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AMERICUS
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1891.
NUMBER 124
The Greatest Midsummer Sale
OF
Dry Goods, Notions,
AND
CLOTHING
AND THE
Grandest Reduction in Prices
Ever known in the history of our trade, commences to-morrow
(Monday) morning
AT
GEORGE 0. WHEATLEH,
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 OUB
Calicoes. Ginghams. Muslins, Chapes
AND OTHER
SUMMER DRESS GOODS AT COST
And LESS THAN COST if necessary, to
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
Bea D. Wheatley's.
AROUSED PEOPLE.
GEORGIANS CONDEMN THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Great Indignation Meeting Held In Atlan
ta -Over 5,000 People Crowd About tlie
Artesian Well — Speechea from Promi
nent Veteran* end Citizen*.
and Kuiliciuut.
All our 8c Figured Challies to go at 4%c per yd,
Allourl2Mc " “ *‘ 8c per yd.
All our 8c Standard Caltcoe* “ . 5c per yd.
All our To Printed Vlctora Lawns at 8^c per yd.
All o ir 8c White Lawns (yd.wide) at 5c per yd,
All our 8c White Check Nainsook at 5c 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
FIVE CENT >
Bargain Ever Ton Saw.
5c
NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN LACE. We got “scooped” some
time ago in the purchase of a big lot of Nottingham i/ace for cur
tains: We have been asking from 20 to 40c per yard, but the goods
linger with us longer than we like, so in odder-to move them right
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
be 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.
Honsekeepers will find it to their interest to inspect onr line of
TABLE LINENS, DOYUES, 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.
determination to reduce stock APPLIES WITH FORCE
here^and^we ^rilTrafuse NO REASONABLE OFFER for anything
yon may need in onr line.
Cannot you save somethin? by trading
with
Geo. D. Wheatley
Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave..
^MERICTXS, GEORGIA.I
Atlanta, Aug. as.—There is atm
feeling nf bitterness in this city and
throughout the state over what is termed
to be the "disowning of old Confederate
veterans.” The "94" of tho Georgia
house of representatives when they got
in their uuloyal work in defeating the
Confederate veterans’ home hill, hail
their day, and forever under the shower
of rigid condemnation it will never go
nnforgotten in their memories. The
denunciation of an outraged state, the
indignation of a patriotic people, the
appeals for old heroes will continne to
hanut their trend wherever they may go.
Tlie old helpless, homeless, wander
ing veteran,” said a prominent Atlanta
ex-Conf.-derate, "will no longer be left
to the mercy of such uncivilized action
as characterized part of the legislature
of onr great state. The veterans and
their friends are aroused and it is evi
dent that, although the • 94 ’ have bod
their day in a reoord that may never be
blotted out of the public mind, the pa
triots of Georgia have now come to the
front to proceed to bury whatever may be
left of these would-be hero slaughterers
in utter condemnation, and to applaud
the deoils of the noble and the brave of
onr southern land and to snpport the
unfortunate defenders of a lost, but not
a traitor's cause.
The called meeting of the Confederate
veterans at their hall in this city was
attended to iverflowing, and before the
arrival of the president the legislature
was censured in not very complimentary
terms by the large number present.
President Calhoun came in and called
the meeting to order. He btilted the
purpose of the meeting as announced in
the call, and said that if the veterans
decided to go to the artesian well they
would see to it that the best of order
was preserved. At the conclusion of
his speech. Mr. John F. Edwards moved
that a committee of three be appointed
to draw up resolutions embodying the
sentiments of the Confederate Veteran’s
association. The motion was carried,
sad President Calhoun appointed Mayor
W, A. Hemphill, J. A. Anderson and
Colonel J. O. Waddell as the committee.
Several gentlemen were called upon
to speak tad tlie subject bf taking part
in the indignation meeting was dis
cussed. Colonel Milledge then made a
strung speech urging the veterans to do
nothing rashly or witliont <lne cousid-
eration. and urged them whatever ac
tion they took to remain in their hall
and not go to the artesian well, where
he was sure there would be a great
crowd whom they conld not control
"I don’t think," said Mr. James D.
Carter, "that tills body of men needod
to be named to keep them from doing
violence. They have fought many a
hard battle, and I think they can be
trusted anywhere. [Loud applanse.]
We are here to protest against the in
famy which the Georgia legislature has
forced upon ns, and we will be beard.
If we do not they will rub It on three
fold thicker next time. They are bide
bound to the Alliance and are following
the leaders who have carried them
astray. They have forgotten the battle-
fieldsof ’61 und ’63and ’(St. Comrades,
there will be no violence, no burning In
effigy. But we will be heard. ” [Load
anil continued applause.]
.Loud cries, of "West!". "Westl
were then made by the veterans, and in
response Colonel A. J. West came for
ward. "I believe," said he, "in treat
ing this matter in' a business way, and
I believe in marching straight to that
well. [Applanse.] "The Georgia legis
lature 1ms turned these poor, helpless
comrades of ours homeless, away from
their doors, and these things should be
piired into their ears. If there is one
mured luto tapir ears, it mere is one
joilfederate soldier Who is too weak to
stand np for his rights he is not tlie
Confederate soldier that 1 knew. Would
that we conld bring back the clarion
voire of Ben Hill or the eloquence of
onr beloved Grady to plead the canse of
the wandering veteran, who is helpless,
homeless and alone, and who is now
spumed away from the open doom of a
home given him by the generous contri
butions of nn appreciative pe»>ple. ”
Mr. T. B. Neal was recognized by the
chair.
"I have a proposition that I want to
make, ” said he. "I move that tlie Ful
ton County Confederate Veterans' asso
ciation have inscribed on a marble tab
let the name of the ninety-four who
voted against the acceptance of the
home, so that we may never forget
them."
Ninety-three men and a nigger,"
added a veteran.
I move we make it black marble, ”
said another.
"And turn its face to the wall in
sine," cried another.
Dr. Pegg moved that the names of
the noble and immortal sixty-four be
"embossed on a marble tablet." and
preserved by tlie association. This lat
er motion was pat at a substitute to
Mr. Neal's motion, and was carried
with a whoop.
At this juncture the committee ap
pointed to draw np resolutions came in,
and their report was read by Mayor
Hemphill. The report was as follows:
Whereas, the Confederate Veterans'
association of Fulton county hits been
called t.wether to take appropriate action
concerning the defeat in the unuse of rep
iwntative* of the bill to accent the Con
federate Sot,tier's home; therefore, be it
iiesolvvd, 1. That tide association de
plores the action of a majority of the house
of representatives in refusing to accept
tlie ground* and buildings known as the
Confederate Soldiers’ Home. They be
lieve that there is at present, aud growing,
a necessity for the opening of such an In
stitution os this home was intended to be,
and the cost of its maintenance, as pro
posed, would have beat very, moderate
aud easily withla the resources of the
people of Georgia.
RmoIvoL i That the refiuul to mygnt
tfSf&msfor thcliomeleSaSa^SM*
txmfoderatoa of Georg!*. whatever mo-
tlvoB may have prompted it, will curry the
lmnmwion to other statw that the people
of Georgia are unwilling to do justioe to
nor lionudew, disabled fmhllor*. mid will
uo the reputation of our people infinite
harm.
Kettnlvod, a. That the house of repre
sentatives he respectfully requested and
urged to reconsider the actiou on the hill
nnd
for
__ . neciijwnry
■W. A. flK'lI’HILL,
J. A. Axdkusox,
J. O. Waiidkll.
Tin; rej>ort of the committee wua
unanimously adopted.
President Calhoun then announced:
"We will proceed to the well preceded
bv the band,” and the veterans in line
or march soon arrived at that place
where a cheering multitude welcomed
them. The band played Dixie aud over
5,000 people continued to applaud, as
Colonel w. L. Calmmn, Mayor Hem
phill and other promiuent veteraus as
cended the platform.
It was several minutes before quiet
could be restored, aud when at last the
crowd grew comparatively quiet Colo
nel Calhoun addressed them.
“We respect the legislature and every
department of our government, but we
do claim the right to a free and honest
expression of our opinions. We are
veterans who wore the gray aud we are
here to express our opinion on a matter
dear to every true veteran and to every
true Georgian. It is not our intention
to reflect upon the members of the
is—".
Hit ’em hard!" yelled the crowd.
The people of Georgia," continued
Colonel, Calhoun, "in response to the
burning words of Henry Grady, by free
and voluntary contributions, built the
splendid veterans’ home and offered it
to the state, and though absolutely free
as it was, they refused to accept it. It
was their solemn duty to have accepted,
and I believe, so help me God, that the
>ple of Georgia will rise up at tho
Ifot box and say so.
Atlanta bad no more interest in this
home than any other city or town in
Georgia, and it was built by voluntary
THE FIGHT ON SILVEK
SHERMAN'S FIRST SPEECH IN THE
OHIO CAMPAIGN.
rre Coinage Seem* to Bother Him—He
Say* It X* Impractical, Nonsensical and
Nobody but the Dlthoncftt Detlre It—The
Tariff Question Ignored.
contributions from people all over the
state. For myself, may I never speak,
may my arm never be raised again if I
"—it these poor old veterans 1
at," continued Colonel Calhoun in
t burst of eloquence that created the
wildest applause. "If the Qeorgla legis
lature does not see flt to care for these
helpless ones, the people of this grand
old commonwealth will rise in their
might and ask them to come in and be
welcome, and we will care for you till
~JU pass over the river and sleep in the
»om of the soil yon loved so well. *
Colonel Calhonn then introduced Rev.
Sam Small, who spoke at some length.
" We stand tonight, ” he said, "on con
secrated ground; consecrated by the
scenes of thirty years ago. When the
war clarion went out over Georgia, and
when her brave sons marched out and
>ut on the habiliments of war to repel
nvasion they made this soil sacred.
"This ground is consecrated tout in
the name ud for the spirit of liberty; it
is consecrated, because it was wet with
the blood of our defender*, aud because
it was Covered with the ashes of desola
tion. Consecrated, because it today
bears up this magnificent city—the
work of the old soldiers who wore the
it thirty yenrs after these brave
men marched to war, they have been
rejected by the so-called representatives
of the people. •
"Hit ’em agin!" the crowd urged.
"They have been spurned from the
steps of yonder capitol and the love of
the people who at the call of the lm-
irtal Grady bnilt that home and of
fered it to the state has heeu mocked.
These men have said: ‘We want no
gift that will give comfort or consola
tion to the Confederate veterans. We
are housed in a million dollar capitol,
we get $4 per day and we hold tree
passes to come and go as we choose aud
while the rich may ride, the old nigged
and tattered veteran may beg bis bread.’
This action beings on Georgia everlast
ing infamy and disgrace I If we have
come down these twenty oenturiee hut
to repeat the acts of heathendom, let us
send our Cinnatusses of the Alliance
back to their plows I" - [Chests.]
Alter several other speeches delivered
by Colonel Win. HuGiey, Rev. J. W.
Lee, Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, Judge Rodg
ers and others. Colonel Calhonn thanked
the large crowd for the respectful at
tention given the speakers, and the
meeting dissolved.
"To the capitol I To the capitol!"
This cry was started by a party of
hot-headed young men, but it was not
taken np with a vim. The cool and
conservative citizens discountenanced
hny overt acts, and succeeded in hold
ing the imiietnons yonng men in check.
An impromptu meeting started almost
immediately ou the atepe of the Gould
building, but tlie police soon broke it up
and dispersed the noisy crowd.
The members of the Confederate Vet
erans’ association formed into ranks,
J piietly marched to their ball and ad-
named.
The crowd didn’t go home, however,
and there were several interestingseenes
enacted throughout the city. Speech
making nt the Kimball and other places,
and finally a hurrah of scorn at the
capitol finished the evening's proceed
ings.
CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES,
Domestic and Foreign and of General
Interest.
It is a settled fact that Missouri will
bare a Third party.
Sixty-one Indie* have been taken from
the rains of the fallen bnilding in Park
place, New York.
The annual convention of the Ken
tucky Sunday school onion is In session
Mi.ldleslwrongh, Ky.
A telegram from Greensboro, N. C.,
states that ex-Govemor A. M. Seales is
dying at his home in that city.
Leland Stanford has launched his
presidential boom through the columns
of the Argus, of San Francisco.
Senator John Sherman has made his
first speech in the Ohio campaign. He
speak* boldly out against free coinage:
Mass meeting* were held in many
towns throughout the state of Georgia
in which the action* of the legislature
with regards the Confederate veteru*'
home bill was roundly denounced.
Tolkdo, O., August 27.—Senator
Sherman arrived in the city from Van
Wert this morning and lms been bold
ing a reception all the forenoon. Clouds
portend rain, but by noon fully four
thousand people had arrived in the
village. This Is Senator Sherman’s
opening speech of the campaign and
many visitors from other cities are also
here.
At 3 o'clock, when Senator Sherman
began to speak, fully bix thousand peo
ple were on the grounds. At the outset
of his speech, Senator Sherman stated
that upon two groat moasurea of publlo
policy the republican and democratic
parties have made formal and distinct
Issues, and those are to be submitted to
the people of Ohio in November, and
your decision will have a marked
effect upon publlo opinion through
out the United States. One
Is whether the holder of
silver bullion may deposit in the
treasury of the United States and da
mand and receive for It $1 of coined
money for every 371 grains of fine silver
deposited. The market valne of so
much silver bullion is now about 77
cents, varying, however, from day to
day, like other commodities, sometimes
moie and sometime! less. The other
question la whether the policy of taxing
Imported goods by the government of
the United States, embodied In our ex
isting tariff law, known as the McKinley
tariff la a wise publlo polioy, or whether
it should be superseded by what is called
tariff for revenue only, aa embodied In
what la known ns the Mills bill, which
passed the bouse of representative* In
1888 and was rejected by the senate.
Senator Sherman devoted almost his
entire time to the discussion of the free
coinage queatlon, taking the ground
against free coinage—that It la Imprac
ticable, nonsensical, and that the people
are dishonest who want it.
THE INSURGENTS DEFEATED.
SENATOR BUTLER 19 WRATHS.
Bis Denunciation of the Sooth Carolina
Alliance President.
Charleston, August 28.—Dr. J. Will
iam Stokes la president of the farmers'
alllanco of this state, and editor of the
Cotton Plant,” an alliance organ. 4t
the recent debate on the anb-treainry
scheme, at Prosperity, S. C., Senator
Butler asserted that the scheme was Im
practicable and dishonest, and among
other things said that there were men
who would borrow money at 2, 10, 20
and SO per cent., who cared nothing
about the rate of Interest charged, be
cause they never Intended to pay it
back. After the meeting Dr. Stokes at
tacked Senator Butler In the Cotton
Plant, saying that Senator Butler had
■aid that the farmers wanted to borrow'
money at 2 percent., never'Intending to
pay It hack. Dr. Stoke* laid that men
who would borrow money without In
tending to pay It back were thlove*
and scoundrels, and Intimated that
Butler had charged 40,000 alliance-
men in South Carolina with being-
thieves and scoundrels, and calling on
them to repel Senator Batter’s “Infa
mous charge.” At the next election
Dr. Stokes, it 1* •aid, has hit eyes on
Butler's scat In the senate, the lattei’s
term expiring In 1803. Butler has been
absent from the state in attendance upon
the naval eommittee of the senate, but
lie has returned home to meet bis ac
cusers face to face.
The News and Courier will publiah an
interview with Butler to-morrow, In
which he denies Stokes’ charge, and de
nounces him as devoid of principle and
honorable qualities. “All the circum
stances,” says Butler, “convict him
either of self stultification, or wha*. Is
worse, wilful lying.” In doting his in
terview, Senator Butler uaea these
words;
“If there la anything the people of this
state detest and despise, it la a sneak
and liar.”
A mass meeting Is to be held at Batee-
burg, S. C., on September 6, which But
ler will attend to meet Stoke* on the
stump.
Cotton Review.
New York, August 28.—Futures
opened buoyant and so remained nntil
the last call, presently declined and
afterward improved, doting at an ad
vance of sixteen points on August aud
tblrteea to fourteen points on other
months from yesterday's closing prices.
The bulla bad a picnic to-day. Liver
pool reported an advance, which was
greater than the most sanguine of our
bulla expected. There was a renewal of
heavy rains Id the Carolina*, where a
dry spell now seems to be needed. There
was an official report from Texas con
firming private accounts of damage by
boll worms, shedding of bolls and local
drought. The alight decline after the
last call waa followed by a recovery to
about the beat price* of the day. Spot
cotton wee 11-lfle dearer.
The Chilian Government A nor Wins s
a set victory.
\Vashinuton, August 28.—Scuor L.
Azcance, Chilian minister at Washing
ton, to-iliy received a cablegram dated
Valparaiso, August 20, from M. M. Al-
dernase, minister of foreign affairs, say
ing that on the 23th the insurgent army
was completely defeated in Vina Del
Mar, a division of the Chilian govern
ment. The army cut off their retreat to
their ships and obliged them to surren
der unconditionally. Ail the country,
thedispatoh adds, applauds the valor
and skill of the government army.
San Francisco, August 28.—Antonio
Valros, envoy of the Chilian Insurgents,
yesterday received a cablegram from
Valparaiso, via Washington, D. C., that
the fighting bad been renewed that
morning and Balmaceda was losing.
Washington, August 28.—Julian Fos
ter, secretary of the Chilian congres
sional delegates, said that he had receiv
ed no information of tho surrender of
the congressional army as reported in a ’
previous dispatch. From his conversa-
tian, however, it was apparent that he
believed tlie report to be true. Foster
received a dispatch last night, however,
that may have some relation to the re
port received by the Chilian minister.
It was from Euazuriz, congressional
minister of foreign affairs at Iqulque,
and said that the notices inspired by the
dictator's agent at Lima, Peru, were ab
solutely without authority. Foster did
not know the nature of the notice re
ferred to, but he thought they might be
similar to that indicated in the dis
patch received by the Chilian minister.
Speaking further of the matter, Foster
■aid that the attempt* of the congres
sional army to obtain a foothold In the
country occupied by Balmaoeda's troops
were very desperate and rash, bnt that
such a course had been repeatedly urged'
upon the leaders of the army by many
persons of wealth living In Valparaiso,
who sympathized with the revolutionary
cause, and by many who had been fur
nishing money to aid the congressional
army. Nothing has been received either
at the state or nary departments of the
reported surrendnr of the Chilian con
gressional army on Tueaday.at Viva del
Mar.
Admiral Brown, commander of the
Pacific station, who now represents the
United States In Chilian, waters, was on
the 15th Inst, at Valparaiso. It I* pre
sumed that fie la still at that place. This -
being the case, he Is ln[ the Immediate
vicinity of the place where the fighting
of the past few days has been going on.
It is of course supposed that had the
surrender actually occurred, he' would
hasten to report It to the department.
Minister Eagan at Santiago has bad
very little to communicate recently to
the department concerning the trouble
Id Chill, but an event of such Importance
as the surrender of the congressional
army It Is thought wonld have been tele
graphed promptly to the department.
But, notwithstanding the non-receipt of
any news, oxcopt through the Chilian
minister with respect to the matter, it it
generally bellovnd in ofllolal and unoffi
cial circlet that the report *f the surren
der la true.
ULOODSIIED AVERTED,
The Confederate Boms Matter Almost
Causes a DueL
Atlanta, August 27.—There hat boon
a good deal of duel talk this afternoon
In legislative circles. The names con
nected with-it were M. L. Everett, mem
ber from Stewart, and Capt Bill Smith
of Gwinnett, and Capt. George Forbee
of Atlanta. At midnight to-night the
formal announcement of a settlement
came. Smith and Forbee In Interviews
this morning used very strong language
In denouncing the action of the bouse.
On the floor of the house to-day Everett
referred to Smith as a “sorehead politi
cian, drunkard,” and several other snob
epithet*. Both men came out in cards
In the Evening Journal calling Everett
another. Their friends got Together.
For Smith there were Don Bain, How
ell, Erwin and Senator Tom Cablnlss.
For Everett, Ed Williams, Smith of
Decatur, Humphries of Brooks.
They annonnee first, that Mr. Smith
say* he didn’t mean Mr. Everett when he
laid whit hd nid.
Second, that Mr. Everett will retract
on the floor of the house what he said
there.
Third, that Smith will retract through
the Journal what be said there.
To-night, the above announcement la
made, that the matter has been amica
bly and honorably adjusted. It 1*
signed by W. C. Venable for Forbea, and
John T. Boifeuillet for Everett
On to Oklahoma.
Kansas City, Mo., August 28.—Fifty-
two well to-do colored men, under the
leadership of R. H. Waterford, of Mem
phis, Tenn., left here yesterday far
Oklahoma, where they will await the
opening of the Indian lands, Boon to be
thrown open to general settlement
These negroes are from various parts of
the south, and expect to found a colony
of their own In those lands. Waterford
say* agents are at work in all the south
ern states, loUcitiog adherents to the