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Americus
Recorder.
established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1885.
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orriCE ON COTTON ATEHUE,
PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS
AMERICUS.
Amerioat is tbs oounty seat of Sumter
ountr, Georgia, situated on the Soutb-
weetero railroad, 71 miles southwest of
liseon, and about 80 miles north of the
Florida line. It is situated in the finest
section of Georgia, raising a greatervsri-
sty of agricultural and horticultural pro
ducts than any other part of the South,
combining all the fruits, grain and vegs-
tables of the temperate and semi-tropieal
cones—wheat, com, rye, oats, rice, Irish
znd sweet potatoes, peanuts, ohufaa,
sotton peas, sugar cane, apples, pears,
peaches, grapes, plums and other fruits
The climate is mild and equable, and one
of the most healthy in the world, tbs air
beisg purs and (try sod most bensfioial lor
lung and throat diseases. AH kinds of
outdoor work can be performed without
inconrenience from summer heat or
winter cold. Americas has a population
of 6,000, is beautifully situated on high
and rolling ground and boasts of some of
the handsomest business blocks in the
Booth. The city has fine public schools
good churches; a large public library
one daily, one semi-weekly and two
weekly newspapers; a new opera hnnse,
completely furnished witu scenery and
capable of seating 1,000 persons; a well
organised lire department, includin)
two fine steamers; the streets sre wel
paved, sewered and lighted; there are
two flouring mills, a cottonseed oil mill,
planing mill and variety works, carriage
factory, and anumber of minor manfaoto-
ries; about two hundred firms are engaged
in mercantile business; three banks with
an abundance of capital; two good
hotels tarnish good sccommodattion.
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 Preston and Lumpkin
railroad now in process of construction.
It isdhe largest city in Southwest Geor
gia, and has been appropriately named
the "Commercial Capital" of that sec
tion, and it is rapidly growing in popu
lation and wealth. As a place of busi
ness residence it presents attractions
equaled by few cities in the Bouth.
Property of all kinds is comparatively
cheap, although rapidly advancing in
rslue; the inhabitants at both oity and
country are onltivated, courteous aud
hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im
migrants. To enterprising tradesmen, ju-
dicions capitalists and industrious farm
ers this section of Georgia offers fine op
portunities. Any information in regard
to city or country will bs cheerfully fur
nished by addressing the Ambricus Re
corder, Americus, Ga.
LA WYERS.
C. R. McCRORY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ella ville, ga.
TKRM3—All claims from $80 or nndar, $1;
f run 930 to §600, tea per cant.; over §600, aeren
per cent. No charges unless collections sre made.
. May 14-tf.
_ MISCELL ANEO VS.
J. *. R. WESTBROOK, K.D.
Physician and Surgeon
AMERICUS, GA.
Offlcs at Dr. Eldridge's drug store.
Reeideooe on Churoh Street, next door
to W. D. Haynes. feb7tf
At small coat can be, secured for your
lovsd ones, by joining the
Kaightn of Soaor.
Letevsry husband aid father do it. Regu
lar lodge masting first and third Friday
I f. a. For pail Ionian call on
K. TAYLOR, Die.
Or, D. K. Brinson, Reporter, decllyl
E«lw» J. Miller. C. HoreoeMoCuib
Monumental Marble Worta
■ILLEk * McCALL, Proprietor!,
Southwest Comer of the Publio Square,
AMERICUS, GA.
Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc
•f Iks ben Indies tad American Marble.
Ir *“ fisifis* ftr Cisuterr Basies-
•Cttj
IM to loir Merest
FOR SAXiXI
TO THE
LADIES
Building Lots
NARROW
2c.
TVO CENTS
■m, • IpNlalljr.
Wander Academy.
1885.
j! E. MATHIS, IYd tpal.
I will take charge of toe above school
on Monday January 18th. next. I here
taught for the people of Amerious before;
Th.1 W0< ‘ |11 r «P«otfolly aak e renewal of
thsir support.
Term, Rates, Etc. :
gsaresar?::
“•~ 1 '
desUtf * * MATHIS, Propel.
Bot ^ Overseers.
T"**— °* Boede of the 27th
imi. u"? Botified to pet thsir
eupenor Court, eadsegeiMd^of too lew.
**'**** Mead Oimmieetoetr.
.82.00
oh Bcbo-
JolmR. Shaw’s.
%
Within the corporate Units, situated on
the South side of the handsome residence
of A. W. Smith, and nearly opposite the
elegant home of Mrs. P. E. Burke. These
lots have street running East and West
and one North and South, also Lte street
on the East, which is tho most fashion
able and desirable in the city and is con
sidered the
Boulevard of Americus!
These lots are convenient 1o churches
and schools, and within ten minutes walk
to the court house. The natural growth
of oak and hickory is abundant and the
soil level and fertile.
TEEMS—Half cash and half on twelve
months time with eight per cent, interest.
Call on A. C. BELL and T. J. BRAN-
NAN and see diagram of this valuable
property.
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StridfBeiws.
EXTRAORDINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
J0H.NPREEV1LLK.
Johnpreivilli, March 9.—But
little improvement in the oats for
tLe past week. It is the opinion
of many farmers that they will
Anally die out. The last plantings
are doing much better than the
first. There will be a great deal
more corn planted owing to such
a poor prospect for an oat crop.
Corn planting is now in lull blast
and will be for several weeks, while
the early corn can be seen peeping
through tbe ground. This cold
snap will not hurt it, as the ground
is too dry to freeze deep enough
t* do any damage. Some of ns are
going to plant some cotton soon to
try and open credit. The mer
chants say they can’t charge any
good* until cotton planting time.
Some of us are needing a spring
suit and will plant as soon as we
can get ready.
Mrs. O. S. Pace and children, of
Dawson, are visiting in the ville.
Mrs. Baldwin and James, of
Dawson, who have been visiting
in the ville for the past two weeks,
will leave for home to-morrow.
A runaway couple went through
the ville yesterday on their way to
Parson Crymer to be made one,
so we were told. As we don't
know the report to be true, we will
not give any names just now.
. Mayor.
A WORK 1.HI PRESIDENT.
Private business calls me to New York
in about ten days from now. hence I have
concluded that as long as I will be in the
market, to make this alao a business trip.
A business trip with me means having
lota of cash to buy Bargains with,
order to meet this demand I will offer
until my departure and during my stay
in New York the remaining stock, espe
cially those that would otherwise have to
be carried over till next fall at fabuloue
low prices. I am not quoting, but under
the ciroumetanoee will sell at best prices
obtainable. My goods have all been
originally bongbt for about half their
value end when I state now that I intend
telling them at beet prices obtainable,
you may expeat extraordinary induce
ments.
Tbe special presents offered my cus
tomers during the month of January av-
ing met with much faror, and appreciat
ing the liberal patronage bestowed upon
me in the past, I have concluded to con
tinue them, with the promise to offer
even more valuable presents in thefntnre.
Any orders left with me for goods that
oannot be found here will be faithfully
carried out, and orders should be senior
given to me early.
Remember that I mean bnsiness, and
no better chance to bay Dry Goode,
Clothing, Cloaks, Shoes, Hate or Notions
at enoh prices will occur soon again.
Come examine and be convinced that I
mean exactly what the heading reads,
•8TEICTLY BUSINESS.”
Respectfully,
8. M. COHEN, The Bargain Man.
Cotton Arenue, opposite Bank of
Amerione, Sign of Red Flag.
•<Jm” Phillips.
Dick" Mutts.
BURNED TO DEATH.
A Shocking Tragedy Bnaeted In Stew-
art Ctuuijr.
Columbus, Ga., March 10.—News
has reached here to day of a most
horrible crime enacted near Lump
kin, Stewart county, yesterday af
ternoon. Employed on the Ameri
cus and Lumpkin railroad are a
number of negroes from Birming
ham, Ala. Bad feeling has existed
between them, and the negroes of
tbe neighborhood, and yesterday it
found full vent in a most horrible
murder. One of the Stewart county
negroes lost his pocketbook and
offered fifty cents reward for Its
recovery. One of the Birmingham
negroes produced tbe pocketbook,
whereupon he was accused by the
looser of having stolen it. The
Birmingham negro indignantly
denied the charge, and a general
fight ensued between the two fac
tions. The Birmingham negro, who
was accused of stealing the pock
etbook, was terribly beaten, tied
hand and foot, and thrown into a
log but. The hut waa then fired
and burned to tbe ground. Tbe
people who visited tbe scene soon
afterwards saw nothing of the un
fortunate man, but his charred re
mains. The ring leaders of tbs
factions fled tbe country, and at
tbe last accounts had not been ar
rested.
W T Ptttt t ttio At Hr, shire county, Mass., the son of
. J. rHILLIPS & LO. j oseph Warren, who was at one
Francis E. Warren, the new
Governor of Wyoming, is a good
example of the Yankee wko goes
West and grows np with the conn-
try. He was born in Peru, Berk-
BAKERY.
Xmnoliw at •peolulty.
Cotton Avenue, Americus,Qa.
time a brakesman on the Beaton
and Albany Railroad. He was a
student in Hinsdale Academy in
1861, and lived iu that place about
three years after as a tenant former.
He went with the forty-ninth regi
ment to the war, and afterward was
Captain ot militia. Ten or twelve
years ago be went to Wyoming,
where he began keeping a miscel-
laaeous store in Cheyenne; his
business now includes three or
four separate departments, togeth
er constituting one of the largest
mercantile establishments west of
Chicago; wnile be ia also a forge
owner of cattle, his herds number
ing 50,000 bead. Mr. Warren is
Come ani See as at Hart's Oil Stand! i iutie more than <o years old.
I.H. WIGGINS & CO.
WE KEEP A FULL LINE OK
GROCERIES OF ILL KUOS,
FANCY AND STAPLE.
File Whisky and Winn a N|»frialh.
W« aluo have a BAB connected with
our buaineeii where gent* will
find the very bent Whis
ky, Beer, etc.
W« will h»ve in ft few d«y» a fail line of
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes,
HATS, ETC.
Give as a call and we - ill »urpr>e you
to prices. Your* rntx-etiullv,
totoU-1 I H WIOOINS * CO.
A correspondent wants to know
why people pledge each other be
fore drinking. We ar- not sure,
but we think this is lb* reason. Is
the good old days when cut fhroats
drank together socially each one
made the rest prom se not to at
tack him while he was drinking.
Otherwise while the head was
thrown back in the act of drinking
some enterprising ruffian would be
strongly tempted to draw his weap
on on the exposed and defenceless
neck ot the drinker. But even a
pledge didn’t always protect
drinkers, and ao tbe custom of
clicking glasses and drinking to
gether was introduce!, in order
that all might be similarly engaged
at tbe eame time and unable to nee
their weapons.
Washington, March 10. A
prominent Albanian here, speaking
to your correspondent about the
new administration, said to-day ;
Mr. Cleveland will immediately de
vote himself to work that he out
lined at Albany, and will not sit
down and wait for events. He has
a plan in his miud for the prosecu
tion of some work that may take
months to complete, aud by that
time he expects something new
will have occurred to him. The
members of his Cabinet, too, will
start with him, and they will have
to earn their salaries.”
“Doyou think Mr. Cleveland will
be as industrious as he was at Al
bany f"
“More so,” was the reply. “I
very much doubt wheiherhe will
take any summer vacation at all,
and if be does not, none of tbe
Cabinet officers will. There wilt
be no more junketing expeditions
on the Tallapoosa or the Dispatch,
tor I myself have heard Mr. Clcve
fond when he was Governor refer
to the bad taste of such perform
ances. Indeed, I would not lie
surprised to see the Dispatch, tbe
President's official yacht, turned
back into tbe revenue service, as
Mr. Cleveland would not use her a
month in the year, and meantime
sbo lays here at Washington with
a big stall of officers eating herself
up. Tuese little things receive
Mr. Cleveland’s attention as much
as big things.”
This gentleman, who is a per
sonal friend of the President, says
Mr. Cleveland has a peculiar mind
that is most at rest when he is at
work, aud that is one cause of his
extraordinary industry. He says
Mr. Cleveland has a more minute
knowledge of the affairs of tlu>
State of New York than any ex-
Governor thereof, and that bis
originally wide knowledge of con
stitutional law has been immensely
broadened by his study of affairs
at Albany. Indeed, be has a rare
knowledge of legal principles and
a careful, painstaking mind like
that of John Marshall.
Beiug asked what wore Mr.
Cleveland's amusements, if be had
any, and what books he read for
recreation, this friend of bin replied:
“Mr. Cleveland likes to be alone
with a book, a soft lamp and a good
cigar. His favorite poet is Walt
Whitman, and he has retd and re
read ail that he has written. He
also reads tbe works of William
Black and Charles Reade; also An
thony Trollope, and he has read
some ol Bret Harte, but be is not
much of a bonk man, and reads a
novel only occasionally. I do not
know it he is fond of tbe drama or
not, but be does like good music.”
“Do you think Washington will
make Mr. Cleveland much ot a so
ciety man, like bis predecessors?”
“No. His tastes are very quiet,
undemonstrative and domeetio. At
Albany be has given very few re
ceptions, and those only in a per
functory way, as if his station
demanded it. He has often, how
ever, given stag parties, many of
which i have attended. He likes
to get a snug party of men to in
dulge In a quiet game of whist,
sod these affairs he likes to have as
informal as possible. Daniel Man-
ning wasoue of the best whist play
ers in Albany.”
“ WhatdoesMr. Cleveland drink?”
“Like all stout men, he likes
lager beer, especially in summer.
I never saw him drink anything
else except mineral water, but I
suppose the lager wilt have to give
place to something more fashiona
ble here in Washington. He
amokea cigars, which he likes
strong, but does not like many of
them. I remember once I wanted
him to smoke a cigarette, but
eral luxury of surroundings. Some
tsy that he devoted many hours of
thought to it when he first entered
the White House, while others as
sert that it was the creation of Mr.
Louis Tiffany. At any rate it
knocked out anything of the kind
ever seen here before. Apprecia
ting the character of bis successor,
it is said Mr. Arthur had the furni-
ture and brie a-brac in this cham
ber carefully packed up and sent
sway, and so as to conceal all evi
dence of a weakness for beautiful
effects, had toe walls papered in
some more commonplace' style.
The room was then refurnished in
the ordinary way of a gentleman’s
private apartment.
President Cleveland Kissing the Bible.
Baltimore Son.
There was no intention of the
Chief Justice to open the book at
any particular place, and no desire
of President Cleveland that there
should be anything prearranged
about the ceremony in any way,
The particular place where he kiss
ed, therefore, was the result of ac
cident entirely. As the type used
in the biDie is small the lips of the
President touched six verses of the
112th Psalm from verse 5 to verse
10 inclusive. They are as follows:
A good man showetb favor and
leudclli; lie will guide his affairs
with discretion.
Surely he shall not be moved for
ever; the righteous shall be in ever
lasting remembrance.
He shall not be afraid of evil tid
ings; his heart is fixed trusting in
the Lord.
His heart is established, he shall
not be afraid, until he see his desire
upon his enemies.
lie bath dispersed, he bath given
to the poor; his righteousness en-
duieth forever; his horn shall be
exalted with honor.
Tho wicked shall see it, and be
grieved; lie abal! gnash his teeth
and melt away; the desire of the
wicked shall perish.
Minnie Palmer’s Stockings. •
If there’s one thing in the world
that a woman likes better than an
other it's silk stockings. Minnie
Palmer has ’em. She has 240 pairs,
and they are so cleverly contrived
as to look little at the bottom and
big at the top. That is, the feet
are all in dark colors, wbioh gradu
ally develop breadth from the in-
"tep up, and spread away into de
signs ot lacing and embroideries
One of the loveliest pairs she
wore wss of cream and garnet, so
exquisitely combined that they
might well be termed a symphony
in stockings. Queen Elizabeth, in
whose time silk stockings were in
vented, would give poor little Min
nie an awful shaking up should she
suddenly be resurrected into coart
life again.
Thu standard of fine ladyism
now-a days is silk stockings, and
the little song and dance actress
has struck fashion at high tide.
The custom ot giving inangural
balls originated on the occasion of
tbe second inauguration of Gen.
Washington, in Philadelphia, in
1793. This ball waa given in pur
suance of tbe following card which
appeared in the Philadelphia pa
pers-. “The members of tbe Sen
ate and House of Representatives
of tlm United States are respective
ly ii vited to a ball, on Marob 4,
1793, to be given by the Dancing
Assembly, in honor of tbe untni-
•rotts re election of George Wash
ington,tbe President of the United
States, the anniversary of tbe
present form of government of the
United Stater; and a parting leave
with the members oi tbe present
Congress.”
The Boston Record is a surpris-
ng success in the newspaper world.
lie refused it and indulged in a die- It has 20,000 circulation, although
sertation on the evils of cigarette
smoking.”
Being asked whether he thought
Mr. Cleveland was fond of ladies’
society and whether be might not
get married, this Albanian replied
ns; that Mr. Cleveland was not
much pf a ladies’ man, and that he
thought certain things weighed
upon bis mind which might make
him rather avoid society, and that * term °* postmaster of
be had no idea of marrviug; hadn't N * w York city expires March 81,
time to do so anyway, as he had so fhe manner in which the presi-
much work on bis bands. I dent will fill the place ts regarded
Among the people of Washing- W *U* interest.
only six months old. It is chiefly
devoted to tbe exposure of social
evils.'
The Washington reporters say
the entire Georgia delegation
recommends a colored demoorat of
Georgia as minister to Liberia.
Who is the man?
ton society Mr. Cleveland ia re
garded with a great deal ot curi
osity. He certainly is notbiig like
ex-President Arthur. Mr. Arthur,
by tbe way, bad bia bed chamber
in tbe White Honae got up in “a
way to kill.” People who bare seen
it siy that nothing abort ot the
boudoir of a French lady of Ibeb-
lon approached it for • bis aud gen-
Tbe balloting for Mr. Garland’a
old eeat in tbe senate will begin oo
the' 17th Instant. Corgreasmau
Dunn is tbe leading candidate.
That I am selling a Fine Straight
Whiskey, Spring of ’M, for 82.80.
IbbSto 1 A. D. B. McKimia