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A MERICUS HeOORDER. j the building boom , - » /v - ~ -* I A * lluu oil the Con- pQO A-Xj OOIjtJMW. : tractor*. ^o Lo<>> ^r»°r. “This place reminds me of At- |,OCAl< SCHKDULK. And •ftprSunday, Aujw*t Snl. Imln? i4#ensrer down Arrives dnlljr,. 1 AlbAIIV, lanta.” said a stranger a few days ago, as be surveyed tlie piles of i-i3 p m i * * ,r *°* t and rubbish lying around va- ... .. •• io&pS:; ti0 , us bl,i,dIn «*- dJ„°?rrt™“r.W*SJS:! lf lic l,a,, t * ken tbl! lro,,ble 10 JR Mg. «i> , y?s t SJS , »L'uy'.to»»?•«?« <lrivo arouiul lbo city ,,c would N '.: hl i«s« hl ' US a:20«m. have been a great deal more stir- I.OTT WA1IBKN, Agont. . , prised. We venture the assertiou Excursion Ticket*. that one-tenth of the residents of recursion tickets to the Lnuisvillo Imposition at i til,§ city have no ideft of the extent $£8.40 of the building boom that seems to tm tus round trip. Ticks'* good until ; have struck Amerious. Consider- October :10th. burr Wabbks^ ing thnt it u following right in the . „_ w v.. _ - heels of the hardest summer we DEPARTURE OP HAIM. DoiDp west nn«l south dose at.. 1 :U0 p m «» v o 8 c«n for years, it shows great doing ««st sail north olosost.... SAJI) pm faith in the future of Americus—a FwB™m B Vistasml'EluViil'e ' P ” IMli« kbat is not one hit shaken by closes daily except Sunday at 12:3)1 p in the opposition nnd Hint's of cne- I mnnkbi, Treston and Itnttsford . .... S on Monday. Wednesday »>'«» and rival towns. and ITidav at............. ldiOpm As we have said, hut few know Friendship. Dmncsville and f hurnh ...... liilleloais daily, exceptSunday. ll| e extent of the building going at ••• •••.•, :• ■ H;:kJ “ m j on. A very good wav to llnd out. u.nt«tord nnd Providence olnses . , . sltnrdayat Mini and a most eonvtnctng way, is to Hudson closes Fridty at..... : HAS)am g0 an( j endeavor to find a caipen- Lunar closes Tuesday and Fn- 1 f . . . . r "nv at S:uo a m ter to do some repairing for you, or The above arrangements will continue ; get a cont ractor to take a job. ‘‘ksugs in mijj. | One day this week a planter in this county tried to get a carpenter to Died go to his place nnd repair some On Tuesday night, a baby dough- W00( | wor |( about his gin house, ter ol Mr. and Mrs. 0. A. Turpin. ’pi,,. WO rk w .„ easy, and any jack- politics in weuhtf.ii. A Talk Wltti Judge Harrell-Polities and Railroads. Hearing that the Hon. 0. B. Harrell, of Webster, had consented nai xpoxxttz Prof. Jno. M. Hannon has re. turned from bis summer vacation, j Dame Bumor has it that one to-stand” for Heprcsentatlve of of our prominent young U.wsmcn ! that county, and learning that he ] will married on Oct. 29th. was in the city, we sought him at Uhofe's Cholera Cure for sale his room in the Commercial to lind b .V 'f- A. A !*• b 1 Davenport, out the truth about it. We touud ; Mr. John Poliiill has been elcc- him in his usnal good humor and j ted captain of the Macon Bicycle in reply to 6ur direct question i Club. We extend congratulations, answered pleasantly: Yesterday morning the artesian “ Yes. A good many of the citi-, was over six hundred feet deep, and zens of our county, who are in- j everything going along smoothly, terested in the new prospects for , Tbc 9enffo lding around the Bar- the development of its prosperity, 1| oa . ui HC .g was removed yesterday,, and thinking that from my con-1 anil tlie finishing touches on the neclion with them. I could do I luside aro t>oin S put on. more perhaps than another to; Look over j. Waxelbauiu M Co’, further them, have asked perm.s- ^ ai , vcrti8cmenl . It ia art i at io JHEW YORK STORE. and will please the eye, and then it i Among our new advertisements will be found one for applicants for teachers’ positions to attend sion to use my name as a candi date at the "primary nomination” j som(j wholcfiom( . truUla . ordered by the executive com mittee on the 20lh iust, and 1 have consetitcii. This does not, however, devolve on me a personal canvass, . for which 1 have neither the time j ««">>natl 0 ns next Wednesday, or inclination. It is a matter for J Mrs.0. A. Frioker roturned from the people to decide upon their J Fort Royal, S. G. f last night, ac- own judgment, without argument j companied hv Mrs. J. N. Bass and or pergonal solicitation. J have daughters, who will remain lor a no pci'Mouul ambition t«> gratify or J *bort visit. personal nirun to altuin. Il elected j The cotton being received now is ONE OF THE- LARGEST R BEST I shall take the position not us a j the finest raised here for several I f jCSt leg carpenter could have done it. | personal honor, hut as u public j years a " **<■ hut Hill. rain hen I ” Bobb Cotton. 1 leg carpenter could Have done it. i personal honor, lint as u piionc ; years. So far hut little rain has Mr. H. M. McGarrah brought in The planter started out in the j trust tor the people. 1 shall dis- i fallen upon it, and it lias been tin- first nale of “Bqlib” cotton j morning, and by actual count made ! charge the duties that devolve up-1 entirely dry. Thursday* morning. It was very j twenty-three cflorts to get a work- j on me solely in their interests—as C'epli. Buchanan and Joe Rouey ilni', the staplo being about an inch j man. going to several contractors I I have ever done when honored m, la quarter. Tho “Bobb” cot- j who employed from tun to fifty urn usually sells one and two cents j men. At noon lie gave it up, tired |i, ruoitnd higher than tho ordinary, j and disgusted, and determined to do the work himself. We mention Accident at the Gin. Ttisday afternoon, while work- in: around Lire gin, Mr. Joe Haven- this to sltow how busy the mechan ics ate. Probably there lias been more re port had a part of the thumb on j pairing than building, but in the his left haml cut away by a saw. Medical assistance was soon ren- with ntlioe—I do not even run,"con tinued lie, smiling,“in the interests of any candidates for Judge or .Solicitor General.” “Are there any Legislation in which you arc particularly interest ed” wc enquired! “None only that in which the pub lic generally arc interested. There will be several nmondmcnU of the aggregate it amounts to tho same thing, as it makes good buildings dered, hut the wound was a very 0l g, 0 f old ones. As it stands now, j Constitution proposed, nlso rail- painful one. ^ with the addition of extra rooms In ! road legislation. These will he Cotton Receipts. ! the Barlow Block, there is not and I important. But the most important Last Saturday* night closed an-1 will not lie a vacant business house I measures that will be before the other cotton season. Following is j in the city. It is almost tho same coming legislature, nnd in which a|i|M*ndcd the receipts for the last i way with residences. Nowand then the interests of the people arc three seasons, ending with Septcm-; there is an empty one, but they are | deeply involved, is the public her 1st: j soon filled up, The soanity of! debt." 1882 2G.02I I small nnd convenient dwellings' “I)o you know,” continued he, IsCi.... 30,188 | nia kcs rent high. As a coiise-! “that in the next two years more l:ls * 23,10:i j q Ucnco man y families are boardin. Remembered (is. Mr. Max Gross evidently memhered us when he was in New j coming crowded almost impel-- i $200,000 each year ol the tifl and i ge|l|jon> R8 ^ | iavo t | lc York. Wednesday morning he ! ccptlhly, and more room will have , ”18 bonds, making 8)400,not). In j ( |,resented the Rkcobheb stafT with ' to he made some way. ; 188G 28,800,000 of State road bonds - iiii.i,,,,. Ilk handkerchiefs, the por-1 The fact of matters being in this I of 18G6. To this may be added the | * r ' ' ,' ,, f 1 traits of Cleveland and Hendricks i condition at the end of so hard a j $150,000 borrowed in July last to * . , T| ,i siainpcil on each one. For such j Hummer more than ever confirms I meet a deficit in the finances caus-1 ^ •rs wc return thanks. j our belief in tho future greatness of | eel by an oversight ill the la*t ; a mcricus as a citv. j legislature. $200,000 each year for TURNIPS * D^-snporr s I The building of llio colored | the building of the new capitol, — p school house on McKay's hill lias I the wisdom of which, at the present In Eaalilou. caused the colored people to dock j time, is, to say the least of it, qitos- lur Augusta friends are agita-; tf) l]mt 1)ortion „| the city, and ‘ tioimhlc. Then about five hundred .23,70.) j q Ucne e many families nre hoarding, j than live millions of the public ' a nd boarding room is almost at a i debt fails due and is to he provided , premium. Ill laet, the city is he- { for? To lie explicit: In 1880*88 tell us that Mr. U. S. Lockett was severely bitten by a snake yestcr- , day morning. We were unable to | learn particulars. Skill iu connection with pure i drugs can always lie relied on at | J. A. & H. F. Davenport's. J From the Albany News we i learn that two negroes near that ■ place have been arrested on sun-! picion, as implicated in wrecking . the militia when they were going to Dawson. There lias been an increase ol over four hundred mechanics in i this county the past year, and yet l there is a cry for more. Verily, Sumter will soon “bloom and bios- som as a rose.” Mr. A. J. Buchanan can now ho , found, at Scbnmpcrt ii Roney’s j spot casli Grocery. With Cepli. to : to help them, this firm will make ' | tilings warm in tbo grocery line : Boots, Sloes, Hats, ON THE WAR PATH. Grand Clearingont Sale!. Regardless of Cost * Or Consequences! MingPrices for ■?.*$ 30 Days AT Joint R. Shaw’s, News, of Eufaula, onr letter fiom : that place this week is from a now I correspondent who gives u» every I point in the way of news. We | hope Mr. Pilsbury will llnd a pro- I fltabic field in ilia new homo. CARPETS ! nag the subject of a new hotel on | a | rea(Jy nuiner0 „ 8 small houses are ! thousand each year for current in- •' modern plan, tt nd considerable | going „p and t | ic mv ncrof the liill ' terest and you have the enormous int'-iest in lx*ini: arouacil. Savan * j finds ready sale for his lots. OBITUARY, , j DcpArlflil thin life on the nurtli day of j amount of $5,. r )50,000 to bo pro-! July, 1884, ut her home in Hunter coun- EVER SHOWN THIS HIDE OF WABOINOTOX. No. 125 & 126 Forsyth 8t, Amerious, • Georgia. !U i. .» 3 :T ’ UltOE MU MORE OOMPLETB STOCK THAN KVKR BEFORE! i UNTIL HK1TEM1IER 1st, NEXT, I OF- ; FEU MY ENTIRE LINE OF j Spring and Summer DRY GOODS, Notions, Fancy Goods, BOOTH AND SllOtiS, HATH AND CAPS, * TRUNKS AND SATCHELS, CLOTHING! uali also considered the same sub-' Utcr jn thc W( . wi |[ en ., vided lor by the coining legislature i •»* Mary A ltoblosuo, oon- ■ jeet lor a while vigorously, but the . ( , tavo|l t() p ub | is | | a |j, t 0 f the i in addition to the ii.ual uppropria- “ a — interest, of late seems to I av sided—Savannah Times. Ditto Amerieus. To My Friends. My Iricntls, and the public gen - rally, are hereby notified that l rill hereafter he found at the dry I keeps the Onms healthy. Prepared sole- 2ooils store of Davis A Callaway. 1 ly by Dw. J. V. k W. K. Hoi.uk*. Dun- "here 1 will b R plcaacel to see all !DWMnlborryStreet. Ms on. " ln S Oifiuli anil all others who wi-li •^mD m our line at the lowest l' r *ceH. Dick Winds is. £*|Jtenber 5, 1884. tf tin* (luUKhtfir of JameH and N.tncy Dnko, new buildings and residences tions for carrying on thc govern- i i^th of whom had precemlcd lur to the erected since the first of January. * meut. Further than this, in 18S9 t tilery Land. Mr*. Robinson Iihvch a I $2,298,000 more of the debt falls husband and two children to weep over lfowtiBs’aruKCfiiB mouth wash and j duo, muaiiH for meeting which I deptrturo. She died on sbo bad Uvsd, ( deatitriue is im infsllihlo unro for Fleer- . n | Knl |q |„, takeil t |, c uoxt | cg j 9 .! * devoted meml.tr of the Methodist i MR c nted Sore Throat, ltleeding (Dims, Sore elmrth, and »warm-hearted and devoted j mouth and Cieers. Cleans the Tooth and I ll,t,irc ' lhtn **’. 098 > 000 | Cbristian. Her dopsrtuio lraves heart- AND more. So you see that with over ; atlit* behind, but to btr it ten millions of money to provide j thnugo fall <>( al»ry nml bliss. for in five years, and nearly six of' 11 ror sale by Dr. W. P. Dart, dentist, , tbat j n t |.„ „ ex i two j oin s, it is j rHF "LANC1TKY" ’ , 'sn" , bi1«’* n,,,UI<lr, " ?l,i ' t “ nn d ,, ‘‘ n,iM ^"• 1 not going I * is* «" ea*-\ >a«k in HOOP KKIRT WITH HU8TI.1 -(o) MR. OROSB HAS JUST RETURNED AND EVERYTHING WILL HE IN A READY FOR INSPECTION 'FEW DAYS. nut going the legislature to steer . li ar be- i COMBINATION. .4 colored leader. j tween present oppression or future 1 Tbe « ^““» ,hto K*» Tuesday afternoon wc saw the \ burdens for the p op le. I hope for wile of a negro preaclier named the laist. but it * a critical lime ■"•c rlogout complexion powders | Crow( | lM . begging and praying him j under the present diq. r. s-od llnan- u ’’ e ' , j n ™»".v places with , l0 )mck holnL , w itU her. Some i cial surrouiidiiigs, to meet or prop- "Eider Down” and,“Calla Lily udiiKisi: durability, (hut tbo {'Mi- oral sHtiRfnction to the weirer that tb«? “fjuuglry .Skirt" does. Ask uny lady ' who bus c-vor worn one, und hUc will tell ' IT ; L Sft Gsfaetion. In white, \ ] { , , erly adjust these vmt nulO'iitfi.** you that nb« will wear no other-only "'“I) and pink at wc « k f be nrc b *‘ l , lc ' t , Stunned with the lUfi'/nilU'le of £1.25. Second lot just received. •I. A. A D. F. Davenport’*, j his family, telling them he bat! i t j ieW5 flgu !e!l we chauueii t!u* sub JOHN K. SHAW, j T *th |iu hi"* ( work in other P^ ce8 which would j j ccl agaiti. •'Well, how sbotit the x. R.-CaII Hod nee the ••Perfection” ‘ y , , ,e ^ better. He came to town and | railroad?’’ Rustic. The lightest, moat coinforUblo eruay morning raany car * j gang of loafers hero ’‘Ob!” said In* Kirionuly. “our -and durable Rustle in the world—75c to left lor the railroad barbe. 1 1 • * .. . . people have beeu verv much dated jsi.uo. Also the celebrated ‘'Duplex,' where h.s w.fe found out idsdorngs. L. 1 , .. .. ttM1 . T „ n - .. Dr . «,„„„■.•* CoLti. JOHN It. HIIAW. ' THEY ARE THE At snob PItICEH that will FOROE SALES, .ud will bo suob UNANSWElt- ABLE ARGUMENTS that NO HOUSE CAN MATCH NOR COMPETITION REACH. These ore STERN and STUB BORN FACTS (hat will CONVINCE and CONVERT yon on tho anbjoct of GENUINE BAKGAINS l You will find there is ECONOMY- AND SOLID COMFORT in dealing with ur i and we will prove to you that wo ore ■ Not Giving You Wind ‘ if yon will take the trouble to call on uh. j If^on do not improve this opportunity S(VUK DAY when you realise whs j SPLENDID BARGAINS yon have lout. Leaders of Sontbwe.st Georgia!! ! You will be Sickl ''it at Capt, Mayes’. Judgo Crisp, Jl "lgo Hawkins. Hon. W. M. Haw ke» Hlalock, others went out. and we •I°ubt not ha«l a fine time. Onr Il0xt ** s, ie will toll what wrh done •luring the day. Executive Committee. An election will be held ot the * ourt House to morrow, from 10 Tho habit of wife desert is for three or four fom the prospect of :i road -fo)- A meri- • nr c .* ’ i very common one amoug the ne-! cufi . Some of them have still great ■ ^— , A . ___ .' Editor' ,C l«d! ^ " mBn#r ADVERTISEMBNTOjCALL AND SEE US. icacliers’ Examination. should he checked. , -. so long on 'dress parsilu’ that "" * . many aic Ijeginning ».» waver in Removal. their hopes. We arc in earnest, how- Mr. Adolph Cohen, the tailor; ever, for outside connections and if and cutter, has removed his shop we fail in this w« get will another, into the Star bakery with W. J. j We did not start o.,, enterprise to I Phillips ft Co., the third room | ^£**^.Llild ioran'yroa above his old place. He wi'l lie 1 (on fail wc ftI0 .„s„ te j „( another An examination of applicant* for paai- lionso*/T«!*clieni in the Public SohooN, ! oolorod and white, of thin city, will be hold at tbo Colb-ge building next Wednesday, 10th inMt.. from Ham to ‘2 P m. JOHN M. GANNON, \ HiptVIt Superintendent a « ♦ . ^ * ", noove ms orn piaue. **c BO n fail we me assured oi anotuer —^ • . to 1 p. m., for the purpose of pi eft M»d to see all his old custom- ; connection anyhow. Wc are all • IwBJITTe ' Acting inembei* of the Demo* erB nepS 2t waiting patientlv ami serenely. A very desimble PUnution in Mscon Kxeeudve Committee for ' , By the by, do B >;iet thj, KbusBRE. ' ,1 ”‘ 27th district. Thc following Lemon*. f,>r S et it* ““.'MolriptioD to the I res- , cre ,. n0 ‘. b , lf c] , KOoU f'ainG-* h*f U i .x - AfUnw.iiu i ton and ainithvule U. K. condition. Excellent for i*tock harm. -, .V h »-P ^ en »««g««ed as I will receive a nice lot of lemons . W e thought thi» \ good time to i Woald pr.f« natiag to party oweiog ‘^ble person* lor the position: ! the first of thU week, which I will j ( j raW ftnr j forthwith left, as *took soflbient to run tho farm. Also ■ 8. Cutts, J. 0, 4 Roney, h. B. sell at 280 per doseu., j other friend* of tbo Judge had call- j * psrthiditn “nonlre'^at n,r ‘ “a,worth, E. G. Simmons. J. Isbaels. 1 ed to pay their respect*. I .spto.lit THIS OFFICE J. WAXELBAUM & CO. I-roprietors Now York Htore, Jtmerlouw, “AND DON’T YOU FOKOET lT.'j; JOHN B. NHAW. H. F *. S. NO. I. , . The firm or lirniH in Ainericus who c Mild buy goods for lew*, or can live on |i «it profit, thau your humble servant, A LL DIED OR MOVED AAVAY BEFORE I citrus here, 18 year* ago --"Anti ilonT >n lerget It." JOHN R. SHAW. P .S. NO. 2 AND LASTLY. NO BK8TBICTION8 A8 TO QUANT!- Y. therefor. CITY AND COUNTRY IKRCHANTS es well es LARGE PLAN ERS, will consult their beet interest by Ting n»r. csli before nicking tbelrpnr- JOHN B. SHAW. Atnericux, On., August l 484.