Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current, June 08, 1886, Image 1

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Volume Federal Union Established In 1829.! _ „ Southern Recorder “ “ 1819. f Consolidated 1872 Millbdgeville, Ga., June 8.. 1886. Come and See the Beautiful -AT— T. L. McCOMB L C0 T St 7 Embracing all that is New, Desirable and Grand! U will nav you to call! Don’t sleep over your opportunities! You may lose something if you stay away! Come early while every- ^YYe^re a^ainto the front with one of the handsomest stocks of ,, 0 ods that we have ever shown in this city. ‘•The Flowers that bloom in the Spring, Tra La. Have nothing to do with the case.” But Jf*e Say This: T et others quote their prices.—We tell you if they quote Calicoes at one cent per rani, we will sell you better Calico at same price. If they quote you Shoes at 10c per pair, we will sell you better Shoes"for 10c per pair. And so it goes throughout our whole stoev. WE HAVE THE CAPITAL Xodo business on, and CHALLENGE (mark the word) Competition Ws have determined to do the ^ JLion's Share” Of the Dry G-oods Business in this City, REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES. Our stock is strictly First-Class in all its various departments. We carry Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Mattings, fyc., fye. T ah we extend a cordial welcopie. Itemcinbei v«e Guarantiee Prices, and von shall have polite attention. T, L. McCOMB & CO So, 8 and 10 South Wayne Street. Don't Forget the Number. Miliedgeville, Ga., April 16th, 1886. 40 lm. PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM the popular favorite for dressing the hair, Restoring color vchen pray, and preventing Dandruff. It cleanses the sfcalp, stops the hair falling, and Is sure to please. 00c. and SL00 at Druggista. PARKER S TONIC The best Cough Cure you can use, And the beet preventive known for Consumption. It cures bodily pains, and all disorders of the Stomach, Bowels, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, Urinary Organs and all Female Complaints. The feeble and sick, strug gling against disease, and slowly drifting towards the grave, will in most cases recover their health by the timely use of Pabkeu’s Tonic, but delay is dan gerous. Take It in time. Bold by all Druggists in large bottles at $1.00. HINDERCORNS The safest, surest, quickest and best cure for Corns, Bunions, Warts, Moles, Callouses,&c. Hinderstheir fur ther growth. Stopsallpain. Gives no trouble. Makes the feet comfortable. Hindercorns cures when everything •■dse fails. Sold by Druggists ut lie- IIiscox & Co., N- jC- Aug. 11th, 1885. 5 ly CORDIAL FOF. THE BOWELS&CHILDREN TEETHING *It is THE GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY for the bowels. It is one of the most pleasant and efficacious remedies for all summer complaints. At a season when violent attacks of the bowels are so frequent, some speedy relief should be at hand. The wearied mother, losing sleep in nursing the little one teething, should use this medicine. 50 cts. a bottle. Send 2c. stamp to W alter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., for Riddle Book. w Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein will cure Coughs, ( roup, hud Consumption Price 25c. anc. V 1 a bottle. Dec. 15th v lS'5. 23 ly PIGARETTES and Cigarette holders O at C. L. CASE'S Drug Store. Miliedgeville, Ga., -JaD. 20,1386. 43 ly THE UNION & RECORDER, Published Weekly In Miliedgeville, Ga. BY BARNES & MOORE. Terms.—One dollar and fifty cents a year in advance. Six months for seventy-five cents.— Two dollars a year if not paid in advance. Theaervices of Col. Jambs M. Smythb, are en gaged as General Assistant. The “FEDERAL UNION” and the“SOl T THBRN RECORDER’'were consolidated, August 1st, I&T2, the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume and the Recorderin its Fifty-Third Volume. TU I C DA DTD may be found on,file at Geo. I M I d I H I L. R P. Rowell A Go’s Newspa per Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St.), where advertising contracts may be made for it IN NEW YORK. Mr. Davis’Visit. The Parrot as an Article of Furniture. For eight years an African parrot has been one of the fixtures of my li brary. I have slowly evolved from my consciousness the fa,ct that I re garded him as a piece of furniture. His gray coat and red tail so corres pond with the gray walls and red frieze of the library as to suggest that he was made to match the room. His stability and wooden-headed health confirm the suggestion. He lias seen generations of canaries flourish and fade, the breasts of immemorial bull finches pale, the chirrups flicker and die in their throats, mocking birds beat their restless lives out against gilded bars, and whole roostfuls of idiotic love birds doze themselves away. Amid it all he has been as changeless as the knob on the door. Death has apparently inventoried him with the majolica vases and the picture frames. He *has even out lived a stuffed owl that went off in a curious post-mortem moult. So in separably is he connected with the furniture in my mind that I should be no more surprised to see my clock growing a set of whiskers or my book case down with a headache than to see him vary one iota of mien or mood. The furniture effect is heightened by the knowledge that he has at least a century of this changeless life to live, which gives him in advance a kind of antique flavor. The occasional words that with an abstracted and ventril- oquial air lie utters are quite as wood en in sound and as irresponsible m delivery as those ejaculated from the cuckoo that periodically appears in the top of the Swiss clock. His food is chucked through the bars of his castle pretty much as 1 throw poems in a waste.basket, and he receives it with no more emotion than is display ed by the metal-headed man who sur mounts the savings bank and drops his lip for nickles. Ned is a good bird and he does his level best to be con sidered one of the family- Hut h e can’t make it, any more than the pia no or the table can. He is a piece oi furniture—nothing more or less. Even when he bites you—about Lie‘hi est tiling he does—you can’t tell him from a pair of tongs.—Atlanta con stitution. Gabe Hines, formerly owned by Mi. Jeff Hines, of Stewart county, cued on tlie day after the latter. Gabe was remarkable for his strength, ana lias been known to shoulder alive hundred pound bale of cotton, on cii- vers occasions, and carry if f° r fcome distance. We deeply regretted our inability to publish many incidents of Mr. Da- vL’ late vist to Alabama and Georgia. Some were so deeply interestingthat we may occasionally refer to.some touch ing scenes which we feel assured will be of mournful interest to our esteem ed patrons. We present first the open ing scenes at the laying of t}ie corner stone of the Monument of the Confed erate dead at Montgomery, Ala., on the 29tti;of April, 1886. Ex-Governor Watts who had been a member of ex-President Davis' Cab inet spoke !at some length to intro duce Mr. Davis. He said he had admired him as^ the fearless commander at Buena Vista, the able Secretary of War under Pres ident Pierce, afterward as the peerless Senator, but lie had known him when he, the speaker- was called into the Confederate Cabinet; and when, after eighteen months’ service there, he left his post at the call of the people of Alabama to become their Chief Exec utive. He not only admired Mr. Da- V's as a statesman but loved him as a man. Gov. Watts then made retro spection of the war, with its alternate victories and defeats. He reviewed the reasons for this gathering here and the object of the erection of the monument. He said: ''He lias a cow ard heart, let him live in the North or the South, or the East or West, who would cast a slur upon the emotions of the jieople of Alabama to-day.” Great cheers emphasized the popular approval of this sentiment. Gov. Yv T atts told how ABRAHAM LINCOLN, in looking over the field of- Gettys burg, had said that • the defenders of the heights, and those who attacked them, would alike live in history, and how he could not forget that they •were all his countrymen. Now more than twenty years ‘later the good men of the North were verifying that prophecy of the great Lincoln. A side should be left blank on the shaft of the monument—the side toward the north—whereon one day the good people of the North might inscribe their recognition of and respect for the bravery of the men who had fall en for what they believed to be con stitutional liberty. The North should write there that these men were its countrymen. There was a touching scene when Gov. Watts turned to Mr. Davis and spoke of him. He said he loved this grand old man because he had ever been true to the principles of constitutional Liberty, ever true to the people of the South, and more than all, because at Fortress Monroe liis hands were manacled for the peo ple of the South. In all his reading he had never heard of a man of so many sterling qualities. WHEN MR. DAVIS AROSE TO SPEAK he was received with prolonged cheer ing. He first addressed himself to Gov. Watts, paying him a high trib ute of esteem, saying that “ever since Watts had left his Cabinet at the call of the people of Alabama he had wanted again to lay his hands on him. ” He grasped the veteran by the shoul der, and continued, “There were those who had smiled a sardonic smile the other night to see him and his old friend embrace, but their hearts were young though their heads were old.” Mr. Davis said all this with tears in his eves and in his voice and not a few who heard him wept with him. Then he addressed himself to the crowd. He said he feared to speak where so many memories crowded upon him and where his heart was so full, lest he might say what would wound others. It was not of any malice in his heart that he was afraid, but his great love for his own people might lead him too far. “Just 6ay whatever you please,” said a mas culine voice in the tones iEneas might have used in addressing old father Priam, so kindly and brave it was. There was a gentle smile on the old man’s face as the crowd applauded, and he continued. He said that for himself he had nothing to fear, as he had no right of citizenship and little hurt could come to him, but he did not want to give a chance for the in jury of others, therefore he had writ ten what he had to say. Among the delegates to the Presby terian General Assembly at its iate session in Augusta was the Hon. W. Wirt Henry, of Richmond, Va. M r. Henrv is a grandson of Patrick Henry, America’s great revolutionary orator, and is a distinguished member of the Richmond bar. ^ There are three kisses in a world of miscellaneous kisses which mav be counted true—the kiss the motaer lightly lays upon her baby’s dewy lips, the kiss the mother gives her bov as he goes forth into the world, ana the kiss we press upon the still, pale lips of the dead. All the rest are 1 ike the strawberries in the bottom of tne basket, to be taken with suspicion. an extract from my diary. A handsome, intelligent, well bred young man, a scion of one the be6t families in America, whom we will call Eggleston, and who was also pos sessed of great wealth, had become addicted to both the morphine habit and inebriety. He occupied a high social position and one of honor and trust, was one of the directors of a wealthy bank, and also of a large Railroad company, and was the petted favorite of a large and influential cir cle of friends and acquaintances, and to crown the dearest wish of his life, the day was set, some months ahead, for his union with the idol of his heart, the admired of all admirers, the belle of the city of , and daughter of a wealthy capitalist, whose heart and hand all complimented him on winning except those who envied him. Hopes and prospects never appeared brighter nor higher for human heart. But alas! he was net happy. One small blue cloud, the morphine bottle, mag nified itself secretly into a dark and scowling spectre that overshadowed his life, from, which a ‘still small voice,’ seemed ever to warn him of some dreadful impending doom. In this melancholy mood he called for treatment, and seemed somewhat relieved, and viewed his future in a brighter light, when I told him I thought he could he cured, but he was assured that it would require a hard struggle on his part, and he would have to bring to bear all the fortitude and physical endurance of which his nature was callable. Hav ing imparted to me his heart’s secret, and exulted so happily in the joys that would lie his when freed from the tyrant morphine, and in pressing ten derly to his bosom, as his own, that fair sweet idol of his heart, he assured me would inspire him to endure any and everything. He informed me however that he had some important business to trans act, in Chicago, that would occupy at least a week of his time. I advised him-therefore to go and attend to that first, as it would be necessary for him to lay aside all business, for the time, to enable him to devote all his ener gies to his treatment. He therefore left with a light and happy heart, en gaging to be back on that day week to commence treatment. He arrived safely at Chicago, and with already a full dose of morphine, inserted into his arm with that little “Hell Machine,” known as a hypoder mic syringe, coursing through bis veins, he unfortunately wended his way to'one of those; gorgeous, hand somely furnished and elegantly ap pointed saloons for which Chicago is so noted md in an hour or two left the p’ac^.reeling from one side of the pavement to the other, catching at each lamp post and telephone pole till turning the corner that led to his hotel, he staggered, missed the post, and fell prostrate across the side walk, striking his head against the curb stone cutting an ugly gash in his tem ple, knocking him senseless. He suffered concussion of the brain but the flow of blood soon restored him to conciousness, but only to find himself pushed forcibly along by two men whom he at once recognized as •policemen. He offered bribes in any amount to be taken to his hotel in gtead of to the city prison, but wheth er under other circumstances the of ficers would have accepted "will never be known, but certain it is they took him to the prison where all his wealth could procure him no better accom modations than that assigned to the lowest mendicant. Reported at the police headquarters as “dead drunk on the street^’ he tyas rudely pushed into a cell and hearing the heavy iron door clang, shut and the bolt shot home in the lock, he was so overcome with emotions of mortifi cation and disgrace he threw himself upon the rude iron cot and sobbed like a child till the combined influence of the morphine and whiskey at last overcame him and he fell into a deep sleep and though incarcerated in a dungeon he no doubt “Dreamt that he dwelt in Marble Halls With vassals and serfs at his side, And dreamt what pleased him most of all. Thai she whom he loved was his bride.” But alas! his happy dreaming ceas ed, he awoke with a start—it was morning, Sunday morning, and he could not have a hearing, pay his fine and go free, as no court could be held until Monday morning, at least twen ty- four hours without his usual dose Numbeb 48. Death of John Kelly. John Kelly, who died vesterday, was born in the city of New York April 20th, 1822. He came from a bar- _ t iic uuut* ijLuiii iiar- dy stock of Tyrone County Irishmen. He emerged from the very cot of pov erty and was an office bov of the H >ov er- tliat’s the end on it, and you’d better keep quiet,” and turning on his heel walked away in a defiant manner, exulting no doubt in his ‘little brief authority.’ Eggleston finding both pleading and offer of bribes equally vain and helpless in his cell and all alone, thre w himself again upon his rude couch, aid under the elder Bennett, who giving himself up to meditation, and quickly detected the high qualities of brooding over his unfortunate condi- the undeveloped lad. His first ap- tion but determined to endure as long pearance in politics was when he as possible. worked at the head of his people in Born and raised to command, and New Y'ork as the champion of civil now compelled by circumstances to and religious liberty during the era of play the suppliant to a menial so gall- Know Nothingism. He was elected a ed him as to cause him to desire all nf ai.i the more to court oblivion in the lev elling, soothing influence of the drug. About noon therefore feeling the paroxysm of craving more severely as each hour dragged slowly by he began his screams again crying out, “Help ! help! murder, murder, fire! and every other exclamation he could think of, till the gruff turnkey again appeared at the cell door, ordering Eggleston to “dry up and let me hear no more of your racket.” “Well,” most earnestly pleaded Eg gleston, “I'll give you a hundred, yes, five hundred dollars,” with great em phasis, for only just twenty grains of morphine.” “Naw yer don’t” sneeringlv replied the turnkey “yer can’t come that game over me,” and continued he, menacingly, “if I hear any more fuss from you I’ll put handcuffs on you and chain you to the floor—so I will; now take* warning and keep your mouth shut.” ’ ‘LYs the sun was going down the turnkey with his squad went to take each prisoner a piece of bread and a tea cup of water, when Eggleston again renewed his entreaties offering a thousand dollars for twenty grains of morphine, and the turnk®y*still re fused, when Eggleston said : “Bring me pen, ink and paper, if you think I am either unwilling or unable to pay it, and I’ll either give you a written agreement or a check direct upon tlie bank for the amount.” But the turnkey was still obdurate and with a curse upon his lips, and repeating his threat to put Eggleston in irons he departed.” Eggleston only increased his cries, and though he kept them up till late, the turnkey turned a deaf ear to them, and came no more to his cell that night. At last in the “wee sma hoursayont the twal” Eggleston’s cries ceased and ilie turnkey soliloquized, “Thank God that wild drunken fool has fallen asleep at last and we will have some peace till morning.” Night passed away and as the rosy blush of morn was tinging the east ern horizon, the sky lark caroling his morning song to the king of day, the linnets and wrens chirping gaily as they flitted in and out, and the loving pigeons billing and cooing their tales of innocent love in the eaves of the sombre old prison, several men with iron buckets and tin pails of coarse bread and coarser soup, headed by the heartless turnkey, passed up the long dark, dank corridor tofeed the prison ers, as if they were feeding wild ani mals in the caged vans of a menage rie. They had passed a number of cells giving each man a tin cup of the coarse soup and piece of bread, when the stolid turnkey partially soliloquiz ing said: “Here is the cell of that wild, drunk en kid that yelled so last night he kept everybody awake ; be easy and put his grub in quietly and come out, I don't want him to w'ake till nine o - clock when the Recorder will open court and call his case along with the rest and I guess he’ll keep quiet then While uttering these words he soft ly slipped the key in the lock and qui etly threw open the door, when sud denly, as if struck by lightning, the turnkey find his companions st&gger- ed back against the opposite wall of the corridor as white as ghosts with fright, for from a slightly projecting ledge above the narrow iron grated slit of a window in the stone wall hung the lifeless body of Eggleston, stark, stiff and cold in death. Y es lie was indeed silent, not only now but for all time or until the resurrection morn, when the trump shall call the dead back to life to account for what they have done and what has been done to and for them in this life. Is it necessary to depict the sorrow, the genuine sorrow and remorse of that projection — —.— _ ,, window by a rope improvised for tne window Dyarope torn beat you ten to one.” purpose * FWlcston’s Upon another occasi Wilkes at tended a city dinner, not long after his nrnTnotion to citv honors. Among the g^ n " 0 ^nndTnVehngrurn- tTelaTlength exclaimed; “Well, Mr. even that stohd ana ume g Wilkes if you are thus determined we ty- four hours without his usual dose key, as he saw the p . from mug t take the sense of the ward.” of morphine, and with the horrible e rous form of Eggleston g g^^ “With all my heart” replied Mr. craving already upon him, he called that projection t— +1-,^ Wilkes “T will take the nonsense, and aloud till he brought the turnkey to his door savagely enquiring why he was making all that noise. Eggleston replied that he wanted twenty grains of morphine and must have it. “Hit’s agin orders”, roughly answered the turnkey “an I’m not a gwine ter give it ter ye.” “Oh do please for God’s sake—for the sake of suffering humanity,” beg ged Eggleston and continued “I'm in the habit of using it and if I don't get twenty grains twice a day I'll suffer terribly, indeed I’ll die.” “Oh ho!” replied the heartless turn key with a sneer, “yon can't fool me, you look like one of these dudish sie- ty fellars and is mortified an w r ants ter kill yerself wid it.” ”01i no indeed I do not,” replied Eggleston “1 am compelled to have it, I'll give you five dollars to ge*- just twenty grains of morphine.' “No 1 can't” interrupted the turn- i key. _ ‘‘111 give you ten, yes twenty : j I'll give you fifty dollars if you will j oniv get me twentv grains’’ contin- J ued Eggleston. man to willingly given her heart whom she was so soon to bestow ner 1x£ No indeed—let us not chide nor to get me ■ judge harshly, but rather throw^ tue mantle of sympathy around the > frai ties—and draw the veil of char ity o the faults and peccadilloes of poo 1 ing human nature. G. SHakv . Mav 31st. 1880. member of tlie Board of Aldermen in New Y’ork city—thence to Congress. He did as much in his own way to sti fle Know Nothingism in New York as Mr. Stephens did in Georgia, or as Henry A. Wise in Virginia. While in Congress lie met Henry Winter Davis in debate, and held his own with that great orator and agitator. It was in that Congress that Mr. Stephens met Mr. Kelly and knew him, and tlie friendship lasted over a quarter of a century. In 1880 Mr. Stephens said : “I have stood by John Kelly in his entire struggle, and have often said, and now repeat, that 1 regard him as the ablest, purest and truest states man that I have ever met from New York.” Mr. Kelly acted as a pacificator in the fierce contests of the New r York Democratic party from 1848 to 1956 in both State and National politics. Ht helped bring about the final reunion which secured the nomination and election of Buchanan and Brecken- ridge. In relation to slavery, Mr. Kelly followed the lead of Hon. Hora tio Seymour, believing that the best principles of the Constitution would finally work out through the States the policy of emancipation. I11 1858 John Kelly was elected Sheriff of the city and county of New York and resigned his seat in Con gress. He was clean, thorough and faithful in discharging public trusts, and not a dirty shilling can be found to-day in all his estate. He was ap pointed Comptroller in New York in 1876, and continued to transact these duties honorably and well. John Kelly was a self-made man. From a newspaper office boy, he be came a moulder—then a leader and politician in spite of himself. Ha was a close reader, and made a tour of Europe and the holy land. He was a student of-the languages, and be came a patron of the fine aits ami a public benefactor as his years ad vane ed and his wealth increased. This wil probably be news to those who look ed upon him as a Acre “ballot staffer and shoulder hitter.' 1 His best record was in 1872, when the Tweed Ring was expelled from Tammany Hall, and that organiza tion was controlled by Seymour, Til den and Kelly. He was a man of power, of honesty and courage—a man of action. His life has passed in to history, and although there art those who called him a trading politi cian, he was probably one of the best, purest and most competent of New Y'ork’s public men.—Augusta (llironi cle, June 2d. John Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes wlio lived some fifty or sixty years ago was really a wag, and so intolerably sarcastic, that it was a wonder how he could keep so long on good terms with his friends. In this respect he was very justly compared withDr. Johnson, although the lat ter was called the Caliban of litera ture, and the former a fine gentle man when in gentlemen’s company; for it was chiefly at the citizens' ex pense that he indulged in the satire of his wit. When confined in the King's Bench he was waited upon by a dep utation from some ward in the city, when the office of alderman was va cant. As there had already been great fermentation on his account, and much more .apprehended, they who were deputed undertook to re monstrate with Wilkes on the danger to the public peace which would re sult from his offering himself as a can didate on the present occasion, and expressing the hope that he would at least wait till some more suitable op portunity presented itself. But they mistook their man: this was with him an additional motive for persevering in his first intentions. After much useless conversation, one of the depu ties at length exclaimed; “Well, Mr. Wilkes, if you are thus determined we into rtriprand twisted by Eggleston’s Upon another occasion, now stiff cold fingers into a rope o£ tende sufficient quality to strangle him or or break his neck, as he jumped froir his mean low cot after having fasten ed one end n ®'^^ d t i 1S C ornice a of the deliberation'took off his wig, suspend- other one around the cornice 01 _ and with great solem- window over the head of his coL t ni 1 tv t ton p aA ;. hite cotto n nightcap. describe sufferings so mdescnD y y P certainly had pretensions horrible as to cause a man in such a Wilkes« r e e r ( \" n ; “ h br b ,..an and hiinglingand painfulmannertotake tobe^otoed.1. = erfd M- his own life? Or shall Me witnes v cou i d no t take his eyes from so grief of that fair girl, vnesc f ’ i ri0ve l a picture. At heart and soul were bound up lenerth the deputy with unblushing whom she had so freely and Wilkes and asked him whether he did not think liis night cap became him. On y < s, * j, III! “No 1 won t” said the turnkey gruff- j ly, “I've said I won't, and I won’t and 8 Brooklvn '00,000. it would e pulled claims a population of ^ replied Wilkes, but look much better if ? it ' ver quite over your face. Commissioner of Deeds for all tin States, Mr. G. E. Reardon, Baltimore Md., writes that he suffered tor^a long time with rheumatism yielded to no treatment untn plied St. Jacobs Oil. which lie ap-