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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. ’ “ ‘