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VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1891.
TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY
FALSE ISSUE VERY #
POINTED OUT."
GOODS
No Claa* Kule In the Land of Washington,
I Jefferson and Jackson—We are all Anier-
ranft, and all Maud
Equal flights for All.
a Dead Level—
Out The Bottom Drops.
GEO D. WHEATLEY
\ To Tub Times-Recobder:
| I have heard or read the speeches of
; Mr. Livingston, before and since his
; election, and for two years past I have
I been a constant reader of the Southern
j Alliance Farmer
I It has been my desire during all this
time, to get from the president or the
! organ of the state alliance some word of
! kindness or even of faint recognition in
behalf of those of our citizens who by
chance or inclination or necessity, were
battling for existence in the towns in
stead of the country.
My search has not been in vain, for in
Last week’s issue of the Farmer, I was
glad to find this utterance: “We, the
agricultural, laboring and industrial
Determined to disppse of the immense and i classes, backed by the sensible and
| liberal sentiment in the trades and pro-
varied stock now upon his shelves, has knocked | tensions, must carry on this work of re-
prices and profits into a cocked hat, for the
present week.
For a tew days we are going to wake up the
natives with low prices- No surface shaviDg,
but To The Core, is the way I am CUTTING
PRICES to reduce stock.
Read and Consider the Following:
yd.
yd.
All Prints at - 5c per
Cotton Challies 5c per
All Ginghams at 8c per yd.
Toile Du Nord Chambray, 10c.
BIG CORSET SALE
$1.25
$1.00
$1.25
$1.00
C. B. CORSET,
C. B. CORSET,
KABO CORSET,
KABO CORSET,
$1.00.
.85.
1.00.
.85.
Black Silk Gloves only 40c.
DRESS GOODS
In Silk, Woolens, Linens, Lawns, etc. will be
1 sold at reduced figures.
This is no wild cat chance game, but
strictly business. We wish to impress you
with the fact that no summer goods will go
into winter quarters. They are for sale and
go they must.
WE KEEP OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS.
OUR DEEPEST CUTS ARE IN FINE GOODS.
I am in
Do not fail to heed the above as
earnest.
Be assured that you will be the loser if
you do not come.
GEO. D.
form.” The words quoted are few and
short, but they contain at least a morsel
of comfort for that unfortunate number
whom President Livingston denominates
“those fellows on the outtido.” All of
us can’t, won’t, or don’t get on the “in
side,” for we belong to the “trades and
professions,” of which the alliance
editor speaks; yet the future for tho
worthy towns-people becomes more
hopeful when the expounders of the
new political dispensation are willing to
admit that tho reform inaugurated by
the farmers needs to be “backed” at all
by anybody’s influence who docs not
raise corn and cotton for a livelihood.
Tho acknowledgment of Editor Ilarry or
Larry, though tardy, is assuring, for
it seems to recognize, in some degree,
tho fact that other classes as well as
farmers are interested in the laws of a
country.Equality must be the shibboleth.
Without faithful and patriotic obedience
from all to this governing axiom, there
can only come agitation and disorder.
Will not those who are called the
modern “leaders” adopt and promul
gate this wholesome truth, remembering
that the “trades and professions” are
part and parcel of this great republic.
Bound by nature, by association, by
instinct, by self-interest, and by a
common suffering, our entire people,
whether from town or country, should
be one in thought and purpose, as they
are in destiny and blood.
The man or paper that would preach a
different doctrine, may ride into present
success upon the wave of prejudice of
its own creating, but when, in the dawn
ing, the light is turned on, and the mists
have cleared away, these pestering in
struments will be despised as the verita
ble enemies of a confiding publio.
Anxious hearts without number are
found in every place, and the spectre of
want and poverty stalks abroad over
country and city alike. Many a mer
chant of whom so much has been re
cently heard is racked by the thought of
impending failure on his account of
indulgence in great part to his country
customers. Notwithstanding this, his
fullest sympathies go out toward tho
planter, realizing too truly that the
same republican legislation of the past
thirty years which has well nigh
wrought his own financial ruin has also
rendered his customers helpless.
There is a remedy for those Inequali
ties under which our whole people suf
fer, whether tradesman, producer or la
borer; but it does not lie in crimination
and recrimination of our own friends
and kindred, who .preferring the sharp
competitions of business, havefscon fit
to dwell in the towns. Still less Is the
remedy to bo fouud in pronouncing the
democratic party false or making tho
charge of treachery against those into
whose hands in by-gone days we commit-
tedour political interests.
No kind of legislation is going to give
the poor man money, however tempting
the promises of the latter-day states
men. The duty of the hour is to har
monize, not distract. No relief can be
had without a democratic senate as well
as a democratic house. It will bo hard
to dislodge the money power from its
strong intrenchment, and the first lesson
toward this end is to work anti wait.
Surely, mischievous appeals, charges of
democratic treachery, “educating” the
farmers and arousing their prejudices
by this damnable twaddle of town
a lnst country, will not accomplish the
j desired result.
It is not the province of this article to
discuss the merits or demerits of the
farmer’s movement. Southern demo
crats, with few exceptions, have ever
realized the justness of their demands.
Tho sub-treasury and land loan provis
ions alone have provoked division of
sentiment; the simple’question here be
ing one of method—how best to secure
the object for which all are seeking.
This variance in opinion is not confined
tothe business classes. None feel the
alllanceraen themselves, who, day by
day in this and other states, see an or
ganization which they love, which their
conservatism has built up, and which
has within itself the elements of untold
good for the whole country, torn by in
tcrual dissension, and its best energies
frittered away in the interest of a fresh
set of place hunters whose cry is “turn
the rascals out and put us in.”
; I am a farmer, the son and grandson
of farmers, and every motion of my
spirit goes out toward the plantiug in
fcerest. What can be done for its ad
vancement is a question that every pa
triot asks, and whatever remedy can
be had in righteous legislation, a Demo
cratic congress will hasten to offer when
once in power.
The good farmers of my county and
section have had so much good advice
given them of late by the genuine apos
tles of tlfbnew school of orthodoxy,that I
am sure they will pardou mo if I vouch
safe a little of my own.
It will be years, my friends, .before
the political complexion of the senate
can possibly ho changed, and when that
change transpires there is no earthly
hope of tho passage of the sub-treasury
bill. All disinterested men will tell you
this. Hut its provisions are alluring, and
make tho best rallying cry for votes of
any measure before tho public. Orators
in abundance will paint its beauties until
you can almost seo the evils disap
pear and the blessings come under the
action of this blessed panacea. Hotter
that we all, town and country, stand to
gether and work out our own salvation.
“The gods help them that help them
selves.” Huild your warehouses, your
own banks and exchanges, co-operative
stores and ginnories and factories. All
of this and more you can do without tho
aid of the demagogues, and the sure
turn of old democracy to power will help
you in tho grand undertaking.
Merkei. Callaway.
ARE YOU DOING
On the Grand Excursion to Savnnnah and
Tybco Friday Morning.
The attractions of a trip to the ocean
can only bo appreciated by those who
have seen the raging billows roll their
white crests against the shore, only
to recede and attack again the glittering
sands.
The last excursion for the summer
season over the S. A. & M. railroad will
leave Americus to-morrow morning at
8:20, and the ronnd trip will only cost
the small amount of $3.
All who can should take advantage of
this last opportunity for a cheap rate to
Savannah and the sea. Already quite a
large party have signified their intention
of making the trip, and many others, no
doubt, will be there when the train
moves out
For the benefit of those who prefer to
travel at night arrangements have been
made for an extra sleeper, which will
leavo Americus to-night at 7 o’clock,
but the excursion train will leave on
Friday morning.
For further particulars and full Infor-
matipn in regard to the trip, see Mr.
John T. Argo, the genial city soliciting
agent, who will gladly accommodate all.
The llase Hell Game.
Our boys wore hardly in tlie gnmo
played yesterday with the Montezumns.
llut the Americus club fought stubborn
ly to the finish without a murmur, and
accepted defeat good naturedly.
From the start it was evident that the
visitors had the oldest and heaviest
young men in tbeirclub. - Notwithstand
ing this apparent advantage the Ameri
cus team held the Montezumas down
for tho tirst two innings, the score then
standing 0 to 5 In favor of the home
club. After the second inning tho vis
itors had everything their own way, and
pounded our boys all over the field. At
the finish the score stood: Montezuma,
20; Americus 0.
Tho attendance at tho game was good,
many ladies being present.
While only four of the home team
scored, it was a noticeablo feature of
the game that not ono of tho visitors
failed to make a run.
Mr. W. II. E. Griffith umpired tho
game in a very satisfactory manner.
Mr. John An.loy acted as scorer for tho
Americus club, and Mr. McKenzie look
ed after tiie visitors.
A ffmil Tfme Generally.
Tlie many friends in Americus of Miss
Clara McKenzie and Miss Lewis, both of
Montezuma, gavo a very pleasant socia
ble in their honor last night at tho
Hawkins house. Tho numerous invited
guests enjoyed the evening hugely, but
none more so than tho victorious young
men from Montezuma, who carried oil
tiro honors at the ball game in tiro after
noon. They were in especially high
feather. Tlie Misses McKenzie and Lew
is were tlie bright particular stars of tho
occasion, and made all tho youths happy
by a generous and impartial distribution
of their swcotest smiles and bydying all
the little feminine ammunition which U
always used by young .ladle* on inch
occasions. The result was—everybody
happy, particularly the young men who
AS OTHERS SEE US.
A DOWN-EASTER VISITS AMERICUS,
AND GIVES HIS
Impression, to the Cambridge, Mom.,
Tribune—The New South Focused In the
Prosperity of Americus, and Her Great
Growth Commented on.
Undor the heading of the “New
South," Mr. Edward .!. Stack writes
glowing account of ills impressions of
tills city to his home paper, the Cam
bridge Tribune, from which the follow
ing extracts are taken, concerning some
of our leading institutions and houses:
The people of Americus liav, spent
about $4,000,000 in industrial enter
prises and improvements during tho last
twelve months, and, as a result, Ameri
cus is growing at a rapid rate, and hugo
brick buildings are observable all
through the city. In 1885 the popula
tion of this place was about 4,000. A
year later the Americus, Freston &
Lumpkin railroad was built, and tilings
in 1887 were improved by the extension
of this road to Savannah, when its namo
was changed to Savannah, Americus &
Montgomery railroad. In 1888 a line of
boats were put on the Ocmulgee from
Abbeville. Tills brought about compe
tition and brought down freight rates.
Changed from n way-station to a com
peting point, tho merchants immediately
felt tlie boncflt, as the prices of all man
ner of goods shared in tho reduction,
and Americus camo forward as a leading
distributing point for this part of the
country. Americus gets today Eastern
freight rates equal to Macon, Columbus
or Eufaula, and tier western rates arc be
ing reduced through tho agency of tho
S. A. M. railroad.
Tho Savannah, Americus A Montgom
ery railroad lias proved a groat devel
oper of tlie town. Their headquarters
are located hero and they pay $000,000 a
year in salaries alono. The mlloago of
this road is 200 miles, 100 of which is In
operation from the Chattahoochee river
to Lyons. Tlie 50 miles additional to
complete it to Montgomery is now under
construction. The development that
lias taken place in tlie southern portion
of the state, as a direct result of the
building of the Savannah, Amoricus A
Montgomery railroad, has attracted the
attention of the entire state, and tlie
timber and agricultural lands along the
line have increased considerably in
value. About GO large saw mills have
already been located on the line, with
an average daily cut of 1,000,000 feet.
The commercial fertilizer business
amounts to 40,000 tons, or 400 cars per
annum, and over 200,000 bales of cotton
aro handled yearly. All this will be In
creased when tho line reaches Mont
gomery.
The future of Americus is bright
with a thousand promises that are sure
of Tulfillment. The $4,000,000 spent in
the year that has passed will be more
than duplicated in the year that la to
come. Never was there In any place
more unity and moro enthusiasm on the
part of citizens than in Americus to-day.
A cotton factory with $100,000 capital
is ono of the coming season's now enter
prises. Tho Hotel Alhambra, designed by
Mr. G. L. Norman of Atlanta, and erect
ed by tho Amcrious Improvement com
pany, will bo ready for occupancy by
September 1, ami will he the prettiest
building this side of St. Augustine. It
is situated Dear the eentre of the city
and fronting three streets, being two,
three and four stories high on two of the
streets, and three, four and five stories
high on the other. Lovely arcades and
massive towers form attractive featuies
of tlie building, Which cost about $150,-
000.
For a radius of seventy miles Ameri
cus is surrounded by a farming section
that has no superior. Her cotton crop
alone represents $3,500,000. Tlie farm
ers produce corn and ail the necessaries
of iife in prodigal abundance. Truck
farming is rapidly becoming a profitable
industry. In the matter of stock raising
the farmers around Amoricus rank
among tho first. Apples, pears,
peaches, plums, grapes, strawberries
and watermelons find in Sumter and ad
joining countries a most congenial soil.
Tho revenue that comes from tbeso
special lines of farming alone is suffi
cient to suppoit a city of twice as many
inhabitants as Americus.
Many thousand bales of cotton are
raised on tho farms in this vicinity, and
75,010 bales were sent to Amuricus last
Americus is also headquarters for
tlie funner.!’ alliance for many miles
ud and draws a very largo trade
i that flourishing organization.
When Sumter county wanted a new
court house about a year ago, tho money
to build it was already in her treasury,
and a 840,000 structure was put up which
is an ornament to the town, and ono of
tho prettiest in Southern Georgia.
Tho Americus Inrestment Company
has a capital of 81,000,000, a surplus of
$250,000, and has done more than any
other agency to develop Southwest Geor
gia. Its existence began In 1887 with a
capital of $160,000, and its value as an
Investment to its stockholders has in-
Sevllle, Helena and Lyon* are thriving
young cities started into life by this
great company. AH along the line of
tlie Savannah, Americus A Montgomery
railroad, important properties are owned
by the Investment Company. The com
pany make a specialty of southern In
vestments, stock bonds and collaterals,
and Invests for outside parties, and In
vites correspondence from New England.
The Bank of Americus is a flourish
ing Institution, doing the leading busi
ness of the city. The capital is $160,000
with a surplus of $100,000. The depos
its are $203,500.07. S. H. Hawkins,
president; H. C. Bagiey, vice-president,
and W. E. Murphy, cashier. The stock
holders of this institution are individu
ally liable.
Johnson & Harrold established busi
ness in 1800, and Is the oldest firm in
the city. For over thirty years this
firm lias been closely identified with the
business of tho city, and have given lib
erally of their energy and means to ad
vance Americus. Toward the building
of the late railroad enterprises, which
have done so much for Americus, they
have been the largest subscribers. Thia
firm does tlie loading cotton business of
tlie city, handling about 15,000 bales a
year, aud furnishing supplies to five ad
joining counties. They also carry on
a banking buslnoss under the name of
the Harrold Banking Company. They
are large owners of real estate, and the
building in which they carry on their
business Is, without doubt, the finest in
tho city.
Amerious is one of the growing cities
of Georgia, with a population to-day of
10,000. Money invested In the real es
tate of tlie city admits of a very certain
incroase, with not vory long to wait.
Tlie Tnjc of War.
To The Times-Recohder: The fol
lowing clipping from your Issue of
July 25 would liavo beeu noticed sooner,
but a press of business, in handling our
immense traffic at this point, prevented:
"now TllIS is TIME."
On .lane 25 Mr. C. H. Byrd had a car of
com. C. C. C A St. L. 391ft, shipped from Na-
koeils, Ill., whleli was received In Americus
July 21, over the Southwestern and connec
tion*. ' Now this Is Unit, 1 ’ sars Mr. John T.
Argo, C. F. A P. A., of the Savannah, Ameri
cus A Montgomery system to u Times-Kz-
conniR reporter. "Twenty-nine days be
tween Nakomls and Americus It good (f)
lime, even If they did try to put It off on tbe
8., A. A M. while It was routed and came
the other way,” concluded Mr. Argo.,
This car was twenty days from Ns-
komis, HI., to 'Amoricus, and reached
here via. B. V. A E. R. It., but the delay
was clearly no fault of ours, as the ship
ment was routed care “Cincinnati
Southern,” (a branch of tbo East Ten
nessee) and was Intended to go from Cin
cinnati to Helena, Ga., entirely over
that system, and thence via S. A. A M.
to Americus; but it seems that the
“Dinky" was difiicnlt to locate. Even
their strongest ally (the East Tennsssee)
falling to remember just where tb|s
“Grand Trunk Line" was located, and
after dragging tbe car around over tho
country in this vain search, finally got it
over the G. M. A G. to Columbus, and
hearing thore, that tbe "Argo Dummy
Line” was In this direction, the ear was
promptly fired into Amerious by passen
ger train. ,
Friend Argo, wo respectfully suggest
that in soliciting the next shipment, you
promiso to route it via “Gatewood,’l or
“Jlttle John,” or “Argo-nought,” and
so notify connections that they may
know exactly where to find you, and
avoid these very unkind newspaper outs
at the “Old Reliable,” and her thousands
of miles of first-class track and splendid
service. Want of Identity is plainly
what killed you this time,
Respectfully,
Centum. IUit.noad.
Preparing for tho Fall Trad*.
Notwithstanding the cry of many peo
ple that times are dull and cash scarce,
yet The Times-Rkcordeb notices that
most of our merchants are preparing to
make their annual trips north for a fresh
■apply of goods, etc. In thirty day* the
fall season will open, and our merchant*
evidently Intend to bo ready for bnslnea*.
with tho latest and most desirable goods
on time.
This is tho best evidenco that money
is not so scarce in Americus as it seems
to be In other cities. At least our mer
chants havo no fears of a financial earth
quake in this vicinity.
Prince Hose Company No. 3.
Last Tuesday night Foreman Henry
Stanfield had his company out for a lire
and practice drill. Tills company ha*
recently added several now members to
Its roll and gives every evidence of be
ing in limt-class shape. Mr. Emnjatt |
Pope was appointed secretary Inplaoe of
Mi. diaries Loamon, who has loft the
city.
Married*
Mr. Cleon Seig and Miss Jessie Dillard
were joined in the Holy bond* of wed
lock at Bottsford on Sunday last, Squire
Cato officiating. The young people have ,
many friends who wish for them a pros
perous and happy journey through life.
Life, like overy other blessing, derives
its value from Us use alono.
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Richland, DeSotoy Coydele, . Jguqm'ce nevor settles a question.