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About The Lumpkin independent. (Lumpkin, Ga.) 1872-1924 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1883)
h HE LUMPKIN INDEPENDENT, LUMPKIN. GA., B. W- KEY, ) R. B HARRISCK, f EDIT0RS. T. 1 "'*--" ir ~~a— . ___ SATURDAY... .October 27, 1883. — ---r—-— --- titibsciTjitittn ond Auvcrttse ments due on demand outer by special contract to tlic contrary • - BUSINESS NOTICE The mulevsigiied des res to gives notice to all die patrons of Tun Independent that he alone in it* tm-dness nmnaaer. Contractu and all payments for subscription, job work and advertisements must be made with and to him. Financial matters connected with or growing out of business had with the of flee must he under his management. Any Hher inrnuuenii nt would create coufusiou *nd cause inji/tskes to arise. Mr. Iiobt. It. Harrison w 11 ! ave editorial charge of the *«ws and local department aud attend to tka office work. HENJ. TV. KEY. Proprietor. lt« It rou<l Talk. The nowly proposed ruilroad from Americas lo Lumpkin and Florence meets with much favor in ILo eyes of onr citizens. A narrow gauge road can bo built at a cost not exceeding $8,006 a tnilo while some engineers plase the figures as low as $4,109 per mile. Mr. Oleaster, of the Americus Recorder, bus talked with tho eiigiu ear who in now building the Jug Tavern Railroad iu North Gooigia who puts the figures down in the neighborhood of $4,500 per mile. Americus will contribute more for a railroad to Lumpkin than it propos¬ ed to invent in the Buena Vista Road, which amount ms boliovc was over $35,000. If tbo people cf Stewart county will go into the matter earn¬ estly, it will he an easy matter to got, the road. By extending tho road from Injurious to Vienna, in Dooly coauty, we could tap Col. A. J. Lane’s narrow gauge road from Mu con to Live Oak, Fja., which would give us direct communication with Macon and open up a market for tin heavy cotton crop ot Stewart county, which is mow dependent upon an al¬ most uunivvigublo river for transpor tation. II you will look upon the map you will see that it is nearly an air line from Vienna to Florence and over half of tho route i i comparatively a level country. But in building u narrow gauge roa 1 this big bugaboo of bills and valleys sinks into insig nificunco when wo consider the great ease with which narrow gauge roads ascend steep grades, being enabled in ins tame-; made known to us o make a grade of two hundred feet to tho mile. Then, tho cuts aro much narrower,the fills are not so much ol an undertaking, and the engine# be¬ ing low, hug the track closely and can make muoli shorter curves. Tho road should start from Florenca so that river freights could bo had Oil the iron or steel rails. With the road in operation from Lumpkin to Florence it will soon'lro extended to Americus with the help that we can got from that City and Webster county. Tho large land owners on the river will contribute largely to this enterprise, sud if the matter is pushed with vim aud energy, sucse'iis is assured. Fbkd Douglass, in grief and morti¬ fication, declared in the meeting of the colored brothers in Washington the other night, when they mot to "indignant,” against the civil rights decision of tho supremo court, that the colored pnohlo had been sadly wounded in the house of their "friends.” Tub number of old arms on hand in the govorument arsenal at Wash¬ ington will aggregate 100,000 of all kinds. They are being sold at prices ranging from 25 cents to $1 each. The latter priced pieces are complete and the former either iucompleto o» rusted G*s. Milks, of the regular army, bad a childless Boston uncle worth $1,700,000, but refused to resign his commission, and was left only $5,000 by his crusty rela'ivo. After a law¬ suit the general obtained $50,000. A Philadelphia railroad clerk sne ceeded in saviug $90 a month aud on a salary of $80. There is evidently a great future in store for that young mau. Nike million postal cauls, which will weigh thirty tons, have just been ordered from the factory at Castle ton, New York. John Young, son of old Brigham, is a good speaker, and ranks as chief dude of the Mormon Church. Mb. Bkix’iikh has returned to his home in Brooklyn after a jaunt of 18,000 miles. — ....... ....... ......— ■ A ohandson of Marshal Ney has turned up in Oregon. J. W. Mackey iudulges in uo rcc raatiou but poker. Geucral Newsi Items. —Governor-elect Hoadly has gone to Europe. —Lynchburg, Va., has bad forty - two incendiary fires in two months. There are seven candidates for s‘ate librarian in Kentucky. AH fe males. —Birds arc dying liy thousands iu Louisiana on account of lack of water. —Tenncseo claims to bo the Rec ond state in the Union iu the pos¬ session-of thoroughbred cattle. —Governor Butler, of Massachu¬ setts says he will bo a delegate to the national democratic convontion. —The khedive speeds at. least *,ix teen Lours of incessant occupation, if not ot hard labor, every day. —OLi ans are m id because they have little chance of naming the next republican candidate for president. —Java produces vegetable wool ; a a pound vrhou ready for manufacture. —Assistant Postmaster General II a lion pow recommends that letter poslogo be further reduced to one cunt. —The Russian minister to tbo United Slates lias children enough to require the cure of half a dozen nurses. —In all cases ol marriage between Chincisand whites in California, the brids have invariably boon young Irish girls. —The trustees of the Garfield Monument association invito inter¬ national competition for a monu¬ ment to cost $150,000. —The republicans in soma of the logiriative district in Massachusetts aro pushing resolutions in favor of biennial sessions of the legislature. —Chairman Cooper, of t he repnh licans state committee in Pennsylva¬ nia bitterly complains of republican apathy and luck ofcampnign funds. —The electric railway to the Giant’s Causeway, running from Port rush to Bushmills, a distance of •<ix miles, is in successful operation. —Federal claims against the Cen¬ tral Pacific railroad for internal rev¬ enue taxes iu California havo been compromised. This company pay* $69,000 and costs. —The blue ribboni’.es in England aro four miTliou strong and the an nual consumption of alcoholic drinks per head lias fallen oil’ according to population Loin £ 4 to £ 3. --Jerseymen aro considerably ex¬ cited over the alleged fact that there are 90,000 illiterate children in their state. They cannot bo persuaded to believe anything of the kind. —Because of a great sum in the treasury and a rapidly increasing assessors’ valuation of property the Texas legislature has a special session next mouth to reduce the rate o! tax alien. —The New Hampshire law prohibit¬ ing tho sale of toy pistols provides n penalty of from $10 to $50,and maker, the dealer liable for all damages re¬ sulting from selling or giving away such pistols. —The New York republican stale committee sunt circulars to the era - p eyes of tl.o different iu departments Washington making an appeal for funds to carry on the political canvass in that state. —Publics meetings are being held in various towns iu Australia to pro¬ test against tho policy of the impe¬ rial government regarding annexa¬ tion in tho Pacific. Tho meetings are vory earnest. —The territory of Montana is nbout. to ask for admission iuto the Union as a state. Delegates to a constitutional convention are being elected and a vote upon the pioposed constitution is expected to be taken in Novem¬ ber, 1883. —The report of the commissioner of pensions for tho fiscal year ended June 39, 1883, shows that there wore 303,668 pensioners on the rolls. The mimes of IS,958 persons were added during the year. The amount paid for pensions was $60,064,000, which included arrears. —Lust year England consumed, in addition to tho eggs marketed by her own fanners and poultry keep¬ ers, including the enormous supply from Ireland, no fewer than 6,757,- 234 ‘great hundreds’ of foreigu eggs, these imported eggs alone amount¬ ing to the almost incredible number ot 810,868,080, or two aud a quarter million eggs per day. —The watermelon from which crys talizable sugar can be obtain is not the ordinary melou, such as grow in great quantities in Aiut auia, Georgia and Florida, but u white pulped Hun garian variety, n Inch could be grown throughout the gulf states aud in Cal¬ ifornia with hut little trouble. It will yield at small cost for work and work¬ ing, not only crystalizable sugar, but a very delightful table syrup also. Georgia IiitelUjreuce. —There are 240,000 Baptists in Georgia. —Mr. W. W. Sbipp, of Chattahoo¬ chee count;, is dead. —The rice crop is said to be un¬ usual!; small this year. —Ouweta county held an election on prohibition Thursday. —Some farmers in Burke county havo oats four inches high. —Counterfeit quarters and halves ate in circulation tu Atlanta. —Major Smythe will assume charge of the Atlauta post office on Novem¬ ber 1st. — There will be a vote on the ques¬ tion of prohibition in Taylor county November Gib. —There were one hundred and forty prisoners in the Atlanta jail on Sunday mornim£ —Thirty thousand dollars havo been subscribed for building a cot¬ ton factory at Ncwnan. —Dr. F. II. Orme, of Atlanta, bad both arms broken on Monday last. A gentle horse did tho ruisebiof. —Every court house officer in H d - ersham county, l as been presented by tho grand jury for malpractice. —Rev. II D D. Stratton,of Greens boro, Ga.. has been called to ilia pas¬ torate of the Baptist Church of Car tersville. —Ben Mitchell found guilty of murder before the Superior Court of Muscogee county has been granted a new trial by -the Supreme Court. —Jos. P. Mitchell who decamped with $1,000 last spring belonging to tho Good Samaritans of Atlanta, was caught and carried to that city this wook. —Judge Simmons of the Macon Oil'- uit rarely bus a decissiou revers¬ ed by the Supreme Court. Ho is one of tho boat. Judges tho State Las over had, aud is a terror to evil doers. —We havo noticed this fact: Tho first thing that a newspaper does, when it is established in a community is to go to work to develop its resources and improve its surroud mgs. Tho free work doue by any giv¬ ing weekly paper, for any year is worth more to its community than all its subscription list is woith to it during tho same time.— Tv ejraph and Messenger. —Tho Enquirer Sun makes this good showing for trio business of Co luiubus : ‘It will be soon that the business of tbo city for 1882-83 shows an increase over the ptevious year of $850,038. The above figures are as near correct as it is possible to got them, and are taken from trio book of the clerk of council, who has just completed the consjhdntion of tho returns for the last qiater el 1882-83 —Tho following Georgia statistics are condensed from the Georgia State Gazoleer : Georgia’s popula¬ tion is 1,542,180, and she has an area of 58 980 square miles. There are 137 couutics, and a total of about 3, 000 places. There are seven cities in Georgia of over 7,000 population, and twelve of upwards of 3,500. There are eighty cotton and woolen mills—which is Hourly half tho num¬ ber in the entire South -and over 2,700 mills of various kinds. There aro 80,000 planters aud farmers, 1,- 200 practicing lawyers, “2,200 clergy¬ men, 1,800 practicing physicians, 350 fish culturists (reported), 200 news¬ papers, 5,750 grocers and dealers in general merchandise, 200 dentists, 1,200 blacksmiths, 500 shoemakers, 250 music teachers and 1,900 regular teaebers named (common schools not haviug reported names). RAIFORD HOUSE, Columbus, Georgia. The Raiyokd House hau been moved to Srtasui-ii’s New Hotel Building, South-west corner Opera House Square. The building‘is new, with large, light and airy Dining Room, nnd larger and more comfortable Bed Rooms than the one lately occupied, and, with the advantage of several year’s experience in the business, a redoubled energy, aud a renewal of our determination to please, we con¬ fidently offer you unsurpassed accom¬ modations. Thankful for past patronage, we aro anxious for an opportunity to con¬ vince you of our desiro to merit its future bestowal. W. C. TURNER, Clerk Raiford Honso. lYlA I Au Th«"reati»p©Hi»llflt.H»rTontT>eUiU»y,inip«Umeat^ OR. WHITT 1 M-rri.r-, ON DRESS PARADE. We aro yet in the field with our flag flying, and I invite the mauy good looking and clever farmers in Georgia who have kindly patronized me iu the past to continue their fa vars. I am always ready to receive and accommodate all who are at ROLL CALL. JUST I NS EASON! -0 - HEADLESS LAKE WHITE FISH FRESH AND FAT. HEADLESS MESS MACKEREL, FRESH AND FAT. . —o— THIS IS THE FISH HOUSE OF COL UMB US E VUE Y PA OK AGE GOOD, OR MONEY REFUNDED. Patent Flour; Ruston and other grades. RU T PROOF OATS. BAGGING AND TIES, WINES AN® LIQUORS, And everything on your List of Planter’s Supplies! -0 Onr Goods are always used on u standerd of excellence well known. Those of whom I ht.vu ic ora.no dried during the past sensei wili please note, (hat Bank Dn.f s at mo quicker than any other cam plaiut, and answer at roll call prompt ly on or before October 1st, when re¬ counts are nil due, and oblige me. It will be a source* of regret to me to close on my Ledger any account. ‘Tho’ Lost to Sight, to Memory Deal' Columbus is the best Coltou mar ket in Southwest Georgia, and here is tho placo to come Wo vi 1 welcome and sell them cheap and guarantee satisfaction. Recollect, KOI,LIN JEFFEKSOV 133 West Side Broad Street, COLUMBUS, Ga. Oct20-6m BUGGIES ail WAGONS! Tho undersigned has on sale in Lumpkin a Fine Assortment of Daw¬ son Made Buggies, manufactured ly S. B BROWN, the well known Car riage Buggy and Wagon Maker. DEX t’ER QUEEN, BREWSTER SIDE BAR, VICTORIA, STICKLER, AND TI.MPK1NS. All made of the very best, material and Finished in First Class Style. Also a Fine Lot of Plantation Wag oils of all sizes. Repository at Holt’s Stable. 11 . 1). BROWN. Oct. 13 1883. L ivery and Feed Stables, LUKPKIN, GEORGIA A. F. HOLT, PROP. The undersigned is prepaired to furnish tbo public with any kind of team desired at reasonable prices. HACK LINE I will also run a Fin#, Comfo^ta ble Hack between Lumpkin and Culhbert, leaving Lumpkin every Monday, Wednesday ami Friday, returning same days and making connections with morning nnd even¬ ing train. Only skillful drivers em¬ ployed. ©tgi-Cash in advance will be i squir¬ ed for passage and packages. Hriy*Drovers will find a 1 irge and commodious lot for their stock. A. F. HOLT. Lumpkin, Sept. 1st, ly LUMPKIN I1IU11 SCHOOL. The Session of 1883 S4 will open on Monday, 10th of September. The Principal earnestly solicits a liberal patronage from Lumpkin and Stew¬ art and adjoining counties. You can not find a better school in South West Georgia. Terms as heretofore. Board in good families at satisfacto¬ ry rates. J. F. TATE, Principal. Bopt. 8tf Notice tol>el»tov». All persons indebted to the former firm of \X. J. & C. H. Watt or tho undersigned, are requested to come forward aud settle up tho same at as early a date ap possible. W. J. WATT. Columbus, Ga., Oct.,5tf BROWN HOUSE Formerly Halford House, BROAD STREET, Columbus, Georgia. E. O. BROWN,Proprietor. New Advertisements Fashion's Fancies! JJrerything that in u.w, nice nrut nobby in Headgear lor Ladies lor the coming sea son, coasis'ingof Ladies’ CMrei's & Hisses HATS & BONNETS, Trimmed and untriuimed, Velvets, Satins, It I ebons, Feathers, Birds' Wings and Fancy Feathers. A full lino of Cor els, Gloves, and all the novelties in neckwear. A Complete stock of Cloaks, Dolmans, Palatots, Zephyr Shauls, etc. Onr Jewelry and Neck year de¬ partment was never more beautiful. Airs Colvin AAlisw Donnelly Columbus, Ga., Oct. 13-lin THOMS GILBERT, 42 Randolph Si, Opposite Post Office, COLUMBUS, GA. ;^pfrsWR PmiikV. - m I II m. m £ . A • __ i £ ara :* r i i JlaK fv s Steam Job Printed, Book Binder & Paper Box Manufacturer. All descriptions of Boxes rnrde to order. Drug, including Bill, Powder aud Prescription Boxes always kept in Stock. Printing an Book-Binding of Ev¬ ery Description at. Lowest Prices. Oct 13 1883. F. 15. GREGORY, —DEALER IN- FANCY and FAMILY GROCERIES, Canned Goods, Fine Confectionaries, TOBACCO, C10ARS AMD SNUFF, Staple Dry Goods, IVotioiss ami Domestics. North side Public Square. Lumpkin, Ga , Sept. 1, 1883. Real Estate For Sale The rout estate of E.-late N. It. Trammell deceased. Plantation situated 4A miles -outh-east of bumpkin, fla., eo Paining liu is acres in good of well improved cultivation. laud; 1 e,; well and Htato of Good build¬ ings and une well of iV.it, r. Also planta¬ tion situated li.l miles South-east of Lump¬ kin, on Putau.il Ci-h-'k; lies well and is very productive Has V room dwd ing and nec¬ essary out-houses, good gin house aud pr-ss Health of the community cannot be excelled iu the State. Also house and lot in good condition in Lumpkin. Titles perfect. For further particulars apply to J. P. TKAJJMELL, Lumpkin, Ga., 11. G. THAA1MKLL, Hanson, Ga. Sep22-S3 SIMM & lifer, —DEALEltS IN— COFFINS, CASKETS AND Burial Gases. .. Can furnish any style of COFFIN wanted at reasonable prices, Repository at Shekxm's Shops. Lumpkin, Ga., Sep. 1,1883: LUMPKIN HOTEL, JOHN YARBHOIJGII, PBOPHIETOli. This old and well-known Hotel is still open to the public and offers su¬ perior inducements to travelers and drummers. With au experience of 20 years the Proprietor tbiuks he knows how to look after the comfort of his guests. Table furnished with' the best the market affords Polite attention and reasonable charges. Stock fed at 25c cer meal each. Lumpkin, Ga., Sept. 1,1883. tf FIEE INSURANCE, Insure your dwellings, Furniture, Merchandise. Gin Houses, and other property, ^one but first-class Com¬ panies represented. Rates low. J. B. Richardson, Agent. Sept.2*th-18Sl-tf. C. O. ID. We desire to call the attention of the Ladies to the elegant assortment of Silks and Velvets That we now hive on exhibition, among them a beautiful line of the cele¬ brated RADZIMIIi SILKS in Black and Colors. We hi.v* to combine with these goods a full line of PLAIN and BROC.aDE V’ELYETS in colors to match exact. Without particularizing, we say that we have brought out as fine aud as complete a IDE, Y GOODS Stock in every department as can be found in the state, and we are preprr eil to match prices with anybody aud everybody. HO NONSENSE! HO SECOND PFICE! But everything marked iu plain figures Every man, woman and child, rich and poor alike, can buy tho goods at the rnarkud prico—no more, bo leas. $3,000 Worth of Jerseys, Cloaks and Wraps for Ladies, at prices way nuder the market. D , n’t think of buying until you see what we can do for von. URNTIJEMEN READ THIS: We carry a lamer stock ot GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS than any three houses in Columbus, and sell them twenty percent, clu-xper, because we sell for spot cash. We carry a largo stuck of Ladies’ and Gett’s Hand¬ kerchiefs combined of over one thousand dollars. How’s that for Columbus? We selj three thousand dollars worth of Dress Shirts per annum, princi¬ pally the celebrated E ghuie Shirt.- Onr stock of Men’s Hosiery aud under¬ wear is u big depai merit. Come and see it. BLANCHARD & BOOTH, 123 Broad {Street, Columbus, Georgia Oct. 20 a* £4 W- 338 i • f L Net, Go x CHEAP CASH STORE, No. 51 Crawford Street, Colnnta, Ga. We are now receiving the best line of Groceries that can bo procured for any mnrket.—evervthing fresh, Good and Cheap. Cheap In-can*!* we sell for Cash on ly, buy fron first hands and have tin- money to discount our bills. Wo ask a share of tho patioiiage of ili« city ami the surrounding country. A trial with us will insure us a good business, and do much good to those who pat ronize us In connection with our Grocery Wholesale and Re-tail business, we will keep a good assortment of SBtotjPl© ID juy Goods Which we will sell as cheap as can be sold in the city. WHISKIES* CIGARS we on allexue s he would ox. Are receiving to day 100 barrels IRISH POTATOES, Smooth Skin Early Ron* all sound, large and good, which we bought in aerial on of the r:s*>, and can sell cheaper than can be laid down Ir an any n.tuhit at iLis t.u.e- Di n t toil to Call and see u.s before buying elsewhere. mclendon & Co No. 54 Crawford Street, Columbus, Georgia. Oc'6-8?-tf wm Wholesale & Retail 9s Rock Building, North Side Public /Square, OTJT HBERT, <3-^. Will duplicate any bill »f Groceries from reliable houses lu Eufaula or Colum¬ bus. Try us aud he convinced. tf. IT WILL PAY YOU TO CALL ON § \% L J? 1 . J. Thornton SOUTHERN 0L0TH1ER &MERCHANT T i A!L0R, COLUMBUS, GA m tM His Fall Stock of 't (♦ Clothing, Hats iP§fltfi T Furnishings, and Piece oods are arriving daily. For ’ quality, beauty and el#gan taste displayed, aud J igl a m LOW PRICES There is none to sun ass. A month in the Eastern ■•A markets examing every style, quality and make, in addition to being among the first to place his or¬ ders while the factories were not crowded, he ob¬ ■ tained in buyiDg that will defy competition. 8 i 1 MERCHANT TAILORING ri-i i; ,1 This department is ou a boom as the Fall Goods are arriving and perse ns are placing their orders daily. Select your pa‘ teru at once.
