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Recorder
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W. L. CLK9S.VKK,
Otttcial Organ of Snmtor County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
FRIDAV, - DECEMBER 26, 1800.
The AMKRICUS KCOORDER 1. publls.ied
Dally and Weekly, ilurine the year.
The Daily Recorder U Iseoed every
morning except Mondaya, during the year,
at SOe per month, or M.00 per year.
The Wkkkly Recorder U laaued every
Friday morning, at II00 per year payable
in advance. Ithaa the large.t circulation
any paper in Southweat Georgia,circula
ting largely In the conntlea of Bumter, Lee,
Tpr „n, Mtewart, Webater, Schley. Marlon’
Macon, Dooly and Wilcox.
Entered at Amerlcua Poat-Offlceaeaecond
c aaa matter.
AH communication* should be addreaaed
to' americus publishing CO,
Cbriatmaa buyers and sellers are
happy these days.
Gen. Alexander laughs at the
idea that he will give up the presi
dency of the Central road.
There can be no complaint about
the legislature not working now.
They want to get home for Christ
mas.
The members of the Gate City
Guards will doubtless not monkey
with a program printer at the next
drill.
Here’s hoping The Recorder
readers—and that includes eveiy-
body—will have a merry Christmas
week.
Judge Fort’s appointment seems
to be the most popular one ever
mpdeby a Governor of Georgia.
Every paper In the State is pleased
with it—the Augusta Chronicle ex
cepted.
The newspapers have about set'
tied it that it is a want of confi
dence and not a lack of cash that
has caused all this flurry. But
who is to blame, the banks which
have the cash, or the people who
have the confidence ?
What a bright, warm, pleasant
day yesterday was! The iky was
as blue, and the air as pleasant as a
day in June. Who would live else
where than in the South, when
such days can be enjoyed? Ah
but Southwest Georgia is a glorious
country!
Some Northern capitalists are
trying to lay the blame of the
money market flurry on the plant
ers, saying they are withholding
millions of bales of ootton from the
market. Bless your soul, they are
holdluglt because they can’t do
anything else with it.
The Augusta Chronicle does but
give Americus justice In the edlUx
rial we republish this morning.
Americus may, or may not, be a
“storm center," as the Chroniole
says, but she is determined to stand
up for her rights, and to stand by
the men who helped give them to
her.
It Is said that the Terminal com
pany owns $900,000 worth of Geor
gia bonds. Some of our zealous
contemporaries ought to make a
note of this, and petition the legis
lature to enaot a law against suoh a
soulless corporation being the
State’s creditor to such an amount.
CHRISTMAS CONTRASTS.
What a contrast In the Chlstmas
days of the South and North! In
one, cold, biting winds, heavy snow
storms, and impassable roads; in
the other, bright, warm, cheery
days, with just enough of the
North wind to bring roses to the
girls cheeks and make out-of-door
life a pleasure.
And such a difference lu the way
of celebrating the day! Christmas
in the South resembles In a great
measure the Fourth of July in the
Northern States. In regard to the
small boy and bis tin horn, though,
they both are alike.
If for once the seasons could be
reversed, and the South have a big
snow storm to makegood sleighing,
and the North have a warm, sum
mer day, it would doubly ennance
the pleasure of both sections. As
it is, neither can kuoworapprecla’e
the pleasures of the other. The
Northern Christmas day isos likely
to bo cold, raw, with a freezing
sleet, as it is to be a day for sleigh-
ing parties. In regard to the weath
er, the South is more certain of a
nice, clear day, with a warm sun,
that the North Is of even passable
out door weather.
With all due regard to the pleas
ures of skating, coasting and
sleighing of the North, Christmas
day in all its glory is only to be
found in the South. Here the open
hearted hospitality of the people, a
previous heirloom from past gener
ations, makes the day doubly glad
and welcome. Here the old En
glish custom still exists of fami
lies coming together around the
table for a yearly meeting, a joy
ous greeting, and a communion of
love. Strangers are welcomed and
made to forget that they are far
from home. A feeling of peace
permeates each heart until it over
flows with good cheer to all. What
a glorious day is Christmas, and
bow we all love it, and look for
ward to it. What a heritage
Christ gave us In this day of
“peace, and good will to all men. 1
We should love it, and keep it,
reverence and observe It.
Elder McGehee, presiding elder
of the Americus district, reported
in the Methodist conference the
other day that three new churches
had been built and paid for, and
there was less than $260 due on pas
tor’s salaries for the past year.
This Is what the Bishop called a
“wonderful report.”
The Times, of Brunswick, usually
an accurate paper, and one or two
other papers less acourate, had the
legislature adjourned Saturday
night. These papers should give
their Atlanta correspondents a
raking over the coals, or compell
them to remain out of bed until
.news events are attended to prop-
erly.
Jnat ns Albany was rejoicing over
Its new dummy engine a coal fam
ine uo along, and the little steam
ho. nj had to be put Into its stable
until ooal becomes easier.—Bruns
wick Times.
This must be a mistake. The Al
bany News assuredjTHB Recorder
that under no ciroumstances would
the street railroad atop operations
—It would be ahead of Americas at
least that much.
A WORD TO THE WISE.
The Atlanta Journal, a bright and
lively paper, has the following
double leaded satirloal editorial,
the inference of which is obvious
And so the Honorable Mr. Jay
Gould is going to oome down here
and try to pull a few tall feathers
out of the unsophisticated in these
parts.
We warn him to beware.
Mr. Gould is a sharp one in his
line, but he doesn’t know every
thing.
It he is coming to put the sorews
to the weak and helpless and to
squeeze people and wreck railroads
he will succeed. He is up to snuff
and a plnoh or two over when
comes to that.
But we bear that this able patri
ot has the presidential bee in his
bonnet, having been misled by Dr.
Macune’s theory that what the
country needs Is "ooncert of action
between the farmers and the rail
roads."
If the railroad monopolists aud
Wall street speculators are to run
the politics of the State and coun
try, the people are entitled to have
the straight goods, and Jason Is
that kind of a man.
But we notify Mr. Gould that if
he lends any money to men who
are “long” on influence and
’short" on bonk account he will
get left.
A word to the wise is as good as
wheat Rt the mill.
From Mr. Gould’s record, which
Is quite well known, it is very safe
to say that when he londs any
money on “influence," the said in
fluence will have to have an iron
olad mortgage attached to it.
It Is rumored that Gen. Alexan
der will retire from the presidency
of the Central system. The Re
corder hopes this Is not so, as
Gen. Alexander has given the Cen
tral splendid service, and built up
the road more in the past two
years than had been done before in
ten. He has utterly changed Its
policy, and it no longer fights and.
quarrels with everybody and ev
erything.
WILL BUILD TWO.
Bays yesterday’s Albany News:
We find in yesterday’s issue of
The Americus Recorder the fol
lowing paragraph giving the result
of the aforesaid contemplated ac
tion:
“At the meeting yesterday noth
ing definite was done, but It may
be stated as almost certain that the
Amerlous people will oontlnue to
have a street oar service.”
And In another part of the same
paper under the head of “Sidewalk
Talk” we find the following:
“Young business men should not
allow the street railroad to stop—
not for a moment,” said a visitor
yesterday. “Even if it don’t pay
expenses, it is a big advertisement
to you, and before many years it
will be the best paying institution
in the city.”
The visitor was right. Suoh en
terprises are not only an advertise'
ment, but they are publio con
veniences and Albany is going
right along building two street rail
roads. When we get them built
we are going to keep them running
too.
As our Albany neighbor has
doubtless found, through The Re
corder, by this time, the street
cars here have been discontinued
for thirty days. Should the coal
famine come to an end soon, the
cars will doubtless be put on be
fore that time. Never fear, Amer
icus will continue to head the pro
cession.
I wish the world knew how good
a remedy Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla la
for general debility and llfelessness.
It gave me strength when I was
weak and my health was failing.
I enjoy life for the first time In
years.—Mrs. J. D. Goode, Ports
mouth, Ohio.
A SOLID CITY.
While the bard times are press'
ing our neighbors, and big firms
are going to the wall dally, Araeri
ous shows on what a solid basis she
is built. Not a failure has been re'
corded among the hundreds of bus
iness houses lu this city, and they
bid fair to withstand the financial
depression with a clean record.
The reason of this Is that Arnerl
cus business men are, above all
things, conservative. They work
with ample capital, aud do not al
low themselves to buy beyond
their means to pay. As a natural
consequence Americus Is rated
high In the financial world, and
can command capital when other
places would be denied.
A few days ago a dally paper In
a certain Georgia town loudly
boasted that Its city was rated by
commercial agency as the best in
Georgia. A day or two afterwards
one of the oldest and largest firms
In that place went to the wall, and
it is rumored will carry several
others with them.
Perhaps The Recorder is boast
ing too soon; wj hope not. At any
rate, the past record will bear us
out in the assertion that Americus
has fewer failures in proportion to
population than any city in Geor
g's-
Life is Misery
To thousands of people who have
the taint of scrofula in their blood
The agonies caused by the uread'
fui running sores and otber man!
testations of this disease are be'
yond description. There is noother
remedy equal to Hood’s Sarsaparll
la for scrofula, salt rbeum and ev
ery form of blood disease. It Is
reasonably sure to benefit all who
give it a fair trial. Be sure to get
Hood’s.
THEY CONDEMN IT.
Ellavllle Lodge No. 32, of Schley
county, express its opinion in the
following resolutions:
Whereas, villainous and slander
ous lies have been circulated to the
detriment of our noble and high
cause, the Farmers’ Alliance and
Laborers Union.
Resolved 1st, That we, the mem
ben of Ellavllle Lodge No 32, do
most emphatically condemn suoh,
and that we hold in perfect con
tempt ail men and papers who will
stoop to suoh means to accomplish
their political ends.
Resolved 2nd, That we heartily
renew our highest confidence in the
Integrity and faithfulness of our
State and National officers, believ
ing them to be pure and unselfish
in their efforts to advance the Alli
ance cause.
Resolved 3rd, That we unqualt-
flediy condemn the course of our
Alllanoe brethren in the LeglsU'
ture in voting for John B. Gordon
for U. S. Senator. All true alllanoe
men should look well to the elec'
tlon of their successors and select
men who have nerve and brain to
resist the entreaties of polltloal
demagogues.
Resolved 4th, That we request
the Schley County News aud
Southern Alliance Farmer to pub'
llsh these resolutions. Unani
mously adopted Dec. 13th, 1890.
R. T. Bivens, Pres.
C. R. Tonder, 8eo’t.
“Don’t hang to my skirts and
cry so,” said mamma, to her
pevlsh and pale looking little girl.
Ah! mother, if you would give It
Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers it
would soon feel well, and content
edly play with Its blooks and toys.
A Fine Turnout.
Yesterday Mr. C. A. LeBter, of
Sohley county, drove Into the city
one of the' finest three hundred
dollar horses ever seen on our
streets, puIlinganeatOUver buggy,
the best lu the world. He said
that his wife had sent him down
after Col. E. G. Simmons to go out
and spend the holidays with them,
that she always remembers old
friends. The Colonel regrets very
much that business prevents him
from going.
For sorofula in every form
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is a radioal,
reliable remedy. It has an
equalled record of cures.
To Be Bold St Publio Outcry.
The stock of merchandise of Mad
dox & Perkins, which firm was re
cently olosed by tbe sheriff, will be
sold at public outcry," beginning
January 11th and continuing from
day to day. The stock Is a large
one and will attract a crowd of
mrchasera. Tbe advertisement of
he sale will be found In The Re
corder.
New Firm. New Goods. New Quarters
TULLIS & McLENDON
DEALERS IN
HARDWARE!
STOVES AND
Best Qualities of Paints, Oils and Builders’ Material
Agents for the Celebrated HARVE8T STOVES and GRATES.
Agents for tbe Celebrated Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine.
TRi t gabies Bnd’W agons
WAGON AND BUGGY MATERIALS-
SADDLERY AND.HARNESS- CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE,
AND A SPECIALXINE OF CUTLERY, WOOD AND WILLOWWARE, ETC
We specially Invite the trading public to call and examine our goods
and prices. We beep tbe best, as well as the cheapest goods in this
market, aud will give our customers tbe value of their money.
Tullis’ old Stand, 433 and 435 Cotton Ave.
AMERICUS, Q-A.
novflsAwly
WE ARE ON THE TOP R0DNE
CARTERS
IE LABGB6T
STOCK
AT T3EM L0TYK?
TBIOEtf.
GALL AND SEE US.
Calvin Carter and Sen.
■CALL AND SEE-
vT_ W_
He
At his new quarters on Cotton Avenue, under Hawkins House,
keeps the finest
Wines, Whiskies. Cigars, Etc., Etc.
in town. He always has'on tap kegs of the
Famous Cook. Beer,
The BEST Beer ever sold in Americus.
Fancy Drinks at Lowest Living Prices!
He keeps nothing but first-class goods, and don’t charge fanoy prices
tor them. GIVE ME A CALL.
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FIRE iiND lIFE INSURANCE
REPRESENTS THE SAFEST A40 STRONGEST COMPANIES IN TH* ViORLL.
Insurance Placed on City sad Country Property,
i ’(lice on Jackson Street, .wo doom north of Telegraph Office.
E- A. HAWKINS.
A ttorney at l\w. omc* n ....
od Urauberry corner. n P • klr.
SIMMONS & KIMBROUGH "
ATOWoeV^"
A TTORNEwTaT LAW^Anie,
A Office In Barlow Block, np fill
America*, n.
op Hair*.
WALTER K. WHEATLEv
A ttorney at law, omi,
Jackson stroet, up-atalra. Julyts-lv^ 1
ROBtTl- MAYNARD."
atalra,
Street, an
seplM*w3m“ P
E. F. Hinton. e. h . c
HINTON fit CUTTS-
A?t2te»fd Y Ked?ril A Coir^lS e ciVv h e'r
Hart Building, on For.ytti atreet. °™
mar 1 ly
ANSLEY & ANSLEY.
art. In tlio Hupreme Court, aud tbe ’United
MIhIpaI nnp m.scu
W. P* WALLACE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Amerlcu*. Oa.
National KTnk Office o'u,
d- A. HIXON.
I TTORNEY AT LAW, Amerlcu* Oa
L Offlce In Bugley building, opr'oilu
ourt House. Prompt attention given to
Llbuslnesh. I* nS-ti.
W. B. Gummy. DuPont GuzRtr.
Amerlcu*, Oa. Mucon, Oa
GUERRY&SON;
T, A 'V, Y & I V?- Amerlcu*, Oa. Office In Peo-
U pie’s National Hank Building, Lamar
•treet. Will practice In Numtcr Superior
and County Court., and In the Supreme
Court. Our Junior will regularly attend
tbe acs,lone of the Superior Court. The
firm will take *peelal cue* In any Superior
Court on Southwestern Railroad.
L. J. BLALOCK
Of Amerlcu*.
HUDSON & BLALOCK,
Lawyers,
Americus. - - Ga.
Partnership limited to civil eaaei. Offlce
ip atalrr on corner of Lee oud Lamar
•treats, near Artesian Well, In Artesian
Block. dec9v-ly.
T. L. HOLTON,
ATMSKj:
tlcelnall thocountlenoftheHtate. Prompt
PHYBICIAN AND UBOEON8.
J. M. R. WESTBROOK, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Offlce
X residence, next bouse to C. A. Hunting-
ton, Church etreet. fob 7 tr
G. T. MILLER. M- D.
B. B. HAWKINS, Hr., C. A. BROOKS’
Telephone 86. Telephone 7J
Hawkins A Brooks.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Americus, Georgia
COfflce In second story in old Grantory
JSorner, Calls by telephone, or left at*
dridgo's drag store, promptlyattentlor
rnlgl
UorsJluiU.
Have one of the beet furnlancd and beet
equipped doctor's offices In the South
General Surgery and the treatment of the
BYE, BAS, THROAT and ROBB a
specialty.
Por*onn having defective vision will de
well to call and have their eyei carefully
examined » ud tested.aud glasses fitted
■ultub:o to the eye.
DB. A. B. HINKLE haerecently taken
a p*- mihI «xt»n<ie<i course of special In
struction at it o New \ork Poet Graduate
Hohool and Hospital.
OFFICE HOUBS:
F0 A M to 1;30 PM and 2:90 PM to 6:00 P
M and on Tneadaya, Thursdays and Satur
days from 7 to 0 o’clock at night.
W. L Bullard
(1108 6th Avenue, Columbus, Ok
Blindness, Deafness, Catarrh, etc. Eye
Ear, Throat and Nose diseases exclusively.
Hospital advantages In New York. London
end Vienna. o-iUwly.
tnchlOdAwif
AU pill* ta pottebeard boro*, pink wrappers, are
4r. Is auiapz ter portkaUr*, latleerinU, ud ' — _
*UftvarttiSi cms? ©miche*™
Spring medicine ie now wanted,
for, If you are out of eorte, and feel
badly, P. P. P. Ie the remedy to
take and get strong and Invigor
ated.
Cbriatmaa la with us, and those
who can afford the annual turkey
ahonld be happy In thlz, tbe year
of 1890, when cotton cannot bring
caab.
■Fob Impure or thin Blood, Weakness Ho-
[krla, Neuralgia, Indigeetlon, and Bmotu-
!*•*, take Brown’s lion Bitten—it give,
ftrength, making old penoaa Reel young—
tad yoaag ponooz atroag; plasma t to take.
tor many years used autism $
ribed by Physicians, but only),
:ently introduced generally, «
I DH.GROSVENOR'S
;Ueapsi<
■ plasters.!
(The beat Porous Plaster nfl
Bfor all aches, painsand weak pi j
JUnlike other plasters, so be SB I
(and get the genuine with the plcOl
pure of a bell on the back-cloth, j
KXOSVZNOR& RtC^B
SUFFERERS
:OF:
Youthful Errors
Lott Manhood, Gariy Decay, etc.,
etc., can secure a home treatise free
• addressing a fellow eufferer, C.
. Leek, P. O. Box; 316, Roanoke,
Virginia.
on
| Half theoootof Hoisting saved to
f tore,
i i tho greatest improvement esar
1 made In tackle Blocks FrelgM
—ipald. Write for catalogue
'. ruuroa Iron A Engine works,
I' Established 16K. 10 BRUSH Or.,
Dxteoit, Midi.
For Sale.
880 acres—One of the most desirable
reserved, on which the owner says he wll
make this year about 35 hales of cotton anl
1,‘JX) bushels of corn. Land* mostly level
and easily cultivated; with a railroad flag
station on 8. and W. railroad. I think one
of the most—if not the most—productive
farms near Americus.
•pt7*tfo
ASTHMA CURED
Knights op honor
The Lodge tn Amerlous Is over ten years
Insures for tZjlOO. Assessment# light
Sweet and cheapest life Insurance. For
nformatlon apply to
. D. K. BRINSON.
“•S’ IT- Heporart
CHANGE OF BASE.
My Beal Estate and Inanrance office It
note at tho Tax Collector's office In tho
new Court House, where I will be glad to
serve mj friends as usual.
Mkrrel Callaway,
Real Estate and Insurance AgenL
FOR SALE.
Fire shares of stock of the first series of
ths Americas Mutual Building and Loan
Association. Apply to H.M. Brown or J.
B. Felder, SOT Jaeknon atreet.
DR. W. P. BURT,
TtENTIST. Dental parlors over Gren-
U berry’s store.
_ DR. d. J. WORSHAM.
D ENTIST. Dental parlors over Natloasl
llunk. dec 10 tf.
SHOEMAKERS.
P. R. STANFIELD*
"PRACTICAL SHOEMAKER and repair-
JT er, Amerlous, Ga. Repairing a special!)
S* H- HOLSEY.
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Repairing
D a specialty. Shop np stairs over Arthur
itylander’a shoe store.
CONTRACTORS.
SAM STEVENS. COL-.
(TONTRAOTO R, Is prepared to do any
V kinds of bultdlngand moving at reason-
able prices. Wind mills a specialty.
INSURANCE.
Trouble Brewing
Shall the S. A. M. or tbe Central
get the freight on
Hail’s Immense Stock
GardenSeeds
That are Jast beglnnlbg to arrive.
Listen for Competitive rate*.
The straggle for Pearl Onion
Seta baa commenced—first comes,
first served. All know that HALT
keeps the best of everything—don
get left! Coll at
Everybody knows where it is.