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Americus Recorder.
W. I,, tiliE88NKK, Editor.
Official Organ o'. Sumter Count) ,
uncial Oman of Webster County.
KIIID4Y, tliSH It 18- 1SS5.
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A correspondent in Nebraska
puts it on. record that in 1884, un
der a “protective tariff,” corn was
sol.i for eleven cents a bushel and
wheat tor from twenty-five to fifty
The changes in the postoffice ap
propriation bill to go into effect the
1st of July are of considerable im
portance. Letter postage wilt be
two cents for every ounce or frac-
cents. . In all the history of the j tion thereof. Drop letters will be
country tlieau prices touch the low- ; the same, except that where free
est point that cereals have reached. ■ delivery is not established thepost-
And yet we tire asked to preserve age will be one cent feu- each ounce
Congressman Crisp's mail is sup
posed to be especially large these j ;g^ protective tariff, and even : or fraction thereof.
! to make it still higher.
'!'-ys. ^
Cuthuert is to have u new paper,
the Vindicator. The first number
will be issued to-day.
I’reesideiit Cleveland
mav u..t fit him as well as Arthur
but he fills the olli
pictely.
Mr. ClevelamVs cabinet contains
three men whose given name is
William. They are men of V ill,
as they ought to be.
The nrst official act of President
Cleveland was to sign the commis
sion of General Grant as general
on the retired list of the army.
The Constitution offers this bit
of consolation in advance to office
i seekers: “It is said that some of
pants j the States are affronted because
they are not represented in the
more com- I cabinet. Ah, well, all in due time.
! livery militia district in the ccun-
' try will have an opportunity to be
represented in the cabinet before
the Democratic party concludes to
relinquish its firm hold on the gov
ernment.”
Hon. L. Q, C. Lamar, the new
Secretary of the Interior, was once
a citizen of Macon, having studied
law there and was admitted to the
ar in 1847.
The Albany Daily Medium is
the last newspaper venture, it is
probably the smallest daily paper
in America. Bro. Ilanlon is evi
dently banking on quality rather
than quantity.
Neat Dow, the great temperance
reformer of Maine, has deserted the
Republican party, on the ground
that while it has been full of prom
ises to the temperance advocates it
has tailed to fulfil them.
We are pleased to see that our I C( |
The ounce has
| long been the English standard of
l letter postage, its adoption here
1 may lead to a slight increase in the
1 average weight of letters, through
; the use of heavier paper, but il is
j not expected that this change will
! seriously affect postal receipts,
j The same bill reduces newspaper
I postage, when sent by the publish
ers tram the office of publication,
or when sent by a ’isws agency,
from two cents a pound to one cent
a pound. This reduction applies
to papers sent to bona fide sub
scribers or to any one else. Mark-
papers may be sent from the
old friend, Gen. John C. Black, of {< j|i ee 0 f publication without a pen
Illinois, has been appointed Com
missioncr of Pensions, and has ac
cepted. There lias been no more
gallant and eloquent defender of
Democracy than General Black,
and lie deserves this recognition of
his services. Besides, lie is well
qualified (or the position, and will
see that no frauds are perpetrated
in his department.
David Dickson, one of Georgia’s
most successful and wealthy far
mers, willed the bulk of his estate,
fully $400,000, to Amanda Eubanks,
a colored woman. The reason for
sucli a bequest is not given.
It would seem that the sufferings
of royalty have changed in these
latter days as has everything else.
It used to be said that “uneasy lies
the head which wears a crown,”
but Queen Victoria complains most-
y of damp, cold feet.
We present to our readers, this
morning, portraits of President
Cleveland and bis cabinet, with
brief biographical sketches. The
Recorder docs not b r ag much
about its enterprise, but simply
gives its readers what they desire.
Applicants for official positions
under the new administration need
not be in any hurry about sending
in their applications, as President
Cleveland is going to take his time
in making changes, and pertinacity
does not seem to have much effect
upon him.
It looks very much as though
the rumors concerning General
Grant’s precarious situation were
put afloat to act upon the sympa
thies ol Congress, and they suc
ceeded. It will not be surprising
to bear that the General is up and
about in a few days.
The last act of Congress was to
pass a bill authorizing the Presi
dent to place one person on the
retired list of the army, and the
last official act of President Arthur
was to place General Grant on the
retired list with the rank and full
pay of General.
All the great men in the Demo
cratic party could not be got into
the cabinet, but the balance will be
consoled with first class missions
and other soft places. Thurman,
McClellan and Pendleton arc
spoken of in connection with the
English, French and German mis
sions.
In the selection of his cabinet
Mr. Cleveland has shown the same
spirit which has characterized his
oilieial acts in other positions, and
that is a disposition to disregard
precedents and select men more
for their qualifications than for
their political position. The men
whom lie has selected as his coun
selors are men who have nothin
of the demagogue about them, but
have Gliown a regard for honesty
in the positions they have filled,
and lor this reason have been select
ed. If Mr. Cleveland’s administra
tion is not a br'lliant one, it will
at least be a safe and honest one.
As President Cleveland is inau
gurated and we have a new admin
istration, this is a fitting time to
talk about the post office. There
are several applicants for the office
Americus, all good men, good
Democrats, and presumably would
make good officers. M r. Cleveland
is not personally acquainted with
any of them, and is not likely to be.
In taking action lie would undoubt
edly be greatly influenced by the
opinions of the Congressman from
this district. For Judge Crisp to
make a selection would lie em
barrassing, as they are all good
friend). It would seem, then, the
best way out of the difficulty would
lie to hold an election in which all
the Democratic voters of the
county should participate, and
select some one man from the
various candidates and recommend
him for the position. As the office
is one in which ail the people are
interested, we can see no impro
priety in their having a voice in
the matter, and truly this is the
Democratic way of settling the
matter. So, let us have an election,
and may the best man win.
Ohio is on hand as usual. Gov
ernor Iloadly wants the German
mission; Georgs L. Converse wants
to be commissioner of the land of
fice, and Americus V. Rice pro
poses to be commissioner of pen
sions. General Rice introduced
the first bill in Congress to pay ar
rearages of pensions.
The people of Gritliu have de
cided to follow the example of
Americus and establish public
schools, by a vote of 435 to 13.
They have taken a wise step, and
wo think they will never have
cause to regret it, for it will at
tract people to their town and give
Griffin a favorable name abroad. sious, as it did with Mr. Towner.
On another page will be found
the concluding letter of a series
written from the South to his paper
in New York by Mr. Aushurn
Towner, who lias been spending
two months in the South, study
ing its resources, climate, customs
of the people, etc. After traveling
over most of the cotton States
and visiting the principal cities,
he comes to the conclusion that
every sensible man must come—
that the people of the South have
been maligned by those papers
and politicians of the North who
have charged them with being
lawloss and brutal in character,
with an undying hatred for every
thing Northern, and the old flag
especially. Mr. Towner frankly ad
mits that he was apprehensive of
receiving rough treatment from
some of the people on account of
his being from the North, and he
as frankly confesses that he was
agreeably disappointed in his treat
ment. The apprehensions felt by
Mr. Towner before coming South
are such as are felt by most North
ern men, and arc the result of con
stant misrepresentations for many
years. But it needs only contact
with our people, a visit to our sec
tion, to remove all such apprcticn-
alty or increase of postage.
On the lfitb inst. will occur an
annular eclipse of the sun, visible
in the United States and British
America. It is the return of the
annular eclipse of February 12,
1831. In 1831 the central line
passed over Texas in a northeast
erly direction, being last visible
on this continent in parts of V
ginia and North Carolina. At this
return the path will be much fur
ther north. The eclipse will be
annular over a line from Cape
Mendocino, Cal., in latitude 40
degrees, to Greenland, in latitude
71 degrees. It is estimated that
the eclipse will be annular over a
path about seventy miles wide,
the only towns of consequence in
the Unite' 1 States within the belt
are Eureka, Cal., and Bozeman, M.
T. At St. Paul the eclip-e will
obscure five-sixths of the sun, but
will not be annular. At Chicago
seven tenths of the sun will be
bidden.
A Curious Coincidence.
Philadelphia, March 8.—A re
markable coincidence occurred on
one of the crowded trains between
Washington and this city which
was conveying the people from Cue
inauguration. The incident is
vouched for by over twenty per
sons who witnessed it. In one of
the car seats next the window sat
a tali, thin man who hai iled tiie
conductor a pass as he came
through for the tickets. The latter
read the nnme on the pass, glanced
at the passenger and then said qui
etly and without changing a mus
cle of his countenance: “Sorry
you didn’t put me in your cabinet,
Mr. Cleveland,” and passed on.
Calling a brakeinan the passenger
asked: “What is that conductor’s
name?” “Thurman,” said the
brakeman, surprised at the ques
tion, and mo e ro at the laughter
of the other passengers. Mr. Cleve
land, the holder ol the pass, proved
to be a central New York mer
chant. ■
The Hr eat Storm or 1881.
I):iDville (111.) Commercial.
Dr Hawes, cf Georgetown, was
talking to us about this great storm
the other day. He siid the snow
was four feet deep on a level and
the ice on the Wabash river served
as a bridge for teams and heavily
loaded wagons until the middle of
April. The winter of 1830-31 is
known among the pioneer settlers
of Illinois as the time of “the deep
snow.” Up to that time it is claim
ed that the climate of the central
part of the state was so mild that
cotton was a good crop—in fact,
that Illinois was as good a cotton
state as Georgia. About Christ
mas, 1830, the rain which was fall
ing turned to snow, which contin
ued to fall until it lay at least four
feet on a level all over the state.
The rain fell and a hard crust
formed on top of the snow. For
nearly three weeks afterward the
thermometer did not rise higher
t han 12 degrees below zero. It was
useless to attempt to break the
roads, and the plan was to follow
as nearly as possible the same
Hack and beat it down solid. The
toads thus became firm, while on
the sides the snow would melt
more rapidly, leaving the road high
above the surrounding level.
When most of the snow on the
prairies bad melted these roads re
mained and looked like silver
threads stretched as tar as the eye
could follow. The storm came so
unexpectedly that most of the corn
was still in the fields, and there
was a scant supply for stock.
Many animals died. Many men
who were caught in the snow storm
perished. Everything upon which
wild game was accustomed to feed
being covered up, the result was
almost extermination. The deer,
which up to that time had been
plentiful, suffered greatly,and were
easily' killed bv the hunters. The
Indians who occupied the state bad
a t radition of a previous deep snow
about the year 1800 which rivaled
the weatlief of 1830-31.
INAUGURAL SCENES.
WASHINGTON’S GRAND GREETING TO
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The City Hrfuncd In Bunting and Flowers.
Gorgeous Scenes of 1’ornp and Pa
geantry Illustrated—The Now Ad
ministration in Possession.
lot fortunate enough to secure ti f
tiission to the senate lounged ab>
Mission were to bo won by-
lumber of passes issued, howev*
mall, each senator receiving q v
epresentative two. As soon ^
vere opened the gallons of the
llled. Many holding tickets to
ring, but not to the galleries, flu
md corridors. The military
issembled in the cross streets alx
ol park, where they remained wi
dent-elect delivered his inaugura
THE PRESIDENT AT THE IVHIT;|
At 1 o’clock, on the conclusioi
Monies, the members of the sen
>y the sergeant-at-arms, vice pr«
secretary, returned to the seiiail
md the president, accompanied &
nittee of arrangements, proceeds
cutive mansion.
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nm t> „ R irae, Ou„ Courier.
Gen. Corse’s Wound.
Commercial Gazette.
Gen. Hickcnlooper tells a, good
one on Gen. Corse. It was at Al
toona that a rifle ball took Corse
alongside of the head. Gen. Sher
man received word from Gen.
Cor9e that his ear and a portion of
his cheek bone were gone, but that
be was still able to bold his posi
tion and fight it out.
As soon as possible Sherman got
over to see him, full of anxiety for
him. He found Corse with his
head swathed in bandages, and in
his anx’ety to know tho nature of
the injuries, impatiently ordered
the surgeon to remove the cloths.
This was done slowly, and with
great formality, and there was re
vealed a slight scratch ol the cheek
and a hole in the ear.
Sherman looked intently at it,
and calmly remarked, “Why,
Corse, they came damned near
missing you, didn’t they?”
There is great excitement over
the discovery ol a rich vein of sil
ver ore six miles from Tecuniseh
furnace. The land was formerly
owned by tho Tecumscli iron com
pany, blit recently purchased by
W. A. Glover and Captain James
O'Rourke, both employes of the
company. They have had the ore
•areiully analyzed by the stale
.eulogist of Minnessota and several
oilier geologists. Tbey all agree
that it is worth from thirty lo
eighty dollars ;per ton. General
Warner has sent a sample’box full
id the on: to Senator Hill, of Colo
n-do. There is no doubt Messrs.
Glover and O’Rourke have struck
bonanza. This is no Indian le-
gand of the long ago, but a present
reality. They have several men at
work developing the mine. They
arc both genial, clever gentlemen,
and we would be glad if they would
make a million dollars out of it.
The hills are full of men prospect
ing for the precious metal, ami
every man that comes in from the
direction, of the find has his pock
ets full of rocks.
TIIK IXAUat'RAI. procession.
To a man on top of the Washington monu-
mant tho capital must have looked as it did
in the spring of 18fi5, when tho victorious
armio.t and tho multitude behind, with
them gathered hero. Again tho multitudes
poured in from every side of tho city. Great
squares of moving musket barrels gleamed in
the sun, banners, flags ai.J transparency
rose nltove the compact masses of inarching
civilians. Gorgeous bands formed resplendent
squares here and there, and so closely {Kicked
were the shifting multitudes of spectators till
ing tho spaces between tho car tracks and tho
buildings that the very ground seemed alive.
The sight of tho marching troojw, ascending
Capitol Hill from all directions was a grand
one, and ditfereut strains of music from
many bands had an inspiring effect upon the
multitude. By half-past 10 o’clock tho space
east of tho main entrance of the capitol was
literally packed with human beings. Many
persons took poeitionss on the steps ot th%
house wing as early as 7 o’clock in order to
have a good view of tho proceedings. Nearly
as far as the eye could reach from the capitol
in all directions the streets and avenues were
crowded with military organizations. Both
rides of Pennsylvania avenue from
Eighteenth street to tho capitol were lined
with a surging mass of humanity. Tho stands
erected along the route were crowded and the
greatest enthusiasm prevails.
Possibilities In Trotting.
Chicago, March 6 —Tho Chicago
Horseman will publish tomorrow a
paper prepared by Gen. J. S. Bris-
bin, United States Army, review,
ing the trotting performances of
American horses during the past
40 years. Gen. Brisbin thinks
neither Maud S. nor Jay-Eye-See
will reduce their records this year,
but believes new horses will appear
on the turf, and that the record
will be reduced three or four sec
onds, possibly from 2:09j to 2:00.
The General thinks the increased
speed of American trotting horses
is due mainly to better breeding,
better training, better driving, im
provements in bits, and improved
tracks and sulkies. He says our
trotters will ultimately attain a
speed of a mile in two minutes, ond
that we will probably reach it with
in the next 10 years.
Society In Detroit.
Detroit Free Press.
“I was coming up on the car,
you know, she rattled away, “and
1 met that Mrs. Johnson. She is
always trying to lord it over me
and X knew by her looks that she
had something awful to say. In
about a minute she moved along
and says, says she:
“ ‘Have you got your costumes ?”
“‘For what?”says I.
“ ‘For the Governor's veto, 1 says
slie.
"Just think ol her ignorance!
It stunned me so that I could
hardly get my breath. I saw it
was my chance to dres9 her feath
ers down, and so I put on all my
dignity, raised my voice so that all
could hear, and says, says I:
“ ‘No, madam, I'm not going to
tiie Governor’s veto, but when the
Governor’s message takes place I
shall be there."
“Great Scott!” exclaimed her
husband, “but you didn’t say mes
sage, did you?”
"Why, of course—what is it?”
“It’s the Governor’s levee, you
idiot!”
THE IVIES in I! NT TAKING THE OATH.
After the organization of the senate wan
completed, those assembled in the senate
chamber proceeded through the rotunda to
the platform on tho central portico of the
eapitoL
At noon the oath of oftice was administered
to the president-elect by tho chief justice,
and President Cleveland delived his inaugu
ral address.
PICK PRESIDENT HENDRICKS
THE SENATE.
Tho president and tho preside
jered the senate wing by the l:
lach accompanied by a member :!
nittee of arrangements. The p
reeded direct to the president’s rc
president-elect to tho vice-pmi
vbero they remained until they
•senate chamber. Having been ii
.he committeo of arrangements,
riod sou^ reserved for them i
•residing ofHcnr. Tho commit
•angomonts took seats on their I,
The vice president-elect pro
rtce-presidout’s room, where 1
jntil be entered tho senate chan
;he oath of oflice was administe
die president of the senate pro t-
He then delivered his address to
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A Hotel Proprietor’s Disappearance.
Gainesville, Ga., March 1
This city is considerably excited
over the disappearance of A. G.
Carter, proprietor of the Arlington
Hotel. lie left Tuesday morning,
telling bis clerk that be was going
to Atlanta to pay some bills he
owed there, and would be back the
same day. He has not put in his
appearance yet. The general sup-
position ia that he will not return.
He leaves bills to a considerable
amount unpaid. The hotel belongs
lo Hon. A. D. Candler, who is now
in Washington. Ilis agent, W. S.
Williams, has assumed control,
and has placed C. L. Hollman in
charge.
H UV
THE PRESIDENT’S RECEtf
Crowning the grand events of|
forming a fitting close the fefi
Inauguration ball in tho nowp
Ing. In tho decorations 500 unv|
been utilized, and thousands <1
bunting. Between the arches d
gallery were placed various devil
tho coats of arms of various statr
At one end of the ball room 1
in immense pinto glass mirror, {
a half by ton and a half feet, ii
rut glass, and at t
the president’s floral
Japanese canopy. Pyramids J
tho tropical plants decorated e
ball room. One of tho features
decorations were dovicos symbil
various executive departments'
ment. The curtains and other!
the ball room were of tho riche*|
Some idea of the elaborate
the designs may be gathered i
that $5,400 were paid out in
flowers which compose them.
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Mr. Lamar is the oldest member
of the cabinet, CO; and Mr. Vilas
the youngest, 45.
TOE PRESIDENT READING III8 INAUGURAL
ADDRESS.
The tide of people that flowed to the capitol
to hear the inaugural address was a perfect
flood. Without anti within that building all
woa animation and bustle. Crowds of peopls