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Amerious Recorder.
W. L. OLMMCB, Mltar.
WEHSTEB OBMOUMTIC t'OSVEJT
• The i liicen* Of We'tMler coun'y
are requested to meet at the Court
Boom, in Preeton,on the first Tuea
,1ay in June next, for the purpose
of electing delegates to the con
rention. which meoU in Atlanta
on the 18th of June, to elect dele
gates to the national convention,
and to transact other business.
Jko. P. Beaty. Chairman
Geo. E. Thornton, Sce'y.
DEMOCRATIC COUATY Ctf.WK.V-
TIO.V
TUESDAY, Jl.\E 3, IS««.
Pur.usnt to cull nf the chairman
of the Democratic Executive Com
mitlcc, of Sumter county, the com
mittcc met on the lliti. On mo
tion, it was resolved to call a con
veulion of Ilie people to meet in
Americus on the first Tuesday in
Jonu, for the purpose of electing
delegates to the convention in At
lanta on the 18t i of June, to select
delelogntes to the Chio-rgo con
ventiun to nominate a President.
On motion, it was.resolved that
the cliiirmsit of the Executive
Committfee designate dalcn to elect
committee men ior the 15th and
old IGtli Dist'icta.
'A. S. Cum, Chairman.
D. A. Small, Anting Sce'y.
(PREPARE FOB THE EXPOSITION.
The Atlanta and Louisville Ex
positions did a vast amount of
good in calling the attention of
the world to the resources of tiie
South; hut there is every reason
to think that the New Orleans Ex
position will do much more good,
for the rcusuu that it will he on a
larger scale, have a larger attend
ance, nnd because the attention of
many people in the North is now
tinned in this direction. Tlio peo
ple of Georgia should see>lhal there
is a creditable display nmdo of the
resources of the State. To do this
will require labor aud money, and
all should be willing and ready to
extend all the aid tlioy can. Ev
ery person can do something. Tbc
Armor osn select tb i Quest sped'
mens of his products, the mechanic
can furnish some sample ot his
skill, the mnnulacturer some sped,
wicn ol his goods, and furnish them
to the commissioner of his county,
to be labeled and arranged. Wo
want to see Sumter county and
Southwest Georgia woll represent
ed, for it will add to its represen
tation and wealth.
The Columbus Times, in speak
ing of the buying of Qvo thousand
acres ol land in Houston county
fbr a New England colony, says it
has lost fsitli in such enterprises ss
a means of developing the South,
and further says: “Northern peo
ple do not come South to work
farms—if they do they come on
charity funds, and when the ex
penditure for tbdr support ceases
they tramp oil again, and all their
Southern acquaintances feel glail,
as a rule, when they are gone.”
So far as colonies aro concerned,
we do not know hut the Times is
right, as they are too apt to run
more u|ion theory, than practice.
But wc know that Northern people
do come South to work farms, and
do not come unebarity funds. We
know of n number of Northern men
in this section who have purchased
Arms and are working them with
such industry and skill they arc
making tnoney. Florida is largely
peopled with Northern people who
arc working farms, vegetable gar
dens,orange groves, etc., and arc do
ing well. We expect to tec the day
when our population will be doub
led by immigration from the North;
but, like the Times, we have no de
sire to act colonist* brought down
here with ebaritv funds. Whit we
want is industrious farmer* with a
little capital, who nan buy a farm
and manage it themselves. To such
a data this section offers golden in.
dneessents.
The banking house of John U.
James, of Atlanta, has suspended
payment, aud Mr. Jamc- has ptac
ed all.hi* pro|*-rty in the bands of
assignees. The other banks or the
etiy ere said to be perfectly sound.
At the dote ot the war, the south
was eomplsldy prostrated, having
nothing Isft excepting a dtscouiag-
resources.
aplUll and
During the
war and previously, tbs “infant in*
duatrlst” ol the north, under the
protection robbery scheme, grew
Into msgniQcent proportions of
wenltb, ease and independence.
“But wbst do we see lo dty,” says
Bon. David A.'Welle, the .learned
free-trade writer, “while tbs south
for the first time breads herself,
exports grain, and has doubled her
cotton crop, southern manufactures
are being established everywhere.
Colton manufacture has become
more profitable at tbo south than
in any other part ofibe world; and
iho number ol southern spindles
lias increased 60 per cent, during
the last three years. Iron I* being
produced miller such conditions In
Alabama, Tennessee, aud Wert Vir
ginia that foreign eompetiiion i*
impossible, null the furn ince* ol
I'enimylvfliiia are being blown oni
and abandoned, wliilj wood work
ing in Kentucky, tanning in Ten
iiessee, uil extraction in Mmslssip.
pi. Arkantn*, and L -iiUisiia, tin
iiiunnraciiirc ol plio-pliilusjn .Solid
Curolinn, and a thousand lesser
southern Industrie* are in a state
oriutense activity uud progression.’
And this while all die protected
northern “infant industries” which
got siieh a line atart during the war
arc lying idle, running on bn*lflinie,
or complaiuing terribly ol hard
times and calling for more protec
tion. I'rotection for what7 To
enable them to compete with their
southern competitors who JonT
care a continental lor protection,
and uru not asking congress to rob
the people tlmt they tnuy grow ricli
in a day. Tbo south is t esting
New England in cotton und Penn
»\ Ivnniu in pig iron, and wo are
glad of it. Only three southern
democratic niemliers of congress
voted in favor of killing the Mor
rison hill.
Ilud Morrison’s turilfbill passed
the lloub-e, the panic in Wall street
would have been attributed to “tar
itr tinkering" and an attempt would
have been made to show that the
“business interests” of the country
were sulTering by the agitation of
the tariff question. The fact of the
matter is, that it is not legislation,
but over speculation—or, in plain
English, gambling—which protlu
oea these panics in Wall street, and
it shows that financial panic* are
as likely to occur, and business to
become unsettled, uuler a high tar-
16 a* nnder a low one, and under a
Republican administration as un
der a Democratic one.
FALL OATS TS. BPB1KU OATS.
Last AH being an extraordinary
‘‘ip farmers were not abb
r oats at the proper time,
nsequence, spring oat*
proved more profitable this
year.
A large number of farmer* are
intending the abandonment iff All
oats and sowing spring oats, and I
for one think they are making s
serious mistake. *
It ie very rarely tbc case that
wo do not have good seasons loi
towing oat* tbc la'ter part of Octo
ber or the first of November, an 1
when the rust-proof oat, common
to this section, is sown at that time,
on land pioiierly prepared, a good
yield can he expected nine year,
out often. The failures are of tener
attributable to poor land or land
not properly prepared than to the
seasons.
Oats sown In the fall and ripen
ing in June have seven months to
tliitw from the soil the ingredients
necessary lo their production.
Kail oats mowii one year after
an >ther on the same land for a sc
ries of years will improve the land.
Spring oa's urc lighter than fnh
oats, are liable to be killed by cold
weather, and il the seasons are not
favorable are more apt to be cut
oil In the yield; nnd taking only
four months from time of sowing
to maturity, draw more rapidly
irom the soil and arc thereby in
jurious to it.
The more rapidly a crop draws
its support from tin soil, the more
injurious to the soil is the making
of that crop. Spring oat* sown lor
a series of years on the snmy land
will impoverish it.
Wo need an oat crop for the
cheap :ess of it, Lite change ol food
llint it gives our slock, nnd a* a
rotating crop to improve and en
rich our impoverished lands. Tli>-e
*11 cun Ik- had with rust proof fall
oats, but can it bcdouc with spring
oats?
I think our farmers will be mak
ing a very serious mistake to give
up the rust-proof fall oats for any
rapid maturing spring oats, which
of necessity draw their nourish
ment mainly from near the surface,
not having growing time sufficient
vo put roots deep down in the soil,
us do the fall oats. Fall Oat
People who won’t pay for the
newspapers, that they subscribe for
and read, are not fit to be entrust-
wltb oftloo—even though they
should happen to be judge* of the
SuperiorOeurL—Macon Telegraph.
The Telegraph is right. The
man who refuses or neglects to pay
his subscription to newspapers is
dishouest, and theiefore unworthy
to fill any office of trust.
It may bo set down as indisputa
bly true that the man who refuses
to meet bis financial obligations is
not lit for any '.file* whataoever.Tbe
fact ought lo bo recognised in the
election of aounly and Stale effi
eials. May be this would give
debt-paving a boom in Georgia—
Macon Telegraph.
It would certainly deercaso tbc
number or candidates.
The Camilla artesian well com
mittee, eonsisting oi Messrs. T. R.
Bennett, A. II. Harrell and I. A.
Bu.lt, want a competent mau to
finish tbeir well.
There is an invention s|iokcn of
wbicb it is thought may abolish
tbo bit. It is culled the carrago,
orantl-borse torture. Ill* com
posed of a steel band placed over
the front bone ot the horse’s nose,
and to this appliance the reins are
attached. The inventor claims
for this substitute for the hit that
It gives complete control to the
driver over the horse without in
flicting tbc least discomfort or
torture on the animal ittcir. It
has been tried Willi satisfactory re
sults.
—» -♦- ^ - -
Tbc brewery of Bats, who lias
just died in his 86th year, covers
200 acres of ground, and 3,000
people ate employed in it. He
ws* the grandson of the founder
of the brewery, and was a local
bduciaclor, having built churches.
JiOr AS EXTREMIST.
PrksTi n, Ga., May It.
Editor Recobpkb:—I notice in
tbo Recorder of 9th inst. an arti
cle headed “Diversified Farming, 1
taken from Home and Farm, in
which the writer places me in an
erroneous position, which I have
corrected in Home and Farm and
ask you to do the same in the Re
corder.
Major Jones says in bis lettci
that “Mr. Sears has quit cotton and
gone to grass farming,” which is a
mistake. I have seeded some land
to grass and have planted largely
in corn, oats, chufas, etc., and plant
ed more notion than I ought to have.
Maj. Jones seems to misunderstand
my proposition, which is to increase
my grain aud provision crop and
divreatc my cotton crop until I can
dispense with cotton and still have
the means to command money to
answer my purposes.
I try to (oliow the plan laid down
by Major Jones in bis article and
have succeeded in it so far that I
have meat and corn to do me for
the year without buying and have
all tbc stock I need and some to
spate. I am not tbc extremist that
he seems to think I am, but believe
that- grass and stock raising is an
important Actor in solving the
problem of Southern prosperity.
Respectfully, W. M. Sears.
Recent investigations of wheat
culture in India made by the Eng
lish government shows that the cost
of producing wheat in thatcouutry,
including rent, is about G2 cents
|icr bushel and the cost of mark
eting it Is about 20 cents per bush
el. Tula would make the price of
wheat in the India markets about
the same that it now is in the mark
ets of the Uoited States. As yet
the India wheat is not yet exported
to any great extent, and it is prob
able that tbc EugUsh estimates are
made with a view not only to affect
ing the American market, hut to
giving an artificial stimulus to
wheat-growing In India. Indian
wheat can no more’eontroi the mar
kets of the world than can Indian
and Egyptian cotton. The gamb
ling in wheat by tbc New York aud
Chicago speculators does the pro
< y GEUKHIA 6BWS.
A saw mill firm of Terrell oounty
has received a Urge order for {um
ber from Wisconsin. y •
Brunswick ha* contracted for
a” artesian well. It wilt be locat*
ed in Hanover squire.
Bainbridge is to bare a national
bank. An Atlanta capitalist put
in 930,000 and citiiena $14,000.
The fair at Thomaaton to assist
in raising funds to furnish to R.
E. Lee Institute in that town, net
ted $2,532 61.
John Johnson, an Oglethorpe boy
now living In Atlanta, bns Invented
a cash drawer for which he has re
fused $10,000.
Tbc Macon merchants have he.
gun to rcucivo their reflates on to-
latceo. They are being forwarded
in alphabetical order.
While hunting rice birds Satur-
day, Hardy C. Culver, a lad aoout
13 years old and *on ol Oe'inan P.
Culver, a prominent merchant of
Sparta, was accidentally shot,
the entire load entering Ids
It*ft leg about three inches abov
the kin o, damaging the bone. The
extent of the damage is not fully
known, flic wound is 301*011* but
not dangerous.
Acwoflh Newt: The big rain
of last month uncovered several
tilings in tliis section which had
been hidden from Hie eyes of man
for many years. On the plantation
of W. J. Palmer, near Aowortb, n
great many arrow heads, and other
tilings made or stone by the red
man, have lieen found, and it wax
well understood that the place
was once the dwelling place of
many Indians; but Mr. Palu.er did
not know that lie was the posses
sor of an Indian graveyard until
the big freshet lilted the soil that
had been gathered over it for a
half century or inure. This pari
of the place wus cleared about Of
teen years ago, and was remarka
bly free from rocks at that time.
It is 011 a little clovutiou of II e
bottom lands. About twenty
round boles are now exposed to
view, boaring cvidonco of having
been carefully dug and lined with
rooks. 80 fur no’hlng (jar been
found in them more than arrow
lieatlH, sUuri stone spears ami
pieces of soapstone and earthen
ware vessels, though a further ex
ploration may reveal other and
more important relics. Mrs. Pal
mer has a soapstone bowl, which
was left by the Indians, and she
has used it twenty years for a
chicken troughs
The Lost of a Noted Vessel.
ft* ran fifth Neva.
“London, May 14—Bark Elliot
Ritchie, Perkins, from Brunswick
March 39, for Buenos Ayres, has
been abandoned at sea waterlogged
and crew lauded at Pernambuco.”
Many who read the above in the
marine column of tbo Morning
Newt yesterday will be surprised
to learn that the vessel is the lest
of the celebrated Federal cruiser
Harriet Lane. 8ho was named
after President Buchanan’s nieco,
who did tbc honors so gracefully
ntlhe White House during that
President’s term of office. During
the war she -made things lively for
the blockade runners, of wbieh
were many on this and tbc Gulf
coast. She was a fast vessel under
both steam and sell. It will bo
remembered that the was captured
oir Galveston, over which there
was great rejoicing. Sbe was car
ried to Havana at a prize by Ad
miral Semracs, her engines were
taken out and she was converted
into a tailing vessel, bark-rigged,
and was ono of the fastest sailers
afloat. She was aa old trader at
this port, and a complete history
of her was published in the Morn
ing News several years ago. At
the time of her abandonment sbo
was on a voyage from Brunswick,
Ga., with a cargo of lumber bound
lor Buenos Ayrc*.
BUUAX GASH KILLED-
SURROUNDED BY OFFICERS HE FIGHTS
TO THE DEATH.
A
Courier
Cheraw stye W. Bozan Cash, the
Agitive murderer ol Town Marshal
Richards, was killed this morning
about 4:80 o’clock while resisting
arrest. The posse was in charge
of Deputy Sheriff E. 8 King. One
ol the posse was slightly wounded
and one of Cash’s ass< 0 otes was
wounded strioutly. Qt.v. Thomp
son received the following at 10
o'clock this morning:
“Cheraw. S. C., May lb.—To
Gov. Hug 1 S. Thompson: I went
with a potto last niziit to arrest
W. B. Cash. I instructed my men
not to fire unless absolutely nrces
tary. 1 surrounded the home and
barn, placing two men between the
house uud Imrn and two men be-
tween the barn and swamp. Find
ill 1 : Cask was in the barn, i order
ed it to be surrounded. Cash came
out and fired on Lite posse. Tl e
fire was rmurned, und nfu-r Cush
bad fired several shots lie was kil'-
ed, being riddled with Imllcl*,
None of the posse were struck ex
cept W. II. Hilton, whose Ungets
were shot oil 1 by C.-i«li.
[Signed] “E. T. Kino.
“Deputy Saerilf.”
The Industrial Manufacturing
Company of Pulaski have added 25
coopers to its force. The company
is manufacturing 30,000 barrels per
annum.
lafi
-HAVE MADE-
Its like his Seldom bten Seen ii
the (it; of Amerirns I
Late lu Life to Look for Joy—Vet
Never Ion l.nlc lo Reuri.
Mil of Il'nilmrae-. "Houhi of B.»c»
(I ,W«." oil ri* ,11 llic lathes- silk whch if"
i liffor*! vl.n lihtlUn t. nnjo tl; in pflo-
0 ed «iatr Lift cany mankind’, said, a ritw las w-
leu*#: “il* 'if ift p-if.e, uhI »hrre !• my bap-
pin# »? • *M ul%> hmj my hi; pfnr*# ” Bn? that
coo Id 1* dune only in |sait, a# fleam* *f vr.inn
#nn»htn# oci-:i*i■•ntdly fa*l bc'i-r# iho plooto «f a
New K i^bml tintumu <tay.
|ii m titter I** St s r*. UncoxJc Co, Sir, I.. 11.
Tilus. o 1% Miiiivloa, tl. •!.. t:i\ h. * 1 hair -i.ltVi-
t-$ untold from chiUtlrocO from rhr •!»!••
til* av# <*f the 'roweV and tlmnW, arcomiMDied
by print pnfri. 1 M fitffbl re't •f at ihe hand#» f
plij Mclrtii* of ever Bcltool and nvl every patent
and •'omritla remedy under tiie #uo. I hart) at
'art ’ound In
PARK Kit’S TONIC b complete #peel lie, i»re-
vctit ah nnd err. A# junr fomlcmbiV ttwilctm 1 ,
which Id fur m • whit not him «Im> »>uM do, la
til'd to tint credit of my pettit*' buck my
hauiy day#, 1 chit r.ulJy und prc.itlully ucki.
1 rt*i' tin* fnri.”
K. t*. WoIIm, who ncod* no tntmduc ion to
nido of J r#ey City, tuld*: “The Itxtirao d*l
of Mr. T>t08 i* ffeiiuin# nidi v limitary; only ho
dot* not adoqaa ely portray ll«i lutteriug h# U ~
Aggregated Novelties.
IMMENSE STOCK
STANDARD AW Mil
MY MODS!
VAST CONCATENATION OF THE
USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL!
U my t n*tlier-ln<
Il He lx now per-
euilurt-d for n t«. v year*. H<
lft«-, nnd I know th« c
Atctly five from hi# old rould#*, and
health mul lire. »*<-riblny it-11 to PA It Kil
TONIC!.
Untqiiftl!fd a# an tnvi^orint; Httninlit## nil the
orgnti*; citreft ailment#o| (he liver, and
all dUc«#ea t>t th« od.
1W
Tbo Raises have always bees Lib-|ducersof Americammvinjury than
er*l*, while tbe other brewer., thv.alllhecompetitionafaUotbcrcour.-
AtUop*, have been Tories. 1 tries in the world..
At Monte Carlo it is the custom to
fill the pockets or suicides with
bank-notes, so that it may be seen
that they did not kill themselves
on account of losses. A recent let*
ter from there relates how a pre
sumably dead Irishman succeeded
in getting his pockets filled a short
time ago. After toeing a email
sum at tbe gambling table be sud
denly jumped up, cxolaimcd “I am
ruined!” and rushed into the gar*
dene. Almost Immediately after
ward the guards heard a pistol shot
and then a ory of pela,and rushing
to the spot found the Irishman dead.
Il was dark, with no one around,
eo they filled bis pocket, with
money and left him to be discov
ered in the morning. They had
scarcely gone out of sight, however,
before the Irishman was on bis feet
again nil J skipping away in the [
i uiu.-t lively style. • • 1
This being the regular picnic
season, I deem it right and
proper to treat my patrons and
the public generally to one ot
the nicest picnics ever held in
Americas. 1 do not propose to
furnish any cakes, candy or
carcasses oi mutton and veal,
but 1 do propose (nnd I hope
everybody will accept the in
vitation) tor you to come to my
store,select unything you please
out of my well, and perhaps the
best selected stock of Dry
Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats
and Notions in the city, and
will price these goods so low
that not alone you can’t help
from buy ing them, but every
body who has his (or her) heart
in the right place must admit
uud will say. that this is ns
proiniied—one of the nicest
picnics ever held in Americus.
Those not contemplating
buying will have a regular pic
nic to come and see what effect
low prices nnd real bargains
have upon the public at large.
Respectfully,
S. M. COHEN,
Cotton Avenue, Americus, Ga.
It won'.d rcqnire a nmull volamn to
cfita'ogiu* t-verj «tttr.«o»i* u, bnt mark
pnncipul f-fttii r* k. 1Vic»k uQnr>«ut**ed to
MUt ul. fr« in tbe uiUer to tiie millionaire.
?i»vm go xbi w#ro nittdrt lo Hell, vrer*-
bought to Nell i«nd have got to Nell.
OUH STOCK OF
4LIES m EMBROIDERIES
i* tmiijm- unit r't'gnnt, embracing all tbe
IAtt.1 nnd utnulr.l deign*:
Hamburg Kilgeing and Insertion and
All Over* t 'mKtoh, in indU-ni variety and
price*, irom -jO to $4.00 per ysrd.
Bpnnielt, Orient >1, Kicurlul, I’omp*dour
and Irish Point Luce, at mslcblus prices.
For Vokos nnd Sleeves we havo Blsok
Spnuish All Overs, All Ovor Loco good*.
Tucking nnd Puffing.
contains everything that is nsst sad tasty
ever manufactured in that lint.
India and Irish Linsn, Lawns,
Embroidered Dress Returns,
Nainsook, Swiss Hosiin,
French Unit German Luce,
Checks, ItalUn lews Pique.
BomUd Cambria, eta., etc.
Ws ssk an examination of onr Urge
assortment of Nottingham Lace Curtains
in pairs—3 j yards long.
A boAutiful and select line of Oham-
brass, Sesrsnoksrs, Figured Lawns and
Units Including onr 40 inch Victor!.
Lawn at ISo.
These goods aro selling very rapidly
and ulthongb wo ore constantly ordering
mors, wo fear wo oaanut at ail time* sup
ply tha demand.
Turkey Had, Bl.ached and Cream Dam
ask—Choice and Cheap,
largo line of Bed.pre.ds and Quills.
Our Extra Largs Whits 78o Counterpane
“Brats tbs World."
Towels, Clashes, Napkins sod Doyiiu*
fat sufficient quantity to heap hand*
clean tor a gemration.
Linen Ltp Robes and Table Cover* to
suit all.
HOSIERY!
Long and Short, Fins tad Common.
White, Black, Ringed, Streaked
and Speckled.
No one baa ever examined three good*
aud toiled to gat soiled in Quality sad
Price. Come to O os—we will treat you
right
.101R. SIIAW,
ALDEN’S MANIFOLD
CYCLOPEDIA.
s»v*r 300,000 sakjret. a. J 0,000 ithuintio,
uaawrcMiaei*, SSralewo, hiss o*-*vu, SOS:
rarapjvelitloa, IU.M. Sprctera mi lM.
\nJmar» Choice Book*—Avherlptfre
Catftkru# »r«u*. B-h k« lor exaslnotioft More
iMTtncnt •« evtlHicr crfrwud faith. BUT *44 by
d'ftkr#—price# to* low.
JOHN B. A LDEN, Publisher,
P.O. Jos t3Rt. t« Vmj st., x. T.
•tiitm
Clothier, Hatter,
Shirter, Shoer,
—AND—
Dnr Goods Dealer,
FORSYTH STREET,
Americas, : Georgia.
‘Tor Mite Kaeto HnmTEts.