Americus daily recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1884-1891, March 21, 1885, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAmericus Recorder. Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1885. Daily, Per Tear,...(6.60. Weekly, “ ... 2.00. Americus Recorder w. PUBLISHED BY Xj. PUB—M UK. „t m i: OS COTTOM avk.xxe. h;iih;ssio\al A: i!i ! si.\nss I'ARiis AMERICUS.- Ampricns is th.ic'»unty seal of Sumter - ,-ouotV. Georgia, si'imled on the Sonih- «estern railroad, 71 miles aouthwe-t of | M ,.„n and about 80 uiilea north of the [ Florida doe It is situated in the finest section of Georgia, raising a greater vari- j etv of agricultural and horticultural pro. ducts Ilian any other part of the South, I ,-onjhiniug all the fruits, grain an.l vege- I tables of the temperate and semi-tropical cooes-wheat, corn, rye, oata, rice Irish rod sweet potatoes, peanuts, chulas, artton Iieas, sugar cane, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, plums and other fruits. The climate i* mild and equable. and one of the most healthy in the world, the air being pure and ory and most beneficial mr lung and throat diaeaaea. All kmda of outdoor work can be peiformed without inconvenience from anmmer heat or winter cold. Amerioua has a population of 60IHI, is beautifully situ-ted on high and’rolliiig ground and Locate of aome of ‘ tLe haudsoujesl husinesa hl icka in the South The city Ins tine publie schools; good churches; a large public library. ,1 wily, one semi-weekly and two weekly newspspera; a new opera house, completely furnsbed wiu soentry and capable ol sealing 1.000 person-; a well organized lire department, including two line »l earners; I he streets are w, 11 ! paved, sewered and lighted; there nre I two flooring mills, a cotton seed oil mill, i planing null and vsriity works, enrriage j lactorv, and a number of minor uianfncto- ! lies; about I wo hundred tirma are engaged in mercantile busimss; three banks with an abundance of capital; two good hotels lnruish good aceommodattion. Americus is the centre ot trade for an couniies couipri-ing the richest agricul- tural section in Georgia, the average an nual cotton receipts being 30,000 bah s. which will be largily inereas.d by the completion ofthe Pieston and Lumpkin railroad now in process of construction. It is the largest oitv in Southwest Geor gia, and has be.u appropriately named the "Commercial Capital" of that sec tion. and it is rapidly g owing in popu lation and wealth. As a place of bu-i- ness residence it presents attracti >ns equaled by few ciiies in the south. Property of all kinds is comparatively cheap, although rapidly advancing in value; the inhabitants of both city and conniry are cultivated, courteous and hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im- uiigrants. To enterprfsing tradesmen, ju dicious capitalists and industrious farm ers this section ot Georgia offers fine op- portuniites. Any inlormalion in regsrd 1 o city or country will he cheerfully fur nished byaddres-ing the Amf.hicus Its:- iOHDK.il, Americus, Ga. LA IV VERS. C. K. McUKOKY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLAVILLE, GA. TERMS—All claim* from |30 or under, $3; I nm f :u to §?*oo, ten p r cent.; over u, R-veu percent. Nochar«ea unles*collectiona are made. .May 14 tf. MISCELL A NEO VS. i. M. R. M’KSI IUIOOK, M. D. Physician and Surgeon AMERICUS, GA. Office at Dr. Eldri-’ge H drug atore. Reaidenc'on Church Street, n*x' door toW. D.H vneM. feb7tf $2,000 At small coat can bc k secured for your loved od6m, by joining the Znights of Honor. I.etevf rv hnaband and father do \t. Regu lar lodge niteting hrat and thiru Friday 7 i*. m. Fur paiticularH call n E TAYLOR, Dio. Or, 1). K. Ruinhon, Reporter, dedlyl Elwr J. MPler. 0. Horace McCall. Monumental Marble Works ■V1LLKK * IcfAU, Proprietors, flontbwest Corner of tbe Public 8quare, AMEKICU8, GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc vftti, best Itoliu snd American Marble. ■row Railing far Csa.tsrv Koeloa- ecV ,,M « Corns and See ns at Hart’s Old stand! I-H. WIGGINS* CO. "’K KLKi' A KI LL LINE OK GROCtRIES (IF FLI, KINDS, FANCY and staple. hiif Whisky and Hines a Specially. " ea "o have a BAR connected with our business where gen's will hud the very bent Whin- i*y, Beer, etc. "* now *"»• on hand a full line of Cry Goods. Boots, Shoes, HAT8, ETC. " n d w * ‘ ill anrpr^eyou »2Sr- Vonra reanecttullr, L il. WlOOUtt * VO. TO THE LADIES NARROW 2c. 2c. John R. Shaw’s. Come up and spend a few days with us and be happy. Nella. Ellaville,March 20.—Miss Lulu Hursl gave an exhibition of won derful power at this place list night. She lifted heavy as well as light weights. Iler force «ccms to be irresistible. Our people were much pleased with the show. There will be a changu in the BCEXA VISTA. From the Sentinel. A railroad meeting was held at Tazewell Siturday, March 14th. Prof. J D Duncan was called to , the chair and S. L. Fleming was requested to act as. secretary. Re port of committees was first in or der. Messrs. I. P. Blue, and Dr. M. R. Edwards, who had visited Columbi.s in the interest of the en terprise made a very favorable re port. Maj E. tV. Miller was called for anil addressed the meeting at. some length with an appropriate speech. It was moved that the cha'r appoint seven directors for the road. A substitute was offered and carried that the chair appoint one director select a second and that they' together select a third and so on until the number agreed upon is completed. The following compose the board of directors; I. P. Blue, J. A. Sheppard. J D Dun can, W. T. Stewart, M. II. E I wants, C. C. Owens, 0. W. Carr. Upon I “little more folding of the hands in motion meeting then adjourned. sleep,” and yet when the church The Southern Express Company ! bull rang for prayer meeting, every have established an express line man and boy stopped work in an over the Buena Vista railroad,witli | instant, washed tiie ink from their W. C. Singleton as messenger. An 1 hands, put on their coats, and has- ofHce has been established here and i tuned to the church, listened ntlen- one at Ellaville. Mr. Stther t* the ! lively to the songs and prayers. The way of the Cabinet officer is hard. A Washington corres pondent says ; The worst besieged man in Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet is Mr. Vilas. He is one of the newest in public life and he is thrown right into the thickes*. of the office seek ing broil. From the time he rises in the morning until he goes to bed at night he is pursued. He is obliged to steal into the depart- ■chedule on the B. X . R. R. Mon-; ment after six o'clock to get time lav. This cold weather is making the farmers look '‘sorter" blue, especial ly those that have planted corn. MUs Nannie Myers, who is quite a favori.e here, left for Preston this morning. Truly, X. DAWSOX HOTS. Dawson, MarcU 20 —Last night was a busy night at the Appeal of fice, as this morning's issue had to be worked off Lefore the working force couln be permitted to enjoy a agent at Ellaville and Ed Jackson At Buena Vista. The train slipped off irom Ella- villc the other day and left conduc tor Singleton and passenger Louis Webb. When the train reached Putnam the absence of the conduc lor was discovered and the engine of the construction was sent hack after him Buena Vista will sell about 1000 tons of guano this season. The farmers of .Marion will use more fertilizers this year than ever be fore known in her history. If the season is anything like favorable the result will be an immense crop. KLLAVII.Lt'. Ellaville, March 19, 1885. Editor Recorder: Whilst I am no regular correspondent of your paper 1 thought I would give you a few notes from our little town. The farmers are about through planting corn and are now prepar ing for king cotton; putting out guano, compost, etc. Our little town feels somewhat complimented. Miss Lulu Ilurst, the Georgia wonder, will perform here to night. So you see wc now need an opera house. The Americus people had better look out or we wilt have an arte sian we'l before they will. A lady friend tells me she has already between six and seven hundred dollurs subscribed for that purpose. The prospects nctore us are very flattering for our little town. All the claims lor the B. V. R R. are satisfactorily settled, so there re- mainins no lieu tor grading, croas- tieing.etc. If you have any crack shots in Americus send them up to compete with our Ellaville boys, for we have some that claim to be experts. For instance X, correspondent of the Rec iRDER, went out dovtng yester day and out ol ninety-six shots killed twelve doves. Very good for a newspaper correspondent. E. S. Baldwin, who claims to be the best shot in the town, so I am told, emptied one hundred anti thirty shells ami only killed twenty-nine doves. Our town mar shal, amongst the rest, so repo ts say, shot about fifty shot and only hastened back to lue office, doffed their hats and coats and toiled on till 11 o'clock. Early this morning the Appeal was handed around to its many city subscribers, brim ming lull of the latest news, valua ble information, and interesting matter. This is a very good exam ple nnd worthy of imitation throughout this Slate. Messrs. W. W. Dowdell and W. T. Simmons, of Calhoun county, was in our city yesterday. Mr. Simmers went (rom here to Bir mingham, Ala., where he and Mr. J. L. P. Durham will enter into mercantile business. Mrs. Emoretle Moore, of Atlanta and her sitter, Miss Sue Chamber lin, of Dahlonega, are in the city, the guests ot their uncle, Dr. C. A. Cheatham. Charlie Orr,oneofDawson’s best business boys, is now in Atlanta clerking f-r Messrs. Chamberlin, Johnson * Co. Mr. F. A. Buggies left yesterday lor the Exposition. Messrs. Wallers and Page, and Misses Fannie Feagin and Mattie Ogletree, all of Sumter county, passed through our city to day, on their way to the Exposition. Mrs. T. Peters, ol New York, aialer of Mr. Frazer, of our county ariived in our city to day, and will go out to her recently purchasid plantation, the Burge place,tc-mor row. Mrs. Peters is a very hand airae and intelligent lady, and our people are glad to have her come among them. Prof. Qiiillian received a tele gram this morning staling that bis brother, who had gone from Athena to Oxford to wait upon a sick brother there, died last night of pneumonia. The Prol. dismissed his school and toak the tra.n this afternoon for Oxford to attend his brother's buiial which will take place to morrow. Mr. Johnnie Hines, of Albany, came up yes'erday to see his fath er, and returned to day. J. A. F. Mark Twain has been "sat down on” again. The Public Library committee of Concord, New Damp shire, has unanimously decided to exclude from the shelves of that to sign his official mail. There are two ante rooms to his mviu office They are kept filled all day long If Mr. Vilas were to receive every body that caitoe without cards his room would be packed to suffoca tion. The firat room npxt to him is occupied by the chief cleik. Tbe nex- room beyond this is the main anteroom, where two colored mes sengers are stationed to receive general visitors. In Mr. Vilaj’s room the Senators and members are permitted to go without any introduction or form. As a neces sary consequence this room is also crowded with members of Con gress, who are sitting around will) as anxious faces as the people in the most distant ante room. I sat beside the chief clerk tlii i morning and watched him open his mail for several moments. Nearly six or seven hundred applications are re ceived every day for office. Some of these applications are very funny. Every now and then an applicant incloses his phonograph as the proof positive of his virtues. Every one of these applications is "pm. on file.” I asked the chief clerk his object in filing ail these appl - cations, lies.id; “We dare not put one of them in the wmle bask We file every application un There are only three members of the last Democratic Cabinet now living, and only one who realty made any i'rpression upon tbe ad ministration he served. Philip Frank Thomas was Secretary of the Treasury for a few weeks only, in 1860, and as his deoartment was pirtially bankrupt when lie went there, lie hadn’t mucu to adminis ter on. He now lives down at Easton, on the eastern share of Maryland, and has in a great de gree lost his recollection of tbe im portant events that were transpir ing while hr was holding a Cabinet position He has been Governor ot Maryland and a member of Con gress. Now lie is enjoying a ripe old age outside the pale of active life, and is almost buried beneath the rnhhisb of political strife. Horato King was also Postmaster General with Mr. Buchanan for a few weeks. He was a sort of high clerk in the Post Office Depart ment «nd grew to be a Cabinet officer through the impetus of events that were crowding men in sud outof Mr. Buchanqn's political family every tew days during the last three months of his adminis tration. Tbe real, live, earneat constitutional adviser of the Buch anan regime was Jacob T lompsoa. He has a beautiful winter resi dence in Memphis and largo plan tations in Mississippi. He had position and influence in Mr. Buch anan’s Cabinet and was a feature of its sittings. He was then, as be is now, a careful.conservative man, who lank rather a judical view of the difficulties of 1860. When tbe war broke out he was a ConTed- er ite commissioner up in Canada, and since the war has spent a great deal of time abroad. He is not mingling in politics now, but being rich is enjoying himself with his der classified heads, so that when I planting operations, the question of deciding the ap pointinent ol a postmaster for a certain place comes up we take up every applicant who lias put in claim for that position. If we did not we would gel into a g.eat deal of trouble.” killed three. J. S Dudley, our I institution, "Huckleberry Finn.” boss blacksmith and carriage maker i The general opinion of the com “ b m j, lee i« "that the book is flippant told me ba shot away three pounds 4n( j , rrrvere „ t j n p, style; it dealt of shot and only killed seventeen. , w ub a series ot experiences that James R. Williams, Esq., a young : are certainly not elevating; the limb of the law, so report says, | whole book n of a clast that it j Ksig&.'strjri only killed eight bird*. l ucre - # tra8 ^ 0 f l ^ e veriest •oit.” were nine or ten in the crowd I only give report ot the best shots. One hundred and forty one is the numher of birds reported killed. Our little town i» very healthy, and no need of doctors. I gutas you will be up at so'urt. Mrs. Bui loo, wi fe ol the traveler, avera that aince England became the pos«e*sorof the Knh i noor dia mond, proverbial for the ill-luck it brings, nothing but disaster has at tended everything concerning Brit ish India. Jtfl Davis appears to have been the origins' explorer of Wisconsin. At the regular monthly meeting ol the Madison Literary Club last evening a; the lesidence of Frofes sor Al'en. Professor Butler read a carefully prepared historical piper entitled, "Taychoberan; or, tile Four Lakes.” The Professor pres ented a graphic picture of early days in Four Lake country pro vinns to the settlement of Madison in 1837,and brought out many orig inal facts which he had ascertain ed Irom old documents snd publi cations and from personal nurra lion of pioneers. Tbe especially new features were a recent letter to Professor Bu'ler from Jefferson Davis, the - x Confederate chiel, snd the personal narrative of the Hon. Moses M. Strong. Professor Butler said in Ins remarks concern ing Taycboberah, or embrvo Mail isun, that he was drawn into a wide correspondence and among others with J. lierson Davis. The answer of Mr. Davis seems to make it clear that be—then Lieu 'enact Davis in the United S a'es army—iodged within the limits ol Madison at an earlier date Ilian any other Anglo Saxon it known to have passed a n'gbt there. Tne Doty parly, who were there some weeks before Davis, d il not re main over night, as tike only survi. vnr lias written Professor Butler. Nor is there reason to suppose that the Brigham party did. But no other Americans are known to to have been on the spot previous to tbe visit of Davis, which occu red eight years beiore lire era ol permanent settlement. Ooe American Girl Abroad. Ctilrago Tribune “Speaking olyour American girl Boston is now enjoying Pbilli- poteax’s mammoth painting ofthe battle of Gettysburg. In describ ing it the Advertiser say : “The visitor, on entering thu building, passes through a long passageway, and on mounting a flight of steps suddenly finds himself on what ap pears to be the summit of a high in 11. Around him is tbe whole un broken circle of tbe horizon, tbe range of vision being, apparently, forty or fifty miles in every direc tion. At his feet is a mound of reul carih, covered with broken gun carriages, weapons and other debris of war, and, as the ground slopes away to tne plain below,-.bis eye is led to the Held where the Northern and Southern forces are engaged in mortal combat. Bo perfect is the illusion, so sdmirable is the blend,ng of light and shade, that it la impossible to determine where re ality ends and painting begins. Tho picture, which is tour hundred f -et long and forty-five feet from the spectator, represents tbs third day of tbe Gettysburg fight. The coloring, tbe light and shade snd the moulding of the figure is won derful, considering tbe size ofthe painting, and the relative positiona ot the combatants is pronounced to he correct in every particular by persons who participated la the battle. “I’s gwinter quit. I has to look up anodder place,” asid Uncle Mose to his emp'oyer, a wedthy mereh int of Aus in. What’s the matter with you, Uncle Mose?” "lie business manager has not kicked me in de last two mnmfs. Not once has he lifted his loot agio iu« ” "I ordered him not to kick you again I don't allow anything of that kind in this establishment. I intend that nobody shall hurt your feelings. Uncle Mose.” "Ef I don't get no k'cks I’se gwinter quit.” •‘Are \ou crazv? Do you want abroad,” said a party from Canada, i to he kicked and cuflul about?” I don’t care where you find her— and I’ve traveled a bit myself— vour American girl is usually up with the pr* cession. I met her once at a ball in Hamilton, Oni. There were a lot ol our E iglish army fellows there, and tliry have a pretty good notion of their per sonal importance. Tne girt in question had just come from Clncago.and was quile the craze in Hamilton aociety. One of the fel Yes, sail, I does. Ebery time de bizuess manager kicked me or cufled my ears when he was mad, he got ashamed of bisself arterward and gib me a quaiter. I'ae done lost enough money already wid dis lieali foolishness about hurlin’ my feeling.-.” ’ Vice President Hendricks upon being told that ex Senator Pendle ton wanted the English mission, lows suggested to Capt. , ol | remarked sarcastically, so il is said, the guards, that he'd like to intro duce him. ‘Awb, an American girl, en?’ said the Captain, twirling his mustache. ‘ W inu to know me. eh? Well, I don’t, mind, ine boy. Trot her up. If you tike.’ A friend rep-atsd ibis to the lady and when tbe captain was introduced, site surveyed him calmly and said: Ah, it’s an officer, isn’t >l? 1 don’t like It—tret It baok.” hat if he had the power t-o appoint he would apply the rule which Pendleton has fixed with regard to clerk* and notify the ex Senator that a death would have to occur before be could get the mission. A DDT7C «"»'• e>r r ff I IaVj »ud rve«i»e t>«s * of -oud* will kelp All, fnoithe* *Di to make m-r- money ngM awtr, than anything Has- in thia world. Fortanea awmil tho worker* ah*olutaljr mrr. ii a*ce kddnaaa THUS * CO., A ucaaM, liftIm. mkraftftwif

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Americus daily recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1884-1891, March 21, 1885, Image 1