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m THE TIMES-RECORDER VOLUME 1 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY: APRIL 17, 1891. Ordim *ry. ' TTT MBER 2 FORBIDDEN FRUIT! ‘forbidden fruit” to many of The weather‘this season lias customers, hut Geo. D. Wheatley Tak-s pleasure in o.Tering a “FULL CHOP” of XKW and SEASON'ABLE j)UV HOODS at |inces within EASY KEACII of all. CASK AFTER CASE of new goods o|iened during the past week lias about eoinpleted OCR SPUING STOCK, and elose relationship to tlie nnnufaeturers enables us to present this season a' line of goods UN- AITHOACIfABLE in QUALITY, STYLE OR PRICE. Speeial for this week— BRUTALLY MURDERED HUSBAND AND WIFE ATTACKED IN THEIR BED. She Win Shot Iteari by HI* Side, end He Win* Shot, StHlthrd, and lleaten rn I’urHiied the AiMinlnii-The County Vp In Arms. 25 Pieces Beautiful I’ieces Beautiful SOLID COLD FIGURED SOLID COLD FIGURED CHINA SILKS FLORENTINES 2D pieces LOVELY WOOL ('HALLIES, solid and figured, at ‘20c. per yd. Ju-t i:> more of those SUPERB C YMELS’ HAIR Pattern Suits go AT COST THIS WEEK. 40 patterns BLACK SILK GHEXADIXES, finest quality, Toe. to $1.25 this week. THEY ARK BKAUTIKS and worth from $1.00 to $2.60 el-ewhere. A perfo-t profusion of BLACK SILK DRAl’EHY XKTS—the correct thing this season, at prices which will astonish you. Our BLACK DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT, the very best in the city ■You can find JUST WHAT YOU WANT at a very moderate cost Grant us the pleasure of showing you our LACES, EMBROIDERIES, and XKW WASH DRESS GOODS, consisting of everything new in WHITE GOODS. Plain and figured PERSIAN MULLS, CHINA SILKS, FATAL BATISTES and GRENADINES, MADRAS CLOTH, GING HAMS, ETC. 15 do/.. Black SILK .MITTS, at 25c. per pair this week. 1* do/.. LADIES’ BLACK SILK GLOVES, 40c., (worth 65c) this week. Forty do/.. Diamond Dye LADIES HOSE, absolutely stainless, at 25c. per pair this week. Wilmington, April 15.—Information was received this morning of one of the most brutal murders in the history of Cecil county, Md. It occurred at Porter's Bridge, a small place about three miles east of Colora, Md. The victims were Mrs. Elizabeth Richards and .1. Granville Richards, who live there with their children. The husband and father, J. Granville Richards, is inspector in the Baltimore Custom House and an ex-member of the Maryland legislature from Cecil county. Mrs. Richards was the daugter of Frank Langdon, a well known citizen of Cecil county. Husband and wife retired later than usual last evening. Mr. Richards fell at once into a doze. Mrs. Richards, who had not yet gone to sleep, was startled at 1 o'clock by an unusual noise in the back room, and she saw* the figure of a man In the doorway. She arose upright in bed, but beforo she could utter a word the ruffian fired upon her. The ball entered the back of her head, penetrating the brain. She fell back upon the bed. The report of the revolver aroused the husband. He jumped out of bed with a bound. The burglar fired again, add the shot struck Mr. Richards in the left side. He staggered, then with a desperate effort made a grasp for the throat of his assail ant, while the latter withdrew down the stairway, Firing as he went. O All the shots went wide of their mark until the two men reached the hallway down stairs. It was intensely dark, and Mr. Richards could only hear the in truder retreating. At the bottom of the stairs the as sailant turned again and tired, the ball striking Mr. Richards in the stomach. Here Mr. Richards thinks a second bur glar came upon the scene and helped his companion to Finish ids murderous work. Having discharged all their shots at Mr. Richards, the men set about beating him to death with an iron poker or jimmy. Mr. Richards fell unconscious to the floor, and lay there while his wife breathed her last upstairs, and the mur derers made a hasty search of the premises. It is thought this was only a blind, however, as the only things they took were a gold watch and $50 in money. The men then made their escape and have not be caught. The husband, although conscious, is lying In a precarious condition. The chances of his recovery are slight. Mrs. Richards was a very attractive young woman, aged years, Mr. Richards is well-kuown in politi cal circles at Baltimore,and also through out Cecil county. No clue up t» a late hour to-niglit has been obtained. To Come In on the Central. Savannah, April 15.—The South Bound will not likely have a depot of its own in the city or use Bay street for tracks for some time to come, but will come in over the Central from the cros sing. This lias been decided upon on account of the difficulty in getting rights of way outside of the city. The South Bound people have made a proposition to the Central and General Manager Gab- bett has made a counter proposition to them. The matter is now being nego tiated, and an agreeable arrangement will probable be arrived at in a snort while. Uarroteil In HI* Laundry, j Ei.izaiirtii, April 15.—Sam I.ee, a ; Chinaman doing business at 258 Union j street here, was garroted and robbed in l his laundry last night by two meu. | They got $100 and left him senseless In j the place. The police are unable to get a clue to the robbers, owing, it is said, size 4 to 14 years, this week, worth j 0 ^ er Chinamen in the city being elsewhere. j down on Lee because he cut laundry ' rates, and none of them will act as lu ll) to $5.00 suit, worth double elsewhere. j terpreter to get from him a description : of his assailants. He cannot speak Kn* ,. „. . . glish. a specialty; Rood value, -»u\ to *1.;>0 per pair, any wanted. BE SURE TO ATTEND OUR ENING SALE OF ING CLOTHING THIS WEEK. Our Stock is Warranted Matchless in quality, style or price. LEESBURG I.OCAI.S. Mr.Oduin'f Failure—A Happy Marriage Charming Visitors. 300 Child’s Sailor Suits Oojs’ School Suits, *-- 5 Knee Pants WE FULFILL OUR ADVERTISEMENTS! COME AND SEE! Geo.D.Wheatley Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave. AMERICUS, - GEORGIA. I Floped With the Maidservant, i Youngstown, O., April 15.—Martin IL. Sonnanstinc, a travelling salesman of Wadsworth, O., recently deserted Ids ' wife and three children and eloped with ! Alice Ledyer, a domestic in Ids family. The deserted wife came here this morn ing and found the pair keeping house. She caused their arrest. They were locked up to await a hearing. Sonnan- stine is 45 years old and Miss Ledyer is 20. .Senator Brown's llirthday. Atlanta, April 15.—[SpecialJ—Sena tor Joseph K. Brown celebrated Ills 70th birthday this afternoon at his residence. It is also the seventcentb anniversary of the ma*rfage of his daughter to Dr. K. L. Cor.nally, and would have been the | birthday of his son, Frank, had he lived. Lkks!<{*!{<•, April 15.—The financial crash, as most of your readers arc aware, has struck our city and struck it very forcibly, involving in its ruins our hu gest commercial house, of which Mr. H C. Odom was proprietor and chief finan cier. Tills is about the greatest shock our city and its surroundings have ever re* ceivcd, and several of our most influen tial citizens are sufferers. We learn that Mr. Odom’s liabilities will reach about $40,000. He has many friends in this community and they hope to see him right side up again soon. At 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. J. A. Walden, Mr. Jack Campbell, of Dooly was joined in matrimony to Miss Beulah Walden, of this city, Rev. O. V. Chester performing the ceroraony. Our can! failed to reach ns. Miss Ruby Young, of Coney, and M*.ss Annie Hogue, of Americus, are noted among the most important of our visit ors of the past few days. We are now having lovely spring weather, and farmers and gardeners are puttiug in some good work. Prof. I. R. Cain leaves this evening for Arlington to witness the marriage of Miss Mary, Ids sister, to .Mr. Oscar Thompson, of Macon. We learn that Mr. Thompson owns a large interest in a commercial firm in that city. A Card from Mr. Iturkhalter. Tins Times-Recorheu: I have been absent from the city a day or two on business, and return to lind myself famous by your unsolicited nomination for the presidency of the state Alliance. Of course gratitude forbids us to look a gift horse in the mouth, yet my sense of duty and obligation impels me to sug gest that my nomination does not come from quite the right quarter. I might suggest in this connection that all nominations in that direction arc superfluous now; for if there is anything upon which Alliancemen of Georgia are now agreed it is that the Hon. L. F. Liv ingston shall succeed himself to that high position. Aside from his eminent fitness for the place nothing has contri buted more to tills result than tlio re lentloss war waged against him from the outside, led by a few malcontents on tlio inside in the path of whose ambition lie has been the lion of strength and truth. I am at a loss as to the proper con struction of your expression: “The fact that he is not a confederate renders," etc. If you intend thereby to read me out of the ranks of Confederate veterans I shall most emphatically demur. I did not, however attain the distinc tion of Colonel, with which you dubbed me, and have been so fortunate as not to be added to the numerous army of Colonels on IIU Excellency’s staff. With sincere regard for the honor you do me, and with the hope that the day is not far distant when all outsiders will see that the object of the Alliance is to better the condition of the whole coun try and will cease their useless war on the order, I subscribe myself your hum ble and honored friend, D. C. X. Brim halter. Americus, Ga., April 15, 1891. Another Cotton Mill, Savannah, April 15.—A knitting mill is the next industrial enterprise for Savannah. A company is being organ ized with a capital of $50,000, and already most of that amount has been subscribed. Loading capitalists and business men have taken hold of the en terprise and it will be started at as early a day as practicable. Cotton Farts. To The Timer-Recorder:—As cotton has about ceased coming in from the country and it is generally conceded that there are now but very few scattering bales left on plantations in this section, it becomes a matter of interest to the cotton fraternity to know how the stock in the warehouses compares with same date previous years. We hand you be low the tigures from actual count taken to-day and the nearest date we have to April 15th for proceeding two pears: April 9th, 1889. .Stock in Amerhus warehouses this day, actual count, 807 bales. April 12th, 1890. Stock in Americus warehouses this day, actual count, 1,105 bales. April 15th, 1891. Stock in Americns warehouses this day, actual count, 1,248 bales. Yours truly, etc., Johnson A Harkold. Americus, Ga., April 15tli, 1891. Stewart Court Next Wwlt. Stewart Superior court convenes next week,'and the usual large attendance of lawyers and others interested in the proceedings of the court may lie expect ed. Among those who have made am- plo preparation for the entertainment of the visitors is Miss Willie Brooks, pro prietress of the well known Brooks House, and guests who stop there may rest assured that the very best attention will be bestowed upon them at this home-like liostlery. Harrison in Atlanta. A CORDIAL RECEPTION EXTENDED THE LITTLE PRESIDENT. He Filter* the Gate City to the Thunder of Artillery—Thousands shake His Hand In the Rotunda of the Capitol—Entertained by (iuv. Northern Atlanta, Ga., April 15.—[Special.] President Harrison and party arrived here at 4 o'clock this afternoon. They wero met at Marietta by a com* mitteo of prominent citizens together with the city council, headed by Mayor Hemphill and ex-Mayor Glenn. At the Chattahoochee river the party of distinguished visitors were welcomed by a number of salutes tired by one of tlio guns of the Atlanta artillery. This gun was mounted on a Hat car drawn by a special engine, and preceded the Presidential special into the city tiring as it ran along. As soon as the manufacturing centre of the city was reached every factory whistlo was blown. President Harrison, his son, Russell, and Mrs. McKee stood on the rear platform, the President, silk hat in hand, bowing and smiling to the crowds congregated on either side of the track. On leaving tlio depot all the visitors except Mrs. Harrison, who pleaded fa tigue, were taken in cliargo by citizens and given a drive over the city. The president was reminiscent, and asked to be drawn in the country to the places over which ho passed during the late war. His wish was gratified, and on reach ing the place ho left the carriage and walked about a hal; mile down the road, to the consternation of the rustics who stood about him. From 7 to 9 o’clock Mr. and Mrs. Har rison stood in the rotunda of the capltol shaking hands with the thousands of people who had flocked there to greet them. From 9 until 11 p. m. they were the guests of Gov. Xorthen and Mrs. Xor- then, who were assisted in the reception by some of the best ladies of Atlanta. The Fou tli Artillery Band discoursed some sweet music in the front yard, while a great crowd thronged about the fence and around the door unable to oven see the little man who leads the Republican party in America. The visitors loave for Birmingham to morrow morning. The following distinguished people made up the presidential party: President and Mrs. Harrison, Mrs, McKee, Mrs. Dimmick, Mr. and Mrs< Russell Harrison, Postmaster-General Wanamakcr, Marshall Randall, Mr. and Mrs George W. Boyd, Mr. E. F. Tibbott, the President’s stenographer and repre sentatives of the Press association. CHAINED TO THE FLOOR. cautions Ik* I hr Taken to Retain IJotia Jackson. The "Charles F. Crisp" Base Hall Club. The boys have been playing ball reg ularly every afternoon this week, and are thoroughly aroused or the subject. Last night a meeting was held and a team fully organized. Sixteen names were put on the list, and others will doubtless be added. Mr. Walter Crisp was elected captain, and Mr. II. K. Allen secrotary and treasurer. Practice games will bo played every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday after noon at 4 o’clock. An entrance fee of one dollar was charged each. The name of the club will be the Charles F. Crisp base ball team. Tho boy* are all enthusiastic and will have as strong an amateur nine os can be found. The grounds need fixing, and help should be given them to do this. All are anxious for the game, and there should be no trouble in raising a little money to help the boys out. Will Leave Americus. Mr. J. M. Cranston roturncil to Amer icus last night from Augusta. He will leave again for tho Fountain City this afternoon, and this time lie goes to re main. He will now ho agent for the Union Mutual Insurance Company, of Hartford, for Georgia and South Caro lina, with headquarters in Augusta. His many friends here will greatly re gret his going, but. are glad to know of Ids success in getting such an important position with such a good company. He has dune splendid work for the Equita ble around here, and leaves that compa ny with regret. An Ksc.ll.nt Scon. Those of our citizens who have been out fishing recently, state that this is undoubtedly tile best season for sport of this kind that we liavo had in years. M uckalcc creek is the resort for those who can not go far, and many fine pecimcns of tlio tinny tribe have been caught. Tlio dredging of the stream lias greatly improved it, and many tish are being caught botli with hook and line and seines. Hits! of Starvation. Cincinnati, April 15.—Frank Sierp, a poverty-stricken music teacher, 65 years oh), lived in a tenement at 216 Hunt street. Neighbors missing him, entered his room, and found him apparently in prayer at a chair, llo was dead, and the coroner found that he hail died of star vation. , John Jackson is the negro who was brought here last week, found guilty in Wilcox superior court of the murder of Mr. Bee Drown, of ltochelle. He is under sentence to hang the 20tb of next month, and was brought hore lor safe keeping. The jail there is not as secure as it might Ihi, and no prisoner ever incarce rated in there has had more outside friends. It is only a short time now until the date of tlio execution, and the officers are taking great precautions to see that tlio prisoner does not escape. For the past few days two machinists have boon busy clinching through the tloor an immense piece of iron. To tills were clinched four chains, very large, and nbmit three feet in length. .Such an arrangement is needed in the jail in its condition, and yesterday it was put to its first use. Jackson was carried into the room where this was tixed, and viewed tho chains with a fearful eyo. He evidently didn't relish the idea of being chained down, but never uttered a word. He was bare-foot, and as he was told to hold one of ills feot out, he seemed to shudder a little, Tlio machinist pntan iron bracelet around tho ankle, and pro ceeded to strongly clinch it to one of tlie chains. Jackson stood tlie operation well, and not a word escaped him. Only wlion the job was done, and the jailor tried tho shackle to sco if it would slip oft did lie speak. Ho then winced a little, and said: “That hurts.” Jackson appears to bo anywhere from 25 to 30 years old, and is of a light gin ger cake color. Ho admits the shooting, but clalmB that it was done iu self de fence. Tlie need of a now jail become daily more apparent, and but for tlie watch fulness of tho officers there would be many jail deliveries to report. In the Name old Way.l The 8. A. & M. railroad Is certainly making for itself an enviable reputation in the handling .a through freights con signed to this city from points both east and west. Only a week ago a consignment of six carloads of sugar came through from Philadelphia in fivo days, but yesterday this oxcoptionally lino record was beat en by the arrival of another shipment of a hundred barrels of sugar, which was in traaeit exactly four days and five hour*. This record takes tho plum up to date, and goes to show that when it comes to “hustling” the “Sam” is In tho procession. lie Declined. A grave/ll vine of Americus recolved and declined a cordial invitation ex tended him yesterday. He was walking: down the street, apparently lost in the- mysteries of some doep theological ques tion, when a charming and bright young.- miss stopped him with the question: “Dr. do you wish to seo a lot of Uttle devils ?" She gazed up at him with her large, innocent eyes, and, he, with kindly so licitude answered In the affirmative. Her eyes twinkled most merrily and a little langb rippled forth as sho replied: “Well, then, go to , and I'm sure your wish will be granted.” A Characteristic Deed. Mention was mado in yesterday’s TiMKs-ltKComir.n of the banquet of De- Molay lodge Knights Templar the night before. Tlie occasion was a most enjoy able one, nnd all participated to their hearts content In tbo refreshments. A good deal was left over, however, and with tlie characteristic bcrevolence of the order, was distributed around among many needy families. Mr. A. J. Buch anan olTered his delivery wagon, and iu person delivered most of the goods. Many homes were made happy by this noble action. Married Yesterday. Miss Annie Thompson and Mr. W. T. A vi-ra were married yesterday Morning at 10 o'clock, at tho residence of Mr. W. W. Thompson in Smithvillo. Among those who attended from Americus were Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Thompson, Miss Eula Coker and Mr. U. G. Anderson. Tlie bridal couple and party cam? to Americus yesterday afternoon. The many friends of tlieso popu'ar young people heartily congratulate them, and a happy future surely awaits them. Convenient For All. Tin: Tinks-Kkcordbb begins publish ing this morning the time of the arrival and departure of every passenger train into and from Americus. This will be kept standing, and will be changed with every schedule. The time of the closing of all mails is also given. This will be a convenient table for all, and you may depend upon its being correct. All the material for the construction of the LaGrange street railroad has boon ordered, and the work will begin this week.