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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1891.
When it was recently announced
that Thornton Wheatley’s usual
pilgrimage had been made to the
Eastern markets, the public waited
to see in theso columns, the report
of what had been done for their
benefit in the way of novelties in
goods and revelations in low prices.
All things being now Ready for
The Feast, the people of Americus
and the surrounding country are
invited to come. They aro not ex
pected to have on their Wedding
Garments, for Wheatley’s is the
Place where the people must go
to be properly decked out for un
appearance, either at a feast or at
business; and nobody cnn have
the trade mark that a Perfectly
Dressed Man always bears, until
after they have been to
iWob Wfleatley’s
and have been supplied with
Letters Patent of Elegance !
By that establishment.
FOULLY MURDERED.
SEABORN JONES, COL., KILLED BY
BILL BUTLER.
The Coroner's Inquest—Evidence Con cl u
elusive—Killed by Bis Son-In-Law—The
Murderer Jn Jail—C ominitineut Trial
%ViU be Had To-Dsy.
The Times-Recorder isn’t half
Bio EN0CGH to hold even a cat
alogue of the Elegant Goods, and
the £ cter-Eleoantly Low Prices
attached.
Only the general heads can here
be outlined ; the trne inwardness
of the feast can’t be understood
until the guests go through the
whole Bill of Fare in person at
Wheatley’s.
No such complete and elegant
stock of
Gentlemen’s,Youths’ and
Boys'
has ever been brought to Americas
and the MOST ASTONISHING
THING about them is the LOW
PRICES!
HATS!
Stiff and crashed, that CANNOT
FAIL TO SUIT.
A specialty in GENTLEMEN’S
UNDERWEAR: Scriven’s Patent
Elastic Seam Drawers, and the
Cosmopolitan Shirts in suits or in
separate garments. FROM THE
VERY CHEAPEST TO THE
VERY FINEST.
A handsomer line of DRESS
SHIRTS, TIES, SCARFS AND
HANDKERCHIEFS was never
seen in Americus.
Fast Blk. Hose. ABSOLUTELY STAIN
LESS, ONLY 25c PER PAIR.
KID GLOVES,
Dressed and undressed; all colors,
grades and prices.
ATTENTION MOTHERS 1 !
Boys’ Shirt Waists, 86c to 01.85.—
. Boys’ Jersey Saits, 3 to 8 years.
Boys’ Clothing in all styles and
prices; •’* ~ -C-
UMBRELLA8 enough to stand
off a OLOUD-BUB8T?
Satchels and Bags enongh to
hold all the elegant goods at
Wheatley’s that yon will need when
you go abroad and want to present
a first-class and stylish appearance
Every Long, Lean, Fat, Short,
Big, Little Man in a dozen conn-
ties can get JUST THE FIT in
the odd sizes and lengths stock
that is carried at
Mi Wheatley’s.
> LIFE WILL BE A BURDEN
to all who spend their money else
where, and hnd when too late that
they missed getting the choicest
ana best bargains in the neatest
and most stylish goods ever
brought to this market
DON’T MAKE SUCH A MIS
TAKE, bat go to Wheatley’s and
get yourself mode solid.
Remember the placo:
,, ' n Corner,
Thornton Wheatley'i
So-called booanse you can get a
“corner” for the smallest cash con
sideration, upon the largest, cheap
est and finest goods ever shown in
I Americas.
Yoon for business,
\ TOOL
<>n Tuesday evening about 8 o’clock
the quiet neighborhood near the Plains
was disturbed by a gun shot.
In a few moments the home of Seaborn
Jones, col., was crowded by anxious peo
ple, endeavoring to learn the cause of
the shooting, who di 1 it, and who had
been shot.
Noon it was discovered that old man
Seaborn Jones, a quiet and inollenslvc
colored man, had been shot anil killed.
The old man was sitting in front of
his fireplace shelling peas, while his
wife was in the adjoining room. The
fatal shot was fired, striking him full in
the side. He got up, walked into the
room where his wife was, fell over on
his face and died without speaking.
Early Wednesday morning Coroner
Parker summoned Messrs.U. S. Lockett,
C. F. Foster, K. C. West, D. W. Bagley,
J. II. Rodgers and T. Q Bass, and pro
ceeded to the sccno for the purpose of
holding an inquest, witli the following
result:
From the nino witnesses examined it
was learned that bad blood bad existed
between old man Seaborn and his son-
in-law, Bill Butler, and that Bill had
made threats that he would “do the old
man." A double-barrel shotgun was
found In Bill’s house with one barrel
loaded with shot the same size as those
Seaborn h^d been shot with,and that the
muzzle of the empty barrel was black
ened by fresh smoke.
For some time Seaborn and Bill have
been mixed up in several law cases, in
all of which Seaborn came out first best.
This seems to have instilled into the
brutal mind of Bill that to get even he
would have to kill the old man.
After a careful and thorough investi
gation the jury rendered the following
verdict: “We, the jury, believe from the
evidence that Seaborn Jones came to his
death from a gunshot, and that the gun
was in the hands of Bill Butler; John
Butler and John Ward, alias John Hor
ton, accessories.”
Bill Butler was arrested, brought to
the city yesterday evening and placed In
the county jail, nia commitment trial
will be had to-day If the witnesses can
be apprehended, if not, it will come off
as early as possible.
THOUGHT IT WAS LOST.
One of Jndce W. F Clarke’s Little Chil
dren Cause. Much Anxletj,
Judge W. F. Clarke has a little chil
not quite two years old, which caused
Its mother a good deal of anxiety a few
evening's since.
Judge Clark lives op College street
and his children with those of his neigh
bors, play about the lawn.
At the time mentioned this little one
strayed off from the others, and
gono some little time before it was
missed.
When it was finally discovered that
the little one was not with it’s com
panions, a search was Instituted, but it
was nowhere on tho premises, and Mrs,
Clarke was growing exceedingly anxious
when.some ono walked up with the child
iu their arms. It had been picked up
Buveral blocks away from its home, near
Rees Park, and there was joy in the
household.
The New York Life In.urance Company.
The following letter from Major Liv
ingston Mims will be of interest to
many readers of Tun Times-Rkcokdeii,
and is herewith given:
Southern Department New York
Life Insurance Company, Livingston
Mims, Manager.—Atlanta, Ga., Sep
tember 22, 181U—Bascom Myrbk, Esq.
Americus, Ga.—Dear Sir: We have your
favor of 10th inst. In regard to the
solvency of this company you can rest
assured that, from private advices and
our own knowledge, the company Is
perfectly solvent, and that policy holders
risk nothing by paying any premium
due; but rather the contrary, they save
accrued dividends by so doing, which
would otherwise bo sacrificed. We un
hesitatingly advise them to pay any
premium that may ho duo, and assure
them that the company is in a better
condition to-day than it ever was before,
and wo firmly believe that tho reports
will show. Yours truly,
Livingston Mims.
We respectfully ask the public to call
and examine our choice stock of all kinds
of groceries.
The Avera Grocery Co.
What They Say About It.
“Tho largest attendance at a matlneo
since the theatre was opened,” joyfully
remarked Manager Wilkinson, when
asked about the house yesterday after
noon. The seats were all filled again
last evening. It was one of the best
holiday attractions ever offered at tho
theatre.
“The Private Secretary” Is one of the
best of Wm. Gillette's excellent plays,
and the company which presented it
yesterday afternoon and last evening, is
a strong and well balanced organization.
The company is the same as was here a
few weeka ago, and the excellent Im
pression made then found expression In
the attendance yesterday. “The Private
Secretary” will be repeated this after
noon and evening —Worcester Dally
Spy.
The opera house was welled filled lost
night to witness the great comedy pro
duction of The New Private Secretary.
The play was presented In an excellent
manner, both at regard! acting and
dressing. It waa a rare treat and decid
edly above the average. The play waa
received with every evidence of gratifi
cation by the large audience assembled,
and the curtain waa rung up on a ma
jority of the acts. Mr. Wm. Fairbanks
waa undoubtedly the beat representa
tive of the title role we have ever teen.
Mr. Harry Eytinge as Cattermole, Mias
Bertha Livingston as Ml-a Ashford, and
Mr. Edwin Travers as Douglas, deserve
special mention for excellent work.—
York (Pa.,) Tribune.
■lx Pfsldlors and Their Packs.
Tuesday morning six peddlers board
ed the east bound S. A. M. passenger
train, and carried their packs into the
coach. Soon the conductor asked them
to remove their packs to the baggage
car, which tlioy refused todo. The con
ductor had them carried there anyhow,
which so much enraged the aforesaid
peddlers that they showed fight, and It
waa as much aa the conductor could do
to preserve order until the train reached
Cordele, where lie had them arrested
and placed in jail. Warrants were taken
out for three of them for disorderly
conduct, a trial was bad and the matter
amicably settled.*
Give U# More Water.
Why can't the city council make an
appropriation for such an emergency aa
is now upon us—tho dry weather and the
dryer dust, and sprinklo tho business
streets?
, The people will approve it heartily;
and it is certainly more of a public bene
fit—nay even necessity—than the appro
priations heretofore made for entertain
ing visiting delegations of Alabama edi
tors and Sunday school excursions.
Come, city fathers; don't • train ont a
gnat, and swallow a camel.. Give us
water! water!! water!!!
Cotton Avenue Ahead.
While other quarters of the city aro
swathed in clouds of dust; and are put
ting up petitions to heaven for rain and
to the city for a sprinkler; the wide
awake merchants of Cotton avenue, from
Forsyth to Lamar, are bolding down the
dust In great shape by an assiduous use
of their hose no their narrow street.
It is really a treat to a wheezing,
coughing victim to turn the corner at
Russell’s or George Wheatley’s and In
hale the great hunks of ozono that fill
that section of Cotton avenue between
those two corners.
The small space to cover, and the
larger number of hose in use, put this
quarter of the city a long way ahead of
their less fortunate or lees enterprising
neighbors.
The Avera Grocery Company will have
not less than ten thousand cans of fruits,
vegetables and canned goods generally to
arrive in the next sixty days.
Plato Glass for the Hotel.
The car of plate glass for the new
hotel arrived In the elty yesterday. It
had been detained in Cordele on the G.
S. & F. yard for several days on account
of a bumper being pullea out Mr. A.
S. Thompson, after arming htmaelf with
the necessary papers, volunteered to go
over and have the car transferred to the
8. A. M. road. This he succeeded In
doing and triumphantly returned with
the car, plate glass and a cheerful face.
J. Henry Freeman will sell you best
coed for least money. , scplodtf
A Sharp Negro.
Yesterday Mr.Will Roach sent a negro
to the city with a load of hay to sell.
After disposing of the hay for 8:1.25
the negro ' got on a two-for-a-nick
drunk and went home. Upon arriving
there ho told Mr. Roach that ho had lost
the money, but If he would not arrest
him would work it out with him.
Go«kI Work.
Mr. Mark Salomon In doing good work
In this city in aid <»f the Hebrew Orphan's
Horae in Atlanta. He has sold more
than fifty tickets for the radio «»Y a fine
piano, which will come oft .as soon as all
tickets are sold.
Attention. Knight* of Pythias.
Attend regular meeting to-night at
Castle Hall. Work in Amplified degree.
All visiting Knights invite J. By order
oi C. C.
B. II. Mayo, K. of R. Sc S.
thurs-tf
Hunting Party
Soveral gentlemen went out to Mr. C.
C. Clay's plantation yesterday for a
couple of day's hunt and fish. Mr. Clay
knows how to entertain the boys and
they wilt certainly have a nice time.
Tbs Avera Grocery Company keeps
. •- — * t£e celebrated Booge
Dear.
Do you know how much beer Is sold
fn Americus each week? Well, guess.
Give it up? About three hundfed kegs—
all in town, too, besides that which is
shipped off.
RISING REAL ESTATE
MUST BE WET DOWN BY SPRINK
LING CARTS.
The Parched Throat* and Red Eyes of the
People Appeal For Relief—Can’t the City
Fathers Come to the Rescue by Appro
printing Money For a Sprinkler.
Talk about your Egyptian plagues of
frogs, and dies, and lice, .and bail, and
murrain! Americus is right up to all
that; and her plague of dust is what is
doing the business.
The people swear, or pray, according
to their religious scruples; they wheeze
and cough, and get no relief; for there
is no Moses to stretch out his hand and
cause the plague to vanish.
True, there is a power in our midst
that could if it would; but there is as
yet no immediate sign of that powi
coming to the front.
This is the city council; and that
body of public guardians ought to take
pity on the suffering people and make
some arrangement, and make it right at
once, for sprinkling the streets
It may be said that the business
houses, many of them, have hose, or if
they haven’t, it is their business to get
them; but that don’t help the matter.
There are comparatively few of these
sprinkling arrangements, and several of
these are out of repair and not in use;
and even If thq number was doubled it
Nfould take too much of the time of
some employee of each establishment,
irrespective of the time now fixed, to
fight down the prevailing deluge of
dust.
There isn’t but one solution, and that
is for the city to put on one or more
sprinkling carts.
One will probably bo sufficient to
sprinkle all the principal streets from
Jefferson to Church, .and Cotton avenue
to Lee. and the expense would be but
trifling in comparison with the benefit
bestowed.
The oity can’t make any better use of
a portion of its water supply just now;
and if don* at the expense of the city, it
would fall equally upon all the benefi
ciaries.
It can’t be done satisfactorily any
other way at present; for the,small area
that can be covered by the sprinklers of
the stpres, does not suffice to abate the
nuisance to any perceptible degree; the
little patches of sprinkled street here
and there being only oases in the desert.
Can't the city fathers and . the water
commission hold a conclave, and evolve
some relief from their ipner conscious
ness for the long-suffering public?
SCHOOL SHOES t
We are prepared to supply romp
ing and fun loving boys and girls with
the best shoes for the money.
Williford, Matthews. & Co.
415 COTTON AVE.
If
YOUR EYES.
We have added to our business an
OPTICAL - DEPARTMENT,
under the management of
Mr. John H. Starbuck,
A SCIENTIFIC OPTICIAN
and a graduate of the
Chicago Opthalmic College,
and have made complete arrangements for
diagnosing and correcting all visual errors by
the most approved and scientific method.
We aim to make this a special feature of
our business, and our facilities are the best
SOUTH OF ATLANTA.
Oculists prescriptions carefully and correct
ly filled.
JAMES FRICKER & BRO.
Approacblnx Completion.
The outside work on the new Catholic
Cathedral on Lee street will soon bo
completed and then the workmen will
devote themselves to the insido finish.
The church is a square structure with a
largo dome rising up from the centre
and surmounted by a cross. The cover
ing of the dome is the work of Mr. W.
H. R. Scbroeder, and is of the best sheet
tin. It has been - painted perfectly
white, while the cross and ball on top
are gilded. It is the intention to make a
handsome finish inside.
Done Them Up#
On Sunday last two detectives of
Cheatham's Detective Ageney, of Mont
gomery, went down to Lyons, on the 8.
A. M. road, on business of their own.
When they arrived there a vigilance
committee had been organized, who no
tified the detectives to move on. This
they refuted to do, whereupon the com
mittee proceeded to “do them up" in
great shape. Wbat the damages were
could not be learned.
iTwo New llou.e..
Dr. W. P. Burt is building two now
residences on his lots, corner of Chnrch
and Prince streets. Tho one on the cor
ner will contain six rooms, and the other,
facing Church street, will contain five
Both houses will be fitted up with mod
ern conveniences, and will be most de
sirable residences. Ho has already had
several applications for tho houses.
I'mleifolni Repairs.
Since the opening of the cotton season
the A. P. A L. compress has been taxed
to Its utmost capacity both day and
night, which slightly impaired tho ma
chinery, and while they are undergoing
repairs tho Mammoth Americus com
press will be used.
Racket * Store.
We haven’t hnd much to say since moving into onr new quarters
in.the
WATTS BUILDING,
but we aro selling the goods just the same. For Fall and Winter we
have just received a splendid line of '
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS AND CLOTHING
and can suit you in both price and style. Our
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS
cannot be turned down, nnd wo will make you happy in a short while
if you will come and see us.
Dopt forget the place—WATTS BUILDING, Americus. Ga.
& WILDER.
ROGERS
SeptlWAw
The PHARMACY,
Cor. Cotton Ave. and Forsyth St.,
W. 0. RUSSELL, Proprietor.
STRICT ATTENTION GIVEN TO PRESCRIPTIONS,
* WHICH I MAKE A SPECIALTY.
TOILET COODS.
RUSSELL'S HEADACHE SPECIFIC
Flavoring Extracts and Family Medicines of nil kinds.
Septiod&wtf GIVE LAE A CALL.
Fall Fight,.
Fall lights have opened up in good
style. A neat little set*to occurred on
the corner of Forsyth street and Cotton
avenue yesterday. Nobody hurt.
H. E. Pratt has removed from 505
Jackson to <110 Cotton avenne, opposite
Uarrpld A Johnson’s, where he is better
prepared than ever to do all kinds of re
pairing of furniture. scptl7 dtf
, Allison * Arrack.
Wo will giro a handsome book mark
to alt pupils who will buy hooka opus
title we. k. Remember it will be better
for you end no too to buy before the
nmlt,,,, a eepl7tf.
-CFVfir a
The Maiden’* Prayer.
r >h. the du«t, fhedust!
At every little glut
C *klng the godly Just
'And eke, too, theunju«t;
By all men roundly cu**ed;
Oh, clly dads, We've ttinted
l«on* enough. We hope and trust
Our rutiled and mu^sed-
Up feoilng* will Induce you
To l.uy a gre.it big water t art.
P. D. 11.
Highest market price
• paid for Cotton
Seed,
AMERICUS GUANO CO.
SepOUAwSwkt,
D. WATTS, *
Wholesale and Retail Groceries
Has come to the front again, and can be found on the corner,
Watts Building, With an elegant lino of fresh
Groceries Confectioneries,
which ho will sell at rock bottom prices. Country merchants
will find it to their interest to call and see him when
needing anything in his line.
"WHISKIES 32 BRANDIES
and plenty of Jugs in the rear, which will be shipped to any
part of tho United States and Georgia. *
SEND HIM YOUR ORDERS.
A FEW BARGAINS
Farm and City Property
On Good Terms for a few days.
Allen, Taylor & Co.,
HarroldBank Building,
iJjpTTON AVENUE,/ - AMERICUS, GA.
’^Tytboot-0 £T8vA , ‘
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