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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1886
Page
2
A tumult of old Georgia politics and society notes fill this August 5 1586 issue. Mentions Sumter County A P L road extension interest, Brunswick Riflemen and General Gordon, odd foreign birth claims for presidency, New York politics with Steve Brodie, Vanderbilt bond disputes, and local editorials on Atkinson and Guerry amid Democratic infighting.
The sudden death of Judge H K McCay in Atlanta August left a grieving city. Born January 8 1820 in Pennsylvania he studied at Princeton and Georgia, served in the Forty Second Georgia Regiment, and rose to Supreme Court and Federal district judge roles before practicing law in Americus.
The NeWghawn Advertiser notes Dr. Felton will push the commission plank in his gubernatorial platform while Cowets backs Gordon. Gordon convention rejects endorsing the commission as support for McDaniel’s anti commission stance grows, and Chatham County reports a large valuation increase of 847,577 in property.
At the State Convention on Wednesday General John B. Gordon was nominated for Governor on the first and only ballot. The vote stood Gordon 52, Bacon 74, Jones. A motion for unanimous nomination by acclamation failed amid dissent. Some counties shifted support to Gordon. others held out with hisses. Gordon was escorted to the hall, his speech brief and cheered. The convention renominated old officials, and a regional executive committee was named with twenty ratified names and four at large. A resolution endorsed Cleveland’s administration and railroad commission were acted on. a mass meeting day for future primaries was approved. Also notes from Dawson News report James Kilpatrick born December 1790, aged 95, a War of 1812 veteran drawing a government pension.
The author argues merchants should back a railroad to navigable waters to secure competitive freight rates. By paying the highest market price for farm produce, the wagon trade in the region will be retained and even drawn from other areas, while boosting county settlement and trade growth.
A Northern lender in Atlanta defends Georgia's honesty and punctuality, recounting nearly seven years of loaning on Georgia real estate and stating he has placed about $2,000,000 to 2,500 loans. He asserts Georgia laws, including homestead, are fair and comparable to other states, and lauds Georgia citizens as honest and honorable.
A Boston Record item recounts a music teacher’s two children. One is pious, the other mischievous. The good sister prays for her sister’s improvement, but the bad girl overhears and vows to ignore the plea, thwarting the plan with a sly retort.
An elderly physician claims a simple vegetable formula can cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung ailments plus nervous debility and nervous complaints. He offers to mail the recipe free in German French or English with full directions to any reader who sends a self addressed stamped envelope and paper name to W A Novus 149 Powers Block Rochester N Y 1935.
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