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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.