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the HADLEY .STATUE. I . trir.t p»cet.»r»7c«*t of a Bronse | » rl luim is On a Pice*. Irwin'.on Appaal. One of the meat remarkable cases that I ever beard ot, or saw, said a Jones county gentleman to us a few days since, is a negro living on Mr. John McCullough’s place in the upper part of this county. Five years ago be was as black as the ace of spades. At that time small white splotches began to appear on his body which spread and enlarged until now he is a half white man, so far as color goes. He is in sound health, and was never known to have a day of si .-knees. One por tion of his face is white and the other black, which makes him frightful object. The skin is not merely of a yellowish cast, but he is as clear and transparent as that possessed by any Caucasian belle. One entire arm, from the fingertips to the shoulder, has turned while, and it is perfectly easy to trace the blue veins beneath the transparent skin. He weighs 180 pbunds, and farms on Mr. McCullough’s place. He has been offered $100 per month by some enterprising showmen to go with them, but always refuses to entertain any propositions of the kind. “Why don’t you go with them, Clayton?" I asked him one day. "Die nigger ain’t no tool, boss. Dem Yankees jist wanter git me up dar to make! preserves out'n me. I ain’t er gwine a step.” and there he stays. It is certainly a stange freak of nature. When Did It Get There t Fonjrlh Advertiser. Mr. Wiley Britt, residing near Forsyth, exhibited to us the other day a shingle which had been riven from near the centre of a pine tree thirty-two inches in diameter, and in which was imbedded a small bullet. Actual measurement show ed the location of the bullet to be about thirteen inches from the cir cumference of the tree; and by close inspection no trace of its penetration could be seen. How it got there, and how long it bad been there, this deponent sayetb not. Southern Beauty reigns trium phant this year at the national capital. At a late assembly Mrs. Pembroke Jones, of North Caro- linia, Miss Hampton and Miss Keith, of South Carolinia, and Miss Rose Winston, of Memphis, were the acknowledged belles. A coocking kitchen on wheels, easily drawn by ono horse or a mule, is the latest reported novelty. It will cook rations of any kind in the Held for a regiment, and will bake, boil and stew while on the line of march. A solid silver balustrade, which has stood in one of the Mexican churches since the time of Cortex, was torn down not long ago anu taken to the mint and coined, pro ducing 60,000 silver dollars. The official residence of the President of Venexuela is called, in part imitation of our White House, the "Yellow House.” remains that limy do fail. And that should be convincing and should servo as a warning. Three-quarters of tho Wall street operators of to day are striving, not to increase tlioir fortunes, but to get back what they have lost. There is a fascination about winning n few hun dred dollars that overbalances the re gret of losing a few thousand. A man will lose four times running and yet go in tho fifth time with a.1 assurance within him that ho can win back all ho has la. t. If ho chances to win #1,000 after he lias lost $1,<100, lie instantly belies that ho can mako his fortune, lie never loses that belief while ho has $100 remaining, and when tho hundred is broken he repairs to a bucket-shop- having become a ghost of Wall street firm in tho belief that on a cash capital of $10 or $20 ho will rccu|iorato enough to tako him back into a regular broker's office whore he will pilo up the monoy until he is rich aguiu. And so lie gam bles every cont on which he can put hands. . Marriage In Sumatra. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) Before tho native institutions of Su matra were suppressed by tho conquor- lig ..uites, there woro three kinds of innrriago in use among tho natives, one in which tho man purchased the woman, ono in which tho woman purchased tho man, and ono in which the transaction was on terms of oquality. Tho first is easily understood and no way novel; the second is somowhat curious. The father of a young woman of high rank looks around for a proper husband for bis daughter, and generally takes him from an inferior family. Tho young man's relations pay a stipulated sum for the honor ho is about to receive, a feast is mado, and from that time “tho good and bad of him,” a peculiar .sumatrar. expression for the better or worso, is vested in his now owners. Ho is between a son and n servant; if ho docs mischief his wifo's family pay his fine; if ho is killed they rcceivo tho blood-money for him, and, whnt is most peculiar, all ho cams by his work be comes their property, and if they got tired of him they can send him nway without a cent, as poor as when ho came. In the allinnco on terms of equality each contributes in nil equal degree to the common stock, and if tho marringo proves inharmonious a separation is ef fected and the goods nnd nil that has been gained by tho common labor are divided o pially between tho partios nnd each departs to seek now amt more con genial bonds. %. IlritUli Cutlery In Cold Weather. (Chicago Tribune.) Ono fatal defect which hastened the death-knell of British cutlory on this side was the fact that the handles, both ivory and horn, were not tempered to resist climatic influence. Though far ther nortli than Chicago, tho climate of (•rent Britain is much milder, and be cause of its oceanic oxposure the atmos phere is moro humid. Knives mounted in Sheffield and received in Chicago wore all right till tho cold wcatbor come, but nights of extreme frigidity proved so disastrous to the British cutlery that ivory, pearl, and horn hnndles would cut up like so much corn in a hopper. lown-town firm bad a night-watch man who heard strango noises in the cutlory department every night, nnd not only believed it to bo the abode of ghosts but actually gavo up his situation from sheer fright. Tho stock was overhauled, and it was found to bo damaged to tho extent of soveral thousand dollars. Even in showcases of retail houses, or in any locality where they would be ex posed to low temperature, tho handles of th iso goods would crack beyond the poss’bility of concealment or repair. One Hundred Year* Old. [Chicago Tribune.] Tde Collego of France, at the recent Elysiau levee in Paris, was headed by a rival of Sir Moses Montetiore, M. Chov- roul, dean of that body, who will be 100 years old next August Hu tills the chair of chemistry, and is at the head of the chemical department of the (iobe- lius. Though he comes from a wine country, ho is a water-drinker. Not withstanding his ago, ho rises at 5 and takes a long matutinal walk in all weathers in the Jarden des i’lantes, where ho lives and attends to his profes sional duties, which are arduous. His father was a doctor. Though he enjoys the present, ho takes infinite pleasure in thinking about the past and recalling the images of most of the celebrated French men and women of the century. He dresses according to the stylo that was in vogno in Charles X's reign, but is too absent-minded to be neat in his apparel. In going to the levee he forgot to put on the white muslin neckcloth which selves him as a cravat. Th* Monsoon's Lightning. [Foreign Letter.) In the plains of India at the com mencement of the monsoon, storms occur in which the lightning runs like snakes all over the sky at the rato of three or four flashes in a second, and the thunder rears without a break for frequently one or two hours at a time. Yet it is very rare that any tree or animal is struok by the electric current. Robert Weidensall: AU branches of the world’s business that amount to anything are seeking for the best men that can be found and employing them at whatever cost Th* Oliost, of Wall Street. [New York Cor. Chicago Tribune.) Wall street is foil of ghosts of men 1 Who huvo been rich and wtac 1 vrw York, March 12.—A huge 5 0W are penniless. They march * , * hplted with iron bands and Oo\rn to tho street every morning jould, beitea wuu “ *“ regularly as do the millionaires, and eavily , we '^ £’ lhP ne P nrv B in wander from ono broker s office to an- irge work room in ibe Henry Ban- other, bending over the tape, and talk- • rd Company’s works at NO. 237 rag all day long about tho market, and [»rcer street yesterday afternoon, predicting its course. Once in a while ,.r,.wd of well dressed men in- they put up a bill in a bucket-shop - ", a it curiously from a safe »»<* strut around like fighting cocks ft pe Lhila workmen in naner th °y wereas# it to $10; but that is the istance, while workmen I P P end, for they immediately stake tho $10 igps, who spoke and shouted in an( j ) oso it There are ex-railroad pres- ’reneb, drew hod after hod of red idents, ox-bank presidents, and ex- ot metal through a hole in the floor fiverybodys. it is sad to sue thorn nnd 1 j poured their contents into a sadder to hear them talk; but it is tho "1 cauldron. When it was lull old story of fortunes thrown away in u 8 e , . , j ; hir meann gambling—for Wall street operating, as t aas hoisted into the air by means U8Ually eon , luctcd ou b f a crane and hung suspended gambling .-iinon pure, and you cannot ver the mould. At the command mako anything olso of it. Ninoto -n out 0 ..] c t her go,” given in French, of twenty of tho men who engago in it Ithc seething metal ran sputtering leave money. They always have some and emitting green dimes into the - explanation of why they tail, but mould. The on lookers held their ' - Iact breath for a moment. Then a cheer rent the air and the foreman shook hands with Robert Cushing, the sculptor, who bad watched the pro ceedings anxiously. “It is all right," he said. The first attempt bad been made to cast a colossal statue requiring four thousand pounds of bronze In a single piece, and it had been successtul. To morrow, when it has cooled off sufficiently, the mould will be broken and the casting disclosed The statue represents Colonel Wil liarn M. Wadley, the late president of the Georgia Central railroad and the Vanderbilt of the South iu heroic size, standing with a scroll bearing a map of his railroad sys •cm. It was paid for by subscrip tions of the employes of bis road and will be set up at the intersec ticn of the principal streets In Macon, Ga. No attempt has ever before been made to cast so large a statue in a single mould, and the wsrk was watched with interest by a number of artists and profes. siorral men. Robert Cushing mod eled the statue. It has taken the company four months to prepare the mould, which contains 1,400 pieces. ” A C’ALI'jo SEURO, . If Tou Want APPRECIATING THESE TWO LAMENTABLE FACTS, L.B.B0SW0RTH -18 OFFERING THE- OF ALL KINDS, GOTO DRUG STORE I THEY HANDLE SEEDS FROM Largest and Finest Stock of Grecerie; IN AMERICUS, AT TI1T1 VJJR.T LOWEST Spot Cash. Prices ! FOR THE MONEY. III8 STOCK COMPRISES THE BEST BRANDS FLOUR, SUGARS. TEAS, COFFEE. SPICES, DRIED FRUITS, CHEESE. - AND THE USUAL STANDARD GROCERS. WITH A POSITIVELP FINE LINE OF Canned Goods! WHICH ARE OF FULL WEIGHT AND THE BEST QUALITY. IIE ALSO KEEPS TURNIPS, CABBAGES, POTATOES, AND OTHER VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON. BBAN AND MEAL AT LOWEST PRICES. HE WOULD ALSO CALL ATTENTION TO HIS STOCK OF Which are perfectly pure and fresh Remember that they make a specialty of Seeds and handle only the best. It is cheaper to buy good seeds at first, for then you will not be disappointed or lose your time and labor. J. A. &D.F. DAVENPORT, LAMAR STREET, GATE CITY STONE FILTER I and Beer, WHICH ARE OF THE BEST QUALITY AND PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO FAMILY USE. jJ^ir'Give him a call, examine his goods and prices. You wilTfind him on JACKSON STREET, ONE DOOR EAST OF POST OFFICE, AMEBICTTS, CA. March 7. 1885. yl PURE WATER, HEALTH* LIFE I MCBRIDE & CO, Atlanta, Sole Owixora. McBRIDE A CO . Atlanta, Southern Agt Seth Thoms* Clocks. Sol* Agent* Lambeth’s Fly Fans, and Dealer* in Crockery, China, Cattery, Silverware, No Horn Eye-IHasses VVcak More Eyes! MITCHELL’S EYE-SALVE! ▲ Certain, Safe •») Effect Ire Remedy for Sore, Ml Inflamed yes, Prod trim n Lotto-Stahted urea. and Jle- eferfuy the of the hid, CUR US TEAR OliOl'S, GRANULATION, KTYLE TUtfOKS. UKl» EYES. MATrED RYE LA8rtKH, AM* I'KODIJCINO OUlCK RELIEF AXD PERMANENT CLUE. Alan, equally •fllcxcloM vrhwt need In other malfrliee, inch m Uleer*. Fen r Hoiea, Turner* Belt It beam. Bum*, File*, or whateecr InfliitMR. tlo* exUU, MITCHELL'S HALVE m*r be a»ed to idviiiiur. 8old ty *11 Erufgirt* «t 35 cent*. fcblS-tm Jas. Pricker & Bro. JEWELERS, Savannah, Florida* Wfstorn HATT iWAT. liLrfdira'iim^ 1nnl b r CfMml (00) Alena Ian time, which 1a 86 minutes slower th-u* Savannah time.) Superintendent'* Odlee, l n*A» iL Sumsge'.Tnlnaw Hilt road will run ,.tot ATLANTIC COAST LINK KXPREB& Leare H*$snn*b dally <i«. n Airlre at Rtvantiab dally *t 7 40nm ArrWe.tJeaupdally I J,oSS Arrhre *t Wavcro**daily at * Oiilm Arrive at Callahan dally at **n SJS Anive at Jacksonville dally at ..ff » p aa artJiiSinrtE"^ 8,nmh FAST MAIL. leave Savannah drily at. 101 • m Arrive ntSnr.nniili dally*! , ’ Slfnm ArriveMJewpd*ll,JC.“ .;;: JJig® Arrtieat W./erowdailyet fljonnl Arri ve *t Callahan daily nt i ,| a * m Arrive m Jack* n v11N■ drily n t 12 00 m Arrive u I runout d..ll/«t.f ...".11 li.m Arrive *» vjdo.udniiy *i.:;;:::::;::::j2oeJS Arrive at Ouinnnn dnilv *r. 1040pm Arrive at Tl oms-viUo daily *1 “..ISO Em Arrive at Biinbridne dally at 8 X* p m Arriv* *t Chattahoochee dally at 3 53 p in Stop,only »t,t.tlon« named above and at all •tnlion, between Thonuuville a-d Chntlnbnoefcee tor Bniniwlck take thia train, tr- IldSp ra. B, “" ,wlck <”* & * W. Hallway) at Fernandln*, Wald*, Ocala, Lee*. K»r "ad all tutiona on &£ ima“ ” Jr ‘ Di N ‘ T ‘* ,Uoa Company taka n.yiiT^r- ^""yetton* «t .Taclconrille drily for ® M” 1 *! 8 b Atturifa#, i'a’atka, En- terprUe, Sanford ind,iU landing on St. Jobn'e Pimnpn fur Panaaeota, Mobile, New Orleaar. Tjririlli 0 point, take tbU train! Arrirlnaat PenaaeuUat 1006p m„MobU* J4*a nkNew Orlean* at 7 4S a m. NewOrfii!®**** Waycrom to CHARLESTON EXPRESS, Lear, Savannah drily at. ..13* p at ifril! »*!•»*"“'> ■MUly a 1 to p m Arrive.tJ«np<laly nt 331am AiTlra at Jackaontillvdaily *$. ....600 p m b ‘ ,wm ‘ 8 * v * nn,l ‘ Pallmui parlor car. Sannaab to JaekaoaTtllo. JESCPEXrRESS. &Seaa^^:::r:::::45SS *2 Te 11 d*Uy at. oup m ALBANY EXPRESS. Leave Savannah dally aL 7 90 p m Arrive at Savannah dally at 6 Iff a m Arrive at Jeeup daily at 9 56 n m Arrive at Rayen-aa daily at. U 86 p m Arrive at Callahan daily at 4 45 a m Arrive at Jacksonville dally a* 615 a nk Arrive at I)u, out dally at 1 VO a m Airlv* at Live Oak dally at. 8 47 a m at OalneevjlIe dNtly at 7 00 a ra Arrive at ValdonU dai'y at 8 80 a m Arrive at tytftman dally at 4 80 a m Arrive at *1 botnasvllle dally aL 6 00 a m A pK? §t A,b * n y 1010 a m QnIne*vfile • lee P ,n * Mr « Bavanaah to I'ullmnn buffet and sleeplnf cart Bavanaah to Jacksonville. Paa enters for Bruns wick rlr. Jeeup take thl train, arr.vlnjr at Brunswick at 616 a m. Paaaeiiuera from Fe nandina, Oni? eavllle, Cedar 'TvOcila. W!Id wood, faecuburs and all station* '2? t* Navlaatfon Company and Flwlda Southern Railway take u>la irMluT P*aoettuem for Mndlaun, Monticello. TaUahaa- ie and all Middle Florida points take this train. Connections at Jacksonville dally with People's Line Steamers and Railroads for IH. John's river. Tbroavh ticket* sold and rleepiaf ear berth ac* epmmodatio'M secured at Bren’a Ticket Offlce, No. 22 Boil street, and at the Comjany’a Depot, loot of Liberty street. JAS. L. TA $1 OR, n a, m Otn’l Pass. Afent. R. O. FLEMING. Oen'l 8up t. AND DEALERS IN PIANOS Barlow Block, ORGANS, TENTS, pgtgy Offlce, end have prvp.tr Americus, Ga. We desire to cell the attention ot tb* publio to the bet that we have at last go Milled in onr new (tore on the PUBLIO SQUARE and have on hand a large and handsome etook of every thing in our Une. Our etook oonsiet* pertly of) Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, of All Kinds 1 SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARE, TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, GOLD PEN8, PENCILS AND TOOTHPICKS, WALKING CANES, OPERA GLASSES, GOLD AND AND SILVER THIMBLES, ETC. Ws ore Headquarters for Spectacles and Eye-Glasses! Can suit any and every one in Gold, 811v*r, Steel, Bronze, Zylonite. Celluloid or Rubber Frames. We are Sol* Agents for KING'S CELEBRATED PATENT COM BINATION SPECTACLES—the beet in the world. We sell the Davis and Williams Singer Sewing Machines! and have constantly on hand Needles, Oils, Attachments and Part* for all Machines. Ws have tbs beet equipped ebop^for the Repair of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry In this section of tne State. We employ none but firat-class workmen and guarantee all onr work. Dr. W. P. BURT, DENTIST Amorlouo, On. F OM and altar thl. data I wtl! not work '«r , Ul on* rarap’. fat CASH, or a«w|it*bl* , pap.r which will ramauad w».K> at th* bank. I I do food workatnamaablaiinvc-, «*l In nuara | PIANO AND ORGAN DEPARTMENT. This branch of onr business is steadily increasing and all we ask is that parties wbe expect to bay a Piano or Organ will cell and examine onr stock and get onr prices before they boy. If wa eannot do a* well or better for yon than yon can do for yonrselvee we do not oak your patronage. The foot that we have sola Pianos and Organs to dozens of th* best business men in Americas shows plainly that we eell as low aa any on*, and wben yon bny from ns yon bav* no freight to pay and save tb* trouble of unboxing the instrument, aa w* place it in your bones and Rive yon s FIVE YEAR'S guarantee. We also have on band a Urge stock of smell Musical In struments, consisting of Violins, Gaiters, Banjos, Tambourine., Acoordsona and Harmonics*, and also keep Strings of tba very best quality. Violin Bows, Tell places, Bridges, Rosin and ail kind of Musical Instrument Trimmings. The Office of the Southern Express Company is in onr store and theirJAgent, Mr.’S. O. COOPER u in onr employ as Book-keepei and Salesman and will ba glad to serve all who are needing anything in onr line. *7f7Y BOR fTnc nti’.t eovlltf CALL AND SEE US D? OUR *F,W STORE! JAS. FRICKER & BRO P*r#dat«hort notic* and on reasonable Urm<. gan ™ TDK SIMM OF LIFE. ONLY $1 I 'M .HYSELFis A Great Medical Work on Manhood. Kxhauted VIUHty, Kcrrons and Phjnderi 'Da. bllltjr Premature lleclinn In man. Krrora of Tonte, and lb* untold mlwrleafraanliliiz from in- diicrealon or ncane. A book tor evarv man yonaa; rntddla are nnd old. It contain. IS pro. icription. for nil scot* and cbmtuc dbaain, each ona of which la lnralumbls. Sotonnd bv tin au thor, whom rsntrience for M rear. I* inch aa probably nerer before Ml to the lot of any nhyit- rian. ISO papas hound la brantunl Ftenah mods, emboasad rorsrs, fun flit, znatantsed to baa datr WO* In every t-anae—inrcbanicnl, Hlrnuy and profeuional—than any other work raid Is thia eonntry lor (I^o, or ihs mousy will ba ra funded In ayary fnataaea. Prlc* only tl by mail, past paid, fllnalntive sample 4 costs. Srsd sow. Gold modal swarded ib* author by th* National Medical Amodulon, to th* offlce ra of .wttlcbfho Tho8dcBcoofLifflahosMhor**dbvtha'yonz for Isdroctiow, and by the afflicted for rrllik U nrffl basest alL—Londoo (snoot. There Is ao mamba* of aoottiy to whom Ike Salases of Ufewfll not ba saafnl, whether youth, parent, faardlan, laatrnctor or dtrtynua.—Ar» Sonant, Address the Peahody Medical lastttata, *r Dr. Ifaaa, who may bo aonaaltad on t qnirtuff skill asd cxpcticsce. Chronic nnd ooatl- t.ala ducaaaa that hara baffled tbeUITA I skill of all other phyaiciaaa a apociriCALrity Such treated tudorfillrallLTUVOCI C out an IniUnca of tali arc. I H YOLLP Mtntlon this paper. nor 19ml H. T. FRETWELt, ED. BMITO. Fretwell & Smith, Maaafactcrera lad Repairer* of Buggies and Wagons FROM CHEAPEST TO BEST. CaU and See us at our Dew Stand { BACK OF WATTS’ STORE. REPAIRING OF ALL KIND A SPECI ALTY. ALL WORK WAR RANTED. rcltfmS FRETWKLL A SMITH. CONSUMPTION. I hfflvu A poKitWo rwinetly ■ th- UaAtl-lSOf«f ■uodtaebavabewn tnltsefflcRcr." - 1 t«*jr*th*r with 1 • wurti bird and •( long -ld*.|. roet ton*lorn* faith d TWO BOTTLKS FR11, ABI.KTKK ATlhB oa tl