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sept 11, 1884—Cm
R. I. HARRIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HANIIKUNVILLU. - - •
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in the oounties surrounding Washing
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otdy
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Macon, - - Q-eo.
Excelsior Cook Stoves,
Heating Stoves & Grates
ALSO,
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Goods, Table and Pocket Cut
lery, Tinware, Agate, Iron
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Low prices for the best of goods. Call
and see ns, or write for catalogue aud priooj
We are also agent for l'avis's Swing Churn.
June 26, 1884-ly
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(Suoceusors to CAttH>^^*’•* CURD.)
MACON, GA.
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Hardware, Iron & Steel,
Agricultural Implement!,
Carriage Materials, Paints, Oils, Ac.
Agents for Mnssey’s Excelsior Cotton OiDS,
Disston’s Circular Saws, and Fairbank’s Stan
dard Scales. jane 20. 1884—ly
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
TENNILIJi, «A.
• All business promptly attended to,
_deo 7,1878—ly
DR. J. H. MAY,
ganderaville, Wa.
O FFERS his sorvices to the citizens' of
Sandersville and adjacent country. All
calls day or night will he promptly responded
to. ^-Offloo at his residence on Mrs. Pitt
man’s lot, oorner of HarriB and Churoh
tweets. jan 10, 1884—tf
The Georgia Mutual Aid
Association,
OP SANDERSVILLE, GA.
T HE abovd named Mutual Aid Association
having been chartered at the Maroh
term of the Superior Court of Washington
county, is now ready to receive application
for members. The largost or smallest
amount of insurance taken on any one life
by this Association will he 1000 dollars, and
that only on the healthiest subjeots.
Entrance fee 3 Dollars, Assessments 1 dol
lar when n brother memoer dies, and 1 dol
lar annual dues on first of each Deoemher,
W. G. FURSE,
Geu. Fire A Life Ins. Agent
Agents Wantod. Manager.
The following well known prominent gen.
tlernen are now members and constitute the
advisory board:
Jno. N. Gilmore, Ex Seuator,
J. T. Youngblood, Ex Representative,
Di. M. D.C. M. Summerlin, “
P. R. Taliaferro, Present Countv Tres’r
O. H. Rogers, Mayor of Sandersville,
A. M. Mayor, Clerk of Court,
Dr. J. H. May,
•‘ Wm. Rawlings,
•• G. W. H. Whitaker, Tres. A. L. of H
mar 27. 1884—tf
A Nhort Mermon.
BY ALICE CARY.
Child.•en who read my lay,
This much 1 have to say :
Each day and every day,
Do what is right—
Right things in great and small ;
Then, though the sky should fall,
Sun, moon and stars and all,
You shall have light.
This further I would say ;
Re tempted as you may,
Eaoh day and every day,
Speak what is true—
True things in great and small,
TheD, though the sky should fall,
Sun, moon and stars and all,
Heaven would shine through.
Figs, as you Bee and know,
Do not out of thistles grow ;
And though the blotBoms blow
While on the tree,
Gropes never, never yet
On the limbs of thorns were set;
So if you a good would get,
Good you must be.
Life's journey through and through,
Speaking what is just and true,
Doing whut is right to do
Unto ono and all,
When you work and when you play,
Eaoh day and every day,
Then peace shall gild your way
Though the sky should fall.
Old Itye’s Ipccch.
I was made to be eaten,
And not to be drank ;
To be threshed In a bun.
Not snaked in a tank.
I come as a blessing
When put through n mill:
As a blight and a curse
When run through a still.
Make me into loaves, ■
* Aud your children are fed ;
Uni if into drink,
I will starve them instead.
In bread, I'm a servant.
The *•>*'•' "Rail rnle ;
in drink I am master,
The drinker a fool.
Then remember the warning :
My strength 1'U employ,
Ii eaten to strengthen,
II drank to destroy.
“Yes; I Raw him twice. I made a
short visit to a friend in Albauy,
and while there I oalled to see the
Governor, and I met him again in
cidentally when he was in New
York.”
“What were yonr impressions of
him as a man and an offioial?”
“He impresses me very favorably
indeed. He is certainly a man of
great force of character and will
power, and is thrf most frank and
outspoken man for a politician I
have ever met. He asks and an-
gress was that of ft greedy, unscru-
pulous tool of monopoly, a salary
grabber and railroad, bank and cor
poration advocate.
Second. He only left the old par
ties and accepted the nomination of
the Greenback and anti-monopoly
parties when he had ontlived the
hopes of reward from the Democrats
ana Republicans, and came iutd the
labor movement at the eleventh boor
to reap the reward of other men’s
labor. * * *
Resolved, That we denounce B.
F. Butler as a fraud and imposter,
and advise nil workingmen to sup'
ewers questions in a straightforward
manner, and is strong-armed, fear
less and self possessed. He is just port the candidates of the Democat
such a man as would repulse an as- io party*
sailaut and go to his work without (Sighed) James A. Thompson,
exhibiting the least agitation. The President Oar Drivers' Union,
incident related in the telegram in Chairman,
to-day's Morning News in which he John J. Oavanaoh, President Eo-
was assaulted by a desperate man, gineers’ Union, Secretary
gives you an idea of his character in
this respect. In a short oonversa
tion with him, I was impressed with
his ideas of government. He thinks
that the Government is beat admin
istered that is conducted on busi
ness principles, as be stated in bis
short speech in the Aoademy of
Music. He appears to have little
idea of polioy in its nsnal political
sense, and in the matter of pardons oa8e involving liability for debt con
especially he has adhered oonsis- trftoted by gamb i ing
in cotton fu
tures is reproduced from the Angus
ta Chronicle of the 23d inat. It
conclnsivejy shows the growing die
favor in which this demoralizing
and ruinous speoies of gambling is
held. A practioe that not only
ruins tho victims decoyed into the
snares of these gambling rings, but
_ ... , unsettles and depreciates at will the
“What is your feeling, General, prioe ot thig great 8tap l e , should bo
“From all I have seen and heard, P afc down b J tbe gt,on « of the
. . .
erned alone by the merits of each
case presented to him without re
gard to outside or personal infl i-
enoes. I think he will make a safe,
conservative aud able executive."
“What do yon think of Tammany
Hall, General.”
“I am satisfied that Tammany
will support Cleveland and Hen
dricks and give them a full vote.”
"og.
as to what the result will be?’’
Editorial Notea
Extremely cold weather is repor
ted at the North on Thursday last.
Snow fell in various parts of Penn
sylvania and in Canada it reached
the depth of six inches.
B. F. Jenkins a former Methodist
minister has been sentenced to the
penitentiary (or life in Louisiana for
the murder of Rev. J. Lane Borden
The sentence has jnst been affirmed
by the Supreme Court.
A full electoral ticket for St. John
and Daniel was recently nominated
by the prohibition convention in At
lanta. The candidate named in the
10th district was Judge W. Milo Olin
of AuguBta, he however declines the
honor and will support the Demo
cratic nominees. A fall electoral
ticket has also been pat oat for St.
John in North Carolina.
Cotton Futures Before the Superior
Court—The Case of the National
Augusta vs. Robert E. Cunningham
on 1 rial—Cotton Futures and
Gambling Debts.
The subjoined disposition of a
I feel very bopWul. Gov. Cleveland law
is confident of vioto ’ ‘
M.D.C.M. SUMMERLIN, MD
—PHYSICIAN and SURGEON—
Sun Hill, - - - Georgia
All oalls for professional service promptly
responded to.
mar Office at fits 'resideuoe.
jan 27-tf
S. W. H. Whitaker,
DENTIST
Sandersville, Ga.
TEIIMS CASH.
Office at his resldenoeon Harris Street,
dee. 7. 1878—tf
TflEO.MARKW ALTER,
STEAK
Marble & Granite Works
BROAD ST., NEAR LOWER MARKET
AUGUSTA. GA.
MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES
—AND—
Marble Work Generally
1MADE TO ORDER.
A large selection always on hand ready for
lettering and delivery. 3 23-81-ly.
FOR SALE.
Chas„ F. Lombard, Pro’r.
P ENDLETON F. and M. WORKS has for
sale one
24 Burnham Water Wheel,
good as new, also one
6 H. P. Economizer Engine,
on wheels, just been overhauled and in good
order. I am also prepared to do repair work-
in a flrst-olass workman liko manner. Par
ties wanting work will do well to correspond
with me.
nov 8,1883—tf
Edgerton House
MACON, - - GEORGIA,
—OPPOSITE PASSENGER DEPOT.—
„ Rates *2.00 psr day.
E. E. BROWN & SON, Proprietors.
W 17, 1883—ti
CENTRAL HOTEL
Augustay Georgia#
In the oentre of the City, and of businest
With Rail Road, and Steamship Tioket office
in Rotunda, where all information will b
slvon as to thearrival.and departure of trains;
Mrs. WM. M. THOMAS,
deo. 7, 1878—tf Proprietress.
Plantation for Sale*
A valuable plantation in this fine agrioultn-
tal county is now offered for sale. 1 he tract
contains 675 acres and has about a ton horse
farm of open land under good fence and in
a good state of cultivation. There is a oom-
mon dwelling upon the plaoe, and twelve
tenant houses well distributed over the tract
There ore good orchards, and good water,
stook of most any kind desired oan be had
if needed by purchaser. Ihe place is two
miles from the pleasant town of Tennille and
has a public road running through it For
terms and further information oall1 at this
nfflflo WM. lrAlUkt
Sandersville, aug 28,1834—3m
Hides Wanted
HIGHEST CASH prioe paid for Otter,
Beaver and Cow Hides. Bewwax and Tallow.
Beaver auu W p Happ'g Bon Jb Co.
Sandersville, May 3.1881-M
Short Notea.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt has donated
1500,000 to the New York College of
Physicians and Surgeons.—The
profits from the Alabama penitentia
ry for two years Lave boon $70,000.
—Daring a riot *at Hong. Kong Chi*
na, the mob was fired upon and sev
eral persons killed.—Th e recent ty
phoon in Tokia Japan killed 20 per'
sons and destroyed wholly or in
part 3000 houses.—Dr. Louis A.
Dugas of Augusta one of the most
eminent Burgeons of the United
States is dead.—A colgred man
bearing the same name of the un
fortunate inmate of the 'Sandersville
jail, Warren Prioe, shot and killed
Jim McCormick, col., recently, says
the Hawkinsville News.— Hon. John
H. Evins Congressman from South
Carolina, is dead. He was a brave
soldier in war, a pious, man, and an
able statesman.
Gen. Lawton’s Views.
Gen. A. R. Lawton having just re
turned from New York, was inter
viewed the post week by a reporter
of the Savannah Morning News as
to the political outlook at the North,
and we take pleasure in submitting
to our readers the views of one for
whom they have so high a regard,
and whose opinions are so greatly
respected. It will be seen the Gen
eral is altogether sanguine of the
election of Cleveland aud Hen
dricks. Hero is the report:
“Yousaw Gov. Cleveland, did you
not General?"
▲ Notable Case.
tiaot that the cotton was not to be
delivered to or received by the de
fendant at a future day, bat there
was to be a settlement at a future
day when the defendant waa to pay
or receive the difference between the
oontraot price and the market price
on the day of settlement, then the
ilaintiff oan not recover. The oonrt
urther oharged that if the oontraot
was severable, as claimed by the
ilaintiff, and the consideration was
n part legal and part illegal, the
jury should find in favor of the
ilaintiff upon that part wbieh waa
egal.
The jury, after a short absence
from the court room, returned with
a verdiot in behalf of the defendant.
The plaintiff was represented by
Mesara. F. H. A W. K. Miller, and
the defendant by Meoara. Foster St
Lamar. Couuael announce the in
tention to move for a new trial.
The Littleness of Fame.
victory, and Ins ooh- The Separior Court conoluded on
fidence appears to be well founded, vesterday the trial of the disc or tne
There is a gennine belief that he National Bank of Angnata va. Rob'
will undoubtedly carry New York, ert E. Cunniugham, a cotton futures
New Jersey, Indiana and Connecti- case, which has attracted consider'
cat, and perhaps some other North- able attention. The history of the
ern States. As to the “Solid Sooth," case is as follows: On* tbe 16th of
there are no fears about that since February, 1881, Robert E. Cunning
the West Virginia eleetion, for West ham gave his promissory note for
Virginia was tbe only donbtful $3,500, with interest, to Warren
Southern State. Wallace A Co. Messrs. Warren
Wallace A Co. nogotiated the note
A Reign of Terror. transferring it to the National Bank
Tbe following incident from Tay- of Augasta. It was not paid at
l° r county, illu.tr.t6. wh.t m.y b. “S^Oo’SninjSul!”®’. l“i
inaptly styled the reign of terror, ter p j ead that tho note was given “to
inaugurating in many sections of the make good and pay any loss that
United States by the U. S. Courts, might accrue on a certain wagering,
In this county many peaceable, citi- gambling, immoral and illegal oon«
ecus are .objected to uu^orou. in- "itlWlTo. 0 '.^”
dignities, dragged away Irom their der8tand j ng by both parties that the
homes and foroed at night often to cotton was not to be delivered to or
go as prisoners to Macon, nnder received by the defendant; that
guard of men whom they would not there was to be a settlement at a fu-
B . , •„ ture day when the defendant was to
associate with under other mroum. reoei vew pay the difference between
stances, to answer for charges that contract price and the market
these auardB have from venal mo- p r j 0 e on the day the settlement waa
tives “nosed” up agaiDst them. It made, eto.’’.
is sad indeed when the government The plaintiff demurred to this
iuobuupd tab*. Ib. guurdioo Sltt.at'SS
and defense of the people, to be ^ tbe dflmarrer , holding that tbe
their prosecutors hounding after defendant should have set forth in
them so, that patriotism gives place his plea that the bank wab not
holder of the note in good faith with'
‘ - • No
By the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems.
All men seem more or less moved
to desire to be known among their
fellow-men, and every man cf intel
lect and sensibility has dreamed of
posthumous fame.
After all, how little it is!
The names of Plato and Socrates
arc heard among men, and scarcely
one in a thousand knows whether
these men lived a thousand years
ago or three thousand, whether they
were Greeks or Romans or Jews.
Not one in a thousand who has
heard these names could repeat
single sentanoe that one bad written
or the other had spoken.
A man figures largely in pnblio
affairs. To me hs has been much.
Perhaps in boyhood I read a book
which na wrote, full of thonght and
teaming, and ever since I have read
everything he has written, 'fie baa
seemed to me a wondrous man, and
perhaps I have felt that my highest, braced in his early life!
to contempt of tbe powers that be ... - .
* n out notice before maturity.
county, who had .ome troubJ Jitb b ** ri “P -Mthou h.d afou «b
rtoUoit.dSUt.uoffio.*, but from SEw* to
whioh he was entirelyyrelieved, be- Snpreme Oourt That court revere
in nnno«. decision ....
holding in effect that the good faith
5f cotton (sixteen bales), and fled tb~ S
country for parts unknown, leaving render the note vaUd if lhe congid
bis family wholly nn Pfotectedj efation wftg on a00 oant of “fatare"
Three of Lib neighbors and some of traDBacboD8> j„ the language of
his °! redlt< ? r “'""“(HsInMar Ju8tioe Blandford.who delivered the
nancially bv his sudden disappear- opiuion of the oourt , <q t came into
auce, called at the United the worid still-born, though odorous
Court to learn the nature o*^® w ith crime aud no subsequent trans-
ebarges if any, against him. Their ction j Q rolatioQ t j£J e to could
overwhelming astonishment when u or ^ u ftQy vUftlity> into
informed there was absolutely noth w bose8oever hands it might come,
mg against him in the courts^ can be A nQte tainted| atJ thig is gaid to be ,
will be considered as giving nctioe
more easily imagined than describ
ed. They returned, carrying with
them official assurance of this fact,
and hoped to be able to discover
the absent neighbor and induce
him to return to his home and bus
iness. Many people in the rural
districts have a singular and dread
ful fear of being brought into tbe
United States Gourts.
Ben Batier is not so solid among
the laboring men as he could wish,
as we may infer from the tenor of
the resolutions passed by a commit
tee from the National Labor party
held in Clarenden Hall New York
on21stinst. vVe make tbe following
extraot lrom from the resolutions
that were adopted.
“Whereas, Benjamin F. Butler is
traveling through this State mas-
quernadiug as a protecionist and
friend of the working-man, be it
Resolved, that we call the atten
tion of tbe workingmen and anti
monopolists to the following foots
that prove him to be a monopolist
and enemy of labor,
i first. His whole oareer in Con
itself of its illegal and oriminal birth
and origin to whosoever it may
come." The Court proceeds with
much warmth aud severity to char
acterize transactions oalled futures
He speaks of faro, brag or poker as
"tame, gentle, submissive animals
compared to this monster,” which
is further referred to as a “ferocious
beast, allowed to stalk about in open
midday, with gilded signs and fla'
miog advertisements to allure the
unhappy viotim to its embrace of
death and destruction.”
The case again came np for trial
on Tuesday last, tbe chief issue be
ing whether, as a matter of fact, the
consideration of the note was money
doe on account of future specula
tions. As to the nature of the trans
action, the testimony of Mr. Cun
ningham, and Messrs. Wallace A
Cranston, the parties thereto, was
somewhat at variauee. The Coart
charged that “if the consideration
of the note was immoral or illegal, if
the transaction waa a merespeoala-
ambition would have been gratified
to have been that man’s equal. To
day he dies; to-morrow I open the
morning papers and find twenty five
lines devoted to his memory. That
looks like the end of nature.
A municipal politician robbed tbe
city, waa captured, made his e?oape,
and was caught. Now about the
man more words have been printed
than are contained in the Bible, the
Koran, tbe works of Plato and Cie-
ero altogether. A history written of
these times for the readers of s een
tury hence may contain a score or
two of words of him.
Two hnndred years hence there
will probably be no need to mention
him.
Another disoonnt to fame is made
by examining a cyclopedia. A liv
ing man would have a naif a column
perhaps a whole column, in the first
edition; fourteen years after he is
reduced to ten lines; from the next
edition he will disappear ; as many
written iu the first edition as omit
ted in tbe second.
Regard for one's repntation is aim
)ly decent; hot the desire to be
mown may become a morbidity of
so fierce a nature that it mav ran
into raving madness. God knows
all, and tells all, that needs to be
told. The man that does a mem
orable thing will have it pnblished
throughout the whole spiritual world
even it it never be gazetted on earth.
“Let your light shine,” said the
Master. Well, if you have no light
there is nothing to let shine. If yon
have any light it gives jnst so muoh
luminousness and no more. Yon
oannot wave your torch mnoh high
er than yonr bead, nor make tbe
sheen of a candle travel as fsr over
the seas as the light from the great
lamp in the light house sent ont by
its many reflectors.
Have light! Let it shine in the
world. But when yon have done
even more than any other man has
done in a thousand years vour
name may be simply s word on
whioh men will hang their dreams
and aspirations. It will be nothing
to you. Men and women are gall-
iog themselves for petty social dis
tinctions of whioh there will be no
remembrance a quarter of a centu
ry hence.
How little is human fame, and
how great is the approval of the
Lord 1 “If any man serve me, him
will my Father honor.”
Charles H. Spurgeon,
Of the London Metropolitan Tabernacle.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who
discards the nsnal title of reverend,
ie an English Baptist minister of the
liberal type. While he teaobM that
baptism should be administered to
believers exclusively, he adnuniatars
tbe Lord’s Bupper to those who dif
fer from him in this view. On the
other hand, he is the pastor of a
church whioh refuses church mem
bership to all excepting thoea who
hold that only persons who havo
been baptized after tbe proteeaion
of their faith in Christianity abould
be admitted to church membership.
All the members of bis ohuroh are,
therefore, Baptists, but all Chris
tiana are weloomed to commune with
them. He has revived old-fashion
ed Oalvanistio preaching in England,
hot those who condemn what is in
their view narrow theological teach
ing admire and love its whole-hear
ted, manlv and genial defender. Mr.
Spnrgeon r s wonderful success as a
minister seems to be due in great
part to his sympathetic, sunny and
brotherly disposition, his humor and
ready wit. Associated with these
and tending to the same end, is his
uncompromising adherence to the
theological scheme which he em-
His teach-
coagregarion so
accommodations
An old Pedestrian.
Worcester, Mass, October
Capt. Andrews, tbe ninety-three
year old Pedestrian, whq is on his
way to bis home in South Carolina,
reached here from Boston, Saturday.
He stopped on bis way to examine
the Waltham watch factory, aud left
here yesterday for Springfield, where
he will stop one day, tbenoe he goes
to Hartford, where he will remain
for several days. His son urged him
to ride at least part of the wav home
gentleman prefe
ing is certain and consistent, and al
so obarseterized by an extraordina
ry simplicity of expression, assisted
by apt illustration. He is a diligent
student of tbe Puritan 'divines, of
Bunyan particularly. His delivery
is easy, perfectly natural and unaf
fected, earnest bat hot impassioned,
highly pleasing and impressive bat
not exemplifying the highest form of
oratory. His appearanoe is dumpy
and neither very intellectual nor re
fined, but his Bmile is fascinating,
and bis voice is sweet, clear and
flexible. Mr. Spurgeon is the son
of a Congregational ministar. Ha
• as born at Kelvedon, Essex, Eng
land, in 1834 When fifteen years
old he left school as a pupil, and en-
iged himself bb under teaohek at
ewmarket. He gave his thoughts,
after a remarkable religions experi
ence, to the ministry o! the Baptist
denomination, of which he had be
come a meiriber. His first sermon
was delivered while be held tbe po
sition of assistant master in a school
at Cambridge, was presohed in a ti
ny village chapel and was heard
with remarkable interest. His ser
vices were sought eagerly after this,
and he was known over a considera
ble pieoe of oountry as “the boy
reaoher.” Seventeen yean of age
e assumed tbe pastorate of a Bap
tist obureh at Water beach, from
whence he removed to tbe New
Park street Chapel, Southwark, Lon
don, where he attained marvelous
popularity. His
far outgrew the
provided that in 1859 the erection
of a monster building waa deeided
upon. It was opened free of debt
two years afterwards, and from that
time until now has been attended
by a congregation averaging over six
thousand persons on Sundays when
tbe great preaoher occupies its ros
trum. Mr. Spurgeon once preached
to a congregation of twenty-three
thousand at the Crystal Palace near
London. When during the progress
of repairs at bis Metropolitan Tab
ernacle, he preached in the Agricul
tural Hall, Islington, his audience
numbered about twenty thousand
persons at every service. Connec
ted with his oharch, outgrowths of
its energies, are the pastors’ college,
from which several hundreds of
young men have been sent ont as
ministers, and an orphanage whioh
was begun at the instance of a lady
friend who sent Mr. Spurgeon a
check for one hundred thousand dol
lars with which to begin it. In this
institution about three hundred
orphans are fed, lodged, olothed and
educated. Other institutions con
nected with the Tabernacle are a
oolportage association, alms houses
for aged women, missionary stations,
Sunday schools, a mission to the
blind, ladies’ benevolent and mater
nal sooieties and many others. Mr.
Spurgeon was happily married when
a very young man. His twin sons
—he has no other children—are
ministers. Charles, whose churoh
is at Greenwich, England, recently
led
.but the old gentleman prefers to „ „
tion in chances known as ootton in- walk because *T met a good many|visited this oountry and pre
turefc, with tbe understanding or in- girls on the way here and want to,frequently. Thomas lives in New
tention of both parties to the oon-see them again." Zealand.