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|>cnii-c|tc£ltl}i Republican. C.W. HANCOCK, - EDITOR A.ND IPKOFiiIEJ'X’OX^. AiUKBII!(;8, GEORGIA. Wednesday Morning, August 15, 1883 Official Organ of City of Americus. Official Organ of Sumter County Official Organ of Schley County. Official Organ of Lee County. Official Organ of Webster County. Publisher’s Notice. We earnestly desire that those who are indebted to us will settle at their earliest convenience. Wo have carried a number of our friends through a long and dull summer season, and of course it has been a tax upon our resources, and now that cotton is coming in and bringing a good price, we hope that our friends will not forget ns. The numerous amounts duo aro relatively small, bnt in the aggregate they amount to a great deal to us. Wo mention this in a spirit of pleasant reminder, because wo aro all too prone to neglect smalt matters, and sometimes, though not intentionally, to tho injury of our friends. The Kay fertilizer bill, after passing the house, was killed in tho senate by a vole of ten to one. Both of the Representatives from Sumter voted for the local option bill which has passed the House. We have received from R. W. (jirubb, Esq., Recording Secretary of the Geor gia Press Association, a neatly printed copy of the proceedings of the fifteenth annual session held at Athens on the Otlr of May last. Tho negroes in the Georgia insane asylum have been moved in the new building just completed for their use, which contains five hundred rooms. The buildings vacated by the negroes will be used for the white insane. About eight hundred deaths a day are reported from cholera in Egypt. This does not indicate an abatement of the plague, but the fact that it has been confined strictly to that country will tend to allay the feeling of alarm which was spreading over Europe. An old lady in Dahlonega writes to the editor of the Gainesville Magic that she has in her possession some of tho manuscript of .John Howard Payne; that he boarded with her in that town in 1840, and mined for gold. This manuscript is a few poetical verses written in memory of the death of her daughter. The Hon. Nathaniel A. Chapman, of Waterford, a well-known lawyer and member of the Bar of New London County, dropped dead yesterday while engaged on the trial of a case before Justice B. O. Crocker, of Waterford, lie fell in a fit and died immediately. He was in his usual health and spirits apparently up to the time of his death. . “Our San Carlos pots,” as the dis patches facetiously term the Apaches, are making themselves merry among the Mexicans beyond the border, slaughtering the settlers and pillaging the towns. They will not cross the lines and come under the protecting wings of the reservation until the weather gets too chilly for their out door sports. Louisville is getting sick over her Exposition. Matters are still in con fusion, and hundreds who applied for space have not come forward to occupy it. Things can not be put in good or der before tho Ist of September. On no day since the opening has the atten dance reached 1,000. The expenses are $2,500 a day. The placing of ad mission at fifty cents is beginning to be regarded as a mistake. The Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle reports a difficulty on the steps of the capitol between Hon. Frank Johnson, colored Repre sentative from Lee county, and Peter McMichael, one of the colored porters of the State House. It grew out of Johnson’s voting for Colonel Blanil ford for Supreme Court Judge—-Mc- Michael being for Mr. Basinger. From words they came to blows, and Peter got decidedly the best of it. The Senate has passed a bill giving maimed Confederate soldiers new arti ficial legs or arms every three instead of every five years, as now provided tinder the constitution, by the act Sep tember 20, 1870. As about 950 maim ed soldiers have drawn the money for artificial limbs, in sums varying from S4O to SIOO each, should this bill pass the house, and be approved by the Governor, it will cause quite a little sum to be distributed to the maimed veterans of the State. The act does not provide for furnishing the artificial limbs, bnt the money with which to snpply them, so that of the 950 who have taken advantage of tho act all have drawn the money, while bnt very few have-procured artificial limbs. THE KIMBALL RAZED TO THE GROUND BY THE FRAMES! Atlanta Constitution, Monday 13th. Yesterday morning at twenty-six minutes to five o’clock the Kimball House was found to be on fire. At half-past eight o’clock it was a smoul dering heap of ruins. For years the burning of this great hotel has been dreaded as a calamity reasonably sure to come, and certain to be deplorable in its results. Two things were held to be certain: 1. That its burning would sweep away tho whole central part of the city. 2. That a great number of lives would be lost when it was burned. By favorable circumstances.that were almost miraculous neither of these re sults came about. Tho winds were as still as death and the flames rising from tho great central fire mounted straight between the four walls and went heav enward. Not a single house across the narrow streets were burned anti even tho back part of the block on which the Kimball sat was saved. The fire began in the entrance corner of the house and was providentially confined there, until every room had been emptied of its sleeping guests. Not a life was lest though tlie firemen worked and the crowd lingered for hours amid the burning and falling walls. Not one man was injured. ORIGIN OK THE EIRE. As to the exact time at which the fire originated there is much difference of opinion. Those who were first on the scene differ in their statements as to when the fire was started. It is cer tain, however, that it was not far from half-past four. At about that time the fire was discovered by several persons and the alarm was sounded. The state ments as to tho ptobable causes of the fire and its exact place of origin also are very conflicting. No person has been found who will state positively where the fire originated. While those on the outside of the building were pre paring to fight the flames those on the inside began to get a smell of tho smoke. As seen by those on tho outside of the building, the story of the discovery of the fire and the first contest with it is as follows: At the hour named a dense smoke was seen issuing from the door of the basement room at the southwestern corner of the building. Tho room was directly under the real estate office of Col. G. W. Adair and was used as a storage room by the Italian fruit deal er, Deriotti. Immediately Officer Gloer ran to tho fire alarm box at the corner of Peachtree and Decatur streets and turned on the alarm. On account of the rubbish on Marietta street, where the street is being repaired, there was some delay in the hosereels reaching the spot. As the fire appeared to be in the basement, the door was forced and a stream of water was turned on. The room was as dark as pitch, and there was no sign of fire except the smoke which boiled from under the place. The room was fairly flooded with water but the smoke increased in density and the firemen seeing that their efforts were of no avail took a hose into an alleyway between tho inside wall of the south wing and tho billiard room. From the first moment that the flames began to gain headway the gen eral opinion was that the burning of the Kimball house would involve tho destruction of the central portion of the city. As tho flames, however, took possession of tho south wall, it was noticed that they ascended in a per fectly straight line, there being not a particle of wind stirring. An unusual ly small amount of heat was develop ed, considering the size of the burning pile, and it was soon seen that there was not the slightest danger of the blocks across the railroad. A spark dropped down a chimnoy to one of the rooms in the James building, and fall ing on the floor caught the carpet. But this was soon extinguished as the room was occupied. At first the work of the firemen was directed to the fire itself, hoping that by concentrating six or eight streams they could control the fire. In about half an hour after, however, the whole eastern side of the building was nearly beyond the control of a hundred streams of water, much less the half dozen weak streams that were being played upon it. The hose squails were therefore shifted to Pryor street, and the men were directed to control as far as possible the flames that were bursting out at the front win dows and doors. Tho front balcony caught fire about this time and devel oped an unusual amount of heat. The firemen had a sharp tussle with it and after a while they had it smouldering. The wall of the Kisers and Morrison A Bain about this time were observed to be suffering from the heat. Wet blankets had been hung from the win dows. Three streams of water were turned on these buildings and they were kept drenched. At length a thin blue column of smoke curled from the cornices of Morrison & Bain’s store and it was announced that that block was fired and must go. Persons on the roof, however, with wet blankets and buckets of water, smothered this incip ient blaze and at length the heat began to grow less, while the water supply was increased. There was compara tively little danger on the east side of the building. In the meantime the fire had got possession of the north side and burned more fiercely there than elsewhere. The goods were hastily removed out of the upper part of the old Moore and Marsh building, the windows were hung with drenched blankets. For thirty minutes it was a toss up as to whether or not this block would catch. Moore A Marsh sum moning all their force draped the win dows of their magnificent building with wet blankets. Mcßrido & (Jo., John M. Hill and Gramling it Spalding, in stead of moving their stocks, kept their doors and windows closed and wet blankets to the front. Two streams of water were taken from the cast side and devoted to drenching these build ings. The heavy stock of drugs car ried by John B. Daniel made the fire extremely hot on this corner. In tho meantime the flames had worked their way to the west side of the Kimball and the rear of Moran A Go’s, drug store had taken fire. It was felt that if the flames were not checked at this point that the whole centre of the city would go, as the narrow street between this block and the National hotel would have proved no check to the fire. A squad of firemen headed by Solicitor Glenn went into this store and soon put out the flames at that point. The fact that the roof fell in early in the day and allowed the heat to go up did much to keep the fire from spread ing- At this juncture there was intense excitement. The fire which had been curling up in a straight line now began to waiver through the currents created by it-' own heat. “If the walls will stand,” was the general cry, “tho city will be saved. Otherwise the whole of central Atlanta is gone.” Just the Contrary proved true. The falling of the center wall completely smothered the (lames and sent up a dense column of stn ike, through which the flames never recovered their way. Then the crowd began to pray that the walls would fall rapidly, as they did. As each wall went down it shut out anew field of fire, and half an hour from the falling of the centre wall there was Hardly a (lame to be seen in the block. The outer walls fell outward, but the central walls blottid oat area after area of flames. The sparks were fly ing thick and fast, however, and every awning on the front of the blocks on tho National hotel side were set on tiro. As the one over Russell’s tobacco store caught, a lady loaning out of a window in the National hotel attempted to fan it out with a crimson fan. The book and ladder men, however, were posted to strip these awnings down as rapidly as they caught, and to pull down all wooden signs and cornices from the buildings near the Kimball. In this way the spread of actual fire was pre vented. A spark flew over two or three blocks of buildings and fell on Major Cummings’ head while he was standing in front of his exchange on Broad street and burned a hole in his bat. The wind shifted to the south soon after the fire got under way, and this was a fortunate circumstance, as any other direction would have been cer tainly fatal to the buildings on the three streets surrounding the hotel. Over the thousands of people congre gated on Pryor and Whitehall streets the ashes fell in a white, drifting storm, and soon the ground looked as if it wore covered with snow. The smoke and lint air brought also a shower of fine sand from the mortar of tho crumb ling walls. This was blown for sev eral blocks and covered the streets with a queer white sheet. It was plainly noticeable on the roofs for six or eight blocks in every direction. Another curious incident was noticed in tho fall of the wall on Decatur street. It was seen bulging at the top for some time and everybody had been cleared out of the way. Soon it reeled and tumbled with a fearful crash. The three top stories fell and the wall of the two lower bulged out in its center clearly three feet and then sprang back like India rubber into place without show ing so much as a crack. IT WAS SIMPLY A MIRACLE THAT NONE OK THE BLOCKS OF BUILDINGS AROUND THE KIMBALL WERE NOT LOST. Any man would have wagered Sat urday that it would boa physical im possibility for tho Kimball house to burn without destroying the center of the city. Fifty times during the fire no man would have insured the blocks on the east, west or north side of the Kimball for ninety cents on tlie dollar, and nine men out of ten in the crowd had virtually given up the fight. There was wonderful coolness preserved how ever, and very few stocks of goods were removed. In the block of buildings fronting the Kimball house, Messrs. Hirsch A 13r0., Morrison Bain A Go., had wagons and drays backed up to the rear of their stores and their clerks and porters were ready to move their goods on a moments notice, but they stood at the front of tho store be hind their glass doors, determined not to disturb nothing until forced to do so by actual necessity. In ties way much damage was averted. It is evon more wonderful that not a single building, not even one of the shanties that is con nected with the Kimball at the rear should have been burned. The fire started and raged and ended within the four walls of the great hotel and did not do perhaps five hundred dollars worth of damage. One thing was demonstrated beyond doubt, and that was the Kimball house, although it was built with unprecedent ed rapidity, was an exceeding well built house, and to this fact is due the sal vation of the business portion of Atlan ta. The weather of course favored, and other circumstances were propi tious, indeed, as a bystander said, when the flames bad died out and the great blackened site of the hotel was the only thing left: “If the Lord had done His best for Atlanta after the fire had began He could not have done better than this has turned out.” THE LOSSES AND INSURANCE. When it is remembered that the hotel cost $600,000 and the furniture $125,000, tho amount of the insurance seems strangely inadequate. On the building and furniture there was only SSO,OOO. Dr. Joseph Thompson had $25,000 on his third interest, distrib uted as follows: Hamburg-Bremen $5,000; Home, $5,000; North British and Mutual, $5,000; Southern Mutual, $5,000. These companies are repre sented by the agency of W. P. & W. F. Patillo. The other $5,000 of Dr. Thompson’s insurance is in the North ern, represented by J. Edgar Thomp son. The third interest of John Rice, is insured by John C. Whitner A Son for $25,000. They have placed this amount in various companies but are unable to give the amounts in each, as their office was burned, and all their books are in tho vault. They will take them out to-day and remove them to the Jackson building on Pryor street where they will open an office and make accurate estimates of the losses sustained by their companies. The Whitner’s also had $15,000 on the ninth interest of Mr. .1. T. Glenn. Mr. Joseph Thompson, Jr., owned a ninth interest which was insured for $15,000, variously distributed. The ninth in terest of General Toombs was not in sured. He carried $15,000 on it up to two years ago and then refused to re new it. One reason why the owners carried so little insurance was because of the very high rate charged. The Kimball house was considered the worst risk in the city. A rate of 21 per cent was charged on it, while on ordinary central property only 1 per cent is charged. The Republic block just opposite was insured at 1 j per cent, the addition of being made because of its proximity to the hotel. Mr. Scovillc spent $20,000 on im provements and furniture when lie was preparing for tho ex position. He carried a policy of SIO,OOO on this up to a year ago, when he declined to renew it, and at the time of the fire he had only $1,200 and that in the North America. Mr. Scovillc estimates his loss at from $lO,- 000 to 15,000, that is, his direct loss in the fire, hut when the hotel was a mass of smoking ruins and it was found for certain that not a life had been lost, he exclaimed, “I am the hap piest man in Georgia." It is impossible to obtain the items of insurance, as most of the books con taining them wote inaccessible last night. The insurance amounts of the par ties in the various stores in and around the hotel are stated in the account of tlieir losses. Tho insurance was so .veil distribu ted that no one company is badly hurt. The Atlanta Home, a splendid new company, fortunately had not a dollar of risk. WILL IT BE REBUILT? Yesterday there was a general in quiry as to the probability of the re building of the hotel. It was surpris ing to see tho absolute confidence in Atlanta enterprise. Mr. Culpepper re marked that be thought be could start Monday and raise a company to re build the hotel. Tie thinks it can be replaced for $400,000, though it cost nearly twice that sum. Mr. Frank Rice, an experienced contractor thinks $400,000 will be easily raised to put up a hotel as large and better in some respects. Mr. J. C. Peck, one of the contractors of the building offered, yes terday to replace the house for $400,- 000. The almost universal opinion is that in a few months Atlanta will have a grander hotel than the superb struc ture whoso ruins looked so mournful in last night’s dim moonlight. The Vancevillc Affair. Worth Star. Wo have so far abstained from men tioning the Vancevillc affair, because wo have heard several versions ot it, and feared we might publish the wrong one. We hoped to get a correct report of the matter in last week’s Berrien News, bnt as it was not mentioned, we must confine ourself to what wo know to be true, i. e., that Furlong beat his wife unmercifully, that he was arrested that a committal trial was held and that he was bound over to the Superior Court in the sum of $2,500. We have no plea to make in behalf of Furlong, for there is none that could be made, bnt we want to place the blame for this brutal outrage where it properly belongs—at the door of whis key. Had Ben Furlong not been drunk, his hand would never have been raised against his defenseless wife. A gen tleman who lived neighbor to him a number of years said to us the other day: “I have known Ben Furlong a number of years, and I never had a better neighbor and friend in my life, and all the time I lived near him I never heard of him mistreating any one.” No, it was not Ben Furlong who beat and bruised his wife, it was a hellish demon created within him by a too free indulgence in whiskey—that great and towering curse, the privilege to sell which, according to some of the whisky advocates, was purchased by the blood of our ancestors. Out upon such a blasphemous charge against the honored dead! An intelligent people will never believe that our ancestors shed a single drop of blood in order to bequeath such a blighting, withering curse to their posterity. We point to the bruised and bleed ing wife of Ben Furlong, and charge the crime to whiskey. River, Kidney and Bright’s Dis ease. A medicine that destroys the germ or cause of Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, Kidney and Liver Complaints, and has power to root them out of the system, is above all price. Such a medicine is Hop Bitters, and positive proof of this can be found by one trial, or by asking your neighbors, who have been cured by it. * A lady says her husband will sit on a barbed wire fence all the afternoon to see a base-ball match and never move a muscle, but when he goes to church he can’t sit in a cushioned pew lor fifteen minutes without wiggling all over the seat and changing his position forty times. On Thirty Day’s Trial. The Voltaic Belt Cos., Marshall, Mich, will send Dr, Dye’b Celebrated Electro, Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afllicted with Nervous Debility. Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Ad dress as above. N. B.—No risk is incurred, thirty days’ trial is allowed; dec2l-ly- All of the popular patent medicines anti a few of tho unpopular ones at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. New Orleans, August l, 1883. TO THE PUBLIC. Investigate for Yourselves! Postmaster-General Gresham having pub lished a wilful and malicious falsehood in regard to tho character of The Louisiana State Lottery Company, the following facts are given to the public, to prove his state ment, that we are engaged in a fraudulent business, to be false and untrue: Amount of prizes paid by The Louisiana State Lottery Company from January 1, 1879, to present date: Paid to Southern Express Cos., New Orleans,T. M. Wescoat, Manager.§l,3oG,3o9 Paid to Louisiana National Bank, Jos. if. Oglesby, President 103,901) Paid to Louisiana State National Bank, S.’H. Kennedy, President. 12,1,100 Paid to New Orleans National Bank, A. Baldwin, President 88,550 Paid to Union National Bank, S. Cliailaron, Cashier 04,450 Paid to Citizens’ Bank, E. L. Car nere, President 57,000 Paid to Germania National Bank, Jules Cassard, President 30,000 Paid to Hibernia National Bank, Chas. Palfrey, Cashier 37,000 Paid to Canal Bank, Ed. Toby, Cashier . 13,150 Paid to Mutual National Bank, Jos. Mitchell, Cashier 5,200 Total paid as above 52,253,050 Paid in sums of under.sl,ooo at the various oliicos of tlie Company throughout tho United States 2,027,410 Total paid by all §I,SBI,OGO For tlie truth of tlie above facts we refer the public to tlie officers of tlie above-named corporations, and for our legality and stand ing to tlie Mayor and Officers of the City of New Orleai\s, to tlie State authorities of Louisiana, and also to tho U. S. Officials of Louisiana. We claim to be legal, honest and correct in all our transactions, as much so as any business in tlie. country. Our standing is conceded by all who will inves tigate, and our stock lias for years been sold at our Board of Brokers, and owned by many of our best known and respected citi zens. M A. DAUPHIN, President. tfiT CAPITAL PRIZE, 75,000..<>* Tickets only $5. Shares in proportion ■Li ♦ LOUISIANA STAYS LOTTERY GO. “ We do hereby certify that ice supervise the arrangements for all Monthly and Semi-Annual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery Company, and in person manage and control the Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with honesty, fairness, and in good faith toward all parties, and tee authorize the Company ti use this certificate , with fac simile, of our signatures attached, in its aduertisementss ” Uonimi.Kioiaerw. Incorporated in 1808 for 25 years by the Legislature for Educational and Charitable purposes—with a capital of §l,ooo,ooo—to which a reserve fund of over $350,000 lias since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was made a part-of tlie present State Constitution adopted December 2d, A.D., 1879. The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed by the people of any Stale. It never scales or postpones. It. Gram! Single Number Drawing, take jilacc monthly, A SPLBKniD OKl’lllt'lti.Ml Y TO win a reirriiNE. NINTH GRAND DRAWING, CLASS I, AT NEW OR LEANS, TUESDAY, September 11, ISS.'I —lUOtli Monthly Drawing. Capital Prize, $75,000. 100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each. Fractions, in Fifths in proportion. I,IST OK PRIZES. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE of *75,000 1 do do 25,000 1 do do 10,000 2 PRIZES OF §O,OOO 12,000 5 do 2,000 10,000 10 do 1,000 10,000 20 do 500 10,000 100 do 200 20,000 300 do 100 30,000 500 do 50 25,000 1000 do 25 25,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 9 Approximation Prizes of §750 0,730 9 do do 500 4,500 9 do do 250 2,250 1907 Prizes, amounting to §265,500 Application for rates to clubs should he made only to the office of tlie Company in New Orleans. For information write clearly, giving full address. Address I’. O. Money Orders or Registered Letters to NEW OISEEANS NATIONAL HANK, New Orleans, I.a. Ordinary Letters by Mail or Express to M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, I,a, or M. A. DAUPHIN, (!07 Seveiitl*. St,,Washington, I>.C. ailgls-4\V Cut shows No. 3 Ready to Get Into. C SgriM Cart Cos., ltushvillc, Inti, —Wholesale Manufacturers of— Two-WheeSed Vehicles. The ONLY thing on two wheels that RIDES AS EASY AS A CARRIAGE. Goods made of tho best materials, and war ranted. Weightfrom !)Oto 150 pounds. Prices Low. Ask your merchant to get prices for you. C SPRING CART CO. augls-w6m Application—Leave to Sell. GEOr.GIA—Lee County: To All Whom it May Concern. Whereas, E. S. Johns, administrator on the estate of Delphia E. Johns, Jate of Leo county deceased, having filed his petition in my office for leave to sell the real estate belonging to said estate, These are therefore to cito and admonish all parties interested, whether kindred or creditors, to show cause on or before tlie September term of said court, to he held on tlie third Monday in September next, why the said letters should not be granted to tlie said petitioner as prayed for. Witness my hand and official signature, this tho 14th day of August, 1883. augls-td G. C. Edwards, Ord’y. AMERICtIS, - - - Ctge&tiML MR. SIIAW is now in the Northern markets, purchasing iiis FALL and WINTER STOCK of MB®* y fKii4lii 9 NOTIONS, CLOTHING, 8881 l 000 GOO TTTTT SKSK 1J BO o O O T S BBBI! o OO o T HSSS B i: o o o o 4’ s 15888- 000 000 T SSSS SSSS II 11 000 FEE EE SSSS S II HO O E S AND SSSS 11111111 O O EKE SSSS S 11 11 O O E S SSSS 11 11 000 EEEEE SSSS „„ * Hats, Umbrellas, Etc. We must have room for these NEW GOODS, and we must have Money to pay lor them. If you want Bargain# ! Bargains ! liargains ! IN Ladies’ Hats, Parasols, Linen Lawns Figured Piques, iusSins, and other SUMMER, GOODS, call early, as We are Offering Them Without Regard to Former Prices! Gan be had CHEAP for the CASH! C 4 ITM TS’ NT U A W IS ATM, Nobby and Nice, at “Rock Bottom” prices, and no mistake. ®ii issue's’, (Laundried and Unlaundried), is conceded to he THE BEST SHIRT IN THE MARKET! In the BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT, we are pre pared to give the best values ever offered in this market. Our Stock is Simply Ins, and Mist cc Reduced. It is impossible for us to specify all the bargains we are now offering, and you will never know bow much you have missed unless you give us a call and inspect our goods and learn our prices. This vie cordially invite yon to do. • JOHN R. SHAW’S, Forsyth Street , •Intericus Ua*