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^ - * - StOMT. !*«»■ «*»««• ~ DEPARTV X* OF MAIL*. , „„at nnd fouth close at.. 1130a m 00 SLlrtiSdnortholoseat... SflOpm mall north dose at 8:00 p m M n?.na VUW and Ellaville J D fs«hio Dranesdllo and Church iierfaodPWdence closes^. m Unitf cl08ea . f 8:00 a m The above arrangements will continue Married. Ou Sunlay.tbe 27th, at the reel- deuce of the bride’s mother, in Lee county, Mb. J- T. Goodby nod Mies Victobia Jones, S. H. Williams, J. P., officiating. Board of The Board of Health, Dr. S. B. Hawkins, chairman, met in Wide Awake hall Monday night and and transacted important business. Look out for your baok yards and premises generally. . EllavUle School. In another column will be found the announcement of the Ellaville Male and Female School, Prof. O. B Weaver, Principal. Our Schley county readers will do wellto read it. Base Ball. The Stars, of Perry, will play the Commercial City club either this morniug or afternoon. The game will be played on McKay’s bill. To-morrow afternoon the Com mercial boys will play the Ogle thorpe club, at the same place. Oak Crowe Academy. Capi. 0. M. Patterson will open bis school at Oak Grove Academy on tho second Monday (11th) of August, and all scholars are re quested to be present ou that day. The Captatu is a Hue teacher, and has made a reputation for Oak Grove Academy second to no school in the county. Election To-day. Between 2 and 6 o’clock this nf- ternoon the members of the A. L. I. will ballot for a Lieutenant-Col onel lor the Seventh Georgia Bat- taliou, composed of the Americas, Montezuma and Albany com panies. As there is but one candi date, Colonel C. B. Wooten, of Al bany, bis eleetlon ia. a foregone conclusion. Colonel Wooten will make an officer of which the bat talion will be proud. Broom Pin. for the Broom Bri gade, just received by James Fbicker A Bro. Saturday Next Is the first Saturday of the new month, and ia the time of the meet ing of the executive committee of the Sumter County Sunday School Association. It will be tbe last meeting of the committee prior to grand meeting of the association at tbe Springs on the fourth Sat urday in August. It la doalrablo, therefore, that every district in the county be represented at the com mittee meeting, and that the mem bers be ready with tluir reports. Struck by Lightning. Last Sunday a number of teach ers and scholars of the Kast Amer- icus Sunday School went to An- dersonvllle to attend a Sunday School and tinging convention. In the evening a heavy rain storm came up and the crowd took re fuge in tbe waiting-room of the depot. During the storm light- aing atruck a telegraph pole near tbe depot, and as the wire runs over the depot, several persona were severely shocked and the rest terribly scared. Railroad contracts. In another column will b« found a notice advertising for bids for building tbe Americus, Preston, >nd Lumpkin Railroad. It is to be seen that the work la to be let ia three sections. This ia done to accommodate the subscribers to the enterprise in Webster and Stewart counties, who wished to bid upon the work in tbelr coun- tles. Chief Enginncr Collier thinks that 11 tbe work la properly pushed forward, tba can will be running **tween Americas and Lnmpkin by the flrat ol February. eiyeThem aRayal Reception. On Wednesday of next week the Democratic Congressional Conven tion of tbe Third district will meet in Americus. It will be composed of representative men Irom thirteen counties, and we would suggest to our citizens that they give tbe delegates such attention as will favorably impress them with our city and people. Call upon them and make them feel as If they were honored guests; drive them through our beautiful streets, show them our handsome business houses and residences, that they may see how beautlfiil a little city we have got. Show them that we are proud of our city, and delight in showing it to strangers. By giving these gentlemen polite attention, they will go away favorably impressed with ony city and ever after have a good word to speak for it. We would suggest that a committee of arrangements ho appointed to re ceive our.visitors and see that tbe necessary carriages are provided for taking them around the city. Since tho above was put in type Dr. J. B. Hinkle, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of this congressional district, has appointed the following gentlemen as a committee of arrangements and reception: Hon. J. B. Felder Chairman; E. A. Hawkins, Thorn ton Wheatley, C. A. Huntington Judge Allen Fort, Dupont Guerry. W. M. Hawkes, A. S. Cutts, A. C. Bell, E. G. Simmons, Jno. A. Cobb C. W. Hancock, W. L. Glessner, G W. Glover, J. C. Roney. The committee are requested to meet at tbe Couneil Chamber this evening at G o'clock. Water Works. The City Council is now negoti ating with a gentleman of Atlanta for a cheap system of water works. It is proposed to erect a large wind mill over the first artesian well, which will pomp the water into two largo reservoirs elevated about forty feet above the ground. Pipes will be connected with tho reser voirs and run through tho business portion of the city, fire plugs being placed at convenient points. It is thought that the water ia the reser voirs will give a sufficient pressure to throw a stream of water over any building in the business por tion of the city. The structure over the well will be put up In or nameutal shape, and a convenient arrangement made for a constant flow of fresh water for drinking purposes. Survey of the A. P. A l. H. * The engineer corps of the A. P A L. R. R. has been organized by the following appointments: Joel Mablc, Transitman; Thomas llar- rold.jr., Transit ltodmun; Morgan Eldridge, Levelman; Archie El- dridge, Level Rodman; Willie Haynes, Head Chainman. We are glad to note that Mr. II. L. Collier the Chief Engineer, has thus favor ed our Americus boys. Morgan and Archie Eldridge and Tommie Harrold are at home on their sum mer vacation from Troy, X - Y., where they have been studying civil engineering. After three or four days of preliminary survey ing, we are informed Mr. Collier will begin the permanent location. He is determined to push the work through with all possible speed. Sudden Death. On Friday night of last week a sister ol Mrs. Joseph Beatty,of the 17th district was aroused from her Bleep by the cries of Mrs. Beatty’s baby. 3hc hastily struck alight and went to the bed, when to her hor- ror abo discovered her sister dead The body was yet warm, hut she had been dead some time. She bad not been well lor some time, but her condition was not so bad as to cause her relatives any alarm. She leaves a husband nnd four children to mourn her loss, tho youngest an infant four weeks old " frerional Paragraphs. Miss Sallie Karp, of Macon, is visiting her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Murray. Mrs. Eliza Lee and daughter, Florence, of Thomaaville, mother and sister of Mr. G. B. Lee, of thta city, are visiting him. Mrs. C. C. Clsy left for Newburn, Dog days began ^londay, and with it began tbe forty-days rain. Tho Commercial Club will ap pear in their new uniforms to-day. Tbe REcoaDEB job office has just turned out a number of tax re- oeipt books for counties in this sec tion of Georgia. This wet weather is distracting to "oktpenters, brick masons and builders. A great deal of building is going on, and wet weather neces sarily delays it. This week we received a large order lor note beads, bank checks, and other printing, from a Savan nah wholesale house, after the firm had received bids on it from New York und Savannah establish ments. Tho Recordeu office al ways stands ready to compete with any house in the country in qual ity ol work and prices. The latest—Broom Pins. James Fbicker A Bro. We are informed that a gentle man of this city offered to pay the city authorities $2,500 cash for the artesian well near the Council Chamber, with the privilege oi laying water mauis in the streets. His idea was to construct a system of water works and supply our cit izens with artesian water in their houses at a small rate per year. THE “LANGTRY" HOOP SKIRT WITH BUSTLE COMBINATION. There haa never been anything in 8ivi.k, Ease and durability, that gave the gen eral satisfaction to the wearer that tho “Langtry Skirt" does. Aak any lady who haa evor worn one, and ahe will tell yon that she will wear no other—only $1.25. Second lot jnst received. JOHN It. SHAW. N. B.—Coll and ace the “Perfection" Bustle. Tho lightest, moat comfortable and durablo Bustle in tho world—75o to $1,00. Also tho celebrated “Duplex." ■Bon-Ton" and “Dr. Strong's" Corsets. JOHN R. SHAW. A Trip to Lee. Last Sunday we visited the plan tation of Mr. J. D. Roichcrt, two miles south ol Smithville, to seo what an Illinois farmer could do in the Sunny South. Nearly three years ago Mr. Reichert bought an old worn-out plantation of six hun dred acres and moved on it. The neighbors predicted that he would starve to death on such a poor place; but he went to work, with Northern methods and Northern energy, and succeeded in raising as fine a crop as any of his neigh bors. He has five hundred Lc- Conte pear trees in their third year, n number of peaches and appleB, and a small vineyard of one-seventh of an acre, one year old, from which this year lie lias picked all the grapes his family could use, made wine, and has sold $14 worth. He lias a flno Btrawberry patch, from which he 1ms picked berries continuously from the first of April up to the present time. Mr. Reichert believes in deep plowing and home-made fertilizers, and by these means is fast bringing his farm up to a most productive state. He has an osage orange hedgo planted out, which is growing finely and will in a few years make him a living fence. He believes in diversified farming and grows upon his farm nearly all the product* of the soil. From experiments made ho is convinced that Northern grasses will grow in this climate and make permanent pasture. Mr. Reichert is enthusiastic in his praise of Southwest Georgia, con sidering it a farmer’s paradise, and says nothing could induce him to again live in the North, with its in clement weather and numerous in- sects. He thinks the agricultural resources of the South have not been half developed, and says tho people of this section do not know how good a country they have got. We spent a most pleasant day with Mi. Reichert and his family, and could not but wish that more men liko him could be induced to romovo from Illinois to this section. To the Ladles. We have a lew dozen very fine slippers we are going to clear out. If yon want something nice, pretty Amebicub, Ga., July 28, 1884 Present—Mayor Felder, Aid. Bell, Cobb, Hawkins andBurt. Absent—Aid. Williams and Mor gan. Minutes of last regular and call ed meeting read and confirmed. Cemetery committee asked fur ther time on bids for painting. Granted. Sanitary committee made a re- report to amend See. 124 of Arti- tiele VII. Rules suspended and report received and adopted by unanimous vote. Street committee reported that tho petition of Mrs. Barlow on grading street be not granted. Re port received and adopted. Bills read and ordered paid. Bill of Mrs. Barlow referred to street committee. Street committee made a report on Hampton street bridge, eouncil referred tho matter back to the committee with power to act and instruction to proceed to have said bridge fixed. Connell adjourned. Origin of tbe “Dude.” Mb. Editor—Thinking it may bo of interest to some of your read ers to know the origin of the word “dude,” which has recently come into such common use in this coun try, I take this method of inform' ing them. Dude is derived from tho word dud (pronounced dood) in tho Rommany, or Gypsy, lan guage, and means literally, a light. It is used figuratively in the sense of a “gaudily dressed person,” and used in this sense, it has come into Euglish. It probably originated in Philadelphia, where a great many Gypsies live, nnd where many of their words are in use, es pecially by tho lowor classes. In this manner quite a numbor of wordB have come into English, and a large part of the slang words now in use are derived from this language. Among tho moBt com mon words of Gypsy origin are “mash,” from masher, to fasoinatc; “pal” (an accomplice) is from pal a brother; “lioous” is from hokar, to cheat; and the very common word “chap,” which Webster has erroneously derived from “chap man," is undoubtedly from the Rommany word chat, meaning a boy. E. H. C. Shaw’s Store Famous Its Like has Seldom been Seen in the City of Americus! MMENSE STOCK STANDARD AND FANCY MI (MM! VAST CONCATENATION OF THE i Noah** Ark. Headquarters for lee and lemons. We will sell ieo all tho season at three-fourths of a cent per pound Prompt attention paid to all orders received. Wynn A Bell New Advertisements FOR REPRESENT ATI V E. Wo nro authorized to announce Wm M. HAWKES oa a candidate for tho leg. Mature, subject to the Democratic norm natioo. FOR SAIiX CHEAP Oue Five-Horae-Power Engine; On# Forly-fl»#» Huw Oln, both in Hood Condition. Call op COUNClt * WU.LIPOKD, or tbe undenlgned, July30trllw3 U. HAWKISH. ELLA VILLE MalelFemale School, EllavUle, Oa, The Fell Term openi Augu»t lltb, 1MI, tad continue# four month#. Remember that yoo will be charged from the beginning of the term, uni era otberwi«o agreed upon* or ebeenco U earned by protracted tickne##. All art earnaatly requested lobe present on the flrat day. lUtee #rl All beginner*. •1.60 ‘.Primary Claae, |100; la- termodl.t., t*io: Ulghwt Jtily30w2 Principal. Mrs.U.U.Ulay leitior^ewuuiu, ..jv - . Tenn., lost Saturday. She will and neat, you can get them at visit the principal oltle* of that most yoor own price. State during h.r two month.’ .uy. > Calvin Cameb A Son. NOTICE TO Railroad Contractors. Seal cl proposal* will be received at tbe Company'* olUce, at People e National Back, America*. Oa., until noon Annual 2Htb, 1884. for Graduation, Cro*a-Tiea and Treatling on tbe Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad, from Amerious. Sumter county, to Lumpkin, Stewart county. Profile*, Plan* and Specifica tion* can be aeon .t lbe Cbtef Engineer . oflico et Americua after August 20th, 1884. Tbe work will be let la THREE SECTIONS. First Section—From America* to Lane- bassee Creek. r . . Second Section—From Izmabanaee Creek to Kincbetoonee Creek. Third Section—From Kinchefoonee Creek to Lumpkin. . „ , Treatling, Cross-Ties and Graduation will bo bid for separately. Contractors, whose bide are accepted, will be required to begin work under their contracts by September loth, lHiH. Each bid mast be accompanied by a certified bank check for *200.00, payable to President A. P. and L. R. K, to be forfeited by tbe contractor reoeiving tne work should be fail to commence work within the specified time, otherwise checks to be returned to the owner. > The Company reserves tbe right to re- je .tanyorMl£ld.. HitC0LL1EBi Julj 30td Chief Engine*?. (o). J. It would require ft small volume to catalogue every attraction, bat mark tbo principal features. Prices guaranteed to suit all from tho miser to tho millionaire. These goods were mode to sell, were bought to sell and have got to sell. OUR STOCK OP ALCES Ml) EMBROIDERIES ia untquo and elegant, embracing all the latest and obustost design*: Hamburg Edgeing and Insertion and All Oven to matob, m endless variety and prices, from 2io to $4.00 per yord. ipaniab, Oriental, Eseurlal, Pompadour id Irish Point Laco, at matehloss prices. For Yokes and Sleevos we have Block Rpanlsh All Ovevs, All Over Laco good* Tucking and Puffing. -(<>)- Semi-Annual OF OUR ENTIRE STOCK BOOTH, SHOES, HATS, CARPETS ! LADIES AND GENTS • v I MIC Furnishing Goods, contains everything that is neat and tasty ever manufactured in that line. India and Irish Linen, Lawns, Embroidered Dress Patterns, Nainsook. Hwiss Muslin, French Mull. German Lace, Cheeks, Italian Laco Pique. Russian Cambric, etc., etc We ask an examination of our largo assortment of Nottingham Lace Curtains in pairs—3J yards long. A beautiful and seloct line of Cham- bravs, Heersnckers, Figured Lawns and Mulls. Including our 40 inch \ictori» Lawn at 15o. Those goods are selling very rapidly and although we are constantly ordering more, we fear we cannot at all times sup ply the demand. Turkey Red, Bleached nnd Cream I)am ask—Choice and Cheap, arge line of Bedspreads and Quills, nr Extra Larne White 75c Coanterpam “Beats the World.” Towels, Crashes, Napkins and Doylies in sufficient quantity to keep hands clean forogeneratiop. Linen L’tp Itobcs ■uit all. i and Table Covers to HOSIERY! Long and Short. Fine and Common, White, Biaok, Ringed. Streaked and Speckled. No ono has ever examined theso goods and failed to get suited in Quality und Price. Como to C n*-we will treat you right .SHAW, WE MAKE IT AJRULE NEV ER TO CARRY OVER ANY STOCK FROM SEASON TI) SEASON, AND OFFER YOU ANY ARTICLE IN ANY DE PARTMENT AT ACTUAL lew York Cost! THIS IS N* IDLE TALK BUT SIMPLE FACTS, COME AND PRICE OUR GOODS, AND IP WE DON'T OFFER YOU TIIE SAME GOODS FOR LESS MONEY THAN YOU CAN HUY THEM EL8EWIIEKE, VOU AHE UNDER NO OB LIGATIONS WHATEVER TO 11UY. HUT ON TIIE OTHER HAND SHOULD YOU FIND THEM CHEAP ENOUGH, and can use them, why NOT BUY V WE MEAN “Strictly Business.” OUR STOCK IS ALL NEW AND FRESH-ALL THIS SEASON PURCHASES—AND IF YOU WISH TO Save 25 Per Cent I NOW IS THE ACCEPTBD TIME. NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICUS WERE SUCH BARGAINS OF FERED AS YOU WILL FIND NOW ON EXHIBITION AT THE MAMMOTH DHYGOODS AND CLOTHING PALACE the Clothier, Hatter, Shirter, Shoer, —and— Dry Goods Dealer, FORSYTH. STREET, : Georgia. “Fir tie White Middle Hnrrali-” Etc OP J. WAXELBAUM & CO. Proprietors New York Store. Country merchants and large planters will find this a splen did opportunity to buy goals and realize a handsome profit. J. W. & Co. (o)- lew York Store.