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«M>R«IVS- ...'.I "■■i i.-i.UL... J ivunu«lit AT ‘ . GEOllUIA 5L'tV8> r«>-yRE«s.HAS I, A it UK- iv, i,. ol.KSsNEIt. Muon “ OlltrUI Organ or tile (it) of Amorims. Official Organ or llnnljr County. SI XOAV, MAKUII, 3«. IfMt TO POST.MASTKltS. Whim iiow.>fiaj»i*r^ *n* not called for it l» in tide Vi* doty of under Hie law to notify th# projirU'tor# «f this fact. Caiti*, already print* _ «l, arc furnished on application to the I’o»tma»tcr, j by tllC apportionment OCt recently whiwe only duty will lie to fill out with the r ~ ...» f the party not getting the |»apor. PRACTICAL INIIKl'IvNDENTS. While Felton & Co. arc i^sninj' proniinciamcnloH declaring the nc- oeaalty of independence, the far mer* of Southwest Georgia are Representatives allowed to said taking hold in a practical manner;! State under this apportionment , , . .. . . may he elected l»y the State, at and by sowing small gram and . • othc J | t enrcscnta- Tlie AltttfuejroOriicril'i Oplnldn* ATTliRNEY-GENEItAt’a Ort'KE, | or Georoia, Atlanta, Ga., March 11, )8S2.—Jlie Excellency, A. H. Colqmtl. Governor, etc.—Sir: I am in receipt of your communica tion requesting my opinion as to whether the additional Represen. attivc allaiwed the State or Georgia passed by Congress can he legally elected by the voters of the Stato at large under existing laws. The act provides that “if the number, as hereby provided for, shall be larger Ilian before the eliangc,then the additional Representative or -DKALEIM Im planting corn arc planing to make themselves independent, of the Northwestern farmers, to whom they have hitherto paid tribiilc. If the season i* favorable and n good crop blesses their labors, they will have achieved an independence that will he worth to them more tlinn all the political parties in existence. Gniteau sel's his photographs at large and the other Representa tives to which the .Stale is entitled by districts as now prescribed by law in said State; and if the num ber hereby provided for -hall in any state lie less than it wa- before the change made, then the whole number to such Slate hereby pro vide. I - for shall lie elected lit large unless the Legislatures of such Slates have provided or shall oth erwise provide lieforc the lime fixed In law for the next election of Representatives thereiu." . , , , The section quoted is louiided *l.00a | icce, and Ins autographs , o|) M(jlio|| 4) al . tidc ,, „ Ct hc Con Groceries iGtjawo, LAMAR STREET, AMERICUS, GA. for one-fourth that amount. He is said to have an income of $50 a day from this source. This is better than lie ever did in his life before. Mnlionc says that in Virginia the eolorcil citizens “is at last in the full panoply ol acknowledged citizenship." I)o they really have all that up there ? We suppose thought that means the di«p «ition to act politically as Hilly Malione directs. Neal Dow says that ‘•Governor Grncclon is a bubble latitution of the United .Slates, I which declares that: j The limes, places and manner of j holding elections for Senators and I Representatives shall be prescribed in each Slate by the Legislature thereof but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations except as to the place of choosing Senators ’’ Congress has, in pursuance of the power Unis derived, prescribed that the additional Representative to widen Georgia is entitled shall l.e elected by the slate at large, unless the Legislature in U\emean time otherwise provides; for al- , though the word “may” is etnploy- "P ; ed, it means “shall,” according to from the democratic carcass drown- j a , V cll settled rule in the interpre ts! years ago in ruin." That rum must have had good preserving qualities, for the “carcass” ii tut ion of statutes. In 7th Georgia, page 81), .1 edge Warner says: “The true rule fortlic construction of the word “may" in a statute is, that .Maine, N'eal Dows state, is hi a j , v |, ell M | C |, statute concerns the reasonably good state of preserva- I public interest, or affects the rights lion. of third persons then the word ■— • *•—■ “may” shall he construed to mean The Nash vile people know what “must” or “sha l l;”nnd in third Gcor- ii llond Is. •Miss., the Nashville IIWM say “Last summer the people had to haul water from the river at a cost ol twenty-live cents n barrel. Now Speaking ol Greenville, I gja, page 41 ft, Judge Jenkins says: I "in the construction of statutes “may” is held to mean “shall" in ! two cases, viz: Where the tiling i to be done is “for the sake ol-jus- lice the inhabitants are compcll crawl out on the housetops in or der to keep dry." It lias been suggested Hint Lo gan favors the appropriation of the whiskey lax to public education for the reason that he lias been a butcher of the Fnglidi language for so many years. John claims to have a conscience, and it may lie •d to i Chief Justice Drown lays down the „ or . same rule llRlh Georgia, page 542; ' see also Dwarwis on statutes 712, | bill Corny IIV digest, top page llliO, ' title parliament letter It. 22, Aid. lincknoll's case Vernon, 152. if it is claimed that the act pro vides no machinery for holding the election, the reply is that it was unnecessary. That had been al ready hilly provided by our State legislation, which it adopts by , leaving it undisturbed. That the Ins is uno way ol making amends j machinery furnished by our State for the past. Col. McClure, of the I’hilndcl ' laws is sullicicnt, is very easily shown. ft is conceded that under our phiu Timex, has been studying the I code the machinery for holding political situation at Washington, lie linds “profound unrest and visible demoralization" in the re publican ranks, and looks lor open war between Artlur and lllidue ! the district which shall end in “the merlin of Arthur and the mastery oi l Rhine." The Congressmen who attended l-lic Gartlclitobsequies at Cleveland have presented their modest bill | of nearly seven thousand dollars. There is an Item of nearly seven- | teen hundred dollars for eliam-1 ptigne, brandv, cigars mid other funeral eomolatioiis. mid nil entry j of three hundred dollars for "cock- I tails. I.iingiiuge can scarcely exagger ate the privations to which limns- • gaiit language of section lUtis of] Hilda of our people are exposed who ®udei then declare the have been rendered homeless by Killjoy has two Sunday Schools. MoVflle has an anmtebr dramat ic company. Athens cats aie all dying with some disease. Some one is poisoning the dogs in Karnesville. Wild strawberry plants at Win- tcrville arc rusted. Sandflies ar numerous and troub lesome in Savannah. A Washington man is in Griffin to clean the tomb stain. Albany people are charged with being late at everything. Carrolton’s baptist church has a bell weighing 850 pounds. Dainbridgc wants a steam fire j engine; also an electric light. j Tho Gainesville Eagle says that j town can boast of its good order, i There were 1,887 bales of cotton received in Savannah on Thurs- j day. Mr. A. R. Johnson, near Athens, has plapted fifty acres in peach trees. It. took two Athens policemen to drive three slioats to the pound. Property in DeSoto has increas ed *120.000 to $200,000 in value in a year. Mr. George Booth, of Athens, has a cow giving three gallons of milk a day, and the calf is two years old. ' Ffty persons left Rome ior Utah on Wednesvay morning, j They , are mostly snuff-dipping ; women who lmd become Mormons. - Copper is one of the “Infant iri- dustrics” of the country whose protection is one of the ends of the present tariff. “Let us see,” says the Chicago Tribune, “how the in fant gets along. :The Quincy Min ing Company, one of the Lake Su perior mines, produced copper and silver last year to the value of $1,- 088,45(1. The ‘running expenses,’ ‘smelting expenses,’ ‘all expenses,’ and finally including a liberal al- !i**r.°! WE ™ the «s mi hive voii FiiiiTi-EKiirr rami to the bushel i MEAL I MEAL I or consequential, in short, which can be figured up, amount, to only about half of the sum, leaving as ‘annual net. earnings’ $472,591. In other word*, half the production or ior the public benefit." L> 9 profit- There was actually " " 1 ’ ^divided among the stockholders $(>40,000. The mine promises this year to ‘excel the past.’ It would seem to he a good time for it to ‘go it alone.’ or go it, say on half ra tions.” MADE FROM CHOICE WHITE MILLING CORN. (Meed to de Epal to ini leal Ground in this Section! \ Try it and toe Convinced W. p. MARSH, ON TROUP STREET, can, with uniform steam power, make Meal equal to any water ground meal. BURKHALTER, HOOKS & BAG LEY, TltOl l> STItm-T, AMERICVS, li t. INEW : Henry S. Davis .M t^tiiEL Callaway. Joseph Hart, one ol the princi- i pals in the publication of the Morey letter, has been elected a member of the republican central committee of New York city. The fact that ho was chosen without opposition is another peculiar phase of this letter and its publication in the Truth. It seems strange thnt a P«rty to such an alleged fraud should so soon lie taken into the locally then in hold, i party lie so much tried to injure. Work on the oar banks at Bar ton iron works has been suspended on account of a mortgage of $G0 - 000 being foreclosed. ’ elections in all the nine congress ional districts is ample. (See sec tions 1207 and lOO.'i of the code.) There is no dil ing election WIicii nil the nine i | districts have voted we have the vote ol the "State at large.” for I there is no tonitory and there is j no voters outside these districts. They are the “State al large." I Under the law, as it now stands, each district will elect a Congress-, man, and the nine districts jointly j (or the "Slate at large,") w ill elect j another. Each voter in every dis- - trift will vote for a Representative j to which Hint district with the j e!g:>t others is jointly entitled. We will thus have an eleetieu for each of the districts and Ibi the “State at large." 1'. will only re main for i lie Governor k to “count j up the votes" (in the not very ole-: New Advertisements. the .IONKs SUPPORTERS ■ft Bsl U lb. World. For *alo Nt Eldrldgv'. Drug Storr. result. 1 cannot think it necessary for the Mississippi Hoods. In some . me to elaborate, places they are subsisting on the It is almost needless to add that j carcasses of drowned beast, and ■■ •“ ni.v opinion there is no legal ob-.f there is danger of a pestilence. » lacle in . tl,e «■' ‘‘Iwtiqg a! , , . 1 Congressman from the Mate at l Oder siicli circumstances the whole country will applaud the adoption of prompt ami liberal measures of relief. The .Stale Medical Aassuciatiou will meet in Atlanta on the lutli of April ..ext. Tic association is composed of physicians in all parts of the State, ami the indications are that about two hundred of them will attend the coming session. The association will be in session several days, ami will transact their business in the Senate chamber. There will be numerous banquets, excursions, etc., during the, ses sion, and a big time generally anticipated. large. Very Respectfully, Cmykobii Axiikiison, Attorney General. In a recent Washington letter Mr. J. R. Randall relates the fob i lowing anecdote of Gen. l'liil Cook: i “Geu. Cook says that last year he , happened to get mixed up in a St. : Patrick's parade, llis carriage followed the biggest hra% band, and the President reviewing the . procession gave him a profound bow, evidently supposing that a man so conspicuously placed must be a descendant of Daniel O'Con nell. at the very least.” A colored child died in Fair- is burn from eating |ieach kernels on , I Saturday iast. IIRIKi STORE!; Soutboa*t’Corner Public Square, A. 4. & W. B. HUDSON, Prop's We offer to tlio public everything kept In a ' FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORE! j OUR MEDICINES ARE ALL .NEW FIRM! 0LL> GRANBERRY CORNER. FRESH,: iPURE AND REUABL& 1 Davis & Callaway —I!AVINU LATELY IMItrilASF.D THE— A general assortment of ull MILLINERY! f MRS Al T ELAM WILL LEAVE FOR NEW VORK TO-DAY. WILL BE A-T XXOMXI" WITH THE SPRINO MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS BY APRIL , 1ST. MILLINERY! PAINTS, OILS, c PAINTS, OILS, ; PAINTS. OILS, i PAINTS, OILS, i TAINTS. OILS, ; PAINTS, OILS, PAINTS. OILS, PAINTS, OILS, PAINTS, OILS, PAINTS, Oil*, PAINTS. OILS, PAINTS, OILS, PAINTS, OILS, PAINTS, OILS, i- ■© VARNISHES, VARNISHES. VARNISHES, VARNISHES, VARNISHES, VARNISHES. VARNISHES, VARNISHES, VARNISHES, VARNISHES, VARNISHES, VARNISHES, VARNISHES, -=> VARNISHES. B£SA DTIPULi STOCK! or MR. .IOIIN WINDSOH,- ARK DAII.Y ADDIMI 10 TUB SAME THE LATEST PATTERNS AN1) DESIGNS As cheap ns can lie bought anywhere. COLOGNES, EXTRACTS. I COLOGNES, EXTRACTS. I COMBS, HAIR BRUSHES, COMBS, HAIlt BRUSHES. COSMETICS. COSMETICS, TOILET ARTICLES, Etc. Etc. OF ALL KINDS. EreryttiBg Suitable for Laities’ Toilet. SNUFF. TOBACCO AND SEU.ARS A SPECIALTY. , (TOSS AS# IeCIM, Wc also kcepCJ‘CVC , T\Cj from the beet houses In their Tj Ci I A^UnltertSimps LANDRETtiS GOLDEN DENT CORN AND SEED 1*OTATOE8 . DIRECT FROM THEM. i formula, at aoy hour. OUR MOTTO: Small Profits! Quick Sales! ; Grunbcrrj- Corner, Domestics, Sh.QGt:lnge and Wliite Goods, Eto., :isr PULL SUPPLY != ANOTIIKR LARtlK ANI* FRKSII INVOICF. OF Ladies tmtl Grents ©lioes SOON TO AH.HIV33 t DAVIS & CALLAWAY, AMERICUS, GA.