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Americus
Recorder.
Established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1885.
Daily, Pkr Ybar,...|6.00
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Americus Recorder
Pl BI.ISBltD BY
U.
„iHl K U\ I'UTTOX AVENUE.
liiiD SSlO.WIi & BUSINESS CARDS
amekicus.
U1 nicu» is tbj county scat of Sumter
(Corgis, situated on the Soul b-
r .ri, railroad, 71 miles southwest of
..ad about MO miles north of the
Fl ri.It’i liue It is situated in the finest
»„ 'tion of Georgia, raisin* a greater van-
*iv of iiancultural and horticultural pro-
s than any other part of the South,
■oaibiniug all the Irmts. gram and vege-
rubles of ilie temperate and semi-tropieal
.ones—wheat, corn, rye, oats, rioe Irish
t iw „ e t potatoes, peanuts, chulas,
atom peas, sugar cane, apples, pears,
neaches grapes, plums ami other frnita.
The climate is mild und equable, and one
of the most healthy in the world, the air
is.inenureandi.rjand mostbeoehoial lor
Iuok A.l throat diseases. All kinds of
outdoor work chu be performed without
inconvenience from Hummer heat or
«inter cold. Americu* Dan a nopulation
,,f is beantitully BitnMed on high
Hiid rolling ground and Loiista of some of
tlie hamhoiuHil businesH blocks in the
South Tbo city has fine public schools;
C ood churches; a large public library;
(in'* dmly, one semi-weekly and two
wi-ekly newspHpers; a new opera house,
completely furcished wilu heenery au«l
nimble ol sealing 1.000 person*: a well
..rginued fire department, including
two tine steamers; (be streets are well
paved, Hewered and lighted; there are
two flooring mills, a etton seed oil mill,
I Imiug mill aud variety works, carriage
tHcinry, and anumberof minor nmofacto-
ries; about two liuudred firms are engaged
in mercantile busint**; three banks with
in Hhandance of capiul; two good
lmieb. tarnish good nocoramodattion.
Americas is the centre oi trade for six
couniies compri-ing the richest agricul-
tur.tl section in Georgia, the average an
nual cotton receipts being 30,000 bale*,
which will be largely increased by the
completion oltbe Preston and Lumpkin
railroad now in proceaa of construction. .
It in the largest city in Southwest Geor-
gi.i, and has been appropriately named j
the “Commercial Capital" of that sec- \
tion, and it is rapidly giowing in popu
lation and wealth. As a place of bu*i-
ners residcnco it presents attractions
equded bv few cities in the ^outb.
Property of all kinds is comparatively
cheap, although rapidly advancing in
value: the inhabitants of both city and
country are cultivated, courteous and
hospitable, w ith a cordial w elcome to im
migrants. To enterprfsing tradesmen, ja
il liouh capitalist* and industrious farm
ers tins section of Georgia offers tine op-
poituDiues. Any information in regard
to city or country will be cheerfully fur
nish^! by addressing the Amkkicub Uk-
conDF.it, Americus, Ga.
fyi ii PiTAL PK1ZK ITS ,OUUj0
TlekcUsalflS Shares t» proport low •
rent
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
“ We do hereby certify that we supervise
the arrangements for all the Monthly and
Semi-Annual Drawings of The Louisiana
State Lottery Company, and in person man
age and control the Drawings themselves,
and that the same are conducUd with hon
esty, fairness, and in good faith toward aL
parties, and we authorise the Company to
use this certificate, with Jac-similes of our
signatures attached, in its advertisements.'
If Tovl Want
LA n i’EKS.
C. K. McCKOBY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
f.Ll.AVll.I.E, GA.
•I RUMS—All cUim. from ,30 or ender, *3;
,1 two, If n p.r cent,; Of it aeycu
MISCELLANEOUS.
$2,000
At small cost can be^ secured for your
hved ones, by joining the
Unig'b.ts of Sonor.
Let ev» ry husband and fstber do it. Regu
lar lo.lgt* meeting first und tbiru Friday
7 p. m. For paiticulurs call "n
E. TAYLOR. Die.
1). K. Brinson, Reporter, decllyl
Incorporated it 1568 for 95 rear> hr the Loginla-
ture for K.lurntlona) sn-t Cnaritahlp |iurpoi«**9--
wftkaoaaltal of n,ooo,uoo to vhlok a rc*urva
fund of over $660,000 hi- itnce been ad«]«f).
By an overwhelmmr popular vote it* franc LU*
wm nude a part <>f the present State Constitution
adopted December 2d, A. D.. 1871.
and enilarted' Ip
Jt never tcaUt or jiotrponet.
lie Grand Single Number Drawings
take place monthjr.
6 SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
Will A FORTUNE. HKo.ND ORAN I)
DRAWING, CLASS D IX THE ACADEMY
OF MUSIC. NEW ORLEANS, 'lUESDAY,
Frbuary 10, I«*5-l?Ttl» Monthly Draw
log.
CAPITAL PRIZE, tT5,000.
100,000 I ickcts at Fire Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths, in Proportion.
LIST OF PRIZES:
1 CAPITAL PRIZE $76,000
1 do do 26.000
1 do do HMJOC
2 PRIZES OF «.nno 1*2.000
6 do 2,000, 10,000
10 do 1,000 111,000
20 do 600, 10,000
100 do 200 90.000
800 do 100, 30.000
WOO do 50, 96,001/
1000 do 26, 26.000
9 Approximation Prize* of $750 6,?5o
9 “ “ 600 4,600
9 “ “ 260 2.260
1,967 Prize*, amounting to §26->,600
Application for rates to clubs should be made
Pill address. PORTAL NOTES. F.*ni
Money Order*, or New York Exchange in ordi
nary fetter. Currency by Ex
icy by Exi
ts and upward by F.xpre** at our expense) ad-
dr «w<*tl
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
90? Seventh Mt., Washington, D. P.
Make P. U. Money Orders paynsle and address
ItgMlIWd Letter* to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK
New Orleans, La.
HOW SUCCESS SUCCEEDS
HaH'xOld Wooden UriigStoreSpea as.
Literal, Fair. Honest Dealing will Tell!
Edwt J. Mi'ler. C. Horace McCall.
Monumental Marble Works,!
MILLER k Mot'ALL, Proprietors,
Southwest Corner of the Public Square,
AMERICUS, GA.
Monuments, Tombs, Eto., Etc
the best Italian aud American Marble.
lto> Hailing for Cemetery Kudos
oeriy ,,r «.a ■p.elwlty.
Andersonville School
"ill Ojien Spring Term January
12th, 1884.
Tuition $15.00, <'20,00 end <25 00 per
•tQnutu less public fund about $3 00 per
l"»pil. Board and tuition ten dollars per
" ur "e^ks) mo’-th. paid monthly in ad-
'unee. Music $3 00 per month. For
rnrtiier information apply to
A. J. CLARK, Principal,
, Andersonville, Ga.
'fecl,.w*eodtf
1885.
■' E ’ -VA TUIS, PH *pat.
1 «ill Uke charge of the ahOYe school
"" “ on,l »y January 12th. next. I hare
“ORhl for the people of Americas before,
* oo!u respectfully auk a renewal of
"“r support.
Tebms, Rates. Etc. :
ia,«* r :, Dep,,t “« n ‘ P® r “°»tb, TO
P* r ®»»th 3,oo
Tnitina^j p,r 4 00
Uatic month * **
4, aSitf Prlnoipal.
HAS BEEN CHAMPED FOR
ROOM A LONG TIME AND
18 NOW ENLARGING HIS
STORE TO JUST DOUBLE
ITS FORMER SIZE THIS
HAS BEEN CAUSED BY IN
CREASING TRADE WHICH
WHICH DEMANDS A HEAV
IER STOCK OF
DRUGS
AND ALL SUNDRIES!
ESPECIALLY
Garden Seeds!
AM) PLANTERS* ROODS.
He now has in store an Immense Stock
of all the BEaST VARIETIES OF SEEDS
that he will sell
Wholesale or Retail'
AS LOW.AS ANY HOCSF. IN THE
STATE.
SOME HARE VARIETIES OF
CHOICE SOUTHERN GROWN
SEEDS ON HAND THAT CAN
NwTBE FOUNDEL8EWHEKE.
All good* in the drug liue ere now Yery
low aa well aa Seeda. A little oa«h will
go a lung way. Call at th 3
0 J WOODED HL'6 STttf,
Jngl abtYa »h« Pf*t Offio*
OF ALL KINDS, GOTO
DRUG STORE I
THEY HANDLE SEEDS FROM
Which are perfectly pure and
fresh Remember that they
make a specialty of Seeds and
handle only the best. It is
cheaper to buy good seeds at
first, for then you will not be
disappointed or lose your time
and labor.
J. A. &D.F. DAVENPORT,
UMAR STREET,
Amerloun, l Ooorgio.
SPOT CASH.
On and after the first of February I
will do a strictly
Snot Cash Business.
And will rot charge a cent to anybody.
Bv buying and selling for ca»b, I will be
able to sell cheaper, and customers need
ing anything in my line will find it to
their advantage to call on me. I keep
nothing but first-class, fresh gcods, and
sell them at
CASH PRICES.
ED. STALLINGS.
Next door to Toole. Mcf Jarrah A To
jan30tf
Dissolution Notice I
Notice is hereby given th».t the copart
nership heretofore existing between th**
undersigned, under the film name ol
COBB A COBB, was on the 27th day ot
January, 1885, dissolved by mutual con
sent. All accounts due the firm will be
collected by T. M. COBB, who will also
settle all accounts against the firm.
W. H. COBB.
T M. COBB.
A Card.
Thanking the customers of COBB A
COBB for the patronage titended them
I would remind them that I will continue
the buainess at the old stand on Cotton
Avenue, and will be glad to receive the
patronage of atl who wish good meats,
good weights and roaaonable pricea.
Respectfully, T. M. COBB.
Jaouan 29, 1885 ml .
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WAWTZP.
* UHDUW
DAWSON•
Dawson. Jan. 31.—At 7 o'clock
last night about one hundred and
fifty persons had gathered at Ihe
rink to witness the ladies prize
skating. The skating commenced
as usual, ladies, gents and little
boys and girls participating. After
an hour’s practice, the contestants
were called for and the following
five ladies responded : Miss Doodie
Kendrick, Miss Nannie Statham,
Miss Mary Baldwin, Miss Lillie
Crouch and Mrs. Kmiha Wheatley.
All took their positions and, at the
tap of the bell, started on their
rounds. At the end of ten minutes
a halt was called and a decision
asked for. The judges, after con
sultation and comparison of notes,
announced a tie between Miss Nan
nie Statham and Mrs. Wheatley.
They were requested to take the
floor again, which they did, and
skated about five minutes, so
smoothly, so gracefully that it was
almost impossible for the audience
or the judges to decide he.ween.
At last., amid the greatest exeito-
ment, the judges decision was call
ed for and the result was one for
Mrs. Wheatley and two for Miss
Statham; the latter, having a ma
jority, was awarded the prize, a fine
pair of nickle plated skates. Tho
excitement rose to the highest
pitch, and Miss Statham's'friends
loudly applauded the decision. Af
ter this every body was turned
loose and the roar was fairly deaf
ening, and it made my head swim
to try to watch about fortv persons
af. once, going round at almost
lightning speed. Everybody bad
to go home through tbe rain as
usual. .
Cotton has been coming in this
week as it docs in tbe fall. A fine
trade is being done here in guano,
bacon and flour. The farmers -are
buying a year's supply of the two
latter articles while they are cheap,
and the best of it is, they are gen
erally paying cash for them.
Mr. Charlie I.onghurat, who has
been spending tbe Christmas with
his father and other r latives in
Nashville, has returned to the cily
and will resume bis engagement
with Messrs. T. J. Ilarl Si Co. next
Monday.
Mr. Wiley Powell, of Houston
county, has muved to Terrell, and
is now residing at Chickasaw-
hatchee.
Mist Eva Lennard left for Cntk-
bert to-day to remain a week.
Miss Janie Wadsworth, who
taught with Professor Quillian last
year in the Owen Nelson Institute,
Dawson, left for her home in New-
nan, Ga., to day. Miss Janie is
one of the most amiable and popu
lar young ladies wc have ever bad
in our city, and everybody regrets
her departure.
Dawson, Feb. >.—Rev. Mr. B.
kV. Davit preached au excellent
sermon to a large congregation at
tbs Baptist Cbureb yesterday.
Rev. Mr. A. M. Williams preach
ed st Dover yesterday morning,
and in tbe city last night, after
which be administered tbe Sacra
ment of tbe Lord’s Supper.
Mr. Arthur H. Tappan, nephew
of Prof. Adams, left yesterday for
tbe New Orleans Exposition.
Col. C. B. Wooten arrived in tha
city yesterday afternoon.
Col. W. A. Hawkins, Miss Ella
Hawkins, also Mr. Arthur Bivins,
the handsome young book-keeper
of Messrs. Ilsrrold, Jonnson A Co.,
of your eity, came down and apent
an hour in our city yesterday, and
returned on tbe next- train.
Mrs. H. S. Lee, of our city, and
her sister, Mrs. Emma Wheatley,
ot Americus, left for your city
yesterday. Mr*. Wheatley baa been
with ue several weeka and naa made
many warm frienda who will bt de
lighted to have her vieit oar city
again soon—the sooner the better.
Mr*. W. H. Hodnett ban moved
to Daweoa from tho aoatben por
tion of tho oonoty, and nwolm
the Oheee* rmUins*, oa M*
street. And this is not all, she
brougat her daughter, Miss Willie,
with her, and she is one of tbe
most—bat I’ve told you that twice
before. J. A. F.
ITEMS YROM STEW ART
Lumpkin Independent.
So much rain has fallen lately
that wet weather springs have burst
out in many places in the cut on
the railroad, somewhat retarding
grading ooerations, but tbe work
is goldg on steadily all the same.
Solicitor General C. B. Hudson
was forced to make his speeches
this week in a sitting posture. Tbe
Col. has a game foot, supposed to
have been caused by a bite received
from one of bis extra large German
carp, while bathing in bis fishpond
recently.
Eddy Sims, of Sumter county,
son of U. A. Sims, the ellloient
manager of Mrs. J. K. Barnum's
Ilannatchee plantation, recently
killed a hog, which he had raised,
weighing 425 pounds, from which
he obtained twenty gallons of lard.
The pig was named Bug Chapman,
after the clever restanranler
that name in Americus, Qa., from
whom he obtained it. If every
boy in tbe land would raise a pig
of like weight pork would soon be
cheap enough.
Col. Edgar M. Butt, of Buena
Vista, was in town this week in at
tendance upon our Superior Court
He met quite a number of his old
comrades who served under him in
the gallant Second Georgia Regi
ment during the war, among them
our worthy Tax Collector George
W. Ard, who left a leg at Malvern
Hill. The meeting between Csl.
Butt and Mr. Ard was quite affect
ing, and was rendered doubly so
when old pegs said; “Col., as an
evidence tbnt I loved you, I have
a boy who fourteen years ago 1
named Edgar Butt."
The geological formations to be
ssen in the various cuts and exca
vations now being made by Messrs.
Perkins above Sawyer's mill, shows
that this section of our county is
abundant in minerals of various
kinds. A geologist could spend
several daye interestedly in a care
ful examination of these formations,
such as syenite, guciae, home-
blende, grenlte, quartzite, flint,
green and calcareous and micaceous
earths, and many ether deposits
which ceuld only be identified by
a practical geologist. Tbe dip, in
cline, fractures, faults and various
angles of super-position which these
concretions exhibit is very curious.
Many acres ere covered with great
boulders of conglomerate, quartz
ite, and granitic rocks, well adapt
ed for building culverts and abut
ments to bridges. Fibrous iron ore
and sandstone are also abundant.
Many of the boulders are evidently
of marine origin, being largoly com
posed of shells, perfect in shape
and unimpaired, filled with dense
lithological crystals. Tbe shape of
these boulders, spherical, oblong
and comparatively smoothe from
attraction; and from tbe mannor
of their distribution through tbe
soil, of entimes banked up in huge
piles; seems to favor the theory of
having been placed there by glacial
action or deposited by melting ice.
Tbe ravines are lined with banks
of them as if it was tbe terminus ol
a moraine in tne glacial epoch.
There is an abundance of available
good material there for building
purposes to supply our town for
yearn to come.
Reminiscence* #Ta Meaerahle Event.
Tha pleasure seekers who are
Hooking to New Or east to the
grant Exposition, make it • point
toinvnst in tb* world renowned
Louisiana 8 la la Lottanr. and ex
amine th* integrity old oorreet
neat ol the “
end* G. T.
Jnbol A. Early,
(tb* J77) Graod
will ooonr at
which M.
FRO* COMJITTT.
Randal, Ga., Jan. 94.
Dear Recorder:—I wrote you
in autumn dry—yes, very dry, but
now I write wet, very wet. Pat
ter, patters, then it ponrs; pours,
patters, mists forever more. We
have bad cloudy, rainy weather
since the middle of December; tbe
exception has been a very few
really fair days.
Now is the time we haul fertiliz
ers,^nd now the roads are getting
bad. A few days last fall spent in
hauling litter to the lots wonid
have saved hauling some gnano,
which would have saved hauling
some cotlon to give the agents
next fall, which would have saved
some $150 mule flesh, and the sav
ing might be carried on; but we
are not stingy, cheating Yankees.
No, sir; we are a h -spitable, liberal
people—we Southern planters—
and although we have lost all by
the war, yet we know how to live
and keep on in the good old way.
We cannot economize; we abhor
tho idea. Our home-raised fertil
izers do well enough for those who
like them, but guano is tbe thing
for cotton and with cotton we can
buy our bacon and other supplies,
etc. We must make cotton, for it
is tbe great Southern staple. We
need men of capital from some
where else to come and buy our
childrens’ homes and develop our
country. Yes, yes, that’s what we
need. Are wc too ignorant and
lazy to develop our native land?
Berrien county was visited by a
“winter” buiricane tbe first Mon
day in January. It commenced
on No-man's-friend day, and left
tbe county near Stafford’s Ferry,
the east county line. My inform
ant, Mr. Hutchinson, says there
were several narrow escapes, nota
bly Mrs. Ellis, on ten mile creek,
a portion of her building having
blown down and tbe loga of the
bouses thrown against a‘ low pine
stump with sufficient force to
break them asunder, and even 30
inch boards were broken by force
of the wind.
Matthew Marshall, an old and
highly esteemed citizen of Lowndes,
died of paralysis Thursday, 22nd.
Paul Crosby, aged about 80, was
thrown from a mute and almost
fatally injured tbe same day. He
is one ot Berrien’s best citizens.
Alpha.
The Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company intends to train
and educate its own force. Tbe
corporation has established a school
of technology. Boys whose pa
rents have been*a prescribed num
ber of years In tbe service of tbe
company will have precedence in
getting admission to tbe school.
The grading will be divided into
classifications, including apprenti
ces, cadets and ibird-yearstndenta,
and they will receive pay wbile
attending tbe achool, after tbe plait
of the government to its naval ap
prentices and cadets and the mili
tary cadets at West Point. The
graduates from the technological
school are required to enter tbe
Baltimore and Ohio aervice for a
term of three or five years, at the
regular pay of the positions they
All. Wbile in the school tbe first
class will be paid from seventy
cents to $1 n day; the cadet, or
second class, something above that
amount, and in the third class tbe
pay rune up to $2 a day. A strict
examination is to be made as to tbe
pbytical, moral and intellectual
attainment* of applicants for ad
mission to the school, and tbe gen
eral manager of tbe company 1* th*
chief executive bead. It is pro
posed through tbit technological
school to graduate railroad men
fltted by their education to occupy
responsible positions in the opera
tion or management of the Balti
more and Ohio system. A* th*
Stat# of Georgia will not open new
avnanet of indnetry and independ-