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Americus
Established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20,1885.
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PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS
AMERICUS.
America* is tli3 coatfty seat of Samtar
ountv, Georgia, situated on the South
western aailroad, 71 miles southwest of
Macon, and about 80 miles north of the
Florida line It is situated in the finest
nection of Georgia, raising a greater vari
ety of agricultural and horticultural pro
ducts than any other part of the South,
combining all the fruits, grain and vege
tables of tbd temperate and semi-tropical
cones—wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, Irish
znd sweet potatoes, peanuts, chufas,
notton peas, sugar cane, apples, pears,
peaches, grapes, plums and other fruits.
The climate is mild and equable, and one
of the most healthy in tbo world, the air
beiDg pure and nrj aod most benefioial lor
lung and throat diseases. All kinds of
outdoor work can be performed without
inconvenience from summer heat or
winter cold. Americus has a nopulation
of 6,000, is beautifully sita«ted on high
and rolling ground and Lonsts of some of
"the handsomest business blocks in the
South. The city has fine 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 tine steamers; the streets are well
paved, sewered and lighted; there are
two tlonring mills, a cotton seed oil mill,
pinning mill and variety works, carriage
factory, and a number of minor manfaclo-
ries; about two hundred firms are engaged
in mercantile business; three banks with
an abundance of capital; two good
hotels luruish good nccommodattion.
Americus is tho 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, aud it is rapidly growing in popu
lation and wealth. As a place of busi
ness residence it presents attractions
equ tied by few cities in the South.
Property of all kinds is comparatively
cheap, although rapidly advancing in
value; the inhabitants of both city and
conniry are cultivated, courteous and
hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im
migrants. To euterprfsing 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 be cheerfully fur
nished by addressing the Amkiucus Re
corder, Americas, Ga.
GEORGIA NEW!*.
Louisiana State Lottery Go.
_ “ We do hereby certify that we supervu
Uhlu an
the arrangements far all the Monthly and
Semi-Annual Drawinge of The Louisiana
State Lottery Company, ami in person man
age and control the Drawings themselves,
and that the tame are conducted with hon
esty, fairness, and in good faith toward at?
parties, and tee authorize the Company to
use this certificate, with Jae-similes of our
signatures attached, in Us advertisements.’
There are now fifteen stores
doing business in Buena Vista.
The number will be incrcssed to
twenty, by the 1st of February.
Dr. J. W. Mercer, of George
town, on Thursday last, sold for
cash to different farmers of Quit-
man county, 15,000 pounds of meat,
John Morris, on the farm of W.
U Courtenay, near Pleasant Re
treat, White county, raised last
WELL-BEHAVED DEMOCRACY*
A MITE OF A MIDGET.
Ab.eacs or a Mod Hath for Office V.- j * ; D,r4u
dor tho Wow Administration.
An Albany Arterial' to the Now
York.World, Jan. 14, says: I met
Col, Lamont, Mr. Cleveland’s pri
vate secretary, in the executive
oflice at the capitol this afternoon
and asked him how about tbe mad
rush for olHce under the adminis
tration.
“There is n. mad rush for office,''
Said be.
“What! You don’t tell me the
•pod, that Weighs
El.v.n Ouness,
But nothing' purred in
ia Oorfeip
year 1,800 bushels of corn with country is doomed to disappoint-
Commlaalouars.
purposes-
J5 v
Educational and Chi
ith a capital of 11.000,000-to which
fund of over £550,000 ha* aince been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote itH franchise
ado a part at the present State Conatitufion
adopted December 2d, A. D., 1871.
and
td by
It ,
»cale$ or pottponei.
Ha Grand Single Number Drawlnri
take place mouthy.
mouthy.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE. SECOND GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS U. IN THE ACADEMY
“ ”* ORLEANS, 'IUKSDAY,
CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.
100,000 lickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifills, In Proportion.
LIST OF PRIZES:
1 CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000
} do 20,000
1 do do 10,000
2 PRIZES OF 0.000 12.000
6 do 2,000, 10,000
•0 do 1,000, K.,000
20 do 600 10,000
100 do 200 20,000
800 do 100, 30.000
600 do 50, 26,000
26 26,000
' 6,750
l Approximatioi
600..
250.
4,500
2.250
§265,600
lul»* should be made
pany in New Orle:
1,967 Priaea, amounting
Application for rates t
only to the o'flee of the L
For further Information write clearly, civl.*» fc
foil address. POSTAL NOTES, Kxpreee
Money Order*, or New York Exchange lu ordi
nary letter. C urrency by Expires (all sum* of
M and upward by Expree* at our expense) ad
dressed
■ M. A. DAUPHIN,
OUT Seventh tit., Washington, D. C.
Make P. O. Money Orders payaele and address
LA IF YE MS,
C. It. McCRORY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
hLI.AVII.LE, GA.
TKUM&—All claims from *30 or undo!
rum §50 to> §600, ton pc r cent.; over §600, i
<*r cent. No charges unless collections are t
Ml SC EL LA NEO US.
J. Mi’ler. C, Horace McCall.
Monumental Marble Works,
MILLEK& McCALL, Proprietors,
Bonthweet Corner of the Public Square,
AMERICUS, GA.
Monuments, Tombs, Etc.. Etc
Registered Letteri
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK
New Orlcaua, La.
Meat Market
PROVISION STORE.
W. H.&T. M.C0BB
Having purchased from Hare A Cobb the Mia
COTTON JXVBNTJ1I
keep on hand tho very l>e.t cui* of|;
BEEP, PORK, Kill AM) SAUSAGE,
Greeu Groceries and Provisions,
of the best Italian and American Marble.
Iron Railing for Cemetery En
urea, a Specialty.
or \ egetabl
holr season, Canned Goods, etc
j keep « first class establlahmcn
customers good gouts at the lo
Andersonville School
Will Open Sprimr Term January
12th, 1884.
Tuition $15.00, $20,00 ami $25 00 per
ahtilira— less public fund about $9 00 pn
pupil. Board nod tuition ten dollars per
(lour weeks) month, puid monthly in ad-
vunce. Music $3.00 per month. For
farther information apply to
A. J. CLARK, Principal,
, Andersonville, Ga.
deel7-w&eodtf
y . M .HYSELFr
4 Great Medical Work on Manhood.
1885.
,/; MATHIS, Tri spal.
1 " ill tnke cbr.rge of Ibe above school
on Monday January 12th. next. I have
tnn^Lt for the people of Americus before,
*'“! wmlla respectfully ask a renewal of
Incir support.
Ti.iuii, Kates, Etc. :
I riniary Department per month, .$2 ("0
P« r month 3.00
'ist-Uiua,. p er month, 4 00
lastie m o D nt l h , . 0Utlli '' eUj “ ol * ' ScU °-
>lec31tf J ' E ' MATHl8 ' Principal.
DURHAM’S
IMPROVED
tTllliKH 11 URINE!
Is the Neat <*»..m)CD*dw*nd fin-
'i, g'M-s U-ttir percentage
L n*« le powsr, ard l. sold ifrleaa
- f P«r boa* power, than
2L®L° r f «rbhi* In tbs world,
3uth, and the untold miseries resulting from In
scretlon or excesses. A book «or every tnan
ning, middle a?e end old. It contains 125 pre
ription* for nil acute and < br>mc diseases, each
bleb Is Invaluable. 80 tound b? tVc
tn-»r, wtiose experience or 2:) years Is such a
probably never b. fore (ell to the lot of any physi
work In ev
professional —than
■entry for |2.50,
ti
bound in b< a
i, full gilt, guaianteed to be a liner
sense—mechanical, literary and
un any other work sold In this
he money will Imj refunded
paid
(told
Medical Association, to the office
inly fl by
rative sample 6 cents, Bonn now.
anletl ilie author by the National
* hie li| he
The Hclence
for Instroctioi.
will l*cneHt all.
of Life should !*e rend by the'yonng
i, and by the afflicted for relief. It
.—London loaneet.
neinbe- of society (o whom tbe
swill not be useful, whether youth,
an, instructor or clergyman.—Ar*
Address the Peabody Medical Institute
Dr.
W. II. Parker, No 4 Ihilfl.eb Rtr
Mas#., who may t>e consulted on all diseases
qairing skill and experience. Chronic and obail-
.ate diseases that have baffled the
Such treated successfully i
out an instance of failure.
Mention tnia paper
THYSELF
uovUfcnl
FOR SALE RENT, OR LEASE
A plantation of 1,700 acres in Terrell
County; 1.C00 acres cleared. Good land;
go. d buildings. Will till on long lime,
vitb good sapurity, and will sill all stock,
tools, forage, eta, Or will lease or rent
on good terms, with good security. This
le. splendid opportunity for an en
ergetic man with a little capital. Enquire
M HCOOMDM office
November 8, 1884. wit
two ltorses.
Messrs. Clegg It Coney^ on llteir
plantation around Gum creek,
Doolv county, made last y^ar 500
bales of cotton, over 10,000 bushels
of corn and killed 200 fine pork
hogs. This crap was made with
an average of filty-live plows.
The looms and oilier machinery
of the Crown cotton factory at
Dalton are being rapidly placed
in position, and it is thought that
the whirr of spindles will be heard
within the next two months. The
factory will be complete in all its
appointment, and will give em
ployment to about 300 hands.
We heard a Georgia planter who
Lives about twelve miles from this
city, assert on yesterday, that be
did not owe a dol’-ar in the world,
and that unless some great misfor
tune in the shape of n storm or
cvclonc swept away bis home and
stock, be bad plenty to go upon
for this anil the next year En-
faula Times.
Harrison Owen, a negro trapper,
of Bibb county, brought to Macon
Thursday a large beaver, caught
near the cemetery. The beaver
weighed 38 pounds. So far this
season he has captured 38, on which
he has realized 8110 20. He sells
etch hide readily for $2.90, which
he says pays better than carpenter
ing, bis old profession.
On Feb. 12 the State Agricultur
al Society of Georgia will convene
at Brunswick. Property owners
are arranging for a grand auct'.n
sale at that time. A number of
lots have been thrown into the pool
already, and others will follow.
The terms will be one-third cash,
onc-tbird at tbe end of one year,
ami tbe remainder at tbe expiration
of two years.
Lem Howard, of .Jackson county,
has lately discovered that he is tbe
decendant of the Queens of En
gland, and that be is tbe legal heir
to 87,000,000. His title is Lord of
Baltimore. Mr. Howard is employ
ing lawyers to look after his claim
and it is more than probable that
he will sail for England before
the leaves again begin to turn and
claim bis title and fortune.
It is said that the company
which proposod to build tbe street
railroad st Macon lias abandoned
the project. The company doe*
not think the city has been liberal
enough in its encouragement of the
enterprise. It is also intimated
that the restrictions or limitations
imposed by the city were to severe,
and that the company could not
make a succesful operation ol the
road under provisions adopted by
Council.
Gainesville Press; A little bare
foot boy, near Illawassee, recently
picked up a sapphire of between
30 and 35 carals in purity and
which is worth at least 8 ; U>,000.
The mineral inteiests of Town ami
Union counties are just beginning
to receive attention, anti we believe
that in a few years thousands and
thousands of dollars will find in
vestment in them. Judge McCon
nell has had mines of enrrundutn.
mica and other valuable minerals
opened up.
incut? The terror-strickeu Repub
lican papers predicted that the
Democrats would actually be
trampling each other under foot
by Ibis time.”
“Nothing of the kind,” uaid Col.
I.amont. “I think I may say the
Governor is agreeably disappoint
ed. We have every reas'on i. be
proud of the behavior of the Dem
ocrats. After being out of power
twenty-four years some pressure
for office was naturally looked for,
but it has not come so far. In all
the correspondence that reaches the
Governor—and there is a great deal
of it—there are but few references
to office. A large majority of the
letters seem to be prompted by
pure, disinteres’ed,patriotic friend
ship. Those who write them seem
to think it is enough that the De
mocracy should have triumphed at
the election.”
“How do you account for this
good behavior?”
“Well, I believe it is mainly be
cause members of the party do rot
wish to embarrass the Governor.
Tliev want bis administration to
be a success. They want it to re
suit in the betterment of tbe whole
country, and though the times are
hard and men want places out of
which they can make a living worse
than they have for many years, the
Democrats have pride enough to
make them wait and allow thinga
to take their natural way. Ol
course, the Governor’s civil-service
”ettcr had its effect. It was sup
ported with great vigor and unan
imity by the press all over the
country, which was alone sufficient
evidence of the popular sentiment
on the sukiect.
I do not believe there is any
thing like the pressure on the Gov
ernor that there would have been
on Mr. Blaine had he been elected.
It is understood that Mr. Blaine
and his friends made a great many
promises, which they would have
been called on to fulfill. Tbe Gov
ernor, as everybody knows, made
none. He lias never been about
Washington, does not know the
place-hunting element that goes
there so much, and in that respect
has a great advantage over most
of the public men of the country.
I was told while at Washington
the other day that the officeaeekers
almost drove Garfield distracted.
He had been in Congress a long
time, and knew people from all
over the country, and his friends
came down on him like an avalan
che. No, 1 think we ought to feel
very proud of the admirable dispo
sition so farBbown by the Demo
crats. The limited number of ap
plications so far made have been
mainly from persons in outlying
districts who want post offices.
As to any general rush, it does not
exist at all.”
Knoxville, TinNj, January 14.—
Mrs, Charles Tracey, of Kings-
bridge, Morgan county, recency
gave birth to a child that promises
to. be a Wonderful addition to tbe
world of dwarls and midgets. It
weighs exactly eleven ounces, and
is sik inches high, with as muclt
life and lung power as a full-sized
youngster of the same age. Its
parents are .well developed, aBd
have three fully developed child
ren, respectively 2, 4 and 6 years
of age. The surprised parents and
attending physicians arc unable to
account for the • strange freak of
nature. The child’s body can be
circled by tbo thumb and index
finger of a fourteen-year-old child.
Tbe bead, perfectly formed, is about
tbe size of a large marble, or less
than an inch, in diameter. ‘The
mouth is s. small that natural
nourishment can not be taken, and
it is fed milk through a straw at
tached to a glass bottle.
An Old College Bell. ‘
New* an<] Courier.
The bell of the Charleston college
was cracked a few days ago. The
following is its history:
“The old bell was cast in Sweden
in 1472, and from the peculiar
rangement of its clapper was evi
dently designed for use as a ship
hell. It is thought to have been
put up soon after the college was
bui't, and lias probably been bang
ing in tbe basement of tbe build
ing for nearly one hundred years.
About the year 1854 some of the
students, as a joke on the faculty,
took the bell down and sent it to
the students ol the Soath Caiolina
College, at Columbia, who forward
ed it to Oglethorpe University, in
Georgia, whence it was shipped to
Macon and was there lost sight of
for several years, but it was finally
found and restored to its former
place in the basement of the col
lege building, where it has hung
ever since, a witness to tbe comings
and goings and the joys and sor
rows'of student life. Mr. John
Cahill, the present janitor, has
rung the bell four times a day for
the laBt thirty years, and tbe old
man deeply regrets this accident
to his pet.”
A ('mining Old Moonshiner!
Na.hi-iila Amprjc.n.
One of the esses to be tried be
fore tbe Federal Court, now in ses
sion at Knoxville, is that of an old
mountaineer, who has been making
whiskey for more than tcu years.
He was able during that whole
time to evade the law. He did tbe
stilling under his house and ar
ranged for the smoke to pass
through the chimney. Water was
brought in pipes under tbe ground
and the stops carried away in the
same manner. He always managed
to have less than five gallons on
hand when the marshals came
around They knew he was mak
ing “wild eat,'’ but were unable to
find the still. Every few weeks
they would visit the place, and
search the mountains. His plan
was recently discovered by acci
dent.
Miss Miranda Davis, or Stafford,
Connecticut, is known far and
wide as the “starving woman,”
She is thi/ty-two years old, and
has been staivlng ever »'nce tbe
age of seventeen. Occasional^’ she
takes a sip of water and eats a few
cracker urumbs, but that is all.
Sometimes she goes forty-seven
duys without tood or drink. Al
though emaciated, her general
health is moderately g.od. All
efforts to account for her inability
to eat have proved unsatisfactory.
To a newspaper correspondent
Miss Davis avowed the belief Ibat
she was possessed by u devil.
Wiicm she said this a spasm stif
fened her limbs, the jeints extend
ing with a series of sharp cxplo
sion. Her lips turned lived* and
her eyes blazed, to use the news
paper man’s words, “like the
diamonds of hell.” Miss Davis
declares that all her life she lias
felt the sway of tho evil spirit
tempting her to every species of
devilttry. She is constantly watch
ed, but lus never shown a disposi
tion to be violent or to commit any
ciime.
Washington, says a correspondent,*
that would equal tbe scenes that
took place at the Inauguration of
U.ckaon, in 1823. (tj seeped tb«
every bully and desperado in the
United States had -idddanly* came"
to Jbe capital. One-Halt-the melt
had their trousers In their boots,
and some of them wore pistols in
full view. Washington was small
then, and the hotels and boarding
houses would not hold the orowds.
It was the biggest swarm of peo
ple ever seen there, Tennessee be
ing especially well represented.
Every man carried a hickory stick,
and some women wore necklaces of
small hickory nut9 fancifully painti
ed. One lady had-a bonnet made
of hickory leaves; and several,
horses in the procession had hick
ory bark hrid les. Such yelling you
never beard. It was like a whole
tribe of Indians let loose on the
streets of Washington. Gen. Jack-
son seemed to enjoy time outland
ish demonstrations. He kept hie
bat off and smiled at the crowd.
“Go in. Andy; we put you there!”
and “Give ’em fltq, Andy!” were
some of the expressions heard, at
all ol which the General smiled.
There are a great many tempta
tions these days tqdnduce people
i^v
to go gadding aboutover the world
and neglect their business. Trans-
Allantic steamship lines offer'steer-
age tickets from New York to
Hamburg for 114, and the round
trip from Chicago to New Orleans
and return can be taken for f 12. It
is probable that tho latter figures
will be considerably reduced before
long. The Northwestern people
will have no ground to blame the
railroads if they don’t get to go to
the big show.
75 BARRELS
RTE3W
CaneSjrup,
JUST RECEIVED AT
G. W. GLO VER’S.
A CARD.
To all who are suffering from the error,
au<l indiecritiona of >outo, uermu*
weakness, early decs' 1 .loss of manhoods
Ac., I will send a ipe that will care
you, FREE OF ( (LARGE. This great
remedy was discovered by a missionary
in South Amines. Send a self-addressed
envelops to ths Bsv. Josefs T. Ibxan,
Station D, /ftw York,(My
An Aged Negro,
('olambaa Tim#*.
Frank Credille, an old negro
who came to Greene county when
h. was 45 years of age, died re
cently on the plantation of Mr.' R.
A. Credille. He Vas 112 years
old, according to Mr. Credille, in
whose family he lived since be firat
caqe to Greene, and up to the time
of hia death waa gble to walk
around and do lull shorn at tba
honaa.
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P
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niud* 8ut««,
irmany and «
red at abort n<
nfor tuition aa fc_
Ilf girtn without eharga. Hend-booka of
information eent free. Patent* obtained
throng!; Mu nil A Co. am notiemd in the Scientific
Amorn »n free. Tbe advanUffe of *nch notice it
well understood by all paramawho wiah to diapoee
Of their patents.
Addrc
In Horticultural Hall, New Or
leans Exposition, the grand and
varied display of fruit is reaching
completion. Among these exhibits
arc; Arkansas—500 plates of ap
ples, embracing‘200 varieties, and
remarkable for their immense size;
Kansas—300 plates of apples, 120
varieties, extremely large, coming
from all parts of the state; Missis-
sippi—grapes, apples, pears, and
other fruit; Kentucky—300 plates
of apples, 150 varieties, ol fine qual
ity; Missouri—1,000 plates of ap
ples, 200 varieties, large nnd beau
tiful. Of the foreign exhibits,
France has 400 varieties ol apples,
and 260 varieties of pears were
sent by tbe Orleans Horticultural j
Society. Notwithstanding the long I
trip over tbe sea, the fruit is well
preserved and of high- flavor.! n u rebbVT
Russia also sends apples, large,! J"*»l.reranY•
bright, and in good condition.
ATENTS. jaatjia-:
'* * Patanl^OfBca. and bare
?«n.T d 3
ireatora tbair rights Ja th<>
.Canada. Kaftand, Franc*,
other forcica oouatrie*. pre-
aadon reasonable tan
a ireaiauLSn Kmtar/Saw
sTfemsi
(irtlerlaatt It contains I
descriptions and dlisctioas Sir
\ egetabl* and Flower I
Holmes' some cube moutu wash and
dentifrice is an infallible cure for Ulcer-
sted 8ofe Thro’at, Bleeding Gnmx, 8or»
month sod Ulcers. Cleans the Teeth and
Seeps the Game healthy. Prepared aole-
Grej l' dtW.fi. Holme*, Den-
!te, 103 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ga.
Dr. W. R Ban. demise
J K. Hall, and all JrtlggieU and dentislt.
account
ATCOOE.
INSURE WITH THE
NORWICH UNION '
FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF EN6LANV.
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ASSETS, : i : $1,125,072.
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