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lI FE in LIBERIA.
, formation from the Ooneul GeneraJ
of the Colored Bepublic.
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■...-■M-fton Cor. Cincinnati Timea-Stor.J
« r William Copplngcr, consul general
Li Iberia anil secretary of the tolonl-
K, society, leaves here In a day or two
P \e« Vork to superintend the work of
to Liberia the regular semi-annual
K„,i'nf CJlored people. Every spring
* .. t..M tiila artpiotv formed over
-There la great unrest among Ibo
l„,.‘n neop.a of this country," said Mr.
* Seer t.t he sat in the rooms or the
1 Here. In the closets with which
room was lined were samples of coffee
r j .,„ tu ra and other articles of a similar
|s lie production of the colonists in
JUkria On 8 mantel, just opposite him,
Cood photographs^
lislature
Washtucton’a Dinner I'ait;.
A writer in The Magazine of American
llistoiy for September gives the following
“2* r from Washington, at West Point in
17<9, to Dr. John Cochran, describing a
dinner party which the commander in- 1
tended to give:
West Point, Aug. 16, 1779.--Df.ah ■
Doctor: I have asked Mrs. Cochran and
Mrs. Livingstone to dine with mo to-mor
row; but ought I not to apprise you of
their faro? . As I hate deception, even •
when imagination is concerned, I will. \
u It is needless to promise that uiy table is i
large enough to hold the ladies—of this
they had ocular demonstration yesterday.
lo say hoAv it is usually covered 5s rather But it fell in an evening windy-wet.
more essential, and this shall be the pur- i (Hauberk, ami helmet, aud baieinot),
pot t of my letter. A knight drew rein'math the castle wall; \
THE RIME OP SIR LTONNR
[Chamber’s Journal.
In the days of old. as rim esters tell.
(Culvert, and jtetrel, and mangonel).
A inaidon dwelt in a castle stout,
Guarded and walled, within, without,
And ever defeat and direful rout
To all her castle's liesiegers fell.
No suitor the maid's proud heart could win,
(Piko and halberd, and eulverin);
She recked not of love-kiss, ne vow, n« ,
sigh,
But her song had the ring of a battle-cry; 1
“Oh, strong is my fortress—u maid am I-* ;
And never a foenmn shall enter in.”
leg
antf supreme court of
■liberm “II Iheir members black
Itiio portrait of the present president
l/howcu the fact: of an apparently bright
liM.l intelligent black man. He is
■ L.,.f i.jlieria. ” said Mr. Copplngcr. “ born
, re of parents who were slaves in this
Icouutrv; he is a man of marked ability
Lncl a successful president. This is Rev.
Id . Llvdcn, ” he said, pointing to the
Inhotomph of a full-blooded negro. ** He
|u the president of our college there, you
|L oW| a mini of thorough education and
■•^eu have some educational facilities
in Liberia then.
-oh, vcs. very good ones. There ore
irtuMic schools, and by the laws of the re
public all children of certain age nfe
P ired to attend school a given lime in
venr. Education is compulsory.
t . ;1 {| lv .re are higher grades of sehoois.
lacti the college, which cost $30,000, and
|i> well-equipped and well patronized. The
IpeoDle who go there appreciate very
llboroughly the value of education. In
Jliu i. we do not take any now who arc not
|of this class. The number of applications
o great that we have opportunity to
I select our people pretty carefully.
-Are your applications for opportunity
. go to 1 -ibevia numerous, theu ? ”
"Numerous?” he said with a smile,
I dancing at a pile of papers before him.
I “I .liould say they were. The desire lot
I removal to a new'country where men and
n of color may be on an equality- in
■ every sense with the other men and
1 ,-ouien of that country seems to be on the
crease. Wc get thousands of npplica-
ons from every direction, and thousands
note than we can meet with the limited
...leans at the disposal of the society,
I which, of course, is maintained by con-
I tributious. 1 believe that if we hud ships
mil moans to help all applicants get a start
| there as wc do with those whom we do
sei.d, there would be a half-million of the
colored people of this country ready to go
at once. ”
“How many have you sent in all since
the society was formed?”
“About 16,000, who were residents of
this country. Then there arc about o.Oibl
more natives of Africa who were enptun d
on board vessels which were bringing
them to this country to sell them ns slaves.
They were, as a rule, sent to Liberia, “o
there have been over 30,000 persons landed
there to make homes in that country sii.ee
our society began its work sixty-three
"How does the change in clintnle serm
to affect their health and constitutions?”
Not unfavorably. They are, as a rule,
very healthy, and the percentage of mor-
small.”
lint arc the relations of tho°e
who go there to the natives by whom they
must be surrounded?”
“Very satisfactory. Liberia, you must
know, extends up aud down the
coast for a distance of 000 miles,
and stretches back into the interior
almost indefinitely, so that the
pvuple who go there, and who have gone,
an brought into contact with a very \
large number of the natives. The result !
ha" been u gradual assimilation of the j
natives with the civilized element. They j
have gradually come to see the advantage? i
°f civilization, ns it shown by the fact J
that within the past year two of the native i
kings have come into the Litieriau couu- I
try to remain, expressing u desire to adopt
tlie habits of civilization. Some of these
kings and others of the natives have f< r
a considerable time liecn sending thidr
children to the schools of Lilieriu. The
influence of the colony is so marked that ;
it is now possible for one familiar will;
°nlv tlie English tongue to make himself |
understood all along thut section. A very j
large percentage of the natives in the
Liberian country speak English and under- j
stand it readily.’”
“And what does your association do for !
tho-e whom it sends abroad?”
"It gives them passage to Liberia fr >m
the port of New Vork only, req’jiri-.g
theta to furnish their own transportation j
to that point On their arrival flier - * it,
pvestheni ten acre, of land, a town lot if
they prefer it, and in some eases whom
there is a family of considerable »i/.e it
twenty-live acres. This seems iik- a
small amount of land, hut, in fact, it will
produce as much there as 10 ) acret will ,
her*. It „| So allows them $50 for rations
and shelter after reaching there. Toward
this each emigrant is expected to subscribe ;
at jeast $*>5 before lr-.t v ‘tig home. ” |
“And what are the opportunities for I
le iJ u W )ort there?”
"The same as here. The men who have i
trades are in demand, and at good wages, I
15 are also teachers, clerks, and account-j
5° ts - As to farming, a colored man who
-w been there a number of years writes us
^ thirds of the labor that it would take
w support a man In the U nited Slates will
the wotkman thirty, sixty, u liun-,
Jncc rav arrival at this happy spot, we
have had a ham, sometimes a shoulder of
bacon, to grace the head of the table. A
piece of roast beef adorns the foot, and a
snmll dish of green beans—airna-t iii.oor
eeptilde—decorates the center. When the
cock has a mind to cut a figure, and this I
E resume he will attempt to-morrow, we
live two beefsteak-pies, or dishes of crabs
in addition, one on each side of the cen
ter-dish, dividing the space, and reducing
the distance between dish and dish to
about six feet, which, without them,
would be nearly twelve apart. Of laic he
lias had the surprising luck to disco vet
that apples will make pies; aud it is a
question if, amidst the violence of his ef
forts, we do not get one of apples instead
of having both of beef.
“If the ladies can put up with such eo
tertainnient. and submit to partake of i»
ou plates once tin, but now iron, not be
come so by the labors of hard scouring, l
shall be happy to see them. Dear sir,
yours, George Washington'. ”
Uses or Arctic Exploration.
[Harper's Magazine ]
In 800 years tliero have been some 200
arctic*voyages, for various purposes and
with various fates. The Greely expedi
tion v..is but one of thirteen expedi
tions. Five hundred men passed two win
ters within the polar circle, and nineteen
of them only were lost. And Lieut. Hay
says that the result of the observations of
all these expeditions will lie the doubling
of tlie world’s knowledge of the magnetic
forces. That is to say. us the Kev. Brooke
Iferford states in his ndmirnble sermon
upon this subject, “Not one of ull the
thousand and ten thousand craft sailing
to and fro among the many lands of earth
but will be a little surer of its compass, t
little closer in. its reckoning, a little
safer, than it ever was before. 1
Is this worth nothing? Is not the risk,
the loss even, amply recompensed? But
also, ns Mr. Hcrforu points out, the moral
qualities, the patience, the courage, the
self-denial, the fuilli, the endurance,
developed by these northern researches,
are incomparable. “There is simply no
other chapter in the history of human
doings to be compured with it. Beside it
the adventures of commerce and conquest
i look greedy and base, the stories of
I chivalry are mere tinsel, the long heroism
I of the crusades seems a fevered frenzy?
! C’ui liono? is not an argument to disccur-
' age the restless soul, which the prospect of
peril inspires, nor will the pathetic story of
the patient and generous endurance, amid
apparentlv remediless suffering, which the
r. cord tf the Greely expedition discloses,
dismay or deter other Greelys from durinp
the same dangers. v
Tlie Cleanliness of Pompeii.
j A writer who has visited that ancient
city of southern Italy, whose ♦marvels
seem to be unlimited ns excavations pro
ceed, thus describes his impressions:
“Another striking tidng is the absolute
cleanliness. You may say that the dirt
has all been taken away by the Italian
government. That is true, but it is quite
evident that in the old times it never was
there. Our modern houses are not made
to be clean, ns were the Pompeian real-
deuces. The walls, the floors, every
corner of their homes, were finished with
the most admirable workmanship. In their
rooms no piaster ever fell, for it was of
such excellent material, and so well put
on, that it soon became like marble. They
had no wooden walls, no cracks where
dust could penetrate. Water for clcansin,
* ’tf
was found m every port of the house, und
ran off through perfect drains.
“All the tables and ln-dsteads were of
marble or bronze; even the well-curbs and
the Itorders of the flower-beds were of hewn
stqne. Hygiene must have come naturally
to the olu Pompeian; he evidently hud no
chance to get a typhoid attack; the only
class of diseases he could not provide
against were the eruptive, and one of these
carried hint off at last ”
fold; the profits will sweeten the toil. ;
**offee-tree planted and raised will in
.7* y«ars yield its increase, two crops a
•J* °f "bat many pronounce the best,
' ufe grown iu the world. Arrowroot, j
•Wcr, lemons, oranges, yarns, potatoes,
J*< beans, and a hundred others articles
‘'**1 and commerce, put them in the
“Qd &ey are as sure to pro luce as
m of nature is to bring the seasons. ” .
The First Negro Song.
T . . [Exchange.] j
tn j. negro song ever sung before J
*r^.. c0 to a theatre was by an actor ,
2*^^-Herbert. He had been a cook in '
ri )‘ life, and was famous for his pot-
»t? : . therefore he was familiarly called
-Tk Herbert. The song was eutltled
m.a . of Plattsburg. ” Herbert
5^* his first effort in Albany, S. Y. It
wD-^tbe year 1815. He painted his face
bet?™ v v P* 1 ®** the use of burnt cork
Tlie Wines of Chill*
[Fortnightly Review. 1
In nothing is the progress of Chili more
strikingly displayed than in the advance
which has been mode by the wine industry,
Ten years ago hardly any native wine was
drunk by the wealthier classes; now it is
drunk by nil classes. At present the wine
production has not overtaken the
sumption in Chili itself; but
the enormous extension of vineyam
planting throughout the country, prices
of wines will certainly fall before long to
a level that will enab’o profitable ship
ments abroad to be mu Je. Large sums of
money are now being invested by the
wealthy land owners in vineyard planting
and wiue-making apparatus. Freuehmen
ut high salaries are being brought to the
country from the claret producing districts
of France, and no pains are bung spared
to make the business of vine-growing suc
ceed. Those with whom I have con
versed. who have studied the subject, are
of opinion that in another two years the
export of wine may be expected to take
place.
Injarloua to Vision.
[American Queen.]
Railroad traveling is said to l»e injurious
to vision ou account of the vibration,
which makes print dance lie fore the eyes,
and induces such intent observation as to
produce fatigue. It is curious to note the
eyes of one’s fellow-travelers who are
looking out of the window during a rapid
railway journey. l%ie ever-changing land
scape induces an oscillation of tlie visual
organs so incessant and continuous ns to
be perfectly a> finishing. The effect of
this exaggerated activity and restlessness
may be. perhaps, more fatiguing than
the steady perusal of well-printed type. It
Is curious to rote how some eyes engaged
in looking upon this constantly-shifting
scene have momentary pauaes in their
labor, and become motionless, as if staring
into vacuity, nature thus snatching a few
•econds or much-needed rest, both for
brain and eye.
\t'bat the Orator Need**
[Church Union.]
A good speaker should have the posi
tion. the pose of a singing bird, bis ges
lures follow the curve cut by a flying
swallow, bis tone* and emphasis should be
such as o pleading child uses or a morning
wind; his carriage, that of nu IiuUan walk
ing in the forest. Nature, by the sound-
Proud was his |*ort, bis stature tall.
His face held the gazer’s eye in thrall,
And a lion of gold on his casque was set
He winded a bugle silver-clear,
(Mace, and arblast, and bandoleer),
Singing: “Yield up thy castle, fair May, to
Or I take thoe by prowess of bow and spear!”
In the pale, palo light of a crescent moon,
(Spear an I corselet, and musketoon),
She saw him there by the castle wall,
And shrilled n the warder a careless call:
“Ho!—Ie: (Kntcullis and drawbridge fall;
We would .-ee this hold knight of a braggart
And oh! but the wind had changed, I trow,
(Falc hion, and gauntlet, and good cross-bow),
When, an eve from thence, in a fading
light,
On the bastion-keen stood a maid and
knight,
And, while to her heart he clasped her
tight,
“Thou host conquered, Sir Lionne!” she mur
mured low.
“I had vowed that no knight beneath the sun,
(Detni-pique, helm, and habergeon),
Beneath the sunlight, or moonbeam shine,
Should be lord of this castle aud heart of
How Language Grow* from Slang.
[St. Nicholas.]
Slang has this value, that it shows how
language grows. The English tongue is
6o vigorous that it seizes whatever it needs
for growth, just as it did in its infancy.
At that period direct imitation of sounds
were constantly made words, as the young
vandals of today use “chink” for
“money. ” Further on in the growth cf.
t he tongue, it took from ordinary speech
the imitative words, and converted theta
to new uses, just as you say “ticker” for
“watch” and “puff” for “advertisement.”
The contraction of words is another stage,
ns “mob, ” now perfectly English, was a’
first merely slang for the Lutin mobile,
the tickle crowd, as “cab” for “cabriolet, “
and “furlong” for “furrowlong, ” tl
length of a furrow-, and as “nob" is slang
for nobility.
We make words from men’s names in
the same way. I suppose “boycotting” may
be good English soon. “Martinet,” now
indispensibic, was the name of a historic
general overstrict in discipline. “ Derrick ”
was a famous hangman of the seventeenth
century, in honor of whom the roughs
nicknamed the gallows-like hoistingappar
atus; and these are two only out of scores
of cases. Many of the words that are now
respectabilities of conversation were once
gutter children. “ Drag, ’* for instunce. was
a thieves’ word for carriage, and “drags-
men” the particular variety of the thieves
who followed the carriage to cut away the
luggage front the rack behind. But
“drug” is good English now for private
coach. “Kidnap” was thieves’slang fc
child stealing: that is, to “nab a kid.
“Tie, ” for cravat, w-as as much the slaug
of low’life as “choker” is now’. “Conun
drum” and “donkey” aud “fun” were all
slang words, though, perhaps, not so low.
"Bore” was slang, and so were "waddle’'
and “ bother. ”
Sidewalk Partnerships.
[New York Sun.}
“ Do you want to go into partnership
with me?” a little, red-haired bootblack
asked of a reporter in front of The Sun
ollice the other day. “I will supply the
experience and you the cash. I nave had
bad luck, and have lost my outlit, and
want to get another start. We will run
the business on a business basis, your
share to be one shine a day, which will
save you 5 cents, until after you arc satis
fied that the debt is paid, or I cun hand
over the cash. ”
The offer was accepted, and within one
hour after the boy received the acquired
$1.50 he returned to give his partner the
tlrst shine. With good luck the boy will
be able to buy out the Arm in a few days.
The reporter learned that muny business
men help boys in this way, sometimes in
order to test their honesty aud business
qualities. In many cases the boys are re
quired to make daily reports of their re
ceipts and expenses. In u case like this g
certain amount is turned over to the boy’s
assistant until the debt is paid.
A broker down town said that several
but with years ago he got acquainted with a boot-
black by employing him for a long time,
uud when the boy fell into bad luck he
loaned him money to pull him through.
He found the boy bright and quick and
gave him employment, and he is now one
of his I est clerks. The broker said he
knew c I several similar cases,
Autumn Kcvcrle,
[Detroit Fro - lYoas.]
They eat in the gloaming. She was
thinking that it was about the time o’ year
to make soft soap, and lie was figuring on
whether he could afford to buy a forty-
acre tract of land in the suburbs. When
he had decided that he could he kiudiy
said;
” 31 v little rosebud, won’t you get me
that old trunk which one of the’hired girls
left In the attic a year ago?”
* Not this eve, ” she sweetly replied. “I
gave that to a man two weeks ago for
hauling away those ashes. ”
"Ashes! Gone! Two weeks!”he whis
pered. while every button on his vest
d meed a jig under the 'Uppre**ed excite-
neat.
"You bet!”
“Friendless! Fooles-! You have knocked
me into the middle of thirty years ago!
That trunk contained all my small change,
amounting to *omc $50,000, and utter
poverty ami deso'ate ruin stares us iu the
face! Here—we will both drink of the
poisoned elml'cc ami die together.
And they died.
Not .tint'll or m Kemedjr*
[T xas Hitting,.]
“How can 1 get rid of this dyspepsia?"
asked an Austin invalid of hi* physician.
“Have you tried pr« pared chalk?”
“Yes, fve Ison getting my udik from a
milkman for the last six years. The
doctor says that's what gave me the dys
pepsia. ”
By examining the tongue of the patient,
physician " may lind out the disease of the
l»ody—philosophers, of the miad.
HOST <i«Ki • •
CALVIN CARTER & SON
For BOOTS Aim SKOSS,
Public Square, . . Americus, Ga,
BEST GOODS
FOR
LEAST HONEY I
New Store
AND*
New Goods.
R. T. BYRD,
INSURANCE AGENT,
OFFICE IN COMMERCIAL HOTEL BLOCK.
Forsyth Street,
Amerious, Ga
AGENT FOR THE LEADING
ALSO AGEJJT FO]
GULLET andLUMMES COTTON GIN?,
Tlxo SostlOlna XUtedoi!
CALL AND SEE ME, WHEN IN WANT OF INSURANCE OR BINS.
6cpU8m3 R. T.
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
Jas.Fricker&Bro.
AMERICUS. GA.
About September first we shall move into
our new store, at the old stand, Barlow Block,
Public Square, where we shall open the most
elegant assortment of goods in our line ever
brought to Southwest Georgia. At our pres
ent store on Cotton Avenue, we have a large
stock of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, Solid
Silver and Plated Ware, Pianos, Organs and
Sewing Machines, and everything else usually
iept in a Jewelry and Music Store, that must
[>e reduced to save moving and make room
for new goods. Therefore, for the next
Twenty Days, or until we move, will sell any
thing we have in stock at prices lower than
have ever been reached before
iar*CAPlTAL PRIZE •15,000,OSk
TiekctsonljrfS. Shares in proportion
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
“ We do hereby certify that m supervise
the arrangements for all the Monthly and
Semi-Annual Dramngs of The Louisiana
State Lottery Company,and inperson man
age and control the Drainings themselves,
and that the same are conducted with hon
esty, fairness, and in good faith toward all
parties, and we authorise the Company to
use this certificate, with facsimiles of our
signatures attached, in its advertisements.”
££4| Commliilomri.
Incorporated in 1888 for S6 veara bv the Legisla
ture for Educational and Charitable purpose*—
with a capital of |t,000,000-to which a reserve
fund of over #560.000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
wse made a part of the ptesent State Constitution
adopted December 2d, A. D., 187t.
The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed by
the people qf any Stale.
It never teales or pottponet.
Ils Grand Single Number Drawings
tabs place monthly*
A SPLKNDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE* KLKVKNTII GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS I*. IN THE ACADEMY
OP MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, 'I UKHDAT,
November 11,1884 lT4th Monthly Draw-
to*.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $70,000.
100,0001 lekets at Fire Dollar, Eacb.
Fractions, In Fifths, In Proportion.
Lf8T OF PRIZES:,
1 CAPITAL PRIZE #76.000
• J - .... M,or
do
. 10,000
2 PRIZES OP #8.000 18,000
6 do 2,000, 10,€00
10 do 1,000, 10,000
80 do 600, 10,000
100 do 800, 80,000
loo do 100, 30,000
M0 do 60, 86,000
W0 do 26, 8A,000
9 Approximation Prizes of #760 18,760
9 " “ 600 4,500
9 “ •• 280 2.260
1,907 Prizes, amounting to ....f266,600
Application for niton to clubs should bo made
ily to the ollice of tho Company in New Orleans,
For further Information writo Hcnily, giving
frill address. POSTAL NOTES, Express
Konev Orders, or New York Exchange in ordi*
n«ry letter. Currency by Express (all sums of
•5 und upward by Express ut our expense) ad-
r M. A. DAUPHIN,
007 Seventh St., Washington, D. O*
Make P. O. Money Orders pnyaole and address
RegUtcred Letters to
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New Orleans, La.
All School Ms,
5 AT
iae ill. taught the’Greek eloquence, end I The interior of » Fentuylvuda eotl min*
iath, jjSSS all arc included in -water ^ hju^htea^.uccexful ly pboW«nph*d by
Come and examine our stock, get our
prices, and we will guarantee that you will
be convinced that we mean what we say
Remember we have great bargains to offer for
CASH and the time in which to secure them
is limited. Come one, come all, and don’t
fail to come early.
JAS. FRICKER & BRO.
Americus, Ga., Aug. 13,1884.
MRS. FRED LEWIS’.
Amoriou,. Go., Aug. 24,1884. tf
Tie Lost is Foil.
AND CAN BE FOUND;AT
BUG CHAPMAN’S
Bar soil Restaurant.
EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY,
and sleep
renovated
wine cellar
free bed. Everything'has’bets
renovated asd is ewcet and dean. I had In Bug's
Liquors from 8 to 13 Years Old I
Call and petyonr share of the best Bacchus tbs
Second in dnitkx, a rival or Delmonico In good
rating. Cali early ami secure >nnr beds and
something to eat und drink. Words cannot ex
it ENRY C. JOHNSON.
W. J. PHILLIPS.
JOHN 8. MIKR8.
★
BAKERY,
Cotton Arenne.
We call the attention of the publle to tbs hel
that wo are prepared to All ull order* for Fresh
Bread, Cukes, Candy, Kte., of oar own muke—
food und pure. We keep u’so Confections und
Groceries, which we soli ut the ruling prices
Bay and sell Country Produce. Give us a rail.
IF. J. PHILLIPS Hi CO.
Jnijutf
Copartnership Nolice.
I have this day esrociatol with me in my Uid*
od Commfft-lon businra* Mr. C. A. BELL to bet*
Ur carry on the »ume, at my old stand oo Cotton
Aveiiv**, under the Arm name and ftyle of B. If.
COHEN*CO. „ C0HKf
Thanking the pnbiic for the liberal patronage
and confidence put >n me while conducting this
business, I he»p«ak for the new firm a contlnn-
gr.ee cf the seme. Mr. Beil alone will attend to
the purchase of any and nil CoeftHT Produce, and
Luni 'r£W£M m i n b£ u