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VOL .III.
TRI- WBE5BLLY.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. TUESDAY
MOKfllflG, JANUARY IT, IS8->.
NO. 107.
Siitescriptioii Hates:
I’m-Weekly One Year, - $4.00.
Weekly One Year, - - $2.00.
.-Sunday Iw.L'R One Year, - $1.50.
ATTORNEY at i.aw,
LEE8RURUH, - - GEORGIA.
Collections a Specialty. *
MnyHwly
W. II. UUKRItY. DUPONT QUERIIY.
GUERRY & SON,
Ambrtous, Geoboia.,
(Office up atl
m . __
Will practice in alt-the" Courts, hoi I, state ar..l
te'laral. r July 6-wswly.
W. P. BURT,
X3EK T 1ST.
AMBRICUS, k GKUR<JI^.
in the most
tv u»*ld K.r. Till' autiior'lm- '"£„£}
\isiteil the **<*uiitrl«* where the action of tills ro-
mantle story Jin.: Alirier*. Greece, Tu.key, Al-
f-ania, Moiitencicro, Rum a-thrnce into Borneo
union'/ Tin* flivco nnd *orccry-loving Malays;
hence :il ilcitcriptions of places, people, milliners
nn.l ciiMloms are aeenrate. Tie Kdtton do i.-d
-r *„■
IllVetf
n.u
I'll Kilt
4HI&4
in Iv In ly l!|i.s I
LI'II AND J>|
iellinsr It
ptcii-j * ti. D.p ajnssxmij! V
»|*lltsl .story to tell and enjoys
y W 0I have tli.ity-six jllnelruthi
A LONG IIISPANDO HOMAN STORY «
ntiiry. I.y Hev. Ed war I Kv.-rot
leading attraction of the Chalut
<.f the Hoc
The Suutiiern People and Their Ex-
Chief.
your law partner, nnd only left the
uis Republic
Vine voluminous narratives of
t individual experience and expres-
I sions of opinion that have followed
u i Gen. Johnston’s ^statement about
gl j the Confederate specie demonstrate
J ft rcmftrkablc and interesting fact:
fj g-j that the people of the South will
JJj § s | not listen to any disparagement of! vo *co in-tliu matter
The Conductor’s Roll Rope.
!"T*‘ • eit - v .ve*tcrday to attend 'court in
I rohably not a dozen men in a neighboring town.’’
Pennsylvania know how the rail- 1 m , .
road bell rope came into use. In Escape of “Billy, the Kid.”
the early days of railroading in j Albany special to New York Ifonid, 7tii.
this country tlm locomotive cngln- One of the boldest and most
eer was master of the train and ran - successful of escapes Irom prison
it according to bis own judgment, j was that by which this afternoon
tlio conductor having very little j William Burke, alias “Billy the
voice in-tlie matter. The collcc- Kid,’ - regained his liberty.' He
fluiirantcM ent infliction __
puhl'ii. All work wurranted. Office
•iroot, over T. M. Kden’-i. Refer* to
record. may 12 warn
ineicoit
Lamar
profi*
UlN-Nlt
II. 0. HINTON. J. C. MATHKWM.
m
Will practice in all tlio counties of thin .ludplal
Circuit, nlmi in Dooly county, in the Supreme
C'aiirt of tae Suto of Georgia, iml the District
Court of tho United Staton, and In all other court*
ny api-citil contract.
ortlce m llawkini’ new bailditnr, Lunar Street,
•luly 12th, 1881.
W. .1. 8KAK3, f**'
W. D. HEARS.
Dll. IV. J. SEtlJS A- M.
ELLAVILLE, GA.
I
DR. D. P. HOLLOWAY,
DJEIVTIST!
Americas, tin.
P KIIFOHMHall opi-riitlotiM on the Natural Teeth
uiitl liuM.rU Artificial Teeth on the latent at
no*t Improved met hod*.
Office, over Davenport A Smith’* Drug Store.
Iiiuyl8tt
C. R. McCRORY,
.Attorney nt Law,
’nfm
ApHiir. if O
Drs. Westbrook & Joiner,
1‘liy.xlrians nnd .Surgeons,
npeusonViElr,' 1 T V GEdnaiA,
Office ftt Drmj ktrirebl tV. IL-Glark. -
Mo.vis-ly
ILr.pRTU.tTED Kt>LIM.onl4 BALIADS.
.. 'i* ' ,r lofopmliig Little Lilian. nln.lt
their future riglit^ nnd ieM>otn*iMliiir« Wi<i»
Awake lmldly taken the hnd and doe what no
l’i , . h !".2V H,l u >»"“* r v lk. has ever .lone f,„
il« read.tra. Mr. liciijunim Vaughan Abbott, In
TIIK IHAVKI.ING LAW SClItMH.,
will deal with Antrric&iiJu'tit.itionrt andliwn*
ItfT. K. K. Bute, l7i,i|^i r ’
TO-DAY 1*/ I’KRH,
will dhcusn In bin vivid dramatic way, what u*
iiionlfi ton ontf* ,rlaat 1,1 ,h ‘‘ atmirn Irom
.el'i'S.S’ mi ‘” ll ”
SHORT STORIES FROM THE DICTIOXAItY
I.y M. A, will tel’ Hi- hi-tory nt
c.Tl.0. _wor.li. Ii. „ way t„ , Q ,! How to V.o
11if Dictionary.
Mlsn llat rin ban prepared a must elmriuing net
«»f WILD FLOWKR I'APKHS
ti be fully llluntiqtcd from nuture by Ml-s L 11
(|lie, two nnd'threQpveurM old fornnlu of
tl» colt*hmt»*d
. LeCONTE ‘REAR,
■ liamrol?
—ALSO, THE-
KIEFFER PEAR,
Guo yenr old, and the new fruit,
Uniinn J
ml
I III
foriiinmo'ti.
5 the now venerable math who was | Vinn of lares, “bossing” brcnknien, was recently arrested for robbing
•2 | the Hist nnd Iasi. President of their j supervising the loading ol freight President Kills i * a Cleveland bank
= Oonredevaev. This is the more <•■■- j ! “"l yelling -all a boar. I" was all “f $1 If.,OKI) in bonds. Failure lo
rious when it is ivllee ed Hint Mr. j 'be average eomliiulor was expect- hilly identity him as the culprit in
Davis lacks ninny of the elements c 'l d' 1 - When the Brie railroad that case resulted in Ids being dc-
of a popular leader; that Ids ad -1 '"’R 1 *" business that slate of allairs I livered to ollleers from this city
ministralioii wn . severely eritieised j existe I, and when Captain George I for trial on a charge of robbing a'
by many of the most popular .Sou- Ayers, of Oswego, X. Y., was ap- j bank in Cohoes of$9,000 in A moist
pointed conductor of the principal, last, at which time lie was enpiur-
tiain on that road lie fell the Im- ed with the spoils. Having been
porlanee of Ids position. | bailed in $1,500 for trial, lie failed
■he train of wliieli lie was eon- j to appear. On being brought here
duetor, was coiiiposed of freight from Cleveland he was confined in
and passenger ears, and fi ei|iiently the-Maiden Lane jail, in a room
Ayres met with fractious pnssen-i with other male |.risoners at the
gers who would not pay fare. Ayres i rear of the building, tlm entrance
(*oiil.l not stop the train wheneverlieing by two doors from the ball
lie chose to eject such men, because j between the jailor's receiving room
there was no way to signal lliu on-! and tlm Sheriff's office. The upper
ginecr. One day an idea struck part of the iron inner door isof
Ayres and procuring a long cord heavy bars with open spaces, anil
Jic attached one end to a small j in the top of the outer wooden one
slick of wood in the “cab” of the i is a circular hole covered jvith wire
engine anil ran the s'.ring hack to | net. Through these openings
the rear ear. He told the engin-! visitors converse with prisoners be-
Humphrey.
Among the more
I'arlor Coiimlicit.i, i
bi r*; Games, both I.
•ib’il by ilingrains ar
fresh and humorous
of U<
imusiiijr fenfurti
Awake
■Ml |or <m
« begun u
.... W....M uke -to ,x,oi iokuioeijLi;;!!;;
Ul.1.1 lolrrr.ll.:ir nn.l i.ra. li. i.l -ul.jr.'l'i|„.
maynzlito I.:., be... purm.o.i-i.llv tnlur.'fil t „| .
out this
NEW EDUI'AiTOIIAI. FEATURES.
Tlio Rr.dllw Oourft* for 1HS3 Itieln.l.o. the fol-
tow.iiB writ-.. .1, tM....;,-- rarb).
M.yo. Ubaru Slorlo., „lll..l by Arll.i.r Oil
lo do Tiling-, I.y ll, v. <■. |i. Tslbo'l.
“Sblrlov ll.ro," *y.
Old liooi.ii, by Ei.rns.tJi.gir»,l|.
TravoltittK U» Sol,oof, by Sr«s||iin Viiiiflm.i
Van Riper
fl:i3r ■ffllfflM
Itital
l.bji'FtwS
His Photograph Gallery
ml Htrengtli Papers, by able mil In
H.O.Gi
ATTOHNKY AT LAW,
OGLETHORPE. GA.,
practice In the SooUi-uestern Circuit
forth.
Health
What it* do In,tin., b,
Mixei llaneoiii paper.-* »n j,’,i
Natural PhilOM.phy, Astroimn
'tiny, Oinithoiiyy, r| ( _
lia«eeoii|lictsl1ophhlu
T - a r- -- w— M»*n *v*r bei-if.-, a \i-ry: ph-us
lollouing.
DRUG RTF l' L KXTR A V AG A NCR f
List apriug the l’uliilflbers of Wide Awake of.
feitvd Aiiirricuu artist fWNI, in throe cash prizes,
fi»r the Thti e l»cst draa ings lor IToiillspieers tn
the MaitM’ue. Tln*se Prize Frontispieces will
apjvenr in Wide Awake dining l«S2. The Cnsli
leuiisty,
NOW OPEN!
FINEST I'lI TtnES,
1.4 T EST ..IT IT. EN
nnd AM. SIZES.
SlilisiTieflon^diTiiriiiileeil
Pricks Moderate
them leaders, and that thousands
of intelligent ex-soldiers of the
Confederacy freely criticise his
policyytu.tiiie day in private con
versation. Notwithstanding this
they do not relish seeing him as-
SjdM iii public. They will not bc-
liotie any story to bis personal dis-
e red it, even though it comes from
or th|ougb so eminent anil respcct-
ed an;officer as General Jolinstmi;
ami they will not countenance any
disparagement of Lite high charac
ter forbhnOr wliieli they believe is
all that lie came out of the wreck
of the Confederate experiment
with.
Northern Kogabllcans have from
the Iieginning exhibited unconceal
ed impatience with this determined
disposition of the Southern people
to stand hy their vanquished nnd
disnppnbftgd ollief. But the Tact
is in the highest degree creditable
to them. As their civic chief, lie
had to bear the heaviest share of
the shock of llffe downfall. Ho has
}<<fic:Sense, an outlaw ever
e downfall. On him lias
eer. a big, surly Dutchman, that
whenever lie pulled that cord lie
must stop the train.
The engineer thought that this
bind tlie bars. At two o’clock a
man in a cardigan jacket entered
the jailers's room, asked and receiv
ed permission to talk with a friend,
new scheme was an imposition nnd | and went at oneo to the wicket,
an infringement on his rights nnd The deputy sheriffs were in the
ns soon as Ayres was out of sight
he cut the string loose from the
stick. Ayres struck a rough eus-
tomor that day ou tlie train, who
refused to pay faro, as bo was only
going to the next station. So the
been visited a larger measure of 1 L'nptnin determined lo make an ex-
Northern resentment Ilian on all! ample of him, and gave the siring
OVER T. WIIEATI.EV'S STORK,
liny
r.llu.rwKi,.
lui-iirly I*
io,lMll*. tunli.. ibe Hr.l Pi ho |J. t..r», A-»l«y-
loir, tl.o nu... .iwtly
ji.vn.llv niayuzi...',
lb. Mu-lo will lo-
LonU U. KIjmm., ii.ul it. ml.ii 1110 uf nt.ylliii
lk,o utleniiql.
1 OFKKI
Tb# Mtf‘T*pllo:i I'rico of XVIII,' v V»-4oli-*
boryi'iirf and n- t H|a>dlill lilwTalliy tin-
Publhbor. Iwvo loalilinl It. b-lvo i-n l. naw ■i.b-
-rillnr for IS,J,wlio-i- aami-, will. ,'i.fiO, j. n-roiv.
ml la-loro .Inuawry la', Iho in-toarr, Nov.-n.la-r
' ' riniuil^r, nlllii-yo.ir lrc«: Ail.lr.-.-
ll. LOTlIllOI-ikCO. 1-ubll-birw
Franklin SI., Il.irlua.
All!
, : : Gcorgin.
UUUWWP!'
Southern leaders together. Many
of these leaders—Lee and Jackson
for example—are admired through
out the North for llioir genius liud
peysaiml virtues. The Vice I’resi-
denftof till-Cunfederaev lias lived
welcomed and rcspcctid
" iPdimiCr of tin: National Congress.
I.ongstrect is qu olllcehotder miller
a Hqptlbliean aduLuistration. So
is MoNby, so is Mel.aws. A
ago flicre were more
of ex-relicl Brigadier I „ „
tlonal Congress, and the very man 1UI< I at the next station Ayres tool,
who so ably and long ballled Slier- j 0,1 In’* to »t and vest and got on
malt ill his ,inarch to the sea was | the engine and told the engineer
ChMfman (ii the House Committee | J-" B*’ 1 oil'. The manipulator of the
on ipilitnry All'nirs. The North-1 horse declined, and Ayres,
ern people, to their credit bo it i without any further ado, knocked
and ll.-,
ceully flu til it up in » m-nt style, Mini D better
Vrepftreil •than ever to wait upon Wq cuttoincni.
All who may wi«h to have Sliavinnilair i'uttinv
Hhaiu|KM>imr, etc., Uotio In flrat-eUm Rtyle. he
wouhl bo pleaae*! to have them call on lilm. Shop
J. E.
MUR If
n than n platoon ! have to lake a
iers in the Nil-! The engineer e
a vigorous pull, expecting the train
would stop, but it did not until it
readied the next station, and by
that lime Ayres was boiling with
rage. As soon ns tlio train stop
ped lit; went to the engine, and fix
ed tlie string fast to the block of
wood again, told tlie engineer that
unless lie lelt Hint siring as lie had
fixed it and obeyed tlie signal to
stop one or the other ol them would
sound thrashing,
lit the string again
"MWi
IA
j Rifting or Small
SHALL P0X1 l’ox I’ri-vniti-il.
Hi-i.kni.iii Stove op
£lOX' 3tX £XC'TIOO
Wo-tolies.
mtii
«J ewetry
Of th% La^p,sIrDe.si«;ii.s
.Wop*
lKJNIL
J. E. Sullivan
said, have forgotten their resent
incut towards all the Southern
people and tlie Southern lenders,
wltll a single exception. For some
reason, difficult to explain, they re
fuse to (lardon or palliate Jeffer
son Davis, and the very press that
In - reviewing the unliapyy history
of twenty yenrs ngo exhibits a wili
Sheriff’s olllee, and the jailer, hav
ing the keys In his possession, went
up the stairs to the next story. On
descending two minutes later he
noticed that the man in the jacket
Imd disappeared and both doors of
tlie rear prison room were open,
having been unlocked by false keys.
At that moment a man from the
street reported having seen two
men running down Maiden lane.
A look inside nt once revealed that
all the prisoners were present ex
cept Burke. A general police
alarm was promptly sent out, a re
ward of $1,000 ollered and dis
patches telegraphed in all direc
tions giving notice of the Kid’s
escape, but ns yet no truce of the
fugitive lias been discovered. It
is believed lie is biding with bis
accomplice in tlm city.
him lo the ground.
The blow settled loicvcr the
question of authority on railroad |
trains. The big engineer alidica-
ted as autocrat of the through train,
und the twine and slick of wood,
manipulated by the conductor, eon-
trolled its management for a long
while, until one day Ayres rigged
ingness lo bear the whole truth and "j 1 » hell and established a code of
give a fair Judgment upon tlm signals. This was the origin of tlm
other Southern actors in tliedmma, hell rope, now considered one of
neglect no opportunity to iuisrc|>-1 most important attachments to a
resent und discredit Jefferson Da- >R>houd train. As soon as the vul-
vis. Re ofCaptuin Ayres’ idea was dem-
A high spirited people cannot onslruted other companies adopt-
but defend their prostrate and 0< 1 *-he plan and the “hell rope”
vanquished chief under sneli cir-! H,, o" became u fixture on every
cumftancrs. They forget his (nulls | Gain. Captain Ayres remained
in his nlllictions. lie wasnn actor connected with the Krie road up
and a sufferer in a common cause j l “ lime of his ilcntli, which oeonr-
witli themselves, only the larger re, l hist summer in tlie age ol sev-
sharfc of suffering fell Cb-hini. They j enly eight years,
reflefct that if lie was wrong they
word wrong, loo, and in the spirit
of hdnorthey refuse lo yield silence
under the obloquy lieaped upon
him ns part ol the price of pardon
extended lo themselves. To
abandon him In his old age, in-
The Home of Ginuls.
Cincinnati Knijuirf'r: Captain
Marlin Van llurcii Bates, who lives
on a farm nor Seville, Ohio, is 7
feel Ili indies high, and weighs
47-S pounds. Mrs. Bates is 7 feet
II Inches high nnd weighs 4III
pounds. It is a difficult matter lo
convey an adecpuuc idea of the pro
portions of such a dwelling as tlm
one occupied by tlm Ohio giants.
A door that is six feet six inch
es high is a large size opening in
the sido ol a house—that is ad well
ing house, not a cathedral. But
the doors in the domicile of the
Bates giants are ten feet high, and
the knobs are nearly as high as the
reporter’s head.
Tlm house was built hy Captain
Bates in 1870, and is elegantly
furnislied. In tlm main building
oil tlm ground floor are, besides the
spacious hall, tlm bed chamber of
the giants, a sitting room and a
parlor. The couch upon which the
i»igcouple sleeps was ntado espee-
tatlfiMKRmaSU>‘fSSS^ !
thm given lo orders I.y mail.
so mi&vitsiUL
ATEA1«Tj», CIA.
DecemberU-lnm.
Free to JiBrylifl y
A Beautiful Hook for the Asking!
ai M - ennxi.' f 1,1 ***** Of di atli In tin-
"nSaJ,,!- ‘ * ijyf «
In* «-or|»sc—it will
Tcvprit any unpl.-jn
OF THOUSANDS WJIO IIAVK.f'MKD
“HOAD’S EUREKA LIVER MEDI
UM,”
is that »7 in the hrnt hirer Afn/-
iaily for them, and it is a curiosity
An Arkansas I'ernllurlly. j to look at. It is extensive enough
i.iiiii. iu-l Gui. ito. to give the groat people room to
'I here is a politeness, a kind of [ stretch ill, and it looks as big as an
ordiality, in Arkansas that you ordinary sized floor. It is renlly
will not llinl In many other states, ten lent long, wide In proportion,
Now, “Colonel” is a title of polite- ami about twice as high as a com
mon bed.
The magnificent dressing ease is
also a huge aflair, with a glass up
on it nearly as big as tlm side of a
. , . bouse. In the sitting room is a
iig that has either of these! B ,! " ef#l 13 iNtrixliieed you may . piano of ordinary size itself, but It
it?. . know that lie is willing to take is mounted on blocks two feet high,
several drinks, “Captain ’ is less so that tlm instrument is away up
lirmlty and sorrow to the attacks ! . “ . , ' lU, t u U ’ ck wl ' un
of his enemies would Im unmanly, Colo " l ‘ l "■Doduced to yoi,,why
dishonorable and disloval to the J' on nt ,,mc know that the gentle-
dishonorable and disloyal to the
claims oTfriendship; and tlie Soutli-
ern people are not a people to do
a thing th
qualities.
limn is perfectly willing to go with
you und take a drink. When
.-m.ivia. or |
It is a striking coincidence that - fqi tRnalv; you may owe him a
two of tlm purest citizens of our i "ieklo cigar. A characteristic of
comity and who were among tlm' western people is their forgetful-
earliest settlers should have ilied i proper names. In this city
I h iiic limn in iinr. I within three days of each other., hundreds ol people who associate
We allude to Mr. John li ven and together daily only know each
It lias become a household : Mr. .1. It. Itoekwell. The former “Gier by titles, i esterday a gentle-
lived in tlm county 44 years and 1 ' ni »> approached a group of’stan
In the air, out of the reach of com
mon folks. There arc two rocking
chairs in tlm room that are so high
that tlm reporter had to climb up
into one of them tlm same os an in-
fant'woulil clamber up into a “high
clmir.” It’is very expensive for
the giants to live, as they have to
Danc«*if*u<4
Mtai. 'r "*! remedy in many families ill file | iim laUr7"4u”ye"arsr' They Were ■ deii-armmd” ami, extending his pay such an exorbitant'' price for
v.'i'o- r.v.f-ni.ii.-iiiM j . . .... . ‘ the two Senior Deacons in Stewart hand, began to receive eongratu- j everything they wear. For in-
xvhere it is host /mown.
lalions.
> stance, it costs the captain $30 a
trontispli-.v: u!«*o, St Him
ami (Miund IB tin clobur
ttrapbad ro\n. No ch iyf wl —
this liandfc.me Inxik, •rhiufc caa he >btaloc4 only
hy application a* dw branch and kfthanlfMte
offices of Th«* Singer M*niir.ictu»Injt Co.
m SINGER MANUFACTURING CO.
all Draalax and
I Atf i.n-yar.l t*» fnini li I
Fbll Sjh-cHI* afiont* in
«iURBN ANNE AND KAHT I.AKK j
«.<si..r U fti.o n.-i-m.iyu-sM .,,»iin. i.M ! harmless 111 its action.
l(| Uilh yi.nr lisle nii<l wur iwM-kel.
i:..i.si/>.\n. aivnirri, | For sale hv all ilruggisls.
tlieir little stoiiiaelis. i licenses. The new law went into j state. Excuse me a moment. Say,” i Jobs have been revived.”
* j effect on Monday, and Omaha’s | he added, turning to an acquaint- —- • —
It is purely vegetable, and I40 Baloo|ls ,; t oncc , UmlniHh . ai.ee and drawingTiim aside, “who A paragrapher has discovere.1
. i is that man.' He seems to lie well Cliat, as a two-wlieole.l vehicle is a
eil to 32 in number, and the city <**►• I acquainted wil l, me, but blamed if j bicycle, and a tbreo-wlicclod vchi-
taiued $32,000 toward defraying j | know him from Adam’s off ox.” | ele is a tricycle, a wheel-harrow
its police ex|M-iiHCH. I "You ought lo know him. He’s | must lie an icicle.