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BAINBRIDGE GAv APRIL 23, (374.
Number i8
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jfeijtLY DEMOCRAT
Thursday
JSS E 3 USSEU., Proprietor.
J^cjVC RATES AND RULES.
^ meats inserted at $2 per square
^^rtion, end $1 for each Bubse ‘
**.!, eizht solid lines of this type.
* rmsaad* wi,h contract advert,sers '
, ti „r ‘■k'lit linos are $15 per
1 °° »30 per annum. Local notices
three moatas are subject to
J*lw'er isers who desire their ad-
changed, must give us two
“ 00 " t !ilvfrti‘>emenis, unless otherwise
gjtawntmt, wiU be charged 20
ilmuary notices, tributes of
other ltindied notices, charged
’"SSZZt** run of the
‘’TAe dc not contract to keep them in
SjSfifar candidates are $10, if
Mr“due' e u[''n'he appearance of the
JtLctnent, and the money will be collecU
■reded by 'he Proprietors.
.'hll adhere strictly to the above rules,
sill depart from them under no circuin-
s terms of subscription.
■nnnra. in advance,
it months, in advance,
Ibree months, in advance,
copy, in advance,
LEGAL advertising.
eriffs sales, per levy, §3; sherifFs wort-
sales. per levy, $5; tar sales, per levy,
itation for letters of administration. $4;
n for letters of guardianship, 4; appli-
„ for dismission from administration, 5 ;
ration for dismission from guardianship
,plication for leave to sell land (one
rrl, 5, and each additional square, S;
cnjon for homestead, 2; notice to debt-
ad creditors, 4; land sales (1st square),
,1 nrh additional square, 3; sale of per-
s property, per square, 2.50; estray
i, sixty days, 7; notice to perfect serv-
rules nisi to foreclose mortgage, per
4 ; rules to establish lost papers, per
. t: rules compelling titles, 4; rules
fed service in divorce cases, 10.
of land, etc., by administrators, ex-
ir guardians, arc required by law to
on the first Tuesday in the month,
the hours of 10 in the forenoon and
he afternoon, at the court house door
county in which the property is situ-
N'otice of these sales must be given
public gttteltc 40 days previous to the
I f unit].
* for the sale of personal property
b* given in like manner 10 days pre-
) sale day.
■cs to the debtors and creditors of an
mist also he published 40 days,
te that application will be made to the
of Ordinary for leave to sell land, &c.,
he published for two months.
Minns for letters of administration,
pauship, ,Vc„ must he published 30
-for dismission from administration,
lily for three months—for dismission
'guardianship. 40 days,
lea for foreclosure of mortgages must be
died monthly for four months—for es-
Idtig lost papers for the full space of
months—for compelling titles from ex-
s or administrators, where bond has
[iron by the deceased, the full space of
uonllis.
lication will always be continued ac-
! to these, the legal requirements,
otherwise ordered.
long on each of the four sides, twenty-
two feet thick, and fifty cubits high, or
over ninety one feet according to the
Hebrew cubit; by the Roman or by the
English cubit a little less. Around the
interior on all sides rose terrace above
terrace^ to the number of twenty, the
top one resting on the outer walls and
even with the balustrade. Th# terraces
were upheld by immensely strong gal
leries, whose ceilings were formed of
hewn stone sixteen feet long and four
wide. Resting on the stones was a
layer of reeds, mixed with a great quan
tity of asphalt* and on this was a double
floor of fire dried bricks laid on morter;
finally a floor of lead plates, to prevent
any moisture from penetrating the foun
dation of tae terraces, the soil of which
rested directly on the leaden floor, and
was of sufficient depth to holdand nourish
trees fifty feet high, and thousands of
rare plants, culled from all parts of the
known world. All these were kept in
a perennially flourishing condition, we
are informed, by water raised from the
Euphrates, through the aid of machin
ery concealed from view in certain
rooms made in the galeries. The gal-
eries also contained many royal apart
ments, variously decorated and furnish
ed. Decently lighted they could not
have been; but we can easily imagine
that a walk around those upper terraces
on a fine moonlight night, the senses
charmed by soft music and by waves of
perfume rising from the wilderness of
flowers and shrubs below, must have
been enchanting.—Marie Howland.
p Hanging Gardens of Babylon
pretty hanging baskets, with
^pension wires completely draped
fate climbing wires and standin.
, with their masses of beautiful
mg plants, their drooping grasses,
1 mi-tnosas, musk scented and cov-
ffith brilliant golden flowers,
p liliputian in size, are literally
gardens. Rut even should
| be made a million times larger,
fplau is so utterly different that
J could never suggest the faintest
p of the hanging gardens of Baby-
about the name of which there is a
°t poetic grandeur and a flavor of
lta ' magnificence. They were lit-
J paradises of pleasure gardens.
5 pben mentions those of Belesis,
raorof Syra; and such as he beheld
apparently, wc find them described
tarden and other modern travelers,
banging gardens of Babyl on were
}' a very costly variety of the para-
s wh as only princely wealth could
Their origin is attributed to
'fsmis by some; others say that they
invented by a king of Syria, to
the melancholy of one of his
Mfl’ersian origin, who sighed to
njain the verdant mountains of
^ive land. Strabo and Diodorus
L15 bnve written about these famous
lB ? Sfa'letts, Phiolo of' Byzantium,
others. They were called
■ 5 e gardens, doubtless, because of
^ branching palms and other
^hanging the balustrade on
ammit of the high walls that en-
tkc paradise. These walls were
fttt hundred and thirty yards
A Magnificent Country.
The British troops in Ashantee cer
tainly can behold some charming sights.
Here is a picture of African scenery
from the correspondence of the London
Daily News:
“When Lieutenants Richmond and
Woodgate went up with their company
to build a redoubt, the thickness of the
undergrowth in the bush forbade any
view whatever By hacking at this un
dergrowth, by felling the smaller tree s
and keeping up perpetual fires, they
have cleared up a considerable space
upon the crest, and exposed a charm
ing view. On either side rose lofty
hills, clothed in green from base to
summit. Very far off, in the misty dis
tance beyond Coomassie, is a faint shad
ow of mountains. The level between,
through which lies our road, is beheld
through breaks of foilage exactly like
that affected by the earliest Italian
painters. Giorgione might have stud
ied his tree effects from this spot. The
plain lies misty and vague, its tones of
delicate verdure fading at the distance
into a golden haze. High above the
forest level uprise the pale green crowns
of cotton trees, disdainful of lower
growths Creepers drop like a brown
watetfall down the trunks. Great runs
of fern encircle their branches, or hang
their leaves like stag horns from the
topmost boughs. A few trees bear a
crown of blossoms, scarlet or pink, but
not to match in mass or beauty the
brilliant garden of Fanteeland. Ani
mal life, for all we see of it, might not
exist at all in this country. We hear
birds and beasts sometimes; occasionally
we see parrots fly overhead, at a dis
tance to skim the tallest boughs; but
few of us have beheld a creature that
runs or flies except the insects. I med
itate a short digression on the creeping
things of Africa in some pause of the
campaign. It is sufficient now to say
that no country in the world can com
pare with this for variety and number
of its insects.”
Another correspondent writes:
“A little stream goes cleaD and clear
over some shiningly pebbles, and bends
in and out above and below the road
among foilage rick enough to deck, not
crowded enough to conceal it. Imme
diately after crossing, one of the richest
banks of flowers which I have here seen
presented itself, the chief feature being
a gay plant, whose name I do not know,
very much like a cowslip in the actual
flower, but with a bright white leaf
standing out as if part of the flower
itself is behind each flower head, and
the plant growing into luxurious masses
ou stems six or seven feet high; the
whole intertwined with ferns and keep
ers innumerable. The bank had a ca
rious look—roots stood out from it as
from the base of a fallen tree, and by
the irregularity and ruggedness they
gave to it added to its picturesqneness
and beauty. Yet the whole appearance
of a bank, and not of a hune root, was
there, from the completeness with which
nature had decked every nook and
cranny. I was rather puzzled, and went
around behind it to find plainly enough;
stretching along behind it for, perhaps,
sixty yards, the quite rotten carcass of
an old forest king—now no longer, ex
cept by its mere shape, distinguishable
from a mound of rich earth, and cover
ed all over with rich, high growing
moss and ferns and plants of all kindsj”
South. Carolina’s Humiliation.
The Washington correspondent of
the Charleston News and Courier, in a
letter giving a hopeful but not very en
couraging accounts of the progress
made by the Tax-Prayer’s Committee
in getting their grievances before Con
gress, gives the following sketch of their
interview with the ‘ Hero of Columbia”
and Beast Butler. The writer says;
It will doubtless surprise most of
your readers to hear that, among the
asantest of the many interviews
which the delegates have had here with
public men were those with Gen. Wm
Tecumseh Sherman and Gen. Benjamin
F. Butler. Sherman was in a particu
larly good humor when visited, and in
dulged freely in jokes and reminiscen
ces of Sullivan’s Island in the olden
time. There were several of the dele
gates with whom he had formerly been
acquainted, and as he stood pleasantly
chatting with them it was hard to real
ize that the Hero of Columbia was be
fore us. Ben Butler was very cordial,
said that he new things were very bad
in South Carolina, and promised that
when the memorial come up before the
Judiciary Committee of the House it
should have a fair showing. (This may
mean a great deal or it may mean noth
ing at all.) He said that whenever he
tried to do anything for the South some
busy-body in that part of the country
would forthwith mail him a scrap of
newspaper telling what somebody or
other at the South had said about him.
He was beginning to think that it would
be a good thing for the country if three
or four of the Republican editors of the
South were hanged. He actually could
not cross the floor of the House of Rep
resentatives to talk to Young, of Geor
gia, without people remarking that
“Butler is getting too intimate with the
d d rebels.” The conversation
turned on the prospect of getting the
black voters interested in reform, when
one of the delegates despondingly assur
ed the General that lie had made twen
ty-three speeches in the reform canvass
to meetings of his fellowcitizens. Eve
ry speech had been received with vocif
erous demonstrations of applause and
sympathy; but when the polls were
opened not five reform niggers could be
found anywhere. “Ah,” slyly replied
the Essex statesman, “I see how it is.
It was all because you gentlemen will
insist on spelling nigger with two g’s.”
The visit was not time lost by any
means. Butler is a power here, and I
think he will do what he can for us,
always provided that it does not clash,
in any way, with the interest of B F.
B.
The colored men of Massachusetts
are urging the election of 'Wendell
ncr. Frederick Douglass puts in
word.
The Bloody Benders-
The reported arrest of old Bender, the
Kansas murderer, is a subject of intense
gratification throughout -that section of
the country which was the scene of his
terrible crimes. Some weeks since an
old man emerged from the Wahsatch
Mountains in Utah, and he was at once
recognized as the long-sought-for mur
derer. His photograph was sent to the
Governor of Kansas, and it has since
been returned, with statements from
Senator York, brother of Bender’s last
victim, and other persons, all agreeing
that the photograph resembled the mur
derer. So intense was the excitement
him twice out of prison in order to sat
isfy the crowds of people who. wanted
to Bee him. The officers will shortly^ Phillip as the sncoeaaor of Mr. Snm-
bring ap from the South a young man
who answers to the description of young
Bender. A woman said to be Katha
rine Bender., came into the Southern
settlementstsome months since almost
naked. Aftetr .obtaining food and cloth
ing, she disappeared, and it is thought
the whole family have been in the moun
tains all-, winter, and have been driven
out by starvation. The story of assas
sination that is brought out by the cap
ture is one of the most horrible on re
cord. No tale from the French capi
tal, not even the Traupman atrocity,
has equal power to horrify with the nar
rative that came from Kansas last May;
a family of murderous people living for
months over the secreted bodies of vic
tims. The capture of Bender insures
that he will be punished for his enor
mous crimes, and protects the people
of some new locality from a repetition
of them.
An Incendiary
We desire to call the attention of
underwriters to a new material used for
martingale rings, knife handles, combs,
&c., which we are informed bears the
name of “Celluloid ” It is to all appear
ance as hard as iron, and, when cold,
possesses great strength and tenacity;
but it is as iuflamable as tiuder, and it
burns more readily than pitch. A
flash of a match will set off a box of this
material, made up in any form, and pro
duce a conflagration so utterly at vari
ance with the apparent ^solidity of the
article that it seems like magic. A
new class of “extra-hazardous” must be
made by all of our fire insurance com
panies if this is to pass into common
use. We do uot know how many fires
may already be treaceable to this pre
paration, which evidently vaporizes at
Admiral Raphael Semmes has been
compelled for want of requisite leisure
to decline-for the present an invitation
to lecture before Skillen Post, No. 47,
Grand Army of the Republic at Rome,
“in aid of the fund to procure tomb
stones for deceased United States sol
diers who lost their lives in the late
war between States.”
A man in Dallas, Texas, tried to
poison his wife, who was sick, by giv
ing her arsenic instead of a powder of a
different kind- He was much surprised
on handing it to her, to see her empty
it on the floor and hear her decline dy
ing in these words, “As a pizener, Jim,
you haint a success.”
The Cincinnati Times says Nebuch-
adnezzer was not the first (‘Granger,”
Eve made quite a reputation in the ap
ple business, and broke A-dam monopo
ly, and was also the very first to patron
ize husbandry.
There are but five ex-Governors of
Kentucky now living. They are Archie
Dixion, Beriah Magoffin, Jas. F. Rob
inson, Thomas E. Bramlette, and John
W. Stevenson, who is one of the Sena
tors in Congress.
The New York World says: “As to
the policy of the Democratic party, it
will be in the future what it was in the
honored past, decentralization, free
trade, hard money, a small army and
cheap government.”
The meanest^man has turned up in
the vicinity of Mendon. He wants his
wife’s step father to pay him $20 for
a comparatively low Temperaiure.—ififfi , s^ffifendanSr , cfirfBe old gentle-
Y. Journal Cnmnierce.
A Cat’s Tail on a Booster
Other facts prove also this power of
.Attraction af blood. If we put au or
gan taken from a living animal inside
of another animal, very frequently this
organ will be engrafted there. The in
fused serum becomes the objectof chem
ical changes, the blood is attracted and
the organ receives circulation. I once
engrafted the tail of a cat on a cock’s
comb. A few days after it was evident
by pricking the tail that blood was cir
culating in it, and it certainly would
have staid there had not the cock had a
fight and lost its tail. [Laughter.] Oth
er cases of grafting leave no doubt in
this respect. It is shown by the fact
that ova in animals when they are im-
pl anted on a mucous membrane take
hold of it, blood is attracted there and
circulation takes place.—Dr. Brown-
Seqnard’s last Lecture.
Jayne Gone Back on a Friend-
John P. Atkinson, a New York street
broker and dischared custom house of
ficer, was arrested Saturday on the
charge of attempting to stab special
agent B. G. Jayne. Jayne asserts that
this is the third attempt that Atkinson
has made on his life, and gives in ex
planation that he caused his dismissal
from the custom house four years ago
Atkinson says he only sought to defend
himself from an assault by Jayne, seiz
ing his uplifted cane and threatening
to stab him if it was used, and that the
whole affair grew out of a demand by
him for the payment of $35,000 in
former’s fees in the Weld revenue case
at Boston, which Jayne had resolutely
refused to pay, denying the validity of
the claim.
A little boy in Georgetown ran into
the house the other day, crying at the
top of his voice because another little
boy would not let him put mud on his
head with a shingle. Some children
are like their parents, no accommoda
tion about them.
Thousands of young trout about two
inches in length were recently thrown
from an artesian well in San Francisco,
the vicinity that the jailor brought I* 5 feet deep.
man’s wife—her mother—during her
last illness.
North by Bruton Warehouse, east by'Donald
st. south by water st.,—as property 'of B. K
Powell, security for Southern Bank of Geor
gia oa appeal, in furor of Craw ford and Dick
inson-. Levy made and returned-bv-Cdnst.'
W. W. Harrel/Stfff.
lots of land No’s 457 and 458 in 15lh diat-
of said county.—as the property of U. AV.
Mathews to satisfy a fi fa issued from tie Ip-:
ferior Court of Bibb county, in favor of Mr;,
Ward:
W, AV. Harrell, Sh’ff.
Lot ofland No. 269 ia loth dist, of said,
county og property of James D. Wooten to
satisfy Superior court fi fa in favor of Wm. 1
Whitten.
W. W. Harrell Sh'ff. •
One dark colored painted buggy, as prop
erty of Wm. E. Rutherford to satisfy a Su
perior Court fi fa in favor of Denham &
Wooster.
W. IV. Harrell, Sh'ff.
One dozen railroad picks 9 arm spades, 27
arm shovels, 9 spikes, 19 pick handles, 1'
railroad camp cot 5 camp stools, 1 camp ta-.
ble, 4 large iron rods, 1 small heating .tore,
1 pair cotton scales,-.2 extra scale beams, 1
large tent cloth, L.cott, 10 sacks cotton seed,
1 half barrell guano, 1 empty whisky barrel!,.
1 old pair scales, 1 cotton planter, 1 box old
papers, 1 compass and fixture.— as the pro-'
perty of B; F. Bruton to satiefy a Superior
Court fi fa in fayor of S. L. Belcher.
W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
* Decatur Mortgage Sales
Will be sold before the Court House door
in the city ot Bainbridge on the first Tuesday
in June, between the legal hours of sale, the
following property to wit:
One two-horse wagon—as the property of
J, T. Smith to satisfy a mortgage fi fa in
favor of Henry Engram.
L. F.-Burkett, Dep’ty Sh’ff.
Lot ofland No. 6 & 7 in block (B) front
ing on Broad street 60 feet, running back
north 105 feet, also fronting on Drayton
street, 60 feet, and running east 105 feet
and bounded as follows: North by lands of
John T. and John D. Harrell, it being the
remaining portion of same lot ofland No 30
in the 19th dist of said county, on the east
by lands of the said Harrell and Rawls and
Terrell, on the south by Broad street, and
on west by Drayton street, and the premises
thereon occupied by the said S. R. Dukes as
a store house and dwelling house—as the
property ofS. R. Dukes to satisfy a mortgage
fi fa in favor of Richard H. Hinsdale
W. W. Hatrell, Sh’ff.
Decatur County Sheriffs Sales.
W ill be sold before the Court House door
in the town of Bainbridge, on the first Tues
day in May next, between the usual hours
of sale, the following property to wit:
Lot ot land No. 146 in the 19th Dist. of
said county. Levied on as the property of
Thomas J. Bell, Trustee for H. R. Bell, to
satisfy three county court fi fas in favor of
James T Hines, Wm. A. Chester, and H. M.
Mitchell.
W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
Lots ofland No’s 318, 847, 349, and 344,
in 25th dist said county, as property of Mrs.
E Curry, to satisfy a tax fi fa. Levy made
and returned by Constable.
W. W. Harrell, Sb’fa
Lots ofland 73 and 89 in the 21st diSPof
said county; as the property of D. C. W ilson
to satisfy a tax fi fa. Levy made and re
turned by Constable.
W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
Lots ofland No’s 303, 304and 238 in the
27th dist of said county, as property of Mas-
ton O’Neal, adm. ofD. S. Love, to satisfy a
fi fa issued from Court of Ordinary of Deca
tur county. Levy made and returned by
Constable. W, W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
One city lot in city of Baiubridge, con
taining 35 feet front, more or less, running
back 105 feet more or less, bounded on nortli
by T. J. William’s“property, south by water
street, west by Malone lot, and on east by
lot of W. G. Broome; as property of Cor
nelius Blount, to satisfy a County Court fi fa
in favor of L. M. Griflin. Property pointed
out by plaintiff ’s attorney.
W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
Lots ofland No’s 324, 305 and 295 in the
21st dist of said county, as property ot F. M
Swanson, to satisfy a tax fi fa. Levy made
and returned by Constable.
W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
Lots of landNo’s 181 and 220 in 16th dist.,
and lots No’s 10 and 11 tn loth dist of said
county, as property of M. W. Dollar, to sat
isfy a tax fi fa. Levy made and returned by
Constable. W. W. Harrell, Sh'ff.
One house and lot in city of Bainbridge,
bounded on east by w-est street, on west by
land estate of Jno. W’. Evans, North by J, P.
Dickenson, and south by lot of C. C. King,
said house being now occupied by J. N. West.
—as property of Jno, C. Rutherford to satis
fy a tax fi fa. Levy made and returned by
Const.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lot ofland No 281 in the 27th dist of said
county. Levied on as the property ol Henry
Dean to satisfy a Superior Court fi fa in fa
vor of Babbit & Warfield as Survivors, *c.
Property in possession of defendant and
pointed out by plaintiff ’s attorneys-
W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
Lots ofland No’s 158 and 159 in 27th dist
of said county.—as the property of E. M.
Decatur Mortgage Sheriff Sates
Will be sold before the Court House dopr,
;n the city of Bainbride, on the first Tuesday
;n May next, between the legal hours of sale,
the following property to wit:
The” undivided half interest in lot ofland
No. 175 in the 19th dist. of Decatur county,
Levied on as the property of A. E. Harris to
satisfy a mortgage fi fa in favor of John T.
Jones. IF. IF. Harrell, Sh’ff.
Lot of land No. 104 in the 20th dist. of
said county, except- one and one-quarter
acres in northeast corner of said lot, Levied
on as the property of Thomas M. Allen,
Trustee for Averetta A. Allen, to unify mort
gage fi fa in favor of Elizabetli McLauchlin.
W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
One stock of goods now in store house
formerly occupied by A. T. Reid & Co., con
sisting of dry goods, clothing, shoes, hats,
liquors and groceries, also one iron safe.
Levied on as the property of A. T. Reid
& Co., to satisfy a mortgage fi fa in favor of
Grover. Stubs & Co., W. W. Harrell Shff
Lot ofland in Sliotwell addition to town
Bainbridge, and known in survey of said
addition made by J. II. Carter, as No. 6,
containing one and one-half acres more or
less, known as the property of Geo. A. Pad-
rick, deceased, Levied on as the property of
Geo. A. Padrick, deceased to satisfy mort
gage fi fa in favor ot Daniel McGill. Adm’r,
and Carrie B. Donalson, Adm’rx J, M. Don-
alson. AV. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
One lot in city of Bainbridge, and im;
provements thereon, bounded as follows: oa
the north by Sliotwell street, on the east by
property of T. B. Hunnewell, on the soutn
by dwellings of Mrs. B. D. Scott, and on the
west by r Church Street. Levied on as the
property of Alfred T. Reid, to satisfy dno
mortgage fi fain favor of Mattie R. Reid vs
A. T Reid. W. W Harrell. Sh’ff.
Lot of land No. 140 in the 19th dist. of
Decatur county; Levied as the property of
Wm. J. Bruton to satisfy one mortgage fi fa
in favor of D. B. Curry, Guard, vs said
Bruton. AV. AV. Harrell, Sh’ff.
W. W. McGRIFF.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bainbridge, Ga.
Can be found, for the present, with
C. G. Campbell. Office No. 1, Sanborn’s
Range ; up stairs. Feb’y 20, 1874-Iy.
Bower & Crawford,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Bainbridge, Ga.
Jgy Office in the Court House. [lOIy
B. T. BABBIT’S
Pure Concentrated Potash
OR
Of Double the Strength or a.\t Other
SAPONIFYING SUBSTANCE.
I have recently perfected
new method
of packing my potash, or Lye, and am now
Miller to satisfy a County Court fi fa in fa- j packing it only in I»;t i*, - e coa ing o
vor of Leonidas Crews. * which will saponify and does not injure the
L. F. Burkett, Dep’ty Sh’ff. soap It is pa Ke d m boxes coaming 24
. . land 28 lb. Bali*.-and m no other way. Di-
One small sorrel pony horse.— as-property pect j ong j n Knglisli and German, for making
of Wm. G. rfamin to satisfy a lien fi fa in a- j )ar j ;lnl j so f. 30 „|i with this Potash, accom-
vor of Wm. Dees. i paying each package.
B. T. BABBIT,
L. F. Burkett, Dep’ty Sh’ff,
One house and lot in city of Bainbridge j
bounded aa follows- On west by A & G ft it, j
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94 to 84 Washington St. N. Y
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