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A brutal prize fight between Tom Jack
soil and Ed Anearn. in St. Louis a few
days ago proved fatal to Jackson.
The Americus Steam Laundry finds
the colored sister a most formidable
competitor. One of the managers inti
mated to us Saturday that the Laundry
was getting the worst of it.
The Sumter Republican is alright. It
will never go dead while its editor sur
vives. We dropped in on him Saturday
and found the old man at the case stick
ing type like a prairie on lire.
A Liverpool Special says:—A joint
committee of the Backbone cotton mas
ters and mill operatives has been ap
pointed to consider means by which the
ring controlling the prices of cotton may
be broken.
The Republicans pretend to be the
friends of the soldier element yet they
want to pension all camp-followers,dead
beats and skulkers, thus putting them on
a par with tlie gallant soldier who faith
fully performed his duties.
The three days reunion of the army
of the Cumberland began yesterday, and
to-day hundreds of old Confederate and
Union Soldiers are busy tramping over
their old battleground at Chicamauga,
locating the position of the troop during
the battle.
John L. Sullivan, the mammoth slug
ger. world renowned bully and grand
culmination of savage pomposity, is un
decided whether to organize a traveling
show, with himself as chief attraction
and general manager or to lay aside
every thing else and run for congress on
his fighting record.
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The first issue of the Tallahassee, Fla.
Tallahassean, under its new manage
ment is before us; it is somewhat reduc
ed in size, but makes up in spiciness
and news. If the new editors and pro
prietors, Messrs. Collins and Shine, will
keep it up to this standard the Tallahas
sean will live long and prosper.
Some villian place a cross tie on the
Central railroad track near Atlanta hist
Monday night and wrecked a freight
train loaded with hams, bacon, flour,
and white pine doors. The cars were
crushed into splinters and engineer John
Jordan; fireman. Bob Martin; and brake
man, Rufus Parker were instantly kill
ed.
The cotton tare meeting held in New
Orleans last week, comprised of dele
gates from the various cotton exchanges
of the United States and attended by
president Livingston of the Georgia
Farmers Alliance and State Commission
er of Agriculture, Henderson, of Geor
gia, agreed on a tare of tiventy-four
pounds on each hale covered with jute,
and sixteen pounds on each bale cover
ed with standard cotton bagging. Th.s
agreement is to go into effect on the first
day of October.
Americus is a hustling little city. We
spint Saturday there and noticed a
steady stream of cott‘in wagons rolling
in, The warehousemen were too busy
to i at dinner, we noticed one taking a
hastv lu:ich in his offica between bales,
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M ires and h >) U are up and d > electric
lights will soon flash their brilliant rays
all over the city. Work is progressing
on the electric railway and street cars
wills,o:i speel through the principal
streets. New buildings are going up on
the heretofore vacant lots anil the little
inland city will soon he putting oil cos
mopolitan airs.
Colonel R. Don McLeod, in his vale
dictory. says that to his persistent efforts
“T lorida is largely due for tremendous
reductions in the state printing.” Colo
nel Mclx'od is worse than Tanner. Tim
latter thinks that to the veterans who
saved tho country a large part of the
country itself is due. Our Florida friend
however, no doubt meant to say “in
debted” instead of “due” and that is
true, for he saved’the i/tnte thousands cf
dollars.—Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Un
ion—Put it as von like best. Bro. Mer
rell, we didn’t intend to take the State
no-way; nor will we accept nil tlie credit.
We have not. forgotten that the able ed
i tor in Is and co-exeitions of the Times
Union played a most prominent part in
that memoriable contest.
OKA DC ALLY GROWING.
The subscription list of the News con
tinues to swell. Among our latest add
| tions are the following:
W c Kelley, Miss Ella Tannehill, W
B Ingram,Charles Womack, W FPerrv.
A M Caskey, J R Pilcher, R T Bivins, R
E L Eason. J L Murray. R L Murray. C
, C Sheppard, Miss Lessee Ponder, Albert
V all, Mrs M J Barrow, M B Jones, J R
Walters. LH Killebrew, Herman Winde,
C C Hawkins. Brown – Mardre, Merrell
Callaway and Henry A Rasco. The
News is only twelve weeks old, and yet.
I to day its bona fide circulation extends
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Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Michigan, District of Columbia, and the
Republic of Mexico, making eleven
states besides the District of Columbia,
and the Republic of Mexico. While
this is true and we hope to still further
extend our circulation abroad, it is
never-the-less true that our main sup
port must come from Georgia, and
ticularly Schley county. Ellaviile is
giving the News a liberal support. Our
delivery here, we learn, is already as
large, if not larger than that of any
other paper ever published at this place.
yet there are a few good people in this
neighborhood who are not subscribe rs
and we want to get them all. We can
get up a better paper when we know
that it will lie read by every intelligent
man, woman, boy and girl in the county.
With her population, Schley countv
ought to give the News at the very low
est . one thousand regular subscribers; if
she will do so. we will strain every nerve
to make it worthy of this support. We
appreciate very highly the material aid
rendered by friends who show their pa
j pers to neighbers and get them to sub
scribe and we hope every one friendly
to the News will do the same thing un
til every intelligent citizen of Schley
county is enrolled on our subscription
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WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
Of all the disjointed, misconnected,
out-of-the-way, uncivilized, mail ar
rangement that ever provoked a civiliz
ed people the one from Ellaville to any
other point in the world caps the cli
max. Just think of it, the county site
of one of the best counties in the best
State in the Union, with rapid railroad
trains speeding by its doors four times
a day, and vet if you address a letter to
Putnam, only seven miles above here,
right on the railroad, it must leave Ella
vilie at 9:12 a. m., go to Americus, lie
over there all day and pass back by here
at 5:50 p. m., before going to Putnam.
If you write after 9:12 it cannot leave
here until the next day following. Tois
sort of arrangement might be endurable
in a back wood town with no way of
getting out except on horse back, but
with our splendid railway facilities th it
have been in operation now for more
: than three months, it is worse than
. chaining hungry
| a man to a post and
placing chicken pie and apple dumpling
just out of his reach. We would like to
know who is responsible for this mail
arrangement anyhow. If In? doesn't
change it soon Le should have a monu
ment erected to his everlasting memory.
SITU IS ANAIWHY
Last week, a rough poorly clad old Ger
man inventor named Di vide, walked
into the office of a wealthy German jew
eler in Brookly N. Y. named Gesswein
and drawing a revolver demanded five
hundred dollars or blood, Gesswein
very naturially declined to part with so
much wealth, and Deyhle fired on him
sending a bullet through his heait,
’”g him instantly. At a leg Anarchist
meeting, held in Chicago Sunday, ’ reso
Uitions were passed commending the act
; of Deyhle and declaring that the killing
"'as “not murder, but poetic retribu
| tion.” The murderrer claimed that his
victim hid de.rmDl him iu a intent
transaction. One speaker declared
that such is tho only chance the poor
haye of getting even with the rich. For
a poor man to kill the rich, thev seem to
t • un . . u . no ha;m. This fair ; sample ,
is a
of the class of immigration that Europe
for several years past, has been pouring
into America. Where it will end the
| Lord only knows. It is rather late now,
but we can lessen tlie evil some by clos
ing our ports to the slums of the Old
World and tlie sooner we do it the bet
ter.
Mrs. Geo. I{ Dun ford, of Reading Pa.
"d’ile laughing at a comic play in a the
’ ltre ««« night last week, accidently
s "' abo "'Pd her false teeth and died next
l * a N 111 o ,Vat agony.
The I>ody of a man, decayed beyond
rocognition. was found in a large tank
in Birminghan last Tuesday. Evidence*
| s,f foul play were plain,
SCHLEY COUXTY NEWS.
LOST A FOOT BY WHISKEY,
Sanford Minter, a young negro man
was picked up on the radroad near the
water tank, about six miles from Ella
ville last Sunday morning with one foot
crushed off. Hew he came to be there
he doesn’t seem to know himself. He
lives at Buena Vista and went down to
Amencus Saturday, filled himself with
red liquor and started back on the freight
and accommodation train. We were on
board and noticed him getting off ancl
on every time the train made a halt.
He and another drunken darkey would
get off and pat and dance on the ground
rr e ^rtr szrz
they were mtting up monkey antics and
Marshall Myers made them get in the
car and stay there, though he had to
threaten them with his club before they
would do so. It is supposed that San
ford got off at the water tank and got
left. He savs he was awaken from his
drunken stupor by the night passenger
train passing over his leg, cutting off
his foot at the ankle. As no one was in
sight, he lay there in terrible agony un
til his yells brought assistance. Sunday
he was taken up to his home in Buena
Vista and re cieved surgical attention.
Sanford has learned by sad experience
that railroad trains and whiskey don’t
run well together. He may profit by
the experience, but others will not.
They will do as lie did, keep monkeying
with red liquor and trains, until they
get experience of their own.
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A rather queer accident happened last
Friday llis?ht to Mr. Trippe, clerk in the
Allen House bar at Americus. When
dosi the bar for the night he missed
;i pet owl and going out he found the
bird in the street. On catching it the
bird made fight and clasped its talons
around its captors wrist. The clutch was
very painful Mr. T.ippe in his despera
tion got a negro hoy who was near, to
take a knife and cut the owl loose. Tlie
boy made a nnsslick and cut a fearful
gash across Mr. Trippe’s wrist, from
which tlie blood flowed freely. He fi
nailv succeeded in freeing himself from
the owl’s clutch and sent for a physician
who after a time succeeded in stopping
the excessive hemorrhage resulting from
the knife wound.
The Montgomery Advertiser says:—It
is pretty well settled that the man
agement of the Georgia Central railroad
system will change hands at an early
day. Mr. Cecil Gabbett lias been ten
dered and will accept the general man
agement of tlie Georgia Central and all
of its branches. Mr. Gabbett is now gen
eral manager of the Western Railway of
Alabama, the Cincinnati, Selma and
Mobile railway, and the Atlanta and
West Point railroad.
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Sim. the little son of Dr. Jefferson, re
ceived a severe stab in the side the other
day. He was running with a wheel-crank
attached to a stick, when, striking soiuet
tiling suddenly, he fell breaking the
stick and sticking tlie sharp end into his
left side nearly reaching the hollow. The
little fellow is getting along very well.—
Marion County Patriot,
Dan Hall, Tap Polt, Will Caldwell and
T. J. Aldridge. -The first three well
known young men of Atlanta and the
last named a policeman, were indicted
! , by the .. grand , jury . ot ,. Fulton t, county , last ,
i week for committing the outrages
• against negroes at East Point, recently.
Dexter Missouri is on the eve of a lit
tie race war. The people of that section
I have handed together and excluded ne
groes from among them and tlie effort
of a wealthy man named Williams, to
settle negroes on his farm is the cause
of the trouble. Both sides are arming *•
i
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j Foxes seem to be scarce in Marion
I county, when the hunters over there
catch one alive thuv turn him ldose for
future sport. They ought to come over
( to Schley where the hunters
kill all they
j catch and then have enough left for all
the sport they want
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L ! 1 ' Nickens * KUens ’ a ,l methodi-ff niethodwt
P m u’her, is und. r indictment in Mad
ison county Arkansas, for the murder
of Rev. Jaird Carnutt, a Baptist
pmu icr ‘
The Marion county Alliance tire going
to apply for a charter to incorporate an
Alliance Stock Company to run a big
store in Buena Vista.
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Tlie Buena Vista bank is arranging to
begin business t-emporarilv in some otb
er , | house while ... waiting ... for their , .
new
bank building.
Americus consumed four hundred and
live thousand gallons of water last Fri
idav.
FREEWILL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
The fifty-fourth anual session of the
Chattahoochee United Freewill Baptist
Association will convene on Thursday
night before the first Sabbath in October.
( th,s eingtie.rd o month ’ 1 at '
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New Prospect church two miles North of
Reynolds, Taylor county. The Monte
zuma Recorder please copy. All are in
^ attend D. J, Apperson.
Moderator
A SUDDEN DEATH.
ec'cjaiu . i. a e 'lthz
visiting i r. * unes ancan, « ot -
nnes 10 m town, tie | ret. iu
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tn ig on the front porc 1 1 ls< - aissm S ’ e
-l ute bagging question wien - r. v ec --
c} stoppeR ta Dn„ nn< iet> tc o\ti
of his chair. 1 lie other two gen omen
1 aught urn anc tasu mu o a e a
h.' t u time u k it' it t u s[ ai c o it
had flickered out and lie was dead. le
had ™ ade ”° camplaint and it is sup
posed that he died ot heart disease. The
deceased leaves a young wife to whom
b6 bad been mam ed about a year,
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
If you have lands to sell or wish to
buy real estate call on or addres Mr.
Merrell Calloway of Americus. He
makes a specialty of the real estate busi
ness, is in constant communication with
people looking for homes in this section
and can 8cl1 or buy to betfcer ad '* antage
than those not m the busmess , ’ If 8ome
°J placa our their Ellaville vacant real f lots tate in °™ !ns hands s w ° u,d
wouId be the means of curing new
comers, building up our litttle city en
hancin « town pro P ert v and enriching
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owners - S(> lon * as lots lie vacant the
town will remain at a stand still and
property will never be worth any more
than it is to-day. Tlie big boom that
Florida has enjoyed for the past ten
years was largely due to the exertions of
real estate dealers. Besides making
mont '- v for theniselves a » d the land own
ers they make it easy and convenient for
new comers to secure homes.
SCHLEY COUNTY.
Schley County is composed of teritory cut
j off from Sumter, Marion and Macon counties,
it was organized in l.85t>, and named for one of
the old Colonial Governors of Georgia; Gov
eruor Sclilej-.
Its location is Soutlnvost-Central. Area 180
square miles. General features, hilly, inter
spersed with level plateax. The soil is very
i, fertile all over tho county, but varies in color,
some places being red clay, some dark brown,
very sticky iu wet weather, some pebbly and
some sandy, under-laid with clay subsoil.
Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, pota
j toes, pumkius, melons, rice, wheat, rye, bar
ly, peanuts and chufas; peaches, pears,prunes,
pomegranates, plums, apples, apricots, quin
ces, cherries, grapes, mulberries, strawberries,
j raspberries, goose berries, beets, cabbage. Cll
I ''limbers, squashes, tomatoes, turnips mul oth
er field, orchard and garden products, grow
here to perfection.
The fence corners, waste places in old field
and forest, abound in all kinds of wild fruit,
such as blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries
whortleberries. May haws, black haws, plums,
cherries, crab apples,persimmons, fox grapes,
Winter grapes, muscadines, ehinquepins,
ll '!' , ' or v n,,tM 11,1,1 -chestnuts.
j Besides ; the native crab, crowfoot- and other
j passes, m m y of the best varieties ofnnport
I ed grasses do well here, especially Uarmuda,
• herds, bine and orchard grass.
j The no fence law prevails in the county, yet
j stock raising is rapidly becoming one of the
! h’ading industries of the county some of the
1 ft aest h<,, ' sos in " lC South arc raise ’> hcre and
<
j the , rich , golden butter and sweet country hams
I that are daily brought to market by the far
mers of Schley, could not lie beaten anywhere.
i (,(>J t° n is the money crop of the county, but
! 1,i, i’i >i Lvthe day has past and forevevr gone
! " Il '. n ll ’,. n1 • s eli ,e J < *“i>e | ided on other
sections for their meat and bread. Nearly ev
ery farmer in the county makes plenty of corn
and bneou for home consumptions and many
ot 'them make a surplus to sell. Nopartieulnr
I b jrivo " to poultry raising, yet the
i Imem’m whh a l.oiw a!l!l\!4g«m kw-primly
’ ’he round hauling
year chickens and eggs from
j fichiev county to Americas.
I lie henlrli ot the county Isexcollent, thenv
e nw ' el,!Vation n, ‘ ai ' tw «> tl *ousmid feet
above , sea level and drahmge is
generally good
nn epidemic of any diseases, was never known
|„. ro
The farming people of Schley are intcligcnt
cultivated and refined as any agrieiiitiired peo
l' 1 '’ in tlie world. The county is dotted with
school houses and churches, and a half grown
person who cannot rend and write is seldom,
if ever met with, and of the negro race most
uf t,,c ' m rinec freedom can read and write,
CITATION FOR ADMINISTRATION,
d« bonis non.
Gkouciia Hchlkv County, To till whom it
ctineerm I’. Clegg of said Htnte, huv
in)f ’h’ldled to me lor letters offiidniinistmtlon
tie bonis non, on estate ot C. I). Clegg of wild
County tleeeascl. This is to cite ulUnd ring.,
Inr the heirs and creditors of C. It Clegg to be
and appear at the Oct. term JSftfi of said Court
and show euuse if iinj- they can. why letters of
administration, de bonis non. should not be
granted on said estate of C. It. Clegg. Wit miss
my official signature.
Sept.gtui IJPU. T. II. MyersOrd'y.
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
If you want to buy or sell Farm property
Sumter or surrounding counties
Address
MERRELL CALLOWAY
3mo, AMEUICUS Ga.
C. 0. HAWKINS
—DEALER IX—
FURNTIURE,
CROCKERY.
China, Glass Ware, Lamp Goods, Etc.
Burial Cases, Caskets a.vd Coffins
COTTON AVENUE, americus, Ga.
Hugh M. Brown. M, Little Mardre.
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Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Books Stationery Wall Paper
Wrapping Paper. Paper Bags, Twine,
Picture Frames,
ART GOODS, NOVELTIES, SHEET MUSIC, ETC.
School Goods a Specialty.
105 Forsyth Street. Next Door to Post Oflk •c.
AMERICUS GA.
aY'" Mail Orders Attended to Promptly.
3mo,
IFCm R A T.-R]
A live room dwelling with dining rcotj
and kitchen attached within the incor
porate limits of Ellaville. Nice flower
yard;good well of water and four acres
of land with the dwelling. For sale
cheap for cash.
Apply to C. R. McCrory.
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PIEDMONT EXPOSITION.
Events of the day admonish us that the
Piedmont Exposition of 1889 will attract
the largest number of capitalists, invest
ors, agriculturists, manufacturers, and
practical men general v. that ever attend
ed a Southern Exposition, who will vis
it Atlanta during October of the present
year. For this reason it behooves evert
county and county alliance to be repre
sented at this great Exposition, which
will be a material factor in adding to the
prosperity of the South. It is the earn
est request and desire of the Exposition
Company, that the material resources of
your section be advantageously display
ed at our Exposition. We appeal to you
on the ground of local pride, State fealty
and Southern prosperity, to gather the
best samples of your products, and pre
sent them here in creditable form. We
know it will require time and money,
but the results will more than compen
sate you for your trouble.
What we offer to county or county
farmers’ alliance and individual displays:
To the county or county fanners’ alli
ance making the largest and best display
; of products, grown or produced by resi
dents of the county, $1200.
To the county or county farmers' alii
mice making the second best display as
above. $700.
To the county or county farmers’ alli
ance making the third best display as
above, $800.
To the individual making the largest
and best display of products grown or
produced by him or her, or under his or
her direction, $500.
To the individual making the second
best display as above, $250.
To the individual making the third
best display i s above, $150.
Single exhibits contesting for prem
iums in any of the other groups may he
included in either of the displays of this
group, and individual displays may also
I form a part of county or county farmers’
alliance displays.
Tlie whole of this department is limit
ed to articles produced in States of the
Piedmont section, viz: Virginia, North
Carolina. Georgia. South Carolina, Ala*
liama and Tennessee, and all articles ex
hibited must be grown or made by the
exhibitor.
For information, see page 26. premium
list.
The management of the Piedmont Ex
position will extend every facility t’ 1
Alliances or counties desiring to make
exhibits.
Trusting that we will receive ivnr ap
plication for space at an early date,
desire to call your attention to the h" '
that this is not a State, county, or local
exposition, but will be national in its aim
and results. Yours respectfully,
Piedmont Exposition Co.
Atlanta, Ga.
THE PRIDE of WOMAN.
A clear piiirly mul tmiisparciit skin le nl»vn> ■
sign of blood, ami all persons troui'li' 11
a pure
with ilark. greasy, yellow or liloehcl skin
rest ussu rut I that their hlootl is out ofonlcr.
few doses of BKGGS, BLOOD PIIRIMKH *
blood MAKER will the cause ai" 1
remove
the skin will become chair mul transparent.
Try it. ami if satisfaction is not given it will c*'
you nothing. It Is fully Witrrente'l.
ltr. U. H. Smith Druggist'