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AME11ICUS, GEOUGIA, FRIDAY, DEUEMBER 3l, 1897.
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HRISTMAS
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Allen & Sheffield’s
T HESE are times when sensible, substantial
Christmas presents will be more appreci
ated than “knick-knacks” or trashy gifts that cost
about as much and do no one any good.
What is a nicer Christmas gilt for mother, wife,
daughter or sister, than a stlk dress, vrosl dress,
plush cape, silk waist, cloth-ctpe; kid gloves, hand
kerchiefs, feather boa or b >x oi hosiery ?
What is a better Christmas : present for fith-
, er husband, h” 1tnaa a
- nice </vert,jAt, an umbrella, a.scjtt or stwr
,hat, ,piir suspender?, neckties, . hand ker
chiefs, gloves, odd pauts, shoe^,or .under
wear?
.> What is a more useful Christmas presea 1
for the hcisewife than ,a pair of-those ele
gant blankets, a nice table cloth, ..a dozen
napkins, or doyles, raarssailles quilts, ready
• made sheets and pillow cases, lace, curtains
•..and a hundred other things to be hod at out
*9tore?
■What, is a more seasonable '.Christmas
p resent for a boy than a new salt, pair
k ne- pant?, a golf cap, an eton cap, or pair
ot ’ (“.Little. Giant”) shoes?
In addition to the above we have au
em Hess variety of o her articles suitable for
Ch listen u presents, such as ladies purses,
poc Wet books, tooth brushes, hair brushes and
combs, leather belts metailibelts. trunks, va-
lices, ladies and Rent’s hose, supporters. belt
pins and a-thousand other things toonumer-
, ous io mention.
We are Jieadquki'ters for evervthirg
suitable ior Christina- presents at prices in
keeping with the times.
Our store will be open every night this
w <ek until 9 o’c oca.
C ill early in the week .and avoid the
rush. Very truly yours.
F\rllen * Sheffield.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA
BANDY IN BAD HEALTH
Special Envoy to Paris Show
Is Seriously Sick.
RAPIER AT LAST ROUTED.
Tbs Dtfiuoomtlo hMimiitsr of Mobil*
GiWe* Way Co m Ko|tubl!a*ti.
Mobile, Dae. £9.—Postmaster Barker
was in.tailed before day iu office here
after au all ulght vigil iu the postofflee.
The inspectors arrived and orerbauled
The Merchants' and Traders'
of Brunswick Fails.'
AT NOTED BESOET NEAR AUGUSTA accounts of the office aud fouud DEPOSITORS WONT LOSE DOLLAR
- s them correot. They took possession and I
fnff.rlne From N.r.o..- .-.I *« r0 ™ lu f- ?„• B “ rk8 / “ ud » Ue •“‘P 10 ?" I
. ... . ... .... _ on arrival. Two of the employes re-
uroirii.s w..r.s tVbaia iron- fused to take oath to the new postmaster
bl. iu« llr.ult of tit. Oominl.iloii.r's B11( j wera suspomled.
Colonel Rapier, who claim, to hold
office by vlrcuo of section 3330 of the
Hrcout HorU Work—Ills Wit. s.4 an.
dltor Are Wltli Him.
Augusta. Gi, Deo. 29 — Moses P.
Bandy, special United Slates commit-
•ioner to the Paiis exposition of 1030,
Is seriously ill at the Bon Air hotel, a
Winter resort in the fusluonablo subur-
1IAJOR MOSKS F.'ttANDT.
ban district of this city. Major Bandy,
accompanied by Lieorauaut linker, U.
S. N., anditor to the Spanish commis-
lioner, together with Mrs. Handy and
Mrs. Baker, came to Augusta on Dec.
17, suffering from nervous prostration.
He has been steadily confined to his
house ever liuce with no sigus of im
provement
M-ajor Handy only recently returned
from Parii, where lie went to secure
■pace fur American exhibitors at the
great exposition to l>e held there in
1900. The Uuised States government
will also make a display at the Show,
aud it was Mr. Handy's work in'behalf
of 1 his country's interests that resulted
In nervous prostration. He came south
iunnediately^ifter reaching Hew York,
lu the hope of regaining health, bat so
fat there has'been no marked change
in'his condition.
revised statutes, which law requires
that removals before expiration of term
must be by the advice und consent of
the senate, ’sued out a writ of injunc
tion iu the Unitod States circuit court
before Judge l’ou min.
The plea was that Barker was not and
il not postmaster, because Rapier has
not been legally removed. Barker’!
name not being sent to tlia senate. Ra
pier a-ked that Barker bo 00joined from
interfering with him ill the di-charge
of his linnes us postmaster of Mobile.
Judge Toulmiu refused to gruut the
injunction.
GOOD ROADS CONVENTION.
Syj
SAVANNAH HAS A STRIKE
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• Si V4 r-f ab.'V. N a*>.—Abo □ t 100-mea,
all Savannah laborers, who have -beets
employ ad by Messrs. Delaney & Zipf,
contractors pu’ting in the new sewer
system, havejcuit and positively refuse
to woik at die wages being paid.
;It was understood at the beginning of
the work that the men were all to bo
employed fntm .Savannah, and were to
reoeive from#1.2.’, tofl -iti-p r day. ac
cording to ritoir capacity. It appaors,
however, that they have been receiving
:lfl cents an, hour tor pratty hard trierk,
and they do-s.ut like it.
At-the press lit status of-the wurk,
however,.the contractors have reiiAsd
ftotpay any. more, but they do not intend
Chat, the work shall be delayed. About
100 hands from Montgomery, Ala., will
arrive aud-will be put right to work. It
is expected that this will bung about
some trouble, lu view of the fact that
the.ciaiin has been made that this is a
Savannah work, being done fur the city,
and that home iubor should be employed.
The -ooutraotors have been willing to
tue *lie borne labor, but tnev uo uoi
Want ito pay .too big a price for .it.
FURLOW & JONES,
Fire, life and Accident Insurance.
■iJftb’ver
n a* v .xkad to oar ilrcadr cxtcoilvt bmiotM tbit of the lit© R T. BYRD
CompIi o»beforepUc»ngr*nrInsurance.
®* ,,,b Hobhi md conpirj Fraptit) lo»or»d at il* lowett
W,a niRUHV. . W, M, JOKES, TT-
ivsteniatic*
fly poisoned
day after day
by accumula
tions of bile
in the blood.
When the liver fait* to
do its regular work of filter
ing this biliouH poison out
of the circulation, it goea on
poisoning the entire constitu-
r w . tion just as surely as if a man
was drinking prussic acid. ^
Every part of the body is polluted. The
digestive juices are snppresscd and weak
ened. The kidneys and skin are clogged
with impurities and the lungs and bronchial
tubes overloaded with morbid secretion
which eat away the delicate tissue, and
bring about bronchitis and consumption.
All the diseases caused by this subtle pro
cess of bilious poisoning are cured by tht
marvelous alterative action of JV. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery. It directly in
cresses the liter’s natural excretive and
purifying powers; gives the digestive and
blood-making organs power to manufacture
an abundance of red, rich healthy blood.
It drives out all impurities, and vitalizes
the circulation with the life-giving elements
which restore perfect nutrition, solid mus
cular power, and healthy nerve-force.
•* In August 1895,1 was taken down in bed with
a burning and severe pains in my stomach and
under my shoulders, and dizziness In my head,”
writes Ira D. Herring, Esq., of Needmore, Ury
Co. Fla. “ My borne physician was called and he
•aid my symptoms were more like consumption
than anything else. I lingered in this way seven
months trying different kinds of medicine. Noth
ing that I ate would digest, and I had great Dis
tress in my stomach. I was persuaded to try some
of Dr. Plrrce’s remedies or to see what he thought
of my case. X wrote him and received an answer
stating that my suffering was from indigettioo
and torpid liver, and ad-rUing me to take Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medkml Discovery. ‘Hie first
bottle gave pleasing results. I hive taken foot
bottles of the -Golden Medical Discovery * and
three small vials of the' Pleasant Pellets/ I am
able todo my work and eat what I conkl not
before 1 to* these mad trims.’’
Hallways Will Carry llal.galaa to Ilia
A11 ii In ton -Urnting Free.
Anniston. Ala., Dec. 29.— Tlio ques
tion of holding a good roads convention
til this city on Fob. 13 aud 17, next, is
to^Iug extensively uiscu.setl'by the press
of Alabama, and by tbs mayors of
Cities, probate judges and other inter
estcil parties, ami it promises to be olio
of the largest attended and most eu
thasiastic meetings ever held in this
city or state.
The Louisville and Nashville, STobile
•nd Birmingham and the Southern rail
roads have signified their intention of
giviug free transuortatiou to all deie
gates to the convention, and F. M
Highf, mayor of Anniston; Emmett F.
Crook, jodgo of probate, and Howard
W. S-xton. president of the Commer
cial club, have issued a call for a con
vention to be held in this city on Fob.
10 aud 1-7, next.
SOMNAMBULIST IS KILLED.
Memphis. Dec. 29.—a P. Locko, a
prominent Memphis business man, lost,
his life near Jasper, Ala, in a mysteiions
manner. Locke secured a birth iu a
Pullman sleeper attached to the Kansas
City, Memuhis and Birmingham rail
road truiu whiefn left Mempuis at II p.
m., aud usueil to be awakened ac Jasper,,
Tire conductor at the proper time woSif
to’Locke’s berth but found uopasseuAsr.
•Rubsequeutey a freight truiu calno
a>uit.jnid fouud the remains of.-ttie
-mwf silia^uisa <on a irestlo. Xrfe snppo-
*1001 jJJ tlipw lax ke walked Til his siei-n
or ol-e - uL-.t to .wlatfurui for fits.
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Only I'I.h Hay X,.w reuse.
Ban Fiujocisco, -Deo. Cl— Author!
tits of this cityihavo made a new do
partnra iu rri-miiml procedara, which it
expected to dater murderers from inter-
posing the iilea of Disunity. Mis E
P«pp Wilson, -who was uernsod of mur-
decnig her hoaband in this city oil Sept.
23. 1394, was udjnuged insane before
her>trial took >place and she was sent to
an asylum. After her recovery she was
taken charge .of by the authorities of
thie-city ami w-h be brought to trial on
themurder charge iu the snp«i|or court
next week. District Attorney Burin-■
•ays this plan is .to be adhered do iu
other, similar cases
Prnpnaltlmi Now lislng l'UMsl.tsrs-1 by tha
tllrseturs tu Kalis suffintaut Oa«h to tj
quldute—KsesitS Attiiuiit iu Plaeu the
Cunoaru lu tliu tlaudi of a Itaoulvsr
Cuu,u,l tbs Craill*
Atlanta, Deo. 29.—A spoaial to The
Journal from Brunswick says: The
Merchants’ aud Traders’ bank of tint
city has failed. The capital stock of
the bank is $100,000. Borne mouths ago
there was a plau to pat the bank iu the
bauds of a receiver and ever since the
depositors have been withdrawing and
the bunk has been 1, slug outside busi
ness to such au extout that it /lually de
termined to olose and let liquidation
proceed iu the court, A majority of
the stockholders are solvent and tha de
positors will he paid in fu.l if the court
expenses do not consume all the cueh
realized.
Dr. J. M. Maddox is president and
Mr. A. H. Lane viee prestuenc of the
bank. A proposition lias beeu inane
aud is uow being considered by the di
rectors to raise sufficient cash to pay nil
depositors and tiien liquidate. Buould
au agreement to this end be reached
the doors will be reopeuad, bnt each a
Step ie improbable.
No run will be mnde on the other
banks, the National of Brntiswick and
the Brunswick Savings and Trust com
pauy. These institutions are perfectly
solvent and bare the confidence of the
entire conimauity. They have amp 0
Dash ou baud for any emorgeuoy, how-
PREFERS A PRISON CELL.
WTutangllI, After Twenty Tuere Spent
Therein, Dvollnee a Fnrdun.
Columbus, Dec. 29.—Old Ralph
WiutersgUl, the Columbiana county
murderer who was pardoned -ty,Gov
ernor Bnshriell 011 Christmas day. dt-r
clinos to leave the penitentiary, which
has beeu «is home fur 20 years.
His soft says chut lie is 73 year* old,
which Ksix years older tliuu the prison
record/indicates. His mind is clear and
there is not a suspicion of insanity. He
is at a lovable disposition und is auiver-
saliy liked by the officers and guards, at
whose request tile pardon was grunted.
Fifteen years ago Wlnteisgul asked
for a pardon, but sinco then he bus
never indicated a desire to be free.
He cut his wife’s throat because be
believed her faithless aud then tried to
cat his own throat. He still breathes
through a sliver tube inserted iu Ills
troeba :rt times by the surgeons. He
was sentenced to death, but Governor
Young, wno succeeded Ruthepford B.
Hove-, commuted (lie souteude to life
Imprisonment. Whan he asked far par
don li year, ago his wile’s re.atlves on
posed it. This had a depressing effect
upon him, and he uever alluded to tho
subject again.
NEW YORKER IN TROUBLE.
Itijt I«*C*l IUuIn llr«w(iig.
Gluveland. DiW. wO. — With tu a tow
days one of the greatest# legal battles
which,bos ever been brought ta trial in
this city will commence before thecnori
of common ideas. Tile case is that of
the oity of Cleveland agaiuat tho Lake
Shore. Big Four. Pennsylvania wid
Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad com
panies. aud involves the titio o millions
of dullurs worth of property ou the lake
front. Thu railroad tracks original!;
ran along close to the water’s edge, but
for years the companies have been fiiiiug
iu the lake until large tracts of laud
have been created. Tula ground is uuw
claimed hr tua citv.
.*uiftr:«-«it «;on««i «t * nirih.
Br-BLiN. Deo. 29 —The government
has expressed its willingness to grant
au exquatur to Edmund Z. Brodowaki
of Illinois, recently appointed United
States consul at Breslau. If he should
be appointed United States consul at
Fuerth, Charles W. Erdman of Ken
tucky, who was appointed Uuited States
Consul at Fuerth, bsiug transferred to
Breaiao,
T U.-WVi.ol, Taka towns.
Pa ms, Deo. 28.—The French, it ii an
nounced, have oocupied Odienue and
Sambatigila It is believed thia indi
cates that an advance against Chief
Samory ie imminent. Samory it
a West African chieftain who, for over
12 year* past, has been the most dan*
(eroua antagonist the Europeans hava
lad to deal with.
Yukon KolUf Expedition.
Vancouver Barracks, Wash., Dec.
29. — Eleven packer* with 69 mules, in
charge of Lieutenant Ryan of Fort
Robinson, have arrived from Chicago.
The party will proceed to Dysa on the
next steamer for the purpose of assist
ing Major H. Ia Rucker in selecting a
routs lor the government relief ex
pedition.
Gladstone Is Elsftty-Elfbt.
London, Dec. 29l—Thia being the eigh
ty-eighth birthday of the Rt. Hon. Wil
liam B. Gladstone, the usual congratula
tions wera tent to Ha warden and Canute,
when Mr. Gladstone to improving,
though still suffering from neuralgia.
Wzir»nt Oat Kur tb« Arratl of • Promt*
tt«wfi Wall Mr asset Most,
New York, Dec. £9.—A warrant la
out for the urrest of Heury Oliver Gold-
smith, ono of the best known tueu of
Wallatroet. The specific charge against
him la grand larceny iu the first degree
for appropriating u cheek for $3,000, the
property of Oscar E A. Wisssuerof
Brooklyn.
The officials of th* district attorney’s
office say (hat Goidsmuh has managed
to getaway with somnihiug like $300.*
000 by operations similar to those which
brought the E. B. Dean company before
the public.
Goldsmith was indicted by tbe grand
Jury oil laat Tuesday. Detectives have
followed cluea all over Now Jersey.
Pennsylvania, Bostou and other places,
but so far Goldsmith has eluded them.
Goldsmith aud a man uuined Wei-sner
operated under the firm name of Hoyt
& Co.
George Hazelweida and William A
Mitel.ell, who were their broken, were
arrested three weeks ugo for their parr
iu the operutiona, but tho charges
against (hem bare u$t been fried.
Say .nil,lug Laws Arm savers.
Dawson City, N. W. T.. Nor. 26, via
Seattle. Wash., Dec. 29.—Tbe miuers
hero have commissioned three men to
go immediately to' Ottawa aud present
a petition to the Canadian authorities
reciting the reasons why tha new min.
lug laws „re unjustly sever* Tho peti-
tion as final y adopted is the resole of
several comcrcm-os of committees com
posed of the most intelligent citizen*
aud linnet of the Klondike, and the
three delegates named in it are the per,
sons selected by a committee of Ceu.
Roynl mum ie food pare,
trhukasomo und delicious.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
soyat raksm Kxmtn eo., htw vtsot.
The Pope Sides With Spain In
Her Cuban Troubles.
DISTINCT VICTOUT F02 DYNASTI
Tb« *tocUhi»:d#rfi Mail Walt. x
Atlanta, Dec. 29.— Receiver Ander*
son of tbe Southern Mutual Buiidiug
and Lean association aunonnees that
nothiug will be paid stockholders for at
least six mouths, as he fiuda much diffi
culty iu collecting the assets Tennes
see debtors, he says are especially slow,
and nearly all of them must be sned.
Georgiaus are pay iug up more promptly.
Stockholders will probably get about 96
par cent of their claim*
state senator Grant fn Sink.
Montgomery, Ala., Deo. 29.—A spa
tial from Grove Hill, Olarke county, an
nounces tbe serious illness of Hon. Isaac
Grant, the venerable editor of the Clarke
County Democrat, and state aenator
from this district Colonel Grant, who
to ona of tbs best known men in the
state, has bean stricken with apoplexy
and his friends an apprehensive of the
re* alt . —
Bll lloltnrNff, Inm XIII, Tr*H*ra!U m Mm*
tmgm tt, tli« lUilrul OMVariitiifiNl " Il'Cll
(Miow* <h«t tb«* AltUUil* «»f tin V-ttla.*tt
It Aiiyttilnc bat HstfiHla—Stfmtfi AU file
paolAt 111 HNSiuk la Luyal flulillara.
New York, Deo. 20.— A speclaltoThs
Journal aud Advertiser from W.iakiug-
tou says; It Is current news lu Oatbolio
oireles that ou Christmas d ty the pops
made a very Important ooiumauicatlou
to the Spanish government concerning
the Cuban war uud the altitude of tue
Vatican toward 3paiu iu tho present
crisis
About three weeks ago it became
kuo.wn that it hail boon represented to
tbe poi>e through tbe usu.11 ‘chauuels of
Information ou this side of the Atluutio,
that the cause of Spain was lose iu
Ocfca. Tills was »o power fully influenc
ing European opluiou that the pops
took ocoasion oil Christmas to address
an important communication to his
nanmo at Madrid.
The pope "Declares emphatically that
the Vatican npbolds every form of legal
government which » uot aini-Ohristiau
.111 its oliaracter. He proceeds tlieu to
discoss the Bpauisb situation aud cans
the Uarliets tu account, stating that tm-y
no less thau other snbjocta of Spain owe
implicit allegiance to 1 uo relgmug mon
archy aud mast not attempt to use the
eloalc of religion to cover purposes that
are ulterior to the proper ulrns ami ob
jects of theoiinroh. Tuis will tend to
circumvent the Ouriixt plots aud iu
large degree sheer them of importance,
a* tbs main hold of the Carlisle has
been the positive sympathy received
from the priesthood of Spain. It will
solve, or at least modify, the dilemma
of the present ministry.
Following this pruuunciaraonta, tho
pope deale with the existiug wur uud
sends his especial bi. esmg to tne sol
diers of his godson, tha present king of
Spain. Discnssiug the Cuban question,
tbe positive statement is made Unit ti e
Vatican bat uever made any decision ur
announcement that could be constiued
into au approval of the Cuban cause t
disapproval of tbe conduct of Scam. It
has suggested that where possible tne
rigors of war shonld be mitigated, but
wider uo circumstances has it uttered 11
word that might tend to encourage
their patriciuul uud fratricidal strife.
Notwithstanding this minimizing, th*
prouumaoiuuto is a distinct victory tof
tbe reigning dynasty. Tne wlio.e in
fluence of. the Austrian coart wut
thrown into the balance to bring il
about. Ouristiano, tho qneeu regent,
is. a ilarupbur g princess and for her sake
aftd tliu 10vo 1 be pope b ars iiie gnd.uu,
Che powenui influence of the Vatican ,11
Spam has been again exerted to save
the falling fortnue* of tha present uy.
nasty.
2To X#toOtousi*fn«ut *fi. ui .dib
Atlanta, Deo. 29.—It is uow probe*
bla that early in May the soidiers of the
state will all be ordered to Chickamaega
for five daye and that there will be no
encampment at Griffin. At least there
are the plant which have abont been de
cided upon by the adjutuuc general.
They may be changed before the lime
arrives, bnt it is nut probabiei The
plan of tha state authorities ia to make
the encampment this year more like
actual duty than baa aver been kuowu
to tbe state troops in any of the en
campments heretofore
Bala Interferes With Railway*
Seattle. Waste. Dec 29.—The recent
rainstorm hat seriously interrupted rail-
road traffio for tha past 43 hours, aud
tha Chinook wind, which is converting
the (now lu tha monntaius into wat„r,
threatened conilderabie aamage 'l.ie
Skagit river is repotted tu have riseu 10
feel. Eleven bent* of the Seattle and
International trestle over the StiUagna-
misb have been washed away at Ar
lington.
■kTMlba Eaeino tar -.at*
■Washington. Dec. «a -Ex Secretary
*f State Foster bed a brief conference
With the president, after which the
iresident approved the bill "prohibit,
ng the killing of fur seals in tha wa-
ter* of the North PMific oceau,” pu«ed
{■• d*J PonRtetf ftdjtiurntd for tht»
holiday*.