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VOLUME L.] L E ”TH%\V L R£co«" t KR li,ll ‘' din mf. * Consolidated in 1872.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 21. 1879.
NUMBER 14.
MY PRAYER.
Lot me not die before I’ve done for thee
Mv earthly work, whatever it maybe,
Call me not hence with mission unfullilled,
Let me not leave my space of ground un
titled !
endure too long to adequately measure the
honors which freemen should pay to their
unepauletted martyrs of liberty.
Another source of the peculiar interest,
which invests the name of Jasper is to be
Impress this truth upon one—that not one . f ouut i j n {.he fact that he was an Irishman;
Can do my portion, that I leave undone,
Tor each one in thy vineyard hath a spot
To labor in for life and weary not.
Then give me strength all faithfully to
toil;
Converting barren earth to fruitful soil.
I long to be an instrument of thine,
To gather worshippers unto thy shrine;
To be the means one human soul to save,
From the dark terrors of a hopeless grave,
Yet most I want a spirit of content
To work where'er thou’lt wish my labors
spent,
Whether at home or in a stranger clime,
In days of joy or sorrow’s sterner time.
I want a spirit passive to lie still,
And by thy power to do thy holy will,
And when the prayer unto my lips doth
rise,
“Before a new homedoth my soul surprise,”
Lot me accomplish some great work for
thee;”
Subdue it Lord! let my’ petition be,
“O! make me useful in this world of thine,
In ways according to thy will not mine.”
Let me not leave my space of ground untill
ed;
Call me not hence with mission unfulfilled;
Let me not die before I’ve dune for thee
My earthly’ work, whatever it may be.
bear upon its summit the invisible seal oj minds and heart# of the colonists—is an all. The successful resistance of the moth-
Jehovah’s approval, can tower too high nor argument of local governmentand against er country by the American people would
the concentration of power in one great
central government. Iq addition, tire pro
ceedings of the convention which adopted
it, as well as the language of the Consti
tution itself, furnish a similar pointed ar
gument. The tenth amendment, reserving
that he did not permit the mournful state ’ to the States all powers not expressly dele-
inilicted by Great Britain upon his own | gated to the General Government, which
country and its people to deter him from stands to the Constitution like a posterion
enlisting in the cause of the feeble colonies clause to a will explaining the meaning of est, but inileoendeut in action within their
of itself have been a memorable event. The
establishment of a government on the
principles of the English Constitution or up
on the principles of a consolidated republic
would perhaps have been a natural event;
but the successful resistance by T the colo
nies in their capacity of independent own
ers, and the organization of a republic eom-
posed of tiiese sovereignty unified in inter-
THE ORATION OF
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON
Before the Jasper Mont mental, Asso
ciation of Savannah, on Thursday,
the 9th of October.
Gentlemen of the Jasper Monumental Asso
ciation and l tlloic Citizens:
Your request that 1 represent you in the
imposing ceremonies of the .hour came to
me with the force of an authoritative com
mand. Other engagements were relinquish
ed, that this duty might be discharged.
The novelty, as web as the elevated and pa-
triotie purposes of the occasion, must invest
it with a peculiar attraction to us ail. What
is it that brings together this vast con-
eourseof people from this and sister states?
It is not to celebrate thetriumphsof gerius
in civil life, nor to do honor to some great
military chieftuu; to no philosopher nor
sago; to no law-giver like Lyeurgus, or
Solomon, or Allred; to no conqueror like
Bonaparte, orCiesar, or Wellington; to no
founderof a.State like Bomulus.or Wash
ington; but to a modest, private soldier in
the ranks of the colonial army, do we pay
this tribute to-day. It is not your purpose,
however, by this ceremonial, to mar in any
degree the refrain which now liljs the world
with the do»yds of her titled chieftains, and
which makes the names of such men as
Washington, and Andrew Jackson, and Lee,
the true echoes of the world’s highest glory.
But you do propose for once to descend to
the ranks, and, ignoring the insignia of
place and power, to raise a shaft which
shall commemorate the courage, the patri
otism, and the virtue that invest, with a
peculiar charm and dignity, the life sacri
fices of the private soldier.
In this connection I wish again to inquire
why*, on this spot and upon this day, there
is assembled with a common impulse this
almost countless multitude? Why this u-
niversal tribute to - Sergeant Jasper? It is
true that in his life and death he illustrated
all those excellencies which'sparkle bright
est in the crown of virtue; but thousands
of your own countrymen in the late war,
and in the wars which preceded it, have liv
ed as devoted lives and met as heroic
deaths. It cannot, therefore, be solely due
to the fact that he so nobly discharged his
duty*, not because he refused the commis
sion tendered him by Governor Rutledge and
uttered these immmortal words: “Adver
sity* has been my schoolmaster, Liberty
my schoolmistress; let me serve my* coun
try as an humble and devoted laborer in
the cause of freedom.” It can not be because
ho leaped the ramparts and saved the flag
of South Caiolinu, when shot from its stan
dard ; nor because ho died upon the earth
works in this city, where he had borne,
while bleeding, the colors of his country—
for others, though rarely, have, like him,
refused the honors of rank and responsi
bilities of office, preferring to serve their
country in private station; others In the
same war and in other wars have forgotten
self, braved danger, faced death unblanch-
od, torn flags from the eneiny*’s hands,
planted their own upon hostile breast
works, or gone down at their base, cement
ing with blood tho monuments which patrio*-
tisru builds with tho bodies of her slain.
Sufficient, therelore, as are the promi
nent facts in Jasper’s life to command our
respiKit and homage, we must lind in other
and more philosophic considerations the
reason for this profound and universal in
terest in the commemoration of his life and
services.
There seems to be three causes for the
general homage paid to the memoryof this
patriot, to which I invite your attention.
The lirst is that he was a private soldier
and one of the most illustrious representa
tives the world ever saw of those self-sacri
ficing men, who in all armies fill its rallies,
suffer its bitterest privations, and boar the
brunt of war. The heart of universal hu
manity will respond to this day’s work as
an act of justice, not only* to Jasper him
self, but to all private soldiers whom ho so
conspicuously represents; and as this col
umn rises on the spot where Jasper fell, it
will proclaim to future ages ydur appreci
ation of the self-abnegation, the daring
courage, and tho unbought patriotism of
that vast army* of untitled soldiery who
with no incentive to action but devotion to
duty, no prospect of distinction above the
mass of their comrades, no hope of rewaid
save the approval of conscience, their coun
try and their God, have gone down in the
crash and carnage of war, to fill unlettered
graves.
1 rejoice that Georgia is jto build jucli a
monument, and I thank you, my country
men, that you have thought me worthy to
represent you in such a cause.. The truest
heroes of this earth are the men who, in any
sphere, serve and suffer, labor and endure,
in the cause of humanity*, or justice 1 , or
truth, without the hope of worldly glory.
The men who for truth’s sake brave pesti
lence are heroes, and the men who for lib
erty’s sake face death, as it thunders in ar
tillery or .speeds on the bullet’s wing, are
grand heroes; and the less prompted by
the pride of office or the hope of distinc
tion, the grander that heroism becomes.
God In his providence mingles good with
all the ills which befall man. Persecutions
and pestilence arc evils, but not wholly
evils, lor they furnish the theatre for the
exhibition of the loftiest courage, and de
monstrate how grand a being man may be
come when forgetful of self and consecra
ted to duty. YVar is an evil, but not wholly
an evil, for it arouses and inspires; it
awakes from slumber the mightiest ener
gies and manliest virtues ; just as the storm
which, while it lashes the ocean into rage,
shivers the masts and submerges navies,
yet purifies the waters which had become
foul with stagnation and reek with corrup
tion ; or to use a trite but, perhaps, more ex
pressive figure, war is a furnace in which
men are tried; and of all those who arc
tested by its tires the private soldier must
endure its hotest and fiercest flames. How
exalted the heroism of,such a man! In all
this universe there is not one spectacle
which surpasses in moral grandeur tho
self-abnegation of the private soldier; his
courage inspired by no hope of distinction,
his life devoted to the service of his coun
try, or his death made glorious as a sacri
fice to freedom; and no monumental pile
built by human hands, though It should
against the same domineering and,'.appar
ently, invincible power.
As the chosen organ of the Jasper Mon
umental Association, I invite the Irish-
Americaus and the patriots of Ireland ev
erywhere to regard the column which shall
here be erected to Jasper as a monument,
also to the spirit of resistance to tyrants,
which though baffled in Ireland and victo
rious ia America, is as enduring in Irish as
American hearts. Ireland, and Irishmen in
every* quarter of the globe, wherever they
breath the vital air, will rise up with one
accord to do honor to the principles of free
dom for which that people battled through
centuries of defeats; for which Jasper fell
and to which this monument is to be reared.
Few nations that have lived in history de
serve more richly than Ireland the tribute
which you are about to pay to one of iier
sons. Her history* running back to the re-
giousof fable and descending willi an un
broken current through ten centuries, Ire
land, prior to her conquest by a foreign
power, can boast of a civilization and na
tional Independence of greater duration
than any nation of any age. Even tho tides
of foreign conquest which have rolled in
successive waves over Ireland have not
sufficed to obliterate tlie record i >f her learn
ing, to obscure the manifestations of her
wonderful genius, to crush the spirit of her
inextinguishable nationality*, nor to quench
the fires of freedom that glow in the breasts
of her people. Even Alfred, the lion-heart
ed monarch and idol of British history, the
Washington of England, who blended in
one character the charm of romance and
thepowerof philosophy, who combined the
lire and chivalry* of David, with almost the
calm wisdom of Solomon, was educated in
Irish halls of learning. Edmund Burke
and Currenand Sheridan were Irishmen
What does England not owe to Ireland
for the gift of such men as these? What
does France not owe to Ireland for
Cavaignae, who was called in our day* to
the head of the French Republic, and whose
popularity never yielded till it came in con
tact with Bonaparte- a name that Ik >Ids
the hearts and imaginations of Frenchmen
with a spell more potent than the wizard’s
wand? What does America not owe to Ire
land for the monuments of Irish industry
in her railroads and canals, and for Irish
contributions to bar and bench and battle
field, for Jasper and Montgomery*, iuartys
to American independence; for Shields, and
the Irish born soldiers who in every war
followed the flag of this republic? What
does the South not owo to Ireland for en
riching her soil with the blood of Cleburne,
and her literature with the genius of Ryan,
that gifted Irishman, who is at once the
thunderbolt of oratory* and rainbow of
poesy*; whose thoughts breathe with the
very life of truth, and whose words like
sparks from holy alters burn in our bo
soms with immortal fire? What does lib
erty not owe to Ireland for Fitzgerald, for
Woolf, Tone, for John Mitchell, for Francis
Meagher, for O'Brian, O’Ooniiell and Rob
ert Emmet. Though heroes of a lost cause,
the names of these patriots are forever as
sociated with the names of Hampden, of
Sidney, ot Brutus and or Washington.
It is fitting that Americans should build
a monument to a son of Ireland. It is es
pecially’ appropriate that it should be built
by Georgians to Jasper; that it should
stand here among the people for whose
freedom he died; here on the soil that
drank his blood; here by the ocean whose
waters wash either shore, and whose cease,
loss throbs symbolizo the beating of the
groat heart of the two peoples, pulsating
in common and deathless sympathies.
The third and last reason which I shall
mention for the remarkable interest in this
occasion, is the devotion of the people to
the cause which Jasper so gloriously serv
ed. It is not only* an impressive testimo
nial of the gratitude of ttie country to
Jasper, but a spontaneous manifestation of
the peculiar sympathy felt by the South
with tho cause of constitutional and local
government for which he fought and fell.
It cannot bo successfully denied that at the
South, the cause of local government has
a champion in almost every citizen. The
peculiar institutions which for half a cen
tury* before the late war had isolated her
from sympathies of other sections, and the
mournful facts of her history since that
war, have served to wed the South in indis
soluble bonds to this doctrine of local gov
ernment—a doctrine which all tlie colonies
anterior to tho establishment of our inde
pendence, and all the States for a long pe
riod subsequent to that event, held to be es
sential to the freedom of the people. But
tho unhappy conflict between the Southern
States and the General Government has
had an unfortunate tendency to bring this
cardinal doctrine of free government into
temporary disrepute. I say temporary,
for it must again successfully assert itself
ia every State of the Union, unless passion
and prejudice, apprehension, and tlie false
presumption of a necessity for a stronger
government shall blind the American peo
ple to the experience of the colonies, and
to tho clearest lessons taught by the histo
ry and ttie philosophy of government.
Temporary it must be unless the constitu
tion Is to be disregarded, the Statc-s to le
disorganized, and liberty cease to be regar
ded as a heritage of American citizens. It
is true that the opposing theories—tlie na
tional and the local or State government
theories, as in this connection they* may be
termed—have been in conflict for nearly a
century*. The controversy might continue
forever without involving any* serious
change of tlie government, or imperilling
tho liberties of the people, if waged in the
spirit and with the same moderation that
marked its progress for the first seventy
years of our ! national existence; for never
until these latter years was tlie integrity or
independence, or sovereignty of tho states
called into question. But so radical and
revolutionary* are the changes now deman
ded; so far advanceed from former posi-
tions are tlie advocates of a great consoli
dated and imperial republic; so fixed seems
tlie purpose to subordinate the States to
the will of a majority of Congress, irre
spective of the Constitution, that the abili
ty of tho people to Dreserve their rights of
local government becomes a question of
momentous consequence. I say momen
tous because there never has been, there
never will be, a question submitted, the re
lations of the immortal spirit to eternity
excepted, in which is involved so much of
weal or woe to these fifty* millions of free
men.
On this Centennial occasion, and in con
nection with the discussion of tlie princi
ples of government for which Jasper and
our lathers (ought, it cannot bo inappro
priate, nor without profit, to remind you
of the three prime causes which led first
to the colonial conflict with Great Bntian;
then to the permanent separation and in
dependence of the colonies, and finally to
the formationjof a Confederate Republic on
this continent. One of the complaints of
our fathers was tho assert ion by tlie moth
er conntry or tho right to tax witiiout ac
cording to the colonies the right of repre
sentation, Another was the persistency of
the mother country in stationing armies in
our midst in the time of peace. The third
was—and to this I ask your especial atten
tion— thp interference by the mother
country with the local government, or local
affairs of. the colonies. Indeed, the whole
history of the colonial controversy* with
Great Britain—for many years before the
thought of separation had entered the
the instrument, is alsoanargument against spheres, was the highest attainment in liu-
the centralism of power, which was an ob- man government ever reached by human
ject of so much dread to the framers or the I inventions, and if administered in the spirit
government. The language of the pream- ; and upon the principles on which it was pro-
ble to the resolution submitting this tenth
amendment, is an argument, and an over
whelming argument; because it is declared
in that preamble that this tenth amend
ment was submitted because the States
desired to avoid a misconstruction or the
Constitution; because the States desired
to prevent an abuse of the powers of t lie
Constitution; and because tlie States desir
ed addition “declaratory and restrictive
clauses” to that instrument.
But apart from these considerations there
is in the history* of other nations enough to
warn us of the danger of losing individual
liberty while seeking to increase the na
tional power and enhance the national glo
ry. The fate of the ancient republics and
of the republic of France, and the doom
which the great Gladstone fears may be
fall English liberty, furnish arguments up
on this subject which it becomes the Amer
ican people to hear and to heed. All men
love liberty*—personal as well as political
liberty —but they do not always follow tlie
procession of reason which leads.to a dis
tinct comprehension of the methods by
which liberty* is preserved or lost. There
is in all people a principle of vanity which
leads them to magnify their individual
consequence by aggrandizing tlie extent of
the power and dominion of the country to
which they belong; and the liberties oi tlie
citizens are often lost in the expanding
pomp and splendor of national greatness.
Jt was so with [Greece. It was so with
Rome. That once free republic passed un
der (he yoke of her own imperial scepter,
and her people were enslaved while they
watched with eager gaze and proud satis
faction her eagles borne in triumph over
the civilized world.
It was so, too, with France. The rebel
lion of the American colonies had enlisted
the sympathies and secured the active aid
of France; the triumph of the colonies had
filled tlie hearts of the French people with
longings for freedom, and led them even to
behead their King and proclaim a republic.
But dazzled by the splendors of Napoleon’s
conquests, and the extension ot French
empire over Europe, they* lost sight of their
own liberties, and repudiated tho republic
at the dictation of their imperial master.
It was so with Great Britian. Thro’ cen
turies of bloody conlliet her people had se
cured Magna Charta, and established con
stitutional government; yet in the mad
purpose to increase an imaginary national
importance, they* sought to subjugate their
own brethren in America, who were bound
to them by kindred blixxl and loyal at
tachments; who, like themselves, were
Englishmen, entitled to every* prerogative
of Aritish freedom; who, in their efforts to
preserve that freedom, had complained and
petitioned, and remonstrated until the uni
verse grew weary. But for the successful
resistance of tho colonies, that apostate
generation of Englishmen, intoxicated by*
the vanity of aggrandizing, would have
destroyed their own as well as our liberties
by tlie infinite folly of denying to English
men in America the protection and rights
guaranteed to them by the English Consti
tution.
Are there cycles of sunshine and of
shadow in the march of human events? Is
lilierty born to grow and flourish for a time
only*, to be lost in recurring seasons of pas
sion for national dominion? Are wo, too,
so soon to tire of liberty and grow weary
of local self-government? Are we to shut
our eyes and close our.’ears to the teachings
of all history, and to follow the blind pas
sion for natural grandeur, and thus de
stroy* tlie rights of tho States, and with
them the liberties of the people in the vain
effort to increase the glory by centralizing
the power of this great republic? Let us
hope not. Let us hope that the American
people will hood the voice that speaks to
them in tones of solemn warning from the
experience of all these nations. Let us
hope that the passions engendered by our
calamitous civil war, and the distrust to
ward the South incident to that war, may
not furnish tho excuse, nor become poten
tial agencies for the destruction of those
principles of government for which ■Wash
ington fought and Jasper died.
Let me not be misunderstood. It is no
part of my* purpose to magnify unduly the
rights of states, nor would our people de
prive the General Government of one
right or power which the Constitution has
conferred. We believe that tho most last
ing national good, as well as the greatest
national strength, is to be attained by* the
unfaltering adliernece to the rights of tlie
states on t he one hand, and the fullest re
cognition of all tho prerogatives of tlie
General Government on the other. In oth
er words, under our form of government,
and with'our vast territories and conflicting
l(x;ul interests, the grants and limitations
of the fundamental law must bo recog
nized.—The Constitution must be the om
nipotent arbiter from Which there is no
appeal.
Nor do I seek by tlie reference to tlie South
to detract in any degree from thecredit due
to tlie able statesmen of the Nortli for
their brave defense of this colonial and
constitutional doctrine of free untranunel-
ed local government. I do not claim for
tho South any monopoly of virtues com
prehended in tlie terms patriotism or re
publicanism. I am not of those who be
lieve that love of country or fidelity* to tlie
Constitution is bounded by State lines or
confined to sections. Would that such
obliquity of judgment and all sectional big
otry* [and passion and prejudice could be
banished from this country, and that a
broad patriotism—broad as the republic it
self—could possess the hearts of the entire
American people. Would that the South,
no longer the subject of distrust—could
contemplate’with a generous pride the
mighty material, development of tlie great
West and North, and the grand industries
and achievements which contribute to the
high civilization of tho great East. Would
that the West and East and North, with a
magnanimity and sense of justice befitting
a great people, could cherish as a common
heritage tho history, the honor, the cour
age, tho patriotism, tlie fidelity and the he
roic endurance or the stricken South. God
speed the day when the maxin “this is my
country”—all my country, every section,
every* Slate, every* acre of soil over which
the [lag of tlie republic floats—shall be em
braced by* every* American freeman—not
only* as a geographical and political fact,
but as a living, potential, inspiring senti
ment.
Americans recognize but three great
epochs in all the past. The lirst is the Cre
ation, when man, fresh from the hand of
God, stood tlie crowning glory of bis
works.
The second is the birth of the Redeemer,
when angelic legions canopied the Syrian
skies and sang of peace and good will to
men.
The third is the great monumental event
of history, the birth of a free people, the
consecration of a new continent to consti
tutional liberty, the projection of an uutri-
ed plan and unprecedented scale of a con
federate republic, the organization in one
government of a vast sisterhood of self-
controlled, co-equal and Independent states,
each contributing to the strongth and glo
ry, yet restraining the power of the Gener
al Government, constituted by all and for
jeeted, the conviction must strengthen with
the lapse of time, tiiat tho organization of
such a government was indeed the supreme
event of history—the culmination of tho po
litical wislomof ullages.
One or two thoughts in conclusion, and
I shall have finished tlie task to which
your partiality* has assigned mo.
Yonder, where stands his monument, fell
Count Pulaski.
Yonder, where his monument is to stand.
Sergeant Jasper fell.
Pulaski, tho impetuous Pole, whose last,
charge at tho head of his intrepid legion,
like tiiat of the Light Brigade, was
“Into the jaws of death.”
Jasper, the heroic Irishman, whoso name
and fame and chivalry must live while his
tory lives. Poland and Ireland, twins of
misfortune—these two denationalized com
monwealths, on this soil, upon tlie same
day, gave to the cause of American
freedom the best blood of their sons.
May* the God of Nations confer upon these
afflicted countries the blessings of frt i o gov
ernment which they aided in securing for us.
Here, too, are the representatives of other
nations who shared with Poland and Ire
land the losses and'honors of tlie day* 'we
celebrate.
Before me, around me, justly honored
by the people, are the German Fusilleers of
Smith Carolina. Reaching back in unbro
ken succession to a point beyond the Revo
lution, tliis venerable organization partici
pated in tlie deadly assault, and its leaders
fell upon the enemy’s redoubts on the me
morable fill of October, one hundred years
ago.
Immigrating to these shores at the in
ception of our struggle, those high-spirit
ed Germans caught its inspiration, enlist
ed under its banners and purchased, by
contributing to its success, all tlie rights
and privileges of American citizens for
themselves and their children forever.
Here too are the countrymen of D'Esta-
ing, for whom, on tlie same eventful day,
lie bought with tlie blood of his brave bat
talions an indefeasible co-title with us, to
all tlie blessings of free government.
As Napoleon Bonaparto stood with his
weary Frenchmen on the sands of tho
Egyptian desert and looked upon the gran
ite pryamiils before him, he admonish
ed his soldiers that from those hoary* sum
mits forty* centuries looked down upon
their exertions.
Americans and countrymen of Jasper, of
Pulaski, of D’Estaing, of Steuben, and De-
Kalb, the spirits of your fathers, who
tought for freedom, look down from the
eternal camping grounds of tlie brave and
pure, and admonish you that vain were
their courage, and suffering and deaths, if
their descendants should abandon tlie
principles for which they* laid down their
lives.
Providence seems to have designed this
continent for the great meeting place of all
the races of men; first, by its extent, the
variety of climate and boundless resources;
second, by* securing its independence
through the co-exertions of tlie Old World
and the New; third, by the establishment
under a Constitution which guarantees
religious and political freedom to every
son and daughter of Adam, who will ac
cept its protection. For this we thank
Thee, oh God! We thank Thee, that Thou
hast builded in our land a temple grander
than Solomon’s, where shall assemble the
representatives of all the nations of the
earth—the great Parliament of Man-
through whose expanding influence the
world shall yet embrace tho cause which
Thou hast established in America by the
hands of our Fathers.
Great America! Vast, grand, free! To
what shall we liken thee unless to that
mighty ocean whose surface mirrors the
Almighty’s form! Thou art to humanity
what the ocean is to the rivers. There is
somewhere a fable that the clear streams
from the mountains once upbraided tlie
ocean for receiving into its bosom the
refuse of cities and the tilth of the world.
Said they to tlie ocean as they poured their
waters into jt: “We are pure and clean,
but thou arL the reservoir of all uncleanli
ness.” “True,” thundered back the mon-
arch of the world, “but I am the ocean. In
tlie secret laboratories of my boundless bo
som, with mystic alchemic powers, I dis
cuss, dispose, dissolve and distribute ail
the elements, sending to unfathomable
depths the impurities of earth and return
ing your waters cleansed, purified and re
lined, which in mist and clouds float on in
visible wings around the world till they*
descend in showers to replenish your foun
tains and refill your wasted streams.”
So America, when assailed as the asylum
for the crime and pauperism of all tlie
earth, might reply: “Yes; but I am the
Great Republic of tlie world. Within my
almost illimitable boundaries there is room
for all; homes for tlie homeless, protection
for tlie weak, freedom for the oppressed. I
am the Great Republic, where meet the
conflicting creeds of all nations and races'
where all forms of folly, all errors of opin
ion, ail doctrines and passions, may heave
and toss themselves into political health
and purity, until the ground-swell of uni
versal discussion there shall be evolved
those grand maxims of conservative politi
cal truth which encircle, enlighten and
emancipate tne world.”
THE SOYG OF EGLA.
[Maria del Occidente.]
Day* in melting purple dying,
Blossoms ail around me sighing,
Fragrance from the lily straying,
Zi*phyr with my ringlets play*ing.
Ye but waken my distress;
I am sick of loneliness.
Thou to whom I love to harken.
Ginie ere night around me darken:
Though thy softness but deceive me,
Say thou’rt true, and I’ll believe thee.
Well, if ill, thy soul’s content—
Let me think It innocent.
Save thy* toiling, spare thy treasure—
All I ask is friendship’s pleasure.
Let the shining ore be darkling,
Bring no gem in lustre sparkling.
Gifts and gold are nought to me;
I would only look on thee.
Tell to thee the high-wrought feeling,
Eestacy but in revealing;
Paint to the thee deep sensation,
Rapture in participation,
Y’ct but torture, if coraprest
In a lone, unfriended breast.
Absent still? All, come and bless me!
Let these eyes again earossthee.
(hiee, hi caution, I could tty thee;
Now I nothingcould deny thee;
In a look if death there be.
Come and 1 will gaze on thee!
BALDWIN COUNTY
him all the time; and he loved her no lon
ger, but Ellen Folsom!
At that very n. oment Ellen came in, in
all tho blooming beauty* and stylish ele
gance that characterized her.
“I have come to you for my* first congrat
ulation. Charles says you were once an old
friend of his.”
Isabel felt her eyes growing dim as she
anticipated the news.
“lam an old friend." It was all she said,
But how fully, entirely, she experienced
tho truth of her lover’s words that night
they parted.
“We’ve not decided on the we
hut Charles is in a great hurry,
ers are, I suppose. But you ar
wish me joy?”
“Oh, of course, all in the worlu: i GEORGIA, Baldwin Countv
bhe wasn t very enthusiastic, but it was _ Court of Ordinary, October T
only her will tiiat fore
THE
Mi
g-day,
si lov-
ng to
To all Whom it May Concern.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, October Term. 1879.
\\7UEREAS, C. L. Moran has filed hisne-
*» tition in said Court for letters of Ad
ministration upon the estate of J. W. Mo
ran-, late of said county, deceased.
Those are therelore to cite and admonish
all parties interested, whether kindred or
creditors, to show cause on or by the No
vember term, next, of said Court, to be held
on the first Monday in November, 1879, why
letters of administration upon the estate of
said J. W. Moran, deceased, should not be
granted to said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signature
this the tith day of .October, is,8.
12 lm.i DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
Georgia Slate Fair,
At MACON,
Oct. 27th to Nov. 1st, 1879,
The Most Magnificent and test
Appointed Grounds in America!
To all Whom it May Concern.
In January next a postage stamp of a
new design is to be issued in Great Britain.
It will bear a portrait of the Queen as she
ap;ioars in mature age, and not, as now, a
likeness of her Majesty when she had just
entered womanhood. Tlie stamps at pres
ent in use are impressions from steel en
gravings, but tlie new issue will bo printed
by the .ordinary letter press system, which,
though not affording so much protection
against fogery as the engraving method, is
still considered sufficiently difficult of
imitation to render tlie risk very slight..
It lias just been discovered that Mark
Hopkins, one of tho Central Pacific Railroad
millionaires, who died two years ago, had
property which was not included in the set
tlement of the estate, and of which Mrs.
Hopkins knew nothing. Mr. Huntington,
of New York, another owner in the rail
way, has found among papers left in his
care, live millions iJ. S. bonds and a certifi
cate of deposit, in the Treasury.* of $300,000
in gold. These little items had been over
looked.
A party of autumn sojourners at Ca
nandaigua lake went boat riding the other
evening, there being among them a young
lady who delighted in toying with the
waves. Her hand was hanging alongside
the b.-at just under the surface, when she
felt i, closed upon by the jaws of a fish.
Startled by the pain the hand was jerked
so quickly from the water that the fish was
landed in tlie boat. The tempting bait was
lacerated badly.
This has been given as a rule for life:—
“When you retire at nig^t, think'-over the
events of the day, and avoid to-morrow ttie
errors of to-day.” Tliis carries with it a
double lesson. Fiist, a study,of what we
do during twenty-four hours; secondly,
what others dp during tho sonic time. W T e
gain, then, from our own ^ experience and
from the observation of others.
DID SHE DO RIGHT.
A fearfully cold blustering day it was late
in December as she stood alone at the door,
with the sweeping galeas it dashed by laden
with fine dust and stinging chill almost
freezing iier in its ruthless pitilessness,
Isabel Kent, the daughter and once the
heiress of proud Thomas Kent, was to
night to leave her homea poor girl, to bat
tle with tlm world, the world, who had once
been iier slave and was now her master.
A cab rolled up to tlie door and when the
driver had attended to her luggage she was
whirled away*—to what? she wondered, with
a mirthless little laugh.
At the station she had little time to think
—the crowds, the noise, the glare, the in
coming and departing trains gave no op
portunity.
After she had procured her ticket she sat
down on a seat just opposite the door; and
so when Charles Roberts came in she saw
liun before lie saw her. He advanced
straight over to her as soon as he recog
nized tlie black-robed figure.
“Isabel, I am tempted to take you away
from here by simple force. I have been to
tlie house, but you were too quick for me.
Isabel, you will persist in this foolish
ness?”
He had taken a seat next her; but, near
as he was, he could not see tho palling an
guish that lay* in her pure classic face, or
the flush of momentary* wrath that follow
ed his eager, impulsive words.
“It is not foolishness, Charles. What
should I do if I did not go to Mrs. Crav
ens”—
He interrupted her in his quick, hot-head
ed, earnest way*.
“Where should you go, true enough, my
darling? Is not my home lonely* for the
want of you? Does nut my heart cry out
for you. its queen ! Isabel, there is yet ten
minutes; won’t you think of it again and
let me take you from this place to be mar
ried to me, and to my home forever? Re
member, my Isabel, how I love you.”
Under her thick crape veil Isabel’s lips
tightly compressed and a slow red bloom
came to her cheeks. It was a great temp
tation ; she so lonely, so fragile, to go out
into the world, nothing but a companion to
a rich, strange woman, whose face she had
never seen; and here was Charles Roberts,
with his splendid house, his handsome face,
and irreproachable character, who sat be
side her, begging her to accept it all.
But she could not brook the idea of mar
rying for a home, even if she knew the
offer came from the man whom she felt
worshipped her. She did not love Charles
Roberts; with the chilling look out on the
world before her, she decided that she
would work to the death before she would
be the wife of a man to whom she could not
give her affections.
“I had made up my mind long ago,
Charles, and indeed it grieves me to find
that you still cling to me so. I am sorry;
I wish for your sako I might view these
tilings in tlie same light you do; but I
can’t; it is impossible, that is all. There
comes the train.”
She arose, as the long train came in, with
a sad, pitying look at her lover’s face.
“We will try to be friends, then, Isabel,
though heaven knows how mocking and
empty friendship is after love. Write to
me; if ever trouble comes, command me to
any extent. Y’ou’ll promise that.”
Siie was really gone at last, on the way
to her destination. That was a long, lone
ly ride, and many tears fell back off that
heavy, masking veil, before she’arrived at
Colneyton, on a clear, bright morning, when
the streets were swarming with life and
gayoty.
Mrs. Craven was an invalid, passably
good-looking, who received her newly en
gaged companion with a polite welcoming
and kind interest tiiat would have gone
straight to Isabel’s heart, : had not her
pride and reserve been challenged by the
young lady to whom Mrs. Craven intro
duced her.
Isabel acknowledged the presentation;
and if she was stung to tho qutek by ttie
frigid hauteur of the fair girl, Miss Folsom
was as enraged by Isabel’s indifferently
graceful bow.
“Aunt Clara,” she said, when Isabel had
gone to her room that night, to weep and
suffer all tlie long hours, “shall you allow
Iier to mingle with our visitors? She is
much too elegant and aristocratic to pass
unnoticed among company.”
“As often as I can spare Iier, of course.
Why, should she not see a little enjoyment,
poor child? You are getting jealous again,
Ellen.”
“You remember how my music governess
foiled me in that affair with Warren Ray
mond? I don’t care that this girl and I
should run a race for Charles Roberts.”
“You have no reason to suppose tiiat
Charles Roberts cares for you; you never
met him more than a dozen times.”
“True. But I care for him.”
» * * » * * * «
Day after day went on, and of all the gen
tlemen who had called on Mrs. Craven and
her niece Isabel had seen none, for all her
kind friend insisted ujton it.
One day, Isabel, passing by the parlor-
door, came face to face with Ellen and
Charles Roberts. How sho hated herself
for that sudden blush she felt bunting on
her cheeks; but as she glanced up and
caught Ellen’s scornful, angered eyes
she suddenly grew perfectly composed and
calm.
“Isabel! is this really you? Why I had
not the slightest idea you had come to Mrs.
Craven’s! Are you well and happy?”
He bent to whisper quickly the last word.
Isabel gave him her hand with her old-time
grave.quiet and hauteur.
“Quite, tliank you. The friends in Daisy-
dale are all well?"
“Oh, yes, and you can’t conceive how
many of them miss you!”
“That is pleasant to know. I am in some
what of a hurry, Charles—Mr. Roberts.
Good-by;” and she hastened on without
another word.
Once in her room, she sat composed down
to her work, while Mrs. Craven was out for
her noon ride.
She wondered if Charles had forgotten
her—that is, ceased to care for her? She
asked herself the question ha a careless sort
of way, and then went on to think how nice
he and Ellen looked together; and of a sud
den a frightful revelation came to her—so
sudden it fairly took her breath—so bliss
ful, her senses ached with the joy, and yet
so dreadful she thought she should not
survive it. All this in a magical second,
and the revelation, was this—she loved
rni, 1879.
W HEREAS, J. H. Brocks, lias lilt'll Jiis
petition in said Court for letters of Au-
minstration cam testa men to annexo upon tlie
estate of L. M. Moore, late of said State and
county, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all parties interested, whether kindred or
creditors to show cause on or by tho No
vember Term, next, of said Court to l>e
held on tlie first Monday in November, 1879,
why letters of administration, earn testa-
mento annexe upon the estate ot said deceas
ed, should not bo granted to said petitioner
as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signature
this the titli dav ot October, 1 s7:i.
12 lim] DANIEL B. SAN Ft >KI>. Ordinary.
1 iier to speak; her
heart was too sore.
“And there’s another tiling, Isabel. You
must pardon me for saying it, but I’m sure
your good judgment will approve. Charles
has told me of your little love-passage;
and I thought that as you had once been so
much to him, and he’ll becoming here so
often, it would be prudent for you to find
another”
Isabel had risen to her feel almost at the
first words with vivid, blushing cheeks and
flashing eyes. Now, with low, scorching
tones, she interrupted her—“Enough! I
comprehend yours and Mr. Robert’s deli
cacy. Give my apology to Mrs. Craven.
My trunks will be called for by the railway*
omnibus.”
She put on her hat and mantle, and with
out vouchsafing a word to the delighted,
triumphant girl went out from the house.
“I have to thank my presiding stars for
suggesting that story. I knew her proud
spirit would up in arms and leave me a
clear field to win him, I only hope I have
uttered a prophecy. As if I didn’t read
aright their secret!”
She made a slight mistake, however.
And poor Isabel, her clfeeks burning,
walked on to the station that she had arri
ved at so lately, wondering where she would
go, when a glad, joyous voice called,her
name.
“Isabel, were you going home to me, as
you promised me to do if you needed
me?”
She instinctively recoiled a step. Then,
seeing that no one was in the wailing-room
but themselves, she threw back her veil
and gave him tlie lull benefit of her indig
nation.
“How dare you ask me such a question,
when your lips have so lately asked Ellen
Folsom to be your wife? Charles Roberts,
I thought lie tier of you.”
And then she cried. Wasn’t it just like a
sensitive, loving, over-wrought woman to
do that? And Charles Robert’s heart gave
a great throb of delight.
“Oil, my Isabel! Now I know that you
love me. I never have spoken iff love to
any woman saving yourself. Isabel, you
believe me? You love me at last?”
Like a solemn truth, she could not help
believing, came the blessed knowledge to
her.
“I believe you. I love you!”
An hour later, when the railway omni
bus drove up to Mrs. Craven’s fertile trunks
and Ellen met the two at the ball-door.
“Please send Mrs. Robert’s trunks down.
Miss Folsom.”
According to our personal knowledge
and belief, the following communication
from the Rev. Geo. G. Smith, pastor of the
Methodist church at Milledgeville, to tlie
Atlanta Constitution, is so correct tiiat we
take great pleasure in re-producing it:
[Eatonton Broad Axe and Itemizes.
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Editors Constitution: The report of
the committeo of special investigation is
before tho people. With the particular
case spoken of I have nothing, to do, but
with the general uneasiness on tlie part of
those who have friends in the asylum 1
have a great deal. Will you, then, allow j Administrator, should not I
me tho use of your columns to say what I | ‘JmY
LIBERAL CASH PREMIUMS
In all Classes, and the largest offered
by any Fair in the United States.
TROTTING AND
RACES I
Every day, by some of the
Most Noted Horses on the Tnrf t
ouccro.
To ail Whom it May
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, October Tone, 1879.
W HEREAS, George R. Sibley, Adminis
trator uikiii tlie estate of Daniel 1{.
Tucker late of said State and county lic
ensed, has fill'd his petition in said Court
lor leave to sell tlie Real ami Personal prop-
ty located in tlie county of Baldwin and al
so tlie real and personal property located in
the county of Washington and said State
belonging to the estate of saiil deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all parties interested, whether kindred or
creditors, to show cause on by tin- Novem
ber Term, next, of said Court, to be held on
the first Monday in November, 1879, why
leave to sell said leal and personal prop
erty should not lie granted to said peti
tioner as prayed for.
Witness ray lumd and official signature
tliis the Btli day of October, 1H79.
12 lm.] DANIEL SAN FORD, Ordinary.
To al! Whom II May Concern.
GEORGIA, llaldwin County.
Court of ordinary, > *
-October Term, 1879. )
yVTJIEREAS, I). W. Brown, Guardian of
t • Sam’i R. Cook, a minor of said county,
lias liied his petition in said Court for
leave to sell the Real estate belonging to
said minor for tlie purpose of reinvest
ment.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
al! parties interested, whether kindred or
creditors, to show cause on or by the No
vember Term, next, of said Court, to be held
on the first Monday in November, 1879, why
leave to sell the Real estate of said minor
for tlie purpose aforesaid should not lie
granted to said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signature
this the 6th dav of October, 1879.
12 lm.| DANIELS. SANFORD, Ordinary.
To all Whom iC 'flay Concern.
GEORGIA, Baldwin, County.
Court of Ordinary, October Term, 1879.
WHEREAS, J. W. Buck and J. A. Buck,
“ have filed their petition in said Court
tor letters of Administration upon the es
tate of J. J. Buck, late of said State and
county deceased,
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all parties interested, whether kindred or
i creditors, to show cause on by the Novem-
i her Term, next, of said Court* to be held on
j the first Monday in November, 1879, why
! letters of administration upon tlieestateof
: J. J. Buck, deceased, should not bo granted
I to said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signature
j tliis the (ith dav October, 1379.
12 lm.l DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
To all Whom it May Concern.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, August Term, 1879.
W HEREAS, F. M. Meadows, Adminis
trator upon the estate of N. A. E.
Meadows, late of said State and county*, de
ceased, lias filed ins petition in said Court
for letters of dismission'from his trust as
such Administrator.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all parties interested, whether kindred or
creditors, to show cause on or by the No
vember Term. next, of said Court, to be held
on the lirst Monday in November, 1879, why'
letters of dismission from his trust as such
Music will be furnished by a celebrated
Mflilf ii99f*
Many of the Prominent Statesmen
Now before the Public, will attend the
State Fair as visitors, and several
will make addresses.
GREATLY REDUCED RATES,
For Freights and Passengers, on all the
Railroads in the State.
A cordial invitation is extended to you to
lie an Exhibitor, and you are requested to
write to the Secretary at Macon toy a Pre
mium List, and other information.
THUS. HARDEMAN, Jr., President.
L. F. LIVINGSTON, Gen’l. Sup’t'
MA LC'< >M JOHNSTON, Secretary.
Sept. 2, 1879. 7 2m.
be granted to
know of the asylum—of its officers aud tlie
treatment of the inmates? I am not in any
way connected with it. I have no relatives
attached to it. I am, consequently, entire
ly free from bias.
I have been pastor of tho Methodist
church in Milledgeville for nearly two
years. I have been at the asylum nearly
every week. I have had free access to
every part of all the halls, the rooms, the
closets, the kitchen, tlie apothecary’s hall,
the steward’s departments, tlie laundry,
and all. I have been there by day and
night; when no one expected me, as well
as when they did; and I claim to have] a
better right to speak intelligently than any
committee which visits the asylum lor a
day.
The officers are, every one of them, per
sons of the very best character. There is
not an intemperate man among them
They are competent and vigilant.
The matron is a lady who belongs to one
of tho best Geoigia families, and is a true
lady in every sense of the word. The at
tendants are of the best class of working
people.
The halls are kept scrupulously clean.
The floor and beds arc alike kept from all
that is offensive. The tables are well sup
plied with suitable food. Tiic halls are
kept cool in summer and warm in winter,
by machinery, The laundry is kept in con
stantworking, and tho seamstresses con
tinually at work to supply clothing.
Thorearecver 750 patients; some of them
are absolutely helpless. It is a sail fact
that only ina lunatic asylum do wo learn
how mean men can be. There arc poor
harmless idiots here supported by the
State, whose guardians have fifteen to
twenty thousand dollars in their hands.
Paralyzed old men are sent by their chil
dren, ami idiotic children by their parents,
and insane wives by their husbands, and
left without any attention other than hired
nursesgive. Manyof these areas helpless as
babes. They require patience, kindness
and constant care; and they receive it.
The offices held in the asylum are trying
ones. Life is endangered oftentimes; feel
ing is racked all the time; and it is too cruel
that these officers should l ie denounced, and
that parents and friends should be harrass-
ed by an ex parte statement.
Geokgf, G. Smith.
Witness my hand and official signature
this tho 4th day of August. 1879.
3 3m.] DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
Taxes Assessed for Baldwin Ucuii-
ty for Uie Year 1870.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary for County Purposes, >
September Term, 1879. f
W HEREUPON, it is ordered, considered
and adjudged by tlie Court, that John
II. Stembridge, Tax Collector for the coun
ty of Baldwin and said Stafe, do assess
and collect, tor the use of said county, 103
per cent on the State tax, to pay Bonds;
83 per cent, to pay Interest; 16 per cent, to
pay Jurors; 6 per cent, to pay Bailiffs;!
per cent, to pay for Inquests; 22 percent,
to pay Jail Fees; 25 percent, to pay Pau
pers; 33 per cent, to pay County Officers;
31 per cent, to pay for Roads and Bridges,
and 52 percent, to pay Contingent Expenses.
Witness my hand and official signature,
tills SeptoinPer the 1st. l-T.l.
10 4t.] DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
Notice to Debtors and ( i editors.
the estate of
ate of Baldwin county,
deceased, are requested to make payment,
and those having demands against said
estate, are requested to present them in
terms oi the law.
PETER L. FAIR, Adm’r.
Sept. 23.1879. 10 6t.
Successors to
GEO. W. WILLIAMS & CO.,
Cotton Factors,
Wholesale Grocers and General
Commission Merchants,
1 $ 3 lluyne Street,
«IIAHI.I»TOX. H. C.
i; • Will give ad business tbeir most care
ful attention. Consignments of Cotton so
licited.
July 15, 1879. 52 3m.
A MONTH guaranteed. $12 a day
at Lome made by t lie industrious.
Capital not required: we will start
you. Men, women. l>ov» and girls
make money faster at work for us
Ilian at anything else. Tlie work
is iigiit and pleasant, and sucb as
any one can go right at. Those who are wise who
see tliis notice will send us their addresses at
once and see lor themselves. Costly outfit and
terms free. Now is the time. Those Already at
work are laying up large sums of money. Address
TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine. 48 lv.
T. M. H. 0. T. S.
Unsurpassed Facilities and large Pur
chases of Pianos and Organs Direct from
tho Best Manufacturers, at Lowest Cash
Rates. Enable G. O. Robinson & Co., to sell
from 10 to 20 per cent, less than Regular
Trade Rates. 265 Broad Street, Augusta,
Ga. 40 ly.
Family Supplies.
Butter. Eggs. Vegetables, Fruit, Fowls, Ac.
Give him a call.
ah' Fresh Fish and
daily*.
July 1, 1879.
Oysters received
50 tf.
A LL persons indebted li
Peter Pair,
Fair Notice.
O WING to tlie death of William Roberts,
of the firm of Roberts & Brake, it be
comes necessary* that the business of this
firm shall be settled up. Ali notes and ac
counts not paid by the first of January
wiU be placed in the hands of an Attorney
for suit. Cotton will be received at the
highest price in liquidation of any debts
due us. Our business must bo settled, and
those indebted would do well to give the
matter their early attention.
ROBERTS & BRAKE.
Milledgeville, Ga., Sept. 15th, 1879. 9 tjl.
lie usual hours of sale, the following pro-
ei'ty, belonging to the estate of John
Admiiiistrator.s Sale.
GEORGIA. Baldwin County*.
B Y virtue of an order of tlie Court of Or
dinary, granted at tiio October Term.
1879, will bn sold before the Masonic Hail
door, in the city* of Milledgeville, on the
lirst Tuesday in November, next, botw
tin
P« ..
Treanor, to wit:
One Atlantic A Gulf consolidated mort
gage Bond of five hundred dollars.
Eighty-live shares Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad Stock.
Fifty shares Atlantic and Gulf special
guaranteed stock.
Sixty* shares Central Railroad stock.
ODe pistol.
Two gold rings.
One lot of articles of wearing apparel,
and one trunk. *
Terms of sale cash.
P. J. CLlXE,
Adm'r upon the estate of John Treanor.
Oet. (ith, 1879. 12 tils
ARICA COFFEE
Is unglazed and lree from ail impurities.
Glazing or “liermetrically* sealing,” so call
ed, is but a coating of gum and foreign sub
stances which adds from 7 to 10 per cent,
to weight. It is
Tlie Best and Chrappot Roasted ItloSaM.
It is roasted by Moore, Jenkins & Co.,
New York, and sold in Milledgeville, by
w. t. coivar.
Aug 5th, 1879. 46 3m.
E. I. 0. M.
Music Saving Institution. Four to Ten
Dollars Monthly will purchase a Superior
Piano or Organ." Low Prices, Easy Terms,
Quick Sales, at the Augusta Music House,
! G. O. ROBINSON A CO., 265 Broad Street
Augusta, Ga. 40 ly.
For Sale.
500.000 BRICK.
UST BURNED and now ready for de-
livery. Send your cash orders to
ROBERTS A BRAKE.
Milledgeville, Ga.. July 22,1879. [11 jan 1.
J
Dental Notice.
ZEfiLE,
Baldwin Sheriff's Sale.
W ILL BE SOLD in front of the Masonic
Hal! door, in the city of Milledgeville
and the county of Baldwin, on the lirst.
Tuesday in November, 1379, within the legal
hours of sale, the following property, to-
; wit:
100 acres of land lying in Baldwin county*,
number not known, but bounded on tlie
l Northwest by* lands of Wait/.folder, on the
Northeast by lands of Dosh Turk, on tlie
I Southwest by* land- of Martin Hubbard,
on file Southeast by land of /eke Reynolds,
levied on as property* iff J. N. Combass to
satisfy a fi fa in favor of W. F. Canon, vs.
A. J. Golden, J. N. Combass, W. G. Allen,
John Eiidy and J. A. Eady. Property point
ed out by defendants; levy made by W.
T. Robinson, Constable, and returned to
me, this October 6th, 1879.
Also at the same time and place:
The house and lot on which Henry Lums-
ford now lives, just North of tlie oorporatq
limits iff Milledgeville, on the road leading
to the Natliah Hawkins old place, bounded
by railroad on the East and by* lands of
July Dessesau on ttie North, South and
West, containing 2 acres more or less; levi
ed on as tlie property of said Henry* Lums-
ford and July Dessesau, to satisfy one
mortgage ti fa in favor of M. H. McCombs*
against said Lumsford and Dessesau, and
said property. Property pointed out by
Plaintiff’s Attorney.
C. W. ENNIS, Sheriff B. C.
October 6th, 1379. 12 tus.
" TAX NOTICE.
GEORGIA, Baldw in County.
M Y Books for the collection of State and
County* Taxes for the year 1879, are
now open; office at A. L. Ellison’s Store, in
tne city of Milledgeville,
My books wiU bo dosed on the 10th day
up by long bogus certifi- j of; November, without fail and Execution
1 miraculous cures, but a | will be then be issued agahist all who'have
ve medicine made of not paid ttieir State and ( ounty tax at that
fectivc mean mo, inane oi , jme ' JOHN H. STEMBRIDGE,
Tax Collector of Baldwin Countv.
Sept. 16, 1879. 9 2m
A wise Deacon.
“Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me
how you kept yourself and family* well tlie
past season, when all the rest of us have
been sick so much and have had the doctors
visiting us so often.”
Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy. I
used Hop Bitters in time; kept my family-
well and saved the doctor bills. Thvee dol
lars’worth of it kept us Well and able to
work and all the neighliorsone to two hun
dred dollars apiece to keep sick the same
time.”
“Deacon, I’ll use your medicine here
after.”
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph says: “The
Czar is suffering front mental fatigue,
andlhear, from a trustworthy source,
that his condition is daily getting
worse; he is so nervous, fretful, and
petulant that he can scarcely attend
to business.
(COLORED.)
T)R.V( TITIONEli of the various branches
I. of Dental Science and dealer in Dentist
Gold, Platina anil Silver Plate for Dental
and other purposes. Gold and Silver Solder,
Gold and Jin Foil. Amalgam, Artificial
Teeth of tlie best make, Bubber Dentifrices,
for polishing natural teeth, Molding Sand,
Sand and Plumbago, Crucibles for smelting
and refining.
(lold and Silver Refining, Gold, Silver Ore
or old Gold, Platina and Silver, purchased.
Office, north-east corner of Greene and
Campbell streets, Augusta, Ga.
Sept. 23, 1879. 10 6m.
Beef^ Mutton, Pork,
SAUSAGE, Etc.,
DULY \T THE MARKET -YEAR CITY HALL.
A. O. JEFFERS.
Milledgeville, Nov 11,1878. 17 6m
Bogus Certificates.
It is no vile drugged stuff, pretending to
be made of wonderful foreign roots, barks.
Ac., and puffed t
utes of pretended
simple, pure, effeetiv
well'known valuable remedies, that fur
nishes it own certificates by* its cures. We
refer to Hop Bitters, the purest aud best of
medicines. See another column.—Republi
can',
Mr. Win. Gainer, a prominent citizen of
Washington county, died from a congest ive
chili on the 10th inst.
For Sale.
ri TURNER, offers fur sale, two good
ITL^Cottiiu Presses, iniw in store, at the
Warehouse. Call and examine,
Milledgeville, Get. 7th, 1379.
12 2t.
THE GULLETT GIN,
BRANCH FACTORY,
y^UGUSTA, - - - jjEORGIA,
0. M. STONE & CO., Gen’l. Agents.
T O supplv the increased demand for the
IMPROVED GULLETT GIN, Gin Feed
ers and Condensers, branch works have
been established at Augusta. Orders wUl
be filled promptly and satisfaction guaran
teed to purchasers. Gins repaired by skUl-
ed workmen. We have testimonials from
cotton dealers in every* section, which prove
the superiority of the Gullett Gin over all
others. We are General Agents for
Bigelow Steam Engines,
Mounted or Stationary, with cither Verti
cal or Horizontal Boilers, ECONOMIZER
ENGINES, SCREW and LEVER COTTON
PRESSES. SAW and GRIST MILLS, BUF
FALO SCALES, Ac. , . .
Write for circulars and pricelist. Ad
dress O. fi®. STONE fit CO.,
Cotton Factors,
AUGUSTA, GA.
July 1, 1879. 32 6m
■if ~ . J A LIMITED NUMBER
WSI nTfiQ if active, energetic canvass-
■" “ ers to engage ip a pleasant
ami profitable business. Oopd men will And this
a rare chance
so TF Airii| aeons.
Such will please answer this advertisement b,
letter, enclosing stamp, for reply, stating what
business they have been engaged in. Noae hot
those who mean business apply. Address
FINLEY, HARVEY k CO., Atlanta*.fla.
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