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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.