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fly Goods, Notions,
CLOTHING
IE0RGE D. WHEATLEY’S
X
kMERICUS times-reco
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1891.
NUMBER 18
The Greatest Midsummer Sale
TI1K XI\E JUDGES
HXCLISIVKUY FOR L %I> 1 FS.
A PETITION SENT
II FI.I.O, I’OsTOFFICK !
iTHE BONE OF POLITICAL CONTEN-
j TION IN KANSAS.
Till*
Grandest Reduction in Prices
vr kuo'.vu iu the history of our tra;!e,
(Monday) morning
eommeuces to-morrow
Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.
Veare determined to make a CLEAN SWEEP
OF ALL KINDS OF SUMMER GOODS,
nd in order to do this, YOUR PRICE will be
OUR PRICE for anything you may want of
us this week.
WE ABE GOING TO
GIVE AWAY
tooethei: with ali. ouk
alicoes, Ginghams Muslins. Challies.
, ANI) OTIiKli
SUMMER.DRESS GOODS AT COST
nd LESS THAN COST if necessary, to
CLEAR OUT.
ices will be cut “FINE AS FROGS’ HAIR."
If you don’t believe this, OTHERS WILL, so
just come and see the crowd this week at
!bo. D. wneailey’s.
"t allow will not last Ions* at such prices, so com*'
will be disappointed.
early or you
#WLOOK! 5c
This is the Biggest
FIVE CENT
Bargain Ever You Saw.
5c
ITOHAM CURTAIN LACE. We “Moopea" some
■» in tin* purchase of u big lot of Nottingham Lace lor cnr-
'• M *• lmve been askiu-r from 20 to 40c P‘*r yard, but the igoods
with us louder than we like, so hi order to move them right
‘L i it the same tfme give von an A No. 1 BARGAIN we part with the
•*- * »t at ^ '
5o PtR YARD THIS WEEK.
' l ' ; 1 iiuiot mention here any SPECIAL PI!ICES on everythin^'
•i'v 11 otltr, but remember iu readinir the forenoinp, that PRO
POXATE and SWEEPING REDUCTION IN PRICES will
" order of this week in every department of our store.
Eni-
OUR M'OCK (IF
uidkercliiefs. Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces,
broideries, Corsets and Gloves
•mirautee the best in the city, and our prices beyond the reach of
competition.
The Coining Flection of Nine DUtrl't
•Indgex in the State of Kadsha—Claim*
Made by People** Party Politician*—Detn
Dcrat* and Kepuhlicau* .loining
Tteka, Aug. l:). —Taero are nine
difstric't judges to be elected in Kansas
this fall, and the P#*upl*-’s party poli
tician* claim that in ail of them the
Democrats and Rejmldicans will, unite
on i candidate to lieat the People’s
party. In Geary county the Demo*
crats and Republican* will unite on a
county ticket, and from one end of the
state to the other the tight now apj>ears
to Ik* against the new party. W. F.
Rightmire. candidate for chief justice
last fall, who !ias been carefully watch
ing the ju iicial contests, stated that
steps had already lieen taken by the
Democrats and Republicans to combine
on judicial candidates. The situation
in the eighth district has already been
explained. Judge M. 13. Nicholson, the
incumbent, joined the Alliance about
six months ago and was renominated by
the People’s party. He ran for chief
justice on the Democrat c ticket, but
was not in sympathy with his party
on the prohibition question. The Dem
ocrats are indiguaut on account of his
flop and have joined hands with the
Republicans.
citizens’ convention lias already
been called to meet at Junction City,
and Judge James Humphrey, ex-rail-
ro;#l commissioner, will be tin* fusion
inndidata. Iu the twenty-fifth district
Democrats and Republicans have called
an "anti-socialist convention*’ to nonii-
? a candidate against Judge Frank
Duster, who has charged that the rights
of the user are paramount to those of
the owner. W. S. Bashore, oi King-
man. has been nominated by the Peo
ple's party in the twenty-eighth district,
1 the Democrats and Republicans
will unite on the Republican candidate
from Pratt county. Mr. Rightmire de
clare* that committees representing the
Democratic and Republican parties are
f attempting to effect a combination
in the twenty-eighth district to defeat
Shinn, the People’s party nominee.
'‘The effects of these combinations,”
aid Rightmire. "will be to strengthen
the 1’copies party in the state. It
shows < n tie* fact* 11 it t!i«* right i* be-
reen tin- jieople and their \voiild-l>e
>sse* and that til** people will win.”
Republicans and Democrats contend
that the good name and »ivdir of the
i* are at stake, and tha’ it would lx*
u*k ey for Kansas in the east if
men were elected to the lu nch who
ihl use their power arbitrarily
against '*;«-teni capitalists who loan
money in Kansas.
LIKE A DELUGE.
(lentlenten Will Please Not Hei
Feminine Calamity.
“Excuse me a moment,” said a very
bright and pretty young woman the oth
er afternoon during a stroll aloi ' one of
our streets with a Times reporter, and
she vanished forthwith into tl e d«»or of
a ladies’ hair-dressing estaolisbment.
She was out again in a moment, how
ever, and natural curiosity prompted
the inquiry: “What did you rush in
there so suddenly for’.'” “Well, if you
must ask, I went in to pull up my stock
ing. It came unfastened.”
“Usual occurrence?”
“Not very frequent, but it will happen
sometimes, and it is a most embarrass
ing, not to say uncomfortable, plight for
a girl to he in when she is on the street.
There are so few places, you sec, where
she can go and he secure from the jo y
ing eyes of men. it’s a wonder my ac
cident hapjiened right where it did, for I
should have been miserable company for
you till I could have repaired the damage,
and should have hated you and every
man in sight most acutely all the time.
It’s all right to say one might stej> into
a stairway entrance or something. Some
man would come upon you as sure as
you did. Why, I had the awfulest time
one day down in a certain building
imaginable. I’d been to an otlice full
of men on some business, and just as I
came out into ♦lie hall my garter
fastening .slipped, and there 1 was.
Silk hose have a tendency to
enlarge about as great as a rubber
band. Well, 1 sauntered around that
floor for a quarter of an hour, looking
for some secluded nook, but every time
I’d sj»y a jirospective place a door would
open and some spying man pop out. I
was getting desperate, when I saw a
door slightly ajar, and glancing in no
ticed that the office was empty. I stoj>-
ped hurriedly inside, closed the door,
and not thinking of the window pulled
the stocking taut and fastened it se
curely. When 1 had finished I hap
pened to look over my shoulder, and
there, to my horror, were three good-
for-nothing, low-down, imjmdent clerks
hanging out their window and laughing
like so many gibbering idiots. 1 could
have killed them.
“It’s all right for you men,” contin
ued the fair victim of the woes of lier
sex’s attire. “If a button breaks or
anything hapjicns to your clothes you’ve
alw.ijs a saloon door into which you can
dive for repairs and subsequent conso
lation.”
TO THEEMPEROR ASKING THAT THE
DUTIES ON CORN
!e Hti»peu<le<l in Germany for Three
Month*—Herr Miguel, the MlnUter of
Finance, Petition* the Oermnn Fraperor
—•’Old Hutch” a Winner.
Berlin, Aug. 19.—Herr Miguel, the
minister of finance, has sent a petition
direct to the enq>eror asking the latter
to susjKMul duties on corn for three
months. Herr Miguel has lx*en com*
lulled to take the steji according to his
friends by reason of the fact that Chan
cellor Cajirioi has declined to enter into
any further discussion of question of
the susjieitding of the duties on corn at
the cabinet meetings. The differences
between Von Cnprivi and Herr Miguel,
the man who is supposed to lie the em
peror’s favorite, seeui to increase day
by day, and have now undoubtedly
reached such an acute stage that the
end, it would seem, must be the fall of
one or the other of them.
“Old Hu till” Fotneii Again.
New York, Aug. 19. —The Advertiser
says among th • men who profited by
the present rise in wheat is Benjamin
Hutchinson, more gener illy known as
“Old Hutch.” He ha* been a hull for
some time. If rumor is to be believed
his profits during the past week are over
$00,000.
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES
Of the Central Kaitroad Corning to
Headquarter* iu Atlanta
Augusta, Aug. 19.—It is rumored on
good authority that E. F. Carlton, pas
senger agent of the Central road in
Savannah, will lie deposed: that Freight
and Passenger Agent B. G. Craig’s*
ffice in Augusta will be abolished Sept.
1. and that Craig will be transferred t<
Columbus. It is also rumored that L
L. McClesky of Atlanta, will also lost
his position. Carlton’s successor will
from the Georgia Pacific. Orders
have been received here that all monies
shall be remitted to John W. Hall,
treanurer, Atlanta, and general offices
will Ik* established in that city on July
2*3. Sleeping cars left this place to
transport employes and officers with
families from Washington to Atlanta.
A SAD ACCIDENT,
A Tidal IV ji
purloin Coin Strik*
Memphis ISank*.
Mumimiis, Aug. 19.—A tidal wave of
counterfeit • ilver dollars seems t
truck the city. Everyone of the six-
een ' .-inks of Memphis, is, and has
beeu for the past two weeks, receiving
purioii-coin of th.* denomination men
tioned in money, offered on dejiosit,
and. although the matter has been kej»t
very quiet, and United States Marshal
n has lieen hard at work on the
the influx continues. The coin
bears the dale of 1889, the stars are
lull-pointed and tiie milling is dull, but
th**y readily p;
k**r>
-'■keepers will liml it to their interest to inspect our line of
ble linens, doylies, napkins, towels
Before buying’ elsewhere.
-■V WORD ABOUT
(•thing - and - Gents' - Fixings.
tw.iny the VERY FINEST ASSORTMENT TDfEE
FOUND, nu.l OUR PRICES always have been simply
^APPROACHABLE from the standpoint of compe
tition.
determination to reduce stock APPLIES WITH FORCE
u ;‘ "ill refuse NO REASONABLE OFFER for anything
- 'V need in our line.
Cannot you save somethin'? by trading
with
£o. D. Wheatley
Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave.,
AMERXCrrS. GEORGIA.
the street cars, ba-
1 butchers, and areonlv detected
liank*. The source of rhi* del-
ge of ’’queer” coin is not definitely
nown. For some time pn-t lw<» mod-
Mly attired women have been making
trilling jmrdtHses daily at dttlerent
c*.. and after paving for them iu sil-
have a.-ked that the shojikeejier give
them bills for$l<>or *15 to relieve them
•ght of their pockets. In thi*
manner the money finally reaches the
Tin* banks refused to give the
of the bud coin on hand, hence
iio figures can be given.
CAUSED HIS RUIN.
Stirrunib*
A Thriving Y
to Drink I’pon Sucre**.
Youngstown, O., Aug. 19. —There
was a sensation here when it was ascer
tained that Captain C. M. Reilly, a
member of the board of city commis
sioners, had not attended any sessions
of the lioard for four days, his absence
lieingdueto a protracted spree. Captain
Reilly is one of tin* meml**rs of the
board appointed by Judge Wilson. Be
fore his upjioititment lie drank occasion
ally to excess, .and under his express
promise that he would reform, and if
lie did not. would resign, lie was pluced
upon the hoard. Prosperity during the
past year st ems to have contributed to
his downfall. He is a holder of a large
block of stock m the Ohio Bonanza
Mining company, which, during the
ruck a rich
jiast week struck a rich lead of silver
and lead ore near Almy, Colo., and
since then has been absent from the
commissioners’ office.
IteAUltlng In the Death of
Carelessness the Cause.
Friday last about 0:30
S. A. M road, at the foot of Church
street, a colored boy met his death by
his own carelessness.
At this jxrint of the road, where tho
engines are generally switched from
track to track, it has been the practice
of a number of colored hoys to amuse
themselves jumping on the tender of the
engines, and otherwise doing foolish and
dangerous acts about the tracks. It has
been a surprise to many that.something
serious has not hapjiened ere this by
such reckless playing.
it seems that this game was going on
last night, as usual, when the victim,
who had climbed on the tender of a
moving engine, was thrown to the
ground, and crushed under its wheels.
Death was almost instantaneous.
particulars of the deceased could
Street Duel in Atigu*ta.
Augusta, Ga. f Aug. 19.—A street
duel occur re 1 here between E. L. Fos
ter of Augusta, and a Mr. Brooks of,
McCormffck. -The former said Brooks
insulted a cvmph* of ladies, who report
ed it to Foster, who confronted Brooks
| with the la-lie* who recognized him as
i the insulter. Foster broke lanterns over
i Brooks’s head, who pulled his pistol and
| commenced firing. Foster also pulled
Colored Fad— his pistol and fired five shots to Brook*’s
four. Brocks was shot in the arm, but
Foster was unhurt. Foster was urrest-
clock, on the ed hut released on bond,
He Wants to Fight.
New York, Aug. 19.-—A special dis
patch to The Police Gazette from Den
ver says the backer of Dan Daly of that
city has issued a challenge in behAlf of
Daly for a tight with George Dixon
(colored) of Boston for $-V>00 a side and
the feather weight chaiujiionsbip of th
world.
Ilow'ii T^J#?—Only Fifteen Mile*
I a Pay Iteliind Time.
What’s tho matter with the mail ser
vice?
Is the representative of Uncle Sam at
this point overcome by the boat or by—
the Water?
Listen to this growl, Mr. Mailcarrier:
lUcSoro, (iH., Amgimt l«i —The Times-Re-
cokdeki I have been getting u paper that
was a day old for more than a week. If you
can't *S»nd your piper dally, please do not
send It ill all. Yours. dl«<ii*.ted,
J. A. Williams.
that is what might he called
No
tough. Here is a citizen of the thriving
boro of DeSoto, only fifteen miles away,
shut out from tho refulgent light and
brilliant scintillations of The Times-
Rkcorpkr for twenty-four hours after
schedule time. No wonder he is dis
gusted. To think of a cash subscriber
for Tujc Timks-Kecouper being 'de
prived of Ids mental pabulum for an
entire day i* irritating beyond
exjiression. A man might pos
sibly put up with his wife oi
lier relatives missing several trains; but
his newspaper, never.
The Times-Bk( order never loses its
temj»er— that is, hardly ever—but it is
in order to call the attention of our es
teemed postmaster to the little fairy
story of the wicked boy up a tree and
the good farmer. It is well-known how
that wicked boy would not “take a
Irop” on himself by a tuft-of-grass per
suasion, and how he was forced to
“tumble” at last when the pious farmer
resorted to the weightier argument of
stones. This is only tlie tuft-of-grass
that is flung to-day. Will our wicked
ail boy come down? or shall—but lie’ll
come down.
5K.MU.moxs
i tlie Sumter County Alliance A*kitiK
for the **»hv l.nw.
CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES,
i<l Foreign and of General
Interest.
Washington, Gu., hits becu visited by
a disastrous coufiagration.
Anti-Harri>on Republicans thteateu
to start a new paper at ludiauapujl#.
There will be a local optiuirtdection
at .Staunton, Va., next Saturday, Aug.
The Old Fellows of Georgia are liold-
Wliercas, in view of the low price of
agricultural products and the financial
embarrassment of farmers generally,
coupled with the seeming determina
tion of cajiitalists to further depress
prico3, and feeling that our homes are
thereby endangered,
•solved, That we, the Sumter County
Alliance, jietiticn the legislature now in
session, to enact a stay law against the
forced payment of obligations for' the
term of twelve months, believing that
thereby we will be < nahled to procure
ich juices for ..m* products as to enable
us to honorably discharge our obliga
tions.
4e—- | D. C. W Brookiialter, Pres.
J. s. Wilson, Sec’y.
Tho above is quoted from our esteem
ed contemporary, tin* Southern Alliance
Farmer of the 18th Inst.
Kditors Hairy and Larry are sadly off.
There are no two such personages in
Sumter county as “D.C. W. Brookhalter,
’res.,” and “J. S. Wilson, Soc.”
This is not showing a proper appre
ciation of the officers of Sumter county’s
County Alliance.*} Whilst we have noth
ing to do with the policy of tho Alliance,
except that interest all true and tried
democrats should see! as far as it con
cerns mattersnf’puliic policy,.-we re
spectfully call the attention of our con
temporary to the fact that, “D. C W. *
brookhalter is not president” of the
“&umter County Alliance,” nor is “J. S.
Wilson” “secretary.”
This is an unintentional reflection
upon the able, officers of the Sumter
County Alliance.
be gleaned, further than that liis name j the grand encampment at Colnm
was Crowder, and that his parents were i lls *
ith.
in the country at work.
This ought to he a w arning to jiarents
to keej» their boys away from such a
foolish and dangerous amusement as
playing around a moving engine.
A “ Spirit *' Under u lied.
Onset Bay, Mass , Ang. 19.—A for
mal written notice was served upon
Mrs. Etta Roberts, of Rochester, N. Y„
by the Onset Bay association, request
ing that she leave the grounds of the
association. Mrs. Roberta gave a seance
in her cottage to a party that included
Mrs. Dr. Bland, of Washington, D. C.;
M. B. Little, Glens Falls, N. Y.; Mrs.
Littlcwood and Mrs. F. B. Baker, of
Topeka, Kan. Some of the tallies be
coming skeptical as to some parts of the
seance, made an examination and fonnd
Miss Annie West, of Topeka, Kan., who
bad been posing as a spirit, secreted un
der a bed. Other evidences of fraud
were found nnd a report made to the
iuiSBUiUsiHHaaiiiSHa^HB
He Make* I’eople Smile.
The Kev. bam Jones, whoso sjuritual
entertainments are as good as a circus,
has been sojourning on Staten Island
and making things lively.
Tlie people who go to hear him, laugh
as heartily as other people who go to
tlie theatre and follow the antics of the
funny man. But in the one case it is
secular, and therefore all wrong; in the
other it is supposed to he religious, nnd
therefore all right.
lie once in a while, though, tells a
homely truth in a forcible way. For in
stance, he said recently:
A man isn’t considered much of a
sinner in this country if lie pays his hills
and wean good clothes. That’s a fact,
A man's money and his clothes will take
him anywhere, when his character won’t
take him ten feet.
The A. P. a L. Compress Sold.
Tiik TiHES-RKCoiriiKit is reliably in
formed that the A. F. A L. compress,
formerly owned by Coles, Simpkins A
Company, has been sold by Messn.
Goodyear * Kay of Brunswick, the
present owners of the stock, to a local
Americus company composed of the col-
ton buyers of this city. The price paid
was something orer (25,000. The prop
erty is considered an excellent invest
ment. It is advantageously situated on
the 8. A. If. railroad. The gentlemen
interested in the purchase are to bo
There has been a call issued for a con
ference of all citizens in tlie state of
Maine, who believe in the Cincinnati
platform, to meet at A iburn on Sept. 1.
A Viena special says that a cloud-
l unit (jccurred at Kollmau, at midnight.
The water loosened ail avalanche. For
ty persons were drowned. The railway
was destroyed for many miles.
As a resnlt of a series of meetings
held in that vicinity recently, there
were uinetv-six persons hajitised at
Chalk Bltilf, in Dunklin couuty, Mo.
There were 4,000 people present.
The wheat cropof France is estimated
at 90,000,000 hectolitres, leaving a de
ficiency of 32,000,000 hectolitres. Ow
ing to this fact the customs surtax on
wheat will be expended for one year.
John Ulmer, Jr., a saloon keeper at
Vincennes, Ind., has died, and the in
genuity of the undertakers has been
taxed to secure a coffin large enough to
hold his remains, weighing 305 pounds.
As M. Lauer was leaving a meeting
at the Cirque river in Paris, a revolver
was fired at him by a bystander, an
anarchist. Tlie charge missed M. Lauer,
but grazed a coachman standing near.
The anarchist was arrested.
Tlie newspaper fight in North Caro
lina against Colonel L. L. Polk is be
coming very warm. One pajier in Ral
eigh says that Polk was only a lieuten
ant in the Confederate army, and that
on one occasion he ran from the eneinv.
A London dispatch says: The
wrought-iron nail men of the Worces
ter and Staffordshire district have struck
against a proposed reduction of 10 per
cent, iu wages. The strike affects not
lees than 8,000 and eventually may af
fect other trades.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says that
the ministry of finance announces that
the yield of rye ia estimated at 711,000,-
Tho venerable and beloved mother of
C'apt. P. C. Clegg died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Kleckl**y, near Ogle
thorpe, Tuesday uiglit.
Mrs. Clegg Imd lived to the iij>e age of
eighty-three. She had passed on life’s
highway the smooth and rugged places,
aud her sunny presence always brought
hapj>iness to the home and those whose
privilege it was to know her. While
approaching the golden gates she seem
ed - > realize their brightness and wished
for all to meet her in the spirit land.
C’apt. Clegg hap the sympathy of
many friends in his bereavement.
The G'ftrfe Not Murder.
The coroner’s jury in the commitment
trial of the guards charged with causing
the death of one George Kovenson, sent
from Early county, and employed by
the brick company in Wilcox county,
decided that tlie liegro came to his death
from uuknown causes, and the commit
ment justice released the guards on
bond.
If the negro came to hi.* death from
the whipping .administered by the
guards, which aj>pears extremely doubt
ful, the managers of the company are by
no means responsible for the act.
000 poods, but that owing to the present
sujiplies being nearly exhausted. 994,-
009,000 poods will be required to supply
To Take the Convict* Back.
Nashville, August 18.—The sub*
lessees of the prisoners now at Briceville
to-day made application to the board of
prison inspectors to have the order for
the removal Qf the convicts from Brice
ville rescinded.
The board, however, refused to modify
order, and ' he attteTJ