Americus weekly recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1891, September 25, 1885, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAmericus Recorder. Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1885. Daily, Pjer T*ar,...*«o* Wbrkly, “ ... I'M KEFRMTiTHE HM8. Brokers r B FELDER, V . Jbjebu4iil and Cotton Broker end Negotiator «f Loo* Lou*. Ofln it Planter*’ Warehouse. Photograph Artist. VAX RIPER, “ Photograph Artist, Over Wheatley’* store. D C. N. BCHKHALTER. • Beal Estate and Loan Broker. Office near Connell 4 Williford. T OMMEY 4 CRtWFORD. Trtveling Broken and Commission Merchant*, America*. Gt Office on Col. ton Arenne, at O. A. Tnrolt.’a alor* Meat Markets. fjOBBA PARKER, (j Cotton Artnue Meat Market ud Fam- ilrGmceriet- Opposite Bio* of America*. Tames harp, .1 Meat Market, HarteoM stand. For- «ih Street. North aide I’ublio Square Full asppfr of fr< *h on kead. Wesow »■■* every day. Shoe Stores. dylandeb a arreigton. It Cash Shoe and H<t Store. Comer Lamar and Jaekaoo Street*. Physicians. r B. HGtKLE, w • Physician and Scnjt-on. Office on Jaekson St. Residence on Tkylor St. r\R. J. A. FORT, JJ pbytician and Surgeon. Office at Bdridge’s drag store. Residence Weal Umar Street rTA. BROOKS, V. Phyaician and 8urgeon. Offiea at Darenporte’ dmg store. Residence at 8. H. Hawkins. Lee Street. rn E. SMITH. , 1* Reform Physician. Office up etair* in Engine House block. Groceries. T B. BOSWORTH. h. Wh leaale end Retail Grocer. r.irtyth SL. 2d door east of post office. riTOOTEN 4 FORD. ” Grocer*. General Merchandise and Planters Supplies. Between Plant-Fa Warehouse and Peopie’e National Bank. Hardware. T W. SHEFFIELD 4 CO. tr. Wholesale nd Retail Hardware. Bug- lies, Wagon*, Harness. Sash. Dnor.Blinds •ail Paints, Car. Forsyth and Jaekon Sts. T W. HARRIS 4 CO. Wholesale and Retail Har.iware.Bng- giM, Wagons, Harness, Sash, Doors, Hind* aad Paint*. Head Cotton Arena*. Saddlery and Harness. TOHNM. COKKR. V Dealer in Saddlery, Harness, Leath er »nd Finding, Hardware. Cutlery. Jew- e’rr, Sitter Plated Ware. Clears, Tobacco, wet a full line of Ylukee No-ionn. in and lo errire. Cotton Aretiue, Americas. G*. Dry Goods. CHEAPEST HOUSE IK THE CITY. v THORNTOX WHEATLEY, Drt Gtiod<, Clothing. Shoes, Efc * Etc. Public Square find Jnckfton Street. HAVIS & CALLAWAY. 7* Dry Good*. Cloth mu. Shoe*, H*t«. and Sewing Machines. Cor. Lunar nod Jack- •on Streets. If B. FOSTER, Tbe Invincible, Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes Foster’s Corner. Attorneys at Law. P'O. N. SCARBOROUGH, Attorney at Law and Beal Estate Agi. Office over Georgia Warehouse. L J BLALOCK, ^ Attorney at Law, Office in Court house. J c • Matthews. * Attorney St Law and Loan Agent. Office over Council 4 Williford. ’ J W. BRADY, Attorney at Law, Offiea in Bartow Block. B H WILKINSON, * . Attorney at Law. P&ctice in Sute Courts. Collections made and prompt returns. USce over People * National Bank. Watches and Jewelry. i J E SULLIVAN, W’atchmaket *ad Jeweler, Dentist. W' P. BURT, fifteen yean raeoeeSal practice in ***ncus gives assurance that be is both l^petent and reliable. General Merchandise. -j JKORGE STAPLETON, J General Merchandise. Furniture a SS^iy- Forsyth St. Front podt office. JfSSE AYCOCK, fir...* j?* 0 ***! Merchandise^ . ^JthSt. Under center of opera boua*. / .H-WIGGINB, ' Goods. Groceries. Lkonon. Qm* ^ ilcrchsndUe. Plantation Supplies. St. North of Public Square. A W HAWKINS 4 BRO. if have Chickens aad Eggs ikind to seU, and anything fa the !°! er J bn*. Chit aad see os. Cotton ^t»e. near th* depot. 0 Gin Bepairing.- XT WHOWARD. ’ Gin Repairer. -on* repaired and pat in first-clau order. Work guaranteed, Aildreea me bypoaUL Hides and Commission. C A. BELL. • *2°* - iT ' nu *' Pay beet pnee* for Hidaa. Palis, Colton Seed, Beeawax. Dried Frail*, and dank of all Boot and Shoe Maker. A ndrew Dudley. Boot and Shoe Maker. Repairing don* in beat *tyle and on abort notice. 8 Jackson St. front Presbyterian rhnrcb fee and Pith. \ C.LAING, “• fee Honae and Fresh Fish. Comer Cotton Arenas and Prica Allay. Livery Stable*. ■V-- G. 4 J. K. PRINCE. • Lirerr. Peed and Excla 5 Stables. ansa Dealer* in Bossies. Harness, Whips, Etc. West sine of Cotton Amnne Drug* and Medicinea. JOHN E. HALL. U Pure Drags, Medicines, Perfumery, Toilet and Fancy Articles, etc. Wooden Store, Forsyth St. A. J. HUDSON. Drags. Medicines, Perfumery and Toilet Article*, cheap *a the cheapest. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Southeast comer of Public Square. Blacksmith Shop. E D. SMITH. Blacksmith and Wnodwark. First-class work gnaranteed. Forsyth St. East of Watts' comer. G 1 RINTON 4 ELDKIDUE. r Blackamithing and Woodworking. Horseshoeing and General Repairing a Book Store*. A ONES AYCOCK, Books, Newspapers, Music and Sta rr. Commercial Block, Forsyth Si. door to Poat office. CALVIN CARTER &SON, POWDER Absolutely Pure. T is pewOrr never earlea A marvel efpurltr •trenftii aa-i .kill MMiaias Km raemW Una tk* ordinary kinds aad caaaot be asM la eaaiietwa ell* Uie netUlad* e( law test, abort EE^ra^.ysT^Da'^.s WmO : ifTrt. * (uticuia A POSITIVE COAE FOR EVERT FORK OP S1000 ARO SRM DISEASE FROM PIMPLES TO SCROFULA. -DEALERS IX- BOO^, SHOES. HATS. ECZEMA CUBED. csir zzrzrUszrl*: s&rr: g^8llwSp*i *"* J» £ «tk Sl^%w Tort SCABS AND SORES. concluded *• gtv ii»p« m wa* URinnia QI tkM PLES. BUckhcada, SkisTUawtohaa. A IT I m Ba’jt Humor*. tu* CcTtcniA Soap. ha iMin, ttiten in »• « fiL Jl /tWJ :hsi a»w, ordinal, tltfui1 ind *PMdy W^JasntiJols to pata andjeflaramaUon. tha CXTIKVTLA PtAMTO. Warranted Wlhs prr/octioo of »W»n* axteraa! madia*. nod aauly fipwtertoiiU othwr plMtKT*. Warehouses. )^ NCIL A WILLIFORD, trrhousaandCommissioa'Merehant* Sortheart corner PnbUo Square. I 2 0L E, McGARRAH * TONDEE, -‘SyoaWMMl Commission Merchants '*** Cotton Are. Heed of Forsyth St GOOD GOODS, LOW PRICES. Jackson Street, Americas, Ga. MptStf Again to the Front! IMPOSTED ABO DOMESTIC LIQUORS BEER, *T.g, WINE, 4c, The Best Imported and Domsetio iu the city, at Lowest Price*. Also, A good and wall salaried rtock of Always ill Leail! FALL AND WINTER, GYLES, CLOTHIER, HATTER riTUITB, Bto., always on hand. Give me a calL Yon can find me at the old stand on COTTON ATEMCE, Next Doorjto the Back of America*, •eyCStf *■ - . , - f * KSawgi. . AMERICUS, GA. Immense Stock of File and Medium Cloths, Cansimere Clothing and Bata for Men, Bays^Chlldren. Done at Reasonable Price*. Satisfaction Guaran teed. SAT.Ti! M AGNOLIA Springs and farm, of 330 acre, situated 11 miles west of Americas. 2} miles from the A.P. 4 L. B. B. ISO scree In cultivation, balance well timbered. 23 acre* bottom ditched and in cultivation. One 6-room dwelling and outhouse* sufficient for the farm. Both house, stable* and other houses at the Spring. Convenient to church mud hooL Will sell with the abore all stock, corn, fodder, cotton seed and everything on the farm, if desired. A bargain for a pur chaser. For particulars address. J. A. REID, Plains of Dora, Ga. The Le Crate Fear. HewChliaaa Hans Pewiqst. Moxticella, Fla, Sept. It— Ilaricg written yon about a year ago in reference to tbe Le Conte pear, giving some facts relating to this wonderful fruit,especially with reference to its qualities as a ship ping fruit. I desire more partten forty in this article to refer some what to lu superior quality in an mpented, dried, preserved and canned condition. As an evaporated fruit, 1 ’it has y«ry beautitnl white color, slightly granulated surface, very salable in appearance and number one in During the past season I ob served an article in one of our daily papers, staling that tbe whole crop of one of the largest growers in Georgia, amounting to several thousand pounds of evaporated fruit, had been purchased by a New York firm at tbe rate of fifty cents per pound. As tbe average product of one bnshel.of pears is eight pounds of evaporated fruit this would net about $4 per bushel. The Le Conte as an evsoorated fruit is certainly quoted much higher in the markets than any MW fruit. In a preserved condition we know of no other frail rivaling _ it is excellence, both in quality, rich ness and delioaoy of flavor as well as tbe comparatively small cost ot preservation. . Another very valuable discovery of late origin in connection with the Le Conte is its wine-making properties. An excellent wine cider is made from the jnice,.rival ing in excellence the brat qualities of ebsmpagne, and this can oedone with fruit which from any cause could not be nsed or pat upon the market in any other shape. i In the many ways I have men tioned this fruit can be utilized, sod there is ne good reason wby any, family with a dozen Le Conte pear trees crowing ontbeir premises may not have this delicions fruit upon the table in some shape at all seasons of tbe year. I adverted in my last letter to tbe large returns realized from tbe sale ol fruit, as well as tbe great increase in the value of land upon which a grove is set, but thinking perhaps tome of your readers may not have read my former article I will recapitulate in brief. In this section of Florida tbe Le Conte pear industry bas almost entirely superseded tbe orange culture, and the result is almost as surprising in the great advance in value of pear groves as is ex hibited in orange groves—for ex ample: A two acre pear grove, four-year-old trees, which cost jtt planting $125, sold tbe past winter ror $1,000 or $500 per acre. Tbe purchaser who will the coming sea son be able to gather a large crop of frnlt, bas bnt recently entered into a contract to sell the cuttings for $250, thus getting a return of twenty-five per cent of bis money on the first year, and before tbe trees are bearing. Another grove, one-half tbe trees three yean old and one-balf one year old, costing originally $250, sold recently ior $1,000, and tbe purchaser bas already realized a very handsome per cent on bis money from cuttings alone. Neither of tbe groves I have mentioned conld be purchased now for 50 per cent advance on tbe purchase money. These are some instances of tbe advance of value of groves, and wilt now give some examples of tbe profits arising from the rale of tbe fruit: A tree at ten years otd, then in its prime (there is a’ tree in this section known to have borne, at thirty years old, twenty-five bush els of pears), will bear twenty to thirty bushels to the tree; fifty trees to tbe acre at twenty bushels, 1,000 bushels—halve it and we have 500 bushels. Five hundred bushels at $3 to $4 per bushel, $1,500; halve it again and we bave $750 to the acre. This we can see why capitalists will pay $500 per acre for groves, or land to put out groves upon. Instances can be multiplied of the parties <n this section who bave realized just such profits as I have mentioned. Take an example in this county from two trees, seven or eight years old; this gentleman gathered thirty bushels of pears, selling them in Monticello at $2 per bushel, netting him $30 per | tree. An acre, forty-nine trees, at $30 per tree, would net him $1,470 to tbe acre. A grower in Thomasconnty,0a., reports a net income ot $500 per seventeen trees. Now, I have no grors to sell, neither have any trees to dispose of; so it cannot be said that I bave an ax to grind or have any reason to misrepresent this trait or to ex aggerate iu meriU; but I am a business msq, interested in tbe welfare and prosperity of oar coun try. The low price of cotton, coupled with a partial failure of tbe crop in some sections, has very naturally caused tbe former to de spair ef making anything, or sav ing even a living, out of a cotton crop; more especially when there is such a drain upon bis resources in the abape of corn and meat, bought in tbe North and West, carrying all tbe surplus money ont of the country, and leaving Ibe producer of cotton scarcely a living; or per haps, worse in debt than when he began his crop. We must pro duce something that will bring us ready money in tbe summer, and bring back some of tbe cash sent every year to the North and West for grain and. meat, and in my humble opinion tbe LeConte pear will undoubtedly aid iu the good work. In a climate like ours, the doctors tell us that we should eat more fruit and less meat, especially in the summer; and if every family in the South bad a few of these trees simply to produce good, healthful fruit for their nome con- pemption, it would not only save, is rhaps, many a doctor’s bill, bat sat in keeping some ot tbe money annually t -stout of tbe country at home. I learn from nurserymen here that tbe Sontitweitern States are just beginning to bdy and plant this fruit. I know from living in those States, bow tbe pear trees nsnaily planted there, such as the Bartlett and other varieties, blight and die about tbe time of coming into bearing, but I can assure them that such is not the case with tbe Le Conte. I am informed by relia ble parties that they are absolute ly blight proof. Jqhx Peak. Uncle Ish an John Sherman. From tk* HsrtwaU, Ox, San. “Sab, Marie John, ash. how is yo’ dis mswnin?” asked Uncle Isb as be obstructed the door of the office yesterday morning. “Quite well. Uncle Isb, have a seat on the floor and hang your fogs over.” “T’anky, boss, IU Jes’ desecrate dis eba’r, ef it’s all de same. Say. boss, who is dis yer John Sherman ? —1 heerd um ober at de drug sto’ resdin’ ’bout he wavin’ he’s bloody shirt on de stump.” “John Sherman is a senator from Ohio, a leader of rite republican ^*“Dar, now ! I knowed be weren’t no demmycrat; if be bader been be would er waved he’s hankerfitch. Ain’t nary demmycrat in de Nuni ted States dst ud go ’round ober de kentry wavin’ he’s shirt, even if it war tresb out’n de sto’. Look a beab, boss, dst man’s oodecent, an’, be oughtcr be arrested and pat in de calaboose—ef dey don’t stop 1m right now bell be a .wavin’ be’s old red flannel drawers next ting yo’ kno’. Ought ter bev be’s bead knocked oil be’s shoulders; ’clar ter grasbus 1 dsr ain’t no telUn’ wbat dese ’publicans gwlnter do nex*.” A queer story comet from New Zealand. Tbe owls in that island nsed to be as harmless at. doves; indeed, they once we:e “mousing owls,” and, therefore, nsefuL Bnt ono night a settler left a sheepskin nailed to his roof, and an owl came along and tasted of the fat mutton left thereon. That owl became a sheep-killer, slighting on a lamb’s back three nights later. Still more strange, all the other owls began to like mutton, and now the New Zealand bird of that specie slay a thousands upon thousands of sheep, their appetites growing by what they feed on, and their nambers increasing in proportion to their prosperity. They light on the Lacks of the sheep and tear tbe poor beasts with their beaks, going at once down through tbe carcass to tbe kidney fot, which to the owls’ tongue is the dsntiest of morsels. Bsnk Cheese. Detroit Free Freak Old Uacle Billy Stokes, a colored individual from one of the back counties in Mississippi, was in Can ton, Miss., a lew days ago standing in front of Mat Hiller’s store watching the unloading from drays of newly arrived goods. One dray contained, besides several barrels of'groceries, a number of btzea of cheese and a dozen or two boxes ef patent axle grease. Uncle Billy’s eye rested upon the latter, and he inquired: “Mars Hiller’ wbat you ax for one ob dem little cheese* ?” “Only fifteen cents, Uncle Billy; do yon want one ?” was Mr. Hill er’s reply. “Wall, vas. boss; bnt ef I buy de cheese, will yer frow in de crack ers?” “Of course I will,” said Mr. Hiller, as he handed Uncle Billy a box of the axle grease and then passed behind the counter and took a handful of crackers from the box and gave them to the old man.' Uncle Billy then walked to the back door of the store and, seating himself on an empty dry goods box, proceeded to enjoy his lunch. He had been there about five min utes when Mr. Hiller concluded he wonld see what progress be was nuking; so, going to tbe door, he saw the old man, with bis Barlow knife in hand, spreading the grease on a cracker, while his jsws were rigorously working and bis month and chin covered with, crumbs and gre&sg. r * - * ^*r - '- - “Well, Uncle Billy,” said Me. Hiller, “how do you like yonr inneb ?” The old man rested bis knife on his right knee and,drawing a heavy sigh, replied: “Boss, dem ar crack ers am powfnl good; but lor, boss dis am de ransomest cheese, fo’ God, 1 ever tasted.” There is a vonng girl in Tennes see, Miss Sc. Pierre, who owns sev eral hundred thousand acres of mining lands, who bas businese enterprises in the vicinity of Chat tanooga which cost $1,300,000 to organize. Miss Elizabeth Garrett, who inherited one-third ot John W. Garrett's $31,000,000, was her father's confidential scretarv while he was president of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad, and she has advised him on many occasions. Mark Hopkins’ widow, who is now building n million-dollar residence at Great Barrington, Mass., is per fectly able to manage her $30,000,- 000, and can drive a bargain with as mneb tact as could her husband. She baa a broad grasp of financial matters, Sud knows the value 'of stocks as well as Jay Gould. The Caterpillar around Cnthbert. Cdthbebt, Ga., Slept. 21.—Tbe devastating caterpillar bas pounced upon the tender and exuberant top growth of tbe cotton crop in this section, entirely denuding the sulk, ft is now an assured fact that the crop will bee: great deal abort of first expectations and veiy infetior in quality. A Letter from Columbus. Columbus, Ga., Aug. 3d, : 85. Dear Sib—Yonr Georgia Chill Remedy is selling very well, and we are yet to hear of a case that it baa not cured. Your* ti uly, Braxxox & Carsox, Wholesale Druggists. It is estimated that every year about 50,00(1,000,000 letters'are posted in tbe world. America leads, with about 2,500,000,000 and England follows, with 720,000,- 000.' Japan, which established a postal service only ten years ago, now mails annnaliy 95,000,000 let ters. OH! MY BACK A negro in Jackson connty, Ga., was helping bis employer to catch an unrnly two-year-old steer, when the employer called to bim to look out or tbe steer would butt him. The negro answered that be conld out-butt the steer, whereupon the white man said: “Do so and you can have the carcass!” To his horror the negro made a run to ward the steer, the two came to gether head to head, and the quad ruped fell in its tracks dead. A cane containing 1,060 different pieces of wood, all cemented upon a musket ramrod found on a south ern battlefield, and nicely polished, has just been finished by a physi cian of Murfreesboro, Tenn. •. ■ v ' •.

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Americus weekly recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1891, September 25, 1885, Image 1