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VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1891.
NUMBER I3S
The Greatest Midsummer Sale
-OF—
Dry Goods, Notions,
THE FLOODS IN SPAIN.
OVER TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE
ALREADY 8EEN DROWNED*
An Official Dispatch is Deceived at Madrid
Announcing Sweeping Floods in Country
About Toledo—Washed Out Railroads
Prevent Sending Assistance*
Grandest Reduction in Prices
Ever known in the histonr of onr trade, commences to-morrow
(Monday) morning
GEORGE 07 WHEATLErS,
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 OCR
Calicoes, Ginghams. Muslins, Challies,
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
Geo. D. Wheatley's.
L
All our 8c Figured Challle* to go at V/ic per yd.
Allourl2J*c “ “ 44 8c per yd.
All our 8c Htandnrd Callroes 44 6c per yd.
All our 7c Printed Vlctora Uwnn at 8^c per yd.
- All o*tr 8c White Lawn* (yd wide) at 5c per yd.
■ Al’ our8c White (’heck 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 Baw.
5c
NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN LACE. T got “scooped" some
time ago in the purchase of a big lot of Nottingham Lace 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 order to move them. right
out and at the same tfme gfive you an A No. 1 BARGAIN we part with the
entire lot at
53 PER YARO 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 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 FINE8T ASSORTMENT TDrBE
FOUND, and OUR PRICES always have been simply
UNAPPROACHABLE from the standpoint of compe
tition.
Onr determination to reduce stock APPLIES WITH FORCE
here ^d woTiU refuse NO REASONABLE OFFER for anything
you may need in our line.
Cannot you save somethin? by trading
- with
Geo. D. Wheatley
Cor. Lamar St. andlCotton Ave.,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
Madrid. Sept.14.—Official information
has been received from the scene of the
terrible floods now devastating the pro
vince of Toledo. According to the new!
received, two thousand people have al
ready perished, and an immense amount
of damage has been done by the swollen
waters. At present it is utterly impos
sible to send assistance to the survivors,
as all railroad communication with the
scene of the disaster is cat off.
DANCING TO DEATH.
New. Kecelved of * Prutr.ct.it Dane*
on an Indian Reservation.
Gramm, Okla., Sept. 1«.—News has
been received here from Cheyenne that
the Indians on the Arapohee reservation
holding a dance on the Onacheta river.
A large number of deatha are reported
among those tribes. Daring the past
few days nearly a hundred Indians have
fallen nnconscions during the dance.
The dance was started by the Indians
to appease the evil spirit and drive
away malarial fever prevalent daring
the summer, causing the death of sev
eral hundred. •- t
TO ROB A TRAIN.
A Diabolical Plot Between Negroes Xs
Overheard and Kxposed.
Atlanta, Sept. 14.—As Mr. W. 0.
McNabb of this city, was returning to
his residence after dark, he overheard a
conversation between /onr negro men,
who were plotting to rob a passenger
train near the city. He did not hear
them say on what road or what train
the robbery would be committed, bat
their plan is that some night this
week they will display a red signal to
some passenger train and when the
train is stopped they are to nnconpte
the engine and one of the robbers will
take the place of the fireman, cover the
engimer with a pistol and compel him
to rnn the engine some distance from
the train, then the robber is to make
escape, come to Atlanta and join his
pals. » c
The other three will stay at the train-
with the fireman, compel him to open
the baggage, mail and express cars, and
after robbing these three cars they are
to go through the passenger cars and
rob the pa»sengers. After robbing the
passengers they are to take to the woods,
separate, and make their way to At
lanta, meet somewhere on Decatur
street and divide the spoils. Mr. Mc-
Nltbb has informed the superintendents
of tiie different lines entering Atlanta
of the plan, and measures will be taken
to prevent the robber}’.
A Ddspomlcnt I*over Shoot* Himself.
Paris, Tex., Sept. 14.—George Bossier
is a half-breed Choctaw and deputy
shot ill nt Kiamiti county, Choctaw na
tion. He is also n widower, his first
wife having been of negro blood. For
some time lie lias been infatuated with
a sister of his dead wife. It st ems that
George's wooing did not progress satis
factorily, and lie has recently been de
spondent. At liis home near Goodland
he took nis pistol, placed it to ills heart
and pnllel the trigger, but the weapon
snapped. He made a second effort
without result nml for a third time he
trailed tiie trigger. This time the pis
tol was discharged, but lie hail let the
muzzle slip and the ball passed through
the left shoulder, shattering it. Bossier
can hardly survive.
The Ohio " Knt " King.
Canton. Ang. 14.—Sam King of Cin
cinnati, traveling under the titleof " Rat ”
King, creates! a sensation here by solic
iting contracts trom hotels and public
buildings for exterminating rate. He
claims to have been in the business for
twenty years, and to have met with
great success. Among other institu
tions, alleged to have been cleared of
rodents, is the White house. He re
fuses to divulge hit method, but, iu ex
perimenting in several cellars, showed
enough rats to convince the. skeptical.
His base of operations is the cellar, and
he permits no one to witness his opera
tions.
I'iiiir Children Darned to Death.
Wichita, Kan., Sept. 14.—Word has
been received here of the bnrning to
death of four children on a farm in
Barton county. Mrs. William Klein,
the mother of the children, locked
them in the honse while she went on
an errand. Shortly afterwards the
father, who was some distance off,
was attracted by einoke issuing from
the house; by the time he had effected
an entrance into the house, the interior
was a mass of flames. He found one of
the children, who died shortly after
being rescued. The charred remains of
the others were found in the debris.
The oldest child was only 7 years.
He Died la Hie Wagon.
Mechanicsrn.ua, O., Sept. 14. — At an
early hoar in the morning the family of
W. W. Wing were horror-stricken to
discover him dead, seated in t is spring
wagon in the road in front of hi* farm
hotue. He hod been to town on an er
rand, and had died on the road home,
the instinct of the horse bringing him
to hi* destination. Mr. Wing told
friends a few days ago that be felt a*
though death was not far oil Heart
failure is assigned aa the cause of death.
Deceased was about <19 year* old. a man
ft mean* and an extensive land owner.
CONDENSED NEW8 DISPATCHES.
Domestic and Foreign and of Oenersl
Interest.
Democrats and Republicans are fus
ing iu Kansas to defeat tiie People's
party.
The cotton pickers' strike ordered by
the colored Alliance has failed to mate
rialize.
A reward of $50 is offered for the
capture of Joseph Simmois, a robber
who escaped jail at Darien, Ga.
New York creditors have refused to
accept the offer of Stephen A. Ryan of
Atlanta, of 30 cents on the dollar.
It is said that Congressman-elect Tom
Watson of Georgia, wiU speak for the
People's party in Ohio daring the cam
paign. •
President L. L. Polk has been speak
ing in Kansas. The Alliance leader de
voted most of his attention to his own
career, and declared that the old party’s
would be barred in defeat by the Peo
ple's party.
The negro who passed a check for $39
with the forged signature of Governor
Ben Tillman of South Carolina, upon
W. Hi Nurnberger of Angnsta, Ga.,
has been arrested. His name is Will
iams, and he was captured near Edge-
field.
Dispatches received at the Chilian
legation iu Paris, state thql a decree has
been published at Santiago, announcing
that the coming elections for the presi
dency and for members of congress will
proceed npou the plan of universal suf
frage.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special says that
Charles Dugan choked to death on a
piece of meat at his father’s home in the
east end. His death followed in five-
minutes ufter trying to swallow the
meat. He was 89 years old and un
married.
The German government Has begun
the prosecution of the editor of the
Kladeradatsch for ridiculing the holy
coat of Treves by a cartoon headed,
'The Gull Snarling Pilgrims." Treves
is now visited by a better class of peo-
ile, who stay longer und patronize the
lotels.
John Emrigbt, while plowing on bis
farm north-west of Celina, O., hitched
his team to a fence near several stands
of bees, and went into the honse. Dur
ing his absence the bees became enraged
at the horses’s stamping and settled on
them in a bodv, stinging one of them to
death and badly injuring the other;
Just as services were over and the
congregation of the Baptist church at
Lincolnton, Ga., were leaving the chnrch
a portion of the front steps and vesti
bule gave way, precipitating a number
of pereous to the ground, a distance of
several feet. No one was seriously hurt,
though there was a panic for the time.
A London dispatch states that the
returns show that there hus been an im
mense apparent decrease in crime in
Great Britain in the last quarter of a
century. Iu 18(14 there were 3,800 con
victs in the peuitentiaries in London. In
I860 there were hot 739. Since 1883
eight prisons have been converted to
other uses.
A Boston special states that Dr. Da
vid Humphreys Storer, the oldest his
torian in this country, died here, aged
87 years. He wus ut one time president
of the American Medical society, mem
ber of the ucudciuy of arts and sciences,
und held many other important posi
tions. Dr. Storer was a long time friend
of Professor Agassiz.
At Zanesville, O., Mrs. Lena Jacobs
died quite suddenly last Sunday. There
was no suspicion that the death was
otnerwise tuan natural until relatives
found a letter which she hail indited on
the day she died, after ta ;i ig a dose of
arsenic. Slie stated that she was tired
of life, and wanted to join her husband
who died several months ago.
A Madrid dispatch says: Serious
floods and storms are related iu vari
ous parts of Spuin. Railway communi
cation is interrupted ut several points.
The Anmrguillo has overflowed its
banks, destroying the town of Consue-
gra and flooding several villages. The
work of relieving the destitute in the
fluoded districts is very difficult.
Italy congratulates itself on its splen
did crops already harvested and upon
the prospects of those yet to be gather
ed. It is estimated that the crops of
cererols will be fully equal to those of
last year, which were so abundant that
the importation of breadstnffis for the
first seven months of 1891 were 110,000
leu than for the corresponding period
of 1890.
Mrs. Annie Besant delivered a popu
lar lecture on "theosophy" before a
large audience in London. She said
that if persons isolate themselves daily
and endeavor to will a thought into the
mind of a sympathetic person ut a dis
tance, they would in six months lie re
warded with considerable success, and
they might then odvSneo to other latent
powers.
At LaFayette, Ga., a few daya ago
Mtlly Marsh took in a waif, a young
black girl that had no home or friends.
A strange thing about the girl is that
she does not like to wear clothes. She
says little or nothing, bnt evinces a
strange antipathy to clothes. It is
thongbt that the girl was raised in the
wilds, where wearing apparel is scarce.
Besides this she has a wild and hunted
look.
The Abbe Preuuti, a historian of the
Vatican, will shortlypnblish a pamphlet
on the centenary of Christopher Colum
bus, in which he will bring to light a
point in the history of the great navi
gator hitherto unknown. He will prove
by documents never before published
that it was mainly through the efforts
of the pope's nnnelo at Madrid that
Golnmbns obtained the co-operation of
the Spanish court.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says
that about six months ago a man named
John Cox appeared in a country neigh
borhood Dear Clayton. He soon made
a masts on Miss Mary'Jones, the daugh
ter of a prosperous widow, aad about a
month ago they were married. A few
daya ago he went to Clayton with a
load of his mother-in-law’s cotton, sold
it, left the wagon on the street-, put
the money in his pocket and skipped
out: It is now said he had a wife and
children where he came from, bnt no
body knows where that is.
A SOCIAL CRUSADE.
HOW INSATIABLE BAYREUTH CITI
ZENS ARE GOUGING VISITORS.
BAM TAKES IT AIA BACK.
The Swell English at Hamburg Make a
Deliberate Crnaada on Americana—The
Prince of Wale* Thought to Bo "In It”—
Few Deceive Due Consideration.
Cincinnati, Sept 14. — A London
special cable dispatch to The Enquirer
says that Americans returning here
from Germany have two sonrees of bit
ter complaint; first, the deliberate era.
sade made this season by the swell
English at Hamburg against Americans.
Never since Hamburg became an Anglo
American resort have the contingenta
from these countries mixed so little
socially as this year. The word seems
to have been passed around that Amer.
leans were to be snubbed.
While perhaps it is going too far to
assert that the Prince .of Wales inati
gated this move, it certainly had his in.
dorsement, and was executed with the
rigid obedience which his social decrees
usnally command. The aversion shown
to the Atnerieau contingent was far too
pronounced to be ignored. Even the
powerful influence of Mr. and Mrs.
William Walter Phelps, who had al
most the monopoly of the Empress
Frederick, and who asked Americans to
meet her, failed to counteract it. '
Three or fonr Americans only have
been permitted to give evidence of their
distinguished position in the Prince of
Wales’ yegard by offering him invita
tions to dinner which they knew would
be accepted. Mrs. Mackey, of course,
received the nsual consideration from
the prince; bnt she is looked npon as
belonging to the English colony rather
than the American. Mias Colt, who
has achieved an international reputa
tion aa an American beanty, has also
been honored with marked royal favor.
She, her mother and step-father, Mr.
and Mrs. Markham, have been specially
invited to Innch with the prince at
Ritter's Park Hotel. These exceptions
only made the rale more obvious. As
a general thing Americans were treated
with less consideration at Hamburg
this year than ever before.
The second causa for complaint is
that the residents of Bayreuth have
been gouging American visitors in the
matter of seats for the Wagner festival.
The grumbling from the Wagnerian
societies of Europe and America baa
been provoked by a just cause. Specu
lation has taken the place of that qniet
simplicity which made the Wagner fes
tival different from any musical func
tion. Everything, it is complained, is
being done to destroy the real tradh
tious of the place, and Wagner is being
vulgarized out of recognition in the one
place where his memory onghttobe
held most ancred.
Throe Hundred Killed In listtl*.
Zanliuar, Sept. 14.—In a fight be
tween a German corps under Captain
Zelewski and a body of natives, 800 of
Zelewski's blacks were killed and all the
gnu* and munitions lost. Among the
killed lire the Zelewski officers Zitetvitz
and Piercb, Dr. Dnnchow mid four non
commissioned officers. (Jilly two com
missioned officers—Tuttrnborn and Hey-
debreck - - and two uon-couimissiuned
officers are known to have escaped.
NO DECISION YET
The Coraner'o Jury Hold an Inqneet Ore*
Charles Waters.
Atlanta, September 14.—Saturday
night Charles Waters, the negro who was
shot by Sheriff J. B. McConnell of East
Point, died In Fulton county jail.
Yesterday tbe coroner’s jury held an
Inquest over tbe dead negro’s body, but
they were unable to reach any verdict,
and consequently adjourned again to
meet this afternoon at 330 o'clock.
The point which seems to trouble them
la: U McConnell justifiable In shooting
the negroes? ,
Waters’ wife an 1 daughters say that
he was not, as he received no resistance
whatever. > While McConnell and hi*
friend claim that he was 'compelled to
take this course In aeU-defenae.
DEATH OF AN OLD VETEHAN.
Cent. Charles A. Kedd of Columbus Pass
es Away Last Night.
Columbus, September 14 —Captain
Charles A. Redd, one of the oldest and
most Influential ditizen* of Columbus
dica last night He was a member of
the board of education and of several
secret societies, and a director in a n jm-
ber of financial institutions.
He was raised in Columbus, and has
been promloent In the fourth district
since the war.
Captain Radd was a gallant confederate
officer, and no man in Columbus was
more generally esteemed.
Edward Eggleston Weds.
Madison, Ind., September 14.—Dr.
Edward Eggleston, the well known
writer, author of tiie “Hoosier School
master,” the “Faith Doot8r” and other
stories, waa married to Mise Fannie
Elizabeth Goode, so estimable lady of
this city. They went to Lake George
and will go from thereto New York,
where they will reside. This it Dr.
Eggleston’* second wife.
Jury Out Sixty-Five Hour*.
Sandersville, Ga., September 14,—
The jury in the Trull case, for the mur
der of Sam Tauton last October, after
being out sixty-five hours, brought in a
verdict of guilty, with recommendation
to imprisonment in the penitentiary for
life.
B* Comas to tbo Conclusion That Ho Did
an Injustice.
Rome, Ga., September 14.—In his ser
mon last night Rev. Sam Jones charged
Judge Max Heyerhardt with being brow
beaten by lawyers in tbe recent trial of
tbe saloon keepers of Rome.
After the meeting had closed, Judge
Meyerhardt called upon Mr. Jones and
told him that he had been misrepre
sented, said that thd lawyers did not
brow-beat him, bnt he browbeat them.
That he tried to do his duty.
In jostles to Judge Meyerhardt; air.
Jones writes the following letter:
Rome, Ga., September 14.—Judge
Meyerhardt came np to me last night
after the sermon In a kindly spirit and
■aid to me: “Mr. Jones, yon did an'ln-
justice to-night I did not suffer law
yers to brow-beat me. Instead, I was
firm to the end and did my duty faith
fully.”,
I replied: “Judge, if I did you an
Injustice I will make amend honorable
and purpose, and this article is to say to
the publto that by the facts given to me
by Judge Meyerhardt he waa faithful
and fearless in the discharge of his
duty In tbe trial of the saloon keepers of
Rome. a Very tauly,
[Signed.] Sam P. Jones.
SOMETHIN O ABOUT TAXES.
The Besson AVhy Collector* Have Mot
Began the Dalles.
As ia" well known the tax-collector
generally begins collecting on tbe first
of September, but this year, this was
not done.
The reason of the delay is that a* yet,
no rate per cent of state tax baa been
fixed and the card below, which has
been sent to every collector in the state,
will explain itself: -
Comptroller - General’s Office—
Atlanta, Ga., September 12.—Dear
Sih:—The rate per cent of the state tax,
cannot be levied until the legislature
passes the deficiency appropriation and
the general tax act. Such a bill ia now
pending and as soon aa paases I will
notify you. You should take no steps
in the matter until you are officially
notified aa to what the rate will be.
Very respectfully,
W. A. Wright,
Comp. General.
COTTON DROPS OFF.
Another Slnmp In the New York Market
To-day.
New York, September 14 —There '
was a serious drop In the oottom market
today.
January futures opened at934 to 925;
fell as low at $1.25 a bale below Satur
days’* clotldg prices, and closed at 9 00
to 0.01—a fall of 24 points for the day.
The market opened weak and closed
barely steady.
The brightening weather of to-day la
consldoru 1 responsible for the slump.
Crop advices from Alabama and Texas,
however, are bad,
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Openlog rtt tho Henson.
The opening of the theatrical season
will occur when Bobby Gaylor, the fa
mous Irish comedian, will appear in bis
new farce-comedy, “Sport MoAlUster,
One of the Four Hundred.” A* the
title suggest*, the travesty la, baaed on
tbe doings of New York’s upper ten,
and Gaylor plays the part of the aristo
cratic Irishman of sporting proclivities,
Tbe supporting company is exceedingly
strong, and it includes, among others,
Georgia Parker, the famous soubrette;
tbe Olymplo Quartette, who, for the
past five years, have been tho leading
attraction of Evan A Hoyes’ "Parlor
Match” company; J. P. Carroll, who ap
pears Hlberniau of pngiliatie tenden
cies; Chari's W. Young, the famous
end man; Hallett A Raymond, song and
dance artists per excellence, and other
talent equally as capable and equally as
popular with those before whom they
have appeared. Bobby Gaylor Is un
doubtedly the funniest Irishman nbw
before the American public, and with
his present surroundings should not fail
to attract a packed bonae.
A Train Wrecker’* Trial*
Loumfk in, September 14.—[Special]—
Abe Burrows, “alias” Abe Gaits, tho
negro arrested last week by Detective
Ike Glmbel, of the Cheatham Detective
Bureau of Montgomery, Ala., oharged
with placing obstructions on the track
of S. A M. road, bad a commitment trial
to-day and was bound over to await tbe
action of thenext grand jury. Evidence
of his guilt ia very strong against him.
Tbe Antl-SnbtrentnryHes.
St. Louis, September 14.—Every in
coming train brings in delegations to the
anti-subtreasury convention, which as
sembles hero to-morrow. Tho prevailing
opinion is that a separate organization
will tako place, and a policy adopted as
to the membership which will admit a
great many now excluded.
On Siupiclen.
Atlanta, September 14. — Xatha
Worthan alias Will Bell alia* Jack Ral>"
bit was arrested this morning by Patrol
man Mahaffey. It is said that Worthan
has just returned to Atlanta, after serv
ing a five years sentence in the Geor£i*
penitentiary, and that he is wasted In
Alabama for another crime.
