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Americus Recorder. Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1885. Daily, Pkh Ykar,...$4.00. Wkkkly, “ ... 2.00. WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND RUSSIA. I Now Declare War on High Prices in Americus!! Having been to market (or the past Four Weeks in search of Bargains, I have at last been enabled to come back with the Largest Cheap est and Best Selected Stock of ’ 1 Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps, Domestics, Etc., Etc., Ever brought <o this city, and have put them at such figures that will defy competition. These goods were all bought for the CASH A XI) NO BORROWED CASH EITHER, and as every one knows cash is the Lever. I have determined to sell my goods just I bought Hem, FOR THE CASH ONLY! and nl such prices ns will astonish the greatest unbeliever in low prices. S1IOEJ Remember these pods are all lew aid Stylish ami not mixed with any Rubbish. I iota: ZLrfkT?, I having bought out. a lined' manufacturer’s sample! now st 11 you shops at retail at manufacturer’s prices. Men's handmade shoes at §2 50. Ladies’ Opera Slippers. tit 75 Ladies’ Newport Ties at 1 00 Ladies’ Lace (llrigliton’s), at 1 25 Ladies’ Elastic, *• at 1 50. Woman’s Canvas Shoes, high cut, at 50. Dress Goods ? I can i Handkerchiefs tit five cents in fist colors. Borders hemmed and ^ .. . ,, , , , ready (or use. Nalmes at He worth 12c. Best imported Ginghamsat 10c worth Bleachings at Five 15c. All new and Spring shades. worth S4 00 worth 1 25 worth 1 50 . worth 2 00 . worth 2 50 worth 1 50 Woman's Slippers, at 10 per pair. Straw Hats tit 5c worth 20c. Straw Hats at 10c worth 30c Straw Hats at 25c worth 75c. Towels at 5c worth l('c. Towels at 10c worth 20. 7 ouths’ Straw Hats with base ball thrown in, 25c worth 75. * nits worth He. •in , rn ’it n 1 ' I, ,, ... , 10—4 till Linen lahlc (Moths at Fitly cents each worth SI 00 he new 1 ress. Iodic De Princess all well, at 2nc worth 50c., Ba l, Knitting Thread 3 halls tor 10c. ‘ Ihc new Mantana Checks all wool, at 35c worth toe. Mens 2200 Linen Wamsutta Bleaohir I-ace Buntings, all wool, at 15c worth 35c. Figured Lawns at 34c worth 5c. Figured Lawns at 7c worth 10c Pacific Lawns at 10c worth 15. White Lawns at 5c worth 10c. White Lawns at 10c worth 15c. Nun’s Veiling, all shades, all wool, at 15c worth 30. White Nainsook checks tit 8c worth 10. Ladies’ 3. Button Lisle Gloves a* lo cts. worth 4oets. clung Shirt at 50c worth any body’s one dollar and over. HAMBURGH. HAMBURGH. HAMBURGH. From lc up. In this line I cannot be beat, as I bought them at my own prices. CLOTHING. CLOTHING. CLOTHING. Having determined to drop this branch of my business you can buy clothing at your own prices—this is bonnfideand nohum- hug. I,inen Collars at 10c each, all linen and all late styles. CORSETS. 500 -List received, at 35c which cost 75c to import. All I ask is a trial to coi vince till that I mean just what I say. I am to be found at the famous “Foster Comer," opposite Grange Warehouse and under Allen House, so do not make any mistake. I have no connection with any other house in the city so come and trade as here you will get (he biggest value for your Nickles, Dimes and Dollars. B. FOSTER, Cor. Forsyth. ©t. find Cotton Avenue, AMERICUS, GA. Americfs Recouher PCIII.ISHHU UV w. ij. or. iissaj ran tmt i: o.\ cotton avemt, AMERICUS. I ROM 0(11.HI HOItl'U. Oiii.ETiioRPE, Ua , March 28.— Having just returned from an ex tensive tour through the western portion of Macon county amt the vast county of Schley, I fed under man like manner, I am loath to say that I found Mr. Johnson somewhati under the sur r acc—yes, he was 1 down digging up a stump. THE FUTURE OR THE SOUTH. motion a new era in which the traL . e9i wl „, k in ofllce South will play an important part.” I wiI | bct01B ,, Democrats, thus time -Four years ago, said Mr. will make a || thil P ven. Be ,i dca .... w . B^ber, after a pause, “when the what, are oltlee holders, when set 1 lie Kcv. Henry Ward needier (iarfield campaign wan in progress, \ „ n v Like the rest of the good farmers j dclivcrd-a lecture in Atlanta last | I said to my people that 1 hoped j jf Cleveland adheres to civil ^ser- of Schley, Mr. Johnson is ridding 1 week on ‘‘evolution.” He had a to sec the day when I might vote i vice, he will be re elected to the .•riens is thj eonnty scat of Sumter pie for their manv com y, Georgia, Hiumud on the South-; _ , . . . . in rail road, 71 luilefl M»nthwe»*t of and lliat t til? i I* lio^piLillly n, ami about no miles north of tb« should have its mention in the col- fa line It is(situated in the linist . umns ot the paper. On one clear morning, after hav* Sunday robe obligations to the good peo- j «• »f ail the stumps in order j Vi!?.! , .^cidency-h. does not want it; shown to run his sulky plow. Mr. John- ' Atla " ta i'>terviewed by a 1 What was then a wild dream has | blIt | ike , nsny ottier mcn he ia wi „: . . 1 .... j reporter for the Constitution, and i now come to reality. There are i ni/ »o va hi« nnnntrv >» son was quite busy with his stumps, exhausted his opinion about men Southern men now before the pub 1 ** • n>n of Georgia, raising a greater vuri- of OKrioulturu! and horticultural pro- »s than any other part of the South, •ming all the fruitH. ^rain and rege- trying to get through with them in I and things without reserve. What, j lie—Democrats—whom 1 would time to build him a hole in the ! * lfi said °f tllc South and the color- [ vote for to place in the Presidential mv ground before the cyclones bud out. At any rale he is determined j I ed people will he of general inter- chair. I have no names to offer- Kelerring to the negro problem, Mr. licccher regarded it as settled. The war went through the South like a plough through a prairie ! '* 100 eai| y , to ,mnle mtn ,<,r ll “-‘ 1 field, turning over the turf of ao- »(i i.r i e .. . . , ... ' in. ■uni' ut ci buc i.uri ui bo* “I know of no section of tho i next race, and many thngs may j c i e tv with tlic whites under and Of thd temperate and semi-tropionl (that’s my “’tother” shirt) and to get rid of the 8lum P® an( l fiec Union,” said Mr. Beecher, “with a I happen in four > ears to change the t i, e blacks on top. It was a terri Irish -wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, s v« et potatoes, peanuts, ehufas, n peas, sugar catio, apples, pears, , grapes, plums nod other fruits. do all things ready, 1 set out lor that the competing farmers do not grander future than the South. | drift ot public opinion—hut if the | b | a state «f attain- which the , w „. t T ,„r ! surpass him in the art Mr. John- Now ll,8t t,le 'hstrubmg political | election were to take place to-day, | g, mi >vcsi. i no urai place oi * an .\ »i, A I .1 * . ma the lar west, mo tirst j .liiimteisluiTdand eqtwbfe, V an<Yone note old Hamburg, the mother 1 80,1 is ODe 18 hfaltliv ill the world, the air 1 place „f Oglethorpe. Many years ir pure i,ml t;r.v nud mo»t beneficial lor & J J nners had ever heard the win- tie of the locomotive, riens has a population old Hamburg was a thriving town Ui-inu pure uud t.ry nud uio»t beneficial lor l’‘ ! - ; 11'* 1 ihi",»t diseases. All kiuds of ago. befor " ■' lour work ,u h. performed witL t cold. dl'in* o 1 ' 0 "!* 4an,t controlled the commerce of all ‘liing ground .md Lonsls of some of ' u.Ni.iiiiKt LuK.ness blocks in tin uili. I he city h%s line public schools; • •I churches; n Inrg. public library, • daily, oue semi-weekly and two * i klv newspapers; a new op unpl'Ti ly fuicished wit., m TMble ot 8’tiling 1,000 perso Thu/, i liio department, iacludinn simmers; tho streets are well ‘.• I, sowered and liKhted; there are vo Iloiinuj* mills, a cotton seed oil mill, noun anil uud variety works, carriage 1 " rv . and a number of minor uianfaclo- 1>s • t wo huiidied tirum areenKa^ed in. ivantile busintss; threo banks with 1 “btindancfl of capital; two good . Lirnisli good accornmodatlion. ‘•» ri. us is the centre of trade for six "i'us loiiijui-ipg ihe richest agricul- s ' l ' : ‘ oU m Georgia, the average nn- * •'H e-.tton receipts being 30,000 bales, a ill b" largely increased by the “1 I* teui t t the 1‘reston and Lumpkin ■Hud i.ow in process of construction. Ui 1 irgest city in Southwest Geor- . aL l h is teen appropriately named ( "tniuerciitl Capital’ of thatsec- M ' atol it is rapidly gtowing in popu- ■’ * 1111 1 wealth. As a place of bU'i* r« hiib'iieo it presents attractions ‘by few cities in the i*outli. all kin«ls is comparatively “Ithi>ugh rapidly advancing in ae. tlic inlisbltants of both city and arc cultivated, courteous and •I'it.ddo, u ith a cordial welcome to im* “itts. To enterprfsing tradesmen, ju- ll ! ,,s capitalists and iudastiions farm- ,, 1,s n ol Georgia offers tine op- * Luiog Any information in regard ‘ ,r ‘'"’miry will be cheerfully fnr- 1 ‘' "^dressing the Amkhiclh 11k* ! Americus, Go. the adj ami cycles rolled oil many changes were wrought, one of which was ry ami ^e building of tbe S. \V. K. 1 - ,. , 4l - . | . . „ , - • , Southern people endured with • >f the l.v»t farmer, of |'"?7 U,e c, y 9 ^ °f slttVcr T. Prc«t-.it lullue.iceH, there are horoiim ailed iu hUtory. Schley ami has the heat otantation " I ?, • . ‘'‘ff ,et r C “ I ^ outtl , ern r n,cn , wh ® :°'' la , bo That they ileporte.l themaelve. ao ociuey, anu uas me uest plantation. lt an( j civilized world, has been thought of in the North f#r the we ii then nrovai that thev ere Inst, but not least, is the f}our- removed, the country will begin to Presidency.” • j equal to th/problems ot the ffiture. ishing school of Pine Grove ! Ri*ow ana develop in such a way as | “What are the prospects of the The future of the races will he Academy, under the chaige of J. to put in the shade the wonderful j Democratic administration ami its 1 controlled by education. continuance in power?” , “Conducting the government on the high plane which Mr. Clcve . ... progress made by Western com D. McKenzie. It has forty pupils, Unities. But , baVL . , ec „ so little nl counties, but as time am ' " bbe b’' w 'Ui l * lu interest that i 0 f it with .ny own eyes that per lite patrons manifest, to become a I Imps I should leave the statement high icatitutc. l lie patrons are j °t its advantages to others, proud ot their teacher and Wlmt direction wilt Southern progress lake?” ; a well ; tiirough our county, alter which old H'vays ready to do anj thing to fur- "The building up of its manufac Hamburg was moved to the rail road and assumed the name ol Oglethorpe. Sow nothing remains to mark the boundaries ot the old town but a few dwellings and a few pretty girls. But I cannot dwell in Hamburg, so 1 will hasten on. After a few more miles ride I found myself in the famous settlement known as the KngU-li settlement. Just here 1 found some as good farming land as Macon county af fords, and I must say that it is under the management of some of Macon county’s best and most sue cesslul farmers. The extensive lields of small grain and its thriv ing condition testify to tne good judgment of'hose farmer liter tlic interest of the school. A sborl sojourn with Mr. John son and his sociable family con stimed mv time and with a hearty wag of Mr. Johnson's hand and Lliat of his affable w ile, I left them in tlic thriving lands of Schley. w: o. linn He Mmrk it Very Kit It. lias marked out for it, a hearty adherence to the principles of the | civil service law, giving tlic coun try peace and prosperity, there is no reason why it should not have | tor es first. Money always seeks j half a dozen terms in the I'resi-| profitable investment 1 find many \ dency. The worse danger tliat ! progressive men of tbe South, who could befall the Democracy now have the can of Northern capital- I would be the removal of Cleveland, ists, and have secured a large influx ! The accession of Hendricks, r>-p- of money, the result of which can I resenting the ultra bourbon Deni be seen in A.llunta, Birmingham , oeraejr, disposing of tlie ollices as and Chattanooga. In time this rewards lor political services, draws population. The South, | would 'brow the country back and though the richest portion of our recall Republicanism hack into national heritage, was walled in by \ favor. The conduct of the South Itivcry, in contact with whicn free during the Inst two weeks has W. B. OLIVER, Draper and Tailor, »II't» hi.•etvicrM to tin* r'tlztr.n of Amrricu* 'Utn't-r *n'l »d|„||.|i,K .oiu.H ansa practical and .» '•> 11> < >» ...s n;f compaa’f Actual e «bw *»f the cua- , "*nter, w n« u *>v Mt up i»y iu«* trade to be the beat mil beat lit of any tailor ill Ku rope o- Anuria. I will CUT AN I* M vKE -. i i Ci of say aiyle of the day, bflnir in i<n-*ea.-ion of the Inti at ttylea, and it fit gunraatrrd. Altering demlny, repnlrlax an t bindlua •» apeclalt.v. rtpota of grrof any ki <1 tnken out, tar, jjllcb and nxle greaa •, i?U:. I’rire* moderat-. llaviiut been a reaident of Ameneua tor tlriity year*, wit . the experience In tl.e peat, I m llrit your patroange. luarcbStl W. B. OUVBB. Ed J. MiMer. Mr. J. 15. Franz, [/roprietor of j labor could uol come without do- beea remarkably heroic. Willi the tlie St. James’ Hotel, Mansfield, ! grading itself. The hardy peasan- I’resi,lenuy in its possession, C, Hornes McCall. Monumental Marble Works in luck on account of the ; try of Europe who sought our has not hampered him by pleading Ml 1,1.UK A MeCAl.l^ Proprietors, purchase of a ticket in the Louis- j shores, did so with the view of bet- for oflice, but has stood by in a Soulbwesl of th , Pnblic ^ iaou Statu Lottery. Several weeks \ termg their condition. Consequent- a dignified mannet and allowed ^ since Mr. Franz, who Inis previous- ly they would not go near the slave | him to shape allairs in his own AMERICUS, GA. ly drawn siusll sums in the lottery, line. Take Mississippi,for instance. ; way. The President's plan is to ,, . m T* f* invested in one whoiu ticket and Thero is a State blessed by nature, fill the responsible bureau chief- MODUIIICDlS, 10IDD3, LtCi|iitC live onc-flfUi tickets, paying $10 fortified by human inventive genius ships with representative Southern of iu w.t Italian aud Amsricsu ltoiSls. for the saiur. Yesterday (Feb. and made attractive bv wealth, tbe 1 men, such men as have influence (rou U«II!»« I.r c.Miii. KaslM- oclly I steered my hack for Schley, and a few minutes vide landed me un Hie 10th,) the drawing took place and natural centre of the United Slates, j at home, and whose appointment After leaving those good people Mr. Franz received a tclegiam | Her lands, her minerals, all were will have more influence than a notifying him that his whole ticket > inviting. Yet the gioat flood of hundred clerks. The enforcement had drawn $0 000 in cash, which | emigration rolled over it and kept of ihc civil service rules will not suui is subject lo ins order.— ' on until Ktnsas was reached,where destroy party organization. The fine plantation of Mi. K. tV. John- Mansfield (Ohio)Liberal, Feb. II. labor was tbe lreemau's heiitage, men who fill the ollices are but j son, but while tue other farmeis -» - } nml the community war not weight-| barnacles who roally do nothing i,m«s7. were making every effort to sue- KemenMier , «d down by an incubus from the , for party success, are noisy, and .m -n.. . ... bat oarous age. But tfie events of ' have little influence at borne If Let every huslisodsml htber Jolt Heea- “ --..JJmVjJfiff: ce<rt ' : repairing, turning their land-. 1 hat 1 am selling a Fme Straight tb c last twaSly years have changed some men who do not get into I *«•**,*** 7 .djrjjjoi making ready to plant cotton, and Whiskey, Spring of 83, for $2.UU, ail this, and tne incoming of the *11100 are disappointed thereat,and j r ' u ' L ' r P-*' * u'uipoi |)i fi '" ’ ,1co * 18844 i moving everyway in a buiinew- feb25in 1 A. D. B. McKenzip.. I present ft«lrninl» r .ratlon ba* set In threaten to kick out of party i Or, D. K. Onxxsoy, Hepotter. dacllyl \ NTEDrJs $2,000 At small coat can lx*i aeonrud for jonr laved ooea, by joining tbe XSnigfctB of Bonor.