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Americus
DAlLy
Recorder.
JEstablished 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1884.
Daily, Psb Year,...$6.00
Wbrkly, “ ... 8.00
Americus Recorder.
PUBUBB£D BF j
Xj. GUjBBSNBR. |
Meat Market
office oio cotton avenue, I PR0VISI0N STORE.
americus.
immoniistb.)ciuoty seat of Sumter
einnntv G»*OTgi"» si'tinted oo the Sown-
SSwwiIroU 71 miles «onthwe*t of
it M . oa flD d about 80 miles north of tb«
p. r |,ti doe It la situated in the finest
section of GeoruK raMnR a Rreater vari
ety of atiricultnml and horiicaltaral pro
ducts than any other part of the Sonth,
couibiniug all the traits, grain and vege
tables of the temperate and semi-tropical
rW e*—wheat, corn, rye, oais, rice, Irish
and sweet potatoes, peanuts, ciiulns,
cotton, peas, sugar cane, npphs, pear*,
npacbes, grapes, plains aDd other frails.
The climate is mild and equable, and ono
of the most healthy in the world, ilie air
being pure and «.ry and most beneficial lor
lnng and tbroat diseases. All kinds i f
outdoor work can be pel formed without
inconvenience from snmnur heat or
winter cold. Americus baa a population
of 6,000, is beautifully situated on high
and rolling ground and toasts of some of
the bandaomesl business blocks in the
South. Tbe city has fine public schools;
good churches; a large public library;
one daily, on® semi-weekly and two
weekly newspapers; a new opera bons*,
completely furnished wiiu scenery and
capable of seating 1.000 person*; a well
orgmixed fire department, including
tw7»tine reamers; the streets me will
paved, sewered and lighted; there are
two flouring mills, a cotton seed oil mill,
rlaniog mill and variety works, carriage
factory, and a number of minor manfaclo-
ries; about two hundred firms are engaged
io mercantile bnsints*; three banks with
an abundance of capital; two good
hotels furnish good accommodation*.
Americas is tho centre ol trade f.»r s x
counties comprising the richest agricul
tural section in Georgia, tbe average an
nual cotton receipts being 30,000 bubs,
which will be largely inoreHS^d by the
completion of tbe Preston and Lumpkin
railroad now in process of construction.
It is the largest city in Southwest Geor
gia, and has betn appropriately narmd
the ' Commercial Cap tal" of that sec
tion, sod it is rapidly g owing in popu
lation and wealth. As a place of Inli
ne** residence it presents attractions
eqmled by few ciiies in the bouth.
Property of all kinds is comparatively
cheap, although rapidly advancing in
valne; tho inhabitants of both city and
conmry are cnltivated, courteous aud
hospitable, with n cordial welcome to im
migrant*. To enterprfsing tradesmen, ju
dicious capitalist* and indust lions farm
er* thin section of Georgia offers tine op-
portuni tes. Any information in regard
to city or country will be cheerfully fur
nished by addres*ing tbe Ameiucuh Re
corder, Americus, Ga.
the Ohio election, it is said.
A negro child was bon in Cobb
( county last week without legs. Its
:o: j existence was cut short by death.
j There are 43 divorce cases on
W.H.&T. M.C0BB i the docket of Bibb Superior Court,
NEtiltflU SK1VS. j 808; total, 2,254, making an aver-
! age of 375 pounds per hand. This
An Atlanta man won $1,500 on cotton was picked by daylight, be-
.71 KICKY MOULTRIE
flaring pnrehased from Haro At Cobb lh« Me*
Market and Provlalou Sto.o on
COTTON AVElffUB
kcop ou band the Very be«t cut* of
BEEF, PORK, KID A.\D SAUSAGE,
nnd nl*o a full line of
Green Groceries nnd Provisions,
embracing all kind* of Vegetables and Fruits in
their season. Canned <>■ od*. etc. It Is their nlu.
to keep s first duns citaMiahtnei-t, n- d give their
customer- good iron ant the one-t prices
Gluts* price ^tld tor Cattle, Hogs, nnd a
Amcrlcu-', LMJ.'ifr, ISh/.tf
P*J-JE3-W
11
And Lunch Room.
This is fo’in firm tny old frlondg and customers
that I hare offered a 1 titic' Hoorn and Gestanran
*t my stand opposite Felder's Warehouse, where
1 am ready to picpate
MEALS AT ALL HOURS.
HAM, FISH, BIRD nnd MEAT SANDWICHES
n-ways on hand ^1 also ke. p
Fresh Fish and Oysters for Sale.
For Indy customer* T have prepared a separate
room, where they will ruc«-i\e pion.| t and courn-
<us >i to thin.
septlfiml -VOIIN A. TURPIN.
ritOFESSIOA'AL & ilUSI.VESS CARDS
LAWYERS.
C. R. McCHORY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
KLLAVILLE, GA.
TERMS—All clnim* from (30 or nuder, (3;
mm • 10 to *300, ten p-r cent.; over *5<0, seven
per cent. No charge* unlea* collection* aro made.
DOCTORS.
Dr. 0. B. RAINES,
SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN
his profcavtonal aervices, with an export'
‘■nc- ot'JS vears, to the pcoide of Americus am
v»citmy. tiffici-over Davfc Jc »'allnwat ’* Stoic, tt«?i
DR. C. A. BROOKS,
AMERICUS, OA.
drug store will receive
Calls l-ft
Prompt ntti - ^ ........
reijdenc* of Col. 8 11. Uawktns,
Will bo found at nijjht
_ MI8CELLANEOUS.
KTell Pickett,
266th ElliriOiV. PRICE OXLf $1,
' m MYSELF,
t (Jreiit Medical Work mi Diaulitiod.
F.xl'austc I Vitalii
hillty I'nm-dure
snnd I’bydeal De
ri man. Knot* oi
■ rui-ulilmr rotn in
?, middle
;i..ns for n
l which is
z;s* so
th-r, whose exi^-rlenee or S3
prob ,tdy never netore tell in tti
clan. 8> 0 j«a_'* a hound In b* nut
work in evt-rv’iemw—ilieelaii
profc-sionnl -tnuii a. y other v
coiintr,' or #2 30, or tho money
In every instance. I'rice only
paid. Illit* rativc ennin'o 8 c
ifold medal awarded the
Medical Aas»ci"tion, to l
refer
! Ofll-I
ml hv the yoi
licncHt all.—London lauu
Th- r- b no o e «»><
book will m*t be ti-e
* nrdi.m. l-siru tor. ..
dy Medic:
W. II. I’-rker, No
Ma*s , who may i>e aonan
quirlxg ak II and • xperiei
Dullinuh St re*
itu •
t'hrc
WHEALS
ALBOTTON, .... GEORGIA
Will do Plastering, Brickwork and Housework
c »!»omino a apeciaJt/. J{,-pairing dona. Or <*rt
promptly attended to, octStf
GIN WORK.
1 1 *"»* KaMcMUly ii.'ti 1<| tho public that
I am now prepaidd to
repair old GINS!
loca-ed »ith
in rear Of Oliver * Oliver'* shoo. Work
•ottered. |may(S5m) F, A. OAHEROH.
E'lw. J. Mi'ler. cTHoraoe^cCaU.
Monumental Marble Works,
KILLER It McL'ALL, Proprietors,
Nntuhwest Comer of tho Pnblic Square,
AMERICUS, OA.
l.,Et0.
« Ui. bool Italian A0d Amortcan JlArble.
,f *“ *-*••.* *-( Otmtl.r, Ettclos*
Mil, • SpMtaMr.
tfOR RB1TT.
Ch T n h .!il*u rMid *nc«of L 0. Birreit, on
Adl' h li A rMt - now "ooupied by A. A
t^'- PooMMion girep Soplembe. I,
COS-
LOOK OUT FOR
J. W. Sheffield & Co.
M03XTBY
WE MUST HAVE !
Aii old no'cs nnd
iafiietoriiilly arraiiB*
tbe hands of oflln
J el-e they will h i placed ir
rs for collection. Wo meat
J. W. SIIEFFitLD A CO.
27 of them docketed since last
term. The maj irity of those seek
ing dissolution arc negroes. In
one case the man and wife have en
tirely different names.
11 cut ton county is out of debt
anil has a balance of $8,119,43 in
tho treasury. The Tax Collector
has collected but little of tbe pres,
ent year’s taxes; therefore he lias
■raid nothing into the hands oltbc
Treasurer for this year.
Superintendent Hotelier, of the
S'ate fair, has received telegrams
from horse-owners in Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Oldo and Mississip
pi, saying they would bo here dur
lug the fair with their horses. A
ftdl stable will lie brought from
.Mississippi. This looks ns though
the racing will be better than was
ever expected.
George W. Tyler, while piddling
Racoon mill pond, near Summer
ville, I-st week, saw a commotion
in the water. Paddling up gently
he reached down, seized a large
turtle by the tail, jerked it into tho
boat on ils back, nnd killed it. It
measured 14 inches ono way, 17 the
other, and weighed 35 pounds. Its
head was 4 inches across.
Beverly it Co. bad tbe mislor-
tiino to Jose their steam saw mil),
sittuatc 1 about four miles from
Thomasville, on the Monticello
road, n few days ago. With the
tniil was consumed, also, about 10,-
000 feet of lumber. There was co
insurance. It is not known how
the fire originated. The mill, with
the exception of tho engine and
boiler. wa3 a complete loss.
Mrs. Henry Westbrook, who is
75 years of age, and who has lived
in Monroo county for 50 years, has
never ridden in the cars or visited
a town larger than Forsyth. She
is a lady of good social position
and influence, and of marked in
tellectuality. She has been a
member of the Paran Baptist
Church for nearly a half century.
It is not often that a lady of Mrs.
Westbrook's standing is found
who lias not traveled more than
sbe has.
Alliens Banner: Capt. We'sh
lias a kinsman in North Carolina
wiio last year cleared $41,000 'rom
300 acres planted iu tobacco. It
was grown on the mountain sides,
where the soil is too poor to pro
duce any other crop. One acre
paid him $700. It is nothing unu
sual for $300 per acre to be cleared
from tobacco culture in North
Carolina. The State of Georgia is
equally as well adapted to the pro
duction of tobacco, and our furm
ers would find it more profitable
than cotton raising.
The Board of Trustees of the
South Georgia College of Agricul
tural and Mechanical Art", have
authorized tbe erection of com-
tween sunriso and sunset, with a
loss of fully or.e hour and a half
for dinner, and may be considered
extraordinary. No moisture, not
a drop of dew, on tbe cotton.
Some weeks ago, Miss Maude
Me:Gough,who lives near Forsyth,
set a trap for a hawk, baiting it
with a young chicken. When she
went to look for it the trap was
gone,also a chain about two feet
long, which was attached to the
trap, and was tied to a bush. Last
week, Mr. Thomas McCommon
with a rifle, shot a hawk which
measured four lect nnd ten inches
from tip to tip, and had a tiap
attached to its foot with a chain—
evidently the trap that had been
sent by Miss McGough. The trap
wna seen dangling beuenth tbe
hawk before be was shot, ne bad
got caught and carried tbe trap oil
with him.
A well-to-do citizen of Taylor
county, who bad some trouble with
tbe United States officials, but from
which be was entirely relieved, be
came so utterly frightened from
foreboding of future ill in conse
quence that he sacrificed his crop
of colton (sixteen bales), several
good mules and other personal
effects, and fled tbe country for
parts unknown, leaving bis family
wholly unprotected. Three of bis
neighbors and some of his credi
tors, who were sufierers financially
by bis sudden and mysterious dis
appearance, called at the Uuitcd
States Court to learn tbe nature
of the charges, if any, against him.
Their overwhelming astonishment
when informed there was absolute
ly nothing against him in the
courts, can be more easily imttgln
ed than described. They returned
carrying with them official assttr
anccs of this fact, nnd hoped to be
able to discover the absent neigh
bor and induce him to return to
his Lome and business. Many
people in the rural districts liavu
a singular and dreadful fear ol be
ing brought into tile United Slates
Courts.
Moultrie, Ga., Oot. 18 The
weather is hot aud dry, though we
have Imd some cool nights.
Ocopiieo and Ocklocknee creeks
are both drying up, and fishermen
are having a good time. 1 am
sorry to say the polly wogs are not,
Tbe dry and hot weather is pro
ductive of much Bickness, and
there ig no doctor to nurse them
our worthy representative elect,
Dr. Watkins, having been confined
to bis bed for a month with an at
tack of malarial fever, contracted
while nursing a niece, wbo was ill
of fever and wbo died at Ty Ty.
Cotton is coming in slowly; in
fact, there is but littlo to come in.
One of our merchants tent COO
pounds of seed cotton to the gin
and three days ago they sent him
word to come nnd get it, or bring
enough to finish out a halo. lie
has been on the road ever since
trying to buy enough to make out
bis baio, and has failed to get it.
Our court houso is going up
slowly. We have three carpenters
peaking away on it, and hope to
complete it by the March term of
superior court.
Sample copies of Recorder re
ceived. Thanks. Hope to send
you a big list from here. Such a
paper deserves success.
Joe Jefferson.
DAWSOJI DOTS.
Judge Crisp la Perry.
Terry Homo Journal.
Hon. Charles F. Crisp, demo
cratic nominee fur congress from
this tho third district, was in Perry
Inst Thursday nnd Friday. At
about 12 o’clock Fiiday noon the
Superior Court room was comlort-
ably filled with citizeus ol the
county, white and colored, assem
bled to hear Judge Crisp speak.
The address wus sensible, direct,
plain and positive, proving conclu
sively that our congressman l«
worthy to fill the position for
which lie has been nominated.
Judge Crisp dwelt for a while upon
the lari IT policy of tho republic in
party, showing that a tariff levied
for protection is not in tbe inter
est of the masses of our people.
He expressed confidence in the
overthrow of the republican party
in t le presidential election that
will 'aku place on the first Tuesday
—fourth (lay of November next.
He announced that B. F. Bell,
ex-postmaster at Americus, was
the republican candidate from this
district, by authority of a motley
onvenlion licit assembled at
Hawkinsville on tbe 1st inst. He
modious nnd suitable buildings fur > a"ked our people to come out in
“e.1 ~za0WLT0N'isnitw.akh ! a chapel, assembly nnd recitation ! full force on the 4tb of November,
, aa.cn ,odd'Is. Aiiin. „b ,, f rooms for the college-not to cost | *"<? r<,co . r(l ‘<*e usual democratic
FOR PHYSICIANS AN’K FAMILIES | csg $10,000—and a commit
Neatest, Chewiest, Be«t. '
INfeUHE WITH THE
N;rwich Union Fire Insurance Society
ASSETS $1,120,078.
A. L. REES, Agent,
Alien.t 97 m2
DURHAM’S
1MPIIOVEU
Hint;lit mm!
. e »; it. r perceul»*r,
£*W.r,ai d«*~l't ...»»•.*
inoutjr. per lica* P”*
anyotii r turbine Iu *t
tirstw p.i".pMei i -t
IUO*. ( Maw V#rlr.
free, by
majority in Houston.
Col. R. M. Hedge, of Hawkins-
tec consisting of J. I. i’uiker, democratic presidential elec-
Sainuel L. Haynes, B. F. Hawkins, j tor for this district, was also adver-
W. M. Hammond and J- T. I’itt- i tiled to speak here that day, but
man has been appointed to make a ! ? u ' le « ram btalcd tbal
, * 1 _ . he was prevented irom coming by
contract for the erection of such t g j c kne8s.
buildings, and the work will begin Our people ire re favorably im-
immediately upon the approval of j pressed with Judge Crisp, and a
the tilan and terms ol contract by I largo mujority of the Houston
. : , votes will be cast for him.
the board. j T T m
Oakland correspondent Greens- I It is stated that an ingenious
villc Vindicator: I send you the i pharmaceutist in North flaltimore
At iittuk v/ Amerieut . . has invented an invisible lip salve,
result of a day’s cotton picking by or ointmenti flavorcd with honey,
six bands on Mr. li. C. Thrash s jf a y 0un g mgn g e i, 0I10 kiss, he’s
plantation on last Saturday, Out. 1 never satisfied until hv obtains an
il- E. C. Thrash, Jr., 493; Alex, other. Here the young lady puts
Dickens, colored. 39U; Bent Rey- I bcr foot ,,own firm, - v '' arM B “>' 9 not
Holds, colored, 388; Lindreih Mu
ano'her kiss before marriage. A
license is quickly procured, the
Crary, colored, 350; Reuben Siroz- j parson is spuken to, and tlie rites
Ur, colored, 326; David L. Thtasb, 1 are duly eolemnUed.
Dawson, Oct. 20 Mrs. Jack
Savage, of Dougherty county, for
merly Miss Susie Newberry, of this
place, died of malarial fever at her
home uear Walker's Station, on
last Saturday, and was brought to
Dawson Saturday night and inter
red iu Ihc city cemetery Sunday
morning at II o’clock, Rev. How
urd Key, of Cutbbcrt, performing
tbe burial service.
Miss Nannie Ogletree, of George-
town, spent several days in our
city last week, tbe guest of Mrs.
M. M. Anthony. Site returned
home yesterday to the regret of
several of our young men.
Miss Corrinnc Jones, late ofotir
city, now of Eufaula, came over
last week and spent a couple of
days among her relatives and
friends, returning yesterday after
noon.
Tom McGill has just returned
from a two days trip to bis (arm
in Webster county. He ssys, in
spite of tbe drought and dust, be
had a good time with the girls.
Mr. J. E. Mercer, of the Calhoun
County Courier, arrived in our city
yesterday, on his return from In
dian Springs.
Mr. T. U. Thornton, general
store, has failed,and bis bouse was
closed by tbe sherifl this morning.
Mrs. B. II. nood left today for
Ellaville to visit her sister, Mis.
William AlleD, who is dangerously
ill.
Mrs. W. H. Wilkinson left to
day for Andersonvillc.
Professor W. K. Pilsbury re
turned to Eufaula this afternoon.
No rain in this section yet.
J. A. F.
Democrats Refuse to iie Shot Down.
Chicago, Oct. 18.—In commcnl-
ing on the supervision of the polls
on election day and tbe appointing
of Deputy United States Marshals
and Deputy Sherifis, the Times
this morning prints the following:
Democrats, that is to say 100 of
Railroads and Hide Ranters Putting
an End to the Buffalo.
St. Paul Piotuer«PreM.
During a recent warm day a re
porter strolled into a wholesale fur
dealer’s to soiaco himself with a
view of the hairy integuments
which suggested winter’s cooling
blasts. A large pile of bison robes
attracted bis gaze, knd to him the
proprietor szid:
"Better bay one and frame ft,
my boy.”
“Frame it?”
"Yes. In about five years from
now they’ll be as scarce as sliver
fox skins, and five times as aseTal.”
"Why, what was tbe catch this
year?”
"Four.”
"Four what?” Thousand?”
"No, air; plain tour. In other
words, there wasn’t any catch thie
year, snd our firm corralled six out
of the 10,000 of tbe oa'ch of 1883.”
“Do you mean to tell me that
the buffalo bave disappeared from
the face of Dakota and Montana
earth?”
"Practically, yes; and from alt
other earth in the Northwest as
well. Tbe remnants of tbe Mg
band, numbering probably a few
thousand, are somewhere north of
the international line; no one seems
to know clearly where, but proba
bly in the remote vioinily of Woody
Mountain. There aro a few on the
plains between the James river and
tho Missouri and about the forty-
sixth parallel. An old bull was re
cently driven into Fort Meade,
along with a lot of domestio cattle,
by tbe cow boye. He looked like
tbo last of bis race, and if he hai
any fellows tboy can't be found.”
" Wbat did you use to call a big
yearly catch?”
"Well, in the year after tbe
Northern Pacific was opened
through to the Little Missouri,
1881, I tbiok it was, Northwestern
traders got fa about 100,000 robes.
You sea tbe railroad let In the hide
hunters, and as the buffalo hap
pened to be south of tbe line, and
within reaching distance of the
Missouri and transportation, tbe
output was very large. Thousand*
upon thousands were killed whose
hides were never temoved, and of
the thousands a large majority fur
nished only a few pounds of ten
derloin to the rapacious riflemen.
We’ve been talking tor year* about
tbo time when the buffalo would
be practically extinot. Now that
time has come, and it’s too late for
protective laws. Suoh laws could
not bavo been enforced against the
Indians, but they might have been
against tbe while bide hunters and
the rich sportsmen, who were the
most wanton death dealers of the
lot.”
"Can they be bred to domestic
cattle?”
“Oh, yes; readily enough. But
the hybrid, while good enough for
meat,' is not of muoh use for robes.
It’s a pitv there wasn’t a law en
acted,a decade or two ago making
it a penal offense for a white man
to even shoot at a buffalo. The
Indians are not so ruthle-s in their
destruction as has been claimed,
and, besides, when they get a robe
and tan it, It’s worth something.
Tbe robes tanned in tbe East, or
by whites anywhere, are Incompar
ably interior to those known to the
trade as Indian tanned. Tbe reds
take a lot of pains, and seem to
bave a method which, while It
leaves the hide pliable, leaves it of
sufficient thickness and strength to
hold tbo hair and withstand tbe
rough usage all robes must expect
to undergo."
“I should be inclined to believe,
from your remarks, that buffalo
overcoats will be worth a good deal
a few years from now.”
"A good deal? Well, If you call
$100 to $150 a ‘good deal,’ I agree
with you. Sertoualy, there must
be a substitute found for them,
since I am not exaggerating an
iota as to scarcity.”
ringing tbe church bell, was caught
around the neck by the rope and
jerked up about seven feet, very
near choking tbo life ont of him
before be could extricate himselt.
A very queer accident, which
might, if it had proved serious,
been construed into a guloide, hap,
, , . , - pened last Sunday at Tuskegee,
them, organized yesterday wbat Alo< Mr . Barney Du Bote, while
they aro pleased to style a vigil- 1
ancc committee. It is composed
of resolute men who are resolved
that no intimidation or violence
shall rule at tbe Chicago polls, and
their orders are to provoke no
fight themselves nor to indulge in
any as long as tbo contest is mere
ly wordy, but if any bulldozing is
attempted by negro or other Depu-
ty Marshals to resist it, and if any
Democrat is shot to see to it that
tbe shooter at once suffers the
same fate. So tbe matter stands,
ami if the feeling keeps growing
in intensity there will be serious
troubls In Chicago on elsetlon day,
ACARD.
To all wbe art aufftring from tbe error,
and indiscretions ol youtn, nervous
weakness, early decay loss of manhoods
&o., I will send a ipe tbit will curs
you, FREE OF f RAHOE. This great
remedy was discovered by n missionary
In Booth America. Sendastlf-addrtaMd
envelope to tbe R*V. JosZFI T. XXXAX,
Station D, Etta York CU$