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Americus Recorder.
w. L. OI.EIMEB, Editor.
Organ'ofCItT of America*.
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1SS6.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FobGoveimor:
DEN, JOHN B. GORDON,
Fob Secretirt of State:
N. 0. BARNETT.
Fob Comptroller Gekeral:
W. A. WRIGHT.
FOBiTBEASUBEB,
R. U. HARDEMAN.;
Fob Attornet General:
CLIFFORD^ ANDERSON.
Fob Congressman:
Hon. 0. F. CRISP,
of Sumter.
Fob Senatob—13th Distmct:
W. M. HAWKES.
of Sumter
Fob Representatives:
E. G. SIMMONS.
WRIGHT BRADY.
APPOINTMENTS.
JtIOSi. CHARLES F. CRISP,
The candidate of the Democratic party
of the Third Congreisional District of
Georgia for tba Filtieth Congress, will
address his fellow-citizens at the follow-
i sg places on the dates set opposite threto:
Vienna, Tuesday, September 14th.
Hbateznms, Saturday, September 18th.
Oglethorpe, Wednesday, September 22d
Hawklnsville, Saturday, September
25th.
Abbeville, Monday, September 27tb.
EUaville, Wednesday, September 29th.
Leesburg, Saturday, October 2d.
Preston, Monday, October 4th.
Douglass, Wednesday, October 6th.
DwinTilie, Thursday, October 7th.
Ferny, Monday, October 11th.
Americas, Wednesday, October 13 th.
Fort Valley, Saturday, October 16th.
Cochran, Monday, October 18th.
Eastman, Tuesday, October 19 th.
XeRae, Wednesday, October 20th.
Dublin, Saturday, October 23d.
ML Vernon, Monday, October 25th.
Lumpkin, Friday, October 29th,
The one thing that eveiy enterprising
newspaper publisher covets above every
other thing is a targe circulation for his
paper, ‘this is what ha'plana for, hopes
( or, strives for continually, with all the
ability there Is in him. To this end he
t mproves his paper, sends canvassers into
the field to work for It, distributes “sam
ple copies" wherever be thinks they jnay
da any good—in short, does everything
he knows how to push his circulation up
to a big figure and bold it there. And,
always, tbe more subscribers be gets, the
more he wants. Because, of course, the
argerthe circulation, the better he can
make tbe paper, and the more money-he
can get for the advertising space in it
“If you have the circulation, everything
Mae goes,” is an old saying In the newspa
per business.
Bo much, preliminary to the special an
nouncement we have to make. We are
going to put the circulation of this paper
np to 5,000 copiee by January 1,1887. It
has, as our readers well know, tho largest
circulation of any paper-in Southwest
Georgia. Bat this does not satisfy ua
There are yet thousands of people who do
net take tho Recorder, and we want
them all, and we are going to get them.
Et is to this end that we make the. follow-
f ng special announcement:
One Dollar
From the 1st of September, 1886, to
January 1st, 1887, we will receive sab-
asriptioos to the Weekly Recobder at
t be rate of ONE Dollar per year in ad-
vance. Old subscribers will be entitled
t o this rate only by paying up ail arresr-
•ges.
At such a rate there is note family in
8cutbwcst Georgia' that cannot afford to
taka the Recorder.
If you cannot call at the office, go to
t ha poet office and procure a postal note
or inclose a dollar bill and send it to
W. L. ULESSNER
Americus, Ga. •
THE GREAT 80DTH.
it will not be tbe fault of the .New
Orleans Times-Democrat if South
ern people do not take pride in tbe
wealth-producing power of tbeir
section. How much of tbta capaci
ty for wealth-production in tbe
profit of east and west may be
another matter. The figures of tbe
Times-Demoorat,In its annual trade
review—a mammoth enterprise—
are almost inconceivable. Tbe
Times-Demoorat prefers to be an
optimist. It Bbows,in tabular form,
that tbe seven[Sonthern States have
advanced injwealth since 1870 $933,
104,097, or 42.7 per cent against
an increase in population of 17.5
percent.
Manufactures have developed 32
per cent, in the last six years, but
agriculture is stiUJthe main affair
of life, our crops constituting one
of tbe most important elements of
national wealth. Lands are improv
ing at tbe South and becoming more
desirable. Of tbe total arable land
in the United States, 398,180,000
acres, 39 per cent., or nearly two-
fifths, lie in the Southern Slates;
and to this will soon be added, by
the redemption of swamp land in
Florid a,< Louisiana and Mississippi,
by the construction of levees along
the Mississippi and other streams,
and by tbe improvement of waste
andjbarren lands, some 42,000,000
acres more. Of this immense
amount only 6,679,000, or slightly
over 19 per cent., is occupied for
farms, grazing and similar pur
poses.
Tbe Increased value of tbe crops
ol tbe twelve Southern States iu
1884-’85 was $132,772,378 or 22
per cent. The fruit and garden
truck crops have increased from
$10,751,529 to $23,371,000. while
he value of stock in the Southern
States, ineluding the immense
herds of cattle in Texas, has sprung
fron $326,378,314 to $573,703,762,
or 69 per cent.
The South has tbe greatest nat
ural advantages for manufacturing
of any section of this Union, and
must necessarily grow in that di
rection. Tbe Sonth is also the best
wooded portion of the country,
surpassed only, tbe world over, by
Canada and Norway.
All metals and minerals are found
in prodigal profusion. Water pow»
er.exists sufficient to turn, six
times over, all the machinery of
the United States.
The statistical tables of the
Times-Demoorat prove that, hows
ever badly handicapped, the South
has made phenomenal progress in
all the forms of wealth and comfort,
and that, at no distant day, her
progress will be Bpeedy, immense,
tbe wonder of tbe nniverse.
The action of the Qovernor of
Indiana, oflerlng a standing re
ward of one thousand dollars for
the arrest and conviction of any
man guilty of lynching, will great
ly aid in supresslng this crime, far
too prevalent in ourcountry. The
Indiana example should be follow
ed by every other State. Mob law
is the brutal license -of barbarism;
it is an outrage upon law and gov
ernment; it is a high crime against
society and social order; it is fre
quently wanton murder. No coun
try on earth is disgraced with this
erlme as often as oars. Let ns put
au end to it tor Qod’s and humani
ty’s sake.
Ten years ago a paper box maker
died in New Orleans, leaving bia
widow with nothing but a knowl
edge ot bis trade. She went to
work in her attic room making
boxes, and was so successful in
getting orders that she soon had
more than she could do. She hired
help, added room after room, and
now employs thirty-five hands.
She travels for her own house, tak
ing long drumming tours through
Texas and Louiaiaua, and is get
ting rich.
Tbe shocks in Charleston seem
to have discontinued, and the peo-
pie are reviving in hope. Aid from
every portion of the Union ia pour
ing in, and all ia being done that
can be to alleviate tbe suffering of
the people. There is one thing
about the American people that
serves to keep them united, and
that is their quick sympathy and
prompt response to the call for aid
from any section.
A jail is almost useless in Miller
county.. It stands empty nearly
all tbe time.
COTTON STATEMENT.
From the Chronicle’s cotton ar
ticle of May 8. the following facts
are gathered relative to tbe move
ment oi the crop for tbe past week:
For the week ending this even,
ing, September 3, the total receipts
have reaohed 24,234 bales, against
12,153 last week,8,991 the previous
week, and 6,660 three weeks since
makiog the total receipts since the
1st of September, 1886, 11,763,
against 22,769 for the same period
of 1885, showing a decrease since
September 1, 1886, of 11,006 bales.
Tbe receipts of alt tbe interior
towns for this week have been 21,»
940 bales. Last year tbe receipts
of the tame week were 21,798 bales.
The old interior stocks have de
creased during tbe week 3,142
bales, and are to-night 23,894 mqre
than at tbe same period last year.
The receipts at tbe same towns
have been 3,584 less than the same
week last year, and since Septem
ber 1 the receipts at all tbe towns
are 5,071 less than for tbe same
time in 1885.
The total receipts from tbe plan
tations since September 1, 1886,
are 10,222 bales; in 1885 were 21,-
461;'in 1884 were 16,665 bales.
Although the receipts at tbe
outports the past week were 24,234
bales, the actual movement from
plantations was only 21,937, the
balance being taken from the stocks
at the interior towns. Last year
the receipts from the plantations
for the same week were 27,160
bales,and for 1884 they were 16,858.
The imports into continental
ports this week have been 4,000
bales.
The figqres indicate a decrease
in the cotton in sight to-night of
40,945 bales as compared with the
same date of 1885, a decrease of
375,356 as compared with the cor>
responding date of 1885, and A de
crease of 554,783 as compared with
1883.
The Chronicle has tbe following
to say of the market fluctuations
for the week under review:
The speculation in cotton for
fntnre delivery at this market has
been only moderately active and
somewhat nnsettled in tone for tbe
week under review. Crop accounts
have continued very favorable,
somewhat weakening confidence in
the distant months, while the small
movement of the new crop, the re
duced visible supply, and at times
stronger foreign advices, gave more
confidence in the nearer deliveries,
causing latterly a slight narrowing
in the range of values. Tbe recov
ery from inside prices began on
Tuesday morning, and Wednesday
opened.dearer; but there was a de
cline Wednesday afternoon and
Thursday morning, under sales to
realize. To-day there was a firmer
opening, in sympathy with a better
Liverpool report and dearer silver,
but tbe market soon relapsed into
dullness. The close, however, was
steady, with an inoreased demand
for September. Cotton on the spot
has met with only a moderate de
mand for home consumption, and
on Monday quotations were farther
reduced l-16o. To-day tbe market
was quiet, closing at 9 8 16c. for
middling uplands. The disaster at
Charleston gave rise to reports of
damage to the sea island crop, but
they afe not confirmed.
THE MYTHS OF CHILDHOOD.
Supentltloui Notion, concerning Snake*
—Reputed ICeinaillea for Wart.—Flitting.
The snake tribe has given rise to an
unusually large number of superstitions.
Among peoples of every degree of civili
zation and of all times, from the dawn
of history to the present day, some form
of serpent-worship has prevailed. This
is not improbably duo to the air of mys
tery whicli attaches to the stealthy move
ments of tlie animat and to the awe-in
spiring effect of the bite of poisonous
snakes. And just as serpent-worship
prevails among Bavagos to-day, so among
civilized people, children, most of all,
feel a fearful, superstitious interest in all
that concerns snakes, and have invented
many myths about them. In central
Ohio when one child kills a snake the
lookers-on universally call outr “Its tail
won’t die till sundown.” This notion, I
find, is one of wide acceptation, and
doubtless arises from the persistent vital
ity of tlie muscular contractility of the
snake. In southern Ohio it is now gen
erally believed that a snake will not
crawl over ash wood; and a-man over 80
ALL BIGHT
COOKSTOVES
ALWAYS SATiSFACTOOT
EIGHTEEN SIZES AND KIMS
EL PURCHASERS CM BE SUITS)
MANCTACTOBID bt
cnees there may be between them IS£ULC A. SbDppjfd & CO.,BaltllllOre.Hi
The Charleston disaster was a
terrible lil wind, but it bis certain
ly blown good. The Philadelphia
Bulletin, which has heretoforebaen
one of the most rapidly sectional of
Northern papers has this to say
in its issue of Saturday: “The good
will and generous spirit of the peo
ple of Philadelphia waa shown yes
terday in the meeting in tbe Com
mon Council Chamber to devise
means for the relief ot tbe people ot
Charleston. The Southerners can
feel assured that whatever difier-
and Northern men on questions of
politics, all considerations of _th»t
kind disappear when they need
oar help in the hour of affliction.”
The imminent peril of earth
quakes and tbe scenes ot death and
years of age tells me tlie same belief waa | destruction which have cast such a
comm in Massachusetts when ho waa ghastly gloom over our country,
Republicanism varies with tbe
latitude. While in New England
and the West Republican campaign
orators are trying to rouse their
hearers to fury by pointing to the
spectacle of rebels in office, the
Baltimore American, a Republican
paper, is endeavoring to sow dis
sension among Maryland Demo*
orats by calling attention to the
small number of ex-Confederates
appointed to federal offices from
that State. It la a queer party, and
hard to please.
There seems to be no danger that
too much financial aid will be sent
to Charleston. There may be
danger, however, that even the
well-known generosity of the
American people may not quite
rise to the demands of the occasion.
a boy, and he thinks it is by no means
yet extinct. In certain incolities in Mas
sachusetts a reputed final cure for tooth
ache is to bito into a living blacksnake.
An old saying—
Break your first brake,
Kill your first snake,
And you’ll conquer all your enemies,
is often recalled by tlie first snake one
meets in the spring, or at sight of tho
earliest fern. I find few cliildren can be
persuaded that our common snakes are
not “poisonous.”
Some reputed remedies for warts may
be in place just here. In southern Ohio
the children believe Hi it the juice of the
osage orange (Macbuv aurantiaca) will
remove these disagreeable excrescences.
In other parts of tlie fa ne state the juice
of thf tiny, creeping “m di: weed” (Euphor
bia maculata or E. liiimistrata) is said to
be a certain cure for warts. This latter
notion I also find common fn many
g laces both east and west of Ohio; while
i eastern Massachusetts the same cura
tive quality is thought to _ bo possessed
by the milky juice of the Asclepias cor-
nuti. New, does not the fact that plants
which differ so widely from one another,
save in the one respect of secreting a
white or milk-like juice, are alike re
puted to possess this power of removing
warts, probably show that this virtue is
entirely imaginary and the result of
their accidental similarity in their juices?
With or without reason, in eastern Mas
sachusetts it is thought that bathing
In rain water that chances to stand in a
yellow oak stump will cure them, An
other remedy is to rub them with a bean
leaf, and then bum the latter. Or, again,
steal a bean, rub tlie warts, throw the
bean on moist earth or bury it, and, as
the bean sprouts, it is supposed the warts
will gradually disappear. Another
■cure” is to cut a notch in a sprout of an
apple tree, rub the wart across the notch,
and as the notch grows up the wart will
be removed.
Many a half-grown lad believes that
virtue is imparted to the bait by rubbing
it before casting his line into the water
with the hard coiosity frorn a horse’s
fore leg; these homy growths are, there
fore, eagerly sought about the stable or
the horseslioer’s shop and' are carried
about in the pocket in spite of their
strong scent. Another supposed charm
is to spit on the bait. It is just possible
that some odor lent tlie bait by either of
these substances does attract the atten
tion of the fish, but I have no sufficient
evidence of this. In some parts of New
England boys disliko to meet a crow
when going fishing, as they say this
foretells bad luck. Silence is the law of
good anglers (of larger growth), but boys
sometimes hope to “get a bite” by re
peating over and over:
'“Fishy, fishy, come bite my hook,
I’U go Captain, ami you’ll go cook-
fed in the pan).”
The confidence which children have in
the variobs incantations which they re
peat for certain purposes is most in
teresting. In different localities they
utter various formula when an ant-
lion’s den is discovered. Children I
knew yean ago In northern Ohio would
quickly bend down over the little funnel
in the sand and solemnly repeat in
rather a loud monotono, “Mooly-up,
“Mooly-up,” until the sand began to be
Stirred by the creature concealed below,
which doubtless was attracted by the
crooning, sound.—Popular Science
Monthly,
have stimulated, the religious feel
ings. Revival meetings are being
held in this State and in many
other parts of tbe South, and tbe
pulpit has not failed to take advan
tage of these terrible manifestations
to warn the people of the brevity
of human life and of their duty to
be prepared for the sudden sum
mons of the anget oi death.
Mr. Wilson, the Republican post
master at Savannah, who wsb
recently removed by the President,
seems, to have got the notion into
bis head that the posteffice was his
private property and refused to
turn the office over to bis sucessor.
He was on Thursday ejected from
the office by force. This incident
will probably form the basis of a
“Southern outrage,” upon which
the Republican journals of the
North will expatiate.
The New York World is the
most enterprising of the New York
dailies. It bad five representatives
iu Charleston to send specials about
tbe eartbouake, and in consequence
got every word of news that was to
be had. It received the very first
dispatch that was sent from that
city after railway communication
had been opened and telegraphic
communication established. .
The Successful Hallway Clerk*
- The successful railway mail clerk must
possess a peculiar combination of quali
ties. First, he must have good physique
and powers of endurance. Ho must be
able to work sixteen, eighteen, twenty,
or even twenty-four hours continuously
without becoming stupid from fatigue.
He must have a splendid memory and a
studious, earnest disposition. He must
have that'quality of fortitude and cour
age necessary to keep him from getting
“rattled” when, unusual tasks, to be
quickly performed, present themselves.
He must be honest, temperate,*-faithful
in little as well as great things, and as
steady ns an eight-day clock. No man
full of moods—now industrious and
again lazy, first quick and then sluggish,
fills the .bill.—Chicago Herald Intervie.w
Hints on Learning to Swim.
To teach a boy, or in fact anybody else
to swim, let him wade into the water up
to the armpits while you stahd on the
shore. Tell him then to put his face in
the water and hold' his breath and sea
how for lie can . struggle toward you
without touching his feet to the bottom.
He will thus get the motions of swim
ming in a suprisingly short time and
those with confidence are all that is re-
We have received tho Trade Issue 1 quired. He will become an expert swim-
of the Savannah News. It com-1 mer practice. We have never
known this mode of teaching to foil.—
New York Market Journal.
The “unveiling” of the Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty on Bedlow’a
Island, in New York harbor, is an
nounced to come off on October
20th. This signifies that enough
filthy lacro has been accumulated
to whack up tho cost of the pedes
tal and other things necessary to
tbe occasion.
The Savannah News goes for the
Southern railway mail service in a
manner that ought to secure a
change in the management of this
division. According to its account
the service in this department is
criminally inefficient and needs a
thorough overhauling.
People everywhere are respond
ing liberally to tbe call for help
from the Charleston sufferers. This
world is not so cold and unobarita-
ble as some people would have us
believe.
AND FOR BALE BY
J. W. SHEFFIELD A CO., Americas, Gt.
A PPLIOATION; *
A LETTERS ADMINISTRATRIX
GEORGIA—Sumter Countv.
To Whom it May Conoern.
Whereas, Mrs. D A. Cook, having fil-s
her application forLeitcmof Admi® SSJ
trix on tbe estate of J.mes i Cook
of said county decased,
These are therefore to cite and admen,
ish all and angular, (he kindred uri
orelitors, to file their objections in mi
offloe on or before the first Monday ii
October n-.X', the regnlar term of', J
Court of Ordinary, to be held on the lint
Monday in October, why said apnlia.
Hon should not be granted to said armll.
oant as prayed for. r
Witness m.v hand and’offloia] signature
this, the 6tb day of S»pteniber, 1886. ’
A. C. SPEER, Ordinary.
A PPLICATION: ~ ~
XI LEAVE TO 8EIL:
GEORGIA—Webster Counts-.
To whom it may concern:
Whereas, M. F. Saunders and J. A.
Crymos, Admioistrutors on tbo estate of
Z. F. Slanders, applies for leave to sell
real estate of said deceased.
These ere therefore to cite and admon
ish all parties interested, whether tin.
dred or creditors, to show cause on or be-
fire the October term ot Court, lobs
held on Ihe first Monday in October, 1886,
why said petition should not be granted
to said petitioners as prayed for
Given Ruder my hand and official sis.
nature this, tbe 6th dav of September,
1886. W. H. COSBY; Ordinary.
A PPLICATION:
i% LETTERS ADMINISTRATION.
GEORGIA—Webster County.
To whom it may concern:
Whereas, W. L. Clark; having fi’ed his
petition in my office for Letters of Ad
ministration, with will annexed, on tbe
estate of Robert Peel, late of said county
deceased.
These are therefore to oite and admon
ish all and singular, the kindred and
creditors, to file their objections in my
office on or before the first Monday in
October next, tbe regular termofuid
Court Ordinary, to be held on the first
Monday in Ootober, why said appli
cation should not be granted to said sp-
pUoant as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signature,
this, the fltb day of September, 1886.
W. H. COSBY, Ordinary.
Oily Property and Lands,
Will bay, sell, rent or lease lands and
eity property, and snoh personal property
as ts offering for sale, not kept in store.
Will make a speoialty of renting and
eolieoting for city property. We hare
some valuable oity property for sale. Onr
reoent sales and demnnd indicate a favor
able market. Titles investigated and
made satisfactory. Onr sal-s book and
rent roll can be inspteted by ealiing at
offloe of either of us.
J. A. ANSLEY,
- Attorney st Law.
B. T. BYRD,
Broker and Insurance Agent.
anylOH
Cotton Ginning.
We now have tbe Baldwin mill in com
plete order and are prepared to do j
ning for tbe pnblio without delay. 9
good gins and oompetant parties to run
them wa feel that we can giro satisfaction
to all. J. W. WHEATLEY & CO.
■ept4ml.
Dental Notice.
Owing to pressing engagement! in
Lnmpkin I am compelled to oIobc my
deqtal offloe for tbe next ten days.
septSdlO J. A THORNTON,
CARPET STORE.
prises sixteen pages and is filled
with interesting statistics regard*]
ing the trade, growth and prospori- 1
ty of Savannah. '
Albany has ten firms of cotton
buyers.
Vermont farmers are shipping a large
number of sheep to South American
ports.
The latest comet is traveling at the
rate of 968,000 miles an hour.
The snbscriber has just opened, at the “OLD GBANBERBY CORNER,
CARPET STORE-
SOMETHING NEW IN AMERICUS I
Where can be seen the LARGEST, ns well as the HANDSOMEST, STOCK 0?
CARPETS AND RTJGS
that have ever been exhibited-in Southwest Georgia, consisting of aim st everrs-J;'
and quality. And as ISELEOTED THEM CAREFULLY MYSELF IN PH 11 * 1
DELPHI A and NEW YORK FROM THE M ANUFACIURERS, and at the
VERY LOWEST CASH PRICE
and as I propose to sell them STRICTLY FOR CASH, I CAN AFFORD TO S|
jE i P''L AS THEY CAN BE BOUGHT IN THE LARGEST MASK*
IN THE STATE, and will gladly
DUPLICATE ANT BILL'
that maybe PURCHASED IN THOSE MARKETS.
I moat respectfully invite my frit nds end the public tc call and seo the beei
stock I will show them.
J. J. GRANBERRY, Agt*
Americus, Ga., September 1, 1880. septld** Jt
intifd