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OffloUl Or«nn of Sumtor County.
Official Orarun of Wobator County.
FRIDAY. - - - - SEPT. 20. 1890
The Americus Kecobder Is publlsned
Dally and Weekly, during the year.
The Daily Recorder Is Issued every
morning? except Mondays, during the year,
at 50c per month, or96.00 per year.
The Weekly Recorder In Issued everf
Friday morning, at fl00 per year payable
In advance. It has the largest circulation
e any paper In Southwest Georgia,clrcula'
ting largely in the counties of Sumter, Lee,
Terrell, Stewart, Webster, Schley. Marlon 1
Macon, Dooly and Wilcox,
Entered at Amerlcus Post-Offlce as second
o ass matter. ... .. .
All communications should be addressed
to AMERICU8 PUBLISHING CO,
Gov. Gordon has had the last
Words—and there were very few of
them.
Gov. Gordon Is <to address the
Trades Display Oct.. 24th—Senator
or no Senator.
The Albany News calls Mr. Liv-
ingstone “Lonnie Lougsiiout."
This is hardly a political argument.
The Constitution's article on
“Who Runs the Paper,” is an in
teresting one, and its tell many
a truth.
Gov. Gordou's reply to Mr. Nor
wood was short but to the point.
In other words, he says to Mr. Nor
wood: “I will meet you at the
tauk.”
Dion Boucicault, the great play
writer, died last Thursday at five
o’clock. It is estimated that the
people have paid $40,000,000 to see
his plays produced.
Maj. Glessner writes from Ohio
that he is meeting with much en
couragement in getting up his Oc
tober excursion, and hopes to bring
a large number down, many of
whom are prospecting.
The Augusta Chronicle hits an
esteemed contemporary this rap:
The Atlanta Constitution seems
to be smiling at Mr. Norwood and
the sub-tfeasury scheme. This is
going to bo a very lonely year for
the Atlanta Constitution.
Politics are warm In every por
tion of the State bat Southwest
Georgia. This part of the State Is
too busy with building itself up,
and {inaugurating new enterprises
to foolmuch with politics.
The Port Valley Enterprise thinas
the visit of Messrs. GleBsner and
Parks to Ohio will result in bring
ing down a large number of fruit
growers to Fort Valley, *and the
sale of considerable land.
There are two applicants for po
sitions on the police force in thlB
city,brothers,who measure six feet,
seven and one-half, and six feet
four inches respectively. A police
man of that height would be a holy
terror, indeed.
How would a King Cornua Carni
val, a big parade, followed by a
masked ball, do for New Year’s or
ChriBtmas Day for Amerlcus? It
would require very little effort to
get up a good one here, and the
times are ripe for it!
Hon. Pat Walsh announces to the
New York Sun that he “Is a practi
cal politician," and wants Hill and
Gray in 1892. Mr. Walsh, for a
“practical politician,” has a bad
habit of getting on the woak side of
the fence.
There is a great demand for more
dwelling houses in this city. New-
comers are . coming every day, and
not a vacant house in the city.
They are occupied before they are
really finished. Hotels and board
ing houses are all crowded.
GORDON OR NORWOOD.
By reference to our news columns
this morning, our readers will find
Mr. Norwood’s reply to Gov. Gor
don.
Mr. Norwood entirely evades the
question of his candidacy, not even
referring to that part of Gordon's
letter. This omission is very inju
rious to Mr. Norwood^ It leaves
him in the attitude of being unable
to say whether he will be a candi
date or not. In other words, he
will be a candidate If he thinks he
can be elected, but If not, will wor
ry Gov. Gordon all he cau without
being a candidate, and thus escape
the Inevitable sting of defeat—
something Mr. Norwood has a
wholesome horror of, it having oc
curred to him before, and caused
several years of enforced retirement
to private life.
Mr. Norwood’s reference to Gor
don’s resignation is a very good
piece of literary work, but it is
rather late in the day to he brought
forward. If, as he says, he was si
lent in 18S0, and again in the Gor-
don-Bacon campaign, why shouN
he at this late day bring forward
such charges which have been car
ried through compaigu after cam
paign? To a disinterested party,
The Recorder is disinterested,
It looks as if he did not care enough
for the farmers then to expose Gov.
Gordon, but that now that an office
Is the goal, he suddenly percelveB
how Gordon has wronged the
farmers.
On the other hand, Gor. Gordon
is no doubt working his war record
for all it is worth, and his friends
are very active in his behalf—too
active, in some places, for the good
of the Democratic party. The of
fice of Senator Is a high one, and
anyone has a right to Inspire to it,
but it should not be made au ofllce
for political broils and scrambles,to
the probable disruption of the Dem
ocratic party.
The indications now point to a
bitter personal campaign, where
qnarrela will occur that it will take
years to obliterate. This should
not be. Some way should be de
vised whereby all this mud sling
ing should cease, and peace reign
in the Democratic family of Geor-
HAVE MADE PEACE.
GOV. GORDON AND MR. LIVINGSTON
HAVE FIXED MATTERS UP.
A* Consultation Held, Letters are Ex.
changed, and an Agreement !■ Reached.
The Seventh District papers are
warming up in the Everett—Fel
ton campaign. Viewing it from
this distance The Recorder be
lieves that Dr. Felton will be badly
defeated. He no longer draws the
crowds that formerly gathered to
his meetings, and the farmers are
quietly going about their business
and refusing to attend his meetings.
It is believed that his home county,
Bartow, will go against him.
gia.
The South needs more skilled la
bor for its factories than can bo
readily obtained, and Southern
manufacturers should do all In
their power to educate the labor
they have to a higher standard.
When a new cotton factory is put
In operation In New England, the
management has only to advertise
for educated mill labor, and the
factory is overflowing with appli
cations for positions. On the con
trary, in the South a new mill finds
it very difficult to obtain skilled la
bor, and usually has to entice the
laborers from some other mill.
This scarcity of skilled labor mili
tates more strongly against indus
trial growth than anything else,
and should be eliminated as soon
as possible. The States should
establish training sehooU in every
manufacturing center and then
manufacturers themselves
should try to educate their
laborers to a higher degree of skill.
It is well known that contact with
highly skilled labor educates the
unskilled, so it would be a wise and
far-seeing plan for manufacturers
to bring highly skilled laborers
from tbe North to their factories,
even If they had to pay them very
high wages, so that the ordinary
labor of tne mill or furnace could
come In contact with tliom. An
other plan, which might accomplish
good results would be to Inaugurate
a system of prizes for the laborer
who, within a given time, became
most highly competent. Our la
bor is gradually becoming more
highly educated, but the growth of
our Industries Is far outstripping
the advance in ocupatiou of our
labor, and unless more active
measures be employed in the fa
ture than now exist for the further
ance of this object, the South may
find that it has hundreds of facto
ries some day in tunning order, but
no skilled labor to run them.
“Dixie” wishes to impress
the necesitv of educating labor In
every Southern community.
This Is from the Memphis Ava-
lancho:
Old Joe Brown, of Georgia, had a
way of keeping very dark in poli
tics until he got down to work in
convention. He wus usually a
delegate when there was any con
ventions to be held, hut never a
candidate. When on his way to
the convention which nominated
him, some attempts were made
without success to find out who he
was for. His wife was on the tram,
and a friend of one of the delegates
cautiously approached her. Mrs.
Brown, without thinking what ef
fect her answer might have, saijl
slowly: “Well, Joe allowed he’d
take it himself this time.”
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The Albany News of yesterday
gives a list of about one hundred
residences and stores, and, to use
Its own works, “a list of all new
buildings are given and all that are
projected for tbe next few months,
or that will be built in the near
future,” and makes them
foot up a total of $1,054,400. In this
it includes a $100,000 freight and
passenger depot, a $200,000 cotton
factory, two street railroads at $40,-
000. 50 cottages “near Southern
limits,” at $10,000, the Albany Con
struction Company at $100,000, wa
terworks and sewerage, at $100,000,
Albany and Cordele railroad shops
$25,000, Albany and Cordele de|>ot,
$25,000, all these latter, we presume,
to bo “built iu the near future.”
Come again, dear Queen, Americus
had over 250 houses and buildings
in course of erection, by actual
count, when The Recorder took
tbe buildiug census of Amerlcus
two months ago.
The Manufacturers’ Record
quotes Amerlcus bonds as worth
115 on tbe market, standing fourth
uu Hambletou & Co.'s list of South
ern bonds. That sounds well for
Amerlcus. -
The following correspondence has
been made public, and explains it
self:
Office ok President Gkorqia
State Alliance, L. F. Living
ston, President, Atlanta, Ga.,
September 10,1880—Governor John
B. Gordon, Executive Office, At
lanta, Ga.—Dear Sir: In your Con
yers speech, also your card in to
days Constitution, you reflect
severely upon me personally, and
give aB a reason that 1 wilfully
slandered you. This I deny,
made no charge that reflects on
your official or private character.
IJhave endeavored in all my walks
of life to live an honest and respect
able life and I am entirely ignor
ant of the gross misconduct to
which you refer. Believing that
my duty is first to seek au inter
view with you before going to the
public, that we may understand
each other touching so crave
matter, I ask that in company with
Colonel T. J. Lyon and Colonel
Wallace Bainard au interview,
hoping that a proper adjustment
may grow out of the personal con
ference. Most respectfully,
L. F. Livingston.
To which Governor Gordon
promptly replied as follows:
State of Georgia. Executive
Department, Atlanta, Ga., Sept.
10,1890.—Hon. L. F. Livingston,
Atlanta, Ga.—Dear Sir: Your note
of the 10th Inst, in which you say:
“I deny having rnado any jeharge
reflecting-upon your ofllclal or pri
vate character,” and in which you
aBk an Interview, has been recelved-
In view of your statement that
you have not made any charge re
flecting upon my ofllclal or private
character, I will see you at the Cap
itol this morning at 12 o'clock.
I will be pleased to have you
bring, as you suggest, the two gen
tlemen whom you name. Very re
spectfully, J. B- Gordon.
Atlanta, September 17.—The
undersigned, who aro friends to
Governor Gordon aud Colonel Liv
ingston, were present at the Inter
view proposed in the accompanying
correspondence. We are convinced,
after hearing the statement of each,
that there is no cause of grievance
between them. Colonel Livingston
reiterated the disclaimer contained
in his letter, and eald that he not
only had not made any' charge
against Governor Gordon, but that
If anyone had heard him say any
thing which could be coustrued into
a reflection upon Governor Gordon
In any way, he (Colonel Livingston)
had been misunderstood, and galdly
withdrew any such language.
Governor Gordon stated, after
hearing Colonel Livingston’s denial
of. all charges that could be con
strued Into any reflection upon him,
and also after he bad heard Colonel
Livingston’s .explanations, that he
was entirely statisfled and cheerful
ly withdrew all that he had said
that was offensive to Colonel Liv
ingston, or In any way reflected
upon him. Milton A. Candler,
H. Y. McCord,
T. J. Lyon,
Jack J. Spalding,
W. D. Elijs.
(Communicated.)
JOURNALISTIC WORK.
Why Some Succeed snd Why Some Do
Not.
Ponce In the South.
There has been such a systematic
eflort for years past on the part of
the politicians to show that the
South Is a lawless part of the coun
try that many people In the North
have tacitly accepted the statements
of these maligners of our fair sec
tion as "proofs of Holy Writ,” At
one time, before Northern capital
came surging into tbe South, and
Northern men followed in Its wake,
it was generally believed that it
was not safe to come South at
all. Without any reflections
on other parts of the coun
try, for we know that riots and
lawlessness will occur at times in
any community, however well reg
ulated, “Dixie” would like to call
attention to the fact that almost
every "strike” which has been
made on Southern railroads has
been readily settled by arbitration
between employers und employes,
and in no case have riots or acts of
violence taken place, nor has there
been need of the assistance of the
military or of Pinkerton detectives
to keep the peace. Neither cau the
Inst decade show in any part of the
South such troubles ns the An
archists wrought In Chicago, or
such riots us occurred in Cincinnati.
As we said before, this is not meant
as any aspersion on the communi
ties in the North where such
troubles have occurred, hut
we wish to call the attention
of the sensible thinking peo
ple of the North to the fact that the
Southern people of every class are
just as law-abiding and peaceable
as those of any other section of tbe
country. When, therefore, military
rule or supervision at the polls or
elsewhere Is urged as a measure of
either necessity or expediency on
the part of the Federal Government
toward tbe Houtb, wo merely reply
to the professional agitators of this
question, "Look *o tbe beam lu
your own eye before attending lu
the cinder in ours.”—Dixie.
Man that is born to a newspaper
life Is of a few days and they are
full of trouble. Throes of mental
anguish announce his advent on the
Sea of Journalism, and all along
through the checkered sceneB of his
life he Is heard to cry out—
"O, some times the shadows are deep,
And roufh seems the path to the goal,
And sorrows how often they sweep,
Like tempestdown over the soul.”
He launches bis boat on the un
tried ocean of Literature, and as
they loosen the pldnk that binds
her to the shores of his own brain
and she pushes out to try lior fate
among strangers as well as friends,
he watches with a painful Intensity
for to him that voyage means
life’s success or defeat. The ship
rides the main so proudly that
seems for awhile all Is well,but stay
Is there a cloud “no larger than
man’s hand” on that waste of wa
ters? or is it only imagination that
makes the watcher think that the
ship is swaying ever so slightly?
Presently the low inutterings of not
far distant thunder, warn the crew
to prepare for a fight to the death
with the storm king of the sea
Fiercer and fiercer blows the gale,
and the anxious watcher on the
shore sees the ship tossed by tbe
blackened waters till she can resist
the cruel lashing no longer, and
sees her go down a pitiful wreck
She carried with her a life’s hope,
a man’s best efforts—his all. Ah
well! Fortune—‘fickle Goddess that
she Is—does not favor every one
and there’s one more newspaper
man to realize it.
Again we have seen a modest
craft go out under not very favora
ble auspices, but sturdily and stub
bornly - fight her way through the
foam-crested billows of adversity
on and on across the waves of pub
lie opinion, with a determination
to win at the helm, and by a hard
fight, at last steam into port crown
ed with the laurels she has so nobly
won. The man who set her aflont
has devoted bis whole life to mak
ing that ship’s voyage a successful
one. He has tolled early and late,
catering to the public taste; gath
erlng news to regale his readers,
while the millions slept; with
heart as tender toward his editorial
sanctum as a mother toward her
first born, and now when the snows
of many winters have fallen on his
head and success has crowned his
efforts, he “wraps the drapery of
his couch above him, aud lays him
down to pleasant dreams.” As the
sands In the hour-glass of his life
run low and he brushes the dew
from the hanks of the mystic river,
if hard, faithful work receives com
pensation, verily the newspaper
man will have his reward.
YOUNG MAN, COME SOUTH.
The South Is the field for young
men. By young men, The Recor
der does not mean dudes, nor those
who want to draw fat salaries do
ing nothing. It means honest,hard
working young men, vho have a
competence to earn, and who are
ready to'put in good, solid work to
gain It.
Every branch of business is open.
There is more good land here than
the owners know what to do with.
There are thousands of acres of Um
berto be worked up,Including every
variety known to woodworkers,and
it can be bought cheap.
There Is a great demand for me
chanics, laborers, artisans, carpen
ters, and skilled ana unskilled la
bor of all kinds. Good wages are
paid, aud with it the privilege of
enjoying the best climate in the
world.
Industrious, careful young men
are sure to succeed. One year ago
a young man In Amerlcus was a
clerk. With a friend he bought out
his employer. In a few months he
bought his partner out, having to
go deeply into debt to do it. By
hard work, careful attention to his
business be has succeeded in clear
ing off his Indebtedness, and to-day
lias as fine a business as any man
In Americus, and he has been offer,
etl t'.vice the amount he paid for It.
This is but an Instance. The
Recorder knows of several cases
of Northern men who have settled
here in the past few years, and
without' an exception they have
prospered ami made money. But
they had to work. They could not
have succeeded had they Bat down
and waited for prosperity to call on
them.
The the young men of the North,
East or West, who hove a few hun
dred dollars and a disposition to
look after It, The Recorder oilers
no better place for them to invest
their money and energy than in
the South, and Southwest Georgia
particularly, and The Recorder
speaks from ten years of its own
experience.
Youug men, move South!
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WHEATLEY & ANSLEY.
The immense amount of trade
enjoyed by us the past week has
been highly satisfactory. In a,
great many instances we have
been unable to wait on all of tlie
trade, but we did our best, as we
always do, aud those customers
who failed to get waited on may
rest assured we did all in our
power to serve every one prompt
ly and satisfactorily without rush
ing them through.
The coming week wo will offer
exceptional values iu Black
Goods, Silks, Velvets, Henrietta
Cloths, Broadcloths and every
thing in the Dress Goods line.
We are very much crowded for
room, and in order to get it will
make you prices that you cannot
fail to appreciate.
The people of Americus have
long since found out where to get
what they want in quality, style
and price, and of course they
come to us.
That we appreciate this to the
full extent can be seen by look
ing over our stock and getting
our prices.
Magnificent lot of Novelty
Suits, opened yesterday, which
we are selling at $7.50, worth
anywhere from $10 to $12. Big
lino of colors.
Look at eur Black and Colored
all-wool Henriettas at 50c., 75c.,
89c. and $1.00.
WHEATLEY & ANSLEY.
New - Quarters,
Artesian Block (opp. well.)
Gas Fixtures.
Large stock of Sanitary Goods and Globe,
Angle Sand Check Valves. Guage Cocks,
Guage Glasses. Full line of all sizes
Wrought Iron Pipe, Gas and Steam fittings,
Late Styles Water Closets, Bath Tubs,
Basins, Open Lavatories, &c.
We are still prepared to do
ALL KINDS OF
A Bure Kidney and Bladdoi
temedy—W. W. o'.
and invite bids from all having that class of
work who want it done well and? promptly*
Call and see us in our new quarters.
Harris & Payne.
Telephone No. 12. .
Sept. 14, ’90,
R. T BYRD,
FIRE AND LIFE
REPRESENTS TBE SAFEST AND STRONGEST COMPANIES IN THE W0RLC.
Insurance Placed on City and Country Property.
O lice **ii Jackson Street, two door* north of Telegraph Office.
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