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VOL. III.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 6, 1881.
ruuLiaiiKi) nr
W. L. OLESSNER.
OFFICE on cotton avenue.
Su.Toscript3.on I^atea:
Tki-Weeki.v One Year, - $4.00.
Weekly One Yeah, - - $2.00.
Sunday Imbue One Year, - $1.50.
So nnmeroufl are the
developments of Mnla *
ria that people contin
ually suffer from this
noxious poison when
they least imagine I
is.lurking in their sys
tem.
Chills and Fever, Headache,
Intermittent Fever, General Debility,
Bilious Fever, lAissitude,
Typhoid Fever, Nausea•
—ARE THE—
an<l have their origin In a disordered liver, which
it not regulated in time, great suffering, h-
edncKH and death will ensue.
Simmons Liver Regulator,
(PURELY VKOETABLK.)
ii absolutely certain in Its remedial effects and
nets more promptly in curing all forms of Malarial
diseases than calomel or quinine, without any of
tho injurious consequences which follow their
If taken occasionally by persons exposed to
Mnlarin,
It will Expel the Polsou and proteet
them from attack t
As evidence, see extract from W B Yates’ letter,
where tho Regulator afforded protection from the
worst and most deadly typo of Malaria, to wit*
Yellow Fever. ^
‘•Sms: I have stood tho storm of four eptdem'
ics of the Yellow Fever. I had It the drst visita
lion, but during the other three I used jour med
icine. I was continually in the rooms of the siek
and dying, but 1 escaped. 1 have had several
.j k mo ?»ow 1 escaped; 1 told them it
owing to the virtuo of yonr 8immons Liver Regu
lator. If tho Fovor was to break out again, and I
hod a bottle of your Regulator, I would feel as
safe a* if 1 was 1000 miles away.
‘-Memphis Tenn., April 18, 1S79. ’
Having neutralized the poison of Malaria In
such extreme cases, it can be relied on os a sov
ereign Specific and Antidote in milder forms.
Buy only tho genuino in white wrapper, with
red preparod ouly by J. H. Zcllin & Co.
April 20-ly
Ten Valuable Plantations.
Tho following described real estate is offered
for talc by tho bauk of Americus:
No. 1. Tho Schumpert building and lot corner
Forest and Lamar streets, at tbo, head of Cotton
Avenno.
No. 2. Tho I’hll West place, on Flint river, In
14th district, Leo county, containing 1,000 acre*—
six or eight mulo farm open.
No. 8. Tho Mrs. E, Y. Cottlo lot of land near
Wlgginsvllle, Marion county, containing 202
acres, two mulo farm open on It and fresh
d*o. 4, Place on Americus and Lnmpkin road,
six miles from Americus, and adjoining tho Jas.
A. Wilsons fUrm, containing somo 223 acres—half
cleared, and balance in timber. fiBU
No. B. Fifty acres in 16th district, near Jackson
Flowers, well improved.
Np. C. The Phillips place, near Aloxahdor Baas
containing 202 t-9 acres, it being improved and
having two mulo farm open.
( Mo. 7. The .Adsmi rlaco] adjoining jStansill
Harwicks farm in tho lBtb district, some 600 acres
of land, six or seven mulo farm In cultivation.
No. 8. Tho Crocker plain?, near Smlthvllle,
somo-603 acres, somo tlvo or six mule farm open
on the place.
No. 9. some 300 acres in Dooly faonnty, Just
below Flint river bridge.
No. 10. Tho Weston place, on Railroad [three
miles from Dawson, containing 800; acres, five
mulo farm, open’, land, this, or any [other .place
Will bo offered, divided to suit pu.chaters.
8. H. HAWKIN8.
octlG 2m]
President.
DR. W. T. PARK,
|U>mco OpiH»H Kimball Home, Decator Stre.1,,
ATLANTA, GA.
Thirty yoars in successful treatment of all
Chroulc Discancs. In either sox, aud
nlicated old standing diseases upon which others
cSiSs Syphilis In all its forms, Neuralgia,
Rheumatism, Ulcers.iCancors, Stomach and Bowel
Affections, Pilot and Fistula.
Kidney, and all olfaction* of the Urinary organa,
Womb,‘Diseases, etc, Also opium and Morphlno
H All t *wlth safe and pleasant Romodlcs. and with
out Mercury, Poisonous or Nauseoua Doses
At tho patient*’ homes, anywhere, the furnish
ing Medical advice, Medicihe, etc., through mail
aud express); or, If desired, or the case requires
It, takes patients under his personal super*Islon
^MaU^lo**him a ftill history and statement far
yonr aftlictiou, symptoms, etc., and postage fbr
his reply, terms, etc., or, come to Atlanta and
consult him in person. Call upoh or write to us
l)r. J. R. Simmons’ Carminative!
For tho (
Cholera Morbus.'
i;nniern aiuruu». Infantum, Crarai-^
thu Stomacli siui llow.1.. It w<* lik« » •“"*[
rrllcvea tho I'Aln and ftril>li>tc »t once, doc. not
I os ve tho liowels co.tl.o. It give. uniji«r.llolod
satisfaction to all who use it. 1^1^260 10 $1.00
„or holtlo. ‘•«l“‘f I V4i" r nL°Si y aMOK«.
ii i>29.1y Cotton A venue,. A merious, Ua
READ! BEAD!!
CLOSING OUT SALE.
• On Wednesday the 7lh of December, I will sel
at public outcry, to the highest bid ler from my
farm In Terrol county, near Brown’s Station, all
the perishable p.opcrty tl creon consisting of line
muloa, cattle hogs, corn, faJdcr wagons, buggy,
blacksmith ftools, and many other farm Imple
ment*. Remember the tlmeland come.
jus. GraUftm.
November 3, 1881.
Hiss Kate King Eiam Johnson,
—KEEPS, ON HAND
LOWEST CASH PRICES
A LABOR AND HANDSOME
.Selection of ffliliinery Goods
THKJ LATEST STYLES!
Examine Before ton Purchase.
Mins Kate King.
Public Square, Americus, 6a.
. w .......t home easily made.
■o.lAddress TRUK & Co
"Van Riper
HAS RETURNED!
His Photograph Gallery
N OW OPEN!
FINEST PICTURES,
LATEST STYLES
and ALL SIZES.
SatisfactionlGaaranteed
Prices Moderate.
OVER T. WHEATI.Etr’8 STORE,
Americus,
Georgia.
Prof. VAN RIPER.
flop24-wtwtf
J. L. HYATT
Has Bemoyed from Lamar Street to
COTTON AVENUE,
IN THE COMMODIOUS BUILDING
BELOW THE BECOBDEB OFFICE.
With it fresh and much enlarged stock of
Confections and
Fancy Groceries,
CONSISTING OF
Fresh Canned Goods
OF EVEBY KIND,
CANDIES, FRENCH and STICK
Pickles,
Sauces,
Butter,
Cheese,
Larabee’s and Wilson’s
IN XhXW
10 Cent
Department are a hun
dred valuable articles
such as Buckets, Pans
olassware, Hosiery,
Etc.
The finest tinlahed, moat pleaaant wearing an
!3srfS.*Kife!-»!ia
SSSfeSKSCfSaM
at my bow .hop In front of Col. W. A. snmn ■
‘'“■'"‘•’“‘■“^BEWDlbLEV.
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Wholesale Grocer,
General Commission Merchant
AND FRUIT DEALER,
22 BJtOAD St., ATLANTA.
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED.
Alicnutiihl Rook for tho Asking!
■ By applying personally nt tho nearest office of
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING GO. (or by
K tstal card if at a distance) any adult person will
i presented with a beautifully illustrated copy ol
New Book entitled
UENIUS REWARDED,
-OR THE—
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containing a handsome and costly steel enslaving
frontispiece: also, 28 finely engraved wood cuts,
and bound in an eloborato blue ami gold litho
graphed cover. No charge whatover is made lor
this handsome book, which can bo {obtained only
application at tho branch and subordinate
gold litho-
i made lor
bo (obtained only
>y application at the branch and str* **
itlces of Tho Singer Manufacturing Co.
m 81NRER MANUFACTURING CO.
Principal Offlco, 3-1 Union Square,
b 24, ly. w trl.
Drs. Westbrook & Joiner,
Physicians and Surgeons,
.iNDEKSONVILLE, : : GEOBGIA,
Offlco at Drug Store of W. M. Clark.
May 18-1 y
TONSORIAL EMPORIUM!
HENRY ANDERSON
his Barbershop is open at all buaincs*hours
on Sunday until 11 o’clock a. m. Ho lias re
cently fitted it up in a neat style, and is better
prepared Jthan over to wait upon his customers.
All who may wish to havo Shaving, nair Cutting
Shampooing, etc., dono in first-class style, he
would bo pleased to have them call on him. Shop
near the entrance to Barlow House. marl3
1
sm tfi
is m
4 t>Pi
2=
Tie Rootlets
One, two nnd'threo yenis oldforsnlo of
the celebrated
The
The l’rcacliers.
Selina Times, taking ad-
Xt©©@je,t©
—ALSO, THE—
SS&eifeE 1 F©axv
One year ohl, and the new fruit,
JAPAXfT momMOSTr
One year old.
Terms Cash with Order.
sep/5 4m
Tlie Testimony
OF THOUSANDS WIIO HAVK;USKD
“HOOD’S HIRER,\ LIVER MEDI
UM!,”
is tbqt it is the host Liver Med
icine now in use.
It has become a household
remedy in many families in the
city, where it is best /mown.
It is withal, pleasant to ta/.e,
so much so that children take it j „
cheerfully, afterwards f.equent- ! ‘Then bring me some bread and
1 gravy. Its not healthy to eat
ly calling for it for the relief of meat in summer."
their little stomachs. ThJ Shah of Persia tell violently
_ . , ,, , in love with the Princess ofWnlcs
It is purely vegetable, and llu( £, g uis vi3it l0 England some
. . ... .. vears ago. and about once a year
harmless in its action. i makes a tempting offer to the
For .ale by all «***. j
r —— i best wives, his mother and his
»nJ 1 grandmother in exchange for Alex
andra, but Wales still dcelined.
vantage of the Alabama conference
of the M. E. South in that city, i 1-
dulgcs in the following reflections:
The preachers have captured
Selma, and Selma is better for it.
We will bo better for their coming
among us. It is a hardened man
who does not feel kindly towards
the preachers. They are our
friends. They stand by us; they
are always faithful. In our hap
piest moments they arc with us to
rejoice, to laugh, to be happy, too.
When sorrows conies they are
faithlul still. With honest old
Bill Arp, we can truly say we like
the pVenchers. They hold us back
from going to extremes. They are
the conservatives. They are good
citizens] and set us a good exam
ple. They are the balance wheels
of society, tho scotcli to the wa
gon, air-brakes to the train, the
pendulum to the clock. They arc
like the Sabbath that gives us rest
and peace. They are to society
what the judge is to law. We love
them oil, and when they are blot
ted out, which God forbid, we want
to go too. In sickness, in trouble,
in affliction* yes, in the last agon
ies they are with us and comfort
us, while tho busy world wags on.
God bless the preachers of this
land—the preachers of every crocd
that teaches* love for cur Creator
and love and kindness for one
another.
Wo would be in a bad fix with
out the preachers. Nomattirhow
gloomy we feel, they can and will
cheer us up. Whether a man he
a Christian or not, the preachers
can do him good. They cause us
to look on the bright side. They
show us a silver lining to every
cloud, however black and threat
ening it may be. They lead us in
spite of ourselves to live hotter
lives. They make us better men
and women. In shadow and sun
shine they walk beside us with un
faltering footsteps, lead us through
the dark places and laugli with us
on joy’s sunny heights. When
death comes,deadening onr souses,
robbing us of life, the last man we
want to see is the preacher, God’s
appointed agent. He goes with us
down into the valley and shadow,
holds’on to our hands as we enter
the chilling waters that flow be
tween us and the mystic beyond,
the mail of God is with us still,
even unto the time when the watch
man on the other shore receive ns.
The waters arc made less chilly, the
shadows less dark, and wc brave
the angry flood with stouter hearts
because the good muu is near to
encourage us. Ah! yes! God bless
the preachers. They are the truest
of friends, the most generous, the
noblest, and the most useful, and a
bad world this would, bo without
the preachers.
Quaint, good George Herbert
said long ago, and his words have
lost none of their force:
Judgo not tho preachers, for ho is thy
judue: If thou misliko him, thou con-
coiv’st him not.
Yes, the preacher is always with
us. When we come to marry, the
preacher is nearest to us, ho gets
very near; he kisses the bride and
his congratulations to the happy
couple have a truer ring than any
other they receive. He means it.
No jealousy, no envy about the
preacher. lie is “heart and soul
lor the measure,” and is just as
glad as the young people whom lie
joins together for hotter or for
worse—and he always prays that
it is for better.
Onions and Urary,
A rather seedy looking customer
went into a restaurant on Austin
avenue, and said to the proprietor:
“What do you ask for nicely
cooked beefsteak, well done witli
onions?”
“Twenty-live cents.”
“And the gravy?”
“Oh, we don’t charge anything
for the gravy!"
"You don’t; that’s liberal. How
much do you charge for the bread.”
We throw in the bread.”
Is it good bread?”
It is.”
.So you throw in bread and
i week In your own town.
$66 outfit free * A»Mre«-
l'ort'an-1. Maine.
If. IIAI.LKTT A
Another One-Horse Form.
Macon Telegraph.
Among tho Georgia news items
printed yesterday was the follow-
ing:
Mr. Isaac Hunt, of Columbus
county, made this year witli one
horse 200 bushels of corn and twen
ty-two bales of cotton. On one
stalk of his cotton 242 well matuted
bolls were found.
These one-horse farms arc the
"farms ol the day.” There is very
little room for extravagance and
waste about them. The labor force,
whether human or brute, is easily
looked after. The proprietor is
not harassed by maturiug schemes
for extending bis credit or procur
ing advances on his crop. When
his crop begins to blossom it is un
der the light and sunshine of hope,
and not in the gloom ofliens and
debt.
These one-horse farms will re
deem the fortunes of Georgia. They
realize about thirteen to fifteen
hundred dollars apiece yearly, and
that by the figures is more than the
average wealth of Massachusetts,
which is said to be the richest
State in the Union.
Every able-bodied man in Geor
gia can run a onc-horso farm; and
if every farmer nuts from one thou
sand to five hundred dollars a year,
the troublesome labor question will
offer but little perplexity. It be
comes a mere question of the per
sonal industry ol the two or three
hands “running the place,” and
every day’s work speaks for itself.
To rim such a farm properly the
proprietor must furnish in himself
a bright example of efleotive labor.
He must lead the row and he tho
most effective hoc and plow-hand
on the place. His absences, must,
be few. He will havo little time
to lounge in the stores aud bar
rooms, and the days will only be
too few and too short to accom
plish tho work he desired to do.
When our land is cut up into
these onc-horse farms the country
will be populous—land will bo
marketable at good prices, society
will improve, and people will be
comfortable and enjoy themaolves.
Honest and prosperous labor is
tho price of contentment and hap-
pincss. Thore is no more wretched
condition than that of a man run
ning behindhand and plodding af
ter a business which is yearly en
tangling him more deeply in the
toils of insolvency.
If anybody is conscious of being
in such a strait, let him forthwith
reduce his undertakings, expenses
and engagements to a point which
will give him the control of them.
If he is in debt, sec the creditors at
once and arrange with them. Qe‘
control of your own affairs as soon
as possible.
“Tom Arter” (Bridges Smith)
has been to the exposition, and we
find this paragraph from him in
the Macon Telegraph of Sunday:
“Everything in Atlanta is “palace”
now. You ~ead signs of palace
sleeping rooms—two slatted bed,
guano-sack qnilt and oast-iron pil
low—of palace barber shops and
palace saloons, along the streets
on either hand. We paid forty-
five cents for a steak that would
have answered for a scoteh for a
locomotive, nnd a cup of cofTee
that smelt so strongly of ancient
roaches that it sickened us. For
a good square breakfast, tackle
not tlie palace hashcrics. Go to a
hotel, hunt up Ed. Callaway at the
Kimball or Henry Glover at tho
Markham.
Work on the lino of the Isthmus
canal has been suspended since Mr.
Blanchet’s completion, and at the
close of the wet season everything
will be ready for the commence
ment of digging and blasting, but
the men and machinery needed arc
not yet on the ground. There is
no sickness of any consequence.
Mr. Hcrzcnt, of the contracting
firm of Conoveaux & Herzcnt, and
Danzats,chief engineer of the Suez
canal, aro on their way to the Isth
mus to put the work in shape and
complete the organization began by
M. Blanchct, which, it is under
stood, was generally approved by
the consulting engineers and oth
ers in Paris.
The identical table used by Thom
as Jefferson for tea service at Mon-
ticello is in the possession of W. N.
Uuflln, of Danville, Va., one of his
lineal descendants. The table is
neatly made of hard oak, about six
feet long and four feet wide, with
two small folding leaves. Jefferson
presented it as a wedding gift to
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, a
grand-son, who in turn left it to his
daughter, Mary Ann Randolph,
upon her marriage to F. G. Ruffin,
who afterwards gave it to her son,
W. N. Ruffin. '■
FIFTY BALES OF COTTON FROM
SIXTY ACRES.
Fort Valley Mirror.
Learning that Judge F.-C. Fur
man, of our county, had been doing
some extraordinary farming this
year, we penned him in a corner
last Sunday and insisted on inter
viewing him on the subject of his
big farming. The points he gave
us are such as we like to get hold
of. They are practical and the re
sult of actual experiment, and will
doubtless do good.
Four years ago Judge Furman
went to work on sixty acres of
pincy woods land at Scoltsborough,
in this county, to lest the qnestlon
as to whether not the intensive sys-
tom of farming would pay on the
lands of this section. The follow
ing points furnish a satisfactory
answer to the question
Tho first year the land was pre
pared in the usual manner, and
turned out a crop of eight bales of
cotton. The second year it was
planted in cotton again, and made
twelve bales. By this time the
Judge’s ploughing and fertilizing
was beginning to tell, and he reap
ed as the fruits of his third years’
work twenty-three bales of cotton.
Well satisfied with what he had in
vested previously in his sixty acres,
the Judge this year put from 800
to 1,000 pounds of fertilizers on it,
and it turned him out fifty bales of
cotton and ICO bushels of oats.
Judge Furman has kept a strict
account of all expense incurred in
the cultivation of this land, and
finds that the nett profit, after pay
ing every expense, is eight hundred
dollars. It must be borne in mind
that the fertilizers uicd are of his
own manipula.ion, and of such a
nature that one crop does not ex
haust it—the land being perma
nently improved.
Next year Judge Furman will
S lant bis sixty acres for one hun-
red bales of cotton and five hun
dred bushels of oats, and feels con
fident of making what ho plants
for. With favorable seasons this
year he thinks he would have made
twenty bales more than he did: He
also proposes, next year to make
five hundred bushels of oats and
five bales of cotton on five acres of
land. "Tho fertilizers for the sixty
acres will bo 4,000 bushels cotton
seed, twenty-live tons chemicals—
principally acid phosphates and
German Kanitc, and imraenso quan
tities of stable and lot manure-
made Into compost under shelter.
This will be applied at the rate of
10,000 pounds to the acre.
Judge Furman is not only bene-
fitting himself, but teaching tho
farmers of this section a lesson that
will be of lasting benefit, if they
will but study their own interests,
and bo willing to accept the plain
facts of science when they arc
made plain. The farmers of this
country must do more braiu work.
We have no doubt of the fact tliQt
two-thirds of the money paid for
commercial fertilizers lms been a
cloar loss—or rather watte—be-
causo bought and applied without
any knowledge of tho wants of tho
land.
Wo expect to havo a great deal
to say on this subject, but enough
for the present.
(food Farming.
Cfccro Stark runs a one-mulo
farm up in Jackson county and
what is more lie makes it pay. Ho
made this year, says tho News,
fourteen bales of cotton, thirty-five
barrels of corn, ono hundred bush
els of oats and wheat enough to
keep him In flour until thu uew
crop comes in and other things in
proportion. On this same line
tho Columbus Enquirer-Sun re
ports that in Stewart county, this
year, Mr. W. B. Dalton, from
seventy acres in cotton, lms made
forty-six bales with threo mules,
besides three hundred and fifty
bushels ofcoru and other forage.
Mr. Tim Burgamy, on sixty-three
acres, will get about forty-two
bales, besides four hundred bush
els of corn and other forage. They
worked whito labor and rent lands.
—Hatckinsville Dispatch.
The Washington Post says that
Senator Sherman, who has been
down at Atlanta looking around
the Exposition, has come to the
conclusion that a new ora is open
ing for the South which will result
In her greatly augmented prosperi
ty. Such a prospect lms been ob
vious to ordinary observers for
some time past, but the Ohio Sena
tor seems to bo a long while in get
ting far enough above bis narrow
horizon to catch a glimpse of it.
The Senator feels kindly to'an ex
position that doesn’t expose.