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AMERICUS.GEORQIA:
3atnrclay Morning,' May 14,1870.
Official Organ of Snmter Oo.
OFFICIAL 03fi*N OF SOKX.FY COUNTY
Official Organ of Lee County.
OHtrial Organ of Webstar Count}
Comptroller-General’s Report.
We aro indebted to Major MadisoD
Bell, the Comptroller-General, for a copy
of his Annual Report for 1869. It is an
interesting document, and contains much
valuable information. Annexed wc give
a fow of the leading items, and shall give
other extracts from time to time:
Tbewholo State receipts for 1869 were 2,300,-
789 16: payment*, $1,837,825 98; balances on
hard, $112,960 18. Of this, $116,695 65 was or
hand from the year before.
Tho general tax of 1869 was $558,745 22,
against $<-33,590 70 in 1868, showing a decrease
of 74,846 43. Tho poll tax of 1869 was 35,542 45
against 89,778 47 in 1868; decrease 34,236 02. The
liquor tax grew from 1,892 71 in IMS to 27,093 79
in 18C9, showing that grog has flourished under
Radical role. Insurance tax held its own, being
8,793 93 in 1869, and a trifle less the year pre-
The tax on railroads foil from 8,150 31 in 1869,
to 1,34175 a year later.
Tho State Itoad paid 25*1,000 for the ten months
from December, 1858, to October, 1869. Daring
the seven months since, Superintendent Blod
gett reports 45,000 paid, or less than G,G00
monthly, against 25,000 before, and this with aq
increased business.
The civil eatpblishment cost 65,222 48 in 1869,
against 23,283 89 in 18C3, showing an increrae of
31,923 59, or more than donble. Contingent
fund of 1869,19,968 95; year previous, 8,167 42.
Printing for 186919,806 77; year previous, 8,169
12. Special appropriations, 239,923 29 against
89,646 65 tho year previous. Convention scrip,
26,651 25. Legislature pay rolls, 186,794. Pub
lic debt, 858,816.
The State owns tho State road and 419,716 of
good stock.
Thus it will bo scon that tho civil ex
pense* of tho Government have been
doubled daring the past year. It amply
proves that the effect of Radical rule is to
bankrupt tho State, and destroy her
credit The charges so often made
against the Governor of appropriating to
his private use tho public moneys, find
strong corroborative proof in the unprece
dented drain upon tho Contingent Fund,
and in tho rotnrns of tho State road.
In regard to the public lands the report
continues:
The acres of land returned in 1869 were 42,-
■"52,399 against 32,007,714 the year previous; in
crease, 544,685 acres. Tho valno is $84,567,166;
increase, $4,849,582. The‘average value per
sere was $2 49 in ’68, and' $2 60 the year follow
ing. These counties are worth over a
million dollars: Cobb, Coweta, Fulton, Gordon,
Hancock, Harris, Lee, Muscogee, Newton, Rich
mond, Troop Walker and Washington. These
over a million and a quarter: Bibb, Dougherty,
Monroe, Stewart and Sumter. These
million and three quarters: Bartow, Chatham,
Floyd and Thompson. Tho richest county in
lands is Floyd, the next Houston, the next Bar-
Tbe unimproved lands are 6,199336 acres,
worth $2,338,691. .
The improved, lands are 26,353,054 acres,
worth $82^238,471.
City property was worth $44,368,096.
Money and good debts, 24443,967.
Merchandise, 11,236,797-
Furniture, 1,405,745'.
Hands employed between tho ages of 18 and
05 are 06,739.
Stocks and bonds, 5,184,832.
Shipping, $250,049.
Cotton factories, $2,338,915.
Ironworks, $478,920. .
National bank shares, $835,950.
The whole value of tho State in I860
v»a3 8204.481,906, so that His Expressel-
lency has a snug little property to squan
der yet.
> Vside from the special responsibilities he
assumes in hi* pledge, there is something
nnro to be done than merely to refuse to
drink when asked to do so. That doe*
uot satisfy tho conditions of Ms promise.
vVcaro engaged in a war uqainsfc* intem-
jemnee—we attack as well as VTefend—
tad there is an aggressive feature in our
work which is too often overlooked.- This
is brought distinctly to our minds when
We recall the language of oar pledge. We
must not only not drink, cor be instru-
mental in causing others to drink, but we
m"st in all honorable ways discounten
ance the use of intoxicating liquors in
the community. We cannot stand by
tail see our 'neighbors drink, without
warning them of taeir danger. We can
not mingle in daily association with
drinking companions without urging
them to abandon the fiery bowl. W
cannot seo a barroom established in our
neighborhood, and grow into lucrative
patronage, without entering our earnest
protest against the evil work, and doing
all we can to save the victims of the
seller from the fate to which he lures him.
Wherever and whenever the subject ol
Temperance is discussed? it is bur boon-
deu duty to give our testimony in favor
of total abstinence, and against any use
whatever of intoxicating liquors. We are
to discountenance their use, not in one
way nor in a dozen ways—but in all hon
orable ways. It is by this mean* that wo
expect to create a healthy public' senti
ment in favor of our reform. This is the
lever with which we aro trying to lift the
popular heart to tho temperance plaue.
We do not expect a single liquor seller to
quit his business on the first rebuke,
single host to cease setting wine before
his guests the moment a Good Templar
raises his warning voice: but we do expect
that a faithful,and persistent discharge
of our whole duty will in time effect the
change we seek to accomplish. “Con
stant dropping wears the stone,” and the
pnblic heart is far from being os hard and
unimpressible as rock.
Let our Good Templar Brothers and
Sisters reflect upon their duty in this
matter. Idleness iu tho good work is
the only real danger we have to dread.
There can bo nodonbt about our ultimate
success, if wo are only earnest and faith
ful to tho vows we have taken upon our
selves. Our principles and our object
appeal to the most sacred emotions of the
heart, and their acknowledgement and
triumph are only questions of time.
Ministerial Grog.
A very am using case has inst occurred in New
York. A New York Presbyterian divine, a Mr.
Smyth©, alter serricos one Sabbath, invited
several reporters to go with him to s restaurant.
While there he or?ared five fingers of milk ©bd
gin, which he drank with much gusto. One of
tho reporters thought it good enough to make -
paragraph about. The preacher was thcrcupo
hauled over the coals by his congregation. H
plead manfully at his trial for acquittal, alleging
iiia weak condition, and that ho had no relish
for tho curious grog he had imbibed. But bis
’ *' t lambs reprimended their delinquent
• ■ shephenL—Coxsmvnox.
Well, wo can only eay tlmt his holy
reverence is not alono. Wo do not need
to leave our own Stato to find book, of
canting Pharisees, who denounce the sale
of liquor* from tho pulpit, and go home,
or to the house of .omo toddy-drinking
parishioner, and “sip” n little wine “for
the stomach's sake.” With what holy
fervor they can inveigh against some un
fortunate tippler, while they themselves
are the very men who support the liqnor-
drinlung interest. Christ camo into the
world not to preach to the just but to the
unjust. Our modem clergymen, on the
contrary, would rather coniine their min
istrations to the icy-righteous, and visit
the ladies of their congregation, than en
ter tho devious paths of sin, thero to lift
up and save tho fallen and degraded.
Ob, no! They could not soil their
hands by doing snch a thing.
Poes a clergyman do his duty who rests
quiet while there is in .his community a
single drinker who might be induced to
reform/ He most assuredly does not
It is his doty not only to set tho example
of total abstinence, but to go and seek
whom he may save.
Atlanta.—In our recent visit to Atlan
ta wc were surprised to see such energy
p.nd enterprise os was displayed in ex
tending the limits of the city and build
ing np the waste places with blocks of
substantial business houses and elegant
family residences. Tho spirit of im
provement seems to kavo infused it*elf
into' every branch of business; every
where evidences of thrift could be seen
throughout tho city. Everybody seem
ed to be busy attending to their own bus
iness. We doubt not but that Atlanta
gives employment to a greater number
of mechanics of every description, than
any city in the State. This accounts for
its prosperity, for mechanics are tho
bono and sinew of a community:
“ Their strong arms wield a mighty power.
Sob tain tho little and the great;
Builds tho low cottage of the poor
And gilds the glil tcring halls of stato. ’’ .
The larger the number of mechanics in a
place the greater its prosperity.
The city is entering upon Its career of
prosperity, and is justly entitled to be
•tyled the “ Gate City of tho South. ”
With abundant capital and well directed
energy, Atlanta, is bound to become the
emporium of tho State—why should it
not be so ? May the city continue to im
prove, until »U borders become extended
for miles in every direction where noth
ing bat the forests now stand.
To no one nan is Atlanta more indebU
ed for its spirit of improvement, than to
Mr. H. L. Kimball. Few men possess
ing the wealth of this gentleman could
be induced to appropriate it in so laud
able a manner. The Opera Honso now
used os the State House, and built at a
cost of many thousands of dollars,
ornament to the city, and will ever re
main an honor to him who projected ik
He is now engaged in building a hotel,
which, when completed, will be the
handsomest in the South. It is to be
built on the most modem improve 1 plan.
Tho excavation for tho foundation is
nearly completed, and the masonry will
soon commenco. Several hundred hands
are now employed on ik Such a man is
worth thousands of millionaires who keep
their money shut up in vaults, and At
lanta should be proud of him as a citizen.
—The Superior Court commences at
Griffin on- Monday.
—The crops in White county promise
a heavy yield.
—Roma hi* paid $15,000 for ffrfe en
gines and cisterna*.
—The Eatonton Pros* states that wheat
prospects are excellent in that section.
—Tho street cars in Augusta am to be
run to tho Fair Grounds.
—The Columbus fair will open on
November Ish
—Snap beans are sold in Savanuah at
Oc. a quart.
—The Griffin Star reports wheat pros
pecta in Spahldinv good.
—Gen. Sheridan arrived at Salt Lake
on the 9th. >' •
—Over :10,000 emigrants landed in
New York last week.
-The excise law is being rigidly en
forced in Brooklyn. -
—Ex-President Johnson visited Knox
ville last week.
—Insurgent bands havo appeared
among the mountains on tho Southern
confines of the Roman States.
—The latest rumor about the Fenian
organization is that the army consists of
33.000 men armed, disciplined and pro
visioned for a campaign, and that enlist
ments aro brisk and money plenty.
—Thirty-eight Spanish Bishop:
nounce from Rome their refusal to take
the oath to the new Constitution of Spain,
although His Holiness interposes no ob
jections.
—H. Martin, of Warrenton, the cause
of all the sensation about the suspension
of the habeas corpus act by Terry, was
released last Saturday on bail.
—A New Orleans paper gives a graphic
account of a thunderstorm in that city,
in which this statement occurs: “Several
persons were struck by lightning, and in
ono instance a woman was killed. The
houses and vessels, however, did not fare
so well
—Tfo Philadelphia City Council has
appropriated $15,000 for free public baths
in that city.
—Rev. Free Love Frothingham, in a
sermon last Sunday, said there was
devil. It will be lncky for him if there
is not.
—Mr. Ruskiu said, at a recent lecture
at Oxford, that life without industry is
sin, but industry without art is brutal.
—Two New Orleans girls fought a
pitched battle for the ownership of a nice
young man with mostacho and curls.
—Judea has less .Tews than New York.
—If McFarland can’t be hung or stmt
to tho State prison, Abbie wonts him con
fined in the lunatic asylum.
—The Prince of Orange is going to
marry the fourth daughter of Queen Vic
toria.
—On the walls of a public house in
London there is a placard announcing
Commerce.
First. A and B form for a general co
partnership; C contributes $50,000 as
special partner; A k B fail; what k the
extent of C’a liabUity ? Second. It "and
E ate partners in the- prodded" bsftfaeas;
D also cams* on tho banking business
On his own aooonnt, in which he
I* E. liable for D’s debts ?
The editor of the Journal of Commerce
replies as follow*:
First A special partner, if ho has
managed his connection properly, can
not be held liable fen the debts of the
concern iu which his. money is invested.
The capital he contributed is liable, but
be had no personal liability whatever.
Second. One general partner is not liable
for the private debts of the other, nor
responsible for any business undertaken
by the other for which the firm’s name
has not been used, and in which it nos
no interest.
Compositors in the New York
Tnbuno office are fined ten cents for
every profane word uttered on the prom
ises. the money so gathered being given
to the poor. One unfortunate chap, a
new hand, lost nearly a week’s wages
one night over a bit of Greeley’s mann-
script _ *
mitteo on Reconstruction bad* aiMdfc.
but there being no quorum present, the
Georgia bill was not considered.
"Washington, May 12.—In the Senate,
to-day, the bill providing for a reduction
of th army, iataodaoad toy Mr. Wilson,
passed without Any material amend
ments.
In the house considerable progress was
made in the emudderntron of. tho .tariff
bill.
Washkoton", May 12.—Tho Senate
Committee on the Wciflo railroad, has
agreed to report in favor of a Southern
route from Mamhall, Texas by way of
El Faso to 8an Diego.
Tho road will run through the rotten
belt of North Eastern Texas.
Gen. Fremont’s proposed road is to be
allowed to connect with this’ road at El
Paso, but he is to receive no grant of
public lands beyond that point.
New York, May 12,—A collesionvo-
cured on the Missouri and Pacific-railroad
to-day, near Eureka, Kansas, wkioh re
sulted in sixteen persons being kft ed and
twenty wounded.
WlLCO* & GIBB’S
SILTSISTT
paartyWiii w i mn
kliLuoNAimns.—William H. As tor is
declared by those who ought to know
to represent 830,000,000; A. T. Steward,
810,000,000; Cornelius Van (Inbuilt, $30,-
000,000; Daniel Drew, $6.000,000; G.
Law, 86,000,000; August Belmont, $6,-
000,0o0; Samuel N. Pike, $7,000.000;
James Fisk, Jr., $6,000,000; James,
Lenox, $5,000,000; and two or three
hundred others are variously estimated
from two to five millions. There are a
thousand persons in New York who are
worth at the lowest calculation, $500,-
000 apiece.*
<W Tk© Red River expedition departed from
Canada on the 12th.
The Fenians are at last ready for their spring
campaign.
Pare Hyacinth is at Munich with Dr. Dellin
ger.
AvmcrsMay 13, 1870.
Oottos—Market steady and firm. We quote,
20 ceutn, “ ”“k»_
ftif* The special correspondent of the
Savannah News, writing from Washing
ton, May 5th, says it is proposed by Bol
lock and his adherents to buy tho resi
dence of J. H. James, of Atlanta, for a
gubernatorial mansion, at a cost of $250,-
000, although the value does not exceed
$60,000.
9Qfc»The Atlanta Constitution says:
Mr. H. L Kimball has transferred one
hundred hands, employed in the excava
tion from tho foundation of the new hotel
to the Fair Grounds. Work has com
menced there in earnest.
Lxnoro 1 sal«
A PERFECT WONDER
In its simplicity, strength of ©fetch, apd beauty
of finish. Keodlois sth-adjustiug and cannot
beast wrong. T * 1 — v —
li.tacl. ...
broidere. braids, quilts and
plain and fancy ©erring, with neatness and dia-
* - "or sale at rasnufectnrer’aprices by
I. N. HART Sc CO., agent
Canary Seed, Rape Seed and Cnttloflah bone.
BACON at prices to correspond with the de
cline in gold and cotton by
mbSU-Sm L N. HART & OO.
Macon May 12* etfeniu?.--Receipt© to-day 48
safe* 354; ©Supped 197.
Tho market continue© ©toady and firm with a
good demand at 211 cent© for middling*.
New Yon*, May 12.—Cotton firm; ©ajes 1,000
bales; at 23}(£24*..
Gold 14J.
8'Vasxvh. May 12.—Cotton quiet and firm;
middlings 22i%22}.
Lrvxnpooi., May 12, evening—Cotton, uplands
il; Orleans 11,. '
ECONOMY IS WEALTH.
COAL, COAL, COAL.
r 'makes a cheaper and better fire than wood.
Lay in vour supply while you can buy it
cheap. Messrs. Sfimno Sc Son hare the exclusive
sale of my coal for the city of Americus. All or
ders handed to them will be promptly filled.
apri!28-2m* ARMAND L. BUTTS.
county, doceaaed, departod this life intestate
, 0 -W.DAvmrro*T,
maylfrtm and cx-oft elk Webster^
Dr. SMITH’S
Great Southern Tonic
sa.ld.aCgi.tsgeam]!)-.
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CHEMISTS AJtD COMPOrSOERfi,
IKE ERIODS, ea-A
Also—.
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DYSENTERY CORDIAL.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Barrett’s warranted Hair Restorative.
It cannot hurt you. It is purely vegetable.
Try Simmons’ Liver Regulator, if you wish to be
weU. It act© like a cliarm without debilitating
the system, and without any of (he evil effect©
of mercury. Simmons’ Liver Regulator is the
safe remedy. may 10-1 1
Senator Bbowxlow.—The Washing
ton correspondent of the New York Ex-
nress writes, April 28; “ Senator Brown-
low, who has been much prostrated with
physical infirmity during tho whole
present .sesaioq, is become evidently
more languid as the warm season advan
ces. Ho is very regular in his attendance,
though ho lias to bo brought from his
lodgings by attendants. His voice is
gone; he always votes by proxy, an officer
of the Senate carrying his vote to the
Secret-anr on each call of tho ayes and
noes. He is entirely ^incapacitated from
either committeo duty or the regular
routine of legislative business.”
The Tncklaf or Kipttlmrr.
After the experience of more than 12 ycara,
and a careful examination of more than 40 dif
ferent machine©, having used in my family 5
■*'“ .. . ujafciup the lock, doulile-loop.
twisted loop stitches—tho has
rat to
for nearly 1 years,the first for nearly 12, and the
other* for nearly «—I dealre to present to your
' ” of my experience, xhe:^-
of sewing machines that
readers the teacl
There are many: „
are not worth the room they occupy Y-a few that
do good service for those who have the ability
to manage and keep them iu order, and but one
that is always in owr, always ready for service,
end that always gives ©atistketion. This ma
chin© uses a single thread, make© tho twisted
loop stitch, and never fails in making it. It .u
- . Tite Growing Wheat Crop.
that the head of the French murderer, the adjoining counties tho unanimous
Traupman, may there be seen, preserved | report of all parties is that the growing
in spirits, for a penny a sight ! J lnuaa » 1 promise—
A notice tlms worded appears in a
management, certainty ot opera ion and beauty
of its work to any other that I have ©sen. The
work done by tins machine has shown greater
strength aoa durability than that done by ma
chines making any other kind of btitch.- ° m
' Fowler, in the Phrenological Journal.
In all —
Belgian paper: “Captain —— lias the
honor to inform you that it lias pleased
divine Providcnco to deliver bis wife of a
finely formed son.”
—Tho manufacture of bricks Is very
successfully carried on near Tallahassee.
—Tho Courier-Journal says the fight
of tlio Cincinnati editors is “off.” They
can't agree on the division of the “crate-
money.”
—There is considerable gold excite
ment iu New Mexico, and the metal is
said to be pare and abundant.
—General Joseph H. Lewis, who com
manded the Kentucky Confederate Bri
gade, was sworn in on Tuesday
ber of Congress.
—The King of Prussia has, at Babels-
berg, fifty white mice which he often
watches for honrs at a time.
—An Arizona miner, wonnded by In
dians, shot himself dead to escape the
pain he suffered.
while in the country abovo we know from
personal ob servation, that it is looking
unusually well. Last week we were in
Jackson, Hall and White counties, and
judging from what we saw along tho
rood and learned from intelligent farmers,
there has never been a better prospect
for a crop. If no calamity overtakes it,
an immense yield my be expected. And
this is true ol all the counties of North
east Georgia.
Tho finest looking wheat we have seen
anywhere is the crop of our friend Bailey,
of Oglethorpe, who last year beat “all the
world and the rest of mankind” by rais- i
ing nearly fifty bushels to tho acre. If
onylsody beats that this year, it will be
Bmley himself,—Athens (Ga^j Watch
man.
Ermrn ox ax Edttou.—Her e he lie*. E&a*
A glance at tho columns of the Era
is quite sufficient to convinco us of that.
tar The New York correspondent of
the Journal says the drinking customs of
Xcw York are fearful, ana for an illnstra-
tion adds:
the other day in tho street© quite a
well kSSiniUirister, who was so drank that tiro
More Legislation* fob tbs Neobo—
The Country to ee put uxdeb Martial
Law.—A Washington dispatch to the
Baltimore Sun says:
In tho forthcoming Republican caucus
a Southern Senator intends to proposes
policy, to be incorporated into a law, for
the better protection of tho colored -peo*
pie of the Smith, and to secure the en
forcement of the Fifteenth Amendment
in tho North. This will tako something
of the shape of a bill prepared bv If r-
Pool, of North Carolina, and which will
declare that all citizens of the United
States shall have, in the several States,
all the privileges and immunities of life,
liberty and property. It will declare it
to bo unlawful for persons to combine or
conspire to violate or hinder or impede
anjr of tho rights meant to be secured by
this act, one of which is to prevent the
discharge from employment of any per
son with intent to restrain his free and
complete exerciso of the elective fran
chise. Another feature of this proposed
legislation is to authorize tho President
to emplov the land and naval forces or
the militia to preserve the peace in any
Stato.
The passage of such an act will be vir
tually patting the whole country under
martial law.
Stat.tt.tso, But True.—The number
of deaths iu the United Statesending last
June, resulting from the intemperate use
of ardent spirits, is given below, as well
as the number of men, women and child
ren sent to poor-houses, insane and ine
briate asylums Stato penitentiaries for
offences committed while under the in
fluence of liquor, as compared with the
number of r those whose crimes were in
duced by other cause : Deaths 62,000;
Suicides from intemperance, 409; Sui
cides from other causes, 87 ; In poor-
houses, inebriate and insane asylums,
130,000; Per cent, of crime caused by in
temperance, 65.
The above is a most startling exhibit,
and shows the groat evil of indulging in
the wine cap. 1$ is a most frightful com
mentary upon the morals of the people
of the United States, and snggesfcj the
question whether or not the causo of all
this crimo and misery conld not be ’
moved.
Be Wise in Time.
How xu any are tfeore wh* >, afflicted
din-
TH0S. 31. EDEN,
[GUN & LOCKSMITH,
GUNS, PISTOLS,
ing ammunition of every kind. Wesson’© Breach-
loading Rifles. Now on hand a largo and fine
assortment of fishing tackle, consisting m part
of grata, eilk, cotton and linen lines, hooks,
floats, ©inkers, jointed and reed poles* set lines,
©pears, trout met, spoon and spinning bait, bait
boxes, etc. N.B.—Jgencr oftbo celebrated
Wilson 8huttle Sewing Slachmea. East side
Public Square, next door to Win. Rimne Sc Son s
Carriage Manufactory. • 'xSctvly
TAX NOTICE.
the veer 1870. All persons will jfleeee c
ward at oneo and give in their tax.
T. B. GLOVER,
*p 211m Tnxlloceiver Sumter Oonnty.
Joy to the World !
AN ANTIDOTE
UWCOVUEED
CHILLS AND FEVERS.
\7 ALU ABLE PROPERTY
.» FOB SAEE IN BBUXSW1CK, G». w..,-
sitting of lots to suit purchaser©, finely w t n,pv
480 .a 150
eently surveyed into lots and now for tli© firit
time offered at low prices to encourage imnrovr
menta. presenting great inducement* to settler*
capitalists and others visaing to make safe nn<‘
valuable investments, as the property must •<’-
Tance rapidly in values as the citr imnrnvoft.-
Title* are perfect. Descriptive pamphlets ©ud
maps c*n lie ©eon or procured at the office of
S. If. HAWKINS, Attorney
mar 12-ly for Charles Da\.
JOHN C. JOINER’S
Family Grocery Store,
W. E. Comer of Public Square.
Is always ©applied with a fresh stock of ■
FAMILY GROCERIES,
comprising everything usually found in Mint
establishments, such as
B*ro*». Floor,
Meat, Coffer.
Tobacco, Cigars,
Sngor, Lord,
COUNTRY**’PR O D U C E
alarm o l hand for salt, ©uch ait
Pm Fowls, Gaines Fowl*.
F.gg«. Hatter,
Chicken*, Turkey*,
sad
Game of all Kiqds.
I make this department & specialty, and i
Don’t forget the place,
Opposite Dr. W. W. Ford’s Dental Office
aprlC-lm
in an incipient etage, delay from til
time baring rcoource to wane remedial agent,
which wonkl effectually arreat tho farther pro
gress of disease, and render the system impreg
nable to its insidious attacks. It is unfortun
ately too true, there are thousand© who ©ink In
to an early grave, whereas at a trifling expense
they might lipve lived to a good old age. If
there be reliance to be plaecu in medicine, and
thousand* of well at teste* I cases establish be
yond tne possibility of a doubt tho curative
properties of any one particular remedy, then,
Hurley’s 8arsspanlla and Potash ir unquestion
ably the greatest medicine ever introduced to
au afflicted community. Hesitate not, there
fore, to use it, if suffering from any ot the ills to
which the fle*b I© heir* sp2Gtf
The Fruit Crop.—Wo publish several
mem- contra ‘k ctor J reports in reference to the
peach crop in this section. These reports
were based upon such information as we
were enabled to collect from time to
time, and were contradictoiy, because in
some localities the peaches were parti
ally destroyed and escaped unhurt in
others.* Some fow orchards will fail to
tally, in others the crop will be light, but,
throughout the upper country generally
it will bo abundant. Indeed the trees
are in many localities, too fulL From
this place to Cleveland, via Gainsville,
we noticed all along the rood a great
abundance of peaches. %
Apples and othe r fruits aro still more i irriufin;
ALLENS LUNG BALSAM.
Dr. A. L. Harris is the inventor of several
medical preparations which have become very
popular, ami have been liberally used Among
his invention* are Hall's Balsam for tho lung©
and Liverwort and Tar. For tho post six years
a better lung remedy has been offered to the
public. Read the,following letter from Dr. Sco-
vill referring to it:
Messrs. J. N. Harris X Co.—Geut«: I make
the following statement from a perfect convic
tion or the benefits of Allen's Lung Balsam in
curing the most deep seated pulmonary con
sumption. I have witnessed its effect© on the
jroung and tho old, and 1 can truly say that it is
Car the best expectorant remedy with which I
acquainted. For coughs, and all tho early
stages of lung complaints, I believe it to be a
certain cure, and if every.iiatnilr would keep it
it by them, ready to administer upon the first
appearance of disease about the lung©,, there
—’ * bo very few cases of fetal consumption. It
th** phlegm and matter to raise, without
ng toe longs, and without producingcon-
promising, as, wo believe, they were not l ©tipatioa of the bowels. It also gives strength
at nil injured by the late frosts.—lb. j S*tSnaSud°^g^S^lft!*****
The Drouth,—It has been fonr or five I Your© respectfully.
Bgb. Nessns has for a long time enjoy
ed a distinguished reputation on account
of that little transaction of his in tho shirt
business, but at hist Neisus has met more
than a match in a man who dwells in the
romantic viUogo of Hopkinsville, Ken-
tncky. This man had the small pox, and
lived through it without changing his
shirt. When convalescent ho gave the
garment to a colored woman to bury. But
utilitarianism and temptation overcame
her. She gave it a careless washing, and,
on the following Sunday her “ole man ”
appeared in all tho glory of a white
“ biled shirt ” In due time he was tak
en with small-pox, and died soon after,
and, strange to say, so did five others who
successively come into possession of the
fatal garment Nessua killed his one man
—Hercules—with an effort but this Hop-
kinsvillian killed his half dozen without
half trying.
weeks since we had sufficient rain in this
vicinity to wet the gronnd. As a conse- j
qucncc our vegetable gardens, which up!
to that time were retarded by the cold!
weather, present anything bat an encour-1
aging prospect. The ground is so dry i
that nothing can grow, and in many case;;
vegetables aro losing the little vitality
they possess. Spring salad and English
peas aro scarco. Snap beans will have
to bo replanted. Cabbage and collards
aro “ drying up.” We fear that the Irish
potato crop will bo seriously cut off,
and our summer supply of vegetables
generally prove finndequnte. We notice
what little com there is in the neighbor-
hoed looks dwarfed, yellow and sickly.
Tho only thing which seems to be hold
ing “its own,” is the cotton, and proba
bly the present cool snap is not helping
it mneh. Still there is no prospect of
rain, and wo have little hope of auv be
fore the fall moon. This is rather a
gloomy looking picture, yet it must be
all right or else it would not be so. We
draw comfort from, the old Christian’s
philosophy, “We are sure to get rain
when it is most needed.”— Col Enq.
flokl by all druKgiftt ,
Mendelssohn’s son is to be his bio
grapher.
Opelika wants & fire company.
They havo had a mad dog in Macon.
A new cotton factory is to be estab
lished in Augusta.
Cigars for ladies—Widows* weeds.
Faro is taxed £400 in Nevada.
Sorosis decrees against Jong skirt©,
Patti auDg to 12!,000f at Liege.
Travelers say the great want of Salt
Lake is tailors.
Cuba is now on the other side of Jor
dan. He’s at home.
A fair pugilist need not be a striking
beanty:
A western exchange says the flowers aro
jnst teething.
A daughter of EL Davenport is to
marry a daughter of George Jordan, jr.
A Texas boy recently shot hh father
“from mere caprice.”
A THRILLING 1NCIDFNT —
In the mica]on life of lire. Ingalls, in Borxnsh, is
well told in tho Baptist Messenger, relating how
•he was sent for to visit ono of tho Badflhist
high priests, who lisd baen nearly killed, and
how, while in the must holy place In their tern-
’ >, where none but priests had never before
-.so admitted, she was permitted nnrelraked to
nsoforhim tho sacred vemela, which nono bat
the high priest dare t* -nch, and to even overturn
and sit on one of their gods to rest* ©R through
the magic influence of tho rain Killer, called by
them the God Medicine, so succefefaDy had she
used It in curing their many diseases, some of
them considered heretofore fetal in that climate,
among which were cholera, liver complaint,
Rvspcpeia. the bites of venomous reptiles, Ac.
This ©peaks vnliun**© for the Pain Killer.—Lon
don Tune*.
Dr. IL C. Daily, at Americus. Georgia,
undoubtedly tho best medicine yet discover**
for the cura of the different forms of malarious
fever*, such as chiPs and fever, fever and ague,
intermittent qr bilious remittent fever*, ana all
forms of disease having a malarious origin.
Sold by Druggists and Dealers Generally.
Price Ono ?5r»llar.
CERTIFICATES.
A3iEnu.es, Georgia.
To Dr. IL C. Baxlet—Dear hir : I used the
Holton Pill, put up by you, in a caso of chills
with complete ©uoccss. lly daughter had no
chill after taking them according to direction*.
S. ANTHONY.
Axemccs, Georgia.
Dr. H. C. Bailee—Dear Sir: I have used your
Holton’s Pills in several cases of chills, one of
which was of nearly a year’s standing, and have
met with complete succoss in every cuse. I be
lieve them to be an excellent medicine.
W. A. WILSON.
Ajnsnicrs, Georgia.
Dr. H. C. Bailey —Dear Sir: I havo used the
Holton Pills in my family with marked and sat
isfactory results. If taken according to direc
tions, they will break up chillsnf long standing,
with an almost certainty of their not returni -
T. M. FORLO’
Axzaicus,
SIS JAMES CLARKE'S
FEMALE PILLS.
fllHE only reliable remedy noy offered to you
A for the cure of those painfil and dangciomi
diseases to which the female constitution w mb
ject, and which moderates all excesses and
Removes all Obstructions,
from whatever cause, is Sir James Clarke's IV-
malc Pills, prepared from a prescription «,f Sr
J. Clarke, M. IL, Physician Extraordinary to tht
Queen, by D. H. Fiak, 47 Dev street. New York.
To married ladies it is particularly suited, li
ill in a short time bring on the monthly period
with regularity, and does not contain anythin ■
hurtful to the constitution. Iu all cates of Nei•
von© and spiral affections, pains in the back and
Umbo, palpitation of the heart, hysterica.whitM,
it will effect a cure when .all other means hare
failed. Foil directions in pamphlet around ucl>
package. Observe the name and copyrightc!
D, H.Fi*ke cm each package. Auk your drng-
ata for D. H. Flaked Sir J. Clarke’© Pills. SoH
r all druggieta,* and by
XV. A. COOK & CO..
novlS-ly Americus, G*.
Dr. H. C. Bailey—Dear Sir: I havo
Holton Pills with my plantation hands, with en
tire satisfactory results. I am auro they will
cure the chills when taken according to direo-
Fairs held in tho South, in Oct
and Nov.,1869,for the best pianos made over Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New York Pianos. Of
fice ana wareroom. No 9, liberty street above
Baltimore street, Baltimore, hid. Stieff’a Pi
anos havo all the latest improvemcnts,including
the AgraSo treble, ivorr fronts, and the Im
proved French Action, fully warranted for five
years, with privilege of exchango within twelve
months if not entirely B&tiafactory to purchaser.
Second handed Pisnoe and Parlor Organs al
ways on hand, from $50 to $3u0. Referees who
have our Pianos in use—Gen. It E. Lee, Lex
ington. Va.; Gen. Robert Ransom, Wilmington,
N. C.; Gen. D. H. Hill, Charlotte, N. C.; Gov. J.
Letcher, Lexington, Ya.; Bishop Wilmer.* New
Orleans; Cot W. T. Withers, Jackson, Mia©.;
Orphan's Home, Lauderdale, Miss.: Dr. J. H.
Bowm&r, Vicksburg, Mi©©.- C. W. Hand, Sum
ter, Ga. Mrs. Spaulding, at the City Book
Store, Americus. Ga., is agent for the above
Pianoe. Send for a circular containing names
of 500 persons in the South,who have purchased
the 8tieff Piano since the war. may 26 ly.
Rev. J. F.. Clough, missionary at Ongole,
Southern India, writes: "We esteem yonr Fain
Kilfor very highly for scorpion stings, Cholera
c„ and cannot very well do without it”
Rev. L D. Colburn, missionary at Tavoy, Bur
nish. writes: **I shall be happy to assist in ex
tending a knowledge of a remedy so apeedy and
effectual. Sold by all druggists. iuy8-lm
Kosxoo.—This medicine is rapidly gaining the
confidence of the people, and the numerous
testimonials of its virtues, given by practition
ers of medicine, leaves no doubt that it is a safe
and reliable remedy for impurity of the blood,
liver disease, Ac. The last Medical Janral con
tains an article from Prof. R. S. Newton, M, D.,
President of the Medical College, cityofNew
York, that speaks in high terms of its curative
pronartiee, and gives a special recommendation
of Kmkoo to tbo practitioners of medicine. This
to, J* 1 ***. wo hnt instance where such
SS-SaSs
reace. its com rounder, and alao nuta *• Koakoo"
Marion Superior Court, March Term,
1870.
Libel for Divorce.
RACHAEL A. O. HATTIWAV
TIaWSOX HAX1IWAI.
suit, and it appearing from the return of the
Sheriff that defendant is not to be found.
Ordered, that service be perfected eitier by a
copy of the bill being served by defendant, or by
publication once a month for four months pre
vious to the next term of this court.
A truo extract from the minutes of Marion 8u-
Taosus B. LmCT. Clk.
WANTED,
Ten Thousand Pounds of Cotton and Linen
RAGS,
for which b. t^a. jura
BLACKSMITH,
store, and near the jail building.
OR. 8HALLENDERQER*S
Fever and Ague
A. X T I DOT K
Always Stops (be Chills.
This Mrlicino lu$ been Defer.- tho Public
fifteen year-,».;»! I * at.il Viue^ i »t‘ all other
known remedies< If u-v mi, purge, dot’
not sicken.iho **»*w.*l*, < • ■■ *r4r*tlv in
any dose sa l under ill - Ir NU^t.-ire©, wd
is the only it* a will
CURE IMMEDIATELY
and permanently every torn •» Fever ani
A true, booms* i‘ *«• » »**rv.--** Antidote te
Halarls.
S. C OHEN,
Z
Hma : ,u o
Morobailt
w^JssTBsassss^ssa^
try to the faclTu»?fc be m pwpneA . to -
CCSTOH-HADE WOBK
at tho shortest notice. We hhvo ,
Two European Workmen,
»bn rire utisfoction til
to tho t£rtth»t bo hM hid » good ^
fourteen years torn the puDuCTJWJt-JJT
is willing to cut uiJ msits clothes dimoderK^.
SSSsfEwISs
cleaning done at abort notice.
may5-ly
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