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Americus Recorder. Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1884. Daily, Pur Ykar,...$0.00 Wkkkly, “ ... *.0 »imt.uaKD 11Y ! Jas. Fricker & Bro. vsr. i» IMinUSUKD BY GUjESSN ER. AND DEALERS IN ORGANS, Barlow Block, - - - - Americus, Ga. .,t-FlCE OX COTTON ATEMIIE. americus. i«l7ro railroad. 71 miles sonthwest of QV A Zon and tttwnt 80 miles north of the I AK |\| f jW KiTin.. It i. situated In the flee,t dfc JiAdbN WM ■ectioD of Georgia, raising a greeter Ynri- Jtv ofnsriciiHur.il end hortloultural pro- duels then nny other rart of the South, cUhmieg oil the fruits. grain and rege- laid-a of the temperate and semi-tropical g, no s—wheat, corn, rye, oola, rice, Irish nnil aweet potatoes, peanuts, chufas, cotton pets, sugar cone, apples, pears, ncoches grapes, plums and othor fruits. The climate is mild and equable, and one of the most henltbv in the world, the air heioa pure aDd nr, ooil most beneficial lor hag and throat diseases. All kinds of outdoor work can he performed without inconvenience from summer beat or winter cold. Americua has a population of C 000, is beautifully situated on high •m l roiling ground and Loasts of some of ihe handsomest business bl inks in the South Tbo city his flue publio schools; good churches; a large publio library; one dailv, one semi-ivetkly end two weekly neaspapers; a new opera house, completely furnished wit,, scenery and capable of seating 1,000 persona; a », organised fire department, including luoi line steamers; the streets are well raved, sewered nud lighted; tliero aro t wo flooring mills, a cotton seed oil mill, rlaniag mill and variety works, carriage factory, nud nnumberof minorwnnfoclo- ries; about two hundred Arms ore engaged in mercantile business; three banks with on abandonee ef eapital; two Rood liulels tarnish good uccummodattion. Am.ricus is the centre of trade for six connlies comprising the richest agricul tural section id Georgia, tho average on- whieh will ho largely increased by- 1 tile I Davis and Williams Singer Sewing Machines! completion of the Preston and Lumpkin ° e railroad now in process of construction. It is the largest city in Southwest Geor gia, and ha* been appropriately named the “Commercial Capital” of that sec tion, and it is rapidly growing in popu lation and wealth. As a place of bufi- nenn residence it presents attractions rqiidec! by few cities in Ilia South. Property of nil kinds is comparatively chepp, although rapidly advancing in value; tho inhabitants of both city and country are cultivated, courteous and hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im migrant*. To enterprising tradesmen, jn- ilicious capitalists and industrious farm ers this section of Georgia offers tine op portunities. Any information in regnrd to city or conntry will bo cheerfully fur nished by addressing tlie All Eiticus Re- louder, Americus, Ga. UEOR0U NEWS. PROFESSIONAL & IIUSI.YESS L'AUDS I ~ Jiafl WYERS. C. It. McCItOHY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LLLAVILLE, GA. * • 'I HUMS—All cluima from 80 or nuder, 8; *-»• $j0 to §500, ten per cent.; over $5(0, Dr. 0. B. RAINES, SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN. Mciuuy. Office over lhivlg A Callaway '* Sure. ltea ••e ni comer cf Jnckaon and Church atr**ei.. » will receive prompt attcatiou. tanffihl DR. C. A. BROOKS, AMERICUS, GA. left at Daren port's drug .tare will rcc< Kompt nttenilon. Will be found at night at residence of Col. 8. U. Dawkins, corner Lee MISCELLANEOUS. EOw. J. Mi’hr. C. Horace McCall. 1 Works, illLLEU Sc Met'ALL, Proprietors, Southwast Corner of the Public Square, AMERICUS, GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Et c of th# beat Italian and American Marble. Iran Hailing for Cemetery Kudos- •ctly »f»Mip«uur. i’OR KENT. ” TLe lute resilience of L. C. Barrett, on Church Street, now occupied by A. A. * >OSSC8siou given September 1, Apply to Jxo. M. Com. Auunst 20th. tf We desire to call the attention of the public to the fact that wo have at lost got settled in our new store on the PUBLIC SQUARE nud have on baud a larga and handsome stock of every thing in our line. Onr stock consists partly of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, of All Kinds! SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARE, TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, GOLD PENS, PENCILS AND TOOTHPICKS, WALKING CANES, OPEHA GLASSES, GOLD AND AND SILVER THIMBLES, ETC. We are Headquarters for Spectacles and Eye-Glasses! Can suit any and every one in Gold, Silver, Steel, Bronze, Zylonite. Celluloid or Rubber Frames. We are Sole Agents for KING’S CELEBRATED PATENT COM BINATION SPECTACLES—the best in the world. Wc sell the and have constantly on hand Needles, Oils, Attachments und Parts for nil Machines. We have the best equipped shop for the Repair of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry iu this section of tno Stnte. We employ none but first-class workmen .'mil guarantee all our work. PIANO AND ORGAN DEPARTMENT. This branch of onr business is steadily increasing and all we ask is that parties who expect to buy a Piano and Organ wilt call and examine onr stock and get our prices before they buy. If we cannot do as well or better for you than you can do for yourselves we do not ask your patronage. The fact that wo hnvo sold Pianos and Organs to dozens of tbo best business men in Americus shows plainly that we sell as low as any one, and when you buy from us you have no freight to pay and save the tronble of unboxing tbo instrument, ns we place it in your Douse and give you a FIVE YEAR'S guarantee. Wo nlso havo on hand a large stock of small Musical In struments, consisting of Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Tambourines, Accordeons and Harmonicas, and also keop Strings of the very best quality, Violin Bows, Tail pieces, Bridges, Rosin and all kind of Musical Instrument Trimmings. The Office of the Southern Express Company is in onr store and their Agent, Mr. S. C. COOPER is in oar employ as Book-keeper and Salesman and will be glad to serve all who are needing anything in our line. CALL AND SEE US IN OUR NEW STORE! oovmr JAS. FRICKER & BRO IIP®' UOTO ■ * ^ CALVIN CARTER & SON Foe SOOTSJAXTS SHOES, Public Square, . . Americus, Ga. itEST GOODS FOR LEAST MONEY! New Store | . AND New Goods. Dissolution XTotios. S °M milling interests iu to tho Americus Oil Company, the lraaof Baldwins & Davenport is dis solved by mutual consent. A. J. Baldwin & Co. ^ect20daw3w Jo Davknpokt. Oh.oap Engines. ^ **1® * f®w Cooper Portable Jfjgn*., the best made, which I will sell - tailed for soon. _»«pl7tf K. T. BYRD. WANTED! ku lawn* - Whit. .Cook. J. 1.1 II. .F Gainesville baa lour colleges and lour private schools. One negro in Athens has lost over $200 betting on Blaine. The potato crop of Henry coun ty has been housed, and is a sue cess. The artesian well in Bainbridge is 700 feet, and no water has yet been struck. Ben Neal, of Henry county, kill cd three squirrels at one shot last Monday. W. O. Tate, an ex-member of the State Legislature, died at El burton Thursday. Holcomb Moore, of Greene, kill- cd a partridge last week that was beautifully spotted with white, Harrison Adair, of Henry coun ty, has captured ono hundred pos' sums this season. He also caught two polecats by mistake. About 200 rooms in the new Kimball House at Atlanta have been completed. Tbe bouse is now under roof and is independent of the weather. Brunswick’s second artesian well wn9 completed Saturday. It is 420 feet deep, and has a flow of 250 gallons a minute of beautiful clear water. • G. C. Jones, of Milton county, has a bunch of ears ot corn which grew in one husk, numbering twen ty one distinct cobs. On each cob is fully matured corn. A Northern company, with $250,000, have bought out tho An thony shoals, on Broad river, in Elbert county. A cotton factory will be built soou and 17 miles oi railroad added to tbe Elbcrton Air Line. Maggie Ferguson, a pretty girl of 15 years, bas just made tbe trip from St. Louis to Atlanta in a bo; car, stealing her way like a tramp. She had no money, but wished to reach relatives at Georgia’s capital. One day last week Allen Cady of Foikston, was robbed of $1,100, money which he was carrying to Savannah to pay off his note, given for guano, and which was due on Nov 1, with three days’grave. Mr. Cady says he had tbe money in a tourist's satchel, part of it silver, and becoming tired, whilo cn route from Foikston to Pearson, he placed the satchel under bis head and went to sleep. How long he slept be don't know. On awaken ing he discovered that the money had been taken from under his bead. Dooly Vindicator : Wc are sor ry to learn of a serious accident which befell Mr. Heniy Hutto, of this county, a few nights since. He and several ot his neighbors had started to Hawkinsville to carry some cotton and camped for the night at Fountain's mills, where a canal bas been dug to run the water from the pond to the gin, somo distance from the mill. Mr. nuttc walked olfa few yards from the camp fur some purpose, and the night being dark, ho did not know be was near the canal, when he fell into it, his head striking a rock. His skull was fractured and one arm broken iu three places. At last accounts he was resting ; well, but his mind is seriously im- | paired. i The Rising Cloud. Salma Time. ' The snly cloud on tbe horizon is the great army of men who will I seek to turn loose a good business and get a precarious oflice. Oflicc seeking is an evil, whether practi ced by Democrats o: Republicans, it is tbe duty of all good people to ; diecourage too much ot this thing. . We hope that no place will have more than live hundred men after it. ; American farmers seem to have good reason to sesn with some | anxiety the inereato of tho expor tation of frozen meats to England iW HUBS III A COMPLETE LIKE OF PLitE DRilOS.l^r^r.^ . _ | those countries supplied 3,206,800 , Amtnoui, Ga. i pounds of froz.n meat. Dawson, Nov. 13 The Dawson Journal is now oflered for sale on favorable terms. It bas a flue ad vertising patronage and a largo subscription list, and would be a paying investment if tbe right mat would take hold of it, and especi ally if be retains Mr. Rainey on Us stall. Mrs. Ellen Odum, of Newton, formerly Miss Ellen Peeples of our city, died last Saturday of hem orrhagic fever. She had many warm friends in this section, who will very much regret her death. Messrs. 0. L. Mize, A. W. Flem ing, Willis Martin, Jim Simpson and Jos Terrell, all of our oounty, attended tho grand Democratic demonstration in your city last night, and were delig hied with the whole programme. JfISW YORK. Cleveland IVoldluir Ills Own lu the Canvases New Yobk, Nov. 13,1 a. m To the Constitution: The official canvass is progressing. All but thirteen counties have finished. There is no fear of trouble. Cleve land’s plurality is unchanged. New Yobk Times. The Vole Is Sot Balsa Held Bask, Nbw Yobk, Nov. 13, 12:45 A. M. —To the Constitution; The vole is not being held back, but great care is being exercised in its count. Tbe corrected count shows nothing averse to tbe Democrats. In fset, it more clearly establishes Govern or Cleveland’s plurality. Nzw Yobk Stab. Tlta Inn’s Katlmataa Maintained. New Yobk, Nov. 13,2:00 A. M.~ To tho Constitution: The canvass in the city proceeds slowly but fairly. No material change from previous figures is looked for. The Sun's official returns from all but nine rural counties shows pieve- land’s plurality unchanged. Tbcro is no significance ic the delayed returns. Many have gone back to tbe poll clerks to have thorn com ply with the legal forms, but there will be no change in the pluralities C. S. Loan, Managing Editor Snn. The extraordinary proficiency of the Dutch Boers of South Africa markmanshlp makes them dreaded enemies. An Englishman who has been hunting among them lately says that be saw one (Ire hastily at a bustard which was flying about two hundred yards distant, and seud a rifllo ball through its body; but, ns this did not wholly stop tbe bird, which flapped rapidly along the ground, tbe Boer fired a second time and cut off his head. British soldiers dread, with good reason, therefore, to face these sbarp-ahooting bush-fighters,anitna ted by tbo idea that they are de fending tbeir firesides, Balclfle »r W. !*. Davis. Tiiomasville, Ga., Nov. 12 —Mr. W. N. Davis, a prominent and highly esteemed merchant of this place, shot himself in his room this morning. Two shots were fired, both in the breast, In a note found in bis room, lie requested E M. Smith, cashier of A. P. Wright & Co.’s hank, and his father, who lives in Campbellton, Fin., to wind up bis business. No cause is known which would have induced the act. UlYSn up tbs Fight Nbw Yobk, Nov. 12 The coun ty canvassers did not completo their work to-day. From the re turns made, the World estimates a plurality for Cleveland of 1364. The official figures will not change it materially. The Republicans have practically given up the light. Tbo blaze of a gas well near Pittsburg has lured as many as fif ty wild geese and ducks to an un timely death. Tbe light deceives tho poor birds and they fly into tho blaze. Tbe beat it so intense that not even a charred bone is left. In the Montana cattle towns, a newspaper, a shave and a glass of whisky all cost the same price, namely, 25 cents. A splinter of a dear’s hoof, with powerful mitcroecopes and polarl- un light, Is as wonderful to set as • rainbow. COLONISTS FORUKOUUU. A Saw Taws Ik HShstea Canal* Kalabllahsd bjr Masaacbksatta Sat- tiara—Nsw Raalaad Mavlb( Santbware. Saranaah Neva. The steamship Tallahassee, ar rived from Now York .yesterday afternoon, brought a party of forty colonists from Gardner, Mass., who, under tbe management of tbe Oak Lawn Land Company, propose to settle in Houston county. The leading spirit of the Oak Lawn Land Company is E. J. Fuller, of Gardner, who nas made several trips to the Sontb and has been much pleased with tbe soil, climate and other natural advantages of Georgia. Through the no opera tion of Col. J. P. Fort about 8,000 acres of land has been secured in Houston county, and is being dis posed of to settlers in lots ranging from 10 to 100 acres. Tbe party which arrived yesterday comprises a very respectable and intelligent class of people. They are E. J. Fuller and family, W. W. Tandy and family, S. Flood and family, I. D. Proctor and family, G. R. Chaf fee and family, H. C. Reed and family, L. V. Clough and family, Alex Bassett, George Sheldeo, Walter Chapin and Henry L. Pom- roy. Six others preceded the party and havo been engaged in putting the old plantation mansion In re- pair. The coloniats will make tbeir home in tbe old mansion until they get their new buildings erect ed. It will be opened as a winter hotel later in the season, and it is thought that at least fifty Northern people will come South and spend the winter there. Mr. Fuller was interviewed yes terday by a Morning News report er. He seemed very hopeful of the success of the ucw colony. “Those who are in this party,” said ht, “propose going into early vegeta ble and iruit growing, but it is my object to establish a manufactory of some kind soon. It will proba bly be for tbo making of chairs and other furniture. We are not capitalists, we are all laboring men —farmers and mechanics—snd pro pose to work for our living and make our home in Georgia. I ex pect during the next year to add 200 moro to tho colony. I have refused more applications than we have members of this party because they wero not of the class of peo-' pic wo wanted. We only want the most respectable people. The Springfield Republican, (peaking of this colony tbe other day, laid that of nil the coloniee forming to go South they bad beard of none to compare with the one going from Gardner to Georgia.” The coloniets left on tho Cen tral railroad laet night at 8:45. Tbe pi ico where they will eettle ie twen ty-live miles south of Macon, be tween the Central and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, and at what is now called “Buzzard’s Roost." Tbe new town will lie called Oak Lawn. Mr. Ful ler is s pushing, go-ahead gentle man, and is wonderfully pleased with the South and impressed with its agricultural and industrial pos sibilities. Large quantities of Afrioan pea nuts are imported into France, where they are used in the manu facture of olive oil. “A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE!" your OLD HARNESS nerd* • stitch goto John M. Coker and bur you a NEW SETT for what the repairing will cost, then yea hare a new barat»a and ell U well. A Large and Near supply of| SADDLERY AND HARNESS 11 of all grade* and kind#, Jiut In and for sale Cheaper than Ever Before Offered In this eity. FINE GOODS AND PIECE HARNESS A SPECIALTY t NEXT* in tbe path or out, and I iiber It. When you seal anything in bty line it bj FULL AND COMPLETE. JOHN M.COKER,. Americus, Ga.