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TOE LUMPKIN INDEPENDENT.
A. W. LATIMER, Publisher.
VOL. XV.
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Address sll letters to The Lumpkin Inde
PENDENT, Or A. W. LV.TJMER,
law cards.
W. B. Goebby, DuPont Goebby.
GUERRY & SON,
Attorneys at Law, -
AMEKICUS, OA.
Practice in Federal and State Courts
Mar. 23ch-1886.
E. G. SIMMONS
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMEKICUS, GA.
Will practice in all the counties of
This Judicial Circuit, in the Supreme
Court of tbs State of Georgia, and
in the District Court of the United
States, and in all otLer courts by
pecial .contract. julv 23-81.
WELL LORN F. CLARKE,
Attorney At Law
LUMl’KiN GEORGIA.
Special attention given to collection.
Will be in Lumpkin every Wednesday and
Saturday. At other times can be found at
my residence 2£ miles from Lumpkin on
Benevolence road.
January 23-1886.
THE PEOPLES NATIONAL
BANK OF AMERICUS.
Dots a General Banking Business
S. H. HAWKINS, President
H. C. BAGLEY, . Cashier.
Americas, Ga., March 6, 1886.
ALLEN HOUSE,
FORMER!,! THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL
Americus, Georgia,
Mrs. W. H. ALLEN Proprietress.
GOOD SAMPLE ROOMS ON FIRST
FLOOR FOR COMMERCIAL TOURISTS
Electrict Bells connected with every room.
Elegant Bath Rooms supplied with Artesian
water—warm or cold. Accommodations,
Strictly Fibst-Clxss is Every Pabticclab.
Patronage Respectfully Solicited.
W. H ALLEN, Agt.
HAWKINS HOTEL,
Americus, Ga.
GOOD SAMPLE ROOMS FOR COMMER
CIAL TOURISTS.
Artesian Water-Warm Or Cold.
Electric Bells connected with every
tooth. Accommodations strictly first
class in Every Particolar.
Patronage Respectfully Solicited.
6. H. TOMMEY, Proprietor.
Feb. 27th-1886
J. ISRAELS,
Americus, - Georgia.
When you visit Americus remem¬
ber J. ISRAELS, on Cotton Avenue,
next door to The Bank of Americus.
Gall on him for
Fine Whiskey, Tobaeeo,
CIGARS, GROCERIES ETC.
He keeps the very best at prices to
sttit the times. . Orders solicited and
promptness guaranteed.
March 61 b, 1886.
FRESH MEAL.
t—>
lam now prepared to deliver at the hems,
et of my customers the Best Water Ground
Meal that can be made .in this section as
low as it can Is bought elsewhere. My
wagon will deliver on Thursday of each
week for the present. Orders left at Corbett’s
Drug Store or Tbe Independent office will
receive prompt attention. Terms C. O. D.
R. II. VORU8.
Lumpkin Ga. Dec. 24-tf.
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1886.
Abstinence From Alcohol,
There is at present undoubtedly a
widespread interest in this subject.
There is a wave or movement iu fa
vor of teetotalism passing over both
this country and Great Britain. The
reasons for total abstinence are put
upon purely health grounds. It has
been found by repeated experiment
that doing altogether without any¬
thing that contains aloobol, as wine,
beer, whisky, ale or'porter, makes
the head blearer,the digestion better,
the 3leep sounder and sweeter, and
the general health 100 per cent, bet
ter.
A remarkable fact about the new
movement is that it is most popular
among the more intelligent classes.
The brum workers, writers, editors
and scientific tneu are becoming tee¬
totalers in numliers. They do it be¬
cause they find they cau accomplish
more and work without it and en
dure Umger hours. Many of them
are even utopping the use of meat,
and using only eggs, milk aud cheese
tor their animal food. They also do
without tea aud coffee, substituting
milk in place ot tbese.
There is a theory about this new
departure which sounds plausible.
The race, and especially the Ameri¬
can people, are developing the ner¬
vous system beyond anything hither¬
to known. People are becoming more
finely strung, more delicately organ
zed. This is tru . The unheard of
prevalence of nervous diseases iu our
time proves it..
With this highly organized nervous
system food aud drink must necessa
riiy become more delicate and less
in quantity. Tbe huge gorges of flesh
and gallons of strong drink our half
civilized ancestors used to indulge in
and then lie down like dumb brutes
and sleep it off, would kill tbe per
son who should attempt such a feat
now. But even this was nothing to
onr ancestors still further back, cave
dwellers who used to gorge them¬
selves with raw, bloody meat, it apart
with their fingers, and then lie down
in the dnst beside the bones acd
sleep that off.
So you see that man does change
and does progress. Perhaps the time
is coming now for him to give tip
using heavy, coarse food and stimu¬
lants of all kinds. Perhaps the time
is coming when a highly and finely
developed nervons system will be
stimulant enough.
General Master Workman Powder
ly o f the Knights of Labor recognizes
this when he adjures the knights
with all earnestness to abstain from
alcohol.
It is those who do heavy manual
labor that now send out for their
pails and pitchers of beer and ale
with their lnnches. The brain work¬
ers are ceasing to do so. But Ben
Franklin the teetotaler proved, more
than a hundred years ago, when be
was a printer, that he could carry
heavier weights aud sustain them
longer than bis beer-drinking com¬
rades. So it seemB that even severe
physical labor can be best performed
without stimulants. Sullivan,the prize
fighter, is obliged tu sober up and do
without alcohol for a time before a
contest
As if to put tbe final touch upon
tbe anti-alcohol movement, physi¬
cians, too, are beginning now to tase
a stand against stimulants. They
begin to say that alcohol can best be
done without even in taking medi¬
cine. Dr. Joseph Payne Logan, a
distinguished southern physician, is
one of tbese wno has thus taken a
strong stand against alcohol. He
says it is not necessary in the treat¬
ment of disease
Acknowledge The Debt.
A Venerable clergyman of Virginia
said lately: ‘Men of my profession
see much of the tragic side ot life.
Beside tbe death-bed the secret pas¬
sions, the bidden evil as well as tbe
good in hnman nature, are very of¬
ten dragged to the light. I have seen
men die in battle, children, and
young wives in their husband’s arms,
but no death ever seemed so pathet¬
ic to me as that of an old woman, a
member ef my church. '
I knew her first as a young girl,
beautiful, gay, full of spirit and vig-
A Weekly Newspaper, Published in the Pfilitioal, Soeial and Agricultural Interests of Stewart County.
or. ‘She married and had four chil¬
dren. Her husband died and left her
penniless. She taught school, she
painted, she sewed j she gave herself
scarcely time to Sat or sleep. Every
thought was for her children; to ed¬
ucate them, to give them the same
chance that their father would have
done.
‘She succeeded; sent the boys to
college and the girls to school. When
they came home, pretty,refined girls,
and strong men, abreast with all the
new ideas and tastes of the time, she
was a worn out, commonplace old
woman. They had their own pursuits
and companions. She lingered among
them tor two or three years and then
died of some sudden failure in the
brain. The shock woke them to a
consciousness of the truth. They
hung over her, as she lay uncon¬
scious, in an agoey of grief. The
oldest sen, as he held - her in his
arms, cried:
'You have been a good mother to
us r
’Her face colored again, her eyes
kindled into a smile, and she whis
pered. ‘You never said so before,
John.’ Then the light died out and
she was gone.*
How many men and women sacri¬
fice their own hopes and ambitions,
their strength, their life itself, to
their children, who .receive it as a
matter of course, and begrudge a
caress, a word of gratitude in pay¬
ment for all that has been given
them. . Boys, when you come back
from college don't consider that your
only relation to your lather is to 'get
as much monej as the governor will
stand.’ Look at his gray hair, his
uncertaiu step, bis dim eyes and re¬
member in whose service he has
grown old. You can never pay him
the debt you owe, but at least ac¬
knowledge it before it is too late .—
Youth's Companion.
The Need, of Good Hoads.
Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record,
The suggestion of the Manufactu¬
rers’ Record that prison convicts in
tbe South be employed upon the
public roads instead of being leased
to contractors for private enterprises
is meeting with much favor. Com¬
menting on it, the Commsrcial Ma¬
chinist says:
‘The idea is a sound one. Wagon
roads iu tbe South are generally bad
in tbe winter, and evbry convict
could profitably be employed npon
their improvement. The only objec
tion to tbe plan is that it does not
allow a ring of favored contractors
to grow rich out of prison labor.
The plan would be ia the interest of
the people, and would not interfere
with free labor.’
In many parts of the South the
roads are horibly bad'in winter, not
only entailing heavy expense upon
every one using them, bat depreciat*
ing the value of all property and
keeping out ^immigration. People
who have been accustomed to good
hard roads, even if they are hard six
months in a year,because the ground
is frozen solid, do not want, to settle
in a country where the roads are
mainly mud for six months out of
every twelve. Good roads are to-day
probably needed almost, if not as
much as more railroads. Railroads
are great developers, and so are|good
macadamized wagon roads. The
South would be vastly richer, its
farmers would be more prosperous,
its lands more valuable and in great¬
er demand, and immigration would
be greater if it had good, well-built
roads. This work can he done with
much profit and with great benefit to
the whole South by ths employment
of cohvits under meu who thoroughly
understand road-making. The im¬
portance of good roads ought to be
impressed upon Southern people un
til they appreciate their great value.
Good roads are now one of the
greatest needs of the South, and
especially to the farmers, who use
them more than any other class.
The fltty* S&" ot the girl of the .
are smail, tapering and beautifully
shaped; 11 as beautiful as the *
and she is without her ||; her frown
is a f, and her figure excites! ! I of
surprise, and a hankering. her.—
Paper and Press.
Legitimate Newspapers.
James P. Guernsey, editor of the
Republican, Rome, N. Y., truthfully
says in the Journalist:
The country is flooded with a class
of papers which reek with immoral¬
ity—sewers for the offal of the uni¬
verse. Still, we hear very few com¬
plaints against them, and the man
who kicks at his home paper after
perusing it for several hours,remark¬
ing that 'there is nothing in it,' will
sneak off to some secluded spot and
devour with avidity the contents of
so-called police journals, which make
a specialty of chronicling divorce ca¬
ses, elopements, family quarrels, and
other events still lower in the cata¬
logue of shame. Do you ever hear
them kicking against such sheets ?
Oh, no 1 They don’t read them. But
we sturted out to talk about legiti
mate newspapers. The fault fiudieg
reader does not know—or at least he
does not seem to know—that the
editor is much the same as ordinary
mortals. He has his share of trials
and tribulations, and there are times
when the gen .forgets its canning
and facility. At such times his jour¬
nal may seem a trifle dull. Weeks
pass without giving him an oppor¬
tunity of chronicling some startling
event or inditing an editorial on
some matter contiguous to his village
or city. When opportunities are of¬
fered and he publishes his views on
important matters, his readers will
pick them to pieces and tell bow he
could have builded better, while the
cbabces are ten to one that they
would never have thought of giving
their ideas in the matter had not the
editor drawn them out. But, did
you ever hear an excuse offered for
an'editor? We never did. Experi¬
ence is a good teacher. Let the
greenhorn who thinks he can pick
up the editorial quill and wield it in
such a manner that it will bear arti¬
cles pleasing to ejeryone on the list,
and win him a world-wide reputa¬
tion, straddle the tripod, dip the
qu'll in Arnold’s best and spread the
fluid.
Heroes Hiding on the Rail.
In one of the coaches on a west¬
bound train was a party of young
men. They were just like other pas¬
sengers, excepting, possibly,that they
wore better clothes, talked more
slang aud had browner faces. But
it was plain to be seen by the most
careless observer that they were any¬
thing but common young men. The
other passengers looked upon them,
with awe, mingled with admiration.
Every move made by one of the doz¬
en was eagerly noted by all sitting
within view. These young men had
full seats to themselves, while other
passengers crowded themselves to¬
gether. Whenever one of the young
men walked throagh tb# car every¬
body else stood respectfully aside.
If one of the young men made an at¬
tempt at a joke there was no man
within hearing who had the temerity
to refuse to lnngh. At stations the
word seemed to be passed along the
platform, and crowds gathered to
look into the windows and do hom¬
age to the distinguished travelers.
The oondnetor was studiously polite
to them, aud the brakemau was al¬
ways on the lookout to see if he could
be of aDy service to them. Even the
train boy Beamed for once to have
lost bis impudence and he treated
tbese young men with frequent evi¬
dences of bis most sincere considera¬
tion, and rarely left tbe car in which
they were seated without casting np¬
on them one parting glance of envy
and admiration.
'Who are those nabob ohaps ?’ in¬
quired a new passenger of bis seat
mate; ‘they ain’t Members of Con¬
gress, or Princes from Yurrip, or the
only sons of millionaire railway Pres¬
idents, be they ?’
‘Ob, no, tbe passenger replied,
‘they are only a club of baseball play¬
ers.’---Chicago Herald.
A Barometer,
A kiss is an unfailing barometer.
The initiated can tell “the signs of
the times'* invariably. It is a sure
indication of a cold wave if the young
ladv’s b«st bean tells her her hiss??
are ever so much sweeter than the
girl’s across the way.
There ie sure to be a stood if the
young woman's father catches him in
the act.
There will be heavy clotids in the
sky if, when he is just about to kiss
her, he stops short and asks her
“how’s her mother?’ The rule is
just as sure when the girl has been
eating onions.
If be puts his arms aronnd her like
a bear and almost smothers her when
he kisses her, they are not married.
If he comes up with his hands in his
pockets and gives her a tasteless
smack, the probabilities are that they
are.
After all, what would a girl be
without lips? She might be blind,
and yet be beautiful. She might be
bald, and yet wear some other wo¬
man's hair. But if she bad no lips
life would be a desert drear.
Ah, it is woman’s lips that try
men’s souls!— Chicago Ledger.
Midsummer Mad.
Prom the Philadelphia Times.]
The silly old maid with a fuzzy lap
dog that she fondles and calls ‘her
baby.’
The silly young graduate who writes
A. B. after his name on the hotel
register.
The silly novice out fishing for the
first time who takes hold of the crab
by the wrong end.
The silly snob who tries to impress
strangers by talking familiarly of im¬
portant people he doesn't know.
The silly bore, who thinks he
knows everything, and gets acquaint¬
ed with people to talk them to
death.
The silly fellow in a short, tight
bathing suit, who lolls and dawdles
in the sand to show his shape.
The silly nurse maid who wears
Rhine-stone earrings, and gets her¬
self up in a cheap imitation of her
mistress.
The silly father who makes a tre¬
mendous fuss over his baby,and asks
every one he meets if they’ve ‘seen
his boy.’
The silly widow who makes her
evening toilet at her window on the
ocean front without pulling down
the blind.
The silly Saratoga yonth who
does’t know a soul in the hotel, and
drives out every afternoon in a tan¬
dem for show.
The silly hotel clerk, with a Cape
May diamond pin,who supposes that
all the heiresses are enraptured with
his beauty.
The silly old married woman who
wears short skirts and sashes, and
skips aronnd the hotel porch like a
girl of sixteen.
The silly girl at the seaside who
plasters her complexion an inch thick
with cosmetics and thinks nobody
knows the difference.
The silly bather who goes out be¬
yond the stake to show he’s not
afraid, and has to be lugged in like a
soaked rat by the life guard.
The silly young man in business in
tbe city who carries his racquet in
and out with him from suburban re¬
sorts to let people know that he plays
tennis.
The silly fat woman, with propor
tions like a hippopotamus and dress¬
ed like a guy, who insists on datic
ing in all tbe sets and tkinkis she rs
as a gazelle.
The silly old fellow of forty who
decks out his pudgy proportions in
knickerbockers and a Norfolk jacket
and struts about under the impres¬
sion that be is an Apollo,
Another Strike Stopped,
‘Why, johnny,' said Mrs. McSwil
ligen to her hopeful son yesterday
morning, ‘here the second bell is
ringing and you haven’t begun to get
ready for school yet.*
‘Oh, I’m not going,’ replied Johnny.
'Notgoing? Why not?’
‘Why a cyclone blew down a
sohoolbouse ont West yesterday and
killed a lot ef children, end I'm net
going ta take any risks. ’
But his mother issued an niltima
tum and coerced him and johnny
went to school as usual.— Pittsburg
Ghronicle.
Terms $1,50 Per Annum*
W hy They Married.
We recently sent out postal cards
to the married men of a small town
iu western New York with the in¬
quiry, “Why did you marry?’ We
give a few of the’responaes:
'That’s what I have been trying for
eleven years to find out.*
‘Married to get even with her
mother, but I never have.'
'Because I was too lazy to work.’
'Because Saiah told me that five
other young men had proposed to
her.’
‘The old man thought eight years’
courting was almost long enough.’
'I was lonesome and melancholy,
and wanted somebody to make me
lively.- She makes me very lively,’
‘I was tired of buying ice cream
and candies, and going to theatres
and church, and wanted rest. Have
saved money.’
‘Please don’t stir me up.’
‘Because I thought she was one
among a thousand; now I sometimes
think she’s a thousand among one.’
‘I think it was because I was cro s
eyed; now I am afflicted with two
pairs of cross-eyes daily.'
‘Because I did not have the expo
rienoe I have now.’
‘The governor was going to give
mo his foot, so I took his daughter’s
hand.*
‘I thought it would be cheaper
than a brach of promise suit.’
‘That’B the same fool question that
my friends and neighbors ask me.’
‘Because I had more money than I
knew what to do with. Now I have
more to do than 1 have money with.’
‘I wanted a companion of the op
posite sex. P. S. She is still oppo
site.’
‘Don’t mention it.'
•Had difficulty unlocking tbe door
at night and wanted somebody to let
me in.’
‘I was embarrassed and gave my
wife the benefit of my name so that
I could take the benefit of her name
signed to.a check.’
‘Because it is just my luck.’
‘I didn’t intend to go to do it.’
‘I yearned for company. Wc now
have it all the time.’
‘Have exhausted all the figures in
ihe arithmetic to figure out an an
swer to your question; between mul¬
tiplication and' division in the fami¬
ly, and distraction in addition, the
answer is hard to arrive at.’
•I married to get the best wife in
the world.’
‘Because I asked her if she’d have
me. She said Bbe would. I think
she’s got me.’—Tid-Bits.
Hits of Huznox 1 .
A horse frequently wins a race on
the spur of the moment;
Money lenders take more interest
in business than any other class of
men.
Vassar girls are said to be so
modest that they will not work on
improper fractions.
A whip makes the horse go,
“money makes the mare go, ’and a
green innskmelon, pickled, makes a
mango.
‘I aim to tell the truth/ ‘Yes,’in¬
terrupted an acquaintance, ‘but you
are a very bad shot’
Mr. Cleveland doesn’t knew how
to play second fiddle, but he handles
the git-thaf with unanimous success.
Committeeman—“What animal is
the most capable of attaching itself
to a man?’ Head of the elass—“The
leech sir.*
Husband—“That fence Wants
painting badly; I think I’ll dd it my¬
self.* Wife—‘Yes, do it yonrself if
you think it wants to be dotte badly,
Speak of ft man’s marble brow, and
he Will glow with conscious pride;
but allude to his Woodeh head, and
he’s mad in a minute.
It ie about time for Somebody
among the back seats to rise ap and
remark that the mosquito bar, like
the campaign lie, is made out of hole
cloth.
difference •My dear,’ he said, 'what is tbe
between ingenious and in¬
genuous ?’ Tbe difference between
a and i, my love,’ ebS replied, And
he scratched his head for a diagram.
‘I am Coming by and by, you Will
bear my plantive cry, in accents mild
and gentle as a lamb. I’m not com¬
ing the on a frolio, but to give small boys
colic, sing hey! the small green
apple that I am.’
NO 22*
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AURANTII Most of the diseases which afflict
ally erased by disordered Cotrtfifibft ate taUbm
For all complaints a of the LIVER*.
the Liver, Biliousness, of this kind, Dyspe&daTlndigefrc each as Torpidity m
Won, Irregularity Nervous
of $ie Bowels. Oonstlpatt F1MO
lency, Eructations and Burning of the
(sometimes called Heartburn), Mimwnw,
Bloody Flux, Chills and Fora, _
Exhaustion before Braakbons Feredy
or after Fevers, Chronic Dials
rtrav LoM or Appetite, Hoodaohe, Fool Breath,
Irregularities incidental to Females. Bearimr-down
STADIGEB’S AURflWTH
ie Invaluable. It is not a panacea for all ^ismuHrnr.
It changes the complexion from a waxy, yellow
tinge, to a ruddy, healthy odor. It entirely remove*
low, gloomy spirits. It is one of the BC8T AL*
BLOOD, I. E 5£ T,VES and and Is A PURIFIERS VALUABLE of TONIC. ths
StADICER’S AURANTII
Fox Ml® bj Dll Pr nggirtB. Price 81.00 pox bctUai
C. F. ST A DICER, Proprietor, *
uo SO. FRONT St Philadelphia, Pa!
Carter’s Shoe Store
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BLACK STEEL TIP
We Are Still In Our Boots and ouf
business is to supply the people witlt
First Class Foot Wear. Goods that
are comfortable, aide fitting and drea
sy. Cali on us ror your &ne goods,
In medium aud cheap grades we baft
die nothing but Leather Shoes. No
Shoddy or Pasteboard Goods that
can only be guaranteed to be twelve
pairs to the dozen, bnt Honest Goods
at ; Moderate Prices.
CALVIN CARTER & SON
Americus, Ca
March 6,1886.
PROHIBITION
May prohibit anybody from selling
Liquors in Stewart County, bat High
License iu Eafaula, Ala., does not
prohibit MORRIS & GREER from
supplying the Good People of Stew¬
art with Pure Medicinal Wines, Fin#
Brandies and Whiskies, such as tbera
will be A necessity for at times in et
ery family, and such as would be pre¬
scribed by their Physicians.
We keep a Fall and Complete line
of the Best Liquors which can be
bought in any market, and are pre¬
pared to furnish customers with any
quantity, from Half a Pint to Five
Gallons or more, and we Guarantee
All Goods as Represented, and sup¬
ply them at Lowest Market Prices,
We keep a fall stock of ail grade
and respectfully solicit a share of
your trade. Gome in Ohd Sea US
when you visit Eufaula.
Respectfully, MORRIS k GREER;
January 30, 1886.
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Onedoso reliovos Fovcr, SourStomath cure -»Bad
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Tr, them once an . Bottle., you will never by be without them. *nd
Price. 26 eta per Sold Druggtats reoeiptol
Medicine Dover*generaiiy. M io^nyjddre*,. Stnt on
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Manufacturer* and Sole Prop*., 61. LOUIS, Nw