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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1886
Page
6
In a Courier editorial, the tariff is denounced as a tax harming agriculture. The piece sketches a farmer trading 1000 bushels of wheat for European goods worth 1500 dollars, only to face a government seizure of 500 dollars in merchandise at the port, under protective tariff rules with no appeal.
Rev Henry Ward Beecher narrates a New York drummer tale at a Western New York revival. A churchful of worshippers rise to heaven but the drummer keeps his seat, only to stand when asked who wants to go to hell. He quips that he and the parson are in a hopeless minority.
L D Whitaker of Palmetto Georgia is praised for his ascent from farm boy to a Philadelphia Baltimore and Ohio rail chief engineer office. His early skills in stenography and telegraphy helped him report speeches and sermons accurately and earn recognition in railroad circles. Frank Wilkeson argues privates won the Civil War despite bad generals and poor pay.
A Letté from Columbure Corumaim dated August 3d 85 notes Duka Sin-Your Georgia Chill Remedy selling well with no reports of adverse reactions. Brannon & Dannson, wholesale druggists, sign the missive.
A 19th century anecdote recalls a boy in 1850 who sold matches to earn schooling. An old lawyer tested his honesty by offering to pay for education if he papered a closet with old postage stamps. Lawyers gathered stamps, funded the boy’s education, and the venture succeeded, though the boy’s later fate is unknown.
A December letter to Postmaster General Wilms from a man signing as From a Christian confesses stealing a $40 letter in Peru Nebraska in 1864 and stealing $100 from a soldier’s letter. Authorities trace the $40 to Enoch Riggles of Plum Hollow Iowa and send it to him. The $100 thief remains unidentified. The item also mentions a Boston gentleman’s drinking spree and several notices referencing local figures endorsing a Georgia remedy and a Staunton real estate claim tied to faith.
A Sandersville reminiscence recounts General Sherman’s passage through the town and his hosts at the Gilmore house. Mrs Harris and Miss Greene face derision from Union officers, including taunts about Greene’s nervous facial condition, while McConkey recalls Sherman as a tyrant. The article also notes a fatal accidental shooting near Martin’s yard, where Keen Martin’s gun discharge kills 15 or 16 year old Claude McBride.
Frederick Scharf a Brooklyn shoemaker at 704 DeKalb Ave learned a Louisiana State lottery ticket drawn Feb 9 gave him the capital prize of 75000 and entitles him to 15000. A friend urged him to buy a ticket for a dollar and the two checked the numbers. He has not decided how to use the money amid many advisers.
A remarkable atmospheric event occurred at 3 p.m. darkness settled in for 8 to 10 minutes, leaving streets in panic and businesses idle until lights returned. The report notes no breeze during the darkness and a west to east pass. Rail fares to Chicago from New York and Philadelphia are nine dollars straight, while Baltimore and Washington travelers pay one dollar fifty, with a cut against the Baltimore and Ohio.
Advice promotes Mns Winetovt teething syrup as a remedy for children teething. It claims to soothe the child soften gums ease pain cure wind colic and treat diarrhoea, selling at twenty five mates per bottle.
Sumter County City Marshal sale to be held at the City Council chamber door in Americus Georgia on the first Tuesday of April. Property includes two hundred feet square of land on the west side of the Southwestern railroad starting at McGarrah Street and extending along the right of way, plus a two story building known as the Mitchell Grist Mill with all machinery, levied on B C Mitchell to satisfy a judgment in favor of the Mayor and City Council of Americus against B C Mitchell.
In Sowrer County Georgia B F Market files for guardianship of the person and property of minors John Newton and Euma Caldwell. The court cites all interested parties to show cause by the April term on the first Monday in April why the petition should not be granted as prayed. Witness A C Speer Ordinary. February 16 1886.
Webster County sheriff sale notices list multiple properties to be sold at the courthouse door in Preston between legal hours in April 1886. Items include land in the 25th district lot 146, a cream mare named Rodey, a bay mare named Buck, another land lot 124 in the 24th district, and lots 5 and 6 in the 92nd district, with titles held by A. Smith, Rhodes Gill, and Burke & Mathis, conducted for creditors and tax authorities.
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