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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.