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VOL III.
TRI-WBEKX..T.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 31, 1882.
NO. 113.
W. Xi
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Official Directory.
.1MERICU8L
Americas l» the county seat of Sumter County,
handsomely improved. It U the centre of trade
for m lur*e section, comprising tome tix coautlce,
its :t veins® nnmial cotton receipts being 30,000
bales, the average market value of which is |1 ( *
500,000. The climate la mild, the nlr dry and pure,
uml Americu* has for many yearn had the repu
tation ut being utioof the healthiest cities In.
America Being situated but a short (linlaucc
■Love the tropical region, nearly all varieties of
house completely iurnuhed with scenery nnd
which neath l.Uuo perrons, a well organized tire
department which includes two steamers, while
the streets are sewered and lighted. Three good
hotels furnish the beat of accommodations, it U
the largest city in Southwest Georgia, nud Is rap-
Idly growing tn population and wealth. As a place
of business and a beautiful slid pleasant rcatucnci-
it presents attractions possessed >y few cities in
the South. I’ciuons.nt a distance looking for n lo-
Kill tor uf the Hr.cneDEu.
CITY OFFICERS
Mayor—.T. ft. Felder.
Clerk and Recorder—I)
Aldermen—\V. 1*. Burt, i\ it. wimnnu, u. it
Co oh, L. II. Hosworih, It. 1). Watts, W. .1. llnr-
per. City Council meets every Monday evening
l'ollce Force—City Marshal, A. 1*. Lingo.
Policemen—W. W. Wheeler, 1'nt Krskiue, J. 1 *’
Cobb, e. H. Mitchell.
Sexton Oak Mrove Cemetery—P. D. Hill.
Sexton Colored Cemetery—Richard Felder,
Bridge Keeper—,J. P. ltalford.
FIRE DEPARTMENT,
Cbief-W. P Burt.
I Assistant Chlei—.1. C. Nicholson.
Wide Awake No. 1. (Steamer,) Foreman,
M. llawkcs.
Vigilance No. 2—Foreman, Mingo Glaze.
Hook and Ladder— Foremau, Henry Anderson,
CONGRESSIONAL.
Third District, composed of the counties
Taylor, Macon, scbley, Sumter, Dooly, Pulaski,
1 lodge, Montgomery, Wilcox, Telluir, Ia»c Web*
»ter, Stewart, irwin, Co lice. Oen. Phil. Cook,
•ngreasman.
LEGISLATIVE.
Senatorial District composed of the countb
Sumter, Scliley, and Macon. Senator, Dupont
Cucrry. Representatives, Thomas Feagiu and
•lulin L. Adderton. I
SUPERIOR COURT.
Southwestern Circuit, composed of the countiea
of Sumter, Schley, xtieon, Lee, Webster nnd
Stewart.
Judge, Hon. C. F. Crisp. Solicitor General,
B. Hudson.
• Regular terms of Court uro held «s follows:
Leo county, second Monday in March and »
oud Monday In Novoinbor.
Schley county, fourth Monday in March und
Monday ‘“*“
■tcr cour
Monday in October.
Sumter county, second Monday In April and
tccond Monday in October.
»lcwart county, fourth Monday in April and
fourth Mouuay in October.
Macon county second Monday in June and
second Mouduy in December.
COUNTY COURT
Judge, J. P. Pilsbury. M-mthly terra of court,
first Wednesday in every mouth. Quarterly t
third Monday In March, June, !>eptcinbcr
December.
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GEORGIA,
1 Ordinary. 1 hoin u H. Stewart.
Ir-t Monday of every month.
. COUNTY OFFICERS.
Clerk of Superior Court,.!. If. A'Ion.
Merit!, J. W. Mice.
Tax Collector, W. R, Stewart,
ft Tax Receiver, J. A. Daniel.
Treasurer, C. C. Sbepperd.
Surveyor. M. G. Logun.
Cat oner, \V. W. Guerry
Commlealonere, 8. K. Taylor, C. A. Hunting-
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Phillips. N. P. < <
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Nipped la tbe bud. It looks like
there la do security from anything.
Ours was no second-hand orchard;
wo planted it and tho blooms have
for three years looked so swcot and
promising, and now this Is tbe third
year the fruit has been killed. 1
suppose wo could have built little
Ores all about, but who knows when
to build 'em. It Is poor comfort
to build 'em when there is. no
danger, and it is hard to tell when
tbare la danger. Reokon we will
just have to keep the orchard for
the flowers, like we do a crab apple
tree, foj they are mighty pretty.
One ol my nabors lives right under
tbe western slope of a mountain
and his fruit is never killed. He
hod plenty last year, but the sun
don’t rise at his bouse till its about
two hours high and that wouldn’t
suit my folks at all. Well, it might
suit the folks, but it wouldn’t suit
my business. It would bo dinner
time before breakfast. The pencil
orop is very uncertain among these
Cherokee hills, but most every body
can have a few trees around the
house, where they are protected
We can’t expect to have all the
good things in our place. My Irish
potatoes were killed down the other
morning and that hurt my feelings,
for f was a little proud that I was
ahepd of my nabors. But they will
come out again, and so there’s some
comfort left and a good daal of
hope. Hope says the peaches ore
not all killed, for a man can’t ex
amine all tbe blooms and maybe
there will beeooaghfor tbe child
ren. That is the main thing after
all; enough for the children is what
the world is working for; enough
money, or land, or food nnd cloth
ing; enough pleasures and happi
ness. How we do love ’em and
worry over ’em by night and by
day. If wc bad no children I
think I would just quit work and
toil right suddenly and—go a fish
ing. Rut there is not mucti time
to frolic on a farm at this season of
the year, for my almanac says:
“About this time plant corn,” and
wc are doing it all around these
parts. I can sit on my pizzar and
look into live farms and see the
darkeys and the mules and hear
’em, too, and its geo and hnw, and
git along Pete, and wliar yon
gwino Nell, come round dar, I tell
you; and there’s no end to this
kind of affectionate, one-sided dis
course until the horn blows for
dinner, and then the most know
ing mules give a bray all round.
It’s astonishing iiow much they do
know and can be made to under
stand. I bad a big mule who would
never givo but one pull at a root
unless tho darkey who plowed him
hollered out, “Rotten root, I tell
you I” and then he would break
that root or something else, for ho
had confidence In the nigger. It
always did seem like there was a
kind of confidential relation be
tween niggers and mules, a sort of
a treaty of peace and equality, for
there is no other animal can stand
the darkey and there’s no other
human can get along in peace with
a mule. W ben they are alone to
gether in a big field with long rows
tbo darkey talks to him all along
tbe line and the mule listens in re
spectful silence, but if two darkies
arc plowing together they talk to
one -mother and the mules arc
snubbed. There is a power ol corn
being planted this spring and not
much more than half a cron of cot
ton so far as my observation goes.
I hope we will make enough food
for the country for wc can do with
less clothing better than be stinted
in vittels. There is a power of
folks dependent upon the farmers
and a great responsiblity upon us.
Politics raises a mighty rumpus
and takes up a sight of room in tbo
newspapers, but when you com
pare it with farming it all seems
sorter like a monkey show that is
going on for amusement, and tbe
farmers feel like Judge Stewart’s
Texan Ranger, who went to see an
amateur musical performance in
Rome one night during the war.
He was a rough specimen about
six feet and two inches, and a hat
like and umbrella and boots like
kept it up until lie monopolized
the show and bad it all to himself
These premature candidates for
governor and so fortli reminded
me of Judge Lochranc’s story of
the Irisnman who thought he had
a fast horse, anil so he put him in
the races and bet on him. Ho run,
pretty well, but seemed to run bet
ter behind than before, and the
Irishman clapped his hands with
delight, and exclaimed, “Faithand
St. Patrick, just look how no
drives ’em.” But it is alt right. I
am glad to see the independents
paper of the Detroit East-Tribune
order, whose editor calmly advo
cates the defacing of Confederate
monuments. Texas, Tennessee,
•Florida and Carolina appeared -on
ly in tbe character of an audience,
taking no violently aotlve part ln
(he .performance, but applauding
vociferously. We only regret that
when Texas and Tennessee climb
ed on the stage during tbo excite
ment ol the first aot, the heavy vll-
ban was not thrown out the win
dow and tbo curtain lowered. Per
haps after all, however, since op
waking up. It's all .for the good portunities for vilification are so
of the people und will keep the old eagerly sought after, it was better
democracy on its good behavior.
There’s nothing like having senti
nels an tiie watch towers. Some
times the party goes too fast and
these independents act ns a bal
ance wheel, a regulator, a brake—
sorter like Tinny Rucker’s year
ling, for they say when Tinny was
a boy lie tried for nu hour to drive
a yearling out of the pasturo and
finally he got him by the tail and
they run nnd run and bellowed and
run until someone hollowed to him
and said: “Tinny, you can’t hold
that yearling; wlint arc you trying
to do?” “I know I can’t hold
him,” said Tinny, “but 1 can make
him go slo-v."
Jesso. That is all that these in
dependents arc after. They don’t
expect office, but tiiey have more
abounding patriotism than any
body, and holding on to the tail
of the concern just to make it go
slow. Some of ’em I reckon arc a
little disappointed because the
train went oil and left ’em, and it
don’t do any good to laugli at ’em,
no matter whether they didn’t rim
fast enough or started too late.
Let’s be tender with ’em, for may
be tboir turn will come alter while
and they will be tender with us.
There are a power of ups and
downs in this world, and in politics
they are mostly downs—especially
down south.
But Arp.
that the lesson administered should
have come from tbo North, and
that when the cowardly our wends
bis way homeward be will have no
chance to defame the section which
outside events made too unhealthy
for him.
LbTHER BENSON.
A llraum afSix States.
To Ipgrupli.
The latest act of what rimy be
tormed a drama of Nix States, has
just been concluded in Jackson
ville. A month since, at early
dawn, a lady on her way to Flori
da boarded tiie train ut New Or
leans, and took tiie only vacant
soat, on which was a satchel.
In n lew minutes n man came up
and ordered hor, rudely, to vacate.
Astonished at the manner in
which she hud been addressed anil
somewhat frightened, site hesi
toted, when tho bruto clapped tho
climax by abusing, and finally
siezing tier with the intention of
drugging her from tiie seat. Tiie
terrified lady gave vent to her
alarm in a series of well balanced
screams which immediately brought
to her rescue two gentlemen, one
from Tennessee and the other from
Texas. Tiie latter courteously in
formed tiie brute that unless he
released the lady he would esteem
it his duty to engage in a throat
matinee m one act. Acting under
tho hint the brute desisted. A few
minutes later, however, lie return
ed and begnn a verbal abuse
couched in the choicest billings
gate. Acting under a second hint
fiom Texas, he finally withdrew al
together. Tiie lady was joined by
Iiah bpaIlies In l tlnnln n Tb- F V
ALWAYS ON HAND.
! stove pipes, and spurs that tingled
• like trace chains, and a couple of
I navy pistols to set oil his beard,
and he paid his half a dollar and
took a stand behind an empty
bench in tbe rear and looked on
with a lofty contempt and when
ever the performers closes a piece
MACON OB ATLANTA. : | 0D d cheering began the ranger rat-
| tied the old bench most aiarming-
oefice ion; cotton avknue, lly and exclaimed, “souy, souy,”
AMERICUS, GA. j hke be was drixlng bogs—and be
IN PRICES AND WORK
I WK AIIK ALWAYS HKADY.TO i..
COUPfTK WITH
her brother in Atlnnla, n Dr. F. F.
Fnles, of New York, and proceeded
via Charleston to Jacksonville,
wliero they suddenly met at the St.
James hotel, the brute referred to,
who proved to lie a fellow by the
name of W. W. Kastman from
Minneapolis. The Doctor pro
cured a rawhide, and singling out
Kastman, cowhided him.in the most
approved Southern style. A fracus
between the uvenging assailant
and the friends of the whipped cur
was imminent, when South Caro
lina sent a representative to his
assistance who, to usu a common
phrase, “saw him through.”
The lady is described us being
of refined and elegnnt presence, and
tbe gentleman as a dashing, coura
geous New Yorker. His prompt
avenging of the insult to his sister
lias won him many friends in Flor
ida, while public generally unite in
condemning the rowdy, who, even
after the heating lie received, de-
lianlly justified his action on the
ground that the lady had no right
to take his scat. “
Indianapolis Sentinel.
According to announcement, Lu
ther Denson, tho justly reknowned
temperance lcctnrer, appeared be
fore an audience yesterday after
noon of more than a thousand peo
ple in Knglish’s Opera House. In
tiie audience we noticed ex-Gover-
nor Hendricks and wife, Hon. Jno.
C. Shoemaker, Hon. JndgeLamb,
Hon. Judgo Clay pool, ex-Attorney
General Denny, Hon. E. R. Hawn,
Secretory of State, Hon. Ed. H.
Wolfe, Auditor of State, Profes
sor W. M. Thrasher, of Butler
University, and many other prom
inent citizens.
Mr. Benson was never in better
voice, and the vast audience in.
spired him to tbe loftiest achieve
ments of his fertile brain. His
wonderful genius never appeared
to better Advantage. His elo
quence captivated all hearts—at
one time soothing as the song of
birds, then walling like storm
winds, nnd anon rising in majesty,
when all hearts bowed before ita
mysterious power. Tbe hundreds
of Upturned facoi were held In their
places-us it they bad been pictures
in so many frames. Tbe speaker
was forgotten—only bis theme oc
cupied the minds of his listeners.
There were flashes of wit followed
by rippling laughter. There were
words of such deep pathos that
humanity’s tear fountains respon
ded, and many a face was adorned
and beautiful with the pearly testi
monial of sympathy. But there
were words of terrible denuncia
tion of King Alcohol, and the con
sequences of bis reign were painted
with sucli tearful and vidid fidelity
as to couvinoe all that drunken
ness is one of tiie great evils of
tho times. It would be difficult to
describe Mr. Benson’s style of or
atory. It is Gill of magnetism.
The eommending feature la its
holding |iower, and this was dis
played yesterday in a remarkable
degree. For an hour an three-
quarters Mr. Benson held bis audi
ence without tbe itlghtaet sign of
unrest, and we ooula scarcely pay
bis effort a higher compliment, but
he Is one of the olass of speakers’
who must be beard to be apprecia
ted.
Wc understand that Mr. Benson
has been Invited to Washington
City to lectnro. If be responds to
the invitation bo should have for •
bis auditorium tbo ball of the Ronse
of Representatives, where tbe spell
of bis oratory may blend and lin
ger in companionship with that of
tiie great men of tbe Republic.
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