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U’lES.
the star
le govern-
one, and
|periors, if
thought
fill lose his
throw his
| the woods
[been pro-
out West.
dubbed
had time
tiers.
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■Aila Bullc-tin:
laj. Geo. C.
anie ove
■(in Albany
l«d w.
•tlncstla;
•st, tells us
ItEufaula lias
(■ainly been
1
in the <*
>lsion of the
and Alb
§ railroad—
1
ding Hi.
lie hundred
1 -
liars \v(
1 of grading
lib- .if
■ady j
li done be
Itt; Eufaulii .u;J
Jjbany. He
1:
r, dial
the railroad
s alrol
contracted
|l!it' gr;i!
!in:r tfi
fly miles of
1 fill
im li a
Albany to-
It Coluuitms, fu
1 that it is
■too laic
for ffa
mla or any
■place i
lo Iftc
> secure the
Ms'll in
Ihis/irection. Col-
pis. via I.
,tI!l)*Ub
is the route
kmiiicl upofUU'l
! il is not to
Iflj ■■: -i.i
•tl iliat
within the
Itio Years le l'oi
ad from Al-
plo Colunits will be built.
imliiis ma f a
big bulge
klilierMd of Trade and
kn Fidn
lie for
the exten-
liS Hi:.! <!j
action,
aiul it seems
t!ie won.
ful we
glory in her
brk. J]
Is however, is but
patorv /
>f what we stated
pr-i iv <1
»ilU.
—
jrtb'i \(j
■Is with a capacity
pur hJ\
e gal in
ms, used by
prisa/s
for Iniri
al purposes
Ibuiul at Elberton,
u. t'lu v wore buried in the
Line Inp being four or live
will die surface. In the
of the vessel was a round
hlifieiriU'd the neck of the
‘.thebeau being in the ves-
i tiie body beneath it, the
tains evidently made
« ;.cInside of this
wasa smaller one made with
* ironii<l the top. The
"in ptvijy well preserved.
<?it ittdiraied u child about
sold.—Exchange.]
atarigines interred thus,
‘h iu order that the depart-
be prepared with a pot
wn, already over his head,
tlic river Jordan, or Styx
oase might be.
i" )s °i this reference, we
a fliomasville gentle
11 long since, made a some-
■2i!ar experiment with a
iaverted wash-pot—the
i. however, being other t han
an or Styx, viz: Mitchell’s
near that irascible
iho pot was furnished bj’ a
-m living near the Rond.
had gathered to witness
tf'nuance—the Colonel, for
is—stepped forward
Jlsllc attire, with his pot
u'or lus head. Wading
along-—hi s body gradually
f heueath the limpid
*1 the pot disappeared
1 " h ‘ h‘gs—which occasion-
* r,? ! " oe n to bob up to the
Hl tlli * time there was seen
" b-on in t he pond at the
“ re the Colonel was last
, a v °huneof bubbles was
^ se - Just then, however,
j^wman shot up to the sur-
1 '\‘ n ' ‘‘ke a porpoise and
ffl ‘i'trung strokes for the
retdi alon
ed th
h “
mv pot!”
e man who owned that
C?**} impliment; but
^couldn't ‘see it in that
■^i,-i elh : d: u Coto !
e J;!! nk f m an Insurance
-:‘;j Jl .i wading, the Col-
U|r. n , , 1 1 ri'" UUCil III
tlfKi tae Pond, stumbled
:' e P°t and broken up
: Re swears, however,
1 wade that pond if he
^‘Soil's a ph "‘ k to
The Ball Opened.
Steam Mill, Ga., June 18,1883.
Editors Democrat :—At a meet
ing of a few of our most preminent
citizens a few days since, your
article headed “Artesian Well,”
in your issue of the 14th inst., was
freely discussed and judging from
the tenor we presume that the
Board of County Commissioners
have decided—under the recom
mendation of the last Grand Jury
—to appropriate one thousand
dollars toward sinking an Artesian
Well on the Court House Square
in your city.
Now, Messrs. Editors, through
the columns of your valuable
journal we wish to enter our ear
nest protest against the expendi
ture of the county,s funds in any
such manner. We are perfectly
willing for you to have your Arte
sian Well, and if you will start a
subscription for the purpose of
raising money to sink it we will
subscribe, but we are unwilling
that the taxes which we pay to the
county be spent in this manner ;
as the Well is not a necessity,
and most of our public buildings
are out of repair. The principle
of running the county in debt for
such things as are not necessary,
while our county is so badly be
hind already is a bad one, and we
as tax-payers protest against it.
If we were out of debt and had
money in our treasury—as many
counties in the State have—then
we would say adorn and beautify
our county site; but as it is, we
say let ns pay our indebtedness
and bring our county script up*
to par before we undertake to sink
Artesian Wells. For the financial
standing of our county we refer
you to the report made by the
Chairman of the County Board,
published, in your issue of the
Mth inst.; and we ask, when will
these matters improve if the
Board continues to appropriate
money for useless purposes.
At a meeting of the Board our
representative, Mr J B Crawford,
refused positively to consent to the
appropriation on the grounds that
the Well was not a necessity, and
that the money should go towards
repairing our public buildings.
In referring to the condition,
financially, of our county we
would respectfully ask why it is
that we are in debt when we have
such a good county, and other
counties in the State are in a sound
and lieaithv condition ?
The answer is that our public
men—or those who have the
management of public affairs—
have not mayaged the business of
the county with that caution and
care \\ hich any private individual
would have to manage his busi
ness to insure success.
We are against this appropria
tion ; and we are against all need
less expenditure of the public
funds; for the principle of spend
ing money before it is made is a
bad one, and will bring rum on
any individual, corporation, town
or county, which pursues it.
Now, Messrs. Editors, don’t un
derstand us to say that we are
against the Artesian Well, for we
are not; ana, as we said before,
we will help you to sink it, if we
are asked to do so; but we want
to have a “say so” about the mat
ter when our money is spent for
luxuries; and in this case the
County
have overlooked the general wish
of the people.
The p>>or farmer who is called
away fror* his business to attend
Court, ana who sits as a juror a
week and is'jaid oft'in script worth
only 80 to S5 >ents on the dollar
pays pretty ieavily for all the
“Artesian WaA- - he drinks while
in Bainbridge
I say let o"e : >\ tax-paper read
carefully the rephrt of the Chair
man of the Board, t> which I have
referred, and then let him say
whether he approve the recom
mendation of the GAnd Jury, or
the action of the Coiii»\- Board.
Why, the Board i^askiug the
Legislature now, to alllw them to
increase our taxes, anl still they
propose to buy at intarest in a
luxury which the tax payers do
not want.
Look at our Court House, our
Jail and our Poor House and say
if this 8E000 should not go towards
one of them instead of to this
luxury of a well.
I have written more, Messrs.
Eeditors, than I had intended but
our side of the country feels a
deep interest in this matter for
we feel that there is a great prin
ciple involved: viz : The prin
ciple of paying our juryman and
those who work for the county,
lull prices for their services, or
paying them and all other debt
ors at the rate of 75 to 85 cents
on the dollar.
The foregoing are our senti
ments but wo would like at the
same time to hear from some of
our brother tax payers in the
Eastern part of the county.
Yours Bespectfully,
West Side.
A Growing Evil.
Atlanta Journal.
The killing last Saturday of J.
Lane Borden, President of the
Mansfield, Louisiana, College, by
the Bev. Benjamin Jenkins will
naturally excite mingled horror
and surprise. It is not every day
that a College president is killed
by a minister of the Gospel, and
perhaps the majority of our peo
ple will at once jump to the con
clusion that the slayer must have
had provocation of such a charac-
ter as to render him wdiolly un-
ablo to restrain himself. But
when the cause of the murder is
hinted at, the affair will be
thoroughly understood. We have
had so many cases of a similar
character of late, in Kentucky,
Pennsylvania and South Carolina,
for instance, that tho reader
doubtless guesses already the
nature of the murderer’s provoca
tion. It is the same old story of
a wronged woman, and theclaival-
ric next friend who appears in
the role of avenger and sends the
soul of a fellow-being headlong in
to eternity. The Rev Mr. Jenkins
will tell his story and be acquit
ted, but is it not about time A
call a halt in this promiscous
slaughter which seem6 to be con
fined to no one section and tone
particular class of society ? Per
haps we cannot stop the evil in
the present generation, but it
may be materially checked in the
next, if parents will take better
care of their daughters and sons.
Our young people are growing up
with too little attention paid to
their moral education, and with
a thousand times too much free
dom allowed them in everything.
This is the explanation of the
epidemic of crime now running its
course through almost every circle
of society.
Tiie Grand Juror’s Oath.
Worth Star.
We have heard some intelligent
men in this county argue that a
grand juror's duty was to investi
gate such cases as came within
his knowledge during court week.
This is a grave error.
The grand juror takes a solemn
oath to “diligently inquire into
and true presentments make,” of
all crimes which may have come
to his knowledge uuring the two
years previous to the sitting of
court If he fails to do this he
perjures himself, unless the fail
Commissioners seem to ure is caused by ignorance of the
law. There is not the slightest
doubt in our mind as to the cor
rectness of this assertion.
We have frequently heard
good men condemned for seeking
to get true bills against offenders.
They deserve praise instead of
condemnation. No good citizen
will take offense because the laws
are enlorced, and every violator,
no matter who he be, or Low small
the offense, should be made to
feel that sure punishment awaits
him.
Winking at crime increases it
to such an extent that it is difficult
to determine which is the worst
enemy to society, the criminal or
he who, by silence, shields him
from punisment
Bishop Pierce on the Negro.
This week’s Christian Advocate
has an article from Bishop Pierce
on the proposed Paine Institute
for the education of negro preach
ers and teachers, in which he
says:
I regret to say that tho people
are not responding according to
the demands cf the oase, or the
the hopes of the general confer
ence. Public opinion in many
places is unsettled as to the wis
dorn of the project, and in others
there is direct hostility, because
of a misconception of the object
intended. To the doubtful and
reluctant let me sfiy the education
of the negro i« not an open ques
tion. It is settled by state legisla
tion—by section of the churches
—by individual philanthropy and
munificence—by the aspirations
and new relations of the colored,
race, and by the responsibility of
of their citizenship. The power
of education to elevate humanity
and to eliminate the elements of
evil in natural constitution and
social life may be overestimated.
The extravagant calculations of
ardent theorists about the capabili
ties of the negro may never be
realized. Even the rosy views of
the hopeful, sanguine humanitari
an may be shaded in their tints
by the developments of the future
But these facts, as probable possi
bilities, do not justify either op
position or indifference to a well
directed effort to make the best of
an experiment which is being
made—an experiment which we
cannot hinder if we would, and
ought not if we could.
The negro belongs to a distinct
a peculiar, race. His color—his
instincts—his prejudices—his
tastes—his very religion And his
modes of enjoying it—separate
him from the white man and make
him exclusive. The negroes wish
to be by themselves They be
lieve in the color line. Unprompt
ed by others, left to their own
sentiments and preferences, they
will never stir the social equality
questions. Every case of trouble
at this point has its purpose—its
design. It is the off spri ng of im
pudence, or politics, or the hope of
gain, or the love of strife. When
a colored man claims equality im
properly, he does violence to him
self, to his position, his history,
his race, and his destiny. In
many important respects the ne
gro dwells alone. It is the ordina
tion of nature—it is the plan of
heaven.
The churches had as well recog
nize and provide for it. The
Southern Methodist Church, sood
after emancipation, with wise
forecast, set them up in a distinct
organization. It was their wish.
We wfcre not seeking to get rid cf
them—to throw off responsibility
—but to help them in a way of
their own choosing. • The result, so
far. vindicates the policy. It
would have been a grand triumph
if other Methodisms had not inter
meddled. The unity of the color
ed Methodist churches is a con
summation greatly to be desired
on the score of economy, efficient
work, and of peace and good
order.
The only hope of the race, in
tellectually, is in the rising gener
ation
population, must
cannot expound doctrines nor en
force morals. Much of their teach
ing is loose and demoralizing.
They must be taught themselves.
Without schooling, without books
or refining associations, if their
pulpits give an uncertain sound,
what is to become of the. people ?
Degenerate in morals, corrupt in
social life, there is no depth in
vice or crime into which they will
not plumre. Patriotism, phijanth-
ropy, religion, selfprotection, all
urge us to do something-
EXHAISTIXG THE PI.\£ OEGH-
ARDS.
A Discorerery Respecting Rosin
Which Increase* the Danger to the
Forests.
Commercial World.
Those who ought, to know say
that it will not be very long before
the turpentine orchards will con
sist only of dead pine trees. This
is exactly in the line of the pre
dictions of Ingallg in the Senate,
ofS. 8. Cox in the House, when
the Tariff bill was under discus
sion. Mr. Ingalls predicted that,
at the present rate of consump
tion, it will require only seven
years to exhaust the pine supply.
In Wilmington the owners of tur
pentine still say that within five
years, as production is now aver
aging the stills will indeed become
very still. Already there is a
marked falling off in production.
Tho fearful crafts that ply the
Cape Fear River still bring down
to port hundreds of barrels of
rosin daily, but not so many as
they did two years ago. Young
trees that no turpentine gatherer
would have thought of boxing for
turpentine a few years ago are
now drained of their valuable
juice. It will not be very long
before a serious scarcity will oc
cur, unless something is done to
protect the young growth.
A new danger arises to the pines
from a very recent discovery of
possibilities of rosin. No longer
will it be made the butt of jokes
respecting its use for fiddles and
lager beer barrels, for it has been
proved that it can be made to
yield a very rich lubricating oil.
It is cheaper than linseed, and
combined with that oil, it is said,
makes the best lubricator in the
market, Exper.ni-nts are being
constantly made aid now it is re
fined into three grades, the thiro
yielded a drab col -rod oil that is
beginning to win high f >vor in the
market. The lowest grade is sold
to a Philadelphia firm that, by a
secret process, converts it into the
best axle grease. Tin’s develop
ment of the value of rosin is com
paratively recent, and is meeting
with saccess that stimulates the
production of turpentine and ro
sin to the great danger of a speedy
exhaustion of the supply.
There is a chance for a fortune
for somebody in connection with
this production of rosin oil. The
man who <-an discover a process
of deodorizing it may, if he can
keep his process a secret or patent
the machinery, retire from busi
ness in a short time with all he
wants to live on. The attempt
has been made. A New York
chemist set up his pots and ket
tles about a year ago in one of the
yards adjoining a large still in the
city, and fused for a week with
chemicals, making vile smells and
viler smoke, but he failed, and re
tired disgusted. If the oil can \%
dederized it can be brought into
common household use.
The immense tracts of land
where oncp stood turpentine or
chards, now exhausted, are not
allowed to go to waste hereabouts.
It has beeu found that this land
produces a better rice than that of
South Carolina lowlands, and at
the present rate of production it
AGRICULTURAL.
To remove stumps by the use of
saltpetre is to bore holes into
them and fill them with saltpetre.
Insert plugs to keep out .the wa*
ter. In two or three months after
fill the holes with coal oil. After
sufficient time has been given the
oil to diffuse itself set fire to the
stumps, and they will be entirely
consumed. This is the plan pro
posed by a Western experimenter.
Peas and Potatoes.—These old
standbys should rot be neglected
by the farmer unless he is quite
sure he has enough already in the
grouud for the season, and we
don’t sde how he can have too
much in view of the lac£ that both
are excellent for fattening bis
meat hogs in the fall. If corn
promises to be short they are in
dispensable. Pea planting may
continue into August with even
better results than if planted in
June, so far as the yield of fruit
is concerned, but where the vines
are wanted for forage or to rot on
the soil as a fertilizer, earlier
planting is the best. But all our
Southern corn fields should be
sown in peas in laying by to fer
tilize and protect from summer’s
heat.
Ilog Cholera.-—A farmer out in
Texas writes that he has what he
thinks is a certain preventive of
hog cholera, which is simply corn
soaked in lime. A butcher in
Mobile twenty years ago told him
about it, and he has used it ever
since, having no diseases of any
kind among his hogs, while his
neighbor’s hogs were constantly
dying with cholera. He states
his receipt as follows in Heme
and Farm: “Take, say a peck of
common lime (unslacked prefer
red), put in barrel with' a bushel
of shelled corn ; let it soak three
or four days ; keep it well stirred.
When the corn is well saturated
with the lime water, have another
barrel or tub and pour the corn in
a common hamper basket to 1st
the water drip, and the same lime
will do lor months. Give the
corn to your hogs once or twice a
week; about a peck of the soaked
corn to every ten or twelve hogs.
There is no danger in giving too
much.
Canning and Evaporating.—All
farmers and fruit growers should
learn to can and evaporate in or
der to save forborne use or market
in another form the surplus fruits
and vegetables they find no
present sale for. Many articles,
indeed, nearly all of them, sooner
or later fail to pay the expense of
VOL XII-NO. 37.
CHARLES C. BUSH,
Attorney at Law;
COLQUITT, GA.
Prompt attention given to all busineM ea-
trtyued to me.
1N0. E. DQNALSON.
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Office over Hind's store. Will practice
in Decatur and adjoining counties, and
elsewhere by special contract.
Feb’y lo, 1883.
D- MCGILL, M, o’HRAL
McGILL & 0 NEAl.
Attorneys at Law;
bainbridge, ga.
Their office '~ :, 1 be found over the post «f-
ficc.
0 r
MEDICAL CARD,
E . J .
organ
Mas removed his office to the drug etora/
formerly occupied by Dr. Harrell. Resi
dence on West street, south ot Shotwull,
wherj calls at night will reach him.
J . c
DENTISTRY.
Curry, D.D
Can be found daily at his office on 8outh
Broad street, up stairs, in E. Johnson’^
building, where he is ready to attend to tK6
wants of the public at reasouable rates.
dec-6-78
DOCTOR M. L. BATTLE/
Dentist.
Office ovev Hinds Store, West sidq
cecrt house. Idas tine dental engine, and
will have everything to make his office
first-class. Terms cash. Office hours 9
a. m. to 4 p. m. jan.l3tf
DR. L. H. PEACOCK;
Respectfully tenders bis professional serv
ices to the people of Bainbridge and vicini
ty-
Office over store of J. D. Harrell & Bro.
Residence on West end of BrongktOn
street, where he can be found at tn£ht.
April 6, 1881—
JEFF. D. TALBERT. WM. H. ITARRELL.
TALBERT & HARRELL,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law/
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
The above have formed a copartnership)
under the firm name of Talbert & Il^rraq
for the practice of law. Will practice in
all the courts of the Albany Circuit. Office
over Barnett’s store.
August 14.1882.
ALBERT WINTER;
Real Estate arid Collecting Agent;
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA.
I will be glad to receive the patronage #f
all who have property to sell or real, n
collecting to make. All business placed in
my hands will receive prompt attention. I
will look after wild lands, investigate title*/
pay taxes and protect from tresspasser*. J
I propose to make ike collection of bad
claims a specialty. The worst the elaut
the more attention I will give iC
Correspondence solicited.
Aug. 1,1882.
DAVID E. HOLLEY,
Practical Painter & Paper Hanger/
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA.
Having located here I take tide metfceq
of informing the public that I am prepared!
to do all kinds gf Painting, such as Grain-,
ing, Shelacking, Varnishing. Gilding and
marketing, and then the canning | p3ai exp^ce of fX.
j , . , will not be long before North
1 he aged, the entire adult; Carolina becomes the great rice
be reached by producting State of the Union.
other means. Their school days I Something, however, will hove to
are past. The children mav le | done b -V the Legislature of the
. ,- - ,, , \ State, as was done in Maine, to
be enlightened and molded to a | save / he foK . sts , or before ]on | its
purer ate. But the teachers must
be equipped mentally and moral
ly for the task, arduous and full
of difficulty. When the best
work is done, it will encounter
neutralizing influence, ever pres
ent bad examples, and the an tag-
onisrrrs of home life. The teach
ers ought to be first-class, well in
structed, and scundly converted.
To furnish these is one depart
ment is the special work of Paine
Institute.
It is not disrespectful to our col
ored breth ten to say that their
ministers, with few exceptions,
are grossly ignorant, blind guides.
it could not be otherwise. Thev a spoonful at a time, and fry.
surface will’be denuded of pine.
Cologne Water.—Cologne wa
ter can be made at home. Take
60 drops of oil of Lavendar, 60
drops bergamot, 60 drops essence
of lemon. 60 drops orange water,
60 drops musk. Put these in a
pint of alcohol.
and drying should begin. All
your pickles should.be made at
home, and into the pickle barrel
of salt brine may go the late
young cucumbers, snap beans,
tomatoes, onions, peppers, etc.,
etc., according to your taste.
Instead of canning you may bottle
if you prefer, but canning is
thought to keep them best because
they are caund and cooked a er-
ward, while this process is re
versed in bottliu;;.
Laying By.—One of the prime
objects in laying by crops before
the dry, hot weater begins, is to
avoid plowing deep after that time
and turning up the soil. The
one prevents the formation of
surface roots which are necessary
for good fruiting, and other aiti
ye*rs w*r.
rants me in guaranteeing' satisfaction or lift
charge. Leave orders at Pop*.4 Grsc*’*.'
6-24-3m. D. E. HOLLEY.
WOOD & W VGA NT
Southern Fruits end Vegetables/
/—AND GENERAL—
Commission Mentsrcha'
268 Washington Street, Near Warrea,
NEW YORK CITY.
Refers to any well established Bank, *r th*(
Editors of this paper for any informative
concerning their reliability. Home D*p**«
itory: the People’s Bank of New Ye A City.
3-l-3m
Tomato Fritters.—Tomato frit
ters are an agreeable entree. Use
one quart of stewed tomatoes;
one egg; one small teaspoonful of
soda; stir in flour enough to make
a batter like that for griddle
cakes. Have some lard, very hot,
on the stove; drop the batter in,
a spoonful at a time, and fry.
J S. CHAMBERLINE & CO.
Wholesale Fruit and Protfbetf
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
No. 5 Market St. and No. 6 Clinton 8i„'
BOSTOS, MASS.
Georgia Melons made a Speciality;
in the escape of the moisture sc
soil should receive all its deep
plowing previous to this time, so
that the laying by plowing may
be shallow, and rheD, not to turn
over, but to stir.- Corn matures
very rapidly after laying by, be
cause it then sends up its roots to
the surface, hitherto unoccupied,
where they are nourished by the
surface fertility and watered by
tne moisture from below ascend
ing to supply the place of that
evaporated from the surface.
Cultivation mast never disregard
these necessary conditions.
Savannah, Ga ; J. C. Wisenbaker, Yaldtoto*
Ga ; J. A. Ously, Ously, Ga.;' T, t. Black!
shear, ThomasviVle, Ga; J. H. Daniel*/
Miilen, Ga.
The Steamer ftfewte*
Will Leave Bainbridge
Eve -y Moaday and Thursday for Red Bhdf
Every Tuesday for Bush’s.Landing.
Every Wednesday for Bjryant’g,'
Every Friday for Cheeverlown*
Every Saturday for Lightfoot’a auuJ
and Bryant’s. ~
FASSSSreER BJ&md
To Red Bluff 50 cts; To Cheevertown $1 QQf
J. E. MORGAN. ,
May 17,1883. Uamtfif:
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