked mighty pretty, but
she diden’t want em and it was best
send em to town and sell
cents a bushel—for, says she, “they
may not keep very well, and they
too big to cook, bnt will sell all
better for their size. Smart woman
lie is, and I always take her motherly
Well, I scoured up my hands and
left the qneen and the little stars for a
season, and am now in the bright and
happy town of Americas, enjoying my
self in mingling with her people
communing with old friends. I’m
prancing around among the girls like
a yonng mnle in a barley patch, as Ji
Harris would say, but I did go ont
the fair ground and it did my old ey<
good to look at the galaxy of lovely
d beautiful women. It does seem to
t that the further away I get from
home and the longer I stay away the
irettier the women get. I met lidding
lerc—yonr Redding of the agricultural
bureau—and bo told me confidently
that tbe girls about here were prettier
and more substantial than any he had
ever persned. He said they were in
better health and condition and carried
more natural flesh and less cotton than
Kras usual and customary. He said he
nronldent mention such a thing abont
Atlanta for prudential reasons but that
it was so. Their fair down here
honest success. Everybody seemed
happy and everybody knew everybody
and there were no pickpockets, and we
had some good little races and we bail
niggers running blindfolded behind
wheelbarrows and we had a greased
pole, and we had a re-nnion of Colonel
Cntts’ celebrated artillery company-
and the old colonel looks as yonng and
frisky as a widower who is a noticing
aronnd, and his soldier boys had badges
on and it seemed to me there was more
’em than I ever saw in the army,
iqnircd if all of em that wore t
badges had font, bled and died at t
cannon’s month, and a friend told l
actly, bnt there was a sign by
which you conld tell em, though I ne
learned what it was. I met my
schoolmate Jack Brown, down here,
love Jack; I don’t care anything abont
his politics. He was the friend of iny
youth and I loved him then, and
he is the friend of my declining years
and I love him still. ' I have no dis
position to let a little matter of politics
divorce me from a friend—r
know what perils are before
they come I would want no purer friend
for myself of my wife or my_ children
than Jack Brown would be if it
within his power. Americas is a pros
perous town and has some most de
lightful suburbs. In fact, it hai
great ileal of snbnrbs ami plenty
beautiful lawns and groves, and most
every family has a wide lot for the
children to build upon when they get
married. They have a nice young
Library and a hall that is paid for and
last night it was packed solid with a
pleasant and refined audience, to whom
I had the honor of addressing a few
broken remarks abont Dixie. General
Phil Cook is jolly and hopefnl. Like
Aleck Stephens, I think he is likely to
die in the harness, for thia people love
him, and it delights them to do him
Honor. In haste, Bill Aep.
rty, epljr n
i of tfc&fie*
y, forgive and forget, and
pray and forgive each other. .Surely
fifty years of quarrels are enough; had
blood enough; national debt enough
graves enough; widowhood enough; or-
>ogh;agony and woe enongh
Southwest Corner Public Square,
Corner Jackson and Lamar Streets,
hope we are having the last political
platform in which there shall be any
mention of North or Sonth. If we are
to lie in perpetual wrangle and from age
1 think it would have been bet
ter to have let the Sooth go in 1861.
Yonr lathers and brothers who imper
iled and lost their lives in that great
contest fonght to keep the South, not
that we might be in more convenient
antagonism, bnt with the hope that i
the future there might he a unity and
good understanding. Look ont how
any of you defeat the object for which
that great holocaust was enacted.
Let the sections visit each other, a
the Brigadier Generals of the Sonth
have during the last month stood in
Cooper*. Institute New York so before new glass front, with plenty of light; the inside all re painted,anil
the election has passed let the Briga
dier Generals of the North stand in the
great halls of Charleston and New Or
leans. Let Northern men cicapo tho
wintry blasts by a trip to the orange
groves of Florida, and Georgians the
ing Christians with tar and pitch and
setting them on fire to light np his parks
kicking his own wife till she died, and
having his own mother assassinated,
and finally committing suicide. No
wonder that word, liberty, under such
a bad man, cost Paul his head. Bnt
while tho Emperor destroyed the man
who dared to nse so insurrectionary a
word, the word itself was indestructi
ble, and has been the most arousing and
olutionary wotd ever written. It
t into the tnagna charts and made
England free; into tbe Declaration of
Independence and started this nation
on its high career; into the speech of
Garibaldi and the proclamation of Vic-
Eipanuel, and Italy shook off the
t of the grave; into France and o'
threw the Napoleonic dynasty; und
hundred despotic thrones and will keep
them rocking till they fall flat. It took
hold of the printing press and broke its
shackles and made it the mightiest
agency for intelligence and evangeliza
tion that the world has ever known.
That world will keep on its rounds till
in all the earth there shall not lie t
tyrant’s sceptre, or a slave’s chain, oi
an oppressed workman, or a blighted
intellect. Liberty for the State! Lilicrty
for the church! Liberty for the printing
press! Liberty for the pulpits! Liberty
for tbe platform! Liberty for all conti
nents, for all island^, for all zones, foi
all ages! “Brethren, ye have been call
ed to liberty.”
Yet, my text lias not only a driving-
wheel but a brake, not only an inspira
tion but a limitation. “Brethren, ye
e been called into liberty, only use
liberty for an occasion to the flesh.”
Liberty, but not wild license. Liberty,
it uot moral recklessness.
First, I charge yon, so J«r as I ara
your teacher and pastor, to have noth
ing to do in this Presidential
with slanderous implication of public
men. Take up tbe newspaper files of
tbe last eighty years and see that
have taken places in history, honorable
and radiant. But we are still at tbe
old business of base travesty. We have
dictionaries ont hunting np more
s of political damnation. Two
are set np for the candidacy, both
eminent—one in the field, the other in
the couucils of the nation—and both,
believe, good men. Yet, what do I
ear in regard to them? Of one I ara
told he unjustly and gladly hung Mrs.
Surratt; that be is ignorant of public
affairs; that, crossing the field of battle
once with an oath, he neglected wound
ed Boldiers; that he was engaged in an
oil swindle; that he is weak and ambi
tions for the Presidency, and will do
anything unprincipled to gain it; has a
bee in his bonnet, and so on, and so on,
and so on. I am told of the other that
he took counsel fee which he ought not
to have received; that ho took stock in
Credit Mobilier knowing it to be a na
tional swindle; and on doorsteps aud
the side of houses I see written in chalk
the amount he is said to have
by the knavery to
would like to gather all the first-clasi
of anathema into one grave and
monument above it 1 would put the
epitaph: “Here rest the family of Re
publican lies. Jteqniescat in pace!''’
And into another grave I wonld like to
gather the other class of anathema and
npon the monument above I wonld put
the epitah: “Here rest the family of
Democrats lies. Ileqitiucat in pace!”
Have yon any idea that the slander of
opposing candidates will in any way
forward your party? I tell you nay.
There is something in human nature
that puts it in sympathy with the
tid to have acquired
be $320. Now I
torrid blasts of summer by a vislst to
Saratoga and Long Branch. At once
come face to destroy each other,
come face to face to bless. Once
crossed swords, now cross pall
AMERICUS, GA..,
Have just completed some important changes in their store. A
you 1
Let r
not the snn of this generation go
down on our national wrath. Relore
now in mid-life lay our
heads in death may see the whole na-
; pacified. We cannot well sleep
last sleep until those angry sec
tional voices are hashed forever. They
wonld disturb our pillow of dust, lie
stiil, the North! Be still, the South!
Be still, the East! Be still the West,'
and let the united nation do homagi
conveniently arranged; with more room and more comfort, and,
having these advantages, we have largely increased our stock,
and with a new store, all bright and comfortable, PACKED
FUI.L OF NEW GOODS, we have made NEW PRICES, SO
LOW THAT ALL WHO EXAMINE OUR STOCK WILL BE
PLEASED AND WILL FIND IT TO THEIR INTEREST TO
BUY OF US. We respectfully invite everybody to call and see
how comfortable we are, and
How Cheap we ake Selling Coods i
God of the Maine forest and Florida
lagoon, Michigan wheat field and Sonth
Carolina rice swamp; New Jersey peach
and Mississippi plantation. Let the
ballot box of the first Tuesday in No
vember be tho altar upon which we
shall sacrifice all our sectional strife,
aud the throne on which national uni
ty shall begin her beneficient sway.
Yon see that the first of my two ser
mons on the coming Presidential con
test has for its design, first, to call you
away from defamation of public men;
second, to concenter your attention up-
great question as to how
WE W.LU SHOW YOU AN ELE JANT STOCK OF
on the c
THE HANDSOMEST STOCK OF
I PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
1 P l ...
ied. Falsehoods rebound and hurt
those who utter them more than those
against whom they are ottered. If 1
had a scale delicate enongh to weigh
defamation I would tell yon in one
minute who will be the next President
of the United States. I wonld pat all
the scurrility against Hancock on one
side of the scale and all the scurrility
against Garfield on the other side of
the scale, and the man most abased
would be the next President. It seemt
that as soon as a man is put up fui
office—city, State or national—he ii
be made tbe target. The fact that
is up seems to be proof positive that
ought to be brought down,
private life as well as his public
under serntiny, and all the electric
lights turned on, and if there can b
anything that can be twisted into seem
ing wrong, multitudes of people rejoic
■r it as though they had discovered
v star or found a new invention.
And here let me say some of the
newspaper presses of the country arc
mistaking wind license for liberty.
There are newspapers whose entire bus-
is calumny. Their columns arc
staffed with it. Their editorial reek
with it. Their reportorial corps
charged to bring home nothing bnt
putrefaction. They will pay more for
one quill of filth than for a hogshead of
healthy product. They turn the end
of the city sewers into their editorial
inkstand. Thy breakfast, dine and sup
decency. They roll in it as swine
b mire. Unclean literary wretches,
tho quill they write with was plucked
neither from the goose nor the eagle,
but from the tnrkey buzzard. Gouls,
Goals! The alleviating fact in regard
upon to utter widespread
malediction of dignitaries. All those
who have passed into tbe gallery
ational sainthood were called in
their day to go chin deep through the
slash of lampoonery and pasquinade ala* assail them,
and there was no exception. Thomai
Paine wrote and published
George Washington,the first President,
and said: “Treacherous in private
friendship and a hyjiocrite in public
lifo, the world will 1x5 puzzled t
cide whether yon are an apostate
imposter, whether.yon abandoned good
principles or whether yon never had
any.” .John Quincy Adams consoled
himself with tbe thought that he had
no more misrepresentation and scandal
to go through with than his father,
John Adams, and declares, daring his
Presidential campaign, that there must
be some people who give their entire
time to making lies about him. March
4, 1801, the day of Thomas Jefferson’s
inauguration as President, the Sentinel,
of Boston, had this deriding epitaph:
“Monumental inscription—Yesterday
expired, deeply regretted by millions of
graceful Americans and by all good
men, the Federal Administration of the
Government of the United States, an
mated by a Washington, an Adams,
Hamilton, Knox, Pickering, Wolcott,
MacHenry, Marshall, Stoddard and
Dexter; age twelve years. As
of age and handsome, while the yonng
man waa abont twenty-five, and con
sidered a.fair-looting. man. He' waa
very popular iq the place. The husband
by nia own hand made a widower ii
now in jail.
An Iowa farmer wanted to trade a
big hog for a barrel of whisky; his wife
wanted to trade him for dry goods and
a neighbor wanted the animal for a
church raffle. While the wrangle was
going on, some one stole the hog for
the benefit of the heathens.
tribute of gratitude in these times, this
monnment to the talents and services
of the deceased is raised by the Senti
nel.” Daring Andrew Jackson’s can
didacy the country was flooded with
coffin handbills representing six dead
men, in reference to the fact that Gen.
Jackson, in time of war, had ordered
A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat
mould b* supped Ne*l*et fr*quentlj r*>
gulls in aa Incurabl* Long disease or Cr-
gumption. Brown’* Bronchial Troache* i
certala U fiTtreUrfia AMlma,.Broaebil
Couch*. Catarrh, Conaumtive and Thn
Diseases. For thirty years tb* Troches hare
been recommended by physicians, and al
ways give perfect mUUfacllosi They are
among th# few aUplc remedies ef
PabSiapeaken and Singer* md
tar and strengthen U V*#. B*M
■ a box t
Bnreo waa carioatuied aa» rat; Thomas
Benton and Amor Kendall aa robbers
hurling, a. battering-ram againet the
door of the Uaited State* bank. I saw
last summer in a museum at Pnt-in-Bay
or ntrtad bat having been tartnd by a newapaper. dated i sh, catling Henry
wide sad as—tat msefer nearly aa entire Clay a libertine, a murderer, a hypocrite
generation, they have attaiaed wellmeriud - * a-*--*.#— w— ~~ v 1
Its f-aw atanla vmiiltcs of tb*
5 it! Dear land of o
lootl days!
ilren’s birthright. We will
Southern Doeskin Jeans of Superior Quality !
don ' Handsome New Style Cassimeres!
of its summer harvest
much more of its centennial
fruits. But onr children! They nil
get it from us as we got it from c
fathers—a free land, a happy land,
Christian land. We cannot have tin
trod off of depotism,or lashed of cruel-
affrighted of anarchy. We hand
this country to them over the ballot
box, over the desks of the school
er the chnrch altar, and charge them
pnt their own life between any keen
stroke that wonld destroy it.
And now. Lord God Almighty,
ly hold of thee in a thousand armed
prayer. Remember how far this land
fathers walked with bleeding
feet through Valley Forge. Remem
ber the hunger and tho thirst and the
cold, and the long march and the fever
hospital. Bemember the charge up
Bunker Hill. Remember Marion and
Kosciusco. Remember Lexington and
Yorktown and King’s mountain and
Gettysburg. Look upon the lake where
Perry fought, and Hampton Roads,
here the Cumberland went down.
Remember Washington praying by
all this is that they make a recoil
behalf of righteousness. There are j
New York so vile that ther de
nunciations amount to first-class eulo-
better commendatiou
of public men than that certain journ
als assail them. Such papers, bad
enongh at other times, quadruple tbeir
wickedness during the Presidential
elections. Tbe time will come when
decent people will refuse to patronize
such newspapers, or be seen with them
hand, and when literary and politi
I sin does not pay, snch publications
II cease. Have nothing to do, pen,
type or tongne, with tbe detraction of
public men. Can it be that yon have
so little vision that yon can not
that in this national contest there
tremendous principles to discuss?
I wonld call ^rour attention from the
Rock, and the landing among savages,
Remember Independence Hall, and how
much it cost onr fathers to . sign their
plncked names. Remember all the tears and
’ blood of three wars—1776 and 1812
and 1861. Yes. remember the groan
that was mightier than all the other
groans, and the thirst that was shar]
CHRISTIAN POLITICIAN.
There is, this antnmn,
that is as high above all others
Blanc is above an ant hill—the ques
tion of common schools, as compared
with it, nothing; the tariff question, as
compared with it, nothing; the Chinese
question as compared with it, nothing;
and that is, howto turn the solid Sonth
nnd solid North into a national unity.
Yon may as well have a solid East
against a solid West, as a solid North
against a solid Sonth. The Republi
can party says; “Elect oni
the sectional strife will
The Democratic party says: “Elect
and the sectional strife will be
Now, I call yon ont irom the
work of base personalities to settle that
central question on the first Tues*
suggested by Mr. Clay’s allusion to
Kentucky, when ha said: “I seem to
high time that this sectional strife end
ed. Massachusetts and Alabama, af
ters long divorce needs to be married;
the Penobscot and the Appalachicola
need to find out that they ara sisters.
For the sake of civilization and religion
and the financial and moral welfare of
tbe nation, break np thia aggravating
line between the two sections. Let the
people go down and come ap to the na-
Murfn
* ap to to)
Uchmond
•shore, and by the graves of the
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A VERY LUtQE STOCK OF
shall obliterate all sectional
antipathies.
THERE ARE THREE REASONS
why we are bonnd to do our best
this country—our fathers’ graves,
own cradles, onr children’s birthright.
When I say our father’s graves I make
your own pulses run quicker. Wheth-
they rest in the city cemeteries
village grave yard their ashes are pi
cious. They lived well and died right.
We will never submit to have tbeir
tombs dishonored by the reign of any
other government than that under which '
they lived and died. Yea, this land
cradle. We may have been
mghly rocked but still it
good cadi, to he rocked in. iio» jjen’s Perfect Fitting Shirts and Collars!
LADIES CLOAKS AND DOLMANS ! :
Gentlemen and Ladies Merino Vests!
CARPETS. CARPETS. CARPETS.
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And at Prices as LOW as they can ba sold any where at Retail I
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Everybody who has tried our Extra Finished
than all the other thirsts, and
wonnd deeper than all the other
wounds, and the death ghastlier than
all other deaths; the mount where
died to make men happy and
and for the sake of all this human and
divine sacrifice, have mercy on this
ion; and whosoever wonld blot it
whosoever would cat it down, and
whosoever would turn it back, let him
be accursed 1
Go home in high hopes. The car
of national progress will never roll
backward. God is on the side of this
■He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall
He is sifting out the heart* of men before
hi* judgment seat;
Ob, be *wlft my soul, to answer him!
bilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.”
A Woman Lawyer Who Carries
the Jury With Her.—Mrs Gordi
the first lawyere8s who ever addressed
a jury in San Francisco, recently de
fended a man accused of mnrder. She
was dressed in black, and for her only
ornament wore a rose in her corsage.
When she entered the court room, a
general thrill of emotion ran through
the auditory; bnt this the lady feigned
not to perceive, lu tho coarse of her
harangue, the applauses broke forth
many times, although they were severe
ly repressed. At tbe end the jnry pro
nounced a verdict of acquittal, which
E revoked an expression of enthusiasm.
t is said that Sirs. Gordon is yonng
and beautiful, and at the same time
eloqnent, and that she was literally
able to carry the jurors off their feet.
If tbe acquitted individual was gnilty
how lncky it was for him that be chose
thia yonng and beautiful lady
advocate of his defence.
SCHOOL BOOKS FOB ALL THE SCHOOLS
SCHOOL BOOKS FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS
SCHOOL BOOKS FOR ALLTHK SCHOOLS
M18tf
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sals at th* Drag (Store of JohaE*
Vinegar fo
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LINEN AND SILK HANDKERCHIEFS!
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Boots, Shoes, Hats and Umbrellas
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A great voiiety of other articles so numerous that they would fill
four times the space we have to specify them.
ALL CHEAP 1 VERY - CHAEP I
GRANBERRY & BARLOW.
September 22,1880.
AMERICUS, GA,