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THE AMERICAS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1891.
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Americus, Qa., Nov. 27, 1891.
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The Athens Banner claims tube the
only paper in the South that is open in
Its denunciation of the plan to open the
World’s Fair on Sunday.
MORE CAKE NEEDED IN PACKING
COTTON
Liverpool cotton buyers have often of
late met with serious losses in conse
quence of the bad condition of the lint
received at that port from this country.
Bales that to outward appearance were
all right, have beon found to contain
large quantities of poor lint. So serious
has this become that foreign buyers have
sought the aid of the National Depart
ment of State to remove tho evil. Should
it continue it will discredit American
cotton in foreign markets to an extent
that will affect the value of every year’s
crop, for neither foreign nor American
mills will pay the face value for cotton
A WAR-LIKE EDITOR.
Editor Gantt seems to have been made
specially vicious by bis reeent Illness,
at least lie Is as belligerent as a hyena
with the toothache, and is not only mak
ing It exceedingly interesting for bis
political adversaries, but is firing into
those clerical gentlemen whom he desig.
nates “sensational preachers,” Jones,
Small, Wadsworth and Lee, with his
characteristic charges of grape and can
ister.
Among other things, lie says of tho
two latter:
There never was a more shameful outrage
perpetrated Irom the pulpit than Mr. Wads
worth'. attacks upon the Episcopal aud Bap
tist churches; and his bitter denounciutlnn
Louisville is the only city that is not
alarmed by a water famine. Kentuck
ians can more easily do without water
than any people in the world.
It is not always tho best educator that
stands the best examination. Questions
whose answers depend upon memory are
no test of qualification, nnd too many
each questions aro asked in examina
tions.
A West Point man lias just received
letters patent on a bottle stopper. He
ought to do a rushing busluess with tbe
Atlanta prohibitionists. — Tribune-of-
Jtome. Wouldn’t a cork scrow man come
nearer filling the bill?
Ik the public echools would give in
struction in typo-sotting, in the use of
type-sotting machines, in short-hand and
tho use of type writing machines, they
would turn out more young men and wo
men capable of earning their livings
than they do now.—Tlmos-Union.
Tub Columbus Evening Ledger, tbe
bright afternoon paper of our sister city,
celebrated its fifth birthday on Wednes
day, November 18. The Times-Recor-
dkh extends to Mr. E. T. Byington and
tbe accomplished Mrs. Byington con
gratulations. Their bright paper is a
living suocess.
From nil over the Union, from New
York city down to the village, come
complaints of the shortness of tbe water
supply. There Is certaiDly as much wa
ter in the world as over, and tho popula
tion has not so wonderfully increased all
of a sudden. Does this mean that the
people are drinking more water and
washing thomselvcs more frequently?
By abandoning tho neighborhood of
Park llow, Ann street and Broadway,
the New Y’ork Ilcrald gets out of tho
newspaper swim, but at tho same time
ft follows the business trend of New
York—goes up town. Mr. Bennett's new
building will be on the corner of Broad
way and Thirty-fifth street. The old
Herald building was in Its day the finest
newspaper office in tho world, being of
marble and costing a million dollars.
The beneficial effect of tbe defeat of
the Berner bill is seen in the fact that
as soon as the Legislature adjourned,
the Central railroad, in which Georgia
people bold several million dollar! in
vested, at once secured a loan to retire
its floating debt. If the Berner bill bad
become a law, this loan could not have
been made, and the Central might have
thus been forced into a receiver’s hands;
and this Is jnst what tho wreckers
wanted.
until they are sure that it is what it is of the citizens of Augusta will certainly
represented to be. Messrs. Alex. Sprunt,
& Son, of Wilmington, N. C., extensive
exporters of cotton, have issued a circu
lar to cotton planters and buyers in
which grave reasons arc given why
everybody in the business should com
bine to restore and maintain the reputa
tion of American cotton. After stating
that “a large part of last seasou’s hold
ings was rendered unmerchantable and
worthless by ptevious exposure to the
woatiler in open fields or under the eaves
of outhouses," and that many exporters
were deceived and made such heavy
losses from damage and falling off in
weight that they had reached a fixed de
termination to refuse all cotton that had
not been properly housed this season,
tiie circular says:
Our purpose is to show tha 1 such careless
ness reacts up.in Ilia planter. Many bales
which came to us lust sprlcg apparently dry
and in good condition were found, upon ex
amination by the testing rod, to be utterly
rotten and valueless. In one Instance a hale
of apparen.lydry cotton welghingilgi pounds
was opened for examination and found to
contain O-'SI pounds of rotten cotton, which
was sold for about one cent a'pound. Many-
other similar prices c odd be quoted, hut this
will suffice to Justify the warning that
planter or merchant who i Isks his cotton out
of doors In bad weather Is likely to suffer
Kotlotn consequences—In heavy allowances
for damage, or the u.tcr rejection of t e cot
ton as unmerchantable.
Here is work for the educational de
partment of the Fanners' Alliance. The
preparation of cottou for the market
does not end at the gin and the baling
press. Until it passes from them to the
merchant it should be sheltered; after
that the responsibility for its condition
rests with tho buyers and the transpor
tation companies. As a rule, if it leaves
tho baling press in prime order, it will
bo found in the same condition when
the bale is opened at tho mill. Messrs.
Sprunt & Son have not overrated tbe
importance of care-taking on the plan
tation and by interior buyers—Manu-
factutors’ Resold,
The governor was placed In a rather
humiliating position the other day when
be was forced to confess that ho had no
means of aiding the sufferors at Harris'
Neck, or of doing what was necessary to
bo done to check the small-pox epidemic
there But, as a mattor of fact, he was
powerless, and bad to permit tho na
tional government to do what tlio Btate
ought to have boon prepared to do. Tho
national government responded prompt
ly aud willingly to the request for assist
ance, and its action is appreciated, but
this continual calling on the national
government to exercise the functions of
state government Is calculated to mag-
nify in the eyes of the people the impor
tance of the national government and
lessen their respect for and dependence
upon state governments. Tbe tlmo may
come when the contral government will
bo disposed to encroach upon the author
ity of tho state governmer ts, and it may
bq found then, when too late, that the
people are not as jealous of the rights
of the states as their best interests re
quire they should be.—Savannah News.
Colonel Livingston has shown him
self a sensible Allianceman and, what is
better, a sound Democrat. He does not
approve the polloy which seeks to force
the ownership of railroads Into the hands
of the government or to make Alllanco
demands more vigorous and sensoless.
He puts Alllancemen on notice that he
Is a Democrat who will go into the cau
cus in Congress and will support the
nominee for Speaker, whether Alliance-
mon like It or not. Whatever people
may say against Colonel LIvingBton, he
has sbown-bimself a staunch Democrat
in thla Instance, with the nerve to stand
by his party.—Savannah Press.
Sak Jones and Yellowstone Kit will
soon engage in a joint debate on the is
sues of the prohibition campaign In At
lanta. It is certain that both will take
active parts on opposite sides in the
campaign. A contest of wit between
these two famous and eccentric charac
ters would be a drawing card in the
show” that Atlanta will have on tbe
coming municipal campaign. It would
beat Sandy Cohen's ballet all hollow.
The “People’s Party Paper” of At
lanta prints a war map of Senator Pet-
tor's head, which looks liko the tall of a
comet; and the New York Sun’s political
poet is moved by tho same hirsute phe
nomenon to iudito a seven story ode that
is worthy of production in these col
umns, and would bo so reproduced, If
the editor wasn't afraid he would be
turned out of tbe alliance.
place a stumbling block In the way of his
successor in the pulpft he now occupies.
Mr. Wadsworth Is to the church what John
Sullivan Is to the sporting fraternity. He Is
a sort of clerical prize tighter, and leaves
bruised hearla and bad blood behind him
wherever he goes. Homs years ago he In
sulted from Ills puiptt >n Athens, and with
out provocation, several of the noblest
Christian ladles in that city. He had hones
divided aud left a feeling ofdlscord and divi
sion in many good families. It would have
been far better to hare left the Methoufst
pulpit In A hens unfilled for a year Ihansup-
pilcl 11 wlthsu-.il u stlrcr up of strife us Mr.
Wadsworth.
“Of toe political preachers, we have here
In Atlanta a fair iample In Kov. J. W. Lee,
bettor known to his enthusiastic admirers aa
"Doctor” Lee. This minister was horn and
reared In the country, hut possessing more
than ordinary eloquence, lie was transferred
toclty churches. With thiselevatlor, “Doc
tor” J.ee at once forgot ills humble friends In
the country, and gave himself up, heart nnd
soli!, to the aristocratic and wealthy circles
of At.uula. Ho saw that no advancement
could be expected from the poor farmers—his
former assoclaies-whlle fo unite against
them and their cause woul i be to capture
the applause of the rich and powerful. He
filled the partisan papers with his appeals
for the erection of Gordon. Not con tent with
this, he was one of the most conspicuous
speakers At that artesian carmagnole, and
made a most vindictive and unwarra ited as
sault upon the Alllanco. Of .all the emissa
ries of tile plutocrats that the f rmers have
to contend wi h In Georgia, non, sre mole
hltternnd vindictive than this minister of
the gospel, who hns quitted his pulpit to
flghtudown trodden and impoverished peo-
people, and continue tllelr enslavement to
the ileh. If this he modern Christianity,
Gods, vc the ecu it r; I”
GANTT’S GEORGIA GEOGRAPHY.
What is Georgia?
Gcoigia is (he Emjiirc State of the
South
Where is Georgia located?
In the city of Atlanta.
Where is the city of Atlanta located?
In the Journal office.
Where is the Journal office located?
In Mr. Hoke Smith.
Where is Mr. Hoke Smith located?
In tho eyes of tho whulo peoplo.
How do you know that Mr. Smith is
located In tho eyes of the whole people?
I read it every evening in the Atlanta
Journal, nnd as Ifoko Smith owns the
paper, of course he knows whereof ho
speaks. •
None of the State weeklies get In any
more opportune work on tho economic
questions than the Cuthbert Liberal-En
terprise, from which the following is re
produced with the ondorsomeut of The
Times Recorder: “The present money
stringency in the Soutt is not the result
of nny actiou of the Alliance, nor is it
the result of any organized effort to
break down the Alliance. It is the re
sult of the foolish policy of the people of
the South In sending all the money they
can “rake and scrape” and then strain
ing their credit to buy what should be
produced at home; tho silly policy of
raising more cotton than tho world wanta
and raising none, or rory little, of the
things that wo want. It is |the result of
the foolish game of “beads I win, tailB
you lose” that we have been playing.
Tbe other fellows win and we lose, no
matter which way tho penny falls. No
possible governmental financial system
can give relief that will be permanent
unless we change our tactica-”
The marriage of Mr. John Quitman Lover
of the navy to Miss Fannie Campbell Gordon
of Baltimore la of Interest here, an M r. Lov
ell haa many friends and connections In Sa
vannah.—Savannah News.
The Times-Recorder extends con
gratulations to handsome “Jack Lov
ell,” an old friend—and his lovely bride.
Mr Lovell is the grand-son of General
John Quitman, and Is a worthy descend
ant of a grand Southern family.
Under the new apportionment the
Southern States gained several Congress
men and her total vote in the electoral
college will be ISO. It is not likely that
that one of thesa will be lost to the Dem
ocratic candidates. Tho votes of Con
necticut 6, of New York 30, Now Jersey
10 and Indiana 15, make a total of 07.
Their votes too are reasonably certain
for the Democracy and will make a
a grand total of 220. This would elect
the ticket and give them eight majority
over the Republicans. We have at least
0 votes from Michigan, aa the last legis
lature passed a law by which the vote of
the State will not bo solid for either
party. In addition there Is a fighting
clianco for Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New
HampBhiro.
Professor Harris Chappell, Pres
ident of the Girl's Industrial Institute,
Millodgeville, reports It in a prosperous
and first-class condition. Said he: “There
aro 172 girls in attendance, representing
seventy-two counties. There aro thirty-
five young ladies there attending tho
normal school who have had some expe
rience in teaching school, and from their
earnings they aro paying their board.
The institution Is progressing far beyond
my expectations."
The condition of Blaino's health is
again being discussed in the public press,
and statements are being made to tbe
olivet that he will rctiro from the cabi
net and go to tbe West Indlea early in
Jan isry. The sickness of Blaine has
become an awful chestnut, and the news
paper correspondents at Washington
would favor the country If they wore to
lay it aside and take up matters of more
interest.
COUNT AT THE GIN.
Mr. W. F. Gay, a farmer of Meriweth
er county, advances an idea that is sim
ple and practicable, and should he at
once adopted.
It is to ascertain the actual cotton re
ceipts at tho initial point, the ginnery,
and report from that point instead of
the ports. This not only insures abso
lute accuracy, a thing not now obtained
by the port system, but gives'the figures
many days earlier than by the present
system.
Every ginnery in the South keeps a
record of the number of bales it turns
out, and with very little trouble their
reports can be consolidated day by day
and furnished the cotton exchanges.
Those ginneries that are away from
towns could scud in liy their patrons
who are hauling to market the daily
reports, and thus practically everything
would be covered.
As the farmers are interested in keep
ing up witli this kind of news, they
would take pains to seo that this service
as prompt.
It is certainly worth a trial Mr. Gay’s
idea is strongly endorsed by the Consti
tution, to whom his suggestion is made.
MANUFACTURING EN rERPKISES.
Ever sinco The Times-Recobiieb lias
been in existence it lias advocated, and
in no unmeasured terms, tho establish
ment of more manufacturing Interests in
Americus, and 'or the present article
ttiero are no apologies to be made, as the
matter lias become one of the utmost
importance to the people and to the
town. An inventory of tho thriving cit
ies of the country'will prove that, with
few exceptions, the manufacturing in
terests have proven the stepping stone
to prosperity, and, likewise, that those
towns which enjoyed no such advantages
have remained at a complete standstill.
The agricultural soction with which
Americus is surrounded is one of pecu
liar excellence, and to this fact is owing
much of our city’s success; but, no city
ever enjoyed permanent prosperity that
depended solely upon buying and selling
agricultural products.
In Europe three million armed men
ate sullenly facing cacli other, waiting
only for tho word to spring at each
other’s throats. War has long been
thought of as imminent, and this state
of things has como to be regarded as
normal. This anomalous condition,with-
out a parallel in history, is vividly por
trayed in the November Forum by Wm.
R. Thayer, one Jof our most acute stu
dents of European politics. He has
striven to put before his readers a pict
ure of the status of each of the great
powers—their strength, their feelings
toward one another, and their probable
course in caso of war. He concludes
that Russia is to-day the center of the
warlike storm area, and that her course
ondangors all Western Europe.
Evidently Governor Northen takes
no stock in tho talk of mismanagement
of the State Lunatic Asylum either by
tho Trustees of the Superintendent and
his corps, as ho has reappointed every
member of the present board of Trustees.
Tills Is a well deserved endorsement of a
very capable and efficient management.
The Governor made no mistake when he
took this action, in the opinion of The
Times-Recordeb
BARBARISM IN THE 10TH CENTURY.
A human soul launched into eternity!
and through the most brutal methods!
Strangulation! the poor victim, dwelling
for days, perhaps weeks, upon his im
pending fate, languishes in a prison cell
until bis time is called.
In this ago of progressioa and im
provement it seems as if this relict of
barbarism might well be omitted from
our category. However sinful may be
the victim, and though the old Mosaic
law of “an cyo for an eye” should hold
good when a fellow man’s blood is wan
tonly shed, there should be some more
decent method of execution adopted.
Even let a squad of riflemen stand before
the condemned, and at tho word of com
mand empty their muskets into the vic
tim. His death is easy and quick. Rut
now all is uncertainty, the poor criminal
may struggle in mortal agony until the
rope breaks, and then be dragged back,
to undergo anothor death.
A negro will to-day bo sent to his
Maker at Mount Vornon. His crime de
serves death, aud it should be meted out
to him; yet if we are to send a man out
of tiie world, at least let it all be done
with delicacy and good breeding.
President Polk of tho National Far
mers' Alliance was re-elected without
opposition. It is a matter of regret that
Colonel Livingston did not get this
place, as he is a man of much more abil
ity than Polk. Tho trouble seems to
have been that Livingston was too much
of a Democrat to satisfy the third party
element that has control of tho conven
tion. Ho protested against the resolu
tion instructing Alliance Congressmen
to keep out of the caucusses of tho two
parties. He advised the convention that
i.e had been elected to Congress as a
Democrat, and that lie proposed to act
with Ilia party regardless of any instruc
tions given him by the Alliance. Colonel
Livingston, as a Democrat, nominated
and elected by the Democrats of his
district, could not, consistently, take any
other position, nor can any Democratic
Congressman reconcile a different course
with a decent sonse of political honesty.
Senator Pugh of Alabama publishes
a letter in which he opposes tiie ronomi-
nation of Cleveland in 1802 for the Presi
dency on the Democratic ticket. IIo
asserts that tho singlo issue of the tariff
upon which Cleveland fought his cam
paign against Harrison is no stronger
now than it was then. The tariff, lie as
serts is not paramount to all other Issues
and he declares that Campbell lost the
fight in Ohio by running away from the
silver question, The free silver issue,
he contends, is as important as the tariff
issue, and ho says that the new Cleveland
cry has been raised by those who wish
to disposo of silver. Mr. Pugh says Har
rison lias been strengthened with his
party since bis election, while Cleveland
has made no progress in that direction.
Ho adds that if tho Democrats wish to in
vite defeat they will nominate Cleve
land.
The trouble with the Brazilian Repub
lic is that about 75 per cent, of the in
habitants don’t know tho meaning of
tho word, and the government doesn't
supply them with dictionaries.
iord lytton dead.
Rt Hon. Edward Robert Bul wer ,
ton, earl of Lytton, British ambaisj 1 "
to France, died suddenly from heart di*
ease in Paris on Tuesday, '
The death of Lord Lytton is a loss l
tbe civilization of the times. It j s u “
pected, and will shock and grieve i?"
world of scholars and lovers of the p
literature of the age, urt
It is as Owen Meredith that Lord I
ton is best known to the world; it |
Owen Meredith that every school
and boy in Anglo-Saxon lands loves hi
who sleeps the last sleep in the cache
of France. F ™
To the many who believe in the p Ure
and more honest literature, the death of
Lord Lytton comes as a personal fou
In the world of diplomacy it is an even
of unusual importance. Lord I.yttoa
was the British ambassador to France
most desirable position in all the i
of diplomacy.
i range
The South produces a great amount of
cotton annually, and the farmers are „
a class mortgaged beyond redemption-
but one thing can be truly said, and that
is that, as lirave and uncomplaining he. lr .
ors of trouble aud adversity the civilized
world lias never seen their equal, j„
debt, and with little hope of extricatine
themselves, they constitute tiie best
strata of modern progressiveness and
morality; what communities so quick to
resent depravity and sinfulness as our
rural settlements? and although they
sometimes adopt premature methods for
its suppression, there is, proportionate
ly, vastly less of vice outside of the cit
ies than in them, where the machinery
of law and order is carried to its h
cst perfection.
When Editor Howell gets to be got.
ernor, will not we editors have a fat I
time filling all the offices at Ids disposal?
The millenium will never come until a I
truly good editor gets hold of the reins I
of government and puts all the balance
of the good editors In office; and there I
is no bettor time to start this movement
than right now, and hero in Georgia. I
The Times-Recorder will support Edi-1
itor Howell, provided the editor of Tbe [
Times-Recorder is made Chief Justice I
of|tlie Supreme Court, or some other I
soft snap, with big salary and no work, I
Now, if Editor Howell really wants to [
bo govornor, and is not merely coquet-1
ting, lot him speak out, or forever here- [
after hold his pcaco.
Travelers may learn a iesson from Hr. I
C. D. Cone, a prominent attorney ol I
Parker, Dakota, who says: “I never I
leave home wfthaut taking a bottle ef I
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar-1
rhaia Remedy with me, and on many oc-1
casions have run with it to the relief of I
some sufferer and have never known it I
to fail.” For sale by W. C. Russell, |
Americus, Ga.
South Carolina will probably devote I
$100,000 to an exhibit at tho world'll
fair. Tho Governor of tho State, it ill
said, has expressed himself in favor of I
the expenditure of such asum. Anyoh-I
nervation tho Govornor of North Caro-1
lina may now seo fit to make on the sub-1
ject will bo listonod to with respectful |
attention.—Chicago Tribuno.
ROYAL
IS THE
Best Baking Powder
The Official Government Reports:
The United States Government, after elaborate tests,
reports the Royal Baking Powder to be of greater leav
ening strength than any other. (Bulletin 13, Ag.
Dep., p. 599 J
The Canadian Official Tests, recently made, show
the Royal Baking Powder highest of all in leavening
strength. (Bulletin 10, p. 16, Inland Rev. Dep.)
In practical use, therefore, the Royal Baking Powder
goes further, makes purer and more perfect food than
any other.
Government Chemists Certify:
“The Royal Baking Powder is composed of pure and whole
some ingredients. It does not contain either alum or phosphates, of
other injurious substances. Edward G. Love, Ph.D.”
“ The Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly the purest and most
reliable baking powder offered to the public.
“Henry A. Mott, M.D., Ph.D.”
“The Royal Baking Powder is purest in quality and highest in
strength of any baking powder of which I have knowledge.
“ Wm. McMurtrie, Ph. D.”