The Bainbridge democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 18??-????, March 29, 1883, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text168: 'i’d The Bainbridge A YEAR, BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1883, VOL XII-NQ. 24. h and ,n a full* ^old b» I * fi'eh 71 CEHl " tlH ,~Sonth Needs. ,L„v the author of article- We find tt but it is w« rth y .^deration: * jt the south an over- clerks. lawyers, and i we always will * re sadly deficient * hands are cultiva tor brains. We jli-cnt mechanics and . " r ;. and foremen, and 0 f machinery. If we wU ph money to start a have to send to other p.t men competent to machinery' and conduct Bjoperations of the facto- „ build a railroad, we tie outset import engin- j md afterward men skill- oeratinft a railroad. This )Bg , The young men of e in the south—the best should study, as soon ares school, some depart- f manufacturing. He must course, make himself a mechanic—learn a trade, words—ami he need not ,!,j n ot dislike the phrase. Ljniy as honorable and as jttu set a horse’s shoe as to lease in a justice’s court Iribbons in a retail store, or Liny other half paid and [joc! employment. We must of the sham gentility that «labor, ami especially la- |fhich brain and skill are miouslv and effectively ie south is to become iude- |nt—if her industrial inter ior fully developed, her men must abandon old lotions of labor, and prepare ■he. to take charge of mat- utare now necessarily the |ofstrangers. The better the is educated, the better me- |c,or superintendent, or en- tr, he will make. The high is as useful to the future mie as to the future lawyer •liant. Boys need all the lling they can get; but, after [leave school, let them turn listrial rather than profes- aventtes. I effect this we need, as in all reforms, a change in public ‘nt. We need a sentiment will condemn the folly of the in this respect. We need a tment that will recognize the that the great industries furn- the best field for the young who liavj a career to make— in them i . to be found both wages and the most promis ed desirable employment the land affords. If we can secure such a public senti- L we can safely trust the re- nler of the problem to the ■age and good sense # of young ito »]] t Got 'Bo of tom« KotioJ erb j ot yai iltici CE1 Tar itr for the Poor Man. -Wh Georgia’s philosopher 1 humorist says: of the South, are for any ij that gives the poor man, the * :n S m.-n, a better cliance for eng. V e don't want the rich richer and tlie poor poorer, want protection to labor as to capital. They should work together, and we want !t '-men. not politicians, t£ fix ‘P as near right as they can. It ■wiee that we humble people 1 knojv much about, but we that the toiling millions of People are not paid for their i * *ut of their sweat comes hie wealth the country and want to know how it slips v into the pockets of the few. iai we now want is some bold smau who will come to the a nd take the working man’s aQ d stand Ivy him regardless 1 power of the money kings. ‘ e 'KirM is like a bee hive. The r '*ng bees make all the honey 1 lew tat lazy drones eat it all an 'd by and by the little work- h’et mad and kill ’em off. If ^millionaires want to be secure ou eir " ea ^ They had better e ra - e the men who make it. I -V I" ftnt. f the i An Address to Saloon-Keepers. Three saloon-keepers in Chica go were found guilty of selling liquor to minors, and the follow ing is the address of the judge who sentenced them, as reported in the Chicago Tribune: “By the law, you may sell to men and women if they will buy. You have given your bond and paid license to sell to them, and no one has a right to molest yon in your legal business. No matter what families are distracted and render ed miserable, no matter what wives are treated with violence, what children staive or mourn over the degradation of a parent; your business is legalized, and no one may interfere with you in it. No matter what mother may agon ize over the loss of a son, or sister blush for the shame of a brother you Mpre a right to disregard them all and pursue your legal calling; you are licensed. You may fit up your lawful place of business in the most enticing and captivating form; you may furnish it with the most costly and elegant equip ments for your lawful trade ; you may use all your arts to induce visitors, you may skillfully expose to view your choisest wines and captivating beverages ; you may then induce thirst bv all contri vances to produce a raging appe tite for drink, and then you may supply that appetite t o the full, because it is lawful; you have paid for it; you have a license. “You may allow boys, almost children, to frequent your saloon; they may witness the apparent satisfaction with which their seni ors quaff the sparkling glass; you may be shooting and training them for the period of twenty-one, when they too, can participate—for all this*is lawful. You may hold the cup to their very lips, but you must not let them drink—that is unlawful. But while you have all these privileges for the money you pay, this poor privilege of selling to children is denied you. Here the parents have a right to say: “Leave my son to me until the law gives you the right to destroy him. Do not anticipate that terri ble moment when I can assert for him no further right to protection; that will be soon enough for me, for his mother, for his sister, for his trienus and for the community to see him take his road to death. Give him to us in his chilhood at least. Let us have a few years of his youth, in which we may en joy his innocence, to repay us in some small degree for the care and love we have lavished upon him.” “This is something you, who now stand a prisoner at this bar, have not paid for; for this is not embraced in your license. For this offense the court sentences you to ten days’ imprisonment in the county jail, and that you pay a line of seventy-five dollars and costs; and that you stand commit ted until the fine and cost of this prosecution are paid.” • Sex of Egg's. The science and experience have sufficiently demonstrated that everything that bears must possess both the male and the female qualifications ; but perhaps it is not generally known that such is the case with eggs. I have found by experience that it is and by the following rule: I raise as many pullets among my chickens as I wish to, while some of my neighbors complain that their chickens are nearly all roosters, and they cannot see why there should be a difference. I will tell you here what I told them, and for the benefit of those who do not know that the small, round eggs are female ones, and the long slender ones are males. This rule holds good among all birds. So if you wish to raise pallets, set the small, round eggs; if you wish to raise roosters, set the long slender ones. In this way you will be able to raise whichever sex you wish to, Perpetual Weather Table. The following table Was con structed by the celebrated §)r. Herschell, upon a philosophic con sideration of the attraction of sun and moon. It is confirmed by the experience of many years observa tion, and will suggest to the ob server what kind of weather will probably follow the moon’s en trance into aDy of her quarters. As a general rule it will be found wonderfully correct : If the moon changes at 12 oclock, noon, the weather imme diately after will be very rainy, if in summer, and there will be snow and rain in winter. If between 2 and 4 o’clock p. m. changeable in summer—fair and mild in winter. Between 4 and 6 o’clock, p. m. in summer, fair, if the wind is northwest; rainy, if south or southwest. In winter, fair and frost}', if the wind is north or northwest; rainy, if south or south west. Between 10 and 12 o’clock p. m.. rainy in summer, and fair and frosty in winter. Between 12 at night and 2 o’clock a. m., fair in summer and frosty in winter—unless the n ind is from the south or southwest. Between 2 and 4 o’clock a. m., cold and very showery in the sum mer, and snow and storm in win ter. Between 4 and 6 o'clock a. m., rainy, both in winter and summer. Between 6 and 8 o’clock a. m., wind and rain in summer ar.d stdlmv in winter. Between 8 and 10 o'clock a. m., showery in summer and cold in winter. Between 10 and 12 o’clock, a. m., showery in summer and cold in winter. The Conntry and €lty Press. Monroe Advertiser. There is probably not a country weekly paper published but what has some subscribers who grumble at the idea of paying more for his county paper than is asked by the city weekly papers tliat are made up from matter imblislied in the dailies, and consequently at no cost whatever, save for the white paper printed upon. As we our self come in contact occasionally with such subscribers, we take the following from the Marietta Journal for the consideration of those who think we should put our paper down to the price asked by the city press: We have been frequently asked, “Why is it you cannot furnish the Journal as cheaply as the Atlanta Weekly Constitution?” Simply for the reason that the Constitu tion is published in a city of about fifty thousand population and publishes a daily at ten dollars a year, and out of this daily it takes enough reading matter, without additional cost, and prints its week ly, for which it receives one dol lar, making eleven dollars a year the Constitution receives, while we have no daily and receive only one dollar and fifty cents for our paper. The Constitution has not only its own county to circu late in, but every county in the State of Georgia and all adjoining States, while the Journal is con fined to one county—that of Cobb, with a limited circulation in the adjoining counties. A county paper thus sustained cannot be sutained at a cheaper price than we charge. The Constitution is a a splendid paper and we have noth ing to say against it, but when a citizen of stops his county paper to take the Constitution, he virtu ally says, by his actions, that as far as he is concerned he doesn’t care whether there is a paper pub lished in his county or not, and that he is willing to build up a monopoly in a distant town, to the crushing out of home enter prise. And if all of our subscribers should imitate such a niggardly example they would bring about just such a result But fortunately we have a large list of apprecia tive subscribers, who . by their action say they want their county paper. Prohibition In Georgia. Constitution. The local option, law has almost ceased to be a local issue. In the past month four counties have been added to the prohibition list, and in each case by, overwhelm ing majorities. We believe not a single county has voted for whis key since the local option law has passed. These repeated and surprising victories for the anti-liquor senti ment are significant. The people seem to be determined on doing what the temperance fanatics have never been able to do—and that is to rule liquor out of the rural communities. It may be said that the worst barroom, the most dangerous and effective agent of evil is the country barroom. It is usually a plague- spot in a neighborhood. When men go there to drink they go to get drunk, and being beyond the reach of police supervision they can commit whatever excesses they please. It is the effect of just such places that is leading, even the drunkards, in many counties to vote against rural grog shops. The anti-liquor sentiment, how ever healthy it may be at present in these counties, may be speedily lost in a reaction if fanaticism and unwise counsel prevail. The drinking of lipuor, like any other evil ,must be controlled by com- com-sense procedure. Any attem pt to bulldoze or over-ride proper limits will be worse for the cause than open opposition. The prohi TheT. T. & G«lf B. R. Thomasville Enterprise. Colonel John Bradford, chief engineer of the Thomasville, Tal lahassee and Gulf Railroad, ac companied by Messrs. Edward Lewis, Mayor of Thomasville, Jno. E. Page, Vice-President, J. E. Page, Secretary, Hon. H. S. Mc Culloch, of Wisconsin, and several citizens of Tallahassee-left the last named city last Thursday for Thomasville to meet the surveying party which is to locate the line which promises so much for Thomasville and South Georgia and the section of Florida which will be developed thereby. After arriving there the rest of the week was devoted to reconnaisonces of the different routes proposed, and yesterdav morning the engineer corps regularly started out for work. We learn from Mr. S. G. Mc Lendon, the attorney for and rep resentative of the company at this point, that three lines will be run —one known as the Miccosukie route, one as the Merdian route, and the otlier as the Central route. The ol ject of the company is to make careful estimates as to the cost of building the road along each of these routes, and then to compare the cost with the induce ments offered by the friends of each line for the construction of .the road on the route desired by them. When this has all been carefully considered, the final line will be located, and work begun. Mr. McLendon will receive at his bition policy is now on trial. Thej °® ce a U offers of land or money law says that when once voted bv a county, it must remain in force for two years. Many counties in the state are now making the pro bation. None we believe have yet voted on the matter after two years of actual experience. Polk county has nearly gone through the limit and the test will probably be made there soon. If it should sus tain proliibition by an increased vote, the fact no less than the ar gument will be with the prohibi tionists and we may look for elec tions to be ordered in scores of counties in which the question has not yet been agitated. The Early Watermelon. Valdosta Times. A gentleman at Waycross has planted a large watermelon field and he has gone to the expense of building a large number of boxes with glass bottoms—or tops rather —to shield them from the late frosts. This is the mistake all new beginners in the melon busi ness malje. They all strive to get the first melons into the market, and the result is the bulk of the crop goes in at once and the mar ket is glutted. Experience has shown that melons nl anted the first of February will not ripen any sooner than those planted a month later, and not five days earlier than those planted six weeks later. The finest profits made in Lawndes last year were on melons shipped between the middle of of July and the first of August; and after the last car load was gone, Northern com mission merchants telegraphed for ‘more melons—prices*high.” There appears to be an epidemic of finding valuables in old trunks. Only a V'Aek or so ago a diamond was found by a laborer. An old trunk sent to be repaired in New Haven, Conn., was found to con tain in a small drawer a gold watch, $30 in gold, two gold brace lets, and a diamond and pearl set. This reminds us that a trunk brought over in the Mayflower was being cut up for fire-wood by a Norristown man the other day, when out rolled $5,000,000 in gold, two silk hats, a diamond inlaid clock, four pairs of new boots, a camels-hair shawl a set of solid silverware, a costly mirror, a suite of parlor furniture and a file of newspapers. The man who was demolishing the trunk said it formerly belonged to aa editor. It is estimated, that 32,000,000 human beings die every year. desired to be contributed to the road, and the company will decide on the line which shall prove to be the most conducive to its interests. These contribu tors, it is to be hoped, will prove to be very liberal. The State of Florida has voted the company a liberal land grant, but it does not get a cent from Georgia, and the probability is that it may not be able to secure all the land voted by our sister State. The great benefits which will enure to the section of country, which it will traverse, should spur up those in terested in the various routes spoken of to do their best toward securing it The road will certaily be built, and those who hid most for it will enjoy the greater ad vantages from its construction. The Girls Like March. We don’t know whether the newspaper man who reported the following told the truth or not, tor some of them will lie a little when in a tight for an item, a thing we never do, be it said to our “unim peachable integrity.” But if this editor tells the truth, a young lady tells him that men are something of sailors and know that a dead calm is no time to show off a yacht. The young lady feays: “She wants a wind to blow out her sails* to careen her over rakish angle and to turn her into an animatedly picturesque ob ject. Now, it is just that way with girls, at least that way with those who are not old womanish from their birth. The expert and care ful dresser does not aim to look like a fashion plate, all smooth, precise and trim. No, sir, March winds are what delight her. It disturbs the unwrinkled ribbons,- disturbs the sagging drapery, rum pies her hair as no comb can do it, flaps her skirts in graceful out lines, and in short breathe be witching life into her apparel, all the way from the plume on her hat to the tips of her nobby French shoes. Now you know more than you ever did before, thougn you are bald. You’ve been admiring the girls recently for several days, and don’t urirler- stand why. It’s the wind old fel low. Alf Doyal, who killed Mark Hancock in Griffin two years ago, has been refused a iiew trial, and the probabilities now are that he willliaiig. —On the 24th of October, 1817, Gov. William Rabun died during his term of office, and in confor mity with the law, which was then substantially the same as it is now Hon. Mathew Talbot, as President of the Senate, was called on to exercise executive functions. “He turned a roller chair into a chariot of glory, was the climax of Dr. Talmage.s eulogy on Governor Stephens in his lecture in Atlanta. It is said tliat the Atlanta Con stitution has ordered a new $25,- 000 press, which will priut, fold and paste a twelve page sheet at the rate of i6,000 aii hour. The Rome *Bulletin has a cor respondent who wants to know “what class of society is responsi ble for the liquor traffic ?” Those who drink the stuff. Give us an easy one.—Americas Recorder. Correct, neighbor, and the only way to put a stop to it is to prohib it the traffic. CHARLES C. BUSH, Attorney a t L a W COLQUITT, GA. Prompt attention gtten to all intinee* as* trailed to toe; JNO. E. D0NALS0N,. * Attorney and Counselor at La#* Office in the court house. Will practice In Decatur and adjoining counties, a*4 elsewhere by special contract. Feby 15, 1883. O' MCGILL, M. o’BBAl N McGlLL A O’NEAL. Attorney e at Law. BAINBRIDGE, GA. Their office will be fonnd over the poet eft lice. MEDICAL CARD. Dr. £. J . M 6 f () * fl Has reirioTed his office to the drug store, formerly occupied by Dr. Harrell. Resi dence on West street, south of 8hotwel^ where calls at night will reach him. A day or two ago! on the Lake Shore Road, a young man rushed into a parlor car and shouted at the top of his lungs: “Is there a minis ter of the gospel in this car ?” “I am one,” replied a tall, clerical look; ing gentleman. “Oh, I am so glad,” exclaimed the young man, grasped the brother by the hand. “A lady has fainted in the next coach, won’t you be kind enough to lend me your whiskey flask. The sale of the Revised Testa ment has fallen off within the last year to almost nothiug. One pro minent New-York church book- ellers says -that during the last month he has sold six Revised Testament against nearly six hun dred copies of the authorized vea sion. The revisers are puzzled, and the publishers who invested large sums in American editions greatly disappointed. The Americas Republican cites an instance of how King Cotton makes his subjects pay dearly for their allegiance to him. A far mer had fifty acres in corn and peas. The latter crop was especial ly luxurious, and would have brought at least five hundred bushels of fine peas; but they were neglected and allowe to rot, whiled all energies were bent on getting out the cotton. If he bad the peas now he could easily get $400 for them, while the cotton raised cost him more than it sold for, and left him behind. This case is one of many. The merchants say that peas were raised in abun dance but allowed to rot while the cotton was gathered. “Speaking of fehilis*” said the gentleman from- Arkansas, bor rowing a match from the train boy, “I had one at home once that was away up in G. Stopped a train, that chill did.” They crowded around to hear the particulars. ‘‘You see, they turned me Out of the town and run me off the turn pike, so I took to the railroad, and I shook it up so the through ex press had to wait until I got over it.” “Right smart of a chill, that,” assented a gentleman from Louis iana. “Had ’em myself; but I only delayed a train a little while.” The gentleman from Arkansas eyed him, but declined to ask any questions. “Tell us!” shouted the chorus. “Well,” said the gentleman from Louisiana, with a glance at the gentleman from Arkansas, “they ran up to me where I was shaking, and found they couldn’t get past.” “What did they do ?” “All hands turned out and tunneled right through it,” replied the Louisiana man, “and m the spring the icicles hung down from the roof of that chill so thick and so strong that they had Jo blast them ont before they could trans act any bus—1” But the Arkansas man was climbing over the tender toward the cab, and even the chorus lost interest in the rest of the details. DENTISTRY. l.C. Curry, D. 0 . 8 Can be found dally at bis office on Booth Broad street, up stairs, in E. Johnson’* building, where he is ready to attend to th* wants of the public at reasonable rates. deo-5-79 DOCTOR «*. L. BATTLE, Dentist. Office over Hinds Store, West aid* coert house. Has fine dental engine and will have everything to make his offic* first-class. Terms cash. Office hours 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. jan,18U DR. L. H. PEACOCK, Respectfully tenders his professional 8err> ices to the people of Bainbridge and vicini ty- Office over store of J. D. Harrell & Bra Residence on NY est end of Broughton street, where he cun be fonnd at night April 6,1881— JKrr. D. TALBERT. WM. M. HARXlLt. TALBERT & HARRELL. Attorneys and Counselors at Law, BAINBRIDGE, GA. The above have formed a copartnerihlj udder the firm name of Talbert k Harrell for the practice of law. Will practice i* all the courts of the Albany Circuit. Offlo* over Barnett’s store. August 14,1882. ALBERT WINTER, Real Estate and Collecting Agent BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. I will b* glad to receive the patronage ol all who have property to sell or rent, r« collecting to make. All business plated ia my hands will receive prompt attention, i will look after wild lands, investigate title*, paj- lazes and protect from tresspassers. I propose to make the collection of bad claims a specialty. The worse the claim the more attention I will give it. Correspondence solicited. Atig. 1, 1882. THE SOUTH-WEST GEORGIA LASH iGEIa HusSell & Brown, Ag’ff BAINBRIDGE, GEOBQIJ Offer to buyers the following briel! described Real Estate— improved and nniui proved in the 14TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTY Lots of Land Nets 157, 256,217, 31«, 183 301 175, 9, 225. 28. ’ 15TH DI8TR1CT OF DECATUR COUNTY Lots Nos396, 394, 391. 17TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTY Lots Nos 7l, 896, S3S, 343, 393, 821 241 279, 174, 287, 264, 165 166. ’ 20TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTY Lots Nofe 85, 149, 173; 21Sf DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTY Lots Nos 217, 374, 97. 103, I, 115,153.107 175, 309, 267.243, 320. 336. 27TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTY 260, 216,176, 58, 59. These loU are all full, having 260 aorta in each, and will be sold in lots to suit tki purchasers. We also have control of a large qUantlti of lands in the counties of ifilter, Early, Baker. Mitchell and Irwin, besides a nuns ber of desirable lots in the city of Bain bridge—improved and unimproved. Parties wishing lands for tarpentin* timber, farming of other purposes, will find full description and all necessary inform*; tion in our hands. N. B.—Non-resident land owner* will bt faithfully served, their lands leased returned, looked after and protected against trespassers, and if for sale, advertised and sold for a reasonable charges. Bnsine« respectfully solicited and satisfaetiei guaranteed. D. A RtJSSELL & BROWN, Real Estate Agent*. Bainbridge, Q* A RARE BARGAIN I* offered in that splendid River plantatiM known as the J. W. Lathrop & Co pUoo Flint River—containing 1250 acres—300 el which is the finest River Bottom land and produces 40 bushels of corn per mere; Lying near the mouth of Spring Creek on th* river is the key to the finest stock farm !« Georgia, being fenced thus on three side*. A boat landing, fine drainage, good water, healthy, an inexhanstible timber supply and a good neighborhood are among it* numerous attractions. The price isextreme^ ly low because owned by people who hav* fno nse for stfch property. For further i*- ornagen address this Ageney.

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The Bainbridge democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 18??-????, March 29, 1883, Image 1