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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891.
NUMfcER 28
iomething For The Boys
NOT WANTED.
jA.
JRAND NEW SAFETY BICYCLE
TO BE GIVEN AWAY!
T WONT COST YOU A PENNY
To stimulate the traffic in our Boys’ anc
hildren’s ClothiDg department, 1 will give,
r ith every Boy’s or Child’s suit, between the
cres of 4 and 18 years, sold by us from the
st ot October past, until
NEXT CHRISTMAS EVE,
vheii the fortunate one will be determined
TICKET, (non-transferable) entitling the
older to one chance at a
BRAND NEW SAFETY BICYCLE
0 BE GIVEN AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE OF
ANY CHARGE WHATEVER!
1 you have to do is to
BUY YOUR BOY’S SUIT FROM ME
nd get a ticket. These tickets will be
lumbered, and on Christmas Eve, numbers
orresponding with the tickets given away wil
te put in a box: then a committee of disinter-
ssted citizens will draw out one of the numbers,
ind ike holder of the ticket Jcontainiug that
lumber, gets the
Brand Mew Safety Bicycle Free of Charge!
Now a Word about our Famous Clothing Department.
THE NAME OK
Seorge D. Wheatley
has become known far and wide as the
synonym of
I CLOTHING AT FAIR PRICES!
tor stock was NEVER SO COMPLETE!
Our styles NEVER SO ELEGANT!
Our prices NEVER SO MODERATE!
And never so great OUR ANXIETY TO PLEASE!
Our assortment of Boys’ and Children’s
clothing begins with a neat \YA8H SATINET
SUIT (wool filling) any size from 4 to 18 years,
At ^1.25 Per Suit,
tod includes all the finer materials, such as
USSIMERES, WORSTEDS, TRICOTS,
>EHGE AND CHEVIOT Suits so desirable foi
soys who are hard on clothes.’
Wishing you all “good luck” in the drawing,
toys,
Your friend,
leorye D. Wheatley.
LOUISIANA STGAR MEN OBJECT TO
NEGROES AS INSPECTORS
Negroei Appointed by the Internal Rev
enue liureau as Weighers and Inspectors
Under the Sugar Bounty Law. Strong
Feeling Is Aroused.
New Orleans, Oft. 28.—A number
of negroes were appointed by Mr. Wim
berly of the internal reuenue bureau to
act as weighers and inspectors under
the new sugar bounty law. A very!
strong feeling lias l>een aroused among
the white planters against the negro in
spectors, particularly in Iberia, Ascen
sion and Terre Bonne parishes, on the
ground that their employment would
haye a demoralizing and injurious effect
upon the negro farmhands. A protest
has been prepared by planters declaring
against the employment of negroes for
this purpose and their willingness ex
pressed to accept any white man. There
were a number of white Republican
candidates for these offices, and the
planters suggest that these should be
appointed. The feeling against the ne
gro inspectors is so very strong in Iberia
that those who went there to perform
their duties have, at the suggestion of a
prominent Republican leader, left and
returned to New Orleans. The Cru
sade, a negro paper published here, de
nounces the action of the planters and
says that if the negro sugar inspectors
are not allowed to perform their duties
the negroes will appeal to congress for
a repeal of the sugar bounty.
A Cincinnati Sennit ion.
Cincinnati, Oct. 28. —One of the most
sensational defalcations that has been
known in this city for several years has
been brought to light. William L.
Munson, travelling passenger agent of
the Kentucky Central Branch of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, is
short in his accounts to the Fulton
Building Association of this city about
114,000. The exposure was made by his
own father, George Munson, general
passenger agent of the road. When he
discovered his son’s misdoings Mr. Mun-
and another son, to save the family
name, decided to expose Win. L. The
defaulter pleaded with them in vain,
but at the meeting of the association he
was charged with the appropriation of
the $14,000. The charge fell like a thun
der-clap ou the association. Munson
has been assistant secretary of the asso
ciation for ten years under his father,
ho has always been above suspicion.
RICHMOND TERMINAL AFFAIR.
The Floating Debts Have lleen Settled
and Wreckers are Disappointed.
New York. Oct. 28.—It has been an
nounced on Wall street that the floating
debts of the Richmond Terminal Com
pany had all been arranged, and that the
financial affairs of the company were
once more in good shtoe. President In
man said that he was not ready to talk
about the matter yet, but denied that he
ever - sked the assistance of Messrs.
Brice & Thomas.
Mr. Inman stated that the floating
debt of the Richmond terminal svstetn,
as siudi. was now only $120,000, for the
payment of which there are ample as
sets. The troublesome debrs have all
been those of the compone it roads of
the system. Those debts amounted to
$9,000,000. Mr. Thomas has provided
for the eleven hundred thousand dollar
debt of the East Tennessee : Speyer &
Co. will fund the debt of the Georgia
Central, and an unknown house will
look out for the debt of the Richmond
and Danville.
Thus the floating debts are cared for
and all goes well. This settlement is
gratifying, in view of the efforts of
newspaper wreckers deliberately at
tempting to block the road to settle
ment and to create a panic in which the
iarnings of business men would be
swamped. The publication of every
disturbing minor, calculated to ruin
large properties, while only serving the
purposes of wreckers, is to lie depre
eated.
SPEAKING IN LOUISIANA.
FOR GRESHAM.
AN INDIANAPOLIS CLUB STARTS HIS
PRESIDENTIAL BOOM.
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Boston, Oct. 28.—About 10 o’clock,
a. m., James E. • Graves, aged 00, an
employe of the Standard Stave Cooper
age company, East Boston, entered the
steam box, a closet 8x4 ft. in dimension,
and was looked in by a man who did
not know ho was there. The steam
then turned on. Grave cried for
help, but could not lie heard outside.
For about ten minutes he suffered ter
rible agony; then a fellow-workman
oj jetted the door to get some st ives, and
Graves fell into his arms. It was found
that liis breast and arms were horribly
scalded, so that in some places the flesh
was falling off. He was taken to the
city hospital, were it is said he cannot
live but a few hours.
SufltM-Ingft of Striker*,
Pittsburg, Oct. 28. -John Mattel,
with his wife and infant child, applied
to the authorities for food. He said he
was a striking miner mid they had
walked from Connellsville to this city,
having tasted nothing for nearly forty-
eight hours. The mother was too weak
to suckle lior babe, and to save the little
one’s life Mattei said he cut his finger
and allowed the child to drink his
blood. The couple was terribly ema
ciated and the child was almost dead.
Food and lodgings were furnished them.
Mattei tells an awful story of privation
and suffering among the miners.
Striking Inuliiiii-o of Canine Migiu-lty.
Jackson, Miss., Oct. 28.—As a strik
ing instance of canine sagacity the fol
lowing Is worthy of mention. Several
negroes were playing on the bank of
Pearl river when Robert Jackson, 7
ears of age, fell in. He was being rap
idly borne away by the current when
his dog. a setter less than 1 year old,
umped into the water, seized the boy
iy the clothing and swam with him to
he shore where he was soon revived
and sent home, the intelligent dog ac
companying him. The boy’s father has
had several applications to s*dl the dog,
but will not think of selling her.
Hon. L. F. Livingston of Georgia, Ad-
•IrpoM Large Audiences.
Alexandria, Oct. 28.—Hon. L. F.
Livingston, member of congress and
president of the Farmers* Alliance of
Georgia, spoke at the court house here
to a large and attentive audience. He
handled his subjects well and liis
speeches >vere well received. He chal
lenged anyone to prove that every plank
in the Ocala platform did not harmon
ize with the Democratic platform. In
proof of his assertions he read extracts
from the platform on which Cleveland
was elected and proved that it encour
aged the organization of labor. He
showed that the finance principles*ad
vocated by the Farmers’ Alliance were
taught by Jefferson and Calhoun. He
advised the harmony of all factions of
the Fanners’ Alliance, and from indi
cations it is thought that before he
leaves here he will have harmonized the
two factious of the party, as lie was
working zealously between the two fac
tions, and it is thought that the third
party in this section will be a subject
of the past.
How tli«* Feasanti Arc Treated.
London, Oct. 28.—The Daily News
learns that the Russian government has
rejected the petition of a deputation of
the richest Moscow Merchants for per
mission to form a society for the relief
of victims of the famine Vtftekeffcfis-
tricts. The society was hacked by an
immense amount of capital and a host
of volunteers. The minister of the in
terior, in declining the proposition, de
clared that anybody attempting to visit
a district where a famine prevails, for
nuy such object as that descrilied, would
be arrested. The emigration society
prohibited the organization of relief
committees at certain points. This is
supposed to be due to a fear that reli
ance upon government relief will have
a bad moral effect on the peasants, who
will decline to work on relief railways
and roads while the ready cash of the
famine fund is procurable.
Not Quite a Pauper.
New Yoke, Oct. 28. —Isaac IVrkows-
key, s Russian Jewish immigrant,when
questioned by the inspectors at the
landing bureau as to his financial abil
ity to take care of himself, greatly sur
prised the Barge office officials His
feueral appearance indicated extreme
udigence. He stated that lie was
friendless, and then produced a belt
from around his body and took there
from $28,500, $1,500 in cash and the re
mainder in letters of credit. He left
for Pennsylvania.
Mrs* II.vi, to Visit Richmond.
Richmond, Oct. 28.—General Joseph
R. Anderson received ■ letter from Mrs.
Jefferson Davis in which she says she
and Min Winnie Davie will arrive here
next Saturday night, October 3Ut.
They will be the truest* of General An
derson. It is understood that the ob
ject of the visit of Mrs. Davis is for the
purpose of selecting a suitable site upon
which the people of the south propose
to erect a monument to the memory of
her husband.
stt I tig a I’riiat.
Boston, Oct. 28.—Suit was begun in
the superior court by Maria Kullbury,
a storekeeper of East Boston, against
Rev. Hugh R. O'Donnelly, a Catholic
priest of that section, to recover $.1,000
damages for the ruin of plaintiff's busi
ness by a boycott placed on the store by
the priest. Mrs. Kullbury refused to
send her childen to a parochial school,
and alleges in iter charge that because
she did so refuse, defendant, from tho
altar, "publicly and officially issued an
interdict, forbidding all liis" parishion
ers and liis congregation to trade or
deal or in any way associate with plain
tiff. "
A Neiv Ueneral Manager.
Indianapolis, Oct. 28 —It is stated
here in railroad circlesthat at the annu
al meeting of the Louisville, New Al
bany and Chicago, (Motion) W. B.
Woodard will lie elected vice president
and general manager, to succeed A. H.
McDoel. The terms of the contract by
which the Brice-Thoinas people ad
vanced Breyfogle money to get out of
his financial difficulty last spring stipu
lated tiiat tile syndicate snould have
full control. It is stated that Woodard,
who was formerly superintendent, was
recently offered the same position, but
decliued. *
Famllle. Without Homes.
Berne. Oct. 28.—The official report
of the fire which occurred in the town
of Meiringen, in this canton, on Sun
day, shows that the conflagration, which
was greatly increased in destructive-
nees by the high wind which prevailed,
destroyed 120 houses, without counting
large numbers of barns, stable, ana
other buildingi of that description, and
rendered 781 persons homeless. The
English church, in addition to nearly
every other edifice of importance, ft in
ruins. _______
Prisoner* Itrosk Jail.
MuXKDOEViLUt, Ga., Oct. The
prisoners of MilledgeviUe jail have
broke ont and tho town it in great ex
citement. Among the prisoners is one
negro to bo hung this month. A party
of men have started in pursuit. The
officer in charge of the jail waa badly
hurt.
The Porter Club Declares In Favor of
Judge Gresham In 180*4—Do Not Want
Harrison—British Military Circles Start
led By Bed Coat Mutiny*
Indianapolis, Oct. 28,—At a meeting
of the Porter club, a Republican organ
ization, a resolution declaring for the
renomination of President Harrison wa»
defeated by a vote of 63 to 2. A reso
lution endorsing the administration of
President Harrison was then adopted.
Following this, a resolution was pre
sented declaring in favor of Judge
Gresham for *92, and bidding the club
to attend the next Republican national
convention in a body to work for Gresh-
ub'n nomination.
The Grenadier Outbreak.
London, Oct. 28.—.Military circles
and the public in general have been
startled by the publication in the
coluuuiK of Truth of the details of an
other inntiuons outbreak upon the part
of the Grenadier Guards, According
to Truth, this fresh mutiny, while not
an event of the first magnitude, “is
still very serious. ” It is safe to udd
that all military men look upon the
event as lieing of a most decidedly seri
ous nature, in view of the previous acts
of mutiny in which the Grenadier and
Cold Stream Guards have been impli
cated within about a year and a half.
VERY NEARLY A RIOT.
A Bow on an Fxpoftitlon Train Between
Atlanta anil »tune Mountain.
Stone Mountain, Oct. 28.—There
came near being a riot on the Accom
modation train from Atlanta here.
Eight or ten Stone Mountain negroes
went up to Atlanta to take iu the ex)K>-
sition. They boarded the train in the
evening for home, pretty well filled up
with Decatur street liquor. Between
Clarkston and this place they got into
u knock-down and drag-out.
Deputy Sheriff John McCurdy, who
boarded the train at Decatur, went into
the car where the negroes were fighting
to quell the fuss, when a half dozen of
them assaulted him with knives, pistols
and whisky bottles. Sheriff McCurdy
had notldug to defend himself with ex
cept a small walking cane. This he did
with good effect, not, however, until he
had received two severe cuts upon the
head and face with a knife, in the hands
of Mack McDaniel. As soon as the train
reached this place the whole crew was
pulled by Marshal Steve McCurdy and
two or three deputies. For a while
pandemonium reigned supremo, aud it
linked a little squally for the rioters, as
it was thought Sheriff McCurdy was
fatally cut.
The prisoners were carried upstairs
into the courtroom, and while the at
tention of the guard was called off Mack
McDaniel made a wild break for libertv
by jumping through the second-story
window of the courtroom, a distance of
more than twenty feet, to the ground
below. He fell ii|N)ti his head and right
shoulder. He lost no time in rising to
his feet ami made a dash down the street.
Before he had gone fifty yards he whh
overtaken and again escorted back to
the courtroom. Mack and his brother,
Sam McDaniel, were tried before Judge
A. J. Goldsmith for assault with inteut
to murder. Mack was required to give
a thousand-dollar bond for his appear
ance at the next superior court. Fail
ing to give lKiml, he was carried to De
catur aud placed in jail. Sain was
placed tinder a fifty-dollar bond. There
are one or two others to be tried yet.
STILL SINKING DOWN.
Tlie Caving in of LhiiiI Along the Biver
in Nhv Orleans Cunt limes.
New Orleans. Oct. 28.—The Louis
ville and Nashville railroad has ceased
running its trains over the sinking lands
at the French market, and stop about a
mile and a half from its regular depot.
The Southern Pacific is still running its
trains over tlie dangerous spot, but at
the slow lift** of two miles aii hour, so
as to cause no jarring, and will con
tinue to do so as long as possible. Tile
sinking of the land continues, and it
has now reached the level of the water,
in the river. A conference of the state
and city engineers ami railroad sujjcrin-
teuds took place to devise or suggest
means to meet the present eiuergv. The
oyster boats and dealers are heavy suf-
lerers, as the caving in of the oyster
landing leaves them without any regu
lar landing, ami they can find no other
convenient place to unload their car
goes.
ll«* Will Not Hang.
LaFaybtte, Ga., Oct. 28.—Roscoe
Marable who was to have been hung ou
the 30th of this month, will not hung.
A great many people will be <lisapi»int-
eil, as they will conte exjiecting the
hanging to take place. His counsel
have gone to the supreme court with
the cast", because there was no evidence
to connect the negro with the killing of
Nehemiali Evins, except that of vV. J.
King, xthw arrested him aud testified
that Marable confessed that he did tile
killing.
Cornel Keen In Iowa.
Lyons, Oct. 28.—At 5:13 a. m. a tre
mendous meteor was observed by a re
porter at Higgs’ Station, To., passing
directly from west to east. It was red
in color and emitted flashes of bindsb
fire as it passed. For nearly half a
minute after its passing, it* pathway
across the sky could be traced by a
luminous line of fire which seemed to
trail behiud it. Hnnters who came in
from a point east of Riggs’ Station on
the Mississippi river, confirm the report
as one of the moat wonderful sight*
they ever witnessed.
CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES.
Dam..tie anti Foreign and of Otnoral
/ Interest.
By tile premnturo explosion of giant
powder in Montana, Minn., four work
men were killed.
The Teutonic has arrived at (Queens
town, having lsiaten the fastest previ
ous record from New York. •
Lieutenant Colonel Howlette, one of
the few survivors of the British officer*
who fought at Waterloo, is dead.
Theodore Doerflingcr. absconding
treasurer of the school board of Pitts
burg, has been arrested at Omaha.
A cotton warehouHo in Newnnn, Ga.,
was destroyed hv fire. In the ware
house were’stored 1,200 bales of cotton.
Tile loss is estimated at $80,000.
A Laredo, Tex., dispatch says that
the rush of goods through the port of
Laredo into Mexico to avoid the increase
of duties on many articles, which goes
into effect on Nov. 1, is simply im
mense.
A Democratic meeting was held at
Madison Square Garden, New York,
and was largely attended by the busi
ness men of the city. Grover Cleveland
and D. B. Hill addressed the large and
enthusiastic andience.
Madrid dispatches from Barcelona
state that tile anarchists resident in
•bat city are making preparations for a
grand celebration of the anniversary of
the execution at Chica :o of the anarch
ists concerned in the Hsyniarket Hots
At Fostoria, 0„ Ralph Cunningham,
sou of a prominent bnsiness man,
tried to kill himself by crawling into
the red-hot furnace of the spoke factory
of which his father is part owner. The
engineer pulled him ont, hut not nntil
his body and head had been almost
roasted. He will die. Poor health was
the cause of tho act.
At Indianapolis, O., George Messer-
smith, employed in the Bee Line yards,
was singularly injured, a car whoel
dropping off and striking a lever with
which he was working. The lever
caught him tinder the chin and he was
lifted four feet into the air. coming
down with a shattered jaw-lione and
bis tongue bitten off.
A Loudon dispatch says: At the
qnarterly meeting of the Manchester
chamber of commerce the president
said that trade was still depressed and
that tlie latter returns received were
unsatisfactory. The president blamed
the McKinley bill and the Baring Broth
er’s Smith American trouble for the
state of affairs complained of.
Two thousand doctors assembled at
the Westminster Aquarittm in London,
and witnessed some experiments in hyp
notizing. An alleged American profes
sor and a German were appointed a
committee to arrange for a number of
exi>eriinents to lie made at the hospitals:
with a view to testing the vnlne of hyp
notism as au unesthetic agent,
A Madrid dispatch states : The terri
ble storm which has prevailed for sev
eral days, shows no signs of abating.
The celebrated leaning tower of Sura-
gossa (the Tower of Felipe), which leans
about nine feet out of the perpendicu
lar, and so well known to foreign sight
seers, lias been undermined by the
gathering waters and threatens to total
ly collapse.
Tlie Nashville Herald now appears
ninler the new management, having
been purchased, together with its en
tire plant, by R. A, Halley, E. C. Asa,
W. I. Cherry and J. J. Haynie, all well
known in Nashville jonrnalistic circles.
The striking feature of the afternoon’s
issue was the announcement of a sub
scription rate of 25 cents a month, In
cluding the Su.iday edition.
'I’ll** Italian government is asserting
itself vigorously against attacks from
clerical sources. The editor of the
Osservatore Cattolica at Milan, has been
sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
and a fine of 1.500 francs for attaclnng
the royal family in its colmnns, and
the editor of the Osservatore Roman
sentenced to three months’ imprison
ment for infringing the press laws.
A London dispatch says that Mr.
Sheridan Ford was sentenced to a fine
of $100 under the alternative of three
months' imprisonment and to pay the
stun of $000 in dnmnges. also with the
alternative of three months’ imprison
ment, upon being convicted of the
charge of "pirating” of the books writ
ten by Mr. Whistler, tlie well known
nrtist and president of the society of
English nrtists.
A Kansas Oily special says that Law
rence Hall, a seen i hand on the Kan
sas City, Fort Scott and Memphis road,
cast himself in front of a passenger
train and was instantly killed, lie lrns
been gloomy for some time, anil as the
train came along lie wus sitting on the
side of tlie road talking to a companion.
He jumped to the track and stood up
facing the engine, which mangled him
terribly.
A Chadron. Neb., special says: Quito
a number of Sioux Indians were in town
trailing, among them an Indian maiden
of 17. Her native curiosity caused her
to look into the window of John Lar
kin’s restaurant, where "Calamity
Hank," a broken down gambler, was
eating a lunch. Hank turned upon her
as a joke, raised hit arms, and with a
terrible yell started towards the girl
She tamed pale, and with a moan
dropped on the pavement unconscious.
She wus taken to her parents' tepee,
where she died soon afterward, literally
■cared to death.
Will Flgltt the Drug Trust.
St. Louis, Oct. 28.—In accordance
with the anti-trast law, United State*
District Attorney Reynolds has decided
to commence an active campaign against
the St. Louis Apothecaries' association
or "drag trust. * Officer* of the trust
have notified all Wi olesaie dealers in
the United States tnat all patronage
will be withdrawn from tho** houses
selling to local druggists who are not
members of the trust, and have ap
pended a list of those declining to join.
Tlie resnit is that a firm ontside of the
trust have received notice from a well
known New York house that the latter
cannot fill orders for patent medicine*
nntil the concern has entered into the
"combine.” Mr. Reynolds will bring
the matter before the grand jury.