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VOL TIL TRI-WEEKX.Y. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING APRIL 28, 1882 i>rt i . ;»t NO. 125. FESSIOiYAL & ItUSI.YfiSS CARDS J. C. XATHEWU. OFFICE OX COTTON AVENUE. Su.'toEcriptisn. Hates: Tui-Wkf.ki.y One Year, - $4.00. Webki.yO.ne Yeah, - $2.00. Sunday Issue One Year, - $1.50. — Official Directory. Will practice in nil the counties of till* •!u«ltoial Circuit, :ilmo In Dooly county, in the Supreme Jourt of toe 8ute of Oeonria* and the District Court of the (7nit«*«l State*, and In all other courts ny special contract. Ulrica m Hawkins’ now building, Lamar Street. iMERICU*. Amerlcua is the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, m.d Is film ted on the Southwestern Railroad, 71 miles southwest of llacon. anil ulxrat eighty Moles Mirth ot the Florida line. It is a oily of 0.UJU inhabitants beautifully situated and handsomely linpmred. It In the centre of trade for u larije section, comprisin'* some six counties. Its overuse annual cotton roeeipta being ho,<>00 bales, the average lunrket value of which is |1,. 000,000. The climate in inild, the air dry and pure, and Americas has for many years had the repu- tntinti of Mug one of the heallhie>t cities in America, Heing situated but a short distance abovu the Iropicui reuion. nearly nil varieties «, fruits, uminsai.d flowers can l»« grown sncccs< fully, while veK ( >lniion is luxuriant und rapid in its growth. The city has tine public schools, gu*.d churches, a large public library, a new opera house completely furnished with scenery nud which seats 1,UM) persons, u well organized tiro department which Includes two steamers, while tin* streets are sewered and lull ted. Three good hotels furnish the best of accommodations. It Is iho largest city in Southwest Georgia, nnd is rap idly growing in population and wealth. As a place ofousiness and a bcuutlfni atul pleasant it presents uimictions possessed .ny few the South. lVr*on* k nt a distance looking for a lo cation III the South, will be supplied with all furth er information they may desire by addressing the Editor of the UumnuEii. CJTtf OFFICER*. Mayor—.!. 11. Felder. Clerk and Recorder—D. K. Hrlnson, Aldermen—\V. 1*. Hurt, 1*. 11. Williams, It. E. Co'.h, I.. II. Iloswortb, It. D. Watrs, W.4. Har per. City Council meets every Monday evening. I'ollce Fere*—City Marshal, A. 1*. Lingo. Policemen—'W, W. Wheeler, Pat Krskiue, J. W. Cobb, S. U. Mitchell. Hnxton Oak Grove Cemetery—P. 1>. Hill. Sexton Colored Cemetery— Itichard Folder Bridge Koepcr—J. P. Halford. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Chief—W. P Burt. Assistant Chief—J. C. Nicholson. Wide Awake No. 1. (Steamer.) Foreman, W. M. ilswkes. Meclmnics No. U, (Steamer,) Foreman, H. 1) Watts. Vigilance No. 2—Foreman, Mingo Gluzc. Hook nnd L wider— Foreman, Henry Anderson. CONGRESSIONAL. Third District, c- mposed of the counties of Taylor, Macuu, Schley, Sumter, Dooly, Pulaski, l>odge, Montgomery, Wilcox, Telfair, Leo Web ster, SiewHtt, Irwin, Coffee. Gen. Phil. Cook, oiigressmiui. LEGISLATIVE. Hunntorlal District cmn|»oscd of the counties of Sumter, Schley, und M-icon Senator, Dupont Huerry. Rcpreaentatives, Thomas Feagiu nr ' John L. Addcrtun. SUPERIOR COURT. Southwestern Circuit, composed of the count!* of Sumter, Schley, .uncoil, Lee, Webster and Stewart. •ludgo, Hon. C. F. Crisp. Solicitor Goncral, C. B. Hudson. Regular terms of Court ure held am follows: Leo county, second Monday in March und sec ond Monday in November. Schley county, fourth Monduy in March and fourth Monday iu September. Webster county, first Monday in April and flist Monday In October. Sumter county, second Monday iu April and »ecund Mon<luy In October. Stewart county, fourth Monday in April and fourth Monday in Octolier. Macon county second Monday in June and second Monday in December. COUNTY COURT. •fudge, J. P. Pihbury. Monthly term of conrt, first Wednesday in every inonth.'Ouarteriy term, third Monduy in March, June, September and December. ORDINARY’S COURT. Ordinary, Thomas II. Stewart.-Court held on tir»t Monday of every mouth. . COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk of Supeiior Court, J, II. Allen. Sheriff, ,1. W. Ml**. Tax Collector, W. It, Stewart. Tax Receiver, J. A. DanleL Treasurer, C. C. Shepperd. Surveyor, M. G. Logun. Cot oner, \V. W. Uuerry Commissioners, 8. K. Taylor, C. A. Hunting- toe,.). II. Mick, S. II. Ilawklus, J. W. Wheatley. > Meet first Monday of every month. •fUSTlOES. IIMrlet No. 75 ,|X. .If. Wlilt.', .1 7\, W. II. l*lillll|*. X. I'. l)|s . No. 087, No Juatico at present. Hist. No. 1107, James 11. Rogers, J. I'., John K. Thomas, N. P. Dlst. No. Britton Smith, J. P., M. G. Logan, S. P. Dist. No. 884, J. M. llatchcr, J. P., Jus. A. Vin son, N. P M Dlst. No. 1185, A. J. Williams, J. P., R. A. Darden, X. V. Disc No. 769, P. L. Mile, J.P., Ja*. A. Stubbs, N. P. Hist. No. 745, F. W, Griffin, J. P.. K. D. Ral ford, N. P. Dlst. No 903, A. J. Clark, J. P., Jas. A. Wool, N. P. W. H. KIMBROUGH, ATTORNEY AT LAIV, LEESBUIIOII, - - GEOKOIA. Collections a Specialty. M.yllwly W. D. SEARS. W. J. 8EARS, DU IV. J. SHIRS JcS ELLAVILLE, GA. C. R. McCRORY, .Attorney at Law, ELLAVILLE, Ga. Collections a Specialty. A pH 116 tf Drs. Westbrook & Joiner, Physicians mid Surgeons, ■lNDEKSONVILLE, : : GEOKOIA, Office nt Drug Store of W. M. Clark. May 18-1 y* H C. GARDNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OGLETHORPE. GA., W ILL practice In the South-western Circuit and tho adjoining counties. Prompt atten tion given to collections maylll.tf Lawson F. Collier, Attorney-at-Law —AND- Real Estate Agent. DBAYTON, GEORGIA. THE LECONTE l>EAIt. It, Wouderful Attributes—Freedom Pram Blight; Il»rdlneis «ad Sin, Quality and Uamarkabla Yield- 1 300,000 Tree, In One County. Tiiomasvllle, April 1(1 “Ifwliat they say about the LeConte pear is true,” said Mr. George W. Per kins, of Xew York, to me the oth er day on his return from Thomas- ville, “its profits are enormous, nnd its culture will surpass orange cul ture.” I have heard this same predic tion made scores of limes, hu> al- way “I took a fancy to the fruit, nnd when I came to Thomas county to superintend this place, which then belonged to ray brother, R. A. Varnadoc. I brought some cuttings from the tree. I planted these, and those superb trees there are tho re sult. The extra quality of the fruit attracted attention. The fact that none of the trees Imd ever blighted, that they were handsome, hardy and prolific, soon led others to buy. Then begau my triumph.” “You sold the enttiugsi”’ “fes sir; by the thousands. I ion made scores »1 limes hu', nl- . > "J . rays prefaced !>v the same caution I flol(l ' onc J quarter ot an acre n one ignni. The laet is, the stories of *?,39(S worth of cuttings to . ™ _ ' Vf i* l<l*i/.l/ufi.mi* t lii,rn at a I u monii TONSORIAL EMPORIUM! ANDERSON A LUNF0R1) All who may wish to have Hhuvitny, Hair Cutting, 8hnmpoofng, etc., dumt in flrat-cluiia style, they would lie pleaoe*l to have them call on them. Shop near tho entrance to Barlow House. J.E. ARCHITECTURE, To Those who Contemplate Building: I AM prepared to furnish Detail;,Drawing and Full tfpcL'Itieutiona in <IUKEX ANNE AND EAST LAKE! r of the modem atylcs, so modified t THE PMIX FROM HER ASHES. Tho flneat llni-hcd, moat pleasant wearing »*nd eleicunt BOOTH AND KlIOKtt made. Th«* taxt repairing dona in the utoat sub-tantial and artistic* atyle, aud all on rrnnonublo terms. Refer* to every gentleman in A met lens. Call on mu a nt tuy new shop In front of Cul, N. A. Smith'* of flee, yn Jackson Street Amerlona, Ga. ANDREW DUDLEY, Junclff.tf Soahrozx Feagin, (Successor to J. It Covington.) FASHIONABLE IIARUER, under t. wiieatlky's, ok Tnn coiined. 8HA1U* RAZORS ! ATTENTI VE HELP! JEWELER, West Side Square, Ainerinis, <■«., •rfl/J ' f-AHKIKS A SPLENDID STOCK! Van Riper HAS RETURNED! His Photograph Gallery Ts C) W O.PKNI : FINEST PIC'TVIIEN, LATEST STYLES and ALLSTVI.ES this wonderful pear are almost iu credible. They can hardly be be lieved Without seeing, nnd desiring to believe, I have come to see. It is encouraging to note iu the in the beginni ng that the people o'' Thomas county—those who know most about the pear—have pertect confidence in its value. Peur orchards are stin ted on all sides. You cannot drive out of this city without seeing acres set in these shapely and beautiful trees, bearing singular resemblance to an orange grove. Every man Ims stories to tell you of the remarka ble hardiness and 'ecundity of the pear, und while giving you per mission to doubt everything else, even to the bulminess of the nir, that you can see and feel and breathe, lie demands your unquali lied credence un this point. Over 500,000 trees and cuttings are now planted out in this coun ty—although the LeConte has had only a few year’s run. Thousands of cuttings have been sent else where and reports from them arc just coming in. The points cl lim ed for the LeConte are? 1 Perfect Irccdom from blight ,—the fatality of all other pear trees. From 185G to date not the slightest speck of blight lias been seen in a LeConte. 2. The hardiness and size of the trecs. A dozen LeCont.es planted iu the siunc grove with a dozen of tile best varieties, shows three times tlie growth iu the same time, and perfect health against all sorts of disease in the others. 3. In remarkable yield. Thirty bushels of pears have been gather ed from one tree in a season, and 25 bushels is not an extraordinary yield from a tree 10 years old. 4. The size and quality of the pear. One peir has been grown that weighed within an ounce ofu pound and ahull'—several over one pound—and a bushel will average nearly half a pound to the peur. The LeConte were sold as Califor nia penrs in Atlanta ail last year. tub msTonv or tiib peaii. Tho first thing that struck me in commencing my investigation was this: If the LeConte is so ad mirable, if it has the vigor of the Sand pear, the flavor of the Scole, the fiber of tho llartiett, the size of the California, is inure prolific than either, and is proof against the blight to which all are subject, why is it that it lias not become world-famous long ago? Why lias it not sliown iu the section from which it cuinc the same qualities that distinguished it here? The answer to this question de velops a most remarkable story. It is given by Mr. Varnadoe, who is the special backer of the LeConte Mr. Blucktdicur there at $1 apiece. “Yea,”said Mr. Blaekshear/'aml that quarter acre that year made more money than any acre in the slate. I resold many, of the cut tings at $2 apiece.” “The cuttings,” said Mr. Var- nadoe, “sold rapidly, and netted stranger, never dreaming that in the body of the slender switch lie held so paticutly through 2,000 miles of travel, there was kindling the pulses of tree to he worth its weight in gold, carried it to an out-of-the-way aunt, and tossing it into her lap, commended it to her as a twig of inferior pedigree and promise ? That this despised seed ling was nevertheless planted, sur vived the chances of the untried alchemy that sent tho commingled say of two species through Its fiber, outlived the neglect induced by a four year’s war, und escaped the malevolence of an inuading army that despoiled the turm on which it grew ? A ml that you, alter you Imd laid oil the harness of war, was drawn hack to this solitary t'.ec, under, perhaps, the benefi cence of the same divine authority that led tho wise men of the easu to set their faces against the dawn $12,000 on them iua very few years, land march away towards the morn ‘ ing star star? Do you believe tbatj the LeConte pear is the outcome o*' that often repeated miracle of honey-bunting, alchemy, war, travel and providence ?” “Believeit ?”shouted Mr. Vorne doe, who hud, with increasing im patience, waited for me to finish. “I’ll not swear to tlicbce, lor it may have been the wind. But I will swear that It was one or the other. Why not ? Here we have a perfect pear, perfectly distinct from all other pears. Look at that orchard) There are a dozep ditferent species, all planted as once. See how the LcContes stand out, from three to five times us large as the others. It has a sand-pear basis. On this basis are imbedded the qualities of many other pears While it has same characteristics of each basis perfectly distant from oitlier, it is clearly a hybrid. L is a chance hybrid, for the buyer and seller both thoughtjit was a pure, sund pear seedling. It is the best hybrid known for it is proof ugaius the inexorable lute of other pear trees. It is a rapid grower, u free fruiter, reproduces itself from cuttings und is, in short, the perfect pear!” I now have over 145,000 set out for the trade next year. I am al ready taking orders for full deliv ery, and have thousands engaged already. The price Ims failed now, and runs from 30 to 50 cents a piece.” “What about the sale of the fruit?”. “That is very profitable. I clear ed over $400 from twelve trees in one season, and will do i* every season. The pears sell at from $2.50 to $G a crate, which is J of a bushel, or about ninety pears. I can net $2 a bushel oil all I could send to market. Of course I fre quently gel as high as $8 a crate, und I have sold at $1G a crate. But $2 is a safe average. Some of my trees hear twenty-five bushels to the tree, and do that year after year. But fifteen bushels to the tree is wlmtu thousand trees would average. They ure planted seven ty trees to tho acre. So that 1,000 bushels to tho acre may be count ed on. At $2 a bushel this gives $2,000 to the acre. I know this sounds extravagant but it is the lowest estimate you will get from any man who knows. For exam ple, those twelve trees in my yard Imre give me $400 profit and will do it this year. Last yenr with five frosts on tho bloom tliey clear ed me $290. I can sliowmy books on that season utter .season.'. I have in my orchard, scores of trees that will be ns good as these in u year or two. VVliat they will do tho future must tell. But wlmt these twelve grown trees havodonc I can swear to. The old tree in Liberty ims done better than eith er one of these. ” THE WOBK OKA WANUKKINU UKK. “Blit now, Mr. Varnadoe, since these trees have done so well here, why did not tho trees left in the nursery from which Mr. LeConte got Ilia original seedling do as well?” “Now, sir comes the point. You have heard of the hybridization of flowers? I do not mean by graft ing, which is the work of man, b.it by the chance of drifting pollen. You know that the pollen ol one flower adhering to the foot of u b e, who is rilling its sweets, and planted in the heart of another to which lie Hies, tlmt lie may finish his least, will give to the second flower something of the nature of the first. Iu other words, it will hybridize it. Now this is the way pear. lie owns a nice place a few . the LeConte pear came. The pol- miles out of Thomasvilie, on which there is a large grove of trees and over 100,000 cuttings. Says he; “In 1850 I was superintendent of the plantation of Mrs. Harden, iu Liberty county. Mr. John Le Conte, Mrs. Ilaiden’s uncle, who Imd been to Prince's nursery in New York, brought to her place a len of one pear blossom which grew on a sand pear tree iu Prince's nursery was mixed by chance with the pollen of another. The hybrid flower combining the qualities of two distinct Mowers, Iruitcd and become a pear. From that one pear a seedling was grown. That one seedling was brought by Mr. Fanis i Jewelry Tho Liatost-Soslens. ALL REPAIR WORK F ROMFTLY A1TENDEDTO. J. E. SULLIVAN. seedling pear tree. He told her it j LeConte to Georgia, who was all- wan the Chinese sand pear, ami, ignorant of tho hybridization, and recommended it for its vigor, add-1 thought it was a Chinese sand peal ing that the fruit would not lie con-! seedling, as it had grown from the sidered fine eating, hut it might do! seed of u sand pear.” for preserving. The seedling was I “Do you mean to say that you planted und grew with notable rap- believe a wandering bee, toying idity. About tbe time it began to j »m this pear blossom,and that iu bear the war came on, and 1 went! a nursery, carried from one . to into the army. In !8lifi when I re- j another on his heavy, unthinking turned he discovered that his seed- feet, the qualities that combined by ling had grown into a handsome j chance, have made the perfect tree, and was loaded witli the most pear for which the world has been delicious fruit. It was clearly not, loojfing for centuries? Tlmt t.iis tiie Chinese sand pear, as Mr. Le- drowsy and inconstant bee, in Conte ba<l thought. Tne fruit was very wantonness, made the rare smooth-skinned, Mavorous and line ! admixture toward which science fibred, while the sand pear is rough ; had been groping and grafting for coated, coarse and tough. The | a hundred years, and that in this tree was graceful and pointed very ! bee's half holiday there came the much like a Lombardy |K>plur, the j triumph of wbicli the world Imd branches shooting straight up, dispared ? That only one seeding Mr. Blnckslicur, who lias been very active in developing the Le Conte interest nnd wiio has made money out of it, said “There are two sources of profit in tho LeConte penr orchard. One is the sale of fruit, the other is tbe sale of uniting. Wo have hardly tested the first yet. There are only about fifty trees in (air bear ing. These have yielded train 10 to 30 bushels to the tree. We think tlie trees will uvurage 10 to 15 bushels. Tlie pears have com manded an average of $3.50 a bush el. This price will be reduced us tlie supply increases. We shipped probably 1,000 bushels lust yeur. As there are thousunds of young trees coming in every yeur, the shipment will he increased to 10,- 000 bushels this year, and double tlmt for the next. Mr. Mitchell, who 1ms Just set out an orchard ot 20 acres, says he Ims based Ills calculations on 25 cents a bushel for his pears. This will give him $250 to the acre. The price will never go that low, 1 think; but even tlmt is a line profit.” “When do the trees commence to bear ?” “Jly two year olds are bloom ing. They will begin to give a bushel or' two ot fruit tho fourth year. I do not think they get their maturity till they are twelve years old. The biggest yield we know of eoiue from tlie oldest tree.” i lets?” “Oh, everywhere. I sent 200 to omag in TsXM Iwt Year. . They go north , ,Wj| have ex pected the demand to decrease but it was more active lapt year than formerly.” .. “Is it sottled yet whether they will do in higher latitudes?” “Not certainly, I think. I see no reason why they should not. We have good reports from every section up to date and will know positively in s season or two. It matters very little to us. If the trees thrive elsewhere we have the nursery from which the world will get its cuttings. If it will not thrive elsewhere me have a monop oly of the best Iralt Tn tbe market. It suits us either way.” “What about the blight?” “I think tho LeConte is proof against it. Of the fifty trees rang ing from ton to twenty-fire years of age not one has tbe slightest sign ot blight. Of the thousands of trees iu this county from two to ten years of ago, not one showa it. Every tree is nealtby. Other va rieties planted all around them die witli blight, or grow not half as last. In it mixed orchard the Le Conte can he disttnonisbed by their great size, glossy foliage, and lus ty look-as far aa.they can be seen.” “But tbe blight may strike them?” “Certainly. It may come any ddy. It will be a calamity if it docs. I do not believe it will. I think trees blight because the root cannot throw up. sufficient sap to nourish the heavy top. The Le Conte sends its root deeper than any other pear, - and the blight ap pearance of the tree, its enormous yield, and the;uniform health of every tree now growing shows that it lurnishes abundant sap. To show that the root ot tbe LeConte is its safety, a LeConte cutting grafted on any other root will blight almost certainly. No Le Conte cutting set on LeConte root Ims ever blighted. ' “I know it le held that alt pears must blight, but tbe LeConte nev er lmh, and I don’t think ever will. If it does not immense fortunes will be made.out of it” “Is it a fine flavored pear? “It is not the best. Tbe Spore, which is a slnall pear, surpasses it In flavor. Bo does the Dutohes— in many tastes, the Bartlett It is a splendid fruit, however. Its flesh is sweet and iuicy, and will melt iu your mouth. Thera It more of the ‘woodincss’ about the core, tlmt is the fault of tbe Call- fornia pear. Indeed it lias very little core. It is a lino shipper. It has a firm skin that does not break or speck easily, On the stands it will outsell any other pear, from its handsome appearance, and none but experts can note tbe Mok of perfeot flavor. We have perfect confidence in it, and hundreds of acres are pul down annually in orchards. Wp arc showing faith r our work. l ‘ l " jf'if ■ ■ IlM* .‘/ f **f A Tills, then, is tho situation! It looks too bright to ,lw entirely real, and yet it |ab*ra to sec where it lacks substance. The price will decline, doubtless—bnt the aver- ago yield, estimated from the fifty trees now bearing—twenty-flve cents a bushel will pay $250 an acre. Half that wp Tbe coming trees >ro!tflc as those all I they yield half ae big on aver age it will be enough. The great danger is the blight, not come, and y^,i»,Wff: will pay ejdu an ■es°may noTbifiU • already bearing. ‘ r WiiatuboiGUm^ofmilting?” j J' L^nU 1 *(ll “That has been Hie big l»«>Ht Lm; be hardier and more prolific with us. I lie LeConte reproduce* thun 9ny of tho ot i, er tree a, oil of itself from a cutting. Yon can cut w|lioll J aro 8U hjeot to blight, ln- olf a twig Irani the tree, stink it deed, the fact that of the thousands into the grjunil, nnd it crows. These cuttings sell for four cents apiece. Mr. Sanlord cut $25 from one tree this year. Those four old tree* there snved Yaruedoe. He sold enough cuttings und fruit from them to sup|Kirt him, plant bis orchards and meet his payments on his plaee. He lias laid up thousands of dollars, and his place could not be bought for $25,00(1. Many |>eople do not sell tbe cut- ings at four cents, hut set them out, sticking them iu rows us thick us pens. When these sticks take root they are known as rootlets, and they then command 40 cents each. They used to bring a dollar and even more. Of the cuttings put out probably one-third on an aver age take root. The others die. Borne men get more tiiuu a third. while the sand pear tree is more l grew this flower, which held within - some less. Its a new^ business and like an ordinary pear tree. It was I its petals, all unconscious und all of the same family as the sand pear, j unknown, the hope and flavor of for it would re-produce Itself from | coming ages ? That this seedling cuttings, a peculiarity of tlie sand | was sold to a stranger by the pear—but it was a sand pea.-cross- nurseryman, as Aladdin sold his wl on some other pear.” I lamp in the days of old? That the wo have not yet got it down fine I have cut (>5,000 cuttings this year from which I expect to get surely 15,00 rootless that will sell at from 30 to 40 cents each.” “Where do you sell these root- of trees now planted not one has the blight, would suggest that this species, is less suhject to it than others even 11 a few LeContes are struck with it. It la atill uncer tain as to whether these trees will 11 uit well and proper in higher lati tudes than l'homnsviUe. They are now being tried Ik over twenty- five states. The report from vari ous localities sliould be forthcom ing soon. It is a strange fact that only one LeConte tree bos ever been made to grow from the aaeil, since tbe first one. Thousands or seeds have been planted, but only one has ever sprouted. For that tree, now a alight twig, 9100 has been offered. Altogether, I’m Inclined to think the wandering bee did a good work; or, was it tbe wind? H. W.G.'. Permit 7s Hshstltntlen. Insist upon obtajping. Floreston Cologne. It it preeminently su- perlor in permanences and rleb delicacy of fragrance.