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n THE AMEKICL’fe DAILY TIMK8-RECORDER: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1891. CQJJRT HOUSE SQUARE, l AMERICUS, GA. I j g" _ \oE3- HILL 1891 JA WILL GIVE YOU GOOD GOODS AT THE PRICE OF INFERIOR. Nice Oak Suits at - $25.00 Parlor Suits at - - 35-°° Plush Rockers • - - 4*°° Side-boards, - $ 15.00 to $250.00 China Dinner and Tea Sets, - - $7-50 to $75.00 Picture and Room Moulding, Picture Frames. Pictures, Easels, Cords and Hangings—all on a basis of 6ff. Cotton. Why do the people with ope voice say that D. B. Hill keeps the best goods? BECAU SB Theylhave used our furniture and it never cracked, blistered or fell down; used our crock ery, china and glassware, and found it as represented; lit our lamps apd had good light; used our silverware and sounded its praise; bought our clocks and never got left; bought our window-shades when they didn’t need them;' bought curtain poles for themselves and Coffins, Caskets, Burial Robes t Suits, BURIAL SLIPPERS AND GLOVES. K or kin because they were so cheaj ught our pictures and got credit f®P*. w c d ^ ur k 'J i ? es f and f ° rks and P , ?, ised the b “ t ^® r ,'- This branch of our business is replete with all that is it for lots of good taste; hung our wall paper and didn’t new and RELIABLE. Every improvement has our pa tronage. Nothing escapes us. ir pi know the old house. Our stock of Koya' V oreester, Doulton and I »resden China, Hunga rian, Faience and other holiday goods will repay your inspection. EMBALMING done by EXPERIENCED Embalmers. Mr. L. S. Tower will answer night calls, front of Methodist Church. Residence in RRR * p. p. p.. vUREl> SCROFULA. &at UFPXAH BROS., PWM1(HK, 1 . Bnixitu, UjfBas’s Block, SAViRlt AB, OS. For tale by the DAVENPORT DRUG COMPANY, Americus, Ga. Health is Wealth ! : QPARANTO BX BOXES Sgsytaft *M»sach.onl«rr«»lTto by tha wAy It ifcaiwalnStt doS aotMiZ ~‘-' SSBass Ste^ Amerlent, da. gMrtntaiH Cor* for Pile, of whatevet :.?L ot ft*”* 1 */ emtl, Internal, Bljnd fret. f.bP-ddwjyr ■Ulil.lt> Uamlnf to Climb.. The effects open animals of a change in thecnmlitirmaof their life Is n favorite topic nmmiK zoologists, who find that , nearly every species of animals existed in some other than Its present form at same previous epoch of the world The whale, h.r instance, was once a land uni inal Fumed to take water for a living he became in lime mnch more like a fish in siiu|ie tlian like a land nniinai According to a Tasmanian' paper a 111.»11fii'iin.>r> ,.f the form oh a .familiar' Eiirfi’(»*an animal is going on in the Australian 'vorl.i under the eye of the people there The Allstntliau rabbit. tnijmrti'it from fCliglamt is aci|niring nails on ins feet and learning to climb. As if well known the rabbits ol Australia have increased to such enormous number* tlini they have become a great pest' swarming over the land and devonnng the rami eve crops In order To protect their rields the fanners pnt up wire netting in place of fences. The rabbits could not gel through these, but they presently Iwgan to burrow beneath them. Then tile lannera sank the nettings six 'tre’ghi inches Into thesotl. Tills <io|i|ied the rabbits rnnu getting in ny digging but they presently began to attempt v climb over the netting As the result of this climbing, it Is said, the rabbit, are developing a nail in their uan The nail development has been noticed in Qneeuslaml. and still later in Tasmania. According to the theory of narnnt selection, it is likely presently to luipia-i. that in certain districts only those rab bits will survive which can climb al least a little, and in this way a race of climbing rabbits may be devalu|ied.- Chicago Mail. TniQnrl Patrons. • We wljl collect all bills due us for Jo lob work weekly. This will make payments easier for you, and help us materially, as our expenses are payable weekly. TimksPubi.isui.vo Company. . She.—Did you aee any sharks coming over, Lord Barleycorn? Hla Lordship (just arrived )—Yea; any amount of ’em—In the smoking room.— Frank Leslie’s Weekley. Tax Notice. The books are now ready, and until further notice I will be In my office for the purpose of collecting the taxes from 9 o’clock a. m.'to 3 o’clock p. m. every day. except Sunday, J. B Dunn, out 10 Tax Collector. REAL ESTATE Shocking. A prominent New York theatrical man, who is quite homely bnt very con ceited, went into a photograph gallery to get some photographs he had bad taken. The photograpberprqdnced them, and the man declared them elegant. Said he: “It is an excellent picture. - II Is me all over. It Is life itself,” “That is so," responded the candid' artist, with adistnal expression of coun tenance, “they w so lifelike that 1 can’t afford to pnt one of them in the •how window, as I intended to. I can’t afford to shock the public that way.”— Texas Siftings. DO NOT SUPPKK ANT I.ONCKIt Knowing that a cough can be checked in a day, the first degree of consumption broker in a week, we hereby guarantee Dr. Acker’s English Cough Remedy, and will refund the money to all who buy, take it as per directions, and do not ilna oar statement correct. For sale by Dr. W. C. Russell, Americus, Ga. 1 Finkle.—1 wonder where bit Satanic majesty gets the fuel to keep up a per petual fire? Dlnkle.—He certainty doesn’t have very far to go for bis Styx at any rate.— Brooklyn Eagle. What measures are you taking to stop thst cough? Let us suggest De Witt’s Cough and Consumption Cure. It Is infallible. The Davenport Drug Com pany. ... “Pat, yon should never lift a I when he is down?’ 1 “Begorra, what did I work so hard to get him down for.”—Brindon Bucksaw. I’twaqta torpid liver. You don!t want a bad complexion. Yon don’t want a bad breath. You don’t want a daebe. Then use De Witt’s Little ■ly Risers, the famous little pills The Davenport Drag Company. Colognes, extracts, toilet waters and all toilet articles at Dr. Eldridoe’s A girl In Norway must be able to bake bread before she can have a bean. The one who takes the cake as a cook la con sidered the flower of the family.—New Orleans Picayune. jnoranceof the merits of De Witt’s Little Early Risers is a misfortune. These little pills regulate the liver, cure headache, dyspepsia, bad breath, con stipation and ntlionsness. The Daven port Drug Company. His Begs Saved His Life. A story it related of the celebrated grammarian, IJrbain Doraergne, whe had an abscess on his throat, which broke in a fit of passion with which he fell on his physician for committing a solecism in grammar.—American Notes and Queries. HIM Baft? was rick, we gavs nse Gsstocfa. VlMri»wasaCUU,ii»aMtorOBSloria. Wlm she became Miss, she dung to Csstoris. Vbw she had CUUrse, she gave thsaCsHotia At the Cemetery. She—Dear, what do yon think of all the staff that is carved on tombstones? He—I think it is all epi taffy.—Pitta burg Bulletin. A Fill. That Tuni.'to IValrr. A,cartons animal is the medusa. Writ ing in 1701, Kentunr Hays: “It it a true sea water jelly, having little color or con sistence. Ifwetakeono in onr hands, the nutnrai heat Is sufficient to dissolve it into Meter,” A medium looks wore like a mushroom than anything else, and is often of a pale bine or ruse color, while in some localities it is violet. The tissue of a medusa is “so fragile that when abandoned by the waves on the beach it melta and disappears, without leaving a trace of its ever having existed." They are found principally in the arctic seas, and constitute oue of the chief supports of the whale.—London Tit-Bits JLS .“'.S'*, r'v'; fa ? , *»»iwi# > ■. wim heHs - - wl i. . I Pstsms." Wits *• ■*«&«. A&uzr'* 1 ' 1 '’ county, or - rrt * »ee. Address; 1 S&gJIOW&CO. Pswst Met. WasWsftee. D. C. About one-third of the enrth'e popula tion belongs to the various Christian i. A reliable French statistician estimates that there are 1,193,450,000 people on the earth, and that 42 per cent, are of the white race, 44 per cent, of the yellow race. 11 per cent, of the negro race, a per cent of the mixed Oceanic races and 1 per cent of Indians. Parim is the name of the solemn fes tival among tbs Jews in jvhicb they commemorate their deliverance from the wiles and stratagems of Haman, as recorded in the book of Esther. Hie held in Febrnery. Four counties in illinois—Douglas, Moultrie, Coles and Edgar—anpply a large proportion of the world's stock of broom com—namely, about 72.000 tons, valued at (1,000,000. Chief Justice Holt of Kentueky has a double, who not only looks like him, but bat the seme name. Unfortunately everybody does not know this, and Jus tice Holt frequently finds that be has been credited with registering in places he never thought of vleiting. “An honest pill Is the noblest work of the apothecary,” DeWitt’s Little Early Risers care constipation, billlousnessand sick headache. Tie Davenport Drug Company. Mr. Stlnter (examining some accounts on desk.)—1 think {prefer the courting to the wedded days, ""hen there Was alternate billing and cooing, now seems to be about all “billing.”—Boston Courier. DR. ACKER’S ENGLISH PILLS Are active, effective and pure. For sick headache, disordered stomach, loss of appetite, bad complexion and bilious ness, they have never been equaled, either In America or abroad. For sale by Fleetwood A Bussell, Americus, Ga, 2 Gay Bachelor.—Do you think there Is anything In the theory that married men live longer than unmarried ones? Henpecked Friend (wearily )—Oh, don’t know—seems longer,—Life. A trial convinces the most skeptloal, Carefully prepared, pleasant to the taste De Witt’e Cough and Consumption Cun is a valuable remedy. The Davenpon Drug Company. She.—How hot It was in there 1 And hate dreadfully to he squeezed In crowd. t He (moving closer.)—That 1* very nat ural, Miss Flossie; but—er—there Is no crowd here, yon know.—Life # A son of Mr. M. D. Putter, a merchant of Gibraltar, N. C., was so badly a fillet ed with rheumatism for a year or more, aslo be unable to work or go to school. His father concluded to try Chamber lain’s Pain Balm on the boy. It toon, cured him and bat since walked one and a. half miles to school and back every school day. SO cent bottles for sale by W. C. Russell, Americas, Gs. How do you bold on'when you drive up that steep hill?” asks her mother. Hold onto Mr. Daring,” she replted without even flinching —Rider and Driver,. Druggist—You might have charged that young man (2.00 for filling that pre scription. Why did yon pnt the price at 25 cents?” Cleric—He understands Latin—Good News, Our experience covers many Ills, many plUs and many bills. Onr ills are smaller onr pills are smaller and onr bills are smaller when we use De Witt’s Little Barly Risers. The Davenport Drag Company. Clara—Towser knew, you were com ing. lie reoognlzed. your neme when we called it. Tommy (breaking in)—Yes; we said, here comes that feller that’s goin' to get left on Clara, and lie wagged his tail. — Toledo Blade. It Is an established fact that De Witt's Little Early Kisers have an enormous •ale, and why? Simply because they are In taking and happy la results. A pill for the multitude. The Davenport Drag Company. Pare wines, brandies and whiskies for medicinal om, told at Dn. Rldbims’s DOCTOR mm ENGLISH I REMEDY will stop a Couch la one a^jbt check a ColA in a day. and Consumption if taken ia time. IT THE LITTLE ONES SAYS WHOOPING COUGH OR CROUP Dm It Promptly. A 85 cent i map their your drug* • it for it. Its Good. pGRi. Pigjrwjjor Dr. Acker’s Eng m Fills , . ATIOIt. • favorite with the lallca. JOOra * W«rt Broadway* g.T. IMIHIlHIIIiniHMIlNIIMMIIIimilllHIl For sale by W. C. RUSSELL HEC' W.H.BOOKU Business Property, Residence Property, Vacant Property, Suburban Property, Small Farms, Large Farms. APPLY QCJIOK. MERREL CALLAWAY, ■•M li all JjomI MwmCii CM.CHESTED McMATH BROTHERS Can be found at their same old stand, No. 207 Forsyth Street, with their full line of Iroceries, Tobaccos, Cigars, Whiskies, ETC., CTC. Also in their Dry Goods department you can find some bargains in SHOES. HATS, PANT.S, DRESS GOODS, Ac. In short everything kept In a first-class Dry Goods and Grocery Store. Call anil talk with ua on prices. Respectfully, McMATH B°OTHERS. IE AND LIFE INSURANCE. REPRESENTING THE SAFESTMD STRONGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD, Insurance placed on City and Country Property. Offiee on Jackson Street, next door below Mayor’s Office, AN ORDINANCE. AN ORDINANCE. Old Nick Whiskey m the best and ia noted for its age and purity, having been made on the same plantation over 123 years without a rival aa we constantly ke four year old RYE AND CORN on hand—ship any quantity, ao write (or prioe-fiat. Old Nick Wmiskkt Co, ramri«ikn,i.» ml? Section 40S of Ih* llnanc code of ordinances of the city or Amerlent, and In lieu thereof to flx tbo time when all city Uxee thsll become due and payable, and to provide for ibe collection thereof and lor other ourooMK. BrtTiof 1. onlalned by the May. and City Council of Americus, and Ills *• —" An ordinance to repeal »ectot :-w of the code of ordinances of the city of Aroericus, and In lieu thereof to prescribe by ordinance the time when all tax returns Mi«U be made, and for other ourposes. .Suction j. ite it ordained and enacted by the Mayor and tllty Council of Americus. and It is bereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same. That from and after or ordinance* of the city of Americus, which prescribes that it shall be the duty of the Mayor and City Council or Americus. to flx by resolution the time when city taxes shall become due, and for notice thereof by the cleik and treasurer be, and tbe same Is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the fol low in* section is enacted, to-wit: 8kc.& Be It further ordained by the au thority aforesaid, that from and after the passage ofthls ordinance, all City taxes shall become due and pa»able by the first day or October of each year, and any taxpayer who shall neglect or refuse to pay such taxes by the'Arth day of December of each year, shall be entered upon tbe list of defaulters, and the Clerk and Treasurer shall forthwith, as early as practicable. Issue executinu against •ueb taxpayer for his unpaid tases, which execution shall bear test In the nnnieofthe Mayor and City Council ol Americus and be directed to tbe Marshal, wlm shall, by levy and sale, forthwith collect the same as pro vided by law. ttKc.3. Be It further ordained, that all ordinances and parts of ordinance Id con flict with this ordinances, lie and the some are hereby repeal ‘ * .ed by Adopte by City Council, Auk. 24,1W1. D. K. BRINHON, Clerk amt Treasurer. the passage of this oniimtnci Section 399of the code or ordinances of the city of Amert- cus, which prescribes that the Mayor and City Council of Americus shad by resolution flx the time within which all tax return shall Im* made, and cause the clerk and treas urer to give thirty days public notice thereof, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and to lieu thereof the following section be enacted: Bk<*. 2. Be It further enacted and ordained by the authority aforesaid, That from and after tbe ohm-hkc of this ordinance all tax re turns shall be made between the first day of April and the first day of July of each year* That upon the first day of July of each year It shall lie the duty of the clerk and treasurer toch.se his digest-and to proceed toMeesa and tax all un re turned property as provided in secilon 400 of the code of ordinances of the Hue. 3. Be it further enacted and ordained. That ell ordinances and parts of ordinal -nd resolutions, contrary to thlsordina € ! her * b y repealed. Adopted by < Ity Cou^i]^Au|, uM. Clark and Traani — Lime, Cement, Brick, Platter Paris. Hair, Laths. f Jt sal. for ask by A. J. H AM IL, LUlJaal /