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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. VOLUME 1 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1891. NUMBER 23 .VbL 1801. WINTER 1801. WHITE’S FAILURE. Annual Announcement. THE ARRIVAL OF GEO. D. WHEATLEYS Mammoth New Fall and Winter Stock of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Carnots, Shoos, HATS, ETC. The time has come for a ’‘matter of fact” talk upon a matter of fact subject. You buyers of fall and winter goods are about to sup ply your needs with suitable selections for the comiog season’s re quirements. The idea uppermost in the minds ot all, no doubt is to procure something good and serviceable at the Very Lowest Price and with all of you it comes down to a question of The Right Place to Go. You have no difficulty in deciding that you want to Buy Goo s Chh ap—no indeed ! But what firm will do the best tor its customers in that direction ? That’s the question, isn’t it ? WELL NTOW, WE WILL!! Why not say it when we have the goods and nnke the prices that will prove the statement every time ? We realize the fact that ’‘times aie hard and money scarce,” but $0?%™ t ° h f e *mi of we have expended the greatest effort, in the purchase of our stock, to procure Everything at the VERY LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE. Our spacious store is filled to overflowing with the most complete and elegant line of Fall and Winter Styles ever shown in this locality, and from one end to the other, from top to bottom, it all the samc-r- just the Best Money Buys, just the Newest of New Styles. EvrV- tiiing bought at figures that make it not fos ; ible, but EASY xo sell at the Lowest of Low Prices. -■ tr 4,-J. We call especial aMeution this season to our , Black and Colored Silks, Dress Goods and Trimmings. Wo have really outdone ourselves in the effort to procure the ’very newest ideas, the very, latest Novelties of the season. Our stock fairly teems With beautiful and stylish selections, many of which are positively not to be found elsewhere. You will find our assortment of BLACK DRESS GOODS AND MOURNING EFFECTS not only contains the handsomest and most elegant Materials to be found, but a greater abundance of Practical Selections—goods desirable in every respect. . We have secured the sole agency here for the sale of the celebrated P. & P. Brand of Kid Gloves, Which we show in every desirable style and color. We guarantee these gloves, from 75c per pair upward, and will gladly refund your money, or another pair of gloves for every pair, found after trial to bo imperfect. Carpets! Carpets! and Rug's!! We have fitted up an excellent and spacious carpet department, where we are now exhibiting a mag nificent line of Cotton cnaln. Tapestry. Extra Super. Velvet;. 8-piy ingrain, Body Brussels. Chain Mattings etc. Wo have the stock that meets the expectation and gratifies the taste of our customers. You Want a dvnrET' This is Youn Chance! Our facilities render this feature of our business mu- tually pleasant to us and our customers alike : You simply call, examine our great assortment, and select .vour carpet. Wo measure your room, make your carpet, and put it down on your floor, Al OUR J!*A- UENSE, We are able to sell you CHEAP and WE DO. And now are you ready to take us at our word sufficiently to come and see that our goods and prices iscnted. We ask no ono to buy because we claim to give such bargains in quality and THE LIABILITIES WILL AMOUNT TO OVER A MILLION. S. V. Whit© A Co.’* Failure Still the Topic of Convereation la New York City—It It Reported That CapitalUtt Have Offered to Come to the Firm’s Hem tie. New Yobk, sept, 23.—The failure of S. V. White & Co. continues to be the principal theme cf talk in down town circles. One cf tile Wall street news agencies sent the following : "White still declines to unike public any estimate of bis liabilities. Other members of Ins firm said no statement conld be made until the result of the transactions during the day were made known. ” The same authority added t "The amount of gram bought by the clique for September and October delivary was very large. ” - The actual arrivals of corn in New York the past si* weeks have been heavy, and the supposed agents of the clique engaged vessel room Monday for 600,000 bushels. A part of the corn shipped is understood to have gone abroad, while a large aditional amount wns placed with a grain house here, and we are told, margined down to very low figures. Members of this house said they should be glad to take com at the price wbioh'it stood on their books. The losses on the corn deal are esti mated all the way from $1,000.000 to |2.000,000 and add another to the illus trations already afforded of the great danger there is in attempting to corner any of the great food products. ” Some friends of S. V. White &Co., sre confident that firm will be able to resume business in the near future. This belief was based on the rumor that three or (our prominent capitalists and operators had conditionally agreed to advance funds sufficient to help over the firm's difficulties. Flails Her Lover In the Pen. Lincoln, Neb.. Sept. '23.—As Miss Nichoils of Buffalo wns visiting the penitentiury in company with a relative, ar ? really as represented. . , .- Price. We only "sav what we sav” iu order that you may come. Will —- ' ■ J -Ll.t-.Ll S.n.!s< Ullll Wlion you am once in our store, we T proceed to proveto your entire satisfaction, bargains with us do exist, and that we give them. Tl »ere will be pleasure, satisfaction and economy iu buying your fall and winter goods of GEMS D. Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Furnishing Gooods, Carpets, Shoes, Hats, etc. Cor. Lamar St. ancl Cotton Ave., AMERICUS, GA. , >'■ The old reliable Mr. Honry S. Davis, the Veteran Dry Goods Salesman, who for «o many year* has served you 'wilfully In the pan, I. sUIlwtth us-fver ready with a cordial ^ oome forall our h >» J. Menser*. Jno. Schivor. Julius Stanfield, Jixn Guerryt Will Dudley, Tim Sillen and Sam WarUck compose . corps Of courteous and obliging saleimen, while the handsome faoo of Mr. Jno. P. Cato, our efficient and popular Jl| k.keeper, beams with pleasure for the advent of his friends. scream on catching sight of one of the convicts at work inrtlie harness shop. "Why. Molliei” lieTtjacnlated. She was about to mention his name in the same exclamatory manner, when lie suddenly said : " Mollie, don’t mention my name or yen will betray my identi ty." The fellow is known as Frank Carroll nnd is doing time for forgery. It has been leumed that he was engaged to marry Miss Nichols, nnd came west to make his fortune with the above re sults. The yonng lady is prostrated. - 1(drafted, l»ut >«it Free Menard, Ills.. S-pf. 23. — Deputy United .Stales Marshal Ed Watt loft here for Springfield, Ills., having in charge Ed Howell, released from the southern Illinois penitentiary after serv ing three years for breaking into the Chester post office. By a recent decision of the United States district court How ell was forced to remain in prison thirty days after the expirhtiou of his sen tence, which occurred on the 18tli nit. Before he can be a free man he must be formally discharged from custody by the United States court at Springfield. Howell i» very indignant over his de tention nnd threatens tomake somebody pay damages. A Wealthy Widow Ili.appciirs. Chicago, Sept. 23.—Mrs. Dell Rnth bun, a wealthy widow residing in Buf falo, mysteriously disappeared from the home of Dr. William H. Buck of Hyde park. Her friends say she borrowed trouble, and they fear that in n fit of temporary insanity she has taken her life. She is the widow of C. H. Kntli- bim, who was a wealthy contractor mid one of the foremost citizens of Buffalo. Ex-President Cleveland wns a warm personal friend of Mr. R itlibnn, and tile widow made many visits to the white house during the last Democratic ad ministration. CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES. rul Duuie,tie and Foreign and or (■ Interest. Mrs. P. N. Gorse. Cnarieiton, 3. C. committed suicide by hanging. At the fight before the Olympic clnb ( in New Orleans, Cal .McCarthy knocked, out Tommy Warren iu the twenty-first 1 round. A THAT SETTLES IT. BLAINE WILL ACCEPT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES 1 ftffo Herald’* Special From Wa*h- £llt i ^ The Plained Knight Refuae* to ~' r < vtldentJal Honor*—He Declares Dalton, the American champirp 1 For HanomlnAlon. swimmtr, gave up his idea of swimiih the English chunnel, owing to weather. . s l>r Warm Wmtlicr Prayer* Answered. Monmouth, Ills., Sept. 23. — Two weeks ago the furmers of Warren coun ty were praying for warm an.l dry weather to save their corn crop. Their petitions were more than granted. A big crop of com was assured, but the situation is alarming. The oldest resi dents never exiierieuced hotter weather In September. Vegctution is literally burned un. The farmers are compelled to feed tneir stock as in winter, Hnd many are hauling water, as wells ami streams are dry. Alarmed at Ilry Weather. NaNDaUA, Ills.. Sept. 23.—The con tinued dry werther is becoming quite alarming in tbi. -t!~n. It has been over a month sin of nny conse quence has fal pastures are completely hnrned uf> ninny-yvel'.c huve given out. The fa* * gre haul ing water and feeding t. 'nL't'k. The dust in tile public highwfUr a ankle de#P - -TH Bogins 1‘ralrto Fire. u Oaks, N. D., Sept. 23.—A do, d«"ous prairie fire started east of this 'ace Monday. The damage to shocked /I stacked wheat is very heavy. The area covered hv the fire amounts totlicnsnnd* of acres. The fire is still burning. One man was fatally burned. Ilugmii St 11 Live.. New York, Sept. 23.—A special cable to the Herald from Suit Salvador says the repcr.» uncut tile ussus&.uatiou ot President Bogrun, Of Honduras, are utterly tale*. Hon. Edward Mayes, chatted 0 the state university, at Oxfon has resigned, and will pracci' ’ ‘A'ii Jackson, the firm being iti X Har- Frank Clorgue. president of the bank of Maine, of Bangor, Me,,, and his brother, E. V. Clorgne, of Ntw’York, organized the Mobile Trust company, with tAUO.OOO car'l&l, totf a trust ami general backin',, business ut Mobile, Ala. A Sandusky. O., special says: A case of hydrophobia has developed here. Joseph Walker, a butcher, was bitten a week ago,oand now has a well defined case of vkbies. He is very violent and is kept tied hand and foot to prevent himself and the attendants. Walker is 80 years old and has a wife uud two children. Among the officers elected for tile en suing year by the pomologicHl conven tion, were the following: Prosper J. Berckmans, Georgia president; super intendents for several states, J. 8. New man, of Alabama: D. W. Adams, of Florida; Samuel Hope, of Georgia; J. V. Lindley, of North Carolina; Henry Lyman, of Virginia. A Staunton, Vu., special says : Five negro men were jailed here, charged with killing James F. Lotts and seri- tusly wounding Henry Weeks, both " liite, in a row Saturday night at Mount Carmel church, eighteen miles south of Staunton. Lotts was shot through the body and Weeks was club- ed over the head. The evidence shows that the white men were in funlt in the origin of the affair. Governor Buchanan of Tennessee, commuted to imprisonment for life tin punishment of Andrew Jackson, color ed, who had been sentenced to hang, for killing a man named Myrick, iu Shelby county, in 1889. An appeal be ing taken, the supreme court, hwt May, confirmed the decision, fixing the date of execution for July 80. The governor granted a reprieve until September 25, nnd decided on the commutation. At Milville, N. J., tlio 500 hoys em ployed at the glass works of Whitnll, Tatum & Co., who struck on Friday last on account of the employment of n number of Hebrew hoys, became riot ous and drove all the Hebrews in the place, about 100 in number, from tile town. Many of them were severely beaten nnd maltreated by the strikers. The glass works have been shut down pending n settlement of the difficulty, and 8.003 men are idle. The third performance"Lohen grin ” was given at Paris. Owing to a rain storm there were few soldiers or police present, and the gathering around the op ru house was smaller than on the other two occasions. Diving the first act a few were ejected for throw ing stench halls from the gallery. Af ter the occupants of one box had been expe.led, the performance was finished quietly mill was tnnch applauded. A score of brawlers were arrested. At St. Louis, Miss Mary Llncot, young Indy who lives at Clittou Heights, was shot and probably fatally wounded while being escorted home liy Frank Richnrt, a yonng man who has lately been paying her considerable attention. John Pniett, a former suitor of Miss Lincotl. was arrested, it being claimed that he was insanely jealonsof Rlcbart, having threatened to kill both him and the yonng ludy if he ever saw them to gether. Nothing else would indicate that he fired the shot. A Louisville, Ky., sjiecial says: Mary Stuckenberg, wife of a Inliorer here, is believed to be wlmt is known to the Catholic church ns a stigmnte. She has trances, during which appear upon her hands nnd feet and forehead marks like those where the Savior was pierced by nails and thorns at his crucifixion. These wounds bleed slowly nnd resemble simi lar marks uiion others of whom record has been kept by catholics, particularly those of Louise Mary Latean. A care ful examination of the case will be made ky the priests. In an interview with Udited States Minister Grunt in regard to the report ed intention of the Anstrinn govern ment to remove the prohibition placed u]>on American pork. Colonel Grant said: "I Imve great hopes that Ameri can perk products will soon be admitted to Austria-Hungary, but no definite ac tion can be taken until parliament meets, later in the seuson. There has been uracil official correspondence on the subject, resulting in a position which leads the United States to ex pect an early and satisfactory settle ment of the question. A Mobile, Ala, special says John W. Davison is a coal black negro, and the postmaster at Loron, Monroe county. He is in jail at Mobile on the charge of embezzling 2502 of postal money order funds. Davison has been postmaster at Lorun for the past eighteen months. His scheme was to issue postal orders, s -ll postal notes and put the money iu bis own pocket. The piistal inspector, W. C. b -ns, was detailed to investi gate tbs irregularities in the Lurau office. ivison is held to answer to the n«Bt ft, al grand jury in the sum of Je went to jail in default ot bail. , At Atlantic Highlands, N. J., tho committee having in charge the erec tion cf a monument to mark the spot where Henry Hudson first landed on Jersey soil prior to his discovery of the Hudson river, met and concluded to re ceive plans fur u monument to be erect ed and dedicated on Sept. 9 next, that being the day in 1009 that Hudson was driven ashore by a storm on the beach where now stands Atlantic Highlands. The monument is to be of great height, and placed on the highest point of the land overlooking Sandy Hook point, and will be the first thing seen by a foreigner os he approaches our shores. . .-Tucago, >t. 23.—The Herald’s ,pgcii(l-from sliington says James G. Blaine will Soon after the first of the New Ytatf notify his friends and admi rers who arc now urging his romination for the presidency, that under no cir cumstances conld he accept snch an honor, and that he is for the re-nomina tion and election of Bonjamin Harrison. JAMES O. BLAINE. The information is given on the au thority of a man whose name is nation al and whose position us n friend of Harrison and Blaine is unquestioned. The sitnation as here given has been known to the president for some time and Mr. Blaine postpones the notifica tion for good reasons. WORKING FOR MR8. MAYBRICK. Mrs. Ilia ns anti Other Frnnilitnnt Ladles Interested In Her Release. Boston, Sept. 23.—A Bar Harbor special says: Tho case of Mrs. May- brick, accused of poisoning her hus- band in England, and sentenced to servitude for life, was some time since bronglit to the attention of Mrs. Blaine, nnd she, togetli er with Secretary Blaine, have become ileepl y interested In it. Mrs. B aiue lias been for many months constantly in receipt of letters urging her to use her influence with the secre tary of the state and induce him to commnuicato with Lord Silisbnry in the matter. Mrs. Blaine has done and is doing nil in her power to do, while Secretary Blaine has given much timo nnd tliuugnt to the case. About two weeks ago tile petition for .Mrs. May- Brick’s pardon, signed by Mrs. A. Har rison and tile wives of the members of tile cabinets was sem to Minister Lin coln for presentation to the queen. llurrhsrd's Condition Unchanged. Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. S3. —'The con* ■J-dition of Dr. Burchard remains un- ■ change I. and is now critical. His son, l. B. Burchard, has arrived. CRISP AT COHDELE. Dooly Get* a Straight Tip From tho Next Speaker. ■ComiELK, September 23.—[Spoclal.]— Judge Cliarlss F. Crisp addressed an audience of Cordeleans at Shipp's opera house last night. To say that everyone wns pleased with tho speech would ex press too mildly the enthusiasm which the speech aroused. The opera house was well filled, and a fair sprinkling of ladles graced the oc- casion. In a neat speech Col. J. E. D. Shipp introduced Judge Crisp, and as that distinguished gentleman advanced to the front of tho stage ho was loudly applauded. His clear and forcible arguments against the infamous republican taws which oppress the people, especially the tariff nod the* financial policy, opened the eyes of his listeners and set them to thinking. ' Without n single oratorical flight, without once f getting nnduiy excited over his subject, his speech was beauti ful in its simplicity and contained the very essence of eloquence. The speech was listened to with- marked attention and his telling points were applauded frequently. This is his first appearanco publicly before the peopio of Cordele. They are oharmed with their congrensman, and more than one good democrat who heard him ex pressed the wish that sucli speeches could be made throughout the country. l!«re*fonl In Jail. Rome, Ga., September 23.—Deputy Sheriff Dallas Turner arrived last night at 10:30 from New York witli Walter 8. Beresford, who is charged with forging a bogus draft on Hamilton & Co., in this city several montha ago for *1,000. Immediately upon their arrival last night Beresford was carried to jail and consigned to a cell, where lie will await hia turn before the superior court, which will convene next week. Beresford is accompanied by bis wife, whose mother is sold to be worth' ♦7,000,000, and of eonrse, it is clearly seen where the Eaglieh lord will get hia money to settle hie difficulty.