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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. .... . - 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.