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CITY AND COUNTY.
Personal Mention.
Mrs. Walter Paine continnes verv
ill.
Mr. W. R. Morris of Union Point
was in the city last week.
Miss Belle White left Saturday for
a visit to friends in Sparta.
Mrs. F. C. Furman and children left
last Thursday to visit Dalton, Ga.
Mr. Fred Haug and Mr. T. W. Turk
are visiting Cumberland Island.
Mrs. S. D. Wootten has returned
from Florida much improved in health.
Dr. J. B. Duggan, who is sojourning
in Butts county, visited this city last
week.
Rev. S. C. Leonard is, we regret to
learn, seriously ill at his home in this
county.
Mrs* Logan, oi Augusta, is the
guest of Mrs. M. E. Taylor at Jie
Mansion.
Mr. Zack Brookins of this county
has been quite sick for two or three
weeks past;
Until \u K ust 20th the address of
Rev. R. \Yt Anderson will be Ashland,
Hanover County, Virginia.
Col. Richard M. Johnson will deliver
a lecture at the Asylum to-morrow,
(Wednesday) night. Admission 50c.
Miss Maude Battle, who has been
visiting Miss- Hattie Powell at the
Asylum, loft for home last Saturday.
Dr. Hall, who has been sick for
some time past is better and is in
daily attendance upon his patients.
We learn that Mr. P. V. Kolb, of
Marietta, has been employed by
Messrs. W. T. Conn & Co. as an addi
tional travelling salesman.
Miss Eliza Martin of Sandersville,
who has been visiting the family of
Mr. R. L. Hunter, returned home on
Thursday last.
We are authorized by Mr. L. J\ La
mar to state that he will not be a can-
didate for re-election to the office of
County Treasurer.
A little daughter of Mr. Arthur
Holding, who lives just across the. riv
er from this city, is quite sick with
Typho-Malarial fever.
Quite a party of young people of
our city and visitors from other pla
ces, went out to the Asylum to. a
dance Wednesday night.
Rev. J. D. Hammond, Capt. T. F.
Newell and Mr. M. Hines left, last
Thursday to. attend the Methodist
District Conference at Warrenton.
Mrs. Merrill of Thomasville, and
Mrs. Smith of Vineville, (near Macon)
paid a short visit last week to their
brother, Dr. Wm. H. Hall, of this city.
Miss Garvin, of Augusta, who is or
ganizing and encouraging missionary
work, spent several days of last week
in this city, the guest of Mrs. W. T.
Conn.
Misses Leola Nisbet and Florence
Marshall, who have been guests of
the Oconee House, left for Eatonton,
the home of the former, Friday after
noon.
A number of young people attend
ed a sociable given at the residence of
Mr. G. W. Caraker last Friday even
ing.
Miss Loula Cole of Macon, who has
been visiting Mrs. Taylor at, the old
a few days,
last Wednes-
MERRI WETHER, GA., >
July 16th, 1886. /
Editors Union & Recorder :
The rain crop fine, and a daily out
pouring convinces all that this is a
wet county. In spite of the discour
agements farmers with scientific skill,
have uprooted the grass, and the corn
crop rejoices the sight, while cotton
holds its own remarkably well.
Watermelons and fruit beginning
to come in the market, and roasting
ears no new thing.
A nice cabbage, and beets too large
for dishes to hold them, from Mr. Mi
nor’s testifies he is one of the finest
farmers in this county.
The picnic at Black Springs was
well attended by parties from this
place. i
Visitors to this place : Misses Good-
son and Slocum, from Macon; Misses
Alice Wright and Nona Broadfield;
Mrs. Norris Samford from Mariana,
Fla.
Mrs. Minor and Miss Julia have re
turned from Gainesville ; Mrs. B. H.
Myrick from Alabama, and Miss Anna
Smith from Milledgeville.
Dr. Samford of Auburn, Ala., thinks
the U. & R. one of the finest papers
in the South. E.
Barbecue at Black Spring.
Executive Mansion for
left here for her home
day.
Miss Fannie Williams has returned
home from a visit to relatives in At
lanta on Friday last. She was accom
panied by her aunt, Miss Callie
Grieve.
Miss Hollmark, of Augusta, who
has been visiting Mrs. S. B. Marshall,
left Saturday for Sparta, where she
will be the guest of Miss Claude Sim)
raons.
Misses Rose and Belle White and
Miss Hollmark, entertained a par
ty of young gentlemen at the resi
dence of Mr. Ojlie White on Thursday
evening.
We are glad to learn that Mr. James
Finney, who has been sick for several
months and is at present at the resi
dence of his father-in-law, Mr. Ches-
ley Bloodworth, is improving.
Gen'l. D. H. Hill and Capt. W. T.
Conn went to Athens last Friday to
attend the meeting of the trustees of
the State University in the interest of
the branch college located in this city.
[ Mr. Jas. F. Little is a candidate for
t jpresentative of Talbot county in the
legislature. If elected, he will make
capital working member, as we be-
>ve. after an acquaintance with him
thirty odd years.
There was a watermelon party giv-
,n at the residence of Mrs. Fuller, on
iouth Jefferson st., last Thursday
evening, which was enjoyed very
luch by the young people till a late
,our.
Mr. Tom White is having a new
style of weather boarding put upon
his new house which, we learn, is be
coming very popular and is very
handsome, especially after it is paint
ed. It is worth a visit to the new
building, which is now being weather
boarded, to see it. Mr. White will
soon have a very attractive and com
fortable new residence.
On Monday of last week a party
consisting of Misses Leola Nisbet of
Eatonton, Florence Marshall of Amer
icas and Harry Dell Hollmark of Au-
tmsta, and Messrs. Randolph Kenan
of Darien, Hansell Hall, Willie Hun
ter and Leroy Tinsley went out to the
Asylum and spent the day most pleas
antly. They were joined in the after
noon by Miss White and Mr. Dixie
DuBignon.
The “Shining Stars” Missionary So
ciety will give an Ice Cream festival
in the north-western part of the col
lege campus, next Thursday after
noon. Refreshments not exceeding
5 cents each, will be served from 4 to
7 o’clock. Their work is a good one,
and they very seldom ask aid from
the public, and we hope our people
will give them a very liberal patron
age.
Black Spring, Ga., July 15tli, 1886.
Mr. Editor: I was one of the for-
t.unate ones who, “throwing dull care
away,” came out to this noted place,
to enjoy the festivities prepared by
and for the Blount Volunteers, anti
their numerous friends. Notwith
standing the lowering clouds, the
crowd commenced assembling, and by
10 o’clock a. m. every conceivable
space of ground, around the church
and school house, was covered with
wagons, buggies, horses, men, women
and children; The large church was
also crowded with beautiful women
and gaily dressed Misses, all bent on
making the most of the day.
The booming of cannon announced
the opening of the festivities, and at
every successive report, Bud Moran,
John Champion and Bill Huff, hur
rahed for the memories of their Con
federate artillery recollections, during
the “recent unpleasantness."
The Blount Volunteers were out in
full force, with quite a respectable
turnout of the DuBignon Volunteers
and the Baldwin Blues. They drilled
and paraded, all in full dress uniform
to the great pleasure of the grown
folks and the great delight of the
little folks, who never tire of following
the soldier boys, and the life and
drum, whose inspiring notes never
fail to arouse the enthusiasm and un
stinted applause of the average small
boy.
About 1 o’clock p. m. dinner was
announced, and such a dinner. Who
says the country is on the eve of star
vation? Why, a man could have ate
enough here today to have lasted him
a week and still there would have
been enough for everybody else. The
first tajfle was filled up with soldiers
and ftulies. There were four relays
of bread and meat eaters—each guest
was furnished with a plate, knife and
fork, and a plenty of barbecued pig
and lamb, bread, vegetables, cake,
pies, and custards, with any quantity
of iced lemonade to wash it all down.
I counted on the pit 83 carcasses, and
they were not small ones. Bud Mo-
ran was head cook, and right well did
he do his work. As before intimated,
there were four tables, and 1 was in
formed there were 225 plates set at
each. Counting by this data, there
must have been one thousand per
sons on the grounds.
Watermelon and peach carts were
on hand, as well as an ice cream
stand and even Dick. Betton held
forth in an improvised barber shop,
and the irrepressible Rufus . earned
many a nickle with his travelling boot
black establishment.
The very best of order was preserv
ed and not a single jolt, jar or distur
bance marred the pleasures of the
day. Capt. Dosh Ennis of the Blount
Volunteers was here, there and every
where, doing-all in his power to wel
come visitors and see tnem fed, He
.was most ably and efficiently aided
"by every member of his corps, and it
will be many a day before their guests
will forget the hospitalities of their
hosts. While we would gladly name
every one, and especially the ladies,
who contributed to the pleasure and
enjoyment of the day, which we can
not do, we would particularly men
tion. Mrs. Tabitha Wright, who
teaches a large and interesting private
and public school here. Had her
dwelling been as large as her heart,
she would have sheltered everyone
present, in her house.
The crops which we saw om-tha
road give promise of a small return
for the laborers’ toil. Occasionally is
seen a fine field of corn and cotton,
but the general outlook is any thing
but promising.
We left the grounds about 5 o'clock
p. m. and the road was crowded with
a continuous stream of vehicles of.
every description, loaded to their ful
lest capacity, with well fed, highly
delighted and fully satisfied men, wo
men and children.
Long live the Blcmnt Volunteers,
and the good people of Black Spring,
and when next* they give a dinner,
may you be there to enjoy it. C.
RIFLE TEAM CONTEST.
A fancy for rifle shooting, among
some of the officers and employees of
the Asylum, has developed into the
informal organization of a rifle team,
each of whom has ordered, or already
had, either a Colt’s, Winchester, Bal
lard, or other rifle. Last week this
new team challenged an equal num
ber of rifle shooters of Milledgeville
to a contest, to take place at the
shooting park of the former team,
near the Asylum, at 2 p. m, on Fri
day, July 16th.
Of the Asylum team, those shooting
were:
Dr. Whitaker, with a Colt’s, “Light
ning Repeater,” 32 Calibre.
Capt. Dessasure, with his fine single-
shot Ballard, 22 Calibre.
Dr. Jones with the same gun.
Mr. O. C. -Summers, with a Win
chester, 32 Cal.
Mr. Steve Wright, with a Winches
ter repeater, 32 Cal.
Mr. W. T. Wilson, with Dr. Whita
ker's gun, 32 Cal.
Mr. Gus Russell, with same gun.
Mr. Harper, with a single shot Bal
lard, 32 CaK
Mr. Bob Stembridge, Repeating
Winchester, 32 Cal.
Mr. Geo. Hollingshead,* Repeating
Winchester, 32 Cal.
Here is a comparative statement of
the respective total scores:
FIRST ROUND, OF FIVE SHOTS EACH:
862
2914
Milledgeville team, total score,
Asylum team, total score,
Making Asylum team ahead by, 704
SECOND ROUND, THREE SHOTS EACH.
212^
lolj
Milledgeville team, total score,
Asylum team, total score,
Making Asylum team ahead by, 614
The best 5 shot score was made by
Mr. W. T. Wilson, of the Asylum
team, and the best single shot by
Capt. Tinsley, of Milledgeville, and
the poorest score by Mr.-—, but al
though he can ‘bear it’ I. will not tell
it on him, for he is %o popular, and
took his defeat so gracefully that we
only hope his pleasant face and genial
manner will gladden the nextmeeting,
and that it may be “a better day for
shooting” (at least for him.)
This was a mere pastime contest,
but it is hinted that another will oc
cur in the near future, when" a valua
ble prize will stimulate to greater ef
fort. “C. Sharp.”
Milledgeville, July 17th, 1886.
LIST OF ADVERTISED LETTERS
Remaining in the Post-Office at Mil
ledgeville, Baldwin county, Ga, July
17,1886-. If not called for within 10
days, they will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office.
Anlude, Mrs. Giles, Susan
Alexander, Mary James, Sargie
C. Jenkins, Kate
Butts, Catherine Martin, Jennie
Cook, Mary Lou Ostrich, Samuel
Croorns, Nancy Reed, Ella.
Office Hours.—General delivery
window will be open from 9 A. M., un
til 5 p. m. Money Qrder window will
be open from 9 a. m. to 4 P. M.
J. G. Fowler, P. M.
— ♦ ^ i .
The world is watching Atlanta,
while Atlapta is kept busy watching
the antis.
Surely Milledgeville cannot be sur
passed by any city in the land, in its
beautiful and noble women.—Irwin*
ton Southerner.
And those from Milledgeville were:
Dr. Harris, using Winchester Re
peater, 82 Cal.
Capt. Geo. Caraker, Winchester Re
peater, 32 Cal.
Mr. Marshall, Winchester Repeater,
32 Cal.
Mayor Walker, with a Remington,
32 Cal.
Mr. Whilden, with a Winchester Re
peater, 32 Cal.
Mr. Mapp, with a similar gun, 32
Cal.
•Mr. Barrett, first Winchester, then
Oolt-’s, 32 Cal.
Mr. C. G. Wilson, Winchester, 32
Cal.
Capt. Howard Tinsley, Dr. Whita
ker’s gun, and Mr. Chauncey Wright,
Winchester Repeater, 32 Cal.
A circular iron target, sixteen inch
es (and a fraction over) in diameter,
with a four inch bulls-eye, (with a
well-marked centre,) had been erected
at one hundred yards, measured by
the chain, from the standing point,
in the beautiful shady grove, and
seats had also been provided. The
shooting was to be done “off hand,”
but at will, the shooter taking as long
to aim as suited him.
After the inter-change of civilities
and the usual social pleasantries, it
was decided to place numbers in a hat
and let each man draw, and shoot as
as his number came. Dr. Bellamy
and Mr. Gobert were requested to act
as scorers. The contestants were to
be known to the scorers by number
and not by name, they being ignorant
of each man's number, so that when
any one was to shoot, liis number, and
not his name was called out, to and
scored by the scorers, and their score
when the* contest was over, to be com
pared with a corresponding list, kept
at the home base, so it could not be
known who was victor, until the con
test was over. Th is plan was adopted
to avoid any possibility of partiality
on the part of the scorers, any bias in
their counting and any controversy
on the part of any disappointed
marksman, who might unfortunately
shoot all five of his bullets into the
embankment instead of battering
them upon the face of the target. As
the scoring was to be counted in inch
es and fractions of an Inch from the
centre, the lowest number made by
anyone, was the best score, the high
est possible being 0, or no inches, or
fractions from, but right into the cen
tre.
Five shots each, was decided upon
for the first Score. No. 1 shooting
first, second next, and so on till all
had shot one round, when they were
to repeat in the same order, till each
of the twenty had made his five shots,
and when that was done, the scorers
were to come up and report.
There was much pleasant rivalry
and jocose bantering among the con
tending sides while the scorers were
preparing their blanks to keep the
count. All being ready, the scorers
took position, conveniently near the
target, out of sight, of the marksmen,
and “the firing began.”
In the first round, ten, or just exact
ly half the contestants, missed the en
tire target, the extremes of those who
hit, being from 8 inches the highest,
or furthest off, to 34 the closest in. In
-ate i * lie second round, better shooting was
v 1 done, Capt. Tinsley putting his lead
i i within f of an inch of the centre.
(This was the best single shot of the
occasion.) Mr. Steve Wright and Mr.
W. T. Wilson, both of the Asylum
Team, made in their round 1* inches
each. In the third round Mr. W. T.
Wilson pushed Capt. Tinsley’s shot to
within one eighth inch of a tie, mak
ing inch, and Mr. Steve Wright
making 1 inch. Others in this round
ranged from 84 down to 3{. The best
shot in the 4th round was 2 inches by
Mr. Bob Stembridge. The 5th round
of this score was not so good, the best
shot in it being 24 inches by Dr. Jones.
The total score of this first 5 rounds
was as follows:
W. T. Wilson 12L Dr. Jones 18f, O.
C. Summers 244, Capt. Caraker 24f,
Mr. Harper 24|, Steve Wright 26.4, Dr.
Whitaker 29£, Capt. Tinsley 294, Mr.
Frank Mapp 33, C. G. Wilson 33£, Dr.
Harris 33£, Mr. Marshall 34, Capt. Des
sasure 35, Gus Russell 37, Mr. Stem-
bridge 374, C. M. Wright 374, Mayor
Walker 394, Capt. Hollingshead 46, G.
T. Whilden 47f, and S. Barrett 50.
From the above it will be seen that
W. T. Wilson made the best score, Dr.
Jones second, Mr. Summers third, and
Capt. Caraker fourth. After this
score of five rounds, they shot anoth
er score of three rounds each, with
the following result as total:
C. G. Wilson in his 3 shots 64, Dr.
Jones 94, Steve Wright 10, Mr. Sum
mers 11, Dr. Whitaker 12, Capt. Des-
sasuml2L W. T. Wilson 134, Capt.
Tinsley 16, Capt. Caraker 16, Mr. Har
per 17, Mayor Walker 17£, Gus Rus
sell 174, Mr. Hollingshead 184, Mr. Mar
shall 19, C. M. Wright, 21, F. B. Mapp
22, Dr. I. L. Harris 244, S. Barrett
274, G. T. Whilden 284, Mr. Stem-
bridge 30.
Missing the entire target counted
as 10.
Wilson’s Champion Spark Arrester.
an extensive business' quietly
building up m milledgeville.
As we sauntered into Messrs. T. T.
Windsor & Co.’s shops a few days
since, we were surprised at the exten
sive preparations they are making to
meet the fall demand for Spark Ar-
ters. They now have 250 under way
with several completed and have or
dered additional tools and machinery
so they can put more hands to work
on them if necessary. Mr. Wilson
has spent nearly a year working and
experimenting with the arrester and
he has succeeded in so perfecting it,
that it will not interfere with the
draft one particle. He requests ev
ery one who is at all skeptical in re
gard to getting a spark arrester that
will arrest the sparks and not at the
same time impede the draught, to go
to Mr. McMillan’s brick yard where
one is in constant use on 10 horse
power Wood, Tabor & Morse engine
and be convinced by seeing it in oper
ation. Mr. McMillen, Mr. I. T. Miller,
Mr. Sol Barret, and others who have
had extensive experience with engine:*
are enthusiastic in its praise, and say
they never believed it possible so per
fect a spark arrester for agricultural
engines would ever have been invent
ed. There is nothing about their
mechanism to get out of order. They
are constructed of first class material
and put up in the best manner, and if
properly cared for Mr. Wilson thinks
should last six to eight years; they are
covered with -two coats of ashpaltum
varnish, and are really an ornaiqent
to a smoke stack. Mr. Wilson person
ally superintends their construction
and sees that every one is properly
put • together according to adjust
ments made curing weeks of practical
tests. . * *
From hearing it so highly commen
ded by so many men of extensive
practical experience in such matters,
we have become somewhat entliused
ourselves, not only because it is a
Milledgeville invention and likely to
be the foundation of a large manufac
turing business in our midst but it
seems to us it will be an almost ines- i
tiinable boon to engine users through
out the South, particularly where
they are used in ginning, threshing,
and sawing.
In connection with the spark arres
ter manufactory, they expect to start
a fully equipped machine shop for re
pairing engines, boilers and in fact all
kinds of machinery.
Teachers <\vho wish to attend the
Peabody Institute or State School for
teachers, which commences (in Atlan
ta) on the 2nd of August, must have a
certificate from Professor Orr in order
to obtain railroad fare tickets at a re
duced price. Mr. L. Carrington wish
es it to be known that he will attend
to this matter for those teachers who
may apply to him to do so.
Bncklen’s Arnica Salve.
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Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Lleers. Salt
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Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all_bkin
Eruptions, and positively cures Piles
or no pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction, oi money
refunded. Price 25 cents per box. .
FOR SALE BY C. L. CASE.
July 21st, 1885. - U-
M L Byington will sell you lum
ber for less money than anybody. Just
go to his mill and see him make it
and vou will say I do not wonder at
it, if it was me i would give it away
just to see the mill run. 45 l<5ts.
Butter on Ice.
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Mercer University,
MACON. GA.
The fall term of this institution will open on
the last Wednesday f2flthj of September next.
The chains of Latin and Greek have been com
solidatedlnto the chair of Ancient Languages to
which Vrof. Wm. G. Manly, a distinguished
graduate of the University of Virginia has been
ailppf pi]
The Theological department, presided over
by Rev James G. Kvals, D. D.. and the Law de
partment with Hon. Clifford Anderson as the
chairman of its faculty, offer special inducements
to students in these departments.
Of the Prenaratory department, designed to
nrenare ws for the University classes. Mr.
Emerson II. George, an alwnnos of the Emwsi-
ty, has been elected principal to succeed Prof.
F
Post Graduate courses of study for the degrees
of A M g aC l*li I).. open to the graduates of all
male colleges have beeu established by the
authority of the board of trustees. lor cata
logues and other information, address
JNO. J. BRANTLY,
Secretary of Faculty.
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