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Americus
Established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1884.
Tri-Wkkki.y $4.00 per year
Sukdatl 1.60 ** •*
Weekly •• ••
Americus Recorder. I
l-UBI.ISIIKD I1Y
Vir. Xj. GUjESSKTEn.
lir ncE ox cotton avenue.
ta-CAPITAI. PtltZHS 875,000, _gl
Ticket* only SO. Share* lu proportion
la wrens.
<•. if. MpCKORY,
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
,11 edo hereby certify that m supemse
the arrangements far all the Monthly and
Semi-Annual Drawings of The Louisiana j
State Lottery Company,and in person man-
1 age and control the Drawings themselrr
i rliri'no Wb'V AT TAW I and Ijat «« “‘me are conducted with hon-
A 11 LUX-lv Pi X A.1 JU/l 1* »\esly, fairness, and in good faith toward all
el i ivril.P <; \ i V llr t lt '*' and we authorise the Company to
f" , , , , use this certificate, with facsimiles (four
I, ™» w?“*C00,°iIju'por r S'iii. fuv 1 r r 9"“o."'^n ! •‘Statures attached, in its advertisements.’
Dr. 0. B. RAINES,
StllGEON AM> MUSICIAN.
Rli r* lii:« protoislonnl nervier*, with an cX|>eri»
DR. C. A. BROOKS,
AMEIUCUS, GA.
MISCELLANEO US.
Neil PioteLett,
“Tffnn APT THE M AU^ible to make things that they could, “Must have been n regulargoing
I ' I borrow of Airs. Bellcnden ‘‘just a» ; brute,” said Seth, tightening the
Jncor|xirate<1 n
ill tloPlanterinsr* Brickwork and Houm-work
■mint' a nj-ccialty. Repairing dona. Orders
fitly attended to. <»ct2tf
Fresla Meats
COUNTRY PRODUCE!
i urn now prepared t«> ftirnlah the i ubllc with
holes meat*, Mich ns Beef, Pork, Mutton, and
Ci.t. I also hivi' on h ind at all time* chickens
GIN WORK.
REPAIR OLD GINS
that I c.'tn five aatlafectio
‘ I am located with u
.in tear of Oliver «Y
ed. ImnyttAin) P
F*.l»- J. Mi'ler.
A. CAMKHON.
C, Horace McCall.
Monumental Marble Works,
MILLER & McL’ALL, Proprietors,
'•> Approximation rrlxed of $750....
. U-%,000
|fl,760
4,.M0
1,967 Prizcp, amounting to $205,600
Application for rates to club* should bo tnnde
only to the office of the Company in New Orleans.
For further Information writo clearly, giving
fhll address. Make !'. O. Money Orders payable
and uddrcHS Registered Letters to
SEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
POSTAL NOTES and ordinary letters by
Mnil or Express (all sums of §S and upward by
Express at our expense} to
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La,
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
007 Seventh St., Washington, D. C<
Proprl
RSTiC
In a very short time I will
the two stores now
move into
Ue»t Comer of the MBo S,,«are, I „ j (;(l ) )y Messrs . J JJ. Dtum
AMEIUCUS, GA. 1
Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc.
1 American Marble.
and R. T. Byrd & Son,—both
made into one—and before mov-
Irou H-'ilne Tor Buolol- ! j n g J >v ill Sell BS mUCll Of my
Meat Market | stock !IS P ossil,le P" ces that
—anii— j will suit purchasers. This, like
PROVISION STORE.! my former offers, is genuine and
:o: will he carried out to the letter
W.H.&T.M.00BB! Come and he convinced.
S. M. COHEN,
Marta mil rro.1sl.in Slo.e on
COTTON ^X.-X7-3B3\rXT33
ta-p,,,, l.-.nj II,r v.-ry u.t cm. o[ |
KEF, PORK, KID AM) SAl’SACF,
mid also a full line of
Uiwn Groceries and Provisions,
rmlirtcln, .11 Hud. ol VrttcMMv. nn-l Fri'l- V
‘b-ir reason, Cauniil Cowl*, It Is the••
■ first class establiabn
enilaLt price pvld for Cuttle,* Hog*, un d
»ind-of coantry produce.
Bargain Store, Cotton Avenue.
Commlnloneri.
1 in 1868 for 2a years by the Lejjlsln*
. r.dlieutIona 1 and Charitable puritoaea—
with a capital of f 1,000,000-to which a rr
fund ot over $560,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its francblae
waa made a part of the piesent Stata Constitution
adopteil December 2d, A. I).. 1879.
The only IsOttery ever toted on and endorsed ,?■
the people q) any Stale.
It never scales or postpones.
1U Grand Single Number Drawings rc, Kht. »!>""
take place monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WW A FORTUNE. NINTH GRAND
DRAWING. CLASS I, IN THE ACADEMY
OF MUSIC, NKW ORLEANS, TUESDAY,
September 0, 1884-172(1 Monthly Draw
ing.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Fire Dollars Each.
Fractions, In Fifths, In Proportion.
LIST OF PHIZES:
1 CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000
1 do do 2R,000
1 do do
2 PRIZES OF $0.000
6 do 2,000,
lo do 1,000, lOiooo
20 do 600, 10,000
100 do 200, 20.000
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
CT b potrdi
1 wliolesomenesi
1 of purity
cnnomlcal
hoM in
strength
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot
—the multltudo of low test, short
-- phosphate powders. Sold only in
-- HOYAL BAKING POWDER Ct», J««
Wall Street. New York. oct2lyl,
(JiticuTa
infantile Blood Purlflers
and Skin Beautiflers.
A Positive Cure for Every Form ot
*kln anil Blood DIseaNeN, from
Pimples to Scrofula.
I X PANTILE and Birth Humors. Milk Crust,
Mcalled Head. Eczemas, and every form of Itch
ing. Nealy. Pinipiy. Scrofulous and Inherited Din-
esses of the Blood, Skin, and Scalp, with loss of
Hair, from Infancy to Age. cured by the Cirri CUBA
Resolvent. the new blood nuririer, internally,
and Cimrciu and Cuticuka Soap, the great akin
cares, externally. .V*olyUlMature and mxf'e,
"OUR LITTLE BOY.”
Mr and Mrs. Everett Stebbins. Belehertown.
Mass., write: "Our littlo Imy was terribly afflicted
with Scrofula, Nalt Hheum and Erysipelas ever
since lie was born, and nothing we could cive him
helped him until we tried Cimmu Kkmepik*,
which gradually cured him, until he ia nowaafair
“WORKS TO A CHARM."
. J. S. Weeks. Esq.. Town Treasurer. 8t. Albans,
V:.. says in a letter dated May 38: It works to a
charm oa my bnby's face and head, Cured the
head entirely, and has nearly cleaned tlm face ol
res. I have recommended it to oevcral, and Dr.
nut has ordered it for them.”
“A TERRIBLE CASE.”
Oharles Kaj're Hinkle, Jersey City Heights, N. J.,
•• My*
•ol of a
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erribli
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.uedy
FOR PALE, LANGUID,
Emaciated children, with pimply, aallow akin,
.TTlcfiu U»:MKD|RH will pro*,, a perfect
ng, cleansing the blood and skin of Inhcri-
heuinatism, coniumptb.n and severe'"skin
I everywhere. Price: CtTTICfRA. 60 cental
KNOW THYSELF.
1 Great Medical Work on Manhood.
Exhausted Vitality, Nervous and Physical |Dl-
Pr.-mature Dc tin- In man. Errors of
• lie «»f which Is invaluable. 8.) found h? the au-
. " ,loM extwrience or *» vears Is such ns
,.r.,b:ibly never >»• for.- fell to the lot of any fhysi-
:iy 6 l««.s i«und In b«at|fifnl kronen mu-din,
rt,VPr ». l ul * » llt . fuainntecl to bon liucr
^">1. m every rniw—mecbanicnl, literary and
i ror.wuounl-ti.uu any other work sold in this
• oa n try tor $2 60, or ihe n.omv will be rein tided
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•"'srdAl the author by the Natlonai
aCotlieal Asirclitt m, to the officers of which he
fck 11 * rd •**P e rience. Citron
ajSrS'iasai^tsaH eauk 1 .
0 ’i“S-“-^e’‘ ,L THYSELF
All School Supplies,
MRS. FRED LEWIS’.
Americufl, Ga., Anf{. 24. 1884. tf
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AGENTS that is unexampled
Sume n|? — tbi b—*.1.1)4- II ard hook, of lh,
worlil, iufcrhly flla.lmtcd. richly hoohd, refilled
,t a men-iractlou of former price-. QlO DI9-
COUSTS atul ciclir.lv. trrrito. O ry |rv«i
rood Menu. 100-peff.c.l^ocr. |ri»'. Wrrrrauick.
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New York. . .
“It’s the last iitrnw that breaks
the camel’s back,” said Lucy, burst
ing into tears.
Tbe^ pleasant Juno sunbeams
came peeplag into the cool, stone-
paved dairy, where pans of milk
and cream were ranged in orderly
array; great stone pots stood under
the shelves, and a blue painted
churn wub already placed on the
table for service.
Mr. Bolleden was Justly proud
of his dairy.
Not a chance guest came to the
house but was invited down to see
it; not a housekeeper in tbo neigh
borhood but seoretly envied its
many conveniences and exquisite
neatness.
“And it isn’t the dairy alone,”
triumphantly remarked Seth Bcl-
lendcn. ‘ And you may go through
tbo house from garret to cellar,
and you will never find a speck of
dust. Thoro never was such a
housekeeper ns my wife.”
Mrs. Bellcnden was young, too—
scarcely three and twenty. She
had been the daughter of a retired
army officer, delicately reared and
qulto ignorant of all the machinery
of domestic life until she married
Seth Bellcnden.
“It’s very strange,” Lucy had
written to her father. “The farm is
beautiful. You never saw such
monstrouBold buttonball trees, nor
such suberb roses, and the mead
ows are full of red clover and the
strawberries shine like jewels on a
sunny hillside. But nobody sketches
orresds. Idon’tthinkthero’sncopy
of Tennyson in the neighborhood,
and no one never heard of Dorc or
Millais. All they think of is how
many dozen eggs tho hens lay, and
how many cheeses they can make
in a year. And the woman who
has a new recipo for waffles, or new
pattern for a horrible thing they
call ‘crazy quilts,’ is the lender in
society.”
But presently young Mrs. Bol*
lenden caught the fcvei, and became
a model housewife.
Example is all-powerful, and Lu-
,* began to believe that the whole
m of life was domestio thrift,*
money-saving and the treadmill of
work.
My dear,” said Seth, ‘‘if you
think you could get along without
Hepsy, the maid, I might be able
to afford that new reaper before
the oat crop comes, in.”
“I’ll try,” said Luoy.
After that she rose before day
break and worked later into tho
night than ever.
“What is the matter with your
hands, Lucy?” Beth asked one
day. “Thoy are not so while and
beautiful ns they used to bo.”
Lucy colored as slie glanced
down at the members in question.
“I suppose it is from making
flres,” said bIio.
And then she went to wearing
old kid gloves at her sweeping and
dusting and digging out of the
ashes.
“My coat is getting shabby,”
Seth one day remarked.
“Why don’t yon buy another
one?” asked his wife.
Seth laughed a short laugh.
“What do you think Mrs. Hig
ginbotham has done?” said be.
“She has ripped up her. husband’s
old suit and out a pattern by it
and made a new one, and entirely
savod him ten dollars.”
‘‘I could do that!” said Luoy,
with sparkling eyes. “I’ll try it.”
“You could do anything, my
dear,” said Mr. Bellcnden, udmir*
ingly.
And Lucy felt that she had her
rich reward.
Company began to come as soon
as the bright weather set in.
All the affectionate relations of
Mr. Bclienden soon discovered that
the farm-house was cool and shady,
that Lucy’s cooking was excellent,
and the bed rooms were neatness
itself.
Some of them were even good
enough to invite their relations ns
well; and so the house was lull
from April to December.
All the clergymen made their
home at Brother Bellenden's when
they came to Sylvan Bridge for
ecclesiastical conventions; all the
agents for unheard of articles dis
covered that they Knew somebody
who was accquainted with the Bel-
- Icnden's, and brought their earpet
- bags and valises with tliat faith in
o-borve i human hospitality which is one of
-Itorae vultlv.lur^.uWc | J,f 0 ’ 8 |j es t gifts.
Mrs. Bellenden’s fame went
abroad among the Dorcnsscs ot
tlie neighborhood in the matter of
, butter and cheese; she took the
A gentleman ol experience and well rec- j pr izcs in domestio departments at
ommemied de»»re« animationa» over^sor .j . . .. * «■* nnr i *».«
of a plantation. For farther particnlar* BgnCUltUiml Mira, ana Uie
en i si re at thU olHcs. *u<*lJ if adjoining housewives took no trou*
[ (]iiinitcly pi-rfurii
Nursery
Mercer University,
MACON, OA.
Tht* Kail term of this inztitutloa will open on
the lait WL-dnemUy (21th) iu September.
The rate of toll ion la low, and doe« not very
K r eat I y exceed tho matriculation and other fees
of instltutionii in which freo tuition prevail*.
The Theological Department, designed to pre*
pare young men for the ministry, Is presided over
by Rev. .1?G. Kyula. 1> D.
Tho 1‘rcparutory Hchool, of which Mr. A. I.
Branham, A. M., is principal, i* in successful ope
ration. A commodious school house Is about to
be built on tho college grounds, and will be ready
General of the fitat
★
BAKERY,
Cotton Avon lie.
We call the attention of the public to the Net
that w« are nreparctl to li:i nil order* for Fresh
Bread, Cakes, Candy, Etc., of our own make—
food and pure. We kc. p a’so Confertloi?* and
Groceries, which we Hell at the ruling price*
Buy and sell Country Freda* *. Give us a call.
FT. J, PHILLIPS CO.
julyiCtf
For Sale I
TOE WOiWUli HOOK,
c. W. COKER, of Oregon,
Formerly of American. Ga. Price GOo and
$1 each. Apply to -IM>. M. Co(i,;n.
Cotton Avenue, Araerien., Ga.
Au B nBt 10.1884. mil
FOB. SALE.
One span of Moles, one good two-hon
one good spring wagon, with top.
turning plow, one twodiorse cu
H t wagon Larue**, doubla set boggy hn
W ill !»«• sold cheap. Enquire at this office.
Angiift 27. Iw. tf
~TO FZsAlTTEZlS.
well ns not,”
One day when poor Luey, under
the blighting influence of a horrible
sick headache, was endeavoring to
strain three or four gallons of milk
into the shinning pans, the news
arrived that Uncle Paul was com
ing to the farm.
“Another guest!” said Luey,
despairingly.
And then she uttered the pro-
verb that heads our sketch.
“Oh, it’s only Uncle I’aull” said
Mr. Bellcnden. “Don’t Irct, Lutiel
He’s the most peaceable old gentle
men in the world. He’ll make no
more trouble than ncrlcket. John's
wile thought she couldn’t have
him became nlie hail no hired girl
just now ’’
“Neither have 11” said Lucy, ro-
belliously.
“And Sarah Kliza don’t like
company.”
“And I am supposed to be fond
of it!’’observed Lucy, bitterly.
“And llcubcn’s girls don't want
old folks staving there. It’s too
muclt trouble they say,” added
Seth.
Lucy bit her lip to keep back
the words she might have said, in
stead;
“Whore is he to Sleep? The Bel-
fords have the front room, and
your Cousin Susan occupies tho
back room and tho four Misses
Patterson sleep in the two hail
chambers, and the hired men have
the garret room.”
She might have added that she
and her husband and the baby, had
slept in a hot little den opening
from the kitchen, lor four weeks
vainly expecting Mr. and Mrs. Bel
lord to depart; and that shu had
never yet had a chance to invite
her rather to tho farm in pleasant
weather.
But'Sho was magnanimous and
held her peace.
“Oil, you can find Borne place for
him!” said her husband lightly.—
There’s that little room at tho end
of the hall where the spinning
wheel is.”
“But it isn’t finished,” pleaded
Lucy.
“You can easily sew a carpet to
gether ont of thoso old pieces Irom
tho Belford’s room; and it’s no
trouble to put up a muslin curtain
to tho window and lift in a cot bed.
There are a plenty of good sweet
husks in tho corn house, nnd you
can just tack n mattress together
and whitewash tho ceiling, and—
“What’s that, Beniali? The cows
in the rye lot! Dear me! Kvory-
thing goes wrong if I step into the
house a moment. And really, Lu*
tie, those things are your business
and not mine!” lie added irritably.
Luoy could not help laughing ail
by herself ns her husband ran up
the steps.
But it was a very sad little laugh
and soon changed into a sigh.
I wonder,” said she, in a whis
per, ‘‘it my poor, tired-out ghost
would haunt these stone pavements
and scrub shelves, if I were to diet
1 never heard of a ghost in a dairy
before, but I should think that it
mighteasily be,”
But this little bed room was fit
ted up for all lliut, as fresh as a
rose, and uncle Pnul arrived, a
dried-up, yellow complcxioned old
man, with an old-fashioned cravat
tied in many folds around his neck,
tnd a suit of navy blue, with brass
buttons.
Ha bad the polite way ol half a
century ago, and Lucy thought she
would like very him much if she
only had lime to get acquainted with
him.
But she was churning ten pounds
of buttor a day, and thcro was the
baby, and tho company, and the
young chickens, and tbo baking to
do for tbo sewing society, which
was to meet at her house that week.
She was almost too busy to sleep.
But Uncle Paul was watching
her quietly all the time.
He came out one day to the barn
where his nephew was putting on a
new handle on a sickle-blade.
“Pretty busy times—eh, Uncle
Paul?” asked the farmer, scarcely
taking the lime to look up.
“Aye,” absently answered the
old man. “Did I tell you Nephew
Seth, about the reason I left your
Cousin Kliab’s?”
“Not that I remember,” said
Seth, breathing on the blade and
polleblng it with his silk handker
chief.
“Dorothy died—Ins wife?”
“Oh, yes,” said Seth. “Malarial
fever, wasn't it?”
“No!” bluntly answered Uncle
Paul. “It was hard work. That
woman, Nephew' Sctb, did the
housework for eight persons. Kiiab
didn't even let her have a woman
to help her with the washing and
ironing.”
handle a little.
“Ail the sewing, too,” added
Uncle Paul—“the mending and
making. Never went anywhere
except to church. Kltab didn’t
believe in women gadding about.”
“The old savage,” said Seth.
“She was fond of reading, but
never got any time fbr it,” said
Uncle Paul. “She rose before sun
up, and never lay down until II
o'clock. It was hard work that
killed that woman, and Eiiab coolly
declared that it was sheer laziness
when she could not drngj!hcrself
around any longer. And when she
died he rolled up his eyes and
called it a visitation of Providence.”
“Why don’t the neighbors lynch
him?” cried Seth, fairly aronsed to
indignation at last.
Undo Paul took off his glasses,
wiped them vigorously, and looked
his nephow hard in tho face.
“Why don’t the neighbors lynoh
you ?” said he.
&cth dropped the sicklo and
stnred.
“Nophow Seth,” said Uncle Pnul,
impressively, “thou arc the man.
Are you not doing the same thing?”
“11” gasped Seth.
‘‘Your wifo is doing the work of
a household of fifteen people,”said
Uncle Paul. “She is drudging as
you could hire no foreigner to
drudge. She is ruing early and
lying down late; she is offering up
her life on the shrine of your form
and its requirements. I have seen
her grow thiu and pale even during
tho few days I have heen here. I
have carried water and split wood
for her, bccauso there was no one
to do it. I have Been her carry up
Mrs. Belford’s breakfast daily to
her room, because Mrs. Belford
prefers to lie in bed; and cooking
dainty dishes lor Helen Patterson
because Helen wouldn’t eat what
the rest liked. No galley slave
ever worked as Bb'e docs. And
you, with your hired men—whose
board only adds to her cares—and
your labor-saving machinery, stand
coolly by and sco her commit slow
suicide. Yes, Nephew Setb; I
think it is a enso for lynching!”
Seth had grown pale.
“I—I nover thought of this,”
said he. “Why did’t some one
tell mo ?”
“Where were your own eyes?”
asked Uncle Paul.
Seth Bclienden rolled down ' his
shirt sleeves, put on his coat, and
went into tho liotiso.
He told tho Bclfords and Patter-
sons that it was inconvenient to
keep them any longer. He gave
Cousin Susuii to understand that
her room was needed. He mado
arrangements to board tho hired
men nt the vacant form house, and
engaged a stout dairyman and a
bouse sorvant to wait on Luoy.
And he telegraphed to her father
lo coma to Sylvan Bridge at once.’
“She deserves a trost,” he said.
“He shall spend the summer with
And then ho went to toll Luoy.
She had fainted among tho but
tercups, picking strawberries for
tea.
Poor littlo Lucy I The machin
ery had utterly refused to revolve
any longer.
llis heart grew cold within him.
“Sbo will die!” he thought, “and
I shall have murdered her 1”
But sho did not die. She recov
ered her strength by degrees.
“It is better than medicine,” said
she, “to know that Seth Is thinking
of me and for me.”
And Uncle Paul, “the last straw,”
as site had csllcd him—had proved
her salvation.
“I didn’t want her to go as Eli-
ah’s wife did,” said Uncle Paul.
In his ‘‘Twenty Years ot Con
gross,” referring to the eiovation
of the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks
to the United States senate, Mr.
Blaine says: “He was but 31
years of age when first chosen anil
bis record in tlio bouse had not
prepared the public to expect the
strength and ability which be dis
played as Bonator. He was in the
full maturity of his own powers
when he took bis scat and be prov
ed able, watchful and acute in the
discharge of his public dalles. He
was always at his pOBt, was well
prepared on all questions, debated
with ability, and rapidly gained
respect and consideration in the
Bennte.”
A CARD.
To .11 who are .uffering from the error,
toil induurtlions ot yontn, nervon.
weakness, early decay loss ol manhoods
do.. I will wad a lpe that will core
you, FItKE OF I AABGE. This great
remedy was discovered by a missionary
in Booth America. Bendiselr-sddrtssed
envelope to the Bov. JotKPa T. Is MAN,
Station D, Eta York (Sty