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ome About Fur, . [Cincinnati Enquirer.] noe of the most important fur-bearing JJSls that wo hava is the common cat; Spito 1 aw .the pore white, am. , „„ ..jltese sell well, while the .Sow and parti-colored cat skins are Srad and sold under a variety of fanoy “Lee There is every thing in a name; foTciample, over 850,000 sknhk skins go off'as Alaska, sable, Chinese jKfc Sr something of tho kind. Ohio mi New York provide the most of them ■ sin the captain of tho lion and brave men are required. The fur, , is beautiful, long and glossy, to meant; the'cheapest of furs. ' iukr»t,ioVe; tf, (Kip,000 and some- 5,000,000 of which are taken every 1 uch used in the manufacture fh'e'Kew YcvV muskrat are oTB W9ttf3fffl5iSSB^e and idritj produce aufu.'mal. worth twico riach. this' innoesflt creature is often iitiliied,'hy;Mdtifs!“ak' acAl,'. and, rben J d)odiSopa3eaapm the public. tChotp gradeaolr furs are-.made from ‘ the Siberian squirrel, Inuakrats, rabbits, wildcats, bidgBr"'*nd ’coon. Of lion .skins 500 are BSMfWBCd by-tho trade § /(^bhhffalvloS.OOO ohinohil- lu and 0,000,000-" squIrMl* 1 havo been tied yearly htyarious branches of .trade. Beavers to the number of 20,000 are vsarly sacrificed,-and it is. Safe to say million foxeS ftro' Caught yearly, and it mould seem that they will follow tbs game fate ;ix pn ' 1 A Patent Spoiuor, thulisnapolis Journal.] Anew cash and ticket indicator is attracting some attention with railroad men. The device has for its object the prevention of a diversion of cabh receipts bain 'their proper destination; being intended to prevent, conductors from fobbing moneys collected on the trains, vials keeping and selling, unCAnceled tickets, the appllanoe at the same time famishing the company with a full.and' complete record of all passengers carried ontbe trains; Whether they ply cash, present tickets, or hand in trippassos. It constats of a box with a glass front/ ijfle of thoso boxes Doing placed on a panel between the windows under tho raok, for each double slat. In this box tho conductor places the tioket, which (alls into .one of the two upper compartments, and remains in sight in that compartment until the lid is again lower .compartURlfiVsttU remaining in sight, but inaccessible by any but the proper agent at the plaoo or station ap pointed. ‘ As each now passenger takes a seat he drops into the lower compartment tho tioket of his predecessor in that scat. A passenger can tell from the “indicator” whether or not a seat fs really occupied; ahd if if is being “hogged” (or occupied hv tnmn mvt.hfnal “fpimvl’’ nf tlin nna by some mythical “friend” of tho eenger in tho next scat) ho can readily disprove tho occupancy. At tho same time, a passenger who leaves his seat at s station, before his journey's end, has hii right seat reserved to him, but he cannot reserve two seats at onoo in the train. - ■ ■ ■etatew laeki or tho Veliow-stona [Exchange.] From! a natural platform at the very fcdgeof tho lower falls, tho sight-seer can look 400 feet upward to the top of the heavily wooded banks, and down to tho foot of the, (alls, 809 (cot. It is not over forty feet from this natural plat form to tho 'othor side of tho river, and the, volume of water compressed into this narrew space is enormous; but as soon as lt passes it is transformed into •nowy fleeoy. foam, and from below rises a thick mirt as the water is hurled upon tho roeks that break its fall. -Gruid as aredbeYaUe themselves, tho Grand Canyon really gives to the scene its unrivaled Charm. One may see tur; IM», totfcrSi'pillars and.cones, and hun- drods ofptherTautastio' siiapcs, accord- tog m the thins of fancy are loosed. The colon of the rock includo every tint of the rainbow. Below this Is a statum of htowa rock, gradually shading into rod. Ikon como orange, or yellow, violet and white limestone. Yonder Is a bright rod tower, and besides it is a pillar of black fllnt stono, Below is a white cono, above a purple are. . *h« nind*R»dlnc “Fin Trick." [Labouchoro In l.ondon Troth,] Take, for lnstanee, the triok of finding y. * Pto, the whereabouts of which is known to tho subject. Tho triok is gen- tnllf performed In a room full of people, •no olio know where tho pin is eon- Collusion, therefore, Is possible, lali, however, is not necessary, for if the performer be adroit he knows whore to fp> owing to the unconscious indications not far below the leveisTof'th’e river I have before mo a city here where the wells are built above the ground. I have come upon a city here of nearly a quar ter of a million of people, where the earth. i<^(pre#q>:the«'^ . , - 1 ® buufc on* the top of the ground In the heart of this mighty and antique city outnumber the living. But notwithstanding all that this city ^ Beal^ful eod delicious city. The have not yet tried the graves. New (gleans, on first sight, reminds , 4 of o smudged face. Add 1 ti8 to be admitted that she is a pretty'oH'. pretty girl, too. And the knows a tremendous lot, I can tell yon, BntYoralltMiphe is a girl that you can t ) 9P)p ; falling In love with at urst sight, to.SAyq yonr life, , i By the ,haulm, of the. mighty river— It has amputh; and can speak for itself, I hear you say. My friend, take off your hat, and bo serious in his presence. Millions of thoughtful men of Europe would gratefully bare and bow their — Thcpq waters como down v-Tj-v^.^-Atoany north with their story of nearly thirty states. Thoy have nourished and ministered to needs of a hundred,millions of peoplo. Their work is done for this year. They are on their way to thq spas to rest. Thoy arc en titled to respect: I havo basked on tho banks of the Amazon, gone nil the way to the Ganges to SCO the worshipers of water, made my home on the banks of tho Nile, but nowhere have I found a river at all like this Jj have-come upon here. It is up and doing and entirely alive. It Is an American river in its fullest sense. An independent river is this, too; running on its own account, turning asido for nolther Kepublican nor Domocrat. May bo it is running tho Independent ticket. May be it is for St. John, tho cold-water man. And how few Americans have seen this mighty river, or either souroo on mouth? I know plenty of pretty eastern ladies who are willing to be counted well-trav- cled. Not ono of them in ten ever saw this greatest natural wonder of the world, It is hard to escape tho intenso' fasci nation of this vast, surging, ■ sweeping rivor before rao hero; hard to ccaso say- New Goods! tad tho Utter will never find tho pin. f oikiil Mr. Stlinrt Cumberland whether weonU fipd a pin under those condl- no pretense to do more than closely fob mw indications,' bo replied that he coaid »ot- . Appreciation. (American Homo.] Pleaso do not carry snob an air of Persecution. Yon look more and more disagreeable for it, and you are Uboring hhderagreat mistake all the while, and that is nU yon ought to expect. Tost part of the world which you turner- wand will understand you, and what ought yon to care for the rest ofltt If you carry a clean face into sunshine, that face will reflect sunshine, or vice versa. A Touch of Nature. hrated her third birthday recently, and f*d. 10 Hood a time that she wiahed the Wwversary would go right on. When i “ e *»ke up njxt morning and found J world moving along in the regular, j-faahioned way, she felt as all hare t Oil timilAF nppmtnni Utd criid Out. ^on similar occasions, and crfadout, fOk, mum, wb«t I* BT WltMWT ig things of this tremendous stream, tills artery, tho lifo-blood of our broad republic. And, oh, how the poets of old—tho poets when poets were upon earth—would havo loved, this river! There is not a poom in tho world worth reading that has not rivers running all through it, from the Meander and the other littlo rivulets, around Troy, on down to tho story of tho unhappy Aoa- dians, whose flpal place of rest I can almost SCO from my hodsotop. All such places in tho Bible are mado greon with running rivers. Paradiso, that it might bo of matchless elegance and eternnl verdure, gathered tho three great rivors in one. Tho wondrous river here, like. ail lugs that are great and full of power and of splendor, is very still, vory doeilo seemingly, as if it might bo oasify mau led, or driven anywhere. But oontemplato its vast volumo os it sweeps past? Its dopth 100! 2001 800 feet! That is tho Jlississppi river. And yet, you American mud-heads, you railroad- makers, you hardly know wo havo a river in tho country. Shame on you! But, sirs, you may neod it, need all of it, ovory drop of itto—water your stock. A Tborongli Education. (it Quad’s totter.] Do not sigh for “a thorough educa tion,” unless you havo a target boyond it, There are plenty of thoroughly edu cated mon who are a heavy burden on their friends. Without having dotur- mined on a profession (hoy rushed off to college, graduated with tho highest honors and, walked out: Into tho world again to find themsolvoa worse off than bcfoip. j, i. . • l Book-keepers are paid for being nc- curato, honest and reliablo. Tho mer- chant nevor asks to soo any specimens of thoir Greek translations or essays on physiology. Cashiers may havo spent wenty years at college without receiving a dollar more salary than a man who ;ot his schooling in a villago. If the doctor is thoronghly educated in medi cine, and tho lawyer in law, and the clergyman in theology, wo demand no more. I have hoard it said of a man that ho was a scholar and I havo seen that same man glad of an opportunity to take the position of a traveler for a wholesale house. Ho had beeu educated without any aim boyond it. Bomsaci of Bascule and Napoleon. [Pittsburg Dispatch.] It was at a ball given by President Napoleon at tho Elyseo, some nights be fore the coup d'otnt, that Mile. Eugenie mot her future husband. A romance is counected with the meeting. Wishing to avoid tho crowded onii-rooms, Louis Napoleon, with tho duko of La Mos- kowa, went into the Elysce gardens, where be suddenly came upon a radiant, blushing girl. Sho was tying up her hair alone, opposite a glass in the con servatory. Her hair had come down luring a waltz, and the crowd was too great to admit of her reaching _ tho Indies' dressing room. Sho had glided to this place, hoping to bo unoheervod. This littlo oireumstanco of tho fall of her bock hair led to her subsequent ole- t TO FILL MY NEW STORE I HAVE ORDERED A LARGE STOCK OP J, or.aaiAWJAVA J , Testaments and Bibles from 5 cts.'to $1400 each. Albums - - from. 25 eta. to 10.00 each, l’apetries - - * £roml5ct*.to Sj.Opeacfr., r Toy* - - from 1 ct. to G 00 each. WETTING PAPER AND ENVELOPES A SPECIALTY Large Stock of Blank Books. Ink and Pens~Best Quality. Best Grades of Tobacco and Cigars, ; Goods t0 i suit all/tastes and pulses from .Cahdyiind Chewing Gum to Quarto Dictionaries and Bibles; f ': PLEASE GALL'AND FXAMINE PRICES f j Special orders receive prompt attention. .Vt? Mvstr AGNES AYCOCK ^ ;r >Y tt l' - f * 1 " A .IIt ol OlU .Ah 4 mils* - . 1 a i-’fl oi ill I A :i-i f.f:- - .K'J ! ;0 lLq J | Ifpgr ooxo ■ • CALVIN CARTER & SON We* SOOTS.ASTS SSOBB, Public Square, . . : Americus, Ga. i dEST GOODS FOR LEAST MOSEY! ' l> I •. 1 ,. ! ’ll'; .Ji . 1 " 1 | New'Storo " NewQ«id8. 1* n4t Ifhiok nvotn-kAdw hnf rllQT UtlCK HUT JCU W UUf BU^UCm L.W The wSd^f Ukofo^M ia^aT v * tlonto ^ hhat you aro worth as* t Wws anybody^ Jn,od bT woman " ever oconplod by woman. The Melon Mirub. lExchanga] *m * A plant called the melon shrub lias been introduced into California from Guatemala. It grows to tho hylght of three feet, beats a beautiful purple and white flower, is an evergreen,, nnd pro duces a melon about four inches long by two or three in diameter, of excellent Col. HigginsoKTUtSe*daughter oda- *“*"• - . . . —* Antique Tea-Kettle*. [Chicago Tribune.] Sir Samuel B»J(er fa an enthusiast_ou artistic and antique Japanoso loa-kettlos, and has a fine collection of about forty ipeetmcBS. He follow t a long way after CHRISTMAS 18 COMING, AND HAS MADE 1118 HKAPOUAUTERH AT THE CONFECTIONERY STOKE OP W. E. CLARK, ; • HT N3PVOH I ? Or Lamar Street. 0 WI1KUK CAN DB FOUND A DKAUTIFUf. SELKCTION OF CANDIES, FIIU1TS, NUTS, CANNED GOODS, RAISINS, CAKES, PIES, And ercirthinjj ntcw«inr to'innlo holLlny week a Jmppy on**. A FULL LINK t/r T-O-Y-S For the little one* at very Low Price#. £35TOrders for Cnkes and other Baking attended to promptly, noriir-ul .j# •fS .mfA , — — popele^'VftMkiV IR-- ‘ityef r,f nil ctlitr papers of MENTS.ly MRS. FRED LEWIS. Americua, Ga., Ang.’.2i, 1684, tf The exercises of this school will be re sumed on Monday, the Gth of January. Tebms, Bates, Etc.: Primary Department per month,.. ..82.00 Intermediate, per month 3.00 Flrst-Clua, per month 4.00 Tuition dne at tbe end of each Scho lastic month. Patronage earnestly solicited. Good, bonuL tree and aqaare work guaranteed. For farther particulars call on W. H. ALLEN, PrincipaL declOdlm HH Anderson ville School Will Open Spring Term January 12th, 1884. Tuition *15.00. *20,00 oud *35,00 par annum—less public fund about *3.00 par pupil. Board sod tuition ten dollars per (four weeks) month, paid monthly in ad vance. Katie *100 per month. Tor further InformUton.^y to^^ . AsdtnoDTiUfp Oit Isslf-waacdtf We invite everybody nTirt the pTtijiBe gen** erally to call at our shop and exnmine.our immense stock of First-Glass Finished, Single and Double Seat BuGGiEs iihd Gne Horse Wagons, of all sttles an^ sizes. j^i i^Hiliich are of our own manufucture, and will be sold as cheap as it is possible tb sell |ue|ibw^H in any mnrke^ Ili re^efeiiCe.to our Sln®and Doiible Seat Dexter I eriV, present time vnoto.ciwu l |W .vjiIi [■say we aaboto iuM lice them in this coun- were the first to in try, and. have from>< ihe beginning up"to‘ihe improved themiy and thorn perfect. We we believe we now seep on hand all 25 of these Buggies,’ each buggy, and can sell you a Buggy and Harness as cheap as anybody. All we ask is , t § ' ..tlhhiU togiv© us a trinl ,L»i . . J j«i i hnai »< I • A word now to those who have old-bug gies and wagons and desire to have them! re- : -still vniy*ol } "I*MIL... flHWi tfiaiq I«*qqid<s laired or made new: We will give you more work, and a better job, for less money than any other shop in Americus. Try us and be - • i »lti It-iJ'j Jnetbuimil ,l (aval. convinced. ,-.*i Americus Ga., July 25j 188l4. UA1 mi .BTAH 1 ici rtUaJanir t wUr.l'.f* AkriieEttieszrs comer. /U f'-"'- llOlT.Hl Ho! event one in iieed of Clothing, , ,, na , ., „, “COME AGAIN” tip heatley’s Comer and bu) t »i, J(I,J Llmi.v VliRifirnW .ii ’ '.tli: •*if I* > vufftift J| • splendid iuccfififi which at|#iKl»dJaui>ffori«yn lntroduclo|; Rjp, Ml* pf, ; , BINE CLOTHING 19 bring oat hr tke Spring Irnd* tho Urgent, hnndnomMt and.* teMc«ufale|ln*|>r , w ..h b«. t ,ii.T Fitting Clothing , hu indnc«0|u« 19 bring oat hr tko Spring tndt tho Urgeat, bindsomait and.* oo«cmuMe|liWFf A«a^,ii.T •«M Perfect . EVERSHOwiflN The#n good# Jmr« been reltcted w}th grtn«Ar« an£ po«Hpa] an *tognnc# of dailgm baat^of «abk and durability of texture, that few indeed can equal, and pona anrpaM. la «rery fauUqcawa, GUARANTEE PERFECT FIT OR NO SALE Wa hara|aIao a large and wall Mlaoted itoek of perfect fitting Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Neek and Underwear 1 And everything In the way of Gent’e Fnrnlehlng Ooope. Pellta and adeatIve|BaIeeinen will take I (plauure la dleplayin«tbeee hemtIAU geode whether yem wish to bay or hot. THORNTON Wheatley’s Corner, WHEATLEY; : : Americus, Ga INSURANCE AGENT; * j • r ~ _ ;,.:l i-.v 1/ OFFICE IN COMMERCIAL HOTEL BLOCK, Foraytli Stroot, > - - • Amorlous, Q» AGENT FOR THE LEADING Fire ^ Idbteinaiill | IN THE COUNTRY. GIVINOTOUTHE BkST INSURANCE AT THE LOWEST KATES. ATiBO AOMOTiyOR TM , .. aJ Gullet and lumm® cotton gins, That JBaatKHaam XMta I CALL AND SEE ME, WHEN IN WANT OT INSURANCE OR GINS. •fiptWme R. QPa