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UNION & RECORDER.
Milledgeville, April 6, I860.
Frank Humphries had a severe at
tack of neuralgia of the heart or An
gina Pectoris, on Saturday. It is a
dangerous and very painful disease,
and his brother Jehu P. Humphries
was telegraphed to go to him. The
Telegraph stated that he expected to
die. but refused to say anything con
cerning the murders with which he is
charged. That paper reported yes
terday there was no material change
in his condition, and he was having
occasional paroxysms of pain. His
brother Jehu was with him.
Messrs. F. J. Cline & Co. are as us
ual fully up with the times if not a
little ahead, as will be seen by their
advertisement in this issue, in which
they present to their customers a
description of pretty and useful goods
that will make all admirers of such
things, and especially the ladies, anx
ious to see them. Their doors are
hospitably open and a set of polite
clerks waiting to display all those
beautiful things to those who may
give them a call. Go and see for
yourselves.
Secretary Manning's Condition.
A dispatch from Washington of the
26th, says: A son of the Secretary
said to an asosociated Press Agent at 11
oclock’ a. 3i. that the condition of his
father remained practically unchang
ed.” The physician said “he was
passing through the critical stage of
his disease and that every hour, pass
ed without indications of unfavorable
symptoms, was so much progress to
wards recovery.” His family were
encouraged in the belief that he
would come through all right. La
dies and gentlemen of his kinship
from New York, were with him.
There was no improvement on the
26th over his condition on the 2oth.
It is learned from other sources, says
the dispatch, that the Secretary pass
ed a restless night and was some
weaker on the morning 26th. The
impression is general that Mr. Mann
ing will never resume the duties of
his office, t even in the event of his
complete restoration to health.
Adolph Joseph,
CASH COMMANDS
BALDWIN DRY.
As will be seen by the publication of
the returns of the prohibition elec
tion by Judge Sanford, Ordinary, in
another column, lie finds that prohi
bition was carried in the county by a
majority of 281 legal votes. He total
ly rejects the return from Brown’s
Grossing and Butts’ precincts, “for
the reason” as he states, “that the
returns made from said two precincts
are not in compliance 3vith the law,
and fatally defective.” That leaves
only Cooper’s and the town precincts
to be counted and he gives the aggre
gate result from them as follows : For
Prohibition, 560 legal votes; against
prohibition, 270 legal votes, making
the majority for prohibition 281 as
above stated.
It should be remembered that it is
only very recently that there was any
voting place in Baldwin outside
of this city and it is not sur
prising i f managers o f elec
tions at the country precincts
should be lacking in exjjerience and
knowledge of the exact requirements
of the law. This incident will doubt
less put all interested parties on the
alert at future elections to post them
selves up on those matters before the
election comes on.
Bacon on the Rail road Commission.
In the Macon Telegraph
etter of Mf
)h of the 1st
inst. we find a letter of Maj. A. O. Ba
con in reply to one from Mr. Donald
Bain of Atlanta, giving his views con
cerning the State rail road commis
sion.
He says that when the law was en
acted which created the commission,
he was a member of the Legislature
and favored and assisted in the enact
ment of the same. He holds that to
prevent antagonisms and to secure
and maintain harmonious relations be
tween the public and the rail-roads,
there is no better agency than a com
mission, actuated by right views of
its duty. He asserts that it should be
a thoroughly' impartial tribunal, to
judge between tiie people and the
rail roads, to guard the public against
oppression and to inflict no unneces
sary injury on the rail-roads. He re
gards the continuance of the commis
sion as the settled policy of the state,
founded in the deep conviction of our
people as to its propriety and necessi
ty and deprecates the idea that it
should be perverted into a means by
which to foment discord and create
division among our people. As to the
vital question of maintaining the com
mission with powers necessary for its
efficiency, he states that there is little
or no division among the people of
the state and that differences which
exist as to matters of detail can be ad
justed by the Democratic state con
vention when it assembles. He calls
attention to the fact that for sixteen
years the white people of Georgia
have maintained control of the state
government by adhering to the Dem
ocratic organization and by settling
among themselves all differences as to
men and measures; resulting in restor
ed prosperity and a sound public and
private credit. He evidently desires
to see a continuance of this wise poli
cy and in conclusion states that he
has always yielded promptly to the
decision of the party and will always
do so in the future and that the prin
ciples and policy announced by the
convention soon to assemble, relative
to the rail road commission as well as
to other matters of state concern, will
])»* accepted by him as binding upon
his individual judgment and action.
Mr. Gladstone.
English News, of the 26tli, indicates
a policy, on the part of Mr. Gladstone,
to give' up, for the present, his scheme
of buying out the landlords of Ireland;
but he adheres to his policy of giving
Home Rule to the Irish and we may
expect, soon, to see the nature of his
plan to effect that object. It must be
remembered that while Mr. Gladstone
is the Premier he is not a Dictator.
AVe doubt not he will do everything
in his power to be just to the Irish,
and Home Rule will be going a long
way in the path of justice. He has
not yet defined the powers to be exer
cised by the Irish under Home Rule.
It would be a mockery of justice to
grant that rule to the Irish unless it
would confer upon them a general
management of their own concerns
with the Unity of the Empire. Mr.
Gladstone, we believe, will go as far
as he can within those limits. To go
beyond that, would concede separa
tion and an independent nationality
to Ireland. Mr. Parnell, we presume,
does not contend for that. We will
soon know what Mr. Gladstone will
propose. Others, as iwell as Irish
man, are looking with great interest
to the result.
Good Friday comes this year on
the 23rd of April, and Easter Sunday
CO the 20th.
Strikes.—Mr. Powderly, the Mas
ter Workman and head of the order of
Knights of J^abor, has issued a secret
circular in which he condemns the
strikers for quitting work and disturb
ing the movement of trains which so
greatly retards the business of the
country. He says that to the cardi
nal principles of the order, must be
added “patience,” and condemns the
hot headed members who resort to
strikes. He advises them to work on,
even if their pay is too small: hold to
their principles, and depend for suc
cess upon the justice of their princi
ples qnd claims. Some of the strikers
have followed his advice and gone
back to work saying that they struck
without knowing what they did it for,
or what to do afterwards. It is fortu
nate for the Knights of Labor that
they have for their leader so wise and
judicious a man as Mr. Powderly.
The country is with the Knights of
Labor, aud Mr. Powderly’s plan is the
best one that could be adopted to se
cure their just ends and rights. Every
sound and just man in the country
must see that labor should be pro
tected.
The Senate passed the Edmunds, or
rather the Judiciary Committee re
port, condemning Mr. Garland for re
fusing to give up certain papers de
manded. This was a very high-hand
ed and unconstitutional act. There
was no impeachment, and the Senate
took the responsibility of condemning
the Attorney General in utter viola
tion of the constitution. There has
always been a distrust between rulers
and the ruled and for an obvious rea
son. Power in every age has been a
pestilence. It has been so in our
country; not because right was not
protected by the constitution, but be
cause the constitution has been dis
regarded and trampled in the dust.
The Senate is a part of the Govern
ment, and it has grasped after a pre
rogative beyond constitutional grant.
There is not a clause in the constitu
tion to sustain the act of the Senate.
The Senate has assumed despotic and
imperial power, and disregarded every
safeguard to protect a high officer in
the government. State’s rights avail
nothing at the ballot box, and now a
co-ordinate branch of the Govern
ment has dared to assail the act and
character of an official, who, accord
ing to the constitution and law r s could
only he condemned by a process of
impeachment. This is an event in
our political history of a startling na
ture. We shall look with interest to
the reception it will meet by the peo
ple, and every department of the Gov
ernment.
Trustees Lunatic Asylum.
The trustees of the Lunatic Asylum
met in the institution last Thursday.
A full board was present, including
Col. A. T. McIntyre of Thomasville
recently appointed to fill the vacancy
eaused by the death of Col. L. N.
Whittle. The board was re-organiz
ed by electing Capt. T. F. Newell
president, and Capt. G. A. Cabaniss
vice-president. Among other mat
ters, the Board, in connection with
the officers of the Asylum, adopted
a well deserved and beautiful tribute
to the lamented L. N. Whittle.
We copy from New York papers the
following notices of Miss Davenport,
who will appear at Amusement Hall,
in this city, to-morrow night.
New York Herald, January 26th.
—“Might be truly called a marvelous
seance. The guitar was seen to rise
in the air, while some invisible hand
was thumbing it for the space of three
minutes. The committee was allowed
to hold the medium while the manifes
tations continued as before. It is in
explicable.”
The New YorkJTklegram, Decem
ber 31st, says;—“It is fortunate for
Miss Davenport that she did not live
in old Cotton Mather's time; psychic
force would have been too thin an ex
cuse for her, and not even Mr. Crookes,
as attorney for the defense, could have
saved her from being burned as a
witch.
The New Yokk Graphic, Decem
ber 31st says:—“Neither the commit
tee or other spectators were able to
fathom the mystery. Miss Davenport
was firmly tied to the wall and pinion-
ioned by a committee. Indeed the
demonstration continued while she
was held by a reporter of the Tribu ne.’
We are indebted to Senator Colquitt
for a pamphlet copy of his speech on
“the relations between the Senate and
the Executive Department” delivered
in the U. S. Senate on the 22nd March.
The speech is a good one on a much
discussed subject, and our Senator
was able to present views favorable
to the President which had escaped
those who had preceded him in the
debate.
-IN-
Mr. L. J. Lamar, in going to the
Asylum early last Thursday morn
ing, rode his horse into a sewer ditch
recently filled, which the heavy rains
had made soft. The horse mired up
to his body, and Mr Lamar stepped
off without injury to himself, but his
horse was gotten out with;great, diffi
culty and died in a few hours.
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time, we have some choice and sea
sonable goods for you.
Call and see us.
JtDOLPH JOSEPH.
In a Tree all Night.
on
were
Most of the people in the houses
the East Macon side of the river
removed by noon. Three, however,
all negro men, refused to leave. They
were Hillard Conners, Cornelius Shee-
ley and Jack Green. Boats were
sent to them several times, but they
refused assistance. In the afternoon,
they found their quarters uncomfor
tably dangerous, and clamored for
aid. Conners climbed into a tree, ac
companied by a cat and a chicken,
while Sheely and Green got on the
the roof of a house. A large crowd
collected in the street at the foot of
the bridge, and the negro portion of
it began a sort of prayer meeting for
the safety of the three men. Some of
the negro women worked themselves
into a perfect frenzy.
Desirous of rescuing the men, Mr.
Paul Blackshear and Mr. Harmon
got into a boat and attempted to res
cue them. The boat dipped water in
the swift current near the houses,
and they were compelled to return.
Later in the afternoon several other
attempts were made to rescue the
men, but the swiftness of the current
prevented. A Mr. Selph made an
effort to reach them and fell out of
his boat and was nearly drowned.
Mayor Price offered a negro fisherman
named Harison fifteen dollars to res
cue them. He made repeated efforts
to do so, but failed. Finally a negro
named Jim Elliot got into a boat just
after dark, and said that he would
bring the men from their perilous
positions. He pushed off from the
land and disappeared and was never
seen any more. It was supposed
that he was drowned, but the dark
ness prevented any certainty as to
his fate. His brother remained at
the bridge all night, hoping that he
would return. There is a bare possi
bility that the missing n mr> got into
one of the submerged houses.
Conners remained in the tree with
the cat and the chicken all night,
and Sheely and Green stayed on the
house. A crown of negroes that re
mained near the bridge through the
night kept up the courage of the
three men by shouting to them. The
shouts were answered at short inter
vals. As the night was cold the men
must have suffered greatly. Another
attempt wili be made to rescue them
this morning.—Macon Telegraph.
LATER.
The Telegraph of the 2nd instant
says that early this morning succeed
ing the events above narrated, fully
three thousand people assembled at
the East Macon end of the city bridge.
Many of them were renters or owners
of the submerged houses and they
gazed sadly at the injuries or destruc
tion which during the night had be
fallen their houses. It goes on to
say:
Much interest was manifested in
the fate of the negro men who spent
the night in the trees and upon the
roof of the house. An effort was
made early to rescue them from their
perilous position. Mr. G. W. Faircloth
got into a boat and succeeded in rescu
ing Hilliard Conners from the tree in
which he spent the night. He also
rescued Jim Elliott, supposed to have
been drowned the previous night.
Elliott, it will be remembered, went
in a boat to rescue Conners, Sheely
and Rives, and did not return. The
boat was upset, Elliott saving himself
from drowning by jumping upon a
raft of drift wood, where he spent
the night.
TWO MEN DROWNED.
Cornelius Cheely and Jack Rives
were both drowned.
These two men were upon the roof
of Cheely's house. Both might have
been saved had they heeded the warn
ings given them, but they refused to
leave the house when they might
have done so, declaring that they
would remain and protect their pro
perty from thieves.
To a Telegraph reporter Hillard
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Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 23, 1886.
Joseph’s Corn^
8 b
two
Conners thus described how the
men met their deaths.
“I spent the night in a tree not far
from Cheely’s house. He and Jack
were on the roof. They got along
very well, barring the cold, until
about 4 o'clock in the morning. At
that hour, the pillars under the house
were washed away, and it was turned
around so as to face the street. In
front of the house was an evergreen
tree. When the house began to turn,
both men jumped into the tree and
clung to the branches. A few minutes
alter, I heard Cheely hallo. I asked
what he wanted. He'said: ‘I want a
boat to help me; the tree is going.’
Jack Rives didn't say anything. Al
most immediately I heard Cheeley ex
claim: ‘Boys, I’m gone!” I heard a
splash, and then all was still. The
water had washed the tree up, and
both were drowned.
It being thought that the bodies of
the men had floated into Cheely’s
house, several parties went to it in a
boat, and tearing off the weather-
boarding, attempted to enter. They
were met by a dog, which fiercely
assailed them. Beating the animal
out of the way, they examined the
interior of the house, but could not
find the bodies. It is thought that
they lodged behind the house. Each
of the drowned men left a wife.
A very destructive fire occurred at
Salila, Colorado, on the 26th. A high
wind was raging, and 27 of the princi
pal business houses were destroyed.
Loss at estimated at $120,000. A fir#
occurred on the same day at Buf
falo, New York, loss estimated at
$500,000,
LIST OF ADVERTISED LETTER'
Remaining in the Post-Office at '■
ledgeville, Baldwin county, Ga.. ij
3rd, 1886. If not called for withiJ
days, they will be sent to the Ij
Letter office.
Patterson, I>.
Ray, Mary
Smith, Mrs. R- i
Turner, Emit’-
Butts, Lizzie
Barsons, Mary
Collins, Lula
Clay, Ludy
Lawson, Henry
Office Hours.—General delh
window will be open from 9 A. M..'
til 5 p, m. Money Order window i
be open from 9 a. m. to 4 P. 31.
J. Gf. Fowler, P-*
AMUSEMENT JIAI’
Walter Pa ike & Co., Manag
Wednesday, April,
NELLIE C.DAVENPIII
—OF—
The Famous Davenport In
The Wokderful Young
Assisted by three of the best $
rializers in the World.
In Grand Demonstration > 0 '
WONDERS AND’MYSTERIE S (
ATTENTION BALDWIN BLUES!
Meet at your armory Wednesday
night 8 o’clock, to make arrange
ments about your trip to Savannah-
all who intend to go are expected at
this meeting.
G. W. Caraker, Cap’t.
W. A. Massey, 1st serg’t.
Spirit Power-
Admission 50cts,. Children 2-5c*-J
Doors open 7 o'clock Seance r
Loans on Land
R
ESPONSIBLE parties wishi^
borrow money on real e-
Baldwin countv, can apply*?
WHITFIELD & AIM-
A^ixjrneys-a.'P* •
Milledgeville, March 29, ^6.
