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mebicus Recorder. OOIitlMN ’ A. M. 2 P. M. 9 P.M. 55° 040 68° 6(P 06° 080 05 a flip 60° 4,0 05® 590 Meteorological. p : ro,a ":: £ jliniB'"" 510 I Mean '' To.alr.in Ml 3-15 inch.. (April- k- f JnP» | l‘*y-- fr.ur.'lny ; '“fall iM« i^ be "- 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. sartr.ta! KltlTWm, • SMI] i