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C. W. HANCOCK, Proprietor
HASCOCK& WABREN Editor,
AnEUlUVI, CBOK01A.
Friday, May 9, IB84.
Official Organ of City of Amancua.
Official Organ of Sumtsr County*
Official Organ of Schlty County.
Official Organ of Webster County
W«lc®» of Lm Coawiy
» t'ubiuhcd In ikla paper*
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE.
V® have hundred* of dollar* of unpaid
*u ascriptions to the RtrcsucAN upon our
booka. We have waited patiently and lm-
patiently for money. We appeal to all who
arelc arrearato MtU* up. We want the
money: because we need it. We make the
following points:
1. Those who are unable to pay will please
notifyu*.
2. Those who don't intend to pay, will be
kind enough to say so.
3. Those who can and Intend to pay, will
please carry out their good Intentions and
purposes.
Meeting of the Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee.
The Democratic Executive Commit*
to) of Sumter county, are requested to
meet at the Court House at ten o’clock
a. ia., SATURDAY MAY 17tb, 1884.
to attend to important business. The
chairman respectfully call attention
the fact that the 15th and Old 16th
Districts are without representatives on
said committee, and suggest# that the
voters of said districts have a meeting
at an early day and elect committee
men for said district*.
A. S. Ccm, Chm’n.
K. G.Simmox*, Sec’y.
There are 80,000* more women than
Railroad from American to
Lumpkin.
article on the Americas and
Lumpkin railroad, the Independent
ha* this to say*.
•‘The people are net only thoroughly
aroused upon the subject, hot seen
united in a determined effort to succeed.
In this eedion our citizens only watt
for the books to be opened when the
amount of subscription needed will
•ooa be made up. We have not yet
seen a man who flatly refused to aid in
the project, but upon the other hand
find all willing to aid to the extant of
their ability. It is thought that 25,-
000 can be raised within thirty daya
after the books are opened. Of coarse
the money will not be expected to be
paid now, but subscription notes can
be taken and used in the building of
the road at once. There is P# ruio*
why the road ahould not be in full op
eration from Americas to Lumpkin by
January 1st, 1885.”
i glad to bear that the people
of Stewart are aroused to the impor
tance and necessity of going to work at
once upon the contemplated road. The
people of that county have the
and the public spirit and enterprise to
accomplish every thing the Independ
ent claims for them; and with sneh
prospect there; and Americas, done
with her preliminaries and ready to b
gin the work here, there is indeed “i
reason why the road ahould not be
full operation from Americas to Lamp-
kin by January 1st, 1885.”
Our people will leave no stone un
turned, no effort unexpended in burry
the work, and we have an abid
ing confidence that the same course
will he pursued by all other parties in
terested in tbe road.
Kentucky has held her primaries and
favora tbe nomination of Tilden.
The Republicans of Mississippi have
set square down on the whigi of Geor
tf*
London had a f25,000,000 fire £
the 26th and an earthquake earlier i
the same week.
There are 10,000,000 false teeth
made annually, at the twelve manufac
tories in this country.
It is said that in private there is
really great enthusiasm for the old tick-
et among Tilden and Hendricks.
The Constitution claims that all the
delegates selected so far to tbe JjjIj
Chicago convention are for Tilden.
The Legislature of California hat
passed an act appropriating $6,000
nually for tbe aid of the silk culture.
Moses Fraley, a prominent grain
merchant of St. Lonis lost $250,000
one hourla6t week,speculating in wheat
James It. Randall, author of '‘Ma
ryland, my Maryland,” contemplates
publishing hit poems in hook form.
In the New York penitentiary 3,600
pairs of shoes are made from the
material in ten hours, six pairs to the
minute.
The annual amount paid by insur
ance companies in the United States
for losses by fire, is estimated at
000,000,000.
John Jacob Astor has presented the
Skin and Cancer Hospital of that city
$200,000, in gratitndo foT the restora
tion of his wife’s health.
Gainesville Florida lost 250,000 by
fire on the 3d. We see no
ment of the amonnt of insurance. Tbe
burning was undoubtedly incendiary.
The egg crop in this country last
year brought $475,682,889. The wheat
crop brought 466,689,999, leas than
nine million difference,notwithstanding
the vast number of eggs and chickens
eaten at home.
The Sheffield Boom.
The remarkable rise and increasing
growth of Birmingham and Anniston,
Alabama, has turned attention to tbe
projected city of Sheffield, Alabama,
tbe blnffs of the Tennessee river, be
tween Tnscnmhia and Florence. Seven
hundred men are working on the new
railroad from Sheffield to Birmingham,
vo hundred more are laying off
renues and streets ot the new city
preparing for the sale of lota that will
take place May 8th. Ample accom
modations are being made for the crowd
who will attend the sale, many of
rhom are from long diatanoes. Tbe
Atlanta office of the Sheffield Land,
Iron and Coal Company is busy send
ing maps and information to inqnirera.
It has been found that iron can be
made and shipped by river from Shef
field cheaper than from any place in
the Union. Investors are already ar
riving awaiting tbe sale, and the rail
roads have made special rates for those
who attend.
The Home Paper.
Borne writer with a level bead has
ese words of troth to say about the
local paper:
Tbe local newspaper is like a church,
it wants fostering; then it can reflect
credit on ita location. Take yonr home
paper. It gives yon more news of im
mediate interest than New York or
other papers; it talks for yon when
other localities belie yon; it stands np
for your rights; you always have a
torn panion in yonr home paper, and
those who stand np for you should cer
tainly be snstaiaed. Yonr interest#
are kindred and equal, and yon must
rise or fall together. Therefore, it is
to yonr interest to support your home
paper; not grudgingly, but in a liberal
spirit; as a pleasure, not a disagreeable
dnty, but an investment that will more
than pay the expense.
Adam Badean, Consnl General to
Cabs, throws a flaming fire brand int<'
the ranks of the Federal dynaity. He
■chargee the State Department with
grave dera iction trom a public duty,
with gross continued neglect of injuri-i
and insnlta put upon American citi
zens, American seamen and American
trade in the island of Cuba; with a va
dilating and ignominious policy, etc.
He goes on with an eloquent and some
what startling phillipic, showing that
thousands of dollars have b«en lost to
the government, and great and gros*
and oft repeated injustice done to tbe
interssts of her people by mismanage
ment, and that too, in the face of his
earnest and persistent protests. Such
tidings as this, come from every sec
tion, and are borne by every breeze.
The Federal administration smells to
heaven of rottenness and corruption,
and • change of rulers is the only hope
that it left us for the preservation of
onr liberties.
An Unpublished Story on Judge
SCHLEY COUNTY MWS.
Q. T. WALKER,
Dr. Felton will not run for Congress
this yeat. Tha Doctor has been de
feated twice for the office, and be prob
ably thinks “two beats to the bar” is
an expression, the spirit of which
reaches his case.
Great preparations are bdngmade by
different states and countries for the
World’s Exposition at New Orleans.
It is said that the exposition buildings
will be considerably larger than those
of the centennial.
The radical clerk of the court at St.
Martinsville, La., was a candidate for
re-election at tbe late election. He
found his tally sheet was going to be
too short and attempted to splice. He
sow meditates on tbe ingratitude of
republics and the vanity of human lifs,
aa he gaaes gloomily through the bars
of a prison "Sic transit gloria mun-
di."
Mrs. A. T. Stewart of New York is
said to be the wealthiest widow id the
world. She has 25,000,000 in govern
ment bonds alone.
We know of a little arrangement by
which Mrs. S. could be relieved of the
care of so much property, and the sub
scription of the Soma Repcbucax
enlarged at the same time. Wonder if
•be wants a pard.
There are 19,000 more boys than
girls under 21 years of age in Illinois.
When those 19,000 boys get a little
older let them form a line of march and
come down and go to work in Georgia.
And if their income shonld be bigger
than their outcome, and their morals
better than their immoral*, we’ll
marry them to a nice set of little red
lipped, early headed lasses who will
“Share their Joys, dispel their woes,
Wash their victuals and cook their dose."
A certain legal document in some
way was lost in the Sheriff's office at
Macon, and for two months Bailiff
Joses has been on the bant for it.
searched all the shelves and drawers
in the office and failed to find it. Mon
day night he dreamed that it was
among a lot of papers in a certain draw
er in the office. So impressed was he
by the dream that he looked over the
papers dreamed about, tad the misting
document was there.
The Dixy Cook Book.
After a thorough perusal of this
book, we feel warranted in pronounc
ing it the beat work of the kind we
have ever seen. It is complete in all
of its details, and superior in economy,
mplicity and minutia to all other
cook books. It has a variety of de
pertinents, all of which are indispensa
ble to the house-wife. The agent will
take subscriptions now and deliver tbe
book in May. Now is the time to ge
a gem of a book, and we adviae all U
improve tbe opportnnity.
The call tor Tilden at the next dem
ocratic presidential candidate ia uni
verasi in Georgia. The Editor of the
Telegraph and two or three little boys
in tbe pinev woods are somewhat miff
ed, but the convention will give them
a sugar teat and all will yet be lovely.
—Iihmaelite.
Yes, and the Telegraph and Met-
•enger insists that if Mr. Tilden is
Laminated Nast will fix np such pic
tures and caricatnres of him as will
beat the race. This amounts to th<
assertion that nobody but a good look
ing men can be elected. Well, tbe
Telegraph is the first paper in tha
State, and if it can establish this poli
cy tee wont complain, bat some of onr
aspiring friends will kick up jack.
We return thanks to Senator Jo
seph E. Brown for a copy of his speech
delivered in the Senate ia reply to Sena
tor Morgan in the disenasion of tbe bill
to aid in the establishment and tempor
ary support of common schools; also for
copies of the speeches of Senator, L. Q.
C. Lamar, of Mississippi, and Daniel
W. Voorhses, of Indiana. Senator
Brown makes some very strong argu
ments in favor of an appropriation by
the Government for educational pur-
Ex-Senator W. P. Kellog has been
tried for corruption in connection with
tbe star route case® and acquitted.
Bribery was proven on him, clear and
plain, but he waa a delegate to the
Chicago convention and a power i
Republican party, and a trained jury
of Washington City were the wardens
of his liberty. Swaim comes next,
and Swaim’s verdict is already written.
Oh Liberty, what Crimea are commit
ted in thy name.”
At the convention of the Whig par
ty, held in Atlanta on the first. Uncle
Johnathan Noreross offered a reeolation
asking tbe colored brother* to hold
separate convention and co-operate.
The resolution was voted down. Un
cle J. hatted himself and departed and
stood not npon the order of his going,
but walked away withont leaving word
when he'd be hack. At last accounts
is doing like John Brown’s coal;
be was “marching on.”
Senator Brown is not in favor of wo
man suffrage. He is seconded by Sen
ator Cockrell, of Missouri. These tw<
gentlemen brought in a minority report
from the committee on woman suffrage
They are both Southern men and want
to protect Southern womanhood. The
majority report advocating this heresy
is led by Senator Lapham, of N<
York.
Tbe Warrenton Clipper talks about
history repeating itself and tells hi
the friends of Hon. \Vm. H. Crawford
s nursed and driven up Peunsyl 1
, Avenue on exhibition, “when about
the same physical condition Mr
Tilden is.” Onr neighbor is unfortu
n tbe parallel he draws. Judge
Crawford enjoyed health and serv
country for a number of years after tbe
time of his candidacy, and yet the
Clipper is making tbe comparis
convince the public that Mr. Tilden
will not be able to do so.
A Brooklyn jury deserve etedit for
rendering a verdict of manslaughter not
long since in a case tried before them
where a young man pointed a pistol at
young woman in a joke, thinking it
was unloedsd, bat the pietel proved
to be loaded, and went off, killing the
young woman instantly. Therein
tirely toe much carelessness in the
handling of firearms now-a-day, result
ing ia serioma accidents, and i
the example of the Brooklyn jury will
greatly tend to lseeen each accidents.
The Uaseechnsetta Convention of
Green backers recommend Gen. Bat
ter as a candidate for the Presidency.
The General would prefer silver, bnt
he’s not particular, any eoct of plunder
will do Mm.
The following story was told me in
the days of my boyhood by a member
of the Americas bar and a cotemporary
of Judge Dooly. If it was ever pub
lished I never saw or heard of the pub
lication, although I have looked for it
closely.
With no fear, therefore, of being
charged with bringing forward a snack
of cold literature warmed over, I pre
sent it to the public. And my object
in this is, not so much to invite a smile,
aa to preserve a waif that might other
wise float forever away:
Judge Dooly, on his way to and
from a certain uaart, always t-pehl the
•light with a rural Un tl->rd, familiarly
known as Uncle Btliy Hinson.
Uncle Billy wa* full cleverness,
kindness and h-uqiicaluy. i*m lie gab-
Oed uuceasiugiy and lied as much as
he gabbed. Tbe Judge depricate-i
•alsehood and iu«inc**ri»y in any person,
much more his agreeable host, and not
having the courage to bring the matter
straight home, in a personal reproof,
sought to reach the conscience of his
riend by the following circumvention.
Late one summer afternoon he waa
•pproaching Uncle Billy's house. His
borse was gentle and knew where to
•top, and he dropped the lines over tbe
dashboard aud lay down across tbe
eat, feigning sleep. Fresently the
mggy stood still at the gate, and Uncle
Billy ran ont and began to shake the
judicial snorer.
Jndge, Judge!"
Eb; why hayo. Uncle Billy. My,
my. my! what a dream I have had!”
What did you dream. Judge?”
Well, I was coming here. Uncle
Billy, and I like to come here, and I
very naturally dreamed about you.
Bnt we can’t control these dreams, and
I must’nt tell what I did dream—yon
might get offeaded.”
“Oh, no, no; les’ have it.”
“Well, I dreamed I died and
to hell. I was disgusted with the ap
pearance of things and asked Satan if
there were no terms on which he would
let me off. To this proposition he re
plied: ‘Yes; 1 have not got much work
for such an old Miss Nancy
and if you’ll go back and send
of the biggest liars in the world, I’ll
let you stay there 25 years longer.
All you’ve got to do is to kill them;
you need’nt ccrae a piece of the way
show them tbe road; they'll find
Not a single dead liar has ever misaed
the ronte or been bothered about the
direction, < libers may need to stop and
enquire and look for sign-boards, but
the liar is led here by an unerring ani-
miTill>,0n.kUy8.1SSL
Wa hear of no case of picnic as yet
mongua.
Dr. J. N. Cheney has up three bogs
for the railroad barbecue ia July at
EUavOla.
Last Tuesday was Sheriff sale day,
bnt onr Sheriff never has anything of
the kind to do.
Our M. D’a. keep about engaged
tbeae days, thangh their cases are of a
mild nature.
The directors of the Buena Vista
R til road held their meeting in EUa-
ville last Wednesday.
Many of onr exchanges are speaking
of the track pro-pect* of their section.
No track for Schley except for domes
tic consumption.
At tbe Ordinary’s Court last Mon
day. J. R Ihqux and Mrs. Moliie
i jointly appointed to admin-
b* estate of Isaac Hart, de
cease,!.
The railroad grading is now begin-
ng to rage. They are scattered from
Anderaonville to LaCrosse, and in ten
days there will be hard working all
along the line to Ellarille. Oaptai
Pitman, the trestle contractor, is i
work in full blast.
r WE SPENT this '
Macon Telegraph, 20th April-
Nineteen vrara ago to-day Brevet-
Major General Wilson with a portion
of his Federal cavalry entered the city
of Macon. A brief review of tbe occur
rence may be of interest to m*ny who
were not present at that time or may
have grown np since.
General Lee had, a few days before
surrendered the remnant of It's army
Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
General Johnston was confronting Gen
eral Sherman in North Carolina, who
bad laid waste thn country by his over
whelming forces from Atlanta to tho
Georgia seaboard and throngh South
the intention of General \Vil-
•troy all of the Confederate
government works, railroad depots and
bops, manufactories of every descrip-
ion, seize all tbe horses and mules,
whether public or private property, and
Presidential Preferences.
ESTIMATES At TO RXI CSUCiX FAVORITES,
New York, May 3.-Tho Times esti-
lates that 340 of the delegates to Chi
cago will favor Blaine; 287 for Arthur;
for Edmonds; 58 Logan; 21 for
Sherman, and 7 for Gresham. The
preferences of the other 15 arennknown.
Tbe 8 on gives Arthur 823; Blaine
311; Edmunds 63; Logan 55; Sherman
23; Hawley 12; Gresham 0; Fairchild
4; Grant 1; doubtful 10.
Tbe Tribune thinks Blaine will com
mand 358 votes on the first ballot, or
within 53 of a majority. All the Re
publican State Conventions having
been held, tbe Chicago Times figures
tbe complexion of delegates to Chicago
as follows, Blaine, 329; Arthar, 295;
Edmunds, 73; Logan, i»l; John Sher-
sn, 23; Hawley, 12; donbtfnl, 37.
Dropped Dead.
Mr. Alley A. Mungin died very sud
denly at his room over Wilder’s furr i-
tnre store, Friday morning. He had
been in bad health for some time, and
while walking in the hallway ad jacent
to his room yesterday morning fell on
the floor. His wife and Jack Ray’s
•rife, who were in the room, heard
fall and ran to him. Sapposing thi
had only fainted, they carried him
the room and laid him upon a bed, and
then called Major Wilder. The latti
immediately ran np stairs, and as soo_
as he reached Mr. Mungin, saw that he
sa dying.
Mr. Mungin married one of Mrs.
Ray’s daughters, and had been here in
feeble health for tome time. He was
an engineer and worked at one ot Cap
tain Weston’s Mills, down on the B. <fe
W. railroad, until his health got so bad
he had to quit work and come to the
city for medical treatment.—Albany
Newt.
Drowned In a Mud Hole.
On Sunday last a son of Mr. James
Darby, about 17 years of age, accom
panied by two smaller boys, sons of Mr.
A. D. Chambliss, were walking,
through tbe woods about fonr miles
north of Lumpkin, when they came to
a golly in which was a large bole of
water caused by the late rains that had
fallen in this section. Tbe boys dis
covered a larga moccasin in this hole of
water and began chunking at it with
sticks and rocks. In his eagerness to
kill the snake young Darby approach
ed teo close to tbe water’s edge when
tbe bank gave way beneath him and
precipitated him into water several feet
deep. He could not swim and toon be
gan to drown. One of tbe young boys
in attempting to aid him in getting ont
lost his balance and fell in also but was
rescued by his brother. When young
Darby was finally taken from the wa
ter life was extinct and ail efforts to
ravire him proved futile. The terror-
stricken family hastily summoned Dr.
Gregory from Lumpkin bat the lad was
beyond the pale of earthly hope ere he
reached hia lifeless form. In the twink
ling of an eye tbe slender foot-hold that
this yonng man had npon earth crum
bled beneath bis tread and his soul was
launched into eternity. A fearful end
ing ton bright young life.—Lumpkin
Indepedent.
Two young Girl* Poisoned by De
ception.
Claeksbcbo, W. Va., May 3.—On
Tuesday last a most dastardly outrage
perpetrated by some unknown fiend
Adamaville, a remote village of
this county, which will probably result
in the death of two yonng ladies,
Misses Della and Annie James. Miss
Della roeeivedan envelope by mail pur
porting to come from a cousin contain
ing some brown sugar. A no\e was
enclosed requesting her toast the sugar
and burn the nets and envelope. Snp-
podag it to be a joke, Mias Della divi
ded tbe eager with her sister, both girls
eatingof it. Tbe eager was poisoned.
Mus Della is now dying and her sister
is suffering great agoay.
Shriner’a Indian Venaifage will de
stroy and excel worms. Ills reliable,
life cheep. Only 25 cents a bottle.
I begged hard to get tbe number
duced, but Satan said be waa obliged
have 12, and not only that, bnt il
ihe 12 were not the biggest and best
nost industrious liars on the whole
fice of tbe earth, the number would
have to be increased.
The necessity was inexorable, and l
accepted tbe tel
Satan then got his scratch book,
(Old Scratch of course has a scratch
book) and after stating that be
well acquainted with all the liara and
their relative capacities and qualifica
tions, be required me to write down
the names of those 1 proposed to kill.
I named the best liars I could think
of. Satan would not let me embrace,
among the 12, a single man i named.
His objections were such as these:
"He told the truth once, when he
thongbt he was about to die.” “7/e lies
all the time he talks, bnt he don’t talk
enough.” "He'* faithful and indus
trious, bnt incompetent
“don’t lie to his wife,” “his preacher”
or “his jndge.”
I became disheartened. 1 had called
over 300 of tbe best I could remember
and not even one was allowed a place
the list.
When affliction and distress ov<
take me, uncle Billy, I always think
of my absent friends, and in that
ment of extreme suffering, with a mind
abstracted and well nigb unconsciens,
my lips unbidden uttered yonr name.
As soon as Sajan heard it he grew
wild with demoniac mirth and shoek
the foundations of Pandemonium with
laughter, while huge fire-balla rolled
flaming from his eyes.
Ha, ba, ha! I declare I had entirely
forgotten about Bill Hinson said be, or
I never would have required you to
send the 12. Just send old Bill, — J
I’ll let you off trom the balance,
tell you what, Bill’* got a ahifty tongue,
ba, ha, ha. Hurrah for Hinson, he
will do enough good healthy, marketa
ble lying to supply the whole demand
of hell. As soon as Bill gets here I’ll
take tbe balance of the hands, engaged
in that business, and put them to mend
ing up chuuks and doing odd jobs.
Bill’s all I need. Hell couldn’t bold a
bigger, better, snblimer liar than old
Billy Hinson, and Satan again
made the air tremble and tbe
■ash shake with bis fiendish langh
and chugged me ia the side when, jnst
then, I bad tbe happiness to wake and
find myself in yonr friendly custody.
Uncle Billy you mast remember all
this was «>n!y a dream.
Uncle Billly remembered.
Tbe regular meeting of tbe Schley
county 8nnday School Association waa
held last Saturday afternoon in the
Methodiat church in Ellaville. T
executive committee had not held
ting, and those at tbe Association
were not prepared to appoint a time
for a celebration.
We have not had rain in over tw«
weeks, and if it continues long the oai
crop will be very materially injured
Cotton that was planted prior to thi
has failed to come to a perfect atand,
much that bas recently been planted,
will not come np until it n
mnch more is to be planted, but tbe
ground is too hard to piongh to advan-
Many horses and mules are dying
ir county—cause; last year was so
dry that corn did not matnre ii
section, and where a horse is fed with
tbe usual quantity, it does not mi
produce tbe usual effect. Many of
farmers are baying corn to feed theii
horses and moles with, and it is often
rotten frbm being inbmerged
Ohio river overflow before it was ship
ped here. Farmers bay sound corn
or feed on cak leaves.
Marriages.—On last Soudi
ing, tbe fourth instant, at the real
dence of tbe bride’s father in Schley
eonaty, Gunnels, Miss Annie Gan-
oels and Mr. Barney Hart, of Marion.
Elder R. Powell officiating.
On Thursday morning, tbe 8th
■tant, at W. H. McCorkle's Mr. Jan
Snider and Mrs. Jane Sanfotd, R*’
C. E. Boland officiating. All of Schley
county.
On Thursday evening, tbe Stb
at the residence ot the bride’s father,
Hon. T. F. Rainey, in Schley county,
Mr. Wiley Robertson, of Marion
ty, and Mist Annie Rainey. Rev. W,
R. Singleton officiating. At prevent
we are not able %o furnish a list of at
tendants. All of these couples have
the hearty congratulations of the Sum
ter Repchlicax at large and the Kewi
branch especially.
Our Dawson Letter.
Dawson, Ga., May 6, ’84.
Tbe pionio on last Friday passed off
quite lovely. Anything that tbe jeong
ladie* of Dawson are connected is love-
>r-
Were it not for the efforts of the
yonng people of our town toentertaii
I d -u’t see bow the people could stand
it. >>nt parties, mnsioala and other en
tertainments afford tome diversion
the busy and exercise for the idle.
S-tiaa crops are looking finely, others
not so well. Osta are beading ont bnt
ere rather small; wheat fields were
siderably thined by the freezes last
winter, while corn is just now waking
aa it were from a slumber of several
weeks. I predict that the cotton crop
will be the poorest in several years.
My reason ia that last fall was so dry
tbe seed did not mature properly, and
the effect, already felt in poor standa
and sickly weeds, will be fearfully ap<
parent in the faU.
1 attended tbe May meeting of the
Terrell County Planters’ Association
last Saturday. Thia ia an agricultu
ral society, but to prevent imposition
by the profeasional men, who usually
head every enterprise, will not admit
any oue a* a member who ia not ac
tively engaged In agriculture.
We had a lillla sensation last Fri
day, especially among the darkies. On
Mr. O. B. Stevens’ plantation two or
three miles above the city, two yonng
negroes, Charley Grier and Ben Nix,
got into a difficulty about who shonld
carry the head row in chopping cotton;
finally Ben went to the honse and soon
returned with a pistol and shot Char
ley, from the effects of which he died
on yesterday. After Charley was shot
be struck hia antagonist on the bead
with a hoe and made a painful, bnt
not fatal wound.
Or. James W. Jones,
Sherman in North C
successful in Alabarot
in bis destructive raid, hi
with but small forces to oppo;
id Ge
hin
until when within thirteen' miles of
Macnn, on afternoon of the 20th April
1865, a copy of the following telegram
t him under a flag of truce by
General Howell Cobb, in command at
Raleigh, N. C., April 19th, 1865 -
To Major-General Gilmore: 1 have
ie an agreement witti the Cnnfeder-
generals for a suspension of hostili
ties until certain terms and approved
Washing^ *"‘
NEUR \LGIA.
RHEUMATISM,
TOOTHACHE,
HEADACHE,
CATARRH.
AND ALL DISEASES OP AN INFLAM-
ATORY NATURE.
Good for Nil aid Good for Feast.
PRICE OVE DOLL4R.
Sold l>jr E. J. Eld ridge. Druggist, and
General Agent Americas, Ga.
All Orders Promptly' Filled.
£tt*Full directions accompany
each bottle.
aprlQtf
all further de
property
toagen-
You will therefore
predations on publi
»nd make dispositions looking
eral peace. \V. T. Sbermax,
General Commanding.
The telegraph wire had been inter
rupted for several days between Macon
and Augusta and also beyond the latter
place. At 12 o'clock, m., April 20, tbe
first telegram was received, giving in
formation to Gen. Cobb about the af
fairs in Virginia and the armistice in
North Carolina, stating that Johnston
and Sherman had closed an armistice
which would close the war, and ti
halt General Wilson’s advance on thi
spot when this communication woulf
reach him.” This telegram was sen!
by General Beauregard. A copy of the
telegram from Sherman to Gilmore wat
sent by General Beauregard to Genera
Fry, commanding the Confederates a
Augusta, and by him forwarded to Ms
con to General Cobb. Upon the
of the telegrams. General Gobi
drew his army of about 2.500 m
entrenchments around Macon and dis
banded it.
When the dispatches, under a flag of
ice, reached General Wilson, near
the Columbus road, he shouted “peace,
he refused to halt on the ground. He
replied he would only stop when he had
reached and captured Macon. He ar
rived at Tattnall square about 6:30 p
m. without resistance. Duplicates ol
the dispatches from General Sherman
and Beauregard were sent ont to him,
under another flair of truce. Wilson re
plied that he would recognize no in
structions from Sherman through Con-
till at tb Old Stab.
Mrs. M. E. Baines,
• OPENING HER STOCK OP
NEW SPRING
Old Stand on Jackson Street.
SC
♦eder
that he would allow General Cobb five
minutes to surrender tbe city, or hr
would fire upon it. Cobh replied that he
was without the means of resistance he
wonld surrender, but would do so under
protest, and waa ready to recaivi
Wil*
nd hi:
Col. White, with several others, wen
tent by Gen. Wilson to make the tern
of surrender, and the latter, with hii
staff, came in about two hours after, a'
9 o’clock p. m. Gens. Cobh and Wil
•on discussed the propriety at some
‘engtb, of the Federals. under the rules
of war, entering the city. WtWoi
agreed to keep his troops ont of the city
except such as were necessary for
military guard. General Cobh and
staff were then paroled; but Wilson
kept a guard around Gen Cobb’s housi
Wilson asked what extent of cotnmii
sary stores were in Macon, and stated
that the remainder of his army wonld
reach Macon in three days, when he
wonld require supplies for 15,000 m
and 20,000 animals. This wasthefii
information received of the extent
WUson’a army .‘Many of the Federal*
entered that night, and until their re
moval from Macon, committed man*
depredations by insulting the ladies,
robbing their residences and pillaging
generally.
On the night of the 22nd the soldi
•et fire to two blocks on Mulberry sti
and a portion of the buildings on e
was destroyed. 8everal others attempts
at incendiarism were made on the follow
ing day, bnt the fire was suppressed
without serious damage.
It has been published that Gen.
Wilson is writing a history of bis war
record, and will refer to his crowning
glory—the capture of Macon. If there
be any glory in it, he can certainly ha’
all ita enjoyment, without envy from
any source.
Kingsley’s “Hermits, 1
Lamartine’s “Life of Joan of Arc, 1
(2 vols.,) Disraeli’s “Calamities of
Authors,” and other works, cloth
bound, they sell for only $3.75. See
without hooks now.
Terrible Lom of Life.
Resulting every day from failnra to
take Brewer’a Lung Restorer. in time.
Fine lot of Combe, Tooth, Hair and
A CARD.
To all who are suffering from the more
and indl eretionsof youth, nervous weak-
nm.eailjd.-cay, lore of manhood, Ae., I
will send you a reertpe that wiU cure you
FREE or CHARGE/ This great rested;
was discovered by a missionary la bootL
America Send a self-addressed envelope
■5WMF" 1 5^
A Library Wltbln Easy Reach.
Funk dr Wagnails. New York, are
doing a great work for the lovera of
standard books. They have pobliahed
in a single volant®, cloth, qaarte size,
snch worka as Macanlay’s and Car
lyle’s Essays, John Raskin’s “Ethics
of tbe Dost,” also his “Frondes Agree- Dan Rice, a humorous lecturer, is
tes.” Charles Kingsley’s “Hermits,” billed for Dawson to-night.
There will be more
Superior Court than jay one expected.
By tbe way, can’t the Rnrcaucax be
represented. If the Junior would come
down, it may be, that be oonld learn
i something about “babies.”
Prof. G. W. Cbeeves haejnst re
turned from Valdosta where he went to
attend aa a delegate to the Truck far-
mere meeting.
Mre. J. M. Simmons keeps one of
the best tables to be foaad in Dawson
or elsewhere. The .mystery about it
(e, why she can beard at one half what
hotels nsually charge sad
better table.
Politics have tab sided somewhat of
late, bat we are not nnensy about find-
ing men to fill offices, ,. W.
3an» SMwrtisemetrta.
Application—Leave to S«
GEORGIA—Sumter C'ocstt.
To all whom It may Concert
Indsor, Guardian of Maud Plorie
ele Wind-or t
e underslgn-d
Bell and Bessie Wind-or has In due form
aa andlridHl thiee-f .with lntere*t in a cer
tain bouse and lot in the town of Decatur,
QeKalb countv. Gs. helnuriug to said
minors, and said application will b* heard
on the 1st Monday in Jane next. This May
Stb. 11W4 THOS. U. 6TZ*AHT.
PtsyTtd Ordinary.
Application—Letter* of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Schlet Countt.
To all Whom it may Concern:
Whereas, M H. Barnet. Administrator
on the esta'e of Jack Barnet, late of *a>d
count?, deceased, ha made application for
letters or dismission from said estate.
Three are therefore to cite and admonish
SO and tinguhfr. the kindred and creditors,
to flip their objection at my oOlce, on qr be
fore the August term Of Ordlnsiy’s Court,
tn be held on the first Monday Id Aucu-t
ixt. why said letters should not be granted
to said applicant as prayed *
Witness my hand aud o
this 8th day of May 1884.
may 93m
1 official signature,
!. 1> BATTLE, Ord’y.
LORILLARD’S
MACC0B0Y SNUFF:
CAUTION TO l Ortl'MKMa
As many Inferior Imitations have appear
ed upon the market in packages re closely
resembling oars as to deceive tho'un wary, «e
would request -he purchaser to see that the
red litbugrapbedtincansin which It Is pack
ed always bear
f)ar *aat« Mi Trade-Mark.
In bar ing tho Imitation you pay as imr h
for an Inferior article as the genuine costs.
Be 8nre You Obtain the Genuine.
LORILLARD’S 0LIM4X
RED TIN-TAG PLUG TOBACCO.
kee P * The Tineat Swwt Nay Chewing To-
Tbe Genuine always bean a Red Tin-Tag
with oar name thereon-
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
majTwam.
She offers her sincere thanks to the men
- i of tbe Fire Department b^who-enobi
_ wa* bared trom _
„ fire, and enabled to wel -omt
her friends at Lite borne where they have
•o Ion* been accustomed to finding bei
apratf
G. W. GLOVER
ftHOlESU AMD RETAIL
DtALERLV —
NORTH SIDE rUBLIU SQUARE,
Americus, Ga.
HAS CONSTAN lLY OS HAND A FULL
LINE OF
DOMESTIC GOODS.
BAGGING AND TIES,
BAGGING AND TIES,
BAGGING AND TIES.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
BOOTS AND SHOE',
BOOTS AND SHOE-,
FLOUR!
LARD, MEAT,
LARD, MEAT,
LARD, MEAT,
MACKEREL,
MACKEREL,
MACKEREL,
SUGAR. COFFEE,
8UGAR, COFFEE,
SUGAR, COFFEE,
SYRUP, CHEESE,
SYRUP, CHEESE,
SYRUP, CHEESE,
GUNPOWDER,
GUNPOWDER,
GUNPOWDER,
TOBACCOS,
„ TOBACCOS.
TOBACCOS,
BRAN!
AND EVERY OTHER ARTICLE KEPT
IN A FIRST-CLASS STORE.
I WILL NOT BS UNDERSOLD!
novl6-t.
tf.FrTHiHTV.-Of all the known
Electro-Galvanic Appliance* of Ihe present
day it is now conceded by the Medical Fra
ternity and Electricians generally, that the
American lialvanlc Co.’s Howahd Shields
are the best, pove*slntf intrinsic Electrical
merits, as one *hield or appliance can be fit-
“"* “ iy part of the body, which Is n**t
— "— advertisement In
paper.—Electric
0 d 1 * i ro Ut i Cl ' te6 '
!??»a’nJelTr.'tjk . s <
BOOKS. BOOKS.
Having my Stock that was left from the fire in order, au<| re
plenished with jl 3
^ootls*
X AM X0W PREPARED P0R BUSINESS.
Books and Periodicals at Publisher’s Prices.
Best and Cheapest w rit.ing Paper and
Envelopes in Town.
Croquet, Base Balls, Hammocks. Chess and Light
Reading for the Summer Days.
SEWING MACHINES.
THE BF>T OPERATING!
HANDSOMEST and
MOST PERFECT
SIVIie HACHIIEII HE VIED
Prices Reduced $3.03 cn Rich Style
CAREFUL ATTENTION IS INVITED TO
running qualities, its noisless
qu-lltlea. ltscaieln construction, its feat-
ss of durability, the finish of wood work.
ahsd.itely self -threading qualities, its
automatic bobbing winder and >ta belt shift
ing device, also ita great range of work,
WHICH IS AS FOLLOWS:
Plain Sowing with perfect stitch.
Buttericle’s Patterns Given -hram.
* Agnes Aycock.
IW-NEXT DOOR TO THE POST-OFFICE.
SPECIAL JSTOTIGE.
We call the attention of those who contmplate haying Duggiee, to oa$ at act show
and examine our stock of
FIRST-CLASS BUGGIES
before purchasing. We have on hand at present and will
keep In the future, a full assortment of first-class ttutshod
■tirasui S3* and o!*k.hoikmb uraoojre of our own manu
facture, that we can sell you aa low as It la piwslble for first-
class work to be sold. OUR BUGGIES ARB STRICTLY
FiRST-in.ass. Nothing shoddy about the construction or
k,and WE ARE DETERMINED TO BUILD NOTHING
latrrial. Oqi
PURCHASER PERFECT AND
ir reputatka
NG IN THE
FECTAND
Dexter Queen Single and Double Buggies. »
l we DEFY COMPETITION to prodace
red-. Come and examine onr Dexters before purchasing,
duplicate of a
rchasing, ai
b»U) unlike oi
y price. Don’t be dr
Dexters on the market
When yonr old Boggles and Wagons need repair* in any way. bring th. . _. ,
know that our facilities for doing work can’t be surpassed by any shops In Mouth vest
Georgia, as WE UAVE ON HAND AND MAKE IT A POINT T<> KEEP A FULL
STOCKOF ALL MATERIALS NECE&BARV TO EITHER CON STRUCT OR REPAIR
VEHICLES. We are tbe only Carriage Makers in Americus that carry a tu.l i
of thoroughly seasoned White Oak, Hickory, Ash aud Poplar lumber, and
knows first-class seasoned timber Is the backbone to every rchl ‘
and second to none In principle of construction, finish, lightness and strength. Call a
our shops, opposite the Rx!*obmcah printing office, and we'll show you the handsumeo
tot of fine buggies aver offered In Americas at any price.
)■*»-*“ OLIVER tc OLIVER.
I
l
ON THREE OR FIVE YEARS TIME.
I «.m now negotiating Loans on Improved Farming Land.,
in the Counties of
Snniter,
Schley, ; iii * v.
Webster,
anti Lee.
v . ■ Parties in the above Territory will do well to apply tome
at once, procure money enough to settle all past due papers, and
commence bumness on a cash basis. Interest eight per cent,
payable on the I5th of November, annually, Returns quick,
Commissions reasonable.
Office at the PLANTER'S WAREHOUSE, Americus. Ga.
J. B- FELDER.
8.
—DEALER IX-
WHITE
sewing over seams without cl
of stitch.
So wa a curved piece on a straight o
It hems and sews on lace atoneoperatic
It hems and Sews on tacts and Inserts bi;
ortiing at bead of hem, al. in one operatic
It does wide hemming It dues quiitu
It dues braiding. It does cord ng.
It dues welt Coi ding. It dors shirring.
It docs tucking. It dues ruffl ».g.
J( lt does ruffling and sewing ou at t sai
It does scollop raffling.
It doe- rufflb.g between two bands.
It does binding. It does scollop bindli
It does dress trimming. It does fold mi
ng- It dues coat binding.
It bit.ds a garment and sews on lace
me oper*tion.
It Is the only machine In the world tl
does hem stitching withont the use of bl
“ng paper.
It does embroidery with an attach me
It docs embroidery without an attachme
it does chenille embroidery.
For Family Use, Dress Making, Tail-
* orlng and General Manufacturing.
TH. WHITE IS WITHOUT A PEER.
Every Machine Warranted
for Five Years.
I
For future particulars regarding the merits
of the
‘WHITE,’
W* RESPECTFULLY REFER TO MO
THAN ONE HUNDRED AND FIFT’
OF OUR PATRONS, WliO ARE
POSSESSORS
THE H \PPY ruMtaat
OF THE GRp AT UN-
RIVALED
** n'MTii."
Bnt Iilachina Needles for Singsr aad
Whit* Machines”
■»* purest In tbe world, and Is bottled
InMew Bed lord, Maas., where the whales
SSHm apaad .poet the pure SPERM OIL,
~d»w»te
‘U#2> DOiP TYOV FORGET IT'
JOHN R. SHAW.
Forsyth Street,
AMERICUS
GEORGIA.