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VOL IV.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 4, 1882.
" NO. 9.
JUumfuis pec0viTutL
published nr
W. Xi. CrliESSKTEIl.
OFFICE OX corns AVENUE.
Su.'toscxiption. Hates:
Tui-Weekly On* y*AB, - 14.00.
Weeki.i’ One Year, - - $2.00.
Sunday Issue One Year,- $1.50.
Official Directory,
IIenby S. Davis.
Merrel Callaway.
NEW FIRM!
(iKOKlUA. SKETCHED.
The Value of Farming Laud In Geor
gia -80 Acres Worth More than a
Huudred In Michigan—The Dif
ference lletiveeu the Ryu-
OLD CRANBERRY CORNER.
iMEUICUH.
Americas i* the connty sent of Sumter Comity,
Gear.-in, ti .d in pi tinted on the Southwestern
Railroad, 71 miles southwest of Macon, and about
eighty miles north ot the Florida line. It is n
city of C.OOU inhabitants bcautifnlly situated
handsomely Improved. It is the centre of trade
for a large section, comprisin'; some six counties,
itii arcs usd* annual cotton receipts being 80,000
iiales, the nveriuje market value of which is $l,-
500,000. The climate is mild, the nirdry snd pnre,
and A meric in has lor many years hnd the repu
tation ot being one of the healthiest cities in
America. Being situated but a short distance
hImivo tile tropical runion. nearly all varieties of
fruits, grains and flowers can be grown success
fully,.while vegetation Is luxuriant and rapid in
its growth. The city has tine public schools, go»d
churches, n large public library, a new opera
house completely furnished with scenery end
which seats 1,000 persons, a well organized lire
department which includes two steamers, while
the streets ore sewered and lighted. Throe good
hotels furnish the best of accommodations. It is
the largest city in Southwest Georgia, and is ri»p*
er information they may desire by addressing the
Ktliror ofthe ilt:coni)En.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor—.1. It. Felder.
Clerk s
Aiurruieii—»» • * . nun. i. «. wmuons, it. a.
Co'-b, I.. B. Bosworth, It. D. Watts, W.«l. Har
per. City Council meets every Monday evening,
>or. City Council meets every Monday ev
I’ollce Force—City Marshal, A. 1*. Lingo.
l*«»lleemon-W. W. Wheeler, l’at Erskiue, J. W,
Cobb, b. II. Mitehelt.
Hcxton Oak Grove Cemetery—P. D. Ilill.
Sexton Colored Cemetery—Richard Folder
Bridge Keeper—J. I*, llaiford.
FI HE DEPARTMENT.
Chief—W. P Burt.
Assistant Chlet—J. C. Nicholson.
Wide Awake No. 1. (Steamer.) Foreman, W.
M. lUwkes.
Meclmuics No. 2, (Steamer,) Foreman, II. J>.
Watts.
Vigilance No. 2—Foreman, Mingo Glaze.
Jlook and Ladder—Foreman, Henry Anderson.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Third District, composed of the counties o
Taylor, Macon, Schley, Sumter. Dooly, Pulaski,
Jtoage, Montgomery, Wilcox, Telfair, I^e Web-
Davis & Callaway
-HAVING LATELY PURCHASED THE-.
BEADTIPUL STOCK.*
OE MR. JOHN WINDSOR, ARE DAILY ADDING TO THE SAME THE
! LATEST PATTERNS AND DESIGNS i
|)m floops, DJotioii ti J|mtor,
Ige, Montgomery, Wilcox, Teitair, l^e \vh>-
*, Stewart, Irwin, Coffee. Gen. Phil. Cook,
•vngressman.
LEGISLATIVE.
Senatorial District composed of the counties of
Sumter, Sclilcy, and Macon Senator, Dupont
Gunrry. Representatives, Thomas Fen gin nud
•lolin L. Addcrton.
SUPERIOR COURT.
south western Circuit, compo.*d of the counties
of Sumter, Schley, .uucon, Lee, Webster and
Stewart.
Judge, lion. C. F. Cilsp. Solicitor ticucrul, C.
B. li ltd son.
Regular terms of Court are held *» follows:
1.oo county, second Monday in March nnd §oj-
oud Monduy in Novoiuliar.
Schley county, fourth Monday In March nnd
By count.. __
fourth Monday In September.
Wchater county, first Monday iu April and first
Mon.lay In October.
Sumter county, second Monday in April snd
<*coiid Monday in October,
stewort county, fourth Monday in April nud
fourth Monday In October.
Mhcoii county thild Monday in Jujus and
first Monday in December.
COUNTY COURT.
Judce, J. P. l’llsbury. Monthly term of court,
first Wednesday In ©very month.'Quarterly term,
third Monday In March, June, September and
Doi't'inhcr.
OUDINARY’S COURT.
Ordinary, Thomas H. Stewart.—Court held
Inary, 1 human 11. Htcwi
lir-l Monday of every month.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Clerk of Superior Court, J. H. Allen.
Shcritt, J. W. Mix*.
Collector, W. It. K'ewart.
Tax ltecclv**r, J. A. Daniel.
'I’reasurer, C. O. Sheppcrd.
surveyor. M. G. I.ognn.
Cornier. \V. W. Cuerry
Commissioner*. ». K. Taylor, C. A. Hunting*
ton, J. II. Itlark. 8. H. Hawkins, J. W. Wheatley.
Meet Urn*. Monday of every month.
JUSTICES.
Domestics,
Sheetings and
White Goods, Eto.,
Einxr F*U L SUPPLY !=
ANOTHER LARGE AND KRESII INVOICE GF
Ladies and Grents Shoes
SOON TO ARHIVE S
DAVIS & CALLAWAY,
Cranberry Comer, : : y : ; AMERICUS, GA.
AilEWS VMIETY WORKS,
Detroit Fin, Prorw. 1
“Wliat is (arming land in Geor
gia worlli per uurc ?”
1 have answered this question in
a general way two or three times,
but will again reply that there is
the same ilitrerence as in Michigan
or Illinois. A Georgia farmer who
has a good thing ot’it wants a good
price. One who is in debt and dis
couraged will let go of bis land at
u bargain for the man with money.
Fairly good larms can be bad for
$20 per acre. Farms in good repair
and having natural advantages run
as high as $50 per acre. There is,
however, any amount of good land
in Georgia at $10 per acre. That
state lias taken the lead in split
ting up the big plantations into
small farms, ami the result has
l>een a gieat gain in the number of
agriculturists and amount produe-
In speaking of farms here is one
fact wbieb the northern man must
not overlook He can raise more
on eighty acres in Georgia than on
100 acres in Michigan. He will
have three months more in every
yqar to work. He can raise more
wheat, more oats, more barley and
rye, and his corn will run consider
ably more to the acre. He can
raise two crops of potatoes and cut
four crops of fodder. He can plant
in March in Georgia, while lie
must wait until May in the north.
I saw a new variety of rust proof
wheat put into market at Americas
op the 2d day of May. On that
same day, before the north had
planted a kernel ol corn, it was in
tassel iu a dozen counties in Geor
gia. Oats were ready to cut iu
northern Georgia by the 12th of
May. A northern man who had a
farm of seventy-live acres in that
state would cultivate every foot of
it, and unless he went into cotton
or grass very extensively he would
not want above 1110 acres lit the
outside.
It is a system which has been
practiced for seventy-live years in
various southern states, but. is pro
bable that it has at last received
its death-blow. The Georgia farm
ers are kicking against it with great
vigor, and the northern men who
have gone down there with cash to
buy farms and run them have struck
hard blows against the evil. Sum
up the system nnd it is from twenty
to thirty per cent interest. Not
one farmer in ten who starts in
that way ever gets out of debt.
During the last year or two a
money-loaning association formed
in the east has had agents all over
the south lending money on real
estate at eight per cent and Iran
dreds of planters have found in it
a way out of their dlflicullies.
Ten years ago Georgia was all
cotton. To-day she is reaping the
benefits of mixed crops. Her big
planters raise less cotton and more
oats, wheat and corn, and her
small farmers have a mine of
wealth in truck-farming. Her farm
ing population is nearer out ol
debt that in any other district in
tiic south.
guffawing, disputing and quarrel
ing, and there would soon he a call
for a new wing nt the work house.
M. Quad,
How to Hare.
All hard workers are subject to
bilious attacks wltinh may nnd ill
dangerous illness. Parker’s Ginger
Tonic will keep the kidneys and
liver active, and by preventing the
attack save much sickness, loss of
time and expense. Delay at such
times means danger.-Detroit Preen.
See other column.
Pm
WIIAT HE WOULD RAISE.
AMERICUS,
GEORGIA.
No. GS7, No Just ire nt present.
DLL No. 1107, Janus II. Rogers, J. P., John F..
Thom ns, N. P.
J.E.
C. H. WHEATLEY, IWIMM Mil IIULOEIt,
-DEALER IN
Sash, Doors, Blinds and Windows, Lumber Plained, Woodwork
of every kind done with promptness, Furniture, Bedsteads
and Coffins. Plans Drawn and Estimates Furnished.
I hftvojiikt received n large sluek of steam an-l water INpoIng nml Pipe Vliteia tools, and am pre
pared to do all kinds of plumbing at short notice in a firat class manner. Patties at a distance, oono
ponding with me, will receive prompt attention.
raylG.fm C. »I. WIIEATLEY, Prop’r.
RotlischilcL’s Shirts.
The average Georgia farmer who
Ims 100 acres of land puts at least
eighty into cotton, another ten is
divided between corn, potatoes and
truck, and the remainder is oc
eupied by the house, sheds, etc. If
it is a had year for cotton lie is
cleaned out. If it is a good year
he pays his debt and has something
left over.
A northern man would take the
same land and put thirty into corn,
the same into potatoes, ten into
grass, ami the remainder into wheat
and oats. If it wus a good year
the wheat would run ten bushels
to the ucrc more than in the iiorllu
If it was a hud year it would run
no less tlura the northern average.
His other crops could he counted
on with certainty, llis ten acres
of outs would bring him more
money than thirty of cotton.* His
thirty of com would yield better
than fifty of cotton, llis potatoes
alone would bring more cash than
double the acres in cotton. He
would make more clean cash from
his ninety acres thus planted than
any Georgian has ever made from
301) uercs of the llcecy staple.
6 FOR $0.
Delivered Free Everywhere.
THE REASON WHY.
In every respect the very b?*t Miiri* Hi:
growing burners, ample pi, ilDips.
to whom our zooJp give |M*rle
produce AT ANY COST. Our large and
. y< ait* experience, long list of customers in principal citlm
.4-itixfarti.il., justify us in saying dial we produce CUSTOM WORK
JTS’WEXlEK,
I Gentlemen who hnvo l.ith«r
cold at our prl«*l nre mvi.nl t
OnrSpring I portuth.ii* <>r
bo improNrion that the very l>cwt Shirts could not be
West Side Square, Amerirns, (la.
XT ndoi'wear.
x’lccted stock ot Uenl,’ Knit Shirt* anil
A SPLENDID STOCK
We have now on hand tin* largest i
DraWC*K1t forS| ring oimI Sunnerr wear.
IlotllMcliililN White Merino NliirlSm so i-muiiriu
ItotliscliiIll's Royal Merino Shirts uud Drawers n :r.cent*<vh.
not IikcIi tilt’s Nit in liter t'uKsimere Shirts and Druwrio.i ,i... -i,.
Itotlischild's India I■ ll ll zo Shirts, ..hoicor half .iron?., at noc each.
Rothschild’s Summer Merino Shirts and Drawers at CO mils oftch.
Rothschild’s Rest .leans Drawersmcent.each.
Also. Ileanliriil l ines ot Rulbriggan and Silk Underwear.
flfatcles a Jewelry!
SPHING MJUOKlWBAIt.
, and ini'ludei nil the latest novelties m..J choicest productions of lh© I
is. I.uit© iiur» of Club House, DeJoinv Rle, Cluudent nnd Lord Stanley I
• loteit Silks met Mttllts, 40 cts. to Si,«• each. Also large line, of Folded
mi l t hiifv 1 in mil. u*.. .......
KIJD GrXaOVE«.
i imported Meins, very lm.t quality, $|.2*» per pair. St,ring
All mantlCtcflirnl ill our own f:.i
Shod**©.
Rotliacliild’S Fancy XZalfZZoso.
Vlxo Iiatost
SosiCUB.
All the newest J«-*ign» it# ti.quirted I'nncv HALF IIOSK from IA- to l.tS fxTpoir.
I*laiIt, Colored and Hritish Half Hose tr.,mss,, pr i«ir ui«,m*.
ibrollaa.
all repair work
pnOMl’TI.V ATTENDED TO.
J. E. SULLIVAN.
All fiAik-s, our own tnanufactutr. It« »t tlinghkin L'rabrolh, 91.
Gemr»i eiwic Furni.ijina g«vi>, Collars and Culfs. Cambric, I.iiien
and Silk Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, .».i Gentlemen’s Jewelry,
all «t popu.ar prices.
An elegant set of Gold Plated Collar and Sleeve Boltons, or elegant set (t) of Shift Hinds viv#n
with each hnif*dozeu of Rothschild’s Custom Shirts.
Samples. Directions for ielf--rcensnrement, snd tie scrip'ivc circulars traced five, ^i.ciai Price* List
to the trade. We refer to all New York.
W. M. ROTHSCHILD & CO., Broadway & Stli St., New York.
K.-Jl J-IAI* . . .
You will then naturally ask why
they don't farm that way iu Geor
gia. The reason is because the
southern merchant and capitalist
has the agricultural producer by
tho throat, and lie is holding on
with tenacious grip. When a
northern farmer wants tools or
provisions the merchant gives him
credit and he pays as lie can.
When a southern farmer starts in
lie goes to a merchant and gives a
lien on everything he may raise in
order to procure guano, tools and
provisions to run him through the
season. The merchant not only
rtinrgeB him exorbitant prices, hut
uulig.'S him to plant cotton. He
will not let him split up his land
into cotton, corn, oats, potatoes,
etc., hut insists that every acre
sliall go into cotton alone. When
that cotton is ginned and haled it
must go to the merchant who has
Lite lien. He sells it on account,
nud lie gets a commission for sell
ing. ll there is more than enough
to pay him it goes to the farmer;
if there is not, then the farmer
must make another lien uud hope
for better luck. The merchant
won't let him plant corn or pota
toes because lie wants to furnish
him these things at a big profit.
It is the same with oats and liny.
By keeping him on cotton he makes
a prolit on whatever the farmer
eats and wears, and he makes
another when lie sells the cotton.
THE YANKEE IN GEORGIA.
“Are there many northern men
in Georgia?”
‘‘Yes—hundreds of them. I met
them in overy county in the state.”
“Do they like the the country?”
“They are charmed with it, and
I found many whose health had
been greatly benefittod by the
change.”
“How are they welcomed ?”
“Just ns a neighnorhood in
Michigan would welcome a
stranger who had come to make
his home in it. Your native
Georgian is an open-heart
ed. I ospilulile man. Kven the
“cracker,” who is supposed to he
tho essence ol laziness, ami wiio re
presents the lowest strata of intel
ligence, will shore his humble meal
with a stranger and feel insulted at
sight of pay.”
Say ton Georgian: “I was in
the northern army, and 1 fought
you the best I had.” And lie -will
reply:
“lliillyfor you—let’s shake ! I
was around there myself about that
time, ami I guess you were loo
many, for ns.”
That ends it. If you get another
word about war out of liim you’ll
have to pump for it. 1 f yon come
down to lie liia neighbor he’ll
neighbor with yon.
THE SOUTHERN LXUOIIKR.
“What help must 1 employ on
my farm?”
If I was going down to Georgia
to run a farm on which hands must
he employed the year 'round I
would take while men. It is
nonsense to say that white incn
can't stand the hot weather down
there. The July and August
months of Georgia ' cull for no
hauler farm work than the same
months in the noitii. A white man
who can cradle wheat in Michigan
in July euu stand uny summer
work in the south. The negro, us
the Georgia profile sav, Ims become
unreliable in many districts, and a
nuisance in others. Where one
works twenty loaf their timo away
around the towns. Where onc.is
honest fifty urc thieves and liars.
Let a planter buy hogs on Monduy,
by Saturday lie will have lost tile
greater number. Negroes iu his
employ, well led and well pnid,
will imye slaughtered them,
him buy a blooded calf and lie is
safe no longer than a pair of eyes
are watching him. A farmer who
keeps fowls must hire some one to
guard them, and it must he some
one besides a negro. Hot a dozen
negroes at work on a farm without
a boss and in an hour leu of them
will by lying in the fence-corners.
Senator Hill ami Ids Children.
Atlanta Cur. Augusta News.
The latest news from Senator
Hill is decidedly encouraging. He
Ims improved in strength very
much, and his daughter, Mrs. Kid-
icy, who went to Eureka springs
to sen him die, lias returned to At
lanta. Whether or not he recov
ers lie will never he tho orator that
he was. The terrible butchery of
liis mouth will destroy the haut
boy sweetness and clearness of bis
voice. By tho way, it Is not gen
erally known that Ids resignation
was actually in Atlanta, and was
withdrawn through the influence of
his friends, who urged that if lie
died he should die in harness and
have the honors of a national fune
ral.
It is believed the Senate would
vote him a year’s salary if he was
a member of tho Senate when lie
died. Tills would ho very grateful,
as lie dies a poor man, leaving on
ly $10,000 insurance, a mortgaged
farm in South Georgia, some en
cumbered land in Mississippi, and
a home on Peachtree street not all
paid for. Of his children, Ben. Jr.,
is worlli about $30,000 and lias an
independent income. Charles Ims
a plantation and a house in Athens,
anil ids wife 1ms just succeeded to
$30,000.
Dr. Itidley is woll to do, and lias
a fine and growing practice. Mrs.
Edgar Thompson has about $20,-
000 worth of property. 11 Senator
Hilldies before the Sonateadjourns,
keep mi eye on Gen. Henry II.
Jackson, of Savannah nnd count
Gov. Colquitt out of the Senatorial
race. If lie dies after that, keep
your eye on Colquitt.
Ilcnuly Regained.
Tile beauty and color of the Imir
may be safely regained h.y using
Parker’s Hair Balsom, which is
much admired for its perfume,
cleanliness and dandruff eradicat
ing properties.
A young man in Port Jarvis was
engaged to marry a young Indy,
hut she retrograded on him. He
then took a step further and pro
posed to hur mother. They are now
bossing the girl togolhor.
’Iliiehuiuiha.”
quick, complete ouro, all annoy
ing Kidney, bladder and Urinary
Diseases. $1. Druggists.
At a New York dinner ono nmn
gave Ids fork to another, with,
“J ust stick that fork into that po
tato for me, will yon?” I1U,tin-
neighborly neighbor did ns lie
was requested, and left U sticking
there. *
Revitalizing the blood is absolute
ly necessary for the cure of general
debility, weakness, lassitude, Ac.
The best cnricher ol the blood is
Let Brown’s Iron Bitters.
“Yon are as full of airs as a
music box,” is what a young man
said to a girl who refused to let
him see her home. Tlmt may he,”
was the reply, “but I don’t go with
a crank.”
“Rough on Rats.”
If there is a call lor a political \ Clw,r f inioc, roaches,
meeting the farms are deserted. ! U,e8 ', ant8 ’ '""l-bugs, skunks, chip-
The belong to orders, lodges, so-! "ranks, gophers. 15c. Druggists,
cieties. churches, etc., and things; The number of opium caters in
me so managed that lie must hnvo j the United States is 400,000. They
nearly every night out mid about! consume nnnuallv about 600,00(1
two holidays per week. A showes ; pounds. Tills vice is increasin'*
of rain in the morning uses him up rapidly, and annnaliy sends many
for ull day, and ii there is no other ‘ victims to insane asylums and re.
excuse lie Ims crumps or dizziness, form establishments.
Such arc the complaints that Oeor-j _ — . «.——
giuns make. A good white work- Sever Abandon Old Friends,
man, such as are employed in the, If you have a friend who has
north, will do more work in one ■ '<een constant to you and stuck to
day tlmi* the average .negro will' you through good and bad fortune,
accomplish in three. The negro ! wonkl you soon forget him? No,
demands the same pay ns white j yon would not: Well, Pond's Fix-
farm hands received iu the north.! tract, your old friend, has served
His money is gone within half a y«n ninny, many years. Keiy .on
day after he receives it. and gener- , the old remedy, it will never fail
ally for luxuries which liis employ-1 you.^ It is your constant,
crcnnuol atlord. He then begins
a new month—a siege against lime.
The north would not. hear half as
much from him as the south does.
Let a thousand of them stand on
the streets of Detroit day after
day, as they do at Atlanta, Macon,
Montgomery and other places,
_ ■ ant, steady,
faithful fricud, tried and true,
always uniform, never misleading
by false pretences. It goes right
along more firmly settled oven-
year us the (Ireat l-’ainily Remedy
of the country. When you; ask
for it always see and be sure that
you get Pond’s Extract.
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