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ESTABLISHED 1879.
AMEBICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1890.
DRESS GOODS
Are flying thick and fast!
Our stock is simply unap
proachable as to completion.
Thousands o! dollars worth of
stuff recently added to the stock.
Great many specially attractive
things the coming week.
Silks and Black Goods in the
greatest profusion.
Look at our Henrietta Cloths
at 76 cts. and $l,in both blacks
and colors.
The largest line Broadcloths in
South Georgia. Prices way down.
Extra good values in Flannels
and. Blankets.
. Magnificent stock of Notting
ham Lace Curtains, Chenille Cur
tains, Silk and Madras Curtains
and Porteeres; ranging in price
from $1.75 to $25 a pair. If you
want to furnish your house in
anything of the kind come and
see us.
If you want anything in dry
goods, Dress Goods and Gents
Furnishing goods corns and see
US#
WHEATLEY & ANSLEY.
New ■ Quarters,
Artesian Block (opp. well.)
Gas Fixtures.
i
Large stock of Sanitary Goods and Globe,
Angle land Check Valves. Guage Cooks,
Gnage Glasses. Fall line of all sizes
Wrought Iron Pipe, Gas and Steam fittings,
Late Styles Water Closets, Bath Tubs,
Basins, Open Lavatories, &o.
We are still prepared to do
ALL KINDS OF
!
and invite bids from all having that olass of
work who want it done well and promptly.
Call'and see us in our new quarters.
Harris & Payne.
Telephone No. 12.
Sept. 14, '90,
THE STOCK LAW.
THE-DECISION OF THE SUPREME
COURT
The decision ot the Supreme
Court in regard to the unconstitu
tionally of local laws putting the
stock law Into effect In certain dis
tricts and counties was not unex
pected.
When the petitions for and
against stock law were presented to
Representatives Brady and Sim
mons they objected to Introducing
a local bill on the ground that the
question of the conetitutlonaiity of
such bills was then being raised In
the Supreme Court, wltb£the prob
ability that the decision would be
an adverse one. But the pressure
for the pssesge ot euoh a iaw was
so great that they yielded to the de
mands of the people and the bill
was Introduced and passed.
Under the provisions of this local
law the farmers of Sumter county
took down their fences and shut up
their stock.
The effect of this decision of the
Supreme Court will be that the
crops of the farmers who took down
their fences will be at the meroy of
such stock as tbeir neighbors may
choose to allow to run at large.
This change must undoubtedly
cause great hardship In eome por
tions of the oounty. It will require
time and great expenee to replace
the fences which had been taken
away, and in some degree must des
troy the value of farming lands.
There ears two districts in Sumter
oounty, however, whioh are not
effected by this decision. Thetwen-
ty-seventh and twenty-ninth dis
trict voted for no fence under $he
provisions of the general law, and
therefore hold good. There will be
no fences to be replaced In .those
dlstriote, and the owners of stock
in other districts who allow 'saelr
cattle to trespass within these tiro
districts are liable for damages.
It the people of Sumter oounty
desire the provisions of the etook
law to extend over the entire coun
ty, there are two ways only In
which It oan be done. One Is to
vote for no fence under the general
law, and the other Is to have onr
representatives unite with the rep
resentatives of other oonntles sim
ilarly situated and have the gen
eral law repealed and the local law
re-enacted.
Whioh ever method I* adopted
is likely to meet with strong oppos-
sltlon, and ths stock law question
Is likely to be a vexed one for sev
eral months to ooms.
NO LIGHTS.
AMERICUS FINDS HERSELF IN
DARKNESS.
The Electric Light* and Gaa Jets Fail
to Give Any Illumination—A. Season
of Generel Break Downs.
IS GORDON DEFEATED?
Special to Rkcordkx.
Atlanta, Oct. 4. —Everybody
that takes an interest In poll tits Is
discussing the Senatorial question
this morning.
That Gordon is beaten there Is no
reasonable doubt now. He Is, to
quote the sport's expression, “a
dead cook In the pit.” There la ab
solutely no hope for nlm. Hit
best friends concede It.
The action of the DeKalb Alli
ance shows the policy of the State
Alliance. This, It mast be remem
bered, la the Governor's home. He
was living here when elected gov
•rnor, and many of hie strongest
friends live there. It enrprlted
most people, bnt I am reminded
hereof the significant remark of
Captain Harry Brown made three
or four weeks ago—"Walt until the
election 1* over. You will be sur
prised, I’ve no donbt, to tee how
■olid the rank Is.” .
Here is the DeKalb county reso
lutions: "-.
Resolved, That In view of Gov
ernor Gordon’s late course In his
campaign for the United States
Senator, we request onr members
and senator elect to the next gen
eral assembly to nee their Influence
to defeat Governor Gordon, and to
vote for no man‘for that position
wholsnottnUylnaocord with Al
liance principles and measure^, and
squarely upon the alllanoe plat
form, sub-treasury and all.
The Troup oounty Allianco did
the same thing yesterday. Talia
ferro, from which telegrams were
sent Wednesday declaring that it
wonld certainly go for Gordon,
declares sgahut him.
The Clayton county Alliance
passed anti-Gordon resolutions this
luafoltlg. The Fulton county Alll-
ahee, as I wired yon Thursday
night they wonld do, passed a simi
lar resolution Frida; afternoon.
The movement is going on all over
the State. It means that Goi
beaten.
ordeal.
A light famine!
Amerlcus has experienced many
kinds of famines, but none that so
completely dlaorganised everything
as did the light famine last night.
Early in the evening the Inca
descent electric lights blazed up
for a brief space end then without
warning suddenly shat oat their
Illumination, and the gae lights
alone remained.
A lltte later on thebe commenced
to flicker and grow weak until
about half past ten o’olookthey
burned out and darkness Ailed
store and office as suddenly and
unexpectedly as the lava of Mount
Vesuvius submerged the Ill-fated
manslonsof Pompeii.
There were many amusing Inci
dents produced by the vanishing of
light end engnlphlng of darkness.
At one large retail grocery store
on Forsyth street a largo number of
persons wsro trading, and the mer
chants and clerks wsre busy wait
ing on them when the darkness
came and put an end to business.
Many of the people walked oat with
out completing their purchases,
and merchants end clerks, as well
as oustomers, left ths building.
■At nine o’elook the gas'jets In
Tub Recorder office began to
flloker, and at ton went completely
ont, leaving the office in complete
darkness. Almost every store on
all the principal streets was In dark'
ness, the lights going ont In Tom
Gnloe’s, McLeod’s, Allen House
end bar, Bailey’s Haberdashery,
and every place where lights are
used. For an hour the drug atoree
did a rushing business.
When the Western Union Tele
graph offloebeoamedafk the opera
tors closed the door* and went in
search of lamp*. And everywhere
work of all kinds, and business of
all kinds whioh depended on gee
lights was'forced to suspend.
Over an hour afterwards the gas
oame back in s very weak stream
and furnished a very unsatisfactory
light.
The machine which supplies tbs
street railway with eleotriclty also
broke down, and three care (were
left on the line; one at Wheatley's
corner, one opposite Mr. Coleman's
and one oppoelte Mayor Felder's.
There were many 'complaints,
and very just ones, too. Dozens of
bnslness men oalled on Tub Re-
oobdbb to enter their protests. If
the lights are not made better there
are many who will go book to ths
use of coal oil! *
On all hand* there was abuse of
all kinds heaped upon the gas
works and the eleotrio light works,
and there were many threat* to sue
them for damages..
At one time there were no gas or
eleotrio lights, except the few street
lamps, the eleotrio oars oonld not
be ran, nor oonld anything be teen
of tho luminous face of the olty
clock.
The trouble at the eleotrio plant
was caused by the breaking of a
belt on one of the maohlnes, and
the tnjnry of some of the machinery
ot which several parte were broken.
And as a consequence of the
breakage the currents were all nec
essarily ont off.
The gas tank has several leaks
whioh ooonrrsd yesterday, and
there !■ where the trouble with
thoee lights ley. Of course both
companies ware laboring under
some disadvantages, but thare will
no donbt be eome demands made
npon them for their failure to keep
up lights. It Is sincerely to be
hoped that such material* may be
pat In use that no each ‘shortage of
light Will occur again.
At 8:15 this morning the gas jets
again went out, and Tue Recobdxb
and people who nee gas, were com
pelled to rely on lamp* end a weak
moan. Shade of Bbakespeai * 1 Bnt
how w* wonld Ilk* to ran that gae
factory a day or two!
GORDON’S CHANCES.
HIS HOPE IS THAT LIVINGSTON
WILL RUN.
The Alliance President Again Talked Of
At s Candidate—Figuring Ont ths
Heroin *
Tbs pnblie school fond in this
olty nnd county has doubled within
the put three years. Collector
Furlow informs ns that In 1887 he
paid ont of the school fund to the
county board of education $8,658.05,
and to the city board $633.54, In
1888 be paid to the county $3,662.85,
city $751.81. In 188!) he paid to the
oounty $0,286,11, city $1,117.65. This
year he will be called upon to pay
the county $6,803.08. city $1,464.61.
This does not Include the poll tax.
Special to Recobbxk.
Atlanta, Oct. 4.—It Is all poli
tics, and nearly all Senatorshlp,
Who will it be?
r Developments arc beginning to
show a method In this chaos. The
Uncertainty ii lifting, like the
■moke on e battlefield when the
battle 1* over.
Certain It it that the All tancemon
bold the tramps In their hand, and
it wUl take wretobed playing to
lose them the game.
One very Interesting fact Is this—
that the AUtanee drift le toward
Ltvlngiton. It It true that he wUl
not openly beoome a candidate,
even after the legislature meets.
Bnt the fences are built, and being
bnllded, to that when the stampede
oomee there is only one way to go—
whioh mesne Livingston.
I believe this because Living
ston’s closest friends say so; and
for the additional aad fairly conclu
sive reason that Gordon and bis
friendrthlnk so.
Indeed, eome of the most san
guine ot Gordon’* friends era ready
to admit that bla vote will not
elect him on tbe first ballot, bnt
argue hope in thie theory:
Finally the effort will be made
to eleot Livingston. Now, whije
It le true that he may gather more
votes than any other -one Alllanoe-
men, there are Alllanoe member*
of the legislature who will vote for
Gordon before they will for Living
ston. The General will hold hi*
votes—nearly enough to eleot him
—and when Livingston’s name is
sprung enough more will ooms to
Gordon to eleot hlm.|
Another thing, going to show
method in the seemingly no
method prooeedlng* of the All!
anoo. Yesterday I was talking to
one of the oloiest personal and po
litical friends that Livingston has.
Hs had just remarked‘that Living
ston was almost Inevitably the
next Senator. “In that event,” I
suggested,“Rot* Dorsey, ot Falton,
would make e good congressman."
“I would promise to help eleot
him,” was the rather reluctant ad-
mission, "bnt I’m pledged.”
"To whom?”
"Emmett Womaok.”
Now, Womaok did a great deal
to eleot Livingston, bnt friends of
Livingston wonld not gratuitously,
I think, "pladga” themselves to
Womaok or to anybody else, unless
there was scflloltatton from Wom
aok and acquiescence—or more than
that —from Livingston. Ai
Emmett Womaok would ask
"pledge” for ths sake of holding It
In his pocket.
In short. It may all bo taken to
mean that Llvlnpton’e osra pro
gram Is to go to the Senate, and
to have Womaok take his place for
Congress.
IN A BOX CAR..
AN ATTEMPT TO MURDER AND CON
CEAL A NEGRO MAN.
Basalt of s Party Last Bight at BUI
Brawn's—Brown in the Lookup.
“The Oondollere" Opera.
The flrat opera of the season wUl
bo Gilbert and Sullivan’s brilliant
and last production, "Tbs Gondol
iers,’’ which is pronounced equal
to their “Mikado.” According to
tbe Charleston and Savannah pa
pers the opera Is presented In a
brilliant manner by a good compa
ny, with a fla* chorus, good or
chestra and two o$r loads of
scenery. The prims donna to a
French artlet, M’lle Fatmat Dirard,
very prepossessing In person end a
good singer. Tbe female chorus
contains sixteen froth voices ot
pretty girls, who add mueh to the
operatlo pageant, and the costumes
are ths rlbheat and most elegant
over brought South by an opera
company.—Constitution.
Owing to tbe delay In compto'tlng
tbe bnlldlng tbe Jackson street
■ohool cannot be opened to-morrow,
ii txpectod.
-In a box car!
That to where s negro man named
Bill Wlleon was found last night In
an nnoonsolous condition. -
Last night there was a party at
the residence ot ■ negro named BUI
Brown, whollvee In the vlolnlty of
the 8. A. M. freight yards.
There wee a large orowd of ne
groes on hand and liquor flowed
freely, and a general break down ■
was kept-up until late at night.
About 11 o'clock a fight occurred
between several negro men, and In
the courae of the light BUI Brown,
the host of the oooaslon, struck Bill
Wilson on the into of the heed with
a loaded oaln.
The blow was a fearful .one, and
reduoed Wilson to unconsciousness.
The jawbone was evidently brokou,
and a tearful wound lnflloted.
The negroes bteams alarmed, and
fearing Wilson we* dead, they took
him Up and carried him about half
a mile to where some box cant were
standing on a aids track In tho S.
A. M. yard.
They carried him to a box oar
loaded with lumber, and the door
of whioh was barely open wide
enough to admit tbe passage ot a
vary amall man.
Through this narrow passage
they forced him, and then stretch
ed him at fall length on top ot tho
lumber Inside.
Their objeet in doing this was to
oonoeal what they feared was a mur
der by sending the body away on a
freight train. They supposed that
the car would be coupled on to a
train and sent away before day
light, and no one would know who
the negro wea or where he came*
from.
Shortly after the fight ooonrred
the house was visited by the police.
Chief Lingo could find no ouo'
that knew anything ot tho fight or
the whereabouts of Wlleon until ho
threatened to look np all who waa
present.
The women then told about tho
light, and after a long and tlrosome
search they found tho oar whoro
Wilson was.
Officer Ray entered the oar, ho
being the only men whoso size
wonld admit him through tho pas
sage. and with the assistant of tho
other offleera succeeded In getlliig
ths negro oat and carrying him
home. He wee perfectly uncon
scious, end appeared to be very
painfully if not fatally wounded.
BUI Brown waa arrested and look
ed up shortly after midnight.
Bpsetaele Made Fraotlcablo,
The produotlon of spoctacle lion
been made practloable outside of
the largo cities by Messrs. Gilmoro
and Yale, who have glveh years of
stndy to thto Interesting style of
stage amusement. Two special
sizes of soenery are carried, to tbe
production ‘la feasible upon any-
stage of .fair dimensions. Every
thing to OMrtod, so the cities that
are visited are not depended upon
for anything. The prices of admis
sion are no more than In the larger
cities, and the same grand perform-
nee to given. The company la not
spilt up" for the smaller cities, as
many suppose, but comes in Its en
tirety, so yon can see apfctpclo at
home without going larger
points.
Now Time Table.
The S. A. M. authorities are busy
arranging a new time table, which
will go Into'effect on or about Sun
day, October 12th. Several Im
portant changes will be made.
A large crowd will go out to
Friendship to-day and attend tho
Baptist Association,which la In ses
sion there.
Highest Of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Cov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1S89.
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