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WHO’LL TAKE ITJ
A bright $10 gold piece has been
left in the bands of the editor ot
the Recorder to bet that Allen
Fort will be appointed Judge in
case Judge Crisp resigns within
tbe next thirty days.
life
Por Governor.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
For Secretary of State.
N. C. BARNETT.
For State Treasurer.
D. N. SPEER.
For romptroller General.
W. A. WRIGHT.
For Attorney General
CLIFFORD ANDERSON.
For ConarraanMUi at l.arg*\
THOMAB HARDEMAN. •
SENATORIAL CONVENTION.
By virtue of the authority vested
in me, as Chairman of the Senato
rial Convention for the Thirteenth
District, composed of the counties
of Sumter, Macon and Schley, 1 do
hereby request delegates from said
counties to convene at Americus,
on Tuesday, August 22d, at 12 m.,
for tlie purpose of nominating a
Senator for said District.
L. 0. Niles, Ohm.
July 13, 1382.
To the Democratic Party of till Con
gressional District.
Yon are requested, through the usiinl
number of Delegates, to meet in Conven
tion, at Eaatinan, Oa., on
TUESDAY, AUGUST rid, ISIS,
for the purpose of nominating a candid
ala to represent yonr District in Congress,
and lo appoint an Executive Committee
for the ensuing term; also to attend to
nny other huainess which may he con
tinent! to the iutereet of the democratic
* Tho authorities of the E. T.. Vn. and
Ga., Rail Road havo kindly offered to re
duce tho faro of delegates to two cents
per mile going to and returning from
aaid Convention, and the citizens of
Eastman propose to extend to tho Dele
gatee their hospitality during the Conven.
tion. a. (t. McArthur,
Ohm. Dom. Ex. Coin. 3rd Cong. Dial.
McAiituuii, Oa., June 22, 1HS2.
FOR CONGRESSMAN
Next Tuesday will virtually dc‘
eide the contest for the Democratic
nomination for Congress in this
district. In making a choice be
tween tho two candidates every
voter should lie actuated alone by
the motive of selecting he who will
licet represent the interests of tills
district in the national legislature.
All personal feeling should be laid
aside, for tills is a public question
and not a private one. It is not a
question, oj should not lie, of who
most needs the salary of the office,
for Congress is not supposed lo be
a national charitable asylum, and
we have no moral right to pension
our friends upon tho public. As
there nro but two candidates in the
Held—Gen. Cook, the present in
cumbent, and Judge Crisp—it is
simply a question us lo whether it
is for tlie best interests of the dis
trict that a change should be made,
ami in determining tins question
all outside issues and personal
preferences should he laid aside.
Neither man lias any claim on the
office, further than his litncss for
it. All talk about the present in
cumbcnt having “been in office
long enough” should have this
weight, and nothing more—if lie is
incompetent or lias neglected his
duties, he lias been in office too
long;.while, on the contrary, if lie
lias proven himself competent and
faithful to his trust, lie has hut dis
charged his duty, nnd it remains
witli the people to say whether his
experionee in tlie office and his
known fidelity to his trust render
him more valuable as a representa
tive than a new man of equal or
superior ability would be. As to
tlie peculiar fitness of tlie two men
tbe for office wo cannot speak,hut
thoyjare both well enough known
throughout litis portion of tlie dis
trict to enable every mau to make
his choice understnmlingly; and in
this there should he no jumping
at conclusions, for different offices
require different qualifications. As
both men represent the saute polit
ical principles, their candidacy for
the nomination should resolve it
self into a question of litncss for
the position, and we hope it will he
so considered by all who lake part
in the primaries next Tuesday.
The office of Congressman is an
important one, especially to the
Southern people, who have much
at stake in national legislation, and
itjis for this reason that we are anx
ious that tlie people of litis dis-
GOOD FOB PLANTERS.
The Senate, on Saturday last,
had tiie revenue bill up for consid
eration, and by a viva voce vote
adopted a new section for tlie ex
emption from the spccinl tax im
posed upon dealers of manufactur
ed tobacco, of farmers, planters
and lumbermen who furnish sup
plies to their laborers or employes
Aggregating less than 100 pounds
per year. This feature of the bill
is both just and wise, and will be
of great convenience to hotli tlie
laborer and Ins employer. We
have never been able to see why
planter might not pay his laborer
an occasional ping of tobacco for
his labor as welt as to pay him 50
cents, and then grant the laborer
time to walk miles to some store to
purchase tlie tobacco. Let tlie
planter buy tlie tobacco at the store
that lias paid the special tax, and
let him furnish it to his laborers as
they may need it, as a matter of
convenience to them and also ns
saving of time and labor to the
planter. We earnestly hope tlie
House will also adopt this section
nnd that it will finally pass as tlie
law.
DEATH IN LIFE.
Senator Hlll’s.Snfferlngs and Happy
Slate of Hind.
trict should make a choice that
HI • . . | ” n* s^vvsw emu v^uuoklUll IU( tUU
will represent tbcirdelibcratcjudg-; liencfft of Col. Fort who we hear is
PEN FUTURES.
Americus, July 27th, 1882.
Wednesday’s issue of the Repub
lican contains numerous editorial
jlings at Gen. Oook, for leaving
Washington a few days in advance
of the adjournment of Congress
We exhibit two pencil pictures in
this connection. All who wish may
inspect them:
picture so. 1.
Gen. Cook was at his post of du
ty in Washington from the openiug
of the session of Congress in De
cember until the 20th inst. He
voted upon every contested elec,
tion case which came up for settle,
ment the present session, lie was
in his seat until after the passage
ol every important measurn likely
to come up had been disposed of.
He was in his seat two months af-
tor tlie fight for the succession in
this district had been precipitated
by J udge Crisp and his friends.
He was in his seat one week after
Stephens and Brown had left for
Georgia to attend, tlie State Con
vention to advance the political
interest of tlie former. Finally,
Gen. Cook is now paired upon all
political questions likely to come
up during this the closing week
of the session.
picture no. 2.
At the Spring term of Sumter
Court Judge Crisp was not in his
scat, hut was in Coff'ee county look
ing alter his political interest. So
also the Spring term of Webster
court found him in Taylor county
for no other purpose than to ad
vancc his chances to go to Con
gress. Worse still, when the time
came to hold Maoon county Court,
I e was reported loo sics: to hold
court; nnd he tnnsl have been sick,
tor his doctor, who takes great in
terest in him both physically and
politically, has m> stated; but still
one fact is wortli two assertions.
Let us follow him through that
week. Monday, before some of our
lawyers left lor Macon court.
Judge Crisp was in Leo county
looking alter his Congressional
fences. Tuesday found him there
also. Thursday lie rode 10 miles
in a buggy—to I'reston and hack,
Friday bo left for Irwin county
was gone a week traveling in n hug
gy. Ho may have been too sick to
hold Maoon court, but the picture
looks to us as if he did not have
time to attend to the duties of the
office, to which the legislature of
the State elected him and for which
the State pays him.
We submit the questions as to
which has been truer to his trust
during the past three months, to
all fair minded men, not fearing
the result. X.
P. S—By the way, when is the
Judge going to rcsigu? His friends
have claimed that he was going to
resign next week for several months
—We ask this question for the
ment and not their personal pref
erence, and it is (or tills reason
that we have written what we
have.
to succeed to the judgeship.
One Now York firm handled
350,000 bushels of peanuts last
year.
Desirous of presenting to the
public some reliable information
regarding Senator Hill’s’condition
a Post-Appeal man called upon Dr.
R. B. Ridley yesterday evening
with an inquiry relating to tbe
sufferer's mental and physical state
and the means taken to render his
Inst hours happy. In modern an,
nals there lias not been a ease re
corded so full of horror as that
Georgia’s great orator and .states
man. Nor has the resignation and
Christian philosophy he exhibits
been excelled. Slowly dying of
one of the most acutely painful and
distressing of all diseases lie
cheerful, patient and resigned to
Ilia fate.
Mr Hiil is put to sleep every
night about 8 o’clock witli a hypo
dermic injection of morphine, and
slumbers until 11 o’clock in the
morning. He is then dressed and
spends the day in an easy chair
near the window of a pavilion at
tached to tbe north side of his rcsi
dencc, with a window and door
opening to the east on to a veran
da. There he sits the whole day
the subject of the roost assiduous
attention from his devoted family.
He read i a little in newspapers, hi
mail and some devotional works
also writes down his passing im
pressions, indites letters and com
municates with those to whom hi
almost inarticulate mutmuringsnre
intelligible.
Three grains of morphine are
administered daily, the patient
never being allowed to come thor
oughly from under its influence.
His food consists of milk, into
which tbe yolks of eggs have been
beaten, and a little whiskey added.
About three [tints of this mixture
is passed into the patient's stomach
every day through a tube, no por
tion of tlie fluid touches his palate.
Tlie cancer, of which the disease
is acknowledged to be by nil but
some persons who have not had
any connection with tlie case, has
destroyed all the tissues of his
throat and mouth, on the left side
as well as on the lower jaw. or sub
maxillary hone. The opening is so
large that two or three fingers can
be passed freely up into the mouth
from below, and the palate can be
seen when the patient is lying down
and one approaches him from the
feet. The outer carotid artery is
exposed, nnd pulsation is plainly
visible. Tlie soft, or connective,
tissuo has been eaten away, and
only such tough, elastic substance
as compose the walls of the artery
are left intact. What is left of the
tongue is attached to the right
side by a very slender ligament,
and the constant fear is felt tha'. it
will beoome detached and fall into
the patient’s throat, when asleep,
and thus end bis sufferings, while
sufficient strength might exist for
a further continuance of tlie con
test with the dread destroyer. Ills
mouth is kept filled with absorbent
and antiseptic cotton, which is fre
quently changed, as is tlie dress,
ing on' the outside.
No internal remedy is now given,
nor has any been" administered
since the abandonment of the
French “cancer cure” which con
sisted in tlie injection into the cir
culation of purified carbolie acid,
the object being to destroy tbe can
cerOua germs in the blood.
For three years Mr Hill sufTercd
with an ulcerous sore on Us tongue
before he told even his wife.
Then by advice of a friend in New
York he consulted Dr. Bayard, an
tinelo of the Delaware Senator, who
iractices homeopathy in New York,
tar eight months this physician
treated him and reported constant
improvement. But the patient was
[rowing worse, and he finally real-
zed that lit- was, in danger nnd
|>laccd himself in the hands of Dr.
Gross and the Philadelphia hospi
tal stag.
The evidence of the sufferer's en
tire resignation arc numerous. The
other day he called his son Charles
to him. “I am soon going to a
better land,Charley, don’t you wish
you could come along? I wish
there was some way to take you.”
Such is tho tenor of all his utter
ances to his family and friends. In
writing to an old sorvant now in
Athens, where he lived when first
elected to Congress, ho reiterated
tho remark that this was the hap-
pics period of his existence. He
might have been thoughtless in the
vigor of health, but now felt ready
to meet his Maker. Tt^I.ord had
given him a good long notice, and
he was fully prepared for the sum
mons when it came.
The final change it is now thought,
will come from sheer exhaustion.
If the morphine was suspended he
would soon sink from the effects
of tbe pain. Now all that can be
done is to alleviate the suffering
and prolong the few days, which in
spite of bis terrible condition, he
seems to prize more than those up
on which he gained his glory.
Practical Business Sense In Farming.
Oar enterprising banker, Mr. I.
0. Plant, who is noted for his
financial acumen, Is making an ap- llme «® «* '*>« MW <**•
plication of his financial tact to
farming. Within a twelvemonth
be has accomplished wrliat most
farmers thought impossible. His
farm is just about three miles from
tbe city, in the river swamp. He be
lieved when he purchased it that
there was money in it, and by ap
plying his practical good sense
to the cultivation of certain crops ;
he has vindicated his judgment. \
Last year an outlay of $5,000;
for the land and he cleared about I
$1,500. This year he will make
profits over $2,000. Last year lie
devoted his attention to Bermuda
grass and field peas. This year he
has already harvested 500 bushels
of oats and thrashed them out.
Tlie straw is all carefully stowed
away for use. He will make 100
tODs of hay from his Bermuda
millet and native grasses. This
he sells readily from 90 cents to
$1.25 per hundred. He has con
tracts at these figures for all he can
furnish. After cutting his oats,
lie planted the ground in corn,
which is now about three feet high
and growing nicely, and will make
a splendid crop. He will plant his
peas, and thus realize three crops
off of the same ground.
After this year he will abandon
oats as a crop, believing, and his
experience demonstrates, there is
more money in the hay crop.
He has a small patch of herd nnd
timothy grass which is growing
very luxuriantly, and by next
season will he in elegant condition.
He will also have a meadow of
veitch or guinea grass, which is
said to be the most prolific grass
crop for the South, being enabled
to cut it four times a year.
Mr. Plant has also another crop
which no one before ever thought
worthy of attention. Learning that
Mr. Gen. Boggs, the enterprising
grocer of our city, was selling from
twenty to twenty-five barrels of
horse radish every year, he wond
ered wliy it could not be raised in
this country. He made investiga
tion, and has planted nearly n
quarter of an acre of this vege
table. He is satisfied that it can
he produced for less than half the
price it sells for in the market. It
is self-propagating, and after once
well set it will be easily cultivrted.
The example otMr. fclant has in
duced other progressive farmers to
prepare meadows, botli ot native
and imported grasses, and if this
industry prospers as it should, five
years lienee but little western or
northern hay will find its way into
our market. Tliose who desire to
adopt this system can be'furnished
with all necessary data.—Macon
Telegraph.
Wo an now prepend to negotiate Loans forplanten in the counties of Sumter, Lee
Webrler. on Improved land* on five yean lime. How Is yonr chance lo pay o8 old dehts and h “J
GKET THE BEST!
The i'elebraled tooper Traction anil Farm Engines!
FOR SAXiB.
These Eu^lueg art
Lire and. Fire Insurance!
Wp represent ionic of Iho best nml most literal Life nnd' Fire Insurance Companies, and racial
attention in called to thin brunch of onr bimlnee*. CALL AND SEG US.
,R. T. BYRD cfe CO.
Americus, Ga., July 2, 1882 3m
Wesleyan Female Institute,
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
Open* September 20th 1882. One of the Flrit
Schools for Young Ladlca In the
'United States. Surroundings beautifnl.
'Cbmate iuisur|ia.-nc(l. I'npiln from 18 State*.
'Term* among tho Kent in tbo Union, Hoard.
Washing, Knallnh Course, Latin, French, Ocr-
man, Instrumental Music, etc., for Scholastic
yenr, from Sept, to June, 9338. For Catalogut*
write to
REV. WM. A. II ARRIS, D.D., Pres t,
July2tf Staunton, Vs.
Oliver & Oliver,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IX
Corner Jackson anti Jefferson St reels,
AMERICAS,
GEORGIA.
How - many ladies who wear
dresses covered witli polka dots
have any knowledge of their classic
origin? The polka dot we are told
by a learned correspondent, is a
copy of the ancient chrysoclavns,
or golden nail head, which in early
Church time was one of the em
blematic ornaments embroidered
ecclesiastical vestments and
robeB, and later a purple patch like
a broad nail head was worn upon
tho outer garments by the old
Roman dignitaries. At first it
was observed as a mark of dignity,
and “elavi” ol gold on rich silken
textiles of Tyrian dye could lie
worn only by the nobles. Imbued
by a spirit of emulation, the
wealthy then demauded silken
stuffs sprinkled all over witli large
round spots; and so, from tlie sa
cred chrysoclavns, or golden nail
head, we have come in modern time
to liestow onr cotton frocks with
polka dots. These same frocks arc
not prettier nor uioru comfortable
for the remote origin of their dec
oration; hut the may he women
who will fiud a sort ot satisfaction
the knowledge, and will wear
their polka doLs witli a more
grandiose air tor that reason. To
such women it is especially recom
mended to restore the ancient
name also, and dignify the polka
dot with the original name chrvso-
clavus.
W R MANUFACTURE AND WILL KKKP|COXSTANTLY on hand of ouu own make
a lull line of
First-Class Bugg’ies,
ITOP AND NO TOP,)
PONY PHJETONS,
ONE AND TW0-H0RSE WAGONS!
n«l will tell at prieea at low at the tame clan of work can be laid down hire
lave the purcha*er tho freight. We aUo rake order* for
3£2£T,3S2T3XOXT TOP CARRIAGES
OF ALL STYLES,
•nil will p-t them ap Hot-class In every pnrticulnr, na neliave at tlm l.reil of every department a»t-
“ “ ' “* r, **“ "inker-, and alway. have on hand a Isrye .tork ol lurd ».-ironed limber nnd other
WE GUARANTEE EVERYTHING WE BUILD
to be wirierly first-class, o
a sbnd.ly work nt nay prior. We give iperlal attention lo
The Bad and IV ortlilcss
are never imitated or counterfeited. This ‘\ v,e h “” faellltir. (or numafaemrlng and repairing anything m the cnrri.ee Urn ih«n on.
Is especially true of a family medicine, ° ,h ” «»t.li.hme.t Soatbwc Ueorgin. o.n .„dJ n . « “Zk ani,prtaJbEm. -
we arc satisfied that we con inrnlsh yon n firet-rlais nrtlcln for lew money than tho mm. con ho do
ll™-. — word for II, but all nnd tee ua.
W VD|#VV.UIIJ si liC III a laillliy lliciliuue,
and it is positive proor Hint llie remedy
imitated is of the highest value. As soon
as it had been tested and proven by the
whole world thii Hop Uiilcrs was the
purest, best and most valuable family
medicine on earth, many imilntions
sprung up and began to steal the notices
in which the press and people of tbe
eountiy had expressed the merits of H.
B„ and in every way trying lo induce
suffering invalids to use their stuff in
stead, expecting to make money on the
credit and good l-omo of Hop Bitters
Senator Sherman lakes a lunch
to the Capitol every day, and
never leaves the building until tbo
Senate adjourns.
Repairing and Remodeling Old Buggies,
plicated by any other firm. Don’t take o
Americas, On., April 30ih, 1882.
.1m
NEW
Planters’ffaretase.
1 haw rented the
"Hop” or -‘Hops’’ were used in a way to
induce people to believe they were the
same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended
remedies or cures, no matter what their
style or name If, and especially those
with tlie word "Hop” or “Hops” in their
mine or in any way conceded- with
them or their name, are imitations or
counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch
none of them. Use nothing hut genuine
Hop Bitten, with a bunch or cluster of
green Hopson (lie white label. Trust
nothing else. Druggist and deafen an
warned against dealing in
joorattrMis.
NIRItlNE BRICK BUILDING,
on the Kant side of the Pnl-llc Square,
AMERICUS, (j.
SlaMiVi *"“* have ready to .tore roltnn
■»tatiss. & ***
i imitations or
<r. Xj. price.
An-rrleu*. Oa., liny S, 1SS4.
Xonrown toga. Terns and 09
I Americus, Oa., July 15, 1882.
• ! I respectfully announce to my farmer
customers and tbe planters of this section
generally, that I have again leased this
Warehouse, and will be prepared the
coming Reason, with unusual facilities ,to
advance the interest of my. patrons. A
long experience in tlie business, aided by
nD earnest desire to please, is, I think, a
sufficient guarantee that satisfaction will
bo given.
I will have an able corps of assistants,
chief among them Maj. T. M. FURLOW,
who has given tlie planters such satisfe^
tion hs scalesman for the past two sea*
sons by his fair dealing and courtesy.
C. W. FELDER-
JnlylS-2in
*79 A WEEK. Man day el ham. «a,Ilyni»J»
♦I*, Costly outfit pee. Adrrsa Tavi* <“■