Americus weekly recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1891, April 25, 1890, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAmericus )reO iubcjl jj so* Recorder. ESTABLISHED 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1890. SUMTER CITY- Tbe farmers are so very busy planting and re-planttng their crops that they will not stop long enough to tell your correspondent the news. The farmes are too busy to tell mo and my teacher Is sick, so I can't go to school; now I would like to know how I am to get It. \Ve are having some real spring weather at last. When the sun ,hlnea for five or six days as hot as It has for the past week it makes one gaze at tbe cloads and wonder If it Is going to rain. Sickness still reigns supreme In our town. General Grippe has de- •erted us, but be has sent fever In his stead. Our school has neon closed for two weeks on account of the Illness of our teacher, Miss .Smith. She has had an attack of slow fever, but we are glad to learn is Improving rapidly. Mr. James M. Rodgers died at his home near Sumter the 6th of April. He was fifty-eight years and three months old on tbo day he died. Hehvas a prominent cttizen, and inllnentlal in bis community. His illness was a prolonged one, and he bore his sufferings with resignation. He leaves a wife and five children, besides many friends and relatives, to mourn his loss. We extend our truest sympathy to the grief-strlok- en family. Truly, we live In a world where solemn shadows are contln util) falling upon our paths—shad cva that teoeh us the insecurity of all temporal blessings, and warn us that here "thereIs noabldingstay.” We hwre, however, the blessed sat- isfac*f^n of knowing that death csnf t ,enter that sphere to which th an asrted are removed to. Let ud faith mingle with your sorrow, and loolt to that fu- ‘ lere the sundered ties of lot t *40. e re-united, remembering j o] loss is bis gain. ula Davis visited relatives jtace last week, i ln’8 l0 Market t and sister, Jjtliel, spent Sunday in ““"•Tie with their cousins, !")*• Wesson. by ,goRodgers took Misses ■len, Arva Fowler, Lily self- tect„ Jgers fishing Monday. t ’ or *} all day, and eame home J not j>arty of fishers as ever by \th only three fish. 0Wt1 ' Ecoliere. Mali ma/irt SUMTER CITY- df ,,n City, April 22.—We are see our sohool open again been closed for two weeks on unt of the Illness of our teacher, * Huilo L. Smith. We are glad to notice the tm provemcnts In our neighborhood! Mi. B. F. Markettls having more rooms added to his house, which improves the looks of the place very much. There was preaching at Sumter Saturday and Sunday. Rev. R. H. Jennings was the presiding elder. Mr*. Georgo Herndon and son, Mr. Frank, of Amerlcui, were imoug the congregation. Miss Jeasie Allen, of Sumter, M*nt last week with Miss Annie Holland in Bronwood. We are glad to hear that Mr. K. M. McDonald, who has been very *ick, is up again. Mrs. Mattie Summerford, of In 'Uati Springs, visited Mr. and Mrs. J-1*. Cooper last week. Gussie, the little son of Mr. and Mr*, T. G. Webb, Is very ill at their home near this place. He is under treatment of Dra. Simpson, J. B. W(1 A - B. Hinkle, two of Atnericus’ and one of Smlthville’s ablest phy- •ieluns. We had no Idea that the Recor- ‘>eh was ho widely circulated. Let ter* have been received from sev eral diflereut States from friends that used to live in Sumter. They take tiie paper and were glad to •■ear from their old home once a week through the medium of the kbiordkr, l„:; Vt ' r y ol ‘e Is busy lu our town 1,0 y° u must not expect •mieh new*. More anon Miss Lila Edwards is visiting friends in Dawson this week A joliycrowd of our young people spent last Wednesday in Kincba- foonee swamp on a regular old time fishing frolic. The party consisted ot Mr. C. N. Bryau with Miss Mol- lie Ragan, R.T. Marshall with Miss Susie Evans, C. A. Chambliss with Miss Lula Caughmau, of South Carolina, J. C. Simpson, J. F, Kem nedy and others. Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Evans Chaparoned the crowd, atid an abundance of fish was caught and cooked, and a beautiful dinner was spread ou the bank of thecreek and highly enjoyed by all who was so fortunate as to be present. Miss Fannie Garreit, of Dawson, visited Mis Kate Rowell this week Mr. T. X. Killen has been con fined to his bed for several days with a very severe spell of sickness He is reported as better to-day. Dr. J. F. MeMatb, of Smithvllle was In town to-day shaking bands with his many Bronwood friends. Mr. J. A. Horsley, of Dawson was seen ou our streets to-day. There is some talk of the mer chants of Bronwood adoptlngarule to close the stores at six o’olock. We think It a good thing, and think It nothing but right to give the weary clerks a little time for recre ation through the long and dull summer doys. May the good work go on*. Several of the Webster county farmers wererln town last Satur day buying goods and maneuvering around generally. Dr. Chappell, and family and Charlie Chambliss went over to Smithvllle this morning to be at the burial of the Rev. J..H. Ca- wood, who died yesterday morntDg at Mllledgeville. X. Y. Z. FROM WESTON- GROWING ABBEVILLE- The A * W. Hull,line Fn.t —Sew Enterprises mul Investment*. Ecolierk. from bronwood. Hitox wood, Ga., April 17,-Sllen r°iiwood Is beard from again this , ’ but news Items are very a ce, as you W lll see ere you read hi* communication. Oui- farm-rs are Ill busy with cro l’ 8 - I’iowlngcom and chop- g cotton is the programme of Mi** Mary Hill Luuday, of Sas- ,IU p 10 b ** h*® 11 suiting Visa rturn IT 1 * at the BMne ® House, urnod home one day last week. Weston, April 22.—Capt. Parrott came down Saturday and selected the place for the depot. He says work will begin on it this week or next. Mr. B. F. Barge, who owns tbe land where the depot will stand, will open a streetthrhugbthe beau tiful grove wtjtceiit, cut to Main street, and build several houses on it. This will greatly improve our town, and will doubtless start a boom in building. Weston Is certainly one of the most beautiful places for a town In this part of the State, and ita situa tion, twenty miles from Dawson and about forty-eight from Colum bus, on one ot the best railroads, too, In the South, with its healthy location and fine farming lands, there Is no reason why it shouldn’t be one of the most Important sta tions on the line of the Columbus Southern railroad. Mrs. M. E. Sims, of Alabama, Is visiting her son, Mr. John 81ms, this week. Messrs. J. E. Dennard, M. F. Saunders, B. F. Barge and John Barge went to Columbus last week. Mrs. W. J. Sims and her daugk tors, Misses Florence and Lizzie, spent last Saturday and Sunday In Richland. Mr. H. A. Askew has returned from near Smithvllle, where jie has been visiting his daughters. Mr. James French, Sr., and wife, ot Hlchland, visited their eon, Mr. W. B. Fronoh, this week. Little Tommie Passmore spent last Saturday and Snnday in Par- rottville. Messrs. J. W. Bell and Bert Alex ander aro teaching an Interesting class here in garment euttlng. Dr. A. K. Patterson went to Lumpkin to-day on business. Revs. M. R. L. Binlon and W.W. Mabry were In town yesterday. On tbe roll of honor are, Mattie King, Salllo Walker, Mary Sam Dennard and Florenee Sims, Mrs. X. A. Wiggins, better known os “Aunt Whit,” is visiting friends in this place. Abbeville, Ga., April 20. Tbe manufacturing spirit per vades the town. All sorts of new enterprises are projected. A shingle mill plant is now being put in near the wbarf, which will add consider able to our little town, together with other now Industrie*. The A. «fc W. R. R. Is progressing finely. About ten miles is now ready for the iron. Tbe Abbeville Construction Company, with M-. 8. P. Lassater as president, are doing a nice pleoe of grading. Tbe iron for the first twelve miles has been ordered and will be here in about thirty-five or forty day*. Rolling stock baa also been ordered. Tho Construction Company expects to have rolling atock on the first twelve miles In ninety days. Tho Oemulgee Brick Company will soon be ready for making brick at this plaoe. The capacity of this brick maehine will be about one hundred thousand brick per day, and will compete with the Macon brick. The Amerleus Investment Com pany has purchased ten acres ot land near thejdepot. It Abbeville’s future prospect bad not been bright those industrious gentlemen would not have invested in her soil. On Friday the 13th the Abbeville Guardi hed a plcnlo at the wharf, and a gala time was had by every one present; and on Saturday night tbe Guards was inspected and en listed as a volunteer company of Georgia. Abbeville Is the county site of Wilcox county, Georgia, situated on the Oemulgee river, and In the rlehest agricultural section of the State with a population ot about seven hundred, when only two years ago she scarcely bad a popula tion of two hundred. We have one rallroid, the Savaunih,* America*. Tho'nas Jfcrjr.a Oiled hla andMontgjiinaiy .familiarly knownT“* ,1 ®^*P 1>oln ^ m ® ,1 * Providence, as tho Sam road, and will soon have another—a direct line from Atlanta to Jacksonville, over one hundred miles nearer than any other road. We have a military company and brass band as any little town In South Georgia, and all these new Industries, together with a fine steamboat line, place Abbeville In a position that guarantees the auo- cess and prominence to which she is entitled by meant of her many natural advantages. IT WAS HYDROPHOBIA. A factory In X. C., Is turning out daily 2,000 yard* of bagging for cot ton made from pine needles. It is believed that this new material for bagging will not only break up the Jute trust, but become a source of great wealth to tbe South. Dry pine needles, or “straw,” as they are termed, serve as well as green ones, but on account of tbe difficuh ly of obtaining them in a sufficient ly cleau state, the practice It to take the leaves fresh from the trees, selecting the lower and older ones, and leaving the younger for the ■upport of the tree. Everything In Drug!, Patent Medicines, ’Pellet Articles, etc., at reasonable prices. Cook’6|Piiarmacv, 439 Cotton Avenue. Oapt. J. r. Ron Give* an Explanation or Gna Wright'* Death. Sunny Slope, April 21. Editor Recorder:—I noticed the arrest of Gus Wright, colored, at a crazed person, and have since learned of his death. He was In my employ, and it was a pure case of hydrophobia, and I here give the clroumstances connected with It. On tho morning of February 9 he was returning from Amerleus, be tween midnight and day, when he met a dog In the road this side of the Furlow place—now belonging to Mr. Fletcbor—at a mud hole, and, both taking the same side of the road and the dog not disposed to get out of his way, he struck at it with his stick, which flew out of hla hand, and the dog, Instead of fleeing, attacked, and severely bit him on the hand. By poulticing, etc., the wound healed In a week or and no further thought was given the clrcumstanco until last Monday morning on his return again from town, when he reported that he had a very bad finger, and and that tbe arm was swelling, and tbat his shoulder also hurt him terribly. I asked him It It was the hand bitten by the dog, and when did It first commence to hurt. Replying ho said, that on Satur day morning, a pricking sensation as though from a needle In his thumb was felt r and tbat be waa confident it was a bone felon and he bad had such before. He plowed until noou, though In much pain, and immediately after, having finished a patch of cofn, I stepped to tbe shop, I suppose one hundred yards off, for a change of plows, and returning, I found him fast asleep, and on waking re marked: “I declare, I can't hold my eyes open, and I know I slept nearly all day yesterday and up to midnight last night, when I started from town.” After this ho made several efforts to plow, but would atop his mule, dropdown and go to sleep for a few minutes. Finally he said, “I believe I’ll dismiss for the balance of tbe eve- nlng,” aud went direct to his house, where ho remained until Tuesday night about dark, when be left for Amerleus, without eating or sleep, lug, pacing up and down the floor, and part of tbo time Monday night, In the yard, growling like a dog, and no doubt In great agony, so I was Informed by a woman 1 on the place. 1 He was a negro of great nerve and fought maufully against the overpowering Influence of tbe dead, ly virus, and I did hope it would but result In a bone felon, tho’ my fears were aroused as soou as the comatose state appeared. I expect ed to have to chain him, and didn’t know he left tbe place , until Wed nesday morning, and am astonish ed at bis being able to reach Ameri cas by 11 o’clook Tuesday night. He, poor fellow, bad hla peculiar ities, peculiar only to Gus, and not liked by many; but to rightly uu. deratand him, could be managed as a child 1 and a more faithful and trusty hand never entered anyone’* field. I regret his death, and moie particularly tbe sad and agonizing one, and must say of him, requles eat In peace I J. F. Ross. MOSSY DELL- Mosly Dell, April 16.—Quite a large congregation greeted Rev. John P. Margarth. of Petersburg, Ala., at the Lutheran church, at Bottsford, Sunday. Mr. Margarth took hit text from Paul’s First Epistle to the Corin thians, xv. chapter and xx. verse: “Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruit of them that slept.” The sermon was a fine qno, full of beautiful and Impressive passages. Margarth, though advanced etui retain* the vigor, and of language to effect all who hear him. I Mr. M fn age, i ■low of 1 Sunday. He and bis wife spent Sunday night with* Mr. J. W. F. Murray. Mr. Frank Markett and daughter, Miss Anise, dined with Mr. Murray Sunday. Born, to tbe a wife of Mr. William Cheek, a daughter. Mr. Ellas Clark lost a good horse by having it driven Into a well by a negro woman. The horse’s baok was broken In two places, but lived several hours afterward. Several of the neighbors assem blejl at Mr. Phil Jennlng’s fish pond Saturday afternoon, as the news hod just got abroad that he was going to draw off the water. But they were disappointed, as tbe water did not run low enough to rtveal tho countless numbers of fine earp whloh are known to be In it. The Lutheran Sunday-school met, for tho first time this year, Sunday morning with Mr. J. I. Hiller su. perintendent and Prof. W. H. Hi! ler teacher of Bible class. We think we noticed a spirit Sunday, which, if continued throughout the year, will accomplish much good, and make this one of tbe best Sun day-Behools we have ever had. The attendance ts very good and will be larger when tbe committee now at work shall be able to purchase a fine organ. May the good work go ou! Mr. Phil Jennings was stricken severe attack of flux Sunday morning, but happy to say Ison the tnprovo. *‘L. L. D.” Card of Thanks. Editor Ameuicus Recorder:— Please allow me through the Recor der to thank the good people of Leslie and the community for their untiring efforts to relieve the suf ferings of my brother during the twenty seven hours he lived after the fearful accident which happen ed to him on last Monday, the 7th instant. The brothers and sister and rela tives of the suffering one, will ever gratefully remember the kindnesa of these good people. We pray the blessings of God multiplied upon eaoh one of them thousand fold: and when they, too, shall i«ss through the “Dark Valley” may the hand of tbe good Shepherd guide them, and bring all at last to Him “In whose pres- enen is fulnsn of joy, and at whose right hand aro pleainres foreve- raore. Gratefully, J. W. Connors. Folkaton, Ga., April 14, ’!*). Croup, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis immediately relieved by Sbiloh's Cure. THE ROMANCE OF REALITY. Under the above heading the Macon Telegraph gives the follow ing syuopBis of a pamphlet entitled by “Tbe South’s Redemption,” Mr. Riehard H. Edmonds, editor of the Baltimore Manufacturers’ Ilee ord. It sets forth the wonderful re. cuperstlon of the South since the desolation ot the war aud gives some interesting information eon. cerning the recent Industrial de. velopmmt of this section. Ac cordlug to Mr. Edmonds, the as. sessed value of property lu the 8outh has Increased from $2,913, 438,093 in 1880 to $4,220,108,400 in 1889, a growth in nine years of $1 306,729,927. It I* probable that the real value of the property is fully twice the amouut of Us assessment. In the present ppmphiet the true value of property In the Southern states is put at $10,293,088,700. These figures are too vast to be conipre. bended, but they gtveageneral Idea of the enormoui growth ot material wealth in 1 the South since tbe last census. The railroad mileage of this section has lucres* ed since 1880 from 20,612 to 40,621 The inerease of our foreign com merce last year alone was $06,068, 788, the to tailor 1888 being $223,681 658, and that for 1880 $290,640,206 The inerease in tbe banking faclll. ties in the South from 1870 to 1889 has been remarkable. The total bank surplus In the South in 1879 was $8,099,309; undivided profits $8,727,211; loans and discounts $85,- 280,309; Individual deposits $04,730, In 1889 the figures were as fol lows: Surplus $21,037,991; undl vlded profits $7,137,679; Individual deposits $130,993,232. The Increase of surplus in the South during this period was 140 per cent, against 82 per 'cent. In tbe West and 45 per cent. In theXorth; undivided profits Increased 02 per cent. In tbe Soutb, 68 per cent, in the West and 4S per cent. In the North. Individual de posits Increased 116 per cent. In the South, 107 perchnt. In the West and 8$ per bent. In the Xortb. , During this period the cotton crop of the South increased from 6,766,350 to 7,260,000 bale*; the Southern corn crop from 333,121,290 bushels to 616,517,000; tbe wheat crop from 54,470,740 bushels to 55,. 060,000; oats from 43,476,000 to 77,. 714,000. While tbe inerease of the Western corn crop from 1879 to 1889 waa only 31 per cent, that of the Southern corn crop waa 56 per cent. The Inerease in the value of tbe chief agricultural produets of the South during this period was $213,842,842, and the Iborease In the value of the live (took $177,749,266. In 1880 the total number of cotton mills In the South was 161, of spindles 567,854, and of looms 14,823. Last year these figures were mills, 2,085,268 spindles and 45,001 looms. The production of pig Iron In the Soutb grew from 807,801 tons In 1880 to 1.566,702 tons in 1889. In coal production there was an Inerease for tbe period named from 6,046,471 tons to 19,407,417 tons. The Invest ments in railroad property In this section increased from $670,000,000 to $1,500,000,000; the number of na tional banks increased from 220 to 472 and taelr capital from $45,607,. 730 to $76,454,610. The number and capital of State and private banks increased In even a greater ratio. The capital invested in the cotton seed oil industry grew from $8,604,- 000 to $20,000,000. These figures aresufficlent to give some Idea of the scope of the pam phlet. It Is an excellent statement ot the South’s development and a fine presentation of the advantages It offer* to capital and enterprise. Tbe plain facts of the growth and progress of the South during this decade make a story that reads moro like romance than reality. The Albany Xews and Adver tiser, In attempting to bolster up Its own town, says the cotton re ceipts of Albany for the past sea son will reach 62,000 bales, while those of Amerleus are only 22,000 bales. Where did the News and Advertiser procure its figures? The receipts at Amerleus since the 1st of September are In the neighbor hood of 60,000 bales, and with our now dlreot route to Savannah tbat number will bo Increased next tea- son. Wo are always pleased to see Albany do well, but Its growth will not be advanced by decrying the efforts of its neighbors. Soda Water* We are now dispensing delicious Ice Cold Soda Wator with pure Fruit Syrups. Fleetwood A Russell. SEVENTY-THREE YEARS- One of the first newspapers that this writer ever read was the Dela ware (O.) Gazette, which a few days ago entered upon Its seventy- third year. When we first saw It, which w<<s more years ago than we care to confess, the same genial gentleman whose name appears at tbe bead of Its editorial columns was editor and proprietor.- Abram Thomson, tbe editor, is an old-style Southern gentleman who knows and considers the annuities of life. While be has always been a strong partisan and has urged his political views with all the strength of hie conviction, be has always done It with tueh a good graco that he has preserved the good will and respeot of his opponents as well as his frlspds. We shallialwaya remem ber the old Gazette with the kind liest of recollections, and hope we mey live toeelebrate its centennial. Senator Ingalls does not believe In pure politlea. “Government Is force,” he tells us, “the decalogue of the Golden Rule has no part In a political campaign.” He say* poli ties Is war, and “the commander who lost a 1 battle through tbe ac tivity of his moral nature would be tbe jest and derision of history.” It is not necessary lor the Senator to be so explicit, as he has never been charged with being a pure politi cian. The Republicans have completed their steal of tbe State of Montana by seating the Republican contes tants for seats In the Senste. The recent election* In Montana con vinced the Republicans tbat It would not be safe to refer the mat ter back to the people. ' Dr. W. C. Kendrick, of Dawson declines to make the race for Repie- rentatlve frpm Terrell county. We are sorry to hear of the Dootor’a declination, as he made a careful and conservative legislator, always at hie post and alive to the Inter est of hi* constituents. We are pleased to see that Colum bus has determined to hold an ex position this fall, and ir it does not have a good attendance from this section it will not be tbe Recor der’s fault. We believe In helping home folks, and we regard Colum bus ee a near neighbor. As showing that there is no spec ulation In Amerlous real estate, we note the foot that elty lots here are not held relatively as high as In the smaller towns whloh surround us. At present prleee Amerleus real es tate Is tbe safest investment we know of. Judge James B. Brown has for mally announced himself as a can didate for Congress from the ninth district. His opponent will prob ably be Rev. Thad Pickett. It Is said that a newspaper Is to be published lu Weston at an early date by a Mr. Jackson, son-in law of Col. C. W. Hancock of Sumter Republican fame. The first number of tho Bruns wick Evening Post has reached us, and gives promise of being a useful aud lively paper. The political world seems to be very quiet at present. The weath er has settled aud everybody has gone to work. Why should tbe sugsr planters ot country be paid a bounty any more than the corn and cotton planters? 0*PRICE§ CREAM Plffijg 1U superior excellence proven in million* of homes for more than » quarter or acen- tury. It is need by tbe United Statue Gov ernment. Endorsed l.y the heat!* * u “* Great Universities as tbe Stronger* Ud won healthful. Dr. HE* Making l’ow.l. r docnot contain Ammon! Llm $£!cK , Saia§G 0 i'£wi8 KXWYOHK. CHICAliO. Hr. LO

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Americus weekly recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1891, April 25, 1890, Image 1