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"if== 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, — — -; i . * 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.