Wfieally & flnsley,
THE LEADERS
—IN—
Fine Dress Us
-AND-:
Dry Goods Trade.
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You Will Miss
BARGAINS
If you don’t call and see us this week.
A TERRIBLE SMASH
ON THE CENTRAL YESTERDAY AF
TERNOON.
CAPTURED AND ESCAPED.
Bailiff Parker Catohea a Horae Thief
and Then Loses Him.
Two Freight! Collide Near Muckalee
—And Bight Cara Are 8plintered and
Piled—The Engines Demolished—No
One Killed, But Several Injured.
Dm WATTS
-Wloletale ud Mail Dealer 11—
GROCERIES
fine Tobacco, Cigars and Whisky a Specialty!
No. :;03 Forsyth and 1004 Lee Streets, - - AMF.RICUS.JGEORGIA
H. JOSSEY,
THE LEADING DEALER IN
Tobaccoi Cigars m Liquors.
Sole Aieit or tie Ceetirated Old ton Sjnii" Keitoch WMy.
At COTTON AVENUE.
AMERICUS. GA
■CAril, AT-
Arthur Rylander’s
AND SEE
THE LATEST STYLES IN
Dunlap Hats
Nellie Bly Caps.
CALL AND SEE
»T_ -W- UVEIZES,
At his new quarters on Cotton Avenue, under Hawkins House He
keeps the finest
Wines, Whiskies. Cigars, Etc., Etc.
in town. Ho always has On tap kegs of the
Famous Cook. Beer.
|The BEST Beer ever sold in Americus.
Fancy Drinks at Lowest Living Prices!
He keeps nothing but first-class goods, and don’t charge fancy prices
fir them. GIVE ME A CALL.
One of the biggest smash-ups ev
er occurring around here, was that
of yesterday afternoon.
Two freights collided on the
Central road, about two miles from
Amerious, just this side of the
bridge over Mnckaiee creek.
Both were running at high speed
and the scene at the wreck is a ter'
ribie one.
The pieces of the engines are so
mixed that one cannot be distin
guished from the other.
The carp are piled on these nud
on each other, some tumbled forty
feet, and others scattered in splin
ters on all sides.
The boiler of one engine is driven
into the other nearly the whole
length, while smoke stacks, steam
chests, etc., are jumbled to
gether and with pieces of the cars.
It is the most complete wreck
imaginable, and how it happened
that all escaped with their lives is
one of those unexplainable things
sometimes connected with railroad
accidents.
The two trains were regular
freights, one from and the other to
Albany. The one from Albany was
on time, the other being late. To
the former was engine 188, with
Engineer Joe Tolbird in charge
In the caboose were a number, in
cluding -Supt. McKenzie, Agent
Maxwell, Manager Ozburn, besides
other passengers. The first warn'
ing these had .was the whistle
for brakes. The conductor
who was in the caboose, looked out,
saw the danger, and shouted to the
occupants to jump for their lives.
Most of them leaped to their feet
and started for the door, but were
thrown with terrible force to the
floor, before reaching it.
Mr. Maxwell was knocked sense
less by the fall, recoerrlng in about
five minutes. His hand is now
badly bruised.
Mr. Osburn received a severe cut
on the beau.
Some of the others were bruised,
but to little exteDt.
Both engineers and both firemen
jumped from the cab. Had they
not, it was certain death, and
hardly a button could have been
found after the collision.
Of these, Engineer Joe Tolbird is
only one injured, whose left shoul
der was dislocated by the leap.
Bob Brunner, a negro train band,
was on the car next to the engine
of the down train. He stuck to it,
and how he escaped is a miracle.
The car he was on was smashed
and thrown on the engine, and the
next car right on top. The negro
was thrown nearly forty feet, clear
over the sides of the embankment
and high in the air. For a vvhil j it
was thought he was dying, but it
turned out tbat he only bad a dlalo.
cated bip.
As soon as the news of the collis
ion reached the city, Dr. West
brook, surgeon > f the road, with
several others, 'left on the Bwitch
engine for the scene. Medical at
tention was rendered at once, and
an examination made of the inju
ries. These were given by Dr. West
brook, as stated above, as a dislo
cated shoulder for Engineer Tolbifrl
and a dislocated hip for the negro.
The engine was then brought
back to town with the passengers
on the freights and the two in
jured.
A wrecking train and bands were
at once telegraphed for, and work
will be rapidly pushed ciearlug the
track. Passengers on the 10:10
train last night were transferred
and carried through.
Supt. McKenzie was seen and'
asked as to how the acci'dent oc
curred. He said no investigation
could be mads yesterday, but the
fault was through some mistake in
the office at Hmithvllle.
It was a lerrlb.e wreck, so far as
destruction goes, and it is bard to
conceive of anything worse. A Re
corder reporter was at the place
not long after the collision, and
the scene was truly an appalling
one. It was simply « miracle tbat
no one was killed.
Thursday, a telegram was receiv
ed from Camilla, stating a negro,
Tom Perry, wsb wanted there for
horse stealing, and was supposed
to be up this way, as bit parents
live at Andersonvllle. A descrip
tion of the negro was also given,
and Bailiff J. B. Parker left at
once to look him up. Although
Mr. Parker had no knowledge of
the whereabouts of the negro, he
soon bad him located.
He went to arrest him, and the
negro made a break, but was soon
stopped by the appearance of a lit
tle 38 calibre persuader. Even then
he showed fight, and Mr. Parker
came near ehooting several times.
Finally, ho vever, he got him to the
guard house in Andersonvllle, and
as it was several hours before the
train left, got the marshall to lock
him up. This relieved the bailiff the
trouble of holdlDg him for the time,
and no thought was had but that
the negro was secured from escape.
Mr. Parker took a stroll, and so
did the marshall, and on their re
turn the negro waB gone. He eyl'
dently had tools given him, and
sawed his way out.
Mr- Parker says Perry is un
doubtedly the worst negro be ever
encountered, and he was on the
point of shooting him several
times.
DIAMONDS and WATCHES.
$50,00 td $500,00, - $25.00 to $200.00.
Diamond and Watch Clubs, one to five dollars per week. Price
jn clubs less than spot cash to the regular Jeweler, whose expenses
increases the profits. Handsome Gold Watches for 125.00. One
Dollar per week. Ladies or Gent’s.
JAS. T. COTNEY,
Fleetwood & Russell Corner.
New Firm. New Goods. New Quarters.
tullis & McLendon
The Mortality Report.
Sexton P. D. Hill has made ont
his list of interments made during
the past year, which will be hand
ed the council at its next meeting.
Here are the totals, as taken from
his report:
Adults, white, city, 15; white in
fants, city, 12; adults, white, coun
ty, 7; white infants, county, 7.
Adults, negroes, city, 58; negro
infants, city, 55; adults, negroes,
couty, 1; negro infants, county, 1.
This gives a total of 41 whites,
and 115 negroes, counting all.
Many of these, and many of those
counted as “city," are interments
ofnon-residents.
The report shows the number of
interments each month, and is
carefully and clearly gotten up.
Mr. Hill has been sexton for eight
years, knows his duties and per
forms them faithfully. His report
is clear and conoise.
S. A. M. Engines Returned.
The H. A. M. road wants none
but first class engines, and when
any other kind are received they
are sent back in a hurry. Yester
day engines 120, 121 and 122, which
have been here awaiting approval,
were sent back, and also No.’s 65
and 68 which had just been re
ceived.
The first three were given a good
trial, yesterday being the last day
of the approval time. The other
engines were not even tried, as the
master mechanic found many
faults.
A Good Woman Dead.
Yesterday morning, just before
seven, Mrs. N. A. Howard died at
her home on Lee street. She had
been sick for two weeks with
pneumonia, and her death had
been expected for several days.
She leaves three children all
grown, Messrs. J. H. and E. H
Howard, who works at the S. A.
M. shops, and Miss Ellie.
The funeral will take place from
the houso this afternoon.
STOVES AND
Best Qualities of Paints, Oils and Builders’ Material]
Agents for the Celebrated HARVEST STOVES and GRATES.
Agents for the Celebrated Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Maohlne.
Buggies andWagons
WAGON AND BUGGY MATERIALS*
SADDLERY AND]HARNESS* CROCKERYIANDIGLASSWARE,
AND A SPECIAL-LINE OF CUTLERY, WOOD AND WILLOWWARE. ETC*
We specially invite the trading public to call and examine our good*
and prices. We beep the best, as well as the cheapest goods in tills
market, and will give our customers the value of their money.
Tullis’ old Stand, 433 and 435 Cotton Ave.
AMERIOUS, G-A.
REMOVAL
Cook’s Pharmacy has been removed from
Cotton Avenue to the W. J. Slaopy comer,
on Lee street, (near Artesian well) where I
will be pleased to serve you in Drugs, Pat-
ent]Medicines, G-avden Seeds, Etc.
Respectfully,
W. A. COOK, Proprietor
FOR vRENT!
An excellant Truck and Dairy Form, one-half mile from city.
Apply to
M. Callaway, - Real Estate Agent.
B TT Gr Gr X
1 will sell you the best buggy In Georgia, price and quality considered. Repairing of
all kinds solicited and executed promptly and neatly. All work warranted. a
T. S, GREENE.
Cotton Ave., ----- Opposite Prince’s Stables-
Americus, Georgia.
Real estate bargains.
loffor fDrar.irdajr.tbe following tdrabie pmMrty tl«» In JAlPiSil— each
Four houses and lots, houses Just co n pie ted; 4 large rooms each, low 50x185 each.
jeritiM Easy, .
tieaftr »‘Ouse.nd lot on College Hill, large lot 210x27*. .-routing two streets. The pret-
eomi D0 ho “ •«and toto n Jackson street, fronting the College* r f * KWL and
bi!S? arttUv e»y new house with cook room and bath house attached, nice out house and
hrn on th* place. Call for bargains. t
HUGH M. BROWN,
705 Jackson St. : : : Amerious. Ga.
■'mma Mutm. f-urnltor. Factor, Stock for lal. .
Lovely Flower,.
Mr. I 1 . D. Hill, sexton of Oak
Grovo cemetery, is an ardent lover
aud grower of flowers. Wednes
day he placed Tun Recorder un
der obligations to him for the love
liest basket of flowers we have ev
er seen. They were of every color
and form, and filled tbe room with
fragrance. Among the varieties
were: Abutilon, Tuberose, Salvia,
Heliotrope, Geranium, Llnum,
Violets, Sweet Alysum, Japouicas,
Roses, Hyacinths, Petunia, • Plum
bago, Primrose, Btgonias, Callallly,
Carnation, Calalonlan Jesman, Ox-
alis, and many othsrs. Mr. Hill
grows man,* more, varieties, and is
always glad to supply ladies with
•ntttng*.
A Fine Amlmal.
Mr Tom Guice received yesterday
from Macon one of tbe prettiest and
finest bred pointer pups in the
country. The dog was a present
from Mr. N. M. Block, who owns
the mother. The mother has taken
several prizes at bench ehows over
many competitors, and ie known as
one of tbe finest to be found. Tbe
pup is a beauty, and Mr. Guice is
envied his gift by all who have seen
him.
An Enterprising Baby.
Americus and this section lead In
everything, and even the babies
catch tbe progressive spirit. Mr.
M. M. Hart,who lives near this city,
has a four months old baby with
two teeth already full grown. The
bbay is a remarkable one In other
ways, and hasn’t seen a sick day
in its life. ‘
At Hi. Post.
Mr. W. K. Harris is at his post
managing Mr. Tom Guice’s new
bar on College AveDue. Tbe new
fixtures have not yet arrived, but
are expected to-day or early next-
week, When these are up Mr.
Harris will be ready for work in
earnest.
WE ARE ©N ’SHE TOP ROUND
CARTERS
HX LARGEST
STOCK
AT TraraQTCBF
IBICES.
A Tremendous Okra Stalk.
Mr. A. W. Smith baa the largest
okra stalk on record, out at bis
place on Lee street. Tbe stalk Is
twelve feet two Inches in height,
and eleven inches in circumfer
ence. It is more like a tree than
okra and heads the list of vegetable
curiosities.
OJtKL AND SEE
Oaivin Carter anil Son.
FOR S-A.I-.Ei
300acres of Pine Timber Land. Railroad runs through it. Price .. J
200*00res of land and timber two miles from^rallroad. Price $4
per acre. Large Saw-mill and fixtures. 2,600 seres timber.lands.
For further particulars cailon or address
■W. ZD. Haynes cfa Son.
20S Forsytli (it., Recorder Building. AMERICUS, O.L
