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THE AMEEICDS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1891.
Tin AncBiors Rbcobukb Establish bi> 1879.
Tub Americus Timm Kstablimhbh 1830.
CONSOLIDATED, APRIL, 1891.
SUBSCRIPTION:
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Oailt, Oxb Moxth, 5
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Weekly, Six Moxth*. 8
For Ad vartislng rate* address
Basoom Mtbiok, Editor and Manager,
THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Americus, Oa.
Americus, Oa., May 12, 1891.
P
Tbk city council of Atlien. lias passed
an ordinance to muzzle tlio dogs
A jtmoK in prohibition Kansas has
been accused of imbibing too freely of
“applejack" before going upon the
bench, but no one could be found who
would swear that be was not “as sober
as a judge."
The Queen of England will complete
her seventy-second year this month.
She is reported to be hale and hearty
with the exception of that rheumatism
In her knee, which necessitates the use
of a stick, and the prospect of adding a
few more years to her reign is good.
Anna Dickinson threatens to go to
Russia, liy all means rush her along.
The Czar may havo a soft place for her
outside of an asylum, and it appears
that that is the only place suited for hor
in this country, or, to express it more
plainly, the only place that sue suits.
The Warrenton Clipper, in rhetorical
mood, thinks if our legislature at its
next session wishes to immortalize Itself,
and let its praises go sounding down
through the “long drawn aisles and
fretted vaults" of all futurity, it will
certainly pass some effective dog law.
Tub opinion In official circles in
Washington over the grand jury's report
in New Orleans is that the attempt to
qffaet the lynching by clmrges of jury
bribing Is unwise, but that the cfTucts
on the foreign population will be good,
and that Italy has no cause for c
plaint.
Tux grand jury of New Orleans is
now after Ur. Conti, the Italian consul
at that place, who has expressed him
self rather too freely, ami in language
that was not very complimentary to the
jury. Mr. C'ontl Is fishing for an invita
tion to make himself scarce about New
Orleans.
Ds
Tiie Woman's press club, of Georgia,
held Its annual meeting In Atlanta this
week. We are for the women, God btoas
’em, and hope they will oomo over In a
body to the Georgia press association.
We are for the freedom of the press, and
want tho women along by all means.
We shall press the subject later.—Way-
cross Reporter.
Althohou the worst of the] grip In
New York appears to be over, it was a
pretty serious epidemlo while It lasted,
577 deaths being attributed to the dis
ease and Its combinations between
March 25 and May 1. Of this number
' the significant estimate is made that
eighty percent ocourred in the tene-
mcnt.iiouse district of the city.
While tho population of France Is at
a stand still almost, that of Germany is
rapidly on the increase, and the result
of the recent census shows a moat grat
ifying evidence of growth and inorease.
It Is alio, said that the births In the
recently annexed province of Alsace-
Lorraine are largely German, rather
than French, the nation of which it was
formerly a part,
Buuuxqh ae, Ala., is boasting that a
steel plant will soon be In operation In
that olty. The wealthy Byton Land
Company has taken hold of the matter
and this assnree the suocess of the en
terprise. This company never does
things by halves, and the south rejoioes
with Birmingham that the prospect for
the plant, which will be the only ooe In
the southern states, is almost a cer
tainty.
The robber gang was not exteminated
when Rube Burrows bit the dust, and
the next work of the express com-
pany will be to capture the Dalton
gang now operating in Texas. Satur
day night a train on the Santa Fo road
was robbed of valuable express, though
the shrewdness of tho mossengor in hid
ing his money packages in the stove
pipe prei ented them from capturing a
larger booty.
Bmpekoii William, of Gormany, is
evidently an Immense Ego. He is enor
mously “Big I." lie believes evidently
that he was not made for the people,
but the peopld were made for him. Bis
ideas are all personal. Be said the other
day in n speech: “As to the home
policy, whlob is becoming established, I
shall not deviate a hair’s breadth from
the course 1 have Adopted. I alone am
master In this country, and nobody
else." x
Andbew J. Cobb, Esq, of Atdess,
is receiving the plaudits of the press of
Georgia for discovering that the consti
tution of the state doss not prohibit an
appropriation for the World’a Fair from
funda outside of the regular taxes. Geor
gia should be represented, and If the
way pointed ont by Mr. Cobb is wise, it
would be well to make the appropria
tion, but if it la not, the citizens of this
grand old state can bp depended upon
to raise the requisite funds to havo its
resources on exhibition in proper shape.
DB BRIOO'S CONDEMNED.
The committee appointed by the
Presbytery of New York at its recent
meeting to Investigate the inaugural
address delivered by Bro. Charles A.
Briggs on his taking the chair of Theol
ogy in the Union Theological Seminary,
lias made its report In the majority
roport he is practically charged with
heresy on three points: First, in that
he would elevate human reason to un
due prominence, and make it one of the
authorities for the acceptance or rejec-
tion of tho several parts of the Bible ;
second, in his declaration that there may
possibly be errors of historio statement
in tho Scriptures, and, third, in his ex
pressed belief that the human soul may
perhaps hare some opportunity after
death to accept the conditions of salva
tion.
These assertions of the committee are
fortified by ample extracts from tho
addross whl;b they were appointed to
examino and criticise.
It is therefore recommended that Dr.
Briggs be tried on these indictments.
A minority report will also he pre
sented, signed by two of the committee.
They affirm that if the language of Dr.
Briggs Is liberally interpreted it will not
be found to conllict witli any essential
proposition in the confession of faith.
They futhermuro regard it aa unwise to
bring him to trial, for the reason that a
discussion would bo started which
might last indefinitely and end in doing
serious injury to the cause of religion.
Wbother the assembly can stem the
tide of what is called progress, can
alford to banish such men as Dr. Briggs,
is a very interesting question. It may
be necessary to have a confession of
faith as tho foundation for nn ecclesi
astical policy, but it ought not to bo
hurtful to allow clergymen a large lati
tude of interpretation. To bind each
pulpit to a literal acceptance of the
creed is to stillu investigation and Im
pair its efficlohcy. Besides, it may be
discovcred|in the pinch of controversy
that a very largo number of ministers
and laymen agree with the general posi
tion of Dr. Briggs, and in that case the
situation would not be freo from danger.
Heresy trials are never edifying, and
they seldom result as happily as could
he wished.
AFTER THE ITATA.
It is reported from Washington that
Attorney General Miller bolds that the
United States has the right to take tho
Itata wherever found, and accordingly
every effort is to be made to capture her.
Considering the long start given to the
runaway It remains to be seen whether
the ohase will amount to any thing or
not.
In view of the doubt that has prevail
ed aa to the law on the subject, the fol
lowing passage from Ball, an English
authority on international law, has a
timely interest:
When a vessel or someone oa hoar ! ter
while within orelf n territory, commits an
Infraction or Its laws shs may be pursued In
to the open seas and there arrested. It mutt
be added that this can oily be done wh n
the pursuit It commenced while the vc.ael Is
still within the torrllorlal waters or has only
Juat etcap-d from them.
Tin rest n for the permission seem* to he
lost punult undrr these elrcuinstancos la a
ontlnuatlnn ofan act ofjurl.dlcilou whlob
baa been began or which, hnt for the nccl-
dentof immediate escape, would have been
begun within the territory Itaeir, and that
It la neeeeaary to permit It m order toenable
the territorial Juried etlon to be exercised
That covers the case of the Itata ex
actly.
Da. John A. Wyeth, who served in
the Confederate army during the late
wsr, wrote for the Century Msgaslne a
short time ago an article descriptive of
the life of the Confederate prisoners at
Camp Morton. HU plain recital of their
■offering and hunger, and the brutal
treatment to which they were subjected,
raised an awful howl among the loud
mouthed fanatics of the north, and ever
alnoe the publication of bis article he
has been made the object of malicious
attacks. In order to eover with con
fusion the scctlonallsts who have so
frantically denied the truth of hi* arti
cle Dr. Wyeth has addressed a letter
to his former comrades in prison asking
them to forward to him a written state
ment of their experiences while at Camp
Morton. Dr. Wyeth's address is 204
Madison avenue, New York City, and he
will bo pleased to receive a statement of
facts from tho old Confederates who also
survived tin) hardships of the prison
pen.
Indiana is in the lead. It has return
ed to the “good old days" and in settling
a tio in elections resorts to a foot race.
Well, that may bo os good and conclu
sivo as drawing lots or cutting a book or
playing push pin or doodle or climbing
a greased pole or any of the well known
modes of settling contests from the
“way back” of the Greeks and Romans.
It is also eheaper than to have a new
election, and if it i* satisfactory to the
contestants the people should be satis
fied. This plan is recommended to the
Florida legislature. By all means let
the contest there be settled by a foot
.wee.
“FREE TRADE ON THE HALF SHELL,"
Brilliant Kate Field In her “ Washing
ton,” quoting Abraham Lincoln's cele
brated aphorism: “Yon can fool some
of the people all the time, and all of the
people some of the time, hut you can’t
fool all the people all the time,” takes
occasion to wrap Major McKinley and
the republican party right smartly over
the knuckles for stealing democratic
thunder under the guise of reciprocity.
A wonderfully shrewd thinker, she
says, was the man who signed the
emancipation proclamation, and be
never spoke more wisely than when he
paid this tribute to humanity—a tribute
quoted by handsome Cornelius N. Bliss,
as chairman of the Tariff League ban
quet io New York, to which 537 men did
full justice, among them being Vice-
President Morton, Secretary Noble.
Major McKinley, Senators Dolpb, His-
cock, Aldrich and Carey, William E.
Curtis and Murat Halstead, all of whom
made clever speeches to the sweet music
of sympathetic cheers.
“As the Washington advocates re
duced taxation, I am. not in love with
the McKinley act, but, believing with
Abraham Lincoln and Chairman Bliss
that 'you can’t fool all the people all the
time,’ I’m sure that Major McKinley
was right In saying that ‘we do not want
any monkeying with the tariff,' and we
are not going to have it.
“The brilliant son # of Ohio predicted
that the tariff law would not be changed
In ten years, “unless It be changed by
the republican party on protection
lines.” There’s as much wisdom in an
unless as in an If, and this “hedging” on
the part of Major McKinley is all the
assurance some of us want.
“I have already called Mr. Blaine's in
spiration—reciprocity—“free trade on
the half-shell;’’ and as reciprocity was
hailed with enthusiasm at this tariff ban
quet, and as General Foster has just re
turned from Spain with the last and
best reciprocity treaty in bis pocket,
what practical difference does It make
to people who can't be fooled “any
time," how much hairsplitting goes on,
provided reduced taxation is generally
and safely accomplished?
What's in a name? Everything and
nothing Everything to politicians and
fools. Nothing to statesmen and the
wise."
LEADERS,
313 Lamar st.
313 Lamar st.
We will prove the above assertion to Ik: a fact if you will call and ex
amine our large and elegant stock of
Dry Goods,
Dress Goods,
Notions, Etc.
Wc will also convince you that it is to your interest (from the stand
point of Price) to trade with us.
NEW LIE DRESS GOODS!
WELL ASSORTED STOCK OF
TABLE LINEN, TOWELS, NAPKIS, ETC
WHAT HAS THE COMPANY OAiNeDT
The decision rendered by the Louis
iana supreme court the other day has
been widely heralded as a victory of the
lottery company.
It was In favor of the company, but of
what practical value will it be? ,
The legislature bad voted to submit to
popular vote a constitutional amend
ment re-chartering the lottory. The act
was vetoed by the governor, and hence
the amendment did not go to tho people.
It Is now held by the supreme court that
a proposed constitutional amendment
does not require tho action of the gov
ernor; that he has no authority either to
sign or veto it. Accordingly the secre
tary of the state Is ordered to submit
the amendment to the people.
That it will be ratified may be taken
for granted Its adoption will legalize
the lottery la Louisiana. But this legal
validity of the buslaess within the state
can not Interfere with the operation of
the federal statute prohibiting the use
of the malls for lottery purposes. That
statute has practically suppressed the
traffic, and the adoption of the pending
constitutional amendment can not re
vive It
De Witt's Little Early Bisen never
gripe or cense nausea. Mild bnt rare,
assist rather than force. Beet little pill
for sick heed ache, chronic oonatipatiou,
dyspepsia. For sale by the Davenport
Drug Company.
More note paper le sold In the United
States in proportion than in any oountry
in the world.
SPECIAL DRIVE:
FIGURED LAWNS, 3 l-2c. I’ER YARD !
Beall & Oakley,
TELEPHONE 93,
313 LAMAR ST.
If it’s Shoes You want
■GO TO-
Eagle Shoe
119 FORSYTH ST., AMERIOUS, OA..
Where you will find THE LARGEST STOCK, TIIE FINEST AND
CHEAPEST LINE of
Editor Sid Lswis, of the Sparta Ish-
maelite, Is opposed to Cleveland as a
leader or party diotator la '02, and pre-
dicts direful results If the democrats
allow blm to map out the route they
must follow. It is more than a year yet
before the party will nominate a candi
date to lead It to victory, and in that
time tome one will bob up who can fill
In tho bUl on the money and tariff ques
tions, end It may or may not be Cleve
land. -r'r r
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State* Government Food Report.
junel5 cUwlyr
Highest
United
Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s
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DENTIST,
J) AHI W?NTI8T
v Offers his prof..atonal services to the
people of Amsrlcus, and .mounding coun
try. Office In new Morphev building, La.
mcr street, aver Beall * Oakie] 'a.
J M. IS. WESTHItdOK, M. D. .
. PHYKHJI AM AND BURGEON.
* Office and ratfd.no* next house io C. A.
Hnntln. ton, Cboreb street. IkbTtf
J A 6m < c?iTt fV. Rldrldn’erdrug store. Can
• bo ftmnd st night Tn his r*x>m, over
Mdrldjo’- drag atom* Barlow Blook.
„ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
v Office at Daren port’* Drug Store. Best*
dence, corner Forsyth and Mayo
Telephone No. 104.
D B. T. J. KENNEDY. M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON.
Ravlngflve years experience, and recently
taken an extended course In New York
Post-Grsdante M«*dlcal school, is now pre-
p red to offer his professions! scrvl.es to
Americas end surrounding vleln'ty. falls
left on his slate at Dr. Eldndge’s drag store
will receive prompt attention. At night
can be found in his office room over El-
dridge’s drug store. Barlow block. febS-ly.
DOCTORS J. B. AND A. B. HINKLE
Eye, Ear, Throat and Nose
A Specialty.
C HA8 A. BROOKS, M. D.
lOrsduate of B llevue Hospital Medical
College N. Y„ twice graduate of N. Y.
Post Graduate Medical ncbnol,Chief Hurgeon
S. A.M. R R.etc.) Offer* tils proreeslODBiser-
vices as a ge »ral practito'er tothe citizens
of Aii'PrlcusHnd surrounding country. Hpe*
•*1h) attention tlven to operative surgery,
Ineluding the treatment of hemorrhoids, fla-
t la, stricture, catarrh and all dlseasea of
Anus, Rectum, Genltourlna y system and
nose and throat- Office In Mnrphey building
Lamar "*t. connected by spea Ing tube
with Kldrldge’s Drug Store Calls should be
left or telephone • there during the day. At
night ca 1 at residence on Lee Ht. or tele
phone No 77. apr29tf
> A. HAWKINS,
F/ ' Vito :ney at law.
office up stairs on orunb-rry corner.
B utt & lumpkin,
a i TuHN i'.VH AT LAW.
Americas, Ga.
Office In Har-ow Block, up stairs.
P. WALLIS,
A I'loRNEY AT LAW, *
Americas, Ga.
W.
T. LANE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Americas, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all busiross placed
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Office In Bavlev building, opposlt* the
Court House. Prompt a* ten tion given ^ to
E. F. Htwrov. r. r. Outts.
HINTON ft OUTTS,
A TTORNkyh ai law. Practice in the
State and Federal Courts. Office over
Hart Building, on Forsyth street, marl-ly
)OBT. L. MAYNARD,
Prompt and eareftil attention given to all
bush es* entrusted to me. Lamar street
overP L. Holts. sep t-ddwftm*
T.’
L. HOLTON,
aJTuBNEY AT LAW.
. .. Abbeville. Ga.
praetlce In all the counties of the
Star*. Prompt attention given to all col
lections entrusted to my care. U
ANSLEY ft AJT8LEY,
tor, vehl.y, Macon, Dooly, Wei
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WXLTXX K. WXZATLZT, J. B. FRIOXBAIiD
Wheatley ft Fitxgerald,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OfflMi *9 Jackson St., Up Stain,
AMBBIOU8, I GEORGIA
JMMf
C..B. HUDSON, | L. J. BLALOCK,
of Schley county. | ofAtSriSr
IUDSON * BLALOCK,
UIWVBRS,
Anxxictn, Geokqia.
WU1 motlo. tn HI coart.. Partnership limited
to civil com., one. op stairs, corar Ueaad
Lamarstreet, in Altaian Black. deeH-d-wly
K. G. SIMMONS, W. H. KIMBROUGH.
SIMMONS ft KIMBBOU3H,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Barlow Blook, Boom 4.
Will practice tn both Stmt, and Federal Courts.
Strict attention paid to all business ent m.-ted to
them. Telephone: No. 109. U-iMOtf
DISSOLUTION.
TheA»mof Argo A Andrews Is this day
dissolved by mut-Ml consent, John T. Argo
retiring. He will be succeeded by C. O. Car*
t r and th* firm will hereafter be Andrews
A Carter, who will assume all th- ItSMMtle*
nr the late firm of Arto A Andrews, and col
lect all debts due thou..
Jho. T. Aimso.
K. M. Andrews,
In retiring from the Arm of Argo A ad*
dr. ws I retum banks to the public for tbe
sonorous pttionage bestowed, and bespeak
for the new Urrax continuance of the same.
Jwo. T. Argo.
Americus, Ga., April 15ib. 1881.
Shingles and Link
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GUEBRY ft SOX.
L AWYEH-, iroyneu., u. nine. In Pro-
P|® . National Rank Bulldffif, Lamar
■arret, will practice In Hnmter Htiprrior
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(oun. Our Junior will regularly attend.
tt-e wa.li-na of the Superior Court Th..
ffroi will take aprelal caw. inanyBuperlor
Court on Houtbwest.ro Railroad. '
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, ABCH1TKBT.
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Prop’r Eagle Shoe and Hat Store,
119 FORSYTH ST.. AMERICUS, GA.
“om 7 Barlow Bl'k, Amedeo,
ana apMlffeatjoo. lurat.krd tor
building, of all dree Iptlous -public bo id-
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