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THE BRITISH RECRUIT. nlalM <** Army—Georaeou. fatten J \vA What They^Promlse. [New York Herald,] . Tord Wolseley, who professes such Sit he took With him to Egypt only the irffinn, grown-up men of the regiments, living bobind the stuff that he theo- iitically desires to encourage—that is to ur the young and incompetent. There (.hardly a regiment in the servloo that ?„ nJt teen ’weakened by the jwptian expedition, for the reason {St tho best men have teen picked out H, and there to make up the corps fSitSirGamot is to lead. No tetter itretion could be given of the pres et disorganization of the British army ;L this. No wonder Germans say So Englishmen rate war among the Sorts* But at any. rate, there is a Sat demand for recruits, and the post- are approaching are intended to ijte the mouth of the passing cockney inter for the sweets of thebarraek- I °fostcr No. 1 promises to pay 27 cents .daytomon who enlist between the ues of 19 and 25, and who ore five St seven inches in height. To get these 27 cents'a day you must enlist for twelve years—seven years active and gre years In the reserve. After your first seven years you get $105 bounty, out once a year.' However, you get a mrcoas scarlet uniform, an enormous hesrskin on your head, and the pleasure of quartering at Windsor or Buckingham palace—always within sight of the queen. The second poster invites mo to Join the Scots guards, another crack regiment that quarters either in London or Dublin. Tho uniform bore again is scarlet, with bearskin shako. I must be 18 years old, must ho five feet soven inches high, and measure at least thirty-four inohes around the chest, cortainljvpot a hard test. I must enlist threo years at 37 cents a day, and then romain nine years as reserve, to .be called out onco a year. The poster has a colored picture of a dashing Scots guards man surrounded with the names of many famous battles he is supposed to have assisted in winning. This poster, however, is more gener ous than tho last, and promises a medal after eighteen years’ service as well as (25 in cash. After twenty-one years it n niscs a pension of 27 cents a day. ankee, used to getting his $12 a month as private, would think this rather small, perhaps. So it is, in cash, but the English soldier can buy a great many more good things with his shilling a day than the American can with his 10 cents. The next poster is illumi nated by colored prints of the army hospital corps. There is more work than glory to be got in this service; but it must have its charm for Tommy Atkins, iorthe pay is only $2.04 per week, the rest of the conditions being practically tho same as with the Scots guards. The next poster is a work of art. A central group in high colors represents several bold grenadiers in highly com fortable, not to say, elegant poses. Four colored medallions flank this. One represents a billiard-table surrounded by cheerful grenadiers; a second repre sents a luxurious mess-table surrounded by equally prosperous warriors; a third, shows the glories of dress-parado, and the last illustrates some heroic passages during tho bayonet drill. The names of battles won by grenadier .guards festoon this artful poster, while below are recited the conditions of service,, The rocruit must be fivo feet eight inohes high; must bo at least 18 years old, single, and thirty-five inches around the chest. Ho gots 27 cents a day for his first three years of active service, and 12 cents a day for hit nine years in tho reserves. After eighteen years he gets a “good conduct" medal, and after twenty-one years he may get a pension providing his com manding officer gives his oonsont. This is rather hard on tho soldier, it would seem, and would, with us, discourage a man from joining tho forces. The poster adds that many soldiers make money by getting prizes in rifle matches. In all branches tho prospect is hold out of a pension after twenty-ono years of service. The next poster, flaming with gorgeous uniforms, states that men Joining the royal marines may save as much as $150 in throo years, and fre quently as much as $250 in that time. Tbs recruits have it held out to them that their pleasure, is to be looked after. There ere,” the poster says, “canteens, theatres, recreation rooms, coffee bars. , tell courts, covered 'skittle alleys, quoit : pounds, cricks! fields, racquet courts, 1 hhrarios, and schools at each hoad- v$tertats.” . Bow the American private must envy these placarded ploasures-all indi cating the desire of tho government to malco the soldier's life tolerable. And certainly, from an inspection of the vMoasftnaMim barracks, I can say that our soldiers would consider themselves in luxury had they hut half thorecrca- Jjte resources of tho British soldier. If they bad as many resources as those In Canada they would be better off than theyare now. - Whoever hears of fur nishing Unitod States soldiers with rac quet courts, baserball grounds, or bill iard tables!” And yet does any Amor- lean doubt that it would be a good thing for tho sendee by discouraging attend, ance at saloons! I have reached the end of the war department posters, and I think, “what fabulous inducements these arc. How vastly superior to tboso offered the soldier in France, German; or even the United States," But stl fecrolts don’t como in. Consumption of Quinine. Tho - total consumption of quinine in this country during the last year amounted to about 1,500,000 ounces. Of this amount 600,000 ounces were im ported from England. The production tea nearly doubled within the last ten years. Plaster Casts. Plaster of Baris casts soaked In par- “>•>« can be readily cut or turned in a u ‘he. They pan be rendered very hard "j^toegh mr soaking them in ■UowiiigUMate JOHN BROWN'S GUN. *be Bello Now In Possession of a St. tonh Police Officer. BhLottisRepubHcsn.] . .Many curiosities are owned in St Louis, tat none ate perhaps more highly iirixed than the gun of “Old" John Bwwn whose “ body lies molderlng In the grave. ” This reiki Is In possession of Pollco Officer Tom Allen, who preserves the race among the bulls and bears on change, and ho stands ready on all occa- •tons to exhibit it to his admiring friends. When asked whether he really possessed toe gun taken from Brown at Homer's Ferry, he told this story: “ Shortly beforo the close of toe war I was employed as a clerk at toe quarter master’s department at Harper'a Ferry along with a young man named Taylor. The young man and myself soon heroine very iatimste friends, and quite frequently he entertained me at his home in Harper's Ferry. During one of inv visits at his home be brought a long double-barreled shotgun into the parlor and handed it to me to look at, saying, as he did so: 'That weapon is toe identical weapon taken from John Brown when hla gang and himself were captured at toe arsenal or engine-house. Nearly every man who assisted to toe capture secured somctoini from some one of tho prisoners. Some o. the raiders took swords and others car bines, but it fell to the lot of my father to take thin gun from toe noted Brown. At the time toe weapon waa confiscated it contained three bails to each barrel. Knowing too young man waa a man of hla word, I becamo very much interested in the relic, and tried to obtain possession of it He refused to part with it until four years ago, when he presented it to me with his compliments, retaining the bullets It had contained as reminiscences of the part taken by bis father to siding to toe historic capture. The gun Is in splendid condition, and no further back than last Sunday I killed eereral wild ducks with it while hunting over in Illinois. It is quite heavy, and has much longer barrels than those of most tpodern shot-guns; yet, in my opinion, it is one of the best weapons to the country at tho present time." The reporter, at toe sug gestion of Mr. Allen, visited that gentle man's room and examined the weapon. Its stock, of black walnut. Is somewhat stralghter than stocks are usually made; its barrels, which are loaded from too muzzle, being forty-two incites to length. Tho gun was made by a manufacturer in Philadelphia named Rogers How is Bear Catches Fish. [Cor. Lewiston Journal.] I came suddenly upon a vory largo bear to a thick swamp, lying upon a large hol low log across a brook, fishing; and he was to much interested to his sport that he did not notice mo until I had ap proached very near him, so that I could see exactly bow he baited his hook and played bis fish. IIo fished in this wise: There was a large hole through the log' on which he lay, and ho thrust his forearm through too hole and held his open paw to tho water, and waited for too fish to gather round and into it; and when filled ho clutched his fist and brought up a handful of fish, undent and ato them with great gusto; then down with toe puw again, and so on. The brook was fairly alive with little trout and red aided suck- He did not cat their leads. There was quite a pile of them on toe log. I suppose toe oil to his paw attracted too fish and baited them oven better than flyhook; and bis toe nails were his hooks, and sharp ones, too, and onco grabbed toe fish were sure to slay. They also catch frogs in these forest brooks, and drink of toe pure water to hot summer days, and love to lie and wallow in the muddy swamps as well as our pig: to too mint. Thoy often cross narrow places to lakes by swimming, and also rivers, and seem to love to take a turn to the water. I once saw one swimming from the mainland to too big island in Mooscmaguntlc lake, with just a streak of bis back out of the water, looking liko a dog moving along. Sometimes you sec only their heads out of toe water; at other times half their bodies are to be seen. We account for this difference by condition. If fat, toecrcsso helps buoy them up; if iron, they sink lower lu the water. Floating Palaces. [Joaquin Miller’* New Orleans Letter.] A letter from a lively little sight-seeing miss whom I met at too carnival to Home Informs me, from away up yonder toward toe very headwaters of toe Mississippi, that her father, along with tome other gentlemen of toe place, have hired for tbe season one of too thousand or so steamers that have been lying at thu wharfs, owing to too fatal compction for freight by the railroads, and arc coming to tho exposi tion on her. - * She writes me that they have employed their own captain, seamen, and servants, and may go os far as Cuba. They provis ion ter st their own door, they decorate her with flags and lead off, tbe first of a whole fleet of such craft. Now this merry maiden and her light hearted Pinafore plans set me to thinking. IIow many idle ships, hosts, tugs, steamers and so on are there lying idle up about the heads of tad a lung the forty or fifty grro: rivers up the Mississippi? And bow many of them are going to be painted up and fitted up for a ride down to the exposition, the mouth of toe river, the Tecbc and Tuxpan land, Cuba, Vera Cruz! Thousands and thousands! Sure, they will not necessarily spend any money here, for they will bring their own beer and bar rel; nay, even bring bread and the like for others to cat; but they will swell toe mul titude migbtlr, and with their Innumer able fleet, their colored lights at night, their banners, and their bands of music, will make such a scone on toe broad bosom of the tawny waters hero as toe world has not seen since toe days of Venetian splendor. Her Free Interpretation. [Detroit Free Frees.] A little girl attended church for the first time. • The minister chose his text from toe twenty-third Psalm: “My cup runneth over. Surely goodness end mercy shall follpw me all the days of my life. ” At dinner the sermon was discussed, tat none could recall the words of toe text. “I know what too text was, mamma, ” told tho little girl. “Do yon, dear, what was lit" “Mercy goodness, my cup’s tipped over." Under Commercial Hotel, FORSYTH ST., - - AMERICUS, GA New Goods! Low Prices! TO FILL MY NEW STORE I HAVE ORDERED A LARGE STOCK OF Books, Stationerr, Tors, Fancy Goods, £tc. Testaments and Bibles from- 5 cts. to $14.00 each. Albums - - - from 25 cts. to 10.00 each. Papetries - - - from 15 cts. to 5.00 each. Toys from 1 ct; to 6 00 each. WETTING PAPER AND ENVELOPES A SPECIALTY 1 Large Stock of Blank Books, Ink and Pens—Best Quality. Best Grades of Tobacco and Cigars. Goods to suit all tnstes and purses from Candy and Chewing Gum to Quarto Dictionaries and Bibles. PLEASE CALL AND FXAMINE PRICES! [JQf’Special orders receive prompt attention. •ov2tf AGNES AYCOCK INSURANCE AGENT, OFFICE IN COMMERCIAL HOTEL BLOCK, Forsyth Street, ■ • ■ ■ Amerioua, Ga AGENT FOR THE LEADING AT.HQ AG-HNTlFOR mpmcth GULLET andLUMMESCOTTON GIN?, Tlxo BeatSGHna Made! CALL AND SEE ME, WHEN IN WANT OF INSURANCE OR GINS. sept!8m3 R. T. L.B.BOSWORTH FORSYTH ST., AMERICUS, GA. Has just reMlved the following nawijjoodsfor too Holidays, to whtoh he Invites Dried Fruits, Citrons, Prunes, Currants, Raisins and Figs, - - > a - MALAGA GRAPES AND MINCE MEATS FRESH APPLES, ORANGES, APPLE BUTTER FRE8H AND GOOD, MAPLE SYRUP, BUNKER HILL PICKLES AND GHERKINS. CHRISTMAS CANDIES. CHOICE, FRESH. MIXED CANDIES, TOY CANDIES, ETC). Canned; Goods! .1 . »,. I have the finest line of Canned Goods evet brought to Amerlous, all (of. yrhich ore full weight and firstolass goods, embracing BARTLETT PEARS, PINE APPLES, STRAWBERRIES, BLACKBEHi PEACHES, TOMATOE . GREEN CORN, BAKING BEANS, CODFISH BALLS, FULTON MARKET BEEF. PRESERVES AND JELLIES OF ALL KINDS, ' PICKLES-BUNKER HILL, GHERKINS, CHOW-CHOW, MIXED. BUCKWEAT FLOUR AND OAT MEAL, CODFISH AND YANKEE BEANS. CANNED MACKEREL, CANNED SALMON. BEEF AND HAMS, DRIED BEEF, CREAM CHEESE, FINE GOSIIENBUTTEE, , , ». ■ ••. i r .. ABDJBrjSBTTHXHa XMV IN\TBMILIXX Of • FANCY AN1) STAPLE GROCERIES. ALSO JCAJtM TUB riJTMBT JMtAXDB Or 0 ' Wlieatley’s Comer. Ho! every one in need of Clothing, “COME AGAIN” to heatley’s Comer and buy * l!’e$plondid«ucce*« which Bttcmlc«lJour;effort«;in Introducing tho sale of FUN K CLOTHING- | m;onr c ,hoe inducedfua to brinfe oat for tho Sprinf trade tho largest, liandsomeit and' most complete Jln« of >? .; Perfect Fitting Clothing EVER 8H0WN IN AMERICUS! These goods have been selected with great care and possess] sn elegance of design, benutj of finish and durability of texture, that few indeed can equal, and none surpass. In every Instance ws GUARANTEE PERFECT FIT OR NO SALE We harejalso a large and well selected stoek of perfect fitting Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Neck and Underwear And everything in the wsy of Gent’s Furnishing Coops. Tolite and atUatirs|8alesmsn Will taka [pleasure in displaying these besatiftil goods whether you wish to buy or not. THORNTON Wheatley’s Corner, WHEATLEY, : : Americus, Ga The latest returns show tost France drink, considerable more wine than the produce., and yet French wines arc sup posed to be consumed fat almost every country of the world. 1 The Bennett-Mackey cable Is carried across tbe big Brooklyn bridge on books pupil. Board and tuition ten dollars per at an annnal rental of $250. (font weeks) f montb^ paid monthly tn^td- During the past ysar m claims have teen taka# up fat Natalka than in any otte; stain The exercises of this school will be re sumed on Monday, the 5th of January. Tenus, Bates, Etc. : Primary Department per month 82.00 Intermediate, per month 3.00 First-Class, per month,.. .. 4.00 Tuition duo at the end of each Scho lastic month. Patronage earnestly solicited. Good, honest true end square work guaranteed. For farther particulars call on W. It ALLEN, Principal. deelOdlm Andersonville School Will Open Sprins Term January 12th, 1884. Tuition $15.00, $20,00 and $25.00 per annum—Irta public fund about $3.00 per Beard and tuition ten dollars per ranee. Mule, $3.00 per month, farther, inform Qian apply to > A J. CLAUS; PrUupal, AndsrtonviUa, Oi i*el7-w**odU CHRISTMAS 18 COMING, AND W. E. CLARK, On Lamar Street. CANDIES, FRUITS, NUTS, CANNED GOODS, RAISINS, • ' CAKES, PIES, Tretk. little eats u'vtiy^ew Prices. ■ and ether BeUag MTOrdoft for Cake* I attended to promptly. LIQUORS AB3S OIQARS. Buctureiser Beer on Ion, Sfto. Is. B. BOSWOBTB. AtucriciiR, Ga,, December 8,1884. fill r i • Jas. Flicker & Bro. Barlow Block, , >i - - Amerious, Ga. We decirc to call the attention of the publlo to the feot that we have at.last got setUed in our new store an the PUBLIC SQUARE and" have on hand a large and handsome stock of every thing in our line. Our stook consist* partly of Watches, Clocks and Jewehyj 6f All Kinds 1 SOLID SILVER AND PL TABLE AND POCKET C GOLD PENS. PENOIL8 1— WALKING DANES. OPERA GLA88BS, GOLD AND AND SILVER THIMBLES, ETC. We ere Headquarters for Spectacles and Otn suit any and every on* In Gold, Silver, Btofl, Bronze, Zylonlte, Celluloid or Rubber Frame.. W* are Sola Agrot. for KING'S CELEBRATED PATENT COM BINATION SPEOTAOLES-tba boat In the world. Wo sell toe Davis and Williams Singer Sewing Machines I and have constantly on band Needles, O'iia, Attsoiimenb'and 'HAitu.all Machines. We have the best equipped shopTor toe Repair of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry in tola eectlon of tn* Bute. W* employ non* tat llnt-olaa workmen and guarantee PIANO AND ORGAN DEPARTMENT. Tbia branch of our btuinese is steadily Inowaafaig and all ire ejkts that parties who expeot to bny a Piano or Organ will call and examine our steak andgst our price* before they buy. H we cannot do a* wMl o* tettorfct yam. tteto yon can do for youraelva* w* do not ask roar patronage Thaitot that wa have aold Pianosand Organa to dosana of toe butt burinem men in America* shows ptanly that w. sell ss low as any one, end when you boy from ns you have no freight to-pay and save the trouble of unboxing the instrument, aa wa plaac it In your, honeo and rive you a FIVE YEAR'S guarantee. W* also have on band a Urge Stock of small Musical In strument*. consisting of Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Tambourines, Aeoordeons and aSSSSSielrodslro keep String of the very bit quality, Vtclln Bow., Toll piece., Bridges, Boein snd ell kind of lusted Instrument Trimmings. The’Office of the Southern Express Company lain our store and their Agent, Ur. 8. C. COOPER i. in our employ a* Book-keeper and Salesmen and will be glad to serve ell who are needing anytbiog in our line. CALL AND SEE US IN OUB NEW STORE t MnW ‘ JAS. FRIGKER A 1RQ_