Recorder
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F, L. <51 ESSNF.U, t : : : : Editor.
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Official Or|M of Sumter County.
Official Organ of County.
FRIDAY, * - JANUARY 2, 1890.
The AMERICUS RKCORDRK Ih publluned
Dally and Weekly, during the year.
The Daix.y Recokiikk In isnued every
morning except Monday*, during the year,
at 50c per month, orfH.00 per yeAr.
The Weekly Rkcoui>i?k In lHHued every
Friday morning, at 1100 per year payable
In advance. Hints the largest circulation
any paper in RouthweHt Georgia, clrcula-
ting largely in thecountieN of Humter, Lee,
Terrell, Stewart, WebHter, Schley, Marlon*
Macon, Dooly and Wilcox.
Entered at Americus I'oHt-Offlceas second
e nss matter.
All comniunlcallonN Hhould l»o addreHHed
to AMEIUCUH P1THMHHING CO.
• ii4E COMING YEAR'S WORK.
America lias laid out u big years
. wor)c to be done iu 181)1. If she Is
to jieepthe prominence she has at'
tallied the past twelve montliH
Christman of ’ill will find near
12,000 people in her incorporated
limits, to say nothing af numeroiiH
new industries, factories, stores,
and hufidreds of dwelling houses.
But what is best needed for
Americus in the coining year?
The Recorder would answer:
First, a good, live energetic hoard
of Trade. A board that every mer
chant in Atnericti* would he a
member of, and an active member.
It may he that the Commercial
Club will give us such an organiza
tion— probably nut as a Hoard of
Trade—but something 'hat will an-
• swer the same purpose. This board,
or organization, should make it its
particular duty to advertise Ameri-
cub; to see that every prospector is
shown over llie city, and if there is
an opening for his line of business
that would be profitable, w.e that
he lias the encouragement and
backing necessary. Properly looked
after, such an organization could
locate a dozen no v industries in
the next twelve months, not one
of wliich are now in operation
.if’here.
Second, Americus needs a com
pany which will build* houses and
soil them on the installment plan.
Just look at the available building
sites there arc in the city limits, all
easy i*f access. Such a company
does not need a large working cap-
ital—125,000 or $.'>0,(100 would be
ample, as every hotii-e. as soon as
m completed, \v< uld begin lo bring
money into tlie treasury. A large
body of land for building purposes
could he bought now for a reason
able sum, and that the housescould
be icuted goes without question.
Such a company, besides making a
good profit, would be doing a great
work for the city, for every new
Conn r would buy iu preference to
rentier, and. cv«rv citizen would
.increase our population and our
VERY SHORT SIGHTED.
L*rry Gautt, of the Athens Ban
ner, is responsible for a good many
queer ideas, but his late denuncia
tion of the Legislature audits work
is probably the worst lie has yet
fathered. Listen at this:
“The body lias passed no hills of
importance, and by its vascillating
cour-e has succeeded iu making
the members a laughing stock for
the public. They would pass a law'
one day and leconsider it the next.
GOOD ROADS.
Luckily for the farmers in the
South, and Houth west Georgia par
ticularly, very little bad weather is
had, and as a consequence good
roads are tlie rule, and not the ex
ception. And yet Sumter county
LITERARY NOTES.
r Play at
• HC-
The only tiling of any importance j ous over bad hills, year after year
they accomplished was to still fur
tlier tax the whites to educate ne
groes. While our colored popula
tion only pay $40,000 in taxes, tills
Legislature has voted $400,000 for
the schooling of black children.
All the important bills were laid
over until the next session, as an
excuse for further wrangling and
vascillatiou.”
Tlie above can only be excused or
forgiven on tlie ground of igno
rance, and the Banner editor surely
would not enter that plea. It is a
notable, fact that the legislature
just adjourned accomplished more
than any previous one. True, they
went there determined to do aw ay
with the summer session, and they
tried hard to.do so, hut tlie volume
of business forced on them by their
Constituents left no alternative hut
to have a summer session, leave the
business undone, or continue the
winter session for a month or more.
The summer session is a necessity
on account of the hundreds of local
bills. If a way could be prepared
whereby these bills could he at
tended to by the courts, it would
make a forty day’s session a possi
bility.
As to the school appropriation,
tlie whites are willing to help edu
cate tlie negroes, if by so doing
they can secure good schools. Tlie
cost is willingly borne.
Editor Gantt ca..not reconcile
himself to Gordon’s election, and
as a result he is placing himself
and his paper iu a bad light. This
is not like Larry, for a more whole-
souled gentleman never lived. Ac
cept Gordon’s election, give even
the legislature its dues, and you
will enjoy a happier Christmas, is
The Recorder’s advice to him.
William Allen Butler - 11 coll ‘
tribute to Harper’s We 1 ? l’ ub "
Halted P.i-cmber 31st a Jig I’Oem
I descriptive of tlie Bat
I Oberrammergau, which *H
a scries? illustra
10U "iapl takeu at
.... present.-Hon f the I ,l ». v -
It is passing strap* that farmers j ‘fo |tbe“
writer con11ibuted to |H 8an? '* * u " I
nodical that popular >etical-atii
lias some roads that could be vast- < com pan e >\
ly improved with a little judicious J l j OM8
work now and then.
will wear out their teams aud wag- ! 1
when a few hours good work two
or three times a year will make
these hills so easy to get over that
they w’ill no' he noticed. Public
sentiment, in this county, at leant,
seems to be against a county chain-
gang, the argument against it be
ing that the good one would
“Nothing to Wt a»\" ,e l’ er *
r.-.-t liujrarv prodmif’" of lts
written in lliis.-nui'T. Tlie l' oe, “
.,n “Oi crammerg;
Ifiting to a theme
written iu qtF'e :i
'do i probably please a Uige n number |
would not justify the expense. I of readers ns '• '* r ’
This may may be true, tlmugli Tilt: j eur.ier eft'j—
Recorder is inclined to believe j The Foru lor January,
that after one year’s trial of a chain The .January* on,m °l‘ eUH
" although rc-
diHerent, aud j
•tlier style, will !
' fa- ,
vith
gang the farmers would largely fa- { a review ' f ihfdor.izatiou and di-
! ..... * 4 #}(>\vn to date, and
a map, by Prof.
vor it. %
Good roads have a great deal to
do with marketing the crops, and
also with the cost of marketing.
Many farmers have to repair their
wagons as regularly as they visit a
town, one or two had hills causing
a break dowu. The road Jaws are
very lax, ami are not enforced, but
the fault lies with those whom the
law was intended to benefit. Oc
casionally a few road commission
ers get a working tit on them, and
for a few’ days several miles of road
are lightly scraped over, to be
worked again, probably, iu a couple
of years.
If every farmer would see to it
that the road opposite his planta
tion was always in good order
there would be little need of road
laws.
exit syste'
present
would n ‘
Hires in-°
not exi>
cause I
t« ni ofndir
and tl* carl
era I txatlo:
THE CENTRAL’S NEW DEPOT.
A “MARE’S NEST.’
The Rome Tribune thinks it has
found a “mare’s nest’’ iu the ap
pointment of Judge McCutchen on
tlie betterments commission. It
charges that McCutchen is a warm
personal friend of Gov. Brown, aud
lie was appointed in order to get
Brown to agree lo tlie finding of
tlie commission.
This is a severe reflection on Gov.
Northern
The Governor answ» rs the charge
at length in an interview in Mon
day’s Constitution, in which he
explains how ho came to appoint
Me' utclien, and that bis old con
nection with the Icsf-ees was dis
cussed before and after his appoint
ment.
Tlie Tribune does not charge
Gqv. Northen with being a party to
any trade, but says lie “simply
made a u.is.ake in Ids judgment.”
Judging by tlie Tribune’s stand-
The General Manager and Superintend
ent Here Yesterday.
Work will be begun on the now
depot of the Central road early iu
next month, possibly next week.
So it has been ordered, and so it
will he done.
General Manager Gahbett and
SuperiutendeutJMcIveuzie arrive*
in Ame*icus yesterday morning I’d’
the purpose of looking over tIt*
grounds. They stayed onl> a f*w
hours, leaving on tlie early uft*r-
lioon train, but remained bug
enough to make Huai arrangeupnts
for the erection of the depot . "hey
see how badly it is needed, and
how deficient the one now used is
with such a large amount of fratlic.
Recognizing this, 'he hulking of
the new one will be begun as fjuick
as possible, and next week will in
all probability witness the breaking
ofdiit. When finished it if to he
a beauty, and we will have as coil
veuient and pretty a c.ep »t as is on
the line.
vision of Afrit
accompanied *
I'.inilM il.- I.fieye. ' 1 ’ hi ” io 11 r0 ‘ j
curd oi tl. ° r j
^(p].»!ii/atio., ;Ver Utuh-rtakeu, and j
ji„ lullin'nci"» 'he future °1 «Ivili-
z*itiou PHiirf yet l-B recouad. Mr. j
Thomas (. HieaniiMM writes an
, ;iH y ci:s>li yii “ "ho Coming Billion- |
Hire,” lo tl* I under tin* pr-a j
of federal taxation our i
•o - lui :i d re d - in i! 1 lo mil r e s
Rsarily become billion-
•y yean-; hut he dots)
! a liillionairo i.t all, be-
regards the present .->*•
taxatlcn as doomed
arlv coming of direct fed- -
!«>;i as inevitable.
I’rridou' J. C. l'rnv, of Livings- j
ton college, N. bim^»*lf a color- ,
od nan, di'-cusscs tin- «jiie*lTon =
wli'hcr 1 !ie negroes si*!, social
cqHlity with the whites. Main- j
ta'dng that bis race dots not seek j
Htitu equality, lie argues that to
sek it of to expect it thiough legis
y,tion would be futile and absurd.
f m- 1 iograidiical essay this mouth
sly l'ie.-Jdciil Dwight, of Yale,
vho points the relative advan-
iagt-s Irom hi- point of view of the
conimeri ial life and of the life of a
teacher. Eliza Lynn Linton, after
showing til* inadequacy of marri
age in certain ways, argues the ne
cessity of nndntainiug it as the*
very preservation .if society.
The Rev. Charles Dana Board-
man, of Philadelphia, writes of
“Conservative Progress” in church,
in politics, and in society;
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HUDSON & BLALOCl
Lawyers,
Americus. - - Ga.
Partnership min d tor.
linrr'v, which mm
law ; Edmund < iossi
future of poetry as «
arts : Mr. O *ei I is? S
the construction ;i
railwavs migiu !»♦
even rev*)liitioni/ed
I). ( hamoji;:. Jr.,
t b
of real
• subject to I
dies of the |
f tiie great j
show*, how
i 1 ■ ov d and j
and M r. John i
Chewacla Lime. 1
The Best in tlie South.
Plaster Paris,
Cement
and Hair
At wav*, on hand,
FOR THE CASH
A. J. HAMIL’S, Agent.
.11*■» Cotton \ venue,
Hamil Blo^k Americus, Ha.
For Sale.
T. L. HOLTJi
ITTOfINEV AND.
A AT LAW* AbtjevJ
tii-e l|i all lii«ronutleNfP
fct IimiI ii.n k'.v, h :•
t > my care.
PHYSIC! AT
J. M. R. WES
j>HVsii I \ N A N J
G. T. Mil
|)ll VSICI A N AN I
S 11. HAWKINS,.-
Hawk'ns
PHYSICIANS /l
Americus!
Tiro Cusp
weatll-. I aril, any lawyer who may become
There are a number of other I eourmel for a railroad must eyer
things Unit are badly needed, j after abalalu from aervice for the
Country |iroduce la bardjlo get, and I Stale, on the ground of "prejudice.”
half we cm;,nine i* shipped here. [ Kor the life of ua, we cannot aee
Scvin.i line i.-farm, would pay ! anything wring- in McCiitcheii’a
h-rd.-iie a- would a pou’try I appointment, even acknowledging
yard. Sever.I good dairy farina 1 Mint (je is a warm pcraomil friend
could sell all tii • blitter and milk it of (lov. Mrowu, and waa once an
could supply at twice the price* 't the road We are aat-
.. . , , ; istled the people—at least in tliis
that prevu:. ui the r^orth. 1 he»e ! Me4 , ( ( on —prefer Gov. Northen’H
:;rc a few -f the things we need that judgment to the Tribune’s,
require but little money, though
With small industries like these
successfully iiDitir»irat.*.l, the larger
ones would, naturally I II w.
THE iNVESTIGAI iOii.
fli regard to the in ve-tigatioti
whicn was male of the charges
against MeCuue, Polk ami Living
ston at Ocala, the Southern Alli
ance Farmer editorially sa \ *:
The committee on iiivestigut.oi),
which was demanded l»y lirothetH
Maeuue, Polk ami Livingston, cum.
piei- .,> e.v.’iotielalevl tho»«- u-nlie-
from all of the Infam ..is
which had been man*
hem. One o?*th« hrethr :i
sec! to object to an exliop.
Dr. Maeuue because <f
atating that once having
retary-treas-
Alliance and
once, lie de-
THE RECORDER'S CHRISTMAS.
J The stall’of The Recorder was
exceedingly favored on Christmas.
| A half a dozen boxes of cltoice
cigars, several quarts of good old
Bourbon, egg nnggs without men
tion, and oth*r compliments of tlie
season were among tlie gifts of tlie
day, to say nothing of a first-class
Christmas dinner. For such kindly
remembrances we feel deeply
grateful.
If Your House is on Fire
You put water on the burning tim
bers, not on the smoke. And if
you htwf£ catarrh you should attack
the disease iu tlie blood, not in
>« e.r nose. Remove the impure
omse, and the loeal effect subsides.
To do this, take Hood’s Sarsapa-
lilU. the gretW blood purifier,
which radically and permanently
cures catarrh. It also strengthens
the nerves. Be sure to gqf.^nJy
The Owner.* of the Country.
Ayearago Mr. ThomasG. Shear
man showed in the Fonim that one
half of the national wealth wa-«
o w tied J by 40,000 families, that Miree
sevenths of it was owued by 21o.oro
families, and tliat theie were 70
American estates averaging ??•*>,-
000,000 each. The statement was
contracted. But lie sliov** in the
January Forum, in his prophecy of
‘The Coming Billouiaire,” not only
that his figures have not been dis
credit ed, but that they could not be,
for in the large majority worthy
private information. Some of this
information has been derived from
bo Us, some from lists of securities,
some from tax returns, and some
from statements of the owners
themselves. In short, there have
been only three cases where any
error has been established. But
there have been errors of under
statement which fully balance all
possible eriorsof overstatement.
, ho
• ■'I'll|>|»<'•! •IniMi.r’s j
Sts, w Jasboa St;::!,
U. iM-ral >urg* r\ mid it,, trol
EVE, EAR, THltOAT
I’-rw.i’e. hMMim d. i.
Tiie mo
•due
:u?H Z‘
The Davenport Drug Company
hare made a large purchase of \V.
W. C., Wooldridge’s Wonderful
Cure, tlie greatest Blood Purifier
and family medicine now on the
market, for tlie purpose of supply
ing the trade throughout this sec
tion. Rend them your orders, and
save freights front distaut points.
We are impatiently awaiting Mr.
Gould’s 15th of January, when
money will be a “drug” oil thy
marketr Mr. G. must have meuiit
smother January.
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■SCHIFFMANN S ASTHMA CUHEH
TaflUnily Miovi-a tit* mott si. Ipot sttivck *nd In-
i , uri*f r..inf..ri*t't*4pt»-^p No vnlltiiK i*.rrr-nltn.
Jieinir uh*,| |,jr mhaUtion, »t« action launm^UX**.
murincpn th* ir.w
tnuitispiece \ i|v
, American j b.'',’
ie J annul y j r. -"
number of tlie Cosmopolitan. It is |
a n production in colors of Fran-
cois Fiameng’s famous picture, I of t
“The Cake m ’I ’ and can scarce- I ar!
l\ l e ili‘-mn’Uish* d from tiie im- j °J‘ t
ported photogravure which i ex- j
hibiit d in the dealers’indows, at j
tin* pr!••«* of <7 copy. It is one of ;
the finest of subjects, and is
well worth framing aud preserva
tion. i'ne Cosmopolitan ha* be
come noted of bite for its frontis
piece, ,i ml this very much txecB
it- piw'otis cfijrls.
T'ln* (’osmopolirau ran up from a
Itl.OOO ‘‘dition at tlie close of D^S, to
loi.iMtotopics I>.*c«*mber ls«»o. This
reinarKalue i»•«•*•* use has kept pace
witli tiie change iu tlie character of
tiie i.ames wliich appeared upon its
tab!** of con:cuts. Among those
for January are Mr-. Van Rens-
selut-r Crugvr, Frank* Dempster
Sherman, Henry George, William
H. Rideing, Hja’mar Hjorth Boye-
sen, IMward Everett Hale, Ger
trude Franklin Atherton, Murat j
Halstead, John J. a’Becket, Col. j
Charles W. Lamed. F. (>. C. Dar- j
by 'posthumous', Elizabeth Bit-, y. .
laud, probably as «trong a colls*-'
tion of names as ever appeared in
any number of an illustrated maga
zine iu tii is country.
The number eontnius the first of
two paits of Mrs. Van Rensselaer
Cruger’s m*w tmv*»i, Madeu»oiw»i|(»
Reseda, i*r*.nonn••«*<! by critics who
have retd P M»e best «>f
her work. Mr- Cruger a woman
win is iurt!inu*i> ••cquaitFe 1 vitii
fasliioxie.blc circle both in rhi*-
country and abroad. Site writes in
a realistic manner, without any <■!
the ntleiwiviMiess * f M*C :*v»rage
realism. .Th** next arthb in ,ri
portanee from the u ol Miss
Hi-iaml, describing a visit the
Ih op!. D Ihiiace u L nd»u. A
most iutejesting po.-,thum«>us pap* r
by F. O. r. >».’ by, w.tn i,i„ ou„
illustrations, is;,,-., *i Vel
el’s clever story, Den (Gracias,!.*,
j illustrated in a noble mauiu ■ tlie
( well-known actors, fSothern and
Iss Earnetf, liavmg cousenUd to . ■»>
the aituatio!4s of the novel, ^
produced iu
DU. A. li. il I IS. KLE ha
< i«H’k at nluhl.
SUFFERERS
: O I*: -
Youthful Errors
W. L. Builar
Ibis .1th Av
lie, ColUiiibus,
*vh, CHitfrrli, *
n In York, bond*
e-iiiVwly. \
DENTISTS.
all
all
in
** Sumter, not t-» Viiv ,,,,
*.v i.-.mllv. They ran
**it in** ln>.t w*.*'k. atnl
'<* i* im.' iln n, hu<‘k In
hi!,!:. . ;11y \v In- n. f h
‘•hr.,! m. My ehihir
• • arln . » ml,i
M/./i**, fn*l l.i/a Full*-
\ tlUhK in I .ill Mu in I
. ■lll-t
DR. W* P. BURT.
I ) , i N | T ! V, - t I'ul'or** m
J. J- WORSHAM.
Dental pnrltrs over National
dec lu tl.
i to I*-
• hut as In*
l a »e i» F t
iiilll the- <-OhL of Hoisting HHV*-i1 to
S!.*r. k* u|.«-*. Rutelierh. Farm* rs,
Ma* n»nKt«, RiiUiierK ami (’ontrac-
lors, an,I otlnis A*lmltt**I t*> he
the en-ateat Improv* mi
tackle Hlocks Freight
SHOEMAKERS.
P. R- STANFIELD*
|>K \« Tl At, SHOEMAKERan«l repair-
I • ’ . \il- rt<*u».(iu. ltl palriiiK anpccli' .l>
SHHOLSEY*
|>'"»I AN'DsltnK MaKEK. Kt-paning
1 * » spe- ally. Shop n|> Htair» over Arthur
R.' 'tul* s atioe store.
CONTRACTORS.
"iAM STEVENS. COL~
/ tONT : ACTOR, Ih prepared to do - -
t km*;, of bundliitf.iml moving at roaao
able pr. es Wind luillR u speoluity.
INSUi; INCE.
IKf AND ACCIDENT T |-hJ"c^
it. M.T.A.UC.NN, A*
Trouble Brewii
B.ii l the h. A. SI. or the (]
g*i the freight on
bail’s Immense
OK
Hem* un-,1 l,y mhalivtion, it* set
dtruU »ucl rertuiu, aniacura
cunbl^etai. A tingle tri^l r
ekrptfe.il. Crfee, boo, and #1
„ ’ 'Free 1,-I
Knights of Ho^or Garden
'11*1,1
jllHl boginult'i
ii fur Ooinpet'^
“truggie for ,
eomiiieiiceJI
llrat .rvud. All kuii
kee)"tl,t‘ beat of ,.,y
get lit! Callar
UveryFdJ
