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.nr MERICUS ‘{li iiux , r *f»l ' »«r*f ‘I* TOL. V. Mi AMERICUS, GBOMIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1884. NO. 148. Americus Recorder. PUBLIBDKD BY irriCE ON COTTON AVENUE, PKWESSIOHAL & BUSINESS CARDS law visits. 1ST CAPITAL prize, tvs.onn an Ticket, only •>. Sb.ree In proportion Louisiana State Lottery Companj. “ l>e do lutein ttrUfy that ire eupertue the arrangement) for all the Monthly and Semi-Annual Drawing) of The Lmteiana State Lottery Company,andinperton man age and control the Drawing) themtelee), and that the tame are conducted with hon- eety, fairnets, and in good faith toward all parhet, and we authorize the Company to ute thi) certificate, with facuimUet of our tignaturo attached, in ite adcertitemente.' DOCTORS. Dr. 0. B. RAINES; SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN. >lten his prousslonal services, with so expert* cnee of 20 rears, to the people of Americus mid vicinity. Office over Davis & Callaway's Store. Res sleuco tt corner of Jackson and Church streets. Calls will receive prompt atteutlon. tantfhl rsr DR. Cr A. BROOKS, nuiJ “‘' AMERICUS, GA. Calls left at Parennort’s drug store will recotvo prompt attention. Will be found at night at the residence of Col. 8. II. Hawklnr, corner Lee and Coll edge streets. may 5 3m. Dr. D. P. HOLLOWAY; DENTIST, .,W / //- ■ • • •• • * AMERICUS, GA. Work equal to the best. Cash rates i MJSCEL LANEO US. Commissioners. Incorporated in IMS for *5yean hr the Lecisla- ture fbr Kducatlonal and Charitable purposes- with a capital of IU000,000-to which a reserve fund uf over fMO.OOO has since been ridded. By an overwhelming popular vote its franebU was made a part of the piescnt Htate Constitution adopted December 2d, A. D., 1879. Tht only Lottery ever icUd on and emlorted the people of any State. It never teales or poUponu. 8,D *A« Number Drawings take place monthly. WIR A yOETDRE. FIFTH OKAND DRAWING, fCLARS K. 1 NTT UK ACADEMY OP MUSIC?, NKW l)lil.KANB, -|UKSDAT Moy 14th, 1884 - 108th Mmiilily liiawla* CAPITA!. PRIZE, $19,000. 100,000 Tickets at Flic Dollars Eacli. Fractions, In Filths, In Proportion. LIST OP I'ltlZKS: 1 CAPITAL PltlZK ,14,000 1 do do |?(“*“ 1 do do 10.1 2 PRIZES OF 10.000, is.ooo 6 do 2^00, 10,000 10 do 1,000, 10,000 20 do 800, 10,COO 100 do 800, 20,000 800 do 100, 30,000 800 do 50, 25.000 moo do 26,.;;; 2AI000 4,.v swell pioliett, .CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, TALBOTTON, . . . GEORGIA Will do Plastering, Brickwork and Housework Calsomino a specialty. Repairing dona Orders promptly attended to. _ oMtf lowers’ Improved Mod Seed From which has been made 50 BALES ON 20 ACRES, Can bo procured at J. f. Harris 8 Co.’s Hardware S AMERICUS, GA. mircMCtf Edward J. Mftler. C. Ilomco McCall. Monumental Marbel Works, MILLER * McCAtiL, Proprietors, Southwest Corner of the Public Square, AMERICUS, GA. Monuments,Tombs, Eto.,Etc. of tbs best Italian and American Marble. Irsa Billliig tor Cemetery Koelos- wree, a Specialty. oetSy A, A. Battle’s $3.00 Hen’s Shoes. U*A Guarantee from the kIanuf*otursr.«jScJ I claim Butt these »hoe» 't« made of Hie best Isatbsr that can l* produced, Tbefa *• R° shoddy ‘ ell for ca»h, and th reforo MITCHELL’S EYE.8ALVE! A.Ccrtuln, Safe and Kflociiv* Uemvdy for U.atorlus tk. Sight orthoo’ld I Cores Tear. Drspt. Urounlatlons, Htye ■ Tainsrs, Red Eyes, and Mailed Brushes, lick naukP and r-cimjt'- * in*.«4W«1iy .atCoclon. wlitu ui«d ■o< 4th.rmol.dl.>, tuchoo Ulcer*, Wo Mid to sdvantsf*. Nld by nil PrigglsH at 851 sta LUMBER. LUMBER. grfl deliver Loait.r tn Amtrku u lew u tit lov.it, (<ptl.»ill. C. W. JORDAN. 1,9ti7 Prizes, amounting to 9266,600 Application for rates to club* should be tnnde only to the office of the Company In New Orleans. For further Information write, clemly, giving foil addrcM. Mako P. O. Money Orders payable an«l address Registered Letters to NKW OHLISAN8 NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La. POSTAL NOTES and ordinary letter* b. Mull or Kxprsu (ail stuns of 95 nnd upward by Express at our txper.se) to M. A. DAUPUi: New Orleani or M. A. DAUPHIN, 007 Seventh St., Washington, D. C sprIIOtd 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 ■ *i the mu .tt 0 ?.. 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. .. . 'ii*■ J->“ 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 —vm—r 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.