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VOLUME t AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1891. NUMBER 123 The Greatest Midsummer Sale m * M } " . Grandest Reduction'in Prices Ever known in the history of our trade, commences to-morrow (Monday) morning 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 ARE GOING TO J” GIVE AWAY DOMESTICS TOGETHER WITH ALL OUR ’ r.~ Calicoes, Ginghams. Muslins, Chat lies. AND OTHER SUMMER DRESS GOODS AT COST And LESS THAN tOST if necessary, to - , CLEAR OUT. Prices will be cut “FINE AS FROGS’ HAIR.” If you don’t believe this, OTHERS WILL, so jusfrcome and see the crowd this week at Geo. D. wneaileu’s. All our 8e Flfured chillies to to »t life per Td. AUourl2!4c “ " “ •« per yd. All our 8c Standard Calico*. “ 5c per yd. All our 7o Printed Victor* Lawn, at 8>4o per yd. All onr 8c White Lawn. (yd.wide) at 5c per yd. All our 8c White Check Nainiook at 6o per yd. Stock of above will not last long at such prices, so come early or yon will be disappointed. NOW LOOK! 5c This Is the Biggest m FIVE CENT hfi Ban .in Ever You Saw. W ww We got “scooped" some imeVgob^purchrolaWg Tot*'£*?,*<*ch ains: We have been asking from 20 to 40o per yard, but the goods inger with us longer than we like, so m order tomove them right mt and at the same tfme give you an A No. 1 BARGAIN we part with tho intire lot at , , , , 5c PER YARD THIS WEEK.. W« cannot mention horn any SPECIAL PRICES on emrythinj ve have to offer, but remember in reading the foregoing, that PKO- ’ORTIONATE and SWEEPING REDUCTION IN PRICES will >e the order of this week in every department of our store. OUR STOCK OF Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces, Em broideries, Corsets and Gloves larautee the best in the city, and our competition. the reach of 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 TDrBE FOUND, and OUR PRICES always have been simply UNAPPROACHABLE from the standpoint of compe tition. here^weTilTrefuse lloiiEASONABLEoSsfo? anything you may neod in our line. Cannot you save something by trading with ■/* * il Vil iAr Cor. Lamar SL and Cpttop-j^eQ */I Aii GEORGIA’S SHAME. HER LEGISLATURE REFUSES TO AC CEPT THE SOLDIERS’ HOME. The Fete of the Kx-Confederete Horae Bill—It Is Loit bjr • Vote of 04 to GJi lu the Southern Empire State Capitol—I***ve Heroes of a Lost Cause Repudiated. _ Atlanta. Aug. 27.—Tbq’ failnriCof tho lcgi.-lat are to paes the bill for the state to accept the Confederate Veter ans’ home, tendered by the trustees jn behalf of vlie thonssnda of-stockholders of the lioiue. to the state of Georgia, free of aU cost, for the poor and indi gent Confederate veterans of the state who are not able to take care of them selves, has brought a tidal wave of in dignation from throughout the country, wherever lives a patriotic son of onr sunnv southern land. Thu. l!rave Men Deserve I tetter. Surprise is expressed everywhere, and in the north, where iu certain quarters sympathy does not run high tor the old Confederates, the people are astonished "that the empire state has thrown overboard these brave men who at least deserved better. * , „ J,' Tho Vote In tho Honor. Condemnation 4n, no uncertain lan guage has come from the lips ot every Georgian, commenting upon what is universally termed a shameful and dis graceful-act of the legislature. The vote in the house stands 91 against and 63 in favor of the bilL Habile Sentiment In Georgia. .- If the feelings of the public in Geor gia is at all indicative of what may oo- cur in the future it ia certain that sev eral of the unwise majority will be ‘statesmen ont of a job’ wheu the next (lections roll around. Telegrams from nearly every town in the state announce Georgians astonished and disgraced and great dissatisfaction is openly declared at the stand taken by the nnloyal rep resentatives. ■} ; The Locldature May Chance lta View*. A great effort will ba made to hate the legislature rescind its action, and to secure It reconsideration of the ungrate ful vote. It is bopod the gentiemen who voted against the acceptance have, by this time, changed their views. The veterans ore aroused and will leave no stones untamed, until the honor of the honor of the state and the old disabled soldier has been retrieved. The Feeling in New York. New York, Aug. 27.—’The announce ment that the Georgia house of repre sentatives had defeated the Confederate home bill creates tremendous excitement here. It is the talk of every circle, and nothing else ia discussed. Ex-Confed erates go eking with bowed beads, and all southerners are loud in their expres sions of Indignation and astonishment. Georgians very generally decline to be interviewed, hot they are unanimoos in condemning the action of their repres entatives. No southern event since the death «T Henry W. Grady has caused such a sensation as this totally unex pected act km of Georgia's lawmakers. An ex-federal general said: "I can not understand the action of the Geor gia legislature. It cannot represent the sentiment of the people. Every north ern state has provided a home for its old soldiers. Every civilised nation has done the same. It is considered un grateful and almost barbarous to neg lect the brave men who fight a people's battles. To refuse them a shelter, es pecially when it will coat the state noth ing, is monstrous. If I were a Confed erate, or a southerner, it would make the blood boil in my veins to have my state do os Georgia has done I" Dumfounded In Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 37.—The southerners resident here ere dumfounded. They had been boosting about the fidelity of the south to her traditions. The Con federate soldier wm quite a toast. But now that he has appeared before the Georgia legislature In the guise of a beggar, and has been refused even a ■hand-out, 1 ’ there is mortification and shame. It has been proposed by several that the Grand Army men should chip in and help support Georgia's veterans, since the state is so broken upin finances that she cannot aid them. Haase or Representatives In Session. There was a full attendance in the boose here, following the record of the preceding one, which was called by a leading paper published here, "a bad day’s work." Before the boose was called to order there were animated conversations going on all through the ball, the chief topic being the Confed erate Home bill, and the comments of the newspapers on the failure of the legislature to pass the bill to provide a home for decrepit Confederate soldiers. The comments of the members were varied-some approving and others in dignant. Soon It was apimn.-nt that an angry doud was lowering over tho ,d/Tha« it «a r *' i reading of tl was oyer, the torrent. broke Alt of Effingham, had year. M ihS front of the sneaker’s -* , t dean, aua onto Dated Weaio’ana mnucu- ed expression, holding a paper iu his hand, received the recognition of the chair. Mr. Howell had vacated and Mr. Boiffnelette presided. Mr. Wright, of Effiugham. said he desired to standby his rtRoijDPbut he did not care to be branded' Os a traitor, and, therefore as a privileged question, he desired to introduce the following resolution:. 'f V "Whcresy. the Constitution (whose editor-in-clthe Speaker «f this house) of this morning is reeking with the tilth fit (be slums against tiie ma jority of this legislature ; Resolved, therefore, thnt said Consti- tntiou receive the severest censure of this body." This extraordinary effort to muzzle the press, iu which the unique Alliance statesinau figured to immortalize him self. formed the makeup of the day's proceedings. Several of the daring among the"94"grew loquacious in their arraignment of the speaker and The Constitution, but the more thoughtful and prudjnt of the now widely censured number were equally conspicuous for their silence as were their col leagues' for their oratorical vehemence, yet, despite the blushing silence of the some among the many, strained attempt at cheering would occasionally make a break in their quarters, to enliven the finishing touches they were seeking to implant on the disgrace, they bad worked on the patriotism of the state of Georgia, the day before, bringing con demnation from all parts of the earth npon their lack of chivulry mid all that goes to make up loyal citizenship. There was a wanting of applause in the gallery at this time, bnt clieer after cheer plainly displayed what the senti ments of the people of the empire state are when the champions of the honored "04” espoused to defend their noble cause. Mr. Howell did not want for aid, and tbe elequence of the defenders of the old soldiers und Of the freedom of the press will make tbe day a memorable one to both the members of the nonse and to the visitors. Mr. Clark Howell made a telling talk. Upon the motion to table the resolutions, the yeas and nays were called with the vote as fol lows : 99 yeas to 53 nays. The house then adjourned. CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES, Domestic and Foreign and of General Interest. Eight skeletons were found inamound in Gentry o .unty; Mo. The silver question has been put ahead of the tariff in the Ohio cam paign. The people in Georgia along the Ma con and Augusta railroad have suffered great loss from damage done by a re cent rain. President Fitzgerald, of the Irish Na tional league of America has summoned a meeting of tbe league at Chicago, Oc tober 1 and 3. The Nicaragua Canal company has completed a new dredge which possesses a capacity of 450 tona. It is worked by a screw, and is provided with a patent screw apparatus. A Chicago special says: One man was fatally and seven others seriously burned by an explosion of gas in the new city water tunnel, now being con structed under Lake Michigan. At Brazil. Ind., the 4-year-old son of Harwood Tipton swallowed a small tin whistle be was playing with. It lodged below the windpipe and tbe poysictnu was unable to reach it. He will proba bly die. Solicitor General Taft has authorized United States Marshal Walker of Ala bama, to procure a posse and if possible capture "Bob" Sims, known as the prophet, who is nowin Choctaw county, Ala-, a fugitive from justice. The largest sale of bottled whisky ever made in the world took place at Lexington, Ky., the distilling firm of Joseph & Pepper k Oo.. sending to Krause, Hart * VUhtfc of New York, 86,000 case* of 10-year-old Pepper whis ky. The sal* amounted to neatly half a million dollars. ; A Eureka Springs, Ark., special says: Sam Jons' arrived here anil delivered two of his lectures entitled "Character and Characters" and "Get There," to large crowds. His lecture* were not characterised by the billingsgate attri buted to him by the press where he liar spoken recently. Vincent Johnson and Oliver Harris, two negroes living in the country near Eagle Lake, Tex., quarreled over a peach and came to blows, but were sep arated. They met afterwards at sup per and renewed the quarrel, when Har ris abot Johnson with a double-barrel gun, killing him. Harris is now iu A Nashville, (Tcnn.,) special says: Charles Johnson, a well-to-do young farmer, living a few miles out oo the Murfreesboro pike, was arrested on a charge of abduction, for tbe purpose of prostitution. The warrant was sworn ont by the mother of Miss Jennie Schitn- ler, who. a tew days ago, entered suit against Johnson for $30,000 damages for A Washington special says that tbe American association for the advance- men tof science has amfinned all the officers nominated last week, and se lected Rochester as the next place of meeting of the amociation in August, 1893. The convention then finally ad journed. Professor Joseph LeConte, the new president-elect, ia professor of geology in the University of California, and the author of the leading American text books on geology, and is well known os a writes on various scientific tonics. A London dispatch states that tbe Russian rifle factories are running night and day on the new breech-loading re peating rifles with which it is proposed to arm the infantry and reserve. The greatest dilligence is shown in tbe man ufacture. Itie behevedUiatat leest two years will elapse before the home- 000 men will have the rifle within this DISASTROUS. TERRIBLE RAILROAD WRECK REPORTED. The Sleager Report* Received At Char lotte of An Awful Wreck on the Western horth enrollna Division of the Rich- inoucl And Danville Railroad. SSfimSH itnssfe’Xm--gOhStowar too senate,.«>» 1’™''“™ in this meantime, as not less than M0,- 'Ttol 0e 'satisfied. Governor II111 has Charlotte, N. C., August 27 —The most appalling railroad disaster known In the history of North Carolina occurred on the Western Nortli Carolina division of the Richmond Jfc Danville railroad about 2 o'clock this morutug. The scene of the fearful wreck Is at Third creek trestle, just two miles west of Statesville, and about thirty miles west of Salisbury. Reports from Statesville say tbe scene 1b indeed one to make the strongest heart sick. The exact Dumber of killed and woun ded cannot yet be ascertained, bnt It Is thought that thirty or more are dead and fifteen badly wounded, many of whom are expected to die at any mo ment. I have secured, by hard work and at much expeuso, a list of the killed so far as known up to noon. Tbe train was In charge ot Engineer West and was running at a rapid into when it approached Third .creek trestle. Just before it touched tbe fated via duct there was a jerk and a jar, and then, leaping upon It, the timbers trem bling and rocking gave way, ’and the engine, followed by tbe baggago and ex press ears, the first-class and second- class cars and sleeping car, Ml plunged headlong Into the oreek, seventy feet be low. There was a terrible splash and crash and then all was quiet, except tbe slash ing waters. In another minute alow ■cream and groan broke out on tbe night air and then several walling voicea could bo heard. Two men only escaped unhurt. Of the thirty or forty killed only a partial list can now be obtained. Many have not yet been identified. GAS GIVING OUT. Diminution nt the Supply of Natural Qu In the Indian Field. Indianapolis, Aug. 27.—Further dls- closures ore made as to the diminution of the supply of natural gas in the In diana field. The present supply for In dianapolis is obtained from an almost completely new set of wells, and it is necessary to open new ones frequently. Experience has proven that the average life of a well; where drawn npon con stantly, ia about three years, and often it is shorter. In the beglnniu f the sum ply was obtained at a point in the field twenty miles dist nt from Indianapolis. Now it is necessary to bring the gas a distance of nearly forty miles, and the wells are now within a few miles of the heart of the field. The pnrpose in dis closing these facts is to enforce economy in tbe nse of the fuel, and to secare tbe inauguration of the meter system in stead of permitting consumers to burn all tbe gss they want for a fixed yearly charge. There is a great waste in tbe manufactories. allnnMata's Wbeat Crop. St. Paul, Aug. 27.—Full crop reports have been received from all parts of tbe state, and show an acreage of 8,000,000, while enough threshing has been done to allow fair estimates of the yield. The wbeat crop In this state this season will not he below YO.OOOiOOO bushels, and will probably exceed that amount. Tbe recent frosts, which have extended quite generally over the state, have not affected the final result so far as it re lates to the wheat crop. The present conditions will also warrant the state ment that the farmers of Minnesota will receive upward of $80,000,000 for their crop products this year. The yield last year and 1880 was bnt 42,000,000 bushels. Death of 1 a Formerly Hald-of-Honor. Elizabeth, N. J., Aug. 37.—Mrs. Elizabeth Beatty, an old resident of Clinton township, died here, aged 82 years. She was a maid-of-honor in tbe court of King Geoege IV., of England, was formerly a very beautiful woman and often related reminiscences of court life. She first married a British officer, and on his death, forty year* ago, came to this country, where she wedded George Beatty, a wealthy farm er of Clinton township, who afterward ■old the greater part of his land to the New Seisey Jockey dub tor their pres ent race track. Mrs. Beatty died with- out making a will, and, as she has no heirs, her property, worth about $10,- 000, will revert to the state of New Jer* •ay. ' ~ "" " '' " ■ Bill for Governor Again. Washington, August 27.—A well potted New Tork politician now in Washington predicts the re-no ml nation of H1U for governor of New York, and the election of B. P. Flower to the United States senate. He declares that thia is the deal con templated and that the object fe to dem onstrate Dill's ability to carry a pivotal state for tbe third term, and the conse quent necessity of his nomination for president This opinion is shared quite generally by New York people hew, and not a few correspondents. II Flower , can get to tho senate It is presumed his ambition •#*U 7 4 *’ n-:-. XI 111 * failcfl to draw a penny of Ms sfMtorial , bu , lDM6 interest in Georgh salary up to date. ' ^ .. f THE LEGISLATURE TO-DAY. The Atlanta Constitution to lie Cfnnrtd for Carrying; Out It* Function*. Atlanta, August 27.—There wag a full attendance of the house this morn ing. Before the bouse was called to or der there were animated conversations going on fill through the hall, the chief topic being the confederate home bill, and the oomments of the newspapers on the failure of the legislature to pass, the bill to provide a home for decrepld con federate soldiers. The comments of .the members were varied—some approving, and others in dignant. Soon it was apparent that an angry cloud was loweriug over the house, and that it would noon burst, amid tho lightning’s flash And tbe roll of thunder. The mutterings were loud and fierce, and as the tedious reading of the journal was over, tho torrent broke loose. Mr. Wright of Effingham had ad vanced to the front of the speaker's desk,and with bated breath and blanohed expression, holding a paper in his band, received the recognition of the chair. Mr. Howell bad vacated, and Mr, Boi- fenlllet presided.; Mr. Wright of Effingham aaid he de- ilred to atand by his record, bnt he did not care to be branded as a traitor, and, therefore, as s privileged question, he desired to Introduce the following reso lution: ■Whereas, the Atlanta Constitution (whose editor-in-chief Is the speaker of this home) of this morning Is reeking with filth of tbe slums against the majority of this legislature: “Resolved, therefore, that said Con stitution receive the severest censure of this body," Mr. Fleming said be hoped that the resolution would not be discussed now, especially ilnoe there appears to be some feeling on the subject. Mr. Wright made the point of order that the motion was not debatable. Mr. Atkinson of Colombia said he voted against tbe bill to provide this home, and he hoped that tbe resolution would not bo considered at this time, Mr. Baldwin—The editor of the Con- ■titution had fifteen hours to reflect be fore he branded as traitors those who voted against the confederate home bill, and I therefore move that the resolution be at once considered, Mr. Bolfeulllet, (presiding)—The chair rules that the motion to consider the resolution Is not debatable. Mr. Berner tried to speak, when Mr. Humphries of Brinks clalned he was out of order. Mr. Hill raised tbe point of order that It does not require a suspension of the rules on the question of privilege. Mr. Berner—That Is the precise view I took of it. Mr. Wright, withdrew his motion to suspend, and moved the adoption of tbe_ resolution. Mr. Berner spoke against the adoption of the resolution, as be would not have tbe house to do anything hastily that It might regret. 1 have never bad any support from Atlanta and owe It noth ing. . • Mr. Cutts—As the author of tbe bill, which has brought on this trouble, I make reply to the gentlemen that we will not brand those who voted against the bill as traitors. It was, I hope, an honest difference of what.wae best for tbe state, and tbslr honor Is not tarn ished by these publications. They will have plenty of time to consider this matter dispassionately. Mr. Wright—There is e very ingenious effort on the part of tome people to throw dirt in the eyee of the members of this bonte end tbe people. And so the discussion ran all day, amid much excitement and feeling, until at last, upon tbs motion of Mr. Jackson of Heard to table the resolution, the yeas and nays were called, end the re sult was as follows: 09 yeas to 52 hays, so the motion to ley on the table prevailed. Fending the call of tbe vote Mr. Smith of Botteeaidbedld not think The Con stitution meant to reflect on the legisla ture, and he therefore voted to lay tbe reeolndon on the table, but if the “At lanta scrubs, Bill Smith included," did not mind they would get themselves in to trouble. Clement's Chances Good. Washington, D. C., August 27.— Several names ere suggested in connec tion with the vacancy on the Inter-state commission, to succeed Mr. Bragg, da- Besidet Mr. Clements, the nameeof Hon. A. D. Candler, and that of Hon. Henry R. Shorter, chairman of tbe atate railroad commission of Alabama, are prominently announced. It Is believed that Mr. Clemente would be very acceptable to the president if be, should apply. The office It worth $7,500 per annum, and the successor of Mr. Bragg have five years of his unexpired term t servo. Tho Georgia friends of Mr Clements here aro very anxiou him seek the place. l. It is not' thought that Mr. would accept the position owiu