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VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1891.
NUMBER 103
The Greatest Midsummer Sale
Dry Boons, Notions,
CLOTHING
- — . . . j
AND THE
Grandest Reduction in Prices
Eter known in the history of our trade,
(Me ' '
onday) morning
at—
commences to-morrow
ABRAHAM BACKER
MONEY AND DID A
BUSINESS,
Bok R«« Failed to Float Hit Paper-
Hearj Dealer in New Fork—Had
Splendid Trade In the Sont.h—Loan to
Macon Construction Company.
D.
n
Cor, Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.
We are determined to make a, CLEAN SWEEP
OF ALL KINDS OF SUMMER GOODS.
And in order to do this, YOUR PRICE'will be
OUR PRICE for anything you may want of
us this week.
WE ARE GOING TO
GIVE AWAY DOMESTICS
TOGETHER WITH ALL OUR
Calicoes, Ginghams. Muslins, Challies,
AND OTHER
SUMMER DRESS GOODS AT COST
And LESS
THAN COST if
CLEAR OUT.
necessary, to
Prices will be cut “FINE AS FROGS’ HAIR.”
If you don’t believe this, OTHERS WILL, so
just come and see the crowd this week at
Geo. D. Wheatley’s.
All our 8c Figured Challlea to go at 4)fc per yd.
All our 12«c “ “ “ 8c per yd,
All our 8c Standard Calicoes " 5c per yd.
All our 7c Printed Vlctora Lawns at 3tfc per yd,
▲11 our 8c White Lawns (yd. wide) at 5c per yd.
All ourSc White Check Nainsook at 5c per yd,
Stock of above will not last long at such prices, so come early or you
will bo disappointed.
NOV LOOK! 5c
This is the Biggest
FIVE CENT
Bargain Ever Ton Saw/
5c
NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN LACE.
T.n/Vrt tnr
time ago in the purchase «of a big lot of Nottingham Lace lor cur
tains: We have been asking from 20 to 40o per yard, but the goods
linger with us longer tnan we like, so in order to move them right
out and at the same tfme give you an A No. 1 BARGAIN we part with 1
entiro lot at
Sc PER YARD THIS WEEK.
We cannot mention here any SPECIAL PBICES on everything
we have to offer, but remember in reading the foregoing, that PKO-
POBTIONATE and SWEEPING REDUCTION IN PRICES will
bo the order of this week in every department of our store.
OUR STOCK OF
Em-
Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces,
broideries, Corsets and Gloves
We guarantee the best in the city, and our prices beyond the reach of
mpetition.
Housekeepers will find it to their interest to inspect our lino of
TABLE LINENS, DOYLIES, NAPKINS, TOWELS,
Before buying elsewhere.
A WORD ABOUT
Clothing - and - Gents’ - Fixings.
We carry the VERY FINEST ASSORTMENT T3 BE
FOUND, and OUR PRICES always ; have been simply
UNAPPROACHABLE from tbo standpoint of compe
tition.
Our determination to reduce stock APPLIES WITH FORCE
here/Mdwe wilfrefuse NO REASONABLE OFFER for anything
you may need in our line.
Cannot you save something by trading
with ’
New York, Aug. 4. — Abraham Back
er, dealer in commercial paper, at 285
Broadway, made an assignment, with
out preference, to Benjamin F. Ein
stein, of 247 Broadway.
Backer was a heavy dealer in com
mercial paper and also the capitalist oi
the Ann of A. Backer & Co., dry goods
commission merchants, at 285 Broad,
way. He also manufactured goods at
Glastonhnry, Conn., where he has a fine
mill. Their goods were prlnulprJly for
the southern trade. He sold tbo goods
which he mantifactnred there through
his own firm of A. Backer & Co. Hie
assignment, it is said, does not affect
this firm, although he was principal
partner and capitalist, his sou, C.
Backer, being the company.
Backer's principal business was deal
ing in commercial paper. His large
connections in the south and southwest
enabled him to handle a great deal of
commercial paper, either as a broker or
purchaser. Some of this paper he had
endorsed and had discounted in his
banks on which he has a contingent lia
bility, and some of it he sold outright.
He drifted, it is said, gradually in this
branch of business by baying at first
for personal investment and then ex
tending it by placing the paper for the
merchants with w horn he had dealings.
He is said to have obtained some of the
best paper made, and he handled abont
115,000,000 annually. Backer w*» very
popular in financial and mercantile cir
cles, and hod the confidence of -banks
and bankers in this city and elsewhere;
is director in city banks and several
sonthem banks. He had a number of
bank accounts where he got his paper
discounted.
Backer’s assignment, it is said, is
principally doe to the condition of the
money market, which made it very dif-
ficult’for him to float a quantity of com
mercial paper, which he generally hand
led, and also to the decline in certain
sonthem railroad bonds in which he
was a large holder. His trouble, it is
said, in relation to sonthem railroad
bonds was the result of his connection
with the Macon Construction company,
of Macon, Ga., of which he was one of
the directors and which he is said to
have lent lunch money. His liabilities
are said to be abont $4,000,000, of which
$2,500,000 is direct and $1,500,000 con
tingent. The latter is said to be' all
right and no loss is anticipated.
The assets, according to one who is
familiar with Backer's affairs, include
abont $1,500,000 of bonds of the Georgia
Sonthem and Florida railroad, and Ma
con and Birmingham .railroad, abont
S )00 of Alabama state bonds and a
nrnonnt of other securities, a val-
mill plant at Glastonhnry, Conn.,
and $150 to $200,000 worth of real estate
in New York city. Backer cauie to
New York from Savannah.
A KING’S SON
Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.,
AMERICUS, GEORGI.
That Came to America and Wu» After*
wards Murdered.
Petoskey, Mich., Ang. 4.—The pros
ecuting attorney of Presqae Isle county
has issued warrants for the arrest of
thirteen men, whom Wm. Repke claims
assisted him to mnrder Albert Moliter
and his clerk, Ed. Snllivan. of Rogers
City, sixteen years ego. Moliter was s
natural ion of King William of Wur-
tembnrg, and came to this country
while quite yonng, being banished for
trying to steal a plan of the fortifica
tions of Ohlan.
After coming here he enlisted in the
army and soon rose to a place on Gen
eral Sigel’s staff. After the war he went
to Detroit, married, and formed a part
nership with a man named Rogers.
They came to this county and bnilt a
mill, importing Germans and Poles to
work it. The burning of the mill caused
Rogers to draw ont. He left Moliter
without money.
By his influence with the Germans,
Moliter got himself elected treasurer of
the county, and it is said that by ma
nipulating the money and jnggling with
the funds rebuilt the mill ana acquired
a great deal of money. He refused to
make any accounting, and ruled the
eople with a rod of iron, bringing upon
limself, so many people say, the fata he
met.
OUSLEY’S 8TORY OF MURDER.
A»shIiu That Killed and llurncil an
Old Man.
Maysvillk, Cal., Ang. 4.—The mys
tery of the death of George Hall, an old
resident of this city who was foally
murdered and attempt made to burn his
remains, has been solved. Wm. Onsley,
a colored waiter in this city, and George
Maddox, another colored man, were ar
rested on suspicion, and Under Sheriff
Bevau elicited from Onsley, who is dy
ing of consumption, a full confession of
guilt. Onsley stated the intention was
to rob Ball bat not to mnrder him.
George Maddox and George Collins, a
third man who was recently killed at
Stockton, went into Ball’s boildfng on
the night of the mnrder and hid there
cntilhe come home, Outer remaining
on the ontside to give on alarm in case
the police appeared.
. When Ball came in,.Maddox and Col
lins jumped on him and he showed fight
totnch an extent that they bit him over
the head. He moaned so much that
they bit him again, and finally jabbed
him in the throat with a fork. After
robbing him the men covered the bod;
with straw while the man was sti'
alive, and set lira to it. The two went
to the Daw-son House, and all three left
that night. Madkox says Oosley’s story
is all a tie.
NEW CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS.
Professor Schuller of tbo DerUu Univer
sity Claims It,
Berlin, Aug. 4.—Profensor Dr. Schnl-
lor of the Berlin university, has a new
cure for tnbercnlosis. He says he has
experimented with it for the lari twelve
years, and that he is • perfectly ntnre of
its results. Professor Schnller is a sur
geon, and consequently his experiments
have mostly been made in coses of so-
called surgical tnbercnlosis. His remedy
is "guaicol,” an extract from boxwood,
and also the active principle of creosote.
He says he was the first to introduce
this extract into the materia medico.
In 1880 he commenced to treat hu
man patients with "guaicol,’’ which he
at first applied in the form of an injec
tion. Later on, as the result of his ex
periences. lie began to use the medicine
internally in very small doses, and in
rare cases by inhalation. He uses the
"guaicol" mostly in connection with
iodoform injections in the uffected parts.
He oited 100 ci^es treated by him. of
which seventy were absolutely cured,
sixteen improved, four died and ten
passed beyoud his observation. Among
these were five cases of lupus, all of
which were permanently enred; twenty-
five cases of strumous affections of the
giauds, of which twenty-one were cured ,
fifty cases of tnbercnlosis of the joints
or bones, of which thirty-seven were
cured; ten cases of spinal tuberculosis,
of whicli four were cured and three iw
proved. •
THE TILDEN WILL CASE
In Court at New York Held to Hove
Been Settled,
New York, Aug. 4.—Rumor* were
afloat in the Lawyers’ clnb, the Manhat
tan club and the Union League club, to
the effect that the dispute ovei.the.wBl
of Samuel J. Tilden had been Amicably
settled. According to the rumors 60
per cent, of the estate is to go to the
heirs and 50 per cent, to the city. This
will give the Tilden heirs a good deal
more than they would have received
had the will been sustained. Sineotho
death of Mr. Tilden the estate has in
creased largely in value, because it con
sisted principally of real estate, and
this is worth abont $10,000,000. If the
heirs were paid ont of this according to
the terms of the will as interpreted
by the executors the sum of $8,(KKi,000
would be devoted to the building of a
free public library. The case is now
pending in the court of nppealsonah
appeal from Hie general tertn. If the
general term decision is sustained the
city, of coarse, will be defeated.
THE CONDUCTOR’S GHOST.
Fright Among tho Darkles Reaches »
High Fitch.
Springfield, O., Ang. 4.—Great ex
citement prevailed abont on theleVee
among the colored residents. It
canned by the second appearance of the
ghost of Christie Harris, a Big Foot
conductor, killed last Monday by Andy
Farrell,. The ghost wss seen this time
by several colored men and women,
who claim that Harris visited the SOefra
of the mnrder and afterward walked to
Farrell’s saloon. The ghost disappeared
as the yard engine passed. The colored
‘e fled into their house* and lacked
door*. A ridiculous report
circulated that the ghost was billed to
appear, and according to these people’s
statements it did. William Howard, a
colored levee Mloonist, claims that his
>ee* has decreased 25 per cent, shoe
the ghost .first appeared. Several fel
lows slept in his place because they
were afraid to go home, while two fam
ilies have moved away.
After the Trustees.
Indianapolis, Ang. 4.—A detach
ment of police has been called to the
snborb of Haughville to protect the
trustees from violence at the hands of
enraged citizens. Notices have been
posted on their doors declaring that
they will be "dealt with” if they do not
resign. After reciting various charges
Inst the trustees the notioe says:
e can endure hardships, trials and
troubles to shelter, feed and sustain
onr wives and little ones, who have
toiled with ns, hoping to see the day
when the mortgages on onr little home*
will be lifted, ont before we will sub
mit to see onr home* go to fill the glut
tonous pockets of Shylocks we will taki
tbe law. in our own hands, and God
have mercy on your souls. ”
Lord So] la bury Reproached.
London, Ang. 4.—A letter from Wm.
O’Brien is published in which the writer,
referring to bis being adjudicated a
bankrupt, reproaches Lord Salisbury
for "taking advantage of a legal techni
cality” to drive him ont of public life
and to prevent his appealing to the
honse of lords. In conclusion, Mr.
O’Brien offers to snbmit .the matter to
the arbitration pf any three members of
the honse of commons Lord Salisbury
himself may select and abide by theur
decision.
A Hoy Suicides.
Charleston, W. Va., Ang. 4.—John
Washington, a boy 16 years old, living
near Lock Eight, left his home. His
parents thought little of it, as he fre
quently went ont to a neighbor’s to
spend tho night. His body was found
stiff and cola, banging from a rafter in
a com crib near tbe honse. A coroner’s
jury found a verdict of suicide, tint his
' beconjecti
TOO MUCH. MONEY
IS PAID OUT TO BUMMERS ON THE
PENSION ROLL-
AGAINST THE Si’ll.TREASURY.
Col. John C. Tsrsney, a Member of th*
House of Representatives, Talke About
the Country’s Demands—Degradation of
the Pension Boll.
motive cannot 1
stored.
An EnglUhnian’s Plan.
Paris, August 4.—An Englishman
named Wells, after winning £20,000 at
roulette at Monte Carlo, left the table
when his lack turned and transferred
his play to the game of trcntc-at-qua-
rante, gaining £8,400 more by the sys
tem of coop dee trois. His plan is to
New York, Ang. 4.—One of the few
congressional districts in which a Dem
ocrat ousted a Republican in 1888, was
the Kansas City district of Missouri
where Colonel John C. Tarsney, a Dem
ocrat, was elected to succeed General
William Werner, a Republican. Mr.
Tarsney still represents the district,
having carried it again last year by an
increased majority. Colonel Tarsney
will be a prominent member of the next
house, and will take an important part
in all legislation relating to pensions.
In an interview. Colonel Tarsney said:
"The Democrats will have control of
the next honse of representatives. They
will be held responsible for the expenses
of tho government. The country de
mands economy. F^ublic expenditures
must be retrenched somehow. So much
has been said abont the billion dollar
congress that the new congress is ex
pected to' be less extravagant. I sc
only one place where a considerable ent
can be made, and that is the pensions
office. Under the pension laws now in
existence, the pension roll of the United
are rising at on enormous rate.
The time has come to coll a holt in this
affair, and I think it wonld be a good
and a wholesome thing to nndo some of
the bod work that has already been
been done. We ought to begin by re
pealing some of the had laws now on
the statute book. I am only too ready
and willing to take my share of the re
sponsibility for snch a work. That
Morrill act ought to be repealed right
" ifhe pension roll will never be thor
oughly cleared of fraudulent cases until
a general law is passed suspending all
pensions until those in interest appear
before a United States officer and prove
anew their right to he on that roll.
Such a measure as that, carried ont un
der the auspices of the war department,
might purify the pension roll. It wonld
also probably reduce it one-half, for I
have no shadow of doubt that over 60
per cent, of the pensions now paid are
baaed on fraud, collusion and perjnry.
The pension roll was once a roll of
honor. What genuine Union soldier
with any self-respect wants to be on
that roll today? As a soldier, and ime
of several brothers who fonght through
the war for the Union, I am disgusted
at this degradation of tbe pension roll.
To load it down with an army of bum
mers and perjurers who have done all
their fighting since the war closed is an
insults to the real soldiers of the war,
who, with their dependent relatives,
have alone the right to he there. *
The Scheme Is a Fraud.
Marshall, Mo., Ang. 4.—Several
week* ago the "Home Fascinator com
pany" of Montreal, advertised exten
sively a word contest, offering prizes
ranging from $1,000 down. Thecontest
was limited to subscribers. Several la
dies here became subscribers, and tbe
other day each of them received a no
tice that she had drown the third prize,
a gold lined silver tea set, and asking
her to remit $4.90 to cover coat of pack-
tag. Postmaster Rising commenced an
investigation, and has received notice
from the assistant attorney general that
the "Home Fascinator company” is a
fraud. The scheme has been exten
sively worked.
Wo Truth In It.
Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 4,-The
sebsational dispatches sent ont from
Cattletsbnrg about the mnrder of the
Brumfield family, in Wayne county, by
(hmnken Italians, ore without founda
tion. A special to The Gazette from a
gentleman in Huntington, vrhoso ve
racity is beyond question, says that tbe
mail carrier from Wayne oonrt house to
Huntington, who passed Brorafield’e
boose, says the entire story is a falsifi
cation. Other parties from the same
looality say there is no troth in it.
A .Sensation In Alliance Clrclea-The People
Opposed to It
Chicago, August 4.—A special from
Topeka, Kan., says:
A sensation has been caused in alliance
circles in this state by tho publication of
open letters by W. A. narris and C. W.
Shum, prominent Isadora in the people’s
party, protesting against tho sub-treas
ury scheme.
Harris Is regarded as the safest leader
In the alliance, and would have been
elected United States senator in
plaoe of Fetter had he not been a Con
federate colonol. .
Siium was the people's party candi
date for lleutenant-govenior last fall.
The sub-alliance , throughout Kansas
this month will vote on tho snb-treas-
ury schomo to decide whether it shall bo
Incorporated in tho people’s party plat
form, and indications now aro that it
will be defeated.
Frank McGrath, president of the alli
ance, who has been so warm in its ad
vocacy, has now come out openly against
tho sub-treasury scheme, and a big light
is looked for when the annual meeting
nf tho nllianco occurs in September.
Col. Harris declares that “after the
brilliant: victory that has been won by
the alliance the ao-called sub-treasury
scheme was brought forth.
“The scheme in its essential foatures
is modolcd after all the most vicious and
corrupt praetioei which wo had con
demned; patterns after the Illegitimate
loaning of money by the government to
national banks and to railroads, and
warehousing and stowing of goods for
importers and distillers: a scheme to Lax
many for the benefit of the few, and of
even the most doubtful benefit to theso
few,”
He says the substantial business men
til over the country have unanimously
> rote* ted against It, and that It Is cortain
o bring abont tbe complete overthrow
of the people’s party If ft is not at once
A STATESMAN IN PETTICOATS.
Lincoln Hspabllcanlsm and Jefferson De-
follow his luck till be wins three tidies
in suecessioq, and then to withdraw
with his accumulated stakes. His suc
cess is tbe sensation of the Riviera.
To* Increase la a County in Georgia.
Stone Mountain, Ang. 4.—DeKolfc
county's tax books have just been dosed.
Tax Receiver Teat has turned over his
books to the comptroller. The increase
of tbe taxable property of th* county
over iaat year is $673,165. The total
taxable property of tbe county for this
year is $4,991,486. This ia a very credit
able showing for old DeKolb. Only
two districts in the county show a do-
cfcasein valuation. Thin was caused
by parts of these districts being added
|to others.
Voting 31 an Drowned.
Ifavannah, Ang. 4.—Stovall Henry,
Inf Augusta, was drowned at Tybce. He
went in bathing with five other yotmg
men from that city, and they went ont
Icnviim him in tbe water, and subse
quently, when they went to look for
him. he had disappeared. The body
Was found afterwards on the beach, two
miles from tbe scene of his death.' It
|was taken-to Augusta for bnrial.
Result or an Old Feud.
Nun-Orleans, Aug. 4. -A Picayune
tp< c ■ from Lake Charles says: On
Lock. Moore & Co.’s railroad anaiterca-
tffin between the men there employed
took plucv. in whicli i-n men were shot,
six of whom w*killed vt once and one
mortally wounded. Hie remaining
three were seriously injured, but may
recover, b is said to be the result
old
Lithia Sprinos, Ga,, August 4.—Mrs.
Lease, who ia equal to all emergencies,
was pressed into sorvice at 12 o’clock to
address a large crowd of alllunccmun
assembled at tho grounds.
She said as Jerry Simpson couldn't
got here slio believed sho would make
his speech for him.
She then ably handled the landed mo
nopoly, arguing that England owns tlireo-
fourths of the land of tho Unltod States,
and protesting against England's j ower.
She had a notion of making Ingall's
speech for him In advance. Sho wss
fully prepared to do ao, for sho had
made tbe samo speech horseif three
years sgo.
She gave Ingalls a severe roasting.
Sho know personally that ho had olTored
big rolls of money to Kansas alliance-
men for their votes,but alio thanked God
that “nary a ono” voted for him.
The lawyers legislate for lawyers,
bankers for bankers, and farmers should
bo sent to legislate for farmers.
Tho history of tbo domocratio party
doesn't show tho samo robbery as that
of tho republican party, but the reason
Is that tho rascals have not had tho
same chances.
Linooln republicanism and Juircrso-
nlan democracy aro both out of date.
We must step out Into tho groat party
of tho common people and raako Ameri
can people sovereigns instead of slaves.
FOUR AGAINST CRISP.
Th* World Receives a Letter Concerning
Georgia Congressmen.
Washington, D. C.. August 4.—The
New York World of to-day prints a
special Washington dispatch which says
that a private letter received in this city
written by a prominent Georgia alliance-
man, states that four out of tho five al
liance members from Georgia will de
cline to support Judge Crisp for spoaker
unless ho satisfactorily defines his posi
tion as to tho Ocala platform.
Messrs. Livingston, Watson, Winn
and Moo’ro aro mentioned as tho four
who havo so announced themselves.
Everett, it Is thought, will vote for
Crisp, yardstick or no yardstick, pro
vided an alllanco candidate for spoaker
is not put on tho courso.
Tho World says the significant thing
about this declaration from Georgia is
tho notico given that several candidates
for speaker aro to be catechised as to
their views on tho Ocala platform; that
tho alliance members will vote for no
man for speaker who is not in agree
ment with them on that subject
Tho impression seems to be that tho
alliance will put up a candidate of tiu-ir
own for spoaker, as uono of tho candi
dates already in the field endorse tiro
Ocala platform.
O* TO 30.
The Railroad Resolution Passed the House
Yesterday.
Atlanta, August 4.—The rcsolu“
to Investigate tho railroad lea''
the house this morning.
It will bo the law <“■
ernor atlixes h 1
will certainly
such legisiat.