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Official Organ of City and County. R. L. Hunter, Local Editor. W. T. CONN & CO., W HOLESALE DEALERS in Sta ple and Fancy Groceries, Tobac cos, Cigars, &c. Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 20th, 1869. 5 6m The Edwards House, ^est accommodations for 1 ransient and Regular Board ers. Special inducements for College students. WARREN EDWARDS. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 1, ’86. 26 ly WOOD YARD! W OOD delivered at any time. C. H. BONNER. Milledgeville, August 3rd, 1886. [4 tf Notice change of advertisement of P. J. Cline & Co. Call on Massey & Ennis for seed rye, barley and turnip seed. The exercise of the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural college will be resumed on the 15th of September. Navigation of the Oconee.—Mr. E. J. Wilson of Montezuma, visited this city last Thursday, by invitation, to enquire into the feasibility of put ting a steamboat on the Oconee river. The Business Union of this city have ordered a survey of the river, and Col. Miller Grieve entered upon the work yesterday. Our business men have numerous projects in view for the improvement of our city. Suc cess will certainly crown their efforts in some of their proposed enterprises. Where there is a will there is a w ay. The Adjutant General in his order No. 16, named the military compa nies in Georgia, which are organi zed and entitled to such share of an appropriation of money by an act of the legislature approved Oct. 13,1885, includes among others the Baldwin Blues, Miledgeville Light Infantry, DuBignon Volunteers and Blount Volunteers. Companies not named in this General order of Adjutant General, are declared disbanded, and their arms ordered to be return ed. Capt. W. T. Conn Nominated. The organized Democrary of Bald win have met and selected the man of their choice to represent this county in the lower house of the next Legis lature. Unfortunately, there has been a division of sentiment in our party on a question of purely local interest, and entirely disconnected from poli tics. That question has finally been settled according to the laws of our State w hich are provided for the pro tection of the lives, property and rights of all its citizens and it is surely the duty of all good citizens, not only to acquiesce in the settlement so made, but to remove as far as possible all re mains of bitterness of feeling which grew out of the contest which preced ed it. The Democratic party is the safe guard of the people of the South. Our bitter experience in the past is sufficient to show us what would be our deplorable condition, if that grand old party should be broken up, or even materially weakened by dissen sions within it. Its preservation and growth in power and strength is of more importance to us than any mere ly local question of State or County policy that has come before us in the past or that can, with any probabili ty, be presented to the present gener ation in the future. Any one who would sacrifice the harmony of the party on account of any mere local issues would make a most deplorable mistake. We therefore have a right to hope and expect that all the mem bers of the party, now that it has spoken and named its standard bear er in the coming election for the next Legislature, will rally to the support of our regularly nominated candidate and use all honorable efforts to secure his election. And as regards our candidate, we feel that we occupy a singularly strong position. He has never been an active politician, pulling w r ires and using underhand methods for his ad vancement to office. He has no ene mies to punish and no friends to re ward for partizan services rendered to him to promote his selfish personal interests. He has been no aspirant for political preferment in the past and now only becomes our standard bearer because the office seeks him and not he the office. This at least is liow the matter presents itself to us and the public “and is doubtless in sub stance if not literally the exact truth. And as to his qualifications for the of fice, we must be permitted to say if the Legislature should generally'be composed of a larger per centage of such men as Capt. W. T. Conn, the great probability is that our laws would be better suited to the w ants of the people. Having served his # country in the great civil war so long' as he had a flag under which to fight for her rights, he, like so many other brave soldiers, entered upon the great struggle for the prizes of this life with but little more capital than his own honest industry, and that most valua ble of nature’s endowments, a large share of good common sense. From small beginnings, he rose year by year higher and higher in the scale of business prosperity, until he attained his present most enviable position in the commercial department of our city’s varied interests. The same ener gy, integrity and good common sense which have made him so successful in the past will, it is fair to. presume, make him, if elected, a valuable mem ber of our Legislature and a faithful and successful upholder of our inter ests in any matter which may come before that bod}*. Let, therefore, ev ery true Democrat work faithfully for the success of our candidate till the day of the election and we may confi dently anticipate his triumphant elec tion. Hon. Robert^ Whitfield. At the solicitation of a number of jromment citizens, Col. Robt. Whit- neld allowed the use of his name as a candidate for the legislature. His name was suggested with a view to harmonizing discord in the democratic party. He preferred to make the race without a nomination, one of the can didates (Dr. T. H. Kenan) having de termined not to go before the conven tion. His friends concurring in this opinion, Mr. P. M. Compton offered a resolution at the meeting last Tues day, that in view of the division in the party, no nomination be made.— When it was decided that a nomina tion would be made the large portion of the meeting w ho opposed a nom ination withdrew and Col. Whitfield withdrew' his name from the conven tion. He has withdrawn entirely from the contest and the race will be be tween Capt. Conn and Dr. Kenan. —— » ♦ ♦— - ■ ■ ■~ P. J. Cline & Co. are receiving and opening new' goods every day: they have bought one of the largest stocks ever brought to Milledgeville. Meeting ot the Anti-Proliitrition Party. At a meeting of the Anti-Prohibi tion Party at Amusement Hall, on the 24st inst.,"for the purpose of endors ing a representative to represent Baldwin county in the next Legisla ture, Capt. P. T. Ennis w r as elected chairman, and W. L. Jackson, Secre tary. The meeting was addressed, the chairman stating the object of the meeting, speaking for himself he said he was a Democrat, and he presumed all w'ho w r ere in the meeting w r ere Democrats, if not, to take notice that the meeting w r as a Democratic meet ing, w'hich w r as cheered to the echo. Col. Robt. Whitfield addressed the meeting and for various reasons, said he could not enter the race in the present state of things, and for the good of the party withdraw his name from any connection with the candi dacy for Representative, three cheers w'ere given him with a will. A resolution w'as offered endorsing Dr. T. H. Kenan for the Legislature, which w’as unanimously carried. Dr. Kenan addressed the meeting in a short, eloquent speech, which was received with cheers, after which the meeting adjourned. P. T. Ennis, Chairman. W. L. Jackson, Sec’v. IFull (Q<l><L<tt The convention which was held in Sandersville on Saturday the 21st inst., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Senator for this the 20th Senatorial District was very harmo nious in their action. Mr. Pringle, presented by Washington county, re ceived the unanimous support of the convention, anew executive commit tee composed of nine members, three from each county, was elected. G. T. Whilden of Baldwin was elected chair man of Said committee. Boarders Wanted.—I am pre pared to accommodate college stu dents on reasonable terms. , W. H. Hodges. Aug. 16th, 1886. 6 6ts. If the temperence people of the South are wise they will stick to local option and not make a political issue of prohibition.—Ishmaelite. TO COUNTRY 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 1880. [Sly P. J. CLINE & CO •» Have been opening and marking new goods for the past week. Messrs. Cline and Goodman have returned from New York where they have visited all the Eastern factories, and they have bought a Tremendous Stock of DRY GOODS, and they will he able to give the people this Fall. Messrs. Lyons and Bannon from the Macon store, left last Saturday, for New York where they will remain several weeks, and whenever there is anything in the way of tew and Bargains to be had, we will be certain to get them. Now is the time to COMMENCE BUYING YOUR FALL GOODS* You can make them up at your leisure. Don’t wait until cold weather, and you will not be so pressed to get them ready. We can’t mention all the pretty things we have opened^ but we promise to keep you posted. Come and see us, we will take pleasure in showing you through. . L PETER U. CLINE & C0. r Milledgeville, Macon and Griffin, - Milledgeville, Ga.^Aug. 24, 1SS6.