Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

The Bainbridge Democrat. TESMS--S 2 A YEAR. BAINBRIDGE. GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1883. EDITORIAL brevities. . Dooly county man has the JL number of sheep o£ any • Georgia—1,000. VOL XII--NO. 29. jam in and Confederate The Fedcn Sn Grove, N. J. on the 22nd of The Atlanta Star has passed to ^control of the Atlanta Journal, the latter paper securing the Asso- press dispatches from the Constitution. guor McDaniel’s record on the was bond question is all right, j^kin that nefarious paper will ptbe quoted high during his ad- junistration. The occupation of the running lobbyist is gone, at leut for the present. A young man in Crawford at tempted to commit suicide the ether day. lie made a first class [lore, taking flour instead ot morphine. Unrequited love was because. His dying antics and Beeches are said to have been mitrcnding. A man who lived not many ilea from Gainesville has been S nrjnii on an illicit distillery in icire. One day last week the *re tumbled in, set fire tc the ontents and came very near burning the proprietor to death. The Sparta Ishmaclite reiterates lie opinion that some people have mg since arrived at in this com- mnity. It says: “If some people gold work as hard to pay their debts as they do to keep from pay- ij them they would get along rach easier in this world and and a better chance in Die world icome. Post-Appeal: Any man detect id in the nefarious work of making woselytes to Mormonism, should etarred, leathered, ridden on a il and given twenty-four hours o leave the State. His guilt or tocence, however, should first established beyond the shadow fa doubt. Let no guilty man ape, but sailer no innocent ian to be punlished on mere sus- cion. The Quitman Free Press in- •nns us that Henry W. Grady ill visit Brooks county in a rt time to write # up that sec- onof country. Grady’s pen has w more for the advancement the material interests of Georgia a any other one thing, and ta'ks county is fortunate to have T bit from him. lie is undoubt- the best newspaper writer in * South, if not in the whole mntrv. Fort Gaines Tribune: The latest vention eliciting the attention Pur citizens is an incubator ccntly designed and constructed ^ r - TV. R. Tennille, which, by -tl experiment, lias hatched in less 1 hail twenty-four Br? - The eggs were placed in e vessel at 2 p. m. Sunday and a - m. Monday they were khed. J on Allen says they be- ^ to halloa after midnight, Lw me out.” so loudly that the J pants of the room where the neater was being experiment- - 1 could no not sleep. Hur- 1 ,or Tort Gaines and her ge- Times: Mr. George _ anios - for a long time station l Taeksonville of the Sa- Florida and Western rail- b oas been appointed assistant pendent of the road. Mr. ^ is a brother of Col. H. S. C ' N Gie general manager of company. Albert Ives, route ^ftiudent lor the Florida dis- 01 tiro Southern Express • succeeds Mr. Haines as agent at Jacksonville. The .."5,' acat °d by Mr. Ives. has ; by promoting Mr. T. T. f Jn the agent of the South- e I ^[, ess Company at Jackson- iro,- ^ 10 the place of a ?eut has not- yet been sded The Late Cyclone. The cyclone of the 23rd ult was probably the most violent and disastrous that was ever seen in the history of the county, and continued’ four days before it reached this section of the con tinent. It was first observed in Northern California on the morn ing of the 19th and moved South east, to Tennessee, causing high winds and heavy rains east of the Rocy Mountains, with snow in Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska. The cyclone entered. Georgia from Alabama below Eufaula and passed east though Dougherty, Dooly, Dodge, Wedster and other counties in that section, sweeping Northeastward and leaving the State throngh Elbert county, fol lowing, in the main, the wonted track of similar Storms in recent years. The rainfall was general throughout the state, and was ac companied with vivid lightning, Bridges and dams have been swept away by the swollen streams, railroads daifl^ed at many points. Large quantities of timber prostrated, houses and out buildings wrecked and general havoc wrought. The saddest fea ture of the disaster is the loss of human life, which, so far as re ported, is far from small. Days must elapse ere the measure of the tempest’s ravages can be made, if it can ever be fully determined The accounts of its ravages are so extensive that we can give only brief extracts from sections where they were most extensive and dis astrous. It passed eight miles below Al bany from Southwest to North east striking the plantation of John Mathews and Wm. Goodwin, completely demolished all that was valuable on both. Mr. Good win saved himself and family by running into a pit with the cliil dren in his arms. The next place struck \\ras that of Mr. W. C. Ba con, himself, one child and a ne gro sevant were killed, and anoth er child iujured, leaving only his wife. On the Crugen place one negro was killed and eighteen wounded, some fatally. In east Dougherty, Dr. Bacon dressed the wounds of twenty injured on Mr. F. F. Putney’s place at Harda way Station alone. Several were killed. Every house except the dwelling was destroyed. The course then Continued passed just below Isabella, completely destroying everything in its path. Dr. Hilsman dressed the wounds of forty men on the Unger & Bacon places. Many of them were fatally wounded. All who were able to be moved were taken to the County Hospital for atten tion and treatment. The cyclone struck Sumter county two miles below Bottsford, in the southwest, and, after traver sing the county, left near Ogle thorpe in the northeast leaving a track from three hundred yards to threequarters of a mile wide a desolate waste, dotted here and there by its victims. Justice M. G. Logan was the first to suffer from the cyclone in the county. His negro cabins and fences were blown down. A little further up the Faust plantation was laid in ruins and Mr. Faust killed by the falling timbers of his house, though whether it was Mr. Dan Faust or his aged father. cannot learn. Mrs. Thomas Carrum formerly a Miss Faust, was killed at the next place. I have no definite account of the storm track for the next three miles, but it struck the Ansley plantation six miles from town, and demolished the houses and fences, and killed Mr. Asa Ansley an aged minister. Blowing down all the timber fences and houses in its course it next struck the place of Wm Page and did $2,000 damage, also killing a negro whose name I could not learn. Coming on in its course it strnck with full force and fury the plantation of Mr. W. W. Poole, five miles below Americus, and blew away a hand some . residence, and numerous outhouses and all the fencing. Mr. Poole had a beautiful and valuable house and his loss is heavy. The next victim was Mr. U. S. Lockett, and. here the scene beg gars description. His beautiful home is not only in ruins, but blown to atoms, several fine mules killed, several head of cattle kill ed, and every member of his fami ly more or less injured. One lit tle daughter had the scalp entire ly torn from the head, another l ad a limb broken, and Mrs. Lockett sustained several injuries. To look at the debris it seems im possible that any of the family could have escaped. Here the cyclone crossed the Southwestern railroad and Muek- allee creek and still pursuing a northeast course demolished everything for live miles and blew away the line merchant mills and gin ol'S. S. Sloan & Co., two miles southeast of the city. Even the sills of the mill were blown up. The miller,'a colored man, whose name I could not learn, was kill ed and his remains not yet recov ered from the debris. The storm pext struck the farm of Fayette Battle, a colored man, and blew every thing away. Fayette was killed by his house falling, though his family were saved. In addition, one or two of Mr. Lockett's negro laborers were kill ed and one more will die. Mr. Lockett had a fine orchard and the trees are whipped as clear of j THE STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Arrangements for the Coming Conven tion at Augusta. The programmes for the tenth annual session of the State Asso ciation, to be held at A ugusta, May 2, 3 and 4, have been issued. Mr. R. B. Reppard, President of the Association, has issued the the following circular: Thocon stitution of the association says: “The association *sTia5l be compos ed of one delegate for every one hundred members of Sunday schools composing the county as sociation, and in counties where no association exists, two dele gates for every representative to which the county is entitled in tho General Assembly of the State. In counties where no as sociation exists the delegates will be appointed by the Vice Presi dent ot the State association for that Congressional district. The interest, which is apparent throughout the State, indicates that the approaching session of ECHOES OF PROHIBITION, Ben Russell made a most* gal lant fight for temperance in Deca tur county but lost it. He will nevertheless, receive the heartfelt thanks of the Christian world for his crusade against intemperance. Truth crushed to earth will rise again.— Thomatvtlle Timet. The people of Decatnr county voted on tlie prohibition question last Tuesday, and the result was a victory for liquor by a large ma jority. The Baixbridge Democrat took a very decided stand in favor of prohibition and its editorial upon the result of the election is one of the best articles we ever read—Albany Ifews and Aavcrtiser The Able editors of The Bain- b’ridge Democrat have fought the the liquor traffic valiantly, and wc are sorry their efforts have not been rewarded by the abolition of whiskey in Decatur. This shows that there are a great many peo ple in Decatur who are stilMn the dark and need civilizing. And the Georgia Sunday School As-1 ^ d J amas * sociation at Augusta will be the largest ever held in the State of Georgia. The programme prom ises great enjoyment to every delegate who attends, and great preparations are being made by the workers in Augusta for a grand Sunday school mass meeting, which in all probability may number fifteen thousand people, The arrangements made with the several railroads are as fol bark as if they had been scraped lows: Savannah Florida and with a knife. Three barrels full of syrup were blown 300 yards, and the rear wheels of a wagon were found half a mile from the remainder. But bad as this is, it was in finitely worse at the next place where Mr. W. T. Woodruff, his wife and two small children, to gether with servant girl were all killed outright by the falling of the dwelling—a two story frame house. Young-Brown Buckalter a grandson of Colonel Jack Brown was the only survivor at this place. He states that Mr. Woodruff was sleeping with him in a smaH room and Mrs. W., and the two children and the nurse in the family, room when the cyclone struck the house. Mr. W. rushed to rescue hi3 wife and babes, and at that moment the crash came. Young Buck- Jialter was hurled through space and the family buried beneath the ruins, Mr. W.’s neck was brok en, while Mrs. Woodruff and the two children were killed by a brick chimney falling in. The servant girl was killed by the timber of the house. The five corp ses had to be dug out of the ruins this moring. Mr. Woodruff was about 28 years old and was a good citizen. Mrs. W. was formerly a Miss Nutt, of Buena Vista. Five coffins have just passed my window going out to the Wooruff place. The escape of young Buckhalter, who is only 14, is almost a miracle. The course of the storm next took in Mr. James Castleberry, and it not only blew down his fences and houses but it .penned some of the family up in the rains so that they could not get out, and blew some of the children off through the woods, Strange to say, none of them were hurt, and all of them were found and cared for this morning. The next and last place, as heard from, was at John Hook’s colored, where all the houses and fences of a valuable plantation were ruin ed and one or two colored people killed. The damage to property in the county is $100,000. There is a periodicity about these visitations of the wrath of the elements that has com® to be well observed. It may be that warning of their coming may not measurably lessen their destruc tive effects, but it was niggardly economy on the part of Congress to refuse the appropriation appned for observing their movements and announcing their approach. Happily, tire cyclone was limited in its sweep, but it wrought des truction enough to arouse the sympathy of those who escaped its violence for tho&e who fell a prey to itefury. Western Railway, East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia Railroad, three cents a mile, round trip—or in other words—one half the re gular rates. Georgia Railroad the Central Railroad, the South western, and the Atlanta and West Point Rnilroad, three cents per mile going, and one cent per mile returning. The Richmond and Danville Railroad, two cents and a half per mile eaeh way. We again call the attention of the Sunday school workers throughout the State to this con vention of the Georgia State Sun day School Association, with the hope that they willl lose no time in the appointment of delegates, and notifying Mr. J. L. Bowles, Chairman of the Reception Com, mittee at Augusta Ga.,. so that homes may be provided, and all confusion avoided on their arrival at Augusta. The Vice-Presidents and Secre taries of each Congressional dis trict would do well to see that there is a delegation appointed from every county in their several districts, and notify the Slate Secretary of the names of all dele gates, and as far as practicable lead their several delegations in person to the convention. The great good individually and col lectively that results from these conventions, in the quickening of the spirit, in the dissemination of useful kncfwledge, and the diffu sion of various methods for con ducting the grand work in the Sunday school department of the church, is so apparent and has been experienced by so" many noble Christian workers, that any attempt to argue in their behalf is totally unneccessary, and we therefore trust that represent ative members of all denominations, from every section of this great State will get to Augusta and enjoy the rich feast of spiritual things in store for all who attend. The good people of Augusta have opened their hearts and homes, and are prepared to extend a cor dial welcome to all. £ Won’t that be Rode. “Johnny,” said the schoolmis tress, “you have been a naughty boy; now go and stand in the cor ner with your face to the wall un til I tell you you may go to your seat.” “Please, marm,” said John ny, “if I turn my face to the wall I’ll have to turn my back so you and the scholars. Won’t that be rude?” Alapaha Neics. How to Make the Garden Fay. The garden payg well, even with hand labor. It would pay much bettor if the main burden of the cultivation were put upon the muscles of the horse. But the saving of cost in cultivation is only a small part of the benefit of the long-row arragement. It would lead to a much more frequent and thorough cultivation of our gardencrops. Most|farmers neglect the garden for their field crops. The advantage of a frequent stir- ing of the surface soil to growing crops is greatly underestimated. It is said that it pays to hoe cab bage every morning before break fast during the early part of the seasons. Wc can testify to the great advantage of cultivation every week. This frequent break ing of the crust admits a freer circulation of the air among the roots below, and makes most of tho dews and rains that fall. The manufacture of plant food goes on more rapidly, and to a certain extent is a substitute - for manure. Another benefit of the long-row system would be the almost cer tain enlargement of the fruit and vegetable garden, and a better supply of these fruits for the table. This we believe, would have an important sanitary in fluence in every household. Hon. W. E. Smith. Albany Advertiser. As a matter of justice to Hon. W. E. Smith and Dougherty’s delegates to the Gubernatorial Convontion, we give publicity to some inside facts connected with the committee of 18, which have come to our knowledge through a semi-official channel. Capt. Smith’s friends withheld his name until the committee was appointed, and, believing then that the time had arrived to enter him, arranged to have his name presented before the committee of conference by an influential mem ber. From some cause, this gentleman could not nerve him self to do that which he agreed to do and Gen. Young placed him in nomination. It will be seen from the following table that Smith, even after being deserted by his friend, received 7 votes. It is rea sonable to suppose that this mem ber could have carried at least one vote beside his own, which would have made Capt. Smith Governor of Georgia. The following will show jest how the vote of the com mittee stood: Beans are now being shipped from Florida to the North. A little boy, cn being asked his reasons for chewing tobacco promptly replied, “To get the juice outen it.” Col. John F. Fort, of Southwest Georgia artesian fame, is project ingto drain the ponds in that section by boring down into their bottoms and lettiing the watei off subterraneously. A man in Vermont recently tried swallowing a dose of lead shot to cure boils, but one of the shot went the wrong‘way and worked into his brain, causing death. Two negroes, Fred Mason and Jim Salisbury, residents of Colurn bus, were fooling with a gun on Tuesday Morning. It was acci dentally discharged and; the for mer had the side of his head blown off. A negro fired five times at ghost in Athens Sunday night and then took refuge in the Home school. The Mayor fined him §10. For months the negroes have re ported seeing a white figure in Cobb Hall. Perry Journal: On last Tues day a little negro girl on Mr. B, W. Brown’s plantation fell into a pot of boiling soap, and was burn ed so badly that she is expected to die. Abount two weeks ago a child near Hayneville died from the effects of a similar, accident. The frequency of 6uch accidents proclaim the negroes the most careless people living. Smith received from Boynton “ “ “ Cook : Crawford received from Boynton “ “ Cook Simmons received from Boynton “ “ Cook Bacon received from self : : “ “ McDaniel “ " Cook : Boynton received from eelf : IcDaniel received from self : “ “ “ Cook «• ** “ Boynton : 6 : 1—7 : 6 : 1—7 : 6 : 1-7 : 6 : 2 : 1—9 : 6—6 : 4 :• 1 :6-ll Miss Housa, of Paris, 111., has trance-like sleeps, during which as she and her Yiends believe, she visits heaven. She gives what purport to be accurate, and certainly elaborate, reports of what she sees in these celestial trips. It is claimed, too, thatT she describes persons who died long ago, and about whom she can of herself know nothing. A young man who thinks he can lead a reckless and profitable life until he becomes a middle-aged man and then repent and mak< good and steady citizen, is delud ed. He thinks that people are tools, destitute of memory. He concludes that if he repents every body will forget that he was a dis sipated fellow. This is not tlie case. Besides, it is no easy thing to break off in middle life bad hab its that have been formed ir youth. The ages of the supreme Court Judges are as follows: Judge Har lan is 50, and the youngest man on the bench; the ChiSf Justice is 67; Judge Field, 67; Judge Bradley, 70; Judge Woods, 59; Judge Gray, 55, and Judge Blatch- ford, 63. Judge Miller was ap pointed in 1872, Judge Field in 1863, Judge Bradley in 1870, the Chief Justice in 1872, Judge Har lan in 1877, Judge Woods in 1880,. Judge Matthews in 1881, Judge Gray in 1881, and Judge Blatch- ford in 1882. All the prisoners in the Smith- field, N. C. jail escaped on Satur day night, the 14th ult. A single bad habit will mar ah otherwise faultless character, as an inkdrop soileth the pure white page.—Ballou. To remove warts on horses, take a piece of concentrated lye as large as a walnut, put it into a bottle with rain water enough to dissolve it, and apply with a feather. He who is great when he falls is groat in his prostration, and is no more an object of contempt than when men tread on ruins of sacred buildings which men ofpiety vene tate no less than if they stqpd. Virginia’s monument to Robert E. Lee will be unveiled at Lex ington, Jur.o 5th.—On this occa sion Jefferson Davis will preside* Gen. Joseph E. Johnson will be chief marshal, and Maj. John W. Daniel orator. A piece of rose point lace at the London Aquarium, 6| yards long is valued at §5,000. There are ninety six sprays to each inch of the fabric 4 and each spray cost two days’ labor, showing that it requised seven years work of skil led work to complete the trifle. The manufacturing industries of Cobb county are far ahoad of most counties in Georgia. Marriott# has the biggest flour mill in the State, a large chair factory, a car riage and wagon factory, two sash* blind and door factories, and in the county wo have a paper mill* two cotton factories, two wollen factories, and numerous small in dustries. Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to bo simple is to bo great,—Emerson, Southern Cultivator: We are receiving many communications from parties at the North making inquiries about the chances for purchasing Southern farms. Sev eral have sent for copies of this journal, hoping to gain the desired information from advertisements in its columns. We are prompted by the foregoing facts, to offer advertising space to Southern farmers who desire to put their lands on the market, at the rate of fifteen cents per line. A special column will be set apart for this purpose among reading items. Parties desiring to avail themselves of this opportunity will please remit the money with the advertisement counting the lines at eight words each and at the rate of fifteen cents per line for every insertion. A child has been bom in Turk ish Kurdistan with a fall beard and moustache, a perfect-set of thirty-twO teeth and no fewer than forty distinct and well form ed fingers. Naturally such a prodigy attracted great attention* but several visitors inspected it at their cost; for it snapped its thirty-two teeth at everybody who came within range with such en ergy and success that it becamo necessary to extract all the front ones. It is a wonderful thing to see the infant lying in its cradle* stroking its beard with its forty fingers. In his “American Alraanao** Mr. Spofford publishes some in teresting statistics of the religion^ of the world. There are 338,000*- 000 Christians, of whom 201,000,- 000 are Roman Catholics; 340,000** 000 Buddhists, 210,000,000 MohaoL medane, 175, 8 000,000 Brahmins* 80,000,000 followers of Confnciui, and 7,000,000 Jews. In America there are 47,000,000 Roman Cath olics and 30,000,000 Protestants and in Europe 147,300,000 Catho lics and 71,500,000 Protestants* In the United States the figures are as follows: Catholics 6,370,- 958; Methodist Episcopal, 1,680** 799; Baptist, 2,133,044; Congrega* tional, 383,865; Presbyterian, 800*- 000; Universalist, 26;238; Uni* terian, 17,960; Jews, 13*793) Lutheran, 684,570; Episoopal, 342,- 500; Quakers 67,643; Shakers* 2,400; Mormons, 110,377* arid Dunkards, 90,000. Paying His Debt. “My- son,” he began, as he Drilled the young man in, “you are i old enough to begin your in life. What profession will yea select ?” “Well, I dont know. * 1 “I have thought some of having you enter the ministry.” “Oh, I wouldn’t a by preacher. I’d rather be a champion of some sort.” “Yonng man is this the Way f have brought you upf” “No, Father, hat Pee bead thinking. 1 owe you a debt of E atitude. As a preacher roan eve to help me oriL As a pion sculler* rower or boxer ’ get plenty of bttckers, a money, and when the right mak&a big i how to be& and throw into your hands I” _ _ ■