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c ounty Court.
ri [ teiiu. Wednesday Judge
5„ r y opened court and took
t sixteen judgments, court
vening only short time.tfter
|icb it was adjourned to Friday.
j-lic Hook and Ladder Boy*.
(occasionally on moonlight nights
Anderson has the Hook and
i d ,ler company out for drill, and
Ut good work they do, too. It
Uld be a good idea for the depart-
to get them to give an exlil-
i drill on tournament day.
Off for Webster.
yesterday morning Judge Fort,
I,. Hawkins, Simmons, Gncrry,
U otner members ot the bar, and
Editor Glessner left lor Webster
tuit. ft is expected that court
(ill last about u week, as there is
lt e a f«U docket. By next court
j lawyers, editors and clients can
, out on the railroad.
The First Installment.
’yesterday a car load of ties tor
, f y p. ,t L. road was received
f the depot from Smithville. It
las the first installment ot several
J ra in loads which will be shipped
]rom that place. This shows that
s officers of the new road are not
die, but are actively at work.
Painful Accident.
/eke Taylor received a painful
Lund at the skating rink Wednes
day night. He was going around
t a rapid rate and threw his right
-m around to keep from falling
(nil struck a piece ol broken glass
which cut a gash an inch and a half
length across his wrist The
wound was not deep enough to in
jure the arteries, but bled profusely,
kind the ragged cut will probably
iieal very slowly.
Cutting Affray.
Monday afternoon John Coley
Lnd John Beckham, both colored,
got into an altercation about some
trivial afiair. Coley seized a steak-
J eater and chased Beckham around
Rbe yard in the rear of Hart’s beef
Imarket. At last Beckham leaped
over the fence followed by Coley,
Iwhcn a lively fight ensued, Coley
■receiving several severe stabs on
Ithearm and body, and Beckham an
lugly gash across the forehead.
Sudden Death.
Mrs. Sarah Jenkins, a former
resident of this city, but whose
home of late was in the eastern
part of the county, died very sud
denly Monday morning. She bad
vaten a hearty breakfast, and walk
ed into her room, where she was
found shortly afterwards speech
less, and died in a short time. Mrs.
Jenkins has been a widow for some
years, ann was highly esteemed in
the community in which she re
sided.
Quarterly Parade.
Monday evening the fire do
partment was out for quarterly pa
rade and inspection. Alter the in
spection all the companies turned in
and had a good practice. The Hook
and Ladder company made several
good runs, mounting a man on a
ladder to the side of a building.
^ igilance company fried their
old test and made it in 25 seconds,
running about 75 yards. Mechsnics
and Wide-Awakes practiced an
konr or so, and did very well. Tho
department is in line condition.
Medical Meeting.
The Southwest Georgia Medical
Society met in this city yesterday,
•‘apers were read by Drs. Engrain,
Wadsworth and Reid, and a very
interesting time was had. It being
tin >e for tbo election of officers,
Ilr J- M. R. Westbrook was re
jected President; Dr. J. A. Wads-
'rorth. of Oglethorpe, first Vice-
•Vsidont; Dr. J. A. Fort, of
^mericus, second Vice-President.
The next meeting of the Associs-
~ tm Mill be held at Montezuma on
lht 20th of May.
Fine Cows.
Wednesday evoning a reporter
accepted an invitatiou from Capt.
C. W. Felder to visit his city farm,
and look at his Jersey cows. By
pastures green, and beautiful resi
dences we Jogged along until we
reached Capt. Felder’s handsome
surburban home. But the cows
were the most interesting objects.
He bought a Jersey calf five years
ago, and has now two fine cows, a
year old heifer and two calves, and
has sold a bull that is now two
years old. The old cow is a beauty-,
showing the true Jersey blood in
every vein and muscle. She yields
four nations per day of milk that
is nearly one-third cream. Her first
calf, now a three year old. is the
handsomest cow we ever saw. As
graceful as a (awn, doci’e at can be.
and yielding five gallons per day.
The third calf is eleven months old
and will bring a calf in September.
Tho Captain’s Drag calf, however,
is the daisy of the flock. She is
only five months old and has a9
fine an udder a9 many scrub cattle
have after they are full crown.
“Docs it not cost you a great deal
to feed them ?” we asked. “Come
and sec my rye patch,” he replied.
In his garden he lias hardly an
eighth of an acre of ryf, planted in
rows and cultivated. The patch i9
divided into three parts and be
cuts them in rotation. A larger
patch has now grown enough to
atfoid pasturage, but for some time
past that little cultivated spot has
fed the five cattle, with a little dry
food coating about two dollars per
week.
Next we wore shown a drove of
pigs that are f>-d on the surplus
milk ulone, and they arc fat enough
for pork.
Then we examined a ample of
the butter, and can only say that
it is perfect In flavor and color,
butter from native cows looking
like tallow in comparison.
We returned uonvinced that a
farmer can make no better invest
ment than to buy a Jersey calf.
Not taking into consideration the
profit in the milk and butter, the
increase in one cow will, alone, give
a return of fifty per cent, a year oh
the original investment.
GRAND OPENING.
HE1V STORK AND NEW GOODS.
Thornton Wheatley desires to inform
the ladies that his new store is now open
and ready for business. He has now tho
handsomest and best arranged store in
the city, while the goods are the latest,
and choicest as well as tbo cheapest that
can bo found in this market. We are
now offering attractions in all depart-
moot*, but would mention especially at
this time, the largest and prettiest lot of
Hambnrg Edgings from the grist govern
ment sale for under Tuliiation. My buyer
was there, and the goods are here. Do
net tail to examine them.
The Clothing and Shoe Departments
are now full, and will be fonnd in the
corner store. Ladies' Department in the
new store. A call is solicited.
mar25tf Thornton Wheatlet.
Catching a Forger.
Kufaula Times.
Joe Murphy, a white man from
Americus, Ga., wbo is charged with
swindling a bank in that city out of
$50 or $75, was arrested on last
Wednesday in Dale county, near
Newton, by a Mr. Fcagln who went
there for that purpose. The officer
and prisoner passed through here
yesterday for Americus. Murphy
bud married in Dale since leaving
Americus, and Feagiu finding that
Murphy had numerous relatives in
the neighborhood had to resort to
a trick to get up with him. He re
sistod arrest, and it seems that Mr.
Hart Collins, of this city, assisted
in hand-culling Murphy, and got
bit like blazes on the arm by the
prisoner while so doing.
The Champion Potato Patch.
In the rear of Phillips Js Mters’
bakery stood an empty barrel, and
a few weeks since some apparently
rotten Irish potatoes were thrown
into it. There wasn’t a bit of soil
in the barrel, but nevertheless the
’inters knew their business, and
Saturday morning when the old
barrel was wanted it was found
that the potatoes had been fulfill
ing the Scriptural injunction to
multiply and replenish the earth.
Sprouts, one of which measured
four and a half feet in lenth, bad
coiled round and round in the bar
rel and young potatoes the size of
bird eggs were hanging along on
the sprouts.
Reminders of the Past.
Dick Miersand Jim Phillips have
been thrown into close companion,
ship nearly all their lives. Their
paths of life run as nearly parallel
as the ruts made by a farmer’s road
cart.
Thursday morning when Miers
came down to the store be found
Phillips and a reporter in conver
sation. “Here," said be, “is some
thing that will remind you of old
times.” Untying a bundle, he ex
posed an old sheet iron can, hold-
ing about half a pint. “This is my
old soup cup. Filled within an
inch of the top with water, in
which unwashed salt pork had been
boiled, and an Irish potato ibe size
of a marble dropped in, it made
a meal for me when a prisoner at
Ft. Delaware. When we were for
tunate enough to have the small-
pox we had carrots added to the
bill of fare.” Emptying the cup he
disclosed a full set of chess men,
whittled out of a white pine board.
“These furnished us witli amuse-
ment for many a weary day, eh,
Dick?” said Phillips. “I should
say so, and here ia my spoon, carved
out of the same plank. Oh! me,
that soup was mighty good, any
way.” •
Vox Populi.
Mr. Editor:—I have seen Miss
Hurst’s exhibitions several times
and always watched them very
closely and with great interest.
Tbe explanations afforded in yours
of tbo 1st are| not satisfactory to
my mind and 1 would like very
much to see the “explainers” verify
their theories by practical tests.
Let them give the exhibition at the
opera house as suggested.
A Believer in Miss Lulu Hurst.
Mr. Editor:—It is singular how
some people hate to admit that they
have been humbugged. They bad
rather go on in their blind super
stition than to have some one open
.heir eyes to the tacts. It has been
a prominent trait in hnman nature
ever since tbe world began, and it
is not to be wondered at that those
wbo have been humbugged by Luln
Hurst should protest against the
exposure of her tricks. Had such
poopie had tbelr way, the world
would still have been supported ou
the back of a tortoise.
Progress
Mr. Editor : I see in your paper
to-day that a young lady in Daw.
son declined to accept an invitation
from a young man to go to tho
theatre, giving as a reason that she
preferred to attend church* The
fact also appears that she received
an invitation at the same time irom
another young man to go to church.
Rationally considered, does it not
appear possible that the young
lady’s part in this play was clearly
rendered? It it did not show dra
matic art, it certainly revealed
the hand ot feminine diplomacy.
Why, she made the would be
theatrical escort feel good by the
very terms of her refusal, and at
the same time did not let the church
going young man know she pre.
(erred to be with him. We will
always have our opinion of what
tbe result would have been, had
she received but one note, and that
to have gone to the theatre.
X. X. X.
Americus, Ga., April 2,1885.
' Mr. Wm. Riley has struck the
key note of justice to tbe com
munity, and if Lulu Hurst ia
fraud, as said by those who have
tested her powers repeatedly, she
ought to be exposed; and if she is
not a fraud, then in justice to her,
it ought to bo proven before con-
detuned. Therefore,let the would-
be Lulu Hursts come forward and
give a public exhibition of their
powers at the Opera House, the
time to be designated by them. It
would be interesting to the com
munity and no doubt remunerative
to them.
One Who Was Present.
New Books.
The following is a list of new
books lately received at the Library:
Life ot Nathaniel Hawthorne, Life
of Peter tbe Great, Fifty Years of
Border Life, Portraits of Places, a
Little Tour in France, In War
-Time, Where tbe Battle was Fought,
by Charles Egbert Craddook, A
Penniless Girl, Studies in History,
Sidney Lanier's Poems, George
Elliot’s Life, Money Makers, In
Dursnce Vile, Doris, Judith Slisks-
peare, Men of Inventions and In
dustry, Dr. Sevier, R. W. Emerson,
A Young Girl’s Wooing, Nature’s
Serial Story, Romons, My Lady
Pocahontas, tbe Amazon, an Ameri
can Politician, Madam, Never Too
Late to Mend, Life of Chinese Gor
don, Story of a Country Town,
Catharine, Kenilworth, Roselyn’s
Fortune. Lamp lighter, The Lost
City, Called Back, Dark Days, Ad
ventures of a Widow.
Before the Commission.
Hitt & Co., ot Americus, have
Died with the railroad commission
a claim against the Central railroad
company fo- money collected, ac
cording to tbe allegations, contra
ry to law. They claim that the
Central collected fifteen cents a
bale for tbe transfer of five thou
sand bales of cotton at Savannah.
Tbe alleged overcharge is thus
about eight hundred dollars. Hitt
& Co., claim that the Central does
not make a transfer charge on
cotton coming from other branches
of tbe road. All parties concerned
have been cited to appear before
the commission on tho 28th At
lanta Constitution.
A Daisy Bull.
Capt. A. C. Bell has a yearling
bull from a Guinea cow and Jersey
bull which is as perfect a little ani
mal aa we have ever seen. He is
about three feet high, perfectly
formed, and shows distinctively
both the Jersey and tbe Guinea.
We should think that such a cross
would mske a good breed, for tbe
Guineas are famous for quantity
and the Jerseys for tbe quality of
mUlt,
You may tear the man from hie piece in
the moon,
Or rip the etere from the esnre eky:
Pluck plnmee from the bnzzerd, or fnr
from the ooon,
Bat yon can't tear me from the troth 1
ory!
That John It. Shaw, the Dry Goods Man,
leads the trade,
And eettles tbe question where to bny.
One Who Knows.
Five letters from parties in tbe
North were received by tbe editor
of tbe Recorder yesterday, and
they continue to come by every
mail. If tbe writers are to be be
lieved^ large number of Northern
people will visit Sumter county be
fore tbe year is out.
It is seldom that tbe first crop of
figs in this locality matures, as tbe
frost generally kills them. Bat
this season tbe prospect is fine that
tbe crop will be saved, and the
yield earlier and greater than in
many previous years.
Cepb. Buchanan has been looking
after the pavement in front of his
building on Cotton Avenue. There
are several places in the city where
there is room for improvement in
that line.
GORTIGELLI
IN SKEINS !
ALL COLORS!
JUST RECEIVED
TO - DAY
FANCY and STAPLE GROCERS
JACKSON STREET,
Another lot of
BOSS LUNCH MILK BISCUITS,
FINE FRENCH CANDIES,
ORANGES, APPLES. BANANAS,
FIGS. DATES, PRUNES,
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR,
FULTON MARKET BEEF,
PIGS FEET, — _
DEEP SEA MACKERELS
.AND’CODFISH.
**'■ -4.'^
Alto an excellent aseortment of ~~
Canned Fish for the Lenten Season.
We cell your epeeiel attention to our
MOMAJA COFFEE!
a rich and comet blend of high grade,
whole routed Coffee, in bulk, we do so in
the fullest confidents that it will be
fonnd, upon trial, THE FINEST yon
ever need. We solicit a trial order.
Try onr Teas and Spices!
Strictly Pore end Fresh Ground,
Oar CANNED GOODS are all of the best
quality, not half jnioe and water,
bat solid, whole peeked, both
Fruits and Vegetable!.
Competise hoauoomay lometlnwa, form oh.
ieet, cut under oar price* hut In the loa* run we
nave head that when oar eaatemcn hoothl at
laae thaa oar Srarei they loand a difference la
quantity or quality, which wpUlnot the dlfcr-
tocc in price. Our motto it: ‘•Zowcal print .mo
tittnl with pood fuottfp and teant qaeawp.'*
The Quality of tbe Silk is
MUCH BETTER
than that commonly sold in Skeins
or on Cards. The
COLORS ARE ALSO BETTER.
CORTICELLI
Just Received.
A FINE ASSORTMENT OF
PRANG AND RAPHAEL TUCK’S
Base Ball Goods,
CROQUET. TOPS,
HAMMOCKS, ETC., ETC.
Lovell,* Seaside and Franklin Spa
LATEST STYLES IK
Statiomv, Seals, Etc.
Subscriptions Received for mU
Periodicals.
AGNES AYCOCK,
.^MHucue-OA.
SM,
ALL COLORS.
Ladies, Try It.
THE BEST SEWING SILK
MADE!
THE SEASON OPENED
Base Balls and Bats
JUST RECEIVED AT
MRS. FRED LEWIS’.
I HAVE ALSO RECEIVED A LARGE
INVOICE OF
Easter Cards!
THE FINEST IN THE CITY.
THE FRANKLIN SQUARE LIBRA
RY IS NOW OPENED, AND
SUBSCRIBERS CAN MAKE
THEIR SELECTIONS.
I. H. WIGGINS & CO.
WC KEEP A FULL LINE.OP
GROCERIES OF ILL RUBS,
FANCY AND.8TAPLK.J
Fine Whisky and Wines’a Specialty.
We alio haveja BAR eonneeted with
our bnaineaa where genta will
And the very but Whis
ky, Bur, etc.
Wa now have on band (a foil linn ot
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes,
•HATS, ETC.
Give ns a call and we will inrprireyoa
in prioee. Yonrs respectfully,
mehllmt L a WIGGINS A 00.
J0I111R. Shaw’s,
FORSYTH STREET,
AMERICUS. . GEORGIA
H. T. FRETWELL, ED. SMITH.
Fretwell & Smith,
Uanufkcturer* mad Repairers ol
Buggies and Wagons
FROM CHEAPEST TO.T3EST,
W. era making a ipaelalty of oat bona t
at *39 00. Parties wanting one would do W»H
to coll and exaratpe.
REPAIRING OF ALL KIND A SPECI
ALTY. ALL WORK WAIi-
: RANTED.
BACK OF WATTS’STORE.
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