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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1891.
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Americus, Oa., May 27, 1891.
Thk L’nited States government is in
negotiation with San Domingo for the
lease of Santa Barbara as a coaling sta
tion.
A little girl in her prayer illustra
ted the value of advertising. In her in
nocencc she said: “Lord make me pure
—make me absolutely pure, like baking
power."
Ci’J.pkim'Eh’k mills, situated near the
Central railroad depot in Albany, have
been burned, including a large amount
of corn and Hour. Several Central cars
were also burned. Loss about $20,000.
There are 30,000 colored votes in
Ohio, who hold the balance of power,
and not au officeholder among them.
The anti-negro record of the Harrison
administration is something remarkable.
Said Major Joseph B. Cumming, of
Augusta, yesterday, when asked his
opinion of the Western and Atlantic
commissioner’s decision. “We expected
more, but $100,000 Is better than noth
ing.”
Justice Harlan, of the supreme
court of the United States in a recent
decision, coined the word “Yardage,”
that is a change for “Yarding” up cattle
at railway stations for shipment. So
the supreme court makes words as well
as law.
Congressman L. C. Houck, of the
Knoxville, Tenn., district, died at his
home in that city Monday morning from
arsenic poison, which he drank through
mistake. He was a republican in poli
tics and has represented his district in
congress for the past six years.
Augusta and Charleston have been
talking by telephone a distance of 137
miles, by simply connecting the tele
phones with the telegraph wires be
tween the two cities. If this system
■worked satisfactorily there, why can’t
the telegraph wires between other cities
be used for the same purpose?
Tiie results of the school elections
throughout the state of West Virginia
during the past week show that the
farmers’ alliance has a majority in sever
al counties, pluralities in others, and cau
dictate nominations in the others still.
If the members hang together the next
legislature will have many alliance mem
bers, and possibly a majority.
Twenty-five states have so far made
appropriations for World’s fair exhibits,
ranging from $.1,000 in the case of Ver
mont to $300,000 by California and
Pennsylvania. The total thus appro
priated is $1,825,000. Georgia should
size it up about middle way and come
in with a good showing in proportion to
the other states, but it looks a little
shaky now.
The trial of Robert and Richard How
ard and James Bickerstaff, for killing
Mr. J. C. Dawson at the Columbus ex
position grounds last fall, which was to
have been tried in Muscogee superior
court this week, has been postponed on
acoount of the sickness of one of the
leading attorneys for the defense. The
case excites a good de$l of interest, and
promises some rich developments when
It does comes up for trial.
▲ new paper is about to enter the
journalistic circles of Atlanta. The
Southern Life, fashioned after well-
known Life, with its richness, will be
published, .beginning on June 0th, and
appearing weekly on Saturday. Its col
umns are to be devoted mainly to so
ciety, and It will be a clean, able sheet,
with eight pages of illustrations, mod
eled after those of Life. Mr. John H.
Blackwood, for some time connected
with the Gordou school, and who comes
with newspaper experience and well
recommended, will edit the paper. The
management will be under Mr. A. B.
Carrier. Starting with an edition of
8,000, a company formed aud stock all
taken, the paper gives every indication
of success.—Constitution.
The New York Sun’s Washington
special says: “Judged from what can be
heard in political circles here at the
capital, that is just what was likely to
happen, and what may yet happen, in
spite of the check which the Blaine
boom will receive by the evidence of
what has long been apparent to close ob
servers—namely, that, physically, James
G. Blaine is a practically broken down
man. Intellectually, he has for the
past few months appeared to be more
adroit and more far-seeing than ever.
He has done more in the past year to
get his name before the American peo
ple, and to keep it there, than at almost
any previous period in his political life.
His opportunities in the state depart
ment have been very great, and he has
taken the fullest advantage of them.
Nothing which he haa done in the past
has been so fruitful of immediate re
sults and immediate rewards to himself
as his achievmenta since he haa been the
premier of the Harrison administration.
Mr. Blaine keenly realizes this state of
things.” V JjSu? *t.
A BETTER TIME FOR THE FARMER.
In the May bulletin of the department
of Agriculture at Washington, it is sta
ted that all indications point to an un
usual degree of prosperity this year for
the farming classes. The Bulletin says:
The western prices of corn and oats are
more than 100 per can*, higher than they
were twelve months ago, wheat and meats
very much advances, and an upward move
ment in nearly all rural values, those of
lands included, has already commenced, In
spite of the fact that there has been no re
duction of area planted, no dead »ine of lim
itation to rural exploitation found. The
forces of nature aud the revolutions of time
and circumstance have worked a beneficial
change. First, a bad season cut down the
crops of corn and oats, and rlimlnated a sur
plus that reduced prices below the cost of
production. Next, two years of under aver
age wheat production of the world have re-j
duced stock and advanced pric*s, while the!
unfavorable foreign advices of the present!
season, coupled with the high prospect in j
this country, render it probable that our,
plus of the present crop will he large
prices high. Finally tHe prices of all meats,
as was Indicated In the statlstirtan’s rep rt
for January, have materially advanced, as
also those of the different grades of beeves.
The good results from the advanced
prices in the articles produced upon the
farm are within easy reach of every tiller
of the soil who will grasp the opportuni
ty to increase his grain supplies, and
lighten up on cottou. The high prices
are likely to hold for some time from
the present indication*, and the
growing crops of wheat and corn
will bring far more than the
average of the past few years.
The farmer who has planted for a sur
plus of wheat and corn will find a ready
market and good prices for all that he
can spare, while cotton Is likely to re
main at the bottom unless that on hand
now can be worked off before the new
crop conies in.
Let us hope that the farmers will reap
the benefit of the advanced prices this
year, and that they may hereafter al
ways be ready for the rise in farm
products.
THE VERDICT SATISFACTORY.
The verdict of the commission to try
and pass upon the merits of the claim of
the old lessees of the state road seems
to have given general satisfaction, and
there are few men who have given the
subject serious thought but that agree
that the commissioners did no more
than what was right in granting the
lessees a return of the amount paid for
taxes in Tennessee. Governor Brown
and his associates think that they were
entitled to more, but are satisfied to
abide by the verdict of the commis
sioners.
In an interview with a reporter in
Atlanta, Governor Brown says:
We are somewhat disappointed, bfcause
we had hoped to have the commission And
In a larg-r sum for us. We have, however,
uo fault to And with the commissioners and
* ; weacqtiletce gra-efully to their decision.
! You know a tnan aeqnleces In a verdict of a
j j Jury, hut at th® same time ho thinks there
( I would have been a different verdict hud he
t ’! been on the Jury. We would have received
mono from the eta < lor ull'tuxes had It not
been that we were unable to prove that
claimed them prior to the year H*8. I called
the attention of Governor Sm’th to the mat
ter, but It wusonly lua verbal Interview, Hi
was dead and hence it could not be estab
lished before the commission, which oni,
granted taxes paid out by the company
from the time that I called the at ention of
Governor Colquitt to It in a written paper,
upto the present year. We had hop'd that
we would be allowed something ou the claim
for side tracks, will'h we thought was al
most a«strong as the claim for taxes, but the
commission has decided differently and we
are satlsAe I. In my communication to the
governor I said, Se’ect a number of represent
tatlve men In the stito to pass on this ques
tion, and we will abide by their decision.
These gentlemen were selected, and know
ing each one as I do to be a man of the high
est integrity, .t woul t be very unbecoming
in me to complain at their An;*inga, while at
the same time I would have done different
had I been in their place.
PEFFEKS* PARTY.
There is probably no one in America
more familiar with the third party or
ganization than Mr. Peffer, of Kansas.
Mr. Peffer is the gentleman who suc
ceeds the brilliant and meteoric Ingalls
in the United States senate. lie is flu
ent in speech, conservative in thought
and accurate in statement.
After describing in detail the causes
which led to the formation of the new
party ho said: “Shall we put a presi
dential ticket in the field next year?
Yes. I can’t tell you who our nominee
will be. We nvo at this time consider
ing that subject. It will be discussed
and action taken, no doubt, at our con
vention, which will be held at Spring-
fiold, Ill., on February 22, 1892. If
nothing be Cdono there, we shall again
meet In convention early in the June
following. We have not selected the lo
cation, but it will probably be at Indian
apolis or Louisville or somo other cen
tral point. We shall make strong effort
to carry our presidential ticket.
“Fiaukly, 1 don’t think we shall win;
but wo will mako so great a showing
that we shall convince not only our own
people but people generally that with
another year’s organization wo can
easily become the dominant party.”
TOO MUCH MAJORITY.
The joint caucus of the democratic
members of both houses of the Florida
legislature has been adjourned sine die
after an existence of nearly six weeks,
and the election of a United States sen
ator to succeed Calil will have to be
determined in regular session irrespect
ive of caucuses. Nobody could ever get
the requisite two-thirds; all of which
goes to show the folly of any such
rule.
A majority ought to bo good enough
for democracy, aud when that line is
passed there is no good reason why a
two-thirds or three-fourths standard
should be set up, when a unanimous
vote might os well be required.
Georgia got enough of such methods
in the famous Colquitt-Norwood guber
natorial campaign not to want any more
of her own or Florida’s late experiences
in arbitrary majorities.
Mu. Gladstone has made reply to a
bookbinder of London, who made a com
plaint against the American tax of
twenty-five per cent, of the net value
of books, which, the writer said, would
exclude valuable old volumes which had
been rebound in England from exhibi
tion at the World’s fair to bo held in
Chicago. Mr. Gladstone says: “I sym
pathize with you In your exclusion from
the United States by a regulation which
is so peculiar as to be almost a carica
ture of the idea of protection. On the
other hand, I hope that you do sot de-
siro to see the principle of protection
established in England. As a rule, you
will find that the system of protection
adopted by the Uuiled States disables
that country in competing with us or
any of the other markets of the world.”
McCUNE S BOSH.
Doctor McCune, editor of the National
Economist, is boldly attacking both
parties, to bolster up the new converts
to the third party movement, aqd in so
doing makes statements that are with
out foundation in so far as concerns the
branch of democracy that the south con
tains. Everybody here knows that there
isn’t a word of truth in connection with
southern democracy in the following:
Evidence is accumulating dally to prove
that the twoo:d parties have entered into an
agreement, offensive and defensive, against
the alliance and its demands. As a result It
will take a bold man, actuate! by honest
intensions and loyal to principle, to remain
office holder in either party and continue
m friendly to the alliance aud its efforts
at reform. The party lash is be ing used at
the present time without mercy, aad the
effect is beiug witnessed on every hand. Sen
ators, congressmen and governors who hold
their offices by reason of the supposed and
implied friendly relations which they hoid
to the alliance and its purposes have been
forced to renounce all interest in or affilia
tion wlllt the order. The thumbscrews rf
partlsanism is being applied, and the result
has been so far, wi h but lu re ami there un
exception,an abject surrender.
LET US SMILE.
The rains of Monday and Tuesday
have broken the long drouth, which for
the past two months has almost blasted
the hopes of the farmers throughout
this section, but plentiful showers have
fallen and blessed the land with re
freshments from the invisible hand and
all nature smiles. It is not too late,
and the crops, though stunted in their
growth, will spring forth with new
vigor, and a bountiful harvest may yet
be in store for those who have worked
with unfaltering hope and the results of
their untiring labor will fully award
thorn in the end. *
The rains have been general over the
country, and the news comes from all
sections that the drouth is broken.
The relief Is great and the farmer’s face
Is beaming with smiles.
Ex-Congressman Ewart, of North
Carolina, who is a Republican, expres
ses the opinion that a democratic presi
dent will bo elected In 1892, because of
the certaintyjof the third party drawing
thousands of votes from the republican
party. The third party ticket, he says,
will cause the democrats to carry sev
eral western states, and will give them a
majority of the electoral votes without
needing those of New York. Mi. Ewart
also says that Cleveland is strong in the
east, and if the democrats adopt a hard
money platform he will be nominated
for the presidency and will fcarry New
York and Massachusetts. These pre
dictions aro interesting, coming as they
do from one of the leading republican
members of the last congress.
A French army officer has been ar
rested in Paris for high treason, having
revealed the secret of making melinite
to an English firm. John Bull’s gold
was stronger than Johnny Ciapeau’s
patriotism, hence the revelation.
The sort of citizens we are now get
ting by the thousands from Italy is !
shown by the following piece of Italian
news: “At Bari, Italy, the other day
165 members of the Mala Vita society,
which is little better than the Mafia,
were convicted on such charges as black-!
mail, robbery and assault with intent to j
murder, and were sentenced to impris
onment for terms ranging from six
month* to fifteen yean. The investiga
tion resulted bringing to light
the fact that several members of the
Italian nobility were at the head of the
society and that the poorer scoundrels _
were force to divide their stealings with ^ aU ^
m
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
^eamSr SS2nSh^Lattit
rernment Foot! .Report,
junelj dAwlyr
BEHLL & OAKLEY,
313 LAMAR STREET,
■OFFER'
For the next thirty days, startling
reductions in their entire stock
DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS,
Notions and Fancy Goods.
Grenadines at Cost!
China Silks.
China Silks, 45 cents, worth 00
to 75 cents per yd.
China Silks, 60 cents, worth 75
and 84 cents per yd.
China Silks, 75 cents, worth $1
per yd.
Dress Silks.
Beautiful Solid Silks, 75 cents,
worth $1.00.
Beautiful Solid Silks, $1.00,
worth $1.25.
Black Silk 25 per cent less than
former price.
Black Goods.
Black Gloria Tamise and Silk
Sublime 25 per cent less than for-
mor price.
Silk Mulls.
Silk Molls (black and colored)
65 cents per yd., worth 75 cents
and $1.00.
Prices greatly reduced in
every department for the
next thirty days.
HENRIETTAS.
Silk finished Henrietta, 60 cents,
worth 75 cents.
Silk finished Henrietta, 75 cents,
worth 75 cents to $1.00 per yd.
46-iuch Silk finished Henrietta,
85 cents, worth $1.00 to $1.25 per
yd.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
A. KLUTTZ,
Architect and Supe
Americas, C‘
Office over People's National bank.
P. BURT,
W ' ’ DENTIST,
" • Cranberry’s Corner, Amedeos, Ga.
Continues to serve his friends in ail branch#*
of dentistry. : jiSftf*
rphey bi
Oakley'i
1 M1
J'Offi
R. WESTBROOK, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON.
Office and residence, next house to c a
Huntington, Church street. feb 7 tf
A. FORT JI. D.
Office at Dr. PUdridge’s 'drug store. Can
_ be found at night Tn his room, over
Kldridge’s drug store, Barlow Block.
tan 8-91-tf
\R. J. H. WINCHESTER,
„ PHYSICIAN and bubgeon.
47 Office at Davenport’s Drug Store. Rest,
dence, corner Forsyth and Mayo streets,
Americus, Ga. d(m>
Telephone No. 104.
D R. T. J. KENNEDY, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON.
Office at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Htoie. Can
be found at night Su his office room over
Eldridge’s drug store, Barlow block, feb5-iy
J. B. AND A. B.HIMLE
Eye, Ear, Throat and Nose
A Specialty.
C HAS. A. BROOKS, M, D.
(Graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical
College, N. Y„ twice graduate of N. Y.
Post Graduate Medical School,Chief Bun
vices as a general prncf itooer to the oitlzens
of Americus and surrounding country. Spe
cial attention given to operative surgery,
ineluding the treatment of hemorrhoids, At
tala, stricture, catarrh, and all diseases of
Anus, Rectum, Genitourinary system and
nose and throat. Office In Mnrphey building
Lamar 8t. Connected by speaking tube
with Eldridge’s Drug Store. Calls should be
left or telephoned there during the day. At
night call at residence on Lee St. or tele
phone No. 77. apr29tf
i A. HAWKINS,
R A ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office up stairs on Granberry corner.
gUTT * LUMPKIN,
LUiurnid,
ATTORNEYS at law.
Americas, Ga.
Office in Barlow Block, up stairs.
W.
P. WALLIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Americas, Ga.
National Bank.
T. LANE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Americas, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all business placed
w;
Silk Sublime.
This goods 46] jinches wide,
$1.16, worth everywhere $1.50 per
V'l
Silk Mulls.
Yes, Silk Mulls, 65 cents, worth
75 cents to $1.00 per yd. Beauti
ful goods for evening or grad
uating dresses.
Parasols.
Fancy Parasols, $2.75, worth
$3.50.
Fancy Parasols, $3.85, worth
$5.00.
Fancy Parasols, $5.50, worth
$7.00.
-GOOD TIME TO BUY-
TABLE DAMASK, NAPKINS, TOWELS, ETC.
Shoes and Hats at Cost!
r
HIXON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Americus, Ga.
all business.
|un5-tl.
E. F. Hinton. E. H. Currs.
HINTON & CUTTS,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice in the
State and Federal Courts. Office over
Hart Building, ou Forsyth street, marl-lj
TOUT, L. MAYNARD,
I ATTORNEY AT LAW.
" Americus, Ga.
Prompt and careful attention given to all
—« -* e Lamar street
sepi9-dAw3ra*
L. HOLTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Abbeville, Ga.
Will practice In all the counties of the
State. Prompt attention given to all col
lections entrustedto my care. tl
ANSLEY & ANSLEY,
A ttorneys at law, Americus, Ga
Will practice in the counties of Sum
ter, Bcliley, Mucou, Dooly, Webster, Stew
art, In the Supreme Court, and the Unltod
States Court.
I C. MATHEWS,
I ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
J* ... 221^4Forsyth street, Americus, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts,and in the Coun
ty Court for the twelve months.
12-24 d&wly.
Wellborn F. Clarke. Frank A.Hoopxb.
CLARKE <fc HOOPER,
Attorneys at Law
AMERICUS, ..... GEORGIA.
mnyl5-d-w-ly
Walts* K. Wheatley, J. B. Fitzoehald
Wheatley Sc Fitzgerald,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office: 406 Jackson 8t., Up Stairs,
AMERICUS, t GEORGIA
jan7-tf
HUDSON A BLALOCK,
“ LRUVBRS,
Americus, Georoia.
Will practice in all courts. Partnership limited
E. G. SIMMONS, W. H. KIMBROUGH.
SIMMONS & KIMBROUGH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Harlow llloolt, Room 4
_ Will practice In both 8tmt« and Federal Oonrti.
Strict attention paid to mil business entrusted to
them. Telephone .No. 103. la-iaeotl
W. B. Gitkbky. DuPont Quehry.
Amcrlcun, On. Macon, Ga,
QUEEKY & SON,
I '.AWYERH, Americus, Gn. Office In Pec-
street. Will practice in Sumter fenperlor
and County Courts, and In the Supreme
Court. Our Junior will regularly attend
the sessions of the Superior Court. The
firm will toke special cases In any Superior
Court on Southwestern BaUroad.
TO CLOSE.
These lines must go. We haven’t room
for Shoes and Hats and intend going out of
them.
BEALL & OAKLEY.
:U:
Room 7 Barlow Bl’k, Amerlcui
Plane and specifications furnished for
buildings of ail descriptions—public build;
lngH especially. Communications by »*“
to either offico will meet With prompt at
tention . wm. Hall, Superintendent A meri*
specialty. Headquarters, Mo
Americus offico over Haven,™
Drugstore. Have some fine vac
•ale on liberal terms. One four room 1
to rent. apr2l
Cat tall milletl Cat tall millet! Want
ed, 500 pounda, at Dr. Eldridge’n drug
.....
W ILLIAMSON’ * EARL,
■ CIVIL AND Has Italy E»oil<***•.
Plana nnd e.tlmntca for water supp*j>
lz.wer.fe and general engineering vjx*
Construction superintended, sewerage* J