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UNION & RECORDER.
Augusta Letter.
Augusta, Ga. *
Oct. 15th, 1886.)
Editors Union-Recorder:
~ Augusta is sorely in need of a good
-washing. It is a long, long time since she
f’-is enjoyed that luxury. Her houses pre-
•<4nt a dingy appearance; the leaves of her
trees are no longer green, but grey; ana
everything and everybody is dust-coatecl.
We live in an atmosphere of dust, home
months ago we drank gallons of Canal
mud in solution; now, we inhale| bushelsiol
dry dust every hour. As the latter does
not agree with our constitutions Q ul te as
W'Cll as the former we’d gladly exchange it
we had the opportunity. .. n „ nf1
I wrote you last week of the sudden and
unexpected return of Grand Master VV oik-
man Meynardie from tho Knights ot La-
Ixir Convention at Richmond. A mystery
3, a ngs over the whole affair which the
.; ross reporters have as yet been unable to
kolve I tried to “pump” several promi
nent Knights in reference to the cause of
his hasty return, but to no purpose. All
Ninels of rumors are afloat in regard to the
Reverend Workman, but I forbear men
tioning them. Enough is known however
to authorize the statement that very many
of the Knights are dissatisfied with their
leader’s course. So great is the dissatis
faction that he has been deposed from office,
and Mr. W. M. Conner has been appointed
in his stead. Some claim that this change
is only temporary; others say that it is
permanent. Mr. Meynardie is still con
fined to his house under treatment of his
physician, Hr. Sally.—The Colored Knights
are said to be already disgusted with the
Order, and show signs of rebellion. A
prominent Knight of that race remarked
the other day that his people had not been
fairly treated by the white men of the Or
der, and that he was “tired of this foolish
ness.” In a very short time you may ex
pect to hear of the re-openffig of all the
mills.
The Superior Court of this County is now
In session. Thus far Jaut few cases of any
■public importance have been tried. The
Grand Jury has been organized, and is
now inspecting the condition of county af
fairs. Judge HenrvC. Roney is one of the
most competent, upright, and fearless men
that ever wore the ermine. His adminis
tration of justice has given entire satisfac
tion to the bar and to the people of his cir
cuit, and he will go before the next Legis
lature for re-election with their strongest
recommendation. If our Legislator's con
sult the welfare of the Augusta Circuit,
and tire wishes of the people therein, they
will certainly return Judge Roney to the
'sench.
The North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Church South will meet in Au
gusta early in December. The local
churches have already begun preparations
for the reception of this large body. Com
mittees have been appointed to canvass
the different wards with a view to ascer
taining what families will agree to accom
modate delegates during the conference.
Other denominations have offered their aid
in this matter to their Methodist brethren.
An alarm of fire was turned on from
623 last Tuesday at noon, and the Depart
ment hastening (?) in the direction indica
ted, found the old Sterling Mills in flames.
The building was nothing more than an
old tinder box, and was soon burnt to the
ground. The Mill was owned by C, H.
Coates and Co., of Philadelphia, and op
erated by Messrs. Crane and Maxwell of
this city. The insurance($10,000) will about
cover the loss. The company is now erect
ing a commodious brick mill on a site far
ther up the c.inal, which will soon be com
pleted! To them, therefore, the tire was
not a catastrophe. The Sterling was one of
the smaller nulls not closed during the
present lockout.
A tire also occurred last night on the
corner of Taylor and 3d streets, which
consumed the dwelling occupied by Sergt.
Krewson, of the police. The Sergeant
awoke just in time to save his children
from suffocation. These and other recent
.ires have brought the question of a paid
tire department prominently before the
people, and it affords a lively theme for
discussion. The City Council has ordered
an election to decide whether or not, the
citizens will authorize the levying of a one
quaxterof one percent tax for this pur
pose. While the majority of the people
desire, and wiii vote for a paid department,
they object to the levy. It strikes your
correspondent that a compromise might
possibly be made on a tax or one-eighth
instead of one quarter. At any rate the
paid department is now a necessity, and
must soon be organized.
Augusta has been treated to two earth
quake shocks in the last twelve hours.
One at 4:50 a. m., and the other at 2:10 p.
m. The latter was the severest, and caus
ed hundreds to leave their homes and run
into the streets. At the Houghton Insti
tute the students and their visiting friends
were gathered in the Hall listening to the
reading of papers on “Earthquakes” when
the shock came. At first there was a stir,
and then a little movement on the part of
the school, as if they intended to make a
break ana cause a panic. A few words
from the Principal, with the assistance of
the teachers, formed the school in lines of
march, and in this way they reached the
ground without any one being hurt.
City Engineer Davidson has recently re
turned from Lowell, Mass., whither he
went to examine into their system of water
measurement. He has gained considera
ble knowledge of this subject, and is pre-
.pared to bring Augusta’s measurement up
to the standard. Mr. Davidson is one of
the youngest engineers in the Southern
States.
The many friends of Gen. C. A. Eyans
are oiienug him congratulations on the
occasion of his recent marriage to Mrs.
Howard formerly of this city. Few men
have such a strong hold upon the popular
heart as Gen. Evans, and his hundreds,
yea his thousands of friends, wish him and
nis bride years of usefulness and happi
ness. The matrimonial market is quite
lively, and many brilliant marriages will
occur later in the season.
Rev. C. A. Lucas has inaugurated a se
ries of lectures on Science and Literature
at the Christian Church. Mr. Lucas is
well posted in each of these branches of
study, and the church will be crowded ev
ery Tuesday night to hear the lectures of
this eloquent divine.
The Reaper came last Sunday night and
cut down one of earth’s fairest flowers.
Hut it has been transplanted in Heaven’s
soil, and now gives out its fragrance in
the garden ot the Lord. Miss Alma Corn
wall, after lingering for months a patient
sufterer, quietly breathed her last at her
.ather s residence in this city. She was
the joy of the household—so gentle and so
loving. Like sunshine, she brightened all
around her. Her angelic disposition drew
many a friend to her side, and none ever
came in contact with her without feeling
the better for being* under the ennobling
influence of her|presence. Hut she has gone
iO a better world, and we should not wish
to have her back. We should so live as to
.loin herin the“Surmner Land of iSong.”
Houghton.
♦ ♦ ♦ —
S. E. Bearden has just received
amost beautiful lot of Hats, Feathers,
1 lumes. Tips and all the latest novel-
Lies in iriminings. Ladies in want of
any goods in her line would do well
to give her an early call.
, A good No. 7, Cook Stove, with all
5? $ 12 *°0> sold before
.at flu.00, at J. Staley’s. tf
Holiness Meeting-Analysed.
Editor Union-Recorder:
Your writer was interested in 3 cmrcom
mentson the “Holiness meeting, and it
seems that you throw some doubts upon
tho extraordinary pretentions or profes
sions of those who do believe in a “second
blessing ” It will no doubt cause some of
vour readers to smile when they read this
article trom the pen of one who unfortu
nately, perhaps, makes no pretentions to
any particular kind of belief, except a
purely mental one.
That the “Holy people” are right in their
pretentions and assertions, cannot be
doubted bv any one who has read and
studied “Mental science,” for all thought
is a science more or less. An idiot cannot
think, and the mental imbecile has a nar
row field for thought and feeling. But
those sound in mind and body can reach
out to the most delicate and sensitive of all
feelings. If there is any truth in the belief
in total depravity, there certainly is as
great a field for belief in total holiness, and
if all history is not a lie, there have been
many, very many, who were totally holy
in their feelings. St. Paul is a wonderful
illustration, St. Peter, after he became
thoroughly converted, was another case,
for Christ told Peter, that the devil wanted
to “sift him as wheat but that He had pray
ed for thee, that thy faith fail not, and
when thou art converted, strengthen thy
brethren.” We all know the zeal of St.
Peter after he entered with his whole soul
and heart on his ministry.
Now tor a little mental logic; for I do not
pretend to go outside of mental operations.
I lake no stock in anything but brain work,
for that is the secret*of all thought, feeling
action and desire. Now what is religion as
we understand it. In its first and last anal
ysis? It is the sense of dependence on God
as the great central fact; and as one feels
that dependence according to the strength
of their emotional feelings, the more faith,
the more belief, and the more dependence
they will have in God. It is but a mental
proposition and true to our very natures.
Love or tender emotion enters into our
feelings, according as the Deity is viewed
in sl benign aspect, and as a hearing Father,
who will give goed gifts to his children
when asked in relying faith.
The course of our thoughts bear the im
press of our feelings. All belief is the de
cided test of the strength or our feeliDgs.
All belief contains an intellectual element,
and the outward expression of a belief is
manifested in activity, and tho feelings; ior
belief without activity, is a cold sort of
a feeling; hence, those possi ssed with an
idea, arc ardent in their expressions and
actions. It is but a part of one’s mental
makeup, and is simply true to itself.
What foliies we all have seen, in some
pure girl throwing herself into the arms of
a noted libertine because she loved him
with her whole soul, body and feelings,
and in response to the clanger she was run
ning, would say—“I love him so much he
will reform for ray sake.” Or marrying a
drunkard with the same plea of a blinded
love, and a hope of reformation on his part.
Is there any religious feeling as strong in
the human soul as love, blinded love, hope
ful love, self sacrificing lov®? If there is I
have never seen it, and I have seen about
as much as the average man.
Who is it that has not seen some one
wrapped in one Idea, some pet project or
object on the brain, and It was his dally,
hourly talk during the day, and his
dreams at night. Wholly given up to one
absorbing thought, and then to say, In the
light of such daily occurrences, that a per
son cannot obtain wholly religious feelings
if they so desire? History is full of such
characters, John the Baptist was such a
man. Mary Magdalene was such a wom
an when she became converted; and many
who obtained the eminence of saints were
suchpecpie, The whole thing is mental
and nothing else, lor we cannot think
without a brain and the more intense the
workings of our brain, the more expressive
our thoughts. Suppose for Illustration,
that your writer is a skeptic, is there not a
mental process which makes him one?
Suppose he had lived in the days of Greece
and Rome would he have prayed to the
hundreds of Gods worshipped by those
people? He might or lie might not, he
may have believed with Julius Caesar,
that the Gods were the religious fiction of
the brain. AH religion is thought based on
reason and innate feelings and these feel
ings are greater or less in every individual.
So much for a slight defense of those who
believe in sanctification. As a mental pro
cess, I believe in it, as thoroughly as I be
lieve in my own existence, and I reason
from my own nature. It is a direct, posi
tive, desired feeling so courted by those
desiring a more holy life, and the mind is
trained to sneh thoughts, and hence, the
second blessing they feel. R. M. O.
A Stranger in the South.
Cutlabert Liberal.
Mrs. E. Q. Smith and Mrs. Brock,
of Seattle, W. T., arrived in Cutk-
bert last Friday, and Captain Flewel-
len, Mrs. Smith’s father, is, without
doubt, the happiest man in Cuthbert.
They came by the Canadian route,
the distance travelled was five thous
and miles. Mrs. Brock was born in
Oregon, and has lived in Idaho and
Washington Territories. She is fa
miliar with most of our Pacific coast.
This is her first visit South or East,
and she is perfectly delighted with
our climate and people. So charm
ed was she with the pleasant atmos
phere last Saturday that she could
not remain indoors. Quite a number
of ladies of Cuthbert have called on
her during the week, and they all
agree that her presence in Cuthbert
will be quite an addition to our so-
iety during the winter.
The Czar of Russia a Crank.
London, October 21.—Rumors are
current that a terrible state of con
fusion and alarm exists in the Czar’s
household, owing to the hallucin-
ary dangers to which the Czar is sub
ject. It is said that on seeing adjut
ant walking rapidly toward him re
cently, the Czar seized a sevolver and
shot the adjutant dead. Other ac
counts say that the adjutant made
an attempt to kill the Czar, and the
latter fired in self-defense.
St. Petersburg, October 23.—-The
illness of the Czar which was first
noticed five years ago, when he began
to suffer from heart dieease, epileptic
attacks and rheumatism; the only phy
sician who had courage to tell tne
truth was Professor Hoffman, who
was thereupon made a victim of furi
ous rage. The Czar has not been
since consulted. The patient’s symp
toms have gradually increased in
severity and he is now suffering from
a complicated affection of lungs.
Trains are running daily from Clin
ton to Macon, and track laying is pro
gressing on towards Monticello.
The cane and potato crops in Clay
county are larger this year than for
several years past.
The wells in Sylvania are drying up.
Several of them have already failed.
Watermelons are still offered for
sale at Perry.
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt.
This gentleman, now the democrat
ic candidate for Mayor of New York,
says: “I believe that in this country
of universal suffrage the average
condition of the working classes has
steadily improved, and that they will
continue to receive, by means of the
judicious and not difficult - application
of the principle of association, an in
creasing share of an ever increasing
product, provided the right to indi
vidual liberty, which necessarily car
ries with it the right to private prop
erty, is preserved, and the democratic
idea of government by the majority,
and not by any class, or combination
of classes, is sternly asserted and firm
ly maintained.”
Chinese Missions and Macon
Hoodlums.
Chinese mobs have recently destroyed 1
the property and put in much jeopardy
the lives of American Missionaries in Chi
na. who after Ions: continued efforts were
succeeding well in their work for their
•Master’scause. Revenge for the horrible
murder and robbery of tne Chinese on and
near our Pacific coast by the white ruf
fians of that region, was the cause of our
missionaries being so treated in China.
And now some of the hoodlums (it is to
be presumed) of Macon, are persecuting
and threatening three poor Chinese there,
in order to drive them away. Are the
Christians of Macon going to permit such
crimes, which are likely to still more en
danger our Missionaries in the tar East, to
be committed there? Will not sympathy
for our brethren, who are the victims of
such outrages in China, stir them up to
protect the Chinese strangers in Macon?
Effects of a Dream.
Sumter Republican.
Several weeks since Mrs. R. A.
Guerry dreamed that her husbaud,
who has been dead several vears, ap
peared to her and said: “Rhoda, I
have not come for you now; but in
four weeks from to-night I will come
for you.” She told this to her family
next morning, and some of them put
it down. Exactly four weeks later
Mrs. Guerry was taken down sick,
and has not been able to sit up since.
Her physician and friends say that
there is yery little hope of her ever
getting well. She is a sister of Rev.
P. S. Twitty, presiding elder of the
Americus district.
In Memoriam.
1 mw«"
Rebecca Florence, daughter of Ben
jamin F. Sanford, of this county, was
born January 19th, 1857, and died at
her father’s residence October 19th,
1886. Her disease was Consumption,
from which she was a great sufferer
for many years. She was baptized
many years ago by Rev. T. J. Adams,
pastor of Island Creek Baptist church,
of which she was a consistent mem
ber to the day of her death. She was
a faithful worker in her Master’s vine
yard. She leaves to mourn her de
parture, her father, one of the very
old men of the county, and three sis
ters.
The drought is general throughout
the State.
A better hay crop than the present
was never made in Washington coun-
ty. _
LIST OF ADVERTISED TETTERS
Remaining in the Post-Office at Mil-
ledge ville, Baldwin count}’, Gn., Oct.
16, 1886. If not called for within 10
days, they will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office.
Acock, Jesse N. Mack, Elizabeth
Andrews, Florie E. Prosser, M. A. M.
Alexander, Maria 2 Roberson, FI01*-
Baker, W. P. ence
Bell, Dora Sanford, Lucinda
Cass, T. C. Smith, Moses
Fogus, Lela Sibbersteen, A. L.
Ghaley, Sarah Ann Scogin, John
Green, Elorgia Tennill, John A.
Hollerman, Malin-Winn. L. J.
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Office Hours.—General delivery
window will be open from 9 a. m., un
til 5 P. M. Money Order window will
be open from 9 A. M. to 4 p. m.
J. G. Fowler, P. m.
COTTON MARKET.
The following is the Cotton Market
for Oct. 25th, 1886.
Savannah—Middlings, 8J.
Charleston—Middlings, 8b
Augusta—Middlings, 8J.
Milledgeville—Middlings, 8£.
LrvERPOOL—Middlings, 5£d.
New York—Middlings, 9J.
Gold par.
Dr. Gann’s Diver Fills
Removes Constipation, prevents Ma
laria, cures Dyspepsia, and gives new
life to the system. Only one for a
dose. Free Samples at T. H. Kenan’s,
Druggist, Milledgeville, Ga.
Without beautiful hair no woman
is beautiful. Is yours falling off or
faded? The loss is vital. Parker’s
Hair Balsam will preserve your hair
and give back its gloss and youthful
color. Clean, elegant, perfect. Pre
vents dandruff. 15 lm.
To The Public.
A LL parties due Col. Thos. Johnson,
for mules and horses are hereby
notified that their accounts are due,
and an immediate settlement is re
quired. Apply to the _ undersigned
who will transact all f° r him.
E. K. CHAMPION, Ag’t.
Oct. 5, 1886. 13 tf
Wanted at Once.
A GOOD TINNER. To one who un-
derstands Jobbing Yv ork and Roof
ing, I wall give constant employment.
None but a good sober man need ap
ply. Apply by letter only, with ref-
erences, to j STALEY.
Milledgeville, Ga.
Oct, 12, 1886. !4 tf
Notice.—A bill to be entitled An Act to
fix the license or tax for sale of intoxicat
ing or malt Liquors In the city of Miiledge-
vilie and Baldwin county, Georgia, at ten
thousand dollars, will be introduced in
the next Legislature of said State. Oct, 25
1886.
W. H. CARR’S
MILLINERY
—AND-
mtoriuml
Always in the Lead!
Our Milliners the Best!
Our Stock the Largest!
Our Prices the Lowest!
The OM Hardware Store
•:o:-
Still open and ready to serve my old and new customers clieape-
than ever, in all kinds of 1
'Hardware, Stoves, Coal Grates, Tinware, &c.
-I have just received a large lot of-
Rubber Belting, Rubber, Hemp and
Soap Stone Packing and
Lace Leather,
Which I will sell as low as the lowest. I have one lot of Stoves I
will sell less than cost. Call soon before they are all gone. Don’t
forget that the Old Hardware Store cannot be undersold.
JOS. STALEY.
ggpPvoofing and Guttering done at the lowest prices and war
ranted to give satisfaction.
Milledgeville, Sept. 28th, 1886. ^ tf
Unparalleled Stock!
I visited Baltimore, Philadel
phia and New York, and am now
ready to show one of the Hand
somest lines of Millinery the La
dies have ever seen in this citv.
All the Latest
Novelties!
Cloaks, Shawls
AND
Wraps.
Corsets,
Gloves,
Handkerchiefs,
Hosiery.
Notions! Notions!
Everything in this line usually
kept in a first-class Notion house.
From week to week, It will be
to your interest.
W. H. CARR.
MiUedgeviUe, Ga., Oct. 5th, 1886.118m
Pall Goods arriving daily, and our immense storeroom put to its
hardest test. The building is filled from cellar to garret. We have
in stock and on road:
1.000 Barrels Flour.
150 Barrels Sugar.
200 Boxes Tobacco.
225 Cases Sardines, bought before the advance.
200 Boxes Soaps.
200 Cases Potash.
50 Sacks Peanuts.
100 Sacks Coffee.
50.000 lbs. Red Rust Proof Seed Oats.
230 Boxes Crackers.
75.000 Cigars.
200 Cases assorted Can Goods.
1 car load Lard.
100 Boxes Cheese.
600 Pails, 80 half barrels, and 25 barrels breakfast Mackerel.
And an enormous lot of other goods too numerous to mention. With
better facilities than we ever had before, we are prepared to dupli
cate the prices of any house in Georgia. We do not ask you to buv
of us, but just let vis price you our goods and we will surely put
you on our long list of customers.
W. T. CONN & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers.
22 & 24 S. Wayne Street,
Sept. 21st, 1886.
.Milledgeville, Ga.
29 ly
No. 17 South Wayne St.'
T. E. WHITE & CO.
YY e invite all our Patrons and Friends to come and examine our
new goods, which we are daily receiving. We can suit any man’s
pocket book, both in quality and price of goods. We do not pro
pose to make any cuts on prices but will sell you what you want and
Guarantee Satisfaction on all Goods.
We would say, particularly to our regular patrons, that at all times,
we will try to fill their orders with the
Nicest and Freshest Goods,
the market affords. We do not buy in very large lots, but buy
often. By this means, we can always sell fresh goodpj We call
particular attention to
Our Stock of Flour,
which is complete. We have on hand “White Swan,” “White
Loaf,” “White Satin” and “Jersey.” The above grades are patents.
Then we have also “New Constitution,” “Moss Rose,” and “Odd
Trump.” If you want nice white bread, buy good Flour and the
best Lard. We have the finest Leaf Lard on hand, which cost very
little more than poor stuff.
Our stock of Canned Goods, cannot be excelled. Fancy Candy ,
and Crackers of all kinds.
Sugar, Coffee, Teas, Spice, &c.
In fact, anything you may want. Bran for your cow at lowest price.
Mognolia Hams, Breakfast Bacon and White Meat. Jersey Butter,
always on hand and on Ice. We invite our country friends to call
on us and get prices, we will sell them their goods as cheap as any
one. Tobacco by the plug or box. Remember the place.
GREEN STORE!
No. 17 South Wayne Street, Milledgeville, Ga.
, T. E. WHITE & CO. ,
Ang. 31st, 1886. 31 If.
