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AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER. VOLUME 1 AMERICAS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1891. NUMBER 92 DYR GOODS Out The Bottom Drops. DEALERS IJf FUTURES CAM T DO THEIR LITTLE ACT IN GEORGIA ANY MORE Dobs are Now Property and Taxes Malt be Paid on Tliem-Hereafter the People Will Name the School Commissioner With Other Officers. BED D. WHEATLEY Atlanta, July 21.—The first bus! ness to come before the house this morning, after the reading of the journal was the further consideration of the bill intro I duced by Mr. Johnson of Appling, com pelling the railroads to provide separate ! coaches for the two races. The bill was | recommitted ! Mr. Hand moved to reconsider so much of the journal as relates to tlio bill lost yesterday to compensate members of the school boards in the various counties. The motion prevailed. This morning the house passed the bill introduced by Mr. Hill of Clarke pro hibiting any person or firm from cariy- ing on the business of buying or selling cotton, corn, meat, wheat, sugar, cofloe and salt, or other farm product, for Determined to dispose of the immense and • . i * » . 1 *1 i<| i future delivery, or keeping a place for varied stock now upon his shelves j has KDOCKCd j carrying on business. The bill excepted prices and profits into a cocked hat, for the present week. For a tew days we are going to wake up the natives with low prices* No surface shaving, but To The Core, is the way I am CUTTING PRICES to reduce stock. Read and Consider the Following: All Prints at - Cotton Challies All Ginghams at yd- 5c per 5c per 8c per yd. yd. Toile Du Nord Chambray, 10c. BIG CORSET SALE $1.25 $1.00 $1.25 $1.00 C. B. CORSET, C. B, CORSET, KABO CORSET, KABO CORSET, $1.00. .85. 1.00. .85. Black Silk Gloves only 40c. DRESS GOODS In Silk, Woolens, Linens, Lawns, etc. will be sold at teduced figures. This is no wild cat chance game, but strictly business. We wish to impress you with the feet that no summer goods will go into winter quarters. They are for sale and go they must. WE KEEP OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS. OUR DEEPEST OUTS ARE IN FINE GOODS. I am in Do not fail to heed the above as earnest. Be assured that you. will be the loser if you do not come. D. WHEATLEY. cotton warehousemen, cotton brokers and provision brokers who take orders in tlie regular course of trade for the actual and bona tide delivery of the goods, provided in connection with this regular business they do not carry on the business of selling or buying futures. The bill makes it a misdemeanor to violate the law in this respect. The bill of Mr. Fleming, to make dogs property, came np for consideration tids morning. Mr. Fleming said it was very difficult to get any legislation on dogs. Tills bill does not tax dogs but makes them property, just like a mule or any other personal property you may. The bill passed the bouse. Hon. Edward L. Merritt, of Spring- field, 111., was on the floor of the bouse to-day. He is a member of the Illinois legislature and one of the editors of tho Chicago Herald, a leading democratic paper, and enjoys the distinction of be Ing one of the one hundred and one who stood by Falmer in the senatorial contest. Mr. Merritt is south on pleasure trip. In the senate this morning so much of the journal as referred to the action of tbe senate on the bill relating to the establishment of a board of pbarmaey for the restriction of the issuance of licenses to Incompetent physlcans and druggists by Mr. Tatum, of tbe 37tb district, was,by unanimous consent of tbe senate, cancelled from tbe journal. On motion of Ur. O'Neal, of tbe 8tb, he bill waa reconsidered. Mr. Ellington of the 20th replied to Ur. Fleming of Richmond In in energet ic manner In regard to the reapportion ing of tbe senatorial districts of Georgia. He stated that It would pat the state to the expense of employing twenty-three men for an Indefinite time for this work, paying them out of the state’s money. He said emphatically that It was unnecessary, and he would leave the gentleman “to the silent contempt he deserved,” The bill referring to the privilege of selling remnant cotton either In seed or lint without the consent of the ltnd owner, was re-committed to the the ag- rlcultural committee. The house bill of Mr. Boifeuillet of Bibb, to make tbe office of state school commissioner elective, was read the third time and passed. Adjourned till 10 o’clock to-mjrrow morning. TJIE COI.OUKD FIKKMEN. Forakerand Sherman. New Youk, July 21—A special to the Sun from Cincinnati says that a break has come between Senator Sherman and ex-Governor Foraker, and that Foraker Is now an open candidate for senator. It la stated that Sherman has called a con ference of hia friends to meet In Cincin nati to-night, atwhich Foraker la to be Invited to define bis position. Chief of tho Cherokees Dead. TALiEqUAU, Indian Territory, July 21.—The Cherokee nation Is mourning for the death of her leading atateaman, Senator W. H. Rose, who died very sud denly of heart disease at his home In Fort Gibson. Ross has been ohlef of the nation and was a confederate lieutenant colonel. Mr. Spurseon Exhausted. Lo.ndo.v, July 21.—Ur. Spurgeon passed another restlesa night. This morning he was very much exhausted. Annual Meet Ins of Director*. Tbe annual meeting of the directors of tho Abbeville A Waycross railroad, took place in Abbeville last week, and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year. Directors, J. D. May nard, F. C. Clegg, J. It Monroe, E. H. Cutts, S. N. Mitchell, It. V. Bowen, J. A. J. Henderson, A. K. FIsber and A. I. Webb. Tbe directors elected tbo fol lowing officers: J. I). Maynard, presi dent; P. C. Clegg, vice-president; E. II. Cutts, attorney; J. K. Monroe, secretary and treasurer. Thi* the Day of Thelr Great Annual Tour, nament In Ansnstn* All is bustle and excitement in col ored flreinanic circles in Georgia just now. This is tbe day for tbe groat tournament in Augusta Not only are tbo Georgia firemen in terested in the tournament, but compa nies from Alabama and Florida are alBo to bake a band, and the occasion is one of tbo greatest importance to them. It is expected that thirty odd com panies will contest in both tbe reel and book and ladder races, numbering organizations from Macon, Atlanta, Au gusta, Savannah, Amerlcus, Cuthbort, Albany, Eufaula, Iiarnesville, Griffin, Athens, Gainesville, Palatka, Fla.; Greenville, S. C.; Columbia, 8. C., and other places. Tbo prizes are all in money and worth contesting for. Amerlcus sent two teams to the front yosterday—Vigilance and I). A. Dutiley. They went over the S. A. M. route, In a special coach which was appropriately decorated. On tho sides of the car were streamers bearing tho inscription ‘'Vigi lance, Americas, Record ID},” and other things of that sort. They will use tbe Charles F. Crisp and tbo Frances Bull, the two handsomest and beat reels that will be on tho grounds. These bad pre ceded the companies to Augusta. Besides tho firemen quite a number of their friends wont along and Amerlcus will be well represented in Augusta to day. The local teams and their friends are confident they will come back win ners. The squads which will make tbo teats are: Vigilance hose squad—Captain Ran dall Phillips; runners; Cooper Dudley, Wat Williams, Joseph Slaughters, Lewis Etlcge, Artty Harris, Zoa Fields, Casey Williams, Tom nopklns, Doe Culbert, Charles Marshall, Jesse Terry, Amos Turner, attach to plug; L. B. Hill, plug- man; O. A. Hawker, cut loose; Wm. Black, nozzleman. D. A. Dudley, Copt. Freeman G. El- drldge; runner*—Jesse Walls, W. B. Booker, Beed, E. Ellis, E. Shaw, Jesse Hopkins, Wtllie Slieckins, W. Solomon, M. Strong, R. Mitchell, Peter Gaines, Charles Russell, Mat Bright; Floyed Stephens, attach to plug; M. Boaatley, cut looae; L. C. Clark, plug- man; John Roberson, nozzleman. GONE GLIMMERING GEORGIA'S BISHOP-ELECT. HAS THE BOTTOM OF THE WATER MELON MARKET. Glut* Reported llecauie of Improper Dis tribution—The Rnllroadu Went* Freight Chargee Before a Wheel It Turned—It May be a Turn About Game* Gallant Veterane. To-day will be a big day at Oglethorpe. The occasion la the reunion of tbe Forth Georgia regiment, and a great time It will be. Many grizzled and scarred, bat gallant veteran* will gather there. Tbe Cordele band went np yesterday to furnish mualo for the occasion. A number of survivors of the Fourth went up from Amerlcus this morning, as did many other* who want to be present at the reunion. A splendid programme baa been ar ranged fdr the occasion, Including ad dresses by such distinguished Georgians as Senator Colqntt, Congressman Crisp and General Phil Cook. The programme aa arranged will be as follows: Fourth Georgia regiment meet at academy. Veterans march In ranks to academy and escort Fourth Georgia to tho court house. Speech of welcome on behalf of Ma con county and city of Oglethorpe to tbe veterans by Hon. Robert L. Greer. Speech of welcome In behalf of com pany I and Veterans’ ' Association to Fourth Georgia by Judge Fish. Response In behalf of Fourth Georgia, by J. T. Hqster. Recitation— Address—Senator A. H. Colquitt. Address—General Pbll Cook. Refreshments. Re-assemble at court house. Recitation—Miss Willie Holt Address—Hon. Charles F. Crisp, M. C. Enjoyed Themselves. Monday, at his plantation In Lee county, Lleot C. C. Clay tendered a bar becue to Msaaas. Burdctt of Chicago, Montgomery If. Folsom of the Atlanta Journal, R. J. Perry, George D. Wheat- ley and John Windsor of tbla city which was the grandest success ever achieved by the gallant lieutenant Of course everybody enjoyed themselves to the fullest The party Inspected the crops on the place. They unhesitatingly pronouncs them the flneat they have ever seen. Will Beslan the Place#. General Superintendent V. E. McBee, of the Central railroad, will resign the presidency of the Charlotte, Colombia A Augusta, and tbe Columbia A Green ville railroads. Special meetings of the boards of directors of these tallroads have been called ah. Colombia Friday, July 24, to aooapt President MoBea's resignation. Denies the Keport. Martha Hargrove, a negro woman on Capt. Johfi A. Cobb’s place, denies that she has eighteen children under eighteen years of age, as was stated in Tun Tiue*-Rk< okiikb. She says she only has sixteen. Among the number were four pairs of twins and a set of triplets. The bottom has dropped out of tlie -melon market, and as a consequence the growers, with but few exceptions are os blue as the best article of indigo ever offered the public. What lias boon feared has come at lost. All the markets are glutted. That is all the markets that have any melons at all are glutted while the others are literally crying out for shipments. The result will be that every man who is loading will hurry his car forward to tbe first market that opens in the liopo that ho will beat his neighbor to the tank, as it goes in tho language of the street. That w ill glut those markets also and pandimonium will surely keep company with the men who have hun dreds of acres planted in melons. These gluts arc duo to tho lack of proper distribution, and when they come everything goes wild and pricos go downward at a rate that is aurpris ing. So bad has bocomo tho glut at some points that the Central -road and the other roads which reach tbe melon ter ritory havo sent out dispatches to the agents to refuse shipments to the over stocked poluts. Tho roads have refused, so bad is the state of affairs, to handle shipments of melons from connections, unloss the' freight chargos are prepaid to destination. As an evidonco of the condition of the markets, Atlanta may be taken aa an instance. Ten car* a day can be consumed there on n maximum estimate, Tho Central railroad tele- grapbod yesterday that there were seventy-five cars on its yards at tho close of business Monday for Atlanta proper. Aa many more have probably gone in aince that It was impossible to stop in time. That gives Atlanta ISO cart, less ten which could bare Imen consum ed there yesterday, leaving 140—ora fourteen days supply. Of course tbe melons will get stale. Not only that they will stay there and rot so that they will only be fit to be dumped Into the river. Shlpmenta will be held up for a day or so. Then a telegram will an nounce that Atlanta can handle a cab and In twenty-four hours there will be no less than fifty headed there. And that’s the way - it goes without any organized effort at properly dis tributing tbe crop. Some growers and papers deny it, bat It la a fact nevertheless that the returns for this season’s crop have not been sat isfactory. The very beat atnek of the season la going forward now, neverthe less the growers are Iq almost every in stance drawn on for money to help pay the freight It may be that they are only reaping what they sowed. Last year the Georgia and C^ollna Melon Exchange was organized. It made contracts for decidedly the bulk of the crops of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. The plan waa to pay the growers $75,100 and $50 per car for meloos%n the track when loaded. Noth ing under a fifteen pound melon was to be put in a car and no car was to have less than 1,000 melons. Those who were Interested In tbe exehange were a few prominent growers and commission merchants. To make sure of Its money the exchsnge made contraots with pne commission house at each shipping point t<ehandle all melons, the exehange to draw upon shipment of car for $75, $00 or $50 aa may have been paid for It The idea waa to properly distribute tbe crop and bold up prices that wonld pay. The growers had a good thing. Thom who sold to the exohsnge made more money than they had ever made before. Bat It went not well with the exchange. The growers flew wide of their contract*. Melons were terribly short in weight and numbers. It looked like a plan for all who had contract* to tee how much they could make out of the exchango. Tbe result was that the commission men saw they were con stantly getting In the tonp by advancing more per oar than they conld possibly realize. One fine morning the ex chsnge went to the wall, haring suffered an actual lorn of $35,000, while the ag gregate lots of the exchange and the co-operating commission men footed up a much larger sum. The growers had hurried off green mtihaa, melons that had just dropped the bloom, deformed melons and all other sorts of melons, to get advantage of tbe $75 price. Th* vines were bare and the growers bad made big money. Of course the loss fell on tbe commis sion men. The idea therefore suggests itself that tho commission men are having their Inning this year. That is tiie bulk of them, for somo of them have their inning on every car shipped them and havo from the beginning. lie that as it may all the bottom is out of prices now and gluts are reported from many market*. tVbat a Gentleman Who Know* Him Thinks of Him. • There was a gentleman in Americas yesterday—a well known Episcopalian— whn is intimately acquainted with Bish op-elect Ethelbcrt Talbot. A reporter asked him what be knew of the gentle man who has been called to the bead of the diocese of Georgia. “I know a good deal about him,” re plied tbe gentleman. “I know that he is a man of splendid ability; I know that he is a man of wonderful Resources, and I know that he le a man of remarkable energy.” “Tou think, then, he will fill tbe bill if he decides to accept the call to Geor gia?” ‘I do indeed, I think he will be an ac quisition to the state at large, as well as to tho Episcopal church of Georgia.” “You know him personally?” “Yes; and I anj very much Impressed by him. He is just 42 years old, full of energy, and in love with his work. He la tall and large—a commanding and splendid physique, and a very fine look ing man. He is a man of muob ability and experience, and If ho accepts I think the -people of Georgia will be charmed with him." ‘And what do you know about tbe probability of bit acceptance?" “That I don’t know anything about, except that I think the fact that he has not already declined shows that he Is fa vorably debating the question of ac cepting. Ho at loast has not made np his mind to decline, which, of course, is favorable to that extent.” Death of e Well Known Man. Mr. J. P. Nicholson, father of Mr. John C. Nicholson of Amerieus, died at hie home In Freestone county, Texas, Monday morning at 9 o’clock after a lingering Illness. Mr. John C. Nichol son arrived there a few hours before his father’s death. The dead man had lived two more than the allotted years of three score. Most of the time he lived in Georgia— near Amerieus. He was well known here and liked by all who knew him. Those who were nearest and dearest to him have tbe sympathy of scores of friends In this, their sore bereavement. Joiner A Nicholson's store In this city was olosed yesterday daring the time when tbe funeral waa oeenrring in Texas. New Mai Greeted. It will be remembered that at the November term of Snmter superior ooart, 1890,W.A. Jones* prominent and well to do yonng former of the seventeenth district was tried, convicted and aentoneed to the penitentiary for four yean for sednotion, Judge W. F. Jenkins presiding. A telegram from Judge W. H. Kimbrough of the enter prising firm of Simmons A Kimbrough, announces the grant of anqw trial. The question waa submitted to Judge Jenkln* yesterday, when he was bolding Bald win superior court. Simmons A Kimbrough have done fome good work in tble ease, as they al ways do; end they are to be congratulat ed on their victory. Glanders la 1st, That terrible disease glanders—has been discovered among the stock of Lee county. Mr. Goode Prloe, who live* near Leesburg, has a horse that is suf fering with an sente case of chronlo glanders. The hone has been affected about five months, and four males that were similarly affected have died. There are other animal* on the farm that are sick and are thought to have the glanders. Th* hone was in Dawson about five months ago, about the time the glanders appeared there, and it is thought he caught the disease there. Te Elect a Physician. Capt. John A. Cobb yeiterday left for Milledgeville, where he will today at tend a sate ting of th* trustees of the Georgia Lunatic Asylum.hebcinga mem ber of that body. Among the other matter! which will come before the hoard at thls-meeting Is tbe election of a physician to Oil the place of Dr. O’Daniel who resigned. Capt. Cobb informed the reporter that there are quite a number of applicants for the board to select from. John Jackson, the colored trnokman at the Southwestern depots who lost his wife, Ola Jaekaon, has found her. It. will be remembered that she ran off with Sam Thomas. They were caught at Camilla. John succeeded in getting some very damaging testimony and they were oonviotad of fornication and. give twelve and ten moths in tho Mitch ell county gang respectively. Didn't Stand to tbe Back. Montezuma and Amerlcus were to have tested their prowess on the diamond in this City yesterday,but tho former club failed to show up. This is tho second time tho clul> has disappointed the local playenl Arrangements have been made where-’ by Leesburg and the home team will play here Friday instead of at Saaitl first i BMfiMudtfttiMMail