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VOL. XXXII.
DAILY EXqlllRER-SUN: OOLDMBPS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1890.
NO. 263.
NO TROUBLE ABOUT SIZES
ard none about our Boys'
Suits.
Xote a few prices:
15 Overcoats (w*th and
without cai es) to ciose $1 and
$2.50, sizes 2Ho 4 years.
We had 100 of these go< ds,
and thought them cheap at
$3 to $7.
50 Overcoats (ages 5 to 12)
were $3.50 to $6 Price now
$2.50 ond $3.50.
P. S. Suits made to meas
ure a specialty.
OVERCOATS,
Never have we shown as many hand
some garments.
To make things lively this week, we
offer
200 medium weight Overcoats in several
shades (all sizes) for $12 and $15. These
goods would not be high at $16 to $22.
We sell three times the Overcoats sold
by any one house, and expect to sell five
times as many this season.
Y'ou may save $5 to $10 in looking at
I our stock.
| Chancellor & Pearce.
EaT MEM
Pind some trouble in getting
fitted. You can avoid ihis by
callm? cn
Chancellor <fc Pearce.
Coats and V< sis. size 42 to
50 breast, and Pants 42 to 54
wa st. a specialty. N
A good Wool Suit tor $15, a
fine Suit $18 to $@2. Lon*
and slims can be fitted from
$10 to $25, We can fit your
form, head and poefeetbook at
the sam^ time.
fcHOESl MiOES’!
If we do excell
in any one de
partment, it is in
t h i s—O p ening
a Shoe Depart
ment about one
ago, and to-
doing the
largest retail fine
Shoe business in
the
prices
. _ won for us
fs enviable
If you
solid eomfort,
style, durabil
ity and 1 o
price combin
ed, see our
$4, $5, $6
$7 8>hoes.
They have no
equal in Co
lumbus. Large
line P a t e n t
Leather, Kan
garoo and Cork
Soles.
UNDERWEAR and SHIRTS.
Every day last week telegrams or letters
ordering Underwear were sent.
We will sell twice the quantity this
week.
Prices will tell.
25 dozen Undershirts, superior value,
50 cents, sold formerly 75 cents.
32 dozen grey and brown Shirts and
drawers $1 each. Match them if you can
for $1.25.
Cashmere, Camel Hair and other Suits
in red, white and grey $2.50 to $5.
These prices move goods rapidy. /
Hat? If so. drop in at Chancellor &
Pearce’s. They intend holding a Hat and
Cap festival this week to see how many
Hats they can sell in one week.
The best $2 and $3 Stiff Hat in Georgia.
Soft Hats from $1 to $5. Some retailers
sav we should not cut prices. That is all
right. CHANCELLOR & PEARCE.
The MultittudeofVis
est Exhibitol Clothing, Ha
LOR & PEA RCE’S, 1132
J. A. K1RVEN & CO.
Til's week we offer a large line of 46-inch Henriettas at 85 cents and $1, which,
'under the new tariff law, will be worth much more. They go at the old price as long
as they last
FLANNEL STJITTZtsrO-.
Double Fold Wool Suitings worth 25 cents. We are offering them at 15 cents.
They come in Stripes and Mixtures.
THE BEST OUST EABTH.
We sell the best Full, Regular, Fast Black Fancy School Hose for 15 cents ever
offered at the price.
JL’AlID IES’ bibbed tests
We are offering an extra good Ladies’ Vest for 25 cents. Some odd lots, one
and two garments of a kind to be closed out for half price. This lot inclu ies some for
men.
DOHSFT FORGET OUR IEJIR/ST,
For in this Department we are exceedingly great. Great in styles, great in
variety, great in quantity and exceedingly small in charges. We do sell Millinery
very low considering style and quality, and we are gratified that the Ladies of this city
and elsewhere fully appreciate it.
J. A. KIRVEN & CO.
JANIES H COUDEN PAINTS SIGNS.
jy^Otfice over Howard & Newsom, opposite Bell Tower.
Telephone 26S.OAB.3L, AJSTO SUSIE IMIjB.
NICKEL PURCHASES
FOR EXPEI.IMENTAL USE BY THE NAVY
DEI* AIETMENT.
Washivgton, November 1.—The Navy
Department lias arranged to acquire a
supply of nickel for experimental use.
The terms upon which the metal will be
delivered are not made public, nor is the
quality stated. It will, however, be suffi
cient to meet the demands of the depart
ment for experiments, and it is said at, the
department that no further purchases will
be made for at least a year.
THE BIDS OPENED
F.li; CONSTRUCTING A DRY DOCK AT PORT
ROYAL.
Washington, November 1.—Bids were
o|)ened today at the Treasury Department
for the construction of a timber dry dock
at the naval station at Port Royal, S. C.
The bids were: .Justin McCarthy, of Wash
ington, D. C., $418,915; R. G. Packard, of
New Y'ork, $491,000: .1. E. Sampson &
Co., of New York, $497,539; Carlos J.
Stockbrand, of Charleston, S. C., $326 -
003. The award will be made upon the
recommendation of the naval board, which
will examine the bids and the responsi
bility of the bidders.
The department also invited proposals
for building a floating dock at the same
station, but no proposals were received,
and a readvertisement will be necessary.
PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT,
SHOWING THE CONDITION OF UNCLE
sam’s treasury.
Washington, November 1.—The debt
statement issued today shows a decrease in
the public debt during October of $3,008,-
012.78. The total interest-bearing debt
outstanding is $032,283,3!K). The total
debt of all kinds is $1,545,021,000.98, in
which is included certificates and notes,
offset by casli in the treasury, amounting
to $506,188,043. The total cash in the
treasury is $081,316,480.83. Debt less all
available credits. $807,305,120.15: gold
certificate* outstanding. $174,050,009; sil
ver certificates, $310,049,374: currency
certificates. $0,930,000; treasury notes of
1S90 for the purchase of silver, $13,949,-
000: legal tenders outstanding. $340,081,-
010.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
itorstothe
ts, Shoes and
and 1134 B
A M10 0C^AnT T \i AG ED Y,
WHEN TWO ILL-FATED SHIPS
CRASHED TOGETHER.
A SCENE OF HORROR—A SURVIVOR TELLS
THE STORY—ALONE OX- THE
DEEP, DEAD FACES
GLIDING BY.
New York, November 1.—The pilot
boat Charles H. Marshall, No. 3, anchored
off Thompkinsville, L. I., this morning,
having on board five sailors of the Span
ish ship Vizcaya, and the second mate of
the Cornelius Hargraves. The pilot £oat
picked them up five miles south of the
scene of the disaster, at 7 o’clock yester
day morning. Mate Walker, who is an
intelligent young yankee, gave to a re
porter who boarded the Marshall this
morning a graphic and detailed account of
the disaster.
the mate’s story.
He said: ‘*1 had just finished supper,
and came on deck a few minutes be fore 7
o’clock’ Thursday evening. I saw the
Vizcaya about five miles off. Her green
light shone on the port side. I did not
feel the least bit uneasy. Our lights were
burning, and must have been plainly vis
ible to those on board the Spaniard. We
were sailing at the rate of about eight
knots an hour and neared the Spanish
ship rapidly. I turned on the flare light to
show him that a sailing vessel was near,
but he held on his way, and I began
to think that we might strike
him, or he us, if one of ns did not alter
our course. Capt. Allen and First Mate
Henry Phcrran were beiow, and I was in
charge of the deck. Finally I called the
captain. When he came on deck he
looked at the cloud of canvass on the
Spaaisli steamship and then at our sails,
all of which were set. ‘Wecan clear him,
I guess,’ lie said, and we held on our way.
I watched the two vessels drawing nearer,
and filially ventured to say: ‘I think we
will strike them, captain.’ ”
AND THEY STRUCK.
“Yes, by ! we will. Hard a port!
hard a port!” he shouted, but it was too
late. Like race horses our vessels darted
forward. We struck the Vizcaga amid
ships and I hope to God I may never be a
witness of another such scene. The Har
graves tore a great big hole in the Span
iard's side. I saw our bowsprit sweep
along her deck, and a man in gold buttons
and a peaked cap, whom I took to be the
captain, was knocked off the bridge. Then
the vessels swung slowly about until we
were almost side by side, and for a frac
tion of a second there was the solemn hush
of death.
THE SCENE OF TERROR.
“Then a chorus of agonizing human
cries burst forth. Men and women darted
hither and thither on the big steamship’s
decks, and soon I heard the sound of
their feet as they jumped down on our
decks. They thought tiiat with us tljey
would find safety, but alas, our ship was as
sorely wounded as their own.”
A COWARDLY CAPTAIN.
“A moment after the crash I caught a
glimpse of Capt. Allen's face, as he stood
immovable under the light of the binnacle
lamp. His face was white even
to his lips. As soon as he heard
the panic-stricken people dropping on our
deck he shouted to me: ‘ Walker, keep
them back; let’s save our own crew first.’
Then he cried, ‘to the boats, men! to the
boats, men.'' He, himself, wish a broad-
axe cut away the fastenings of the long
boat and jumped in. The "first mate and
three of our crew followed him. Mean
time I was fighting a gang of Spaniards
who were bent on getting to our boats.
Suddenly 1 looked around ami saw that
Alien had shoved off witti iiis four eom-
panions. The boat would easily have car
ried sixteen. I jumped into the rigging and
shouted, ‘Captain, yon are not going to
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Furnishing
road Street,
desert your, second mate, are you? For
God’s sake, come back!' He snouted
something in reply. What it was 1 don’t
k.sow, but I saw him waving his hand in
farewell, and I knew the coward 1 al made
off, leaving the rest of his crew to perish
miserably.
STRUGGLING IN THE WATER.
“There were ten of us on the Hargraves,
all told. For the moment I did not. know
what to do. 1 saw my comrades mourning
the rigging, with a crowd of Spaniards at
their heels. I felt the schooner sink,
and fearing she would be sub
merged, masts all, I grabbed
a big gang plank and jumped overboard
with it. I went under the water, and
when I arose to the surface again men
were jumping off die schooner into the wa
ter all around^ me. Finally I counted
thirteen of the Vizcaya’s men clinging to
the gang plank with me. One was a gen
tle-faced Spanish lad about sixteen years
old. The sea was quite calm, but there
was a heavy, long swell. We were all
sitting* astride of the gang plank. Sud
denly an extra heavy sea turned our frail
raft bottom up, and we all went over
with it. Down into the water
1 went, feeling arms and legs kicking all
about me. When I got to the surface
again I climbed back on the plank, and
then; one by one, the others eame back
UDtil I counted seven. A minute later,
another big wave washed us all over again.
When I got back to the gang plank there
were only five of us, all told. One of these
was the handsome Spanish lad. He could
speak a little English and he had great
nerve.”
“Our chances are mighty thin,” he said
to me. ,
I acauised, and he continued, “Every
time the old gang plank turns over l grow*
weaker and weaker. I don’t think I can
last much longer.”
“Well, I guess we have all got to go.” I
told him. “But let us hold on as long as
we can, when we go under, hold your
breath. Don’t swallow salt water.”
“I don’t know how long I can live, but
I will live as long as I can.”
THE LAD GAVE OUT.
•‘The poor )a<l turned, smiled, and a few
minutes later his head fell forward on the
board. I tried 10 work my way up to him,
but before I could reach him he gave a
great choking sob and rolled over into the
deep. He seemed to sink like lead.
ONLY FOUR LEFT.
“There were only four of us left. I
could see that the others could not last
long. They were in the water hang
ing to the gang plank with their
hands and arms, too exhausted to
climb astraddle of it. Their heads lay on
the board, and only for a convulsive
tightening of their arms when the sea was
over them, l would have thought they were
dead.
DISAPPEARED, ONE BY ONE.
One by one they slipped quietly off and
drowned. I was left alone before 9
o’clock. The moon arose about that time,
and you cannot imagine the terrible feel
ing of fear and despair that took posses
sion of me. I had to battle with myself
all the time to keep from giving up and
sliding away into eternity. On al) sidesot
me the most intense quiet reigned.
Where first there was an endless
chorus of screams and prayers for help,
there was now nothing but silence, and I
felt that my mind was going. 1 think 1
would have gone crazy, but I suddenly
saw the light at Barnegat, flashing, and to
keep my mind occupied I begin to paddle
with my hands in the direction of it.
DEAITFACES SLIPPING BY.
Occasionally, a dead body would slip by
me in the water, face up in the briilani
light of the moon. My lower limbs were
warm in the water. but my
body was freezing from the
bitter wind. Every now and
then I would be washed overboard. Be
hind me I could see the tall masts of the
sunken vessels with a few dark forms
n will Find
Ever Seen at
Columbus,
clinging to the. spars. I paddled away and
finally realized that I was drifting out to
sea and not making one inch toward Bar-
negot. Twice I saw an ocean steamer,
but they were miles away, nevertheless I
screamed again and again at them for help.
Then 1 saw some sailing vessels, but they
also were too far off to hear my feeble
cries. Night passed slowly away.
Abont 4 o’clock in the morning I heard a
feeble cry to my right and saw the
glittering eyes and bewhiskered face of a
Spaniard on the water. He had a raft of
spars a little be'ter than mine, and I swam
over to him. He could speak no English
and I could speak no Spanish, but we
shook bauds in the water there and felt
that we would die together. He had been
washed off his raft. I helped him on to it
again and then climbed on myself.
THE PURSER’S DEATH.
HE WENT DOWN WITH HIS PRECIOUS
GOLD.
Philalei.phia, November 1.—First
Mate Henry Perring, of the ill-fattu
schooner Cornelius Hargraves, and six of
her crew, together with six of the crew
the schooner’s victim, the Spanish steamer
Vixcaya. arrived here at 0:35 o’clock tills
evening from Lewes. Del. Capt. John J.
Alien, master of the Cornelius Hargraves,
and Harvey Allen, the schooner’s cook,
remained aboard the Sarah L. Davis, the
vessel that picked the shipwrecked men
up, and they will not arrive here until
tomorrow.
Mate Perring was interviewed upon the
subject of the disaster, and he teils sub
stantially the same story as Mate Walker
up to the rime of taking to the boats.
Perring says nothing to impute cowardice
or abandonment on the part of Capt. Al
len, and says that he (Perring) himself
suggested to the captain that it was time
to take to the boats as he felt the schooner
sinking under him. At that time
he had lost sight of Walker, who had been
ordered to keep the Spaniards back from
taking possession of the boats.
DROWNED WITH HIS GOLD.
Perring relates this incideut: “Among
the Spaniards who jumped aboard the
schooner from the steamer, I saw one man,
who I have since learned from the papers
was the purser, clasping two bags of gold
in his bands and begging our sailors to
save him and the money. They told him
to throw it overboard, but he refused, and
went down with the bags in his hands.”
AN UNLUCKY SCHOONER.
THE CORNELIUS HARGRAVES THAT SUNK
THE VIZCAYA.
Fall RiVEK.November 1.—The schoon
er Cornelius Hargraves, which collided
with t e steamer Vizcaya off Baregate, is
owned here. She is a four-master of 1400
tons; cost $05,000, and was launched at
Camden, Maine, in September, 1889. She
lost her anchor as she was pulling out of
Camden harbor on her first trip
and was delayed a week in
consequence. On her first voyage she
struck a floating wreck off the Jersey
coast- and was damaged $0,000. On her
next, trip she lost a portion of her rigging
in a gale, and later got stuck in the mud
in the Somerset coal docks. On this trip
she was blown out to sea before she car-
goed in Philadelphia. She had just won
out her losses when this disaster occurred.
A DANGEROUS OBSTRUCTION.
TEE WRECKED STEAMER VIZCAYA
THREATENING OCEAN TRAVEL.
Point Pleasant, N. J., November 1.—
Tlie spars of the wrecked steamer Yircaya
ear. be plainly seen from the shore. The
steamer lies directly in the line of ocean
travel, and is a dangerous obstruction to
navigation. She lies about ten miles from
the shore. The schooner, although full of
water, still floats, and during the night
drifted a considerable distance to the east
ward.
the Great-
CHANCEL-
, Georgia.
ATLANTA GOSSIP.
THE EXPOSITION CLOSES — POLITICAL
NOTES.
Alanta, Mcvember 1.—[Special.]—
This is the last day ot the Piedmont
Exposition. There was a big crowd out,
and the program closed with a flourish of
trumpets.
The Exposition has been a success gen
erally. but one feature deserves special
mention—the races. The best horses ever
had in Georgia were here, and it has been
demonstrated that good racing will draw a
crowd, and that money put out in this way
is bound to come back. Certainly, in this
respect, the Exposition this year was far
ahead of anything ever held in Georgia.
The general expectation now is that Pat
Calhoun will run for the Senate, though
he himself will furnish no more substan
tial ground for it than refusing to say that
he will not run. ,
“Not today,” he replies to questions
concerning his probable candidacy; “I
can’t say anything today.”
The Livingston meetings are rather
strained efforts in Fulton.
Last night there was a “rally” at th&
court house, and a number of the most,
popular speakers in Atlanta were present
and si>oke. Not exceeding 350 people were
present and the weather was all that could
be asked. The people just won’t take any
interest in Livingston.
Will Haight, the Republican candidate,
is one of the most popular young men in
the county, and backed by a considerable
lot of Republican boodle, his friends are
putting in some mighty effective licks for
him.
It would surprise nobody tc see Haight
carry Fulton county.
A CRAZY DEED.
THE HORRIBLE CRIME COMMITTED BY
SARAH M’MULLEN.
Buffalo, November 1.—One of the
most terrible murders ever known in the
history of Erie county was committed at
Akron, twenty-four miles east of this city,
last night. A young woman named Sarah
McMullen, aged nineteen, formerly living
in Buffalo, bat lately residing with Mrs.
Patrick Brown, enticed Delia Brown, aged
six years, and Nellie May Connors, aged
ten, onto the Akron Cement Works nar
row guage railroad bridge, a height of
sixty-five feet over Murier creek. All of a
sudden she pushed Delia Brown
over the side of the bridge and then
grabbed Nellie May Connors and hurled
her into tlie precipice below. Nellie was
instantly killed, but fortunately little Delia
Brown lives to tell the tale. Her arms and
legs are broken, ar.d, although terribly
bruised, it is thought she wiil recover.
Last night citizens of Akron searched for
the missing girls and found them at about
2 o’clock this morning. For several hoars
little Delia bad laid on the
stones at the side of the creek, un
able to move. She said to Constable
Burns that Sarah had hard work in push
ing Nellie Connors over the side of
the bridge and came very near failing over
herself. Afier committing the act Sarah
McMullen :eturned to Brown's house and
said to Mrs. Brown: “ I am going away;
perhaps you will not see me again.” At the
same time she extended her hand. Mrs.
Brown thought she was fooling, when
Sarah again spoke up, “ Well, if you wont
shake hands with me, all right,”
and went out. Her actions ex
cited the curiosity of the family.
Sarah started for the bridge over the mill
dam at Akron, about ten feet high, and
arriving at tlie place, st‘*pped between the
iron braces and jnmped into the water,
which is several feet deep. Simon Brown
saw her and ran to the spot and rescued
Sarali from drowning. No reason is as
signed for her terrible deed. It is be
lieved to be a crazy act. She is in cus
tody, but will not talk.