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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 $150 a ‘good deal,’ I agree with you. Sertoualy, there must be a substitute found for them, since I am not exaggerating an iota as to scarcity.” ringing tbe church bell, was caught around the neck by the rope and jerked up about seven feet, very near choking tbo life ont of him before be could extricate himselt. A very queer accident, which might, if it had proved serious, been construed into a guloide, hap, , , . , - pened last Sunday at Tuskegee, them, organized yesterday wbat Alo< Mr . Barney Du Bote, while they aro pleased to style a vigil- 1 ancc committee. It is composed of resolute men who are resolved that no intimidation or violence shall rule at tbe Chicago polls, and their orders are to provoke no fight themselves nor to indulge in any as long as tbo contest is mere ly wordy, but if any bulldozing is attempted by negro or other Depu- ty Marshals to resist it, and if any Democrat is shot to see to it that tbe shooter at once suffers the same fate. So tbe matter stands, ami if the feeling keeps growing in intensity there will be serious troubls In Chicago on elsetlon day, ACARD. To all wbe art aufftring from tbe error, and indiscretions ol youtn, nervous weakness, early decay loss of manhoods &o., I will send a ipe tbit will curs you, FREE OF f RAHOE. This great remedy was discovered by n missionary In Booth America. Sendastlf-addrtaMd envelope to tbe R*V. JosZFI T. XXXAX, Station D, Etta York CU$