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)L IV.
TRIWEEKLY.
AMKRICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1882.
NO. 10.
tmmfuisgUtofdn.
Henry S. Davis.
Merkel Callaway
PL'HI.IHIIitu HT
OFFICE ON COTTON AVENUE.
NEW FIRM!!
FENCE OR OFFENCE.
SAiteeeaiptlosa. Start**:
Titf-Weekly One Yeab, . $4.00.
Weekly One Year, - . $8.00.
Sunday Isbub One Year, - $1.50. i I’ll I I
Official Directory.
CRANBERRY CORNER,
AMKRICUS.
America* I* the county sent of Sumter Comity,
(jejireia. nnd I* riluitfU on the SouthivrMoru [
KtUlroml, il mile* root h west of Mac"ii. and about!
eighty miles north of the Florida line. It t*
V«“V ""iiuui uiv r lunua line, il in ii
city of 0,000 inhuliitants beautifully aituntcd nud
handsomely Iu»jir»*red. It la V>e centre of trade
for a large ecetloii. * *•
—I. oomi'ri^njj aome »ix conntiee,
..s Hicavr ••"■mill cotton receipts I icing 00,000
bale*, Ihuaverago market value of which in il,.
7)0,000 The climate is mild, the air dry and pare,
uud America* has for many year* had the repu
tation of being ouoof the healthiest citlca in
Atnericn. being situated but a abort distance
above the tropical region, nearly all varieties of
fruits, grain* and flower* can In* grown *urce*»<
lullV, while vegetation la luxuriant and rapid in
It-* growth. The city haa line public school.*, good i
churches, a large public library, a new opera '
house completely furnished with scenery nud •
which neat a l.Ojo |«rrons, a well organized lire
depart mint which includes two steamers, while;
Davis <2s Callaway
| rare of the house, sullied out with
i a mother's sympathy to sec what
' she could do. At 'daylight she
* 01 't.V years ago I lived in the came back, sorrowful and fttigued
mountains. A bold creek ran to say that some neighbored
through my place, and one corner prescrilicd warm blood as a pcnacea
cut oil from my neighbor’s farm,
about live acres of bottom land,
lie bad little wood on bis land, and
bad allowed Ids fence to rot down
so low that his field lmd to be
thrown out. lie could make no
use of it, and therefore wished to
sell it to mo; but asked so absurdly
high a price for it that I would not
buy. So, to force me to do so, lie
iiavi.no lately purchased tiiV-
BEACTTIFUIj STOCK!
the Hired* are s
...v».cv>. air newered nn»! lighted. Three good
hotel* fUrnlsh the beet of accommodation*. It i*
Hh> large-i city in Southwest Georgia, nud i* r»p-
'dly growing in population and wealth. A* a p‘
if Lupines* <ind n beautiful and nleasant rraiifc
OP MR. JOHN WINDSOR, ARE DAILY AllDINO TO THE SAME THE
••I uiiriiic.'s 'IUU « ucaeuiui ini] piiusiini n'slilHICi' i ....
it prints utrructlono possessed .Lv few citle* in •
St&SSSSSteS PATTKKHS AMD DtSKMSi
-- Information they may desire by oddiTS-diiir the i
Editor of the IIrcordek.
CITY OFFICERd.
Mayor—.!. IL Felder.
Clerk and Recorder—I). K. Ilrinson,
Aldermen—W. I*. Burt, l\ II. Williams, R. K.
Co h, I.. R. Ilosworth, II. II. Watts, W..I. Ilnr-
|Mir. City Coancil meet* every Monday evening.
Police Force—City Marshal, A. P.- iJngo.
Pollecraon -W. W. Wbicier, Pat Krakine, J. W.
Cobb, t*. II. Miteliell.
Sexton Onk Orove Cemetery—P. I). Hill.
Sexton Colored Cemetery—Richard Felder
Bridge Keeper—J. P. 1 Ini ford.
FI UK DEPARTMENT.
Chief-'W. P Hurt.
Assistant Chief—J. C. Nicholson.
Wide Awake No. 1. (Stenmer.) Foreman, W.
M. Hawke*.
Mechanics No. J, (Steamer,) Foreman, II. 11.
Watt*.
Vigilanee No. 2—Foreman, Mingo Glaze.
Hook nud Ladder—Foreman, Henry Anderson
CONGRESSIONAL.
Third District, c. ntposed of the countb
»»u. Hcbl “ —*“ **- ** 1
Dress flows, J|im« mo |mm.
Taylor, Maeon. Schley, Sumter, Dooly. Pulaski,
Dodge, Montgomery, Wilcox, Telfair, fg*e Web-
•ter, Stewart, Irwin, Coffee. Gen. Phil. Cook,
wngrengmau.
LEGISLATIVE.
HenatorinI District ciimj*»<ed of the eountieaof
Sumter, Schley, uud Macon Senator, IXiimmiI
VT T L ^^ ,ru,lent *^ vei, » Tliomaa Feagin and
SUPERIOR COURT
Southwestern Circuit, composed of the counlieg
of Sumter, Schley, uncoil, Lee, Webster uud
Sfewugt.
Judge. Hon. C. F. Crisp. Solicitor General, C.
II. Hudson.
Regular term* of Court are held as follows:
l.c« county, second .Monday in III arch mid *02-
oiid Monday in November.
Schley county, fourth Monday in March nud
fourth Monthly in September.
Webster county, first Monday In April and Hist
Monday In October.
Sumter county, second Monday In April and
fecund Montlay in October.
Stewart county, fourth Monday in April nud
lotirih Monday in October.
Domestics,
Sheetings and
White Goods, Eto
C3NT FULL SUPPLY !=
ANOTHER LARUE AND FRESH INVOICE OF
Ladies and Grents Shoes
Macon comity third Monday in June and
first Montlay in December.
COUNTY COURT.
Judge, J. P. Pilsbury. Monthly term of court,
■rat Wednesday In every month. (Quarterly term,
third Montlay In March, June, September and
December.
ORDINARY’S COURT.
Ordinary, Thomas H. Stewart.-Court held on
first Monday of a very month.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Clerk of Superior Court, J. II. Allen.
Sheriff. J. W. Mize.
Tax Collector, W. It, Stewart.
Tut Receiver, J. A. Daniel
Treasurer, C. C. Shepperd.
Surveyor, M. O. Logan.
Cnonor, \V. W. Guerry
Commissioners. 8. K. Taylor, C. A. Hunting*
ton, J. H. Black. 8. II. Hawkins, J. W. Whentlov
Meet 11 r*V‘Monday of every month.
JUSTICES.
DUtrici No. T5',|N.;iI. White,* J I\, W. II
riill|i|«. N. P.
Dl*\ No. HI, No Justice at p resell t.
Diet. No. 1107, James II. Roger*, J. I'., John K,
Thomas, N. P.
SOON TO AUniVM *
DAVIS & CALLAWAY,
Gran berry Corner,
AMKRICUS, GA.
Rotlisoliild’s Shirts.
fl FOR $!).
WnniMiittu Afusllu, licit
Irish Linen.
N l> p t ’ Britton Smith, J. I\, M. G. L>gan,
* Dial. No, b84, J. M. Hatcher, J. P., fa*. /.. Yin*
IiW No. 11*5, A. J. Williams, J. P., R. A
Darien, N. P.
/anien, a. i. —
^ IJIst. No. 789, P. L. Mize, J. P., Jus. A. Stubbs,
* *Dist. No. 745, F. W, Griffin, J. P.. K. R. Ral
ford, N. P.
'delivered Free Everywhere.
JEWELER,
West Side Square, Aiuirirux, (la.
'*?'*[* ^P 001 ,l “ , l Vr J7„^L ,l,at *'•l*r»duce AT AN Y COHT. Gur large nud
growing business, ample IhcUltlpr Jjr you* exjieiimiv, long list of castomen in principal cities
rxosllrd l.y n.fnT 11 ***" P 1 ' rt ^|jj6* gract<un * J ul,| Uy u* in saying that wo produce CUSTOM WORK
Gentlemen who have hitherto l«een under the ImproNolon that the very I**.! Shlrta could not !*•
‘tjvind to (tie us a call. XVm liimrnuleo Perfect Nntlsfnctlou.
_Onr Spring in |K)rt:.tlons or Fancy Shining, include all the mw design* m French Cretonne-.
1 ercxle*. and tieotch Cheviot Shirtings.
XT ncLerwear.
We have uow on hand the largest and beat selected stink ol GI'IRh’ Klllt Shirts Hllfl
DrilWCItl for Spring and Summer wear.
RothNchild’N White Merino Nil iris u ,,.„u,„b.
KotiiNCliild’s Itoyal Merino NliirtH and Dtinvern .i ;r,cmi. <ari>.
XIiIfIn tad UruweiN.. ,1
UotliHcliild’N India Uaute shirlN,.h„i.or b.ir»ir.v«,.imc,. C i,.
!? ?. ,u V'. ,,er Mer,no Sltirt* and DrawerN i,
Rothuchild’H Heat Jean, Brawent l »™i l i, rat i,.
AIno, lleaiitirul Much of ilalbriggati and Milk t/uderweur
SPRING U'jflo;
«F 4 !r U |«r ,0 ^*i i*» ,,OW r, ,,m pl^t l < ‘» *"d ImlutltM nil the latist novelties and (holiest pmduetious of the
*. I ? ud r_ n J
Bilk and Satin Ties, iu Pis
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lot. Il Mlli» Mini tutln., lit c|.. to f 1,011 put'll, A| -o Itirpp lln,
"•■I f.npy Color., .Kkr lit Wc. .aiTi.
KID OXiOVBO.
lea to my cows, sheep ami liogt,
Hutting (logs on tlie sheep, ami
shooting Hmall shot into the udilcis
ami rille bullets tlirougli the horns
of my cows. This could not bo
submitted to quietly, so J went
after him and found bim gathering
lire wood on my land. 1 made no
objection to this, but told him that
one of my cows bad been much
injured in Ins Helds, and 1 wished
to know why be persisted in such
treatment of a neighbor.
He sulkily and defiantly told me
to keep my cows out of bis Helds,
if I didn’t want them “burled.”
I toid him bis fence, so far from
being lawful, was not five rails
high in twenty placps, and a pig
uould jump over or a coiv step over
easily, and that lie must raise il
at least high enough to turn cattle
as gentle as mine.
lie said that lie lmd no rail
limber and I knew it, so it was
d—d nonsense to talk so.
I then snid: "I have timber
here at your service, and 1 will
lend you iny two negro men for a
few days, if you will split the rails
and put up a good fence.”
"No, d—d if I’d be beholden to
to you for so ninth I”
“Very well, then,” I replied, “if
you hurt any more of my property
I'll make you pay for it.”
“Yes, I guess you will,” lie re.
totted, “you know I’in a poor man.
and you reckon to sue me; but I
guess I’ve got as many friends us
you, and we'll see what the jury
will say to you when it comes be.
fore ’em!” ~
“Look here, my good friend, you
scum to have some spile against
me personally, and really I cannot
imagine why; but if I Imve ever
done you any wrong and you will
tell me now, I will make it all
right.”
He hesitated a little, but let out
at last that I bad dogs, horses,
niggers, guns, dressed better than
the neighbors, was “stuck up," etc.,
and upon being pressed to tell me
how in this I lmd injured him per
sonally, lie Hummed the whole up
thus: “Well d—ii you! you’re
dilfercnt from me, anyhow !”
The philosophy of the matter,
then Hushed upon inc; human na
ture spoke in him and roused hu
man nature in me to the extent
tlmt I replied, “well, if that's your
reason—look and tnko care you
stop injuring my property, or
you’ll pay for it. “I reckon you’ll
go to law, will yon ?” “No!” I re
plied “I'll thrush you !”
He was taller than I, broad
shouldered, but Hut chested mid
badly put together, and 1,although
some pounds lighter, was deeply
impressed with the truth tlmt the
battle wus not to the strong nor
the race to the swift, so when be
sneering said, “you look like a
pretty feller to lick me; don’t you;
you’d better try it.” “Well,” said
I, buttoning my sacqiic." We arc
here alone, snd it’s ss good u time
to try it, as any.” lint lie did’nl
think so, uud we parted as the
in such cases, and that the child
must die, anil was probably then
dead. It did die, and notice was
sent out that it would be buried
ut once. My better half, turning
over tlie baby, us it wus daylight,
to tlie nurse, who could be trusted
to keep awake during the day,
went over at once, leaving ine to
elinnge my dicss for one more
•- ’ , . : cnuNge my mess ior one more
commenced a series or petty injur- j suitable tlmt u shooting jacket and
lt*M to III V l!nw.4 MlllWHk >111.1 ... - ” J .. .
factory Iron. Import.-*! Skip*, very U-t <tuility, si Ir fr lir |, ll( 1 POelS eay “like tWO cliffs rt lit US-
hllrCH sumlcl : ne J rcr J”'" again.” Hut I
riotlisoliUcl'a Fancy Half Hobo.
... , : , 7 J«lw 1.1 itoljrted F.nif HALF BOSK from SSc to LSI per fair.
Plal u, C olored uud llritisli Half Hose from et*. ,. r ,.i r u„..rj,
A SPLENDID STOCK
Wes i Jewelry
AM fisilts, finr U*u MDUlkrturc. Ikst Glnjrlinin Utulrolla, 91. .
ft,,d ‘-'"fr"* Cambric, Much
“,“ d ," , u l " dkerchu ‘ r ’'’KaMieudent, ,„,i (lentleiueii’NJewelry,
An
r elegant set (3> of Mill Htuda glveu
_ — ■—• wim voiiii nnu nice VC Rutlo
with cs. fi ha|iMl.w#.|i Ol Roiiisrlillil's Custom Mblris.
to WV^f^rVo aN f xIw‘Y'‘rl!* M,Mr ’ ‘ le,,rrl P ,lve rircular » frw. Price-LM
K 8 .VjViA;. ,,0,f HSC!’IIII.II ic C0-, liroutlway Ac 8th gf., Xety York.
was mistaken.
At tlmt time there were only two
regular physicians in the county,
and they hard to get at, so we
were obliged in common charity to
supply medicines and such advice
as we could give on many oc
casions, and not unlrcquently to
rise and ride by night miles through
the wild woods to some lone cot
tage where disease or death was
doing its work. Now my bcligcr-
briar proof pants fur a funeral.
This 1 did, and having put on mv
second best, as being less “struck
"P" than my Sunday-go-to meet
ings.
I followed her. Ou approaching
the house, which was about one
hundred yards from the fence, and
just as I stepped over it with caso
I saw tin* lather approaching me
from the crowd or meu before the
door: We me half way, and lie
.burst into tears and blubbered like
a child, seizing my proffered band
in bis.
“Oil, Mr. W.,” snid I, very much
disposed to blubber too Irom
sympathy with the poor fellow,
“don’t be so distressed. You Imve
lost a fine little baby, but think
how much suffering it lias escaped,
and Hint now it is in heaven, where
there will lie no more sorrow or
suffering for it.”
"IJoo! boo! boo! boo—oh!” he
burst out still stronger, “That
isn’t what I'm a crying about. It
arc tlmt you who I treated so cuss
ed bad, and was agwine to lick,
when you hadn’t done nothin’ to
me ut all, sent your wile over to
mind my siuk baby in the night,
and now come to its funeral boo !
boo I boo!—and in your store
clothes, too!”
Dear render! I hope you will
believe inc when I say tlmt I didn’t
laugh—for I didn’t; but thu sudden
mingling of the sad and the ridicul
ous nearly choked me,and brought
on an attuck of hysterics, which I
thought best to let run into tears,
till 1 could control my voice suffi
cient to offer consolation in the
slmpc of some quotations from
scriptural and profane literature
about whom the Gods love dying
early.”
“Them’s sc rioter,"said lie, “ain't
they ? And Colonel does you be
lieve in scriiiter?” “Certainly,” I
replied. “Then, may lie its true
that my baby’s gone to heaven!”
“No doubt of it,” said I, "Colonel,
is you a Cliristain ?” “Well, in
faith J may say I am, but in works |
I am not so sure, but I wish to be,
and to a limited degree try to be !
Jlut I’m afraid I can’t claim to do-
serve tlie name as well as I should.”
“Well, I guess you’re tolerable
yourself; but your wife's an angel,
I know, if ever I seed one I for
she’s <1—<1 purty, and folks says
she’s just ns good too. Colonel,
do you think I could be a Chris-
tain ?” “Yes,” I replied, “certain
ly if you were to desire it earnestly
and strive to know God’s will and
do it.”
“What is God’s will, and how
am 1 to know. It tain’t what the
persons sez it is, is it ?”
“Christ says that if you lovo
Him you will keep His command
ments, and that, j suppose, is what
the peisons say.”
“I don’t kuow,”lic replied,“they
talks about baptism,and Irccgruco
and spent stirrings, and sudden
cabins, and the like, which never
luck me; so I can't say.”
“Christ says all these laws arc
held in two principles: Love God
with all your heart, and your
neighbor like yourself.”
“My neighbor like myself ? lloo,
boo! Anil I loved you, did't I ?
Colonel, you'se my neighbor, und
The Sweet By and By.
The author of the' well known
song, “The Sweet By and By,” 8.
I illmore Bennett, orElkhom, Wis.,
denies in the Chicago Indicnler
that lie and the composer were
drunk when they wrot£ the words
and music of that song, as has been
charged. Neither ol them were
drunk. Bennett was at his place
cf business when Webster, who
was of a nervous and sensitive
nature and easily susceptible to de
pression, camo in, in one of bis
melancholy moods. .
“What's the matter now?” asked
Bennett.
“It’s no matter,” be answered,
“it will lie all right by and by."
“The idea eamc to me like a
flash,” says Bennett, and I re
plied: ‘The Sweet By and By!’
Why would that not make a gosd
hymn?”
“May bedt would,” ho said In
differently.
Turning to the desk, Bennett
then wrote the three verses of the
hymn.
“In the meantime two friends—
N. II. Carswell and 8. E. Bright-
had come in,’’ says Bennett. “I
handed the hymn to Mr. Webster.
As he read it bis eyes kindled.and
Ids whole demeanor changed. Step
ping to the desk he began writing
the notes io a moment. Presently
he requested his violin, and played
the melody. In a few moments
more be bad the notes for the fuur
parts of the chorus jotted down. I
think It was not over thirty min
utes from the time I took my pen
to write the words, before the two
gentlemen before named, myself
and Mr. Webster were singing the
hymn, in the same form in which
it afterward appeared. While sing
ing it, Mr. R. Crosby, now a resi-
dent of Richmond, Ill., came In,
and, after listening awhile, with
tears in his eyes, uttered the pre- •
diction: ‘That hymn is immortal.’
I think it was sung in public short-
ly after, for within weeks almost
every child on the streets was sing,
ing it. It is translated into several
languages and sung in every land
under the sun.”
Information Wanted.
From III* Detroit Frc Proa*. * :
A stranger who walked with a
limp and carried a cane freshly out
from the woods, halted a citizen
on the steps of the city hall, and
inquired:
“How about the reunion?”
“It’s all right, I guess.”
“I suppose all the big generals
have been provided for?”
| “Ob, yes.”
1 “And the brigadiers and colo
nels have been taken care of?”
“Yes."
“And the majors and captains
and lieutenants huve been assign
ed plucef”
"I presume so.”
“And sergeants and corporals
and privates arc going to march,
receive honors and show off tho
best they can?”
“That is the programn*. Have
you been left out?”
“Well, I dunr.oyct, but I shouldn’t ’
wonder. 8ay, have you read up
pretty closely on the programmer
“And has anything been said
about tho heroes who drove sutlers’
wagon through the iron hall of
death—anything about the sutlers
who opened up business for the
hoys when the shrieks of the dy-
ing were drowning the roar of bat
tle?”
“I—I—don’t think so. In fact
I am not sure of It.”
“That’s me; and here I go,” said
the man as he gave his right leg a
tremendrons slap. “A feunlon
which doesn’t provide for a four-
wheeled buggy for a sutler who
sold peaches for $3 a can to save
do you think if I was to love'Cnd',! ** *• Texas, sir-
and you, loo, and never do you no ! ^„ged^nir!Changed, sir—be-
more harm, tlmt I’d get religion ?”
“You’d be in a fair way of doing
it, anyhow, und by pruver uml
perseverance would probably suc
ceed.”
You think so! and if I was to
Tho IjatosttSoslExia.
ALL REPAIR WORK
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
J. E. SULLIVAN.
HEIMS VARIETY WORKS,
AMERICUS, .... GEORGIA.
C. M. WIIHATLEY, CONTRACTOR AM BUILDER,
-DEALER IN-
tliis child was suddenly taken ill
one afternoon. Tlie mother want-
< d at onee to semi to us, but the
father “d—il if he would he iiolddn
to sicli folks for nothin,” hilt when
about midnight the child grew
worse, a knock on the side of the
Sasli, Doors Hinds und Windows, :.u„iIkt Plained, Woodwork ZZTZZtl SS^S
of et cry kind done with prompt ness, Furniture, Bedsteads
ond Coffins, Plans Draw n and Kstiniatcs Furnished.
»"J w»t»r Plpeluit nnd Pl|» Filler, tool., .nd un |ir.--
c. M. WIIEATLICV, Proji-r.
w C7 I a KfiM tuum ou. Uliu II 1 IO
cut neighbor bad one child, a prat- K j t religion, and was to die, would
ty little thing, bright and playful, 11 go to | lcaV e„ and see my blessed
which lie loved us such rough un-1 little baby a.'uin ?”
checked iintiircs arc apt to do when ! “Certainly "said I
they turn to any one thing, and j “Then,” exclaimed he drawing
tins eh,I,I wnu amlrlonlv II Ui.llSelf U P and Striking hi* flst ill-
to the hollow of bis haud,“G d
d—d my soul to hell, if 1 dou’t lie
a Cliristain !”
urged us to come quick to help
our neighbor in his dire extremity.
My wife at once arose, threw on
her clothes, and leaving me to
mind our own oue baby nnd take
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Nursing mothers gain strength by neing
Brown's Iron Bitters, It acts like a
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overstrained nature.
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) rn&wmne i
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—Tribune
Judge Linton, of Tbomaavllle,
haa made in New York a Mine 100
yard* long and from 10 to It fegt
deep, and he and a party left Thom-
asville for the purpose of Mining
Shelton pond. The last time tbu
pond was dragged, says the Thom-
asville Enlerpriue, the party cap
tured 7,458 fish.
•Buchupaiba.”
Quick, complete cure, all annoy.
Ing Kidney. Bladder and Urinary
Diseases, fl. Druggists.