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AMEIUCUS, ii A.
p raciice iu Ifederal and State Couits
Mar. 23ih-188G.
E. G. SIMMONS
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMERICUS, GA.
Will practice in all the ccfhnGes ol
This Judicial Circuit, in the Supreme
Court'of tbe State of Georgia, aud
in the District Court of ibe United
States, and in all other courts by
pecial .contract. jutv23-8l.
WI LL U RN F. CLARKE,
Attorney At Law
LUMFKiN GEORJIA.
Special atteution given to collection.
Will he iu Lumpkin every Wednesday and
Saturday. At other limes can be found m
my residence 21 miles from Lumpkin on
Benevolence road.
January 23-1880.
THE PEOPLES NATIONAL
BANK OF AMERICUS.
Does a General Bunking Business
S. II. HAWKINS, .... President
H. C. BAGLEY, Cashier.
Americas, Ga.f March 6, 1886.
ALLEN HOUSE,
FORMERLY 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.
Elogaut Bath Booms (supplied with Artesian
water—warm or cold. Accommodations,
t-TIUCTLY FlB.ST-0l.ASS IN EvEBY PaBTICTLAB.
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
room. Accommodations strictly first
class in Every Particular.
Patronage Respectfully Solicited
G. H. TOMMEY, Proprietor.
Feb. 27th-18S6
J. ISRAELS,
Americus, - Georgia.
Alien you visit Americus 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 the very best at prices to
suit the times. Orders solicited and
promptness guaranteed.
March 6th, 1886.
FRESH MEAL.
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Iain now prepared to deliver at the hous¬
es of my customers the Best Water Ground
Meal that can be made iu this section as
low as it can be bought elsewhere. My
wagon wjl deliver on Thursday of each
week for the jiresent. Orders left at Corbett's
Drug Store or The Indei-evoent office wili
receive prompt attention. Terms C. O. D.
It. IX. VOIiUS.
Lumpkin Ga. Tee. 21-lf.
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1886.
A Sensational Letter to ths
Christian Index by a
Baptist Preacher.
In the Christian Index of August
19 appeas the following remarkable
letter uuder the caption ‘Perfunctory
Christianity,’dated at Dalton, Ga.’
and signed G A L.
‘There are about nine out of every
ten Christians who never live a con
fessiug Christian life. 'Where are
the nine?' asked Jesus, when be had
railed the ‘ten lepers' and only one
came to give him thanks. This is u
fair illustration of the careless, neg
ligeuf, heartless Christianity of our
churches. Upon an average about
one tenth of our church members at
tend prayer meetings and Sunday
school, aud keep op private and i'am
ily pmyer. Not. over one tenth ever
read God's word, or speak of their
religion to oik another, or to perish
mg sinners—uav, even to their own
children, the fl.-sh of I heir flush and
ihe bone of their b mo ! It is a ques¬
tion if one-tenth thus liv</ a confes
sun. ot Christ.
‘The most that Chrmiuns do is to
go to church oh Sunday and contri¬
bute their paltry pittance to the
cause of Christ. The forms of wor¬
ship) and service are generally but ti
perfunctory mockery of God; and
take away the pressure of public
opinion, the elegant attractions of
popular pulpits,flue chairs and social
relationships, in a multitude of our
churches, and even a perfunctory at
tendance and performance would
dwindle into insignificant propor¬
tions. The ‘nine’ wouldn’t be there
at all—though you would see the
tenth cleansed leper still on hand,
thanking and serving Oeaus. Some
churches form an exception to the
rule; but the rule will hold good in
the great average Christianity of our
churches. This was about the pro¬
portion in Gideon’s army.
‘The great mass of our Christian
people have nothing, ostensibly, but
a church existence. A godly life in
private in the family,or in relation to
tho world, is scarcely known. It is
only known, after considerable ac¬
quaintance by the world, that most
of us have our names upon the
church books; but so far as our con
versation and conduct are coucerned,
it is not discoverable to those about
us that tbe servant has on tho livery
of his Master, nor tnat the soldiers
of our great Captain have on his uni¬
form. In business and on the streets
we do and seem like other men. In
politics we can’t be distinguished
from the world. Our people go to
the theatie, the dance nnd into all
sorts of worldly pleasures, with tbe
garb aud the Shibboleth of the uu
godly; and iu our associations with
the wicked the keenest eye can sel¬
dom murk tho difference. The line
of demarkation is largely broken
down. The church has gotto.i into
the world, and tbe world has gotten
into the church.
‘We have occasional rsvivals, and
sinners, under the pressure of a tem¬
porary spiritual spasm, seem to be
converted; but congregations do not
seem to get larger, nor do prayer
meetings flourislrthe more, after the
revival paroxysm subsides. Maybe
you get two or three grains ol wheat
out of a peck of chaff—two or three
good workers—but the relapse of the
church to its former state will not al
low the good seed to germinate and
grow above itself. The good people
will go back to the theatre aud the
dance; and the old folks will quit
praying aud working for sinners —
until tbe next periodical spasm. The
pastor—if he is a city preacher—will
leave off the gospel and return to
moral essays aud scientific discourses
until he needs the evangelist again.
‘About the best thing which could
bs done to day would be to dissolve
three fourths fif not nine out of teu)<
of our churches, and let them come
together in a solemn covenant of
grace to return to gospel life, gospel
methods and gospel work. We could
afford to loso tho vast majority of
our membership. It would prove a
blessing to us; and with a spiritual
nucleus retained from all our church¬
es, we could grow around it solid,
substantial, working membership
which would tell for Christ upon the
world and upon future generations.
•<G. A. L.”
A Weekly Newspaper, Published ia the Political, Social and Agricultural Interests of Stewart County.
PRACTICAL.
The poetical aud severely practical
are seldom united in one person,and
wheu the two almost opposite quali¬
ties are brought iu contact in two
individuals, they do not harmonize,
A sentimental, gushing woman was
travelling over tho Rocky Mountains
in a stage-coach. Stopping for din¬
ner at a large station, in a peculiarly
charming and picturesque spot, the
sentimeutal lady entered into con¬
versation with the matfer-of fact wife
of the landlord of the little hotel.
‘Ob, those mountains !’ cried the
traveler, clasping her hands and roll¬
ing up her eyes in eestacy. ‘Buauti
ful, grand, majestic !’
‘Yes, they’re right party,’ said the
mistress of the house; ‘an there's
real good rus'berries grows on ’em,
too.’
‘IIovv illimitable, how vast !’
‘Yes in they’re big as all outdoors,
,hat’s so.’
‘What lights and shadows; what
lofty summits !’
‘Yes, they’re lofty enough; that's
a fact.’
‘They seem to lift me up to their
owu heavenly heights.’
‘Well, I guess if they’d let you
drop, like they did an old cow of
onr’u, you wouldn’t want to be lifted
up again.’
‘It seems to mo I’d like to dwell
always in the sba lows of those
mighty wall.’
‘Well, you’d find it mighty poky,
now I tell you. Lights an shadders
is mighty pore eomp’ny.’
‘Oh, bnt I would commeuco with
myself! I should always have great
thoughts amid such grandeur.’
‘You would ? What do you reckon
you’d eat? Thoughts, now, ain’t*very
fillin,’ an’ the laud 'round here won’t
even raise turnips, an’ I reckon you’d
get sick enough of it if you had to
cook three meals a day on little or
nothin’.’
‘Oh, sec that beautiful;little stream!
How it breaks around and over that
gray rock,and *then rambles on, sing
ing as it goes !’
‘Yes, an’ there ain’t even a catfish
in it, an’ I never know what minit a
cloud burst or somethin’is goiu’ to
it out of its bunks clean in to my
kitchen. I’ve mopped up that treacb
Tous little crick half a dozen times
now.’
‘I fear you don't quite appreciate
the beautiful.’
‘Mebbe not. But I know that them
that wants to live hero an’ raise a
family on moonshine an’ light an’
an’ foamy waves kin do it.
We’re goiu’ back to olo Missoury
ibis fall, if wo have to walk ev’ry
step of the wav !'
»•«'
Sam Jone’s Decadence.
Chicago News.]
What we remarked of the Rev.
Sam Jones several mouths ago is be
coming the general opinion now, as
we see it expressed iu divers ex
changes. We said that Mr. Jones
was » common scold, and a slangy
one, and predicted that he could not
h ng retain his hold on public popu¬
larity. There is nothing more tedi¬
ous than slung—there isnothiug that
wears out sooner or drops further.
Mr. Jones is a slangwhauger; his
rambunctious speeches do not please
us—they simply make us feel sorry
for Mr. Joues and for the cause be
represents. We do nut believe that
the Christian religion should be
dragged down to the gutter; the hab¬
itues of the gutter, we think, should
rather be raised to the dignity aud
the purity of that' religion. We apr
prove of no methods that are calcu¬
lated to abate to tbe extent of one
jot or one tittle that reverence and
that awo iu which divinity and the
worship of divinity have always been
invested. And it speaks well for the
religious sentiment of the people of
our couutry, we think, that the seal
of disapproval has been put upon the
coarse methods of the Georgia evan¬
gelist.
->•«
‘Which side of the street do you
live on, Mrs. Kipple?’ asked a coun¬
sel, cross examining a witness. ‘‘Oh,
either sido sir, if you go ono way it’s
on the right side: if you go tho other
way, it’s on tbo left.’
Daring Death At Niagara.
Niagara Falls, August 19. —Carlisle
D. Graham the venturesome cooper
went through the whirlpool rapids
with his head stuck'dutthc barrel this
afternoon. The feat was a success to
tho extent that such brains as the
exposed head contained were not
knocked out. Graham had been fix¬
ed in his barrel cask so securely that
he could not duck a wave. The can¬
vas inside was fixed so that his whole
bead protruded through the barrel
head, and around it was tacked a
piece of canvas, which was laced
(igtitiy up to the throat. When all
was ready a boat, in which was the
Herald correspondent pulled Gra¬
ham in his cask to near the head of
the whirlpool rapids.
The first breaker was struck at ten
minutes past four, and the trip
through the rapids lasted only three
and a half mioutas. The barrel
seemed uvice to be overturned, and
was submerged much of the way. It
was tossed about terrifically, aud
several women fainted away as they
saw the barrel sucked under by the
current. At tho bend a man, with
lioid glasses, said that Graham was
dead, and as he said himself later ho
was pretty nearly so. Graham war
fortunate in getting in the outer
swirl of the'maelstrora. Ho shouted
to those on the shore to get him out,
iud a ten-dollar reward for that
purpose had already been offered.
Just as the cask with its almost dead
height reached a point near tho first
wave of the lower rapids it was
reached and pulled ashore. C. S.
Carlton cut the canvas and helped
pull Graham out. lie walked with
help to tho Whirl pool Park and
there took a carriage to Niagara
Falls.
Graham wa3 seen to-night in his
room at tho International Hotel, and
told a fgaphic .story of hiu trip. Said
he:
‘I was all right until I reached the
second or third wave. Then the
swell carried me up, it seemed, forty
feet and let mo clown again, almost
smothering me. I had a sponge in
my mouth, but the waves slapped it
out, and knocked the cotton out of
my ears. I almost wished, as I was
tossed up and down, that I had not
tried to make the trip. I would not
take $1,000 and make it again. This
settles my exploits here. Once my
head was slung along within two feet
of a rock, and I thought I was killed
The barrol bumped over the
rocks right along, and I thought
minute was my last one.’
Part of Graham’s body was almost
black and blue with bruises aud (lie
rest was very red. When asked what
the whirlpool looks like, ho said: ‘It
is tho wickedest looking place I ever
saw. Where I struck it seemed to
be on the outside of a stream of
water working downward like an au
ger. Tbere were a thousand sticks
in tho circles, aud I felt glad wheu
ray barrel went around tbo outside.
There seems to be a big basin in the
ceutor of the whirloop, but I could
Dot see how deep it was.’
A Drop in Circulation.
Detroit Free Tress.]
J. E. Warner, -tho \>;oll known
Michigan circus man, was acting as
advance agent for Barnum wheu he
entered the office of a weekly paper
irt Ohio to see about au advertise¬
ment. Warner was posted in tha
ways of tho weekly' fraternity, aad
cjuld plan just what would happen
in nine offices out of ten. After the
usual greetings had passed he inquir¬
ed of the proprietor his price ior a
two column ad.
‘Forty dollars,’ was the prompt re
ply
‘You must have a large circulation.’
‘James!’ called tho editor to a sore
eyed apprentice boy, who was lazily
sotting type at tho back end of the
office, ‘what was our circulation last
week ?’
‘ ’Leven hundred,’ replied tho boy.
‘Let me see your subscription book,
said Warner.
‘My subscription book?
where is our subscription book ?’
‘Home,’ was tho answer.
‘Do you assure mo that you
1,100 circulation ?’
‘James, do we assure him as to the
figures named ?’
‘Yes.’
‘Well, I'll give you $16 This is
based on a circulation of 400 copies.’
‘James ?’ called out the editor,
‘shall we take $16 ?’
‘Yes.’
‘Then yon practically admit that
your circulation does not exceed 400 ?
queried Warner.
‘JameS; what shall we do?'
James turned around to get a fair
look nt Warner, and asked;
‘Any deadhead tickets?*
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Oh, well, that alters tho case. Cir¬
culation 275 copies, with a column
puff fov the sho.v. I thought he was
patent medicine aud wanted us to
take stomach bitters.’
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Clippings For The Curious.
The cost of running a locomotive
is said to be a little more than twen¬
ty cents a mile.
It is thought .that a dozen shots
from the new Gcnnuil bomb, charg¬
ed with dynamite shells, would de¬
stroy tho strongest fortifications in
the world.
The Chinaman is very fond of dress
and, though sometimes dirty in bis
habits, is scrupulously clean iu his
person. His religion enjoins veget. •
nanism and cleanliness.
Iu the National Museum at Wash¬
ington there is a pipe that belonged
to John Brown aud tlm rifle taken
from Jefferson Davis when he was
captured. They are labelled ‘the be¬
ginning and end of the war.’
Cultivation has so affected the to
mato that the seeds are fast disap
pearing aud bid fair to pass out of
existence entirely, as in the case of
tho banana, leaving the propagation
of the plant dependent on cuttings.
A dweller on tho banks of the Co
Jorus iu Pennsylvania ties short
lines with baited fishhooks to the
legs of his geese and drives them in¬
to the water. Tho fish bite and jerk
tho lines, and then the frightened
geese hurry to shore, dragging flit
fish after them.
A moonlight mirage was lately wit¬
nessed in Illinois. The moot w; s
shining brightly, but a dense fog
hung over tho flat lands near St.
Joseph, and the passengers in a rail¬
road train saw a phantom train sus¬
pended iu the air under the fog
bank. The apparition was visible
for several ruinates.
Sweets For the Sweet.
When a young lady says she has
two strings to her bow, she means
that she has two beaux to her string.
Alaska women cure babies of cry
ing by taking them to the sea shore
aud holding them in tho water until
they are silent.
The young lady who can peel a
potato iu flvo seconds is as useful as
the young woman who speaks five
languages is ornamental.
The principal beauty of tha Mor
mair religion is that the same woman
doesn’t have to get up tho entire
winter to build the kitchen fire.
A woman that takes all the fashion
magazines generally goes to a dress¬
maker to learn what is new in the
fashions, aud never makes her owu
drosses.
Many women think they are do¬
mestic if they stay at homo to enter¬
tain company, while their husbands
think they are as little domestic at
home as abroad.
An old widower says: When you
pop tho question to a lady, do it with
a kind of laugh, as if you were jok¬
ing. If sho accepts you very good;
if she does nof, you could say you
were only in fun.
‘I thought, Miss S-, that you hated
that flirty minx; yet you went up and
kissed hir.’ ‘So I do hate her, and
that is why I did it. Look at the
big freckles on her chin where I kiss¬
ed tho powder off’
‘If ye pluzej main, tho cook has
boomed her hand an’ axes to bo
excused fur a few days, fur it’s most
crazy she is wid tho pain.’ ‘Indeed,
Bridget, I’ll do nothing of tho sort.
I expect to dinner tomorrow several
prominent Prevention members of tho Society
for tha of Cruelty to
Animals, and the cook must do her
W nk or find another place, pain or
! no pain.’
Terms $1.50 Per Annum.
I Secrets of the Tea Trade.
Chicago News.]
‘Americans aud Enropeans make a
great mistake in buying tea,’ said an
educated Chinese merchant. They
invariably fely Upon the name in¬
stead of judging of the quality of
the tea by its appearance. The
Chinese never do that, for they are
aware that no other people undei
the sun are so adroit in tho adultera¬
tion of goods as their own nation.
No dependence can bo placed on a
mere name in the tea trade. Chinese
people judge of tea jut,t as Ameri¬
cas do of butter, by its looks. To
determine this a matter of education
in the same way that judging of but¬
ter is. Tea of good quality, nnadul
terated, is almost inodorous and dif
fuses little aroma when placed in
bailing water. The Chinese invaria¬
bly use black tea at home aud almost
exclusively here also. This is both
from preference for its tra t and ' e
cause it is considered healthier.
‘The best tea brought to this coun¬
try is the black, the finer grades oi
green tea being all consumed in
China. Green tea, too, is subject to
more forms of adulteration, over 200
methods being employed to that end.
Besides, it is cured iu copper pans
and is always more or less impreg¬
nated with copper dust. These pans
are none too clean, either, as the
growers care nothing about what
kind of stuff they palm off on people
so unfortunate us to have been born
outside of the flowery kingdom. They
term all other races ‘barbarians.’
Green tea is dried iu the sun; black
by artificial heat.
‘The best tea obtained in this coun¬
try is that imported by Chinese deal¬
ers. They get it from some one they
know iu the old country at less price
than it will be sold to foieigneif.
They can secure a better grade than
other buyers, because they know
what they are buyiug, aud it is use¬
less for their countrymen to try to
mpose upon I hem.’
Words of Wisdom.
Keep little annoyances out of the
way.
Fay as you go, and don’t go till
you pay.
Nobody is so wise but has a little
folly to spare.
Keep your conduct abreast of your
conscience.
Hide ysur own troubles, but watch
to help others out of theirs.
A wise man should have money in
his head, but not in his heart.
Common sense in an uncommon
degreo is whit the world calls wis¬
dom.
Long sentences in a short compo¬
sition are like large rooms in a little
house.
Conscience is a great ledger book,
in which all our offences are written
and registered.
The proverb is true, that light
gains make heavy purses; for lighi
gains come often, great gains now
and then.
The manner of a vulgar man has
freedom without easo, and the man
ner of a geutleman has ease without
freedom.
Divine Providence holds in one
hand the "sorrow” that “endureth
for a night,’ in the other the “joy’’
which ‘‘cometh in the morning.’
There are some people who nov'er
bavo a cheering word tor tho smug¬
gler. They mako life just as hard
us possible for all who are striving
to do right.
Teach self-denial aud make its
practice pleasurable, and you create
for the world a destiny more sublime
than ever issued from tbe brain of
the wildest dreamer. •
Fifty years ago the boys had a ve¬
ry hard time of it. There were no
furnaces in tho house and few stoves,
bedrooms as cold and colder than
barns nowadays; warming pans for
bed at night in constant use, as the
bod clothes wore like two cakes of
ice. Washing was done by first
breaking through the ico found in
tho pitchers over night. All cooking
was done by wood tires, and the
v/ood had to bo cut by the boys.
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AURANTII
For all complaints of this kind, Buch as Torpidity at
the Liver, Biliousness, Nervous Dyspepsia, Indiges*
tion, Irregularity of the Bowels, Constipation, Flatu¬
lency, Eructations and Burning of the Stomach
(sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria.
Bloody Flux, Chills and Fever, Breakbona Fern#*
Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Dial*
rhaaa. Loss of Appetite, Headache, Foul {heath*
Irregularities incidental to Females. Boaring-dowu
ES££ STHPIGEB'S tUBIHTII
is Invaluable. It isnotapanacoWforalldteMM,
but Cfipe ail diseases of the LIVER,
Will VStiSS STOMACH and BOVtftLS.
It changes the complexion from a wax;, follow
tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely remotse
low, gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST AL¬
TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF TH*
BLOOD, and Is A VALUA BLE TONIC.
STADICER’S AURANTII
For sale by all Druggists. Price S1,00 pet bottOx
C. F. STADICER, Proprietor, a
•40 so. FRONT ST., Philadelphia, Par
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DM BUCK STEEL TIP.
We Are Si ill In Our Boots afld oof
business is to supply the people with
First Class Foot Wear. Goods that
are comfortable, nice fitting and drea
sy. Caii on us ior your nue goods. ’
In medium and cheap grades we hatt
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, Ga
March 6, 1886.
PROHIBITION
May prohibit anybody from selling
Liquors iu Stewart County, but High
License in Eufaula, Ala., dues not
prohibit MORRIS & GREER from
supplying tbe Good People of Stew¬
art with Pure Medicinal Wines, Fine
Brandies and Whiskies, such as there
will be a,, necessity for at times in et*
ery family, and such as would be pre*
scribed by their Physicians.
Wo keep a Full and Complete line
of the Best Liquors which can be
bought in any market, and are pre¬
pared to furuisK 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 full stock of all grade
and respectfully solicit n share of
your trade. Come in and S69 ad
when you visit Eufaula.
Respectfully, MORRIS & GREER.
January 30, 1886.
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<i ure Biliousness; Sick Headache In 4 hour*.
One prevent doso Chills relieves r* Fevor.SotirSIofriach^ Neuralgia. They cure Bad and
Breath. Clsarfho Skirt, Tonethe Nerves. art Solve
Life and Vigor to the system. Dose: ONE BEAN,
Try Prlco. themoncuar 25 els . bottle. you will never Sold by be Druggists without them; and
Medicine Dealers per generally. Sent receipt *1
price on
in stamps, postpahMo any address,
NlamilacUirers and Sole Props., ST,' LOUiS, MO,