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Tie Weekly Democrat.
IRX K, RUSSELL, Editor ami Pi-op'r
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IL 13, 1882.
r OTES
PILQ.il .BAINBRIDGE TO THE Three Sisters Die Within Half tin
Gl'IF.
The Bainbridge Democrat, in
its last, issue, discusses the point, wheth
er, or not, the Chattanooga, Columbus
and Florida Railroad will be but\t, and
uses this language ;
getting
there's
—Representative Black i
well. * W bile there’s lif
hope.”
—The Georgia Press will make a
rai4 on Augusta iu May. Much free
hash will bo lifted on that auspicious
eeeaaiop.
—It is said that Judge T. J. Sim-
aons, of Macon, will be pressed for the
gubernatorial succession, and that he ]
will be backed by the Brown Colquitt-
Gordon syndicate. Judge Simmons
would make a splendid governor.
—We endorse Arthur’s veto of the
Chinese bill. Of course this will be
consoling news to “Chet.” We fur
ther hope that the “Heathen Chinee”
will overrun the entire North, in order
to pot their much prated philanthropy
to the test.
—Walter Rountree, son of A. J.
Rountree of Quitman, and a student in
the University at Athens, was shot and
killed by a negro in that city recently.
It was a deliberate murder and his ac
complice are in Athens jail to await
their trial. We deeply sympathies with
the relatives of the deceased in their
cala-tnly.
' ’*'> .
** the great western
Jesse Jame., * -Murderer was
wutlaw, free bootcr and m- , Q 0 p
betrayed and killed last week by onv.
its own gang. The robber’s funeral
Was yery largely attended, and the
hert^en preached by two ministers, aud
4he hyms “What a Friend I Have in
.Jesus” and “Where Shall Rest be
Found ?” were sung in the most solemn
istyle. The mother of the highwayman
-■said she expected to meet him in lieav-
r*p. O tempora, O mores !
—Smith Clayton, the ablest of the co-
3kUtionists, gives the following graphic
-jpen picture of Larry Gantt, a Bourbon
•.editor of Athens; “No, Mr. Larry
xGanttis not redheaded. He is a cimlin-
iheadod kangaroo-shapod. mule-eared
“fellow, eyes like two burnt holes in a
Ifaianket, mouth like a slit in an Ala-
'ibama sling, pumpkin-colored complex-
‘If the reader will take a map and timl Cliat-
tanoofja, Tenu., then run a pencil downwards
in a direct line lie will find that the proposed
f An f 1 « ran near the Western boundarv of
ocellis 10 l)Q Out | Georiria, from north to gontli, diverging only
* a westward at ColnmlpjF, passing direct*
ly through the town of Bainbrige, and leaving
the State jnat below Attaoulgus, from thence
to Tallahassee, Fla,, and striking the Gulf of
Mexico at the port of St» Marks. A further
glance at the map north of Chattanooga will
show that the proposed route is almost on air
line 'roui Cincinnati to St. Marks.'*
We sav if the reader will take a map,
and find Bainbridge, Georgia, admit
ting all the foregoing to be correct to
that point, without diverging at all, he
will find that a railroad via Faceville
and Quincy, will lead, in a straight line
to Rio Carabelie, on the Gulf, acknowl
edged to be one of the best ports, on
that coast. Take a rule, and try if.
One way to build railroads is the.cele-
brated one of Peter the Great. For
some time he had listened to the vari
ous engineers surveying the line be
tween St. Petersburg and Moscow, un
til he became weary of the details. He
look a rule, laid it on the map, with a
pencil drew a straight line between
those two places, and said, “that is the
.To ute. ’ ’— (Ju in cy Herald.
Or the road could go from Bainbridge
to St. Marks via
Quincy and Talla
hassee, and quite easily, as theie is an
almost direct line from Quincy to the
Gulf now in operation.
Our opinion is that the Cbattahoo
chee, Columbus and Florida line will be
built, and we certainly would be glad
to see the lovely town of Quincy bene
fited thereby ; and our friends of the
Herald may count on our being with
them in the matter.
Hour-
PnrnAPELrniA, Pa., April 9 — An
astonishing case of fatality, in which
three sisters die within half an hour,
was reported to the. Coroner to-day.
About ten o’clock last night Mrs. Win-
somore went to her bed-room to retire
for the night, when she heard a noise
in her sister's room. Upon reaching
her room, Mrs, Winsmore found Mrs.
Watson in a dying condition, Medical
assistance was promptly summoned, and
Mrs, Smith was also sent for. The
physicians found 31 rs. Watson in a
comatose condition, and administered
ammonia, but she did not revive, and
expired in a few minutes. Before the y
had recovered from their astonishment
Mrs. Winsmore was overcome and fell
to the floor in an unconscious state, a nd
in tea minutes she died, and ten min
utes later Mrs. Smith, the third sister,
was a corpse. All are supposed to have
died from natural causes.
A Boy of Twelve Years Killed by the
Bite of a Snake.
Quincy nu ’, r gluing witnessed a
Last &aturo<._, D
terrible sceDe, in this Co.
little boy, the son of Mr. C" 001- ? 6
Jones, a merchant at Chattahoochee,
aud a young son of Rev. Mr.'■Martin,
were walking in the woods in the rear
of the residence of Air. Jesse Wood, at
Mt. Pleasant, a*?d when near a spring,
Henry stepped aside to gather some
blackberries that he saw, and while go
Horrible Doable Murder.
Petersburg, Va., April 8.—Infor
mation has just been received here that
a double murder was committed in
Surrey county, yesterday, by the ad
ministration of poison in coffee. From
what can be learned it seems that 31rs.
Gray, her husband and 3Ir. Jones, all
living on the same farm, in the above
named county, ate breakfast to-gether
yesterday morning. 3Irs. Gray and
3Ir. Jones drank coffee while 3Ir. Gray
took milk. A few hours after break
fast both 3Irs. Gray and Mr. Jones
were taken suddenly ill. exhibiting
signs of being poisoned. After intense
suffering both died within a short time
of each other. The supposition is that
arsnic was placed in the coffee by the
servant girl employed by flic family.
31 rs. Gray was a highly respected lad > j
and in company with her husband can i
here from the Noath. 3Ir. Jones v;.
a former resident of this city, where 1 i C
has many relatives.
The “Saints” Professing to Put TL eir
Trust in the Lord.
Salt Lake City, Aril 9.— .The
Mormon Spring Conference adjoi irne( j
ing toward them out of the pathway, j to-day; There has been much t a p f 0 f
and in the bushes, he was bitten by a I former persecutions of the “S lints,’’
snake of enormous size, upon the calf
of the leg. Immediately the boys went
to the house of Mr. Wood, the wound
ed one receiving every care and atten
tion that could be bestowed, and died
liftU, countenance so intensely billions j ^ effeejg ()f the bite) abo ut 3
lihat no man without w liver-pad can
Ufthk at him without gett ing sea-sick.”
~ DGLY~RUMO. RS‘.
It is rumored that th-e S. F. & W.
weill give Bainbridge “the cut direct.”
In'Other words, that the Chuttahoochee
•ctensioa wdU run from Cliu. ax, a sta
tion ten miles this side of Bainbridge,
leaving the Oak City all alone iu her
jflory. We hear also that Bainbridge
ibeld an indignation meeting and sent a
committee of eight or ten down to see
CoL Haines about the matter, but The
BeMOCRAT came to hand yesterday
md had nothing to say on the subject,
snore than some vague allusions to a
Idue Monday. It would be n great pity
slight the beautiful townofBain-
Ibridge in that way, *nd we hope the
X'nmor is oot well louuded.— 1 aldosta
Times.
Well, there was no “indignation
meeting” held in Bainbridge. There
were rumors, however, to the effect
tint the Hue was bo'„ defini”.'jy located,
and that the Oiima.1 route could be
COT6truc‘ ie( i for (Considerably less money
^itn via B^mbridge. Hence our busi
ness had a quiet meeting, in which
OO “indignation'” whatever was mani
fested, but a ^committee of very con
servative gentlemen were appointed to
«tate our -case to the railroad au.hori-
• W« thank our contemporary for
its g®od wishes, and we belie<c that
fevnry totfn and people ^long the line
of the S. F. & AY. would regret to see
Bainbridge “left out ic the cold,” away
o’clock the next morning. He was a
boy of unusual promise, was boarding
with 3Ir. Wood, and attending the
school of 31rs. Roberta Bradford, in
311. Pleasant.
We are informed that some persons
think that it was a mocasin that did
the fearful exec ution because the affect
ed parts, at the' time of death seemed
ready to slough i >ff which is 3aid to be
a peculiarity of t be bite of that reptile,
and they say, doe s not. result from the
bite of a rattlnsna ke.
Young Martin saw the snake and
described it aii or le of great size. We
are told that the imprint of the two
fangs, on the fle: lh, were about three
inches apart.
The grief of th >e deeply afflicted
mother is heart-ren ling, aud the father
is absent in south I lorida. A general
sympathy is felt for them, and the
whole community of 31t. Pleasant and
Chattahoochee has b sen greatly shock
ed by the cruel cutti ng off of the life of
the promising boy.
Sudden L’ eath
THX LION TAMER TALI '.S DEAD JUST AS
HE IS ABOUT TO EX TER THE CAGE.
always resulting, they say, to tb e j r ad
vantage in the end- 1‘rom t! ais they
draw strongth to meet the pers ecution,
as they call it, contemplated by the
Edmunds bill. There is a nev pressure
which the Mormons propus » to bring
to bear—not to trade with tb * Gentiles.
A secret meeting of the b isiness men
was held yesterday, :it whicl i the strong
est pledges to that, effect were signed,
the Gentile i say that if »’ aey could not
be broken down fifty y ears ago nor
since they cannot now. The Constitu
tional Convention will to eet to morrow.
Bidding for a Dsad Baby-
Philadelphia limes.
“De chf.e am wuth sebenty-five dollars
Ef yo’ willin’ fu to pay dat yo’ can tab
’iin. De doctor he done sav gib fifteen
dollars,-but I couldn't hear o’ dat, an den
hehistes up de price to twenty ah, den to
twenty-fibe. Den he say he done gib no
mo’. Deu I tuk an. say I waft to see who
gwine gib me what de chile's wuth. l’se
po’ woman an’ aunudder new chile heab
to keer for; an’ I can’t sell de baby ol> de
po dead chile for no twenty-five dollars.
Ef yo want 'im for sebeuty-five yo can tuk
’im along wid ye. an'ef yo’ doau’, deh I
wait for syme udder critter. Ef I doau’.sell
I'll put 'im away wliar he woD't be 'wuth
ten cents to nobody.”
In a little whitewashed room of a rick
ety frame house in the rear of 725 Bai n
street lay a negro woman and a six hour
old child last evening. The woman ws s jn
a bunk in a corner and the infant, swa thr*!
in pieces of old quilts, cried loudly in wh at
had once been a baking-powder box. L r p
stairs, in a IowceMinged. whitewashed roo m
entirely destitute of furniture, lay the deaid
*hody of a seven-year old child, which., haw
ing struggled along so far through life wi th
a dreadfully malformed head, had giv en up
the battle for existence last Sunday moi*n-
ing.
The body of the dead child was fc >r uale.
Its motheracted as saleswoman. Ass’ at ance
was given from time to time byAha child's
aunt and a neighbor, who. intent on driv
ing a sharp bargin. told of the w on- lerfu!
"thh qgs the doctor had said when 1 le failed
"to obtain the body after offering th e l notlier
Tnr ire money than she had ever s een in
In sr life, rhere seemed to be no excuse
tl lat the dead child should be soM. The
m other was poor, it was true. Tv ut not re-
d aced to actual poverty, jnder ,ig from the
s’ Irek and well-lo-do looks of b er relatives
i eho flocked into the house Ao Lake part
: in the bargaining. Enconrag ed ! iy a efforts
as the doctor and a medicr 1 s tudent to
obtain the child’s body for t liss potion and
professional exhibition, sb e had deter
mined to get as much mnrr ey as possible
from the sale of her nnfort' una’te offspring.
The neighbor took the he ad of the (Fad
child in her hands aud did her be3tto make
a sale.
“ITere.” said she, “is a wonderful head:
the doctor said it was v mrt.h seventy-five
dollars. Jnst. look here,’ : an d with these
words she thrust half a handl into n holein
the child’s head. “Ain't. tljat wonderfnl ?
Never was^mythinsr lik e it,. Well, if yon
can’t, give seventy-five do liars, don’t von
think that the body is wo rth fifty at least?
Mrs. Jeff, its mother, do .n't like to part,
with her owu child fob* a mere trifle, and.
being a poor woman, she needs the money.
We can’t keep the child only two days
mere, and if it ain’t sold then it will be
buried. Then it won't 1 je worth anythimr.
The ider of the doctor asking Mrs. Jeff
to let the body go for twenty-five dollars
when fifty was a low p rice!” and with
swiff of disdain the loquacions neigobor
let the head drr.p back into the rough
coffin with a thc.mp bhut echoed down the
oilent stairwas.
A Sensation Spoiled-
St. Louis, A (iril 8.—The reports
wh ch were in circulation here and
abroad this mom ing to the effect that.
Governor Gritter den had been assassi
nated by Frank James, or some other
member of the Ja lies fiang, is entirely
without foundation. A telegram from
Secretary of Stare JlcGrath to the
Associated Press -correspondent, in re^
ply to inquiry, says : “The rpport is
nonsensical. The Governor is well,
and Sheriff Timberlake and Commis
sioner Craig are now here after the re
ward. One of the railroads concerned
has already sent to the Governor its
share of the reward for Jesse James.”
Yesteaday mor ning, a* Coup’s circus
was about to st art out for the street
parade, 3Ir. Daniel Betts, the lion
w tamer, prepared to enter the cage con-
ftom the main line to New Orleans, to , the tWQ performing lions. He
die slowly in hearing of the grand high- ^ put on b i s jacket and started
way which she has beggared herself to
ud.
are not hopeless, but feel certain
when the work of the Chattahoochee
extension begins it will be from Bain
bridge. It is said that “corporations
bare bo souls,” hot this docs not apply
to Mr. Plant and his assoeiales ; they
to enter the cage when he suddenly
foil back on the ground. Some of the
men standiug about went up to him at
onee and found that he was unconscious.
A physician was summoned, but noth
ing could be done. Betts died in a
/ew minutes. He came from New
York city and had been in the business
are liberal men—men with hearts, souls , g number of years. He was un-
and aympathies—who would think , an( j ba j be?n ; n ba( j bea | tb
for sot,oe time. The cause of his death
was heart disease.
many times, we opine, before they j
vould strangle one ot the best towns
Bpoo their line, and blot it from the
map of Georgia.
I# absence of the regular courier-
JobtbaI editor, the gentleman in charge
utters these sublime truths: “Here
rests the safety of society ; the lawless
cannot trust one another; they cannot
organise and cp-operate. They sepei-
ate from the very nature of the case.
The War on the Jews-
St. Petersburg, April 8.--The
Golos reports that a corpse has been
sent from Odessa Bender and Nicolaieff
to the town and district of Ananicff on
account of the disturbances created by
the peasants on the 2d inst., which
was mai ke day. The attack was made
on the shops and houses belonging to
the Jews at Walego Julawo, 25 versts
from Ananieff, and 30 shops and SO
bouses were destroyed. The official
messenger, which generally denies the
reports of disturbances, or says they
are exaggerated, confirms this report,
and says thirty arrests have been made
in connection with the riots.
Protec Mon and Wages.
That wages a re. as a rule, higher in this
country than ii i England is perfectly true:
and that they are still higher, as, compared
with those on the C'odtinent, is equally
true; but that they are higher as a conse
quence of our p .ro>tective tariff remains to
be proved. It. does not follow that because
the tariff and high wages have existed
together the la tter are due to the former-
because there w. is a long period previous
to 1879 when w e had the same tariff and
bad vgry low wa g es, witu much sufiering
fr*m want of war. k. \Vage3 are determined
by a great veriet] r of causes, no one of which
is controlling. £ j o far as the effect of the
tariff can be trac id it i3 rather to lower
effective wages- - -that is wages measured
by what they wi II buy—than to raise them
The protection e xtended by a tariff; if
there be any, is in checking foreign
comdetition and e aabling to get a higher
for hisgoods; bi it as he must sell in the
’lome market, thi s difference in price is
paid by home coi i turners. If they say it
m the price of gt > ods, they caoDot use' it
to employ labor, r.nd the effoctive demand
for labor on thei: r part 13 therefore lessened
by just so much . If the difference paid
by them to the inaiivifr.cturer is used to
employ more lafc -ur tb e demand may be the
same as it woul d hav » been had the con
sumers employed tl 10 labor themselves;
but it is no gre ater. So far as the tariff
therefore, has had any effect ou labor, it
cannot have a-lrr ,uced wages
Arthur Has di -ied his tears for Garfield
and opened t he White House to the mob.
His first reception was simply stunning
• he court '.ep orter says : “The President
was cordi al I jut not effusive iu mnaner.”
IIow glarj w e are to know that ‘Chet”
was not effnsive. We can stand his being
Train Robbery in Texas- a snob, ai ,d looking like a lacquey, but if
Little Rock, Ark.. April 9.—A lie J b e 0D effusive—well, that would have
Dallas special says: “The north bound jiusLoJ human endurance. Aod we are
train on .the Gulf, Colorado and Santa . to ^ '’dat at the reception “Col. Fred
Fe Railrxiad was stopped and robbed on] »tood in the rear. Me are de-
Friday night at a water station called ^p ,jtedt0 learn that Fred still occupies
Blunn, by six masked men, who ente r-
ed the train with cocked revolvers and
; forced the passengers to give up their
Seme Tough Logic.
London, April 9.—The Observer
to-day, referring to the case of Dr. j m0De y and valuables. No resistance
Larnson, says ; “If the Americans are : was offered, and the robbers escaped
to ask a respite for Dr. Lamson because \ w ;t b f rom five to thirteen hundred dol*
there is evidence in America proving j ia r8 j n booty.”
his insanity, the English Government j . »
might, with equal justice, demand a! —Thomasville had a fire last week
TtbA Bust be the foundation ot all re8 pite for Guiteau on the ground that. which destroyed the store occupied by
BB-operutive societies, large or small, ; cer tain persons in England are confL JIcGlashan and owned by Finn. Both
l»il when it does not exist disintegra-
^ tioB and destructsoa are certain,
dent that he 13 not responsible for the
crime he committed.”
stock and store were but partially in
sured-
h'.s proper position and knows his place.
And the “old man” got in his word and
his “nips,” too, for we are told that “he
retired from the line several times.” But
the feature of the occasion was Tom
Murphy with a young lady. Tom leaped
into one of the windows of the White
House, and his “fair charge bounded
through the anertnre with the grace of a
gazelle.” And in the meantime “Fresh”
kept his hand on his pistol, and his eye on
the silver plate’ while Crnmy double charg
ed the orange peeis with frozen punch. If
the Independent Colonels could only have
been there!—Macon Telegraph.
John Hauck. a Cincinnati brewer,
said: “I will see.that every man who
works for me votes the Democratic tick
et. If he does not he can’t find em
ployment here.” John used to make
his workmen vote the Republican ticket,
but times have changed. v It is lawful
to compel laborers to vote for an em'
ployer’s interest in Ohio, but not in
South Carolina. The Ohio men hap
pen to be white, which makes all the
difference in the world to great moral
idea folks.
Estray Notice.
GEORGIA, Decatur County :
We the undersigned apyraisers at the in
stance of Edmund Screen, the taker up of
one dnrk bay horse mule, about thirteen
hands high, about twelve years old and in
good mork order no/v in the possession of
said Screen, apprais said mule at one hun
dred dollars. J. D- Hhrrell, F. H.
M, N. Paulett, F. U.
April 5, 1881.
GEORGIA, Decatur County.
Edmund Screen being sworn says the
description as made above of tbe estray
mule is correct, and that the same has not
been changed or altered since taken up.
Sworn to before ine. April o, 1882.
MASTON O’NEAL.
Ordinary.
At Chambers, April 5. 1882.
Ordered by the Court that the above
described mule be sold in terms ol the Law,
after advertising the same in The Baix-
bridge Democrat and at the Court House
door, and at the Court Grounds in the 1342
District G. M., for sixty days. Witness my
hand and seal MASTON O’NEAL.
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Bacon, Flour, Com, and other heavy Groceries, by th C ar loa'H
in prices aud challenge ecomparrison in goods. Largepiuntilifl
ing daily, and they ™
If small profits can do the woak. I will give no prices, benul
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bargains.
Highest market price paid for Country Proii
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Proprietor (j
If you want any Dry Hoods or Groceries,
call on me. I have a full stock, to which I
am making daily additions. These goods
must be sold. Cash buyers particularly so
licited. All goods warranted as represented,
and shown with pleasure.
Dress Goods,
Straw Hats, for men
ladies and children,
Shoes for all. A
nice line of Spring,
And Summer clothing,
bought very low and
lor sale at extremely
Low prices.
Groceries,
consisting of
_ _ * Coffee, Flour,
Sugar Soap, Potash
and indeed every
thing in thiB line.
I have a stock of samples from DEVLIN
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write one this