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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1885
Page
4
The Americus Recorder counts down to 1886 with reflections on the old year and hopes for the new. It ponders happiness, resolves, and the varied desires of readers, while noting local items about postmasters, the Vienna Academic paper, and critiques of national figures including Blaine and Dr. Burchard.
The Queen travels in her own Royal Railway train with all other trains stopping for half an hour before and after her passage. This disrupts rail schedules, with a railway director accompanying the royal train to ensure strict observance. A dyspeptic conceit is oddly paralleled by the tale of Mr. Jk Finley of y La.
A critical editorial argues greed of gold drives policy on silver and coinage. It accuses financiers and officials of manipulating government to lift gold’s power, suspend silver coinage, and burden workers, asserting silver has long been the people’s currency and should not be retired.
In the Senate debate on liquor sales at Capitol restaurants, outspoken prohibition advocates include a noted bourbon keeper in one committee room. The piece contrasts abstainers with those enforcing prohibition laws, and cites the Philadelphia Record on money value using a melted gold dollar as an analogy.
A practical technological school has been established by Prof Brantley in Vienna in connection with his Institute. He opened a printing office where scholars will learn orthography grammar punctuation and information gained from printing. A workshop with tools will be supervised by a practical workman. This school aims to prove successful and inspire more.
A Hawkinsville Dispatch letter argues Central of Georgia should match East Tennessee’s plan to attract winter tourists. It urges stopover tickets and pamphlets promoting Hawkinsville and nearby Andersonville, plus coordinated efforts with Northwest routes to turn Hawkinsville into a winter resort and attract northern travelers. Georgia’s promotional effort for immigration and state information bureaus is also discussed by local papers.
Rome Georgia resident J M Norris suffered kidney trouble and eczema for years. After trying various remedies he used Electric Bitters and Bucklen Arnica Salve on his hands and feet with great relief. He recommends Electric Bitters for kidney issues and blood purification. Sold by FE J Eldridge.
The Chronicle reports cotton receipts for the week ending December 24 totaling 208,981 bales, with interior town receipts at 149,614 bales and plantation movements at 249,061 bales. Comparisons show declines versus 1884–1883, and overall stock increases. markets were dull with a slight uptick then decline in prices amid exchange and gold movements. Civil rights verdicts from Iowa and anecdotes on social tensions in Louisville and Fisk Jubilee Singers’ lodging woes are also noted.
A column recounts Dwight Thomas of Fulton County once selling more goods than any local trader. He toured with a wagon, hiding thirteen pairs in a dozen box to tempt storekeepers with inflated prices. Dwight, aged about seventy at death, was known for sharp sales tactics. The piece also notes an elderly lady living between Hartwell and Elberton, born nearby, who has a large farm, a long family, and distinctive natural features near Libbie, including sinkholes and a pond in Wilcox ic.
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A Macomb Street encounter ends with a planned beating by a gray haired woman and a self-satisfied Old Man Powers who misused slander against the speaker. An officer intervenes as Powers attempts a mobbed-ruin confrontation. Powers is knocked to the ditch, surviving with a taunting remark about weakness and fatigue.
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