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Americus Recorder. Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 18857 DAILY, Per Year,...*.*#. Weekly, “ ... loo. Americus Recorder PUBLISH HD BY W. Xj. OXjI OFFICE OM COTTOW ATEHUE, rROKfiSSIOMAL & BUSIJfKSSt'ARDS AMERICUS. Americus is the county seat of Sumter county, Georgia, situated on the South western railroad, 71 miles southwest of Mscon and about 80 miles north of the Florida line It ia situated in the finest section of Georgia, raising a greater vari- ety of agricultural and horticultural pro ducts than any other part of the South, combining all the fruits, grain and vege- tables of the temperate and semi-tropioal cones—wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, Irish snd sweet potatoes, peanuts, chufas, nottnn peas, sugar oane, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, plums and other fruits. The climate is mild snd equable, and one of the moot healthy in the world, the sir beiBg pure sod ory snd most benefieisl tor lung end throst diseases. All kinds of outdoor work osn be performed witbont inconyeoienoe from summer hest or winter cold. Americus has a population of 6,000, is beautifully situated on high and rolling ground and Loasts of some of the handsomest busiDess blocks in the South. The city hss fine public schools; good churches; a large pnblio library; one daily, oue aemi-weekly and two ; weekly newspapera; a new opera bouse, 1 completely furciahed witu scenery aud j capable ol seating 1.000 persons; a aell ! organized fire department, inclndiog two fine steamers; ihe streets are well paved, sewered ' and lighted; there are two flouring mills, a cottonseed oil mill, planing mill and variety works, carriage factory, and a number of minor manfacto- riea; about two huodred firms are engaged in mercantile business; three banka with an abundance of capital; two good hotels tnroish good nccnmmodattion. Americas is the centre of trade for six counties comprising the richest agricul tural section in Georgia, the average ari- nual cotton receipts being 30,000 bales, which will be largely increased by the completion of the Preston and Lnmpkin 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, aod it is rapidly growing in popu lation and wealth. As a place of busi- I ness residence it presents attractions i equaled by few cities in the South, j Property of all kinds ia oomparatiyely ■ cheap, although rapidly advancing in j value; Ihe inhabitants of both city and country are cnllivaltd, courteous and koapitable, with a cordial welcome to im migrants. To enterprising tradesmen, ju dicious capitalists and industrious farm ers this section of Georgia offers flue op- poiluninei. Any information in regard to city or conntry will be cheerfully fur nished by addressing the Amkhkts Re- cohdf.r, Americus, 6a. % TO THE LADIES DAWSON DOTS. NARROW LA WYERS. C. R. McCRORY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, &LLAVILLE, OA. TERMS—All claims from $80 or under, $3; f rum i3U to 0600, ten per cent.; over 9&00, seven per sent. Nu charges anises collections are mode. . May 14-tf. MIS CEL LAJfEO US. J. M. R. WENTBK00K, M. D. Physician and Surgeon AMERICUS, OA. Office at Dr. Eldridge's drug store. Keaidenc" on Church Street, next door to W. D. Hay nee. feb7tf $0,000 At small coat can hep secured for your loved ones, by joining tbs Knlghta of Honor. Let every husband and father do it. Regu lar lodge meeting lirat and third Friday 7 f. u. For paitienlara call -n E. TAYLOR. Die. Or, D. K. Hiiimson, Reporter, decllyl E twe .1. Mt'ler. 0. Romo* McCall. Monumental Marble Works MILLER a McCALL, Proprietors, Southwest Corner of tho Pnblio Square, j AMERICUS. GA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Eto j of th. he.t Italian sad American Marble. , •raw Railing ,. r C.a.I.r, Cnclee- eel'. •"•.•traetaMp. 2c. TWO CENTS 2c. wanKBii Bum ohm! I. H. WIGGINS & CO. WK KEEP A PULL LINK OF' GROCERIES (IF ALL MIPS, PANpY AND STAPLK. t’iae Wkisky ui Wilts a Specialty. " * * , *° have a BAR connected with our business where gents will find the vary bast Whis ky. Beer, Me. " e ,0 * k*" on hud a fell line of Cry Goods. Boots, Shoes, HATS, ETC. t^J* *■ * *•» and w. • III inrprieaycn siohllml t M WIGGINS * CO. MR. Shaw’s. the meeting every morning at 9 o’clock, preaching every evening at j 7:30 o’clock during the week, per haps longer. Mr. and Mrs. McClung, of Dough erty county, were in the city yes- terday. Also Mrs. Mary Jordan, of Georgetown, mother of Mrs. Me- Clung. Mr. Hiram Powell aod wife, nee Miss Hattie Mercer, of Wards, ar rived in our city yesterday on a visit to Mr. J. R. Mercer. Mrs. Crockett Baldwin left for her new home in Auburndsie, Fla., yesterday, accompanied by her sis ter, Mrs. Sallie Janes. Mr. W. J. Speer, of Americus, has moved with his family to our city, and is occupying Dr. Farrar’s Cpsidence on Main street. Hon. Ja9. E. Brown and family left to day for their home in Mo- Dooough, accompanied by Miss Carrie Brown, ot our city. Mr. L. Crouch, depot agent, has received instructions to furnish transportatibn to the Dawson Guards to the Exposition and re turn at $8.95 each. There was plenty of ice this morning, and it’s cold as blazes now, at 2 p. m. J. A. F. GEORGIA NEWS. Within the past four years the trade and business ot Dawson has more than doubled. There is talk of pitting the elec tric wonders, Miss Lulu Hurst, of Cedartown, and Mrs. Dixie Hay- good, of Milledgeville, against each other at Macon next week. A Montezuma man was at the Union depot at Macon Thursday night with an eyeless chicken, which be was taking to the New Orleans Exposition. The chicken had no eyes, nor any sign of them. A young lawyer •! Sylvania came through town the other day driv ing the bilance of his first law fee —a yearling steer. The fee con sisted ot eight dollars in money, stack of fodder, a silver watch, an old sow and the yearling. A ten year old negro boy on L, D. Norwood’s farm, in Houston county, killed a lizzsrd the other day, cooked the reptile, and forced a smaller boy to eat it. No harm resulted from the enforced fea9t. except that tile cook and master ol the ceremonies was severely whip ped by his father. W. T. Arraistead, a son of J. M Armisteaa, of Oglethorpe county landed in the Lone Star State some twenty- years ago with only 25 cts. in bis pocket after his route ex penses were paid and by close at tention to bis law profession, has accumulated 20,000 acres of land worth from $6 tj $10 per acre, be sides forty-seven building lots in the city oi Jetferson. Near Cbickasawhatchee a line of earthworks esn still lie seen which were thrown up by Gen. Jackson (Old Hickory) as a protection against the Indians, on his march to Florida through this section in 1818. These breastworks are scarcely perceptible on first sight but by close observation they can be traced. Dr. L. C. Mattox, of Clinch coun ty, has an owl that roams around loose at bis house, and is a terror to cats and mice. Not only is he useful for this, but he is a rare bird, the Doctor having learned his owl- ship some rare tricks. For in stance, he will take the owl and whiri him around and about in bis hands, and will then put him upon the floor or tabic upon bis back, tide, or any other position he may see proper, telling the owl to sleep, and he remains perfectly quiet. The Doctor can then tell the owl to dream a bad dream and avakr frightened, when, after about 3u minutes, the bird will jump up from tbs table, apparently in a great fright, popping bis bill and showing other signs of alarm. The directors and managers of the Kimball House Company and the lessee ot the Kimball House at Atlanta have agreed upon April 30 as the formal date of opening of the entire hotel. By Ibis time the hotel will be finished from top to bottom, every store open and every room finished and decorated. The house will be thrown open to visitors from the kitchen to the roof. A banquet will be given beginning at 5 o’clock and ending at 10, at which seats will be provid ed for 800. From 9 o'clock until 3 there will be a grand ball. Dur ing the evening the Mexican band will give a concert on lit • root and in the arcade, and there will be piano recitals in the grand par lors. Invitations will be issued to persons living in every city In the State. ■» ■ • Another well-equipped illicit dis- It appears that some of the tlllery was discavered in the very Illinois legislators art not altogeth- heart of New York thia week by er above suspicion. It was stated revena-; officials. The moonshiners the other day that the Finance ' were ought, but there was no ex- Committee proposed to count the , citing moonlight hunt and romance money in the State Treasury vaults.: as theie is in (be mountains. The Some of the Treasurer’*' friends 1 officers detected the odor of burn- objected to the count on the ground j iog hop* while they were walking that it wonld put that official to ! along the elreete, and just stepped the trouble of making a recount of in and pat the bracelets on the dis til* money after the committee I tiller*, who wen busy drawing off flalfihee. i lh * bl * h **•••' DRUNKS ON THE SLY. They tell a “short haul” story, er Ilia Daviess That Sa-Callse I a ho U t ^ MO mi nen t ^ M 00 ’^ p 0l f "k* Ttoipiraaet Ptjpu Kaaort t». | aoout * prominent railroad freight ajent in that State which ie worth Hew York Teiagram, | reprealing. He is an active Epis- “Our business does not come en- c [ ) P*** a 9 a ®d * vestryman in the Dawson, March 23—Rev. A.M. Williams preached an able sermon yesterday on the snbject of Prayer, and another last night on the Prodi- _ gal Son. He decided to protract tirely from people who'^drin^for'a I ? burcl1 the littie town where he good percentage of the money that :! re "'.. w “'?h '® not ver y far from goes into the till oomes from those t le °1 1 ^.. '. re he ba ® his office and who are supposed to be strictly **]* nd ? . bu, y bour8 - One day temperance people,” said the cash- wben ? u ® l n e ® 8 was crowding, a man ier in the barroom of one of the c *.?? e 10 who proposed starting a large hotels thit fsoe Madison f *!“ al1 town ® loo « <■•»« road square. “Hew do they do it? Ob, 7 h * d t0 P a Y ““d* more for it’s easy enough for a man who I ,!" ei ® , tban . , lo * n ® father along wants liis bitters to get them right route paid—in other words, It here, even if he is an avowed bine ® u .^ ered tbe u ®“»l short haul die- ribbon man. There was a Boston cr,m »> a tion. The visitor pleaded clergyman stopping here last week. £?•„ J®!? , \ but| °f® our8 *. in vain. Of course be does not drink—cer- . he h ^ ld OD - and w , i , lb hie P«r- tainlv notl But every morning, at I .'' 8, * nc y b , e P r ® lt y well wore out breakfast, we sent into the dining- “ 1 ®. bnll teil petience of the agent, room a glass of seltzer lemonade . C9ld ® 8 k**P l| iff other people wait- foi him, which he drank to ‘wake in ® wb< i, had , a1 * 0 , ca * l ®«I on busi- hls stomach up,’ as ho told bis ne ® 8 ' Finally, be left and the next friends at the same table. One- “ an , 8tc PP ed U P' "Well, sir,” said quarter of that glass of lemonade |, e agent, “whereabouts was pnre Holland gin, which, be-1 ? ,-f 0Ur d r d j? r, *t-n»ili f” "I, Ing white in celor, could not be de- ir ’, wa ® tb ® meek reply, “am the lected even by the person aftting reo H >r whom you wrote about next to him. Ye<, of course we j conducting service next Sunday.” knew the gin was in it, for he bat *f 18 .. d . 8 n ®^ mill was the been slopping at this hotel when oburc “ ln which the agent was an in the city for some fifteen years. | omoer - and there was an understanding , .f, T " ,7. reached between us a long while L,f ed o^g^ator CockreU the ^“Then there is the wife of a na- ^'"ni'^nino C m ° n,pl f aiDe , < » lhat b .« va. officer of high rank who always -"^^0"^°.^^ ^ Russia has more soldiers and more ships of war than any other country in the world. In her stand ing army there are 780,000 men, and Blie has 358 ships in her navy. It costs $125,000,000 a year to keep ' er military rstablistiments on their peace fooling, and her military authorities say they can place 2,300,000 trained men under arm9 in war time. The English stand- ng army is 182,000 men. This includes the English regular troops serving in India. The English War Office authorities protess to be able to put 642.000 well-drilled and effective British troops in the field if called on to do so. Tnit does not include the Indian auxil iary forces, which would swell the total British forces at home and abroad to over 1.000,000 men. It costs England $90,000,000 a year to keep up its regular army. In 1853 there were 52,000 kith sol diers in the English army; now there are only 31,000. In 1853 a great number of Irishmen from the Tipperary, Armagh, Kilkenny, and other Irish miiiria regiments vol unteered for active aervice, and were sent to the Crimea. The Eng lish navy contains 283 ships. But while tbe'Ruseian navy contains more vessels than the English navy, it mutt be remembered that England spends three times aff much oa her navy at Russia spends on hers. A Nstton er Egg Eaters. “There are at least 50.000,000 eggs consumed daily in the Unitqd Slates,” said a New York whole sale dealer to a reporter. “That over 4,000,000 dozen, and at an average price will amount to at least $80,000. Think *f the outlay and business activity required to handle this enormous quantity. The American people are egg eaters. As a general thing the upply it equal to the demand, but about three years ago, late after January, we ran ashore on domestic eggs. What was the result? Eu rope began to ship as pickled eggs by tbe millions. Shiploads came over. Prices went down, and the European pickled eggs at fourteen cent* a dozen became immensely popular. This almost ruined our home egg market. During the months of April and May the eggs are pickled by means of a solution of lime water. They are kept un til November and December and then come in to lower the market. Fresh eggs, though, are worth 30 cent* a dozen.” stops here while her husband .s on Afler „„ en [Q them k £ u# j£’ one of bis cruises With dessert h<J made thi , f emtrk: UQ| S at dinner she has two smal cups , bsye ^ “• of very black cotfee^nd her friends Houte „„ th| , and ^ always speak of how much more ,, me Mr . CleveIand r ; ceived ™ animate and entertaining she is becomes then a really brilliant talk- I j" tended'tofdo It, ri.ouw’h.ve was tariff r pon™o1f°tbe 9 bestVrench ’■'»<E brandy in each one of those little •» P« r Poee. cups of bUck coffee. t0 p,,t fr,enda 'P 10 °® ce - Von ’it , , . can get some one else who can rev- “Now look there; watch that" I* .„ |" wiH said the speaker, stopping suddenly dhil , h |d f ‘“ and nodding h.s head toward the ^t I will not go up to the door of the room, “Now you’ll have Ur,1* rw Itoiia< . , ® a practical illustration of what I FTfr* ^ „ to break bis promises and ideas As he spoke three gentlemen “IiutoMlo » dUty '* Ia ° rd * r strolled in and walked up to the ^ ^ bar. fitch one of them wore silk ^ a bats and large diamond soltaires in ™ e ediwr of lb t Au ® u9ta 8enl *- their shirt fronts. Tney each or- " el . ® a n .®« ro aDd a “® n dered drinks, two t.kiug whiskey U a PP«®®*.the position in and the third a bottle ofgingrr ale. whicb hi ! P? 0 P le a '° P laced ' a “ d Y,.u keeep it up bettor than j vspable of advis.ng them property, thought you could, Aleck,” said , n * lale '*®. ueof h ,'® P*P® r be "P ; one of the whUkcv drinker, to the We ® rc be,e a >»ong the third man, as he'came up to the r ame people that oneo owned us. cashier’s desk 10 pay the check. I W « on The ™ “I’m blessed if I didn’t think Billy 18 f 0,rb « re ,or u ® l .° 000 d would win inside ,f two weeks.” "° ,f . we aan . lcd to ‘ c0 ^'‘ I’m going to win th.t bet, and " ot ‘ e " d u .® “‘ ,icd - We don’t you forget it,” said the third ® boald lh ® Dlt U ? d for tbe mc ®® o r® man, complaceutly. “There's only ol P e , 8 ® e th ®’’. eJt ' 8t ® a “°"« “?• 11 a month yet and then the time’i could be n,ucb wor 1 ®«- U onl > "■ u 1, J mains for us to educate our ebil- “The man who drank lh. ginger dren - buv , land ®- mako ou , r bo “ e ® ale,” said the cashier, when they P" , re - dt « nlfled ' ®"«1 comfortoble, bad left the room, “ia in the cu. and "® v « ™ < J"*>'-„ and * Ter r olber tom house, pretty near the head of n * bt wl “ it. Ue made a bet of $5,000 two ,, „ months ago with one of tUo leadets . b r8, ^® b * e y. of Valdoeta, of the County Democracy that he 18 ove J‘ eighty-nine years old, and wouldn’t drink a drop of anything lbou S h her eyesight is .0 dlu. that for three months. Two or three ® b « C8n ® C8, ; o * | y ®ee tbe key. on times a day he comes in and lakes | th « P l8no - ® h ® P lav ® b *®“tl f ®»y- a bo t'e of Belfast ginger nl* with GIVES Am! Fine Double Barrel tome of bis friends. The barkeeper over there will be $500 richer when the custom house man wins the | bet.” “Why?” asked the reporter, I doubtfully. Don't you see ?” said the cashier QTT Al I » flTT^T in disgust; “the barkeeper has a OAAv/ X VAUXli peculiar box from which be takes w „ „„ d , ily op , ning „„ , look of those bottles of ginger ale. Each Spring Clothing, Hats. Underwear, etc., bottle in tue box has been very »n«l aellingoff all our laei seasons par- carefully opened so at not to des- nK, ' ow C08T ' 0#r ,to# $ troy the tinfoil capsule over tbe | ‘“’m"o’fVd. and Medina. Clothing. cork and has been fixed with old rye whisky—one-quarter whisky, three-quarters ginger ale. Do you ’tumble’ now?” “There was one fellow, a retired merchant and a pillar of a Fif.b avenue church, who slopped here last winter, who always at bis meals hsd a lemon sent to him in a small glass. One end of the lemon was nicely, sliced off and the lemon was carefully U P in the glass on the other end. He sucked the (uice from the lemon after he had finished eating and everybody thought be took it to help his di gestion. So be did, but tbe lemon was aoout half full of “tbe old stuff,” so that he got a good “whis ky eon” every time. I could go on for an hour telling you of games l<ke these. It seemed lo be a mania with a great many people to bide the tact that they driuk anything and they Will go to any amount of trouble to deceive their friend* and acquaintances. But we who are behind tbe scenee, ** it were, know all all about it. Of course w* never give it away, for it'* worth * good deal ofooney to Unis' Fins and Median. Clothing, Children's Fine and Medium Clothing, Fine Nobby Klyle Hals, Fine Drees Shirts, Fine Hoeiery, Silk and Linen Hsndksrehitfs, Drawers, Gloves, Walking Cines, Nesk Wear in Des .tifal Styles, 8aapenders.Under-8biits, Night-Shirts Silk snd Imported Gingham Umbrellas, Real Leather Va.isee. Water-Proofs, Bath Towels, Real Leather l’ocket-B »ka, 81-eve and Sock Elastics, Clothes Brashes, Real Gold Plate Soarf Pina and Gaff Buttons, Oar Celebrated Children's Waists, fifi cents, ard upwards. Large line eamnles of ntw style clothes in oar Tailoring Department For every Vive Dollars worth of goods pmchaaed of na for cash since Jan nary 1st to Jane let, 1885, we will give a ticket to our grand drawing for a floe breech loading shot gun oa exhibition at our et-re. Prize to be awarded June L1885 Come and gneas at tbe beans. Thankful for your liberal patronage we respeotfally solicit a oootinaaaee of the same A-waring you of polite altealion cod honorable service at oar hands. We are very truly yoen, 11m Clothier tad Hatter, aad Better ia BUrto. Gy lee’ Os.