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‘DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Goverrrcr:
'GF.N. JOHN 15. GORDON.
Secretary ol Sin*'’:
N. C. BARNETT.
Comptroller General:
W. A. WRIGHT.
Trearu rpr:
’R U.’HARDEMAN.
Attornev General.
‘CLIFFORD' ANDERSON.
Senati.r—9th District:
• Dr. 1 11. HAND,
oC Baker.
Representative—F.ailv County:
R. 11. LANIER.
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Representative— 2d Cong. District:
HENRY G. TURNER,
of Brooks.
The cigar milters of Philadelphia have
turned fool and are now on a strike.
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The Maine election lias gone Republi
can by about tlie usual majority.
We arc glad to see tiiat Col. C. W.
’Hancock has again taken editorial charge
•of the Sumter Republican.
The prohibitionists of Virginia won a
signal victory in Winchester, which gave
a majority of IGD for the dry ticket.
The Thomasvillo Times is of tbo opin
ion that tho ways of Providence are in
deed mysterious and past finding out, as
•all the candidates seem to have survived
the'earthquake.
The Georgia Stato Fair will continue
two weeks this year. It opens in Macon
on tbo 26th of October next and closes
on the 6th of November. There will be
SIO,OOO in cash premiums.
Sumter county is to have a new court
bouse costing $27,500. It will be mod
ernized Doric iu style of architecture, and
the coutraet for building it has been let
to Wo. McGilvray, of Atlanta.
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S..S. Cox, United States Minister to
Turkey, is reported to be about ready to
start for home, on a sick furlough. The
Secretary of the American Legation will
conduct the affuirs of the office during his
absence.
The Sparta Ishmaelite has the hearty
endorsement of the News in its sugges
tion that an amendment to tho Stato con
stitution, allowing whipping as a punish
mont for crime, should bo set on foot by
the next Legislature. \
The Democratic nominees for
in Georgia are, Norwood in the first dis
trict, Turner iu the second, Crisp in the
"third, Grimes in the fourth, Stcwnrt in
the filth, Blount in tho sixth, Clements in
•the seventh, Carlton in the eigth, Candler
In The ninth and Barnes in tho tenth.
A recent issue of a Chicago paper cauie
out with pictures of all the bank presi
dents iu that city. Tho Columbus En
quirer's opinion, that “if they look no
more like the originals than some of the
wcod-cuts published in Georgia, they will
'•be of little service to the detectives,” is
shared by many.
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The damage done by the earthquake to
property in Charleston, has been estima
ted by tho city assessor at $5,000,000.
This doeß not include the Federal build
ings, nor county, school or church build
dings. Tho ability of the city has not
•been destroyed, yet it will requiro years
for her to regaiu her former projerty.
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In this country the most celebrated ar
tesian wells arc thoso cf St. Louis, Louis
ville and Charleston, S. C. The St. Louis
■well has a depth of 2,199 feet, and flows
at the rate of seventy-five gallons per
niinuto. That at Louisville is 2,(!8G feet
deep, and flows 330,000 gallons in twen
ty-four hours, and tho Charleston well is
1,250 feet deep, with a flow of 1,200 gal
lons per hour, and with a force equal to
ten-horse power. There arc ouc hundred
artesian wells iu Chicago.
Macon had a dynamite explosion one,
night recently, Sonio uuknown person
placed dynamite cartriges, or some other
explosive material, on the street car track
which leads out to Gilesville. When the
car reached a bad locality, known as San
dy Bottom, where many roughs reside,
the explosiou occurred. The car was
empty, carrying none but the driver. One
of the mules was badly injured. The in
cident created much indignation, and the
guiliy parties will be discovered if possi- j
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Concealed Weapons.
One of the most fruitful causes of dis
turbance, lawlessness and violence, says
tho 'Albany News and Advertiser, is the
crimo of carrying concealed weapons.
Ton years ago’ nearly every man you n»ct
carried concealed on his person a murder
ous pistol. The knowledge of its force
arid readiness for use imported to cowards
a fictitious courage, and • encouraged a
quarrelsome disposition. Bra’vo men fell
into the habit of carrying concealed wea
pons through the necessity of self-protec
tion thar existed in the unsettled condi
tion of affairs immediately attor the war,
and during the dark days of reconstruc
tion. But so soon as the apparent proba
ble necessity for their use passed, they
were discarded, and it i 3 doubtful if, at
the present day, one man in one hundred
burdens himself with a pistol.
Tho JVews and Advertiser cites this
incident of southern advancement with
pride, and sincerely hopes for the day
when the sale cf pistols will be ’almost
nothing, not from prohibition by law, hut
from the general disuse into which they
are destined to fall. It is unnecessary to
recount the many casualties resulting from
this pernieions practice. Every reader
can recall within his own experience
many sad happenings traceable directly
to it.
The right of keeping and carrying arms
is a natural right of freemen, but it is the
privilege and duty of every gentleman, iu
this polite and Christian age, not to exer
cise any such right, and be law-abiding.
The day is not very far distant when
the presumption of law will be that ho
who carries concealed weapons and com
mits violence is possessed of the malice of
a wicked and abandoned hcai"t. It should
be so now, for in times of public peace no
necessity exists for the utterly wicked
and foolish habit of carrying concealed
weapons.
The Mayflower Victorious. \
Again American sloops have been prov-/
en superior to British cutters. The A-*'
ineriea’s cup remains in this country.
Tho Mayflower heat tho Galatea about as
easily as tho Puritan last year beat the
Gcnosta. Six times have the English
yaehtmen tried to win back tho cup which
the yacht America won at Cowes in 1851
iu a race in which fifteen yachts'Of the
royal yacht squadron participated.
After every failure to win the cup the
English yachtuien have said that they had
faster yachts than the one in the race, but
somehow or other when the next chance
offered they failed to send a yacht that
was capable of competing successfully
with the yachts on this side of the ocean.
Lieutenant Ilenn, the owner of tho Ga
latea, is a plucky sailor, and has made
himself very popular with American
yaehtmen. It has been the great 'dream'
of his life to carry back to England the
America’s ctip. -110 had his pretty yacht
/built for that purpose. While rejoicing
over tho Mayflower’s victory it is impos
sible not to feel a little sympathy with
Lieut. Ilenn in his disappointment. He
will carry hack with him, however, tho
knowledge that before England will be
able to get the cup she wifi Lave to "build
a much faster yacht than any that she has.
—Savannah News.
The Savannah N’cws published, some
days since, an account of a negro woman
who, being supposed to be dead, by her
watching friends, was laid out for a corpse.
The supposed corpse, after being prepared
for burial for some hours, to the horror of
the mourning friends, sat bolt upright,
prophesied tho coming of tho Millen
nium. She told them that she had come
back to warn them to prepare for the end
of the world, which shall bo on the 29th
of September, and that slio would leave
them at 9 o’clock next morning. Truo
to her prophecies, die died next day at 9
o’clock. The negroes were excited over
the occurrence which happened just bc
foro the earthquake, but that confirmed
their lurking fears of the truth of her
prophecy, and the wildest apprehension
of a speedy dissolution of the earth now
prevails among them.
The Albany News 4" Advertiser says
the story has had an extensive circulation
iu and around that city", and negroes have
called at tho office to get copies of the
paper containing this account. The
earthquake naturally excited their relig
ious fervor, aud this tale added to tbo
quake has lengthened their church ser
vices, which now consume nearly a whole
night. If a repetition of tho earthquake
should come about tbo 29th of Septem
ber, it is believed that many would pass
to the other shore through fright. v
An inspection of Charleston harbor has
demonstrated the fact that the earthquake
had uo effect on the bar. The Mayor of
the city gives positive assurance that no
change has occurred, and that deep
draught vessels have crossed the bar siuce
the earthquake, and there is no interrup
tion to commerce.
The Bartholdi Statue.
This statue is to be unveiled some time
during the month of October, in New
York. A Washington dispatch of tho
10th inst., says:
A curious difficulty bas arisen in the
way of a successful "inauguration of the
Bartholdi statue, and that is a doubt as to
the power of the President to invite the
participation of official representatives of
the French nation, without which the cer
emonies’would be comparatively mCaAltig
less and absurd. In the case of the York
town celebration the President was ex
pressly requested jo Invite the represent
'atives e! the French and German nations
to participate,’and special committees of
both houses of Congress were appointed
to be present. Nothing of tho kind bas
been done in this case. The sundry civil
bill was signed August A, "a few days be
fore the President left for his Vacation.
A request was duly forwarded to him that
he authorize invitations to be extended to
representatives of the French nation to
take part in the inauguration of the Bar
tholdi statue. He telegraphed from the
Adirondacks that he could find no author
ity in the law for taking such a step.
; -In this (lillcmma recourse was had to
the joint resolution of February, 22, 1877,
which authorized the'President to accept
the Bartholdi statue, “when presented by
citizens of the French republic, and upon
the completion thereof bo ‘shall cause the
same to be inaugurated with stfch cere
monies as will serve to testify the grati
tude of our people for this expressive and
felicitous remembrance of the sympathy
of the citizens of our sister republic.”
It is argued that this original resolution
places an obligation on the President to
see that the statue “is suitably inaugurat
ed,” and to do this he must Invite the do
nors. Tt is also maintained that the very
appropriation of $56,500 for the ceremo
nies contemplates the entertainment of
thirty official French guests, who most he
invited by some one in the name of the
United States. Secretary Bayard is be
lieved to favor this view, but a decision
is'to be posponed until the President re
turns and a cabinet meeting he held upon
it. Meanwhile the day m October when
the statue is to be accepted is near at
hand.
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Tho people in the coal mining regions
yjf Ohio had a lively shaking up, by an
earthquake, on Sunday morning last.
Houses were terribly shaken, and articles
on mantels were thrown to the floor.
Several.years ago the earth settled sever
al feet without apparent cause, in this re
gion, and the pcnplo are badly frightened,
fearing fhey will be swallowed up. To
make matters more 'unpleasant a very
largo meteor yesterday morning passed
over, shaking up a portion of the country,
traveling close to the earth and throwing
off heated particles every few feet. The.
meteor illuminated the country for a great
distance, and is supposed to have struck
the earth near the eastern part of the city,
as the shock in that locality was distinct
ly felt immediately after the great fire ball
passed. ‘Sunday was one of special pray
er by a great many people.
The dyntftnitdrs in Chicago still keep
up their diabolical work. On Friday
night last, an attempt was made to blow
up one of the signal stations of tho Lake
Shore road at'the intersection of the main
track and tho stock yard track. The at
tempt wn.s so far successful as to cause
several thousand dollars damage and dis
able for a ttmc tho working of the ma
chinery by which the Switches, signals and
gates for a long distance aloßg the line
are turned. The operator of the signals
was in tho station at the time, but was
alarmed by tbc smoke, which filled his
room, and ran out just before tiro •explo
sion and was "Ofdi'UTt.
A night watchman at the St. Lcuis
stock yards, discovered his own son in the
act cf setting fire to the sheds Some nights
ago. A few uights before a fire had bro
ken out which caused a loss of $60,000,
and the boy was caught in tho act of re
peating the crime. Evidence was elicited
which proved that lie, with other boys,
had fired tho yards at first becauso they
had been dcuied employment. A sense
of duty m that father’s breast overcame
his parental instiucts when he surrendered
bis son to the hands of the law.
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Interesting to Ladies.
Our lady readers can hardly fail to have
their attention called this week to the latest
combination of improvements in that most
useful all domestic implements, the “sew
ing mackuto/'
As we Htidelstsnd it, a machine for fami
ly use should neet first of all these require
ments: It sh luld be simple in its mecha
nism ; it shou d run easily 5 it should do a
wide range ol work ; it should he as nearly ’
noiseless ns possible-j it should he light,
handsome, dm lble, and as cheap as is con
sistent with exOgllence throughout.
These conditions thV’Light Running New
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very important and us :ful attachments and
“notions” of its own, vhich go far to moke
£ood its claims to lar favor.
I The “New- Home” specially recommends
itself to purchasers on\ account of its supe
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million have been sold in thii last three
years, all ol which are giving universal sat
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The Atlanta Senatorial District had
quite an interesting time of it in making
the nomination of a candidate for Sena
tor. The convention was in session three
' days, and balloted twelve hundred times
before a nomination was made. 'Fulton
county contended for the candidate on the
ground 'that her population was greatly
more than both Cobb and Clayton coun
ties combined, while Cobb claimed that
she was entitled to'the candidate on the
rotation system. Clayton county ’joined
Cobb in voting, and ballots stood six and
' six up to the the twelve Irandreth. Fi
nally, Rice, of Fulton county, withdrew
from the contest, and a new man, lion.
A. S. Clay, of Cobb, was put in nomina
tion, and Cta‘the twelve hundredth ballot
was unanimously nominated. Clay isim
announced candidate for the House of
Representatives from his county, and has
decided, we learn,-not to accept the Sena
torial nomination. What nexf* is now
the query.
The New Yurk Mercury calk, attention
to a forgotten earthquake. It says:
“Newspapers that have commented on the
groat earthquake at Charleston seem to
have entirely forgotten a similar catastro
phe of nearly two centuries ago, by which
the town of Port Royal, on the Island of
Jamaica, -on the same harbor upon which
the city of Kingston is situated, was over
whelmed and almost wholly obliterated.
Churelft-s, monasteries, business blocks
and hundreds of houses were swallowed up
by the waves. The blue sea still rolls
over them,'but boatmcri 'fancy that they
can see the spires and housetops deep in
the waters, and when the sea rol’s high
they listen for the muffled tolling of tlic
bells that once called the people of an al
most forgotten city to prayer.”
A young lady danced herself speechless
at'her sister's wedding, in Macon, on Wed
nesday night of las week, and remained
in that condition until some tin e Thurs
day. Strange as it may seem, that very
night, and perhaps that saute hour, a dumb
girl in Savannah gained speed). The Co
lumbus Enquirer says, to a serious, and
tbinking'iuind,’tbis is a magdiScont ex
ample of the eternal equilibrium of forces.
What the world gains in one place it loses
in another. This rule holds good amid
the great and the small forces of nature,
whether you apply it to an earthquake ('r
a‘woman’s tongue.
Pol. Oilcfcr Sets Sail.
Winnipeg, Man., September 10. —
COlortel Gilder and liis companion, Grif
fith, started for the north pole last night.
They will take the ‘steamer Princess at
Selkirk for Norway House, and thence to
York Factory. Their outSt weighs a ton
atid a half, and consists of hard tack,
pfemmiodn and other ; food, guns and am
munition, scientific instruments, a hand
organ and bhu'blcs for the natives. He
also takes two sledgC3. After leaving'
Y’ork Factory*, Colonel Gilder will take
as little as possible with him, but relies
for sustenance mainly upon the game to
be secured along his route.
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LeA of Tax for 18S6.
GEORGIA-YEARLY COUNTY:
ComiissTt)*mrs Court, Sept. 14, 1886.
At a meet inn h era. this day by said court
it was ordered that \ie following sums be
and tho same are Jureby levied on the
amount of the Stata Tax for the present
year, to-wit: f
For Superior Court expenses,
60 per cent on thejState tax, $ 1,693.128
Expenses Roads mil bridges,
40 per eenl on the State tax, 1,354.502
Jail lees and per
cent on the State tax\ 677.251
Support of paupers, 20 peVeent
on the State tax, J 677.251
Commissions of county oflßeVs,
10 per cent on the Sta tm tax-, 338.625
Public buildings, 10 percent
on the State tax, w 338.625
Total, V $5,079,382
And it is farther ordehedtbat the Tax
Collector of said county proebad to collect
said several sums and pay theVame over
to the County Treasurer. I
J. W. ALEXA>f>ER,
Clerk fli. C. C.
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