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VOLUME 1
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, SATURDAY: JUNE 6, 1891
Don’t Stand on Your Head to Read this.
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GEO. D. WHEATLEY’S,
Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.
MODEST THE DEMAND
Would we dare to advertise these prices if they
were not low?
For this week:
One solid case White Lawns (30 inches wide) at 5c., worth 8c. elsewhere
per yd.
One solid case White Lawn (34 inches wide) at 8c., former price, 12ic
per yd.
One solid case White Lawn (40 inches wide) at 10c., Eormer price, 15c,
per yd.
One solid case Check Nainsook (long fold) at 5c., worth 8c. elsewhere,
One solid case Check Nainsook (book-fold) at 8c., worth 12Jc. elsewhere,
Don’t let the grass grow under your feet before you have seen
our
White Goods Department!
Filled to repletion with the choicest novelties of the season.
The following specialties may be of interest to those who
contemplate purchasing
COMMENCEMENT DRESSES
390 yds. plain White Hemstitched Lana »"*- •*»at 30c
500 YARDS I LACS STRIFE
BORDERED LAWNS
Plain and Dotted Swiss
White and Colored Tarlatan |
Black, Cream and White Mulls at reduced prices this week.
for the price excels our
E CLOTHES
5c. PER YARD.
We
the levfer of low prices to move our
HEMSTITCHED FLOUNCES.
Laces and Embroideries this week.
Our superb 46-iu. EMBROIDERED HEMSTITCHED FLOUNCES
worth C5o. goes at 46e.
, Our 75o Flouncings at 55c.
Our $1.00 Flouncingsat 70o.
Our $1.26 Flouncings at 05c.
Onr $1.50 Flouncings at $1.20.
Our $2.00 Flouncings at $1.50.
Of all onr elegant Hemstitched and Embroidered Flounces— some
woith $3.60 and $4.00 per yard—Your choice for $2.00 this week.
NEW LACES! NEW RIBBONS'!
I . NEW PARASOLS! NEW FANS!
NEW HANDKERCHIEFS! NEW HOSIERY I
NEW CORSETS! NEW GLOVES!
We will say nothing about Silk and Wool
GRENADINES
v Except that we’ve got ’em and OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT,
but b K§k silk drapery nets and flounces
Demand especial mention.
THEY WERE NEVER 80 HANDSOME !
NEVER 80 STYLISH !
NEVER 80 LOW!
One piece BLACK FISH NETT, (all silk) in polka dot, Worth $1.00
per yd., goes this week at 60c.
One piece BLACK TOSCA NET, (all silk) plain and fignred, worth
$1.25, goes this week at 75c.
Our finest CHANTILLY NETS AND FLOUNCES worth from $2.00
to $2.50, only $1.50 per yd. this week.
We will open another case of those lovely
PINE APPLE TISSUES I
In dark, medium and light grounds with white and tinted spots and
figures at 12Jc and 15o this week.
With courteous and obliging salesmen to supply your wants, IS
IT NOT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO TRADE WITH
ei
icus, Ga.
prompt attention.
THAT THE NICARAGUAN CANAL CO
WILL MAKE OF CONGRESS
To Farther Their Cliatlo Scheme—The
Treasury to be Balded Unless Pemocrate
Prevent—The Third Party Movement in
the Sooth.
Washington, June 4.—'Tbodemocrats
Id the next bouse of representatives will
have to be well guarded all tbe time to
prevent a most glgantio attack upon tbe
treasury. Already some of tbe ablest
writers, and most widely known, have
been subsidised in favor of this scheme.
At the close of the last session of con
gress the matter was brought before it,
but only with a view of having It inau-
gurated for an organized movement this
year. Everything Is now reidy for the
raid of the Nicaraguan canal company
on the United States treasury. This
company 1* exceedingly modest, and
only asks for one hundred million dollars
of tho government’s money to build a
canal which la to be their urlvate prop
erty, and which will cost about seventy-
live million dollars to construct
The company will issue, probably,
one hundred million in stock, one hun
dred million of six per cent, first mort
gage bonds, and having secured one
hundred million dollars from the Uni
ted StateB government will construct the
Immense issue to care for, there will
never be enough over current expenses
to pay the interest on the government
loan.
And this is not even a new plan for
looting the treasury; It la precisely the
same method that was adopted by the
Union and Central Pac'fic, which haa
resulted in these roads owing the gov
ernment to-day one hundred and thirty
million dollars, which there le no pros
pect of recovering until that unknown
day arrives when the ‘'cows come
honie."
It Is now a settled fact that tbe al
liance will not organize a third party in
the south. The people there have
sense enough to understand that Sena
tor Gorman la no alarmist, and that he
la one of the wisest and most conserva
tive leaders of tbo democratic party,
When he announced, as he has done,
that there Is danger In the event of tbe
farmers forming a third party lathe
south, that the force bill will come to
the front and pass the honse. People
there aro ready to accept his word, and
to refrain from any action that would
place them in danger of federal bayo
nets, dominating the ballot box for the
purpose of producing negro and carpet
bag dominion.
Much the largest psrt of the adminis
tration is at Bar Harbor, Maine, as Mr.
Blaine's hat covers about all the bralaa
of the present booming outfit, and Mr.
Blaine has worked so hard that he Is a
very sick man, requiring absolute rest
for some months to come. We can aee
between now and October how little
Benny gets along withont any loading
strings, unless Blaine has provided
some one to take care of him whilst he
is absent. It is said that provision of
that kind has been made, and that Gen
eral Foster, a skillful diplomat and a
man of brains, is to taka charge of little
Bon during Blaine’s absence.
There seems to be some misunder
standing between Harrison and Boss
Quay. The latter has announced that
the Pennsylvania delegation will be
solid for Blaine in 181)2, with Alger oa a
second choice, and a number of repub
lican! are expressing doubts as to wheth
er little Ben can secure the delegation
from his own state,’os it Is said that
Dudley and. Houston have sharpened
their knives and are ready for tho fray,
the motto being anybody but little Ben.
Donglaaa an Leave of Absence.
Washington, June 5.—Leave of ab
sence has been granted Frederick Dong-
lais, minister to Haytl, by tbe state de
partment, with permission to visit the
United States. The application for leave
was granted about ten days ago, and Is
for tho customary period of sixty days.
It Is expected that Donglasa will arrive
lit Washington within a short time. An
officer of the state department said to
night that the department was not dis
contented or dissatisfied with Douglass'
services.
COULDNT MANAGE TUB HORSE.?.
The West Point Cavalry Drill of the Grad
noting Clou a Failure.
West Point, June 5.—The third day
of the examinations of tho oadets was
enlivened by a cavalry drill, In which
■Ixty-alx members of the first olsss par
ticipated. Capt. Louis A. Craig, senior
instructor In cavalry laotlcs, was in com
mand. Orders were given by the bugle.
The company was mounted on a mis
cellaneous collection of steeds of all col
ors,' sad of all qualities, from the spirit
ed charger to the street car horse. They
walked, trotted and cantered back and
forth In various formations, but the
grand charges that have sometimes mads
these exhibitions interesting were not
given.
The only excitement wee caused by
the hair breadth escape from instant
death of a squad of cadeta who tried to
fire over the prostrate forma of their
horses. There was a long struggle to
make them He down. When the firing
began the liorsea mado frantic efforts to
rise.
It was impossible to keep the horses
down, and the inanwuvre was abandon
ed. (It was generally considered the
tbelmorest cavalry drill seen at West
l’olft in years.
e five highest- In the graduating
class are Johns. Sewell of Kentucky,
Spencer Crosby, ut large, Charles P,
Echols of Alabama, James F. Mclndce
[aryland and J. J. Marrow of Penn
sylvania. The cadet who atands high
est tactics, Charles D. Mine of Vir
ginia, is almost at the foot of his claaa la
studies, so that be is an Illustration of
the fact that the best students, are not
always the beet soldiers, Hines also
stands highest In discipline, but Is only
fifty-nine In drawing and flfty-elx In
llosopby. To morrow afternoon there
11 bo an Infantry drill.
CAUGBT IN CORD ELK.
CSRDKLB,
meeting wblc
at the Baptist
The flaws of a Day lnth#“MagleCllyoftlw
Pines.”
f
June S.—The protracted
whleh has been in progress here
Baptist ehnreh for tbe past month
closed last night with tbe baptism of
thirteen new members In the new bap
tismal fount In tho ohurch. This sacred
and Impressive service was witnessed by
a very large congregation,
Tbe (that f-rr lbs~ s fft»i1tH$’l‘’f rr ft
male college” are being prepared and it
is expected that they will soon be ac
cepted, and that ihe building will be
pushed as. rapidly as possible. . We have
just been informed that tbe presidency
of this college has boon offered to Dr. E,
R. Carswell, and that be is thinking fav
orably of accepting It and making Cor-
dele his home.
Dr. Carswell, with bis ability and In
fluence at the head of the college, there
con be little doubt of Ite being a grand
success.
Dr. Easom is receiving his stock of
drugs and having ‘his laboratory fitted
up in the opera honse block.
That popular and veteran travelling
man, Mr. L. M. Cassells, of Atlanta,
spent yesterday in Cordele.
A. T. Curry goes to Thomasvllle to
day to look after some real estate mat
ters. Notwithstanding tho scarcity of
money, there are demands for Cordele
property from other sections.
Capt. D. J. McRae has commenced tbe
erection of a handsome two-story resi
dence near thiTCanon house, which will
be one of the best in town.
Work on tbe sewers, and hotel, racket
store and other buildings Is progressing
rapidly.
DEVOTION TO DUTY
CRAZED BY LIQUOR
COMPELS REV THOS F. GAILOR TO
DECLINE THE BI8HOPRIC,
Sewanee, Tcnn., Junes.—[Special.]—
The Rev. Thomas Gatlor has crowned
his long list of sacrifices for Sewanco by
refusing the blihoprlo of Georgis.
Sewanee la beside Itself with excite
ment thli morning. Bells have been
ringing and the most uncontrollable
emotion Is exhibited on sll sides.
The students and people vie with
each other In attempting to ihow their
love and devotion to the one man who
haa thought it worth while to lay hts
life and talents upun the altar of Se-
wanee’e good.
With tears In his eyes Mr. Gallor told
the boys this morning thst there were
some things that were greater than
wealth, than honor, than ambition, and
prayed God they would learn that
lesson.
He said, too, that the people of tbe
south would find out that Sewanee and
her alms were worthy of being nacrl
flood for.
The exercises of the university have
been suspended, and to-ntght three-hun
dred students will give vent to their
feelings and testify their abiding love
for a man whoae heart beats so warmly
for them.
Georgia baa lost a noble bishop, but
tbe University of the South has gained a
splendid future.
Mr, Gallor’s letter to tbe committee,
declining to accopt the bishopric on the
ground that be felt that duty demanded
him to remain at Sewanee, has Just
been forwarded. A convention to elect
hie successor will probsbly be held In
Atlanta within three weeks.
The Cnrions Case of a Four-ysar-old Child
Paulina the Doctor,.
Again They Arm Victorious.
Montezuma, Jane 5.—Our base ball
nine scored the fourth victory yes
terday evening over neighboring towns.
Tho defeated party returned home, to
Oglethorpe, thie time. Tho latter place
had received some imported help bat it
was not enough. Tbe score stood
cloven to nine and Montezuma was en
titled to another Inning that the visitors
did not caro to play.
l’e»chet Golni Forward.
Maesuali.ville, Ga., June 5.—[Spe
cial.]— Mr. S. H. Humph has shipped a
Urge lot of wild goose plums to New
York, and another fine lot or applet to
Jacksonville, Fla. To-day Mr. J. U.
Slappey, of the firm of
pey A FredeHekJshlpped aid
tine Alexander
Another Atlanta Failure.
Atlanta, June 5.—[Speolol.J— 1 The
drug store of Charles A. Smith, 108
Whitehall street, wot closed by the
■beriff at noon to-day.
The closing of the store was caused by
the foreclosure of a mortgage On the
stock by Mr. Walter R. Brown as attor
ney for Mr. Dan S. Goldsmith.
Tbe mortgage amounted to $1,018.96
principal, $373 lntereet and $101.99 attor
ney’s fees.
Betides this there are* several other
mortgages on tbe itock recorded at the
courthouse.
The asset# are thought to bo about
$4,000, bat the Uablllttes are not known
any st-
Boys Attempt to Wrack a Train.
Watibdury, Jam 3.—Early this
morning the police arretted Charles
Donnolly, aged 11, and Michael Mc
Laughlin, aged 10, on tbo charge of at
tempting to wreck tho noon express on
the New York and New England road
yesterday. The boys confessed, saying
that they only did it for fnn. In the
police court this morning they were scut
to tho reform school until they are 21
years of age.
Whiskey Bar rad in Alaska.
San Fbancisco, June 5.—In order to
keep whiskey away from tbe natives of
Alaska orders have been given by the
collectors to commanders of revenue
Bear and Rath to seize all
such quantity aa may bo
Portland, Conn., June 5.—Four-
year-old Jamos Smedlck of this place Is
a puzzle to the physicians who have ex
amined him, none of whom has evor
seen a similar case. James Is emulat
ing snakes and toads by. shedding his
skin though he docs not come out of It
all at one time. Tbo epldormis
comes off In largo flakes, some
times three Inches square. Six
weeks ago the trouble was first noticed
by bis parents, and local physicians
were celled In. They treated him for
an aggravated attack of eczema, but as
the peeling continued and the pieces of
skin beoame largor physicians were
brought down from the Hartford hos
pital. To-day the skin Is fairly falling
off from all parte of his body and head,-
and almoyt without any effort. A very
thin and tender akin Is underneath,
which appears to inflame on tbe slight
est friction. After tbo Hartford doc
tors examined him they took photo
graphs of his logs and body, which will
he used to Illustrate an article in ono of
the medical journals.
The Woman Unction Did It.
Atlanta, Juno 5,—[Special.]—The
Young People’# society of tbe First
Baptist ohurch has probably gone to
'pieces.
The rock upon whlob it stranded waa
the vexed queatlon of whether or not
women should be allowod to preach.
This question has been disturbing tbe
First Baptist for some time.
Last night tbe Young People’s society
held a meeting, and President A. E.
Wheeler resigned, and then tbe other of
ficer* resigned.
Mr. Wheeler has been known alt
along as a morabor of the ohurch who
waa opposed to Dr. Hawthorne’s views.
The society is now without any
officers.
Hr. Wheeler was seen by a reporter
thli morning. lie refused to say any
thing about the matter.
Going to Indianapolis.
Macon, Go., Junes.—[Special.]—Tho
Southern Cadeta have atlast determined
to enter tbe inter-etate Infantry drill at
Indltntpolls, and will go there dlroot
from the Chlcamauga encampment Jane
30th. The greatest enthusiasm prevails
here since the oompany decided to go,
and inbscriptlons to the fund
to defray their expenses are pouring in,
nearly $600 having been subscribed In
a few hours to-day. The company will
drill nightly until their departure to tho
state encampment and to IndianapoUs.
S*jH| Brass wick’s School* Close.
HhuN'Wic k, June 5.—The closing ex
ercises of tho public schools are now In
progress.
The administration of Superintendent
Orr has been a most successful one, and
since be has been In office tbe schools
have been brought to high standi
enliven 8L
and Cumberland. Many improvemi
A Young Man Commits a Forgery and
Goes to Prison.
Atlanta, Junes.—[Special.]—I'arney
Coleman, a young man at ono time a
member of one of our leading ohurclios,
waa locked up at the station houso to
day on a charge of forgery.
Hie story la a sad one, and is but an
other illustration of the fate of tbe yonng
man who tarrlee with the wine eup until
bis eyes are red.
Coleman was arrested by Detectives
Crlm and Cason for having forged the
name of J. D. Brady to an order on Mr.
Joeeph Thompson for n quart of whis
key.
The officers say he has been carrying
on thli business of obtaining whiskey
In this way from Mr. Thompson for
some time.
From what they any the yonng man
seem* possessed of an Insane thirst for
whisky and will sacrifice anything to ,
satisfy that thirst.
On visiting tbe place where be hoards,
tho detectives were informed that ho
took a new set of knives and forks from
his mother a short time slnoo and pawn
ed them for onough money with'which
to bny a quart of whiskey.
Detective Crlm saye tho young man's
mother presented him with a soat and
vest costing $?t), but after wearing them
a few days lie sold them for $1.25 and
Invested the money in whiskey.
When the cell door dosed upon him
this morning, he remarked to tho officer
In a grim sort of a way. “Well I guess
1’mgonoupfor awhile anyhow unless
tbe boys stlok to me and help me out of
this.”
Coleman’s case Is a sad one, as ho is
very yonng, and but a year or two ago
bad the brightest prospects before him.
DEATH OF CHAUNCEY VIBUARD.
B* DIM In Maeon at tbe Home of Ills Son-
In-Law, Major Palmer.
Macon, June 6.—[Special.]—To-day
shortly past noon Mr. Cbauncey Vlb-
bard died at the resldenco of his son-in-
law, HaJoifA. C. Palmer, tho treasurer
of tho Macon and Northern railroad. He
haa been slok some time with consump
tion. Hthe deceased had lived until
November next ho would havo Icon 80
years old.
He was a nntlvc of New York state’
and once stood very high in political and
railway circles. He was formerly super
intendent of tho Now Y’ork Central rail
road, and In 1801 was elected to congress
from New York. Ono of the largest
boats now plying tho Hudson .rlvor Is
named the “Cbauncey Vlhhard,” in hon
or of Urn deceased.
The subject of tills notlco was a man
of high personal character, lino Intelli
gence and most nffublo manners. His
wife died in 1684. A daughter, Mrs.
Palmer, and two s ins reside In New
York City, and the other In Saratoga
county, New York.
Tho deceased came to Macon Inst Octo
ber. Major Palmer is now waiting tele
graphic Information as to whero the
body shall be buried. Tho remains may
bo sent to Schenectady, New Y’ork, and
laid hesldo tbe grave of Mrs. Vlbbnrd,
wife of tho deceased.
k for Two Mill
one 5.—The
t Calumet i
No-allowed Ills False Teeth.
llAUTroiin, Juno5.—Yesterday Daniel
Crtfnln, aged 52 years, sat In tho tele
phone office In conversation with tho
chief operator, Joseph Rohan. While
thus engaged Mr. Cronin laughed at a
joke which was made by his companion.
He loaned back In his chair, threw his
head back, aad Indulged in hearty
laughter, Ai be did so n small plato
with two fain teeth, which wero on tho
upper jaw, fell from Its position and
■lipped down bis throat. Ho mado
several attempts to ralso it, but without
success. Dr. O. C. Smith mado ah ex
amination, but could find no traco of the
missing teeth. Last night Cronin was
on duty as uauaL Ho said that bo felt a
lamp In hi* aide, and that his heart pal
pitated more than it should. Tho medi
cal men of this city are of the opinion
that Cronin's death li only a question of
time,
Mercer Commencement.
Macon, Jnno 6.—[8pecIaL]—For the
first time since the organization of tbe
college, the freshman clasa this year as
sist In the commencement exercises.
Their part In tbe programme consists in
a declamation contest for a medal. This
entertainment takes place to-morrow
evening at 8 o’clock, in the handsome
new chapel recently erected on tbo col
lege property.
To-morrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock, on
campus of Mercer, tbe senior class con
duct their annual class tree exercises.
This entertainment Is the most Interest
ing occasion of all the commencement
and should be largely attended. The
following is the programme:
Orator—W. W. Carter, Prophet—W.
ilpatrick, Historian—J. 11. Cante-
it—B. R. Jarrell.
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