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I 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