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DAlty
Americus
Recorder.
Established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1885.
Daily, Pan Year,...(8.80.
Wbukly, “ ... 8.0Q.
Americus Recorder
rUBI.ISBKD BY
W. Xa OHjIWWM *h.
orriCE o.\ COTTON AVENUE,
PROFESSION AL & BUSINESS CARDS
AMERICUS.
Americus is thjooantj aeftt of Mumter
coanty. Georgia, situated on the Houth-
western railroad. 71 miles southwest of
Macon, and about 80 miles north of the
Florida line. It is situated in the finest
section of Georgia, raising a greater ?ari-
•ty of agricultural and horticultural pro
ducts than any other part of the South,
combining all the fruits, grain and ?ege-
Ubles of tbe temperate and semi-tropioal
cones—wheat, corn, rye, oata, rioe, Irish
znd sweet potatoes, peannts, chufas,
sotton peas, sugar cane, apples, pears,
peaches, grapes, plums and other fruits.
The climate is mild and equable, and one
of the most health? in the world, the air
beiag pure and or? and most benefloial lor
lung and throat diseases. All kinds of
outdoor work can be performed without
inconvenience from snmmer heat or
winter cold. Americus has a population
of 6,000, is beautifully situated on high
and rolling ground and boasts of some of
the handsomest business blocks in tbs
Houth. The city has fine public schools;
good churches; a large pnblio library;
one daily, one semi-weekly and two
weekly newspapers; a new opera house,
completely furnished witu scenery and
capable ot seating 1,000 persons; a well
organized fire department, including
two fine steamers; the streets are well
paved, sewered and lighted; there are
two flouring mills, a cotton seed oil mill,
planing mill and variety works, carriage
factory, and a number of minor manfactc-
ries; about two hundred firms are engaged
in mercantile business; three bauks with
an abundance of capital; two good
hotels tarnish good accommodattion.
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 is the 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 Houth.
Property of all kinds is comparatively
cheap, although rapidly advancing in
value; the inhabitants of both city and
oonntry are cultivated, courteous and
hospitable, with a cordial welcome to im
migrants. To enterprfaing tradesmen, ju
dicious capitalists and industrious farm
ers this section of Georgia offers fine op
portunities. Any information in regard
to city or country will be cheerfully fur-
uished by addressing the Amkricub Re
corder, Amevicus, Ga.
LA WYERS.
C. R. Mct'RORY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
J-.LLAyiI.LK, GA.
TKKM8—AII oUitna from $80 or ander, $3;
f rum 9.W to 0600, ten per cent.; over 9600, seven
►*r cent. No charge* uulaaa collection* are made.
* May 14-If,
UISCBLLANBO US.
J. M. R. WESTBROOK, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
AMERICUS, GA.
Office at Dr. Eldridge’s drug store.
Residence on Church Street, next- door
to W. D. Haynes. feb7tf
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loved ones, by joining the
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Or, L>. K. Brinson, Reporter, decllyl
K Jw* J. Mi'ler. C. Horace McCall.
Monomeotal Marble Works
HILLER a McCALL, Proprietors,
Corner of the Pnblio Square,
AMERICUS, GA.
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line Whisky and Wines s Specially.
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our boalncaa where genu will
And the very beet Wbte-
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W * 10w h»»» on hand a full lint of
°ry Goods, Boots, Shoes,
hats, rrc.
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John R. Shaw’s,
Climate and Intellect.
' Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper * Magexin*
for April.
A great deal has been said about
the effect of climate upon intellect,
and not much of the effect of intel
lect upon climate, or, to be more
exact, of the power in mental ac
tivity to resist or control climatic
influences. Some philosophers bave
held that there is an occult sympa
thy between mind and matter, and
that a great accumulation of mind
upon one point—that is to say, the
direction of a current ot desire f.r
or against some operation of na
ture—would be effective. For in
stance, if all the people in a wide
district suffering under drought
should units in a common longing,
a sincere mental struggle, for rain,
that nature would feel the subtle
influence thr.ugb all its being, and
rain would come. Unfortunately
the experiment has been tried, for
common consent at any moment
never has been attained—there is
always somebody who has hay out.
But this at least we can say, that
it is safer to have the desire of the
general mind in the right direction.
Mow, two of the vulgar notions of
this latitude are that we need
“bracing up,” and that snow is a
useful product, consequently that
the more severe cold leather we
have and the more snow, the better
off we are. And people go on be
lieving this to their deaths every
year. As to snow, there is a sen
timental notion of its beauty as
well as of its utility. And a good
deal can be said for it from an sr.
tistic point of view. But we are
not placed in this stern world
merely to indulge our sensuousness.
We are put here to make the most
of our powers, in view of of a here
after; and long life is a duty, be
sides being, in the Old Testament
view, a reward of virtue. It is
probably necessary to have snow
at the pole in order to keep the
poles cool, and insure a proper cir
dilation and change of air round
the globe, just as it is necessary to
keep the equator so hot that it is as
unpleasant to sit on it as on
kitchen stove. Snow, indeed, might
do little harm in a land where the
snn never shone. But in this re-
gioo, where the sun does shine,
where half the winter days are
clear, the only effect of the pres
ence of sn.w it to till the atmos
phere with chilling moisture, lung
fever, pneumonia, and that sort •(
thing. The pleasanter the weather,
tee more sunshine we have; with
snow on the ground, the worse is
our condition. And yet it is vain
to argue this with people. They
are wedded to traditional ideas and
full of prejudice, and it seems im
possible to convince them that snow
in this region is harmful. It does
no good to demonstrate to them
that but for snow we should have a
royal winter climate. On a small
scale we see occasionally what it
might be.
There wers such days in January
last. The snow bail disappeared,
the sun shone with the light but not
the beat (like an electric lamp) of
May, and the air was pare, exhila
rating, biit not damp and grave
like. It would have been perfect
but for the chill that came down
from the vast snow-fields of Canada,
where cold and snow are worship
ped and feted all winter. And yet,
after such experience, people, con
vinced, go bask to snow. The
ignorance of this scientific age is
discouraging.
The other vulgar notion is that a
hand-to-hand struggle with extreme
cold tor months does a person good
braces him up. It must be ad
mitted that up to a certain point
any struggle or trial is iovigorat-
ing to the moral and intellectual
nature. But we see wbat too much
ndulgence in this leads to. The
Esquimau is but little raised above
the polar boar and the sea!. His
whole existence is just an effort to
keep alive, to get blubber and skins
enough to generate and keep in his
body vital beat. He can think of
nothing else; he has room for no
other mental effort. We see ths
same thing in the diaries and ac
counts of the polar exploration
and a fur overcoat and body-bag,
and sit on the ice in the darkness,
and record bis feelings, the gradual
lowering of the vital powers, the
concentration of the mind upon the
numbness of his legs, would doubt
less bave a physiological interest.
Bat the second experimenter would
not interest his readers so much as
the first with his narrative.
SKA HOGS FOR FOOD.
Porpoise fishing promises to be
come oae of the principal industries
on the New Jersey coast. The ex
periment made last fall at Cape
May proved so successful a finan
cial way that the facilities of the
company there will be greatly in
creased and other porpoise fisheries
will be established in both Cape
May and Atlantic countries. At
first they were caught for the skin
and blubber alone, the carcasses be
ing thrown away or in a few in
stances used as fertilizers. From
the blubber is extracted a very fine
oil, while the akin makes a superior
quality of leather Some time last
fall, however, it was discovered
that porpoise flesh was savory to
the taste and it soon became popu
lar ns an article of food and was in
great demand. The juicy red
meat, which is taken from beneath
a layer of fat next to the skin, is
pronounced by epicures to be more
palatable than any porterhouse
steak evsr cooked. In appearance
it resembles beef, but is more solid
and of finer grain and very tender.
Some say that it tastes like venison,
and that there is nothlug of the
fishy taste about it.
Last fall New York parties of
fered two cents per pound for the
carcasses, but they will command a
much higher figure this summer. A
Philadelphia firm has recently
made a proposition to take all that
may be caught along the coast this
season, with the view of working
much of it into mincemeat. The
Cape May company, however, will
reject the offer, as it already has
orders from prominent Philadelphia
and New York betels and restau
rants, and it is believed that there
will be a demand for the meat
which cannot be met. For the first
time it will be on the bills of fare
at the leading hotels along the
coa9t the coming season, and will
no doubt prove acceptable as a sub
stitute fer the inevitable fish. In
addition to this, much of it will be
be dried and placed upon the mar
ket. It is superior to dried beef
as in this stale it retains all of ita
sweeetness and is still as tender as
when fresh.
The porpoise weigh from three
hundred pounds, and are caught in
a seine, which is necessarily large
and cumbersome,as the fish are very
powerful when they are in water.
Last year a seine about one thou
sand yards long, with a not reach-
ing almost to tbo bottom of the
sea, was used, bat it was seldom
that more than half dozen fish were
taken in a haul. Improved seines
will be used this season, some of
which are now iu the course of con
struction and which will be pat
ented. Each porpoise was esti
mated to be worth twenty dollar*
per head when nothing but tbo
blubber and skin were utilized but
now that the flesh is in demand
and an extra fine oil is extracted
from the bead, it is said that they
will be worth more than double
that amount. When it is stated
that the Cape May company real
ized (3,740 from an outlay of $1,008
last season in five weeks’ time, it
will readily be seen wbat a profit
there is in perpeise fishing. Steps
have recently been taken to organ
ize a company at Atlantic City and
other point* along the coast.
The Heme of the Blizzard.
Burdette in Brooklyn Keg It*.
Dearly beloved, if you want to
have fan, get up a lecture and bring
it out weat when the blizzards are
ripe. Last Saturday I drove from
Hinsdale, Iowa, to Tabor. It was
only eight miles, and it wasn’t so
awfully oeld. Somewhere between
an inch and an inch and three-quar
ters down below, the dot; but ax I
had breathed the balmy air of Wis
consin only a week before at 32
degrees below the belt, I didn’t
mind a littie thing like that. Dur
ing Monday mornirg I made a
a drive of 12 miles lrom Tabor to
Malvern. A yeting student of Ta
bor College, Gilbert Brooks, took
me down, because he knew the
roads ef the country and the ways
of the blizzard. Now, when it
blows out In this land It blows. It
doesn't atop for the cold and it
doesn’t stop to inquire the way. It
blows a thousand miles a minute,
and if it finds a snowdrift located
not to suit it, it just moves the
drift into a place, and sweeps the
old ground perfectly bare of enow.
And cold? The hot bricks froze to
our feet, less or more. We rattled
over the rough, frozen roads where
the ground was bars, then we
would plunge into snowdrifts up to
the horse's corsets, and all the time
the pitiless wind sweeping all the
way down from the Alaska, whirled
the light snow in our faces and
searched out every crevice and
wrinkle in every blanket and ulster.
Shade ot the great wnite bear, but
it was cold! Aud as fast as the
eye could reach across the great
white drifted prairies, the snow
went sweeping, whirling into fan
tastic circles, rising in great gyra’.
rating columns, combing over like
ocean breakers; mile after wintry
mile the Arctic dannee went on,
and the ghostly squadrons of
the frozen north went charg
ing over these measureless plains,
and ever and anon the fierce sweep
of the sibilant, hissing winds, for
there is uo forest here for them to
sing and roar through. Time and
again the horses turned their heads
from ths fierce onset of the snow
and the blast, and only the skillful
driving of my comrade kept them
in the road and “laid in the leads.”
The only living souls we saw in
those 12 miles of storm and oold
were three little country children
going to school—two boys and a
little girl. That’s western stock
for you. As we passed them the
boys hailed us cheerily; “Mister,
gimme a ride!” Thai’s boy all
over.
Then getting from Malvern to
Council Buffi. 1 stayed in the
Wabash railway station all day,
fraternizing Joyously with the
tramps In the common comfort of
a red hot stove and waiting for a
train. There were good hotels only
a square away, hut bless you, you
could’t have pulled me away from
that stove with a stump machine.
All trains late. Nothing in on the
“Q,” and the “cannon ball” stuck
In the snow down at Humeston.
The belated brakeman, on a stray
freight waiting for orders and a
thaw said ho thought I mignt get
down on tbo 22, if she went on 18's
time, get off at the “Y” and oatcb
the 16 passenger down the branch
and meet the 67 at the siding when
she came up on construction as lar
as bridge 34, and then jump the
His Aunt’s Teeth.
“Please, sir, give me an emetic,
and quick, please.”
The uptown druggist peered over
his counter at the customer and
saw a small nine year-boy and a
big Newfoundland dog. Thebov’s
face was dirty and tearstained;
the dog’s face was weary and lugu
brions.
“An emetic!” exclaimed the
druggist, and then, seeing that tbo
the boy’s hands clutched his gas
tric region in agony, he hastily
compounded the draught and hand
ed it over ths counter.
Hastily the little hands clutched
the glass and lifted it, not to the
mouth associated with them, but
to the dog’s. Too much surprised
to interfere, the druggist breathed
a mental prayer and watched the
proceedings. The dog scented the
nauseous staff, touched it with the
tip of bis tongue, shook his head in
disgust and squatted down on his
haunches.
‘‘He wont take it,” sobbed the
boy, bursting into tears, “snd
there’s no other way I can get
them out of him.
“Get wbat ?” stammered the
druggist.
“Why, sir,” was the agonized
reply, “be has gone and swallowed
Aunt Julia's teeth, and she’s goin^
round the house like because she
can’t find them, and I want to get
them out of his body before she
finds out wheie they are. Oh, sir,
do help me, or I’ll be whipped to
death if Aunt Julia finds it out.
Besides, she can’t eat a mouthful
of dinner until she gets them.”
Tbo druggist took pity on the
child, and as Tom Hood would say,
conciliated the dog into permitting
bis internal regions to to revolu
tionized, and in a short time a
smile came over the boy’s faoe and
be hurried homeward with his de-
luded)relative’s dental apparatus in
bis pocket and the Newfoundland
following sadly at bis heels.
Glffl AWAY!
Fine Doable Barrel
SHOT GUN.
We are daily opening onr stock of new
Hpring Clothing. Hats. Underwear, etc.,
and selling off all oar last seasons gar
ments at, and I1KI.OW cost. Oar stock
consists of—
Men 1 Fine and Medium Clothing,
Bora’ Fine and Medium Clothing,
Children’s Fine and Medium Clothing,
Fine Nobby Style Hats,
Fine Dress Shirts,
Fine Hosiery,
Silk and Linen Haodkerohiefs.
Drawers. Gloves, Walking Canes,
Neck Wear in Bea.itifal Sivles,
Suspenders, Undcr-Shiils, Night-Shirt.
Silk and Imported Gingham Umbrellas,
Real Leather Valises,
Water Proofs, Bath Towels, •
Real Leather Pocket-B -oka,
Sleeve end book Ehutioe,
Clothes Broshes,
Real Gold Plate Scarf Pins and Caff
Buttons,
Onr Cslebrated Children’s Waists, 25
cents, snd npwerils.
Large line sample! of new etyle clothes
in onr Tailoring Department.
For every Five Dollars worth of goods
r nrohased of ns for cosh since iso aery
st to Jane 1st, 1885, ws will give t ticket
to our grand drawing for a fine breech
loading ehot gun on exhibition at our
sb-re. Prize to be awarded Jane 1,1885
Come and gneae at the beans.
Tbankfnl for yonr liberal patronage we
respectfnllv solicit a continuance of the
oravol at the i, motion anil'make “ nle - Aesnring yon of polite attentiou
gravel at tne junction and make >Q d honorable aarviee at oar hande. We
second 16 or extra 10, be couldn't
say which, aa far ai the slow board
at the “Q” crossing, and then I
conld run wild and get to the bluff
on 2. “Two wbat?” says I. “Two
legs,” says he, and honestly I think
that is the way I would have gene,
if Wabash mail hadn’t thawed out
in time to land me in Council
Bluff* just in time to freeze my
ear, which I did walkiug lrom the
opera houae to the U. F. dummy
for Omaha. Come out and freeze
It is stated at a remarkable fact
tnat Mrs. “Bert” Gordon, of Fert
Plain, N. Y., has just become pos- up with the country'
seated of wonderful if notsuper-bu- .
man accomplishments. Mrs. Gor
don is a daughter of Josiah Zeller,
a hotel-keeper, and is a woman
about 40 years of age. A few days
ago she discovered that the could
either ting or play upon the piano,
fanatics. It would be the most j a t sight, the most difficult music
painful resiling in the world if it [ placed before her, a feat she never
were not so monotonoas. Each | before could accomplish. It it also
one tells exactly the same story— stated that the mysterious power
the story of his physical struggle . enables her to converse with de-
to keep alive with the thermometer parted spirits, etc.
fifty degrees be ow zero. Soon the
mind has no other occupation thtn
this struggle. It almost ceases to
work in any other direction. This
it interesting to us at first as a
•tady of the capacity of the human
organism to resist the unrestrained
attack* of nature. The experience
of a person who should in this lati
tude, in winter, retire to an ice-
houae, with a hatchet and a supply
of frozen bash, a whale-oil lamp,
Carpenters use square mallet*,
while stone cu.ters use roand ones.
The reason with the former it that
they may to used iu corner* wkere
a round mallet would not go.
Stonecutters use lound mallets in
order that a different port may
strike the chisel at each blow. The
cutter turns hit hammer as to
works; otherwise tto Iron tool
would soon bore a hole in it.
A man in Rochester offers (500
for the diacorery of each new comet
during the present year. A young
man who tried roller skating the
other night think* of putting in a
claim for (5,000,000,000; but tome
of the heavenly bodies he taw
when to stopped to suddenly may
have been meteors and asteroids.—
Post-Express.
The writer in the Medical Timet
describes the Island of Maderia as
presenting the curious anomaly e(
a country which is destitute of any I
wheeled vessel whatever,* fact due j
to the almost complete absence ot,
rosds. People travel in hammocks, 1
and with three bearers only they
may journey nil day with scarcely
a halt. 1
are very truly youra,
crrzsxs,
The Clothier and Hatter, and
Dealer in Shirts.
Gyles Corner, Americue, Os.
t¥e season opened
Base Balls and Bats
JUST RECEIVE!) AT
MRS. FRED LEWIS’.
I HAVE ALSO RECEIVED A LARUE
INVOICE OF
Easter Cards!
THE FINEST IN THE CITY.
There are nineteen hinds of
metal more precious than gold.
THE FRANKLIN SQUARE LIBRA
RY M NOW OPENED, AND
SUBSCRIBERS CAN MAKE
THEIH SELECTIONS.