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UNION & RECORDER. Milledgeville, March 16, 1886. MARCH. We caimor agree with tlie majority In tlie opinion that March is the most disagreeable of all the months. This probably is owing to the fact that it is neither spring, summer, nor winter. It is generally characterized with more winds than any other, and gen erally, cold winds too. It is besides a very busy month, especially for agri culturists, who have to encounter its cold gales to get ready for, and plant the cereal grains, especially for the great and essential corn crops. But in making our opinions about March, notwithstanding its cold winds, we must remember that in careering over the fields, and roads, they dry up the thaws and prepare the soil to receive tlie valuable grains which are essen tial for the food of both man and ani mals. They not only prevent the frosts and thaws from sinking into the earth, but give the promises of early and delicious fruits, preceded by the rich blooms of the peach and plum and presage the coming of the early spring flowers, such as the daffodil and violet, both of which open in that month with a few others described thus, by one of the English poets, as, “ violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes, Or Cytherea's breath; pale prim roses, That die unmarried, ere they can be hold Bright Phcebus in his strength—a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips. And the crown-imperial.” This spreads the garden before us, soon to mount its hortulan splendor and cast before us its rich colors, from its fragrant bosom, in spite of Hazen's cold waves from the bleak north-west. This is a great merit in March’s bleak winds drying and crumbling the soil, preparing it for the annual flowering plants, giving virtue to the field and to the garden, all the beauties and perfumes of the hyacinth, and tulip, the narcissus, the animone, and the imperial rose, the king of the garden. March is the immediate precursor to operate healthfully upon the hu man body, and those very winds of which we complain prepare the earth for bountiful fructification, and change the gravity and properties of the atmosphere for the healthfulness, not only of human beings but of all the inferior animals. We close these few sentences with the following lines of Cowper alluding to the close of winter. “ These naked shoots, Barren as lances among which the wind Makes wintrv music, singing as it goes. Shall put their graceful foliage on again, And more aspiring and with ample spread, Shall boast new charms and more than they have lost. Then each in its peculiar honors clad, Shall publish even to the distant eye, Its family and tribe.” Prfafeibitioz Meotiiig Bv some oversight it Proper public notice of I Saturday. Is the Negro a FailureP As far as we have noticed the an swers to the Augusta Chronicle in ref ence to the question, is the negro | failure, as asserted by Professor White, there seems to be a 'diversity of opin ion. We have read such statements as have been made, and will read others that mav follow, with no little inter est and the more so from the fact that the negroes are now citizens of the United States, and are here to stay. The colored people have heretofore, seemed to think that emancipation was all that was needed to bring them every blessing that this world could afford. Before, when they were under the direction of the whites,as their own ers, and directed by them, no better or more efficient laborers could be found in tilling the soil, and securing rich productions and profits from its effi cient cultivation. But as freemen, placed by law upon a political equali ty with’whites, what will they do? So far, with some education, they have retrograded in some degree in usefulness. Yet, by their aid, the South has made larger crops of cotton than before; but it must be taken to consideration that the whites have more generally become laborers than before the war. The South is under much obligation to the colored peo ple for their good behavior during the war. They mainly made the cotton and the provisions which sustained the Southern families, and the provis ions necessary to sustain our people in their unequal struggle. But the future! how will it be in time to come? The negroes are to stay. They are to be educated: will that make them bet ter or more useful? We hope it will, but will not their improvement de pend upon their association with tlie whites? All races are to be judg ed by their acts, manners and customs when left to their own resources for a long term of years. For fifty oentu- ries the negroes had their own coun try and were left to their own resour ces. During all that time they never built a school house, nor constructed a ship, nor dug a canal, nor gave any other sign of mechanical or inven tive genius. They never gave evi dence of any inventive or original thought. When the Greeks and Ro mans. and some other people were il lustrating their countries with the fine arts, with sculpture and painting, with poetry and music, the African was ranging the wilds of his country, In hunting for game for his subsis tence, naked and wild as the beasts of prey that howled in their woods. They left no historical recollections of wild and departed greatness. The in trepid traveller found nothing to in terest him but the wild woods, with their luxuriance of leaf, waving their arms as the monarchs of the wilder ness Nature, in many places was luxuriant and beautiful, but the black man was stupid and ignorant and the crouching slave of a man as black ns himself or blacker. This brief de scription is the history of the African for nearly fifty centuries. Hera the black man has been given the fran chise by a party in power as stupid as the poor ignorant negro. They are here to stay. We say treat them kindly. Give them what education we can, and employ them as laborers. With kind treatment and fair play, 1 liey will not be failures, but will <io more work than any foreigners we can employ. Be kind, be just to them, give them fair wages; do this and no man will be able to say tlie negro « «v failure. The negro isjthe best natur- ed race on the earth. There are some devils among them; there are some devils among tho -whites, but the negroes are the best natured race in the world, and with fair dealing, the easiest to control. seems that a HaB on Saturday 1 ^ ^ 4 mnse i u < s ®^ In consequence, there procession, and w e r C£ rret+ n ° re S“ lar tlie attendance was u l ° tha * pared with former / aS ®° m - though the number of V, * r w, ' as,f " ,s no means small. 11 a ‘ ‘‘. r ~ wa -^ by Theaddressof Mr n„. very strong and effS'*" 11 wa « * unprejudiced person Z ne ' tened to and had a log^ V' aVH , stonof the array of g ments presented by the d ttr « u * out being convinced t lmV ei a cer ’ W1 * dl ~ advocated was a just oiih Y Caus “ with a heart that con la person with the misfortunesumi Sy “ path “« their fellow beings-the“N ulser >- of selves of strong drink or tlaem ‘ wives and children of snr t mnocen t ores—could fail to feelV"!*' if necessary, give up som,. he should, great deal of ni, om”LS'“ SR“ a b,” to help la ianhSElSh! he’hvedT’ 111 ““ SS mHauSonu g X;S’ '"'fi make interesting and urofu-A i " 0uJ I i ing, but lack of space an fl H + V le read ‘ elty of fumiehlog^,^^;”^- bld°. m “ ter “ PapeMoT- justify himself in beffi^?® ?f e great contest to put down the s£ Ind S he qSwitfee^ite S8J SSU^tS^liss^ pursuing Lord had ■iptures. their The Israelites, E3fis?f Meroz, curse ye Meroz, bitter^ be cause she refused to coim* nr» L' + , nouncedby God himself who shirked their duty L the above historical incident seemed to havTa powerful effect as it should have done, upon his hearers. At the close of the address a good ^ ^ the cl ^ir, and then Rev. Mr. McQueen stated that he was requested to say that the grandest rally of the prohibitionists wm expect ed to be made on Saturday next, and desired that as many members of the l>arty as possible would be on hand, and likewise prompt in appear :ng at Amusement Hall. The School Fund Bill Passed. Senator Blair's seventy-seven mil- lions schoo 1 bill passed the Senate on the 5th mst., yeas 36, nays 11 The nays were Cockrill, Coke, Frye Gray Hale, Harris, Ingalls. Jones of’ Neva da, Maxey, Plumb, and Wiison of Maryland. At tins writing (Saturday) we have not seen a report of those who voted in favor of the bill. As there are 76 senators and only 47 voted on the bill, 29 failed to vote. We will publish the names of those , who voted for the bill when they are given to the public. We think it quite probable that the bill will pass the House, and if so, nothing will be needed but the President’s signature to make it the law of the land. While in our opinion there is no constitution al warrant to sustain its passage, we think, if faithfully carried out, it will give a great impetus to the cause of education. It is fearful to contem plate the illiteracy which exists in the North and West as well as in the South. We think it dangerous to vio late the constitution, to depart, at any time, and for any reason, from what its framers intended it tube the high and immovable standard to guide us safely in the career of free dom, self government and the rights of the States. This measure is well calculated to mislead. It finds its ori gin in the calculating utilitarianism of the times, and that is the sea into which all the rivers and rivulets will flow. There is an ominous signifi cance in the readiness of many to sus tain this measure, not because it is fortified by the constitution, but. be cause it is freighted by gold. Many catch at the gilded pill, and with tho grpater readinpss, because it does not violate the principle of justice in the division, or equality and fraternity, for it is to be fairly and justly divided. All that we care to say further at this time, is, that if the bill becomes a law we hope the evil, in departing from the organic law will be modified, or counteracted in part, at least, by the blessings of education, so sadly need ed in every section of the Union. Pensions. A CIRCULAR FR01K TflJS LADIBS. Is not this?the fact that I have chosen to loos** the bands of wieked- n-*ss, to ttadi• the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go’free, and that ye break every yoke?’ (Isiah, 58c., 6v.; What nobler work could God him self give to men? And we, the women of Baldwin County, feel that yoa the men, have now before you an oppOr- I tumfy to do part of this great work. ‘There are bands of wickedness' that you, and you alone can unloose. There ar.- heavy burdens, how heavy God only knows, that, if you will, you ean undo. Will it so, and many who are op pressed ean go free, and many a yoke be broken. Do you will it so? We implore you not to will it otherwise. Remem ber that we, the women, know where of we speak when we tell you that every vote for liquor is a stab at the trembling hope of a better life that still lingers in broken hearts; that it is another turn of the iron heel that crushes into the dust the lives of wo men and little children. If your own children are safe—as you think—from harm that liquor may do, yet «n you look at them and think unmoved of the ones who are not safe, who cower a way with terror from the oaths and blows of a drunken father, and grow up in ignorance, and want, and sin? Oh. will you not break the yoke of the little children? Will you not let the oppessed go free? And the women, too—the wives and mothers and daughters. If by God’s mercy, you have been so preserved from this temptation that your wom en do not dream of its evils, do not your gratitude, and all your manhood bind you to do all you can for the wo men who have no one to proteet them, whose worst enemies are those who should take care of them? Will you not do what you can for these, from whose lives the light has gone out, who sit in darkness and the shad ow of death being fast bound in mis ery and iron? You say prohibition will hurt trade. We do not for one moment believe it. But if we did believe it we would say, away with such prosperity, falsely so called! We cannot afford to pay for trade with the souls and bodies of those whom we love. God’s curse rests on such prosperity as that, and we. your women, want none of it. We call on you, whom God and the country's laws have given the power, to use your power for good, not evil, and with God and the women on your side vou will win this battle yet! Mrs. A. V. DuRignon, M rs. Jko/D. Hammond, Mrs. C. P. Orawpord, Mrs. E. L. C. Furman, Mrs. A. J. Buck, Mrs. E. E. Bell, Executive Committee For the Women’s Prohibition Club, of Baldwin Co. West. Baptisv- Jhhisier: R. C. M. D.: .T. L. JWchery. mer- A. H. Curtis, G. Vf. Farmer. J. E. B. Reese, Methodist min istar; H Johnson, attorney at law’ John B. Neal. Justin M. Reese. Tribute of Respect. While hundreds of millions of dol lars will be voted for pensions for northern soldiers, and the widows of those who were killed in tin* war, not a dollar is granted to a southern sol dier, or a southern widow. The treasury has been robbed to grant pensions to men or widows who never carried a gun, or saw the flash of one, during the whole struggle. So bitter and unjust is the northern sentiment, that they will not carry out the law to grant pensions to soldiers who fought in tne Mexican and other wars. Forty* years have passed since the Mexican -war occurred. Are they waiting for them all to die? South ern men and southern women would receive help bv the pensions to which they are entitled. If they had all been northern soldiers their pensions would have been paid long ago. Jus tice is withheld! Fraternity is disre garded ! The Chinese. It ought to occur to our rulers that the treatment of the Chinese in this country, may provoke a terrible re taliation in China. There are many Americans in China ; some engaged in business there, and others as mis sionaries seeking to convert the Chi nese from idol to Christian worship. Can it be expected that those mission aries can convert those people to Christianity, when their countrymen are driven’ from their places of busi ness and Some of them are put to death in a cruel and barbarous way bv people in this country, as has been done in various sections in the United States ? It may be that no real Chris tians have participated in these cruel ties, but the Chinese very naturally infer that they are the acts of persons who are the disciples and believers in the doctrines of Christianity. \rillen~Beac<5n: Mr. PatrickWalsh, edhor and proprietor of the Augusta rulvnnicle was in our town last Tues- Sv He is the man in this portion of the 5 ’ State whom the people wa»t for G Tffi^ntiment is expressed by other in various sections of the papers m vn u. & R. state. _ anther in Europe is intensely T ES personJlUve bren frozen £de»t“?a%^ dAu,,t ™ L 2SSS ,, Baptist Convention L(2*® in Route on April hsl. Renfroe’s Confirmation.—V> e are pleased to note the confirmation of this gentleman as Post-master of Atlanta. We have heretofore stated that in our judgment Mr. Renfroe has been treated with injustice by a por tion of the State press, relative to his impeachment trial before tlie Senate, several years since. He came tri umphantly out after that ordeal, and it was shown that if guilty of wrong, he followed a precedent established by one of his predecessors, who had been held guiltless of wrong doing by the Legislature. He had also freely offered to make restitution if it should be shown that he had done wrong. His endorsement for the office of Postmaster of Atlanta by many in the nigliest official positions was proba bly as strong as any that ever went from this State to the U. S. Senate. A familiar personal acquaintance with Mr. Renfroe leads the writer to hold him to be an honorable, upright gen tleman and to believe that lie will make a faithful and efficient incum bent of the office to which he has been appointed. The great Cuuard Steamer Oregon, with 846 souls on board, was run into off Long Island, by a large Schooner, Saturday morning before day and sunk. The hull being divided into compartments, she floated till passing vessels rescued all of the large num ber of people whose lives were endan gered. I>r. Armstrong's advent into Geor gia Journalism will be an event. The Doctor is an original thinker, an in dustrious and critical student, an om nivorous reader, the master of a strong and vivid diction, and his utterances i print would be read with profound and general interest.—Atlanta Capi tol. The people of this country are con stantly reminded of two stupendous facts—that we are alike toilers, that there is no permanently rich class and no class permanently poor. It ought not to be impossible for labor and cap ital, therefore, to join forces to achieve common prosperity. Farmers are taking hold of the intensive system more and more every year. Less acreage and better work! ing seems to be the idea, and if the principle of diversity could be added, it would be all the better. For the t'liton A Recorder. Against Whiskey—For Prohibition. I am trying to pull out of a severe spell of sickness—hardly able to sit up to write these lines; but I want to say one more word for prohibition be fore the election. I am an earnest enemy to whiskey as a beverage; I am stronger for prohibition now, than ever, since those horrible mur ders of innocent women, in our coun ty, too terrible for even savage tribes (who were not under the Influence of whiskey) to think of—deeds awful enough’ to shock the devil for the mo ment. Those worse than hellish deeds growing out of whiskey, I think ought to turn at least 5,000 men to the side of prohibition. I will go down upon my knees on all proper oc casion to beseech men to be reconcil ed to God. But now 1 go upon my knees with my face to the ground weeping, praying you my fellow citi zens of Baldwin, who have decided to vote for whiskey, to stop and think; for heaven’s sake stop, before you east that vote; in view of the great judgment day, stop: for your own sakes, stop; for the sakes of your dear wives and daughters, some of whom may soon meet the same or a similar fate as those ladies of recent date, by some devil in human shape under the influence of whiskey. How can you? Ohow can you cast that ticket for whiskey, while yet the shrieks of those abused and dying la dies are yet seemingly ringing in our ears. How can you cast that fatal vote for whiskey to reign here in its glory, when you hear the cries, la mentations and wailings of bereaved ones, mourning for their dead, made so by whiskey. My friends can you oast that ticket and then report to your Judge that you did right? Again I ask you can you cast that vote and not be afraid’ that some judgment from God will coine down upon you? You have the light of truth before von—you have had it for years past and you have it now. I have pro pounded these questions solemnly, be cause we are dealing with solemn things. C. B. ANDERSON. Ct? Chronicle please copy. FRED DOUGLASS. THE GREATEST LIVING COLORED MAN. WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT PROHIBITION. T. A. Sykes, Esq., of Tennessee:— Dear Sir:—You have my hearty Godspeed in any and every well-di rected and earnest effort you may be able to make to banish the damning curse of intemperance from the hearths and homes of the colored peo ple of Tennessee, and from those of all other people there and else where. For a long time I refused to commit myself to the doctrine of ab solute prohibition of intoxicating drinks, because I thought it interfer ed with the liberty of the citizens. But the sober contemplation of the evils of intemperance not only upon the dram drinker, but upon his fami ly, his friends, and upon society gener ally, has compelled me to go to the whole length of prohibition. Society has the same right to pro tect itself against drunkenness as against yellow fever, cholera, or any other evil. If the drunkard were a- lone the sufferer we might hesitate to go this length. But the weight in the other scale is overwhelming. Wife, children, anti society are more than the miserable appetite of the drunk ard. Five and forty years of my life have been given to the freedom and elevation of my colored brothers and sisters. I have but little more of the brief span of life before me, but I am determined that what remains of it shall be on the side of the cause of temperance. Yours truly, Frederick Douglass. Washington, D. C., Feb. 8.—Tem perance Advocate. Putnam. Co., Ga.. ) March 8th, 1886. ' Editors Union & Recorder: The death of ML* Carrie Raines and Miss Ella Humphries, was undoubt edly the most horrible and heart rending scene ever witnessed Georgia. Thev were killed on Thurs day, March th'c 4th, by some hard hearted sinner, who, we dare not say in tiiqnn lines. We will leave that question to be decided between him imS Ki« God. We know that God onr Judge and will pay every one their just reward: the righteous and the wicked all coine under his judg ment. These ladies were both bom and raised in Baldwin county. Ga. Miss Carrie w as about 40 years of age A short while before the commence ment of the late war, she became member of the Missionary Baptist Church in Jones county, of which chorch her mother was also a mem ber. I believe Miss Carrie did her duty there as a strict member of the church and a servant of Christ Jesus She was much loved by the members of that church and by all persons who knew her. She was true to her pro fession, for we believe that she loved Jesus and she worked for him. Since the close of the war she became a member of the Methodist Church at Bethel,|at.which place she had twolove- ly sisters who were members to help her work for Jesus, which we believe they did, and are still left to finish their word, which is no doubt a glori ous work. Miss Carrie was loved by all who knew her. She was much loved by her family, her sisters and broth ers were devoted to her. Oh! they loved each other and they all loved Jesus. They have ever been a pious family and an example for our com munity. We feel safe in saying we believe that Miss Carrie has gone to a world of glory and eternal happiness. Let not oup hearts be troubled, or say we will never see her again, but put our trust in Jesus and say we hope to meet her in heaven, where we will dwell in love and happiness forever and ever. Rest there kind friend in that untimely grave while thy spirit has gone to Jesus to dwell in his iuii nite love. Miss Ella was a lady of high culture, well accomplished and stood high in the community. She was much de voted to her parents and all other members of the family. She has ever been a kind and affectionate young lady. She was kind at home and abroad. She always wore a most beautiful and angelic smile on her countenance which no doubt was a token to her friends, that she wears that beautiful smile iu heaven, for she dwells with her Savior. She bore that smile to her grave. She was meek, gentle and kind in every in stance. She was raised by a most de voted and pious mother,Jwhom I be lieve is as angelic as any one on earth and is also loved by all who knows her. These two ladies being so highly es teemed, are greatly missed iu the fam ily anil community, but alas, dear friends, let us not be troubled, but feel it a great comfort to us that we can look at the bright high heavens and view the shining stars there and believe that our dear friends that are gone, are shining us bright as they and that their future homes are full of love and happiness. Let us all try to live so as to share their happiness and let us live for Jesus in his own ap pointed way. Let us be more like him hour by hour, and day by day. We exteud our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family of the deceased and we beg God wifi be with them, will comfort and console them in their sore afflictions: may God bestow many kind blessings upon them from now un til the end of our lives for ever and ever. Amen. A Friend. I wish to state to the readers of these lines that what I say of those ladies is no hear say, I have been born and raised near neighbor to Miss Raines and am well acquainted with the family. They always have had the appearance of relatives more than neighbors; during my childhood, I was partially raised with Mrs. Raines' family. I have not spent so much of my time with Miss Ella, but have known her from a small child, have always known and loved her mother. I trust that God will help her bear her sad afflictions. M. E. S. MERRIWETHER STATION. March 11th, 1886. Ed. U. & R. There is but one topi*; of conversa tion at this place, the terrible and shocking murder of Misses Raines and Humphries. Two purer, lovelier wo men never lived. Miss Snead of Forsyth, has beeu visiting friends near this place. Miss Agnes Minor and Misses Mattie and Sallie Myrick got the prizes at Sun day-School. E. Among biir Exchanges. ticket* MERRI WETHER. GA., > March 12th, 1886. > Editors Union & Recorder : There will be memorial services held at Bethel Church on the 3rd Sunday iu^Marcli, in loving remembrance of Misses Carrie Raines ami Ella Hum phries. Friends and tlie public are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. C. It. Harper, ) Miss Mary White, Com Mrs. B. H. Myrick, ) A NOTE OF WARNING. Hon. Jefferson Davis will visit Montgomery in April where he will deliver a lecture for the benefit of the Confederate monument to be erected on Capitol Hill in that city. The real estate men in Atlanta, say that business is reviving, and some re- port their sales as being large. Thomson. To all whom it may concern: We, the undersigned citizens of Thomson and McDuffie county, cer tify that prohibition has greatly bene- fittod our town and county, in every respect. Morally, the change for the better has been wonderfully gratify ing. The quiet and good order of our town, streets, and country highways, are simply delightful, as compared with their condition under the whis key traffic. Prohibition grows strong er every year -whips every fight made against it in our county election. Ma ny who opposed it heretofore have become its staunch friends, and near ly all are now gracefully yielding to its beneficent rule. County Officers—E. C, Harris, rep resentative; W. E. Spirr, Sheriff Mc Duffie county; B. M. Gross, Judge county court; J. G. Worrill, tax collec tor; John R. Willingham, county sur- ah* Thrasher, ordinary; H. county court; R. H. veyor; A. B. McCorkle, baliff __ _ Pearce, clerk superior court and coun ty treasurer; A. C. J. W. Quillian B. T. Reese, J. _ i postmaster; W. S. Curtis, agentSouth- ern Express company; R. L. Morris, usssistant postmaster; H. J. Holliman agent Georgia railroad; J. F. Shields merchant; J. T. Wright, C. E. Samu els, W. E. Shields, J. L. Hardeway, & H. Bush, J. W. Boatwright, cotton buyer; F. A. Scott, merchant, O. M. Gerald, merchant; I. W. Shields, mer chant; Jas. D. Waddell, D. F. Irving, merchant; G. N. Irving, merchant; P. B. Johnson, attorney at law; Thos. E. Watson, attorney at law; J. If. Barnes, merchant; L. R. Brown, T.lf. Lewis, merchant; John T. West, at torney at law; M. C, Fulton; C. H. Ellington; G. H. Ernb&n, marshal of Thomson; T. A. Hamilton; W. M. Pitts, M. D.; John M. Curtis, carriage anti wagon maker; Richard W. Rog ers, pastor M. E. church South; Thom- The New Orleans Picayune calls the attention of cotton planters to the low prices that the staple commands, the depression in trade prevailing throughout the world, and to the fact that the present crop has overstocked the market. And then it adds: “The policy to be pursued relative to planting this spring ought not to be a matter of doubt. Nothing but force of habit and obstinacy can induce large cotton planting this year. Risks of loss are so great that planters should, one and all, determine to reduce their cotton acreage and devote more land to home supplies. Any commercial crop—thpt is, one that has to be shipped to mar ket and sold at current rates—is hazar- dou sin the extreme with trade in its present condition. And we candidly confess we can see nothing on which to base any hopes of an early reac tion. It is a time above all others when planters should risk as little as possible and turn their attention more to those products of the soil which they can consume at home. If they cannot make money, they can at least avoid a loss—and unless there should he a vast improvement in the general business situation, a large cot ton crop in 1886, such as could he made on the usual acreage with a nominal increase in the area, might put prices to figures never known be- fore.” ^ The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring are no less welcome than the result of. the 186th Grand Monthly Drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery, on Tuesday, February 9th, 1886, at New Orleans, La. It 'is continued thus: The First Capital—$75,000—was drawn by No. 57,705, sold in fifths, each at one dollar. One was held by Annie Smith, a colored cook at No. 113 Lib erty St., New Orleans; one by Andrew Doyle, care of Thos. Shealian, 59 Broadway, New York city: one by Fred’k Scharf, a German shoemaker at No. 704 De Kalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.: one by W. R. Jones and five friends at Murphysboro, Ills., Ac. The Second Capital was drawn by No. 78,298 sold also in fifths (at f 1 each) one was held by Gottfred Anderson, on steamer “Onward,” at market St. wharf, San Francisco: another was paid to Wells, Fargo & Co., Express Company, another to a party in Mem phis, Tenn., Ac. Third Capital Prize —$10,000—was also sold in fifths: one to D. B. Huntlv, Carlisle, New Mexico; one to W. F. Rudolph, No. 1,418 West St., one to W. M. Fir.nacane, both of Oakland, Cal., all collecte<l through Wells, Fargo A. Co.’s Express, etc., ete. Fourth Capital Prizes, $6,000 each, were drawn by Nos. 27,946 and 86,882 sold generally all over—Vicks- htirg, Miss.; San Francisco, Cal., etc. So it goes on constantly. The 191st GrandMonthly Drawing will take place at noon, Tuesday, April 13th, and any information desired can be had on an application to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. Now try not to bo left next time. The ladies of Eatonton will meet to day to select an orator for the memo rial occasion. Anti-Prohibition carried Hall count y last Wednesday by nearly 300 ma jority. At least 400 delegates will attend the convention of tlite State Sunday School Association, which convenes ia Macon on May 19th. Last Wednesday Sparta and Wash ington enjoyed a heavy snow storm- something unheard of in those locali ties for a number of years. The whisky license for the town of Leary for the year commencing with the 1st of April next has been fixed by the council at $500. Mrs. Mary B. Seymour, relict of Governor Horatio Seymour, died at the residence of Mrs. Roscoe Conk ing in Utica, N. Y., on the 8th inst. Cluverias is weary of prison confine ment and wishes to have his case end ed. It is appointed to be heard on the 29th inst., before the Court of Ap peals. For more than two years Americus has been trying to get a flowing ar tesian well. The City Council has by a formal vote decided to abandon the effort. Virginia in both branches of her legislature has passed a local option bill granting all cities and counties where local option dees not now ex- sist the right to vote on this question. The Prohibition election comes off in Washington county on April 14th. One thousand names have been sign ed to the petition and there seems to be no doubt that prohibition will be carried. John Coffee, who killed Deputy U. S. Marshall Merritt, at Lnla, Ga., and for whom a thousand dollar reward is offered, kept W. I. Tuck’s bar, above Crawford, for several months last year. Bennett Parsons of Jefferson county, Ala., was killed with a shot gun about a year ago during a quarrel with his wife and daughter. They were put on trial, and not withstanding the pleas of insanity have eaoh been sen tenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. On Sunday evening the locomotive of a train of the South Western Rail road a little this side of Eufaula, was thrown from the track and engineer Gugel was instantly killed, and the wood passer so severely scalded that he soon died. Mr. Gugel was the son of Master Mechanic Gugel of the Cen tral Railroad. The Augusta Evening News says: “Augusta is not excited over the in flux of Chinamen, because there is no influx. There are about two dozen heathens in this city, mostly engaged in washing clothes and selling stale vegetables and groceries, and the sen sational dispatch sent from this city to to the Atlanta Constitution is all ‘bosh.’ ” When the majority of the United States Senate, leel by Edmunds, sought to coerce the President of the United States, they evidently forgot the words of James Madison, one of the founders and authoritative ex pounders of the Constitution. On one occasion he remarked: “I think it better to give the Senate as little agency as possible in Executive mat ters. and to make the President as re sponsible as possible.”—Augusta Eveuing News. The Growth of the South.—All the comments upon the growth of the South are far short of the real improve ment that is steadily taking place within her. A narration of her devel opment in detail would read almost like a fable. How marvelous must it be when even hitherto inimical jour nals of other sections repudiate their nil admirandum maxim, and are loud in their expressions of praise and as tonishment.—New Orleans Demo crat. Ford and Murphy, who were two notable officials of jfew Orleans, and found' guilty of the most audacious assassination of a citizen whom they wished to get out of the wav, were hung at Baton Rouge on Friday, af ter an unsuccessful attempt to com mit suicide. There never was per haps a more atrocious murder in that city, nor greater efforts made to save the assassins. Governors, mayors, and other high officials in and out of the State, and many thousands of cit izens signed petitions for their par don, but the Board of Pardons stood firm and withstood the enormous pressure. The New Orleans Picayune and perliaps the city press generally, are jubilant and so are the good citi zens of that citv. Louisiana State Lottery Company. ■state Letie- ‘We doheresr certify that we «»i»erv!getlie arrangements^ for .11 » man; at tne gam conducted with homes ty, Glraess, and to food faith toward all parties,. »n4 We tottioTke tjie Company to use this certificate, with of out signatures attached, la 1tm sdyeruse ments.’ teriv Drawing* of The Louisiana , CoumlMloaen. We the undersigned 1 *«!!! pay all Pri.es drawn in the Loehda.a State Lotteries which may be presented at our coun ters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana NaPI TXk. S. II. KENNEDY, Pres. State Nat'l Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. Hew Orleans Nat’l Bk. Incorporated 1U186Sfor 25 years by the Legis lature for Edncatlonal and Charitable purposes —wltn a capital of *1,000,000—to which a re serve fund of over *550.000 has since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote ia franchise was made a part of the present State Constitu tion adopted necemberld. A. D.,l»T«. The only Lottery ever voted om and endorsed by the people of any State. It neyer scales or postpones. IU Grand Single Number Drawings taka place monthly, and the Extraordinary Drawings regularly every three months Instead of Semi-Annually as heretofore, beginning- March, 18M. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE, FOURTH GRAND DRAWING, CLASS D., IN TUB ACADEMY OF MUSIC NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, April 13th, 1880—191st Monthly Drawing. CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000. 100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each, Fractions, in Fifths in proportion. list or ritlZKS. 1 CAPITAL PRIZR *75,OCt 1 do PRIZE 25,00e 1 do PRIZE 10.00S ■l PRIZES OF *64MIU l-’.oce i “ iooo lo.oco ID •* 1000 10,000 20 “ 500 #...-. 10.000 10* “ 200 20,000 too “ 100 30,000 500 *• »• 25,000 1000 “ 23 25,0C» ArPBOxm atiok rsirms. 9 Approximation Prizes of *750....*a,759 9 “ “ 500 4,50* 9 “ “ 250... 2,250 1967 Prizes, amounting to *265.see Application for rates to clubs should be made only to the oince of the Company in New Orleans. For further information write clearly, giving full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express Mon ey Orders or New York Exchange lu ordinary letter. Currency by Express (all sums of *5 and upwards at onr expense,) addressed M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La., or M. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D. C. Money Makes the Mare Go! J —AND— Money Buys Groceries Cheap! -AT THE— GREEN STORE! W& buy for Onsh and sell the samo way. If you want your money to go a long ways, be sure to go to WHITE & TREANOR’S. Ifyooreow is hungry send to WHITE <fc TliEANOR for Bran. If you have no cow. send to them for the finest Butter in the citv. Nice Hams. Shoulders and white Meat cheap as the cheapest. Lard in 3, *5, 10, 20 and 50 lb. Elrckets: also in Tierces, at bottom prices. Nothing but water ground Meal sold at WHITE & TREANOR'S. Nice lot smoked Pork Sausage, just received. White Swan Flour the best ever brought to this city. We also sell tlie celebrated Wade Hampton Flour. In Fancy Flour, Tube Rose and Cadet, we will suit you. Extra Family, Odd Trump and Moss Rose are hard to beat. Coffee from 10c to 85c per lb. Fresh Rice, New Grits. The nicest lot green ami mock, r un line apices and Extracts. Cigars baceo our specialty.. Canned Goods, Candy, Crackers and Cheese. In faet you 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. Feb. 9th, 1886 WHITE & TREANOR, No. 17 South Wayne Street, Milledgf.yille, Ga. 31 ly. Male P.0, Money Orta pajaWe ani aim Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL DANK, • New Orleans, La. March leth, 1986. sa 4t SEA FOAM ALL FIRST-CLASS Storeteepers nowJreep it for Sale TO PARENTS. powder* are vary pernicious Many Latin to health, anc own, he should also have a care for on**—the little children. While every one regards hts r me tender Millinery OLE3-AJRI3STC3- OTTTI To make room for my Spring Goods, I am selling my entiro stock at greatly reduced prices. If you want real bargains, call at once, with tho cash and yon will go home happy. This is no hum bug. Come and seo and be convinced. Mrs. S. D. WOOTTEN. Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 10th, 1886. 8 ly. Tlx Boom Continues. To Wholesale Buyers. Our trade during the last year was double any previous year and wo 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. Wo open tho now year with a larger stock, more capital, Lower Prices and Better Facilities, than ever before. We 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 auy Wholesale Market in Georgia. Onr Tobacco Stock, price from other State. Frank Humphries. JAILER BIRDSONG HAS A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR. From the Macon Telegraph. As previously intimated, a number of visitors have called at the jail, and continue to call, for the purpose of seeing -Frank Humphries, the dual murderer from Baldwin county. On some days the number of callers has run as high as a hundred. The motives prompting these visits are as numerous as the visitors have been. Each person is actuated by a different one. The majority, however, are prompted by nothing iesss than morbid curiosity. When they are shown to his cell, they stand and gaze in enraptured silence upon the unfortunate man, content just to look at the creature who could steep his hands so deeply in human blood. This continuous stream has been pouring into the jail every day, and all hours of the day. Every class and condition is represented in the num ber who daily calL The curiosity, besides morbid, appears to be com mon, and has never subsided since Humphries was incarcerated. It is not dificult to imagine how mo notonous such a proceeding can grow when kept up' for any length of time. Not only has Humphries grown rest less and fretful under the stare of so many eyes, but the patience of Jailer Birdsong has been well nigh exhaust ed. It was reserved for yesterday, how ever, for a slight change in the pro gramme to occur. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the door bell rang for the 728th time during the day, at least so Jailer Birdsong thought from the number of times he had answered it. He was conversing with three visitors in the jail, but hurriedly left them to answer the summons. It was a quick nervous jerk, that rang the bell, and when Jailer Birdsong opened tlie door, he was confronted by a tall, spare built man with a sharp voice, and a quick accent. His appearance was of the shabby-genteel order, and when)he spoke, his glance was furtive and restless. “Show me to Frank Humphries, please.” “Do you want to see him on busi ness?" Jailer Birdsong asked check ing his advance through the doorway. “I don’t know that it matters, does ” replied the stranger. “I happen to know that it does. Are you a friend of his?” “That is immaterial, as for as I can 3e. I simply asked to be shown to his cell.” “Do you live here?” “It is not necessary to say”—dog gedly. “Well, what is your name?” “That is also unnecessary to slate. Don't you admit visitors when they callV” That depends on whether I know them. If I do, and have confidence in them, or know their object, they are admitted. As I don’t know you, you can t see Humphries, unless you first submit your person to be searched.” I don't care to have that done," said the stranger with the sharp voice and quick accent. “Then,” said Jailer Birdsong, “you can’t see Humphries.” The stranger then folded his hands in hi* pockets and walked away with disappointed air as he passed out of the gate. Sheriff Westcott and Mr. Sam Jemison, both of whom were in the jail, when he rang, came to the doorway, and viewed him but they couldn’t remember that they had ever seen him-before. The incident not only perplexed, them, but annoyed Jailer Birdsong, who suspects that it was a friend of Humphries, who called for the pur pose of supplying him with some means of self-destruction. The strang er certainly acted in a manner caleu- fated to arouse suspicion, and here after Jailer Birdsong will keep a sharp eye on all strangers who call to see Frank Humphries. it,' SEA FOAM contains none of the bad qualities of hattne powders—soda or saleradua. It contains no hartful Ingredient—no alum or ammonia. SCIENTIFIC. All Chemists who have analyasd Baa Foam commend it. Housekeepers who bare seed it will hare no other. Cooes, whose beat efforts hare failed with other powders, are jubilant orer Sea Foam. Saves fime, saxes labor, saves money. It ia positively unequaled. Absolutely pure. Used by the leading hotels and restaurants in New York city ana throughout the country. For sale by all first-daw grocers. j _____ OAJSTTZ, JONES A CO., 179 Duane St., N. Y. •— ■ March 16, 1886. 36 13t. j .A. O-AJROD * —TO— THE PUBLIC: Is larger than ever before, and we can duplicate auy houses iu Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, or any t Try us and we will convince you that this is true. W. T. CONN & CO., Wholesale Grocers. Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 2d, 1886. 29 ly Theo. Marine alter's STEAM MARBLE & GRANITE WORKS, Buoad 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, ready for LETTERING and DELIVERY. [Oct. 27th, 1885. 16 ly Tobacco by the Plug —AND— Tobacco by the Box, —AT— H. WOOD L C0 T S. I BEG leave to inform my cus- j tomers and those trading at J this point that I am now pre pared to furnish the following ; brands of HIGH Grata Fertilizers: i Acid Phosphates from Ga. i Chem. Works. Acid Phosphates from Hammond, Hull & Co. ! Acid Phosphates from Baldwin ; <fc Co. Imported Kainit Assay- I ing from 11 to 12 per cent. Pot- ! ash. The Celebrated Mastodon Guano, Port Royal Cotton Fer tilizer, Baldwin Sc Co’s., Guano, Turner’s Ammoniated Dissolved Bone Guano, (a Compound of | Acid Phosphate, Cotton Seed ; Meal and Kainit.) Also a pure I Ammoniated Bone Guano. All of which will be sold to prompt : paying customers at LOW FIGURES, \ For currency notes, payable Oe- ] tober 15th, next. Those who do j not pay promptly, need not *ip- plv, nor do I propose to Jap ac counts. Call and seo me at the warehouse. Very Respectfully, HATCH TURNER. Milledgeville, Go., Feb, 23, ’86. 33 6m 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 ottering special inducements in Coffee, Sugar and Flour. We can please small or large purchasers. A to all, whether buyers or no8i Prices sent by cation. Yours truly, cordial invitation mail upon appli- L. H. WOOD & CO., Waitzfelder Building, Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 16, 1886. Wayne Street 31 ly THE FARQUHAR COTTON PLANTER. Cotton Market Cerreetod Weekly by C. H. Wrlgkt tr Son. The following is the Market Report of March, 45th, 18.86: Savannah.—Middlings, 8jf. Oharlkston.—Middlings, 8*. Aijousta.—Middlings, 8f. Millkdgbvillk.—Middlings, 8. Liverpool.—Middlings, 4f New York.—Middlings, » 8-16. Gold par. LIST OF ADflimiEl) UITIB5 ing in ti ledgeville, Baldwin county, Ga., March 13th, 1886. If not called for within 30 days, they will bo cent to the Dead Letter office. Collins, Lnla Rood, William Davis, J. H. Scott, Miss Anna Edwards, Newton Wikis, A\ J. Genet, Mary West, J. R. Harris, Ben Walker, 8. B. Johnson, Frank, Woodall, G. W. Jones, M a ram West, Anna. Moore, P. R. , m Offick Hours.—General delivery window will be open from a. ar., un- EXCELS ALL OTHERS. 11 is simple in construction and ean 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. UHAR & CO., Manufacturers’ of Maehinerv and Wholesale Hardware Merchants, Macon. February 19tb, 18®5. Georgia. 36 ly. .New Advertisements. RUBBER BUCKET til 5 p. m. be operi from Order window will Honey — Hr* a. m. to 4 p. m. J. G. Fowlkr, p. M) The best 5c., Cigar at tlie new driur store of Dr. T. H. Kenan. Somethin* Worth Knowing rec T /! t; !i e tetc the place °J otners” and are the and Fnuzn.'’ My Patent Rubber Bucket la easily expanded and is the oest thing out. M Humbug- Agents wasted, $6 to *16 made every day. Busin ess permanent and very- profita ble. Send red stamp for cir culars. Yoa wan’t regret it. Any one can sell these pumps. H. It. JUiSLfcR, pa ten ice, Johnstown, Ohio, 0 To mtmioce them \ are mil AY I.oofi SelrOperating Washing Machines. If you want one send us - T0U r name, P. o. and express office at once. nw» National cn.. ai Deygt., N. Tr-fB «te Fanners! Look to Tonr Iitaresf And buy Corn and Cotton seed that will almost double the average yield. Extra Prolifie Hkrlono Cottonseed and Campbell’s Extra Prolific Seed Corn have been tested, have been proved to be the best seed in America. Don’t fail to try a large size package, 2oc. For sale at T. H. KENA^- Nc'” ~ Milledgev'' FIVE CENT COLUMN. Evaporated Peaches, for making Tarts, Dumplings and Peaches and them. Milk. Trv 21 tf ] L. H. WOOD & CO. Smoke Wood's Legal Seal Cigars. To Rent.—Four room cottage on Jefferson street. Applv to 32 tf.] M. B. MoComb. Two car loads of Texas Rust Proof Oats, just received at W. T. Coax ic Co's. S toves at cost for the cash As I am about to make consider able change in my business this year, I will sell out a lot of Cook and Heat ing Stoves at cost, for Casb, to make room to extend my Hardware busi ness. JOSEPH STALEY. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 12, ’86.(314t For Sale.—Pure Plymouth Eggs for sale from select hens, fi.50 per setting of 13 eggs. Apply to 35 tf] ,,T \
