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THE LUMPKIN INDEPENDEN
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tl H L ^», I EDITORS.
SATURDAY.... August 7ib, 1886.
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Kditoriiil IlrevitlcM.
Lets’ give General Gordon tbe big¬
gest vote ever polled for a Governor
ot Georgia.
There is a speck of war cloud in
the Mexican sky. But that is nothing
to Mexico, which rarely ever has less
than a dozen revolutions every year.
When the trial of the Chicago An¬
archists is concluded it is to be pre¬
sumed that they will not again pre¬
sume too much upon American free¬
dom.
A roimo woman of Pottstown tbe
other day foand a cent of the date of
1881 in the yolk of a hen’s egg that
she had broken for cooking purposes.
The date of the egg was not given.
Texas pioposes to whip Mexico on
her own account if the United States
authorities fail to put a stop to tbe
outrages now being perpetrated on
the Texas aud Mexican border lines.
Ihk death of Judge H. K. MoCay
creates a vacancy in the judgesLip
of the United States District Court
for tbe Northern District of Georgia.
There are more than a dozen appli¬
cants for tho position.
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The A mericus Recorder ot Tuesday
says: No public enterprise has been
agitated for many years in which the
people of Sumter county have taken
sueh general interest as in the ex¬
tension of tho A. P. & L. road.
President Cleveland recently ac¬
cepted five watermelons, aggregating
over 260 pounds, from a farmer of
Lowndes county, Ga. Pity he has
not tbo Telegraph's tupelo-gura bread
tray to out them in and eat with Jef¬
fersonian simplicity.
The Millen Beacon says: “Though
nnnotiood by almost everybody, a
speoios of wild coffee grows in abun¬
dance in the swamp lauds here.” It
does not confine itself to tho swamps
here, but literally takos possession of
tbe lanes, byways, gardens and back
lots.
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In a recent sermon on “the Bible,”
Rev. Mr. Ta'm'g said; ‘oducateonly
a man’s head and you tuako him an
infidel. Educate only a man’s heart
and you make him a fauatio. Edu¬
cate them both together and you
have the noblest work oi God. An
educated mind without moral princi¬
pal is a ship without a holm—a rush¬
ing rail train without brakes or re¬
versing rod to control the speed."
More than $36,000,000 were ex
pended in tho Southern States dur¬
ing the first three months of tbe
present year in the erection of new
factories, as against $15,000,000 dur¬
ing tho same period last year. The
development in the coal, coke and
iron industries in Alabama and Ar¬
kansas is simply enormous; and in
the manufacture of pig iron,Alabama
begins to seriously compete with the
North, while tbe erection of Bessem¬
er steel factories is both projsoted
aud commenced.
There are a great many aspirants
for the vacant Federal judgoship in
North Georgia. A wicked newspa¬
per correspondent writing from At¬
lanta Bays: “There are a few mem¬
bers of the Atlanta bar remaining
who have not been beard from, but
it is thought that if Mr. Cleveland
will hold up the appointment forty,
eight hours they will all be in and
most of them on the road to Wash¬
ington. In view of this possible con¬
tingency it would be patriotic in the
President to withhold the appoint*
ment till all the would-be jurists can
have a chance td get Lis ear.’’
The New Yo* \nbune of July
29th, saysthe rapid decline in the
price of silver does not tend to con
Irm the theory of those who urged
some weeks ago that the unusual de
elioe then observed was due only to
tbo temporary increase in the pro
portion of eales of silver made to cov
•r sales of merchandise to India aud
China. The theory looked reason
*ble, but in the nature of things such
an influence could only be temper
ary; after a little, the covering of
even the entire value of all sales of
merchandise by immediate sales of
silver would affect the silver market
no more than the ultimate settlement
of the account ___.... m • the old ,, way. Ae .
the decline not ouly continued,but has
become more rapid than ever, the ■
query is again suggested whether 1
mne row«e;
Geargia Xntellitfeuce.
—Track laying has commenced on
tho Georgia Midland Railroad.
—Bibb county is increasing her
wealth ut the rate of a million dollars
a year.
—Thomaaville already baa gas,
and is to hare vrator works and a
street railroad soon.
—Judge Simmons, of Macon, and
Judge Hall, of Griffin, are candidates
for the vacant federal judgeship.
—A minister was waylaid in Ran¬
dolph county tbe other day and badly
bruised by a party of young men.
—Maj. Albert B. Ross, who has
been Clerk of Bibb Superior Court
for the past 25 or 30 years, is dead.
— Rev. W. B. Arnold, a minister
of tbe north Georgia conference,
died last week and was buried in Ox¬
ford, Ga.
—Col. Henry B. Harris, member
of Congress from the Fourth District,
was married to Miss Kate Moses, of
Washington city on Tuesday last,
—The primary election for mem
bers of tbo Legislature will occur in
Sumter county to-day. The cam¬
paign has been so hot that two of the
candidates had a fight last Tuesday.
—A special to tho Constitution
says that Dr. Felton and T. Warren
Aiken have announced themselves as
independent candidates for tbe legis¬
lature iu Bartow county, and that it
is understood the organized dem¬
ocrats will nominate Col. H. D. Cap¬
ers and Major Foute.
—Atlanta, Ga., Aog. 1.—It has
been fully developed that there will
be no opposition to Gon. Gordon’s
candidacy for Governor by Indepen¬
dents or Republicans. Tho pnpers
in Georgia which opposed Gen. Gor
don, 'largo'y because they were com¬
mitted against him before the an
nouncement of his candidacy, are all
coming to his support.
—Tho shipping of LeConte pears
has been active for the past week.
Remunerative prices—from $2 to $3-
50 per crate—have ruled. Unfortu¬
nately for our growers, tho late
storm damaged tbe crop so much
that the shipments this season, not¬
withstanding tho largo number of
youDg trees just coming into bearing
will full considerably short of the
past year.
—There is a firemen’s horso in
Savannah named Bob Lee that is
said to be able to locate tho ward in
which thero is a fire by the taps of
the fire bell. When an alarm begins
to strike he pricks up his earB, and
apparently is listening aud counting
the taps. He will go straight to a
fire day or night, mud invariably
starts off with head eroct and in the
right direction.
—Cuthbort Las a remarkable citi¬
zen in the persou of Mr. Junius Heli
bron. Ou Monday he passed his 92cl
birth day, and was ablo to pass most
of the day in pleasant converse with
his friends, on the streots. Mr.
Heilbron is ono of the few now living
who servod undor Napoleon during
his attempt to conquor tho world.
He was not present at the battle
which decided that great general’s
fate, but was with him in bis mornor
able invasion of Russia. His retain
iscences are very interesting, and
would make a ohapter of pleasant
reading.— Culhbert, Appeal.
—A northern man moving to this
section, when nearing his journey’s
end, notioed extensive fields of what
he supposed to be beans, and thought
to himself, ‘the southerners are h—1
ou beans.’ On a buggy jaunt to the
country in Polk, his vision rested
upon the same suspected beau fields,
and driving up to a fence where n
negro leaned upon a hoe, he remark
ed: ‘You are working out your beans,
are you?’ The negro, with a grin of
astonishment, looked his questioner
in the face and ejaculated: ‘Lor bless
yon, dess aint no beans, mun, is you
never see no cotton’ fore now?’— Ce
dartown, Advertiser.
One woman has the fortitude of a
hundred wen, and when a woman
r,h e1 8 “f ia8t tbe tyranny of fashion
ft “J . its « . c senselessness, ^«r °nough to it has see certainly and ad
re!w * od a dangerous
P^; w H ear what she b- to say
.. . , brains . and thc-.r bodies
success
f “ l7 ‘ heymU8t b ° ph / 8,C “ Hjf free ’
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thr0Ugh “
t0
Wll « le th « ^ess as mne out of
te “ «P°“ the street do, there
W “1 be a woman statesman or
^“dfu 1 of °t really P °n gre ° f * ? W ° mou
" orldb '*°** Q ^trammelled ( ,
b y t conventionalities of dress as of
0 h#r things. It is all very well to
talk of higher education for women,
But they will never gain it while the
v,orld eUuds - They will never geiu
General News Items
—Of the 365 colleges in the Unit¬
ed States 150 publish newspapers.
—-A drove of 65,000 sheep are on
the way from Oregon to New York.
—John A. Logan sayS that he will
not be a candidate for the Presidency.
—A bill for appropriating $150,000
for a public building at Augusta has
passed the Senate.
—A Bath (Mich.) man, aged 69,
has just married a girl of 17, and his
son is married to bis wife’s mother.
—Oil Tuesday last suow fall at
Rome, N. Y. Tho weather is ex¬
tremely cold for this season of the
year.
—There are about three hundred
thousand miles of railroad iu the
world, of which fully one half are in
America.
—Tho annual productions of tbe
single State ot Now York exceed
those of the whole thirteen Southern
States by $1134,839,659 in value.
—Only two centuries ago tbe white
races were estimated to be one-tenth
of the world’s population. Now it
is claimed that they are fully one
third.
—The Supreme Court of New
Hampshire has rendered a decision
denying the right of the Salvation
Army to beat their drums in the
streets of aDy city, town or village of
the State.
—The mail between St. Louis and
New York was robbed on Juno 28th
of a pouch contaiuing $200,000 iu
Cash and $80,000 in drafts and
bonds. No clue yet to the thief or
thieves.
—Bananas are a lately introduced
uovelty in tbe English trada. They
are brought from the West Indies in
a chamber in tbe vessel, the temper¬
ature of which is carefully regulated
by machiuery.
—A balloon, carrying two Voya¬
gers, left Cherbourg, France, at 11
o’clock P. M. on July 30tb, and land¬
ed safely in London the next morn¬
ing at 6 o'clock. The serial Naviga¬
tors will return to Cherbourg, and
then will attempt a voyage from that
place to Norway.
—San Antonio, Tex., August 1.—
The democratic congressional con¬
vention assembled here yesterday,
unanimously adopted a resolution
calling upon the prosideut to take
prompt aotion for the release of Cut¬
ting, imprisoned in Mexico, and to
demand from tho Mexican govern
meut tho punishment of the murder¬
ers of tho naturalized cilizeu, Arit-su
res, and full sutisfuctiou and indem¬
nity for his family.
—Mt. Washington, N. H., August
3.—A northwest wind, blowing at
tho rate of GO miles per hour, set in
at nightfall yesterday. Snow began
to fall at 2 30 this morning and at
5:30 the ground was covered to the
dopth of one and ono half .inches.
The wind is now blowing 80 miles an
hour, and the wiudows are thickly
covered with frost. Tho thermome¬
ter yesterday registered 85 degrees
in the valley, but now marks 28 de¬
grees here.
•—Boston, July 29.—An ingenious
way of getting around the prohibition
law in Rhode Island was discovered
yesterday. Several cases of eggs
were tipped off a truck by an acci¬
dent ou Tremout street’ On picking
up the eggs from the street they were
found to be made of porcelain, ami,
instead of coutainiug tho legitimate
products of the barn yard, they were
filled with whiskey, each egg holding
a 'good square drink.’ Aud now At¬
lanta wants to buy tho heus that laid
those eggs.
—Chicago, August 3 —An impor¬
tant arrest was made to day by the
Pinkerton’s national detective agency
in the capture of Thomas Finnegan,
and Noyes S. Thompson, charged
with being implicated in tho robbery
of some $15,000 worth of stamps from
the Minneapolis post o ffice on the
night of July 8th. Tho most, Bensa
tionnl feature of tbe ease is the fa ct
that Shanahan, who is said to have
been the first man that receive 1 the
stamps is supervisor of the town of
South Chicago aud is under very
heavy official bonds for his good
conduct in office:
—Galveston, Tex., August 3.—The
voice of Texas is for war with Mexico,
The citizens of Texas have been out¬
raged in Mexico at frequent intervals
since Texas declared her independ¬
ence of the ‘Land of God and Liber
ty.’ Tho imprisonment of Cutting
and the assassination of Rassures has
incensed the people of this state.
Tbe governor has been deluged with
telegrams and letters offering to raise
companies and regiments for the war,
and all the organized militia compa¬
nies in the state Liavo served notice
on the commander in chief that they
are awaiting orders. If the Washing¬
ton authorities should now back
IStfU't Oil
Hainucl «T. Tllden Dead. 1
Yonkers, N. Y., August 4. —Sam
uei J. Tilden died at Greystone this
morning at ten minutes before 9
o'clock, He had been enjoying his
usual good health up to last Satur
day evening. While sitting on the
stoop of bis residence, after sundown
on that evening, he was taken with a
slight chill, which settled on his
stomach anil bowels, producing in¬
flammation, from which he suffered
all night. On Sunday he was slight¬
ly better, and was able to ride out.
On Sunday evening he felt much
worse, and continued to grow weak¬
er. But until last night there were
no fears of the consequences. This
morning it became apparent that tbe
end was near.
Dr. Charles E. Simmons and Miss
Gould, relatives of Tilden, were at
his bedside a few moments before
Tilden died. He tried to speak, b t
only moved his lips, failing to make
any sound. Ee passed away quietly
and peacefully.
As soon as the news of Tilden’s
death was received at Yonkers there
was a good deal of excitement over
it. Instantly the flags of the city
baildings and newspaper offices were
displayed at half-mast, and expres¬
sions of regret were heard on all sides
at the death of the eminent states¬
man. It is said he had not been
feeling wall for some days.
THE NEWS IN NEW YORK.
Now York, August 4 —Flags all
over tbe city are at half mast since
tbe news of the death of Tilden. The
news of the death spread through
the city very rapidly. Tbe newspa¬
per offices bulletined it early, and
so tbe news soon scattered broadcast.
Expressions of sorrow were beard on
all sides and from parties of al! polit¬
ical faith at the-loss tbe country has
sustained. Though it was known
that Tilden bad been in bad health
for some time, his death not being
looked for, and coming so suddenly,
was quite a shock to the country.
the president's condolence.
Washington, August 4.—The Pres¬
ident has sent the following telegram
to Colonel Samuel J. Tilden, Jr.,
Greystone, Yonkers, N. Y:
I hate this moment learned of the
sudden death of your illustrious rel¬
ative, Samuel J. Tilden, and hasten
to express my individual sorrow iu
an event by which the State of New
York has lost her most distinguished
son, and the nation one of its wisest
and most patriotic citizens.
[Signed] Grover Cleveland.
THE HOUSE PASSES A RESOLUTION.
Morrison offered, and the House
unanimously adopted, the following
resolution:
That tbe House of Representatives
of the United States has heard with
profound sorrow of the death of that
eminent and distinguished citizen,
Samuel J. Tilden.
—It is said that within a radius of
one hundred miles around Asheville
N. C every mineral can be iouud.
—The town of Thomson was des¬
troyed by tiro on Friday of last week.
The only block of brick stores in the
town was destroyed, besides many
othor buildings and many thousand
dollars worth of merchandise.
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Lumpkin, Ga. July 9,-1886.
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—DEALERS IE—
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Lumpkin, Ga. June 1,-1886.
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—AND—
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April 17.
JOHN SMITH
INTERVIEWS
Jons—Why, neighbor Jim, what is the matter with your horse ?
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Jim.—W ell, ifs a kind of combination disease. High Prices, Poor Goods,
and credit has about got the upper hand of us, and I’ll tell you, friend
John, that we are mighty nigh to starvation.
John.— I can sympathize with yon and give you a remedy, for once
was as low down as you are, iu fact was so poverty stricken that my shad
ow wns ashamed of me, my dog “Schneider,” even would’nt own me; and
as for my horse, he got so poor that I actually had to paste sheet-iron
patches over all of his joiuts to keep the bones in. Then I heard about
JOHN R. SHAW’S
M A M M 0 T H
Bargain • Giving
HOTJS H J
FORSYTH STREET,
7 - " Ga.
And whenever I got a little m^ney I went there and got its equivalent
in
Full Measure of First-Glass Goods.
The consequence was the more I bought from SHAW the more I had,
and the better off I was, until I got independent.—Just look at me, and
just look at my horse f
j
I want you to urge your neigbor, Jim, and your friends also, to call on
JOHN IE£. SHAW
For be has his beautiful Stores completely stocked with a full line of
Summer
Drir Goods,
CLOTHI1TG,
IB oots, Slioes,
HATS, UMBRELLAS, TRUNKS,
AND A LARGE AND CHOICE SELECTION OP
Millinery, Fancy Goods,
Notions, Ladies’ Underwear,
Perfumery and Toilet Soaps.
ZEPHYRS, EMBROIDERY SILK ETC*
All of which he is offering at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES
To meet the stringency of the times, and
there will be no cuts on well-known '
goods to prepare the way for over¬
charges on articles with which
you are less familia’.
I will guarantee that yon will receive special attention from polite clerks j
get value received for every dollar you trade, and have all the com forts
such as a nice, clean store, Revolving Stools to rest on, and a splendid
Stone Crossing in front of his store to enable you to avoid unpleasant
crowds, mud, etc, to say nothing of a pair of elegant steps or stopping
stones to assist you in and out your vehicle, ■
Jim —I thank you with all my heart, friend John, for your good ad
and if the “Lord Spares Me," I am sure to follow it_
“AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT !
John 7?. Shaw.