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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1886)
mU f j {Democrat ht CrfttpfitWifk By CLEM. B. MOORE. VOL. X. Foster & ©onghty * -AND —COMMISSION MERC ANTS, AUGUST A, GEORGIA. Warehouse and Compress occupying block bounded by Washington, 'iwigg, Gal houn ond Taylor Streets, and connected with all the railroaps centering here by yards. Dray saved, . double tracts extending into our age £@”Our entire personal a iftention will Be devdfed Wtlie busfffosT'in' and to all who^ntrust us with consignments we guarantee prompt and satisfactory re turns. Liberal adeances made on Consignments. office: 1G7 Heynolds street. t3S ~Rooms for Several years occupied by Augusta Cotton Exchange. S. PII1NIZY. ,f. PIUNIZY. J. TOBIN. ms son MB COTTONFACTORS. i\ T eAv Standard Fire-Proof YYarchonse. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Liberal Advances on Consignments. FURNITURE! ®^*lleliable Goods, Fair Dealing. --Prompt attention. NEW STYLES- Call on, write to No. 85. Whitehall St., ATLANTA, GA. Busbia^S ’IMrector^ ** -OF THE TOWN OF J The following firms and business houses have placed their cards in this directory for the purpose of showing the public where patrons can be accommodated by their services in their respective lines of business. We recommend the following name io the public as reliable dealers, and they will all serve you at short notice^_ lUEILLINER-ST T\/f RS. M. A. ASKIN. Dealer in All Millinery, Neckwear, Notions, etc. D ress-Biaking to order. TY/f IVx RS. M. C. TROPE, Dealer in Millinery and Fancy Goods. Drugs and Medicines R. J.RE1D, Practicing Physician, Dealer in Patent Medicifees, Drugs, ©fall kinds, Books, Pens, Pencils and all fancy Stationery. JEWELER C. S. LUCAS, Watch-maker and Jeweler. Watch, Jewelery and Gen. Repair Shop. Watches and Jewelry always on hand. IjAWYERS M. Z. ANDREW S, Attorney at Law. Practices in this and the adjoining counties. Office over S. Stewart’s store, Xxr \\ O. MITCHELL, . Attorney at La w. Practices in all the courts. Office over S. Stewart’s store. J. W. IIIXOX, Attorney at Law. Office in the Mitchell Building. J. F, REID, Attorney at Law. Practices in all the courts. Collections prompt remittances a specialty. ODNTEACTOES. ^ J. NORTON, Contractor and Builder. Good worn at short notice. E . K. BOONE, CONTUACTOP. AND BUILDER. Good work and at low rates. E U B. FITTS, Contractor and Builder. Good Work Guaranteed. tl JOB WORK DONE at the Democrat Office very reasonable. CRAWFORDVILLE. GEORGIA. »R AY. NOVEMBER 26, 1886. rjpiIE CRAWFORDVILLE HOTEL'. aMBS. Kate Kent, Proprietress. Good Fare. Terms $2. per day. Practicing Physicians A RTHUK G. BEAZLEY, M. D. Offers his services in the general prac¬ tice of Medicine and Surgery. jyt. L. A. STEPHENS, Practicing Physician. Will he pleased to serve all. Office in Gee building. Work Shops. E . II. OGLETREE, Manufacturer and Dealer in Wagons and Buggies. BlacksmithinS and General Repair Work. _ JpDMGN GO LUCRE, Cabinet Work, Fancy Turning, anp Stairbuilding. Gin and Mill Gearing a Specialty, j „ X N. CHAPMAN, Manufacturer and Dealer in Buggies, Wagons and Harness. P , 3nt smithing and Repairing a specialty. - : riWlOMAS X J. EVANS, Blacksmith. General Black smithing and Repair Shop. Work Guaranteed. General Merchandise. j rtASPER MYERS, ( ) Groceries Dry Goods, Clothing,Notions, and Furnishing Goods. - T. C. BRISTOW, Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries and everything in a eenera! store. I ^JHARLES Goods, Groceries BERGSTROM, ami General Mei Dry ebandise. Terms cash. fidTUS RICHARDS, Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions and ! General Merchandise. c lLiEsi Ls..I „ L ru A. , Good,. MS. M General Merchandise Devoted to the interest of Taliaferro the and Oeaeral News. THE SOUTHERN STATES. NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED UP IN PARAGRAPHS. GEORGIA. Statistics show that the death rate of. Fort Gaines is less than almost any town of its size in the state. Over $100,000 worth of property an ill be sold at the courthouse in Athens o5* the first Tuesday in December. :V Some valuable town Wednesday. proper# chang Pri hands X» in Washington y st iff in. view of the coming \Va ington arid Elberton raflroadT It is stated that the cane crop aroiir.i., Americus will not come up to wliat w. s expected some time ago, on account the 1 protracted drouth of the : ' NORTH CAROLINA. A number Catawba of wild river. geese are rep# J on the The residence of Thomas Kinne.-r r, Dublin contents.’ county, was accidently bit iL with Loss, ’ $2,000; ’ no ance. A flat owned by Williams & MurcSl* jL took fire a short distance above baktp ton. The flat and cargo of 124 cotton and 178 barrels of rosin, JK total loss escept ten bales of cotton. lUfe few barrels of rosin. Insurance received JHI fo. Governor Scales has tpn information from W. D. Pruden survey of the disputed bouudarrj Sin * between this state and Virginia, nortlJ ' gun. Tlie line in dispute is the border counties. of Currituck, It is thought Camden that it and vigp ^ quire a fortniate to complete th ylj Mi m A letter from that place drMeiay JHHlt navigators-Cape Ilatteras-^re the great porpoise fishery located Jrsoh. Mfr, has resumed operations for this and with it* marked cauHi't" success. In ’tnpSta, ♦WP yrai six days has 405 and hands are kept busy mallMte The mnners who prepare the hides for all Enfrlishmcn The leather «K is said to be superior to iin kind! V . S other factory of the same . Robberies of postoffice ami boxes w-jw^v'bre ville attracted attention made robberies for the began capture August of the*JP«<pp StfjjMjHi-' ‘ *h b. e Graham & Co., were tlm W <F fere i s. Checks were i'*’ talp ’T ' the amounts of these were r. case from $20 to 426. The clis. ' . r/h been made bv the detectives that thief is a negro sehooUteacher named W. A Saxon, of Asheville. Tennessee. The hog trade has opened briskly, Rutherford county will ship a large num ber of hogs this fall. Cheatlmm county has one invalid, one widow, and 17 dependents of the late war, one survivor ami six widows of the war of 1811—5 in all—receiving a month ly pension of $70. The apple crop in Murfreesboro county, in some localities, was flue. Some very choice apples arc brought to market now. Murfrfeesboro and merchants are shipping turkeys eggs south. I)r. N. E. Knox, a well known physician at Daisy, left for Ilot Springs, Ark., and carried with him a large sum of money. Last Saturday he was found dead in bed at the Hot Springs hotel, and his pocket book, money and all valuables were mis¬ sing. Ifis widow was advised of his death, and notified that the body would be forwarded C. O. D. $83, to pay for the coffin and transportation. She bad p U [ ijipq i,ut her neighbors raised the balance, and the body was sent, reaching there on Tuesday last, but instead of $85 charges, the amount was $389. Ihe Baltimore . and . Ohio . express com pany have scooped the express franchise of the Queen and Crescent route, and will take charge December 1st. The general superintendent of the Southern division of the company will have Ins headquarters at Chattanooga. The tax aggregate for the state, for the past year, are Acres of land, 25,122,- 899; value $140,904,711; town lots 72,- 566; value $59,123,554; value of otfier property, $24,990,914; total value $22?,' These 909,179; figures state show tax decrease $67,472,_ in state 702. a tax of nearly $6,000 from that of 1885 This decrease is all in middle and west Tennessee, the east Tennessee tax for this year is $2,000 larger than for last year. Virginia. Brown’s livery stable was burned Fri- , day at Staunton. A high wind prevailed. The mwlical hall of tha university of Virginia lias been destroyed by fire. The building and contents partially in¬ sured. A standard gauge road is to be built from Lynchburg to Durham. Subscrip tions have been made to the road all along the route, and the work of con struction will soon begin. Tue road will , be about i * one hundred u miles lnnrr long. MISSISSIPPI. Judge Hill, of the federal court, has rendered an important decision in the. Vicksburg and Meridian railroad case, which is now in the hands of a re civer of his court. The decree provides that the receiver is to submit the tariff ra s framed by him to the railroad corn- i sion; but this submission reads in th* d : like an act cf grace and not of r i. It expressly >V sets aside the tariff rat - cow to to Me r.ilroa-1 Mto ion» far applicable to the Vicksburg end Meridian road. ? ALABAMA. L. E received 21,000 bales of cot fen tlirs season. Thirteen new electric lights will be or , ;r ed. mflolma at an early date. All gas be disposed of. * Way morning a negro dead trespasser yg«lly was found on top of jiff** the Alice furnace, near Bir * Sis nicy Perry, wife of one of the ( most accidentally highly respected burned citizens i, was to Vsday. MW vij siarteif in Montgomery. They arc a bbsonjAfactory, a paper box factory and a smisage ' JV- factory. ' . old and . H- Workman, .. an citizen of Montgomery, com iditted suicide last Saturday by taking an Vivepdosc of morphine. lie washed and jlre^d himself for burial, and -hen took drug. ; Jailroad commission of A labama lts ,.“ nu ? 1 T X to 1m ; U says that . of railroad are now under c ruction in Alabama than at any per i<JRn the states history, at | , , Gccn , liYin^ ■ without ... f a skMl , dmd Saurday at Ilartsoll, from the ef^ctso llrtur ot a fall lleal1 from vh a train rh Up ,IM to fron the !- > * r 7" causes not remotely ailcctca , by tnc , nl» of a skull, the convulsion of the bntin could be easily discerned and its throbbing clearly seen. jjm Stevenson, an employe of the Lou isvillo and Nhshvillc company, was un yarl loading a car of slag in the company’s at Birmingham An approaching engine struck the car on which he stood, tlmowiug him forward on the track, and the engh.e death. passed over his body, causing insttmt It reported , that Smith ... A t Kastman, . is Cofflbany of Birmingham, with have organized dollars a capital stock a million stock, ami will erect two large furnaces imtftcdmtely .; J lie Sloss furnace proposition company of » ^riously considering a offers ; a nortUcra syndicate, whi.-h two 4nJ a half million (lollars (or (lie plant and ore lands. It is generally thought if the trade is consumrauted that the Sloss*company will erect other fur 1 T * ,ini es. {toge H art, of Loachappka, the large, mur erer of voting Wahlrop, is still at wnk ascertained Iasi' cfttidHf that he was still in the vicinity of the crime. The citizens arrested a negro by the name of Anthony Williamson. lie told them that he was with George on Sunday, and that they were to meet on a Tuesday certain spot Monday night, and on the night following they would go to Mr. Gobi's, murder him and take Inn money. n<5 ‘ T- woman since arrested confessed that they had lured her to go to Mr. Go j,y Sj i„ on jer that she might open the ’ Then the ( j 00 r when they came. Air. Hay’s, kill mur- him dorers were to go to an j take his money, and leave the coun try. FLORIDA. The impression is increasing that there will be a lively contest for the presidency of the Central railroad, and the friends of the present management are working en ergetically. The entire debt on the Pandora, the cleared university annual at Athens, has been off and steps are now being taken towards issuing volume 11 in the early part of next year, The western extension of the Amm-i cus, Preston and Lumpkin railroad will, in about a week, bo ready for the rolling stock all the way to Antioch, a distance | of 48 miles. ! The end of this week finds twenty miles of track laid on the Georgia Mid land railroad. The work is being pushed stciiclily, and it will not be many days before regular trains will be running over the road. ! ibe contract for the Augusta and Chattanooga has been let, and live liun dred men arc at work. The line is to reach Gainesville January I, (888. When thirty miles is completed, rolling stoeh will be put on. ; The incorporators of the Bivannaliand Western railroad company, chartered in 1885, and proposing a line of road from Savannah to one of three points named in thc charter, Eastman, McVilleor Lumber city, will meet in Bavannah December 6th for the purpose of organization. John Ogletrec and Kate Ellis, of Lou isville, eloped Saturday. After riding over about half thc county, trying to get some one to marry them, they came across Ilev. Mr. Sargeant, the evangelist of the colored people, who tied the knot. The bride’s mother wants them married again. ,y r - north _ r T - L of - „ Uye™, Gamesv.lle who i lost resides • i his gm ten house by fire Saturday. He lost about 5000 pounds; of seed cotton and 100 bushels of oats, ’ besides six or seven bales of cotto whi h b , lon , e d to Mr. Lewis A. Keith. It was a total loss, there being no insurance. General T. M. Logan, Alfred Sully and J. B. Pace have purchased twenty-five ! i thousand shares of stock of thc Richmond and Danville railroad company. This ' gives them absolute control settles of differences the Rich- \ mond and Danville, all and preserves and consolidates the sys tern. General Logan, who built up the system, but lost control in 1883, again <» ,he Iron,. Terms: $1.50, in Advance. CHESTER A. ARTHUR DEAD. HE EXPIRES SUDDENLY AT Ills RESIDENCE. ’’resident Cleveland Orders the I sunl Sign* of Dlournin 4 W J ' •w # M' Sft m ialla i: M ' LX % {\ VA Bi m i m 91 ww Ex-President C luster A. Arthur died at . 5 o clock l hursday morning at his res idcnce, No. 1211 Lexington avenue, New York city. He had been ailing for some time from a complication of diseases, l ,ri «>«l>a u y kidney affection Arthu J ha ‘ J llV( ; l[ nt No - 133 , ' 0Xln K t °! 1 aV0l ! uc f or t ' vl ;" , -V - or more A f tr oke of . c( '^ bra! J, l*I >, >l>’; y, jnddei., ^'ulmg ,ut , 1 . uot , physinans. ^'y , unespectetl terminated by the us hfe. at, }.}'"■ Tuesday n.ght and Wednesday ''T 7 V morning, " and lie did nol rally tlieic.iltei, Jlw death was painless a slow going out of a burned down candle. For hours before the end came he was unconscious to his surroundings Mis son and ilm.ghlcr, his .sister, his former law partner, and his closest friend. Surrogate Hollins, were at lus bedside. Arthurs health lmd not improved during Ins stay at New London several weeks ago, and on his return, on October 1st, he was no better than when he left the city. As time passed, no per inanent physi-imis improvement feared came, such and sudden the some f r “ k, ‘ «%' h « «»« to w h ' ch h,:mU!( ' l " n ’ > fi} 9tr Jn ‘ hm-enf^l kc ° -'l-poph conddn-n <y ; . ,mwc even a fat.iLto light a robust patient . With the beginning of the present week a marked change for the better had set in. Tuesday the ex President felt better and stronger than at any time since he was taken sick, and commented hopefully upon the fact. It was after midnight when bedroom, his atten¬ dant left him alone in his and nothing was heard of him during the early morning hours, lie was not dis turbed until his attendant entered his room at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning. He found Mr. Arthur lying on lus side, breathing heavily, and could not rouse him. The family answered his summons, but failed to elicit any sign of conscious ness or recognition from the ex-President. wlui responded ......ij'r-". piomptly and at onCc saw he was sulfenng from a stroke of cerebral apoplexy. A small blood vessel j n the brain had burst, and paralysis of the right side had ensued. From the moment the discovery was made all hope was known to be in vain, but no efforts were spared to bring the patient hack to consciousness. They were all alike fruit less. Mr. Arthur lay motionless and speechless going all day. lie knew wliat was doctor’s on about him, for he squeezed his hand and put out his tongue partially when asked to do so; hut he never consciousness. spoke nor gave any other sign of Wednesday at 0 o’clock enfeebled pulse, other more difficult respiration, and signs of physical failure, indicated to the watchful eyes of his physicians that the end was drawing near. The change for the worse came on rapidly, and his sister and children gathered at hig I)Cf j Hi(Ic l)r william ’ J^iins , )r „ . sia'yed , will, , then, , during v ..... ihe unr)^ Mr. Knevals wmt home at mid m,- Arthur’s strength ebbed out ( ,i ovv j y> an «i w ,'Ui it his life. It, was 5 o’clock Thursday when the end came, Jle liad been entirely scnsch ss for hours, and died without a struggle. two boyh luusrn ahum. • Henry Ratio and Daniel Scott, two ne¬ gro boys near death Orangeburg, the S. plantation 0., met a most, terrible at of Daniel Green, on Saturday night last. .John Green occupied Daniel a Green. house in the yard of his father, Rano and Scott left Orangeburg on Saturday evening with the intention of visiting John Green, and went to his house, ar¬ riving some time after dark. On Sunday morning John Green left his house about 3 o'clock for tne purpose of attending a camp meeting at some distance, leaving Ranc and Scott asleep in a shed room of the house. Before daylight the house both took lire, and -eott and Rune were burned to death, being consumed to ashes, except about half the trunk of tlieir bod ics - The head and arms awl feet and ’ f ‘" s both were totally consumed. There was but one window in the room in which they slept, and that nd some rime before been securely nailed up. It , m supposed tint the fire originated m, body of the house, and having reached the door of the room in which the boys w, ' r<; asleep completely cutting off all | -~*-W* AO. 46. r fiQ£inaCeidial CUBES DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION. ■ WEAKNESS. CHILLS AND FEVERS, MALARIA, LIVER COMPLAINT » . KIDNEY TROUBLES, NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM. ^ TT is Invigorat- ]T 1 gives NEW * ing end De¬ ^ LIFE to the lightful to take, ■ whole SYSTEM and of great value \I by Strengthening as a Medicine for k 1 the Muscles, Ton weak and Ailing V ing the NERVES, Women and Chil¬ M and compIetelyDi dren. gesting the food, j - *, h 1 i ; i I Aaaa^i, pONTMNSl ^ hurtful i JT i H V| A Book, b lead «VoUn«. i n ( no fl Mincruls, ia com- II m physicians,telli posed of carefully 1 a° w to d ble selected M cdicincs, Vegeta- I\a\yJ I WU# eases mailed, at. \ »OM ;t:tl combined skill- A with a set. i : han fully, making a N.some cards by nc Safe and Pleasant ^ Heliotype proces , Remedy. on receipt of ioc. For Hiilo fey nil Druggists and Grocer*. Hfe on Id tfee d**Jcr n<*»r von not kt*«*p VOLINA 4 Ol!IX AI., remit #i.OO, »ud * full HUM bottle will be nent, charges paid. YURY \K«£tl OWl.t *Y Volina Drug and Chemical Company, UAl.TinoilR, II)., I’. H. A. Gedreia o Railroad Co. Stone Mountain Route. OFFICE GKNERAI.MANAGEK, ) AUGUSTA,GA. Sept. 18th !«««. i /'COMMENCING .SUNDAY, 19th inst. ». j t he following passenger scedule will he operated : 90th meridian Trains run hv time, 33 minutes slower than Auuusta time. No. 1— West Daily. Leave Augusta 10 :A0 a in “ Macon 7:H> am “ Milledge,ville !> 13 a m “ Washington 11 20 ft m Arrive CrawfordviUo 1 20 |i in. < ( Athens r» 20 ,i m • t Gainesville 8 25 p in Atlanta, 5 43 p ra No. 2— East—Daily Leave Atlanta » no a in “ Gainesville 5 55 a m Athens 9 on a m < ( (Iravvl’ordvillo 12 42 p m Arrive Washington 2 2(i p in “ Milledgeville 4 49 p in . - Macon 4 • <; 15 p m MH*3 J- Augusta 3 35 p in west daily, no. 4 past—da ily T.v, Lv (aTv’ll A.ugiista 9:4l‘,p nt|Lv Ar.CTdv’B Atlanta 7:30ip 1:09 m Atlanta (idii.alnpAr.Augusta 1 l.'.pm 8:00!aim am Ar. Fast Line* t No. 2 Y—west—Daily. Leave Augpsta 7 45 am Arrive Washington 10 40 am j Leave Arrlvo Crawlordville Washington 7 9 20 4t am am “ Athens , 12 35 am Gainesville 8 25 pm I I Atlanta 1 00 pm No 28—Bast—Daily. Leave Atlanta . 2 45 p m “ Gainesville . . 5 55 am, I Arrive Athens . . 7 40 |im Arrlve Washington Washington . 7 35 pm Leave . . 4 20 pm Arrive Augusta (SLEEPERS 8 15pm J f/'NlJl’KItli IMI’liOVKl) IDAUGU.Sl'A ANDAILANIA. i only: Grovetown, Harlem, Dealing,, | Tliinnson.Nerwnod.Ufti riett,Crawfordville, : Union Point, Greene,shore, Madison, Kut ledge, Nodal Circle, Covington, Conyers, 1 Lilhonia, Ntone; Mountain and Decatur. from^Atlauta^ Cliar?ftsten 0UKh S1 ' :( per j . D()|'[8KY, to ],; ]{. JNO.W. GREENE i Gen. Passenger Agt. Gen’I. Manager Jok W. White, Gen'e. Traveling Passenger Agent , CASH STORK. rn ,jKAVVJ a wwounvii '“dvillr, i F GEORGIA. Since I opened last September for strict y cash, my trade has increased and my customers .seem to wear a pleasant suiiie on their faces over the great bargains ye eeived by their thoughtfulness of saving dimes and dollars, knowing that cash is ruling and rcjpiiatm&g business of every kind. .So. in accordance with the above !,s cucouragea.ent, again invite my and '‘“"V' '"trouble and extra charges. 1 have on hand a handsome lot of drygoods, boots, shoes, hats groceries, be V lass-ware and everything that can sell found in a genera! store which 1 will low dow nfor i lie cash. CHARLES BERGSTROM. __ FOR THE Agents PERSONAL MEMORIES —OK— GEN. ROBT. E. LEE. W M fl “-II rifPfl no a . - Ik-adcr j ol j the tlie tfonfederate between i Y rnl cs n war the States. It is only once in a lift time that agents have such an opportunity as is now offer. ‘‘d them in the srle of this book, iMl'W ^VihaTuIey'.'-ver promptly di'Y in before writing in for ' their fur llvcs> will act tlier information. 1 iiere are special rea sons for the immense Mies °f this book, „ ', C t ' ' ‘ ^*n 't„. f u l| iiiUdligent v explained on and ap ^. , j ( .. tt K)|1 fj a i- n est business men 0ln ,, nf who mean and want to make money rapidly, without risk or itt vestment, are requested *o write at once for full partieuUrs, which will be aent “ 1®aSS.lSE£p. A ffir 409 N. Third ht., St. Louik Me.
