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Recorder
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XV, L. OLESSNER,
I I Editor.
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webstar County.
FRIDAY. - - OCTOBER 17.1890
The AKKBICu. Recorder la publlxoed
Dully and Weekly, during the year.
The Daily Recorder la Isaued every
morning except Mondays, during the year,
at 50c per month, or *8.00 per year.
The Weekly Kecobder la laaued every
Friday morning, at *100 per year payable
tn advance. It haa the largest circulation
any paper In Southwest Georgia, circula
ting largely In the counties of Sumter, lee,
Terrell, Stewart, Webster, Schley. Marlon'
Macon, Dooly and Wilcox,
Enteredat Amerlcua Poat-Offlceaa second
0'. aes matter. ... ,. '
All communications should be addressed
.to AMERICU8 PUBLISHING CO.
The Atlanta Journal now In
timates that Wall street is fighting
Gordon.
Gov. Gordon is fighting his battle
for the Senate as he fought them in
the war—he will hold on to the last
moment.
Now that the Alliance of Schley
county have passed resolutions op.
posing Gordon, bow will the Sell
ley Representative vote?
The Augusta Chronicle,one of his
strongest supporters, did not pub
llsh Gordon's letter. If it did, The
Recorder failed to see it.
It has been proven now that Pick'
ett, the independent candidate for
Congress in the Ninth district, is a
deserter from the Confederate army
The Piedmont Exposition opens
to-morrow morning, and it prom
ises to be the finest yet given
Thousands from Southwest Geor
gia will attend.
Home of the State papers have
taken up their old ery of “burden
some freight charges,” now that
that the legislature is soon to meet.
The Recorder would like to have
a case of this kind pointed out.
The papers are not Inclined to let
Rube Burrows aloue even now that
be is dead. Every particular of
his life that can be told is put in
print, and one man is having pho
tographs of the dead robber put on
sale in Atlanta.
State Lecturer Beck, of the Alli
ance, has been mentioned as a can
didate for the Senate. Ex-Gov
Smith, it ie said, will soon sby his
ca -for into the ring for that office.
iS case he does, he will get many
votes In this section.
•Xbe Atlanta Journal's Washing
ton correspondent says that when
the news of Rube Burrows being
killed reached Washington an en
terprising paper tried to interview
Ed. Barrett on the question, but
Barrett was found to be loaded, and
was left alone.
The new air ships which are to be
manufactured by a *50,000,000 com-
p—f’armell, Illinois, promise
great tuiugs to the people, but as
yet there has been none, turned
loose on a long suffe-ing, patiently
waiting public.
The Constitution and Journal have
bad their papers stopped in the
postofflee on account of a gift dis
tribution advertisement in each.
The Vienna Progress is running an
advertisement of that kind, and it
may be the next paper to suffer
confiscation.
The'Augusta Newsmoten the fset
. that Maj. J. F. Hanson has swal
lowed the sub-treasury bill, and
should be a candidate for Senator.
Maj. Hanson has swallowed worse
things than the sub-treasury Dill—
if large sized dishes of crow could
be considered as such.
Larry Gantt calls upon Martin
Calvin to resign from the legisla
ture, since he announced he would
vote for Gordon, as instructed by
the Democratic primary which
nominated him. The Recorder
believes Mr. Calvin did only Ills
duty in announcing he would sup
port Gordon.
The Brunswick Times takes occa
sion, in a column article, to defend
the "Jeffersonians” of the fifth dis
trict. If the “Jells” had not pub
licly eudorsed the candidacy of the
Republican candidate, they might
be more entitled to sympathy
and encouragement, but The Re
corder cannot see how any Demo
cratic paper can encourage them
since that action.
From the large number of real
estate transfers last week, which
The Recorder publishes this
morning, it would seem that deals
m real estate are picking up again.
After the big advance in prices
In the spring, dealers took a rest
for several months, but now that
cotton has been coming in freely,
and money ia plentiful, It looks
like there would be s great deal of
activity in real estate In the next
few months.
FILLING THEIR POCKETS
The two most prominent bills
which were paused by the late
Congress and became laws—the
silver coinage act and the tariff
bill, have been the means of enrich
ing many of the Republicans who
were on the inside and got pointers
on the legislation about to be en
acted. Postmaster-General Wan-
namaker advertise# In the Phila
delphia papers that bis firm had
laid out a big lot of tinware in an
ticipation of the newly increased
tariff on tin—though not a pound
is made in this country—and he
now offers it at a small reduction
from what the price now will be,
with the tariff added, thus pocket
ing the big difference that the in
creased tariff gives him.
It is boldly stated that a pool of
Senators, Congressmen and news
paper men invested heavily in sil
ver bullion just before the silver
bill was passed, as they saw what
shape the bill would be when it be
came a law, and as a consequence
they pocketed near a million in
money, one Senator’s share being
about *£0,000.
The importers of New York,
though, don’t like the new tariff
bill, although a great majority of
them will reap rioh harvests
on the goods they managed to
get through the Custom House
before the new law went into effect.
They say it would make the price
of the necessities of life higher,
while the luxuries will become
cheaper.
The Democratic party ueeds a
tariff champion with the logic of
Cleveland, the eloquence of the
late Henry W. Grady, and the
courage and nerve of a lion, who
will take the stump, showing to the
farmers aud laborers of the North,
West and East what an Iniquitous
measure the Dew tariff law is, and
he should be able to bring this
truth home to them by some sim
ple example that all could under
stand. When such a man is found,
there will be such an uprising of
the people as will shake the Re
publican patty to Its very bones.
HOW ABOUT COOKS?
There threatens to be a cook fain
iue in Amerlcus soon, unless some
thing is done to supply the demand
The great building boom has caus
ed wages to go up for all kinds of
labor, and unskilled hands can get
from |1 to *1.50 per day for work.
As it only takes one day’s work to
feed a negro and his family a week
the “colored lady” tlatly refuses to
do any work, except In her own
domicile. As a natural conse
quence cooks of any kind are hard
to get, and wages have doubled in
tbe past few months.
This may seem a trivial matter
to the unitlated, but to men of
families and housekeepers it is
serious question. One well known
landlady, who runs a large board
ing house, has recently declared
that she will haye to quit, and dis
charge all her boarders, as she finds
It Impossible to get and retain
good cooks or servants, even at tbe
most exorbitant rates. A restau
rant man says he will soon take
a trip up the country and try and
secure two white cooks, as he can
not keep the native ones long
enough to get up two meals in suc
cession.
Borne weeks ago The Recorder
suggested that tbe ladies of the city
get together and import a number
of Swedes to do the household work,
and the plan is being considerably
discussed. In Montgomery the same
trouble Is being experienced, aud
already some fifty Bwede girls hnvo
been sent for, a Swedish gentle
man during the negotiating. Wher
ever these girls have been received
in any sufficient number to make a
small oniony they are said to do
well, and The Recorder knows
by personal experience that they
make the best of helps, doing bb
much work as two or three negro
women, though they have to be
paid about twice as much as a ne
gro servaut. But then they have
no large families to feed from the
kitchen, aud are to be depended
upon, not being afflicted with
“miseries” In the back, and are not
required to attend one or more fu
uerals every week.
The Recorder again recom
mends this plan to the housewives
of Amerlcus.
A UNITED FRONT.
A few days ago tbe Constitution,
in a double leaded editorial, openly
proclaimed its opposition to that
Iniquitous measure kuowu as the
MoKluley tariff bill. The Consti
tution, while acknowledging that
Rat one time leaned to a protective
tariff, now freely acknowledges its
error, aud believes in it tariff for in
cidental protection only.
The Recorder congratulates its
esteemed contemporary, and be
lieves that what it says is from Us
heart—that while it at one time was
inclined to a protective tariff, It was
because it thought that such
a measure was for the benefit
of the new Southern industries. In
the hands of the Democratic party
The Recorder Is free to confess
that this might be so,’as the duties
could then be so arranged as to
benefit Southern as well as North
ern industries, but as long as the
government is in the control of the
Republicans the Southern people
cannot expect any aid from the
tariff laws— they must look only to
their own good business judgment
and the natural advantages this
country possesses to advance their
interests.
With this stand of the able Con
stitution, the rock ribbed
Democracy of Georgia is
able to present a solid
froLttothe Republican party, and
any sympathy and help they may
get from the South they will have
to rely on .Boss Buck aud his gang
for, and recent developments have
shown how weajt, from a voting
standpoint, that part of the Repub
lican party of tbe State is.
In the next Presidential conven
tion the Democratic party should
send a solid tarlfl-for-reveuue-only
delegation, and if this delegation
could intluence the nomination of
Grover Cleveland, there is no doubt
but that ho would be elected by an
overwhelming vote.
The Recorder believes that the
new tariff bill liaB already shown
to the business men of the country
that they can expect no help from
OPPOSED TO GORDON.
We find the following in the last
issue of the Schley County News:
At their regular meeting at Ella-
ville, Oct., 2d the Schley County
Alliance unanimously passed the
foltowtng: “Resolved, That it is the
sense of this Alliance that we do
not favor the election- of John B.
Gordon, for United States Senator.
2nd, That the Schley County News
and the Southern Alliance Farmer
bo requested to publish these reso
lutions.
“T. H. Wilkinson,
“Secretary County Alliance,”
The Becorder makes the pre
diction that when the next census
rolls around Sumter will bo one of
tbe six counties which will be en
titled to three representatives. Six
thousand population mors would
do It now.
tbe Republican party, as it
owned, body and soul, by those
manufacturers who profit by the
high tariff which Is now a law in
our land.
Let the Georgia Democracy pro
sent a solid front on this question
GOYGORDON'S LETTER.
In a long letter in the Coustitu
tiou yesterday Gov. Gordon discus
ses his candidacy for the Senate
though, to use Ills own words, he
“cannot believe it necessary.” The
charges against him he discusses
under seven point
He says it was not uulil he found
himself traduced and slandered
that he struck back at those who
had slandered him. He denies lm-
phatlcally that ha has opposed the
Alliance. Coming down to near
the time he made the speech op
posing the sub-treasury bill, he
says:
“I so spoke in LaGraugo at the
State Agricultural Convention
where probably four-fifths were Al-
liancemau, which convention
unanimously endorsed me for tno
Senate. I so spoke at the first
State Alliance two years ago at tlio
old oapltol. I so spoke at the State
Alliance in August last in the new
capitol. I so spoke of the great
danger from the money power and
corporate monopolies iu Eatonton
ana everywhere else wherever my
volee has been heard. Yet these
enemies of mine persist In charg
lug me with begin an enemy of tbe
Alliauce aud the agent of the mon
ey power,
He refers to many of hts speeches
when he encouraged the farmers
aud advised them to organize, but
fails outirely to mention tbe sub-
treasury bill—the bill that has kick
ed up all the fuss.
The letter is directed "to the peo
ple of Georgia, in aud out of the
Alliance,” and is undoubtedly in
tended to place himself on a better
footing with the Alliauce.
SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.
Mr. John J. Brantley sends out
the following notice :
The Second Annual Convention
of the Young People's Society of
Christian Endeavor throughout the
States of Georgia aud Alabama
will be held on October 28th and
29th, 1890, at Marietta, Ga.
Each Society In the two States Is
entitled to two or more delegates
besides the pastor. Tickets will be
on sale all over Georgia on the 28th
at one cent per mile each way to
Atlanta, good for five days, and
a rate of fifty cents for the round
trip from Atlanta to Marietta has
been secured.
Au especial feature of the pro
gram will bo the paBtors hour, par
ticipated In by pastors from all
over the two Slates.
Many prominent Christian work
ers will be present. All delegates
and pastors will be cordially wel
comed, and the homes of Mari
etta’s hospitable people thrown
pen to them. For further partic-
liars, address John T. Brantley,
acting secretary, Marietta, Ga.
I unhesitatingly recommend
Bull’s Sarsaparilla as a cure for
syphllltlo blood poison, scrofula
and all diseases of the skin and
jfiands.—Dr. Knapp, Lewlsport,
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY.
Col. J, H. Estlll aud hts estima
ble wife celebrated the twenty-fifth
anniversary of their married life
on Friday night of last week, Oot.
11th. Notwithstanding their twen
ty-five years of married life they
are both young or at least not be-
youd middle age.
In these twenty-five years Col.
Extill lias accomplished a great
deal—wonders, one might say. On
hix wedding night, twenty-five
years ago, lie was pressman on the
Savannah Morning News, and had
engaged a substitute to fill his
place that night. The substitute
railed to appear, and soon after he
was married he had to leave his
bride and his guests and go to the
office to get out the paper, or it
would not have appeared that
morning. Even this little incident
shows what the man Is made of.
Now he Is owner of the News,
one of the finest fitted up offices In
the South, has a magnificent job,
book-binding and engraving plant,
and owns three or four street rail
roads, is president or director of al
most every company in Savannah,
and is one of tho most reliable,
pleasant, affable men in the South.
For twenty years he held; the po
sition of president of tho Georgia
Press Association, and there Is not
an editor in the State but rejoices
at his good fortune—for It came to
him by hard, persistent work and
systematic effort.
May Col. aud Mrs. J. H. Estill
live long aud prosper is the wish of
Thf. Recorder.
THE TARIFF VS. CIGARS.
Those who use the weed are gen
erally people of contented minds,
and It requires considerable to ruf
fle their complacency. But just
Dow Mr. McKinley is coming in
for a good round lot of rather florid
and emphatic abuse, aud It is all
on account of cigars.
The importers of foreign tobacco
have raisejj prices almost simul
taneously with the new tariff
schedule becoming a law. This
schedule raises the duties on im
ported tobacco to over twice what
it formerly was. In consequence,
the price of imported cigars are
going up, aud away up nt that.
A really good imported
cigar now selle for twenty-five cents,
when it formerly cost but half that
amount. If it was only the import
ed cigars that are effected, it would
only be the wealthy people who
would have to pay, but nearly all
good cigars are wrapped with Im
ported leaf, aud either the manu
facturers must raise the prlco or use
domestic tobacco, and when tho
price is raised, theu you catch tho
average smoker, and the average
sinoaer Is generally a poor man—i
mechanic, a laborer, a clerk,
somo working man.
This is protection with u veu
geuce, and Ib also a queer way to re
duce the revenues—the object aim
ed at by the bill. Undoubtedly it
will reduce the revenue of tbe
smoker, but tbe Government will
get it in the end, aud not the manu
facturer or tho olgar maker,
simply adds an additional tax on
tho people.
And in a measure this Is what
nine-tenths of the tariff does. Not
a cent does It protect the working
man. In most cases it aids the
manufacturer make larger profits
but the factory hands never see the
benefit.
Down with the robber tariff!
Turn the rascals out!
COVERING COTTON.
Tbe Columbus Enquirer-Sun of
yestorday contained a well written
editorial giving some good advice
to planters about covering cotton
The Enquirer-Sun says that if ev
ery planter would use eight yards
of bagging for covering and side
strips, and make the bales ouly 450
pounds, instead of 500, it would
make a difference of 15 per cent. In
the number of bales marketed, and
make *1.6Rjmoro than is nowpaldfor
each bale. The sum total iu a crop
of 7,000,000 bales, would amount to
*1,743,000, enough, as tbe Enquirer-
Sun says, “to begin a little sub-
treasury of their own."
It Is a well known fact that pros
perous, thorough going planters
pay particular attention to baling
their cotton, and cotton buyers pre
fer to buy cotton well baled than
bales with few ties and light bag
ging. One farmer of Sumter county
puts up his cotton so nicely that the
hales are called “express packages"
at the warehouses, and this farmer
has always made money.
The suggestion of the Euqulrer-
Sun seems to be a very good one.
It should be worthy of considera
tion, at least, as the writer has un
doubtedly studied the question very
thoroughly.
DRESS GOODS
Are flying thick and fast! %
Our stock is simply unap
proachable as to completion.
Thousands of dollars worth of
stuff recently added to the stock,
Great many specially attractive
things the coming week.
Silks and Black Goods in the
greatest profusion.
Look at our Henrietta Cloths
at 75 cts. and §1, in both blacks
and colors.
The largest line Broadcloths in
Sonth Georgia. Prices way down.
Extra good values in Flannels
and Blankets.
Magnificent stock of Notting
ham Lace Curtains, Chenille Cur
tains, Silk and Madras Curtains
and Porteeres; ranging in price
from $1.75 to $25 a pair. If you
want to furnish your house in
anything of the kind come and
seo us.
If you want anything in dry
goods, Dress Goods and Gents
Furnishing goods como and see
WHEATLEY & ANSLEY.
Our neighboring couuty of
Dooly will have two representative
in the legislature after the new ap
pointment Is made. This Is causeds
by a great increaqp In its popula
tion, largely attributed to the magio
olty of the pines—Cordele. The
Becorder extends Us hearty con
gratulations.
New • Quarters,
Artesian Block (opp. well.)
Gas Fixtures.
Large stock of Sanitary Goods and Globe,
Angle’and 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
and invite bids from all having that class of
work who xyant it done well and promptlv,
_Calliand seeius in our new quarters.
Harris & Payne.
Telephone No.112.
Sept. 14, >90,
FOB SALE.
One farm, 725 acros, throo miles from Amoricus.
One farm, GOO acres, near Leslie, on S. A. M. R. B., twelve
miles from Amoricus, about 350 acres cleared, 10 new tenant houses
on place. This is one of the finest cotton farms in Georgia; wifi l)®
sold at a bargain. Also several houses And vacant lots in American.
Call ou
W. d. Baynes efts Son,
» Forsyth St., Recorder Building. aMERICUS.-OA.