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' . Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1884. Daily, Pkr Ykar,...**.#9 Weekly, “ ... MO Amebicus Recorder POBT.IiHBU U? gujBBSn eh. W. X* ON COTTOW ATEHHJE Jas. Fricker & Bro. AMERICUS. «,t rn r»Uro»J, 71 miles southwest of uLVand about 80 miles north of the Eorids lloa. It is situated in the finest Lmtion of Oeorgia, raising a greater vari- Sofsoriooltural and horticultural pro- Se» than any other part of the South, eomhiniug all the fruits, grain and rege- tabies of the temperate and semi-tropical groa—wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, Irish Jed sweet potatoes, peanuts, chufas, cotton peas, sugar cane, apples, pears, pcacbesfgrapes, plums and other fruits fie climate w mild and equable, and one of the most healthy in the world, the air bejoc pure and rtrr aod most benefioial lor lunc and throat diseases. All kinds of outdoor work can be performed without inconfenience from summer heat or winter cold. Americus has a population of 6 000, is beautifully situated on high ind rolling ground aud boasts of some of the handsomest business blocks in the South The city has fine public schools; eood churches; a large public library, one daily, one semi-weekly. and two weekly newspapers; a new opera house completely furnished witu scenery an capable of seating 1,000 persons; a well organized fire department, includiDf two fine steamers; the streets are wel paved, sewered and lighted; there nr two flooring mills, a cotton seed oil mill, planing mill and variety works, carriage factory, and a number of minor manfacto- ries;about two hundred flrtns are engaged in mercantile business; three banks with an abundance of capital; two good hotels furnish good accommodattion. Americas is the centre of trade for six counties 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, aod it is rapidly growing in popu lation and wealth. As a place of busi ness residence it presents attractions equ ile<l by few cities in the South. Property of all kinds is comparatively cheap, nlthougb rapidly advancing in value; tko inhabitants of both city and conntry arc cultivated, courteous and hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im migrants. To enterprising 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 Americus Re corder, Americus, Ga. FROSI HATCHER’S STATION. AND DEALERS IN PIANOS ORGANS, Barlow Block, - - - —. Americus, Ga. PROFESSIONAL & liUSMESS CARDS C. B. McCHOBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ellaville, ga. TRUU8—All claims from 80 or under, 8; om 930 to 9500; ton pc* cent.; over 9500, seven •r cent. No charges unless collections are made. May 14-tf, DOCTORS. Dr. 0, B. RAINES, SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN. Uia prolclon.l .orviec*, v.-Lt, .n expert- cnee oi 20 year*, to the people of Americu» and vianuy. Office over Davis it Callaway’s Store. Ree acne* at corner of Jackson ai d Church streets, wdis will receive prompt atteuilo \ tautmi DR. C. A. BROOKS^ AMEBICUS, GA. Calls left at Davenport's dra? store will receive P«apt attention.- Will be found at uigbt at the AIISCELLA neous. J. Mificr. O. Horaco McCall. Noflumental Marble Works, MILLER k HcCALL, Proprietors, SootawHt Corner of the Publio Square, . AMEBICUS, GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc.,Eto •ftha bait Italian and American Marble.' ,r0tt k»IIIS| for Cemetery Enclos ed » •peololtjr. We desiro to oall the attention of the public to the fact that wo have 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 PLATED WARE, TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, GOLD PENS. PENCILS AND TOOTHPICKS, WALKING CANES, OPERA GLASSES, GOLD AND AND SILVER THIMBLES, ETC. Wo aro Headquarters for Spectacles and Eye-Glasses! Can suit any and every one in Gold, Silver, Steel, Bronze, Zylonite. Celluloid or Rubber Frames. Wo aro Sole Agents for KING'S CELEBRATED PATENT COM BINATION SPECTACLES—tbo best in the world. tVotaell the Davis and Williams Singer Sewing Machines! and have constantly on hand Needles, Oils, Attachments and Parts for all Machines. We have the best equipped shop for the Repair of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry in this section of tne Slate. We employ none but first-class workmen and guarantee all our work. PIANO AND ORGAN DEPARTMENT. This branch of our 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 wo 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 the best business mon in Americus shows plainly that we sell as low as any one, and when you buy from us you hove no freight to pay and savo the trouble of unboxing tbo instrument, os wo place it in your house and gr j you a FIVE YEAR’S guarantee. Wo also have on hand a largo stock of small Musical In struments, consisting of Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Tambourines, Acoordeons and Harmonicas, and also keep Strings of the very best quality, Violin Bows, Tail pieces, Bridges, llosin and all kind of Musical Instrument Trimmings. The Office of the Southern Express Company is in onr store and their Agent, Mr. 8. C. COOPER is in our employ as Book-kcepor and Salesman and will be glad to serve all who aro needing anything in oar lino. CALL Afcl) SEE US IN OUR NEW STORE! Mr)ltf JAS. FRICKER & BRO Fine Plantation FOR SALE! For Sale. pl«« of Forty Acres, well improved, puuide the city limits. Good ncigb- SL , n?i ’ htaRby locality, Wall situated KrfHuMrgf Cun be bought low by Wjlugtarly.al this office. novllml Cheap Engines. Wteluftrt Postil Poitabl CSft th, bast made, which I will acl ^chtapifcMlcd for soon. t B.T.BIBD. .. WANTED ! * *inbOUt» Wtrfte Cook. Apply at The J. W. Furlow Plantation, In the Fifteenth District of Sumter county, containing One Thous and and Four Hundred (1,400) acres of the finest laming land in Southwest Georgia. About seven hundred acres open nnd in highest state of cultivation, balance in hammock and 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 corn.Jone thousand (1,000) bushels oats and other small crops, Vint tie lee of Oee Foil of Guano, and will make eighty-five or ninety bales this year without it. Purchaser will have refusal of twelve good mules, wagons, com i fodder, cotton seed, cattle and hogs on place together with all necessary farm utensils. A splendid pl«ce 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 satisfhetory sale is not made in thirty days, place will be frfljad for a term of yean with all stock, iorage and tool*., '' inllllM.ttKMal.wvla - • c • * '' Uatcueb's Station, Nov. 18.— The dry drouth is still on us. It is now the ninety-ninth day since wo had rain. Our last was on August 9tb. Gardens aro entirely shriveled and dried up; no turnips or other vegetables, which leaves us a very dry living. The crops are all housed, and the crop of cotton, say live-eighths, measurably till sold, leaving most farmers moneyless nnd some in debt for guano, with meat to buy for anoth er year. Nearly all have corn to supply them, with perhaps one- third enough meat, the balance to be bought on time with other nec essaries. I am satisfied, however, that it wilt not be so anotber^ear, unless it tails to rain, as most, if not all our farmers, are determined to raise cereals and hogs for home consumption. Well, the election count is over at last, and we are all at case and delighted that honest government will be once moro restored, after the 4th ot March next. But we fear now that wo may be in the same unpleasant condition of the fox, which had been long and closely chased by the hounds. To avoid his pursuers, ho ran into a thick bramble. There be was cov ered by a swarm of hungry flies, which bit and sucked his blood fearfully. After a wliilo a friendly fox came along. Seeing the dis tress of the fox in the bramble, he olTered to drivo away the flies; but the besieged fox said nay, for if you drive away these flies, which are now neatly died, a hungry set will come and have to All up, which will exhaust my life’s blood. How ever anxious our people may be for the ofllces, under Dcmocratlu rule, we are willing, yea, anxious to give them a trial. Time only will develop tho results of the change, and we earnestly hope and believe the country wltl now move on in prosperity, If the'abom- inable and oppressive high tariff and internal revenue laws shall bo so modified as to lessen the heavy burden which has been horno by tbo down trodden and victimized farmers nil over the country, especially in the South. Robert Henderson, an industri ous and faithful old colored man, and a tenant on ono < of W> E. Gay’s places, had his crib and stable flred one night last week and ail of his corn, fodder, stable buggy and 1 horse were burned. One Bob. Woods, (col.) is suspicioned as tbo incarnate fiend and is now in jail awaiting a commitment trial which comes off to-morrow before Justice J. E. Smith, at George town. Destructive Arcs are be coming s* numerous that it bo- comes everybody, private Citizen* as well as officers of tho law, to be careful and vigilant, for doubtless some of them are the result of the excessive dry weather and careless handling of lire. Tho new fish trap erected in Putaula, near tho railroad bridge by Messrs. Hillman and Graham, is quite a source of luxury at well as revenue’in a small way, from fifteen to sixty pounds are taken from it daily, trout, white perch, suckers and channel cat with'a very few large cels; they find fl ready market for the surplus. Mr. James Cooper died very suddenly last Saturday of malarial hemorrhagic fever. . He was at. tacked violently on Wednesday night and died Saturday,at3 a. m. He was attended by Drs. Dobbin, Shivers, Gun and Mason Rains, but all to no effect. He was an energetic yonng farmer and a ten ant of Dr. Dobbin. Mr. Anton King, recently of Dover, Terrell county, is visiting liis parents and friends of Midway. Tbe County Sunday School con vention meets with Enon church on Saturday, before tbe fourth Sun day in January. A large attendance Jlexpected, as the cbnreh has a large, commodious and comfortable building, and is laid to be the finest conntry church In BoUthwtH Georgia. Everybody-lnviUd^ ANDERSON VILLE. November 18,—It would do your eyes good to see tbe double row of cotton bales around our little de. pot awaiting shipment. Most of It camo from points about Ellaville. The political lover, which as- Burned an epidemlo form about here has nearly died out, but like other stimulants (especially those we have not been accustomed to from youth) tbe reaction is somewhat debilitating. There is much aiekness about our city. A fatal case of diph theria occurred day before yester day. Tho victim was a young col ored woman named Eliza Ann Epps. Among both whites and colored, malarial and billons fevers are too prevalent to inspire confi dence in the bealtbfulness of tbo climate. Business is rather dull; tho result of tbe election, probably. Professor Clark has closed his school until New Years, for the purpose.of repairing the school building. Thts sohool has expe rienced a very prosperous season on ono or two occasions students were sent away for want of room. As tbo south bound passenger train approached Americus, last Monday, a stone cams orashtng through tbo oar window. The per son who threw tbe stone was seen and reoognizad, and it is hoped be fore this be has found that throw ing stones at a passing train is just a little unsafe. Yours truly, J. M. B. A Lady in Coseytown discover ed a mouse in tbe family flour bar rel. She summoned her husband and told him to get a gun and call the dog and station himself near tbo scene of onslaught. Gettlni up on a high chair she commcnoci punching tbe Jflour barrel with a pole. Tho poor mouse soon nade its anpearance and atarted across tho Uoor, the dog immediately in pursuit. In tho exoitement tbo mah flred the gun, killing the dog, and the lady fainted and fell ofl the the chair. Tbe man, thinking that she was dead and fearing arrest for murder, cleared out and has not been beard of since. Tbo mouse escaped.—Hoiidaysbnry Standard. “Look beah, Ransom,” said an old negro to a young fellow, “1 doan’ min’ yer ’sociatin’ wid my daughter, but I druther yer wouldn’t come roun’ my bouse no mo’. Time ’fore de las’ wbat yer wes heah 1 missed cr waterbucket, an’ de las’ time de bridle wus gone; an’ now, cz I has a use for de sad dle, 1 druther yer wouldn’t come beah. I don’ say dat yer ain’t bones', for T b’lebes yer Is; but such cuts things happens while yer is in de neighborhood. So, Jos’ ter please er ole man, what ain’t enjoyin’ very good health, please doan’ come roun’ dis houBo no mo’.”— Arkansaw Traveler. Illinois Legislature Democratic. Chicago, Nov. 18.—The Cook county canvass board to day dis covered that tbo figures for State Senator in tbe second precinct -of tbe eighth ward bad been reversed, those belonging to Brand (Demo crat) having been credited to Le man (Republican), and vice versa. This elects Brand by ten majority and gives tbe Democrats tbe Leg islature in joint ballot. Tbo Leg islature is to choose a United States Senator to succeed Gen. John A. Logan. Indefinitely Postpeaed. The resolution before the House to eksnge the act providing for tbe building of the State capitol so as to allow tbe uro of Georgia marble and which would have In volvcd an additional appropriation of $200,900, was indefinitely post poned on Tuesday after a lengthly and elaborate dlaousslon of tbe subject. Senator Brown. In tbe joint session of tboLogio- Iature Tuesday, Senator Joseph E.Brown wsn unanimously refl ected U. S. Senator. Mr. EUls, of Fulton, placed tbe Senator in nomination with a brief, bat elo quent eulogy. There are some oolored gentle men who don’t want to go bade Into slavery because In slavery time their wives couldn’t support then by taking in- washing.— CMriiMOtuink ’■ ■ MR. PLANT’S WILLOW FARM. - OmiIm' Ostsr Wlllmrs Frees cat- «!■*§ PrMsriS la Swllurlaae. Mtcon Tslsgrapb. Our readeis will remember a de scription given in these colnnons of Mr. I. C. Plant’s willow farm near Macon. Tbe article wti written when tb i farm was in its infancy and tbe cuttings only • few feet above the ground. We promised our readers then to inform them of tbe result of tbe experiment, and now that tbe willows bavs reached their proper growth, we are ready to fulfill tbe promise. At tbe late State fair, commenc ing October 91, Mr. Plant display ed specimens which proved beyond all question tbe success of tbe ex periment, and showed that tbe OBier willow thrives in tbe rich, damp, alluvial river bottom lands of tbe Sontb as well a* In Switier- land, from which country tbe Uni ted States draws the great balk of its supply of willows. Tbe sum mer just past was on* of remarka ble dryness, eleven weeks passing without rain. Notwithstanding this drouth, tbe willows grew with out any attention, and tbe crap proved tn undoubted suocess. Tbe epecimeus shown at th* ” fair showed a growth of ftom five to eleven feet, and will produce from one to one and a half tons per aore. The cuttings put in last spring are now from two to four feet high, and will yield about one-bslf ton per aore. This willow double* and . trebbles In its prodnot every year, aod forms a complete mass of out- tingB after the third year, growing up like tall grass without any branebee or twigs, and prodnes* from two to two and one-half tons per acre on rich bottom land. Tbere Is a good demand for these willows at tbe North and West, at from 8 to 10 cents per pound, say $100 to $200 per ton, after tbe bark is removed and It la properly prepared for market. Tbe cost of this preparing ought not to exceed $6 or $8 per ton. There is a large quantity of these willows imported into tbit country every year from Europe, but tb* rleb, damp, alluvial river bottom. lands at tho South and long grow*' ing seasons produces much longer and far superior arttole to any tnat- fs imported from abroad or raised in any of tbe Northern States, where it is mostly oultlvated by parties who work np their own production into basket* and tbe numerous other artiele* In wbloh tbe willow' is used. It Is raised from cuttings, whloh ora from ten to fifteen inches long set out in ‘ rows five feet sport, tbe cuttings being placed from twelve to fifteen inches from each other. Mr.-Plant put down 920,000 cutting*;last, winter, mostly ftom the cuttings set out the previous year, and did' - not loso two hundred dotting*, as tbe season was suited to their growth. The specimens shown sttbe fair wore of tbe second year'e growth, being tbe growth of the past Sum mer, as Mr. PlantV first year’s plantings were all out cloie to tbe ground to obtain outtingi to-set out lost winter, there betas UQ,000 of ono year'e growth ana 80,000 of two year*’ growth, giving * him 300,000 willow plant* now growing finely. • '. ■ . . ' Tbere te a man in Clearfield county, Pa., that it 40 year* old, who boast* of having I mothdr, 1 stepfather, 3 brother*, 8 (liters, t fathers-in-law and 8 mothers-in-law, 28 brothers-in-law, 21 aisters-ln- law, 112 niece* and nephews, IS ;reat nieees and nephews, and he s alio tbe father of T children, which make a family of 189. On a trip around the world th* most expensive link 1* that from San Franeiioo to Yokohama, which costs $260, with no ont rates/be cause there is no competition. And even at thee* flgnra* the steamship company claim* to loan> money now tlmt u^Mfennhag. been plaoad og Ohjoiw* traygl.., OMNIBUS FOB SALE Oft TRADE Vie bars s new Landis Omnlbsi; wbiah will oirry sixtms pssasngsnt 'light Hth- ; ning, esn b# drawn by two heavy bsej** on goqdro»d,orrim on sny road with . font light kons* Baa sad harases east aboat 41,000. WiU sell Hat abigrvdae- Usa from cost, or WiU trade for haggis* WiU girt a good lad*, "a.-. .Mi Oikt. aotlftdscl . . ^ Wl r. . ..