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H. C. STOREY, Uetl Edltar.
of Schedule.
iron?. tm ii l ^ t a 8nn ?* y ' Aa « m a»b.
Ie , at * Americu » » follows:—
P»s«. train leaves .'or Alban;
ana Montgomery daily.....13:44pr.
Pas*, train leaves ter Macon d’y 3:21 r m.
Accomodation Inin for Albany
dally except 8nnday 1:50 a
Accommodatlontmin for Macon
4SS±s&-ii^ ■"*
•BS&KiM i.“*
dally except Shaday <S:14pit
, H. Colush, Agent.
®OWlT ttAT.w-
• Sow terk store.
We will sell for the next thirty day* our
(took ofdrygooda, clothing, boot*,
shoe*, and ekrpela at greatly reduced
Oft to “ah* room for our Fall and
Winter Stock. Parties in need of any-
thing In onr line will save money by
J°h ° Ur 8"°^’ before purchasing
-J. Waxei.baum A Co.
Important to Farmer*.
If yon desire to improve yonr forma,
repair yonr old or put np new bulldinga,
bay improved farming implements, pay
any balance due on your lands, or boy
more land, now 1* the time for you to
make applications to me fur a loan on
yonr farm. Interest 8 per cent. Ex
perinea light. Cull and see me.
F. E. Burke,
Successor 1st. Nat. Bank, Americas, Gn.
ICE.
, BY THE CAB 1,0Al), TON. TIERCE,
CASK, BARRET,, OR HAG. And wonld
solicit vonr infinities, which will bo
cheerfully and promptly answered.
Kmiikkrbocxrr Ick Company.
I. N. Hart, Ag’t,
.1 irae302m. Americas, Go.
Skinny Hru.
“Wells’ Health Rcncwer” re
stores health anil vigor, cnrcB Dys
pepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility.
Removal.
Ramil Bros, would announce that
they have removed their stook of
groceries and plantation supplies
to their new building on Cotton
Avenue, and invite all their friends
and the public generally to call and
seem them in their new quarters,
tf.
Died from Injuries.
At his home, in this county, on
Sunday afternoon, Mr. Jno. F.
Markett, oue of Sumter's oldest
and most respected citizens. His
illness resulted from an accident,
the circumstances of which are
unknown to us. He came to Sum*
tor in 1848, and has resided here
ever since. He was a Primitive
Baptist, and a thoroughly consci
entious man. He leaves a wife
and a large family to mourn his
rrxrr»P3 .AATO rrmua
—Owen has '"•bean” nick.
—See those fashionable Hats Inst
received by Davis A Callaway.
—Uet yonr family supplies from
Evans & Harwell.
—Capt. Q. J. Brannon has now
the nobbiest fence in the city.
—\ou can get line Syrup at Ev
ans A Harwell’s very low.
—Clothing for men and boys.
Splendid stock at Davis A Calla
way’s.
—Summer shoes, lints and slip
pers at reduced prices at
Calvin Carter's.
—Onto Evans A Harwell for the
best Cream Cheese in town.
—The cotton seed oil mill at
Columbus will be at work about
the 15th of this month.
—Evans A Harwell have on hand
a line lot of Sugar and Coffee for
sale cheap.
—Select yonr Carpet by sam
ples. The capctoscopc of Davis A
Callawuy will siiow you exactly
what it is.
—Give us a trial and we will try
and please you. At Hamil Bros.’
old stand. Respeotfully,
Evans A Harwell.
—The new fancy and family gro-
-FMrsonal paragraphs.
M r. Willie Owen, of. Cuthbert,
was in town over Sunday. • ' j
Mr. N. J.. Morgan Is lying very
low at his residence in the eonntry.
Mrs. Sam Cohen returned from
her visit itt New York Satur
day.
Mr. W. H. Brown, of Etifaula,
To the Totem of the Third Con-
gressional District:
1 see in the papers the following:
“At s meeting of the Southern Railway
and Steamship Association the advsnoed
Ales agreed upon the day before wore
confirmed. Tbs basis agreed npon is an
advance of twenty per cent on freight in
general, and from fifteen to twenty per
cent, on Cotton. * * • •
The meeting hod for its chief object the
consideration of the advance of Uie rates
per cent; on her spool of thread ^ pie, but to represent- thehr party,
., , , , ... ouusiaaraHon 01 me advance or tne rates
Alabama, is in the city, t tatting j on Cotton and especially whether any
friends.
i changes should be made in the basis of
his relatives at the Bat low.
Mr. Bob Oliver arrived home
Saturday. He lias just got through
an extended trip in Florida.
Miss Maggie Callaway left Mon
day to assume charge of a music
class in the neighborhood of Mr.
•J. D. Gatewood.
Messrs. Lee and Lang, of Daw
son, were in the city Sunday. It
is possible that we may have anoth
er visit from them ere long.
“Bobble” Sullivan left last week
for Atlanta, where lie accepted a
position with the .1. P. Stephen’s
Watqh Co. We wish him suc
cess.
eery, Evans A Harwell, proprie'
tors, is now in good trim. Give
tlium a call when you need any
thing in their line.
—If the new stores which are
opening in this city want to secure
their share of patronage, Hey will
have to do some advertising, for
competition is going to be pretty
sharp
—Mayor Felder’s new house is
about completed, and is one ot the
handsomest in the city. The fin
ishing touches are being laid on
with care, and reflects great credit
upon I he architect and builder.
—For a city as lirgo as Ameri
eus, it seems strange that it would
be out of meal, but such was the
case Monday morning. A gentle
tnau went to eight stores and was
unable to get any, nor And where
any was.
—A negro came into the Recor
der office Saturday and requested
our audience a few moments, while
he exhibited a peculiar style of
writing. He held the pencil in his
left hand, and wrote with the top
of the letters toward him and the
words Tending toward his body. It
was quite readable. His name is
Earlv Dozier.
SCHLEY COUNTY MEETING.
Ellavillk, Ga., Sept., 2, ’82.
The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Schley county, having
called a meeting of the citizens of
Schley county for the purpose of
putting in nomination a candidate
for the legislature, Hon. C. L. Bat
tle waa called to the chair, and W.
H. McOrory was requeued tH act
as secretary.
J, N. Scarborough was requested
to explain the object of the meet
ing, whioh he did in an eloquent
speech, withdrawing his name from
the body.
Mr. J. R. Williams then, in an
appropriate Utile speech withdrew
,hts name from the body, thanking
thot^ that were going to support
On motion of Chas. R. McCrory
the body proceeded to nominate a
candidate for Representative by
Robert Patton, Miller, Allen and
Thos. Balsden were appointed by
the chair as managers of the meet
Jog, and Robert Williams, jr., C.
R. McCrory and H. Lipktnwere
requested to act as clerks in the
election.
The remit was as follows:
Ifany 189
Rainey US
We Appreciate Them.
We appreciate and arc thankiul
for the many expression* of friend
ship and good will that huvo been
given us during the past week, and
we shall endeavor to merit them.
They have made us feel that we
are no longer strangers, but am
among friends aud at home.
“Yonr Uncle,” Frank Gyles, got
back Monday from his Eastern
trip, and now unceasingly deals
out shirts, hats and caps at the
usual low prices.
Miss Ellie Oliver, who has been
visiting in Albany for a few weeks
past, returned homo last week.
Mrs. Nellie Steele, of Albany, came
with her for a visit.
Murray’s majority..... 16
The chair appointed a committee
to wait upon Mr. Murray and ask
his acceptance of the nomination.
He was brought into the court
hpow and addressed the citizens,
thanking them for the honor confer,
red en him. His nomination was
then nude unanimous.
On motion of R. T. Bivins the
proceeding were requested publish-
ed in the Americas papers. On
motion the meeting adjourned.
C. L. Battle, Chairman.
W. H. McCrory Secretary.
Truck Raising. %
As some of onr people have ex
pressed fears that if our farmers go
too extensively into truck farming
they will glut the market and de-
stray the business, we give the fol
lowing from Colman’s Rural World
which will give some idea of bow
they do it in other places:
Cohden shipped in one week this
summer’s tomatoes as follows.'
July 24, ten cars, 10,000 boxes;
July 25, nine cars, 9,000 boxes;
July 26, twelve cars, 12,000 boxes;
July 27, fourteen cars, 14,000 boxes;
July 29, twenty cars, 20,000 boxes;
July 30, six cars, 6.000 boxes;
The foregoing were shipped by the
regular fruit train, but in addition
to this, 71,000 bushels, 6,000 boxes,
more went by freight and paasen
ger trains. ' ;
Cobden is in Southern Illinois,
has but one railroad, and its princi
pal markets are St. Louis and Chi
cago, and if it can dispose profita
bly of so many tomatoes, what can
not be done by onr fanners, with
the markets of the whole country
open to them?
Col. Will Singleton, of the Ma-
rion County Argus, was in town
Monday, in the interest of his pa
per. He has a soft thing of it in
the legislative matter.
Mr. Nnt Harrison, of Texas, ar
rived Saturday for a visit to his
relatives in ibis city. It is the
first time in eight years that he
has been in Amerious.
Col. Edgar Simmons and the
Senior left Monday for Lumpkin,
where the Col. will make a speech
today. They went off in style,
and we predict for them a glorious
victory.
Mr. and Mrs. John Neely left
Saturday for Cincinnati for an ab
sence of ten days. Misses Coro
Prince and Laura Brown went as
far as Atlanta with them, from
where they go to Staunton, Va., to
attend school. Miss Inez Cutts
for Washington on the same train,
where she will spend the winter.
Mr. J. I). Bellali rolled in town
Sunday night on the freight. He
seems to think that either we or
the Posl-Apjieal ma le a mistake in
saying that lie “struck the town”
in ilia last call here. We beg his
pardon and hope that this time he
has struck it and got loaded down
with a good big order tor his Phil
adelphia house.
Deputy Collector’s Removal.
We aro notified by Maj. B. F.
Brimbenry, United States Deputy
Collector for this, the 2d, District,
that his office has been removed
from Cuthbert to Ward’s Station.
All letters relating, to business
with the internal revenue should
hereafter be addressed to the latter
place.
Bored for
rifle barrel.
The original land league—three
miles.
Mr. “Ben” Ham, of Florida, was 0,tr "" 0 * n * re ° a on tb# d “y b ' ,ore - »»
in tnwn aims c 1In( i ni . rtil „ _.*.«* j ww * no change ahonld be
in town over Sunday on a visit to | mal|p „ n( , |h# u|rucpd wi|1 be p „,
in operation about the 30th inst."
The simple meaning of this is.
that an additional tax of one million
two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars is to be levied upon the
farming and producing classes of
Georgia by the Railroad corpora
tion for their own benefit, and this
over and above the present enor
mous revenues derived by them
ficm the people under the nnmo of
freights. If it was necessary to do
this in order to earn a fair profit on
their investment, it would not be
so bad, but the last official reports
show: Timt their revenues the
present yi-nr amount to sixty-three
millions of dollars, gross, and more
than^twenty fonr millions net. That
all of the stock is at or over par,
even after, io many instances, hav
ing been iralered to double their
value.
Now, if while the Stuto treasury
was full, and tier income ample, the
legislature should double the state
taxes the people would not tolerate
it. Such a clamor would be raised
from one end of the state to the
other that the flagrant injustice
would be consumed in the flame of
popular indignation, yet this is pre
cisely what has been done by the
roads. Take the city of Amerious
for instance: There will bo mar
keted there the present season say
30,000 bales of cotton. The in
creased freight will amount to
about $37,500. The increased
freight on the goods and supplies
bought by tbo people will amount
to the same, so that $75,000 is tak
en from tlie pockets of the people
who make their cotton and buy
their supplies at Amerious by this
indirect and unlimited power of
the roads to levy taxes. Monte
zuma, Hawkinsvillc, Dawson, in
deed, every station in the stato
where cotton is sold and goods
bought furnish a similar circle to
be taxed until the amount, as 1
said before, is one million, two
hundred nnd fifty thousand dollars
for this slate alone, an amount fully
sufficient to carry on the state gov
ernment (and tills is already bav
ing its ellest—the cotton made in
Ainerlcus und other places having
fallen an amount equal to the in
creased rotes.;
Take this in connection with tho
enormous and oppressive taxation
by tho general government under
tho name of tariff, which now
amount, with the internal revenue
(taxes on specified objects, as to-
baoco, liquors, eto.,) to the sum of
three hundred nnd ninety million
dollars. This is drawn from tho
pockets of the people in the shape
of indirect taxes upon almost every
article they use, and falls more
heavily upon the agricultural popu
lation than any other. How is it
with the cotton grower? In the
first place he pays ail the taxes,
stato and national that all other
citizens are required to pay. When
he starts out in the spring to pitch
his crop on bis plow he pays fifty
per cent ad valorem; on his trace
chain to pull his plow, two and a
half cents per pound; onhisjaok
knife fifty per cent; on the square
by which he measures his work six
percent and thirty per cent ad val
orem; on bis files and rasp 10 cents
per pound and 30 per cent; on his
axe 40 per cent; on his iron ties
1| cents per pound; for his hammer
2} cts„ per pound; on his nails 2J
ets. per pound; wrougb nails 2J
ct&, per pound; cut nails 1J ets.;
horso shoe qails 5 cents; for wood
screws 8 to 11 ets.; hinges lor bis
doors 2J cents; on his wile’s sad
iron ljcts. per pound; on his cross
cut saw 10 cents per foot. All of
this, averaging nearly 100 per cent,
be pays to l'ennsylyanians and
steel mannfactureis, not to the
government- On his cotton bag
ging bo pays 2 ets. per yard; on
his cotton shirt 6 ets. per yard
anil 10 per cent; on bis wife’s cali
co dress 5 ets., per yard and 20
et. each and 30 per cent; on Hie
common stoneware of his table 25
per cent; on his school boy’s slate-
pencil 40 per cent; glass tumblers
40 per cent; on bis sugar and mo
lasses 49 per cent; on his coarse
blankets 95 per cent—the same on
his wool hat and flannel shirt; on his
wife’s shawl 50 cents per pound
and 35 per cent., (over 100 per ct.);
on her gloves and hair pins 50 per
ot.; powder 6 ets. per lb. and 20
find lienee the rights of the people
have been n mere shuttle cock to
be batted between tho parties while
they wero pursuing their own
ends.
Now, what is the remedy ? For
God surely would not permit such
flagrant injustice without either a
remedy or punishment. Ask the
politician, and he—If a democrat—
will tell you that the remedy is in
the democratic party. That yo u
per ct.; rubber boots for bad wealli- , mi8t ra || y t0 t | 10 party . that a
cr, 30 poret., his leather 25 per c!.; j “ enMa upon lht collntr ,y> an( ,
ins kerosene oil 40 per cent. Even j .everything will go to destruction
in sickness Ins morphine is taxed j if the “party" is not sustained. Ask
$1 per ounce; castor oil $1 per gal-1 the republican and he will say that
ion, and his omum $1 per lb. And the remedy is with the Republican
on his fruit trees, garden and agri
cultural seeds lie is taxed 30 per
et. ad valorem.
Nearly all of this goes into the
pockets of the manufacturers who
cluim that the prosperity of the
farmer is increased by this search
ing taxation. Nothing *is free to
him. Nothing escapes (says Sena
tor Vance, of North Carolina, from
whom I take these figures) this all
prevailing inevitable protective tar-
iff. Certain as death, hungry ns
the grave, uusatisfiablo as tho sea.
Take further the one hundred mil
lions of dollars wrung from tho
pockets of the laboring and pro
ducing classes and distributed in
pensions. A taxation of one class
of the people to support another
class. Add all of the amounts of
taxes and you will have the follow
ing table:
Slat# tales 81,000,1*10
County taxes averaging 150 per
cent 2,250,000
Extra tax by It. ft. Corporation
just laid 1,250.000
Making ,.. $0,000,000
Take next the money raised
by the general government. .$300,000,000
For Pensions 100,000,000
Now Complete.
Every department. 1. Dry Goods
2. Clothing for men and youths.
3. Shoes and Boots. 4. Hats.
5. Carpets. 6. Sewing Machines,
at Davis ft Callaway’s.
Why It Was Invented.
The Findlay, (Ohio) Courier
gives the following reason ns to
why the cotton gin was invented:
Ono of the questions in History
at the last County Examination
was “Give an aceount of the inven
tion of the Cotton Gin.” The fol
lowing is an answer given by one
of the applicants: “The slaves of
tbo South had to pick cotton to
exchange for gin, it beiug so slow
and tedious made it expensive for
the country. The cotton, was ex
changed for gin in tbo foreign
country. This is a primary cause
of the late rebellion.”
Editor’s Pun.
If brevity is the sonlof wit, how
is this for a funny ?— Wheeling
Journal*
It is without all-JIT. Y. Enter
prise.
Did you expect anybody to “ ”
that?—Phila. Sunday Mirror.
Those arc the worst jokes of the.
• Washington Critic.
My * * *, you're pointed as a f,
aren’t you?—Burlington Enter
prise.
We-^tbe opportunity to say that
these are ,cal Itt you fellows pro£.
—Gold.
Well, they afford a $ous sort of
amusement at best, and—our spir-
its greatly—“L. A” Journal,
Such “point” ed wit is enough
to bring forth an! from the people of
every§
Making $490,000,000
Divide this by 50,000,000, the
population of tho United States,
and you have nearly $10 for each
man, woman and child. This makes
in all nearly $13 per head for the
people of Georgia,and three-fourths
of that amount is saddled upon the
people by extravagant expenses
and unlimited powers of taxation
by corporation.
Furthermore, in the Inst thirty
years 240,000 square milcH of public
lands—territory Hint would make
four states larger than Georgia—
which was the common property of
the people, lias been vote I away by
Congress to private individuals
and corporations not exceeding in
number 30. This is about 201,600,-
000 of acres. This at $1.25 per
acre (the coiporations that now
own them arc selling at from $2.50
to $10 per acre) would raako tho
enormous sum of $252,000,000 of
tho people’s monoy voted away by
partisan legislation, n sum large
euougli to establish free schools
throughout tho entire country and
disperse the blessings of a good
education to every child in it.
These are terrible crimes against
the pcopls. It] is spoliation and
plunder by th& general government
from tho people of 52 per cent, of
all they buy or consume. It is
spoliation and plunder of the pub
lic lands and distributing them to
favored corporations and individu
als witli tho rights to rctax them.
It is spoliation and plunder in vot
ing the money taken from the in
dustrial classes by taxation—
amounting tho present year to
$100,000,000 and distributing it in
eleemosynary charity (called pen
sions) to another favored class. It
is spoliation and piundor by rail
road corporations in their unlimit
ed power to tax the industry of tho
country in extravagant charges for
transportation. It is spoliation
and plunder on all sides, but the
victims are always the same—tbo
class that digs and delves; tbo
great producing class that furnish
the foundation for all other Indus-
tricss. * * *
It is well we possess the most
fertile lands, benignant skies and
proprltious season nndcr the sun,
aid the most industrious and self-
denying laboring and producing
population for there is not another
country on God's green earth that
could stand such enormous drains
and fornhb bread for its people.
These evils bare been brought
on by party government and party
legislation. Legislators and Con
gressmen have been elected, not to
represent the intcielts of the peo-
_ JLs “
party; that Republicans must stand
to their colors; that a "crisis is
upon the country" and it will be
everlastingly ruined .if the demo*
ernts get possession of the govern*
ment. This has been the way ever
since the close of the war. The
Republicans hare had control of
the legislative branch of the gover*
ment for 13 years and the demo*
crats for 4 years since that time,
and I submit it to the unprejadic*
ed judgment of the people whether '
in all that time, by either party,
there has been any improvement.
This remedy has been tried suf.
ficiently and found wanting. There
is, however, a remedy and it is in
the power of tho people. That
remedy is to take tho goyerament
out of the hands of the politicians
and place it on a “business” basis.
Government is, or ought to be, a
matter of pure business, and con*
ducted on tbo principles of busi
ness. Sentimental polities do very
well for fourth of July declama
tions, but the people who.foot the
bills should stiek to practical poli
ties , and the power of the govern
ment to raise by taxation these -
enormous sums o( monoy, and to
disburso it, should be condaotcd
on a strict business standard. And
this can be done if the people will
hold their representatives to a
direct accountability to themselves. ' ■»
Caucuses, combinations and poli
tical parties have hitherto and do
now stand between them. Nomin
ated by a canous at home, trans
ferred by election to a caucus in
Washington city, their representa
tives feel no obligation direct to
the people, and if they satisfy the
par.y and keep in line, they are
all right and the”parties"do not
even inquire into what they have
done or propose to do. This onght
to bo corrected. Hold them di
rectly responsible td the people
upon all measures of public interest;
do not take their simple statement,
“that the party required suoh a
tiling to be done” and you will
soon sec a change > lor tbo bettor.
The hurdenB of taxation will bo
lightened; the expenses of govern
ment will be economized; thorc will
bo established a National Board of
Commissioners similar to oar own
Stato Board to reguiato tho present
unlimited powers or railroad tax
ation under ol freights, and. the
publie lands instead of being par
celed out by partisan legislation to
favored individuals will constitute
a revenue to be devoted to the
education of the people to whom
it belongs, and remove forever the
dark clouds ofilleteracy that at
present' overshadows onr great
country and will give to every
citizen the intelligence—and the
virture that follows it, to partici
pate in and watch over the work
ings of a common government to
which we are all devoted. '
David fi. Harrell.
New Advertisements.
on Church S
Stfi.lt
JOHN U. COKER.
Copartnership Notice.
The undersigned hare this dty formed
a copartnership under tko name of Ev
ens & Harwell, for tho parposo of trans
acting a Fancy end Family Grocery bus-
inc.s, at tho old stand of Hamil Bros.,
on Forsyth Street.
W. H. Kvass.
W. P. Hakwkll.
AuKRicim, Ga., fjcpt. 1, 1882.
A Valuable Farm For Sale.
I offer my farm, located in Weheter
County on Choctebachce gand Kinche-
foonee, containing Nine Hundred Acres,
or willaell Eleven Hundred if ileaiml.
It is well watered, healthy location; and
beautifully situated. For terma apply In
me. B. t JtJNNINGH.
I’reaton.'WcbeterCo.. Ga.
August, 18th, 1882. •