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THE AMERICDS WEEKLY T1MES-REC0KDER: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, i»»l.
DeSOTO.
SOMETHING ABOUT ONE OF GEOR
GIA'S LIVEST TOWNS.
Only » Farm Four Year* Abo. but Now
n ThrivInB City—II* Hu.ines. Men and
Houte*—The Old Farm i» Still Under.
Bolus Cultivation.
. DeSoto, Ga., August SL—[Special.]—
1 Away back yonder in tiie old days this
t-was called the “Furlow place.”
** In those days the song of the slave
was heard in the land, for when the
^' ght was settling down the weird wild
gs that only "niggers” know how to
ailrae woulcl come <lriftln S over acrcs an< *
« p-. s of cotton, as the slaves came home-
jjy^rd. The long, sinuous lanes that
f 0 .,retched their serpentine lengths
Kvhrough the “Furlow place” were made
r musicalJ in those days with the clanks
of the chains on the mules and the son
orous songs of the slaves.
But all of that is past now.
When I stepped from the train to-day
the first man 1 met was Mr. J. A. Wil
As he is an old time friend of
liams.
The TlilES-RECpRDEK thero’s nothing
too good to say about him. If I started
in to tell what I think about him I’d be
obliged to engago a couple of stenog
raphers and about five or six type
writers.
But coming down to business—
Mr. Williams introduced mo to Mr.
Bagley, of the firm of Bagley * -Sim
mons, and Mr. Bagley introduced mo to
Mr. J. J. Cock.
Mr. Cock Ib the manager of tho Amerl-
cus Investment Company’s farm.
The farm is what originally- gave this
place it’s name—“the Furlow place”—
and Mr. Cock now has under cultivation
000 acres in cotton and 300 acres in corn.
In some places—I know you’ll hardly
believe it—the cotton is five feet ten
inches high. I know that for the truth
because I measured it.
I had a long talk with Mr. Cock, and
be told me that the company worked
twenty-two plows, seventy-five hands
and twenty-seven horses and mules. lie
also told me that off of a “patch” of 110
acres he had already picked twenty
bales of cotton and expected tJ get one
hundred.
Just think of it!
One hundred bales of cotton off of
100 acres of land 1
Then the corn—goodness! You just
ought to see it! From five to seven ears
on a stalk, and there’s one place down
on what’s called the “pond” that makes
more than that.
woman of fashion can call for. To go
back to old “Pinafore” days she keeps
“Ribbons and lace*
To dres* oll'the faces
Of pretty youns sweethearts and wives.”
Miss Cock deserves every lino that can
be written about her, for by her own
efforts she has built herself up a busi
ness that many of her competitors, even
in far-off cities, would be glad to have.
Self-dependence will accomplish a
great deal, and Miss Cora has thorough
ly demonstrated that fact.
But to write about the town itself.
Just think of it—four years ago it was
nothing but an old farm, while to-day it
is a growing town!
The “Sam" road has developed De-
Soto just as it has many another town
on its route, and some of these days
DeSoto, with its magnificent farming in
terests and tiie pluck and courage of its
business men, will take its place beside
tho foremost growing towns in tho
grand old state of Georgia.
A GIGANTIC HUMKUG.
It would hardly bo fair for me to close
this letter without returning thanks to
Station Agent W. D. Mills, who, being a
Virginian, could not be anything else
than a gentleman. lie believes in The
Times-Recorder, and so believing he
aided me all he could.
Frank Hamilton Conoley.
CHILDISH FOLLY.
the
Adjoining the Furlow place is what is
known as the Williams place, where 300
acres are devoted to cotton and 150
acres grow only corn—a twelve-horse
farm.
It is not as large a place by a good
deal, as the Furlow place, for there, not
only do they cultivate more land, but
they run a steam ginnory and Bteam
grist mill.
It’s thirteen and a half miles from De
Soto to Americus, and in that scope of
country there’s only ono saw mill, and
Luke & Hays own that.
To-day tbeso enterprising gentlemen
are just puttingja new planer In their
mill, and the two members of the firm
are working just as hard to get things
stralghtoned out as if they wero only or
dinary day laborers. You may think ns
you pleaso, but If Luke i& Hays don’t
get to the front, no ono will.
They don’t only run tho mill—’cause
they’ve one of the best general merchan
dise stores in this wholo section of
country. A stock of about $7,500 makes
thorn a business amounting to about
$40,000. These two men are a living ex
ample of a conjunction of the Old North
and the New South, for ono is a north
erner, the other a southerner—and you
can bet your bottom dollar that they do
the business!
I had the pleasure of a personal inter
view with Hays, but Mr. Luke was so
busy with that new planer that I didn't
get to speak to him.
Well Administered Rebuke
Colored People.
A caso camo before Judge Filsbury
Monday, in which an old colored man
was sentenced to the chain-gang for in
terfering with a policeman in the dis
charge of his duty.
From the evidence it seems that a son
of the defendant was under arrest for
stealing a coat. While being taken to
tbe lock-up by Policeman Fagan,
crowd of colored people followed the
youngster and the policeman and inter
fered with the officer in the discharge of
his duty. Among the crowd was the
father of the boy under arrest, who very
foolishly attempted to rescue him,
Of course, this attempt at rescue was
simply idiotic, and only resulted in the
arrest of the father on the above charge,
After the son had Ipleadcd guilty of
the theft of the coat, the old man (his
father) was arraigned on the charge of
attempting to rescue him from tbe po
liceman. He was found guilty and sen
tenced to tiie chaingang for six months.
This ought to be a warning to colored
people. This class have an insane habit
of following policemen whenever they
make an nrrest, and in some way inter
fering with tho course of law. White
people never do anything of tiie kind.
They know better, It Is to be hoped
that hereafter colored people will mind
their own business, and quit following
policemen when they make arrests,
If you ever go to DeSoto and miss
meeting G. W. Bagley, of the firm of
Simmons A- Bagley, you have missed tho
whole business!
Mr. Bagley lias tho reputation of be
ing the only “reconstructed yankee” in
the world. His forefathers came from
New Hampshire long, long ago; so, as
aside from all northern ingenuity, Mr.
Bagley has all the hospitable and gener
ous traits of a southern gentleman,
mingled with the astuteness of the
northern business man.
Tho firm docs a largo general mer
chandise business, carrying a stock of
about $3,000, and doing a business of
about $40,000 per annum.
Mr. Bagley is one of (Jinsc men who
always make a man feel at home, and
his only crime is being too generous and
hospitable—if you can call that a crime.
And now I must write about one of
tboso noble women who, relying on her
own efforts, builds herself up a paying
business.
Miss Cora C'ock began business last
December on Railroad avenue, and it
would do any woman’s heart good just
to “go Into that neat little store. Miss
-Cock does a regular millinery business,
and she keeps everything that the
Letter Lint.
The following unclaimed, letters will
bo sent to tho dead letter office If not
called for in ten days. Say “advertised
letters” when calling for them at office
A H Alneourt, S M Bryant, Ley Bont-
ery. Miss Lizzie Bethoers, Mrs Ardie
Brown, Mrs Aurelia Brown, It C Better,
C L Bell, Julia Sclmtop, W J Cordray,
Mrs Alico Crozlor, Harrell Clay, F11
Coggins, Mary Davis, Potter Gente*
Miss Lula Harrill, Clayton Harden, G A
Ingram, John Ingram, Rev Peter Gems,
L U Lewis, Boh Myrke, col., A M Me
Mlkcl, M W Jones, T H Mallory, Rev
Th Mabry, Mrs M Oliver, E C Pharr, F
P Phillips, Addio licese, col., Crum
Robinson, Cadcr Schley, Lcunly Ste
vens, D G Tedde, Mrs Mary Veal, Wm
Windoox, jr., Geo II Weston.
J. C. Roney, Postmaster.
Americus, Sept. 3, 1801.
No Truth In It.
Governor Northcn indignantly denies
that there lias been any “arrangement"
about the appointment of an assistant
attorney-general.
Tho report that Col. Glenn
withdrew from the race in order
to assist Hon. W. A. Little after
his appointment, the governor says he
knows nothing about, lie said;
“Sinco I havo becu governor of the
state I have promised no man anything,
and nover will."
Col. Glenn, himself, denies the report,
and says it is not true.
Marrying 1* Not n Failure.
There is a substantial farmer living in
Miller county who now has his sixth
wife, having buried five in days gone
by. He seems to be as happy and con
tented as though lie was enjoying his
first honoymoou. The strangest part of
tiie story Is that each of his deceased
wives died on Friday before tho second
Sunday in the month between the hours
of 4 ami 7 o’clock p. m.
Our informant, who is agent for a
marble yard, sold tho gentleman li
tombstones to place over their graves.
Tiie only radical cure for rheumatism
is to eliminate from tbe blood tho acid
that causes tho disease. This is thor
oughly effected by the persevering use
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Persist until
cured. The process may bo slow, but
the result is sure.
A Curd.
On and after this date I w ill be with
Messrs. James Flicker & Bro., where I
will be pleased to see all my friend* am!
former customers, and aa many new
ones aa will favor m* with their trade.
Respectfully, G. T. Sullivan.
Americus, Ga., Sept. 1, 1801.
The White Sieve* of Protection Painted by
A Republican Organ.
When Walter Besant wrote his novel,
“The Children of Gibeon,” picturing the
awful wretchedness of the sewing girls
of London, American readers did not
dream that the same condition of affairs
also existed in this country, yet the re
cent exposure of the “sweater system”
in Chicago lias shown to the world that
the white slaves of our protected indus
tries are even more misciablc than the
uafortunates of London. In Chicago it
was discovered that women and girls
are wearing out their lives sewing
twelve hours a day for $1.0$ per week,
and commenting on this fact, the Chi
cago Journal, a republican organ and
howling supporter of tiie McKinley tar
iff, has the following to say:
“These scenes of wretchedness [in the
protected clothing manufactories of
Chicago] are the product of a remorse
less business competition. The values
which these poor slaves create go almost
directly into the coffers of great business
houses. But the rich merchants do not
feel that they are to blame. Their idea
is that business is business, and charity
is charity. They see no way to do ex
cept to buy as cheap as they can, sell at
the best that the market will yield, and
donate to the poor whatever sum they
see fit out of their profits. They decline
to interfere with the laws of trade,which
they consider as inexorable as the laws
of physics. If children 10 years old
have to sew twelve hours a day for $1.08
a week, they disclaim any responsibility
for it.”
These protected manufacturers of
clothing are growing rich while their
employes, living in the utmost squalor,
are vainly struggling against starvation
and disease, and yet Mr. McKinley who
is on the stump in Ohio lo-day is telling
the people of that state that the tariff
increases the wages of the working
classes, and prevents them from being
brought into competition with the pau
per labor of Europe. In all parts of tbe
country, however,the veil is being lifted
and the people are seeing the tariff
swindle in all of its Iniquity, and they
are preparing to strike down the politi
cal party which is 'responsible for tbe
robbery and oppression.
Tbe publication of the sufferings of
the sewing women of the protected
clothing factories of Chicago came in ill
time for Mr. McKinley, because the
Democratic press of Ohio are reciting
facts regarding tbe condition of the poor
wretches in refutation of the assertions
of the high taxes that his tariff protects
and elevates American labor, and already
the Republican organs which at first
cried out aghinst the wickednes of the
sweater system,” as It is called, have
suddenly become dumb in regard to the
matter, because they realize that the
exposure of the fact that employes of
factories are paid 0 cents a dozen for
sewing trousers, and that a whole week
of hard drudgery only nets them the
miserable pittance of $1.08 is also a ter
rible exposure of the hypocrisy of the
men who have been holding up the
tariff system as a panacea for all the ills
of which the suffering and discontented
people complain.
EMMA ABBOTT** DRESSES.
Skewered and Cured.
“First I was skewered and then I was
cured,” says Jones, and he laughs heart
ily over his little joke. Weil, let him
laugh. Lot 1dm laugh who wins. He was
skewerod through and through by dys
pepsia and its attendant train of ills. He
was cured by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medi
cal Discovery. Do you feel dull, lan
guid, low-spirited; experience a sense of
fullness or bloating after eating, tongue
coated, bitter or bad taste in the mouth,
irregular Appetite, dizziness, frequent
headaches, nervous prostration or ex
haustion, hot Hushes alternating with
chilly sensations, sharp, biting transient
pains here and there, cold feet, drowsi
ness after meals, wakefulness, or dis
turbed and unrefreshing sleep, constant
and indiscribable feeling of dread, or of
impending calamity?
These .are symptoms of Bilious Dys
pepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated with
Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery will subdue
the cause, if taken according to direc
tions, for a reasonable length of time, or
money pain for it will be cheerfully re
funded.
Her Stage Ward robe Sold In New York at
Auction.
A crowd of actors, men about town
ard curiosity hunters gathered in the
auction rooms at No. 240 Fifth avenue,
New York, Tuesday morning to attend
the auction sale of the handsome and
costly wardrobe of the late Emma
Abbot.
The popular prima donna was noted
for the beauty of her stage dresses, and
she often paid extravagant prices for
them. To-day they w ent for a song; in
deed, it was a mercilv .s slaughter.
There were 1J5 numbers on the cata
logue, and they comprised various arti
cles, from a pair ot slippers to a .f4,000
th costume. There were costumes,
diesses, suits and waists, skirts and bod
ices, shoes, slippers and sandals, hose
and tights, belts and girdles, caps and
head-dresses.
Of the numerous costumes, six of
them, according to the catalogue, were j
made at a cost of $23,000.
There were nearly two hundred people
in attendance and every seat was taken,
but most of those present did not come
to bid, unless they could secure some
little souvenir at a trifling outlay.
The prices realized were pitifully
small, even in consideration of the
season of the year. A blue satin waist,
entirely new, and made by Redfern, was
knocked down at $5.50, and a new violet
cashmere waist, by Felix, brought only
$4.50. A black velvet bodice went for
only $2. A short black lace and pink
satin dress, with two waists, was sold
for $18.
A set of new lace skirts sold for $21,
and a “Mikado” dress, richly embroid
ered, for $20. A fortunate bidder se
cured for $0 a “Yeoman of the Guard’
ribbon drapery dress, with black velvet
waist. It was decorated with yards and
yards of ribbon, all elaborately embroid
ered in gold.
The shoes and slippers suffered as
great a slaughter as any class of articles.
The bland auctioneer announced them
as costing from $12 to $15 and “war
ranted to fit any foot.” They were all
number three. A pair of white satin
shoes sold at $2 50, another pair at $2.00
and still another at $1.50. A pair of
“Mikado” slippers were knocked down
at 75 cents, a pair of purple satin shoes
brought $2.50 and a pair of pale green
satin slippers $1 50.
Perhaps as great a bargain sis any se-
enred was that of a pair of gold slippers
for $2.25.
The bidding was not quite so brisk
when tbe silk tights were reached, and
many of the ladies who were present
seemed to lose much of their interest
just at that time. There were only
three pairs of tights scheduled, and they
were all of silk and all new. A laven
der-colored pair sold for $7, a pair of
red ones for $10.50 and a pair of green
for $8.
There were seven pairs of silk-em
broidered hose sold and all were stated
to have cost $25 each, and were made to
order for Miss Abbott. They brought
only a \riffing sum, a pair of ruby silk
selling at $5.50 and a pair of Queen
Anne for the same price.
Grand Removal Sale!
Wo shall, on September 1st, remove to our elegant new ,
under the new hotel, on Jackson street, and recognizing the
. scognizing the great ,1
ease with which money can be moved, offer our ENTIRE STOCK of I
Boots, Shoes and Hats
At One-third off for Cost till that date.
Please bear in mind our goods are NEW, clean and FREfjn L
and while the times are dull, and the state of trade complained of ml
all sides, you must have SHOES AND HATS, on which money ca J
be saved by giving us your trade. * *
WILLIFORD, MATTHEWS & CO.,
415 COTTON AVE
“YOUR EYES.
55
an
ule Info pills.
't’erfaln hard words, n
dimply to swell the doi
are not what constitute Dr. Pierce’s Pur-
pative Pellets. They are tiny, sugar-
coated, purely vegetable pills, as pleas
ant as confectionery to the taste, and
acting upon tiie stomach and liver gent
ly, but effectually. and as naturally as
nature herself. For sick headache, in
digestion, billiousness, constipation and
all the resulting diseases, no laxative
equal to them has ever been discovered.
It is hoped that the legislature will
not get into deep water any more. They
should, at the same Mme, avoid shoaly
It is a blessed thing to know when
we have done our best, that we have
pleased God.
‘Five years ago I had a* constant
cough, night sweats, was greatly re
duced in desh, and had been given up
by my physicians. I began to take
Ayor’s Cherry Pectoral, and after using
two bottles of this medicine was com
pletely cured.”—Anga A. Lewis, IUcard,
N. Y.
We have added to our business
OPTICAL - DEPARTMENT,
under the management of
Mr. John H. Starbuck,
A SCIENTIFIC OPTICIAN
and a graduate of the
Chicago Opthalmic College,
and have made complete arrangements fori
diagnosing and correcting all visual errors by
the most approved and scientific method.
We aim to make this a special feature of
our business, and our facilities are the best
SOUTH OF ATLANTA.
Oculists prescriptions carefully and correct
ly filled.
JAMES FRICKER & BRO,
Cotton Report.
Americus, Ga., Sept. 2, 1891,
Received yesterday 101
Received previously 95
Total 190
MARKET.
Good middling 8
Middling 7J
Low middling 7
Market firm.
Syrup Barrel*.
Sixty syrup barrels for sale at tbe
Alliance Store. sep4 w2t
It is human nature to hate people who
show us that we are little.
It takes more than eloquence to make
the devil let go of people.
Allen & Alb
Notice To Contractors
Tuesday. Heutember 8th, 1891, by the Connijl
and turnpike of wood and earth* verMuda-l
lee creek, twelve miles below America-
th* point known as Huckaby bridge.
Tiie bonds required by law for the comtrsc’l
tinn and *even years’ keeping in good nnl$rl
contract i
will be required of the contractor. Piiu»(
a nd specifications can be seen at the office of|
the Board of C'-inmlHsloners and at the office!
of G. M. Eltirtde®, c.ty engineer.
Payments will be made when then
completed and received by the Board of Coa-I
mls**Ioners. The Board of Commissioner
reserve the right to reject any and all bid*.
By order ot tbe Board of Cormuiiilonenof
Roadsard Revenue of Sumter County.
JOHN W. WHEATLEY, ,
aug7-4w Secretary, |
TO CONTRACTORS AND
Sealed bids will be received and opened cal
We.
of Roads aud Revenue of Sumter county!
Georgia, for the building of a county Jail, or
Brick, atone. Wood. Hteel aud Iron.
Payments to be made monthly In Archl-I
tect’s estimates, the Commissioners reserv*|
lug twenty percent.on each payment.
Plans and s ~ *“ *
Plans and specifications can be ttecni
the office of G. L. Norrman, Architect. A'*|
lanta, Ga., and also at the * ffice of theccunl
ty commissioners, at Americus, Ga. L
The b ard of commissioners reserve tte|
right to relect any or all bids
By order of the board of com missioned or
Sumterco .nty. John W. Whkatley.
Aug 7 w-8t secretary. |
403 Jackson $t.
an
&AKIH0
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
of all In leavening strength —Latest i
States Government Food Report.
junel5 d^wlyr
GEORGIA
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorta.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When the became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When the fca* ‘^dldren, she gave them Caatorla.
Ren
val.
Messrs Hinton A Cutts have removed
their law ofiices from the Hart building
to tiie Brown building on Lamar street,
nearly opposite the main entrance of the
new hotel. Sept 2-d& wlwk
Don’t do anything
that will wound
ou would ploaso
The itching of the scalp, falling of the
hair, resulting in baldness, are often
ensued by dandruff, which may be cured
by using Hall’s Hair Renewer.
Normal and ndustrial College
A State institution for the education
and special training of Georgia girls, to
bo opened at Milledgeville, Ga , on Sep
tember 30, 1801.
The county of Sumter is entitled to
eight scholarships in this school. All
girls wishing to become applicants for
the>e places are requested to appear at
Court House on Wednesday, September
1* l v ’d to stand the entrance examina
tion. The examination will include tiie
Elementary English Branches, viz.:
Arithmetic, History, Geography and
English Grammar. No girl under fif
teen years of age will bo eligible to
scholarship.
A For full information concerning the
school write for a Prospectus to Presi-i
d *nt J. Harris Chappell, Milledgeville,
We wish to
nounce to the ladies
that our store room is
nearing completion and
in a few days we will
be able to exhibit the 1 "
finest line of No! ions.
Novelties, Etc., in the
city.
Wo extend a cor
dial invitation to all to
come and see us.
Itesp’y,
ALLEN & ALLEN.
Will l»e sold, before the court house
in the city of Americus, Hu niter county, w,
between the legal hours of sale, on the ona
Tuesday In Heptem*>er, 1891, the foilowiEff
described properly, to wit: f
One house ana lot In the city of AntcrknU
auruled as follows: West by city lo ol
Mrs. Poule, t orth by lot 01 C Wa*b iiKtoBJ
east by lot of L >u Jefferson and al!«}.^i
said to contain one-half Hire, 111 ( ”j
ca
erty of John Jcflewm, there
no personal prope-u to levy on, o
inly one justice cou.tfl fa Infkvorof r
A Cuits v*. T. Turner, C C. Biropen,
JertVrson and Henry Hampton I r«*pcrfi
pointed out by pUintifis. Tenants 'ii p
session notified In writing. , Ley}wu»«*“jj
by J. \\ / . Cobb, 1* C. T&H
L. B. Forrest. 8C
APPLICATION IBAVETO ,OI|
GEORGIA—Sumter County.
Whereas, J. F. lonlel. administrator J
estate of J. It. Ktnard m-cense*;. b
made application for leave to sell the 1 1
nd personal property belonging
ChtatC > In nflll
These ate therefore to cite ands'*®,® ,
fail, and singular tho kindred aud ereoi ‘
and all persona concerned, to the their o
**— • j »•— * — or before
Hons, If any they h**ve, on or 7
October term of the Ordinary s coim a
held on the first Monday In October- (
why said petition suould not be K riUH
prayed for. . _ . . , liB *|
Given under my hand and oflcla.
lure, this August *2flth, 1801. Ulnsrv.j
A.C.HPEER,'
A pplication.
LETTERS OF GUARD. A>’ H I
GEORGIA-Wkhster COUNTY. J
Whereas V/. R. Terry having mijdeiM
cation for letters of guardianship«' n j
son and property of W R Holt, ,u “, ' c ;d
Th»K« therefore to rite Hn ' k j ft ' j re j o 1
These - ~-
all parties concerned whether -•
creditors, to show cause on or
October term of the court of
said county, to be held on the nr»t ^* h
.. . on 1,11 ‘ « .iiofiii
In October next, why said petition - j
not be grant* d us prayed for
ifflclal
Witness ray official signature,
Jay or September,™^ C0SBV> o.jiwvrJ
Georgia—humtkk County:
of J’ij
All psrtle Indebted to the
Morris mre hereby notified to n *flail
settlement, and all parties ha'IW
ln«l m.1.1 r>ainlA urn notlll* '* 1 . . I
against said estate are noil ft H
them to the undersigned
Thin July I,WU1... Adralnl$r»f|
G. W. Morris,
July -I-dltdrwGw*
Election Notice.
G.i.
W. $. Moore,
County .School Commissioner.
dlt-w2t Sumter County.
GEORGIA—Webster County. ^
Whereas, « petition of lfft>*
►aid county having been tiled IP ^4-
ana notice given *s the Jaw
counter petition being filed, It*‘ hr v: jKj
dereu that an election be I
precincts or said county ot
JJtii day of Attgu«W I**!. .
his July mb, iw#l. v nr din*tf , |
W. H. C03I>Y,oru* j
N 01IU TO DEBTORS and CBE! ,rr 1
GEORGIA—Sumter Coukty.
AD .parties indebted to the
Kinard are r qneste l to co
settle the Maine, and all those hoim » ^■
against the said d-eea*ed At® L* Wn
present their bills lu terms ot t»^I