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Americus
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Established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1884.
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LATEST NEWS.
BLAINE GIVES IT UP
mittee (lire It Up!
THEY ALL GIVE IT UP
That Cleveland is Elected and
Wiimke his Seat!
Augusta, Me., Nov. 15.—Mr.
Blaine. on bearing of the official
count of tbe vote of New York, re-
narked that it practically settled
the presidential question. Mr.
Blaine, it is stated on the best au
thority, received ibis afternoon a
telegram from New York announ
cing tbe completion of tbe official
canvass in that city, and informing
him that the plurality for Cleve
land in that State would be 1,137.
Be accepts tbe result very cheer
fully and has no regrets growing
out of his connection with the cam
paign. He ieels that he made a
good fight and he gracefully beWs
to the verdict of the American
people. He deciarea that the Re
publican party will prove true to
its grand past, and will increase in
strength with the coming years.
He expects that in 1888 it will
again be called back into power.
Mr. Blalno leaves for Washington
the middle cf next week, where his
family will spend tbe winter. He
has leased tbe “Sargent House” in
Farrsgut square, and will shortly
resume bis work on tho second
volume of “Twenty Years in Con
gress.” The volume will be ready
by next June fur publication.
New York, Nov. 15.—The re
spectlve National and State head'
quarters of tbe Republican and
Democratic committees were finally
closed to-night. Chairman B. F.
Jones of the Republican national
committee left bis rooms early, and
Secretary Fessenden snd Commit
teeman Elkins remained and held a
conversation with Walker Blaine.
The Republicans concede Cleve
land’s election. Assistant Secre
tary Loomis voiced the sentiments
of the committee in saying : “Itl*
all over. We only await the action
of tbe State board of cauvassers
on Wednesday next. But we have
made a good fight, considering that
we did not have one third ol tbe
amount of tho funds controlled by
the national committee in the Qar-
field campaign.”
The headquarters of the Demo
cratic national committee were
dark and deserted. Senators Gor-
man and Jonea and Mr. Barnum
had left tbe city feeling that their
work was ended. Cbsirman W. E.
Smith, of the Democratic Stale
committee, had gone to his home
in Plattsburg, and Secretary Bunn
left this evening. There was little
talk about tbe hotels and public
resorts about the election.
A Discouraged Republican.
A member of the republican na
tional committee said that the
democrats, with all tbe government
C er and patronage in their
Ui oould easily oontrol the 48
doctoral votes outside of the 163
votes of the solid south, and there
was nothing to prevent them from
holding the government for the
west sixty years, unless they com
mitted some unusually outrageous
FROM HATCHER’S STATION.
Hatcher’s Station, Nov. 18.—
The Rising Cloud.
■•las rtM
Tbe enty cloud on the horiion is
the great army of men who will
aeek to turn loose a good business
and get a precarious office. Office
seeking Is an evil, whether practi
ced by Democrats or Republicans.
It is the duty of all good people to
ffioeouxage too mneh ot this thing,
w* hope that no place will have
~Methan five hundred men after it
Meftattal/ Postponed.
The resolution before the House
to change the act providing for
thehnlidlngof tbe Bute oapltol
■o as to allow the ore of Georgia
marble and which would have in
™T*d an additional appropriation
uf 1300,000, was ludcfinitciy post
poned on Tuesday after a lengthly
•■a elaborate discussion of tbe
sbject.
The dry drouth ie still on us. It
is now the ninety-ninth day since
we bad rain. Oor last waa on
August 9th. Garden* are entirely
thriveled and dried up; no turnips
or other vegetables, which leaves
ns a veiy dry living. The crops
are all boused, and the crop of
cotton, say five-eighths, measurably
ail sold, leaving most farmers
moneyless and some in debt for
guano, with meat to buy for anotb
er year. Nearly all have corn to
supply them, with perhaps one-
third enough meat, the balance to
be bought on timo with other nee-
essaries. I am satisfied, however,
that it will not be to another year,
unless it fails to rain, as most,
not all onr farmers, are determined
to raise cereals and hogs for home
coasumptlon.
Well, the election count is over
at last, and we are all at ease and
delighted that honest government
will be once more restored, after
tbe 4th ot March next. But wi
fear now that we may be in tbe
same unpleasant condition of tbe
fox, which had been long and
closely chased by the hounds. To
avoid bis pursuers, ho rau into a
thick bramble. There he was cov'
crcd by a swarm of hungry flies
which bit and sucked bis blood
fearfully. After a while a friendly
fox came along. Seeing the dls
tress of tho fox in the bramble, be
offered to drive away the flies; but
the besieged fox said nay, for If
you drive away these flies, which
aro now nearly filled, a hungry set
will come and have to fill up, which
will exhaust my life’s blood. How'
ever anxious our people may be
for the offices, under Demooratio
rule, we are willing, yea, anxious
to give them a trial. Timo only
will develop the results of tbe
chsage, and we earnestly hope and
believe the country will now more
on in prosperity, if tbe shorn
i liable and oppressive high
tariff and Internal revenue laws
shall be so modified as to
lessen tbe heavy burden which bos
been borne by the down trodden
and victimised farmers all over the
oountry, especially in the South.
Robert Henderson, an industri
ous and faithful old colored man
and a tenant on one of W. E.
Gay’s places, bad his crib and
stable fired one night last week sad
all of his corn, fodder, stable
buggy and horse were burned. One
Bob. Woods, (col.) is susplcioned
as the incarnate fiend and is now
in jsil awaiting a commitment trial
which comes off to-morrow before
Justice J. E. Smith, st George
town. Destructive fires are be'
coming so numerous that it be.
comes everybody, privato citizens
ns well »e officers of the law, to be
careful and vigilant, for doubtless
some of them are the result of the
excessive dry weather and careless
handling of fire.
The new fish trap erected in
Pataula, near the railroad bridge,
by Messrs. Hillman and Graham,
ie quite a source of luxury as wel*
as revenue in a small way, from
fifteen to sixty pound* are taken
from it daily, trout, white pereb,
suckers and channel cat with a
very few large eels; they find a
ready market for tbe surplus.
Mr. James Cooper died very
suddenly last Saturday of malarial
hemorrhsglo fever, ne was at
tacked violently on Wednesday
night and died Saturday, at 8 a. m.
He woe attended by Dr*. Dobbin,
Sbivere, Gan and Mason Bains,
but all to no effect. He was an
energetio young firmer and a ten
ant of Dr. Dobbin.
Mr. Anson King, recently of
Dover, Terrell county, la visiting
his parents and friends of Midway.
The Connty Sunday School con
vention meets with Enon church on
Saturday, before tbe fourth Sun
day in January. A large attendance
1* expected, a* the ebareh has a
large, commodious and comfortable
building, and It Mid to be the
finest country church In Southwest
Georgia. Everybody invited.
Quitman.
FROM J0H5PREETILLE
JouNPSKiviLbi, Nov. 18.—An
other new moon and no rein yet.
Uncle Henry Jonee, one of the
oldest men in the coanty, says be
never knew the moon to fall so
early in tbe month before in hia
life. Our last full moon waa on
the 3d of November. If it don’t
rein soon the country will be with
out water. Nearly all tbe streams
in the country have gone dry, and
but little water in the wells. Hard
matter to get enough water for
the stock that are kept up in the
lot*. Engine wells have to he
worked on every few days. But
water we must have, as we steam
ginnera have all the ginning to do.
We think if ft eontfnnes dry much
longer we will have to have an ar
tesian well to get water, bat don’t
want the kind they have in Amer
icus and Dawson.
The cotton crop is turning out
a little better than many expected.
The late crop is turning oat fine—
but few seed and all lint—and
many of tbe farmers will get a
light sock or two more than they
expected. The bottom of tbe corn
market has fell out, and tbe ne
groes are selling their part at
thirty-five and forty cents, or any
price you offer them; they trade
it off for a few regs and a bottle of
pot skull. We hear that some of
tbe pison shops are so full of corn
they can’t hardly open or shat the
door. The road is crowded every
day with negroes with from a peck
to two bushels of corn on their
heads going to the traps, and next
summer they will pay a dollar and
a half for their bread corn. The
corn crop is said to be the best in
some time, but wait and see; there
will be more corn bought next year
than this, and bring better prices.
There is a squad of bands now at
Richland, on the A. P. & L. rood,
and wo are beginning to feel like
we are going to bave a road. When
you get the ruad finished if you
don’t charge us too much freight
on cotton, wo will keep a train
busy during the cotton season
hauling yon cotton. If we don’t
make hut a few bales we can ship
it over, come on the next train and
play big man. Anyhow there is
but little difference in being rich
and playing rich.
We heard a gentleman say a few
days ago that he thought a rail
road was too big a thing for Lump
kin, end did not think he could
stand it. He was a town man,
and ought to know.
Tbe election bos passed over and
the colored party are about over
their scare. They say they hnve
been told ever since freedom that
it tbe Democrats got in office they
would be allowed no free schools,
wages put down to nothing, Ac.
They say they will find out in the
next four years who has been tell
ing lies.
Miss Sallle Johnston, of Eufsuls,
is visiting in the ville, and is the
guest el her aunt, Mrs. Hester.
Messrs. W. D. and R. J. Jackson
passed through tbe ville yesterday
on their way te the Eufsla fair.
Mr. Frank Hester and family
will leave for Atlanta this week,
where they will make their home
in the future.
We will be over some time this
or next week if our friends will si'
low ua to leave onr gin long enough.
Ellivas.
ANDERSON VILLE.
November 18,—It would do your
eyes good to see the double row of
cotton bale* around our little de
pot awaiting abipmenk Most of it
came from points about Etlaville.
Tbe political fever, whieh as
■timed an epidemto form abont here
has nearly died out, but like other
stimulants (especially those we
bave not been accustomed to from
youth) the reaction la somewhat
debilitating.
There is much sickness about
our city. A fatal caso of dipb
theria occurred day before yester
day. The victim was a youag col
ored woman named Eliza Ann
Epps. Among both whites and
colored, malarial and bilious fevers
are too prevalent to inspire coofl
dence in the heolthfulneu of the
olimste.
Business is rather doll; the result
of tbe election, probably.
Professor Clark has closed his
school until New Years, for the
pnrpose of repairing the school
building. This school bos expo'
rienced a very prosperous season;
on one or two occasions students
were sent awsy for want of room.
As. the southbound passenger
train approaobed Americus, lost
Monday, a stone came crashing
through the car window. The per
son who threw tbe stone was seen
and recognized, and it is hoped be
fore this be has found that throw
ing stones at a passing train is j ust
a little unsafe. Yours truly,
J. M. B.
MAKCIIINU THROUGH GEORGIA.
Senator Brown.
In the Joint session of the Legio-
lature Tuesday, Senator Joseph
E. Brown woe unanimously re el
ected U. 8. Senator. Mr. Ellie,
of Fulton, placed the Senator in
nomination with a brief, bat elo
quent eulogy.
On a trip around the world the
most expensive link ie that from
San Fnnelseo to Yokohama, which
costa $250, with no cat rates, be
cause there is no competition.
And even at these figures the
steamship company claims to lose
money now that an embargo has
been placed on Chinese travel.
Dawson, November 16.—Mr. P.
E. Boyd, of Leary, was in Macon,
Tuesday night, enjoying the grand
Demooratio demonstration. On
Wednesday be came down to Amer
icas, and on bis arrival at the Al
len House, discovered that bis
pocket book was gone. He thinks
he had it in bis hip pocket, and
whether it was stolen or dropped
from bis pocket, he is unable to
say. It contained some valuable
notes and other papers, and over
one hundred dollars in money.
He was in onr city lost Thursday,
and up to that time bad beard
nothing of his pocket book. I did
not lose mine, snd if I had, it
would have been a small loss, os it
is quite a small one, with nothing
in it but a hole.
On my return from your city, on
Wednesday night lost, an old gen
tleman asked permission to share
my seat. We soon entored into
conversation, in the course of which
I learned that he was Mr. Andrew
Wilson, from Tecumsia, Michigan,
and that he sad about sixty others
on the same train, from tbe same
state and Ohio, were on their way
to Florida to spend tbe winter, and
make investments in land and other
property, and engage in tbe or
anee and other - industries of that
state. He said that the citizens of
Florida and the railroads leading
to and through that state have
been offering liberal Inducements
to Northern emigrant*, and are
now reaping their reward. He
rays there is a continual stream of
travel from the Northern States to
Florida for several month! every
year, and as nearly all these people
give a very favorable account of the
fish, fruits, climate, the fature
prospects, Ac., of that Ststo in
their letters, aid on their return,
many others are induced to follow
ia their footsteps. He said it costs
him only $45 the round trip, and
that his return ticket bolds good
for six months. In consequence
of this influx of people of the North
and Northwest, the lands in Flori
da, which formerly were not con
sidered worth the paper the deeds
were written on, are now selling at
fabulous prices, and all branches of
business are ia a flourishing condi
tion. Mr. Wilson must be 60 years
ot age, judging from appearance,
and yet be was never in a southern
State before this trip; never saw
cotton in the field till this week.
He says be bos the money and
plenty of time, and ie enjoying the
trip very much.
Messrs. O. O. Cleveland, Wm.
Livingston, A. L. Brown, Monroe
Cleveland and Col. J. T. Thornton
left this morning for Florida, by
private conveyance, to see the
country aud have a good time
generally. They carried a lot of
hones and mulee with them to tell
on the war, in order to make their
trip profitable as welt as pieoMut.
Mr. Harper Blaek, of Sumter
county, ft on a visit to relatives
and Iriends in our city. J. A. F.
AN AGED BAPTIST MINISTER.
Two Hero Impartial Con*.
Your agent being in Columbus
Go., a few days ago and meeting
the venerable brother J. H. Camp
bell, we asked him for the news.
His reply was, “I have two more
Important cures effected by Swift’s
8peolflo to report” Thie venera
ble man is known far and wide for
his unremitting labors of lovo <n
tbe behalf of tbe poor in Columbus.
It will be remembered that the
Swift Specific Co., has donated
quite an amount of their famous
medicine, to be distributed by Mr.
Campbell among tbe poor of the
city; hence bis remark. He Mid:
“ I bave Just seen a lady who
has been gieatly annoyed by a
Tetter In one of her hands. It bad
given her much trouble and pain.
She said she had been * treated by
■everal physicians during the post
three or four years with old reme
dies, but without giving any relief.
I suggested Swift’s Speoiflo, ami
she took four bottles and is now
apparently perfeotly well. Her
band is smooth and not a single
(ign of the disease left. It is mar
velous how this medicine renovate!
the system.”
"What about tho other caso ?”
“Well, that was a lady also. She
had been effected wtih tbe eczema
for four years. Her face, hands
and arms, as well as her body, was
covered over with sores and scabs.
It was one of tbe worst esses ol
this terrible disease that I have
ever seen. Tho aufferiag of the
poor creature was beyond expres
sion. She tried every remedy at
command, including mercury snd
iodide of potash, but she only grow
worse. She was in this condition
when I first saw the esse I soon
bad her taking Swift’s Specific,
and she has now only taken two
bottles, but every mark ot the
dlseaic has almost entirely disap
peared. Her strength and general'
health have greatly improved. It
is une of the most remarkable cure*
that lus come under my observa
tion.”
"Mr. Campbell, you have bod a
long snd varied experience In ming
ling with men, and observing their
afflictions and tbe remedies used—
whet it your opinion at to the
merits of Swift's Speoiflo f”
"In s ministry of sixty years I
have mingled with every class of
society, and bare observed olosely
the variety of diseases wbieh af
flict humanity. Blood diseases
are the most numerous snd the
most difficult to remove. In my
earlier life, Sands’ Sanaparlila was
tbe great blood purifier. Many
others have come to the surface,
but it U my deliberate Judgment
that Swift’s Speoiflo it the grand
eit blood purifier ever discovered.
There ie nothing comparable to ik
Thera Ie nothing too good to My
about 8witt’s Specific.”
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis
eases mailed free.
Tin Swift Specific Co., Atlanta,
Ga.
Wktr* It Cam** la.
Matt. O'Brien In Knqnlrtr^au
After twenty-four
Ot trouble sod tears
And all aorta of jeer*
O'er "lotin' lb* been,”
And blarin' the sne*n
And Radical cheer*
O'er our hope* aud lean
And chanUelMn.
Tho tin* appear*
Whan our mouotaioaara
And the dtp peers
Who anoint* ra
Tho political apheroa
And domineer*
Orer them sod their atears,
Should unite their cheers
And through cannoneers
Toll both hemisphere*
Th* why snd wh*refor*.
Wo do sty
To-day.
•Walt
w* should smile.''
Mr. Harrell, ot Webster, has in.
traduced tbe following Hlla in the
House: To amend an act to cony
into effect par. 1. section 1 of arti
cle 7 of the constitution. Also, s
bill to authorize the governor tv
issue bonds to take up bonds fall
ing due in 1886. Also, a bill to
repeal tbe set to make permanent
the income ol tbe State nnlverdty.
Alio, a bill to amend the charter
of Marietta.
Tho Atlanta Constitution says
“one ot the most important bills
yet introduced woe that of Mr.
Harrell, of Webster, yesterday af
ternoon to authorize the governor
to issue bonds to tbe amount of
$3 A00,000 at a rate of interest not
exceeding 4$ per cent to redeem
outstanding bonds of tho state
falling duo in 1886.”
The New York Sun has an edito
rial on “Changes on tbe Earth!*
Surface,” and wo are surprised to
find that it does not refer to the
4th of next March. Tbe biggest
clmngo evor known will occur then.
WOMAN
1 Grace waa in all her etepe,
lltavtn in her eye.
In every getture dignity and love!"
Sa appeared Mother Etc, and aa may
•bln# bar Mr d«cc ndrnta, with the «.
rrrlia of coaunoa aruw, cars sad proper
treatment. An mormons anmbor o>
remain complalnta aro directly
by diatnrboao* or aopprcaolon of tho
Monalrntl Function. In terry
caoo that alarllng and nnlblllnf «p _
nmdllold'l Fa.nsla Regulator, *111 tj.
fret rcUofnnd cure.
It It from the receipt of * moot die-
Ungniahad t'by.lc on. It Is aompm
ol atrictly official ingredient., wn
bappy c >mblntrion baa navor tea* or
p*aa-d. It ia prepared vitb acini tide
•kill from tho Dnrit matrrlala. It b
bo point or eonatancy of .trraytb,
Ulnly of rffael, okgaoer of preparation,
Uuly of appeara oce and reltlirecheip.
neoa. The tmllmony to iu Hirer la n
ulna. It aafor fella wkoo fairly triad.
Cartaravillo, Ua.
This will certify that two momlmrouf
my immediate family, aiur bar Ins
'ored lor inoay yaora from manacmal
Irregularity, soil burin* boon treated
without boneflt by yiriauo medical d*o>
wore nl length completely
by owe bottle of Dr. J. BrudMd’a Fc.
male Regulator. It* affect I* each
it truly wood,rial, and wall may
the remedy bo a* led "tt'cnuo’a On
Friend." Ynora Itnapeclfully.
JAMES W.K1RANUR.
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llapplnnaa of Woman." Mailed free,
BKADFIXI.D KEOULATOI Ca,
Atlanta, On.
HEALTH RESTORED!
What the New Isrk Papers 8ay.
Tho World gives Cleveland 1,-
107 plurality, and the Timet 1,106
plurality in New York state.
The Tribune concedes the state
by 1,070.
PIKE HATES, HEALTH, LIFE!
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