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AMERICUS TIMES- RECORDER.
VOLUME-9
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1899.
NUMBER 11
I m GOING
TO MOVE.--
CONFIDENT OF A VICTORY
On or about July i5th. I will remove my stock of
goods (or as much of it as is unsold) to the store recently
occupied by the Americus Jewelry Company, No. 421 Jack
in street. Now is yoar chance to buy Dry Goods, Cloth- »'"*• t«.«» am muomtcou.
i-g, Shoes, Hats, Gents Furnishings etc. CHEAP. 'Tis
cosier to buy than it is to sell, and ’tis easier to sell than it
to move, but sell these goods or move them we must
We always choose the easier way—hence we choose to sed
In order to sell we must offer inducements. Here they are,
Look at these prices.
Wash Goods.
Htislard Shirtings, prints, 5c qua).. . : J jc|
ire::? figured Lawn*, fast colors worth
5 , at 'lie.
Bran new lot of figured Batiste, worth
- cents, at c yard.
of yard wide Percales, wort!
cents, at 5o yard.
Very best English Percales cheap at
cents, now lOcyerd,
Beautiful tine of Impeiial Organdie,
only M cents yard.
^echiniir Dimities, worth 15c yard,
no* 10c yard.
Entire stock of Cordette, the new and
popular fabric, worth 15c, during this
sate 1 He yard.
Ez'lre stock of figured and solid colored
t*. K., worth 12}o. now 10c yard
i',;. grade colored P. K. non l-'Jc yard,
quality White Welt P. K., this sale
13 cents yard.
lie bare n lot of White Goods in plain
India Linens, Check Nainsooks snd
-riped and Crossbarred eifects, suit
able for dresses and waists from 5c yd.
:p: big out on all of them.
;r19 pieces only Silver Star Madras,
co at this sale (or 10c yd, worth 16c
everywhere.
Ectire stock good quality lOo Ginghams
to go at 6c yard
T :.'e du Nord Ginghams—you know
team—only 8 1-2 yard.
F ir lots Hamburg Edging worth c.
i'Jo, 12 1 2, 15c, to go at (If, 8c and lOo
respectively.
Tine Prices are for CASH ONLY.
'.Ynen goods are charged it will be at
r regular prices, and not at this cut
Gents Furnishing Goods.
doz. Monts 6-p|y Linen Collars, per
fectly new, latest styles, better than
E. «fe W,, only 15c each, $1 50 dozen.
Our entire stock of Neckwear, including
Tecks, Puffs, our-in-Hands, Band
Bowp, String Ties, etc. will be sacri
ficed during this sale, as wo desire to
put in a new stock in our new place.
Big lot of 50o Neckwear thrown out
for 25 cents.
Several lots of Negligee and White
bhirts to close at a sacrifice. Come
end see them.
One lot of fine White Dimity Negligee
Shirts, standard make, sizes 1<> and
10 1-2 only, ch« ap at 31 00, to close 75c
Best line of 50.?, act! 75c Negligee Shirts
in Americus.
Clothing Department.
One lot of Crash Saits to close oat re
gardless of value as we are going to
quit keeping this line of goods.
We still have a complete line of fancy
Cassimere and Worsted Suits, as
well as Blue Serges, which we will
offer at greatly reduced prices during
this sale.
OnrSboe stock is entirely new. So
old stock or back numbers. We will
sell these new stylish goods from 10
to.25 per cent less than they can be
bought for elsewhere.
It is impossible to mention prices on
every thing we carry, but greatly re
duced prices will rule in every de
partment during this sale.
These prices are for cash only; no deviation from this rule
Don’t fail to come Monday morning and let us show
you through. Veiy truly,
YALE-HARVARD MEN
LEAVE FOR ENGLAND
They Are to Meet Britons In
Athletic Contests.
dltlon Mild (ilveu h Heitrty SeudolT
■■ the American Liner St. Louie,
With the l*«rty on Board, Sails.
New York, July 5. —The Yale-Har
vard athletic team, which is to compete
with Oxford and Cambridge, sailed to
day on the Amcricau liuer St. Louis tor
England. Ail of the men weie in ex
cellent condition.
The men were givon an enthusiastic
farewell at the dock and were accompa
nied to England by over 60 Yale and
Harvard men, who go to cheer on their
team. Of the team 18 are from Har
vard and nine from Yale. All the men
selected were ou board. Captain Roche
of the Harvard contingent, and one of
the 100 yard men, said before sailing:
“We are going over confident that
we are going to do .well. Both Burke
and Qniulau are ou board, and I do not
anticipate having trouble on their ac
count.
“The men are all anxious to get to
work and while I cannot say what the
result will be, I can say that we are
going to make a good showing. This
belief is shared by ail the men and with
that spirit we are going to do work
which I think Americans will not have
cause to be ashamed of.”
James G. Lathrop, trainer of the Har
vard men, said:
“The men at present are in good
health and show the result of training.
Of coarse the majority of them have
never beeu across the pond and the
effect of the trip on them is a matter of
speculation. I believe they will be back
in form a few days after we get on land.
If they should suffer from the effete of
the ocean voyage, it will haupicap ns,
but this is one of the things we cannot
help.
We are goiug direct to Brighton,
where we will gray until the games.
The result remains to be seen. b'it yon
inav rest assured that it will be one of
which no one need be ashamed.”
HAVOC WROUGHT BY
OVERFLOW IN TEXAS
Great Loss of Life and Heavy
Damage to Property.
FINE LANDS UNDER WATER
PREPARING CODE OF LAWS.
LEE ALLEN.
4
Full (Established Whiskey
Quarts ln ,88 ‘-) for=
13,58
“OLD SHARPE WILLIAHS”
Express pre-paid. Guaranteed 8 years old,
Physicians recommend this fine Old Rye for Medical use.
It is absolutely pure, bottled at .he Distillery without any
i*■*uIteration. Goods shipped in plain package without
marks to indicate contents. If not satisfactory, you can
return at our expense and we will refund money at once.
me goods as above, in a fancy jug. boxed, for $3 25, or
■ ithout boxing fer $3 per gallon, express prepaid. Send
hr price list and other infoimation, as we handle all the
leading brands of fine Rye and Bourbon Whiskies sold in
tr.is market, and can save you 50 percent.
The Altmayer 6 Flatau Liquor Co.,
506 ntid 508 Fourth.st.
Near Union Depot.
Macon, Georgia,
Pne 265.
Ml other goods by the gallon, such as corn nbisker, peach and apple
dully ns low, from $1.25 per gallon ami upward*. We
■ 80l<! cqtliilly —
specialty of tho jug trade anil all orders by mail or telegraph will have
rupt attention. {Special inducements offered.
■yy/E Guarantee
Our Popular Price
...SHOES
Insular Commission Will 1'ut Into
Korea Moilmi StAtutrs.
Washington, Jnly 5. —Since the or
der of the president continuing the
legal existence of the insular commis
sion the members have been busily en
gaged in preparing a code of laws to
take the place of the Spanish statutes.
The best legal advice tho commission
ers have been able to obtain supports
their own view that such a new code
can be legally adopted by the military
government of the island with the sanc
tion of the president and without await
ing the action of congress.
Such a step would give the islanders
the advantage of modern laws tinder
which the regeneration of the island
could l)e carried on by its military gov
ernor as long as was desirable before
raising the question of Porto Rico's ad
mission to actual state or territorial
right a.
It is considered probable that a large
part, at least, of the new code of laws
being formulated by the commission
will be adopted aud put in force before
the meeting of congress.
A Surgrou Dies of Fever.
Washington, July 5.—The war de
partment has received a dispatch from
{Santiago do Cuba stating that Surgeon
Clendeaiu diod there yesterday of yel
low fever.
Sooner or lat
ery woman mu:
Wit!) Death.
r ev-
lot duel
Nature
n:
rovicLeu nor witn
\Jtnktafrru-tM-a«-e T ‘ V_‘.
I'/kk 1 pmu-ci
i, llic a:
L. DOUGLAS’, for Men and Boys.
H. C. GODMAN CO’S,-] fo. Ladies and
Children.
That
her best Je
tt iw* against
Death at the
time that
Death comes
closest to her
when she
becomes a
mother.
Dr. Piei
More Service, Comfort and Better
Styles for less than any other
Shoes made. *
ricHATH BROS.
FOR RENT!
H use and lot No. 814 Church St; 7 rooms besides kitchen
:;r -J bath room. Newly painted and in finecondition.
Apply u JOHN W. DANIEL,
at W D, Bailey’s
Favorite Prescription is designed for the
one purpose of curing ;ill diseases, or dis
orders of the feminine system, except can
cer. It stops debilitating drains, soothes
inflammation, promotes regularity of the
monthly function and puts the whole fe
male organism into a state of strong, vig
orous health.
Taken during the period of gestation it
robs childbirth of its pain and danger.
Over 250.000 grateful women have written
of the wonderful help of the ‘ Favorite Pre
scription.” Among other* Mrs. Cordelia
Henson, of Coalton, Boyd Co., Ky., writes :
In October lU) I gsvc birth to a baby and
District Flooded Is Five Hundred
Billet Long by Fifty Wide mid the
Planters Are Bloving About In Has
tily Built Boats.
Houston, July 5.—A correspondent
has just returned from a voyage through
the flooded districts. The half has not
been told of the havoc wrought. The
disaster is so appalling that description
Is not possible. After this flood will
come sickness undoubtedly and what a
week ago was the fairest part of Texas
is now almost a God forsaken wilder
ness.
The waters of the Brazos have for six
days covered its valley to a depth of
from 6 to 80 feet; where a week ago
there were on every hand fields of cot
ton and corn and thousands of acres of
watermelons and cantaloupes, today
there is slimy mud over all the vegeta
tion, the land, the carcasses of cows,
males, pigs, dogs and cats; mayhap hu
mans, for many are missing.
Our party left Bryan at sunrise yei-
terday morning, going to the Navosota
bottoms and to a point abont 3 miles
from Millicom. Here W'ere encountered
everywhere an overflow from the Nava-
sota which spread oat fally 2 miles on
either side of the Houston and Texas
Central track.
Everything is nnder water from 2 to
17 feet. It looked on all sides like a
great lake, and the water was so high
that for a vast area it completely sub
merged tho telegraph and telephone
poles along the line. In truth, portions
of the Navosota bottoms are even now
a perfect sea, extending 4 or 5 miles
wide at certain points. I saw hundreds
of houses there totally submerged aud
as many more were swept from their
foundations and destroyed. Tue plant
ers of the bottoms are still moving their
help and whatever is left of their stock
to places Where they can be cared for.
They are all nobly helping each other
and taking refuge wherever they can,
some of tnem seeking safety on house
tops. All tho planters stated that the
outside world has no conception of the
floods or losses incurred by the destruc
tion of crops, stock and buildings.
Nearly every planter has built boats aud
sent them through the flooded districts
to render assistance to the people and if
possible save some of their drowning
stock.
The flood district has a length of over
500 miles, a breadth of probably 60 miles
and in ail this vast space damage incal
culable has been done. The loss to life
will never be fniljr known, perhaps; tho
bottoms were thickly settled, mostly
with negro tenant farmers;among these
has been the greatest loss of life.
To show the damage done the follow
ing estimates have been made by men
who are in a position to know: Lives
lost, from 100 to 300; loss to farmers, in
cluding crops as well as live stock, from
$5,000,000 to $15,000,000; Damags to
railroads snd county bridges, $2,000,000
to $4,000,000.
These estimates take in the whole
area. It is known that more than 60
people have met their death; that many
Baking
[Powder
Absolutes* foiRE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
WOVAl SAjOge gOMgSS CO., MEW YOWL
MEMPHIS VISITED BY
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
Loss May Reach Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
GAY0S0 HOTEL IN RUINS
(Conner Clllef Clary Probably Fatully
Injured While l-lglitlug lb. Flame*,
a Negro Cremated and Several Peo-
pla More or I. ft* Seriously Hurt.
Memphis, July 6.—July 4, 1899, will
remain memorable as furnishing a full
■bare of excitement aud disaster for
Memphis. A day of activity in the em
pioyment of fireworks in celebration of
Independence day closed with a confla-
gration entailing a loss of between $400,.
000 and $450,000, incinding the historic
'Jayoso hotel
Added to the monetary loss was the
probable fatal injury of ex Fire Chief
J. E. Clary, the serious hurting of At*
■iitant Fire Chief J. V. Ryan, tbedeath
of a negro in the American Biscnit com.
pony’s plant and more or less in juries to
a number of others.
The origin of the fire, which started
in the basement of the Memphis Paper
company's storehouse on the west side
of Front street, between Union and Me-
call streets, is a mystery. The place
was olosed for the day and the fire be
gan its work in the rear part of the
basement abutting on the levee and
difficult of access.
The heaviest losses by the conflagra
tion ars the American Biscuit company,
the Memphis Paper company, Bluthen-
•hal & Hell Bronner, wholesale liquor
dealers, aud the Gayoso hotel. A de
tailed statement of the insurance can
not be obtained at present, but it is be
lieved it will Oover more than half the
lms.
INCENDIARISM AT WILSON.
FEW VOLUNTEERS TO
REMAIN IN HARNESS
Otis Cannot Get Enough For
a Single Regiment.
REGULARS WILL BE SENT
Under Instructions to Recruiting Offi
cers There Are to Be No Educational
or Citizenship Quallticatlona Ia the
Enlistment of Men.
bodies have been recovered; it if not be
lieved that all of them will ever be re
covered.
FOUND DYING ON A ROOF.
Atlanta Man Drlnk-t Too Much Lnu-
dauum by Design or Accident.
Atlanta, Jnly 5.—David P. Morris,
an old aud respected resident of this
city, was found unconscious on tho top
of the Forestry building at Exposition
park yesterday and died at his homo
last night without uttering a word that
might havo tended to clear up tho
tragedy.
A small vial that had contained land
annm was found by his side and has led
to the advancement of two theories—
suicide or accidental overdose, taken to
indnee sleep.
The victim came to Atlanta just after
tho war and was in the grocery bus!
ness with his brother for several years
Recently he has beeu m the real estate
business with his sons He was a na-
Genrgi.im and fought all through
the civil *war in the confederate army.
He was otieof the landmarks of the city
and had 4 wide circle of friends anil
acquaintances.
He was possessed of considerable
ropertv and there was nothing about
Is business affairs to induce him to
commit suicide. He leaves a wife and
three children.
CcvmniKftloiier of limirnnce Young to
Make nil investigation.
Raleigh, July 5.—Commissioner of
Insurance Young has left for Wilson to
contisne the investigation into the cause
of tho iucendiary fires. These fires be
gan last autumn and they were then
political in character; that is, they were
due to the high feeling glowing out of
the election and the repression of the
disorderly element among the negroes.
They have continued since and the good
people there are stirred up
The insurance commissioner has as
much power in the case of fires as a
coroner has in an investigation of a
death nnder suspicions circumstances,
and the local authorities are required to
co-operats with him. This is particu
larly the case so far as the mayor aud
chief of the fire department are con
cerned. The latter are required to look
Into tbs causes of fires and if there are
suspicions circumstances to promptly
report the same to the insurance com
panies.
Quite naturally the insurance com
panies will cooperate with marked
heartiness. The insurance commis-
siguer is a shrewd man aud taken all
around there is every reason for belief
that the law will bring about some very
good results. There are some places in
tins stato where the companies have
known that incendiarism is by no means
rare.
FARMERS MAY ORGANIZE.
and found
l so many
. life wu . burden to me
.nd atm to all the family, for I wu nervous and
crow and I could not sleep. Had four doctors.
They mid 1 had liver, tuux and uterine
trouble. I was in bed lor months snd when [
Aid get up, I was a sight to behold. I looked
like a corpse walking about. I commenced tak
ing i>r. Pierce's favorite Prescription and In a
few weeks I became a well, woman. Before I
began the nac of Dr. Pierce', medicine 1 suf
fered all a woman could auBcr at my monthly
periods, but now I have no pain. The dark
circle, around my eye* are gone and I feel better
my face ia
ircles around my eye. are gone and I fi
n every way. My cheeks are red and l
shite; before my face was aa yellow as
A Now llotri-stead Decision.
Colcmpja, ti. c., Jnly 5.—The in-
preme court has just rendered a decis
ion which will be of general interest.
The effect of the decision is that a party
may will or devise bis homestead after
it has been net aside. It i, a radical
opinion aud eeeme to open up aa en
tirely new phase of thi* much discussed
question. The title of the caee is An-
gueta A. D. Bostick venae Eloiee Chovi,
■nd went ap to the supreme court from
Barnwell county.
dwindling the Old Slaves,
Charleston, July 5.—Negro mUeiou-
trie, in tb« lower eection of the itate
are still taking the dollar* irom the oio
glxTee whose heads are eet on getting
government pension*. According to the
estimate of officer*, there are nearly
2,000 member* of the order in Bomb
Carolina. The fact that each member
pay* $1.85 for the privilege sbowi bow
mnch U being collected, though jntl
where thi* mppey gger if u«t explained.
Lnr-rly Attended unit Ktilfiusbtsllc
Mr. tln|{ ut Seneca,
Sestca, S. C , July 5. —A meeting to
demonstrate that the South Carolina al
lianco is not dead was held at Seneca
yesterday, there being 8,000 persons
present. Among the speakers were
Senator 'llilmnn. Congressmen Latimer
and Talbert and President XViiberu ot
tin* state alliance.
It was evident from ihe burden ol
speeches that' there is a purpose now
on loot to form an alliance ot farmers,
merchants and others. Ii was admitted
that the farmers could uot atone rhrot
tie the ttu.t*. President Wilteru an
nounccd that a state convention of tin
alliance would he held the latter part of
this moutn, and urged “backsliders" to
come in. puy up dnes and take a hand.
When ireuator Tillman told the audi
ence they were elaves, a man ques
tinned;
"Who made us that way?”
"The fools that vote to put scoundrel-
in office," yelied tire senator. "Tht
musses are misled by capital which owt
the -newspaper.*.' and the country i-
drifting to tho devil. Bryan will bt
the next president, aud he will he
elected ou the Gcal* platform."’
California Wine at Paris.
New York, Jnly 4—Major Brack
ett, secretary of the United States com
mission to the Paris exposition, said to
day that so great had been the demand
for apaco in the agricultural depart-
meat’s exhibit of' beverages that the
California wine growers, while they
would be represented in the government
exhibit, had already engagad a boose
ontaide of the exposition grounds, where
California wines will be on exhibition
and ready tor distribution fo foreign
buyers.
Washington, July 8.—Having heard
from General Otis that he needs 6,838
men to fill up the regular regiments and
abont 2,000 men for the two volunteer
regiments he was authorized to enlist,
orders will be ironed tomorrow for the
ynlistment of 10,000 men. This will
aotaally give Otis about 44,000 men.
Allowing a loss of 12 per cent for dla*
ease, wounds, etc., which he states aa
the present peroentage of “ineffeo-
tires," he will bare, instead of an effec
tive force of 30,000 men, one of nearly
89,000.
The war department has anticipated
the need of men for the regular regi
ments and has sent 2,000 anas signed re
cruits to Manila within two week*.
Four thousand recruits are now being
drilled at the Presidio and will sail tha
middle of tne month, leaving only 888
more men to be supplied to the regular
regiments.
It is confidently predicted that by
Ang. 1 the eight regiment! to be organ
ized in this conn try and the 2,000 men
required for the two volunteer regi
ments at Manila will be ready to pro
ceed to Otis’ aid. In order to put tho
volnnteere ln an effective condition as
rapidly as possible eight military poets,
one for each Tegiment. will be selected,
to which reernits will be tent, as follows:
Plattsbnrg barracks, New York; Fort
Thomas, Ky.; Columbia barracks, Ohio;
Fort Sheridan, Ills; Leavenworth, Knife
and tho Presidio, California, and promt*
bly Fort Crook, Nob , and Vancouver
barracks.
Tho vacancies existing in tho regular
regiments under General Otis' com
mand representod men whoso terms of
enlistment have expired, and not cas
ualties. Most of the vacancies exist in
the regiments which sailed for Manila
with Merritt. Of the volunteers, 11,529
still temuin in Manila and those vyill be
returned as quickly as possible.
The fact that Otis has reduced to two
regiments the number to be organised
at Manila aud has asked for 2,000 men
to fill them op, shows that he has bad
mneh difficulty to obtain re-enlistmenta
of volunteers. It is estimated that be
baa obtained only 800 men, uot enough
to form une regiment.
Under the instructions to recruiting
officers, enlistments for 3-year recruits
intended for rvgnlar regiments and en
listments of volunteers for two years
will be made. In the case of the volnn-
nuteers there will be no reetrlctions as
in citizenship or educational qualifica
tions. Recruiting officers hare previ
ously beeu compelled to reject men who
were uot citizens of the Uuitcd States or
uneducated and have gone so far as to
throw out men who were flatfooted.
While it is intotidcd to obtain a* high a
class of man for the volunteer service
as possible, it is pointed out that tho
law will allow the enlistment ot re
cruits showing sufficient intelligence to
perform duty as American soldiers.
It was positively stated at the war
department today that no call bad beeu
is-ued for -15,000 additional volnnteers
and that there ie no immediate prospect
of such action. The interesting state
ment was made, however, that there
are now practically 85,000 men at Gen
eral Otis’ command whenever he wants
them. The troops necessary to bring
bis command in the Philippines np to
this figure fan be shipped to him as fast
as transports will take them away from
San Francisco,
The recruiting for tho regnlararnty
has brought that establishment up to
within 200 of its maximum strength.
The force that will be at General
Otis’ disposal when the new troops now
in this country reach him at the begin
ning of the fall campaign may he sum
marized as follows:
Seventeen regiments of regular in
fantry, 25,840 men; three new volunteer
regiments, 4,184; fonr batteries Third .
artillery, 489; ten batteries of Sixth.
1,230; the Fourth cavalry, 1,230; an en
gineer battalion, 200; signal corps, 160.
Total, 33,270 men.
ATTACK ON CALIFORNIANS.
News ot Trouble la the Island of Ne
gros (teaches Manila.
Manila, July 3.—Reporta have been
received here of an outbreak in tha
island of Negros incident upon the de
parture ot the California regiment tor
home.
Some hostile native*, feeing a com
pany of (oldier* at one ot the email
poete preparing to depart, thought the
American* were evacuating the island
and a party of 360 rebel*, mottiy Bolo-
men, attaoked the troops and killed one
’man and wounded another belonging to
Tfce*Filipinos were easily driven off.
The transport Sherman will bring the
California troop* to Manila before start-
ing for San Francucoi
The transport Grant will toon *m<
e Colorad,
hark the Colorado regiment.
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