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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." rSfoi ■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. 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