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VOL. III. W3Zm!:ES.X J -X’ . A MERIC US, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING MARCH 7, 1882. JmcnjJW^CCOrto'MRS. M. E. RaINES|Great Germ Destroyerj A T.if.K ABORT MR. STEPHENS. j NO. 128. ei rcnusnuo nr W. Zj. C3rXj23E(33Xr3Em. illWIl O.V C«mj( AV£.\CE, Su.'c;=ripticr_ TRatec: Tiu-W’cekly One Year, - $4.00. • Weekly One Yeah, - . S2.00. SlE'-'i-AY lw.tR ()VK YrAtt. - $1.50. I JlfASiiG.lL it Uikii.itSiS t.i I!. 11. IIIKTON. j. a. MATFILWf HINTON X 31 ATHENS, ATTGiuvLYS AT LAW EL MAHDI. V.l»nt Au Ex-Member of Coucrci* j Tlic Coming of the Bud of (he World Say« of Him. j J.united for till* Year by Cite I Mohntnmertnu*. I.atiraugo Reporter. j Hon. ][. R. Harris was in town j Hebrew Lender, l.lie other day and was struck by i The wiiolo Mohammedan world our reportorial lightening. lie re- j w excited over the expected end of Bponded by giving us some inter-1 world Ibis year. The Moslems eating talk about Hon. A. II Ste-1 SU .V that most of the signs which phens. Mr. Harris said: j are to precede that dreadful hour “He is the most charitable man ! have already been accomplished, I ever knew. U j; imnlv * 1 *'•**• Cotton nud (train Prospects. Home Courtier. Though farmers ought to, anil doubtless do, understand their own business better than Journalists, it is nevertheless the duty of the lat ter to call tiie attention of the former to movements and condi tions calculated to affect their in terests. We therefore, at this time, when the ‘’pitching” of the year’s ellipsis about to'bo determined, w. ii. Kiiiiiiiou;;, ATTUK.YEY at L i tv, Li.GNlit.JtGH, - - GEORGIA. OoM.ECTlGXS A SPECIALTY. M") llv.'ly 'V. .1. .‘.EARN, \v. I>. SLA IIS M.W.J. KMS&ML ELL.VVILLE, GA. C. R7McURORY, .A-ttovncy ni; Jliiiw, f.i.i.avilli:, O.i. (.'or.i.ECTioNS a Specialty. Altil>5 If brs. Westbrook <fc Joiner, Physicians and Surgeons, XXIlEllSOXVILLE, : : GEOltGIJ Oliioo ill Drug Store ot V’. M. Clink. AI sty IS -!y II. (J. .GARDNER, ATTOUNF.Y at .raw OGLETHORPE. GA., nril.Ii practice in iIn* Soil'ii-wivUt rn Cir« ui' »? tlio a !|nlr.in^C(»uiitlpn. Prompt nU« n I ion “iven to ciiJIcPtlouH. may bur its, I'.MOMXU St.v Toii.kt Sets, Wa.su I!o.\i;.s, WitiriNd ]iiisks. UAxiiKKKCUIKF BoXES. (ils.VK Boxes, X Ei'KI.ArES. ■ I.XTS. S i'AT I ES.S. 1 1’S AX'11 Is.VLC EKH, Meiis, Pjtciikks, Tea rets, Tkaskts, IVaisonk, Tiiaixs, Stoves, DaRNIKII Klllls, lt.utjioNieTs, Houses, Cats, Does, Gens, i’lKTOIJi, Bai.t.s, Maiiai.es, Toys, and everything to pti-ase and charm tin. little fines on that most nivsterioiH msG happiest day of the year when the spirit- uul amlHteniporal HOfin loua-et. Let nli \vno nro in smirch of CbrixluniH pri-sent.*- tor ol.t or •young bo suro to null on Van Riper HAS ItETUHXED! His Photograph Gallery aid iv11• it be is eonvineed that the feady needy olijeet hr. claims upon him. j many, some i have known Inin to give his last, j and -cdirioi «) five dollar bill* to a charity wb n | »iuuki | lie was aetnally press EstajamraBUOBa j means to itieet his own While serving in me man | u “'e ....amy ueun accomplished, ..ouiu, io uu determined, v impos- j and that but two more are wanting, j direct the attention of farmers to npcal tor Those in wideli they profess al the fact that the Knglish spinners the liilliiitu.ilt are hieli are lumtills , innumerable earth-' and weavers are organizing a “short time” agreement by which they . ....... will considerably lesson the week. nud eclipses', and the deen- f ly consumption of cotton. They . deuce of faith among I IKS I. Ju i do this mainly to prevent u rise in necessary j tL} late war between Turkey and i tl” 1 price of the staple, or to force llitssia limy see tlie fulllllmeiit of prices down lower than present ** rc»lli«ved instant * prevcnifd. its QRr. . In cases of death In the (•mice, It Mhonld al- | way* b.- used about | Idiptk>:«ia£:«*m*>*- , . . , .. . - . r uri.pti by i ■ . I; I board oil at thu auDiy liohel i vhe propbeey that Qog and Mngpg, j finotalions. Cotton planters should I’rwubu Ri "it,1» Mr. Stephens and was with ! lib* fair-haired tribes of the Xorlh, | nis'o n'dte the fact that, small as jd." l r ..ati.. •■BauaBw j him jnltnost. daily,seeing him under j should bt'eak forth across the bar- Hie receipts now are, the stock V’ 11 t'! i "trii.ii -»11,.i,-1. -nil cirfiirnstaMces— in physical af- riots which J>hnT Karvien built I docs not greatly diminish—it is nnd I fltettofssml heart troubles, as well | against then, in the mountains of j very nearly as large now, taking a in tuasons af comparative free-j Armenia. In Gladstone they see ! t»o stocks at r.iveroool and in the tlora ffom suflhring— and 1 give l l‘ l! anti-Christ. | ITniteil States ports together, as it The two signs wanting nro the I ,va8 0,1 « month ago, nolwithstand- descent of Jesus upon the earth and 1 *••!? Hie (act that ti o receipts dli the^ apparition of tlio ninlidi. in j ring that interval have been at autieipation of the early coming ofl It'nst two hundred tliousand bales Christ,, the <dcan8i»jjr-.itmi lUfiairing sliort 6f the receipts tor the cor- of the. eastern nlHAfet,.Wdledt life | respomling period of last year. Minaret of JosuspEof . the great Tim whrld’a vicUhio .., nn i.. .. .Mosque ,of Damascus,, was begun about two years agin The uppuii- tion of tlie maliili f:»j however, rc- larded as the greatest' of all'sign's jjS( AIJIjKT T s Fj.vi',’ e ■|a™» } «*Ilow fwe In ft*cl it i« the pent An ftlillOotc for tMiirnn 1 or vegttnblc puieoufl, Htiiiifs, .•!(*. l ( llKl*AUEO liV a - . x.iz. sazaxjiiNj cs- oo„ T.:3,wgc22. F. Ccllior, Attomoy-at-Law —AND— IvGtil J’lrsfato Ajgrnt. I) 11A XTO .V, G KOJl G1, ^ Twenty S^oiMUcd ncrcs of wild huJ fur T0NS0RIAL EMPORIUM! K OlV Oi VKM ! pi XL.-.T pimn r;s, B.VJ'aiST STYLES and AI.J.tiiZES. Satisfuclion (Jntiraiilcoi! Prices JIoderate OVKR T. WIIKATI.EY’s STORK, Amoricus : : Gcorgi.i. T'»r. TAX RIPER. I SiiIMvimi, j it as my opinion, lortnid from this intimate knowledge of his charac ter, that he is one of the best mtfu —- _ i I f’Vtr saw. On one occasion, a ■'"XI ra"',K"'vky yonli. from tlie coun- r.-mov,-a ty E. j try s«nt iii Ins card, and vtt'-s usiier- iev.reimlic;iti..i [ cd into the presence of the great | KUitesnian, who k.ndly inquired liis I errand. The verdant young man ; answered tiiat lie bad a talent foi 1 IlIHIt I . | drawing, and had come to Wnsh- I nigton to get work to do as an ar tist. Ildr. S. tasked him if lie had brougjit any specimen of his skill in that line? The applicant for aid thereupon produced several erndolbiit creditahio sketches. Af ter looking over them Mr. S. in- , forma,d him that they were much ,a ! hotter than lie could hope to see j from one who had enjoyed so lew | advantages.. He then directed ids: | to got into a certain street and get j a ciio^ip boarding house, at the j same time informing his would-be yiro/ear that he would pay jiis ‘hditdUon the ondition that he I wo ii ill make his (Mr. Stephens) j l’uoiBf ids headquarters uud Work I tunica his eye. This proposition wes gJadlv accepted, for our inno- I cent young man bail, in auawer to a question concerning bin liuaucee. , informed Ids licnefactor tiiat lie liad | come to Washington with only a I lew dollars—enough fo maiiilain j | him only a few days. lie was soon !/ ' installed in his new study, ami bo- | gall his labors by making a crayon sketch of the great commoner him self. In a short time lie had com pleted the job, and Mr. Stephens , v (, V,, ,-r, . wsa 80 well pleuscd that he became 'A l‘ 1’jGJ i\li\ J‘j|t. ) J | his culiiusinslie irieinl. With such j tin influential patron to aid him, 'll* in'‘‘Ii Into in (ho lliU ' vo " ll ® un< * lulll ’’ lioU9 h,;< -' tt ' | ”-'r Tlie wbrld’s visible supply, too, is now 300,000 bales larger than in February, 1881. This shows that conslidiption does not gain on sup ply, oven while tho factories nro _,iL.i.ei» .i,-. mi; III UU ttlJAUM J-.l f osvil *' HUG WIU IllVkUIICO UIO forahadowing the Coming end of j r unuing full time and receipts so tile world. Mohammed, it is said, prophe sied tiiat the world should not have an end till one of his own own family should rule ovur Islam, whose name and whose father's should be the same as his own nnd his father’s own (Abdullah), it lifts long been tlie belie! of tlie Moslems tiiat a descendant of the prophet of the tribe of the Koreisli will rule over the Arabs about tin beginning of very light. Unless there should lie a considerable change in these 'conditions, tlio stock next fall will bo too large for cotton to command a high price. Our farmers would do well, also to consider the condition of Eu rope before tlie y rely too trustingly on tho reports of the promising state of tho small grain crops anil tlie prospect of ail iminenso West ern corn crop. Tlio political out- ' tlie /vraiis annul me cm com eruji. me political out- thu fourteenth cciitu- look in Europe is threatening, there maim, and then elm being several‘‘comniications” tlmh MIX FitOji M .I-:! i. GBORGIA fi<v, yn .Jnclri'on street, Artorlci’n, Oi. ANDREW Dl'DI.EV. .lMnel9.tr • ."Loans of Money i Will l»o cezotmtitl on S'ivo Ycarffl" Tiraol on lni|iMv*i! firms in Sumter ni.d WcJ». terroi!ii- ii **, ljy 1,. B. N« 'huh. Atlanta, <Ja.. in Funu* «»? Three |I-i:i lr c! PoEarn nixl annnrd. All s.i.i*!!- SS I btill have ou 1jhu<1 so w Ot tho«*f £OOu Ih ifk, J WAFTTI-ID 2TOW. 200,000 Fouiids ADiiruil Done. WlllPay Caaii. R. T. I! VIE) A’ Ci>. Im.u’.uniCm Dwellins; Houss for Rent, ~W aitolies and I j J ewelry I Of tho Latest Designs [All Repair U'ork j l’ROMITI.Y ])()XE. | E. Sl’LLlVAN { J3A11L0W HOUSE AV. Oiopriefoi’, i ■loasoR, OlIOlCO g" Riid fair dealing’ will tell. Come and see us. ’! || Pnnrl P_ lh | R B ■J *.ipul progress, ami is now , j regaideil as one of tiie most prom- OOUS I ising mtisis in [he capital.” ‘1 ids is only one out of a great number of iii.,lauoes wlieroin Mr. •Stephens lias demonstrated his .-mi sillily with the poor and > ■ niggling by extending opportune help at a personal sueriliec, Air. Harris added tiiat the eminent statesman was a strong calvanUt in Ids views—believing that his days were like the chords lit a eh’i-k—ordained to be a certain length and witen the ’.vhe-'ls of life '"'ill mop—then and only then. ry. of the hegira, and then tin gifthdi will reveal himself at Mecca and the era of tlie callphnte bn bfougjlit, to nil end. Tlie beginning of tht fourteenth century is near at iiaiid; the caliph of Mecca, AL- dul.Mutallib, is reported to have raised the standard of rebellion and proclaimed himself ruler over the Arabs; and to cap tho climax, so lo speak, the inalidi himself has appeared at Mecca in the person of Abdullah, the son of Mohammed, by a mother of the name of Kin- inch. Tlie name of tho prophet, his father and mother am proper ly grouped together, and the cir cumstances of time and place all ansiVer to the prophecy. If anv- thing else were needed m convince the 1'u i till it i tiiat flic end of the I world was at Iiaiid, it may lie found In the cholera now raging in at Mecca, and which the Arabs call “l.lie yellow wind of tiro,” and this is the fire which, according to ! prophecy, shall consume tlie Hed- ' jaz at the moment when the malidi ' hi being several “complications” that may lead to a conflict of grout powers. Should war grdw out of any of them, them would be such a demand for American grain as would keep prices up to high fig ures, anil the reliance upon cheap brcadstuirs from tho Western gran aries would prove delusive. Ou tho whole, it is certain that there will be a demand for largo grain crops, but not at all certain tiiat a largo cotton crop will prove reiniinemlive. Tliu Xcw York Tribune and Times (botli Republican papers) I comment witli much severity oil the nomination of Mr. Conkling lor the Supreme Court bcancli. Tlie Tribune exhibited n concen tration of bitterness far exceeding that of any Democratic journal. It said: “Guitcau lias made a Su preme Court Judge as well as a ('resident. He is not bung yet. There is no human being in the country so ignorant ns to believo Conkling would liavo awarded the /i.u/.i/.*.,s7:, Ajmncvs, <ja. [GROCERIES!! vr, ii.c Amri’ii.’iis, ” Dnyr, LargcmidAi,; h Hl'silSaiiiyl'' &.•» 1 - jfili ,t:. aUli. f inding a bull Dug. j An up country man took an old I suit ot clothes, stuffed it full ol HAYI; ux JIAXG ACGltl’EEfESlOCK j ««d set it upon a ii:uee I round the yard of a mail who hi pi in bull tiog. In tin: moonlight it &••• „ I looked luiicli like a man sitting on i.. / 7!* V7 :L: L X / ^ / :* , :! ,/ /:. r .9 ! null the do^,ailLMl ««,» | bfiiiml it .nnd took u at that j portion ol' the trousers tiiat came j over the fence. The animal ex- j piloted to hour a fearful yell, and j when none came tiie dog t ried ! another chaw, and auotln-r, and ho- ! g.Tii to wonder what in “the sweet [ bye and hye’’ tin; man was made oi, and after seven dillcienl at tempts to extort a serein h of agony, the dog gave up in despair, and went away behind the barn and blushed and u it miserable, and it wts more than a week before lie could get his nerves up to tasting of another pair of trousers. It w.tsan awful di-ippointmenUo th« poor dog. - -- appearance. r - ... v Tlu se things are now regarded | bighcHt judicial ofllce in the gift of by the .Mohammedans us ol greater i t,le ! r< ; 8k ] cnt if a cold-blooded as- importance than tlio settlement 0 ( j sasalu had not first murdered tho financial questi-ms, government re-1 ^^‘dent whom the people elected, forms,ete. Indeed, in comparison, I, °. r ^ ^ horrible murder, no man those tilings which so deeply inter-! ! VI 'V? by tho people of est other people are thu merest, 1 , ‘ded ottttes more responsi- ti iill's in Moslem Iiutiulis. i , 1 ’ 1 ” ll “‘" Mr. Conkling himself. The _» . . May after Ins resignation his dis- Ti'li’grapliic llrlefs. ,'ciple Quitcaii bought tho pistol, Tiie severe storm of Monday j 1,1,11 1,10 V0 O’ physician, who was night unroofed a number of houses I “Rerunnls called til to probe the in Galveston, Hempstead, 1’ruiYio I I'resI'Iciit’s wound, went about Vieiv. Jiryau and Valley Mills, sa .V i «g that Oarfleld deserved to bo fex. Damages reach many thou-1 1 * 01- .sands ol dollars. Three miles of the Iron Moun tain railway have been swept away. w INKS AND I.D)i:»)R^ r!‘.VMI’.WSNK. jj ^ 2^ 2j‘330TIO I\T A hove Vicksburg tlie levees hav been broken in several fihices. A i deal of suffering among pco- D 1 ’’- Two Austrian detectives watch cd Gen. Skobelolf Lo tin frontier. A lire in Jackson, Toni;., Fel A WasJiington wag is credited witli the following: U I met the chief justice awhile ago, and 1 said, ‘Waite, old fellow, if Koscoo is made judge and a ease comes be fore your court, and, after tho ar- i watch-' £ ume, d, * ie 0,1 f >Hc side and you Russian I :in< * n11 l,, 7‘ J u dg®® on the other, i what then V Waite hesitated; but f said: ‘Xow, between you and to go no farther, how would it 2*Sl!i. destroyed the Odd Fellows’* ,w jj.,11 be. With a smile the chief justice . ; replied: *1 suppose Roscoe’s opin* Mi. Huq,hens 1.’, urging tho coin-1 ion wo „u | iavc to stand a3 the . t t I judgment of tho court, because if , l 0 . A 1 1 ’: i . 8t ’ it Ji'ln’t he rvoiihl resiun, and that, "lllciatcd at the 'incrul ot Dm hop , yo „ know would never do.” t 1i:ii In.ton, yesterday, i - ilE.Sf li.t.’.XB.S GE ^FLCSIT^CT H S. Ti) Iii® y/ii3 Cootsnjlslc Esiiitei: Saabrcsi F’o argirt, TOBACCO AMD CIGARS [ AM r<rt*p3r'.l :«» ftirr.lxh iK-lail DruAing a; rnll ?*»»• in uvnr.x axm: a.\d hast lake; :• *n^ . ili-*r of tho m.n.Vrp >lylos-o , 1-nit !o»h ; *.:ir ta-r*- sR'! t.»ur r^x.kor. A'lilroti II. I. M.OAX. Ar* l.i:o t ;i. • Ans.;rl«’im, ■ and can lAsnioNAuu: iukher, UNDER T. WHEATi.EV S on the LOENEh SHARP RAZORS ! ATTENTIVE HE I P AN INDUCEMENT!! Call nnd £>oo XTa t i'l.'IIWtlN Independent: Coliiin* In: Josscy, alias Harrohl, colored, from Terrell county, near Browns Station, cairn- to eiii.fon iastilon- da_,. it appear.-1 Imt he coin mil ted a :-ipo on a colored girl near II.at place last tail and ran awnyjustbe- foie Christ mas. stoppino in Amori- e i'll- sli»-i i.'f of Terrel! eonniy earned him down on Monday .even-1 ing to answer. Two large whales were recently captured near Brunswick, l-yncli in Chaihi.tuu, yesterday. Tiiousumls of citizens marched in I A WOman’s b’xperlenee. tlie prom saion. | Mothers nnd Daughters should Tin: Mcthwiiit chiireli at Spring-j feel alarmed when weariness con- liel.l,'i’enii.. was destroyed by lire staiitlyoppressed them. “If lain February 28th. freifui from exhaustion of vital .Mrs. Alice Keillor, ortho Knnnai powers and thecoloris fading from Abbott troupe, has sin d lor a di- ,n . v r,lce < I’srker’s Ginger Tonic, voice from her husband, David T. ' « ivefi ‘l“ick relief. It builds me Keilier, of New York. U P nnd drives away pain with J. W. Crow, of Friar's Point, 1 wo,,,| '' ,rul ‘■'“rtainty.’’-Buffalolady Miss., lias failed lor $75,000. * ... -* * —, _ . ■ ’ Elegance and Purity. About 1,500 Chinese arc landing l.adies who appreciate elegance at San Francisco daily, and the and puritv are using Parker’s people of the Pacific con«t are ' Hair Balsam. It is thc'best article pyc-Ssing the passage of Hie anti | sold for restoring grey hair to ifs, Ciiinese immigration hill. | original color, beauty and lustre