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AMERICITK TIMES-RECORDER.
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1891.
NUMBER 132
The Greatest^ Midsummer Sale
• -OF-
Dry Goods, notions,
AND
CLOTHING
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON.
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 wilt be
OUR PRICE for anything you may want of
us this week.
WE AliE GOING TO
GIVE AWAY DOMESTICS
TOGETHEII WITH ALL t)UR
Calicoes, Ginghams. Muslins, Chaflies.
HIS STIRRING APPEAL TO THE CON
FEDERATE VETERANS.
An Eloquent and Patriotic Address—lie
Tells of the Association—The Objects of
the Organization are Social, Literary,
Historical and Benevolent.
AND OTHER
SUMMER DRESS GOODS AT COST
And LESS
THAN COST if
CLEAR OUT.
necessary, to
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 Chulllea to go at per yd.
A11 our 12»£c “ “ “Be per yd
Alt our 8c Standard Calicoes “ 5c per yd.
All our 7c Printed Vlctora Lawns at 35*aC per yd
All© r8c White Lawns (yd wide) at 5c per yd.
AH our 8c White Check Nainsook at 5c per yd
Stock of above will not last long at such prices, so come eariy or yon
will be disappointed.
NOV LOOK! 5c
This is tho Biggest
FIVE CENT
Bargain Ever You Si
gest rm
L 5c
NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN LACE. We got “scooped" some
time ago in the purchase of a big lot of Nottingham tace
tains: We have been asking from 20 to 40o per yard, tat the goods
Unger with us longer than we like, so in order “ ow! ™ om ..
out and at the same tfrao give you an A No. 1 BARGAIN we port with the
entire lot at
5a PER YARD THIS WEEK.
We cannot mention here any SPECIAL PRICES <m everythin*
wo have to offer, but remember in reading the foregone,.that PRO
PORTIONATE and SWEEPING REDUCTION IN PRICES will
be the order of this week in every department of our store.
OUB STOCK 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
M
Before buying elsewhere.
WORD ABOUT
Clothing - and - Gents - Fixings.
■nr .1,0 VERY FINEST ASSORTMENT TO BE
W FOUND, and OUB PRICES always have been amply
UNAPPROACHABLE from the standpoint of compe-
'Ef£
you may need in our lino.
Cannot you save somethin7 by trading
with
Cor. Lamar-St. and Cotton Ave.,
iYMERIOTDB, GKEORG-IA-
Headquarters United Confeder
ate Veterans, New Orleans, Sept. 0,
1801.—The following la Gen. John B.
Gordon's address to the United Confed
erate Veterans, and.to all the ex-soldiers
and sailors got the late Confederate
States of America. It Is published simul
taneously to-day all over the south, with
the view of calling the attention of vet
erans In every southern state to the Im
portance of forming camps without de
lay, and of appealing to them to join the
“Benevolent, Social and Historical”
ganization of the United Confederate
Veterans. Any details or Information
desired, copies of constitution or blanks
wanted, will be promptly furnished
applying to Gen. George Moorman, adju
tant goneral and chief of staff, New Or
leans, La. Correspondence solicited.
ADDRESS OF TUE GENERAL COM MAN DIN tl
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 3,1880.
To the ex-Soldiors and Sailors of the
Confederate States of America:
Tho convention of delegates from the
different stater which assembled in NSw
Orleans, J uno 18, 1880, effected a gen
eral organisation known as tho “United
Confederate Veterans.” It is designed
as an association of all tho bodies of ex.
confederate vetorans and sailors through,
out tho Union. Tho convention ndopted
a constitution and did mo tho great hon
or to elect me geneial, which position
accept with peculiar gratifleatjon. Pre
llmlnary to any orders 1 wish to call
general attention to the objects of this
association, and to enlist in their accom
plishment the active co-operation not
only of overy survivor of. southern ar
mies, but also that large contingent
Sons of Veterans, who,-too young
have received the baptism of fire, have
nevertheless received with you the bap
tism of suffering and of sacrifice.
The first article of the constitution
the association declares: “The object
and purpose of tbis organisation will be
strictly social, Tweriry!""historical and
benevolent, It will endeavor to unite
a general federation all associations
the Confederate veterans, soldiers and
sailors now in existence or hereafter
be formed: to gather authentlo data for
au impartial history of the wav between
the states; to preserve the relies or me
mentoes of the same; to cherish the ties
of friendship tnat should exist among
the men who have shared common
dangers, common sufferings and priva
tions; to care for the disabled and
extended a helping hand to tho needy
to protect the widow and orphans and
to mate and preservo tho record of tho
sorviocs of every member, and as far
possible, of those of our comrades w ho
bane preceded us in etersity.” The last
article provides that nedtlier discussion
of -political or MUgtous subjects, nor any
pdKttcal action shall be permitted In the
organization, aad any association violat
ing that provision shall forfeit its mem
bership.
Comrades, no argument is needed to
secure for those-objects your cuthuslaa
tic endorsement. They have burdened
your thoughts for many years you have
cherished them in sorrow, poverty and
humiliation. In the faco of misconstruc
tion you hare held them in your hearts
with the strength of religions convic
tions. No mtsjudgments can defeat
your peaceful purposes for the future,
four aspirations have been lifted by the
aero force and urgency of surrounding
conditions tu a piano far above the
paltry considerations of partisan
triumphs. The honor of the American
Republic, the just powers of the federal
government, the equal rights of states,
the Integrity of the constitutional union,
the sanctions of law and enforcement of
order have no class of , defenders more
true and devoted than the ex-eoldlera of
the south and tbetr worthy descendants.
But you realize the great troth that a
people without the memories of heroic
suffering and sacrifices an a people
without a history.
To cherish such memories and recall
such a past, whether crowned with suc
cess or consecrated in defeat, Is to
idolize principle and strengthen charac
ter, intensify love of coon try sod convert
defeat and disaster Into pllten of sup
port for tun manhood and noblewoman-
hood. Whether the southern people
under their changed conditions may
over hope to witness another civilization
which shall equal that which began with
their Washington and ended with their
Lee, It Is certainly true that devotion to
their gloriqns past Is not only the surest
guarantee of futon progress and the
holiest bond of unity, but ia also the
strongest claim they can present to the
confidence and respect of the other
sections of tho union.
In conclusion I beg to repeat, in sub
stance at least, a few thought* recently
expressed by me to the state organiza
tion, which apply with equal furcjgj!
tbis general hrotherhun^^^^^^^^
ImMr
“political” la a aynonym of the word
“patriotic." It is a brotherhood over
which the genius of philanthropy and
patriotism, of truth and of justice will
preside; of philanthropy, because it will
succor the disabled, help the neeedy,
strengthen the weak and oheer
the disconsolate; of patriotism, bo-
Cause it will cherlah the past g'drles
of the dead confederacy and trant
mute them into living Inspirations for
future service to the living republic; of
truth, because It will seek to gather and
preserve as witnesses for history the
unimpeachable facts wbioh shall doom
falsehood to die that truth may live; of
justice, because it will cultivate national
as well as southern fraternity and will
condemn narrow mindedness and preju
dice and' passion, and cultivate that
broader, higher, nobler sentiment,which
would wri e on the grave of every
soldier who fell on either side: “Here
lies an American hero, a martyr to the
righ f , as his conscience conceived It.”
I rejoice that a general organization
too long neciected lias been at last per
fected. It is a brotherhood which all
honorable men must approve and which
heaven itself will bless. I call upon you
therefore to organize in overy stato and
community where cx-condfcderatos may
reside, and rally to the support of the
high and peaceful objects of the “United
Confederate Veterans," and move
forward until by the power of organiza
tion and porsistent effort your beneficent
and Christian purposes are fully accom
plished.
J. B. Gordon,
- Commanding Goneral
CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES,
Domestic ami Foreign amt of General
Interest.
The story about the collapse of the
oil boom in Moulton Valley, Ala., is de
nied.
The lady managers of the World’s
Fair are opposed to having the exhibi
tion open on Sunday,
The Central American states are now
making active preparations for repre
sentation at the World’s Fair.
A Rome dispatch states that the Vati
can has for the third time refused to ac
cept Russia's nominee for the vacant
bishopric in Russia.
Dr. Lorimer, a Baptist minister, in
sermon at Chicago, ills., said that Sun
day was not a sacred day, but it should
be a day of rest and amusement.
Zach Trues dell, a highly -respected
and prominent farmer of Kershaw
county. S. C„ committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head with a
shotgun. Mental aberration is the
cause alleged.
Charles R. Ego and E. L. Maqnire
formerly individual ledger clerks at the
broken ■ Keystone bank, Philadelphia,
were , arrested charged with, making
false entries in their ledgers, nml with
making such statements as would tend
to deceive the hank examiner. They
were released on (10,000 bail,
XL T. Able has assigned at Hnrods.
burg, Ky. Assets nominally (300,000.
assets unknown. He is interested in
Birmingham and Florence, Ala., and
Wichita, Kan., and is supposed to have
property to meet all hla debts, but was
forced to the wail by small creditors
demanding Immediate payment.
At LonisviUe, Ky., the directors of
the Falls City bank, at a meeting de
cided not to prosecute Major William
Tillman, the cashier who fle.1 to - anada.
This was done on recommendation of
the counsel, who odmised that Tillman's
offense was only a breach of trust and
that there was no hope of a conviction.
Inn communication jnat made public,
Mr. Gladstone writes in favor of In
creased repre. entation of labor in par
liament, but deprecates the formation
of a labor party. His objection to such
a party in Ids own words, is on the
ground that "1* every class of tho com
munity exercised the right to form a
PICKERS MAY STRIKE
COLORED ALLIANCEMEN DEMANO
ONE DOLLAR PER HUNDRED.
parry we should have a queer parlia
ment. ”
The little 6-year-old son cf Mr. Wei-
lott of the Merchants’ hotel at Moberiy,
Mo., was fearfully scalded. He striped
off his clothing and plunged into a bath
ing tub of almost boiling water, not
knowing the cold water had not been
turned on. His motner snatched him
out, but not until he was terribly scald
ed-great pieces of akin peeling off his
waist and body.
An Anbnra, N. T., special says: Hon.
Benjamin Hall died here after a linger
ing illness. He was bom in Whitehall,
July 28,1818. In 1816, by the appoint
ment of President Filmore, he made a
compilation and revision of the accumu
lated official decisions of the attorney
generals of the United States. In April,
861, President Lincoln appointed him
chief justice of Colorado.
The State bank of Sloan, Is., was
robbed and 64,000 in cash wss seen red.
The vaults was prized open and the
safe inside blown open. No trace of
the robbery wss found until this morn
ing. The robbers stole a team at Sloan,
drove to OonectionriUe, thirty miles
northeast, and robbed tbs post office
there of ffiO in cash and |IM> m stomps.
Tbs-team wss turned loose and found,'
bat the robbers hare not been found.
The Uttle town of Farley, Is., it torn
up over a sensational affruy which took
ilace on the main street of the village.
Jr. Lambert a prominent physician,
was attacked and severely horsewhipped
by Mrs. Tucker, with whom he had
quarrelled. The doctor took the whip
from the woman and pushed her into
the gutter, when the hashend appeared
and gave the doctor a terribio beating.
Tucker— ' ■*
A Movement That May Involve the Whole
South—Action of tho Colored Farmer* 1
Alliance ae to Cotton Picking—Two Mil
lion Picker* Threaten a Strike.
Houston, Sept. 7,—The biggest agri
cultural strike In the history of the
world is imminent. If it tukes place
the matured cotton will rotln the fields.
Tliis is brought nbont by the colored
Fanners’ Alliance of the United States.
And the order goes into effect on Satur
day next.
This organisation has been perfected
throngli colored Alliances, and numbers
more than half a million with thou
sands being added every day throngh-
ont the southern states. Colonel R. M.
Humphry, general superintendent of
the Colored Alliance, admitted the ex
istence of this organization, saying it
had been induced by the organization
some time ago of planters and merchants
in certain sections, notably Memphis
and Charleston, to reduce the price for
picking to a very low standard, and
that tho cotton pickers had combined to
protect themselves from this dictation,
and ho thought they would be able to
do so.
It is learned that a secret circular has
been mailed at Houston to every sub-
Alliance throughout the cotton belt,
fixing the date when the strike of cot
ton pickers will lw simultaneously in
augurated, and liow it shall be con
ducted. The headquarters of the Col
ored National Alliance of the United
States is in this city. Colanel R. XL
Humphrey, general superintendent of
the Colored Fanners’ Alliance and Cot
ton Pickers’ League, lias been actively
at work in organizing the colored men
for n general strike all over the south.
A copy of a secret circular has been ob
tained, which Humphrey Is having dis
tributed by thousands all through the
cotton states.
Tlie following is the main featnre of
the strike:
Whereas, The plunters and specula
tors above mentioned are firm fit their
demand that you pick at starvation
Wages, as offered by them, and leave
yoar families to suffer fearful conse
quences, placing to yonr account the
present low pricoe of their cotton; and,
Wherena, Above 600,000 pickers al-
r.-aly lu.ve bound themselves together
it) bacred covenant to pick no cotton for
anyone, except their own. before ubotit
Nov. l, at less than 81 per 100 pounds,
with board; and
Whereas, Yonr success depends npon
your united action.
Now, therefore, I, R. II. Humphrey,
by virtu? of the authority in me vested,
do issue this, my solemn proclamation,
fixing Sept. 13, 1881, it being Saturday,
as tue day upon w. ich all our people
shall cense from, and absolutely slop
picking cotton, except their own, auu
shall pick no more before about Nov. 1,
unless their just demand for wages shall
be sooner acceded to by the planters
and others interested.
LABOR DAY.
EI.LIVIt.LE ETCHINGS.
ti ..rhniaa Have a Great %lms Through'
• out tlie Country.
vtlanta, Sept. 7.—Baber day was
ived generally throughout the
untry, especially In the larger cities
vas the day a festive one, snd thou-
and* of honest American workmen
gathered together while the bands were
playing and flags were flying and form
ed lilies of marches, that contained in
each hundreds of men who gain their
daily snsteuance by the sweat of the
brow.
Tlie greatest parades were hsd in
Chicago, New York and Baltimore, but
those in other cities were none the less
grund in considering the relative sizes.
WhMt Old Crow Saw.
Guthrie, I. T„ Sept. 7.-Old Crow,
the Cheyenne chief who went to Pins
Ridge agency a few weeks ago in search
of tlie Xlessiab, has retained, and is
now engaged In detailing to his brethren
on Four Mile creek the wonderful things
he saw. Old Crow also visited Walker’s
Luke. Ner., at which place he says be
aaw myriads of fairies who were t)«
recognized children of Christ He re-
lions all the Indians in that legion
dancing, a declared that be will re-
turn to Waixrr’s Lake in a week or two
;md pur* naile the new Christ to come
here with him. His influence with the
Indians here is rapidly increasing, and
he now has s large number of followers.
Poreoaal aad Social Matters la a Very
Lively Town*
Ei.lavillb, September 7.—[Special]—
Ellavllle has cause to feel very proud of
her Literary sod Social Club. Few
towns of this size can boast as good and
many of muoh larger pretentions have
no better.
After a suspension of two months the
members met st their rooms, over the
Academy, Friday evening last, where an
Interesting program was wellrenderad to
a large and appreciative audience.
The Club having disposed of the' In
strument whlob furnished moslo In the
past, s committee of six was appointed
to purchase another and arrangements
have about been perfected for placing
In the club room a handsome upright
piauo. The Club la entering upon Its
sixth year and the interest in it shows
no sign of abatement. Its members are
more than ever determined to make it a
source of literary improvement so that
the name under which It sails shall not
be considered a misnomer.
Mr. Frank Chase, representing a
Columbus music house, spent several
days in town last week in tho Interest of
his firm.
Mr. Kleckloy’s beautiful residence
now going up on Broad street is muoh
admired. It will when completed be a
very handsome and convenient cottage.
Prof. Lockhart and wife of Amerleus
were in town last week and attended
tlie club Friday evening. Mr. Lock
hart is no stranger in Ellavlile, and by
bis genial manners ho has won many
friends ahd bo and his charming wife are
always welcome visitors.
Croquet is ro more. The struggle was
long, but the agony is now endod. “Rest
in Peace "
The upward tendency in the price of
cotton has caused It to roll In at a rapid
rote this week. As yet we have only;
two buyers, Maj. E. 8. Baldwin and F. 1:.
Montfort, who will make It to the Inter
est of our farmers to bring their cotton
to this market.
Everyone Is much pleased with the
name selected for your magnificent hotel.
If the management Is In keeping with
the high sounding name “The Windsor”
will soon be known all over tbs land.
FArr.iEns in Alabama.
They will Msk. Money This Yew Not-
ivlllut»ndliii the Short Crop*
Alburn. Sept. 7.—The report issued
from the state polytechnic Institute by
Director P. H. Stoll, on the weather .
conditions iu Alabama, fnrnishea valua
ble information. The rainfall’waa be
low the average for tho week just closed.
Tlie August drouth continued until the
latter part ot the week, but the rains
that tell on tho 3d and 8<1 Were general
overJVlabutna, and the lorx dry apeii
*ceniB uqv? to be broken. Ihe weather
ha* ftn
• centra of tundutho, •
•° n •. gnfc the condition of
growing pjanjf; ^ i^tln re
cotton report!4in toT ^fcowani that;
mains unchanged. The --h mostly/
came on the it snd 8d, thou,, T^,ai
beneficial to all crops like turnips
potatoes, still they ore rather late to be
of much advantage to the cotton. The
weather Is more than apt to be more or
leu cool from this date until the crop ia
gathered, so that nil bolls that are fann
ed after Sept, 10 are not apt to to ma
ture very good staple unleu the season
is mmsiuiUv backward.
It is currently believed that even
Mr. Tucker was arrested and fined fii.
A Constantinople dispatch states that
Aclmied Eyab lias been appointed gov
ernor of Crete to succeed iij. va l pacha,
jn.-l promoted from a governorship to
Is? grand visor. A rumor, which it is
impossible to confirm, is current here
to tlie effect that Kiauiil Pacha, the re-
ntly deposed grand visor, is suffering
■nnsonment. His dismissal is now
erstood to be dne to complicity in
far a* tbe word (th? plot for the deposition of tiie saltan.
A Serious law Trouble, lsaom.ro.
Guthrie, O. T.. Sept. 7.-A sensation
h*« been caused here by the discovery
of a section of law which makes it a
misdemeanor for any person or corpora
tion to hire a man to go Into any of the
Indian lands sad take a claim or lot and
afterward turn It over to euch person or
,As a penalty tbe land ia to
bt forfeited, and the parties fined 61,000
or imprisoned one year, or both. Many
bankas, mercantile and other compa
nies, and hundreds of private parties
have engaged persons to do this very
thing, ana the discovery of this law
creates consternation on all sides.
Kl<>l»wni«nt en«| DeMfc.
Washington, Aug. 7.—The wife of
T. A. Mitchell, a real estate agent of
this i ,, eloped in July with Lomas K.
Hull, a printer. Xtrs. Mitchell is of
Italian birth, ami Mr. Xlitcheil took a
fancy to her while she was selling
matches. Tlie eloping couple went to
Baltimore, where Hall was taken se
riously ill. He wss brought to this city
by his mother, while Mrs. Mitchell left
for pai ts unknown. She waa arrested
in Hagerstown, XI,t. at about the same
time Hall died in Washington. Mix.
Mitchell wss arrested at the instigation
of her husband.
ler Vi _
1880, still the farmers will realize more
money from its sale, because the strin
gency of the money, market has pre
vented tbe banks from advancing on the
crops as large as in former years, and,
therefore, the farmers, ass general rule,
have pnt tbe crop in and will harvest it
with leu borrowed money. There ts
another encouraging fact in the ontlook:
The large amount of corn that has been
gathered in all sections of the stato has
considerably reduced the quantity of
western com that has heretofore been
bought by tbe farmers.
SUMTER’S REPRESENTATIVES.
Iu.pro.il.u Thsjr Haro Made Upon .an
Atlanta, September 7.—[Special.]—
I bare been in dally attendance at the
[seulons of the house of representatives
during the present scuion, snd having
seen much of the legislative conduct of
your representatives, Messrs. McDonald
and Cutts, beg fo write of their excellant
legislative records, thinking it will be
rend with Interest by yonr reader*.
Hon. Ml McDonald attends strict to
[all his legislative duties. He never
misses a roll call, and favors tbe enact
ment of ell laws that will benefit the
farmer and other classes of working
people. In the committeo room his
services are valuable and no member of
either branch of tbe general assembly Is
truer to his constituency.
Col. Cutts is one of the leading mem
bers of the house. He is a member of
several of the met important home
committies, on all of wtiicli he make a
valuable member. He ia very highly
es eemed by all his col'egues, all of
whom regard him as a Lightened gentle
man and able, faithful, legislator.
Cot. A. 8. Cutts, as a soldier, wan true
to the cause of the south, so in peace,
he, u a legislator, is true to the people
ofSoumter county and all southwest
Georgia. Reporter.