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Americus D Al v Recorder. Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1885. I)AII,Y, l'KR YKAR,...$6.00. WKKKI.Y, “ ... 8.00. WAR BETWEEN ENiiUM) AND RUSSIA. I Now Declare War on High Prices in Americus!! Having been to market for 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 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, AND NO BORROWED CASH EITHER, and as every one knows cash is the Lever. I have determined to sell my goods just I bought them, TUOR TJJE CASH OINTLY ! an( l at su ch prices as will astonish the greatest unbeliever in low prices. these goods are all New and Stylish and not miied will any Roiii I Quote: 5HOES. SHOES. ► I laving bought out a lino of manufacturer’s samjih now soil you shoes at retail at manufacturer’s prices. Mini’s handmade shoos . at$2 50 worth $4 Of) 1 .aches’Opera Slippers at 75 worth l.adies’ Newport Ties at 1 00 . . . .worth Lillies’ I.ace (Brighton’s), . ... at 1 25 . . .worth Ladies’ Elastic, “ at 1 50 worth Woman’s Canvas Shoes, high cut, at 50 worth Woman's Slippers, at 10 per pair. Straw Hats at 5c worth 20c. Straw Hats at 10c worth 00c Straw Hats at 25c worth 75c. Towels at 5c worth H o. Towels at 10c worth 20. youths’ Straw Hats with base ball thrown in, 25c worth 75. I can 1 25 1 50 2 00 2 50 I 50 Dress Goods 1 Satines at 8c wortli 12c. Best imjiortetl Ginghamsat 10c worth 15c. All new and Spring shades. The new Dress, Toille De Princess, all woll, at 25c worth 50c. The new Majntana Checks, all wool, at 35c worth 75c. Eacc Buntings, all wool, at 15c worth 35c. Figured Lawns at 3|c worth 5c. Figured Lawns at 7c worth 10c Pacific Lawns at l()c worth 15. White I .awns at 5c worth 10c. White Lawns at 10c worth 15c. Nun’s Veiling, all shades, all wool, at 15c worth 30. White Nainsook checks at 8c worth 10. Ladies’ 3 Button Lisle Gloves a* lo cts. worth -loots. Handkerchiefs at Five cents in fast colors. Borders hemmed and ready for use. 4-4 Blenchings at Five cents worth 8c. 10-4 nil Linen Table Cloths at Filly cents each worth $1 00. Ball Knitting Thread 3 balls lor 10c. Mens 2200 Linen Wamsutta Bleaching Shirt at 50c worth any body’s one dollar and over. IIAMBURGS. 11AM BURGS. IIAMBURGS. From lc up. In this line 1 cannot lie beat, as I bought them at my own prices. CLOTHING. CL( )TI IING. CLOTHING. Having determined to drop this branch of my business you can lmy clothing at your own piicts—tliisis bnnafide nnd nohum- lmg. Linen Collars at 10c each, all linen and all late styles. CORSETS. 500 Just received, at 35c whjph cost 75c to import. All 1 ask is a trial to coi vince fill that I mean just what I say. 1 am to be found at the famous “Foster Corner,” opposite Grange Warehouse and under Allen Hotise, 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 the biggest value for your Nickles, Dimes and Dollars. M. R FOSTER, Oor. Forsy th. St. and. CJotton Avenue, AMERICUS, GA. Ameihcus Recorder i»i*!MS CAKlis m pciii.isiucd uv LAIVYEltS. Ol w. Li. G-ijisaaNxm. C. 11. McClSOllV, UIHKOHOTTONAVEMIf), ATTORNEY AT LAW, BE SIRE UD READ, IT IS A NATINU TO lOt'. TKMPtKA.V E TALK, nlftsd In by (iov AMERICUS. An i tliJ untv. G hLLAY 1LLE, GA. ; TERMS—All claim. Iron. *30 <>i r rom f.W to f600, leu |»<r c«nf.; ovt-r wnty of Sumter ! pe 7.?. ,,, - t ' I * oCb#r iF‘* un!®«.coliectlo; nated on the South- undertake to rorgl; w* stern railroad, 71 miles southwest of Mn on. and about NO miles north of the Florida line It is situated in the finest s 'tion of Georgia, ruining u greater vari ety uf agricultural and horticultural pro- -iacts than any other part of the South, coinhiuiug all the fruits, grain and vege table* of the temperate and semi-tropical I Ties—wheut, corn, rye, oats, rico, Irish /ii I sweet potatoes, peanuts, chulas, i*<-lton pens, augur cane, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, plums and other fruits. • he climate is mild aud equable, and one • i the most healthy in the world, the air • ■ring pure and dry and most beneficial ior ' - m l throat diseases. All kinds of Hiliiiir work criu he performed uitLout '"'■••nvuiiD nee from summer heat or wuiter cold. Americus has a population "! T.,Doo, is beautitully situated on high and rolling ground and lohhU of some of • handsomest business blocks in the • v ' 'Hh. The city has fine public schools; I :-"od churches; a large public library; I " n ‘‘ d uly, one semi-weekly and tw«* j *" hly nowspapera: a new opera bouse, J completely furnished witu scenery and j cajiaide ol seating 1,000 persons; u well ' t'gani/ed fire department, including two tine sit timers; the streets are will | I'tie.l, seat red and lighted; there are V'" flouring mills, a cottonseed oil mill, i ' ming mill and variety works, carriage factory, and a number of minor manfnelo- • h-.s; about t wo hundred firms areengaged in mercantile business; three banks with ■‘I abundance of capital; two good '"tels tarnish good ^accommodatiion. Americus is ttc centre* of trade for six ‘"'Huns comprising the richest agrieul- II r d section in Georgia, th4 averago an- '‘■ja!cotton receipts being 30,000 bal»§, ' li will bo largely increased by the 1 "mpb tion ot the lVeston and Lumpkin r oifoad now in process of construction. ■ is tll, ‘ * ‘fgest city in Southwest Ge«>r- u ’. l ’ Hr “,‘ " I4H l>een appropriately named *'( oiniiiercial Capital” of that seo- l : , “’ *•'’ > M rapidly giowing in popu- 1 |,,n ! ' n ‘j wealth. As a place of bu-i- ' r ‘’ s |dence it presents attractions j'pttl**d by few cities in the South. 'I -tty .if all kinds is comparatively 'J 'IS although rapidly advancing in l,n ' • the inhabitants of both city uud 1 ( '"'b' nr « cultivated, courteous nnd '| l f >b|.- f with a cordial welcome to im- “ r «»nis. To enterprfsing tiadesmen. ju- “ ioijh capitalists and indualriona farm- • ' Kccti<-n of Georgia offers fine op- 1 1111,111 1'*- Any inlormatiou in regaid ' Itv or conn try will be cheerfully fur- ,1 by addressing tLe Americus Uk- •o' it, Americus, Ga. Ma> it-i other firms to draw trade for is taken in tertainin^ anecdotes and well di- considers!ion, supersedes anything in its j rected shots at the liquor traffic, line. It is not in the shape of a drawing Total abstinence, he said, was the trafllc to cease, and then on the While governor of Kansas a pale SI. John at At j 3G5ih vote to gtvo the rmnsellcr* a Ia,J y. dressed in black,appeared in I new lea*c of lioenae. By the help his office and presented a petition Governor St. John advanced to °, f Gt ; d we ■"/« , we " ll1 'dot mu for Um pardon of herhusbaad,then the edge of the stage and bowing *bo liquor trallle. N on canno. fa the penitentiary for ten year, tor remarked that ho was glad to be I re B ulBte «* well murderthe second degree The " i — j petition was numerously signed, but the governor declined to inter fere. The woman with tears cours ing down her cheeks then recited to the governor the story of her life. Governor St. John listened pa tiently. Her husband was a me chanic, a member of the church, an industrious tnan and they accumu lated able to address an audience in this | j city of 7- r >,000 reputation. [Laugh-1 kf.ui lath a cyclonic. '*■ j The Bargain Sior,*, ev?r ready and nox- , ter.J It had almost captured him. j Is the way to regulate a mad dog . ; ious to bring themselves and their goods If he ever moved from Kansas lie] to cut otl hjs tail ? High liecree prominent before the pullic, have intro- thought he would come to Atlanta. | wants to cut oil his tail close up to - | duced a new plan to benefit tlieir cus- Governor rvt. John then proceeded j his body. The theory is, the more tourers, in tho following way, which, if with his address, which was a sue I ot the tail you cut olif the less dog the different ways and means adopted by cession of the roost striking and en- there is to reguiatc, and hence the easier it is to regulule him. Kx- pericnce has taught that the best way to regulate a mail dog is to Ml SC EL LA SEO VS. J. m’ k. IVKS IIIliOOK, M.I). Physician and Surgeon AMERICUS, GA. Ofiicfl at Dr. Eldridge’a drug Afore. toW-DX/ce" “^iTIoragiftto the largest purchastr, or the j only safe rul«for the citizen. The j cut his tail off right behind his “ n 'I 'he husband owned a shop. — I lucky owner of a tiekit, but it is a plain first drink is the point from which ears. The speaker gave an inter- They had a horse and buygy. At $2,000 A HAPPY HOME, , secured for joining the Knigb-ts of Honor. Leteviry husband and hither do it. Regu lar lodge meeting lir*t uud thirn Friday | 7 P. m. F«»r par tiouJars call - n K. TAYLOR, Die Or, D. K. Bui Shun, Reporter, decllyl Edw» J. Mi'ler. C. Horace McCall. Monumental Marble Works Mil,I.bit A McCAI-b, Proprietors. Southwest Corner of the Public Square, AMERICUS, OA. Monuments, Tombs, Etc., Etc of the Lr«t Italian mul Anu-rican Varblo. W. B. OLIVER, Draper and Tailor, South »lt« „t Court llou-e. r.v.-r Mn. Kre t U>ll' book .tor., PC S I'Allts, ntr.MhUM Tl.-e.lo It..- e'tti-r. af Ai.orlou. So n’*r ,*i'l a •i-i.-.iujt'oie.tt » ..* » r-•> t . . . i* 1 eiporl iirs-d r.Wl.uU, using Cumpn'. Aetual iloi-ur ra-nt, stvin. luotru «b..^ ..f tho no- »n i he.t St of*sny U'l"rLi Kuri'e ■ o Aoirt-o I will UP 1'AN MiKK-.it.o rn- .tyleofih.- greenback certificate in s zo and color of every drunkard starts on the roatl I esling account of tho operations ol length the town council granted a me regular tw nty-fivo cents paper enr- 1 to ruin, and the government that ! prohibition in Kansas. There whil- license for a bar room and the .*• reney, and calls f ir (Sou) twenty-five legalizes the sale ol the first drink ky is sold on the sly. When the l° on waH *et up between the man’s cents fur every purchase of (*5.00) five >’ morally responsible for the eon- police discover it they simply take homo and his shop. He had never Dollars worth of goods bought at the sequences which follow it. The the whisky out ami destroy it. drank before. He was entic d into Bargain Store. > voter who votes to sustain whisky I There are nineteen saloon keepers ' I' 10 place, took to drink and in a We have only a limited amount of these 8 <'ll‘cg cannot stand before God in jail out there, In ngnishing lie- i car killed a man in that bar. llis tickets, nnd putties wishing .o save tweu- guiltless, anti the political parly cause they cannot pay their lines, property was sold for his defense ty-flve' cents on every Five Dollars will llia1 ' '* lo ° cowardly '.o anil in Topeka, a city of JO.OOll in hut without avail. The horse went, please call at once and ask for them. To condemn HUfll TRAFFIC habitants, there is ’ ( J h « b1i0 I> went, the once happy not understanding the above de- ought to be an.l will he beaten. In NOT A »ahkhom. wUbVT*"ix h“^bildrtn sought New io»k city there are twelve ; The state has grown aid pros- j shelter ir an open board bouse, thousand grog shops. I hey have pered,ami the taxable property has where three of her children died, twelve thousand owners, and about increased seventy million dollars “and now,” she wailed, “1 ask you, te.* thousand owners have served j n the last four years, during which • in the name of my dead babies, to in jail. T he city of New \ ork is , time the stale has been tinder pro- set their papa free!” Rising to bis governfd by the saloon element. ‘ hlbition. The speaker likened the Dill height and casting Ms eye over ‘ n . ( *°' n P anything barrooms to a lot of leeches on the | the immense audience held spell- y interfere with bis politically wituout making bis body politic. They fill up with ; bound by the speaker's eloquence, peace with the saloonist. New V ork | blood and once a year the council ■ Governor St John continued, “and ( controls New ^ ork state, and . takes them off, squeezes the blood I replied, "'o will make mention of tlie fact thnt in the last election New 5 ork state ] out anti puts tiicm on afresh to i will and i did!” money i. and has b«.n very scarce in Ihe ! ilecitlerl the elec’.ion lor the coun- suck more Itlootl The sneaker m ’ . , , ptst f-vv an.l cot,si.lering this, ! t|iaL in the entl the eon t , - 1 , P ,,t The effect was wonderlu . The we have .btermine.f to still lower the .L , S ® U ' at ln ll,e en ." , llie 00n | made some highly hutnorou prices ou ell our goods. Our ttnek is lro * °* " ie ffovernment m tract) siotts to the politicians who are sit- complete in all its branches, and we are back to twelve thousand bar-rooms < |i n tr on the ft. determined to sell, profit or no profit, to every church, anil six limes at thc”siiccessful side of the liottor DOUntl * ana me lecturer took bis meny, ^r lenders a, tb^e are He also mlde a ‘ mi. ‘ sci ij tion, we will state plainly, that in ptiiGLasio^ five ilo.'lir* worth of good* from us, we will take four dollars and seveuty-five cents in mouey and the twenty-live cents ticket. Having adopted this mode of offering inducement* to the patrons of the Bar gain Store, the Proprieti that it will iu n< motto < f Quick Hales-.nd Small 1‘r -fite, goods for less at retail than the regular merchant can buy them at \vh**1* wet but the enthusiasm knew no r u" ««>*». many We continue to pell all Pormstics at J , j. , e . * i • — — — strictly f.iciory prices and h .vo a large P rL ‘® ( ‘ ,,erg ’ s ' x pro®clier§ for the amusing references to his first ex- assortment in every line. We continue | devil to one for Clr.ist, *n<l • perience with the new wesi when sn./chat'-,' utM^tr'rlp^iur.Tr'v.’s TUB devii.’h CHl'BCVf ] the pistol an.l barroom held full .d seasumible goi.-ls ..ftea «t oDc-fottnh { j, belter aualainet), because a mem- I swa J - d th, It original cos'. 1)t . r frcqucnlly pays the dues of (If. GoTcrnor St - Jo,in “a" 1 wa< a an i I'liitliug a »| .ciali v. Hpoip ki d t ken out. tar. i tich til l rrioe* mo-ierst'. Ilnnm te. Amcrioiiit l..r ndity ) ear*, wit ft e |.obI, l> ib-itiDur jsitrouf.g.-. la,b;U,o Vf w:,{ ,0 u;-'‘t l ,Vu U am, ! :r‘^r teen or twenty members—a thing »?“ V bo »•*<» «**>« the blue,but be you fair and bounrabl. trrn m-nt»nd full known only iii the devil’s church. ft t , c os ^ l to 1 t 1 “' hoi 1 1 ’ " 10 wore ll “ ; ! value for yonr Dioney. W. «ill make no For every dollar we spend for mis. Ihe blue and the gray are misrep-eacnlali titH end will r. fund the i giong we s , $ 2;0 f(|r whisky, ! ,rlent, »- J 1 '* only the men who money for an v pm chase, if t is rot aa ; , 1 , . . . , - 1 sta veil at home anil repres-nted *JIako no mistake and call a J'S a *e claim to be a t. httsuan j After the lecture many people crowded upon the stage to shake the S| eaker’s hand. itHiitm um:s toneworlims ROUND TRIP TICKETS, 811.83. \V. It. OLIVER. \\ A \TFh and 'tftnti.’rmMi 10 ' .... * J I "* H«h*, pleaBknt era- .' 1 ’’t tiuir o-\n huiah (I rtfucM no oi|ec- , 'l' * i; ‘y* 8 »<uy»i <• ”«• Iiaw* ** 0 F..L'o', llw’iee, ji's.V,Fez MM. House for Kent, Tho Stewart place, on Forrest street, u«ar flit- Public Sc ho. 1 Lniiding. is offer ed for rent. There in about or e and a halftone of ground, good dwelling, »#nt houses end well. AUo two atAblee. Ap ply it this office. jaolStl - th f c . ,i7rt " Ul « ive , n 10 the , c *. us 1 e ‘ shirt moat, now is the man who did ic-our g.i i's « hetiM r von hih:i to 1 of humanity, ami not a single dol i .u-|„,„ n,h,r„, IROTa lbspectfu'ly. lar to the cause of the tlevil When ^ v «‘h,inro u Here was J* S M. COHEN. TLe Bargain Man. will that be ’ It Will be when men to do. He closed his On# second r-f O.. I VI.. annn.ll. U..1. “'ll »« • It Will 06 WDM IMII k. nalll.. . .mA I I.l LOTT WABBEB, Agsal. at Ihe BargainSM«rr when in need of auy people. If that lie Christianity, DOANF.i) money at twenty pkbcent tear uniur) in jour pun-bn-c* n any f. . J . ibc man who waves the bloodv , Object to voit. Wc.t'lbe plr»,' '’ the 8-d7n will h» o.v.n ■■ •»i:d pric rurdiftw S M. COHKN. Tl.- Birgoiu Man. will that be ? It will be when men I T"* u i) ,1 ‘ ln * l <> uo - ue cloaca his Oos second band carpet, bat little Sign of Ked Flag, oppo.ito Bank ol . . ... . : lec'Urc by reciting a ttd Incident, worn, oonuiniog.boatUitrty|yuds. l» Amelias., Coiion Avenu-. c « a »« l «> P ra .V tot 364 days fer the | Ibu C#B ; ttnder » Ui( #bwrr#t , on> I tail, at this oSm "