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Established 1879.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1884.
Amgrious Recorder.
POBUtPSD nr
OFFICE OH COTTON ATEI1TE,
PROFESSIOHAL & HUSISESS CARDS
*** iVyebsT
L.a.OARTSB,
ATTOENEY AT LAW,
Axkbici'*. Pi-mtib Count r. : : : Ga.
0«CT, oM Flnt Natl et-il Bank.
1-r.mpt utr.ll in -.'tr-. to.’l t>c>httM'ntra-trd.
CUlcUtM.. a a|Kil«lly and pnaapt att.olt.ni
(tunnuwi. d«g»tt
cTll. KrCROKY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
aalaville, ga.
TElltt#—All ctotmu from $30 or timler, #3;
from • JO to *300, ihi p't cpnt.: ov. r •Sro, •even
permit. N»cl»rgiff unit***culle:tioiip arc mode.
May H tf.
DOCTORS.
Dr. 0. B. RAINES,
SCROEOS AND rilVSICIAX.
»0cr* hi» wro!t»<Lm*l gcrtlre*. with ui expert*
onoe ol 30 vent* to the peot*»e of Amerleua «n<!
viciniir. OAor ovif DavU t < ’• Ret
DR. C. A. BROOKS,
a willow mu mm.
SOMKTIIINO THAT BRATS J
ABO CORN CROP.
AMERICUS, GA.
Call. ten at D.wl».rt’» drug ituro i ll’, n-rctvo
prompt att.ntlon Will bo ton ml at night itt tbo
roatdonoo of Col. 8.11. H»wkl»«, e rnor Leo an.l
Collide, aliwta. mo, " m
Dr. D. P. HOLLOWAY,
DENTIST,
AMERICUS, GA.
Work miual to tha but Caib ratra a* V
btlowr. u Try Mm a». b. woilcoeL O*oe
«rrr DaTu.port Jt Boll’adi J* .tor.. *rV"“
MISCELLANEOUS*
Nell Ploliett
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
TAI.UOTTON, - GEORGIA
Will do Ploatorlnv. Brickwork nuJ Hoiui work
CaUomiaca aiwotalty. Ib'pairltii; dona. Ortlara
promptly attended to. octSlf
lowers’
From wlilcb ba« fcwa n»a*lt
50 BALES ON 20 ACRES,
Okm be piwWd nt
J. W. Harris & Co.’s Haywire
AMERICUS. GA.
m.%rcb1Str
Edward J. Miller.
C, Homoo McCall.
Monumental Marble Works,
SILLER A HcCALL, Proprietors,
Southwest Comer of tbe Public Square,
AMERICUS, GA.
Monuments, Tombs, Etc,, Etc.
•f Uio best Italian and American Marble.
Iran Ralll«v far Cemetery Knelo
area, a Specially.
octly
A. A. Battle’s $3.00 flea’s Shoes.
„ b ilollai*. 1 do a lur^v
bo«fnc»s Imy and **»l t>* ea*h, and tli n»or* I am
enabled to defy comp tiro-u. I have taken thU
MITCHELL’S
EYE-SALVE!
A ratals. Rate »ml Rtseltva Remedy far
Son, Weak & Inflamed ^es,
Cures T«ar-Drop», OrunnlatloM, Stye
Tumor*, Red Eye*, owl Matted
Eye Lashes,
Asti rnouixTNO quick hklikf and
PKKMASZVr CL’HIL
.Zlata, Htrcilt
««* to airaatafl.
Bold by all DniKKlata at 35 a alt.
LUMBER. LUMBER.
IrflW.t.a laT. a bra, two ami a kail
(affimiu a. w. joiidan. .
SI,con Trlegnph and Ur.mncrr
Mr. I. C Plant, the well-known
banker, ban solved the problem
of utilizing Uio swamp lands be
low Macon. Many have tried the
experiment of raising oorn, cotton
oats, etc., and fouud it very unccr
tain. The overflow from the river
often ruined the crop* and lost the
plautcrs many a dollar. The land
Is rich and grows everything; but
unless teevos arc built—and these
are expensive—no calculations can
be made as to the result.
Hut Mr. Plant Is now indifferent
us to freshets. His swamp farm
about two milcB from towu, is sur
rounded and protected by a strong
levee, and is in every respect a
model farm but if this levee should
break and tbc water .’cmain on the
land for months, ho will now have
better results from the willow trees
he has planted than II the levee re
mained intact and tic gathered
fall crop of cotton and coin.
He has now a willow farm, the
only one in tbc South. Think
of twenty-eight acres planted in
willow tree.! Aud yet theso wi>
lows bring hint $20(1 to the acre
the second year, $300 the third
year, $-100 ilia fourth year and so
bn. And this too without putting
plow or boc to tha ground.
About two years ago Mr. Plant
was in Hartford, Conn , and saw
a lot of willows growing around
the dykes of the Colt’s pistol
factory. They were imported , by
Colonel Colt from Switzerland
about the time several Swiss colo
nics came over to scttle.Mr. Plant
took quite a fancy to tbc willows
and seeing bow well" they grew
on land subject to overflows, knew
at once that they would thrive well
on his swamp lands near Macon.
Ho secured 13,000 cuttings from
Colonel Colt, and they were
brought out nud planted about
eighteen months ago. The plants
grew rapidly and soon convinced
Air. Plant that lie was right in bis
right in bis conjectures as to the
willow doing well on his swamp
land.
About a year ago be planted 15,
000 more cutting*, from which lie
look and planted 80,000, cuttings
about five weeks ago on eleven
acre* of land.
During the last freshet, about
two weeks ago, Mr. Plant heard ol
a ship load' of willows arriving
in New T4rk. Ho telcgfnphcd at
onaqfof a largo lot and they nr
rived just j tbout the time the water
subsided and left the ground in a
muddy condition. Employing a
large force of negro women an I
boys bo had theso things assort
ed ont and proceeded to put them
in the ground. With a large force
of negro boys bo laid out seventeen
acres of ground In rows flvo feet
apart. With a stick, holes twelve
inches deep were made and the
boys dropped In tbo cuttings at a
lively rate, wading through the
mud and water. The ground wns
in excellent condition, and out of
28,000 cutting- only a few failed
to take root and began to grow at.
once. Thus he has n total of 310,-
000 willow trees on his twenty-
castor beans planted between tbc
rows.
A visit to this novel farm yes-
terday afternoon showed tbc trees
to be growing iincly. Those set
out eighteen months ago are from
five to eight feet high; those set
oat twelve months ngo three to
four feet high; nud those set out
a few weeks ago arc growing rapid
ly and will lie ready to cut in
two years. The flrst cut of the
crop will bo made next October.
Now as to what tiie willows will
bring. These cuttings will pro
dace a ton to the acre for the sec
ond year, and thin will be increas
ed year after year. Each cutting
produces from six to eight upright
switenes liko grass from seven to
nine feet high, without any twigs
or branches, doubling in quantity
and increasing in height from year
to year without replanting.
When properly stripped and
prepared for market, these willow
branches readily command from
$180 to $200 per ton, or from 9 to
10 cents per pound at the North or
West.
It will be seen by this figuring
that at the end of two yeara Air.
Plant's twenty-eight acres will
bring him in $5,600, with no ex
pense save the stripping and bal
ing. In four years this amount is
doubled.
Tbc stripping is a very simple
.acihotl •»! intnxlaeififf tki*t*to>o tocatiro »h*n*„
£2ZOKS? I'.ufc't&te eight acres. nnd will, corn and
to he■titrlied with thu t***t o «U*. »ml tb* b..»- *— *— *'■«
tons an* a*w»l un with ike l> at of Bartoura
thr ad, wMcti la IiumtUm! f*«m ^©oiiani. Tke*a
time* are arid** on the l-ttwat Improved L*!i, atd
you »IH Mwd them an e njr fit* aucryim liar, tred
cne pair >o» will tre*r immk* th *t L not lumped
on tfi« bottom **A- A. Butb-'a f*00 eboe.** Kx-
duslvo tale In A atari wa at toe BAKGViN
STORK of A. M. COUK>, Co ton tof. maSoiS
process. For a time it was a puzzle
to Mr. Plant, b st while on ono of
bis trips to New York, be went in
to one of the largest willowware
establishments to look aronnd.nnd
while there a shipment of willow
branches came in from the West.
The willows were white as snow
and altogether a Ono lot. lie ask
ed whore they wore grown, and
was told in tbo West. To And
out how the willows were cleaned,
Mr. Plant very quietly made
trip of four hundred miles. He
went to a grower of willows and
found him using a very slow con
trivance. Alter looking at it
awhile, Mr. riant soon saw that be
could Improve upon tbo method,
and asking permission of the wil
low tree farmer, pulled off bis coat
and in a short while had a machine
that took the bark off at once. The
farmer was delighted, and after
Mr. Plant retured home the farmer
patented the machine and sent one
to Mr. Plant.
The willows are pulled through
this little machine and the bark
and leaves are stripped off clean,
The willows are lio n plunged into
a vat or trough of water and taken
up immediately by a boy or girl
wearing heavy w oolen gloves. The
willow switch is pulled through
the hand, laid aside, and is then
ready for baling. Tbo ends are
alternated and pressed In compact
bundles, and are then ready for
market. The cost of shipping and
preparing loes not exceed flvo dol
lars per ton.
On one of Ids trips to New York,
Mr. Plant mentioned bis willow
farm to a leading willowware
manufacturer, and Was made an
offer in writiug (or all he could
grow in ten years at $180 per ton.
Recently a drummer lor a willow
ware house hapiiencd to see some
of the willow switches grown on
Mr. Plant’s place. He wrote to bis
house concerning them,and in lonr
days Mr. Plant received an offer
for Ids entire crop at $200 a ton.
Now while this hind is made so
valuable by a tree that requires no
cultivation whatever, making a sure
crop every year, there is s ill
ample room on llm same land for
u crop of corn wtiioli is planted
between the row-. Rut Mr. Plant
grows something still more valua
ble than corn, lie is planting tbc
castor licni). from which castor oil
is made. He plants the dwarf va
riety, which lias the same yield
as the taller *|)ccics. For t* c
beans lie gets from tlirco to four
dollars per bushel in Macon.
The willow farm is something
new in the South, Its introduc
tion by Mr. Plant only proves that
wc can grow anything, and that
diversified farming is thi kind of
farming that pays. Those who
prefer cotton and corn can con
tinue with ilium and run the chan
ces of floods and droughts; and
those who depart from the old
ways and find tbut this good land
ot our is productive of other and
moro valuable crops, will be sure
of a rich reward iftboy start right
Starting right is the secret of suc
cess. Mr. Pluut sot out his first
15.000 willow cuttings and was
content to wall until they reached
i size to draw from. In the rncan-
irao ho was busy with other crops.
His oats, and barley and wheat
made the luml pay while waiting.
It would bo wt-ll for our young
farmers to look more after diversi
fied farming, but tliey should start
right if they decide to make a bicak
from the old crops.
8EMT OX KTECtJLATIiM. financier. Ob, a busted man’s life
is r very gay onet”
blia about the dynamite,”
A TALK WITH THR TORMRE MILLION-
AiRC ON HIS EMBARRASSMENT.
A cavern bss been discovered on
tbc farm ol Mr. David Smith, near
Piedmont, W. Va., which promises
New Tort Ian.
Tbo failure of the Atlantic 8tate
Bank of Brooklyn, of which Mr.
Oeoige I. Scney Is the ohlcf owner,
to resume payment causes somo
uneasiness, and it accepted as an
indication of Mr. Haney’s inability
to afford it relief, and gives sub
stance to the rumors that in set
tling the affaire with the Metropoli
tan Rank Mr. Seney emerges from
that field of gigantic operations
■tripped of muon, if not all, of his
property. Yesterday deeds were
filed that took from Mr. Scney his
splendid Brooklyn residence, the
former residence of J. 8. Rockwell,
tbs millionaire leather merchant,
and also his former residence in
Remscn street. A fatality pursues
tbo occupants of the Rockwell man
sion. The builder and first owner,
Mr. Rockwell, found that tbo sani
tary experiments ended in making
it a vent to sewer gases, wbicb car
ried away bis grandchild, and sub
sequently he died from tbo same
cause. His widow dird last year,
and Mr. 8cney purchased the house,
adding to it a gallery for bis nu
merous art treasures.
Tbc deed which conveys this
liouso to tbo Metropolitan Bank
and mentions $176,000 a« consid
eration, was filed yesterday. The
house has a frontage of 68 feet on
Montaguo tcrraco, and extends
along Montague street 209 ieet.
The grounds ara broken by a beau
tiful terrace, and there is a privato
staircase from the steps leading up
to the bridge over the tunnel, which
enabled Air. Seney on hot days to
enter bis bouse without the fatigue
of mounting all tbe steps.
Mr. Scney bas a fortune invested
in paintings, to wbicb he is much
attached. These may bo spared in
tbe financial disaster, but ibeir re
tention by him is doubtful. He
bought tbo Rockwell mansion on
June 12th, 1883.
A deed was nlso filed yesterday
conveying Mr.Soney’s former home
in Ueinscn street, between Clinton
and Henry, to the new president of
the Metropolitan Bank, Henry L
Joqacs, for $80,000. Tbe other
recent conveyances of property
with tbo above show that Mr. Sc-
nry bas parted with real estate val
ut-d in all at $989,000. In settling
up at the Metropolitan, tbe securi
ties of Mr. Seney ’a various railroad
enterprises were marked down so
much that it has apparently taken
nearly all of his privato fortuno to
put the bank in a position to re-
some.
Mr. Snnuv is in robust health,
and bis money making power hat
been so great that bis friends be
lieve be will nUimalely get upon
bis feet again and take rank as ■
millionaire. He bas little to sa>
even to friends about the causes
of tbc recent trouble. His fortune
bas been so identified witli railroad
speoulali -n that bla future as a
rich man depend* largely upon an
increase in the value of railroad
properties. Ho has expressed no
regret nt the largo amount he has
given nway. Methodist ministers
whoso enterprises have nourished
f. om bis gifts believe be is so much
of a magician in finance that, in tbc
words of a thrifty proverb of the
highlanders of Caucasus, ho could
make “cliccso Iron a he goat;”
Mr. Seney said to a reporter of
the Sun last niglit: “Thu suspen
sion ol the Metropolitan Rank was
certainly due in large part to the
attacks upon it and mo which have
Tell hi
suggested a friend.
“Oh, yee," said Mr. Seney. “I
oimost forgot that, in tbe midst ol
more exciting things. I'm to be
blown np with dynamite, and to
are my house and family. A gen-
tleman wrote mo to day a perfectly
serious letter, In wbtoh ho said be
had Just returned from the country,
and would eooo be around with a
few friends to blow me up. I
demood from tbe papers that I
bad gono sky high, but here’s a
chap that thinks Itisn’thigh enough.
Of coarse, I’vo no idep who it can
be. It D certainly no depositor in
the bank, for none of tbc depositors
are going to lose anything.”
Mr. Seney absolutely denied tbe
report that iie bad made a general
assignment fur the benefit of bis
creditors, and said bo did not con-
tern.-late doing so.
“1 can say nothing,” said he.
“as to my future movement. 1
am now a man living day by day,
and I can’t say now what I will do
to-morrow.”
An intimntc friend said that Mr.
Seney was not thought to have any
private fortune, and that tbe ques
tion at to whether or not be would
be a totally ruined man would de
pend altogether upon tbo action
taken by bis friends and creditors.
JOLLY JOHM'REEVILLE.
Joiini’UKkvillk, May 19 Rain
much needed, tried very bnrd to
rain this evening but cloud went
below about Weston. Fine rain at
and above Lumpkin last week. We
look for ours to-morrow.
Tbc little cotton is getting up
and dusting. Wo could report
Spann’s, but as so tew people be-
lieve wbat an editor or any one
else that bos anything to do with a
newspaper, we will allow some one
else tbo privilege of reporting the
first. Owing to tho dry weather
general green has about decided to
give It up and turn the fields over
to Messrs. Seovil, but says ho will
return some time in Juno if we
hrve plenty of rain.
It will soon lie the first, of June
and' two-tbirds of tbo corn in the
country is not knee high but bos a
good color and wants to grow if it
would ralo. Tbe oats are also suf
fering, bat nro doing much better
than we thought they could with
out rain so long, They are low
but the beads arc very good. Tbo
only troublo, if it don't rain, will be
to tie tbam up; many of t^hem will
be hauled up looie to feed on.
Good many will fioiab chopping
cotton this week, while many have
hardly commcnoed. Few cotton
lice on band.
We took a trip last week in the
interest of our railroad; good sm
cess. Tbe money is now in the
bands of tho treasurer. Wc have
ord'-red our enginu, passenger
conohes and freight cars, they will
all bo made to order. Wo will
grade our road as soon ns wc get
through with our crops, and will
commence operations the 1st ol
September. So look out for tbe
whistle when tin|englne blows.
There will be a big Sunday
school celebration at Sardia next
.Saturday, everybody invited with
. . . - , , - come from all quarters. Just - - ...
to rival in extent and beauty j lh c moment when money was the M! basils. There will be an eat-
famous kuray Cjnrcni, in tightest a report was spread, and ! iug match between—wc won’t wa.v
^rmiab^ho^caWntf’oiTsoinooscned I a l’P arcnt '. v Sieved, of my being I wh o, but wc will bet on John T.
been explored for upward of a mile ! bania. ^Tbere* w*s ‘no truth'ln^he I «“ «'«•* *• Peoplethlnk of tho R»
0nc iu7n .nn,h“„ nd 1^*?" ^ ' report, for I have never had a do!-1 corurr.
• .in >(b0 l ut !£, aC ™ lar in “"y * ucl * scheme, but is was; Mrs. Mayor la visiting friendsand
rarssswr t*-'—s—
ported by finely proportioned .col-; „ To wlm extenl ;, vu a , U d,! , <ts , ia( , anoUler attack but ,, im .
umns. Furtbor.cxploretfon- will he laifore of tho’ “
made at once. ; ipeoulaUon , in wllicll yuu pr °' ''' e ,
* * ' ~* ! might have been engaged?” •
i Jcannlc Hester is visiting
Hatcher Station, May 90 —The
picnic season is now In fall blast
and no enjoys it more than this do-
ponent, more rspaeislly the culi
nary features. Tbs Snudsy school
st Georgetown enjoyed s greed and
gala day on Friday last. It wss a
complete suoeess In every feature
The eity of Eufsn'a will soon en-
|oy the pleasures of Artesian water,
as their well will will noon be fln-
(shed.
Mr. B. B. Davis, of Eufsols, is
collecting quite an array of geolog
ical curiosities, also in mineral-
ology, tho product of Bsrbonr
county, Ala. His specimens con
sists of tome very large hollow
sand rocks or geodes, somo as large
as a half bushel, various kinds of
elsys, iron ores, Chalybeate water,
Oebrcs, wbicb mined with turpen
tine make a splendid permanent
paint, with many other curiosities,
wbicb, until recently were unknown
to exist in Barbour county. They
are to be sent to tbe museum at
Birmingham, Aim, for examination
and exhibition. He also' has some
specimens from oar county, aim of
Clay county, Ga.
Tbe crop prospect for oorn, cot
ton find fruit in this county is sim
ply splendid and satisfactory to all
reasonable minded farmers. I
know that I bare not seen y mng
cotton so promising on old lands
in ten years, and tbe farms ara gen
erally in good condition, day labor
seems to be fully np to the demand
and at reasonable wages, whteh,
with the extraordinary favorable
weather, enabled farmers to pat
their crops in a satisfactory condi
tion, chopping cotton Is nearly
over, and the fields loft measurably
clean. Fruit trees, especially
peaches are fairly loaded down with
healthy fruit, the early varieties
-bowing evidences of ripening.
The melon crops along the railroad
are fine and foil of young frnit,
farmers look sprightly and encour
aged.
Mrs. E. J. Moore, formerly of
this county, but recently of Albauy,
Os., is spending somo time with
relatives and friends In this oonnty.,
Mr, T.P Kimble and H. L. Balk-
corn are favorably spoken of as
suitable men to represent our
eountyin tbe Legislature. Mr. Ba'k-
com Is highly favorable to tbe
stock law and taxing dogs. With
a stock Isw and a dog law for the
State, and a modification of the
tariff for tbe n.tlon, our mivern-
m nts would be materially improv
ed. I have determined to vote for
no man fur Cuogrees. wbo don not
favor a modi fled tariff forth* bene
fit of all classes. Quitman.
Thomas G. Appleton, wlto lately *~I think Just this? ~A man who j in Dawson litis week,
died in Boston, was full of pleas- j speculates successfully is a saint, i Miss Ida Hester came up Sun-
ing humor, of genial good-fallow- an d everyone will swear by him.! . . ... , wcok at
ship, and bis conversation was bril- ] \ maI1 w , i0 speculates ami loses Ih , j 1 11 p " 1
limit with entertaining wit and | a scoundrel, and if the people could | ll0 ' rc -
knowledge. He Is said once to have j think ol anything worse to call him i Dr. N.C. Alston, sr., spent to-day
advertised a horse for salo “lor no j they'd do It. Thst is all I have to j i n the Vllle.
other reason than that his owner gay. on that subject. Take this' Mrs. N. C. Saville will leave for
Ward business, for example. I j ~
don’t call that speculating, but still ,sn
let ns suppose that by some blind
stroke of lock Ward would have
made $80,000,000. Where would
be be nowf A keen and scrupu
lous man of business and a rising
wishes to leave Boston.” It seems
thst tbc horse steadfastly refused
to go over a bridge, and it was im
possible in those days to get ont of
Boston without erossingja bridge—
which statement, however, was not
made in tbe advertisement
this week, to spend several
days with her children, while tbe
Mayor will visit tbo farm.
Would like to see N. J. B. in the
Vllle. Mayor.
A .National WbaMs.lt.
National Hapstitloas (Ran.).
“M.v daughter came home from
seh'iol yesterday,” said the colo
nel to the avenuo man, “and Mked
mo what kind of a government ex
isted in tho District of Columbia.
When I tried to answer her I was
badly puzzled. It Isn’t either king
dom, empire, republic, nor demo-
cracy. It lias neither Czar, Emper
or, King or President, but a; pears
to be an institution with three heads
and one body. Tbe name of the
girl’ ■ school reminded me that
Jefferson said,‘Governments derive
their Just powers from the consent
of tho governed, bnt that proposi
tion didn’t lit, for wo never con
sented to any sueb thlug. It cer-
tuiniy wasn’t a 'government of the
people, by tho people, and for the
people,’ for as matter of het tbe
people have mighty little to do
with it. My girl aaksd If It was a
monarchy, either absolute or limi
ted, »nd I pointed out tbe absence
of rpyal families to prove that It
couldn’t be. I Anally told her to
tell tbe teacher that thts District
was asmall p rotectorat* of tbs Uni
ted States, chiefly used as a eity of
refuge for surplus statesmen that
were slightly run down at the heel
at home.”
Mr. Gonrh on 811k Hats.
“It wonkl bo no violation of tlio com
mandment,” uid John B. Gongb, “if a
man wort to bll doom sad worship tbo
silk hut, for it is not msdo in tbo Ukonaoo
of anything in bsaveo. or on eaitii. or m
tho water* which ore on.lar the earth.
Besides it heats tbe bead and causes the
hair to foil oil Parker'a Ilair Balsam will
stop fast sad restore the original color to
gnqr or faded hair. Xot oily, not a dye.
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