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Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webiter County.
FRIDAY. -
SEPTEMBER 6.1890
The Am.bicps Records:* 1. puMLned
Dally ami Wifkly, during the year.
-*Tbe DAILY Recorder la Issued every
moral!.!; except Mondays, during the year,
at 60c per rooalh, or (6.00 per year.
The Wbekly Recorder la 1 sailed every
Friday morning,.! »loo per year payable
tn advance. It baa the largeat circulation
of any paper InSontbweat Georgia, circula
ting largely In the conntle. of Sumter, Lee,
Terrell, siewart, Webater, Schley. Marlon’
Macon. Dooly and Wilcox.
Entered nl America* Po*t-OffJceaa»ecoud
c ' ““ commnnleatlona ahould be addreaaed
to AMERICUH PUBLISHING CO.
’The laril! Bebaui continue* tedi
ous adiI monotonous, with but Aery
litlle cbnngo.
From all accotiuts the Mlasourl
Democracy la solid for Cleveland.
A very jiromlueut St. Louis Demo
crat, when asked who would be the
choice of the party In that State for
the Presidency lu 1882, answered:
“droverCleveland. Noother mauIs
mentloned.aud If by any chicanery
Hill should secure the nomination
he could not carry the State. The
Missouri Democrats would bury
him out of sight. Ido uot thiuk,
however, there Is auy danger of the
party committing the suicidal mis
take of nomiuatiug Hill. He Is a
demagogue, a man of scarcely or*
dinary ability, and simply an un
scrupulous politician, whose ambi
tion carried him so far as to knife
Cleveland in the last campaign.
Missouri Democrat* will never for
get that act, and Hill’s nomination
for the Presidency would he a syn
onym for Republican success In
1892. If you want to stir Missouri
Detaociats up to a high pitch of en
thusiasm just mention Cleveland’s
name iu a meeting, aud you won't
be able to contiuue talkiug for sev
eral mluutes.
Tn. Members Will Have to Est Break
fast st Sun Up and Than Oo to Work.
White capB have again made
their appearance in Spartanburg,
South Carolina, and are sending
out their notifications.
it is said that Blaine has inform
ed an iutimate friend in the most
positive manner that he will not be
in the Presidential race in 1892.
Col. M. W. Heck, the nominee of
the 20th district,and son of the State
Alliance Lecturer, expects to make
the race for Speaker of the State
Senate.
Texas will contribute the young
est member of the next Cougress.
His name is J. W. Bailey, and he
has been nominated in the Fifth
district.
A trio of prominent Democratic
nominations occurred Wednesday,
being those of Mills of Texds, By
num of Judtuua, and Wllsou of
.West Virginia. .
Serious differences are Teported
among the directors of the cotton
seed trust in New York, which it is
claimed will result in a re-organi
zation of tlio concern on a stronger
basiB.
Up to date there have been 110
nominations for representatives In
the legislature; of these 91 are Alli-
anccmen. There have been 33 nomi
nations for Senators; of these 24 are
Alllaucemen.
The Fort Valley Enterprise says
the Alliance will boom the country,
as every city lawyer will buy a
piece of laud and claim to be a
farmer, keeping plow handles iu
his sited to biitler his hands upon.
The amount of the property
owned by railroads In Georgia on
which tax is levied, is (30,000,834.
•The tax Itself Is (43,940. This is the
lirst year the street railroads have
been returned, and their value is
over a million.
South Carolina has a treasure of
untold value in her phosphate beds,
aud is increasing tlieir output very
rapidly. In 1880 the total product
of the phosphate mines In the Char
leston district was 210,000 tons.
Last year It was 510,000 tons.
Secretary Turner, of tho Alliance
legislative committee, who has re
cently returned to Washington
from Atlanta, reports a determina
tion on tho part of that ordor to beat
Gordon for Senator. It seems to be
understood that Hon. Tom Norwood
will be tho Alliance candidate.
A special from Atlanta to the
Macon Telegraph says Col. Ed.
Angler lias been approached by
several prominent Democrats of
that place, each offering him(500 to
opposo Livingston in the race for
Congress. It is to bo hoped, how
ever, that there is no truth iu the
report.
Mr. Aldrich has Introduced two
new amendments to the tariff bill,
under reciprocity propositions. One
of the amendments Is in- the form
of a new section, stating that ex
emptions from the duty on sugar,
molasses and hides aiid are made
with a view to securing reciprocal
trade with the countries producing
these articles, and it authorizes the
president to suspend by proclama
tion the provisions of the law for
the free introduction of sugar, mo
lasses, coffee, tea aud hides, aud
products of countries whose laws
may be reciprocally unequal aud
unjust. The dhtles on sugar are to
he fixed as under the existing law.
The duty on coffee Is to be 3 ceuts a
pound, on tea 10 cents a pouud, and
on hides 11’^ ceuts a pound.
A table showing the density of
population, of tho several States,
according to the census returns of
this year, is given out from Wash
ington. The little state of Rhode
Island is most densely populated,
having 302 persons to the squnre
mile. Massachusetts comes next
with 24s. Now York has 120W, aud
Pennsylvania 117'$. Georgia has
32.17; Alabama 31.91. Texas has
only 8.17. and Florida has only 0.93.
Idabo, Mountano, Wyoming and
Nevada have eaoli less than one in
habitant to the square mile. The
average for the whole country ^is
IS.4 to the square mile.
The Stale conference of anti-
Tillmauites In South Carolina lias
been completed. The proceedings
were secret and reporters pledged
to report only results, the resolu
tions adopted condemning the ac
tion of the August Democratic con
vention ns tyrannical and usurpa-
tlve, and approving the withdrawal
of the delegates who secoded. Till
man’s charges nnd aspersions upon
the party in power were condemn
ed, and ordered to liavo been utter
ly refuted iu every section. It is
thought by many that there will bo
no further attempt to organize op
position.
The New York Tribune quote*
a Georgia Aliianceman, who it In
New York ou business, as aaylug;
“We'll show them politicians
how to run a Legislature when our
hoys get there. The boys will eat
breakfast at sun up just like they
do at home, and ly an hour more
yon'll bear a born blow at the Capi
tol, nud they’ll be there and go to
work, and there wont he auy fool
ing around, and no excuses nor ab
sentees, nor going down town to
get a drink, nor running off'on ex
cursions to Tybee and Chautauqua.
The clerk shan’t hove fourteen as
sistants to help him, dog gone
him, but shall do the clerking him
self. The last session cost (150,000,
but the next will cost (50,000. We
are going to rent out about half the
State house. Every one of them
stall fod fellows haB a front room
and a hack room, a sanctum and a
sanctorum and a (50 sofa to sleep
on in the cool of the afternoon, aud
they have their business hours just
like the banks, and you can’t see
’em only when you don’t want to
see them, and they haven’t got to
go to mill, either, to take up the
fodder, dog gone ’em. Ob, we’ll
straighten out their trace chains
when the hoys get there. We are
going to run the machine in a com
mon sense farmer way, without
any red tape or salmagundi, and if
the State Judges aud solicitors
don’t do better than they have been
doing, we’ll turn ’em out and put
in old-fashioned farmers, who don’t
know much law, but do a power of
gospel and high natural justice.
There’s too much trigger work go
ing on. The courts have been
three years trying to hang that
devil, Woolfolk, and ho ain’t hung
yet. Weconldhave tried him up
in my county court iu thiee days,
aud hung him aud saved (20,00o.”
HOW TO RUN A PAPER.
The Atlanta Evening Journal hai
just dosed a prize column of con-
trlbutions on the best way to rnn a
newspaper.
The object of the originators of
the scheme wae undoubtedly to get
new ldeae, but as far as The Re
corder could see, the contributions
were a total failure in that direc
tion.
A great deal of stereotyped ad
vice was offered, such as: "Keep
your columns clean," “omit ob
jectionable advertisements," "ad
vocate only the best men for office,"
etc., etc.
Now, this advice is very easy to
give, and could the newspaper pub
lishers draw without limit on some
fat bank account it might be fol
lowed. But as a rule newspaper
publishers are not men of wealth
who go into the business to educate
suffering humanity. They are gen
erally men of practical ideas, who
run a paper because they are after
the rnouey there Is supposed to ho
In It, and if not for that purpose,
they want to mau the lever whloh
guides the votes of the "dear peo
ple" for the benefit of themselves
or their friends.
Mr. Pulitzer, of tho World, it Is
said, has a standing offer of (1,000
for a single new- idea that can he
used to adyantage by his paper;
and yet he Is rarely called upon to
draw a check in payment for such
curiosities.
It is a very easy matter to sit
down and draw up a code of moruls
that a newspaper should follow, but
when they are sifted and discussed
they will he found to be as useless
as chafi'.
A special from Washington says
President Harrison does ucit want
to call an extra session for the
forcebill or any other purpose. Ho
lias so Informed tho force bill
Senators who had proposed to unite
iu a petition for au extra session.
The President is quoted ns saying
that the chief executive should not <
he constantly meddling with Con
gress by sending vetoes, writing
special messages or calling extra
sessions.
Col. Norwood has been interview
ed by a representative of the At
lanta Constitution and says that
while ho is not a candidate for tho
Benntorsliip ho will accept if elect
ed. He compares the Alliance
movement to the declaration of in
dependence and fully endorses the
sub-treasury plan of relief for
farmers. He contends that it is as
constitutional as tho laws which
levy a tribute for the benefit of cer
tain classes.
At a meeting of the State Demo
cratic convention iu Wisconsin, the
other day, the chairman made a
speech iu the course of which lie
referred to Grover Cleveland, ' “ he>e - blll , They clatm that this
whereupon the delegates howled Congreg9 bM uot Bpeat euougU
themselves hoarse in the r e o , uouev on government structures,
to pay a tribute to the ox-Presideut. |
If is said hats wore tossed iu the
A determined and final elt'ort is
being made by those members of
Congress Interested in pending pub
lic building bills, tobave them con
sidered aud passed at this session.
A demand has been made upon tho
Speaker aud his associates on the
committee on rules to have a day
set apart for tho consideration of
The negroes of North Carolina
air, canes wildly nourished, and j, rO j )OS0 j 0 ignore the white Repub-
for several minutes pandemonium || cans au ,i run candidates of their
, i allnnlnn to own T he negroes of Georgia made
reigned. A second allusion to
Cleveland was a signal for another
outburst.
Tho Memphis Commercial pre-
licts that the' convention of tho
gotten States to bo hold in Atlanta
next month will fail to open up di
rect trade with Europe.. The Com
mercial’s idea is that such matters
»re controlled by natural laws, and
;hat no sectional effort can make
my headway in shaping the course
it commerce.
Rev. W. II. Potter having been
ilieotcd missionary secretary of the
Methodist Episcopal C'hurcli,South,
ind being required to enter upon
he duties of that office at once, lias
esigned the editorship of tho Wes-
eyau Christian Advocate, after ar-
angiug with Rev. W. C. Lovett to
idittbe paper until his successor
ihall be duly elected.
Though Philadelphia lost her
lace as second city iu the United
tates by reason of the phenomenal
rowth of Chicago and her huge
rah of new territory, Pennsylvania
tado the largest actual gain in |>op-
tation of auy of the States since
ISO. Her inoreaie was over 1,000,-
10, or more than 100,000 In excess
t that of New York. Philadelphia
in crow for low State If not for
erself.
Several of the Alabama Congress
men have been ronominftted aud
the chances are that the delegation
will remain unchanged, except, of
course, that Judge McDuflie, the
Republican who was seated for the
Selma district, after being lienteu
by 13,000 majority, will bo again
beaten by Mr. Turpin, who was
ousted to make room for him. The
Alabama Congressmen fared con
siderably better than their brethren
over in Georgia.
Tuesday was an exciting day in
the lower House of Congress. Mr.
Cameron offered a resolution direct
ing that all absentees, except for
sickness, be immediately summon
ed to return to their seats, naming
the members. Mr. Rlount opposed
the measure oil the ground that it
was a direct censure. Mncli skir
mishing of words was brought out
on both sides.
Tlie House committee oil war
claims lias reported favorably
a bill authorizing the secretary of
the treuBury to pay the William aud
Mary College, of Virginia, (04,900 to
reimburse it for the destruction of
its buildings and property during
the war.
Less than half the railroad stock
In the United States pays dividends
aud nearly one-fifth of the bonds
pay no Interest, but railway invest
ments still remain the most popu
lar. Americans believe in the fu
ture.
just such a break as this three or
four years ago, says the Atlanta
Constitution, aud it wasn’t two
months before they wore back in
their old places cleaning spittoons
for Ross Buck and the rest of the
federal ofilce holders.
It is reported in Washington
that Mr. Turner, of Georgia, refused
to shake hands with Cannon, when
the latter offered it with ajjooular
remark about the vulgar language
lie used in the House. Mr. Turner
said: "I do not like to have any
thing to do witli a mau whoollends
the proprieties of the House iu that
way." Good for Turner !
The convention of auti-Tilliuau-
ites met in Columbia, S. O., yester
day, and arc about equally divided
in factions. The extremists are
bent on carrying their point, ami
tlieir more conservative brethren
hro equally detornsined iu their
stand for conservative action.
A REMARKABLE SALE.
The pairing of lots of the Brook
lyn Heights property was a re
markable event ill Americus yes
terday.
Although uot a public sale, it was
the first time in the history of the
city that so much property was dis
posed of iu small lots, and the price
tlie lots brought, the interest mani
fested, and the number sold, should
convince the most skeptical of the
solid growth oU.ourcity.
The lots were placed on the mark
et in the dullest part of tne year;
first payment was called for when
very little money was in circula
tion; and yet nearly all the lots
were disposed of, aud every inves
tor is more than satisfied.
Tlie fact that nearly one hundred
aud fifty lots were sold at (200 each,
during the dullest months of the
year, Is conclusive evidence of the
worth of Americus dirt, and of
Americus' just and undisputed
claim to the title of the “Commer
cial Capital of Southwest Georgia.”
Tremendous New Stock!
1.
Fine Dress Goods.
Dry Goods, Notions
THE BARBECUE “BELT.”
"Uncle Remus,” iu Sunday’s
Atlanta Constitution, quotes the
late Col. Albert Lamar hs authority
that 'tho Barbecue Belt includes
"fromLincoln county in the east to
Heard county iu tho west, covering
a strip of country seventy miles.”
The Recorder must beg to differ
witli this authority, for Americus
is recognized by all barbecue .con
noisseurs as the champion barbe
cue city in Georgia, it having u
regularly organized club, with a
membership embracing tho most
criticarof barbecue diners and tlie
largest “belt” in tho South. This
is a very important matter and
should not he lightly treated.
One fruit crop has been heard
from which is not a failure this
yenr; which, in fact, is better than
it was last yeaf. This is the cran
berry crop of Now Jersey. Last
year it amounted to 13,000 bushels,
and this year it will go to 175,000
•bushels. Cranberries are wortli
more than (5 a bushel, and it is be
lieved that the crop this year will
bring Now Jersey farmers moro
than (1,000,000. It is very gratify
ing to kuow that a summer whloh
lias keen almost destitute of table
fruits is to be succeeded by a fail
which will bring an -abundant sup
ply of turkey sauce.
All sorts of talk is now going oil
iu regard to Governor Gordon's
oliances for tho United States Keu-
ate, Imt it is believed in Atlanta
that tlie division in the Alliance
vote and the strength of the old sol
diers' affection will assure his elec
tion.
A large negro State convention
was held in Raleigh, N. C., Tues
day, for tlie purposo of airing the
grievances of the blacks. The
leaders spoke against the Demo
crats and demanded recognition by
the Republicans.
Newspapers are rarely thanked,
uot to say paid, for tlie use of tlieir
columns for charitable or religious
purposes, nud yet they do more
work, with better grace, than any
! her concerns on earth. And how
easy it would be, and what a grati
fication to the editors, could their
papers be included in the list of
thanks. The Recorder does not
wish to be considered ns growling,
for its columns linvc always, and
always will be, open to such work,
but sui-dy It Is not much trouble to
say “thank you?"
Gen. Phil Cook, Secretary of
State, has just finished sending out
to the ordinaries in the State tlie
blanks to be used in the election of
governor, ■ State-house oflicers aud
members of the general assembly.
Tlie law requires them to be sent
out thirty days before the election.
Gents’ Furnishings.
Though considerably demoralized around
the front, we are making time count and in
a few days will show the grandest stock of
fine Dry Goods ever carried by any house in
this section.
Our assortment of Dress Goods will com
pare favorably with any stock in any of the
large cities of the state.
* We only ask a call when in need of any
thing in our line. A more extended account
of our stock will be given later.
In tho Senate a substitute for tho
House bankruptcy bill has been re
ported by Mr. Hoar from the judi
ciary committee and placed on the
calendar..
wneatleu & Hnsley
The Leaders of The Dry Goods Trade.
Established 1867.
&
Incorporated 1890.
CHARLES A. FRICKER, President.
Jewelers and Opticians
409 Jacicson St., (Barlow Block.) : : Americus, Ga.
Our stock Is complete tn nil lines. Wo make ft specialty of Dlnmonils and Fii
Wfttches. Wo lire inspectors of watches for tho s. A. M. road; sell watches on the In
stallment Plan, and linvc n Two-Hundred ftlld Fifty Dollar HlUp Chronometer to repi
Into thorn by. Goods wo sell will be artistically engraved free of charge. We have tfct
very latest Instruments with which to test tlie eye and find outjust what li needed n
spectacles, nnd we sell “King's Combination,” the llnest glasses In the world.
Music Department
Wo nell tho SOHMER, KIMBALL ami “JAMES FRICKER A 111*0.” PIANOS,
and the KIMBALL ORGANS. These Instrument!* are all first-class. Every one ful y
warranted for five yearn. Wo have been selling them from eight to twelve years
know Just what they are. Call and see them or write for catalogue.
Wo repair Watched, Clocks nnd Jewelry, and Pianos nnd Organs, nnd guarantee
our work. Wo lmve lx*en at our present aland for twenty-three year*. No trouble “
And tho place, to which everybody 1* Invited to come.
Janies Fricker & Bro.
A. T. OLIVER,
.If you want a first-class Buggy CHEAP
call at my shop and examine my stock be
fore purchasing elsewhere, as I have and
will constantly keep a full assortment of
Single and Double Buggies of all styles
Don’t forget that I am prepared to meetany
and all competition. Special attention given
to the repairing of all vehicles. Call and see
me, and I will surprise you as to quality
quanity and prices of my own make of Bug’
* le3 ' A. T. OLIVER.
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Harness Makers
WILL REMOVE SEPTEMBER 1ST, JTO STORE ROOM ADJOIN'
ING GEORGE STAPLETON’S FURNITURE STORE. AND
FRONT OF POST OFFICE, ON FORSYTH STREET.
t-KUNl ur rusi urriuc, un runoim ^• ntw• •
THIS IS THE PLACE TO BUY HARNESS
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