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A CITr IN THE AIR.
W 0N^UL,PU E BtO or ANCIENT
a cn»** ,t * r ® •
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Clmreli sod Graveyard—l'rt.at
and People.
[Cor. Lawrence (Kan.) Journal.)
The pueblo of Acorns, situated ninety
«w west of Alberquerque. to one of tbo
* . rc markab]o communities in New
or tbo United State). To reach U
Ko Atlantic & Pacific railroad to
airtby station, and then transfer to an
Liu pony and ride eighteen miles'south
HS When near your Journey's end
Itecend almoet imperceptibly into the
Esix miles in width, in the middle of
Sitandsabutte, and on the top of
JiJAcoma. Eight hundred people are
?L there, and they and their ancestors
knotbered there the sum of their poa-
ms for nearly three centuries This
Shone of many that ere the remnants
jTsesa that has been worn away by
Mansion of the ages, and survive* only
tfbttopped mountains here and there,
{vislley* between are fertile, and un-
agciaeratlons of men have teen them
Jund with waving grain and flocks of
+&*!%!<&!} CELEBRITIES.
A K*w York Cormpondent GItm a F«w
, ^ PW Sketches.
id
Bned faced..woman with an expense of
forehead and 1 thin hair and a classic pro-
foe wore a purple brocaded walking suit,
turned away at the front with velvet of
the same hue and panels of velvet,
pfckets, and a bonnet of velvet She
leaned heavily on the arm of a alight
young girl, and walked somewhat
lama This was RIstorl and 1
daughter. Gating in at a window
in which were exhibited some
magnificent costumes, stood a very stout
woman, acurately dercribed by the word
fat With the usual taste of fat women,
she was clothed in brocade, stiff with
threads of gold, and hung with fluffy
fringes, her black . hair piled up. and a
bonnet with birds of various plumage
perched aloft This was Clam Louise
Kellogg. Rushing along like a whirl, and
closely buttoned up in a tailor-made suit
of green cloth, was Fanny Davenport and
4 Under Commercial Hotel,
FORSYTH ST., - - AMERICUS, GA
New Goods! Low Prices!
TO FILL MY NEW STORE I HAVE ORDERED A LARGE STOCK OF
Books, Stationery, Toys, Fancy Goofls, Etc.
SOMETHING SPECIAL
.FOR THE
IN THE LINE OF-
Aae time in the seventeenth century
AtUgano, or valloy Indians made war
■noslo Acomas for the possession of the
twulry, and the latter being the weaker
oonpied this butte as a defensive position
believed to he impregnable. Their Judg
ment has been abundantly indicated. It
las proved a Gibraltar of strength and
nfetv. The comparison is not inappro-
ufety. The comparison is not inappro-
1 priate, and In approaching it from the
north I was struck with tbo resemblance
to tie picturea I have seen of that grim
fortress that frowns over the straits to the
Mediterranean. The height obovo tin
rjlley i.) nearly 400 feet and the wells in
several places nearly perpendicular. There
ut) two means of ascent, one by a flight of
stops cut into the face of the wall and
rising stan angle of 45 degrees and the
otler by a fissure in the rocks leading up
into the heart of the mountain. Both ways
tbs
bsve been trodden by human feet until
steps are hollowed out like shallow troughs.
Either one is exceedingly difficult and
neither is tolerably safe. We chose the
one sloag the fissure.
With all the danger and fatigue.
It is a laughable sight to see a person-
some other person—make the ascent One
has to stride over tho fissure, one foot on
the right-band side and the other on the
loft, end at the same lime press tho hands
alternately against the rocks for support.
An Indian will throw a live sheep around
bis neck and go up uuito rapidly without
touching either band to tho rocks; but I
am satisfied I could never do It.
They told us of a pathetic incident that
occurred on the outer stairway several
generations ago. Several men started up,
-each with a sheep on his back. When
nearly to the top tho sheep carried hy the
foremost man became restless, ana the
shepherd in trying to hold it fast lost his
footing, and in railing swept his compan
ions over the precipice, and they all fell
on tbo rocks at the foot in a lifeless heap.
The Indians have carved a representation
of the accident on a rock near where It oc
curred, which scarcoty serves to steady
the nerves of thoso wuo go by that route.
The top of the elevation is level, and
contains an area of sixty or seventy acres.
At one side stands the pueblo, n blunt
pyramid adobe and stone honeycombed
tnth rooms, at tho other the church
and graveyard, and near the center a pond
•of pure water thirty feet in depth ana sev
eral rods in extent
The priest was made acquainted with
tho object of our visit, and tho ringing of
the church bell brought the inhabitants of
the viliago around us. When they under-
stood that tho title to their lands was in
question and wo had come to take testi
mony they showed gren't Interest, and die-
cm™ the various points involved will) re
markable intelligence, considering their
Mmltcd opportunities for a knowledge of
law. As nightfall came on a number of
tho men, who had been at work In tho
rsUey camo u|
up In our Navajo blankets and never felt
more secure or happier in our lives.
"S 01 ! **>o gray dawn peered through
the little mica window panes it revealed
peat roof beams more than a foot in di
ameter and thirty or forty feet long, and
“rough the open tower a bell that was
® “> JHO. How theso immense timbers
» ., l , i* 1 * were brought up to the top
SL this .cliff no one living knows.
The Indians shake their heads and the
f™* 1 shakes his, but no one ventures an
opinion. Tho timbers are there, however,
J» witneses, and morning and night, as
me seasons come and go and generations
j*st sway, the bell speaks for itself in the
“J'ytoue. that pleased its founder in
'K™ Spain when King George was on
m* throne. The adobes—or the earth of
fhjfh they were made—were brought up
from the volley also, for tho top of t ie
JjJS'FJI * ha Id rock In the beginning.
And tho earth; for tho graven came the
■“away, requiring forty yearn, tbo priest
■Ju, to complete tho graveyard. 11 Is the
completed graveyard I have ever
ine old priest seemed very happv
m green ciotn, was jranny Davenport, and
not a block off, sauntering down the street
arm and arm, were the Chicago syndicate
actor, George Edgar and Willie Winter,
the dramatic critic. Winter is nothing if
not picturesque, and on this occasion he
wore under a fall coat a short neglige, ono
of bright blue velvet.
Behind him a few step* further was a
couple every one stopped to look after.
A slight little woman whose glossy raven
locks were clubbed up under a turban of
green velvet, on which a single small bird
of vivid orange waa perched; n neat stand
ing collar with a monstrous diamond
clasped her precious throat, and her trim
figure Incased In a perfectly fitting walk-
lng-ault of moss-green cloth, trimmed with
bands of ostrich feathers. She has been lo
a confectionery, and her escort car
ried some packages while he looked
unutterable sweets nt the marve
lous woman besldo him, Adelina
Petti. Of course the gentleman was
Nlcolinl. Rather heavier than last season,
but a very handsome man Is the dlva'n
choice. Passing a glove store the pro
prietor has stuck In a window a largo
picture of Patti wearing a pair of gloves
that reach her shoulders as an advertise
ment of tbo glovea he sella Both Nicoliu!
and Patti laughed heartily as they paused
and looked at it Another minute, with
•low step and pre-ooenpied air, wearing a
much too big suit of check-brown stuff,
there marched along dear John McCul
lough. When accosted, the old-time sweet
smile lighted up his face foon moment
and then left it aa dull as it waa before.
“My engagement thie week is can
celed on account of tho 61001100,” he
said. “I have postponed the time at St
Louis to' let the political excitement dio
out a little, but I shell go out soon. This
presidential business has knocked me out
as well os a good many others, but
things are getting cool, and I take the
road Sunday. ”
No ono has told him that his company
is disbanded and his engagements all off
As John passes along a shabby, Incon
spicuous fellow lounges along behind.
All the time the actor has been talking
the man has been closely examining the
lore store where Patti's picture is hung.
Is the tragedian suddenly takes a cor
the shabby man Jumps ou behind.
Wherever McCullough goes when out
alone this man or some other follows
The actor's friends are not going to have
a repetition of the Delmonioo business in
this caso.
Testaments and Bibles from 5 cts. to $1400 each.
.Ubuiris • • • from 25 cts. to 10.00 each.
Papetries r - - from 15 cts. to 5.00 each.
Toys .... from 1 ct. to 6 00 each.
WRITING PAPER AND ENVELOPES A SPECIALTY !
Large Stock of Blank Books, Ink and Pens—Best Quality.
Best Grades of Tobacco and Cigars.
Goods to suit all tastes and purses from Candy and Chewing
Gum to Quarto Dictionaries and Bibles.
PLEASE CALL AND FXAMINE PRICES !
[PlPSpecial orders receive prompt attention.
AGNES AYCOCK
R. T. EYED,
INSURANCE AGENT,
Forsyth, Street,
OFFICE IN COMMERCIAL HOTEL BLOCK,
... Amerious, Ga
AGENT FOR THE LEADING
IN THE COUNTRY, GIVING YOU THE BEST INSURANCE AT
THE LOWEST RATES.
Portraits to Dato.
[New York Cer. Pioneer Press.]
The artist laid that he waa engaged in
adding a year to the visage of a woman in
the picture gallery of a rich New York
family—that of a gentleman who made n
fortune in the manufacturing of wex ‘
goods and retired from active business
long ago.
___ lost hie wife about tho
time that he was ready to settle down to
leisure, ” said the artist “Ho had been
devotedly attached to her, and an admirer
of her beauty. Not long before this a
of her beauty. Not long before this a
portrait in oil had been painted of her.
It ehowed her at a handsome lady of 40,
lonablc at tho period. After it bed hung
five yean on the widower's wall, he con
cluded that he did not wish to be re
minded constantly of what the had been
so much ns to feel that the picture was a
real presence; and in the latter view, he
conceived tho romantic idea of haring it
brought up to date in the matter of dress:
Undorhto direction, an artist carefully
added fivoyeaia to the face, and changed
the clothee'tp thoso which had beebme
fashionable, Youemlleatf "
the oddity of
the thing, bat I assure you that it was
done lovingly and reverently. The be-
liband * '*“■ ‘ “
reared husband felt that the portrait oujht
to stand for that com[
death bad taken away from him. By
keeping it like what the wife would have
been, if the had lived, it waa a solace to
him. The Job has been repeated twlco.
This is tho first time I hare done It, and
In n week I shall have dressed tho lady
in the stylo of 1884, while the face
will be a matron's of 80."
. ,, — hie flock and hit
*®ed happy in possession of him.
, '' “*0 the time for our departure came
uete was handshaking and handshaking
•aa a gracious blessing from the old man
•ad a message lo Father Dc Fouri, end
we climbed down from tho city in the
Ur and rode bock in silence to the rail-
moo.
A New Antiseptic.
Interesting experiments have been made
«the Paris hospitals under the direction
JfBr. Baumctznnd other high authori
ses, with sulphide of carbon as an antimi-
Bobe antiseptic and revulsive. This cheap
mintance has been found one of the most
efficacious agents in restoring the normal
■ction of the bowels, and. may be used on
* Urge scale; Gkiandi Bey, the engineer,
■as demonstrated that not only may it bo
jjuuod without danger, but that dissolved
at water it may be taken aa n draught and-
eeacer great service In cholera attacks
It has a'so been employed as a compress
an hysterical patients insensible, to manual
treatment and even to pricking with nee-
' 1J es, and in thirty seconds consciousness
“•been restored. Gkiandi Bey has for
•"*aty years been studvinc the action of
f-uphide of carbon Ap epidemics, particu
larly la those wher^he patient alongwilb
“meiousneas lose the power of resist-
.Tl*m is not o'etoam fire-engine in the
wheie of Italy. Little engines with hand
Pnmps are still used.
Jjmcnltiration of licorice is profitably
Sacraments
The Man With the Quilt Toothpick.
[Arkaniaw Traveler.)
As civilisation advances, the man who
ics the quill toothpick, gradually retires.
Of course the statutes do not furnish a law
lo Justify the severe punishment of tho.
man who picks hit teeth with a quill, but
this is the result of oversight rather than
leniency on the part of ourlcgislators; for
no manprorldod with a full complement
of nerves, an contemplate tho goooe-quill
barbarian without feeling a strong desire
to do him bodily injury. ,
This man, when he has finished the
atrocious work of gouging hit teeth, keeps
the quill in his mouth and talks through
the quill in ms mourn ana rants mrougn
it. lie makes some sage-like remark and
then sucks the quill u though
hr would draw hack his words
II he should be standing, and
you should be occupying a similar purt-
tlon, be will approach, poke hla fan
under tho brim of your tut and whistle
hie words In your face. He may be a
man of high standing; he may bo the
monolith of a church or the solid column
of a tcmplo of Justice, bat with all, be Is
human body whoso every molecule
tremble* when he comes around with his
diabolical quill. Han of bestial Instincts,
let him be hanged.
[Chicago Herald.]
A novel experiment of carrying a rail
road through a forest has been tried in
Sonoma county, California. Tbo trees
ere sawed off and leveled and the ties are
fastened on the etumpe, two of which are
huge redwood* standing side by side and
reaching seventy-fire feet from the ground,
bo finals this support that heavily loaded
cars paa over with (ex' ' “~
Jaduigei in throughout
taaoty, CalifoniT^S
.iru'f.
Sydney Smith: Lv
AXiBO AG-ENTiPOIl TECH
GULLET and LUMME3 COTTON GINS
TMs SoatlCUna Ustde I
CALL AND SEE ME, WHEN IN WANT OF INSURANCE OR GINS.
scptl8m3 Jfc-*.. ’X'> BYRD,
L.B.B0SW0RTH
FORSYTH ST., AMERICUS, GA.
Has Jnat received the following new goods for the Holidays, to which he invite*
special attention.
Dried Fruits, Citrons, Prunes,
Currants, Raisins and Figs,
MALAGA GRAPES AND MINCE MEATS
FRESH APPLES. ORANGES, APPLE BUTTER FRESH AND GOOD, MAPLE
SYRUP, BUNKER HILL PICKLES AND GHERKINS.
CHRISTMAS / CANDIES!
CHOICE, FRESn, MIXED CANDIES, TOY CANDIES, ETC.
Canned
I have the finest line of Canned Goode eves brought to tmerions, all (of which are
full weight and first-claaa goods, embracing
BARTLETT PEARS, PINE APPLES.
STRAWBERRIES, BLACKBERRIES,
PEACHES, TOMATOES,
GREEN CORN, STRING BEANS,
CODFISH BALLS, FULTON MARKET BEEF.
PRESERVES AND JELLIES OF ALL KINDS,
PICKLES-BUNKER HILL, GHERKINS, CHOW-CHOW, MIXED.
BUCKWEAT FLOUR AND OAT MEAL,
CODFISH AND YANKEE BEANS. CANNED MACKEREL,
CANNED SALMON. BEEF AND HAMS, DRIED BEEF,
CREAM CHEESE, FINE GOSHEN BUTTER,
lAKV ETERYTIIISO ELBE IK,TBE^ZKE Of
FANCY AN1) STAPLE GROCERIES.
ALSO KEEPS TEE PIKES T BRAD DM OP
UQUORS AND OIOARS.
BudwaiMr Seer on Xoe, Sto.
X*. B. BOSWOBTS.
American, Ga,, December 3,1884; ml
Wlieatley’s Corner
Ho! every one in need of Clothing,
“COME AGAIN” to Wheatley’s Comer and buy
1!'« splendid raccM» which alienacd|our>fforU;in Introducing the sale of
FLNTD CLOTHING
, has inducougus Ij bring out for the Spring trade the largest, handaomeet and
moat complete line of
Perfect Fitting Clothing
EVEIt SHOWN IN AMERICUS!
Thsas poods liivo boon selected with peat ears and possess! an elegance 0» design, beauty of Haleb
sad durability of texture, that tour indeed can equal, and none surpass. In uvsry Instance wn
GUARANTEE PERFECT FIT OR NO SALE
We havetalao a large and well selected Block of perfect fitting
Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Neok and Underwear!
And everything in the way of Gent'e Furnishing Goope. Felite and ntteatlvaJSnletmeD will take
|p!eaenre la displaying these beantlftil good# whether yot» wieh to boy
ri
THORNTQN WHEATLEY,
Wheatley’s Corner,
Americus, Ga
GYLES,
SANTA CLAUSE
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
And now boya sines we have gathered
onr crops and bung up our meal, lot us
all go right to GYLES THE CLOTHIER
AND HATTER at Americus, O-i., and
rat ua each a nice auit of clo'h- ., Spirts,
Drawers, Under-Shirt*, Handkerchiefs,
Mocks, Gloves, Neck-wear, Kn»pender»,
an Umbrella anil real Leather Valise.
Something teefnl, *• well as ornamental.
None of your "gew-gawa”
' ' 'isle,
D for na.
want •nlntantials, and (iylea hoi the
good* anil the place to get } onr moncy'a
worth. Ho won't sell you a uboddy arti
cle. No he won't.
Tbw big onitom be be* ju»t freeze* to
him becacsa they know be won’t misrep
resent, never mind under what circam-
•tancev. 80 now gather tp the boja and
fall into the proeeeeioD, end the orchestra
will strike np to the tone of ••Yankee-
Doodle.”
Wa all of na have eome to town
- * come these many miles, *
And eome these many niUee,
To buy our clothes of first alas* style.
From clothier, Frank A. Gyle*.
Then whoop up, boya, dont mind tha
merchants make,
beat them all—
SSSKS SiSX 1
CHRISTMAS
IB COMING, AND
SMTA CLAUS
ff.E. CLARK,
On Lamar Street.
VVIIKKE CAS BE) FOUND A BEAUTIfOL
CANDIES,
FRUITS,
NUTS,
CANNED GOODS,
RAISINS,
CAKES,
PIES,
ForUmlUtlaooeaat very low rrieea.
arOidere for Cakes And ether Bakiag
attended to promptly,
Jas. Flicker & Bro.
AND DEALERS IN
PIANOS
ORGANS,
Barlow Block, - - - - Americus, Ga.
We detir* to call the attention of the puhliu to tha fact that wa hav* at last got
settled in our now etore on tb* PUBLIC SQUARE and have on hand a Urge and
handsome stock of every thing In our line. Our stock consists partly of
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, of All Kinds!
SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
»B»T?il«Nrc.
We are Headquarters fur
Spectacles and Eye-Glasses!
Can enit any and every one in Gold, Silver, Steel, Bronze, Zylonlta; OeUulold or
Robber Frames. We ere Bole Agents for KING'S CELEBRATED PATENT OOM*
BINATION SPECTACLES—the beet in the world. We sell the
Davis and Williams Singer Sewing Machines!
and have constantly on band Needles. Oita, Attachment* and Parts lot all Machine*.
We have the beet equipped sbop.for the
Repair of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
in this section of Ine State. Wa employ non* bnt first-etaa* workman and goanuta*
all onr work. a *
PIANO AND ORGAN DEPARTMENT.
For yonreelvea we do not ask your patronage. Thaftct that wa bava sold Ptanoa ana
Organs to dozen* of tb* beet buulneaa men in American shows plainly that we eell as
low u any one, end when yon buy from ne yon have no freight to pay and save .the
trouble of unboxing tb. Instrument, ee we ptaee it in yonv house and rive you a
FIVE YEAR'S guarantee. Wa etao have on h*cd a large etoek of email Marten! In
struments, consisting of Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Tambourines, Aocoideon* end
HarmonieuTandstao keep String* of the very beat finality. Violin bows, Tail pieces,
Bridgaa, Boein and all kind of Musical Instrument Trimmings.
The’Office of the Southern Express Company
to in oar store and their Agent, Mr. 8. a COOPER to inonr employ at Book-keeptt
and gatafan and will be glad to servo all who are needing anything in oar line.
CALL AND SEE US IN OUR NEW STORE!
JAS. FRICKER A BRO
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