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Amerious Recorder.
V. I>, OLKUKKB, Editor.
OOrlal Orgim of Webster roimly.
FRIDAY. MAY 9, l»»4.
Dr. Felton says be will not be a
candidate for Congress this year.
A meeting of the Democratic
Executive Committee of Lee conn-
ty has been ualled for the first
Tuesday in May, at Leesburg.
John Kelly says: ‘’The next
President of the United States will
(m a Democrat, sure.” With all
John's faults he was never a false
prophet.
: A Oiiflln astronomer predicts
iSiatinn few years the moon will
be split in two and we will have
perpetual moonlight. There is too
much moonshine in tho prediction
to suit us.
'Official returns of the parish of
Orleans vote for governor of Lou*
-iaiann, give McKncry,democrat 20,-
380, and Stephenson, republican,
3,838, and two precincts to hear
-from. Thu state gives a democrat-
ic.majority ol 50,000,
The latest in regard to the Green
back and anti-monopoly ticket is
(bat it is to be Butler of Massachu
setts, and Reagan of Texas, This
ticket is said to have been concoct-
«d by some of the most loyal cili-
*eas of New York.
Atlanta it ambitious of having the
■house in whloh Got. Stephens so
-toag lived moved np to the oity,
and for that purpose, it is said the
<tiroclorsoftho Atlanta Library As-
■•oeiatloii intend to bid for the prop-
• fofty and move tho house up to
db. new suburb called Deters' Park,
wrfcere it will be endowod us tho
Historical Hall of Georgia.
'We would suggest that candi
dates for nomination for representa
tives from this county come for
ward and announce their views
open the propriety of modifying
■tbe Railroad Commission law. It
da a. subject in which our people
■sre especially interested, nnd it is
proper that tiiey should know the
sdews of those who aspire to repre
sent them in tho next legislature.
Capt. James D. Mads has return
ed to tho United BUt.es for a few
weeks to look after his jetties nnd
to keep tho people on this side of
the water reminded that he has not
abandoned his grand ship railwny
scheme. lie will return to Loudon
la About a month, when lie expects
.to complete Ills financial arrange-
menu and prepare for the building
of tiio work. lie says he wilt be
aide to haul ships across the Isth-
oral ol Tehuantepec within five
years.
'The Amalgamated Association
of employes and the iron manufne-
.Soirers. at a conference held in
Fiytetiurg on Saturday, were un-
»HIe to agree. The association
wanted to retain the present rates
for some descriptions of work and
<a secure a small advance for oth
ers, but. tbe manufacturers insisted
on a uniform reduction ot ten per
cent. The present higli tariff on
-:rou protects the manufacturers
■from foreign competition, but nf-
: fords no protection to tho labor
engaged in the business. On the
contrary, the high tariff rates on
.other commodities makes tho labor
er pay higher for articles of family
consumption.
tin speaking of the probabilities
of railroad building, the Baltimore
Manufacturers' Record says that
whether railroad building has been
overdone in other parts of the coun
try or not, it certainly has not In
*8 South, and there is yet room
«n that section for a great iacrouso
4m railroads. Many parts of the
enormously rich in mineral
timber wealth, arc now so do-
vwW of transportation facilities as
(a make it impossible for them to
be developed, but with the present
S it of. capital to the South there
l. soon coinc greatef aoftvity Iti
coil road building, and ste w fife will
‘te infused into region* that are
wo* eutoff from sharing-the gen
teal advance ot the materW inter- „ n
jot* of the South. “ ‘ tb
lMAIMNU THE FOKIIS.
As we have mentioned in these
columns before, Col. J. P. Fort, of
Dougherty, has been engaged lately
In the experiment of draining bis
ponds of tbe largo, body of water
which covers them, thereby re
claiming vhry valuable land. As
many of tbe farmers in this vicinity
have many of these ponds, the
manner in which Col. Fort drained
bis may be ot practical benefit to
them. Tho Albany News and Ad.
vertiscr ol last Friday gives a full
description of tbe work, from which
we make the following extracts:
The pond covered about two
acres, and was about ten leet deep
in the middle. In order to drain
it thoroughly he wanted to make
Ida outlet in the centre or deepest
part of the basin. Selecting this
point, he bound tour pine logs to
gelbcr in the shape of a square pen,
and floated them out to where he
wanted to sink his pipe. Taking
these four logs for his foundation,
he floated in others and laid one
log ou alter another until the first
four logs hud sunk to the bottom
and he Imd -. square pen reaching
from the bottom to above the sur
face of the water. Upon this pen
he built a platform, and upon this
lie erected a derrick—four stout
scantlings 27 ieel long. A pulley
suspended trom a cross piece on
top of the derrick, a windlass on
one side of the platform from which
a rope extended through tho pulley,
and a three-foot eul from a white-
oak tree some eighteen inches in
diameter, formed a rather rough
looking bu., effective pile-driver.
Tbe butt end of (he wooden Mock
or driver was protected by an iron
facing, which was bolted on. Four
pegs driven into auger holes in tho
side of the block lormed slots for
two small scanllmgB or guide beams
which were run up inside tbe der-
ricks to bold tbe driver in position.
With two men at tbe windlass and
one to manage the rope as the dri
ver was raised and dropped, tbe
work of driving a three-inch pipe
into tlie bottom of t 1 e pond com
menced. The pipe went down, sev
eral inches every time the driver
struck it, until it bad been sunk
about twenty feel into tbe ground,
when a bard clay was encountered.
At a depth of thirty feet the pipe
rested on hard rock nnd could bo
driven no further. The block or
driver was then dispensed with,
and the work of cleaning out the
pipe and drilling doivn below It
commenced. A half-hollow auger
with two hits on the cud of it was
welded into a joint of 1-} inch pip
ing, and with this tho dirt was
easily drawn out of the big pipe
down to the rock. Now the work
of drilling through the rock com
menced. A simple steel pick or
diill was substiluded for the hol
low augur, and, with enough of the
1-J- inch piping to extend well up
into tho derrick, it is connected to
the repe nnd the windlass is start
ed again—now raising nnd drop,
ing the drill-pipe instead of the
maul or driver. Thu process, in
short, Is tho same us is used in
boring tbe artesian wells, except
that a hand windlass is used in
stead of steam power, nnd no force
pump is necessury to wash out the
sand nnd sediment from the drill.
Tbe drill is drawn out and the hol
low augur is run down occasion
ally to bring up the sediment.
At a depth of 50 feet below the
bottom of the poml the drill struck
an opening, and at once the water
commenced to sink with n roar
through tho big pipe, the top of
which was only n few inches under
water. The drill pipe was drawn
out, and the pond commenced to
empty itsell as fast as the orifice
that the drill had made through
the rocks would permit the water
to flow. When the water in the
pond leveled itself with the top of
the pipe a reamer was attached to
the drill pipe and sent down to
open the way for the big pipe to be
sunk deeper'. In this way the pipe
was sunk until the ioiut of two sec
tions was almost level with the bot
tom ofthc poii I, and there it wus un-
jointed. That was sometime last
week, nnd the water has been rapi
dly sinking ever since. Had it not
been for the heavy rains, all the
water would have been carried away
ere this.
When all the water has passed off
Col. Fort will have a square pitdug
around luc pipe, mid tbe pipe will
then be driven down to a level with
the bottom of this pit. Tbe top of
the pipe will becoverd with wire to
keep the trash out, the pit will be
filled with rocks.[and thus the drain
will be kept open.
The actual expense of draining
this pond lias been very little to
Col. Fort, llis saporinaendent,
.\lr. R. W. Rutbcrtord, to whom
much of the credit lor the sucecss
of this experiment is due, had all
the drills and other implements
used made right there at heme.
The piping, rope and phllcy cost
less than $75, and no money was
paid out for anything else.
Aside from tho benefit which
they expect to derive from a stand
point or health, bat draining this
■iond Col. Fort and Mr. Rutbcr-
tons of muck from it from compost
ing. They have already experi
mented with some of this muck,
and are well satisfied with tbe re
suit. They put out about 2.000
tons of it on land planted this
spi ing, and the difference between
tbe growing crops on land where
tbe muck was used and where it
was not used can be seen at a glance.
UEOHUU HEWS.
7 / f I
Perry V'nsbn, a notorious one
armed burglar of Southwest Geor
gia, bas just been recaptured at Al
bany.
A total of $300 lias been appro
priated by the Columbus Council
for tlie fire manic tournament to oc
cur in that city shortly.
Col. M. J. Hatcher, superinten
dent of the Georgia State Fair,
which is to be held in Macon this
fall, says that two Northern mer
chants have secured space ulready
for the exhibition of tbeir goods,
The Dooly Vindicator is earnest
ly inquiring after the Macon and
Floiida Air-Line Railroad which
Bros. Perbam, of Quitman, and Pen
dleton,of Valdosta, have been build
ing. It is as invisible as the
Keely moter.
The governor has made a deed of
the arsenal lot in Savannah to the
Savannah Volunteer Guards bat
talion. The last legislature author
ized tbe transfer, upon the condi
tion that the Guards erect an ar
mory upon it, which the state shall
have the privilege of using in times
of necessity.
Athens Bannet: “Near High
Shoals there lives a man who is said
to be the biggest eater in America.
At one sitting ho ate two large
chicken pies, an entire bog, a peck
of biscuit, two gallons of coffee and
other things in proportion. Parties
often club in and buy food just to
see tbe fellow eat.”
Cartersvitle American: “The
flood last week uncovered an In
dian graveyard in Henry Tumlin’s
field. No one knew that a burial
place was in that field, but tbe re
cent washings of the flood have
discovered pieces of skeletons, In
dian pots, eto., plainly indicating
that there the aborigines of this
country buriotl tbeir dead.
A curtain legal document in some
way was lost in tnc Sheriff's office
at Macon, and for two months Bail
iff Jones has been on tlie hunt for
it. He searched all the shelves and
drawers in tbe office and tailed to
find it. Monday night lio dreamed
that it was among a lot of papers
in a certain drawer in the office.
So impressed was he by the dream
that he looked over tbe papers
dreamed about and the missing
document was there.
Albany News nnd Advertiser:
“A young colored man named
Washington Johnson came up
from Tifton Sunday evening with
a pistol ball in bis bead. He bad
been shot the night before by a
white man name Jake Voung. Tbe
ball entered immediately in flout
ot liis left ear. He came up to get
the attention of Dr. McMillan.
Tbe latter inserted a probe in tbe
wound, and the patient, who was
standing on the front porch of the
Doctor’s residence, fainted and fell.
Ho struck his head against the side
of the house us he full, and it was
fully an hour before be was revived.
He walked up town to see the doc
tor again Monday morning. Tlie
ball is still in bis head, and the doc
tor says he doesn't think be will
undertake to cut it cut, as lie has
not been able to locate it.”
Augusta Chronicle and Constitu<
tionahst.- “The cotlou mill men
of Augusta and of tlie State seem
to have settled tbe question of alleg
ed over-production in a novel way,
and instned of reducing figures to
work off' what was believed to be
an overplus, they have marked up
prices of goods from a quarter to
a hall cent per yard. The fact is,
that although most of the mills
have goods on hand, they feci that
they can better afford to bold them
—selling them off from time to
time as consumers order them, at
a paying price—than work them
off at figures below tbe cost of pro
duction. Tbe tact is. that at tbe
present price of cotton, manufact
ured goods were lar too low, and
what goods are needed will be
taken aa readily at the advanced
price as at the recent IoW figures,
until the reaction of the trade,
when it is believed matters will im-
(ml say lhey : will get several prove all rohiid."
—a.AS ARHY'EXPEBIESCE.
M Ola Veteran Escaped Audi-
(Nalionil Tribune of Washington.)
A pleasing occurrence which has
just come to our notice in connec
tion with tbe New York state meet
ing of the Grand Army ot tbe Re-
public is so unusual in many res
pects that we venture to reproduce
it for the benefit of our readers.
Oapt. Alfred Rensom, of New
York, while pacing in the lobby of
the armory, previous to one of tbe
meetings, suddenly stopped and
scanned the face of a gentleman
who was in earnest con versa' ion
wilboneofthe Grand Army officers.
It seemed to him that he Had sein
that face before, par'ially obscured
by tbe smoke of battle, and yet tb's
bright and brilliant countenance
could not be the same pale, and
deatb-iike visage, whicu he so dim
ly remembered. But the recol
lection, like Ganquo's ghost, would
not “down” at command and haunt
ed him the entire day. On tHe day
following he again saw the same
countenance,and ventured to speak
to its owner. The instance the two
veterans heard each other’s voices,
that instant they recognized and
called each other by name. Tbeir
faces and forms had changed, but
their voices were the same. The
man whom Capt. Rensom bad rec
ognized was Mr. \V. K. Sage, of St.
Johns, Mich., a veteran of the 23d
N. Y. Light Artillery, and both
members ot Burnside’s famous ex
pedition to North Carolina. After
the first greetings were over, Cap
tain Rcrisom said:
“I hardly seems possible, Sage,
to see you in this condition, lor 1
thought you must have been dead
long ago.”
“Yes, I do not doubt it, for if 1
am not mistaken, when we last met
was occupying a couch in the hos
pital, a victim of 'Yellow Jack’ in
its worst form,”
I remember. Tbe war seems to
have caused more misery since its
close than ween it was i n progress,”
replied tlie Captain. “I meet old
comrades trequenily who are suffer
ing terribly, not so much from old
wounds as from malarial poisons
which ruined their constitutions.”
“I think so myself. When the
war eloeed 1 returned home and at
times I would t'cei well, but every
few weeks that confounded ‘all-
gone’ feeling would come upon me
again. My nervous system, which
was shattered in the service, failed
me entirely and produced one of
the worst possiblo cuscs of nervous
dyspepsia. Most of the time I hud
no appetite; then again I would be
come ravenously hungry, but the
minute I sat down to eat i loathed
food. My skin was dry ami parch
ed, my flesh loose and flabby. 1
could bold uotbiug on my stomach
for days at a lime, and what little
did cat failed to assimilate. I
was easily fatigued; uiy mind was
depressed; I was cross and irrita
ble and many a night my heart
would pain me so I could not sleep,
and when I did 1 had horrid
dreams and frightful nightmares.
Of course, these things came
on one by one, each worse than the
other. My breath was l’oul, my
tongue was coated, ray teeth de
cayed. 1 Imd terrific headaches
which would leave iny nervous sys
tem completely shattered. In tact
my existence, since the war, ha':
been a living death, from which 1
have often prayed for release.”
•‘Couldn't the old surgeon do
you any good?”
“I wrote him and be treated me,
but like every other doctor, failed.
Thep all said my nerve was gone
and without that to build upon I
could not get well. When I was at
my worst, piles of tbe severest na
ture came upon me. Then my liv
er gave out and without the use of
cathartics 1 could not move my
bowels at all. My blood got like
a stream of lire and seemed literally
to burn me alive.”
“Well, yon might bettor have
died in battle, quick and without
ceremony.”
“How many times I have wished
I bad died the day we captured
Ncwberne!”
“And yet you are now tbe pict
ure of health.”
“And the picture is taken from
life. I am in perfect condition.
My nerve tone is restored; my
stomach reiuvigorated; my flesh is
bard and healthy; in tact I have
new blood, new energy and a new
Women Eea Captain*.
[Harter's Weekly.]
Mrs. Mary A. Miller is not the fin!
woman who has served snocessfnliy as
mistress of a ship. Mr*. Capt. Patten,
of Bath, tie., who while her husband
was lying ill in bis berth, navigated-bis
ship around Capo Born and up to San
Francisco, although his timid first
officer wanted to step at Valparaiso for
assistance: of Mrs. Capt. Abbio Clif
ford, of ilic brig Abbio Clifford, who,
after her husband had been washed
overboard, brought tbe vessel safe into
New York harbor from below the
equator; of Mrs. Capt, Reed, of tho
Oakland, of Brunuwick, Me., who was a
practical navigator of celebrity, and of
M ss j enet Thoms, who often used to
navigate her father's ship, who is now
teaching a school of navigation in this
city and who was in part the'author of
“Thoms' Navigator," a book of au
thority among mariners,
These cases are all of recent date. To
them The Leavenworth iKan.i Times
adds the case of Mrs t apt. John C li er
N orton, of ± dgartowr, Ji ass. Her hus
band commanded a whaling vessel, and
she frequently went with him into tho
. relic waters. On one of thoseexpedi-
tions all tbo boats were out, leaving on
board lire captain and just enough
nf tho crew to manage tbo vessel. A
whale was noticed off' to tho starboard,
and the captain and men were puzzled
how to get it. It was the woman who
solved the problem and settled tho fate
of his whalo.dtip. (ioiugto the wheel she
prevailed upon her husband to leave
the ship in her charge, with two dis
abled men, while ho and his men went
ai'tor tho whale. Ho did so. The
woman managed the ship all day until
.ightfall, when the boats returned, tuat
n command of her lmsbaud having cap
tured tho biggest whale ever seon iu
thoso wutors. When tho ship put in
,ome the New Bedford owners made
tho “woman commander” a handsome
present. _
Tlie Ill-lit of One Mail's Intellect.
[Kind Du Bois Diu-ninnJ.j
Siemens telegraph wirei gird tlife
earth, ami the Siemens cable steamer
nraday is continually engaged in Ja.i
ing new ones. By the Siemens method
has been solved the problem (by the
k be of which that of finding a needle in
u buy stack is one of childish simplicity)
of fishing out in the stormy ocean, from
a depth comp arable to that of the vale
f Chamouni, tho ends of a broken
cab'e. Electrical resistance is measured
oy tho Siemen mercury unit. “Siemens'
i3 written on water meters, and Bns.-ian
nn.l German revenue officers are unsted
by Siemens apparatus in levying their
assessments. The Siemens process
for g.lding and silvering and the bio
i.ens anastatic printing mark stages in
tho development of thoso branches of
industry.
Siemens differential regulators ion
trol tho action of the steam eng.nes that
J rg? the English arms at Woolwich
lid that of the chronographs on whi.h
tlie transit of tho stars is marked at
i eonwich. The Siemens cast steel
orks and glass houses, with their ro
generated furnaces, aro admired by all
artisans. The Siemens electric light
shines in assembly-rooms and public
laves, and the Siemens gas-light com
petes with it; while tho Sieme s elec
tro-culture in green houses bids dofi-
anco to our long winter nights, Tho
Siemens electric railway is do tined t
rulo in cities and tunnels. Tho S ein-
ens electric crucible, melting three
pounds of platinum in twonty minutes,
was u wonder of the l'aris exposition,
which might u oil havo been called an
expo ition of Siemens’ apparatus nnd
productions, so prominent were thoy
there.
The Hollow Nqunre In Warfare.
[New York Times.]
Tho “hollow square” formation that
won tho battlo of El Tcb is undoubt
edly a formidable one in these days of
long-range rifles, when tho assailants
can bo exterminated long before they
ever reneh tho bayonet points. But that
infantry s juares havo lioen broken by
cavalry on more than one occasion is
now a mattor of history. Authorities
aro still dividod as to whether Viotor
Hugo was right in affirming or biborne
denying that the French lioavy brigade
drove in tho fare of a British square
at Waterloo, lint Montbruu’s cniras
sicra broke a Russian square at Boro
dino in 1812, and Col. Cnulaincourt's
horse, in the same battte, actually
charged into ail intrenched redoubt.
In tho course of the Anglo-Arabian
war that followed England s annexa
tion of Aden, in IS39, an English square
was attacked in tho opeu plain by a
mass of Abdali horsemen. Tho Arabs
forced their wav iu so far as to kill sev
eral men in the third rank, and were
then beaten oil' with bayonets and
clubbed muskets, nil occurrence util
ized by James Grant in one oi his mili-
t iry novels. The Irish brigade had a
similar experience at 'Palavers. “So,
my Connaught boys,” said Gou. Ficton
to* them after tho battle, “you let the
renehmen get into yourspuaro to-day,
did you?” “Well, your honor,” an
swered a brawny Irish grenadier, with
stern significance, "the b aekguardsgot
in, sure en mgh, but, bed .d! they never
got out again.”
The Color l.lne In I.lberl*.
[Macon Tel’graph.]
Tho tendency amo’ g the negroes is
lease of life wholly as the result of to draw tlie line between thoso of pure
using Warner’s Tippecanoe, tkio hinot mui mniattoes. Thcv bad tmuhin
blood and wulattoes. They hod trouble
of this kind in Hayti, and it crops ont
hero in the south to a greater or lesser
extent during every political campaign.
It has become tho controlling isaua in
the politics of the republio of Liberia.
The constitution of that republio erects
a bar against all men of white blood.
They cannot hold office and are re
ft rioted in their rights of citizenship.
The black negroes now propose to bar
ont the yellow ones.
„ .. . -• J. J. Hoborts, Liberia'n first presi-
recollections of the past. When ( j C nt and the George Washington of
he again raised bis head and said: ■ that country, was defeated when ns last
“It would be a godsend if all tho ! ran for office on the color issue. Be
veterans who have suffered
tensely and also all others
land who are enduring so much ■ ntti** nf AWiWj *mT |W, |y|
misery could know of your expo- ; given to understand that they are not
periencc, Sage, and the way by wanted. Veiyfew malettoee can now
which you have been restored?’ ! bo induced to go to Liberia, the dispo-
And that is whv the above con- j bows to w M»ria be purely a
vernation is recounted. * ; w * < ' k republio.
This
remarkable preparation, which I
consider the finest tonic and stom
ach restorer in the world has over
come all the evil influences ot ma
laria, all the poison of the army,
all traces of dyspepsia, all mal-
assimilation of food, and indeed
made a new man of me.”
The Captain remained silent for
a while evidently musing over his
NOT AS DANGEROUS AS FORMER
I have struck not for higher
wages, nor for less hours of
work; but I have “struck” upon
ways and means to keep this
town supplied with the largest
and best selected stock of Dry
Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats
and Notions that ever were
shown or offered Before. I do
not wish to tire my customers
or the reader why and how I
can sell these goods at such
fabulously low prices, but I
will say come, be convinced that
it will pay you to do your trad
ing with me. I can and will
save you money, no matterhow
small your purchases. New
Goods received daily which are
always offered at bargain prices.
S. M. COHEN, v
Cotton Avenue, Americus, Ga
ATTENTION!
LIQUORS,
BEERS,
CIGARS,
Z2to.« Bto.
I have and always keep on band a full aupply of
Imported nnd Domestic Liquors, Beet a, Cham
pagne, Cigars, ete., etc., which I nra Belling nt
LOWEST MARKET PRICKS. AUola Presto
Mortod Slock of
Staple and Fancy Groceries!
Fresh Cincinnati Deer on Draught I
Always on bund at 5e per glass.
Free Lunch from 10:30 A. M. to 2 P. M
1 hare added to tny place a gaod
Billiard and Pool Table
now until tho cud of the season I will keep
Full Supply of Ice on band.
JAKE ISRAELS,
MITCHELL’S
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