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Official Orpin of the City of Ameriru*.
Official Organ of Dooly County.
TUESDAY, WAY it, ISSit.
TO POSTMAKTEKS.
When newspaper* nre not enlled for It In made
!:odutjof Postmasters under the Inw to notify
the proprliiors of this fact. Cards, already print
ed, are furnished on application to the Postmaster,
whose only duty will lie to UU out with the name
f the party not getting the paper.
Kit IVarreu at the Baptist Convention
Macon Telegraph.
liEE;BLiia, April 2G.
Well, 1 went to tho Baptist con
vention in Americus.' I got there
Boon and stayed talc. I saw the
grand Ingathering o£ the water
company and heard the voices
thereof. I waded through from
the salutatory to the valedictory,
nnd i am well satisfied the pro
ceedings will result in a great deal
more good than they won’t result
The Dueua Vista Railroad. i
The Macon Telegraph of the:
20th has the following from Buena
Vista in regard to the railroad from ■
that point:
Tiie inaccessibility of Beuna
Vista will soon be a t ;ing of the i
past. The people have long want-1
ed a railroad. They want it now^nd |
are resolved to have it. The sur-1
veys have all been made and the J
probable cost estimated. We learn
in; but I’m not going to recite | ed from Mr. J. VV. Roberts, one
those prececdings. With them the , of the directors, that tiie original
press ol Georgia has been so com- plan was to run the road from
pleteiy instincted that a repetition | Jiiier.a Vista to Gcneya. But this ^2b£S!EvIGVS,
from me would he like ploughing ! would necessitate the building of a
a shallow furrow in the wake ot a i bridge and a considerable amount.
Oliver & Oliver,! Jas. Frickir & Bro.^
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SIASPFAl’TlJHBliS AN D DEALERS IN j JEWELRY STORE.
BUGGIES AID
Corner Jackson nml Jefferson Streets,
TIIE COLORED CONVENTION.
The colored convention at Macon
last week turned out to lie merely I sharp-pointed and deep-digging j of trestle, and would also require
a party caucus, instead of a delib- sub-soiler. Vo, I am only going i sonic very heavy grading, it is
dative body It was much larger to give a few scraps of iny obser-! now proposed to let the road ter-j
than the Independent caucus at At-! v ; ltion . of l n<>n 1,11(1 lbi , n S 9 ( > ,,r ;"8 | rain “ t « -tJBostick. The latter route
. 1 the time I sojourned with the ' would cross no stream, and would
lonta, nnd its proceedings were not j j{ a ptj,] /-OS that Athens <>( south- ■ run tiirougii an almost perfectly
so secret. .Ictf Long delivered the west Georgia. j level country. Tiie road will be
address and submitted to the meet-! Well, in the first place, firstly, I about twenty-three miles in length,
ing the proposed alliance with the I have neve.-before dreamed that The amount, of money originally
, i ... i. i _ . . , such a vast mindier of galinaevoiis estimated lor tiie grading, cross-
1 , bipeds could survive tin- perils ol ties,etc., was fifty thousand dol-
servmg ol lavorable consideration, j t | |( , e |,iekcii-lifters in Americus. Ians. But this estimate has iitiee
and annoiiueed himself in favor of | Friday liioriiing, just before day, been reduced to about forty-one i
‘'the cock's slirili clarion" pealed ! thousand. Of this amount thirty-
accepting it. The convention ac
cepted the invitation by adopting
a platform ill sympathy witli any
movement to overthrow the Bour
bon Democracy and which will of
fer better inducements than l lie
Republican party lie resolutions
demand the repeal or modification
of the penitentiary system of the
State, and a larger appropriation
for educational purposes, and dc-
declarc that the poll tax ought not
to lie made a prerequisite fur vot-
i ng. The convention then adjourn
cd sine die. Tbit is a substantial
adoption of Dr. Fnlton’sj formula.
,Ic(T Long told tiie convention that
(‘resident Arthur desired the alli
ance with the Liberals.
Telfair’s Choice for Congress.
Mr. M. L. Burch, editor of the
Kastman Times, thus writes Ids
paper while attending tlio session
of tiie Superior Court in Telfair
county:
As to Telfair's choice for Con
gress from what I can gather, Gen.
Cook seems to have lost no ground,
while .fudge Crisp has a great
many admirers—lie having created
a most favorable impression here,
by his marked ability, dignity and
uniform courtesy ns tiie presiding
■I udge at tiie last term ol tills
court. And while I do not (eel
authorized to express an opinion
as to the choice between these two
gentlemen, yet 1 think it sale to
say llmt with Gen. Cook, the fried
and faithful public servant out of
the race, Judge Crisp would cer
tainly have tin easy walk over as
against any aspirant on the west
side of tlio Flint.
New York Commercial llullelin:
"All class legislation, that is to
say, all favoritism shown to one
class at tho expense of another, is
opposed to n republican system of
government and subversive of free
institutions. A protective tarill*
robs the noii-protcetivc citizen in
enhancing the price of every pro
tected article. Goods nre not made
cheaper by a tariff, as some of our
protectionist friends frequently as.
sect. As well say that matclius
sold liefore the war at seveni \ live
eeuls per gross are cheaper now
when the internal revenue lax
amounts to #1.44 per gross. Every
attempt to change om- present
cumbersome, unjust tariff is met by
a remonstrance from the favored
classes and the monopolist. They
do not want the tariff disturbed.
They claim thus a sort of vested
right to ‘rob Peter to pay Paul,’
and they take the part of Paul ov-
erv time.”
in swelling anthems and delicious
monotones from one end of the
city l.o tile other. It appeared us
if the air was peopled by an army
ol living sounds nnd the city, forest,
of bristling chanticleers. The
scene was thrilling. Alter break
fast, I hurried t-jjsce Berry Lingo,
chief of police—I always liked
Lingo—and lliuiik him in behalf
of tiie chickens for the uniuterrupt-
d security and prosperity they en
joyed. 1 congratulated him with
both hands and many earnest
words. 1 then invited him to“le’s
walk in nnd take something”—he
thanked ine, he didn’t drink; 1
asked him lo lake a cigar, t hat also
lie declined. 1 then urged him to
take something, if it was only a
Apool of thread or n liar of soap,
but he said it was against city re
gulations for a policeman to take
anything except a had cold.
The two editors are as fond of
each other as a pair of sucking
doves, and the public generally are
fond of both their sparkling,
sprightly, newsy papers. The
frosty headed veteran of the lie-
publican is old only on the out
side. Time makes no tin-rows on
his facile pen and “writes no
winkles” on his “light fantastic”
tongue. Major Glessner—lie's not
been South long enough to lie
colonel—is in command of tiie Re-
CORIIEH office, and lie wields the
sceptre of power with gracefulness
and majesty, lie’s a writer woi-r.li
Writing about.
I visited the Library, hut can give
no opinion of its merits, for birds
of Paradise were there, and during
the few moments I tarried "my
only books were woman’s looks,”
and I am willing to invest my bot
tom dollar in a library ot just such
ns they were. 1 would like to pre
sent your readers with a eomple
rendu of Americus, lint as no
gentleman lmd the leisure to show
me round, lam unable to do so.
Let it suffice to say, the men arc
full of push vim, energy enterprise,
public spirit nnd hospitality, and
six thousand has already been suh-
scribcd. Tiie directors of the new
road nre to furnish cross-tics and
grade the road, and the Central
railroad is to furnish iron amt roll
ing stock. At the meeting of flic
Central railroad stockholders in
May, tlio proposition of tiie direc
tors will he considered. The di
rectors have had every reason to
believe that their proposition will
lie considered favorably. Tiie road
once completed, Buena Vista be
comes tiie nearest shipping point
ofa large section ot country and
the natural outlet for the cotton.
Its people have not been unmind
ful or unappreciative of the inter
est Macon 1ms manifested in their
road. Several of her wholesale
merchants have taken stock, and
ethers are known to be ready to do
so. Nor have they been slow to
contrast the course of these mer
chants with that of the merchants
of other places which have shared
their trade.
First-Class Buggies,
(TOP AND NO TOP.)
One of the largest eston-
lishments of the kind in the
Sflsth. is locatedin Americus,
Mr. Fricker’s store lias
just undergone a rejuvenating
GEORGIA. I process that makes it the hand-
1 somest Store INSIDE to be
found in Americus. In the
Jewelry department can be
found all the latest novelties in
J WATCHES.
remit*.
NECKLACES,
LOCKETS,
RINGS,
LACE PINS,
SETS,
EAR RINGS,
IIRACELETS
TIUMULES,
PONY ^ETJESTCMSTS,
ONE ANI) TWO-HORSE WAGONS!
n*l will Ml ot prices ns low as tlie sumo class of work cun 1** laid down here
inve tho purchaser the freight. We also take c-r.lors for
EXTENSION TOP
OF ALL STYLES,
Rti.l will g.’t them tip first-class in every particular, ns we have at the head of every department first-
class carriage makers, and always have on hand n Urge stock of hard seasoned limber nnd othe:
GEORGIA NEWS.
Poisoned meat seems about lo
solve tiie question of sheep vs. dog,
in Georgia.
It is estimated that 100,000
water-melons were consumed in
Bainbridge last summer.
Congressman II. U. Turner wilt
us fist in tiie prosecution of tin-
negroes who killed young Roun
tree.
The grade of tiie Marietta and
North Georgia railway has been
completed to within two miles of
Jasper.
Tho aggregate value of the prop,
urty of colored people throughout
tho state is set down at $0,578,951
being an increase of $080,179 over
the preceding yerr.
WE GUARANTEE EVERYTHING WE BUILD
» to strictly Ur«l-cl»w, a, «t l.ull.l no nhwldj- worU at any iirlcc. Wo «m' ntlontli
Repairing and Remodeling Old Buggies,
on we have belter facilities for manufacturing and
other establishment in Southwest Georgia. Call a:
wp are satisfied that we eun tarnish you u first-class
plicated by nt.y other firm. Don’t tukc our word fr
Americus, Go.. April :10th, 18Si
.pairing any thing in the cat
d examine our stock nnd price
ivtlcle for less money than th<
• if, hut call and see us.
The turpcnlino still and fixtures
the ladies of intelligence, beauty, ! ®f the Fraser Bros., near No. 2, S.,
gracefulness, glitter, gusli and J F. and W. railway, were destroyed
by lire last Friday. Some twelve
There is evidently a disposition
on the part of Editor Americus
Glesancr to attribute the pea green
tint of tho last Warrcnton Clipper
to jealousy and bile. The mistake
is porliaps. natural, hut we happen
to know that Col. Shivers is the
patentee of a process by which pa-
l>er can he manufactured from |>ea
pods. A slight misunderstanding
will sometimes cause a coolness
between worthy gentlemen Ma
con Telegraph.
IVe take it all hack, and as an
evidence of our cantrilion we are
willing to sign a petition asking
Congress to impose a heavy taritr
duty on pea pods, in order to “pro
tect” Bro. Shivers in his peculiar
industry from the “pauper lalior of
Europe."
Uen I’hil Cook gave Secor Rob
inson a lively ditf for insulting
member? of the House, who were
in tno Confederate army. He told
old Rabinson that u brave man and
a soldier would not insult a soldier.
Atlanta Phonograph.
charm.
Dr. Tucker's Sunday sermon con
tained a.squai-e meal of rich gospel
salmagundi. The Doctor is a man
ol great personal courage, lint still
lie insists Mud every converted
Christian might to take water, and
he thinks the water ought to be
just as wet as possible.
Tiie agricultural outlook in this
section is good. Grass is under
subjection, corn flourishing, oats
splendid, and cotton "able lo lie
| or liftccn barrels ot spirits were al
so destroyed.
Oats were badly blown down in
Hancock county by the wind on
Saturday night, or beat down by
the rain, which fell in torrents.
Fields, where tiie land is rolling
were badly washed.
Barncsvillc foundry turned out
up.” A great, rise in kerosene is | it* first steam engine the other day
anticipated this summer, as it is : and tiie test trial proved perfectly
thought the farmers of southwest j satisfactory. It was made by
Georgia will have to carry lamps | uioodswortli, Hunt Si Co., for W.
when walking through their corn j ’
Helds about the time of the up- | * • Maples, ol /ebulon.
preaching solstice. One of our On Saturday night the store of
citizens has some eow-pen corn he j M . K . Ware, at Marshallville, was
thinks will heat hgvpt. He ex- , , , , . 1
pects it lo produce seven ears along ! bm - lariz<Hl 1,11,1 robb,!(1 01 a c “>'-
tiie sides of the stalk aud a gourd i storable amount of goods, the
filled with shelled corn on top. 1 j burglar effecting an entrance by
sec Tom Arter lias swooped down | breaking the guards to the front
on Hawkinsvillc. I wasjust pack- ' w |, M j ow
ing my carpet bag for the same j
place, 'but I'll wait now until tiie j The city of Rridgetown has
weary barkeeper can restthoir limbs , brought to ‘ Savannah from Florida
and replenish their exhausted stock, , , , ”
for 1 know Tom drank tho town a 1°** hoy, said to lie Charlie Rosa,
dry, and even licked up the “rcsid- j He is ticing sent north under or-
uary moisture.” His felicitous | ders from the Philadelphia society I
and scintillant letter has the spark-j for tbe prevention of cruelty to
1c ot the vivid vma, and I smell m...
his breath in every odorous sen- [
tc,10,! • The series of inc-ctiugs held at
Thomas Kenny*. ilTcompany with ! tl,e 1!arncRvill ° B:, l ,tist cb,lrcb re-
Mr. S. S. Monk and Jasper Kllis-1 c , entlj "’ ca " ,e to a c!ose la,it !si,n '
ton, balifT, was shoe at from the ■ About H>>rty-five accessions
woods twelve or fifteen times a few werc mad< ’’ ’ ,,,,1 "together it was
nights ago on the Carsoiivillc road °" C 01 llic Inost iLtcrcs ung held
in Taylor county. It is thought al tins church in several years. |
that the parties are known, and Knietk Lodge of Perception No. j
they will .lie brought to trial *at ; A. and A. S. R. of Free Mason-
Spectacles of all kinds and in
struments to test your eyes and
competent men to select Spec
tacles best adopted to your
eye-sight. Thousands of peo
ple are injuring their eye
sight by 'using common
Spectacles, or those not prop
erly adjusted to their eyes,
j Solid Silverware, SPOONS,
CARRIAGES FORKS, KNIVES, CARD
! CASES, CUPS, GOB IE'IS,
FRUIT KNIVES, NAPKIN
RINGS, all kinds of case
goods, etc., etc. In Electro-pla-
ted ware, a full line of llecd
and Barton’s goods which I
guarantee to have more silver
on, and to he plated on better
and harder material than any
-filler make of goods, the only
concern that took the only first-
class prize in Australia. A
partial list ol these goods
comprises Castors, Cake Bas
kets, Berry Dishes, Epergns,
Card Stands, Flower Stands,
Water sets, Waiters, Goblets,
cups, Spoon-holders, Syrup-
cups, Butter-dishes, Fickle
• j stands, Knives, Forks, spoons,
: Etc., Etc.
These goods sold at ilia
j same prices that you would
i have to pay at the Factory,
! as well as a full line of goods
, of other manufacturers at fac-
i tory prices.
I also keep a fine line of
j Gold Pens, Walking canes,etc.
This week 1 will have the
largest and most varied stock
of China Vases, Toilet sets,
Jardinieres and fancy goods
generally, ever brought to
this market.
In my Music Department I
have a large stock of Pianos,
Organs, Violins, Guitars, Ban
jos, Accordcons, Tambourines,
Ilarps, Instruction Books, etc.
In my sewing machine de
partment can be found a large
lot of Davis, Williams, Wheel
er and Wilson and other sew-
machincs also .a lot oi
SPRIIfi! 18®
Spring is Here and New Goods Arriving by Every Train!
GO TO
WHEATLEY’S CORfiEH!
WIIRHK YOl WILL FIND ALL TIIK
NOVELTIES
300 PIECES KEW FEINTS OPENED THIS M0ENING,
ALL CHOICE STYLES,
NEW DRESS GOODS ! NEW TRIMMINGS !
All Immense Lot of Bleucliingfi,3-4, 4-4, 0-4, 10-4.
All DeNt Ilia mis ut Popular Prices.
Laces and Embroideries by the Cart Load!
X*cua.s, Parasols and UtnbroUats.
Ladies’, Gents’ and Childrens’ Shoes, Sandals and Slippers! | second hand machines all in
Prices Lower ! thorough order lor side cheap,
! a full line ofparts, attachments
needles and oil for all ma
chinery. My work department
is the most complete and the
1 >ost supplied with tools, ma
chines and material in the
■South lor doing watch work,
jewelry repairing, clock re
pairing and for putting sew-
ing machines in thorough or-
Everlasting, Double Bone, 1 der, supplying any new parts
needed, etc. The class of worli
Madailie Strong’s, done here is superior to that
of any other establishment
outside of a large city. No
trouble to show goods. Call
and take a look through my
stock, whether you wish to
Anlmmenxe Line—quality autl Fit Gunraiitectl. jiurchase or not, and see the
, . ,... . „ ,, place where von can get what
Also :i large assortment of Piece Goods for men and hoys wear. Blue 1 " - 0
Flannel, Cassimere. Tweeds, Cottonadcs, etc., etc.' Agent lor
J. A 1\ Coats’celebrated Spool Cotton. The trade
supplied at New York wholesale prices.
liiNtomillnile an ilvcry Pair Warrant oil.
than Elsewhere.
-THE I.AIlltEST STOCK i
Hood tots soil Corsets !j
AMONG THE LATTER TIIK
GENUINE BON-TON!
AND OTHERS.
AND BOYS’ (MTIK,
once, charged with assault with D’» was instituted at Albany Mon-
intent to kill. day night, the 24th inst., by the i T CJELL AHEAP FOR AASII. T Cf ELL riUEAP FOR n.tsil
— - — Honorable Albert Pike, grand in- ! ^ L/HEAP FOR Lash. 1 O
A negro named Jerry Hamil- j spcctor-general of the thirty-third I
ton was shot and killed recently j degree. This is the second lodge
VA8II. 1 oell Uheap fob G tui.
Call this morning early and avoid the rush at
by another negro in Telifair conn j ol the kind now In Georgia, the one I 'lX7 > ]3.ea,t1 OTrlca r^r-iTsn
ty. The murderer escaped. ! other being being at Augusta. nnn. tr A* ■
you want, cither in goods or
work, when you need anything
of the kind. Everything guar
anteed a* represented.
Jas. Fricker Bro.,
(Under Barlow House.j
lorlouH, - -
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