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mt skly Democrat. !M», Editor and Prop'r AY. MARCH 3,1882. | OF SUBSCRIPTION. $2 00 100 75 ‘.V.'.V. 10 advance. JNG RATES AND RULES, u ■ «* inserted at $2 per square Ion, and §1 for each subse- eight solid lines of Ibis type, nade with contract adverti- t of eight lines are $15 per it per annum. Local notices Iree months arc subject to irertisers who desire their ad- Btanged, must give us two vertisements, unless other- in contract, will be changed square. 1 obituary notices, Iributesof ther kindred notices, charged Itihcraents. :nts must take the run of the not contract to keep them ..r place. mts for candidates are $10, if lertion upon the appearance of the and the money will be col- ,d by the proprieloi. [ere strictly to the aboverulcs, .froia them under no circula t'd- PROFESSIONAL. iDiCAL CARD. J. Nicholson, led to Twilight, Miller conn Bar Office in J. S. Clifton’s feb.9,’82. lEDICAL CARD. J . Morgan id his office to the drug store, jupied by Dr, Harrell. Resi st street, south of Shotwell. It night will reach him. ** tRLES C. BUSH, ney at Law ! COLQUITT, GA. [tention given to all business cn- DENTISTRY. ii r r y , D . D . S ., nd daily at his office on South up stairs, in E. Johnson’s ■re he is ready to attend to the public at reasonable rates. dcc-5-7S m. o'keal IcGILL & O’NEAL, neys at Law. pAINBKlbGE, GA. will be found over the post of- 11.SON, BYRON B. BOWER. li/ER & D0NALS0N, tand Counsellors at Law. Ilic court house. Will practice J and adjoining counties, and |y special contract. a-25 7* R M. L. BATTLE, Dentist. Ivor Hinds Store, West side fc. lias fine dental engine, and |verything to make his office Terms cash. Office hours 9 >. in. jan.lStf ?. L. H. PEACOCK, H. F. SHARON, ney at Lav/. Dilice in Court House. Rice iu all the courts of the uit aud Supreme Court of In the Circuit and Supreme ’lorida, and elsewhere by special go. Ga.. April 23, 1881—ly. Omnia Yincit.” tenders his professional serv- people of Rainbridge and vicini- r store of J. D. Harrell & Bro on West end of .Broughton ho can be found at night. 1881—Gm. BY BEX. E. RUSSELL. BAINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1882. YOL. 11.—NO. 21. BLOOD ATOALMEAT. EFF D. TALBERT, rney at Law, plain bridge. Georgia. Ictice in all tho courts, and busi- itvd to his cate will be promptly o. Office over store of M. E. Son. feb.23,’82. Unman Sacrifice Among the Jloriuouit.—The Unnitico. •T. W. Bruel writes as follows to the St. Loui3 Republican, from Salt Lake City: With regard to blood atonement I am as sured that it is practiced to-day as fre quently as it was twenty-five years ago, though not so openly. There are no coro ners in Utah, aud when a body is dead it is simply hurried. Poison does the work aud there are no inquiries. When a man gets tired of iiis wife be poisons her. One crime which was committed here a short time ago, I must describe. Mrs. Maxwell came to Salt Lake City with her husband in 1869. Two years afterward her husband took another wife and one year subsequent he was seald to a third. Mrs. Maxwell had two sons aged, re spectively, fourteen and sixteen years. Their father urged them to go through the Endowment home and become Mormons, bound by all the oaths ol the church. Mrs. Maxwell objebted and in order to prevail over her sons she told them the secrets of the Endowment house. The penalty for revealing these secrets is dismemberment of the body, the throat cut, and tongue torn out. Mr. Maxwell overheard his wife, being in an adjoining room, aud forthwith he informed the elders, who serft for the unfortunate woman and her two sons. They were taken to what is called the ‘•dark pit,” a blood atoning room under Brigham Young’s house. The waman was then stripped of all her clothing and tied on her back to a large table. Six mem bers of the priesthood then performed their damnable crime; they first cut off their victim's tongue, they then cut her throat, after which her legs-jnd arms were severed. The sons weje compelled to stand by and witness this dreadful slaughter of their mother. They were then released and given twenty-four hours to get out of the teritory. which was then an impossibility. The sons went directly to the house of a friend, to whom they related the butchery of their mother, and obtaining a package of provisions they started, but on the fol lowing morning they were both dead— they had met the Danities. One other case, almost similar to the above,occurred about five years ago, in the city ball. These are truths, and the lady to whom the sons told their story is willing to make affidavit to tlie facts if- she can be guaranteed im munity from Mormon vergence. Saving; the Pecans. “Y ou picked the pecans on Onion creek, yoa say,” said an Austin reporter yester day to a young man on a wagon filled with pecans. •‘Yes. sir,” he replied, “that's where they came from.” “Many up there?” “Plenty of them.” “Believe I’ll try a few,” quizzed the re porter, taking a big handful of the pecans. "I’ll sell you a whole peek for fifty cents,” said the man with swelling eyes. “Only want a few. Say, do you know any news?” “Not a bit, sir; everything is very doll up our way.” “Don’t you know anything?” “Well, I believe I did hear 3ome ncw9 yesterday.” ,‘What was it?” asked the repoter cracking a pecan. “There was a man got eighteen buck shot in him near where I live.” “Who shot him ?” “I did.” “What did yon shoet him for?” asked the reporter, aghast. “For stealing some of my pecans out of of my wagon,” said the countryman, reach-' ing under the seat for his stot-gun. The reporter hastily replaced the pecans in the wagon, aud after calling the coun tryman Colonel, disappeared arouud the corner. spring and summer samples are r excelcucy of quality, bcau- md economy* of prices they ere t of ore exhibited. Will do’hi rig to order here and ie-style, fit aud workmanship of the northern trades, J. I IIAIIN, at C. K. Daniel’s store. iKER AND JEWELER. Street, Bainbridge, Ga and repairing, watches, ing-machines and all kiuds of ne with neatness and dispatch, dl work warranted.'MSt ►, Ga., August 4.1874— Personating u Nightingale. Id one of the pieces recently performed at Munich for the private delectation of the eccentric king of Bavaria, a scene oc curs in which a nightingale is to appear in the branch of a tree warbling its sweet notes. Unfortunately there exists thus far no instrument closely imitating the song of this queen of birds; surely no bird could have been found loyal enough to sing even to u king in winter, mild as the season Las proved up to this time. The despair of the stage manager may therefore be readily imagined. Still, the truth of the old pro verb, "The greater the need, the nearer the help.” was once moore vindicated in this trying dilemma. A bootmaker. Bach- thaler by name, who has frequently amused and delighted his friends by his wonderful imitative talent, was applied to by the distressed official and persuaded to place himself behind the scenes, and at a given signal to “personate” the charming songster which he did to the entire satisfaction of his royal listener. At the next perform ance there will doubtless be read on the “single” play-bill printed for the king: “A nightingale, Mr. Bcchthaler.”— Ameri can Register. They Never Get Over It. Do you know, my dear,’ she sudden ly said as she looked up from ber piece work—‘do you know that next week will be the 20th anniversary of oar wedding?’ ‘Is that so ? By George ! how times flies ! Why, I had no idea of it*’ ‘Yes, we have been married almost twenty long years,’ she continued, with something of a sigh. You have been a good husband to me, darling.' ‘And you have been a blessed little wife to me, Susan. Come here till 1 kiss yon. There ! •I was thinking to-day—I was think ing of—of—’ * ‘Of that sickly faced baboon who used to go home with you from prayer meeting before I knew you ? he inter rupted. ‘\Vhal do you mean ? ‘Why, that Brace fellow, of course, ‘Why, George, he wasn’t such a bad fellow.’ ‘Wasn’t be ? Well, I’d like to know of a worse one. lie didn’t know enough to chew putty, and then you were as good as engaged to'him. ‘Yes, George, hut you know you were keeping company at the same time with that Helen Perkins. ‘That Helen Perkins? Wasn’t Miss Perkins one of the liveliest and prettiest young ladies in Tennessee ? ‘No, she wasn't! She had teeth like a horse! ‘She did, eh! How about that stoop shouldered, white headed, Brace ? ‘And such big feet as she had! Why. George, she was stock of the town. ‘Not much, she wasn’t! She was a young lady who would have made a model wife. ‘Then why didn’t yon marry her and all her moles and warts and mushroom eyes? ‘Don’t talk that way to me! Her eyes were as nice as yours ! ‘They want! ‘They wa3 ! I believe you are sorry because you didn’t marry Brace 1 ‘And I know you are sorry because you didn’t marry that beautiful and accomplished Miss Perkins ! ‘I am, ch ? I thought you said I had been a good husband to you ? ‘Didn’t you call me your blessed little wife ? Then he plumped down and began to read the mortgage sales and adver tisements in the paper, and she picked up her sewing and gave the cat a gentle kick. These old things will come up now and then, and somehow neither side ever gets entirely ever them. Changing Place*. A sitizsn who had an office in the top story of a block on Griswold street had half a ton of coal dumped on the walk the other day, and the oart hadn’t yet disappeared when a boy came puf fing upstairs and called out: “Say, want that coal lugged up 7” “That’s no wap to address a person,” replied the man. “Why don’t you ad dress me in a civil, polite manner ?” “Dunno how,” answered the boy. “Well, I’ll show you. Sit down here and suppose you are the owner of the efflee and I am the boy who wants to bring up your coal.” He stepped into the hall and knock ed on the door, and as the boy cried “come in,” the man entered the room with his hat in his hand and began : “Beg pardon, sir, but you have some coal on the walk below.” “Yes.” “Shall I bring it up for you 7” “Oh, certainly!” “How much will you pay, “Well,” replied the boy, as he look ed around at the scanty furniture. “I generally promise a boy fifteen cents aud shove a bogus quarter on him, but seeing it’s you, and ^ou are the only support of a large family, if you’ll bring up that coal aud put it in that box, I’ll give you my whole income for a year and a half and a pair of old boots in the bargain.” “Boy, what do you mean ?” demand ed the man, as he flushed up. But the boy dodged him and reached the stairs, and as he paused at one of the landings to look up he called out; “I expected every minute that you’d the laughing j advise me to get that coal upstairs be- ^ fore some creditor gobbled it! You can’t play boy for shucks.”—Detroit Free Dress. Good Advice. Try popcorn for nausea. Try crambemes for malaria. Try a sunbath for rheumatism. Try ginger ale tor stomach cramps. Try clam brath for a weak stom ach. Try cranberry poultice for erysip elas. Try gargling lager beer for cure of sore throat. Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless. Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach. Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel. Try eating onions and horse radish to relieve dropsical swellings. Try buttermilk for removal of freckles tan and butternut stains. Try to cuitivate an equable temper, and don’t borrow trouble ahead. Try the croup tippet when a child is likely to be troubled that way. Try a hot dry flannel over the seat of neuralgic pain and renew frequently. Try taking your codliver oil m tomato catsup, if you want to make it pala table. Try hard cider—a wineglassful three times a day—for ague and rheuma tism. Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or caroblic acid to relieve whooping cough. Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening. Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat. Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal “cold in the head. Try an extra pair of stockings outside of your shoes when traveling in cold weather.—Dr.Foote’s Health Monthly. FOR THE LADIES. An Ancient Legend. One of the most beautiful legends of ancient times is told as hapening on the site of Solomon’s Temple, the memory of which hallowed scene was remember ed when the temple was decided upon, and which caused it to be built thereon. The story goe3 that the land was owned and ocoupied by two brothers, one of whom had a family, and the other had none—the very spot on which the tem ple was afterward built i^ing sown with wiicat. On the evening succeeding the harvest, the wheat haviog been gather ed into separate shocks, the elder broth er said to his wife, “My younger brother is unable to bear the burden and the the heat of the day; I will arise, take of my shocks, and place with his, without his knowledge.” The younger brother being actuated by the same benevolent motives, said within himself, “My elder brother has a family and I have none; I will arise, take of my shocks, and place with his, without his knowledge.” Judge their mutual astonishment when, on the following morning, they found their respective shocks undimiuished. This course of events transpired for several nights, when each resolved in his own mind to stand guard and solve the mystery. They did so ; when, on the following night, they met each other halfway between their respective fieids with their arms full. Alas ! how many now- a-day would more likely be caught stealing their brother’s entire shocks than adding to it a single sheaf! A Clergyman's Family. “I once met (it was a garden paTty) a clergyman’s wife—a graceful, accom plished woman—who introduced her three daughters, all so much after their mother’s type that I could not help admiring them. “Yes,” she said with a tender pride. ‘‘I think my girls are nice girls —And so useful, too. We are not rich, and we have nine chil dren.—So we told the girls that they would either have to turnout a ad earn their bread abroad, or stay at home and do the work of the house. They chose the latter. We keep no servant—only a chairwoman to scour and clean. My girlfe take it by turns to be cook, house maid, and parlormaid. In the nursery, of course (happy mother would say of course),” “thay are all and all to their little brothers and sisters.”—“But how about education?” I asked “Oh, the work being divided among so many, we find time for lessons, too. Some we can afford to pay for, and then the elder teach the younger ones. ‘ Where there’s a will there’s a way.’ My girls are not ignoramuses or recluses either.” The Ceunt's Romance. The following romantic story is told of the Count de Lesseps, projector of the panama canal : Count de Lesseps became a widower at sixty-eight, with a numerous family. A few years later he was in the habit of visiting a family in Paris which comprised five sisters One day be observed that he bad un dergone great difficulties and dangers among the Arabs, because they could not conceive how a man could live without a wife. The prettiest of the sisters innocently asked .* Why, then, do you not marry 3gain ?” “Beeause I am too old. Besides, if I were to fall in love with a young girl it Would be absurd to think that she would fall in love with me.” “Who knows ? observed his questioner. Lesseps told his young listeners about the rose of Jericho, which, after being dried and placed in water, again bursts out into bloom. Soon afterward he obtained one of these roses and presented it to the young girl. In a few days she ap peared with the reblossamed rose in her band, which she gave to the count, say ing : “See what a miiicle the water has effected upon the rose; it is the blossoming of love in old age.” Their eyes met, and he, believing that she had a meaning in what she did, said ; “If you really dare venture to share the remaining years of an old man, here is my hand ” But for this marriage it is very uncertain whether he would have undertaken his laborous task at Panama. She is always at his side, and has been his chief help and support throughout his arduous conflicts with politicians, money-lenders, engineers and laborers. A Faithful Sweetheart. The heather bloomed gayly along the roadside ; the hum of the insects and and the voices of hirds filled the sum mer air. By the brook that rippled merrily down the mountain side stood a young man, tapping impatiently with his cane a tiny foot that peeped out from beneath his checkered pants. Brushed carelessly from his white fore head were two golden locks, and a number five hat was perched jauntily on the back of his head. “Will she never come ?” he mutter ed, in low, earnest tones; “never come to hear the sweet words of love that are waiting on my lips for her ?” A fish rose to the surface of the brook, looked at the young man, and went away tired. “I will go and seek her,” he said ; bat as he turned to go a pair of gleam ing arms were thrown around his neck, and two rosy lips were puckered up for a kiss. “So you have come at last,” he said, looking at her foudlv. “Yes,” replied the girl. “Birdie Mc- Murtry never breaks a promise. I told mamma that she would have to hang out the clothes herself to-day, although it nearly broke my heart to leave her at such a time.” “Great heavens!” said Rcdergo to himself. “I had forgotten that it was Monday.”—Ex. Resolved. Giveadam Jones offered the following preamble and resolution : Whereas, It was generally under stood by the cullud race dat ole Mother Shiptnn was to eand up dis world on de las’ day ef 1881, an’ Whereas, Sartin odder people have from time to time sot a day for de grand smash to arrove, an’ de said rand smash didn’t take place; now darfore— Resolved, Dat de cullud race doan’ take no mo’ stock in such prophecies and predickshuns, but dat dey ’tend strickly to biznesa and let de world take car’ of herself and eand up when she gits ready. The resolution wa3 adopted without debate and accepted as the sentiments of the club. Young men who are intending to be farmers should remember that agriculture is both a science and an .art, to be carefully studied and then practicaly carried out. The day has gone by when the ignorant can become successful farmers. Within the past ten years agricaltnre has undergone a great revolution, but the next ten year9 will see greater changes than have yet been witnessed. The leading agriculturists will be the ieading men of the country.—Prairie Farmer. WIT AND WISDOM. “A fellow-feeliug makes ns wondrous kind”—bat not when a fellow’s feeling for your pocket book. Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load ; the brave bear theirs without repining. He that is indeed a man dare not com mit those sins of which he has once re pented. The watchmaker can’t afford to do a cash business, because he makes all his profits on time. The changes we personally experience from time to time we obstinately deny to our principles. If a man talks of his misfortunes tliere is something in them that is not disagreea ble to him. A couplet of verse, a period of prose, may cling to the rock of ages as a shell that survives a deluge. Genius, as a rule, is no more conscious- of itself than is the rose of its sweetness or apple of its flavor. v If you wish to be agreeable in society, yon must consent to be taught many things which you know already. At the polls, Tuesday, it was easy to tell the man who voted “yes” on the li cense question by the appearance of his “no’s.” “The trutli always pays in the end” is an old saying, and that is the reason, prob ably, why there is so little of it told at the beginning of any busings tarnsaction. There is a prevailing superstitions terror of the number thirteen. That’s probably the reason that folks dont admire the Chicago shoe. The mad dog which jumped over a six foot fence to bite a man’s lesr must have felt terribly mortified and disgusted when he found it was a wooden one. The season for carrying fans is a great comfort to some women. It enables them yawn without attracting attention to the size of their mouths. When a woman leaves a man who has not earned his salt fur years, he immedi ately advertises that he will pay no debts of her contraction. Paper dining plates are now in use. By and by they will print the news of the day around the rim and serve them fresh at every meal. The growing custom of wearing mourn og f or a deceased sweet-heart should be discouraged. When half a dozen different girls suddenly appear in black at a young man’s funeral, the situation is embarrass ing. Benevolent—“When I dine with Math- ieu,” said Taupin. yesterday, “I never miss saying, on my arrival, that I have no ap petite. Not that I eat any less afterward, but it causes him a happy moment.” It may bo mortifying, young man. but the mots agate slab you are wearing for a sleeve button is not the proper thing. Have it made over into a centre-table, aud then buy a small, fashionabl cuff button. “The wolf changes its hair every year, but remaining a wolf,” suys a Russian proverb. Nothing very remarkable about that. A woman sometimes changes her hair as often as two or three times a day, and still remains a woman. Lot the Rus sians switch off to something worth men tioning when they want to compose pro verbs. Dugald : “Hoo are you, Maggie?” Maggie: “No weel ava, Dugald.” Du gald: “Ay! ay! Will I make of you a cup of tea?” Maggie: No, no, Dugald, she'll do no coot.” Dugald: “Maggie, will I make new-povn egg? Maggie: “It's no use, Dugald. I’m no weel wbateffer.” Dngald : "Maggie, will I marry of you ? ’ Maggie: “Oh. Dugald. you'll make’em laugh and me no weel!” “ 1’he Judge” remembers once recording the fact that a little boy said that soda water tastes like your foot’s asleep ; but now comes a lad who says that, weiss beer is thawed saudpaper. This reminds U3 of a Yankee on the Pacific ocean who for the first time got a mouthful of Chili peppers, when the tears dropped he gasped, “for the love of heaven, no more needles and pins on toast.” “Oh, I suppose he loves Sarah, and would be glad to marry her,” he wa3 say ing to a woinaD in the post office corrider yesterday ; “bat I donno.” “Isn't he a nice young man?” asked the other. Well, he’s nice enough, but very reckless with his money. At Christmas time he made us a oresent of a French clock for tha par lor, and there's not one in the house can speak a word of French.” An exciting question is pending be tween the Sud and the Inter-Ocean as to whether a certain garment is is properly called trousers or pantaloons. The Suu swears by the former and the Inter-Ocear by the latter. The New York Commer cial Advertise comes in as umpire and says, there should be no breeches of the kind between two such amiable firebrands. It matters little what men call these things so long as they do not permit their wives to wear them- An Arkaarai) Farmer Plow s njt 31,100 in Gold. A young man named Nelson, while plowing on the farm of Bobort Hicks, near Rally Hill. Boon county, plowed up an iron pot containing over $1,400 in $5, $10 and $20^guld pieces. Nelson kept the discovery a secret and appro priated the money, but the fact of him possessing a quantity of rusty gold coin soon leaked oat, upon being questioned he acknowledged having found it. Hicks claims to have buried the money in the field where it was found more than twenty years ago. It is under stood he divided the money with Nel son. General Gartrell is confident of his sus- cess in the Gubernatorial race this year. A day or two ago he said: “I am* sate of an election this year. A large number of the organized are lor me, and the Inde pendents will go solid for me.” How abont Felton ?” “Why Dr Felton is my friend. He w’U not run for Governor, and will give me all his influence. You see the Doctor is auxious to re-establish himself in his own district, and will surely make the race for Congress. Congress is what he wants. Mark my words, I will be the next Governor of Georgia.” An Atlanta special ol tho 10th, says; No little excitement was created in this city to-day by an assault made upon editor Dewitt of the Evening Fost-Appeal, by Hoke Smith, a youug lawyer of Atlauta About noon Smith entered the Post- Appeal editorial rooms and demanded an apology for a sensational article published about Smith the day before. Dewitt de clined to apologize or retract, when Smith struck him, knocking him down. Before Dewittcould resent Smith! friends hurried him from the office. The assault has created great excitement, and blood is ex pected The article which caused the as sault accused Smith of betraying and de serting a woman who is now in Denver Colorado. POWELL & McKAIR, Propr’s- Bring your cotton to onr new warehouse, situated at the North end of Broad Street, immediately on the Railroad Track. Bran new warehouse. No draynge. By far the cheapest warehouse in town. Polite attention given to all, and busi- ne-s wanted and solicited. Give ns a trial, for you wil. be pleased/ Liberal cash advences made on cotton- POWELL & McNAIR. Aug 25,1881—3m A. X ’ Artist Photographer, COLUMBUS, - GEORGIA. Awarded Highest Premium at State FAIR. Citizens of Bainbridge and surrounding country : I offer myself as a candidate to take your photographs from now on, and if elected will do my best to make you all look handsome. I’ve done said it, aud I’ll stick to it, if tho stars tumble. So don’t forget me when you visit Columbus. My Gallery is next to Rankin House. I am’ prepaired to do all kiuds cf COPYING and ENLARGING I have connected with my Establish ment a first-class Miniature and Portrait, painter. So my pictures are not sent off to be finished, I make alt new styles— the Imperials, Boudoirs, Proinonade3, Cab inet. and Scenic pictures, of many designs. So come and see me. I am the same Rid dle “Days Lang SyVb.” Springfield, Robertson Co.. Ten*., November 27, 1880. Dr. J. Br.AOFiELD—Sir : My daughter has been suffering for many years with that dreadful affliction known as Female Disease, which has cost me many dollars, and noUf withstanding I had the best medical attend* ance, could not find relief. I have used many other kinds of medicine without any effect. I had juf.t about given her up, was. out cf heart, but happened in the store ef W, W. Eckler several weeks since, and he knows of my daughter’s affliction pursuaded me to try a bottle of your Female Regulator. She began to improve at once. I was so de lighted with its effect that I bought several more bottles. The price, $1.50 a bottle, seemed to be very high at first, but I now think it the cheapest preparation on the glob*, and knowing what I do about it, if to-day one of my family was suffering with that awftif disease I would have it if it cost $50 a bottle/ for I can truthfully say it has cured my daughter sound and well, and myself and wife do most heartily recommend your Fe male Regulator to be just what it is recom mended to be. Respectfully, 11. D. Feather jtoS. For Sale lty all Druggist, Woman's Best Friend.—,To relieve the' aching heart of woman, and bringjoy where 1 sottow reigned supremo, is a mission before which the smiles of kin*s dwindle info Ut ter insignificance This is the peculiar yrovir.ee of Bradfleld’s Female Regulator, which, from its numberless cure*, is appro-; priately styled “IVonjaa’s Best Friend.” The distressing complaint known as •whitee’’ and various irregularities of the womb, ttr which woman is subject, disappear like magic before a single bottle of this wonder,, ful compound, Hhysictans proscribe if.- Prepared py Dt, J, Bradfield, Atlanta, Ga., and sold at $1 50 per bottle by all druggist*