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Established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1884.
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W, Xj. OZiBSSSTBR,
OFFICE on cotton avenue.
PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS
LA iri’KJCS.
h. H. CARTER,
A TTOliNK y AT LA W,
AnKBIcim, Soil TER County, : : : Ga.
Offl(f»old Fir»t National Bank.
Prompt attention (.'Iren toftllRuninesrFeiitriiBted.
('ollfctior.a a apeemlty and prompt attention
guaranteed. dec28tf
C. R. McCRORY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
kllaville, ga.
TEEMS—AH claim a from $30 or under, $3;
1 rom $30 to t 500 ! 14,11 P er cent - ? ov ‘* r • : ’ 00 ' ,0 'T n
percent. No charge, unleaa collection, are mode*.
May 14-tt
DOCTORS.
Dr. 0. B. RAINES
SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN.
•fieri hia protcesional service*, with an experts
. need20years to the people of Americus and
wunitv. Office over Darw & Callaway’s Store. Ilea
deuce at corner of Jackson and Church atreeta.
Calla will receive prompt attention. lantfttl
DR. C. A. BROOKS,
'I
AMERICUS, GA.
Call* left at pAventiort'B drug atorc will receive
nnaunt attention. Will be found at night at the
residence of Col. S. II. Hawkins, corner Lee and
UolMge atreeta. ntajr 5 3m.
MISCELL ANEO US.
UVeil Pioliett,
TALBOTTON,
GEORGIA
Will do Plaatoring, Brickwork and Housework
Culsominea apecialtjr. Repairing dona. Orders
promptly attended to. oc.t2tf
FresH Meats
—and—
COUNTRY PRODUCE!
I »m now prepared to furnish the i libllc with
Voice meats, such an Beef, Pork, Mutton, and
Kid. 1 also have on hand at ail time* chickens
and Egg*. Come around nnd try me. Son'.li aida
Colton Avenue, next door to l*. II. Williams.
j'unelltf
W. F. HARK.
GIN WORK.
I would reaped fully state to the public that
I am now prepaired to
REPAIR OLD GINS 1
Alter having had an experience of ’several
vearain the largest gin manufactories, 1 know
ibut I cm give satisfaction. All work gmiran-
:eed. I am located with in v father on Jefferson
street, in rear of Oliver A Oliver's shop. Work
solicited. |inay29 5m| P, A« OAMBROK.
A BUREAU AGENCY
I am now located temporarl'y in Dawson, ha vs
ing b«*en obliged to do so on sic-count of the rapidly
tailing health of my mother, who needs at all
times my personal attention, 1 will open a bureau
f r he collection of debts, besides I am agent for
all popnlnr books, nnd will receive subscriptions
on newspaper*. Office In court house.
W. K.|I*IL8Bl'RY.
Dawson, Gn„ April 4, 1884. tf
E(1 wf J. Mt’ler. C, Home© McCall.
Monumental Marble Works,
Mil,Milt A MrCAM., Proprietors.
Snnlliwest Corner of tlio Public S-juttr- 1 ,
AMEHICUS, GA.
Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc.
of the heat Italian and American Marble.
Iron Hailing for Cemetery Kucloe-
tsrec, a Specialty.
PTCAPITAI. PRIZE •7.1,000, .&]
Tickets only $5. Shares In proportloa
Louisiana State Lottery Go.
“ We (to hereby certify that we supervise
the arranyements for all the Monthly and
Semi-Annual Drawings of The iMumana
State Lottery Company, and in person man
age and control the Drawings themselves,
and that the same are conducted with hon
esty, fairness, and in good faith fotcard all
parties, and we authorize the Company to
use this certificate, with facsimiles of our
signatures attached, in its advertisements.’
Commissioners.
Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the Legisla
ture for Educational and Charitable purposes—
with a capital of *l,000,000-to which a reserve
Inna of over $560,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its framdilae
was made u part of the piesent Rtata Constitution
adopted December 2d, .4, D„ 1879.
The only lottery ever toted on amt endorsed
the people, of any State.
It never scales nr jmtpones.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings
take place monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE. KIOHTII GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS H. IN THE ACADEMY
OF MUSIC. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY,
Angnst 14, 1884-171et Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, In Fifths, in Proportion.
LIST OF PRIZES:
1 CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000
1 do do 26,000
1 do do 10,000
2 PRIZES OF $6.000 12,000
6 do 2,i)00, 10,000
f 10 do 1,000. 10,000
20 do 600, 10,000
100 do 200, 20,000
800 do 100, 30,000
600 do 60, 25.000
1000 do 26, 26,000
9 Appi oxi mat ion Prizes of $750 $6,750
9 *• “ 260...... 4*230
1,967 Prizes, amounting to 8265,600
Application for rates to clubs should is* made
only to the office of the Company In New Orleans.
For further information write clearly, giving
foil address. Make P. O. Money Orders payable
and address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleani, La.
POSTAL NOTES and ordinary letters by
Mail or Express (all Klim* of 93 and upward by
Express at our expense) to
U. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans. La,
or »I. A. DAUPHIN,
A07 Seveutty St., Washington, D. C.
STILL AT HER OLD STAND.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
than the ordinal
iluin or phosphate powders. Sold only in
ROYAL BAKING POWDER OO, 106
eel, New York. oct21yl.
(jiticma
infantile Blood Purifiers
and Skin Beautifiers.
A Positive Cure lor Every Form of
■skin ami lllooil Disease*, from
Pimples to Krrofula.
1NPANTILE and Birth Humors. Milk Trust,
D Stalled Head. Eczema*, and every form of Itch
ing. Scaly. I’iiuiily. Scrofulous aud Inherited Dis
eases of the lllood. Skin, and Scalp, with loss of
Hair, from Infancy to Age. cured liythotTTiruuA
Rwmu.vknt. the new blond purifier. internally,
and crriciMtA and Ct.TircHA Soap, the great *kfn
“OUR LITTLE BOY.”
Mr and Mrs. Everett Rtebblns, Belebertnwn,
Mas*., write: "Oar little boy was terribly afflicted
with Scrofula, Salt Rheum and Kryaipelas ever
since he was bora, and nothing wo could give him
“WORKS TO A CHARM."
J.S. Weeks. K*<|.. Town Treasurer. St. Alha
’t.. say 1 in n letter dated May 28: ” It works t<
harm on my bab^s face amHiead. ^.’uted t
fits;
I,., .rdererf it lor
“A TERRIBLE CASE.”
Ho. K.yro HinkK .Irrrr.v Cit, H.l«h!«. N. J..
■ • "Jlj mn.n la.l of tw.lvi. jruni. »»» .■..m-
, rur.il of a tcrritili. Hum of hc/.-m* by tb,
l:iu UrMHiir-. Kn.m lb. fop of hl.)imd
9 otb7r U rrii,.ify 9l 'i»iid l ,*b>>b'H.b« 1 ti.d'biirn
(iKORGIA SEWS.
Sumner. Ga., is erecting a large
academy.
An Athenian of 19 years tips the
scales at nearly 300 pounds.
A Hall county colored farmer
made over 200 bushels of wheal.
South Georgia melons sell by the
ear load in Home at 15 cents apiece.
Over 20,000 melons have been
shipped from Way cross this sea
son.
The fruit crop around Dawson
has beon better this season than for
many years.
In Towns county there are seven
persons living within a mile of each
other whose ages aggregate 038
year*.
In Forsyth county there are
sixty-six less polls this year than
last and $14,000 less in the valua
tion of property.
A lGycor-old boy in Gainesville
only balances the scales at 24
pounds, and a 27-year-old married
female at 32 pounds.
Augusta will soon commence
boriug an artesian well, private
capitalists forming a company UOd
furnishing the money.
Mr. C. Coffee, of Albany has
realized about seventeen hundred
dollars from the sale of Jerse)'cows
and calves within the past four or
five years.
It is supposed that the farmers
of Putnam county will pay out in
money or its equivalent for meat
for the presont year about $50,000.
For corn, not less than thirty car
loads, aggregating 15,000 bushels 9
about $15,000—summing up $05,-
000.
On July 21 the law raising tho
license for selling I iquors in Alapaha
to $3,000 went into eft'eel, anil the
only saloon in town closed its doors.
There are several other plnoes In
the county where whiskey can be
got, but in September the last li
cense expires, nnd it will then cost
266th EDITION. PRICE ONLY $1.
KNOW THYSELF.
A Great Medical Work on Manhood.
Exhausted Vitality, Nervous and Physical |Di*
bility Premature Decline in man. Errors of
Youth, and the untold tniaerie* resulting frotn|in-
discretion or excesses. A book ior every man
youtig, middle age nnd old. It contains 125 [»re-
tcriptioas for nil acute and (chronic diseases, each
one of which la invaluable. So found bv the an
ther, whoso experience for 91 years Is »nch ns
probably never nefore tell to the lot of any physi
cian. 300 pages bound in tx-auttfn! French muslin,
cmlKMsed rovers, full gilt, gumuntood to boa finer
work in every House—mechanical, literary and
professional —tban any Ollier work sold In ibis
eonnlry tor $2.60, ur the money will tie re landed
In every inaUucv. Price only $i by mail, post
paid. Illustrative' sample 6 cents. Send now.
‘•old medal awarded ibe author by the National
Medical Association, to the officers of w hich he
refers.
This book should be reed by the young for In-
► traction, and by thesfflkfed for relict It will
ivnefit all.—London lancet.
Thers l« do member oi society $to whom A hi
'hook will not be useful, whether youth, parent,
guardian, Inwnutor or clergyman. - A rgonsut.
Address the Peai*ody Medical Institute, or Dr.
W. II. Parker, No. 4 Bui 6 neb Btrect, IBoston,
Mass., who may be consulted «>n all diseases re
quiring skill and experience. Chronic and obstl-
t-Ote diseases that have baffled the|J PA I skill
•»f all other physicians a special Cfll-olty.
Such treated suceeafnlly ‘itbTUVC PI P
Out an Instance of loiter*. I rl lOCUl
, »xrch*w4w
AT I IKK
OLD STAND ON JACKSON STREET!
fTil n. Raines offers her sincere I banks to tho
leathers of tbs Are department, by whoso noble
i*(forts she was saved ftom serious loss during the
Are, nnd enabled her to] greet her friends at the
place where they have no long been occudoraed
find her. upnHti
ATTENTION!
Heiprters for Imported and Domestic
LIQUORS,
BEERS,
CIGARS,
Bto.i Etc.
I have and always keep „a hand a full supply •>!
ImtKirtod and Domestic Liquors, Iteeis, Cham
pagne, Cigars, etc., ete., which I am selling at
LOWEST MARKET PRICKS. Also* a Fresh
Assorted Stock of
n,
which I am selling as CHEAP AH THE CHEAP
EST. Give nic a trial and he convinced*
Fresh Cincinnati Beer on Draught!
Always on hand at Be per glas*.
Free Loncl from 10:30 A. M. to 2 P. H
I have added to my p'aee a gsod
Billiard and Pool Table
From now until the end of the season I wiil^tecp
Full Supply of Ice on hand.
JAKE ISRAELS,
Hart door to Bank of Americas Cotton Avenue,
Amorim*, Os. nm.-h-ti
baby^'h"",'™.:
]»• »titiller, and Toilet, Bath i
BunatlYu.
IT -Km
L.t Xuracry
FOR PALE, LANGUID,
i.fnl (-liildr.il, -Itli pinifilf. n.lliir (kin,
.... ..v-rnTHA KrMiim- will 1-rnv- u ii.rf.i-t
“TJ-’iita^‘hi71^21: I $3,000 per annum to sell whiskey
id., rlinim.ti.nl. mid «*vcr. .klu , n y w J, cre |„ IjcmCll.
Capt. IIoLbs maile nearly four
hundred bushels of oats on four
acres ol ground this year, and the
same ground is now covorcil with a
luxuriant crop o( peas. He alto
has eight or ten acres of corn inside
of tlio corporate limits which will
make between twenty and thirty
bushels to the acre. This is city
farming.—Albany Medium.
L. J. Lamar, the Steward, furn
ishes the following statement of
the amount of rations consumed
daily at the State Lunatic Asylum:
Bacon, 300 pounds; beef, 800
pounds; coflee, 10 pounds; floor,
594 pounds; hominy, 110 pounds;
lard, 25 pounds; meal, 384 pounds,
rice, 110 pounds, sugar, 75 pounds;
butter, 40 pounds; molasses, 9 gal
lons.
At Kbrae Saturday the trustees
of Shorter College rccoivcd from
the executors of the late Alfred
Shorter $45,000, being the legacy
left to the college in his will. Of
this amount $5,000 will be used at
once to improve the grounds and
purchase a telescope. The balance
is invested, and the interest will be
used to pay the tuition of poor and
deserving girls.
Homo Courier: Some of Floyd
county's colored citizens c&n take
tka cake when it comes to names,
One of them is known as Charlie
Meat Mamet
PROVISION STORE.
W.H.&T.M.C0BB
COTTON AVlsUM UJB
keep uu liuD'l the very best cuts of 2
DEEP, PORK, KID AND SAUSAGE,
Green Groceries mid Provisions,
.mlntf-lni, nil kiwi, of V^rtuku- ■.»> fruit. In
their season, Cuuned Uoodc, et<-. Ii is their alnt
to keep a first . lass establishment, .u.l glv# thair
customers good «' the lowest p. ice*
or Highest prl..» p*l<» for Cattle, Hog., and a
Lind* of country produce,
Aiuerlcus, Dec. 15. Ds'J.ff
DRIED FRUIT
WANTED!
In lulditiou to my former tu niHRomeiitH
to Lay and ship Dried Fruit. I have lor
the coming newton the advantage to save
the commUnions usually paid t*i New
York houaea for handling them. I will
leave lor New York on or about the 1st of
Augutit and remain there daring the Dried
Fruit season. Bring r- your Fruit early j
and I promise you, in addition to paying Fancy; another sails under the
fall value for your Fruit, to allow you j para |. z j n g adverb “Furthermore”
‘ 1 "° aP doUuir ,n,: m “"’'! Lpavid Furthermore. A third
stons. Hespectiuliy, .....
s. M. cohks*, one of the colored brothers, sur*
Fuotot i'„tt..:i Avonue. named Higgins, prefixes the sub-
jolyl3tf j picious adjective “Aronymoue" to
KLI.A VII.I.L I Rig first name, nnd (lings his ballot
Win lei Female School. Anonymous Higgins. The
iUaiC c T CUidlC kJw » Whitc ( am iiy tt ilds two more oddi-
Ellaville, Qa, | ties to the list. There is January
j White ami Weary White, and it is
' asserted by those who know that
Weary has l»een tired ever Binco he
was born. January must have been
the first child ond Weary the last.
I- cfc
protrxend
caused by
day. Rate* oftilitior*
tcVbeTrcocnt on the tint day. Rate* of tuition:
All re-ifinnvrs, $1.50; Primary Oom, la-
THE HAYS OP >48 A Jilt OF >84.
now zacii. TAvixm was omciALi.r
INFOUMSI) OP Ills NOMINATION
AN!) HOW HE RESPONDED.
Wasiiimiton, July 29.—Nowa-
days a train of cars is barely suffi
cient to accommodate those who
travel hundreds of miles charged
with the important duty of inform
ing a candidate that he has been
nominated for the presidency.
Long speeches are maile, and the
notification costs many thousands
of dollars. But this is not all. The
candidate must write a letter of ac
ceptonoe, giving his views on
pretty much every subject ho can
think of. These journeys, parados,
speech-makings, and long letters
are of comparatively recent origin.
The convention that nominated
Gen. Taylor met in Philadelphia,
June 7, 1848. The Chairman was
tho Hon. John Morebend, of North
Carolina. On the 10th of that
month Gov. Morehcad addressed
Gen. Taylor a letter officially noti
fying Inin of his nomination. The
distraction into wbiok the Whig
party was thrown by Gen. Taylor's
nomination was not made less in
the ensuing thirty-five days by the
silence of Gen. Taylor. Gov.
Morehcad, in reply to inquiries by
leading Whigs—notably Mr. Weed
—said he had positively written
the General, and he knew of no
reason why the reply was not forth
coming. Gen. Taylor was such a
crochety old (ellow, and Whig
leader in general know so little of
him personally, that it was not
thought best to stir him up on
the subiect. Letters from old sol
diers were appearing in different
quarters; some of them not alto-
gether satisfactory to Whig leaders,
but not a word came from him
about tho nomination. It began
to- look like nn indignity. Air.
Weed, to: whom more than any
other man Gen. Taylor owed his
nomination, was desperate under
the suspense. Meetings wore pro
posed, and one was actually called
in Albany, looking to the repudia
tion of the nomination. When it
met, however, other counsels pre
vailed, though the suspense con
tinued.
On July 22 the Postmaster at
Baton B.ongc, whero Gon. Taylor
lived, addressed the Postmaster
General a letter, saying that with
the report for the current quarter
from that office two bundles of let
ters were forwarded for the Dead
Letter Office, they having been
declined on aooount of the non
payment of the postage by the
senders. It was in the 10-ccnt and
non-prepayment time. Of the furly-
olglit letters tbns forwarded to the
Dead Letter Office, tlio- Baton
Kouge Postmaster said a majority
were addressed to Gen. Taylor, who
had declined to pay the postage on •
them and take them out of the
office because his mail expenses
had become burdensome. The
General hud since become aware
that some of the iettors were of im
portance and asked for their return.
In due course the letters were sent
back to Baton ltongc. Among
them was Gov. Morehcad'* letter
notifying Gen. Taylor of the action
of tlio Philadelphia convention.
Gen. Taylor’s response was dated
July 15, a month and five days
alter the letter ot notification was
written. It had lain in tho Baton
Rouge post office four weeks after
Gen Taylor had refused to pay the
10 cents postage.
Gen. Taylor’s acceptance was
couched in respectful terms, in a
letter not exceeding 250 words.
He expressed ills thanks for the
nomination, said he did not seek it,
and that If ho were elected Presi
dent, for which position he did not
think he possessed the requisite
qualifications, ho would do his best.
He discussed nothing, laid down
no principles, and gave no indica
tions what course he would pursue.
In this the General cut it too short
to satiety the Wbigs. He bad to
write another letter—one of con
siderable length—to his friend,
Capt. Allison, in which he set
things right. The authorship of
this letter was the subject of no lit
tle conjecture. If living, Thurlow
Weed and Alexander H. Stevens
could shed light on the subject.
After that the campaign went
ahead smoothly and successfully.
Although Mr. Weed makes no
mention of this matter in bis book,
it was one of the most annoying
episodes in bis eventful life.
A prayer hospital is to be open
ed in Erie, Pa., with great religious
ceremony. A large building has
been secured by a number of ladies
who preier prayer to physic, and
it is fitted up for the reception of
citizens given up to destb by phy-
sfeisns.
For tho past six years Marcus J.
Wright, an agent of the war de
partment, has been engaged in
collecting for publication rock con
federate records of the war of the
rebellion as could be* obtained , by
gift or loan. More-than 100 prom-
1 inent officers have fnrntshed copies
of official reports, and the South
ern Historical Society has, placed
its collection at the disposal of the
government. Ten large volumes
have already been published, but
in very manjrrespeOts the record
of the southern army is'stw incom
plete. Valuable dobnments "are
doubtless scattered all over the
country in the hands of private in
dividuals. A circular has been
issued.for the war office asking for
the use of such documents alia of
fering to preserve and return them
to the owners if so desired.-: As
such papers are easily destroyed,
this gives the holders an easy way
of having them published and
placed in indestructible shape In
connection with the history of
which they fMfS a^pstt.' The re
quest will no doubt osll forth
prompt responses from minp who
will be glad to seethe pqblioatipn
of important matter which would
otherwise be loHt to 'tbe’’0tiM(c.
The federal records hrC If/retty com
plete, and posterity will be ritfii-
ous to see the story of the -Other
etde jolt as fully told. " *
Here is what the Memphis Ava-
lariohe has to say about a man who
quit, planting 'kll oottqri bemrg it
was too later 1 “He walked into the
Avalanche editorial room yester
day afternoon. The editor looked
np and said, Howde ? hut did riot
at first recognize his visitor. The
aforesaid visitor was well dressed,
and his manner indicated a pros
perous man. He might be a , well-
to-do city merchant or a wealthy
railway president. He was neither.
He was, in Short,"the Plow.boy.
Three years ago lie waS a ’Shelby
county oottdn planter 'constantly
in debt to his merchant He waa
ill clad and poorly fed,! He, was
bound Hand and toot to the mer
chant because, without the mer
chant, be would starve! ’ But a
marvelous obange has come over
the Plowboy. Instead of cotton
he raises corn, grass, hogs,, sheep
and cattle. Ho soils 100 pounds
of butter per week In the Memphis
market. He owes no man anything
and always bos money lt»- hia
pocket.” This has been tho ex
perience of a great many people >“
Georgia and other parts of the
Boutn.
Maoon Telegraph: It wee a south
ern man, Schley, of Maryland, who
commanded tho expedition that
rescued Grcely. It was a ?0Uth'
cm* man, Lockwood, of Maryland,
who reached the' highest latitude
over tread by a white man. Far
ther, Southern men commanded
and composed the armie* that olos.
ed the Revolutionary w. that
closed the war ot 1812, and that
closed the Mexican ' war. 1 ’ And It
was the Sooth that furnished the
greatest generals the world bos
overseen. It furnished a|s*,the
men who shaped the Constitution
ot the United States and made the
greatest of modern nations. Let
our young menremember these
facts, and prove that the olu race
has not perished with the old South.
The dark days are nearly over.
There is a future of manufacturing
and commercial supremacy In store
for this section, and these forces
control politics m„: i - «
A Span or Pink Horses.
Nub villa (Tenn.) American.
A p Jr of pink horses attached to
a hack, were Been standing: in front
of the Maxwell House the most of
the day, yesterday.and. ouufedcon
siderable inquiry among ' the pe
destrians as to how they came to
be so highly colored. The hack-
man who drove them explained to
about 100 people, but wps utked-
the question so many tintqstbathe
came over to the American office
and got a sheet of paper ori^" whldh
he wrote the following,' which he
pasted on the side-of-fals coach..
“Them bosses got pinked by bein’
left in the raine with read fly nete
on. It ain’t no use askin’more
kestions abont it."
Oyster shells are being put on
tbo roads around New Haven,
Conn., this summer fur the first
time in a number of years. Oyster
growers refuse to buy them even
at three cents s bushel, because the
ravages of the star fish and heavy
taxation have almost ruined their
industry.,. It is v»ld the* a .Single
owner of oyster beds has lost $100,
this year through tfie attack of
alar Dili.