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VOLUME AMERICUS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1891. NUMBER 14 Tie Season Why! Umv find it tliPacvilt to present a creditable appearance and ive within their means, is mainly due to the fact that they p iy such high prices to so-called “merchant tailors,” while THE SAME QUALITY OF CLOTH, THE SAME GRADE OF WORK, AND THE SAME STYLE OF CUT Can be obtained from our iReadv Made Clothing Department! AT LESS THAN HALF THE COST! .iSfL 1 YOCBSpi-F WODESEBVICm M I THE COAL RATES FIXED! THE ALLIANCE PLAN. Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave. [For dress occasions what could be more appropriate than our elegant styles iu | Prince Albert or Three Button Cutaway Suits? We have them in all the newest shades and fabrics, (such as Corkscrew, Clay Diagonal, Granite, Tricot and fancy figured suitings) and WARRANT OUR SUITS FROM $16.50 TO $20.00 I Equal, IF NOT SUPERIOR, in fit and finish to any “tailor made” suits in tho market for just TWICE THE MONEY. I For everyday wear we would suggest one of our nobby Sack or Cut away Suits ranging in price from §3.00 to $15.00 per suit. i ranging in price 1 Our liue consists of |IMPORTED CASSIMERES, CHEVIOTS, BLACK THIBET CLOTHS, SERGES, FLANNELS, ETC. | la a word OUR STOCK WILL PLEASE, and OUR LOW Prices astonish "YO U THE COMMISSION AND THE ROADS MAKE AN AGREEMENT. Now at Originally—Atlanta Will Build Her Waterworks — An Indignation Meeting Among the .Mercliauts About the Kates— Other Matters. Atlanta, July 15.—The coal rate question was decided before the railroad commission this morning. The railroads came to an agreement and the settle ment was harmoniously reached. The commission takes off 10 and 15 cents per ton on local rates, which tends to equa lize the other rates and make them what they originally were. This is all the commission asked. The city council met this morning and ratified the water commission contract to purchase three pumping engines to pump water from tho Chattahoochee river to Atlanta and adopted a bill which the legislature will be asked to pass, authorizing the city of Atlanta to issue half a million dollars worth of water works bonds. Tho now waterworks will be built at once. The merchants of Atlanta called in a body on Sol. Haas, traffic manager of the Richmond and Danville, and a small in dignation meeting was held at the Kim ball house. The merchants showed Mr. Haas where Atlanta and other points in Georgia were being discriminated against in rates. Haas admitted that such was the case, and promised to set the matter right at au early day. COL. LIVINGSTON’S REMARKS • the sub-treasury GIwd In Fall by Request—Wliat He Had to Say In Support of Their Scheme—It Reaches All the Common People and Is neaven Inspired. A WORD ABOOT ODD PANTS. You need a pair to “tide you over” so to speak. Our assortment is ENORMOUS and our PRICES ARE RIGHT. They range from $1.40 to §7.50 per pnir, and cannot bo bad e.sewliere for less than double tbe price. Here is a hot weather item worthy your notice: 75 Summer Coats at 50c., reduced from $1.00. 100 Summer Coats at 75c., reduced from 1.50. 80 Summer Coats and Vests, $1.40 reduced from $2.50. 411 kinds of Summer Coats and Vests, such as “Drapetes,” Sicilians, Serges, Alpacas, Pongees, Poptius, TO CLOSE OUT STRICTLY AT COST. OUR LINE OF BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING, Alwaws tbe best in the city, will be found of interest to all in need of CHEAP but NEAT AND SERVICEABLE SUITS for their boys. lie still show a good line of those HANDSOME SAILOR SI ITS, (sizes 9 to 14 years) universally admitted snch excellent value for $ j 50 per suit. All Grades, All Sizes. SHIRTS! SHIRTS!! SHIRTS!!! 01R LEADER” at 50c is the best unlaundered shirt on earth for the price, while for dress, what shirt can compare with Messrs Cluett, Coon & Co.’s Superb “MONARCH SHIRTS.” Laundried "S: Unlaundried, l.ao. 1 Our “Monarch Puffs” have taken the trade by storm. WE’VE GOT ’EM ! AT I'.TIN I V—Gents’ Belfast Linen Collars.) Any siz .* n 1 15VI u L I —Gents’ Belfast Linen Cuffs, f desired. 3u orted Balbriggan, Lisle Thread and Muslin Undei wear will add to your comfort during the hot season. WE I EM) IN EU8NISIIING GOODS ( Our prices cannot be oxcelled in the state. W; NECKWEAR, NEW SOCKS. NEW HANDKERCHIEFS, NEW SUSPENDERS, &c. HARMS' WIRE BUCKLE SUSPENDERS, the best thing In tlio market. Everv pair WARRANTED FOR TWO YEARS, or your money refunded. 1 NIGHT ROBES FOR GENTLEMEN | *J§ 01K CAREFUL SELECTIONS, OUR REASONABLE PRICES, OUR SEASONABLE GOODS All appeal to Tour Reason, Your Pocket, and Your Hoalth. Cannot you save something by trading with GEO. D. WHEATLEY After til© Car,. Macon, July 15.—In the superior court to-day the United States Rolling Stock Company canto forward with a petition concerning the Macon Construction Com' pany. The petition Is to require Reccivor Sparks to turn over to them tho cars bought from their company and which, they allege, have never been paid for. The say tho cars were bought on tho Installment plan nnd they ought to liavo them back, without trouble. Not Fanning Out Leesiiuso, July 15.—Tho watermelon crop is not panning out by a great deal, $30 being about tho average received per car these days. Some liavo to send money to pay freight, while others have not heard from shipments made weeks ago. Last year the fanners made money, owing to tho Georgia and Carolina Mel on Excliango, by which tlioy acted bad ly. Many commission men were inter ested. This year the commission men are having their turn. Th© Allan tit Unity. Attanta, July 15.—Tho second of tho series of educational rallies to be held In Georgia by the alliance took placo bore to-day. 1'ledmont park was crowded with people. The speeches were on the same lino as thoso mado in Amoricus yesterday. There was nothing specially third party about them. Many of tho allimncemen here to-day are pleased with the committee's action In not inviting Gov. Northern. Against th© ItaUroads. Atlanta, July 15.—The legislature took In the alliance rally to-day. It is public property that somo livoly logis lating will be done against the railroads this season. Rumor has It that a well known mombor is closoted with the Olive bill, which he will Introduce and push it for all he is worth. The Impress ion is that if it is introduced the alliance legislators will make It a law in short order. Th© Report. Denied. Atlanta, July 15.—Frionds of Lieut. Harry Snook of the Atlanta 111 ties strenuously deny that he broke up a ball at Cumberland and raised merry caln while on a drunken carouse, as was published in some of the papers to-day. Developments bordering on the sensa tional are expected. Fir© In Cordel©. Cordelv, July 15.—A car of rosin and spirits of turpentine caught lire at the depot of tho Georgia Southern railroad this morning, and camo near burning the depot and planing mill; but tbe tire was extinguished by the prompt work of tho fire company. Making Preparations. Extensive preparations are being made for the picnic and outing which the Columbus branch of United Train men will liavo at Leoton park July 22. A large crowd will bo here that day, and a grand tlmo Is anticipated. Repairing th© Sidewalk. vV substantial brick sidewalk is being put down in front of 1’. L. Holt’s build ing on Lamar street. This will be quite an improvement on tho old walk. There are many other places in Awericus which need these walks. Fulling In a Front. An iron and plate glass front is being put in tho building to be occupied by the Americus Jewelry Company. This com pany will open up for business in abont a month now. In order that the sub-treasuay bill may ho better understood—and by re quest—Col. Livingston's arguments on that line are here given morn fully than they could he in the account of tho al liance rally, owitig to a lack of spaco. He said: There was never a system that would so quickly enslave the people as the national bank system. We want to put In Its place something better. Arc any of you opposed to the government’s lending the people money? It lent it to the national hanks for twenty-five years. What is tho sub-treasury plan? An is sue of treasury notes to supplemc.it the existing currency of gold and stiver in sufficient volume to do the business of tlio country. Supply and demand ar all tinongh nature. That is the sub- treasury plan—to rcgiilato tlio currency by supply and demand. We say to tho government, ‘send tho monoy direct to ns as you did to the hanks.” Docs any body object to that? If you do, it’s be cause you want to linger a llttlo longer If tlio government can tnako money and lend it to the banks at 1 por cent, she can lend it to the people for 2 per cent. But the government must have security. Listen: ‘To ho loaned to tlio people on diamonds as collateral.’ How many could borrow money on that? Hold up your hands. ‘To he loaned to tho peoplo on merchandise, property, stored and uninsured.’ How many would that suit? By this: ‘To ho loaned to the people at 2 per cent on land.’ How many of you own land? See how many there are. Then this: ‘To bo loaned to tlio people at 2 per cent on cotton and other crops.’ How many of you crop pers could borrow money'on a hale of cotton? Look at them out tliero every where. ‘‘The next tlmo a man objects to the sub-treasury plan put it to him this way ‘Then you don’t want ns to borrow all.’ I told you it was ignorance or meanness. Oh, yeoploon tho outsklo, wliat do you mean when you don’t want us to borrow on land and crops—the only things wo have? If the sub-treas ury plan is not better than the national hanking system we will abandon it.’ It lias been charged that the sub-treas ury plan was for tlio farmers and nobody else. A banker or merchant who had land or crops could borrow at 2 per cent, under the sub-treasury plan as woll as anybody else. It is money to he loaned to the pooplo.” He referred to John’s question to Christ: “Art thou he that shall come, or do we look for another?” Christ said: “The poor have tho gospel preached to them.” “That meant that the highest evidence of tho divinity of Christ was that he preached to the common people. The best evidence that this Is a heaven-born movement Is that it is for the poople. It brings the benefits of governmet to tbam.” He ridiculed thoso who sail the sub- treasury plan was unconstitutional. None of them undertake to prove It. The supreme court had decided that matter in the greenback case. If it was constitutional to lend money to the banks at 1 per cent it Is constitutional to lend it to the people at 2 per cent. He asked if the sub-treasury plan was dem ocratic, at which there was much laughter. Ho would give a $10 bill to the republican who would show any of the writings of Lincoln, Garfield or Thad Stevens, which was not sub-treas ury, and be would give any democrat $100 who would show any writing by Jofferson, Calhoun or Andrew Jackson, that was not sub-treasury. Here be read a passage from the last democratic platform: “‘Wo be lieve in honest money, the gold (here Mr. Cleveland stops; the alliance takes it all) and silver coinage of tho constitiq tlon and s circulating medium (did you know that was there ?) convertible with out law.’ “There’s your treasury notes recog nized by your platform. Your last national platform says your currency was irregular. There’s the national domocrattc platform; there’s tho Ocalo platform. First thing you know v.c’ll turn you out, and some of you'will have to hunt a third party.” Ole said tbe product In the sub-treas ury warehouse would not shrink In value, because the speculators would move out from between the producer and consumer, and cotton would bring 10} cents where it brought 0 cents; Cot ton and wheat are better collateral than land. The fluctuation of gold and silver bullion was greater for tweuty-flvo years than that of cotton. Cotton Is not sold t«day as It appears on its face. Before it is raised it is sold, and it is a question h jw low they can get it from the farmer. HE DOES WEAR SOCKS AND SILK MIXED UNDERWEAR AND LAYS HIM DOWN JUDGE CRISP AT HOME To Sleep In a Night Rob© Embrodlered In Daisies and Daffodils and Fastened Ith Gold Hattons—What the Leaders Drink—Jerry and the Colic. The manner in which Bonaparte got his arms from the Austrians is nothing compared with the way Sockless Simp son hustled himself into the other fel low's socks and shoes, too, for that mat ter. That the Hon. Jerry wears socks there is no doubt, for many who were at tho rally Tuesday saw them. He not only wears socks, hut lie wears a splendid quality of “silk mixed” balbriggan un derwear, and when lio sleeps bedecks himself in a night robo of spotless white all embroidered with daisies and daffo dils and fastened with buttons of gold. A The Times-Recoiider reporter had occasion to go in the alliance statesman's room at the Allen House wliilo tho Hon. Jerry was in bed. Ho responded to the knock of Col. Livingston, about 11 o’clock at night. Tlio president of the Georgia Alliance was welcomed in, and so was the reporter. There stood Mr. Simpson, with the gentle breezss wrap ping the hems of tho snowy garment already described about Ids shins, while tho half burned match which lie held in his hand revealed to tho reporter’s eyes a scene in tho background which thrilled him through and through. Close by tho bed, and almost under it, was a pair of ordinary looking $5 laco shoes, dust stained and which would size up about au 8. On top of those; folded and pushed down just the least bit, arranged as carefully as if they were the property of somo tidy old maid; there rested—a pair of socks. Theso adornments of the pedal oxtremo- ties were of tho British variety, solid wlilto save a yellow band about tlio upper edge and four or five small streaks of dust which could he plainly seen by the dim match light. They were socks—not legs, as tho Kansan has been charged by some with donning since lie lias been twitted so n ucli about his neglect of that article of a gentleman’s wardrobo They had foot and all, as Col. LivingHton himself can witness. Hod. Jerry had discarded his glasses for tho night and as ho stood before his visitors, embraced by bis night robe which was spurred on by tho wind which was cheated out of blowing through Senator I’etler’s whiskers by tho non-arrival of that statesman who recelvod tbe bill lading for tlio first load of hell, as Mr. Simpson called Ingalls, Ills bare feet planted firmly on the floor, ho was an ordinary looking man. The first remark he mado after the greetings proved he was but mortal. It was: “Livingston, I would have stayed up, but the infernal colie knocked mo out so badly that If the strongest plank lu the Ocala platform had struck mo In the samo locality It wouldn’t have hurt any worse.” The lamp was lighted, to show that tbe only chair in the room was adorned by the two unmentionables of gentle men's underwear of a light tan color, which showed on the face of them that they were part silk. On one garment was stamped “38,” and on the other “32” showed up in bold relief. Col. Livingston and Mr. Simpson talked awhile, then the Colonel and the reporter withdraw, leaving the congress man-elect from Kansas to sweet dreams of the days when he followed tbe plow, with nothing but a pair of brogans to encumber his feet. Another discovery was made by tbe reporter. Tho alllancomen want and demand vital changes In the government, but they are satisfied to stick to the drinks of our daddies—good old demo cratic drinks. Soon after they arrived Monday night they gave an order. This Is what It was: Fur Gen. Weaver, a whiskey straight; for Col. Livingston, a mint julep; for Stato Lecturer Copeland, a long toddy; for Mr. C. C. Post, the only Georgian at the Cincinnati third party meeting, a toddy. Mr. Simpson displayed his democracy while here by indulging in the Kentucky bovorage—straight old bourbon. Now that It has been Discovered that these gentlemen woar socks and know what is best to drink, let tho people and the press get up “something better” than tho no sock business on the Hon Jeremiah Simpson of Kansas. FROM HIS NEW YORK TRIP WHERE HE ADDRESSED Tammany's Braves and Made Friends and Votes for Hlmsslt—Saw General Cook— Abont tho Presidential Situation—His Own Race for Speaker. Hon. Charles F. Crisp: the speaker of the next bouse of representatives is back from New York, where he made the leading apetcli at Tammany’s Vourth of July celebration. Ho arrived at 1 :00 o’clock yesterday and taking a hack went directly to his home. He has been gone over two wicks and Is glad to get back to Ameri- ctis again. When ho alighted from the train Judgo Crisp was covered with dust. He reported It very hot and dusty riding. Dining his stay In Now York Judge Crisp circulated among the people con siderably. Ills speech before the Tam many braves was pronounced one of tho best efforts ever tieard by that organiza tion. It put Crisp speakership stock way up above par and undoubtedly made votes for tlio greatest democrat of them all—Charles F. Crisp of Georgia. It has been given out that Judge Crisp will certainly get tho vote of twcuty-ono of Now York's democratic congressman and, more than likely, of the entire dele gation. That will give him the balance of power, and when Georgia casta nine— and it may ho ten—votes for him, while the other southern, eastern nnd western democrats come up in a proportion almost as great there will be no doubt Ids choice. Conservative mon who are in a position to estimate say that ho will he chosen on tlio first ballot. On his way homo Judgo Crisp spent sovoral days in Washington. Ho reports everything fearfully dull tlioro and that all tho heads of departments are out of tho city. He also made a short stay in Atlanta, where ho went to see General Phil Cook, who was so badly hurt last week by being run over by a hack. Ho says that Oon. Cook Is painfully and se riously hurt, hut that lio is in nothing like a dangerous condition. lie takes tho affalrwftb that deliberate coolness which has always characterized him and says that lie will soon bo himself again. Tho probabilities are, however, that tho old war horse will bo a cripple the balanco of liis days. While in Atlanta Judge Crisp was taken in charge by C'apt. Evan P. How ell of the Constitution, who invariably introduced him ns “the next sponkorof the national house of representatives.” 8pe.aklng.of Tammany’s great celebra tion of Independence's Blrthdny, Judge Crisp said: ‘•There was an Immense crowd there, nnd much enthusiasm was manifested. Tammany is the best and most compact political organization in the oountry, and wields a power In polities.” When asked about the presidential sit uation, tho next speaker replied: As regards New York, that Is hard to say. Cleveland has many friends there, and Gov. Hill Is undoubtedly very strong. He Is a model man, they say, and I have been told that he neither drinks, smokes, chews, or has any vices at all. As between he and Cleveland he would carry Now York. It may be bet ter, though, for some outside man, Gor man or some strong man from the west, to be nominated than for either Cleve land or Hill. As regards the country at large, I believe any good democrat, who is In touch with the party in all matters, could and would be elected president.'” ‘What about your chances for the- speakership ?” he was asked. Judge Crisp smiled and replied: “Well, I think they are good, If I can only hold my ground. I have more votes than any other single candidate, bat whether I will have as many as all the candidates or not, I can't say.” Judge Crisp Is ve-y hopeful ofbia election, and la. making the race in the most frieadly manner. He refer* to bla opponents In the kindest terms possible, and spoke of Benton McMIUin as ‘{Mae.” Judge Crisp expects to hear of Camp bell’s nomination to Ohio and subse quently of his election. If that proves the case, as he la confident it will, Campbell will no doubt be considerably discussed by those who are to name a presidential candidate for the democrats, so Judgo Crisp thinks. Heard With Regret. The doath of Judgo D. A. Vason of Albany was heard of by his many Ameri- j sided with graco and dignity, and sue- Presided Gracefully. During the sossion of Wilcox county court last week, Col. E. H. Cutts of Americus presidod in a case in which Judge Brown was disqualified and ac quitted himself with credit. He pre- cus friends with deep regret. He was, before bis health was impaired, one of Georgia’s best lawyers and leading men, and was widely known throughout the stato. His placo will be hard to fill. Hurt While Flay lux Dali. Mr. James B. Wheeler, who went to Atlanta to attend Moore’s Business Col lege, arrived at home last night to lay up until one of bis arms which is broken can mend. Hip arm was hurt while he wasplaying baseball. tained his reputation for legal ncumen. Abbeville Times. Tliauluuf tho Alliance. The committee of arrangements for the alliance rally of.the 14th, desire to tender their thanks to . the mayor and council, to tbe choir and -to all their friends who contributed 'materially to the success of tbe occasion. 1.