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CITY AND COUNTY.
Personal Mention.
Mr. H. Goodman is on the sick list.
Mr. Eugene Harris of Macon spent
Wednesday in the city.
Mr. Marshall Bland of Sparta* was
in the city last week.
Mr. Walter Ray of Macon was in
the city Tuesday.
Mr. Terrence Treanor spent Sunday
in the Central city.
Mr. Harry Johnson of Macon spent
Tuesday in the city.
Mr. Tom Little of Sparta was in the
city Sunday.
Miss Clara Smith of Macon, is visit
ing friends in the city.
Mr. Osborn Griffeiths of Sparta,
spent Sunday in our city.
Mr. Richard L. Hunter, Jr., is in the
city on a visit to his father’s family.
Mrs. H. V. Sanford and children are
visiting Mr. Robt. Martin, at Ea-
tonton.
Miss Jennie Rambo, of Bluffton,
Ga., is visiting the family of Mr. W.
H. Bass.
Mrs. Rebecca Hutchings is visiting
the family of Mr. Elisha King, of Put
nam county.
Miss Nora Perry w T ho has been vis
iting friends in Macon has returned
to the city.
Messrs. Hansell Hall and Willie
Hunter attended Camp meeting Sun
day at Deep Step.
Mrs. M. R. Bell is visiting her moth
er in Jones county, accompanied by
Miss Sue and Miller Bell.
Mrs. A. M. Thigpen and Mr. Willie
Thigpen of Sparta, are visiting rela
tives in this city.
Alfred Colquitt Newell left yester
day morning to resume his studies at
Kirkwood Academy.
Mr. Chas. Drake, of Macon, was in
this city last Sunday, visiting his
mother and sister.
Mr. Will Logan, who is connected
with the “Great and Good” Telegraph,
spent Monday in our city.
Colonel Weems Nisbet, who has
been in Tennessee for seven or eight
months, returned to his old home last
Thursday morning.
Mr. Thomas McCrystal of the live
firm of P. J. Cline & Co., spent Sun
day and Monday in Sparta. Look
out boys, he’ll steal a march on you.
Misses Mamie and Ellen Fox who
have been guests of Miss Mary Gil
more, have returned to their home in
Milledgeville.—Sandersville Herald.
Rev. Julius McGrath will preach at
the Methodist church in this city next
Sunday morning. He is a converted
Jew, and the only Hebrew Missionary
in this State.
We are glad to learn that the health
of our esteemed fellow-citizen, Mr.
Samuel E. Whitaker is improving.
He had a congestive chill on the 5th
and was very ill for a day or two.
Mrs. G. T. Chambers of this- city is
visiting her mother and other friends
and relatives in the neighborhood
where she was born and raised near
Irwinton. Her son Bateman accom
panied her.
Mr. Robert Kennedy, of that pop
ular firm, P. J. Cline & Co,!\vas mar
ried to MissLucy Gardner, at the res
idence of the bride’s father, in Han
cock county, on Wednesday evening
last. The bridal couple are boarding
with Mr. W. H. Bass.
The protracted services which have
been held at Mosleyville chapel for
the past two weeks, conducted by
Rev. C. B. Anderson, Rev. J. D. Ham
mond and Rev. Robt. Cook, closed
last Sunday night, at which time Mr.
Hammond received seventeen persons
into the church.
We had a visit from Dr. T. J. Smith
of Irwinton last Friday. We are sorry
to find the Doctor sulferisg from pa
ralysis of the throat with which he
has been afflicted for several months,
he has had the best medical treat
ment that could be obtained in the
State without benefit so far.
Miss Claude Simmons, of our town,
was married on Tuesday night last to
Mr. J. A. Thompson, of Lynchburg,
Va., Rev. J. B. Morton officiating.
The interesting event was so cleverly
managed that it took the community
completely by surprise.
Mr. Thompson has won a fair and
accomplished bride, and lie we doubt
not, is in every way worthy of her
love and abiding trust.—Sparta Ish-
maelite.
Rev. J. D. Hammond preached a
most earnest, eloquent and impressive
sermon, last Sunday morning, on the
second coming of Christ. No man
knows when that day, for which all
other days were made, will come; but
when it does come it will find the peo
ple, as now, engaged in their varied
worldly pursuits. When Christ first
came the morning stars sang together,
and the world rejoiced: a Saviour was
born- Peace on earth and good will
to men. When;He next comes it will
be to judge the world—and Hope will
end. As the tree falls, so will it lie.
One thing we surely know; all men
must die, and after death the judg
ment. The only true wisdom is to pre
pare for the judgment, for it will come
at such an hour as you think not.
Our city was well represented at
Deep Step camp meeting last Sunday
and all express themselves as spend
ing a very pleasant day. Those who
attended were, Misses Willie Roberts,
Jennie Haas, Olive Herty, Lucy Po
sey, Sallie Lockhart, Rosa Mapp, Lil
lie Scott, Mary Sue Barksdale, Lula
Rockwell, Carrie Hall, aud Messrs.
Emmett Barnes, Robt. Avant, Jesse
Seott, Wilson Walker, Wm. Carr, Jno.
Prince, Willie Caraker, Miller and Pe
ter Williams, Jacob and Ed Caraker,
Willie Massey, John and Sam Bayne,
George Hass, Jr., Lee Hernandez, Os
car Wall, John Lane, W. H. Hall, Jr.,
Jim Kinney, Robert L. Hollaway
and others whose names we cannot
jccall just now. Everything passed
off pleasantly until late in the even
ing when a heavy rain run the peo
ple home, most of them wringing wet.
“C. Sharp” Discants on the Earth
quake.
Earlier than usual it appears that
we will realize those words of the
poet, that
“Leaves have their time to fall,
Aud the flowers wither at the North wind's
breath.”
For it has been rarely the case that
there has been as much cool weather
during the months of August and
September as we have experienced
this year.
It is a pertinent question too, wheth
er our late terrestrial commotions
have not exerted a potent influence
in this matter. Scientists have ad
vanced theories, as varied as the
names of those who have advanced
them, to explain why this late earth
quake should have happened and why
it should have spent its greatest force
just where it did. But according to
all hitherto acknowledged theories, it
will seem no more possible to tell just
where it would break forth then it
would be to tell exactly at what spot
on the surface of a cauldron the first
bubble would rise when commencing
to boil, for the general accepted theo
ry is that the interior of the earth is a
mass of molten lava, in a constant
state of ebullition, surrounded by a
comparatively thin crust of earth, just
as the rind of an orange surrounds
the pulp. And as the earth is a frac
tion over eight thousand miles in di
ameter and the crust of earth sur
rounding the melted mass variously
estimated at from thirty to one hun
dred miles thick, the proportion
would not be greater than that of the
rind compared to the pulp of the or
ange. Bearing these theories in mind,
it is readily seen how impossible it is
for human skill to know before hand
when or where this central molten
mass will become more violently agi
tated, and bubble up with such force
as to create an earthquake or burst
out into a volcano. There is a reason
why earthquakes should most fre
quently occur in mountainous sections
—and especially in the tropics—but
that reason is only known by the nat
ural process of cause and effect. We
judge of anything, that is unseen,
or not foreknown, by the effect
that we see is produced by a
cause hitherto unknown, and after
having once seen the effect, we can of
course, afterwards judge more or less
of the cause that produced that effect.
For let a man stand admiring the
grand oak, towering aloft and spread
ing its huge branches out to the gen
tle zephyrs, or beating them strong ,
against the terrible tornado, and
while thus gazing, see those graceful
branches torn off, cast to the ground,
and see the huge trunk in an instant
fly to atoms just as he saw a brilliant
flash of lightning in the sky. Suppose
that man, a deaf mute, who knew
nothing of the electric power, could
he form the remotest idea of what
tore that giant trunk to atoms? and
still less could he foretell that the
thunder—which he never heard—ac
companied the lightning. No. He
could not have foretold that the
ligthning could shiver that tree, but,
having once seen the lightning flash,
and seen that the effect of it was to
shatter the tree, he would most nat
urally ever after have some idea of
the effects—the terrible effects of such
a beautiful cause as the brilliant me
teor like flash that illumined the sky
from zenith to horizon in an instant—
nor could the most astute ever satis
factorily explain to his appreciation
the thunder that followed, any more
than you could make a blind man ap
preciate the beauteous blending of
colors of the flowers in a nosegay or
the azure-tinted landscape. But I di
gress from the cause or reason why
earthquakes should be more frequent,
or more apt to occur in equatorial
mountainous sections. The earth re
volving on its axis in a plane parallel
with the equator our knowledge of
centrifugal force, shows that the pres
sure of that internal molten mass
must if necessity be greatest exactly
along the equator. Then (while I do
not assert it as a fact for I am no sci
entist) it seems natural that this
greater pressure then from within
outward by the centrifugal force
should tend to make the earth crust
thinner there than elsewhere, and up
on the same principle as steam con
fined in a boiler it is apt to burst
through the thinnest and Aveakest
place.
Mountains too, are said to be of A r ol-
canic origin, and explained in the
same Avay. The almost inconceivable
force of this boiling, heaving melted
mass confined in the centre of the
earth, struggling to escape like steam
in the boiler, finds doubtless some
spot of the earth crust Aveaker than
the rest, Avhich giv r es AA r ay and is push
ed forward thus causing a hill or
mountain, Avhich weakens an adjoin
ing spot Avhen another is pushed up
in turn and so on till Avhole ranges are
formed, and now and then one is
pushed up Avith such force that its
summit bursts through and an active
volcano is the result, out of which
pours the melted lava, fire and smoke.
It is a well knoAvn fact that islands
and even mountains are discovered
in the sea, Avhich have suddenly come
into existence, and how else can these
phenomena be explained for these is
lands prove to be only the summits of
mountains whose bases are in the bot
tom of the ocean. Were it not that
the attraction of gravitation exerted
a centripetal force, equal to that cen-
triful force caused by the revolution
of the earth on its axis, every thing
would leave the surface of the earth
and fly off into illimitable space. But
by a wise providence exhibited in all
the woiks of the Almighty hand,
these forces counterbalance each oth
er—or rather the centripetal force, or
attraction of gravitation soineAvhat
exceeds the centrifugal, just enough
to keep us safe from flying off in a
►tangent. But at the equator where
the centrifugal force is necessarily
greater, some internal commotion
may cause it to exceed somewhat, at
least temporarily the centripetal,
and throw out this melted mass,
through the earth crust, pushing the
surface up into mountains that burst
forth into volcanoes. But the Avhole
subject is too prolific to be discussed
in a newspaper article so we must de
sist. But let the cause be Avhat it
may, one inevitable result is eA r er
present, and that is to teach us the
omnipotent power of God and the ut
ter insignificance and helplessness of
man in any effort to Avard off or pro
tect himself against these terrible dej
monstrations of a sphere twenty-five
thousand miles in circumference, yet
Avhich in comparison with the mag
nitude of God, is so small He says H e
holds it in the palm of His hand, and
these things have at least made us
realize more fully than anything ever
did, that
“God moves in a mysterious way
His Avonders to perform,
He plants his footstpes on the sea
And rides upon the storm.”
“C. Sharp.”
REFLECTIONS.
Glorious Autumn—harbinger of the
dying year—is at hand. The green
leaves now begin to turn yellow and
Avill soon return to mother Earth.—
Her fruits and floAvers are passing
away. The icy hand of frost will
leave to the earth a desolate appear
ance but all her beauties Avill reopen
in Spring. Let us keep our hearts
fresh arid our memories green and
abide in hope and peace.
YOUR ATTENTION, PARENTS!
CAN YOU SOT GIVE YOUR BOY FUR
THER EDUCATION’.
Richmond Dispatch: This is a se
rious question, and it should be care
fully pondered right now. The ses
sion qX 1886-87 will soon open. Only
a week or two remain for considera
tion and action.
Let suggest two or three consid
erate
1. T
ADOLPH JOSEPH,
“JOSEPH'S CORMSH."
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■afn
To the man or Avomau pushing on
through life Avith a selfish disregard
of the peace and happiness of others
so they accomplish their oAvn purpo
ses, Ave commend these lines of Geo.
Elliott:
—“Let thy chief terror be thine own
soul,
There with the throng of hurrying de
sires
That trample o’er the dead to seize
their spoil,
Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible
As exhalations laden with slow death
And o’er the fairest troup of captured
joys
Breathes pallid pestilence.”
And to the man or woman, howev-
er humble, living for a noble purpose
the song may break forth,
“O! what a glory hath this world put
on
For him who with a fervent heart
goes forth
Under the bright and glorious sky
and looks
On duties well performed and days
Avell spent.
For him the wind, aye and the yellow
leaves,
Shall have a A T oice and give him elo
quent teachings,
He shall so hear the solemn hymn
that Death
Has lifted up for us all that he shall go
To his long resting place without a
tear.”
Busy and tired denizens of the town
heed
“If thou art worn and hard beset,
With sorrows that thou wouldst forget
If thou Avouldst read a lesson that will
keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul
from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills! No tears
Dim the SAveet lookthatNature wears”.
It seems that many people are only
aAvakened to a realization of the un
certainty of life by some great and
unusual manifestation like the recent
earthquake, but in reality so long as
the present diseases that afflict hu
manity preA r ail, it is almost a miracle
that any of us live to be forty.
We should daily reflect upon the
uncertainty of this life continuing,
and Ave should' strive to so lh T e that
Ave look in terror neither upon the
lightning, nor the hurricane, nor the
earthquake, nor the dire pestilence
that Avalketh even at noonday. Man
ifold are the dangers that beset our
daily path. They are lurking surely
in every breeze. Remember :
“A soul immortal spendingall her fires,
Wasting her strength in strenuous
idleness,
Thrown into tumult, raptured or
alarmed,
At aught this scene can threaten or
indulge,
Resembles ocean into tempest Avrought
To Avaft a leather or to droAvn a fly.”
“The spider's most attenuated thread
Is cord, is cable to man's tender tie
On earthly bliss. It breaks at eyery
breeze.
And Avar, famine, pest, volcano storm
and fire,
Intestine broils, oppression Avith her
heart
Wrapped up in triple brass, besiege-
mankind.”
r your readers:
matter of education must
be attended to at the right time or
the opportunity is forever lost. The
work must be compressed into a few
brief years. To wait, to dally at the
behest of a feAV weak excuses is to
rob your child of all hope. Make up
your mind and put your resolution
into action. Don’t postpone a day.
2. Give your child the benefit of
your doubt. Clear your skirts of ail
responsibility by doing your best for
him. If he fails to improve you have
nevertheless done your duty. He
cannot reproach you for his failure.
Your boy may not have done well last
year. Try him again. Tell him he
must be educated. Beg him to be ed
ucated. Let him see that it Aveighs
upon your heart. There may be a
happy turn in his life another session.
His ambition may be fired. Try him
again!
If you think you perhaps cannot
afford.the expense, givejmn the bene
fit of this doubt also. Noav is the
time for you to practice what you
preach to him. Try, God help you to
try—God will help you if - you will
honestly try to make your child an
intelligent, worthy member of society.
3. Do not be satisfied with partial
education. Put your child in with
the idea that he is to come out at the
top of the ladder. Fight the idea of
early business for your boy. It is
brains that tell. The best business
man is the man who puts most brain
into his business. Give your boy all
the brain you can—the business will
come in full time. Mental power will
make your boy a leader in any line of
business, or in any profession. You
can’t keep down a brainy man.
Therefore, educate your boy—edu
cate him thoroughly. It will pay you
and him in the end. If he has college
aspirations foster them. If he lack
them put them into his mind and
heart. College education is A T ery
cheap. It is wonderful Avhat a student
can get for a little money. My solici
tude is that parents and guardians
shall not let this matter go by default.
My advice is : inquire, look, examine,
decide—a»d that before another week
shall pass. H.
Richmond, August 28th, 1886.
The College Building all Right.
Mr. Editor—HaAing read in the
last issue of your paper an account
of the damage done to the College
building by the earthquake, we took
the liberty of making a close and
thorough inspection, from the base
ment to the top, and found the build
ing, with the trifling exception of
some loosened plastering, uninjured.
Yours Truly,
McMillan & Alling.
8ept. 7th, 1886.
FALL* AND WINT1B
SEASON+OF+1886.
Milledgeville, Ga., Sept. 1st, 1886.
We take pleasure to announce to our Friends and JPatrons and to
all in need of Seasonable Goods, that we are prepared to meet their
demands upon us. We have never had the quantity of goods before,
nor bas it ever been possible to excel our present ability to show
you the most complete stock of goods ever displayed in this city. Wo
CHALLENGE COMPETITION IN PRICE OR VARIETY.
Mindful of the kind endorsements received in the past, we are con
fident of our ability to merit a continuance, and Avith a due appre
ciation of the many evidences of confidence and support, we trust to
eive the same treatment again. W r e have been peculiarly fortu
nate in our selection, and now Display the
^LARGEST STOCK*
in this section—selected with care, taste and ability—second to none
in this great State. Our stock of
LADIES’ DRESS GOODS,
Comprises a full variety of black and colored Silks, black and color
ed Cashmeres, black and colored Velvets—in plain and cut.—Bro
caded and Striped Tricots and Diagnols, in all shades. Memoies
and Drap D’Almas, Etiennes, Empress Cloths and Henriettas.
FLANNELS—in
Sackings
and Dress Cloths. Cassimeres for
made
garments.
Ladies, Tailor
Warps—Black and Opera Shades.
Flannels—Brocades and Silk
An immense variety of Table
Toilet Quilts,
and House Linens, Sheetings and
AMUSEMENT HALL*
Walter Paine & Co., Managers.
Wednesday Night, Sept. 15.
Formal Opening of Amusement Hall.
Jeans, Cassimeres and Waterproofs.
Prints, Canton and Wool Flannel, Rob Roy and all Wool Plaids,
Hosiery, Jerseys and Scarfs.
OUR SPECIAL EFFORT
has been to place before you a full assortment of WRAPS and
CLOAKS, which we have for Ladies, Misses and Children.
Be sure ta see our stock of Children’s Cloaks. We have all Wool
Garments trimmed in Astracan or Fur, at $2.50 and $3.50 each.
This stock"cannot be described, but must be seen to be appreciated.
Merriwether, Ga., )
Sept. 10, 1886./
Editors Union & Recorder :
Muscadines are in market. Eggs
scarce at 12|c. The hens are waiting
for Christmas.
Please thank Miss Mary Bi-oavu for
tAvo large bouquets, and Mrs. G. D.
Myrick for a basket of scuppernongs.
Among the visitors, are Messrs. Cara
ker, Perkins, Mr. G. Waller, of Eaton-
ton and Nona, Mrs. E. S. Myrick, of
Midway.
Mr. W. I. Harper has our sympathy
in the death of his horse, E.
Dr. Bellamy’s Gossypium, an ele
gant compound for ladies use only, is
fast pushing to the wall all those pre
parations known as Female Regula
tors, Female Bitters, &c., because the
ladies are learning that it is the quick
est and surest remedy of its kind and
that it contains no ergot, (which is
dangerous): it is the safest of them all.
Ladies who have used it say it relieves
their peculiar pains almost intsantly
and cures them like magic—giving
them good color and clean rosy com
plexions. Druggists sell it.
The Ordinary gives notice through
our advertising columns that he will,
at 10 o'clock A. M., on Wednesday,
13th of October next, pass upon a pe
tition to establish a public road from
Brown's Crossing to the Monticello
road.
People Avait for summer Avhen the
Avinter is near; and AA T hen summer
comes wait for winter. Thus waiting
and longing for what they have not,
death at last ends the weary expecta
tion.
On Wednesday evening, next, A-
musement Hall Avill be the scene of
hilarious enjoyment. Messrs. Monroe
A Rice and their excellent Comedy
Company Avill present the new and
successful musical comedy, “My Aunt
Bridget" which affords no end of fun,
together Avith bright original songs,
new dances and music, beautiful cos
tumes, pretty girls, and, in fact, eA r ery-
thing that tends to make up a first-
class performance, Avhich this cer
tainly is. The folloAving extract from
the Richmond, Va. Dispatch of
Sept. 4th, explains itself:
Richmond Theatre.—The Theatre
looked very pretty and attractive in
its neAV dress last night at the opening
of the regular season. The play, My j
Aunt Bridget, is a farcical musical j oi endless variety,
comedy by Scott Marble, and the
performers^ one and all, exerted them
selves to the utmost to give satisfac
tion, and did justice to their respective
roles. The songs and dances are neAV.
and were encored. Mr. Monroe's Aunt
Bridget and Mr. Rice's Alton McVeigh
Avere clever impersonations. The play
AA-ill be repeated at the matinee to-day
and at night. There is nothing objec
tionable in it, Avhile in it there is plen
ty of fun.
Cardigan Jackets for Men and Boys.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Representing tlie best Makes in the country.
HATS AND CAPS,
Including a full line of tlie celebrated Stetson Hats.
Woman's Missionary Society.—
The ladies, of MidAvay, have organized
a Missionary Society, auxilliary to
the Woman’s Missionary Society of
the M. E. Church. Over 20 names
were enrolled at the organization
meeting Thursday last. Other names
will soon be added. The following
are the officers elected
President—Mrs. S. A. Cook,
Vice President—Mrs. A. F. Wynne
Vice President—Mrs. H. P. Thomas
Cor. Secretary—Mrs. Robt. Adams
Rec. Secretary—Mrs. Wm. Harper
Treasurer—Mrs. E. C. Ramsay.
We can safely refer to our Patrons, Avhen Ave
say, Excelsior. See our stock of Children’s Suits, from 4 years to
Id years, Avith Knee Pants to match.
Ladies Cotton and Wool Underwear,
wear. Infants’ Pure Wool Undervests,
Gents’ Camel’s Hair Under-
LACES OF ALL KINDS, Gimpures and Spanish.
CORSETS.—Representing Warner’s, Coraline and Nursing, Ball’s
Health and Hipgore, Duplex and Everlasting.
£/|pWe trust that you will favor us with a visit.
WE INVITE YOUR INSPECTION.
You cannot lose anything by seeing in person what can be
for you. We can make a dollar reach several inches further
any other, house in our city.
£§pWE SEND SAMPLES ON APPLICATION.,^
We pay freight on all goods sent away,
exchange anything that does not satisfy
you let us.
Yours Respectfully,
done
than
We will take back and
We will please you if
Dentistry.
DR. H MTCLARKE-
W ORK of any kind performed in ac
cordance with the latest and most im
proved methods.
*9_0fficein Callaway’s New Building.
Milledgeville. Ga., May 15th, 1883. 44
Bethune & Moore,
BEAL ESTATE AGENTS.
Milledgeville, Ga.
ADOLPH JOSEPH.
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TyROMPT ATTENTION wifi be giv-
U en to the purchase and sale of
Real Estate in Baldwin County.
Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 12th, 1885.
H. Y. SANFORD,
H. E. McCOMB,
A. A. VAUGHN
ROB’T. WALL,
A. S. DARNELL,
OSCAR WALL,
F. W. BUTTS, Jr.
J. C. SHEA, Accountant,
FRANK HERTY, Cashier.
WARREN BELL, (c.)> -p .
B. MCGREGOR, (c.) / friers.
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