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THE UNION & RECORDER,
** Pnblished Weekly In Milledgeville, Ga.,
BY BARNES & MOORE.
Tkhms.—One dollar end fifty cents a year in
advance. Six montlis for seventy-five cents.—
Two dollars a year if not paid in advance.
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gaged as General Assistant.
file ‘-FEDERAL UNION”’ andthe“SOUTHERN
RECORDER” were consolidated, August 1st, 1872,
tlie I'nion Going in its Forty-Third Volume and
the Recorderin its Fifty-Third Volume.
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Of Milledgeville, Ga.
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L. N. Callaway, President.
G. P. Wiedexmax, Cashier.
Directors.—IV. T. Conn, D. B. Sanford,
H. E. Hendrix, G. E. Wiedenman, L. N.
Callaway, T. L. McComb, C. M. Wright.
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flAHE undeisifriied. lias erected a saw-mill on
1 1 In* Fast side of the river about 7 mile* from
town and is now ready to 1112 all orders for
Lute ol Every Description.
1 will ii-herd.-imr'umber ni sell at the mill
mid promise to give satisfaelion both in prices
arid <|iia!ity of lumber. < inters left at the store of
J. N- Leonard wl l receive prompt attention.
K. X. ENNIS, Jr.
Milledgeville, Ga.. April 14th, ' R5. . 40 3m
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Tax Notice.
M Y Tax Books ate now open and I am
ready to receive the Tax Returns of
Baldwin County for the year 1885.
My office is at the Carriage and Funii-
ture store of L. \V. Davidson, where I will
he in attendance daily from 9 o’clock, a. in.
until 5 o’clock, p.m., until June 1st, at which
time my Books will be closed, all tViio fail
to give in by that time will be placed on
Defaulter’s List.
HUNTER McCOMB,
Tax Receiver.
Milledgeville,Ga., March SOtb. '85. 382m.
Notice.
Court I louse to Build.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Office of Ordinary.
Qf HALH1) Bids or Proposals will be
^ received at this office, tuitil 10
‘ o’clock, A. M., on Thursday, tlie 9th
day of July, 1885, for the building of
a Court House in the city of Milledge-
x'ille, for said county, on the old Court
House site.
Plans and specifications for said
Court House can he seen in this office,
or at the office of McDonald Bros.,
Architects, Louisville, Ky.
The House must he covered with
Slate, and four offices to be made
strictly' fire proof. Tlie entire first
floor to he made of durable and hand
some tiling. All rooms above the first
floor to be ceiled overhead with nar
row ceiling and all plastering to have
a hard finish. The House to he con
structed of Brick and Granite and the
Contractor to f urnish everything nec
essary to complete the building for the
uses intended. Quarterly advances
will he made on the work as it pro
gresses, reserving twenty-five per cent,
on the value thereof.
Bond in double the amount of the
contract with two good and solvent
securities, will be required of the suc
cessful bidder. The right to reject
anv and all bids, is hereby reserved.
DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
Milledgeville,Ga.. Max'lltli, 1885.[44 td
Lumber for Sale.
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FOR
Man and Beast.
Mustang Liniment is older than
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Volume LV. [sog^» i)1 » 8hed »gg;[consolidated 1872. Milledgeville, Ga., June 2. 1885.
Number 47.
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Come and see us, or send your
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Jun
47 lm
EDITORIAL GLIMPSES.
Dev. Sam Jones will hold a series of
meetings at Marietta in July,
The President is turning the rascals
out in Virginia. Mahone and Riddle-
herger will squall before it is over.
“The Republicans are already work
ing for the next campaign with the
old ticket Blaine and Logan to he put
in the lield.
Senator Sharon's nephew whom he
educated and aided in getting a good
position, has proven a defaulter and
been discarded.
A liill xvas recently' introduced in
the Michigan legislature to restore
capital punishment in that State, hut
tile measure xvas gibbeted in the Sen
ate. _
The committee xxhich has just given
out the Rex-ision of the Old Testament
held 85 sessions of about 10 days each,
comprising, in all, 793 days of six hours
at a sitting.
No angler ex-er yet set forth to a
day's fishing ungladdened by the san
guine expectation that, great sis his
luck may hitherto have been, tlie ex
plots of to-day shall eclipse it utterly.
There is still a spec of xvar between
England and Russia. We do not care
to encumber our columns xvitli all the
idle speculations on this subject.
When any thing x - ery serious occurs
we xvill gix T e it tine notice.
Col. F.van Hoxvell and Mr. II. W.
Grady, both of the Constitution, hax'e
joined tlie church, says an Atlanta
correspondent of the Saxannah Nexvs.
Rex'. Sam Jones and the Y. M. C. A.
were prime factors in their conx’ersion.
Minister S. S. Cox, in a letter ad
dressed to (Irlando B. Potter, says he
xvill leax-e for Constantinople in the
middle of June. A banquet to take
place in New York, has been tendered
Mr. Cox by nearly a hundred xvell-
knoxvn citizens.
Tlie president ought to understand,
as he undoubtedly does, that there
is not a republican in office to-day
that xvas not appointed rather for his
zeal than for his fitness. If the coun
try is entitled to civil service reform
it ought to have tlie genuine article.
Turn the rascals out.
In June a large excursion party of
Mexican editors xvill x-isit all the prin
cipal cities in the United States.
Among these editors are some of The
most brilliant men in Mexico. They
are highly educated, polished gentle
men and they xvill be warmly welcom
ed in this country.
In the case of Cluverius, charged
xvitli the murder of Lillian Madison
by throwing her into Richmond, Va.,
reservoir on tlie night of the 13th of
March, the testimony against the pris
oner serins to be unfavorable to him.
He seems to have been tracked to the
reserx r oir. The testimony in fax'or of
the prisoner is yet to be heard.
M. de Lesseps relates that on tlie oc
casion of hisjnarriage, the day of the
opening of the Suez canal, November,
1861). his father-in-laxv handed him
100.000 francs as a present to his wife.
At that time, he adds, Suez canal
shares were selling at 250 francs, or
50 per cent discount. He in vies the
present in these shares, on which he
realized 1,500.000 francs.
The case of Mr. Julian B. Tutt,
charged xvitli the commission of crime
iu the State of Tennessee, and hax'ing
been put in charge of W. E. Cantrell,
agent of tlie State of Tennessee, by
xvarrant of Gov ernor McDaniel, xvas
heard in full before A. R. AValton, Or
dinary of Richmond county, termi
nated by decision of said Ordinary
that be had committed np crime in
Tennessee and xvas no fugitive from
Justice. Mr. Tutt xvas set free by
Judge AValton. This decision xvas
gratifving to everx- one as just and le
gal- * ‘
In liis sermon in Nashville, last Sun
day. Rev. Sam Jones tackled the “arm
clutch" usage in his v igorous style.
The Nashville Union .editorially says;
“The preacher in the most earnest
manner said: ‘Young woman, I would
sustain your good name; 1 love to
think of your good character; but I
beg you.'make young men keep their
liquids off you. 'When a young man
walks xvitli you and seizes your arm,
von may be x'irtuous, but what is he? 1
When the preacher closed his fexv
pointed sentiments on this offensix'e
habit, his earnestness had waked up
the vast audience, and the gospel
tent fairly rattled with applause.
“AVe predict the great preacher has
cured Nashville young people, and
that in future the police will regard
the act as a ground of suspicion, and
immediately enquire xvho the charac
ters are. This community ought to
give Mr. Jones a house and lot for
for this touch on social practices when
it xvas most needed.”
London Truth in describing a wom
an wh6 is devoted to {esthetic dressing
gix'es the following: Her dress is semi-
Greek. Her hair is fillet-bound in
front, and falls on her neck like a lit
tle xvisp of hay. Her chin is well in
the air, and her haggard eyes are fix
ed on a vase of lilies. Her arms are
quite the longest, and almost the
thinnest I have ever seen, but she
makes great play with them in ex
pressing her woful thoughts. As 1
watch her with deep and pure enjoy
ment, I recall a short simple annal of
the lady which was told me not long
since. She xvas walking in her gar
den with one she deemed a kindred
spirit. The lunch bell rang. The
kindred spirit, after a few minutes'
delay, and aware that lamb cutlets
are better hot than cold, ventured to
suggest a move to the dining-room.
The lady said, with one of her sweet
est, saddest smiles: “1 have already
lunched. 1 have eaten half a rose.
I have kept the other half for my
supper.”
HAPPINESS.
AVe are creatures of complaint. AVe
are constantly measuring our own
happiness by our neighbor s bushel,
and if closely examined it may often he
discovered that our neighbor's bushel
has a false bottom to it. Men get sick,
they fall in biisiness, they meet mis
fortune and, are unhappy. These
are salutary checks and changes that
xvill make our pleasure greater on a
return to our former state, just as
hunger will give a keener relish to
food, and toil and tiresomeness en
hance the pleasure of repose. “The
burden which is well and cheerfully
borne ceases to lie felt—not to wish for
a thing is the same as to have it—not
to regret a loss is still to possess xvhat
you liax’e lost, and we may all have
what xve like, simply by liking xvhat
he liax'e.”
AVe should take as an example, the
little boy xvho, when he dropped a
mirror and shattered it to pieces,
shewing his face in ex'ery fragment,
exclaimed, “Hoxv fortunate that I let
it fall! I have now txventv looking-
glasses instead of one.”
The Right Reverend Bishop Gil-
rnour, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the
many eminent church dignitaries xvho
hax'e publicly added their emphatic
endorsement to the wonderful efficacy
of St. Jacobs Oil in cases of rheuma
tism and other painful ailments.
AD ALINA PATTI, the great song
stress, says of Solon Palmer's Per
fumes, Toilet Soaps and other Toilet
articles: “1 unhesitatingly pronounce
them superior to any 1 ever used.”
Principal Depot, 347 und 376 Pearl st.,
Nexv York. 44 6t
TIIE LAST YEAR’S COTTON CROP.
It is estimated now that the cotton
crop in this country xvill about reach
5,700.000 bales. Tlie exports since
September the 1st, 1884, liax'e been
a little ox’er 4.500.000 bales and the
balance is still in the United States.
Some cotton is groxvn in Mexico ami
Egypt. Perhaps this year less than
usual xvill be realized owing to the dis
turbed condition of that country. A
large quantity of an inferior qiiality
is groxvn in India. The British gov
ernment lias fostered its production
there, but the goods made xvitli it
cannot compare xxfith the American.
Since the probability of peace being
concluded betxveen England and Rus
sia, the prospect for trade is growing
more fax’orable and owing to the com
paratively small quantity of cotton
on hand, the price xvill somexvliat in
crease. As far as xve have noticed the
reports of the papers, xve infer that
the acreage of cotton tips year has
not been increased and there is a
prospect for the planters to obtain
better prices than for some years past.
No one can tell anything about a cot
ton crop until it is gathered, or, until
xvitliin a short time before the picking
season. AVe believe the farmers have
awakened to the losing policy of get
ting advances, relying upon the pro
ceeds of their cotton sales to meet
them and sustain them the followin',
year. They are more generally giving
attention to provision crops and they
xvill thereby sax’e many millions of
dollars and not only that, they xvill
not be necessitated to sell tlieir cotton
as fast as they can get it to market.
Cotton growers hax r e lost many hun
dred millions of dollars by neglecting
to raise all, or nearly ali, the provi
sions they needed. It is not probable
that the crop of 1885, xvill be exces
sive. The reports from India are un-
fax’orable. In that climate they can
plant some sooner than in ours and
already they complain that the crops
are backward and cannot equal that
of the past year. Under fax'orable
circumstances such as good seasons,
the absence of rust and worms, the
growers of cotton xvill receive a re
ward for their labor unexampled for
many years. If the,crop is large it
will all be wanted at fair and liberal
prices. The game is in the farmer's
own hand and xvill remain there if
they xvill raise their own prox'isions
and keep out of the hands of adx-anc-
ers xvho impose a per cent upon their
victims xvhich forces them to feel the
pangs of pox'ertv and want. Farm
ers can live well and do xvell if they
will. Farming xvas the primitive nat
ural business’of man and is probably
the most healthful for body and mind;
it places us, as it xvere in daily con
tact xvitli the deity, by our unceasing
experience of his superintending love,
connects earth xvith heax'en and brings
religion home to our business and
bosoms. AVe cannot handle human
man passions ex'en to play with them
in safety. AVho can be freeer from
them than the farmer xvho lives
in the constant contemplation of Na
ture. There is no rivalry xvith nature.
Our pride does not rex’oit at her supe
riority; nay, the farmer, more than
others, finds a pure and holy calm in
contemplating her majesty, and bows
down before it xvith feelings of rever
ence and delight. All that is necessa
ry to completehis.happiness is to obey
the laws of nature and ponder the
path of duty in gaining its sure and di-
xdne rewards. In all the paths of life
there are nettles mingled with the
flowers, and xvithout judgment and
caution in gathering the flowers, xve
may feel the sting of the nettle.
General News.
Most of the British troops are being
removed from the Soudan.
London. May 22.—Tiie House of
Commons has adjourned till the 4th
of June.
Galveston, May 22d.—Jasper
Rhodes, a mulatto, xvas hanged at
12:30 to-day in the jail yard in this
city for the murder-of his wife in Oc
tober last.
Dongola, May 22.—El Mahdi is re
tiring his troops’ex’erywhere. He hint-
self is retiring towards Jabel Eleri,
leaving his steamers at Sobat on the
AVliite Nile.
Little Rock, May 22.—Goodwin
Jackson, colored, who beat Sandy
Redmon, colored, to death xvith a
fence rail in Nox* ember last xvas hang
ed at Clarendon, Arkansas, to-day.
Judge A. R. AValton, the youthful
Ordinary of Richmond county, pre
sided at the hearing of the Tutt ha
beas corpus case yesterday xvitli be
coming dignity.—Augusta Chronicle.
Baltimore, May 22.—Howard
Cooper, the negro eonx'ietea yester
day of rape on Miss Katie Gray, of
Baltimore county, was this morning
sentenced by Judge Stexx'art to be
hanged at such time as the Governor
may appoint.
Death of Mrs. C. B. Hitt.—The
funeral notice of the death of this ven
erable lady will be found in another
column. She died this morning about
1 o'clock at a ripe old age.
She xvas belox'ed by all xvlio knexv
her, and sad, indeed, it is to chronicle
the death of so estimable a lady.—Au-
gutta Chronicle, 24th.
Nexv York, May 22.—The family of
the late Secretary Frelinghuysen
made no secret of the fact that the
first serious illness of Frelinghuysen
xvas due to aconite that in some unac
countable way xvas bottled xvith min
eral xvater lie used, anti Dr. Lincoln,
of AVashington, says that there was
enough left in the bottle to kill four
men.
AVho AVas She?—New York, May
22.—A young woman came to the
Grand Union Hotel last night, and af
ter registering as “Miss J. Jones,
City,” was assigned to a robin. Later
the proprietor of the hotel found her
dead in bed. hax'ing shot herself
through the left breast. A revolver
lay on the bed xvith one chamber emp
ty. She had destroyed everything
that would lead to her identification.
It is thought that the name is an as
sumed one.
La Libertad, May 23.—The media
tion of Honduras, whicii has for its
object the settlement of difficulties ex
isting betxveen Salvador find Guate
mala has failed. The rex'olutionary
forces, led by Menendez, xvho has
been clandestinely armed and assist
ed by Guatemala" have been driven
back bv the Salvador troops to’ tlie
town of Santana. Four hundred
Guatemalan troops crossed the fron
tier of Salx-ador this morning. This
invasion complicates matters and
probably xvill result in re-opening the
whole Central American question. It
is expected that the original alliance
against Guatemala will be renexved.
Paris, May 23.—Crowds are still
flocking to the residence of A’ictor
Hugo, depositing wreaths of immor
telles.
Paris, May 23.—It is not definitely
decided when the funeral of A’ictor
Hugo xvill occur, but it xvill probably
not take place before AVednesday.
Death of Hugo.—Paris and all
France are in mourning for A’ictor
Hugo. M. Brisson, French Prime
Minister, proposed a grant by the
State of 4,000f to defray the ordinary
expenses of A’ictor Hugo s funeral.
Tlie proposal was at once adopted by
the deputies bv ax’ote of 415 to 3. M.
DeLafarge moved that the Pantheon
be secularized iu order that A ictor
Hugo might be buried there. This
was x'oted by a ballot of 229 to 114.
The London Times dex'otes an edi
torial article to his death and says:
“This extent is one that touches the
whole civilized world.” AVe copy these
few paragraphs from among many to
show hoxv he xvas regarded abroad as
xvell as at home.
Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
AVashington, May 27th, 1865.
To those xvho expected a grand and
startling transformation scene as soon
as Mr. Cleveland xx'as fairly in office,
the present condition of things is very
disappointing. But to those xvho know
that startling transformation is not
necessarily reformation, and that the
latter can be attained only through
careful and xvell considered action,
there is much for encouragement. The
magnitude of the xvholesome changes
that liax'e taken place is known best
by those xx-lio xvill nex-er tell it. All
the Republican clerks in ali the De
partments are xvorking better and ac
complishing more, drinking less, pay
ing their old debts and enjoying bet
ter health than ever before. They
are doing more xvork because the Sec
retaries of the different Departments
hax’e gix'en them to understand that
idle clerks xvill be discharged, and
hax'e emphasized their meaning by
turning some idlers out. Their im-
prox'ed health is attributable to the
fact that orders have gone out that
absence on account of sickness xvill be
deducted from the thirty days sum
mer x'acation that has been gix’en
Gox'ernment clerks. This order has
had such a healthy effect that ab
sence from alledged sickness has de
clined fully one hundred per cent. In
debtedness and drunkness hax'e de
clined because it is understood that
decency, competency and honesty xvill
be insisted upon by this Democratic
Administration. These reforms are
best known by the Republican clerks
themselx’es but they are a kind of re
form that reflects but little glory up
on them or tlieir party. No rogue
xvill boast that he has been whipped
into honesty. 1 venture to predict
that in about nihe months from now,
when the xvork of the first year of the
nexv administration can be rex'iexved,
a very fax'orable showing will be made
and it xvill be found not only that a
larger amount of work has been done,
but that it has been accomplished
more economically and xvith a smaller
force. In a month from noxv it is be
lieved that x-ery important changes
xvill liax-e been' made. It lias been
found impracticable to make these
changes as rapidly as xvas desired ow
ing partly to the lack of acquaintance
of Mr. Cleveland and his Cabinet
xvith the routine and the personel of
the different bureaus, and partly to
the conflicting claims of the many ap
plicants for office. But the knowl
edge necessary to intelligent action is
being rapidly acquired and it is re
ported that extensive changes xvill be
made about the 30tli of June.
No Department of the Government
has been xvorse mis-managed than
that of Agriculture. The late Com
missioner spent his time from June
to Nox-ember making speeches for
Blaine and the new Commissioner
appointed by President Clex-eland
found that 1*38.00 xvas the unex
pended balance left him for carry
ing on the Departments for three
months, or until the appropriations
of the next fiscal year shall become
available.
Hoxv this state of affairs has been
brought about is easy to see. There
is no doubt that funds liax-e been
largely used to promote the election
of the Republican candidate for the
Presidency. For the purpose of cur
rying fax-or and gaining x-otes, the
salaries of employees in x-arious States
have been largely increased. Thus,
in one instance, a man in the statisti
cal department, out in Kansas, had
his salary raised from $800 to $2,000,
while his chief in the bureau at Wash
ington only gets $1,500. This whole
sale distribution .of the funds of the
department for political purposes
soon ran axvav xvitli the appropria
tion, and to this as much as to any
other cause the bankrupt condition of
the Agricultural Bureau is to be at
tributed. The original intent of Con
gress in appropriating money for the
distribution of seeds xvas to buy rare
grains beyond the reach of ordinary
agriculturalists and so distribute them
as to improve the character of our
crops. Instead of this, hoxvever, the
recent Commissioner bought for free
distribution ordinary seeds to be
found in every seed store in the coun
try. The true character of these
common seeds xvas hidden under high
sounding names, and they xvere sent
by Congressmen broadcast throughout
tlieir districts for the purpose of mak
ing x-otes. For the last five years the
bureau has not introduced a single
nexx- grain of any x-alue, nor has it
done one thing to aid the true inter
ests of agriculture.
Narrow Escape!
•* » Rochester, June 1,1882. “Ten
Years ago I was attacked with the most
Intense and deathly pains in my hack and
—Kidneys.
“Extending to tlie end of my toes
and to my brain!
“Which made me delirious !
“From agony !!!!
“It took three men to hold me on
my bed at times!
'•‘The doctors tried in vain to relieve
me, but to no purpose.
Morphine and other opiates!
“Had no effect!
“After txvo months I xvas given up
to ilie II!!
“AVlien my xvife
heard a neighbor tell xvhat Hop Bit
ters had done for her, she at once got
and gax-e me some. The first dose
eased my brain and seemed to go h unt
ing through my system for the pain.
The second dose eased me so much
that I slept txvo hours, something I
had not done for txvo mouths. Before
1 had used five bottles, I xvas well
and at xvork as hard as any man
could, for ox-er three xveeks; hut I
worked too hard for my strength, and
taking a hard cold, I xvas taken with
the most acute and painful rheuma
tism all through my system that ex-er
xvas known.
“1 called the doctors again, and af
ter several weeks they left me a crip
ple on crutches for life, as they said. I
met a friend and told him my case,
lie said Hop Bitters had cured him
and would cure me. I poohed at him,
but he xvas so earnest 1 xvas induced
to use them again.
In less than four xveeks I threxv
away my crutches and went to work
lightly and kept on using tlie bitters
for fix’e xveeks, until I became as xvell
as any man living, and liax-e been so
for six years since.
It has also cured my xvife, who had
been sick for years; and lias kept her
and my children xvell and healthy
xvith from two to three bottles per
year. There is no need to lie sick at
all if these bitters are used,
J. J. Berk, Ex-Supervisor.
That poor kwalidxvife, Sister, Motli-
“er. or daughter!!!!
“Can be made the picture of health!
“xvith a few bottles of Hop Bitters!
ro-Xone genuine without a Imiicli of green
Hops on tin- white label. Shun all the vile pois
onous stuil’ with “Hop” or “Hops” iu their
Sunday Trams.
Springfield, Mass., May 21.—The
Grand Jury to-day indicted the Bos
ton and Albany railroad for running
trains on Sunday.
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from any affection of the Throat and
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medicine can shoxv such a record of
wonderful cures. Thousands of once
hopeless sufferers now gratefully pro
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Discovery, it xvill cost you nothing
to gix-e it a trial. Free Trial Bottles
at E. A. Bax lie’s Drug Store. Large
size, $1.00 ' .
A MADMAN’S STORY
BY J. S. WILSON.
| From the Courier-Journal,
j Some years ago I xvas x'isiting a
particular friend in the little city of
L--—. A lunatic asylum is located
there, and my friend, a young physi
cian of some note, is one of the medi
cal force in charge. I always had a
particular horror of insanity in any
form. and generally gix-e a xvide berth
to any one afflicted therewith.
Hoxvex'er, irv friend, after much
persuasion, prevailed upon me to ac
company him one morning when he
went to make his rounds. AVe had
gone nearly over tlie entire building,
and had just entered.the xvard where
The incurables were confined. AVe
had hardly entered when my atten
tion became riveted upon a tall, gray-
haired man of most commanding fig
ure. He was probably 60 years of
age. and had a'peculiar way of draw
ing liis hand arross his eyes, as if
strix-ing to clear them of something.
My friend, noting the interested gaze
1 bestowed on tlie old man, remarked:
“That is one of the most peculiar cases
xve hax'e in tlie asylum. He has been
confined here for ox*er thirty years,
and. of course has long since been
given up as incurable. Helms a most
tragic history, and lie tells it to ex'ery
one xvho comes in here. He is per
fectly harmless and perfectly crazy,
and can remember nothing but the
one story; however, he can tell that
in a x-ery intelligent tvay. He xx'as—”
Just tit this instant an attendant
rushed up to The doctor and whisper
ed something, when my friend turned
to me and said.: “An accident has hap
pened ; just be seated here; you will
be entirely safe, and 1 xvill not begone
long ;" and xvith that he x\-as off.
However great my repugnance was
to remaining, I had no other alterna-
tix'e, so I seated myself on the stone
bench close by the door. Once more
my eyes sought the old -man, and
found he xvas gazing intently at me.
Presently he beckoned me to'come to
him, and by some strange impulse, I
obeyed. As soon as I approached
within a few feet of him he broke out
with :
“You think 1 am crazy—crazy—
ex'ery one does, but I xvas not always
so. Once ] was as sane as you, but 1
am not now: no ! no ! Do you see
these hands? I)o you see those stains
upon them ? That is blood ! and that
is not all. There is a great jagged
spot of blood continually before my
eyes, and 1 cannot wipe it axvav. It
blurrs fliem so that sometimes I can
not see. and 1 cannot xvipe it away.
No ! no! Let me tell yofl my story,
and xvlien I am through you xvill see
that I am not as mad as they think
me.
“Hi my youth—long years ago—I
was a lawyer, located in tlie town of
L . 1 was rapidly rising in my
profession, and xvas conceded, ex-en by
my enemies, to be tlie most brilliant
lawyer in tlie district and that xvas no
mean distinction, for there xvere many
able men in The distrj^t at that time.
I xvas very poor, but, as I said before
was rapidly rising, and in a fexv years
would hax-e had all that I desired. But
I had one besetting sin—drink, drink—
and when under the influence of it
was a x-ery demon. About this time
a grand ball xvas gix-en at the noble
residence of Squire Elton, a xx-ealtliy
gentleman of distinguished family,
xvho had recently mox'ed to our town.
The ball xvas gix'en in honor of his
grand daughter, a beautiful girl just
budding into xvomanhood. Of course
I xvas inx-ited. The evening came—I
went—and there for the first time saw-
Mabel Eltdn, tlie grand-daughter of
the old Squire. I had heard much of
her xvondrous beauty, but I xvas no-
xvis4 prepared for tlie lovely \-ision
that greeted my gaze. If ever God
sent an angel to dxvell for a time in
this sinful world, it was Mabel Elton;
and she was tlie most beautiful crea
tion of the Divine Hand. A fairy-like
figure, exquisitely molded; a wealth
of golded hair That swept in shining
ringlets far below her xvaist—arid such
eyes—to see them once xvas nex-er to
forget them ; large, brown and lumi
nous, xvitli a pleading, trustful expres
sion. I see them now lit up xvith love,
and beaming on ine xvith a gentle ra
diance. God liax-e mercy on ine! My
Mabel, oh, my Mabel!
I met her, and my heart was xvhollv
hers; 1 loved her madly, passionately,
from the first, and, my friend, it was
fully reciprocated. 1 danced xvith her
—not only once, but many times; in
fact, I monopolized her society. I
xvas charmed xvith her, and she xvas
equally charmed xvith me.* Oh, I will
never forget that evening! The light
ed room, the perfnme and the music
all pass before me now. It xvas near
the close of tlie festivities, and just
after a xvaltz, that I led my love from
the crowded ball-room and out to the
grounds. It xvas in early spring, and
a full moon xvas shining resplendent
in the heax-ens. AVe xvalked sloxvly
through tlie long garden, redolent
xvith tlie perfume of many rare and
early floxvers. AVe paused at length
near a tinkling fountain in the shade
of a great elm tree. As yet no word
had passed betxveen us. Mingling
xvitli the music of the fountain came
that of the band in the ball-room.
Some instinct told me that the lovely
being at my side loved me as I did her.
I know not xvhat possessed me, but
there by tlie side of the fountain, xvith
tlie musie of band and xvater ringing
in my ears, I caught lier in my arms,
and 'told her of my lox-e. She did not
resist me, but lay quietly in my arms
xvhile I rained burning kisses upon
her throat, mouth and broxv. Oh,
blissful moment, oh, happy time! If
God ex - er allows mortals to taste of
the pleasures of Paradise, I think I
must have tasted of them then. I
feel her xvarm and palpitating form
against my bosom now, and the scent
of the dying geranium in her hair
steals o'er my senses. I knoxv not
hoxv long xve lingered thus, but gent
ly releasing herself from my entwining
arms, she placed her tiny band upon
my sleei-e, and xve turned to the house.
"1 was xvith her many times after
That, and it xvas rumored that we
xvere about to luarrv. 1 went one
evening to see her, and xvas met at the
door by the old Squire xvho forbid uie
to come there again, and told me that
his grand-daughter was soon to mar
ry a wealthy gentleman in a distant
city; and coldly bidding me good-by,
slammed the door in my face. God
only knows hoxv I survived that blow.
I prayed for death then, but it never
came. Next day the old house xvas
closed, and tlie inmates xvent away.
“It xvas many days before thestate-
ly mansion was opened again; but it
xvas opened again, and grand prepara
tions were inaugurated, for Mabel El
ton was to be married. Married!
Had my death warrant been read to
me I could not have felt worse.
“After much bustle and prepara
tion, the xvedding day arrived at last.
In all this time, I had nex-er once seen
my little Mabel,- or even heard direct
from her. 1 had determined to bear
up until the marriage was consumma
ted, and then fly to some distant land
and die. 1 could never remain in that
place and see the only woman I ever
lox'ed another's xvife. I had nothing
to Iix-e for. I would die, and by my
oxvn hand! Ha! ha! That thought at
least, gave me some pleasure. On the
afternoon of the day of the w-edding,
I was seated alone, in my office, brood
ing ox-er nix - melancholy fate, when,
xvithout a knock, a servant employed
at the Squire's entered, placed a note
upon my table, and, xvithout a xvoru,
withdrew. I recognized the servant,
and 1 seized the note with fex'erisn
eagerness. Its contents were soon
known- It was a request from Mabel
to meet her beneath the old tre ® •
the fountain at the foot of the garden.
The ceremony was to 1 ' tak ^An iLve
9 o'clock, and the bridal part?-to leave
™ T,“« or Jn»£
She xvould liax e a ie« S1
..hid, (.Mij“* t rf !' a i* 0 Sd d jav
that’her”luarriapc was force.! upon
her. Death was far more preferable
she averred. Oh. my angel darling.
1 have never doubted one xvord you
said: and as I stand here a blood-stain
ed murderer ami madman, I know
your heart and soul xvere xvholly mine;
and I know too, your xvhite-xvinged
spirit liox'ers o'er me now, and whis
pers peace unto my troubled soul.
“At last the hour for the tryst
drew nigh, and in a state of great ex
citement I found my .way to the foun
tain. Of course I xvas' on tlie spot
much too soon, and to a man in mv
state of mind every moment seemed
an hour. I had been drinking for
some days, and was then to a certain
extent, under the influence of liquor.
At last 1 heard the bell in a neighbor
ing steeple peal forth eight, and as
the last stroke died axvav I saxv mv
lox'e approaching swiftly doxvn the
walk. AVith outstreched arms I rush
ed forward to meet her. Clasping her
to my breast. I poured ferx'ent kisses
doxvn upon her rosebud face. I per
suaded her to fiy xvitli me. and I knoxv
at length she xvould liax-e yielded. Ac
this instant a dark form crashed
through tlie shrubbery, and before I
could adjust myself to the situation a
ringing bloxv xvas dealt me, and the
word ‘scoundrel!’ hissed in mv ears.
I xvas perfectly furious then—I knew
not what I did". 1 drew my pistol and
fired twice in quick succession. Tlie
man fell immediately to the ground—
and my God! my Mabel staggered and
fell forward! I caught her in my arms,
and saw the bosom of her xvliite dress
—her bridal tlress—red with blood.
I laid her gently on tlie ground, and
knelt beside her—my hands dripping
with her crimson life-tide. Her eyes
looked trustfully up to me. and with
my name on her lips, she smiling,
passed forex'er from the xvorld. I
drew my dripping hand across my
eyes, and fell fainting on my face. 1
I know not hoxv long I lay there, but
when I awoke 1 found myself here,
xx'itli crimsoned hands and great
spots of blood before my eyes—and
they tell me I am mad! mad! mad!',
Here the maniac's x - oice xvas raised
to a loud shriek, and I xvas becoming
thoroughly alarmed, when I heard
approaching foot-steps, and my friend
the Doctor, hurried to my* side aiid
led me out. It xvas a great relief to be
in the open air once more: and never
since then hax'e I entered an insane
asylum.
Bardstoxvn, Ky., 1885.
HOLDING THE FORT.
TIIE WORK AND XVORDS OF REX’. SAM
JONES IN NASHX ILLE.
For txvo xveeks tiie Georgia ex-ange-
list has preached three times a day in
Nashx-ille.
Three times a day the x'ast taber
nacle has been crowded xvitli people
of all classes of society.
The preacher has been subjected to
a tremendous strain, physically, men
tally and spiritually, but he contin-
ues to speak, xvith undiminished fer-
X’or, originality and power.
The cultured and the illiterate, the
godly and the ungodly, the rich and
the poor, liax'e parted xvith the last
lingering prejudice and yielded to the
influence of this remarkable man. The
movement to build a residence for
Mr. Jones is only one of the many
manifestations of the popular love
and enthusiasm.
LAST SUNDAY’S SERMON.
Mr. Jones preached last Sunday
taking for his text the simple xvord,
“Turn.” Among his many pithy anil
pointed sayings xvere the following :
“Ex'ery moment of your life God is
where He can put his hand on you.
God is everywhere, and if ‘ye turn not
God xvill xvhet His sword. 1 I knoxv it
is unpopular nowadays to preach the
wrath of God. Years ago men preach
ed the Bible and did not'defend it. I
do not beliex'e in this effeminate Chris
tianity. I knoxv that God is lox'e;
He is merciful and gentle and good.
I know that His great heart beats for
mankind; but I knoxv that He is ter
ribly just.’’
“Well,’ says a man, d gamble, I‘
diink, I swear, or this or the other,
and 1 can’t give it up.’ 1 tell you 1
liax'e been along there and 1 knoxv,
and I tell you I would rather do any
thing than be damned. - A man said
tome, ‘I couldn’t do anything because
I had such an awful temper.’ i said,
T had rather liax'e a bad temper in
heaven than a good one in lieli.’ < )ne
fellow says, ‘I never will swear again.'
You black-mouthed rascal, xvhat right
had you ex'er to swear?”
“There are men in this town xvho
hax'e whisky on hand and say they
xvould get rid of it if they only knexv
how. 1 tell you 1 xvould rather emp
ty $50,000 worth of xvhisky in the Cum
berland river than be in hell xvith the
barrels sitting around me. - ’
, “Another felloxv says. ‘I am going
to quit drinking.'’ (toil bless you;
you ought never to have drank any at
all. And you ought to have 1,000
lashes for the xvay you have treated
your xvife about it.”
'‘Another says, 'I am never going to
dance any more.’ You ought nex'er
to hax'e begun. Nobody ever will be
gin unless they are light in upper sto
ry. That’s my judgment.”
I want to tell you this, when I
stood at my father's bedside, and lie
held my hand in his bony band, I be
lieve that xvas my last chance, and if
I had turned axvav and sinned again
I believe I xvrnild be in lieil today.
There are men here now xvho tire hav
ing their last chance now. God pre
pare the man xvho will die first, and
let him be sax’ed tonight. Thank God
any of us can turn tonight, but I
would not be any man's security that
he can turn tomorroxv. The best
tiling a man can do is to say, ‘Here 1
am, Lord; take me as I am.’ There's
manx' a felloxv with a whitewash
brush trying to clean up a little be
fore he goes to God.”
“Thank G9d there is a minute in
every man's life xvhen he can turn
axvay from sin. Noxv, my friends, one
sin is like a leak in a sjiip, it will sink
a man's soul in all eternity. I am a
living demonstration that any man
who wants to stick to religion can
stick. I hope ex’ery man xvho takes a
position for God and right will stick
until God says, ‘It is enough.’ Every
man that ex’er failed did so because
he turned God loose to take something
the devil xvanted to give him.”
“A man has got to give up or do
worse, one or the other. God bless
you, I knoxv what it is to start below
the lex’el. I didn't even hax'e aground
start. 1 tell you if you want to do
right God will help you. If you are
able to look after number one ask
God to help you spiritually and he
will do it.”
VERY REMARKABLE RECOVERY.
Mr. Geo. A T . AVilling, of Manchester,
Mich., writes: “My xvife has been al
most for fix’e years, so helpless that
she could not turn over in bed alone.
She used two Bottles of Electric Bit
ters. and is so much improved, tftat
she is able now to do her own work
Electric Bitters will do all that it,
claimed for them. Hundreds of testi
monials attest their gre&t canrfne
powers. Only fifty cents a bottle at
E. A. Bayne’s.
Ail the People Unanimously Applaud
HUM0ROUS.
Touching and irresistible was that
invitation of the rustic maiden to her
swain: “Come over and see me; we
have a new lamp at our house, that
we can turn down, down, down, un
til there isn't scarely a bit of light in
the room.”
AVlien Mr. Cleveland, went to select
a pexv in the AVashington church
which he attends he was asked xvhat
part of the building he would like to
sit in. “AVell,” he said, “I don't want
to be so near the minister that he can
see whether or not I am listening. ”
They tell a very pretty little story
of the little four-year-old son of James
Part* n, the historian. One day last
summer he xvas found kissing the
rosebuds to make them open. The
fact that he amputated the cat's tail
and conx-erted his mother's tulip bed
into a circus ring the same day i a not
recorded.
The Sussex Register says that txvo
men in that county recently settled
up. and passed check receipts in full
through the bank. One was in “full
payment of all accounts, past, present
and future, from now until eternitv,”
and the other “in full payment of all
accounts up to date, and up to the tiny
of judgment.'Pears these two
men don t intend to do any more
business xvitli each other.
Not Visible to the Naked Eye.
[Boston Transcript.]
‘ My son," asked a proud father,
after the usual greetings upon the
young man's return from college
“have you a microscope among x t.til-
traps?''
“A microscope, dad?” replied the
astonished youth.
“Yes, my sou; you have been in
college, you know", four years, and
I- thought it you had a microscope
handy I should like to see hoxv much
you had learned."
“AVlmt are you waiting for?" said a
lawyer to an Indian who had paid him
money.
“Receipt," said the Indian.
“A receipt.” said Hie lawyer, “re
ceipt! xvhat do you know about a
iec£ipt? Can you understand the
nature of a receipt? Tell me the
nature of one and I xvill give it to
you.”
“S'pose mabe me die: me go to he-
ben; me find the gate locked: me see
’postle Pel re: lie say, Kiser, xvhat
you xvant?’ me say. ‘want to get in:’
he sax’, ‘you pay A. that money?’
AVhat ine do? I hah no receipt; hah
to hunt all over hell to find you.
He got his receipt.
Bringing It llome
Baltimore Day.
A gentleman sprucely dressed xvas
standing in front of a swell cafe yester
day, xvhen he was approached by the
ubiquitous bootblack, xvho inquired,
“Shine?"’ He xvas answered in tlie
negatix'e, but, instead of ceasing his
importunities, be put liis box on the
xvalk, and, kneeling down, asked
again. “Shine?” The gentleman,
becoming somewhat impatient, res
ponded: “I saitl no: can't you take
no for an answet?" Nothing abashed
the gamin retorted: “AVell, hoxv did
you like to hax’e a man say no when
you was a bootblack, say?" This xvas
too much, and he wasalloxved to go to
xvork.
The Bigger Fool of the Txvo.—
“AVlien I married you,” said Mrs.
Pepporton to herhus'hand, “I thought
tftat you xvere a sensible man, but I
hax'e learned that you are a fool.”
Let's see,” the husband mused, “xve
hax-e been married lix-e years haven't
xve?”
“Yes, I am sorry to say that xve
have.”
“And you married me under the
impression that I was a sensible fel
loxv?”
“Yes.”
“And you liax’e just discovered that
I am a fool?' 1 .
“Yes I hax’e.”
“AVell, you were a long time in
making this discovery, which prox’es
that you are a bigger fool than I am.
Another tiling in my favor is that I
knexv you xvere a fool or you xvouldn’t
,liax’e consented to marry me.”
Counting-Out Rhymes.
Mr. H. Carrington Bolton, of Trinity
College, contributes to the Boston
Journal of Education the following
specimens of “counting-out'’ rhymes
collected by him from children and by
correspondence :
One-ery, two-ery, lekery Aun:
Fillicy, fallacy, Nicholas John:
quever, quaver, English knaver:
Stinckelum, stankeluin, buck.
This rhyme is widely used, having
been reported tome from Connecticut,
Philadelphia and Cincinnati. It is
subject to many variations: “English
knax-er" become “Irish Mary" or
“Virgin Mary;"’ some insert the xvord
.“berry” or the xvord “John'’ before
“buck” in the last line. “Ickery”
becomes “hickory” “stinckelum”
becomes “stringelum,” etc.
Ano, Diana, mona, mike:
Barcelona, bona, strike:
Care, ware, Irow, track:
Hallico, balUco, wet, wo, wack;—New York
city..
This, also is subject to countless
x'ariations; “Barcelona” becomes
“tusealona.,’ etc. One form ends
in:
Hn'dy, gutpy, boo, out goes you.
Ana, mana, Dipery Dick;
Delia, (lolia, Dominick:
llitclia, pitcho, domimteha;
Hon. pon, tush:—Central Ney York.
In some districts the third line is
given as “Houtclia, poutcha, domin-
oulcha,” and in others, “Hotclia,
potcha,” etc. “Tush' 1 may also be
come “tus” or “tusk.”
Haley, inaley, tippety, flg:
Tiuey, toney, totals), nig:
Coat, throat, country note:
Tmey, toney, tiz'.—HhoSde Island.
Eatum, peatum, penny, pie:
Babylonl, stickum, stle:
Stand youout thereby!—Scotland.
Besides rhymes of the character of
the abox’e, i. e. consisting of a mix
ture of gibberish xvith disconnected
xvords, there are many rhymes con
taining no uncouth xvords, but posses
sing, in general, a jingle easily recog
nizable..
One, two, three,
Nanny caught a ilea:
The flea died, and I Nanny cried:
Out goes she'—Delaware, Rhode Island,
etc.
1. 2, 3, 4, 5,-6, 7, 8.
Mary at the cottage pate
Eating grapes off a plate,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 7, 8,
This is gix’en, also, “plums in place
of “grapes,’’ and “garden gate’ for
“cottage gate. ’ AVlien “cottage door
ends the second line the counting
stops at “four” to satisfy the rhyme.
AVhat S. S. S. is doing for Me.
1 have suffered a long time with
cancer and skin eruption. The best
physicians tested their skill but said
they could do nothing more for me. I
have taken less than a half dozen bot
tles of Swift's Specific, and to my sur
prise as well as to the wonder of all
uiv friends, my face has pealed off,
the skin is smooth and clear, my eye
L almost well, and the cancer on my
neck is drying up. . I have gamed five
pounds in flesh during the iast month.
Lid am nowin better health than I
have been in eleven years. A terrible
load has been lifted off of me,
D. A. Hudelson.
DiHireith, Henry Co., ind.
Free from Malaria.
In tlie fall of 1884 I xvas taken with
a case of malarial fever which pros
trated me both body and mind. 1 xvas
drugged after the old fashion with
mercury and other mineral mixtures,
but xvith no good results. My health
was shattered and my energy gone.
miie crowds in Nexv Orleans at the ! Mv legs and feet would swell, and I
Exposition, on their return had xvhat everybody thought was
dropsv. These symptoms alarmed me
Great Exposition, on tneir return
home are loud in their approval of the
honestv of the renowned Louisiana
State 'Lottery. This is true, even
wlien the scheme meets their disap
proval. The next grand drawing will
occur on Tuesday. June 16tli, when
hlie will give $150,000 for $10, and
throw around promiscuously over
half a million of dollars among her ad
mirers, of which M. A. Dauphin, Nexv
Orleans. La., will give all information.
The entire management will be by
Gen'ls. G. T. Beauregard, of La., anil
Jubal A. Early, of Va.
Collector Crenshaw decides that doc
tors and druggists who sell liquor oii
prescriptions are liable to liquor tax.
and I xvas ready to grasp at any reme
dy suggested. A friend advised me to
try Swift's Specific. I procured three
bottles and commenced its use. The
swelling soon subsided. I haxe taken
the three bottles, which have made a
perfect cure, and I feel like anew man
to-dax’. There never was a more mer
itorious medicine offered to suffering
humanity. It has wrought wonders
for me. Willis Jones.
Leesburg, Lee county, Ga., March
11 1885
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