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VOL TV.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17.1882.
NO 86.
NEW
Having purchased from R. C. Black his stock of
Boots, Sloes, Hats, Caps, Mirellas, Etc.,
I WILL CONTINUE T1IE BUSINESS AT THE OLI> STAND,
Corner Lamar St. and Public Square,
And will keep the stuck up t<> the high standard in quality that Mr Bluett had at
tained, and to that end ha /e secured the. services ot Messrs. J. H. Black. Jr., anil H
M. Brown, both experienced men in the business, who will he assisted by K at-
Stewart. Nut only do I intend to keep up the quality of the stock, but my price
shall always be ns low ns good goods can be sold for. I invite all the patrons or the
old firm, my friends, and all who need anything ill my line to call and see me, ex
amine stocK and prices __ , __ _
R. R. SfSWASf.
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PERSONS WISHING PICTURES TAKEN
•BTi MB,
WILL PLEASE CALL SOON!
AS i 8Ha W ™n M ^rio;80N account of HAVING
OFF TILL T11E LAST MOMENT, BUT
COMB SOON.
VAN RIPER.
IS. G.&J. K. PRIME,
Livery, Sale and Feed Stables!
AMERICUS, GA.
Wo have lust received n large atock of the
celebrated LAND 18 BUGGIES, with Dexter Queen, Brewster lilde Unr and FlleptlcSpringB, White
Chapel, Shoo Fly, Hnd Piano Box Bodies, which we ore telling at bargains. \S ill sell you a
and SamoM for 6120.00,
i fin* atock of flnrans for from teni dollar*_up. beingflnml; and
this market. We have alao a lot of SECOND HAND BUUGUSH and LIAKNLS!*,
n»r wmeo we will tuk«* nlmost auy rricc. Wo manii business for money, and give bargains. About
October 15th we will hive a car load of Bugay nnd Saddle Horse*, which will sell you ns cheap as you
an buy la Macou, Columbus or Albany. Will give you bargains lu Harness, Mules, Cows, tloga, or
anything else in our line. Come end see us before buying. ......
HfOmtilbus Attends tho two passenger trains, and carriage and l«ws*ge wagon allLSSEmS,
i 5^40 ’ N, wt ft Jf K* rllimi/lM
Sept. 22, 1882. m3
Harris. James <fc Williford,
ON THE CORNER..
-DEALERS IN-
( Boots, Shoes and General Merchandise,
KEEPING ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF
jugar, Coffee and Tea, best brands of Flour,
Smoked and Salted Meats, Lard, Canned
Goods, Cheese, Crackers, Bagging
and Ties, Shoes, Jeans and
much other articles as a planter needs.
WE ARE AGENTS FOB DUPONT,S CELEBRATED BRANDS OF GUN.
POWDER, IN QUARTER, HALVES AND WHOLE KEGS.
A FRESH SUPPLY JUST RECEIVED.
CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO A FINE LOT OF FLOUK IN BAR
BELS, “CERES” PATENT. AND “CALLA LILLY."
,AI!GE SUPPLY OF EXTRA FINE SEED OATS, SELECTED WITH
GREAT PAINS.
Want Your Tra,do!
if keeping a good stock and fair dealing will secure it, we
cogfident of securing our share of it. We expect to keep
customers solely by making it to their interest to trade with
We want every reader of the Recorder to regard this
it a special invitation to him to call and see us.
WE ARE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
ossypimm Pliosplio!
ie best furtilizer for corn and cotton that has been sold in
market, as hundreds of planters of this section will testify,
are now ready to take orders for the fall trade.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
weight, alum or phosphate powdeis. Sold only
in tin cant. ROYAL B AKING POWDER CO.,
t(Vl Wall Street, New York,
sepll top col nx to or lol rd mat ly
CHANGE OF FIRM!
Having purchased from T. W. Ansley his stock
of
(MIES AM) COJiFEOTlOA'S !
will continue the businens at the
OLD STAND ON LAMAR STREET
jus, r ruins vyignrp, iuuuicv,
all of which are first cine* and will he sold low. I
invito the pntronawc of nil customer* of the old
lirm and the public generally,
TEN CENT STORE!
O-. A. TURPIN, Act.,
Fancy Notions and Fancy Groceries.
Everyth mr in the line of Notions can be found
t bargain prices. We cun minply you whh
hnost anything you want. Call and examine
ur thouwtod and one nrtichs.
COTTON AVENUE,
Under Recorder Office, : AMKUICUP, OA.
B. B. HINTON.
J. C. MATHEW H
HINTON & MATHEWS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Will practice in all tho counties of this .ludplal
Circuit, aliio in Dooly county, in the Hunremc
Court of tue Bute of Georgia, and tho District
Court of the United til ale*, and in nil other courte
oy special contract.
'Hoc ra Hawkins* new building, Lnmnr tit reel.
J. R. COVINGTON'S BARBER SHOP,
(Under T. Whealley’egHrorc,)
Amerlcun, - - Georgia.
The Barber Shop of the late .1, It. Covington
rill b<> continued under the old name. Thanking
the liberal share of patronage heretofore given,
we expect, by close a attention to bmdnr*e, to
merit a continuance of the same.
aug4 Mre.J.R. COVINGTON.
RESTALRA^T and CONFECTIONERY
J. J. HANESLEY
would coll the attention of farmers and all othera
wishing a good meal to tho fact that he. la atlll
running the
Restaurant Under the Barlow House
where he will acrve'you up a warm meal at any
hour. Oyster*, Fi«n and Game served in their
senauu. lie also keeps a lull line of Confections,
Dr. D. P. Holloway,
DENTIST,
AMERICUH,
Amerlm., 8.VL 32, UH2.tr
GEORGIA.
C. R. McCRORY,
Attorney at Law,
ELLAVILLE, O*.
Collections a Specialty
April 6 tf
pirman KLainit,
_ other brands of fertilizers for sale. You will find us always
idy to give you a cordial welcome at the old stand,
irner oV Cotton. Atmmm nnd Xirautran.,
J. A. ANSLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN ECJIITI
Office on Public Square, OyrrGylea'
ClAiTUINU STORE, AMKKICUH, Ga.
Afler a hrfef re-pile I retnrn *gjin to the prac*
i t'cc of law. A» in the past if will lie my earnest
purpose to repsevent inv client* fimhiully and
; look t«* tbelr ii.ternU. Tue commercial prac Ice,
; will receive ©lose attention and remittance* '
prcmtvtly made. The Equity praetlee. and eve*
! Iitvclnng titlMof land ai.d r< iU estate are my
. favorites. Will practice in the Court* of Houtb*
. westU or-rla, tiie tiupmae U -urt and tb* United
; titate* Court*. Thauktul to uiy friend* for their
i patrona
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Harris. Jakes & Williford.
TONSORIAL EMPORIUM!
ANDERSON te IXKFOBD
WFEcTFL’fXY announce to the public that
their IfarUf rihopiaoptn at all bonne* bouts
on Patarday until 12 o’clock p.m. They have
up In a neat »tyle ami ©re tetter
wait upon tbier customer*.
” * 'lair Cutting,
|>B
&
! .Mil4 [ bepl!u*ttotnrrUMmVillon
j stir the entrance to Bvtcv Uoyte.
KINO HAY.
EufautaTimoi and Item.
Seeing two four-mule wagons
passing up the street bearing thir
teen large hales of neatly packer!
crab gruss bay and learning that
the hay and wagons belonged to
Mr. C. S. McDowell, ol Eufaul.-t, a
reporter of the Times sought out
that gentleman in order to learn
what was t he meaning of such nn
unusual amount of hay being in
his possession.
“Well,” said Charlie McDowell
"that is crab grass lmy from my
plantation over in Henry county,
eighteen miles from the city.”
"Have you saved much of it?”
“I have saved about CO,000
pounds, maybe more.”
“How did you manage to get
so much good grass?”
“I* h ,d a lorty-acrc meadow in
oats, and when the oats were cut
off ip May, I ran a harrow over
part of the land and ploughed the
other portion. The grass came
up thick as hops and when it wus
ready lor mowing I sent a negro
over it with a common scythe.
The result is something like thir
ty tons of the finest kind of hay
worth at least twenty dollars a
ton. Say I get $600 for my hay;
that is fifteen dollars an acre.
Pretty good for a second crop with
very little work."
“Boats cotton?"
“Yes.”
The hay iu question is packed
the size of a cotton bale on a cot
ton press and is bound with wire
bought at a hardware store in this
city. The hay is stored in a ware
house here in town, and you can
rest assured the odor of it is very
pleasant. It is remarkably clean
and fine, and will command the
highest market pi ice.
Uood hay often sells as high as
$35 a ton. McDowell’s yield was
comparatively small, thirty tons to
forty acres, yet it will pay him
about fifteen dollars an acre, alter
a good crop of oats had been pro
duced on the same meadow land.
The land that produced this liny
might possibly make twenty bales
of cotton with a free use of ferti
lizers. That wonld only be a total
of about $600, and contrast for a
moment the labor lequired to make
$600 worth ol hay and that requir
ed to produce $000 worth of cot
ton I
With proper care in procuring
the land tor hay and with proper
machinery lor mowing it Mr. Me- j
Dowell’s forty acres would produce i
100 tons, at least $2,000 worth of
hay. On fair land three tons of
bay to the acre is an ordinary
yield.
When it is remembered that the
hay crop of tho United Stales
amounts anuunlly to about 40,000,-
000 tons, valued at the enormous
sum of $1,000,000,000, and up
wards, it can ho seen at a glance
that it is by far the most valuable
crop produced in America. Its
value is more than three times
greater than tho cotton crop, yet
Southern people fondly prute ubout
“King Cotton.”
Mr. McDowell makes on Henry
county land, with very near no
trouble at all, and with a second
crop in “volunteer” crab grass, the
greatest curse of the cotton plan
ter, fifteen dollars an acre. Sup
pose that every cotton planter in
this section could point to a yield
of fifteen dollars an acre with ns
little work as McDowell put on his
forty-acre meadow? Why, this
country would flow with milk nnd
honey, with golden plenty!
The subject of hay is worthy of
the closest attention and study on
the part of Southern farmers. Why
is it that the feed stores of this
city, and of every other Southern
city, self bay mowed from the
rocky hillsides of New Kngland
and the blizzard swept plains ot
the West? Our cotton farmers
walking in the chilly shadows ol
t rim poverty can answer. The
outh buys its bay just as it docs
its meat and corn and everything
else. Our people are as much the j
slaves of Western producers and !
Eastern manufacturers to-day as
were the blacks the slaves of the
Southerners twenty years ago.
Any well informed person will j
hear witness that the figures here ;
produced are by no means over-;
drawn; and they will open the eyes 1
of a great many people.
TSl II eight •! f j -
To wait anti) ynu are la bed with dis
ease you may not get over fur moults, is
the height of folly, when yoa might bo
easily cured daring the early symptoms
by Father's Ginger Tonic. tVe have
known sickly families mule the health
iest, by • timely UIS of this para medi
cine.—Observer.
War Relics.
“Now, see dnr! You good for-
nothin’ nigger, you done upset de
table and dropped out Miss Come
ly ’s crockade and spilt out all her
to’ de-wah newspapers! l’s got a
good mind to bent you fur it; I is,
now, gal.”
Looking around I saw Serena
picking up from tho floor scraps
of wail paper, over which were
meandered impossible vines in pur
ple. crimson and green. The cul
• ling party to wbioh 1 went with
Cousin Harry there,” pointing to
the portrait ol a handsome ybnng
man in Confederate Uniform. “Pobr
follow! ho died a prisoner on John
son’s Island, in Lake Erie,” > „j
Just here Pimenty Ann slowly
inserted her wool framed] face
through the half open door and
snid:
“Miss Comely—please, ma’am
is de circus gwfne to show here Vo-
mnrrer? Case here's a gal got
prit. Pimenty Ann, a "sister of; lightud ter sel.. She want to get
black,” aged ten, stood in n dodg-! some money to go to de circus.”
ing attitude, with the whites of her ] It U a. funny sight to see these
eyes rolled toward Serena, while
her face wore an expectant expres
sion. Replacing the wall paper
within the leaves of the scrap book
Serena contented herself with giv
ing Pimenty n bIiovc, nnd exclaim
ing:
“G’ long to de cabin. You a n't
fitten for the white folks’ item:,
how!”
Pimenty slowly retreated, mut
tering as she went: “1'so fitter don
von, you stuck up yaller nigger!’
My curiosity was aroused in re
gard to tho ‘fo’ de wall newspapers’
and when iny hostess came in I
craved the privilege of 1 examining
them. They are lying before mu
now—various copies- of the .Daily
Citizen, published In Vicksburg
during the siege, when mule meat
and cow-pens were the delicacies of
the season. Wall paper was the
only available thing then upon
which to print the daily journal,
and very queer these one-sided pa
pers look in contrast to the crisp
sheets we take with our cofiec to
day. Tlie locals muBt have been
sad rending in those days. Al
most every paragraph records the
death of some soldier in the
trenches. In the Issue of June 23
I find the following in regard to the
situation:
DMtlNU THE StEflE.
“The Reason—We frequently hear
it asked why the mortars across the
river have been so quiet for u few
days and have heard but one plaus
ible solution, viz: General Grant
sent Commodor Porter word that
shelling Vicksburg was a waste of
shell nnd amunilion, and only fur
nished us witlt material to fire back
at the Yankees; that the Vicksbur-
gers only laughed at the idea of be
ing “shelled out,” and that many
of the shells are used as ornaments
and trophies by the rebels after the
powder is extracted. That almost
every house has one of theso pro
jectiles is perfectly correct, nnd
that wc luugh at the idea of being
sin-lied is equally true.”
In another column wc find the
following interesting item in regard
to the cost of food. This is cred
ited to the Mississippian:
“The Price of Flour.—The fall
of the price of flour in Georgia to
$18 per barrel has produced a salu
tary effect in Mississippi. Dealers
who have been holding “the staff
of life" at $130 h ive suddenly de
clined to $65, and in a few months
from this time we Imre no doubt
tunt flour can be had in this market
for $25 per barrel.”
Frequent allusions arc made to
the defense of Vicksburg, winch
are spoken of as "works stronger
than those of Sabastopol.”
miss Cornelia's cockade.
As I turn the pages of tlieHe -u-
rious looking newspapers, “,V.ss
Corncly’s cockade” comes to light,
and my hostess, with something
liner than the understanding—some
divine sixth sense—knows that I
desire to hear something of the
faded relic I hold in my hand. So,
while her white Angers stray among
the brilliant colors ot her embroid
ery, she tells me of the long ago
time when the women of the south,
weeks before the fall of Fort Sum
ter, adorned themselves with these
blue cockades, significant of their
secession proclivities—the cockade
caroms for the champions’ game,
as McLangblin may select, the
game to be on a five by ten Bruns-
being similar to those Worn by the wick & Blake-table, within thirty
South C'arolians years before dur
ing the nullification agitation. In
the center of the faded satin cock
ade glittered a gold button, on
which a “D” was rudely engraved.
“O, yes,” said my hostess; “our
cry then was ‘Disunion and the
South forever.’ It was very hard
for me to be reconstructed alter the
war closed," she continued, “but I
suppose it has as last been accom- -sod parity?
plished, although 1 must confess
that even to this day it gives me a
shudder to hear ‘Yankee Doodle’
while the wild strains of‘Dixie’
have the power to arouse my pa
triotism. But do not be shocked
at my sentiments. I teach the
children to love the ’Star Spangled
Banner,’ and to love the country,
the whole country, north, south,
eait and west. Tills little cockade
carries me took for a long distance,
i wore it for the lint time atanev-
“lightud” venders; they come in
from de “ptney woods" with sup
plies of “mighty fat lightud,” tied
up in fagots and stacked on their
heads in the most surprising man
ner. I beiciro they could “Jump
the rope” or “trip the Ihh light fan
tastic toe" without dislodging 1 'the
burdens so gracefully poisedibu
their well-cushioned heads, I have
frequently been awakened at an
early hour by hearing them call to
my hostess: “Lady, lady, does
ycr want to buy some Itght.id?"
a white] woman and a colored
LADY.
“Miss Cornely”tells me that “just
after the surrender” she was not
wont to be accosted in suoh com
plimentary terms. She remembers
being called totbe door, In response
to the cry, “Wldto ’owanl White
’omani Does you want to hire a
colored lady to do yer wasbin’ fur
you?” “It was amusing to watch
them in those days,” she went on,
“Old Undo Harrison and Anht
Chloe came by one day, on their
way to ‘de ’lection,’ and stopped to
get a cold bite, "Case doy know’d
I’d be burted if dey slighted me,"
Aunt Chloe was highly elated at
the idea, which possessed tier mind,
that she and tier husband were to
vote together. I exhausted all my
eloquence in the effort to convince
her that her sex was an insupera
ble barrier to her exercising the
right, of suffrage. At last I said:
“Why, Aunt Chloe, women are not
allowed to vote, I have been free
all my life and I have never voted.”
It was comical in tbc extreme to
see tho glance of commiseration
which Ahe cast on mo. “Lor, Miss
Comely, i knows you can’t, ebile;
I knows you can’t. But den-you
sec, honey, 1’se n colored pusson,
and 1 kin. You know, chile, it do
mako a heap of diffunce dcse days.
Yes, Miss Cnrnely, me and Hair-
sen is a gwinc to de ’leotion, and
we’se a gwinc to vote togedder, we
is. We’se gwine to vote togedder
here and in de promised land,Hal-
leluynh.”
Extraordinary Death of a Traveler.
An extraordinary fatality has
occurred in British Union, where an
experienced traveler, having, as Is
the custom in tiopical countries
taken a refreshing draught from
the stem of one of the many wa
ter holding plants which thrive in
tho forest! qualified his cold re
freshment by a nip of rum. Short
ly atterward he died in excrucia
ting agony, and a post-mortem ex
amination showed that his internal
organs were literaliv sealed np
with India rubber. Hu had im
bibed the sap of the Miuiusops
batata, the juice of whioh coagu
lates and hardens in alcohol, and
the rum had its usual.cffcct in the
noor man’s stomach, witlt neces
sary fatal results.
The Knights or the Cue-Great Bil
liard Mated.
New York, Dec. 12.—J. Ran
dolph Helscr has challenged Ed
ward McLaughlin, the Pennsylva
nia billiard champion to play n
ma.c-h game of five hundred points,
at either the three-hall cushion
days after acceptance of the chal
lenge, either jn New York or Phila
delphia; the winner to take nil the
receipts after the expenses have
been paid. ms i ■
Hlghljr K.teemed. j
The youthful color sad a rich lustre
are restored to faded nr gray hair by'tbe
use of Parker's Hair Balsam, a. harmless
dressing highly estesmed for' its 1 perfume
and purity. ' ill . .qo |
The late Daniel Murphy, the Ne
vada “cattle .king," Ims left an es
tate worth about $3,000,006.
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“Rough otTRgta.’’
Clears out rats, trice,
flies, ants, bed-bugs, skunk-,
manfes, gophers. 15c. Drugg
. ▲ Hiaaiaslppi man has a “mad
atone," for which, it is said, he I
refused a cash otfer of$T,500.