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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,
