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The Weekly Democrat
Jl 0CAL matt e-t* s
Cruising on the Sidewalk
From the
"W lmt do you think of our band ?
Hurrah for Tilden and Hendricks !
nobly' 8tre6t COmmitt “ » doing its work
Mr William P. Hayes of Texas, is
the city.
Please refer us to some man who will
tell us it’s hot.
KIGUZV^i^
The Excursion to Columbus.
lenH aS0UrmtentiOD t0Speak at
Sft 1D r 6g f t0thC Ple,isant * livelyf
ckmg little excursion party which the
Big Foot took to Columbus last week
and are inexpressibly sorry that we can*i
fford a paper the SJZe °f the New York
Herald, m which we might manage to
squeeze m an account of the fun androod
time generally had by all of us. More
rCgret ^ Una,,le 10 ^ to
our readers about the majestic Chstta
oochee and the towns and cities, situated
upon its banks ; but shall do so some oth
er time.
On the afternoon of the 23rd lilt, the
steamer put in an appearance at’ our
wharf, having on board h crow* of some
eighteen or twenty from Quincy and oth
er places in Florida. At this point the
Let it be a fair, square fight Saturday.
Let the wishes of thepebple-be respected
Blackberry crop playing out. Do
peaches, hurry im „ *
I party was joined by^-Bs. mieSTj Var JlfT will-give the peo-
believe Tuesday | rell and his lovely tfffcT jf-mUosenMaf ambnd S e a which they can
J fourth of July, and the WTli.PT* hf f.hpflo litiAn i . -v j.c*^ckat leisure . On this triD in.n
>TOTi
lock
. < X, ; . tv/ j utouttj
was hot enough to be the fourth of July
Since we come think of it, we’ve got
right nice military company, liavn’t we
Some enterprising thief captured Jim
Grave’s pretty little boat, the ‘ Pet.’’
’ Bet everybody attend the mass meeting
Saturday, Fair deal and no stocking.
The moonlight ball on the Fourth was
quite a novelty.
The Decatur Iminigratioh Society held
its regular monthly meeting on Monday.
Be stire to get your ticket and go on the
excursion to-day. Last ohe for the sea
son. Good time ; lots fun !
£>scar Donalson says he will soon have
some of his patent-tanned leather On the
market.
The Columbus string band has been
serenading quit§ extensively in Bain
bridge for a week past.
And now It’s in order tb elect Harde
an delegates Saturday. Prance out, y ou
Hardeman men.
f'HE CASH ONLY,
F® & I’ercnles at 10 cts.
, fine
quality, 15 to 80-cfs
!, -ius 18
* hoods 15 ets
pWliing ]o
cfs
lulling In 'toarket Pi. 1 , cfs
I
ngs at cost
5 upwards
Kwi width, ht 20 dfS
1 -o and 30 cts
! «ion Fans a't cost
" f leav *r.g in a slidrt time for
markets to purchase my Fall man delegates Saturday.
I will otFer from this day
Some people say they couldn’t sleep
Tuesday morning after daylight. Well,
suppose they couldn’t ?
Mr. Julius Steininger has left for the
North. • He will not return until about
the first of September. >
W illiams & Beach immortalized them
selves' Monday bight. ’Nougli to make a
darkey ashamed of himself.
Our worthy Ordinary has Imd the dan
gerous hill on this side of the river at the
Free Ferry put in excellent condition.
In two or three weeks more the farmers
will be gathering corn out of-their fields.
Theu they can sing, “everything’s lovely
and the goose hangs high.”
Saturday during the mass meeting will
he a good time to subscribe for the Dem
ocrat. See either of the editors or Mr.
John D. Harrell, agent.
Simon Weil is going on the excursion
to-day. The Captain has generously con
sented UOt to charge him any freight on
his fedt.
We had the pleasure of sqrezing Henry
Barfeett’s hand this week. He opens his
store here next month. Look out for his
big advertisement.
A colored man oh the west side of the
river was bitten by a rattlesnake one day
last week. He lived long enough to say
good bye to his friends and make his-will
of earthly possessions.
Our base ball boys were badly disap
pointed about their game ou the Fourth.
Thcv challenged both the Thomasville
and Quiucy clubs, and neither could be
here. Some other time, boys.
The Oak City fire company was to
have had a reception at the Hall of the
company, on the night of the Fourth, but
as some of the military committee seemed
to regard it as au infringement on their
day, the geDerous firemen gracefully gave
way.
The Skillet Club returned last Wednes-
day, after a week’s stay on Spring Creek.
Bill bums says he had more fun than he
ever had before, and if the “snake medi
cine had have held out, no definite idea
cou be formed as to when the boys
would have got back.
Now is qbout the time of year to take a
campaign newspaper. The Democrat is
for sale cheap. Come along, friends, you
need the paper and we need the money.
Our paper will be enlarged to full size
soon, and we intend to make it the best
paper in this country.
Rev. R. L. Honiker, formerly of this
place, and now of Albany, is in town as
sisting in the revival now in progress. He
has many warm friends here who were
delighted to see him.
and the writer of these lines. At about
8 o’clock, the clever Captaih Sparks as
cended his throne on the hurricane deck
from which position orders came thick
and fast, and soon we were gliding down
the beautiful Flint. Among the passen
gers we may mention Judge H. C. Rinov
of Tallahassee Fla., A. K Leon, Esq^of
Quincy, H. H. Spear of Chattahoochee,
lr. Love and his amiable and beautiful
daughter. We arrived at Columbus on
Sunday, the 25tb, ahd the party Were
granted the benefit of a quiet night’s rest,
something very much needed by all. We
had the pleasure, in company with some
of the party, of attending divine worship
at one of the many fine churches of which
Columbus can boast.
Oh Monday we took a look around the
city, and found, from conversation with
some of the leading business meh, that
Columbus, like other places throughout
Georgia, is excessively dull just now
We are under the impression, however,
that Columbus has a bright future, and
some day will rank high as one of the
manufacturing cities of the ebufatry. We
visited the courthouse, where the Superior
Court was in session and engaged in the
trial of Rev. C. A. Kendrick, charged
with the seduction of Fannie Bush, a thir
teen year old girl. The case was conduc
ted with a great, deal of anility on both
sides, and, to tell the truth, Kendrick has
made a great deal better showing than we
had been led to expect, though we are
convinced the verdict of the jury, when
they found him guilty of adultery, was a
perfectly righteous one. We had a talk
with accused, on the subject of his trou
bles, and though in the sympathy of our
soul disposed to grant him the benefit of
every available doubt, he utterly and en
tirely failed to advance anything to waver
our steady belief in his guilt—not of the
charge upon which he whs arraigned, but
notoriously so of adultery. Kendrick is
a young man of probably thirty-three
years, medium build, handsome, fair
complexion, blue eyes, and, withal,
turned down in the “class.”
It is needless for us to speak of the kind
attentions of the officers of the boat All
who have ever took passage on. this justly
popular craft are so well acquainted with
s meuts, that anything commendatory
a our hands would be entirely superflu-
whi J°; hosewfao not acquainted
*ith the boat and its management, we
go say, in our experience in steamboat
travel we never met a more polite, oblig-
mg and generous set of men. Capt. Jack
Williams, who has been very seriously
sick for some time past, has, his ffiany
friends in this section will be ^fad to
learti, so far recovered as to be able to re
sume his duties on his boat. Mac Sparks
has been acting as Captain for some tiibe,
and right worthily does he fill the place.
In this connection we willgivethe peo
II SALES m
combs
DESIGNS
bacon
UCED
j tale decline in price
I’ke West.
fear coffee
lower than the lowest,
Red Sign
J 3TEINIHGER,
of the
|^°re and Grangers’
very fine looking specimen of God s han
diwork. He has a pleasing address, and
is credited with being a man of extraor
dinarily fine talent. He was fined five
hundred dollars, has paid it and is at lib
erty. Miss Fannie Bush is a very pretty
girl of thirteen years, ratheir inclined to
be dark, though not enough so to be call
ed brunette. She has a pleasant-Iooking
face, well-developed forih, and altogether
is far above mediocrity in good looks and
attractiveness. While in the court room
she seemed to possess an air of noncha-
lence, amounting to perfect indifference
as to her situation or surroundings. To
see her on the street with her smiling and
pleasant face, with her shorty dress barely
reaching her shoe tops, a stranger would
naturally enough take her for a happy,
light-hearted school girl, instead of the
guilty, wretched woman her own
confession makes her. In the language
of the man who said ft, “Vat a country,
vat a beopleS !’’
We had the pleasure of forming the
acquaintance of that brilliant journalist
and agreeable gentleman, Major C. How
ard Williams, formerly proprietor, now
one of the editors of the Times. We
were pleased to learn from him that the
Times is in a flourishing condition.
Our steamer left City of Mills on Tues
day morning, and having got a fne string
band aboard, our party resolved itself info
a committee of the whole on the state of
the dance, and down the river we had a
merry time. We had some gay boys
along, and the way they made things hum
—you just go ask Sparks.
We arrived at home on Wednesday af
ternoon, completely worn out with frol
icking with the boys, dancing with the
girH and hard study to keep from being
this trip down
* ig Foot was loaded down with
freight, but not a pound of it came to Bain-
bndge, but we noticed that the Wylly
then loading at Columbus, had a large
cargo for this place. Now Bainbridge is
patronizing the Wylly exclusively, while
the other merchants along the rivers are
dividing their freights in order to keep
up competition. We talked to a gentle
man who lives on Chattahoochee river,
and he said his plan was to give one-half
his freight io each line, in order to keep
up competition, for, said he, while the
charges of the Big Foot are a little more
than those of the Central Line how, they
are considerably less than rates; of freight
before the former came on the river, and
if we allow her run off .we will again be
at the mercy of a heartless monopoly.
This seems to be the idea of all the mer-
chahts bn the other river, for, from Co
lumbus to Chattahoochee, the boat made
forty landings. We are afraid our Bain
bridge people will find theirs to be a pen
ny wise and pound foolish idea in the
end
Smith & l¥&hb
H A Sro UST ^ :CE1VED at their popular
1,000 bushels White Corn at 90 cents.
10 casks Bacon. '
barrels Wofar.
35 boxes Tobicco, direct from factories in
Virginia and North Carolina.
As also a large assortment of all kinds of
goods' usually kept in a large Grocery
House, and which they will sell for
LESS THAN ANT OTHER H6 USE’HERE.
The Glorious Fourth- ,
This day was celebrated with becoming
ecldt. The dawh was hshered in by roari
ing cannon and rattling driirhs. Many
people from the country were nrcsehr
At 9 m.. the procession h"ad
ed by the Bainbridge Independents, Capt.
Fleming commanding, marched out to
Camp Campbell. At 11 o’clock the exer
cises began with prayer by Rev. Mr.
Lockwood, theft the reading of the Dec
laration of Independence by Z. T. Craw
ford, Esq., and followed by the most able
address of Col. Charles J. Munnedyn,
Orator of the Day. The address was re
plete with eloquence, argument and logic,
and struck the key note bf our present
condition as a country. We shall prbba-
blv publish it. After Col. M. had conclu
ded, Hon. Daniel McGill read a his-
tbry of Baihbridge, which he had prepar
ed at the request of the City Council.
This will also be published. The exer
cises were closed with the benediction by
Rev. Mr. Honiker.
The dinner was ample we suppose, and
ho one went away hungry. The Cornet
Band, under Prof. Geeks, discoursed the
rnnsic for the occasion. The prize drill
of the Independents was very ekeiting,
and after a long time private Rosenfeld
was declared the best drilled man. The
prize, a handsome silver cup, was award
ed him by Sergt. Z. T. Crawford, for the
company, in a neat little speech. Private
Rosenfeld responded ditto.
This over, the crowd dispersed.
At night a grand ball was given at
Harmony Hali, at which was gathered
one of the finest crowds we have seen Ifi.
a long time. It was a brilliant affair.
Grbo-d N%ws
For the ladies of the city of Bainbridge and
surrounding country.
SMITH & TSAUB
Have just received one of the largest stocks
E M B R 6'ri) ; E R I E S,
SPRING.& SUMMER v cXlICOES ;
White Lawn, Jaconets, Nainsooks, etc
Ever displayed ih this city,^re bfre&
it prices to suit the times
Special Notide}
MIT H & TRAUB have jtfst received oni
of the largest stocks bf
Gents’ and Boys’ CioVhiltfc
For Spring and Slimmer Wear evbr brbught
to this market, Tlie styles are tLela-
test, the ^price’s lower that ever,-
ahd We WoUld therefore (aVitc
all to examine olir albeit
BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE;
and we
Guarantee Satisfitctixm:
The Eight Hind of Law-
One night last week, Dr. Butts gave a
person in his corn field a plenteous dose
of duck shot. The fellow run off, blit
left copious signs of blood in the field.
He will probably not steal any more c6rh
out ol that patch.
Monday night Capt. John T. Wimberly
fired at a thief in his farm, who was steal
ing com. He thinks he struck him
Bird shot used.
That’s the way, folks, if you wdiild
have anything in this country! yoU rhust
watch it.
Smith & Trafib
la a
Sad Accident;
A little son of Dr. L. H. Peacock, who
lives in Attapulgus in this county, acci
dentally met his death in that village last
Saturday. He had been hunting and was
carelessly handling his gun when it fired,
the contents penetrating a vital part. He
lived but two hours and a half after the
accident. We tender our warmest sym
pathies to the bereaved parents.
Have adopted the mbtto of
‘QUICK SALES AND S&ALL PROFITS.
eW'Will be pleaded to *itow otir gbbdk
tell ybla ihore vetbADy*
SMITH & TRAUBj
d at T. B. HunneWell’s did
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