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SWF.KM'TJN, ORORHIAa
Friday, Jut 5.1885.
T b o 01 dost Piper in Southwest Georgia
ESTABLISHED IN 1854.
'Hie principal paper in Sumter,Schley, Web
ster an-I Lee Co jn ties.
’'•••rial Orphan of City of Americus.
All Official notln
The Trial of O. W. Ciieve*.
Special to tlie Uifcblican.
Dawson, Ga., Jane 2.—'The case of
tbe State vs. G. W. Chores, under in
dictment for murder in Terrell Superior
Court, was called for trial at 2:50
o'clock Monday. The State is repre
sented by Col. Dupont Goerry, Col.
E. G. Simmons, of Americas, and also
by Col. R. F. Simmons, Col. L. C.
Hoyle and Solicitor (Jnerry of the jocal
bar. The prisoner by .fudge W. A.
Hawkins, .lodge 1). A.Vason, .fudge
C. B. Wooten and Col. A. S. J. Hen
derson, of Dawson. Jndge Allen Fort
refused a motion for continuance by the
defendant for the present term, sending
officers to various points for absent wit
nesses. The defendant has filed i
special piea that be is now insane,
which issue will be tried first by a spe
cial jury. No jury has been impaneled
as yet. The excitement is general.
The impression is that Chevcs will be
tried. The cafe will be taken up to
day at 2 o'clock p. m.
Tbe Stephens Monumental Associa
tion has designated the 10th of June
as the day for the removal of the
mains of Mr. Stephens to their last rest
ing place at "Liberty Hall.”—Craw
ford ville Democrat.
About a dozen Boston pastors were
arrested for bolding a religions service
on the Common, which, it is claimed,
is in violation of a city ordinance. We
bolieve Sunday base-ball is also pro
hibited in Boston,
There is a band of adventists above
Athens who are firm believers i:
faith in their predictions that the
world will end on the 4th of Jaly,1885.
They are holding nightly prayer meet
ings and preparing for tbe great bnst
up.
A preacher once applied to Presi
dent Jackson for a foreign appoint-
"Whit’a your profession!” Jack-
son asked of the minister.
"A preacher,” the latter replied.
"Then,” said the President, "you
bold a better appointment than I
give yon.”
The preacher looked at Jackson for
a moment, turned upon his heel and
i**ft the room. He made no more i
plications for foreign appointmlnta.
That j*e»3« hath her victories no less
ivnowned than war in magnificently
illustrated by the result of the policy
••I Mr. Gladstone, punned with
vj tting rectitude by him under the most
discouraging circumstances and over-
•-••iiiing difficulties such as few states
men have ever liecn called upon to
contend with. Even though it lie but
./ temporary peace, its consummation
*mw is a crown of honor for the venera
ble English statesman, who stands
•lay without question as the noblest
representative of the Anglo-Saxon
living.
Tin Presbyterian General Assembly,
in seMion at Cincinnati, has snbstan-
' ially endorsed the porition of Senator
Itrnwn on the divorce question, as ex
pressed in his resolution offered in tbe
Baptist Convention. The Assembly
at Cincinnati, on Friday, adopted
(eolation re-affirming with increased
emphasis that the only proper ground
for divorce was adultery or willful de-
>eriion, and cautioning the ministry to
exercise the greatest care in performing
lb--marriage ceremony for those who
lit 1 been divorced.
The revision of the Old Testament
be* revived the hopes some people who
expect to have things smoothed for
i hem all thronglrthis life. It was this
iaieresting fact that induced Shuttle to
attend church Sunday.
"How did you like the sermon?"
inquired a friend, as he passed out of
tbe vestibule.
"Never was so disgusted in my life,
ky the man took "Thou iha
>eal, for his text.”
"That’e a good text.”
"It's the (same old text. I thought
the new veltiou would read, "Thou
shalt not compromise for twenty-five
cents on the dollar.’”—Hartford
Post.
Ilmr Wua Beecher is now deliv
ering a series of sermons at his church
in Brooklyn, that are attracting much
attention. His subject is "evolution,* 1
and he supports that theofcy, though
apparently with mm modification. Ha
said ia his last Sunday's discourse
there was no bridge (by which wesup-
P-mo he meant no connecting link) be
tween man and the lower animals ia
their origin, but that man had grada-
ally grown up from barbario condi
tions—a proposition that will hardly
be disputed. But then ha want on to
intimate that man was not at first fit
ted for cosamuaioa with or the special
cats of the Cisator, that "he ap
•>u the earth agss before the time given
ia Christian history,*’ that God gav#
no instructions to man originally, bat
left him to find out everything for him
self after he had acquired eome idea of
moral quality, aad that ha had thus
found out God by experience all of
which, wo think, less speculative peo
ple will find it difficult to reconcile
with the revelations of the Bible.
anwf Iron Cot dial stimulates
liraln.and cores mental andphyslcalprostra
tion. For sale by J. A. *l>. F. Davenport.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washisotox.I). C. May 30,1885.
The literary traditions of the White
House, interrupted by the death of
Gen. Garfield, bid fair to be continued
by Miss Kom Elizabeth Cleveland, the
sister of the President. It is related of
her that when ths announcement of
Governor Cleveland's nomination was
the Executive Mansion at Al
bany, Miss Cleveland, who was oblig-
faoetbe distinguished assembly,
preserved her composure by assidnons-
ly conjugating a Greek verb. Daring
recent visit to New York, some of
her friends advised her to publish a
volnmo of essays. She resisted some
time, bnt finally consented. The man
uscript waa finished week before last
and I am told that tbe volume is al
most ready for publication. Tbe re
vised proofs are sent to the aothor who
has two names nnder consideration for
the book, bnt the choice has not yet
been definitely made.
A fsw words chosen from tbeencom-
rar of a personal friend will give ths
public some idea of tb# personal quali
ties ol the lady who presides
White house: “Miss Cleveland,” says
her friend, "is a woman of sweet dispo-
i, and of breadth and strength of
character. After her mother’s death
she determined to stay at her old home
Holland Patent and to lr
-n way. There she studied and
wrote. Bat after tbe election, and
from the very moment she knew her
brother's wishes and saw her duty
plain before her, she laid aside her pen
work and lectnres. She is in th«
White House jost what she was at
Holland Patent—a woman of sensibili
ty and refinement. Instinctively kind
and thoughtful of others,she is a favor
ite with strangers. A lady who hap
pened in at tbe White House
ing recently, fonnd her
desk with her books about her, study
ing and writing abont an epoch in his
tory which more than others interests
her. She had many letters before her,
and tbe maid carried off a handful ol
replies which she had just prepared;
but tbe books were nearest to her, and
she had been having a quiet hour with
Dressed in a white flannel
gown, with fleecy tulle scarf abont her
throat, and no other ornament than a
pink rose carelessly fastened at her
throat, she looked as simple and un
pretentious as a school girl, and, with
her short brown hair falling in natural
waves abont her brow, as girlish. Her
nervons hands played with a paper
weight as she talked of the work and
pleasures of her place and tbe mistak
en views entertained regarding it. The
substance of her remarks was that the
duties performed by one in her place
were such as oould not be understood
save by those who had known themi
and the publicity attaching to the
place was its greatest drawback. She
talked of tbe White Honee, of its beau
ty, of the flowers which were about
her in profusion, and of the long line
of good and useful women who had
been from time to time in the place she
now fills.
Children of the officials often give
refreshing side to social life at the
Capitol that makes it not all superfi
cial and frivolous. It has been said
of Gtneral Sheridan, that he is not
i a "society man,” because he
is too much in love with his pretiy wife.
The "Hero of Winchester,
more devoted to his children, three
girl* and "Little Phil,” Jr., a boy of
five years. The twin girls, Mary and
Louise, look up to their elder
Irene, who is bnt a year older than
themselves, with a faith in her superi
ority that is something amnsing. "8c
yon three little girls are sisters,” said
lady the other day, meeting the trio
ont for a walk. "Oh, no; we are
twins. Irene is our sister,” replied on 8
of the pair with serious simplicity. A)
the fancy dress children’s party given
given at General Beale's house
long ago, Irene Sheridan wore a train.
Little Johnnie Hazen, the only child
of General Hazen, wae so much
ed that he langbed at the little lady.
The twins were indignant, and one of
them exclaimed: "Just _see thet boy
laughing at our sister! I don't like
him a bit, and I don't know his
Bat you know his father ie th
who makes the weather.
From a confidential friend of the
Grant family, 1 learn eomething of the
plan suggested by Senator Leland
Stanford, of California, through which
tbe younger Grants are to
broker and banker business in New
York and San Francisco this fall.
The difficulty eras to contrive some
to prevent their capital from
falling into the hands of Ward and
Grant’s creditors, and thus being
swallowed up. After much consulta
tion of lawyers n device has been fram
ed that will prevent this and allow
these young man to cam an he
living with out any fear that they
be compelled to pay n swindler's debts.
Their experience, says this gentleman,
has been of eo terrible a character that
all foolishaeoe is entirely knocked out
of them, and they will be
pleeeed if they can earn four or five
thousand dollars a year.
Chef Fortin’s sneesnsor as cook at
the White Houas is Katkariae Keenan,
a young irishwomen fram Albany,who
has been employed at the White House
since President Cleveland has beta
there.
President Warren’s Address De
livered at Concord, 4th
Saturday in May.
BRrrnnEX axi» Friends:—We have
finished the first year of our work.—
Thera have been many obstacles for us
to overcome—the chief of which was the
novelty of the work and the ignorance
prevalent almost everywhere concem-
A Sad Cnee.
Nsw Yonx, May 25.-Miss Nellie
Canfield, a niece of the wile of Praai-
coin, attempted suicide this
ia Mrs. De Witt's Seminary
for Young Ladies, ia Belleville, near
Newark:, by shooting herself with n
pistol. The bailed lodged in such
. to the heart that it
ing the purposes and methods of
Association. On this account, we es
ly determined to devote the year to i:
trodneingthe Association to the people
and explaining to them its workings
and Us intentions. To this end <
first quarterly meeting was held
Magnolia Springs, In the western p
tion of the county: the second at Monnt
/ion chnrch, in tbe southern part:
third, at Pleasant Grove church,
the eastern part: and now, the ann
meeting held at Concord chnrch,
the northern part. At these meetings
ws have endeavored to explain to the
people what we are trying to do, and
how we are trying to do it. As ]
haps many of yon hero are not tl
ougbl* familiar with this work, it J
be wefl for me to briefly explaiu it.—
The Sumter County Sunday School
Association is a branch of the.Georgi
State Sunday School Association.-
Tbii laat ia a part of the great Intel
national Sunday School Association
which met in Louisville, Kentucky
last year, and which wan composed of
representatives from nearly every civil
ized country on the globe, and at which
statistics-were read sh<
great work embraced in it* operation
over fifteen millions of Sunday School
workers and extended from the frozen
north to the sun scorched sands of Af
rica, and from the Pacific State* to the
Ural mountains. It is to-day perhaps
the most aggressive and powerful reli
gions movement of the century. One
of the moat distinctive features is the
absence of sectarianism. Here all de
nominations u.i*et anil forgetting their
differences they know liut one thing
and that is—"Christ Crucified.” The
Georgia State Association, though but
a few years old, has had a life of won
derful enthusiasm and success. Every
one of its succeeding meetings is better
than the last.and it carries with it into
every community where it goes a
blessing and a benediction. In its
work, are many of the best and fore
most men of all churches and notably
I mention, among the Baptists, Dr.
Wharton, Dr. Warren, Dr. Battle, Dr.
Hawthorne, and among other denomi
nations many men of prominence, all
in actnal hearty sympathy and co-op
eration with this great and glorious
work. At tbe last meeting of the
State Association steps were ta
ken to organize all the counties of
the State and the result was that at
the meeting ot the International Asso
ciation in Louisville in July it was re
ported that every county in Georgia
organized. Out of this eflort grew
association. As you well see
from this clause of the constitution
that all who are interested in the
work may become members of this as
sociation. Its object i* to build up
weak schools, establish new schools,
supervise the Sunday School work and
interest of the county and by united,
systematic, antiring effort, to keep the
work alive, progressive and fruitful.—
To do this, a committee of three is ap
pointed in every land District whose
duty it is to look alter the Sunday
School interest of the di
ill schools in th<
least once every three months. These
various committees meet together o
each month and talk over tbe w
and consult as to what is necessary
be done. As I said before our work
has been necessarily slow and imper
fect and I am not able to give yon as
foil statistics as will in time be devcl-
K d by onr work, bnt I can report
t there are 2!) schools in onr county:
that through the instrumentality of
onr Association, six new schools have
been eitablished during the year, others
revived, others helped along, and oth
ers agitated and the foundation for
them laid—and more than thii
people are becoming waked up o;
subject. Every one of onr me
have been largely attended and full of
interest. God is touching the hearts
and minds of the peop e on this great
snbject. Oh my brethren think abont
-pray abont it. The chi!dren are
hope—tbe hope of the chnrch and
the world. Let us do good to them.—
<et us strive to bring them up in tb
'nurture and admonition of tlie Lord'
to lives of usefulness here and of etei
nal happiness hereafter. Then join
with us in this glorious work, give ns
K ur time.your talent, your energy and
ttle with ns for the victory.
Universally Approved.
AS AMERICAN CONSUL SHOOTS A BE
ICREST BRAZILIAN EDITOR.
Wasiiinootox, May 27.—Special.—
The Department of State has received
a report from Mr. Osborne, minister to
Brazil, in regard to the arrest and im
prisonment of Beckford, U. S. Consul
at Rio Grande del Sul. Consul Mackey
has also written to his relatives here,
giving an account of the difficulty. It
appears that Mackey had for many
weeks been violently assailed for l
ascertained cause in tbe columns of
newepaper at Rio Grande del Sal. The
editor, one Amorin, sent Mackey a note
by a messenger on April 13,proposing
that if he subscribed for the paper it
would oease to attack him. He de
clined the offer and kicked the messen
ger ont of his office. On the next day
the editor made a scurrilous attack
Mackey and aeeailed his mother,
excellent lady, distinguished for her
piety. On the same evening, as Con
sul Mackey entered the theatre, he was
confronted by Amorin, with an up
lifted stick. Mackey at once struck
him a heavy blow in the face with his
cane. His assailant drew his pistol,
bnt before he eonld fire the Consul shot
him twice, and he fell to the floor.
Mackey, accompMuii-i !•» ihe Consul
of the German cm pin repaired to tbi
police magistrate and surrendered him
•elf. Amorin, whose wound proved
not to be revere, then arrived at the
" of an armed body of ruffiiane and
1 that Mackey should be snr-
to him. The police officers
were overawed and fled, bnt Mackey
draw his pistol and kept tbe mob off a
few minutes. He is held prisoner, as
the offense is not bailable. All the
foreign eonsnls have visited him in
body and signed a statement justify
ing Us action, while hundreds of the
landing citizens have tendered their
aid, and ths leading lawyer of that
province has volunteered for hit de
fense. His trial will take place next
week. Mackey is a yonng man, in his
twenty-third ysar. Hs graduated with
the highest honors at Pro Nooo college,
Macon, Georgia, and later at the law
school of Georgetown, when he was ap
pointed consul. He is a son of Jndge
T. J. Mickey, of Sonth Carolina.
Terrible Storm in Texan.
Waco, Texas, May 28.—The fiercest
storm ever known in this vicinity raged
last night with the fury of a torsade.
Rain fell in sheets for several hours,
completely deluging the city. Day
light revealed a distressing picture, for
in addition to great damage to prop
erty a number of lives have been lost.
By nine o'clock this morning Waeo
creek had overflowed its banks, the
■wifi current sweeping away a number
of houses along its course.
A bailding jnst south of the city
limit*, occupied by a German named
T. II. DemingbolT, with lii* wife and
three children, was overwhelmed and
the entire family drowned. Another
building, a few feet away, occupied by
a family named Cameron, was lifted
from it* foundation and completely d<
wolished. The fi
lin K » v
some di
caped.
Low.
dozen >:
. Wa«
Tw
houses were swept away
and five .nit .if eight bridges spanning
the creek within the city limits an
washed away. The wind blew with
tremendous velocity, unroofing the
warehouse of fussing, Solomon, Rosen-
thall .V Co., and damaging the stock
from $0,000 to $8,000. Tim roof of
Cameron, Castles & Story’s building
was badly torn up, damaging their
large stock. Several other roofs
Mown
By * o'clock this morning Brazoi
river had risen ten inches above the
high wstcr murk and continued to ri*
dnring the day. By noon every on
had deserted the overflowed districts u
east Waco. That portion of the city
is completely inundated to-night, re
sulting in a loss of abont $40,000. Not
less than fifty bouses are under water,
twenty of which are business houses.
One large Inmber yard, owned by J. O.
Nails, is entirely swept away. Two
other yards belonging to Win. Came
ron Co. and A. J. Caruthers, are
heavily damaged. Tb© passenger and
freight depots of the Texas Central
road are submerged, and tracks sub
merged for over a mile. At 0 o’clock
this evening the water was within two
feet of the great iron bridge of tlieMis-
Pacific road. Fears are also en
tertained for the magnificent suspen-
bridge belonging to the city,
negro arrived to night from six mil
sonth of the city and reports that
family of six negroes were washed away
and drowned. Damage to farms and
crops along the rivers and creeks ranst
be enormous. Traffic is suspended and
telegraph wires are prostrated.
Railroad Racket.
Lumpkin Independent
The Stewart county members of the
Board of Directois of the A. P. A L.
returned from Americus Tuesday, hav
ing been present at an important meet
ing of tbe directors held in Americas.
The meeting was a most satisfactory
md the officials of the road are re
joiced to announce to tbe stock-holders
and friends |of the road that
by one of tbe obstacles to
final success of the road have
been overcome and that the early
completion of tbe road from Americus
to Lumpkin is an assured fact, and
furthermore the toad will be operated
solely for tlie benefit of those who built
and continneto hold their stock.
A sufficient quantity of bonds ■
_ Jd to meet the present requirements
of the Company and the President
thinks that he will be enabled to sell
whatever bonds he desires to sell at 00
on the dollar. A remarkably
good price for a railroad not yet in
operation. Col. Hawkins is watchful
and vigilant and is determined that
the control of the road shall not pass
to the hands of its enemies.
Briefly stated the condition of tlie
md is this. The grading is complet
ed from Americus to within the corpor-
of Lumpkin and the hands :
busily engaged finishing off the li
section. The bridges and trestles o<
the Muckalee, Kinchafoonee and Li
nahassee are completed and pile driving
abont done at Clear Creek. $20,000
worth of steel rails have been bought
and paid for and are now en-rontefrom
New York to Savannah; the engines
and cars have been bonght and will be
started South in a few days; a contract
has been made for track-laying which
will be commenced on the 15th day of
Juno, The gentleman employed to
superintend the track-laying has his
tools and outfit in Americas and will
work a force of forty hands, with which
he t&yt lie can lay a mile of track per
day. An soon as a short portion of
track is layed a construction train will
l>e pnt upon the road which will great
ly facilitate the work. There is nc
reason why the road should not be
completed by the middle of Augast bat
by making allowances for any unavoi
dable delays that may occur it is per
fectly safe to annonnee that the road
will be completed by the first day of
September.
Uttell’a Living Age.
The numbers of The Living Age
for May 23d and 30th contain General
Gordon’s Life and Letters, Quarterly;
The Ottoman Turks in Europe, West
minster; Tbe American Loyalists,
Scottish; Mr. Raskin's Museum at
Sheffield, National; Shakespeare'
Fugues, Fortnightly; The Red Man,
Nmsteenth Century; Concerning some
Strange Historic Doubte,Leisnre Hoar;
The South African Salt Lakes, Gen-
The Youth of Prince Bis
marck, Temple Bar; The Despised
Sparrow, and How Persians Die and
Buried, St. James; The Language
of Signs, 8atnrdiy Review; Lady
Besconsfield, St. Stephen’s; A Visit
to the Amazons of Dahomey, Pall
Mall; with installments of "A House
Divided Against Itself,” "Macpher-
i’s Love Story,” "Oela’e Wedding,”
"Fortune's Wheel,” and "Mrs. Dy-
mond,” apd poetry.
For fifty-two numbers of sixty-four
large psges each (or more than 3,300
pages a year) the subscription price
($8.) is low; whilo for $10.50 the pub
lishers offer to send any one of the
Grant’s Baptism.
TOCCBIXO SCENE WHICH OCCURRED
WHEN THE HESO WAS SUEROSKD
TO BE DTIXO.
From tbe New York Herald.
A story is told by tho friends of
General Grant of the scene which took
E late on the Thursday morning when
, was thought the nation’s here
dying. The weeping family
grouped around the bed where the old
soldier lay wearily and painfully
breathing. His tnin, white hands
clutched the counterpane and his eyss
were closed. Suddenly Dr. Dongles
placed his ear to the sick man’s breast
and strode from the room hastily,
instant later he returned with l)r.
Shrady.
"Nothing can save him,” murmured
l)r. Douglas.
"Brandy,” murmured Dr. Shrady.
"He can’t swallow. It would kill
him.”
"I’ll give it hypodermically.”
"How much?”
"A barrelful, if necessary.”
Tears fell from Mrs. Newman’s eyes,
aud she called npon her husband to
bar. Then tho Rev. Dr. Newrasn pro
cured a silver bowl filled with water,
and with his fingers he sprinkled the
brow of the soldier and baptized him.
A smile dawned upon the white fea
tures and tbe bine lips moved faintly.
Then Dr. Shrady injected some bran
dy into each arm. There was a faint
flattering of the heart, as of some bird
weary of captivity, and then it slowly
resumed it* regular pulsations.
"Doctor, how is he?” asked Dr.
Newman.
••1 beljeve he will get well.”
"Onr prayers have been answered,”
■aid tho clergyman, devoutly.
"I think it was the brandy,” ob
served tho physician, humbly.
General Grant yesterday felt the ef
fects of his sleepless night, and remain
ed very quiet during the day. The af
ternoon was marked by a considerable
decrease of pain, bnt the general wonld
not go ont. Generally he felt better,
bnt has decided not to resnme work on
his books till Monday.
Damage* In Both Ways,
Sic knees is the most expensive thing
in the world. In two ways: It puts
one ton direct cost, and prevents one
from earning money by nu labor. We
any nothing of eaderiag, for money can
not pay for that. How much better
to keep oneself well by tbe aw of Par
ker’s Tonic whenever there ia the
slightest sign of ill health.
Jnne-3-lm.
Advent of tbe Locust.
Prof. Riley, the United States En
tomologist, says we are to experience
this year a very extended appearance
of the 17 year loenst. He also states
that there is a 13 year species, and
they will also appear this summer.—
He informs us that it is 220 years ago,
1804, since these two breeds appear
ed simultaneously. The 13 year brood
is located principally in the Mississip
pi Valley, reaching up as far as the
north of the Missouri, and having its
thickest centres in Sonthern Illinois,
a Kansas, Missouri, Louisiana,
Georgia, Tennessee and Mississippi.—
The 17 brood ie the largest of all those
known to occnr, and will appear on
Long Island, New York, at Fall River,
in Massachusetts, in parts of Vermont,
and generally in Pennsylvania, District
of Colombia, Delaware and Virginia,
also in Sonthern Michigan, in Indiana
and Kentucky. This curious, insect
says Prof. Riley, remains, according to
race, either 13 or 17 years under ground
developing slowly, and sometimes bor
rowing far below the frost line. They
will begin to rise from the ground
abont the latter part of this month
the more southern portions of theco
try, and early in Jnne in the northern
portion, and the woods will resonnd
with the hoarse rattling noise which
the male makes, the females being
noiseless. They are a happy family,
for they all have noiseless wives. The
17 year brood that is to occur this sea
son has been well recorded for the
years 1715, 1732J1749. 1760, * 1783,
1800, 1817, 1834, 1851 and 1868.—
Prof. Riley witnessed it himself in
1868, and while the ground life of the
insect has been hitherto inferred only
from the periodical appearance of the
perfect insect, he has since then been
able to establish it by direct observa
tion of the development of the larvae
from yeai to year.
INSIDE THE STATE. |
Athens it a candidate for the loca
tion of the State Fair.
Tbe Odd Fellows of Barnesville have
completed their magnificent hall.
The Jackson Hews wants a Bank
established in that thriving town.
Collector Crenshaw decides that doc
tors and drnggists who sell liquors
prescriptions are liable to liquor tax
A colored military company in S
ledgeville has taken the name of Cleve
land Guards.
It is thought that North Goorgii
will soon produce more marble than any
region in the world.
Near Everett Station, Hsnry McKea-
ry, colored, carved John Duke, white,
with an axe so that hiema wonld hard
ly know him.
The sorvivens of the 18th Georgia
Regiment, will hold their fonrth annnal
reunion at Jeffer&on on July 10th.
The congregational Methodist church
at Fort Valley is to be dedicated next
Sunday. Sermon by Rev. 8. C. Me
Daniel, of Griffin.
The Gainesville match factory con
sumes 700 feet ol Inmber and tnma
out 300 gross of matches per day. It
ships large quantities of matches to
Baltimore and Richmond.
Maj. A. P. Peering died suddenly of
paralysis, at his home in Athens, on
Friday the 20th ult., aged 63 years.
” native of Wilkes connty bnt
bad keen a resident of Athens since his
6th year.
Tho Lash for Child-Heaters,
[Philadelphia Times. ]
The fact that two cases of extreme
cruelty to 6mall children should has-
been developed in this city within a
many days indicates that along with
other epidemics one of this kind is
likely to be added. Ono child killed
outright by a brutal step-father and
another treated with ingenious crnelty
by a so-called foster mother do not *
dicate that the community is in
danger of becoming over civilized
Pressed by Poverty.
TRAFFIC—CARES OF HECEB8ITV
Nashville Banner:
" Preachers ought not to be too hard
on whisky sellers,” said a yonng man
the other day. "Whatever may be
wrong in the traffic, many men are
forced into it because those who oppose
it do not lend a helping hand to yonng
men ont of employment. I had a wife
and children depending on me for bread,
bnt I had nothing to do, and tried as
hard as any man ever did to find some
kind of employment which could bring
no possible reproach on me, but no one
helped me till a kind whisky dealer,
whose heart is as big as his body, gave
me employment ont of pare sympathy
for my family. People who do not
know what it is to be without money
and friends, and who know nothing of
tho terrible grind of poverty, can never
understand how the nnfortnnate turn
from tbe church which offers no
atantial help. I know many whisky
men whose hearts are quickly touched
by appeals for help, and who will ren
der assistance without tainting it with
a spirit of distrust and snapicioi
When the spirit of Christian helplesi
ness pervades the chnrch, the poor and
the nnfortnnate who are eo often chilled
by a cold charity will more readily torn
to it. When a man’s children are beg
ging him for bread which he cannot
give them he doesn’t think abont his
soul’s salvation. Tbs uppermost and
all-absorbing thought is for bodily wel
fare. Until you give him a chance to
earn bread yon needn’t talk to him of
All tbe People Unanimously Ap
plaud it.
The crowds ia New Orleans at the
Great Exposition, on their return home
are load in their approval of the bon-
Aty of the renowned Louisiana State
Lottery. This iatrnc, even when the
scheme meets their disapproval. The
next grand drawing will occur on Tues
day, June 16th, when she will girt
$150,000 for $10, and throw aronnd
promiscuously 0 rer half n million of
dollar* among her admirers, of which
M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La.,
will give all information. The entire
management will ha by Gen’la G. T.
Beauregard, of La., and Jnhal A. Ear
ly, of Va.
Toclcled an £ditor.
Evening Post printed a local
spiritualists, in which it ennmsrated
Frank Foster as a prominent spiritn-
alutAnd.it mentioned incidentally that
he was ths Frank Foster that figured
ia the celebrated Hal Yonng divoroe
case as the man whom Hal Yonng, the
defendant, sought to prove improperly
intimate with Mrs. Young. At the
time of the trial Foster attempted to
cowhide Yonng on Fourth street.
This publication opened the old lore,
waa full of editors. He struck at the
managing editor, who dodged the blow.
Then there wss tnmnltin that room.
The telegraph editor landed his fist in
Foster's left eye, closing it. Jnst than
the river editor knocked Foster under
ths table, smashing a stadeht’s lamp
with his head. At that moment the
business manager earns nuhing up
stairs and presenting a pistol to Fos
ter’s head, ordered him to hold up both
hands "quick! quick!” Foster obeyed,
meekly exclaiming. "For God’s taka
don’t mnrder ma this Is the hottest
honest’s nest I ever got into.” This
censed n laugh. Foster having satis
fied everybody that he had no pistol
abont hun, was allowed to go. ”
went to a drag store and*” washed
face and got it patched up saying that
he had been kicked by a mule.
gw Jnlmtiserarats.
While such cases are coming to light
almost continually it is seldom that
any adeqnate punishment is meted ont
to the brutes male aud female who prac
tice the cruelties. The public interest
is aroused for a few days and the pub-
lie vengeance demands punishment.
Then they take their places with oth-
'ne-day wonders and tbe guilty
persons are either released with a:
nal punishment or with none at a
It is jnst cases as this thstthe whip
ping-post is particularly fitted to meet.
Such a punishment as this inflicted af
ter the early trial which an aroused
public sentiment will generally demand
would do more to restrain the people
who allege ungovernable temper as tbe
excuse for such cruelties than all tbe
penalties now held ever their heads.
The jail, or even the penitentiary,
has no enduring terrors for such people;
but tho prospect of forty lashes, lesi
one, well laid on older backs, wonld
save many helpless children from the
severe beatings now inflicted upon
them.
Seventeen Year Locust*.
This is the year for the seventeen
year locnsts to pnt in an appearance,
and in lomo parts of the country they
are already beginning to come
from their hiding places in the gronnd.
As one one of tho Hebrew propheti
■aid: "The land is as tbe garden of
Eden before them, and behind them
desolate wilderness.” The locust
■hares with the grass-hopper the dis
tinction of being a migratory i;
and it moves over tlie country in vast
swarms, fairly hiding tho sun so that
no object casts a shadow. Some year
ago they were so numerous iu Texa
that they even stopped railway trains
They did not of course, blockade tb
tracks, bnt being crushed under the
wheels, they made the rails so slippery
that an engine could neither go for
ward nor backward. As nothing can
prevent their coming if they think this
u a regular seventeenth year, the far
mers and gardeners will proceed as us
ual and cling by the hope that the lo
custs will forget the date.
CONVULSIONS, FITS, ETC.,
are frequently caused by an army of
worms gnawing, gnawing, gnawing
night and day, eating the vitals away.
Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge is a safe
and cheap remedy.
■Kidnryi
"Extending to tlie end of my toes and
ly brain!
“Which made me delirious:
"From agony!!!.'
"It took three men to hold me on my bed
t times!
'-The Doctors tried in vain to relieve me,
nt to no purpose.
J/arpMn* and other optaltt.
“Had no effect!
“After two months'I was rglven up
dl«!ITl
“When my wife
heard a neighbor tell what Hop Bitters
done for her. she at once got and gave
""-a firetdose eased my brain
go hunting through my system
heard a neighbor tell what Hop Bitters bad
*—'tt her, she at once got and gave me
The firetdoseleased my brain and
for the pain.
Tbe second dose eased me so much that I
slept two hours, something I bad not done
for two months. Before I had used five
bottles. I was well and at work a* hard as
apy man could, for over three weeks: but I
worked too bard for my strength, and tak
ing a hard cold I was token with the most
acute and painful rheumatism all through
my system that ever was known.
*T called the doctors again, and after sev
eral weeks they left am a cripple
es for life, as they said. I met a friend and
told him n; ease, and be said Hop Bitten
had cured him and would cure me. I pooh-
ed at him, but be waa earnest 1 was Inf
ed to use them again.
Ia lees than four weeks I threw away
crutches and went to work lightly and kept
on using the bitten for five weeks, until 1
became aa wall assay manuring, and hav*
been so for alx years since.
It has also cured my wife, who had been
sick for yean; and has kept her and my
childrenwellandheetthywfthfrtmtwo to
three bottles per year. Then la no seed to
be sick at all & these bitten are need.
J. J. Berk, tx-Supenrbor.
"That poor invalid wife, Sister Mother,
"Or daaghtermi
"Can be made tbe picture of health!
"with a few bottles ol Hop Bitters!
0T None genuina without a bunch c
naan Hope on the white label. Shun all
the vile, poisonous staff with "Hop" c
"Hope’'in their name. myis-lm
from child to manhood is not sufficient
to rid tbe system of this awfnl plague.
Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge will expel
then and restore kealth aad a bright
Man and Beast
MsOng TJnlm^pt |f
moat men, and used more and
more every year.
Notice.
The books for receiving tax returns of
city property will be closed on the 3d day of
July next. By order of the Mayor and city
ccnncU. 1). K. BRINSON.
June 31 m. C.andT.
Application—Letters of Gnardiauship.
Gsohoia—Sumter Count v.
To all Whom it May Concern.
Whereas. Mrs. Martha E. Hamit having
filed her petition in my office for letters of
Guardianship on the person and property
of John Hamll, minor of Jchn R. Hamll,
late ot said county deceased.
These are therefore to cite anti admonish
all parties interested, whether kindred or
creditors, to show cause on or before Ihe
July term of said Court, to bt- held on the
lhst Monday In July next, whv said letters
should not ba granted to said petitioner as
prayed for.
Wltpessmy hand and official signature
this, the 1st day of Juno. 1883.
A. C. SPEER, Ordinary.
FOR SHERIFF.
Believing Mr. JAMES ALEYANnv*
to be a competent and honest rawt???
this method of announcing him . ,
date for Sheriff of Sumter county Ard*^'
give him our hearty support * U ' Til
“unrrsmxDs,
Local Legislation.
Notice u hereby ciren thet et tlie eajonr-
eUsMetare otGeorei.,-
* next, the Ler
:t local laws, o
uio titles to-wit:
An act to provide for the E
qualified voters of Sumter ■
provide that no person shall
at any election hereafter
complied with thetoms oMh
f Roads
And the
create a Board of Commission
and Revenue in tho counties ol
rlen, Efflngham, Schley; Sumtc
Approved December 13.1871.
etal Acts amendatory thereto,
valid certain acts hereto-
. . said Board of Co
sloners for Sumter County. To fix tin
of office of tho prose-* “—
to provide how theii
pofn
legalize
foro performed by said Board of Commls-
“-—ter County. To fix the term
■resent Commissioners, and
, -*■> ■«» their successors shall l
pointed. .1, W. WHEATLEY.
Secretary Board Commissioner
«).
liLDRIDGE,
BARLOW BLOCK
AND
LAMAR STPLET,
AMERICUS, GA.
PURE, NEW AND FRESH
DRUGS ONLY, BEING
DISPENSED.
CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED,
DAY OR NIGHT.
Brushes, Combs, Per
fumery, Toilet i Arti
cles, Soaps, Spon
ges, Trusses,
And Everything usually kept
in a first class'Drug Store.
Sumter county.
Sumter Sheriff Sales for July.
Will lia sold before the Court House door
i the city of Americus, Sumter county,
Georgia, on tho first Tuesday in July next.
! Americas, Sumter county, Ga., together
Ith all the privileges anrt appurter
»tlie same, belonging and bounded
. FOR SHERIFF
-o th. Voters of Sumter Corn,,,
I respectfully announce myself ;
ato for Sheriff of Snmtor count? f'"
election to be hold on the i;u» day 3 t j 8
The COM3 Ihtl h»te «cn»l
the office (or th, l.„ ^
ie»ri belcncs to tho Ute Sheds n j,„ * “
To look after this large Interest U the
that I ask for the office, if elected I
pledge myself to a faithful turning over <,»
Mr. Cobb’s share to his legal represent*:
tive. And to further dominate from thU
campaign any feeling of care ot sympathy
for the children of Mr. Cobb. I hereby v a .
der to their guardian for their use and l*t»
fit the profit of the jail for his un«pir*i
erm. Respectfully
J. W. Ul/.fc
Georgo W. 1 tester will act as Deputy.
Americus, Ga-, May 28,1883.
To Tho Vo:ors of Sumter Couuiy.
L respectfully announce my self as at**.
Mate for tho office of Sheriff of Sumt*;*-
county. Having been elected with tlie l*>
iincumbent. W. H. Cobb, as deputy siierif’
I pledge myself. If elected, to follow thi
rule of my lato associate—“Morality, lu*.
esty, prompt payment of funds, whence,
lee ted, and a faithful and Impartial j-.
charge of tlie duties of the office.”
What cost that has already Accrued 1*.
long to the lato sheriff and tho Iwneffis, •
tho Jail for tho unexpired term of tlie !*•*
sheriff sliall go to tho five minor childr^
of tho said W. II. Cobb, deceased.
N. II. WHITE.
deputy <
grocery store, running
—i the public square, thei
Jefferson-*- -*
feet, tlie
point. Levied on under and to be sold
the property of M. E. Hart to satisf'
mortgage fi fa in favor of A. It. Altmaj
id M. E- Hart, is-ulng fr«
* -* said county.
jum
N. U. WHITE. She
Application—Letters A
GEORGIA—Sumter Cow
To all Whom it May i
Whereas, A. A. Wheeler having filed h
petition In my office for Jett- * *’
tration on tho estate of Mrs.
late of said connty dec
I. A. WLsQn will li
be elected.
May 23 tde.
Election notice.
Georgia Sumter County >
Ordinary's Office,
Americus, Ga., May llith, ihsj.)
There being a vacancy in tho office.*
Sheriff of Sumter County, and created ly
the death of the late incumbent, W.li,
Cobh. By authority of the Code of Ueor.
gia. I, Amos. U. Speer, Ordinary of Surat.*
County Georgia, do hereby order and aired
that an election be held in and for s»i
county, on Wednesday the 17th day of Ju:
next for the office of Sheriff ofSumk
County to fill tho vacancy and unexpired
terra in said office, created by the death ol
said W • U. Cobb; the same to bo conducted
as all county elections and provided f*
under the laws.
Witness n
of Adm
Cobb,
i cite and admonish
etherefor
i interested whether kindred
ily term ofsaMO
iday in July n
ot bo g.ante'
. 1 for.
ss my hand and official
etters should not bo g. anted to said peti-
loner as prayed fo-
Witness — '— ’
A. C. Sl'EER, Ordinal
Application—Letters Guardian&hip.
GEORGIA—Sumter County.
To all Whom it May Concern.
Whereas A. A. Wheeler having tiled his
petition In my office lor Letters of Guar-
dianshlp on the person and property of
AquUla W.. Nancy J., Charles L., Jelsee
and Lydia Cobb, minor orphans of W. U.
and J. N. Cobb, late of said county deceas
ed singular the kindred a
>f Ordinary’s
in J
be granted
IrobjecUon ii
e the July ten: *
held on the fin
d letters should r
first Monday in July
iy said letters should i ''
said applicant as prayed
tore thb U ?h n fi m t d ' nd aml onicIa * s, £ nt ' -
A. cf SPEER,’ Ordinary.
Application—Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA—Sumter County.
To all Whom it May Concern.
Whereas Z. F. Markett having filed his
petition In my office for lotters of l)i‘ '
Isignat
For Rent.
The dwelling ho
wn of Ell*
^.contain: n
Vgood garda
TO
U
FOR
(179) in the third district of Schley county-
Said land levied on by virtue of a Ilf a issued
Justice Court of tho OIGth district
Provisions,
..ready to grind a
you may bring to my mill. Tlie machinery
is all new and in first rate order. Satisfac
tion guaranteed, both as to quality a
quantity. Have your wheat well dried 1
fore bringing It to the mill.
THE CHILDREN SAVED FROM
a horrible death by twenty-live cents*
worth of Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge.
AMERICUS. GA.
Jas. Fricker & Bro.
Barlow Block, Americus, Gr.t.
KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE AND HAND
SOME ASSORTMENT OF
Pianos and Organs
Which they sell at prices that defy competition. If you buy *
Piano from this house you have a home guarantee for Jive
Book with each Organ, and the freight is paid you simply
tho instrument and everything else is furnished. They ee* 1
CASH and on the INSTALLMENT PLAN so that every
can have a Piano or Organ by making small monthly payn 16 ®^
Call and see them at the old stand of
James Fricker & Bro**
BARLOW BLOCK, • AMERICUS, GEOB®^
junefitf