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(FF FOR LIBERIA.
NEGRO EWVIGRANTS SAIL FROM SA.-
; VINNAH FOR THE FAR AWAY
COUNTRY.
gney CArTY Plenty of Supplies--The Men
rake Their Guns and the Women
Their Gewgaws--Singing and
shouting the Party Bid
Adieu to America. 3
savANNAH, GA., March 20.—The
steamship Horsa, with two hundred
Liberian emigrants, sailel from Savan
pab this afternoon. Five thousand ne
soes gathered on the wharves and
zhecrud the vessel as it passed down the
river. Knots of negroes began gather
ing in the vicinity of the dock where the ‘
steamer was lying early this morning.
The number kept increasing and at noon
several thousand were packed in the
streets and lanes and covered the roofs
of buildings for several blocks. The
effort of Rev. C. 8. Smith, secretary of
M(l;xy School Union of the African
Metbodist church, who has been endeav
oring to preveunt the clearance of the
vessel on the ground that she was not
properly equipped, failed to accomplish
anything.
The accommodations of the Horsacom
plied fully with the law and the vessel
passed a thorough inspection by the cus- ‘
toms officials.
Shortly after noon the gates to the
wharf where the emigrants were waiting
were opened and the negroes went
aboard.
[t was a curious procession, rangingin
ace from the baby in arms to the old
man tottering on the verge of the grave.
The women came first and made strange
contrasts, One with a checked apron
and a sunbonnet wis followed by a
jauntily-dressed girl of more tender
years, with gaundy plumed hat and
bright ribbons. Some carried valises,
others buckets, others tins full of small
articles. After the women came the
men, some with shotguns, rifles, and
others with assorted luggage. All were
sent into the stern of the vessel and
grouped together in order that a picture
ot the vessel might be taken, The count
shywved 202, of which 38 were children
and 7infants. The clearance papers put
the number at 187,
TAKING PLENTY OF SUPPLIES,
Over four hundred trunks and boxes
were taken as baggage. In the boxes
are agricultural Implements, firearms,
ammunition, household utensils and sup
plies, clothing, ete, The party will |
probably ke the best equipped that has
ever left America for the dark continent.
Since their arrival in Savannah they
bave spent probably $1,500 to $2,000 lay- ‘
ing in stores. The majority of the ne
groes appear vo be still quite well sap
plied with money. ‘There is probably
wota man in the party but who has
sufficient to provide subsistence for some
time after landing in Liberia. Supplied
as they are, there is no danger of this
party starving to death or otherwise suf
-~ fering if there is any possibility of mak
ingaliving at all in the land to which
they are going.
When the vessel's lines were cast off
there was a cheer from the crowd on the
wharves and the emigrants sang their
parting song: “I’'m Going Home to Af
ric’s Shores,”” The refrain was taken up
by those on the shore. The singing was
kept up until the vessel passed the city,
the crowd following along the wharves
i shouting good-byes.
TELEPHONES FOR SHELLMaN.
Dawson Interested in the Enterprise.
The Shellman correspondent of the
Cuthbert Leader says:
Mr. Chas. J. Whitehead, manager of
the telephone exchange of Dawson, was
intown Tuesday for the purpose of or
ganizing a stock company to erect a tel
eéphone line from Dawson to Shellman.
Itis probable the line will be built at‘
once. Mr. Whitehead informs us that
Albany and Parrott will be connected
With Dawson, which will enable Shell
man to talk to Dawson and all her con
bections by telephone, which will proba
ably include Smithville, Americus and
Ellaville, .
Old People.
Ol people who require medicine to
I'gulate the bowels and kidneys will find
the true remedy in Electric Bitters. This
Wedicine does not stimulate and contains
10 whisky nor other intoxicant, but acts
4 a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly
on the stomach and- bowels, adding
Strength and giving tone to the organs,
thereby aiding naturein the performance
Ofthe functions. Electric Bitters is an
xcellent appetizer and aids digestion.
Old people find it just exaetly what they
Deed. Price fifty cents per bottle a®
Sale-Davis Drug Co’s.
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She Is Coming, Father Abraham.
Ata recent marriage in Michigan the
fair bride was a mewber of eight secret
Societies, sevaral clubs and two mission-
Ay organizations, There is not much
;:)tlcl};;; as to who will carry the night
€y of that family. :
AN IMPORTANT COURT DECISION,
Touching Upon the Operations of Foreign
Loan Companies.
A recent decision rendered i the
superior court of Lee ¢ unty, this state,
has caused considerable newspaper com
ment. This discussion, touching the
operations or foreign loan co npanies,
will be of interest to the larze class of
persons who have mortgaged their lands
to concerns for borrowed money, or who
contemplate doing so. Commenting on
it, the Columbus Enquirer-Sun says:
~ “The Lee county case is tha* of the
Freehold Land Mortgage Company of
London, limited, vs. Carrie E. Taylor.
The suit was brought in 1888 on a prom
issory note for $6,000 given in 1831. Da
fault occurred in the payment of interest,
and, by the provisions of the note, the
entire debt was declared due and action
commenced to collect it, The loan was
made through the Corbin Banking Com
pany, as has been the custom of tha con
cern in this section. The evidence dis
closed that the company in this $6,000
transaction retained $1,200, or 20 per
cent commission, and that Mrs. Taylor
received only $4,800 net for her note. By
ihe face of the note and interest coupon,
the money was payable in New York at
the office of Corbin Banking Company.
Che defendant, Mrs. Taylor, contended
that this rendered it the same as a New
York contract, and as the note called for
8 per cent interest on its face, the whole
debt was rendered void, because the New
York legal rate of interest is only 6 per
cent, and under the New York law the
penalty for an attempt to collect more is
a forfeiture of the entire debt. The de
fendant further contended that she had
borrowed the money to pay her husband's
debts. The plaintiff contended that the
transactiou was a Georgia contract, and
the Georgia law legalized 8 per cent in- |
terest. The plaintiff also contended that ‘
the husband’s debt was for purchase
money of land which he had deeded to
his wife without paying for it. The jary
returned a verdict for Mrs. Taylor, sas
taining two of her pleas, first that it was
a New York contract and void for usury,
and, second, that it was the assumption
of the husband’s debt by his wife. It is
likely there are many cases in the south
similar to the Lee county case, and more
of them may be heard of in the courts.
He Will Plant Cotton.
They tell of a Pike county farmer who
recently expressed himself as follows on
the cotton question:
“(Going to plant much co tton?”’
“Yes, more'n I ever did.”
“But don’t you see how the papersare
advising farmers to plantless cotton?”’
“Papers? Confound the papers. 1
don’t read ’em.”’
“‘Not even yoar county paper?”’ :
“No! I've got no dollar to throw away
on a paper.”
“But a few pounds of butter would
pay for the paper a whole year.”
“See here, you town folks do a lot of
talking about things you know nothing
about. These newspaper men sit up and
tell the farmers what to do, and how t»
do, and six mouths of work hke I .do
would kill ’em dead as a door nail. Now
listen: Last summer I had a right smart
of sickness in my family and your town
‘doctors gets every speck of butter my
‘wife makes. We have not had a bit on
our table for months— all of it goes to
to the town doctors. I sold my corn t 2
pay your town druggist, and my lard and
meat to pay off hands. No, your editors
can preach about cotton till the star fall,
I'am goin’ ter plant every foot of ground
I’ve got in cotton—am goin’ to plow in
the very fence corners, and am even
going to plant the front yard init!"
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«“We direct the attention of our rea.ders
to the advertisement of Simmons Liver
Regnlator on another page. We have
used the mediciue in our family, and are
| prepared to say, from experience, that
‘ for a torpidliver ora disordered stomach
it is a good remedy. When traveling we
usually carry some in our valise.”’—From
the “Christian Visitor,”” Smithfield, N.
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40 YEARS THE STANDARD.
O’'FERRALL WAS EMBARRASSED.
The Negro Member Attended the Recep
tion and Went for the Lunch,
A Richmond, Va., special says: The
enemies of Governor O'Ferrall of this
state are disposed to use to his disadvan
tage the fact that he received a colored
member of the Massachusetts legislative
committee at the executive mansion here
last Friday. The factisthat the govern
or, in his official capacity, ianviied the
members of that committee to meet him
at the mansion. He knew nothing of
the fact that Representative Teamoh, a
colored man, was one of the committee
until he found him with his associate
committeemen in th e parlor of the man
sion, Teamoh did not go to the house
in company with the other members of
the committee, but drove there with Ed
itor Mithell, a colored man who con
ducts the Planet, a paper published here
n the interest of his race. When Gov
ernor Q'Ferrall saw the negro legislator
m the room he was considerably embar
rassed, but, as he was there purely in an
official capacity, he s\w no way of ignor
ing him without being extremely rude.
A slight repast had been prepared at
the mansion for the visitors. When the
party was invited to adjourn to the din
ing room and partake of the governor's
hospitality the colored min, Teamoh,
accompaniel by Mitchell, did not hesi- l
tate to join the otbers, This fact added
to the host’s embarrassment, which he ‘
possibly could not conceal. Had the
visit not baen strictly an offizial one itis
certain that the governor of this state
would have plainly indicated to Teamoh
that his presence was not only not de
sired, but would not be tolerated. This
incident was probably extremely unpleas
ant to Senator Darling and some of the
other white members of the Massachu
setts committee.
INTERESCING FACTS.
When a prince of the Austrian royal
family dies his horses follow the funeral
covered with a black cloth and lame in
one hoof. The lam:ness is produced by
driving a nail through the horseshoe.
This is the sign of the deepest possible
mourning.
The Arizonalndians have a peculiar
and effective way of branding animals.
The brand is made of steel with a knife
edge. Itis fixed onthe head of an ar
row and shot with a bow at the animal
t> be branded, with such force that it
cuts the mark in the hide. |
He Was Acquitted. g
In a certain county in Kentucky lived,
just outside the county seat, a farmer ‘
who had plenty of money and was active
in politics, but he nad no ambition for
office, says an exchange. He was a very
popular man, and the time came at last
when his friends said it was his duty ‘o
save his party by coming out as a jcandi
‘date for the legislature. He wouldn’t
‘l?sten to it, but they were s» persistent
that for his own peace of mind he finally
agreed to run, but assured them he
would make no effort to be eiected, and 1
they would have to do all the work.
Having full confidence in the potency of |
his name, they put it at the head of their
ticket and went into the campaign with
yigor. During its continuance he went
early to town and stayed there until the
polls closed. By 10 o’clock that night
the returns were in and a hasty court
showed that he had been overwhelming
ly defeated. Then he filled up and
went home.
“Susan, Susan,”’ he whooped, when he
got into the house, *‘l'm acquitted.
“Hooray. An’t you glad?”
“‘Why, George,”’ she exclaimed, ‘“‘what
do you mean?”’
«“Why, Susan, I'm acquitted; don’t you
understand? The jury was out all day
and they returned a verdict to-night of
pot guilty, and, Susan, I won’t have to
go to the legislature. Whoop! Hooray!”’
MOONLIGHT ON THE SEA.
'Tis moonlight on the sea, my love,
The wavyes beat soft and low;
Come then and Irift with me, my love,
My boat is moored below.
The moonbeams weaves a silvery pass
Across the hills of snow,
Come down across the sands, my love,
A shining track of gold,
A fair enchanted land, my love,
Before our eyes enrolled,
The tide in dalliance coming in,
A lover brave and bold. .
mhe wind is whispering soft, my love,
A sand, sweet song of sighs,
And stars shine out aloft, my love,
Like tender, dreamful eyes;
And passion full, the night a dream
In ali her beauty lies.
My soul is calling thee, my love,
My soul athirst for thine,
Come drift and dream with me, my love,
Thy soul in tune with mine;
For in all life, but once, 'tis said,
We dream such dreams divine.
We two adrift tonight, my love,
Through mortal life shall be,
God grant the way as bright, my love,
On all the changeful sea; :
And you and I together dear
Through sun or storm to be. !
—ViviAN CASTANE.
Branswick, Ga.
Headache bad? Get Dr. Miles' Pain Pills.
R Fertil;
: otton 'Hertilizer.
Purchase only such fertilizers for cotton which contain at
} least 3 to 44 actual potash.
1 11 S in 6 % Potash.
) For Corn, Fertilizers should contain 6 » Potash
Poor results are due entirely to deficiency of Potash.
We will gladly send you cur pamphlets on the Use of Potash.
They are sent free. It will cost you nothing to read them, and they will save you
dollars, GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York.
has offered his services to the President to
/ setde the currency question. He has openly
stated that he
the issue of bonds to national repudiation
But shall the bonds be payable in gold: or
coin? We are not so particular. We will
accept bonds, gold, silver, greenbacks or pen
nies in payment for .
at our store or on accounts. Call aud try us.
Tl Dawstn Busiess fustimt,
gy o e
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EDWARD E. BRITTON, Prin.
Offers superior advantages in the various departments of
a business education, in preparation fer college or university
and for the profession of teaching.
Rooms in the Baldwin Buldiag.
Terms Reasonable | S
& See Announcement!
Session Begins January 14, 1890.
The most thorough instruction in vocal and instrumental
music offered by Mrs. Edward E. Britton.
Septmen fK e M eL i et e i
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iL’ A g G T LOYWERES
—HAVE FORMED A PARTNERSHIP IN THE—
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l Hope to receive a liberal patronage. We will handle
[ Cotton Seed Meal, Ammoniated Guano, Acid Phosphate, Etc.
‘ 1.. A.& C. T. LOWREY,
Money Lioaned
uN
Farm Lands
AND CITY PROPERTY
At lowest rates of interest. Old loans
rene ved.
R. F.SIMMONS
Attorney at Law and Agent for Georgia
Loan and Trust Ce.
Watermelon Seed.
“The Cleckly Sweet” is the
finest and best on earth. Call
at R. L. Melton & Co’s. and
get some of these seed.
W. D. BIGELOW.
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No 2L 5 p Weak
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