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AMERICUS, GBOMIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1884.
NO. 148.
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STILL AT HER OLD STAND.
OLD STAND OA J.U’KSON STREET!
s. Raines offers her slut ere Ihsuks to the
member* of thaflnMlcpaitaifnt, by whose noble
oiforti she wasravwl (torn serious lass during ths
Are, and enabled bar to greet her blends at the
place where they have so long been sceuxtemed
to find her. apriMti
Meat Market
AND
PROVISION STORE.
W.H.&T.M.C0BB
keep on band the very best cuts of
BEEF, PORK, KID AND SAUSAGE,
and also a full Hue of
Grpep Groceries and ProvUions,
embracing all kind* of Vegetables and Fruits In
tbelr season. Canned Goods, ttr. It is their aim
to keep a drat class establishment, atd gfvt their
Vitamers toad goats at th« toraat prises.
BprHighest pr ice paid for Cuttle, Hog*, ai.d n
inds of country pr.Hinee.
Americas, D^c. 18, IWt-tf
Absolutely Pure.
T I* powder never rn
**■ I wholesome
ilinury kinsfi
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Wall Si feet. New York.
strength
than the
'el (Jit, altitn i
ROYAL BAKING l’OWDKU t't»,"lli
' Oet'dlyls
iGiua
WfflffirSlflNGUfiES
Ftoltfvc Cure for Kvery Form of
Skin and lllnod DUense, from
"■ Pimple* to scrofula.
qmOURANDR OP LETTERS In our pcs-uwlon
A ra peat t h is story: I bavtibcfna terrible Miif.rwr
for vsara with liloorl and Skin Humor*; have boon
obliged to shun publio places by r.m*on of inv dis-
fhnirlng humors; tmvn bid thj best physicians;
havo spen t bundred.i of Hollar* and trot no real re-
Rof uniil 1 used ths (ioriDUXA Kitsof.vfcN r. t ho now
Blood I'uriHer, internally, and Ctrrn mtA and
cunemu Boar, the ureat Skin (.'unis and Skin
Bsantitlara. oxternallv. vliich liavo cured mo and
left inv skin and blond ft s i>uro a- a child's.
.Tames E. Itlchnrd.nn, Cnsjoiu House. Now
Oricans, on oath, savs; "Jn IhTO Nurofuions Ulcor*
broko out on my l»<Kly unt il I was a ina^s of eorrun-
could not lift uiy bands to my brad, could not turn
in bed; waa in constant pain, and looked upon :lifo
as a curse. No relief or cure in ten years. In IWk)
1 heard of tho Crrn uuA JJi mkuiks, used thuu and
was perfectly ennu!^
. D. C'RAWrORD.
STILL MORE SO.
Will ATcDonnltl, ’Sin Dearborn !?■
teen years; uotabto to move, eacep
•i’xht years:°tri'Jd ^lumlrmls*!’f
BffiwaASA*isass®:
icuily curwl
MORE WONDERFUL YET.
H. K. Carpenter, Henderson. N. Y.. nr. .. .
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d of
COTiriTItA KCMKItll
lids thought
t prom inn
of th.:
DON’T WAIT.
Wrltwiwux for these testimoni-.l ;
I^Si^witlmiSlMirdtnowiedz* or sl’uei't J
t^^Rratey^m'ply^'tturohilous.' In'loo
viotia, and Copper-colored D.sea-e, (ll
I druggi:
Chemical uo., K.-t
6,Sto.
BEAUTY IS
beads, andfiLiu BleuLhvs, uintCcTtciriu Hoar
ATTENTION!
LIQUORS,
BEERS,
33to„ Btoo j ,{>
sand always koi*pon band.a full supply ol
Imported uuiLDorncstic UauuifT Rffis, t lwm-
^agr.e, Cifiirs, oL-.. cte^wWi I ui.i srllintf nt
LOWEST M.ClfKKT l'UlCl-^. Als.Jn Fre.h
Sorted Stock of
Staple and Fancy Groceries I
nro Selling as CHKAl* Ax THIS CHEAP
live me n trial and be convinced!
Frcsb Cincinnati ilccr on Drauirlit I
v-\-.7 W Q ’
Always on band nt 5e per gins-.
Free Lnncli from 10:30 A. H. to 2 P. M
I fyivc added t«» my pise?
. 3illlartl anti Pool Table
>w until tho end of tho tcason I wi J keep
nil Supply of Ice on hand.
JAKE ISRAELS,
•xt do.ir to Bank of Americas, C'ollon Avenue.
Ameru ti«, Uu. marehitf
A BDREA'a AGEKCy'7
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I)IVEItSim:i> FARMING.
HSMsmr.K TALK BV AOEOBOIA V ARM Ell.
Ill a recent issue of Home and
Farm appeared o letter with tho
title, “Georgia Faitncrs,” by W.
II. Scars. While I do not claim to
boa good farmer or a far-seeing one,
I must attack my brother on tho
issue lie makes against a cotton
limn.
Mr. Sears has quit cotton and
gone to grass farming, aud seems
to disregard all the advice his neigh-
bora so willingly offer him, and in*
tends to go his new cut road; and I
ask, is this road blazed? It would
be for me, for I have traveled it,
but wore it so smooth that it will
lake several years to obliterate it.
I think I sue very plainly what he
is going to do—go to the extreme
end or his present fancy—and by
that time will come upon something
resembling those mortgages lie
complains so much about.
Now, don’t understand me, read
er, to attack good stock raising. I
am as much in favor ol line stock
ns any oilier Georgian, and it is be
cause Mr. Scars is a Georgian that
I notice so particularly wbat he
says. Georgia is mostly a cotton
State—naturally so—and nothing
wo can do can ebango it in teto.
Wc van no moro do without cotton
than we can do without any other
crop. It 1ms its place in our Geor
gia farms that nothing elso can re
place. The great thing with us is
to know Low to manage it so as to
make it a profitable crop. I have
been astounded here of laic to sec
some of our contributors to Home
and Farm condemning the cotton
crop—not paying, etc.,—all of
which from the standpoints occu
pied, seem to be true. But stop,
Georgia tanner, and think what na
ture has done for Kentucky and for
Georgia. Kentucky has her blue.
grass regions and climate to suit
for slock raising. Is that nil she
has dono for Georgia? No. Wc
have the advantage of Kentucky
and other more Northern States—
wo ran raise everything they do,
and much more of other and equally
as valuable crops. What is It that
•Middle Georgia can not produce?
Nothing but a few luxuries, an]
then if we arc farmers we should
avail ourselves of every chance for
maximum results. A strictly cot
ton farm, I will admit, is not prac
ticable, nor is a strictly grass farm.
Whenever wc Georgia farmers go
to jumpiug from ono extreme to
the other, our condition will be
worse instead of better. From a
mortgaged cotton farm to a Ken.
lucky btuogiass farm, hero In Geor
gia is a longer stride than is com
patible with our interest. Can wc
not take a middle ground and do
better?
Supposo we reduce the (arm, and
by so doitn; lake up these outstand
ing debts—“iap-overs,” as we call
them in Georgia—and tho fact is,
the whole cloth liss nearly lapped.
Cultivate a diversified crop. Wc
can here in Georgia raise as good
wheat as can be raised anywhere,
for I can show now letters from the
biin-grass country where the millers
have bought Georgia wheat and
()|(1 A UK Clirriei ' il to will*, pronounc-
JU f ing it good as the best, come from
Newspapers, Etc., Etc.
consujpiion.
I am now located tempor trl'y In Dawmxt, luvs
iii^ been obliged to do so«>u nt count o', the raplJly
foiling health of my Hliilur, wbo needs at nil
tiroes my personil attention, I will qpety n bi.reaq
I r he cbc-tiou of debts, tvsidfs I mi) ugcn| fof
all popular Loufc*, and *»U receive tulacilptibas
od newspai*r*. Qillce In court hoQ<c.
\V. K. MLBBl’UY.
Da non • Ga., April 4, lift*. tt . i
where it may. Well, wo can make
oats, raise rye, barloy, sorghum,
corn, etc. Now, run your stock
through all these pastures, and nf.
ter making n crop of all or the
most ol them, the short wintei hero
i$ supplied with a bountiful slot
age for winter use. hot your stock
be of good breeds—1 advocate that
—and so arrange ns to liave uowe
of all these crops to spare to your
neighbor, or nearest town or,city,
yiso good judgment in arranging
lor every eft p. Give all an equal
chance, accordingly as its nature
demands, am] the harvest will be
satisfactory. Then we are not run.
niug accounts against the much
abused ootton orop. These crops
not only sustain themselves, but
help the cotton along. Mnuago to
sell a little corn, wheal, oats, pots
toes, peas, sorghum, rye, barley,
pigs, backbones, and spare-ribs, a
colt now and then. I sold a colt
and its mother this fall, and rqised
both without any grass except
what nature provided for me and
my effort at my own support.
Have I mentioned all? No; others
could be added. “Cotton, for in
stance, when managed in like man-
ner, is like the negro’s rabbit—
“good in any place when money is
needed.’* Tlig iqisyry if, when, we
plant one tljug wc plant the whole
plantation,, wjten common sense
will teach tis that the more we plant
of any oue orop the greater the bur
den on that orop, it having to sus
tain itself and Oil up the gap occa
sioned by the negleot of somo other,
which wo cannot better do without.
Making cotton it requires more
forethought than most of us git
it; that is why it does not pav. W
curse it and abuse it, and still:
cannot do without it—must have
This all cotton system I know some
thing of; also, I know just as much
about mortgages. If I do not, I
am sorry for the nqin who does, and
I can whip a mortgage making cot
ton. If it is hanging over me,
will make cotton and pay it, If
get time, and the more cotton
plant the more time I will want,
the less in judgmont I plant, the
less time I want. I will make my
corn pay itself, and wheat, oats,
etc., and if nothing else, I will make
it furnish mu with stock of i
kinds, taking the tax of buying
from my cotton crop and feed my
fumily. What else, then, taxes the
cotton crop? Have wc not reduced
nt least half of the tax? So far
good. One-hnlf of wlmt wo make,
then, can go as a credit on the
mortgage.
The next year I am encouraged
I am now paying not only my pres
ent debts, but reducing the old
ones—and I Unve been a close ob
server— watching my mistakes of
the llrst year, and my line stock
interest me. I admire n erib of
earcorn. I thiok I hear somo here
tofore doubtful creditor say: “That
man Jones has struck the right
course, and lie Is bound to rise."
I am not sowing a farm down in
grass seed that will taka four or n
dozen years—if ever—to sufficient-
ty slock my farm with cattle and
horses before I am in a condition
to make sales. The interest on the
old mortgage will have got bigger
than the principal at lirst, and he
sides, if no cash to buy, must in
crease the indebtedness, in stock,
ing the grass (arm. Jersey cows
and good mares cost more than a
penny hero in Georgia, and who is
to buy them when we have them
ready for sale? One man in a linn
dred in Georgia is not able to buy
a Jersey calf, nnd I fear will he less
able in the future. But to raise
hogs now in this country reminds
mo of an old anecdota I beard when
a boy. Ono cold morning tho old
man and his wifu wore snugly
wrapped in a warm bed. One of
his neighbors began to call Ids hogs.
The old fellow remarked to Ids
wifJ. “Old lady, ain’t you mighty
glad wc hain’t got no hogs?” 1 do
not beliove wo want them; they are
too mucli trouble when meat can
be bought on time. Let us have
our farms regularly arranged; have
one motto, and follow it, using the
very best material we can afford—
good land, good slook; sell tho live
old mules and buy ono good one;
good seed ami give good attention;
know how much to plant and how
much labor you need to cultivate
it with. II you need twenty hales
of cotton at spveu cents a pound,
fix up twenty uoros of laud, and
mako it wean ourselves from town,
court-grounds and such places as
causa delay at homo. That Is tho
reason why labor will not make cot-
ton,not that they cannot make it,as
one of your correspondents says.
If wc have holp enough without
our labor, we cannovcrgct enough
without our attention. We must
he there, and be there all the time.
Tho way that we farm now, wo
will never know more than we hear,
for wc are not there to sco for our
selves the visible facts. I Imve
lmd it thrown at me that I sell cot
ton seed, wheat, oats, corn, etc,,
or I could not make so small a orop
as I make cotton meet my demands.
Well, for the snkc of argument, I
confess il; bet is not that farming?
Would you call a ruan a farmer
who went oil his farm to buy a
shout the Fourth uf July? Is that
man a farmer who you see running
his mule to destli hauling supplies
from town? Ilow cumo those sup
plies in town? Were they raised
ia town? No, raised on a farm.
Then, if wc are farmers, nothing
hut a misfortune is any excuse fur
buying wlmt we can make.
-Let us adopt this middle-ground
of farming in Georgia—make in
stead of buying what wc must have
—cotton to occupy its respective
place, Wo have hogs, cattle, hor
ses, sheep, and they are all fat and
gay from tho gleaning of the fields
where our support comes from.
I tried sheep ami tho modern
and imported feeds, but they do
belter in pastures that have made
good crops than they did when I
was taxing my time from my gen
eral duties—setting posts, sowing
seeds, nailing up wire, etc. I have
a shelter for my sheep in tho win.
ter, keep them from cockle-burs,
and 1 gel thirty-five ccuts a pound
for my wool, and no cost and but
very little trouble. 1- raise a colt
every year—one is enough fur me.
I prepare only a »yc or barley
patch for early spring grazing—
twenly.year-old mule. Jhave good
stock hogs; killed my own meat
and have sold nearly one hundred
dollars' worth of shoats and pigs;
so you sec there is quite two bales
of cotton in value added to my
crop. Mare and colt for $159,
there is about four more bales ad-
dcd. Over two hundred dollars'
worth of oats and wheat; there is
nnolhor income. One calf for $40
and another for $75. -Don’t you
sec I have n slock farm and a cot
ton farm too? Now, If I have been
quite economical, you Bee I will not
have to cnroach on my lew bales ot
cotton for oven tny State and
oounty taxes. I know exactly
wlmt my crop of cotton cost me by
referring to my account book. I
can tell every hand that has work
ed lor mo in the Inst seven years—
when he worked, how much be did
and wlmt I paid him. I can tell
exactly what every field has made
of seed cotton—who picked it and
when; how much wheat, oats and
everything pertaining to n stand
ard crop.
I must mention the profits of my
fish pond, built and stocked at odd
times, which has paid mo hand-
somly. Last November I sold $160
worth of fish. Many who read
theso lines—from Maryland to Tex
as—bought ol me, nnd I have now
a drawer full ol orders to fill. I
have one speckled cat-fish which 1
>ut in my pond Inst May, and I
lave realized a clear profit of $60
from her. I have had her in my
hands several times. Sbo is about
eighteen inches long and weighs
7 j pounds. She is about eighteen
months old—yes, I know the ages
of my fish, too. By all means let
every firmer have a well-construct
ed fish-pond. I Imve been thinking
of writing n letter giving my ideas
of building. Perhaps I will soon.
But do not abandon cotton. If
on do, you are gone. Plant tho
cotton in four feet rows, on good
ordinary land; widers as tho land
is belter. Do not have it too thick
in the drill. Work it shallow and
fast, after a thorough and well pul
verized preparation, and your crops
will increase. Do not manure all
tho fields alike; if there is poor
spots in it. give these poor spots
the advantage. An average crop
the big crop. Do not go at too
much of a moneyed outlay in the
fertilizing. Try this year to pay
for half what you have been in the
habit of buying by scraping up,
and let there be a little more labor
and less expanse. Work on that
same land next year, and in same
way, to benefit It—sow it down.
Keep favoring it, and soon a balo
of eotton per acre will bo easier
made limn half that now.
This letter is too lone—longer
than I like—hut I cannot help it.
1 am like ono of our most promt,
ncut lawyers—Judgo Blguam—
who, during court, kept rising from
his scat, and His Honor bad to re
peatedly seat him, whon he finally
remarked llmt ho must say some
thing; tbatjbe was loud with speech
and must speak—I had to say one
word in favor of eotton, especially
when one of our Georgia farmers
bad “jumped clear out of the bar-
ness.” J. F. Jones,
Near HogensTille, Troup Ooanty. Ga.
Why Not Co-operate In Mercy’s (York.
Burprcmo Courts have decided
anil learned Judges say that tho
oontructs made lor the continual
maintenance of tho world-fsincd
Charity Hospital at New Orleans,
La., by tba royal gift of$l,000,000
Irum the Louisiana State Lottery
Company, must ever stand as a
bright example of the enoclfty of
pledge made by a sovereign
Slate. It is just—it is right—and
M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, Im.,
will give any further information
to persons desiring to co-operate
in any way in this work of mercy.
Sentenced For Life. ,
Uunkna VtsTA, May 1—The
case of Chas. Burkbalter, charged
with the murderof Allen Gresham,
both colored, was taken up this
morning. The state was represent
ed by Hon. T. W. Grimes and Col
onel E. M. Butt, and the defense
by Judge B. W. Butt,Major E. W.
Miller and Colonel B. B. Hinton,
of Americus. Tbc case went to
the jury at 4:30 o'cloek this after
noon, nad about C o'clock the Jury
returned a verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree, and
recommended to the mercy of tho
court.
AC'AHD.
To ill wh. are lutTenag from the error*
and indisenlione ot youtu, nervous
woukoesM, early decay, loaa ot maohood,
•to., I will send a recipe that will cure
ymt, FREE OF CHARGE, this groat
remedy was discovered by a missionary
in South America. Sendaself addressed
envelope to the Bxv. Joe Em T. lulus.
Station D, Sea York City.