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    AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1891.
NUMBER 187
The Boys’ Bicycle Gift having occupied a
prominent place in
Geo. D. Wheatley’s
double column advertisement space for some
davs, resulting in an exceedingly gratifying
increase in my Boys’ and Youths’ Clothing
trade, we are now forced for the time to lay it
aside, that I may bring to the attention of the
ladies, the many novelties now in store await
ing their inspection.
Remember that these are new and stylish
goods of this season’s buying to be sold at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
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IlDii
OPENED THIS WEEK.,
Among these may be found Novelty Suits, Serges in overshot
effects, Fiannels, Cashmeres and Henriettas, Bedford Cords in nil tho
new and desirable shades, such as light gray, modes, tan, eto.
A LONG TRANCE.
AFTER 8EVENTEEN YEAR8 OF 81
LENCEA WOOSTER LADY
I* Aroused and Converses with Her Neigh
bors—Mrs. John Boose's Strange AfHlc<
tlon—The People of Wooster Marvel at
Her Condition.
IN SILKS, BLACK * FANCY
We show the largest line of Gros Grains, Armures, Poui De Soi,
Rhadames, Failles and Bengalines, etc. ever seen in the city at aston
ishingly low prices.
Velvets to match all styles of Dress Goods
Trimmings in Nail Heads, Gimps, Cords and Passamenteries, together
path a new line of
NOVELTY PEARL BUTTONS just received, large and small
sizes to match.
Tho new trimming—so desirable in all colors, at 40c per yard.
Call and see us for anything needed in the
way of new Dress Goods and Trimmings.
We offer for the ooming week
A
MUIMUt, I
Grand Reduction j! ( jenridtasj§||
ilorsi The various lines reduced as follows: Ton can buy tne Jeft Hu lw!
All colors. Tho various lines
usual 20c goods at 16c; 36o at 26c; 40c at 80o and 50o at 85c. In ad
dition, a magnificent all wool Henrietta 40 inohes wide, at 60c.
Remember that Tricots, black and 1
35c, you get for 25c per yard.
F.vening shades in LANSD0WNE, CHINA AND SURAH SILKS await
your call at low figures,
■l
My SCRIM and CURTAIN CRET0NS
still demands attention, besides an offer of Nottingham Lace Curtains
3 yards long at the figure of $1 per pair, never reached before in this
maket.
You miss it if you do not buy your
of us. We are the Bole agents for the famous P. & P. BRAND of
Kids, and sell as good or better gloves from 75o to $1.26 than others
do from $1.60 to $2.60 per pair. All our gloves are warranted.
YOUR MONEY REFUNDED or another pair gloves for every pair unsatis-
{actory being returned to us.
For Men’s Wear, 8erlven*s Patent Elastic Seam Drawers
' and Undervests, all grades.
Large Stock ef ODD PANTS at Reduced Prices.
Boys, remember that yon get a ticket for the Bicycle drawing for
every suit bonght of us up to December 26,1891, when some nice boy
gets a new safety for his Xmas present.
For everything in the line of Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing,
rumshings, Carpets or Bugs, call every time on
Gouge D. Wfleafleu
Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.
Wooster. Nov. 11.—A11 Wooster is
marveling at the restoration' to her
family of Mrs. John Boose after a pecu
liar affliction—trance, she claims—for a
period of seventeen years. She is the
wife of a well-known stonemason, who
has 8i*m t. every dollar he conld earn to
have her restored to health. One cold,
winter morning seventeen years ago
when he went to call her to prepare the
morning meal, he was nnable to arouse
her. Daring the day she awoke, but
conld not Apeak, nor conld she be pre
vailed upon to get up. She was ap
parently asleep all day long, ouly when
spoken to or when some one would en
ter the room, then wonld turn np her
eyes in a beseeching way, but unable
to say a word. She continued in this
condition for several years, hut always
able to partake of nourishment. Dur
ing the third year of her strange afflic
tion she began getting up at midnight
and moving Ground the house. She
wonld attend the housework and then
walk uoislessly from one room to
another, never uttering a word, her
eyes wide opeu, but us to hearing or
seeing she seemed in a trance or asleep.
All medical attention .was in vain, only
that she finally got so that she would
take nourishment of her own accord.
She continued in this condition nntil
about ten days ago, always in lied dar
ing the day and up at night, when Site
was visited by an old lady friend Whom
sbe gazed at long and earnestly bad
then patting ont ber hand and asking
her if it was not seventeen years j
that her daughter was born., j
friend said that she was right. ’■ r :
visit and’qnestion seemed to arouse.
and she at once arose and has si
been able to - talk with all who cal
see her and has even visited some
her neighbors.
When aSked as to her peculiar actions
for so many years,.the cannot give afty
other answer butthet she was if -
trance and that all these years'
knew nothing whatever.. From an ...
acquaintance It Was leached that for
some weeks prior to,her going into the
trance, Mrs. Boose Was under religions
excitement consequent ppoii uniting
with the Catholic, church after hiving
been h devout Lutheran.
A WESTERN ROMANCE.
Husband .nil IVlf. S.parat«il for Tears
to He Hein.rrl.fi Note. i' •
i- Wichita, Kan.^ ,Nov. li.'—In Sioux
City, la. fourteen-years ago,--“lived
Arthur K. Wilson' and hie wife of a
year. One evening Wilson failed tq re
turn home and until Sunday had not
been heard from again by his wife. Re
reached here from Morris, Minn.,
of which place lbs is now a wealthy': in
habitant. having been eommoned by a
friend who recognized in a. Mrs. P ~
‘ this city, the long deserted
later be recovered, be returned, to
Sou*
Since —I ,. _ .
search fpn her, hot always without
^tlriLUSlon * had ' hiiiiU ‘ hus
band's return until forced to And some
means of livlihood. An opportunity
offered to go to Omaha, and she moved
there. Hearing nothing of Wilson; she,
two years later, obtained a divorce and
married a man named Fleming, who
afterwards tnrned out badly, and whoa
few years ago was arrested for foi
and sent to the penitentiary for s
years, not yet expired. Mrs. Flei
then moved here and only a few diys
ago was discovered by a former ac
quaintance, who ha teued to send for
Wilson. At toon as the necessary di
vorce can be secured Mrs. Fleming will
mdi
again be married to her fin t hnsb
The Cun. of Opium In Ill'll.
New York, Nov. 11.—Hint Lai Ku
mar, of Calcutta, spoke on the’ opium
traffic in India in the Madison Avenue
Episcopal church, of this city, to a large
audience. He ohnrged the English gov
ernment with encouraging the con
sumption of opium among its subjects
in India for the sake of revenue. In
order to encourage and stimulate tbe
cuitivntinn of the poppy plant, upward
or 000.000 acres of the beet binds in
I ndia, lie said, is devoted to its cultiva
tion, ami the annnal avenge production
is 10,000,000 pounds, which is consumed
in India. China and Buraah. Conclud
ing he said that merely for the greed of
[am tbe people of the United Kingdom
■ave sacrificed every principle of mor
ality. The unmitigated misery and dis
tress produced by the sptead of opium
tells heavily on the people of India,
Tbe County PhjnlcUn Wauled Pay,
Cumberland, Md., Nov. 11.—Abont
5:30 o’clock in the morning Frank Laffin
waa walking along the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad tracks, and fell Into a cat
tle guard, cutting a fearful gash in his
leg. Friends carried him to the officeof
Dr. Craigen, the county physician. JChe
doctor examined the wound and after
dressing it pot several stitches in it and
then asked for Ua pay, which was$3.
The men were surprised, as they
thought he being the countyphysMan
there ronld be no charge. Tbe doctor
said if they did not pay Wm be would
undo his work. They insisted they
were penniless, and tbe doctor cut tbe
stitebe*. thus undoing his work. It fa
said the mayor will at once call the at
tention of the state attorney to the
STODDARD, THE FORGER. '
Lett.-1« Sunt South Purporting to Com.
trom Min Winnie llnrls.
J HUSKY CITY, Nov. ll.—Two letters
have been sent south from Jersey City
recently, purporting to be written by
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of the
late Jefferson Davis, begging for $1,000.
One wns sent to Dr. William Morrow,
of Nashville, Teuu., and the other to
General Gordon, of Atlanta. G.i. There
is little doubt that they were written
by Stoddard, the forger, who lies in
Hudson county jail, aud who forged his
way out of the Tennessee miues by a
letter to the governor asking for his
pardon, purporting to be signed by tbe
state’s uttoruey, and u petition pretsnd-
ing to be signed by a lot of the foremost
people of Kentucky.
Superintendent of Police Smith re
ceived a letter from Dr. Morrow en
closing a copy of the note sent him. He
tnrned the case over to Chief Murphy,
who wrote to Dr. Morrow for the
original. A day or two later, a friend
of Miss Davis’s came from New York
with a note to General Gordon. The
general know the address of Mrs. Davis
and her daughter in New York, and
knew that they wonld not need to
write to him for money, so he sent them
the letter to pnt them on their guard.
The letter to Dr. Morrow reads:
Jebsev City, N. J„ Oct. 13.—Sir: Con
formally with the request of my dear
mother, l ask you the favor. In her liehalf,
that you accept her note for SI,00.1, pay
able In ninety days. You mnysend a draft
or cherk payable to either of us at your
earliest convenience.
Mother assures you that she will cer
tainly he able to care for the note at ma
turity, and will heartily appreciate your
kindness. We are having, as you are
duubtless aware, trouble with the publish
ers of my honored father's book, and
mother has been obliged to -bring suit to
obtaiu her percentage of sales, as the Arm
was Inclined to defer payment lieyond the
time specified in the contract.
Wc hope to soon have matters properly
adjusted so that we may return to Beau
voir and not again be summoned north.
In order to escape, the publicity of hotel
life In New York, we engaged quiet quart
ers In a suburb of this city, where we are
stopping somewhat incog. .Mother is badly
worn from travel, .labor, and worry, and Is
S ' 9 anxious to return - home. She has
to so much expense:recently that her
y money is induced to’»'minimum
point fiid she is' compelled Co. fel
VERY BITTER.
OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD THE CHIL
IAN GOVERNMENT.
The Chilian Minister Inclined to Be Biller
on Aeeonnt of the Demands of the Unit
ed Stetee—American Officer to Bo Present
nt the Investigation.
New York, Nov. 11.—The Herald’s
Santiago correspondent has telegraphed
an interview’ had by him with Senor
Matts G'hildun, the miuister of foreign
affairs, whose reply to the demand of
the United States for satisfaction on ao-
oouut of the Baltimore ontrago created
so much dissension.
The Chilian . minister expressed the
opiuion that the United States repre
sentatives there seemed to think they
could, In every way, dictate to Chili as
to what she should and should not do
nnder various conditions.
Thisstnud on tho part of the United
Statos representatives, ho added, was
untenable.
He denied the stories so persistently
spread, that Chili was unfriendly to the
United States.
Senor Matta said:
Chilian authorities wonid, upon the
completion of the judicial inquiry into
the attack upon the Baltimore's men,
act speedily and fairly in arriving at a
conclusion
The Herald's correspondent says that
throughout his conversation with the
Chilian minister, the latter spoke in a
bitter vein, showing that he felt keenly
the attitude of the United States, and
was annoyed that so great a nation
shonl I be brought to the Junta's, atten
tion.
NEWS DISPATCHES CONDENSED.
TROUBLE IN BRAZIL.
oeipt of a comfortable Income; as the book
la an assured success and will rank among
the greatest works of modem times. She
to a. minimum
l (o effect a loan
-will- sbon.be inre-
Tebook
■■■i among
.modern times. She
certainly merits the reward,' for she baa
tolled assiduously to complete my lamen-
■ She lieg* me to aAsurJymi' that she will
be happy to 'welcome 'yOti at Beauvoir,
whenever it- will please, you to: call. We
will extend all the hospitality In our
power.- Awaiting yodr gracious reply, be-
rir«i|.,.ii^-
M bat Detective Murphy Says.
» -eusons for connecting Stoddard
case are. several slid tmurala-
tive,” said Chief Murphy, in an inter
view. "In the first place the language
is Stoddard's. He often .begins bis let
ters with that word ‘conformably,’ and
he usually closed with something about
a 'gracious' reply. Then, again, who
ever wrote tbe letters must have known
Dr. Morrow, who is a convict lubor
contractor in Tennessee, and who wonld
know all about that better than Stod
dard? .Beside*, when I detailed De
tective Cloe to watch. tbe post-iffi-e for
anybody asking: for ifatten for Miss
dmfn$lfat8r?o
bfTF* tu/Fb Atrwl. Wt4 owte there
knew anything about aneb a person.
If the writer had MS'free -to goto tbe
etoffiqe that wonld have been asliffer-
it thing, but - when a mtartsin'jhH he
wpMa&sOnS®
fata, which , appeared to bfe iu a genu
inely feminine and thoroughly formed
handwriting. They aw written on
small ruled note paper of a rather ordi
nary qoulity, ana begin on the left hand
age instead of the more common right
land page. The chirography is not at
all that of a refined person, but belongs
with the laugnage of notes. It does
not at all resemble tbst of Miss Davis.”
No. 31 Ash street is a big tenement
house. The inmates wonld not dignify
it by tbe name of quiet and convenient
quarters.
The Young Monarch Was Stopped.
Berlin. Nov. II.—It has leaked out
that Dr. Miquel, minister of finance,
spent two hours with tbe kaiser, striving
successfully to prevent the impetuous
young monarch from doing something
hasty and disastrous to the financial
interests of Berlin and Prussia, but
what occurred at tbe interview has not
been revealed. It fa known that Mignel
got back to bis official headquarters
with a very red face and an expression
of relief, and that nothing more has
been beard of the decree or receipt
which, according to palace rumor, was
to hare laid open all bank safe* and
secrets in Berlin.
The Police Bad to Interfere.
Paris, Nov. II.—The lease from
prison of M. Laforgue, tbe socialist
leader elected member of the chamber
of deputies for Lille, waa made tbe oc
casion for great jubilation by various
workingmen societies. Parades were
orderly at first, but toon became so dis
orderly that the police bad to break up
irocessions and disperse tbe crowd.
Afargue bad been released only dnring
the time the chambers wew in session,
as during the session oil the legislative
body the person of a legislator fa exempt
from process.
Lot tar TRteves in now urtanns.
New Orleans, Nov. II.—The Now
Orleans National and other banks have
appealed to tbe postoffice authorities in
Washington for relief from tlm long-
continned series of letter stealing car
ried on in this city. The banks have
suffered very heavily.
pscltenieiit lit Loudon Over the Turn
A ffWiro Have Taken.
- London, Nov. 11.—A .dispatch just
received here from Pefnambnco brings
alarming intelligence regarding 'the
situation of affairs in Brazil, which fa
rapidly approaching the, point where, re
sort to nrma will be necessary to estab-'
llsli the position of Fonseca as dictator,
86 strong has the opposition to Fonseca,
grown that it fa announced that , the
important province Of Kio Grnfide de
Sne Inis declared its independence. The
dispatch juqt received shows that steps'
will have to be immediately taken to
prevent, if possible, the disintegration
of th# republic.
- The province of Pars ha* followed tbe
example set by Rio Grande de Sue, and
has declared its independence. Para is
one of tbe most important provinces of
Brazil. If Is situated in the extreme
north of tin: country, it contains 412,487
square •miles,,and its -population is esti
mated at 843,811, 10,000 of whom are
•upposed to be Indians. Tbe capital of
the province is para, the great rubber
port of the world. It exports in addi
tion to other products of the province,
which' consists of cotton, ranilln, nn-
natto, dry woods, honey, wax and a
great variety, of other vegetablo an-1
animal products. Trade fa mostly with
Liverpool, London, Barbodoes, Cayenne
and North American porta.,
Fonseca is moving rapidly to snppress
these attempts to set np. separate gov
ernments. and he has ordered it war
ship to preieeed without delay to Rio
Grande de fine to take Snch action as
•may be necessary to prevedt tile pro
vincial authorities from carrying their
declaration of independence into effect.
It behooves him to move with
alacrity, for ulreadv tbe man has been
named in connection with the contem-
plated presidency of the r evince. Ha
is Silverio Martinez, who, during the
revolntion, whs banished from the
conntry. He was subsequently allowed
to return, and he, without donbt, pos
sesses greater political influence than
any other man in tbe province.
The situation, as maybe judged from
events which are rapidly crowding upon'
each other, fa daily becoming more
grave, and what the result of (be wide
spread discontent in Braxil will be, can
only be a mutter of conjecture. Fonseca
might perhaps do more to establish n
new order of things were he not a sick
man. Some reports have it that tbe
disease from which be fa coffering is
cancer; that he will-take vigorous
measure* to suppress these latest revolts
against his imthority fa not douBted by
those who are acqnainted with the per
sonal characteristics of the man. He,
in no ways, lacks determination.
An Attempted Assas«fn*tfon.
New York, Nov. 11.—A special dis
patch to Tbe Herald from San Salvador
says the conspiracy to assassinate Gen
eral Antonio Axe to, minister of war,
tbe navy and interior, and his brother,
General Exeta, president of Salvador,
ha* just been discovered in the city of
Santa Anno.
The chief conspirator is General
Maxpno Salquero, and bis crime fa all
the more unpardonable, as he owes his
life to the clemency of the brother of
tbe man whom ha plotted to kill.
He was convicted by tbe council of
war after the late straggle and sen
tenced to be shot, but was pardoned by
President Ezeta. Several arrests have
already been made and others are likely
to follow. Tbe method to be employed
was poison.
Fir* In Aazastn.
Augusta. Gs., Nov. 11.—Fire at
3:30 in the morning, on npper
Broad street, completely destroyed
B. J. Myers’s bee biro dry goods,
shoe and clothing itmv-. 1, F.
Padgett’s fnrnitnre sto’o. ,J W.
Smith’s electric f-aloo.:, Mrs. >V. J.
Harter’s boarding home an 1 5Iis. BUep
Skerrett’s borne.
n Epitome of Happening- from Every
Section.
Rain bas put an end to tbe drought
throughout the West and North west.
Paymaster Sneffen. U. S. y»... was
robbed of $3,880 at Fort {Sark, Texas.
The headless body of a young woman
was fonnd near New Orleans by hunt
ers.
Two firemen were killed and several
injured by a falling ladder in Cincin
nati.
Martin Itjen was sever. w.mnded
and his clerk murdered Irv burglars
near Jacksonville, Fla.
Tbe Indian depredations law has
brought before the departments at
Washington some queer claims.
The British steamer foundered in the
Bay. of Bengal, and of her crew of
eighty-three only six were saved.
Ex-Congressman Kerr, of Pennsyl
vania. says that Quay, if bo seeks re-
election to the senate, will be dofented.
A lobster was used as evidence in nn
nssuult case at New York. A blow
with it nearly put oat James Gibbs’s
eyes.
Navy , department officials declare
that there is nothing significant in tbe
rush’to pnt ships in repair at the vari
ous navy yards.
The mother of "Kate Townsend,"
shot iu New Orleans some years ago,
lias just died at Alameda, Cal., at the
age of 107 years.
James Mayer, the potter of Trenton,
N. J.. says-he lias lost $100,000 in six
years throngh his invoice clerk. Who
charged only part of tbe goods sold.
Alliert B. Edwards, a prominent
farmer living six miles from Colnmbns,
O. , has made an assignment. Linbiii-
ties estimated at $10,000; asseta abont
$30,000.
Rev. Samuel Cotton, of County, Kil
dare, Ireland, is licensed of freezing an
orphan child under his care by leaving
it in a suck in a cold bath over night.
It wns dead in the morning.
The engineers and firemen on the belt
line ut St. Lonis have just declared a
strike. • This'will probably spread to
other lines, ns Chief Arthur stated that
no freights wonld be handled by broth-
irbood-inen.
V At ,13:30 p. m. Mathias Pierson wns
asphyxiated,’ ahd four i other employes
were -sp seriously affected that they
will-die', by tHo breaking of agas main
Ht the Illinois Steel company’s mills,
South Chicago. * ‘
‘ The Rankin Manufacturing company,
n wholesale clothing bonse at Nashville,
Tenu., has made an assignment for the
Iwnefit of creditors. Assets, $103,000:
liabilities, $183,000. Tight money and
bad collections are said to be the cause.
The merchants’ exchange of St. Lonis
has unanimously endorsed. deep. water
for. Savannah, after speeches by Cap
tain Brown und Major Ryals. The
mavor of St. Lonis endorses deep water
officially, and the city council will take
similar action. -
For the desecration of tho Conntees
Mlraflori’s grave in Romejjthe Vatican fa
bfamed by the police, and the Vatican,
in turn, lays the sacrilege to the gov
ernment itself, which, it claims, is de-
nironsof stirring np tbe bitter feeling
against the pope.
In the coqnty court at Bonham, Ter.,
Sara Adore, of Washington, D. C., ana
Jane and Lsry E. Murray, of Fairfax,
Va., filed petition for the partition of
the famons Tom Green estate, valued
nt $1,000,000. They name all tbe heirs
In the petition. The sntt reopens the
whole coso.
The federal grand jury, in session at
Snu-Antonlq, returned four indictments
against President’ Paul Conrad, Vico
President John - A. Morris and thirteen
other members of tho Louisiana Lottery
company. They are charged with using
the mails to, distribnte lottcre adver
tisements in violation of law. Warrants
were Issued for their nrrest.
A special to The Evening Dispatch at
St. Pitnl, Minn., says: The town of
Hey wood was badly damaged by the
xulosion of a large amount of dyna
mite in the warehouse of the North
Wisconsin Lnmber company. It canght
fire, and before it was suppressed tho
flames spread to tho explosives stored
there, and the explosion followed.
Buildings in the immediate neighbor
hood were badly shattered. One man
was killed ontright and many wore in
jured. Tim cabooao of a freight train
standing on a sidetrack was blown into
fragments.
STILL BURNING.
Th* Great Coal File at Duluth Con
tinues to Burn.
Duluth, Minn., Nov. 11.—The great
coal pile on the Northeastern Fuel com
pany’s docks is still on fire, althongh
water has been poured into tlie horning
mass at tbe rate of 1,800 gallons a min
ute since last Friday. Some sixty men
are wheeling away the coal from tha
pile so that the firemen can reach the
hottest portion of the blaze. If tbe air
reaches the smouldering fire the whole
mass, containing thousands of tons of
coal, is liable to be destroyed. Some of
the largest elevators lie near the coal
docks, but it fa believed they can be
saved. Nothing farther is known of
tbe cause than that it fa believed to be -
spontaneous combustion. The full ex
tent of the loss fa not yet known, but
will doubtless reach into tbe hundreds
ef thousands of dollar*.
Tbs Sale of Tobacco With Prises.
Cincinnati, Nov. 11.—The custom,
which is of long standing among to
bacco manufacturers, of placing prise*
in the shape of pipee, cigar-holder*,'
tickets and even money in package* of
tobacco will soon be stopped by th* In
ternal revenue department. The laws
and regulations of this United Statse
office does not permit any thing in th*
shape of lottery or chances tone con
nected with the sale of tobacco.