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C. W. HANCOCK.
AW2UCIW, -GBOROIA.
Wig. OctoUra. 1889.
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ESTABLISHED IN 1854.
Ottdal Orcan ofClly of Americu.
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Schley County.
We publish, at the request of a uua*
of our busiuem men, the Railroad
as it passed ths Senate and is pend
ing before the House.
It would hare been remarkable, in
deed, had the Commisnon appointed
he Legislature, been a perfect
work, ha-ring no points in which addi
tional legislation could not be used
profit to the rations interests af
fected. New devices in the arts con
stantly occur to improve what genius
has invented, and new legislation is
needed in perfecting the Code, the
Constitution and local laws. We do
ssnme that the law as now amend-
not susceptible to still further im
provement, and doubtless will be
amended as the experience and neeessi-
of the case may .hereafter show
All the Official Notice# of the above
Oen, Robert Toombs in very ill at bis
home in Washington.
* The committee on adjournment have
recommended October 10th as a proper
day for the adjournment of the Gener
al Assembly.
The Atlanta correspondent of the
Telegraph and Messenger is dashing
ice water upon tho prohibition
ment in the capital city.
Civil Service Commissioner, Dor
man B. Eaton ,haa tendered bis resigna
tion amT President Cleveland has ac
cepted it, to take effect ou Novem
ber 1st.
The anti-prohibitionists of Savannah
are circulating petitions among the
liquor dealers of tho interior towns,
urging them to raise money to defeat
prohibition at the polls.
Tho News and Advertiser has this
to say regarding the railroad bill:
every town in Georgia is as much op
posed to the railroad bill as Albany,
its passage will stir up the State from
centre to circumference/*
Folks out in ancient Syracuse have
just completed a monument to Achime-
des. It was Archimedes who once said
that it he had room enough to store all
tho siver dollars ho needed, he could
move the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte onee said of W.
H. Crawford, when he was American
Minister to France, that he was the
only man ho evor met whoso presence
so impressed him as to inspire the feel
ing to pull off his hat to hi m.
It is said that there is not one
gelical minister to be found through
out all the valley of the Amazon,
length of three thousand miles, and
that a gospel sermon has never been
preached throughout all that territory.
Says the Clarinda (la.) Journal
“The South is doing well, and there 1
not a spark of rebellion worth a
ments attention. If there are no issues
fllush with this year of 1885 to talk
about, we Republicans had better keep
•till.
What would be thought of the Dem-
• ocratie party, if it should suddenly
cure the voting franchise for Indians
and Chinese, and place agents among
them to tske their votes t The enfran
chisement of the negro was equally
great an evil as this would be.
The young Chicago lawyer who re
cently brought himself into notice
writing and publishing a lengthy vindi
cation of Judas Iscariot, is now thought
to be negotiating with the Prince
Darkness for a similar service in
half of that potentate.
The present indications point to
lively fight in the next Congress be
tween the advocates and opponents
of the silver dollar. Meanwhile, the
people will continue to use them at
• value of one hundred cents each,
plaining only, if at all, of their scarcity.
The prohibitionists of Massachusetts
have pot a foil state ticket in the field
upon a platform favoring woman suf-
ferage and the compolsory introduc
tion of temperance text books into
public schools, and recommending
bitration between workingmen and
employees.
“All we have to say,” says the Buf
falo Express, a Republican journal,
that any Democratic head of depart
ment is a fool to keep in offlee for
single moment any Republican subor
dinate in whom he cannot repose confi
dence iu all rightful and honorable
matters,
There is evidently a good time
ing for the people all over the country.
A kind providence and good Democrat
ic government is doing it all. In No-
,, mber the people of Virginia will add
their quota to the general happiness
and prosperity by electing Leo gov-
Ths New York Herald has been
terviewing leading business men
that city, and learns that the demand
for goods in almost every line is in
creasing and 'that priees have a rising
tendency. Some of ths mors sanguine
dealers think they see, good times
M. Delauney, of Paris, predicts that
a great number of earthquakes
occur during 1886, when the earth
under ths influence of a planet of t
first rank, or under that of a group
' at a time when ths
At Marietta, Saturday, two carpen
ters by the names of Scruggs Blalock
and 8am Burton, fell off the top of a
3-story houae they were working upon.
Blalock was injured internally, but not
very seriously, .it is thought, and Bur
ton is only slightly bruised. TheaccL
dent was caused by ths scaffolding
falling.
“Monro’s Weekly Story Paper,”
New York, at a salary of six thousand
dollars n year, perhaps the largest sal
ary eTer drawn by any female w “
in America. Mrs. Bryan has long!
esteemed as one of the most bril!
writers of the day, and merits tho
lebrity she has attained. Some time
since she wrote a serial for Mr. Munro 1
paper, tor which sh 3 received one thou
sand 'dollars, and under its influence
the circulation of the paper increased
* beyond all anticipations, and the r
'•tement noted above is the result
aty. We approve the bill now as
being better for all interests and adopt
following editorial remarks of the
Omutituiim of the 20th inst, which puts
matter in a fair light before the
people.
The bill just passed in the Senate, by
vote of nearly two to one, confers the
right of appeal. It provides that each
railroad in the State shall maki
schedule of rates and publish it. If
this schedule is accepted as just and
equitable by the people it affects, it
shall stand. Bat if any person
poration affected by the rates is dissat
isfied, a complaint is filed with the
Commissioners, and a rate named that
would be accepted by the complaint
fair. The Commissioners hear the
complaint and defense. They then de
cide which is right. From their decis-
either side appeals to the Superior
Court and thence to the Supreme Court,
the judgement of the last coart being
final.
The first objection suggested
that the railroads having fixed the
might delay the ease in theeourts
until the complainant has been serious
ly damaged by the operation of the
rate against which he had protested.
But the bill answers this objection by
providing that the rate fixed by the
Commissioners on hearing the com
plaint shall be immediately substituted
for the railroads 1 rate and prevail
less it is finally reversed by the coart.
eitizen of Amerieas, for instanee,
dissatisfied with the rate published
certain date. He sends his complaint
to the Commissioners and’’ in fifteen
days his case is heard and Settled, If
the Commissioners decide the rate com
plained of is too high, it is at om
changed to tho figure they set, and
hangs ten years in the courts,
the Commissioners 1 rates stand until
reversed. So that an oppressive
could not operate more than twenty
days before it eonld be corrected.
provided alio that the burden of
proof shall always be on the railroads,
and that the eitizen who complains of
any rate need not appear in person be
fore the Commission, but that the filing
of a bill of lading -or receipt, shall be
sufficient evidence that the rate com
plained of is really established.
The bill strikes us as a just and fair
We believe, if passed, it will
definitely settle the issue that threat-
seriously the harmony and peace
of party and people. We do not be
lieve the railroads would advance their
rates in one ease in a hundred, They
would be foolish to try to do so.
It may be asked then, why is any
change in the law desired 1 The
ply is, that under the present law it
impossible to sell the securities
of any road in Georgia, or to procure
money with which to build new roads.
This is , an ago of progress. New
branches are needed, new roads, new
appliances, better equipment. When
the capital needed for these is applied
for, the capitalist finds that three
have absolute power to fix the rates for
the property he is asked to invest
and .that there is no appeal from their
decision. He declines to invest. Who
readers would not decline to do
it 9 On the other hand, if this bill
passed, the capitalist sees that the «
trol of the railroads is equitable, and
is lodged, finally, where every right of
(ife and property can be lodged safely
and honestly, in tho Courts of the
State. He then considers the invest
its merits. Let tho bill pass,
and we believe the two or three yean
succeeding its becoming a law will be
the most prosperous and progressive
the State has ever known. We believe
the candid and impartial loader cannot
find a single right of the people that
threatened by this bill, while it eertain-
ly lifts a menace and burden from our
inadequate and unfinished system
roads.
As showing the scarcity of bills of
the smaller denominations in the Uni
ted States Treasury, it is a noteworthy
fact that a requisition of the sub-
Treasnry in New York for a supply of
five and ten dollar notes, made on Mon
day of last week, had not been honored
Tuesday. The banks cannot sup
ply the demands of southern corres
pondents, as they cannot get silver
certificates, owing to the ruling of the
Treasury Department that they ca
be issned against deposits of gold. Last
season during the period for moving
the cotton crop, not less than $23,000,-
000 of silver certificates were taken
from the Treasury and brought South.
This year scarcely any has been for
warded to the Southern trade centres.
Aiding Old Confeds.
The House has passed the Senate
bill authorizing the ordinaries of the
several counties of the 8tate to levy
and collect annually a tax of one hun
dred dollars in behalf of Confederate
soldiers who lost both eyes, both legs,
both arms in the Confederate
viee. This kind of legislation,
the Augusta Evening News, is pretty
safe, and even the grimest watchdogs
of the treasury can vote for it, tor
there is even one such man in Georgia
know him not and have yet to hear
his name. There may be a few, but
it strikes us the State sokes may have
been a little lees particular in this V
in ess. Such munificence as a $100 pen
sion is rare, however, for the Georgia
Legislature.
The liquor dealers are organizing
with a view to defeat prohibition
Fulton eounty, and it is said that Coun
cilman Miekleberry, a member of the
First Baptist ehureh of Atlanta, is
ths head of the movement. The whole
sale liquor firm of Cox, Hill A Thomp-
re credited with having subscrib
ed $25,000, and the Atlanta Brewing
Company and Paul Jones each a like
sum, while about $30,000 to said to have
made up among the retail deal
ers, and $50,000 additional is expected
total, thus far, of $156,000. A goodly
sum, truly, with which to open
campaign, and the “repeaters” and
nomadic voters will liktly revel in
for quite a while. ^
New Yorkers are trying all kinds of
deviess to get the country at large
relieve them of the onus of paying for
the Grantmonamentin Riverside Park.
It is-now said that the Granin
ment committee of New York is
sidcring the idea of having a day set
apart for memorial services in the pub
lic schools throughout the country,
feature of which shall be the contribu
tion of dimes and nickles by the chil
dren. Too late. The excitement
died out.
Honest Journalism.
Honest journalism is opposed to sen
sationalism. There is no calculating
the amount of evil which might ^be
traced to this source. The reporter
whe throws into his bead lines every
horror which be can command and
seeks every word which will most
idly express it, oftener exaggerates
than presents the news correctly, of
tener lies outright than tells the truth,
e world is sad enough as it is, with
array of accidents, crimes, misfor
tunes and heart-rending Chets, just as
they are without touching up the pic
ture. Man is wicked enough ss he is,
with his wondering* away from right
and truth and justice, into temptation,
vice and misery, want, wickedness and
wretchedness, without portraying him
fiend. Why should the pure-mind-
the refined, and tender-hearted
readers of the publie journals be shock
ed unnecessarily t If sensational hor
rors served up in this style decreased
crime and misery, there would be no
Ail-king on the part of the most deli
cate from the awful necessity. But
statistics prove that familiarity with
of bloodshed and horror tend U
sc crime and degrade humanity
Do not ignore them. Let them be
dealt with by the law and let hone.it
journalism set its face sternly against
the laws of God and man. This does
not require of us the serving up of li
ron, the indelicate expoisnre of wretch
edness or wickedness, the coarce delin
eation of crime in which some writers
seem to delight to revel.—O rttntille
(Ala) AdvtaU:
THE RAILROAD BILL
18th, and Goes to the House.
14,1879, entitled “an act to provide
for the regulation of railroad freight
and passenger tariffs in this State; to
prevent nniust discriminations and ex
tortion in the rates charged for the
transportation of passengers and
freights, and to prohibit railroad com
panies, corporations and lessees in this
State from charging other than just
and reasonable rates, and to punish
the same, and prescribe a mode of pro
cedure and rules of evidence in relation
thereto; and to appoint Commissioners,
and to prescribe their powers and du-
in relation to.the same,” the said
being also incorporated in the code
of Georgia of 1882 and designated
said code as sections 719 (a) ‘
iclusive, by repealing
vim m «pje*l Iim «o lbe
courts and die ease has been decided
by the Supreme' Court, then the de
cision in such ease shall be regarded
as a precedent by the courts of this
State, and no appeal shall be allowed
i a similar case to the courts.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, .That section 12
of said act of October I4th, 1879,known
in said Code of Georgia as section' 719
(1), which defines the terms “railroad
corporations” or “railroad company”
be, and the same is herebv amend
by inserting after the woi
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS-
uals” the words “receiver or receivers,”
so that said section, when amended,
will read as follows: Tb
railroad corporation,”
ipany,” as contained i
shall be deemed and taken
corporations, companies
71? (p)
„ a C of said act, known i
section 719 (1) of said code of Georgia
and also by inserting in lieu of
repealed sections other seetions
scribing the jurisdiction, powers
duties of the railroad Comini
providing for appeals from the ruling!
and decisions of said Commissioners,
and requiring the various railroad c«
panics doing business in this Stnt<
make and publish schedules of just a
reasonable rates and tariffs, and
other purposes.
• Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Georgia.
That section five of the said act of Oc
tober 14,1879, known in the code ot
Georgia of 1882 as soction 719 (e) which
said section prescribes the duties of tho
commissioners as to making rates of
freight and passenger tariffs and rules
and regulations to l>o observed by
all railroad companies doing busim is
in this State be, and the same is here
by repealed, and that hereafter section
five of said act and section 719 (e) of
said code shall be
ulations as may be necessary foi
venting unjust discriminations
transportation of freight aad passen
gers on the railroads of this State
and to that end shall be authorized
make such rules and regulations to
enger transportation to be allowed for
longer and shorter distances on the
longer and shorter
'that they shall bo authorized t
just and reasonable rules and
ire unable to properly credit the
subjoined lines, not knowing the
thor, but as the paragraph contains
‘more truth than poetry” we repro
duce them:
“It is worth remembering that
newspaper is especially printed for
one person any more tnan a hotel is
built especially to please one guest.
People who become greatly disgusted
to be observed by said railroad
•mpanies on said railroads in the
State to prevent the giving or paying
with something they find
per should remember that the very
thing which displeases them is exactly
ths very thing that will please some
body who has just as uracn interest
the paper aa they have.”
To a young woman who complained
of her comeliness, Editor Dana saj
‘It has not been the women of the
most perfect beauty of face and figure
who have won the most hearts, and the
belle of the season is by no means the
prettiest girl of the ballrooms. Have
you ever seen a picture of George Eliot,
of George Sand, or of lime, di
Stael! They were all raw-boned wo
men, with heavy features, yet thoy
failed neither of love nor fame. Even
Mary, Queen of Scotts, was cross-eyed
-at least thoy say
While we have no desire to use it as
an argument in favor of the tobacco
habit, we must notice the fact that the
cholera failed to touch a single '
the four thousand men employed
national tobacco factory at Valencia,
Spain, though the disease raged vio
lently in that city. The Medical World
now recalls the fact that tobacco work
era wore also exempt from the sojppge
daring an epidemie at Amsterdam.
Von Moltke, the great German Field
Marshal, who spends vacation, at his
country scat, fcreisau, devotes his time
there entirely to agriculture. He ii
said to take groat pride in his magnifi
cent park, the beauties of which he
fond of pointing ont to visitors. ]
walks regularly every day to Kapellen-
neighboring hill, where his
wife and sister are buried, and where
ho, too, U to belaid.
A New Jersey judge has just shown
himself to be a man without
sent. He sentenced a worn;
'excellent family connection 1
who had been found gnilty of fiend
ishly torturing a child, to ten years’
imprisonment in the penitentiary and
pay a fine of .fifteen hundred dollars,
notwithstanding tho foolish recommen
dation to mercy, signed by tho jnry
that convicted her.
The negro does not have bin religious
rights in Philadelphia. The Press of
that eity says: “With such
Purvis and Still among the colored
eitizens of Philadelphia, there is st
one ehureh, if not more, in this city,
which membership is withheld from
the black man or woman no matter
how Christian their hearts may be.
Wall Street will not be able this
any other season to eonyince tho peo
ple that a silver dollar is worth only
eigVty or even eighty-two cents.
There are too many people willing to
take them for a fifth more. They
not discounted at this office and wont
be in spite of the advice of the New
York financiers and bunkers.
the real rates charged for freight and
passengers ; and that they shall be au
thorized to make such just and reason
able rules of procedure for the hearing
and determining of the complaints
herein after provided for as to them
shall seem meet and proper: Provid
ed, that all such rules and regulations
shall be consistent with the laws of
this State and of tho United States;
and; provided farther, that nothing in
this act shall be constructed to author-
> any interference with or regulatipn
inter-state commerce.
Sac. 2. Be it further enacted by the
thority aforesaid, that section G of
the said act of October 14,1879, known
the said code of Georgia as„ section
719(t), prescribing* that the commis
sioners shall make schedules of rates
and declaring the effect of tho same as
* e, and the same is hereby re-
. id that hereafter section G of
said act and section 719(f) of said code
of Georgia shall be as follows: That
An exchange advances the opinion
that the colored members of the Gen
eral Assembly oppose an adjournment,
preferring four dollars a day for idleness
• than half that sum for labor '
the eottou fields. It strikes ‘us that
there are a goodly number of repre
sentatives whose views coincide with
those of the colored brother.
Secretary Lamar, of the Interior
department, is quite anxious to know
how the Central aad Union Pacific
railroads can afford to pay the Pacific
Mail steamship company nearly a mil
lion of dollars when they are too “fi
nancially embarrassed” to pay the in*
thei-indebtedness to the gor-
It U estimated that Oregon will ship
nearly, I*fi00fl00 bushels of wheat
this year. ^
Opposed to 8croag Drink
“Parker’s Tonic is delicious to the
palate, it invigorates, bot dojsnot
promote a tore for. strong dnnk ; it
cures cougbs and colds, it purifies the
blood, thus curing kidney, lirer and
lung troubles and rheumatism. It
should be kept in evenr home.” G. H.
Sherman, photographer Elgin, 111.
Place it in yours. sep 30-lm
[Special Teleftsias to the Dally UcpuUkSS.]
TAKE ST. JO BY STORM.
St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 28.—Her.
Sam Jones, and Mr. Sam W. Small ar
rived here safely and the great revival
has begun, and the people, except the
whiskey and beer element, are enthu
siastic. The tent is elegantly arranged
right in the heart of the tity. and 2,000
people attended the first sunrise meet
ing yesterday morning, and 0,000 at
tended the 10:30 services. The tent
eonld not hold tho people. Mr. Small
follows: That the terms spoke at 2:30 p. m., to 5,000 people, and
Mr. Jones preached to a congregation
mean all
individ-
owning
may hereafter
operate any railroad, in whole
part, in this State, and the pnv
Mr. Jones preached to a congregation
of nearly 8,000 last night. An excel
lent choir furnishes music for tho
ices and electric light illumes __
*nt. It is expected that great good
will result from this raeeti ag.
luue, aim in
of this act shall apply
persons, firms and companies, and
s common carriers upon afiy
xne lines of railroad in this State
treet railways excepted,) the same
; to railroad corporations hereinbefore
entioned.
See. 4. Be it further enacted tin
increase of freight or pfuisenger
rates shall go into effeet until thirty
Bargains! Bargains! Dearie! Hear let
E SOM STORE
which raged Saturday and part of yes-
cinity of Chief
sufficiently rep*
age of trains.
ith said Commissioners, as provided
i this act, it shall not be necessary
for the complainant to appear in per-
ley, before said Com-
furnish any evidence
SMALLPOX.
New York, Sept. 28.—A Montreal
special of yesterday states that 32
deaths from small pox occurred in that
city Saturday, and the contagion
spreading. The circular favoring g<
eral vaccination was in most of tlio
pulpits in tho city yesterday morning.
jomplained of actually „
bill of lading or receipt for freights, o
the order of the company establishing
Midi rate, mle or discrimination shall
be sufficient proof of the fact, and
when such complaint is filed and such
proof furnished, it shall be the duty
of the Commissioners to notify said
Railroad Company complained of, by
republican candidate for governor, has
again challenged Gov. Hojully for joint
debate, and he expresses a willingness
for the prohibition candidate to jor~ : “
ill divide time with Hoadl;
for a trial thereof, shall
investigate and try the
?, and pass judgment thereon: and
A Correspond'
proceed
pass judgment tnereoi.;
il may require any eviui
from the Railroad Company as they
may deem proper to a full and fair
understanding of the facts complain
ed of.
Sec. 0. Bo it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That all laws and
parts of Jaws in conflict with this act
lx*, and the sajne are hereby repealed.
1 ths Railroad Com-
Makes a Complaint-
•ion County Clipper.
Ko give below a copy of a letter from
i. it. Lowe, President of the Buena
<ia Railroad company taken from
the Atlanta Constitution, which
plains itself. Wo too ask, why
it published? Who had it published!
Was the publicatton of tho letter
ista, Ga., Sept. 17.—Editor
Constitution: On the 9th inst., I nc
tilled tho railroad commissioners of
reduction in rates on cotton only, on
tter is published
d,” in its issc
of the 11th instant. My letter was
isincss letter to the commission, and
ritten in compliance with their rules,
id why it should have gone into print,
am left to conjecture.
This reduction in rates on cotton
road was brought about
MAXWELL OR BROOKS.
St. Loris, Sept. 28.—Cable-grams
Jive been received from England,
stating that Samuel M. Brooks would
soon start for this point to establish
the identity of Dr. Maxwell, now held
for the murder of Arthur Preller, and
whose real name is supposed to be
Hugh M. Brooks. It is said that if the
introduced by the defense.
named J. C. Harden, who was being
conveyed to Texas, where he is wanted
for horse stealing, jumped through
through the agency of competition—
commercial competition, not railroad
competition. The Buena V
road is owned by people interested in
the prosperity of this section, and the
thorized and required to make each for
itself, as soon as practicable, a schedule
of just and reasonable rates of charges
for the transportation of passengers,
freight sod cars on the respective rail
roads in this State, and sahl railroad
companies, shall from time to time and
as often as circumstances raav require,
change and revise said schedules, anu
when any schedule shall have been
made or revised as aforesaid, it shall be
the duty of each of said corporations
respectively to cause publication there-
be made for two successive weeks
me public newspaper published „
the cities of Atlanta, Augusta, Albany,
Athens, Savannah, Macon, Rome and
lumbus, in this State, and after the
ue shall be so published, it shall be
the duty of each of such railroad com
to post at all of ‘tho respectiv
stations, in a conspicuous place, a copy-
of said schedule to be observed by
them for the protection of all persons
concerned. Any person, town, eity or
corporation affected by the schedule of
‘ ?s so established, may at any time
with the railroad commissioners a
petition in writing in whieh petition
the gronnd of objections to said sched
ule and rates shall be distinctly set
forth. If the ground of complaint is
that tho rate in any particular class of
freight is unreasonable or unjust, said
petition must set forth clearly the
charged by the railroad and also
rate which the petition 'claims
would be a just and reasonable charge.
When such petition is made and filed
with the railroad commissioners it shall
be the dnty of said Commissioners to
cause a copy of raid complaint to be
served on rad railroad company or its
agent, and give notice to both parties
of the time and place of the hearing,
which shall not be in less time than ten
days from tho time servico is perfected
on the railroads. If at any time before
the hearing the railroara shall so alter
*’ tea in,the matter complained of
conform to the rates asked for
by the petitionor, then no hearing shall
be necessary, but the petition may bo
withdrawn by consent of parties.
The Commissioners shall have power
to alter and amend the rates complain
ed of whenever they shall adjudge;
after a full hearing, that the same arc
unreasonable or unjust, and shall fix
- as to them shall see
just, and from the <3
the Commissioners on the question of
rates made by the pleadings either
party may appeal to the Superior Court,
of the county where the complaint
originated, under the same rules and
regulations as to the manner of appeal
ing, as now provided by law in cases ol
appeal from the Court of Ordinary,
and said Superior Court shall hear ana
determine inch case under the same
rules and regulations as are now pre
scribed by law for hearing equity
in said court; that said causes
have precedence of all other earn
the docket, and shall be heard and de
termined at the first term. Depositions
of all witnesses, irrespective of resi
dence, may be taken in said cause, and
the cause shall in no event be contin
ued beyond the said term on account of
with the Southwestern to Savannah
practically the same; therefore the
is from Buena Vista must be higher
than from Americns by the extent of
road, and a large
line of our road somo equality
Americus merchants.
can’t see what right tho eommis-
n had to publish my letter. It was
usiness letter, written in accordance
with tho rules of the commission, sub-
‘tting information, and it seems
> they had no right to use it a
campaign document in favor of any
measure before the legislature. If the
•ommlssion intended by Its pnblica-
ion to create the impression that I,
or our people are satisfied with the pres
ent railroad laws, or are opposed to the
bill now before the senate, they
mistaken. ^
Tho discussion c»f tho question by
tho senate has brought it before
people, and an open opposition
to such proceeding may move for n
new trial or except to the actions and
ruling of such Superior Court, in the
same manner as. u now provid - 1 1 —
law in other cases. Pending t
peal the rate adjudged by the Commis
sioners to be reasonable and just shall
be the legal rate, and the railroad com
panies shall be subject to all the pen
alties provided in section 719,1. and J.
Of the Code, when they shall charge
higher rateffrthan the rates so fixed by
the Commission pending the appeal.
In all esses made under this section the
burden of proof shall be on the rail-
rood, the presumption of law being
that the Commissioner’s rates are right
and just. The rotes adiodged to be
the eonfect rates by the Railroad Com
missioners shall remain in force until
set aside by the Court* of thW State.
Bat tho Commissioners of railroads
shall have no power or jurisdiction to
alter, change or in any way interfere
with rates made by tho railroads exeept
on complaints made,' filed and heard as
above set forth, and then only os to
such questions as arc made and put in
issue by pleadings. Provided that
dispatches give the deaths throughout
Spain yesterday, from cholera, at 521,
and tho new cases at 209. At Palermo,
Sicily, there were 1G4 deaths and 84
cases. King Humbert has aban-
no thought.
Pres’t. B. V. R. R. Co.
: a Confidence Gams
Secretary of the Navy Whitney is
Id New Yorker, and therefore fair,
ir with the city’s characteristics. He
:ood in the corridor of the Fifth Ave
nue hotel in social talk with the Secre
tary of the Interior Lamar, and the
topic of conversation was a conP J
robbery that had been perpetrat
on a guest of the house that day. Whit
ney maintained that while some men
where antonishingly gullible, the ma
jority were unreasonably cautious.
“To illustrate my point,” he said,
“let mv young friend, Joe Barnard,
here, offer to give a $10 bill for $1, and
not a man in this corridor will accept
his round.
“I beg your “pardon, sir,” remark
ed Joe, politely, to the veteran Gen.
Dan Sickles, who was stamping round
n a leg and a crutch, “but will you
lease give me $1 for this $10 t” and
_je held the note so close to Sickles’
•yes that its genuineness ought to 1
been visible. A half sarcastic,
face, bathe deigned no reply, and con
temptuously turnod away. The prof
fer was soberly made to nine men,
none being a witness of the other’s re-
dler’s attention. The endangered note
earn# safely back to Whitney, and the
group laughed over the adventure save
Sickles, who was called in to be teased
for letting so good a bargain slip.
There are kihaffi that the working
sen of New York will stand shoulder
) shonlder for the Democratic ticket.
CURE FOR PILES.
Piles are frequently preceded best
ense of weight In the back, loins and
loftM *—
moisture, like
lug a very diss
getting warm,
ant. Blind, I
Piles yield at once to
of Dr. Bosanko’aPilo
acts directlyopo “
absorbing .tho Tl —
intense itching, and effecting a per
manent core. Price GO cents. Ad
dress, Tho Boeanko Medicine Co.,
Piqua, O. Sold by E. J. Eldrldge.
may 15-ly.
ADELINA pat ri, the great songstress
said.” of Soolou Palmer’s Perfumes, ToUet
Soaps and other articles: *i unhesitating
ST.
(McTjier’s old stand next to Felder’s Warehouse.)
WE OFFER ONE OF THE LARGEST AND BESE SEI.H.0
TED STOCKS OF
Clothing) Boots, Shoes, Hats,
and Dress Goods, motions,
Hosiery, Utc., Etc.
That haa ever been brought to this market* My stock of
We are Calling-Yes,
We are Calling
ATTENTION TO A FEW FACTS
THAT - WE DO NOT WANT
YOU TO LOSE SIGHT OF.
the island.
lidemic increases i
la one of the best makes, and selected with a view to the wants of
this trade and will be sold at astonishly low prices,
DOMESTICS AT FACTORY PRICES
We have no specialties. All goods as represented, and of the
best grades at the very LOWEST PRICES.
FROM THE STATE PRESS
Darien has been remarkably health
ful the past summer.
Potatoes are in fino condition in
Dooly county.
Laurens county’s corn crop is an ex
ceptionally good one;
The inil in Lincolnton is now unin
habited.
It is said that another newspaper
ill soon be established in Rome.
-Work on tho artesian well at Dariei
has been suspended for the present.
Prohibition will be the leiuling issu<
the next munieipal electionst Gains
ville.
A gentleman from Arlington say
that crops aro cut short one half in hi
section.
Throe hundred tourists from Florida
breakfasted at one eating house hi Ma
in on Wednesday morning.
Four thousand four hundred and
ninety-four pupils aro in attendance at
the public schools of Atlanta.
The valuation of taxable property in
Georgia is now estimated $299,163,848,
• $1,270,478 more than last year.
J. E. Morgan of Bainbridge, w
seized with a sneezing spell a day
i ago which lasted for -eleven hours.
The Ben Hill statute for Atlanta will
be ready for unveiling some time in
November. It has not yet been decid
ed where the statute shall be placed.
The highest price paid for eottou
-jl.
tract of over 1,200 acres.
GeorgeC. Bates, apromiuent and
ery wealthy farmer ol^Catoosa county,
while riding horseback to his house on
Tuesday died of heart disease and fell
to tho ground a corpse.
On Wednesday afternoon the city
council of Macon granted tho right of
way in the citv to the Maeon and Cov
ington railroad. Captain Frobel, chief
engineer, represented the road.
A Brunswick lady has a bed the
feathers of whieh were plucked from a
fioek of geese during the war of the
Revolution and are jnst as soft and
downy as they were one hundred years
• go.
A West Dougherty planter has filled
his cotton fields with turkeys, liopini
” ”1 dispose of the caterpil
was probably never yet
i an army of caterpillars.
Dr. R.G. Jones, of Terrell county,
will make this year, the mule, 12
bales of cotton wejghmg 500 pounds
each, 250 bushels of corn, 350 bushels
of oats, 2 barrels of syrup, 150 bushels
of ground peas and 1,000 pounds of
Screven county voted on the liquor
question last week and by a majority
of 424 it was decided that no more
Bquor should bo sold in the entire
eounty. It is stated that the ' colored
voters of the county voted almost solid
ly tor the removal of the bar rooms.
Thus another county is added to the
list.
All are independent and live with their
wives, and board at the same place,
and last, bat not least, the chaplain
and surgeon are both farmers.
A cavalcade, consisting of two . _.
bred wagons drawn by spotted steers,
one bare headed woman driving one
steer and a man walking beside, one
man driving two steers and a woman
in a calico bonnet walking beside, three
ragged Children and a dog fastened to
the rear of each wagon, passed through
Oconee eounty a day or two ago, —
route to the Land of Flowers.
Excelsior Eagle: We have traveled
two or three hundred miles during the
past month, mostly in this and adjoin
ing counties, and one thing we noticed
deserves mention, and that is.the largo
number of pew farms springing up
in ths woods, It speaks well for any
country for its young men to buy and
build up homes where they were raised,
and this is just what our young men
are doing.
Mr. Williams, living near Winter-
villc. had the misfortune, Friday, to
loro his kitchen and dairy by fire. It
seems that there was a fire around a
pot in tho yard, and it was supposed
the kitchen caught from that. Ho
camo very near losing his dwelling
house, and it took hard work to save it.
To add to his misfortune, the insurance
tho buildings had only *
H. SOLOMON’S.
Jas. Fricker & Bro.
JEWELERS.
Barlow Block- Americus, Gr<t.
CLOCKS.
CLOCKS,-
CLOCKS.
We have just received a very large and elegant line of CLOCKS,
which added to the stock we had on liand makes the largest and
most handsome lot ever exhibited in Southwest Georgia. We are
goind to Hell them at such low PRICES as will astonish every one J
We have some which we cannot duplicate for double what we ask 1
for them. Just think of it, a Clock for ONE DOLLAR warranted
for ONE YEAR by your home Jeweler. Will sell you- a genuine
FREUGH CLOCK
for what you have been asked for those made in this country, and
a real black walnut case for less than ihe imitation ar^ offered at
Now is the time and here is the place to buy a good clock for little
money. Every clock sold by us garanteed lor tw. lve months.
Call early as W8 have bargains to offer in this lineMhat you will
regret if you miss.
Sale begins THURSDAY morning October 1st, 1885
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
Asrecsbly to u order ot the Court of Ordlna-
r of Sumter county will be aold at public out-
ry st the Court Home door of aaid county >—
. io Hr»t Tuesday In October next.wlthin the
sal hour* oCiale the following property to-w
OnedweiUnchouaeandlot containing« acr
..... ifAsdariaavtUs^naaidi
Said store house beinjrn - **~
- Idwelm
all of said propertr tltua-
ipiedby V
n* bein* formally
pied by the said W.H. Clover. Said property
soM as the property of StarUag Glover late of
--dd county deceased. Terms of sale cash.
CJ. W. GLOVEB,
Administrator Estate Starting C lot
•epUUla.
When laths Wrong Channel
The bile wreaks grievous injury : Head
aches. constipation, pUn In the liver
stomach. Jaundice, nausea ensuet A
doees of Uostetter’s Stomach Bitters
reform these ertts and prevent further in
jury. It Iss pleasant aperient, iu action
open the bowels being unaccompanied by
griping. The liver Is both regulated and
stimulated by It, and as It to verr Impolitic
to disregard disorder of that organ, which
through neglect may culminate in danger
ous congestion and hepatic abacesa, the l
ten should be resorted to at an early sta
Failure to do this render a contest with
malady more protracted- Fever and ague,
rheumatism, kidney and bladder troubles,
are remedied by this fine medicine, mad the
Increasing infirmities of. a^e mitigated by
It may be also
l» advaata
Won of vigor.
with advantage, as it hastens the restore-
NOTICE.
A valuable plantation f
north of Xllanlle Schley o
Eunm them iuwtlur to anylever on tho buildin f3 only run out a
a." Principal depot, 374 and 3?« Pear, &*«*»)'* hfforo the fire occurred. Mr.
u York, oet2*wll I Williams’ loss is about $309.
The Mirror
is no flatterer. Would you
make it tell a sweeter tale?
Magnolia Balm is the charm
er that almost cheats the
looking-glass.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED
ITORS.
All persons indebted to the estate of J. R.
attlelateof Scb* * *
hereby notified to
Battle late of Schley county deceased are
—’ tided to come for sard and settle
and those holding claims against
<V. J. ROSS.
J, L-ROaS,
Administrator.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED
ITORS.
^ey county dooMMd. are here
by notified to come forward and make lmrnedi-
Amr. do bonis a
NOTICE.
ties are hereto notified not to tr
note fur one hundred and thlrty-fp
aonars and flftyceota dated Deo. UN and doe
Oct. Ut IMS. payable to J, It. llattto. Admlnff
trator or order on Batata of T. J. battle and
aUrnod J. A. Sorrel and tv. A. Guthrie,aaid noto
J. llattle’a eati
.M. CASKEY,
City Property
FOR SALE.
ONE FIVE ROOM RESIDENCE, kail
sere lot convenient to business. Good wa
ter healthy location. Will sell cheap, very
cheap. Call early if fim wirh a bargain.
. ONE FOUR ROOM RBUDENCK, ol
sera lot near Court IlouserGood place.
Ibis may suit you exactly. Call and see
me early, it you desire any oity property,
SPLENDID FARMS.
NINETY ACRESos 8. W. Rallroad.-
lood residence and all necessary out build-
TWO HUNDRED ACRES. One three
horse farm (Sumter county.) Good rasl
dene*, out bouses. Holt productive. A
Other farms and property for «aie.and
will sell to too so cheaply you will be sur
prised. Call and sro me, It you WW» to
Att’y at Law and Real Estate Agent.
augaau
Americus, Ua i
NEW FALL STOCK,
01 Staple and Fancy
Dry Goods
Notions, Fancy Goods,
Hillinery, Ladies
Wraps and
Jerseys,
Clothing,
Gent’s Fnroishmg Goods,
BOOTS, SHOES, HA1&, CAPS, it
Have been received, and ’
are now having what is usually
called
Displaying Goods to the profit
and gratification of all needing
anything in our line. We hsve
so far surpassed our previous ef
forts, that we have '
Of a big trade this season. We
want to remind you [not to tell
you, for the most of you know
it already,] that we propose to
get our full share oi the trade
that comes to this city, and hare
marked down prices to a notch
that will insure our getting it,
“AM DON’T II FORGET IT."
We want to remind you that
we have special facilities for buy
ing everything at the bottom fig
ure, and as we believe in “small
profits and quick sales,** our cus
tomers always get the benefit of
the bargains we secure. We
want you to “wake up” to the
fact that toe can make it pay VO*
to buy of tu. If you have been
DISAPPOINTED
Elsewhere, kindly favor us with
a call—make no mistake-
prices elsewhere if you like,then
see our goods and prices, an<*
convince yourself that our »tor*
is tho place to tr$de.
JOHN B.