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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.