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BOX OR SWORD. ,GE’S DISCOURSE ON MIGHTY INSTITUTION. * The Ballot Boxes of the Ancients—The Importance of the Ballot In Govern ment—The Origin of the Ballot—Pecul iarities of a Presidential Campaign. Brooklyn, Nov. 4—At the Taberna cle this morning, tiro Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., expounded 6orue pas sages of Scripture about, ancient politics. Ho gave out the hymn: Arm of the Lord awake, awake 1 Put on thy strength, the nations shake I TJJte doctor’s text’ was: “Two cubitB and ;t half >vas the length of it, and a and a half the: breadth it, and a ctl’uit and a cubit and d Half the height ot it.”—Exodus xxxvii, 1. He said: Look at it—the sacred chest of the an cients. It was about live feet long, three feet wide and three feet high. It was within and out of pure gold. On the top of it stood two angels facing each other with outspread wings. In that sacred box was the law, and there were in it a great many precious stones. With that box went the fate of the nation. Carried in front o? the host, the waters of the Jordan parted. Divinely charged, costly, precious, momentous box. No unholy hands might lay hold of it. It was called the ark of the covenant. But you wiii understand It was a box, tiro most precious box of the ages. Where Is it now! Gone forever. Not a crypt of church or museum of the world has a fragment of it. But is; not this ration (Jod’s chosen people? Have we not passed through the Red sea? Have we not been led with a pillar of lire by night? Hns this na tion no ark of the covenant? Yes, the ballot box, the sacred chest of the nation, the ark of the American covenant. In it is the law, in it is the divine and the human will, in it is the fate of the nation. Carried in front of our host again and again the waters of national trouble liave parted. Mighty ark of the covenant, tiro American ballot box' It is u very old box. In Athens, long before the art of print ing, the people dropped pebbles into it to give expression to their sentiments. After that beans were dropped into it-—a white bean for the affirmative, a black bean for tho negative. After that, when they wished to vote a man out of citizen ship they would write his name upon a shell and drop that into the box. THE MIGHTINESS OP THE BALLOT BOX. O’Connell and Grote and Cobden and Macaulay and Gladstone fought great battles in the introduction of the ballot boxes in England, and today it is one of the fastnesses of tliat nation. It is one of the corner stones of our government. It is older than the constitution. In it is our national safety. Tell mo what will be the fate of the American ballot box, the ark of the American covenant, and I will tell you what will be the fate of this nation. Give the people once a year, or once in four years, an opportunity to ex press their political sentiments, and you practically avoid insurrection and revo lution. Either give them the ballot or they will take tho sword. Without the ballot ix>x there can be no free republican in stitutions. Milton visiting in Italy no ticed that on tiro sides of Vesuvius gar- ~~«.,rrs uiuLfarincrs were at work while the volcano -vas in eruption, and he asked them if they were safe. “Yea,” said ibo farmers and the gardeners, “it is safe- all the danger is before the erup tion; then comes earthquake and terror, but just ns soon as the volcano begins to pur forth lava wo all feel at rest.” It in the suppression of political sentiment, the suppression of public opinion, that makes moral earthquake and national earthquake. Let public opinion pour forth, and that gives satisfaction and that gives peace, and that gives permanency to good government And yet though the ballot box is tne sacred chest and the ark of theA aerican covenant, you know as well as I know it has its sworn antago nists, and I proDOsc this morning in God’s name and as a Christian patriot to set before you the names of some of the sworn entr ies of this sacred chest, the ark of the American covonant, tLe ballot box. IGNORANCE AS AN ELEMENT -IN POLITICS. First, I remark, ignorance is a mighty foe. Other things being equal, the more intelligence a man has the better he is qualified to exercise the right of suffrage. You have been ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty years studying American institutions, you have canvassed all the groat ques tions about tariff and home rule and all the educational questions, and everything in Americans politics you are well ac quainted with. You consider yourself competent to cast a vote next Tuesday, and you on competent. You will take your position in jibe line of .electpns, you will wait for your turn to come, the judge of election will announce your name, you will cast your vote and i«ga “"*■ Well done. . to mow ana do. If they will deny them the y of tiffs sacred chest, the ark of the American covenant, the ballot box, is spurious voting. In 1880 in Brooklyn there were a thousand names recorded of persons who had no residence here, and if there were a thou sand attempted fraudulent votes in the best city on tho continent, what may wo sxpect in cities not so fortunate? What i grand thing is the law of regis tration I Without it elections in this country would be a farce. There must be a scrutiny on this subject. The law must have keenest twist for the neck of repeaters. Something more than slight fine and skort imprisonment. It is an attempt at the assassination of the re public, when a man attempt# to put in a spurious vote. In olden times when men laid unholy hands on the ark of the cov enant they dropped down dead. Wit ness Uzznh. And when men attempt to put unholy hands on the American ballot box, the ark of the American’ covenant, they deserve extermination. INTIMIDATION OF THE EMPLOYES. Another powerful foe of' this sacred, chest is intimidation. Corporations sometimes demand that Chair employes vote in this and that way. It is skillfully done. It is not positively in so many words demanded, but the employe understands he will be frozen out of the establishment unless he votes as tho firm do. So you can go into vil lages where there are establishments with hundreds and thousands of em ployes and having found cut the politics of #Ee head men in the factory, you can Adams, Kamil- Mar- twelvo years, by the secret fe going. tell which way the election Now, that is damnable. If in any pre cinct in the United States a man cannot vote as he pleases, there is something awfully wrong. How do you treat that emplove who votes differently from what you do? Oh, you say you do not interfere with his right of suffrage. But you call him into your private office, and you find fault with his work, and after a while you tell him there is an uncle or an aunt, or a nieoe, or a nephew that must have that position. * You do not say it is because be voted this or that way, but ho knows and God knows it is. If that man has given to you in hard work an equivalent for the wages you pay him. you have no right to ask anything else of him. He sold you his work; he did not sell you his political or religious principles. But you kuov. as well os I do there is sometimes on that sacred chest, the ark of the American covenant, a shadow cor porate or monopolistic. - I do not wonder at the vehemence of Lord Chief Justice Holt, of Holland, when he said: “Let the people vote fairly. Interference with a man’s vote is in behalf of this or that party. I give you notico tliat it an offender against tho law comes before mo I will charge the jury to make him pay well for it.” No shadow plutocratic or mobocratic or cap italistic. Eveiy man voting in his own way,—God and his own conscience flw only dictator. Another powerful foe of that sacred chest, tne ark of the American covenant, the ballot box, is bribery. You know something of the hundreds of thousands of dollaw that were ex- men, tne Fefierai government of the mated by W; ton, Knox, Pick shall and Its death was arts and open violence of foreign »ni| doniestic demagogues. As one tribute of gratitude in tiiese times this monument to tiro' talents and services of the de ceased is raised by The Sentinel.” Un der such defamation as that Thomas Jef ferson went into office. '■ My father told me wheq Andrew Jack- son was running for president of rite United States, the whole land was flooded with coffin handbills—pictures of six dead men in allusion to the six deserters whom Andrew JackBon had had shot, and all the pictorials of those tunes rep- .resented Jackaqn as takingliisoffice from ffind the hand of tha devil. at Put-ih-BayvOhio, in a musepm t paper of 1844 winch spoke -T-nt. any vuiae-mir especlauyr ariit the mah ani- took it did not suppose there was of Henry Clay as a gambler, a libertine and a murderer; and the maimer in which he was defamed and the outrages which were heaped upon him may be well guessed from Mr. Clay’s _eqjqgy of his native state, Kentucky. ‘‘When I seemed to 1 rest of the world sho . and .impenetrable shield, repelled the poisoned shafts that were aimed for my destruction, and vindicated my good name from every malignant and un founded aspersion.” Defamation! It fa tiro curse of the American billot box. Just as soon as in the great cities a man Is put up for office he is made the target. The fact that he is up is prima facie evidence that he must be brought down. His public life and his private life are scrutinized, and all the electric lights are turned on. How often it is that men have gone down under such things. In every autumnal election the air is filled with carrion crows scenting carcasses. Cawl Cawl Caw! There are newspapers in Sm United States that in the great au tumnal elections take wild lioense for liberty. They are filled with calumny. The editorial columns of such papers reek with it; their columns are stuffed with it. There are newspaper# in the United States which in tho great popular elections breakfast and dine and in it, but it yielded the io took it $2,500,000. and was of one of the greatest ea rn England. And that little vote, that insignificant vote which you take out of your pocket—insignificant in your sight and insignificant in the sight of others—may start an influence that will last all through the progress of this government. aOMEjCONCLCSJPNS IN ;#>AIU> TO VOTING. L' charge you then as American citizens to remember your responsibility on the first Tuesday of November. It will begin early, the snow storm of suf frages. It will snow all day—snow on until noon, snow on until night. The flakes wilt fall in every town and village ’ ;hborhood, the white flakes. The will come up, his hand jtrenfBHhg, and t#itl&- spectacled eye be ’ will scrutinize tiro vote and drop it and pare on. The young man who has been waiting for his time will come up and proudly and klushingly deposit his first vote and pass on. The capitalist will come up with bediamonded finger and the laborer with hard fist, and the one fete will A>e as good as the Other. Snow storm of suffrages, and then these white flakes will be gathered together and compacted into an ava lanche that will slide down in expression at the will of the people. Stand out of the way of itt In the awful sweep of this white avalanche let political fraud go down a-thquaand feet under. You have not only a vote, you have a prayer. Tho prayer may be mightier than the .vote. Oh, as citizen# of this beautiful city, and of this state, andcf this nation, let us do our whole duty. "We cannot live under any other form of w government than (bat which God has In every autumnal given us in this country. Tiro stare on -our flag are not the stars of a thickening night, but the stare sprinkled amid the bare of morning cloud. We going to have one govern- sup on indecency. They wallow in it. Swine like the mire. They give more for one quill full of it than a whole hogs head of decent product. There are in these great autumnal elections men sit ting in editorial chairs who write with a quiU, not plucked from tho stupid goose or the sublime eagle, but from a turkey buzzard! Ghouls! Ghouls! They tip the city sewer.into their editorial inkstands. Defamation of character is one of the curses of the American ballot box today. In your great-presidential elections who can tell from what he reads who is the man ho ought to vote for? Bad men sometimes applauded, good men de nounced. THE PART THE SALOON TAKES IN, POLI TICS. Another powerful foe of the sacred chest, tiro ark of t he American covenant, the ballot box, is the rowdy‘and drunken caucus. The ballot box does not give any choice to a man when tho nominations are made ui the back p*rt of a groggery. Wlian tiro elector comes up hq$ias to choose be- pended to carry Indiana m l880’ YS5 t ’ , °* viia - the cities know something of th# vast sums of N ne j l v | iave ir c ‘ >a:< j to the ballot box to vote, money expended' in Brooklyn and New | ^ tave * olnd toth-UEmes such, # scaly, York in other years to carry elections. ! and etendifu! crew they had no RrihAw in ma rti .« -.Li. clto**le_ Yen aay votefor bUmebody-^sub side. Then they throw away their vote. But right behind you there will cornea man who cannot spell the name of comp troller, or attorney, or mayor. He can not write, or if life can write he uses a email “i” for tho personal pronoun. He could not tell on which side of the Alle gheny mountains Ohio is. Educated canary birds, educated horses know more [than he. He will cast his vote and it will balance your vote. His iguoranto is as mighty as your intelligence. That is not right. All men of fair mind criU- acknowi ,-dge that that is not right Until a man can read tho Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, and calculate the interest on the American debt, and know the dif ference between a republican form of government and a monarchy or a despot ism, he is unfit to exercise the right of suffrage at any ballot box between Key West and Alaska. In 1873, in England, there were 2,600,- 000 children who ought to have been in school There were only 1,333,000, in other words about SO pe# cent, and of the 50 per cent, not n ^ * cent, got anything wort an education. Now, taka- that ignorance and add it to our American ignorance, and there will be in Novem ber thousands and thousands ofpeoplo who are no more qualified to tho Tight of suffrage than to lecture on astronomy. How are these things to bo collected? By laws of compulsory edu cation well executed. I go in far a law which, after giving fair warning for a Few yean, shall make ignorance a crime, rhere is no excuse for ignorance on these n.bjects in . this land, where the com- non schools make knowledge as free is tho fresh ' air of heaven. I rould have a board of examination catoJ besMo the officers of .registration, them decide wheth ler the men ■oto have any capacity \Jf fthd-* — we are tie of the mostawfnl ballot box today is Bribery is one of the disgraces of this country. And there will bo more money used in bribery this autumn’s s>h***tion than in any previous election. It is often the case that a man Is nominated for office with reference to his capacity to provide money for the elections or with reference to his capacity to command money from others. You know the names of men who have at different times gone into the gubernatorial chair or congressional office buying their way all through. I tell you no news. Your patriotic heart has been pained again and again with it Very often it is not money that bribes, but it is office. “You make me president and 111 make you a cabinet officer; you make me governor and I’ll make you curveyor general; you make me mayor and I’ll put you on the water board; you gfve mo position and I’ll give you posi tion.” That is the form of bribe often SIS and often in these great cities. I do not say it is in our city, but you know again and again throughout tho land these have been the forms of bribe offered. So it is often the case that by the time a man comes to an office to which he has been elected, he is from the crowu of head to the eole of foot mortgaged with pledges, and the man who goes to Albany or to Washington to get an office is applying for some position which was given away three months before the election. Two long lines of worm fence, one worm fence reaching to Albany and the other to Washington, and there a. great many citizens astride the fence, and they are equally poised, and they are waiting to see on whichsidc there is most emolument, and on this side they get down. But bribery kicks both ways. It kicks the man that offers it and the man that takes it. Bribery to day you will admit to be one of tiro mightiest foes of the American ballot box. SOME OF THE ODDITIES OF CAMPAIGNS. Another great enemy of that sacred chest is defamation of character. Can you find out from the newspapers when irten lire running for. office which is best? Hpw often in the aptumnal 3 fho good man is denounced and Ulan applauded, so that you can come sometimes to no just ODinion as to who is tho best man, and there are hun dreds and thousands of electors who go up to veto so utterly befogged they know not what they do. Is not that a fearful influence to be brought upon ihe ballot box of this country? It has been so ever since the foundation of this government. Thomas Paine writes Washington a letter, and publishes it saying: “Treach erous in all private friendship and a hypocrite In public morals, tho world Will be puzzled to know whether we had better <all you an a]iostf:te or an impos tor, mid whether you abandoned good nrmrals, or never had any. ’ That is Thomas Paine’s opinym of George Wash ington. . John Quincy Adams declared that ho was solaced in regard to the scandals and the anathemas inflicted upon him bv tho fact that his father, John Adams, had to go through the same process, aud John Quincy Adams declared he really thought in tliat present election there were men who gave their entire tine to manufac turing falsehood in regard to him. Mar tin Van Buren was always pictorialized m a rat. Thomas H. Benton aud Amo. Kendall were always piatorialized as rob- bers witli battering rami breaking in the door of tho,UnitedJ3tateB bank. On the day on which Thomas Jeffer- son was inaugurated president of the Unites States, March 4, 1801, the fol lowing appeared in The Sentinel of Bos ton: “Monumental inscription. Yester day expired, deeply regretted by millions «£ jjratefp! iVP}eijcaijs,,and fey aU^ood Christian men of New York, and Brook lyn, honorable men, patriotic men, go and take possession of tho caucuses. First having saturated your pockethand- kerchief with cologne or some other <!■«- infectant, go down to the caucus and take possession of it in the name of the Lord God Almighty and the American people, though after you come back you should have to liang your hat and coot on a line in the back yard for ventila tion. In some of the. states politics have got so low that the nominees no more need good morals than they do a bath tub. Snatch tiro ballot box from such men. Where is the David who will go forth and bring the ark of.tbe covenant bock from-Kirjath-jearim? Do you not think politics liave got to a pretty low ebb in our day when a Tweed could be sent to the legislature of New York, and a John Morrissey, the prince of gamblers, could be sent to the American' congreso? Now, how are these things to be remedied? Some say by a property qualification. They say tliat after a man gets a certain mnount of property—a certain amount of real estate—he is fin ancially interested in good government, and he becomes cautious and conserva tive. I reply, a property qualification would shut off from the ballot box a great many of the best men in this. land. Literary men are almost olwaj s poor. A pen is a good implement to make.- tba world better, but it is a very poor imple ment to get a livelihood ordinarily. I have known scores of literary men who never owned a foot of ground and never will own a foot of ground until they get under it. Professors of colleges, teach ers of schools, editors of newspapers., ministers of reKgion, qualified in every possible way to vote, yet no worldly suc- eees. There has been many a man who lias not bad a house on earth who will have a mansion in heaven. There are many wl»o through aocidenro of for Ui no have cpnjft_ to great ugeces# while they are profound in theiTgtat pidity, as profound in their stupidity as a man of large fortune with whomT-was crossing the ocean, who told me he was going to seethe dykes of Scotland! When a member of my family asked a lady on her return from Europe if she had seen Mont Blanc, she replied: “Well, really, I don’t know; is that in Europe?” Ignor ance by the square foot. Property quali- cation will not do. The only way these evils will be eradicated will be by more thorough legal defense of the ballot box and a more thorough moralization and Christianization of the people. That ark of the covenant was carried into cap tivity to Kirjbth-jearim, hut one day the people, hooked oxen to a cart, and they put this ark on the cart, and tho oirt was taken to Jerusalem—the ark of the covenant coming with the slioutfcig and thanksgiving of tiro people. And though the American ballot box, the ark of the American covenant, our sacred chest, has been carried again and again into captivity by fraud and inir-" r * spurious voting, I believe brought bock yet by’ praver and by Christian consecration, and will be set down in the midst of the temple of Christian patriotism. Whoso ressDon- sibility? Yours and mine. A poor soldier went to a hair dresser in London. He wanted to get back tp the army, He bad overrun his furlough and be wanted sowo help to get back in quick transit. The money was given to the poor soldier, who said to the man riio had offered the kindness: “I have Nothing to give you in return but tins ittle worn out receipt ' ■ — r “fr?..JJefiay.§i$ not rnent on this entire continent. Lot Hie despotisms of Asia keep their feet off the Pacific coast, and let the ty rannies of Europe keep their feet off the Atlantic coast. We are going to liave one government. Mexico will follow Texas into the Union, and Christianity and civilization will stand side by side In the halls of ths Monieziunas. Aud if not in our day, then in the day of our children, Yucatan and Central America will come in dominion, whilo on the north Canada will he ours, not by con quest—oh, no, American and English swords may never clash- blades—but wo will woo our fair neighbor of tho north, and then England will say to Canada: “You are old anough for tho marriage day,” and then, ■ turning, will say: “Giant of the West, gb take your bride. ” And then from Baffin’s bay to tho Carib bean there will be one government under one flajj, with one destiny—a free, un disputed. Christianized American conti nent. God save the city of Brooklyn! God save the commonwealth of New Yflrk! God save tho Uaion! Ilnprecldented Attraction U Over a Milliqu Ill Distributed. Louisiana btate Lottery Co. by tho Legislature In 1868 for Edt>- ttoa. in 1»79. bV»n orerwhelmilig Its Orana Extraordinary Drawings take place Semi-Anna ally, June and December. *nd lto Grand Single Number Drawing;- take place on oaob ot tbe ten monUia In tae year, and are all drawn in public, at tbe Academy of Music, new Orleans; La. THE CLARK SEED COTT E. VAN WINKLE & CO. ATLANTA, GA. jAXsria “THE CLEANER” Prepares the cotton for the gin by re moving the sand, dirt, dust and loose trash, thereby saving the giu from wear and greatly lessening the dan- ger of fire. It detaches the metes DA.JjTjA.Sf TEXAS* from thejjlmt, thoroughly loosens up and mixes the cotton, causing the gin to run much lighter, and cleans the seed more perfecting. It effectually prevents the gin from Cutting or Napping the lint. Tt greatly increas es the quality and quantity of the lint, giving it a silky, soft appear ance, and causes the cotton to class, from one to six grades higher than it would unclean. It renders the gin ning and baling process much more healthy and pleasant, and converts storm cotton (which seldom pays for the picking and ginniug) into good merchantable cotton. It proves in dispensable if once used, aud as it -is simple in oonstruotion, the whole jna- _ ,_ 1 chine driven by one belt,-only two A good article ie always more than a poor one. A Cte Wort ^ pay for iteelf on a few hales oX^ 11 See the work one does and v«* tton ’ use it in the future. The m v® should be run from 560 to 650 r , ne tiona per minute; size pulley on er 6 x 6, and should be pl^ CW platform above the gin, so ai i v 1 ’ tho cotton fall through a the feedci or on the gin-ka^ have two sizes. No. I will clean frl! ten to fifteen bales per day , from twenty .to twenty-five bales‘Ji dav. " er Omaha, Morris Co., Tex., Oot 12 -sr Ospt B T Cameron,Agt,Dangerfie Id t!; - . - _ . , o^-angerfield Tpt- Dear Sir: This is to certify that *' are usiug a Clark Seed Cotton Clelnlr P urchased from you as agent for E V. ’ tinkle & Co„ Dallas, Texts, and th* it does all that is claimed for it. It tut!. ‘Proved 188L Patented 1882, out all the sand and dirt, gresily j®* bearings to oil, no way to get itout of *rice.^toroft ri ° Ubl ° t08el l order can be rur b» horse steam or Ko * 1 *30.001 Ho. a Marti. $40.00 cotton run through the Cleaner, its val- . ’ can be ™ R b, horae, Bteain or BeBtcla _ srf „ il _ -0ott _ 1 _ aeinHke fcUe being enhanced from one to two and water oower and operated by a hoy. The additional power required to run the Cleaner in connection with the gin is nominal. Beat Cleaner for Seed Cotton in the market oei-g enaanceu ircm one to two and No Ginner can afford to be without one. a halt cents per pound according to the E. YAH WINHXEdfcCtk, Manufacturer* wnount of dirt it contains. Atlanta, i Respectfully, Beasley a Witt iff Salk.—Will be sold before . tho > curt House door in the city of Athens, Clarke county, Georg a, ou the tnt Tuesday In Noveniber l •&',the following described proper- ue house and lot In the city of Ath- to wit. One house aud lot In the city m , cou a'ning 1-4 of an acre, more or lesa, and bounded as follows: East by lands of Noah Johnson j North by s. Marks estate; South by Andy Jack-on, and on tbe West by Miller street. Said prop, rty levied on as the property o!Phe _y August! and by virture of a Justice « urt ma of 210 dis r;ct, G. M., lu favor of Andy Jackson. Said pr perty levied on by E. w. Porter, L C„ and turned over to me for adver- tis m ut au i sale. Wiitten notice served on tenant in po session. October 8tli. 1888. J. W. WEIB. 4t Sheriff. EORGI.i— larke county. Pursuant to an order of the com t of ordinary of said county, passed at the regular September ‘ ' - t f ore Notice tOkNrjdge Builders. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. In accordance with an older granted Will.be let to the lowest bidder, beiore the .i. e a a trust term of Court of court hours door of Clarke County oo the first 1 °J Ordinary legal I will sell before the court house door Tuesday ia November 1888, during the legal hours of sale, the building of an extension at each end of tbe lattice bridge across tae Mid dle Oconee river, at Mitchell’s bridge, according to the following specifications, to wit:—Said ex- tensionsto be substantially on the plans of thn { ireaent bridge, and must be so interwoven with t at each end, and over, and upon and across It at each end, and over, and upon and across the piers, by taking out-parti of bottom and top cords^o aa to render the structure at one lattice said extension to be ten leet long at each end of the bridge. BUI of lumber to do as follow*: Cord* to be 2 1-2x12 inches, 28 feet long both bot tom sad top interned!*te. _Corda 2 _ 1-2x10, 28 U-rm of said court, | will be 'sold before the court house door of said county,on the first Tues day in November next, during the legal hours of safe, the following property, to-wit: Ten (10) shares of the Gcorgiarallroad and banking com pany, to lx* sold as pro: erty belonging to the es tate of Mrs Annie E. Heaves, late of said county deceased. Terms of sale cash. This 3rd day of Septembsr 1888, It, K, REAVES, octlwlt.. G EORG IV, CLAKKX Codntt,—Pursuant to an order of tae Court of ordinary of *aid county passed at the regular term of said oourt, held ou theflisi Moniay lu October 1888, will be*old b fore the Court House door of Oglethorpe ,'oimty, Georgia at Le.lngton on the first Tues day in Novemue. next, during the legal hoars of sale t e following pr peny to-wit: one tract of 1 .ud situate, lynw and being in said county of O.letliorpe,^ containing four hundred aud one ana one half acre*, and" one other tract of land situate, lying and o.:ing in said, Oglethorpe co , containing thirty-five a< res. more or less. To be sold as the property of John Eberliart, late of Cllll’ke for tlifr nnrnaaa nf Clarke county, deceased, for tlie purpose of division ainuig the heirs a: law of said deceas ’r Terms ,■ sh. This 6th nay of October, 1888. oct»w28d. G. «V. RUSH, Adm P. O. Drawer 30. pLjBKE Shkbiff S. le,—Will be told before ins, o Tuesday in No,ember, 1888, the following des cribed prop, rty to wit. One 8-horse power At las euguie and bod- r, said property levied on by virtue oi a tax Ufa, issued by H. H. Linton, Tax » ollector of clarke county, for tne year 188T. pointed out by K B Hipkius, General Agent S. Bexinger 6: Co, This October 8th, 1888? J. W. WEIB. « Sheriff. “We «)■> hereby certify that we bu S rvise the arrangements for all th« onthly and Quarterly Drawing- ol thx Louisiana State lottery company, andii person manage and control the Draw - ings themselves, and tliat the same ar* conducted with honestv, fairness and k good faith toward all parties, and we au- thorize the Company to use this certifi cate, with fac-simile8 of our signature attached in its advertisements.” Commissioners. L We the undersigned banka a ad banker* will pay all Prizes drawn in the Louisi ana Btate Lotteries which may be prt tented at our counter#. S: ^ Pn ** Louisiana flat. Bk. rlhxkx LANAUX.Pres. state Katioaiu uank. l.BlLBink’PreS’Mow Orleans national Bank CARL KOHNjBrea. Orton National Grand Monthly Drawing to the ArttemjrtMjgj NewOnraxm.Tu^Uy, Capital Prize, $300,000. r'y.baaia,' ciara yti. W. Reynold*. Adm . ^trator of of Mrs. Epsy Stauord, deceased, haa me in terms of (lie law for letter* ot now ssid estate. These ate therefore to sud notify xii concerned to anew cause at the regular term of tba court of Ordinary, to be held in end f >r said county «-n the first Monday In XovefthItAr n-rt vhv .iit-T, .kmU .-, November n.-xt. why such dismission should not be grunted. Glv:n uu.ler my hand and official tiguaturo thl*'\>vU day of September 1883. Asa. M, J acksoji, Ordinary. Oct- 2 m-3Jt- THE EXCELSIOR Single Lever Lyector! ia nient. It Is strictly a first-class bollerfee5er. ^ feet long; Lattice to be 2 1-2x10, 18 feet long, all framed and pinned together with 2 In of white oak pins; Floor beams t .. be 4x14, 16 fee long, notched to fit over cords as other floor beams in bridge, and to be placed five leet apart from center to center; AU latter* bracking to be Sx5 inches, securely laatened at both ends with apikea; Sleepers to he 4x6 inches- There must: be five sleepers equally div.ded under the flouis Flooring to be 2x12, 131-4 leet long, securely fas tened down with spikes to floor tk-epers; Five beams to be framed to in original bridge, and to be 5x9 inches, 18 feet long; Roof to extend over tides one foot at end of ratters: One set of princi pal ref Lera upon each tie beaus to be 3x4 inches. All niters between the principal rafters to be 2x3 at oneend, and 2x6 at the other end; AU tat ters to be seenrely nailed on so a3 to prevent blowing ofi; Roof to be lathed for shingling with 1x3 stripe, the same to be covered with good heart sawed shingle*, end ot foot to extend one foot over end of lattice and to finish In a neat manner. Sides to be covered with 3-1x12 inch planks and joints to be covered with strips 3x4x3 Inches, all securely nailed to each cord, and to a peril no in center ot latUce: AU pina tor lattice to bo. made of best white-oak 2 incites in diameter holding their also their entire lsugiti. The work to be done In a good workmanlike manner and the job to be completed by the 15th of December next. All the timbers to be good Clapbndge umber, as good or better than tne timbers os said Mitchell’s bridge. And the contractor to give bond in double the amount of. bis oid with two good and solvent securities for the laithfui performance ol his conrract, and to idemniiy said county for any damages occasioned by a lall- ure to perform the same within the prescribed time, and not to be paid for until accepted by me or persons appointed by me. The light is i eserved to accept any or reject all bids, this' 29th September 1888. ASA M. Jackson, grdinary. Administrator’s Sale. H BOB GIA Clakb County:—Fureu&ut to an or Ufderof the Oourt of Ordinary of said county - in 5*1*1 county, on Kacx Sprang street, routing 98 fees on said Bocx spring lapeet and nnnlng bock 215 feet to >ot of Walter Hector, Olng-Pa feet lront and 94 feet at rearaitdjoining otS of J. F. Jackson on west and JPtu While on east—to be sold as property belonging to cs- ate Of Robert Sansom, deceased Terms, cash W. O GRIFFITH, Adrn’r, lowing levies, by made upon the State Tax for 1888, for tne fol lowing county purposes and necessary county expenses of said county. 1st, To pay the legal indebtedness of the co„ due or to become due during the year, or past due, U percent, ^ 2d To build or repair court houses or jails, bridges or ferries, or other public improvements according to contract, 32 per cent, 3d To pay.Sheriffs. Jailers aud asi ■ of ihe county, iao to ,— -- - _ pfoity P «h e To pay Coroners, 5 2-89 per. cent •n T4 Pay the expenses ol the county for iBaiUffai at court non resident witnesses in criminal cases, fuel, servants hire, stationery and the like, 8 per cent 6th To pay Jurors. 8 per cent 7th To pay expenses incurred In support of the poor and as otherwise provided by the code, 0 per cent. 8th To pay other lawful charges against the eounty 7 per cent Any surplus raised by any of the above levies, to be If necessary applied to any lawful charges against the county. oct2w3d. aSAM. Jackson. Ordinary. in Athens, Clarke county, at public out, cry, during tbe legal hours of Bale, 1st Tuesday in December 1888, the follow ing lots of laud known as the Lemuel Swan place, situated about 4>£ miles n. w. of Athens, near Bongs’ Chapel *nd lying partly in Clarke county and partly In Jackson county. Trot number one, containing 69J^ acres, adjoining lauds of Richard Boggs Harvey Archer and . the dower tract- Fronting 12.58chains on the River Road from Athens to Jefferson aud running back to Cub creek, 40 acres in original forest, balance freshly cleared, good spring and a beautiful building site on the road. Lo; number two, containing S8-10 acres, situated across the road from lot number one. Good pastures. No im provements. • Lot number four, containing 5% acres adjoining lands of Marion Williams aud lot number three. ✓ (The dower.) All in original forest. No improve* merits. Lot number five, containing 68 8-10 acres, adjoining lands of F. M. Williams and Freak Chandler and the Dower. Fronting 11>2 chains on public road and running back to Cub creek. About 15 acres in creek bottom, 20 acres in woods, balance in cultivation. Lot number six, containing 171.85 I acres, kuown as the W. H. H. Walton ’ place. Fronting about 42 chains on A; hens and Jefferson road and running back to the Oconee river, adjoining lot number 5, Chandier and Williams. Good orchard and several fine springs. The improvements consist cf the dwell ing now occupied by Mr. Walton, sta bles, barn, cribs and one tenant’s house. Lot number seven, containing 133 acres, adjoining lot number six, Chau** i dler and Alexander. About 75 acres V _ Sfcslss&fS' All of tbe above property ia .-ituated convenient to schools and churches and in a good neighborhood. Also the following city property: Lot number eight, situated on the corner of Broad and Finuley streets, t renting 65 feet on Broad Btreet and running oack lv5 feet ou Findley street. Lot number nine, adjoining lot num ber eight, troming 65 leet on-Broad street Hire running back 194 feet. Lot number ten, fronting 73 feet on Broau slfe-t aud running back 193 feet, On tli. lot ia a four-room framed u Weil-ii fe , uow occupied by Mrs. Swan. Sold tor tbe purpose ot paying the debts ■•. Lemuel Swan deceased and for division. Terms cash. VY. L> • -riffeth, Administrator, E * -f Lemuel tiwan deceased. G. R. Lombard Foundry, Railroad^ & Co, Executor’s Sale. G eorgia clarke cottsty:- - . raw 100,000 Tickets at Twenty Dollars •falveafilO; quarters ${ Terthats; rwonueta# »i. I48T Of PRIZES. 1 PRIZE OF $300j00 la... 1 PRIZE OF 1011,000 u. 1 PRIZE OP 60,000 ia.. 3306.000 . UO.vUl fO.tOO 1 PRIZE OF 26,000 la ® 2 PRIZES OF lOjar) are . 20 009 ..— 25*600 S PKIZiCH OP 5,UO are. 25 PRIZES OP 1,900 are [ULMIZESOF — lto PRIZES OF Brt OF 10# Prftea’of 100 Prise* of # W are 100 Prises of #200 at* TERMINAL PRIZES 999 Prizes of #10*) are 999 Prises of #100 are 8,184 r A OTE—i desired, write legibly to the ttndersisn^/cfe^S ly stating yuan'!esiueooe, with State, Aouiiiy, Street aad Number. Mora rapid return tmm £“7$ *11™ e, ’ olt - U ’« “ *"**• befh.c J R*l ey Orders, of r loiter pCur- •'’“SKSSo* Orloana, La 7 D 0;* • * Address registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATION AT. BANK, Nfw Orleans, Augusta, apr!124wtf. Georgia W _ order of tLe Court of Ordinary of said c will ba sold beiore the oourt house dour oi a the first Tuesday la " d hours of sale. U _ to tho estate of Clarke W. Arnold, counts, dooeasoJ, to wit:—One uodl- ed one-eighth lnlereat In and to one tract of land aliuato, lying nd being in the Madison in nld statecoutalmug nine huiid-M *“ d *P, re *- On sale tract of land is SS? ^Ul-Hoase, mill machinery etc—To be sold for the purpose ot division among the heirs at law and legatees of said deceased. Terms oi sale, cash. Jakri t. Colt hr, Exeeuto GEO j; . i A—Clarkk Countv—Where as, L. M. Lavemlt*i h.*a applied to me lu term.-* o the l.tw for tellers ot ad-* minlstr..t ,u on the esutut of Mrs. Nancy L. Lave*.-,er, late ot muu county tie- ceased, loose *re thereiore to c.te anil notify all concerned to snow cause at the regu ..r term ol the. C urt ui ordi nary, u> ;*c held in and for sare couuiy on tiie liist Monday tu Decernue, next why such tetters suoui*. not ue granted. Given under tuy ha.id and official signaourt tins 29i.ii day .a Oc u.itr i583. Asa M. „ackson, diuarj. CLARKE COUNTY.—Whereas fpphod to of the few tor fet r fadmft&te£ ot Thurmond, 1st* munty deceased. These are therefore to . notify all concerned to sho* cause at be regular twm of the C * leld In ani for said, eon K Given-und , this 27th day ol A8A M, JA' Ordinary J^thfoTTrensth Iwd Vfe£ tone, tnd yed reanlarly hrao - -the deprssstng influence of ■Price—# - — »of the drawings, can possibly divine what number will draw a Prize. REMEMBER GUARANTY 8AHKS of .New signed by the l'rt chartered rights Coarts; the * anonymous WRWMBSS -ans, and the Ticksts ^*>1 an Institution, tv] ;nized in the higl i ot any imitatioi wed&*un-d< HENR flp Broad st., i detfSddwl j, McALPIN. AT erslty Bank, Atbes#, Of GANN*REAVES,otaL I T8o ( The Northeastern Rsi- road Company .the Rich mond A Wist Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company •nd the Central Trust Company of New York. It appea’Mug to the court < . da»tsfn the abovo stated Without th them, it la therefore o pounty s, as to be anil appeal "tn ^iieraou'’ordjy 1 ^ f*! 11 ' lB ^ on, 'ants nexttorm of the 8upmlar Court of <ZL the fsiisssjC;. 1 ** w "SsgmSVi Ordered further, that * r - — once a month tor io Watchman, a. ne< county of 0Urke,au u , an , B L‘hpajna bo _ ferted tusrid 'iefendants. GEOBG i a—Clarke Gv»cniy—Where** as, Madis ju Davis uaa applied to me in terms'oi ;be law for ieucrsul aJuunis- traiio i ou the estate ot Tena Jones, late ot said cuuitty^ deceased. These are therefore to cite ana notify all con cerned to show cause at the regular term of the Court ol Ordinary to be held in and for suid county on the first Monday in December next why such letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official sig** nature this 29th day of October 1888. Asa M. Jackson, Ordinary. SaLE—ATHENS FACTORY STOCK —By authority given me at the meeting of the stockholder# of the Athens Man ufacturing Company, held October 3rd, inst., I will sell before court house door in Clarke county, on the.4th day of December next, between the legal hours °£ sale, seven (7) shares of the capital stock of the Athens Manufacturing Co« f to the highest bidder. F. W. Cheney, Agent Athens BdLTg. Co. Gann & REAVES, . ys. and Warehouse Co.and the Nev^Yorfc.* 13 * <***"*,«} t0 ’h* court that two of tbe do st^ed.casc towlt: The Rich w?thort ulestrte'SroSSgg 1 *™ co,poraUo “ appearing that the Sheriff of said return ofnouest laventum term of the super Georgia to be held c ■■ m; art'res t s^u" n a tural* n tTe?*’ Rrind . th «r teetl^ uresi e sh ik ^ 1 /ii r0utIed with w oms^nrom' y ar * «o:m it hMtvedmanv^ 1 ^S*M C r° r!lin 5 todiree * !"»:' Pres*rye,™..1VZXIM V d from 3 e*th and f.?.£"hdfrt»m anaarlv grave clarke comity on tlie Second Monday in No- efenii. *«'7hr’7,7,J u i c }? re to answer and make atfFdefeuse toey^bave? by tUe **'**”""•' “ hl}s5S ( tlj at this order be published of Cou-t 1 Vn t , l v, for twc ! I'tonths before said term anetraS^Sl Wi.werttly Bannrk-Watchman and h ul »lished in said ounty of Clarke, uoeiiu t,rua P° n . service of saidBhl an<l sub- said defend 0 " 3111 " 4111 a8fullyp “ 0U tllls Aueust IW-B.finmm J*. Hutchins j j’h.*Lumi*xin Judge superior court W C I E. K. Lumpkin, - ol Georgia * Atts fort.oina’M ^ rom the minutes of clarke Su perior Court, This 30th day of August 1888. JOUN'JHLGOIFS,
