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Established 1879. AMERICAS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1884. Daily, Per Year,...$0.00 Weekly, “ ... 8.00 Americus Recorder POBI.IS0ED BV r ‘~ &X.I3B8W YiIXY.. .Tr.'ltHS ON COTTON AVENUE. americus. °^ J om0roid, 71 miles .o«th*j»tof Ii .fn nnd about SO miles nnttli of tbn Si ieo. It is situated in .lie finest „otioD OfOeor K is, rni.inK « «r. ater vari- SrifMnealtnt.il and bortieoltuml pro- j Jen than any other part of the bomb, combining all the trnits. grain and yog.- SSSoflt* temperate and semi-tropical Ujei-trbeat, corn, rye.oaia, noe, Irish Sd sweet potatoes, pennnts, chinos, cotton, peas, sugsr cane, apples, pears, ™,ehe» crapes, plnms and other frnils. fh. climate is mild and equable, and one of the roost healthy in the world the air being pare and r.rt and most benefloial lor inno and throat diseases. All kinds of intdoor work can be performed without jnoonvenience from summer heat or winter cold. Amerions has a population of6000, id beamiJolly situated on bigh nnd’roHinR ground and toasts of some of the handsomeat business blocks in the R,nth The city hsa flno public schools; rood churches; a largo public library; one dsiiv, one semi-weekly and two weehlv newspapers; a new opera house, completely furnished witu scenery and enable or seating 1.000 persons; a well organized fire department, including two fin® steamers; the streets are will Pived, sewered and lighted; there ore two flooring mills, a cotton seed oil null, r ] rt ning mill and variety work®, carriage factor?, and a number of minor manfacto- riesjabout two hundred firms are engaged in mercantile baaints*; three banks with an abundance of capital; two good hotel® furnish good accommodation®. Americas is the centre of trade for six counties comprising the richest agricul tural section in Georgia, the average an nual cotton receipt® being 30,000 bales, which will l?e largely increased by tho completion of the Preston and Lumpkin railroad now in process of construction, It is tho largest city m Southwest Genr gin, and ha® been appropriately named the "Commercial Capital” of that sec tion, tad it is rapidly growing in popn lation and wealth. As a place of bu-i- ness residence it presents attractions equaled by fow cities in the t*outh. Property of all kinds is comparatively cheap, althnngh rapidly advancing in ralne; tho inhabitants of both city and country arc cultivated, courteous ami hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im migrants. To enterprfslng tradesmen, ju dicious capitalists and industrious farm ers this section of Georgia offers fine op portunities. Any information in regard to city or country will be cheerfully fur nished by addressing the Amep.icus Re corder, Americus, Ga. AGNES AYCOCK, Under Commercial Hotel, FOKSYTHST., - - AMERICUS, GA. New Goods ! Low Prices ! TO FILL MY NEW STORE I HAVE ORDERED A LARGE STOCK OF Books, Statioaery, Toys, Fancy fioofls, Etc. Testaments mid Bibles from 5 cts. to $14 00 each. Albums - - - from 25 cts. to 10.00 each. Papetiies ... from 15 cts. to 5.0!' each. Toys .... from let. to 6 00 each. WRITING PAPER AND ENVELOPES A SPECIALTY I Large Stock of Blank Books, Ink and Pens—Best Quality. Bi st Grades of Tobacco and Cigars. Goods to suit all tastes and purses from Candy and Chewing Gum to Quarto Dictionaries and Bibles. PLEASE CALL AND EXAMINE PRICES I [pgr*Special orders receive prompt attention. ZZ AGNES AYCOCK. LATEST NEWS. BL KDETTE ON BE mm PROFESSIONAL & lUJSl^EHS CARDS LA WEEKS. 0. B. McCRORY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLAV1LLE, OA. . TERMS—All claim® from $30 or under, #3; Dr. 0. B. RAINES, BURGEON AND PHYSICIAN. -Mvr» lia prounilontil service., with an expert- rue*of 2®ve:iri>, to (bo people of Amerlcu* and ruilnitjr. Office over Davf* it Callaway ’a f*toi e. Ke» fleace at corner of Jackaon and Church >tr**ei«. will will receive prompt attention. 'anZlltl DR. C. A. BROOKS, 'i AMERICUS, OA. , thU* !*'ft *1 D.venTw.t's -true .torn will receive K°wpt nil,ion ty|j| be wu „.j r »< Col. S. II. UawklM, crccr Loo nil] ui iy & an. miscellaneous. 7 MiTer. C, Horace McCall. CALVIN CARTER A SON Foe BOOTS &JSTP SHOES,. Public Square, . . Americus, Cla• BEST C00I1S LEAST MOSEY! New Store AND New Goods, & II. F. IMPORT, I did not bet money on the re cent election in Oliio, says Burdette in the Brooklyn Eagle. It haa been many years since I upheld my political principles by coining them for base drachmas. A drach ma, dear, is a spud, and a spud is a Lewis door, which door is an open sesame to the best society. \ cars ago, when I was young and charming. I bet a box of cigars with a political Too, with an esteem ed personal friend, on the eleotion of Mr. Hayes. To give him a show for his white alley. I bet him a hat on the result in New York, The returns promptly decided that I had lost the hat, and the United Slates Congress and the high joint arbitration commission, after grave- !y considering the question for many weeks, finally inlormed me that I had won the box of cigars. I never dreamed that such a simple bet would throw the republio into 6iich a painful state of suspense, excitement and confusion. I said then, Hint never again, would I thoughtlessly tamper with the peace and happiness of my country, though nil my politicul foes went bareheaded and I had to pick up stubs for my personal smoking all the days of our respective and re spected lives. I paid my hat. bet, I went to tbe hatter with my friend and bad bis bead blocked for a special order. His blocked head fairly swayed with joy when I told him I was go ing to have a bat made especially for him. Ho said ; “Robert T lie sober, solernu truth is, he said: “Bob,” but that dosent look well in print, and I bate tbe name, anyhow. “Robert, if you win tho cigars, which heaven forbid, I will go to Havana and make them myself.” I knew he would not. Far bet ter than lie did. I knew it The hat was raidc under the personal supervision of tbe hatter, and with the advice and consent of myself. It was a slick shiny hat. It was about eighteen inch es high, and ns symmetrical ns a stove pipe. It was tbo same size ail the way up. The brim was an inch and a quarter wide, flat and straight as'a silver dollar. It would have been the pride of a St, Pat rick’s day procession. It was the awfuiiest hut. Stiong men shud dered when they saw i*. I don’t believe such a hat was ever made before or behind. Well, I gathered about a score of our mutual friends. We got the hand i-u'., set the hat on top of a dry goods box in an open wagon and paraded down to my friend’s store, and 1 presented tbe hat with an elaborate and ornate addreBS. Men said it was the greatest elTort of my life. I think it was. Jt not only fatigued me, but people who heard it said it made them tired also. My friend’s remarks in reply why recount the harrowing experi ences of that week of horror? I only mention these two leading facts, because Truth, with a big T, is a idly seldom during this cam paign, and 1 wish to introduce a little of it leaveo or twelve the canvass. No, if I knew I could lose all the hats and win ail tbe cigars in America, or New York alone, I would not bet that Mr. Blaine will carry Georgia by ever so small a majority. I expect to wear a straw bat all winter, and I bave J fiven up tbe use of tobacco in any orm. I smoke only cigarettes. JHILEU Ic JlcL'ALL, Proprietors, kouihwwt Comer of the Fnblic Square, AMERICUS, GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc.,Etc. •f tt># Veit Italian nod American Marble. Ir *“ falling for Ctntltry Kaeloi- *i1y ■ r ««|» »P®eUUjr. tfOR RENT. rf *idenceof L. C. Burett, on occupied Ly A. A ^ *• Possession given September 1, JS0 - M DissoluttoaTlTotiCQ. *°y our milling interests in thaflr!.? i** Americus Oil Company, *^Ttd\y^ton!a5 i ron^nt 4Ttnp0rt ** ^ Cheap Engines. Baien#? ^ <!0 P Fr Portable B. T. BYRD. WAJTOEcTi White Cook. Apgl^.t were very brief, but suffused with emotion. He took the hat, labeled it with my name and exhibited it In his window. Whet) the court of arbitration at last decided the oilier bet, the hand and the crowd came out again and inv foe presented me with box of cigars. At the conclusion of '.lie presentation speech lie pro '"'iAID IIFILERS It' A CMIPLEfE USE (IF PURE DREGS,j ' i ered my thanks, lighted a cigar ; and puffed twice or thrice. 1 That was nearly live years ago! | and yet sometimes I am aroused | fiom the proloundest slumber in i tho dead of night by tbo lingering ! farewell of that cigar. A police- [ man, who accidet :ally happened to j be awake that afternoon, came A most curious paper is the official Chinese paper, called King Pan, which claims to have been started as early as 811. and to have appeared at Irregular inter vals till 1361. when it came ont regularly every week. At the commencement of the present uen- tury it became a “daily.” at the price of 2 kehs—about 4d. Bv a decree of the Emperor, a short time back, it was ordered that three editions were to be printed every day—the first or morning edition, on yellow paper, is devoted commercial intelligence; tbe second or afternoon edition ocn tains oflluial and general news; and tbe third, on red paper, is a sum- m.ryofthe two earlier editions, with tbe addition of political and social articles. The editorial du ties are performed by six mem bers of the Scientific Academy, who are appointed by government. The circulation is about 14,090 daily. A bather eau lie on the surface of the water of tbe Great Salt Lake with little exertion; or by passing a towel under his knees and hold ing tbe two ends he can remain in nny depth of water knc.llng, with the head and shoulders out of the water; or, by shifting it under soles of the feet, he can sit on the water. The one exertion, in fact, is to keep one’s balance; none whatever is required to keep afloat. The only danger, therefore, arises from choking by accidentally swallowing some ot the water, for tbe strength of tbe brine is so intense that tho muscles of the throat are convuli cd, and strangulation ensues. Plain Talk to Benjamin. Tho Boston ncrald in a very vigorous manner thus handles that chief of dcinugogucs, B. F. Butler. Remarks thu Herald: “Several times in this campaign Bon Butler has uttered sentiments evidently intended to encourage acts of crime against property. He has done it in a sneiking wav, for he is a cow ard as well as buiiy, but it has beet easy to understand bis meaning. If be should succeed in exciting u movement against property we should liko to point out Ben But ler’s house ns one that offers rieb booty. The bird handed son of t«il,wi)U remarkable tbiift, has laid up many shekels. He bas been collecting dividends from his pro tected manufacturing stocks for many yc-rs, while bis poor opera tives have been squeezed down to tho lowest wages. His property would cut up well and make a thousand workingmen comfortable. If anything of the sort should ever happen in this country, Ben Butler would lie largely responsible for it." Substantial Encouragement. Hon. Patrick Walsb, of Augusta, on Wednesday, received letters containing solid testimony of tbe desire existing in Albany and Bainbriilge, and other points in tbe State, to see Cleveland and Hendricks elsctcd, to see a now era of reform inaugurated, and the Republican plunderers turned out. From one gentleman a money or der fir $12 60 was received, from another a cheek for $60, and from B in. Maston O'Neal of Bainbridge, a check for $41.60, collected in that place, and another for $39.70 col lected in Albany. suglftf Amerious, Ga. * All School Vies, T~> A X?' Tj 1 "O "V" | along and arrested me on a charge QAXL -1—4 A S of disorderly conduct, arson, and Cotton Avenue. beatti-imon r.r ll u i-bI.Ii.- -AND assault, with intent to commit by- * " j drophobia. The magistrate smelled foci j uiv breath,as I pleaded not guilty, Kr.sh : B nd fined me $10. I went bame, Brwi, l okm, LMn.iv, me., or our ow,. mvkc- ! an( | a CO mmilteo of ray neighbors rr,r?h,:~ni ‘.iTiu"^'^; waited ° n me > ? ,on « «»«*! *» d Bov and roll Country iwoc. oiv. ». n call, gave me twcnlv-four houra to leave IP. PHILLIPS .0 CO. ‘j die state. I left the box of cigars jnijsair _ ■ on the office steps, and two tramps rC-7r„Vii-iTii Tut. " were found dead beside it next INSURE WITH THE I morning. The Board of Health -AT ..... , _ | filed information against mo for H.rffiCl Union Fire Iuinscs SCCiEty conspiracy, seized the cigars and rf rmrlomi I threw them into the Mississippi w Lu&Idiiif. river. All I lie fish between Burl- iugtun and Keokuk died that week. : I took down my shotgun, breathed MRS. FRED LEWIS’. |£“-»•*,*-*-£ j , j down tba barrel of tbasno, Intend* A. t, BEES, Agent, j ing to bunt for my foe, and tbe AmerisiU, Ga., Aug. 84, 1834. tf | assurer..! ^ 1 gUB bUWt Ott the ipet. I-but A Chinese pamphlet against Eu ropeans has been published in Hong Kong. It assert! that the Europeans are not human beings at all, but wild animals descended from monkeys. They worship neither the heavens nor the earth. They do not honor their parents nor ancestors. They come Into China pretending to preach a reli gion which they do not practice themselves, and forcibly introduce vice and crime into that country. Fire In Bainbridge. Bainbbiikie, Ga., October 31.— Tbo splendid steam-mill o( the Bainbridge lumber company was totally destroyed by fire. Tho watchman, Ebciherat, did not die cover the fire until 12 o’clock, when he made a heroic effort to check it, but failed. It was evi dently set on fire while tbo watch man was dozing. Loss $75,000. No Insurance. .Nu Wonder IVo Are Poor. Esrljr County Ncn t. The people of Early county will pay this year for guano $60,000, for meat $40,000, for corn $10,000, for mules and horses $10,000— amounting in ail to the sum of $110,000. To pay this with cotton at 8£ or 0 cents, it will take about 2,600 bales. With this amount to go out of the county, leaving the farmers with empty cribs, poor stock and no meat for another year, tbo prospect is Indeed gloomy. Yet it will bo no worao than it has been for many years. With $26,- 000 laid out and kept here in our midst, moio homo-made fertilizers could be produced than the $50,- 000 will buy. More meat can bo ' saved with $20,000 than $40,000 will buy. VVhile mules can be raised nearly as cheap as cows, and corn can be produced for 40 or 50 cents per bushel. Still in tbe face of ail these advantages we live and die poor. No wondcit Judge Uresbam had little oppor tunity to show his knowledge of finance, but Mr. McCulloch, his successir, has a good record. . Had his suggestions as to the national debt shortly after the close of the war been adopted, the taxpaying public might not have been bled so freely as they have been. It is said that tbe Astors alone own 3,600 bouses, all of stone and Iron. Tho lowest rental they get is $I.5U0pcr annum, and tho high est about $50,000, which some of their enormous downtown build ings bring. A stately young Washington belie, the daughter of an old re spected officer in the armv, is so greatly infatuated with an attache of the Chilian Embassy that she is entirely willing to marry him and go to live in hit own country. The young foreigner has long been her devoted suitor and the attachment between tbe two is of the most mark ed and decisive character. Ben Youngblood, colored, from Hancock Co., brongbt some pota toes to market at Sandcrsville Tuesday, a distance of 22 miles. With one horse he will make about 175 bushels of corn, 8 bales of-cot- ton, and a plenty of potatoes. He a’eotopeete to kUA 1,400 $Oimd$ Til* Utatou Why, I. W. Harpur'* Nelson Connty Whiskey is preferred above all other Brands is because it is tbo most r*gnlnr and most perfect Product, incontestably over made. A loug experience in the manufacture of tbo Hirpcr, tho large capital of tbe Distiller which enables him to bold his Whiskey until it is fully ma. lured, together with tho fact th$t tbe Whiskey is bought by and shipped mo to direct from tbe Distillery accounts for tbe unvarying sati-faction it has given those best educated to a lino Whiskey. J. Is ha el®, Solo Agent, October 210ai Americus Ga. Prices Tell, and People Tell the Prices, You know, and we knew, that a con tented customer is tho best advertisement wo can have. But oftentimes low-priced goods mean inferior and trashy materials in.l make up, hence our endeavor 1ms been to connect these two strangor®, low pi ices and good goods, and we are confi dent that onr customers will be as well pleased as w* are at onr success. oetl2tf J. R. Shaw. The Rummer Complains of dull tiroes i- still amongst our merch ants, not so, however, with the proprietor of the Bargain Store, lie knows where the shoe pinches, buys his good* wherev- or and whenever somebody wants to go out of business, or needs tbe money. He sells them at a small advance of cost, thereby keeping the ball a rolling and in place of other merchants complaining of dull times, his atore is crowded, and the goods are rapidly disappearing. ANNOUNCEMENTS.^ svstiun cot,Air. FOR MAYOR We are authorize* to announce the name of A. C. BELL os a candidate for Mayor of Americus at the Municipal elec tion in December next. augl If FOR SHERIFF. We are authorized to announce the name of S(. H. COBB aa a candidate for at Boater coaoty, if elected, N. H. White, of the 15tfc Diitriet, will be his 4*«ty. to