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Americus
Recorder.
Established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1885.
Daily, Pkh Vkak. ..10.90
Wkkki.y. •' ... 3.00
Americus Recorder
UrCAPl TAL PIUZK $73.000jftj
Tlckrthoaly93 i i» proper11
XV. I-i-
I’l'UMSHKD UY
OIjSSSN Ell
i: G\ (OTTOS AVENUE.
FROM HATCHER’S STATIUS.
DEADLY DVSAXITE.
Hatcher Station, Ga., Jan. 27.
—The weather through January
' The Delay to a Runner Caused by a
Hurdle.
seems to have altcratcd with about
liiil hssloWL<l'SISESS CARDS Louisiana State Lottery Co.
americus.
I Fresh
tted in 1 I„r 2ft y,. ;IPt ; \,y
tirational and Charilabit
Uil of #1,000,000- t«> whit
r *5. r >0.00<i has since ben ti
-r whelm me popular \.»te
parr ..f the pres, nt state
tember 2d. A. 1)., 1879.
“ We do hereby certify that ire supeinse
the arrangements for all the Monthly and
Semi-Annual Drawings of The Louisiana
\mericus is th.‘ county seat of Sumter State Lottery Company ,and in person man-
’ tv . Georgia, situated ou the South- | age and control trie Drawings themselves, 1
rest* ru railroad, 71 miles southwest of ; and, that the same are conducted with hon-
Ui.'.ui. rind about 80 union north of the j esty, fairness, and in good faith toward aL j
I I,.ndii line. It is situated in the finest parties, and we authorize the Company to
sect icu of Georgia, raisir«g a greater vari- ! use this certificate, with Jae-similes of our j
♦dv of agricultural and horticultural pro- signatures attached, in it* advertisements.’
dlift-than any other part of the South,
combining all*the lruits. grain and vege
tal^ s of i be temperate and semi-tropical ;
( .,, n , s—wheat, corn, rye, oatH, rice, Irish
ZM ,l sweet potatoes, peanuts, chulns,
ctt-'ii peas, sugar cane, apples, pears,
peat!ies, grapes, plums and other fruits.
'1*1, e climate is mild and equable, and one
..f the most healthy in the world, the air
being pure and ory and most beneficial lor
lun_ and throat diseases. All kinds of ,
outdoor work can be performed without !
inconvenience from summer heat or j
w inter cold. Americus has a population |
ol p.uOO. is beautifully situated on high j
ami rolling ground and boasts of some of j
llie handsomest business blocks in the I
South. The city has fine public schools; j
good churches; a large public library,
one .ImIv, one semi-weekly and two
weekly newspapers: a new opera bouse,
completely furnished witu scenery and ‘
capable of seating 1,000 persons; a well j
organized tire department, including j
twa. nne steamers: the streets are well
paved, sewered and lighted; there are
two llouring mills, a cottonseed oil mill,
I h.niug mill and variety works, carriage
factory, and a number of minor nianfacto-
ries: about two hundred firms areengaged
in mercantile business; three banks with
un 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
nua! cotton receipts being 30,000 hale*,
w bleb will be largely increased by the
completion of the Preston and Lumpkin
railroad now in process of construction.
It is the largest city m Southwest Geor
gia, and has been appropriately named
the “Commercial Capital” of that sec
tion and it is rapidly growing in popu
late:! and wealth. As a place of bu-i- I
ms. residence it presents attractions} ^
••■Hided by few cities in the South. I F.-rh
Property of all kinds is comparatively f»>H ad'
rapidly advancing in ' l , H ° r , ?. P ^, t
If You Want
OF ALL KINDS, GO TO
Ita Urnud Minnie Number Drnwltiffi
take place mouthy.
A SPI.KN DID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTHN 1*7. SECOND GRAND
DRAWING, CLASH II. IN THE ACADEMY
<*!■ MIMIC, NEW ORLEANS, 'I I LSD A Y
Kebuary IO, 188A IT7tb Monthly Draw’ |
CAPITAL PHIZE, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Faeli.
Fractious, in Fifths, in Proportion, i
LIST OK PRIZES:
1 CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000 j
DRUG STORE I
Spirit of the 'Limes.
Many persons • have most citri-
from ih, Cincinnati Koqnirer. , ously exagerated opinion, aa to
Few people know what dynamite ! the amount of time occupied in
six days cloudy and rainy weather I ls . though the word is in common , jumping a hurdle, and the conse-
to tw« of clear. us<, ‘ ^ * 8 * K'* n t gunpowder; that quent delay caused to a runner
I hear much complaint of oals j !*’,,“ **.*{ an^.nTt^nf^InAB™ I 7 U ! e !“ m P’ In Kn S lan<i the reg-
< ■ , , ... _ I ^ strength and safety of handling ular hurdle race 120 varda with
being killed which were planted j according to the percentage of, 10 hurdles, three feet six Inched
immediately after Chiristmas, but j nitro-glycenne it contains. Nitro- high, has been run bv two amateurs
I think the complaint is without glycerine, whence it derives its I j n seconds. The fastest aroa-
foundation, in fact, as we have I s J ren Kf , l 1 , >* composed of ordinary i teur record for running 120 yards
had no severe cold weather durimr ®*^ Ce j'j e * n( ^ n,tr . lc aC1 ^. com- without the hurdles isll4 5sec-
nan no sevcie tom wtatlier during! pounded together certain pro- 0 , lds and neither of the I »„ l„,r,ll»
the winter-plenty cold, disagree- j portions and at a certain tempera-1 champions ever did.or ever could
able, but no killing weather. A ture. N itro-glycerine, though not j t | 0 better thon 12 seconds In
the strongest explosive known, he- j other w >rds, a good hurdler can
ing exceeded in power by nitrogen I spring from the ground, clear a 3
*nd other products of chemistry, I foot 6 incll hurdle, alight and get
is thus far the most terrible cx I into hig great est running speed
plosive manufactured to any ex- | again, wit |, ft lo99 o( on!y 2 5 of a
tent. .Nitroglycerine, by itself, is, 9econd in the timc Ula t in whicb
not safe to handle, hence dynamite j be could have run the same dia
ls preferred. It is extensively I tance without the hurdles. So in
made and consumed in the United j America our fastest performance
States, under the various names ofl f or tho regulation of the hurdle
Giant, Hercules, Jupiter and Atlas j r aee j s 104.5 seconds, and the
powders, all of which contain any- ( lnak ,, r of tllis record cou|d nolrun
where from 30 to 80 per cent, of 1 |;J0 yards on the flat faster than
nitro glycerine, the balance of the j 12 4 5 seconds, so that in America
componnd being made up of rotten- a s in England, the ddav at each
stone, non-explosive earth, saw
dust, charcoal, plaster of paris,
black powder or some other sub
stance that takes up the glyceiine
and makes a porous, spongy mass.
Besides being highly explosive,
nitro-glycerinc and its compounds
are more or less poisonous. So |
UI/CK-
in,mo
API'*
1,967 Pi
Apjilir
Ik- office of the CoiT.jia
THEY HANDLE SEEDS
Laodretb and
hospital'!
ourte
•5 Hid upward by Kxj
lenrly, giv
POSTAL NOTES, l x or
or New York Kx.'lmugc in or
« (all sum.
ith 1
rdial wclc
erprl'rtiiiR tradesmen, ju-
ilid' Us capitalists an.l industrious farin-
ers tins section of Georgia offers tine op
portunities. Any information in regard
lo city or country will be cheerfully fur
nish, d by addressing the Amkkhts He-
< itiiDi.it. Americus, (ia.
LA triEKS.
(. It. M(‘CHOKY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
»r M. A. l)Al PH l.\,
OU7 Seventh 81., Wn.hlngtn
Make 1‘. <>. Muncy Order, pnyaulo an
large crop of oats have been, and
arc being, planted this season,
j Labor seems to be in sufficient
j quantity to supply the demand,
j There seems to be an earnest dis-
| position among many planters to
discontinue the use of commercial
fertilizers, and among all to curtail
! in quantity. As a general thing,
farmers lost money by its use the
past year. After an experience of
thirty years in the use of commer
cial fertilizers, I am inclined to
think that farmers have lost money
by their use. There is quire a dif
ference between the value of guano
now compared lo thirty years ago,
when nothing but the pure Peru
vian guano was offered. Our agrj
; cultural department fails to protect
I the farmers from impositions in
FROM spurious compounds, notwithstand
ing we have stringent laws by which
; our farmers ought to be protected,
! yet, it is comparatively a failure,
' and impositions- are practiced ou
[ us annually, there is doubtless a
j failure somewhere which should be
I ferreted out, and the guilty parties
1 made to answer for frauds.
In llie small county of Quitman,
ami' P u P ils att -ended the public
fhev 8C * I00 ^ H: number 333 were
whites, and 358 were colored.
There were ten schools for whites,
hurdle is only 2 5 of a second. The
difference between the delays caus
ed by the jumping a tbroe-foot six-
inch hurdle and a two-foot six-inch
hurdle lias not been so definitely
determined, but is certainly not
more than 1-8 of a second, proba-
, - . bly not more than 1-12 of a see-
viclous 18 It that if touched by the ond, in the case of a good hurdler,
tip of the fingers it produces vio-1
first, tor then you will not be
HOW SUCCESS SUCCEEDS I ! SC te<l ° rlns< ‘ y ° ur " mc
Which are perfectly pur.
fresh Remember that
make a specialty of Seeds and
handle only the best. It is,
1 a i 1 j*. and nine f or colored, so that more
cheaper to buy good seeds at ’
hLLAYILLE, GA.
.1S—All claims from $80 ol
i'ler, $:J;
MiSCELLAXEO US.
$2,000
A -1111111 cost can b.q secured for yn
I »v,‘d ones, by joining tho
IImg\h.ts of Honor.
•■1 * v • ry hu Land and tat her do it. Hc-g
it lodge m»ctiug lirst and tbirU Frid,
m. For {taiticulars call nn
E. TAYLOR, Die.
r - 1'- K. Hrinhon, Reporter, decllyl
J. MiUe
C. Horace McCall.
Momiiiieiital Marble Works,
"II.I.KH i Mc.'ALI,, I’roprieturs,
Southwest Corner of the Public Square,
AMEHICIS, UA.
Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc
Am,Than Marble
emetery Kudos
Anderson ville School
"ill Open Spring Term Janniirv
12th, I ss4-
I Ilium Sl.-1.00, $20,00 amf. 92.7.00 per j
an mini-less public fund about *3.00 per j
I''I' 11 - board aud tuition ten dollars per !
- ,t weeks) month, paid monthly in ad-
, ;■) : Music $3.00 per luontb. For i
1 a 11 n.-r iniormation apply to
'• J. CLAUK, Principal,
. ,_ Andersonville, tia.
' li-wicodtf
HAS KEEN CHAMPED Foil
BOOM A LONG TIM E AND
IS NOW ENLARGING ills
STORE TO .11'ST DOI'lil.E
ITS FORMER SIZE. THIS
HAS BEEN ( U SED 11V IN
CRKASING TRADE WHICH
WHICH DEMANDS A HEAV
IER STOCK OF
DKUGS
AND ALL SUNDRIES l
ESPECIALLY
Garden Seeds!
i\ii iiivmis'ijooiis.
J. A. &D.F. DAVENPORT,
LAMAR STREET,
Amorloua, : Groorgla.
Then, pilgrim turn, thy cares forego
All earth born cares aie'Hanj.u
Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long.
begone my cures, the pilgrim said,
Rut how about my woes .'
I need a plug hat for my head.
And a Jim ('row suit of clothes.
Soft as the dews from heaven descend
Let your kind accents fall,
And tell me where I’ll find a friend,
With plug hat. clothe* and all
With this request the hermit ro*o
His face lit up with smiles,
(), i’ilgrim if you must have clothes
Re sure to go to Gylk>.
MORAL.
Raiment venders ever need.
Their friends of ready w it,
A Goldsmith take, and cotton mau,
Thev'U never fail to Hitit).
; He now has in store an Immense Slock
of all the REST VARIETIES Ol SEEDS
; ttfat he will sell
1885.
b. -WA Tllis, Fri i/ial.
1 W 111 take charge of the above school
,Q ' a - v January 12th, next. I have
*8 d for the people of Americus before, ,
‘ u ’oul i respectfully ask a renewal of .
Wholesale or Retail 1
Terms, Bates, Etc:
| n"™i1,7^! ) '“l , » rt meDt per month,
Firmju wt *’ ' ,,:r ““nth
.$2.00
. 3.00
t ,< ‘ r moniu, loo
- * i"* ■“ end oi each Hcho-
month.
0 3l f ^ ^ MATHiS» Principal.
SOME HAKE VARIETIES OF
CHOICE SOI THKRN GROWN
SEEDS ON HAND THAT CAN ’
NOT BE FOUND ELSEWHERE.
All good* in the drug line are now i
low as well as Seeds. A little cosh
go a long way. Gall at the
OLD WOODEN DRIG STORE,
Juat above the Prat Olllcc
JaalMllwtt
Dissolution ITotioe I
I N'utice ia heraby givf-n that the copart-
| ncrahip heretofore existing between the
' unilerHigned, under the firm name of
COBH A COllB. »a> on the JTtfi day of
January, lHHA, dissolved by mutual con
sent. All accounts due the firm will be
collected by T. M COBB who will also
settle all accounts againut the firm
W. II. COBB,
T M. COBB.
colored pupils attended the nine,
j Ilian whites in the ten schools,
j These are the totals admitted to
| the schools, unu not the daily aver
age attendance.
Mr. Sidney Gay and sister, .Miss
Callie, of Blakely, alter spending
| the Christmas with relatives and
friends here, have returned to their
home, much to the regret of some
of tile young people of Iiatcher.
Mr. T. C. Lancaster is building
a handsome addition to his resi
dence and store, which adds ma
terially to the appearance of our
villa.
Bob Woods, who was committed
to jail for arson, and Thus. Brooks
for adultery, both escaped last
Friday night and arc at large.
Our jail is very rickety and unsafe.
\\£e need a new one sadly, and the
authorities should look to it at
once and organize a plan to build
a new one. I^citman,
DAWSON.
Dawson, Jail. 28.—Married at 1
o'clock this afternoon, at the resi
dence of Mr. II. F. Turner, of otir
| city, Mr. Frank II. Hall, of Camil-
| la, Ga., to Miss Moilie J. Turner,
I of Dawson, Rev. J. L. Underwood,
I of Camilla, editor of the Clarion,
officiating. Mr. Hall is foreman in
j office o! the Clarion, is an efficient
aud energetic young man, and has
j taken away one of Dawson's most
amiable and excellent young ladies.
May their lives be long and pros
perous, and may they ever be as
happy as they are now. The mar
ried couple, also Mr. Underwood,
lett for their homes at 2 o'clock
this alternoon.
Col. J. G. Parks is on a visit to
Americus. J. A. F. I
lent headaches, frequently followed
by colie. The smoke and fumes
produced by explosions of it when
inhaled are followed by similar re
sults, and in mines where dynamite
is used in exploding powerful
drafts of air arc immediately turn
ed into a chamber where a blast has
been fired to expel the nauseous
gases. In strength, as compared
to blasting powder, dynamite con
tains 75 per cent.of nitro glycerine,
and is ten or twelve times stronger.
Both nilro-glycerine ar.d dynamite
congeal at 42 degrees fahrenheit,
and when frozen arc comparatively
safe, it being next to impossible to
explode them until raised above
that temperature. Above this tem
perature it is one of the easiest
things in the world to ex
plode, as experience lias sadly
proved. Nitro-glycerine was dis
covered by Salvero, an Italian
chemist, in 1845. Dynamite is pre
pared by simply kneading with the
naked hands 25 p«r cent of infus-
sorial earth and 75 per cent of nitro
glycerine until the mixture assumes
a putty condition, not unlike moist
brown sugar. Before mixing, the
infusorial earth is calcined in a
furnace in order to burn out all
organic matter, and it is also sifted
to free it of large grains. While
still moist it is squeezed into car
tridges, which are prepared of
parchment paper, and the firing is
done by fulminate of silver in cop
per capsules provided with patent
exploders. Dynamite lias been
subjected to many severe tests,
such as throwing it down from
great heights, smashing the boxes
containing it with heavy weights,
and allowing it to burn up quietly
in a brisk fire, so the capsule and
detonating composition are abso
lutely essential to the explosion of
dynamite.
Now many accidents occur which
cannot seemingly be reconciled to
this statement. How are they to
be accounted for? There have
been two explanations offered; one
that the oil oozed out on the in'
fusorial silica, and being free, fell
under the conditions of nitro-glyc
erine; the other, that the dynamita
was frozen and then resembled the
solid oil. The premature explosion
at Hremerhaven, some years since,
was supposed to be due to the lat
ter fact. The caae containing it
had been exposed to severe cold,
and the dynamite was frozen nod
then exploded by being thrown
violently from the dray. This
property renders the transporta
tion of dynamite in cold weather
hazardous.
A Card.
thi-
ii pai
nd 11
Thanking the customer* of COBB A j araph Company
T|V COBB fur tile palroDaRr I Vttmled them
1 ' I would remind them that t will continne
the btiHiueaa at the old stand on t.'otlon
Avenue, and wilt he rIbi) to receive the
patroDaRe of all who wish good meats,
Rood weights snd ressonshle prices.
l&spMtfalljr, " * ~ v
Jssoor) ft. IMS ml
T. It. COBB.
Judge Lock ram- Begins Knit.
Atlanta, January 27.—O. A.
Lochrane has filed a bill in the
United States Court, asking for a
| receiver for the Southern Tele-
He bolds $30,-
000 worth of bonds of tbe com
pany, on which nina hundred dol
lars interest U doe and unpaid.
The case was set down tor a htar
ing oa Mareh I,
Postal Kedaetloa.
Washington, Jan. 27.—Tbe bouse
Committee on Post Offices snd
Post Ronds will favorably report a
substitute tor tbe bills pending be
fore it relative to the reduction of
newspaper postage from 2 cents to
1 cent per pound. The bill will
provide that publications of the se
cond clase, when sent by the pub
lisher, and irom tbe office of pub
lication to bona fide subscribers, or
when sent from a news agent to
actual subscribers, ar to other news
agents, shall be entitled to tranr*
mission through the mails atl osi I
und.suob postage to b« pro*
» r r
“( all me at Seven.”
. Augusta Chronicle.
Mr. ftoltert Platt, witli the in
genuity that is common to the
family, has fixed up a clever con
trivance in the Central hotel in the
shape of an electric alarm bell. It
is fixed in conjunction with a time
piece and works on the plan of an
alarm clock. It is more compre
hensive than un alarm clock, how
ever, as it can be made to ring in
any room in the hotel. An electric
battery is placed at a convenient
point near the clock and wires run
Irom it through the clock and to
each room in the house. A num
ber of guests leave orders at the
clerk's desk to be waked at differ
ent hours. A list is placed under
the clock giving the room and hour
at which each is to bo called. The
alarm is set for the earliest one and
when the hour arrives a gong is
rung at his bedside, and also at the
clei k’s desk, the object of the latter
being to attract the attention ot
tbe night clerk, who then consults
his list and sets the alarm for the
next one, and so on. This is quite
a clever contrivance and is much
more reliable than the average-
hotel porter.
People who visit the old Mora
vian Cemetery at New Dorp, 8. I.,
can now obtain an idea of the gran
deur of the gigantic Vanderbilt
mausoleum. Work has been great
ly hurried during the recent warm
weather. Hundreds ot laborers,
shovelers, wood-choppers and
teams are at work. The shrubbery
is being torn up with grub hoes.
Trees are lulling daily aud the
slumps blasted to fragments. Thera
will made about tbe mausoleum
live acres of tbe most artistic and
beautiful landscape gardening. Ex
cavations lor the broad foundstlOH
will be commenced shortly. Bricks
by the million will be employed in
making the vaults and crypts. The
walls will be massive. The mate
rials for this arc already being
made and sent to the cemetery.
The contract for building the mau
soleum has been awarded to St.
Clair A O'Brien, who built the
Grand Central Depot and tbe Van
derbilt homes on Fifth avenue.
The site selected will be 59 feet
higher than that where now rest
the remains ol W. H. Vanderbilt’s
father, grandfather and great
grandfather.
Dlmlaiihetl Sales of Stamps.
Washington, Jan. 27.-Third As
sistant Posmas.er General Uazen
has prepared a comparative state
ment of the sales of stamps, postal
cards and stamped envelopes dur
ing the quarters ended Dec. 31,
1883 and 1884, at 21 cities, repres
enting 35 per cent of tbe total sales
of the country. The statement
shows a falling off sales amounting
to 1.2 per cent, for the December
quarter of 1885 as compared with
1883. Only four cities ou the Hat
abow an increase in sales; as fol
lows; Brooklyn, $4,974; St. Louis
$6,266; Detroit, $6,729; New Or
leans, $906. The aggregate sales
lor tbe quarter ended Dec. 31,1834,
were $10,600,000, as against 10,-
1^74 tor
$7$,IT
quarter la till.
tbe eorfeepolling