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w ! [— ■I J L i 1 L 1 4 L 4 m A. W. LATIMfiP, Publisher. VOL • XV. ih t UmWpfudcnt. Pu v ishe& every Saturday Morning T E IIM S : ODilL YEAR........ igii.eso. IX MONTHS...... . 7150. Kates orAdvertisiiiff. One inch one infection.......... $ 100 Each subsequent insertion........ 50 One inch, ono month............ 2 50 One inch, three months.......... 5 00 One inch, six months............ 7 00 Ono inch, twelve months.......... 10 00 One quarter column, one month..... 6 00 One quarter column twelve months 35 00 One half column, one month 10 0 One half column twelve mouths 60 On One column one month....... 15 00 jue column t velve mouths.... 100 00 All bills for advertising are due at any time upon presentation after first appearance of. advertisement. A (hi 1 ess all letters to The Lujipkin Inde fen dent, or A. W. L VT1MEK, LAW C.-.EDS. W. B. tiUEl!l!Y, DuPont (iuEiutr. 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. Will practice in all the counties ot This Judicial Circuit, in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, and in the District Court of the United States, and in all other courts by pecial .contract. july23-81. 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. W. H Aot. HAWKINS HOTEL, Americus, Ga. GOOD SAMPLE ROOMS FOR COMMER CIAL TOURISTS. Artesian Water-Warm Or Cold. Electric Bells connected with every room. Accommodations strictly first class in Every Particular. Patronage Respectfully Solicited. G. H. TOMMEY, Proprietor. Feb. 27th-18S6 J. .ISRAELS, Americus, - Georgia. When yon visit Americas remem¬ ber J. ISRAELS, on Cotton Avenue, 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. >-•-4^-- 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* % >4 V : 5e Most AURANTII of tho diseases which afflict mankind are origin* ally caused by a disordered condition of the LIVER* For all complaints of this kind, such as Torpidity ck the Liver, Biliousness, Nervous Dyspepsia, Indigos* tion. Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation, Flatu* lency. Eructations and Burning of the Stomaols (sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria* Bloody Flux, Chills and Fever, Breakbone Fever. Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar¬ rhoea, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Foul Bvwat.h, Irregalarities incidental to Females, Bearing-down SS is STAOtGER’SftUBMTli Invaluable. It is not a panacea for all diseases^ but OIIDE all diseases of tbe LIVER. will V.V. ■»> STOMACH and BOWELS* it changes the complexion from a waxy, yellow tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely removes low, gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST AL« TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THB BLOOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONIC. STADICER’S AURANTII Fat sole by all Druggists. Price S 1 ,00 per bottltf •40 C. F.STADiCER, Proprietor, flj SO. FRONT ST., Philadelphia, Pa? Carter's Shoe * k\ t ' ^.A ■ m ■ ■ * mm-- ic iy, r -j *- —v' SR L te *s e»N vr 'Vi . ___ _ _ BEST IN THE WORLD Ell BUCK STEEL TIP. 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. SMITHS mm 1® BEANS ^Vur.'jBiliousness; Sick HocdacheIn4 hours. ^ prevent Chill* ^ Favor,"sou'rStnmach »»Bad Breath. Clcartha Skin.Tone tho Serves, ONE andgiva BEAN. LHe and Visor to the system. ,Oosa: 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