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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER:
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1891.
NUMBER 175
Fof The Boys
A-
BRAND NEW SAFETY BICYCLE
TO BE GIVEN AWAY!
IT WONT COST YOU A PENNY
To stimulate the traffic in our Boys’ anc
Children’s Clothing department, I will give
with every Boy’s or Child’s suit, between the
of 4 and 18 years, sold by us from the
1st ot October past, until
NEXT CHRISTMAS EVE,
when the fortunate one will be determined
A TICKET, (non-tra referable) entitling the
holder to one chance at a
BRAND NEW SAFETY BICYCLE
TO BE GIVEN AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE OF
ANY CHARGE WHATEVER!
All you have to do is to
BUY YOUR BOY’S SUIT FROM ME
and get a ticket. These tickets will be
numbered, and on Christmas Eve, numbers
corresponding with the tickets given away wil
be put in a box: then a committee of disinter
ested citizens will draw out one of the numbers,
and the holder of the ticket containiug that
number, gets the
Brand Nev Safety Bicycle Free of Charge!
Now a Word about our Famous Clothing Department.
THE NAME OF
fieorge D. Wheatley
has become known far. and wide as the
synonym of
CLOTHING AT FAIR PRICES!
|Our stock was NEVER SO COMPLETE!
Our styles NEVER SO ELEGANT!
Our prices NEVER SO MODERATE!
And never so great OUR ANXIETY TO PLEASE!
Our assortment. of Boys’ and Children’s
Clothing begins with a neat WASH SATINET
SUIT (wool filling) any size from 4 to 18 years,
&1.2& T>er Suit,
an d includes all the finer materials, such as
CASSIMERES, WORSTEDS, TRICOTS,
SERGE AND CHEVIOT Suits so desirable for
fi 0YS WHO ARE HARD ON CLOTHES.’
Wishing you all “good luck” in the drawing,
toys,
Your friend,
Seoiye D. Wheatley.
NOT WANTED.
LOUISIANA STGAR MEN OBJECT TO
NEGROES AS INSPECTORS
Negroes Appointed by the Intern.! Iter-
enue Bureau a, Weighers and Inspectors
Under the Sugar County law. Strong
Feeling!, Aromed.
Ngw Orleans, Oct. 28. —A number
of negroes were appointed by Mr, Wim.
berly of the internal reucuue bureau to
act as weighers and inspectors under
the new BUgar bounty law. A very
strong feeling has been aroused among
the white planters against the negro in
spectors, particularly in Iberia, Ascen
sion and Terre Bonne parishes, on the
ground that their employment wonld
haye a demoralizing and injurious effect
upon the negro farmhands. A protest
lias been prepared by planters declaring
against the employment of negroes for
this purpose and their willingness ex
pressed to accept utty white man. There
were a number of white Republican
candidates for these offices, and the
planters suggest that these should be
appointed. The feeling against the ne
gro inspectors is so very strong in Iberia
that those who went there to perform
tbeir duties have, at the suggestion of
prominent Republican leader, left and
returned to New Orleans. The Cru
sade, a negro paper published here, de
nounces the action of the planters and
says that if the negro sngar inspectors
are not allowed to perform their duties
the negroes will appeal to congress for
a repeal of the sugar bounty.
A Cincinnati Sensation.
Cincinnati, Oct. 28. —One of the most
sensational defalcations that has been
known iu this city for several years has
been brought to light. William L
Munson, travelling passenger agent of
the Kentucky Central Branch of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, is
short in his accounts to the Fnlton
Building Association of this city abont
$14,(ski. The exposure was made by his
own father, George Munson, general
passenger agent of the road. When he
discovered his sou’s misdoings Mr. Mun-
son and another son, to save the family
name, decided to expose Win. L. The
defaulter pleaded witli them in vain,
but at the meeting of the association he
was charged with the appropriation of
the $14,000. 'Die charge fell like a thun
der-clap on the association. Munson
has lieeu assistant secretary of the asso
ciation for ten years under his father,
who has always lieen above suspicion.
I.oi-hcil in a Strain flux. »<
Boston. Oct. 28. —About 10 o’clock,
in., .Tames E. Graves, aged (10, an
employe of the Standard Stave Cooper,
age compuny. East Boston, entered the
steam box. a closet 8x4 ft. In dimension
and was locked in by a man who did
not know lie was there. The steam
was then turned on. Grave cried for
help, but could not lie beard ontside.
For alwut ten iniuutes he suffered ter
rible agony; then, a fellow-workman
opened the door to get some st ives, and
Graves fell into Ids arms. It v.is found
that his breast and arms weye horribl;
scalded, so that in some places the fleti
was fulling off. He was tnken to t|m
city hospital, were it is said he cannot
live but a few hours.
Sufferings of Strikers,
Pittsburg, Oct. 28. -John Mattel,
with hi* wife and infant child, applied
to the authorities for food. He said be
striking miner and they had
walked from Connellsville to this city,
having tasted nothing for nearly forty
eight honrs. The mother waa too weak
to snckle her babe, and to save the little
one’s life Mattel said he cut liis finger
and allowed the child to drink his
blood. The couple was terribly ema
ciated and the child waa almost dead.
Food and lodgings were famished them.
Mattei tells an awful story of privation
and suffering among the millers.
Striking Instance «r t'nnlna Sngacitr.
Jackson, Miss,, Oct. 28.—As a strik
ing instance of canine sagacity the fol
lowing is worthy of mention. Several
negroes were playing on the bank of
Pearl river when Robert Jackson, 7
, rears of age, fell in. He was beiug rap-
dly born* away by the current when
■la dog, a setter less than 1 year old,
aiuped into the water, seized the boy
ly the clothing and swam with him to
(be shore where he was soon revived
snd seut home,- the intelligent dog ao-
coinpanying him. The boy’s father has
had several application* to sell the dog,
but will not think of selling her.
Met Quits a Pauper.
New Yoiik. Oct. 28.—Isaac Terkow*-
key, a Russian Jewish immigrant,when
questioned by the inspector* at the
landing bureau as to his financial abil
ity to take care of himself, greatly sur
prised the Barge office officials His
general appearance indicated extreme
ndigence. He stated that he was
friendless, snd then produced a belt
from around his body aud took there
from $20,500, $1,500 iu cash aud the re
mainder in letter* of credit. He left
for Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Davis to TlsU Richmond.
Richmond, Oct. *8.—General Joseph
B. Anderson received a letter from Mrs.
Jefferson Davis in which she says sb*
and Miss Winnie Davis will arrive here
next Saturday night, October 31st.
Tbsy will be th* guests of General An
derson. It is understood that the ob
ject of the visit of Mrs. Davis is for the
purpose of selecting s suitable site upon
which the people of th* south propas*
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RICHMOND TERMINAL AFFAIR.
riie Floiitlnf Debts Hove Steen Settled
and Wrei fcers are Disappointed.
New York, Opt. 28.—It has been an
nonneed on Wall street that the floating
debts of the Richmond Terminal Com
pany lmil all been arranged, and that the
financial affairs of the company were
once more in good slune. President In
man said that he was not ready to talk
about tlie matter yet, but denied that he
ever • skod the assistance of Messrs.
Brice & Thomas.
Mr. toman stated that the float lug
debt of the Richmond terminal S' stem,
as such, was now only $120,000, for the
payment of which there are ample as
set*. Tile troublesome deles have all
been those of the compone it roads of
the System. Those debts amounted to
$0,006,000. Mr. Thomas has provided
for the eleven hundred thousand dollar
debt of the East Tennessee ; Speyer &
Co. will fnnd the debt of the Georgia
Central, and an unknown house will
look out for the debt of the Richmond
und Danville.
Tims the floating debts are cared for
and all goes well. This settlement is
gratifying, in view of the efforts of
newspaper wreckers deliberately at
tempting to block the road to settle
ment and to create a panio in which the
tamings ot business men would be
swamped. The publication of every
disturbing rumor, calculated to ruin
large properties, while only serving the
purposes of wreckers, is to b» depre
cated.
SPEAKING IN LOUISIANA.
Mon. I.. F. Livingston of Georgln, Ad-
ilretiM Largo Audiences.
Alexandria, Oct. 28.—Hon. L. F.
Livingston, member of congress and
president of the Fanners' Alliance of
Georgia, spoke at the court house here
to a large and attentive umlience. He
handled his snbjects well and his
speeches were well received. He chal
lenged anyone to prove that every plunk
in the Ocala platform did not harmon
ize with the Democratic platform. Iu
proof of his assertions he read extracts
from the platform on which Cleveland
was elected and proved that it encour
aged the organization of labor. He
showed that the finance principles ad
vocated by the Farmers’ Alliance were
taught by Jefferson and Calhoun. He
advised tile hu'-moiiy of all factions of
the Farmers’ Alliance, and from indi
cations it is thought that before he
leaves here he will have harmonized the
two factiona of the party, as lie waa
working zealously betweeu the two fac
tions, and it is thought that the third
party in this section will be a subject
of the past.
Hmv the IVnssnts Are Treatetl.
London, Oct. 28.—The Daily News
learns that the Russian government lias
rejected the petitiou of a deputation of
the richest Moscow Merchants for per
mission to form a society for the relief
of victims of the famine stricken dis
tricts. The society was I jacked by an
immense amonut of capital and a host
of volunteers. The minister of the in
terior, iu declining the proposition, de
clared that anybody attempting to visit
a district where a famine prevails, for
any sncli object as that described, wonld
be arrested. The emigration society
prohibited the organization of relief
committees at certain points. This is
supposed to be due to a fear that reli
ance npou government relief will have
u bail moral effect on the peasants, who
will decline to work on relief railways
and roads while the ready cash of the
famine fund ia procurable.
Main* a Priest.
Boston, Oct. 28.—Suit was begun in
the superior coart by Maria Knllbury,
a storekeeper of East Beaton, against
Rev. Hngli R. O'Donnelly, a- Catholic
priest of that section, to recover $3,000
damages for the ruin of plaintiff’s busi
ness by a boycott placed on the store by
the priest. Mrs. Knllbnry refused to
tend her childen to a parochial school,
and alleges in her charge that because
■he did so refuse, defendant, from the'
altar," publicly and officially issued an
interdict, forbidding all his parishion
ers and hia congregation to trade or
deal or in any way associate with plain
tiff."
A Nan General Men»x*r.
Indianapolis, Oot. 28.—It is stated
here in railroad circles that at the annu
al meeting of the Lonisvilte, New Al
bany and Chicago, (Monon) W. B.
Woodard will be elected vice president
and general manager, to succeed A. H.
McDoeL The terms of the contract by
which the Brice-Tbomas people ad
vanced Bre/fogle money to get oat of
his financial difficulty last spring stipu
lated that the syndicate should have
full control. It is stated that Woodard,
who waa formerly superintendent, was
recently offered the same position, but
declined.
FOR GRESHAM.
AN INDIANAPOLIS CLUB STARTS HIS
PRESIDENTIAL BOOM.
Th* Porter Club Declares In Favor
Judge Gresham In 180Z—Do Hot Want
Harrison—British Military Circles Start
led By Bed Cost Mutiny.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 28.—At a meeting
of the Porter club, a R -publican organ
ization, a resolution declaring for the
remmiinatiuu of President Harrison was
defeated by a vote of 63 to 2. A reso
lution endorsing the administration of
President Harrison was then adopted.
Following this, a resolution wns pre
sented declaring iu favor of Judge
Greslmm for ’93, aud bidding the clnb
to attend the next Republican national
convention in a body to work for Greah-
tSB’s Humiliation.
Tlie Grenadier Outbreak.
London, Oct. 28.—Military circles
and the public iu general liaye been
startled by tlie -publication lu the
columns of Troth of the details of an
other mutinous outbreak upon the part
of the Grenadier Gnurds, According
to Truth, this fresh mutiny, while not
au event of the first magnitude, “is
still very aerions. ” It is safe to add
that nil military men look upon the
event us being of a most decidedly serf-
ons nature, in view -of the previous acts
of mutiny iu which the Grenadier aud
Cold Stream Guards have been impli
cated within abont a year and a half.
VERY NEARLY A RIOT.
A Hour (in sn Kxposltlua Train lletw<
Atlanta and »ton# Mountain.
Sto.sk Mountain, Oct. 28.—There
came near being a riot on the accom
modation traiu from Atlanta here,
Eight or ten Stone Mountain negroes
went up to Atlanta to take in the expo
sition. They boarded the train in the
evening for home, pretty well filled up
with Decatur street liquor. Between
Clnrkston and this place they got into
a knock-down uttd drag-out.
Deputy Sheriff John McCurdy, who
boarded the train at Decatnr, went into
the car where the negroes were fighting
to quell the fuss, whim a half dozen of
them assaulted hitu with knives, pistols
and .whisky bottles. Sheriff McCurdy
bad notiiing to defeud himself with ex
cept a small walking cane. Tills he did
with good effect, not, however, until he
had received two severe ents upon the
head und face with a knife, iutbe hands
of Mack McDaniel. As soon as the train
reached this place the whole crew was
pulled by Marshal Steve McCurdy and
two or three deputies. For a while
pandemonium reigned supremo, and it
looked a little aqunllv for the rioters, ns
it was thought Sheriff McCurdy was
fatally cut.
Tlie prisoners were carried upstairs
into tlie courtroom, and while the at
tention of tlie gourd was called off Mack
McDiiuiel made a wild break for libertv
by jumping through the second-story
window of the courtroom, a distance of
more than twenty feet, to the grotm I
below. He fell upon iiis head and right
shoulder. He lost no time in rising to
his feet and made a dash down the street.
Before he had gone fifty yards he was
overtaken anil again escorted back to
the courtroom. Slack and his brother,
Sam McDaniel, were tried bsfore Judge
A. J. Goldsmith for assault with intout
to .murder. Mack was required to giye
a thousand -dollar bond for his appear
ance at the next superior conrt. Fail-
to snot • montunsnt to the msmory of
her husband.
Fitnillle» Without Home*.
Berne. Oct 28.—The official report
the fire which occurred in the town
Meirhigen, in this canton, on Sun
day, shows that the conflagration, which
was greatly increased in destructive
ness by the high wind which prevailed,
destroyed 120 houses, without coanting
large numbers of barns, stables ana
other bnildings of that description, and
rendered 784 persons homeless. The
English church, in addition to nearly
every other edifice of importance, is in
ruins.
placed under a fifty-dollnr bond. There
are one or two others to be tried yet.
STILL SINKING DOWN.
Tli« Caving in of I*»n<l Along tlie Hirer
In »w Orleana Continue**
New Orleans, Oct. 28.—The Louis
ville and Nashville railroad has ceased
running its trains over the sinking lands
at the French market, and itop'aliout a
mile and a half from it* regular dejiot.
The Southern Pacific ia still rnnuing its
trains over the dangerous spot, but at
the slow rate of two miles uu hour, so
a* to cause no jarring, and will con
tinue to do so as long as passible. Tlie
sinking of the land continues, and it
has now reached the level of the water
in the river. A conference of the state
and city engineers and railroad superin
tends took place to devise or snqgejt
means to meet the present emergy. The
oyster boats and dealers are heavy suf
ferers, as the caving in of the orster
CONDENSED NEV/S DISPATCHES.
linmcKtlc and Foreign and af General
Interest. .
By the premature explosion of giant
powder in Montana, Minn., four work
men were killed.
The Teutonic has ai-Hvod at Queens
town, having beaten the fastest previ
ous record from New York.
Lieutenant Colonel Henrietta, ono of
tlie few survivors of the British officers
who fought at Waterloo, is dead,
Theodore Doerflimrcr. absconding
treasurer of the - sc hool board of Pitts
burg, bas been arrested at Omaha.
A cotton warehouse in Newnan, Ga.,
was destroyed by tire. In the ware
house were'storeil 1,31)0 bales of cotton.
Tlio loss is estimated at $00,000.
A Laredo, Tex., dispatch says that,
the rush of goods through tlie port of
Laredo into Mexico to avoid the increase
of duties on muny articles. Which goes
into effect on Nov. 1, is simply im
mense.
A Democratic meeting was hold at
Madison Square Garden, New York,
and waa largely attended by the busi
ness tneu of the city. Grover Cleveland
and D. B. Hill addressed the large and
enthusiastic andience.
Madrid dispatches from Barcelona
state that the nnarohista resident iu
•hat city are making preparations for u
grand celebration of the anniversary of
the execution at Cbica ;o of the anarch
ists concerned In th* Hsymiirlfet riots
At Fustoria, O.,.Ralph Cunningham,
sou of a prominent business man,
tried to kill himself by crawling into
the red-hot fnrnnce of the spoke fuotory
of which his father is part owner. The
engineer pulled hint out, bnt not until
his body and head had been almost
roasted. He will die. Poor health was
the cause of the act.
At Indianapolis, O.. George Messer-
smith, employed In the Bee Line yards,
was singularly injured, a car wheel
dropping off and striking u lever with
which he was working. The lever
canght him under the chin and he woe
lifted four feet into the air, coming
down with a shattered jaw-bone and
his tongue bitten off.
A London dispatch says: At the
quarterly meeting of the Maucheater
chnmber of commerce the president
said that trade whs still depressed and
that the latter returns received wore
unsatisfactory. The president blamed
the McKinley bill and the Baring Broth
er's South Americau trouble for the-
state of affair* complained of.
Two thousand doctors assembled at
the Westminster Aquariam in London,
and witnessed some experiments in hyp
notizing. An alleged American profes
sor add a German were appointed a
committee to arrange for n number of
experiments to be made at the hospitals
with a view to testing the value of hyp
notism us an anesthetic agent,
A Madrid dispatch states: The terri
ble storm which- has prevailed for sev
eral days, shows no signs of abating.
Tlie celebrstod leaning tower of Sara
gossa (the Tower of Felipe), which leans
about nine feet out of tile perpendicu
lar, and so well known to foreign sight
seers, has been undermined by the
gathering waters and threatens to total
ly collapse.
The Nashville Herald now appears
under the new management, having
been purchased, together with its en
tire plant, by R. A. Halley, E. C. Asa,
\V. £ Cherry and J. J. Hnynle, all well
known in Nashville journalistic circles.
The striking feature of the afternoon’s
issue wns the amroitncement of a sub
scription rate of 23 cents a month, in
cluding the -Sn iday edition.
The Italian government is asserting
itself vigorously against attacks from
clerical sources. The -editor of the
Oaservstore Cattolica at Milan, has been
-sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
C,,li«.i„,s Jn “ ml » H, '« of 1 - M0 tmnas for tittackmg
Mtnr * n ill’sd Si . tl,B TOynl family in its columns,, aud
S^i ‘he. editor of the Oisoryetore Roman
goes.
Priion#ra Hr*»nk *1*11.
Mili.kdgkvii.le, Ga., Oct. U8.—'The
prisoners of Milledgerille jail have
broke out and the town is in great tx-
ettement. Among the prisoner* it one
to be hung this mouth. A party
havt started in pursuit. Tbs
charge of the jail was badly
hurt.
He Will Mot Mann.
LaFaykttk, Ga., Oct. 28.—Roscoe
Marable who was to have been hung on
the HOtli of this mouth, will not hang.
A great many people will he disappoint
ed, as they will come expecting the
hanging to take place. His connael
have gone to the supreme conrt with
the case, became there was no evidence
to connect the negro with the killing of
Nebemteh Evins,. except that of iv. J.
King, who arrested him aud testified
that Marable confessed that he did the
killing. -
Comet bn IU lows.
Lyons, Oct. 28-—At 5:18 *. iu. a tre
mendous meteor was observed by a re
porter at Higgs’ Station, Io., passing
directly from west to east. It was red
in color mid emitted flashes of btaeish
Are as it passed. For nearly half a
minute after its pasiing. its pathway
across the sky could be traced by a
luminons line of Are which seemed to
trail behind it. Hunter* who came in
from a point east of Riggs' Station on
the Mississippi river, confirm the report
as one of the most wonderful sights
they ever witnessed.
sentenced to.three months’ imprison
ment for infringing the press laws.
A London dispatch says that Mr.
Sheridan Ford was sentenced to n fine
of $100 nuder the alternative of three
mouths' imprisonment and to pay the
nun of $600 in dumages. also with tlie
alternative of three months’imprison
ment, upon being convicted of the
charge of "pirating” of the books writ
ten by Mr. Whistler, the well known
artist aud president of the society of
English artists.
A Kansas City special says that Law
rence Hall, a sect! i hand on the Kan
sas City, Fort Scott and Memphis road,
cast himself in front of a passenger
train and waa instantly killed. Ho line
been gloomy for some time, and as the
train came along be was sitting on the
side of the road talking to a companion.
He jumped to the track and stood np
facing the engine, which mangled him
terribly.
A Chadroti. Neb., special says: Quito
• number of Sioux Indians were in town
trading, among them an Indian maiden
of 17. Her native curiosity caused Iter
to look into the window of John Lar
kinas restaurant, where "Calamity
Hank,” a broken down gambler, was
eating a lunch. Hank turned upon her
as a joke, raised his arms, and with a
terrible yell started towards the girl.
She turned pale, and with a moan
dropped on the pavement unconscious.
She waa taken to her parents’ tepee,
where she died soon afterward, literallv
scared to death..
Will Fight the Drug Trust.
St. Louts, Oct. 28.—In accordance
with the anti-trust law, United States
District Attorney Reynolds has decided
to commence an active campaign against
the St. Louis Apothecaries’ association
or "drug trust.* Officers of the trust
have notified all wholesale dealers in
the United States that all patronage
will be withdrawn from those houses
selling to local druggists who are not
members of the trnst, and have ap
pended a list of those declining to join.
The result is tbst a firm outside of the
trust have receive.! notice from a well
known New York house that the latter
cannot fill orders for patent medicines
until the conoern has entered into the
'oombin*. ” Hr. Reynolds will bring
th* matter before th* grand jury.
