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Americus Recorder. Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1885. Daily, Pkr YnAR,...$#.eo. Wkkkly, “ ... 2.00 FANCY AND STAPLE. bile Whisky uml Wines a Spedalh. 'NeaNo bavoft BAR counf<qp<l with °Ur business wh«*re will nnd the very bent Whin ny, Beer, etc. "* “°* hlve on hand a full line of! Ory Goods. Boots, Shoes, HATS, ETC. in^DKee. 8 *v* b " n ‘* w f * ill xnrpr.ee yo , Your * r «at*ctl'illv. chll “ l I. H. WIGGINS & CO. Americus Recorder PtlBI.ISHKO BY T■ aijBSSN BH. HI I’ICE OS COTTON ATENl'E. rildFKSSIO.VAL He HUSI.VESS CUIUS AMKK1CUS. Americas is tbJ county seat of Sumter county. Georgia, situated OU the South- | western railroad, 71 miles southwest of j Macon, and about 80 miles north of the | Florida line It is situated in the finest j section of Georgia, raining a greater vari- i etv of agricultural and horticultural pro ducts than any other part of the South, j combining all the fruits, grain and vege- I tables of the temperate and semi-tropical cones—wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, Irish /.ad sweet potatoes, peanuts, chutas, uotton 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, the air being pure and «.ry and most beneficial lor lung and throat diseases. All kinds of outdoor work can be performed without inconvenience from summer heat or winter cold. Americus has a population of 6,000, is beautifully situated on hiy h and rolling ground and boasts of some of the handsomest business blocks in the South. The city Ins fine public schools; good churches; a large public library, nne daily, one semi-weekly and two weekly newspapers: a new opera house, completely furbished wiu* scenery and capable oi seating 1.000 person*; a well orgtnized fire department, including j two fine steamers; the streets are well paved, sewered and lighted; there are two flouring mills, a cottonseed oil mill, j Inning null and variety works, carriage factory, and a number of minor manfaclo- ries; about two hundred firms are engaged i m mercantile business; three banks with j an abundance of capital; two good j hotels turnish good uccominodattiou. Americus is the centre ot trade for six counties compri-ing the richest agricul tural section in Georgia, the average an nual cotton receipts being 30,000 bnl*g, j which will be largely increased by the completion ot the Fusion 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, and it is rapidly g owing in popu lation and wealth. A* a place of busi ness residence it presents attractions equaled by few cities in the ^outli. lToperty of all kinds is comparatively cheap, although rapidly advancing in value: the inhabitants of both city and country are cultivated, courteous and j hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im migrants. To enterprfsing tradesmen, ju dicious capitalists and industrious farm- i rs this section of Georgia offers fine op- portuniifes. Any information in regard to city or country will be cheerfully fur nished by addressing the Americus Re corder, Americus, Ga. LA WYEBS. (’. R. McCROllY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. r.LLAVlLLE, GA. TERMS—All elniuiM from *30 or under, |3; MI SC El. LA NEO VS. I. M. II. IVESI BROOK, M. I). Physician and Surgeon AMEIUCUS, GA. office at Dr. Eldridge’s drug store. Residence on Church Street, n* x* door to W. D. Haynes. febTtf $2,000 At small cost can be^ secured for your loved ones, by joining the Kn.igh.ts of Sonor. Let every husband and father do it. Regu- hir lodgK meeting first and tbiru Friday 7 i». m. For paitioulars call - n E. TAYLOR, Die. I {>r * D- K- Brinson, Reporter, decllyl I E Iwr J. MPler. C. Horace McCall, j Monumental Marble Works MILLUK * »<UAI.I,, Proprietors, Southwest Corner of the Public Square, AMERICUS, GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc.,Etc »f the be*t Italian and American Marble. •ro» Railing f or Kncloi IMJ| , Mr ««. a Specialty. Came and See ns at Bart's 0:t Slant! I. H. WIGGINS & CO. " E KEEP A KI LL LINE OK ««MIKS OF All, MADS, UtOJI Ml it'll hit STATION. mil especially the part of Mrs. Hatcher Station, March 18. I Bella 0oIden ’ 88 Helen Faraday, T , , , . Editor RECoitDERi-Owingtothe I “ nd , Franlt C °J r - as Make P eace To the people of Americus and those . . .... 19 Thackerv Glaze As nffpn as Mm rading in our city, I make herewith the : e i> ldeiDl ° ®f colds in our section, i,® .I 1 nnouncement that I have returned from j ma,i y of our people Rave been and j ars ID 0 0 eyes ot the audience, Frank would y Northern trip, where I bought and j are still sick, the writer among the TO THE number. I have never in a life of j dri '’ e the “ back and "place ^em with smiles, to be followed by side splitting laughter by his w»t and humor and ludicrous positions and i am now receiving one of largest and heat I selecte 1 stocks of Dry Goods, Dress raiDRs, Notions, Hosiery, etc., etc., ever j P e0 P lc afflicted with a bad headache brought or exhibited in Ibis city. Most, > n many instances it results in con-j of the goods were bought nt snciion end j tinned or chronic catarrh of tile ex P re88, ° n8 - LADIES head which is very paintul. NARROW job lots, and at prices thst I can afford to sell them for a good profit ami then sell ur i , , , .. i » | , , . We have had some days of beau- goods for less than other merchants can 1 buy them. 1 tl ‘ l " 8 P r,n K weather during which My motto in the future will he as in the people planted their corn, much the past, to n.ake my profits in the pur-' of which is now coming up, but chase of the goods and give to my cue- from the pre9cnt outlook the stand tomei8 the benefit of any and all bargains which I buy. | W,U necessarily be defective. The I* is. perhaps, not amiss to mention I fruit-trees are rap dly coming to that the firm position my competitors j the front in their Spring verdure, here have taken in my recent trouble ha* j but the weather to day augurs a s/U" d me to such an extent that I am j dead | ock in lUeir determined to do the Cash Dry Goods , , , business of Americus whether it will j (,ttrde " 8 a,e latc - bl,t fc " llaVl! yield me a profit or not. an 3' cubage plants ready for Irans- It ia useless to quote prices. I am de- ^ planting. I have about one third termine t to sell uiy goods aud 1 will leave of my crop transplanted from a hot it to those that will couie, inspect price my goods whether I m-an business nr not. Domestic*, until further notice, I will sell strictly at Factory cost The Barg tin Htore in order to accomo date the extensive Spring Stock has been enlarged and is one of the largest as well as the neatest in the city. With a determination to sell and please at any cost, a large selection and stock of all descriptions, a polite and attentive corps of clerks to wait upon it* custom ers, the Bargain Store, thankful for past patronage, »Mends an invitation to all to call and inspect their stock, satisfied that it will be to your interest to do so. Respectfully, S. M. COHEN, The Bargain Man. Cotton Avenu-, opposite Bank of Americus, Sigu of Red Flag. 2c. GIVEN AWAY! Fine Double Darrel SHOT GUN. We are daily opening our stock of new Spring Clothing, Huts. Underwear, etc., anti selling off ail nnr lust seasons gar ments at, and BELOW cost. Our stock consists of— Men’ Fine aud Medium Clothing, Bo- s’ Fine and Medium Clothing, Children’s Fine and Medium Clothing, Fine Nobby Style Huts, Fine Dress Shirts, Fine Hosiery, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, Drawers, Gloves, Walking Cmeg, Neck Wear in Bea tifnl S'yl* s. Suspenders,Under-Shirts. Night-Shirts Silk and Impor'ed Gingham Umbrellas, Real Leather Va ises, Water-Proofs, B.ith Towels, Beal Leather Pocket # oks, Si eve und Sock Ei.otic's, Clothes Brushes, Rt al Gold Flute Scarf Fins aud Cuff Buttons, Our Celebrated Children's Waists, 25 cents, nrd upwards. Large line sumoles of new style clothes in our Tailoring Department. For every Five Dollars worth of goods purchased of us for cash since January 1st to June l*t, 1885, we will give a ticket to our grand drawing for a fine breach loading shot guu ou exhibition at our st re. Prize t > be awarded June 1, 1885. Come and guess at the beaus. Thankful for your l iteral patronage we respectfully solicit a continuance of the same. Assnring you of polite attention ami honorable servioe at our hands. We are very truly yours, G'S’LES, The Clothier und Hatter, and Dealer in Shirt**. Gyles' Corner, Americus, G.i. bed and they are looking very well when we consider the very unfavor- a lie weather. Corn planting ia about over in this section . U uaua for cotton ia being rapidly put in the ground, though I am glad to note that less is being used from our depot than lor several years past. I retraced my crops for the past sixteen years all of which I used guano, and upon a careful estimate of results, 1 de- J termined that during that time I lost more money than I made by its use and determined to cut it off this year by way of experiment and use nothing but my cotton seed and barn yard manure,giving cereal crops largely tbe advantage both as to area and fertilizers. Our Superior court convened last Monday, but very little busi ness on "hand, but little criminal matter before the court and less civil. His honor Judge Clarke was ready, ater two days, close up the session but bad to wait on the grand jury until to day, when it will adjourn, the court was aparBC of visiting attorneys. Our people with one voice|praise ilie opening of the new administra tion and confidently expect a wholesome reformation in every denartment. Our Sunday School at Monti- cello is still on a boom, carrying more members, more life and more interest than ever oefore since its oigunization a year ago. The Quar terly meeting of tbe county asso- ciation will meet with Knon church on the 5lb Sunday in March, to which all are invited. The annual meeting will he at Georgetown the first Sunday in May, at which time and place delegates to the State Convention, which meets at Home, Ga., will be appointed. The irrepressible Tom Burney, of tbe Telegraph und Messenger, was on hand at court, with bis usual success. Also the loquacious and valuable Bill Barry, ot the Randolph Vindicator,taking names by the score for the new paper. More anon. Quitman. Last night they played the very laughable comedy, entitled “Con fusion,” and it was “confusion con founded’' before they got through with it. Every character was well sustained throughout tbe play, and the entire audience was delighted with the performance. “Master” Reginald Gray, an infant only ten months old, and “Posey,” a Scotch terrier about the same age, played a very conspicuous part in tbe “Confusion” last night, and, in fact, were tbe cause of all tbe con fusion among the grown people. Little Reginald began acting in this piece at three months old, and now knows as well what part he is to perform as any of the actors, and never makes a mistake. The troupe remained in our city from Sunday noon to Wednesday noon, and they conducted themselves «o gentle matily and lady-like that our citi zens are ve-y favorably impressed and would be glad to have them with us again at any time. Mr. J. A. Horsely is fitting tbe Opera House up in splendid style and he makes an excellent mana ger. Under his management tbe hall Is becoming so popular that he is besieged with applicants nearly every day by the best traveling troupes. Mr. Hart should lease tbe house to Mr. Horsely for a number of years. State Senator Jas. E. Brown, of McDonough, editor of the Henry County Weekly, came down this afternoon, bringing bis wife and child and will remain several days, the guest of his fstlier, Mr. B. 1L Brown, of our city. Mr. Brown was raised in Lawson and has many friends here who will be glad of an opportunity oi shaking his hand. Mr. W. T. Allen, of Americus, arrived in our city this afternoon on a visit to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Parks. Miss Ellen Martin, sister ot Mrs. E. B. McNulty, accompanied Prof. Adams and his sister to the Press Convention and thence to the Ex position. Mr. W. E. Spotswood 4ias sold the right of the Davis quilting frame for Terrell county to Messrs. Farnum A Statham. On Monday last they sold ten frames, and on Tuesday eight. It’s a good thing. J. A. F. FOB. SALS! I Twenty-Four Bcutilul Building Lots' JolinR. Straw’s. i Within the corporate liiiitu, hitu .t**J on i i he South side of the hnnd*oine midmcv and p~r'« «« d ■ street running E »«t and West | to appreciate a good thing. and one North an I b'>utb. also L*-e»>tre-t | on ill- East, which i* the most fittbi'MJ- alde and d-suable in the ciiy and i* con- j sidered the Boulevard of Americus! UAH NO* OOTS. | Dawson, March 18—Mr. and ! Mrs. I). K. Geiae, and Mr. and Mrs | J. C. Brisbtn, all of Joliet, III., I came down and spent a week in ! our city with Mr. Geo. Geise and : Mrs. T. R. Hannah, of our city, j This is their first visit to the South and they seem to be enjoying it i immensely. They are cultivated how They lols invxniHit in churches I ami schools, ami within ten minutes walk j ] to tbe court house. The nanus! grow th | ! of oak and hickory is abundant und the j ( soil level and fertile. TERMS—H iff cash and bell on twelve noutha time with eight percent, interest. day night to a large and apprecia- Cell on A C BELL nnd T I BRAN-1 tive audience, the great Society NAN and see dugisut of this valuabl. ,|, am4 j n Gve acta, entitled “Fsle.” 1 'niarch'atui I It »»• well performed throughout, They had Better Stay Away. “I like to know altour. some of flee under Ulevelandl”’ he said as he beckoned a lawyer across the street from the door of his saloon. “Well, what is it?” “I like to hnow if I ebas to haf some office. My place vhas head- quariersdast fall for some Gicveland giubs, und all der poya tell me 1 vhas sure of something fat.” “Then you are looking for some thing?” “Vhell, I dunno. Vhen Gleve- land vitas elected der poys began to drop in here. One ot ’em he says: ’Vliat a boat master you vill make for Detroit? By George! 1 vbiik I vhas yon!’ Vhell,dot tickles ae, you know, und I treat the crowd to pe:r. Pooty soon anoder crowd e ones in, und one of der poy- calls outl: “‘Let dis convention come to some older. Wc vhas in der pres ence of der next boss of der Gus- tom Hou-e. 1 calls for three cheers for Carl DunJeil’ "Vhen he says dot 1 feels good all oaferjund it seems right to set lip der peer.” "I see.” “Vhell. almost eaferv night a gang cornea aroundt to' my place I to shake me py der hand,und some- The Golden troupe played Mon- ' pody says: “Vhen somepody talks like dot I feels shmiley und soft, nnd I tap a new keg of lager. Now, I like to ask you if I vhas right. My poy Shake says I doan’t get so much as a shmell of office, und my oldt woman says der poys make a fool ol me.” “I guess they are right." “Doan’t you beliet 1 Thai der Custom House?” “No, sir." “Nor der Bost-offlce?” “No, sir." “Doan’t I haf some place at $2,- I 000 a year?” I “1 doubt it." “Wasn’t 1 even inTited down to Washington to see Cleveland go mit der White House?” “Not unless you invited your self.” “Vhell! Vhell! So Shake und der old womans vhas right, und der poys vhas putting some soft soap on me! Say? ’ “Yes!” “Dot vitas all right, but I like to say something, und doan’t you forget him! To-uight dot same crowd comes aroundt here, und somepody vliill begin to hurrah for der next host-master. You ought to be here! Der dog Thill be loose, und I shall have two giubs handy, und you vbiil see fifteen men in sooch a hurry to pet outlt doors dot you pelief some earthquakes vhas shaking oop Detroit! 8hust come aroundt und see how a dis appointed office-seeker vhill handle two giubs und a pull dogl”—De troit Free Press. A Southern farmer who has been traveling through Ohio was sur prised to note the absence of tum ble down stables, barns and fence. The farm house looked like town or city dwellings, with nice yards, flower gardens, evergreen hedges, shade trees and carpets of grass. The traveler saw several reasons for this difference. In the South the farms are too large. A poor man will occupy four hundred acres of land and perhaps owe lor one half. He tries to cultivate too much and neglects. In Ohio the farms are small. Thirty, fifty or one hundred acres make a good farm. A man on thirty acres makes a good living for himself and wife and Jives in a style of comfort and ease that tbe poor class of farmers in the South know nothing aoout. When tbe South ern farmer flndsout that fifty acres well kept will yield more annual income than two hundred acres cultivated in a slack wav he will at once begin to better bis condition. MoAof our unsuccessful farming is due the fact that we try to util ize too much land.—Atlanta Con stitution. speak in the highest terms of our country and of the people they iuve met, and I think could be in duced to make the "Sunny South” their future home. "Tis a consum mation devoutly to lie wished." They left for the New Orleans Ex position on Monday Iasi. “ ‘Hip! bip! hurrah! Carl Dunder vhaa solid mit der coming adminis tration! He picks oandt der fattest office tor himself, und he remem- pere his friends mit der lean ©see.’ I marflel* ' The Chicago News gives a glowiue description of the voice of Nick Bell, of Missouri, who has b«en Secretary of the Democratic National Conventions for tbe past 20 years. He is recommended for office under the new administration. Those who read the item will nat urally think of Mark Hardin, tbe champion reading clerk of tbe South. The News stye of Bell’s voice: “It has the solt, insinuat ing tones of tne Spanish lute and the rasping cadences of a rat-tale file. It can purl you a gentle lul laby or saw you a cord ef wood, as you please, and all in the highest style of art. Sometimes it is as soft and murmursome as the fin gers of an August zephyr trilling over the responsive bosom of an -Eolian harp; again we have seen It crack an egg at 40 paces. This voice—terriffic, gentle, ferocious, docile, threatening, persuasive at will—has been employed in Demo cratic service for 20 long, weary, barren years.” It is said that Mark Hardin always baa to muffie his voice when be delivers a mes sage to tbe Senate lest he might jar down tbe north wall of the old Opera House. Kin Ulavu. Motixqnstaire, ten-button length. Tan Shades, (a. $2.25; reduced from $2.75. Four-button Black and Tana (itj $1.25; re duced from $1.60. Four-hook, Fonter’a Patent, in True, (ifj $1.00; reduced from $1-25. Joint U. Shaw . A. J. Hudson, the Druggist, who al ways looking aftor the interest of hia cus tomers, has now- secured the sale of Dr. Bosanko’aCoughandLnng Syrup, a rem edy that never fails to cure Colds, Faina in the Cbett and all Lung Affections. For proof Congha, try a free sample bottle. Regular size60 coats. m71y To Road Overseen. T HE Overseers of Ro<ds of the 27th District are notified to pat their roa Is to order by the April term of tbo ■npvtior Court, under penalty of tbo low. W. M. PILCHER,