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    AMERICU8 TIMES-RECORDER
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1891.
NUMBER 12«
The Greatest Midsummer Sale
■ OF
Dry Goods, {lotions,
AND
CLOTHING
AND THE
Grandest Reduction in Prices
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 ARE GOING TO
GIVE AWAY DOMESTICS
TOGETHER WITH ALL OUR
Calicoes, tiinghams,. Muslins, Challies
KEEPING QUIET
THE THIRD PARTY QUESTION
UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
Prank McGrath Talk. About the Firing of
U. S. Hall From the Ml.ionri Alliance—
Hr. McX.attln Say. the Same Medicine ti
Mottled For Other*.
AND OTHER
SOMMER 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
Geo. D. Wheatley’s.
All our 8c Figured Challies to go at 4}$c per yd
Allourl2)tc “ “ “ 8c per yd,
All our 8c Standard Calicoes “ 5c per yd.
All our 7c Printed Victora Lawns at per yd.
All onr 8c White Lawns (yd wide) at 5c per yd.
All our8c 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 You Saw.
5c
NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN LACE. We got “scooped” some
time ago in the purchase of a big lot of Nottingham Lace for our-
tains: We have been asking from 20 to 40a per yard, bnt the goods
linger with us longer than we like, so in order to move them right
out and at the same tfme give you an A No. I BARGAIN we part with the
entire lot at
53 PER YARO THIS WEEK.
We cannot mention here any SPECIAL PBICES on everything
we have to offer, but remember in reading the foregoing, that PRO
PORTIONATE ond SWEEPING REDUCTION IN PRICES will
be the order of this week in every department of our store.
OUR STOGK OF
Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces, Em
broideries, Corsets and Gloves
We guarantee the best in the city, and our 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 TD BE
FOUND, and OUR PRICES always have been simply
UNAPPROACHABLE from the standpoint of compe
tition.
Our determination to reduce stock APPLIES WITH FORCE
here, and we will refuse NO REASONABLE OFFER for anything
yon may need in our line.
Cannot you save somethin! by trading
with
Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.,
AMEBIOU8, GEORGIA.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 81.—Frank Mc
Grath, statu president of the Fanners*
Alliance, was asked what effect the ac
tion of the Missouri Alliauce in firing
their president, U. 8. Hall, would have
on Missouri politics. "It does not mean
anything any more than if the Kansas
Alliance should sit down on me. One
man doesn’t amount to much with the
Alliance, bat I don’t believe that the
third party will be very strong in Mis
souri—that is, they will not cut mttcb
of a figure in state elections. There are
too many large cities in that state for
the farmers to get control. Thenjjje
Democrats are very thoroughly organ
ized, and it will be a very hard matter
to make converts among them. ”
Dr. McLalUn, editor of the Advocate,
said that the same medicine given Hall
is bottled for others who are against
the Third party moveiueut, notably As
sistant State Lecturer W. S. McAllis
ter, of Mississinpi. He declares the
overwhelming sentiment of his people
to be that the new party is a fixture,
and that the Ocala platform was built
to stand. He regards the talk about
the failure of the southern Alliance to
unite with the third party movement
and accept the sub-treasury scheme as
the merest talk. "The Alliance of the
north uud that of the south under
stand each other, and the understand
ing is and has been from the first that
the southern wing should not formally
pronounce for a third party until the
national meeting in 18U2. From that
time there will be no question in the
public mind as to what course the Alli
ance in the south will pursue. It will
then lie seen that the People’s party-
there is the very opi>orite of the Demo
cratic party. The third party, the
Ocala platform and the sub-treasury
plan are permenaudcs aud the vote at
the next election will demonstrate the
correctness of this view."
In the meantime all that are against
the ranks will be cashiered, as Hull has
been.
LOOK OUT FOR STORMS.
Weather Prophet Foster Says They WIU
Come In September.
St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 81.—Weather
Prophet Foster in • public letter says:
"I forecasted the stonn wave doe to
cross the continent from Ang. 27 to 81.
The next will he due to leave the Pacific
coast about Sept. 2, cross the Rockies
aud the Allegheny valley from the 8d
to the Stb, and reach the Atlantic coast
about the 8th. It will become an im
portant storm about the 4th or 5th, al
ter it has crossed the Mississippi river
moving eastward. The weather will be
very warm southeast of this storm along
its entire route across the contiuent,
and about one day in advance of the
storm center. The storm wave will be
#f large proportions, and will probably
.move along the 88th degree of north
latitude, it will inaugurate the rain
period that returns about every flfty-
■vvo (lays. The rains will not be very
largely increased, but will be more gen
erally distributed, and many places
where local drouths have oee urred will
be relieved. The usual cod) wave will
follow this storm of Sept. 2 to Sept. 8,
bnt will not bring a very low teuipera-
tnre, and the first ten days of Septem
ber will he average warm.
- GEORGIA ALLIANCE
Condemn* the l^glil.tare for It. Dis
posal of the Soldiers' llouio Dill.
Lawrkncevjllr, Aug. 81.—The fol
lowing resolutions adopted by the Alli
ance at this place, have bedn given out
for publication:
"We. theLawrencevilleAlliance, with
sorrow express our surprise at the action
of the 9+ representatives in voting
against the ‘Confederate Veterans’ home
bill.’ which was tendered to the state
unconditionally aud free of charge, the
Confederate soldiers' home which the
generous hearts of the people of Geor.
gin have erected for the care aud main
tenance of the destitute heroes of the
Confederacy in their declining years.
We deem this an outrage upon every
true and loyal Georgian and a reflection
upon the old soldiers, and deserving the
severest denunciation.
"Resolved, That it is with somewhat
indignant feelings that we learn that
Gwinnett’s representatives voted against
the bill; that they should ho far forget
their respect for the sentiments and
wishes of their constituents in the
grand old county of Gwinnett, that fur.
nisbed two thousand of as true and
brave heroes as ever confronted an en
emy on the battlefield, as to vote with
the 94 against the acceptance of said
home.
"Resolved, That we desire the world
to know that they do not reflect the
sentiment* and wishes of this Alliance,
and we believe of the people of Gwinnet
county, and we utterly repudiate and
condemn their course. ”
CHARGED WITH ARSON
EX-PREACHER ARRESTED
SUSPICION.
ON
MOERLEIN DEAD.
-HI.
The Gres! Western Capitalist Dlei
Atlanta Interests.
Atlanta, Aug. 31.—A dispatch re
ceived annonnces the death of George
Moerlein in Cincinnati. Mr. Moerlein’s
name has become.^known throughout
the word b/“Ws connection rifth the
Chrtetian-Moerlein brewery." He was
the vice president of this company.
He was connected with several large
enterprisefjin Atlanta, Mr. Moerlein
was preehMbt of the Southern Granite
company, with headquarters in this
city. He vrits a large stockholder in the
Rembert Roller company, which had a
branch office in Atlanta. He was well
known in Atlanta and has many friends
here who will regret to hear of hie
death.
DEATH THROUGH RECKLESSNESS.
A Party of Four People Drive Into a
Hirer—Young Lady Drowns.
Jaspf.k, Ga., Aug. 81.—A party of
four people from Tate. George Faulk
ner, GeorgjBrittain, Miss Onra Sullivan
and liiiss Conte, in undertaking to ford
the river ut Gilmer’s Ferry, three miles
east of Bail Ground, were washed down
the strenn. Miss Curtis was drowned,
as were also the three horses. The other
lady and the two men swam oat. De
tails are very meagre. Both men were
jrobably drinking, as they drove into
;he river when the flat was at that time
standing on the opposite side. The teams
were owned by parties at Tate who went
down and second the buggies and bar-
FATAL BALLOON ASCENSION.
A Man Lom Hie Grip from • Traptit
liar 1,000 Feat in tha Air.
Detroit, Aug. 31.—The balloon as
cension at the exposition gronnds here
hsaended in a frightful tragedy. George
Hogan, the Ann Harbor uerousnt, made
the Rsceusicn, performing the while on
the trapeze. When 1,000 feet from earth
he lost his grasp on the trapeze bar.
The crowd did not seem to comprehend
the accident until the doomed man bod
Almost reached the ground. The body
shot through the air with frightful ve
locity, head downward.
Hogan struck the earth on River
street, coming in contact with tffe side
walk. So great was the impact that
the 2-inch planks were broken and
splintered. Blood Bpnrted 100 feet from
the corpse. Not a bone in the body es
caped breaking, and the head was mash
ed beyond recognition. He leav s a
widow and one child. The victim was
a brother of the Hogan who made an
ascension in Campbell’s air ship in New
York some.four years ago and never re
turned.
A UNIQUE DAMAGE SUIT.
A Lover Sue* HI* Sweetheart fur 95,000
Damage* for Flirt lug.
St, Pai l, Aug. 31.—Of all the unique
suits ever filed iu Minnesota that placed
the docket of the district court at
Minneapolis takes the bine ribbon.
John W. Turner, a thrifty grocer, asks
that Miss Etta Terwilliger. a pretty
milliner of Iowa, be required to pgy
him $3,000 for flirting. He had been
keeping company with the vonng lady
for some months, but she gave him
up for another. Referring to hte suit
Turner said: ... .
"This is not a breach-of-promise case,
but a case for damages. - I don't like
flirting, and I am going to show peopl*
that this country is a very unhealthy
one for that kind of business. I have
been .fair with the girl.’ I told her that
I detested flirting and when I com
menced keeping company With her I
told her thnrldid it witb the intention
of marrying her, and I had every reason
to believe that she intended to marry
me. Now she has gone to flirting witb
other people and ! intend to punish list
far it*
Jubilant Republican*.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 81.—The
Republicans are jnbilent over the official
announcement that the People’s party
refuses to unite with the Democrats in
the fall campaign. The Republicans
will probably win in a triangular fight,
lad the Democratic leaders have been
attempting to induce the independents
to unite on Judge Tripp. They agreed
tbot the farmers could not have elected
* senator lost winter without Demo
cratic assistance. The official organ of
the People's party flatly refuses t e ad
vances and declares that it will support
no one who does not stand squarely on
the Ocala platform.
CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES,
IMaellc sod Foreign ami of General
Interest.
The Texas fat men will hold a conven
tion at Galveston.
. Seneca, Mo., "blind tigers" were vis
ited by the women and closed up.
A new disease in England is described
as being a combination of pneumonia,
meningitis, tonsilitia and sore throat.
If the malcontents in China would
nnite, they could overthrow the dynas
ty, says the Menich AUgemelna Zei-
tung.
The Missouri Alliance convention
adopted the Ocala platform, leaving
ont the sab-treasury and land loan fea
tures.
Major Wm. Tillman, cashier of the
Falls City bank at Louisville, Kv., has
fled to Canada. A shortage of *3‘,000
lias been discovered.
A Kansus man threshed a crop of
wheat iu Kingman county belonging to
another, pocketed the proceeds and fled,
leaving tile threshers unpaid.
A special from Qnanah, Tex., says a
fire destroyed twelve blocks of business
houses on Public square, that city,
causing a loss of $80,000, with $35,000
insurance.
A Quitman, Ga., special says: Master
Martine McRae, the 15-year-old eon oi
Mr. J. K. McRae, picked 227 pounds oi
cotton one day last week and rested au
hour anil a half at noon.
The East Tennessee train, dne Dalton,
Ga., at 11:32 a. m. t while racing with a
Western and Atlantic train, struck a
negro child two miles below town. The
engineer says it didn't hurt it. Report
says the child died.
Frank Patton, a 19-year-old boy sent
to the penitentiary at Columbus, O.,
from Van Vert comity tor tea year* for
hone stealing and grand larceny, has
lui.n tiMrtcfovViwI fn t!lo IwiPB* (liilrlktrilll
(I. Is Accused of Setting Fire to III. Stor
age tVerehou.e-IIe Admits Bring Ad
dieted to the I’m at Morphine nod Started
the Fire While Under It. Influence.
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 30.—S. C.
Stone, an ox-preacher, who lias had at
different times charge of half a dozen
places in Tennessee, Mississippi and
Arkansas, one time a presiding elder in
the Greenville district of Mississippi,
was to-day arrested on a charge of
arson.
Mr. Stone camo to Memphis six
months ago and started a storage ware
house, which was destroyed by fire a
month ago. Ho again started in busi
ness on Jefferson street, and fire was
discovered in this place last night,
whioh the department suppressed with
trifling damage. Mr. Stone was seen
leaving the storage warehouse a fSv
minutes before bis first place of business
was destroyed.
This aroused suspicion, which led to
Ids arrest to-day. He makes no denial
of the charge, saying he Is a victim of
the morphine habit and started both
fires while under Its influence.
Martin Anthony, a negro employed
by Stone, has also been nrrested. He
says Stone asked him several times to
fire the place, bnt he refused, fearing
the consequences.
ESIMA ABBOTT'- DHE88K8.
HALM ACKnA’S DEFEAT.
Minister Kgan Will Probably lie Itecalled
—The Adintnl.trntlon Mortified.
Washington, August 30.—The official
announcement of the defeat of President
Baltnaceda and the probable overthrow
of his power, whleh the assistant secre
tary of state had to telegraph to Presi
dent Harrison to-day, will lead, it is be
lieved, to a prompt ratification of the
position of our government by the recog
nition of the congresstonallsts as bellig
erents, If not by the immediate recog
nition of their government as the con
stitutional and established government
of Chill. ,
The administration, mortified at its
situation, will endeavor to correet its
mistake as gracefully as possible, with a
view to at once establishing friendly re
lations with the new government of
Chili, and to forestall criticism in the
newspapers and in congress.
Minister Egan, who had much to do
witb misleading our government Into
Its error, will probably be recalled, if he
does not resign, and Charles R. Flint
and William Henry Trescott, who, os
agents for President Baltnaceda, used
their friendship with Secretary Blaine
and President Harrison to strengthen
President Baltnaceda, will be treated
coldly for a time.
The method! by which our govern-
mont was Influenced and the reasons
which controlled lta action are all thor
oughly well understood by Dom Pedro
Montt and Julie Foster, the agents of
the congressionalista here, and although
they cannot talk much for publication
about them, the facta will be duly pre
sented In writing to be Inspected by any
investigating committee whleh may be
appointed at the next session of con
gress to look Into this scandal.
COL. cum IN MACON.
be -ii transferred to the boys’ industrial
school, by order of the governor.
An Isabella, Ga., special says: Tom
Massey, one of the second district's most
go-ahead fanners, has a natural curios
ity in the shape of a Kiiineu chicken, a Dreann
half guinea and a half chicken. It should
•go on the record as one of nature's mon
strosities.
The Nobis Vet.ran Who Sought AM for
Comrades.
One of the “noble 02” was In Macon
last night
He was Col. A. S. Cutts, representa
tive from Sumter county.
Col. Cutts was on bis way home to
spend to-day and Sunday. He stepped
off the train for a few moments and then
wanton bis way to Americua, where
he should be given an ovation by hit
people for hla grand work in behalf of
the old defenders of the south.
It was Col. Cutts who introduced the
bill in the legislature to accept the vet-
erana’ home. He is a stately looking
gentleman, somewhat beyond middle
age, with venerable gray hairs and a
kindly face. Intelligence and culture
mark his bearing, and Sumter should be
proud of him for more reasons than
one.—Macon Evening News.
parlor Eiilertallmi>nt
A rare treat is offered to the public to
night in the way of a parlor concert.
The entertainment will j>e given by the
Christian Workers, at the handsome
residence of Mr. M. B. Council, at Rees
Park. The exercise will consist of music,
and recitations, to conclude with a
laughable farce.
This entertainment la given to raise
funds for a laudable purpose, and It is
hoped that It will be liberally patron
ized. Admission s cents. Following la
the programme:
Trio—From AttUla, Verdi—Mrs. Max
well, MIsa Granberry, Mr. Hornauy.
Duet—Guitar accompaniment—Scan
lon's LovoJ Song—Miss jfuiia Brannon
^ and Mr. S. H. Campbell
Her Stage Wm-Ilrolif-Sold In New Turk at
Auction.
A crowd of actors, men about town
and curiosity hunters gathered in the
auction rooms at No. 240 Fifth avenue,
New York, Tuesday morning to attend
the auction sale of the handsome and
costly wardrobo of the late Emma
Abbot,
The popular prinra donua was [noted
for the beauty of her stage dyesses, and
she often paid extravagant prices for
them. To day they wont for a song; in
deed, It was a merciless slaughter.
There were 135 numbers on the cata
logue, and they comprised various arti
cles, from a pair of slippers to *1fii.OOO
Worth costume. There wjH> costumes,
dresses, suits and waists, Skirts ami bod
ices, shoes, slippers aud sandals, hose
and tights, belts and girdles, caps add
head-dresses.
Of the numerous costumes, air of
them, according to the catalogue, were
made at a coat of $25,000.
There wero nearly two hundred people
in attendance and every seat was taken,
but most of those present did not come
to bid, unless they could secure some
little souvenir at a trilling outlay.
Tile prices realized were pitifully
small, oveu in consideration of the
season of the year. A blue satin waist,
entirely new, and made by Redfero, was
knocked down at $5.50, and a now violet
cashmere waist, by Felix, brought only
$4.50. A black velvot bodice went for
only $2. A short black laee and pink
satin dress, with two waists, was sold
for $18.
A sot of new lace skirts sold for #21,
and a “Mikado’’ dress, richly embroid
ered, for $20. A fortunate bidder se
cured for $0 a "Yeoman of the Guard”
ribbon drapery dress, with black velvet
waist. It was decorated witb yards and
yards of ribbon, alLhlaborately ombroid
ered in gold.
The shoes and Bllppers suffered as
great a slaughter as any class of articles.
The bland auctioneer announced them
aa costing from $12 to $15 aud “war
ranted to fit any foot.” They were all
number three. A pair of white satin
shoes sold at $2.50, another pair at $2.00
and still another at $1.50. A pair of
“Mikado” slippers wore knocked down
at 75 cents, a pair of purple satin shoes
brought $2.50 and a pair of pale green
satin slippers $1 50.
Perhaps as great a bargain as any bo-
enred was that of a pair of gold slippers
for $2.25.
The bidding was not quite so brisk
when the silk tights wero reached, and
many of the ladles who were present
seemed to lose much of their interest
just at that time. There were only
three pairs of tights scheduled, and they
were all of silk and all new- A laven
der-colored pair sold for $7, a pair of
red onesjor $10.50 and a pair of green
for $8.
There were seven pain of sllk-em-
broldered hose sold and all were stated
to have cost $25 each, and were made to
order for Mias Abbott. They brought
only a trifling sum, a pair of ruby silk
selling at $5.50 and a pair of Queen
Anne for the same price.
Local Shortstops.
Many moves will be made to-day and
dtaya will be In demand.
Messrs. Allen it Allen will move with
their nnlqne establishment In the new
hotel blook to-day.
The aanshlne of yesterday was wel
comed. Many days of such beautiful
open weather would brighten up things
generally and enliven trade.
Ure. West will move in the Hawkins
House, Mr. Ritter vaeatlng, and taking
charge of the house now occupied by
Mrs West on Jackson street
The elegant furniture now being put
in place by the Jewelry Company la
simply superb and is attracting atten
tion and enlisting admiration from all
Americua.
Mr. W. D. Bailey, the haberdasher*
thought be would be able to get Into bis
new quarters In the hotel block to-day
aud was rushing things to that effect on
yesterday.
Messrs. Hinton A Cutts will vacate
their present offices in the Hart building
and occupy a suite of rooms in the Arte
sian block, which they have fitted up
handsomely.
An It«volr.
There was a very quiet little supper at
Schmidt’s restaurant last night. No
body knew anything about iL Half a.
dozen couples only were in the party.
But the young ladies in who* honor
the supper was given will remember It
when they reach Staunton. Vi., and
memory goes back to friends at home.
These little landmarks in the sands of
time go a long way to keep alive recol
lection* of home and friends on the part
of sojourners In distant climes. Beneath
the gay laughter and the merry chat of
the evening, it was apparent that regro:
at parting were iq,,, . - , - .a:
of nearly all—those who were goto,; us
II as those wlie remain at hom*. A
certain real estate dealer in <a;r city is
The income
i
Male Quartette-Come in Beautiful ™»P«naible for the t
* w ,, , .. of l ncle Sam, in the uay of pontage,
Moore Messrs. Campbell, I will be perceptibly incrosu>c*d from this
Warren, Xiles, Horoady. I station for many months to come. But
Vocal Solo—Ruby, Gabriel—Mis* ** no * lonely word, “Farewell!”—
Cranberry. (only “Au revolt-.”’