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LAW CARDS
T. D. Hihgh t.'aveu, F. A. Bush
HIGHTOWER & BISH,
Attorneys at Law,
Lumpkin, Georgia
Juo. 1. 1884.
N ELLIJ0RX F. CLARKE,
Attorney at Law,
Lumpkin, Georgia.
Will practice in Stewart Com ty.
Special attention given to collections
Bumpkin, Ga., May 5, 1883.
E. G. SIMMONS
attorney at law,
AMER1CUS, GA.
Will practice in all the counties o!
This Judicial Circuit, in the Supreme
Court of the State of Georgia, and
iu the District Court of tho United
States, and in all other court* by
special.con tract. july 23-81.
MEDI3AL GARBS
W. A..GREGORY,
Physician & Surgeon,
Lumpkin, Ceorgia.
Oet.20-ly
J. E. & W. P. CARTER,
Practicing Physicians,
LUMPKIN, - GEORGIA.
Office South Side Public Square.
Oct20 ly
J. A. THORNTON JR.,
Practical Dentist,
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA.
Will do ull kinds of Dental Work
in a neat and buhstantia manner.
Oct.23-ly.
LUMPKIN HOTEL,
JOHN YARBROUGH,
PUOPKIETOB.
This old and well-known Hotel is
still open to the public and offers su¬
perior inducements to travelers and
drummers. With an experience of
20 years the Proprietor thinks he
knows how to look alter tho comfort
of hia guests. Table furnished with
the best the market affords. Polite
attention and reasonable charges.
Stock fed. at 2 5c ter meal each.
Lumpkin, Ga., Sept. 1,1883. tf
Livery and Feed Stables,
LCKPKIN, GEOBGIA
A. F. HOLT, PROP.
The undersigned is prepaired to
furnish the public with any kind of
team desired at reasonable prices.
HACK LINE
I will also run a Fine, Comforta¬
ble Hack between Lumpkin and
Cuthbert, leaving Lumpkin every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
returning same day* and making
connections with morning and even¬
ing train. Only skillful drivers em¬
ployed.
j®*Cash in advance will be leqnir
ed for passage and packages.
B@*Drovers will find a 1 irge and
commodious lot for their stock.
A. F. IlOLT.
Lumpkin, Sept. 1st, ly
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1884.
Why the People Want Mr.
Tilden.
We are not surprised that fhe idea
of tendering to Mr. Tilden so great
a testimonial of the affection and
confidence of the Democratic party
ns his nomination for the Presiden¬
cy, should be received with expres¬
sions of dissatisfaction in various
quarters. But wlii'e men whose
methods of politics have been culti¬
vated in tho dull school of routine,
might bo expected to prote. t against,
an act so unusnal and so unprece¬
dented, we confess that we bad not
counted upon one peculiar style of
opposition which appears with the
greatest haste and with peculiar ar¬
dor. We mean tho opposition of
the special advocates and adherents
of free trade and of the utmost possi
ble free trade policy.
Here, for instance, is tint veteran
aud able journal, the Brooklyn Eagle,
which tells us that ‘Mr. Tilden
should bo the first to discourage such
a scheme.’ The reason why he
should disconinge it is that his nom
■nation would Dot he a movement in
■ lie interest of free trade opinions.
‘So careful un observer and so far
sseing a statesman,’ continues the
Engle, Yaunot but perceive very
clearly that tte Democratic party
can succeed this year only by taking
i bold and positive position on the
revenue question ; aud that any at¬
tempt to avoid or subordinate the
tariff issue will only fail of the imme¬
diate result of victory, but will leavo
it’—thus the Eagle concludes—‘with
out a principle with which to enter
the field 1’
Iu one reppret there can be
doubt that those observations of out
Brooklyn contemporary are true to
the fact. The nomination of Mr.
Tilden would indeed ‘subordinate
■ be tariff issue. 1 His glory and re
uown have not been gained iu the
pursuit cf such untimely and abor
live abut ructions no tho attempt to
make a free trade tariff when tte
conditions of tho country reudei
protection an iuevitable necessity.
Mr. Tilden is the living iucarna
tion of reform of the Gorfrnment,
tfa* removal of abuses, the suppres¬
sion of corruption, tho stoppage of
public plunder, the restoration of
Democratic economy, simplicity, and
integrity in the Administration. This
is why the honest and intelligent
people of the UuioD, Republicans as
well as Democrats, now regard him
with a feeling such as no other pub¬
lic man of any party eau awaken in
their minds. They believe that a re¬
form of th* Administration, such as
he represents and each as his nomi¬
nation would indicate, is a matter of
tho most vital importance to the
welfare of the country ; and there is
nothing that they would welcome
with such abounding joy as an assur¬
ance that ho still felt the strength
and the energy to grapple wilh the
abuses that have flourished and over¬
grown the Government, to smite
them with the blows of aa intellect
that cannot be deluded, and a hand
knowing neither mercy nor farbear
n nee.
Bit, exclaims some one of these
advocates of ocly one idea, Mr. Til
dea’s nomination would still be a
declaration in favor of a free trade
policy, because, as they tell us, the
platform of the Convention which
nominated him in 1876 had a decid¬
edly free trade hearing. What they
say of this platform is true; but they
forget that, Mr. Tilden is more than
a platform. His nomination would
thrust back into obscurity now, ns it
did in 1876, the merely formal feat¬
ures of any platform which anv Na¬
tional Convention m'ght adopt. He
stands for universal and comprehen¬
sive reform ; and wherever that idea
comes to the front, the Quixotic
phantom of an impracticable free
trade policy will disappear as the
shadows of the morning twilight flee
away at the rising of the sun.— New
York Sun.
The railroad folks say they think
a greater number of visitors attend¬
ed the New Orleans Mardi Gras this
year than ever before. There never
was such a passenger traffic over the
railroads leaning into tho Crescent
City.
A Weekly Newspaper, Published in the Political, Social and Agricultural Interests of Stewart ounty.
Go venior McDaniel.
The action of Governor McDaniel
in refusing to recieve United States
bonds in payment for the Macon and
Brunswick railroad, a few day* ago,
will b% fully approved by tho people
of Georgia when all the facta con¬
nected with the transaction are un¬
derstood. It is a transaction the re¬
sults of which show that the gover¬
nor is a sound and safe executive, to
be trusted by the people iu matters
of fhe largest importance as well as
in those affuiis that are made up of
seemingly unimportant details.
Governor McDaniel could easily
have rtcievod the original tender
made by the East Tennessee, Virgin¬
ia and Georgia railroad. He could
then Laved placed the money in the
state treasury, and left the responsi¬
bility of any expenditure of the same
to the slate legislature. The law.
however, as understood by tho gov¬
ernor, who is a good lawyei, was ex
plic.it, aud required a certain kind of
payment. By insisting upon this, the
governor has succeeded in cal’ing in
three-quarters of a million dollars of
Georgia bonds. Governor McDan
iel was determined to demand wb.it
the law required, and, as a result,
the money due from the purchases of
the road was paid in the bonds of
the stale purchased in the market
for a premium, notwithstanding the
fact that the bonds were due in
I8S5 and 1886.
The people of tho state have the
satisfaction of knowing that, by the
governor’s firmness in this matter,
the taxpayers of the slate have saved
over fif y thousand dollars in inter¬
est, while three-quarters of a .pillion
of dollars of tae state debt has been
retired, when by a little lack of reso
I’liion and want of firmness ou the
part of the executive, all this advan¬
tage to the state might have been
lost by the pa\ meet of money or
bonds ot tho United States subject to
call. In this transaction Gouivnoi
McDaniel has demons!rated his fit¬
ness for managing tho affairs of the
people. His administration has boen
marked by that sound, common
sense which was so characteristic of
his career as a legislator and which
was so strong a recommendation
when a candidate before the people
Such acts, while they aro only a
part of tho duty of the governor, de¬
serve the commendation of the hon¬
est people of the state. It is plainly
evident that Governor McDauiel in¬
vestigates carefully every question
that comes before him, and not only
knows what to do after investigating
but has the finunesi to insist on
what ha thinks ia right and proper.
The Johnthomases in the state who
desire to root the governor out of
his place because he is not subsevi
ent to their wishes, will find his re¬
cord, not only iu this case, but in all
others, in perfect harmony with the
wishes and desires of the good poo¬
ps of Georgia. Moreover, if these
Johnthomases wiil study the situa
tion, they-will find it hard to resist
the conclusion that the governor is
to be bis own successor.— Atlanta
Constitution.
The most significant election of
the year was held in Cobb county,on
Friday, on prohibition. The over¬
whelming temperance victory in
Whitfield the week before, was not
unexpected, because the temperance
men were organized and at work.
But in Cobb, the activity was on the
other side, and it was generally con
eluded that the connty would refuse
to prohibit by a large majoritv. A
well posted temperance- citizen, of
Marietta, said : ‘The whisky major¬
ity in Marietta will be very heavy.’
But Marietta gave a heavy majority
just the other way and the county as
a whole was two for one against liq¬
uor. There is no escaping the fact
that the rural sentiment in Georgia
is heavily for prohibition: Within a
year it is doubtful if liquor will be
sold in Georgia outside of Chatham,
Bibb, Richmond, Fulton, Muscogee
and Clarke .—Allan 'a Constitution.
She sang, ‘I Want to be an Angel,’
and he declared she was one already.
To this she blushingly demurred.
Then he married her. Demurrsr
sustained.
LIFE.
In vain our pent wills fret,
And would the world sul.dno ;
Limits we did not set,
Condition #11 we do :
Bom into Ufa wo are, and Ufa must bo oof
mould.
Born into life 1 man grow*
Forth from his pnrout stem.
And blends their bloods, as those
Of theirs are blent in them ;
Sa each new man strikos root into a far
foretime.
Born into lifo ! w« bring
A bins with us bore,
And, when hero, each new tli’ug
Affects as we come near ;
To tunes wc did not call, our being must
keep chime.
Born into lifo 1 in vain
Opinions, those or those,
Unaltered to retain!
Tho obstinate mind decrees ;
Experience, like a sea, soaks all effacing in.
■ -Matthew Arnold.
'•••SB—
Mature.
I dreamed that 1 stepped into a
vast subterranean, highly arched
hall. A subterranean, vast light il¬
luminated it.
Ia the middle efthis hall was seat¬
ed the majestic figure of a woman,
clothed iu a green robe that fell in
many folds around her. Her head
rested ^npon her hand ; she seemed
to be sunk iu deep meditation.
Instantly I cnnprehended that
this woman must be—Nature herself,
and a sudden fooling of respec’ful
terror stole into my awed soul.
I approached the woman, and sa¬
luting her with reverence, I cried,
‘‘Oh, Mother of us all! on what dost
thou meditate ? Thinkest thou, per
chance, of the future fate of humani¬
ty ? or of tho path along which man¬
kind must journey in order to attain
the greatest possiblo perfection, the
highest happiness ?”
The woman slowly turned her
dark, threatening eyes upon me.
Her lips moved, and in a tremend¬
ous, metallic voice, she replied :
“I was pondering how to bestow
greater strength upon the muscles of
the lien's leg, so that it may f^e more
easily escape from its enemies. The
balauco betwixt attack aud flight is
deranged—it must be no-adjusted.”
“What,” I stammered, “is that thy
only meditation ? Are not wo—man¬
kind— thy host beloved and most
precious children ?”
The woman slightly bent, her brows
and replied : “All living creatures
aro my children ; I cherish them all
equally, und annihilate all without
distinction !”
“ButVirtue—Reasou—Justice!” I
faltered.
“Those are human words I” replied
the brazen voice. “I know neither
good nor evil. Reason to mo is no
law 1 and wbat is Justice? I gave
thee life, I take it from thee and give
it nuto others; worms or men—all
are tho same to me. And thou must
maintain thyself meanwhile, and
leave me in peace 1”
I would faiu have rspliod, but the
earth quaked and trembled, aud I
awoke. TuKGENIEF.
A Democratic editor up in Now
Hampshire is displeased with his
party’s cull for the national conven
tion aud especially revolts against
fhe use of the word ‘conservative.’
He asseverates that he himself is not
a Conservative in anything, defining
such a one to be ‘a shriveled old
mummy, us nobody, or at best a tim¬
id, halting, chicken-hearted, half
scared-to-death old woman,just about
the kind, we should say, of those
who constitute this national commit¬
tee. And so they want tbs Consev
atives, the crack-peepers, the still
hunt, don’l-make-a-noise sort, to
come to Chicago to set up au inani¬
mate molten calf to worship in the
campaign.’
■- Ml— -
People who always appear well
aud happy are the most popular.
When any body asks about your
health make a favorable reply if at all
possible. It doesn't make you feel
any worse and your interlocutor will
go away in a great deal better frame
of mind than if you had given him a
full and detailed account of your
many aches and pains. If you mast tell
your internal troubles go to the doc¬
tor, who is paid for listening to such
things.— N. Y. Examiner.
France*and Germany.
France is henceforth a vast en¬
trenched camp, which can be defend¬
ed in a week by 1,000,000 and tn a
month by 3,000,000 of men. I know
that all is not yet perfect in this im¬
mense organization, but I also know
tfait each day a groat step in advance
is made. ‘Well, then,’ it will be ask¬
ed, ‘what is there to be anxious
about ? So much the better if you
are strongly armed ; no one will
think of attacking yon.’ Yes, no
doubt ; but you must understand
that France (and herein lies the
gravity of the present state Qf things)
desires, w ith ardor proportioned to
the growth of her strength, to be
formally set free from tho nightmare
dread of a possible invasion. Her
defensive power is only partially ro
assuring, and her immense arma¬
ment is a heavy burden ; there is a
flagrant contradiction between tho
institution of universal barracks and
those Republican aspirations which
are becoming more and more demo¬
cratic day by day. The simplest so¬
lution would bo to fliug ourselves at
all hazards upon Germany, to take
back from her our former frontiers,
and to disarm her. That being done,
we, too, might lay down our arms.
This is what is call la revanche. Many
people erroneously imagine that tho
French cherish the. idea of it, but
nothing of the sort is truo. There
is not within my knowledge a single
politician who dreams of such a
thing,and among the people il w uld
be most unpopular. This terrible
game, in which our fate as a nation
would be the stake, would depen I
upon the hazard of a battle lost or
won, and we will not piny it, except
iu tho last extremity. But it re
mains none the less certain that we
continually confront Germany as an
irreconcilable enemy, more ou ac
count of the harm she could still-do
us than on acconul of the harm sLe
Las done ; and that euemy is cer¬
tainly not one to be despised. If
Germany is our bugbear, we assur
edly give her illustrious chief, the
Chancellor of the empire, many
sleepless nights. He knows right
well thal the moment an enemy of
his uprises anywhere he may count
two—us and that other. Uuluss he
should reduce ns to absolute impo*
tone©, wo, although conquered, shall
present an eternally insuperable bar¬
rier to his ambition.— 1. Colani, in
the Fortnightly Review.
Items of Interest.
The sixteenth annual convention
of the female suffrage women is in
session in Washington.
Tho term dude has a different
meaning in different localities. Out
>Vest a dude is a man who mixes wa¬
ter with his whi«ky.
Tho exposition grounds at New
Orleans will comprise 247 acres.
They will be lighted by electricity
and will havo four lakes and a belt
railroad connecting the various build
iugs.
Fred Douglass’ red-headed white
wife not only parts her hair on one
side half an inch above her left ear,
but she sits by the stove hours at a
time reading the Atlantic Monthly.
The enemies of Douglass feel fully
avenged.
The Dutch papers mention the dis¬
covery of a ‘certain cure’ for gottt. A
peasant who was confined to his bed
by a sharp attack was stung by a
bee, and "almost immediately ho felt
better, and next day bo was well. A
short time after another patient
thought be would try the same rem¬
edy; and, having induced a bee to
sting him on the part affected, he
also was cored.
A Michigan woman carries the
monochromatic style of dress even
to her hair. When she buys a new
dress she orders a new nig to match
it. Her husband iusists that she
shall not make a guy of herself, bat
is willing to allow her lull scope so
long as the confines herself to mod¬
est and natural colors. As might
have been expected, she considers
herself abused and has begun pro¬
ceedings for divorce. This is anoth¬
er instance of man’s inhumanity to
woman.
Terms $1.50 Per Annum.
Bright Bits.
Thermometers will soon be Fair
in-height.
Curront rumors aro of no us* as
material for fruit cakes.
The moro I know of men the bet¬
ter like dogs,' is quoted as a saying
of Mae. De Stael.
The wine cap is the father of sin;
and the whiskey jug is tho step father
—New York Commercial Advertiser.
'Where would we be with woman?'
asks a writer. We would be all right;
but tho little pug dog—where would
it be?
Rev. Joseph Coos exclaims: ‘Give
me Neo-Platoism before agnosticism.'
Give it to him quick. Anything to
koep his mouth shut.
Marietta, O., has a prophetic youth.
But ^is he confiues himself to pre¬
dicting fires and lets the wentber
business alone, b J s allow ed to live.
I'm a man of fsw words,’ said Jones
during a quarrel with Brown. T
know that,’ was the quick response
‘Your wife won’t allow you to talk
back.’
The late Senator Carpenter once
described Alexander Stephens in this
wise: ‘An empty coach halted at the
Treasury Department and Aleck Ste¬
phens got out of it.’
What’s a name? Mary Young died
at Bangor last week, aged 100 year*
3 mouths and 2 days. She was an
estimable woman. The good die
Youn?.— Lowell Courier
‘How’s this,’ said the Mayor of
Newport, Ky., to a flood sufferer;
‘what are you drinking whisky for?
‘Because, you know, the Water is
too high.’— Merchant Traveler.
There are 300 churches in Chicago
and 200,000 worshipers. There are
about 3,000 lamp-posts in the city,
and there are more saloons than lamp
j. oits. The devil has a pretty fair
chance in Chicago.— Saturday Even
ing Herald. *
A New volume from Browning is
promised. It will consist of one long
poem, though tho work will be about
the same size as his latest volumes.
And Wiggins predicts a snow storm
for May. This is going to be one of
the worst years the world has ever
known.
A Lecture on ‘The Ten Command¬
ments’ was recently delivered in a
Western town, and the local paper
?poke of it as a novel and brilliantly
original code of morals, which will be
likely to make a stir in the world
when it becomes more widely known,
‘What is the matter with you and
Smith? You don't seem to be on very
good term*.' ‘No, w* are a little out
just now.' ‘What is the trouble be¬
tween you?’ ’Nothing very serious,
only I don’t like him very wall. Be¬
sides, he lent me $5 last week, and I
haven’t returned it.’— Philadelphia
Call.
President Authur says that the
happiest hours of his life were spent
in the school room. The unbappi
ost hours of some boys’ lives were al
so spent in a school room; but the
period the President refers to is when
he wieldod the rod, and not when he
felt its power as a corrective element.
—Norristown Herald.
Mrs. B—‘What aqueer ider! In Chi¬
cago they do not give diuners to dis¬
tinguished persona, bat breakfasts.’
Mr. B—Guess you are not familiar
with Chicago, and do not understand
the advantage of selecting a very
early hour for honoring greatness.’
Mrs. B.—‘No; I never was there.
What is the advantage?’ Mr.B.—‘All
the prominant citizens ate likely to
be sober.”— Philadelphia Call.
Got, the actor, being in a 6mall
town in the south of France, volun¬
teered for a benefit for the poor. His
name drew crowds. The Mayor tam¬
ed over in his mind what he conld
dd in acknowledgment. He invited
the actor to a complimentary break¬
fast, and placed before him an egg
in which ten golden louis were con¬
cealed. Got took a spoonful, and
discovering the contents, ceases eat¬
ing. The other guests, who were in
the secret, watched him attentively,
and the hostess inquired why he did
not finish the egg. ‘Madame,’ he re¬
plied, ‘I never touch the yolk.’ ‘Do
you throw it away?’ she asked. ‘No,
1 always leave it for tho poor.’
NO. 3.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
M. CORBETT,
DEALER IN
PEERJMSSYj PINE s SOAPS, 'I
fancy and Toilet Articles*
CoL16-ly
128
CORBETT HOUSE,
Mi CORBETT, Prop,,
Lumpkin, - Georgia*
livery Attention Given to the AG
codimodatlon <6 comfort of Guests /
Oct. 1-1
E. M. SHERAM,
MANUFACTURER OF
PLANTATION WAGONS,
PJow Stocks, Etc.
Blaclsmithinu & Wagon Repairing.
Oct.20 ly
A. H. SIMPSON,
DEADER IN
STAPLE . J
DBY CGDOt, SHOES, AC
Coffins, Burial Cases, Bs&steads,
Chairs Etc.
W.W. STOKES,
Dealer In
Fail! CANNED. & GOODS, Fancy TOBACCO, Groceries,
Cigars and Staple Dry Goodsi
Oet 1G ly
W. A. GREGORY,
DEALER IN
Fancy & Family Groceries,
CANNED GOODS, CONFECTION*
ARIES, STAPLE DRY GOODS,
Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff, Tinware Em
Oct.20
M. M. & W. II. GRIFFIS,
—DEALERS /A—
Faiily Groceries, Wife,
BEER, WINES, T03ACC0, CIGARS
Splendid Billiard and Pool Tables.
jJEtf North Side Public Square,
w.s. gill is,
DEALER IN
Family Groceries,
Plantation Supplies,
Country Produce Etc ,
South Side Public Square.
Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 1,1883.
EIRE INSURANT
Insure your dwellings, Furnitnrd,
Merchandise. Gin Houees, and other'
property. None but first-class Com-'
panies represented. Bates low,
J. B. Bichardson, Agent;
Sept.2r*tb-1881-tf.
Sheram & Miller,
—DEALERS IN—
COFFINS, CASKETS AND
Burial Cases
Can furnish any style of COFFIN
wanted unreasonable prices,
JKsT'liepository at Shebam’s Shops,
Lumpkin, Ga., Sep 1,
STRLE’S CARRIAGE
Aud Blacksmith Shops*
Having purchased the above well
known Shops from Mr. D. W. Snrlea
I am now prepared to manufacture
to order any kind of Wagons or Bug¬
gies that may be wanted. Skillful
mechauics are employed and the best
of material will be Ubed in all work.
Special attention given t,o repairing,
and all work promptly attended to.
Terms Cash.
0 A. STJRLES.
Lumpkin, Ga, Feb. 1, 1884
Globe Cotton Planter
The Best Now In Use 1
Call and see its perfect work.
S. S. EVEitETT, Agent
Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 26.