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MSldllF'-'r* 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. /' .7