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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