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OfflcUl orfin of Surator County.
Official Orgou of Web.fr County.
FRIDAY. -
AUGUST 22. I860
The AMIBICCS ItltCOBDER In ptlblUoed
Daily and Weekly, during the year.
The Dati.t Kkcokdbh H laiued every
moraine except Monday*, durlne the year,
at 50c per month, or Pi.00 per year.
The WitnKLY RkcobdbbL lsaued every
Friday moraine, at II00 per year payable
In advance. Ithaa thelareeit circulation
of any paper In Southweet Oeorela. circula
ting lareely In the counttea of Sumter, Lee,
Terrell, Stewart, Webster, Schley. Marlon'
Macon, Dooly and Wilcox,
Entered at Amerlcua Poat-Ofllceaa eecond
° 'All ooinmunlcatlona should be addressed
to’ AMEHICUSJPUBLIKHINO CO.
Maine’s census returns show a
very email gain in |>opulation,
while Vermont loses.
Judge Lawson has carried Han
cock county, which gives him the
lead for Congressman In the Eighth
district.
Vlrgina Allloncemen have made
their demands of Congressional
candidates and served them with
the yard stick.
It is said that Quay will not press
his force bill resolutions. Feeling
sure that it is dead, he will submit
to a tacit compromise.
One reason of Senator Plumb’s
great popularity iu his State is said
to be that he answers every letter
he receives. His mall is larger
than that of any other Senator.
Hon. Tom Cabaniss is now the
most prominent probable candidate
tor next Speaker of the State Sen
ate. His popularity will secure for
hima strong support throughout the
State.
More complications are reported
in South Carolina each day. In
the seventh Congressional district
there will probably be four candi
dates, two Democrats and two Re
publicans.
Representative Bynum, of Indi
ana, discussing the political situa
tion In that State, says the Demo
cratic danger there is over-confi
dence. He' thinks with proper
management their victory is sure.
EfTorts to have the prohibition re
moved on American pork in France
have been unsuccessful. It now
transpires that the exclusion is
based upon economic, instead of
sanitary grounds.
Col. S, A. Darnell has announced
himself os a Republican candidate
for Congress in the Ninth district,
subject to their oouventiou, to be
held early in September. He Btates
that he 1b opposed to independents.
Seven masked men held up a
Missouri Pacific express train Sat
urday night and took therefrom
160,000. The robbery occurred on
the same spot where Jesse James
committed one of his most daring
deeds.
Census returns from the South
are discouraging to the immediate
reapportionmeut idea. They show
an unexampled and astonishing
growth. Even the warmest friends
of the South Itself ire astonished
at the figures.
The first day of the South Caro
tin* convention was a strong one.
The lie was passed and wild confu
sion followed. Organization was
not perfected until late iu the
night, with the Tillmanites in pos
session.
The Delaware State Democratic
commtttee met Friday and nomi
nated Robert J. Reynolds for Gov
ernor on the first ballot. Ex-Sec
retary Bayard was clialrmau of
the committee on platform, and
made a ringing speech for harmo
ny, In the face of the grave national
Issues which now confront the
party.
Reed will have another outrage
to amuse himself with uext winter,
• It is said. The negro Republicans
of North Carolina talk of abstain
ing from voting this year, taken
with the idea of showing the white
brethren of the party that the men
who do the voting may not be ig
nored when the distribution of
offices takes place.
James Jelfrey Itoche, associate
editor of the Boston Pilot, says of
James Boyle O’Reilly’s method of
work: “When he had a lecture ora
poem to prepare for some special
occasion, as, for instance, the Ply
mouth celebration, be would shut
himself in a room at a hotel, and
stay there till the work was done;
perhaps for one or two days, as the
case might be, and when he came
back he would look os It be bod
been in prison for a month. All
his vitality was put lqto his work.”
TheChicago Inter-Ocean is of the
opinion that the administration
coach has got to the forks of the
road, and that Mr. Blaine Is trying
to pull the team into tlio dangerous
uutraveleu by-path of reciprocity
instead of following the broad,
smooth highway of protection. Tbe
Inter-Ocean evidently thinks thnt
Mr. Blaine should ne tumbled out
of his high seat near the whip
socket, to make room for a better
man. But perhaps his place on top
of the coach gives Mr. Blpine abet
ter view of tbe front than is enjoyed
by the later-Ocean, and he may
know that a big washout has occur
red in the protection highway, into
which the coach will tumble if a
by-path cannot be found that will
take it safely around. There Is cer
tainly plenty of evidence that such
a washout lias occurred or is about
to occur.
Ppeaking of the effort of the Mis
sissippi convention to incorporate
in its constitution a provision
against the leasing of convicts in
that State, the Savannah News
says: “The system came of a tem
porary necessity, and has existed
ever since. The people of the South
cannot afford to maintain in idle
ness an army of convicts, and if
Mississippi should make a change
in the system, which would not en
tail additional burdens on the tax
payers or throw tbe convicts into
competion with honest labor, her
example, undoubtedly, would be
followed by every other State in
the South."
All the world wants Georgia pine.
It has been tried and found worthy.
Mr. Courtenay DeKalb recently
went up tbe Amazon 3,000 miles to
the land of steamboat navigation.
The boat on which he trrveled has
been in constant use in that trying
climate for twenty-three years.
She was built in Philadelphia of
Georgia pine and is now as soand
as any English vessel that
has been on the Amazon seven
years.* Good Georgia pine in a
ship’s hull will last three times as
long as teak.
A special from Charleston, S. C.,
says: “The Republican nominat
ing convention to-day in the seven-
eth Congressional convention was
a complete fiasco. Tom Reed, Har
rison and Hoar ought to have been
at the convention to have seen
what negro supremacy would mean
The delegates fought and cursed
each other in public and private
Each superlative of defamation
with Afro-American revisions aud
improvements, was brought into
requisition.
The Democrats of Delaware have
adopted a strong party platform,
drawn by ex-Secretary Bayard. It
vigorously attacks and denounces
all the Republican usurpations aud
iniquitous moasures. Two. years
ago the Republicans secured a inn
jorlty of the Delaware legislature,
through Democratic divisions, and
elected a United States Senator;
but the Democrats intend to fully
redeem the State this year.
Shippers throughout the United
States have gained a great victory
in securing a modification of a uni
form bill of lading. The ounces
sions made by the carriers consists
iu striking out the words “not ne
gotiable,” against which the ohief
complaint was made. The railroad
representatives have agreed to this,
aud the amended bill goes into use
September 1st.
The Democratic convention of the
Second Congressional district of
Florida has nominated Robert Bul
lock, the Congressman recently
unseated from that district. The
mention of his name was greeted
with applause and he was nominat
by acclamation. He will be scut
back by an overwhelming majority.
Quay has wou in the caucus, and
it is said that the force bill is now
dead for a certainty. Hoar aud
Spooner worked hard, but were
rousted. It is said the Democrats
sat hack aud smiled with satisfac
tion at the way Quay led his party
aud the force bill folly.
The report of the bureau of sta
tistics for the past fiscal year shows
a small increase in the number of
immigrants as compared with the
year preceding. The total for the
year ending dune 30, IBS'.), was 438,-
61a, while for last year it was 451,-
210, an increase of 12,000.
Tlie only slate producing county
in Georgia is Polk, where there are
four companies engaged iu this
business, and all of them at Rock-
mart. They produced last year
roofing aud other slate to the value
of *15,330, and paid out iu wages
$11,371.
General James 8. Hogg, tbe rail
road commissioner candidate for
Governor of Texas, was unani
mously nominated by the Demo
cratic convention Wednesday. The
platform contained a plank favor
ing the free and unlimited coinage
of silver.
SOUTH CAROLINA SPLITS.
The Democratic convention of
South Carolina, as was feared by
many, has resulted in a split, and
the situation is now a grave one.
An adjournment was reached
Thursday morning at 5:30 o’clock,
after an all night’s session, tbe anti-
Tillmanites making a bolt, upon
the refusal of the TillmaniteB of a
demand for primaries. After the
bolt a new executive committee,
composed of Tillmanites, was elect
ed.
The seceders and their adherents
claim to be the regular Democracy
of the State, and refuse to recog
nize the “rump” committee, as they
term it, and if, as is anticipated,
the new committee should demand
of the old one the funds, papers and
other property in its possession, an
injunction restraining the treasurer
from delivering the same will be
sued out in the courts, a working
majority of the committee holding
that it is the only legally consti
tuted Democratic Executive Com
mittee, aud will ignore the authori
ty of the Tillman convention.
A convention of the' '400 iu con
ference,” auti-Tillmauites, has
been called in Columbia for August
13 This convention will take steps
looking to the nomination of a can
didate for Governor to oppose Till
man, who, of course, will be regu
larly nominated by his faction on
September 10. The aid of tbe negro
vote may be invoked, and the ex
istence of the white man’s Demo
cratic party in South Carolina is
seriously imperiled.
The situation 1b serious, viewed as
it may be, but it is yet hoped the
fight may be ended in the Demo
cratic party, where it began.
The most daring experiment yet
made in the construction of electric
railways is about to be undertaken
in Russia. It will be a line from
St. Petersburg to Archangel, on the
White sea, a distance of 500 miles.
The electric current will besupplled
from a series of stations along the
line. As Archangel lies in 64)* lat
itude, close to the Arctic circle, it
would be very difficult to operate
the proposed railway with steam
power. It is estimated that the
coBt of the electric road will be
only about $15,000 a mile. Should
this line be built aud successfully
operated, a similar railway might
be constructed through Alaska to
Behring straits to meet there an ex
tension of the Russian railway sys
tem through Siberia, and thus unite
by continuous railway connection
America, Europe and Asia.
The Democrats of Delaware lost
the legislature in 1838, and conse
quently a United States Senator, by
quarreling among themselves.
They seem to have come together
again, aud are preparing to atone
for their disreputable conduct two
years ago. This excellent result is
due largely to the influence of Mr.
Bayard. He went as a delegate to
the recent State Democratic con
vention from a Wilmington ward,
and prepared the admirable plat
form which was adopted. Mr.
Bayard supported the resolutions in
a plea for harmony aud uuited party
action.
A subscriber at I.aGrange writes
the Euquirer-Snu that the re
port that Judge Thomas Whitak
er would be an Independent
candidate for Congress is a joke.
The Judge proposes to stand by the
nominee, and on Thursday had Mr.
C. L. Moses, who was in attendance
at the State Agricultural Conven
tion, to dine with him. Judge
Whitaker was recently elected a
memberof the Democratic Execu
tive Committee, and of course In-
dependenlism is not to be thought
of.
WHY NOT GEORGIA ON WHEELS ?
Florida on Wheels and California on
Wheels Causes the Querry.
A State of Washington judge is
carrying into legal practice Speaker
Reed’s method of counting quo
rums. He has decided that where
the law says that a certain measure
must have the consent of two-fifths
of the qualfiled voters of the county
to make it operative, the absence of
the electors does not prevent the
carryingof the measure hy a two-
fifths vote, the law presuming that
those absent assent to the will of
the majority.
Macon Telegraph.
Among the “railroad notes” the
Tolegraph recently published a de
scription of the advertising train
sent East by California, and added
as there is on the road a “Florida
on wheels” and a “California on'
wheels,” why not put in the field a
“Georgia on wheels?”
Yesterday a note was received
from Mr. James Gouldman, stating
that he would like to say something
on the matter.
Mr. Gouldman was found at the
fruit storage house of Mr. T. C.
Parker in the Planters’ Oil Compa
ny’s building. He stated that Flor
ida bad now bad an advertising car,
known as “Florida on Wheels,”
out on tbe road three years, in
charge of Warner 8. Webb. The
car and persons in charge are main
tained and sustained by contribu
tions from Florida merchants, bust,
ness men, fruit growers, farmers
and all classes of Florida men who
appreciate the hard cash, practical
benefit of properly advertising
Florida. At present “Florida on
wheels” Is in Paterson, N. J. The
car remains from one to two weeks
in a place and then 'removes to
some other populous center where
it remains for about the same pe
riod.
Cars suitable for the purpose cost
about $8,000, and the total cost of
car, interior equipments, and the
collection of advertising material is
from $15,000 to $20,000. The rail
ways charge one full fare for each
employe on tbe car and haul the car
at 1 cent per mile.
There is a quantity of money in
the North ready for any investment
that can be demonstrated as profita
ble, affording a good field for an ad
vertising car to Induce investment
of capital in the South. The North
west is busy advertising her own
opportunities for investment and
does not afford such a good field.
The far West has thousands with
capital Jsnglng from $5.000 to $20,-
000 and no opportunity for safe in
vestments in sight. That should
be a good field.
In conclusion Mr. Gouldman
stated that he was ready at any
time to cheerfully lend his assist'
ance toward getting up and putting
on the road a "Georgia on wheels,”
that shall, by material samples of
natural and manufactuied pro
ducts, show plainly aud fully the
immense resources of Georgia, the
Empire State.
It is the opinion of the New York
Star that Speaker Reed is losing
confidence in his eyesight as a
means af securing a quorum, and
so be lias decided to keep the mem
bers in tbe House even by force if
necessary. The Star thinks it
would be a fitting climax to the out
rage if he should corral the mem
bers and chain them to their seats
in order to secure their attendance.
General Hazen has been invest!-
gating the-number of destructive
tornadoes since 1872. He finds there
have been fifty-seven such In differ
ent parts of the Union up to March
27,1880. The tornadoes occurred in
twenty different States, and killed
or injured 2,725 persons and de
stroyed $12,470,000 worth of prop
erty. Illinois and Missouri had
the greatest number of these visita
tions, and the States on the Atlan
tic coast are, as a rule, the fewest.
Great excitement line been caus
ed in the lower part of Pulaski
county over tlie mysterious disap
pearance of a married woman, who
leaves four small children mother
less. Her husband was arrested on
suspicion of being her murderer,
but was released for want of evi
dence. He refuses to give satis
factory answers when questioned
about the matter.
it is settled that Snelson will b**
an Independent candidate for State
Senator. His faction, which bolted
the Fairburn convention, met again
Friday and nominated him. He
was present, aud when notified,
responded iu a speech, saying thnt
the October election would decide
the issue.
Sixty-live years ago Emmons
Iludge was arrested in Hartford,
Conn., for selling ice, as the doctors
had decided that it was unhealthy
to use it. And now the man who
attempts to check the ice traflic in
the same city would be roughly
handled. Times change.
England is the creditor of the
world. It is estimated that the
debts due by the people of other
nations to England and English
men amount to over fifteen thou
sand millious. This with the own
ership of AbIu and Africa, one-half
of North America and numerous
choice islands ought to make Eng
land reasonably happy.
A special from Dallas, Tex., says
that when the State Republican
convention meets in San Antonio
on September 3d, that it will be
controlled by white Republicans,
of Southern birth, who will form a
white Republican party. They will
denounce the force bill and demand
the passage of an Australian ballot
law.
The Peoples’ party of Kansas has
put out a hybridticket, nominating
a woman for State school super-
| intendent and a negro for auditor.
General Phil Cook, Secretary of
State, has done a publio service de
serving recognition, saysthe Atlan-
J ta correspondent of the Enquirer-
! Sun. A short time since be inves
tigated the matter of taxes in phos
phate “finds,” which resulted in
bringing Into the State treasury a
very large aud permanent revenue.
SLAUGHTER SHLE.
Thousands of dollars of New and Seasonable Dry Goods to go
Change in the firm of course necessitoted an inventory of stock
which has just been completed. We find we have thous
ands of dollars more of Dry Goods than we . expected
and in order to reduce our stock where we would
like it, we propose to inaugurate a Grand
Slaughter Sale for a few days.
COMMENCING MONDAY MORNING
We will offer the following :
1 Lot White Plaid Organdies 12 l-2c quality, 7 l-2c per yd.
1 Lot White Plaid Organdies and Mull Checks
15c quality, 8 1-2 per yd.
l Lot Fine White Plaid Muslins 18 and 20c goods, 10c per yd.
25c quality at 15c; 30c goqds at 22 l-2c.
Lots of Remnants for almost nothing.
The finestWhite Lawns and lowest prices in Americas.
Our 9|c. quality will match regular 12Jc. goods, and so on all
the way up to 25c. yd.
Too much in White Goods to particularize.
Thousands of Challies from 5c. per yd. upwards.
A few choice patterns of those fine 65c. and 76c. French Chal-
ies to be closed Monday at 49c. yer yard. Don’t miss this oppor-
unity.
A small lot of those side Band Novelty Challies and oteer styles
reduced from 50c. to 35c. per yd. Magnificent quality and very wide.
Choice lot of 25c. Wool Challies to be closed at 19Jc.
Everything in Wool Goods at Cut Prices for this sale.
Everything in Black Goods
At cut prices for this sale.
All Evening Shades at cut prices for this special sale.
Too many things in all the above to go into details.
Thousands of Choice Ginghams from Gc. to 12Jc. per yd.
One Lot Elegant Scotch Zephyr Ginghams which have sold all
season at 25c. per yd. to be closed at 19£c
Crinkled Seer-Suckers.
Terrible cut to close out wbat wo have,
per yard. All choice patterns-
29c. Goods to go at CJ
RIBBONS !
We carry more Ribbons than all the balance of the Dry Goods
houses iu Americus combined.
We propose clearing them out at once and terrible reductions
will be made in prices.
LADIES’ UNDERVESTS!
Stacks, and stacks of them just opened, and as it is lato in the
season we intend clearing them out at once. Five hundred Elegant
Jersey Ribbed Tests legulnrly sold at 20 and 25c. to be sacrificed at
’Oc. a piece. «
The Finest 15c., 25., 30c., vests ever offered in Americus at tho
prices.
Beautifully finished and splendid fitting Bleached Lisle Vests
75c. goods, to bo sold at 55c. each.
Choice Lot of Silk Undervests, $1.00 quality at 074c. each.
Splendid lot of Mitts sold heretofore at 50 and 75c. to go at 25
and 35c. per pair.
All our Umbrellas and Parasols at cut prices.
Tho finest 25e. Ladies Hose in Americus. Quantities of Odds
and Ends in Ladies aud Children’s Hosiery to bo sacrificed.
Tho Choicest Stock of Handkerchiefs in Americus. Cut prices
all through the Stock.
Magnificent lot New Torchon Laces just opened and marked
at very low prices.
Largo lots counterpanes at ridiculous prices.
• Our $1.25 Spread at 98c.
Our $1.50 Spread at $1.19.
Our $1.75 Spread at $1.35c.
Table Damasks, Napkins and Towels at tempting prices.
Laco Curtains and Screens. In this.lino we have the best stock
we liavo ever carried. The prices range from 7 1-2 yd. to $5.00 per
pair. Splendid lot of Colored Curtain goods sold heretofore at 15c
to 25e per yd. to go at 12 1-2 per yd.
Black Drapery Nets.
We have only very few left aud are anxious to get rid of them
,If you have any idea yon would ever care to look at them we will
make you prices you can not resist. Remnants of this we will al
most give away.
Our press of business prevents giving an itemized list of a great
many attractions we will offer.
Come and see for yourself, and if we canuot make it interesting
for you we will not ask you to buy.
No misrepresentations allowed, nor will bo tolerated for the sake
of mnking a sale. We are anxious for your trade, but if we cannot
get it honorably we do not want it.
Wtiealley & flnsley,
The Leaders of the Dry.GoodsJraJe.