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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: WEDNESDAY, MAI 13, 1891.
STRANGE 80UTHERN BIROS.
s Hopkliit DeKtlta., Sam. Deulscns of
the Virgin 1 * Ilacktroml..
••Diilu* JO' never hyar *bout elpen-
strjchersr asked Sam Hopkins the other
Kim is »little colored chap that runs
errands and makes himself generally
nsoful about an uptown hotel. Ho hails
from Charlottesville, Va.. and what Sam
doesn't know about the Virginia woods
isn’t worth knowing. Sam may trifle
with the truth sometimes, but he puts
on such an air of injured innocence when
any of his statements are doubted that
you are almost forced to belieye him.
’ "Never hyard’bout elpenstretchers?"
he again repeated. “Why, they're the
curinsest birds in all Virginny. What
they’s like? Why, bless yo' stars, they
ain't like nothin,’, in.these hyar parts.
Yo' kin only find’em in the swamps back
o' Charl'tsville, in the spring time, too.
••Wliar they is in the summer’ They
ain’t nowhsr. They’s jess frogs an' lit-
ards. Well, when yo’ want far to shoot
elpenstrechers yo’ takes your gun an'
goes out in the swamp at night. Yo'
see they burrows in the ground day
times an’ comes out at night to feed.
"They's bigger’n a quail, an’ most as
big as a ’en. Ain't got no feathers—
only long bristles, like a porky-pine.
They's us black as yo’ hat, too. an’ looks
like n young rooster with his feathers all
pulled out. Good to eat? Yes, siree.
Jlos’ as good as ’possum. Yo' has to be
mighty keerfnl, too, for if a elpen
strecher sticks yo' with one o’ them ar
quills yon's a dead man, sartain sure. In
the summer time they changes into liz
ards an’ frogs. They’s Jess' the bigges’
frogs you ever see, too.
“An’ yo’ never hyard o' soras neither?
Well, sakes alivel Why, me_ an’ my
Cousin Bill killed mos' a tho'nsand of
'em in one night. Soras is jess like black
birds, only smaller.
"All yo’ has to do is to go in the woods
with a pitchwodd light An’a long pole.
I jess went oat one night with a.light
an' pole, an’ Bill h# Mid a big bag. Jess
as fas’ as Td knock ’em off the limb
they’d fall In Bill’s bag. But they’s
common all over Virginny.
“Then they’s the gingas cutus, big-
ger'n a nelepliant, add the vrhangtdoodle
bird that flies aroun' nights and carries
off pigs and cattle. An’ say, mister,
they's got a green bug down there mos'
a foot high, an'
"Hoi’ on, sah! That ain't half they's
got down there.” Then, as I had turned
to leave, after expressing my incredulity,
Sam remarked, with an air of injured
innocence:
“Well, ef it doan' jess beat me. These
hyar Yankees won’b’lieve nothin less
they sees ’em.’’—New York Herald.
A HOLY PLACE IS THE HEARTHSTONE
A holy place la the hearthstone.
Where loved ones arc gathered round.
Where uiothem, sires and aielen dear' .
Ana brothers and friends ore found.
A holy place is the Uenrthetoun,
Home’s innermost shrine is ’.here.
Laden with blessed henleon
And lmllowcd by lovin™ prayer.
A holy place is the beartlrnfmo:
What clustering joy* nMUo
Where the cradle of our infancy
Was rocked by a mother’s bide.
A holy place is the heartlibtouc.
Where childhood’s pattering feet
Go glancing in blrnde and annshino
To tho music of pleasure’s beat.
FINANCIAL.
%
I. H. HAWKINS % H. C- BAGLEY. Vice Pres'l
W.E. VRPhEY. Cashier.
'HGANIZED 1870.
-*0The Ba.tk of Americus.g*-
Designated Depository State of Georgia.
• Stockholders Indfyldually liable.
•il> EG.|OR8:—
H. C. Bagley. Pres. Americas Investment Co.
A holy place is the hearthstone.
Where the youth have wooed and won.
And wed and gone to the battle
Of life with full armor on.
A holy place is the heart list our.
Where manhood has settled down
With blessings blossoming round him.
And love for a priceless crown.
.1 Conductor’s Suavity.
A Pennsylvania railroad conductor on
one of the limited trains between New
York and Washington the other night
entered the first coach, fonnd it crowd
ed, and in one of the front seats upon
tho left was a young man. Ho was well,
even elegantly, dressed. In his hand he
held a French novel. Upon his sranll
and ordinary countenance there sat the
haughty look of reserve of the imitation
gentleman. '
When the conductor entered and called
for the tickets this youthful person af
fected to be so absorbed iu Ills book that
the conductor passed him by, calling
first upon the rest of the passengers,
even going clear through the train be
fore be retained to disturb the haughty
* reader. When the conductor came back
the young perspu still refused to pay any
attention. Tho conductor waited a mo
ment and then called out rathe? sharply
The yonthfal and 'now' thoroughly
contemptuous person, noticing that the
man, whom he called the guard of the
train, hod addressed him with some
bnuqaeness, which he translated into
rudeness, took bis ticket and, without
looking at the conductor; threw it upon
the floor. The graduate 61 the Pennsyl
vania school of manners was fully equal
to this unusual situation. He showed
no temper, no excitement, nor any lack
of repose. With the calm gravity of m
man who is sure of himself he stooped to
the floor, punched the fallen ticket the
requisite number of times with great
gravity, and then qnietly laid it back
upon the floor where it had been dropped
and walked calmly oo amid the roars of
the entire car.—T. C. Crawford in New
A hnly plarcls the heartbi-lour.
Whence the old and young have mine
To r from their weary lahoe
When the battle of life an* done.
And oh, from the holy bml'lliitnuc.
When parted from Ihoeo we love.
May we go to meet by the hearthstone
Of our Fathcr'a house above!
—New York I..vlger.
A Cnrnl.l, Custom.
Of tho more modern and wholly quaint
and innocent customs of Cornwall a few
pleasant illustrations may he citeii. The
fish wives of aucient St. Ives are an in
corrigible lot. Should you visit the town
at the height of pilchard fishing, and en
ter the dark cellars where hundreds of
women and girls are engaged in “bnllt-
ing,” or salting, the fish, scores of grin
ning Amazons will rush at yon. and the
fleetest one will danb yonr shoes gener
ously with the odorons fish oil which
has drained from the piles of curing fish.
This is called “wiping the shoe," and if
yon flo not respond with tribute of at
least a half crown for luck of the "fair
iqaida that feed and clothe tho poor”—
that is, the pilchard Ashes —your snbso-
quent “hustling” by these savory
wenches will certainly cost yon a new
suit of clothing. The same custom, sava
that the daubing is done with “miner'a
clay,” prevails within the mines, where
the stranger is expected to pay some
thing for his initiation into their mys
teries.—Edgar L. Waicemao in New.
York Sun.
The Uarber Wai Ready.
An old veteran told this ns happening
at Savannah during the war:
A yonng officer, who was pretty much
of a holly, stopped in at a tonsoriai sa
loon. Drawing his sword lie ordered
the barber to share him. at the same
time warning him that if lie cat his face
or drew a drop of blood ho would kill
him when he got np. The operation was
performed without accident. Before he
went ont, however, the bally asked the
artist if he was not very much fright
ened while he was doing tho work
The barber smiled.
“Not in the slightest.'
for if I had accidentally drawn » drop
of blood I would have cut your tliront
from ear to ear before yon conlcl have
moved.”—Atlanta Constitution.
York Tribune.
now Playing Marbles Are Made.
Nearly all the common marbles which
drag down the pockets of onr boys are
made in Oberatein, Germany. They are
made from the rpfnse of the agate and
stone quarries in that neighborhood.
The stone is broken into email cubes by
blows of a light hammer.. These small
blocks of stone ire thrown by the shovel
ful into the “hopper” of a small mill,
formed of a bed of stone, having Ussur-
face grooved with conoenbated furrows;
■bove thnns is the “runner,” which is
made of hard wood having a level face
pn its lower surface. This' upper block
is made to revolve rapidly, water being
delivered upon the grooves of the bed
stone where the marbles are being
rounded. It takes about fifteen minutes
to finish a bnahel of good marbles ready
for “snapping.” One mill will torn ont
170,000 marbles per week. The very
hardest “crackers,” as the boys call
ibem, are made by a slower process,
somewhat analogous, however, to the
ether.-New York Teh
Weight of French Money.
A Frenchman, who evidently revels in
handling large sums of money, has com
piled some entertaining statistics with
regard to the weight of a milliard of the
French coin of tho realm. According to
him a milliard in silver weighs 10.000,000
pounds; in gold, 013,160 pounds; in 1,000
franc checks, 2,300 pounds, and in 100
franc checks, 23,000 pounds Assuming
that a carrier conld carry • hundred
weight. 18 men wonld la- required to
carry a milliard in 1.000 franc checks,
110 men for the same snm in 100 franc
checks, 3,223 men In gold and 50,000 In
silver. A milliard in 1,000 franc checks
would make 2,000 volumes of BOO pages
each.—Boston Herald.
n. rrei. amcncus invpsiine
P. C. Clegg, Fret. Ocmulgee Brick Co.
Jot. Dodson, or job. Dodson & Son, Attorney*.
O. W. Glover, Pros’* Americus Grocery Oo.
8. H. Hawkins, Prea’t 8. A. & m. Railroad.
8. Montgomery. Prea’t Peonies National Bank.
J W- Sheffield, of Sheffield#Co., Hardware.
T. Wheatley, wholesale dry goods.
W. E. Murphey, Cashier.
E. P. FARRIS, Pre*. BLOOM BROWN. So©. A Trent. C. P. PAYNE, M’g’r.
Americas Supply Go.,
Successors to HABBIS & PAYNE,
Plumbers and Gas Fitters.
THE BANK OF SUMTER
T. N. HAWKES, O. A. COLEMAN,
President Vice-President
W. C. FURLOW, Cashier.
DIRECTORS- O. A. Coleman, C. C.
Hawkins, JL II. Jossey, T. N. Hawkes,
W. C. Furlow, W. H. Cl. Wheatley, R. S.
Oliver, H. M. Brown, W. M. Hawkes,
I)r. E. T. Mathis, Arthur Rylandcr.
Liberal to its customers, accommoda
ting to the public and prudent in its
management, this bank hollclts depoiita
and other business in its line.
S. MONTGOMERY, Pratt. 1. C. RONEY, Vies Pratt.
WIN '
INO. WINDSOR. C’r. LESTER WINDSOR Ant. C’r.
E. A. HAWKINS, AKontsy
NO. 2830.
Peoples’ National Bank
Of Americas,
Capital, •30,000. Surplus. *23,000
ORGANIZED 1683.
H. C. Baolsv, Pres. W.E. Hawaii's, tee. Air.
Investment Securities.
Paid up Capital, .1,000,000.
(Surplus, .260,000,
DIRECTORS if-
H C Bagley, W E Hawkins, S W Coney,
WSGillls, J W Sheffield, P C Clegg,
W M Hawkes, B F Mathews, O M Byne,
W E Murphey, S Montgomery, J H Pharr.
B. P. Hollis.
Machinery Supplies.
We are now in our new building in Artesian Block,
and ready for business.
A Full Line of Cooking Stones and Ranges.
Gas Fixtures and Sanitary Goods a Snecialty.
Globe, Angle and Check Valves,
Te r ra Cotta and Iron Pipings and Fittings.
Greneral R^T>aii* TV^ork
TELEPHONE No 18.
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NOVELS,
ESTABLISHED 1867.
INCORPORATED 1890,
JAMES FRICKER & BRO.
CAPITAL STOCK* - - - - #100.000.
SURPLUS# Undivided Profit** • #70,401*22.
* Bank of Southwestern Georgia. *
M. SPEKIt, J. W. WHEATLEY*
President. “
I have just returned from New York,
where I purchased a very large stock of
DIAMONDS
WATCHES
at prices that will enable us to sell
lower than ever before. Our stock Is
Immense, assortment complete, prices
lower than any one. Call and see for
yourselves before buying.
C. A. FRICKER,
President
4O9 JACKSON ST., 1UEBICUS, GA
(Barlow Block.)
.sssj Jaul-ti
DIRECTOR? I
lie replied: J. W. Wheatley, E. J. Eldridgo,
C. A. Huntington, H. R. Johnson,
R. J. Perry, J. C. Nicholson,
A. W. Smith, W. H. C. Dudloy,
M. Speer.
Rowr Fare Ornamentation.
At any time from 1. to 23 yean of age
the male Esquimaux have their lower
Upa pierced under each corner of the
month for labrets. When the incision
is first made sharp pointed pieces of
Ivory are put in.
After the wound heals the hole is grad
ually stretched to half an inch in diame
ter. Some of the poorer natives wear
labrets made from cannel coal, ivory,
common gravel and glass stoppers ob
tained from ships, which they shape for
the purpose. All who can obtain tb*m
have agate one*.—Washington Letter.
E. Burk, Jr., Pres. H. M. Knapp, V. P.
O. A. Coleman, See, a Treas,
Negotiates Loans on improved
Farm and City Property.
B F Hollis,
Attorney,
J E Bivins.
Land Examiner.
W. D. MURRAY. PRESIDENT.
1. E. CLARK, CASHIER
Planters’ Bank of Ell&fille,
EUariUs, Georgia.
PAID DP CAPITAL. . , .
Collections a Specialty.
Liborol to It* ©ottoman* aoooaupbdattag to
tbs public and prudent In Its mauagsiaaat, this
rank solicits deposits sod other business la Its
U s JanMawly.
LOANS.
Loans negotiated at LOWEST RATES.
Easy payments, on city or term tends.
J. J. HANE8LBY,
net & ly Americus. Georgia.
How Blark Twain Scam*.
The opinions of our serving folks are
Bometirfies worth knowing. At the Mur
ray Hill hotel the other day oue of the
porters remarked: “There goes the eol-
emnest and disinaleat gent as ever
stopped at this *ouse. I don’t b*lieve he
ever lcnowed what it was to larf.”
The subject of this depressing And
melancholy criticism was Samuel L.
Clemens* Esq., of Hartford, Conn., not
unknown to admirers of serious, and in
structive literature as Mark Twain.—
New York World.
degram.
A Mod Bom.
Mrs. Drubbins (who has been reading
the performances of a somnambulist)
7-The paper says that test night a man
jumped ont of a window to the roof of
another house* nnd ran along that till
came to a church roof, when he leaped
ttiat and climbed up the steeple,
kfl- Drubbins—How long h;ul they
“ con married?—Good News.
Joseph Jefferson is not only an admir
able actor, bqt he iaa painter of much
roman? would Imre boo* saflfefeat to
DlKOT.qr of Mabocany.
In theyrar l397 one of Sir Walter Ra
leigh’s shijps, in an expedition sgsinat the
Azores, put in at Trinidad for repair*.
The workmen used the first wood that
came to hand, and it happened to be the
now famons mahogany. By this accident
it was first introduced into Englsnd,
when it was much admired, but it did
not become an article of commerce nntll
a century later. Since then it has held
first rank as a cabinet maker’s wood.—
Golden Days.
NOTHING SUCCEEDS
LIKE SUCCESS.
VM. RADAH’S
Saw Mil Men, Attention !
Are you In need of machinery of any description? If so, write us your wants,
>u desire and we will : *— * ” '
vy machinery snob ss
itlng lost what you dosiro and we will make yon low prices. Onr spsclal busi
ness is heavy machinery i
ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, AND WOOD-WORIING MACHINERY,
ery, we defy oompstttlon. We are
!CO.’8< ‘ ‘ r ~ ” *• ”
agents for
udea
and for first-class macblnei.. _
H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.’S celebrated Wood-working roachlnos, anrf can dis
count factory prices. Be sure to writs for circular of “Farmers’ Favorite” saw
mill; it Is the best on th* market Second-hand machinery constantly on hand.
Write for prices and sue It we cannot save yon money.
Perkins Machinery Company,
67 SOUTH BROAD STREET,
HsotlM, Ian Tnxs Wbao.Too Writ*.
ATLANTA, GA.
JanaSMAwlystr
Baseballs, Bats, ats.
Our stock ia this lino cannot be surpassed In Mouth Georgia.
HAMMOCKS!
It will pay you to see us before placing your order elsewhere. Cro
quet Sets, Croquet Sets i We have just received » fine assortment in this
line, and can save yon money by trading with us. We would not forget
to call your attention to the fact that we have added to omr general line of
Books and Stationery a full line of Moulding «nd Picture Framing ma
terial, and we have an experienced man at the bead of thia department, and
ean do you ns good work as you can have done in Macon or Atlanta Mail
orders will receive special attention.
Fashion Plates.
Will receive subscriptions
for anylpaper or
oubicition.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.
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Americus News Go.
S, A. M. ROUTE.
Savannah, Americas A Montgomery R’y.
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Taking Effect April 10,1801*
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ALLISON & AYCOCK,
CBOBE
KILLER
Mon ntAY AkD eoatECTLY CALLED
The Greatest Kedleins In the World
A WONDERFUL TONIC
&SD BLOOD PURIFIER
AIVOST1CBACULQV3 OOSSS
invursbla dlwass.
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by curing.
To. w., n. Looky.
A New York statistician and financier
figures that out of 20,000 men only 8,000
will die worth over $10,000, and only
8,000 who can bo called rich. He says
that 8,000 men lose (2,000 and upward
per year, and thnt 2,000 men lose $10,000
each where one mukee $100,000.—Detroit
Free Press. *>..
B.r P.Ik.
Mr. Biehman—Have canes Mira State-
atr JHow cruel
mural You shouldn’t poke fn at th*
' !«••• ft”?
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byphysldaui, and it
DOES HOT mSATPCOTT ezpeSTATIONS.
FLEETWOOD A RUSSELL, Sole Agents
RUSSELL, Sole Agen
for Sumter couuty. july22-dlyr
A Certain Care for Dyspepsia.
There U perhaps no dlseeM bo prevalent a*
Dyipepiia and IndigeBtlon, and one too, that np
totnepre«eDttlmenaa.balned the *kill of the
most eminent physician*. Two-third* of the
chronic diieaM* bora their origin in Djr*pej>*la.
he •ymptoma are loo* of appriite, Iom of ae*h,
feeling of falnee* or weight fn the stomach,
Moeioaolly mneea and **’*
ooaaatoaally bmmb and romlli n* .aeliUty, flat»
tniucra. GEORGIA.
Atlanta k Iris I
J. P. MoYEY, propretor,
Msnnfsctnrw of Emy Variety of Beam sad deal*
saw mu aurpura. apedsistmtioagino
toKrasiriug. AgsutforW.LFoust•
Co.’s fniibnitsil
targe sad W#U Beieeted Stock ready for thlpmtut
Pricer lew. Liberal termr. Write fee catalogue.
ATLANTA, -GEORGIA
On May i, at the side track at Furlow Lawn, the
OCMULGEE BRICK COMPANY
AND THE
RIVERS LUMBER COMPANY
WILL OPFN A SALES YAKD FOR
BRICK, LUMBER AND SHINGLES
A man will be in charge of the yard to deliver goods to customers.
A full stock of everything will lie kept. Your orders solicited. 4-80
LAP HATS.
Betw’n Montgomery and Amerlcne* via Eufanla
t.k a |0ilva7... .Montgomery arr
11 40 r It*.. Eafaula Ire
. America*lva
Between Anerjcae and jBckaonvUle, via Helena
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lata la the Boathweet, and at Auierfcus for
all point* In the Northwest.
Sleeping car* between Colombo* and Saran-
FMsengers from Charleston destined to points
wool of Sovannah, change cars atC. & 8. June-
W. N.MARSH ALL.
Gen. Bapertntendent.
Americui.Ga.
J, M. C’AKOLA N,
E. 8. GOODMAN,
Gen. Fas*. Agent.
isas.-’errf
„ West«n P*ra.Agfc, 8t. Louis, Ko.
M. D. ROTES, T. r. A,
Anifricui. C*.
JKO. T. AROO, c. b. a.,
Americana*.
East Tennessee.
Virginia and
Georgia R’y
Syste:
-18 TOE ONLY—
Short and Direct Line to the Forth, Enst or
iping Cor* in
This line Ih conceded to be tl
and run* the fluent Pullman
the South.
Elegant Pullman Sleeping Cars, between
Jacksonville and Cincinnati,
Titusville and Cincinnati,
Brunswick and Louisville,
Chattanooga and Washington,
Memphis and New York,
Philadelphia and Naur Orleans,