Americus weekly recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1891, March 18, 1886, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAmericus Established 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1886. Daily, Prr \'kar...|;0.0 Wkkkly “ ... 2.00 Americus Recorder rnOLUBUD BT VP-. Xj, CHjBSSW EK. ,wHCE ONCOTTOX ATE1MJK Book Stores. A ONES AYCOCK, B<‘->k«. New»papei Newapapers, Mania and Sta- ninercial Bf ‘ ~ " ~ Smt door to l'mit office. Saddlery and Harness. americus. Americas is the comity seat of Somter uaoty, Georgia, eitnutcd on the Some- Mtero railroad. 71 mile's southwest dt Uaaon, and aboot 80 miles north of tbe norida line It ts situated in tbe noest •action of Georgia, raising a greater vari ety of egrieultnrsl and bortienltnral pro ducts than any other part of tbe South, combining all the traits, grain and vege- tables of the temperate and semi-tropical com—wheat, oorn, rye, oats, rice, Irish nd sweet potatoes, peanuts, chafes, stttnn pees, eugsr cane, apple*, pears, peaches, grapes, plums and other fruits, this climate u mild and equable, and one rf the moat healthy in the world, the air faelag tiureanditty sod mostbeoeflolal for (tag mod throat diseases. All kinds of outdoor work can be performed witboat inconvenience from summer heat or wtoter cold. Americus has a population of (,000, is beautifully situated on high end rolling ground and toasts of some of the handsomest business blocks in tbe Snath. The city baa fine publio schools; ■eod ehnrobes; a large pnblio library; sir dally, one semi-weekly snd two weekly newspapen; a naw opera, bouse, completely tarnished wlu scenery tad rspsblo ol Stating 1,000 persons; a well mailed nr# department, including two bne neemors; the streets are well pared, sewered and lighted; there are two tooting mills, a cottonseed oil mill, plining mill and variety works, carriage factory, snd a number of minor manfaoto- rlea; about two hundred firms unengaged to mercantile business; three banks with aa abundance Of capital; two good hotels tarnish good acoommodettion. Americus is the centre of trade for 111 counties comprising tbe rioheet agricul tural eection in Georgia, the average an analoottoo receipts being 30,000 bales, wMeh will be largely insreeaed by the adaptation of tha Bruton and Lumpkin raOroad now in prooeea of construction, b is the ltrgest city in Southwest Geor- ■ta.and lias been appropriately named tbe “Commercial Capital” of that bow, and it la rapidly growing in popn- bSoa and WMlth. As a place of bust- ■au residence it presents attractions aqnalod by few oitiee in tbe South. Property of all kinds is comparatively cheap, although rapidly advancing in mine; the inhabitants of both city and country are cultivated, oounwme and hospitable, with a cordial welcomato im migrants. To enterprising tradesmen, Jn Mm oapitalieta and inaustrioua farm' am this section of Georgia offers fins op portunities. Any in formation in regard M eity or oonntry will be oheorfbuy fur- Binbed by addressing the Arcuoicue Bit- coxnsR, Amerione, Ga. WKESMATWE FIRMS. UOLLOWING ta a Hat of represents X Uarshanu, Dealers and Professional ■M in Amenous. Onr readers will find these gentlemen reliable and enterprising ia their diff.-reut lines of I usinese. Brokers. J B. FELDER, • Merchandise and Cotton Broker and Kegotistor “f Long Loans. , Office at Planters Warehouse. » C. N. BUUKHALTER, • Beal Estate and Loan Broker. Office over Council A Williford. Heat Markets. G°c lyG: JBB * PARKER, Cotton Avanuo Meat Market and Fern- vGrocerics. OppositeBenkof Amerione. Shoe Stores, R YLANDER * ARRINGTON, Cash Shoe and Hat Store. Corner Lamar and Jackson Streets. Physicians, Physician and Burgeon, Offloe on Jankeon St. Haaidenoe on Taylor St. ThR. J. A. FORT, ^ PhysloUn and Sui Bdridge'e drug store, tarStreak Offloe at enoe West ft A. BROOKS, v. i Physician and Surgeon. Office ut Davenports' drag store. Besldenor * J. E. D. Shipp's Fnrlow Lawn. T X. SMITH, ■ Reform Physician, Office up stairs in Engine Houia block. Groceries. T B. BOS WORTH, Wholesale and Retail Grooer: |orsyth 8L, 2d door out of post offloe. Hardware. J W. SHEFFIELD* CO. • Wholesale and Retail Hardware, Bug- gtaa, Wagons, Harneu, Saab, Door,Blinds aad Painte, Cor. Forsyth and Jaokon Sta. J W. HARiilS * CO. • Wholesale and Retail Hardware,Bng- pat, Wagons, Harness, Sash, Doom, Hinds and Paints. Heed Cotton Avenue. Watches and Jewelry. J B. SULLIVAN, * Watohmakoi and Jeweler, Bout side of Lamar St. Livery Stables. V G. * J. K. PRINCE, ' Livery. Feed and Exohange Stables, sal era in Buggies, Harness, Whips, Etc. West aide of Cotton Avenue Dry Goods. CHEAPEST HOUSE IN THE CITY. O THORNTON WHEATJjEY, J OHN M. COKER. D ul-r in Saddlery, Harness, Leath er and Finding, Hardware, Cutlery, Jew- elrv,Silv,rPlated Ware. Cigars, Tobacco, and a toll line >.f Yankee Notions, in and to err'ire. Co'tim Avenne, Amerione, Ga. Attorneys at Laic.. T E. D. RIUP1* U . Attorney at L>«, Americas. Ga. Will practioe to all the oonrta. f J. BLALOCK, Attorney at Law, Office in Court hones. T C. MATTHEWS, ” • Attorney *t Law and Loan Agent. Offlee over Council A Williford. Dentist. - P. BURT, Fifteen years successful practice' in Amerione gives assurance that be ta both competent end reliable. General merchandise. rtEOROE STAPLETON, Ae General Merchandise. Furniture ft Specialty. Forsyth St. Front poet offloe. TESSE AYCOCK, ” General Merchandise, Forsyth St Under center of open house. Photograph Artist. VAN. RIPER, ’ Photograph Artist, Over Wheatley's store. Gin Repairing. JJ- W. HOWARD, Oin Repairer. Gin* r-paired end pn* in flrst-clnas order. Work guaranteed. Address me by poetal. Hides and Commission. r\ A. BELL (J. Foot Cotton Avenue, will pay best pnota for IBdae, Pelts, Cotton Seed, Beeswax, Dried Fruits, and Jnnk of all kinde. Boot and 8hoe Maker. A NDItKW DUDLEY, /\ Boot and Shoe M*ker. Repairing done in beet style and on abort notice. 3 Jaokaon St., front Preebjtorian ohuroh Drugs and Medicines. JOHN E. HALL, Pure Drags, Medicines, Perfumery, Toilet and Fancy Artiotes, ate. Wooden Store, Foraytb 8L A J. HUDSON, a , ' Drags, Medicines, Perfumery and Toilet Artioles, cheap aa tbe obeapoet. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Southeast corner of Publio Square. Andersonville High School. Tbe Spring term will open Monday, January 18, 1886, and continue twenty- four weeks, hates o» Turnnic. First Clem 816 per annum. 8econd Class 20 “ " Third 01ms... 26“ « • Fourth Clue 30 “ " Music 3 per mouth. Board aud Tuition (10 per (four weeks) month, paid In advanoe. Pupils will be ohsrged from tbe time of . itcring to the olose of the term unless otherwise arranged. Deduction made only for eicknees and then for no leas than two weak*. For partionian, address *w A J. CLARK, Prln, W. B. OLIVER, Draper and Tailor, Over Rylnnder k Arrington's shoe ftoro. Offers hU torriccs to tbs citlzins of Arasrlcns Sumter snd stljolr.lnjr counties m a practical and experienced TAILOR, using Compan’s Actual Mearartmont, giving the true shape of the cus tomer, who is given up by the trade to be the beat and best Utofony tailor in Kuropo o- A-ncrica. I will OUT AND MAKE Mitt of any style of the day, being in poKeseion of tbe latest styles, and u fU guaranteed, Alteridg, cleaning, repairing Prices moderate. Having bean a resident of Amenous lor thirty years, wito tbe experience In tbe put, I m licit your r*«oufe. Gents* Clothing of mil kinds, also Ladlos* Shatcls and J)rsssss Dyed in Black, Bins or Browm Colors warranted to stands ib»tf W. B. OLIVER J. H. ft. WESTBROOK,M. D. Physician and Surgeon AMERICUS, GA Office at Dr, Eldridge's drag store. Residence on Obi to W. D. Haynes. Street, next doo feb7tf C. It. McCBORY, ATTORNEY AT LAW KLLAVILLE.-GA. TXRVS—All tains from |80 or coder, Ml 'from no to Moo, ton percent, t onr f«S00, seven percent. Ho charges snlau collection* ere made. ESSEX PIGS. I have for aale four pairs of full-blood ed Essex Pig.i, four months old. Those who wish fine stock aro invited to call A. T. Outer. — THE T "• BEST TONIC. This medicine, combining Iron with.] vegetable tonics, quickly it is an unfhltmg remedy for Diseases of the K It ^StorSuable "tor Diaeeaes peculiar to Women, aud all who lead sedentary II-— Itdoae not Injure the teeth,. ■ Ml Is the Mood, stimulates l the awfmUaUoa of food, re. l snd Belching, and strength- Energy. Ac., It has no equal. n- The genuine has above trade mark and eroeMd redllnee on wrapper. Take no other. u.ee.eirtr esnwKtimiini. ttt,aALTixoar,ae. PSORIASIS And All Itching and Scaly Skin and Scalp Diseases ' Cured by Cut leura. PSORIASIS. Eeueii. Tetter. Kim £ Pruritus, hcall Head. Milk Ci Harbsr»'. Baker*\ Urucar*’, snd V curl iee rtare, trattiy that the fin.'m^tohrd«rifS? the feStfwlS h.3 .o.«.lt.d *-"^7°O h ta&. 0 irBS r ' DWTRESRIHU BRI PTION. Tear Ctmctraa Itramn. pertocra ed a weader let ear# tut asauaer na one of oar ca.toieerm, a, Txxaukama, a ns. • MORE WOXDBRFl’L YET. H. K. Csrp«fif*r, Hendcreon, K. Y., cured of r. of tw*ii»jr ysan' atamlir PaoritM* or Lepruxy. at twenty jeon' atauding. the Peace and Hendiraon’a most prominci CITiCtRA IIEMEOIE9 reiata. Pries: CvncvnA. * ll.M: SOAP. « centa. Pm. I D*tn AND CHEMICAL CO., eenta: Kkmoltknt. Send for “How twCnre Mktn Disease*.' t br ntsg the Ctmcvma Soar. and perfect antidote to gala. : CLSNCMAN’S r OBACCO REMEDIES mm iMKH I THE CLIHGMAN TOBACCO 01HTMEHT, THE CLINGMAN TOBACCO PLASTER CUNGMAN TOBACCO CURE CO. DURHAM, N. C.. U. 8. A. NdRROWINU THE GAUGE. Savannah Koirs. The machine shops of all the Southern railroads are busy at work getting ready for the change of r ?o to be made May 31 and June Tbe Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company and tbe Central of Georgia are as busy as any. Away down to the southeast of the passenger depot of tbe Sa vannah, Florida and Western is a mound of car wheels which, from the upper end of tbe yards, looks like a minerature mountain. Tbe Central's yards aronnd the machine shops are fall of axles and wheels. May and Jane are not the busiest months railroads have by any means, and a large proportion of their rolling stock usually lies idle during those months. If the guage of every car snd loootno live that can be epared will be changed before the tracks are changed. It ts intended to move the rails three inohes nearer to gether in two days. Tho roads rnnning east and west will change the flrst day sad tbe roads rnnning north snd south will change tbe second day. To turn down the car axles though and slip the tires of the locomotives will take a good many weeks. For a year most of the roads have turned tbe shoulders down one and a half on all tbe oar axles that went into the shops. The rims on tbe locomotive wheels are three-quarters of an inch wider than the tires. This permits the tires to be slipped in on the rims, but a steel tiro fits a locomotive wheel a great deal tighter than bark does a tree. The way the workmen get tbe tires loose betori pushing them over on the rim is an Interesting process. The machine shops of botu the roads rnnning ont of Savannah use the same method, and it ia said to be the one in general nse. The plan was explained over at tho Central shops yesterday afternoon. Pnt in tbe west side of the round hoase ia a simple arrangement con sisting ol an air foroe pnmp, sev eral feet of rubber hose and several more feet of 2-inch iron pipe bent 41i a ring so that it would just abont lit aronnd the tire ot a locomotive’s big. driving wheels. There were other rings of pipe to fit the small er wheels. After raising the car riage of a locomotive by jacks the trnoks are slipped out and into a convenient position, with the axles raised, so that the wheels do not rest npon the traok. The iron pipe is slipped aronnd tbe tire and gas is tnrned on in tbe pipe. Tho under side of the pipe is pnnohed fall ot smell holts, and the gas poors ont of these places like it does out of a gas-jet. When the gas is first lighted it does not make a very intense best, but when sir is forced in s strong pressure by the pump, the gas barns fiercoly snd the wheel seems to have a tire ot fire at white heat. In a few minntes, as the iire gets hot, it ex pands, and with clamps the tires are dextronsly poshed over J of an inch. When that Is done to both Tbe Cost or Cotton, Savannah Nam, All planters are interested in tho question ot the oost of a pound of upland cotton, yet comparatively few have any acourate information on tho subjeot. Estimates are made all the way from six to nine cents per pound, and no doubt tbe cost varies greatly in different sec tions and with different planters in tbe same sections. A very reasonable estimate on fair land is figured out as follows Rent, per acre, or interert on in vestment, $2 50, (this, of bourse, inolodes taxes, fencing, cto.,) pro partition of land $1, fertilizers $6 planting and seed (1, hoeing $1 The Farmers’ I'aradlse. A man on his own farm, valued at $2 25. Say tho yield is 250 pounds, the cost at tho hoase ready to be hauled to market is 6 3 cents per pound. The above is a fair averago esti mate when seasons are (avorabie. It will cost an extra cent to send tho cotton to markot and sell it, allowing for drying oat and conse quent loss in weight. It will be seen from, this that there is no money in the crop at prices that have prevailed in recent years un less the quality is extraordinary good. Tne averago quality of cotton produced in Georgia is low middling, and the price is singular lv near the estimated cost of pro duction. When fertilizers and supplies are bought on time the cost of the orop is usually from 15 to 25 per cent greater than the foregoing estimate. This, of coarse, makes tbe cotton cost more than it brings in the market, and it is not diffi cult to see how it is that planters lose money when they do not con duct their plantations according to strict business principles and economy. It is true that there are few planters wno own their land who make more than a fair rent off their cotton crop, and there are very ' few . renters that make any money at ail on cotton. There are plenty of farmers in every part of the South, however,- who make money from diversified farming. cultivated and kept, well stocked, with good modern dwellings and barns and outbuildings, master of both time and acres, tied to no hours by tho calls of bells or whis tles, free to come and go according to tho necessities of none but him self, mostly in his own fields, per forming his healthful labors within sight of tho smoke of his own chimneys, is surely as rich in fie genuine senso of the word as any man can be. He has nothing to fear and nobody to envy. Of one thing ho is sure all his days, and that is a sufficient living, and that is what other men aro never sure of without a single pang of doubt . or apprehension. There is his land; there is his home; there is all tbe nnimateand Inanimate machinery ot his establishment; nnd for the rest be looks in profound trust to the bounty of heaven. Instead of this unworthy and demoralizing anxiety to get rich, if the average farmer, once being solidly established, would resolve to enlarge and exalt bis life as it is to make moro out of that, to enjoy as much as possible cJ what there is to bo enjoyed, to adorn and beautify bis home—that only para dise on earth—within and without, he would make his daily tasks easier, even to the extent of being delight ful; k8 would feel rich where now; with moro money, he feels all tjie tiino poor, and he would rid him self of a false tyrant in tbe form of increasing parsimony that holds his nose to the grindstone till he is flung into his grave. If farmers, only knew it they would be the richest men on earth. v-x '.yifaf. r- s OX •. „ wheels on an axle the gaage is 1J inches smaller. That is only half enough, however, and some taming has to be done on tbe locomotive axles after all. By immense hy draulic pressure to the hubs the wheels can be poshed ap on tbe axles until the gauge is reduced to 4 feet 9 Inohes—within half an inch of fte standard gauge. , AU this changing is costing the railroad companies heavUy, bat a great deal of the outlay in ma chinery, etc., now reckoned in the harrow gauge acc'onnt, will be.ser- viceablc hereafter, or as a railroad man pnt in yesterday, “will come in bandy afterwards.” As the alterations in the oars and engines are made, a number of im provements are also made. For instance, the passenger cars on the Central Railroad are being pro vided with Miller platforms and couplers, larger wheels in some in stances. snd tbe lettering, “Central Railroad,” is being discarded and “Central of Georgia” substituted. In the c*se of the engines, many of them are being provided with new steel tires, and are receiving other needed repairs. Altogether, when the change of gaugc is completed, the rolling stock oi the road will bo in tho very best condition. Be- sides the improvements in roUing stock already owned by the road, several new passenger cars have been built, and about thirty new engines will be purchased. For Sale Cheap. A good buggy of best manufac ture. Fnquire at this otlice. Tho Flowers that Bloom In tho Spring are no less welcome than the result of the 189tb Grand Monthly Draw ing of The'Lonisiana State Lottery, on Tuesday, February 9th. 1886, at New Orleans, La. It is continued thus: The First Capltal-175,000- wa8 drawn by So. 67,705, sold in fifths, each at one dollar. One was held by Annie Smith, a colored cook at No. 113 Liberty St., New- Orleans; one by Andrew Doyle, care ot Tbos. Sheahan, 59 Broad- way, New York city; one by Fred’k Scharf, a German shoemaker at No. 704 De Kalb Ave.,Brooklyn,N, Y.; one by W.R. Jones and five friends at Murphysboro, Ills., &c. The Second Capital wasdrawn by No.78-' 298 sold also in flftbs(st $1 eacbjono was held by Gottired Anderson, on steamer, “Onward,” at Market St. wharf, San Francisco; another was paid to Wells Fargo k Co., Ex press Company; another to a party in Memphis, Tenn., &c. Third Capital Prize—$10,000—was also sold in fifths; one to D. B. Huntly, Carlisle, New Moxico; one to W. F. Rudolph, No. 1418 West St., one to W. M. Finnacane, both of Oakland, CoL, all collected through Wells Fargo k Co.’s Express, etc. etc. Fourth Capital Prizes, $6,000 each, were drawn by Nos. 27,946 and 89,882 sold generally all over Vicksburg, Miss.; San Francisco, Cal., etc. So it goes on constantly. Tho I91st Grand Monthly Drawing will take place at noon, Tuesday, April 13th, and any information desired can bo had on an applica tion to M. A. Dauphin, New Or leans, Ls. Now try not to be left next lime. ' . — A New York journalist tells a story which may or may not have a moral. It seems to show that ill- luck is sometimes serviceable, in awakening one’s conscience. He says: “I heard a prominent [cot ton broker say as be stood thought fully picking his teeth yesterday; 'I mean to give up business. I claim to be a professing Christian, and one that docs his brethren no wrong. One work ago Satan lay the market was booming, with August delivery at 9 79; today it declined { of one cent per pound. Now, the whole thing was a big gamble. Every man in tho busi ness, including the half of Wall street—church-goers, too—played for a big stake, and tbe majority lost. I can not be a Christian and u cotton gambler, that’s sure.’ But his scat is not for sale yet. A Georgia Willow Farm. . About a mile below tbe city of Macon is tbe osier willow farm of Mr. I. C. Piant, which has been visited by a correspondent of tbe Aiqerican Druggist. The willow switches, at the end of two years, are from four to seven feet long, and are cut and gathered into bunches like sheaves of wheat, Ia the stripping building they are steeped in water, and the bark at the larger end loosened for a cuu- )Ie of inches by machinery. The eaves and bark are then removed toy a little machine devised by Mr Plant. One by one tbe switches are placed in the mecbanioal strip per, and with a pair of pliers are pulled through with a sadden jerk. They are then wiped off with a woolen cloth, bundled, and laid away to dry. All tbe leaves and bark are dried and baled. They are used lor medicinal purposes, and oommand a. price of twenty-five cents a pound. There are at present 400,- 000 willows growing on the farm, and 80,000 additional slips have rcoently been set out. The entire levee is to be eventually covered with them, when sixty acres will be devoted to this single crop. The average yield is a ton to the acre. When dried, tbe willows command $200 per ton, and find a ready market.—Scientific Ameri can. Slandering Georgia. Sam JoncB says that it is as muok as a man’s life is worth in Georgia to talk prohibition. This from an evaneglist! Evidently Cincinnati has converted Mr. Jones. Tho facts as to this alleged violence in Georgia are these; the prohibi tionists have carried something like a hundred counties, and tbe first bloodshed occnred tbe other day in a community that was peaceably inclined before Jones visited it. Tbe damage done to Jones, house by the alleged explosion was less that $7, and it is altogether a mat ter of guess work that an attempt was made to injure anybody. On the other band there is the Salvation Army up North, with a history marked by frequent out rage; an army has bard work to dodge missiles from the mobs, and avoid the poor house without en countering tho jail. But then Sam is just now talking to Republican Illinois and there's money in it.—Macon Telegraph. Don’t Eat In a Hurry. A health journal says that people ought to take three-quarters of an hour for dinner. This is well if there is enough dinner to hold out so long. The penalty fur hurrying meals, ns most people do, is a grie vous attack of dyspepsia. In such a cisc you will have to resort to Brown's Iron Bitters for cure, as did Mr. J. R. I’inkstnn, Shorter’s Depot, Ala., who writes, ‘T found ruliel in Brown's Iron Bitters after years of sutlering (ruin dyspepsia.”

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Americus weekly recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1891, March 18, 1886, Image 1