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AMERICUS TIMES- VOLUME 1 AMERICUS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1891. NUMBER 1.15 , * •• The Greatest Midsummer Sale Dry Goods, notions, CLOTHING Grandest Reduction in Prices CORRESPONDENCE BRIBKItY CHARGK9. BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC LEADERS RELATING TO THE COURSE To Be Perilled In the Next Session of Con gress—The Opinion of the Party Lenders ns to the Coming Tariff Legislation In Repealing the McKinley Bill. Ever known in the history of our trade, commences to-morrow (Monday) morning AT GEORGE D. WHEATLEY’S, 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 ABE GOING TO GIVE AWAY DOMESTIC S TOGETHEK WITH ALL OUR Calicoes. Ginghams. Muslins, Challies AND OTHER SUMMER DRESS GOODS AT COST LESS THAN COST if necessary, to And THAN COST if CLEAR OUT. 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 Sc Figured ClialllM !o go atl^cpcrjM. Allonrll’Xc “ “ " «c per yd All our 8c Standard Calicoes - 5c per yd All our 7c Printed Victora Lawn* at 3V$c per yd All O'lrso White Lawn* (yd wldo) at 5c per yd All onruc White Check Nalniook at 5o per yd. Stock of above will not last long at such prices, so como early or yon will be disappointed. BOW LOOK! 5e This is the Biggest FIVE CENT Bargain Ever You Saw. 5c NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN LACE. We got "scooped” some time ago in the purchase of a big lot of Nottingham Lace for cur tains: We have been nsking from 20 to iOo per yard, but the goods lintrer with us longer than we like, so in order to move them ngnt out*and at the same tfme give you an A No. 1 BARGAIN we part with the entire lot at 5c PER YARD THIS WEEK. We cannot mention here any SPECIAL PRICES on everything we have to offer, but remember in reading the foregoing, that PRO PORTIONATE and SWEEPING REDUCTION IN PRICES will bo the order of this week in every department of our store. OUR STOCK OF Handkerchiefs. Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces, Em broideries, Corsets and Gloves We guarantee the best in the city, and onr prices beyond the reach of competition. Housekeepers will find it to their interest to inspect our line of TABLE LINENS, DOYLIES, NAPKINS, TOWELS, Before buying elsewhere. A WORD ABOUT Clothing - and - Gents’ - Fixings. We carry the VERY FINEST ASSORTMENT TO BE FOUND, and OUR PRICES always have been simply UNAPPROACHABLE from the standpoint of compe tition. * Onr determination to reduce stock* APPLIES WITH FOBCE here and we will refuse NO SEASONABLE OFFER for anything you may need In 6wc line. Cannot you save something by trading _ y willw » with Washington, Aug. 18.—There has been considerable correspondence re cently licrween the Democratic leaders with reference to the course to be pur sued with regard to tariff legislation after congress convenes. There is no difference of opinion on the main ques tion. All the Democrats agree that some steps must be taken toward secur ing a lower tariff. The party is pledged to this in every national and state plat form, and tlieje is no disposition to avoid the issue. Between the present time and the opeuiug of congress the exact programme to !>e observed will probably have passed out of the region of discussion into one of certainty. Quite a number of the leaders favor rather a dranuitic stroke. They want an act repealing the McKinley bill pass ed as soon as the house meets, without waiting for the formation of the com mittees. They argue that as the Demo crats have made the McKinley bill an issne, a bold assault on that measure at the earliest opportunity will be an earn est to the country of the Democratic sentiment. By the passage of such an act, too, they argue, there will be no opportunity for the long-drawn-out hearings which invariably accompany the preparation of a tariff bill, and which are provokative of any number of jealousies and antagonisms. After the repealing act has passed the honse, the ways and means committee could then, if it saw fit, commence work unon the construction of a new bill: but this, it is held, should not be done until the house 1ms placed itself on record as re pealing the McKinley law. If the senate should not pass the repealing act, the Democrats would be in an excellent po sition to charge the Republicans with perpetuating legislation claimed to be obnoxious, and the same point would be gained if the bill should pass the senate aud be vetoed by the president. Indeed there are so many arguments in favor of this project that it is very favorably considered and may be adop ted. Another scheme is to pass in the house at short intervals bills repealing or lowering the duty on such articles of necessary use as were subjected to a higher tariff by the McKinley bill. It is believed that bills of this nature could pass the senate, as man}' senators would vote with the Democrats on mat ters closely affecting the interests of their farmer constituents, while they would not vote for a low-tariff bill in bulk. Other tariff legislation ideas are being considered, and it is understood that every plan suggested will be laid before a caucus of tile Democratic ma jority early in December. At present the immediate repeal of the McKinley law finds the must favor. INTERVIEW WITH EDITOR RAMSEY In Wlileh tie Says Bulk Mutt Hold Hie High l'oftltloti. Raleigh, Aug. 18.—Editor Ramsey, of L. L. Polk’s paper. The Progressive Farmer, was interviewed by your cor respondent. He declares that no men tion was made of a third party at the state Alliance convention, and says he did not find any bold out-and-out Third party men, and sees no drift that way in North Carolina. He asserts further that he observes no increase in the amount of dissatisfaction with the old political parties. Yet. in strange con trast to this assertion by Ramsey, is the fact that Alliance delegates on their way home sang at the stilt ions, n Good- By, Old Party, Good-By,” tlie singing being led by a state senator who is an Alliauce enthusiast. Shaking of L. L. Polk, Editor Ramsey says his friends are not willing he should lie a candidate for governor, as they do not propose he shall step down from his high position, and feel sure of his re-election thereto in December. Livingston and Calhoun Before the Com mittee—The Testimony, RACE WAR IN CLEVELAND. Hungarian* Make It Kxreedlngly Vn- pleasant to a Frle*t. ^ Cleveland, O., Aug. 18.—Th# race war which ha* lteen going on between the faction* of St. Stanislaus Human Catholic church broke ont again here. At 12-JO o'clock the puljce were notified that a crowd of over MO Hungarian* had surrounded the honse of Priest John Matrouy. The police found the interior of the house in a state of the utmost confusion. The floor waa strewn with •tones and bricks, and nearly every pane of glass in the house was broken in two. The priest said that he was awakened a lx jut midnight by a craah, and a heavy ttotie fell directly npon his Iasi. As soon as the first stone was thrown the air wus rent with cries of " kill him! murder the Slav prieatPetc., and dur ing the uproar several shots were fired. Sergeant Griffin and a detail of officer, were sent out. and as they approached the house the mol) dispersed In th, darkness and quiet restored. To Battle Again.) Third Partylua. Athens, Ga., Aug. 18.—The young Democracy of Clarice is on the move. Fr.day night the member, of the Young Men 1 , Democratic league met to tbor- oughly-reorganize and get in fighting trim. Colonel E. P. Upshaw, president of tho league.* is going to move to At lanta, ana.wiH hence resign his t Of nigh ian Democracy, and will prepare itself Atlanta, August 18.—Yesterday af ternoon the special committee to inves tigate the alleged charges of attempted bribery of oertaln members of the legis lature met and proceeded to hear the testimony on the subject. Mr. Calhoun was the first witness in troduced. He stated to the committee that he used no money lu tho race for the United States senate, nor did any member of the legislature offer to sell him his vote. He was told that by send ing for several influential citizens and bringing them to Atlanta they could in- fluence some votes for him, and to do this would require some money, but that be declined to do ,o because if elected he desired to be elected on his own merits. He had heard rumors to the effeot that certain members would vote for him if money waa used, but ha de clined to pay any attention to anything on this line. Mr. Livingston made substantially the same statement. He said he had never said any members offered to sell to him, but had heard that if money wns used to bring certain gentlemen to Atlanta, cer tain votes could be controlled. 1 was present when rumors wore discussed, and I have referred to these rumors. I did not'learn tbo names of the seven members who report said were willing to Nell their votes. I heard rumors on both sides. It was rumored that Gor don's friends had used money and some of Calhoun’s friends criticised him for not doing it as it was said Gordon’s friends had done—getting help from abroad to influence members in his be half. Mr. llnrrett, a member of the commit tee to investigate, is reported as saying that tho resolution was gotten up by Gordon's friends with tho direct object of putting the other side in a bad light. They are anti-Livingston men, and their object is to placo Livingston in a bad light, hut they will not succeed. “We will give them a taste of their own med icine, for all the testimony so far excul pates Messrs. Livingston and Calhoun, and strongly criminates Gordon’s friends. I will show Gordon’s friends nsed the money.” ' Mr. Oattls, chairman of tho commit tee, and tho introducer of the resolution, says the resolution was not introduced to retloct on Livingston, Calhoun or Gordon, but simply to investigate tho remark that certain members had offer ed to sell their votes. Mr. Barrett soys ho has the proof that Gordon used money. He will have an opportunity to prove It or take water. We are not here to shield anyone. Mr. Barrett Is on the committee, and It Is his duty to furnish all the testimony that will throw any light i n this subject, and now that be makes the charge he must substantiate it.” The committee will meet to-morrow morning at 0 o’clock. Other witnesses havo been summoned and will be here then to testify. It is expected that theso witnesses will swear thAt Living ston told them that “he had tho names of seven who offered to sell their votes to him for #500 each, saying as they were not instructen by their constitu ent* whom to vote for, that they would vote with him for that sum, and that ho had the namca in hia pocket and could divuigo them on nn investigation.” Anothor witness is expected to swear that Livingston told him another mem ber offered to “vote for Calhoun if Liv ingston would pay him %1'tO fora horse and saddle ho hail here ” The Investigation has just begun, and promises to be highly sensational. RAGING FLAMES DESTROV BLOCKS OF BUILDINGS IN JACKSONVILLE. ' - A Big Fir* That Haa Worked Financial Destruction to Induatrloua People In a Progressive Town—Mercantile Houses, Banks. Etc., In Ashes. mm Jacksonville, Fla., Ang. 18.—A wide path of melancholy, smouldering ruins two blocks wide, and six blocks long, extending from Bay street np to Beaver street, and one block on each side wide, is the result of a fire started at 2:10 in the morning. It caught in R. D. Knight Sc Co.'s crockery store, ad joining tho immense Hnbbard building and in a very short time the whole block was one mass of intensely heating flames. From thence they were carried to the old Freedman's bank building across the street, and then diagonally across to the Tremont hotel, then Colo nel Barbridge's large block in which the Seminole club wns, and then it spread on all sides, being fanned by a stiff breeze -that rose. The firemen worked heroically, bat nothing conld stay the flumes until almost exhausted for want of material. They were stopp ed at Beaver street on the north, at Laura street on the west and at ocean street on the east. At 7 o’clock In the morning over twenty-five business houses are burned ont aud some forty to sixty dwellings. The loss is fully $1,000,OIK), with probably one-half insu rance. OVER THEIR DAUGHTER'S LOVER. Missouri Parent* Don’t Agruo and Fatal Tragedy Ensues. Kansas City, Aug. 18.—A special to the Times from Ottawa, Kan., says: E. B. Preston, a lumber merchant of North Ottawa, shot and killed his wife and attempted to commit suicide. Mr. and Mrs. Preston separated some time ago during a quarrel over the attentions of n certain young man to tlieir daughter. Mrs. Preston retu rued to her husband three weeks ago. but the quarrel was renewed. Daring the altercation.Pres ton drew his revolver aud killed his wife at the first shot. He turned the weapon ou himself an l shot himself iu the Head, inflicting a wound from which he can not recover. To, Abolish th. County Court. Montezuma, Ga., August 18.—A de termined effort ou the part of the peo ple and the farmers and alttancomcn will be made to abolish the county court of Macon county at the present session of the general aesembly. No objection le raised to the manage ment of that court by Judge Fish, who baa just been elected to the superior court judgeship of this district. But the people have become dissatisfied with the court, believing that It is no advantage to the coanty, and may be a positive harm. Farmer* are put to a great deal of trouble by the frequent sitting of the court and dallying of lawyers, it seems that the court must go. Many of the best citizens of th. county favor Its ab olition, outside of the farmers. AU Aboard for Columbus. This will be the cry of Protector Hook end Ladder Company No. 1 to-morrow, •t 7 a. m., to their burner jus friends and all other* who wish to join them on their annual excursion. On this occasion the company go to Columbus, Ga., over the a A. M. road, and a good time gen erally Is assured. Fare for tho round «> Snly #1.00. Train leaves Americas 7 a. m. to-morrew, and on the return p .wjll leave Columbus-at 8 JO the ie evening. An extra coach will be attached to this train for the accommo dation of push white people as may de sire to go. Hallway Murderer*. New Youk, Aug. 18.—A paper was read before a gathering in Association hull on "Ruilwny Murders. ” The Rev. Thomas G. Dixon. Jr., condemned the carelessuesa of railroad men, claiming that they held human life very cheaply. Hu pointed to the tact that the death rate by railroad acdueuta was increas ing. it wus his opiuiou that the great railwuy systems shdnld be taken ont ot tne control of the great corporations and placed under the control of the govern ment-. CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES, Domvslle anil Foreign end of General Interest. Tho Georgia state Alliance is in tes- slon at Atlanta Peter Flesher died at Lexington, Uhb. aged 80. He went there in 1883. He was a close friend of President Lincoln. Mr. Pat Cnlhunn, of Atlanta, bus par- chased nearly a quarter of a million dollars worth of property -in Cleveland, Ohio. At Bnena Vista, Colo., Mclver was fonnd guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the first iustauco of a lyncher being con victed. A Waco, Tex., boy was pursunded to marry a domestic, hut his father inter fered, aud the marshal caught him be fore the marriage. Alex Grote, nftef relieving several Atlanta citizens of their cash through divers pretences, has left for parts un known. A reward of #50 is offered for his arrest. The special committee of the Georgia botwj or representatives, appointed tot “ ’ * tiga that pnrjiose, are investigating the charges of alleged attempt at bribery in the late senatorial race. Lieutenant Scriven, the commissioner to Central America for the Latin-Amer ican departments, reports that the gov ernment of (Salvador will erect its own bnilding at Jackson Park. It is understood that the president called Charles Emory Smith to the shore capital, and as a result of the confer ence at Cape May, N. J„ Mr. Smith will return to St. Petersburg early in Sep. temlwr. John D. Shaw, who came to Atlanta some time since from South Carolina with his wile, who had a good supply of cash, has taken her wealth and hu leave rather abrnbtly. Mrs. Shaw is now without money and a husband. Eugene Steely, coanty clerk of Clark comity, Iud., dropped dead of heart disease at hie home in Jeffersonville. He was 41 years of age. He was a of O. “ ’ ” **' brother of O. O. Steely, Washington correspondent of The Courier-Journal. At Columbus, O., while the family was st church, a thief tried to enter the residence ot W. W. Daniel on Monroe avenue, bnt wee met in the yard by a servant girl, whom he knocked down After she gave the alarm, and then re called over a back fence. THE LEGISLATURE, ’ . Very Llitls Was Dane by the Lawmakers Yesterday. Atlanta, August 18.—The members of the house were this morning invited by Mr. Ryals, of Chatham, to visit Sa vannah on the 28th Inst., where they are promised a royal good time, and will thua be afforded an opportunity of see ing for themselves the great need of deep water for that port. At the request of Mr. Reid, of Put nam, his bill fixing and providing for the compensation of the board of educa tion in the state, which was defeated at the last session, was re-lntroduced and sent to the committor on finance. Mr. Atkinson’s bill providing for the appointment of a woman from each con gressional district to visit the Girl's In dustrial and Normal school at Mil ledge- ville, which was defeated and reconsid ered a short time ago, was again put put upon its passage this morning. Mr. Atkinson made another- ring ing speech In support of his meas ure. Mr. Fleming hoped the bill would psss, and demanded the previous ques tion. , The bill was passed by a vote of 91 to 30. Two important witnesses, Col. Living ston and Mr. Calhoun, were examined yesterday afternoon by the special com mittee appointed to look Into charges of bribery In connection with the sen- storlal election last fall. Mr. Calhoun said he had not attempted to buy any vote nor had an; vote been offered to him for sale. Col. Livingston knew no member of the house who had offered to sell bis vote. ANNEAL I ENCAMPMENT Of Odd Fallows of the State of Gootgla— ■BIUnIIiik of the Grand LodgeTHB ■ CoLl'Miius, Ga., AugustJ 18—(Spe cial.)—Hundreds of Odd Fellows from all over Georgia are here to-day, attend ing the annual encampment which met at 0 o’clock this morning. A business session was held this morn ing, and the reports submitted show an Increase of 40 pci cent, in membership and 50 per cent, revenue sinco the last annual meeting. -The encampment elected the follow ing officers for tintensulog year: Grand Patriarch, Je«se T. Kenyon, of Atlanta; Grand High Priest, A. N. Manncy, of Ssvnnnnh; Grand Senior Warden, M. O. Berry, of Columbus; Grand Junior Warden, tleo. Rnkestraw, of Gainesville;Grand Scribe, John O. Deity, of Macon; Grand Treasurer, S. H. Hall, of Atlanta; Grand Marshal, G. W. Rush, of Brunswick’; Representative to the Foreign Grand Lodge, C. A. Roby, of Augusta The reports submitted show about 5,- 000 members of tho Encampment In Georgia. Delegates continue to arrive by every train to attend the meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Order, which will be con vened at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning. The Nem In D*8oto. DkSoto, August 17.—Mrs. J. J. Sloan, who has been spending some time with her father, returned home Sunday, 18th last. Dr. Frank L. Cato, who has been' speoding some time with hts parent* at the Plain*, returned home this morning, greqtly to the delight of hi* many friends in DeSoto. Mr. C. C, Stuart of New Jersey Is stopping at the Hutol DeSoto. Mr. J. L. Butler returned home Fri day last after a pleasant visit to hia parents at Ty Ty, Ga. Mr. Butler alto visited Brunswick, when be took In St. SlmAn’a and other aoenery. He reports an enjoyable time. Mr. R. H. Davis, of Cordele, spent several days In DeSoto the past week. Mr. P. J. Luke bad his thumb badly maabed one day the past week, from the effects ot which be has suffered greatly, but is now Improving. To Tak* tho Convicts Book. Nashville, August 18.—The sub lessee* of the prisoner* now at Brieeville to-day made application to the board of prison Inspectors to have the order for the removsl of the convicts from Brice- ville rescinded. The board, however, refused to modify thslr order, and the matter will possibly b* taken to tho courts. 'Wm. O’Brien, M. P„ having, through be kindhees of hi Freight Agent of the S.A.M. From The Montgomery Advertiser wo glean the following: In railroad circle* yesterday it was talked that Mr. Leo McLendon was go ing to be appointed freight agent of the S. A. M. road in this city ss soon ns that road was in regular operation. Mr. McLendon la now traveling freight and passenger agent of that road, with headquarters at Columbus. He occu pied he same position with the Central road, at Savannah, prior to his accept ance of the present position. Mr. Adams of the Construction com- wMch he began writing while in prie tbe kindness of his wife's taped the net of insolvency in which he bed become involved, and thereby preserved his place In parliament, has retired to'the west coast of Ireland to .. i.„-i complete a noVel on Irish subject., p * 4y ' '• n<»w acting as local agent for the rood. The shipment* over the road The O’Brien* have taken a pleaeant cot* at present congfat of consignment* to the ttgwatm pkce once convenient and different camps along the lice.