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Wheat,.. *1
Shelled corn.......... s
Corn in the ea- 3
Bye.................. §
Peas..,,............. §
Oats.................. 8
Barley................ $
Irish Potatoes.,,,..". 8
Sweet Potatoes........ S
White Beans.......... S
Castor Beam.......... £
Clover Seed........... §
Timothy Seed......... 46
flax Seed............. 66
Hemp Seed........... 44
Bine Grass Seed....... 14
Buckwheat... 52
Dried Peaches ...88
Dried apples.. ..24
Onions....... 67
Salt
Stene coal
Malt...—
Bran
Turnips...........
Plasteripj* Hair....
TJnalacked Lime.... IIM.W.
Corn meal..... 48
Fine Salt....... 64
Ground Peas.... 4 • • •• • • • ...25
CottonSeed .... 30
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WUat Che wing Chun Does.
lu tbe thousand and one shops
sprinkledthrongh tbe narrower stretes
or this city, wbere youngsters boy
kri'ipops, where boys invest their sav
ings iti base balls and cigarettes at a
penny apiece, and Where tbe yoang
ladies of tbe tenements purchase tbe
latest yellow-bound literature, there
is always for sale a substance known
as black chewing gum. Whether it
is done up in spangled tinfoil, or re¬
splendent in gaudy tissue paper, or
decorated with parti-colored ribbon,
it is still black chewing gam. It is
made generally ont of refttse gam
arabic—stuff tbat cannot be used, in
tbe apothecary shops, and is flavored
variously with the' cheapest of cheap
extracts, licorice, wintergreen, pep
•rmint, or, more usually, one of those
poisonous flavoring*! tbat are com¬
pounded from acids. The manufac¬
turers sat a huge slab of the gum
into quadrangular pieces about tbe
size of a domino. In cool weather
tbe bits are friable sod break easily;
when it is warm, they have the con¬
sistence of a piece of india rubber.
It is surprising bow much of this
black chewing gum is used. A little
girl gets hold of a penny somehow,
and she cannot get to a shop quick
enough to buy some of it She chews
and chews and chews ou it, her jaws
working as regularly and rigorously
as those of a Fourth of July orator.
If she has a bosom friend, she may
bite off a bit of gum and set tho otb
er girl to chewing. If she wishes to
show particular favor to her five year
old sweetheart, she gives him a mor¬
sel. The youog Indies who devour
the yellow bound novels devour gum
too. They place a fragment of it be
tween the bindermost of their pretty
white teeth, and while their souls go
out to Elvira in her prison, or their
hearts flutter iu sympathy with Ed
gar de Montmoreuci in bis attempt
to carry off the heiress, they don’t
forget to chew that gum. Yoang
beaus, the leaders iu tenement house
society, chew it, too; for the men
who mako it advertise that it per
fumes the breath and lends the
mouth the odor of a new-mown field,
also that it aids digestion and clears
the voice and is a harmless and
beautiful substitute for tobacco; that
it is, in fact, a peuny bit of ambrosial
food for the gods.
It isn’t. The pbysiciaus of Amster¬
dam, N. Y., have just declured iu
solemn conclave that tbe practice of
ohewing this black gum is most
harmful and pernicious. Tlisj have
traced directly to it innumerable ca¬
ses of sore moutb and sore throat
that they have treated of late. Their
brethren of the medical profession
in New York agree with them, and
not only condemn black chewing
gum but of whatever color,
The physician who has charge ef
the throat dispensary in one of the
largest hospitals iff New York said
yesterday: , , ‘Day after ,, day , patients,
nearly all girls between 8 and 18
years of , age, come m . . here and , com
plain that it hurts them when they
swallow, or else tbat their mouths
sling when they drink anything
warm. On examining their throats,
t find the delicate mucous membrane
marked here and there with little in¬
flamed patches. In nine eases ont
ten it is caused by chewing gem.’
'Why is the gam hartful V
'The flavoring is nsaally poison¬
ous, replied the doctor, 'and by its
oonstant presence, in however small
a quantity, it sets np an inflamation.
But the habit is otherwise pernio
ions. The untiring motion of a gum
chewer’s jaws provokes a superfluous
flow of saliva—just as if there was
always a pinch of salt on tbe tongue
—and wears ont the salivary glands.
Gum ohewing retards digestion. It
a woman filU her stomach with wa¬
ter or saliva she drowne the gastric
juices; also the interminable attri¬
tion wears out the teeth, and foreign
flavor by degrees renders the broath
more and more disagreeable. The
praetioe is bad in every way.*
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Sunny Booms Make Sunny
Lives.
Let ua take the airiest, choicest
and snnniest room in the house for
our living room—the workshop
where brain and body are built up
aud rewarded; and there let us have
a bay window, no matter how plain
in structure, through which the good
twin angels—sunlight and pore air—
oan freely enter. This window shall
be the poem of the house. It shall
give freedom and scope to sunsets,
the tender green and oh&nging tints
of spring, the glow of summer, the
pomp of antomn, the wbit6 of winter,
storm and sunshine, glimmer and
gloom—all these we can enjoy as we
sit in oar sheltered room, as the
changing years roll on. Dark rooms
bring depression of spirits, impart¬
ing a sense of confinement, of isola¬
tion, of powerlessness, which is chill¬
ing to energy and vigor, bat in light
is good cheer. Even in a gloomy
Louse, Where the wall and furniture
are dingy brown, you bate bat to
take down tbe dingy curtains, open
wide the window, hang brackets on
either side, set flowerpots on tbe
brackets and ivy in the pots, and let
the warm air stream in— Chicago Tri¬
bune.
Owls and Hawks Practically
Considered.
I have closely observed the habit
of these birds for nearly half a centu¬
ry. Owls will devour rets and mice,
but always prefer to subsist on quails
rabbits and poultry, which compose
the great part of tbeir food. Iu the
thickly settled rural districts it is not
uncommon to estimate that a large
pair of owls will destroy $ Iff worth of
poultry while raising one brood, and
leave no evidence tbat they had ever
caught a single rat. In the winter
season, when tbs fields are bare and
the trees are leafless, they mostly
procure their food by darting into
huddles of quails when they are at
roost, or seizing rabbits as they make
their nightly runs; but, always seem
to prefer chickens, even at tbat time
of year, when the" henroost is not
well secured against them. In the
summer season they live mostly and
feed their young on chickens, young
turkeys, ducks and goslings, their
greatest nocturnal habit, among ci
vilization, being to search for wbal
constitutes tbe best food of man.
As for Lawks, I have never been
able to detect rats or mice as fcod
in the many hundred I have killed
and examined. They subsist in part
on quails, larks, pigeons, pheasants
and doves, all of which are insect de¬
stroyers, and friends of tbe agricnl
turist and horticulturist, bat they,
too, always prefer well fed yonng
poultry, and subsist aDd feed their
joung on very little else during the
spring and the summer. I have
known a single hawk, after I bad
killed its mato during incubation, in
May, to take from one farm over
three dozen chickens during the time
it was raising its brood, up to tbe
middlo of July, when tho nest was
riddled with bullets and the young
destroyed. I doubt whether there
is a hawk now living iu this state,
over one year old, tbat has not cost
at leaet $2 worth of poultry, aside
from its depredations ou valuable
birds and young squirrels. It is as
absorb to talk ot proctecting hawks
and owls for the benefit of the far¬
mer nnd fruit growers as it would be
to propose propagating wolves for
the benefit of sheep raisers. Let the
hawks and owls be exterminated it
possible, ‘scientific’ investigations to
tbe contrary notwithstanding. Al¬
most every farmer raises poultry. It
is pleasant and profitable, tbe great
est drawback being tbe invasion of
owls, bawks aud other tLieves.— In¬
diana Farmer.
Taking and Giving Advice.
Taking good advioe is quite a dif¬
ferent thing from giving good advice.
Almost evrjbody knows how to do
tbe second; next to nobody knows
how to do the first. Yet taking good
advice is, normally, at least quite as
important as giving good adv<ee; and
in the present state of the world, it is
much more important What a sud¬
den change there would be iu this
blundering old world, if the taking of
good advioe were as easy and as
pleasant as its giving.
It was a favorite thought and con¬
ceit of the classical writers that men
were divided into three olasses: Men
who, themselves, knew what they
ought to do; men who did not, them¬
selves, know, but who were willing
to learn from others what they
should do; aud men who neither
knew nor would learn from others,
what was best for them to do. It one
oannot belong to tbe choice few who
form the first of these three classes,
he ought at least to see that he does
not belong to the ignoble many who
form the third.
The Care of Lace Curtains.
Never iron lace curtains, nor even
embroidered muslin ones. Have two
long, slender boards, as long or long¬
er than tbe curtains. Tack on to
these a strip of cloth or wide tape
the entire length. Place them out¬
doors on chairs, as you would quilt¬
ing frames, and oarefuily pin the wet
curtain between, stretching it nntil
it is entirely smooth. Every point
aud scallop should be pulled iu shape
and fastened down. It will quickly
dry, when its place oan be filled with
another .—Chicago News.
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Recognized rank—Boarding house
butter.
Points That May Save a
tor’s Bill.
From Hall’s Jottrnai of Health.
Tbe foundation of three-fonrtbs of
all cases of consumption is laidbefore
tbe age of 25 years; in women, dar¬
ing their teens. The hereditary
element is not of special account as a
cause of consumption, as less than 25
per cent of cases ore clearly of con¬
sumptive parentage.
One of the rating causes of disease
and premature death in large cities is
found in that exhausting strain of
the mental energies in the struggle
for subsistence—a death race for
bread.
Insanity rnns in families; bat as in
the case of family likness, it some
times overlaps a generation or more.
Pereonal resemblance entails like
characteristics of mind and disposi¬
tion.
A entrant of the purest air from
the poles for half an hoar on a per¬
son sleeping, sitting still, oroter
heated, is a thousandfold more de
stractive of health and fatal to life
than the noisomeness of a crowded
room or vehicle or the stench of a
pig-sty for thrice the time.
To exercise in weariness, increased
by every step, is not only not benefi¬
cial, it is useless and worse than use¬
less; it is positively destructive.
As no good traveller, after having fed
bis horse, renews bis journey in a
trot, but with a slow walk gradually
increassing his paee, so in getting up
to address an assembly for a continu¬
ed effort tbe first few sentences
should be uttered in a low, slow tone
gradually intensified, otherwise the
voice will break down in a very lew
minutes with coughing, or hoarse¬
ness.
A growing inability to sleep in sick'
ness is ominous of u fatal result; in
apparent health it indicates the fail¬
ure of the mind and madness: so, on
the other hand, in disease or demen
tia, a very slight improvement in
sleeping should he hailed as the har¬
binger of restoration.
No one can possibly sink if tbe
bead is thrust entirely under water,
and in this position a novice can
swim as easily as walk, and get to
shore readily by lifting the head at
intervale for breath.
Intense thirst is satiated by wad¬
ing in water, er by keeping tbe cloth¬
ing saturated with water, even if it is
taken from tbe sen.
Water cannot satisfy tbe thirst
which attends cholera, dysentery,
diarrhea and some other forms of
disease; in fact, drinking cold water
seems to increase the thirst and in¬
duces other disagreeable sensations;
bat this thirst will be perfectly aud
pleasantly sub luod by eating a com¬
paratively small amount of ice, swal¬
lowing it in as large pieces as prac¬
ticable And ns much as is wanted.
Inflammations are more safely and
far more agreeably subdued by the
application of warm water than ot
cold.
Very excessive effort in a short
space of time, ns in ruunuig or jump
iug a rope, etc, has repeatedly caus«d
instant death by apoplexy of the
lungs, the exercise sending the blood
there fatter than it can be forwarded
to the neart, end faster than it can
be pnrifled by the more iufreqnent
breathing on each occasions.
No disease ever Comes without a*
cause or without a warning; hence
endeavor to thiuk back for tbe cause,
with a view to avoid it in future, and
on the instaut of auy unpleasant
bodily sensation cease eating until it
has disappeared, at least for tw< nt -
four hoars; if still remaining, consult
a physician.
Tbe more clothes a man wears the
more bedelotbing be uses, the closer
he keeps his chamber, tbe closer be
confines himself to bis honse, the
more readilr will be take cold, as the
more a thriftless yonth is helped the
less able does he become to help him¬
self.
Hot Water Good for Sprains.
Hot water is tbe beBt thing that
can be used to heal a sprain or bruise
The wounded part should be placed
in water as hot as can be borne, for
fifteen or twenty minutes, and in all
ordinary cases the pain will grad
ually disappear. Hot water applied
by means of clotbs is a sovereign
remedy for neuralgia and pleurisy
pains. For burns or scalds, apply
cloths well saturated with cool alum
water,peeping tbe injured part cov¬
ered from tbe air .—Philadelphia Call
Moldiness is occasioned by the
growth of minute vegetation. Ink,
paste, leather aud seeds most fre¬
quently suffer by it. A clove will pre¬
vent it. Any essential oil will answer
equally as well.—Boston Budget.
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Shaving in China is a quarter of a
cent; no bay rum.
Tried in the Crucible.
About twenty years ago I discovered a little sore on tttj rfrtfcfc. and the doctors pro¬
nounced it cancer. I have tried a number of physician?, out without receiving any perma¬
nent benefit. Among the number were one or two specialist?. The medicine tncy applied
was like fire to the sore, causing: intense pain. I saw a statement in tbe papers telling what
8. S. S. had done for others similarly afflicted. I procured some ot once. Before f had used
the second bottle the neighbors could notice that my cancer was healing up. My general
health hod been bod for two or three years—1 haa a hacking conga and spit blood contin¬
ually. I bad a severe pom in ray breast. After taking six bottles of S. S. S. my cough left
me and 1 grew stouter than I had been for several years. My cancer has healed over all but
a little spot about the size of a half dime, and it is rapidly disappearing. I would advise
every one with cancer to give 8. S. S. a fair trial.
Mbs. NANCY J. McCONAUGHEY, Ashe Grove, Tippecanoe Co., Ind.
Feb. 1C, 1886.
Swift’s 8pccific is entirely vegetable, and sceins Diseases to cure cancers mailed by forcing out the impu
ritiea from the blood. Treatise on Blood and Skin free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
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James Flicker & Bro.,
O' "E W IE Xj IE It S
—And Dealers In—
Pianos and Organs,
AMERICUS, CA. t>°
We keep constantly on hand the Largest and Best Selected Stock of Watches, Clocks
and Jewelry, Solid Silver and Plated Ware to be found in Southwest Georgia. We make
a Specialty of Fine Work aud Reasonable Engraving. Send us your Watches, Clocks and Jewelry to
be repaired. Our Prices are and our Work Strictly First Class. All work
Guaranteed.
FIJL2TQS and DUGANS.
We keep from Thirty-five to Forty Instruments in Stock oil the time and caunot be un¬
dersold by any house in the United States, and then we give you a Home Guarantee that
is worth something, as we live right here near you. Send for our new illustrated cata¬
logue of Pianos and Organs, and write for prices, terms Ac. Call and see ns when in the
city at our new stole in tho BARLOW BLOCK, PUBLIC SQUARE, AMERICUS, GA.
March 6, 1886.
“NO SHODDY.”
The Truth Mustand Shall be Told !
G. E. THOMAS,
Phe “No Shoddy” Clothier, Columbus, Ga.,
at his New Place, East side Broad street,
next to Rankin House,
Has tire prettiest Clothing Store and the Finest Stock of Fall and Win¬
ter Clothing in West Georgia! None but the best goods at living prices
None but the most useful and politest attention gi#n to all customers!
The “No Shoddy” Clothing house stands forth as the LEADER OF THE
FASHION, aud the controller of the good appearance of tbe gentlemen of
this section. When you want anything iu tbe clothing line for Man, Bov
or cbli, go to
G E. THOMAS, Clothier,
COLUMBUS. CEORCIA.
’T—-r •^r~.TQrv
THE BEST WASHER
Ws will sntnuitee tho M JAiVELL" WASHER, to do better
work and do it ccutler and in lesv thne thin any ether x&achlrs
In tho world. Warranted Uro years. And it it den’t wzrh the
_ clothes dean, without rubbing, wo will refund tho money.
ACENTS WAHTEDSSraSS
PROOF that Agent* tn nuAin* from 8791* 8190 per
month. Farmers make $58 to C500 during the wintec Xa.
Idle, So. ha ve great rocoeasMUiag this Waaher. Retail prloeonly
ES Sample to those derirlng aaaesnejSS. Also tteCele
KEYSTONE WRINGERS St manufacturer*
[roar lowest price. Wo Invito the strictest toveaUgsttoB. Scud
a ir!m sspo a p ostal c ar d farfartharpartlcnlsil.
LOVELL WASHES CO., EHL ft.
OLIVER & OLIVER,
Americus, - - - Georgia.
THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST!
We respectfully call the attention of the people of Stewart and adjacent
Counties to the fact (hat we have finished and complete at onr shops in
Americas a Full Assortment of
First Class Buggies,
One Horse Wagons &c., all of which are of
OUR OWN MANUFACTURE !
And are Strictly First Class in Every Particnlar. We will duplicate any¬
body’s prices on Vehickles and Harness.
Send ns your old Buggies and Wagons for Repairs. We will mako Ibem
Good as New for Halt the Cost of a New one. When in Americas do not
fail to call at our shops on Jackson Street, opposite Republican Printing
Office and examine our stock.
OLIVER & OLIVER.
June 19
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gaMwBteMrSEBMasSi «ffiK»,SsaaiSSS5aS!SS nt*™
JOB PRINTING
Of Every Description Neatly Executed at
THE INDEPENDENT OFFICE.
BUSINESS directory
M. CORBETT. Dealer In Pure Drugs, Medicines,
Chemicals, Perfumery, Fine Soaps,
Octie Fancy aud Toilet Articles.
E. Manufacturer M. 8HERAM, of Plantation Wagons,
Plow Stocks, Etc. Blacksnrishing,
Wagon Repairing Etc'. Oct20
/CORBETT HOUSE, M. Corbett, Prop.,
KJ Lumpkin, Georgia.
Every Attention Given to tbe Accommoda¬
tion and Comfort of Guests- Octl6
Y/f 1t_L. M. Dealers A W. II. In GRIFFIS, Family Groceries,
Cigars, Tobacco, SnufF, County Produce &o
Splendid Billiard and Pool Tables.
North Side Pnblic Square.
U 1'VR. Tenders J. O. PATTERSON Lis Professional Services --
to
the citizens of Lnmpkin and surrounding
country. Office South Side Public Square.
May 22-1885
T\R. T. B. MILLER
" Offers bis Professional Services
to the
citizens of the Town and County. Office
ou West Side Public Square. Can be found
at night at the Miller residence on Broad
Street. Nov. 20-1885.
T E. & W. P. CARTER,
O • Practicing Physcians, Lnmpkin, Ga.
Office Sonth Side Pnblic Square. Oct20
T> XV E. L. BARNUM,
Physician and Surgeon, Richland, Ga.
Professional services tendered to the citi¬
zens of Richland and vicinity. Office at
Maj. Meyer’s Store.
A. BUSH,
Attorney at Law,
Jan. 22-1885. Lumpkin, Georgia.
DR. F.B. GREGORY
Lumpkin, - - Ga.
Resepecttullv tenders his profes¬
sional services to the citizens of the
town and sarroaning country.
April 10
New Spring Stock
Now on Exhibition !
W. C. PEED,
MANUFACTURER OF AND
DEALER IN
BOOTS & SHOES
North Side Public Square.
Lumpkin, Ga., Jau. 1, 1885.
J.A. THORNTON JR.,
Practical Dentist,
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA.
Will do all kinds of Dental Work
in a neat and substantia manner.
Office up-stairs in tbe Cuba House.
urdays. Operating days: Fridays and Sat¬
lv
W. S. GILL IS,
DEALER IS '
Family Groceries,
Plantation Supplies,
Country Produce Etc.
South Side Pnblic Square.
Lnmpkin, Ga. Jan. 1,1883.
Slieram & Miller,
-dealers in -
COFFINS, CASKETS AND
Burial Case s
Can famish any style of COFFIN
wanted ^treasonable prices.
Repository at Sheram’s Shops.
Lumpkin, Ga., Sep 1,
The Arlington.
MRS. W. H. LOCKE, Proprietress
(Late of tbe National Hotel.)
Eufaula, - Alabama.
The Arlington is supplied with Gas,
Water, Electric Bells, and Elegant
Barb Rooms. Entire Satisfaction
Guaranteed to all who may favor her
witn their patronage.
E. B. FREEMAN, C. O. LOCKE,
Clbkkh.
«ept.2,th-l88I-tf.
$ (}si!kfi&g&&aSt 7 c
PHCENIX
JELWERY STORE
101 BROAD STREET,
Columbus, Georgia.
GOLD WATCHES.
Watches, Clocks And Jewelry Re¬
paired and Warranted.
SPECTACLES, a Special?, which
do not tire tbe Eye, and last many
years without change.
T. S. SPEAR,
March 7, 188$,