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J fOli W A. HEMPHILL. BIOORAPHtCAI, SKETCH OP TIIE COIl- 1.1 SS EN1HNE OF THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. Alliens Manner; Sleeting up with an old veteran of the Troupe Artillery the other day, we asked him (f be knew Bill Hemphill, ol the Gonstition? “Do you call sleeping under the s&me blanket with a fellow for four rears, chewing tough beef from the same bone, tramping all day through sunshine and snow by his Revolution ” Oliver & Oliv er COMPARE THE OLD PRICES WITH THE Iff STILL LEADS -AT Schumpert & Roney’s, We invite everybody and the public gen “Spot Cash Store’ side, and wading through the same pools of gore knowing a fellow? I should think that Bill and I were pretty well acquainted. Will ho light? Well, I should blush to snicker. He will light anything from a yellow-jacket’s nest to live lines of Yanks, and I have never Hgen him flicker. He is just as cool in a battle ns when be Is nego tiating with some legislator to pub lish his speech in the Constitution at so much a line. Bill was always sorter piously inclined, and when lie drew a real good bead on a line of Fcderals, he said; “May the Lord have mercy upon those in fernal house-burning scoundrels!" before' lighting the fuse. There was only one spot that Hemphill was a little weak on, and that was the girls. He would march all day, and when we struck camp at night, if there was a gal in ten milos of it Bill would And it out and call on her. In fact he tyas a regular “masher” with the fair sex, and the boys said, when no one was present to tell better he passed off for a general. While the rest of us were lying around the camp ohasing graybacks and chewing hardtack, Hemphill wns sprucing up to some good looking country gal and feasting on fried chicken and biscuits. Bill always had a hankering after a square meat, and it struck me that his heart was located in his stomach, and he bad an eye more to the kitchen than the buxom lasses that he set up to. The consequence was that Bill kept in fine keltcr all through the war, and it wasn’t at the expense ofthc government cither. He would fall in love with and court anything, from a toothless old maid down to a three days’ widow, just so the chiokcn crop looked all right when he marched by the house. He would divide his last mouthful with . a comrade, however, and when j rations were scarce would turn over his share to the mess and re mark,'Well,I willskirmish around j a littie to-night and sec if I can . rustic up something better.’ Wo j Will soli you 10 pounds Granulated Sugar for THB OISTL.Y IDXT AMERICUS. We promised in issue of the Rkcoriikr of January 2d, to give you some prices so soon as we arranged and marked down our goods. We are now prepared and ready to give you more goods for less money than any house that sell goods on thirty days time. Contemplate n lew quotations and note the difference in SPOT CASH prices ami thirty days credit: Flour. Flour. erally to call at our shop and examine our immense stock of First-Class Finished Single and Double Seat Buggies and One Horse Wagons, of all styles and sizes. All of which are of our own manufucture, and will be sold as cheap as it is possible to sell such work in any market. In reference to our Single and Double Seat Dexter Buggies, we will say we were the first to introduce them in this coun try, and have from the beginning up to the present time constantly improved them, and we believe we now have them perfect. We keep on hand all the while finished from 15 to 25 of these Buggies, with first-class Harness to each buggy, and can sell you a Buggy and Harness as cheap as anybody. All we ask is III this article we stand head ahd shoulders above everybody, having ransacked the big j ^ t L>'lvC U‘S a trial. We markets of the West and Northwest in search of the best, and paid the CASH DOWN will sell you First Patent, (entire Roller system) For 50 pounds, $1.75. Old price, $2.15. 2d Pat., for 50 pounds, 1.65. “ 1-90. Fancy, for 50 pounds, 1.50. “ 1-60. Choice Family 50 pounds, 1.35. •• 1-65. We guarantee all these Flours as represented, and if not satisfactory you can return them and we will cheerfully refund the money. In flitnra we will keep on hand the best grades of GRAHAM FLOUR—cheap. Sugars. Sugars. A word now to those who have old bug gies and wagons and desire to have them re paired or made new: We will give you more work, and a better job, for less money than j any other shop in Americus. Try us ami be convinced. Americus, Ga., July 25, 1884. always knew wbnt Bill meant by ’skirmishing,’ and knew that some gal would retire that night to dream about a gallant soldier lover, and Unit Bill would founder him self on ehicken tixvns and good things. We old vets of the Troupe Artillery feel miulitv proud of Bill Hemphill, however, and glory in hi-, success, for a better fighter or truer soldier never fit, bled or died under tho stars and bars.” $1.00. I Keeping Fruits Without Cans. Jl*rnlrlc Farmer. The following seems to be almost too interesting and valuable to bo true; but coming as it docs from the editor of the Sharon (Mass.) Advocate, with the statement that tho method has worked well, un failingly in his own experience for two years, 't is certaialy worthy of attention and experiment. The theory has been that the preserva tion of fruits iu tightly scaled cans, resulted from the exclusion of the oxygen of the air.—Ed. Editor Prairie Farmer: In prc. 11 pounds New Orleans Clarified for 1.00. “ “ 11 pounds New Orleans (Bellewood) Clarified, lor 1.00. “ “ 13 pounds New York Sugar, lor 1.00. In this line wc are fully up and advise everybody to seize the golden opportunity and pur chase at once a sufficiency for the year’s comsumption. Coffee. Coffee. Wheatley’s Corner. . Ho! every one in need of Clothing, “COME AGAIN” to Wheatley’s Corner and bu; infill Introducing tin* »ali* of In this article alone (by buying from us) we can save you money enough in one year to buy all the “Santa Claus” you want lor the little ones. Wc deal 6| pounds Choice Pio Coffee for $1. Thurber’s No. 41, (Roasted) a combination of Java, Rio, and Mocha, for 23c per pound. Salt. Salt. Liverpool, full weight, for $1.20 per sack. Fine Salt, seamless bags, 150 pounds, $1.05 per sack* serving fruits for the family, It la j SEED POTATOES. often desirable to use bowls and other vessels, that cannot he sealed up, for holding the preserves. This can be done, and the fruit kept se curely for any length of time, by closing all apertures with cotton hatting. . We use the unglnzed We are slaughtering at the very low price of $1.00 per cwt. to make room for a ear load ol ftjnte: clothing Perfect Pitting Clothing EVER SHOWN IN AMERICA ! GUARANTEE PERFECT FIT OR NO SaLK Wo havo|:ilso n largo and well Mlcctctl atufk <»f porferl Ailing Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Neck and Underwear! ’t-rytliing In tho way of Oent'g Furnishing Coops, 1‘olit Ipleusuro In displaying the.«o beantlhtl «ooda whether, Whiskies. Whiskies. j THORNTON Wheatley’s Corner, WHEATLEY, : : Americus, Ga. In this line we are full to overflowing, and to unload we have reduced the price on all grades from 25c to $1.00 per gallon. Think of it! Cox, Hill & Thompson’s genuine Stone Mountain | batting, such as is“ ld"n th^stores ' Com Whisky for $2.20 per gallon, usually sold at $2.50, rolled up in blue' paper. Dircc- BOOKS lions; Use crocks, stone butter jars or any other convenient dishes. ! I'reparo and cook the fruit, exactly as .for canning in glass jars; fill your dishes with the fruit while it Tobacco and Cigars. We can undersell anybody—we offer “Lucy Hinton” »t 57c per pound, and all other grades is yet hot, and immediately cover , ... with the cotton hatting, securely I tied on. ltomombcr that all putre-1 Wo regret that we have not space sullloient to give full and complete quotations on all of our goods, but faction is caused by the invisible j yoa w m hear from us occasionally. Itemember that by During your goods from ns ami paying SPOT CASH creatures In tbo air. Cooking the you do not pay from 25 to 50 per cent, for bad debts, as usual,in credit store, fruit expels all these, and as tboy eannot pass through the cotton i ■ . . batting, the fruit tbus protected I A Word as Regards the Penny ! HAVING MY STOCK THAT WAS LEFT FROM THE FIRE IN AN1) REPLENISHED WITH NEW GOODS, I AM NOW PIIEI’AR ED FOR UCSINEBS. NEW GOODS RECEIVED DAILY. BOOKS i AND 5 PERIODICALS , AT PUBLISHERS PRICES! Best and Cheapest Writing Paper ami En velopes in town! eherrics, plums, and many other kinds of fruit for two years with | To all those who scout at the idea of Introducing the Penny in Americus, we say that wc stand ready | ("1R0OUET BASE BALLS no cover save batting on the jars, j to redeem In goods or tho cosh any amount ham 5c upwards. Bring them along and get their full value at ** J J w. b. wickes. I • — 1 Hammocks, Chess, and Light Reading for Summer Days. In a sptech in Brooklyn Oen. ■ Hawley, in trying to defend Blaine I •aid tbst “it is true that he (Blaine) j wrote to Mr. Fisher that he had made a decision interesting to his roxd. Now, 1 wish he hadn't said i that. It would have been better if be hadn’t connected bis privata business.” It should be re Ill CI1) • hered that this is “an aggressive campaign.” TIE OILY SPOT MSI STORE II1IERM.I FIRST DOOR SOUTH OFJ. W. WHEATLEY & CO.’S BANK. Very truly, SCHUMPERT & RONEY? Atttricui, Ga., Janaary 11, 1884. BUTTERICK’S PATTERN GIVEN AWAY. NEXT DOOR TO POST OFFICE. AYOOOI^ 1 OIJS, OA.