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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1886.
THE GUBERNATORIAL CANVASS.
BOW IT STANDS.
i Tbe following table, whioh wa shall
1. keep standing and oorreoted until tbe
meeting of tbo State Convention, will
I- show tbe number of delegates aaohw
[• tjr Is antitied to, who the delegatee are.
_ instructed for, if inetrnotsd, and thole
whioh are nniantraoted,
with th. total
number of delegatee eech candidate haa
etoured to date.
We think onr readers
. will find it interesting to watch this table
. each day.
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Bibb
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tfryan.
Bnllock
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Burke
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Butte
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Calhoun-
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Camden.
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' Campbell
...
Carroll
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Charlton
1
3
Chatham.
1
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Chettahooohee
i
...
Chattooga.
Cherokee
1
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Clotke
it
1
Clay
!
2
Clayton
3
2
Clinch
2
8
Cobb
i
Coffee
s
1
Columbia
3
2
Coweta.
4
Crawford
2
Dade
a
Dawson
Decatur
2
1
Dekalb
4
Dodge
Y
2
2
Dooly
2
Dougherty
2
"2
Douglas
2
Early
2
Echols.
2
2
LlHngbam
2
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E bert
2
Ktnanuel
2
Fannin
2
2
Fayette
2
F:oyd
t;
Forsyth
2
Franklin -
2
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Fulton....q>. .
0
Gilmer.
Glasscock:
2
Glynt
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Gordon
•2
Greene
<
4
Gwinett.
4
Habersham
2
Hall
4
Hancock
4
Haralson
2
Harris,
4
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Hart.
2
Heard
2
Henry,
2
Houston
4
Irwin
2
Jackson
4
Jasper,
Jefferson
2
4
Johnson
2
Jones,
2
Laurens,
Lea,
2
2
2
Liberty,
Lincoln,
Lowndes,
2
2
2
2
Lumpkin
MoDuffla
2
2
3
2
Molnlosb, ....
2
2
Macon
Madison,
2
2
2
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Marion,
Meriwether.....
Ifillar.
2
1
2
Milton,
Mitchell,
2
3
"2
Monroe. .
Mootgomeiy,..
Morgan
4
2
2
"2
Murrey
Muscogee
9
4
1
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Newton.
2
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Oglethorpe,....
Paulding,
4
2
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Fiokens,
Pieros,
Pike,
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4
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Polk,....
2
2
Pulaski
2
Putnam
4
4
Qnitm&n,
2
9
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Richmond,!...
2
8
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Rockdale,
2
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Schley,
2
Screven,
2
2
Spalding,
Stewart,
2
3
2
Sumter,
4
4
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Talbot,
2
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Talliaferro,....
2
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2
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Terrell........
2
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ThOOia r ..a..a.
4
Towns,
2
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Troup*
4
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Twiggs,.
2
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Union, !
2
2
...
2
Walker
2
Walton
Ware
4
2
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Warren
2
Washington....
4
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3
2
2
White
Whitfield a.
Wiloox.
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9
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Wilkes
4
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Wilkinson
2
Worth
2
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' rrlC B ON COTTON ATETOE
aMERICUS.
lm . n , u , U ilia county teat of 8aaUu
.. o^gia, situated on the Bontb-
71 miles southwest of
11U0D,
floliJ->
it ia situated in theilnMt
5£on of Georgi* rising a greater vsri-
I/oL’ricultonil sod horticultural pro-
52eu tnlu any other pvt of tho Booth.
fZbmwg nil the trolls, gram sod»«g»-
^£rirmi?<uSd mosWo. sad one
•ft’ heslthr
JSdoor work o«o be performed without
S^oience from summer heeior
vinter coM. Amerioue bee • population
JBK is beeodtullr sHnitwToii high
id rolling groondsndoo^iurfe^of
*, h-odsomeel business blocks ip the
J5X T h. city b»e tas pnbjiosohoolei
Mm) chore bee; s Isms publio library;
L/ duly, ooe Mini-weekly sod two
eully newspapers, • *** opere houses
-ruble at MSI ins 1,000 person, e well
Soiled «• depertment. Including
2?4„. steamers; tbs sires}* ere well
sewered sad lighted: there rs
im tearing mm*. » cottonseed oil still,
S uilll sod esriety works, osrrisge
and » number of minor mtfifMlo
ut two hundred firm* *f*flOfPff*d
jaiiersDiile bnslness; three bento with
„ .bindanoe of oepilei; two good
toiiU tarnish good ncoommodattion.
Americas is the centre of trsde far six
eoentira comprising the richest sgricul-
tnrJ lecile a to Georgia, tbu > evmge an
nual enttou receipts being 30,000 boles,
wkieh will be largely increased by the
completion Of the Preston sod Lnmpkin
nilrosd now in prnooso of ooustrnction.
It it the largest city in Sonthweat Geor-
(U, and ban been appropriately named
the ‘'Commercial Capital" of that eeo-
tion, nail it ie rapidly growing in popn-
btioD ..ad wealth. As a place of busi-
an residence it presents attractions
equalial by tew cilice in tbs nouth.
fraperijr of all kinds ie comparatively
ekrap, although rapidly advancing in
trice; the inhabitant* of both city and
country are cultivated, oourtaous and
kspitaldo, with a cordial welcome to Im
migrant#. To enterprising tradesmen, jtt
ditioit# capitaliats and industrious farm,
ots thi# suction of Georgta offers fine op-
pmnut'iei. Any information in rsgaid
loctt, or eoautty wit! be cbeetfully.fnt-
ttisiicd byeddrcstlng the Amvhicds Bk-
cuKhiiu. Auwricue. Go.
Hardware.
J W. SHEFFIELD* CO.
* Whnlaable iti.l Dat.il rr. _ s
T W. HAttRIB ACU
U 9 Whrtlaaila .M.1 n — a. 1
imiMTATIVIi HU
F ollowing i» a tut of r-presetutive
llerchauw, Doslere ami Profeeeional
tueo ia American. Oor readers will find
these gentlemen rolisblssnd enterprising
ic ibeir different lines of bu-loess.
Brokers.
T B. FELDER,
*' Heathsndiee and Cotton Brokerand
Negotiator of Long Loans.
Ofiloe at Planters’ Warehouse.
ft 0. N. BUKKHALTEK,
u ‘ Beal Batata and Loan Broker.
Office over Connell A Williford.
Meat Markets.
flOBB * PARKER,
y Colton Arenas Heat Market end Tsm.
If groceries. Opposite Bank of Americas
Shoe Stores,
INLANDER * ARRINGTON,
n Oath Shoe end Hat Store.
Corner Lamer sod Ji
Physicians.
J B. HINKLE,
' Phyilcian and Surgeon, Office on
••ebon St. Residence on Taylor St.
jpuT afoot;
Physician and Burgeon. Office at
is's drag store. Residence West
0 4-BROOKS, ~
r PhytieUn Hid
Surgeon. Off as at
bporu’ drug store. Bssidsoos at
D- Bblpp'ifirtow Lawn.
J E SMITH,
oisops^SSfilUto
. ... UlUWIH*
L E B08W0RTH,
»bd Retail Grocer:
St, 3d door oast of post ofilosk
W.pburt,
toeriH. 11 If" 1 practice in
sjsaagggy ******
—Hatches and Jewelry.
J.ehluJvan,
Wetcbmsksi and Jeweler,
- Soot (Ms of Lent
Lamar St.
Livery Stables.
H,®t*J.K. PRINCE,
*«acnsxsz£xr El0 -
Bry Goods.
P THE CITY.
SMItoaiw.,
J. Shoes, Etc., Etc.
I Jsokson Street.
Saddlery and Harnett.
1OHN M. COKKR.
O Dcal-t In Saddlery, Harness, Leaih-
andFinding. Hard war* Cutlery, Jew
elry, Stiver Plated Were, Cigars, Tobacco,
and a full line nt Yankee NnUou* in and
to arrive. Cotton Avenue, Americu* Go.
Attorneys at Law.
•T E. D. SHIPP,
U , Attorney at leiw, America*. G*.
Will practice tn all theoourte.
T J. BLALOCK,
“ Attorney at Law.
Office in Court house.
T C. MATTHEWS.
“ * Attorney at Law and Loan Agent
Ofiloe over Council * Williford
JOookStoree.
A ONES AYCOCK,
Books, Newspaper* Music and Sta
tionery. Commercial Block, VOreyth St.
Next door to Poet offioa.
General Merchandise,
FTEORGE STAPLETON,
u General Merchandise. Furniture a
Specialty. ForaythSt Front port offia*.
TE88E AYCOCK.
” General Merchandise,
ForaythSt Under oaotar of opera house.
Photograph Artist.
ty-AN RIPER,
' Photograph Artis*
Ovar Wheatley’s store.
Gin Repairing.
TJ- W. HOWARD,
*4- Gin Repairer.
Gins repaired and put in flrst-oiasa order.
Work guaranteed. Address me by postal.
Hides and Commission.
n A. BELL,
L/« Foot Cotton Avenue, will nny best
prices for Bi le* l’elta, Cotton Seed,
Beeswax, Dried Fruits, and Jnnk of all
kinds.
Boot and Shoe Maker.
A jiDREW DUDLEY.
t\ Boot and Shoe Maker. Repairing
don- in bust style and on' short notice,
6 Jackson St., front Presbyterian churoh
Bruys and Medicines.
JOHN E. HALL,
" Fare Drug* Medicines, Perfumery,
Toilet and Fancy Article* etc.
Wooden Store, Forsyth St
A J. HUDSON,
J\, Drug* Medicines, Perfumery and
Toilet Artioles, cheap u the cheapest
Prescriptions carefully compounded.
Southeast comer of Publio Squaro,
/YVNARX BIRDS,
(j Bird Cage* Bracketts, Bath Cup*
Bead Cups, Wire Birdneat* etc., for sale
by W. F. MIMS, at Hall's drug ator*
A
■ to prove
i best
TOBACCO. CIGARS,
IMrOMTMD Alta O OK MS tic.
CINDIES, FRUITS, ETC.,
Lower than tbs Lowest, and all I ask ie
price my goods before purchasing
elsewhere. I will do exactly
what I say and mean no hum-
bog. Oall and ass (Or yoor-
sslf and be convinced.
JAKE 1SREALS,
COTTON AVENUE,
Next Door to the Bank of Amoriows,
deeSIth
PURE BRED POULTRY.
B rahmas, leghorns, wyandot-
TES. No Fowls unUlfelL Eggs in
season. No elroulan. Writs tor wants
withsUmp forreply. _ Eggs 13 tor (3; 96
Name this
aprill0-2m.
PENNYROYAL PILLS
•‘CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH.”
The Original and OalyBwgai^
iuire Vr'"Luml ‘“tour" i't RUnHS
4ACt PA5fA- M ^«“^Ta'Si£rha
br “- u " 4 “•*
Total numb
slsgal^ 350.
WHO WEBB THE HEROES!
HUTUA
THE MAJf OB TRIO MOVll
REVERlg,
Vaeen TeLfrmph.
“Boas,” said a little black atom
of. bomahity, pausing at the open
window of the great and good
Telegraph’s sanctum last night, just
as the hour of twelve was about to
be sounded by tbe clock in the
belfry, “dat air rock man ov’r yan-
dereser .ta’kin'ter hisself.” He
motioned in the direction of the
Confederate monument, his eyes
shone like incandescent lamps In
the^ distance, and in an instant he
Was gone, so fast, so completely,
that bis retiring feet left no eohoes.
I had more than once heard this
monumental soliloquist, and, not
sharing the negro’s superstition,
strolled over to listen. He heard
me oomins, I suppose, for he ceas
ed until t stood before him; then,
with his eyes looking out over me
Into the far away gloom, he eaid:
“Too recollect some yean back,
yon and I had a conversation?”
“Certainly.”
“Ton thought then it was a
pretty good thing to have been a
Confederate private, and wrote me
np, so to speak.”
“True.”
“Well,” and he laughed softly,
“the next batch of school histories
gotten up for tbe South won’t make
any mention of the private soldier
at all—and of only one general.”
“Tou are dispoeed to be sarcas
tic.”
“Not at all; but it strikes me as
somewhat funny that I must stand
up here in memory of men who
never did anything.”
“This is shameful,” I said, “and
yon-might be about a better busi
ness. No respectable monument
would talk that way.”
Again he laughed. I never heard
a chuckle with so little fun in it,
nor one that affected me so un
pleasantly.
“Do you know,” he continued,
give him tbe ballots they were de
positing at the polls.
Upeeohless with indignation I
could but gase. Picture succeed
ed picture. 8tewart, Walker,
Bartow and scores of the 8outh’s
dead acted fora moment upon tbe
marble pedestal. As>he last faded
away tbe spell was broken and I
cried aloud, “These are false ple-
turcs. To suoh men suoh circum
stances were impossible.”
He drew himself np proudly, and
his .marble face reenmed its noble
lines.
“Aye,” he said, “yon are right.
They were impossible.” I saws
light grow in bis eyea, and again
that word dropped down and float
ed about in the night, “impossible,”
ait though an invisible audience
passed it along.
The half moon shone down
through the rifts of a cloud, and I
thought I saw a tear tremble upon
his marble eye—it might have been
the dew—and from somewhere near
me came a suppressed sob. When
he spoke his voice was strange and
unsteady, with jnst a trace of bit
terness in it
“I stand here,” he*sa!d, “bat my
pktoe is baek yonder in Rose Hill,
where my oomrades sleep. Here I
see too mnoh and too little.”
seared a little moke into the river.
I was impersonating some of the
old generals, and trying to see how
they would look on tbe stump under
,, oircumstances. Take old
Marse Bob Lee, for instance; look.”
He drew himself np and, as I
looked, the black felt bat, the grand
figure rad the face of the great
aoldier shone upon my astonished
gaze. Then I heard h!a voice:
Fellow citizens, I invite yon all
to come op to mjr inauguration in
January. I’m goln’ to get tbsr,
BU. I came here to-day to speak.
It ain’t my bolt that the other fel
low ain’t here.” The figure bowed
and the bee smirked. Instinctive
ly I turned away. Again eame that
laugh, and as I looked I seeme to
grave boe, and rigid figure
□swill Jackson. Over Ms
he too bowed and scraped,
It
Angrily, I called upon the actor.
nee,” “pay me this saw mill
i," “we followed you, wo tiust-
calling upon the crowd in front to
tones and mother’s songs that Host
np ont of obildhood and melt upon
onr hearts, came bis voice again.
It seemed a whisper onlv, but tbe
words it bore were dear and dia-
tinct.
“The war bad martyrs and it A
heroes, bat tbe war’s grandest he
roes are those who survived and
faoed poverty and privation after
wards without stain or reproach;
who for twenty years labored for
wives and ehildren and old mothers
and helpless ones thrown upon
their hands; who knew no comforts
and whose beds were thorny with
caret; who gave half tbelr savings
to eduoate their children to believe
in tbe South, and half to insure
their loved ones a support when
death struob down their protectors;
who, conquering all, wrought out
at last independence, and who in
plaoing their country on her feet
agaln gave to tbe world snob n
pietureot courage and devotion
and nneelfishneas as it bad never
beheld in ail its history, bright as
it is with the record of human tri
umphs. These are the heroes.”
The words died away, but pres
ently others came so bint, so far,
so pltifuL I knew not if I dreamed:
“Friend, God forgive the mao, if
each there be, who faU of comforts
and surrounded with wealth and
honors, laid one harden more upon
these struggling people. It is well,
indeed, that each a man baq no
need of my forgiveness.”
The moon no longer vexed by
fleeting clouds, sailed forth into
the unbroken sea of eky, and flood
ed the street about me. The mar
ble soldier seemed to stiflen and
grow cold in the whiteness of her
light, and wondering at the change
I left him standing guard silent
and still, “above the bivouac of the
boys who slept.’’ X. I. E.
did not interrupt him and present'
ly be continued:
“I see too much and too little,
Too muoh of that nnsornpulons
spirit whioh people are fond of ae-
ortbing to the 'New South,' too
little of that manhood and honesty
that come out of the Old. The
grand old Generals are mostly dead
or in retirement; but few ever pass
me here. 1 beard the shouts on
that Sunday morning when Jeffer
son Davie, freed from- polltiAl hip
podrome, wept and embraced tbe
widow of that soldier statesman,
Howell Oobb. But Oobb v sleep#
with Lee, the quiet and resigned
school teaoher, who was too great
to grow rioh upon his ragged fol
lowers; and with Bragg, whose
brave heart broke while be was
working for his daily bread in an
bumble position; and with old
Tatnall, who bore tbe flog of bis
oountry around the world and died
on the pay of tide waiter.” Again
oame that bitter laugh: f
“Why could they not have lived
to save Statee and to coin milliona
to help my poor old surviving com
rades who drive by here eome days
a peddler’a qart, and are driven by
on others in the pauper’s hearse?
Sometimes I think this pedestal
rooks beneath me. It may be tbe
new Sooth wants thia Uttle land I
occupy for a great international
railroad depot”
Hf was silent a moment or two.
His mind ran book to the old com
manders. “And Semmes,” ha said
gently; “the last time I saw him,
be carried his little store of clothes
In a sailor’s kit, and now he sleeps
in an unmarked grave, while I hear
tbe blare of a brass band calling
my old comrade# to oome out and
sell tbelr votes and manhood to •
great developer. Oh, my friend,
does the bloody-money of the A
riots go to make slaves of tbe a
who loot ell in defending their
hearthstones and honor? <
“The other day as the breeze
swept from across tbe field of Pu
laski, there was borne hither the
hollow langh of a stump orator as
he shouted 'seven to three, bal ha!
ha! Seven to throe.’ What does
it mean? lay God, I remember the
down east bees of yon and yours
when this town aonnded with the
words, 'eight to seven, eight to
seven.’ Are we to be cheated again,
bought with political pap and sold
for political power? Are the men
who never quailed before the fires
of death afraid and ashamed to be
honest with their kin and blood?” The Democratic Congressional
i did not like the mood of the Committee has rented tho first
ponderous private above me, and so floor of Zach Chandler’s old Wash
moved back a little. But the pre
caution was unnecessary. Like the
murmur,of a loved voice that re
turns in our dreams, like memory’s
A Singular Catch.
From the A lx pah, (Oa) Star.
Last Saturday morning, as Rev.
John Miles, colored, of this place,
was seated on tho south bank of
the claeslo Alapaha, pulling a mud-
oat now and then, he was some
what startled by seeing a full-
grown deer plunge Into tho river a
abort dlsjanco above him. The
deer swam for the south bank.of
tbe river, which proved too per»
pendicular for tbe animal to climb,
and it swam down stream. When
opposite Miles be threw his Ashing
line over its neck, fastened the
hook tn its flesh and drew it near
the shore. The water was quite
deep near the bank, whioh made it
all the easier to manage the deer.
Miles prevented it from landing,
fearing to come in contact with the
twe under its feet, in a short time
two hounds, which bad been chas
ing tbe deer, came np, plunged in
and soon drowned the animal. It
proved to be pretty badly wounded
in tbe hip, end later it was ascer
tained that Mr. Owen Tatum fired
tbe shot that wounded it.
This ts tbe first deer that was
ever oangbt with a hook end line,
so far as we know.
Neither photography nor tbe
microscope was known in the days
of Cicero, yet he mentions that the
whole of Homer’s Iliad had been
written on a piece of parohment so
small as to be inclosed in a nut
shell. A Frenchman, after yean
practicing, wrote the four canoni
cal prayers of tbe Roman church
on one of hla finger nails.
AAviee to Mothers
Mbs. Winslow’s Soothing Sybu
should slwtys be used for ohlldren
teething. It soothes the child, soft
ens the gums, allays all pain, cures
wind collo, and is tne beat remedy
for diarrheas. Twenty-fiv* cents a
bottle. • , v ‘
ingtou residence for campaign
headquarters. This shows that tbe
country is growing better every
dajr.