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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1884
Page
3
A Georgia writer argues for a middle ground between cotton and grass farming. He urges diversified crops, efficient stock pastures, and careful debt reduction while defending cotton's role and warning against abandoning it. He cites experiences with sheep, cattle, hogs, and a possible shift toward mixed farming to stabilize income and manage mortgages.
Supreme Courts have ruled that contracts for the upkeep of the New Orleans Charity Hospital, funded by a $1,000,000 gift from the Louisiana State Lottery Company, stand as a pledge of a sovereign state's sanctity. M. A. Dauphin of New Orleans offers further information to potential cooperators.
Fort Worth grew from 350 residents after the war to 2,000 when the Texas and Pacific line arrived in 1876. By 1883 the city claimed 6,663 residents and today numbers about 99,000. It boasts multiple railways and ongoing expansion.
A letter to the Ashville Citizen by Mr. A'yew 2 one M. Thon suggests chartering a joint stock firm to upgrade Buncombe roads. The plan calls for widening roads to 16 feet and raising centers by 10 inches, then applying pulverised rosin can every decade or so to waterproof and harden surfaces. The idea notes rosin availability near turpentine stills and cites roads in Richmond county as precedent. An experimental trial in New Jersey is planned for the coming summer.
Meridian correspondent reports a local inventor claims to have solved perpetual motion with a machine tested by city scientists who deem it a grand success. The inventor says gravity and atmospheric pressure are nullified and over one hundred thousand dollars has been subscribed. Factory plans for Meridian are announced.
An opinion on the Mississippi River shows engineers toil along its banks but concede the river remains difficult to control. The essay notes slow progress, shifting channels, and annual floods creating new sandbars and sediment that shift the main flow year to year, making reliable regulation improbable.
The case of Chas Burkhalter charged with the murder of Allen Gresham was heard this morning. The state, led by Hon. T. W. Grimes and Colonel KE. M. Butt, faced defense by Judge B. W. Butt Major BE. W. ier and Colonel B. B. Hinton of Americus. The jury returned a guilty verdict at about 6 p.m. with a recommendation to mercy from the court.
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