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AMERICAS VOLUME 1 I AMERICUS. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1891. NUMBER 7% The Reason Why Many find it difficult to present a creditable appearance and live within their means, is mainly due to the fact that they pay such high prices to so-called “merchant tailors,” while THE SAME QUALITY OF CLOTH, THE SAME GRADE OF WORK, AND THE SAME STYLE OF CUT Can bo obtained from our Ready Made Clothing Department -AT- LESS THAN HALF THE COST! You are losing the benefits of modern business methods if you fail to AVAIL YOURSELF OF OUR SERVICES. 0 Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.' For dress occasions what could be more appropriate than our elegant styles in Prince Albert or Three Button Cutaway Suits? We have them in all the newest shades and fabrics, (such as Corkscrew, Clay Diagonal, Granite, Tricot ana fancy figured suitings) and WARRANT OUR SUITS FROM $16.50 TO $20.00 Equal, IF NOT SUPERIOR, in fit and finish to any “tailor made’ suits in tho market for just TWICE THE MONEY. For everyday wear we would suggest one of our nobby Sack or Cut away Suits ranging in price from $3.00 to $15.00 per suit. Our line consists of IMPORTED CASSIMERES, CHEVIOTS, BLACK THIBET CLOTHS, SERGES, FLANNELS, ETC. In a word OUR STOCK WILL PLEASE, and OUR LOW Prices astonish YOTJ• A WORD ABOUT ODD PANTS. You need a pair to "tide you over” so to speak. Our assortment is ENORMOUS and our PRICES ARE RIGHT. They range from $1.40 to $7.50 per pair, and cannot be had e.sewhere for less than double the price. Here is a hot weather item worthy your notice: 75 Summer Coats at 50c., reduced from $1.00. 100 Summer Coats at 75c., reduced from 1.50. 80 Summer Coats and Vests, $1.40 reduced from $2.50. All kinds of Summer Coats and Vests, suchkfts. “Drapotes,” Sicilians, Serges, Alpacas, Pongees, Poptins, TO CLOSE OUT STRICTLY.AT COST. OUR LINE OF BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING, Alwaws the best in the city, will be found of interest to all in need of CHEAP but NEAT AND SERVICEABLE SUITS We still hLow a good lino of thpso HANDSOME SAILOR SUITS, (sizes 9 to 14 years) universally admitted stich excellent value for $ I 50 per suit. SHIRTS! SHIRTS!! SHIRTS!!! “OUR LEADER” at 50c is the best unhindered shirt on earth for the price, while (pr dress, what shirt can compare with Messrs Cluett, Coon & Co.'s Superb “MONARCH SHIRTS.” Laundried 1® Unlaundried , Our “Monarch Puffs” have taken the trade by storm. WE’VE GOT ’EM! AT Kilt hi I V— 1 Gents’ Belfast Linen Collars.) Any siz I ibw PI LI —Gents’ Belfast Linen Cuffs, j desired, All Grades. All Sizo*. Our imported Balbriggan, Lisle Thread and Muslin Underwear will add to your comfort during the hot season. m LEA® IN FINISHING GOODS ' Onr prices cannot be excelled in the state. NEW NECKWEAR, NEW SOCKS, NEW BANDKERCH1BFS, NEW SUSPENDERS, & HARRIS’ WIRE BUCKLE SUSPENDERS, tho be«t thing In tho market. Everv pair WABBANTED FOB TWO TEARS, or 1 your money refunded. (§p NIGHT ROBES FOR GENTLEMEN OUR CAREFUL ^EC^RBA LB p OUB SEASONABLE GOODS ’ '•* All appeal to Your Reason, Your Pocket, and Your Health. Cannot you save something by trading with GEO. D. WHEATLEY THE ELECTRIC LINE. AN OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE STREET RAILWAY SERVICE thmi May Not Arise Again In Years, If Ever—Let the Matter be Taken up With the Good Judgment And Vim of Amerl* ens People. The difference between success and failure consist* in taking advantage of opportunity presented. Right now there lies before the people of Amerlcu* an opportunity to secure a street railway service on term* that may not arise again in year*, If ever. Now let the matter be taken up with that good judgment and vim with whloh Amcricus people go at everything, and let’* *ee If aomething for the good of thla city cannot be brought about By the sale of Saturday, a bonded debt debt of $50,000 at six per cent ha* been wiped out againat the atreet railway, and the property itanda to-day free from Incumbrance. To be frank, however, It Is not the opinion of The Times-Uecorder that a purchase of the property at the price named, $35,000, is what our people pur pose to do just now. Our people are not ready to assume suoh a debt in the present financial stringency, and while so many other calls upon their resources are being made. There is, however, a lion upon wlileh something can be done, and that too In a way that will probably satisfy the own. ers of the road, and at the same timo give Americus a street railway In opera tion. The suggestion made by Tiie Times- Recokoek Is substantially as sollows Let a local syndicate be formed at once to lease the line upon tho basts of a guarantee to the ownora of say $1,500 per annum or 5 per cent upon an estimated value of $30,000. Then let the syndicate take a twelve months' option for the purchase of the property at the expiration of the year’s' lesse, at sueh price as may be agreed upon. The syndicate will then have assumed only the obligation of $1,500 lived charges, or half that attached to the road before the sale. Then with six light ears with a fifteen minute achedule, enough patronage ean be depended on, to cover fixed eHarges and current expenses. To give prellmlnry assurance of this 1st the syndicate oanvass the city for enough purchasers of monthly, quarterly or annual tickets to cover these ex penses. Twenty-five men could, no doubt, be found who would agree to pay $10 per month for one year for Uckets for them selves and families. One hundred men can be found who would agree to pay $5 per month for tickets for themselves and family. One hundred other persons live In Americus who will .take $3 worth of ticket* per month. Thla would provide a guaranteed revenue to the line of $13,000. With an Interest eharge of $1,500 per annum and current expenses of $30 per day the total expense would be $12,450. In addition to this would be the reve nue from exounions, picnics and tran sient passengers, which might aggregate $1,000 to $2,000 a year more. With economical management there Is no reason why the entire total oont should not be kept Inside of $30 per day. If the first year’s experience Is satis factory the people will then be Inposl- Uon to buy the road If they see fit, or renew the lease if preferable. If the road will pay expenses the fint year, its future Is «o far assured that there need be no hesitation about buying !L Even It the rood should fail to pay ex penses the first year by $1,000 to $2,000, the syndicate can afford to pocket the loss, as the advantages, present and future, to property will offset a moderate loss. Now, is it to the advantage of the owners to make thla sort of trad* with the people of Americus f Tue Times-Recorder believes that it will be. The preference of the owners I* to sell It just as it stands; as It will be a very expensive and unsatisfactory job to tear up the track, transport It somewhere else, repair our streets, pay expense* of law salts, etc., etc. The property will not be.worth $15,000 laid down In Haeon, after paying all expenses, and nobody knows this better than the owners either n sale at a satisfactory price or a long term lease equally satisfactory. It ia just as much to tht Interest of the owner* for the road to remain here as It ia to our ietoreat to have it remain, and there le no probability whatever of the road being torn up and removed If our people will come forward with any sort of proposition that has any fairness or liberality In It Now what are we going to do about It f 'Something muat be done, and done promptly, at the summer season is the time when the heaviest receipts will be made. The representative of the own ers is here, and there Is no better timo than right now to take up this question and push it to s conclusion. “There Is a tide in the affair* of men, which token at the Hood leads ou to fortune.” MR. DODSON EXPLAINS Tbs owner* of the road ban large landed^ntenste In Leeton Park, whloh will be very valuable in the near future If the line It operated, and worth almost nothlDg if the road is torn up. The latter would mean a $l.'i,000 loss alone to the owners of the land. Tbs refusal to make such a lesse and option as suggested would mean a heavy lost to the owners In removal; lease would give a guarantee a fair Interest on a fall valuation for a year, and virtually insure and Judge Crisp. ThC Part That He Took In theVfcearreiie* of Last Friday. To The Tiueb-RecorderIn justice to myself as a civilized man, 1 wish space to set myself right -efore the eyes of the good people of Americus. It Is charged that my carelessness, or even worse, was the cause of my engine running Into n funeral procession at the McGarrab street orosstng Friday, when the truth la that I am In no wise to blame,, as your original publication of the facta is substantially correct The negro flagman did try to signal me to atop, and so far he did his duty; but the real blame that attaohe* to him Is because he failed to notify me before hand as ho was Instructed to do, that a procession would cross in a short time. It Is not my business to look out for people passing; the flagman is paid to do that and then signal mo. I was pressed for time ms I was clearing the way for an Inooming train in twenty minute*. I had booked down south of ths cross ing and coupled on too fiat ears stated; after I started ahead I did see a wagon (nof.a hearse) that had crossed just ahead of me; I did not see the pro- oesslon following, as I was on the right, or opposite side of my eab; and a num ber of box cars on the west track pre vented my fireman from seeing the car riages following, os ha states. I had coupled to the oars at a distance of less than 200 feet south of the crossing, and whenlatarted ahead I was looking book for signals from the yardmaster, I did not, therefore, sen the flagman at all; and when I finally heard him yell, I had already gone three or four oar lengths, and was within one and n half ear lengths of the wagon that bad just pissed ahead of me; with my engine be tween me and the rest of the proeesslon. I could not see them; nor did I have any reason to suppose there was any proeesslon following, as the vehiole I saw was not n hearse bnt n wagon. My fir. man did not see the carriage until the engine was within n few ear lengths of it, because of the box ears In his wsy; and when be yelled out to me to “look out for the carriage,” whloh I still did not see, I shut off steam and palled the reverse lever with all my might and put on brakes, but owing to the cylinders being f nil of steam, I could not reverie fully, without letting (team out of the cylinder cocks. This would have frightened the hones worse than going ahead, and u soon a* I aaw I could not atop ahort of the crowing, owing to the momentum of the engine and can, I did the only thing I could, and that ww to put on steam again and get out of the way of the procession as soon as possible. I did my best w soon ns I discovered the situation, and nobody regrets more than I do that it was impossible for me to prevent annoyance to the people In the carriages. If my life had been at stake I could not have done more. I never knew tha*t It ww a funeral proces- tlen until I saw the wagon going up the bill by the old cotton yard with the coffin In It, w I run pwt the crowing.' The flagman did Ids best to signal me and I did my best to stop as soon w I ww him; and nobody Is to blame but the flagmen for not telling me that a funeral procession would be along soon, and to look out for It He was Instructed to do this when the wagon nod carriages crossed going over to Brooklyn Heights, and bis failure to do this Is the only thing that can justly bn found fault with. It ww an unfortunate accident for which I am not In the least to blame, and I trust the good people who thought hard of me will do nt$ the justice to be lieve that these are the exact facts in the J. 9- Dodson, ; - • ' A Engineer. HE WOULD NOT STOP EXCITED OGLETHORPE. SO DEPUTY 8HtlttFF LAMAR SOUGHT TO MAKE HIM. A LITTLE WHITE BOY KILLED IN STANTLY BY LIGHTNING Gas Boynton Shot Through‘tho Bod With n Pistol—Ho Wns Wonted for Polony and Attempted to Glvo 14 Ball—lladly Bart* *- - Whlto a Necrtf Was Ku'derod by His Own Brother-Mat tteteh With Bis V# In Pa* a »ISa *»• Shocking CnullilH. “Stop! Or I will shoot!" That was the command given' by by Deputy Sheriff Lamar to due Boyn ton, colored, yesterday morning. He Oglethorpe was all excitement yester day afternoon. . i,,,,!*,.* The cause, of this wasth* killing of n 10 year old white boy by lightning and hooded not the command or the warning and the murder of an,year old negro which followed It. The result la that lie boy b/ hie own brother!' is terribly wounded. Saturday Lumpkin Floyd came to the city and swore out s warrant charging the Boynton negro with hog stealing, which crime, under the Georgia laws, 14 OK Foe Now York.* Hon Charles ?, priitpleft Sunday for New York where he will be the priori- pal speaker at the great Fourth of Jnly celebration by Tammany, hall next Saturday: , v ,,, , , , ‘ It Is a rule with Tammany to have a grand Fourth of July celebration every year. There are two set speeches and a number of short speeehw at each one of these celebraUon*. These are followed by s grand banquet and s general demo cratic hurrah. Georgia will have two representative* among the speakers, Senator Colquitt a felony. The warrant wns turned over to Depu ty Sheriff Lamar with IpstrueUons that the accusod negro be arrested. Yester day morning the officer started out ,to accomplls that end. The negro live;! on Mr. T. D. Hooks’ place, about six miles out from the city. There the deputy sheriff went He wss warnet that lloynton was a dangerous character and was admonished not to tot tlie negro get any advantage. Backed up by the warrant wjilch ho had, the deputy sheriff walked Intq thi i field where the negro was working am i arrested him. No reslstanoe was offered, Boynton unhitched the mule from the plow. He started to get on the mulo but the officer would not let him. The: the two walkod about a quarter of * mile to the road, the negro making no effort to get away dr anything of the kind. The negro tied his mule, then turning suddenly about ho fopk to bis legs, saying “Captain, you eon go on to town nor and tell them I’m coming after dinner.’* With that he was off like the wind. Deputy Sheriff Lamar called at him to ■top, using the words which . begin this article. That oall was not heedsd. Thinking bo would soare tho negro Grip stopping the officer fired hit pistol twloo. Each timo the weapon was held up wards and no effort was made to bit blip. Again Boynton was told to stop, ^gnin he began to run falter. Still Intending to scare the negro, aoother shot was fired. It did no good. Bp that time the negro was some forty or fifty yards ahead and gaining at evory bound. Seeing that he ooold only , stop Boynton In that way the officer shot unoomore. He took aim that time and Boynton fell to the ground, with a dan gerous wound in bis back. The pistol used Is a 32 oallbre, Smith A Wesson, htmmerless one. , The ball entered the baok of the negro, barely to the left of the baokbone, In tho small of the back and lodged the least bit to the right of the centre of the stomach, where It can be plainly felt As soon as it wss found that Gus was shot ms bad as he was a wagon, was driven np and ha was brought on to the city and plaeed In jail, where everything that ean be dona for him will bn done. Dr. C. B. Raines, theeonuty physician Is attending him and an able bodied man Is kept there to look after his. every want The wound Is quite a bad one and it may lw that the negro la dead by this time. When be was shot the negro was la a short distance of bis house where Deputy Sheriff Lamar end others iff confident he wee making to get a gvhtp shoot tha officer, snob a desperate char, aeter. Anyway, Mr. Lamar thinks he did all he could under tha circum stances, though no one eould possibly regret the ebootlng mow then he. Two Drummers PI(hL Things were lively around the Allen House for awhile lent night W. L. Doaghtie of Mzeon, who- repressntsa LoulsvillqJionie and Elmer Thotnpktan, who Mils buggies from Cincinnati had a misunderstanding about a small etnount of money whloh Donghtle bad Thompklns. The misunderstanding re sulted In a fight daring the course of which Donghtle was eat on the bend by a key tag In Ibs Wriief Thdnsktn*, while that gentleman’s heed was eon-, stderably pummeled against the floor. The Belllgereanta wanted to lean last night, but upon n special invitation .they remained over to attend mayor's court this morning. / affaire are shock ing and Indeed' they are calculated to excite the unusually quiet'little town to the highest pitch. From a gentleman who was . In Oglethorpe yesterday a Tiucs-Rkcoudkr reporter learned this story of tho two fatal happenings. About 1 o’olook yesterday' a terrible tbnndef storm held sway in and about’ Oglethorpe. ■ One particularly vivid flash of lightning followed almost Immediate: ly by an almost deafening peal of' thun der alarmed the people Very much and oyetpeoted to hear, of some work of vastatlqn that had been done'. Little were they prepared, bowover, for what J, ’ iii homo six miles to,the south . of Ogle thorpe, near a little settlement called Fountalnvllle, Is the farm of Mr. Join E. Robinson, a well-to-do planter, who Is known In Amsrieus. Shortly before the thunder-storm , came up the, hands *bad « gone to one of the fields,to eommenoe work, after, the rest given for their noonday meal. Among thenumber was Mr. Robinson's 10 year old son; whore' name could hot be learned. i„ii a When the flash Ofllghtnlng Spoken of above oame the hoy was hoeing cotton. He died with that hoe in his hands.' He was nt work In Oh open fietd, with no trees, or anything, about that was calcu lated to specially attract lightning. But the deadly bolt seems to have singled him ouL The oloctrlc'fluid struck him, and seemed to cover him from head to foot. Befdre tho thunder bad sounded Its land and reverberating peal he was dead, with tho hoe In his hands. Tho naws spread like wild-fire over Oglethorpe as soon as a. messenger ar rived announcing tha lad’s death, for tho boy was well known and popular there. . „ |' r J The excitement wss sugmsnted when messenger arrived shortly afterward saying that John Edwards bad been killed by bis brother Will Edwards. Quite a coincidence It was, too, that this messeoger’alsobad to make A journey of about six miles. He came, however, from exactly the opposite : direction In wnlofa the other had eome. Will and John' Edward* are Mgrose, and In John's life they were brothers. The one is 15 years old, while the other 17. These boys were working on tho same place and Sunday afternoon they were told to' carry the stock-to water. A dispute and fight sprung up; something shout who should ride;.in the course d'f wblcb Wtll drew his knife and dealt Us brother several dangerous gashes la the stomach sad breast; The wounded boy lingered until yee- ^ terday afternoon, when he died. Will Is now In jail, charged with John’s mudnr. Thus dosed Oglethorpe's exciting chapter of UUHlltiftli , ,,m. ,,t To Printers sad! Publishers. .The Times Publishing* Company has foraalo a portion, of .-tho newspaper and job outfit made surplus by the recent consolidation of the Tissue and Beoor- der, consisting of one cylinder newspa per press, two dhndon job presses, one Hero paper, cotter, one perforator, six stands,.twb Imposing stones and tab!**, five hundred pounds of new* type.ete. This material and there presses are virtaally ndw, having be«W In use only a year. A'great bargain' In price* and term* ean be’teenrhdby the right par- ties. Address the TIKES Publishing CoWPANT, Amtrions, Go. Enjoying ThemMlvM. The report comes from Chid that the boys of the Americas Light fsntry have taken a Ann stand In eamp, being one of tho Mst drilled companies companies there. Tbe boys ! are enjoy ing ^themselves. Thanks to Quarter master Shiver, they have been feasting on the fat of the land. Indeed, they are said to be the best livers to camp. They will probably arrive at home at 12)0 to- morrow Afternoon. ,j * * Her* Prospecting. Messrs. Hamilton and Hussy of Ohio are here prospecting. They are highly pleased with Americus and may invest here sad make this city their future borne. So! ... tp Off, f common* but not very ele- gent expression, thej Rad Men are “la town” in Americus. The lodge here has one of the largest and most enthusiastic memberships: in, the city. Last Bight Kinehafoonse Tribe, No. 82, L O. R M. held a mooting: atJ their wigwam and elected the followiag officers for th* en suing term. : Itiw ifilt to -i & B.Stanfield,sachem; Kirby Jones, senior sagamore; B. H. Mayo, joaior sagamore; W.: 0. BarnsW, chief of reoords. Spanish combs are worn with carriage costumes of black. silk. As. a comple ment to this, black undressed kids are worn with all ball gowns by youag misses.' i. . 1 ■ ■--t ;.. Banana is a very pale yellow, Cytbere ia a shade darken, and Cleopatra to of • rich golden hoe; paillette, straw com color are pate i Mrs. Langtry, the; the owner of a pin silver In »h served to ihe Ubgh .^