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/ W. T. CONN & CO., W HOLESALE HEALERS in Sta ple and Fancy Groceries, Tobac cos, Cigars, &c. MU ledgeville, Ga., Feb. 20th, 1869. 5 6m The Edwards House, U\FFERS best accommodations \J for Transient and Regular Board ers. Special inducements for College students. WARREN EDWARDS. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 1, ’86. 26 ly CITY AND COUNTY. Rain! New Moon, Commencement. College concert to-night. Commencement address to-morrow. Several new residences are being erected. The third quarterly meeting of the Methodist church will be held next Saturday. The Commencement Hop given by the “Young Men’s Club”, will come off at the Mansion to-morrow night. Mayor Walker’s artesian well has reached about one hundred feet with out meeting serious obstruction. Cut Prices.—White Goods at al most your oWn price at 51 2t] W. H. Carr’s. Our youth are receiving from the commencement exercises an inspira tion to noble deeds that will not, can not, be wholly lost. An old farmer remarked in our presence the other day, that he could not remember to have ever seen so much rain in the month of June. This number ends the fifty-sixth volume of the Federal Union' and sixty-sixth of Southern Recorder. These old papers were consolidated in 1872. , Mr. H. Adler opened Thursday, in the late W. T. Mappin’s store, a stock of family groceries. Mr. W. H. Hodges will have charge of the new store. They are both clever gen tlemen. The third qrarterly meeting for the Baldwin circuit will be held at Pleas ant Grove church the tenth and elev enth of this month. Dr. Jesse Bor ing the new Presiding Elder will be present. There are three literary societies a- mong the college students, the Alpha Zeta and Phi Sigma of the boys and Ennoian composed |of girls. They are literary in their purposes, and are doubtless beneficial in their results. M. L. Byington will sell you lum ber for less money than anybody. Just go to his mill and see him make it, and you will say I do not wonder at it, if it was me I would give it away just to see the mill run. 4512ts. Mr. S. E. Whitaker, and Mr. J. C. Whitaker are heavy lossers by the freshet. The river bottom on which they each usually make from 1500 to 2000 bushels of corn, was overflowed and their corn ruiped. Messrs. Joe Tucker, Havgood, Ennis and others who plant on the river have also lost portions of their crop. Mr. Thomas White, of the firm of White A Treanor it building a house on the corner of Ciarke and Montgom ery streets, a little north of the Epis copal parsonage. It has the frame and chimneys up, and bids fair to make a neat and comfortable resi dence of about five rooms, and very well adapted for the occupancy of a small family. We observe that the street contrac tor is adopting in some places the plan of raising the sidewalks to be high in the middle and sloping down wards to each side. This gives a dry place for pedestrians In the middle of the walk, and will in our judgment re quire much less work to keep the walk in order. When the walk is so shaped there can never so much wa ter gather during heavy rains to wash away the dressing of sand that is plac ed ^n the surface. The Storm in Baldwin. On Wednesday last it rained with but a little cessation during all the afternoon, and throughout the whole of the night following the rain de scended in torrents. There was a very hard wind also from the East ward most of the night and when morning came, the result was seen in a number of trees broken dow r n or uprooted, and we believe a good deal of fencing was also prostrated. The river overflowed its banks and on Friday was within eighteen inches of the height of the flood of several weeks ago and that was but little be low the mark of the great Harrison freshet. The effect of this great storm has been most disastrous upon the land and crops of our farmers. On the fine river low grounds espec ially where the owners had already had two young growing crops destroy ed by the preceeding freshets and had with commendable pluck and energy replanted their rich and productive land, their hopes have again been blasted, and now it is too late to put in another crop. The long continued and heavy rains of June and these successive and destructive floods in our river are unprecedented in the memory of any oul* old and experien ced farmers whom we have yet seen. The damages are great and distressing to contemplate. THE STORM, RAIL-ROADS, &C. The recent great floods of water have been very damaging to several of our rail-roads: the Central having suffered from the washing out of an important trestle not far above Toombsboro and also from the wash ing aw r ay of its track a little below Gordon. Several washouts are re ported also between Davisboro and Tennille. The regular running of the trains -was suspended and as we write Friday afternoon, it is a matter of hope but not of certainty that the trains may have resumed their regu lar running to-day. The Macon & Covington R. R. had a new bridge over the Ocmulgee, intended to be us ed in building the permanent iron bridge ; washed away. The E. T. V. & G. Rail-road also suffered severe ly betw een Macon & Cochran and the running of trains was stopped. The probable length of the stoppage was seemingly unknown to the Macon Telegraph, from which paper w r e gath er most of the above facts. That pa per also has a telegram from Ameri- cus which reports the heaviest rain that has fallen there for years, the washing away of milldains, &c., and great damage to the track of the Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad and the stoppage of trains on that road for several days to come. The Telegraph also has a long list of damage done in Macon, by - the blow ing dow r n of cliimnies, trees, &c., by the heavy wind. Doubtless we shall hear of much further injury done by this great summer storm in other por tions of the State. Confidential.—We will take the ladies intojour confidence and freely admit that we have more White Goods than v r e are able to carry. You can buy White Goods at your own price at 51 2t] W. H. Carr’s. —AT- P. J. CLIME & COl We have had an immense crowd for the last week, an the rush still continues, and we are giving the people bargains that they have never been offered before. We are determined that all the Damaged Goods Shall he Disposed Ofl We have a great many more of them left, and we will continue the sale, and at such prices as they are obliged to go; while their being dam aged injures the sale of them, the value to the purchaser is almost as good as if they had never been wet. Everything m and will be sold for the Cash and Cash only. TO COUNTRY $5,000 Worth of HATS! Messers. W. W. Lumpkin and Ed Treanor, have formed a copartner ship, for the pnrpose of doing a bro kerage business. They will fit up an office in the Treanor building, on Hancock st, that will be handsome and first class in all its appointments —will employ a competent young man to stay regularly, to keep books of the firm and give prices. These gentlemen will work up a large and lucrative business in their line, if energy, business ability and clever ness, be potent factors. We, the committee, representing the Business Union of Milledgeville, respectfully urge upon the city au thorities that they procure such amendment to the Charter as w ill se cure a certain and permanent provis ion for the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College and Eddy School W. T. Conn, C. P. Crawford, J. W. McMillan, T. T. Windsor, W. W. Lumpkin, G. T. Whilden, Milledgeville, July 2nd, 1886. Death of a Good Colored Citi zen.—July DeSauseaure, an aged res* ident of this city and a minister of the Colored Methodist Church South, di ed at his residence on Monday the 21st inst., after a long season of bad health. He was during slavery times a trusted and esteemed servant of the late Col. David C. Campbell, of this place, and as long as he lived he re tained and manifested his affection for the children of his former master; a feeling of regard which was recipro cated by them. He was a man much above the average of his race in intel ligence and good judgment and we never heard of his using these endow- ments for any other than good purpo ses. The last time he came from his home in the suburbs down into the business part of our city w as on the day when he cast his vote at the polls in favor of prohibition. He was probably about eighty years of age and was buried in our cemetery, his remains having been attended by a large concourse of his people to their last resting place. MERCHANTS. We have many lines of Goods— that you cannot duplicate else where in price or quality. Send for Quotations. ADOLPH JOSEPH. Milledgeville, Ga,, June 14th 1S8G. [Sly We have bought out a firm’s entire stock of meft’s and boys’ Hats at Twentv-Five cents on the dollar, and we will sell you a hat at less than half the price you can buy them anywhere. We have a sample of each kind on one of the center counters, marked in plain figures, and we will sell them in solid cases to merchants and at retail. Come and see them: we can show you more hats, and cheaper hats, than you ever saw in Milledgeville before. We will also, Open, To-Day, One Hundred Dozen Jtten r & White In liinmlrM Shirts. That We will Sell at 80c a Piece! You would not believe that so good a Shirt, ready made, could be sold for 20c. We can’t tell you how we got them, but bring the cash and you can buy them at the price advertised. They will not be sold without the cash. PETER J, CUKE & CO., Milledgeville, Macon and Griffin.. Milledgeville, Ga., June Stb, 188(J. *10 7