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GUERRY & SON,
Attorneys tit Law,
AMERICUS, CA.
Practice in Federal and State Courts
Mur. 23ill-1886.
E. G. SIMMONS
ATTO R N EY AT L XW,
AMERICUS, GA.
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This Judicial Circuit, in the Supreme
Court of the State of Georgia, and
in the District Court of the United
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VH.LLl.HItN 1\ CLAUKL,
Attorney At Law
LUMPKiN GEORJIA.
Special attenliou given to collection.
Will be in Lumpkiu every Wednesday and
Saturday. At oilier times can bo found at
my residence 2J miles from Lumpkin on
Benevolence road.
January 23-1830.
THE PEOPLES NATIONAL
BANK OF AMERICUS.
Dots a General Banking Business
S. H. HAWKINS, President
II. C. BAG-LEY, . Cashier.
Americas, Gn., March 6, 1886.
ALLEN HOUSE,
FORM ELLY THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL
Americus, Georgia,
Mrs. W. H. ALLEN Proprietress.
GOOD SAMPLE ROOMS OH FIRST
FLOOR FOR COMMERCIAL TOURISTS
Electrict Bells connected with every room.
Elegant Bath Rooms supplied with Artesian
water—warm or cold. Accommodations,
Strictly Fibst-Ciass in Every Particular.
Patronage Respectfully Solicited.
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HAWKINS HOTEL,
Americus, Ga.
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CIAL TOURISTS.
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Electric Bells connected with every
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Feb. 27th-18S6
J. .ISRAELS,
Americus, - Georgia.
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next door to The Bank of Americus.
Call on him for
Fine Whiskey, Tobacco,
CIGARS, GROCERIES ETC.
He keeps tbe very best at prices to
suit the times. Orders solicited and
promptness gnnranteed.
March 6tb, 1886.
FRESH MEAL.
<—i
Jain now prepared to deliver at the bous¬
es of my customers the Best Water Ground
Meal that can be made in this section as
low as it can 1 o bought elsewhere. My
wagon will deliver on Thursday of each
week for tho present. Orders left at Corbett's
Drug Store or The Independent office will
receive prompt attention. Terms C. O. D.
It. II. VORUS.
Lumpkin Ga. Pee. 21-tf.
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, AUGUST 1886.
The Terrible Fate of a Man
Wlro Was Run Over
by a Lightning
Express.
Merchant Traveler.
‘Speaking of railroads,’ said tbe
candy pilgrim as he turned a car
seat and slowly divested himself of
his duster, ‘reminds me of a slow
one in Kentucky. The only way that
you can tell the direction tho traiu is
runuing is by the way tbe seats are
turned. I was on that train one day
last winter going from Russellville
out to Adairville, a distance of only
twelve miles. Ou the same train was
a clothing man who was fretting
considerably about tbe slow time it
wa< making. Finally he concluded
that be couldn’t, stand it any longer
and lie got out and walked. He got
so far iu advance that ho thought
tbe train bad probably gone back, so
he sat down to wait for it. The ex
ercise that be bad taken bad exhaust¬
ed him very much, aud before he
knew what he hud done lie had
keeled over and gone sound asleep
between the rails.
‘About 9 o’clock tbat night the pas¬
sengers and officers of the train were
startled by a continuous blowing of
the whistle and loud cries us if some
one was iu deep distress. We imme¬
diately weut forward and found to
our horror that the train was slowly
hut surely passing over the prostrate
form of our clothing mau.
‘The bravo engineer whistled down
brakes and made a heroic effort to
reverse the engiue. But, alas, she
would not reverse worth a cent,. It
seems that this was the first live
thing that this train had ever caught
and that it intended to run over this
mau if it took all winter.
‘It had pissed now over bis feet,
and the engineer said that if she
continued to make schedule time,
and if the water did not get too low
in tlie boiber, it would probably ar¬
rive at bis knees by midnight. The
poor fellow seemed to realize hi« sad
fate, and to appreciate tho fact that
death would sooner or later occur.
‘He called for paper and
and there by the dim light of the
conductor’s lantern the dying travel¬
er wTote his will and prepared to
make the trip to that laud where
‘sorrows uevtr live,’ and hotel men
don’t charge a drummer 50 per cent,
more for a meal than they do a far¬
mer. He also wrote to his house.
But when he called for more paper
aud suid be wanted to write to his
girl, there wusn’t a dry eye in the
vast assembly. Old men wept and
beautiful women fairly bowled. This
sentiment seemed to strike a tender
place in the murderous engine and
the mulehead in the boiler actually
cried, while a little bull’s eye lantern
on the brakemau's arm shed tears as
large as wild goose plums. He did
the square thing by his girl, and
don’t you forget it. Ho willed her
his insurance policy aud transferred
it right there, but. she never got a
cent.’
‘Transfer not properly made ? sug¬
gested a hardware man.
‘No, not that,’ continued the gum
drop drummer, as he slowly rolled a
cigarette.
‘Transfer was O. K You see it
was an accident policy, aud he died
a natural death.’
‘Natural death !' echoed a dezen of
voices.
‘Yes, Datural death—just as suro
as I am sitting here. You see it
ttime i cold about the time the train
struck his knees, and the poor fellow
died of pneumonia. 'Twos the sad¬
dest death I ever saw.’
----».» —--
The Origin of Cyclones.
From Engineering.]
In a recent paper on tho ‘Conser¬
vation of Energy in the Atmosphere’
Dr. Werner Siemens gives the fol¬
lowing theory of tbe origin of cy¬
clones: The comparative vacuum
formed at the centro of a cyloue cun
produce suction only in tho direction
of the axis of the cyclone, thus eith-’
er raising tbe water upon tho surface
over which it rotates, or drawing
down air from the higher regions of
tho atmosphere. The existence ot
such a descending Current of air
within a tornado is confirmed by iho
A Weekly Newspaper, Published iu the Political, Social and Agricultural Interests of Stewart County.
dear sky and quiet air often observ¬
ed at its centre. We must imagine,
says Dr. Siemens, a local cyclone as
produced by an impulse of super¬
heated air, due to some local cause
or other, given at the boundaries of
an upper and lower tract of distur
bunco of the neutral equilibrium of
an atmosphere at rest, which reach¬
es the boundary of the upper cooled
strata of air, which have a tendency
to descend. We must thus havo an
outer descending current formed
rouud the ascending otic, by means
ot which as much air decenda as has
been carried up by the ascending
current. If the disturbance of equili¬
brium embraces extended upper and
lower strata of air, tho descending
masses will produce an increase of
pressure in the neighborhood of the
cyclone, gradually extending to the
surface of the earth, and on the other
hand iuto the highest regions of the
air, and transfer its via viva contin
ually into new superheated masses
of air which ascended in the cyclone,
while a part of the descending ex
terual cyclone circulating in the same
direction ascends again with the in
tier, and transfers it to a part of vis
viva gained in the higher regions of
tho air. The course of the center of
tho cyclone is then determined by
tbe direction of the mean velocity of
all tbe air masses forming the cy¬
clone, and its duration is that of the
distmbmee of the neutral equili¬
brium of the atmosphere which called
it forth and maintains it. The local
ascending current, by carrying dust
and particles vvitb it., may also pro¬
duce rain by condensing the aque¬
ous of the higher stratus.
Smuggled Fire Water.
Boston, July 27.—A red faced, jol
ly driver of a two-horse truck got iu¬
to I rouble yesterday afternoon and
unexpectedly revealed a secret. He
was coming up Tremout street from
the North End, and, when opposite
the common, got into a jam ot truck
teams, one of which tipped off a por
tion of his load. Among other things
which fell into (lie street were three
wooden shipping cases filled with
eggs. The cases held forty-nine doz¬
en each. The cover of oue case was
knocked off, anil the eggs weut skip¬
ping over tho pavement. Two news¬
boys rushed in and began to break
and suck the eggs. A large bov crack
ed a shell and began to swallow the
contents, when he suddeuly made a
wry face.
‘Bad V’ asked a bystander.
‘Naw,’ was the reply; ‘but’s a fun¬
ny tasting egg’s s’ever I seed.’
The other boy, after tasting one or
two eggs, turned to the crowd and
suid:
‘ 'Taint an egg at all, it’s nothing
but
Of course there was a scramble for
tho eggs, and the driver had work to
get his box hack. When hia boxes
were all loaded again, he said he
had received six eases of eggs from
a North End liquor dealer, who told
him to take them to tha Providence
Depot, and cautioned him to be
careful and ‘not hatch tho eggs on
the way,’ as they were for hotel use
in Rhode Island.
Taking up ono of the eggs and
breaking it in front of the crowd, a
ruddy liquid ran out, leaving noth¬
ing but a common porcelain shell
B.uoh as is sold at agricultural supply
stores for ‘nest eggs.’ Instead of al¬
bumen and yolk every egg was full
of the best whisky, each eno contain
ing about enough for a good, drink.’
They were filled through a small
hole in the big end, and tho hole
was closed with waterproof cemented
cloth of the same color as the egg
By chalking the egg a little the de
ceptiou was complete.
‘They are going to Newport and
Narragansett Bier,’ said the driver,
‘and I'll bet lots of people will eat
eggs down there who never liked
them before,’
‘Have yon weak eves ?’ said a lady
to an applicant for a kitchen
who wore blue spectacles.
’No, ma’am,’ said tho applicant,
'but I scour pots and things so thor¬
ough that the glitter of them hurts
my sight.’
Fashions For Tramps.
Hats this season wi'l be worn with
open crown aud the brim more or
less depressed.
The geueral costume will affect a
general appearance of neglige which
is quite charming.
Tronsei-s are worn quite long—in
fact, a good while, unless the ‘old
elo’ business is brisk.
The fashion of wearing a splinter
in lien of a suspender button is now
out of date, a hovse-shoe nail now
being considered the correct thing.
The hair is worn very long this
season and with a decided tendency
to disorder, which lends a pictures¬
que air to the face.
The rumor tbat soap and water
would bo extensively used this sea¬
son by the perigriuatiug fraternity
proves to bo without foundation.
The fashionable coat this season,
as heretofore, will bo tho high-cut
ministerial, which will be worn close
biittoued to the throat during the
fulluioon period to conceal the ab¬
sence of a shirt. It is allowable, how¬
ever, to wear them open duriug and
immediately after the dark of the
moon, if the wearer has been able to
discover a loaded clothes line.
Tourists who hunt watermelons
and chickens after sunset should note
the fact that the latter are still serv¬
ed with the usual bull-dog-and-shot
gun dressing on the side.
There is no change in the stylo of
‘striking the back door for a hand
on t.’
It. is now en regie to wear one boot
and ono shoe, instead of a slipper
aud an overshoe, as heretofore. The
trouser-leg should be worn inside
the bootleg, as it giveB quite an ap¬
pearance of chic to the traveler when
entering a new town.
It is no longer a la mode to sleep
in a city bastiie, but rather to secure
a first floor room in a hay stack, thus
securing hot and cold air, wafer and
light, to say nothing of room>nd a
tine view of the adjacent grounds.
Ties are out of date, except those
made of hemp, which eonliue all the
nigo in the West, but all members of
the fraternity will protest most vig
orously and emphatically against
wearing this style.
G’uffs are much worn this season.
The fashionable style is terra cotta
colored.
The beard is worn full aud untrim¬
med while in the rural districts. It
is permissible; however, to shave if
you can discover a barber who will
trust you, but no thorough tourist
will permit himself ever to pay for
it.
As a tourist dies every week, it is
now stylish to wear the finger nails
long and dressed in deepest mourn¬
ing. This innovation will causo but
little iuconvcnienco to the fraterni-
tv.
Collars are worn more reversibly
and chalked the same as last sea¬
son.
A tuft of hair projecting through
the crown of the hat gives a bizzarre
effect.
Mis match suits are much affected
by the beau monde this season.— E.
G. Downs, in Peck's Sun.
A Printer s Devil.
If there is one boy in this world,
who has a harder time than another,
he is, unqneslionably, the imp who
does the Satan work in the printing
office and is known us the devil. His
path in life is very far from being
strewn with roses, or, for that mat¬
ter, either hollyhocks or sunflowers.
It is usually spread pretty thickly
with iron side sticks and hell boxes.
Look not upon the printer’s devil
when he is red within the face, when
he movetb himself aright, for in tbe
end he atingeth like a hot horse shoe
and bitetli like a patent medieine.
He is just old fruit for the practical
printers, who are given to play prac¬
tical jokes ou him at all hours of the
day or night. They send him to otb'
er printing offices after italic spaces
and nonpareil minion when there are
no such things known to tlie craft.
Once iu a while the order is changed
to strap oil, and then the devil gets
a'licking from tho officials of tho ri¬
val shop, who give him all that tho
name implies.
He is invited to come and look at
the type lice; and while he is bending
over some ‘dead’ or ‘alive’ matter in
cold type, the inhuman exhibitor
suddenly brings the wet, lye soaked
type together with a snap, filling the
devil’s eyes with dirty water and
fourth-proof lye. The printers ink
electrotypes, pig and horse cuts,
and take impressions of the same on
the infantile features of the new dev¬
il. His shirt looks like a piece of
tripe, which has dropped out of a
slaughter-house ambulance and been
fished out of the mud by some
thrifty scavenger. You would never
know the devil when you saw him
again, as the ink which envelopes his
face is never laid on in tbe same de¬
sign two days alike. When he has
run errands, split wood, pared pota
toes, washed rollers and forms and
dishes, and shoveled coal, and made
garden, and fed the pigs, and black¬
ed stoves and the foreman’s boots
for four or five years, he is promoted
to the case and given a chance to set
some type, and then he commences
to talk about big caps, aud little let¬
ters, and spells cow with a big K,
and injects three X’s' a q aud an a
iuto the word ‘cabbags,’ and the
foreman belts him over the head with
a No. 10 boot, and the devil goes
home at night and tells his mother,
while exhibiting bis numerous scars
and body wounds, tbat ho is sorry
that he learned the trade. — Cheek.
Golden Grains.
Tot much importance is self-impor¬
tance.
Law without Justice is as a wound
without a cure.
It doth not become a law maker to
become a law breaker.
Whon the state is most corrupt
then the laws are most multiplied.
Let amusement fill lip the chinks
of your existence, but not tho great
space thereof.
Next to hot wnisky, love has prob¬
ably done more to make a fool of a
man than any other one thing.
The injury of prodigality leads to
this—that lie who will not economize
will have to ago lize.
Though we travel the world over
to find the beautiful, we must carry
it with us or we find it not.
To be free minded and cheerfully
disposed at hours of meat and sleep
and of exercise, is one of the best
precepts for long living.
If tbe human intellect hath once
taken a liking to any doctrine, it
draws everything else into harmony
with that doctrine and to its sup¬
port.
In struggling with misfortune we
are sure to receive some wounds in
tbe conflict, but a sure method to
come off victorious is not to run
away.
Without trial you cannot guess at
your own strength. Men do not
learn to swim on a table. They
must go into the deep and buffet the
surges.
Life’s harmony must have its dis
cords, but as in music pathos is
tempted into pleasure by the pervad¬
ing spirit of beauty, so are all life’s
wounds with love.
Put your foot down where you
mean to stand, and let no man move
you from the right. Learn to say
‘No,’ and it will be of more usetoyou
than a knowledge of Latin.
A good man is the best friend, and
therefore is first to be chosen, longest
to be retained, and,- indeed, never to
bo parted with unless he ceases to be
that for which he was chosen.
Evasions are the common shelter
of the hard-hearted, the false aud the
impotent when called upon to assist.
The really great alone plan instanta¬
neous help, even when their looks
and words presage difficulties.
The lore of singularity proceods
from a restless mind, possessing some
portion of genius and a largo per
centago of vanity; it prefers novelty
to truth, and aims at being distin¬
guished for its talents rather than its
deserts.
You may hide your thoughts, con¬
ceal your mind and your actions, but
the smell of a raw onion will arise in
its might and inform a sneering
world how you have gatberd it into
inner man.
Terms $1.50 Per Annum*
Bridging the Chasm.
From the Detroit Free Press.
While we were tramping over the
battle field around Marietta, Geor¬
gia, the yonng man from Connecticut
grew sweet on tha pretty daughter
of the widow with whom we boarded.
It was love at first sight, and they
went in heavy. Our guide had been
an old reb soldier, and when he saw
bow things were going, winked the
girl to a seat on the washbeneh be¬
hind tho house and said;
‘Now, Lucy, tnis ’ere orter stop.’
‘What ’ere?’
‘In love with that fellers.’
‘Hain’t I a right?’
‘No, gal. Men your old father
sarved in the ranks together. We
fit agin them Yanks together, and
together we cum home calkerlatiu’ to
hate ’em as long as we lived.
‘Twouldn’t be right fur you to go
back on your dad that way.’
‘Jim Skucn,’ she replied, as she
stood up to wave bar arm, ‘mebbe ye
never heard nut bin’ ’bout bridgin’
the bloody chasm and shakiu’ bauds
across the ditch. I know pap was a
fighter, but after he’d been home a
year or two, ’long came a Yank one
day looking for land. He had a
bottle ’o whisky, and he and pap sat
down on this very bench and fit
them old fights over until both got
drunk and fell in a heap. When they
woke up they begun to shake and
bridge, and they kept it up till the
Yank hurrahed tor Gineral Lee and
pap hollered for Gineral Grant. Now
you shut! If you don’t want to
bridge you can stub around with
your nose stuck up and yonr knese
out to the weather, but don’t you go
to interferin’ with me ! Dad bridged,
main’s bridged, and I’m going to
climb out of the last ditch and hustle
for a Yankee husband!’
They were engaged before we left.
A Knowing Woman.
’Madam,’ he said, after a long sur¬
vey of a flower stand at tho Central
Market yesterday, ‘could you recom¬
mend me something to place on my
wife’s grave .’
‘I think so,’ she answered as she
looked him over. ‘How long has,
she been dead ?’
‘Six years.’
‘Married again ?’
‘What is that to you ?
‘Oh, you needu’t be so cranky
about it. I’ve dealt in Cemetery
flowers for the last fifteen years, and
I know about bow things work. If
you are still a widower you want
about four dollars worth of flowers
and a border of moss. If you are
married again you'll pick out a twen¬
ty C‘.nt rose bush, beat me down to
fifteen cents, and send to it the cem¬
etery by a car driver.’
He pretended to be very indig¬
nant and went to the other end of
the market and bought two feeble
looking pinks for seven cents a piece.
—Detroit Free Press.
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There are seventeen million labor¬
ers in the country. The annual pro¬
duct of labor and capital is ten bil¬
lions of dollars. The taxes on capi¬
tal and production are seven hundred
millions. The wear and tear are one
billion, three hundred millions. The
profit on capital invested is five per
cent, or two billions one hundred
and seventy-five millions. The re
mainder to be divided amongst the
producers, the laborers, is five bill¬
ions eight hundred aud twenty-five
millions.
The Senate has refused to confirm
the appointment of B. M. Blackburn,
editor of the Madison Madisonian, as
postmaster ot Madison because of
severe strictures on the Republican
party in articles in the Madisonian.
According to touris ts who have re¬
cently returned from Alaska fish are
so plentiful in that region tbat the
salmon have to get out on the banks
of tho river to allow the steamboats
to pass.
Old Strictum—‘See here What
makes you so late this morning ?’
Office boy—“I had to get my hair
cut.’ Strictum—“Well, you could
have sent some ono else to attend to
that. Don't let it occur again.
NO 23*
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(sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria*
Bloody Flux, Chills and Fever, Breakbone Fever.
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tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely removes
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SO. FRONT ST., Philadelphia, Pa?
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We Are Still In Our Boots and
business is to supply tbe people
First Class Foot "Wear. Goods
are comfortable, nice fitting and
sy. Caii on us ior your nne
In medium aud cheap grades we
die nothing but Leather Shoes.
Shoddy or Pasteboard Goods
can only be guaranteed to be
pairs to the dozen, bnt Honest
at Moderate Prices.
CALVIN CARTER & SON
Americus, Ca.
March 6, 1S86.
PROHIBITION
May prohibit anybody from
Liquors in Stewart County, but
License in Eufaula, Ala., does
MORRIS & GREER
supplying the Good People of
art with Pare Medicinal Wines,
Brandies and Whiskies, such as
will be a necessity for at times in
ery family, and such as would be
scribed by their Physicians.
Wo keep a Fall and Complete
of the Best Liquors which can
bought in any market, and are pre¬
pared to furnish customers with any
quantity, from Half a Pint to Five
Gallons or more, and wo
All Goods as Represented, and sup¬
ply them at Lowest Market Prices.
We keep a full stock of all grade
and respectfully solicit a share
your trade. Come in and 863
when you visit Eufaula.
Respectfully, MORRIS & GREER.
January 30, 1886.
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Breath. Clcartha Skin.Tone tho Serves, ONE andgiva BEAN.
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Try them once an yon wilt never be without them.
Price, 2tt els nor bottle. Sold by Druggists and
Medicine stamps. Iteawrs post^aM^lej'iij^addreoe generally. Sent on rocoiptoi
price in
Manufactuiers and Sole Props., 6T, LOUIS. Mgr