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INSURANCE.
..'E AND ACCIDENT Th» cheapest
aad Best. W. T. A. DUNN, Agent.
SA'M !
CONTRACTORS.
I STEVENS* COL •
/10NTRACTOR. is .prepared to do any
i v kind* of building and moving at reason
able prices Wind mllli a specialty.
SHOPMAKKRft.
P. R. STANFIELD
P RACTICAL SHOEMAKER and r palr-
er, Americua. Ga. Repairing a specialty
SH-HOLSEY.
QOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Repairing
D a specialty. Shop up stair* over Arthur
Kylander’s shoe store.
E’ A-HAWKINS.
A TTORNEY AT law. Offlco upstair,
on Grauberry corner.
SIMMONS fit KIMBROUGH.
A ttorneys at law. office up stairs
In Harlow Block.
• BUTT & LUMPKIN.
ITTORNEYB ATJ.AW, Americua. Ga.
1 Office in Bar.owvloek, up Mialm.
L.d. BLALOCK.
A ttorney at law. office in, court
bouse.
ROBTi L- MAYNARD,
A TTORNEY and counsellor at Law,
Amcrlcus, Ga. ProTpt and careful at
tention given to a! business entrusted to
me. Office at No. 405, Jackson Street, up
stairs. sepiO-d&wSm*
DuPont (lUKunv.
W. B. Guekry. . --
Amcrlcus, Ga. Macon, Ga,
GUERRY & SON;
I AWYERS, Amerleus, Ga. Office In IVo.
J pie’s National Bunk BulMIup, Lamar
street. Will practice In HtunUf SU|»*riof
and County Courts, and In the Supreme
Court. Our Junior will regular!- *
the sessions of the Superior C« url. The
Arm will take special cases in any Superior
Court on Southwestern Railroad.
E. E. Hinton. E. H. Cum.
HINTON &CUTTS-
A TTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice In the
State ami Federal Courts. Office over
Hart Building,on Forsyth street,
mar 1 ly
WALTER K. WHEATLEY,
A TTORNEY AT LAW. Oftio- 406
Jackson street, tip-stairs. JttlylH-ly.
ANSLEY & ANSLEY.
A TTORNEYS at LAW, Americua, Ga.
Will practice In the counties of Sum
ter, Schley, Macon, Dooly, Webster, Stew
art, In the Supreme Court, and the United
T. L. HOLTON,
A T X?«
tlce In all the counties of the State. Prompt
W. P. WALLACE.
National Bunk.
J. A. HIXON
V TTOIINEY AT LAW, Amerleus, Ga.
Office In Hagley building, opposite
Court House. Prompt, attention given to
all business. iun5-tl.
I>K nTISTH.
DR. W. P. BURT,
T\ENTIST. Dental parlors over Oran-
v berry’s store.
DR. d. d- WORSHAM.
ftENTIHT. Dental parlors over National
PHYSICIAN AND URGEONS.
d. M. R. WESTBROOK, M. D.
P HYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office
rehldeuce, next house to C. A. Hunting*
• feb 7 tf
ton, Church street.
G.T. MILLER. M* D.
)IIYSICIAN AND SIThGKON. Office nt
Davenport’s Drug Store, and residence.
coiner Church and Prln
8. B. HAWKINS, Sr., C. A. BROOKS'
Telephone SA. Telephone 72
Hawk : ns & Brooks*.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Americus. Georgia
COfflee In second story In old Granbery
Earner, Cal's by telephone, or left at c.
arid go’s drug More, promptly attention
might.
W, L. Bullard
(1108 6th Avenue, Columbus, Ga
Blindness, Deafness. Catarrh, etc , Eye
Ear, Throat end Nose disease.* exclusively.
Hospital ndvuntugus In New York. temdou
, and Vienna. O-mtWly.
SCHEDULE AMERICIJS STREET RAILWAY
Cora leave Wheatley’s Corner for City
Limits, Lee Street and corner Magnolia
Avenue and Ke'.der Htreet, at 8:60,7:1)0,7:*)
8:00, 8:80, 9.00 aud 9:30.
ltOUNIi T KiAr. *ACll WAY.
City Limits, Ia*c Street and corner Mag
12:00, m., I :uu,«:« amt iu:iu p. in.
84A. M. at«; 16,9:40 10:30, a. nt. 3:25 8:36
and 8.20pin.
To take effect October 19, ISO'.',
RAYMON D REES, Supt
Trouble Brewing
Shall the S. A. M. or the Central
get the freight on
Hall’s Immense Stock
GardenSeeds
That are juet beginning to arrive.
Listen tor Competitive rates.
The struggle for Pearl Onion
Beta baa commenced—first comes,
first served. All know that HALt
keeps the best of everything—don’
get loft! Call at
Everybody knows where It Is.
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Recorder
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TELEPHONE, 29.
Fresh Lot
New Country Syrup.
New Country Syrup.
New Buckwheat Flour.
New Graham Flour.
New Oat Meal.
New Cracked Wheat.
New Currants.
New Citron.
Now Raisins.
Our Cheese ie the best.
Our Butter is the best made.
Our Canned Fruits are the best.
Our Canoed Vegetables are fine.
Try our Gold Brand Hams.
Try our Star Brand Hams.
We keep the best stock of Fancy
Groceries in Southwest Georgia.
Call on ue.
Joiner & Nicholson
FINE STOCK FARMS.
A NEW INDUSTRY INAUGURATED IN
HOUSTON C0UN Y-
Mr E. Ij. Dennard’a Pine Farm—The
Natural Grasses—A Country Made for
Growing Fine Stuck.
Perry is situated in the midst of a
splendid farming section. Much of
the land is level and adapted to
cotton, corn, oats, grasses, melons,
grapes, faults, etc., etc. The soil is
deep and fertile, end varies in
price from five to fifty dollars per
acre. The county is well watered
by rivulets and creeks, most of
which are as clear as crystal. In
addition to the creek and smaller
streams there are many springs of
cool, sparkling freestone water,
while wells of excellent water are
abundant.
A portion of this section is hilly—
the altitude being about one hun
dred feet above the adjacent level
lands. These hlllsabound in marls
of different qualities, all of which
are valuable substances for fertili
zation. The green sand marl, cor
responding to that which has caused
the lands of New Jersey to produce
like a garden, is found in immense
quantities at various points in the
hilly region. The period is not dis
tant when tlie people of Houston
and adjacent counties, will learn
the intrinsic value of this marl and
utilize it as a cheap, certain and en
during fertilizer. Caieful analysis
shows that this green and marl
contains a percentage of phosphoric
ncid and a larger percentage of pot
ash. It har, a history which de
monstrates its excellence os a fer
tilizer by results from its use in
New Jersey, Deleware, Maryland
and other States. Experiments
here canuot fail to prove its great
value In redeeming worn out lands
or giving fertility to such as are
naturally barren. This marl is
good on any kind of soil, whether
sandy, or Hue, and it never causes
growing vegetation to burn.
In these hills and intervening
valleys there are most encouraging
indications or phosphate deposits,
and the time is near when proper
explorations will develop both
bone aud mineral phosphates.
I regard Houston county as the
chief garden spot of Georgia, and
now is the period for profitable in
vestments in tier lands. This is
one of the best portions of the state
for fruit culture. The table lands
lying ou the summits of the hills
are particularly adapted to this
purpose os they are reported to he
above frost level. These high ta
ble lands also produce cotton, corn,
cane and other products of the low
er portions of the country.
STOCK FARM OF MR. K. L. DENNARD.
The stock farm of Mr. E. L. Hen
na rd, situated three Julies East of
l’erry, Is one of the most complete
and interesting in the South. It
embraces an area of over seven
hundred acres af splendid land,
nearly all of which is devoted to
the production of corn, oats, hay,
fodder, etc.
Mr. Dennard has fifteen head
of thoroughbred stook, embracing
staiirons, mares and colts. They
are ail standard bred and have been
purchased by him to carry out his
purpose of raisiug fine stock.
That he It succeeding well with
ills plan there can bo uo doubt, in
view of the fact that his horses at
the Macon fair this year won four'
first prizes. His celebrated mare,
“Cinda,” took the first prize, mak-
lug a mile in a trotting race lh two
minutes and thirty seconds.
Belle, another of hia fine mares,
made a mile In two minutes and
thirty-eight and one-fourth sec
onds, taking also the first prize.
Cinda won the first prize in'the
style ring at the Macon fair for the
most beantifnl and stylish animal.
These results are very gratifying to
Mr. Dennard, as It 'establishes the
fact that he has made no mistake
In the selection of bis thorough
breds.
There is no stock farm in the
south that is more complete than
this in all of the necessary details.
The stables are commodious and
constructed on the most approved
modern plan. They are kept dry
ami clean, and are so arranged that
the tenants are constantly supplied
with fresh air and with pure water
at proper intervals. There is. one
of tl.e beet one-half mile tracks on
this farm 'hat can be found in the
southern states.
Mr. Dennard keeps a skilled
traiuer in charge of hie stock who
looks after them every hour.
Auxiliary to this farm he owns
another hoily of land lying along
the track of the Georgia Southern
and Florida railroad containing
1,450 acres.
This enterprising gentleman
spares no expense required for the
success of his plans. He has al
ready demonstrated that Houston
county is as well adapted to the
breeding and raising of fine horses
as any other section, and is setting
an example in this line worthy to
be imitated.
The residence of Mr. Dennard is
a beautiful and imposing structure,
furnished in a style of princely ele
gance, and supplied with every
modern convenience. Its position
oommauds a view of his extended
fields, stables and beautiful turf.
From hie front veranda his colts
and horses in training can be seen
moving as gracefully as gazelles.
AN UNAPPROPRIATED STOCK FARM.
In traveling over Houston county
I have made special examinations
of many localities, noting the pecu
liar advantages of certain farms for
stock raising. That of the Hon. C.
G Duncan, lying about four miles
southeast of Perry in the bend ot
Big Indian creek, and near the
junction' of this beautiful stream
and Limestone creek, le probably
better adapted to this purpose tbau
any place in the county. The tract
contains eighteen hundred acres of
fertile land, a large portion of
which le creek bottom, as level as a
plain, aDd nearly all in cultivation
this year. A variety of native
grasses grows to perfection on the
botfom land, furnishing succulent
and nutritious food for cattle aud
horses, aud the finest bay when
mown in season. Besides these
grasses there are caue brakes,
which are unsurpassed as winter
ranges for stock of all kinds. The
streams on which this farm is sit
uated supply abundant water,
which can be conveyed to any part
of the tract at small expense.
This place extends to the Geor
gia, Southern and Florida railroad
and lias a side track, which is the
property of Colonel Duncan.
I learn that the entire farm can
be purchased at a fair price and on
liberal terms, or that the owner
will enter into a partnership witli
any approved parson who desires
to engage in raising stock. Here,
then, is an excellent opportunity
for some enterprising man to cm
bark in a pleasant and profitable
business. The property is well im
proved in the way of residence,
stable, barns, etc.
UNCLAIMED MILLIONS.
FORTUNES IN THE HANDS OF PUB
LIC ADMINISTRATORS.
How to Manago Farm Labor.
It looks as If Col. Albert H. Cox,
the Atlanta lawyer, who farms in
Morgan county, had pretty well
solved tlie difficult problem of suc
cessfully managing colored farm
labor, says Col. J. V. Avery in the
(Southern Cultivator. His plan is
original, and has panned out well
for himself. He handles his plan
tation as lie speaks, and that is say
ing a good deal.
He took a large farm as a debt
that he could not save otherwise,
that was rather run down, and u
season or two under the old system
left him in a had fix. His trouble
was unreliable labor. He could 1101
eell or abandon. He must devise a
way to use the colored help profiia
bly. And he did. He solved the
problem. He made good crops. He
brought up his laud. He did so well,
he bought more land. He has 2,000
broad acres now that blossom in'
crops. The clarion talker has be
come a practical farmer and a grow
ing Btock raiser.
Here is bis plan.•Simple aud
sharp it le, and one wonders some
sharp fellow did not hit on it be
fore.
He contracts for good monthly
wages, $8, $10 and $12 and feed. He
only pays half in cash, reserving
the other half til the end of the
year. The $8 hand, for instance,
gets $4 a month down, and waits
until the year Is up for the other
$4, The $4 and bis feed run him.
The debt of the master to him
grows $4 monthly, and six months
is $24, getting bigger# aud holding
him faster every month. When
harvest comes, from the ofier of
larger temporary wages, he is tied
fast, because if he leaves he, under
the contract, forfeits his accumu
lated and growing half of his earn-
able wages. He does not leave.
His Interest in things is a tremcn-
dious stimuious and clamp. That I
$40 at the end bolds him like a vice. I
It makes the hand steady, Indus- I
trlous, reliable, Immovably dutch-1
ed. It gives the farmer a worker j
he can depend on, and that Im
proves. This plan Is good Itself,
square business,land has worked
like a charm. There are*sqme other
things about Gut’s forming that
will do to tell, bat they will have to
wait yntll next time.
Strange Searches for llelni to Large
Fortunes In Brooklyn—A Strange Dis
appearance—The Fanil In Charge or
the State Treasurers Keeps Increasing.
Speaking roughly there is nt the pres
ent time over $5,000,000 in hard cash in
the hands of the various state treasurers
in this country awaiting the claim of
legal heirs. This large amount has been
deposited with the treasurers from time
to time by public administrators. Of
this $5,000,000 the New York state treas
urer'has abont $250,000, and nlthongh
he pays ont now and then certified claims
from the administrative fund it keeps
steadily increasing in a ratio with the
population of the state.
The pnblic administrator of Brooklyn
furnishes the following cases from his
record liooks:
Thomas WilRon sold newspapers in
Brooklyn's Twentieth ward for a gener
ation. His routo was on aristocratic
one, comprising such ctrccts as Clinton
and Clermont avennes, in which are the
homes of millionaires. He peddled his
wares in all sorts of weather, appeared
on the streets in rain and shino every
day and far into the night, and even
mode a feeble attempt to brave the fury
of,the big blizzard of March 12,1888.
Ho had no friends, no confidants, no as
sociations, and he lodged in the attic of
a miserable tenement house. Ono day
in the spring of 1889 his legs refused to
carry him along his ronte, and he went
for succor and shelter to the Brooklyn
hospital.
Hero he was warned that he had bnt a
short time to live and was told to com
municate with his friends, if he had
any. Old Tom shook his head negatively
and died that night without making a
eign. Five bank books were fonnd under
his pillow, showing threo or four thou
sand dollars to his credit in different in
stitutions. The administrator could learn
nothing about him in the banks, where
he had told different stories abont him
self. It is thonght ho was of Swedish
origin and that his real name was Nil-
son, not Wilson.
THE CASE OF LANGIER.
Then there was Joseph Langier, a
name common enough in the south of
France, in Marseilles especially. Langier
was also a solitary man, living—or,
rather, grabbing—in an Atlantic nvenne
garret. He paid tho janitor a dollar a
month for his miserable room. He went
ont and he come in, spoko to nobody and
answered questions by shaking or nod
ding his head. One day he went forth
for the last time—staggered and fell at
tho next corner, was taken into a saloon,
thence conveyed in an ambulance to
Long Island College hospital, where he
died after a few hoars.
In tho pockets of his coat were fonnd
bonds, mortgages and bank hooks worth
$17,000 to tho owner, also a will drawn
np in excellent legal phraseology and
written in a beautiful hand. His signa
ture was affixed to the will, bnt it locked
the names of witnesses. So careful had
he been in preparing the instrument
that he affixed on explanatory para
graph, underlined in red ink. In n codi
cil ho revokes thi will, so that he really
died intestate. Rumor says Langier's
heir is a nephew living in Marseilles, a
sister's son, whom, if tho administrator
could locate, would inherit $17,000.
William Cato is another of the great
intestate for whose heirs the adminis
trator is looking. Cato was no tramp or
news vender. Ho was a marine in the
service of tho United States, and had
been one for such a length of timo that i
he had only a vague memory of what he
had been twfore. His comrades hod an
idea that ho was Scotch, and that is nil
they could tell about him. Ho died sud
denly whilo still in the service, leaving
$1,000 or so ho had saved out of his small
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New Firm. New Goods. New Quarters.
tullis <& McLendon
m
DEALERS IN
STOVES AND
Best Qualities of Paints, Oils and Builders’ Material
Agents for the Celebrated HARVE8T STOVES and GRATES.
Agents for the Celebrated Wbeelertk Wllion Sewing Maehlne.
Buggies andWagons
WAGON AND BUGGY MATERIALS-
SADDLERY AND HARNESS- CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
AND A SPECIAL LINE OF CUTLERY; WOOD AND WlLLOWWARE, ETC.
We specially invite the trailing public to call and examine our good*
and prices. W« keep the best, as well as the cheapest goods in this
market, aDd will give our customers the value of their money.
Tullis’ Old Stand, 433 and 436 Cotton Ave.,
AMERICUS, GA.
W.R. SCHROEDER.
Formerly with M. F. Holland MV*
Vtlasta, Ga.
J- W. STRICKLAND:
Former! - with Hunnlentt A'Belllnzratb
ATLANTA, GA. I
SoHROEDE & STRICKLAND,
724 Cotton Avenue, Americus, Ga. ,
HOT AIR HEATING, ETC- RON SMOKE STACKSJA SPECIALTY.
-(O)
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS :
W« would be pleased to Rive you estimates on youi Tin, Iron and Cornice work. We
guarantee all work to be Unit-class in every partlcii ar. Ridging. Creating end Finale
furnished on short notice. Welulno do Heavy Iron 'Vorklroin 14 to 27. Roofing, Got*
term- Spouting, etc.
inBftUb AND GET OUR LoHMATES AND QIVETUS A *1 RIAL*
REMOVAL
Cook’s Pharmacy has been removed from
Cotton Avenue to the W. J. Slaopy comer,
on Lee street, (near Artesian well) wheve I
will be,pleased to serve you in Drugs, Pat
ent iMedicines, G-ai'den Seeds, Etc.
Respectfully,
W. A. COOK, Proprietor
Cheap : Money !
Loans Hegotiafed on City, [own oi Faun Propeify at data
that Only Competition!
TERMS MOST FAVORABLE.
ALL CONDITIONS EASY
J. J. HANESLEY, - - AMERICUS, G-A.
*££. 23. WATTS
—Wloteale nl Retail Dealer u—
GROCERIES
fino Tobacco, Cigars and Whhky a Specialty!
No. 503 Forsyth and 1004 Lee Streets, • • AMF.KICU9. GEORGIA
pay.
Patrick Gresham lived on Third ave
nue, near Forty-sixth street. South
Brooklyn, and was in good circum
stances. His wife died in the spring of
1889, and the loss drove him crazy. A
week later lie committed suicide. He
left a good deal of property to which hia
little 4-year-old duughtor was heiress.
His brother, a well to do New York car
riage builder, was the legal guardian of
tho little girl, bnt there happened just
then to he in the house a sister of the
child's mother. She was on a visit from
Ireland, and had arrived just in timo to
seo her sister die. The night of tho day
Cresham committed suicide the aunt
took the little girl stealthily out of her
bed and out of the house, wont over to
New York, and on the morning follow
ing sailed for Queenstown in the Um
bria. Mr. Cresham, the undo and legal
gnardian, reported the theft to the po
lice, and they cabled to Queenstown to
have the aunt arrested on her arrival in
that port. Now.it happened that owing
to a great storm the Umbria could not
put in at Queenstown, and so went di
rectly on to Liverpool, where no police
were waiting for a handsome lady of the
name of Miss Crowo and her 4-vear-old
niece. Miss Crowo and the child are
still in Europe, and the legal fight has
not yet been decided.—New York Tele-
gram.
An Ugly Habit. %
I wonder what saccharino or succulent
qualities inhere in wooden toothpicks
that so many persons cling so persistently
to those unlovely little instruments long
after they have performed the service for
which they were designed. On any ele
vated railway train ono is sure to seo one
or two men with toothpicks protruding
bom their lips, A* if to advertise to the
world a recent breakfast. Not all of
those who make this exhibition are IQ
dreseod or boorizh, and one is left to con
jecture in vain why a particularly private
portion of the toilet U thus thrust upon
psW.o attention—New Ted: Star.
It Is Bari.
"Why don’t yon share yourself and
■ave time and money!"
"Because .1 can’t hear to cat an old ac
quaintance. ’’—Life,
B. U. JOSS3EY,
THE LEADING DEALER IN
Tobacco, Cigars am Liquors.
i Agent or tiCCMrated Oil “Gin Sprtif leiticrcWMy.
31 COTTON AVENUE.
AMERICUS. GA
BAKERY!
R. F. NEHRING,
PROPRIETOR. .
Jactsofl Street, DUer Allen How
AMERICUS. GA.
LIGHT BREAD A SPECIALTY!
BmiudbbWign Bos nt Stir.
Country Merchants supplied with bread at wholesale price*.
P. L. HOLT,
-ZJBALER IN-
BUGGIES. WAGONS, AND HARNESS.
Will dttpllc*t« Allan-
and Had,
$17 LAMAR STREET, „
WHOLESALE AAD RETAIL DEALER TK
FIRST-CLASS brick
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