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Gov. McDaniel’s Declination.
We publish in this issue a corres
pondence between Gen. A. R. Lhwton
of Savannah and Gov. H. D. McDaniel,
relative to the latter gentleman s can
didacy for Governor at the next elec
tion. The former expresses the opin
ion that there is no provision of our
State constitution which forbids our
present Governor from holding the
office during another term. The lat
ter, however, very gracefully declines
coming before the people again as.a
candidate and manifests we think an
unselfishness which is somewhat rare
among our public men.
Gov. McDaniel very justly holds
that his administration has received
'substantially the endorsement of the
people, inasmuch, as no one of his
measures or official acts has called
forth any opposition worthy of con
sideration. It is true that he nas had
no great or difficult measure of State
policy to formulate or carry through,
but judging by his successful dis
charge of the duties of his office in
all the matters that came before him,
we may fairly conclude he would have
been equally successful if he had more
intricate and difficult matters to deal
with. The correspondence above in
dicated is interesting and honorable
to both the parties to it.
Home-Rule Quests
The Deadly Jesaxnine. ^
It \«a>a -ad calamity which befell
the families of Mr. Milton Bend and
Mr. Cummings Lindsev on Inst 'nmrs-
lay evening. These families live
A determined opposition to Irish
Home-Rule is being . rltn
nents of the Gladstone ? P * po
From all the aoeounts whidw "'^ 1 ? ’
nc from Vnirlanrt COHl#tO (IftV
Irish imy not be granted^ t0 - i 1x5111 thm ‘ » li,,sfrom thi ? P!®® e ’
the Irish desire, but we have nnl **
ous doubt of its success within , v,
or two more. All parties
Liberals,, headed by Premier* riVT
cfnno to he -~ eillCr <Tlai1
y as I are near neighbors to each other.
'•■ri- ‘
8eem to
•It
opposed to the
Speech of Senator Kenna.
Mr. Kenna’s speech on Mr. Ed
mund’s report in reference to Mr. Gar
land’s withholding papers and docu
ments, private letters to the secreta
ries, or the President, upon which
they rely in nominating officials, is
spoken of as a powerful oratorical and
argumentative effort. He made the
report and argument of Mr. Edmunds,
the Republican Goliath, appear to be
what it really was, a reductio ad ab-
surdum. Edmunds, it is stated by
candid lookers on, winced and writhed
under the infliction. For several
hours he kept writhing and twisting
with mental pain, which no effort, on
liis part, could conceal from the
searching eyes of political friends or
foes. He conrounded Edmunds with
facts drawn from the wisest statesmen
of the past, to show the absurdity of
his arguments, drawing from them
political positions directly the reverse
of Senator Edmunds' declarations.
The only apparent escape for Ed
munds is to acknowledge his miscon
ception of the facts upon which he
had drawn, and this would be rather
fatal, for he claims for himself and his
friends too, for him, infallibility in po
litical lore. This young Kenna, 38
years old, makes a new Iliad for him,
and without forbearance, an Iliad of
woes. If we were there, and a Repub
lican, we would advise Mr. Edmunds
to drop the subject and vote for Mr.
Cleveland's nominees. This would be
simpler and better than to fight them
all through the balance ofjthe'session,
and come out worsted and ragged at
the close. It is a hard thing to get
around an incontrovertible truth, and
that is what Mr. Kenna has planted
right before Mr. Edmunds. It would
never do for Mr. Edmunds to admit
that lie is thrown flat of his back.
“Husli,” is the word; drop the discus
sion. Don’t trust to Evarts. Some
writer in the Augusta Chronicle of
the 13tli who writes as a “special,”
says “When Mr. Evarts comes to
speak, it is expected that he will take
both sides of the subject, leaving the
President and Mr. Edmunds in doubt
as to where he really stands.” That
would merely stir up the poison, and
make it more drastic than before,
You can’t Ifsleep well after Kenna’s
speech, and Evarts will bring on in
somnia. Now take our advice Sena
tor, and if you treat it civilly, I’ll write
half a column to prove that you are
a very sensible man.
stone,
measure, it was stated'th n t"
few days, Mr. Gladstone intended or
expected to present his policy to
House of Commons. This; 7*
for with great interest bv all m'! 0 ^
ed. WhSihedoMttatluL^Su''S.
drawn which will enable all the friends
of Home-rule, and those opposed to it
to conjecture the result with a great
er degree of the probable result B
Mr. Chamberlain and Mr Treve
lyan withdrew from the cabinet. it is
SStlS S?«KS2S'? I fi-r
is. said would require nearlv three
w !,°T ° f d °W Some
think that will be paying too high
for peace. Mr. Gladstone is right.
An Irish Parliament would not re-
lieve the sufferings of the Irish people.
Mr. Gladstone wants the poorer
classes to have a piece of land that
can be called their own. A few acres
^ em f ro ui the extortion
of the land owners. I n this Mr. Giad-
stone exhibits a noble-heartedness
that will add as much to his fame as
his charactenstics as a statesman. If
he succeeds in it, it is doubtful if Mr
Parnell wili have as great a claim to
the affections of the Irish as Mr.
Gladstone.
A Female College at Augusta.
We are pleased to see that the sug
gestion originally made by Mr. Walsh,
to have a female college at Augusta,
is .received with much favor by the
citizens of the place. The Augusta
Chronicle of the 16th contains brief
expressions of opinions on the subject
by Hon. John S. Davidson, President
of the Board of Education, Professors
C. H. Withrow, John Neely, Hon.
Robert May, and a number of other
influential citizens who heartily favor
the undertaking. Augusta could fur
nisli a considerable number of matric,
ulates, enough to iusure the success
of the institution with those who
would seek its advantages from sur
rounding sections in Georgia and
South Carolina. Many who deal in
Augusta, would follow the paths of
their trade for seeking educational
advantages for their daughters. Bus
iness and trade would bring them to
the city occasionally, ‘{.trough the
year, and thus their daughters would
be comparatively under their eyes.
But we pass over these individual ad
vantages to parents, to say a few
words in reference to the influences of
such an institution upon the city.
Unquestionably, parents, at a dis
tance, who would have daughters in
the Institution, would be induced to
send their cotton to Augusta, when
they had previously gone to other
markets. Again, the memories of
happy days in the sunshine and buoy
ant season of youth, spent in the
college would have a powerful influ
ence in turning the thoughts of the
graduates to their beloved Alma Ma
ter when separated from it in the
lapse of years. These cherished mem
ories would be brought to bear upon
their husbands and relatives, and
would do much to increase the trade
of Augusta and the prosperity of the
cherished spot to which the mind ever
looks as the green spot and dear re
treat of their girlhood, when ripening
in mind and person for the duties of
life. How can it be otherwise when
the classic spot, with it6 beautiful'
buildings, its lovely chapel, its shady
trees and walks, and the memory of
kind and sympathetic professors, so
licitous for their future happiness, are
ever present to their minds wherever
it may be their lot to dwell. We
might dwell more at barge upon these
ever-to-be-remembered early scenes
and joys, and the tears shed in part
ing with beloved preceptors, who in
bidding their former pupils farewell,
invoke upon them the blessings of
Heaven as they pressed tliefr hands
with almost a father's tenderness and
affection. As the waters of the beau
tiful Savannall ever How towdnk the
sea, so would the thoughts, of these
retiring daughters, ever flow back to
their time-honored Alma Mater, and
flie joys of early life, in the beautiful
Augusta.
Let the good thought go on until
the classic structure shall be built;
and add an additional metropolitan
feature to Georgia's prettiest city;
but it is not ihe structure that is
needed, to greet the gaze of one as he
approaches the city, but the spark of
learning that is kindled within, reso
nant of joy and hope, and monuments
of ntind, which speak with many
tongues to the heart, and lights which
rival the splendor of unclouded suns.
Card of Geo. R. Lombard & Co.
We are pleased to call attention a-
gain to the great Southern Foundry
and Machine works under the man
agement of Mr. George R. Lombard,
whose remarkable genius has spread
the fame of his establishment over
Georgia and other Southern States
and won for him the cognomen of
the King of Southern. Foundrymen.
There is no need for any one to go to
Richmond, Va., Pittsburg, Pa Phil
adelphia, Boston, New York, Cincin
nati, or any,other place for anything
mentioned in this card or hundreds of
others not alluded to in it. All the
material, used in the two immense
houses of this famous firm, are as
good as can be found in the United
States and owing to the expense of
transportation for long distances all
articles needed are supplied cheaper
by the Forest City Foundry and Mu
chine Works, than by any House in
any city north of Augusta, Ga. This
fact is well known and the goods give
universal satisfaction.
St. Patrick’s Day.
The celebration of the day on Wed
nesday night, at Augusta, was the
most animated and enjoyable that
ever took place in the city. Numbers
of letters were received expressing
regrets at not being able to attend.
Major Barnes’sentiment “Erin’s Harp
-—when next it is struck may it
be the song of the Freed of Ire
land,” was read with applause.
Speeches were made by the Pres
ident, Alex Gouley, Father Walsh.
Col. Jno. F. Armstrong, Hon. Patrick
Walsh, and Hon. Jno. S. Davidson,
full of patriotic sentiment and ardeut
hopes of Irish nationality and devo
tion to the Empire State of the South.
Mr, Armstrong among other allusions
to Mr. Parnell, said he believed that
in less than two years Ireland will
have Home rule and he a free nation.
Want of room prevents a fuller re
port at this late hour.
PASS THIS AROUND.
Butter made in Georgia shipped to
New York and sold! Hurrah for old
Putnam! Many a dollar has gone out
of our pockets to pay for Yankee but
ter, but now thanks to Mrs. Hunt’s
Jerseys, Eatonton sells butter to New
York city.
Some time ago Mrs. B. W. Hunt of
this place started an experimental
dairy to see if perfect granulated Jer
sey butter made iu tbe^nost scientific
and careful manner possible by the
best continental methods would com
mand a sale in Georgia.
Meeting with wonderful success, the
butter selling readily in onr larger
cities at 40cts per lb., she begun sup
plying Northern people sojourning
for the winter in Aiken, South Caro
lina. Once having tasted this deli
cious butter they now desire it ship
ped to New York city on their return
to that place, thus giving Georgia
made butter the preference over that
made at home. We should state here
that these are wealthy Northerners
abundantly able to gratify every fan
cy and they order Mrs. Hunt’s Jersey
butter shipped to New York because
it is the very best money can buy.
Thus fairly and squarely has Geor
gia-made butter whipped out Goshen
on its own ground. Farewell old
King Cotton. Farewell poverty and
debt. Farewell old native cows.
Hurrah for the better times coming.
Hurrah for rich pasture lands and
Jersev cows. Hurrah for Putnam,
the first county in Georgia to sell
Georgia butter in New York city.
Eatonton Messenger.
At the Albernian banquet in Savan
nah responses were read from the
President and Cabinet, regretting
their inability to attend. The follow
ing from the Savannah News gives a
Relief for Mrs. Hancock.
A bill has been introduced, granting
a pension to the widow of Gen. W. S.
Hancock. This' is done in ’’’recogni
tion of Gen. Hancock's distinguished
services In aiding to defeat the separa
tion of the Confederate States from
the Union. Southern members will
vote for the bill as well as Northern
members. The South is made t* bear
a heavy load of taxation under the
Pension law, but in all this contribu
tion,'f here is no part of it she makes
with more^eadineas than in voting a
pension for Gen. Hancock’s widow.
His ‘magnanimity was recognized by
the people of the South and they gave
him a cordial support as the Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency.
The congressional pension bill, if
passed, (and it undoubtedly -will be)
with the private subscriptions which
had reached nearly fifty thousand dol
lars when we saw the last report, will
place her in prosperous circumstances
so far as money can avail to blunt her
grief at the loss of her distinguished
husband. .
Alexander H. Stephens never car
ried a pistol but once in his life, and
+hat with other treasures, was stolen
from under his pillow while lie was
-’~en This so disgusted him that
he swore lie would never carry anoth
er
—
graphic incident: __
Hon. Fleming G. DcBignon said
of President Cleveland: “Unmoved
he sits while all around him yield. No
favor can win him. No danger can
appal him.” Each of the preceding
speakers had been greeted with warm
applause, but as Mr. DuBignon pro
ceeded rounding period after period
of patriotic sentiment—his every sen
tence was interrupted with cheers,
and when he sat down M. A. < )’Bvme
roposed three cheers for President
Cleveland, and they were given with
a zest and shout that made the win
dows rattle. In response to the con
tinued applause, Mr. DuBignon arose
the secona time and said that he re
cognized this compliment as intended
for the President.—Augusta Chroni
cle.
The Thirty-ninth Star in the
Union.—The Baltimore Times says
editorially: The admission of Dakota
into the Union is a subject of much in
terest, In the debate upon the ques
tion In the United States Senate on
December 18 last, and which is official
ly printed in the Congressional Rec
ord, Senator Vest, of Missouri, paid a
high tribute to the merits of an arti
cle of world-wide repute which is man
ufactured by a Baltimore house.
Coming from such a source, tlii6 praise
is gratifying, although legislators of
other countries have also publicly
spoken in a similar manner,—among
tnem, Hon. W. A. E. West-Erskine,
of the South Australian, and Hon.
Godfrey Sichel, of the South African
Parliaments. Both of these gentle
men, like Senator Vest, said that the
article referred to, St. Jacobs Oil, is
an absolute cure for rheumatism and
takes away all pain. It may be added
that by a recent order of the Receiver
General of Inland Revenue of Great
Britain, St. Jacobs Oil will in future
be admitted free of duty to Ireland
and several other British isles. No
house better deserves such success
than Charles A. Vogeler Company,
and certainly none has met with more.
that unfortunate occaffion the l!
five-year old son cf Mr. Beall was,
over*at Mr. Lindsey at play’s with bis
two children, of about the same age.
The three wandered a short distance
from the house and during this sport
one of them discovered a wild_ jessa
mine. vine where swollen buds indica
ted the early unfolding of the golden
petals. One of the little boys ran to
the viuc exclaiming in childish glee
that here was some “Squashes” and
began eating the buds. The others,
imitating his example, also ate the
buds. They soon began to feel the
effects of the deadly poison they had
taken and started for the house. Be
fore they reached it, they wererealing
and falling about. On coining into the
presence of Mrs. Lindsey, her little
son threw out his arms, and implored
his mother to kiss him. She pressed
the dying child's lips, and so violent
was the poison, her own mouth from
the contact has been greatly inflamed
since. She called to her husband, who
was at work not far from the house,
but before he reachedjt, their child.was
still in death. Mi. Beall was sent for,
and he hurried to this place fora phy
sician. Dr. Simmons responded but
be fore they reached the bedside of the
little boy, lie also was dead. Dr. Sim
mons promptly administered emetics to
the other, (the youngest) child, and
succeeded in saving its life. The pa
rents of the children have the heart -
felt sympathy of the entire communi
ty. This terrible calamity should be
a warning to parents through this
section, where the wild jessamine
grows in such profusion. Every child
should be informed of its deadly qual
ities.—Irwinton Southerner.
_mong our Exchanges.
Death of Mrs. Mary D. Howell.
Our specials from Atlanta brought
news last night of the death of Mrs.
Mary D. H owell in that city, of diph
tlieria. Mrs. Howell was the sister of
Hon. James S. Hook, and was born
and raised in Augusta, where she has
many friends, who will be pained to
hear the sad news of her death. She
was the widow of the late Judge
Clark Howell, of Atlanta, mother of
Dr. D. H.-Howell, and Mrs. A. P^
Woodward, of that city, and step
mother of Hon. Evan P. Howell,.of
the Constitution, and of Col. Albert
Howell, who was for several years a
citizen of Augusta.
Mrs. Howell was a lady of rare
piety and marked intelligence and cul
tivation, and was loved, not only by
her large family connection, but by
hosts of admiring friends. She was a
prominent leader in the ladies’mission
work of the Christian Church and was
connected with many charitable and
religions organizations. She was
known and esteemed by everybody in
Atlanta, and her funeral, this after
noon at 3 o’clock, will be largely at
tended. Judge Hook and Mr, E, B,
Hook go up this morning to be pre?
sent at the sad occasion.—Augusta
Chronicle. 16th,
The Gubernatorial Canvass.
Mr. Gladstone Remains Firm.—
He stands by his land scheme and
home rule. They are so closely knit
together that neither can stand alone.
To buy out the landlords there must
be an Irish Parliament at Dublin to
administer the bill.
Estimates for the English Na
vy.—To maintain England’s naval
supremacy the estimates were adopt
ed on the largest scale since the Cri
mean war.
The Clarkesville Advertiser says
that Eugene Beck will be tried at Ra
bun Superior Court, for the murder
of Miss Addie Bailey, his sister-in-law.
It will be remembered that Beck was
tried at the last term of the Court for
the murder of his wife, and was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life.
Important.--All persons afflicted with
rheumatism, neuralgia, sore tliroat,
pains in the back or limbs, sprains,
etc., should be informed that Salva
tion Oil is what they need. For sale
by all druggists. Price twenty-five
cents a bottle.
The discussion of the question oft he
Gubernatorial succession is rapidly
spreading over the State, and paper
after paper is quietly taking position
for some one of the candidates. In
addition to Bacon and Simmons, who
are active candidates, there are oth
ers that may be termed possibilities.
—While not yet in the race for the
nomination, it is strongly suspected
.that they would not be averse to re
ceiving ft. Among this number W«y
be mentioned Patrick Walsh, H. H.
Carlton, C. B. Wooten,; J. M. Smith,
L. F. Livingston, E. P. Howell and
J. H. Estill. Several of these men
already have a scattered following
throughout the Statu.
In some localities J. H. Blount and
H. G. Turner have been mentioned in
connection with the nomination; bnt
it is hard to say whether the fact is
due to the admiration of their friends
for their many excellent qualities, or
to the consideration that the nomina
tion of either of them would open the
way to Congress for a number of
eager aspirants. Either of. thfpe men
would make an excellent Governor;
but the State would gain nothing by
removing them from the position
which they fill so well simply to prove
their capacity in new and untired
relations.—Ishmaelite.
A GREAT CONQUEROR.
Everybody hates egotism, yet his
tory is full of it. Sesostris, one of
Egypt* early kings, was so full of ego
tism, that the fame of his deeds might
long survive him, that he erected
columns in the countries through
which he passed, on which was in
scribed: “Sesostris, king of kings and
lord of lords, subdued this country
by the power of hjg arms,” That
monarch showed no doubt, a great
deal of egotism by his actions; but
would it be egotistical to say that Dr.
Bull's Cough Syrup has done more
than subdued a country, because it
has conquered million* of obstinate
colds and coughs, that held their via-
tiins in racks and tortures, worse than
the Inquisition? We think* not! Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup needs no column
to perpetuate its fame and worth; its
benefaction will be a household tradi
tion among those it has emancipa
ted, ~
Says the Augusta News: The Board
of Trustees of the Methodist Orphans’
Home, at Decatur, consisting of Col.
T. M. Merriwether of Newton county,
Rev. Dr. W. H. Potter of Macon,
Rev. W. F. Cook, Rev. L, J. Davies
and Clias. H. Johnson of Griffin, and
W. P. Patillo, W. A. Gregg and R. A.
Hemphill, of Atlanta have investiga
ted the alleged cruel whipping of Ar
thur Harrison, an inmate of the
Home, and as the result of that inves
tigation. officially declare that they
find no gronnds whatever for the sup
position that there was any cruelty
or unreasonable severity in the pun
ishment administered in this or any
other case at the Home. After the
closest ami most impartial 'inquiry
in to the all facts connected with the
case in question, they are thoroughly
satisfied and do unqualifiedly assure
the public that there, was no indiscre
tion even on the part of the superin
tendent in the management of the
case. It was simply a case of moder
ate flogging with’a small switch, ad
ministered with deliberation and care,
for the good of the child and the
maintenance of proper discipline.
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At
in Post\
eep are
couaky.
Thaaarteriaw web ?t Americas
at last%een abandon hI, . and th g
pavers are cmasmi u <- u**»' ba|>pX
Saturday.^morning's few ^be
Macon Telegraph v-*-** yed on
count of the premg «•* forms.
orge Ban-
Washing
the attthorass,
New York for
m. to her old
/-Mrs. Bancrofi
croft, the hi
ton on the 1
Mrs. Mary
who has bee:
some time
home in C
A new cyclopedic of popular quota
tions starts out with these wi ’
*»-CAPITAI. PKIZK, S75,000.-**
Tickets only 6*. Sb*w» la properties.
.• in the south,
.cou
continued edd v. uiriw
because the geese are flying north.
Gen. HenryJackson, United
States Minist** to Mexico, has a three
months leave colue home, and has
left Mexico.
The Cadet® at t j 10 citadel academy
at OQ propose giving an ex
hibition <\ r in j n Savannah one day
during e jntcncial week.
Jordan Dennis, negro of Pulaski
county, recently beat ahorse to death.
He was tried in the County Court and
goes to. the chaingang for six months.
Tho statute of Ben Hill at Atlanta
will be unveiled April 21. Henry Gra
dy will be orator of the day. Excur
sions will be run from all parts of the
State.
A LaGr^nge lady keeps a penny
box on her dining table, and when a
member of-her family speaks ill of any
person she requires them to contribute
to the box.
We understand that there are a
great many suckers in the streams
this Spring, and very fat. They are
always better after a cold, it seems to
harden their flesh and make them
sweeter.
It is wrong for young gentlemen to
cease their visits to young ladies be
cause rumor says they are engaged;
and especially when the young ladies
dpny tne allegation and despise the al
ligator.
The Marietta Journal says the town
girl can ride a horse with more grace
than her country cousin, bnt the
latter can stay iu the saddle lon
ger.
Rev. Dr. Deems, the noted pastor
of “the church of the strangers” in
New York, called upon the editor of
the Enterprise in Thomasville last
week.
words from N&pole
tie without 1
eighty
Afcflity'istlit
The ™
being proee*'
selling ole
a* batter. In
The Blair bill has fallen upon hard
places in the house of represeiftatives.
The committee to which it was refer
red is hostile to its passage, and has
pigeon-holed the bill Until the 3d of
April, with the chance of still further
postponing it, until the session will
be so far advanced that legislative ac
tion cannot be taken. Mr. Willis
proposes to introduce a similar bill,
with the view of having it referred, to
a committee known to favor the MM?
scheme, and thus bringing up a test
vote.
n pore
Recc
the Union & Recorder and the Cbron
icle, have battled nobly and we trust
the issue will prove, successfully tor
prohibition during the pending cam
paign. While leaving no stone un
turned, that could contribute to vic
tory, they have conducted the' cam
paign with a spirit of fairness and
moderation, worthy of the highest
praise.
In view of a threatened epidemic of
coughs like that of a year ago in
Philadelphia,, the Health Commis
sioner of Maryland officially recom
mends Red Star Cough Cure for throat
troubles, as being free from opiates,
safe and sure, and having none of the
harmful features of other cough mix
tures. Only 25 cents.
Jeff Davis has consented to deliver
a lecture in Montgomery, Ala., some
time in April, for the benefit' of the
Confederate Monument Association.
A special car will convey him and Mrs.
Davis to that city and it is believed
one of the largest gatherings seen in
Montgomery since the war, will meet
on that occasion.
With bright eyes and elastic step,
yet gray, lusterless hair. It ia 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
save it. 341m.
N.- F. Browne, who was principal of
the female academy at Eatonton when
the war broke out. is said to have
been the inventor of the cotton seed
oil mill.
A State Convention of the Young
Men’s Christian Association will be
held in Atlanta next month. Moody
and Hankev are expected to be pres
ent on the occasion.
On Tuesday Rev. J. G. Armstrong
and his family moved from St. Philip’s
rectory to their new home on Church
street of Atlanta. The house has been
nicely fitted up for the doctor.
Miss Minnie Averiett fell in love
with an acrobat George Patterson in
Shield's ten cent circus, while in At
lanta recently, and she followed him
to Chattanooga and the couple was
married.
Mr. Dute Kitchens was tried in
Butts Superior court recently for
the killing of a negro, seven years ago,
who it appeared on the trial was un>
der the influence of whisky and try
ing to kill him.
A curiosity in the shape of a man
with four legs, passed through Millen
Wednesday. He had two legs com
plete, and just above the knees were
two small legs and feet projecting out
about twelve inches.
On Thursday last while Mr. Pat
Hiokey was examining a loaded pistol
at 4 store in Atlanta, the pistol ac
cidentally went off and Mr. Will
Pinyon, » who was standing talking
with Hickey, was shot through the
heart,
The Auierlcaji Agriculturalist for
March, very sensibly advises farmers
to favor arbitration of their disputes
rather than to engage in destructive
and ruinous litigation. Arbitration
is the easiest, quickest and cheapest' iumTurpa:
way to settle disagreements. ’ - ‘ uia te hat
Hon. Seaborn Reese will be a candi
date for re-election to Congress. His
present opponent for Congressional
honors will be Hon. Vv illiam H. "Mat
tox, of Elbert, who is at this time the
only ontspokeu candidate against Mr.
Reese. Mr. Mattox withdraws from
the race.
The Sea Island cotton was formerly
raised only on the ’ islands of our
Southern coast, now however, as we
are informed by the Thomasville
Enterprise, splendid crops of It are
made la the lower range of counties in
this state. It sells for about three
times as much as the short staple cot
ton.
Conrt met Monday morning and in
two hours time his Honor announced
he was through with the civil docket.
Happy is that people whose motto is
temperance. No litigation, no broils,
no murders to mar their peace, or.
harrow their feelings. Peace aud qui-
et, sobriety and good will prevail in dsrired shads,
all oiir borders.—Eatonton Messenger.
Atlanta has at last failed in securing!
the Georgia Midland from Columbus,;
and the road wifi lie built to Griffin,
and Locust Grove, where it will tap
the East Tennessee road. This is
about the first failure Atlanta has
made in a small enterprise. She only
lacked 425,000, but epuicj pot raise this
sum!
Macon, Ga., March 1?.—The man
Humphries, in jail for the Baldwin
county murder, seems to bear up
under his troubles with a great deal
of composure. He is cheerful, and
laughs and talks with his fellow pris
oners. To strangers, however, he is
rather reticent, and dislikes to talk
about the tragedy.—Constitution.
Macon, March 16.—The time of
meeting of the Georgia State Sunday
School association in Macon has been
changed to the 12th, 13th, and 14th of
May. It was to have been held on
the*20th of May, and would have con
tinued three days, but the meeting of
the general assembly of the Presbyte
rian ohurch at Augusta on the 20th,
has caused the change.
Ex-Gov. Bullock, who has just re
turned from a trip to New Y ork, says
that he found the condition’of busi
ness affairs much improved over what
it, was a few months ago. There was
some uneasiness expressed upon the
silver question among the leading
business men that he met, otherwise
there was a strong feeling of confi
dence that the worst was over.
The large poplar tree near Capt.
Alexander’s in Wilkes county,'-‘has
quite a history. It is about 57 feet
in circumference, and.9 feet in diame
ter. Under the shade'of this roipantic
tree, the first Synod ever held in Geor
gia convened in 1790, and Dr. Sprin
ger, the first Presbyterian minister
ordained in the State, was set apart
to his work of preaching the gos-
psL
One of the two negroes poisoned by
drinking tea made from the root of
white sassafras, at Warrenton, died
Saturday. The other is stiii very sick, jf
but is now considered out of danger.
The negroes were made ill while
the meantime the oleomargarine fac
tories are running on fall time.
A Kansas man is sawing wood
the Navy Yard at Washington. Thus
the unexpected happens. He went
there for a poet office commission, and
up to date can only say: “I came,
saw. ’’—Boston Record.
The fair VsSMr girls are going in
for phyacial development. Seven
teen t housand dollars has been alread y
raised to be devoted to the organiza
tion of an athletie department m con
nection with the college.
A little handbook recently publish
ed treats on what to do in cases of
sprains and other accidents. St. Ja
cob’s Oil should at once be applied. It
is the greatest papgcure on earth, and
costs o nly fifty cSlits a bottle
Governor Fitxhngh Lee has appro
ved the Viflfinia'.Iocal option bill.—
It is said that elections will be held
in many counties of that State at an
early day, and that the fight will pro
bably open right in the city of Rich
mond.
The ladies Memorial association met
Tuesdav evening 16th inst, and elect
ed Mr. ft. A. Jenkins as orator on the
26th April next. Prof. W. G. Wright
was also elected to introduce the
speaker. The selections are good,
and we efpeot a rare treat in Mr. Jen-
kin's speech.—Eatonton Messenger.
“Old Sorrel,” the famous war horse
of General Stonewall Jackson, died at
the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at
Richmond, Va., on the 15th inst., of
old age. General Jackson was riding
“Sorrel” when mortally wounded in
May, 1864. A cast will be made of the
horse, his skin be stuffed, and the
skeleton mounted. -.
Cablegrams from Paris of the 10th,
report $he weather distressingly cold,
and hospitals were so crowded with
persons that had been frostbitten on
the streets, that it was necsssary to
utilize other buildings as hospitals
while the cold spell prevailed. At
Vienna traveling in the open air was
almost impossible on account of the
cold weather. Several persons froze
to deathjand railroads suspended work.
John Ruskin most beautifully says:
“What fairy palaces we may build of
thought, proof against all adversity;
bright fancies, satisfied memories, no
ble histories, faithful sayings, precious
and restful thoughts, which care can
not disturb, nor pain make gloomy,
nor poverty take away from us—
houses built without hands, for our
souls to live in.
The Bayard Family.—The long
and striking list of fatalities in the
Bayard families has just been added
to by the death of Mrs. Richard H.
Bayard, an aunt of the Secretary of
State. This estimable lady, who was
in the eighty-third year of her age,
was a grand daughter of the famous
Charles Carrojl, of Carrollton, Mary
land, one of the signers of the Declar
ation of Independence.
An Atlantian who recently returned
from New York, said:
“It will surprise you to know that
ex-President Arthur is considered to
be suffering his last sickness. His
most intimate friends think that he
cannot recover from the malady with
jrhich he has been confined for some
time, and that his death is only a
question of a few months. He is said
to be suffering with Bright’s disease.”
A prohibition law would have no
effect in Paraguay. In that country
a plant called mate grows wild. When
dried, it is used for a drink, which is
,ssed ag. a stimulant. The
as only to be put in a glass of
water, and the drink is made. With a
handful of dried mate in his pocket,
& man has sufficient material to keep
iMmln the condition of a “biled owl”
for a week. It is rumored that a
syndicate has been organized to in-
^i-o<luee this peculiar plant in the
prohibition states of this country.
The suggestion of a popular scien-
liist that poison should be used to kill
Tiff the English sparrows, which are
said to be crowding out our native
birds, as the pauper laborers of Europe
pe are crowding out American work
men, has been reminded that the
milliners and vain followers of fashion
cause the death at ten native birds,
to every one crowded ont of life by
the English sparrows. It is darkly
hinted that the poison ought more
properly to he used on the ladies. It
would be better to make the English
sparrows the fashionable ornament
for hats and bonnet. No doubt his
plomage oould be dyed to almost any
LouisiR S
Money Jffa
“We .lohereby certt/y that we «operriae the
arrangements for ail the Monthly and quar-
temDrawings of The Louisiana State Lotte,
ry Company, and In person manage mnii control
the Drawings themselves, nnd tknfc the same ire
conducted with hoseatj, faintest, and Ln good
faith toward all parties, and we authorize the
Company to use this certificate, with fae-siwllea
of our signatures attache.}, t* Its advertise
ments."
we the undersigned Banka and Bankers will
par all Prizes drawn la the Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at onr ooun
tens.
J. H. OGLESBY. Free. Louisiana NatT Bk.
S. H. KENNEDY, Free. State NatT Bank.
4 BALDWIN, Free. New Orleans NatT Bk.
Incorporated tv law fort* yes re hr the Legis
lature for Educational and Charitable purposes
—with a espmi ef *l,SOO,000—to which a re
serve fund of over *560.000 has since been added.
By an orerwhelmlng popular vote its franchise
was made a part of the present State Constitu
tion adopted December Jd, A. D..187S.
The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed
by the people of any State.
It never scales or postpones.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings take
place monthly, and the Extraordinary
Drawings regularly every three months
Instead of Semi-AnDualljr as heretofore,
beginning March, 18S6.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE, FOURTH GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS D., IN THE ACADEMY OF
MUSIC. NEW ORLEANS. TUESDAY, April
13th, 18S6— 191st Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each,
Fractions, in Fifths in proportion.
list or PRIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZB J7i,000
1 do PRIZE 25,000
1 do PRIZE 10,000
2 PRIZES OF $6000 12,000
5 “ 2000 10.000
10 “ 1000 10,000
20 “ 500 10,000
100 “ 200 20.000
300 “ 100 30,000
500 “ 50 25,000
1000 “ 25 25,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approximation Prizes of *750....$6,750
9 “ “ 500 4,500
9 “ “ 250.... 2,250
1967 Prizes, amonntlag to $265,500
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only to the office of the Company tn New Orleans.
For further information write clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express Mon
ey Orders or New York Exchange In ordiuarv
letter. Currency by Express (all sums of $5 anil
upwards at our expense.) addressed
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.,
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D. C.
Male P.0. Money Orders payable
and a^ress Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK.
New Orleans. La
March 16th. 1S86. 3e it
SEA FOAM
I ALL FIRST-CLAM , * .
Storekeepers ooT.teep it for Sale
-—AND--
Money Buys Groceries Cheap!
^-AT THE—
GREEN
We buy for Cash and self the same way. If you want your money
to go a long ways, be stire to
WHITE & TREANOR S.
If your cow is hungry send to WHITE & TREAItOR for Bran. If you
have no cow, send to them tor the finest Butter in the city. Nice Hams,
Shoulders and white Me** cheap as the cheapest. Lard in 3, 5, 10, 20 and 50
lb. Buckets; also in Tierces, at bottom prices. Nothing hut water ground
Meal sold at WHITE & TkEANOR’S. Nice lot smokea Pork Sausage, just
received. White Swan Flour the best ever brought to this city. We also
sell the celebrated Wade Hampton Flour. In Fancy Flour, Tube Rose and
Cadet, we will suit yon. Extra Family. Odd Trump and Moss Rose are hard to
heat. Coffee from 10c to 85* per lb. Fresh Alee, 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 only the
best Teas, green and black. Puli line Spices and Extracts. Cigars and To
bacco our specialty. Canned Goods, Candy, Crackers and Cheese.
In fact 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 & TRE’AN OR,
No. 17 South Wayne Street,....Milledgetille, Ga.
31 fy-
OXjTR.A.JR,HbTC3- 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 tho cash and yon will go home happy. This is no hum
bug. Come aud see aud be convinced.
Mbs. S. D. WOOTTEN.
Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 10th, 1886. 8 ly.
The Boom Continues.
To Wholesale Buyers.
Our trade during tho 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. We open the
new 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.
TO PARENT*.
Many baking powders are very pernicious
to health, and while every one regards his
own, he should also have a oare for the tender
ones—the little children.
SEA FOAM
contains none of the bad qualities of baking
powdam—urvixi or tuklprmtiiu It contains HO
hurtful
SCIENTIFIC.
analysed Sea Foam
era who have used it
AH Chemists who have .
commend It. HousekooDi
will have no other. CooKa, whose best efforts
have failed with other powders, are jubilant
overSeaFbam. Saves nme, saves labor, saves
money.
It is positively unequaled. Absolutely pure.
Used by the leading hotels and restaurants
in New York city and throughout the country.
For sale by all first-clase grocers.
GANTZ, JONES & CO.,
176 Duane St., N. Y.
Get our prices, and we will be satisfied. We promise
goods as cheap as any Wholesale Market in Georgia.
to sell
you
Our Tobacco Stock,
Is larger than ever before, and we can duplicate any price from
houses in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, or any othor Stale.
Try us ami we will convince’you that this is true.
W. T. CONN & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers.
Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 2d, 1886. 29 ly
Theo. Markwalter's
STEAM MARBLE & GRAN1TL WORKS,
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
WORK always < n hand,’ ready for
LEI PERILS(t and DELIVERY. [Oct.. 27tli, 1885. 16 ly
ew York, March 18.—There is a
,t deal of discussion among navi
ors Os to-what caused the loss of
the steamer Oregon. The collision
with the schooner is growing in dis
credit, owing to the slender testimo
ny in its favor. Two other theories
J re advanced -one that the Oregon
riiok a< floating torpedo, and the
other'that her side was torn open by
explosion of some description from
(he, iusid?. Steamship officials are
absolutely dumb so far as regards
anything calculated to solve the mys-
terv; but the more the matter is inves
tigated hv disinterested men the
stronger becomes the conviction that
the disaster was not caused by a col
lision.
".The Hon. A. M. (“Long”) Jones
lias been devoting some days to the
task of devising a trade mark
for^is Bethesda Spring at Waukesha,
'ftndtiefeqling to learn somethingabout
the derivation and meaning of Beth-
esda, he asked a friend, who advised
hjm to “go to St. John.” “That’s so,”
s^UL Jones, “he’s a cold-water man
jmtth.-Pr6hibitionist, and although he
did help heat Blaine and Logan I’ll
find what he knows about Beth-
Wonder what’s his address.”
e was finally advised that the ad
dress he needed was the fourth verse
chapter of the Gospel ac-
St; ’John, who was never
in politics and with whom Mr. Jones
was not so well acquainted as with the
ex-Govemor of Kansas.—Chicago
Journal.
OF
been stricken, becoming perfectly
blind and their limbs paralyzed.
Many months ago the members of
Macon Lodge No. 5, Free and Accept
ed Masons, planned a scheme to sur
prise two Post Masters, George ft.
Barker and James Boone, of that
lodge, with a present of Past Master’s.,
Jewels. Tuesday night, without the’ - f
knowledge of the favored parties, a
meeting was held and the beautiful
jewels of solid goid,engraved with the
various appropriate emblems of this
mystic order, were presented hy Wor
shipful Master Charles Daniour in a
neat address.
ctiful Philosophy
Life.—Editor Childs, A. M. in
Philadelphia Ledger says: “The best
vse can conceive of is what we must
'foitow, bm the more closely we follow
it the more it will expand and
rise. But if we cramp and restrict it,
by dwelling upon the doubtful and
changing relations of our own possi
bilities and circumstances, we shall
the fatal error of su
[t the best we can do is
that there isto do, and that because we
dto witte on the
I blots and disfig
urements, there is no fresh and fair
page on which we may ever inscribe
onr names. Let ns rather bear in
mind that the highest and parest
conceptions we can possibly form
are still narrow and incomplete
dthat, so far from limiting them by
what'vffe*>steem possible, we mast
ve thefii wings to takf
t hy fl^thi
up to thi
:o take a higher
en-
our practical life
ngs t<
hy faithfully And loyally
There is an issue in the-City ,C<
oil of Americusas to the rights and pre-
X tivesofthe Mayor. The Mayor,
is supported in bls views by Al
derman Bell, Williams, and Oliver,
claims that he can at any time vacate
the chair (putting any member he
choosos ip), make a motion, and sup
port it by his vote. The remaining
Aldermen, Messrs. Glover, Burt, ana
Roney, admit that the Council’s rule
gives the Mayor the right to vacate
the chair to make a motion, but not
to vote upon it and thereby deprive
an opposing Alderman of "his dear
right to vote-
iniMsuffifcW:-
deed a serious blonder to refuso to
take Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup when
you even suspectyou have taken cold.
A Captnin’aTort>jaatcg|gBdT<gy.
Capt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth,
plying between Atlantic City and N.
y., had been troubled wtth a cough so
that he ^ras unable to sleep, and was
induced to try Df. King’s K<
Ring’s Hew Discov-
iprS for Consumption. It not only
gave him instant relief, but allayed
the extreme soreness in bis breast.
His children were similarly affected
and a single dose had the maw happy
effect. Dr. King’s Hew Discovery is
now the standard remedy in the Cade-
man household and on boat d the
schooner.
Free Trial Bottles of this -Standard
Remedy at C L. Case’s Drag Store.
March 16, 1886.
36 13t.
.A. OAJRID
—TO—
I
THE PUBLIC:
BEG leave to inforin my cus
tomers and those trading at
this point that I am now pro-
E ared to furnish the following
rands of
HIGH
Me Fertilizers:
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. Ths Celebrated Mastodon
Guano, Port Royal Cotton Fer
tilizer, Baldwin <fc Co’s., Guano,
Turner’s Ammoniated Dissolved
Bone Guano, (a Compound of
Acid Phosphate, Cotton Seed
Meal and Kainit.) Also a pure
Ammoniated Bone Guano. All
of which will be sold to prompt
paying customers at
LOW FIGURES,
For currency notes, payable Oc
tober 15tli, 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, 23, ’86. 33 6m
L.
Tobacco by the Plug
—AND—
Tobacco by the Box,
—AT—
H. WOOD & C0 T S.
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 <fe 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 dour.
We can please small or large purchasers. A cordial invitati
Pri
rices sent by mail
itation
upon appli-
to all, whether buyers or not.
cation.
Yours truly,
L. H. WOOD & CO.,
Waitzfelder building, Wayne Street.
Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 16, 1886. SI ly
THE FARQUHAR COTTON PLANTER.
ADVERTISERS
can learn the exact cost
of any proposed line of
advertising in American
papers by addressing
Geo. P. Rowell & Co.,
N.w«p«pw Advertising Bureau,
lO aprons St, Hew York.
EXCELS ALL 0THEES.
It is simple in construction andean be handled easily by ordinary farm hands.
Drops the unrolled seed.with perfect regularity and in any desired amount,
ops and covers. Send for price.
Never skips. Opens,
A.
Manufacturers
Macon.
February 19th, 1886.
FAftpUHAR & CO.,
id Wholesale Hardware Merchants,
: : Georgia.
36 ly.
March 28, 188*.
87 ly
‘Do you appreciate,” said the Rev.
(I Smith, *^ie
responsibility
oa a writer on The Constitu
te,000 papers on
64,000 ofjTour. weekly
Geo.
that rests c
tion. You
Sunday
edition—or 86,000 in all. Certainly
five people read every paper. That is
_ read what you write.
That is a larger audience than a
preacher can reach in al^iis life
i in aUiis 1
Geo. R. lombard A* Co.,
Forest City Foundry and Machine Works,
Near the Water Tower, 1014 to 1026 Fenwick St., Augusta, Go.,
Saw Mills, GriHt Mills, Cta* Mills, Plantation Machinery, Engines,
Boilers; t*ffi*fcScSDW&' MfcPtftiMi Pulleys, Hangers, Journal Boxes, Mill
Gearing, Godgeena Turbine Water Wheels, Gin Gearing, Judson’s Govern
ors, Disston’s Circular 84wl«ad 8uimiiers and Files, Belting and Babbitt
Metal and Brass Fitting Globe and Check Valves, Whistles, Gauges, arc.,
Iron and Brass Castings and Gin Ribs and Injectors. Repairing promptly
done at Lowest Prices. We east every day both Iron and Brass, having great
ly increased our capacity with latest improved tools. We are running full
time with 100 hands, which enables us to fill orders promptly at Lowest
Prices. Give us a trial before rending elsewhere. Agents for Georgia and
South Carolina tear ; I . ,
Knorting’s ¥narareal.Injectors, llie Best Boiler Feeder Out.
Works with one lever. Will work warm or cold water, and will- lift water.
Warranted to give satisfaction. Send for circulars before yoa bay any other.
They are better than VfllHlfp. [March 28,:1886. 37 ly-
rodef *®y. Bam Jones says ho doesn't
to the want todiefor a year
were being tried for ai
sassinate a white man
Liddell, shot and kfffrd ten of them
and mortally wounded the osiers.
a horse trade. He wants
of time for solid prayer. Mr. -donas
says be has been there. It would be
interesting to hear from the man he
swapped wtth.