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COXURBNSIUSAii CONVENTION.
The Democracy of the Third
Congressional District ot Georgia,
represented by delegates, will meet
in' convention, in Americus, Ga.,
at the Opera House, on
Wdacslay, August 6,18R4.
,at 2 o’clock p. m., for the pnrpose
ti?f*!aelng in nomination a candi
date to represent said District In
art, to appoint an Executive
„ ,ittea for the ensuing term,
and .to tranaset such other business
,, interest »f the party.
The counties composing said
distrlot are as follows, and arc te-
spectlvely entitled to the number
.of .delegates set opposite their
’ names: ■■
Coffee... 2 Montgomery,..2
, * Dodge 2 Pulaski, 2
Dooly, ..,.'...2 Sohley, 2
• Houston, 4 Stewart, 4
v". IHMo, 2 Sumter, 4
Lee,.... 2 Telfair, 2
Laurens,......2 Webster, 2
‘ ’ ’Macon, 2 Wilcox 2
The Griffin News gives the At
lanta Constitution a couplo of
pokes in the ribs, as follows:
The reformed “crack brained
theorists” of the Constitution
should give to a suffering majority
of their party the recipe by which
they were cured of their free trade
madness. Common humanity de
mands this.
The Georgia delegation should
carefully watch their colleague,
Evan I’. Howell, lest in a moment
ofabsent-raindedness,forgetting the
present attitude of his paper, he
should try to slip a British free
trade plank Into the national Demo
cratic platform.
A Pen Picture or the Civil Service lie-
fora the War.
Washington Letter.
“In the better days of the Ke-
public,” said an old .-offlettf, “we
civil servants-did/pot have to work
so Bard as wo do how. In bet De
foon tllA MOM It nn.
fore the war it was. considered
rather unofficial to do much work
Ex-Senator. McDonald.
Ex-Senator’-McDonald, of In
diana, left Chicago on the 20th,
for Springfield, III. When asked
what he thought ot the Saratoga;
Convention, he replied: “I in-
i terpret the result as for from a vic
tory for Mr. Cleveland. Had lie
i been regularly and unanimously in
during office hours. Theddea of a dorse,), no question would have
per diem official of any sort work-, ), een ra ; 9 ed, and he would very likc-
The people of Soutliwcst Georgia
would like to see some new rail
roads built, and believing that the
railroad commission stands in the
way of their building, they would
like to see tbe law creating that
commission modified. They can
only secure its modification by the
election of legislators pledged to
Bucb modification, and they should
see that candidates express them
selves squarely upon the question
Dy order of Exeontive Committee.
, J. B. Hinkm, Ch’in.
. C. B. Murreli,, Sco’y.
AuiRldns, Ga., June 24, 1884.
Alt papers in this district are re
quested to copy.
EDITORIAL EXCURSION.
:' Col. E. P. Howell, chairman of
'the oommittco of arrangements,
announces In Sunday’s Constitu
tion that the preliminary details In
arrangement of the excursion of
I-, : - the Georgia Press Association have
bein perfected, and on the 23d of
.July ft is proposed that the party
leave Atlanta. The association
will meet there In annual session
; foil (Bit day. The East Tennessee,
. Virginia. And Georgia railroad has
* kindly invited the party to mako a
trip over their road and the invita
tion win be accepted. The route
is from Atlanta to Roanoke, Va.
thenco over the Shenandali rail
roadjyWeatern Maryland and to
Baltimore. The East Tennessee
officials hav’e made every arrange
roent for a pleasant trip to Balti
more, including stops at Luray
Cave*, the natural Bridge and other
plaocs of interest. An effort will
Tie made to extend the excursion
-• ’to a point farther North than Bal
.Umore.
“You pays your money and takes
yourchoioe.” We publish in this
■ L ~ ■
issue two items of news regarding
the’political intentions of John
Kelly, the great Tammany chief.
In one it is stated that he thinks
QV. Cleveland will aud should be
the Demooratie presidential nomi
nee, while in the other It la suited
^ _ that ho fa opposed to Cleveland and
-**‘will hot support him if nominated.
, It ia unfortunate that the Demo
cratic party should be under obli
gation* to auoh a mao as Kelly,
mr
and we havo long thought that the
Democratic party should transfer
r" the fight from the East to the Wost
-and 1st John Kelly severely alone.
With the right kind of n platform
Democracy can win without New
-• York, and can thus free itself from
the dictation of tbe corrupt rings
..ofNew York. John Kelly is a
Democrat only in the name, and
Cares very little which side wins,
so long aa ho can manipulate affairs
‘ InNi ” ’ ‘
few York city.
• It i* singular bow small an
amount will bankrupt a Wall street
' millionaire. There ia Commodore
’ - Uarrlsou, said to be worth (20,000,-
-M0, who foils because $300,000 of
hit note* are protested. The
Rubbles are bursting rapidly and
“-- Who are called rich Unlay arc
to-morrow. There is an-
sgulsr thing—and that is
i men engaged in legitimate
are sat to easily b»nk-
The millionaires of Wall
n to have been living
itercst Of their debu.
Wc don’t want to bo considered
obtrusive and meddlesome, but we
really would like to see some can
didate ior legislative honors come
out and declare liis views upon the
railroad commission and other sub
jects or public interest.
Cleveland and Kelly.
Information came here to-day
says a Washington special to the
Baltimore Sun, from New York
which is consideicd of a reliable
character by some of the best post
ed Democrats, and which puts an
entirely different phase on the po
litical situation. According to the
statement which is made, the friends
of Cleveland did not dare to move
for an indorsement ofhis candidacy
at Saratoga because of the cer
tainty of absolute and ignominious
defeat. Kelly, it is represented, is
not placated in the least by the
tremendous concessions mado to
him, but is as determined as over
to kuife Cleveland, and will resist
to the last any attempt to present
him as the choice of New York.
Tlie same authority states that
outside of Kelly it has becu found
impossible to reconcile certain
influential Democratic elements
which are hostile to Cleveland; that
the victory supposed to have been
won by Cleveland was mere shadow
and not Bubstance,
Should future events confirm this
view, it adds muc i to the embar
rassment and complications of tbe
Demooratie situation. With Til-
den and Cleveland eliminated,
there is no man in Now York to
whom the Democrats can look.
The candidacy of Flower would he
so absurd and ridiculous as to in
vite overwhelming defeat. The
impression is strong that John
Kelly does not want any Now
ing as hard as some men who are.
paid by tbe day work now would
have been considered perfectly ab
surd. I remember my fr'eod
Street, a very elegant Virginia gen-
lleman—he always played with red
checks—was once given some Fed
eral employment at per diem. He
had a sallow faced soli iolmaster
from Maine, who bad been living
on a salary of $150 a ygar, as an
assistant. Street went off one night
soon after bis arrival on a regular
old-tashioned ‘time.’ He visited
all the bars atad ‘banks’ in town,
and patronized them all. He drop-
ped all the money he had left into
the tiger’s mouth. The morning
after he sobered up be walked into
his office. The Yankee assistant
came forward, smiling and bowing.
‘I’ve finished nearly all our work,
be began, allowing Street a
great mass of manuscript; ‘I’ve
been working nine hours a day, sir;
1 can work a little faster and longrr,
sir, if you desire.’ Street was
speechless with rage. ‘Tear that
stuff up,' he said to the poor clerk,
'and throw it in the fire, and don’t
let me hear again of your writing
more than a page and a half a day.
Why you’re taking the bread out
of the months of ray wife and chil
dren.’ The clerk soon learned
wisdom. They stayed in office for
years. Alterawhile tbe clerk, who
Imd never seen so much money in
his life, came to Street to say: ‘I
don’t know what to do with my
money, sir.’ ‘I know a bank,' said
Street, ‘where a wild time grows;’
and that night he showed Hint be
nighted Yankee all the faro games
in Washington. The Yankee cume
on so rapidly that he was soon bor
rowing money at 2 per cent, per
month.
ly have been the Democratic nomi
nee. The failure of the convention
to instruct for him, however, np
pears to be sufficient ground for
the apprehension that the nomina
tion iB in the field for the man who
has the greatest strength, not only
in New York, but outside. Cleve
land .;of eou rsc, is one of these men,”
Before leaving here, McDonald de-
ciarcd himself squarely in the Presi
dential race. He goes to Spring,
eld to secure the support oi ex-
Governor Palmer and Geu. John A.
McClernand.
COMPARE THE OLD PRICES WITH THE Iff
Foreign Capitalists as Laml Owners.
In a report made by the commis
sioner of the general land office be
gives some startling figures of the
number of acres of land, that have
been gobbled up by foreign corpo
rations. The principal holders in
the United States now have in their
posession 20,641,000 acres. Seven
of these tracts of inn j measure,
each, over a million acres, and the
largest, situated in Texas and held
by an English syndicate, contains
3,000,000 acres. The smallest, a
neat little garden lot of 5,000 acres,
is the property of Sir J. L. Kay.
The Marquis of Twcodai owns 1,-
750,000, the Duke of Southerland
425,000 and Lord Dumnore 120,-
000 acres.
THE OIXTLY
I3XT AMERICUS.
Mrs. Fftfil) LEWIS’ BOOK STORE.
MRS. FRED LEWIS
York man, but will throw all his
influence in favor ol some one or
the other of the Western candi
dates. He has ever so mnoh more
chance to pursue the even tenor
of his way it an outsldo candidate
is scleetcd, and so he can rule in
Now York oity, it is believed to be
matter of complole indifference
to him who is President. No mat
ter who is nominated by the Dem
ocrats, Kelly will play into tbe
hands of the Republicans if he can
make a better bargain with them.
Prominent Democratic Senators
to-day said the situation may as
sume such a shape as to impel the
convention to lay the nomination
at the feel of Mr. Tilden. Influen
tial Democrats from various parts
of the country, who were here iu
consultation, agreed with this view
and expressed tbe opinion that cir
cumstances might occur under
wbioh Mr. Tilden would yield to
the pressure aud feel constrained to
accept tbe nomination
reported from Ohio that
Converse, tbe demo-
tbe thirteenth
l, has decided
mit ofarenomi-
mistaken Mr. Con-
the Democratic
voted against
All of which
extremely unwise
a political tune.
Tammany Solid for the Nominee,
New Yobk, Juue 21 John Kci
ly has said to a representative of
the Morning Journal! “I am glad
everything here has been so peace-
fol and harmonious. Mr. Flower is
a very capable man, and I esteem
him very highly. I expected that
he would exhibit greater strength
in the convention and am amazed
at the slight shoving made by bis
friends. Governor Cleveland, I
have no doubt, will have the vote
of the seventy-two delegates from
New York, and he should, of course,
be nominated at Chicago aud elec
ted next November. No matter who
may bo the choice at Chicago Tam
many hall will be found solid for
him at the polls.”
Millions of potato bugs are
sweeping over New York State,
and the price of potatoes has sud
denly leaped up from 20 to 60
cents per bushel attlio railway sta
tions. Only a small yield, and that
of inferior quality can be honed
for.
Why Rallroail Enterprises Languish.
Nnfthvllle Bunner.
Why has such a State' as our
glorious Tennessee only induced
the building of forty miles of rail-
road track—and that, too, from
four different companies as sidings
and extensions—during the entire
year of 1883?
Not one singlo new railway en
terprise of thirty-two incorpora
tions which have secured charters
for building railroads in Tennessee
has laid a mile of track.
Why do the incorporators
of the new railroad enterprises
hesitate to begin work?
Wc lot Mr. Huntingdon, one ol
the most largest and most inter
ested capitalists who is contemp
lating railroad building in Tennes
see, answer. He says:
“Perhaps I should not tell yon
that we would not insist upon
this subscription in Nashville, and
along the lino, were it not lor the
fact that both the Stato of Ken
lucky and Tennessee have very
ranch discouraged the investment
of capital in railroads in those
States by adopting laws virtually
putting railroad property at the
mercy ofirrcBponsiblecommissions,
and which havo the power, and are
continually tempted so to exer
cise it, us to deprive investors of
all fair remuneration for the use
of their money. Railroad money
is at present very difficult to ob-
tain,especially for the States where
this hostility to corporations pre
vails, and I expect to Bee a great
decline in railroad building on this
account.
IHOFKFltlNO HARO A1X8 IX EVERY
THING USE!) IN THE
SOHOOI. ROHM.
SCHOOL BOOKS,
EXERCISE BOOKS,
SCHOOL PAPER,
SLATES.
PENCILS,
PENS, INK,
SCHOOL BAGS.
AND ALL OTHER THINIIS NEEDED IN A
(.THE SUIIOOI. ROOM.
HER USE OF
STATIONERY
Wt promised in issue of the Recorder of January 2d, to give vou some prices so soon S!
we arranged and marked down our goods. We are now prepared and ready to give you nm
goods lor less money than any house that sell goods on thirty days time.
Contemplate a few quotations and note the difference in SPOT CASH prices and tliiriv
days credit:
Flour. Flour.
In this article we stand head and shoulders above everybody, having ransacked the by
IS COM 1'i.KTE, AND HER LINK OF
Miscellaneous Books
Uullty Talk.
UadlaonUn.
The Atlanta Journal says: “No
Watc-rson crankism, no Morrison
patch work must be allowed to de
moralize and hamper the democra
cy this summer.” To which we
add: No Raudal protective tariff
travesty, no white washed whig
foolishness, no independent advo
cate, will be permitted to blaze the
road the party will travel. Pure
reform tariff democrats will huo to
tbe line at Chicago; let the chips
fall where they will, and Randal
and his tariff faction must follow
that line or walk with their solid
republican congressional allies.
The banging of a California
murderer was useful to the science
of surgery. His arm had been
fractured a week before in an effort
to escape. A her death it was
lound that the initial process ol
healing had begun, and that it was
effected by tbe organization of the
blood which was ponred out around
the break at tbe time of injury.
This held the bones in place, and
proves what was not known before,
that prompt adjustment in a frac
ture is essential.
Paper Sacks and
Wrapping Paper I
AND TIIK
Latest Periodicals I
Al.WAYS ON HAND. SHE ALSO;kheps
CIGARS!
A NEW HAT
THE PICNIC.
Mrs. ELAM
MIC MTS!
OK THE FOLLOW I XU PATTERNS:
CART WHEEL,
.Il’MUO,
SOUTHEICN QUEEN,
CAPE MAY,
AND MORE COMING!
CALI. AND SEE THEM AND MARK YOUR
HRLKCTR N.
I|bave In ojw rattan n now aad improved Engine
Lathe an.l Power Drill, and having a competent
m.tchioLt, 1 ant (tally prepaired to repair Engine*
id all kind of Machinery. By rending your Kn-
nea to me you will lave freight and time and
have the work as skillfully executed a* elsewh.ro.
t. M. WHEATLEY,
aprilttm3 Amerieu* Variety Work*.
i'MVERS.U
There are about a thousand
convicts in the Kentucky State
penitentiary; their labor it leased
at forty cents a day to a Him that
has permission to employ a certain
portion of them in constructing
railroads. About 500 of them are
to amployad at that low rata of
wafts.
CawttMitl Award
a Medal and F ‘
aga-foUth*
mdM E. J. KN0WLT0N, Ann Arto. Mich.
markets of the West and Northwest in search of the best, and paid the CASH DOWN Wt
will sell you First Patent, (entire Roller system)
For 50 pounds, $1.90. Old price, §2.1.;,
2d Pat., for 50 pounds, 1.70. “ pm
Fancy, for 50 pounds, 1.60. “ ” fifit
Choice Family 50 pounds, 1.50. •* \ jjj'
We guarantee all. these Flours as represented, and if not satisfactory you can return them
and we will cheerfully refund the money.
In futuro we will keep on hand tlie best grades of GRAHAM FLOUR—cheap.
Sugars. Sugars.
ill sell you 10 pounds Granulated Sugar lor .$1.0<>.
“ “ lOf pounds New Orleans Clarified for l.ur-.
“ “ 11 pounds New Orleans (Bellewoad) Clarified, lor l.Oli,
“ “ 12 pounds New Y'ork Sugar, lor 1.00.
In this line we are fully up and advise everybody to seize the golden opportunity and pur
elmse at once a sufficiency for the year’s comsumptiou.
Coffee. Coffee.
In tins article alone (by buying from us) we can save you money enough in one year to
all the “Santa Claus” you want lor the little ones. We deal 6$ pound? Choice Pio Coffee I'm
Tliurher’s No. 41, (Roasted) a combination of Java, Rio, and Mocha, for 26c per pound.
buy
I'm $1.
Salt. Salt.
I.i\erpoo], full weight, for $1.20 per sack, bine Salt, seandess lings, 150 pounds, $1.05 per sack
„ , ' V ? rin S llt tl,c vrr - v low l' rirn of $1.15 Fr cwt to make room ior a ear loud ol
SEED POTATOES.
Whiskies. Whiskies.
In this line we are full to overflowing, and to unload we have reduced the price on all gradri
from 25c to $1.00 per gallon. Think of it! Cox, Hill & Thompson’s genuine Slone Mountain
C orn Whisky for $2.20 per gallon, usually sold at $2.50,
Tobacco and Cigars.
We can undersell anybody—we offer “Lucy Hinton’ 1 n* 57c per pound, and all other grades
proportionately.
We regret that we havo not spnee sufficient to give full ami complete quotations on nil of our goods, but
you will hear from us occasionally. Remember that by having your goods from us ami paying SPOT CASH
jou do not pay from 25 to 50 |ier cent, for bad debts, as usual in credit store 3 h
A TSTord as Regards tlie Penny !
Mi those who scout at tlie idea of introducing the Penny in Americus, wc say that we stand ready
to redeem in goods or the cash any amount from 5c upwards. Bring tjiem along and get their full value at
Wfflft t fifteen pound*. Adj«atable.
FOR PHYSICIANS AND FAMILIE8
Neatest, Cheap cat, Beef.
“Cleanliness is next to Godliness.”
octlMjr
CONSUMPTION.
Ihavfoftpoaitivt icmedyfortha above diauMtbrlU
THE OILY SPOT PISH STORE I AMERICUS.
FIRST DOOR SOUTH OF J. W. WHEATLEY & CO.’S BANK.
Very truly.
SCHUMPERT & RONEY
Americus, Ga., January 11,1884.