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. » - '-I T -| / Sl-'i < TOL. V. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1884. NO. 151. Americus Recorder. PUWA8BKD bY • t«. OrXiESSJJTBR* OFFICE OX COTTON AVENUE, Su.'toosnption. xiates: Tri-Weekly One Year. - $4.00. Weekly One Yeah, - • 2.00., Sunday -Issue One Year, • 1.50.; Hi & business mm lawyers. Is. H. CARTER, TTO RNE Y AT LA W, hemcus, Sumter County, : : : : Ga. Oflc, „W Pint Notl“ual Bank, larantced. d ” c28tf == POWDER Dr. 0. B. RAINES, Absolutely Pure. a mm ntlt'dll’l AY “ SURGEON AND PHVSICIAN, >(lcr» bin profCMlonnl sorvice*, with «n expert* ffnec ol 20 renw. to the people of America »ud »trinity. Office over Dnvia «fc Calinway’* Store, lie# DR. C- A. BROOKS, RESIDENT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, AMERICUS, GA. 0.11. left at P.veuport’B Jrua .taro will receive iiroinpt attention Will bo round at night at tbo Dr. D.P. HOLLOWAY, dentist, AMERICUS, GA. Work c-inat to lh« bc.l Oftsh rale, as tow as hr lowest. Try Mm nr. bo convinced. 0"ee over 1'nvi rport A Son . drag atom. a|irrotf MISCELLANEOUS. Oil PioKett, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, BOTTON, GEORGIA do Plnnlcria?, Brickwork nn-.l Housework line a apcclalty. Repairing don*. Ord*rs tly *tt*mleU to. octitf than the ordinary kinds, and cannot tie sold iu ompetton with the multitude of low test, short rel*lit, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in , royal diking powdergo, io* Positive Cure for Every Form of Skin and Dlood Disease, from Pimples to serofnla* rpHOUSANOS or LETTERS in our possession X repeat this story: 1 bare been a terrible sufferer for years with Blood and Skin Humors; hare been obliged to shnn public places by roason of my dia* figuring humors; havn had the best physicians; t hundreds of dollars and got no real rc- ths OutioctaRisoli internally, and Cl. - 1 Skin Care left mv skin and irnally. which havo cured blood as purd as a child's. ALMOST INCREDIBLE. Jnraea E. Itlchnrdaon, Custom House. New Orleans, on oath, ssrs: "In 1870 Scrofulous Ulcers broke out on m» body unt" * *• ythinr’ a tothe medical faculty w tion. Everything k tried in vain. I became n mere wnm*. ai muon could not lift my hands to my head, could not turn in bod: was in constsnt pain, and looked upon life asaenrse. No relief or Jure in ton years.. In 18H0 1 heard of the Ctrrietriu Kkmkdik*. used them aud W& 8 worn to Luton; U. S.Com. ,T. D. CRAWFORD. STILL MORE SO. Will McWotmlsI, 2512 Dearborn Street. Ohl- cago. gratefully acknowledges a euro of Ecaema.or Salt Rheum, on head. neck. face. arms, and legs.for seventeen years; notable to move, axmpt on hands and knees. for oneyear: not able to helphim>e)f for eight years: tried hundreds of remedies; doctors * *•*- —e hopeless; permanently cured From which has Wen Hindi 50 BALES ON 20 ACRES, Cau be procured at J. W. Harris & Co.’s Hardware Stqre, AMERICUS, GA. marvklOtf __ Edward J. Mi’ler. C. llornco McCall. Monumental Marble Works, HILLER Si McCALL, Proprltlors, Southwest Curlier of tbo I'nldic Square, AMERICUS, GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc,, Eto. of Uie hist Italian nnd American Marble. Iron Hailing for Cemetery Kocloi* ores, a Specialty. •erty 1. A. Battle’s $3.00 Men’s Shoes. 1ST A Guarantee from the Manufacturer 1 clnim that these shoe* are made of tho heat leather tliat can »•« pioducrd. There is no shoddy in them; they will wear equal to a»y custom wade Shoe that would cost yon fives dollar*. I do a largo basin***, buy and sell f«*r cash, and th mjore I am enabled to defy compctiiion. 1 hove taken tills method oi introducing this Shoe became there ta a dema d fbr an honest Sbuc »t« Low Price> war- ratted by th* tnannfactmnr, I claim tbe*c BUom in be stib hed with the beat ot silk, and the but- icnaara sewed on with the b »t of Barbour # tbrisd, which is Imported fiom Scotland. The** shoe* arc made on the latest Improved lads, aut you will find them an cay fit, niter you h«r» tred eight years: trii pronounced hi* by the Cuttcpr MORE WONDERFUL YET. If. E. Carpenter, Henderson, N. Y.. enri dully. Physicians die. Cure and llendi tliistpHiiful of scales fell from hhn >1 hi*friend* thought DON’T WAIT. Write to «• for these testimonial* in full ..r send direct to tne partis*. All are Absolutely true and given without our knowledge or solicitation. Don t wait. Now i* the time to cure every species of Itch- log. ScalyTpimp!v, Sctoful-m*. Inherits.l ConU- *iou*, and Cooper-colon d Di*s**fi of the Mood, 8ofd*by all dmg«i*t*. Price; <'I’mornA. Mct*.; Res.ii.vknt. 81: Hoi v. 25 n *. Port ku Du to and Chemical Co., Bor.tcn.Mas*. Rough, Chapped, BEAUTY and Oily Sk|n, Mack- beads, and Skin BleinDhe*, u.e CuncURA Soap. ATTENTION ! LIQUORS, BEERS, CIGARS, I have and always kc« [. on hand a full supply ol Imparted and Domestic LIquota, Beds, Cham- pagne, Olgara, etc.. .!«*., which I ani selling at LOWEST MARKET PR1CKH. Also! a Freeh Assorted Stock of i pair you will wear none that Is' not stamped . mo lLe boitasn “A. A. Battle's <3.00 fchoe.” fcx- | elusive sale In America* at the BARGAIN ; STORK of 8. M. COIIKN, Cotton Ave. maSm3 ; which I mo Helling a* CHEAP AS THE CUBA I* gST. Give me a trial nnd Ik* env; Fresh Cincinnati Beer on Draught 1 Always on hand at 5c pir g 1 , Eg , I I have aJJctl ta mr piave a g««l MITCHELL'S ' Billiard andUoolTable EYE-SALVE! * rom ”° v,r ‘""’ 0f " 10v A.C«a,„. gala and Effective Roma,!, for ! n II kWnjjr 0 j' | C 0 Q|| [1911(1. Sore, Weak & Inflamed Eyes, Producing Loutr-Slaliteilueat, and Restoring the Sight or the Old I Cures Tear-Drops* Granulations, Stye . Taut ora, Red *»«•* j ~ A BUEEiiU AGENCY ATLANTA’S FLEET SCRIBES. CIIEBIIIBE .VINE, WITH CARTER A CLOSE SECONO. CHAT ABOUT CAND1HATK8. j A MEMBER OP TIIE NATIONAL COMMIT TEE DISCUSSES THEIR CHANCES. Atlanta, May 10, 11:25 p. m — There is beginning to be some Atlanta's quintette of fleet-footed more talk about tlto Dcmocra.ic scribes tested their mettle iu the situation, says a Washington Bpe- uiuch talked of 12-hotirs ge-as-you- cial of the 8th instant to the Now please loot race to day under moat York World. Mr. J. Sterling Mor- auspicious ui rcumstanees. An hour ton, a member of tho National Coni- before 10o'clock, the time selected mittee nnd a probable delegate to for making Ilte start, the warehouse the Chicago Convention from Ne- seieeted as the scene of the raec braska, who is now in Washington, became the Mecca toward which in a general conversation today hundreds u! spectators turned their upon the subject of Democratic loot-steps. A good number of possibilities, was asked: ladies lent their presence to the "Who do you think will he the throng, and the scene within the nominee of the Democratic Con building was one of extreme nniroa- volitional CMcago?” tion. The band struck up a lively tune, under its inspiring influence the contestants slatted otfat a live ly gait as they got the word “go" promptly at the click of 10. THE CONTESTANTS The list cl entries, all Atlanta newspaper men, and none of whom failed to toe the mark when the appointed hour arrived, was as fol lows: R. M. Cheshire of,the Jour nal, Josiah Cartcrof Constitution, K. C. Brutt'ey of the Constitution, A. T. Bvinglou of the Journal, A. Smith Clayton oftbcSunny South, S. W. Small of the Constitution, IldoKamsdell of the Georgia Crack er, and C. T. Logan of the Consti tution. llamsdell, of the Cracker, took the lead easily. He was first choice in the pools, and scored 10 miles in tho first two hours, but later in tho evening trouble arose from an old wound in his lungs, and at 7:40 o'clock he, by order of his physicians, retired from the track, with a score of 30 miles aud 9 laps, he having had two severe hemorrhages. He was taken home in a carriage and to-night is se riously ill. Logan had recently risen from a sick bed and gave out shortly after noon, bnt returned to the track at intervals, and did some pretty walking between 9 and 10 o clock to-nigbt. Brufley, the short-legged repor ter of the Constitution, surprised every one by his endurance, nnd many thought, nntil into in the eve ning, that he would come out the winner. Smith Clayton took tilings lei surely and disappointed his friends and backers, who expected, from his reputation ns an athlete, that lie would make one of tho best scores ever made by ntt amateur. Samuel Small took a swinging, steady gait, and was probably the most gtaccful walker on the track. Uis long legs failed, however,to put him even with Clayton. CARTER’S HARD WORK. Carter worked heroically for first place, and, during the last half hour of the race, was in an alnu.st com atose condition, his walking being merely mechanical. At 9 o’clock there was little difference between Cheshire and Carter and they stuck the match. THE SCORE. Thescorc in detail is OoBteataot*. 18 37 “Bayard, Pendleton, McDonald or Morrison.” “That is a wide shot. What arc your selections?” “Bayard is a man of high char acter. with a clean record. He will not get down in the gutter to work tlie hoys. Pendleton is certain to bo considered, because lie was de feated by Republican methods working in harmony with the Pro tection Democrats ot Ohio. Pen dleton’s defeat on account of his favoring civil-service reform was a blow to the Democrats in the mi nority States from which it will be hard to recover. MoDonald is a sound man on all economic questions and Morrison bus the courage of his convictions. Perhaps some other mao than these may be selected, some man who is the very incarna tion of tho idea of tarifl reduction.” “Do you know any such man?” “It might be Lyman Trumbull,ol Illinois, or James R. Doolittle, oi Wisconsin. The man whoever he is, ought to have some character which would be a guarantee of his ability to discharge the duties of his position. I recognize tho fact that the commercial substrata of the Democracy deem it important to nominate a man wi'lt a barrel, and that journeyman office hunters deem it very essential to have a large campaign fund. But to the untutored Western mind it occurs that it is inexpedient for green horns to play at any game with ex ports—that a money campaign upon the part of the Democracy against the Republicans, with tho Federal jfllcials and the public Treasury at their command, would bo absurd because, for every nickel that the Democratic party, in its poverty,could raise/ he Republicans through some Dorsey yet unknown to fame, could put up a $20 gold pit O'.” “ You were at. the 1 roquois banquet in Chicago, where Tildcn’s last let ter was read. Do you understand that ho is generally regarded by Democrats as a candidate?” “Well, I have a great respect lor Mr. Tildcn’s sagacity and intellec tual powers, and fully believe lie was elected President in 1870 nnd should have been inaugurated. But from 1877 up to the Iroquois letter I had been led to believe by Dr. George L. Miller, editor of the Chcslmv ulKl uaner anu luuy siuui nr. ucuigc n. ,......... — together until the last quarter of an Omaha Herald, an intimate per- hour, when Cheshire made a sudden sonal friend of Mr. Tilden, that un- spurt and finished a half lap ahead, dcr no circumstances would he tie- Carter tried to run also, bnt failed, cept a nomination for the 1 rcsl and was taken from the track in a dency. But, by some mental pro- fainting condition nnd is nowdelir- cess which I am unable to analyze ious, but tbe doctors say that he when that letter was read at the will be all right when thoroughly banquet and 1 was informed by it rc8tc( l. that nothing but pressure of busi- At tbe close of the race the crowd ness affairs kept hint from joining seized Cheshire and carried him us in the festivities ol that occaaion, from the hall on their hands amid an old anecdote came to my mind, intense enthusiasm and ohccring. An Irishman bad been on a lengthy Four thousand people witnessed spree and when lie first began to - ■ sober up be made the solemn de claration he would never take an other drink ns long us he lived. »follows: u u t after some hours, however, u pl . while suffering with a severe heal- ‘ ache, he said to his wile, ‘Biddy, ,, ye sec that whiskey iu the bottle 12 upon the mantel?’ ‘And sugar in the cupboard?’ And she says ‘Anil there's wathcr ill th JAKE ISRAELS, ! Null .luor lo Hank of An.t-rkOJ, Cotton Avenns, Americus, G«. nwrcMir i Ulcer*, Pc* r*r Barca, Tumor*, Balt Bhcuna. Burn*, Pile*. «r wherever loflaioatlott **»■*•» fill 1’C HE LIAS HALVE »uay be •cad to advantage Sold by all DrvRKlcta at 23 & at** LUMBER. LUMBER. l.»tn turn /. C. mir.place, tiro «ml • b*lf mOe, from America!, ms lat Is Wtoty A-j*. *n4 wiu d*lim Lumber In America, n, low ns tbe loWel.J inprliBdl. D. W. JORDAN.. Newspapers, Etc., Etc. 1 am now located temportri'y Daw*od, ha\* log been ol liged to do eo on Account o! the rapidly falling health of my mother, who need* at all time* my n*r*otal attention, I will open a bureau f r be collection of d-bt*. Imldes I am agent for oil popular book*, nnd will »*celre «ub*criptloM ob sowepopm- QOm la Dortm, Ox, A,*! I, itu, « It. M. Cbenliirc Joni-tb Carter E. C. Bruffey A. T. Bylngton : A. Smith Clayton ... ' S. tV. Small . Itilo llamndell j O. T. Logan “ THE PRIZE MONEY. The division of the prize money i has not yet been made public, but it is understood that the winner ' will receive about $1,200. and about I half that amount will be divided : among the others. About $2,000 S were taken in at the gate, and the ! prizes offered aggregated about j $600, lint heavy expenses will re- j duce the amount, giving to the con. testants the amount named above. | Almost everybody in Atlanta had i something wagered on the result of ! the race, and it is estimated that at least $10,000 changed hands. ! Pools were sold here nnd in all the leading cities North and West. The audience were entertained the last hour of the race by Smith Clay- I ton who successfully mimicked the : styles of walking of the different i contestants. Yls.' ‘And there's wathcr in the bucket?’ Anil she says ‘Yis.’ ‘Thcu; he says, 'take those iugre- gunts and make me up a whiskey toddy. Bring it to the bedside and make me take it whether or no.” “What will be the issue this **“The only issue upon which the Democrats can win is a square de claration against the protective sys tem. The fight in the House will come up at Chicago, and I think the revenuo reformers willbeslron- ger there than if the bill had passed the House.” “Asm Democrat, which one or tho leading Republican candidates would vou prefer to see nominated? “Blaine; because I think be best represents the methods and morals of the Republican party. However Wm. Pitt Kellogg as an untried candidate should not be overlooked, and Dorsey for bis services in 1880 ought to receive some notice. ' W hat Makes a Town. Union and Recorder. Energetic, brave, and live men inako a town. Men who are lippc- ful—men who haven’t got a niekle bo near the eye they can't ace a dollar. It would nstoniBh any of our young business men (tho old men are too “sot in their ways” to get up and stir things about) to see what is being dono to-day in towns having a less population than Millcdgevilie—for instance, Hawk- insville, Bartlesville, Americus—all have banks, steam tire engines, fac tories for turning out cotton seed oil, and barrels, and wagons, and numerous other small industries. Sueb a spirit invites new comers, anil it brings them. In these days of labor-saving machines, competi tion and push, men must keep up with the procession or be run over and utterly lost. Our young busi ness men must bestir themselves. They owe it to ther city, whero they malio their money, they owe it to themselves to work tor tho progress nnd prosperity of the town they live in. We nre not ask ing them to engage in wild schemes, or to invest their capital in enter prises of a purely speculative scope, but they con and should put their heads and hands and hearts nnd money togother and Inaugurate some industry such as now gives lifo and money to smaller commu nities than ours. On tho second Tuesday in A pril the 167ih Grand Monthly Drawing of Tho Louisiana State Lottery took place in New Orleans. Ticket No. 86,800 drew First Capital Prize of $75,000, and it was sold in fifths at $1 each; one was held by Elbert S. Montgomery, of Mt. Olivet, Ky., paid through First National Bank of Maysvillc, Ky.: another to J. O' Bricn, Richmond, Vp.,pald through Messrs. Lancaster A Lucko. The Second Capital of $25,000 was drawn by No. 58 298, also sold in fifths at $ I each; one to Isadore Isaacs, a clothing store kecpci in Modesto, Cal. The Third Capital prize of $10,000 fell to ticket No. 25,338,{sold in fifths also at$l each; one to Norman Saunders, Washing ton City, D. C., another to tRobt. J. Walker, ol tho samo city. The Fourth Capital prizes, twoof$6,000 each, went to Nos, 33,147 and 44,- 135, sold in fifths also at $! each; one to B. T. Holmes, one to Jns. Fox, coal dealer, both of Fort Way ne, Ind.; auotlier to C. T Dcsbields, Sherman, Texas, through The Mcr- chants nnd Planters' Bank thcro. Tho Grand Extraordinary Semi- Annual (the lC9th Monthly) Draw ing will occur on Tuesday, the 17th day of J unc, when $522,500 will ho scattered, in sums from $150,000 to $50. Tickets arc $ 10: tonths, $ 1, and any further information can be had on application to M. A. Dau phin, New Orleans, La. There are now 130 men employed on the foundation of the Bartholdi statue pedestal, and the concrete foundation is within 5 feet of the total height—53 feet. The work men nre about evenly divided be tween Italians nnd Irish. About 2,000 barrels of cement have been used in making the foundation, the completion of which Mill require another week or ten days. The stone to be used in tho pedestal has not been selected yet, though many specimens from various quarries have lieen tested. A new steam launch, called tho Bartholdi, is to run at intervals, during Sundays ami week davs, between Bedloe's Island nnd the Battery, commenc ing next week, to take the place of the small boat which at present keeps lip the regular communica tion between the two points. New York City claims to have more than » thousand women who speculate in stocks, grain, oil, whis- ky, and every other way known to the sterner sex, but brokers, as a rule, refuse their custom. The reasons for this wsrc expressed by n broker thus: “Their risks nre small, and If they lose—plie-w w!” “But supposing they make a hit? “Well, then they grow confidential. They tell you they knew it was coming 8<_l They dreamed of a black cat or tbe baby cried twice in its slcop or something like that. They swear by their dreams. If a woman has a oertain dream, and puts her money on that dream, and then the market goes the wrong way, why she has been swindled by the operator.” A wideawake Springfield drug gist has a window full of live chick ens dyed different colors, lo adver tisc popular dyes, and ia the pretty coats and cunning ways they at tract young and old in great num bers. George Washington's Crypt. London Truth. "An American correspondent wr tes: For tho benefit of those who are disposed to join you in your contest against perpetual pen sions and useless annuities that are nominally charged upon the debt side of tho national budget, but that practically come from the pockets of tho well to-do artisans and agriculturists, I recall how, fifteen years ago, Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, U. S. A., then a Congressman in the American House of Representa tives (and lately Governor of his State),made war upon the sinecures and quasi pensions, which, in a small way, wero leeches upon the Federal body politic. He wa9 met, ns you are met,' by tho whispered word “patriotism”—recalling what Dr. Samuel Johnson said about its being .“a last resort,” otc. But, finally, Gen. Butler thus under mined even that word. Sapping nnd mining one day in an almost forgotten catecomb under the dreary building khownns the “Capi tol,” at Washington, he encounter ed a spectral-looking individual who seemed disposed to escape ob servation. “Who arc you?” qiie- ricil the investigating Congrcsmau. “Keeper of the Gen. Washington crypt.” “But Gen. Washington was buried at Mount Vernon, 20 miles from here.” Nevertheless yonder is his crypt.” “Are you paid a salary?” “1 have $1,500 a yenr, and I succeeded my father in the office.” This sent the in vestigator to tho record, who dis- covered that 65 years previously a certain Congress, expecting to entomb Gen. Washington under xlie capitol, had established a crypt and a keeper to it. Other Con gresses forgot the subject, but the salary survived, while the “patriot ism” of successive Secretaries of the Treasury forbado inquiry into Lire subject.’ Very soon afterwards upon narrating ilia talc In the House—shou’s of laughter Urowu- ing 1‘pntrotism”—Gen. Butler pas sed his nnlisinecure bill. What Edmund Burke did in attacking the pension scandals of tbe last century is as open for imitations at St. 'Stephen's now as it was at Washington. Ilmlilall’s Ulshoncsly Ptiilftdolpbl* Record Itnd.) Mr Randall is doubtless an hon est protectionist; Ills dishonesty consists In the pretense that lie is also a Democrat. But Mr. Ran dall ia not a fool, and the fiood ot candied bosh which is now poured upon his bend by the organs of prateful monopolies will not mis lead him into the belief that ho represents any considerable Demo cratic constituency any whero. The parly has honored and and trusted him, and lie has willfully betrayed it into the hands of its enemies. That does not make a leader of him. It finishes Uis political career. The discussions on the Morrison bill mako particularly timely a pa per announced for Juno Harpors, on “The New York Custom-house;” As the collector of the port ol New York deals with moro than two- thirds of oil the importations oi tho country, the article is practical ly a comprehensive sketch of our eiisloms-revcnuo system. The writ er gives a quantity of interesting facts and tables as to the imports and shipping of the country, and follows the complicated processes of -customs entry through all the divisions of the Custom-house. Many illustrations add to the In terest ot the article. Mr. Gough on Silk llals. It wuuld bo nn violation of tho com- manilmont," soli! John II. Gough, "if ft man were to loll down And worship the silk hat, for it is not m»de in the likeness of nnylhiDg in lisovoo, or on forth, or in Ibo woters which nro under tbo Oftrtb.” besides it licots tho hood end muses tbe hair to foil off. Pnrkcr's liftir llftlssm will stop that end restore the originalooloi to gray or faded hair. Not oily, not n dye, beneficial, dilicioualy pertomed. A per fect hair dressing. 00c. All druggists. The Drill at Houston. Houston, Tex., May 10—The first prize, $5,000, in the Inter-State drill was awarded to the Houston Guards, of Houston; the second, $1,600, to the Treadaway R ! fl33, ot St. Louis, and the third, $600, to tho Columbus Guards, of Colum bus. acakd. To oil wb» onuoffenng from the errors and indisen Hons of yontb, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, Ac., I will send a recipe that will onre you. FItEE OF CHARGE. Ibit great remedy w»« discovered by ft missionary in South America. 8* na •“•'•addressed envelope to tbe BUV. JOSEPH T. INKS*, Station D, Nat IV* CWy.