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Americus Recorder.
W. (., OIjESHfIBR. gaitor.
Official Organ of Wriistw* Caimiy.
•fmdav. dec. ae, mm
Birmingham, Ala.', enjoyed the
novelty of a snow storm, a lew days
ago.
Who says farming don’t pay ?
Gov. Baton, of -Colorado, cleared
$60,000 on his farm this year.
Tho New York Morning Journal
says white slavery in that city is
worse than black slavery ever was
in tho South.
Hon. Allen G. Thurman will, it
is said, not seek a place in the Cab
inet, hut if one Is offered him he
will accept. That Is about the way
the Sooth feels.
That staunch old veteran Demo
crat, Capt. Mayes, of the Plains Of
Dura, wants to sco Gen. McClellan
made Secretary ot Wur in Pie si
dent Cleveland’s Cabinet. We
second tho motion.
Notwithstanding the popular
belief that there is no such thing
as imprisonment for debt in the
United States, a man has been con
fined in Ludlow street jail, New
York, sis years for tho non-pay
■ ment of a trilling sum.
It is not likely that Dakota will
bo divided and the Southern por
tion admitted as a Stato at a very
early dato. Tho Democrats in Con
gress will not be especially anxious
to admit a rotten borough State
just so the Republicans may gain
two United States Senators,
The House of Representatives at
Atlanta is at present engaged in an
exoiling contest over
looal-option temperanoe bill. As
we have had no opportunity of bo-
comiug acquainted *with tho pro
visions of tho bill, wo canuot say
how wisely our legislators ore
spending their lime,
The Montezuma Record says
Congressman Crisp is receiving so
many letters soliciting aid in ob
taining a government job that ho
thinks of employing a clerk to as
sist him in answering thorn. If
many of thoso who apply for gov
ernment positions would work as
bard at something else, they would
got rioh.
Mr. Randall, tho great Demo
cratic Protectionist, is to visit At
lanta during tho holidays and ad
dress tho people upon tho tariff
question. Inasmuch as all the
congressmen from Georgia are what
Mr. Randall is pleased to term
“free traders,” we don’t know ol a
better missionary Held lor him to
work in.
An advaneo of 15 cents per ounce
has takon place in the price ot quin
ine in job lots, but the retail price
of tho drug will probably not bo af
fected. The advance is caused by
a rise in einchona bark and a com-
bination of manufacturers and im
porters. As quinine has been ab
normally low, it is thought tho pre
sent prices,$1,16to$l 35porounce,
-will he maintained for some time.
Tho Republican parly seems de
termined that a Democratic Presi
dent shall not bo inaugurated. Hav
ing failed in‘‘counting out , -’‘Gov.
The cotton circular of C
Greene A Co., of New York, dated
Cleveland, thoy now”proposc to p***®*' 18,, estimating^ thecrop
cheat him out of the olllcc by got-
"TllE BBA8(W WHY.
The Sedalfa Democrat gives the
following very sufficient reasons
why the South desires the appoint
ment of a Southern <ipan totheof-
(Ice of postmaster-general:
There are abundant reasons why
the' South should Aik for the post
master-generalship. The reasons
arc business ones, not political. It
probably does not occur to many
people north of the Ohio river that
they are enjoying twice as good
postal service as the people south
of that stream. Thera is no'doubl
as to the truth of this statement
however. Ever since the war the
North has enjoyed all the fast mail
service and the best of everything
that could be had to fucilitato the
rapid and certain handling of the
mails. Jn the South, however, the
postoffices have been given strictly
ar a reward for party services, and
but little attention Iiob been given
to the mail service. Men Imve
been appointed to pcstmastcrships
who were too ignorant to transact
even the smallest kind of general
business. This has been true of
the large cities as well as the
smaller ones. Our readers will re
member that during the campaign
we published several articles on
this subject, bearing upon the mis
management of the postollice at
New Orleans, where, according to
the sworn testimony of tho poBt
master himself, ho was required by
the Republican bossos to appoint
subordinates who were in no way
capable of performing the duties cl
their positions. We also related
our own personal experience at
Mobile, and the loss in transit of
several lettora bearing plainly
printed addresses on the envelopes,
All these things give a small idea
of tho utter incapability and unre
liability of the postoffice depart
ment in tho South, Further than
this, in a largo number of instnn
ccs, box rents are placed at figures
two and three times as high as in
places of the samo size in the
North. And this for no other
reason than that the people' there,
not knowing tho extent to which
thoy arc robbed, make no com
plaints. The Southern pcoplo be
lievo that with a competent man
from their own section <n the post
master-general's office, many of
theso discriminations will be done
awny with, and that thoy will hnve
the same advantages given to other
sections of tho country. There is
little wonder, then, that the South
asks fur tho appointment of post
master-general from that section.
RAILROAD COMMISSION.
The Rkcohdeu lias long held and
frequently expressed Uic opinion
that the Railroad Commission of
Georgia, under tho present law, is
an Injury to the State. Recent
statements mado before a legisla
tive committee have sustained its
opinion as oorreot. Thero are few
new roads being built, and the old
ones aro making no money. As
railroads arc tho pioneers of enter
prise and commcrco, it should bo
the aim of tho State government
to encourage, rather than retard
their growth and prosperity. We
do not mean that the State should
offer a premium on railroad build
ing, but that it should not cripple
those already built and discourage
others from being built by adverse
legislation. The present law teems
to have been born of spite toward
the railroads and to have gone to
an extreme in its restrictions. The
law should he so modified ns to
place railroads upon the same loot
ing as other property in the Slate,
Tills is but justice, ami it should
bo the aim of every department of
the government to do justice.
L,
AT THE STATE CAPITOL.
•aramint of the fcwtl.tatur. On
il somm.r-noth Ilr.ncni.Vot.
•185,000 p.r Aounra tot lb#
" * slag Two ▼•»*» for
attraction of ttio
“ Capitol*
tiug up a scheme to have tho world
pome to an end on the 4th of Jan-
1 iiaty next. That is all right, how
ever, as wo believe tho world was
to have to como to‘an end At the
expiration of the reign of the Devil,
and then the millenium was to come,
: which - of course means a Demo
cratic administration.
.i ■ 1 '
The Adventists have gone over
their figures again, and having
found tho errors which they admit
were made in former additions,
whereby the world was prevented
from coming to an end on the date
then speoified, now announce au
thoritatively that this Interesting
event will take place January 4th
prox. No postponement on ac
count of weather. Front scats re
served for ladies. Visitors oie
expected to bring tbeir own ra
tions, bedding, cooking utensils, | e | osc( ]
etc. The trouble to begin prompt-j make „ 0 claim for infallibility on
iy at sunrise. As alt are “dead- this rule, but simply give the re
heads’’ no tickets of admission will 80 jtg a8 support to those reached
be issued. | through other channels.”
for 1883-4, arrives at its figures by
averaging twenty six distinct esti
mates. These aro lorwarded to
them through tho medium qf 1,400
replies to inquiries, from tho nine
cotton States, the eight principal
ports and tho nine leading iuterior
towns. The averago estimate of
the States is 5,"32,000 bales; of the
ports, 5,830,000 bales; and of the
interior towns, 5,803,000 bates.
Tho nverage of these last three av
erages is in round numbers, 5,800,-
000.
The circular, by the sumo process
of estimates, arrives at the acreage
for the crop 1884-5, tho rain fall up
to date ot October 1, 1884, and the
average crop condition up to same
date. Tnking this date and com
paring with that of the correspond
ing date in 1883, the circular esti
mates the crop of 1884-5 at about
the same as that lor the season just
The circular -ays: “Wc
., Dec. 20.—The session
of thU Senate, to day, was opened
by the passage of a few local bills.
The appropriation bill was taken
up and amended so as to make the
appropriation for building the cap-
itol $180,000 annually for the years
1885 and 1880, these sums to be
taken direct from the treasury of
the State, and at tho same time not
to be in addition to the $1,000,000.
The bill was then sent to the House,
where a big fight took place on
concurrence in the Senate amend
ment. When the amendment was
read in tho House, Mr. Bartlcit
made a motion that the House do
not concur in tho amendment. He
read the act of the last Legislature
authorizing tho construction ol the
capitol out of the surplus iunds in
tho treasury, and held that no
money could bo expended until
there was a surpl ns, and said that
tho amendment authorized the pay
ment of $180,000 annually for t le
years 1885 and 1886 out of the
treasury, regardless of its condition
in the face of the fact that the act
said that the money must come
from a surplus. He claimed that
without the provision to pay out of
a surplus the act would never have
been passed. Ho also referred to
the Fact that Speaker Little was the
originator of the provision.
Mr. Crenshaw said that the com
mission had contracted for the con
struction of a building, and it
would bo showing bad faith to do
anything likely- to retard the pro
gress of the work,and that the re
jection of the amendment would
stop construction.
Mr. Bartiet! replied that the com
missioners had the law before them
when tho contract was given, and
lie presumed that the contractors
were informed of the provisions of
the act authorizing the construc
tion.
While the discussion was going
on, Fulton’s members putin some
good work for tho bill by circulat
ing among llio members, and aigu
ing to them the great damage that
would be done by allowing the
work to stop.
Mr. Little culled Mr. Harris to
the chair and took the floor. He
explained the circumstances under
which the hill was passed by the
last Legislature, and said that he
would not liavo voted for the bill
without a provision to buil-i from
the surplus. At that time the State
was financially strong, and, though
Georgia is in a fair condition now
as regards finances, some portion
of the debt had been paid off and
llio rato of taxation had not been
increased. He argued that it would
bo tolly to voto dov. n the amend
ment and thereby stop work.
Mr. Abbott spoke for the amend
ment. Tho Governor had made a
contract, and it would be treating
the contractors badly to retard the
progress of construction. Atlanta
had done her part nobly. The con
tract had been let out lower than
it ever could be again.
Mr. Harrell, of Webster, while
lie thought that the last House
made a great mistake in passing
tho act, owing to the condition of
tho Slate, favored the work going
on, and, in his opinion, tho House
should voto for the amendment.
Mr. Bartlett's motion of non-
concurrence was lost, and the
amendment was concurred in.
Tho House, by a rising vote,
adopted a resolution of thanks to
Speaker Little for the able and im
partial manner in which ho had pre
sided.
The afternoon session was pro
ductive of nothing important lur-
thcr than the remarks made by the
Speaker in taking leave of tho as
scmbly until the recess. These
were timMy put and warmly re
ceived.
Tho general option bill was post
poned till the summer session.
At four o’clock both branches of
the Legislature, by u joiut resolu
tion, adjourned.
The lard and hog meat trade of
Cincinnati last year was from 80
to 90 per cent, greater than this
year. This tact accounts for the
diflercnco in price ill favor of the
Southern buyers. If our people
will buy their smoke house supplies
in the West, we are glad that they
can get them at moderate prices.
The light shipments of freight this
way also works to the advantage
of the people here by giving them
cheaper freight charges. If any
thing can help the Southern cotton
farmers to stand ihort crops and
low prices, it will be low prices for
the provisions they arc compelled
to buy.
r~ AT BUSRI8E,
[(Kories L. BOdntb In Upptocott'i.]
It Is the last dark hour, and from tbeir cars,
That wheel them dorm through glimmer
ing voids of light,
Leaning reluctantly, the hearkening stars -
Bear the faint, final musio of the night
Blend with the far, sweet voice of coming
Audi
i tbs moon, low riding, wans away.
Llkeoome soft-footed maiden, bearing high
A silver lamp above her timorous bead,
The dawn mounts np tho stairways of the
sky,
Flushing the ashen east with lambent red.
Till from her topmost tower ehe looketh
down,
Smiling through cloudy tresses wildly blown.
The world nwakons; hark, from glen and
copse
Music and many voices of delight;
The splendor on the purple mountain-tope
Descends, and all tho summer plains are
bright,
And nil the luminous pure sky ubovo
Is calm and tender as the smile of love.
THE EGYPTIAN CLIMATE.
Its Delightful Dryness—Tlie Nubians and
Til sir Villages.
tCor. Lon-lon Standard.]
Tho further one gurneys up the Nile
the more ono appn eiates tho dolightful
dryness of tho Egiptian climate. Trav
eling across arid w astes, ono would soon
begin to long for tho mists and rains of
Kngland, but horo there is always a belt
of verdure to obarm tho eye, and,
though tho desert comes at places quite
down to tho river bank, in others is only
separated from it by cliffs of bare,
rugged sandstone, granite, or basaltic
rocks, signs of fertility never wholly dis
appear, while a total absence of humid
ity in the air makes it invigorating oven
in the hottest hours of the afternoon.
We slept last night within the tropio
of Cancer. A brisk north breozo kept
the atmosphero deliciously cool till sun
rise, and though tho temperature rose
at midday to nearly 00 in tho shade,
thero has been no feeling of lassitude as
thero would liavo been in moister
climates. Tho result of this is that
troops show so far no indication of suf
fering from heat, whethor afloat in
barges or encamped ashore. Unlike tho
natives of most tropical countries, Nu
bians aro not given to idleness. They
go on laboring witli zealous industry
when vortical rays of sunshino aro
striking full upon them just as they do
n tho white light of morning ana tho
dusk of evening. Without this inces
sant toil tho narrow strip of fruitful
country, at places not moro than a few
yards wide, could not support tho dense
riverside population. Villages aro sot
so eloso together that thoy seem like ono
long, stragglingstreot broken by patches
of cultivation. Every yard of ground
upon which anything will grow is mado
tho most of, and no land is wasted by
having to tear usolcss vegetation.
Tho mimosa nilotica, that fringes the
bonks with its green foliage and crown
of golden blossoms, would bo welcome
enough one would think if only for fho
shade it casts; but it serves moro pur
poses than this. From its branches ex
udes gum nrnbie, its pods aro exported
for tanning, and its wood is burnt for
charcoal. From tamarisk trees the
natives oxtract manna. Date palms of
tho graceful Ibremeo species aro valued
for tho superior fruit they tear, and
ivhcro neither of thoso things grows
thero are rows of dull green castor oil
plants, with broad, fig-liko leaves and
pale purple berries, or hedges of henna
whorowith Arab ladies delight to beau
tify tlioir hands and nails. Walking
along tho banks where this shrub flour
ishes, its aromatic odors, like the
m’nglod perfume of peach and meadow
sweet, aro almost oppio<sive.
With all this luxuriance of vogefation
in the narrow limits assigned to it, there
is a markod absence of animal life, ex
cept insects. Tho myriads of flios ap
parently mako it the business of their lives
to atono for the, lack of moro formidable
boasts, and thoy certainly do it vory
effectually, leaving ono not a moment
in peace from sunriso to sunset. As we
neared Korosko, however, small birds
began to reappear in flocks, and flitting
among tho acacia branches, sent the
blossoms down in golden showers.
A Frenchman** Vlewa of Chicago.
[Joan Jacques.]
In European countnos whop men sud
denly acquire wealth they go slowly and
imitate the habits and conventionalities
of the well-born and high-bred families.
This is true in somo degroo of the sea
board cities of America. But in the
west tliore is a swagger which isperlmps
born of tho eonsciousuesss of self-oamed
wealth and so of personal powor; nnd
this begets a raw nud pronounced social
life.
I was shown threo now houses on the
north side of tho city that aro “cautions”
in tho way of suiting ono tiling to an
other. Comine ii 8iut is a description
that qualifies absolutely nothing in
American life. One of those houses is a
castle. It is a bit of architecture suita
ble for the banks of the Rhino or to bo
placed in tho center of some vast his
toric estato. lloro it is on a piece of
land about tho sizo of one's hand. Horo
is a pile of stono in the midst of sur
roundings that make the homo a jest,
Ono bursts out laughing to soo this
“castle” stuck within ten fcot of a nar
row city street. Then thero aro two
wealthy brothers who hnvo built two
C t houses of somber mien and bung-
_ proportions, and stables to match,
nil on a lot of land tho sizo of a saucer.
But this is in a country where gentle
men wear uncleaned boots, split their
own firewood or “kindling” nnd wear
diamond pins and rings whilo doing
thoir work.
A BIGOFFER,
“The Wateitury,” g
A Good Watch, a Year’s Subscription
to tha Recorder and a Chance
In the Gift Distribution for
We have made such arrange-
mcnts’with the Waterbury Watch
Company that we are enabled to
offer our subscribers the Weekly
Recorder one year, with a chance
in our Gift Distribution, and a
Waterbury watch for the very low
sum of $4.50. The Waterbury
watch is not a toy, but a real
watch, keeping time for 28 hours
without winding, in a handsome
case of nickel-silver, durable and
calculated to do good service for
years.
a. voice:
FROM THE CORNER I
THE PEOPLE’S
Id
Ratified by the People!
H AVE SOLD OUT MY STOCK OF
LIQUORS AND SHALL DEVOTE
MY TIME AND ENERGIES
PRINCIPALLY TO THE
$75,000 Libel Case,
New Orleans, December 22
The owners of the steamboat Fred
A. Blanks, which sunk on Friday
evening bv a collision with the
steamer Victoria, have libelled the
Victoria Tor $75,000. Tbcy nllesr ■
that the steamer is res] ons'blc hr
the accident.
Deaf Mute* in Ancient Greece.
[Exchange.]
Among the ancient Greeks deaf mutes
were looked t upon ns a disgrace to
humanity, and under tho barbarous
laws of Lycurgus they wore exposed to
death. Nor was highly cultured Athens
less cruel than Sparta toward theso un
fortunate creatures. Deaf muto children
were pitilessly sacrificed without a voice
being heard on their behalf. Aristotle
declared congenital deaf mutes to bo in
capable of instruction, and this was the
universal 'opinion of classical antiquity.
Tho Romans treated the unfortunates
with tho same cruelty ns tho Greeks.
As soon ns a child was found to be deaf
Bnd dumb it was sacrificed to tho Titer.
Only those escaped whom the waves
washed back to the shore, or whom the
Raturai love of their parents kept bidden
from tho eyes of tho world.
TRADE, THEREFORE I
INVITE 1 ALL, AND ESPECI
ALLY THE LADIES, :WHO DE
SIRE TO SELECT FOR THEMSELVES
PURE AND UNADULTERATED
ARTICLES1IN MY LINE TO
GIVE ME A CALL !!
I HAVE ADDED TOjMY STORE A
LARGE
Coffee till!
TRY SOME OF THE VERY BEST
GROUND ON MY MILL AND
PUT UP IN AIR TIGHT TIN
CANS. YOU WILL FIND IT
WILL SAVE TIME, TROUBLE
AND MONEY TO YOU.
ESPECTFULLY,
H. D. WATTS.
Americas, Ga, Oet. 8, 1884. tf
Administrator’s Sale.
By virtue of an order from the Court
of Ordinary of Webster county, will be
retd on the first Tuesday in January,
1833, at the Conrt House door in said
county, between the legal sale boars, tho
south half of lot of land No. 187 in the
Eighteenth District of Webster connty,
Go., the property of the estate of Jane
Foreman, deceased. Sold for the pnr-
pose of division among the heirs.
JOHN N. FOREMAN, *
tds Administrator of Jane Foreman.
WE RE3PEOT THE RIGHTS
OF THE POOR
WE MAKE THE RICH RICHER
GOOD WILL TO ALL.
PROTECTION VS. OVERCHARGE.
NO DISTINCTION IN SEX, NATION
ALITY OR COLOR.
ONE LOW PRICE TO ALL.
WIDE AWAKE AND BOUND
•TO WIN.
REFORM
Whereas, Many citizens of
this community have heretofore
subjected themselves to unnec
essary expense and burdensome
overcharges in the purchase of
goods; Therefore be it
Resolved, That the interests
of the people demand the for
mation of a new party which
shall concentrate its patronage
on one close-dealing candidate,
and thus combining with cor
rect principles, make still small
er profits practical and result in
the greatest good for all.
To this end we announce our
self as the
OUR PLATFORM.
Low tariff on all goods used
by the people, such as* J)y
Goods, Notions, Fancy Goods,
Millinery, Clothing, Boots.
Shoes, Hats, Trunks, Eto.
As low prices surely increar
es trade and results in the
greatest good to both buyer and
seller Values must govern
prices. Deal only in good re
liable goods, making the prices
as low ■ as possible. (A poor
article is dear at any price.) No
misrepresentation. Sell every
article on its own merits and at
its true value.
JOIKT US!
Be on the wjpping side. Al
ready we’are elected—elected
to sell you cheaper than the
cheapest; elected to show yon
the best and newest; in fact
elected as the people’s true bar
gain-giving; fair dealing candi
date. Be one to help roll up
the big majority in favor of cor
rect principles andfhe advance
ment ot true economy and re
form. See us personally and
learn our civil service principles.
In return for patronage we
promise Fair ( Dealing, Straight
Goofs, ^jjffeock Prices.
■Jlollgjiibw open and will re
main so untjMurther notice.
Tote early and often is the
wish of yours truly.
- JOHN R. SHAW,
Forsyth Street, Americus, Ga