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tmrn UNION & RECORDER, MILLEDGEVILLE, MARCH 2, 188®. The New Tariff Question. We have for some months, made on ly several brief allusions to the tariff question, believing t he Administration ■w ould have some policy on that intri cate anti disturbing question that could meet the approbation and se cure the unity of all Democrats. Whether the bill introduced by Mr. Morrison, may be received as an Ad ministration measure, we do not know, and circumstances, we need not mention, have prevented our ex amining its provisions, as we desire to do, before expressing a deliberate opinion upon its merits. We take oc casion now, to refer, mainly to one or two facts as to the origin of; the pres ent high tariff. It originated, as all know who have looked into the sub ject at all as a war measure, and not only largely increased the duties upon goods brought to this country from foreign countries, but imposed most extraordinary taxation upon produc tions made and growing in this coun try. We use plain and simple lan guage avoiding the usual technical terms of statisticians, in order that those not familiar with them, may more clearly comprehend the matters alluded to. It is questionable wheth er so heavy a system of direct tayn. tion has ever been imposed upon any people in hundreds of years. It was done, of course, to raise all the means possible, to put down what the Lin coin Government falsely styled, “the rebellion of the Southern states or people.” These piincipal direct tax es were levied upon whiskey and to bacco, though minor sums weie ob tained bv stamp income, bank and other taxes. The people of the North submitted quietly and patiently to this heavy drain, doubtless, (from their stand point) under the patriotic motive of “saving the glorious union.” In addition to those impulses they were told that when the “rebellion” was put down, the taxes would be reduced ; and so they were in part, so far as banks, incomes, &c., were concerned, but the infant manufacto ries ! the puling cry went up that they would be ruined if the enormous war duties were reduced! What the people demand is that they shall not pay upon an average 30 per cent more for what they need than they would have to pay under a simple tariff for revenue, to add to the wealth of the manufacturers. No reasonable man desires to injure the manufacturer, but he does object to paying four dollars for a blanket that lie’ could get for three, and so on, up on other articles, through the long list of the tariff schedule. It is said that Mr. Morrison's bill will reduce taxation twenty millions. That is a very moderate reduction, and ought to be agreed to by every member of both houses of congress. We have not been able as yet to criti cally examine it. As soon as we can, we ’will present its features to our readers. We hope its reasonableness and moderation will so impress the republican members of the Senate, as to secure its passage in that body. It will be readily passed in the House and secure the signature of the Presi dent. Though, as heretofore stated, we have not critically examined Mr. Morrison's bill, we think from glanc ing over it, that it commends itself to public favor, and what we have said is founded upon that impression. £ Senator Morgan’s Resolutions. ! Death oi Mrs. Martha t. Morgan. FOREIGN NEWS. Lord Randolph Churchill is making sensation speeches in various places in Ireland. His auditors are principally Orangemen who are, if possible, more opposed to Irish home rule than the people in England. He is a man of cousiderable ability, a good speaker, and his remarks against the Pamel- lites are as hot as mustard and calcu lated to do much harm. His course is reprehensible in that he tries to ex cite the orangemen to such a pitch as to leave no room for a calm and just consideration of the question of home rule. At Bedfast they took the horses from his carriage and dragged it from the station to the hotel. He told his hearers that the Irish people were not with Parnell, and would prefer a freer and closer union with England. And among other inflamatory re marks, he told the orangemen that if the nation was so apostate as to hand them over to the Parnellites, there are plenty of men in England who would be found ready to stand by the Loyalists. This is nothing short of advocating civil war. 50,000 SOCIALISTS. On the 21st fifty thousand socialists assembled in Hyde Park. Speeches ■were made from three stands. The police subsequently had various con flicts. Many blows were dealt and by the time the crowd reached Westmin ster in the march, many had left the ranks, and quiet soon prevailed in the streets. Several people were bruised, some knocked down and slightly in jured but no life was lost. The chief harm was done by throwing stones and battering shop windows. It was a fortunate escape from more se rious results. It is reported that a plot exists to unite Spain and Portu gal under the Duke of Brganza, and to overthrow the Spanish Regency. A Paris dispatch conveying this infor mation, says the plot is headed by the Duke of Montpensier. The eighth an niversary of the Pope's election as Ponriff was celebrated on the 20th in stant. He received the congratula tions of tiie college of Cardinals. In the lower House of the Dist. on the 22nd says a Berlin dispatch in sub stance: Her W schinexi denounced the projected German colonization of Poland. He said that Poland would not perish. Minister Lucius said the bill was an act of necessity. The Poles were unwilling to be Russian subjects and Germany had to protect herself. Nineteen members gave no tice they would speak in favor of the bill, and nineteen announced they would speak against it. The (i reek cry is still for war against Turkey. Doubtless this grows out of long years of Grecian subjection to Turkish oppression in the past, but Greece is free now, with a small but splendid and delightful country. If t he great power of Russia was worst ed by Turkey, what hope would Greece have of a successful encounter with her. For a small country Greece is prosperous, wealthy, and happy, in u war witli Turkey, she would risk the desolation of her fair land, and perhaps her independence. Comptroller-General’s Report. _ Hon. Win. A. Wright, Comptroller General, in his report shows that the taxable property of the State of Georgia, has been gradually increas ing. In the last six years it has in creased over eighty seven millions of dollars and in the last year it increas ed over tiie previous year two h dred and forty-four thousand one hun dred and seventeen dollars and seven ty eight cents. Mr. Wright is a very efficient officer and is highly popular throughout the State. Mn. Henry Watterson. —We are greatly pleased to notice that the phy sicians in attendance upon Mr. Wat- terson, have at last pronounced hiin to be out of danger. Mr. Watterson is the very able and distinguished editor of the Louisville, Ky., Courier Journal. The many notices of his ilk ness throughout the country, testified to his ability, and the esteem in which lie was belli by journalists in every section. A master of language, of po litical science and a scholar of deep tlicugut and imbued with a generous regard for tiie best interests of the people, his death would have been deplored by hundreds of thousand D f the readers of the Journal and ntanv others in all sections of the country. The diligent Atlanta correspondent of the Macon Telegraph, who nits pro hibition a lick whenever he can, in season and out of season, has found out that there is a hostile feeling be tween those distinguished Baptist ministers, Rev. Dr. Hawthorne and Rev. Dr. H. H. Tucker (the latter be ing the editor of the Christian Index) the cause befhg a difference of views the subject of Prohibition. _ouietimes enterprising correspon- habitually ride a hobby, Senator Morgan, of Alabama, lias introduced into the Senate a series of searching resolutions in reference to the action of the Senate in withhold ing oonflrmalion of the President's nominations. We cannot make room for the preamble ftnd resolutions of fered by Senator Morgan, but briefly Btate their import. The refnsu! to acpffie to the Senate j extraordinary deiffind w«6 made Hy the Attorflv General, Mr. Garland. The Senate condemned Mr. Garland for the refus al. Senator Morgan charges the Sen ate judiciary committee with announc ing a condemnation of the Attorney General and with a violation of his official duty, without a trial by law, when that could only he done by im peachment when the Senate is sitting with the chief justice of the United States, as a court of impeachment to hear and decide npon the articles of impeachment presented by the House of Representatives. The Senate has, in effect, pronounced judgment against the Attorney General with out a trial according to the forms of law prescribed by the consti tution. The Attorney General, if guilty of doing an unauthorized act, such as the Senate claims, is liable to impeachment, and cannot be consid ered except by impeachment, re sulting in a verdict of guiltv. Sen ator Morgan proposes that the com mittee on privileges and elections shall enquire into the proceedings of the Senate and report whether the Senate had the right to condemn the Attorney General in any other way than by impeachment, and whether he had violated any law', or did any thing which might not have been done in the exercise of his lawful dis cretion ; also to report whether the Senate has any constitutional right to give’advice and to removals from offices by the President and further to report whether the Senate, under the constitution, has.the right to withhold its consent to the removal of persons by the President, and to demand doc uments and papers, and refuse con firmation unless they are given to the Senate for its inspection. This is a brief synopsis of most of the points in Mr. Morgan's resolution. We think before this matter is over the judiciary committee of the Senate will see the rottenness of its position and that it is beyond cure or hope. Edmunds and his crowd, we doubt not trembled only at the reading of Mr. Morgan's resolutions and would have preferred a dagger’s thrust to the moral wounds inflicted upon their wicked souls. They may quibble and twist and turn, but their march of new fangled ideas has led them into a quagmire from which they cannot extricate themselves with any degree of credit or honor. They are choked by their own brutum fulmen. Pensions to Soldiers. The pension list for union soldiers seems to be constantly increasing. We do not know, but we think there are many frauds in this matter, and many have been added to the list, who never heard the fire of a gun on battle field. In a speech in the House Mr. Tilrnan, of South Carolina, said, “considering that the confeder ate states pay about one-tiiird of the taxes to the Federal government for pensions, and do not get back three cents of it, considering, also, that from the foundation of the government to the present time, $8 a month -was con sidered as sufficient pension for wid ows, can the gentleman, Mr. Hender son, complain that the gentlemen members are trying to restrain the necessarily larger expenditures for pensions ’within the rules that pre vailed heretofore?" There is no use trying to restrain the enlargement of the pensions. In doing so the cry of the blood}- shirt will be raised. Mr. Henderson said 12 dollars was not too much, and the south will be bled for many years to come. Mr. Randall, of the Chronicle Staff, writes from Washington February 23rd, as follows: I asked a Democratic Congressman why the House adjourned so early to day. He said: “Because we are all at sea and do not know what to do. The President is out of humor with the party and there is no tonic in the po litical atmosphere.” The same gen tleman declared that he got more offi ces from Arthur than from Cleveland, adding that the only difference be tween the two was in allowing South ern home affairs to be in better shape."’ A prominent Senator Irom one of the border States says: “The fight of the Republican Senators against the President is an ugly one and must be embarrassing to the Democrats. It will be a battle of precedents, in which we have the disadvantage in numbers. It means, in my opinion, the rejection of every Democratic nomination where there has been a suspension or removal under charges. This seems to be the common impres sion.’’ J. R. R. It seems the Republican Senators are trying to throw every possible ob stacle in the way of the President. They are making glorious disgraces for themselves bringing about diffi culties and troubles in violation of the President's constitutional preroga tives. “Yes,” we say, “they are dis gracing themselves by interposing for mal and preposterous opposition to his nominations without a shadow of right, disturbing the quiet of the country and peaceable order of the affairs of the Government. Edmunds and his crowd by the infernal and rash experiments are endangering the peace of the Union. Their conduct is an atrocious crime against civil lib erty, and right, and they are pushing it with the most revolting effrontery. Can we ever have peace and justice with such men in the stations they hold?’’ As to the few appointments made, we must impute it in a great degree, to a civil service law which was passed, in part, by democratic votes gained by the author of the bill who now represents the country at the German Court. The bill is an a- ristocratic measure copied from the English. The fight is an “ugly one" and is “embarrasing to the Demo crats.” The President and the Demo crats will be deprived of the service of the gentlemen who are rejected. Per haps the President may find other places for them but we hope they will be revenged by nominating oth ers to take their places. It is with sincere regret we notice m the Memphis j>apers the death of Mrs. Martha F. Morgan, a daughter of the late Dr. Tomlinson Fort. She was born and lived to the age of ma turity in this place. Though for a number of years she has adorned the social circles of a distant city, the , memory of her womanljf virtues gpd graces is yet fondly cherished hssO by those companions off the sp runtime of her existence, who yet remain in life. The Memphis papers—the Ava lanche. Appeal and Ledger—all contain touching notices of her decease, show ing the strong hold she had obtained on the respect, admiration and love of the community to which she went, in the early period of her married life, as a stranger. Her husband, and those who remain of the {once large family circle of which she was a be loved member, will receive the sym pathy of all our people who knew that family when it formed so important an element in the social life of our city. We cannot better show the admira tion and esteem in which she was held in her distant western home, 1 t ban by printing the foUowing notic e of her death, which we copy from the Memphis Appeal: The announcement of the death of Mrs. Martha Morgan, wife of the Hon. R. J. Morgan, in the Appeal, was not unexpected: and still it caused pro found sorrow among a wide circle of friends. Many times from the very shadow of death Mrs. Mogran has im- merged, and with a vitality that seemed marvelous. Her life has been a falling and rising tide for years; but in her last sickness it was an ebbing tide, and Tuesday night eternal si lence fell upon the lips which never spoke but for truth, love, charity, and in praise of husband, children and God. A woman of such prominence, intelligence, and possessing, as she did, all the virtues that adorn the wife, mother and Christian, deserves the extended tribute which some friend will no doubt pay to her memory. The entire community sympathizes with Judge Morgan in his great sor row. It is a terrible blow to a nature as devoted and kindly as his. Strong, hearty and hopeful as is his nature, he will suffer in every fiber of his being, and all who know him and love him will grieve for him. But nothing they can say or do can put a star in his night of sorrow. A heart as big as his bleeds sorely when it is wound ed. The Educational Bill. Expenditure for Drink. The following diagram, from the Interior, is a comparison of the un- iual expenditure in the United Itates for intoxicating liquors, ■ith various other of the largest is of expenditure. It is based the census of1S80 and other re- authorities. Scale: Each -fourths of an inch repre- R enditure of $100,000,000. bted to the Christian Niox for the measurements and statistics.—The liquor bill repre sents the cash paid for it by con sumers, and is, in our opinion, not an exaggeration of the facts. We consider it just about the actual amount. Comments upon a show ing so appalling would only weak en the power of truth. S' 8 8 cT c o s u> a c o j® “ o n £ -9 23 5* .3 -5 -3 SO t S 5 3 8 g • &£ § ® B -2 i Senator Blair's bill to distribute sev enty-seven millions of dollars among the’states and requiring eight years in which to complete the distribution is a matter of very questionable policy. It has advocates in the south as well as in the north and west. It is the more tempting as the whole sum is to be used for educational purposes and if fairly and properly used would be of great benefit in rapidly decreasing the illiteracy of all sections by giving a rapid spread to the three “R’s”. It is probable that the South in propor tion to numbers, would receive a larg er portion of the money than any oth er section of the Union, owing to the millions of colored population within her limits. If congress should decide this question upon constitutional f rounds the bill would be defeated. ’here is no provision in the constitu tional grounds, the bill would be de feated. There is no provision in the constitution to sustain the adoption of Senator Blair’s bill. All the pow ers granted to congress are enumera ted in the 8th section of the 1st Arti cle of the constitution, and such a power, as the distribution of money among tiie states for educational pur poses, is not found in that enumera tion. Some of our statesmen have c laimed congressional power to do cer tain tilings under the declaration in the preamble to the constitution, that the people of the United States had adopted tiie constitution to provide for the common defense, and among additional things to promote the gen eral welfare, and they justifv this dis tribution of money for educational purposes under that clause of the pre amble. But the preamble is no part of tiie constitution. It is only a de claration of what the constitution was ordained and established for, and among other things it is stated in the preamble that it was adopted to pro mote the general welfare. Of course certain powers had to be conferred upon congaess, and all the power, that was conferred, is specified in the 8th section of the first Article. While we have other reasons for op posing the distribution of money among the states by congress, taken from the national Treasury for pur poses of education, it is sufficient To state, that it is forbidden by the Na tional Charter. If one should say it is not specifically forbidden, it is suf ficient to answer that all power is for bidden that is not specifically granted. Mr. Watterson SUICIDE OF MR. R. * BONS. Yesterday morning at 6:30 o'clock, R. J. Fitzgibbons committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. The tragedy occurred at Mr. Fitzgib- bons’ house on the Columbus road, a quarter of a mile beyond Mercer University. Mr. Fitzgibbons was the official stenographer of the Macon circuit. He was well known all over Georgia, his business having carried him into every section of the state. He was a pleasant tempered young man, and nobody that knew him suspected that he would ever become so despondent as to take his own life. It seems, however, that he was financially em barrassed. Hecontracted debts’to the amount, perhaps, of $500; but recently he stated to friends that he had suc ceeded in meeting most of his obliga tions, and felt much relieved. At 6 o’clock yesterday morning Mrs. Fitzgibbons arose and dressed, and went down to the kitchen to assist the cook to prepare breakfast. A few minutes after. Miss Wilson entered the bedroom to dress the children. She found Mr. Fitzgibbons partially dressed, sitting in a rocking-chair near the washstand. She went to the bed occupied .by the children who were awake, and taking one of them up, dressed it. She had her back turn ed to Mr. Fitzgibbons. He told her that he did not feel well, and that he was still very much depressed. She tried to cheer him. but without suc cess. He alluded to his financial em barrassment, and said that he did not know what he should do. He men tioned a suit of clothes, and also spoke of several otiier articles that he wished to purchase, but could not because of the lack of means. In the meantime, the child Miss Wil son had dressed, went out of the room, and she began to dress the other. She sat down in a chair, her back still being turned to Mr. Fitzgibbons. lie was silent short while, and then Miss Wilson heard him rise from the rocking chair and step to the mantel piece. In another instant, she heard a pistol shot, and hastily turning, saw Mr. Fitzgibbons drop back into tiie chair and then fall to the floor. Death of X. Y. Bessman. ~tne .V mare’s nest” instead of a val- u ’/it °f news: as is probably the* * * jr.~ ftatio of cob to .. •Gere statomerit of tlfik the pr After some months’ illness from con sumption, he died on the 23rd of Feb ruary at the residence of his mother, in Augusta. He was the son of the late John W. Bessman, of Augusta, and for a time conducted the business in which his father was engaged. His career was cut short by insatiate con sumption, which destroyed all the hopes of his young manhood. He had not been married a year, and the sympathies of numerous friends are extended to his young wife, his aged mother, and his bereaved sisters. A man named J. W. Pierce from Texas was killed in the terrible col lision on the Georgia Pacific railroad above Atlanta some time since. The man’s wife in Texas was informed of it and she telegraphed that his re mains should be buried at Atlanta. In a short time, a Mi's. J. Pierce Weaver of Indianapolis made her appearance and claimed the deceased as her hus band, under the name above men tioned. She made a very plausible story for her side of the question and the matter came before Judge Clark of the Superior Court upon the ques tion of who was the rightful claimant to the body of the deceused. Al though the matter has not been abso lutely decided, the weight of evidence beforethe court was said to be very much in favor of the Texas wife, who has also come to Atlanta to look after her rights. It is a most interesting case and the people of Atlanta are taking sides warmly on the matter. We shall look for the final result with mnch interest. Was not so well on the 25th. He had improved, and exerted himself too much in talking with friends. He needs quiet, and will be kept There is nothing serious in the change Hundreds, yea thousands of tele graphic inquiries were received during his serious illness from all parts of the country. Mr. Watterson was not well and yet went to Columbus by invitation to a Jackson banqnet, and made long speech. When he finished he was covered with perspiration, and upon reaching home, having experi enced bitter cold weather, having for want of conveyance, walked a dis tance of 13 blocks to the Courier- Journal office. There he sank ex hausted into a chair, and thence he was taken to his residence in a car riage. Then followed the attack of sub acute meningitis. We need not relate his sufferings. For sometime it was supposed he could not recover, and though much better, his physi cians deny callers and his improve ment authorizes his physicians to say that, with proper care, he will soon be past all danger from his severe at tack. ■ CARLISLE AN IDEAL SPEAKER. 1IOUTKLLK, FROM THE BANKA OF THB PENOBSCOT. Senator Colquitt thinks the bill in troduced by him to submit the ques tion of a stringent regulation of the liquor traffic to the people of the Dis trict of Columbia will pass both branches of Congress. He does not see how any one eaa reasonably *b- jeet to giving thp people an opportu ' nity to say what they want. 5 “ ,I S -Y e perfk_ '-ian 'etter and note. From Templeton’s Washington Letter to the Boston Herald. The House of Representatives of the Forty-Ninth Congress is not sup posed to be composed of as able a body of men as was its imnediate pre decessor. There are not a large num ber of prominent members missing- S. S. Cox and Jere Blackboorne on the one side and John A. Kasson on the other, most readily come to mind —but tiie impression prevails that the average is less high than it has been The man who towers above all others is the Speaker. It is difficult to over state the estimation in which Mr. Car lisle is held. You will frequently hear it said that he is the first statesman in any branch of the Government. Pre sident, Cabinet, Senators, all pale be fore him in the view of his entnnsiastio admirers, and they are many. He is the ideal Speaker. He has absolutely a judicial mrnd in his office. A Re publican member of. the House told me that he did not believe Mr. Car lisle ever had an impulse to make an unfair decision, and that there was not the slightest taint of partisan ship in any of his actions in the chair. He is a master of parliamentary law, and he decides everything right by intuition. The Republicans more than respect, they admire him. This member said Mr. Carlisle should have received the full Republican vote at the opening of the session, and gone into his office unanimously. He had earned that honor, for 1m was the best Speaker the nation had ever known. And yet, with all this, Mr. Carlisle is a man susceptible to in fluences. It is generally felt here that Mr. Morrison is his chief reliance as an adviser. Morrison, though f reatly inferior intellectually to tne peaker, is a man of strong will, and of a hard, solid, practical sense, in which the Speaker believes. It is well understood that'he consulted Morrison constantly in the formation of his committees, and takes his ad vice often as regards the business of the House. Morrison is the chief power in a partisan point of view, bate-when the Speaker takes the but St. Jacobs -Oil marks a great ad vance in the science of a cure. It is the only absolute specific for rheumatism Only 50 cents. President Roberts Wins—A dis patch has been received in Augusta announcing that the case in New York against Mr. William S. Roberts, upon the charge of grand larcenyj has been called up in the courts in New York and dismissed upon a de murrer to the indictment. Tiie ground upon which the indictment was quashed was the failure to allege that I the Bethlehem Iron Works—the pros [ ecutors iu the case and the parties claiming ownership in the bonds which Mr. Roberts is said to have hypothecated—is a corporation doin^ business iu Pennsylvania, duly incor porated under the laws of that State and authorized to exercise ownership in the property they claim. Or stated more accurately the in dictment did not allege that the bonds alleged to have been hypothecated were issued by a corporation having chartered authority to issue bonds and, further, it did not allege the bonds to be the property of any per son, association or corporation. Wonderful Cures. W. D. Hoyt & Co. Wholesale and Retail Druggists of Rome, Ga., say “We have been selling Dr. King's New Discovery, Electric Bitters and Backlen’s Arnica Salve for two years. Have never handled remedies that sell as well, or give such universal satisfaction. There have been some wonderful cures effected by these medicines in this city. Several cases of pronounced Consumption have been entirely cured by use of a few bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery, taken in connection with Electric Bit- te« We guarantee them alwavs. Sold by E. A. Case.” At Barnesvilie, Thursday, during a very heavy rain storm, Morgan How al 'd was going across the square, when his attention was attracted to a live fish floundering out in the mid dle of the street. He picked up the little foreigner from the celestial re gions, and placed it on exhibition. There is no doubt but that the fish rained down. It was about three in ches long, and of the perch genus. With bright eyes and elastic step, yet gray, lusterless hair. It is unnat ural, needless. Parker's Hair Balsam will restore the black or brown pre maturely lost, cleanse from all dand ruff, and stop its falling. Don’t sur render your hair without an effort to ive it. _ 34 lm Senator Vest, of Missouri, who is seriously ill wit h neuralgia at tiie base of the brain, will come to Georgia and Florida for rest and treatment. Upon a fair estimate Greene county has paid out $30,000 this year for western mules and horses. At the present price this represents over 800 bales of cotton. There is more profit in one day spent in garden work, now. than in a month spent in discussing politics and hardness of the times.— Ishmae- hte. LIST OF ADVERTISED LETTERS Remaining in the Post-Office at Mil- ledgeville, Baldwin county, Ga., Feb. 27th, 1886. If not called for within 30 days, they will be sent to the Dead Letter office. Adams, David Brown. Charity Burkett, Thomas Borg as, Mat Baugh Martha Bolly, I. Cullens, Bittie Calay, E. N Chance, Mary V. Grimes, Rousa Ganaway, Sandy Gilbert John D. Gilbert, Nora Of: Among: our exchanges. In Albany the peach trees are in bloom. The election on the whiskey ques tion will be held in Hall county on the 10th instant. It is said that Governor McDaniel will be in the race for the gubernatori al nomination. The Ordinary of Washington coun ty has beea petitioned to order an election under the local option law. The State Fair Committee has deci ded to accept Macon’s tender of the Park for the use of the next State Fair. Maj. Lachlan McIntosh, of Georgia, has been assigned to a very pleasant place in the Geodetic Bureau at Wash ington. Mr. Joshua Underwood, of Colum bus, who has been ill several days with hydrophobia, died on Wednes day night. The stockholders of Eatonton's new hotel have purchased the old hotel site for $3,500, and will commence building at once. Mrs. Thomas, mother of Rev. J. W. Thomas, of Calhoun, has, within the past eleven years, pieced and quilted one hundred and sixty-nine qnilts. Rev. C. C. Williams of Augusta, lately elected Bishop of the protest- ant Episcopal diocese of Easton, Maryland, has declined the high office. Prohibition is solid in old Washing ton, and the vote now bids fair to be the most solid on that line that was ever cast in our county.—Banders- ville Herald. The Methodist church at Eatonton had a narrow escape from destruction by fire Monday. A box of hot ashes and coals set tne fence on fire, but it was discovered in time. The young men are all for Prohibi tion. Well they believe in it, and they know “the girls are all bnilt that way.” Do you know a young man that is not going for Prohibition?— Sandersville Herald. J. FITZGIB- Hon. Seaborn Reese, of Sparta, returned home last Sunday, accom panied by his sister, Miss Eula Reese. H e is detained from returning to his seat in Congress by the sickness of his little son, Augustus. Mr. N. B. Baum shipped last week from Toombsboro 175 dozen eggs, and had on hand up to Tuesday this week, 150 dozen. Mr. Baum ships on an average of 150 dozen per week.—Ir win ton Southerner. Eugene Speer, of Georgia, the well known newspaper correspondent, has been appointed to a twenty one hun dred dollar clerkship in Washington, in the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury. The baseball craze has struck the students of the University. The sophomore, junior and senior classes have selected their teams, elected their officers, assigned colors and or dered uniforms. The Secretary and Treasurer of the Eagle & Phoenix Mills of Columbus reports the ontlook for the mills as being just now brighter and more en couraging than it has been for a long time past. This is doubtless indica tive of more prosperous times in all branches of business. Mary Anderson was born at Saeri- mento, Cal., July 28th, 1859. She will be 27 years old next July. Her pa rents were from Kentucky, and her father, was killed in the war. She began her splendid career as an ac tress at Louisville on the 27th of No vember, 1875. Sam Jones is fast winning fame as a revivalist. There are now not a few prominent ministers who pro nounce him the greatest living evan gelist. His language and his methods may be open to criticism, but judg ing by results it is doubtful if any one of the great revivalists of the day e- qual him,—Augusta News. Senator Colquitt thinks the bill introduced by him to submit the question of a stringent regulation of tne liquor traffic to the people of the district of Columbia will pass both houses of Congress. He does not see how any one can reasonably object to giving the people an opportunity to say what they want. Jim McCoy, charged with the assas sinatton of Deputy Marshal Kellet some months since, and for whom a re ward of $500 was offered, has been ar rested at Canton, Ga., by U. S. Mar shal Nelms and a party organized by him. He is said to be a desperado and a noted moonshiner. His arrest was a most gratifying event to the inter nal revenue officials and was very skillfully effected. Capt. J. B. Reese has suspended the publication of bis paper and sold the material to Rev. G. W. Fears, pastor of the colored Baptist church in Ea tonton, and a company composed of members of that church, who will on next Saturday begin the pub lication of a paper, designed to be a rteliglous and family journal, to be known as the “Middle Georgia Ban ner."—Eatonton Messenger. The ground around the Northeast depot at Athens is in great demand for manufacturing purposes. There is now there a cotton compress, a steam elevator and mills, an ice factory and cotton seed oil mill. Before the summer is over McGenty’s shops, a large fertilizer factory and tannery will be added. A movement is now on foot in Athens among the working classes to organize a stock company and build a small cotton mill to be operated by steam power. Death.—Mr. W. B. Marshall died at his home in this county last Sun day afternoon. He had been Ul about two weeks with a carbuncle on his neck, which, we learn was the result of blood-poison. He was the oldest son of Stephen B, Marshall, late of Putnam, deceased, a man who was loved by his friends and held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. Mr. Marshall was fifty-four years old when he died. He was a good citizen, quiet and unassuming in his inter course with the world, and a kind and devoted husband and father. The funeral was conducted by Rev. T. A. Sales from the home of ’the deceased and the body was brought to the city and buried by the side of relatives who had preceeded him in death. Many friends of country and city fol lowed his remains to their last resting place. We sympathize with his esti mable wife and children in their af fliction.—Eatonton Messenger. The Cartersville American of the 23d ult. says: Rev. Sam Jones returned from Milledgeville Saturday night and Sunday night preached a characteris tic sermon to a crowded house at the Methodist Church. He leaves here the last of the week to open the great union meeting at Chicago next Sun day. fte says that five or six different de nominations are £oing heartily into the meeting at Chicago. An immense skating rink has been secured for the meetings, provided with seven thous and chairs. Mr. Jones says the Cincinnati meet ing was one of the most remarkable that he has ever known, and eternity alone can tell the results. One of the effects has been the closing of the the atres on Sunday, and the authorities declare their intention to enforce the Sunday laws generally. People went hundreds of miles to attend the meet ings. He thinks that a hall holding forty thousand would have been filled if it coaid have been secured. At the close of his sermon he asked all who felt resolved to try and live better lives to manifest it by rising, when almost the entire congregation stood up. The great evangelist's visits to his home are always nailed with joy by oar people, ana their sincere prayers follow him wherever he goes to labor in the Master's vineyard. 130W: Capital Prize. $150,000. arrangements for all the terly Drawing! of The ry Company, and in pei the Drawings themselves, conducted with hoeesty, I faith toward all parties, and Company to use this certlScate, with fac-slmflee of our signatures attached, in its advertise ments.” la good irize the Hill. Margerate Jones, Mary Ann Kidwell, F.*D. Lee, Ellen Maddee, Emma McMillens, Charles Suddath, L. H. Sabray, Laura Tanner. Dolly Trail Emily Williams, Sarah Wamble, Rosa Wright, Billie. We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will pay all Prizes drawn in the Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our oenn- ters. J. B OGLESBY, Free. Louisiana Nat l Bk. S. H. KENNEDY, Pm. State Nat’llBank. A. BALDWIN, Free. New Orleaa. Nat l Bk. ATTRACTION! ion Distributed. Louisiana State Lottery Crapy. Incorporated in 1868 for 16 years by the Legis lature for Educational and Charitable purposes —with a capital of $l,ooo,MO—to which a re serve fund of over $560,000 has since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was made a part of the present State Cbnstitn- tion adopted Decembers*!, A. D., 1879. Its Grand Single Number Drawing* will take place monthly. It never scales or post pones. Lock at the following Distribution: 190th Grand HeatUy AND THB EXTRAORDINARY QUARTERLY DRAWING In the Academy of Music, New Orleans, Tuesday, Marsh 16, 188S. Under the personal supervision and manage ment of Gei G. T. BEAUREGARD, sf Louisiana and Gen. JDBAL A. EARLY, of Virginia. CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000. 49-Notice.—Tickets are Tea Dollars only Halves, WS. Fifths, M. Tenths, ei. list op nun. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000....$150,000 1 GRAND PRIZE OF Money Makes the -More Go! T’ ^AND— Money Buys Groceries Cheap! THE GREEN STORE! We buy for Cash and sell the same way. If you want your money to go a long ways, be sure to go to WHITE & TREANOR’S. If your cow is hungry send to WHITE & TREANOR for Bran. If you have no cow, send to them for tne finest Butter in the city. Nice Hams, Shoulders and white_Me*t cheap as the cheapest._ Lard in 3, 5, 10, 20 and 50 •ttom prices. Nothing but water ground S. Nice lot smoked Pork Sausage, just it ever brought to this city. We also lour. In Fancy Flour, Tube Rose and lily, Odd Trump and Moss Rose are hard to . Fresh Rice, New Grits. The nicest lot of Buckwheat in the city and Maple Syrup that will make your mouth water. Chow Chow Pickles, loose, any quantity; also, in bottles. We sell onlv the best Teas, green and black. Full line Spices and Extracts. Cigars and To bacco our specialty. Canned Goods, Candy, Crackers and Cheese. In fact vou can get anything nice you may want at the GREEN STORE. All goods delivered promptly and free of charge to any part of the city. lb. Buckets; also in Tierces, Meal sold at WHITE h received. White Swan Ft sell the celebrated Wade Cadet, we will suit you. beat. Coffee from 10c to Feb. 9th, 1886. WHITE & TREANOR, South Wayne Street, Milledgeville, Ga 31 lv. 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 2 LARGE PRIZES OK 4 LARGE PRIZES OF 20 PRIZES OF 50.000. ... 50,0i)0 20.000. ... 20.000 10,000 20,000 5,000 20,000 1,000.... 20,000 50 “ 5C0.... 25,000 100 “ 300 80,000 200 “ 200 40.000 000 “ 100.... 60,000 1,000 “ 50 50,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZE*. loo Approximation Prizes of $900.... $20,000 loo “ “ 100 10,000 100 “ 75.... 7,500 2,279 Prizes, amounting to $522,500 Application for rates to dabs should be made only to the otllce of the Company in New Orleans. For further information write clearly, giving full address. PORTAL NOTES, Express Mon ey Ordere or New York Exchange in ordinary letter. Currency by Express (all sums of $5 and upwards at our expense,) addressed M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La.. or M. A. DAUPHIN, Wuhlngtea, D. C. rrr .th a wtktq OTTTI To make room for my Spring Goods, I am selling my entire stock at greatly reduced prices. If you want real bargains, call at once, with the cash and you will go home happy. This is no hum bug. Come and see and be convinced. Mbs. S. D. WOOTTEN. Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 10th, 1886. 8 ty-. The Boom Continues. Male P.0. Money Orders payable and address Repstered Letter* te NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La. Fcl). 9th, 1S86. 31 5t Supplies for the Asylum. LUNATIC ASYLUM. ) Near Milledgbvillk, Ga., 18th February, 1886.) QEALED PROPOSALS will be re ceived by the undersigned, up to the 18th of MARCH, 12 o’clock, M., for furnishing the articles specified be low. r Samples must be furnished of the articles bid upon. One-third of the articles must be delivered 1st April; one-third 1st May and one-third 25th May, and cash will be paid for the same, one-third 5th May, one-third 5th jj June, and one-third 5th July, 1886. | All articles will be re-weighed car measured. All car load lots to be delivered at Midway depot. LIST OF ARTICLES. 500 bus. Com. 25,000 lbs. Bran. 25.000 lbs. Bacon sides, smokevT. 4,500 “ Hams, medium weight. 4.500 “ Leaf Lard. 300 bbls. Flour. 60 “ Pearl Grits. 850 bus. Meal. 6,Q£)0 lbs. Rio Coffee. 7.500 “ Brown Sugar. 2, 500 “ Granulated Sugar. 3.500 “ Butter, 'not oleoiuargene.’ 850 “ Tobacco. 900 gals. Cuba Molasses, in barrels. IOO “ Syrup. [sets. 1,200 lbs. Adamantine Candles, not 450 lbs. Starch. 12,0u0 “ Rice. 1.500 lbs. Turpentine Soap, 1 lb bars. 150g&ls. Pure Cider Vinegar. 10.000 lbs. Liverpool Salt, fine. 100 lbs. Black Pepper. 1 keg Bi-Carb Soda, 112 lbs. 40 cases Ball Potash, 1 lb. balls. 25 Brooms. 3,000 yds. Cottonades for Pants. 3.000 yds. Sheeting. 4.000 “ Shirting. 3.000 “ Checks. 3,600 yds. Calico, fast colors. 40 doz. prs. Hose. 40 “ “ Half Hose. 15 doz. Hats. 500 Summer Coats. 300 prs. Women’s Shoes. 300 prs. Men's Shoes. The right reserved to reject any and all bids. Bids should be marked “to furnish supplies,” and addressed to the undersigned. L. J. LAMAR, „ Steward. Feb. 23d, 1886. 33 4t To Wholesale Buyers. Our trade during the last year was double any previous year and we sold more goods during January, than any other month in our history. The only reason we can assign for this, is, that we are selling goods cheap and acting fair with everybody. We open the new year with a larger stock, more capital, Lower Prices and Better Facilities, thau ever before. TVe don't ask anybody to buy of us, but just Consult Your Own Interest. Get our prices, and we will be satisfied. We promise to sell you goods as cheap as any Wholesale Market in Georgia. Our Tobacco Stock, Is larger than ever before, and we can duplicate any price from houses in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, or any other State. Try ns and v.e will convince you that this is true. W. T. CONN & CO., Wholesale Grocers. Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 2d, 1886. 29 lv Theo. liarkwaIter's STEAM MARBLE & GRANITE WORK&v—-' Broad Street, Near Lower Market, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. MARBLE WORK, Domestic and Imported, at low prices. Georgia and South Carolina Granite Monuments made a specialty. A large selection of MARBLE and GRANITE WORK always on hand, ’ readv for LETTERING and DELIVERY. [Oct. 27th, 1885. 16 ly Tobacco by the Plug —AND— Tobacco by the Box, —TO- —AT- L H. WOOD k CO’S. Hours.—General delivery wilt be open froj*' “ w N..». * a., Jail. 26,188G. Baldvii Sheriff! Sale. W ILL be sold, on tlM flrst Tuesday In April, 1886, in front of the Court House door, in the city of Milledgeville, during legal f-aie boars, tbe following property,to-wlt: DOne euirins end boiler, complete, levied on at the property of Lafayette J. Fraley, to satisfy a Superior Court (1 fa Issued from Hancock Supe rior Court tn favor of gam Walker vs. Lafayette J. Fraley. Defendants noiified In person. Levy made February tbe I3tu, 1886. Also at the same time and place, ODe side-bar buggy and harness, levied on as the property of Martin Crittenden to satisfy a mortgage 4 fa in favor of Henry Harrison vs. Martin Crittp - Defendant THE PUBLIC: I BEG leave to inform my cus tomers and those trading at this point that I am now pre pared to furnish the following brands of HIGH Me Fertilizers: Farmers buying for the year, or for immediate use, should not fail to examine our stock of Tobaccos. We have a good assort ment of Patterson & Co’s, goods, made from the best Virginia leaf. Good 9 inch fives at 40 to 50 cents per pound. “Jersey” 9 inch fours at 50 cents per pound. Try our “CAPTIVE” Brand, In Caddys, 10 lbs. each. We are also offering special inducements in Coffee, Sugar and Flour. We can please small or large purchasers. A cordial invitation to all, ■whether buyers or not. Prices sent by mail upon appli cation. Yours truly, L. H. WOOD & 00., Waitzfelder Building, Wayne Street. Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 16, 1886. 31 ly Acid Phosphates from Ga. Chem. Works. Acid Phosphates from Hammond, Hull & Co. Acid Phosphates from Baldwin & Co. Imported Kainit Assay ing from 11 to 12 per cent. Pot ash. The Celebrated Mastodon Guano, Port Royal Cotton Fer tilizer, Baldwin 4 Co’s., Guano, Turner’s Ammometed Dissolved Bone Gnano, (a Compound of Acid Phosphate, Cotton Seed Meal and Kaiait.) Also a pure Ammoniated Bone Guano. All of which will be sold to prompt paying customers at LOW FIGURES, THE FARQUHAR COTTON PLANTER. For currency notes, payable Oc tober 15th, next. Those who do not pay promptly, need not ap ply, nor do I propose to lap ac counts. Call and see me at the warehouse. Very Respectfully, HATCH TURNER. Milledgeville, Ga., Feb, 88, ’86. 88 6m Public Schools for 1886. WILL be in my office every Tues- 1 day and Friday, util farther no tice, for the purpose of examining and licensing teachers, and receiving ap plications, and making contracts, for Public Schools for the present year, i L. CARRINGTON, » V-' mrnttm mb. C. fyufts ALL OTHERS. It is simple in construction and can be handled easily by ordinary farm hands. Drops the unrolled seed with perfect regularity and in any desired amount. * Never skips. Opens, drops and covers. Send for price. A. B. FARQUHAR & CO., Manufacturers of Machinery and Wholesale Hardware Merchants, Macon. : : : : : Georgia. February 19th, 1886. — *ly. Furniture .Repaired. T HAVE returned to Milledgeville, 1 after an absence of many years, and opened a shop under Mrs. Woot- ten’s store to carry on my trade, and am prepared to do upholstering, and repairing furniture. WAlso un dertaking. Give me a call. R. N. ADAMS. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan., 9th 1880. [87tf LANDRETH’S Seed Potatoes! EARLY ROSE, PEERLESS, GOODRICH, at the Drug Store of C.T* WISE, Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 23, 1886. Onion Sets At C. L. CASE’S Drug Store. [15 tf Legal cap, foolscap, letter and note paper pens, pencils and Ink, for sale cheap at the UmtirA>£eeotder office.. FIVE CENT COLUMN. Evaporated Peaches, for making Tarts, Dumplings and Peaches and Milk. Try them. 31 tf ] L. H. WOOD A CO. Smoke Wood’s Legal Seal Cigars. To Rent.—Four room cottage on Jefferson street. Apply to 32 tf.] M. H. McCoM*. Two ear loads of Texas Rust Proof Oats, just raceived at W. T. Conn & Co’s. S toves at cost for the cash i— As I am about to make consider able change in my business this vaar, I will sell out a lot of Cook and Heat ing Stoves at cost, for Cash, to make room to extend my Hardware busi ness. JOSEPH STALEY. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 12, ’86.(31 4fc CAMPBELL’S ONE SPOON Baking Powder ! For sale by C. L. CASE, Druggist. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26, ’86. 48
