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Established 1879.
Americus
Recorder
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. JANUARY 13, 1885.
Daily, I*kh Vicar,...$8.00
Wkkkly, “ ... 3.00
lircApmi. i’Rizk $7.a o«o_*j
Ticket* ouly 93 Sliaren lu proporllou.
Americus Recorder
PUBLISH HD 11Y
WT. Xj. OIjXISSW Xux l.
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i'liOFESSlUVAIi k IIU'SIMSS I'lltllS Louisiana State Lottery Co.
AMERICUS.
(•KOKf.'IA SEWS.
skating
Albany is to have a bij
link before long.
There is a blind Baptist, preacher
in Rabun county 101 yeaisold.
i Mr. W. T. Christopher is now
do hereby certify that we supervise | , .... , , ,, .
the arrangement for ujj the Monthly and ' on the editorial corps of the Monte-
Semi-Annual Drawings of The l. nutria a a
Vu< , icus is th ■ county seat of Sumter ! **«<<’ lottery Company,aral in perron man-
(teoraiu. situated on tLe Soulli -> aye and control the Drawings thermal tee,
»l.»rii r.ulroail. 71 miles southwest of and that the same are conducted with hon-
A'm anil ulmiit HO nnles north of the \ esty, fairness, and in gooil faith toward al.
,;.i.t:\ liUH. It is situated in the finest partus, undue authorize the Company to
t j. iji of (ieoraia, raisin,; a greater vari- ! usf certificate, with facsimiles of our
f agricultural and horticultural pro- signatures attached, in its ailcertiscmcnts."
<7
r part of the South,
nits, grain and vrge-
,ite and semi-tropical
rve. oats, i rice, Irish
chuffts,
ts than any otht
comhining all the 1
tables of the tempt i
cones—wheat, corn, rye, oats,| ri<
2ud sweet potatoes, peanuts,
.notion peas, sugar cane, applet, .
peaches, giapeft,. i>lures and other fruits.,
The climate is mild and'equable, and one
of the most .healthy in the world, the ni$
being pure and dry and most beneficial for
lung and throat diseases. All kinds of
outdoor work can he performed without
inconvenience from summer heat or
winter cold. Americus has a population
of 0,000, is beautifully situated on high
and rolling ground and toasts of some of
the haudsomest business blocks in the
South. The city has tine public schools;
good churches; a large public library;
one daily, one semi-weekly and two
weekly newspapers; a new opera house,
completely furnished witu scenery and
capable of seating 1,000 persons: a well
organized fire department, including
two fine steamers; the streets are well
paved, sewered and lighted; there nre
two flouring millH, a cotton seed oil mill,
planing mill and variety works, carriage
factory, and a number of minor man facto
ries; about two hundred firms are engaged
in mercantile busintss; three banks with
mi abundance of capital; two good
hotels furnish good accommodattion.
Americus 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 l'reston aud Lumpkin
railroad now in process of construction.
It is the largest city in Southwest Geor
gia, and b < been appropriately named
the “Commercial Capital” of that sec
tion, and it is rapidly grow ing in popu
lation and wealth. As a place of bu.-i-
ness residence it presents attractions
eipiiled by few cilies in the South.
Property of all kinds is comparatively
cheap, although rapidly advancing in
value: the inhabitants of both city aud
country are cultivated, courteous and
hospitable, with h cordial welcome to im-
migranis. To enterprising tradesmen, ju
dicious capitalists and industrious farm
ers this section of Georgia offers tine op
portunities. Any information in regard
to city or country will he cheerfully fur
nished by addressing the Ameiucun Re
corder, Americus, Ga.
IMWSON.
Dawson, Jan, 12 —Our new pas
tor, Rev. A.M. Williams, preached
one of the best sermons 1 ever
heard at the Methodist church yes
terday. It was his first in Daw
son, and, the weather being fine,
tiic church was filled with a large,
attentive, and appreciative con
gregation. All were delighted with
the sermon and very much pleased
with a capital ot #1,000,000-
fuii'i of over #560,000 has nlnce
By «n overwhelming; populm
waa riiade a part of the prcseii
adopted December 2d, A. 1).,
The only Lottery ever inted ot
zunia Record.
It is stated that Spalding has
larger area devoted lo the cultur
and growth of fruit and fruit trees : with the preacher,
than any other county in the State.
II. C. Reppard, of Flemington,
Liberty county, killed a hog weigh
ing 518 pounds net, of the Chester
white breed.
FROM COLQI ITT.
Randal, Ga , dan. 8.—We now
have rain, cold rain in abundance.
People are becoming more health}'.
News !» scarce, the fanners ate too
busy to *eek it.
John Whittington was thrown
from hie horse and literally broken
to pieeas on Christmas. He was
drinking and the horse rati away,
shied at some negroes in a fence
jam, threw him against a pine and
he was dead in thirty minutes.
There is a negligent postmaster
between Americus and Randal.
Get after him.
What good to lake tho tariti off
iddist.
Constitutii
Its Ora lift Hliii'leXi
take pin
thy.
• postpones.
in be r lira
sri.KMHD opportunity to i Georgia tanners
WIN A FORTHXK. SECOND GRAND
DRAWING, CLASH II IN THE ACADEMY
OF MUSK'. NEW ORLEANS, II KSDAY
Frhuary 10, 1805 177tli Monthly Draw
Lug.
CAPITA Is I’KIZE, $75,000.
100.000 I ickets at Five Dollars Eueli.
Fractions, in FittiiH, in Proportion.
LIST OF PRIZE!
1 CAPITAL PRIZE
LA U YEltS,
(. R. MeCKOKV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
hLLAYILLE, GA. ~
nl«r, $.1;
NocbarKf* unleni* co’locth
MISCKLhA XKOI S.
E.lw. J. Mi'lt-r. C. Horaco McCall.
Moiiuiiienliil Marble Works,
MILLER A MH ALL, Proprietors,
Knuthwont Corner of tho Public Square,
AMERICUS, GA.
Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc
I r » u II a 111 u jj to
ran Marble.
Anderson ville School
Mill Open Spring Term Jiinuar}
l-.Mli, issl-
Tuition $15.00. $20,00 and $2.5 IK) per
auuuui it ss public fund abrmt $3.00 j** r
l»ii| il. Hoard aud tuition ten dollars per
(four weeks) month, paid monthly in ad-
vimee. Music $3.00 per month. For
further information apply to
A. J. CLARK, Principal,
Andarsonville. Ga
<lecl7-w*eodtf
PRIZES OF
Applicant
nly to tin- <i
For furthe
23,000
10,000
12,000
30,000
25,000
26,000
6,750
nary left
f 5 ,.»d
i.1 by fexpr
XOTES, Exp
X|KJI
M. A. I>\t PI1IX,
New Orleitu*. I
>r M. A. I)41*PH IX.
607 Stvtnlh St., \Vaahlu«(tou I). C.
^ Make L. O. Money Orders payn'ale anil ud<
Savannah, Florida A Western
nA.ir.WAY.
/ \ N AND AFTER Si N’DAY, Nt»V. j’
ATLANTIC COAHT LINE EX DRESS
Leave Sat nnnali daily at 0 1
Anivc Hi Savnimali dally at 7 4
Arrive at .Teaup daily at 8 l
Arrive at Wayi ros.N daily at .... 0 2
V». -'i! 'I'm viU :.f 11
Arrive nt .1 i kson.Oli- .l.'lv at IV a
S(o » ;it all regular •tnlioiu M*rr> Hnvn
unit JickwiiTillf.
I AST MAIL.
Is-ats Savanimli ually at 7 0
Arrive at Savannah .tally at. s I
James CoUitt9, the Lee county
rapist, who is sentenced to swing
on the IGth inst, lias through his
attorney, moved for a new trial.
It is thought that his prayer will
not he granted.
The South Georgia Clarion sug
gests a good, cheap formula for
the farmers: “Some of the South
propose to try
| the mixture of cotton seed meal,
I kainit and acid phosphate or dis
solved bone fo* cotton. The best
possible formula known to us is
good iand, good supply of lot
j manure sown broadcast, and good
$;f>,oeo | work. This formula never fails.
It is cheaper than the first.”
Ladd the lime man of Atlanta,
Wednesday received from his lime
stone quarry in liartow, a human
jawbone in a perfect state of pre
servation. The jawbone is full of
teeth and every tooth is sound. It
was found day before yesterday
tightly imbedded in the limestone
quarry in Bartow county. It was
fully sixty feet below the sur r acc
of the earth. Mr. Ladd also had
the lower part of a person's arm
and a shoulder blade, which were
found at different times in the
same quarry. The bones have
been examined by physicians and
surgeon in Atlanta, and every one
who has seen them say that they
are unquestionably human bones.
Mr. Ladd explains it by saying
tnat the present quarry was once
an immense cave, and that the
bones are all that is left of those
who once inhabited that cave
These teeth are said to be the first
evidence that the cave hear ever
existed on the American continent.
The Savannah Times says that
Georgia seems to have a sort of
boom in Europe among people
seeking gtlod places to immigrate
to. A few days ago Major Geolge
A. Whitehead received a commun
ication from Bagnz, Switzerland,
asking for any information regard
ing Georgia, etc., which he had-at
Mr. Mitchell J. Webb, who has
been attending the university at
Athens tor several months past,
came home on a visit, last Friday.
He will return to day, notwith
standing the desire of his relatives 1 im P orted t#bacco “'ll 1 kee l* on the
and many friends to have him re- lnfe,nnl Hevcnuc is a question that
main with them longer. He seems j intere9t9 CoI< i uitt J u,t ,,ow '
determined to “improve each shin
ing hour,” and will certainly make I Xhe Camilla correspondent of
his mark in the world; and, in my , Ule Allmny Xew3 write3
humble opinion, will make it so
Alpha.
i long and deep that one century
| will not suffice to erase it. His
j occasional letters to the Dawson
Appeal are very entertaining, and
his friends here hope lie will mako
them more frequent.
The home of Mr. Underwood,
editor, minister and farmer, one
and a half miles from town, is a
perfect liltlo paradise. The dwel
ling, a large two story frame house,
is pretty and tasteful. The front
yard is a garden of beautiful shrub-
j bery atxl flowers, many specimens
vlsatl'J
-Isrkai
w. ltailw.j)
iMo, Ocala, Loo
•L-bn'
The skating rink is in full blast | of which are rare and costly. In
in Hart’s Hall, and is doing a good
business. There is a good attend
ance every night, and the boys arc
having oodles of Inn.
Mr. Tommie McLendon, nephew
and clerk of the Melton Brothers,
in attempting to learn to skate last
Saturday night fell with such force
that he broke both bones of his
righ arm just above the wrist.
Mr. Joe I’orter, of Columbus, is |
the rear of the house is an orchard
of apples, pcaehe3 and pears of the
Le Conte variety, and Air. Under
wood is quite enthusiastic on the
subject of the latter fruit. He in
formed us that last year he har
vested thirteen bales of cotton from
twenty-six acres of land. If we
had men of this kind on our fertile
soil in Dougherty, we would have
less of scarcity of money ; and in
stead of poverty and mortgages
we would have wealth and happi-
, ness. Mr. Underwood is the sire
in our city dispensing his broad of tUirtce n children, twelve of
smiles to our merchants generally, j whom are living, and ho is by no
and to his customers particularly, means an elderly man in appear-
lle can sell more plows and plow-
stocks than any man on the road.
He is the father of Mr. J. C. Por
ter who runs the skating rink here,
and that is an excellent recommen
dation to the youug man.
The citizens of Dawson were de
lighted to learn, from the Kkcoh-
DKll, that Capt. Tom Allen had re
covered from his long and severe j ■»- • »
spell of sickness. He arrived in How the Aew Orleans Exposition was
our city at one o’clock this after
noon.
Mr. X. G. Jones, who moved
ance—looks to be about forty. On
expressing my surprise at the mul
tiplicity of his offspring, the rever
end gentleman told me that not
long ago he met a woman in a
wagon near Camilla with her twen
ty-first child in her arms, and that
she looked hale and hearty. The
father of these children hail been
married twice before and boasted
of thirty-six, all told.
■1: /•:,
1885.
MATHIS, I'i
tfo’a. Mobile, New Oileans
wippi polniHtake thin train
at 10 03 |> m , Mobile 2 40 i
CHARLESTON E X I * RKf*S.
' annuh daily at 1 30 p m
1 30 p m
. .3 31 D
.5 00 p
villi* dally at..
.11.' I r EX I*It E:*
I jut/.
•Igl.t fo
oke cLurge of the* above nchool j L<
»y January 12th, n«xt. F have ; a!
• the people of Atncricua before, i ^
110,1 respectfully ask a renewal of I A
Ikeir support. *
Terms, Rates, Etc. : |a
Unmury Department per month. ..$2.00 Ai
^'•T^imte, per month,
4 00
"Up daily at
w daily at.,
ill than daily ••
ick-nn.illi* daily t
t Ciiii.<*H\ i|lr *11111) at..
Valdoata d-.i y at....
t (^uitinaii iUil) at...
‘/^UChiH-s, per month,..
Tuition due ut the » n.l oi
•ville dally i
. 3 47 a i
.. .7 :k) a r
. lu 30 a i!
htstic month
dcc31tf
each Scho-
J. E. MATHIS, Principal.
DURHAM’S
IMPROVED
Mmilill UKBI1E!
li the btat eifcjtructid and fin-
l»h« d, gives belter percentage
u.* it* |ioMtr,ii d D «<«ld tor leaa roinmoditiouL
m o n». j-, per hoaa power, than . No. 22 Bail atreer, and at the Coin) any ’a Depot,
__ r ‘ urblne in the world, ! foot of Liberty JAB. L. TAalOK,
I
Blew York r0i!9ml
Arrive
Lull . ...... _
Luilman buft'.-t and dor,Inf rar» gavannuh to
Jacksonville.
Paafenz**rH for Brunawlck vlt. .lonup take this
train, arriving at lirananick at 6 15 a m.
Laaaensors lr*.m Fe na ,dlua, <»ai* eaviHr, Cedar
K*-y. Ocala, Wildwood. I^eeaburg and aE at»tlon>i
on Florida Railway at «I Navigation Ootn|)any arid
Eloriiia Southern Railway take this train.
P.Mciigen for Madiaon, Monti-elio, 'I'allaliaa-
see and all Middle Florida poiotn tak<- thin train.
Coniieetiona at Jarkaonville daily with People’s
Line 81eamera and Railroads tor St. John’* river.
beta wold and sleeping ear U-ith ae-
Rien'a Ticket Uffl'
s nt at once. Since then that gentle
man has received a communication
front one of the gentlemen farmers
of England, asking vaiious ques
tions as to tile adaptability of the
soil of Georgia, and especially near
luauguratnl,
\ The Inauguration of the Expo
sition at New Orleans, noon, Dec.
Kith, was contemporary with the
from Terrell to Webster county, i 175th Monthly and Grand Extra-
this winter, was in our city last ordinary Drawing of The Louisiana
week, tlie very picture ot health kuf 0 Lottery, when over half a
. . . ..... ,, . million dollars was scattered hv
and contentment. “\ nice” is a , l)hnd Kortuno - 8 wllec |. Ticket No
constant reailer and great admirer j 5g,-2g2 drew the first capital prize
of the 'Recorder, and speaks a of $150,00u. It was sold in tenths
good word for it wherever lie goes, at $i each, two of which—$50,000
Judge S. 1>. Kimbrough, of Web- - W T h n * l<1 , for coUection by the
(anal Hank, of New Orleans;
ster county, spent the latter part j 4Ilotlier two-$30,000-collected
of last week in our city, the guest through Wells, Fargo .fe Co.’s
of his son-in-law, Dr. W. C. Fas- Bank, San Francisco, Cal.; an-
( q la ] other—$15,000—by George M.
w. n r* ai „r Shackleford, collected through
Mr. It. L. Adams, one oi the ,, , . 1,
, , ’ Bank of Commerce, Memphis,
largest merchants of fort Gaines, j Tenn. The remainder was sold to
niur* b* Cn Halt* 11.
Atlanta Oaaatl'atiM.
We note in the Nortkern pr$$$ a
paragraph written by a good farmer
in central New York in whioh he
says that he can barely mak$ a liv
ing, although he has a fine farm
and a herd of one hundred aup$rior
cows.
lit oau make mors than a good
living, out of the tame resources,
in Georgia. Here he can get land
at $5 to $10 an acre, just as good
as bis land that costs $109 to $15fi
an acre. He can get farm labor
here just as efficient, unuer sharp
overseering, as any in the North at
one-third the price. He can |et
open pasturage for his cows nine
months in the year, where now he
gets it for bat five. He oan build
and maintain berns and outhouses
here for one fourth what they cost
in New York. He may ask, “can
lie gel as good price for kie butter
bore as in New York T” We reply,
“Georgia buys millions ot pouade
of butter in New York,paye freight
on it und sells it here readily at a
profit. We could certainly efford
to buy the same butter if it were
made here.” Such butter at ie
made In New York commands fifty
cents per pound in our city the
year round, and the demand always
exceeds tbo supply.
On his Georgia farm costing, eay
seven dollars an acre, the New
York farmer could grow cotton
and clover in the same field, peach
es and apples in the same orchard,
rice and tobacco in the same patch,
and never see a day in the year
when he cou'd not get something
out of hie garden for hie table.
The miracle ef the past twenty
years is the thoroughness with
which prejudice or misrepresenta
tion kas kept immigration turned
sway from the south. But the
tuiracie ie wearing away!
k Heed.
Albany New§.
There is seed of an infusioa of
new ideas into tbs heads of tbs
Qeotgia fsrmers.
Tney need to learn tbit it is
never wise to force themselves to
buy what they can more cheaply
raise at home. They need to learn
that the order of thing* ie reversed
when, isstead of supplying tbs
markets ot the cities and towns
with provisions, they look te deal
ers in tho cities and towns for their
own supplies.
They need to letra that there is
no prosperity for them, so long ns
they contiase to be dependent on
dealers for the necessaries ot life;
for the very idea of dependence ie
incompatible with prosperity—ie,
indeed, abhorrent to it.
There it no law to compel farm
ers lo learn these things; but there
is s great law which will enforce
psverty upon farmers that are igno
rant of them. It ie time for n
change.
his hands. Tho information was visited our city last week, and it is j parties in Cincinnati and clsewher
rumored that he intends moving No. 98,364 drew the second capi-
his familv and goods to Dawson. tU P rize of *“0,000 and was also
tr_ t:.. i _ * so ‘‘l in tenths. Two of which—
lie lived among us once, and we
b ’ ] i 10,000—was paid to the Germania
would give him a hearty welcome j National Bank, of New Orleans,
back again. j La.; another $5,000 to Jno. J. Mttel-
Mr. \V. B. Corley, of Fort Gaines, ! * c f> No. 498 Hastings st., Detroit,
Savannah and on the Central rail- spent a couple of davs with us last I “ n °fher $5,000 *o Mr. Geo.
mm! for tho iinmnso of rn-ivlnir i i iitviin - * * j Carpit, a well known newspaper
road for the purpose of graz ng , we ek. “\\.U”,sa changed "tan, carr i er of Memphis, Tenn.; another
stock and entering largt‘1) in that and some sweet little lady not a $5,000 to Messrs. A. Goebel A Co.,
business. He asks particularly asl thousand miles from Columbus has Detroit, Micb.; the remainder was
to the markets and stock yards of'done it. 1 may tell you more of scattered. No. G,C98 drew the
Savannah, whence the chief sup- this matter after the atrair takes ‘ Tll 'r<| Capital I’rizc of $90,°00 sold
plies of meat are derived, and „lace to a New Yorker, whose name, by
* , 1 request, is not given. The next
various other information likely to ; Capt. Oliver A. Crittenden was drawing (the 177th) will occur
be of interest to an intendiug set- married yesterday morning to Mrs. j Tuesday, February 10,of which all
tier. The name of this gentleman
is J. R. Richards, Brogynin Bow
•treet, R. S. O., Cardiganshire, En
gland, and he intimates that he
will come to Georgia in the spring.
Julia A. Reagan, at the ialtcr’s 'information can be had from M. A.
• i • ,t . .. Dauphin, New Orleans, La.
residence hi this county, Rev. Mr. j 1 ’ ’
A. M. Williams officiating. " * *
Messrs. Jeff Sims and Hamp The laxity with which business
c , , , . Mcreti are often guarded may be
Swann, ol \\ ebstcr county, arc in j | earlcd fr0ln i nci( i enl o( the re _
Mr. H. C. Curry has our thanks j the city, looking as rosy and happy cent issue of bonds by the New
for a basket of very fine Jersey as if they had never had any trou-| York Central railroad. When the
potatoes of Ids own production j ble in their lives. They don’t have i rnmor °f their issue was first
from seed imported from New j much, for they never buy anything je^dab^inUly^tha^lUer ” was
Jersey. Mr. C. made a tremendous on time. They make their farms any such intention. A Wail street
crop of these tubers and has re- self-sustaining. We would like to mm has for his neighbor an etn-
cently sold a heavy shipment of, have a thousand such farmers with- j pl°>’ 8 of o&e of the large engraving
them at $5,00 per barrel in the | In ten miles of Dawson. j establishments of the eity. While
Northern markets. They are a re- We had a considerable blow and | [ t *^""hTuVu’e ofYbVetVnd^WM
matkably prolific and hardy varic- heavy rain last night, and to-day | i tl progress, this printer told hie
ty of tubers and can be shipped is beautiful, bright and pleasant as Wall street friend that the holds
across the continent without decay. Spring time. J. A. F. were completed and ready for i»-
Mr. C. wdl put in about fifty acres I * r
1 u i 1 Call ts Day
of them the coming season.—Bam- Anil Mtu , lhtt loDg-siandingaceonnt
bridge Democrat.
oot4.l utewodtf Aaxao atcook.
suing with ike exoepllon of dating.
Th* Wail »tre*t man took the
“tip,” sold Central abort, had
mad* $10,00$.
Dr. Guernsey, iu an article on
faith cure, in the Medical Times,
cites a ease in which will power
appears to have successfully eup.
plied the place of faith. Among
the parishioners of the Rev. Dr.
Taylor, of New Haven, was an
invalid lady, who finally took to
her bed, where she continued to
receive her pastor's visit*. One
bitter cold night she sent for him
to console her dying moments, and
declared herself ready to depart in
peace. “If it is His will,” *be
said, “that I shall go to hell, I can
still say ‘Thy will be done.’” The'
physician who was present became
a little impatient. “Well,” said
be, “if that is God’s will, and both
you and your family are reconciled
to it, I do not know that I ought
to object.” In a moment the wo
man was on her feet shouting, “I
won't die and I won't go to bell!”
She afterward enjoyed comfortable
health for yeare.
■eeteiema’s Cetloa.
The number of balee (hipped for
one year ending September 1,1884,
were 7,498. Th* number of bal**
skipped th* present Mason up to
January, only four monlb* of tb*
year, wete 7,685, an iacroae* of
187 in the four month* over tb*
entir* season last year. Tb*ro i*
enough cotton in the warehouse
and gin houeee to (well tb* ship
ment* this year to aver 10,000
bale*.
Bailer Sue* f*r Slander.
Boston, Jan. 11.—General But
ler has brought suit against the
Boston Herald claiming $25,000
damages for the publication of an
article in November, 111$, r*fleet
ing upon bis ioy duo I daring th*
war.