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■■■■■ v )LUME I. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1872 The Weekly Democrat, ' published EVERT THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: One Copy one year - * ^ - jft3 00 One Copy'six months * y* • 1 50 Reading Matter on Every Page. 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’ -»■—— - 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 ( AN AND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE. IS, v/ Passenger Train* on this road will ram as follows : EXPRESS PASSENGER. Leave Savannah daily at 4.30 pat ‘ 9.66a NUMBS* & ’ " A. WAtLACB,' - Diaiu Dr Paper Envelopes* C&nSi TAG8, TWINES, Inks, fairs stock, moss, waste, a* ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. OL BAY'STRSST, »L SAVANNAH, GA. . A*" ®Oo* and Sample Room IB stair*.WW Nth 12 It ^ .7.16 a i .<.9.06 a l . 5.20pi ..6.60 pi .11.30 pi .10.00 a i ‘ Connect at Live Oak with trains on J., P. A M.'R. R. for and from Jacksonville, TM- Ishasnee, etc. No change of can between. Savannah and Albany. Close connection at Albany with on ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. Leave Savannah Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.35 as Arrive at Tebeauville Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays at ...,6.45pm Leave TebeanviHe, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 6.00 am Arrive at Valdosta Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 10.10 a m Quitman same days 11.35 * m Thomasvillesame days.... 1.45 pm Leave Thomasville same Jays....3.30 p m Quitman same days 5.8O p m Arrive at Valdosta same days 7.00 p m Lay over at Valdosta these nights and leave Valdosta Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays at...... 6.30am Arrive at Savannah same days at 6.40 p m 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 1U1WBMPOX, Ok. OURtath* ChartHcbm. ) JEWELRY, ETC. & w. 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 m. H. WMITSLET. WHITELEY k D0HAL80B', ATTORNEYS AT LAW BAINBRIDGE, GA. TIUILL practice in the Soathwertera sad W Pst. - - Patar.la Circuits. Office ap etairf, ia Sanborn'* aaw build tpg eprii tyi»-3»tt THE OLD RELIABLE WEST - STREET asa w. a. rLum. * ’ • Jomfc. mSimu FLEMING A RUTHERFORD, ATTORNEYS AT B AIN BRIDGE, OA.. * s - O FlftCfc over drag store ef Bn tt* A-Pehbody. Are fully prepared to take ebarg* •( all canes ,rising under the bankrupt law. [je2S,69,tf KINKELN We wpuld call the attention of Teachers and Amatetai to Kinkel’S New Method* for the Reed Organ and Melodeon, which we will issue about September First This work is-pronounced superior to all other* at its cla^ by Teachers who have examined it It NEW SIETIIlMt. contains a clear and simple course of instruc tion whereby any one may easfly acquire the magteryof this favorite Instrument with • few months shady. ILyill always lea favor ite wqrk with the Teacher, on account of its clearness'add systematic progression; more FOB THE of an amusement than a study for the pupil, and will prove a of wealth to the Ame- teur, on account of thftmany choice Melodies, gongs, etc., thrt Dr. Kinkel has selected sad BEED ORGAN. arranged expressly for this work. Kinkel’* New Method will be mailed, port-paid, on receipt of $2.50. Address, J. L. PETERS, 699 Broadway. jjjjYj. Send 30 oe&is for the latest xomber of PET'RS’MUSICAL MONTHLY £«s«w fz n» Music. 4 " CONSTANTLY SUPPLIED WITH HBAfT INVOICES OP Spring & Summer IS BEING or no LAW STYLES AND PATTERNS. TOGETHER WITH A I tools, of Staple Groceries! AUKS ABDWABS, WOODWAJtS, VnLLOWWAItS, fek