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°£org^ w, L. ttLISSSNEB, Official Organ of SutnMr County. Official Organ of Webster County^ SUNDAY. -• DECEMBER 7,1890. The AUKKICUS RiicobdkbI* published Dally and Weekly, during the year. The Daily RrconnkR la leaned every morning except Mondays, during the: at 50c per month, orW.OO per year. The Weekly Recordbb is Issued every Friday morning, at *1 00 per year paythle In advance. It has the largest circulation any paper In Southivest Georgia, olrcula 1 ting largely in the counties of Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Stewart, Webster, Schley. Marlon’ Macon, Dooly and Wlleox, Entered at A mericus Post-OIBceas second c ass matter. A11 communications should be addressed to AMEItICUS PUBLISHING CO. What will the South do about the force bill ? Trot out your candidates, gentle men; there are two more city of fices to till. The Alliaucemen are stirring things up in Ocala, even if they did excuse McCuue aud Living ston. Editor Gunn is inclined to he suspicious of Liylugston and Har ry Brown, since they got defeated in the Senatorial fight. Should the salary be reduced one or two more times, no man in the State could be fouuit who would become a railroad commissioner. A rising young Napoleon of liuauce says there will soon be no scarcity of money, but in the mean time the banks hang lovingly on to what they llaveln their vaults. The Augusta Chronicle seems willing for Savannah to name the new railroad commissioner, but stubbornly refuses to believe that this section lias a claim for any office. Gazaway Hsrtrldge, editor of the Savcnnali Times, has fallen into sudden honor. He was carried to Rome in a special car and lectured to a fine audience. His Alliance speech did it. One would win a small fortune in a few days if he could tell who would l,o nominated for Mayor. The fight is gettiug warmer every day, and to-morrow or Tuesday promises eome lively political work. As yet no meetings have been held in the interest of any candidate, the vote getting being done by the old button-hole process. JUDGE MATHEWS. By reference to our news columns it will be seen that Col. J. C. MathewB has been noniluated aud confirmed Judge of the County court of Slimter county. Col. Mathews is a lawyer of well knowu ability aud sterliug iutegrlty, aud will make a Judge of whom Sumter county will be proud. He Is oue of Americus voting men, though his experience at the bar has been of many years. Judge J. B. Pllsbury, whose term will not expire for some time, lias made a repututiou that any man can be proud of, aud his rulings has made for 'him a state reputa tion. He lias broken up mauy gangs of lawless, gambling negroes, to whom ho has meted out strlot justice. THE DUTY OF THE SOUTH. There is hardly a doubt but that tho Republican Senate aud HouBe propose passing some kind of a force bill, and that Pres. Harrison will sign it Is shown by his mes sage. The hill that will be passed will be aimed directly atthejSouth; in fact, It will be made to cover the South only, restrictions being thrown around it to make It inap plicable to tlie North. The Democrats will do .their best to defeat the passage of the bill, but under Reed’s rules they can bo easily squelched at the proper time. It this bill is passed and becomes a law, it will be a heavy blow to, the South. It will not Increase the Republican voto, but it may in crease the Republican representa tion, Id tblB emergency the press of hetSouth should rise as one man and not only protest against the hill, but write to tbelr Northern friends to help, Every merohant in the South should write to the Northern dealers who supplyjhlm with goods, and not only made it a political protest, but an Industrial one as well. Concerted action should be taken, and that at once. Those men of the North who have put their money in Southern investments should be appealed to, and ahown how each a law would .seriously affect their interests. The time is ripe for action. Have we no great newspaper or great po litical lead*!' who 'will sound the warning?^ ' • 0 C-* • OVER-BOOMING. The Manufacturers’ Record for Dec. 6th has a fine article compar. ingthe density of population in the North and South. Georgia’s pres ent cenBUS gives her 81 people to the square mile, while Illinois has near69tothe square mile. It will be Been by this that several million more people can be added to our population without, ns the Record suggests, “filling In the water courses.” Mauy people both North and South think the bulldiugaDd boom ing of new towns has been over done, aud that a reaction will now come with the present tight ness of money, which will check any future efforts In this direction, and retard tho prospects of the “boomed" towns. While it may be true that people will be slow to Invest Id these towns while a sem blance of a panic Is on us, It will not seriously affect those towns which are the natural growth of the section In which It is located. In some sectiousg,here Is a teudeiicy to over-boom young towns, which are started by enterprising specu lators for the sole purposeof selling out a high figure, but the wiping out of such places will only have the effect of making Intending pur chasers the more cautious, und of causing said enterprising specu lators to Invest in some more legit imate bUBiuess, where the profits may be smaller but more certa.u. Any section that has good natur al advantages undeveloped, need not fear any re-action from these “over-boomed” towns. If it can stand the close inspection that any wise immigrant would give it, it uetd not fear the result. The Southern boom has hut begun, and In the next ten years millions of people will fiud homes and occu pation In the South. Something About “Bumbus. 1 George h. Ilogun In Texas Farm. "Oh, there is the bumble bee, papa!” Buid my little boy as I lay iu bed with a crippled kuee, th other day. "Don’t kill it, dear,” admonished him, as be looked for a stick and prepared to make an on slaught od the intruder, while he was crawling over aud among the flowers at my window. The little boy has a kind heart, but when he was about 4 years old he caught a bumble bee and ihe took It to his mother kiid told her to take the bug, he was burning his hands, but the mother was too well acquainted with the ways of the young natu ralist to enter Into his plans with out luvestigatiou, and so he was severely stung before he let it Ioobb, and lie has never admired the bumble bee since. But I read him a lecture on bugs in general, and bees in particular, and herewith submit the same views for other little Texas boys, as well as some of the bigoues. Tlie bumbus, or bumblebee Isone of GodVchief instruments of fertil izing certain (lowers. The little honey bee attends to this in most flowers, but somu are so construct ed—that Is tliey have such deep cells that the little houey bee can not reach the bottom of them to gather tho honey and pollen. But the bumble bee has a very different proboscis and can reach the deep est ceils of most flowers that are too email for the little bee toenter, and too deep for him to reach. There fore the necessity for preserving the bumble bee. One of tho most Important of these flowers, or perhaps we might say two of the most Important, are the trifollum pretense or red clover, and the trifollum ripens or white clover, both carrying immense quantities of honey aud bee food. The former especially Is almost a total failure In Texas on account of the scarcity of the bumbus or bum ble bee to fertilize the blooms and thus make It reeeed itself. Bo now, boys, don’t destroy the bumble bee, uo matter how much fun you may have, for our great prairies have been destroyed for cotton, and we must raise some other kind of forage plants. Now, whst cultivated grass can beat clover, if we have the seasons for it ? Therefore, boys, don’t destroy the bumble bees, for they arc worth their weight in gold. THE SENATE IN SESSION. VICE PRESIDENT LEVI P. MORTON IN THE CHAW. ting with fits long back well bowed and Ms neck craned forward, as if he were a tyro in the chamber; yet here he has been for thirty years, come March: 4 next, less the four years which ho spent as secretary of the treasury; and before coming to the senate he had been six years in the house of representatives. Thirty-six years iu the very front of public service, once almost elected speaker, once in the cabinet, four times nearly within reach of the presidential nomination, and more than a quarter of & century a leader of the senate—what a great career! Right in front of Sherman, sitting well snuggled down in his chair, nis bald head lient low down, and twiddling his thumbs as usual, sits another statesman who has been so long here that it almost seems that the senate could not run on without him. George F. Edmunds is the oldest senator in continuous service. LEMON ELIXIR. Its. Wonderful Effect on the Liver, Stomach, Bowola, Kidneys and Blood. Dr. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir is a pleasant lemon drink thnt positive iy cures all Biliousness, Constipa tion, Indigestion, all Sick aud Nervous Headaches, Kidney Dis ease, Dlzziuess, loss of Appetite, Fevers, Chills, Palpitation of Heart, and all other diseases caused by disordered liver, stomach and kid- ucys, the first great cause of all fatal diseases. 50 cts. and $1 per bottle. Bold by druggists. Pre pared only by H. Mozley, M. D., Atlanta, Ga. LEMON HOT DROPS. For coughs and colds, take Lemon Hot Drops. / For sore throat and Bronchitis, take Lemon Hot Drops, For pneumonia and Laryngetis, take Lemon Hot Drops. For Hemorrhage and all throst and lung diseases, take Lemon Hot Drops. 25 cents, at druggists. Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Georgia. President National Bank. McMlnville,Tens., writes: From experience in my family, Dr. H. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir has few, if any equals, and no superiors In medicine, for the regulations of the liver, stomach and bowels. Dr. H. Mozley’s Lemon Hot Drops are sn- K rlor to any remedies we have ever en able to get for throat and lung diseases. W. H. Madness, President National Bank, John J. Ingalls, "the Ksdmm Stork," and How Ho Preside*—-George F. Edmond*, of Vermont—Morrill, with ThAse Two, Complete* a Faraoa* Trio—Mr. Evart*. [Special Co-re*pomlencc. ] Washington, Dec. 4.—Here is the sen ate in session again, and as we sit in the gallery and watch the great men below a thousand little peculiarities and inci dents and recollections crowd for men tion. Vice President Morton is in the chair, and more nervous than usual. Looking straight down at the top of his head we have opportunity to see how perfect his wig is If you did not know | the smooth, neatly parted hair you see Noxt Apn be wU1 °°?¥^ ? ? aar “ r l , 0 a century s service of his state in this body. With Ingalls out and Edmunds dead—for even this tough old man must some day succumb to nature’s law—who will there bo left to stick for the proprie ties an<l the forms and the dignities of the ancient and honorable senate? Who will there bo to coach the vice presidents of the future who are more lucky in politics than \ersed in legislative lore? As Edmunds grows older he becomes bolder; he is a sort of licensed free think er here—not a genuine infidel and scoffer, as Ingalls is, for Mr. Edmunds goes to church every Sunday and keeps a prayer book on the desk which stands in the library of Ins .$59,000 aesthetic home in Washington, hut a senator who says what ho pleases about men and things in liis dry, rasping, sardonic* way, with out much fear of being taken to task. The simple truth is every one is afraid of him. He is like the cross old bull dog loose in tho yard; every one admires him#but no one cares to stir him up or play any pranks on him. Yet Edmunds is not so cross as he looks. Half the bitter tilings which ho lays—and he says a good many—are said 10 coldly .and dryly, with such obvious absence of feeling, with such apparent purpose to amuse in his grim, terrible way, that even the victims join in tho smile which goes round and echo the prevalent comment# ‘‘What an old ter ror he is, to bo sure!” Sherman, Edmunds, Morrill—this trio of names comes unconsciously to the tongue. Speak of the great old men- of the senate, and these are in yonr mind at once. Morrill is gettiug very old and feeble, yet here ho is, determined, ap- We candidly Confess that we are ft little disappointed at the opening of theDecsm- bertrad®, and have about decided that the best way to do is ‘‘to take the bull by the horns,” or, tn other words, in order to convert our goods Into money, offer them at such prices as will make you forget the existing stringency of money. TbU we propose to do, and from now until Januajy the “THE KANSAS STOltK.” there was made up by a Parisian wigger you would never suspect it. Mr. Morton does not like the work of presiding over the deliberations of tho senate, that is evident. It is too obviously a task for him, one which makes him nervous, fear ful, timid. He is afraid to open his month lest he say the wrong thing, and constantly has his eye on two senators who sit a little to tho left, as if looking to them for tho cue what to do next. These senators, Ingalls and Edmunds, are ever on the alert to give assistance, and the amiable but hesitating man in the chair puts a question,when Mr. Edmunds nodsand de- , dares the order of business is so and so, when Mr. Ingalls calls a page and sends a marked copy of the calendar to the ■ - desk of tho presiding officer. Vice Pres- 1 P^rently, to die in harness, as did John ident Morton says presiding over the j Adams. sessions of tho senate is the hardest Morrill is really tlie patriarch of con- work he ever did in his life, and after ; ^ rees ’ bein ^ tho oldest man ia years and an hour or so Of it this day he retires to k^&est in service. He came to the house his private room to compose his nerves. 1 185o» along with John Sherman and The man who takes his place is one of 1 Gen * *“(1 has been in either the the marked characters of this gathering 1 hon *® or the seuate ever ^nce. Thus we of notables. Senator Ingalls is a man j have two sectors f rom a single state who would attract attention anywhere. who have R combined service record of He is unlike any other man in the world, j 8 **^y" one ye 441 " 8, other state in the As he stands at the base of the platform ! Union has ever equaled that, and It is on which the president sits, waiting to 1 **** to that little Vermont will hold ascend, he unconsciously assumes a • rocord ^ or man y a year. The Gruen statuesque posture so like that of some t Mountain state appears to havo a pen- great, peculiar, impossible swamp bird , c ^ant for constancy to her public men, that a newspaper correspondent who sits ^ or ^ * 8 a rcinar ^' H hle fact that both of by my side, and who has some genius these Vermont veterans succeeded men for pencil sketching, exclaims, “Look at experience, the Kansas stork!” and rapidly draws an j Edmunds first entered the senate seven amusing picture. Mr. Ingalls is an ! d:xy * after the de/ * h of Solomon Foote, habitual attitudinizes Some people say | who !l ^ been nineteen years in congress, he does this because he knows it at- d 3^ng in harness, while Morrjjl succeed- tracts attention and excites comment; , od J;vcob Collainer, who had a great but I think it is all done unconsciously. The same skeptics declare Mr. Reed, ' the most conspicuous man at the other 1 end cf tho Capitol, uses his down east is Intended to wake up the natives. Dress goods will be sacrificed! Trimmings to be sacrificed! We have a few silk patterns, both In colors and blacks, with magnificent matohed trimmings, which are to be sacrificed, (would mike a nice present for Christ mas.) A few more Novelty Suits to be Sacrificed! Flannels to be Sacrificed! Gloves aud Ribbons fo be Sacrificed! Corsets to be cleaned out! , Cassimcrs and Jeans to be closed out! Shoes to be Sacrificed! Wraps to be Sacrificed! Underwear to be Saerlfl j • t • Gent’s Furnishlugs to be Sacrificed! Flue Dress Suits t) be Sacrificed. Business Suits to be Sacrificed! 20(1 Boys Suits tooeSacrificed! loO Overcoats to be Sacrl fleed! Will sell you $10.0» Overcoat for L-00. Overcoats worth $12.00 for $8.50. $8.00 Overcoats for$5.00. Overcoats worth $15, to $18 going at $12.50. Damasks and 8pr< 60 pr. Blankets will be sacrificed! Towels and Napkin Hosiery to be Sacrificed! Another invoice of thoso black 2-5c stocklngsJuR received. This will bo the last iot of these goods we'll have, as the price on them has been advanced. > be Sacrificed. > be Sacrificed! 4 (EKY Early iu tlie season we had an order for several pieces of carpet, but the delay in freights “knocked us out” and the carpets arc now on our hauds, the party having or dered elsewhere. Wehave no earthly use for them, and If you want a fine velvet brus- scls carpet worth $1.25 a yard for 75c, we have Just three rolls w liich you can buy at this price, but for cash only. First callers will be able to secure a bargain, the like of which may never occur again. For Christmas Presents. We have quite a line ofnrtlcles suitable for the purpose,*and will have them all in shape in due time. I.ook out for a big “ad” in next Sunday’s issue of this paper THREE ROLLS OF CARPET TO BE SACRIFICED! Call at tho BEE - HIVE 0. [IM & GO. Proprietors of the Lowest Price Hous in Southwest Georgia. ■“We respectfully but earnestly request a settlement of accounts due us„ drawl designedly and with the name pur pose in view, because he knows it is quaint and alluring; but these suspicions are very unjust. Mr. Reed drawls and twangs because ho can’t help it, any more than he can help being fat and sassy. As for Mr. Ingalls, it is as uat- career ns representative, cabinet officer find senator. It is an interesting group of old men that our gaze has fallen on. By Ed munds’ side sits a man with a small, weak looking l>ody, an enormous head, a huge nose and lips which fall into his face like a canyon in a bare prairie. It is tlie great Evarts, now near the close of his long career. Ilis senatorial term expires three months hence, and fit three ural for him to pose, to be picturesque, and three ho certainly does not to fold his arms on his breast or clasp • as P ire to further public service, hands behind his back, as it is for him Mr * Evarts is a n,RTl who is slowly go to breathe. Politics aside, and thinking. slee P- Hte years are many and only of the inen who are interesting and ^*®y do Il °^ li&htly on him; yet at extraordinary, it is a pity that Mr. Ingalls times he can route himself. When he may leave the senate, where he is clftarly a spe* •elicit is like the oration of a the most conspicuous figure. Ho is not ventriloquist’s mannikin, for the form is exactly popular among his associates, and unsteady on its pins, and on but every one will be sorry to see him go. acconu ^ 0 f the absence of teeth in the Without Ingalls—die thin, tall, grave - orat " r ’ 8 head the words come out with- man with a voice six sizes top large for ou ,^ niueu articulation and with a cer- him; the man whose face has an ex- mechanical sound. Though the pression of vitriol and of intellecual sav- , ^.v is old and the teeth conspicuous by agery in it; the man who chews hia their «bsenre—odd that a senator should scrubby gray raustaheo all the time and ^ ave an ineradicable prejudice against occasionally adjusts his red cravat or 1 ,n2c ^ useful products of modern civiliza- takes off his owl liko spectacles and iUm 88 manufactured molars and ivory wipes them with an air all his own, in- mpisor.s there is nothing the matter mutable and indescribable; the man who great brain, speaks the English language in large, ! one ^ co ^ s dow u on this old man, bold type, all nicely punctuated, accent- ' l >ro ^*hly the foremost lawyer of his uated and italicized, so that every sylla- • ^ mo * u a ,ia P uu oi great lawyers, one bie he utters may be heard to the utter- i 0140 ^ avold thinking of the power that most parts of the chamber—without this ! brain has exercised in the affairs of man, man, if indeed he is to go, the senate j and ou# ^hea there were some method will be devoid of one of its greatest at- ! uieasnring tho ohms or volts or foot tractions. When shall we look upon his ' ^° ns or horso power of a great and ener- likc again? j intellect. Walter Wellman. There are men here who appear to be j a part of the senate chamber itself, so j Southern Wom«n in Now York, long have they been sitting in their Mrs. Emma Moffett Tyng, the wife of accustomed spots. By Ingalls’ side sits ' T. Mitchell Tyng and the daughter-in* another tall, slim, grave man on whom j of Stephen N. Tyng, is from Colum- tfane seems to leave few marks. John » bus, Ga. She belongs to a fine old fam- Sherman, the father of the senate, and I « petite, round faced, rosy cheeked now the Nestor of American public men, | and brown eyed. She is a fine Greek all things considered, is a remarkable j scholar. She writes msgazjne articles instance of vitality in a frame which | principally. Her novel, “Grown ^wels,” does not look overstrung. Six feet | had a large sale. She is now engaged in three Jnches tall, and weighing but 150 writing the life of Mary Magdalen, claim- 320 Lamar Street, TELEPHONE 52. ARGO & ANDREWS. Fancy - and - Family - Groceries, PRESH. CAIED GOODS: Peaches, Pears, Apricots, Pineapples', Tomatoes, Beans, Sweet Corn. All at Bottom Prices rivals a Specialty. Confections, Crackers, Lunch Milk Biscuit. Best Cream Patent Flour. Magnolia ami Gold Baud Hams. All Goods Delivered at your Door. Open to receive orders from 5 a. m. to 7 p. m. pounds, Senator Sherman is not of tho physical mold of which the choicest life insurance risks are composed. Tet here he is at 6? years, ready for another win ter's hard work, looking almost as young as he did fifteen years ago. and jnst hs active, vigilant and forcible. There are no bald spots on his head, and his hair, and .beard are only beginning to turn grey. Without him iu hia old seat—a chair which is shorter by two inches than its neighbors, made so by Mr. Sherman’s orders so that he will not be compelled to stoop so much in writing—the senate would bare lost one of its greatest men and modt conspicuous landmark. The old senator had a way of evincing inter est in everything that u going on, sit ing to have unearthed positive proof that this woman, who left all to follow Christ, was a leader in society in her day; in fact, an Aspasia of the time. After all tho seven devils cast ont by the Master may havo been fashionable sins, and perhaps no worse than those which now prevail. Mw Fanny Williams is from Atlanta ambis perhaps tho youngest newspaper woman in New York. She is a pretty Titian haired blonde with charming manners, who pursues her profession from very luveofit. 8bo is writing for The Tribune and other papers and has already shown that she poreesses the in telligence and energy which win her Xmas is Comingi Mrs. ELAM Is Ready for Your Trade. Cane Cniini BAR AN0 estaurant, UUIIO UUUul W.T. RAGAN, Proprietor. Wo.807 Xiumnr Btroot. that < My Saloon Is rnrni.ned with (ho best Wine., Brandies, Rum, Gin and Whl.kle be liought for the cash. Imported Liquor n SuecKllv. Yon enn find at mv Bar miyining you want to drink from n gln«. of Cold Milk or Heir to tho FJne.t unrfonly W h-sky-Sonr in America*- Mv ttastauraui u onnniu.i • i.„ s.„... .l * adonis, Dint with the hestc.. an the most fa.sti<)lous. firlok from u ulnss of Cold Milk Americus. My Restaurant In supplied with the best the market ok In the State, aud axel or goo*! waiters. Iau suiethat I mm —-JLr: —>otxTj^3T — ^ Also Wail slid Prescription coses, Cedal ~ Chests, Barber Furniture, Jewelry Travt •ad Stools. Cabinet Work of cit yintls. Complete Outfits for Stores and Catalogue free. A,1ATLANTA SHOW ^ASE CO.. Atlanta, 6* ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR MAYOR. The friends of Hon. John U. Felder an authorized to announce him a* a candi late for the office of Mayor, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. The friend* of Hon. P. H. Williams an nounce him as a candidate for Mavor of the City of Americus, subject to the Demo cratic nomination on Thursday next, FOR ALDERMAN. FOB CLBBK AND TBEA8UBBB. I hereby announce my self a candidate for Clerk and Treasurer of the City or Ameri cus, subject to the Democratic municipal primary. D. K. Ruinhon. qiGLA/ New j Bon, 28 Bond St. 1 mu’ profits per month, prove It or p iy forfeit, portraits Juatout. A KM sample »ent free to ^1. W. H. Chtdeeter A FOB TAX COLLECTOR. or, subject to Oemtcratlc primary. My candidacy I. subject to the action of the Democratic primary, If one Is hold. Respectfully, Joutr Sims. J. U. DUNN Announces himself a candidate for the of. fie,* nfTnx Collector of Humtcr county, at the ensuing January election, eubject to action of prl tnnry election. Dec. 6, M0. Ing spent t years of my life w ith the good people of the county, I hereby announce myself a candidate for the- olhoe of Tax Collector subject to the Democratic nomination. Btbpiikn W. Shall. I hereby annonnee myself a candidate during the ensolng term of two yean, ror Ihe office of Tax Collector or Sumter coun ty,subject to tho ratification ot the Demo cratic primary, soon to be held. If elected, my principal assistant wlU ho Mr, Jimmie Knrlow, now a minor. My candldaey Is In the Interest of his father’s family. Tbeyeball receive the perqnlsltea of the office, and It t* In obedience to their expreaeed drain that I bare consented to seethe suffrages of the people, who Major FuFow loved eo long, and among whom I have spent the twenty.flre yean of my married life. Mkubzl Callawax.