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- - . - - s : • • • . ■ • . \. . m AMERICUS. GEORGIA, TUESDAY: 3^1 AY 12, 1891. NUMBER 82 When yott lay this Paper down, kindly place It with OUB ADVERTISEMENT on top. WHOLESALE AND DETAIL DKY.-.QOODS, „ NOTIONS, _»jfeGLOTHI NG, 9 Shoes, Hats, Etc. Br so doing you not only confer a slight favor upon us, but you become IN FACT 3 a PUBLIC BENEFACTOR, inasmuch as you materially aid us In - attracting the public eye to the REAL ESTATE REACTION WHAT A LIVE DEALER THINKS OF THE SITUATION. IKltf CHATTANOOGA NOW. I Central KLINE IN AMERICUS. Aral Oats the Chattanooga, Home •nd Columbus. ^ The llottom Reached at Last and a Strong Reaction Has Rerun— 1 The Demand for Both Improved and Vacant Property Steadily Increasing. NUMBERLESS RARE BARGAINS Which we a hall-offer PRO BONO PUBLICO who patronize us this week. Do You Feel an Interest In FINE DRESS GOODS? For $12.50 yon may take yoiir clioico of 25 brand new pattern suits that cost us fraU $13.60 to $19.00. TO ADMIR int TO SEE our LOVELY FRMCH CHALLIES nd SIGHT becomes POSSESSION when your choice of 20 different styles is offered at 18c. per yurd. LARGE FIGURED CHINA SILKS AND SOLID FLORENTINES In all the newest shades. NOW IS THE TIME to buy your WASH DRESS GOODS. In this department as in ALL OTHERS, we are “fixed to suit you.” We carry the best stock of Wash Dress Fabrics in the city, and Our Prices cannot be matched in th$’ state. We do not propose to BAIT YOU one moment and BITE YOU the next, bnt We offer EVERYTHING at prioes uniformly as low as CONSISTENCY WITH GOOD VALUE will allow. Another lot of those sheer quality BLACK LAWNS (satteen stripes and plaids) at 12Jo per yard this week. Pink, Blue end Black MARIBOU PLAID LAWNS (white ground) 10c per yard this week. NOVELTIES I WHITE GOODS! Wo control the , BEST 60 OT. UNLAUNDERED SHIRT n the world—No one shows better value for 76o and our “MON ARCH PUFF BOSOMS” for fine trade is toe handsomest and best hirt in the market Hemstitched White Lawns and Flounces for 8klrts. Bordered White I«wns for Aprons, Children’s Dresses, etc. All Ore* Embroideries, An Over Lnoee. Plain White, Polka Spot, and Embroidered Swim Muslins. Black Ground with Whlto Polka Sped 8MM*Ataally(vnans| and styiy»j JDST OPEW^^^f^W WAISTS. ./A if i i Yon will find onr line of CARPETS AND MATTINGS The veiy 'OR 10c. ONLY OR 15c. ONLY The Best 4-ply Belfast Linen Cuffs any style desired. OUR GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS Itock is BRISTLING WITH JUST SUCH BARGAINS; only ask th° opportunity to show you OUR GOODS and OUR PRICES will speak for themselves. CLOTHING and CLOTH/NG We acknowL. . ■ ALWAYS d: iothing. NO COMPETITION in onr Clothing Trade. 1 and WE ALWAYS WILL lead the van in TO TRY IS TO BUY Clothing, because onr stock is the largest Our styles are faultless and OUR PRICE8 ARE MATCHLE88. We stand bjjtiva Advertisements every time. Oor, Lamar St. and Cotton Ave. For several weeks past there has been s nottcesble Improvement In the demand for city property, and not a few trans actions at satisfactory figures have been the outcome. In order, however, to get at the true facta iu the case a Timks-Rkcohokb man button-holed Mr. M. Callaway yes terday, than whom there Is no man In Americus who gives this subject more careful thought and attention, or who la better enabled to speak advisededly thereupon. "Mr. Callaway, how la tlie real estate outlook just now? "Welt, the market hai shared the general stringency, and consequently the usual number of sales have not transpired. I have noticed, however, a much better inquiry <n the past two weeks. Several have money to invest, butothoy don’t want anybody olso to km>w It, and they have wisely concluded tl#e Is such a thing as waiting too long. I wish, myself, 1 had F100,000 lying artmnd I would put It all in Americus di^jP "Has the absence of transactions les sened the prices?” "I don’t know of a single piece of property that can be bought at less than last spring’s prices. On the other band, all business and central property Is ad vancing. A year ago one ownor Instruc ted mo to sell his vacant store property at fifty dollars a front foot. He now re fuses over $100, and Is not anxious- to tako $122. Anothor piece of proper ty which I then offered at eighty-five dollars a front foot, I was recently of fered 1135, by Mro; my price then was $150 a front foot, and it cannot now he bought for leu thaa $200.” “How are theso figures u compared with other towna ?" "Some people think they are high, but every real estate man, and every one else who Is at all potted u to values In other placed, know such figures are very low. I make the prediction that two years from to-dM bullosas property here will lie worth ^rom fifty to one hundred per oent more than the prices now ruling ’’ "Is the 'dtmand for hooaan'by tenants aa great as ever T' “I have seen no abatement In two years, bnt rather an Increase, If snob were pouible. And right here yon will do Amerleut great service if yon can Impress our monied men with the neoeealty for more houses. Our city baa suffered and Is now suffering. The general prosperity of any place la limited to the houses that are furnished new- comers. When they find It Impossible to find shelter, of course they are com pelled to hunt other towns In whloh to plaat.thelr enterprises. v— "Another hindrance with us & the want of eligible bonding sites conve nient to $ho work ofwhlte laboring m^. For this clast central vacant land is too high, and East Americus .Is too remote. As yon Imow, much of the prettiest and most oonventent parts of Antsrlona 1s ad by Our colored population. 1$ therefore behooves our people , to W everything In thfir power to place the laboring man wlthla easy access of his work. • There Is no street-car for him to ride In, and he would not be able, per haps, if there was.”? "Have yon studied the situation, .and have yon anything to offer by way of re lief or suggestion?" "I have thought a good deal about Ik It Is much easier, however, to deplore toh !<>•■ and inconvenience nnder which our working men and Americus general ly suffers than to offer a remedy. Messrs. Warren, Brown and Haynes have alio discussed this want, for every man who does'not keep a team must live close In. One suggestion I would make is to divide up the Immense residence blocks, that reminds the stranger of small plantations In a (tone's throw of business. Another suggestion Is to open np the vast territory that lies on the west side of the Central railroad. This land is all convenient, both to the busi- ness and to the line of shops and worka that lie np and down thli road for over a mile.” "Will the council open these streets?" "I don’t know, bnt I understand they will not They say If people want to open streets they can do' so, and the town baa already more streets than can be worked. My own opinion la the city would make money to open them, aa the enhanced values and taxes would more than repay, for any ontly. My referenc# is to eligible properties, and I would like to see them on the market without delay. Savannah, May It.—It la pretty well settled that the Central baa secured the Chattantoogx, Rome and Columbus rail way, ana now hat a through line to Chattanqbna. Gen. Alexander le In New York, it is understood, to arrange a consummation of the deal. The new line, It li understood, will bo -mo Mf.w mmm, .... mmmm.inw, w... Major Theo. D. Kline, general mans- a part bf the Savannah and Western' ger of the Mexican National railway, A proposition was ikholders of the ChaltMdoga, Columbus last week for the of the property, to iodorse first mortgage five per c»nL by the Chattanooga, Rome bus, and now outstanding, lltion thereto to transfer to the stockholders of the latter road $400,- 000 of Savannah and Western five per Cambric stationery makee a charming Writing material. It Is mads in limit*. tlowof pure white and unbleached eeae- hrie, a*d although the paper le slightly quoted Inihe New Yoyk stock market at elghty-Ihree cents. In consideration of the foregoing the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus was required to deliver to the Savannah and Weatern ell property belonging to the former read, rolling stock, roadbed, ter minal facilities, and two-thirds of the common stock and $1,140,000 of non- cumulatl |e Income bonds. The p upoiltlon was voted on by the stoekhol ire and unanimously, accepted, nearly t ree-fourtha of the stock being represeni d at the meeting. Tho de lias been pending for two or three mo lbs, and Its final consumma tion now inly awatts the official action of the Cl tral authorities. The formal transfer rill probably be made tills week? dent cftlio -Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus, it is understood, will be made division superintendent of the line from Chattanooga to Griffin. 1 The Central will now have a through lino to Cbhttanooga. The Chattanooga, Rome and Coltimburs runs from Carroll ton, when it connects with the Savon, nah, Grll In and North Alabama to Chattanoo a. It haa 140 miles of mala and blrty-flve miles of branch mineral r ids. The distance from Sa vannah tc Chattanooga la seventeen miles gtpa er .than by Atlanta and the Western ai iRtlantle, bat being over Its own mttle Central will have the ad vantage it freight 1 hauls. The Chat tanooga, oma and Columbus runs through Cbtokamauga and passes direetly by the state military encampment ground. GENERAL MANAGER OF THE (MEAT MEXICAN TRUNK LINE -X Talks of Railroad las In Maxlae-Haw His Lias Of TOO Milas Is Oparstad~S apart irlty of Employes. and formerly superintendent of the Southwestern division, CentA) railroad, spent yesterday In Americus. ' Major Kline has been several years In Mexico, and is now on a vaeatlon, recu perating his health whleh had become Impaired by overwork, supplemented by the grippe and malaria. Major Kline is taking It easy, and la going from place to place In Georgia cent bonds. Those bonds ore: noyr .among his old friends, before going back to his post In the city of Mexico, whither he expects to return In about ten days’ If hla health continues to Im prove. He talks quite Interestingly of his railroad experience In the Mexican capital, and of the differences in con ditions of railroading in Georgia and Mexico. Hls line runs from Laredo, Texas, to Mexico City, some TOO miles, and la In three divisions, the American end being manned by American officials, tho middle division by a mixture of "half and half,” while the Mexican end proper has native officials only. Major Kline does not think as favora bly of the Health of the City of Mexico as the public Is generally led to belieeve it, for while the city Is about 7,000 feet W. Williamson, former presi- above the sea level and tbo air Is cool and bracing,the city is rosily In a basin, THR DAY IN CORDKLE. Alkaay’. Amatnsrs to Play There-Edrn- n.ld will R.borer—Other News. Cobdelc, Ga., May 11.—On Wednes day evening next the / "Artesian City Dramatic Company’’ will present the beantlfnl comedy "SnowedJIn"at Shipp’s opera house. Onr people are more than delighted to know that they will be favored with aneb a nlee entertainment aa this popu lar amatuer club of Albany proposes to give. Mr. E. S. Ed.enfleld, who was severely wounded In the tragedy at Seville, last’ Saturday, was brought to Cordole Sun day morning, and left for hls home at Wayneaboro In the afternoon Hla wounds were very severe and painful, but hls physielana think he will get well. The remains of Mr. J. D. Floyd were sent to Waynesboro for burial. Nothing more has been heard from the brntiil murdorer since hls escape. Seve-al parties wore brought before the mayor this morning charged with running "blind tigers,’’ bnt they were acquitted. The Baptists are carrying on a suc cessful revival this week. Several new members were baptised In Gum creek Sunday afternoon. Miss Belle Beecher, a popular young lady who has been teaching sobool dear Cordelo for several months, returned to her home at Grffln today to the regret of her many friends. Miss Llssle Wilmot, one of Cordele’s most beautiful youhg ladies, will leave for Thomasville In a da/ or two to at tend the marriage of some of her friends. VI WlsJ udf taft ■*n Sf KPT BY FLAMES. A Train Wrecks* Midst Barelas Woods chd Many Mow Killed. rt, Pa., May 11.—[Spe- a train with 100 man to fight the forest fires in ity, was wrecked In the burning woods. The en- were destroyed. Eighty imed to death. Superintendent Badger, of the V. railroad, and four men are still missing- Tha entire, southern portion of the county 1* spept by. the flames. Atlanta, May 11.—[Special.]—'There aa a meeting this evening at 3 o'clock of hfl the opera house managers of the southern circuit, comprising the tpllowiog cities: Atlanta, Chattanooga, Knoxville, pecstor, Birmingham, Mont gomery, Selma, Ala., Memphis, Tallade ga, Twsealcfea, Anniston, Mobile, Ma- con, Columbus, Savannah, Americas and Borne. The session will last this after noon and to-morrow. Mr. J. Tannen- bsnm will be sent north to book attrac tions for the opera houses represented. All managers agree that the attractions for hext season will snperoede all pre vious years. Boots Thornton Coming. And AmeHcna Is to have Atlanta's "great eccentric" sure enough. Great Scott! Last night Mr. Ed Durant, the ad vance agent of this now but great celeb rity, passed through Americus, en route for Albany, where Cardinal Scott will also hold down the boards. Scott will produoe hls now famous Richelieu” at Glover’s opera house next Friday'night, and to say that the show will be “great” bnt mildly ex presses 1L Everybody will be there; in faet it will be the biggest house and hit of tha' and )s below the level of the lakes Into which the dralnago of the city must go. Henee, the drainage must he forced up by pumping, as at New Orleans, and the oonsequencc Is bad drainage and a great deal of malaria. Major Kline says It Is very dtffloult to delegate responsibility In railroading In Mexico, aa the subordinates cannot bo relied on to the extent that is done in the United States, and this Is especially true where the subalterns are natives. The weight of responsibility Is there fore greated upon the management, a condition that haa helped to break down Major KUno’s health by overwork. He does not eneonrags going to Max* loo, unless the emigrant has money to invest and purposes to engage actively In developing the resources of the coun try..To the average young man who ex pects to work hls way op by hard lieks, Major KUnd Would say that the United States presents better field. The trafllo of the Mexican National la constantly Increasing, and consists of all the mlscellanous freight that would be handled in this eonntry, and with the further- development of Mexloo the lumber and mineral trade will largely increase. Major Kline isn't "stack" on Mexico as a place of residence, though the con ditions of large salaries paid to compe tent officials go far to overcome the ob jections that would exist. CspL W. G. Raoul, who Is the presi dent of this same line, lives In New York, sad benee doesn't have to wrestle with the greasors, the grippe, and the malaria as does the general manager. Major Kline spent the evening with Mr. Uriah B. Ilsrrold, after taking in the lights of tha city in tha afternoon, and leaves for Macon this morning where he win visit a few day* before hls return to Mexloo. The people of Americus remember Major Kline as one of the most efficient and oourteous railroad men they ever dealt with, and ha met a warm welcome from the many friends In onr city who knew him in his former capacity of superintendent of the Southwestern division. Tickets will be put on sale to-day or to-morrow, and those who would avoid the rush had batter go'early. i four sad five Millie* yswag shad. DeSoto, May 11.—Mr. and Mrs. Fer guson visited relatives and friends In Lee connty yesterday. Miss Beulah Crocker returned yester day from a visit to relatives in Lee county. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Avery, of your city, spent yesterday In DeSoto. Mias C6ra Greene, of Ferguson, was In onr village several days the past week visiting friends. The meeting of the Sunday school has been changed from evening to morning. It has a large attendance, and la doing finely. Mrs. Duke Is visiting her brother, Mr. J. W. Murrey, In this plaoe. Million, of Young Shad. A car belonging to the United States Fish Commission passed through Amor- Icus yesterday-, en route to Washington from a trip to South Georgia. The car came hero from Thomasville, where i> was sent several days since to stock the streams In that section with shad. In ... tha Mg tanka wtthto the ant were ha evening at 7 AO o'clock, at the reel dense Moonlight Final# and festival. Tha Sunday School of tha Second Methodist chnroh has decided to hold a moonlight picnlo and festival on Friday evening, May 22nd, In the beautiful grove at the intersection- of Jefferson and Lamar streets. A meeting to make arrangements therefor le called for this (Tuesday) of Mr. B. H. Mayo. An Meads of tha school who are wflMaf to a«ut, are invited to be yreeeat Will Flcnlo at toner Fork. There will be a grand ptenic at Coney Paik, on the S. A. M. road, next Satur day. The Sunday school of the First Metho dist church will hold It* annual celebra tion there, and tho affair will be made one of most delightful of the season, .A large crowd will attend, and tbero will be fun for old and young alike, fcbe parents, children and their friends will leave on the regular morning pas senger train, whloh will roach the park atSo’eloek, Returning, tho party will reach Americas at 0:10 p. m. Special coaehea will bo provided, andj there will be plenty of room for all who wish to go. .iWmmBEr A very low rate will bo given the plc- nlcers, and Indications are that tho at tendance will be large. Mr. JolinT. Argo, soliciting freight and passenger agent of the S. A. M., will make all arrangements necessary to insure the comfort and pleasure of the exeur- slonists. j* Special Train to Cordelo. The entertainment to be given at Shipp’s Opera Hone, In Cordele, to, morrow evening by the Albany amatners, promises to be a very pleasant affair, and many Americus people have ex pressed a desire to attend. In order to accommodate theso the 8., A. A M. rail road will run a special train there and return, provided as many as fifty per sons wlU go. A vary low rate will be given, and there la little donb't bnt that this number and even more will go over to see the amatners. If yon desire to attend the perform- ice, give yonr name in to Mr. John T. Aargo, aoliotttag freight and passenger agent, who win furnish any further in formation that may be desired. Bffests of the Frost. Frost in Hay in thts part of tha moral vineyard 1* something unheard of, but froet we certainly have had this year. Aa proof of this, Mr. Samuel McGsrrah received yesterday a sample of young eorn taken from a field on Mr. G. W. O. Munro’s plantation In this county. The field, Mr. Munro stated, had been recently plowed, which faet may ac count largely for the-damage done to the young corn. The stalks and leaves were completely withered and looked as If they had been dried in the snn for n week. Mr. Mc- Garrah thinks, however, that tho bud will sprout again dud a fair crop gather ed, although the outlook- Just now Is anything bnt promising. Tbs New Soliciting Agent. Mr. O. P. Love, Who tojc tho past several months has been connected with the freight department at tho Central railroad depot In this - city, ^as been appointed goHcittng agent for tho Centre!,with headquarters at Americus. Mr. Lots is an affable, courteous gentleman, and being thoroughly up iu hls business, la just iuob a man as the duties of hla position will require. He succeeds Mr. ChasiesP. Beeks, who, it la sold, has gone to Griffin. **$« with hot Almost a Firo. The residence of Col. C. W. Hancock, on Collego street, narrowly escaped de struction by fire early Sunday morning. The roof of the kitchen oaugbt fire from a defective flue and In a few momenta was la a bright blase, and had not aMnaat cobs* promptly tha $ have been baaed to tbs | backets of t