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Americus Recorder.
W. Is, UhBHANKIl. Hftttor.
Official Own or Sumter County,
official Own of Wabattr County.
MARCH *7. ISS*.
FRIDAY.
A civil engineer predicts that tli
Washington momimcnt will soon
fall down from its own weight.
Georgia farmers have shown
what they could do in raising corn
on a small scale—now let them show
what they can do on a large scale,
the larger the better.
Ben Hill lias been nominated for
Attorney of the United States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
It is a nomination that will give
general satisfaction.
The Atlanta Constitution advo
cates the cultivation of the sting
less honey bee. But would not
this rob us of that poetical senti
ment that “there is no sweet with
out its biter?”
Only 1,011 life insurance policies
are hold in Georgia. They call for
$G,872,2G3 when turned into cash
by the death of holders, or the ex
pirations of their terms. North
Carolina holds twice ns many poli'
Senator Colquitt is evidently a
bigger man than Joe Brown with
the administration, as he secured
the appointment of Ben Hill ns at
torney for the northern district,
while Brown recommended a man
named Simmons.
Wc grumble in this state over
the slow coming of Spring, and it
would he an excellent discipline,
perhaps, if we were carried to the
Hunson river, where the ice is re
ported to be as firm and thick as at
any time this winter.
It looks nSw as if the Illinois
legislature would fail to elect an
United States Senator to succeed
Logan, and the vacancy will have
to be filled by an appointment by
the Governoi. We shall look for
this appointment with peculiar in
terest, as it will show which is the
strongest with Governor Oglesby
—party pressure or personal resent
ment, and thereby hangs a tale. In
1877 Senator Logan’s time expired
and he was defeated for re election
by Judge Davis, after a long and
stubborn contest. In 1879 Sena
tor Oglesby’s time expired and he
was a candidate for re-election.
The legislature was strongly repub
lican, and by the right of party
precedent Oglosby was entitled to
re-election; but Logan, by sharp
and questionable tactics, defeated
him in the caucus and was elected.
The promise was then given Ogles
by that he should be elected to fill
Davis’ place; but when the time
came Governor Cullora formed
combination with Logan and Lieu
tenant Governor Hamilton and was
elected Senator, thus chratin
“Uncle Dick” a second time. He
now will have an opportunity to
revenge himself upon Logan for
his treachery by appointing some
one else to fill the Senatorial va
cancy; but it may be that party
pressure and promises will over
come Governor Oglesby’s personal
feelings and he be induced to ap
point Logan. We shall see.
The Chicago Tribune professes
to have discovered apian by which
the Democrats in the Illinois legis
lature expect to elect their candi
date for United States Senator.
The Washington correspondent 1
of the New York World says:!
“President Cleveland is very much
pleased with Mr. Lamar. There is |
no member of the Cabinet who has I
The plan is as follows: On the first ! more of hi* confidence and esteem,
day when nearly a full Democratic j The Mississippi secretary has ex
vote is present, and some Its I hibited extraordinary energy and
publicans absent, Haines, as speak- i force ever since be has gone into
cr, is to direct bis large force of! the Interior Department. In the
sergeants at arms to close the doors . three or four years that lie has
of the bouse. Then the roll call I been quiet in the Senate he has re-
for Senator will proceed. The He- | gained his health and has appar-
publicans in attendance will refrain ; ently accumulated a vast store of
from voting, believing their failure j reserve energy. He is a much
to vote will make them, under par j more valuable man in the Interior
liamentary rules,absentees. Haines, j Department from the fact that be
however, will direct the count to j is not willing to burden himself
be made and verified of those actu- with details. The secretary, who
ally present in the flesh at the joint I in this department buries bis nose
session. He will then order the roll
called again. Perhaps ninety-odd
Democrats will vote for Morrison,
too deeply in the papers before him,
his no lime for a general survey of
his department. In his private re-
and eighty or less Republicans j lations Mr. Lamar is confiding and
Atlanta was the scene of a most
destructive fire on Wednesday
morning. The James block was
entirely destroyed and one man
burned to death, while several per
sons were severely injured. The
loss is about $30,000.
Petitions do not seem to be good
paper under the new administra
tion, as thus far the men who have
been appointed have not been so
solicitous ns to bore their friends
and the public generally for signa
tures to their recommendation.
We have received from the au
tbor an address delivered before
the Georgia Bar Association at its
last annual meeting in Atlanta, by
Chas. C. Jones, Jr., in which ho
takes the ground that the Judge
of the Supreme nnd Superior
Courts should be paid larger sala
ries. He makes a good argument
and we are inclined to agree with
biro, (or it is a noteworthy fact
that our best lawyers cannot afford
to take a place on the bench, on
account of the smallness of the
salary. There arc only three States
which pay as small salaries to their
judicial officers as Georgia. Wc
arc not an advocate of high sala
ries, but wo believe in paying
enough to secure the services of
the best men for the position.
Some of tbc Republican office
holders in Washington have such
n tight grip oil their offices that it
becomes necessary to choke them
off. They seem to have been imbued
with the popular Republican idea
that the offices belong to them.
And now the Right Reverend
Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chica
go, declares the end of the world to
lie near. Well, considering the
manner in winch the Democratic
administration ba9 gone to work, it
does look ns though the millcnium
was at band.
The last number ol the Montezu
ma Record comes out in a band-
some new dress, making it one of
the neatest weeklies on our ex.
change list, a9 it is one of the best.
The Record is a home paper, full
of home news, with always a good
word lor home.
It is said that the Athens factory,
under the management of R. L.
Broomfield as President, has been
one of tlie best paying manufac
turing establishments in the South.
This corporation has declared divi
dends since it started tip, averaging
12A per cent. Tho operatives arc
well paid, are furnished comforta
ble houses to live in free of rent
aad at tho store connected with the
factory they arc charged not ex
cccding 10 per cent on dry goods
and shoes and supplies at a less
rate. It is believed that this cn-
tei prise, which has done Athens
so much good, has cleared one
quarter of a million dollars since
the war.
Some of the United States Sen
ators are fixing up a job for a nice
summer excursion at public ex
pense. It is proposed to send a
committee up to Alaska to investi
gate the territorial government, it
would be well to put Sherman on
the committee and give him a
chance to cool off.
Under the very appropriate head
ing of “The Wages of Sin” it is an
nounced the seoretary ot the t -us
ury has issued a warrant lor
$3,950.73 in favor of ex-President
R. B. Hayes, being the sum appro
priated by congress to reimburse
him for payments made on account
of the expenses of the commission
appointed to go to Louisiana.
In Clearfield county, Pennsyl
vania, the people are very much
exercised, because they say stories
are being printed in the Southern
newspapers that a reign of terror is
prevailing in tho coal fields of the
Clearfield section, when nothing of
the sort exists. The Philadelphia
TimcB thinks it as much a marvel
bow these stories get into the pa
pers as it was how some of those
stories of Southern outrages used
to get printed.
actually present will not vo*e.
Haines will then say : “The count
of the legislature in joint session
shows there are present, say, one
iiundred and sixty members, or
one hundred and four, being more
than the quorum required by the
United States statute, and of that
number a majority having voted for
William R. Morrison, I declare him
duly elected,” etc. We hope the
Democrats will succeed in their
plan.
Mr. R. H. Davis, of Philadelphia,
who accompanied Col. McClure, of
the Philadelphia Times, in his late
Southern tour, delivered an address
before the Lehigh University in
Pennsylvania, a few days since, in
which be dwelt at length and with
great force upon the enterprise and
energy of the new South and the
brilliant future beforo her. The
speaker could not understand what
had kept Northern capital so long
out of the South. He did not be
lieve it was prejudice; it was more
likely ignorance of the South’s re
sources, ami any fear from a politi
cal point of view was uncalled lor.
You can,” said he, “travel
throughout the South to-day and
not hear one word of politics, ex
cept as politics bear on the im
provement of Southern industries.
The sooner the Northern capitalist
understands that he can do more
with his money by investing it in
the South than in letting it lie idle
banks or losing it on Wall
street, the better for him and the
bettor for tho South. And not only
the capitalist, but the emigrant, the
farmer, the miner nnd engineer.”
trusting. In his public relations he
is exactly the reverse. As a phi
losopher and a student he has ac
quired a most profound knowledge
of human character in the common
motives which impel human action.
He has a great gilt for reading the
minds of the people who come
about him. Underneath a manner
of apparent trankness lie maintains
a most diplomatic reserve. He is
the most diplomatic member of the
cabinet. The President said the
oilier night that Mr. Lamar was
one of the most active members of
his cabinet a id appeared to be ca
pable of doing more work than any
one of his associates. The oppo
nents of Mr. Lamar said that he
was indolent and that he would not
long carry the burden of the labor
ol the Interior Department. Every
criticism ot this kind bus been com-
plf-relv disproved. Mr. Lamar not
only attends to the work of each
day, but lie finds time also to dis
cus* broad, general questions with
rli** President. He is at the White
House nearly every evening. The
friends of the President may be
sure that he will make no mistake
it lie follows Mr. Lamar's advice.”
To
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It has been developed in connec
tion with President Cleveland’s
48th birthday, which he celebrated
on Wednesday, that five Presidents
were past GO when first inaugurated.
They were John Adams, Jackson,
Harrison, Taylor and Buchanan
Twelve of the twenty-two Presi
dents were in tho “fifties” when in
augurated. Up to 1845 there had
never been a President below 50
years of age. Since then there
have been five, Polk, Pierce, Grant,
Garfield and Cleveland.
We may expect the Arabs to be
cleaned out now that the English
troops arc to be supplied with
American beef. Armour A Co., of
Chicago, have lately received an
order from the English war de-
j partment for five million cans of
l»«l for the army in Egypt, which
will take 70,000 cattle to fill.
To day is “GeorgiaDay"in New
Orleans. We wish Georgia had
something else there besides the
day. We should think the ofilcials
of this State would be ashamed to
show themselves in New Orleans
during the Exposition.
The Emperor of Germany recent
ly celebrated his oighty-eiglith
birthday. It is needless to say
that he presides over a nation
where office-seeking is not a pro
fession practiced by a large pro
portion of the people.
The Louisville Courier Journal
is not pleased with the refusal of
President Cleveland to appoint
Phil Thompson ns commissioner of
internal revenue. We did not sup
pose it would be, but it suits tbc
people well, who see in It a deter
mination to make tbc whiskey men
pay their taxes like other people.
The people of Albany seem to
appreciate the value of advertis
ing. Last Tuesday a number of
Georgia editors, on their way to
the annual meeting of the Press
Association, had to stop over sev
eral hours in Albany, when the
City Council promptly appropri
ated $150 for the purpose of dining
and wining tbc editors, driving
them around town, and giving them
generally a good impression ot the
enterprising little city.
The grave and reverend scignors
who composo the Senate of the
United States arc very much wor
ried because the secrets of their
executive sessions are made imme
diately public by the newspapers.
The newspapers are to blame only
for giving undue prominence to
I the proceedings to these old mum
mers, thus preventing them from
sinking into the obscurity which
they deserve.
The negroes of Lynchburg, Va.,
have been wrought into a state of
great fear by the report ol a news
boy of that city to the effect that
he had seen a monster—half man
and half dog—running about tbc
city at night trying to eat small
boys. They cannot be convinced I to be a°working adminUtratio'n'
that the boy is not telling the truth.
In its regretful mention of Gen.
Grant’s fatal illness the New Or
leans Times-Democrat says that
though a fierce adversary, he was
a manly and. kindly victor. It
adds: “Twice an hundred thousand
Southern veterans will be grieved
on the day the news will come that
the twice kcio of Appomattox has
banded bis trusty sabre to the uni
vcrsal victor.”
This cold weather will soon oblit
erate all distinctions and sectional
lines between North and South,
and we will soon become one com
mon arctic country.
PIPE,
Two Cigar Holders,
One Cigarette Holder,
One Cigar Cutter, and
One Match Box,
Base Ball Goods,
CROQUET TOPS,
HAMMOCKS, ETC., ET(
I. A TEST STYLES IS
Stmerv, Seals, Etc,
DAILY-WEEKLY PAPERS FOR SALE,
TO THE SMOKER WHO PURCHAS
ES THE LARGEST NUM
BER OF OUR
Subscriptions Received for all
Periodicals.
TIIURBER
No. 5
f TW7
CIGAR!
They hnve been having snow
storms in North Georgia. We
knew it could not be far off, from
the kind of weather we have been
having.
Thee* are a great many people
these days who would think more
of the new administration if there
was a livelier distribution of offices.
ALL RIGHT
COOK STOVES
BEFORE MAY 8. 1885.
AGNES AYC0CK.
AMERICUS. GA.
To the Front Again:
J. ISRAELS,
— VEALEIt IX-
IMPORTED and DOMESTIC
LIQUORS!
DEERS, AI.BS,
l'OISTEII, HIVE,
CIGARS, TORACCO,
ETC., ETC.
FRESH BEER ON DRAUGHT
ALWAYS AND
ONLY 5 CENTS PER GLASS.
n
WILL SOON START THE ICE BUSI
NESS AND WILL ALWAYS KEEP
A FULL SUPPLY OF ICE.
AND ALSO KEEP
THAT I AM OFFEBINO CHEAP.
I HAVE AGAIN STARTED
psseis gustos
Every Day from 10:30a in to 12 in.
nl
Tl
Thanking the public for their patron*
ngv kindly extended to mo for the p.ut
and respectively solicit a continuance o(
the eanje.
-T. ISRAELS,
Cotton Avenue, Americus, Go.
THE PIPE AND HOLDERS ARE
GUAHANTEEN GENUINE MER-
SCHAUM ARTICLE.
ALWAYS SATISFACTORY
EIGHTEEN SIZES AND KINDS
Young Democracy seems to have
taken control of the national ad
ministration. To start with, Presi
dent Cleveland is one of the young
est of the Presidents, and be is
surrounding himself with compara
tively young men. With youth
and vigor at the helm, this ought
as some ot them imagine that they
too havo seen or heard the creature.
In the meantime poultry owners
sleep soundly.
N. J. Taylor, ot Lynchburg,
Tenn., is the first postmaster ap
pointed under the new administra
tion.
ALL PURCHASERS CAR BE SUITED
MANUFACTURED BY
Isaac ISteppard & Co.,Baltimore, M4
AND FOB HALE OY
J. W. SHEFFIELD A CO., America*, Ga.
Anderson ville School
Opened Its Spring Term January
12th, 1885.
CURE MR SEE TBE CASE.
Tuition SIS.00. $20,00 nnd $25,00 per
annum—less public fund about $3.00 per
pupil. Rourd nnd tuition ten dollars per
(four weeks) month, paid monthly in ad
vance. Music $3.00 per month. For
farther information apply to
A. J. CLARK, Principal,
AndersonVille, Ga.
declT-waeodtf
SGlmmprl & Roney,
SPOT CASH STORE.
FOB SALS I
Twenty-Four Beautiful
Building Lots
Within the corporate limits, situated on
the South side of the handsome residence
of A. W. Smith, and nearly opposite the
. BarKT'
elegant home of Mrs. F. E.' Burke. These
lot* hare street running East and West
and one North and Sonin, also Lee street
on the East, which is tho most fashion-
able and desirable in the city and is coo*
sidered the
tin
Boulevard of Americus!
These lots are convenient to churches
and school*, and within ten minutes walk
to the court home. The natural growth
of oak and hickory is ahnndant and thf
soil level and fertile.
TERMS—Half cash and half on twelve
months time with eight percent, interest.
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[and
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Call on A. C. BELL and T. J. BBAN-
NAN and aec diagram of. this vainable
property.
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