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W. L. OIiUMEB, Editor.
ORIclul Organ or the City of .Interims.
Olllclal Orson of Dooly County.
TI'FNUAV, ItlAKt'H II, INM'A.
TO POSTMASTERS.
When newspaper* are not called for It In made
- v -* duty of I’o»tma*trrs under the law to notify
tho proprietor* of thU fact. Ciml*, already print*
e«f, are Airmailed on application to the 1'ontinatter,
wltoae only duty will lie to (ill out with tho name
f the party not getting the paper.
The building of the King cotton
manufactory in Augusta, lias be
gun.
A new bankruptcy bill bus the
reported to the senate by been
Jndlcary committee of tbnt body.
There are many sad hearts
among the half-breeds that Conk-
ling cahnot lie induced to wear the
robes of u justice!
Colliding nml Ills Collegers.
Ht. Louis Tout.
Twenty years ago Cockling.
Blaine, Allison, Winduni and Wil
son were all Republican members
of the House together. They were
all poor at llmt lime—very poor.
They were about the same age,
laid about the same start, and have
been in public life constantly.
Blaine is a mill ionaire, Allison
is another millionaire, Sherman is
trebly a millionaire, Windoui is a
millionaire. Wilson has also got
to be very rich; but lloscoe Conk-
ling, the ablest, greatest, proudest
of them all, is poor to-day. No
man came so near to be acting
President of this country during
the eight years of 1.1 rant as Conk-
ling. N'o man in Washington, ex
cept Grant, bail such power, such
| influence, such oppoitunities,
Ueoclicr is nceustoined to stencil- Conkling did not profit by them.
es or vniiou* characters, but. sue- ,,e is , l ,oor l J' th ‘" clm, ‘
, . , . . , .... acterizeil the* difference between
embed to Hint ol the Chicago , lim otller leaUers of Mh |mrtv
river the other night, during the ; ——». .
Telegraph dispatches slate that
the condition of the people in the
Mississippi Valley is not ns hud as
was at first reported.
Hon. S. S. Cox lately lectured to
an audience of colored people in
Washington. He was introduced
by Frederick Douglass.
It is said that the Welsh arc
feeling the influence of the agitation
of the rent question in Ireland, and
are beginning to demand great
reductions.
Mason (lets Bight Years.
New York, March 11 The sen
tence of Sergeant .Mason, who fired
at Guitcuu, lias been approved by
General Hancock. The sentence
is, “to be dishonorably discharged,
with a loss of all pay and allow
ances, and to be confined in the
penitentiary at bard work for eight
years.”
PETITIONING FOR PARDON.
A petition to President Arthur
for the pardon of Sergeant Mason
was circulated here to-day. It lias
already received the signatures of
a large number of prominent busi
ness men. The grounds presented
for the exercise of executive clem
ency arc, the excitement under
which the shooting was done and
the claim that punishment enough
has been suffered to meet tiie de
mands cf military discipline.
during
delivery of a public lecture.
Everybody says, " just like Conk-
ling.” Well, Conkling is young
yet, nml lias liail high aspirations.
A suitis before the Supreme Court
of Canada in which the costs have
already amounted to$40,000. Mr.
Maclnrcn, owner of certain timber
lands, improved a stream that
passed through Ins land so llmt it
He does not propose to retire while , was navigable for logs. Mr. Calil-
tlicse may yet be realized, j well his next neighbor above, took
v • — j advantage of this to float bis logs
Justice Gray, of the II. S. su- down stream through Madmen's
prcine court, is a very fastidious I lane, and the latter took out an in-
gentleman. Jt is said that lie has ' junction. Caldwell contended that
been endeavoring to reform the I Mr - Mnola . rcn llad 1,0 ri S l,lR
, . , . .1 over running water as to stop an-
lawyers in the matter of wearing | otllcr lnnn from lloiUin{ , ,i OWI1 | 0 g 8
overcoats in court. They will he
permitted to wear vests if they
are well pulled down.
On another page will lie lonnd an
article from the New York Sta
on it. hut Vico Chancellor I’roud-
foot, at Toronto, gave judgment
for Mnclarcu. The case was onr
ried to the Court of Appeal, mid
tho Judges there, by two to one,
reversed the Vice Chancellor’s dc-
, ’ cision. The next step was to the
predicting a very warm and almost I Supreme Court, and, whichever
unbearable summer, ll whnt the j way tho judgment is given, the case
article says is true, its nbout time
our people were looking up more
eongenial quarters.
It is estimated that of the popu
lation of Tennessee from 11,000 to
5,000 persons living oil the .Missis
sippi river are in need of assistance,
and that in Illinois 4,000, and in
Mississippi mid Arkansas 10,000
each are reduced to want by the
floods.
On Wednesday last the annual
meeting of the Muscogee Manu
facturing Co., was held at Colum
bus, Gn. The report of the Presi
dent showed the earning for the
year to lie $:10,T00, which is I ni
pt r cent, on tho capital stock of
$157,500.
The recent heavy losses and fail
ures iu various parts of the South
out of gambling in cotton, grain
and railroad securities, have given
rise to a discussion in tlie* papers
of the moral nspeet of such specu
lations. It is pronounced to be
nothing but
speculators
whatever
wealth of the country.
A gentleman in llnpides Parish
Louisiana, cultivated one thousand
>acres in cotton last year, and lour'
ii undent acjrcs in Bermuda grass.
Tiie cotton yielded him a net re-
tern of about one thousand dollars
less than the grass. The cotton
was cultivated with severe manual
labor while the grass was handled
by machinery.
will lie taken to the Privy Council
by the loser.
A case of considerable interest
is now before tiie Supreme Court
of the United States from the State
' GEORGIA SEWS.
Home is to have an ice factory.
Albany has another burglar. We
think it high time that people pay
their printers.
The next report of Treasurer
Speer will show that he has $750,-
000 of State funds.
The department of the deaf and
dumb asylum in Cave Spring will
be opened on tiie 15th.
Ban Poster, Tate of the defunct
Sparta Times and Planter, is now
connected witii the Sunny South.
The Millcdgeville Herald lias
been sold to the Union and Recor
der, and tiie Herald's late editor,
ltev. Elam Christian, will start a
religious paper.
The Sparta Ishmaelite, etc., has
entered upon its fourth year. It
says it lias no wealthy or influen
tial friends to back it, but just
struggles along the best it can. Ill
this case truth is not stranger than
fiction.
Seven thousand and five hun
dred acres of land in Buinbridge
were sold on March 2nd to North
ern men for $1.50 an acre.
The estate of the late Cupt. Win.
Kidd was sold at auction in Atlan
ta on Tuesday, bringing $182,-
400.
The Grifiln News and Covington
Star arc afraid that there will not
be enough corn raised in Georgia
to allow any of it to be distilled
into whisky; and the Athens llan-
ner is afraid that so much will bn
made as to permit the manufacture
of whisky. Wo do not nee any
prospect of a “coalition” between
these antagonistic prophets of evil,
but there ought to be a safe mean
somewhere.—Rome Courier.
The golden mean is enough for
food, so that none need be brought
from the West, pet The West
make the whisky while the South
makes tiie food.
Atlanta gave a showy reception
to Hon Win. K. Dodge, of New
York, on Tuesday. The Constitu
tion calls it “appreciative and rep
resentative.” The special charac
teristic of Mr. Dodge which it was
designed to honor was his devo
tion to the cause of temperance—u
very good and laudable cause; but
it the Hon. Will. E. Dodge, while
I a member of Congress, had been n
little more temperute in bis animus
toward the South, we should have
thought him more entitled to hon
ors from Georgians. Classes not
“represented” would have better
“appreciated” tiie appropriateness
of the reception Rome Courier.
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enterpri-o,new conflict*, all press for attention, I
provoke inquiry and force discussion.
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understand the situation that he may till the full i
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■VMERICUS, GA.
OKKICK ON COTTON AVENUE, j
AMERICUS, GA.
"f' i'^'i."' 1 . Hecms tl,at March, 1882 James Howell City Marshal Sales for April.
I. lansli, of ,\ irginm, purchased \ iSwearengon, in the seventy-third BK S(III) TIIB ,,, TV
Rivers, of the same Slate, in I.8fi3,
paying him a portion of tho pur
chase money and giving bond for
| tiie residue. The defendant now
claims that it was a Confederate
con
furtlie
eipation the negroes were free at
the time of their sale. The case is
an interesting one, and is attract
ing considerable attention.
itr^ct, if a contract at all; and
rtlier, that under Lincoln’s onian-
n number or slaves from George I .Year of His age. He purchased the
lot of land on which lie died, in
August, 1827, for $100, nml tiie
latter part of that year with his
wife, who still survives him, lie en
tered upon the land, then an un
broken forest^ with an Indian pony
and a small bunch of cattle. This
place lie settled for a home and
lias remained on it for fifty-four
years—lias raised eleven children
to be grown—nine of them still liv
ing and in their various sphurus
in life nrc doing well and much re
spected.
Though frequent inducements
were ofleted him to sell out, lie re
fused them all saying “this was his
Texas,” and by bis indomitable in
dustry and economy, be enlarged
bis place by purchase and improve
ments until lufir it is one of the
Amcrii
lowing described property, to»wlt:
One house nml lot iu th« city of Atnerit-ti
Gu., uhounilud m follow*: South by Koi
street, east by lumi of Tom E<lwiir<U, noit
lond of Kvelino Jantc.vwrKt by* inml of JL
.Tone*, contain* 1*2 aero more or lu**. Levied on
iia the property of liock McCoy, to *:tti»fy one
city tax ii fa in favor of the Mayor and Cltv
Council of. Amcricua. Oa., tor tho year 1H>1 v>.
Dock McCoy.
At the name time and idnce, <
the city of Atnurtcus Gn., Ini
*oUtl» by Jefferson atreet, w ?*t by laud of G. W.
Glover, en*t by vneant lot, north by tho t-nniiin*
age lot. contain* 1 acre more or lea*. Levied
on a* the property of Dave Itobinson to satisfy
one city tax Ufa In tny hand* iu lavor of tin
Mayor and City Council of American, Os., ‘
the year 18S1 v*. l>av. Hobltr
A
fj- «. 1 7„r , ;r t;,::; ““ At I ■!■»>■• -
... .... 11.h!.... , u „„ I .UII.CI.I1 CV t-
, and add nothing to the would lie permitted to settle. j 1,,m ® m * uimily com
It is said that a prominent Mor
mon recently asked, in response to
a declaration by a Gentile, that the
Mormons must conclude to obey
the laws of the United States nr
emigrate, “Where can we go?”
Come to reflect upon the matter, I . , , , , . .
savs the Salt Lake Trihum this is i 1,1081 ^"bable »“>all farms in tile ,
amostpregmi.it question. There ooun , tr >'' a , m J ,C * VC8 ,lls l* r o[K:rt.v ; a. it. c-is;
■ 1 free from debt. . ” ' 11
ned and
to make
comfortable
anil discharged all iiis duties as a
Ulan- citizen, for this long period of
fifty-four years lie lias never been a
plaintilf or defendant in court of
der II. Stephens lias decided to re- 'justice in his life,
tire from politics at the end of his : In early life lie was converted
present term in Congress. Alter ! aml imited bltnsclf with the Mctlio-
., ...... . , dist Episcopal Church, and iiis
his Iannis in \\ asliingtnn are I lush- i , . . ’
" | christam course and character were
ed he will review Ins history of the SU0 u ns to challenge the respect
United States, now in press, and j and love of all clirUtains. His
then devote himself to his private I dealings with his fellowmen were!
interests at home i characterized with so much open '
! candor and truth as to win the es-1
A special dispatch to the
ta Constitution lavs lion. Alexan-
The I'hiladelpliia Press fears I
that the Mississippi Valiev floods ;
arc the precursors of some general
misfortune. It remarks that “com
mercial changes are apt to be pre
ceded in this country by some'
great destruction of property. The i
panic of 1837 was, and so was the j
panic ol 1873. the one IA a lire in j
New York ami the other b\ the 1
How quickly we forget the rules j tee “ of a11 U . w ‘'‘•'■S^ors.
of arithmetic as learned in school ,h f T“T "?' C Ue P° 8,tcd , 111
is shown in the (act that a i.w.mi- I i b, ‘ n * 1 1 * r0 “ nd 01 ! } hc |
nent dry-goods merchant in Boston P a * ,! the funeral services being j
worked halt mi hour on the follow- ! col j doct ' d T ^' Hev. Wesley l.nne
ing i.rojmsition, and failed to give i a . nd M-C. Jordon of the Methodist
an answer: If four men liuild a ehurch a.ul Rev Robert M. Owen
wall five feet high in four days, °* tho B "P ll « church, attended by
how long will it take six men 'to nu ^\ oa ? ™ and a " ^
build :i wall eight feet Idgli in "e'glibors willingly bore testimony
seven days’ ot respect to Ins memory.
, . -r A Friend.
quitmaii Free Press-. Mr. Moses i \ physician says: “It is hcnlthi-
J. J.
l>avi Uiihiti*'
into linn* an<! place, one Iioiim* and Lg
the city of Ainerlcun, Gn„ l>oiin<lc(i n* foMou*;
o:i*t by atreet (uo natiio,) north by K»
•l(tl.T*on atrcvl*, south by iniul of It. ...
western boundary not kiiowu, roiitain* 16 non
more or Icaa. Levied on n* tho property of It. I
Daniel*, agent f«*r wlffe. lo ratl-ty one illy tax li
in tny hand* fbr the rear 1*81 iu favor of Hi
Mayor and City Council of Americt:*, Gu
>auud*, agent for wife,
i the same time and place, one house
ie cltv of Americas Oa., hounded ;i* follow*
by Jackson street; M>uth by land bcloiigiii!
to catato of Wm. itoaworth, n<»rih hv vie
eu.it by laud or KHwrt Head, rontaln.i
!**••. levied «»ti a* tho properly
satisfy
Mayor and City'Ct .
1S81 v». Jamm Alex:
At tho aatno time at
In tho cxlv of Atnericna. G
north by lot of T. L. Mizo,
west by Leer tree!, east by land ot l’.dftie
contain* 1-2 aero more or lea*. !.cv!o i on ti
property of George lirooks, Son., to satisfy
city t*x *tfa for the y.-ar IS>1 in favor of t».
Mayor and City Council of /ntericus, Ga., v.
Georre Brooke,’ Senior.
March 2. HD2. _ A. 1'. LINGO, CUy Mamba!.
NEW FERMI
Ifavfng purchase 1 lnnn G. M. Hay hi*
Restaurant!
(t’XDKIt TIIK UAUI.OW 1IOUSK,)
a CIcorffta on all ntatti
i he people. It w"
J Ifcvesln’prrcres*. anii will lend
I enlighten the populace, m il lead them lo
appreciation of their political tiabU and material
r» rour«es liroutalua the .\a*ociat*d Dreg* DU-
patcdie*-the |at» »t uewa Irom every source, und
I i* the most extensively iiuoted pa|>or tn the south.
It Ims u lively local department; contain* the
I latest market report*, ana tho ioeul matkot cor
rected daily by tho leading merchants ot the city.
of marriage
and sen! out Into life witii a'good *um Intuit.
lam agent for two FIRM’ CLASS Haulage
Kndowmcnt Companies that pay policy holder*
#1,000 Op SLVKdLii and §3,000 00 at lime of
maril .se Ddh thr*e c*anpani •* are retrainrly
charua ed under the laws of Geoigia and Lave
plan i-Airil AL
V KB V
! Ih .ngnarated, which will pn»v
| made in Georca. siibserilaj
KM^lURKIt-hUX.
. ,, . ... I , .. P»lj Olvlau *.U 8. Ill 19 llvtilblll*
great fires of Chicago and iloston.. Dukes, a splendid farmer who lives | est to eat a melon right in the
This lime a great loss of property ; in tbe Dry Lake district, sends us j field when it picked.” Lime Kiln
by floods in the river valleys comes i a bundle of oats, all headed Out
just as the country is bracing it-1 and about knee high. He lias fif.
seif for a fall in prices and unfavor.; teen acres, all just as fine. They
able foreign trade. were sown in October.
Club man writes us that it is false.
The healthiest way is to run, and
uot stop to cal it till you’re sure
the farmer lias called in his dog
and given up the pursuit. 1
i* putting in *:i new and complete »loek of | *TSUEIASS.
! Dally, one year *7 go
fruits and CONFECTIONERY, | I:::::::;::::::;:::::::;:;;:;' “
’ j W eekty aud Sunday one year S V0
; for further information nddres*
JOHN KIXU, Columbus iia.
Bun Away.
Hi nry Cunninphant. a black hoy 51-2 feet 1 i/h,
ickera. Canned Good*, i
ul»e goo-1 to cat.
neats Served at ull Hours,
i his friend* and tbe public gci.ert.lly
»f I
17 year* old. aon of Henry Cunningham, n
ant on J. J. 81«ppy** plantation, I'iain* of Dura,
ha* ruu away, and idl perMtti* a to hereby warned
ogainat hiring hint.
March 10th, 18.S2,
J the rati
LOW,' Yon will G* Hllr|.ll-.-.l lo
CHEAPLY olllior o( thfM! C..iup»nl«» canguai
antue you 92,ogo or ••L00G upon y**t'
Policle* iiMiud to Izoth ladle* aud
you arc ••aingle*' and ex|«ct to evt
yourehanfe Gall and»cutne. _
rlduntlal If deeinal.
r marriage,
rutlemci
J. W. BHADV, Agent
F. E. BURKE,
•**or to l*t Nat. Bnnk and A. C.'Bell 4c Co.,
.OIEKIC18, GA.
p.-epared to negotiate loan*, secured Ljr
kortgagi
car*, an
I sell and It
ing from three
•kcent, interest,
mil the cflebrated Baldw in
4 Co.’* AmtuonMcd DI*»olved Bou 1 *#, Htnto
»<ranee Fertilizer and Georgia Ammoniatud DU-
solved Bone*. All who have ever o*ed tbe*o
fertilizer* *ay they are the h««t *oUI in themarkut.
Before buying roll vu tn<. frhH.WIw