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Newspaper Page Textffwm-. '* ' • ■’ — - ^ER/C^ Recorder ^org^ W, L. GI.KNSNER. Official Organ of 3umt«r County, Official Organ of WebiOr County* SUNDAV, • DECEMBER 21 1890 ABOUT AMERICUS. Tlie AMKHICOa KkcokdebLh publl*'<»•! Dally and Weekly, during the year. The Daily Recorder !■ Uaoed every morning except Monday*. during the year, at 50c per month, or $6.00 per year. The Weekly Recorder Is issued every Friday morning, a: «1 00 per year payable In advance. It has the largest circulation any paper In Houthwest Georgia,circula ting largely In the counties of Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Stewart, Webster, Schley. Marlon* Macon, Dooly and Wilcox. Entered at Amerlcus Post-Ofllcoassecond c ass matter. All communications should be addressed to AMERICUS PUBLISHING CO. Gen. Alexander laughs at tlie idea that he will give up the presi dency of the Central road. There can be no complaint about the legislature not working now, They want to get home for Christ mas. The members of the Gate City Gharris will doubtless uot monkey with a program printer at the next drill. Here’s hoping The Recorder readers—and that Includes eveiy- body—will have a merry Christmas week. • Have you done anything towards making anyone happy on Christ mas day? If not, do something at once, If It is uot more than giving a bootblack a good dinner. Judgo Fort’s appointment seems to he the most popular one ever made by a Governor of Georgia. Every paper in the State is pleased with It—the Augusta Chronicle ex cepted. The Southern" [Inter-State con vention adjourned at Asheville, N. C.; Friday afternoon. Should the recommendations of the con vention be carried out it will bring many thousand people to the South. A commission of eight, to he ap pointed by the Governor, will set tle the betterments question with the old lessees. It Is to be hoped this vexed question will at last be settled. It has caused too much trouble already. The Telegraph says the South western employees at Smtthville have organized a musical society to while away the time. The Tele graph cannot forgive Smlthvllle for taking the Southwestern’s head quarters away from Macon. It ia said that the Terminal com pany owns (900,000 worth of Geor gia bonds. Some of our zealous contemporaries ought to make a note of this, and petition the legis lature to enact a law against such a soulless corporation being the State’s creditor to such an amount. The Augusta Chronicle does but give Amerieus justice in the edito rial we republish this morning. Amerlcus may, or" may not, be a “storm center,” as the Chronicle says, but she isdetermlned to stand up tor her rights, and to stand by the men who helped give them to her. A SOLID CITY. While the hard times are press ing our neighbors, and big firms are going to the wall daily, Ainerl- cus shows on what a solid basis she is built. Not a failure has beon re corded among the hundreds of bus iness houses iu this city, and they bid fair to withstand the financial depression with a clean record. The reason of this Is that Ameri cas baBiness men are, above all things, conservative. They work with ample capital, anil do not al low themselves to buy beyond their means to pay. As a natural consequence Amerieus Is rated high in the financial world, and can command capital when other places would be denied. A few days ago a dally paper In a certain Georgia town loudly boasted that its city was rated by a commercial agency as the best In Georgia. A day or two afterwards onA of the oldest and largest firms In that place went to the wall, and Itts rumored will carry several other* with them. Perhaps The Recorder Is boast ing too soon; we hope not. At any rate, the past record will bear ua out In the assertion that Americas has fewer fallnres In proportion to popuflpQtban any elty In Geor g's. m From the Augusta Chronicle. Amerlcus secures the new rail road commissioner. There can be no personal objeotlon to Judge Al len Fort. He la a man of personal ability and character. The Chron icle preferred Judge Alex Erwin because of his experience in the delicate matters constantly recur ring In that office and because It believed that training and fairness should outweigh mere local and ge ographical considerations. There is, however, a kind of pa thetiu justice iu awarding a place in the railroad commission t6 Amerieus. That town has been the center of rallriad agitation since 1870. The people of Sumter county wore constantly stouts with President Wadley. Bepeated ap peals were sent from the business men to the railroad authorities for justice, but the managers generally informed them tliut they were "looking after the interests of the Southwestern railroad and not of Amerieus.” The people complained through their delegates In the con stitutional convention that they- were charged 10 cents more ou the bale of cottou to Savannah than Al bany, which was thirty miles fur ther. The rates to New York showed like discrimination. Amer- ious had but one railroad and Al bany had three,and was then a com peting point Hut Amerlcus pushed her agitation amltlie delegate In the constitutional convention of 1877, Hr. Cooper, was one of the staunchest supporters of the Toombs policy of regulating railroads. In the General Assembly of 1878— 79, Hon. Allen Fort was the Sumter representative. He was promi nently engsged In the preparation of the bill which finally created the railroad commission, and which has given so much relief to the peo ple of Georgia, and which low the people have never allowed to be amended. The wisdom of that act has lieen abundantly shown. When the Olivo bill threatened tho consolidation of the railroad system In Georgia, the railroad le&dcrs themselves were glad to seek pro tection under the shadow of the railroad commission. Amerlcus furnished another prominent factor In the railroad ag itation when her representative in Congress took a prominent hand In forming the inter-state com merce law. iudgoClius. F. Crisp, whom Judgo Fort succeeded on the bench, was ’ one of the most active members of Congress, who aided Judge Beagan In passing through the House of Congress the railroad commission bill. The fight which began in the Georgia convention by Gen. Toombs was consummated by his old friend and associate, Judge Besgau, in Con gress; nud the agitation of Dr. Cooper and Allen Fort was com pleted by Charles F. Crisp. Bo the hand of Amerieus has been promi nent In all this business. AMUSEMENT'S. "The nabobs." The last three attractions of the year are to be the finest in each line that have ever been here, Henshaw and Ten Broeck, In the “Nabobs,” Christmas eve, the 24th lost, will undoubtedly be one of the very best comedies our people have ever seen. The managers of the opera house know personally of this splendid company, andean without hesitancy guarantee their ability to please. “The Nabobs” is the quaint title of a musical farce extravaganza written especially for John E. Hen shaw and May TenBroeck. It is one of the popular skits of the day, without plot or story, but simply a thread ou which to string a number of clever specialties, and construct ed for the purpose of giving full op portunity for a lot of versatile art ists to display their taleuts. That tills form of entertainment suits the average audience, is shown by the great success of such perform ances. People liko to bo amused— they llko pretty girls, fine costumes, good siuglng and artistic dancing. All of these elements will he found In “The Nabobs,” and the two stars will be surrounded by nn ad mirable company, composed of some of tlie best performers in tile profession. ROBERT GRANT. LORD FACXTLKROV. Of Little Lord Fauntleroy. on Christmas mattlnee and night It is useless to expatiate much on, ns it is the same company that charmed and delighted our theatre goers here last scasou, and comment is unnecessary, as r. better company of clover artists never assembled Tbe Christinas mattlnee for the ladies and children will be sure to catcb a big crowd. PBIMHOSE * WEST. Of Primrose and West's minstrels too much cannot be said, as they have tbe highest salaried burnt cork in tho profession. Lew Doc- stoder Is a head aboVe any minstrel In tlie profession. Watch the flat tering notices they receive every where, particularly tbe ConBtitu tlou. AN OBJECT LESSON CANVASS. For n level bended man, com mend us to Congressman-elect Siewari, of Illinois, who was elected iu a Kepubllcnu district which gave at the last election over 8,000 majority. This Is how be did It: “Stewart consented to be a can didate only upon condition that he should be the only Democratic speaker in tbe district and conduct the campalgu in ids own way. The conditions were complied with The nomination was made. Then Stewart disappeared. A week later he appeared In the district. But there were no brass bands; no big meetings. Indeed, there was no excitement, and none of the Demo- eiatie leaders knew what Stewart was doing. But he was elected, and tide was the way he got It. “He first went to Chloago, to a large, reliable, and well known wholesale house, where ho pur chased a half dozen packing trunks full of ordinary goods of all descrip tions that aro used by every family. On rai-h of the articles he had tbe price paid marked. Then he had the price before tbe McKinley bill passed marked on each, and thirdly, ho had the firm mark on tbe goods what the prices would be without any tariff. Besides this he had thousands of cards printed Tickets for Henshaw aim . Teu Broeck and Little Lord Fauntleroy will be placed on sale Monday . to morrow; at 9 o’clock. DEEDS RECORDED The Put Week at the Court House t>7 Clerk Allen. showing former prices and prices under the McKinley bill ou all name of Dr. John Bull 'for invent- i celebrated Dr. Bull's Worm tease for to do goods of every day use. With this paraphernalia he went to every county and every little town in the district. He would go to the school houses In eaeh neighborhood and spread his goods out to be ex amined by the people. He made no set speeches, but would simply walk around among tbe assembled crowds and explain tbe burdens imposed upon them by the McKin ley bill, at tbe same time practi cally Illustrating what be said with hU stock of goods. It simply set the people wild. They went home and talked about it. There waeno getting around tbe fact that the McKinley blit makee tbe farmer pay more for everything he uses and compels him to.sail hit pro ducts at ths same old prices. The people couiuu’i. stand is, and wiieu election day arrived they voted for Stewart He was elected and-the object lesson did It Mrs. M. E. Boone, Wm. Harrold to Amerlcus Lodge, No. 13 F. & A. M., city lot, $4,000. F. E. Albritton and A. J. WII Hams, executors, to J. D. Lawson to lands in 26th district, $0,000. J. W. May to Calvin May, lot 104*^, lot 103 in 20th district, $2,600. J. H. Dauiel to A. J. Logan, lot 104103Ja, lot 122, In 20th district, $4,000. Sarah Dupree to J. D. Glover and A. J. Logan, 80 acres off Jot 92 in 26th district, $300. F. E. Albritton and M- A. Per kins to A. J. Logan two-third In-- terest In lot 123 in 26th district, $800. M. Speer to Johnson A Harrold, lot No. 00, Iu 10th district, $75. J. L. Adderton, trustee, to L. G. Hudson, two city lots on McGarrah street, $1075. L. D. Wise to Geo. W. Jennings, 142>£ acres of lot 19 in the 26th dis trict, $1150. Orin HlUIaid to A. J. Boberts, east part lot 62 in 15th district, $225. A. E. Bylander to John Windsor, city lot, $500. Kate Callaway to Alex Windsor, city lot, $1000. M. Speer to B. H. Wilkinson, part lot 00 in 16th district, $125. B. L. Hargrove to Dr. H. A. C. Bagly, part lot 42 and 44 In 28th district, $400. C. A. Bell to Bansom Simon, elty lot, $75. Amerieus Investment Compauy to J. T. Ferguson, house and lot in DeSoto, Sumter county, $800. J. E. Lamar to A. J. Logan In terest in lot 123, In 26th district, $300. Mallssu Hook to A. A. Booker, city lot, Lee street, $240. William Ellison to Jennie Jeffer son, elty lot, $25. Amerlcus Investment Co. to Hays and Dane, city property, $1,150. 8. S. Sloan to Mrs. 8. C. Johnston, administratrix, all her Interest In real and personal pioperty, $4,166. C. M. Wheatley to Miller and Geo. Daniels, elty property, $300. J. B. Duckworth to Gnssle Broadus (wo acres off lot 37 in 27th district,; $16. Lilian Whiting Write* of n Well Known Boston Literary Man. [Special Correspondence.] Boston, Dec. 18.—To be born In Bos ton, graduated at Harvard, own a pew in Trinity (Phillips Brooks’) church, a villa on the north shore or In Newport, and be bnried in Mount Auburn—this is considered by the modern Athenian to be the ideal career of man. Fortu nately for tbe society be adorns and tbe public to whoso entertainment and enlightenment be contributes. Mr. Rob ert Grant lias not yet met the last con dition of this Bostoqian outline, but he has fulfilled nearly all the others. His life has been one singularly rich in op portunities, and he has known well how to extract from these the finest con ditions and transmute privilege into high service. Robert Grant was born in Boston in 1852, completed the Boston Latin school course with great success, and later tho Harvard, where ho graduated in 1873, and three years later took tho degree of Ph.D. He entered tho Harvard Law school, from which ho was graduated in 1879, and immediately commenced the practice of law in Boston. Between the time of Mr. Grant’s admission to tho bar and J885-86, a period of some seven years, he acliieved a, cluss of literary work unique in its range, delicate and subtle in fancy, full of charm and imaginative grace. This work included seven novels, and a number of very clever poems bnt each was so individual in its own line and owed so little to precedent that his work cannot be altogether classified by any broadly accepted definitions. “The Little Tin Gods on Wheels, satire in verse, appeared in 1870, and in it Mr. Grant showed decidedly his orig inal bent, his manly hatred of social 6hams, his courage in ranging himself on tho side of trnth and humanity, and bis clearness of vision in distinguishing tho falso from tbe true. After this ap peared "The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl,” which wont through u number of editions and was a literary us well ns a popular success. The plot was very slight, but on this slender thread was bang tho hopes and fears, the fancies and the reflections, the courage and the cowardice of a typical girl of society. The delicacy of perception shown by Mr. Grant in this work has nover, it Beems to me, been adequately recognized. He does not make tho mistake—a not uncommon one — of ascribing to the beanty nud the belle the possession of all tho vices or errors of the decalogne, and implying conversely that tbe poor and tbe plain girl possesses all the virtues. He knows society in its technical sonse too truly for that. • Alice shows the selfishness that springs from thoughtlessness and from tho lim ited range of sympathies almost inevita- X-mas-:- Just received a handsome Hoe of Ladles and Gents Solid Gold Watches. I bar just received a large lino of Jewelry for the Holiday trade, consisting of LadW »nd Gents Vest Chains In extra plate and filled, Lace Plus. Cult and Collar Buttons, Charms, of all description, and many other things too numerous to mention. Rcn’einhertma large line ofjewolry was shipped to me for holiday trade, and what Is not sold will he returned and will make prices very c|n JA8. T. COTNEY, Fleetwood and Russell Corner, Amerieus, Ca. EVERYTHING F0W THE LITTLE ONES. AT BUTLERS BERRY’S ARTESIAN CORNER. China Dolls. Linen Dolls Wax Dolls Bisque Dolls Kid Dolls Dressed Dolls Sleeping Dolls Rubber Dolls Musical- Dolls Doll Shoes Doll Trunks Doll Wash Straw Sets Doll Carriages Doll Furniture Toy Wash Sets Toy Tea Sets Toy Kitchen Sets Toy Stove Sets Toy Pianos Toy Violins Toy Metalopboue Toy Castors Toy Banks Toy Drums Toy Pistols Toy Houses , Toy Nosh’s Arks Toy Stables Toy Hand Organs Toy Soldier Sets Toy Trains Toy Tin Wagons Toy Tin Animals Toy Fur Atflmals Toy Watches Toy Butterfly Toy Sword Toy Canes Toy Whips Christmas Books all kinds prices aud sizes Games: Crokinole New Bagatelle Fish Pond Teddledy Winks Lotto Dominoes Checkers Card Games, 16 kinds Pareheesea Bing Toss Graces Surprise Boxes Childs Knife, Foi aud Spoon Pulnts Barnyard Sets Glass Marble Jumping Jacks Flying Jennies • Bellows Toys Clappera Kaleliles Cope Ten Pins To il Chests Magic Lanterns Hlioolly Horses. Wheel Barrows Wagons Chairs for Children Rockers Chinese Banters Horns Buggies Itecollect when yon want Presents for Young or Old, either for Amusement, Ornament or for uso—recollect that “Wo are the peo ple.” . Butler «&? Berry, ARTESIAN CORNER, - - LEE and LAMAR STS We have an elegant lino of Chi iat- ma* presents. Janes Fkjckek A Bho. Hi suffered from nervous aches and pains, Suu at utgiit- My disease was undermiplng my | constitution. Dr. Bull’s Sarsapa rilla restored me to health and I now enjoy sound and dreamless sleep, and my aches and pains anil llassitnde trouble, me no more.— William Burton, Wheeling, W. Vi ■ ■■■ IIODEKT GRANT. ble to the petted child of luxnry, but she has a tender heart and n keen conscience, and, moreover, she is by no means desti tute of brains. Another very excellent portrait of tho girl in social high life is Dorothy in “The Averngo Man." n story that Mr. Grant contributed os a serial to Tho Century Magazine in 1883. Un trained writers, destitnto of social ex perience, have often depicted fashion able life ns utterly devoid of those graces of character which we are accustomed'to call the Christian virtues. All tho rich have been depicted as narrow minded, hypocritical, arrogant and cruel, while tho l>oc.r were shown to lie generous, patient and intelligent Mr. Grant is too mnch in touch with the most culti vated social world of the day to fall into any such error os this. Face to Face” is another of Mr. Grant’s very charming novels of social life. "The King’s Men" was a story written by Mr. Grant in collaboration with three of his friends, leading Boston authors, Boyle tpRcilly, “J. S. of Dale” (Mr. Stimpeon) and Mr. John Wheel wright "The Lamps" was the title of a clever satire in verse. “The Knave of Hearts," by “A Ro mantic Yonng Lady,” appeared in 1885- 86. Om the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Latin school —tho oldest school in America—Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks delivered the ora tion, and Robert Grant wrote and re cited the poem for tbe occasion. Mr. Grant was also invited a few years ago to write the Phi Beta Kappa poem, and it was for this occasion that he wrote his famous "Yankee Doodle,” a very keen end ingenious hit at certain political abuses and corruptions of that year in Massachusetts. In tho past two or three years Mr. Grant has written in a new vein, that of cmt of door life "Josh Hall; or, Tho School Days of an American Boy.” made a furor among the boys. Mr. Grant married the daughter of an English nobleman in Canada, and their home is on Cotrsonwealth avenue, the palatial boulevard of Boston. With* large and exacting legal badness, nnd also serving at present as one of the wv t»r wfflHlaiiHff! of Bostsa, Mr. Grant finds little time for literary work, still J» manages to write an hour at least each day with considerable regularity. Ho has tho happy elasticity of tempera ment that enable* him to do his work wherever he happens to be, cither at his home or his office. LoiAir Whitijco. 320 Lamar Street, TELEPHONE 52. ARGO & ANDREWS. Fancy - and - Family - Groceries, A-r.-r. FRESH. M: Peaches, Pears, Apricots, Pineapples, Tomatoes, Beans, Sweet Corn. All at Bottom Prices Cigars a Specialty. Confections, Crackers, Luncli Milk Biscuit. Best Cream Patent Flour. Magnolia and Gold Baud Hams. All Goods Delivered at your Door. Open to reeelve orders from 5 a. m. to 7 p. m. WE ARE ON THE TOP ROUND GARTERS -IE LARGEST STOCK AT Tffif LOWES PRICES. CALL AMD SEE US- Calvin Carte rami Sen. 0F. L. HOLT, w DEALER IN BUGGIES; WAGONS, AND HARNESS. I dupnrau any It Tin iu the 117 LAMAR STREET, gfer-aagaeiinftt wholesale > • - AMERICUS, GEORG > RETAIL DEALER IK