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THE AMER1CUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1891.
THE TIMES-RECORDER.
Dally and Weekly.
The Axkeicus Recurdek Established 1879,
THE AMEBICUS Tim* Rstablmhed 1890.
Consolidated, Abril. 1891.
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FRKK SILVER.
Whatever may be the grounds of fear
by the moiiometalists that free silver
coinage will ruin the country, it may as
well be accepted as a settled fact that
the people of the United States want it,
and are determined to risk the experi
ment, if it knocks the Simpsonian foot
wear off the universe.
If there was any doubt about it before,
the question was virtually settled by the
action of the Ohio convention in puttiu,
the free silver plank into their platform
in a state too where the anti-element is
stronger than outside the East.
Every state in the South and West will
Mr. McKinley will have a difficult!the same; and when the National
time explaining to the Ohio farmers I Democratic Convention assembles, the
why the price of wool lias been de- j monometalists will be in a hopeless
pressed since his bill went into effect. f minority.
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Americus, Ga., July 17, 1891.
There seems to be but two objections
A St. Louis firm has planted two tlious- j p, unlimited coinage of silver that are
and acres of cucumbers, and these arc to j wor tb considering, and these are:
bo made into pickles. If this bad been
done down in Dixie, Editor Shepherd of
the New York Mail ami Express would
havo snilfed another Southern attempt to
destroy the l!nion.
This is what Boh Ingersoll lias to say
about the stingy Xew York millionair, s
among whom he lives on Fifth avenue:
“I despise a stingy man. I don’t see
how it is possible for a man to die worth
$0,000,000 or $10,000,OtJO, in a city full of
want, when he meets almost every day
the withered hand of beggary and the
white lips of famine,”
Dalton probably has the lowest water
privileges of any city In Xorth Georgia,
the rate being $4 per annum. Rome
pays $0, while Cartcrsville, whoso works
aro owned by a private corporation,
pays as high as $12. Arooricus pays $10,
a rate regarded as extreme elsewhere,
and her waterworks the past year have
entailed a loss on the city.
The now registration law of Pennsyl
vania has purged the registration books
in Philadelphia alono of over twenty
thousand fraudulent names which the
Republican machine has been voting in
past years This accounts for tlio large
Republican majorities in Philadelphia,
but they will be much smaller, if not en
tirely wiped out, in the future.
The only surviving granddaughter of
the late cx-Presidont Andrew John
son died of consumption on Saturday in
Colorado, where she had boon staying
for a few months, hoping to recover lier
health. During the Johnson adminis
tration she was “Little Belle Patterson,”
and scarcely less beloved by the presi
dent than was her mother, his eldest
daughter.
All the actual assets is cash iu the
United States treasury vaults havo boon
counted, piece by piece. The total is
$014,511,582.32. This c unt commenced
on April 27, and was flnishod yesterday.
Every cent 1. accounted for, Including
one dollar missing Irom a hag of silver,
which was found on tho floor of the
vault. Of this large amount $26,918,000
Is In gold ootn, and $149,902,000 In sil
ver.
That tile silver dollar of 412j
grams is wortli intrinsically only eighty
cents, aud
2. That silver is too bulky and in
convenient and will not circulate.
To tile first objection tliero are two
answers* the first is, that witli the in
creased demand for silver bullion for
coinage purposes, the price will rise say
25 percent, or more, and if it doesn’t,
tiien (second) the quantity of silver in
the dollar can be increased 25 per cent.
A dollar of 500 grains Isn’t so very much
heavier as to tear out the pockets of the
people, and thoro is no good reason why
the bullion might not be increased to
close the gap between tho gold and sil
ver dollar, if the demand for silver does
not enhance tho price as suggested.
To the second objection as to tho non
circulation of silver, it is enough to say
that nobody expects it all to circulate;
and the issue of sliver certificates an
swers all the purposes of a circulating
medium, while the actual coin stays In
the treasury vaults, where It properly
belongs.
The point that silver will drivo the
gold out of the country does not seem to
be well taken, for gold has been going
out of late by the millions; and tho small
quantity of silver in circulation cannot
be truthfully said to be the cause of this
outflow. If there wasn’t a silver dollar
in the United States, this gold would go
just the same, under the present condi
tions of trade with foreign counties.
The Georgia “Mellsh" will now lie
down while the Alllanoo Legislature
pops a cap. And when tho cap is pop
ped, tbo encampment bill will most
likely be repealed, and the Georgia
Relish will not ties up again, at least
with the help of the state treasury. The
farmer legislators don’t want any fool
ishness In theirs, sad to many of them
the encampment junket seems the
height of folly.
Foubth Auditob Lynch, a colored
Mississippi:!!], who has just returned to
Washington from the south, says that
Harrison will hsve a solid southern del
egation In the next republican national
.convention, and that it cannot bo brok
en. If Lyooh is right it will differ very
much from any delegation over sent by
the south to n republican convention, as
Senator Sherman and other presidential
candidates know to their cost.
The Richmond Terminal, since It liae
moied to Georgia, expects better tieitnient
than tt was likely to receive at a foreign cor-
poratio-].—Tbomaavitio Times;
The Terminal will get what It la legal
ly entitled to, strict justico under our
laws and a fair, square chance to carry
ont their pledges of building up and
making prosperous the waste places of
Georgia. This state don’t have two sets
of laws, one for home people and
another for outaiders.
Editok Wattekson. of the Louisville
Courior Journal, has written a letter in
which he expresses the opinion In rather
strong language that Gov. Hill will nev
er be nominated for the presidency by
the Democratic party, because ho Is not
in sympathy with the groat Democratic
movement for tariff reform. The
Xew Orleans Elates says that Hill
is not in favor of reducing the high
tariff, because were he a tariff reformer
he would not be supported so furiously
by the Xew York Sun.
The antt-AUiance press of the State is
pouring hot shot into tho Weaver-Simp-
■on-PoIk-Livingston combination that
has just gone through Georgia making
speeches on what these papers call the
third party movement If Editor Gantt
had his righteous indignation stired
heretofore by the mild utterances of his
opponsnts, how ran he now hold the
Tilres of bis wrath creating boiler down
snd not have an explosion 7 Look ont
for something rod hot next week when
Editor Gantt comeo hack at them.
THE ONLY SOLUTION.
Judge James A. Warder has played
the last tragedy in this great drama of
life, and with tlic same fatal hand which
killed bis son-in-law and wounded his
daughter in Chattanooga last winter,
lie lias sent a hall through bis oiyi fren
zied brain aud uow lies still in death.
The rise and fall of tills distinguished
lawyer marks another brilliant man
ruined by strong drink.
Judge Warder was a native of Maycs-
vllle, Ky., and had senreo passed tho
meridian of life. Ho was a gallant
Union soldier, and while stationed in
Shclhyville, Tenn., in 1804 he married
one of the wealthiest and most beautiful
women of that cultivated village.
lie was a man of courtly manners and
magnetic influence; as a lawyer ho hod
no superior In tile state. He was (Jolted
State district attorney undet Hayes, and
had been judge of tbo aupremo court of
the state. He waa one of tho most in
fluential Republicans in Tennessee and
there were groat possibilities in store
for him had not the “great destroyer”
sent him to a dishonored grave. His
death makos the fourth tragedy in his
unfortunate family by violent deaths.
THE OHIO PLATFORM.
It has been a favorite theme witli Al
liance speakers that the Democratic
1 party will not be disrupted by the Al
liance movement, nor tho third party
actually inaugurated until after the
Democrats have been given a fair show
ing, weighed in tho balance and found
wanting. They are wont to say that
when the Democratic platforms are
adopted, they can then determine, ac
cording to the quantity of good sound
Alliance doctrine contained, whether to
get on the Democratic-Alliance combina
tion double-acting platform and party of
their own.
Now that the Ohio platform has been
given to the public, aud is being endors
ed by Democratic papers everywhere,
what say Alliance leaders to the ortho
doxy of Its planks ?
A tariff for revenue only, and that rev
enue to he for the expenses of govern
ment economically administered.
A graded income tax, by which the
men who are most able, will pay the
most taxes.
The free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver by which the per capita circulation
of money will bo increased to meet tho
needs of business.
This constitutes the big timbers of tho
platform, and will bo adopted by the
Democratic Xatlonal convention after all
tho states have previously acted.
What objection does Col. Livingston
and Editor Harry-Larry-Gantt-Brown
have to this declaration of principles?
Will the Alliance accept that as the
equivalent of the Ocala platform, or will
thoy Insist on more ?
The Macon Telegraph, whloh la de
nounced by the Alliance Fanner at one
of the “alliance bating sheets,” puts
this sort of conumdrum to Col. Llvtngs-
toa, which be might do well to dignify
by an answer—if he can:
■‘‘While Col. UvlDfston la denouncing the
government for‘loaning’ money to the na
tional banka at l per cent, tt ie a little
atrauga that he nevei calls attention to the
f.el i hat the privilege of ‘borrowing* at that
rate Is so tittle appreciated by the banka that
very many of them never take advantage of
It, and that theli reluctance to do so la one
cauee of thecontraoilon of the currency of
which he complains.”
It is a well known faot that many, If
not moat of the Xatlonal Banke aro re
ducing their circulation to tho least qual
ity posslblo to retain their charters, be
cause the high price of bonds and the
consequent low rate of Interest on them
make the system unprofitable. The Xa
tlonal banking system baa acen Its beat
days, and Is gradually passing away, and
only the ten per tent tax upon state
bonds keeps Itallvoat all.
The lynching of a negro in DeSoto
county, Mississippi, for a trivial offense,
is one of those affairs occasionally oc
curring in the South much to bo de
plored, because they aro acts of gross
Injustice, and gtvo the white people of
this section a most unenviable reputa
tion. The white people insist on ruling
in the South, and properly so. It would
indeed be an evil day when white supre
macy should cease to exist. But as
white rule Is founded on the claim of
superiority, It must prove that superior
ity by protecting the negro in his rights
and guarding him against wanton wrong
and Injustice. This uncalled for mob
violence was, probably, the work of a
tough element We make do doubt
that It meets the earnest disapprobation
of the beat citizens of DeSoto county,
and they should manifest this disappro
bation by hunting out and punishing the
offenders. The white people of the
South must show respect for the laws
they themselves have made and insist
on preserving.
THE COAL RATE REDUCED.
The railroads hare restored the coal
rates to Atlanta to the figure of $1.15
that prevailed before the late raise,
which caused such an uproar. The Com
mission hod said that the local rate in
Georgia would bo cut by them; and so
the roads had nothing to do but yield
gracefully.
By the united efforts of the Constitu
tion and the manufacturers of Atlanta,
this fight was won and in no other way
would it hare been brought about. The
Tiues-Recordeii called attention to the
advanced rata. to Americus, before the
Constitution did to the Atlanta rates;
and urged concerted action on part
of our people towards getting a reduc
tion, and if a delegation had been before
tlio commission this week to present our
case, there is scarcely any doubt that
our rates would have bceu p.it back to a
reasonable figure also; but the Americus
people seem to bo satislled to pay fifty
cents more per ton thaa thoy paid last
year, and if that be the case, TheTimes-
Recordeii can stand it, as the differ
ence to this establishment isn't over $50
per annum.
But tbo difference to Americus ns a
manufacturing point is enormous, and
The Times-Rkc-oiiueu repeats uow,
what was said two weeks ago that
Americus caunot prosper with steam
coal at $3.50 to $4 per tou,
CUTTING: APT AIR
at
BEAL & OAKLEY’S
We offer for the next 30 days at
1-2 Price. 1-2 Price!
Our entire stock of Black Embroidered
Flouncings—just think of it!
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
A. KLFTTZ,
Architect and Superintendent,
Americas, Georgia.
Balldlng.
La av street—-Murphey Build
J. WORSHAM
DKITI8T,
* Office over People's National n*nv,
BURT,
DENTIST,
Oran berry’s Corner .Americas. Ga.,
Continues to serve his friends In all branches
of dentistry. janH-tf
w.
. J. W. DANIEL,
DENTIST.
Offers his professional services to the
people of Americus, and surrounding coun
try. Office In near Murphey building, Le
mur street, over Beall ± Oakley's.
31. R. WESTBROOK, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND 8URGE0N.
Office nud residence, next house to C. A
..... .... feb7tf
Huntington, Church street.
r A. FORT 31. D.
. Office at l »r. Eld ridge’s <
* be found «t night In h
Idrldge’-drugstore, Barlow Block.
Ian 8-hJ-tf
400 suits Black Etnb. Flounc
ing for $2.00
450 suits Black Einb. Flounc
ing for 2.25
500 suits Black Emb. Flounc
ing for 2.50
600 suits Black Emb. Flounc
ing for 3.00
700 suits Black Emb. Flounc
ing for 3.50
800 suits Black Emb. Flounc
ing for 4.00
1000 suits Black Emb. Flounc
ing for 6.00
and on through the entire stock.
PARASOLS.
350 Fancy Parasols $1-75
500 “ “ 2.50
700 “ “ 3.50
Special Bargains in
Plain Silk Umbrellas.
A few fine Fans at
Cost.
Big reductions on all kinds of White Goods.
We won’t refuse cash for tie
Every schoolboy in Georgia for tbo
last thirty years knows Prof. Shelton P.
Sanford of Morcer, the author of “San
ford’s Arithmetic,” and tho public, both
young and grown up boys aud girls,
will regret to learn that this ven
erable scholar has resigned uncondition
ally from the Faeulty of Mercer Univer
sity. Whether mathematics make a man
precise, accurate and serious, or whether
only that style of man becomes a great
mathematician, is uncertain; but It la
said that Prof. Sanford waa never known
to have porpetrated bnt one joke in his
life, and that waa the following: A vil
lage school toacher who bad got into
deep water with Sanford's arithmetic
wrote to Prof. Sanford for a key, and the
answer was: “It has no key; It la a
stem-winder.” The good wishes of the
whole state will follow this venerable
man Into his retirement to private, life.
NEXT 30 DAYS!
On White Emb. Flouncing, White. Plaid and
Striped Lawns, Batiste, Yokeings, Tuck-
ings, Et:
National Bank.
Cl t m i i y~v $ Th-v Will practice in all court*. Office over
Special Inducements on Tabl<? Damask, .Nap-
Kins, Towels, Ete.
BEHLL & OAKLEY
\R. J. H. WINCHESTER.
if PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
1 Office at Davenport’s Drug Store. Resi
dence. corner Forsyth and Sfayo streets,
American, Ga. d0mo
Telephone No. 104.
\R. T. J. KENNEDY, 31. D.
I PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office at Dr. Eld ridge’s Drag btoi e. Can
be found ut nlghf in hla office room over
Eldrldfte’a drug store, Barlow block, febfi-ly
DOCTORS J. B. AND A. B. HINKLE
Eye, Ear, Throat and Nose
A Specialty.
fsblfrtf
C HA8. A. BROOKS, M. D.
(Graduate ol Bellevue Hospital Medical
College. N. Y., twice graduate of N. Y.
Post Graduate Medical School,Chief Burgeon
8. A.M. R- R.etc.) Offer* bis professlonalier-
vices at* a general prnctitoncr to the citizens
of Americus and surroundlngrountry. Spe
cial attention given to operative surgery,
Including the treatment of hemorrhoids, fis
tula, stricture, CAtarrh. and all diseases of
Anns, Rectum, Genitourinary system and
nose snd throat. Office In 3Iurphey building
» Connected by speaking tube
»’■ Tim- Htnrn falla abimLI Km
Lamar 8t.
with Eldrldge’s Drug Store. Calls should be
' * telephoned there during the day. At
l A. HAWKINS,
F A "attorney at law.
Office up stairs on Cranberry corner.
UTT A LU3IPKIN,
attorneys at law.
Americas, Ga.
Office in Barlow Block, up stairs.
w.
P. WALLIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Americas, Ga.
w;
T. LANE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Americas, Go.
Prompt attention given to all business placed
in my hands. Office in Barlow blocs, room 6.
Feb. 6, tf
A. HIXON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Americas, Go.
Office In Eavlev building, opposite the
Court House. Prompt a'tentlon given to
all business.
Iun5-tl.
313 LAMAR STREET,
Tub St Loult Republic makes this
point:
John Bbermsn U al’ogctbor right whoa he
says It is as bad for the government to pay
tl.30 for a dollar’s worth of silver bullion as
it would beta buy wheat at the same rate
above Its value. It u the business of the
government to coin bullion, not to buy it.
Now let Benntor Sherman explain why he
worked to pass tho hullluu purchase swindle
for paying|l.9> for a dollar’s w rth of bullion
tobecoverod In the treasury vaults instead
of coined.
It is on thia point that the issue of the
next campaign will be drawn. The Re
publicans are committed to the “ware-
house silver law passed by the last con
gress and now in force. The only ques<
tion before the public is, shall we havo
free coinage ? The Democrats are for
free coinage.
joneid dawlyr
AYNA HI) & SMITH,
ATTORNEYS at law.
Americas, Ga.
Prompt and careful attention given to all
business entrusted to me. Lamur street
over P. L. Holts. sepi0-ddw3m*
L. HOLTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Abbeville. Ga.
Will practice In a’l the counties or f
II pi
State. Prompt attention given to all col-
lections entrurttedto my care. if
Ga.
ANSLEY & ANSLEY,
A TTORNEY8 AT LAW, Americas,
Will practice In the counties of 8um-
tor, Fehley, Macon, Dooly, Webster, Stew
art, In the Supreme Court, aud tho United
States Conn.
J O. MATHEWS,
9 ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW, t
Will practice In all the Courts .and In tba Coun
ty Court for the twelve months.
12-124 d&wly.
W kllhoen F. Clarks. Frank A*Hoorn.
OIiABKE A HOOPER,
Attorney* at Law
AMERICUS,
mxylS-d-w-Iy
GEORGIA
Walteb K. Wuutlkt, J. B. rmouuLD
Wheatley & Fltigerald,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Offlc-; vt Jxckron St., UpStxln,
AMERICUN. i GEORGIA
JxnMf ; i n
BIG REDUCTION ON All SUMMER GOODS
Aro now being made throughout
C. B. HUDSON, I L. J, BLALOC*'
of Schley county. | of Americas,
jjUDSON & BLALOCK,
John R. Shaw’s
Mammoth Stock of
umi:
L.RWYBRS,
Annuo;*, GXORGIA.
Will practice in all courts. Partnership limited
to civil cases. Office op stairs, corner Lee snd
eu vavaa vara, vuico up rain, corner mmmhu
Lamar itreet. In artntin Block. <tooH-d-«lj
E. O. SIMMONS, W. H. KIMBROUGH
SIMMONS ft KIMBBOUOH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Harlow Hlook, Room 4.
45th Semi-Annual Grand Clearance Sale of
Men’s, Youths,’ Boys’ and Children’s
READY MADE CLOTHING
Now in full blast. Stock too large and
varied to enumerate. Prices utterly
smashed and all broke up.
Now is the time to take advantage of the great
Bargain Opportunity.
r\PP-RTUNITY HAS NO HAIR
behind, says the proverb. It’s N. G. to
chase opportunity when it’s gone past
you once. The bargains are on sale now.
“Take time by the forelock” and come to
J
The Champion Clothing and Men’s Furnishing Goods House
OF SO CJTHWF8T GA,
117 Forsyth St., Americus, Ga.
Will practice la both 8tate and Federal Goart*.
Strict attention paid to all business entrusted to
them. Telephone No. 103. IMtWtf
W. B. Gueeby. DuPont GutUT
Americus, Ga. M aeon, Ga,
GUERRY & SON,
T AW YE RS. America*. Go. Office InPeo*
lJ pie’s National Bank Building, Lamar
street. Will practice In Sumter Superior
and County Courts, and In the Supreme
Court. Our Junior will regularly attend
the sessions of the Bupertor Court. The
firm will take tpeelal case* In any Superior
Southwestern Railroad.
Court on fc
G, 1
nvvrnvn Pe «chtree Street Atlanta.
offices | Roo m 7 Barlow Bl’k, Americus
Plans and specifications furnished for
buildings of sit descriptions—pnbllo budd
ings especially. Communicatlobs by mall
to either office will meet with prompt at*
ten tion. Wni. Hull, Superintendent A merl-
eus office.
W ILLIAMSON * EARL, _
CIVIL AND HANITAfeY EFOINKBA*.
Plans and e-tlmates f >r water supply,
sewerage and general engineering work*
Construction superintended, sewerage a
specialty. Headquarters, Montgomery, Ala.
Americus office over Johnson * Harrow
aprll-tm
Notice of Dissolution.
Tb«c
•statin, un
it. rTlrr-i--* by nfatn.l content. 1 Mr. B. T.
Jonnkon UMamln, lb* ll.bilKK. of tb*
America. offiea. -jjL
A. C. YON GUN DELL.
juneSM-lm
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