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AMERICUS TTMES-RECORDER.
VOLUME 8
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1898.
NUMBER 25
REMEMBER
HALF MILLION LOSS
BY TENNESSEE FIRE
Detractive Blaze Visits the
City of Clarkesville.
VAN WYCK ENDORSED
BY BOLD DEMOCRATS
Nominee Satisfies the Yellow
Metal Advocates.
'J'HAT we are going out of the Dry Goods business. BIO DEPOT LAID IN ASHES POSITION CLEAELYSTATED
JHAT we give you everything in this line at and below cost
w .\v,> c &M' * i
T HAT we do not quote prices in newspapers and on cir
culars.
JHAT we quote prices over our counters.
THAT it is' money in your pocket to buy your fall goods
* at our place.
T
'HAT our goods were bought as cheap, if not cheaper,
than any others. x
'I HAT cotton, our dependency, is cheap, and that it is to
' is your interest to spend your money where it will
buy the most.
T HAT we intend to dose out our Dry Goods is no “fake’
and therefore your money will buy the, most at
our place. '
THAT we could not afford to sell these goods at cost if we
1 intended to continue.
r HAT We carry a complete line of Clothing, Shoes, Hats
and Gents’ Furnishings. *
T HAT we will sell you at prices lower than you ever bought
them before.
T HAT all we ask is to give us a cal! and let us show you
' through. Then you will be convinced,
i Respectfully, '
Allen. & Sheffield,
E. D. SHEFFIELD, Manager.
Flame, Supposed to Have Been of
Incendiary Origin Do Great Damage
and Threaten the Whole Town
Before Finally Checked.
Clarkesville, Tenn.,Ocfc 5.—One 61
the moat destructive Area in thla city in
years occurred at 1 -.30 a. m. today, burn*
ing the Grange Tobacco warehouse, the
Lonisvillo and Nashville railroad freight
depots, Grncey’s storage warehouse and
a number ol tenement honses. The en
tire loss is estimated at |500,000.
It is not known how the Are origi
nated, but it ie believed to be the work
of incendiaries. It Ant started in the
Grange warehouse, near the office, and
ill a tew minutes the entire building
was a mass of flames. It spread to tbs
freight depot and Gracey’s coal shed,
the Aames covering five acres at one
time.
The Grange warehouse contained
abont 4,600 hogsheads of tobacco, and is
a total loss. This tobacco belonged to
Turaley & Gill, the Atlantic Snuff com
pany and A. H. Clark & Bra princi
pally, and a number of hogsheads were
owned by other tobacconists. The loss
on the tobacco alone in thin warehouse
is estimated at abont $460,000, with
abont $300,uOO insurance.
The main bnilding at the Louisville
and Nashville depot was valued at $0!
000. There was an annex at each end,
valued at $3,000 each, bnt only one of
these burned. There was comparatively
little freight in the depot One of the
annexes was Ailed with tobacco, bnt
this was saved. The main depot and
the western annex were completely de
stroyed. All of the books and records
were saved. Six freight can were de
stroyed with their contents.
Gracey Bros’, ooal shed, across the
street from the Grange warehouse, was
destroyed with all of its contents. This
shed was used for general storage pur
poses. The loss on this bnilding and
oontents is believed to be heavy.
Five tenement honses were destroyed.
The Grange warehouse was the larg
est tobacco warehouse ih the world and
had a floor space covering five acres. It
waa comparatively new and was occu
pied by several firm.
The warehouse was built at a coat of
$66,000 end was only partially covered
by insurance. It belonged to the estate
of the late L. F. Grange.
Senator Baoou at Home. ,
Macon, Oct. 6.—Senator A. O. Bacon
has returned to Macon from his stamp
ing tonr of the Eleventh district, where
he has been speaking with Congress
man Brantley.
Another Trial Demanded.
Atlanta, Oct. 6.—Argument for a
new trial in the case of Doable Mur
derer Flanagan is going on before the
supreme coart. \
Chicago Platform Men Hold a Meeting
and Name Henry George to Hem! an
Independent Ticket In the Stute of
New York.
New York, Oot. I.—The executive
committee of the national Democratic
party, the gold standard Democrats,
met and decidod that Justice. Augastns
0. Van Wyck was acceptable to them
as a candidate for governor. It wat
also decided that as long as Justice Van
Wyck remained at the head of the ticket
tho national Democratic party would
remain neutral, or at least would not be
a disturbing element among Democrats.
At a meeting of the Chicago platform
Democrats, Henry George, the son of
the late single tax advocate, was nomi
nated to head an independent. Demo
cratic ticket. The nomination of El
liott F. Danforth for lictatenant gov
ernor by the regular Democratic con-
volition at Syracuse was indorsed.
The other candidates iiomiunted are
as follows: Secretary.of state, Gideon
J. Tncker; comptrol er, J. McDonough,
Albany; treasurer, M- C. Caton, Buffalo;
attorney general. Ole F. Snider, Buffalo;
engineer and surveyor. General James
A. Lee, Rockland county.
The meeting was not by any means
harmonious. In fact there were two
meetings. At the close of the two meet
ings Colonel Fisk, the opposing chair-
man, announced himself for George.
Mr. George will accept the nomination,
it is said.
The Chicago clatform in its Cuurety
was reaffirmed.
SACRILEGE TO CALL
MISS HILL DAUGHTER
Gordon Declares Winnie Can
Not Be Beplaeed.
TITLE DIES WITH 0WNEB
THE WAR IS OVER
But cut prices on Summer Footwear are still on
AT RYLANDER’S. Fall stock of Shoes for
Ladies, Men and Children arriving daily.
The Latest Styles In
PENT’S...
FINE HATS
At Lowest Prices, at
Arthur Rylander’s.
Corner Lamar and Jackson Street'-
A CHANGE OP BUSINESS
In order to devote my entire time and attention to my real esta*i buiinsss. 1
nave disposed of my Insnranrs business to Me **. r *: 1 IhU ffim^’he Uberal
centime to reoraaent my several cotnpaolet. I bfiipeik for tbi* urm t&o liberal
patronagoheretoforo extended me by the business men of Am erlon. and farmer.
of Sumter. Reapeotfully, JOHN B FELDER.
In purchasing the Insorince business of Mr. John B. p ®’ der ®°“'
tinuanoe of the favors extended him, and will look closely r ter the expiry Ion of
policies written by him; will renew same u they expireurl^s «<*
So so. We represent the best Are, life nnd accident Insr- we twmpsuies, hath
Ammican and British, end can give yon Insurance on city or caun J property at
lowest rates. *URLOW & JONES.
Nice Home,
College Street;
ComelQviok.
M .CALLAWAY, AGENT
iCitti
We are sure you do not.
Nobody wants it. But it comes
to many thousands 4-cry year.
Itcomes to those wl»5 have had
coughs and colds until the
throat is raw, and the lining
membranes of the lungs are
inflamed. Stop your cough
when it first a;pears, and you
remove the great danger of
future trouble.
Auers
rry
pectoral
stops coughs of all kinds. It
does so because it is a sooth-
ingand healing remedy of great
power. This makes H the great
est preventive to consumption.
Put one of
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
Plasters over your lungs
4 whole Medical
Ubrarj Free.
For four clists In atampa topnypfHts
ifce^a* will tend you ^uteto maUUau
Madlcml Advico Free,
We hare the eaclualve serrieea of
»<>me Of tile moat eminent physician*
Id the United t>u$tea. Unusual sppor*
tubitiee and Ionic exportence rini-
■
nently fit them for (tiring you medical
advice. WvMo treelr tfl the partic
ular* tn your care. You will recetro i
r m *seb£ i &s t *vg iSi Rfcj
NEXT HOUSE DEMOCRATIC?
Congressmen Livingston nnd Derry
Kxprct Victory Tills Full.
Washington', Oot. 1.—Representative
Berry of Kentucky, who has been here
looking after the interests of constitu-
ents in tho volanteer army, is confident
of Democratic snccess in Kentucky.
“We expect to have eight or nine oi
the 11 representatives after the fall elec
tion!. This will ."bo a gain of two or
three, and I do not believe the gains in
Democratic members will be confined
to Kentucky. The treatment of the
soldiers by the present administration
will operate against it at the ptflls.”
Representative Leonidas F. Living
ston of Georgia, in discussing the politi
cal outlook, said:
“Our troubles are over. The nomina
tions have been made and we are con
fident of election. Republicanism has
mads no gains in my state. The hor
rors of camp life have appealed with
greater force to the people than any
campaign literature. It is my belief
the next house will be Democratic by
abont 16 or 30 members. I do not be
lieve we will have a big majority, bnt
It will be sufficient t6 control. I -esti
mate that only abont 27 changes are
necessary to give us a majority.”
PREFIX IS NOW ABANDOKED.
National Di-mocrany Loses Its Identity
In the State of Kentucky.
Frankfort, Ky., Oct! 6.—The na
tional Democratic organisation, from
meager reports of registration in Ken
tucky towns, sooms to have practically
lost its identity as a party in this state.
Senator Lindsay and nearly all the
leaders of the party, as well as a ma
jority of the rank and file registered as
Dsmocrats, discarded distinctions sack
1 "gold” and “national Democrats."
Reports from everywhere show light
registration as compared with 1890 and
last year, and the Goebel election law,
which received its first practical test,
seems to have given no cause of com
plaint to cither.
Federuis Invite Confederates.
New Orleans, Oct. 6.—Adjutant
General Moorman, by order of General
J. B. Gordon, commanding United Con
federate veterans, issnes an order stating
that a cordial fraternal letter has been
received at theso headquarters from
General T. 8. Clarkson, past commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
now general manager of tbe Trans-
mississippi and International exposition
at Omaha, Neb., especially inviting aU
ex-confederates to attend that exposi
tion dnring peace jubilee weak, from
Oot. 10 to 15.
Revenue Men on tbe Alert.
Greenville, S. O., Oot L — The
United States mail wagon was held np
and searched in front of the police head
quarters by Revenue Officer Biyantand
au assistant. It seems that tbs officers
smelled whisky when the wagon passed
on its way to the postoffice and ran
after it, pulled open tbe wire door and
searched the empty wagon. The negro
driver drew his pistol and called a hall
on the proceedings. No whisky was
found and tbe postal authorities may
have Bryant’s conduct investigated.
Waycross Has a Tragedy.
Wavcrow, Ga., Oct. L—U. Perritt
Lanier, son of T. E Lanier, was killed
here by Scott Beaton. The former
went in the letter’s store and cursed
him Both were unarmed when the
quarrel started. Lanier is said to have
told Boston he was going to send for A
pistol and kill him. Beaton managed
to get poesession of a revolver and when
Lanier entered tbe store again the kilt
ing occurred. Beaton surrendered.
Commander of the Old Veterans Says
He Is Opposed to Designating tbe
, Chicago Young Lady -j Child of the
Confederacy.
Reynolds, Ga., Sept. 80.—General
John B. Gordon. commander-in-chief of
the United Confederate veterans, is
bis plantation near here resting and at
intervals panning his literary work.
The general was shown the Associated
Press dispatch from Chicago in which
Miss Lnoy Lee Hill claims to have had
the title “Daughter of the Confederacy"
conferred upon her by her southern
friends since tbe death of Winnie Davis:
The general was asked if tbe title could
be thus transferred and replied with
great earnestness:
•'Emphatically no. Min Winnie was
tbe only daughter of President Davis
born in the oonfederate ‘White House’
during the life of the confederacy. As
Jefferson Davis was the only president
of the confederate government, no
daughter of any other official conld
truly represent tbe confederacy. For
that reason it would not be appropriate
to csCll even the daughter of General
Robert E. Lee the ‘Daughterof tbe Con
federacy. ’ To designate any one else as
‘Daughter of the Confederacy’ would
nqt only be inappropriate and meaning-
less, bnt would deprive the title of ail
its value. ,
"In tbe very nature of the case no one
except Miss Winnie Davis is entitled to
be called the ^Daughter of the Confed
eraev.’ That title was nnique and pe
culiarly her own and is very,properly
to be'placed on her tomb. Todesignate
anyone else by that title 'woald be al
most a sacrilege. 1
"As with Jefferson Davis passed the
title of president of the Confederacy, so
with Miss Winnie has passed that of
‘Daughter of the Confederacy.’"
FIVE GUILTY OF MURDER.
Jury- In the Famous Thompson Case
Returns Its Verdict.
Birmingham," Ala., Sept. 80.—In U»?
United States court, after ten days’
trial, the jury in the case of tbe five
Talladega citizen*—Chess Motes, Dodge,
Blankenship, Walter Metes, J. Robert-
sou and Jobn Littlejohn—charged with
The Royal is the highest grade heking powder
ksowe. Actual teats shew it ffeec owe-
third further thus ooy other breed.
&AKIH0
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL MMKO POWOUt BO., HEW YORK.
BAYARD DEAD AFTER
FIVE WEEKS ILLNESS
_ I
Famous Delaware Statesman
Breathes His Last.
JUST SIXTY YEARS OF AGE
having waylaid and murdered W, A. ititution.
Thompson, a government witness, near Begins the Study of Law.
Sylacaugu, Ala., in March but, brought
in a verdict of guilty.
Tbe jury recommended all but Chess
Motes to the mercy of the court.- The
case was full of sensatious. Robert
Taylor, who first made a confession in
the commissioners’ court, made hia es
cape after tho trial was on five or six
days. Then Chess Motes, another ol
the defendants, made a confession, say-
ing be ami Taylor did the killing, and
tbo others were not there.
Motes will probably get a life sen-
fence in tbe penitentiary and tbe others
shorter time. A big reward is offered
for Taylor’s capture.
Fever In Mexico Spreading.
Austin, Oct., 6.—The state board of
heath has received iuformatiou from
Mexico stilting that the yellow fever
sitnation there is growing worse instead
of better and that the tiuinbsr of cases
are increasing daily. Tbe mortality is
not reported as very heavv, however.
Tbo border guard has been strengthened
again by more men to keep fever escapes
from getting into the Untied Slates.
Ambassador to Great Britain Daring
President Cleveland's Second Term
and a Staunch Friend of the South
In Civil War Times. ..-ISmB
Dedham, Masa, Sopt. 29.—Thomas
F. Bayard of Maryland, fanner senator
and ambassador to Kugland, who fob
five weeks had boon IU at his daughter's*
residence here with artoria-rolorosi and!
a general breaking down of tho system,
is dead, aged GO years.
The remains will be conveyed to Dela
ware and the fnueral services held Sat
urday in the old Swedish charoh at
Wilmington.
Thomas Francis Eayard was l)om tot
Wilmington, Del., Oct. 29, 1838. Ho
oarly had aspiration for publlo Hftu
Notwithstanding this it was decided to;
fit him for basinets lifo, and be was'
sent to Now York, where ho entered the
conntingroom of bis brother-in-law, Au
gustas Van.Cortlandt Seliemiorhorn, an.
importer. .There ho learned the modus
ruudi of the customhouse and its in-
machinery, a knowledge which
open
jodaNBI
proved of the greatest value 30 years
later, when ho was a member of the
senate committee to investigate* that iu-
Tfae public
schools teach al
most every known
, ■ branch of study
but the one most
j • important branch
, of all. What does
it profit your son
“V If he has an intel-
■- lect like a Newton,
and is mentally an
Admiral Crichton,
if he has a weak
and puny body
'’and not the re
motest idea of
how to care for
his health ? A
boy should be
taught from the
start that hia
health is his most
precions endow
ment. Without health, all the talent, all
the genius, and all the ambition fin the
world are worthiesa. A boy should be
taught that success in any walk of life, that
happiness, and life itself, are dependent
upon his care of Jlis health. '
When a mmn a feets that he la losing his
health and vigor, when his cheeks no Tong-
er glow, his step is no longer elastic and
the sparkle of health ia no longer in his
eyes, he should work leuy rest more and
resort to tbe right remedy to restore his
bodily vigor. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery is a natural medicine—a scientif
ic medicine. It does no violence to nature.
It works with and not against nature. It
promotes the natural processes of secretion
and excretion. It imparts vitality and
power to the whole system. It gives
plumpness and color to the cheeks, sparkle
to the eyes, steadiness to tbe nerves,
strength to the muscles and the animation
of health to the whole body. It makes the
appetite keen end hearty. It is the great
blood-maker, flesh-builder and nerve-tonic
end restorative. Medicine dealers sell it
and have absolutely nothing else "just
es good/'
X was
running sores o* race si
a. Wert, Esq., of No. 615 Galloway Ave.,
bus, Ohio 1, 1 took Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Dtreomyaod -pleasant Pellets,' and was cored."
Constipation ia the commonest beginning
and first cause of many serious diseases and
it should always be treated with Dr. Pierce’s
Pleasant Pellets used in connection with the
" Discovery.”-. These are the moat perfect
latural laxatives and permanently cure^
At the age of 10 his older brotlicrdied
and he was recalled to Delaware and
began the study ol' law. In 1851, when
he woe but 28 years old, lie was itdsl]
mitted to tbo bar ami soon built up a
good practice. Two years afterward ho
was appointed United States district at
torney for Delaware, bnt resigned tho'
next year. In 1866 ho wentto Phlladet-
E bia and became a law partner of Wll-
am Shiypen, bnt in 1837. returned to
his nractice in Wilmington, where ho 1
continued in tho law till 1868, when he
was elected to the United States senate.
It most not be understood that during
all these years Mr. Bayard .bud kept out
of polities. On tbo contrary, he was
one of tbe mast active men in his stare,
bnt bis autiviiy did not, save for the
brief period of his. service as United
States attorney, extend to offioeholdiug
or offleeeeekiug. His father was the rec
ognized standard bearer of the family
until Thomas F’t eloction to the senate.
Dnring tho first term of the younger
Bayard the senior was his oolleague a
part of the time, both being chosen by
the same legislature on the same day,
Thomas F. tor a foil term and his father
to fill an nnexpired term. Thomas F.
Bayard was particularly active in poll-'
tics during the civil war, hit most
table utterance of that period being-a
speech delivered before a pnbllo meet
ing at Dover in favor of peaoe with tbs
south.
REMEMBER
YOU SAVE.. ^9
25 per peni
ON .
Men’s Furnishing
Goods and Hats
Besides having the l3l
largest and nicest
stocklin Southwest
Georgia to'select
from, at
Haberdashery
and
Big Shoe House,
Bring the CASH and save^
the_money.j j
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