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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORD
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1891.
NUMBER 200
FREE ADVICE
ACTING HELPERS.
Look Here,
Then don’t put your hands in your pockets,
whistle “Annie Rooney,” and expect to keep
warm these cold November days. You had
much better select a nice, warm suit from our
fine new stock.
Get a Free Ticket
-TO OUR-
Boys’Safely Bicycle Drawing!
Which you know occurs on next Christmas
Eve, and be happy. We are going to give
away a brand new Safety Bicycle, absolutely
free of any charge
whatever. Every boy
who buys his suit from
us before Christmas
Eve gets a sure enough
bargain and a chance at the machine for abso
lutely nothing. The time is drawing near I It
is going to be a daisy I Everyone will have a
fair, square showing, and you may be the lucky
boyl . , ,
There is nothing small about otir stock of
AN ALLIANOEMAN TALKS FREELY
ON THE RESULT.
Hr. Hall Think. McCone, Polk and HI,
Crowd Intended to Hake a Feeder to
Third Party Out of the Alllauee—:Farmer,
Should be Educated-
Boys’ Siuts.
Overcoats,
m Odd Pants,
Except the price, and that we make exceeding
ly small. We can fit you perfectly, and by
selecting now you secure the pick. Don't for
get the place.
George D. Wtiealley,
Cor. Lamar Street and Cotton Avenue.
St. Louts, Nov. 37.—Mr. U. & Hall
is the exponent of the antt-subtreasu'-y
wing of the Farmers’ Alliance and is
universally recognized as one of the
foremost men in the order. Be was in
strumental in having the anti-snbtreas*
nry convention called, which met at
Fort Worth. To*., and drew the divi
sion line. It has been said of Mr. Hall
that the dying request of bis father was
that he devote his life to protecting and
improving the condition of the tillers of
the soil. In an interview Mr. Hall was
asked:
"What will be thereetiit of the In
dianapolis meeting of the National
Alliance relative to a third party?’
He replied: "I think it will reshit in
a third party, as it was always intend
ed by McCnne, Polk and the other Na
tional Alliance officers that it shonld.”
Why do you think that McCnne,
Polk and his crowd have always in
tended to make a feeder to a third party
ont of the Alliance?’
Because they have put forward the
subtreaanry and land-loan schemes and
demanded the existing political parties
to come to and adopt them, a thin:
that no political party with any sonm
idea of political economy would adopt.
Nor do I think the worst feature of this
advocacy of the snbtreasnry and land-
loan schemes is that they are desirous
of forming a third party. What I as a
farmer and an Alliance man most con
demn and deprecate in their advocacy
of these heresies is that they are acting
as-helpers to the protective tariff men
of the United States and are playing
directly into their hands—first, by de
claring as they do that there is nothing
in the tariff issue, and secondly by urg
ing these patprnal heresies entirely m
the southern states that have heretofore
been the bitterest enemies of protec
tion.”
"Do you think the snbtreasnry, land
loan or similar schemes can live either
with or without the third party?"
"No. Whenever the sunlight of a
vigorous political canvass is turned
upon these plants, which were sprouted
in demagoguery, watered by fanatics
and cultivated in a secret, darlc-lanteru,
oath-bound canons, they will boo a porch
up, wither and die."
"What effect do you think the Indi
anapolis meeting will have on the Farm
ers’ Alliance proper?” .
"This question, to be, answered in
full, would require more time than I
now care to devote to the matter. Bnt
I will out it short by saying that it will
injure the order. ”
"Do you still think there is a need for
the Farmers’ Alliance?”
"Moat certainly and emphatically yes.
And this division over these sub-treas
ury and land loan schemea only empha
sizes the importance of the farmers
meeting and educating ourselves for
these most potent reasons: First, to
nnite Us in the exercise of our voting
right in our own and our country’s in
terest; second, to guard against the en
croachments of the national govern
ment on one aide; and third; to guard
us against the intriguee and heresies of
demagogues on the other side. ”
"In the event that the Third party
movement goes so far as to nominate a
presidential ticket, what do yon think
will he the position of the Alllauoe as
between the People’s and Democratic
parties?"
"Unless the heresies of the People’s
>artyare thoroughly exposed by fear-
as newspapers and orators it will do
hat the advocates of the sub-treasury
and land loan schemes have always
hoped that it would do, and that is to
Injnre the Democratic party. ”
"You have been mixing, with and
talking to*tbrpeopIe a great deal in
Missouri lately, have yon not?”
’ "I ham* ' ■ ■
" Have yon heard mnch expression in
this state on the subject of the pending
”(Hl yeefthis is to-day the greatest
rtf infovoaf In MliBnnn *
A CORNER IN CO AN,
Ohlenfo He.r., Who Could Not Knjoy
Tbonk.glrln j,
Chicago, Nov. 37.— Speculators in
corp have arrived at the conclusion that
there is a "corner” on in the November
jption. The "corner" is developing
soipe very interesting situations to the
uninterested, and is making the poor
"shorts ■ bleed from every pore. Shortly
after the opening in the morning the
scijiws were given another turn, and
le 750,000 November contracts were
ed at 75 cent*. It was reported
this practically ended the deal, bnt
juently the price advanced to
ts, proving conclnsively that the*
not yet.- A number of the shorts
to reconcile a Thanksgiving din-
with unfilled contracts on their
Is, and so got ont the best they
d. Rumor says that Mr. Cndahy
stands in the gap in a large amount, bnt
Bolden & Co., who have been looking
aft r liis trades, deny the shortsge as to
cot i, bat admit that he is on the selling
lid of provisions.
1 hey also express the opinion that the
present squeeze is.not the result of
mafaipalatlon, bnt is due to the inpodi-
na s heavy selling pf November corn
an the light recetpu; the ostial causes
which arc taken advantage of by specn-
lat rs for the running of a corner. The
market, according to Boyden & Co.,
ban cornered Itself. There are those,
bo ’ever, who insist that Mr. Cndah
and Mr. B. F. Hutchison are verymucl
int rested in opposite (idee of the com
trade And that "Old Hutch” is after his
ok fbemati. If reports are troe, Cud-
ah sold short in New York and Chi.
ca D and also sent on the corn for
de fvery in New York, trusting to the
re< Ipts here to pull them through, bnt
m virtunllr whipsnwed in- the opero-
tio and will-have to go down into his
ba i account very liberally for selling
lot ething he did not have.
Proved’to,Be a Conspiracy.
[apkioh, Nov. 37;—News from
:es connty -states J that a terrible
ie wan committed there. An aban-
led woman 20 years old, named
this Hoffman, camped ont with
Columbus Dancy, her brother-in-law.
They fell aslefijv and when she awak
ened her dlothes were on fire. She ran
nevenU hundred yards to - a house, bnt
was horribly burned and died. The
coroner held ah inquest, and the verdict
of the jnry was-that the woman came
to bef death-at-the hands of assnssins,
a conspiracy having been formed to kill
hey by Columbus Dancy and Khett
Dancy. It appeared in evidence that
these men had threatened to - kill her.
Lum got her ont thatnight. She cangiit
on fire some distance from the fire, the
leaves uOt being burned between her
and the fire, and Lum would not at
tempt to pat out the fire after it caught
her dress.
Jf * Tile Mluiulppl Clarion.
Jackson, Miss.,Nov. 37.—The Clarion.
Ledger announces that R. H. Henry
has sold his interest to Captain J. 8.
McNilly, of The Greenville Times.
Captain McNilly is one of the ablest
journalists and most sagacious Demo
crats in the south. The new firm is
Power & McNilly. The paper will re
sume under the name of The Clarion,
which it carried at its masthead for
half a century. The citizens of .Jack-
son are delighted that Captain McNilly
is to become one of them. The Clarion
will continue to be published daily, and
will he changed from an evening to a
morning paper shortly. Mr. Henry
will, as soon as practicable, so he an
nounces, resume the publication of The
State Ledger, which was consolidated
with The Clarion abont four year* ago.
subject of interest in Missouri.
"How do yon find the expression in
this state?"
"Our people are for onr own home
man, Hon. W. H. Hatch, first, and we
believe he would make a most excellent
speaker, anil it would be a recognition
of the interests of the farmers of the
United States, whose interest the
dominant political party have never
regarded.”
"With Mr. Hatch oat of the race how
would the people of Missouri stand
between Mills and Crisp?”
"In my opinion, if that question were
submitted to a popular vote in Missonri,
Mills would receive 99 ont of every 100
votes. “
T, Champion tha Third Party.
Topeka, Nov. 87.—Ths executive
committee of the central committee of
the People’s party met here. It H
decided to establish permanent political
headquarters in Topeka and to arrange
for the establishment of daily news
papers to champion tbs cause of the
third party. The secretary reported
that in the lost election the People’s
party in Kansas cast 113,000 ont of a
total of 35(',000 votes and controlled the
state. To these would be added 30,000
votes secured by the amalgamation of
the Farmers’ Alliance with the Farm
ers’ Mutual Benefit Association and the
Industrial Alliance and the Knights of
Labor.
—
Kidnapped a Child-
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 27.—This
place was startled by the announce
ment of the bold kidnapping of the 3-
year-old son of David T. Beals, presi
dent of the Union National bank, and a
millionaire well-known throughout the
weet. The abduction is believed to
have been done by Lizzie Smith, a
van'
F , ™ Found Dead in the Wood*.
Nashville, Nov.' 87.—A mysterious
suicide is reported from near Bethel
Swings, in McNairy county. While
'king in a \vood lot John Peggott
ind the body of a well dressed man
iging on n tree, with an empty shot-
i under ilia feet. The suicide had
clhnbed the tree, placed the rope aronud
hi# neck and tied the other end to a
ib. Then he placed the butt of the
i against the tree, and fired it with
a stick. The whole top of his head was
blown off. A small sum of money was
found on his person, but nothing by
Which he conld be identified. A man
answering his description took break
fast at Esquire Etheridge’s abont ten
days ago. He stated that he was an
Englishman named Jellis,
f Hit Hundredth Birthday.
London, Nov. 27.—The centenary of
tbs birth'of Thomas Wiltshire Sum-
miraum, who fought in the American
war of 1812, was celebrated at Brigbt-
liqg Sea by a banquet. The veteran
saf g the national anthem in fine style,
' in a hearty speech he said he hoped
ury himself like a man to the last
day of bis life. After the banquet forty
genarians and seventy-seven septu
agenarians, headed by Summersum,
marched in procession through the
to f n -
‘ iteinlt* of a Gnat Fight.
Ban Antonio, Tex., Nov. 27.—J. R.
Coleman, an American engaged in busi
ness at Quyantona, Mex., brings par
ticulars of an accident which tookpiace
in that city last Sunday, resulting in
the killing of twelve people and tha se-
nous injury of nina others. Saveral
hundred people had asaemblad In the
bull fighting arena to witneaa a fight
between two goats when part of the
amphitheater gave way. Heavy tim
bers fell on the crowd, crashing men
and women.
Knocked Out la Tlirnn Itminnu.
Biumixoiiasi, Ala., Nov. 27.—In the
glove fight to a finish here before a
large audience, Eugene MeElroy of Bir
mingham knocked ont Frank Fitswil-
liatna of Cincinnati in the third round.
Both men had been in training here for
aix weeks and the public was greatly
luted at the easy way in which
cinnatian waa laid ont
A BIG FAILURE.
I .
NEW YORK BROKERS COMPELLED
TO CLOSE UP.
H*)d ( Usdtej* WorcUen on Broadway
.Have Awlgned—The Advance In Corn
Bald to be tha Cause of the Failure—Cof
fee Played Ita Part.
New Yoek, Nov. 37.—Edward M.
Field, Daniel A. Lindicy, John Fred
erick Wercbere and Herman C. Hel
mets, composing the firm of Field,
Lindley, Wercbere & Co., bankers and
brokers. at No. I ’ Broadway, have
assigned to Charles W. Gould without
preferences.
The failure wai announced on the
produce exchange at noon, bnt
the grain market waa only slightly
affected. The boose is an old one, bnt
latterly hns been somewhat restricted
in its dealings. The failure is attri
buted to the advance in corn here and
at Chicago.
They had been protecting some large
lines of corn from the S. V. White deal
and had been on the short side of the
November market, and a few days ago
bad to coyer 600,000 bnshels. Their
operations were mainly in Chicago, hat
to some extent here. Other artioles
have gone against them, it is said, es
pecially coffee, while they had some
dealings as well in Wall street. Just
how much of the amount the firm finds
itself nnable to pay is not yet clear.
The grain markets were only slightly
affected by the failure. The heud of the
firm is a son of Cyrus W. Field.
RAISEQ A GREAT STIR.
State Official. A.ke,t If They Have U.od
Kallroad Passes.
Raleigh, Nov. 37.—Secretary Barnes,
of the State Fanners’ Alliance, hns
raised a great stir and caused one of the
sensations of the season by sending an
irregular letter to officeholders. This
says that the Alliance baa adopted a
resolution as follows: “That the state
secretary be instructed to write a letter
to each of the senators, representatives,
state officers, judges of supreme and
superior courts, and solicitors, making
inquiry if he has used a railroad pass
since the election. If no reply is re
ceived the secretary shall Bond a regis
tered letter making the same inquiry,-
and then, if no reply is received, he
shall have the letter published and kept
in some one of the reform papers." He
savs in obedience to that resolution he
asks an answer as to whether the pass
has been nsed since the election, and
Barnes is receiving some scorching let
ters, the writers of which tell him in
jlain language that they consider that
he Alliance has no right to make suoli
inquiry, bnt that the resolution and his
letter are gratnitonsly impertinent.
Some of the officeholders will publish
their letters, as they do not think the
reform press will publish them in un
garbled form.
Safes Sold and Parties Skip Out.
Jacksonville, Bis., Nov. 27.—Abont
two weeks ago two men alleging them
selves to be James A. Manlng and H.
L. Richardson, representing the Na
tional Safe and Lock company, of
Cleveland and Chicago, thorouglily
worked this city. They, offered their
safes at low prices and were willing to
trade for ola safes or take bankable
paper. They sold twolve or more, in
every instance collecting or trading for
them. The safes were delivered
promptly. The house in Chicago, re
ceiving no remittances, sent a man to
investigate and learned the facts in the
case. Whilo the men were regular
agents of the house they were not. em
powered to make collections. Matsinn
and Richardson, it was then fonml, lmd
discounted the paper, sold the safes
taken in exchange ana skipped. It is
now a question as to who will have to
stand the loss. The purchasers claim
they were justified in paying for goods
which were ordered and delivered.
Thu silver Question.
New York, Nov. 37.—The Herald’s
Washington special says: Thesnbject
of an international agreement for the
enlarged use of silver as money will net
be discussed at length by the president
in his annual report. They prefer to
wait awhile to discover the temper of
congress before taking a decided posi
tion. The president may renew the
promise of his first annual message to
submit a special message on the silver
question. The reports which have been
received from Banker Seligtnan and
other representatives of government in
England, France and Germany have
been very encouraging for ths recogni
tion of the white metal as money if the
country does not plnnge into free coin
age without waiting for other nations.
Tin Eight Hour Low.
Atchison, Kan., Nov. 27.—Robert
Tomkins, president of the Kansas Fed
eration of Labor, attended a meeting of
the federation in Topeka, at which it
was decided to make an effort to enforce
the eight honr law enacted by the legis
lature last winter. It is alleged that
the law is not lived np to in the office
of the state printer and other plaoee.
Money necessary to make a vigorous
fight has been raised.
NEWS DISPATCHES CONDENSED,
An Eplton
Ths Contaat Won by Yulv.
Manhattan Field, N. Y., Nov. 27.—
Yale beat Princeton in the great ath
letic event of the year for the football
championship by 19 to 0. Thirty-seven
thousand people, who paid about950,000
admission, witnessed ths oontsst, and
every one got bis monfy’s worth. It
was a magnificent game, and Yale’s
inviacibl* team had to do the hardest
playing of which it was capable.
> of Happenings from Every
Section.
Thanksgiving was a big day at the
Augusta, Ha., exposition.
The famine-stricken area in Russia is
half as big its the United Stutes, and
4,000,(100 people live there.
A Chicago man has been arrested for
Belling .poi se meat to restaurants and
boarding ileuses in that city.
John Cornelius at Danville, Ills., dur
ing the absence of his wife and children,
committed suicide by taking rat poison.
A supposed wild man, haunting the
neighborhood of Beck’s Creek, Ills., has
been found to bo an escaped insune ne
gro.
Senator Carlisle warmly approves of
Mills’ candidacy and of upholding the
principles of tariff reform by the Dem
ocratic party.
Governor Markham of California says
more iudietments are necessary before
the San Francisco boodlors now in Can
ada can be extradited.
The suit of the Standard Gaslight
company of New York nguinst the late
president will show how millions in
stock sometimes go iu Now York.
At Pottstown, Pa., Dr. W. B. Atkin
son, of Pniludelphia, inspector of the
state board of health, condemned the
system ofsetverage, sayingthatit would
some time cause u plague.
The Tennessee state board of pension
examiners adjourned after allowing
throe peusious at #300, two ut $120 and
eighty-six at #1U0 per aunurn. The
total allowance to uate amounts to
141,000.
Curdiual Gibbons, accompanied by a
distinguished party, members of the
Episcopate, left Baltimore by the Balti
more and Ohio railroad for St. Louis to
participate iu the golden jubilee ser
vice iu uouor of Arcubishop Keurick.
The report of tiro number of people
killed by a landslide on tlie Northern
Pacific railroad, seventy miles from
Tacoma, Wash., was exaggerated. Two
persons were killed und seven injured.
Thu traek is ten feet deep iu earth for a
distance of sixey feet.
The Atlanta papers state that a man
is literally starving to death about five
miles from that greut city of politics, ‘
for want of food. The poor leliuw has
a wife und six small chudreu enfeebled
from the pangs of huuger. The father
is a consumptive invalid.
W. W. Lawler, of Franklin county,
Ala., charged with tile killing of Lock
Ezell, a United Stutes deputy marshal,
on the Bin uuy of lust -Huy, was cap
tured ueur fort Worth, Tex., a tew
days ago and brought Duck to Hunts
ville, Ala., aud longed iu jail to await
tnal.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says
that several stutes have deposed their
governments since tne abdication of
marshal Da Fuimacu. At Bayiu the
deposition of tne governor occasion,si a
ligut conflict. Marshal Da Fonseca re
tires to Paqnetu Island iu the bay of
Rio Janeiro.
The plant established by the owner,
of the Michigaintne mine for tbesepara-
tion of iron ore by electricity at Isbpem-
ing, Mich., has proved a snccess. The
works haYe, so fur, tnrned out 80,000
tons of high grade Bessemer ore. By
iuiproveinents being made low grade
ores are refitted into the best of Besse
mer.
It in learned in Chicago that Inventor
Edison is engaged ill a certain modifica
tion of the phonograph for the purpose
of fitting it to become the successor of
the raised letter system in the produc
tion of books for the blind. Tlie changes
are chiefly in the way of increasing the
capacity of the cylinders. It is expected
to thus greatly increase the reading
range of tiie blind.
Canton, O., Democrats will celebrate
tho anniversary of the issuance of ex-
Presideut Cleveland's tariff reform
message with a banquet at Bast hall in
that city on the evening of Dec. B.
Many delegations are expected to be
present, aud speeches will be made by
Governor Campbell, Virgil P. Cline, of
Cleveland, and a few others. Canton is
the home of Major McKinley.
Thanksgiving day was appropriately
observed by Americans in Berlin. Mem
bers of the congregation of the Ameri
can church went on an excursion to
Grnnewald, where they were pleasantly
entertained with music and various
games. The diversions were followed
by a display of fireworks and an elabor
ate dinner. The American Physician’s
association dined at the English hans,
300 guests being present.
The influenza now so prevalent in
Berlin is of a mnch more virulent type
than that which caused so mnch suf
fering in 188!). Thirty deaths from the
affection daring the eight days past are
reported. Physicians estimate that
40,000 persons have been attacked with
innnenza since Nov. 1 in BerUn alone.
Burgomaster Forchenbeck and Herr
Werner von Siemens, electrician, who
have been suffering from the disease,
are now recovering.
A dispatch from Pittsbnrg, Pa., save:
A man who spent two days la Snowden
mines confirms the report that over 100
colored men were brought from Vir
ginia under false representation* and
are now compelled to work. The igno
rance of one cost him his life, and his
terrified companions were driven back
to their work with pick handles. They
owe the company money, and guards
are there to keep them from running
away. They are handcuffed, and re
volvers are fired over their heads to in
timidate them.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says: A
number of deaths from starvation have
occurred among the famine-stricken
people in the province of Samaria. Rev.
Mr. Francis, pastor of the Anglo-
American church in this city, ha* jut
received from Colonel Charles J. Murphy
over 300 pound* of Indian corn mew, a
contribution for the relief of the famine
sufferers. Colonel -Morphy, who is spe
cially commissioned by the United State*
agricultural department, to call atten
tion in Europe to the value of Indian
oora as an article of food, j«rotiii*e*
more contribution* of corn meal for
famine nbtf If the n** of that motived
is proved.
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