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m<y Americus -ia.triH \n\mv l’ Recorder. it, i i n 4 + ** 4 . Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1884. Thi-Weekly $4.00 per yetr 8mrnAT,.......»t.... 1.50 “ •• Weekly^...,,...,. , ** :f Americus Recorder. PUBLISH KD BY W, Xj. OZiBSSSTBR, OFFICE on cotton avenue. PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS LA iri’KJCS. h. H. CARTER, A TTOliNK y AT LA W, AnKBIcim, Soil TER County, : : : Ga. Offl(f»old Fir»t National Bank. Prompt attention (.'Iren toftllRuninesrFeiitriiBted. ('ollfctior.a a apeemlty and prompt attention guaranteed. dec28tf C. R. McCRORY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, kllaville, ga. TEEMS—AH claim a from $30 or under, $3; 1 rom $30 to t 500 ! 14,11 P er cent - ? ov ‘* r • : ’ 00 ' ,0 'T n percent. No charge, unleaa collection, are mode*. May 14-tt DOCTORS. Dr. 0. B. RAINES SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN. •fieri hia protcesional service*, with an experts . need20years to the people of Americus and wunitv. Office over Darw & Callaway’s Store. Ilea deuce at corner of Jackson and Church atreeta. Calla will receive prompt attention. lantfttl DR. C. A. BROOKS, 'I AMERICUS, GA. Call* left at pAventiort'B drug atorc will receive nnaunt attention. Will be found at night at the residence of Col. S. II. Hawkins, corner Lee and UolMge atreeta. ntajr 5 3m. MISCELL ANEO US. UVeil Pioliett, TALBOTTON, GEORGIA Will do Plaatoring, Brickwork and Housework Culsominea apecialtjr. Repairing dona. Orders promptly attended to. oc.t2tf FresH Meats —and— COUNTRY PRODUCE! I »m now prepared to furnish the i libllc with Voice meats, such an Beef, Pork, Mutton, and Kid. 1 also have on hand at ail time* chickens and Egg*. Come around nnd try me. Son'.li aida Colton Avenue, next door to l*. II. Williams. j'unelltf W. F. HARK. GIN WORK. I would reaped fully state to the public that I am now prepaired to REPAIR OLD GINS 1 Alter having had an experience of ’several vearain the largest gin manufactories, 1 know ibut I cm give satisfaction. All work gmiran- :eed. I am located with in v father on Jefferson street, in rear of Oliver A Oliver's shop. Work solicited. |inay29 5m| P, A« OAMBROK. A BUREAU AGENCY I am now located temporarl'y in Dawson, ha vs ing b«*en obliged to do so on sic-count of the rapidly tailing health of my mother, who needs at all times my personal attention, 1 will open a bureau f r he collection of debts, besides I am agent for all popnlnr books, nnd will receive subscriptions on newspaper*. Office In court house. W. K.|I*IL8Bl'RY. Dawson, Gn„ April 4, 1884. tf E(1 wf J. Mt’ler. C, Home© McCall. Monumental Marble Works, Mil,Milt A MrCAM., Proprietors. Snnlliwest Corner of tlio Public S-juttr- 1 , AMEHICUS, GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc. of the heat Italian and American Marble. Iron Hailing for Cemetery Kucloe- tsrec, a Specialty. PTCAPITAI. PRIZE •7.1,000, .&] Tickets only $5. Shares In proportloa Louisiana State Lottery Go. “ We (to hereby certify that we supervise the arranyements for all the Monthly and Semi-Annual Drawings of The iMumana State Lottery Company, and in person man age and control the Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with hon esty, fairness, and in good faith fotcard all parties, and we authorize the Company to use this certificate, with facsimiles of our signatures attached, in its advertisements.’ Commissioners. Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the Legisla ture for Educational and Charitable purposes— with a capital of *l,000,000-to which a reserve Inna of over $560,000 has since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote its framdilae was made u part of the piesent Rtata Constitution adopted December 2d, .4, D„ 1879. The only lottery ever toted on amt endorsed the people, of any State. It never scales nr jmtpones. Its Grand Single Number Drawings take place monthly. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. KIOHTII GRAND DRAWING, CLASS H. IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, Angnst 14, 1884-171et Monthly Drawing. CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000. 100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each. Fractions, In Fifths, in Proportion. LIST OF PRIZES: 1 CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000 1 do do 26,000 1 do do 10,000 2 PRIZES OF $6.000 12,000 6 do 2,i)00, 10,000 f 10 do 1,000. 10,000 20 do 600, 10,000 100 do 200, 20,000 800 do 100, 30,000 600 do 60, 25.000 1000 do 26, 26,000 9 Appi oxi mat ion Prizes of $750 $6,750 9 *• “ 260...... 4*230 1,967 Prizes, amounting to 8265,600 Application for rates to clubs should is* made only to the office of the Company In New Orleans. For further information write clearly, giving foil address. Make P. O. Money Orders payable and address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleani, La. POSTAL NOTES and ordinary letters by Mail or Express (all Klim* of 93 and upward by Express at our expense) to U. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans. La, or »I. A. DAUPHIN, A07 Seveutty St., Washington, D. C. STILL AT HER OLD STAND. POWDER Absolutely Pure. than the ordinal iluin or phosphate powders. Sold only in ROYAL BAKING POWDER OO, 106 eel, New York. oct21yl. (jiticma infantile Blood Purifiers and Skin Beautifiers. A Positive Cure lor Every Form of ■skin ami lllooil Disease*, from Pimples to Krrofula. 1NPANTILE and Birth Humors. Milk Trust, D Stalled Head. Eczema*, and every form of Itch ing. Scaly. I’iiuiily. Scrofulous aud Inherited Dis eases of the lllood. Skin, and Scalp, with loss of Hair, from Infancy to Age. cured liythotTTiruuA Rwmu.vknt. the new blond purifier. internally, and crriciMtA and Ct.TircHA Soap, the great *kfn “OUR LITTLE BOY.” Mr and Mrs. Everett Rtebblns, Belebertnwn, Mas*., write: "Oar little boy was terribly afflicted with Scrofula, Salt Rheum and Kryaipelas ever since he was bora, and nothing wo could give him “WORKS TO A CHARM." J.S. Weeks. K*<|.. Town Treasurer. St. Alha ’t.. say 1 in n letter dated May 28: ” It works t< harm on my bab^s face amHiead. ^.’uted t fits; I,., .rdererf it lor “A TERRIBLE CASE.” Ho. K.yro HinkK .Irrrr.v Cit, H.l«h!«. N. J.. ■ • "Jlj mn.n la.l of tw.lvi. jruni. »»» .■..m- , rur.il of a tcrritili. Hum of hc/.-m* by tb, l:iu UrMHiir-. Kn.m lb. fop of hl.)imd 9 otb7r U rrii,.ify 9l 'i»iid l ,*b>>b'H.b« 1 ti.d'biirn (iKORGIA SEWS. Sumner. Ga., is erecting a large academy. An Athenian of 19 years tips the scales at nearly 300 pounds. A Hall county colored farmer made over 200 bushels of wheal. South Georgia melons sell by the ear load in Home at 15 cents apiece. Over 20,000 melons have been shipped from Way cross this sea son. The fruit crop around Dawson has beon better this season than for many years. In Towns county there are seven persons living within a mile of each other whose ages aggregate 038 year*. In Forsyth county there are sixty-six less polls this year than last and $14,000 less in the valua tion of property. A lGycor-old boy in Gainesville only balances the scales at 24 pounds, and a 27-year-old married female at 32 pounds. Augusta will soon commence boriug an artesian well, private capitalists forming a company UOd furnishing the money. Mr. C. Coffee, of Albany has realized about seventeen hundred dollars from the sale of Jerse)'cows and calves within the past four or five years. It is supposed that the farmers of Putnam county will pay out in money or its equivalent for meat for the presont year about $50,000. For corn, not less than thirty car loads, aggregating 15,000 bushels 9 about $15,000—summing up $05,- 000. On July 21 the law raising tho license for selling I iquors in Alapaha to $3,000 went into eft'eel, anil the only saloon in town closed its doors. There are several other plnoes In the county where whiskey can be got, but in September the last li cense expires, nnd it will then cost 266th EDITION. PRICE ONLY $1. KNOW THYSELF. A Great Medical Work on Manhood. Exhausted Vitality, Nervous and Physical |Di* bility Premature Decline in man. Errors of Youth, and the untold tniaerie* resulting frotn|in- discretion or excesses. A book ior every man youtig, middle age nnd old. It contains 125 [»re- tcriptioas for nil acute and (chronic diseases, each one of which la invaluable. So found bv the an ther, whoso experience for 91 years Is »nch ns probably never nefore tell to the lot of any physi cian. 300 pages bound in tx-auttfn! French muslin, cmlKMsed rovers, full gilt, gumuntood to boa finer work in every House—mechanical, literary and professional —tban any Ollier work sold In ibis eonnlry tor $2.60, ur the money will tie re landed In every inaUucv. Price only $i by mail, post paid. Illustrative' sample 6 cents. Send now. ‘•old medal awarded ibe author by the National Medical Association, to the officers of w hich he refers. This book should be reed by the young for In- ► traction, and by thesfflkfed for relict It will ivnefit all.—London lancet. Thers l« do member oi society $to whom A hi 'hook will not be useful, whether youth, parent, guardian, Inwnutor or clergyman. - A rgonsut. Address the Peai*ody Medical Institute, or Dr. W. II. Parker, No. 4 Bui 6 neb Btrect, IBoston, Mass., who may be consulted «>n all diseases re quiring skill and experience. Chronic and obstl- t-Ote diseases that have baffled the|J PA I skill •»f all other physicians a special Cfll-olty. Such treated suceeafnlly ‘itbTUVC PI P Out an Instance of loiter*. I rl lOCUl , »xrch*w4w AT I IKK OLD STAND ON JACKSON STREET! fTil n. Raines offers her sincere I banks to tho leathers of tbs Are department, by whoso noble i*(forts she was saved ftom serious loss during the Are, nnd enabled her to] greet her friends at the place where they have no long been occudoraed find her. upnHti ATTENTION! Heiprters for Imported and Domestic LIQUORS, BEERS, CIGARS, Bto.i Etc. I have and always keep „a hand a full supply •>! ImtKirtod and Domestic Liquors, Iteeis, Cham pagne, Cigars, etc., ete., which I am selling at LOWEST MARKET PRICKS. Also* a Fresh Assorted Stock of n, which I am selling as CHEAP AH THE CHEAP EST. Give nic a trial and he convinced* Fresh Cincinnati Beer on Draught! Always on hand at Be per glas*. Free Loncl from 10:30 A. M. to 2 P. H I have added to my p'aee a gsod Billiard and Pool Table From now until the end of the season I wiil^tecp Full Supply of Ice on hand. JAKE ISRAELS, Hart door to Bank of Americas Cotton Avenue, Amorim*, Os. nm.-h-ti baby^'h"",'™.: ]»• »titiller, and Toilet, Bath i BunatlYu. IT -Km L.t Xuracry FOR PALE, LANGUID, i.fnl (-liildr.il, -Itli pinifilf. n.lliir (kin, .... ..v-rnTHA KrMiim- will 1-rnv- u ii.rf.i-t “TJ-’iita^‘hi71^21: I $3,000 per annum to sell whiskey id., rlinim.ti.nl. mid «*vcr. .klu , n y w J, cre |„ IjcmCll. Capt. IIoLbs maile nearly four hundred bushels of oats on four acres ol ground this year, and the same ground is now covorcil with a luxuriant crop o( peas. He alto has eight or ten acres of corn inside of tlio corporate limits which will make between twenty and thirty bushels to the acre. This is city farming.—Albany Medium. L. J. Lamar, the Steward, furn ishes the following statement of the amount of rations consumed daily at the State Lunatic Asylum: Bacon, 300 pounds; beef, 800 pounds; coflee, 10 pounds; floor, 594 pounds; hominy, 110 pounds; lard, 25 pounds; meal, 384 pounds, rice, 110 pounds, sugar, 75 pounds; butter, 40 pounds; molasses, 9 gal lons. At Kbrae Saturday the trustees of Shorter College rccoivcd from the executors of the late Alfred Shorter $45,000, being the legacy left to the college in his will. Of this amount $5,000 will be used at once to improve the grounds and purchase a telescope. The balance is invested, and the interest will be used to pay the tuition of poor and deserving girls. Homo Courier: Some of Floyd county's colored citizens c&n take tka cake when it comes to names, One of them is known as Charlie Meat Mamet PROVISION STORE. W.H.&T.M.C0BB COTTON AVlsUM UJB keep uu liuD'l the very best cuts of 2 DEEP, PORK, KID AND SAUSAGE, Green Groceries mid Provisions, .mlntf-lni, nil kiwi, of V^rtuku- ■.»> fruit. In their season, Cuuned Uoodc, et<-. Ii is their alnt to keep a first . lass establishment, .u.l glv# thair customers good «' the lowest p. ice* or Highest prl..» p*l<» for Cattle, Hog., and a Lind* of country produce, Aiuerlcus, Dec. 15. Ds'J.ff DRIED FRUIT WANTED! In lulditiou to my former tu niHRomeiitH to Lay and ship Dried Fruit. I have lor the coming newton the advantage to save the commUnions usually paid t*i New York houaea for handling them. I will leave lor New York on or about the 1st of Augutit and remain there daring the Dried Fruit season. Bring r- your Fruit early j and I promise you, in addition to paying Fancy; another sails under the fall value for your Fruit, to allow you j para |. z j n g adverb “Furthermore” ‘ 1 "° aP doUuir ,n,: m “"’'! Lpavid Furthermore. A third stons. Hespectiuliy, ..... s. M. cohks*, one of the colored brothers, sur* Fuotot i'„tt..:i Avonue. named Higgins, prefixes the sub- jolyl3tf j picious adjective “Aronymoue" to KLI.A VII.I.L I Rig first name, nnd (lings his ballot Win lei Female School. Anonymous Higgins. The iUaiC c T CUidlC kJw » Whitc ( am iiy tt ilds two more oddi- Ellaville, Qa, | ties to the list. There is January j White ami Weary White, and it is ' asserted by those who know that Weary has l»een tired ever Binco he was born. January must have been the first child ond Weary the last. I- cfc protrxend caused by day. Rate* oftilitior* tcVbeTrcocnt on the tint day. Rate* of tuition: All re-ifinnvrs, $1.50; Primary Oom, la- THE HAYS OP >48 A Jilt OF >84. now zacii. TAvixm was omciALi.r INFOUMSI) OP Ills NOMINATION AN!) HOW HE RESPONDED. Wasiiimiton, July 29.—Nowa- days a train of cars is barely suffi cient to accommodate those who travel hundreds of miles charged with the important duty of inform ing a candidate that he has been nominated for the presidency. Long speeches are maile, and the notification costs many thousands of dollars. But this is not all. The candidate must write a letter of ac ceptonoe, giving his views on pretty much every subject ho can think of. These journeys, parados, speech-makings, and long letters are of comparatively recent origin. The convention that nominated Gen. Taylor met in Philadelphia, June 7, 1848. The Chairman was tho Hon. John Morebend, of North Carolina. On the 10th of that month Gov. Morehcad addressed Gen. Taylor a letter officially noti fying Inin of his nomination. The distraction into wbiok the Whig party was thrown by Gen. Taylor's nomination was not made less in the ensuing thirty-five days by the silence of Gen. Taylor. Gov. Morehcad, in reply to inquiries by leading Whigs—notably Mr. Weed —said he had positively written the General, and he knew of no reason why the reply was not forth coming. Gen. Taylor was such a crochety old (ellow, and Whig leader in general know so little of him personally, that it was not thought best to stir him up on the subiect. Letters from old sol diers were appearing in different quarters; some of them not alto- gether satisfactory to Whig leaders, but not a word came from him about tho nomination. It began to- look like nn indignity. Air. Weed, to: whom more than any other man Gen. Taylor owed his nomination, was desperate under the suspense. Meetings wore pro posed, and one was actually called in Albany, looking to the repudia tion of the nomination. When it met, however, other counsels pre vailed, though the suspense con tinued. On July 22 the Postmaster at Baton B.ongc, whero Gon. Taylor lived, addressed the Postmaster General a letter, saying that with the report for the current quarter from that office two bundles of let ters were forwarded for the Dead Letter Office, they having been declined on aooount of the non payment of the postage by the senders. It was in the 10-ccnt and non-prepayment time. Of the furly- olglit letters tbns forwarded to the Dead Letter Office, tlio- Baton Kouge Postmaster said a majority were addressed to Gen. Taylor, who had declined to pay the postage on • them and take them out of the office because his mail expenses had become burdensome. The General hud since become aware that some of the iettors were of im portance and asked for their return. In due course the letters were sent back to Baton ltongc. Among them was Gov. Morehcad'* letter notifying Gen. Taylor of the action of tlio Philadelphia convention. Gen. Taylor’s response was dated July 15, a month and five days alter the letter ot notification was written. It had lain in tho Baton Rouge post office four weeks after Gen Taylor had refused to pay the 10 cents postage. Gen. Taylor’s acceptance was couched in respectful terms, in a letter not exceeding 250 words. He expressed ills thanks for the nomination, said he did not seek it, and that If ho were elected Presi dent, for which position he did not think he possessed the requisite qualifications, ho would do his best. He discussed nothing, laid down no principles, and gave no indica tions what course he would pursue. In this the General cut it too short to satiety the Wbigs. He bad to write another letter—one of con siderable length—to his friend, Capt. Allison, in which he set things right. The authorship of this letter was the subject of no lit tle conjecture. If living, Thurlow Weed and Alexander H. Stevens could shed light on the subject. After that the campaign went ahead smoothly and successfully. Although Mr. Weed makes no mention of this matter in bis book, it was one of the most annoying episodes in bis eventful life. A prayer hospital is to be open ed in Erie, Pa., with great religious ceremony. A large building has been secured by a number of ladies who preier prayer to physic, and it is fitted up for the reception of citizens given up to destb by phy- sfeisns. For tho past six years Marcus J. Wright, an agent of the war de partment, has been engaged in collecting for publication rock con federate records of the war of the rebellion as could be* obtained , by gift or loan. More-than 100 prom- 1 inent officers have fnrntshed copies of official reports, and the South ern Historical Society has, placed its collection at the disposal of the government. Ten large volumes have already been published, but in very manjrrespeOts the record of the southern army is'stw incom plete. Valuable dobnments "are doubtless scattered all over the country in the hands of private in dividuals. A circular has been issued.for the war office asking for the use of such documents alia of fering to preserve and return them to the owners if so desired.-: As such papers are easily destroyed, this gives the holders an easy way of having them published and placed in indestructible shape In connection with the history of which they fMfS a^pstt.' The re quest will no doubt osll forth prompt responses from minp who will be glad to seethe pqblioatipn of important matter which would otherwise be loHt to 'tbe’’0tiM(c. The federal records hrC If/retty com plete, and posterity will be ritfii- ous to see the story of the -Other etde jolt as fully told. " * Here is what the Memphis Ava- lariohe has to say about a man who quit, planting 'kll oottqri bemrg it was too later 1 “He walked into the Avalanche editorial room yester day afternoon. The editor looked np and said, Howde ? hut did riot at first recognize his visitor. The aforesaid visitor was well dressed, and his manner indicated a pros perous man. He might be a , well- to-do city merchant or a wealthy railway president. He was neither. He was, in Short,"the Plow.boy. Three years ago lie waS a ’Shelby county oottdn planter 'constantly in debt to his merchant He waa ill clad and poorly fed,! He, was bound Hand and toot to the mer chant because, without the mer chant, be would starve! ’ But a marvelous obange has come over the Plowboy. Instead of cotton he raises corn, grass, hogs,, sheep and cattle. Ho soils 100 pounds of butter per week In the Memphis market. He owes no man anything and always bos money lt»- hia pocket.” This has been tho ex perience of a great many people >“ Georgia and other parts of the Boutn. Maoon Telegraph: It wee a south ern man, Schley, of Maryland, who commanded tho expedition that rescued Grcely. It was a ?0Uth' cm* man, Lockwood, of Maryland, who reached the' highest latitude over tread by a white man. Far ther, Southern men commanded and composed the armie* that olos. ed the Revolutionary w. that closed the war ot 1812, and that closed the Mexican ' war. 1 ’ And It was the Sooth that furnished the greatest generals the world bos overseen. It furnished a|s*,the men who shaped the Constitution ot the United States and made the greatest of modern nations. Let our young menremember these facts, and prove that the olu race has not perished with the old South. The dark days are nearly over. There is a future of manufacturing and commercial supremacy In store for this section, and these forces control politics m„: i - « A Span or Pink Horses. Nub villa (Tenn.) American. A p Jr of pink horses attached to a hack, were Been standing: in front of the Maxwell House the most of the day, yesterday.and. ouufedcon siderable inquiry among ' the pe destrians as to how they came to be so highly colored. The hack- man who drove them explained to about 100 people, but wps utked- the question so many tintqstbathe came over to the American office and got a sheet of paper ori^" whldh he wrote the following,' which he pasted on the side-of-fals coach.. “Them bosses got pinked by bein’ left in the raine with read fly nete on. It ain’t no use askin’more kestions abont it." Oyster shells are being put on tbo roads around New Haven, Conn., this summer fur the first time in a number of years. Oyster growers refuse to buy them even at three cents s bushel, because the ravages of the star fish and heavy taxation have almost ruined their industry.,. It is v»ld the* a .Single owner of oyster beds has lost $100, this year through tfie attack of alar Dili.