The Bainbridge democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 18??-????, March 06, 1884, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTERMS—$ 2 A YEAR, BAINBRIDGE. GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH G, 1884. YOL XIII--NO. 20. parroEiAL bretities. will adjourn about the ^ cfMa v , should protect the oi the country. £ oi g 0 vnl«n decliaes to enter . f 'i ,j i caneidale for Con- **^onal hoiioi*. We suppose Li.c-riiig higher. ^’e 1 . : Loaf-s Red in New y,.-'. i'ia i'* obtained for fire ttll d still -o;ae New Yorkers t;.a :y persist in staying up tlUi&R- r>jirr,-*.cty ' ; piaviR^out. Kate U’j’and Kuiily Faithful have J returned from Utah without Caging (heir name*. There is w n*tbi<ig hi the Edmunds bill »'•!• u;„cw a certainty that Ar- jj, c r#iii be a candidate for the re «!iM:.’»u nomination for president. Arthur will be the v |!ro:.g--»t candidates bai'ore «t bad;/. •If it l>e true fhat the hairs of ,' s are all numbered,“ said » mil n alter lie had escaped frcia iwue'i* clutenes, “ % lheie will be i ii’ga! at least who wifi show with a big deficit. When a girl proposes to T» u rins Leap year and you do not mt tii marry her, the proper ; n j ii to reach for your hat and i hsr to excusei ou a# you have irfasing engagement with anoth- jirl. LonjNUiw's "Excelsior,” which id <o nun'll action in it, wss ritt'ii while tbs pool was in bad.' ha post bail to write seven or jilt vetoes before he could ex- fhior up enough ambition to get' U of bad. Lb of the wealthiest firms in Lfiatf of Maine is composed of n brothers of Augusta, whose ilyoriginal capital was 55,000, hich their sister recovered in a naeh cf promise suit. Th» national democratic con- ir.litn will meet in Chicago, July 4,‘to nominate candidates tor (wident and vice-president of * United States. Chicago will ire both conventions this time. Aa intensely loyal northern wo- »aobjected to a boarding house K*u?e the room which she was iKr.ipy had southern exposure' btraudi use trying to bridga the tab chasm. Tie best creameries now have Kilter contrivances called hair- hiRorj; thus rendering their wEci ebsolntely free from a whAuac**. Cut this out, ►faster it in a conspicuous It yc« have so plaster, :t; houee butter will do. it October the people ot ;ia will elect a governor, wy ot state, treasurer, ffiilirr-general and. attorney - *1. iu November they will btf president and viee-presi- wri elect, ten mem bars ol ***. la January they will county officers, including A year of elections A ini yet there are some «i.o exist without their taper. v the most remarkable 1 the century is Chinese who. single handed, is to quiet matters in 3 ' J 4a». it is said he has I at Kh artouin, and there * proclamation recognizing bai si Sulian of Kordofaa, ¥ ' half the taxes, and i no restriction on the slave ^ lle Arabs in that oeclicn - **tisfaelien. ^-ent letter lrom Florida II ne doubts can be enter- * s to ihe rapidity aad-per- t,a of new settlements in J hey are springing up a* r ‘«i:ie all over the length *sth ot the land, and prices *-iied tor town lots which *Ppc*r almost fabulous in 1 [ he old citie* «.f the east ® et h and perhaps not very that the population ol •** nearly doubled emce »f 18S0. The Dad Day cu Bneintu. “What, you don't tell rae your fatuerhas failed?” said the gro cery man, as he leek down the ledger. Great heavens, he owes me tT 5 and the man groaned. T tie ( way tie can make a dollar. I don't know anything about the fcusiiless of failing, but as near as I can get at it, by hearing pa-and hit. attorney talk about it, there is money in. it if it is worked, right and if I was ia your place I would word aa annual failure departraeat into my business. The way to fail is to get credit for all you can, and sell for cash, aild you sell the b*st things, have somebody that ybii owe, a friend or a fellow that 3 r ou got confidence in, get on his ear, and get out au attachment and close you up, or eka make an as signment to a fellow who stands in with you, and Jet him offer the creditors ten cent in the dollar in notes payable ia six, twelve and eighteen months. By the time six months are up you can buy the first note for fifty cents on tho dollar, and you can fail again be fore the. other note comes due Fa says there’s more money in it, than ruaning a bank, and lie is awful anxious to have the thing fired up in time for him and ma to go to Florida for the winter, so they can get back in time to go to Saratoga next summer. I asked pa if it was honest to fail when ma had pro perty enough in her name to pay all debts and have plenty left,, and pa said he and ma was two differ ent persons. I thought a man and his wife w r ere one. Well, a fellow learns something every dav, don't lie? Say you would be atotal failure oageneral principles and if I was in your place I would have some style about me and bunt. You can never -tmounl to anything going along the way you do, and never getting ahead any. Let me tell pa's lawyer that 1 can get him a job putting you through bankruptcy on shares.” “No, sir, never,” said the gro eery man. “I have si was paid & hundred cents ou the dollar and I always will. It i? trua I cannot put on muon style, not as much as some I know who have failed, but I cia look everybody in tha face and—but cay. Hennery, you might tell your pa's lawyer to call in here this afternoon, and I will have a talk with him.” “A sloiidav la HelE” Henry Ward Beechpr gave ut terance to the following in his church last Sunday, which should be patted on the 'front page of .many bibl*s and scrap booka Read it and meditate : “I thank God,' 5 said Mr. Beech er, (Sunday,) “I was not born a Baptist, no r *a Methodist, nor a Fresbyterian. 1 wa* born a baby and my ad-other wa« my saintly teacher. Men of all denominations ar# ruy brother* if they live Ulrnst- iike lives.’" In conclusion he said. ■ A mean quarrel in a church is a holiday in heii. Better burn down the church. Disband the wfioPe hive of wasps. Galling a council will not settle the difficult . If men have not the sweet . »pirit of Christ, they are not lit t» bo in a church. I have Had tw* refla tions tor many years, and will not quarrel with any denomination trying to do eAud, how diverse iie or they may be from me ot my teachings. I never, never, never, uniess I am in insane asylum, will quarrel with my own church. I would go ii> the wild wilder:^?* first. You are all at peace now, and ko this sermon is appropriate. It will not dG for me to preach so if I were quarreling, for you would say I was on one side .May that Gad who for thirty-eight years has given internal peace to this church, and all external shocks, give us peace until we enter the laud where peace reigns evermore.” Judah F. Benjamin prcnonnce6 the alledged ietter about the British recognition of the south ern confederacy * forgery. Bayonets in Politics. At a dinner party given during the past weed Senator elect Black burn, of Kentucky, told the fol lowing interesting story, which he says was told by general Gen Garfield at a social gathering at wiiioh Alexander H. Stephens and oth^r prominent Domocrats. were present. The stirring event ef the closing days of tho session of 1875 77 were the topics cf cwn- ver*ation, some of the party were commenting on Uo narrow escape of the country from a bloody struggle. It w-,*s agreed by all that if it had not been for the grai. self-control of the members of both parties, and the real patriot ism of the Democr»is, a civil war would certainly have broken eat. General Garfield here came in with a high compliment for the Democrat*. lie said that perhaps none of them really knew how gre»*t ic« danger wa« at that time He added that he thought he had been the means of breaking up a foolish programme which some Republicans haj actually arrang ed, end which, if carried out. would certainly have resulted in a bloody outbreak. “Now,” said Gen. Gar field, “as we are talking among ourselves as g^utlraea, and not a* politicians, I have no hesitation in telling you what that programme wus.” Instantly, there was the most profound attention. Gen. Garfield continued ait«r a mo ment’s pause, in which he lighted a fresh cigar, to S2? that there was nearly' a panic among the Repub lican leaders during the days im mediately preceding ihe passage 0‘f the Electoral Commission bill, it was believed by some that the filibusters would be able to defeat the count s.ivi leave the country, on the 4th of March, without an Executive. Late on the last day of the debate Garfield was supr- moned to ail important conference *f the Republican leaders, did not say who were present, or where it was held, hut frem what followed it wee inferred that the President and his Cabinet, sad the General of the army were there. Garfield said he arrived very late. The conference laid just concluded its work. Upon Tbs asking what subject had been discussed and what conclusion reached, he was told that these present believed the 'filibusters iu the House had the pawer to Jeleat the count un less extraordinary measures were employed. It had been agreed therefore, to march 600 men from the Arsenal at S-o'clock the next morning to the Capitol, and sta tion them in the basement ol the House, ready to be marched up into the House lobby and open the floor iUeif.df neces»ary, when the House met. The filibusters were then to be notified by an order from ihe President that persistent filibustering in the face of ihe situation "would be- treated ai an act ci rebellion, and lira, ob jecting members iftouii be arres ted and carried out. Garfield said that he denounced this programs, and oppessd it to the exieul of his ability. He said such an act would arouse the a pitch of madness, and that bloody would few in the streets of every city in the country. His objec tions were not listened to until he said that if this resolution w.-.s persisted in he should go to the telegraph office and denounce the whole thing to the country. It i« noteworthy that tb® last five floods in the Ohio Valiev have occurred in February, the river reaching the highest point between I the dates of the 14th and 21st. and i that until I8S0 there had been no ! over flow in February since 1850. ! This appears to show that Febru- htv has come to b# a month when wot weather condition* prevail to au alarming extent. 0 ! ~ Girls should be careful how they are vaccinated with viru3 taken from a lover's arm. One at St Paul has taken to *wearing. •itting cross-legged and *si«kinga brier root pipe. l’ftssrre the I'crstis. Herr Lasker, the late distin guished German statesman, just prior to liis death, in & conversa tion respecting his observation* in the United States remarked that the prodigal wart® of th® forest* which he everywhere noticed was a source of pain and reret to him. lie said the tiuie was not distant when a system ef tree planting ana forest protection, such as every where prevailed in Europe, would hare to be adapted. The destruc tion that was now going on without pretest'or hindrance, by years of labor aud at a heavy cost. Herr Lasker ia- not the only one who has uttered a w arning ol this kind. Tiis press h-a far years urged th* siiactiiieiit of laws for the preservation of forest* and tha encouragement of tree planting. Somethifcg ha# been aeouipiished. On the plain* of the Northwest trees are uaw extensively planted* and in loss than a quarts* of * century the treeless plains will be matte beautiful by numerous groves. The great forests, how ever, are lapidly disappearing before the axe and fire. Within half a dozen years hundreds of thousands of acres of pine land# in the South have been cleared of trees, snd the destruction of the pine forests is going on with ecn- tmually increasing rapidity. Who can say that the drought* snd fierce storms with which Gergia and other Southern States have bean afflicted within the last few years are not partially due to the less of so large an area ef forest* ? If it be true that these disasters can justly be attributed, ia a meg^ure, to this cause, what may we -expect when the naval stores producers and bipnbernien have prosecuted their business in Luc present wasteful way for twenty years more ? Is it uot probable that the present disastrous floods in the Ohio valley are the result of the destruction cf the forests of the valley? There ara those who advance that theory, and not un reasonably. The forests held back the water* and allowed them to drain into the streams only as the streams were able to accomodate them. It is asserted that the up per Hudson river i* becoming shallow oti accout of the rapid disappearance of the Adirondack forest, and earnest appeals are being made to the Legislature of New York for protective Legisla tion. In Europe it has been found imperatively aeecesaaiy to pre serve the forests. The time wili come whin cake no steps trr avert tha evils which alliict a country rebbad of its covering of trass. 2ast bs Extirpated. Thus sayeth the great and good Bishop Fierce: “Mormonism can never be reached through legisla tion. It must be reached for the crime that it is by the strong arm of justice. Bigamy is just as foul in Utah as it is in Georgia, and a bigamist should not igceive any more consideration iu one place than the other. A_boiisli the terri tory. That Congress has a right to do' It is only when it becomes a State that it can take its place as a sovereign community. Fut a commission of determined and discreet men in charge of the terri tory. Punish sins of impurity just as they are punished all over the Christian world. Arm the commission with plenary authori ty. Missionary effort might very properly aid the secular authori ties, hut one thing should not be lost sight of and that is that the evil must not be merely talked i about' but extirpated. “No,” said a man who applied for a pension, “1 must acknow ledge that I was never in the army, bufliuance fell off a post- anu-rail^ffe and broke my leg while watching a. militia company drill. It seems to ms that a man who watches a military company drill for an hour, to say nothing about breaking his teg, ought to have some - compensation from hir country." Bill Xye Tates to Young Sen- Young man, what are. you liv ing for ?Have yau no object dearer to you as life, and without tha at tainment of which you feel that your life wouid have been a wide shoreless waste, peopled by the spectre* of dead ambition ? You can take your choice iu the great battle cf life, whether you bristle up and win a breathless name, or be satisfied with scabs and medioc rity. Many of those who now stand at the Lead of tho Nation ss statesman and logicians were once unknown, nnhonored and unsung. Now they saw the sir of the halls of Congress, and their names are plastered on the temple ef fame. You can win some laurels teo, if you will brace up and secure them when they are ripe. Live temperately on $9 a month. That’s the way way we got our start. Get #ome true, noble minded young la4y of your acquaintance to a.s*ist you. Tell her of your troubles and she will tell you what to do. Sks will gladly ad vice you. 1 hen you can marry her, and she wiiladviao you some more. You needn't bo out of ad vise at all unlets you want to. She, too, will tell you when you have mad# a mistake. She will come to you frankly an l acknowl edge that you have made a jack ass of yourself. As she gets more acquainted with you she will be more candid with you, and in her unstudied, girlish wav, she will point errors and gradually convince you with an old ch&air chair leg and ether arguments, you were wrong, and your past life will come up before you like a par.orma, and you will let up again. Life is indeed « mighty struggle. It is business. >Ve can’t all be editors and lounge around all the time, and wear good clothes, and have our names in the paper*, and draw princely salaries. Seme one must dc the work and drudgery of life, or it won't be done. 1YA3 IT A LEE AM 1 A Siigp.d’ir Vision Which Appeared to Ur. Bruce iu fierida, A Mieanopy, Fla., dispatch in the New York -VorlJ ef February inhsays: Dr. Waller Bruce, of ibis pines recently had a very singular revelation made to him in a way that ia hard to explain. He is a native of Virginia, wh re tea married Mis* Stribiing, of Fauquier county, some years ago and soon afterward removed to this State as one ef the pioneers in orange planting, and has ever since been actively engaged in 1 hut business, lie is well-known about here os a man of seuad judgment, high standing and of the most practical ideas, and is far from being a believer in any of the popular '"isms” of the day, especi ally Spiritualism. Late on the night of Friday December 2Sth, he was awakeaed fiom a sound sleep at his house in tiiis place by so strong a feeling that there was some mysterious presence in his room that he got up and lighted a lamp and looked all over the heuse bat finding nothing unusual, he returned to bed and apparently fell into a light sleep iu which there ap peared to him a vision of his wife’s Wothsfr.lt. M. Stribiing, m a deadly conflict in which lie had his throat cm iu a most horrible manner, and was removed to a store near by, where he was plactd on a counter and alter apparent lapse of time he died from the effects of the wound. The vision was so real that I)r. Bruce could sleep no more, and when morning dawned he went out, but could not rid himself of the veiy strong impression it had made upon him. He re- iatec the dream, as he called it, to several of his friends, and later ir. the day visited a well-known Spiritualist in Gainesville, who toid him that an awfulcalamiiv must have befallen young Slrib- lug. And sure enough the next mail from Virginia brought Dr. Bruce a letter announcing the death of his brother-in-law in the exact manner he had seen and at the very hour that it had ap peared to him in his vision. A sister of the murdered man, visit ing relatives in Kentucky at the time of his death, had a similar dream, and, while relating it at the breakfast table, was handed a dispatch announcing itr fulfill ment. Beware of the Rat-Tran, Life is on continuous rat-trap, always-set and baited with cheesa to catch the unwary. The busi ness man goe* about his business ‘ailconecious that the rat-trap is sst where he can get into it. He ex tends his business, gives credit and gets credit himself, everything is booming and he is sailing along a& nice as your pa was on the roller skates, when all at once there te a slack up iu busines-s, he can’t col- tect o what i* owing to him, and he has to •pay what he owes, he clutches and claws at friends for help to keep him from falling, but friend* have get all they can at tend to to keep on their feet, and they do not reach out to help him, and suddenly Ju* feel go out from under him and he strikes some thing hard, and he finds that he is in life's great rat trap, and his creditors do not hurry to unspring the trap, and he waits for tha plumber as ycur pa did, and thinks what a fool ho has made of himself; A boy gets a situation in a srore »t five dollars a week, and in three months he thinks he owns the store. He is promoted and has his salary raised, and then he be gins to dress better than the pro prietor, plays billiards till the saloon closes, goes to Lis cheap boarding place with beer enough in him to start a new saloon, gets to buying wine and hiring lively rigs, and some day a plain looking man call* on him and takes him up to the police station, where he is told that his cash account is six hundred dollars short, and as he hear* the key turu in door of his cell he realizes that he has dropped square into life's rat-trap, * hicli he knew was there all baited for him, but he did not have sense enough to keep array from it. Ah, boys, beware of the rat-trap. Hi Cccuiry Editor. Siiniter Republican. The country editor is a bully old boy and lias a real fat,juicy, greasy time. , He can take rusty nails, bottles, pieces of iron, dilapidated currycombs and weather-beaten umbrellas, in payment for sub scription to hi* paper and then trade off the whole coiiflutement to some loose darkey hanging round for an equivalent quantity of ’possums and bullfrogs. • Ir tho editor gives the wealthy farmer a three-coluinn notice of hi* new barn and the old circum stance fails to remunerate, he can hitch up the cart and steer* and take Saiiie and tha children out there on a six week 5 * visit. The fellow ‘who brings quilts, patch-work, beets or phenoaenal eggs to be advertised free, is mighty apt to call fc r the lor n.of a quarter, or a powerful huge ouew of tobacco. In a small town the editor is a pretty big sized bulldog—bigness owing somewhat to the popula tion of the town. He is the hus band of one wife and the father of six little orphan children,, mostly boys and girls. He is own editor, book keeper, manager and compositor, and when the time for settlement comes he has noting t» settle but his coffee The editor cf a country paper gets the Constitution and ail the balance of the leading first-class dailies of the State, in exchange for hi* dingy 10x12 weekly, and bus on hand a fine chance of first- claas wrapping paper for sale. AU tho full-weight high-roost- ing people of the neighborhood have a tweet tooth in their mouths for the country editor; and peaches, apples, melons and eggs, ‘phenom enal and unphenominal,crowd his sanctum and stomach. The-rural editor always enjoys the business; never gets fretted, peevish cr morose, and invarably designs to devote the bottom hour of his life to the guild; but his paper makes him vastly rich in a pair of veara, and he is compelled to desert his sanctum and go and take care of hi* dead oodles of money. Pat had been engaged to kill a turtle for a neighbor, and proceed ed immediately to cut ef its head. Pat's attention was called to the fact that the turtle still crawled about, though it had been decapl tated, and he explained: “Shure the baste is entirely dead, only he ii sot yet conscious 6f it.” Iteatiujr the Jloon GaogeJ ;y . The strangest story of whiefi we have heard lately is related b*’ A. W. Foster, of this place. For some time he has been troubled with rheumatism of the shoulder. Several weeks ago a lady relative of his told him that if he would try a remedy that she would pre scribe relief certian and quick would come to the affected part. He replied he wonld follow thd suggestion, to please her, but !:• had no confidence in the^’result of treatment usually suggested by women. “You need not dispar age,” said the lady, “for my reme dy is a remedy.” She then told him to carry two Irish potatoes, one in each pocket, and the first sign of cure being effected would be evidenced by bne of the pota toes decaying, while .the, other would become vefy hafd.^ Mr. Foster laughingly^ told the lady that he would give it a trial, and procuring two sound potato** placed one in each pocket, as di. reeted. He thought Loth Woulcb decay, and tiie theory would thus be destroyed. But uot so; to hi* amazement, one of the potatoes d«- cayed to such an extent that it be came so soft and offensive that ho could no longer carry it, "While the other became gradulv Tiaid until a few days ago we saw it in a com plete state of petrelaction. Hi* rheumatism has also suddenly, disappeared, and he is for the first time at least a cured man. Mr. Foster says that he will try two more potatoes in the same wa^, and if the same results fellow ho must be convinced that some ttd lion of the human body on thw potato brings about this strango consequence. He is net a be liever in signs, but does not un der stand tins potato business.— Madisonian. Solomon says, “behold tho ant,” but in this generation the young man is i^ore than apt to be—hold ing one of the daughters. Y» hen ix man gels “miffeii” with the editor he thinks it ii huge act to order his paper dis continued. And then he slip* around and reads his neighbor’*. In a Philadelphia epurt, the other day a man named Moisten was defended by a lawyer named Goforth. It is no uncommon thing to see a lawyer and his client Goforth and Moisten. The following advertisement recently appeared in a New Jer- sey paper: “Any person having five to fifty loads of manure to dispose of, will please send word or drop it through the postoffice. 5 ' A thirteen year old girl of Am herst, V/is., has only blue spot* ou her face where her eyes should be. VV e have seen such phenomena before, particularly after the Fourth of July, Christ ma* and elections. “Does ypfir mind fieVef dwell upon the awful certainty of death?” asked the clergyman of Flattery, “Well, not very numerously,” res ponded he; “it is th® awful uncer tainly of how to get a living that troubles me. 5 ” W?fcr“ a lady living in Chelsea sent to London for a doctor, *he apologized for asking him to come such a distance. “Don’t speak of it,” replied the M. D. “I happen to have another patient in tho* neighborhood, and cau thus kill two birds with ofl'9 stone.” The Flial River Saw Will. This important enterprise which was seen &o successfully until it fell ipto the hands ©f the Court* is now offered for 2ale, and may bo bought for less than half its value. It i* complete and ready for busi ness and will cut 25000 feet ef lumber per day. Fer particulars call at this office or address the' Editers of this paper. FARMERS. Haul out jcur Guano whfl* tbs ;*»ds ** good. Wo hav» ou baud at our K1VEK WAREHOUSE. BONANZA COMPOUND- AC l U IUi OAT HATE (HIOIIEST G1ADI) BEN HILL AWOMATEI) BONE Terms easier, prices lower tb»o scab jjoods were sold fer before in t Lii comntry. Oue Horse Wagons for sale, ea time, erkore g«e<l seenrity eaa be c»«. * TOW****#

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The Bainbridge democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 18??-????, March 06, 1884, Image 1