Americus daily recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1884-1891, March 17, 1885, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textvf DA\Ly Americus Recorder. Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1885. Dailt, Pkk Ykak,...$6.60 Wkkki.v. “ ... 2.00. Americus Recorder pom.isBKD liy w ij. OL.BH8N Ell H K O' COTTON AVE'I K. I IIIIFUSSIII.ML k IIL’SUKSS CARDS americus. \m *ricn* in thJ county seat of Sumter ‘ tv Georgia, Hiiuated od the South- u, ,li rn railroad, 71 miles amithwest of V,',..in and about 80 miles north of tha Vloridn line. It is situated in the tineat n of Georgi i, raising a greater vari- tv „f nuricultural and horticultural pro- ducts than any other part of the South, ..dmImdiiM all the truita. (train and vege- tabka of the temperate and semi-tropical An is—wheat, corn, rye, oata, rice, Irish rml sweet potatoes, peanuts, chulas, aotton peas, sugar cane, apples, pears, peaches, grapea, plums anil other fruits. The climate is mild and equable, and one l the most healthy in the world, the Btr being pure and ”17 and most beneficial lor luPi; and throat diseases. All limits of outdoor work can be performed without inconvenience from summer beat or winter cold. Americas has u population of 0 0(10. is beautifully situated on high and'rolling ground and coasts of some of the haudsomest business blocks in the South The city lias fine public schools; 'd churches; a large public library, T daily, oue semi-weekly and two v. .;,lv newspapers: a new opera house, completely furnished wiiu scenery and capable of sealing 1.000 persons; a well nt'omixed fire department, including tsoliuo steamers; the streets are well lined, sewered aud lighted; there are tW o llimring mills, a cottonseed oil mill, 111tong mill anil variety works, carriage laetory. and attumberof minor maufacto- ries;ab'out two hundred firmsareengaged in mercantile busintss; three banks with mi abundance of capital; two good hotels lurnisb good aecommodattion. Americus is the centre ol trude for six counties comprising the richest agricul tural section in Georgia, the average an- nindention receipts being 00,000 bales, which Will be largely increased by the completion ot the Preston and Lumpkin railroad now in process of construction. It is the largest city in Southwest Geur- gi , and has hern appropriately named the ■•Commercial Capital" of that sec- in,n, and it is rapidly growing in popu lation and wealth. As a place of biisi- ijhss residence it prem nt* attraction* ,-mided bv lew obieH ill the ?*outh. I'ruperiy of all kind* i* comparatively climp, althomih rapidly advancing in \alne; the inhabltuntM of both city and country are cultivated, courteous and hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im migrants. To cnterprfalnK tradewnen, ju dicious capitalists and induatrioae farm ers tins aectioD of Georgia offers tine op portunities. Any information in regaul lo city or country will b« cheerfully fur nish* d by add res wing the Amkkicib Rk* nuiDl.lt, Americus, Ga. TO THE LADIES NARROW LA nr nils. C. It. McCllORY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, P.LLAV1LLE, GA. I'KkMH—All claims from *30 ul i unle«* collcctlo .1/ ISC El. I.AXEO IS. .1. M. It. WKN1 HltOilK, M. II. Physician and Surgeon 2c. AMERICUS, GA. Office at Dr. Khlridge'a drug store. Residence on Church Street, next door to W. D. Haynes. feb7tf $2,000 At small cost can he^ aecured for your loved ones, hy joining the Knights of Honor. Let * v» rv husband and lather do it. Uegu- htr lodgt-meeting first and thiru Friday 7 i*. m. For pal ticulara call ,- n E. TAYLOR, Dio. t*r, 1). K. nuiNsON, Reporter, dedlyl 2c. E,lw- J. MPbr. C. Horace McCall. I Monumental Marble Works MILl.Klt ii JIctALL, Proprietors, Mi’iithwest Corner of the Pnhlic Square AM EUICUS, GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc ini American Marble. Come and See ns at Hart’s Old Stand! 11AW SO' DOTS. STEWAKTCOIMY. Balloon A.e.B.low - The lloliWu Troupe A N.w Hotel lo be Uullf. Lumpkin luicpenJa.it. Every carpenter iu Luuipkia i, Dawson, Marcli 16.—There was | kept busy and there is work enough a pleasant Hale musical at the resi-1 to he done to employ half a dozen dcnce of Mrs. M. M. Anthonv last ! more. Friday night. The instrumenla 1 ; It, is to be regretted that llie oat music was furnished by Capt. J. crop does not look promising, in P. Allen on the violin, your corres- j SO me places the stand having been pondent on the flute, and Misses ; almost wholly destroyed. Ilcnnie Jessup, Eva Leonard, Lil- ! j udging from the i arge quanti . Si KAM1K STORY OF A lOKPSK lie Allen and Cora Anthony oil the I ties of guano being used by the piano; and the vocal by the ladies fa| . mors lhey , ecln determined to above named and Mrs. Authonx, n , a kc a oig cotton crop this year. Mins Jessie Jones, and Messrs. . f . , . ! Under the inspiration of a week Hozue, Crittenden and buns. * , . . ... - of sunshine the planting of com Some very difficult, Hut beautiful . • , , . .. p . has been extcnsivjly engaged in selections from Mozart, A>eethoven e .. « , | by Stewart county farmers tins and Mendelsohn were performed ^ J in a manner that would be credits- ble to professionals. In short, ill 0| ' C lbin S that Lumpkin needs was a fine success, and will bear j as *• anything else is a brica I mason who will keep sober long repetition. i r B According to previous announce- e " ,)U K l > to complete a job after he ment, Prof. Adams sent up a beau commtnce* it. tiful, tri-colored, transparent bal- Col. S. II. Hawkins, of Americus, loon last Saturday night at seven was in town again Thursday. Col. and a half o'clock. A large cr >wd ! Hawkins is deeply interested in the of ladies, gentlemen and children completion of the A. P. A L. U. R assembled at ttie Appeal ofllce to | and never tires in working for the see the fun, and cheered heartily as it ascended amid the glaie of the brilliant red calcium lights. It took a northeasterly direction, and after going about a quarter of a mile high, descended about half a mile from starting point, alighting in the yard ol Mr. Charlie Deubler, advancement, of tbs road's interest. About all of the grading on the A. P. Si L. Railroad has been com pleted Irom Americus to the cor poration lineot Lumnkin. A lit'le finishing up and the building of the trestles across Clear Creek and the Uodchodkee will put the road in and was discovered and brought in condition for track laying, by his cook, who, I suppose, will M| . Marshall Halliday, an enter- reccive the Appeal for a year free, Mrs. Abe Eaton, of this couuty, who was severely burned about ten days ago, while burning grass in ihe field, died last Saturday night. The Holden Troupe arrived iu in our city yesterday, and this morning at 11 o'clock, the hand gave a grand parade and street drill. The music was excellent and was enjoyed by many of our citizens. To night they will play the drama ‘’Fate.” Mr. Hart received one hundred chairs this morning for his new opera house. Mrs. N. C. Saville, of Stewart county, is on a visit to her daugh ters, Mrs. Sallie Janes and Mrs. Crockett Baldwin of our city. prising young farmer, living about nine miles from town, is fond of quail on toast, but not caring to waste his time in gunning, he built a trap for the purpose ot securing some of the luscious birds. A lew visits to the trap revealed the fact that predatory hawks were robbing his trap. He set the trap with a bird and in three days it had caught three large hrowr. hawks. He se cured thirteen quails and three hawks from that covey in a week. Mr. Philip Simpson, the success ful turkey hunter, placed on our table a tew days ago the leg and heard ol one of tho.-e fine birds. From the size of his foot he must have been one of the aboriginces. The leg and foot from the knee to Bobbie Saville is also in the city, lbc cnd 0 f t ; lc middle toe measures but will return to school at Wards to-morrow. Capt. O. U. Robinson, of our city, has made arrangements to twelve inches and the heard eleven inches long. He was certainly tall enough to have picked the brass buttons from Ihe coat of a West build a large hotel in Dawson, I p o j 0l ca det. A peck of corn would where the old Ross shops now bave juat abollt , llrniabe d him with stand, on east side of Main street., a fquare meaL „ ig weigbl wa9 He gave the contract lo Mr. B. II. lwi . nty . flvu pound ,. Brown, the master mechanic of our city. The lumber has been engaged and the work will commence about the tlrstof May. This will add 25 per cent, to the importance of our town. Mr. Johnnie Allen, after spend ing a week very pleasantly in our citv, returned to his home iu Americus to-day. It is probably harder to find a remedy that will cure chills and fever than any other complaint that is incidental to this section. Chills a.c always plentiful on the creeks and river bottoms and the complaint is so common that often men have chills in lb morning and resume work in the afLernoon with out ever stopping to take medicine of any kind. Mr. W. J. Davis has uiade a discovery that is likely to cause a drop in the quinine markst if his specific is as successful with other patients as the dozens who have tried it. Everybody about here knows Mr. Davis to he a sub stantia! citizen and not addicted to Portland, Me., March 13.— Mrs. Jane Fossett died four days ago after a brief illness. The body was prepared for the grave and lay in the best room in the bouse. Last night one of Mr. Fossett's lady friends was “watching” by the corpse, as is customary still in Mt.ine. She tells the following story ol her remarkable experience; I was sitting near the body and looking intently upon the features that had been so dear to me in life. I could not restrain my tears, and said in a low voice, “Where arc you now?” At the sound of my voice the apparently dead body moved, turned on its side and at last sat up. The eyes opened, and in a thrilling voice the woman, who had been dead, but who lived again, spoke. Mrs. Fossett said she had been in heaven; i hat she had there enjoyed a hap piness that was beyond her power to describe; that she had met and talked with her mother, I'.ng dead, and with other friends For some time Mrs. Fossett talked, giving me a description oi her ex perience in the spirit land. Grad ually her voice grew fainter, and she fell back upon the bed clad as she was in her grave clothes. As the last word was spoken the spirit took its final departure and return ed no more. Some people believe that the lady saw a vision in a dream, but she is convinced it was all a reali ty, and that her friend returned and talked with her. A Model Farmer. Last Friday afternoon it was the pleasure of the editor of the Daw son Journal to accompany the urbane and gentlemanly Dr. R. H. Jones to his farm, situated about two miles from Dawson. The Doctor farms scientifically and con sequently successfully. He pre pares h’s ground thoroughly and puls it in an excellent condition to receive tue seeds. All of the corn stalks of the last year’s crop are piled and burned aud a field of one hundred or more acres looks almost as clean and as clear of trash as a front yard in the most fashionable part of tbe city. During the last three years the doctor has had removed from his Uelds 13.000 slumps, and we saw one field of oxer a hundred acres in which there was not a sin gle stump. In one field he will plant twenty acres in cotton from which he is confident of realizing twenty hales. He planted the same ground in corn last year, and made thirty bushels to tbe acre by actual measurement. For both corn and cotton he makes his drills four feet apart. He has one hundred and five acres in oats. Tbe stand could not he better and tha oats are beau tiful. Ueorgla Curiosities, Master Eddie Roane, of Lexing ton, has in his possession an un usual curiosity. It is a hornet’s nest petrified and as hard as mar ble. It retains its original color, with its cells intact. It is as large as a man’s hat. We now have in our possession tbe printing press on which a greater part of the currency of the Confederate States was printed .and also the press on which the State printing was done for a long time before the war.—Lexington Echo. Mr. W. T. Witcher, ofCrawford, has two Spanish coins about the size of dimes which bear the date of 1784, being 101 years old; and Mr. K. A. McMahan, of the same place, has a Spanish gold piece about tbe size of a gold dollar which bears the date of 1775, mak ing it 130 years old. A coon sent to Miss Birdie Mc Nulty, of this city, tome four weeks ago was captured near Sun Leon county, Fla., in the tree to which Hen. Jackson hitched bis bore; when he first entered Florida to fight tbe Indians. Also there were two negroes killed under the tree. The historical coon has since made his escape, and is now sup posed lo be his own guardian as to the haunts he will occupy in South west Georgia—Dawson Journal. Mr. Bob Fleming, of Conyers, has a letter casket brought by bis great-grandfather from Ireland. It is new 300 years old and is appar ently in good condition. He alto ha* a tin spectacle case owned by his great grandmothar which ia about 200 years old. I. H. WIGGINS & CO. KI LL LINK OK ALL KIMS, FANCY AND STAI’I. Hiir Whisky anil Willi’s a F|itrial*v. We also Lave r. BAR connected with our bunineHfl where Rent* will tiud the very beet Whi** ky, Beer, etc. now have on hand a full line of 9ry Goods. Boots, Shoes, HATS, ETC * us a cell „nd ill nurpr.ee yon >n p>ices. Yonrn resixf-cttullr. atchllml I H WlGGUJfi h CO. A Little Rock reporter bad the pleasure of haudling Col. Davy Crockett's old gur. the other day. It was in the State Treasurer's office, where it had been left hy “Col. Boh,” Davy’a grandson, now in the Arkansas Senate. The gun is a long-barreled, silver mounted affair, and along the barrel, in gold ’ running after humbugs. The remedy letters, reads the inscription: ; that lie lias used ao siiccesslully on "Presented by the young men of 1 himself aud a dozen others, and in Philadelphia t* lion. _ David ll0 instance did the chills return, is I orockctt, of Tennesaeo. Neai the i u j t( , and within the reach Stick to the farm, young man.” muzzle, just back of the liead, was 1 ' the Colonel’s motto: “Go Ahead.” Iake egg shells and parch Many of the letters were ao worn them until quite brown, break them At a White House reception not as to and pletely. Tin * lln ™ 1 V " egg shell as possible. Take a dose 1 ber ra t| )er unexpected guest; and,j from sire to son in me t rocKeu , . , ,* . . ( ‘ . since it wn presented or two just belore the chillis ex- so it happened, the next person; inl834. Ver To the reporter. “Col. peeled and and a lew days repeti- j presentedI to her was a Miss Mann. I Bob ” who now owns the gun, -aid: tion of this prescription will break I l "’ r ‘" r J’ rov . ma ^ e K ^ h ® D f r: ’ . a rh’i >iiua • a . neat remark. “I have Just been “There is not a gun in Arkansas to- up tue worst case of chills in the nr »„ n „d to a woman who wnnld day which will sh ot truer. 1 killed The Union and Recorder give* ibis advice to the young men in the country: “Young mm, you that have been raised on the farm and learned its wavs and wants, don’t leave it to go to town. If • city merchant advertises that he wants a salesman or an accountant, he is hesciged with applications of scores of worthy young country men, each striving to underbid the others lo secure the situation. How iliflerent it is in the country. A farmer inty ride for miles and be unable to prncuro a trusty farm hand. The city cries out. “no room, too much competition.” The country cries out, “more help.” Stick to the farm, young man, and hy honest toil you will get compe- tence surely, if not wealth. At any rate, you will not Ire placed in pe hi lions that you can hold but half the year in most cases, and be exempt Irom city temptations, as | well as tine dressing and many other expensive items contingent man's residence in a city. A Pat or Hold. Koine, Ga., Couiiei. We were informed yesterday that Mr. John Byrd, in bis gardening explorations at tbe old Att&way place, on Bridge street, now owned by Mrs. Shropshire, bad dug up a pot containing a lot of gold coins. Never believing wbat we bear, we “dug” for tbe root of the rumor, but could only ascertain tbe follow- irg facts from Uncle Joe Wardlaw, to-wit: “I know that John Byrd haa un earthed a pot of money. He dug it up several days ago. I tried to learn from him how much there was iu the pet, but he was non committal, and would only lay that the find was not lest than $12,000. and was all In solid gold currency. I believe myself that tbe find wae much larger than $12,000, but Byrd will uot say bow much.” There are many a thousand dol lars of good money buried in this section of Georgia during tbe war, and it would not be at all strange if Mr. Byrd had stumbled on at lcaat one section of it. At any rate, we have full authori ty to hope that he and others who drop into such good inch as to find where it is hidden will have the grace to come by and say: “Courier have a slice.” Manv of the letters were ao worn them until quite brown, break ihcrn At a White House reception not ■ I (A r<l h as to be almost indistinguishable, up fine and into a table spoonful of i ,0D 8 * ,n f , v, A HI R Sh aw S , r rri! r:; - - - : ess? SS’s™» J villi Elle^jllUl!! 1^4 : I'leteiy- >«- 8 rmeki.it <’gg shell as possible, lakeadose her rather unexpected guest; and, Cleveland Haabs fteeretary Llaeala. ClBcInaattt ■oqulrw’. While Judge Kelly was ia con versation with President Cleveland, Secretary of War Lincoln came in with the commission of General Grant as a retired general of tbo army. Thrusting the paper in tbe President’s face tbe fresh secretary indicating where it should be sign ed, said: “Here Mr. President is where you attach your name.” "But is there any hurry ?” asked the President. “No,” said Lincoln, “hut it will l>e gratifying to General Grant to know that the commission ia on its way lo him.” “Well, I guess there is do Imme diate necessity for haste.” Then young Lincoln, with some embarrassment said: ‘President, you know I will be out of office in an hour. It will be a gratification to me, as well as sn aspiration I have, to attest General Grant’a commission as Secretary of War. It will be my last official act.” “Oh,” said tbe president. “I appreciate tbe aspiration, but may not Mr. Endicott alto share a like one ? I guess it can wait till he ia secretary." Y'oung Lincoln left considerably smaller than when he entered. Judge Kelly it now of a decided opinion that Mt. Cleveland can say no. hundreds of deer wiih it, and think more of it than I can tell. Mv grandfather left it at borne when he went to Texas, taking with him bis old flint lock. It is a rare old Military red tape required the appointment of a major,' a captain and a first lieutenant as a board gun and a great curiosity. I have ( to condemn a »ick mule to lie shot been requested to send it to the j to death at Omaha. The mule exposit on at New Orleans, and , died during the session of tha gal- 1 shall do so in a short time.” lant board.—Chicago Timas. like lo be a man. I am pleased i now lo meet a Mann who is con-' tent to remain a woman.” At Wext Point, Ga.,a fruit grow er has sold since 1881 seventy-six thousand dollars worth of peaches off of not more than fifty acres of trees. Jefferson Hayee, a colored gen tleman and agricultural dentiet, ot Hawkinaville, Ga., is the champion stump puller, having rsoowad 187 stumps from 13 acres. Tbe eloae connection between eUmpa and acres suggest* tb* possibility of a good pun for some suffering para graphs.—Boston Advertiser.

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Americus daily recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1884-1891, March 17, 1885, Image 1