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> ■ VOLUME AMERICUS. GEORGIA, SATURDAY: MAY 16, 1891 NUMBER 36 When you lay this Paper down, kindly plaoe it with iTadvertisement ON TOP. CAMP CHICKAMAUGA SEWER GAS EXPLODES PimBURo, Mir 15.—The president'* •pedal train arrived here at 0:10 this morning and at 8:27 o’clock the train polled out on the, Pennsylvania road en route for Washington. The window blinds on all the coaches were tightlj drawn, and not one of the WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 1 distinguished party thadehls appearance. ; Pullman Conductor Ege, who has ao- ’ companled the train throughout the trip, says the members of the party ate some- | what fatigued by their Journey' Of over : 10,000 miles but are in good health. Conductor Kgs says his train has av eraged a speed of forty miles an hour since leaving Washington. Scarcely fifty people were at the union . etallftn ihKam 11.a .maaI»1 — J iL — a. station when the special passed through. No demonstration of any kind was at tempted. CLOTHING, Shoes, Hats, Etc. It so doing you not only confer a slight favor upon us, but you become IN PACT a PUBLIC BENEFACTOR, inasmuch as you materially aid us in attracting the public eye to the PJUMBERLESS RARE BARGAINS Which we ehail offer PRO BONO PUBLICO who patronize us this week. Do You Fool an Interest la FINE DRESS GOODS? 'or $12.50 you mar take your choice of 25 brand new pattern suits that cost us from $13.50 to $19.00. TO ADMIRE is but TO SEE our LOVELY FRENCH CHALLIES ad SIGHT becomes POSSESSION when your choice of 20 different styles is offered at 18c. per yard. ME NED CHINA SILKS AND SOLID FLORENTINES In all the newest shades. * ! ■' NOW IS THE TIME to buy your WASH in RESS GOODS. In this department as LL OTHERS, we are “fixed to suit you r e carry the best stock of Wash Dress ibrics in the city, and Our Prices cannot be atched in the state. We do not propose to BAIT YOU one moment and BITE YOU next, but we offer EVERYTHING at prices uniformly as low H8I8TENCY WITH GOOD VALUE will allow. Another lot of those sheer quality BLACK LAWNS (satteen pee and plaids) at 12|c per yard this week. Pink, Blue and Blaek MARIBOU PLAID LAWNS and) 10c per yard this week. (white 1YELTIESI WHITE GOODS cmstltcbcd White Lawas and Flounces for Skirts. lordesed White Lawns for Aprons, Children's Dresses, etc. ill Over Embroideries, All Over Laces '■sin White, Polks Spot, and Embroidered Swiss Mnsllns. hack Ground with White Polks Spot Swiss Mnsllns (very new and stylish.) IARPETS AND MATTINGS The very best and cheapest in the city, We control the ST 50 CT. UNLAUNDERED SHIRT ADCAIPn 1 UM* OF BOYS' VlLHCU i MISSES’. AND LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS. You will find our line of .Forid—No one sbowB better value for 76o and our “MON PUFF BOSOMS" for fine trade is the handsomest and best the market. R \ fin nWT V Tho Best 4-ply Belfast Linen iUC* UiNLl Collar, any style desired. 15c. ONLY The Best 4-ply Belfast Linen Cuffs any style desired. UR GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS BRISTLING WITH JUST SUCH BARGAINS: uy ask the opportunity to show you OUR GOODS and OUR PRICES will speak for themselves. Macon, May 15.—The Macon compa- nlea will be well repreiented at the en campment at Chickamauga. The num ber of men each company expects to take is as follows: Macon Volunteers, 60; Southern Ca dets, 50; Floyd Rifles, 30; Light In fantry, 35. Col. C. M. Wiley and hii full lUff wlil be present Col. Wiley'a regiment, the Second Georgia, will have about 000 men present. The great encampment of the miliUa begins in one month from to-day. It will be one of the most enjoyable affairs of this kind that has evor been held in the south. Georgia has a number of crack compa nies, and the boys will be on band in the handsomest shape possible during this encampment Col. A. J. West, of the governor’s staff, and Capt Field, U. S. A., will go up to Chickamauga Saturday to see that every thing is in ship-shape. Every provision will be made for tho comfort and enjoyment of the troops dnring the encampment and it will bo a real holiday as well as a season of dis cipline for the militiamen. In view of the large number of inqui ries concerning the encampment, the following circular has been issued. The circular will be of invaluable ben efit to those who contemplate participat ing in the encampment: Qcaktkruastkr Gekkral's Office, Ati.anta, Ga., May 13, 1801.—Circular No. 1— For the guidance and informa tion of the troops arranging to go into the state eacampment at Chickamauga, I have deemed It proper to issue tills circular. The encampment begins at noon on Monday, June 15, 1801. Fint week—first regiment, in com mand of Colonel Georgo A. Mcrccr, to be succeeded each week by other com mands as mentioned in the ordera of Adjutant-General Kell. I will mail with this circular to each command transpor tation orders authorising the railroad companies to collect their fare from the state wbea properly certified to and ap proved. Tents with flooring of dressed lumber and bed ticks filled wltk either dean, bright, dry wheat straw or excelsior, will be in readiness. Close cook sheds, mess halls, shower bath houses, sinks, etc., will bo con structed of rough lumber, affording pro tection in cose of bad weather. Stalls of the same material for cavalry, artil- leiy, field and staff horses will alio be provided. Each company will be provided with a cook atove of sufficient also and the usual accompanying untensil*. Spades, shovels, wheelbarrows and brooms will also be eupplled by this de. pertinent. A medical ehest, filled with necessary medical supplies, will also be on hand in charge of a competent hospital stew ard, a graduate of pharmaoy bolding a license from the state board of ex aminers. A post sutler, highly recommended, has been appointed, with the understand, ing that he li to sell nothing of an in- toxlcating character. The state wilt not issue forage or rations, but will commute for same In money at the rate per diem of seventy- five cents for rations for each officer and man and thirty-five cente for each hone. A bugler will bo furnished by this de partment, bnt each command Is expect ed to look after Its own music. Per diem will bo allowed the bands. Atlanta, Rome and Chattanooga afford quick facilities for obtaining supplies. The state has generously appropriated handsome eum for the benefit of tho mlli-aiy of the state, and I beg the co operation of every officer and soldier In her service in dispensing it judiciously and advantageously. A. J. West, Quartermaster General. Augusta, May 15.—Baron Eugene M. Drake, and several member! of hit family, spent yesterday and a part of to day In Augusta. He la the Georgia belr to the title and untold millions of the Drake family In England, a family founded by the great Sir Francis Drake, and now without * bead In Great Britain. The property 1s in chancery awaiting proof of the proper heir, and It amounts to nearly $200,000,- 000. The title of baron will alio be in herited by the rightful belr, and Eugene M. Drake, of Oglethorpe county, In this state, is regarded as tho real heir. At any rate all the newspapers have been foil of the eubjeet, of late, taking tbelr cues from articles first printed in the Macon papers. An agent of the property or claim agent of New York, was recently re ported In the state Investigating the matter, aud he and contesting members of the Drake family were reported as agreeing tint tho Georgian was the rightful heir, and in direct line for the 8iicecssion. The Drakes are a good old family in Oglethorpe, and all of them are popular and well esteemed. There are four or five brothers, nearly all farmers, and Eugene, the eldest, the heir to the mil lions and title in old England, is very modest, retiring and unassuming, but withal a manly and handsome fellow. His brother, J. F. Drake, graduated in the large and popular class of 1876 in Athens, near his native home, and since then he has resided on the farm In Oglethorpe. New Yon, May 15.—[Special]—An explosion in a sewer on South street this morning badly Injnrsd six men. Illuminating gas collected in a sewer also muoh sower gas. A workman descended with a lighted lamp, and Immediately upon entering the sewer the exploelon occurred. The exploeion shook the block with s' report Uke a cannon. There was a tremendous rush of air and flames. A passerby looking in a manhole had his eyebrows and hair singed. His face was peppered with gravel and mud. Five workmen struggled up through the manhole nil as btaek as coal. Their faces and arms were blistered, and hair and eyebrows singed. They were blind- ed with suffering and torturing pain. Their eyesight wss saved. Several manholes that were open lessoned the force or the explosion. The rush of air and burning gas was tremendous. •A Clerkshoata ■> Negro and a Youth Fires on ■ Cop, 0THING and CLOTHING i NO COMPETITION in oar Clothing Trade, and WE ALWAYS WILL lead^the van in TO TRY IS TO BUY “thing, because crar stock is the largest. Our styles are faultless and OUR PRICES ARE MATCHLESS. Augusta, May 15. -)oln F. Elliot, clerk in Blanchard’* clothing store, shot fire times this morning at a negro named Beahet, on Broad street, hitting him one time in the right ehoulder. the wound K not serious. The negro out led Elliot last night and this morn ing attempted to hit him with spick. Tim Brooks, who shot at Policeman Hatcher lost night twice, was arrested this morning while being carried out of town by his father to his country homo. Mayo^ May bound him, over in $1,000 bond for assault and attempt to murder, and $100 in the city court for carrying concealed weapons, and $25 bond for his appearance at the reoorden’ court to-morrow. The father went on the bond and the ton was released. Hawkinsvillk, May 15.—[Special.]- Yesterday evening Aim Newman, white man who lives below here, was going home from town with his wife and three children in a wagon. Ho was drunk and his wife was driv ing. At Jelk’a mill the road runs along on top of the dam. While on the dam Abe grabbed the linei and jerked the horse. The hone being blind, turned suddenly and step ped into the pond, carrying all with him. Newman got out. Some negroes past ing rescued Mrs. Newman, but all three children were drowned. stand by our Advertisements every c tO.D. Wheatley Oor. Lamar St and Cotton Aye, Quiet Again at Tails basses. Tallahassee, Fla., May 15.-Jt la re markably qnlet after the scrimage be tween Clark and Kirk in the caucus, land the exdtement that followed. I Further trouble is not expected. Ex Cor; rcssman Davidson is here. He very popular and has been mentioned in connection with the senatorship. Therefore some attach significance to bis fint appearanee at the capital since the opening, of tho senatorial contest, lie received six votes in joint session. The house refused to indefinitely post pone tho bill abolishing the railroad commission and it was ordered en grossed. Baron Hindi's: Enterprise. New York, May 15.—Judge Lawrence of the supreme eourt has declined to In corporate Baron Hindi Lodge, No. 1. He says: “I am unwilling to incorpo rate this society in the name of a foreign dignitary, particularly when I do not know whether the ineorporaton are authorized to use hi* name.” - The trustees of the Baron Hlrsch fund are considering the prososltion to invest $100,000 of the fund in fifty dwelling bouses to be built near New York. Each dwelling house is to accommodate two families and a quarter of an acre of ground i* to be the plot On the ground vegetables and fruits for the New York market are to be raised. It wae laid yesterday by those in authority that this Is sn experiment and intended to relieve some of the densely populated Jewish districts in New. York dty. The project will be settled within afew days. Macon's Water Supply. Macon, May 15.—[Special.]—The wa ter company has at last decided upon a plan to increase the water supply of Maeon. A tract of twenty-fivo acres of land has been purchased about two miles np the river, where a number of largo wells will be sunk. Into these the water from the river penolates, thus being filtered by s nat ural process, and, as claimed by the water company, be aa pure as any water. This water will he pnmped Into sepa rate mains running through the city, which will be of a larger size than the mains now being need. Mr. Board man leave* to-morrow for Philadelphia, to purobaae necessary ma chinery, etc., for pumping the water from the wells. He will push the work as rapidly as possible, and hope* to have the new plan In successful operation be fore summer!* over. Thrown Oat of Coart. Macon, May 15.—[Special.]—The case of James and Mary Harvey vs. the Ma con Telegraph, libel cult for $20,000 baa been thrown out of court. Tlie grounds on which the ease was thrown out was that the declaration al leged the plaintiffs to be cltizons of Ire land. whioh would have given the United States court no jurisdiction. The plaintiffs wished to amend the declaration by making Mr. and Mrs. Harvey citizens of Great Britain and subjects of the queen of Great Britain and empresa of India. The court ruled, aa argued by the de fendants, that the statute of limitations barred the changing of the declaration and decided the case could not be tried id the federal court. It la understood this will settle the salt, as the state oourt has now no juris diction, which fact is admitted and held, by the defendants. From The Bloody Field. Atlanta, May 15.—[8pectal.]— 1 There were displayed at the office of the Rich mond and Danville railroad yesterday a number of ghastly relics that have an In ternational interest They were brought from New Orleans by ConduotorTodd, who gathored thorn from the “bloody Odd” of the recent trouble in that city. It was with muoh Interest (bat tho railroad boys and other* viewed a mur derous looking Mafia stiletto, five Incite?, long when closed, and ten inohea long: when opened; a piece of the shirt cut . from the baok of Polite when he was. swung np, and a chip from the tree om which he wae swung but of this world. Conductor Todd 1* on his way Us Washington, where he will place them In the museum of the Smithsonian In stitute. Knights of Pythias. Atlanta, May 15.—[Special.]—The uniform rank, Knlgnts of Pythias, of At lanta, will visit Brnnswiok to attend the •slon of the grand lodge. Adolpli Brandt Division No. 5, and At lanta Division No. 2 are ready to enter the competitive drill. Major-General Carnahan, commander- ln ehlef of the uniform rank of the order, will arrive in Atlanta to-morrow, and will be entertained by the local knights. There will be a public reception. The major-general will accompany the Atlanta divisions to Brunswick. To Woloomo the Knights. Brunswick, Os., Hay 15.—Elaborate preparations are being made by the local knights for the convention which la to be held here from the 16th to the 21st last. The reduced rate Insure* the attendance bf a great number of visiting knights. Hotel St. Simons will be formally opened to-morrow. Many Improvements have been made since last season, and Manager Clarke is having a large danc ing pavilion erected. Scott Thornton presents Riohelleu hare Monday night. He may feel as sured of a warm recaption. Something Serious Happened. Naw Vowt, May 15.-A private cable gram from Beunoa Ayrea lays gold last 8.00 and Indicate* that something serious haa happened. To ih$ KlfW. Atlanta, May U.-{Bpeei*l}-Thl* morning the members of the dty coun cil and water board visited the Chatta hoochee river to iacpcct the location the aewsra Cincinnati, O., Hay 15.—The mam moth establishment o1 the Christian Hoerlein Brewing oompany was largely damaged by fir* last night The portion banted is the main structure of the con cern. The aggregate loss is approxi mated at $100,000. Insured. May Be Called Back. New York, May 15.—A special from Washington says Secretary Proctor’s ap pointment, or election to the senate in place of Senator Edmunds, being as sured, Minister Lincoln would be re called from London to toko the cabinet place. AtjOUSTA, fifth military ha or- 1*0 Joha By the Rope Boats. Trenton, Ga., May 15.—Rufus Moore, oolored, wae hanged hero about 1 o'clock today In the presence of 10,000 people. He was hanged for killing Henry Slay, at Rising Fawn furnaoe, Jane 24, 1800. Moore and Slay had a Inis about two mulatto women who were notations characters. Slay throw rocks at ona of the women who sras Moore’s paramour, and Moot* told him U bo did not atop, be would kill him. Moore than shot Slay twice with a pistol from which he died. Feet Time on the Central. The Central railroad hae proved Ite capacity lor quiok handling of freight in a manner worthy of commendation. The transportation department at Savannah was given batons hoar and forty-five minutes notiee Thursday night to a tart a fruit special of ten can of from that city to Atlanta. Everything was gotten Into readiness In a lively manner, and the train pniled ont from the depot at 8:30 o'clock. It arrived in Atlanta at 0 o’clock yesterday morning, making the ran in twelve and a half boon, whioh waa one ol the fastest freight sehednles ever made over the line. The Central proposes to ran a similarsohedule when ever anfficient fruit Is shipped to srar- rant It The fruit train was run almost as fast as the regular passenger, which takas ton boat* and fifty minute* to cover the distance between the two cities. AaOld Firm Belle Out Atlanta, Ga. May IS.—[Special.]— Messrs. Hntchison ft Bro., after carrying on the drug business In Atlanta for thir teen years, have sold oat to Messrs, llrown * Allen. The reason assigned for the sale Is that they “wanted to rest.” The new firm will carry on the busi ness at the old stand, and will merit a good trade. L Back Frees Maces Peart. Judge -Fort, Solicitor Hudson and members of the America* bar who have been attending Maoon superior court at Oglethorpe this week, returned borne last night, having finished np the docket for this term of the court Principal among the eases disposed of waa the trial and conviction of the ne gro Ed Banka, who murdered another negro in Manhallvilte two years ago, by catting him all to pieces with a batcher knife. The hanging of Banka for this crime trill be the first execution that hu taken place In that' county since the hanging of Loyd and Hoiaenbake, many years ago. - *•' Great Low By Poreet lire*. Bio Rapids, Mich., May 15.—From Manistee to Huron, on tbe lower penin- rain, foreat Area ora still raging. Up to dMb the lees I* estimated at sad It Win probably * Choice of Two Boole.. ,, Knights of Pythias In this city will hare choice of two routes to Bruns wick, where the grand lodge meets next week, going either by tbe S. A. A M. and E. T. V. A G. or by the Central and B. A W. by way of Albany. Tbe price for the round trip by either route is $5.70. It is earnestly desired that all members contemplating going will their names with either Mr. W. E. or Mr. B. H. Mayo between now aad Monday noon, ia order that tho aeo- mgsmwsta way he wads. 1