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BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1872
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CHEATING THE HANGMAN.
Another murderer whq was to be
hanged has just succeeded in cheat
ing the gallows by staratag himself
to death. I remember hflfcng of a
case of this kind in Massachusetts a
few months ago, but there 1 believe
the man did not succeed, and was
hanged. His English confrere was
more successful. His name was Jas.
Flynn, and he whs sentenced to
death for the murder of a woman.—
He received his sentence on the 1st
of August, and from that moment-be
r> fused to take his food, and died on
the day he was to be hanged, which
was the 12th ult. It seems, there
fore, that a strong man, in good
health, can live only twelve days
without food.
On the first night the Governor of
the prison did not think there was
any determination on the part of the
prisoner to refuse food, but that* his
appetite had merely forsaken him
for the time being through the sever
ity of the sentence. On the follow
ing day, however, Flynn still persist
ently refused to cat anything, and
the Governor called the attention of
the surgeon to the matter. The
surgeon advised that he should be
tried to the breakfast time the fol
lowing day, and if he still contin
ued in his determination to reject his
food means should be taken- to com
pel him. Contrary to t he expecta
tions of the surgeon, he still held
out, and it was decided to bring the
stomach pump into requisition.
Up to this ti|iic the man had con
ducted himself with more sullenness
than violence, but when he saw the
surgeon and his attendants at the
dyor with the stomach pump, lie
seized a stool, and swinging it. over
his head, swore he would knock out
the brains of any one who even at
tempted to enter his cell. They were
thus held atfoay for some time, but.
the warder who had been in attend
ance on Flynn watched his oppor
tunity, and seized the prisoner round
the arms and body and pinioned him
while the surgeon and Ins attendants
succeeded in placing the pipe of the
instrument down the man's throat.
Finding himself-baffled in his at
tempts not to allow the use of the
instrument, he now became exceed
ingly violent, and worked his head
about in so ferocious a manner, that
Hie int erior of his throat was 1 icerat
ed so much that the surgeon tound it'
useless to use the pump again. Alter
this the prisoner’s boots were re
moved and slipplers' supplied to him;
foreseeing the mood that he was in,
it was thought he might make use of
them as weapons of violence. On
the day following, as indeed on every
day since the sentence, the Governor
•endeavored to indqce him to partake
of food and sent to his own residence
for tea and bread butter to give the
man. This was-also refused, Flynn
tqkjngjasta sufficient quantity of
the tea to moisten his throat and his
lips, but leaving the solids untouch
ed. He died on the twelfth day,
and strangely enough, his body was
louud to be only slightly emaciated.
trying Jo get opt, and they hold iu-
dignutiou meetings 1 and protest, and
all that. Why, the mosquitoes in
that room look like living skeletons,
and still old Jones is heartless
enough to keep right on fooling
those pqor foseets, and laughing at
tnem.
GENERAL ,NEWS ITEMS.
A lighBng jj&^mpaled a swallow
in Elmir0pf r i»‘
A churcj^irgan at Schuylerville,
N ' Y -| run by water. * ■
A yqung man of 24, in New Bed
ford, Jyis a son 10 years old.
There are 6.000 wine shops in
Paris, employing over 15,000 per
sons.
Five hundred bushels to the acre
is an onion crop in Minnesota.
It cost the State of New York
$100,000 to impeach Judge Barnard
The burnt out Chinamen of Neva
da are erecting fire proof brick build
ings.
. An attempt was made to change
the name of Massachusetts to Ocea
na. . »i < i . ‘1
Altogether there are now forty-
nine hotels at Saratoga, and more
building.
The price of coal in England has ad
vanced 100 per cent, over last year’s
price.
New Orleans has borrowed $10,-
000,000 in London, at ninety cents'
on the dollar.
Pennsylvania has this summer
been the scene of some thirty-four
camp-mectings.
Punch anil Judy are now inclu
ded in the attractions of the Brook
lyn children's pic nics.
The Italian authorities #have
checked the traffic in hurdy-gurdy
and tambourine children. '•
It might surprise some of our
readers to be informed that there
are manufactured in the United
States a little over 2,250,000 pack
ages of pins per annunft Each one
of these packages should contain
3,3.00 pins, giving the enormous
amount of 7,425,000,000 pins made'
annually. One factory alone in Bos
ton t urns out eighty tons of pins per
OLD JONES AND HIS TRICKS.
Old Jones has been playing a sharp
game on the mosquitces. You see,
he had a mosquito net on his bed,
but the persevering insects used to
get inside in the day time, and when
old Jones sought his couch to court
the drowsy god, they used to make
sweet music for him, and bore holes
in him, and let his blood out, and
old Jones, you understand, couldn't
stand it at alt. But he is square on
those mosquitoes now, Jones is.—
You see, he. goes to bed and leaves
the net about half open, and then the
mosquitoes, thinking they have got
A soft thiBg, swarm in and begin to
buzz. When lje thinks they are all
inside, old Jones quietly slips out
and closes up the net tight, and
there he has them. And then he
makes up a nine bed on the floor,
and lies there "and kicks up his gld
heels, and laughs at those poor,
6wiadled mosquitoes, aud tlioj-e mos
quitoes Lear round in that net and
break their necks against the bars
week.
Some Kentuckians have made
fortunes by draining tule lands in
California and raising wheat there
on. »
A Philadelphia employer recently
took off all his men and their fami
lies for a day’s summering at Cape
May.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., offers the*
Steinway Piano Company five acres
of land and $25,000 to locate in that
city.
A drunken mau suffocated at Ber
gen Point, New Jersey, recently, by
falling down with his face in the
sand.
Chicago has a dog which unties
horses hitched to posts, then jumps
into.the buggy and barks'until' the
thing starts.
A vein ot gold ore is reported to
have been discovered in a stone
quarry at Ballinspittle, near Kinsale
county Cork.
A young lady m England recent
ly had her chignon frizzled by a v.ery
rude flash of lightning, which did
her no other injury.
Messrs. Bass & Co., the English
ale ami -beer manufacturers, paid to
the Midland Railway Company, En
gland, last year, $740,000 for the
carriage of beer.
Many of the roadside railway sta
tions in England have their names
sown in dwarf flowers on the banks
outside, or worked in flint on the
pavement.
A Cincinnati papt'r boasts that
Cincinnati is the best market for'
cheap jewelry in tliie Western coun
try. It says one house alone has
sold $385,000 worth in the past year.
A Bull Fight in New Mexico.—
Santa Fe amuses itself with cock
fights, but our sister city, Las Vegqs,
goes us a lew better and makes a
bully entertainment for the spotting
citizens. We are reliably informed
that the buUy fighter stands with a
huge sh#p cheehe-knife directly in
tront of the flaming eyes of the mad
dened, charging bull, (he is previou-
ly made scr by a visit to several of
the saloons there), and waltzes a few
steps of ‘La Sentinela,’ to give a
gleeful eflect; raises his murderous
wWpon straight in the air above his
head; aherns; mentions a few saints’
names; cries “carajo!” and for a
few seconds disappears from view in
the lightning rapidity of his move
ments. He is next seen superbly
bowing and sweetly smiling, while
the infuriated, beast is observed to
have a bloody collar about his neck
—the skillful fiero has entirely sev
ered his connection between t-he skin
■on the head and the rest of the body!
The animal turns,-and;with a speed
doubled by his increased rage,
charges upon his wouldfoe victim
again. The dauntless gladiator, with
distended dostrils, flashing eyvs, and
compressed lips, kicks out first one
leg then the other. He is making
preparations for a desperate ‘effort.
He hurls his knife from him. He sees
no one but iiis dreadful antagonist.
As the’ contestants rapidly approach
each other, the vast audience is
breathless with interest and excite
ment, and just at that fearful mo
ment when the spectators, beholding
the horns of the incarnate buff fiend
at the breast of the gladiator, hide
their faces from the horrible vision,
the gladiator strikes both thighs,
blows his muscle, SDorts, springs
above the bull, turns a double som
ersault, grasps the uplifted tail as he
passes, strikes fair on fiis feet, gives
the bull a swing, a short whip-like
jerk, and semis him out of his hi’de
with a* loud pop like the sudden
bursting of eleven hundred bladders.
He crawls into the empty hide of his
vanquished antagonist and lopes out
amid the cheers and applause of the
people.—Santa Fe Neiv Mexican.
“Not so, father," said the boy: “I
shall not eat until after you. You
have been working all day, tor small
wages, to support me, and ydu must
be very hungry. I shall wait until
you are done. 5 ’
“You speak kindly, ray son,” re
plied the father. “Your love to me
does me more good than my foo.d;
and those eyes 3f yours remind me
of your dear mother, who has* left
us, and toid yqp to love me as she
used to do;, and, indeed, my boy
you have been a great strength and
support to me. But now I • have
eaten the fi
it is your tu:
“Thank y
ipieee in two
you see the
require mo:
TI1E PROVINCE OF WOMEN.
Next t<f God, all true men rever
ence woman, as mother, wife, sister.
We reverence her so entirely, and
love her so perfectly for making life
itself wortli living for,that we would
not have the celestial ideas with
winch all the chivalry of our sex
clothes her desecrated fiy contami
nating associ&tious, and such inter
course as shall tend to unsex an'd
rob her of her sawed dower. The
genuine dignitj, tenderness, virtue
and real beauty of woman’s life are
t he product of the shade and refined
privacy, unfitted Jor contact with
the grosser world, the glare of the
burning sntishirie* or the cutting
winds and storms. Reverence is
th^atmosphere m which she thrives;
severity and coldness kill her: and
yet her dominion is greater than
that of man. .
Rev. Mr. Dye, ot Fairfield county,
Conn., was traveling through West
ern Ohio, mounted on £ tail, lank,
raw-boned brutq (a good frame to
build one on), when he caule to the
junction of two roads, and sot know
ing which might lead to his dest'ma-J
lion, asked a ragged, dirty-looking some of them old rheumatic niggers
urchin which of the two roads woftld
lead him .to W—.. The boy, in a
rough, uncouth manner, said: “Who
are you, old fellow ?" Mr. Dye, be
ing greatly astonished at the child’s
incivility, replied, “My son, I am a
follower of the Lord.” "“Follower
of the Lord, eh ? Well, it makes a
mighty little difference which road
you take; you’ll never catch him on
that hoss.”
A Shrewd Negro Preacher.—
Before the war, there lived on a
plantation near Lynchburg an old
colored preacher, whose sermons
were truly remarkable, One day
his master, who happened to be pass
ing, paused to listen to him as he
discoursed to his fellow-servants.
His subject was heil and its horrors,
which he described fn terrible terms,
declaring that there was “whipping
am, whaling, gnd .snatching*, out of
teeth.” He then-proceeded, with a
touch of Dantesque vigor, to .tell his
hearers that hell was a region of fear
ful cold, where ice and snow cover
ed all things, and where freezing
was the favorite punishment.
“Why, Caesar;” said hie master,
the next time they met, curious to
learujvhy the preachy differed so
strftngly fromtiie usujiJU accepted
theory of i$w4n{ernal regions,-‘what
makes you-teh my servants that hell
^ ‘Law, mas^ft, I don*t-dare (to tell
them-people nothing- else! -Why, if
I'was to say thaf belj was -warm,
some of them old rheumat ic niggers
would be wanting to start down thar
in the very firstfrost 1’
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A STORY ABOUT HONESTY.
One evening a poor man and his
son, a little boy, sat by the wayside,
near the gate of an old town in Ger
many. The father took a loaf of
bread which be had bought in town
and broke it, and gave it half to bis
son.
orsel to please you;
w to eat.”
father, break this
take a little more;
not large, and you
I do.” *
“I shall divide the loaf for you my
boy, but eat it I shall not. I have
abundance; and let us thank God
for his goodness in giving us what
is better still—cheerful and conten
ted hearts. He who gives us the
living braad to nourish our immor
tal souls, shall He not give us all
other food which is qecessary to sup
port qpr immortal bodies T'
The father and eon thanked God,
and they began to cut the loaf to be
gin their frugal meal. But as they
cut the loaf there fell out several
large pieces of gold of great value.
The little boy'gave a shout of joy,
and was springing forward to grasp
the unexpected treasure, when he
was pulled back-by his father.
• “My son! my son!” he cried,
‘ hlo not touch that money—it is not
ours.”
“But whose is it, father, if it is not
ours?” • *
“I know net as to whom it belongs,
but probably it was put there by
the baker through some mistake.
We^iiust inquire. Run—”
“But, lather,” interrupted the
boy, “you are poor and needy, and
you Have bought the loaf, and then
the baker may tell a lie, and——”
“I will not listen to jou, my boy;
I bought this loaf, but I did not buy
the gold in it. If the baker sent it
to me in ignorance, I shall not be
so dishonest as to take advantage of
“nrnr; Temeinber Him who told us to
do to others as we wftuld have others
do to us. The baker may possibly
cheat us; I am poor, but that is no
sin. If we share the poverty of
Jesus, God’s own Son, uh! let us
share 'His good and His trust in God.
We may never be rich, but we may
always be honest. We may die in
starvation,.but God’s will be done,
should we die in doing it. Yes, my
boy, trust in God, and .walk in His
fays, and you shall never be put to
shame. Now run to the baker, and
brifig him here, and I will watch
the gold until he comes.”
So the boy ran after the bakqr.
“Brother workman,” said the old
man, “you have made some mistake,
and almost lost your money,” and he
showed the baker the gold and told
h'ow*it had been found. ‘Is it thine T
askeif toe father. “Hit is take it
away.” ‘'
“My father, baker, is very poor,
and”—
“Silence,' my child; put»me not to
shame by thy complaints. I am
glad we have saved the man from
losing his money.”
The baker had been gazing alter
nately at the honest father and the
eager boy, and the gold lay glitter
ing on the green turf? ‘ ‘Thou art,
indeed, an honest iellow,” said the
baker; “and my neighbor, David,
the flax dresser, spoke the truth'
when he said thou wert the most
honest man in town. Now, I shall
teH thee about the gold. A stran
ger came to my shop three days ago,
and gave me that loaf and told me
to sell it cheaply? to give it to the
most honest poor man whom I knew
fo t he city. I told David to send
thee to me as a customer this morn
ing; as thon wouldst .not take the.
loaf for nothing, I sold it to thee as
thon knowest, for the last penny in
thy parse; and the loaf with all its
treasure—and certainly . it is not
small 1—is thine, and God grant
the a blessing with it I”
The poor mau bent his head to the
ground, while tears fell from his
eyes. His boy ran and put his arm
around his neck, and said:
“I shall always like yon, my
father: trust God, and do what is
right, for I am sure it will never
put us to shame.
THE
CAN-
GUBERNATORIAL
VASS.
We do not see the interest mnnj.
fested through .the columns-of our
State Democratic exchanges, iq m
gard to the gubernatorial canvass,
that we like to. Indeed, we seldom
see any. reference made to it. We
do not charge it to indifference m
the matter; we do not charge it to
any Democratic opposition to Gover
nor .Smjjfi;. but we do charge that
the Georgia Democracy are playing,
too big a hand in the'Presidential
contest, and too smaff-a one is the
gubernatorial race. PKLjs very doubt
ful if the first can. be won against
Grant under the most favorable cir
cumstances; but it is certain we can
win the iatter by a united effort. It
is for the interests of Georgia that
we should strike bolder links for the
most certain and important prize in
the re-election of Governor Smith.
His snccess is home'* prosperity in
Arrive at Lire Oak
-Arrive at Bainbfidg* *
Arrive at Albany •
Leave Albany
Leave Bainbridge
Leave lave Oak
Arrive at Savannah
saving the State from Radical Role* Southwestern Railroad.
We will bet Grant a -Greeley hat
that he won't get ft white vote in
this coanty.MJfiffcF County Star.
and plunder. The election of Gree
ley and the defeat of Smith is for
Georgians to live under Republican
administrations, State and national.
If Smith continues to be our Gover
nor, Georgia will prosper in spite of
Republican rule in our national
affairs. r ; . • . •
Gentlemen * ot the Democratic
Press! it is not certain.that we can
re-elect Gov. Smith without an effort.
The Trojan Horse that was intro
duced into the Democratic party at
Baltimore has, in our humble opin
ion, made. considerable change hi
tue political status of this State. We
fear that Democratic, majorities will
not foot up this fall as they have in
the past. J Politics are uncertain at
best, but more especially under the
present dircumsthnces. Men’s minds
change when parties are solid and
compact and the lines are definitely
drawn and welbestablisbed. Party
lines are not up well now. Stakes
have been removed, and men are
shitting, scarcely knowing to what
line of principles they belong. Some
are irritated and are being driven
from duty to tbeir State by ridicule,
snares and tints Jor the sake of hon
est opinion, and because they do
not feel inclined to make a choice
between two equally obnoxious Re
publicans in the Presidential contest.
Men are human, and will resist, if
not in one N way then in another.
We refer to these lac is to call the
attention to the further fact that a
Democratic victory in the Guberna
torial race may not be so well assur
ed as some of us may imagine, and
to arouse a more thorough interest
gwm. 8cpwimm*» Oma,)
Atlawtic amd Girm fcaaouL l
BifAWSAH, June 15,1872. J
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A a HAINES,
may4 2w Manual Superintendent
H. L. BARNETT k {«.,
. . WHOLESALE GROCERS,
—and— *
Commission Merchants
1TO BROAD IT*.
COLUMBUS, ; : : GEORGIA
•e*27 ly
in the matter. We are neglecting
our best interests—aTl forGreeley aavaullaii,
who may not be elected, and Who, if
elected, could render us bat little aid
under the tyranny ot a Radical State
administration. It may be a^good
thing to elect Greeley, but the pros
perity of Georgia depends upon the
re-election of Gov. Smith.
There are other and fundamental
dangers to o: r success. The Radi
cals have nominated a strong man
for Governor^(fie befet they have in
their party—in the person-of Dawson
A. Walker, who issaid-to be a popi
ular man in Inspection ot the State,
among all classes. ..In addition-to
this, he will doubtless have the in
fluence ol Joe Brown who will back
him to the extent of his abilities,
and be is the President of the State
Road Lease Company,. As far a^
possible, the "influence of tjie'patron
age of that road will be brought to
"bear in favor of Walker.' ' '
Democratic men of Georgia.! we
are sleepinginfancied security of the
electiqq at our candidate for. Gover
nor. Let us arous6 the energies of
our party. Wc can hot risk a nother
Republican administration. We dare
not do it if true to our State. Let
the slogan.be, Smith- and victory
aud a continued honest State adnflp
istrafion.— La Grange Reporter. *
X. J. HOBGAN, w.
MORGAN * HARRELL,
PRACTICING PHYSICIANS,
BAINBRIDGE, GA,
O FFICE in their Drug Store, North rid*
of Court Honae Square, on Water Str—t.
Thomas Branch A Co., Branch, Son* A Co,
Richmond. Va. AngaataTOa.
Branch and Sons,
COMMISSION MERCHjflkTS,
wrimit 11 ELEGANT
BOOTS AND SHOES.
, AW" If yon .want a nicely- fitting hoot or
■hoe, and one that will-do you good. Mrrioa*
call on
E.N'.HYATT,
• FASHIONABLE
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
Who ia prepared to- do a> kinds of boot and
h shoe work with neatness, quickness and at
low rates. Me always has on kanuth* finest
leathern and findings, and therefore can al-
ways warrant a good job—calf and aee him,
inet door fc> Robinson’s wood-shop^ tjan
- BOWER * BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
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JEWELRY, ETC.
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Market Prices Corrected Weekly by
BRANCH A SONS.
Com, white, prime 97
Yellow and mixed, “ * 86
Bacon, clear rib sides lOalfi}
Shoulders 8a8 *
D. S. C. R. Ssides 9
“ “ sihlds. none in market
Flour, from new wheat family $9
Extra 10al0 60
Choice, 10a 11
o. SCJ]
Broai' Street,
BAINBRIDGE, - - GEORGIA,
Keeps constantly on hand
Watches,
Clocks, '
JlWKLBT,
Diakovds,
Silver-Wax*.
Fancy Goods,
* C*TUtRT,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. TOTS,
Ac., Ac.,
In great variety, which for style, quality and
price cannot be excelled. A full line of
HOf.inAY Jit M11U1 JQKK JWT»
in Store.
^pfi'WATCiIES end JEWELRY repaired
at short notice, and warranted. - octl7 tug
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
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