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RIDGE Volume 5- BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, JUNE 15, 1876- Number 35 The Weekly Democrat. SEN. E- RUSSELL, - Proprietor, Hi x E. Bussell, - ' R. M. Johnston, EDITORS. Bainbriw.r, Ga., June 15, 1876. )[i-. ,|xn. D. Harrell is the General ^ ,. n t of the Democrat, an<l is authorized to ,, , i|,i for subscriptions and advertising. among ourneighbors. Owini to the reduction in the size of Democrat, it is necessary that we ■•crow" a little bit louder, so here goes! Hurrah for Hardeman! Hip, hip, hurrah! Southern Georgia needs immigration, nd that's what the newspapers must talk (bout. There is a girl in Georgia who says she W rather be a dozen widows than one c’i maid. Tite farmers in this section.are m good fi ik Good crops—better times ahead. To Northern visitors: Bainbridge has of the best hotels in Georgia, and rd is cheap. ii.c Camilla Enterprise says that since finding of several true bills for vu- v by the last gra-d jury, there are tloafers, of every denomination, to • on our streets. The hall has been .motion and we trust it will be kept i ony Keees: Everything is reported . ming” on the line of the B. & A. It. | Wool is coming in, oats are harvested, ! \herr'.;*s are plenty, ami the ]ico})ie L w ,.u off as in any section of Geor- ' imilla is goin: into the base ball busi- K listen to II:;yl, of the Journal, will . hi.speaking of the Court House c, in Dawson, he says:. “It could be a Finding Eden, where many a :;l>lu king maiden, w.th throbbing would modestly answer, ‘ yes. ‘.■Quitman jail is entirely cnjpty. <ho ving. "c.nl Seals, a promising son of Col. : II. Sals of the Sunny South, was ! aed recent!v on an excursion to I ort kiiow a merchant in Cuthbert who fly closes his store and goes to the rv and chops cotton for his patrons, [•able them to pay the mortgage lie on the fourthcoming crop.—Appeal. 'Herman Barnes, who shot Air. i in Albany, came in raid gave him- bto the officers of the law. He is ibond of ^1,000. fflssville Times: Hon. \V E. Smith Bt the Library Association some ■-and a very valuable map of the It States from the latest surveys. - Quitman Reporter says the town ewho can’t play a good game ot i ts and chew a half plug of tobacco i* not considered first-class. I? Gallaher, a route agent on the A. 11! ]{., running between bavannali ■ Oak has been arrested in bavau rged with robbing the mails. a Enterprise, 8th inst: To be I :in Baker county to-day, hj Rev. I, Curry, at the residence of the h brother, Mr. Frank Bennett of (■Carolina, and Miss Lizz.ie Curry, f Decatur and now of Baker count), life and prosperity to the happy f?on Journal: Keep a sharp lookout , call of the District and county :>■ attend them, when called , ex- urself boldly and freely. Lotus vir deal and send up delegates to e Convention wlio will fully repre interests of all the Democracy of Cnrv. If any trick is played on tale* in the Convention it will be mi fault, and they will have no I blame. f-bert Messenger: “Boss,” said an bred politician the other day, ‘ nej dat Gubner Bullock is back, is dat savs the gentleman. *: bless de lord, I tole dem niggers ' our Gubner what we 'lected dutu t -wav, and lie didn't steal nuflin but just come back of hs # ow n t anil was gwine ter run fer Guo- tin. Fore God I hope he will, and I *' dcie Demercracks.” Camilla Enterprise: Since the begin ning of the District Conference in this place on Wednesday of last week, the re vival fires of religion have not ceased to spread. An unusual spirit of religious' feeling seems to pervade the entire com munity—especially among the young. Prayer meetings have been liefli from house to house (conducted by the ladies entirely) and. great good accomplished. The meetings stdl continue at t^ie church and are growing in interest daily. Camilla Enterprise: The District Con ference decided before adjournment last week to hold its next regular session at Bainbridge. Rev. Mr. Cook nominated Thomasville, Dir. Sharpe, Valdosta, Dir. Dickenson, Bainbridge. Animated discus sion followed. Thomasville was objected to on the ground that everything was car ried there, and that the annual Press Con vention would assemble there just pre vious to the time appointed for bolding the District Conference, and that District Conferences should not follow in the wake of the Press gang. Urged by Mr. Sharpe of Quitman that that was the very time on which it should be held at Thomasville — to blot out the demoralization wrought by the Press. The question was then put to the Conference and Bainbridge chosen. (The remarks of Dir. Sharpe were in good spirit and were well received and were at our expense, but we can well afford to forgive him.) Explanatory- We rise to a point of privilege, in be half of the unenlightened South Georgia, to ask the Stale Executive Committee when they expect to call the Gubernato rial Convention. Can it- be that- the Chair man wants more time to electioneer be fore the Convention is held. ? If that's what you are waiting for, Col. Tom., “there’s where you make a mistake,” for Colquitt and James are beating you at your own game. They have been- all over the State once, and are now half way through on the second round. We were sorry to see the above para graph, which appeared in our editorial columns week before last, misconstrued by the Atlanta Cominouiceulth. Repro.- du.fing tie: fhra graph, our cmiieniporiffy says: The Quitman Reporter hits on the raw Col. Hardeman’s delay in calling thccouQ mitt-ee together was not a good sign c. fairness, and it suggests the propnet>' ot his withdrawal from the Committee. A candidate for Governor ought uot to sit as. Chairman of the Executive Committee. We did not intend to cast any unfair insinuations upon Col. Hardeman as Chairman of the State Executive C'om- milt.ee, neither did we desire to suggest the “propriety of liis withdrawal tmin the committee;” but the paragraph was merely intended as a cut at the election eering of all three of the gubernatorial candidates mentioned. We desire to dis claim any intention to charge Col. Harde man with unfairness; and the use which we made of his name as Chairman of the Committee was only to get a cut at las competitors and himself together for their electioneering, the “hit upou the raw” being intended as much for the one as the other. We make this explanation in justice to Col. Hardeman, as we learn that he feels that we have placed him in an improper light, and we will add that we know of no man in the State, whom we think could have served upon the Ex ecutive Committee of his party more faithfully than he has, and that there are ftew Georgians who have done more to defeat the carpet-bag foe and overthrow the corrupt and bayonet-imposed gover- ment with, which we have been afflicted, than Tom Hardeman.—Quitman Reporter. THE NAMELESS FORCE. A Schooner Blown Up a Distance of One and Three Fifths Miles- New Orleans Republican.] A process verbal has been made out and signed by Prof. C. G. Forshey, L. P. DIaddox and DL F. Bignev, in which these gentlemen state that they yesterday witnessed the demonstration of Professor Wingard’s “nameless force” at Lake Pont- chartrian; that at 2:35 o’clock in theafter- uoon the Professor discharged l*is appa ratus, and ninety seconds after the schoo ner at which the test was applied, moored at one and three-fifths miles distance, blew up by the steru and sunk to the water’s edge. The memorandum of the committee goes on to state that after Prof. Wingard came ashore they went to visit with him the vessel in a sail boat. They found her completely wrecked. Even the small timbers aft of the mainmast were broken all to pieces. The mast was still standing, but all else was wrecked so that it would uot stand being towed ashore. The flag was torn to pieces and fell to half-mast, where it was still fiying. Prof. Wingard’s baud was severely burned by the flash, the silk glove with which lie held a glass tube not proving a sufficient non-conductor. The statement of the committee is signed by the following named citizens, generally well known to the public, who were present and corroborate the same: Captain John Grant, J. B. Kelly, Capt. E. L. Cope, Charles Brown, John P. La- bran o, II. Rostnhaber, George D\ TV intz, Captain M. H. Riddell, Andrew Despar- tes, DL Brahon, A. R. Obcr, DL D.; A. B. Williams, James Jane Embrey, Joseph G. Steelier. From an interview with Dir. Bigney, one of t-bc committee, the following par ticulars were obtained: Dir. Bignev states that at the time men tioned iiAlie brief prOces verbal, hereto fore alluded to, he discoved a slight volume of smoke arising from the skiff in which Dir. Wingard had taken his posi tion, and immediately after he saw what appeared to be the trail of some substance , & . ., or bodv passing out from the skiff toward the requsites to if there and that the effect would be almost nr PRESIDENTIAL The New York Sun declares that if Hen dricks, or any soft money or compromise man is nominated at St. Louis, the Democ racy will infallibly be defeated. Ohio calls for ‘‘Bill Allen,” however, and a large por tion of the West, clamor for Hendricks. Deleware, too, backed by many a Southron, is unanimous for the Chevalier Bayard, and thus the matter stands, while New England is solid for Tilden. - In this connection, too. it should he remarked that, the New York Herald squints - fearfully at.Conkling, and even the ou*-spt»ken Sun hints that this Re publican New Yorker would be preferable to a Democratic “soft.” How, then, can the party be saved from defeat and annihilation unless harmony pre vails at St. Louis? But in what way can this harmony be secured ? We answer by ignor ing side issues—such as the currency ques tion, specie resumption, the pinciple of pro tection, and All other considerations save the one grana, all pervading, and Overshad owing idea of defeating the cniunon Radical enemy. m . This object underlies all bthers, and should override and rank every secondary purpose whatever. Let us drive from power the myrmidons of Grant, abate the fraud* which have well nigh bankrupted the Treasury, inaugurate a new and honest regime, and restore the Government to its pristine purity, ere we venture to touch upon tl e delicate questions which now agitate the public.mind. The greater f liould . contain the lesser, and surely it will be time enough to adjust these matters when a united and jubilant Democracy shall exchange greeting at the downfall of the foe who have ridden the na tion with the peilinacity of the old man of the sea. Victory first, then afterwards an equable division of the spoils, and thgproper adjust ment of all questions relating to internal po lity and the interests of the several States. It should he remembered that ours is in re ality a grand empire, and legislation should be so shaped as to operateipqually, and to the advantage and benefit >$? all classes of whatever grade and race.—ft-pon Telegraph. The only candidate x toossesses all lAf tr.e uei l i')L i raL*yirr'>s Hancock, of Pennsylvania? Civil, Rights in Theatres. In the United States Circuit Court of San Fran cisco, in the. case of one Green, colored, who brought suit against McGuire for re fusing him a seat in the dress circle, the Court held that theatres were private property, subject to su*h rules as may be established by their owners, and Green’s civil rights were inapplicable to the case Thousands of Republicans would vote for Tilden as opposed to almost any other prominent Republican aspirant than Bris tow and Democrats all over the couutr> would vote for Bristow should their own partv nominate a man less distinctively associated with the work of reform. The great mass of the independent voters would vote for either of these candidates should but one be placed in nomination San Francisco Call.—Rep. Nowifl is any patriotism in live politicians of the party let them step aside and let- the sol dier and statesman take the lead. * “SHALL WE GO SOUTH ” lp e find tliwfollowmg paragraph in the New York correspondence of the Chicago Evening Journal :—“A few weeks since thirty families in St. Lawrence county de cided to form a colony and migrate to A lr- rrinia They were all well-to-do farmers and belonged to a most desirable class of population. A few weeks since they d,s- natcited several of their number to select a locality. The latter, after prospecting ex tensively, have now returned and counsel an abandonment of the scheme. Their principal ground for so doing is the fact •hat they were received witu no cordiality. Instead of meeting with a warm reception they report the Virgmif us gave the cold shoulder to them. They found many Northerners scattered through the State who o-enerally complain of isolation and so cial ostracism. The scheme has according ly been given up.’ , The above was published, and commented upon by many of the leading papers north, in the year 1872. The disparity of time may have wrought many changes m bt. Lawrence county and perhaps there are a few who like (Gabriel’s band.) are still •looking for a home. Q , If there be any such persons North, South, Fast or West, let us in behalf of the inhabi tants of this county, extend to them the rrnht hand of fellowship and invite them to send their delegates to inspect our surround ings We will give them a “cordial greet in' and afford 'facilities for gleaning every item of interest that may benefit the parties in whose behalf they may come. We have located in this section many families from various sections of the North. East and V est who are doing well. Parties desiring infor mation relative to land, crops, Xc„ can ad dress this office. We will be glad to give them every desired information.— Thomas- rille Times. AVe publish the above for the purpose of endorsing it. Let those who wish new homes come down and take a look at old Decatur. _ A Desirable Business Opportunity- Sad Occurrence- The Courier gives an account of a most heartrending occurrence in Pickens county. On Sunday evening, 23rd ult., Mr. David Wisenant went to his brother’s, a short dis tance from his residence, and did not return until alter dark. At a very early hour Mrs. Elizabeth Wisenant sent her children to bed, and very soon threw a shovel full of fire coals on the bed. This, of course, alarmed the children, that is her little son, some eight or nine years of age, and a little daughter some six or seven, frightened as they were, bounced out of bed, when their mother struck each of them a most fearful blow on the head .with tlie fire shovel. The little girl, as soon as she had sufficiently re covered, attempted an escape by running out of the door and leaving the house, while the boy seized th« baby from the bed and ran with it, and the other two, at his re quest, followed him. The mother, in the meantime, with frantic efforts, and, as it were, superhuman desperation, followed the little girl, and in the chase losing the fire sliowel, she gathered a heavy stick, and as the girl—her own darling child, whom she declared she loved better than all her other children—was endeavoring to cross a mud hole was killed by her mother with said bludgeon. Whiie the mother was shed- din" - the innocent blood of her beloved and and unerring child, the fire fiend was fast consuming all or about all of earth's product which they could call their^wn. The house and ont-houses with all their contents were burned, but as luck would ha^e it they had a lot of corn that was out of reach of the tire To the citizens who arrived on the ground while the last of their earthly all was perishing, she remarked that she was only obeving the command of the Lord* She’ told the same story to her counsel In fact, she told every one that the “Good Man*’ had visited her and told her to kill all her children and go home to Heaven with them, and told one of her attorneys that she had killed all her children and burnt them in the house, and begged that she might be killed in the quickest way and be sent to heaven to meet her children. It was shown from the evidence that the un fortunate lady had, for sonm seven or eight years, been subject to paroxysms. . There „, s - was nothing in the whole case, or in con- W- - nccTTffn wi. -- h rtiwwfcvT c - •*&*** to show **" the woman’s character, and strange to. ^ me wo muii p> , , - , that her grief-stricken husband most earn- implored l.er to manage her case so as to have her releas ed and restored to him, and allow bun <0 carry her to some place that he might find as a home; she all the time averring; that she would kill the balance of her children and take them to Heaven with her. She is now in jail and will soon be sent to the asy ■ ium for lunatics at Milledgeville. stantaneous, he turned .his eyes toward the schooner. But there slid lay, with her flag floating defiantly. He then rived at the conclusion that there had been another failure, and that his friend Wingard was a self deluded mortal led away by such stuff as dreams are made G f little more thSn :i minute elapsed when some one remarked, “there she ° j| e then saw a smoke above the schoon er heard the report of.an explosion, and in'less than five minutes the doomed ves sel had settled down to the water’s edge. Air Wingard came ashore and after-his hand had been dressed, which was badly burned, the committee accompanied him, uroeee ied to the wreck, which, being c-n tirelv of wood, still floated at anchor on the lake with the flag, partly freed from the broken halliards, settled at half-mast, “inSrce'^ffll'lhat Mr^Wingard ducin^^ must have accessions claims it to be, says Dir. Bigney, one that can b“ successfully and economically cm nloved at a distance of from five to seven miles, and wholly beyond the range of the best guns hitherto made, it will com- nletelv revolutionize maratirne warfare and leave the cannon of to day with the clumsy enginery of ancient times. In conclusion, Dir. Bigney said Dir. Wimrard, though much laughed at oflate, is neither a fool nor a madman. He has already vindicated his claim as a success ful and scientific inventor and the hith erto “nameless force —henceforth the “Wingard force”—will be heard of as a factor'controlling the destinies of nations. On last Wednesday we paid a visit to DU. Stephens at IBs home m Crawfords- ville A Ye were both surprised and si - cerelv gratified to find him verv grea 7 improved, and apparently as well as lie was before liis last attack. He is able to sk up pretty much all day and looks re markably well. He ism hopes that he will soon be able to resume his place m Coimrcss and work once more for his country There is every prospect that Ss taUth will now W e.«relv "Mtored md that he has a new lease of life. Air. Stephens seems to be as wonderfqj a man physically as mentally, his feeble frame res'istin"'disease more effectually than manv sFromr. robust men. There is won derful vitality about the man. Mashiug- 'ton Gazette. To the Merchants and Property Hold ers of Thomasville. Are the merchants showing any inter est in the immigration movement? Dr have they as m .ny customers as they walk. Gen lemen, you are no less interested than the land owners. If the town con tinues to grow and prosper, or even main tain itself, our rural population and pros tracing classes must have accessions, j hjs nreposition is too plain to argue. It is- apparent to every observing business man K town. Then why this inertness, this careless attitude in respect to a sub ject, in which you a e rk/i^ interestetL A proper and prompt concert of actioai between town and county on this subject, would give Thomasville and Thomas county hundreds of new citizens wh would bring enterprise and thrift witli them- who would infuse new life into our sluggish habits; who would be not only consumers, but producers as well. Is this a desirable end to be attained ? Do the property holders in town want to hffld on to every square foot of ground which they own, thereby keeping out new com ers^ If so, that is the way to kill your town. No more effectual mode could be devised. The true policy is to put-proper- tv in both town and county, down to reasonable prices, and then hunt buyers. They can be found. But they are not go in" to hunt the town out on the map, and then come tfown here and beg you to let them have a lot to put up a business house or a residence upon. It is your business, no less than your interest, to hunt them up and offer such inducements as will locate some of the many thous ands who are looking longingly southward for homes. Will you do ^—ThomasnOe Times. A large and well-known New York house about to establish an agency in this town and countv, require the services of an ae- , . five and reliable man or woman. The j press yourself boldly »nd f g ^ to compensation will be liberal, while little or , b^ ^^ConTeniion who will full.vrepre- no capital is required- Only an energetic tfie^ ^ all the Democracy of the and trustworthy person will be accepted,; i country . If any trick is played on the peer w .. ( < Huibert T O. Box 5629. N. 1 pj e in the Convention it v.H A)rite to G- b. liuiDert, i. j ie qo one t0 blame . Y. City, for full particulars. Junelo. 1 fault, and tney Dawson Journal : Keep a sharp look out for the call of the District anu count) meetings ; attend them, when £Hed «- Residence for Sale- One of the most beautiful residence* in Bainbridge, situated in the Southeastern j onion of the city is offered for bot tom fi"ures. The house is pleasantly loca ted contains seven rooms, with all necessa ry out houses, is in good repair, and situa ted in the most beautiful oak grove in Bain -bridge. For particulars, apply at i This Ohics. May 25-tf.