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Americus Recorder.
W, I.. ULEIMER. Editor.
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
FBIDAV, IfAIICII 20. 18S5.
The Putnam Rifles, of Eatonton,
will act as the Governor’s escort at
New Orleans on Georgia day.
The trouble with the American
navy, under the Republican admin
istration, was that there were too
many boss-ships in it.
The locomotive engineers on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia toad have struck, and the
freight trains are stopped.
Macon is making an effort to se
cure the next State Fair, and we
hope she will succeed, for it is the
most convenient point in the State
for the purpose.
IMPROVED Pi RUING.
While many so-called “practical”
farmers have sneered at and derided
the experimental farmers and news
papers for advocating improved
methods of farming, the experi
menters and editors have been get
ting in their work, and the result
of it is seen iu increased yields of
products and more prosperity, in
spite of the decline in prices. Had
not this improvement been made,
the cotton planters of the South
would to day have been in bank
ruptcy.
To show what has been done by
improved methods, it is only neces
sary to *-tate that where in 1861
200 pounds of lint cotton per acre
was the yield, we find in 1884 the
following yield as reported in a
cotton test: The highest amount
is 1545 pounds of lint cotton from
a single acre; then come 1387,
1322* 1263,1260,1231,1198,1165,
1115, 1109,1104,1086,1060;then a
long list in the 900s and another in
SOlIJillKIiS IMMIGRATIONCOSVEN-
TIOS.
The daily Medium has no one- ^ _
mica to reward nor friends to pun- Ule ° 8003 slil i anot |, cr 700 and aI |
ish.—Albany Medium.
Then you are in a bad fix, for a
person who has neither friends nor
enemies must feel rather lonesome,
We are glad to see Mr. Manning
firm in his refusal to appoint Fhil
Thompson, of Kentucky,as commis
sioner of internal revenue. This
country has had too many agents of
thewhiskey ring in that department.
We arc skeptical as to whether
the gods ever owned any mills.—
Albany Medium.
Judging from the fineness of our
meal and the slowness of our mil
lers, we should say that some of
the aforesaid mills were still in ex
istence.
The foreman of the Republican
made a blunder in making up the
forms of the last Republican. He
should have placed the heading of
‘•Liar’s Corner” in the editorial
column, immediately above the
lines
“Official Organ of Sumter County.”
"Official Organ of Webster County.”
The Albany News thinks “there
are worse things in this world than
standard silver dollars. It would
bo a blessed thing ira few million
more ol them were in circulation in
Georgia, at a hundred cents on
the dollar. Creditors in this city
have storage room enough for a few
thousands of them.”
It is evident that President
Cleveland proposes to go slow in
making removals from office, and
in this be is sensible, for haste
u.ight lead to putting in as many
bad men as ho turned out. He is
working in the interest of the peo
ple, and it is to their interest that
the offices should be filled by hon
est and competent men, rather than
that professional politicians Bhould
be speedily rewarded.
It would seem that the profes
sions of reform made by the Demo
cratic party and its presidential can
didate were not mere empty sound
Among the first acts of Mr. Cleve
land was that of cutting down the
clerical force at white house. And
now Mr. Manning, the secretary of
the treasury, has cut down bis force
thirty-eight, making a saving of
$46,000 per annum.
The citizens of Albany propose
to entertain the Georgia editors to
day who will lay over there several
hours on their way to the meeting
of the Press Association at Bain-
bridge. The editors will be dined
at the Artesian House and then
driven over the city. It is a neat
thing on the part of the people of
Albany and shows an enterprising
spirit.
In reference to the report that ex
President Arthur was to return to
the practice of law, the London
Post says: “This is better than
Cincinnatus and his plough, and
with nothing like the fuss. That
an able and successful solicitor
should make himself active in par
ty politics, and receiving the office
of Vice-President as his reward,
should, on the death of his chief,
succeed to the supreme direction
of affairs, has in it little that is sur-
prising. But that, having presid
ed over the destinies of fifty-seven
millions, be should quietly resume
woik at his desk, is a startling turn
of affairs, and possible only in the
United States.”
the way down to 430 pounds per
acre, or the smallest amount on
record among the list is more than
double wliat the average yield was
under the old-time management.
This cotton was not raised in any
one particular section, but in a
great many different counties of
the State, and the men who fertili
zed the most obtained the most
cotton, although the season was
not at all in their favor in many
cases.
Nor is this the greatest result.
The “all cotton” system has been
so persistently attacked that it has
felt the blows and has weakened to
an extent that was hardly deemed
possible a few years ago. The im
provement in cotton has been ac
companied by an even more marked
improvement in coru, both as to
quantity planted and the yield. In
acorn test, 116 bushels per acre
takes the first premium, 106
3 10 comes second, 103 bushels
third, quite a showing iu the nine
ties per aci e, several in the eighties,
and down to 48 as the smallest.
Heretofore fifteen bushels per acre
was considered a good yield, while
the average was much below. It
has been demonstrated not only
that Georgia farmers can raise
com, but that it is profitable for
them to do so.
With the com came the hogs,
and the marked increase in the
quantity of home raised meat has
bech one great cause of the pros
perity of our farmers; for it is gen-
orally the case that the farmer who
raises corn and hogs raises as much
cotton, if not more, as he did when
he bought his meal and meat.
Raising corn and hogs has turn
ed the attention of our farmers to
other live stock, and we see a de
cided improvement in cattle and
horses; while here and there wo
find some enterprising farmer who
has abandoned cotton altogether
and devoted himself entirely to
raising stock, and generally with
good success. It would not bo
surprising to see, within the next
five years, Georgia competing suc
cessfully with the Northern States
in the raising of live stock, for
which her soil and climate is so
well adapted, and when that time
shall come we shall see as prosper
ous a class of farmers as can be
found in the world.
But Georgia will always remain
a cotton State, and with the im
proved methods of cultivation, im
proved seed, a better staple as well
as a larger yield will make it the
most profitable crop, in connection
with grain and stock, that a farmer
can raise, and Georgia the farmer’s
paradise.
Commissioner Henderson has our
thanks for copies of the second part
of his publication entitled “The
Commonwealth of Georgia.” This
part is devoted to an interesting
and instructive description of the
field crops, fruits, grasses, garden
and truck products of the State.
It gives many statements of large
and profitable crops by the farmers
of the State, showing not only a
great variety in the agricultural
and horticultural products, but a
wonderful capacity in the soil of
old Georgia when properly culti
vated. The Commissioner’s publi
cation of the resources and produc
tions of Georgia is interesting and
limely, and wo hope will have the
effect of making the people of other
States much better acquainted with
our advantages.
The Southern Immigration Con
vention met in Music Hall, at the
New Orleans Exposition, on Tues
day. The attendance was not as
large as was expected. There is
reason for hoping, however, that
there will be a much better atten
dance before the convention finishes
its work.
When the Southern Immigration
Society was organized it excited
considerable interest in this city.
A meeting was held and delegates
to represent this section of the
South were selected to be present
at the first meeting of the society
at Nashville.
Nothing has ever been done,
however, to keep alive that interest.
The existence of tbo Southern Im
migration Society appears to have
been forgotten in this locality.
This is all the more strange, be
cause this port was talked of as
offering better advantages for tho
reception and distribution of for
eign immigrants than any other
Southern port.
The fact is that outside of tte
newspapers.the advantages of im
migintion do not appear to be ap
preciated in the South as they arc
in the West, and, hence, it is almost
impossible to bring about such a
concert of action, and such con
stnnt and persistent efforts as are
necessary to influence immigration
in this direction.
We say that we want immigra
tion and capital to flow into the
country, but we do uot exert our-
selves to secure either. We have
convinced ourselves that we have
a very good country and we aic
confident that it offers very supe
rior advantages to those who nre
seeking homes. We are satisfied
that tho way to make it rich ami
populous is to get it filled up with
people from other States and Euro
pean countries. The steps we take,
however, to influence immigration
this way nre so feeble tbit wo nre
ashamed of them, or, at least, ought
to be.
The policy pursued by tho Illi
nois Central Railroad Company
years ugo, when Illinois was little
more than a wilderness and the
railroad was liardiy paying expen
ses, could be adopted by the mana
gers ol' some of the Southern rail
roads -with profit* The Illinois
Central Company went diligently
to work to fill up the country,
along tho line of its whole route.
Every immigrant that settled in
the territory tributary to the road
and every acre that was brought
under cultivation added to the
business and, consequently, the
prosperity of the railroad company.
The thousands and hundreds of
thousands of dollars which were
spent in getting the lands settled
were raoid in the shape of increased
business a hundredfold. The Illi
nois Central is one of the greatest
and richest railroad corporations
in the world, and its greatness is
largely due to the policy of encour
aging and assisting in immigration.
The Southern Immigration So
ciety may not accomplish all it
aims to accomplish, but if it is con
trolled by the right sort of men it
will da a great deal towards build
ing up the South. The New Or
leans Exposition is giving the
world a new idea ef the resources
of the South. The fact is being
discovered that cotton is not her
only source of wealth, that there
are vast possibilities in her forests,
mines and factories. The exposi
tion is doing agreat work, although
that work may not be immediately
apparent. What the people of the
South must do is to take up the
work where the exposition leaves it
and endeavor to reap a harvest from
the seed which it will have sown by
the time it closes. The purpose'of
the Southern Immigration Society
is to gather the harvest of immi
grants and capital, and it and all
other organizations in the South
like it ought to receive the greatest
encouragement—Savannah News.
A FERTILE STATE.
The report of the State Commis.
sioner of Agriculture, on the agri
cultural resources of the State,
proves all that the Recorder has
ever clainfed for Georgia—that it
is the richest agricultural state in
the Union.
Speaking of the field productions
of our State generally the Commis
sioner says: “There may be States
in the Union which, in proportion
to area, claim a larger number of
acres of very rich lands than Geor
gia. There are, no doubt, certain
sister commonwealths which, in
their adaptedness to certain special
products, largely exceed the ca
pacity of Georgia production. But
for the superficial extent of Geor
gia, it is questionable if there is an
other State in the Union that is
more generally adapted to the pro
duction of those necessaries and
comforts of life that constitute the
resources of a prosperous and
happy community.
“There is hardly a section of the
State that is not able by the natural
resources of its soil and produc
tions to sustain a population
great comfort and for her number
of square miles it is doubtful if
there is a State in the Union that
can count in its limits *a greater
number of healthful localities.
Cereals do well, from the moun
tainp to the seaboard, with proba
bly the single exception of wheat,
which has been neglected in the
past history of the agriculture of
the State on the seaboard, from the
the idea that it could not be profits
bly raised there. The few instan
ces where this culture has been at
tempted, have developed some very
remarkable results in its favor.”
TWO STORMS.
[Somerville Journal.]
Long-rolling surges of a falling sea,
Smiting tbo .beer cliffs ot an unknown above,
And by a Jagged rock, swaying helplessly,
A mast with broken cordage—nothing more.
Swift-falling flake: of a dark, dreary storm;
He opeus with uncertain band bis door;
Two o’clock a. m.; be sees the white form
Of waiting wife—we neoi tell no more.
PETER COOPER’S GOODNESS.
HOGS AM) HOUSES.
As we have lately received
number of letters from the North
inquiring as to stock raising in this
seot ! on, we publish Hie following
from the Camilla Clarion for the
benefit of our Northern readers:
We met with Capt. Sam Salter,of
I Dougherty, a few days ago, and
| here is what lie said in answer to a
question: “lean raise hogs cheaper
li-rc than I could in Kentucky, mv
old home. An acre in sweet pota
toes is wortli more as hog food than
anything we can raise.” Cnpt.
Weston says he never saw finer
hogs than Sam Sailer's.
‘•How about horses?” “This too
t* juntas good a country for rais
ing horses as Kentucky, if the peo
pie will try. Horses are more lij*
He to disease there than here. I
am pleased with my experiments
and I am now trying to raise some
Texas ulue grass.”
The railroad strike in Missouri
is one of the largest we have known.
At Sedaliaon the Missouri Pacific
road there are over seventy-five
engineers “killed” by the strikers
and over ten miles of loaded cars
arc on the tracks, that they will
not permit to be moved. The
railroad paytrain arrived and pro
posed to pay the men, but they
would not receive pay, because
they said that would severe their
connection with the road. Wbat
the wrongs ot these men are we do
not know, and without knowing,
intelligent comment is difficult.
But on a line of what seems to us
right, we would say that they have
no right tu interfere with the work
of the company, if they do not
choose to participate iu it. Men
have a tight to work or not, as they
please, but they have no right to
prevent others from working; nor
can auy union or labor league rules
give that right.
n>e Knormour. Public Keadlnf Room He
Provided—How Managed.
[Alex. E. Sweet in Texas Siftings.]
That great and good old man, Peter
Cooper, was particularly anxious that
the poor class of New Workers should
kuow what was going on. In tho
second story of tho largo Cooper
building, which he presented
tho city of Now York, is
enormous loom devoted entirely to
newspapers and books, and accessible to
the public. Thoro is only ono entrance,
and in front of it sits a boy at a desk,
who hands you a gutta percha cheek
about tho she of a dollar and a quarter,
which you return to him when you
emerge, tho advantage or utility of
which check system is not apparent to
tho ordinary intellect. The room is
tilled with stands and tables on which
are all the principal American and
foreign newspapers and periodicals.
The walls are lined with shelves filled
with books.
In summer ttio reading-room is not
very well patronized, but in winter there
aro hundred of persons seeking for
knowledge. The reason why there is
greater thirst for literature in winter
than in summer is owing to the climate,
and the high price of coal. The reading-
room is nieo and warm, and there seems
to be a large class of peoplp who put off
all their reading until cold weather sets
in. They have been out in the cold so
long that they usually prefer to improvo
their minds by rooding those journals
nearest tho heaters, no matter in what
language they are printed. Old Peter
Cooper did uot intond to establish a
lodging house for tramps, so a stalwart
policeman goes around and separates
the sheep from the goats.
A placard is put up to the effect that
frequent visitors must obtain a perman
ent card from the clerk, who, before
issuing it, requires references. The
victim of adverse circumstances whoso
hair sticks out through the top of his
Imt, and whose garments ery aloud for
repairs is not likely to apply for a card
of admission, hence when ho undertakes
to store his mind with useful knowledge
from a foreign magazine near tho
heater, notwithstanding tho fact that it
is a free library, the ]iolicoman marches
him out as if he whs a malefactor. I
don't wonder that the tramps go south
in winter, for tho police hero make it
too hot for them during tho cold sea
son.
Theso freo reading rooms and libraries
aro of, incalculable benefit to students
and literary people, unless they happen
to bo tramps.
To the people of Americus and th
trading in our oily, I make herewith a
announcement that I have returned f, i
my Northern trip, where I bought 2
am now receiving one of largest and hj
selected stocks of Dry Goods D-J
Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats and TriJ
mings, Notions, Hosiery, eto., etc t ,
brought or exhibited in this city. V!
of the goods were bought at anolion w
job lots, and at prices that I can afford!
sell them for a good profit and then *
goods for less than other merchants
buy them.
My motto in the future will be as
the past, lo make my profits in the p '
chase of tbo goods and give to my c
tomeis the bonefit of any and all barm
which I buy. .
I* is, perhaps, not amiss to meniiot,
that the firm position my competitJ
here have taken in my recent trouble h
spurred me to such an extent that I E
determined to do the Cash Dry Go:
business of Americus whether it
yield me a profit or not.
It is useless to quote prices. I am dtl
lermined to sell my goods and I will | ea J
it to those that will come, inspect an
price my goods whether I mean businu
or not. Domestics, UDtil further notiej
I will sell strictly at Factory cost f
The Bargain Store in order to accomo-L
date the extensive Spring Stock has hets|
enlarged and is ono of the largest as *
ss the neatest in the city.
With a determination to sell and pleas!
at any cost, a large seleolion and slock oil
all descriptions, a polite and attentitj
corps of elerks to wait upon its custom!
ers, the Bargain Store, thankful for put|
patronage, extends an invitation to all t,|
call and inspeot their stook, satisfied tbij
it will be to your interest to do s<
Bespectfully,
8. M. COHEN, The Bargain Man. I
Cotton Avenue, opposite Bank o’l
Americus, Sign of Red Flag.
Lincoln’* Deepuudency.
[CrofTu .’s Let cr.J
Mr. Colfax told mo a new story of
Mr. Lincoln recently. “I have nover
used it in my lecture,’’lie said, “and
never printed it, for I was afraid it
might bo misunderstood.” I do not con
cur in this view, for it reveals nothing
new in tho groat emancipator's charae-
' tr. "It was in tho spring of IN63 that
called one day at tho White House and
found Mr. Lincoln plunged in tho depths
of despair. Ho looked haggard and
retched and I thought had been
weeping. ‘Our armies nre making
no progress!’ he exclaimed. ‘New
York is opposing tho draft.
Wlmt if the war for the Union should
fail? What if tho robollion should sue
eeed? Might not posterity hold mo re
sponsible for the rivers of Mood shed
and tho nrmy of widows and orphans?
Might not my fato bo that of Varus,
who thought ho could Komanizo the
Germans? It was said the country can
not exist, half slavo and half freo.
Might I not be regarded as tho author
of al! calamities? However,’ he broko
out again after a pause,’ 'I have decreed
the abolition of slavery, and tho world
ill always approve that.’ When I
i ik of Mr. Lincoln, ho is very apt to
come back to me as I saw him then,
rather than as he looked when I called
him tho day before hisdoath.”
FOB. SAXsE I
Twenty-Four Beautiful
Building Lots !|
Who made the gold dollar the
standard of value? By wbat author
ity has tho silver dollar been de
clared to be worth only 85c.? Green
backs arc payable in silver as w ell
as gold—why are they at par and
the silver dollar quoted at 85c?
Will some monometalist answer I
these questions ? j
Mr. Cleveland proposes to make
his administration Democratic in
faot as well as name. He refuses
to travel on the railroads as a dead
head or use the government vessels
for his own private use. Secretary
Lamar and Attorney General Gar
land have ordered the horses and
carriages, used by their predeces
sors at public expense, belonging
to their departments to be sold and
the money covered into the treas
ury. There is to be no excursions
and junketings at public expense.
The Democratic party has always
claimed to be the party ot the peo
ple, and the claim is being proven
by the sweeping away of the aris
tocratic customs inaugurated by
the Republicans.
The balloting for Senator in Illi
nois still continues, but with no
definile result. Morrison still has
93 votes.
Lincoln and Stanton.
(Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record.]
I think I havo a now Lincoln-Stanton
story. At least tho congressman who
told it spoko os though ho had just dis
covered the documeut which is its basis.
" was an application for a chaplainoy
the army, with a sories of indorse
ments by Lincoln and Stanton on Its
back which ran over tho available spaco
on tho application and down on a slip
of papor which had been added to re
ceive them.
Theso were the indorsements, eaoh
being dated: "Dear Stanton: Appoint
this man a chaplain in tho army. A.
Lincoln.” "Dear Mr. Lincoln: Ho is
not a preacher. E. M. Stanton.” Threo
or four months clapso evidently, and
then we have: "Dear Stanton: He is
now. A. Lincoln.” "Dear Mr. Lincoln
But there is no vacancy. E. M. Stan
ton.” “Dear Mr. Stanton: Appoint
him a cbaplnin-at-large. A. Lincoln.”
“Doar Mr. Lincoln: There is no war
rant of law for that. E. M. Stanton.”
“Dear Mr. Stanton: Appoint him any
how. A. Lincoln.” “Doar Mr. Lincoln:
I will not. E. M. Stanton.” And ho
didn’t. But apparently ho told the ap
plicant that he could leavo his applica
tion on file, for there it is among the
dry old documents.
The *‘Locopht»ne. ’•
[Chicago Herald.J
A peculiar invention, toitnod the
“Iocophone,” was recently testod on tho
Now York & New llavnn railroad. It is
Bn apparatus resembling the telephone,
designed to placo each engineer on tho
road, while the trains aro moving at the
highest speed, in instantaneous speaking
communication with the suocrintendcnt
or train dispatchers. All the engineers
on tho road reeoivo tho mossage at the
samo moment. The circuit is made over
tho rails.
Less than soventy years ago death
was the penalty for more than 200
crimes in England.
J. A. Macon: Horseshoe ober de do’
don’t dribo orf do tax collector.
Wilbin the corporals linits, situated,
i he South side of the handsome n-Hid -n
ot A. W. Smith, arid nearly oppo-tire i!
elegant home of Mrs. F.K. Burke. Th-.-1
lots have street running Eist and West|
and one North and South, also Lee street I
on the East, which is the most fashion-1
nblo and desirable in the city and is c
sidoretl the
Boulevard of Americus I
These lots are convenient lo churches I
und schools, and within ten minutes walk I
to tho court house. The natural growth I
of oak and hickory is abnndant and the|
soil level and fertile.
TERMS—H*if cash and half on twelve I
months time with eight peroent. interest. |
Call on A. C. BELL and T. J. BRAN L
NAN and see diagram of this valuable!
property.
maroh3ml
Dissolution of Copartnership,
The Hide and Commission business of I
S M. Cohen & Co., foot of Cotton Avenue, f
has been dissolved by mutual consent,
9 0he ? retiring. The businesj I
will hereafter be coDduoted under the I
style and firm of O. A. Bell.
8. M. COHEN,
C. A. BELL.
In retiring from the above bnsineis 11
wish to state to my triends and the pub-
lio that I did so reluotantly, bavibg been I
in it the past thirteen years, but since I
starting the Bargain Store I could not
give it that personal attention which it
required to please my ouetomere. [
Wishing for my snooessor, Mr. C. A
Bell, the same liberal patronage which 11
received in the past, 1
X am, respeotfnlly,
8. M. COHEN.
In assuming charge of the Hide end I
Commission business of 8,M. Cohen 4 I
Co., I wish to state that the dealings hid I
with my retiring partner have been at oil I
times pleasant and satisfactory in every |
respect, and I oheerfully bespeak of my
friends for Mr. Cohen their liberal pat-
ro “*R«his Bargain Store business,
satisfied that yon will be traeted honestly
and fairly by trading with him.
Respectfully, ], A. BELL.
Special Mice.
Everyone who are indebted
to the firm of Oliver & Oliver I
are requested to come forward j
and settle, otherwise their ac
count will be placed in the [
hands of an attorney with in
structions to sue. We will also I
state that all work done by us
in the future will be for the
cash. We will not deliver any [
work until it is paid for.
Oliver & Oliver.
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