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W, L. GI.KNSNER.
Official Organ of 3umt«r County,
Official Organ of WebiOr County*
SUNDAV, • DECEMBER 21 1890
ABOUT AMERICUS.
Tlie AMKHICOa KkcokdebLh publl*'<»•!
Dally and Weekly, during the year.
The Daily Recorder !■ Uaoed every
morning except Monday*. during the year,
at 50c per month, or $6.00 per year.
The Weekly Recorder Is issued every
Friday morning, a: «1 00 per year payable
In advance. It has the largest circulation
any paper In Houthwest Georgia,circula
ting largely In the counties of Sumter, Lee,
Terrell, Stewart, Webster, Schley. Marlon*
Macon, Dooly and Wilcox.
Entered at Amerlcus Post-Ofllcoassecond
c ass matter.
All communications should be addressed
to AMERICUS PUBLISHING CO.
Gen. Alexander laughs at tlie
idea that he will give up the presi
dency of the Central road.
There can be no complaint about
the legislature not working now,
They want to get home for Christ
mas.
The members of the Gate City
Gharris will doubtless uot monkey
with a program printer at the next
drill.
Here’s hoping The Recorder
readers—and that Includes eveiy-
body—will have a merry Christmas
week. •
Have you done anything towards
making anyone happy on Christ
mas day? If not, do something at
once, If It is uot more than giving
a bootblack a good dinner.
Judgo Fort’s appointment seems
to he the most popular one ever
made by a Governor of Georgia.
Every paper in the State is pleased
with It—the Augusta Chronicle ex
cepted.
The Southern" [Inter-State con
vention adjourned at Asheville,
N. C.; Friday afternoon. Should
the recommendations of the con
vention be carried out it will bring
many thousand people to the
South.
A commission of eight, to he ap
pointed by the Governor, will set
tle the betterments question with
the old lessees. It Is to be hoped
this vexed question will at last be
settled. It has caused too much
trouble already.
The Telegraph says the South
western employees at Smtthville
have organized a musical society to
while away the time. The Tele
graph cannot forgive Smlthvllle
for taking the Southwestern’s head
quarters away from Macon.
It ia said that the Terminal com
pany owns (900,000 worth of Geor
gia bonds. Some of our zealous
contemporaries ought to make a
note of this, and petition the legis
lature to enact a law against such a
soulless corporation being the
State’s creditor to such an amount.
The Augusta Chronicle does but
give Amerieus justice in the edito
rial we republish this morning.
Amerlcus may, or" may not, be a
“storm center,” as the Chronicle
says, but she isdetermlned to stand
up tor her rights, and to stand by
the men who helped give them to
her.
A SOLID CITY.
While the hard times are press
ing our neighbors, and big firms
are going to the wall daily, Ainerl-
cus shows on what a solid basis she
is built. Not a failure has beon re
corded among the hundreds of bus
iness houses iu this city, and they
bid fair to withstand the financial
depression with a clean record.
The reason of this Is that Ameri
cas baBiness men are, above all
things, conservative. They work
with ample capital, anil do not al
low themselves to buy beyond
their means to pay. As a natural
consequence Amerieus Is rated
high in the financial world, and
can command capital when other
places would be denied.
A few days ago a dally paper In
a certain Georgia town loudly
boasted that its city was rated by a
commercial agency as the best In
Georgia. A day or two afterwards
onA of the oldest and largest firms
In that place went to the wall, and
Itts rumored will carry several
other* with them.
Perhaps The Recorder Is boast
ing too soon; we hope not. At any
rate, the past record will bear ua
out In the assertion that Americas
has fewer fallnres In proportion to
popuflpQtban any elty In Geor
g's.
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From the Augusta Chronicle.
Amerlcus secures the new rail
road commissioner. There can be
no personal objeotlon to Judge Al
len Fort. He la a man of personal
ability and character. The Chron
icle preferred Judge Alex Erwin
because of his experience in the
delicate matters constantly recur
ring In that office and because It
believed that training and fairness
should outweigh mere local and ge
ographical considerations.
There is, however, a kind of pa
thetiu justice iu awarding a place
in the railroad commission t6
Amerieus. That town has been
the center of rallriad agitation
since 1870. The people of Sumter
county wore constantly stouts with
President Wadley. Bepeated ap
peals were sent from the business
men to the railroad authorities for
justice, but the managers generally
informed them tliut they were
"looking after the interests of the
Southwestern railroad and not of
Amerieus.” The people complained
through their delegates In the con
stitutional convention that they-
were charged 10 cents more ou the
bale of cottou to Savannah than Al
bany, which was thirty miles fur
ther. The rates to New York
showed like discrimination. Amer-
ious had but one railroad and Al
bany had three,and was then a com
peting point Hut Amerlcus pushed
her agitation amltlie delegate
In the constitutional convention of
1877, Hr. Cooper, was one of the
staunchest supporters of the Toombs
policy of regulating railroads.
In the General Assembly of 1878—
79, Hon. Allen Fort was the Sumter
representative. He was promi
nently engsged In the preparation
of the bill which finally created the
railroad commission, and which
has given so much relief to the peo
ple of Georgia, and which low the
people have never allowed to be
amended. The wisdom of that act
has lieen abundantly shown.
When the Olivo bill threatened tho
consolidation of the railroad system
In Georgia, the railroad le&dcrs
themselves were glad to seek pro
tection under the shadow of the
railroad commission.
Amerlcus furnished another
prominent factor In the railroad ag
itation when her representative in
Congress took a prominent hand
In forming the inter-state com
merce law. iudgoClius. F. Crisp,
whom Judgo Fort succeeded on
the bench, was ’ one of the most
active members of Congress, who
aided Judge Beagan In passing
through the House of Congress the
railroad commission bill. The
fight which began in the Georgia
convention by Gen. Toombs was
consummated by his old friend and
associate, Judge Besgau, in Con
gress; nud the agitation of Dr.
Cooper and Allen Fort was com
pleted by Charles F. Crisp. Bo the
hand of Amerieus has been promi
nent In all this business.
AMUSEMENT'S.
"The nabobs."
The last three attractions of the
year are to be the finest in each
line that have ever been here,
Henshaw and Ten Broeck, In the
“Nabobs,” Christmas eve, the 24th
lost, will undoubtedly be one of
the very best comedies our people
have ever seen. The managers of
the opera house know personally
of this splendid company, andean
without hesitancy guarantee their
ability to please.
“The Nabobs” is the quaint title
of a musical farce extravaganza
written especially for John E. Hen
shaw and May TenBroeck. It is
one of the popular skits of the day,
without plot or story, but simply a
thread ou which to string a number
of clever specialties, and construct
ed for the purpose of giving full op
portunity for a lot of versatile art
ists to display their taleuts. That
tills form of entertainment suits
the average audience, is shown by
the great success of such perform
ances. People liko to bo amused—
they llko pretty girls, fine costumes,
good siuglng and artistic dancing.
All of these elements will he found
In “The Nabobs,” and the two
stars will be surrounded by nn ad
mirable company, composed of
some of tlie best performers in tile
profession.
ROBERT GRANT.
LORD FACXTLKROV.
Of Little Lord Fauntleroy. on
Christmas mattlnee and night It is
useless to expatiate much on, ns it
is the same company that charmed
and delighted our theatre goers
here last scasou, and comment is
unnecessary, as r. better company
of clover artists never assembled
Tbe Christinas mattlnee for the
ladies and children will be sure to
catcb a big crowd.
PBIMHOSE * WEST.
Of Primrose and West's minstrels
too much cannot be said, as they
have tbe highest salaried burnt
cork in tho profession. Lew Doc-
stoder Is a head aboVe any minstrel
In tlie profession. Watch the flat
tering notices they receive every
where, particularly tbe ConBtitu
tlou.
AN OBJECT LESSON CANVASS.
For n level bended man, com
mend us to Congressman-elect
Siewari, of Illinois, who was
elected iu a Kepubllcnu district
which gave at the last election over
8,000 majority. This Is how be
did It:
“Stewart consented to be a can
didate only upon condition that he
should be the only Democratic
speaker in tbe district and conduct
the campalgu in ids own way.
The conditions were complied with
The nomination was made. Then
Stewart disappeared. A week later
he appeared In the district. But
there were no brass bands; no big
meetings. Indeed, there was no
excitement, and none of the Demo-
eiatie leaders knew what Stewart
was doing. But he was elected,
and tide was the way he got It.
“He first went to Chloago, to a
large, reliable, and well known
wholesale house, where ho pur
chased a half dozen packing trunks
full of ordinary goods of all descrip
tions that aro used by every family.
On rai-h of the articles he had tbe
price paid marked. Then he had
the price before tbe McKinley bill
passed marked on each, and
thirdly, ho had the firm mark on
tbe goods what the prices would be
without any tariff. Besides this
he had thousands of cards printed
Tickets for Henshaw aim . Teu
Broeck and Little Lord Fauntleroy
will be placed on sale Monday . to
morrow; at 9 o’clock.
DEEDS RECORDED
The Put Week at the Court House t>7
Clerk Allen.
showing former prices and prices
under the McKinley bill ou all
name of Dr. John Bull 'for invent-
i celebrated Dr. Bull's Worm
tease for
to do
goods of every day use. With this
paraphernalia he went to every
county and every little town in
the district. He would go to the
school houses In eaeh neighborhood
and spread his goods out to be ex
amined by the people. He made
no set speeches, but would simply
walk around among tbe assembled
crowds and explain tbe burdens
imposed upon them by the McKin
ley bill, at tbe same time practi
cally Illustrating what be said with
hU stock of goods. It simply set
the people wild. They went home
and talked about it. There waeno
getting around tbe fact that the
McKinley blit makee tbe farmer
pay more for everything he uses
and compels him to.sail hit pro
ducts at ths same old prices. The
people couiuu’i. stand is, and wiieu
election day arrived they voted for
Stewart He was elected and-the
object lesson did It
Mrs. M. E. Boone, Wm. Harrold
to Amerlcus Lodge, No. 13 F. & A.
M., city lot, $4,000.
F. E. Albritton and A. J. WII
Hams, executors, to J. D. Lawson to
lands in 26th district, $0,000.
J. W. May to Calvin May, lot
104*^, lot 103 in 20th district, $2,600.
J. H. Dauiel to A. J. Logan, lot
104103Ja, lot 122, In 20th district,
$4,000.
Sarah Dupree to J. D. Glover
and A. J. Logan, 80 acres off Jot 92
in 26th district, $300.
F. E. Albritton and M- A. Per
kins to A. J. Logan two-third In--
terest In lot 123 in 26th district,
$800.
M. Speer to Johnson A Harrold,
lot No. 00, Iu 10th district, $75.
J. L. Adderton, trustee, to L. G.
Hudson, two city lots on McGarrah
street, $1075.
L. D. Wise to Geo. W. Jennings,
142>£ acres of lot 19 in the 26th dis
trict, $1150.
Orin HlUIaid to A. J. Boberts,
east part lot 62 in 15th district,
$225.
A. E. Bylander to John Windsor,
city lot, $500.
Kate Callaway to Alex Windsor,
city lot, $1000.
M. Speer to B. H. Wilkinson,
part lot 00 in 16th district, $125.
B. L. Hargrove to Dr. H. A. C.
Bagly, part lot 42 and 44 In 28th
district, $400.
C. A. Bell to Bansom Simon, elty
lot, $75.
Amerieus Investment Compauy
to J. T. Ferguson, house and lot in
DeSoto, Sumter county, $800.
J. E. Lamar to A. J. Logan In
terest in lot 123, In 26th district,
$300.
Mallssu Hook to A. A. Booker,
city lot, Lee street, $240.
William Ellison to Jennie Jeffer
son, elty lot, $25.
Amerlcus Investment Co. to
Hays and Dane, city property,
$1,150.
8. S. Sloan to Mrs. 8. C. Johnston,
administratrix, all her Interest In
real and personal pioperty, $4,166.
C. M. Wheatley to Miller and
Geo. Daniels, elty property, $300.
J. B. Duckworth to Gnssle
Broadus (wo acres off lot 37 in 27th
district,; $16.
Lilian Whiting Write* of n Well Known
Boston Literary Man.
[Special Correspondence.]
Boston, Dec. 18.—To be born In Bos
ton, graduated at Harvard, own a pew
in Trinity (Phillips Brooks’) church, a
villa on the north shore or In Newport,
and be bnried in Mount Auburn—this
is considered by the modern Athenian
to be the ideal career of man. Fortu
nately for tbe society be adorns and
tbe public to whoso entertainment and
enlightenment be contributes. Mr. Rob
ert Grant lias not yet met the last con
dition of this Bostoqian outline, but he
has fulfilled nearly all the others. His
life has been one singularly rich in op
portunities, and he has known well
how to extract from these the finest con
ditions and transmute privilege into high
service.
Robert Grant was born in Boston in
1852, completed the Boston Latin school
course with great success, and later tho
Harvard, where ho graduated in 1873,
and three years later took tho degree of
Ph.D. He entered tho Harvard Law
school, from which ho was graduated in
1879, and immediately commenced the
practice of law in Boston. Between the
time of Mr. Grant’s admission to tho bar
and J885-86, a period of some seven years,
he acliieved a, cluss of literary work
unique in its range, delicate and subtle
in fancy, full of charm and imaginative
grace. This work included seven novels,
and a number of very clever poems
bnt each was so individual in its own
line and owed so little to precedent that
his work cannot be altogether classified
by any broadly accepted definitions.
“The Little Tin Gods on Wheels,
satire in verse, appeared in 1870, and in
it Mr. Grant showed decidedly his orig
inal bent, his manly hatred of social
6hams, his courage in ranging himself
on tho side of trnth and humanity, and
bis clearness of vision in distinguishing
tho falso from tbe true. After this ap
peared "The Confessions of a Frivolous
Girl,” which wont through u number of
editions and was a literary us well ns a
popular success. The plot was very
slight, but on this slender thread was
bang tho hopes and fears, the fancies
and the reflections, the courage and the
cowardice of a typical girl of society.
The delicacy of perception shown by
Mr. Grant in this work has nover, it
Beems to me, been adequately recognized.
He does not make tho mistake—a not
uncommon one — of ascribing to the
beanty nud the belle the possession of all
tho vices or errors of the decalogne, and
implying conversely that tbe poor and
tbe plain girl possesses all the virtues.
He knows society in its technical sonse
too truly for that.
• Alice shows the selfishness that springs
from thoughtlessness and from tho lim
ited range of sympathies almost inevita-
X-mas-:-
Just received a handsome Hoe of Ladles and Gents Solid Gold Watches. I bar
just received a large lino of Jewelry for the Holiday trade, consisting of LadW »nd
Gents Vest Chains In extra plate and filled, Lace Plus. Cult and Collar Buttons, Charms,
of all description, and many other things too numerous to mention. Rcn’einhertma
large line ofjewolry was shipped to me for holiday trade, and what Is not sold will he
returned and will make prices very c|n
JA8. T. COTNEY,
Fleetwood and Russell Corner, Amerieus, Ca.
EVERYTHING
F0W THE LITTLE ONES. AT
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ARTESIAN CORNER.
China Dolls.
Linen Dolls
Wax Dolls
Bisque Dolls
Kid Dolls
Dressed Dolls
Sleeping Dolls
Rubber Dolls
Musical- Dolls
Doll Shoes
Doll Trunks
Doll Wash Straw Sets
Doll Carriages
Doll Furniture
Toy Wash Sets
Toy Tea Sets
Toy Kitchen Sets
Toy Stove Sets
Toy Pianos
Toy Violins
Toy Metalopboue
Toy Castors
Toy Banks
Toy Drums
Toy Pistols
Toy Houses ,
Toy Nosh’s Arks
Toy Stables
Toy Hand Organs
Toy Soldier Sets
Toy Trains
Toy Tin Wagons
Toy Tin Animals
Toy Fur Atflmals
Toy Watches
Toy Butterfly
Toy Sword
Toy Canes
Toy Whips
Christmas Books all
kinds prices aud
sizes
Games:
Crokinole
New Bagatelle
Fish Pond
Teddledy Winks
Lotto
Dominoes
Checkers
Card Games, 16 kinds
Pareheesea
Bing Toss
Graces
Surprise Boxes
Childs Knife, Foi
aud Spoon
Pulnts
Barnyard Sets
Glass Marble
Jumping Jacks
Flying Jennies •
Bellows Toys
Clappera
Kaleliles Cope
Ten Pins
To il Chests
Magic Lanterns
Hlioolly Horses.
Wheel Barrows
Wagons
Chairs for Children
Rockers
Chinese Banters
Horns
Buggies
Itecollect when yon want Presents for Young or Old, either for
Amusement, Ornament or for uso—recollect that “Wo are the peo
ple.” .
Butler «&? Berry,
ARTESIAN CORNER, - - LEE and LAMAR STS
We have an elegant lino of Chi iat-
ma* presents.
Janes Fkjckek A Bho.
Hi suffered from nervous aches and
pains, Suu at utgiit-
My disease was undermiplng my |
constitution. Dr. Bull’s Sarsapa
rilla restored me to health and I
now enjoy sound and dreamless
sleep, and my aches and pains anil
llassitnde trouble, me no more.—
William Burton, Wheeling, W. Vi
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IIODEKT GRANT.
ble to the petted child of luxnry, but she
has a tender heart and n keen conscience,
and, moreover, she is by no means desti
tute of brains. Another very excellent
portrait of tho girl in social high life is
Dorothy in “The Averngo Man." n story
that Mr. Grant contributed os a serial
to Tho Century Magazine in 1883. Un
trained writers, destitnto of social ex
perience, have often depicted fashion
able life ns utterly devoid of those graces
of character which we are accustomed'to
call the Christian virtues. All tho rich
have been depicted as narrow minded,
hypocritical, arrogant and cruel, while
tho l>oc.r were shown to lie generous,
patient and intelligent Mr. Grant is
too mnch in touch with the most culti
vated social world of the day to fall into
any such error os this.
Face to Face” is another of Mr.
Grant’s very charming novels of social
life.
"The King’s Men" was a story written
by Mr. Grant in collaboration with
three of his friends, leading Boston
authors, Boyle tpRcilly, “J. S. of Dale”
(Mr. Stimpeon) and Mr. John Wheel
wright
"The Lamps" was the title of a clever
satire in verse.
“The Knave of Hearts," by “A Ro
mantic Yonng Lady,” appeared in 1885-
86. Om the two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the Boston Latin school
—tho oldest school in America—Rev.
Dr. Phillips Brooks delivered the ora
tion, and Robert Grant wrote and re
cited the poem for tbe occasion.
Mr. Grant was also invited a few years
ago to write the Phi Beta Kappa poem,
and it was for this occasion that he
wrote his famous "Yankee Doodle,” a
very keen end ingenious hit at certain
political abuses and corruptions of that
year in Massachusetts.
In tho past two or three years Mr.
Grant has written in a new vein, that of
cmt of door life "Josh Hall; or, Tho
School Days of an American Boy.”
made a furor among the boys.
Mr. Grant married the daughter of an
English nobleman in Canada, and their
home is on Cotrsonwealth avenue, the
palatial boulevard of Boston. With*
large and exacting legal badness, nnd
also serving at present as one of the wv
t»r wfflHlaiiHff! of Bostsa, Mr. Grant
finds little time for literary work, still
J» manages to write an hour at least
each day with considerable regularity.
Ho has tho happy elasticity of tempera
ment that enable* him to do his work
wherever he happens to be, cither at his
home or his office. LoiAir Whitijco.
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