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E. D. ANSLEY
;Samk«Old Stand
contlnu^Jr keep all the
M,v sfock of Groceries
Is beat and largest in the
city.
K. D. Axsley.
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY: APRIL 18, 1891.
NUMBER 12
FORBIDDEN FRUIT!
Tho weather this season has “forbidden Jfruit” to many of our
customers, but
CROWDING INTO CITIES
THE URBAN POPULATION OF. THE
COUNTRY INCREASING.
Geo. D. Wheatley
Takes pleasure in offering a “FULL CROP” of NEW and SEASONABLE
DRY GOODS at prices within EASY REACH of all.
CASK AFTER CASE of new goods opened during the past week has
about completed OUR SPRING STOCK, and elose relationship to the
manufacturers enables us to present this season a] line of goods UN
APPROACHABLE in
T«n Year* A*o It Represented U3.57 Per
Cent.—Now It Ha* Leaped Up To 99.19
Per Cent.—Large Cities Also Increasing
In Number.
QUALITY,
. STYLE
OR PRICE.
Special for this week-
25 Pieces
Beautiful
SOLID COL’D
FIGURED
25 Pieces
Beautiful
SOLID COL’D
FIGURED
CHINA SILKS
FLORENTINES
20 pieces LOVELY WOOL CI1ALLIES, solid and figured, at 20c.
per yd.
Just 15 more of those SUPERB CAMELS’ HAIR Pattern Suits go
AT COST THIS WEEK.
40 pattorns BLACK SILK GRENADINES, finest quality, 75c. to $1.25
this week. THEY ARE BEAUTIES and worth from $1.00 to $2.00
elsewhere.
A perfect profusion of BLACK SILK DRAPERY NETS—the correct
thing this season, at prices which will astonish you.
Our BLACK DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT, the very best in the city.
You can find JUST WHAT YOU WANT at a veiy moderate cost.
Grant ns the pleasnre of showing you onr LACES, EMBROIDERIES,
and NEW WASH DRESS GOODS, consisting of everything new
in WHITE GOODS.
Washington, April 17.—The eentus
office has issued a bulletin giving the
population of the cities In the country
containing 8,000 Inhabitants or more.
The total urban population in 1800 was
18,235,070, or 20.12 per cent, of the tota
population. In 1880 the urban popula
tion was 11,318,547, or 22.27 per cent of
the whole. The proportion of the urban
population has Increased gradually
during the past century from 8.52 up to
25.0 per cent or from one thirtieth up
to nearly one-third of the total popula
tion. The increase has been quite regu
lar from the beginning up to 1880, while
from 1880 to 1800 it has made a leap
from 22.57 up to 20.12 per cent, thus
illustrating In a forcible manner the ac
celerated tendency of our population to
ward urban life.
The number of cities having a popula
tion of more than 8,000 Inhabitants In
creased from six in 1700 to280 In 1880,
whence it has leaped to 443 in 1800. In
1880 there was but one city, New York,
which bad a population In excess of
1,000,000. In 1800 there were three—
New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
In 1800 there were but fourteen cities
each containing more than 100,000 In-
habitants. Iu 1880 this number had In-
creaaed to twenty and in 1800 to twenty-
eight
The north Atlantic division contains
nearly one-half of the urban population
of the country, while the north Atlantic
and north central dlvisiona together
contain nearly five-sixths of it. In the
south Atlantic and south central divis
ions the proportion of urban population
it comparatively small, being in the first
named but 10.04 percent of the entire
population, or less than one sixth, and
the second but 10.45 per cent, the pro
portion of the urban to the total popula
tion in all of the Southern states being
less than 13 per cent
Tho Industries of these states are
mainly ngrionltnral, and while manu
factures and mining aro making some
progress they aro (till In thoir Infanoy.
In 1880 the urban element numbered
COUDKLE CULLING*
Newsy Notes From the Thriving Capital of
Wire grata Gem-gin.
STRAY STOCK.
Coiiimclr, April 17.—[Special.]—A
highly amusing (hooting sensation oc
curred here this morning. About
o'elock three pistol shots woro heard in
the vicinity of Mr. B. B. Pound's rest
dence on Cleveland Avonue. Those
who were attracted by the noise beheld
a strapping negro man running with all
ilia might, and he was hitting the ground
only in high places, while Mr C. G.
Stephens stood with a smoking pistol in
hit hand. The negro was not hit, bnt
he was scared very thoroughly. Mr.
Stephens fired tho shots, I understand
in return for a cutse which the negro
had just bestowed him. •
Mr. J. 8. Pate, the popular vice-presl.
dent of the First National Bank, has re
ceived the plana for hi* new residence.
It is to be one of the handsomest resi
dences in South Georgia, and deoidcdly
the prettiest and moat convenient in
Cordele. He will begin work on it Im
mediately.
Protracted services have been held at
the Methodist ohurch this week. The
paator, Rev. Orson Brahch, is assisted in
the meeting by his father, Rev. Janies
O. Branch, D. D., the presiding elder
of this district. Considerable Interest
is manifested in the meeting.
Local talout presented the “Exposure
of the Ancient Order of Hercules" st
the opera house Wednesday night, un
der the auspices of the Knights of Pyth
ias. There was a very fair attendance,
and the play was well produced. It was
ludicrous farce throughout, and the
audience was frequently convulsed with
laughter.
The First National Bank received Its
authority, by telegraph, from the comp
troller of the currency to begin business
yesterday afternoon, and its doors were
immediately thrown open. Cashier
Joseph E. Bivins looks serenely happy
as he handles the eash In the new bank
and smiles across the counter at bis
friends.
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE DOG
LAW.
ON TBIAL FOB HBB LIFE.
Beautiful Woman Who Und a Pistol
With Fatal Effect.
The Law Ie Bare anil Should Ite Enforced
—Thu People Are Tired of Losflng Ca-
ulnee—Amerlcue Hoeo'tEreo a Pound at
the Present Time.
TBET'VK CHANGED THEIK SPOTS.
Straight Out Democrats Bave Turned lie-
publicans.
Charleston, April 17.—The first
white Republican party meeting ever
heM In t'in state took plaeo at the state
1,010,005, and constituted luss than 101 capital yesterday, and la mid to bs large-
per oent. of the population. In 1800 It | ly tho outgrowth of the Alliance ware
numbered 2Ji87,0O2, having incri
58 88 per eenb while the population has
increased but 20.07 per cent.
Plain and figured PERSIAN MULLS, CHINA SILKS, FAYAL
BATISTES and GRENADINES, MADRAS CLOTH, GING
HAMS, ETC.
15 doz. Black SILK MITTS, at 25c. per pair this week.
18 doz. LADIES’ BLACK SILK GLOVES, 40c., (worth 65c) this week.
Forty doz. Diamond Dye LADIES HOSE, absolutely stainless, at 25c. per
pair this week.
BE SURE TO ATTEND OUR
OPENING SALE
OF
THIS WEEK.
Our Stock is Warranted Matchless in
QUALITY, STYLE OR PRipE.
size 4 to 14 years, $1.50 this week, worth
$3.00 elsewhere.
300 Child’s Sailor Suits,
’ School Suits, $2-^0 t0 65.00 suit, worth doable elsewhere.
KD66 Pants a 8 P ccLalt y > S 00 ^ va ' ue i 25c. to $1.50 per pair, any size
wanted.
WE FULFILL OOR ADVERTISEMENTS!
COME AND SEE!
THE GIRLS RELEASED.
Thu Governor Luts Off thu Two Goff GlrU
With a Fine.
Atlanta, April 17.—[Special.]—A
white woman, Mrs. Goff and her two
daughters, from Union county, were
brought here s few daye ago on their
to I «*** ,*«►;
tences for keeping a disorderly hones.
The governor’* attention having been
called to the youth of the girls, be to-day
Dominated their eentencee to light fines,
the mother gqee to the chain gang.
What’* Tear Ttchet’s Nam bur.
New Obleans, April 17.—It I*
Ueved here that the supreme court will
deoide the lottery eaee against the lot
tery company.
It has been on* of the carrent ramore
that ex-Governor McEnry has thrown
his vote against the lottery, thu* win
ning the case for the “anti'*."
The effect of inoh a decision would
betoforoethe lottery to the field to
elect the next legislature and bring
abont another constitutional convention.
A Gam* Two Can Play At.
Roux, April 17.—Advioea say that the
Italian government la deeply taken
aback by the report that Minister Porter
li going on a leave of abtenee In order
to give the Italian cabinet time to come
to it* senses and as a diplomatic retalia
tion for the reoall of Fava.
The Italians are beginning to get ovei
the Impression that the American* have
been frightened by Italy’s grievances,
and that last move, If true, is regarded
as Ute crowning failure of Rudinl’s bluff.
A Mason Man Invited.
New York, April 17.-MaJor J. F.
Hanson, of Macon, Ga., has been invited
to be one of the speakers at the banquet
of the American Procure Tariff League,
to be held in Madieon Square Garden
April 20th.
Among the other speakers to be pres
ent are Mr. McKinley. Senators Aldrich,
of Rhode IslandtOelpb, of Oregon; and
Jones, of Nereds; and Representative
Dolliver, of Iowa,
which awept over this state last year.
Many ctUsens who hare heretofore
been associated with the straight out
Demoeratlo party were present.
This movement is regarded with some
oonoern here. The white Democrats
who are In say that the old DemooraUe
party haa been elbowed out of exist*no*
by the termers' movement, and as they
will not subscribe to tho i platform and
principles of that movement, they will
go into tho Republican party.
There is some danger of the new
movement developing Into a stampede
from the Demoeratlo party a* it exist* in
this state at present
They Sat Down train
Canton, Miss., April 17.—The Madl
eon county Alliance met here yesterday.
In order to ooonpy an attitude of loy
alty, the Ocala platform waa endorsed,
bnt the sab-treasury bill now pending
before congress was repudiated.
In the dlecuiilon of the Ocala plat
form Lecturer McAllister explained that
the legislative committee recently ap
pointed by the National Alliance Coun
cil, would probably frame a t
based upon the Ocala platform, asking
the government to emit, not loan, money
to tho extent of forty dollars per capita,
and upon this theory the platform wm
Indoned.
A resolution committing the Alliance
i support only Alliance sub-treasury
candidates for the legiilatnre who would
rote for the sub-treasury candidate* for
the United States senate waa voted down
almost unanimously.
Lecturer Burkitt said yesterday that
be had no denial to make to the charge*
made against him by Assistant Lecturer
McAllister for drawing up and piloting
through the Ocala meeting the report
whitewashing Macune for aolling out in
the Georgia senatorial contest.
This is aooepted a* an admission by
Burkitt of the truth of the charges.
The sub-treasury fallacy grows weaker
every day.
Iu yesterday's Tiues Recorder was
mention of the fact that if Amerlcua had
a dog law it was not enforced, and that
stray canines were allowed to loaf
around unmolested.
No subject whioh has yet been
broached has ever brought out auoh
universal ap£bation from the public
than this calling upon the elty author
ities to look into the matter.
On all aides yesterday the people spoke
of the matter, and a long-suffering pub
lic now calls upon the city to deliver
them from this evil.
There is a dog law in exietenoe here,
calling upon the owners of suoh animals
to pay a dollar for eaeb.
This law was at first observed with
tolerable degree of strictness, but now
no attention eeemi to be paid it at alt.
Thera are not more than a half dozen
dogs In the eity that by law have the
privilege of enjoying life and freedom.
The others should be, aocording to
the regulation, captured and carried to
the pound. If not reclaimed In forty-
eight hours by payings fine of $2, the
animal should then be killed.
Of course nobody wants all the dogs
killed, but there are a lot of stray, half-
starred oanines that ought to be ahot on
sight These are the animate that raise
the terrible rackets heard every night,
and their strayings cause terror among
many people. It le not oftoo that a gen
uine ease of hydrophobia ocoure, but
when it does it originates with just suoh
dogs, and all of the ecaree come from
these. From the dog-law the city gets
an Income, and beside* this all animate
without owners are put out of existanee.
Why this law receives no attention
now can not be said. An employee of
the city draws a regular salary every
week to do the work. He is to look
after the doge, and also cows, horses and
all stray stock.
It is said that Amerlcue has not even a
pound at tho present time.
It wm bad enongh to be in thle fix
during the winter, but now it will be
much worse. Not only should the dog
law be enforced but whole of the stock
law. Meandering oowt can rain many
gardens, and already oomplaint has been
heard In this direction.
The law I* here and should be paid at
tention to.
The Lector* Lest Night.
Mrs. S. N. Chapin, member Women’s
Christian Temperaooe Union, delivered
a lecture on temperance at the Tint
Methodist chnroh test night She le a'
very Impressive speaker, and le evident
ly thoroughly in earnest in her advocacy
of (be cento of tompeienoe.
Only a fair audience wm out to bear
her hit night, bnt ail preMnt seemed
greatly impressed by the many telling
point* she made against the liquor traffic.
About thirty signed the pledge. Mrs.
Chapin will remain In onr elty several
daye.
At 0 o'clock this morning ehe will ad
dress the mothera of the city, and
eetly wishes a large attendance.
Mrs. Chapin la a true Southern lady, a
resident of Charleston, 8. C. We
(peak- for her the kind consideration of
out whole people.-
In Birmingham, yesterday, began the
trial of Mrs. Julia Martin, nee, Jolla
Powers, who, in Ootobertest, ahot end
Instantly killed Ur. Edwaid Martin, a
wealthy and well-known yonng man of
that city.
Mrs. Martin, previous to her mar
riage, resided a short whilein Americas,
where It Is said she had apartments in a
fashionable establishment of quMtlona-
ble repute.
One of the Ueurs. Martin, either the
murdered mao or hit brother, whose
name Is also conneoted with the' affair,
lived here a short while also, but wheth
er or not at the ume time that the wo-,
man, then Julia Powers, lived here, is--'
not known.
Mrs. Martin is described m a beauti
ful brunette of abont thirty years of age,
with an eager, expeetent expression. In
her youth she wm a charming, gay,
graoefol and in every way a fascinating
girl. Her maiden name was Julia Pow
ers, and .he comet of a family at Macon,
Ga, whose sociafstending la the very
beat i
At a yonng mdy she had visited Enfan-
la m the guestof the beet people, and
been a sooial favorite, though she did
not meet Clarence Martin, who Uved
there, till some years after, when she
had fallen from grace and made his ac
quaintance in an assignation hones.
Edward T. Martin, her victim, wm a
member of an old, numerous and Influ
ential Eufaula family, and wm about
thirty-five years of age. -He made a for
tune in the Birmingham boom, wm a
wealthy real estate dealer, and preildent
of the BMt Birmingham dummy line.
The orlme for whioh Mrs. Martin is on
trial for her life wm oommlttsd on Octo
bers, 1880, at 140 p. m., on the princi
pal thoroughfare of the oity. The wo
man had visited Martin at his office a
lew doors away, and to escape her he
had come ooL , She followed him, seem
ingly entreating him to talk to her, and
when he turned from her at the corner,
ehe drew a pistol and fired, the ban en
tering bis elds and lodging in the bowels.
Plenty of lee.
A large force of hands lute been at*
work at the factory of the Amerions Ice
Company for some time, and yesterday
everything was declared ready for the
mannfaotnre of loe. Many Improve
ments havo been made, and every part
of the machinery and building is now In
first-class condition.
Last night at 12 o'olockthe machinery
was pat in operation, and from now on
twenty, toni of ice will be tamed out
dally. -
A white man entered Tax Timis-Rk-
oondzn office test night ata late 'hour,
end eeemed anxloos to show his abilities
Ma pugilist He said he eonld "tvMp
the whole » force, and wm moretUrf
willing to do so. He was a stria
id evidently under the influeneb 'of
■one ardent beverage. It war s 'late
boor, and m be oonld find nothing ste*
to do he Imagined be would' lick a
whole newspaper office.
It’s Nice to be aa Emperor.
London, April 17.—A Berlin dispatch
says that Kaiser’s latest idea is to bave a
German edition of the Chicago fair to be
held in Berlin immediately after the
close of tb* Chicago exhibition. It It
to be an Industrial exhibition of Indue-
tries, end a committee is seen to take
charge of the movement.
The oertslaty of the absence of Franc*
Oor. Lamar St. and Cotton Aye.
AMERICUS, - GEORGIA.
Chicago, April 17.-The official ^ | orate a chill or* the undertaking.
All Aboard for Janualeat.
Loxpox, April 17.—From' Constant!-
count of the city would seem to leave no
donbt M to the electron of Hempstead
WMhbnm, the Republican candidate for I nopieoomes the ntws that the railway
mayor, 29 out of 84 ward* in the oity from Jaffa to Jerusalem is nearly half
give him a plurality of over 1,400. u it fisisbed, and will be finished within the
not though! that the remaining wards to T* u - It will be equipped with all mod- much railroad experience, and adds on*
be oounted can in any way change the/*™ comforts and luxuries of travel for
final result. | use of pilgrim* and tourists.
Americas will be well represented In
Branswiok daring the meeting of the
teachers. Miss Susie Taylor, Miss Stella
Dunn, Mrs. D. T. Wilson, Mrs. Emma L.
Guthrie, Miss StUle Wheeler, Miss An
nie Gyle*, Miss Rebecca Cowles, Prof.
Geo. J. Winkler, Prof. J. E. Mathis,
Snpt Blzien, and perhaps others have
decided upon golngto the 8tote Associ
ation.
The botlnera men aro ready for the
board of trad* and want the organiza
tion to take place at once. For various
reasons the meeting oonld not a* held
this week, bnt the call wtU be Issued In
time to organise during the next
It will appear in Tux Times-Rb-
cordbb, and all are expected to attend
who have the good of the city at heart
Another Wholesale Home.
From a gentleman who is In a position
tq know whereof he speaks, comes the
Information that a large and exclusively
wholesale llqnor- house will be opened
up In Amerioiis at an early day. The
parties interested In the movement, It 1*
laid, fife'now'In the west completing
all necessary amngemsntefor beginning
business. They aro well known Ameri
cas men and hucceed at whatever they
undertake.
A Fishing Party.
A huge fishing party, composed of
ladles’ and gentlsmen, went to Saddler’a
mill yesterday morning on a fishing
frolic, returning test night The party
report not only a delightful trip, bnt
great suocsm in catching the finny tribe.
Over * hundred fine fleb, bream, peren
and tuckers,' were brought back, and
the exonrston wm most delightful Im
every respect
Town Creek.
At the test council meeting's resolu
tion wm passed to pat a force of hands
at work cleaning out Town creek, and
the work te how being done. Eight men
are employed, and the work te progress
ing with rapidity.
" This Is it wise move on the part of the
eity fathers, and slekneM wiU be pre
vented by the precantfoa being taken.
NOTION TO ADVKBTUNBS.
Merchants and other* desiring to
change their advertisements for The
S und at Tuies-Reoobdxb most hand In
their copy by 10 o’clock to-day wlthhnt
fall. W* positively cannot change ad
vertisements handed in after that hoar.
Mr. W. H. Harris, of Anniston, Ala.,
te in the city, and want* to lease tho
new hotel when finished. He te a hotel
man of much experience, and If It 1s de
cided to lease the hones, be
good chance of getting It.
A New Kapler**.
Mr. L K. Ray, of Princeton, Ky., has
arrived in the city to soespt a position
with the 8. A. A M. railroad. He will
be la Mr. Cooper's office. Ho bae had
to the excellent force employed by this
1
At the Kpteoopel Church.
The services at the Episcopal church
to-nionow morning will be conducted
by Rev; Mr. Coleman, of Utica, N. Y,,
who te visiting in the city. He te au
eminent divine, and all will be glad of
the opportunity to hear him.
Aa teterefrtng Mery.
That interesting little story about tho
little boy who went fishing- against bte
mother’s wishes te now starting on it’s
regular annual round. The effect u
at tbe|iam* It ahrayi was.