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Americus Recorder eum.isni'.u nr w. Xfc t.arxtiwmmmmmj, ,.rri<:E O.H COTTON ATEWCE. " aMERICUS. ^.mraUtoU 71 miles louthweet of 25 S about 80 miles norib of the KSifiac. It is situated in the finest Motion of GeorgK ruieioR a greater vatl- rtr of sgrUoltnrsl and horticultural pto- doota than any other part of the Sooth, combining all the fruits. grain and vega- teblesof the temperate nod semi-tropical , 0 „es_*beat, corn, rye, oats, nee, Irish Li sweet potatoes, peanuts, chufas, cotton, peas, sugar cane, apples, pears, Miches; grapes, plains and other fruits. ?be climate is mild and equable, and one of the most healthy in the world, the air being pure and (Irrnnd mostbenedoial lor loag and throat diseases. All kinds of oubloor work can be performed without inconvenience from summer beat or winter cold. Amerious has a population of 0 009, is beautifully sitn»ted on high and'rolling gronud and boosts of some of the haudsomesl business blocks in the Sonth The city has fine public schools; solid churches; a large public library; »co (UHy, one semi-weekly and two weekly newspapers; a new opera house, cwupletely furnished wit** scenery and enable of seating 1,000 persons; a well owmized fire department, includitg two fine steamers; the streets are well paved, sewered and lighted; there are two flooring mills, a cotton seed oil mill, rlaning mill and variety works, carriage factory, and a number of minor man facto ries; about two hundred firms are engaged in mercantile business three banks with an abnndanco of capital; two good hotels lnrniah good accommodations. Americas is tho centre of trade for six coitnlies comprising the richest agricul tural section in Georgia, the average an nual cotton receipts being 30,000 bales, which will be largely, increased by the completion of the Preston and Lumpkin railroad now in process of construction. It is the largest city in Southwest Geor gia, and has been appropriately named the "Commercial Capital" of that sec tion, sod it is rapidly growing in pop* latino and wealth. As a place of busi ness residence it presents attractions equaled by few cilies in the bomb. Property of all kinds is comparatively cheap, although rapidly advancing in value; the inhabitants of both city and conntry are cultivated, courteous nud hospitable, with a cordial welcomed im migrants. To enterprising tradesmen, ju (licioua capitalists and industrious farm trs this section of Georgia offers fine op- poitanities. Any information in regard to city or country will be oheerfully fur nished by addressing the Amemcub Re corder, Amerious, Ga. 3TCAP1TAL PRIZB $73,000, Tickets only 95. Shares Its proportion Louisiana State Lottery Go. " We do hereby certify that we eupervut the arrangement. for alt the Monthly ant Semi-Annual Drawingt of The Lmuiano State Lottery Company,undinptreon man age and control the Drawingt themseltee, and that the tame are conducted with hon esty, f aimed, and in good faith toward all partue, and ue authorize the Company to uze thin. certificate, with n'gnaturee attached, in itt. CommUaton.r., Incorporated nr 1MI for 25 year. hy Lire Legi«li. ture fur Educational and Charitable liurpaoea— with n capital of 11,000,(1110—to which « roaerra fund of over $000,000 haa atneo been added. By au overwhelmm, popular rote lla franehlac wna mad. a part of tho pteaent state Constitution adopted December 2d, A. D.. 187V. The only Lottery rrtr toted on and er,darted by the iteople of any Stale, It never tcalei or pcitponrr. Its Grand Rln,te Number Dratriu,! OP MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, TUKSDAT, November 11, ISO*-171th Monthly Draw In,. CAPITAL PRIZE, *T0,OOO. 100,000 Ticket, at Five Dollar, Each, fraction,, In Fifths, In Proportion. LIST OP PRIZE?:, 1 CAPITAL PRIZE.....7. ,70,000 25,000 CURSES THAT DO HOT RODST. , Tho Don Jfnlanneo In Dawioo-Lftv- Inn for Tain. Dawson, Oct. 30.—Mr. T. L. McUebee, of our county, after selling out everything, left last Monday for Sail Antonio, Texas, where lie will make liis future home. I dislike to see our gbod citizens leave Georgia for other States, and think they could succeed as well here as anywhere. However, men are benefitted by change, and I hope our friend will never have cause to regret the step lie has taken. We have had a little coo! spell in Dawson, but there «as not moisture enough to make a re spectable frost, so wc will have to wait till it rains. Our ppnds have gone dry and the wells aud creeks arc rapidly failing. Cows and hens are also drying up, and butter and eggs can almost be numbered with THE XEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION, j gerative to say that the Latin race l'of this continent is at least thor- > ougjily awake to the faet that thia New Orleans, Oct. 28, 1834.— Tho usual autumn boom of business here is more marked than ever be fore. Tho laying of new and of more car tracks, the building of new houses, the improvement and extension of old ones, are good and sufficient signs of the times. Even Is tfiR nineteenth century. The commissioners of the Japanese gov ernment, 'Messrs. Takamino and Tamari, have\also arrived with a demand for larger apace in which to display the development of their country. Everything now points to the conclusion that not satisfied with being one ol the positionally the formation of new olulisamong i g rea t cities of the world, New Or- the young men is an item not to be leans is resolved to prove herself left out in the calculations ot an observer of tho present prospects of this place, which many years ago some audacious prophet in the Encyclopaedia Britannica declared would be the greatest commercial city on this continent if not in the world. The prediction doos not now seem so hopelessly wild of aim, for the last five^ycars. whoso progress has sought expression in the hold, ing of a world’s exposition hero on a scale simply gigantic, have been even more — . 10,000 1,000 SCSI 200, PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS C. R. McCRORY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, r.LUVU.LE, GA. TKKMS—All iflahn* from $00 or Otydcr, $3; rvbi ®(o to $500, ten per ceut.; over $500, rftvru can. Xo charge* tml*«* collection* ero m*dt\ May 14-»C _ DOCTORS: Dr. 0. B. RAINES, tfURGEOAf aD PHYSICIAN* •filer* his protcmlonnl amice*, with an expert* «•»«• ol 20 Yenr*, to tha people of Amerlcu* and uciniiy. Office over Darin Ac Callaway'* Store. Ilea .rfw’* at corner of Jackson and Church •ti'*et«. Dww will receive prompt uttcutlon. • lanSAil DR.C.A. BROOKS, AMERICUS, GA. 0*j!» left nt DAveupnrt'a drug store will receive .prompt attention. Will bo found at night i ’ ‘* J miscellaneous* J. Mt'ler. C, Horace McCall. Works, JIULEU* MeCALL, Proprietors, Southwest Corner ot the Public Squire, * AMERICUS, GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc.,Etc. •fMj* be»t Italian and American Marble. ,r *“ for Cemetery Kudos- 9 Approximation Prize* of $750,... 9 " •• . 10,750 4,500 2.250 1,907 Prize*, amounting to $295,600 Application for rate* to club* ahonld be mnda only to the office of tho Company in New Orleari*. For further Information write clearly, eivlng full address. POSTAL NOTES, Gxpre** Money Onlers, or Naw York -Kxcbanre in ojrdl* n«ry letter. Currency bjr Kxprrfs (all snma of J 5 and upward by Express at our oxpenne) ad- re**cd orM. A. DAUPHIN, ®OT Seventh — * Make P. O. Mom UeRtatcred Letter* NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK Now Orleans, La. Meat Market PROVISION STORE. W. H.&T. M.COBB Having purchorti’d from Ultra 4* Cobb iiu> Uts Market and Provision Slto.e <m cotton avinnm keep ou loind the very beet uul* of ; BEEF, PORK, KID AND SAUSAGE, and mI«o a full Due of Green Groceries nud Provisions, embracing nil kind* of Vc«*(:ib|e* «n*l l'ruita In their Mason, Canned Uoods, etc. It Is their nlm to keep a first clas* eatabllahment, nnd Rive their Uktomer* xodd goods nt the loweat prices. J3THlKhest price paid for Cattle, Hog*, and a ind* of country nrodnee, Americas, Doc. 18, UMLtf 9 26fitli EDITION. PRICE ONLY $1, •ally. area, a Specially. ■TOR MUTT. Th* lat« residence of L. C. ilarrott, on .<torch Street, now oecnple.1 by A A. j™"*. I'oeaeaion given September 1, Apply to J.no. M. CoKxa. Aagttet *20tb. tf Dissoluttoa Notioe. *°y our “HIinfereet.i in th* fiiU JjPf Americua Oil Company, aolr^“» of B,a ^in« A Davenport is dU- by mutual consent, notorii « A* Baldwin & Co. J*tt0dAw3«r Jo Davknport. Cheap Zzigines. Koinll Cooper Portable ai 5‘P^ m K chIwmMn uf wwu Curt.- Appeal - kA\J I W '.HYSELF. j Great Medical Work on Manhood, Exhausted Vitality, Xervou* and 1’hyjlcal [De bility Premature beclfuo In man. Error* of Youth, and tha unfold mlaerlc* reunlttnif from In- dlicmlon or excesses. A book lor every man younr. middle aeo enfold. It eontaIna 124 pra *rriptiona for all acute and chromic dUcesep, each one of which IsInvalunMe. ft) found b? the au thor, who** exiwrlcncc 'or S3 year* I* »uch n* proha biv never before foil lo the lot of say phym- cian. 300 pag< i bound in bcRUttrnl Erencn muslin, cmbo*M*d eorent, foil gilt, fuaiantrcd lo \>e a liner work In every »<ense— mechanical, literary aud profc*»lonal—than aty other work sold In thl* country lor $2.50, or ihe money will be refunded In everv instance. Price only |l by mail, i*»st paid. illu*irHiive *nmple « Cent*. Send now. Cold mcdnl awarded the author by the National Medical Association, to the officer* ef e hich be I.ook «houM be rend by the young for ln- Aructiou. and by the afflicted for w-Uet It will benefit aU.—London Lancet. • • There le no member of eoeiety to whom thl hook will not be useful, whether youth, parent eaar.llan, inwructor or clergyman.—Argonaut. Address the Peaiwdy Medical Institute, or Dr. W. II. Parker, No 4 Bulfincb Street, Boaton, Mo**., who may be consulted on all dlneaae* re- nniriiift vkill and experience. Chronic and oUU- Late di sea-tot that have baffled I bo Li CA I *ktll of all other phyeielana » specialtTOLMUty. Such t reate.I tucceafally » UliT|J WO pip oat an Instance of inllure. I niwLLr xtareh*w4w ______ DURHAM’S IMPROVED STANDARD TURBINE! 1. tli..b*.t -xlutracti il .flit Sn- hin d, gives liettcr pereentmue, mote power, and t* «old tor leaa money, per hose power, than tnroth r Tnrbine In tile world., *V^W 1 ’Y• rJ' 1 * fr * # ’ b/ the things that tire past. But the live hundred lice dogs continue to perambulate our streets frqtn tho rising to the setting of the sun, and then sit upon their haunches and “bay the moon from dewy eve to early morn.” They often get the largest dogs to barking, then the chickens to crowing, the hogs to squeeling and the cows to lowing. It’s enough to make a- man who has nerves use cubs words, provid ed he had been raised an orphan. I want a dog law enacted and exe cuted in our city. Let every d og be taxed one dollar, ami it will pay the whole expenses of our city government. Dogs are a nuisance and especially Bcc dogs. Lot’s abolish them. Col. C. B. Wooten, of Calhoun county, is on a visit to our city. His son, Johnnie Wooten, will re main with us and on gage in the mercantile business with his uncle, Wm. Wooten. Johnnie is an ele gant young man, and we arc glad to huvo him with us. > J. A. F. WANTED. A situation by a young man who can writs a good hand, is quick at tigarea. It work for a moderate The pyramidal capstone of the Washington monument Is complet ed and -stands in the sheds of the monument grounds, where it is an object of great curiosity to multi tudes of people. The pinnacle of the marblo is cut away to allow a copper apex to set into the stone, which will lie connected with the lightning rod on the interior of the monument. The workmen say that many people, especially young la dies,’ insist op perching themselves on this stone, in order to say that they have stood upon the apex of the Washington monument. This involves, stsndlng upon a space about C feet square and 5 feet from the ground, which, lo most of the ladies who try it, is as dizzy an experiment as it would he for Ihe average monument workman to’ stand upon the very summit of the completed monument. ,A few days sineo a most laugha ble mistake was made by James D. Warren, editor of the ButJ^lo Com mercial, who is making a vigorous campaign fn behalf of Blaine for the Presidency. A poem, which, upon its face, was full of praise of the Republican candidate, was ac cepted and printed in that journal and special attention called by the editor to the beautiful tribute. Upon a careful reading of the same after it was in print, it was discov ered that it was nothing else titan an acrostic, which those who ran might understand that it was their bounden doty to “vote for Cleve land.” The editor’s cou-ternstion PBODlOAt. IN PERFORMANCE than the past wits profuse in prom ise. Much has been published of I late on this subject of growth, but one day at the exposition will out weigh in fact-impressiveness whole weeks ot statistical study. Seeing is believing and the sight of the new South in radiant array this winter to win a victory of peace will convince the world not only of the sympathetic oneness of the nation, but alsoot the won derful wealth waiting here for the wise and btJuoino to re developed into a splendid usefulness. The “New South’’datcs from about five years ago. The ravpgec of war and misgovernment, the immense loss of life, capital and labor brought about by a prolonged struggle, left it still prostrate and impoverished as late as 1877 or 1873. It was then that tho first dawnjifa new life was shown. With the government in the bands of the people, with tho hitter ani mosities of war and political Btrile ended, a new spirit was aroused, a new enthusiasm revived, out of which a new condition of affairs sprang. It was a hard struggle at first, but the men nnd .women of the Sonth never faltered. Confidence wns restored, woallh created, new ideas propagated. Mr. King’s book on the “Great South” showed the people ot the North and Kast this impending INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, and capital nnd immigrants turned their eyes in this direction. Money was invested hero in rebuilding and reconstructing the old railroad systems, broken and bankrupted by the war. This money doubled, trebled end quadrupled itself. So successful were these investments that new li res wore constructed, first In Texas and Georgia, and then spreading over the whole South. The roads thus built were of the very best character, steel railed and ballasted, with elegant ears nnd quick schedules. Follow ing the railroads, trade and com merce revived. Then came an industrial renais. sancc’, a turning to manufactures. It was discovered that the South was especially fitted for the manu facture of many articles, especially of its own great staple, cotton. Other Industries followed. The mines of Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama began to turn out coal and iron at rates that startled Penn sylvania, and assured the success ful rivalry of the South in these industries. South Carolina had al ready discovered a mine of wealth in its phosphates, which revived tlic worn out fields of the older South. This progress, this growth, then started, has been becoming more and more rapid every year. But it must not be imagined that prove the expositionally great one of the country. guim-ouTed. The Mikado of Japan Orders the De capitation of aUeoralnjlVomen. -Truth and indignation upon the unearth _____ ___ __ ing of the fraitd may lie better im- \ | Hnv i n g the progress of this sec- agined than descr.bcd. j t j on [j u ,| 80 ught expression in lbs • In 1768 two' blacksmiths ^ Wyoming Valley, Pa„ erst llsc a | '”",1 meaiil. to imply any localism anthracite coal, or as-it was com 1 to 111 *» monly called "stone coal.” Judge all embrauive enterprise. Bell made u c c of it for domestic , On the contrary, the exposition, heating in 1808. He made a wood i from its* present lookout, may lie grate. In an old hook he made' likened to that scriptural tower this note : “Feb. 11, of Masonry, j from which could lie seen, all at 1808, made uu experiment ol burn- { one, all the kingdoms of the earth ing the common stone coal of the and the glory of them. It has valley in a grate in a common fire-' become national, international, un- place in my bouse, and find it will j ivcrsal in its character. The inter- answer the purpose ol fuel, ma- j eat of foreign nations in it has ac hing a clear and better fire than j cumulated rapidly in the last two burning wood in the common way.” j months. W ben the bard coal was taken to The commissioners from Mexico, and will work foen AJ.IrcM. MlftUiV X art ui Rixohkku. .A. Philadelphia no one would use it, thinking it was stone. In 1870 the amount ol anthracite coal mined in the United States amounted to over $38,000,000 in value. Spanish Honduras and Sonth American countries have been tome time in the city, actively engaged in preparations of extraordinary magnitude, and It, is hardly exag- -New York, October 26 publishes the following: A wonderful and startling story comes to us from Japan via Paris. One of the most beautiful women America has ever produced has been beheaded there through a special edict of the Mikado, secur ed through the prayers of the prime minister. The woman was the Countess Pourtales, nee Mrs. John Beeoher, of New York. The decapitation was caused through the Japanese prime minister’s jeal ousy and revenge. Tho story ol the Cpuntess Pourtales was as fol lows: After the war there came an aristocratic mother and her most beautiful daughter to New York from Georgia. The mother and daughter brought letters to many New Yorkers, among whom were Tburlow Weed, Hugh J. Has tings, Thomas Murphy, Henry Clews and others. The’ daughter was so ravishlngly beautiful that she made a sensation wherever she went. She bad many suitors. The suitor most favored was the wealthy John Beecher, and many New Yorkers remember their hap py marriage. During Mrs. Beecher's early mar ried life no professional beauty re ceived as maoh attention as she. Accomplished, graceful, vivacious, and with a color more transcend- antly beautiful than the loveliest rose, the young wile was always the ueatre’of an admiring group. Her toilet in the park nnd at Je rome club homo was always the envy of every lady who saw it. Every New Yorker remembers Mr. Lloyd Pbienix’s flotation with Mrs. Beicher; how she shot at him as be passed his sister's steps on Fifth Avenue, and how, after her husband had separated from her, site fled to Europe in pursuit of Mr. Pbienlx. The newspapers were full of it at the time. In Paris Mrs. Beecher, supported by her divorc ed 'husband’s money, generously given ber,Mgan a life of luxurious pleasure. She drove the handsom est turnout on the Bols, gave the most sumptuous dinners, and was the sensation of the gay metropolis. One of her first suitors was the Count Pourtales, formerly connect ed with the J-’ronch legation at Washington, wVose first wife was the beautiful daughter of Bon IIol- lldajr. Mrs. Beeober and the Count were soon married. Her transcendent beauty was the craze of Paris, and while the Countess was the talk of the city she sailed with her bun band for Japan, where the Count joined the French legation. In Ja pan, as the wife of an attache of the legation, the Countess Pour- tales was introduced to the highest personages in diplomatic circles. For a time she led court circles, but soon she tired of her hush Aid, as she had tired o( Mr. Beecher, and began flirting with a French officer. s The Count now claimed that they were not legally married and sailed for France, abauddning (lie Countess in Japan. The next steamer brought the Countess to Paris, where she commenced a most profligate life. About three months after her advent in Paris she met a French colonel, who fell in love with her. They were not married, but ho returned to Japan with her. Arriving 'as man and wife she again met her old friends in diplomatic circlet. Her pro pensity to flirt again manifested itself, and her third husband, so- called, abandoned her. He said the Prime Minister of Japan had been too intimate with hit wife. This was no doubt true, for as soon at the Colonel was gone the Countess beeame the mistress of the Prime Minister, one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Japan. Here the Countess bad every luxury but liberty. The Prime Minister was so jealons of her that be would not let her talk to_any gentleman. Such a did not suit the Countess, so one day aba ran away and becama tba mis tress of another Japaoeso official. The aflair so exasperated the Prime Minister that he went to the Mikado and prevailed upon him to Issue an especial edict con demning the Countess to -he de capitated. Her fourth husband, so-called, was imprisoned. The news has now come to Now York . that the edict was carried out, and the most besiitiful Georgia refugee who dazzled New York and tho lovely Countess who bewildered Paris was actually decapitated. In Japan nobles of high rank consider it a heinous offense for a woman who has smiled upon them to ever afterward smilo upon another* This strange custom cost Countess Pourtales her-life. failures In Augusta. Auuusta, Ga., Oct. 29 Presi dent Jackson's defalcation from the Enterprise factory amounts to one hundred thousand or more, as shown by bis oonfession nnd the statement of the bookkeeper. It seems that the money ol the mill has been taken from time to; time for eighteen months, covered by laise entries and omissions in the books, unknown to the directors, and when the revelation was made everybody was shocked and sur prised. It also seems that the mill has been making money, and half the deficit ia from tho profits, hence the condition of the mill is not so bad, and stock need not suffer any great decline. In fact'it is said that an installment of ten or twenty per cent on the capital stock will put the factory in a fine position for a prosperous future. The question of a receiver was disuuss- cd to-day, but was resisted by the first mortgage bondholders, who want the mill run on ns before un- ier a new management and a busi ness-like policy. Tho failure of George T. Jackson Ac Co., necessarily involved the stock brokerage firm of M. J. Ver- dory & Co., as they were mutual indorsers, and weak for some time on account of the shrinkage of se curities. The liabilities amount to $80,000, with about $23,000 cov ered by collateral. This collateral is uncertain in value, however, and it is impossible to say bow far it will meet the total liabilities. The asset* are merely nominal. Augusta reports another failure this evening—William H. Barrett,’ wholesale druggist, selling his stock to Glascock- Barrett and David MoMaster, subject to about $30,000 preferred creditors who bold mortgages. The ordinary creditors otalin amounts to about $ 17,000. Tho assets are about $50,000 in aocounts, in addition to the stock, which is about covered by the $30,000 in moitgages. This showing is a good one and will not hurt Augusta, as sate was made in the defense of the creditors and against a forced suit brought by distant creditors. Jackson’s confession. By tba Associated Press. For several days past i.bere have been rumors afloat of a heavy defalca tion on the pari of George T. Jack- son, president of the Enterprise cotton factory, and a committee was appo nted to investigate the books of the company. Jackson confessed to the defalcation, but cannot give the amount. He claims all -responsibility for the deficit. Kneugh.^already known fropi the, investigating committee, Ubkever, to state that the defalca tion is over $60,000, and may reach $100,000. The money, it is stated, was lost in various operations. It will he several days before the ' full amount of the defalcation it known. The loss in running the Enterprise mill and the defalcation will together amount lo $180,000. These losses will make the mill stand the stockholders in round numbers $100,000. Ileal b and Accident. Buena Vista, Oct. 29.—Mr. James Dorman, a highly respected citizen of this county, died this morning of a congestive chili. His wife died last Wednesday—both bad lived to a good old age. Mr. J. W. Roberts was badly •calded a few days since while roofing Ids warehouse with fire proof paint. laeeodlarj fire Hear Tfeemasrllle. Tiiomasvillk, Ga , Oot. 29— The dwelling of- Mr. H. C. McLen don, near the city, was destroyed by Are. The Ore it believed to be incendiary, as bis barn was recent: ly burned and an attempt made to burn bis stable. Dwelling insured for $G60 and furniture fbr $300 in Haitford, Hansdll <fc Hansel! agents.