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VOLUME l
AMERICUS, GEORGIA* FRIDAYS OCTOBER 9, 1891.
NUMBER 15s
We propose to make OCTOBER a red letter j THE LEG!
month for trade in the year of our Lord,
Big Bristling Bargains, • x
Tlie Grandest Stock of Merchandise,
i Courteous $nd Competent Salesmen,
And Throngs of Happy Customers
All combine this season to make
Geo. Q. Wheatley’s
Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.,
THE BIGHT PLACE TO GO for anything and everything you
need in seasonable wearing apparel.
Every department of onrCommooiou* Store is Filled to Overflowing
and we ask everyone in search of ne w and desirable goods to Drop in
and Give us a Look before buying elsewhere.
IIS I Ours is the only Department store in the city, carrying
nV ■ a full and complete stock of EVERYTHING IN OUR
LINE. We have everything needed for male or female attire, and
we will surely save you money on what you have to buy.
WE WANT TOUR TRADE
and in order to get you within the reach of temptation, we have ar
ranged a special and attractive list of
BARGAINS
for all those who call upon us early this week.
We had the the misfortune to get a case containing $407-25
worth of choice goods damaged by water while in transit. The trans
porting Railroad Co. has generously allowed us
40 PEr CENT. 40 PER CENT.
of the amonnt involved as an-estimate of damages. Now we propose
that our loss, or THEIR LOSS in this instance, shall be YOUR GAIN
We are going to sell this 9407.25 worth of choice goods—all dam
aged, some more, some less for A HIGIS SOELg 1 this WG6k.
for Yon! Don't Hiss It!
_ H;£RE ARE, THE PRICES:
Plain and Fancy Curtain Scrim at Bo, re tlly worth 8c.
“ “ " - ' “ 8 *• “ 12*.
*" “ “ “ 10 !' “ 16
•* “ “ " 12* “ " 20
Nottingham Lace Curtains.
20 prs. (slightly damaged)- 2^: yds. long, at -760, matchless at $1.26
elswhere. i .> \hQ , V.. vV '-
24 prs. (slightly damg’d) 8 yds long, at $1.00 matchless at $1.60 elswhere
18 prs. “ 8* yds long, at $1.25 “ 2.00 “
13 prs: “ 8} yds long, at $1.85 “ 2.60 "
Batin Damask Table Linens and Turkey Red Cloths, all slightly
damaged, Will be sold at about half price this week.
LADIES’ SKIRTS.
PLAIN 8KIRT8! IMBROIDERIED 8KIRT81 KNIT SKIRTS I
All got wet, but practically as good as ever, will be sold at your own
price.
Child’s Knit goods—Hoods and Sacques—all got wet too, but if we
did not tell you, you’d never know it—HALF PRICE !
Don’t forget we are sole Agents for the Celebrated P. and P
Brand of Kid Gloves—every parr you buy of us Warranted to
Wear or your mouey refunded.
IIfill! is the time to buy OARPETS OHEAP. You need one
IfUYY We have more than 200 rolls all new styles for you to
select from, our stock embraces every kind and quality—all at Rock-
Bottom prices—Cotton Chain, Extra Supers, 3-Ply Ingrains, Taptstry, Brut-
sals, Velvet Brussels, Body Brussels. Call and make your selection, We
make your Carpet and put it down for you—all free of charged
Remember our new stock of Clothing and Furnishing Goods
when you want a suit I We acknowledge no competition here l
TO TRY IS TO BUY, and if you buy ONCE, you will be so
pleased with the fit and style of our goods, you’ll buy of us again.
No houest dealer can offer you greater. inducements than we, so
come follow the crowd to
Geo. D. Wheatley's,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
Lamar St. and Cotton Ave., Americus, Ga.
oW r * llabl ® Henry 8.- Davis; the Ysteraa Dry Goods Salet-
» ■“UJ"" Jus served ydu falfhfhlry m the part, ts Mill with us-
ever reedy with s cordial weloome for all our .customer, and his friends.
TH»r5rni-» J A 0 a Stanfield, Jim Quarry, Will Dudley,
Ud Bern Warlick compose our corps of courteous and obliging
JSrwE'i,5!, ,le t ^® f«c« Of Mr. Jno. P. Cato, our efficient and popu
lar book-keeper, beams with, pleasure for the advent of bia friends.
1*1
THE ISSUE OF $500,000 OF BONDS
EVEBV YEAR.
An htre£> Liquor Bill toit-i-TerreV.
* Bond Bill fined the 8ensto Cnsnimounly
—Whitfield's Iasnrsnco BIU Dlsenssed at
Some Length In the House.
Atlanta, October 8.—The house
passed the revenue bill, and one section
of it requires that dealers in liquors
should be required to pay a license tax
of $200, which was a raise of $190, the
former tax being $50.
Whan the bill reached the senate on
amendment was offered that tho tax be
$100. The bill failed to get' a majority
vote, ana the whole measure was kilted
To-day.the bill was reconsidered by the
senate, and the chances are that it will
pass as it came from the house, ajid that
the tax will be $200.
The senate hae unanimously passed
the bill introduced by Senator Terrell
that each year for the next ten yean the
■tate ehall issne $500,000 of bonds.
This bill means that the money arle-
ing from the eale of the bonds will go
toward meeting the appropriations made
to pension soldiers and widows.
It requires a change in the oonstltn
tlon, so the bill will have to be submitted
to the people for ratification. If they
ratify It the tax rate will be reduced, and
poeterlty will have to take care of the
bonds. This bill does not affect the tax
rate for this year, and if ratified may
lessen the amonnt of taxes to be paid
next year. It is a wise measure, and of
eonne will be passed by the house and
ratified by the people.
All of the time of the house yesferday
was taken up in argument on the Insur
ance bill. 'The substitute for the bill
which the Insurance companies proposed
was defeated.
Whitfield’s bill simply breaks np the
Southeastern Tariff Association, and
leaves each company, so far as Georgia
is concerned, to fix rates for each risk
tboy take.
A prominent insurance man declares
this simply means higher rates of Insur
ance for! Georgia, while Mr Whitfield and
the adherents of his bill say it will tftln
about competition and rates will b
lowered.
MURDER AND BOIClnk.
A Jealous Man Shoota a Woman and Then
Cuts Bis Own Throat.
Macon, Ga, ctober 8.—A murderous
assault Id a bagnio and a murder and
suicide narrowly averted, is the sensa
tion this morning.
At 7:15 o’clock Zeach Rousch shot and
dangerously wounded Essie Wiggins,
and then cut his own throat. Both may
die.
Rousch, it appears, claims some pro
prietorship In the Wiggins girl, and last
night went to the house. Finding that
Essie was oat driving with another man
he waited, and when the couple did not
return at 2:80 o'clock t)fis morning, bo
went to bed in another room.
At seven o’clock this morning Rousch
went Into Essie’s room and a quarrel
arose between the two, wbleh was ended
by Rousch drawing a revolver and firing
twice at the girl.
One ballet entered the left, breast and
another Inflicted « scalp, wound.
Essie ran screaming and bleeding from
the room, and the would-be murderer
opened fire on the other oeonpant of the
room. Two more shots were fired and
another scalp wound Inflicted.
After this Rousch walked to the room
he had occupied during the night and
deliberately cut his own throat, Inflat
ing a ghastly wound.
A policeman bearing the shots and
ories broke into ,the door and, seeing the
situation, summoned help and physi
cians, who are now in attendance and
hope to rare both lives.
A Genuine Lord.
Rout, Ga., October 8.—The case of
Lord 'Beresford baa been set for trial
daring the fifth week of the present
term of court.
When the case comes np again Beres
ford claims that he will have friends
from the high swell circles of London
and from the Hanbattain Yacht Club of
New York to testify that he U Beresford
and not Lascellet as claimed by the
prosecution.
Many people are Inclined to regard
this as a bluff on the part of the alleged
forger to gain time, bnt Beresford or
Lascelles, whichever be may be, stontly
protests thatjie will have no difficulty In
proving himself a genuine lord by his
friends in the upper circles of New York
and London society.
An attempt is being made to secure a
bond for Beresford in the sum of $1,200.
The Howell Cue On.
Wabbenton, Ga., October 8.—The
case of A. X. Howell wu called this
morning. Up to this time only ten ju-
rorm have «—•F4* t.
Court hee adjourned for oue hour and
the sheriff and bailiffare Ww. M> differ
ent portions of the city summoning the
maamt&stPCiisi
two needed jurors. The streets an
are crowded and everybody is anxiously
awaiting tho trial.
JTOQ, ^P,EMOfiR»TIC iSPEECHfe^j
Gorman and Compton AddreMft Uem
ocrutlo Mum Sleeting at Elkton,
. Baltimore. Oct. 8—Two speeches
made at the Democratic muss meeting
at'Elkton have been read with interest
Beta The first was that of Senator
Qonnan, who very plainly stated his
position as to the silver question as
'follows: "And now they hope to de
ceive the pn-lie again by Buying that
the Democratic party is In favor-of an
eighty-cant dollar for the workingman
and the farmer. Bat no, my friends,
there is no cheap money in'the Demo
cratic puny. the Democratic party
wuui for tue people that cu-reucy pro
vided lor t hem by the constitution of
the Uiu.ea otuie*—a currency bused cn
gold and sliver, and both kept at par,
and oue oo.lur as good as another on
every ttcre of laud in the United States.
The -second was lUiu of Congressman
Compton, Vito, in teiemtce to the force
bill, alln.tvd to its being -rushed
through tue house by that brutal ty
rant. wno. tr tio.i lets me live, uud 1
retain my seat in the house of repre
sentatives, 1 intend to tell on the floor
»f tlie hou-e, face to face, teeth to
teeth, just what I think of him. I
mean Tom Reed."
A Wayward .Son.
Cariuaqe, Mo., Oct, 8.—Some months
ago an old man named David Moss mar
ried a girl 14 years old, having the con
sent of heT mother, on payment of $500
The youthful bride has since proved to
be very fickle-minded, and has shown
preference for the old mtin's son. Bnd
Moss, the young bride's son-in-law, un
dertook to lay ont the old man, bnt was
not allowed to complete the job. He
was arrested after strong resistance,
ind sentenced to thirty days in jail.
When the sentence is ont he is to be ar
rested on a charge of forgimr a check
far$40U on the old man. The youhg
bride was heart-broken -to see Iter son-
in-law taken Hi by the officer*. Moss
is a wealthy utiin.
Annrks Jans Heirs Meet.
: Kansas City, Octr 8.—The national
Son vert Urn of the alleged heirs of An-
leke Jans Borgnrdas, better known as
Amieke Jans, opened here with a large
ittendunce from various purts of the
United States, us well as from Cunado.
The object of the promoters is to bring
Into existence nn international organi
sation with headquarters in this city.
Branches of this organization are to be
formed in different states. When suffl-
,-ient money has been collected, the lit
igation between the heirs und Trinity
shnreta, which has occupied the New
Yorktsonrts at intervals for the last 200
tears, will be renewed with redoubled
Snergy. The heirs say tdat the estate
■M be sued for is now worth $300,000,000.
vs out Mil Unrued to lleatti.
Nbwabk, O., Oct. 8.—Mrs. Bells
Hiues, a young murried ludy residing
at Summit Station, eighteen miles west
nt this city, was so fright! ally ' burned
about the body by her clothes catching
fire that she died in a shoyt time. She
was engaged in making apple hatter at
the time. The lower part of the body
and me limbs were burned so that the
flesh tell on. Her suffering was in
tense. but was not long endured before
death relieved her. She was aged about
28 j ears, and leaves a young cdild and
a bus can I. The horrible affair caused
the greu.est sorrow.
May Die from Hand-Shaking.
Philadelphia, Oct. 8.—General E.
Bnrd Grubb, United States minister to
Spain, is at home on a furlough, and he
has been the victim of a most remarka
ble' accident. The general is popi
and ambitious for further political pre
ferment, and has gone into the hand-
slinking business by the Vfhjlesale. As
a consequence the doctors have become
alarmed at the condition of his right
haud, which is greatly swollen and
gives every indication of erysipelas.
The hand has been squeezed so that the
bones have been injured, and the case
is regarded as serious.
Kilted by a Train.
Stapleton, a L, Oct. 8.—A wagon
belonging to the National Meat market
at Eruatina and containing fonr per
sons—a man, a woman and two child
ren—was struck by a west bonnd train
on the Amber division of the Staten
Island Rapid Transit railroad at the
crossing lu Giffords. The man and
woman were instantly killed, and their
bodies thrown a oonslderaule distance
from the track. The children were pick
ed np in a dying condition und carried
to the nearest house.
Killed Ills Wife and Himieir-
Sacramento, Cal., Oct. &—Richard
Clinila, a blacksmith, murdered his
wife here and then killed himself. His
wife bod left him on account of cruel
treatment. He met her and asked her
to drop me proceedings for divorce and
live witu him ugaiu. She refused, and'
he shut her twice, killing her instantly.
He then fired two snots at himself and
died in a short time.
liMVti Btitui Accepted.
Jackson, Alia*., Oct. b.—The com
mittee appointeilto pass oil the accept
ance u£ tue marble statue of Jefferson
Davis for the vestibule of the Confeder
ate monument in this city, timuiy de
cided oy a vote of 1ft to 7 to accept tue
statue, it had been placed on tue pe
destal by the contractor, there being no
ceremony. %
Cnlon Pacific Indcbtetlnra*.
Boston* br~*--Huce than B0 per
cent, of Uie claims of ijuiou'Pacific di-
TO OUST GOULD.
IN ORDER TO d.ET CONTROL OF THE
MISSOURI PACIFIC.
The tVall Street Wizard 8ayi He X>oes Not
Control a Majority of the Stock—This
Gives the Ahti-Gonld Men a Tip—Stock*
holders' Movement.
NkW York, Oct, a—It bos been
Btuied quite frequently for the past
■week that'' movement' is on foot to oust
Jay Gnilltl from the active management
of the Missouri Pacific railroad and sev
eral other corporations which have be
come known os • 'Gould properties. ”
The following article in The Times is
significant, in tlmt till the parties able
to give reliable Information shrug their
shoniilers and refuse torspeak.
’’Mr. Jay Gould said not ldng ago
that he did not own a.majority of
the stock in any of tjie railroad prop
erties that he controlled. He added,
with what then appeared tb be a tinge
of sarcasm, that the stockholders of the
Missouri Pacific read conld, if they be
came dissatisfied with his management,
pnt him ont of the presidency.
"News travels fast in Wall street, and
probably Mr. Gould has heard before
this that some of the Missouri Pacific
stockholders propose to act on the hint
he has given them. They are dissatis
fied with bis management, and they de
sire to get the, control of the property
into their own hands. Efforts ure un
der way to'organize a concerted move
ment on the part of the stockholders
who are not under Mr. Gould's direct
control. It is not ther avowed desire
to bring about a receivership.
It is said that the movement against
Mr. Gonld has the solid hacking of
Drexel, Morgan & Co. The breach be
tween J. Pierpout Morgan and Jay
Gould and Mr. Morgan's threat to
make Mr. Gonld's recent action cost
him dearly, are recalled in support of
the rumor*,
INCENDIARIES THREATEN
To Barn a Town In Georgia, nml the
Cltleene Aiweinble.
Oglethorpe, Oct. 8.—There was a
meeting of the citizens of this place to
tuke action in regard to better protec
tion from fires. Mayor S. L. Lofley was
selected chairman, and the result of the
meeting was that a committee will be
appointed to make a thorough investi-
tigatiun and to consider the advisability
of secitvii'g the cheapest and most avail
able fire extinguishing apparatus, and
to report back to a future meeting.
The result of the recent fires in tho
town Ita* caused a good deal of loss,
and in view of this, the citizens will
take prompt action to instive protection
against a further recurrence nr the fires.
An anouvmons letter published a few
days since containing threats to turn
ont the supposed gamblers followed so
quickly by these fires, although very re
mote from the plnce threatened, caused
a good deal of excitement, and follow
ing tlmt up the meeting passed a reso
lution asking the chairman to appoint a
Committee to make a proper investiga
tion. and if necessary detectives will he
employed to ferret down the incemlia
rift*.
If the fires were of incendiary origin
this will be done immediately, and if
there is a man gailty of snch an infa-
wons act he will be speedily brought to
justice. Tlie town is unanimous on this
point, and the citizen* are prepared and
determined to protect themselves.
The Writing Telegraph.
Chicago, Oct. 8.—The writing tele
graph has been exhibited here. The
test was between Chiongo and St. Paul,
over 400 miles, and despite unfavorable
weather the result was successful. The
electrical mechnnism i* enclosed in a
mall case. The only thing visible is a
roll of tape, the suine ns that used in
tickers. The operator takes a pencil,
and, placing the point nn the sensitive
plate in the opening, simply writes his
message, and at the receiving point it
is duplicated on the tape. In this man
ner pictures can be trnced, maps drawn
and notes signed at a distance of thou
sands of miles. Experts assert that it
will do away with the Morse system
and can be worked at a rate of forty-
fivo words a minute.
Couldn't Hire a Hull
bT. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 8—T. T. Ly-
is, of Janesville, Wis., who has been
lecturing against the Church, being re
fused the use of a hall here, started to
speak on the sidewalk. Some one
threw a stone wnich knocked him
down. He arose with e revolver in his
hand, with which he threatened to
shoot the next man who threw a stone.
His threat was answered by a volley
of rocks, and he was chased fonr blocks
by a mob yelling “Hang him." He
mshed through The Gazette office and
. 1. The excitement was such
jut he found it advisable to quietly
CONDENSEO NEWS DISPATCHES.
who originally refused to sign the
(.oaldn't Walt to Rebuild. .
tV ILMINQTON, Del., Oct. 8. -The Del
aware Iron works at New Castle, whose
mill* were destroyed by fire abont three
w.eki ago. has resumed operations, and
1.000 men are at work. The men will
work in the open air, and the buildings
will be pnt up over them. The corn-
pony is busy on an order for tube* for
government cruisers, which accounts
.for the hurried resumption of work.
•Ita Will A.k Knglisk Prot.ctlon.
London. Oct. 8.—A dispatch from
Calcutta says that the king of Siam
seriously meditates asking Hngi.^q to
take the country ander her protection,
in enter to prevent it from, tilling into
*ka Und* of France to whom it must
otherwise yield in the not distant fre
Domestic *nd Foreign and of General
Interact.
The coiner.stone of the Socond Bap
tist chnrch has been laid m Atlanta.
Tho Grady hospital in Atlanta will
be completed by the first of next year.
Miss Elizabeth B. .. the heroine
of an Hround-the-wor*u trip, was wed
ded in New York.
A heroic equestrian statue of General
U. S. Grant has been unveiled in Lin
coln park, Chicago.
Cheney, ofNew Hampshire, and Es
ter, of California, are said to have been
selected for the cabinet.
Fire tit Washington. Ind., destroyed
the .court house, together with all the
records. Loss ott the building 41d.>,0tyj.
Twenty-two houses were destroyed in
a fire at riantonda, Spain. Several per
sons were injured during tho conflagra
tion.
A young man named Tenant woke up
in ins steep at Bloomington, Ind.,
walked out of a window and broke his
ntes.
Professor Panl Hnupt jtf tho Johns
Hopkins university, Baltimore, will
supervise the work of a new translation
oi tile Little.
Tue constitutionality of tho McKin
ley tariff hill will be passed upon by tho
United States supreme court at tho Oc
tober session.
It is reported that Secretary Blaine
will make speeches in Boston, Worces
ter and Springfield during the present
campaign in Aiassachusetts.
At Wilkesharre, Pa., Mrs. Arthur
O'Donnell was found dead in her bed
with several stab wounds in Iter back.
There is no clew to the murderer.
Josie Mansfield, who has been re
ported ns dead, has written . to Phila
delphia from Paris for information
about the death of a former husband.
The Charleston Daily World', Tlie
Weekly World and Sunday Budget, pub
lished by The World Publishing com
pany at Charleston, S. C., have sus
pended publication.
The London Standard's dispatch from
Vienna says that the Roumanian army
is strung enough to prevent the advance-
of any Rnssian force to the river Prutli
until Australia has demolished her-
army.
Governor Campbell of Ohio, has in
structed his lawyers in New York to-
get a retraction from The Recorder or
sue that journal for libel on account of
an art.'ole published in The Recorder,,
and also threatens Buit against the Cin.-
uinimti Commercial Gazette.
It was stated by a cabinet officer that
President Harrison had tendered to
Professor Tonsley (ft Minneapolis, the
position of president of the civil service
comui.sHioii, vice Lyman, to be relieved,
anil that it was very probable the ap
pointment would be accepted.
While workmen were removing rock
and earth iu the corporate limits of
Button. W. Vn., for a foundation fur
a house, lour human skeletons were
found. They were in one pile, and it is
supposed tiiat they were murdered dur
ing Hie war. A deep mystery hangs
jver tlie affair.
An Elyria, O., dispatch says that
Ruggles & Qnayle, clothiers here, have
a clerk that they have reason to be
proud of. A few weeks ago some one
broke ill the plate glass of their store
and stole some clothing withont awak
ening the clerk. Recently lie imagined
some otie was crawling through the
transom over the door, and blazed
away, putting a hole through a valua
ble transom, and two more through a
$150 plate glass window. No burglar
was there, however.
At Anderson, Ind., the Indiana Nat
ural Gus company having relused to
pay to property owners damages assess
ed for crossing property without their
pipe line, iwenty-fiva of their laborers
were arrested and fined $25 each for
trespassing. While the men were at
tending court, farmers hitched horses
to tho pities and, palling them from the
trenches, broke them into pieces. In
nnother part of the county a party of
farmers blew out a section of the line
through which gas wus flowing with
charge of dynamite.
A New York special says: A roman
tic story is told of Richard Haring and
bride, who have sailed for Hamburg
from Hoboken. Five months ago Har
ing worked us a farm hand for Thotnaa
Burlin at some place in Georgia. Miss
Ann O'Slieill, the adopted danghtee of
the postmaster, nursed him through an
illness, und bnt for his humble position
he would have offered himself in mar
riage to her. When he recovered he
received a letter announcing the snd-
den death of his father in Germany.
He crossed the ocean and learned that
ha was the ouly heir to an estate valued
at nearly $500,000. He felt free uow to
propose to Miss O’Sheill, and when they
left Hoboken they were on a wedding
trip.
PORTER SCORED.
Allltnc# Wants Him Pnnlshsd for Violat
ing tbs Laws at tbs Coantrjr.
St. Paul, Minn., October 8.—The
Minnesota farmers' alliance gave a large
part of its attention at to-day's meeting
to Robert P. Porter, superintendent of
the eleventh census. After charging
him with lncompetency in all branch**
of his work, they devote a set of . viola
tions to him in the department of mort
gages on farms and homes.
They say that be violated the stat
ute* in hit Instructions to enuattratort,
and that the oenstis it of no vain* a* a
report, either of the number of tenants
on lands In the United States nr of the
real amount of ths mortgage indebted*
of dtisaae. Tb* naolnffans doe*
with this pointed one:
“Resolved, Thntf
"'■“-TK
of the j
also to 1
rat of tb* cento* pi
hiagrure violation „— ,
El