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THI-WBEK.LY
VOL IV.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8. 1882.
NO. 21.
J. W. SHEFFIELD & CO.,
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I A. M O X
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AMERICUS, GA.,
Wholesale an«l Retail Dealers in General
HARDWARE.
Stones, Ckockerv, Paints, Sasii, Doors,
Blinds and Hoijseeurnisiiing Goods.
On or about October loth our new building will be finished
when wo w ill display one of the
Most Complete Stocks of Hardware!
AND OTHER GOODS IX OUR LIKE IN GEORGIA.
FOUR CAR LOADS OF
Patent and Plain Wheel Wagons,
(1 TO 0 HORSE) AT MACON AND COLUMIHJS PRICES.
DIAMOND TO CUT DIAMOND,
DIAMOND DROPS TO CURE
HVPII1L18, IllIBUMATISM,
CONSUMPTION, ECZEMA,
Old Sores and all Scrofulous Taints.
Endorsed by Leading Physicians 1
"Diamond Drops I* vegetable, and haf done
more (rood In und around AmcrictiH (or the pant
ten years than any other live alterative*," and
\v«> have score* of tchtitnoainls to *hnw It. Give
It a trial uml Ikj < onvlnccd. Price $1.00* Pur
*ftle only by
?r. r. VAVEXVOllT «e SON,
AMBRICUS, GA.
CARRIAGE & BUGGY REPOSITORY
we have a large and well selected *tock of ull the latest atylc* of BuKRic* at price* to suit every one.
We make a «‘S|.<\:Ulty of flue Buggies built to order by Henry Hooker dtJCn., Ni-wr Haven, Conn., who
nave a national reputation for tint cIu.h work. All work irnarantecd to 1* us represented by us. . In
connection with Buggies and Wagon* wo have a (ull Hue of
SADDLERY. BUGGY AND WAGON HARNESS,
ROTH HAND AND MACHINE MADE.
AOKNTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
KENTUCKY 3 ROLLER CANE .MILLS AN1) COOK’S COl’PEU EVAFORATORS,
FINDLEY S 2 ROLLER MILLS AND KETTLES. COTTON FRESSES
AND GIN GEARING. FA1RRANKS AND HOWE SCALES.
8FECIAL MACHINERY FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE.
Having bought our g<*ods before the Fall advances, from manufacturer* for*pot c**h, we are enabled
to meet any competition in price*, and will make it to the Interest of our friend* and the public gener
ally to come und see us, at present onponltc the telegraph and post officer Remember, we will be In
our new store about OctoiH-r 15th with new goods and lowest price*.
J. W. SHEFFIELD & CO.
Heptemlier 'll, ISS&md
IIOU8F01IDS
SELF RAISING
BREAD PREPARATION
THE REST MADE
TWENTY-FIVE C ENTS
TEN CENTS
I’ER PACKAGE
FOR HALE IIY
EVANS & HARWELL
FORSYTII STRETT
N, 0. & J. K. PRINCE,
|
Livery, Sale and Feed Slaliles!!
AMERICUS, GA.
Queen, Brewster 81di _ r r ,
*■ IHng at tmrgaln*. Will evil you a
Buggy ancl Hamoss for *120.00,
for from ten dollar* hi*. Wing the finest and cheapest *tu
NO BUG01B8 and HARXE*
Glover &Perry,
HEADQUARTERS
FOB
. MEAT,FLODE,SALT
BAGGING, TIES,
AM)
I Groceries Generally
LEAH-
A slim, dark-eyed girl, with
brown hair knotted by u cardinal
ribbon, in a dress of pale violet—
the whole u picturesque effect in
the old wood. Leah Lyndon was
looking idly nt the busy workers
of an ant hill at Iter feet.
A leafy old tree arched over her;
tlie sunshine fell warmly into the
glade; the air was full of the scent
of the pines. Leah waited quietly;
full of the pleasure tliat surrounded
her.
Suddenly tire hushes cracked,
and a man sprang lightly down the
bank to tier side—a slender, dark
man, of less than thirty, perhaps,
with a smile so disagreeable that
it was almost a contortion; Leah
was not startled, but she looked
surprised.
I.cnh crossed instantly to his side,
and he looked at her question
ingly.
“Did you come through the wood
after all?” he asked. “I should
“Is it you, Elmer?" site asked,! have come to meet you, but I was
putting on her lint which she had told )’9_ u wer0 coming home in a
lurches, and in the avenue a bright
group or two. Just inside the
gate was a rustic bench, from which
a young man sprang up and lilted
his lint.
Ho was singularly like Elmer
Dclfurd, though it was only a
chance resemblance, there being
no relationship between them—the
same height, complexion, features
and general air, though Preston
was unmistakably the better man
of the two.
A gentle, yet assured, spirit
looked out of the large, binckeves,
and the smile on the well-cut lips
was glad, bright and hnrmoni-
i' also hov a (In* xtock of llarnci
r brought to this market. We ha'
a will take nlmo*t any pri<
for which
October 15th wo will have n car loud of Bu;
i buy in Macon. Columbus or Albany.
nl.o a lol urSKCONO "HAND IlfOOIKS m.t iTaRNEBs!
business for money, and civo bargains. About
Wr j
u* before buylntf.
gcr trains, und carriage and hngi'aggt- wagon all other train*.
X. «. & J. K. PRINCE.
., *d irlvi
ad .Saddle llorse*, which will sell y
e you bargains in lUrne**, Mule*,
• cheai
LANDRETHS’PiiK
CCCnQTortho MERCHANTcncniNowPlanl C
wCEJf» For tho MARKET CARDENER OfcfcUO
E or th ° private family eccnQ
OECI/Olcrown by OtlrSBlung °n our own FarmnlOCC DO
[IT llambomo Illustrated t’atalosue and Rural Iteglater FREE TO All.
MERCHANTS, SEND t’S YOUR BUSINESS CARDS FOR TRADE LIST.
DAVID LANDRETH&SONSjSEEP GROWERS,PHILADELPHIA
MAKE A KI N ON
Goal Goods ill Lon: Priixa!
IIAIIllAINS IN
SHOES and HATS.
AOKNTS FOR
KEROSENE OIL,
GUN l’OWDER.
SHOT' AND MATCHES,
DON’T KOHUKT T1IK FLACK,
ADJOINING THE OPERA HOUSE
1 Conv.nl.ntly iltutiled. fcro»d -tn- t. in,I |,l«:,ty„f
' room for customer*.
A merle us, Bept. 2 ‘1, l*>v2.ni«
' Mrs. M, T. ELAM
been swinging in her liitnd, and so
shading her face.
“Yes, it is 1," he answered,com
ing nearer to her; “who did you
think it was?"
“1 did nut have time to think,”
she answered, evasively.
He could not sec her lace,
unpleasant smile died.
“Don’t be disappointed, Leah.
Perhaps he will come yet,” he said
in a mocking tone.
Site did not answer. Suddenly
he threw his arms around tier and
attempted to kiss her, but she put
her hand across his bcardctl mouth
and struggled until she had releas
ed herseif.
“Yon hate me, do you?” lie ask
ed, looking at her with a savage,
cold and cruel look in his eyes.
“Who has taught you this?”
“I do not hate you. But 1 do
not love you, and—I cannot let
you kiss me!” panted the young
girl, replacing her hat, her beauti
ful hair unloosed by the struggle.
“X will not stay with
treated so.”
And she turned away, yet looked
anxiously down the glade. There
i was somo one else she expected.
“I am never to kiss you?” lie
sneered, standing with folded arms
regarding her. “You arc tired oi
me are you? And X am thrown by
like an old glove. For whom,
prav?"
Site stepped back a few paces,
and looked at him at Inst, fully.
“I have been kind to you—for
Annie’s sake,” she said, and added,
as if tho words were forced from
her: “You were not kind to
Annie.”
“Who told you all this?” lie
asked.
“1 can remember—I understand
now, though she never complained,”
she answered sadly, %nd looking
again down the glade.
Rut no one was coming.
“I>o you think 1 do not know
who is talking me down—who has
come between us—who has sup
planted me?” lie cried. “You have
avoided me for a week; ever sint-c
Preston Atherton bus been here.”
Iler lip curled as she turned
away.
“Come between us!” she repeat
ed, scornfully.
lie sprang to her side, walking
beside her.
“A man’s private affairs are his
own t Hut lie wns always a spy in
the house. I would have turned
him out of doors if he were not my
boat. Tlie others arc Ashing by tlie
ford."
And he looked qucstioningly at
KImer Delford, who turned silently
away, witli a sneer.
I,enh sat down on the bench,
and looked alter the latter as he
T| le ! passed up the avenue.
“lie told you?” site asked.
“Yes. I have been moping here,
missing my morning walk witli
you.”
Preston smiled down into the
lovely face, but Lcali continued to
look after Delford.
“He lias a vile disposition,” she
said at last. “He purposely iied
to you. I am afraid of him.”
“Afraid ?”
Leah rose, restlessly.
“He was poor Annie’s husbnnd
—poor little tiling! I would like
to believe in him, like him; hut I
think there is nothing lie would
hesitate to do to injure me—and
yon.”
“Has lie been making a display-
on to^be I °f Ids temper to you? I thought
lie hid more policy.”
Preston’s glance of surprise
was followed by an awful painful
thought.
“Hut you need not (ear him, lit
tle one,” lie snid nt length, ns if he
were thinking aloud.
The tender phrase brought up
the girl’s color, making her still
more winning und beautiful.
“I do not know wiiat lie could
do,” she said, “but I believe he will
do something.”
“Fire! lire! lire!”
Tlie great Lyndon mansion was
in Humes before the alarm was giv
en. Leah heard tlie cry tbrougli
her sweet sleep—awoke, roso and
dressed.
Site dressed the children and
sent them away in charge of a ser
vant. When the excitement of the
lire und its hopelessness was dis
covered, she assisted in saving rel
ics which she knew were valued by
the master of tlie crumbling man
sion.
She kept beside her grandfather,
who, though eighty years old, was
alert and active, as well us sclf-
posessed.
lit gave her ids watch and chain,
und she put them in her bosom
Hu then took Irom a drawer a
small, brass-bound, scarlet-leather
trunk.
“Is that valuable, grandpa?”
“Yes.” •
lie went out of tho room with it,
wife’s brother. And now he comes j while she knelt beside a trunk, rap
here, falls in love witli you and ; idly packing it. She tilled it with
tells you that I ill-treulud Annie, her grandmother's clothing, rich
brocades and costly shawls.
Grandsirc Lyndon soon came
back.
•‘What did you do with it, grand-
•a?”
•I handed it to Preston to earrv
Q©q. m, .sat.
Manufacturer of the celebratol
QUADRUPLEBEDSPRING
V\ hiuli have been proven to t*» the equal of any
h. tl ■ |*iihiC made and **tit*>rior to mo*t. Person*
wlahlii* to buy and sell these Spriup* in my ter
ritory can make from tlvo to ten dollar* per day
fir tae neat six month*, If they work. I will also
sell territory to thoeo who drain- It. All letter*
containing order* or aaktafCfor information should
Is* addressed to me at America*, Ga.
Fresh Fish and Oysters.
lam nlso dealing in Fresh Fl«h and Oysters,
and !m,n seven year* experience I think I under
stand handling them better titan those ju*t begin-
Ding the buxines*. You can always get them of
nm fresh out of ice end I handle nothing but the
best. 1 shall alto sell
this season direct from the grove* by the hundred
or barrel. Will order apple* for dealers from the
best markets fora small eoinmisclon. You will
{ nd me at my new stand, next door to the Haw*
in’* Block,
OX LAMAR STREET.
Amerk.il*, Kept W.n.-I
For Sale.
House and lot and 3} acres of land—
Residence 5 room* above and good store
room below—price £1.000—at EUavUle;
Ga. W. J. Skaii*.
Aagnst ’Jowl in.
BESTAIBAAT and (MIEITHIAERV
J. J. HANESLEY
would call the at
wishing a goud i
runningtho
Restaurant Under the Barltnv House
Ovate:
u lie i .
Fruit*, Cigar* and Tobacco.
Americas, Ga., Bept. Hun
also keep* a full line 0 | Contortion*,
TEN CENT STORE!
to make common cause witli you-
to set you up ugainst inc! By
heaveiis, lie will repent of this bus
iness!’’
“lie has told inc nothing but the
simple truth,” said Leah, glad that
they were nearly out of the wood, i away.”
where she (elt much safer. “He “To whom, grandpa? Arc you
lias got nothing against you, I am j sure it wiUhcsafe?” for the engines
sure. Ami if 1 choose to walk in I bad come, and Hie water was licat-
thc wood with him, when w: arc i i n g in deafening torrents agaiust
both at leisure, it is nothing to : the plate glass,
you.” “To Preston. It was full of gold
He ground his teeth. coin. It will be perfectly safe. I
“Do you mean to toil me you did | a m afraid they will break tlie win-
not know I loved you—that you do j dows,” said thu old man, beginning
not menu to marry me?” , to get bewildered and tired.
Marry you? .Never!” said I,call,' The house became a ruin. For-!
FULL ASSORTMENT
j pale, wrathful and lieautitiil.
Tin- look with which !
The young man looked up in
surprise.
“1 remomber nothing of the
kind, sir.”
“Tut! tut! what are you talking
about? You promised to carry it
to a safe place.”
“I saw him take it,” asserted
GIma.
The young man’s bewilderness
had the appearance of dishonesty.
“There was a thousand dollars in
tho trunk. Produce It at once I”
cried the old man.
“I remember nothing of receiv
ing it,” was all Preston could say.
He racked his brain, he talked
over every incident of the fire with
Leah, but nil to no purpose. He
was wretched; they both were..
Grandsire Lyndon seemed strange
ly, bitter and hard. The catas
trophe had greatly disturbed him.
He was not like his old self, Leah
said, sadly. Hut a thousand dol
lars was not a slight loss for any
body. It was far too much for a
young man like Preston Atherton
to miss accounting for.
Day by day he grew more dejec
ted, as the old man grew harder,
colder, and more suspicious. Leah
saw, soon, how KImer Delford add
ed those unjust suspicions.
“Heaven knows I would pay him
tlie amount ot money, innocent as
I am,” said Preston. “But I can
not. 1 am poor.
Oucc the old man had been fond
of him; he was mentioned hand
somely in his will. Now the affec
tion once inspired seemed to changa
to gall. He would have little to
say to him. Ho no longer consul
ted him. Glmer wns his chief ad
visor and assistant
Preston's cheeks was white, but
Leah’s wns whiter. She was ill;
she was nearly crazy ' with sleep
lessness; yet her old iiabit of self-
control stood by her well. Pres
ton, who loved tier, did not see
how thin site was growing. But
she had courage, while his had
flown.
One night, as she lay thinking
upon a thorny pillow, sbo heard
steps on the gravel walk under the
window. She knew it. She rose
instantly and listened.
It went down the avenue. KImer
Delford paused at tho foot of the
avenue and looked back. It was a
starlight; he could see nobody. He
believed himself perfcotly safe, and
tbo temptation was strong.
He wont on—down tho starlight-
cd road, under the low banging
trees—down the dewy lane to the
wood, whore tho starlight dimly
illuminated the fragrant, umbrage
ous glade where he had once sur
prised Leah waiting for Preston
Atherton. It was full ofgloom and
dampness now. Yet ho pressed on,
and at last stopped at the end of a
huge, rotton log, lying half burled
in tlie dark turf, and peeped sharp
ly about it. He bcntdown,atIast,
and pressed tlie spongy mould with
Ins hands.
As ho did so the shining butt of
a revolver glittered in the light of
a twinkling star. He still stooped,
searching in tlie debris of former
summers. The rotten leaves sent
up a strong, odor as he disturbed
them.
At length lie uttered a faint ex
clamation, and drew out a square,
durk object, with glittering edges
—the scarlet, brass hound trunk.
He rested it upon his knee when he
had lifted himself, and paused a
moment to rest.
What white shape was that which
glided to his shoulder? Was it a
spirit? No; only a girl in a simple
pale wrap. Her slender jeweled
hand reached forward and snatched
tho revolver. With an oath he
turned and saw the weapon leveled
at liis head.
“Take the truuk home 1” cried
Leah. “I will hesitate at noth
ing.”
He looked desperately at that
slender hand, but its owner stood
at u sale distance. Weak as she
was, lie could not take the weapon
from her without advancing upon
Ids own peril.
“Home—home I” she cried.
He obeyed her. It was not far.
A. TCRPIlff, Agt.,
Dealer in
. Innately the cottage of the foreman D it hod been further he thought
he re- wns large and commodious, and * lc have invented a plan for
ardeil her was not pleasant to here the inmates found shelter and I e *°*l* e > ,,ut slle pursued him like
j behold. comfort. ! an avenging fate, into the cottage
“He will vcjiciit this!” lie mut- X’o one was injured anil much | to ,IC1 ‘ grandfather’s bedside,
tered. “So will you!” had been saved though the bcau-i-l “Here is the thief!” she cried.
i They eaine silently down the ful house was in ruins. “KImer, did I give it to you?”
shady road to the old mansion of One bv one ihe guests of that gay asked the old man.
Lnreidawn, where they were both j summer-time departed. Leah re-! “Yes,” answered Elmer, dogged-
Faiify Aolioiix anil Faury (iDiftwx.
Everyth Dif in lh* line of Motion* can to toun<l
b*rf »ln price*. We enn ■ apply you with
almo«t anythin? you want. Call and examine
our thou nod and one article*.
COTTON AVENUE,
r«J«T K.rorU-r iHBt*. AKKUICUF.OA
guests. Tlie grand old place had • maiiieil with her grandfather:
been in the Lyndon family, for a I I’rcstou Atherton and Klina Del-
hundred years, and in the summer , ford, too, whose services he necd-
grandsire Lyndon liked to gutlier | cd.
] his grandchildren about him,'so at: “Fortunately I am not quite
mlL* I Si Jn ( )( ) I HA TS Ulat HCas0n ° f lhe - vear il wns al * I witllout read v money,” said the old
iwvuvvimaiu, man, cheerfully. “The little scar-
Amkrkts, Sept. 19, 1882.
ways gay.
There was a merry party play-1 let trunk—what did yon do with it,
ing tennis on tlie lawn, beyond the I Preston ?”
ly, and hurried out of the cham
ber.
They allowed him to depart. Af
ter all it was a family affair. Be
fore daylight be bad gone, no one
knew whither. And then the old
man could not do enough to atone
to Preston, and the wedding took
place the coming fall in a shower
of gold.