Georgia Historic Newspapers

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AMERICAS TIMES-RECORDER.
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1891.
NUMBER 55
Don’t 8tand on Your Head to Read this.
NEHW UOY DEECCUS NI GNIDAER SIHT, UOY
LLIW EVAH DNUOF TUO TAHT EHT TSEB ECALP
OT YUB LLA SDNIK FO YRD SDOOG, GNIHTOLC,
CTE. SI TA
GEO. D. WHEATLEY’S,
Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.
Would we dare to advertise these prices if they
were not low?
For this week:
One solid case White Lawns ( 3 <> inches wide) at 5c., worth 8c. elsewhere
per yd. ,
One solid case White Lawn (31 inches wide) at 8c., former price, 12{c
per yd.
One solid case White Lawn (io 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 12k. elsewhere,
Don’t let the grass grow under your feet before yon 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
350 ids. plain White Hemstitched Lawns <«>»«,»».,..> at 30c
500 YARDS I LACE STRIPS
BORDERED LAWNS
Plain and Dotted Swiss
White and Colored Tarlatan | s
Black, Cream and White Mulls at reduced prices this week.
WASHINGTON WAIFS.
THIS FULL PROGRAMME
ANOTHER SCANDAL CASTS ITS SHAD
OW OVER LITTLE BENNIE.
“RuMle” Wants a Grip foil of Pa**««—
No Appointments Announced Vet-No
Truth In the Statement Says Secretary
Gardner.
at 12 1-2
at 1<B
at 20
at 25
No Goods for the price excels our
COLORED CHEESE) CLOTHS
All Shades, ONLY 5c. PER YARD.
Wo will apply the lever of low prices to move our
HEMSTITCHED FLOUNCES.
Laces and Embroideries this week.
Our superb 46-in. EMBROIDERED HEMSTITCHED FLOUNCES
worth 65c. goes at 45c.
Our 75o Flounciugs at 55c.
Our 91-00 Flounciugs at 70c.
Our 11.25 Flounciugs at 95c.
Our 91.50 Flounciugs at 91.20.
Our 92.00 Flouncings at 91.50.
Of all our elegant Hemstitched and Embroidered Flounces—some
worth $3.60 and $4.00 per yard—Your choice tor $2.00 this week.
NEW LACES I NEW RIBBONS!
NEW PARASOLS! NEW FANS I
NEW HANDKERCHIEFS! NEW HOSIERY!
NEW CORSETS! NEW GLOVES!
We will say nothing about Silk and Wool
GRENADINES
Except that we’ve got 'em and OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT,
BUT B ?i!gK bilk DRAPERY NETS AND FLOUNCES
Demand espedal mention.
THEY WERE NEVER 80 HANDSOME t
NEVER 80 8TYLI8H !
NEVER 80 LOW!
One piece BLACK FISH NET, (all silk) in polka dot. Worth $1.00
per yd., goes this week at 60c.
One pioce BLACK TOSCA NET, (all silk) plain and figured, 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 12k and 15o this week.
With courteous and obliging salesmen to supply your Wants, IS
IT NOT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO TRADE WITH
Geo.D.Wheatlev,
Lericus, Ga.
P. S.—All orders by mail receive personal and prompt attention.
Samples furnished on application.
Washington, June 0 — Another sc in
dal has cast the shadow of its black
wings over this immaculately clean and
honest administration.
Russell Harrison, not satisfied with
travelling more than nine thousand miles
free, with meals and refreshments in
cluded, on the “President’s Special,"
has, been writing letters to railroad man
agers in all sections of the country beg
ging for free posses for himself over
their roadi. Bah! It It almost as nau
seating spectacle at that dally presented
by the prince of Wales in a London
court room, who he appears as a witness
against one of his friends charged with
obeating at cards. Since wMn has be
ing the president’s son given a man the
right to ride free on railroads while or
dinary folks have to buy ^jgkets? In
furnishing the president
equipped special train free,
of course had a right to expj
official favors, bnt what
Harrison give them in ret u
furnished blmb
It was positively stated
the attorney general that
the new land court would
this week, but as t the wi
without the announcemei
though there bad been
where in the programing
Secretary Gardner, of the National As
sociation of Democratic clubs, whose
word always “goes" here, where every
body knows him, says there was not a
particle of truth In the ■Rment pub- .
lished that the executive w^mmlttoo of u
whiob he is a membor, had met in New
York last week for the purposed! Room
ing Senator Gorman for the presidential
nomination, ne says: ‘'ll have no
recollection of that gentleman’s name
being called, and I know that there was
nothing said or done thatveo;
strued os intended to oreal
Of the Entertainment Tuesday Night for
the Library Benefit.
Following is the programme of the
much talked of entertainment which
will be given for the benefit of the
Amertcus Library Association at the
opera house Tuesday night A perusal
of this programme Is enough to guaran
tee a crowded bouse, to say nothing of
the help that will be extended a good
cause by such a house. The pro
gramme Is:
Overture—Orchestra,
quartette—“My Ow-i Native!*!»; ''■ -M.ssnt
Anttlutti, Warren, When toy an.l I'anlel.
Tati It's u —r-bskesperlan tor rat*. Osllerv—
1 bhnkeayearo. 2 i.atly Macbeth, :t Cleopatra,
4 Ophtlla, 5 The Ah'-ose, U Auute Boluyn, 7
He-o.8 Qusen C dhcrlue, 9 Form., 10 Lady
Grey, 11 Helen.
Duet—Plsno and Cornet.. -Mrs. Lamar and
Prof. Kaler. *
Vocal Solo—Ml*s lbb Prince.
Tableau—Abou Ben Adhein'e Dream
q larlette— 'a Farmer's Life for Me."—
MiaaGranherry, Mre. Callaway, Mr, Cxllx
way and Mr- Honmday.
Duet—Plan.) and Violin —Mrs. Lamar and
Prof Kilter.
Cha-ac'er Sop. Mr. Charlie Hawkins
Music Orchestra
TIIE ELEVATOR FARCE.
Mr.• v ■........Mr.Tlwromyiswkes
Mi-sMlElicrls..'.Ml*. JffiMToSlrJRnon
yfrtbu.m .v.„. A.l)r. Eldndge
I .awton ; ■” • ■ Wm V' ’ In ' ro * < *
.Miller..
ITcsn Hnrrdld
kMI'ler...;....**..Sadie Babeoek
*Cur.. on..V....7)Wr;V. T. i
week by
in favor of Gorman or anytfther inaiftL, „ , ,
the presidency. Hi. the ibJe»pO(ttfN • Mr. CumminTf. » ««•
association of club, to work for thTroorH and “ vor r P°P“ lar wlth hl,to
nominated by the party, not to take,'
partin their nomination., ltco-p|
with the regular organization ‘of tFe
democratic party in suppWS df demo
cratic mon and demooraticsmeasuras. It
docs not prescribe platfqggf ybnt ratifies
them; it does not nominate candidates,
kut support* thorn. It. national con
vention. are, in virturo of Its conitltu-
flon, held after, not before, no&lBatlng
conventions, and the attempt to make
it appear that this little business meet
ing was in the nature of a Gorman boom
Is unjust and without good reason."
Representative HoCreary of Kentuoky,
Ipcnt several days here this week. He
It a close political student, and seldom
makes • mistake In bis predictions. He
thinks It will not be very long before
United State* senators and the president
And vice-president will be elected by a
direct vote of the people, and he la In
favor of both changes. Gov. McCreary
says he feels oertsln that if ‘ Mr. Cleve
land, has the slightest doubt of his abill
tytocairy New York he will not be a
candidate next year.
Commissioner Raum has been absent
from hie office all thle week, and it ap
pears to be generally understood tbst be
Is swsy arranging Us private business
for the purpose of having something to
do when he retires from the pension
office, as If is thought he will certainly
do at orbefore the close of the present
fiscal year.
Representative Bynum is here gather
ing fact* for an article he proposes wrl
ting for one of the reviews, showing thst
the much talked about reciprocity
agreement with Brazil is exactly the re
verse of beneficial to the United States.
The committee of artists appointed to
examine the designs and models submit
ted to the director of the mint for oar
metal currency, threw them all out—
about 300—because none of them were
any Improvement on the present design
of the coins. .
Secretary Foster is In New York con
sulting bis Wall street friends about the
announcement he baa made of the ex-
tenaion of the 41-3 per cent, bonds
which mature next September at 11-3
per cent, interest
to smile at his adversary witli a bill file
‘ >aded down with bills which had failed
to pass. Subsequently there were apol-
sneT
yF.Oi.mrn ...Mill Mattie Boons
M#Crasliaw,. 1 ‘:..*4L» — ,.Mra. Callaway
"Wwemls. Br......f^TT*.Mr. K.T. Byrd
unis, Jr. Mr. Chaife An.ley
Campbell Mr. Harrolil Boone
'alor Boy Mr. Trunk Hnrr.ild
)1r William’s Brother a Marylan^Varmer.
Baltimore, June '(T—Archibald P.
Gordon Cumming, a brother of Sir Wil
liam Gordon Gumming, is a farmer near
Sykesville, Carroll county, Md., a little
town about thirty miles from this city,
ShoqU Sir William dio without heirs Mr.
ig would succeen *to the title
and-ostate. s.C
So came to the UnltedJ/fctatea abdkt
fifteen yrfars ago and bouifntf a farm dofir
Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, but
stayed there only a couple of ydars,
when hi bought liit^jiresont* place. He
married a Miss 4mes, of Wasligffion,
and tiUojr havwgie ciiid, a
ye?™.s Jfc {
ag is a fino looking ma
very popular with his Neighbors.
He is a friend of Robert Garret and tho
families of ffiStlvi
quontly. His homo
for visiting among jiaval officers
Would not Leave Her Hatband.!
State
Spmxgfikld, Ill., June 0.—In tho
senate chamber yesterday Senators
Campbell and Allen got into a dispute
over a bill. Allen said bo did not want
to have anything to do witli Campbell,
and the latter gave the retort discour
teous. Then Campbell banged Allen In
tho left car, and Allen reached fora
mucilage bottle but missed it, and had ings for men and he is anxious to give
13#l{esorole street, udlllHxl *tffioko and
gave the alarm. There was great excite
ment among the tenonte when the fire
beosme known, and a number in their
anxiety to escape tumbled down the
stain while others jumped out of the
lower window* to the ground. Mrs.
Wehrmutb was unsblo to get hor hus
band oat, though she tried to carry him,
and she soresmed for help. Before It
came Wehrmnth wse almost suffocated
His wife remained with him until both
were rescued.
Tbs Brlxand Deadlock.
Constantinople, June 0.—nerr Is
rael, the Berlin banker, who, with other
passengers, was recently seized by
brigands on a railway train between tbla
city and Adrlanople, and who was lent
to this city to secure a ransom of $40,000,
has, by order of the brigands, deposited
the ransom with tho Austrian Consul at
Klrk-Kilisala. The brigands have re
fused to treat any farther for the release
of the prisoners unless the troops cease
to menace the communications betVeen
the brigands and the f riendi of the pris
oners.
Dropped Dead.
Kllavillk, Ga., June 0.—Mr. Joaeph
Raborn, aged about 65 years, died sud
denly this afternoon.
Mr. ltaborn waa a hard working man,
and by rigid economy bad accumulated
a competency. He haa been in bad
health fora number of yean. It la
■opposed he died of hesrt disease.
The Haberdashery.
Amerious can boast one of the neatest
and best stocked haberdssherie* south
of. Atlanta, and one of the most ex ten-
site. Of course this means Ballsy’s
llsberdsshery, where you can get any
thing you need In gents’ furnishing
goods, and at prices that are fair.
Mr. Bailey takes up a column In this
paper telling of how ho lias come down
to “hard time prices," Ho has a hand
some and extensive stock of all furnish
AMERICUS’ SCHOOLS
WILL BEGIN THEIR COMMENCE
MENT EXERCISES TO-DAY.
The Commencement Sermon Before the
Graduating Class by Her. A, B. Camp
bell, D. D.—The Programme for This
Week—Graduating Exercise..
SWEPT BV A STORM.
A Cyclone Blows Down Kau.es and Rains
Crops In Lee County.
Tho day that so many expectant young
souls have been longing after, has at
last dawned.
This morning at 11 o’olock, at the
Methodist oburch, which for occasions
of tills kind offers the most convenient
auditorium, there will assemble a vast
concourso of delighted parents and clti
zenaand eager pupils of the best public
schools Id the state to listen with rover-
ence to the words of wisdom contained
lu the commencement sermon to be de
livered before the graduating olass, the
teachers of the public schools, and tlie
board of eduoation, by the Rev. A. fi.l' it,
Campbell, D. D., one of the ableat and
most eloquent divines in the common
wealth of Georgia.
The text off the sermon la found In
Ecclesiastes, chapter xli, verses 13.13,
“And furth£,;by these, mY&tt b^ad*
monished VM making maqy lxliks tlfero
is po end; and much fftmdyft a woi^qj^packs of tbe storm was not very
jHhoftheflesji. - ....
“Let us bear tbe conclusion 7>f tW
whole mstte.r: Fear God, and keep his
ooftmandment/f(|t this Is the whBli
duty of man. ’.fi. T. '1 t
‘.’For God shall bwng every ,jvork Into
judgment, .with every secret thli
whether it be good, ‘ dr whether It'
evil.”
Tholnisiest bee-hive to be found
witlilg » radius of 50Q miles
any*
arotjjfc public-schools of Amerious
To-morrow and Tuesday and Wednet-
ib graduating
lywrittekttc-
end is not
reached, for on Thursday, which Is tbe
public day for all the schools, the little
ones and tho big onea will Jiave to an
swer ono thousand' anil'' on questions
that mSytfe propbudded tfjpbmbythe
fraction
It Is well It Is so, for our ohildren who
are very soon to take our places must
learn their school lessons well In order
to manage the affairs of this state with
ability when fathers and mothers are
i/$ h j»ay 'i .!•» i. ijti aw.
a- ■ J. rauss.y vvaswu rauivio »*•« 'Bvvmvio «« IT)' U1 IUU WIU JitUIUUy, ilUil Wi/llllll
i|»t.oachT|tli*ClMfi|^o\wiiio6oM^o. hol'd and' guld& thVwill begin overhauling and repairing t
nB 4 , ^ l f ^ orite Wi’llmlifiJ# t<P. V • I same on Monday. Work will bo push
rapidly and It Is expeoted the laund
will open tho firat of tho foilowln
week.
Oi* Friday night tbe graduating olass
,alliClva O-line cjlibfflim In'the opera
■jfioiSR exfreisNs will consist' of
rocitatlohs and rtAling of compesitlons
by members of the graduating class.
Twenty-three young ladies and.goifiig
Jjecntlcfu.on wlli reccivo diploma*.,from
p k|E||| {lie hand of tho president of thoTioard
iviihisv^te ofcducation;and tho oxorciscs will close
Nbw Yobk, June 6.—Two three story
frame tenement houses in the rear of
Nos. 130 and 138 Heserole street, Brook
lyn, inhabited by twelve .families, were'
destroyed by fire early tbit mpr
Baitbazur Wehrmuth,
who Decupled apnrtmontswl
on the fl^st floor of the rear ^piiso No. with tbe prettiest drMl ■ that could be
imagined for tho qjlmax of ^hqj|gqs[oj
exercises of the sohools.
By way of statistics it might be stated
that our schools have had the most pros
perous year Qf their exislcnco.
’‘The enrollment oV^Upil* /was 1,517—
T15 boys and 803 girls, whilo tho attend
ance at no ttpu (liiriqaffijrf year was less
than 1,100. 'jji: TimWs^.i
also to find out about the per cerff of
dally attendanoe and other things, but
at headquarters It was Informed that
such Items could no be accurately given
before the ibool bad been closed.
Enough, however, woe learned under
that bead to say that all averages are aa
good If not better thin before.
The schools were remarkably blessed
daring the put year. No deatha oc
curred among the pupils, and no prevail
ing sickness of any consequence Inter
fered with the attendance upon tbe
schools,
All In all, the last school year was a
grand success.
A cyclone patted near Leesburg Fri
day afternoon. Thefurions wind was
accompanied by rain and hail and much
damage resulted, A mule and a horse
belonging to Bill Daniel, colored, were
struck by lightning and Instantly killed.
Tbe band* who were plowing them lmd
scarcely bitched the animals under a
tree and ran In a house near by when
tbe fatal stroke came. Lightning also
struck the colored Methodist church,
tearing tbe froDt end entirely away.
The barn, stockade and gin house of
Mr. R. A. Forrester were blown down,
os was a large amount of fencing on his
place. Watermelons, ootten and corn
on the places of Mcurs^ B. Martin,
J. W, Forrester, A. B.-'Duncan, It. A.
Forrester and D. A. Rtgan, which wove
in the path qf the itorm, were well nigh
" by the ball, winds and rain,
s in tho traok of the storm were
completely blocked by fallen timbers.
Mr. R. A. Forrester’s stock had a narrow
escape from being eangbt under the
falling stockade. It was hailing
when the negroes got In from the fie
that they Bed the males to a fence i
sought shelter for thoraselvos Instead of
taking time to turn tho mulos in the luL
wlddoand the element! seem to have
spent most of their fury on tho place
ink Ready for Business.
*J\inericus people wlll be glad to 1
thytsMy Amerious laundry will soon 1
gin equation, and that after this week
they mil not have to send noi
clothes off to be laundried.
Another thing of interest is tho
that when tbe Amerious laundry
■tart up again It will bo one of tho
In the state and that the work
will be turned out by It will bo the oqua
of that to be bad at any laundry south.
The stockholders of tho Amo
Steam Laundry met last evening at t
Allen House and effected a pern
organisation.
1 he directors elected were 0. It. 1
ley, Ben Campbell, Liston Cooper,,
Montgomery and W. H. Cook, of which
Mr. Whitley will act as president and
Mr. Montgomery a* secretary and f
rer. J
The company purchased tho machin
ery of the old laundry, and workmen
Bracks Is all Kiiht.
obk, June 6.—The Churchman
• that Ur. Brooks, having been
by 37 dioc*»es,ls elected to tbe
Kxamlninf Teachers*
Mr. W. S. Moore, tho county school
commissioner of Sumter county held an
examination yesterday. About fifteen
white and twenty colored teachers were
examined. Judging from some of the
papers, several of the applicants will get
good grades. .
The teachers of county schools are
Improving from year to year. They are
talking about organising a county teach
er’s fnstltnte, and there Is no doubt that
with the help of our city teachers they
will be able to form a successful associa
tion that could not be excelled In any
other county In the state.
Bargains for Bnjers.
Once you have takeq a look through
Wheatley A Ansley*s handsome stock
you will involuntarily say that to tell
half of the bright, attractive and useful
articles, tho very latest os to styles end
tho lowost as to prlco which tbla firm
has in its largo building would - require
an addition to tlio pages of Tbe Tjmks-
lUCORDERf
Klsewhere this morning, however,
these gentlemen offer some bargains ex- reporter
Fell DTlng In the Street.
About 8 o’clock Friday night parties
who live in tho neighborhood of Nancy
Sohell’s, a colored woman who lived
Forsyth street, wore startled by ale
cry for help which reached tlioir can
They were more surprised when the
ntnnd found Nnnoy Schell lyim
out in tho bard rain in a dying
tlon.
Tlio woman was carried to her
whore she was on hor way after Iiavi
finished her work. A physician
aDd lie did everything possible,
the oldjvomau'H heart was dan|
id, and after lingering nearly
,e ennrOMffitS she died.
A telegram was sent Goorgo Schell,
tho dead woman's son, who is In Massa
chusetts, about his mother’s death and
ho wired back $18 to help pay the
burial expenses.
Nancy Schell had been looking and
seeming unusually well lately and It was
great a surpriso to thoso who heard yes
terday that she wag dead.- ■
The Reason Why.
“Amos J. Cummings, tbe versatile
congressman who lately visited Amcri-
cus, says that the best banquet lie ever
sat to was the barbecue that was given
In his honor by friends of Americas in
the Magnolia Ucil. The lion. Cummings
likes what is fat and runs over one’s
lip*. That is the reason why ho is ail
right, and in favor of Crisp for speaker
of tho houso ol representatives.”
That is what a gcutlcman of sound
judgement said to Times-Bei liiukii re
porter yesterday.
They Regret His Decision.
Several prominent Americus Episco
palians expressed themselves yesterday
as greatly regretting Mr. Gailor’s refusal
to accept the position of bishop of the
diocese of Georgia, which was unani
mously tendered him. Though they re-M
grotted his not coming to Goorgia they
could notbutbe pleased with the sacrifice
mado by Mr. Gailor in the Interest of
tho Sewanee college.
It is probable that Hr. Williams of
Augusta will now be chosen bishop of
this diocese.
you, reader, the beneflt of some of his
wonderfully low prices. Give him a
call.
Episcopal Church.
Rev. W. R. Dye, of Eatew, Ala., will
bold service* and preach to-day at Cal- money by using the Information
vary church, this city,
HU School to Cloce.
Prof. W. S. Howell was in the city
yesterday. Ills flourishing school, which
is situated near the railroad and about
live miles north of the city, at Long
Branch, will clorfe on the 19th hast,
when a fine exhibition will he held.
OBDBBtoi
traordfnary for Monday and Tuesday.
See what they offer and save yoi
tited, 1
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