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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1891.
NUMBER 15
DRY
GOODS
Out The Bottom Drops.
TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY
FALSE ISSUE VERY
POINTED OUT.
No Cl*** Kale In the Land of Washington,
Jefferson and Jackson—We are all Amer
cans, and all Stand on a Dead Level—
Equal Rights for All.
m D. WHEATLEY
Determined to dispose of the immense and
varied stock now upon his shelves, has knocked
prices and profits into a cocked hat, for the
esent week.
For a tew days we are going to wake up the
natives with low prices* No surface shaving,
but To The Core, is the way I am CUTTING
PRICES to reduce stock.
Read and Consider the Following:
All Prints at -
Cotton Challies
All Ginghams at
yd.
5c per
5c per
8c per yd.
yd.
Toile Du Nord Chambray, 10c.
BIG CORSET SALE
$1.25*0. B. CORSET,
$1.00 C. B. CORSET,
$1.25 KABO CORSET,
$1.00 KABO CORSET,
$1.00.
.85.
1.00.
.85.
Black Silk Gloves only 40c.
DRESS GOODS
h Silk, Woolens, Liaens, Lawns, etc. will be
sold at reduced figures.
This is no wild cat chance game, but
tootiy business. We wish to impress you
rtth the fact that no summer goods will go
ito winter quarters. They are for sale and
0 they must.
^ KEEP OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS.
To The Times-Recobdeh:
I have beard or read the speeches of
Ur. Livingston, before and since bis
election, and for .two years past I bare
been a constant reader of the Southern
Alliance Farmer.
Ii has been my desire during all this
time, to get from the president or the
organ of the state alliance some word of
kindness or even of faint recognition in
behalf of those of our citizens who by
chance or inclination or necessity, were
battling for existence in the towns in
stead of the country.
Uy search has not been in vain, for in
last week’s issue of the Fanner, I was
glad to find this utterance^“We, the
agricultural, laboring and industrial
classes, backed by the sensible and
liberal sentiment in the trades and pro
fessions, must carry on this W9rk of re
form.” The words quoted are few and
short, but they contain at least a morsel
of comfort for that unfortunate numbor
whom President Livingston denominates
“those fellows on the outride." All of
ns can't, won’t, or don’t get on tlio "in
side,” for wo belong to the “trades and
professions," of which the alliance
editor speaks; yet the future for the
worthy towns-people becomos more
hopeful when the expounders of the
new political dispensation aro willing to
admit that the reform Inaugurated by
the farmers needs to be "backed” at all
by anybody’s influence wbo does not
raise corn and cotton for a livelihood,
The acknowledgment of Editor Harry or
Larry, though tardy, is assuring, for
it seems to recognize, in some degree,
the fact that other classes as well as
farmers are interested in the laws of a
country.Equality must be the shibboleth,
Without faithful and patriotic obedience
from all to this governing axiom, there
can only come agitation and disorder.
Will not those who are called the
modern “leaders” adopt and promul
gate this wholesome truth, remembering
that the “trades and professions” are
part and parcel of this great republic.
Bound by nature, by association, by
Instinct, by self-interest, and by
common suffering, our entire people,
whether from town or country, should
be one In thought and purpose, as they
are In destiny and blood.
The man or paper that would preaeh a
different doctrine may ride into present
success upon the wave of prejudice of
its own creating, but when, In the dawn-
lng, the light is turned on, and the mists
have cleared away, these pestering in.
•truments will be despised as the verita
ble enemies of a confiding publio.
Anxious hearts without number are
found in every place, and the spectre of
want and poverty stalks abroad over
country and city alike. Many a mer
chant of whom so much has been re
cently heard is racked by the thought of
impending failure on his account of
indulgence in great part to his country
customers. Notwithstanding this, his
fullest sympathies go out toward the
planter, realizing too truly that the
same republican legislation of the past
thirty years which has well nigh
wrought his own financial ruin has also
rendered his customers helpless.
There is a remedy for these inequali
ties under which our whole people suf
fer, whether tradesman, producer or la
borer; but It does not lie in crimination
and recrimination of our own friends
and kindred, who preferring the sharp
competitions of business, have|seen fit
to dwell in the towns. Still less is the
remedy to be fouud in pronouncing the
democratic party false or making the
charge of treachery against those Into
whose hands In by-gone days we commit
alliancemen themselves, who, day by
day in this and other states, see an or-
ganlzation which they love, which their
conservatism has built up, and which
has within itself the elements of untold
good for the whole country, torn by in
ternal dissension, and its best energies
frittered away in the interest of a fresh
set of place hunters whose cry is “turn
the rascals out and put us In.”
I am a farmer, the son and grandson
of farmers, and every motion of my
spirit goes out toward the planting in.
tcrest. IVhat can be done for its ad
vancement is a question that every pa
triot asks, and whatever remedy can
be had in righteous legislation, a Demo
cratic congress will hasten to offer when
once in power.
The good farmers of my county and
section have had so much good advice
given them of late by the genuino apos
tles of the new school of orthodoxy,that I
amjsure they-will pardon me if I vouch
safe a little of my own.
] ; will be years, my friends, before
thi political complexion of the senate
cai possibly bo changed, and when that
cb age transpires there is no earthly
ho e of the passage of the sub-treasury
bil. All disinterested men will tell you
thi i. But its provisions aro alluring, and
make tho best rallying cry for vote* of
any measure before the public. Orators
In jthiindance will paint its beauties until
yon can almost see the evils disap
pear and the blessings come nnder the
action of this blessed panacea. Better
that wo all, town and country, stand to>
getlier and work out our own salvation,
“The gods help them that help them'
solves." Build your warehouses, your
own banks and exchanges, co-operative
st< res and ginneries and factories. All
of ibis and more you can do without the
aii of tho demagogues, and the sure re
tui n of old democracy to power will help
yo i in tire grand undertaking.
Merrkl Callaway.
AS OTHERS SEE DS.
I Seville, Helena and Lyons are thriving
I young cities started Into life by this
| great company. AH along tho fine of
A DOWN-EASTER VISITS AMERICUS, the Savannah, Anierlcus * Montgomery
AND GIVES HIS I railroad, impiytant properties are owned
by the Investment Company. The com-
impreMlou. to the Cambridge, Mas.., P an T mako a specialty of southern in-
Tribune-The New South Focused in the vestments, stock bonds and collaterals,
prosperity of America., and H.r Great I a ® d for Outside partlos, and in-
Growth Commented on. | vites correspondence from New England.
The Bank of .ymericu* is a flourish
ing institution, doing the leading bust-
Under the heading of the “New I nflM of the city. The capital is *150,000
South,” Mr. Edward J. Staok writes a wU h a surplus of *100,000. The depos-
glowing account of his Impressions of|itg are $203,509.07. S. H. Hawkins,
our deepest cuts are in fine soodb.
Bo not f&il to heed the above as I am in
ttnest.
„ Se assured that you will be the loser if
^ fio not come.
Kn n wur
tedour political interests.
No kind of legislation 1b going to give
[the poor man money, however tempting
the promises of the latter-day states
men. The duty of the hour is to har
monize, not distract. No relief can bo
bad without a democratic senate as well
os a democratic house. It will be bard
to dislodge the money power from its
strong Intrenchment, and the first lesson
toward tills end is to work and wait.
Surely, mischievous appeals, charges of
democratic treachery, “educating" the
farmers and arousing their prejudices
by this damnable twaddle of town
against country, will not accomplish the
desired result.
It is not the province of tills article to
discuss the merits or demerits of the
farmer’s movement Southern demo
crats, with few exceptions, have ever
realized the justness of their demands.
The sub-treasury and land' loan .
Ions alono have provoked divisl
sentiment; tho slmple’question hci
lug one of method—how heat to
the object for which all aro
Thin variance in opinion is
HiM
Plain. Alliance No. SOL
The Times-Hecohdeh: An article in
Southern Alliance Farmer,' of the 7th
inst, beaded “A Victory,” goes on as
follows:
•JA strenuous effort was made to or
ganize a disaffected element in the Sum
ter County Alliance, and put in a county
president who was opposed to our pro
gressive and aggressive reform, aud
who was opposed to the Ocala platform
and to President Livlngton, but It failed.
On the other hand, the advance guard of
this order in Sumter won the day, and
disgruntled forces were routed
n Friday last the county alliance met
endorsed President Livingston, aud
mmended W. A. Wilson of Sumter,
vice president for the state, and
cted Hon. D. C. N. Burkhalter for
president of the county alliance.
This was a complete Waterloo to the
my. Perhaps outside parties won’t
to dictate county presidents for the
e again soon.
..the undersigned committee, ap-
nted by said sub-alliance,' aro au-
rized and instructed to assert our
ltics, and to deny the above charges,
tated.
to our loyalty to the order, we in-
an investigation of our past record,
to the Ocala platform, we stand true
the alliance order by accepting It.
And In reply to the main thrust at us,
wo beg to state that because we saw fit
to support Dr. Q. A. Harper in the elec
tion of county president, in preference
to;the Hon. D. C. N. Burkhalter, (who
was elected), we fail to see why we
should be termed enemies of the order.
The position taken by the friends of
Dr. Harper was, as we claim, perfectly
legitimate, and just the same ns was
taken by the other side.
Now, in regard, to said charges, we
emphatically denounce them as untrue,
and demand the evidence oq, which suoh
charges are based.
We are opposed to clashing within
our ranks, but we think that ■ such an
article os the above should he explained
and the name of the author given. And
this we demand of the Southern Alli
ance Farmer. T. W. Griffin,
S. B. Glass,
C. C. Jerxigax, ’
Committee.
this city to his home psper, the Cam- president; H. C. Bagley, vice-president,
bridge Tribune, from which the follow- an d yf_ e. Murphy, cashier. The stock
ing extracts are taken, concerning some holders of this Institution are Indlvldu-
of our leading Institutions and bouses: ally liable.
The people of Americus have spent Johnson* Harrold established busl-
about $4,000,000 in industrial enter- Less in 1800, and Is the oldest firm In
prlsos and Improvements during the last the city. For over thirty years thla
twelve months, and, as a result, Ameri- fi rm ]jas been closely identified With the
cus is growing at a rapid rate, and huge business of the city, and have given lib-
brick buildings are observable all I crally of their energy and means to ad-
tbrough the city. In 1885 the populo-1 vance Americus. Toward tho building
tion of this place was about 4,000. A 0 f the late railroad enterprises, whloh
year later the Americus, Preston * have done so much for Americus, they
Lumpkin railroad was built, and things have been the largest subscribers. This
in 1887 were improved by the extension firm do** the leading ootton business of
of this road to Savannah, when its name the city, handling about 15,000 bales a
was changed to Savannah, Americus * year, and furnishing supplies to five ad-
Montgomery railroad. In 1888 a line of joining counties. They also carry on
boats were put on the Ocmulgee from a banking business under the name of
Abbeville. This brought about compe- the Harrold Banking Company. They
tition and brought down freight rates, are large owners of real estate, and the
Changed from a way-station to a oom- building in which they carry on their
potlng point, tho merchants Immediately business is, without doubt, the finest in
felt the bonefit, as the prices of all man- the city.
ner of goods shared In the reduction, Americus is one of the growing cities
and Americus came forward as a leading of Georgia, with a population to-day of
distributing point for this part of tho 10,000. Money Invested in the real cs-
country. Americus gets today Eastern tate of the city admits of a very certain >
freight rates equal to Macon, Columbus increaso, with not very long to wait.
or Eufaula, and her western rates are be-
ing reduced through the agency of the Th ® Tn * ot War.
S. A. M. railroad. To The Tuieb-Recorder: The fol-
The Savannah, Americus * Montgom- lowing clipping from your Issue of
cry railroad has proved a great devel- July 25 would have been noticed sooner,
oper of the town. Tbelr headquarters but a press of business, In handling onr
aro located here and they pay $600,000 a Immense traffio at this point, prevented:
year in salaries alone. The mileage of “now this is time.”
this road is 200 miles, 100 of which Is tn On Junes; Mr. C. H. Byrd had a car of
operation from the Chattahoochee river I corn » C. C. C. A St. L. 8901. shipped from Na-
to L3r , 0 te lt f m 50 t mlle> T tIonal ,*° “r
complete it to Montgomery is now under] tions. ■ Now Ofti.ls time,” savs Mr. JohnT.
Construction. The development that I Arfo, c. F. A P. a'., or the Savannah, Auiori-
haa taken place in the southern portion «“• * Montgomery system to a Times-Rg-
of the state, as a direct resalt of the "ZTi “ Tw,Qlv " llne
Twenty-nine days be-
. „„ ,, , , tween Nakomls and Americus Is good (1)
building of the Savannah, Americus * ,i me ,, V en Iftheydid trytopntitoff on the
Montgomery railroad, has attracted the 18., A. A M. while It was routed and came
attention of the entire state, and the the other way,” concluded Mr. Argo,
timber and agricultural lauds along the ^b*® car wa * twent y da Y* to° m Na-
llne have Increased considerably in komls, III., to Americus, and reached
value. About 00 large saw mills have kg™ v,a ’ B - v - * E * R - but the delay
Wready been located on the line, „| t h w*» denriy no fauH of ours, as the sblp-
an average dally cut of 1,000,000 feet, I “® nt wa * ™»*ed care “Cincinnati
The commercial fertilizer business Southern,” (a branch of the Eaat Ton-
amounts to 40,000 tons, or 400 care per 1 ”**••?) an J waa Intended to go from Cln-
nnnum, and over 200,000 bales of cotton 1 0,n o|M to Helena, Ga., entirely over
are handled yearly. All this will be In- tha fc *J r,t ®m. and tbence via S. A. * M.
creased when the line reaches Mont- to |lmerlcus; but It seems that tho
goraery. "Dinky" waa difficult to locate. Even
The future of Amerlcui Is bright I ^eir strongest ally (the East Tennessee)
with a thousand promises that are sure fa,lln 8 to ™“®®ber just where this
of fulfillment. The $4,000,000 spent In I “Grand Trunk Line” was located, and
tbefcar that has passed will be more|***» r dragging the car aronnd over tho
than duplicated tn the ..year that le to I c ?i ntr J * n va * n sear °bi finally got it
come. Never was tluire In any place IW tLe u - & G - Columbus, and
more unity and more enthusiasm on tbej k * r * ,1 8 there, that the “Argo Dummy
part of citizens than in Americus to-day. ] Lln “” was In this direction, tho oar wa*
A cotton factory with $100,000 oapltal promptly flr « d ,nto Americus by passen-
Is one of the coming season’s new enter-16 er bwln.
prises. The Hotel Alhambra, designed by Friend Argo, we respectfully suggest
Mr. G. L. Norman of Atlanta, and erect- that in “Hclting the next shipment, yon
ed by the Americas Improvement cam- promise to route It via “Gatewood,” or
pany, will bo ready for occupancy'by I "J 111 *® J°b n i" or “Argo-nought," and
September 1. and will be the prettiest *° connections that they may
building this side of St. Augustine. It know exactly where to find you, and
Is situated near the centre of the city avoid these very unkind newspaper cuts
and fronting three streets, being two, I at ‘b® “ old Kemble,” and her thousands
three and four stories high on two of the °* ot first-class track and splendid
- . . . .. - . A# trlnntttvv tvlaiwU
streets, and three, four and five stories service. Want of Identity Is plainly
high on the other. Lovely arcadee SSd w bat killed you this time,
. . A ’ -as AS S.liJi I RAH
Respectfully,
Central Railroad.
missive towers form attractive features|
of the building, which cost about $180,-
000.
For % yadius of seventy milee Ameri- Preparing for tha Fall Trade,
cus Is surrounded by a farming section Notwithstanding the cry of many peo-
that has no superior. Her ootton erop I pie that time* are duU and cash scarce,
alone represents $3,500,000. The farm-1 yet Tub Tums-Rrcordeb notices that
Letter List.
The following unclaimed letters will
be sent to the dead letter office if not
called for in ten days. Say “advertised
letters” when calling for them at office:
M E Allen, Miss Lizzie Bankston, col.,
Mrs Pcmer Barber, WM Baidy, Carrie
Battle, Mrs nerret Carr, Abe Cores,
Hallle Cary, Mrs Rena Carter, Mrs Cro
nolia Critton, Georgia Eldridge, Sher
man Flailing, Mrs. Sadie Griffin, Henry
Oriffin, Sam Goddy, Peter Hoggins, W
S Holmes, Peter Hoggins, Mrs Martha
HiU, Mrs John Hamilton, Wesley Jes-
son, Wn> Kennedy, Rubin Llghtfoot,
Miss Bessie Lawton,.Miss Isabella Man,
M G Mitchell, A W Mitchell, O S Nunna-
ly, Mrs Ellen Rensell, Miss Fanny Sira-
, RWSeager, MissRollle Stewart,
Osla Sims, Mrs Eliza
v a N Wrcnn, SIntha Wag-
nnie Woods.
J. C. Roney, P. M.
Americus, July 2t>, lsfil.
ere produce contend all the necessaries most of our merchants are preparing to
of life in prodigal abundance. Truck make their annual trips north for afresh
fanning is rapidly becoming a profitable supply of goods, eto. In thirty days tho
industry. In the matter of stock raising fall season will open, and our merchants
the farmers around Americus rank [evidently intend to be ready for business
among the first. Apples, pears, with the latest and most desirable goods
peachos, plums, grapes, strawberries on time.
and watermelons find In Sumter and ad- This is the best evidence that money
joining countries a most congenial soli, is not so scarce in Amerlous as it seems
Tho revenue that comee from these to be In other cities. At least onr mer-
speclal lines of farming alono is suffi- chants have no fear* of a financial earth-
dent to suppoi t a city of twice sa many quake In this vicinity,
inhabitants as Americus.
Many thousand bales of cotton aro County Alliance Meeting,
raised on tho farms in this vicinity, and There will bo a call meeting of the
73,000 bales were sent to Americus last Sumter County Allianco on the first
year. Americus isalso headquarters for Tuesday in August, 4th Inst., a't 10
tho farmers’ alliance for many miles o’clock a. m., In the county court room,
around and draws a very large trade j Business of great importance will he be-
from that flourishing organization. | tote the body, and a full attendance la
When. Sumter county wanted a new | desired. By request of President Wilson
court house about a year ago, the money I give notice of ■ a call meeting of board
to build it was already Id her treasury, | of directors of *ww>yeratlvc association
and a $40,000 structure waa put up wblch on same day at 0 o’clock a. m.
D. C. N. Bubkiialteb,
President Sumter County Allianco.
is an ornament to the town, and oue of |
tho prettiest in Southern Georgia.
Tlio Americas Investment Company ! — .
has a capital of $1,000,000, a surplus of Married.
$250,000,and haa done more than any Mr. Cleon Scig and Miss Jcssio Dillard
ther agency to develop Southwest Geor- wore joined in tho holy bonds of wed-
gia. its existence began in l«s7 with a lock at iiottsford on Sunday last, Sqnii
capital of $130.000, and its valuua^u^Cah^fl' ' ”