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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1887
Page
5
Woolfork’s transfer to Bibb county jail signals crime case updates. Political gossip columns forecast a busy Congress and tariff debates affect Georgia farmers. Reports touch on Georgia papers, court actions, and prominent figures like Gen Gordon, Henry Grady, and Col Fred Grant, with commentary on Prohibition and newspaper influence.
A column notes Mt. Quad visiting Eufaula and sketches. It discusses Col. John R. Fellows, the New York District Attorney candidate, and that Ohio leads the bloody shirt talk. It reports on the Archists, Supreme Court decisions, and Illinois governor interference, plus business and transportation bets, weather lore, and rail line debates. It midpoints with remarks on tariff politics, bandit violence in Durazno, and party leadership chatter, ending with the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on express carriers.
Governor Gordon repudiates a story that he kissed Gen Morgan as a fabrication. The Albany News publishes praise for a Dougherty county pamphlet and urges local development. The piece cites tariff reform clashes, ghost scare at Longstreet, and Northwest farmers opposing high tariffs as a nationwide awakening against tariff excesses and Democratic robberies.
An advert promotes Burklen's Azalea Salve as the best remedy for cuts bruises sores and skin eruptions with a guarantee of satisfaction or money back. It promises to cure piles and lists a price per box and the seller as Dr. E. J. Eldridge.
The Chronicle reports for the week ending November 4 that total receipts reached 280,174 bales, down from last week, with interior towns at 208,875 bales and plantations since September 1 totaling 2,316,876. Stock comparisons and regional movements are detailed, noting shifts from 1886 to 1887 and market fluctuations from Memphis to New Orleans, with spot cotton dull and prices around 99 16 cents for middling uplands.
A New York World editorial urges northern papers to show chivalry toward Mr Davis. It argues secession was by the South and that the old man deserves peaceful end, not partisan attacks. The piece hopes liberal Northern views will ease sectional tensions and strengthen national unity.
The Chicago Herald questions whether the salt tariff truly boosts home industry or protects workers. It argues the salt ring forms a price-raising pool aided by a prohibitive ad valorem tariff of 8 to 43 percent, implying the tariff enables a monopoly and harms labor in fall employment.
The Atlanta Constitution hosted Mr Randall the tariff advocate at the Piedmont Exposition. Georgian leaders gather to invite Hon John G Carlisle to speak on tariffs in Atlanta, with Gov Gordon and Senator Colquitt in attendance. Letters from Blount Turner Crisp and Carlton support the move. The effort aims to counter protectionist influence and bolster tariff reform in Georgia.
The Chokee correspondent offers a humorous critique of Lee county’s removal from the Southwestern circuit with remarks on Judge Fort and mercy. The piece touches judges, juries, mercy, and local insult humor, ending with a Georgia Farmers Alliance notice about November 12 delegates meeting in Americas to establish a state organization for farmers.
Morgan McMichael and Will Crawford were admitted to the Buena Vista bar after Wednesday examinations conducted by a committee of Lellester Worrill Col Butt Maj Miller J.8. McCorkle and Henry Persons. Judge Smith advised the new lawyers that dishonest violators will seek their advice and to make them pay for it. Rhoda Burchett of Owensboro gave birth to a child lacking ears eyes or arms, with hair patches on cheeks and between shoulders, reported living and well.
Savannah News notes Arbor Day observance in Georgia in November highlighting the need to curb excessive logging and curb flood damage from swollen rivers. Jefferson Davis contributes a letter from the forestry congress, stressing reforestation and the long-term value of careful forest management.
Rome Ga Tribune notes K Sato of Japan touring Rome on his way to Oxford Indiana to study for missionary work. From a prominent Christian family, he was educated in America and joined Methodist outreach efforts. He visits Georgia Methodists briefly, bearing commendations from DePauw College president and meeting the prayer group in Rome before continuing to Oxford.
The notice claims only thirty six percent of deaths from consumption are inherited while the rest arise from carelessness or infectious transmission. It extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Mi Discovery as a positive remedy in early stages and urges readers with shortness of breath coughing blood night sweats or lingering cough to obtain it promptly.
Relics from High Mound near the Ohie river include two silver and thirty silver shoe buckles bearing the French date of 1780. They likely formed part of a convent outfit tied to a Jesuit mission, suggesting medieval burial practices persisted into later centuries.
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