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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NO VEMBER 18, 1884.
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AuHiictiB rkcorder j as Fricker & Bro.
JEWELERS,
AND DEALERS IN
PIANOS
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ORGANS,
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IncE OX COTTON ATENUE,
americus.
^ miltoad, 71 miles southwest of I
about 80 miles north of the
Kitoe. It is situated in the finest
„f Oeorgis. raising a greater vari
ant agricultural and horticultural pro-
ducis than any other part of the South.
Sailing all the fruits, grain and vega-
S? ,”f tbs temperate and semi-tropical
“art-wheat, corn, rye, oais, noe Irish
rZ sweet potatoes, peanuts, chufns,
?tt™ peas, augar cane, apples, pears,
Michel! grapes, plnms and other fruits.
K, ojjjnato is mild and etjuable, and one
if the most healthy in the world, the atr
being pure and dry and moat beneficial lor
j„, B «ad throat diseases. All kinds of
outdoor work oan be performed without
incoartaienoe from summer boat or
winter* cold. Americus has a population
cl 6 000, is beautifully situated on high
and’rolling ground and toast* of some of
(he handsomest business blocks m the
South Tho city has tine public schools;
coed churches; n largo public library;
one dailr, one semi-weekly and two
weekly newspapers; u mw opera house,
completely furnished wiu scenery and
capable of seating 1,000 persons; » well
organized fire department, including
t»oiine steamers; tho streets are well
paved, rewered and lighted; there are
two flouring mills, a cotton seed oil mill,
planing mill and variety works, carriage
factory, and a number of minor manfaclo-
ries; about t wo hundred firms are engaged
in mercantile business; three banks with
»n abundance of capital; two good
hotels turnish good occoramodattion.
Americus is the centre of trade for six
counties comprising the richest agricul
tural section in Georgia, the average an
nua! cotton receipts being 30,000 bales,
which will bo 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 1 ’ of that sec
tion, ^nd it is rapidly growing in popu
lation and wealth. As a place of busi
ness residence it presents attractions
equded by few cities in the f*oulh.
Property of all kind* is comparatively
c'uflip, although rapidly advancing in
wloe; the inhabitants of both city and
country are cultivated, courteous and
hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im
migrants. To enterprfsing tradesmen, ju
dicious capitalists and industrious farm
ers this section of Georgia offers flno op
portunities. Any information in regard
to city or country will be cheerfully fur
nished by addressing the Ameiucus Re
corder, Americus, Ga.
ffismsasM
IA iFYERS-
C. H. McCROliY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IsLLAVILLE, GA.
TERMS—All clHims from 80 or muter, 8;
om 840 to $500, ten per cent.; over f500, seven
rr cent. No charges unless collections are mado.
May 14-tf.
doctors.
Dr. 0. B. RAINES,
SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN.
liters his projcsstonsl services, with »n experi
ence cl 20 venr*. to the people of Americus nmi
vicinity. Office over Dsvfa Sc Callaway’s Store. lies
Barlow Block, - -
LATEST NEWS-
BLAINE GIVES ITUP
Americus, Ga.
We desire to call the attention of the public to the fact that wo lmvo at last got
settled in our new store on the PUBLIC SQUARE and have on hand a large and
handsome stock of’ every thing in our line. Our stock consists partly of
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, of All Kinds!
SOLID SILVER AND l’LATED WAKE,
TABLE AND POCKET CLTLERY,
GOLD PENS, PENCILS AND TOOTHPICKS,
WALKING CANES. OPEliA GLASSES,
GOLD AND AND SILVER THIMBLES, ETC.
Wo oro Headquarters for
Spectacles and Eye-Glasses!
Can suit any and every one in Gold, Silver, Sloe), Brou/e, Xylonite. Celluloid or
Rubber Frames. Wo are Solo Agents for KING'S CELEBRATED PATENT COM
BINATION SPECTACLES-tho best in tho world. Wo;sell tho
Davis and Williams Singer Sewing Machines!
and have constantly on hand Needles, Oils, Attachments and Parts for all Machinos,
We have tho best equipped shop for the
Repair of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
in this section of tne State. We employ noue but first-class workmen and guarantee
all our work.
mittee Give It Up!
THEY ALL GIVE IT UP
That Cleveland is Elected and
Will Take his Seat!
DR. C. A. BROOKS,
AMERICUS, OA.
C*!!i left nt Davenport 1 ! drug ntorc will receive
Prompt attention. Will bo found at night ut the
r«|denee of Col. 8. II. Hawktnr, corner Lee and
tolledj{« ttrceU. may 5 3m.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ed*' 1. Mi'ier. ~ ' G Hornue McCall.
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 or Organ will call and examine our 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 have sold Pianos and
Organs to dozens of tho best business men in Americus shows plainly that we sell os
low as any one, and when you buy from ns you have no freight to pay and save tho
tronble of unboxing the instrument, as we place it iu your house and give you a
FIVE YEAR'S guarantee. We also have on hand a largo -.took of small Musical In
struments, consisting of Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Tambourines, Accordeons and
Harmonica*, and also keep Strings of the very bast 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 our employ as Book-keeper
and Salesman and will be glad to servo all who are needing anything in our lino.
CALL AND SEE US IN OUR NEW STORE!
tf JAS. FRICKER & BRO
Pine Plantation
FOR SALE!
Works,
HILLER A McCALL, Proprietors,
Southwest Corner of tho i'ublic Square,
AMERICUS, GA.
Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Et o
o f Ui* be*t Italian im*i Aifurtcau Marble.
Ir ®» Halting for Cemetery Enclos
ure!, a Specially,
DURHAM’S
uupnovEn
STAMMRD TIME!
It thc’.heat ciiutructud and fin
ished, gives Letter percentage.
tn» ie power,ard i» *old lor leas
money, per hooe power, than
„ —„ _ any oth r Tnrbine In tbe world,
mm■
For Sale.
of Forty Acre*, well improved,
JORt °utgjj e || m Gooa neigh-
wrhood, healthy locality, well situated
*1 s ^ ann ' Can be bought low by
MWug early at this office. novllml
Cheap Engines.
!ni« av# a * 6W Cooper Portable
JK*S2 boot mode, which I will sell
if •oiled for loon.
- ,pl7lf R.T. BYBD.
wanted i
h ?£I?; 01 ** Cook.
•Seo.
ic P fi7tf“
The J. W. Fnrlow Plantation,
In the Fifteenth District of Sumter ounty, containing One Thous
and and Four Hundred (1,400) acres of the finest Jarming land
in Southwest Georgia. About seven hundred acres open and in
highest state of cultivation, balance in hammock ami original
pine forest. Well adapted for stock farming. Place contains
new comfortable five room dwelling, new barn and smoke house,
nearly new gin house, sixteen good frame cabins, and all other
necessary out-buildings. Plenty of water, good fences, labor
abundant and cheap. Place made in 1882, with twelve mules,
one hundred and forty-one (141) bales cotton, three thousand
(3000) bushels com.Jone thousand (1,000) bushels oats and other
small crops,
Augusta, Me., Nov. 15 Mr.
Maine, on hearing of the official
count of tho vote of New York, re
marked that it practically settled
the presidential question. Mr.
Blaine, it is stated on the best au
thority, received this afternoon a
telegram from New York announ
cing tbe completion of the ofllcial
canvass in that city, and informing
him that tho plurality for Cleve
land in that State would be 1,137.
He accepts tbe result very cheer
fully and has no regrets growing
out of fais connection with the cam
paign. He lecla that he made a
good light and ho gracefully bovrs
to the verdict of the American
people. He declares that the Re
publican party will prove true to
its grand past, and will increase in
strength with the coming years.
He expects that in 1888 it will
again be called back into power.
Mr. Blaine leaves-for Washington
the middle cf next week, where bis
family will spend the winter. He
lias leased the “Sargent House” in
Farragut square, and will shortly
resume his work on the second
volume of “Twenty Years in Con
gress.” The volume will be ready
by next June fur publication.
New York, Nov. 15.—Tbe re
spective National and State head
quarters of the Republican and
Democratic committees were finally
closed to-night. Chairman B. F.
Jones of the Republican national
committee left bis rooms early, and
Secretary Fessenden and Commit
teeman Elkins remained and held a
conversation with Walker Blaine.
Tho Republicans concede Cleve
land's election. Assistant Secre
tary Loomis voiced the sentiments
of the committee in saying : “It is
all over. We only await the action
of the State board of canvassers
on Wednesday next. But wo have
made a good fight, considering that
we did not have one third ol the
amount of the funds controlled by
tbe national committee in the Gar-
lield campaign.”
The headquarters of the Demo
cratic national committee were
dark and deserted. Senators Gor-
man and Jones anil Mr. Barnum
had left the city feeling that their
work was ended. Chairman W. E
Smith, of tho Democratic State
committee, had gone to his home
in Flaltsburg, and Secretary Bunn
left this ovening. There was little
talk about the hotels and public
resorts about the election.
and will make eighty-five or ninety bales this year withoul it.
Purchaser will have refusal of twelve good mules, wagons, corn,
fodder, cotton seed, cattle and hogs on place together with all
necessary farm utensils. A splendid place and a rare bargain
given. Will be divided in lots to suit purchaser. Terms easy.
Property sold for division only. For maps or information call
on or address,
J. W. FURLOW, Americus, Ga.
If satisfactory sale is not made in thirty days, place will be
leased for a term of years with all stock, iorage and tools.
Ml 8 JtUM.thBH.aSt. W-f W
Will UeTurilhe Rascals Out.
Wasuinuto:.', November 15—
The Evening Star publishes the
following reply to an inquiry sent
to Mr. George William Curtis by a
government employe here:
WestNew Brighton,Staten Is
land, November 14th, 1884. Dear
Sir:—I have your letter of the 12th.
There is no doubt that Mr. Cleve
land wid encounter a tremendous
demand fora clean sweep. Bull
think that while ohanges will and
ought to be made for perfectly
legitimate reasons be will respect
both the letter and spirit of the
reform law, and that non-political
olllccre who have been honest and
efteclive in tbe discharge of their
duty, and who have not misused
their positions lor party or politi
cal ends, will not be arbitrarily
dismissed for political reasons.
Of course I have no authority to
speak for Mr. Cleveland. My faith
is founded unon some knowledge
of bis character and convictions.
Truly Yours,
Gxokok William Gunns.
ElklnsUheilt Up.
Washington, Nov. 15.—The Na
tional Republican print* tbe fol
lowing in its New York money
■ rtlcle:
Elkins telegraphed bis friends
Iset night that he conceded New
York fitate to ClevfiUnd by about
1,200 plurality.
A VERY BLUE FAMILY.
Tlie Blelaee Not In m Veer Fleeeeat
Frame of
August a, Me., Nov. 16.—Mr.
Blaine has at last realized the bit
terness of defeat. He had some
faint hope all along that he would
bo counted in, but the truth seems
to he that he was so greatly stun
ned by tbe conflicting reports that
came from New York the very day
after election that he never fully
recovered himself and felt all the
time that the tide was against him
He has acted nil along like a man
completely unnerved and displayed
none of that spirit and dash that
was expected of him by his friends
in case of an emergency. The
chilling apprehension of defeat
that seized him the day after the
election has now grown into the
full realization of the actual disas
ter. Both he and his family are
suffering the most burniug agony.
This information comes sttaigbt
from their own house. Mr. Blaine
is to-day moro an object of pity
than resentment and abuse. The
female part of his family are lo
tears most of tho time, while his
son Walker curses the very air. If
Mr. Blaine had fears of defeat, his
family did not share them. His
conceited and impertinent .son
Walker was as confident of his fa
ther’s triumph as bo was of bis
elevated shirt collar. The single
daughter looked forward with fond
expectations to her Bocial reign at
the white house, as every girl
might be expected to do under the
circumstances, and many were the
rosy pictures she drew before her
intimate young lady associates
here. Mr. Blaine is more than
ever convinced that his friend El
kins was the wrong man to place
in the management of the national
committee. Ho thinks he was not
equal to the requirements of the
place; that he was too easily de
ceived; that he spent too much
money trying to carry southern
states, and that he relied too much
upon hurrah. The Blaine strikers
about the postofilce are a pretty
good reflex of what Mr. Blaine
himself thinks, and they are open
and violent in their denunciation
of Jones and Elkins. Jo Manley,
the postmaster of Augusta, thinks
he himself could have done better
than Elkins. .Mr. Blaino and his
family evidently feel that he has
lost the presidency through mis
management, and the man whom
he holds guilty of that mismanage
ment he will never forgive.
A N ;gro Admitted to the Bar.
From the Augunts. G»., Chronicle.
At a meeting of the superior
court yesterday moring a tall,
light hued, colored man, apparent
ly about thirty years of age, pre
sented himself as an applicant for
admission to the bar. Ills appli
cation represented that his name
wasJudson W. Lyons and that
he was a gradutc of Howard Uni
versity Law School, Washington,
D. C. He ale* represented a di
ploma from that Institution. His
moral character was certified to
by Wm. J. White, W. H. Barefleld
and Joseph S. Bean, the two former
being residents ol this city. Tbe
court appointed as a committee to
examine him, Judge Hook, Judge
Shewmakc, Mr. Lockhart, and
Solicitor General Wright. TbeBC
gentleman examined him in turn
upon the various branches design
ated by the statue, each expressing
his satisfaction at tbe manner in
which the applicant responded.
After a close examination of about
an hour, Solicitor General Wright,
who conducted the closing part of
tbe examination, arose and said :
“I think it but due tho applicant
that I should state to your honor,
and ia the bearing of these people,
that the applicant, after going
through a very searching examina
tion, at far as I have had time to
give it, has not missed a single
question, and shows a proficiency
in criminal law, which is very rare
in applicants before this court.”
Judge Roney then said; “1
taka great pleasure iu saying that
I have listened to the examination
and heard the report of the com
mittee, and that 1 indorse their re
port that tbe applicant is worthy
of admission to the bar, and I have
prepared this order.” The court
then read the order of admission,
and the applicant advanced and
took tbe oath, after which each of
the committee went forward and
■hook banda with him. Lyons was
for some time a United States
S tuger; has since taught school.
• was, in 1880, a candidate for
tbe legislature in this county, but
was defeated.
Lyons ia the second or third col
ored man who baa been admitted to
tbe tar in Augusta alneatha war.
Georgo Snowden practiced here
shortly after the war, and John F.
Quatlcs was also admitted to tbe
profession in this oity. In Caro-
lina thero are several colored law
yers, Sam Lee, in Charleston, and
Whlpper, in Beaufort, being the
most conspicuous in that atate.
Sevi ral years ago Aaron Alperoria
Bradley was admitted to the bar
in Savannah, and Styles Hutchins
in Atlanta. These parties, how
ever, have uot been heard of lately
in legal circles.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
I'bHpoMil, and By
t Is Operated.
From tho Journal of Commsrce.
Nkwahk, N J.. Not. 7,1884.
Editor of the Journal of Vornmerct:
Will you please expltiu to your many
renders what the Associated Press is, who
composed of, &o., and why it is run in
tho f nror of the Republican Party
Reply—The New-York Asso
ciated Press is composed of seven
papers named by it ill tbe following
order: Tho New-York Journal of
Commerce, Herald, Tribune, Times,
Exprcis, Sun, and World. When
Mr. Jay Gould owned a controlling
interest in the World, and Mr.
Hurlbert represented it in the as
sociation, the following gentlemen
in behalf of their respective papers,
viz., Mr. Charles .A. Dana of the
Sim, Mr. Whitelaw Reid of the
Tribune, Mr. Hurlbert of the
World, and Mr. Cyrus W. Field Of
the Mail and Express, by a bare
majority of one vote, and against
tbe earnest protest of the Herald,
Times, and Journal of Commerce,
who were in the minority, reorgan
ized tbe management, appointing
Messrs. Dana and Reid, and Dr.
Hosmer, of tbe Herald, an Execu
tive Committee, ftogether with
two members of tho Western
Press,) and giving them new pow
ers in tbe business of tbs associa
tion. They appointed a new gen.
eral agent from tho West, Mr.
William Henry Smith, and Mr.
W. H. French was appointed bis
chief assistant. The Sdltor-in chief
of this paper is President of the
organization, and for 25 years has
been active in the conduct of its
affairs. Ho has found that for tbe
most part the new agent was dis
posed to conduct the business fair,
y, and in tbe best interest of the
papera and the public, who are
alike most faithfully served when
the news is impartially collected
and distributed. It is an open
secret that the Uerald hat not re
cently participated to any consid
erable extent in tbe sessions of the
committee, if any such have been
held, nor has Mr. Dsns, wo believe,
been very active; and the recent '
election 'returns appear to have
been collected under tbe entire
supervision ol the editor of tbe
Tribune. The partisan character
of tho service is most painfully
apparent, and we do not believe
that tho other members of the as
sociation will quietly submit to
lose the good name of the body
in any such fashion. The World
(meaning tbe paper of that name)
has undergone s revolution, and
tbe present owner is not a satellite
ot Gould-
A Discouraged Republican.
A member of tbe republican na
tional committee said that the
democrats, with all tbe government
lower and patronage In their
lands, could easily control tbe 48
electoral votes outside of tbe 163
votes of the solid south, and there
was nothing to prevent them from
bolding tbe government for tbe
next sixty years, unless they com
mitted some unusually outrageous
errors.
Great Exposition Inaugurates Tbts.
The approaching Inauguration
of tbe Exposition of tbe World’*
Industry st New Orleans, La., at
noon on tbe 16th ot December, re
minds us of the Extraordinary
Grand Semi-annual (the 176th)
Drawing of tbe Louisiana State
Lottery at tbe same heur, when
$522,500 will be distributed among
tbe fortunate inveetors in snaa
from $160,000 to $50. Full particu
lars can be bad on application to
M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans,La.
The Greensboro Herald esys it
is really suprising tbst so many
persons neglect to have their title*
to land recorded. An attorney
was looking up tbe chain of titles
to a farm In Greene county, a few
day* ago, and, although the title
has passed through several person*
hands within tbe last twenty years,
there l* no record whatever In the
clerk’s office, of any change in own
ership for forty year*. Tbti Is, in
all probability, only ona caia la
fifty.