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americus times-recoruer. OL UME 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. l.U<rk'«l 111 St«* Ho 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.