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VOL .III. TRI-WEEKLY. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1882. NO. HO. FVBM8I1KD 11 r OFFICE OK COTTON ATENI/E. Su.T3scHpti.an. Rates: Thj-Wiskly One Year, - $4.00. Weekly One Year, - . $2.00. Sunday Iseue One Year, - $1.50. PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS W.H.K1MBROUH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LEESBURGII, - . GEORGIA. Collections a Specialty. Mhj11w1.v mrs. m. e. Raines HUDSON S CORNER, ■Americus, w. u. QUKimy. dui’ont oi'EmiY. GUERRY & SON, Americus, Georgia. .(Office np stair* over Oranborry it Barb stoie.) Will practice in all the Courts, both State and Federal. _ duly O-wswly. W P. BURT, DENTIST AMERICUS, IGEOK0IA. Guarantees satisfaction In the moat difficult cases. All work warranted. Office on Lamar street, ovor T. M. Eden's. Itefors to bis profea sionsl record. may 18 wmnq»«»it. 11. B. HINTON. J. C. MATHEWS. HINTON & MATHEWS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Court of tiie State of Georgia, and tbe DLtrii . Court of the United States, and In all other courts uy special contract. Office in Hawkins' new buildinr, Lamar Street. ♦July 12th, 1881. W. J. HEARS, >V. D. 8F.AI18. DR.1V.J. SEARS & SON. ELLAVILLE, GA. HR. D. P. HOLLOWAY, OJE3IVTI ST! Americu.s, C»a. P ERFORMS all operations on the Natural Teeth and inserts Artilicia! Teeth on the latest and nost Improved methods. Office, over Davenport A Smith's Diu# Store. maylStf " C. R. McCllORY, Attorney at Law, ELLAVILLE, C.A. Collections a Specialty. Aprlll5 tf Drs. Westbrook & Joiner, Physicians anil Surgeons, . NDERSONVILLE, : : GEORGIA, Office at Drug Store of W. M. Clark. MayliMy H 0 GARDNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OGLETHOKPE. GA., T0NS0RIAL EMPORIUM! HENRY ANDERSON R E8PECTFULLY announce* to tho public that bis ftarber Shop is open at all business liouta xml on Humbiy until II o’clock a.v. He cently fitted it up In a uent style, and is better pro pared !than ever to wait upon hi* custjimera. All who may wish to have Hhivlny, Flair Cutting Shampooing, etc., done In UrM-cla#* style, m* would he pleased to have them call on Idtn. Shop near the entrance to Harlow House. mnrl» Toys, Dolls, Vases, Smoking Toilet Sets, WasIi Boxes, Writing Desks. Handkerchief Boxes, Glove Boxes, „ N ei'klaces. Bracelets, Stati ess, Cups and Saucers, Mugs, Pitchers, Tkabets, Teasetk, Wagons, Trains, Stoves, Darning Eggs, Harmonious, Horses, Cats, Dons, Guns, Pistols, Balls, Marat.es, Toys, and everything to please ami clianu Ihe littlc oncH on that most mysterious and happiest tiny of the yenr when the spirit ual nndstempornl «eeiu to niret. Let all who are in search of Christmas presents for old or young be sure to call on A. J. & W. B. Hudson. Stock is pure and fresh Excellent Assortnmit ol , Dorsiiy Colognes Rubin's per fumery Toilet Soaps ven’ fine. Standard Patent Medicines Tooacco and Cigars, Van Riper HAS RETURNED! His Photograph Gallery NOAV OPEN! FINEST PICTURES, LATEST STYLES and ALL SIZES. Satisfaction (Junranteml Prices Moderate mantle story |li_ , banla, Montenegro, Ikiaelfr-theiice . F*n_ among the tlcrco and •orcciy-lovliii VTch« banco nil descriptions of place*, poop! and customs arc accurate. The Editors do not hesitate to say that an a brilliant story of adven ture it la.without one oble rival in current iuvcn- llo literature. This stoiy will be tally illusirated. THEIR CLUB AND OURS I* " • Hi I story by A I’uy only Fourteen Years Old. Til* tan and a Kent ncaoi tliooui-of-*chn«d lift* of a fnixed school of boys mid girls are de- E icted with the gny touch or a boy who knows lie ns a capital story to tell and enjoys telling it The story will hav* thirty-six illustrations. A J^jNG IIISI'ANDO ROMAN 8TOHY of the Stfond Century, by Rev. Kdwur<I Everett Hale, Will be a leading attraction of the Christ mas (dad) number, and will at once take Its place In the Ifing line of Mr. Hale's Aimous stories. Other brill tan t writers of Short Stories will co k tribute ta the magazine dining the year: Mrs. A. D. T Whiti.ey, Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson l“ If.’*I, Mbs. A. M. Dins, Bophie May, Mrs. Ki... Gannett. Wells, B-uah Ormo Jewell. Mrs. Lizzio W. Ghumpucy, Noah Terry, M. K. W. S. (Mrs 8h* rw ood), Author of “Honor Bright," Ac. Rich nfaterial from .the Kolk*Loreof all nations has been then our best hulladUts and artists for a series ( ’ ILLUI PRATED FOLK-LORE BALLAD*. In the nay «»; informing Little Citizens about their fid re rights am! responsibilities, wide Awake TfiMiy takes the lead ’and doe what no other magazine t *r j onng folks has ever done for its readez* Mr. Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, in THfl 'I RAVELING LAW' 8(11001., will dealrwith American inatit.itloua and laws: Rev. H. S. Hale, In hii TO DAY PATERS, will dlscgas in his rind dramatic way, timely aad imjiortnnt lit the world's affairs troiu month to month. Home highly interesting paper*, under the quaint tMrs of OLD-TIME COOKERY AND A SUIT OF HOMESPUN, ■IcHcUptllo ol early ilay. and ways, have h*oii written atid Illustrated gt “ England h'Mnratuad*. 8IIOUT STORIES FROM TIIE DICTIONARY by Arthar GUffiau, M: A, will tej' tits thlstory certain Words In n way to suggest How to V the Dicihtuury. Miss Iprris, has prq* rod u most charming iVkJLD FLOW Eli PAPER# H» be talM nuinre by ML* L. B ng the more/am uat tin fuafiireei will Ih> I’oiih 'lieltn, running tlirofiuli three milt bers; Gaatce, both tor Indoor* end out, accompa nled by f Ingram* and spliited illustrations, rr fr<yli nnd huniorous Wradw* of i'onntry Llfo, pictures without tig|._, •• ... - In the. Oi tol»cr Wifi* Awake was l*cgun u Great Germ Destroyer ,u "“ scionou and Arctic travel ami cxplo. rations. TlIK GI1TKAL’TH1AL The best 5c Cigars. Southeast Corner Square. WIDE AWAKE FOR 1882, Syumies’ Hole. | discovered an open sea full of birds Th. KJUor. an.i i-nMi.h'r, of H'M* Awake . i,ut 80m < ! “‘-Xty years n«o Capt. I nn<1 feathered creatures. The wa- announcement of leading fca- John Cleve Svnimcs, of Newport, * er was wa *’Hi, find waves were roll- ""khos TlIK HUDSON TO THIS nkva. Kentucky, promulgated a theory of in K ns though they came a long dis- Th. material, for ,humired tale, of a.i.eiitui. l l‘ e earth, through tile newspaper ! J; ! ,' ncc lln< * over ftn extensive sea. 1 f”ve‘i ,, '^DaJ“d®K,' l r’ °ThfTatl.“"blL ‘ "'^t?'! I nc8s nn< * ^ •eoturcs lietoio col- ll *e ancient idea that tho poles of 1 vi.itoi tie enuntrtea .heroMISactLi ”f tMa"r.v leges anti students, in which he ex- ^ ,0 cartli are snow and ice capped . m.ntt. II— Aygfora, iime^Tnt^%rtMw I pressed dissatisfaction with tho | ‘ H nntiqimtcd and unworthy of be- vinjt Malaya; Newtonian tlicoiy, and in wliicltlte ! '' c *' under tho lights of modern ojrle, maiiuen c l a j m(K ( tllnt tile eartll was glolllllnr, scionou and A mtln trnvol nn/l arnln. hollow and open at tho poles. But tho novelty of his ideas caused his theory to lio ridiculed nnd stigma tized us “Symmi's Hole.” In op- position to the Newtonian doctrin- The IVisoner’s Address to the Jury. es, he maintained the theory of con- centric sphcies with regard not on-1 Washington,—January 21.—In ly to the earth, hut all other planets, j the Gniteau trial, at an intimation IIo died in 1829. His principal i from Judge Cox, tho prisoner care* lectures, it is said, were delivered | fully nrrnnged his glasses,.and with during the winter of 182C-7 before feverish hurry hegun to read from the liu'ulty and students of Union I manuscript ns follows: “The pros- college, and it is said, they com-1 edition pretends that I am a wick- mandud the profound attention of j cd man. Mr. Scoville nnd Mr. the learned uud venerable Drs.; Heed think I am a lunatic, nnd I Nott and Wcyland. He claimed j presume you think I am. I was that tnc earth was globular, loIIow ! certainly a lunatic on July 2d, wh. n and open at the poles, that the di- j I fired on tho President, and the nmeter of tho northern opening I American people generallv, nnd I was about 2,000 mileaor 4,000 from ! presume, you think I was. Can outside to outside, mid that the i you imnginu anything more insane south opening was somewhat larger, than iny going to that depot nnd and the planes or the openings are shooting the President of the Uni- parallel with each other: but they 1 ted States? You aro here to say DARBY’S OVKK T. WIIKATI.KT8 STOIIK, Americus, aop2!-wtwtf J. I : Georgia. Prof. VAN RIPER. free to JveryMy A Rcnutifal Rook for the AHking! T H n r^fi l EWTN;IU4'u,.'iN.T’So?%'.| e istal card If »t a dLUnce) any adult |*er*on will prezemud with a beautifully lllu.tratHl copy ol New Book entitled UENIUS REWARDED, -on TIIE— STORY OF TIIE SEttISC MACHINE, containing a handsome and coztly steel epciating IrontUpioee; alx*. 28 flatly engraved ".»od cut*, and bound in aa eloborata blue ana gold IHbo- grapho.1 cover. No charge whatever la made tor this hacdzome b<»k, which can be 'obtained only by application at the branch and subordinate officea or The Singer Manufacturing C<>. THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. Trincipat Office, 34 Union Square, une ii, ly. w tr». New TIIE PHIEillX FROM HEI1SIIES. The lineet Hniehed.Ji arlLtic'airli-.'aud all ou reasonable term t» every Zt-ntlemisn i'l Americue. Call «n «n* a at my him* shop In front of Col. f». A. Smith a of flee, yn Jackson Street. Anuricus, fl«. ANDREW DUDLEY. Jun<*19.tf JEWELER, AME1UCUS, - GKOROIA, Splendid Sto.vk of "V\^a,tclies and Jewelry Of the Latest Designs All Repair Work PROMPTLY DONE. J. E. Sullivan SMALL POX KKAD1UATEB. Contagion deal roved. Sick rooms purified and made pleasant. lick per- d made pic •red and i » relieved and' Pitting of Small Pox Prevented. Ulcorx purified and liwalcd. Uangrene prevented and cured. Dysentery cured. Wounds healed rapidly. Scurvcy cured In short time. Ir.ah.it l.y bathing J throli It !< a wltbl’roi.hylutlcFluld \ .u,. " ‘ added f.» the water, i Soft white coinplealons securcl l>y Its use In bathing. Impu e air mndn harm- j lets and pnrltied by [ sprinkling Darby's , 1*1 it id about. To puilfy tho breath, | can’t bo surpaaVed’ il | C’holera dLalpafed. Catarrh rcUcvrd and : 8b 'P Ke ''« preranlodby cured 1(11 • *• In Cases of death III the house, it should ul who would like l*» read <*> » thorough si abo rt Intereatfcg’ hn«V practiciil auhjecta. magazine baa been pormancntlv enlarged to nu- mil this NEW EDUCATIONAL FEATURES. Tho Reading Course tar 1K82 inrlud.s.tho fol lowing sueieafUtpapcrt onch). “ * ‘ Arthur Gil Rev. C. R. Tnl hot» oiironTiti, liy Etimrat Ii»i Health and Strength Tape do altout il, by lb form uu angle of twelve degrees will: the equator, nnd is directly oppositu the lowest point ol the southern plane. Ho claimed that the shell of earth is nhout 1,000 oftl.'Vde'.t Now | miles thick nnd the edges ol the shell of tho opening, called verges, measure from the regular convexi ty without 1,500 miles, the verges occupying twcntv-flvc degrees. De- Iineated on n map only the outside Itnlfof the verges would show. All tlie polar regions of the present maps would bo out of sight. Travelers slate litc Indians in latitude 00 degrees north are in tho regular habit of migrating north or northwest on the approch of winter to seek u milder elimntc and desirable winter quarters. The Yukon river is on the verge of the northern opening, its mouth is much warmer than it is 000 miles up stream. In high latitudes the Inhabitants commonly speak ottho. south ns living colder, nnd they migrate north on the approach of winter to seek a warmer climate. Music, by llezekiah Duller- •y able autlioi h. Wn DIPTHEKIA Prevented. Erysipelas cured. Burns relieved inztant- •y. unt amcll. 1 An nniMotu for animal | or vegetable poinoua, stings, et<*. Dangeraun effluvia* of sick rooms and h«u»- pitalx removed by its Yellow fyver eradicate! Jo fact it is the great Disinfectant and Purifier! THETAItKI) IJY BARLOW HOUSE W. H.CLAY, Proprietor, AmericuH, - On. large and \icely Fitted Sample itooius Give ua a trial and^be c r^-twandw*alt 6m Seabron Feagin, (Hoccesvir to J. H f-ovingbrn.) FASHION ABLE UARUER, UNDKltT. WHEATLEY'S, OS TIIE COIINEE SHARP BAZOI1S! ATTENTIVE HELP! Lawson F. Collier, i ARCHITECTURE. Attorney-at-Law —AND- ltoal Kstate Agent. VUAl’TOy, QKOIMIA. Twoaty thousand acres o. r wild land f‘* i Dooly Couuty. r AM prepared to fur nidi Detail Drawing am [ Fall Mptcillciitiohs In ANNE AND KART LAKE r any other of the modern styles, »o m«elirinl t t*uit both your taete and lour iKg-kef. Addrca- It. 4. SIX»AN. Architect, or. II. ZBZiZM db OO., Hiss Kate King -KKKP8 ON HAND—- AT AZili TZMZ2S LOWEST CASH PRICES A LARGE AND HANDSOME .Selection or Millinery Goods THE: LATEST STYLES! Examine Jtc/ore Ion Purchase. Mia* Hate King. I'aMI. Sioarf. AortiU-u., Oa. Miscillancoti . . .. Natural Tliiiosophy, Astronomy, Chcmlsiy Oerdogy, Botany, Ornithology, etc. AitU'ts and eugraverx ha*a combined tnprmlu « finer illuatrntioua than ever before, a icrjr pleas ant indication of which may be gathered from the following. DELIGHTFUL EXTRAVAGANCE ! Last spring the Publishers of Wide An'ake of fered Aiuericau nrtint gftoo, In three caxli prlzea, for the Three liest drawinga for Frontispieces to the Mag ax on. Those Prize Frontispieces will appear in Wide Awake dining IHH*. The t'n.li Award of faou.ooo, and the ci»at of engrtiing dienrly 1300,no more), amounting in total cxi»oiifto to er.fHi (*>. make the Flr-t Prize picture, A-May- Ing,tint most costly frontlsplecu ever given inn juvenile magazine. The Music Will be 'Louis l!. Elson, und in fore attempted. OFFER EXTRAORDINARY ! The subscriptlo i Price of Wide Awake In | A so per year; and n- a sj» •el.-d llUtrulity tin PuMUhers have decidcil to give each new sub- liber for IKS/,whose name, with 8A60, St. XTifelxclae. whether I was sane or insane at the moment tlmt I fired that shot. You have nothing to do with my condition before or since tlmt shot was fired. You must say by your verdict, sane or insane nt the mo- ment the shot was fired. If yon Irnvo any doubt of my insanity at the moment, you must give mo the benefit of that doubt and acquit— that is if you have any whether I lived that shot ns an agent of the Deity. If I Ilrod it on my own ac- eonnt, I was sane; If I fired it sup posing my set fan agent of the Dei- 1 ty I was insane, and you must ac- qltjt. This is the law,as given in . a recent decision of the New York Court ol Appeals^ ' It revolution, izes old rules nhd is n grand step forwardaiuthii law of insanity. It > is worthy of this ago of railroads, electricity and telephones, audit well enmes from the. progressive State ..of New_York. 1 have no hesitation In saying that it Is a special providence in my favor,and I ask this court and jury to con- Cnptnin Boss in high latitudes | sider it. Some of the best people speaks of the Artie Bcnas calm and clearof iec, while nil south was a belt of ice, uud that currents of air from tlie north were warm, and mulled tlie ice. Captain Barry makes frequent mention of warm currents of air coming from the north and northeast, which doubt less came Irom the interior of the earth. Dr. Kune also claims tlmt in the far north the climate is warmer. All Arctic explorers state tlmt above and beyond 58 to 7U degrees north latitude there is u of Aincricn think me tho greatest man of the age, ami this feeling is growing. They believe in my in spiration, und tlmt Providence nnd I have saved the nation another war. My speech, setting forth in detail my defense, was telegraphed Sunday to nil the leading papers, and published Monday morning, ami now I utn permitted by his honor to deliver it to you. As he readied the point “I have always served tlie Lord,nnd wheth er 1 live or die—” lie broke com- nuhllil)' inugazini chIIciii l lo bIv I illi stnilioDJ that I of |n rbctloii, ln.tb ami Its ertlMtic to hoys uud g rla *’ - ou Id »,«• that of any other It has been culled i a rnrardt Its literary « merit." It wn. tin- fin :md girl, tho bud, nml bn. oatm-d t in- namu ol "Th* Chlltlreu'e Art Mnffnslue." The vrcaUnt living wrllvraof Europe and Am erlm uro nmong il. tiiNiinguisbi'd contributora: Cl.aib-. Dudley Warimr, llenry W. 1/mgfellow, •lobo G. Whittier. II. II. Dojresun. Huzo Holm, llrr i llurte, Gull ll.mlUon, Tlmiiins Hughe., l/»u l.s M. A butt, Doiieid G. M'lcliell, linnet Pres- ott .'*i“»»lbrd, ElizulM-dh Htuurt Pbeli,., (ieorge Mai Inn.aid, Wa.hinuton Gladd n. The Good.la Allred TfiinyMHi, John liny, Clun-ncr on. biitnn Coolidge, Kdw.rd ChrisiiunG, Hoh A D.T. Whltmn, France. Ilodgw.n uinett, Cilia Thuxter, Marion llarlui.d, 1. \V. Iliggih-on. I ucy l.artom. Noah Brooks, Author of A ice in Wouderliuid," Mrs. Gliphant, T. It. Aldrich, nn l hundreds of other*. What England Hay* of It* I»ndon Dully News: "W« wish we could point out it* equal in our own periodical literature/* The Mpeetutor: “It is the Lest of all children'* LHerary Woild: “There I. no magazine for the young tlmt can be said to equal it." etc. etc. ] llriUlnui Venture* *»f the f omtnu Fe«r. The ninth lolutae, which begins with the No vember, lh8l, mimta-r. will contain a new Herlal by Mr-. Mary Ma|m Dodge, edit' foxes nnd otlicrunimals arc in the Imhit of migrating north in all high latitudes (n the uppronch of winter. Those tlmt live ou tho northern side of the verge go r.ortli and those ou the southern side trav el south in winter. On the north side of the island of Spitsbergen tlicro are lodged vast quantities of drift timber of dif ferent species from any known lo imLiiralislH, and many plants have j been found drifted there tlmt tire | entirely unknown to Intnnists.; They are of tropical growth, but j could not have Honied from oqiui milder climate limn u lower degree, plctely—stopped, tried to choke Large herds ol deer, white liears, j down the rising lump in his throat, hut found it impossible to keep hack a gcuTiino sob. Taking out Ids handkerchief he Imried ids lace in it fora few seconds, wiped his eyes nnd with a determined cdbrt went on again. Mrs. Seo.illc was deeply idl'eetcd, and wept nnd sob bed bitterly for some minutes. Af ter tlie conclusion of the reading of the prisoner's speech, the court ad journed until Monday. Renew Your l.ense. There are times in everyone's life when energy fails and a miser- torial regions. The distance is too s'*' 0 fe r cl "‘« °' cr > nl .s- grent, the gravity of the plants ' t “ kl!n for ‘“ z "* e8 - I anger lurks m would not have allowed them to t 1 l . ,eSl; “sHioy ansefrom drift so far. They must have come < '-eased organs. Barker s Ginger from some warm region to t |, e Tome w II restore perfect activity north. Besides, the current s of j l “. the ocean there arc from the north, Nicholas, until Hkati'.," «•»«-.< lively In'hlciii Kilwanl E-jglt-i •linns Itriuk*« purify the blood, and renew your lease of health and comfort Advo cate. and consequently, the drift could have come from nowhere else. Tlie gulf stream passes around north ern Europe und Asia and to the south of Spitzlicrgen, hut the cur rent tlmt washes the northern shores of the island is from the Artie re gions. Another reason for the heiiefin ajwurm/dimaii in the Aicticregions is the fact tint the wild geese at t the latitude of 82 degrees, where ! plant now in use. Very large sums ti'.i'i'i* , wi^ , ^!ail!”!t'.'r,''wiih(i1!i l .!!i‘ , a'.y , 'i.ifc i Dr. Kane wintered, were seen fly. of money have been spent by inann- ■ ' ! .... ■ * ■ •' fact u res in experiments looking to the production of a perfectly color less glass, und if this lias been ac complished the inventor Ims a fortune within his grasp. Papers have recently been filed at the Patent Office, nt Washing ton, for a new piocess of glass manufacture, the invcntorclaiming to lie ublc to produce colorless glass, or glass of uny eolor or shade of color desired, and that he can do tills with inv glass making in tii. rat Century, i lay- r.,r Hi.m- *im Seiiwii, mg north at the approach of winter KmbrniilrrT for Girl-, Amateur N< w^Mqw, II* - , . 11 . lu-trated Uracti-al a ..1 ripthe l’a|»^ Arti- ami 111 tllR H))ri!)g Were 8L*t*Il tO 1’C- i.rLimu* Xml teiM-niber bt, Price, fi.oo a Of (.It. : tlie ft aturu* of tbl* ureal *••! r cslitlon Will 1st print, il of thi turn with tlieir young, nnd looking fat and sleek. They must have passed the winter in some warm re- | K'°" where the grass grows to soli everywhere, or tin* nnMteli- *" * * ~ TIIE CENTURY CO. Union Hquare, New York. WANTED NOW. 200,000 Pounds Animal liouc. Will Pay CaeiR. II. T. ItYIID A' CO. Idling IVIInesses. The hundreds ofliealthy looking women and children, that lioeii rescued Irom lieds of sist upon, Thu nest of the gray goose has never yet lieen found by man, and it must Is: in some region far in the northern extremities of mcn Greenland, or in some country still 1 beyond it, where thers is a tropical !>»'•>, sickness nnd well nigh death climate, a very paradise for the j *>y Paiker’s Ginger Tonic are the feathered creation. Some of Dr. j best evidences in the world of Its Kane's crew in his Arctic explora- sterling merit and worth. 1 on will i tions traveled in sledges drawn by j Onel such in almost every rommuni- 1 doga to a very high latitude, and '