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YOL. Y. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1884. NO. 150. Americus Recorder. PUHI.ISHKU KV W. Ij. GtiESaKTHR. UFFICE OX COTTOX AVENUE, Sutlsscrlptioii Kates:~ Tki-Wekkly Onk Yeah, • $4.00. Weekly One Yeah, . . 2.00. Sunday Issue One Year, - 1.60. PltOFBSSlOiML & BUSINESS CARDS IjA n'YEJUS. I*. H. CARTER, A'l'TO It KEY A T L A IF, EWUAPITAL PRIZE, ETA.00(1 a Ticket, only 15. Shares In proporllan Louisiana State Lottery Coiupan). “ ir« rid hereby certify that ire supervise the arrangemente for all the Monthly and Semi-Annual Drawings of The Louisiana age and control the Drauinge themselves, ana that the same are conducted with hon esty, fairness, and in good faith toward aU partus, and we authorise the Company to use this certificate, with facsimilesof our signatures attached, in its advertisements.* Americus, Sumtkh County, : : : : u.t. | Office, oi l Fit>t Nailonnl Bank. I Prompt attention ft run to all businessyntrantMl. Collector.* a specialty and prompt nttentlo guaranteed. dcc23tf DOCTORS. Dr. 0. B. RAINES, KIinOEOll A XU PHYSICIAN. •Hera hia pro*< s-*lonul service*. with an cxperU •ncc oi 20 rciira. to Iks people of Americua and vicinity. Office over Davis «V Callaway's Store. Ilea DR. C. A. BROOKS, AMEBICUS, GA. r drug store will receive >e found at nlflht at the iwklns, corner Lee and may 5 3m. Dr. D. P. HOLLOWAY,' DENTIST, AMKliK.'US, GA. Work equal to the tail. Cash rates ns low a lulowe.'t. Try him ar... In- convinced. OUtc ever Davenport A Sou’s dr.ig »tore. nprifOtf MISCEL LAKEO US. IVell PioJiett, TAL1IOTTON, .... GEORGIA Will do Phtsfcring, Brickwork and Itonscwork Cal.'omino u specialty. Repairing done. Orders promptly attended to. octXtf From which baa bed 50 BALES ON 20 ACRES, Can be pr< J. W. Harris & Co.’ AMERICUS, (JA. Cotnmlaalonera. Incorporated in IMS for 25 yearn hy the Legiala- hire for Lthicntlonnl and Charitable purposes- By an overwhelming popular vole Its franebiae .V*, '"■ d ®® rart of the pieaent State Couititatlon adopted December 2d, A. D., 1879. Tht o„jy lottery ever icted on and titdortrtl Iht people ,,/any State. Jl never icalet or postpone/. Its Grand Single Number Drawing, I take place monthly. ' * SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. FIFTH GRAND DRAWING. (CLASH K, 1N/TIIK ACADEMY (IF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, May 14th, 188* Hath Monthly Drawing! CAPITAL PRIZE, $70,000, 100,000 Tickets at five Dollars Each. Fractions, In Filths, In Proportion. LIST OF FRIZES: 1 CAPITAL PRIZE ,75,000 1 do 80,000 1 do do 10.000 s frizes of td.ooo liooo * do 2,000, 10,000 10 do 10,000 ,5 do 500, 10,000 WO do 200,.... 00,000 do 10O, 30,000 ■SUf 50, 85,000 1000 du 9 25 85,000 APPROXIMATION rBIZF8. 9 Appioxiuiation Frizes of |750 90,750 “ ** 500 4,400 0 “ “ 260 2.250 1,M7 1'rlxes, amounting to 921 Application for rates to clnba should bo made only to the office of the Company In New Orleans, f or further Information write clearly, giving fbl address. Make P. O. Money Orders payable and address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL DANK, New Orleau “ POSTAL NOTES and ordinary letters by Mull or kxprrM (all sums ol |5 and upward by Lxpres* at our expense) to M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La, „ T /*ath'si?' 1 aprllPtd MILL IT IIEK OLD STUD. liurchlfltf K lward J. Mi'ler. C, Horace McCall. Alonunieutai Marble Works, MILLER hi MrL'ALL, Proprietors, Southwest Comer oi the ruhlic Square, AMERICUS, UA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc. of the best Italian and American Marble. A. A. Battle’s $‘3.00 Hen’s Shoes. 1ST A Guarantee fhm the Manufacturer.. 1 claim that these shoes are made of tho best leather that can »*• ptodnetd. There is uo shoddy In them; they will wear rqu«l * *— — e - Bboe that would eost you nvu ...y emtum made wt you 11 vu doUans. I do a large in e»», buy and self f«r ea*h, and th re fore I nm enabled to defy competition. 1 have taken this method of introducing this Shoe because there is ranted by the manufacturer. I claim these 8hoes to bo stitched with the beat of silk, and tho but tons are sewed on with the treat of Barbour's ihrssd, which Is imported from Scotland. Those shoes are made on the latest Improved la»ts, ar.d you will find them an easy fit, niter you have trod that Is not -AT 11KU sole III MITCHELL’S EYE-SALVEI A.CYrtnin, Bale and Effective Remedy for •Sore, Weak & Inflamed Eyes, R.'atoHu K I Ri l> aVli!Staflh"oVS” 4 l'uro» Tear-Drops, Granulations, Stye Turnon, Red Ejes. and Mailed Eye Lashes, AXU PRunuciXO QUICK RELIEF AND OLD STAND 0.1 JACKSON STRUCT j HTM » Halite* offers her sincere thanks to th« members of tho fire department, by whose noble effort* she was saved flroin serious lota during tha tire, and enahleil her to* greet her friends at the place where they have so long been accustomed to find her. aprtMlt Meat Market PROVISION STORE. W. H.&T.M.C0BB A Cobb the Men UNITED STATES NATAL ACADEMY [ taught so differently bore from Annapolis, Md., May, 4, 1884'. what they are in common schools, Absolutely Pure. T I* (towder never vu-ler. A mirvel of purity strength and tvliol««omenene. Mure economical than the ordinnry kinds, and cannot be Hold in eempetton with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in tin ana. itOYAL BAKING POWDER L’0,104 W aU reet. New York. oetSly L Foil tire Cure for Every Farm nr •kla and Blood Disease, from Flmplra to Scrofula. f! ®P*UJ«2!S »«OwriouaAResolvent. tho new S ™P dS '. which have cured uo ana UKS-m’I ALMOST INCREDIBLE. SSSSag nSsSsssssssss is *** in ', lnd looked upon life Sworn to bafore U. R. Com. J. D. CRAWFORD. STILL MORE SO. .Wm MsDotalU, 25 IJ Dearborn Street. Chi- »»^g»‘ariaafflr8a8a BnuaBABST 1 MORE WONDERFUL YET. IE. E. Carpenter*, .Henderson, fi, Y., cured of Psorisai* or Leprosy, of tweuty year*’ aUnding, by Cutici'BA Remedies. The most wonderful Vari A dnetpenfnl of scales fell from him daily. J’hysiclansand hi.friend, thought lie tunst die. C’ure swore to before a Jnstice of the imare and Henderson's most prominent iiiixeno. DON’T WAIT. rtlraonlals lit fall or send srn ehjtitlntFljr true and "contlu ut lhB uu ^ Sold by all druggists. Price: t'irnrtma. cneta.t SSSSASVSSiXSt * ttn “ Dl,w,2B Write to a direct to (lie psrtiev. ! Dwwm v^UtBoai^Dsarkoowlw^rw or BEAUTY f;?J o,S7ii,:: h ^: heads, and tikin Blemishes, use Ctmcuna Soap, ATTENTION! LIQUORS, BEERS, CIGARS, 23to*s 3E2tc. have and always keep on hand • full supply ut Imported and Dorntetlc Liquors, Bee is, Cham* pague, Cigars, etc., etc., which I am selling ul LOW KMT If ARKKT IMtlCKH. Als-il a Fresh Asairh-d Stock of COTTON AVBNTTB, keep on band the very beet cun of BEEF, FORK, KID AND SAUSAGE, and also a full lice of Green Groceries and Provisions, Hold by .11 Df.KIE.8i MUi ilk lumber, lumber’ •SUmluliilE Amerltu, .t V. „ t h» I.WJL iiftuiii. a.w.JotAis.j to keep a first class establlahment, and give their customers good goods at the lowest prices. ^-Illghess price Mid for Cat tic, Hogs, and a kinds of country prodoce. Americas, Dec. 15, lMt.tf Frah Cincinnati Beer on Draught! Always on hand at 5e per ghts<. Free LDncb from 10:30 A. M. to 2 P. V I have added to my place a gsod Billiard and Pool Table From row until the end of the seaaon I will keep Foil Supply of Ice on hand. JAKE ISRAELS, Next door to Bank or Americas, Cotton Avenue. Americus, Ua. mtrrbitf A BUREAU AGENCY FOB l l* New, Etc., Etc. ONSUMPTION, »ow located iemporari'y In Ikwson, liavs Ing been eMIgcd to do so on accoonl of the rapidly filling health of my mother, who needa at all times my personal attention, 1 will open a bureau — j I r be collection of debts, leeldrs I am agent for iff I «ii popular hooks, and will receive subscriptions on newspaper*. Office in court h«se. \Y. K. rVLUCKY. Hasson, Ol, April 4, till, tf Dear Recorder:—Remembering that some of your readers used to be good friends of mine, and hop ing still that they have not entirely lost their interest in me, I think it would not be amiss to give them some ides of where I have bees and what I hare been doing for the past two years. It is now within a month ofjust two years since I left Americus. alter a visit of only a month, for Annapolis the second lime, haring failed at my first trial u|>on my physical examination, At the second trial I had no trouble at all, the principal cause, 1 think, being my trip to Colorado the year before. After my physical exam ination was ovor; I was not much alraid of the mental, for it wrs in studies that I was then somewhat familiar with. I passed my exam ination without any serious trouble, and about Juno 10th, 1882, was sent on board of the United States Praclico Ship Dole. 1 suppose some of your readers know that I had never seen a ship up to the time I left home,—I mean, of course a large ship such as we Imre here. Everything was naw and strange to mo, but 1 soon got into a working suit, and then felt somewhat more at home as all the other cadets wore the same uuiferm. 1 had not long been on tho ship when a first- class man oame up to me, took me to the ship's side, pointed to a boat alongside,and asked me if I thought 1 could reach that without breaking my neck. 1 replied that I thought I could; whereupon the first-class man said “skip.”- I skipped, got into the boat, and began pumping for all I was worth; for we were taking on water. Of course this was the beginning of our summer cruise of 1882. During the cruise we do much hard work;—in fact we do a regular sailor’s work, ex, eept washing decks and tarring the rigging. When we get into port the cadets are allowed to leave tho ship dqring tho afternoon of each day. That is what wo like, When we return from the cruise, which is usually about the 28th of Angust, we are given one month’s leave until the 30tb of September. My leave in 1882 was spent in An napolis, principally becauso I bad so short a time and my mother was away from home. My leave in 1883 was spent in Rochester, X. Y. Now 1 must tell you something of a cadet's first year here. He enters and is called, hy the officers, fourth-class man, but by tbe cadets a “plebo. - ’ A “plebc" is ex pected to say «V whenever bo speaks to, or is spoken to, by an upper classman. It is advisable for tho “plebo” to do as he Is re quested, for il be does not ho will have a pretty hard time before the year is over. Puring Ms first three months here, he used let be "run." This is the term that is known in civil life ns “hazing.” I suppose people imagine “hazing” is a very brutal and dreadful thing; but I have seen something of it and while I do not approve of it, I know that it is nothing to what people believe it is. I say used to >ie, becauso since the scrape that some of my class-mates were unfortunate en ough to get into during our last cruise, there has been no “running” and I think there will be no more here. “Running” consists alone in making tbe victim appear ridicu lous. He is made to stand on his head, make speeches, etc. I caught very little “running” myself and am not sorry for It. I suppose some will say, “I would not take the running,” but my opinion is that they would change their tunc, if they ever entered here. How. ever I think tbe days for “running" are over, and I suppose the citizens of tho country are cot sorry. Daring my first year here, tbe course of study was not hard, be ing Algebra, Geometry, English and Erapcbp bah these tubjscU are that it makes thb course seem hard. The hardest year is the second-class year—that is the third year. Tbe classes hero are named differently, I suppose from those of any other school in tho country except West Point. The first year is tho fourth- class; the second year tbe third- cUsb; the third year, the first-class. From this it will bo seen that I rm now in the third-class; but on June 6th go into the second class. Our year ends on the 6th of June. Then it is that “all hands” are happy. Yea they arc happy, and yet they are sad at parting from friends, that havo been true and trusted. Tbe members of tho graduating class are escorted to the Chapel by tho remainder of the cadets, and reoelve tbelr diplomas. We usually have a short addreas from the Secretary of the Navy or Irom some of the Congressmen or Senators. Every year a Board ol Visitors composed ol tea men, I think it is, is sent down here in order to see how things are coming on. The Board usually consists of one or two Naval officers of high rank, several Congressmen and one minister. They make an annual report to the Seoictary of the Navy of tbe condition of the Academy, After graduation the cadets must take a two year’s cruise; if they wi9h to receive either the $1,000 promised to them by the govern ment or a position in the Navy. They may resign if they wish to, but if they do, they forfeit their $1,000 and also their chances for commissions. At tbe end ol the two year's cruise, the cadets arc re quired to pass a professional exam- iaation in Gunnery, Seamanship, Navigation, Steam and Frenob Thoso that pass the required exam- [nation satisfactorily receive either their $1,000 or appointments os Junior Ensigns, Assistant Nn gineers, or Second Lieutenants in the Marine corps. These threo re present three different branches of the Navy. The first represents tho Line, the principal branch; the second the Staff, or Engineer eorps, and the third tbe Marine corps of the Navy. Up to 1883 tbe Marine officers wore taken entirely from civil life, but some of tho class that graduated finally in 1883, having left tbe Academy in 1881, received appointments as second Lieuten ants in tbe Marine corps. Here after by Aet of Congress, vacancies in the Marine corps are to he filled by graduates of the Academy. I will now give you a short synopsis of our daily routine. We are expeoted to rise at six o'clook in tbe morning, and wo have re veille for tbe purpose of waking us; but we usually sleep until ball past six, girlag ourselves fifteen miliules to dress for breakfast, which comes at a quarter to seven, Breakfast usually lasts until nearly half past seven, when tbe sick call is sounded, and those of us that are sick repert at tho hospital, Sometimes, when a fellow has a alight injury and is not sick enough to be exoused from his recitations, be is placed upon the excused list; this excuses him from drills only. The sick list excuses him Irom everything. At eight o’clock we begin reci tations, and they are continued until half past twelve. We always occupy an hour in reciting. A class hero is not instructed as in ordinary schools and colleges. Each class is divided ioto a certain number of sections according to tbe number of its members; each section usually contains about eight or ten cadets, sometimes lew, bat scarcely over more. Atone o’clook we hare dinner, for which we are allowed forty minutei so that we generally leave mass bail about twenty minutes to two. At two, recitations begin again and con- last until half past five. Then we have an hour until supper which comes at half past six. For supper and breakfast we are allowed thirty minutes each. At half past seven the call to evening studies sounds, and then we are confined to our rooms until half past nine. At ten we hear “taps" and “tarn in." A cadet official comes to see that we arc really “turned In.” The day is divided for stndy into three periods containing two hours each. One hour of each period is occupied in reciting and tbe other in studying. Half tbe sec tions recite the first hour of each period and half the second. 1 tiiink our grounds are among the most beautiful 1 have ever seen; Just now thoy are particularly beautiful. Our quarters are very comfortable indeed. All the build ings are heated by steam. We are not allowed to drive a nail into er touch tbe walls of our rooms lo any way, so many of us decorate our wardrobe doors. Some of them are beautiful. We have hops all through tbe winter, and ouo in June,—a farewell hop given to the graduat ing class by the class next in the line. I must not occupy two much space, I am afraid my readers will . tire of me, and us my letter is al ready very long, 1 will bid good bye to the citizens of Americas. Perhaps I will writo sgsln some time, and tell you what 1 mean by a “cadet officer,” and describe some things that I have left ont in. this. Ol course my readers will have no trouble in guessing this is from their sincere friend Gzo. F. Coom. Woman’s Way. WlllUmijod Bmkfiut T.I,I«. “What’s all this talk about Blaine and Tilden and Edmunds and tbe results?” asked a bright little wo man of her husband. “Woll, my dear, the people want Blaine.” “Why don’t they get bbr.thon?” “Well, it depende on tbe conven tion, you know.” “What's the use of a convention if you can’t get the man you want?” “Well, blest if I knou; but it's got to be done that way.” “If tbe women bad tbe doing of it, and thoy wanted Blaine, they woull jnet eey, 'Here Mr, Blaine, take it,’ and that would end all this nonsense. When we elected a presi dent of tbe sewing society last year the rules wouldn’t allow us to give it to Mrs. Jerkins, but we Just said it was either Mre; Jerkins or no sewing eoclety, end Mre. Jerkins it was. Why don’t you men say 'Blaine or no President’?" He tried to explain to her, and was ball way into the tariff qma- tion when she tell asleep, dreaming that James G. Blaine wbb taking Samuel J. Tilden’s measure for a new spring bonnet, while Edmunde, Randall and others were trying on new silk dresses for the next re ception at Mre. B—'e. Mr. Gough on Milk Hals. “It would be nn <io!ation of the com- nianduient," said John B. Gougb, “if a man were to felt down and worablp tha •ilk bat, for it fa not made in the likeneaa of anything in heaven, or an eutlu or in the watere which are under tha earth.” Deaidea it heata tbe bead and rauaea tha hair to fall off. Parker's Hair Datum will ■top that and reatore tha original oolor to gray or faded heir. Not oily, not a dye, beneficial, delicloualy perfumed. A per fect hair dresalng. SOc. All druggists. ssrpt A passenger over the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac rail road, relates tne following: "The ears were passing over a trestle, and just in front of me sat an old colored woman, who showed great alarm and, as it afterward turned out, imagined that the whole train was Dying through tha air. It was not many minutes, however, before tbe cars passed safely over the restle. and as soon a* they struck terra firms the old woman drew n sigh of relief, and exclaimed, in "a . grateful tono of voice, ‘TLawlr leaven, she’s lUt’ [Ex. ‘Thank mi A CARD. To all wbe are suffering bom the error* weak! Ao., L you, FBEE OF 1 Indlscr. lions of youth. Barrens ikneta, early daeay. losa of manhood, • ijrijljMad a reeiju^hat wrill care remedy wan diacovared-by-a missionary tlnne nntil four, when ouraftemoen | to fcatb ^rt^BredoMlMddrereed exercises and drills brgin. These HHI*.