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LAW GAELS
T. D, iiniGU.'ivwKK, F. A- Bush
HNKT0WE1 & Bl’SH,
Attorneys at Law,
Lumpkin, Georgia
* « Jan. 1, 1884.
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WELLBOKX F. CLARKE,
■'Attnucy jit i a w.
Lumpkin, Georgia.
Wifi i r:rt-*ice in Stewart Com ly.
Special attention given to collections
bumi tit,i, Ga., May 5. 18s3.
E. G. SIMMONS
ATTOItNBY AT LAW
AMERICUS, GA.
\Vi!l practice jn all the counties o'
Tuis Judicial Circuit, in the Supreme
Court .-f tbe State of Georgia, ami
in tlie District Court of die United
States, ami it) u!l other ci tut.-, bv
Pperial .m { n f met. jut \ 23-81.
KELDAL GALES
W.A. GREGORY,
I'llVUICIAN & SuKGEON,
Lumpkin, Ceorgia.
Oid.20-fy
J. E. & W. P. UAUTEii\
Practicing Physicians,
LUMPKIN, - GEORGIA.
Ofliee South Side Public Square.
Oct20-ly
j. a. Tiioim ox ML,
Practical Dentist,
LLMDKIX, CLOItGIA.
Will do all kinds of Dental Work
in a mat and sulstanlia manner.
Oct.234y.
BUML KIN HO LEl
jrorirv VAfulisdi/Gii,
PBOPUIKTOK.
This old and well-known Hotel is
still opgn the }>ublic and offers su
peri.>r4j|duceinents to travelers and
drt\q£h|p^, 20 ) teaVs the Mj*h PiOyuietor an experience t hinks be of
kuows N how^l«rlook after the comfort
of his guests. Table fui uibhed with
the best the nhvilret affords. Polite
attention ntid reasonable charges.
’ “Sfuck fed at 'S.'k: meal each.
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Ljijmpkiu, Ga., Sept.. 1,1883. tf
7ri~” |i\rery and . —' Feed TW~ Stables, TV
I/UKPKiN, GEORGIA’
a Tj' HO T '-p ‘PL?I)T5
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^heufider^edis ' prepaid to
furiitsh the jurhfic with nuv ktnd of
teom desired at fctt-onable prices.
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” I will also run a Fine, Coinfortn
ble Hack, between Lutnplau and
Culhbert, leaving Lumpkin every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
returning saute dajs and making
connections with morning unit even¬
ing train. Ouly skillful drivers em¬
ployed.
teirCash in advance will be inquir¬
ed for passage and packages.
{©“Drovers will find a 1 rge and
commodious lot for their stock.
A F. HOLT.
Lumpkin, Sept. 1st, ly
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, oo. 00 4
John Chinaman's Ways.
A year in no other place can af¬
ford more amusing incidents than a
twelve month in Utah among the Chi
pps« acnUered in numbers through¬
out. the Territory.
To use the word Chinese, errone¬
ously implies both sexes ; there are
ouly m<.n. Many of these keep tea
stores and china shops, but they are
principally engaged in lanndrying
and gardening. Some few fiud Bit
uations as house servants in private
families, and most of the hoteh em¬
ploy Chinese cooks, but any hotel
engaging in this capacity tries to
conceal the foot.. The pi' f jnlice,
against them is so great that mine
host hats to injure his house by ac¬
knowledging ihtra to be cooks.
This prejudice is not political, but
arises from a suspicion of their cleau
liuess.
The Chinamen are successful as
peddlers, and clatter about over the
wooden sidewalks in tho Western
towns, making a patter in their
qieei wood, n shoes, stopping at
every door to sell vigetabUs, out of
picturesque panier shaped baskets,
which hang at their sides from each
end i f a pule, as the scales are repre
senied on the statues of Justice, only
the Chinamen carry this pole across
the back of the neck, bending the
neck slightly forward to hold it in
place.
U Leu the vegetable,season is over,
during the midwinter on the Pacific
Slope, limy peddle wares they bring
from Ciuna and Japan ; lacquered
hays, fans of ivory, sandal wood,
fta'hers and paper, carved boxes,
paiasols, pnzz'es and shallow porce¬
lain cupt, cased in wicker, which they
say is to make them proof again !
break ng when Chinese babies, hav
rug finished drinking tea from them,
throw them to the floor.
j They are very persistent, and as
'patient wa’chiiig for a tiaile as ia a
: cat watch.ng a rat hole. They take
infinite pains to show yon all their
goo Is which Ihey carry on their
heads in huge clothes baskets. They
will unload a whole basket of frail
tilings, and are as polite if at the
end of an hour you have bought
nothing, as if their labor had been
well re w auled.
They all carry around face pow¬
der, of u chalky white, made of fish¬
bone, aud tablets of rouge, which
tin y are toud of giving to lady cus¬
tomers who buy generously of their
wares
Their rouge is very peculiar. It.
is a greeu, glassy looking tablet,
which, when they moisten by touch¬
ing the fitiger first to the tongue,
then to the tablet, rubs off a beuuti
ful vivid rose color, but is ghastly
and unnatural on the skin.
It is inters ting to tbe stranger to
meet two or three China.ucn walk¬
ing along together chanting to each
other instead of talking in a conver
s tional tone. They sing everything
to each ether in a ricita ive strain.
They have childlike voices usually ;
and a bearded Chinaman is almost
as rare as a bearded woman. They
are so smalt in height And So flight
that the forms of the oldest men
look childlike, aud their faces are so
thin aud yellow aud their eyes so
dull that the faces of the youugest
boys look like old men.
When their day’s woik is done,the
oi l men amuse themselves by play¬
ing ball and flying kites, which is
considered a very praiseworthy pas
tlults . ^ bftV * kgtnj that'many
ceuturies ago a great earthquake
shook the Chinese Empire to its cen
t'CHil only those -^sciipsd death
|jhow^ E,tu8 Engaged ^ have .t'jlre looked moment ap
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which . must he pleasing to the. gods.
The.older a Cbicaman'grows, the
more time he gives to play—while
the youth woik without relaxation.
They make a lire work of cariyiug
out the advice of tbe adage : ‘Busi¬
ness before pleasure.’
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An attempt is making in Culiforn.
ia to irrigate some 30,000,000 acres
of land by water fed from kings river,
The water will be conveyed in a ca
hat, and it is expected to be five feet
deep, with a fall of eighteen inches
io the mile,
A Weekly Newspaper, Published ia the Political, Social and Agricultural Interests (if Stewart ounty.
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Fafcts About the Methodist
Church South.
This being the centennial year of
the origination of the Methodist.
Church in this Country, the Metho¬
dist ChwTch is publichii’g some -very
interesting information respecting
the growth, wealth and present con¬
dition of this branch of the church.
This woik is under the direction of
Rev. \V. P. Harrison. He shows
that during the past year the mem¬
bership of the Southern branch of
the Methodist'Church has increased
20,0-19, making a total membership
of 904,213. This increase is at tho
mte of 3 07 per cent, per annum,
which is over 1 per cent, greater
than the increase in the population
in the Southern States. I he increase
in the number of Sunday-school
scholars last, year was 2G,508, which
is certainly very encouraging. The
amount colk-ricd for missions last
year was $228,(140 38—again of $19,-
881 32 over the previous year. For
worn-out traveling preachers and
for widows rind orphans of preachers
there was collected last year $87,-
146.07, a gain of $5,713 25. Mr.
Harrison says that it is a well au¬
thenticated fact that Methodism
flourishes more vigorously in the
South tlnui in c.ny other section ot
the country. During the present
year it will be shown that Metnodism
was first planted in the South, and
the first Methodist church iu this
country was built at Strawbridyo,
Md. At the organization of the
Methodist Church iu this couutry,
one hundred years ago, ‘hree-fourths
of the members, Mr. Harrison says,
were in the South. Since the dose
of tie war the increase in the mem¬
bership of the Methodist Church
South has been over 400,000—that,
is, it has very near doubted in eigh
teen years. Doubtless this will be a
great year in the history of the
church North and South The chnreb
will pour out its \vi tilth for various
purposes, and its ex' ra charily and
generosity will stnugtheu it and
make it more prosperous.— Exchange.
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The Lone Navigator.
During the high water a man was
seen going down the Arkansas on a
log. As he was passing Little Rock
several men spring into a skiff, row¬
ed out to tbe lone navigator, und
said :
‘Climb in.’
‘Climb in whar ?’
‘In the skiff. Hurry up!’
‘Wall, strangers, I’m pretty well
fixed. Don't take no work to move
aloug.’
‘Whore are you going?*
‘Down tho river.’
‘We know that. ‘Where are you
from ?’
‘From up the river.’
‘Of course tou are---’
‘What made you nx, then ?’
‘What are you doing on that Jog?’
‘Travelin’.’
‘What do yon want to fool with ns
f >r? Don’t you know you’ll drown
if you keep cn this way?’
‘Won’t drown if I keep on tbiser
way. If I wnster get off in the wa¬
ter I mout drown.’
‘Where is your family ?’
‘Scattered erlong.’
‘Did your house wash away ?’
‘Sorter. My wife’s back yander
on a cotton-wood log uu’ my son
Bill's coinin’ along sorn’ea'S on a pop¬
lar.’
‘Why don’t you come to the short?’
• ’Cause it don’t cost nothin' ter
ride.’
‘You’d better como off and get a
drillk of whisky.’
‘Diuged if I don't do it. Feller
back here wnuted me to come out
and hear him preicli, but lm didn’t
Lave the right kin’ of gospel. Now,
fellers, pull for tire shore as fas’ as
yer ken .—Artaimaw Trawler.
Philadelphia has a yoting lady of
twenty years who weighs 632 pounds
and Boston has a young man whose
aims each measure over five feet in
length. 1 hese people seem to have
been constructed by a wise Frovi
dence purposely for each other, and
some meaus should lyo employed to
them logathor
Irilnine.
Kliiii! Qeitutllul Sprini;!
O, Sprin", beautiful Ppriug I
Wlieu fled is Winter’s dreary gloom,
Aud ni:ld-eyed cabbage is in Hoorn,
When ttow'reta deck the village green,
And buckwheat cakes no mors are seen
Hail, beautiful Spring!
Oh, Spring, beautiful Spring !
Wlu n woods awake to song of bird.
Ami festive bullfrogs’ uotes are heard
When winds bring odors from afar,
And soft we play the light catarrh,
Hail, beautif 1 Spring !
Oh. Spring, beautiful Spring !
What tender moin’ries yon b 'get,
I now must spout my ulaterette,
For the summer’s sun soon will beam,
Aui\ all the money go for ice cream,
Hail, he mtifnl Spring !
Railroad To Preston.
Last week we published an item
from the Stnifhville Enterprise re¬
garding a project to build a railroad
from Smithville to Preston. On
Wednesday wo had a call from Mr.
Nicholson, of Preston, who said the
people of Wt lister county where in
thusiastie in regard to the railroad,
but preferred to have it run to Amer¬
icas, and would co-operate with our
people to that end. Already $16,500
h is been subscribed in Webster, and
Mr. Nicholson thought the amount
could be increased to $25,000 or $30,
000 From Mr. Nicholson we learned
that President Raoul, of the Central
ha t written a letter to parties iu
Smithville and Preston, saying that
if the people would grade, bridge and
tie the road, tho Central would iron
and operate it.
If the people of Americas will go
to work at once and co-operate with
the people of Webster, we have no
doubt but that this roud.coulJ bo se
cured for Americus. To do this,
however, the work must be d"n»
quickly and hrimonionsly. We have
no doubt but that tho necessary
amount could be raised io this city
iu a few days, and we believe will be
when properly placed before out
people. In fact, Americus can hard
ly nff ini to lose this road. It is
pn °ugh that wa have lost the Baena
Vista road, without having another
road to pass us by on tb s other side.
A road from Sinitbville to Preston
would mean the loss of a large porti
tiou of our cotton trade and the
building up of Smithvilfe, not proba¬
bly os a rival, but as a point that
would greatly injure our local trade.
TberA should be no delay in this mat
ter, but our citizens should at ouce
call a meeting, appoint proper com¬
mittees and go to work.— ‘Ainiricu*
Recorder.
Always Nipping.
A judicious wife is always nipping
off from her husband's m >ral nature
little twigs that nre growing in wrong
directions. She keeps him in shape
by continual pruuing. If you say
any thing silly, she will affectionate¬
ly tell you so. If you declare you
will do some absurd things, she fiuds
some means of preventing you from
doing it. Aud by far the chief part
of the common sense there is in the
world belongs unquestionably to wo¬
men. The wisest things a man com
monly dot s arc those things which
his wife counsels him to do. A wife
is a grand wieider of the moral pru
ning kLife. If Johuson’a wife had
lived there would have been no hoard
ing up of orangej eel, no touching
all the posts in walking along the
streets, no eating and drinking with
a disgusting voracity. If Oliver
Goldsffnth bad been married, he nev
er would have worn that memorable
and ridiculous coat. Whenever you
find a man whom you know little
about oddly dresod, or talking ab¬
surdly, or exhibiting eccentricities
of manner, you may be sure that he
is not a married man, for the cor¬
ners are rounded off-the little
shoots pared away—in married men.
Wives have generally mote reuse
than their husbands, even though
they may be clever men. The
advice is like the ballust that
the ship steady.
A bill has been presented to tho
State legislature to regulate the
manufacturing of cider. Is this not
unwarrantable inteifereuce with the
freedom of tho press ?—Yonkers
Statesman.
Why a Husband Drew His
Pocket book.
‘I haven’t, seen your pet dog for sev
oral days,’ said a Somerville hus¬
band to bis wife.’
‘No.’ she replied^ ‘the fact is I have
give him away.’
*Wby, you needn’t have done that.
I bad no particular objection to
him.’
’Oh, I know tlm*; but I thought
it. was not right for me to have a pet
dog about the house when I have
such a good, kind husband to lavish
my affections upon.’
The husband sank iuto a chair
with a deep sigh.
‘II iw much do you waut, Mary?'
he asked, as he drew bis wallet from
his pocket. ‘It can’t be a sealskin
sack, for the winter is nearly over.’
‘No,’ she sail, ‘it is not a sealskin
sacqtie; but I would really like a new
silk iu the spring, and you know it’s
got to be Lo ight and made and a 1
that.’
‘Now,’ he said, as he handed be:
the money, ‘what proof of your after
tiou will you give me when you want
another dress, since you have given
away your dog?’
‘Ob,’ she sweetly replied, ‘Eve giv¬
en the dog to my sister, and I can
get him back again .’—Summerville
Journal.
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Sociability.
Socibillfy is the best corrective of
that serious aud piolonged absorp¬
tion iu business or thought or tares
which is so detrimental to many of
wur busy people. The rest taken iu
solitude, nftt-t working hours are
over, pei mits the mind still to pur
sure one beiteu track. The easy
chair aud blazing fire tbay be tempt¬
ing to tho weavv toiler, but they do
not finite his thoughts into other
channels or compel Lim to lay aside
the train of ideas that has for loug
hours been working in his brain.
S ;ciety, ou the contrary, forbids such
unwholesome itldulgeuco She insists
upon a total change of mind aud
manner during her short reign. She
calls for vivacity, variety, imagint*
tion—if possible, wit aud humor, or
at least a cheerful interest in that of
others. She banishes the accustom¬
ed seriousness of mind, tho brooding
over familiar topics, even the earnest
ness of strong emotion. For a short
time nil these are forced to give way
to the lighter play of fancy, tl-e ex¬
citement of popular interests, and
the development of sympathy with
others upon unlamiliar and varied
subjects. Thus the mind is refresh¬
ed and invigorated, unused faculties
are brought iuto exercise, and the
lost balance restored by a gentle
compulsion that no one darcR to re¬
sist — Lady's Journal.
They See all the Shams.
One of the groat trials of newspa¬
per men, says Do Witt Talmage, is
that they are compelled to see more
of the shams of the wor’.d than those
of auy other profession. Through
every newspaper oilLe.day after day,
go ail the woakuess of the worll; all
the vanities that waul lo be puffed;
all tbe revenges that want to be reap
ed; all the mistakes that want to be
corrected; all the dull speakers that
want to be thought eloqueut; a’l the
meanness that wants to get its wares
uoticed in the editorial columns frie
gratis; .ill tho men who want to be
set write who never were right; all
the crack-brained philosophers with
stories as long as their hair and as
gloomy as their finger nails, in
mourning becauso bereft of soap; all
the bores who como to talk live min¬
utes and stay five hours, Thronth
t’uc editorial aud reportorial rooms,
all the sbnms and follies of the world
are seen day after day, and the temp
talion is to believe in ueitbet God,
man, or woman. It is no surprise
to me that iu this profession there
are skeptical men. I wonder that
journalists believe anything.— Idaho
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Tbe Wisconsin democratic state
Central committee, ill Milwaukee,
iTtbrieS
to the Liatiouul oouveiitiou at Chica«
go.
Terms $1.30 Per Anliuiii.
Pearls *-« of Thought. 7“?
Virtue is like a fragrant plant—
death cannot destroy its sweetness.
The liberal m in who eats and be¬
stows is better than the pious man
who fasts aud hoards.
They who remember the benefits
bestowed by parents are too grateful
io remember their faults,
Among those who labor for future
happiness be is greatest who lives
well in bis own household.
Wisdom is excellent, but it is
highly important to add integrity
and virlae to our wisdom.
The evils o f old vicious systems are
the musty stumbling blocks in the
pathway of the world's progress.
Nature made us just, that we
might share our goods with each
ether, aud supply each other’s wants.
There is nothing that goads a spir¬
ited woman to madness, as the reali¬
zation that any mail controls her
husband.
The n.au who enslaves himself (o
his money is proclaimed in our very
language to be a miser, oi a misera¬
ble man.
Discretion is more necessary to
wonieu than eloquence, because they
have less trouble to speak well thau
to speak little.
Ceremonies and forms change with
every country aud clime, but genu¬
ine politeness is always current, and
can never change.
That which causes us to think is
dear to us, as everything which gives
an even imperceptible impu'so to
our faculties is agreeable.
There is no rose without a thorn,
and the fairest and most flagrant
flower has a shadow beneath it as it
sways in the golden sunlight.
The early philosopher teaches that
contentment is happiness, and if this
be true, it is better to be contented
with a competence thau a bare exis
fence.
We are told to bo honest and pa¬
tient—this is well,if both are prompt
ed by courage. But honesty sup¬
ported by fear, and patience by lazi¬
ness, are not ennobling traits.
There are many who BtunJ in awe
of genius and wonder from whence
it comes. It is common sense and
industry—plenty of them are the
principal constituents of genius.
Time spent in leading that which
does not make ns think, is badly
spent, but it is infinitely better than
than the time wasted in reading that
which makes us believe false ideas.
A tender fconscieuce is an inestima
b ! e blessing: that is a conscience not
only quick to discern what is evil, but
instantly to shun it, as they eyelid
itself against the mote.
The baud of the money pow er
wears a velvet glove, but when in
dustry grasps it, she Suds it, studded
wl h barbed needles, which when
once imbedded, cannot be easilv
withdrawn.
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ito Danger of a Crowd.
Fire Marshal.—‘I very much fear
ttat additional moans of egress
will have to be ordered for you:
church.’
•Pastor.—‘And why so, my dear
sir?’
Fire Marshal.—‘In csUe of fire it
would be utterly impossible to get
the congregation out alive.’
Pastor.—‘Oh! You are mistaken—
very much mistaken. I could empty
this church in three minutes.’
Fire Marshal.—‘In three minutes!
How ?’
Pastor.—‘By taking up a collec¬
tion.’
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Experiments are being made in
tbe New York office of the Postal
Telegraph Company with a tele
phono, with which the inventor says
he expects to talk across the ocean
as soon as the Bennett Mackey cable
ie laid. The inventor claims to have
solved the problem of adding battery
to lino almost without limit, by util¬
ising a number of independent local
batteries, induction coils and deviat¬
ing points simultaneously. Experi¬
ments mude Saturday through a ten
point multiple telephotio over about
820 mi,e8 o( wire belwccn New Y ° rk
j \\ a^hiu^ton wore reuituktib.y
| SUCCtfcJSftth
NO. 4. I
BUSINESS DIRECTORY/
M. CORBETT,
DEALER IN
DnsJetifiMs, Ctiemicels I
PERFUMERY, FINE SOAPS,
Fancy and Toilet Articles*
eot.-iG-ifr’ d.M.
CORBETT HOUSE,
M. CORBETT, Prop.,
Lumpkin. - Georgia*
Ereiry JI tent ion Vi ten to tf:e Ac
t out niotla!ion J- com/ortof V nests t
OeU -I
E. M. SHERAM 5
manufacturer of
PLANTATION WAGONS,
Plow Stocks, Etc.
Blaclshithino & Wagon Repaxhiso.
Oct. 20 ly
• A. H. SIMPSON,
DE Y^Kll IS
Family Groceries,HaMwarg (
STAPLE DhV COCOS, SHOES,SO
Coffins, Burial Cases, Bedsteads*
Chairs E c.
wTw. stokeS
Dealer In
Fail? & Faicy Grerias,
CANNED GOODS, TOBACCO,
Vitjars und Staple Dry Goods.
Get l(i ly
W. A. GREGORY,
DEALER IN
Fancy & Family Groceries/
CANNED GOODS, CONFECTION¬
ARIES, STAPLE DRY GOODS,
Tohacco, Uriahs, Snuff, Tinware Etc.
Oct 20
M. M. & W. II. GRIFFIS,
—1)E.\ L StlS IX—
BEEPv, Faiijf WINES, Groceries, Ijskies,
TOBACCO, CIGAES
SeuENDj i> Billiard and Pool Tables.
North Side Public Square,
W.S. GILLIS,
DEALER IN
Family Groceries,
Plantation Supplies,
Country Produce Etci
South Side Public Square.
Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 1,1883.
FIRE INSURANT.
Insure your dwellings, Furniture,
Merchandise. Gin Houses, andothcF
property. None but first-class Cofli-'
panie6 represented. Rates foW.
J. B. Richardson, Agent.
Sept.2-.th-18Sl-tf.
Slim & Miller,
—DEALERS IN—
COFFINS, CASKETS AJ\ T EI
Burial Cases
Can furnish any style of COFFIN
wanted at.reasonable prices.
fitaTRepository at Shekam’s Snore*
Lumpkin, Ga., Sep 1,
SIRI.ES CARRIAGE
Aud lilacItMuitli Shops.
Having purchased the above well*
known Shops from Mr. D. W. Surles
I am now prepared to manufacture!'
to order any kind of Wagons or Buo-'
gixs that may bo wanted. Skillful
mechanics are employed and the best
of materi il will be used in all work.
Special attention given to repairing,,
and all work promptly attended to.
Terms Cash.
C- A. StRLlSS.
Lumpkin, Ga, feb. 1, 1884.
Globe Cotton Planted
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The Best Not* In Use!
Call and see its perfect work.
S. S. EVERETT, A peat.
Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 26.
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