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Americus Recorder.
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W. I, OLCIMER. Mltor.
Mittal Grgan *r Webster Const;.
" rBIPAX. ^*EB. M. 1884.
Wl STERN TARIFK^BSTIMEST
A tncmbcfr of tliu Democm'io
Jfatjonal CommUteo. said to tbe
Washington correspondent of tbe
Hear York Herald a day or two
ago: “If the party stands upsquare-
If for tariff reform we aball not
weed ‘a barrel’ nor any ‘mole*.’
We bare not bad any money In our
Iowa, Michigan and Nt-braska cam*
paigns, which were made on tariO
issues. When wo bring a live ques
tion before our voters money is not
seeded. They vote because they
are convinced, because they want
• steppage of abuses; and if tbe
party stand* upon principle there
will be no difficulty in getting votes
or in getting the voters to tbe
polls.”
From our knowledge ofthe West
ww believe this to be true, and we
tether believe that if tbe Demo-
orate bad in tbe campaign of 1880
■ode a square and determined
%bt for tariff reform, instead of
tag*"* tbe question and trying to
erawl upon the Republican plat-
tem, they would have come out
victorious. It tbe Democrats in
to eoming campaign will go into
it-upon a tariff reform platform,
with a candidate whose record and
sympathies are consistent with
tbe platform, they will carry
ewough Western states to more
tea balance what will be lost in
te Bast. W bat la there to lose in
tetest, any way? New Jersey
fa the only state that can be count-
oik upon- with any certainty, and
•aa free trade platform we honest-
tf believe tbe Democracy can carry
teo, Indiana and Illinois.
Wa well remember a fight made
to the eld Twelltb Congressional
district of Illinois in 1870, wben
bbo Democrats ran a candidate upon
• square frte trade platform, free
ttas speeches were made, and they
sleeted tbeir candidate by 1,300
OBqJorlty, in tbe face of a Repubit
oats majority of 8.400 two years be-
tew. In- that campaign not one
m*> of money was spent except for
■ocessary expenses. So great were
to odds against u* that tbe nomi
new declined to make the race unless
lia campaign expenses were paid,
aa be said he conld not afford to
mote tbe canvass with eo little
tepe of election. Nor would there
Save been any ho;>e had he not
stood squarely upon the free trade
platform, and bis efforts seconded
by the papers of tbe district. We
seassmber it well because we lived
fethi • listriet and took an active
pact ia the cam|taign.
We further believe that if n
and determined fight is
by tbe Democracy of the
testern state* could be earned,
te there are tbouands of un-
employed and poorly paid work-
i in Connecticut and Massa-
i who bavo been forced to
conclusion that protection
tee not protect tbe labor-ingclass.
A new paper to be called tbe
tew South, Is to be issued at Quit-
man, and tbe Free Press in a nice
manner welcomes the new paper
into its Held. This is tbe right
spirit. There is no reason why
there should not he honorable com-
i in tbe publication of news,
i aa well as in any other bust-
If an old established new*,
r cannot successfully compete
i a new paper, it is time another
r was started in that town.
.-M-»aa..,..r. ,a i
Frank James, the Inn of what is
widely knowhaa the 4 'James Band,”
has been > carried to A&nUvlile,
Ala,, and lodged in jail to answer
a charge of conspiracy to rob pay.
master Smith at Muscles Shoals
some years ago. All the State
oases against him in Missouri were
dismissed because of tbe infamy of
Dick Liddell, whom tbe Governor
of that 8tate refused to pardon,
and who Is the chief witness
against him. He has employed
Gen. L. I*. Walker, of tbe local bar,
to defend him, who will probably
have associated with him fn tbe
trial cx-Governor Charles P. John
son, oT Missouri. Tbe trial will
be one of considerable interest and
If tbe "noted outlaw” is sequitted,
it will, we believe, be tbe last of
tbe criminal cases docketed against
him.
HEREDITARY TAIXTS.
a CM«»Vlh«Vi'IM.
ftud Ik. Bappwm »f All.
(Bochriter Duxvnt u* Chronicle.)
As Awtl-Chorltr •artiitr.
IJonqninMIUert letter.]
I have been implored, and with sav
age pleasure I call attention to an Anti-
Charity society in New York. Coaid
“ — -.. v . any «-e believe that, aa we atand apon
To noy one who has studied .he j jj, e r g, 0 f days which bavo been de
laws of life, and especially those , voted since tho advent of Christ to nni-
**».««• wjwwto -ffiS&aSLtSCflS
experience such as w« are about to ; ui ture, in New York? Well there is a
relate, will come with special force I flourishing ordor of that kiod hero jand
. * . , • # : it lia* iuflfc held u bit? siMtios And was
and interest. Tbe transmission of •-“ • «•-
A tew days ago at Oheraw, South
ChsoBna, W. B. Cash shot and tnor*
tally wounded Town-marshall Rich-
axis and James Coward, a by-stand*
•r. Cash is the son of Col. E. B. C.
Cash, the noted duelist. Immedi
ately after the shooting he mounted
feia horse and fled to his father's,
•minty-eight mile* distant. They
the sheriff and hi* posse, and
«wy arrest. Tbe greatest excite-
mast prevails and threat* of lynch
ing are freely made.
Mr. W. H. Lyon, near Urilfln.
te planted ono acre la a variety of
wU-bearing-trees and proposes to
tanhen nut’orchard. Wo believe
in time it will prove a most profit-
•Wo investment, as good note *1-
ways command a good prioe and
■nd ready sale:
SUGGESTIVE.
Editor Recorder:—The Repub
fcan announces the death of Hon.
R. C. Humber, of Putnam Coonty
by fie late cyclone, “one of tbe
most intelligent and promising
young lawyers and politicians of
the State, a prominent candidate
lor Stato Treasurer.” Thu last
mentioned item—tbe candidacy for
the 8ta*e Treasurer—may bo true,
but tbe other statements are rather
mixed. Col. Humber ia not dead,
aa bit injuries are confined to a
broken ankle, and be le doing well.
Ho ia an intelligent country gentle
man and planter of some fifty years
of age—but not a lawyer or politi
clan. He was a valuable member
of the legislature in face of the fact
that be is cranky on the subjects of
the State Agricultural Bureau and
Public Schools, but lie is honest
and capable, and would make Geor
gia a safe and cfflcienf Treasurer.
By the wsy, Dan Speer, the pres
ent successful State Treasure!, has
a cousin in onr city, Maf. Moses
Speer, president of tbe Bank of
Americus, who could lie sa.ely
trusted with tho vaults of tbe State,
or the Federal Treasury. X.
Cons.quruces of forest Destruction
Morning New*.
Within ball a dozen years him
dreds of thousands of acre* of pine
Ismls in the South have been clear
ed of trees, and the destruction of
tbe pine forests is going on witli
continually increasingrapidy. Who
can suy that, tbe droughts aud fierce
storms with which Georgia and
other Southern states have been
sfllicled within the last few years
are not partially due to the loss oi
so large an area of forest ? If it be
true that these disasters can justly
he attributed, to a measure, to this
cause, what may we expect wben
tbu naval (tores producers and luin-
bermon have prosecuted their bus-
inesses in the present wasteful way
for twenty years more f Ia it not
probable that the present disastrous
floods in. tbe Ohio valleys arc the
result of the destructiou of the lor-
csts ot the valley f There are those
who advance that theory, and not
unreasonably.
1Tb; tbe GrlOoltes are Happy.
Clriffln San.
Tbe patent right men have struck
the city bard for the past week.
The key ring man la here with
wbat he claims te be a great and
good article, and la no doubt right.
Tbe man with tbe stump-puller baa
been with us for several daya and
baa wbat be de-lares cannot be
excelled, if the whole country be
tween tbe Pacillc and Atlantic be
acoured with a search warrant. A
graveyard man ha* a sample of bt*
goods on exhibition. A man who
handle* a patent gate attract* the
attention of the passers-by to this
wondrous outcome of genius. A
patent gusno strewer was exhibit
ed on the streets last Friday.
And, to make a tong story abort,
the town is full of patent right sell
ers, all of whom hope to get rich
in tbe twinkling of an eye, and
bestow a blessing on mankind be*
sides.
The lilmball llenie.
Tbe following extract is taken
from tbe Atlanta correspondence of
tbe Augusta Chronicle:
“Tho walls of the new Kimball
House are rising from the Inunda
tion as if by magic. Over two hun
dred men are at work, and the place
Is one of the liveliest localities in
this lively and progressive city.
The hotel will be entirely Ore proof.
All tbe contracts for tbe building
have been closed. Inside and out
the building will be one of tbe finest
and complete*! in these United
State*. Kimball stick* to U that
tbe new hotel, wltb It* seven stories,
M least partly under roof, will
greet tbe eyee of the traveling
world m May, It will oe Herculean
work, wonderfully quick work,but,
you know, “Great is Atlanta, and
H. I. Kimball is the Prophet.”
certain mental traits ot prominence,
and ot certain physical traits of
prominence, are facta which all ac
knowledge, but which none can un
derstand. The lather may be dis
lioguislied,—tbe son, an imbecile;
or, tbe parent may be decrepit and
unknown, and tbe child achieve tbe
highest place possible to humanity.
But through it all, there will be
certain characteristics, which mark
the individual as descending* from
certain ancestors. Too often In
deed, these characters are infirmi
ties, and often of a physical na
ture.
These facts were strikingly
brought out during a conversation,
which a representative of this pa
per recently had wltb Mrs. Carrie
D. T. Swift, wbo is. the wife of one
of our most prominent citizens,
This lady related that she inherited
from her parents certain tendencies,
over whiob she bad no control, and
which were in tbe nature of blcod
difficulties, assuming the form of
rheumatism. Her experience can
host described in her own words,
To tbe writer she said:
“I felt the beginnin of this her
editary taint many yeara ago. in
vague palna, which seemed to come
unaccountably and at uncalled for
limes. They were annoying, ex
hausting, and interfered not only
with my duties, but also totnlly
destroyed my happiness. At first,
they would be only transient, ap
pearing for a day or two, and then
disappearing; then again they would
i.-oiue in such violent forms, that ii
was impossible for me to raise a
cup to my mouth. Afterwards, my
feet and hands swelled so that it
was impossible for me to draw on
my shoes or gloves without the
greatest effort. 1 realized wbat tbe
difficulty was, but seemed power
less to avert it. 1 flnallv became so
bad that I wus confined to the
house anil t<> my bed most of
tVe time. My joints pained inn
continuously and my feet swelled
to enormous proportions. Know,
that I inherited this 'endeney, I
had about abandoned hope, when
I began the use of a lemedy, which
was recommended lo me by a friend
us beinir specially efficient in cases
of a similar kind. To my grea-
gratitude, 1 found that it relieved
me, restored my appetite, and I
am able to say that I have gaim-d
lorly pounds in weight, feel per-
feutly well and am in the best pos
sihlu condition, owing, wholly, to
VVnrnerV Safe Rheumatic Cure,
which was tbe remedy 1 used.”
“No one would ever suspect you
had suffered so, Mrs. Swift, to see
you now,” remarked the reporter.
“That is what all my friends say,
Onlv yesterday, an acquaintance
ol mine, whom i had not seen for
some time, hesitated, before speak
log, and apologized by saying,
‘Why I really did not know you,
you have changed so for tbe hotter
since 1 last saw you, bow well you
do look.’”
Have you any objection ts giv
ing the name of the party who first
mentioned this remedy to you ?"
“Not the slightest. It was Mr.
R. II. Furman, tbe photographer.”
Tbe newspaper man, alter bid
ding Mrs. Switt good-bye, repaired
to the pbotogmpbie rooms of Mr.
Furman, wben tbe following con
versation enaned:
“Have yon been a cofferer from
rheumatism, Mr. Forman ?’’
“Well, I should think I had.”
“For how many years f”
“Twelve or fifteen.”
“Did you try to cure It?"
“Yes, I tried everything, and, at
last, went to tbe Hot Springs of
Arkansas, and nothing seemed to
do me any good until I tried War
ner's Safe Rheumatic Cure.”
“And it cared you, did it ?”
“Yes, completely.”
“And you can cordially recom
mend it?”
“Yes, indeed, more cordialiv
than anything I have ever known
ot It is aimply a wondertul medi
cine. 1 believo that two-thirds of
all coses, both acute and chronic,
conld be cured aa 1 was oured by
the use of this remedy. In fact 1
know a number of persona who
have been in tbe wont possible
condition, and are now eomnl tely
woll wholly through ita u»e.”
Tho statements above made are
frem sources, the authority of
which cannot be questioned. They
conclusively prove the vslue of the
preparation named and show that
even hereditary trnite can be re
moved hy tbe use of the proper
means.
The AltMUjy Newe has added to
Ita editorial staff Mr. & S. Sweet,
well known te" Jack Plane.”
presided over and addresned by big
inen, rich men, influential men, federal
ofliceholders, professed Christians. Ons
is an ex-cabinet minister. They appeal
to tbe pnblie to give no beggar a cent.
Of course these are honest men.
They mean well. But I make a solemn
protest against snob teoohings. The
motive I do not question. Yet I cannot
see how any reasonable man or woman
lain see any good to como ont of this
society’s doings. And it is ea«y to see
how much lieartlcssno -s, inhnmanitr,
indeed, esn and mast naturally grow ont
of it if it is permitted to flourish. And
I repeat that it seems impossible that
at this dsy sad ago such so association
could be thought of for an instant.
For God's rake, lot those who bavs
anything to give and the good heart to
give it, be permitted to give un ptes-
tioned. Ido not think the beggars
will get any too much. If these rich
and great men are sick of seeing beg
gars in the strce.s, let them be pro
vided for as in Pans so that their un
seemly corpses come net between the
sweet air and their lordships' lifted
noses. Of course this association dis-
oluiniH lining uncharitable. It simply
■ays, do not give until you investigate,
and thus get rid of beggars. And so
few iuve-tigste and fewer give. Oh,
my friend, some one richer, belter tliun
there rich, influential men here in New
York, long since said th.it the poor siinll
be with us always. And 1 reckon that
no rociety that ever w.is or ever will lie
could ever do away with that pi.iful
fact
Who are the beggars? You find as
a rule that they aru three who have
bren wounded in this battle of life. No,
not in the body but in the brain. They
are very helpless. Let them lean just
a little on yon as they limp on toward
the grave, only a few- paces ahead. Look
ut any beggar you meet. Will he live
long ? He or she will, nine cases ont ot
tea. not live the year out. Measure his
or her intellect witn yours. Te; u -ivo?
Of coarse, very repulsive. But Christ
never seemed to think them so. Thev
mar the beauty of the city a bit But all
the beggars out of purgatory would
not and conld not put so much sharno
upon tho oity as does tho existence of
one anti-charity society.
Tbe Boek-Cellt-etlan Cruse,
[New York Timor. 1
The croze of the book-collector per-
▼otlos New York society moro exten
sively than most people know. I am
acquainted with many business men
whose sole recreation is to oollect rare
books. Thors is Drayton Ives, for in
■tauoe, who has a delightful museun
of rarities. Ho runs to old anil scarce
books ratkor than to merely costly ones.
He has many rare editions of old Lng-
lish works—Cartons, Wyuken do
Wordes, aud so un—to say nothing of
copies of early colonial Ameri
can imprints, some of them worth their
weight in gold. Robert Hoe, Jr., on
the other baud, ooliects beautiful and
curious books ia womlerf.il lendings,
illuminated missals, early examples of
typographical art, and wonders in book
plates. Charles T. Cangdou, the » ell-
known journalist, is a bibliomaniac. An
unsophisticated friend, examining
of Cuugdou a latest ex: ravaganocs, an
Elzevir, said: "I wo nie.r how you ever
get timo to read so many books us you
buy?’’
“Dead 'em I" cried tli* boob-buyer,
with disgust. ‘ D'ye suppose I lvad
them?”
“If not, what do you do with them?' 1
“Colle.-t them.'' replied CougJoii,
with an air of having ro.tl-d the ques
tion beyond any cavil.
A Cache or un Old-Ttme llouter.
[We,tern Kiel a igv.1
An old-time cocho wus recently dis
covered by Fred Ualieck, in Umatilla
county, Oregon, stowed away three feet
under gronnd, near the bead of Dutton
canyon. He was hunting water at tho
lime, but instead found bread, or wbat
had been used aa a substitute for broad.
One specimen is a section of portable
{ irairio dog sausago, about fifteen inches
ong. The other is a chunk of what
might be called preserved padding. It
was apparently mode from crushed
crickots, camas and cower, cooked into
which woe a sweet decoction of sugar,
pine sap and grasshopper juice. Both
delicacies look as though they would
retain their freshness and flavor ia any
olimate. Old rattlers soy that years
ago they have soen bands of Indiana go
through the country with many pack-
ponies loaded down with tldi kind of
sausage. It was made up io strings a
thousand feet long, aud was coiled com
pletely around a cay use, thus acting us
a self-fasteniug pack outfit.
Merlke’u Htracsle an ■ Dramatist.
[Longman's Magazine, ]
Scribo once said in my hearing that
he began his career as a dramatist by
seeing thirteen of hie pieces fail one
after another, and, an the first night of
the fourteenth (doomed to s similar
fate), felt so discouraged, that he said
to his colaborateur: “1 give it up; and.
when we have got through the half
dozen more that we have on hand, I
will Dover writo another line. Luckily,”
he oddod. “the fifteenth essay was more
uuecesaful, and 1 bought a Iresh packet
of pens on the strength of it” Hinco
then this extraordinarily prolific writer
must have enriched tho French stage
with at least 800 or 1)00 productions oi
more or leas merit, while his son-in-
law, Bayard, following his example, has
contributed no leu than 230.
Tbe Rlrer Falling.
Cairo, February 86.—Tbe Illinois
river now marks fifty one Teet five
inches, and is falling. Tbe govern
ment relief boat, Osceola; arrived
bere.to-d*y. She has distributed
provisions at places between Evans*
vl.leant) the metropolis,and report*
that no suffering now exists below
Paducah.
Shieveport, La., February 2G.-Tbe
river ia higher than it has been since
1849, and i» still rising. Steamers
are bringing in people and stock
from the submerged plantations.
The whole country for 100 miles
above and below hero is reported
to be under water. Great damage
are being done. The river is filled
with floating debris and dead cat-
tie.
The Republican machine in Geor
gia is likely to bare something to
amuse it when the convention meets
In April. The colored Kepubli-
cans, who outnumber the whites
ten to one, desire to send a colored
delegation to Chicago, and it is
said they are determined to control
the convention. Tbe white bosses
will hardly concede this right, and
another split and war of races in
tbe grand old party will probably
be the result, This is very sad.
Nintcen newspapers outfits are
en route for the Occur d’Alene min.
ing district, in Idaho.' This is the
settlement where immensely riebde-
posits are said to have been discov*
ered,and thousands of miners are
on their way thither. After the
incorporation of a mining camp into
a town, a newspaper Is the first thing
tbe miners decide upon having and
the first editor who arrives with an
outfit gets the commission. It will
lie interesting to learn which oftlic
nineteen wh» have slatted forCceur
d'Alene will get the prize. .
A blind girl who had received a
copy of the Bible in raised letters
read it so eagerly and constantly
with her fingers that they were so
worn that every line she read was
marked with blood, and ere long
her fingers became so sore that she
could not use them. Thinking tln.t
for weeks she could use her Bible
again she raised to her lips for a
loving, good bye kiss. As the rais-
ed letters of the page touched her
lips a thrill ol surprise flushed her
face, for she found that she could
read the page with her lips.
There are now 228 submarine
telegraph cables, ail told, seme of
them merely connecting islands
with tho main shore, o>- crossing j
narrow straits ar.d arms ofthe sen, |
others thousands of miles in length.
BUSINESS.
7. 7. '
A Rare Chance and an
Opportunity.
BrMom off«rt4-an investment in bwInMi already
established. For on* or more reasons I offer
FOR 8A.LE!
—my—
Grist Mill and Cotton Gin!
Uxmi*4 Mir tfc* Central IWlrond depot la
tbe Rroataf and thriving ton of
BR0XW00D.
Good New Two Story building
“ “ Set Mill Rocks, ’
Two New 50 Saw Gins,
One “ Farquahr Press,
1 20 Horse Boiler and Engine.
Mj health do**'not allow mo to di* Idaftny time
between thlo new feat ore la my luuinms and my
farm. G aunot fire it t he alt* btloa necewry, and
have decided to Mil at
on Easy Terms!
TO SOUK PARTY WHO WIL'. RUN IT FOR
ALL IT 18 WORTH. I AM NOT THE RIGHT
MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
To any one who would blie a good permanent
paying barintM, 1 would m/ come and oae for
youraelf the properly, Ita ioeailon and adraatagoa.
I MEAN BUSINESS!
or. O’. WBLX.B,
11 HON WOOD. GA.
Plantations for Sale.
1500 arret, 8 milca treat of Preatoa. Will divide
It into two plantation*, one or *00 and the other
TOO,or will divide to suit pwrebonra.
6,000 aerea from «*ne nrd a half to ill miles from
Preston. Will dnlde Into l«*ta to aolt porchaaem.
700 acre* eight mllea South of Preatoa.
660 terra in Lei county, lOOaorra cleared, b> I
•net In original t mber Lie* directly on tbe rail
road from Bmlt’ TtUr to Albany, live end a half
mllea South o? Smlthville, Good land and offered
cheap.
Part ire wi-hlng u buy or fell land will do wel
to call aud i.i' D*
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Preston, W©b*terCo.,Ga.
President Arthur it credited with th*
statement that since his aeeession to
the presidency he bos endeavored to
make ft an inflexible rule to preserve
hie temper under oU cirenmatanoes.
The Current: There ore probably
not over 6U0 Americans in.China to-1
day, while there era not lass then 160,- j
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WE KEEP A PURE AND SELECT LINE OF
DRUGS.
and will not have anything for our] Prescriptidn*
but what is the very freshest. We buy the best
as our experience has proven that it is the cheap
est in the end.
At this season wc call special /
attention to our reliable line of
Garden Seeds!
Of these we can offer such seeds
as are selected with great care
from the larges seed-growers ia-
the United States, embracing a
variety of Cabbage Seads, En
glish Peas,
Early Corn,
Onion Sets,
Irish Potatoes,
Turnip Seeds,
Flower Seeds, and in fact every
seed for the garden and field.
We job to Farmers and Country Merchants
dozens of Castor Oil, Turpentine, Paregoric, Bate
man’s Drops, Quinine, Calomel, etc., etc.
Call and examine onr goods and prices be
fore buying elsewhere.
Respectfully,
J.A. & D. Y. DAVENPORT,
itttn Lamar Street, Americus, G*