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V \ :C\ a • ~~ ■V l >. 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 WE AUE OFFERING AN ELEGANT A FINE ASSORTMENT op PRANG AND RAPHAEL TICK .< mitf] CONTAINING ONE 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. I ho [and ■era, Call on A. C. BELL and T. J. BBAN- NAN and aec diagram of. this vainable property. march3ml