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T HAT's'so.JohKw y ROACH For sale by FLEETWOOD A RUSSELL, sole agents, Amerlcus, Ga, 4-29-dswlm LEAVING SICK BEHIND. Stanley’s Column Ar» Obllj«il to Desert Their Dying Comrades. i Early next morning Stanley start<*1 off with his company, promising to clear a path well ju* he eouhl in order to en able us to carry the boat sections through the thick undergrowth. Stairs, Pafkfc and I then made a careful examination of the men and loads, and found that we j should be obliged to leave fifty-six men j and eighty-one loads behind. Many of i the men were bo cowed and hopeless that | they wished only to bo left to die peace- | fully where they were. But any man who wan at all able to •rawl along we passed ns fit to travel, and those fifty-six men we left were near ly all in the last stage of starvation and /ickness. At any rate, we thought that their chances of getting food would lie I letter if t!: *y came with us. and nothing could be gained by remaining where they were. We had great difficulty in getting the men off with tho loads, and it was past midday liofore tho last of tho caravan filed out of what is now known as Nel son's starvation camp. I find the fol lowing words in my journal that morn ing: “It is a truly terrible position for Nel son to l»o left in; he has food only for three days, and will have to exist on what he can pick up in tho shape of fungi or roots. Stairs has left him a fish hook and line, and it is possible he may get a few' small fish, lmt the river is so rapid and full of bowlders that ho has hut a slight chance of catching any thing. Meantime we are going on with an exhausted and starving column to try and find food in a trackless wilderness. Nelson is now so crippled from ulcers that he cannot creep far from camp, and will have to depend entirely upon what his two boys can manage to bring him. We got off about two o’clock, and Badly said goodby to poor old Nelson, for his position is very precarious and our chances of relieving him small; he has worked with us in good fellowship all these months, and now we are prac« tically abandoning him.”—A. J. Moan teney Jephson in Scribner’s. W. L. DOUGLAS Mid other .pedal- *p3 SHOE ffi&ssssa wxMmnsssssfrdsn* THORNTON WHEATLEY. Amerlous, - - Georgia m BY THE CAR LOAD LOTS. Tbs best Shingle* ,inade at the lowest priees ever known before. Address 8. X. Jours, Amerlcus, Oa* D. O. Jomks, Leslie Ga. ttllmayao UHING-LES • -AND— LUMBER ared to furnish them on short notice. ■ y arantee t. Will deliver at Psrkert Station, ten miles from Amerlcus, SUFFERERS :0F: Youthful Errors Lost Machos!, Early Decay, etc., etc., can at cure a home treatise free l,y uiUlreeslug a fellow sufferer, C. \V. Leek, P. O. Box 316, Rosuoke, Virginia. Old anil Voiine Greut Men, Great as havo been soino men who died young, who knows how much greater they would have been had their lives been prolonged. Might not Marlowo have rivaled Shakespeare? Yet possibly Byren had already given ns his best, and Shelley and Keats might not have surpassed their early efforts. Had the author of "Fcstus" died at there would have been lamentation ns over Keats, but Bailey has lived half a century longer without producing a sec ond poem. Tasso, though ho lived twen ty years after "Jerusalem Deliverer!,' never equaled that epic, written at 31. Still there are men whose longevity has certainly stood for much. Michael Angelo showed astonishing precocity, but he owes to his eighty-nine years his great renown as painter, sculptor and sonneteer. Voltaire’s fame, again, rests on tho entirety of his writings, not on any single work, nnd the literary dicta torship with which ago invested him. Cut off twcuty years of his life, and Ids fnme would perceptibly Bhrink. Goethe, Emerson, Carlyle, Longfellow, Tenny son, lingo, Dnmas—all had the advan tage of fullness of years, so as to be judged by bulk ns well as quality. Hum boldt, too, owed to his ninety years n portion of bis reputation. The true comparison would obviously be .between works produced nt the same age, or tietween men dying at nbont the same age, hut it is rnnch easier to teat achievement than capacity. Perhaps the best books (in posse) bave never been written, and we often feel that tho men were greater than their works. Who knows, moreover, what geniuso* have died in childhood?—Atlantic Monthly. Old Butter. It is a matter of wonderment to many wliat becomes of the tons upon tons of daily butter piled up year after year in the wholesale grocery stores and com mission houses of our cities, and which the average American would not allow on his table. “The poorer the butter the farther it goes,” said a large butter dealer of tills city, as he packed rolls and prints of various colors and sizes in a sugar barrel lined with batter cloths. ‘'That expresses it in more ways than one. Good batter always finds a ready market here at home; it never goes beg ging for buyers at any time of the year, bnt packing grade goes to the end of the earth. The contents of this barrel will go to South America.” Not just as it is?" No; it will undergo manipulation. The firm to whom this is to be shipped melt down this grade of butter and (lack it hi glass jars. By the time it reaches a South American port it is of nbont the some consistency us olive oil. The South Americans use it on their bread as we ose butter. A large proportion of pack ing stock shipped from the northwest goes ultimately to European countries.” —North West Trade. Knights op honor i In Americas Is ever ten years a tor «£<». Awessmeuta light cheapest life Insurance. For The Lodge In Al Itmurca for ‘ Safest nforniatlon appi Booker rot n B. M. WOOLLKY,! Maine No Longer the Pine Tree state. One of the pioneer lumbermen on the Penobscot was Mr. John Trickey, otill living in Bangor, at the age of 85 years. He went there on foot with a pack on his back and only $1.50 in his [sicket in 1829. Today he is one of Bangor's wealthy citizens. “Times have changed,” as they say, since Mr. Trickey began his operations. Maine was really the “Pine Tree State” then. In eight years Mr. Trickey cut 33,000,000 feet of pine on land that now constitutes the towns of Carmel, Keudoskcag and Levant, where hardly a pine is to he seen. At that time there were no roads, and all the provisions were taken np the river in boats, special crews beirig employed for that purpose.—Lewiston journal. K«M an Airing. Old Johnsing—When Iwor a young fellow like jxf, Sam, I woro't so fond oh ventilatin’ my opinions as yo’ are, zaht Young Yallcrby—Hrihl I don't won* dob yon ventilates’em now. Dhey am mnsty enough, “ “Odd Toro.’* OM Tom Weit hail a habit of doing queer and unexpected things, and t lifts came to be known throughout the region in which he lived “Odd Tom.” Some times his oddity appeared in some pecu liarity of dre&i, as when he wore his coat wrong hideout, because, iw ho said, he had “got tired of the looks of the right side.” One day Tom went to his next neighbor, Zebali Green, to hire his horse for the day. “What d'ye want ’ira for?”wasZebah* inquiry. “Oh, jest to g<> down to tho village to do some marketin’.” was tho answer. “P’raps I might go on afterward as fur as Ji»l> Stone’s, ’n’ look at his oxen.” “Wal, I don’t want ye to have ’im,” replied Zebah, referring to the horse, “but ye may, jest ter ’commodate ye, it ye won’t go no fn’ther’n jest to the vil lage—ye know that’s ’most ten mile. “Why, of course not.” said Tom, “not onless you’re willin’.” “Wal. then, take 'ini, but don’t ye. drive him no fu’ther’n the village, or I’ll never let ye have him agin’.”* So Tom harnessed the old horse and started for market. As he passed Ze bah’« house on his way he heard, faintly wafted from his neighbor, who stood in the bam door. “Be sure ye don’t go nc fu’ther’n jest to the village!” To war 1 night Tom was seen, laden with bundles, coming slowly up the road firm tho village—on foot. Out rushed Zebah, open mouthed. What ye done with old Bill?” he cried. “Wal.” answered Tom, with the ut most coolness, “ye seemed 60 all-fired scairt for fear I’d drive him fnrther’n jest to the village that I didn’t d.vre drive him home agin,’n'so I left him there, nnder the store slied.”—Youth's Com panion. C-IrrkM I'lidcr purV«*II!n?>ct*. “Do von «ce that man on the othei side of t lie strei t?” sa|d a friend who is employed in a downtown bank, while we were walking leisurely up Broadway one evening lm t week. I glanc'd at the man to whom my friend referred. “He’s a detective.” he continued, “and he is following ns—or rather i. e. Yon seem surprised, but it is a fad that every bank in this city has one or two and sometimes three private detectives whose sole duty is to keep track of tho doings of employes. It seems to be my turn to be followed now ns this man has been dogging mo since yesterday. The watch will continue for several «lavs longer, and after reporting to the bank he will be assigned to follow some one else. “Not long ago one of our expert book keepers sent word to tho bank that he was ill and could not come to the office, but the same day his resignation was re quested. Tho fact is, he had spent the night before in dissipation, and the bank*; haring been informed of this by its de tective, his dismissal followed. *’Being dogged about like a criminal is not pleasant. But whut can we d<>? When protestations are made against it tho hank officials assure us that we are mistaken, that they do not hire men to watch us. Of course yon can’t expect them to admit it; bnt every bank clerk can tell you that such is the case.”—New York Herald. for Infants and Children. “Castoria Is bo well adapted to children that I recommend Its* superior to any prescription known to me.” H. A. Archer, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. “The use of 'Castoria'Is souniversal and 1U merits so well known that It seems a work of supererogation to endorse It Few are tho intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within ^^caolo. D &ty Late Faster Bloomingdate Reformed Church. Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, giliM Worms, gives sleep, and promotes <U* Withoutinjurious medication. * For several yean I have recommended your 4 Castoria. 4 and shall always continue to do so ss it hMln variably produced beneficial results. 41 Edwin F. Pardee. M. D., “Tho WInthrop,” 129th Street and 7th Are., New York City. Tub Cnrrana Coxmxt, 77 Hmuux Strxzt, Nzw Yon*. Til. Very First Amrrlcaii Hallway, Tho first railroad built in tho United States was three miles In length, extend ing from the granite quarries at Quincy, Mass., to the Ncponsett river. It was commenced in 1830 and finished in 1837. The gauge was five feet Tho rails were pine, a foot thick, covered with bard oak. which was in turn strapped with iron. In January, 1837, a short coal road was completed from the mines to Mandh Chunk, Pa. The rails on this road were also of timber, with flat iron bars. The first locomotive for use on railroad was invented by Richard Previ- teck in 1804, and first tried in Wales. George Stephenson bnilt the first really successful locomotive in 1814, and tested it upon tho Kiliingwood road in the north of England. Tho first loco motive for actual service constructed in America was E. I. Miller's “Best Friend,” built for the Sooth Carolina Railroad company in 1830, Peter Cooper built a little experimental locomotive early in 1830, before the “Beet Friend' was completed.—St. Louis Republic. Thanked Instead of Reprimanding Him Sir Robert Wright, appointed to the scat on the bench of the high conrt of justice left vacant by the death of Baron Hnddleston, on one occasion, while at Oxford, was summoned before the Dean of Balliol for the purpose of being cen sured. Tho dean was exceedingly care ful of his dignity, as well as of his per sonal appearance. Wright looked the dean well np and down while the latter was delivering his lecture, and finally in terrupted him, in the middle of one of bis inoBt telling periods, by remarking confidentially, “I know you will excuse me, sir, but I think you cannot he aware that yonr waistcoat is unbuttoned.' Completely nonplused, the dean was only able to stammer out: “Oh, thank yon, Mr. Wright. So very kind of you, I am sure. Good morning, good morning!”— San Fraucisco Argonaut. Why Fowls Welcome Fair Weather Tho deprivation of light, which affects all animals so much, is particularly de pressing to birds; and this muy he a rea son for their unwillingness to move in tho frost fog. Naturally they are the first to welcome its departure. As the mist lifts from a Scotch hillside the cock begins to crow, and in the Eugiish fields tho rooks caw, the small bints twitter and the cocks crow in the barnyards. These sounds are as certain to proclaim tho lifting of the fog as the “London cries" to begin when the rain stops.— Spectator. In a Cemetery. On one of tho tombstones you see a tiople of hands clasped, and underneath LITTLE MARDHE, The Did Reliable Stationer - 105 FORSYTH STREET, Keeps always on hand a complete assortment of Books and Fine Writing Papers; School Books for every county in Southwest' Georgia. Fine * Pictures, * Framed * and * in * Sheets Large lot of New Moulding just received. Send in your [linnl^Petlt*m.r^^sy'to be Incorporated ° , , , , . , , , , ,, ' for the full term oftwer“ ~ Pictures and have them framed. I lead, others follow. REMEMBER THE PLACE. C. M. WHEATLEY, Prcs’t. CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Vice l'res’L B. H. JOSSEY, Scc’y A Ttcas. C. C. STONE, Supt. The Araericus Construction Company Successors to C. M. Wheatley A Co. Have the largest stock of Dry I umber Both Rough and Dressed, ever held* in the citv, with unequalled capacity for the execution of fioo work. Thoy will furnish the trade with Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mantels, Stairwork, Pnlpits, Pevs, COUNTERS, SHELVING, MOULDINGS, ORNAMENTS. ETC. Prompt attention given all orders. Write for Catalogue and prices Office and Factory, COR. BAY * JACKSON STS. Telephone No. 78. Uptown Office, No. JACKSON ST. Telephone 110. CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Pm. ARCHIE R EL0RI0GE, Gen’l Hang’ The Americus Refrigerating Go. yeum with the privilege of renewal at the ex- . # * pi rat I-*n or that tin-e, and o bave and enjoy Respectfully state that their new Ice Factory will start the j lt * manufacture of Ice in a short time and will be prepared to furnish Pure Crystal Ice in any quantityfrom a pound to a iar load,. Their Refrigerating Chambers will also soon be in readiness for the preservation of all perishable food products and will be perfect in every particular. For further partic ulars either telephone, write or call on THE AMERICUS REFRIGERATING CO., Office & Factory Cor. Jaokson & Bay Sts., on Central R. R. 3m o , J. HENRY FREEMAN, 412 COTTON AVE., Contractor * and * Builder. \ # • • Estimates cheerfully famished. Also dealer in Building Materials, Doors, Sesh, Blinds, Brick, Shingles, Iiilf, Wall Papers, etc.; Leads, Oils and Avcrill Mixed Paints, the best in tho world. Call and see me when you need anything in my line. W. H. R. SCHROEDER, (.Successor to Schroeder A Strickland,) 724 Cotton Avenue. AMERICUS, OA. Manufacturer or Tin, Copper ana Sheet Iron Ware, Galvanized Iron Cornice, Tin and Iron Roofing, Hot Air Heating Etc. Iron Smoke Stacks. Exhaust Piping for Saw Mills a Specialty. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. _ would be pleased to give you estimates on yonr Tin, Iron and Cornice work. 1 guaran tee aU work to be first-class In every particular. Ridging, Creating and Finals furnished on short notice. I also do Heavy Iron Work from 14 to 2T, Booling, Guttering, Spouting, etc B3T-CALL AND GET MY ESTIMATES AND GIVE ME A TRIAL..Xf “Gustave T——, I wait for thee! 1809* T—.iiMB—.ljWilKlI disconsolate widow was in no ,ou vniuuun nil now. uaajr am - The ui^-ouvj.aie wiuow wua 1U no j enough, raahl—Judge. grMUiurry, evidently.—j^tessagero. R. T. BYED, FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. REPRESENTING THE SiFESTAXD STRONGEST COMPANIES INiTHE WORLD. APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. 4EOIIGI A—SUMTEH COUMTT. To the Honorable Superior Conrt of said County: Th- petition of Jfts. T Cot-ney* R. L. 8i$U van, l.uihet C. Belt, C. J. Schneider, PH). C egg.H.C. H»gley,w. K. Murphey nml W. p. Wallis, citizens of city of Amerlcus, Sumter t'ouuty. lie min, and others, respectfully showeth iheir dealtefor the * selves, Heir associate* and su cessors. to he incorporated under U>e corporate name and style of the “Amerlcus Jewelry fo-t-pany.” The pr nclpal office, place or bnslnesa and residence of said company, shall be in Araeri cus hiumter County, Georgia, where a ma jority of board of directors shall reside at ail times; hut petitioners prey for privilege of transacting business anywhere In or outside of the state of Georg's, If the Board of Direc tors should de Ire audit is the iuterestoj said company to do so. The capital stock «>f said company shall be FifteenTh usand (915 000) Doilirs, to be divided Into shares of Ooe Hundred Dollars esch: bn petitioners pray for the privilege of heclnnlog business when loper cent of said capital stock Is paid In and pray for the privilege of Increasing sold capi tal stock from time to time, in ulscretioo of Hoard of Directors, os occasion and business may demand to an amount not to exceed One Hundred Thousand Dollars. Th- object of their assoclat oa is pecuniary ;alu iiml^r - ... elllpg. watches, clocks and Jewelry of sll kinds, silver and plated ware, also musical lustra- brlcabrac, glassware, walking canes, am* brel'as and cutlery and all other articles of merchandise usually kept in Jewelry and musical instrument bouses ami potUloners pray for the privilege of renting or leasing any of the articles as aforesaid, or that may be kept In J*welry or musical Instrument on the Install* ept in J*welry or musical Instrument houses,or sell same for cash or on the Install* n.ent plan, or dispose of same as may be to interest of s»ii company. Petitioners also pray for prl vll» ge to borrow money for cor porate purpo-cH. and secure the fame by mortgage, trust deed or otherwise, upon any or all of its corpora e piopertp; 'o make notes, accounts, to buy hold, Improve,'ell lease ami rent real or personal property for corporate purposes, and dispose of any real or personal property held by 'Old company for cash, or on Installments, to subscribe to orown stock In other companies If directors should think It hr the Interest of said com pany. To appoint all officers, agents for the management of its busine*8.to employ sales men, drummers, workmen, and all other persons for loud tiding said business. Peti tioners pray for 1 he privilege Ui makeand enforce Mich con-tltuilon,by-laws, rules ana regulations for the government of said com- f >uny as may be uecesssry and proper, not- nconslstcnt with the laws of Georgia; also to hxve and use a common seal, to sue and be sued, to plead and be Impleaded, to con* tract and be contracted with, to have such other powers and to do such other acts as cust nmry and proper, to carry out the intent, design and " "* tlon. Petlti-iner* t— m . __ for the full term or twenty (20) years, with privilege of renewal at the expiration of said term according to law And petitioners will everpray^etc.^ ^ PeMtlohers 4 Attorney." Filed In office this 8th day of April, 1801. J. H. All**. Clerk 8. u. H. G. Go. I hereby certify that the above Is a true ^ charters of8u~ Ml. J. H. Allen, Clerk « C. S. C.Gl APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. GEORGIA—8U.VTER County: To the superior Court of Said County: The petition of O. R. Whitley, M. B. Camp- In* l. Janus L. Montgomery. Liston Cooper, J. T. Wortham. R. H. Chiym-, L. B. Ritter and W. H. Cooke, of said county, respect fully show that they have associated tn»m- selves together and desire for themselves, tb**lr associate*, successors and assigns to be Incorporated under the laws of Georgia and made a body politic, with the right of suc cession under tho corporate name of the Amerlcus Ht ain Laundry Company.” Tht object of said corporation la for pecu- niaiy gain and profit for Its shareholders, and the particular busnessto be carried on is that or a general laundry, the washing and Ironing of clothe • or every and all character and description, and such business os la usual ami Incident to a laundry. The capital stock of said corporation shall be five thousand dollar*, divided Into shares ofnne hundred dollars each.wlth the privilege of Increasing same to a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.andesehstock holder to be In Mvually liable to the extent of hU unpaid subscription of said capital st^ck. The place of business and principal ‘ * belnthseLy office of said corporation will Amerlcus, said county Petitioners for thvmse pray that under the corporate said, they mav b« Incorporate body politic for the fu'I term c and associates uame afore- rated an * mace a of twemy (10) The right to sue and be sued, plead and be lmpleaued, to con'roct and be contracted . with, to use a common seal and adopt by- la a, rules a» d regulations binding on Its . stockholders forthe government or its stock- holdeis and officers nor- lncon-lstent with law. To establish branch bouses In any county In this Ht ao or outride or this 8t to. To borrow money for corpora' e purposes ar d srcurithe same by montage or trrvtdeed or otbe wise upon any or all of iti corpora o properly. To have, hold, own, use and enjoy all property, real and personal, as rosy oenso* essarv tor the transection of Its said business, and to bay msehlnory to can y on their sola business, and to appoint all offioers and agents for the manage ent oi lie business, to employ s lesmsn, workmen and all other per»oos necessary to carry on the • aid bust* ness, and to have and enjo all other rights, powers and privileges necessary to carry out the« bjtctsof said corporation conferrred by law upon corporations of like character by the laws of Georgia JAB. DODSON A BON, . — . F«*itloners» Attorneys. Filed In office April 25,1801. J* H. allbv, Clerk. I certify) the above and foreglvlnsto be* —* ‘he^Reoord of Charters, rf. Allen, clerk 8.0. ETITION FOR AMENDMENT TO CHARTER. HT>TE or GEORGIA—SUMTZtt COPXTT. ' To the Honorable superior Court at laid County: Th. petition of W. F. Burt, H. U. Itactey, M. & Board of Directors of the Americas tmes Publishing Co., a corporation that was on the 20th day of February MW, duly chartered under the laws of this state, and under said charter had an authorized capital of common stock to the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to One Hundred Thousand and that Ten Thousand Dollars has actually been paid into said oom ~-»ny. Petitioners show that they desire—<all the stockholders of said Americus Times Publishing Company consenting thereto)-to have sold charter amended so as to authorise said i ration, towit, the Amerlcus Times Pn * Company to Issue, to an extent not t Thousand Dollars except by a threo-fourths vote of the stockholders, and to have the first lien, priority and precedence over all other stock previously Issued by the said Americus Times Publishing Company, and the said Americus Times Publifibingi ompany to guarantee to the holders or such ••Preferred Stock” dividends on / the same at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum ‘ on the liar value of such stock to be paid on the 1st of January of each year out of the eon of sold corporation, and peMttbners will DODSON et SON. PMitlown A Filed in office April 4th, im. . „ J! H. ALLEN. Clerk 0.8. I certify the .bore end foirening to tie 'xttwtfrom the Record! of Chutcn thl« 4th, 1801. J. B. ALLEN, Clark C. Iiuurznce plsced on City and Country Property. Office on Jackson Street, Hit door below Mayor’, Offioo. MHty. TXTHE BEST KNOWNRFMEDY Gleet In 1 tofi Days, without Pain. G 0 PreTcnts Stricture. ConuD* ' ncrlc! or polftonou. .nbetunei*. ln 'i ISKUilrnnterd ebMlutely li»snl—■ preteritkhI b. phy.lclen^ Hw* ay- rlngefra. with Mcb bottle. Price ft Sold hydrozKl.ta. RrauMf,— ttUoJwjAemeQm Sold In Americus by Cook'* K. J. kldridge, Fleetwood A X. Hall and Davenport Drug