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.... *«'• Ten-Mow* T ”‘« «• » I OEM- GRANT'S DAILY LIFE. <«c(*Hark. Sct-Baek. [Puck.] . friend Whom taste* hirmoniw JlTn'too fin.t-n.to generally; but tl.ere’e thtalin which we nre not congenial !c on politic*, religion •‘■mp.r radical on the Unit, temperate « »the Mcond, and In a .tala of armed the subject of , 3f„.io ha* nearer to breaking S ur litth Damou and Pythian busines* Sul anything else. Ho is all ..ml and *ms. Z>Jm and plebeian in my tastes. He „ul.l willingly I«.y Are dollars to get a iimpse of llie tonsils of a great prone, mi,... while I steal away to ~~l xuunion song of then.ir Tbi- la* claims ■reel distinguishing characteristics between tieniaa whoso UooJ l.adeapuavy-blue und tio U constructed of common clay. Seybap. I use the word mayhap hero in brrsidest sense. \ tew week* ago my friend ami I hud one these discussion*, in which lie tried to nfl kf me lieiieve that Theodore Thomas was uuhical director when the morning stars J1112 together, and I replied with one of my nont scathing epigrams, after which he jurlt-l up like a retrousse -un ««»r sqnns... I then invited him to aoomip uiy me t» .1 ninstrel p rforraanoa widt h tetk place Hint ,veiling. Ho disguised hinwdf hud weal. U was not a troupo of great prominence: jut the show-bills were very well done, ttad •lie whole company wore plug lmU So I judg'-l it would ha a pretty good perform »uce. My friend, myself and n not her lead ing citizen suffered through it together. TEE MYSTERY OP BONO. A Simple Hound of IVork and Play ! Keeps the Old Hero in Trias. j [ New York Cor. Boston Herald. ] Gen. Grant’s daily habits are o? i] q simplest. He rises at S o’clock in the morning, and receives the attentions, uf I Harrison, bis body servant, who i3 al- rtuost as well known in Washington oh- I cles as his employer. Harrison is a j very light mulatto, about fi’J years old i once a slave, ami for many years the ! body servant of the banker. Higgs, of : Washington. Upon the hitters dritth, t. o years ago, he entered the st n ice u - tin Grants. A day or two after the generals fall upon the sidewall. I e.ille I ; at the honse for the purpose or making j inquiry as to the nature of the accident , arxl the pat ent's condition. \ little mulatto boy of 10 years, almost white in i color, and clad in a neatly-fitting liverv ; of blue and brass, answered the beli. j * bis was Harrison's son, whom th * gen- : eral is training as a waitor and page. • He nslioied me into the drawing-room, | and called his father. 1 was surprised i ut the tenderness and affection dis ! played by this servant for his master. It was one of the doubtful days, after ; pleurisy had set in, and the physicians ! were in uncertainty ns to tbo outcome of the atMudont. Tim negro seemed to bo ! very anxious, aud, in a four words ox- danatory of hi* employer's eonditi [James Buokham In The Current] Botnet hues the breath will fail the flute; Somotimo* the rift will choke the lute; The sweetest harp is sometimes route. Ho poets cannot nbrnys sing, Though themes divine within them spring;— I he heart has many n stubbon string! NAVY GILT AND GLITTER. The Atve-Inspiring Outfits ot Our A'nvy ttint tlte Cost Thereof. [Wushlugtou Letter.] The oliiCcis of the navy wero trotted out to night for tlio third timo in their m w toggery. Once before they wore ixtradoil nt the White House to meet j the diplomatic corps in its laces, gilt i and glitter, and placed it in total <rlipso. The ncxS timo the navy on foot w as invited to meet congress, pvob- , ably to let the members of this bo<ly sec what a largo aud promising body of officer* there weio in need of ships to i iloat them in. To-night tlio same I c'lAinpion show' body of the republic is ! again on exhibition ut the Whito House, ; this time to pass in general review' bo- f foro the cabinet, tlio judges of tha • supreme court, the diplomatic corps, ; nml the senators and representatives. Blue Uniforms--One special full- droas coat, one fuli-drcs»; amt social- , dress coul, two frock coats, one service lrcss i o.it, ono overcoat, one special COMPARE THE OLD PRICES WITH THE IE1T ind what had been done for him by the j full-dress pants, one full-dress (plain) doctors, convinced me of his skill nurse. Upon farther questioning I learned that Harrison had been a nur e in the hospitals during tlio war, and Dr. Pordyce Barker afterward told mo that the negro's knowledge of nur.-dug and surgery was quito remarkable. After dressing, the general spend-, nu hour or more over the morning paper* until it:']0, when he breakfasts. I!.* then goei to the nearest station of Hi. Floated railroad, and is rapidly roll- d down town to his place of burin s; llis oilieo is on the seventh floor of !i c United Hank building, coiner of Bro id- way and Wall Greet, directly oppo-ito _ _ church. He nally reaches his desk at 11 o’clock, mid remains until about 3 in the after They outnumbered us thrrr to our. There were only two of the company win: were at nil facetious, ami they were drunk. They were drunk by special request of tin .Management. After the olio bad been IkiIi rendered, the audieiio decided that ir would bo nothing more than i Ight to jump on the gage and kill the on tiro company. On j the tall spire of Trinity in<l thought, however, wo gave it up, u«* usually reaches his desk f *ey outnumbered us three to one. Ho wo tad to sit thoro and stand it. I suppress tlio nani *s of tho leading eitl- ft.u aud my friend, as they arc highly con nect,* I. Ho am I, for that matter: but 1 lisvcbeenn justice of the peace and post master for eight years, and a limn who has Itfvn on tho touch ami ia public life off and r>n glories in his shame: he cultivates a cuti cle like the ria l of a fire-proof penitentiary. So l ' 01110 before my constituents to-day and udiiiit that 1 was present nt this grand fare well performance, it was what might to termed an in voluntary farewell perform ance, for the sheriff acted us property man after that, mid the company disbanded, •oni') going into Minnesota harvest fields, ud tke.rwt adopting other specialties. Ish ihutiug i\tri* f/i- btf'i.H. I saw the clog dancer last week dhtriUut g i’aris green on soma potato bugs on i null farm, wearing a plug hat and singim ‘•Knipty is the Cradle, Baby's Gono.” One of the end men is driving an ic« v «g"n in n neighboring town, and tin lari-met swallower of the orchestra is hold- ! ug down a free claim in Dakota. G«*ok my friend to the minstrels to con- j hire him that there is more grmtin • enjoy- | iw. in a simple mdody than there L in the I iiffb-r type of music, w hich requires u culti- } atcil ej,r to interpret; but I feol intnitiv *lv ' l«nt I .lid not succeed. Neither of ih lm> nntioned it, however, in fact. I was nl*out >*ay wo never s|K«nk ns wo |w»* by. If lie "■uld only recognize me on the street, and j -ivo me h chance, 1 would apologiz.-; but lu- ! maintains n cold and haughty rem o ve, wld< h j • slowly but surely oriMhing out my voiiii..- | Honesty lit the l.lnie Kiln Cluh. ! If tho weather is pleasant, lie gener ally takes a drivo of fifteen or tw« .iy miles on tho road. If the day is clou ly or stormy, ho can generally bo fen till during the latter part of tho afteinron at the Union League club on .Viuh avenue, of which organization be is a member. Ho dines at 5, and usiin'.y remains at homo during the evening. Occasionally ho attends ft reception at the opera, or" 10turns the-culls of friends. But. his domestic nature in clines him to spend the greater portion ! of his evenings with his family. Bead ing the afternoon papers, receiving friends, playing cribbnge, a game of which lie is especially fond, and once in a while a gnino of billiards with a culler, occupy liis time until midnight, when lie retires. Crazy <’n uadi ana. [Chicago News, i Tho craze that 1ms taken hold of the Han Francisco people since Adelina Patti reached their town recalls thorn- ! thusiastic demonstrations which pre vailed on tho occasion of Sara Born- ; hardt's visit to Montreal. The Cana- ! dian populnco went almost wild. The 1 actress was lifto l upon tho shoulders of the mol) which greeted her at the railway station, homo to a largo sleigh, and dragged in this vehicle to her hotel amid a surging human tide that threatened every moment to break over | her and tear her to pieces for very nd- ; miration and joy. When asked last i season why ho did not take I’utti to Canada, Mr. Abbey said ho d el l ot l*caro about having her killed on his | bauds. “I verily believe,” said he • "that if Patti wero to visit Montreal ! tlioso excitable French people would : simply tear her in 10,000 piecos. They are the mod uncontrollable creatures I ' ever saw. Tlio presence of a great j artist seems to drive them mad. My ! experience with Bernhardt taught mo a ■ lesson I shall never forgot. I take no ; more artists to Canada.” In Ills Lair. ; Bob Bun lotto. J I sit down in my pleasant den this morning in a cheerful frame of mind, with a heart as light us a cork. It i# a pleasant deu, this lonely lair ot ini'.e it. makes a visitor think of a nightmare. It is doeorated after my own design*. Whenever I found anything too big to , crowd into a drawer or pigeon-hole l < un lod it on tho wall. Tho door is my ! photograph album, whereon aro tacked the counterfeit presentments of all my friend* who have sent in their minia tures. \N liatever the other members of the family absolutely refused to allow in unv other room I have nailed up < i • the wall< of my lair. I am not uiggnid j with nails. When T nail a small steel en?raving, unframed, to tho wall, tlio cash at w ay to get that picture dow n is j to pull tho wall away from it. I he lair j looks like a household scrap-book, Aud I think that is w hy 1 like it. H«r Pocket-Book. [Boston Globe.) “How amusing to notice as one walks { the crowded streets how that nearly pants, two additional pairs for service use, dno full-dress vest, two undress vests. With tho above must be in cluded ono pair of epaulets, ono cluipeau, ono full-dress sword-belt, ono undress sword-belt, ono sword, ono uword-knet and the necessary shoulder-straps or knots, gold laee, ote., two caps, one hulmot, ono pair leggins, one pair white gloves. White Uniforms —Four or six white linen duck sorvico dross coats, which ' 'u warm weather” shall be worn en tirely buttoned; eight to twelvo pair? hite trousers at least, six white vests. In addition to the abovo outfit, each o nicer must lmvo a large supply ol shirts, collars, cravats and goncral underwear, as it is no uncommon thing to bo from forty to sixty days out of the reach of a laundry. As oillcors only wear their uniform when on duty, or on snino spociul occasion, thoy are obliged to lmvo in addition to uniforms about the same outfit of citizens’ cloth ing that citizens themselves have, aud when at sou must lmvo a full supply oi table, bed and toilet linen for their own use. Every naval ofilcer, no matter how low' his l auk or limited his pay, must have about such nu outfit ns has been mentioned above. Of aour.se the higher tlio rank tho more expensive the uniform is. To appear “with credit to tho service,” it is often necessary to first establish a "credit” with sowo good tailor. Tho process of w’orkiug off n “dead horse" is } rotty well understood by most officers who depond on their pay. The cost of a full uniform is at least $000. Without doubt most ol those who appeared in such magnificent plumage to-night, who depend on their pay for support, were wondering throughout tho ceremony how long it would take them to get even with the world agniu after this entertainment. lleMlae of the Lecturer. iNew York Star.] " The lecture field isn’t what it was,” remarked a well-known lecture agent to me at tho Cooper Union tho other night. •‘Too many geniuses?’’ I inquired. '* Vos, too many geuiuses in tho theat rical lino. Unless you get a big man on tho card you can’t draw a paying audience to u lecture. People prefer the theatres, and tho old projudicq against theatres, w hich made lecturing so profitable among a certain doss, is rapidly disappearing. Good church people go to seo such artists as Booth, Irving. Terry, Wyndham, Modjosknnnd Mom's. They take in tho Italha opera pretty regular, and go to tho Madisou Square in tho same spirit in which tlioy used to patronizo Bar* mini's old locture-room. Operas of the "Pinaforo” stylo did a grout deal to ward bringing tlio old straiglit-luccd class into tho theatres. Tho conso- ■ ineueo is that tho lecture field lias been weeded of the sticks and stones Hint u-od to choke it up, and only tho healthy plants romaiu. But tfiuso don’t get watered with the public wallet ns thoy used to. Even Beecher gvumblos some times, when tho season is dry;” and ex hausted by this startling agricultural metaphor my friend of tho lecture bureau stalked gloomily away, -AT- Schumpert & the; s: only a Spot Cash Store’ IKT AMERIctrS. Wfc promised in issue of the Hf,ookoeh of January 2d, to give you some prices so soon ns we arranged nnd marked down our goods. We arc now prepared and ready to give you more goals for less money than any house that sell goods on thirty days time. Coniemplate a few quotations nnd note the difference in SPOT CASH prices and thirty days credit: Flour. Flour. In this article wo stand head and shoulders above everybody, having ransacked the big markets of the West nnd Northwest in search of the best, and paid the CASH DOWN. We will sell you First Patent, (entire Roller system) For 50 pounds, $1.75. Old price, $2.15. 2d Pat., for 50 pounds, 1.66. “ . 1.90. Fancy, for 50 pounds, 1.50. “ 1.80. Choice Family 50 pounds, 1.35. •• 1.65. We guarantee nil these Flours as represented, and if not satisfactory you can return them and we will cheerfully refund the money. In future we will keep on hand tlio best grades of GRAHAM FLOUR—cheap. Sugars. Sugars. Will sell you 10 pounds Granulated Sugar for . .$1.00. “ 11 pounds New Orleans Clarified for 1.00. 1 “ 11[ pounds New Orleans (Bellewood) Clarified, for 1.00. “ 13 pounds' New York Sugar, for 1.00. In this line we are fully up and advise everybody to seize the golden opportunity and pur chnse nt once a sufficiency for the year’s eomsumption. Coffee. Coffee. In this article alone (by buying from us) we can save you money enough in one year to buy all the “Santa Claus” you want for the little ones. We deal 6] pounds Choice Fio Coffee for$l. Thurher’s No. 41, (Roasted) a combination of Jnva, Rio, and Mocha, for 23c per pound. The Flr.t straw Hal. [Lon.l,mH,.t> ••'lawn-. | It witi hoitivwlu-iv .about the veur H*30 that, ou » ntr.a.u Sunday, no Lame D was writ in the family pew; tho little ouua in o!<utge of their nurne only appeared, and to tho inquiry, “Wlioro was mother’.'” sadly replied, •’Mother had no imt; i’.Ulu r had thrown it on tho fire in a ims ion.' 1 No "blue ribbon” or ' baud” check'd tho hateful propcm»ity or saved a fa.nily, once a happy one, from want and misery. Dame U : bad tanghl Inn* childron to plait fetraw and nidi hm-kota, uud, M a* rho pondered the qi cation of new Salt. Salt. Liverpool, full weight, for $1.20 per sack. Fine Salt, seamless bags, 150 pounds,J$1.06 per sackj ..very laily carrion her pocket-book in I head-gear, she clianc. d It. have a few her baud But for tho well-known fact Btrawa in her hand which .ho pluited that they generally liavo very little : mechanically around her linger, layer 'lining of the mooting Brotlior to be puzxlud over the content* of u ™ r * anJ when the triangle sound*-1 niw ‘»ui said: "HeoU ant a commuuicusimu from tk vrwtMu y department in which do quash tin axed if our treasurer can git awuy \\i*t •air club fundi, and if not why not. 1 uni •JO IB receipt Of re beret odder letter, kindly Wd-o out Ue warnin’ that die mu do aigo „( ono.rtii.ty, .a’ dat we ebonld Iwv an oyo no jO’—an who Carrie, do key b. our r-.-l.- money in them, and aro mainly stalled unt with receipts for cake, memoranda of articles to be gotten wliilo shopping, bits of poetry cut front nowspapois and »nch (rides, valuable only to tho ov. it ers. wo can think of no greater tempta tion to tho stn ot thief than to snateii from their slender lingers tiro lightly held articles. Then, os though women hadn't caro enough about their olothes, tliov generally carry a few small pack- ages iiesides. over layer.’’ She twLt« »l lu-r plaits into a hat, stoeplo-erowiled, like tlioso worn by the Puritans. Her hM, o unique, attracted the notice of some ladies of rank; they gave her orders so numerous she had to incrousc In r vorkwomen, and established a trade for which she becamo famous, and iu tin- •Annals of Leeds” her name and doing! are re corded. The Secret of «!•»%* Power. Chicago lleriiM., A Chinese joss-inaker in San Fran* i-niuHWHiMi-m cisco came down on the price of a life- Sow that a college student has die ! ol . sired deity to a report, r from “twenty-fi IlnadreitM lo One. HiiiadelpUi.t K'*< , »tnce ilia club had it« fu<t nickel in ^troaiury We lwv tw „ flIIIlU . gmtalfact* L Do man wl»o .lean t x it « no# to steal am obleeKod to lw lion-it. ‘j. ^• luan who aiu thoroughly lionet »„n*t to tortiu’ r«trick»hua*. Dur ucbUr nebber wUl tx? a tint* when our k # in lmy hU ,muds oa ‘ niitr money . , far * my mile * b >’ rniI - While «. w ® remove all b-mptistnm. 1, ,* *• bar conflilence in his Integrity <v, but human «rtcr alb Kur tlw nxmbtn of U» club ou- . somo houses have wings, nnd ho l.-.s O. W. Holmes: Controver.y oqttnl- Izm fools snd who rnou ia th« tarns • “*mt*rs ot ta. club au- I taaks dis s sxpUaa. too maoii atliletics there will he no end | dolln to sixeo dollu. lie explsm-d of newspaper sermons on tho topic. If that a josj was no bettor than that tha same youth had died oi over-feeding much wood and paper until after a or over-drinking there would here bc--.ii ; priest had consecrated it and placed a no homilies. Vet over-.'oeding and week of rod paint on each of its eyes, over-drinking kill hundreds wlwrs nth Tbia is supposed to rive it the pow er of letics kill one. -“■“8 no ‘ “J 11 ? “ U ‘J 1 . 0 P a,t the futuro to the end of time. A amateur pnnater informs mo honscs hsve wings, an. ofteu mod a honao fly. ns thoujht u part of (ho It vast tan tV« elti»*sy due. ; way—ud Utl (Mil taow ih hut We are slaughtering at the very low price of $1.00 per cwt. to make room for a car load oi SEED POTATOES. Whiskies. Whiskies. In this line we are full to overflowing, and to unload wo have reduced the price on all grades from 25c to $1.00 |icr gallon. Think oi it! Cox, Hill & Thompson’s genuine Stone Mountain Com Whisky for $2.20 per gallon, usually sold at $2.50, Tobacco and Cigars. We can undersell anybody—we offer “Lucy Hinton” nt 57c per pound, and all other grades proportionately. We regret llmt we lmvc not space sulllcient to give full and complete quotations on all of our goods, but you will hear from us occasionally. Remember that by buying your goods from ut and paying 8POT CASH you do not pay from 25 to 50 per cent, for bad debts, as usual in credit store. A Word as Regards the Penny ! To all those who scout at the idea of introducing the Penny in Americus, we say that we stand ready to redeem In goods or the cash any amount from 5c upwards, liring them along and get their full value at TIIE ONLY SPOT CASH STORE I AMERICUS. FIRST DOOR SOUTH OF J. W. WHEATLEY|& CO.’S BANK. Very truly, SCHUMPERT & RONEY. Amorictu, Ga., January 11, 1884.