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Volume 5
BAINBRIOGE, GEORGIA, JULY 6, 1876
Number 8 Q
Democratic Convention-
He Democratic party of the counties of
3Jitciiell and Miller are request
ed hold Conventions in their respective
kufes, to appoint delegates to a Oon-
[ r - ; on to meet in Bainbridge on Wednes-
fihelathof July next, for the pur-
, ofrominating a candidate for the
f„> the 8th Senatorial District,
of ‘lie party in this Senatorial
net, each county is entitled to three
btesfor each Militia District in the
lEral counties. This June 12th, 187G.
W. O. Fleming,
k of the District Executive Cumrait-
Te Whom it May Concern-
rtaftcr all personal communications
: Democrat relating to the fitness
fitness of this or that man for of-
|iiU be charged at the rate of twenty
fits per line. Announcements of
rites, of ten lines or less, to run un-
|rof election, $10. We see no mo e
nwhy we should give aspirants and
mhmen the use of our columns
|tcharge, than that our gro.cer should
pas our daily rations for nothing,
lion arc in favor of anybody forgov-
[totigressMan, legislator, sheriff, or-
constable, ml infinitum, bring
recommendations, amt we will
kthem, provided you acecmpany
the CASH.
BEN. £. RUSSELL, - Proprietor.
Ben E. Russell, - - R. M. Johnston,
editors.
Bainbridge, Ga., July 6, 1876.
Mr. Jno. 1). Harrell is ~the General
Agent of the Democrat, and is authorized to
receipt for subscriptions and advertising.
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING
A Mass Meeting of the Democratic
Party of Decatur county is hereby called
to convene at the Court House in Bain
bridge on Saturday tbe 8th day of July
next, at 11 o’clock a. m. to organize for
the Campaign, and to send four delegates
to the Gubernatorial Convention to be
held August 2d, at Atlanta ; and also to
provide for the selection of delegates to
the Senatorial Convention to meet in
Bainbridge on the 19th of July.
This is a v^ry important meeting and a
large attendance is desired from every
section of the County.
J. A. Butts,
Acting Chairman Ex. Com.
Decatur County.
strike the average citizen as very poor
sense and woipe patriotism.
We advise our Republican friends
to pause before they take such a coarse
Tbe American people, thrown on their
own resources, might perhaps discover
that a great deal of this expensive ma
chinery called government, operated by
myriads of costly officials coyffl be very
well spared ; if they got used to get
ting along without the fostering care of
our paternal administration, the occu
pation ox a umbers of zealous politicians
would be gone forever. There was a
time when an American citizen scarce
ly ever came in contact with the Fed
era! government except to go to the
postoffice for his mail. If the Repub
lican majority of the Senate persists in
its awful threads to remove from over
us the beneficent care of a centralized
government, perhaps the event will
piove that we can stand it better than
the governmental machine. There are
parts of that machine which if once
suffered to go into disuse will never be
restored. . Ponder over these thin
gentlemen, and don’t take these strange
risks. To be sure, if your appropria
tions are cut down campaign funds will
be smaller and fat jobs will not be as
plenty as usual, bat there will still be
good pickings. If you cannot have
BEST AND CHEAPEST.
00 MADE AND SOLD
[ h<iest Terms for Payment.
u-v 2
DANGERS OF THE DgAJYLOCK.
In discussing tfce dead lock between
the Senate and the House upon the ap- wba, k J ou want, take what you can get.
propriation bills, the attitude of each' Haifa loaf is better than no bread —
party is continually misstated. The Stretch your legs according to the
Democratic no tjority in the House .of- . leD S fh of your coverlid.—N Y WorM.
fers to the administration what it con-^. * *• 1
siders an abundant allowance of money ’ CONTRAST THE RIGHT SORT OF
to carry on the government. The Re-j “A ^-Re
publican majority in the Senate, speak-j ^resident Wm. M. Wadley has been
ing fur the administration, declares a railroad king. Ceutral Railroad stock
that it must have more, or that it will a ^ ew y ears ngo was worth way above
refuse to accept any at all, and break'P ar one time 130. I he so-called
down the business of government. It bas reduced it by his ruinous po -
is as if a husband should say to hisi ic ? t0 37 and 38 >. the tendency is
wife at the beginning of the year that,
he could not afford more than $20,000 , seen [he
times were a P eldod that they cannot remember
* when it was The entire policy ap-
still lower. Tl)e stockholders have not
:host of a dividend in so long
ant new
STYLES.
BETTER.
AND
I'VER BEFORE PRODUCED.
-Double Reed, Seven Stops,
f Resonant Case $150
’■—Double Reed, Nine Stops,
p Resonant Case §159
-Three Sets Reeds, Nine Stops,
[ a*e, with Revolving Fall-board-
-J §200
-Double Reed, Seven Stops, in
-Agere style Case, with Plate
['(■Richly Ornamented and Carv-
> above) $225
FED UNTIL PAID FOR.
from above prices, for cash
uh’y payments. Send for illus-
igue give full description of
under the various plans of
•ESIRABLE STYLES
10, $110 and $125.
I Order direct from
on «&; Bates,
NNAH, GEORGIA.
A/.F SOUTHERNA G T.
im.
Jake Born-
fitted by ibis gentleman to
P “e will take in exchange for
P**. saddles, or work, in his
produce, bides etc. Now
I People,
for household expenses, as
getting hard and the extravagance of
his establishment was rapidly driving
him to ruin ; and as if she should re
ply that she couldn’t and wouldn’t con
sent to run a hous'* on $20,000 a year;
that she had been accustomed to spend
double that amount; that nothing less
than the old allowance would keep
| things in the style in which she was
determined to keep them, and that if
he offered such a miserable sum she
would fling it in his face, sell out tbe
furniture and break up housekeeping.
It is plain that our national house
keeping has been wasteful and extrava
gant, and that we canuot keep up the
old style-without danger of bankruptcy,
and in this emergency the Republicans
pears to run the road in the interest ef
moneyed men. that they may buy out
the smaller interests at a nominal sum.
The fendeney is also to break down all
the Georgia towqs, and build up those
of Alabama and Mississippi.
Col. John P. King is not a king to-
called ; but the stock of the Georgia
Railroad is quoted at 87 to 90, and the
stockholders secure a dividend of 8
per cent, per annum, and the Georgia
road is in a better condition than the
Central.
Success is the test of merit. Where
is Mr. Wadley, according to this stan
dard ?
A friend suggests that he is like a
refuse to make even the experiment of bumbIe bee > alwa r s moviD S backward
retrenchment. The threat to raise a instead of forward - destitute of experi-
row and break up housekeeping if the/ ence and ignorant to aceept a single
cannot go on squandering money as innovation that has been adopted by
they have been accustomed to do, is successful roads. When he delivers
THE DEAD DOCX-THE RADICAL
SENATE RESPONSIBLE
A Washington letter says : An early
adjournment can hardly be expected now,
and it is most probable that Congress will
sit at least.until the 1st of August. The'
House will resist the attempt of the Sen
ate force it to adopt the Senate programme
on the appropriation bills. The subject
has been considered by the Democratic
leaders, and they have determined that,
while the)' will not make a stand on tri
vial details, they mean to exercise their
undoubted right over the purse strings
and to insist on economy and retrench
ment. They say that the people are poor;
that the administration has been wasteful
and extravagant; that the taxes are higher
than they ought to be, and that they mean
to do their clear duty by reducing the es
timates hugely. In doing this they will
not make a m, ;re factious stand on unim
portant details, but will harmonize in all
matters with the Senate’s wishes which
do not prevent an actual and considerable
reduction of taxation and expenditures.
If they manage wisely in this dispute
there is no doubt that they will have the
sympathy of the country. A good deal
of effort has already been made to give
the public an impression that the Senate
is right, but £he fact is that the Republi
cans in the Senate see their patronage
threatened by the retrenchments proposed
by the House, and their present stubborn
resistance is a deliberate policy agreed on
the caucus several months ago, which had
for its object the defeat, at all hazards, of
the Democratic retrenchment plans, both
because the success of tliese would seri
ously lessen Republican patronage and be
cause it was thought dangerous in the
present temper of the public mind to give
the Democrats a chance in the fall can
vass to prove, by facts and legislation,
that the Republican administration had
been wasteful and eostly. That the ap
propriation biffs are so seriously behind
hand is therefore the fault, not of the
House, but tbe deliberate policy of the
Republican majority in the Senate, who
have purposely delayed and opposed, in
order to bring about the condition <5f af
fairs which now exists. The homily
which the Pr<i§reumr rehTt'to'TOfi Houser
the other day, ought to have been direct
ed to the Senate exclusively. It is that
body w hich lias stopped the appropriation
bills, and whose partisan policy now’
threatens to leave the government penni
less. The saving which the House pro
poses to effect amounts in all ip the huge
sura of forty million dollars—equal to
nearly one dollar a head of our whole
population. This can be done without
embarrassing the public service, apd, in
deed, it can be confidently said that if
there were time to examine the estimates
thoroughly, it would not be difficult to
save twenty million dollars more.
BRING THE MILLS TO THE COT
TON.
The Springfield Republican says that thp
Atlantic Cotton Mills, at Lawrence. Mass.,
whose affairs have been declining for some
time, and necessitates a reorganization and
shrinkage of nominal capital, are the first,
-rietim to Southern competition in cotton
manufacture, These mills have always
manufactured standard brown cotton, the
low grade goods which the new manufactur
ers at tbe South first attempt, and in which
they already compete st actively as to ne
cessitate a change of product at Lawrence.
The saving of the Southern spinners in the
cost of raw .material, in wages, in commis
sions, and otherwise, is such as to leave
them a fair margin of profit when selling
their yarns and cotton at what similar goods
cost in Lowell or Lawrence. This differ
ence is felt most sensibly in dull seasons.
With abundant capital, and for the coarser
fabrics, tbe South can drive the New Eng
land mills out of the market. These must
direct their efforts to improving the quality
of their cloths and to cheapen production;
for they cannot obtain, as a protection
against the Sopth, the high duties which
have enabled them to compete with goods of
foreign manufacture.
reckless folly. As Mr. Edmunds, of
Vermont, the ablest Republican in tbe
Senate, has said already, the only prop
er thing to do is to take under protest
what the House gives, and should it
prove insufficient, the government need
not break down during the year, as
Congress will meet within six months,
and can pass deficiency bills if new
supplies are essential. The determina
tion to close up the postoffices and cus
tom houses at once, for partisan dfect,
merely because it is pretended that
they may possibly have to be closed for ^ ^11 jj ave ample room to ‘‘spread him-
want of funds during the year, will self’ this Summer.r -TkomasviUe Tinie*.
the property to New York his mission
will have been accomplished.—Colum
bus Enquirer.
The Bainbridge Democrat has eusmallect;
but it is yet one of our sprightliest exchan
ges. The people of Bainbridge and, Deeatur
county ought to give Ben Russell a rousing
support. If it was not for the Democrat,
Decatnr county would not be so well and so
favorably known as it is. Then it follows
that the people of both town and county! N ot hj D£r w ff} please him SO much
owe, actually owe Russell a hearty and cor* ® “
dial. We da not want to see his pen restrict* * t: " " ,n •*“
ed to the limited space which it now is, dur-
ingcanvass which is just opening. He wields
a trenchant, ready pen, and we hope that
IRONICAL ADVICE
•Being a pretty girl you are sure of a
score or two of admirers. Hook the
one you like beat—or the one yon like
least, if he is the richest—and make a
slave of him. Fet him, flatter him ,
fawn upon him if he is conceited ; rave
abont pictures and statues, if he likes
art ; talk treason if he is a republican,
and quote sentences in flavor of tyranny
and blue blood if be is a royalist.—
so much as
this pandering to bis taste ; and if you
can inauage to wear the colors he likes,
even to the tint of your boots, showing
as much as you can of them by way of
provocation, you advance your interest*.
But do not forget the true color of love,
—the maiden blush. No color yoff
can buy in tbe shop can equal that ;
and she who in the certainty of tri-
nmpb omits blushing, is as foolish as
the girl who eannot laugh, as sad as
the girl who canno’t weep, as false as
the girl who cannot equivocate. Tears
langhter, blushes and equivocation are,,
the artillery of love. But do not for
get the puffer, the make-believe. A
time oomes when, to secure the man
you want, you must pretend to he faoi-
nated by some one else. Do so, but
vary carefully ; and when—poor sensi
tive soul—you have, dove-like, trem
bled at the sight of the bird of prey, to
the nest you, have chosen in the arms
of the man you Ipve, or don’t love, and
consummate tffe union Off wLich you.
have set your heart.
8PEUIAL NOTICE^.
On account of large stock of material on
hand, and the scarcity of money in circula
tion, 1 will repai^Watclies, Clocks and Jew
elry at the following reduced price®, viz:‘
Mainspring $1.50, Cleaning $1.50, Hands
25 to 75 cents per pair, Glasses 25 cents.
For cash only. W. C. Sobers.
How Awfully Culpable
Mnst he those afflicted with Consumption,
Bronchitis, Asthma, oi any disease of the.-
Lungs, Throat or Chest, who neglect, to use,
Dr Tutt’s Expectorant after reading the
following letter, writ ten by one of the
estimable ladies in the South :
Dr. T«tts :
ladies in
Savannah, Ga., April 28,1872.
the,
fully add my testimony
power in curing, deep seated coughs, For
several years I suffered dreadfully with a
cough attended with great difficulty of
breaching. 1 was induced to try your Ex
pectorant, and it gaye almost immediate re
lief. I took six bottles and am now per
fectly restored. It is about five mont^
since I began it.s use, and 1 have not hall
attack sinee. It has been a great blessing
to me ; I can not afford to be ^i*hout it
and heartily recommend it' to all who haye
lung or throat disease.
Ypry respectfully,
Mrs. A. M. WELLBORN
June 22—2t. ’ " , *
Health $oard-
Notice is hereby given that the Health
Board of Decatur county has beendpiy or
ganized under the recent ac^ of the Legisla
ture and will hold regular monthly meet
ing on the first Saturday in each month at
the office of the Ordinary. Physicians and
other interested ar« respectfully requester},
to send in their reports on or belore the"
days of meeting, which will greatly facilitate
the Board in the important work of creating
a correct statistical report of the health of
our county.
h*. J. Morgan, M. D.
Chairman.
Sune 22—4t.
Look Fishermen.
Fishing Tackle of all kinds, cheap, at
Jewelry Store of ,
W. C. Subers.
P. S. Blackff-ells Durham Smoking To
bacco at 80 ets. per lb 1-t-
W. T. Blackwell’s genuine “Durham”,
smoking tobacco, 80 cents per lb. qlso “Vani
ty Fair” smoking tobacco $1.60 per lb. For
sale by W. C.
Great Reduction in Prices.
W. C. Subers is now offering splendid
bargains in Watches, Clocks, Jeweuy, Ac-
Stock complete, 6all and see. ’ ‘ ' 1-t
«. ;.•> i
Sportsmen Attention-
Pistols and Cartridges, Powder, Shot,
Caps, and sporting goods generally.,' low
prices, at Jewelry Store of
-t W. C, Sobers.
A GIFT WORTHY OR A ROTHSCHILD FOR
A copy of Brown’s 1111 ustrated Shakes
pearian Almanac, together with a copy of
his illustrated paper, the Growing World,
which is devoted to natural history, wlli be
sent to any one free who will scud ue their
address on a one cent postal card. • Address
DR. O. P. BROWN, 21 Grand Street, Jersey
City, N. J.
Tobacco' Cigar*!
Best tobaccos, finest cig&re, of aff grades
to be had at the big store of H. B. Ehr
lich. ’ “ ‘