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D Al L y-
Americus
Recorder.
Established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER C, 1885.
Daily, Pur Yrar, ..fie.oo
Wkkkly, “ ... * *.00
COTTON IS KING!
BM8NR J. WAXELBAUM & CO.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Dry Goods, Clothing-. Boots, Shoes, Hats, Gaps,
Fancy Goods, Garpets and Trunks.
SILKS, SATINS, VELVETS AND FINE DRESS GOODS OUR SPECIALTIES.
GOODS RETAILED AT WHOLESALE PRICES !
Good fast color Calico
Good yard wide Bleaching
Good yard wide Sheeting -
Columbus Checks
- at 4?c per yard
at 71c per yard.
- at 5c per yard,
at 61c per yard.
Yard Wide Carpet
All Wool Jeans -
Good Wool Suits, coat, vest and pants, at $5.00.
at 25c per yard.
Good Brogans, (I to 11,
Good Woman’s Plow Shoes, 3 to 9,
at 20c per yard.
at 1.00 pcrpair.
at 50c per pair.
Call and See Us Before Purchasing and if we don’t Save you 25 pek cent, in Buying from us,
and give you Five Times the Amount Stock to select from, THE MULE IS YOURS!
J. WAXELBAUM & CO.
Proprietors New York Store.
P. S.—Ladies can have their Dresses and Costumes made in the Latest Style, by experienced
Dress Makers, and all information cheerfully given on our premises. J. WAXELBAUM & CO.
REPRESENTATIVE FIRMS.
Broktr*
J B FELDEIt, ~
** • Mc/cbandi** and Cotton Broker and
Negotiator of Long Loana.
I Mb re at Planter*’ War. ho—.
C. N. BURKIIALTER,
Real Estate and Loan Broker.
Office over Council A Williford.
I).
Meat Market*.
rp ||. COBB,
• Cotton Avenue Meat Market and Fam
ily Groceries Opposite Bank of Americuit.
J AMES HARP,
Maul Market, Hart * old ataud. For-
Hvth Street, North aide Fnblio Square
Fall aaimly of fresh meats alway* on
hand. Wagon run* every day.
It Y
Shoe Store*.
i'LANDER & ARRINGTON,
Ca*h Hlioe and Hat Store.
Corner Lamar and Jackaon Street*
"f AJ BLACK A SONS,
f " # BooU, Shoe*, Hat* and Leather.
Cotton Avcuue, Next Bank of Ameriona.
l*hy*icia MA
T B. IIINKLE,
• PhyNician and Surgeon, Office on
JarknonSt. IwldtiCi op Taylor Si.
TVH J. A FORT,
^ Bhyeioiiin and Surgeon. Office at
Kldridfte'H drug etore. lUaidence Weet
Lamar S4r *et
n A. BROOKS,
Phyaician and Surgeon, office at
Davenport*' drug *h»re. lUai.leufd at
8. II. Hawkius, Lee Street.
m E. SMITH,
Reform Phyaicmn.
< Hire Up Klatr* iu Engine House block.
Groceries.
T B. BOS WORTH.
Wli..!•>«!»* end Retail Grocer.
Forsyth St., ‘id door east of post office
WOOTEN A FORD,
" Orocera, General M« rehaud»se and
ITauti ra 8uppli«-a. Between Planter'*
War*)iot|M« and People'* National Bank
Dry Good*.
/liiKAPEM HOUSE IN THE CITY
V THORN IX)N WHEATLEY.
Dry Quod*, Clotbiog. Shoe*, Etc , Etc
Public Square and Jarkaon Street.
VVAVBA CALI.AWAY,
^ Dry Good*. Clothing, Sboea, Hat*, and
Heviog Machines. Cor. Lamar and Jack-
ton Street*.
B. FOSTER, The Invincible.
Dry Goo.Im, Clothing, Boot*, Shoee
Fuater'a Corner.
M.
Photograph Art tut.
VaM RIPER.
’ fhotogiaph Artist,
Orer Wheat!*? s itor*.
Attorney. nt Law.
I NO. N. SCARBOROUGH,
' Attorney at Law soil Heal Estate Agt.
Office over Georgia Warehouse.
L J. BLALOCK,
• Attorney *t Law,
Office in Court lionee. i
J C. MATTHEWS.
Attorney at Law ami Losn Agent.
Office over Council A Williford
I W. BRADY,
” • Attorney at Law,
Office in Barlow Block.
B E WILKINSON,
• Attorney at Law.
l'ructica in Slate Courta. Collectiona made
and prompt returns.
Office over People* National Bnnk.
Warehoune.
J tol NCIL A WILLIFORD,
^Warehonaeand Cornmission Mercbauta
Nortlonst eorio-r I’utdic Square.
n \V. FELDER, Planter 1 'a Warr bonne,
^•Warehonaeand Comminaion Merchant
Honth aide I.imar Street.
rnool.E, McGAHUAII A ToNDKE,
I Warebonae and Comiuiaaion Mercbants
Went aide Cotton A»o. Head of Foraytb St
Hook Storem.
A ONES AYCOCK,
Booka, Nawapapera, Muaic anti Sta
tionery. Commercial Block, Foraytb St.
Neat door to Boat office.
Maek.mith Shop.
H'atche. anil Jewelry.
E. SULLIVAN,
Watcbmakei and Jeweler,
South aide nf Lamar St.
L’ltETWELL A SMITH.
1 Illackamilba anil Woodwork.
Firat-claaa work guarsnleeil. Foraytb St.
F.aat of Witte’ corner.
Liquor, anil Tobacco.
TAKE ISRAELS,
’ ' Liquors, Tobacco* and Cigars.
Ice a Specialty. Cotton Avenue, i
^^^jlooMoJlank^of^Am^ricna^^
(1 HINTON A KLDHIDGE.
VjT Blackamilbing and Woodworking,
Horeenboeing and General ltepairing a
a|ieceialty.
Uant ware.
T W. SHEFFIELD A CO.
O • Wholesale and lteUil Hardware, Bug-
giea, Wagon-, Harnees, Saab. Door.Blinda
and I’ainta, Cor. Foraytb and JackonSta.
7 W. IIAIUUS A t’O.
*1. Wboleaale and HeUll Hardware, ling
giea, Wagoiia, Herne**, Saab. Doom,
Illinda and I’ainta. Head Cotton Avenue.
6'in Hcpairiny.
II W. HOWARD,
II* Gin Itepairer.
Gina repaired and put in Irat-clnss order.
Work guaranteed. Addrenn me by poatal.
G C. CAMERON A SON,
. Carpentry. 'Vo* (Iwork anil Cabinet
Making. Oin repairing a specialty. Call
at tbeir old aland on Jefferson Struct.
Denti.1.
W r p. BURT.
• Dentist,
Fifteen yearn aucceaaful practice in
Americna given aaaurance that be in both
competent and reliable.
General Merchanitl.c.
1 1 KOItGE STAPLETON,
A* General Merohandiae. Furnilnre a
Specialty. Foraylh St. Front poet office.
J ESSE AYCOCK,
o General Murcbandiae.
Foraytb St Under cenlerof o|>era bonne.
i ll WIGGINS,
*• Dry Qooda, Groceries Liquors, Gen-
eral Mercban.liae. Plantation Supplies.
Foraytb St. North of Public Square.
A W. HAWKINS A BHO.
. Alwaye bare Chickeua and Eggs
on band to aril, nod anything in the
Grocery line. Call and are na. Cotton
Avenne, near tba depot.
Iliile.aml Cotnmiiuilon.
C 1 A BELL.
I, Foot Cotton Avenue, will pay beat
f Tices for Hides, Pelts, Cotton Seed,
leeawax. Dried Fruita, and Junk of all
kinds.
Hoot anil Shoe Maker.
A ndrew Dudley.
Boot and Shoe Maker. Repairing
don» in beat atyle and on abort notice.
S Jackson St., front Presbyterian church
Ire anil l'i*h.
A C.LAING,
• Ice House and Fresh Fish.
Comer Cotton Avenua and Price Alley.
Livery StilhleM.
N O. A J. K. PRINCE.
• Livery. Feed and Exchange Stables.
Dealers in lluggiea. Harness, Whips, Etc.
West aide of Cotton Avenne
Saihltery and Unrne...
J OHN M. COKER.
Dealer in Saddlery. Ilerueae, '.eatb-
-r end Finding, Herdwrere, Cutlery. Jew-
elry, Silver l’leted Were, Clean. Tobacco,
and a foil lina nf Yankee Not tone, in and
to arrive. Cotton Avenne, Amrieu, Oe.
Drm/- amt Medicine..
J OHN E. HALL.
Pure Drugs. Medicines, Petfnmery,
Toilet and Fancy Articles, etc.
Wooilen Store, Foraytb St.
V J. HUDSON.
A, Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery and
Tdila Article*, cheap as the cheapest.
Prescriptions carefully compounded.
Southeast comer of FabUe Square.
ODDS AND ENDS
Having Keen an article from the
Hkcokukr, oopied in another paper,
on the early history of this county,
Mr. Edward Barber, of Jonesboro,
writes me a few interesting facts
lor which he will please accept my
thanks. Hi* father came to Iiec
county when there were but twen
ty families within the wide boun
daries of that vast wilderness. Tkey
had to go to old Hartford to mill,
a distance of many miles over roads
that were merely blazed out
through the unbroken forest. Mr.
Barber came as an overseer for
Joseph Jackson, whose plantation
was on Spring creek, near Flint
river. He say* that “mo«t of the
time they ground their corn on a
sUel mill, people (rom ten mile*
around coming to the Barber’* mill
to grind their corn.” He remem
ber* but one family, and that was
Tomlinson, the same Tomliuson
who was for years an honored rep
resentative of Sumter county in
the legislative, linllr. Jared Tom-
liuson’a nine occur* very frequent
ly in the old journals of the House
and Senate. He is still enjoying a
green old sge, living in Albany,
retired from the bustle of life, and
doubtless his memory often runs
backward to those early times when
true worth and intrinsic merit
paved the royal road to honorable
preferment.
e e
But those steel mills. Now, I
1 happen to know something about
steel mills. Long ago, when 1 oc
cupied that most unfortunate po-
I sition, ‘-only boy about the plae*,”
I uaeil to have to turn one of those
j lireseme, monotonous invsr.tion*
for hours at a time. The fineness,
or rather coarseness, of the grist
was regulated by a set screw. I
, would fill the hopper full of corn
and grind oat a pint or *o of toler
ably fine hominy. Then I would
ideoide to “lot her up jaot »
leetle,” and u turn of that screw sapling in the usual faibion, and
changed the grist to a coarser Jell was carrying the pole on his
grade, and relieved the strain on shoulder,
my arms. Another point gained,
anil another pint ground, and I let
her up a little bit more. And by
the time the last of the corn got
thiough the smaller grains were
| uninjured, and the larger ones
looked like they had just cracked
their sides laughing nt the great
jest I had perpetrated on them.
The "old man” generally kept out
of sight untiljustas I had finished,
when he would walk briskly up
and say, “Hello, sonny, I thought
I’d come and help you a turu or
two, but—why. great jewhillikina!
You've not half ground this corn.
Now you just tighten that screw
and run it through again. I wont
] uphold as lazy a boy as you are in
such idleness,” and he would turn
it up tight and waltz olf leaving
me in a queer predicament, for the
more I ground the more water I
got in the mutter of the perspira
tion that streamed from every
[ore.
*
* •
Joseph Jackson, Thomas Cow-
art, Jack Cowart and several oth
ers, came to Lee the second year
after it was organized. Thomas
Barber was the father of Edward
Baiber, my correspondent, and he
was said ^to have been the first
white roan buried in Lee county.
His funeral took place fifty five
years ago. Jesse Jackson, the
crippled son of Joseph Jackson, is,
I sm told, living yet. But I want
to tell you a funny story related to
me by a Iriend. A planter owned
a slave named Mose who was an
inveterate ’possum hunter. Away
back in 1833 there was a most re
markable meteoric shower popu
larly known as “when the sUrs
fell.” Unelo Mom was out in a
hurricAne trick, whore the logs ley
thick, Indulging in bis favorite
peatime. Hls boy, Jeff, wa* with
him, nad they bed caught e ’pee-
sad inserted hie tell la ei
Suddenly the whole earth was
illuminated by the shower of falling
meteors. Uncle Mose gazed up In
mute astonishment as the blazing
stars went shooting hither and
thither stretching their flaming
tails across the horizon in an awe
inspiring manner. Then be stan-
pctled. He would run a short dis
tance, fill over a log, and then get
on his knees and pray. Than be
would mako another dash, trip over
a t dccaying h.-anch and begin pray
ing again. Jeff scrambled after
him, still holding on to hls 'poMum
All of a sudden Mose remembered
that it was Sunday night, and then
be prayed louder than ever. Jeff
called out, “Daddy, wot mus’ I do
wid dis 'possum ?” “Grant Lord
massy! Jcfl, hab you got det
'possum yit? Turn ’im loose I let
’im go yo' fool niggali. De worl’
am cornin' to an ren’, an’ w’en de
Lo’d ax me wot I mean by huntin’
'possum ou Sunday night, dotn yo’
know I doan want dat 'possum to
'pear in jedgmentagin me?”
StCMPr.
ieft ^
A man who speaka of himself ns
'money dresser” by trade makee
[his living in New York by bis man-
i luilation of old coin. He bnys the
Iplugged silver pieces and chopped
cop|>cr coins that are dropped Into
the gate boxea along the elevated
railroad, and ttxca the money np no
that it will pass again. Now end
then he comes across a rare cole
worth many times its face vein*
Afivlret* Mothers
Mrs. Winslow's 8oothinu 8reW
should always be used for ehildren
teething. It soothes the child, soft
ens the gums, allays all peie, cures
wind colic, end is tpe beet remedy
for disrrbo'i. Twenty-five oeoU e
bottle.
jaBBtUoilAw ly
A novelty of th* drill le the
Russian army U e race between
cavalry officers end e railway train.
In e ran of fil alien the hlitimw
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