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AMERICUS TIMES-REGORDER.
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1891.
NUMBER 35
WASHINGTON.
DOINGS AT THE NATION’S CAPI'I
CITY.
Several Important Memorials llefore the
Senate—Speaker Crisp Announces the
Committee on lCules— Representative
Houk of Tennessee Dead.
BASCOM MYRICK, ESQ.,
Editor Times-Recorder.
Americus, Ga.
My Dear Sir:—We have been too much
rushed in attending to the wants of our cus
tomers to write any extensive advertisement
for your Sunday morning’s issue. But please
say for us to the good people of our city and
country that for the next 10 days we shall
offer the most unprecedented Bargains in
Ladies’ and Misses’ Wraps of all kinds. Our
stock is very comprehensive, embracing every
desirable style worn this season, and we will
refuse no reasonable offer to close out any
thing in the entire line before Christmas.
We beg you to say also, we have just
opened several new cases of White and Col
ored Blankets, all of which we are going to
Washington, D. C., December 16
[Special.]—Memorials were to-day pre
sented to the senate against the opening
of the world's fair at Chicago on Sun
day. Some of them favored the loan by
the government of *i,000,000 to the
Colombian exposition on that condition
Memorial in favor of woman's suf
frage.
Memorial for the purpose of enlarging
and promoting the efficiency of the sea-
coast life-savine service.
Memorial advocating the election of
United States Senators by the vote of
the people.
Senator Dawes introduced a bill pro
viding for the building of a ship canal
around the fails of Niagara.
The house session was very short.
Speaker Crisp announced that the
committee on rules is composed of the
following members: The speaker, Me
Millin, Catchings, Heed and Burrows.
Representative Bartin of Nevada, who
has been absent, made his appearance
on the floor of the house and was sworn
In.
Taylor of Tennessee announced the
death of Representative L. C. Houk, of
the same state, and the house adjourned
until Saturday as a mark of respect to
to the memory of the deceased member.
To-day Speaker Crisp for the first
time used the gavel sent to him by his
constituents in Americus. It was in
spected and greatly admired by a large
number of the congressmen, and, in
deed, it is a token of exceeding beauty,
and Speaker Crisp is very justly proud
of it.
A SAD DEATH.
sell very cheap.
Our best bargain in the lot consists of
100 pairs White Lamb’s Wool, extra size
Dr. TV. C. Russell Die, Suddenly nut] With
out Warning.
The community was Monday morn
ing shocked beyond measure by the sad
intelligence that Dr. W. C. Russell had
been found dead in his bed. Going to
sleep at 12 o’clock Sunday night, he
awoke no more to the troubles oQtbis
world.
Dr, Russell was a native of Cuthbert
and had just entered Into tho thirty-
eighth year of his ngc. A pharmacist
by profession, in the few years he had
been doing business in this city, he had
made many warm personal friends.
Feeling rather unwell on Sunday night
lie requested Mr. Howell Cobb to remain
with him in his room. Mr. Cobb at 12
o'clock saw Dr. Russell sleeping quietly
and then he himself went to sleep. At
6 o’clock yesterday morning Dr. Short
cams to the room to ascertain Dr. Rus
sell's condition and rapped at the door,
which awakened Mr. Cobb, who arose
and admitted him. Dr, Short inquired
of Mr. Cobb as to how Dr. Russell then
was and was told thathe was still asleep.
He walked to the bed and his practiced
eye at once revealed tho sad truth. lie
lay as he had when slumber closed his
weary eyes tho night before—in an easy,
comfortable position, with the right
arm thrown back under his head,
but tlie spark if life had
been extinguished, and death had, in his
sleep, fallen upon him l*ko a suit, fleecy
mantle, consciousless and painless.
Dr. A. II. Hinkle was immediately
11-4 Blankets, with tinted borders, at $5.00
per pair, which we guarantee cannot be
matched in the market for less than $7.50
pei 1 pair. Our “Woodbury,” 10-4 extra size
White Blanket, at $3.00 per pair, we guaran-
tee the equal of any Blanket in the market at
|. j Dr. UusKell, by his business integrity
H oo per pair. and personal charm, had won many
staunch friends, both social ami commir*
This is all we want to say at present. <*"• a tmo gentleman in the highest
! sense, cultured and refined, lie coupled
77:11 ,, .... , „ With rare physical comeliness a maguet-
w ill come again when we have more time • j ism of mind and manner, which after
acquaintance, won to him a lasting re-
YdirS truly [ trard. Strong in his likes, a friend once
! made of him a friend he always re*
GEO. D. WHEATLEY, . :"; m Thc " Ti,orkDCW h,m we, i a “ d
An inquest was Monday held over
Lamar Street and Cotton Avenue j in* body, and the verdict of tho coroner's
i jury was that “the deceased came to ids
' death through causes unknown.’’
| Tlie remains, in pursuance to a tele-
' gram so requesting, were Monday
shipped to his relatives in Cuthbert for
j interment. He leaves one sister to
mourn her loss.
SHADOWED UK.
A NEGRO RUFFIAN CONTRIVES HIS
PLANS
Ills LIFE AT STAKE. HAVE YOU GOT IT?
To Murder a Popular Sam Itoad Condtic
tor—Thwarted by the Vigilance of
Negro Farmer—Several Shot, Exchanged.
HI, Confederate Caught.
Fast on his trail!
The sleuth-hounds of justice!
An insolent and desperate scoundrel
Thursday night a negro named Miles
Walker boarded the Sam train at New
Point, a flag station, and stood on the
rear end of tlie train.
Conductor Snyder held tlie bell cord
that night, aud approaching tlie negro
requested that be move inside.
The negro made some shuffling reply,
and did not move.
Conductor Synder, repeated the re
quest somewhat firmer.
Still he did not stir.
Since the negro seemed determined to
defy the conductor he determined to try
the virtues of force.
Grabbing the negro Conductor Snyder
attempted to push him inside.
The man was very muscular, however,
and in the souffle both fell inside the car
on the floor, Walker endeavoring to
draw his knife.
The commotion drew other parties to
the scene and Walker was disarmed, the
train was stopped and he was put off.
Before alighting he was heard to 3ay
that be “would get even yet.’’
He made no bones about his lawless
utterances and swore to his wife that he
had an old score to pay off with Conduc
tor Snyder and proposed to execute his
threat at the first opportunity that pre
sented itself.
He now began mapping out plans,
With Tom Green, a rascal of the same
color and kidney, as a confederate, he
resolved to send Tom down the road and
when the passenger train arrived at
Omaha he would board it if Snyder was
aboard, and execute the vendetta he had
10 solemnly sworn.
But fate thwarted him.
Conductor Snyder did not have charge
of the train, Conductor Sapp managing
it.
In Holy Wedlock.
Tuesday at three o’clock at the resi
dence of the bride's mother, about three
and one-half miles from Americus, Miss
Mattie Waiters was united in the holy
bonds of matrimony to Mr. Q. W. Fuller,
the Rev. H. Stubbs officiating. The mar
riage was solemnized in the presence of
the immediate families and a few
friends. The contracting parties are
well-known here where they number
many friends. Mr. Fuller is a promi
nent young planter of Sumter county,
while the bride Is accomplished and
eharming.
The Twks-Recordkr joins with boats
of friends in wafting to them its sin-
cereal wishes for • future 'bright with
life’s choicest benedictions.
In the meantime Levi Daniel, a col
ored farmer of Webster eounty, had got
ten an inkljbg of the designs of Walker
and Greed'and imparted his knowledge
of tho diabolical scheme of the negroes
to Conduotor Snyder.
Conduetor Buchanan had charge of
the train that went out that morning.
And this was where the hitch came
and his adroitly laid plans misoarried.
Conduetor Buchanan did not know
tlie two negroos, so he requested Daniel
to accompany him, and when the station
was reached to identify them when they
boarded the train.
Tom Green got on, but Conductor
Snyder was not on tlie pifuenger car.
Daniel indicated to Conductor Buch
anan, Green, who was in trfu oar, while
his companion stood outside watching
the maneuvers of his confederate.
Daniel now disembarked from the
train and approaching Walker;
slapped him familiarly on the shoulder
with “Hello, Miles, is that you?”
‘No, it is not,” he exclaimed, with an
oath, drawing a pistol and covering
Daniel.
But Daniel was dead game. Tn the
twinkling of an eye ho had fished out a
pistol and two reports raug out simulta
neously.
Conductor Buchanan rallied to Dauiel’s
aid and a lively fusllade began, which
soon became too warm for Walker who
took leg bail.
Neither Conduetor Buchanan or I).,ti
ll-1 were hurt, though it is not known
hether Walker escaped unscathed.
As the train moved oil Conductor
Snyder looked from a window, only to
hear tlie report of a pistol ring out.
Thu fugitive would-be murderer had
tried him a shot.
Green was arrested, searched aud a
pistol was found.concoaied on his person.
Ho was tried at Lumpkin, convicted and
sentenced to tho chain-gang for six
months.
Sheriff Holder is on the trail of the
negro, and there is every reason to be
lieve that he will be caught, and if he is,
summary justice would be but condign
punishment.
For Flv« Years.
The case of Chas. Allen, on trial for
arson was terminated yesterday and
given to the jury, A verdict of guilty
was returned and Judge Fish gave him
five years in the penitentiary to repent
the error of his ways. Allen was ar
rested for sticking the incendiary torch
to an out-houie belonging to Mr. I. G,
Hudson. Mr. Hudson has played in bad
luck, having lost by incendiarism two
barns in the last year.
THE STATE AGAINST BOLEY DANIEL,
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Kvltleuce (or tlie State Received—tluhn
Green's Cllnchlna Testimony—"Eje
Eye. Tooth for Tooth" Is Good Scripture,
Arguments Will He Heard Te-day.
Will he stretch hemp?
That's a question that will be docided
to-day.
On June tho 1 (til in the year 1880,
sensational crime was committed
Johnston's station on the Flint river at
negro picnic.
Facts relating to the murder were
slow in evolving, and the affair was
vague and complicated one, and it is still
being sifted in the courts.
It seems that Uamp Swain, John
Green aud Bolev Daniel, all colored, in
dulged in a skin game of festive poker
together with some other sporting char
acters.
Things progressed very serenely some
time, until, as usual, the storm began
brewing which culminated in a con
certed assault on Swain.
Pistol shots were heard on all sides,
and in the melee which succeeded it was
not known who was hurt
As soon as the smoke of battle lifted
it,was found that Swain was fatally
stabbed besides being shot several
times.
He only lived a abort while afterwards,
but long enough to recognize the man
who did the bloody deed, distinguishing
him as a “snaggle-toothed negro.”
Sohn Green was captured, tried and
sent to the penltentisry,
Daniel evaded the sleuth-hounds of
justice for months and’was just recently
caught and Incarcerated in our jail to
answer the charge of being the principal
in the murder.
The oase came up before Judge Fish
yesterday, and evidence for tho state
was first produced.
It would be needless to dwell on tlie
the evidence taken, since much of it was
on the same line and much irrelevant.
John Green, adorned in his striper,
was pnt on the stand, and in his testi
mony he assertod unequivocally that the
prisoner at the bar was guilty of the
murder.
He was asked to recognize Daniel
wliiob he did, identifying him with the
man who struok the fatal blow with the
knife.
The state will make out its case by 10
o'clock to-day, when evidence for the
defendant will be adduoed and after the
arguments are made the case will go to
the jury.
The negro stands in the shadow of the
gallows, If the tenor of evidence receiv
ed yesterday is not counteracted.
Kimbrough and Lane are for tlie de
fense, while Solicitor General Hudson
and W. K. Wheatley are for the prose
cution.
The jury as empaneled comprises
Messrs. A. J. Gibson, W. H Sims, E. 0.
Williams, G. W. Horne, C. C. Darley, F.
M. Finch, T. tt. framer, G. W. Wig
gins, A. S. Perry, Henry J. Williams, J.
. Bray and W. A. Kleckisy.
The prisoner, Uoley Daniel. Is a com
pactly-built, rather short negro, with a
complexion a shade removed from the
charcoal variety, with thick, heavy lips,
and a stolid and decidedly brutal cast of
countenance.
There is no predicting the complexion
tho case will assume to-day, when all
the evidence will be taken.
A Sad Death.
The "Reaper called Death” has been
very busy in our midst tills week, num
bering his victims from the cradle to the
patriarch whoso hairs were whitening
for the tomb. Monday night at 8:43 at
tins tlie sold of Mrs. J. T. Cato burst
its earthly cerements and passed into
tlie great bovond. Her death was not
wholly unexpected, since she had lin
gered on tho narrow coniines between
life and eternity for days. .She loaves a
husband and five children to mourn
their loss.
Mrs. Cato was well-known and highly
esteemed in Americas, wuere she had a
large family connection. The interment
will take place this morning at 10 a. m.
at Lebanon, and all that is mortal will
be consigned to mother earth to await
the resurrection morn.
ThkTimks-Recokdkr tenders its sym
pathies to the bereaved in their deep dis
tress.
A Stricken Family.
Mr. J. 8. Lunsford died at Weston tn
Sunday. His oldest daughter died on
last Friday and was buried on Saturday.
His wife baa been In n precarious condi
tion for several weeks and is now only
ablo to be oat. This family deserves the
deepest sympathy of the entire commu
nity in this, the dark hoar of their be
reavement.
ItlMtinjc of Sumter County Alliance.
The first regular meeting of the Sum
ter County Alliance for the year 1802
will convene In the county court room
on the first Friday tn January (January
1st, 1892,) at 10 o'clock a. m. Several
matters of importance will be before the
body for consideration, and a full dele
gation ia necessary for wise solution of
them. Every officer and member should
be present. The secretaries of the sub-
alliances are requested to be present
and to notify ail delegates and ask their
attendance. All alliancemen in Snmter
county are invited to be present.
D. C. N. BURKUALTKIt,
President Snmter County Alliance.
Americas, Ga., Pec. 10,1061,
IF NOT, YOU ARE DECIDEDLY NOT
IN IT.
The Disease Not Fatal but Treacli.roul.
It Is Swooping Down on the South Again
and Leaving Thousands of Vltlms In Its
Wake.
LaGrlppe!
Short but not sweet!
It has struck Americus and is devel
oping very fast!
LaGrippe or the Influenza Is here be
yond the shadow of a doubt and thirin-
tclllgcnce (carries nonsense of pleasure
with lb
There are several cases in the city and
it will require a lightning calculation to
estimate the number some days hence.
Telegraphic reports show that It has
struck Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville,
Sb Louis and other cities with telling
effect.
In a dispatch from Nashville 8,000
cases are reported as having developed,
with thousands more to follow.
There aeems to be no preventative for
tbla diieaae and a person can have It-
several times. The fatality, however, la
a very imall per cent., being less than
two In the thousand.
Its origin la shrouded .in mystery
although It la the generally accepted
theory that it is bacterial. The disease
is infectious and spreads by atmospberio
influences. Persons of all ages and con
ditions fall victims to this treacherous
malady.
Humidity of the atmosphere, suob as
has prevailed largelv during the laatfew
days, serves to have much to do with its
develop menb
In the catarrhal or pulmonary form of
influenza, there is in the onset a sense of
chilliness along the spine, in some cases
a pronounced chill, pains In the limbs
and ail over the body, in fact. Pneumo-
nlo symptoms occur In many of the pa
tients, and not infrequently pneumonia
is the resulb
Perhaps forty per cenb of these
catarrhal cases of influenza, a typical
pneumonia, severe oough, with tight
ness in the chest, is often present; sore
ness about the eyes and all the symptonr a
of a “bad oold" are experienced. Nau
sea is also a promtuent symptom.
The disease, by proper treatment at
the beginning of an attack, oan be so
modified as to be almost abortive.
If not properly managed it li particu
larly liable to giave complications. Even
in mild cases tho tendency is towards
prostration, and often the nervous shook
is such as to materially debilitate the
patient. Quinine is the best germ de
stroyer for the disease.
Mustard is of great advantage, and a
plaster of mustard and lard, one part of
the former, two of the latter, applied
directly to the chestjacts aa a count! r
irritant.
The mild chloride of mercury, in
minimum doses often repeated, la said
to be beneficial to a patient.
The diet of a patient should be light,
easily digestible.
Examine yourself and by comparison
wl.h the above, find out if the insidious
diseaso has yon in its clutches, if so,
don't tamper with ib
The conditions of the weather are
highly favorabe to its spread and Ameri
cus will follow Atlanta and sister cities
example in the numbor of tho victims.
Dissolution.
The Arm of C. Ii. Hudson and L. J,
Blalock, lawyers, has been dissolved by
mutual consenb The sole cause of the
dissolution is that Col. Hudson could
not give tho attention to the civil busi
ness he desired on account of the large
amount of criminal work devolving upon
him as solicitor-general.
A now.firm consisting of J. B. Hud
son of Preston, and L. J. Blalock of
Americus, has been formed, and will do
business at the old stand iu this city of
Hudson & Blalock. They arc both well
known in the state, and mako a strong
law firm, as they ate both young men of
ability and well posted. Mr. Hudson
will continue to live at Preston, but will
be on hand on all occasions when his
services are needed.
An Old Resident.
Mr. Andrew Jackson Williams on the
17th day of December, 1891, will hare
resided in Sumter county for 64 years.
He was justlco of inferior court daring
the war. For$2 years he has lived with-
four miles of his present home, never
having occasion or inclination to ever
leave the hails of his forefathers. Mr.
Williams baa ten children and forty-two
grandchildren. We defy the world to
furnish a parallel case.
Judge W. H. Fish.
Judge Fish is winning golden opinions
from all aorta of people by the admira
ble fairness, dignity and ability with
which be presides over the sessions of
the superior conrb He baa taken hold
of the dooket with the pre-determination
to clear It, and bla progress has been as
rapid as it has been satisfactory. The
Judge wears the ermine with eminent
credit to both himself and the commu
nity.