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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