Sumter-Webster-Dooly County GaArchives News.....Roundabout In Georgia March 18, 1879
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, GA March 18, 1879
The Americus Republican says that on Sunday night, the 2d instant, the gin-
house of Mr. W. F. Spann, of Webster county, with all his crop of cotton seed, 
were destroyed by fire.  The gin-house and screw were both new, run by water 
power and of the latest and most approved pattern.  It is supposed to have been 
the work of an incendiary.

The Americus Republican says that last year Mr. W. E. Tharpe, of Dooly, made 
one hundred and fifty bales of cotton, thirty-three hundred bushels of corn, 
sixteen hundred bushels of sweet potatoes, twenty barrels of fine syrup, and 
oats and wheat in abundance, with eleven mules.  He also raised enough meat to 
run Captain Morgan's place, which he was managing for the present year.  This 
is the way to grease the wheels of fortune to make them run easy, and lay back 
in comfort and laugh at hard times.  Pluck and industry will win every time.

Americus Republican:
Here is a sweet morsel for the consideration of Messrs. Blaine, Ingersoll, et 
al., of the radical ranks, which they can reflect on:  James Ellis, a colored 
blacksmith in Americus, who, by industry and economy, has acquired a competency 
and quite a lucrative trade in his profession, on learning that his old 
mistress, Virginia Ann Wisham, was in very reduced circumstances -- without 
even a shelter -- went before Justice J. B. Pilsbury and J. H. Allen, clerk of 
the superior court, and made her a deed to a small place in Macon county, thus 
giving her a home in old age without fee or reward.  Surely such good deeds as 
these are recorded above, and will there entitle the donor to a home in 
that "home of many mansions."  Jim Ellis is a hard working, honest man and 
though his skin is a little dark his heart is all right.  Sober and 
industrious, he has many friends in the white race of our city, who will esteem 
him now more than ever.

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