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.Americus Recorder.
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For Bnena Vistn and Ellarille
6helhr« aRo)al Reception.
On Wednesday 0 f next week the
Democratic Congressional Conven-
tlon of the Third di«trict will meet
In Americus. It will be composed
of representative men trom thirteen
counties, and we would suggest to
j our citizen* that they give the
Lr?dn d 1!rand , ^u 7 .?„M a:a0p ” | ■><«* mention a* will
do***, on M ud.jr, Welneul.iy ! favorably itnpresa them with our
Fri°nd^Wp*DrinMviil.«ndC'hurch 0P m I Citi atul l ,eo l ,le - Cal1 u P on them
Hill clous daily, except *,<ioday. and make them feel ns if they were
Bottsford aiid ProVhtenee closis ^ * 01 j Snored gutsts;drive them through
s ' ,,urd,i ’ r,l fidjO.m'our beautiful streets, show them iollg . Tll0 | lltt er gcntlcmanis a
t*y f
Lsmar elmstTnetdl^ todFri- "“‘“i •« b-»«— Louse, and
day at 800* m I residence*, that they iuay see how
The above arrnnueiuenu will conUnue : beouliftii a little city we have cot
until change in railroad aeliedule. .. ! s . ' f ,
POLHILL AMD CAUf
tVIn Iks Blcir.u and Rnmalaff I
As advertised, at 6 o’clock the
bicycle and running race came off
at the fair grounda last Friday
evening. The attendance waa fair,
many ladica being preaent. The
ridera in the bicycle race, a two
mile dash, were J. II. Polhill,
of Macon, W. M. Jones, of Ameri-
cits, F. M. Tunison, of Savannah,
and Crawford Wheatley, of Amer-
UKU SCIIRDCI.se.
«. V. M.
Show them that we are proud of
our city, and delight in showing it
On Hint .ft.r Smi'liy. .1 tin. stli, train* wll : to strangers. By giving these
I gentlemen polite' attention, they
| will go away favoralily impressed
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D*V pa *»onjfr down nrrlv
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Wight “ to A !b:<IIV. *•
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Duyf.right down .fatly except Sunday,
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flight “ down « " Monday, *3Sa
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LOTT WAIMKX, Atfvnt
Board of Health.
Tlte Board of Health, Dr. S. B.
Hawkins, chairman, met in Wide
Awake hall Monday night and
and transacted important business.
Look out for your hack yards and
premises generally.
Ellnville school.
In another column will be found
the announcement of the Kllavillc
Male and Female School, l’rof. O.
B. Weaver, Principal. Our Schley
county readers will do well to read
it.
Mtute Fair.
We had a call, on Friday, from
Mr. Marshall J. Hatcher, of Macon,
Superintendent of the Slate Fair.
He wants to sec Sumter county |
well represented at the coming ex
hibition, as it is expected that it
will be the largest and finest ever
held in tbis State. As it will be a
preliminary step to the great ex
position at Xew Orleans, it is itn
portanttliat the products of Sumter
county should lie well represented.
Saturday .\e\t
Is the flrst Saturday of the new
month, and is the timoofthe meet*
ing of the executive committee ol
the Sumter County Sunday School
Association. It will lie the last
meeting of the committee prior to
grand meeting of the association
at the Springs on the fourth Sat
urday in August. It is desirable,
therefore, that every district in the
count)' tic represented at the com
mittee meeting, and that the mem
bers be ready with tli-'ir icports.
Struck by Lightning.
Last Sunday a number of teach
ers and scholars of the Hast Amer
icas Sunday School went to An-
dersonvilte to attend a Sunday
School and singing convention. In
the evening a heavy min storm
came up and the crowd took re
fuge in the waiting-room of the
depot. During the storm lieht-
ning struck a telegraph polo near
tlie depot, and as the wire rims
over the depot, several persons
were severely shocked and the rest
terribly seared.
nnilroad Contracts.
In another column will be found
a notice advertising lor bida for
building the Americus, Preston,
and Lumpkin Itailroad. It is to
be seen that the work is to lie let
in three sections. This is done to
accommodate the subscribers to
the enterprise in Webster and
Stewart counties, who wished to
bid upon the work in their coun
ties. Chief Knginncr Collier thinks
that it the work is properly pushed
forward, the cars will be ruuning
between Americus and Lumpkin
by the first ol February.
new band at the wiicel, having
only used one a few weeks.
A lew moments after six the
riders mounted their machines and
the judges started them off. Tuni
son at onco took the lead, followed
by Polhill and Jones. After four
or live laps Polhill made a spurt
t!3;E j wUI * out City aud ever after have a land passed Tunison, followed
! good word to speak for it. Wi
i. j would suggest that a committee of
, ' arrangement* lie appointed to re-
’ ceive our visitors and see that the
necessary carriages are provided
for taking them around the city.
Since the above was put in type
Dr. J. B. Hinkle, Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee
of this congressional district, has
appointed the following gentlemen
as a committee of arrangements
and reception: Hon. J. B. Felder,
Chairman: E. A. Hawkins, Thorn
ton Wheatley. C. A. Huntington,
Judge Allen Fort, Dupont Guerry,
W. M. Hawke*, A. S. Cults, A. C.
Bell, K. U. Simmons, Jno. A.Cobb,
C. W. Hancock. W. L. Glessner, G.
W. Glover. J. C. Ilonoy. The
committee arc requested to meet at
the Council Chamber this evening
at (j o'clock.
Origin of the “Dude."
Mn. Kditok—Thinking it may
be of interest to some of your read
ers to know the origin of the word
“dude," which has recently come
into such common use in this coun
try, I take this method of inform
ing them. Dude is derived from
the word dud (pronounced dood)
in the Bommany, or Gypsy, lan
guage, and means literally, a light.
It is used figuratively in the sense
of a "gaudily dressed person,” and
used in tins sense, it has come into
Euglish. It probably originated, and retail departments. J. Waxel-
in Philadelphia, where a great
many Gypsies live, and where
many of their words are in use, es
pecially by tlte lower classes. In
this manner quite n number of
words have conic into English,and
a large pail of the slang words
now in use arc derived from this
language. Among the most com
mon words of Gypsy origin are
“mash,” from musher, to fascinate;
“pnl” (an accomplice) is from jiat,
a brother; “hocus” is from liuL-ar,
to cheat; and the very common
word “chap,” which Webster has
erroneously derived from “chai>-
man," is undoubtedly from tiic
lloinmauy word dial/, meaning a
buy. E. H. C.
Water Works.
The City Council is now negoti
ating with a gentleman of Atlanta
for a cheap system of water works.
It is proposed to erect a large wind
mill over tbu tirst artesian well,
which will pump the water into
two large reservoirs elevated about
forty feet above the ground. Pipes
will lie connected witli the reser
voirs and run through the business
portion of the city, fire plugs being
placed at convenient points. It is
thought that the water in the reser
voirs will give a sufficient pressure
to throw a stream of water over
any building in the business por
tion of the city. The structure
over the well will lie pul up in or
namental shape, and a convenient
arrangement made for a constant
flow of fresh water for drinking
purpose*.
shortly afterwards by Jones. The
track was too sandy for Tunisou,
who pulled off when his first mile
was finished. Polhill was an easy
winner or first money, and Jones
of second. Polhill is a very grace
ful and easy rider, and could have
beaten the time several minutes
bad lie been couipcMed to.
The crowd then adjourned to
the track prepared for the loot
race. The entries were I. K. Cain,
Will Davis, Toni Cobb and Neil
Hawkins. A good start was made
and the runners were evenly match-
rd for tlie first twcuty-live yards.
Cain then pulled out, followed
closely by Davis, who elbowed bim
all the way. Cain won by a foot
or two in 11], Davis a close second,
Cobb third and Hawkins last.
The best of order prevailed, and
everything passed off quietly. The
Commercial City club did not get
rich Irom the proceeds though.
Tlie latest—Broom Pins.
James Fricker A Bito.
How (foods ure Bought.
Mr. M. Gross, of J. Wnxclbaum
Si Co., left this morning for Xew
York. During his absence Capt.
Shaffer will be in charge of the busi
ness. Mi. Gross leaves dircot for
Boston, Haverhill and Lynn, Mass.,
and there places his oiders for
boots and ehors for bis wholesale
Enterprise School.
Amxrici's, July 96.—By special
invitation from Miss Kstie Pickett,
on the morning of the July 94th,
bright snd early, we were en route
for the closing exercises of her
school at Enterprise church,
Terrell county. Wc arrived at ten
o'clock and found most of the
crowd assembled and the exercises
bad begun. We witnessed the ex
ercises of the day, which were very
creditable to Miss Kate, and also
her scholars. At 19:45 a sumptu
ous dinner was spread; and ab, that
dinner, thatdinner! Everything the
appetite could crave, everything
good or desirable, and all cooked
as well as cooking could be done.
The warmness of the hospitality of
those people was excellent and
abundant, and was fully equal to
their table comforts. Well, we
Mr. Clay Speaks.
Plantation, July 18th, 1884.
Editor Recorder:—I have just
read an article in the Republican,
“Consumer.” He wss very kind
and liberal in bis views towards
some snd full or advice to otberr.
I do not know who “consumer” is,
unless be is one of those characters
always necessary to.flll up a town
who always knows more about
every one else's business that lie
docs bis own. One of these men
who are always ready to give ad
vise; knows bow everything ought
to lie done; makes inexhauttable
amounts ol money, but being a
‘consumer” never has any, and be
is as equally well acquainted with
tlio knowledge of putting a little
boy off of fifteen years and telling
him to call again who makes his
living by collecting (or some mcr-
ate, and the people were good, kind chant who has been unfortunate
Survey of (lie A. P. «t L. R. R.
The engineer corps of the A. P.
Si L. R. R. has been organized by
the following appointments: Joe)
Mablc, Transitman; Thomas liar-
rold.jr.. Transit Rodman; Morgan
Eldridge, Lcvelinan; Archie El-
dridge, Level Rodman; Willie
Haynes, Head Cbainman. We are
glad to note that Mr. II. L. Collier,
the Chief Engineer, has thus favor
ed our Americus boys. Morgan
and Archie Eldridge and Tommie
Harrold are at borne on tbeir sum-
mer vacation from Troy, X . Y., j o( her death
where they have been etndying
civil engineering. After three or
four daye of preliminary .enrvey-
h, £™L‘ r \' Df ° rae d Co ' Her j to any point on it. line, st 4 ceni.
wtll begm the permanent location.| _ ££ tn ntM Mtl ,
Sad Sew*.
A telegram wss received Friday
afternoon, conveying the painful
intelligence that Mrs. W. J. Pat
terson, mother of Mrs. W. H. Mor
gan of tbis city, bad died at Batcs-
villo, Ala., at noon. Mrs. Patter-
ton baa long been in feeble health.
She has many friends in this city
who will be eadilened by the news
Cheap Railtwad Tickets.
On Saturday nights end Sundays,
tbs Central railroad sells tickets
f' 1 *’ >*•
through with all possible speed. • Monday neon following.
Iiauni Si Cu. is tlie only house in
Americus that, buys their bools and
shoes direct from the manufac-
turcis in person, thereby saving 25
per cent, usually paid by other
bouses to joldiers or traveling men.
From Busion Mr. Gross will go to
Xew York to attend to Ids cloth
ing purchases. Everyone knows
that J. Waxelbnmn & Co. buy more
and sell more clothing and carry
more slock than any lour houses
in tins section. The secret of their
success lays in buyiny their stock.
Mr. Gross in person selects the
material, superintends the nianu-
iacluring by expert tailors while in
tlie city, getting always lira latest
stylus and tlie nobbiest patterns.
This is an advantage over other
houses, whose business will net
permit their “going on” twice a
year and almost compels thum to
stay at home and buy their stock
from traveling men at a heavy
advance on regular Xew York
prices. Everyone knows that a
traveling man labors under many
heavy expenses. Ho is the best
dressed man, stops at the swell
hotel, smokes the finest 5c cigars
anil drinks the best liquor und
makes the country merchant pay
for it. J. Waxclbaum A Co. do
away with all these unnecessary
expenses. They never bjy of travel
ing men. Go to Xew York in per
son, they are wcli known in the
market, buy in large quantities,arc
old experienced merchants, and do
buy goods 25 per cent, less than
any other house in this section.
Another disadvantage in buying
from traveling men is that they
never carry the latest styles. When
they start on the road the styles In
Xew \ ork are never out, and they
generally carry a line carried over
from the season before, and the
poor country merchant tbat don',
know any better, and sees nothing
else, snd has no one to poet bim,
buys the poor drummer'* *lu/)', and
when the scoson opens, and J.
Waxelbaum A Co. make their
grand display, their cuitomera will
alwayt find the latest, nobbiest snd
best goods In the market snd st
prices tbat defy competition.
and clever and asked us to have
loincthing more; but we had already
“squozo” our stonincha down until
we felt like wc were foundered.
We were heartily pleased with
tboso people, and* we think they
have great cause to be proud of
their teacher and proud of tho
progress of their children. The
children were all small, but despite
the smallness of the scholars tbeir
speeches and essays wero good,
better, best. The exercises of the
day closed about 4 o'clock; then
they began to prepnro for tbo ex-
hibition, which opened at 7 o'clock.
Tbc crowd began to gather early,
and were very impatient, as tbc
exercises of the day had proven
such a grand success, they were
looking forward for something
still better. At last the time ar-
rivedand the exercises were opened
with music, and was followed by
dialogues and other pieces tbat af
forded such pleasure as to receive
hearty cheers from tho audience.
The exhibition was a grand suc
cess and ail did justice in acting
cacli and every part. We were
proud of tho kind invitation to vis
it those people and their good
teacher and shall always remember
hospitalities shown us and be glad
to meet them again at any time.
Tim Country Xine.
From Dawson.
Dawson, July 25 The negro
boy who committed the recent ter
rible outrage on a most estimable
lady of this countv, it is thought
will be tried in a few days, as a
pressing effort is being made by all
classes of our citizens through the
Solicitor General, to have his Hon
or Judge John T. Clarke of this
judicial circuit to hold a special
session ol the Superior Court with
out delay for the trial ol this “black
fiend.” The application it is
thought will be taken into favorable
consideration by Ids Honor. Wc
all are opposed to tbc exercise of
“mol> law” here, nevertheless we
demand that summary justiro be
inctcd out to tbis criminal—then
the “unwritten law" of our nature
will oc vindicated. The present
condition of this wife and mother
la a deplorable, one as she is nonfln-
od to her lied from great nervous
prostraliou, and she niav die.
W. K. I*.
Broom I’ins for tlie Broom Bri
gade, just received by
James Fuickeu A Bro,
Sudden Death.
On Friday night of last week a
enough to fall heir to some of bis
bills or accounts. But if I am
wrong in my views and the article
was written liv some nice clever
gentleman, who really wanted to
know the reason why a mistake of
that kind cbould be made in over
estimating our crops and having to
buy corn, I will explain and take
pleasure in giving my views when
asked for.
I run on ibc Ilugucnin planta
tion fifty-two plows, forty I run on
tho tenant Bystem and twelve for
wages, I have never had to buy
an car of corn for my wages crowd
since I have been farming, not only
making plenty of coin to run it,
but always let out a good deal to
my tenants. A ny one who lias ever
bad a great deal to do with negro
tenants, certainly is possessed oftbe
knowledge tbat it is, as a rule, a
matter of an inqiossibility to keep
tbo tenant from selling off bis corn
in tbc fall of tlie year, which forces
you to buy corn for tbo gentleman
of color again in tbc latter part of
spring, or bo loses his crop. The
corn that I have bought has been
entirely for my tenants. I have
now on hand nineteen hundred and
nincty-two bushels of oats, known
as the celebrated Clay or McCullcr
oat, which I will, beyond a shadow
of doubt, realizo one and a half or
two dollars per bushel for, thereby
realizing the snug sura of three or
four thousand dollats for my oat
crop. Or in other words I could
have fed al' my oats away like
many others anil not had to buv
one car of corn for my tenants, but
I deemed it a wiser and bet-
ter plan to Rave my oats and
acll them and buy] corn. Tbo
oat crop in tbis country has
almost been a complete failure, con
scqucnlly the farming interest in
Ibis country will be greatly in need
of seed oats, while corn will go
begging at tbc small sum of (0 or
51) cents per bushel, and if “con
sumer'’ thinks I am wrong in my
views, I will sell him two thousand
bushels of corn, delivered nt my
crili tbis fall, lor 50 cents per
bushel, leaving more than the above
amount to run my twelve plows
with tbc next year.
C. C. Ci.ay.
Council .Meeting.
AMKnots, Ga., July 28, 1884.
J’rcucnt—Mayor Felder, Aid. Bell,
Cobb, Hawkins andBurt.
Absent—Aid. Williams and Mor-
sister ol Mrs. Joseph Beatty, of the (?»»
17th district was aroused from her Minutes of last regular and call-
sleep by the cries ol Mrs. Beatty’s <'* meeting read and confirmed.
A Trip >
Last Sunday wo visited the plan
tation of Mr. J. D. Reichert, two
mile* south ot Smlthvllle, to Me
wbnt an Illinois farmer could do In
the Sunny South. Xearly three
yeare ago Mr. Reichert bought an
old worn-out plantation of alx hun
dred acres and moved on tk The
neighbors predicted that be woald
starve to death on auch a poor
place; but be went to work, with
Northern methods and Xortbern
energy, and succeeded In raising
as fine a crop as any of his neigh
bors. He has five hundred Le-
Conte pear trees In their third year,
n number of peaches and apples,
and a small vineyard of one-seventh
of an acre, one year old, from
which this year he has picked all
the grape* bis family could use,
made wine, and has sold $14 worth.
He has a fine strawberry patch,
from which he lias picked berries
continuously from the first of
April up to the present time. Mr.
Reichert believes in deep plowing
and home-made fertilizers, and by
thcau means is fast bringing bis
farm up to a most productive state.
He liaa an osage orange hedge
planted out, which ia growing finely
and will in a few years make
him a living fence. He believes ia
diversified farming and grows upon
bis farm nearly all the products of
the soil. From experiments msde
lie is convincod tbat Northern
grasses will grow In this climate
and make permanent pasture. Mr.
Reichert is enthusiastic in his
praise of Southwest Georgia, con
sidering it a farmer’s paradise, and
says nothing could induce him to
again live in the North, with its in
clement weather and numerous in
sects. He thinks the agricultural
resources of the South have not
been half developed, and saya the
people of this section do not kno(r
how good a country they have got.
We spent a most pleasant day with
Mi. Reichert and kit family, and
could not but wish that more men
like him could be induced to remove
from Illinois to tbi* section.
Personal Paragraphs.
J. Waxilbai-m A Co.
Xew York Store.
baby. She hastily struck alight ami
went to the bed,’when to her hor
ror abwdiscovcred her sister dead.
The body was yet warm, but sbe
bad I teen dead some time. Site
bad not been well lor some time,
but her condition was not so bail
as to cause Iter relatives any alarm.
Shu leaves a husband and four
children to mourn Iter loss, the
youngest an infant four weeks old.
Oak Grove Academy.
Capt. U. M. Patterson will o|icu
his school at Oak Grove Academy
on the second Monday (Utb) of
August, snd all scholars are re
quested to be present on tbat day.
The Captain is a fine teacher, and
has made a reputation for Oak
Grove Academy second to no
school In the county.
Married.
On Bun ley, the 97th, at the reel,
deuce of the bride's mother, in Lee
county, Mr. J. T. Goounr and Mtsa
Victoria Jones, S. H. Williams,
J. P., officiating.
Cemetery committee asked fur
ther lime on bids for painting.
Granted.
.Sanitary committee made a re-
report to amend Sec. 124 of Arti-
ticlc VII. Rules suspended ami
report received and adopted by
unanimous vote.
.Street committee reported tbat
the petition of Mrs. Barlow on
grading street be not granted. Re
port received and adopted.
Bills read and ordered paid.
Bill of Mrs. Barlow referred to
street committee.
Street committee made a report
on Hampton street bridge, council
referred the matter back to the
committee with power to act and
instruction to proceed to have said
bridge fixed.
Council adjourned.
Liquors at Coat.
Messrs. Evans A Meritt are seU
ling out their entire stock of liq-
Mrs. Xellie Steel, of Albany, ie
visiting Miss Kllie Oliver.
Misses May and Xellie Cutlltf,
of Albany, left yesterday for tbeir
home in Albany.
Miss Saliio Karp, of Macon, is
visiting her relatives, Mr. and
Mrs. W. I. Murray.
Miss Ida Stallings, of Greenville,
Ala., is visiting Missos Nellie Butts
and Sallie Mitchell.
Mr. Max Gross and family leave
for Xew York to-day. They will
be absent about six weeks.
Mrs. Dr. J. B. Kindr!ck.,of Green
ville, Ala., is visiting her sister,
Mrs. J. W. Jordan, In tbis city.
Mrs. Emma Wheatley, of Ameri
cas is,in the city, on a visit to Mr*.
H. S. ’ Lee, tbis week—Dawson
Journal.
Miss Mamie Bsrlow has returned
home from her visit in Dooly, ac
companied by her sister, Mrs. D.
M. Brown.
Misses Annie Lee Jones, of Al
bany, and Carrie Johnson, of Ma
con, are visiting the family of Mr.
H. R. Johnson.
Mrs. Eliza Lee and daughter,
Floiencc, of Tbomasville, mother
and sister of Mr. O. B. Lee, of tbis
city, are visiting him.
Mrs. C. C. Clay left for Xewburn,
Twin., last Saturday. She will
visit the principal cities of tbat
State daring her two months' stay.
Mrs. Edith Colvin und children,
of Feastervilie, S. C., and Mr*. H.
C. Roney and children,of Augusta.
Ga., aio in the city, stopping with
their sister, Mrs. J. C. Roney.
Miss Lcilt Feldsr, of Americus,
is on a visit to our city, and is di
viding her time between Miss Mon
roe Shaw and the Misses Chastain.
—Cuthbert Enterprise.
Miss Bassie DcJarnctte enter
tained quite a number of fHendeot
her home on Lee street Wednesday
evening. Sbe leaves In a few days
for Madame Baldwin's Seminary
at Stanton, Va.
. Prof Pilebury his kindly con
sented to aid our Mr. Rainey in get
ting out the Journal during our ab
sence. The Professor Is one of tbo
beet newspaper men In this section
of the State and he will fhrnbh <
uors at coek For farther partieu* I reader* with a live paper.—-Dawson
lira see their advertisement.
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