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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* .. ——* . In >h. n . nl OBtCSt 10 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.