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IV.
Emmetts
TRI-WEEKLT
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER JO. 1882,
NO. 83.
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NEW DEAL!
Having purchased from K. C. Black his stock of
I WILL CONTINUE THE BUSINESS AT TIIE OLD STAND,
Comer Lamar St. and Public Square,
And will keep the stook up to the high standard in quality that Mr Black hud at
tained, and to that end have secured the services ot Messrs. J. H. Black. Jr., and H.
J. Brown, both experienced men in the business, who will he assisted by K. M.
[tewart. Not only do I intend to keep up the quality or the stock, hut my price
nail always be ns low as good goods can be sold for. I invite all the patrous of tin
jd firm, my friends, and all who need anything in my Hue to call and see me, e>-
amine stock and prices.
8. 8. STEWART.
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PERSONS WISHING PICTURES TAKEN
WILL PLEASE CALL SOON!
11 SHALL CLOSE BUSINESS IN AMERICUS ON ACCOUNT OF HAVING
MADE ENGAGEMENTS ELSEWHERE. DON’T I'lT
OFF TILL THE LAST MOMENT, HUT
COMB SOON.
VAN RIPER.
i g.&j. k. mm,
1 Livery, Sale ami Feed Stables!
AMERICUS, GA.
We have iu*t recalled a large stock of the
UbrsteJ LANDIS BUGGIES, with D.jtrr Queen, llVewrter till* liar .".t Hlrptlcfprii^,, While
iap*l, Shoo Ply, nod Piano Box Bodies, which we ar# selling bargains. W III nil juu •
Buoy and Samoan Cox* S12B.OO,
t alio have a lint nock of ll.m.a, for from ton Selim_up. tanir the flual. and eheamt slock
brought to this innrkct. W« have nlso n lot of SHGONI) HAND BUGGIES and HAKNR89,
. .rhlch we will tnko nlmnat nny price. We inaan bnsinem for money, and give bargains. Ai»out
tober 15th we will hare s car load of Bugay nnd Haddle Horse*, which will sell you ns cheap as you
h boy In Maeon, Columbus or Albany. Will give you bargains In Harness, Mules, Cows, Hogs, or
Tthlug else in our line. Come and »ee us befors buying.
nT*Omnlbus attends the two passenger trains, and carriage and bngcsggc waaou «>1 vtber trglns.
IV. G. & J* H. PRINCE.
i. 21, 1832. m3
larris. Janies & Williford,
ON THE CORNER,
THE JOINT SNAKE.
Curiosity.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
than the ordloury kinds, and cannot be Mild in
competlon with tlie multitude of low test, short
Ight, alum or phosphate powder.. .Sold only
it. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.,
CHANGE OF FIPJ!
^Having purchased from T. W. Ansloy his stock
GROCERIES ARID COM'ECTIOJS!
will continue the business at the
OLD STAND ON LAMAR STREET
iiib, r runs, v-iguri*, luiwicu, m,
all of which nre lirst class and will lie sold low. I
invito the patronage of all customers of the old
firm and the public generally.
ED. A NFS LEY.
Atnericus, Sept. 19,1f»S2.tu3
TEN CENT STORE!
G. A. TTJHPIN, Afft.,
Dealer in
Fancy Notions ami Fancy Groceries.
Everyth ug in the line of Notions can be found
at bargain prices. Wo enu simply you with
almost anything you want. Cull uod exumine
our thousuud and one article*.
COTTON AVENUE,
Under Recorder Office, j AMKUICU8, GA.
U. D. HINTON.
J. C. MATHEWS.
MINTON & MATHEWS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
.State of Georgia, and the District
Court of tbs United States, and in all other courts
uy speciul contract.
J. R. COVISGTOK’S BARBER SHOP,
(Under I. Wheatley’sflStore,)
Americas, - - Georgia*
The Rs. her Shop or the lute ,T. It. Covington
will be continued uiidei the old name. Thankiug
the liberal share of patronage heretofore glv
jots, Shoes and General Merchandise,
KEEPING ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF
igar, Coffee and Tea, best brands of Flour,
[Smoked and Salted Meats, Lard, Canned
Goods, Cheese, Crackers, Bagging-
and Ties, Shoes, Jeans and
expect, by close s attention to business, t
RESTAURANT ami COAFECTIOAERY
Dublin Gazette.
Last Sunday evening some young
men went out to take a stroll and
during the ramble visited Stubb’s
fisb pond, just inside the corpo.
rated limits. Among those who
constituted the party was a Mr.
Cox, from Macon, who, near the
dam, spied n snake of moat beauti
ful color, the stripes and sides of
which represented, the luinbow.
With that antipathy characteristic
ot man to the serpent and the full-
tilluient of the adage, “the seed of
woman shall bruise the serpent's
head,” Mr. Cox hurled a “huge
round stone” at the snake, nnd to
the wonder ol the lookers on, the
snake’s body was severed in twain.
To where the pieces were at this
ime lying, it took hut a very few
seconds to reacli tlie dying reptile.
Once all eyeB were taken from the
snake, and then he was ns whole
as before, and apparently sutlcring
no inconvenience from having been
stoned. This very much surprised
the young men and tlie curiosity,
for it was certainly sucli, was cap
tured and a string placed around
his neck aud it brought to town.
Here a really wonderful exhibition
ol the phenomenon began. As fast
us piece from piece was pulled
from tlie body of tlie writhing ser
pent and thrown upon the ground,
the links, forsucli they were, would
as soon unite again. Nor was this
separation of parts nil the peculiar
ity about the monster. Upon the
end of the tail was n horn, evident
ly a weapon of defense, about as
long ns a needle and quite ns Bliarp.
It exhibited no sign of viciousness,
hut a perfect resignation to its fate.
The eye was as sharp as an eagle’s
and ns blue as a June sky. Its
length was about three or four feet
and size proportionate. After its
body was completely severed link
by link until tlie head was left to
itself, this member then bore every
murk cf former vitality and the
eye contained its former sparkling
brilliancy. Truly this reptile is
one of the seven wonders of which
we read in holy writ, and even
while we write a feeling of sacred
sadness passes through our frame
nnd awakes a dormant spark of
youthful piety.
Adventure With a Star Fish.
California Time*.
“I was once a diver—not a wreck
er, but a pearl-diver—and hard
business it was,” recently observ
ed the captain of a Spanish brig to
n reporter of tlio Times. “We
worked oil'the Mexican and l’aua-
nia coasts, principally on the I ’a-
cillo side. YVe went to the grounds
in small sailing vessels; then we
took to the small boats, and cover
ed as much ground ns possible
How Cotton Is Controlled.
Now York Tribune.
The sales of cotton at New York
alone last week amounted to 761
000 bales. Of this quantity only
1,102 bales were for this export,
and 2,674 for consumption. No
ono can preiend that it is necessa
ry for the ready marketing of this
product, or of the prompt supply
of consumption, that this gigantic
speculations should be tolerated,
lint the mischief extends to all
.11
Enchinan had a basket, a weight j producers, and consumers, nnd to
and a knife. For sharks? Yes, but ; employers and manufacturers
J. J. HANESLEY
would cull the atW-ntiou of farmer* and ull other*
wUliln* a good meal to the fact that lie, 1* still
running the
Restaurant Under (lie Barlow House
where he will serve you up a warm meal nt auy
hour. Oyster*, Huh and Game served In their
E AGENTS FOR DUPONTS CELEBRATED BRANDS OF GUN
POWDER, IN QUARTER, HALVES AND WHOLE KEGS.
_ A FRESH SUPPLY JUST RECEIVED.
WE CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO A FINE LOT OF FLOUR IN BAR
RELS, “CERES" PATENT. AND “CAI.LA LILLY."
A a&RGE SUPPLY OF EXTRA FIXE SEED OATS, SELECTED WITH
SUCH OTHER ARTICLES AS A PLANTER NEEDS.
II* a Du keeps a mil line o
Fruits, Cigar* and Tobacco.
Interim*. Ga., Sept. I9.ni - . 4
Dr. D. P. Holloway,
DLNTIST,
GREAT PAINS.
Work equal iO the best. Caati
Try hi
uport «k f
ir, Sept. %1, !M2.tf
... — —_ laced, .office 1
Drug Store.
Want Your Trade!
if keeping a good stock and fair dealing will secure it, we:
g |j§[cogfident of securing our share of it. We expect to keep
our customers solely by inoking it to their interest to trade with
ui. ' We want every reader ol the Recordf.r to regard this
HI special invitation to him to call and set; us.
C. R. McCRORY,
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Attorney at Law, :
ELLAVILLF, Ga.
Collections a Specialty i
April & 11
Fancy fancy
WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
CANDIES
ossypium Phospho!
FINE STOCK
FINK STOCK
.ie best furtilizer for com and cotton that has been sold in
market, as hundreds of planters of this section will testily,
are now ready to take orders for tlie fall trade.
EViXS & HARWELL’S
FORSYTH STREET
a r.iri Fboaplmto, Xtlasolvod Bono
©rman IKL ainit,
other brands of fertilizers for sale. You will find us always
to give you a cordial welcome at the old stand
«“ ill! i i.nsi n i »
An Only Daughter Cured of
Consumption.
A Word to Our Farmers.
llawkluBvIlle Dlnpotch.
Middling cotton is selling in
Hawkinsvillo to-day for nine cents
a pound, and bulk meat for eleven
and a half cents. There is a proba
bility that the price of meat will
decline, but there is but slight pros
pect of an advance in cotton. It
would be well for our farmers to
consider tlie situation. In buying
mules nnd employing labor for an
other year it would be well to base
calculations upon cotton at a price
not exceeding ten cents, and it
would, perhaps, be safer to calcu
late tlie price of the next crops at
less than ten cents a pound. Tbe
cotton production of the United
States is increasing rapidly. New
lands are being developed, and the
uurenge is not only being largely
increased, but, with thu use of com
mercial fertilizers and composts,
the yield per acre is much greater.
An annual increase of one hundred
thousand to a quarter of a million
of bales may be expected in the
Southern Slates this side of tlie
Mississippi river, while the fertile
lands of Arkansas, Texas nnd tbe
Indian Territory are being cleared
and cultivated in cotton. Kven in
Georgia the cotton crop is annually
increasing, and will continue to in
crease under the intensive system
ofapplying composts and fertilizers.
The fact that Mr. Furman, of Bald
win county, has made this year,
with two mules, one hundred bales
of cotton upon sixty-Hve acres,
should put the farmers of Georgia
to thinking. With such farming as
this in the South, the cotton crop
will soon reach eight million hales,
und middling cotton, instead of
selling for nine and ten cents,
would probably go down to six and
seven cents.
It would not be prudent for our
farmers to make their calculations
for more than nine cents per pound
lor their next crop ol cotton. Our
section of the State iR now in verv
it is a poor defense, for it is almost
impossible to swing the nrm with
any force under water. The best
weapon is a short spear. When you
reach the grouud you strip, put
your feet in a big sinker, take tbe
basket that has a rope for hoisting,
drop over, and soon find yourself
nt the bottom. Then your business
is to knock oil ns many oysters as
you can nnd pile them into the
basket before you loose your wind.
If tlie ground is well stocked yen
can get twenty or more shells, but
it is alt luck. When the basket is
full it is hauled up, nnd alter you
come up for your wind down you
go again, the sinker being hauled
up with a small cord for that pur
pose. It was on one these trips
that I ran afoul of the animal that
gave me a lasting fright. You will
smile when I say it was only a star
fish, but that it really was. I went
down sixty feet with a rush, and
landing on the edge of a big branch
of coral, swung oil into a sort of
liusin. The basket went ahead of
me, nnd ns I swung oir to reach the
bottom something seemed to spring
up nil amend me, and 1 was in the
arms of some kind of a monster
that coiled about my body, arms,
and legs. I tried to scream, for
getting that I was in the water,
and lost my wind. It was just as
if a plant had sprouted under inc,
and then threw its vines and ten-
diilsabout me. There were thou
sands of them, coiling and writhing,
nnd I had lunded in a nest of sea
snakes. I gnvo tlio signal ns soon
ns t could nnd made a break up
ward, part of the creature cling
ing to me, while the rest 1 could
see was dropping to pieces. They
hauled into the boat when I reach
ed the surface, and palled the main
part of tlio animal trom me. It
was oval, about three feet, across,
and the five arms seemed to divide
into thousands of others. I proba
bly landed on top of that one,
which at that timo was the largest
I had ever seen. I afterwards aw
the body of one that washed asl iro
on the isthtini that must have had
a spread of thirty-live feet.”
The Latest Scheme.
Stockton Mail.
Wluit is known as the “$10 rack
et” Iiub been played successfully of
late on some of the bartenders of
California by two strangers. They
go to tlie bar and call for two
drinks, tendering a ten dollar
gold piece in payment. They re
ceive in change u $f> piece and $4.-
75 in silver. The man who pays
then puts his hand into his pocket
and picks out a two bit piece and
putting it with the $4.75 in silver
asks the bartender to give him $5
in gold for it. While the barten
der is fishing it out, the man, un
noticed, slips the $5 gold piece in
to his pocket, the $5 in silver still
lying on the counter, where the
throughout this country. The gam
blers control the market, without
regard to tlie legitimate Influence '* '
of supply and demand, because
they can and do buy and sell a bun-"
dred bales of cotton lor every one
that is actually brought to or sent
from this market. Thus they make
“corners,” and artificially raise or
depress the prices, in defiance of
the luws of trade, aud to tlio lasting
and incalculable injury of industry
and legitimate commerce. Since
September 1st tbe sales of cctton
for future delivery, in this market
alone amount to 7,780,700 bales—
perhaps a quarter more than the
entire urop. Nobody imagines that
these contracts can or will be car
ried out otherwise than by the pay-
incut of dilfercucc lost; they aru
simple bets upon the future price.
But they affect the market far more
powerfully and perniciously than
all the transactions in actual and
tangible cotton. There is a radi
cal difference between these gam
bling operations and those whicli
are carried on in stock exchanges.
Nobody cats or wears stocks.
SuulTDIpplug.
New England Groc-r.
The quantity of snuff used in
this district, dealers say, is on the
increase. Larkin, Morril Si Co.,
Byflcld, sell twelve tons of snuff
annually in Massachusetts. Female
snuff' takers are the principal con
sumers of the article, and they are
largely the operatives in varioilt
manufacturing establishments. A
very common way of using it Is
to wet so ne cotton waste, dip It
into thu snuff and placo in one side
of the moiltli, after the manner of
a tobacco ebewer in chewing his
“cud.” These ‘'dips" are renewed
as fast'as the strengtb'of the snuff
is exhausted. Sometimes the snufT
is perfumed before it is used
Druggist say that they have snuff-
buying customers who want it
strongly perfumed with oil of
cbickcrbcrry. These revelations
in regard to tbc’nmnufucture,* sale
and use of snull, arc so unexpected
and remarknble, that only reliable
authority prevents doubts of tbeir
correctness. In uddilion to tbe
cotton waist dipping practice,
another custom much In vogue
among mill operatives is to moisten
the end of a stick ot licorice until
it becomes soft, and then alter it
has been dipped in the snuff. This
custom has been brought hero
from the South, and lias spread
almost beyond belief. Tbe Catholic
Archbishop of this State made an
attempt to rootjout (this practice
about a year ago, and for a time
tbe Imbit wus]somcwbat curtailed ,
but it is now in full operation again.
WOMAN.
CUUCI.AU ATI ON— FltKKDOM FOIl WOlltX.
Wtiut is the right of the ballot to wo
man compared with tier privilege of eo*
The two call for two new drinks tic rslatioas? Among the many discov-
and the money is allowed to lie cries leading to promote the happiness
there. The man finds another two ; «ml advancement of the human race,
bit piece in bis pocket, with which j o'f womcm-tht
lie pays for the hist drinks, aud j outre ami huuiuo of our highest earthly ( t ia«f cj
then shoves the $10 on the counter | enjoyments—at the discovery of a reme-
over to the bartender and asks for i Ay Y hi 'r* T'" b ,' r
f .. ... , i tits her for the enjoyment of life. This jntJ
a $10 piece for it. It is givenI to | reIlle ,| y f, mn d in J)r. J. Bra.Uleld'aFa-
him und he leaves the bar $10 bet’ j male lleguiiir, *• Woman's Best Friend.*!,' , ' ,
ter c ff, less the four bits paid for i By it womun is emancipated from the III*
tVai.r ilfinLw i peculiar to her sex. Before It* '
tne lour urinns. j power all irregularities ol the womb van- qU*
- - • • • lull, it cures whites, suppression of tb»
Cold Weather* , menses, und removes uterine obstruc*
Washington, December T.-In- j -
, , M II .a ' wynwriii, uiuocn IUU UCI
tense cold prevails all over north-; po riftes the blood. »ud thus doing it
ern United States, Canada and > dees mom for Imr, and through her, for
Greut Britain. In the northwest,' ‘ho hnmun family, than any discovery of
.1,1. il... tlinrmAm.iA. I modern tiuiee, It never fails as a thou-
, . i- Q . ,.Q , , , aud will testify,
ranged from 5° to 15° below zero, i p re| „ ir «l by Dr. J. Bradfiafd. Atlanta, Ga.
Price, trial size, 7oc; large size, *1.0% .
For sale by Davenport A Son.
The first round dance originated
with Adam wben he sat down "on
a hornet.
good condition. T he farmers h - vc
iur »>ts tbe n
tally m *d- a .
efnltl of CvnaumptloD. HIa child I
i 4 isii j i.m -i » t
truer of Cotton Avonuo. and Iintnor St.,
thl* country, at d < if jo> hi* tbw* ho«t of !»<**!lb.
Hr has r*rov-«l ic the world that Consumption
;au br'poeitivrly ai.J rermancuily njrrd. Tn*«
plenty of corn, nnd there will h
considerable meat in the country.
Now is the time to abandon the all-!
cotton system, and become free of
tbe merchants' mortgages and in-1
cmnhrances upon tbe next crop, by
keeping rut of debt and making
nuother provision crop.
Harris, James & Williford.
•ttV.ScpitmUr A
The horse-trotting brave de.
| serves the agricultural fair.
In the Hudson river valley, the
thermometer has fallen 25° in
twenty-four hours and is still fall
ing. All over Great Britain a
fierce storm rages. Telegraphic
communications between London _
and Glasgow is interrupted, and iitakty
.. * I.,.,, * x, The youthful color sml » nch lustre
n,so m other ilireetions. Many ars r.stnreil to faded or grey heir by tbe
wrecks are reported along the Brit- use of Parker's Hair Balunu’a harmless
ish coast. ilressing highly esteemed for Its perfume
anil purity.
The Height or Polly.
To wait until you are ia bed with dis
ease you may not get over for months, is
the height of folly, when you might be
easily cared daring the early symptoms
by Parker’s Ginger Tonic. We have
known sickly families made the health
iest, by a timely use of this pur* medi
cine.—Observer.
Marriage makes men thoughtful.
About half their time la spent, in
forming excuses.
' “Rough’onHata.w '
Clears out rats, mice, roaches,
flies, ants, bed-bogs, skunks, chip
munks, gophers. 15e. Druggists.'
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