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UNION & RECORDER.
Milledgeville, March 00, 1880.
The Sabbath.
first
Tin
has come
rest, aftpr six
Thus, each new
clay of another week
the (lay when we may
of tail anel trouble
week seems like
a
new erection, for nature never grows
old. Early in the morning, while yet
the skies are draped in silvery mists,
the sun comes forth arrayed, “like a
bridegroom out of his chamber." At
first the scene is so quiet, the air so
calm and pure, that sad and worn in
deed must be the heart which has no
visitings of joyous and gentle thoughts,
Anon, the sun climbs higher in the
sky and rose-tints the trees in the
’ shadows of which the city has slum
bered during the night. There is a
stir in the air, and a light breeze
comes over from the Carolina-side,
gently • bending the tree tops. Soon
the church bells begin to ring with
loud and lusty peals, circulating in
every nook and corner until their last
echoes expire in the distance. There
is nothing like these Sabbath morn
ing peals from the church bells, espe
cially to the devout believer in the
sacrificial mercies of the cross of
Christ. They suit too, every mood of
our fitful tempers. They are notes of
rest to all. Hearken! one while, there
is a gush of sound so solemn and al
most supernatural that we imagine
we hear the trump of doom, the next
it is so light and joyous, vibrating
with a tremulous sound as if some
“harp in Heaven had been smote in
the valleys of the earth!”
And the sun ascends higher! The
city, at first, so silent and quiet, now
shows animation. Well dressed chil
dren, from the little one that scarce
can toddle,*to the almost grown up
boy who has some undefined aspira
tions to a garotic collar, are seen se
dately walking the streets winding
their w ay in small groups to Sunday
school. Once more silence resumes
her sway, but not long, the bells again
resume their clangor, ringing faster,
as if to hurry on the hour of prayer
and worship. House doors open and
people in holiday attire issue to swell
the throng that wind in long array
towards the many churches wdiose
steeples point Heavenward on all
sides. Young and old, rich and poor,
white and black, husbands and wives,
parents and children, even old men
whose heads have been silvered by
three score and ten winters—all alike
obey the admonishing calls of the
bells.
Faster and faster, now the bells ring
their last ohange. Belated church go
ers, singly and in pairs, are hurried on
by the impatient peals, and dot the
side-walks. Young ladies, for the
twentieth time, examine their figures
in the glass—almost dislocating their
lit tie heads in the endeavor to see
their backs. But this is done with
the quickness of lightning, for there
is the reproach of vanity in the last
expiring tones which fall on their
♦■ars. One more farewell glance at
the beloved mirror, and they also
-ally forth fully arrayed, to enter
church just late enough to attract at
tention.
Again all is quiet in the streets. The
sun shines brightly through the w in
dows of the churches and falls cheerily
and gladsomely on the assembled
worshippers. Pleasant to look at are
the full pews as the warm light rests
upon the many colored dresses of the
ladies which relieve the more sombre
attire of the men. Now the organs
raise their solemn peals; the hymns
resound from many silver-toned voices
in the choirs; but when the preacher
ascends the pulpit, in earnest elo
quence to explain (rod’s word, we feel
that the “Sabbath bells,” as well as
our pen have discharged their mis-
a minority of the people, he obtain
ing a larger electoral vote than either
of the other candidates.
We refer to these facts simply to
show' the danger of a division of our
Democratic forces. The divisions, re
ferred to, brought on the war which
could have been avoided by the per
fect union of the Democratic forces.
While a division now, may not be at
tended with such dreadful conse
quences as followed the election of
Lincoln, it may reinstate the Repub
licans in power, with all the evil re
sults of their departures from the
principles of the fathers of the consti
tutional union. It is the duty of the
Democrats to stand firmly together,
and of the President to see that noth
ing in his administration of the gov
ernment shall prevent a compact
union of all the Democratic forces to
prevent the disastrous restoration to
power of the Republican party. There
is an unsatisfactory* significance in
passing events. Our advice is, let all
differences be healed, let all Demo
crats come together under bonds of
brotherly union, not alone for the
good of the party, but for the good of
every section of the country.
boro, where he has some landed prop
erty.‘ *
The proceedings of a public meet
ing held the evening of the same day,
to consider the event above narrated,
may be seen in another column.
Death of Rev. William Hurt.
The announcement, Monday after
noon, of the death of Rev. William
Hurt, at 1 o’clock p. m. that day, cast
a gloom ol sadness over the entire
community. His prospects of recov
ery was thought to be brightening
until Sunday night, when the sudden
rupture of an abcess on his liver pros-
“Can February March?” asked the
punster, with a sickly smite. ’‘Perhaps
not,” replied the quiet man; but
April May.” The punster had not
another world to offer—Boston Trans
cript June know' this ought to be
stopped?—Pittsburg Chronicle. July;
it should’nt—Macon Telegraph Au
gust man would be shot for getting
ofl such stuff.—Augusta News.
The Day after the Election.
Pemocratic Affiliation,
There are discrepancies of opinion
amomr the Democrats on several ques-
t^ons before the country. While this
is the case too, to some extent among
the Republicans, they stand better
and more firmly to their respective
posts. With them there is no serious
point to disturb their tranquility and
political union. We see no extremes
of opposing sentiments in their ranks.
They are all for a protective tarilT
and With a very few exceptions, favor
the d ‘monetization of silve , the di
vision of an immense sum of money
kn.m.g the States for educational pur
poses, and hold the constitution to be
merely a cloak under which to con
ceal the most latitudinarian ideas of
government, with no check upon the
wildest ideas of federal power, in
other words they hold that the consti
tution is no check upon the will ol the
majority. Upon these and other mat
ters the Republicans bold together,
while tne Democrats are divided in
opinion on the tariff and to some ex
tent on the silver question and what
is perhaps still more to be deplored,
the President is at variance with his
party on the silver question and the
civil service.
Without entering into details as to
Democratic differences, we will call
the attention of Democrats to the dif
ferences of opinions in 1860. The
party became so thoroughly divi
ded as to be unabie to con
centrate its forces in that year
and had two sets of candidates for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency,
namely Breckenridge and Lane for
one set, and Douglas and Johnson for
the other. To make matters w'orse
the Southern Whigs, who were faith
ful to the constitution, put up a tick
et consisting of Bell and Everett.
These three fragments of parties w'ent
into the field in opposition to Mr. Lin
coln the candidate of the black Re
publican party. The writer was en
gaged in editing a Democratic p>aper
in advocacy of the Breckenridge and
Lane ticket. The Democrats of Geor
gia, stood mainly by Brecken
ridge and Lane and a small fraction by
Douglas and Johnson. The "writer,
while exerting all the power at his
command, could see nothing in the
immediate future but the defeat of
the three tickets. The prospect w r as
of the most gloomy character. The
result was the election of Lincoln by
The past week has been one of ex
citement among our citizens. Fortu
nately, the prohibition election passed
off w’ithout any disturbance but on
Tuesday, our anti-prohibition friends,
who had promised their voters a din
ner on Saturday before the election
but had been prevented by the rain
from doing so, redeemed their prom
ise. On that day our streets were
crow'ded by colored people from
all parts of the county and probably
w ith many from surrounding counties.
They" collected in crowds here and
there, and at times there would be a
rush in any direction where there
seemed to be some luatter for excite
ment, and occasionally a yell would
be started that swelled and reverbera
ted in a manner that was not pleasant
to the lovers of quietness and good or
der. The greater part of the crowd,
however went streaming off after a
while in a long line to the river, where
the dinner was to be eaten, yelling
vociferously as they' went. It was a
motley crowd, many of whom had a
w hite rag attached to their breasts, as
the badge of their party, and their
printed ticket bearing the words “for
the sale,” stuck in their hat bands
(those at least who had hat bands.)
After they had vacated the streets,
we were struck with the superiority
in dress and apparent intelligence
of a number who remained behind,
and who evidently belonged to the
ranks of the dry party and had no
lot mor part in the proceedings of the
yelling “wet” orowd who had just
left for the river.
About noon, a long procession com
ing from the river appeared and
marched west along. Hancock street
to Clarke, then past the old Execu
tive Mansion into Greene and back
along that street to Wayne and along
between the principal stores, and then
swung around the corner at Clark’s
drug store, and passed on thence to
the river. Many in the procession
behaved quietly, but others were
noisy and made offensive remarks,
such as “the bottom rail is on top
now-,” and some cried “down with the
white people,” (so we were told) Ac.
H. E. Kreutz, a leader of the w'et par
ty and proprietor of one of the prin
cipal barrooms, w r as the only white
man w r e observed in the crowd and he
made himself very conspicuous, act
ing as a kind of marshal to the pro- j
cession, riding back and fortli along j
the line and, as reported by some of j
our respectable householders, making
insulting remarks as he passed some
of their dwellings. They passed on to
the river how’ever as above stated,
and some two or three hours after
wards, having got their dinners, they
filled our principal streets again, but
gradually dispersed during the even
ing and by night left us in peace and
quietness once more. Most fortunate
ly the barrooms were closed during
the day; had it been otherw T ise—had
that immense gathering, composed in
part of many ignorant and not a few
vicious negroes, been Inflamed with
mean whiskey, w r e might have added
a page to our history that would have
given us an unhappy notoriety for
years to come.
Though the barrooms' w r ere fortu
nately closed during the day last
Tuesday, Kreutz's was open at night
and a number of negroes were there
and during the evening several young
white men also dropped in. On Wed
nesday morning, our citizens became
very much excited on hearing that
Kreutz had spoken the night before in
the most disrespectful terms tothene-
groes concerning our ladies who had
been active during the campaign in
working for the success of the prohi
bition cause; his language being such
as is not fit for publication. The re
port came from the young white men
who were present, one of whom had a
personal difficulty with Kreutz, on ac
count of the language he used about
the ladies, which came near having
serious consequences.
The excitement spread and grew,
and soon a party of young men went
to his saloon to see him, but he had
prudently gone to his home. The in
dignation of the people increased and
it was evident that some of the young
er men meditated violence. A com
mittee of older citizens finally went to
Kreutz's house at his request to hear
what^lie had to say about the charges
against him, and found him much
alarmed at the state of feeling against
him, and protesting if he had used the
language attributed to him, he was
drunk and not responsible for what
he did. He was asked if he desired to
be confronted with the witnesses who
brought the charges, and he said he
did not, and only repeated he was not
responsible for what he had said. He
was then told to leave here by the 5
o’clock p. in. train, and that lie would
be guaranteed against violence until
that hour. He immediately said lie
would do so. But he subsequently
concluded not to wait till evening,
and having procured a horse and bug
gy from Whilden's livery stable, he
started in the course of an hour or
two, for the neighborhood of Toombs-
Interesting Experiences.
Hiram Cameron, Furniture Dealer
of Columbus, Ga., tells his experience,
thus: “For three years have tried
everv remedy on the market for Stom
ach and Kidney Disorders, but got
, ... . , - , no relief, until I used Electric Bitters,
trated him andVie died Within twelve Took five bottles and am now cured,
and think Electric Bitters the Best
Blood Purifier in the world.” Major
X. B. Reid, of West Liberty, Ky.,
used Electric Bitters for an old stand
ing Kidney affection and says: “Noth
ing has ever done me so much good
a* Electric Bitters.”
Sold at fifty cents a bottle by C. L.
Cxse.
hours afterward
Mr. Hurt was an honest, upright
and conscientious gentleman, always
working up to his convictions in the
battle for right, and his place in the
hearts of this people will be hard to
fill. For his honesty of purpose he
was admired by all, even by those
who saw and thought differently.
He moved from Milledgeville to this
place only a few years ago, but dur
ing the short time he made many
friends by his gentle straightforward
ness. His loss to the town is almost
irreparable as the public will readily
agree. Peace to his ashes.—Dublin
Post.
Daniel Reddick and Mr. Wheeler,
both of Putnam, married sisters. Dur
ing the war Mr. Wheeler was killed
at the battle of Griswoldville. On
his body was found a letter commend
ing his wife and four children to the
care of Mr. Reddick who was without
a dollar. Nevertheless he took the
widow and her four children to his
home and said to his wife: “Wife, we
have no children; your sister and chil
dren shall become our care, and share
whatever we may make in the future.”
Mr. Reddick spent no time in idle
ness, but went to work like a man.—
To-day he is one of the wealthiest citi
zens of his county, his fortune going
far np into the thousands. The four
children of his wife’s widowed sister
are useful men and women, all of them
well provided for.—Exchange.
Cure For Sick Headache.
For proof that Dr. Gunn’s Liver
Pills cure Sick Headache, ask your
Druggist for a free trial package. Only
one for a dose. Regular size boxes,
25 cents. Sold by T. H. Kenan,
Druggist, Milledgeville, Ga.
Good News for the Farmers!
—THE OLD RELIABLE—
Soluble Pacific Guano!!
of
any Fertilizer known. Also, a uJ
Best adapted to this soil
grade of
Acid Phosphate and Kanit,
for composting. The above grades we have in stock.
Now
18 til
time for Composting. Come forward and we will fill your order f ,
the following prices:
Soluble Pacific 380 lbs. )
Acid Phosphate, 280
Kanit, 220 “
Apply to
In Middling Cotton by fi
> 15th of October, after
) Delivered at the Pottery.
datt
STEVENS BROS. & CO.,
Jan. 19th, 1886. 28 8t]
STEVENS’ POTTERY, GA.
LIST OF ADVERTISED LETTERS
Remaining in the Post-Office at Mil.
letlgeville, Baldwin county, Ga., March
27th, 1886. If not called for within 30
days, they will be sent to the Dead
Letter office.
Arnold, Mrs. John Hicks, James
Brown, Rev. J. C. Harris, Isaiah
Brown, Goudie Reeves, Gus
Cook, Alfred Rushan Joseph
Davis, Gaus Smith, Moses.
Gause, Fannie
Office Hours.—General delivery
window will be open from 9 a. m., un
til 5 p. M. Money Order window will
be open from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.
J. G. Fowler, P. M.
Adolph Joseph,
CASH COMMANDS
Barbour Cotton Seed & Grain Crusher!
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST.
Crushes Cotton Seed, Shelled Corn and Peas,
:o:
Saggus Cotton Planter and Guano Distributor,
at one operation distributes and covers guano and plants at
seed, separating one from the other. Can be used single or
endorsed by planters who have tried them.
Michigan Automatic Injector.
(Recent patent.) Is operated by simply turning on steam from the boiler
Lifts cold or hot water 20 to 25 feet. Requires no skill to work it. The cheap
est, best and latest out. ^‘Warranted.
•Sg”For circulars and prices apply to
O. M. STONE, Manager.
30 5t.) . AUGUSTA, GA.
and covers cotton
double. Highly
- At
Jit
Dress Goods, - -
CJIRPE TS, - -
Blankets,
A Superb Assortment of
Cost
Cost.
At Cost.
IN-
AND-
WOOLEN GOODS
Of Jill Descriptions!
An Immense Stock of
MG GOODS!
Look out for them. In the mean
time, we have some choice and sea
sonable goods for you.
Call and see us.
ADOLPH JOSEPH.
Cloaks, New Markets <£ Wraps.
Woolen Underwear in Red Flannel
and Cashmere,
EXAMINE!
iome and
YOU
price these goods and if
need them, you can buy them" for Less
Money than you ever could,
ADOLPH JOSEPH,
BSfPII
Joseph's Corner.
Milledgevillg, Ga., Feb, 23, 1886,
8 ly.