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Volume 5-
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, JUNE 22, 1876
Number 86
Democratic Convention-
TV Democratic party of the counties of
uur, Mitchell and Miller are request-
n hold Conventions in their respective
inties, to appoint delegates to a Oon-
rention to meet in Bainbridge on Wednes-
the 19th of July next, for the pur
«of nominating a candidate for the
inte, for the 8th Senatorial District.
By usage of the party in this Senatorial
wet, each county is entitled to three
! gates for each Militia District in the
itml counties. This June 12th, 1876.
W. O. Fleming,
One of the District Executive Gomrait-
Te Whom it May Concern-
Ifeafter all personal communications
■The Democrat relating to the fitness
lufitness of this or that man for of-
Uill be charged at the rate of twenty
|*nts per line. Announcements of
KaVea, of ten lines or less, to run un-
juof clectiou, $10. We see no mo.e
6 why we should give aspirants and
lienchmen the use of our columns
Icharge, than that our grocer should
pa* our daily rations for -nothing.
i are in favor of anybody for gov-
(jongressinan, legislator, sheriff, or-
constable, ad infinitum, bring
pr recommendations, and we will
Iitliem, provided you accompany
iili the CASH.
Fhe Weokly Democrat
BEN. E. ftUSSELL, - Proprietor.
Ben E. Russell, - - R. M. Johnston,
editors.
Bainbridge, Ga., June 22, 1876.
Me. Jno. D. Harrell is the General
Agent of the Democrat, and is authorized to
receipt for subscriptions and ad^pEtising,
AMONG OUST NEIGHBORS.
SOM & HAMLIN
ROANS.
deft lias been re-ap-
County Court of
r-EST \ND CHEAPEST.
00 MADE AND SOLD
J. v !cst Terms for Pavmeut.
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BEFORE PRODUCED.
'Double Reed, Seven Stops,
min.
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' Resonant Case $150
p—Double Reed, Nine Stops,
'Rpsonant Case $156
'Three Sets Reeds, Nine Stops,
, with Revolving Fall-board-
$200
'Double Reed, Seven Stops, in
Pfrere style Case, with Plate
r Richly Ornamented and CarV-
ftbove) $225
H) UNTIL PAID FOR.
f trom above prices, for cash
s’y payments. Send for illus-
tue give full description of
es under the various plans of
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fESIRABLE STY r LES
W. $110 and $125.
ier direct from
[eii Ag Rates,
KNAH, GEORGIA.
&E S O UTHERXA G T.
p—lm.
Jake Born.
s, e<l by this gentleman to
• l ? will take in exchange for
saddles, or work, in his
Pn>d«ce, hides, etc. Now
(people.
Joseph T. Kiddoo has become asso
ciate editor of the Cuthbert Messenger.
The Superior Court exhausted the Jury-
box in Terrell county without making up
a Jury in the Bowen case. The case has
been transferred to Randolph county.
The Quitman Gem is bragging on cotton
blooms.
The Waycross Headlight has started a
Blackshear department with Dr. A. M.
Moore as editor.
The Early County Hews has seen a
specimen of meal made out of -the eora-
mon oats of the country. The Hews thinks
it would make very rough bread.
Spring fights have not opened yet in
Quitman. Late about it.
The thieves-are still on the rampage in
Albany, and a vigilance committee is
spoken of.
The Atlanta Commonwealth says, it is
within the knowledge of the Editor of
that paper that hopeful negotiations have
been pending some time, for an early
completion, to llpfaula, of the Brunswick
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p< ietfcaJud;
Brooks.
$540,(.00 in Georgia bonds were sold at
a premium ou Saturday last. Every bond
5 ol 1 at a premium. Mr. J. II. Jones took
$50,000 worth, Mr. W. A. Words, of Sa
vannah, $50,000, and Gen. Lawton- and
Mr. Greshan, of Macon, large quantities.
Over $340,00 of the issues were sold in
Georgia, and the balance in New York.
This is good for Georgia’s credit.
We believe Southwest Georgia is really
in love with Ben Hill. Hear the Cuthbert
! Messenger: “The Augusta Chronicle &
• Sentinel says: “How will J. M. Smith do
fbr United States Senator?” He will do
very well, but B. II. Hill will do much
better.”
The Talbotton Standard very cheerful
ly icmarks: “The people of Georgia
have the brightest prospect before them
now, in the way of pecuniary prosperity
: that they have enjoyed for fifteen years.”
Miss Lilly Harrison, aged 15, daughter
■ of Rev. W. P. Harrison, D. D., of At
lanta, jumped into the Chattahoochee
river at Columbus, on Monday last, and
was drowned. No cause is known for
the rash -act.
The Atlanta Commonwealth says : Col.
B G. Lokett and Col. L. A. Jordan are
in the city. They bring good ne'Ws from
Southwest Georgia. The corn c r op is the
best since 1864, wheft more watfg.thered
than could be housed, and thd planters
are looking out for stock to consume the
surplus. Col. Lcckett and Col'. Jordan
have resolved to give more attention to
stock-raising and less to cotton producing
in the future. They will select fine
breeds during the summer.
Two interesting relics have been given
to (lie Thomasville museum. One is a
fragment of shell fired from the Confeder
ate guns at Fort Sumpter, April 13th ’61.
The other is a pen staff made from a
piece of the flag staff which bore our flag
on that ever memorable occasion.
Curthbert Messenger : Col. -Hood says
that he has cotton ou his Calhoun place
that is hip high. The Colonel makes no
specialty of cotton either, for he has corn
for sale now.
Cuthbert Messenger: What cafi be more
grating to an editor’s nerves, than for a
Albany Hews; An immigration society
has been formed in Bainbridge. That is
what every town and county of the State
should do. Make an honest, strong effort
to turn the tide of immigration into our
own section.
Thomasville Times: A prominent plan
ter in this county remarked to us this
week that he had planted three acres in
rice, which at a low estimate,would make
seventy-five bushels; but that he had and
knew no means of having it properly clean
ed and prepared. There will be thous
ands of bushels of rice made in Thomas
county this year Will not some enter
prising individual put .up*, a first-class
mill?
Quitman Reporter-. We hear from all
parts of this county and from the adjoin
ing counties in Florida that the crops are
just as good as could be desired. The
present spell of wet weather will make all
of the forward or early planted corn, and
the prospects are that it will be the most
abundant crop ever made in the country.
The next year will be a good time for
imigrants to come into our country, as severe for comfort and
they can be supplied |cheaply with pto-
visions of all kinds.
Albany Hews : Several months ago Mr.
John D. Luke, ex-Postmaster at Alapaha'
Berrien county, in making final settlement
with the Department, fell short $150 or
$200 which his bondsmen had to pay.
One of these bondsmen was Mr. Thomas
Paulk, one of the best, roost peaceable
and respected citizen of Berrien county,
and the father of Mr. Lake’s wife, from
whom he is seperated. -Mr. Paulk had a
warrant issued against Luke for embezzle
ment, and United States Marshal Sinythe,
of Savannah, placed this warrant in the
hands of Mr. C. W. Arnold, of this city,
with instructions to arrest Luke. On
Tuesday morning last, as Luke was aboHt
to take the B. & A. train homeward
bound he was halted by Mr. Arnold, and
held in custody till the departure of the
A. & G. train, which he boarded under!
charge of Mr. Joel W. Joiner, bound for
the “Forest City,” there to answer the se
rious charge prefered against him.
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IMMIGRATION TO SOUTHWEST
GEORGIA.
We notice from our exchanges that a
lively interest is being manifested by the
people and press, in several counties, to
turn the tide of Immigration to South
west Georgia. And while these efforts
to direct the attention ot labor and capi
tal irom the cold and rigorous climate of
the North and North west to our own
delightful sunny land are being energeti
cally made by some of the counties, we
earnestly hope that our county,Randolph,
will be no less active in a matter that will
add so much to her material prosperity.
Only a few years ago Eastern Florida was
sparsely settled, comparatively unknown
and undeveloped; but by the united ef
forts of a few men of energy, who were
judicious advertisers, by circulars and
o herwise, attention was directed to her
many attractions for. pleasant homes—to
her manifold resources of wealth—and
the tide of immigration set in and still
flows hither from those parts of the No/th
and North-west, where the climate ft too
health. Where
once were dark everglades and tangled
hammocks, rich in luxuriant wild growth,
now has sprung up fruit orchards, vege
table farms not to be excelled, and ever
bearing orange groves. And while, only
a short time ago, her beautiful inland
lakes and winding streams charmed the
eye of ODly an occasional settler ot wan
derer; now their banks are thickly dotted
with cosy cottages, the happy homes of
emigrants, who have gone there for health
aud fortune. Her productive soil has
been utilized, and in short, East Florida
has been made to blossom like the rose.
All this has been accomplished- by
patience, energy, industry and an inde
fatigable determination on the part of
a few, to show up and develop the advan
tages of that State.
Now, South-west Georgia has been
n called the “garden spot” of the
i. Our lands are as fertile as those
of Florida—our climate more delightful
and healthy—our undeveloped resources
superior—and all that is necessary to
make our lands valuable and our sectio
Tne Washington (D. C.) Gantts «ay«;
emory Mtravels back to the time When ft
member of Congress stood at the bar ol
the House of Representatives to be repri
manded by the Speaker. The former was
Oakes Ames, the latter James G. Blaine.
Ames was accused of haring distributed
Pacific railway construction bonds among
members for the purpose of securing
votes in aid of that enterprise, and hwl
admitted the truth of the allegation.
Blaine was the representative of the ma
jesty of an offended commonwealth.
Virtue and vice stood confronted on thftt
august occasion in the eyes of an awe
stricken people. Who is the knave now?
The grand old man who went into the
market and bought the things he fOftftd
for sale, is in bis grave. There were those
even then who suspected that the better
of the two was the culprit at the bar; now
they know it. Let no man say theNetaae-
sis is an accident.
It doe* seem a Kttle remarkable to me I prosperous is to make these advantages
that you cannot touch one of these railroad * **rd resources known to those insearch of
companies but what the gentleman from j pleasant aud prosperous homes. Cuthbert
cssenMgcr.
Maine squeals. [Laughter ] Yes, sir, and I
have no dotibt it struck Mr. Harrison as a
little remarkable, when that seventy-five
thousand dollar bond transaction Was men
tioned in a meeting of directors of the
Union Pacific Railroad, that the Treasurer
should say: “Do not say anything about . , , . , ,, . , ,
that; it will rain Blaine.’’ [Renewed laugh- 111 eference to the present Georgia dele-
The Georgia Delegation.
Reese, the Washington correspondent
ot the Macon Telegraph & Messenger, in
a late letter to that paper has this to say
gation being returned to the 45th Con
gress :
GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE.
The news from Georgia as heard her t ,
is that there is a strong disposition in
every district to return to the 45th Con-
bonds ; over bis Kansas Pacific bonds ;’g ress the present delegation. What the
ter.]—Proctor Knott’s Speech.
Blaine has squealed pretty often since
Congress met. He has squealed over bis
Sioux City bonds ; over his Burlington
and Chicago bonds ; over his Little Rock
'The Colored Delegates at CisciNXATr,—
The chairman of the Alabama delegation to
the Cincinnati Convention applied at the
Walnut Street House in that city for accom
modations for the entire delegation, but the
proprietor finding that it was partly Com
posed of colored men, flatly refused to ac
commodate them. The proprietor* of the
four leading hotels—the Grand, the ifctrnet,
the Gibson and the St. James—have, how
ever, agreed to receive delegates VritlMut re^
gard to race, color, or previous condition oj
servitude, and to give the colored delegates
the same accommodations for the same price
as the white delegates.
Respectable white people visiting Cincin
nati hereafter will inquire for the Walnut
8treet House,
A Joke ia a joke no matter if it does hit %
Democrat. The other day,, after a meeting
of the Judiciary Committee, at Which there
had been the usual exchange of compli
ments between the Chairman, Mfr. Knott,
and Mr. Blaine, Mr. Knott sought Mr. Frye,
a confidential friend of the Man from
Maine, and said : ‘‘Mr. Frye your friend
Mr. Blaine, is the damdest scoundrel in the
see the poiui, said perhaps he had been two
hasty, and begged pardon-. The joke is
pointed by one from over the water. Two
of the Emperor of Austra's sons were quar*
rolling and one said to the other: YeU ar*
the greatest ass in Vienna.’* You forget
that I ain present,’* said the angry father.
over his Northern Pacific bonds ; over his
Spencer rifle contracts, and various other
“investments” as he calls them. But he
will have to squeal still more. The sur
face of this enterprising patriot has barely
been stretched. There is a mine of wealth
yet to be opened, and when it is all
brought out, there will be a good many
envious and indignant Republicans, who
will think themselves badly treated, for
having been left out in the cold, or for
? ;etting an inferior share of the plunder,
or which they voted early and often.—
H Y Sun.
views and intentions of any of these gen
tlemen are, I am not informed. They
have not consulted me,, and I certainly
have not sought theit confidence ; know
ing aud warmly esteeming them all as I
do, it would perhaps only be natural that
some such confidences should be exchang
ed, but the truth is just as stated above.
It is, however, only bare justice to them
to say here, as I do with an emphasis,
founded upon and justified by my own
judgment and observation, and supple
mented by that of others of large expe
rience and perfect impartiality, that they
all justly deserve that compliment. I do
not believe any State in the Union has
been'iuore faithfully and efficiently served
than Georgia in this Congress. For talent,
industry, wisdom, moderation and influ
ence, no State can boast any superiority
to ours. I say this deliberately and in
the fullest beliief that lam not overstating
the case. As I said before, I do not
man to drop into his easy chair, pick up
some old exchange, which has been read
and thrown under the table for a week,
read aloud an article, laugh heartily and
then ask the editor fora chew of tobacco or
hint that it is J»is treat?
North and South.
In his address on decoration day, Rev.
Robert Collyer, of Chicago, said:
“I count every attempt to rake up the
old trouble a violent, bitter thing, un
worthy of our nation and our great An- _ __
glo-Saxon family, and I am ashamed of j know that a single one of them desires to
the men of my own State who could sry return ; but if they do, I am sure their
the thing that has just been said in our constituents will make no mistake in, nor
own State Capital that they might add ever have cause for regret by sending
wormwood to gall. VVe are- one family them back. I put this judgment on re-
North and South. We can only work out cord as the result of careful and thorough-
that destiny through peace and good will, ly impartial, observation, and by it I am
On this summer morning, as we stand to- : willing to stand or fall. If it were only
gether, the dust of these dead men is ris-' the result of my own experience and
ing. The Sun cannot tell which is rebel judgment I might well hesitate to frame
dust and which is loyal. It is all one to it so f rcibly, but it is not, and therefore
The Cincinnati Enquirer Bays themeam
est men in the Republican National Con
vention are the white men from the South.
As a gener 1 thing they are for sale, while
the negroes from that, section are fl led
with the grandeur ef profound convic
tions. It is said to be quite difficult tQ
purchase a colored delegate, but wheft .
one of Senator Jones’ silver brick-bats
strikes a man from the South he surreft-
ders and squeaks for Co Hiding. This
is bad. very bad. for the white delegates-,
and as a good many of them are sam to
have sold out to Morton before they left
home, it is also bad, very bad, for the
owner of the original incarnadined under 4
clothing.
We would like for somebody to tell us
how “the slate” stands if Gen. Colquitt is
elected. In these degenerate days it is so
hard to find anybody working for any
body else from purely disinterested mo
tives that we are foreed to inquire if any
promises nave been made to any any, to
be fulfilled in the event of Gen. Coiqftitt’S
election/ We have heard some rumore*
but want something a little more definite
before we call any name*.—ThomamiUt
Elite i-pri-ie.
the sun
Such sentiments as these, says the St.
Louis Republican, are worthy of a Chris
tian and a patriot, and we are glad to see j““ e * it."
such a severe rebuke from such a source
administered to the fanatics who built the
Republican platform at Sprinfield. It is
only cowards who exult over a vanquish
ed foe ; it is only vultufeS and byenas.who
feed upon the bodies of the slain.
I commit myself to its expression so un
reservedly. ’ But it is for the people at
last to endorse or reject this judgment,
and with them all should be content to
I certainly am.
The papers both West and South are
almost unanimous in the expression of
the opinion that to carry the election in
November, New York must be secured.
Mulligan Returns to the Charge.
—In an interview with a representative of
j the New York Graphic, Mulligan, the
witness against Blaine, insisted that the
ex-Speaker did not produce all the letters
in his explanation on Mon dev, but read
only such as suited his purpose, in some
instances omitting to read them according
He says the apparently ir-
This information from the Aftgttsta
Chronicle and Sentinel will be gratifying
to the friends of Mr. Stephens throughout
the union :
“The : ndications are that Mott Alexan
der H. Stephens will be returned to con
gress from this section without having
any opposition, either in the convention
or at the polls. His health is improving
rapidly and we hope to heat of him in his
seat before congress adjourns.”
Colonel Hardeman recently made ft
speech in Rome. The Courier says 4
“He touched upon our domestic affairs,
and, speaking of our languis ing indus
tries, suggested a more rigid economy ift
everything, and, above all, the wisdom of
producing more at home than we buy
abroad. State politics was briefly refer
red to. and in reference to the ring, once
so glibbily whispered over the State by
the Atlanta schemers, he avowed that if
there was such a ring, it found ita head
and centre in that city, and was manipu
lated by the very men who are moat in
dustriously decrying it.”
‘When I goes a-shopping,” said ah old
‘I alters ask for what I wants, and
to the text. „ s .
relevant letters were cunningly substituted lady, . ,, . .,
and that Governor Tilden is the only j by Blaine for the originals. Mulligan : if they have it, and it s suitable, and I i<m
Democrat who can certainly carry New \ expects to be recalled by the sub-Judicia- j inclined to take it, and it s cheap, an<L»
York. This being the general eeling, ry Committee, and avows himself able to 'can’t be got at anv place im - less, I almost
Tilden’s nomination appears to be a cer- show the discrepancies between his»allers take it, without chaffering aeont«
tainty.—H. 0 Sentinel and Guide. ’ memorandum and Blaine’s statement. ' all day, as most people do.