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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