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UNION & RECORDER.
Milledgeville, October 20,1886.
For Congress—6th District,
JAMES H. BLOUNT, of Bibb.
The Election—Col. Blount.
Our readers should remember that
our Congressional election comes off
on Tuesday, the 2nd of November.
There being no opposition to the
Democratic nominee, it is natural that
but few will put themselves to incon
venience to vote. Still, we are very
fortunate in havinga candidate who, in
successivesessionsof Congresshasdone
himself and his constituents honor and
his country most valuable service. He
is therefore entitled to the hearty in
dorsement of his constituents, and
more especially as he has been most
bitterly and injustly assailed (as we
think) by those whose support, as
professed'Democrats, he had a right
to expect. Let every good Democrat
therefore, who can do so, appear at
the polls on the day of the election
and give him his vote.
Technological School Located.
This matter, which has exercised
the minds of certain communities for
some time past, is at last decided.
Atlanta, Macon and Athens have con
tended earnestly for the prize and
fought each other even to the point
of stirring up bad blood between
them, but they and the commission
ers have coolly ignored Milledgeville
in the matter. And yet for the ulti
mate success of the school, the latter
was probably the very best place for
it. \V ill the farmers and the middle
classes of the people, from whose
ranks the pupils of the school would
be mainly drawn, send their boys to
Atlanta, to be subjected to the temp
tations to evil of that mixed commun
ity. made up of people from almost all
quarters of the globe? Is there a kind
of wickedness which has not its disci
ples, and its places for practising the
same, in that cosmopolitan city? If
not, yet there is a general impression
throughout the state that such is the
fact and we greatly fear that it will
prove a great obstacle to the building
up of the school and the conferring of
its blessings upon a large majority of
our people. We sincerely desire to
see the school established on a firm
and enduring basis. In our judgment
it will require the best efforts of all
its friends to make it a success in the
place selected for it. Nevertheless
those efforts should be made and ev
erything done to correct the mistake
if mistake it was, which was made by
the commission.
Candor compels us to say that while
giving credit to Gov. McDaniel for us
ing his best judgment in selecting the
members of the commission, he made
a great mistake in placing citizens of
three of the competing points on it.
They should every one of them have
been taken from localities which had
no special interest in the location of
the school. The actual facts connect
ed with the ballotingg show that the
representatives of Atlanta, Macon
and Athens, each stuck obstinately
to his own city and the final decision
was only reached by the tw o who had
practically no home intertst that
they could subserve, going over to
one of the three above mentioned and
thus by a bare majority, fixing the
location at Atlanta. And when it was
afterwards proposed to make the se
lection of Atlanta unanimous, the ad
vocates respectively of Macon and
Athens utterly refused their assent to
the proposition.
In conclusion, while frankly and
freely commenting upon w-hat we
deem the mistakes made by certain
actors in the matters discussed above,
we cheerfully give the Governor and
ea^h member of the commission cred
it for having acted under the prompt
ings of what they considered their duty
from the beginning to the ending o"f
the whole matter.
EDITORIAL GLIMPSES.
The State Fair opened in Macon
yesterday.
We rate ability in men by what
they finish, not by what they attempt.
The fight for the School of Technol
ogy" is over and Atlanta is victorious.
Her people may think it a dear victo
ry- before many years.—Sav. News.
The tax returns for Georgia for the
present year show- an increase in
property valuation to the extent of
nearly seven millions dollars, exclu
sive of railroads.
Those pleasures that are cheapest
are best; and nothing costs so much as
sinful indulgences. If they- cost noth
ing but unhappy memories they- are
bought at a very dear price.
President Cleveland has sent $100 to
Col. BeloofNew Orleans, ashis contri
bution for the sufferers by the storm
at Sabine Pass, La., accompanied by
a letter expressing his sympathy, etc.
The North Georgia conference of
the M. E. Church, South, w-illconvene
in Augusta on Wednesday, December
first—the date of meeting having been
changed from November 24th, by
Bishop McTyeire, who will preside.
At Ellaville, Monday the negro w-ho
killed Mr. McElmurray, of Schley
county, a few days ago by striking
him on the head with a rock, came in
and gave himself up. The killing is
said to have been clearly in self-de
fense, and it is not believed that the
negro will even be held for the Super
ior Court.
Harper Black, Jr., living near the
Plains of Dura, dropped dead sudden
ly Sunday night. Mr. Black had
suffered very much of late with palpi
tation of the heart. He often took
chloral as a means of relief from pain.
The presumption is that death was
either caused from the malady, or else
from an overdose of chloral.
Protracted Meeting.
Record of Dry Seasons.
Madisonian.
For the purpose of refreshing the
memory of some of our people who
think the present an exceptionally
protracted drought w-e w-ill give dates
and lengths of previous ones,-only giv-
ingtnose that we remember: In 1845
we had no rain for 120 days in succes
sion; in 1861, 42 days in succession
without rain; in 1875, 26 day’s without
rain. We remember distinctly the
drought of 1845, and the great alarm
produced. It was difficult to get wa
ter in many places sufficient for stock
end the utmost economy- was enforc
ed in that used for drinking, cooking
and washing. But little scouring and
scalding was done. Most all the grist
mill.- Mopped grinding, and farmers
were compelled to send their wagons
fifty to sixty m les for meal and flour.
Many families lived on boiled hominy
and potatoes for bread. Oh! but ft
was dry—yes drier than prohibition
in Atlanta.
If the memory of our young broth
er of the Madisonian would liay-e run
back six years further to 1839, he
might liay-e mentioned that it was the
driest summer ever experienced in
Georgia. The corn, owing to the ex
treme drouth, tasselled at from four
tj six feet in height, and the rain
which came afterwards caused the
ears to fill out large and fine, so that
they absolutely hung down and their
ends touched the ground. Let our
brother ask some old citizen about
the dry year, 1839.
Local Editor U. & R.
Mr. Walter S. Gordon, brother to
General Gordon, died in New York
on the 16th inst., of paralysis of the
heart, after recovering from typhoid
fever. He was 38 years old, and had
amassed a large fortune by Railroad
and land speculations, and was just
making his arrangements to go to At
lanta to enjoy- his ample fortune when
death cut him off.
Tenk Rather, a white man living
near the line of Decatur in Mitchell
county, xvas accused of stealing some
money from Elias N. Smith, a man
with whom he was living. During
the latter part of last week he was
seized by six men w-ith blackened
faces and hung to the limb of a tree
until life -was almost extinct. Thoy
tried to extort a confession of guilt
but failed.
Ty-Ty- correspondent Macon Tele
graph : Speaking of musical members
of the present Legislature; it would
be w-ell enough to say that our honor
able representative should be includ
ed in that convention of fiddlers that
Hon. Morgan Rawls spoke of calling
w hen the Hon. Bob Taylor is elected
Governor of,Tennessee. Ourown Doc
tor Pickett is hard to beat w-hen it
comes to getting good music out of a
violin.
At Irwinton five prisoners confined
in jail broke out Tuesday night. Two
of them, Charles Mason and Willis
Holman, took flight while the other
three hurried to the Sheriff’s residence,
aroused him from sleep and informed
him that they were out. They waited
till he could dress, and then, good
naturedly, accompanied him back to
the jail, where they were again locked
up. Mason is the negro charged with
robbing the post office at Griswold-
ville and shooting another negro in
Gordon.
When the Holiness meeting adjourn
ed, a week ago from Sunday last, Rev.
Mr. King, pastor of the Methodist
church here, determined to take ad
vantage of the high state of religious
feeling which existed, and he has ac
cordingly- continued the meetings
from day to day to the present time.
Meetings have been regularly held at
9i o’clock in the morning, and again
at night at 7 o’clock, and the attend
ance of large congregations has
shoxvn the undiminished interest of
the people in the services. Many
have responded to the usual invita
tions to manifest their desire to be
come Christians by coming forward
to the altar, and it was gratifying to
notice that among them were a num
ber of young men, who are in truth
the hope of our country and who w-ill
in a few years have their share in
shaping its destinies. Mr. King was
assisted in his labors by Rev. Mr. Pat-
tillo, former pastor of the Methodist
church here, and also by Rev. W. A.
Parks of the East Putnam circuit,
each of whom spent a part of the
week here. On Sunday last, twenty-
six new members were received into
the church, and a number of others
by letter from other churches. In a
little over a week there has been an
increase of 45 members. Among the
accessions was Mr. G. T. Whilden,
who removed liis membership from
the Presbyterian church in this city,
to the Methodist church.
The meetings will be continued dur
ing the present w-eek, and it is under
stood that Mr. King will have the as
sistance of Rev. W. A. Parks, men
tioned above*
Rev. C. B. Anderson received ten
members into the church at Mosley-
ville, on Sunday night last.
Robt W. Alston, of Georgia, Com*
mits Suicide in Washington.
Washington, October 23.—«The
Sixth Auditor’s office w-as the scene of
a sensational suicide to-day.
Robert W. Alston, clerk in that
branch of the government service, af
ter coolly announcing to the chief of
the division that he w-as “going to put
an end to this thing,” walked to his
desk, took a thirty-eight calibre re
volver from his pocket, and in the
presence of his fellow- clerks, sent a
ball crashing through his brain.
The unfortunate man lived but
forty--five minutes after the fatal shot {
had been fired.
Nervous depression is said to have
led to the act. Alston, who was a
native of Georgia, w-as about 28 years
of age, unmarried and well-known in
this city, especially among Georgians
and Southern men. He was the son
of Colonel Bob Alston, of Atlanta.
The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Re
cord, a responsible and leading trade
journal of the South, states that it is
prepared to put any town in the South
in actual need of further banking
capital in correspondence with North
ern capitalists for the purpose of se
curing that end.
Henry Lloyd, the young bachelor
Governor of Maryland, was married
Thursday morning to Miss Mary Eliz
abeth Staplefort, a beautiful Cam
bridge belle of tw-enty summers.
The men who are continually stir
ring up strife betw-een labor and capi
tal are generally men who have neith
er labor nor capital.
Among our Exchanges.
If not cultivated, depravity would
soon cease to grow.
Atlanta pays $160,000 interest on
her public debt per annum.
Gainesville will ship 300,000 chick
ens this season.
It is possible that the pretty little
city of Griffin will have both gas and
water works.
Tobe Jackson is in Cartersville to
stand his trial for the shooting of Bry
ant Strickland.
It is rumored that the Pennsylvania
Central railroad has made arrangements
to extend its lino Southward to Athens,
Ga., and there connect with the Covington
& Macon railroad.
Mr. Mitchell, of Wilkes county, reports
that he sold his broom corn at 5 cents per
pound, and that the profits are better than
can be obtained from cotton.
It is reported that three carp have lately
been caught in Moore’s mill pond in Wiikeg
county, weighing, respectively ten, twelve
and thirteen pounds.
So far as announced there are three can
didates for President of the Senate: Hon.
John S. Davidson of the eighteenth, Hon.
W. E. Smith of the tenth, and Hen. C. B.
Pringle of the Twentieth.
In Wilkes county E. Y. Hill has just
gathered a seven acre-field of corn which
measured up forty-two bushels to the acre.
James W. Worthen will gather eighteen
bales of cotton from a one-horse farm.
Among the curiosities in Griffin Monday
were Francis Darnall and son of Atlanta.
The father is fifty six years of age and is
only 4 feet 4 inches in height, and the son is
17 years of age, and only 3 feet 1 inch in
height. '
At Rome Tuesday in the Superior Court
a divorce was granted to Mary Echols
from her husband, Samuel Echols. In 1882
Echols joined the Mormon church and da
sired his wife to join. She refused and he
deserted her.
At Gainesville Elam Holland, an old
man, was found dead in his bed Tuesday
morning, Foul play was suspected. The
Coroner’s jury was in session all day Tues
day. An autopsy by Dr. Shaffer preved
that he died from natural causes.
The Georgia Technological School
ought to be inaugurated under very
favorable auspices. It will start with
a cash capital for buildings and outfit
and maintenance of $135,000, $70,000
coming from Atlanta’s bid and $65,000
from the State appropriation. It is
estimated that the buildings and
equipment will cost about $100,000,
leaving about $35,000 to help maintain
the school. Besides, Atlanta guaran
tees $2,500 a year to help pay the ex
penses, the matriculation fees (10 from
each student,) will probably bring
$1,000 to $2,000 a year, and the ma
chine shop ought to bring in a snug
little sum. The most important mat
ter now is to get the right man at the
head of the faculty, and properly
qualified assistants in the different de
partments.
A novel ceremony took place in In
dianapolis Wednesday night. Some
time ago a clothing company adver
tised that it would give a handsome
set of bed room furniture to any
couple that would be married in the
show window of their House. Ottie
Myer and Miss Eva Johnson, of Mor
gan county, accepted the offer and
were married in the show window
last night. The ceremony attracted
3,000 people to the store.
Sunset Cox has been nominated for
Congress.
Rian is very much needed just now,
in these parts.
The Mexican War
Has Become Obsolete!
Tlie Earthquake with all its terrors, has b• e lx
past, and vrellnigli forgotten. Nature sleeps in her accustomed re-
pose, and the sun, as he rises from his Eastern couch Vic™
unusual fervor the minaret of our “New Court House” and 11
his benign beams over our fair city. Monotony seems to **
succeeded Terror and Excitement, but
have
T. L. McComb & Co.,
Always alive to the interest of the city and county, propose to pre
pare for competitors a greater war than “Mexico” could have furn
ished, and a more convulsive shock than the quake produced.
“We Mean War!”
and intend to frighten competition without direful cannonades. We
MEAN BUSINESS and w-ill shake competition w-ith the rumbling-
detonation of our °
So listen while we give you figures that do not lie and
cannot be controverted. We have been to the metropolis
At Colored Camp-meeting—Ex
cited feiSTKR.—I wish I was a June
Lug.
Sister Snowball?
t^iSTER—So 1 could fly ter de heab-
enly mansions.
PiRSOK-Foolniggah, woodpecker
ketch yer befoah you g its „uten de
woods.—The XVth Amendment.
The young men of Elberton are or
ganizing a library association. A tem
porary organization has been perfect
ed with a view of organizing perman
ently next week. They meet with
great encouragement from the citi
zens of the town, and are determined
to inuke the undertaking a success.
All the young men of the town have
become members of the church and a
large number of them have joined the
Young Men’s Ghristian Association,
consequently the time is the most
propitious that could have been select
ed for procuring a public library.
An accidental killing occurred in
Rabun county, in Tennessee valley,
by one of Pat Dickson’s sons killing
the other. They seemed to have
been playing, and the elder, 11 years
old, was w-alking a little in front of the
younger, who was 8 years old. The
elder had a knife open in his hand
and was slinging his hand, when the
younger ran up behind the elder and
was accidentally stabbed in the right
breast. The cut w-as about two inches
deep. The boy lived half an hour.
President Cleveland in Richmond.
ProsMent Cleveland, accompanied by the
Secretaries of State and War, the Post Mast
er cieiiMiai, Commissioner of Agriculture
and Col. Lumont, the President’s private
Secretary, made a day’s visit to Richmond
Va., last Thursday to attend the State
Agricultural fair. The President was re
ceived everywhere—on the route and in
Richmond—by crowds of enthusiastic ad
mirers who cheered him “to the echo.”
Gov. Fitzhugh Lee made a capital speech
of welcome and the President replied in an
equally happy vein. The distinguished
visitors were introduced to Miss Winnie
Davis, the youngest daughter of our rever
ed Ex-President of the Confederacy. They,
and especially Mr. Cleveland, paid her
marked attention and they were said
to be much pleased with her graceful de
portment and pleasant manners. All went
off well and the Presidential party return
ed to Washington, in the evening, appa
rently much gratified by their brief ex
cursion.
At Albany, Alexander Johnson, a negro,
has been indicted by the grand jury and
was duly arrested for illegal voting in the
recent election for (State officers. Alexan
der is a convicted felon. He succeeded in
giving bond for his appearance when ar
rested.
Will soon go into effect in Milledgeville, but
KINNEY & WHELAN’S
License will not expire until the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, next,
and they will continue to sell the VERY BEST
Liquors, Wines and Beer,
by the QUART, at the same OLD PRICE. We will not make any
advance, because we are the only ones that are allowed to sell, and
will pledge ourselves to sell the very best at the REGULAR PRICE.
Remember the place, next door to the Oconee House. We sell the
Best Brands id Guarantee Lowest Prices.
Come along and bring your Bottles, Jugs and Kegs, and have them
filled. We will be the only house in Milledgeville that can sell you
until the first day of January, 1887. Come and see us, and we will
give you the very best article, and pledge you honest and square
dealing.
KINNEY & WHELAN,
No. 31 Wayne St., next door to Oconee House,
Milledgeville, Ga.
P. S.—All orders accompanied by cash, either by Express or Post-Office
Order, will receive our prompt attention. Hancock, Putnam, Washington,
Jones and Wilkinson, we will be pleased to fill your orders. K. & W.
Oct. 19, 1886. 15 tJ *•
ica, New York, bought our goods for cash,
following choice and select inducements:
facts that
of Anier-
and now offer you the
In Dress Goods we have all that is new and desirable. Space will
not permit any enumeration of colors and prices. We only ask that
the ladies call and examine this stock, for we feel sure that we can
suit them in anv line.
color
Hen-
SILKS I SILKS! SILKS!
We carry the best of Lyons’ black silks; also silks of any
wanted. Silk Velvets, stripe plush, cut velvet and silk warp
riettas can be found in our stock.
ROBES! ROBES! ROBES!
In this line we cannot be equalled. We have them from the cheap
est to the most expensive.
CURTAINS! CURTAINS!
Madras Curtains—the latest style out—something that is novel
and beautiful.
Cloaks and Jerseys.
In -wraps for ladies we have all that human ingenuity could design
or human heart desire. We have four dozen of the Buckle Jerseys
that are selling very rapidly at $3.50, worth $5.00.
CORSETS! CORSETS!
We have a very large line of Corsets, and can offer you special in
ducements in this stock.
Ferris Good Sense Corsets for Ladies, and Corset waist for chil
dren, have a world-wide reputation.
They have adjustable Shoulder Straps, Duplex corded edge “but
ton holes,” stronger than any other, tape fastened buttons, easily-
buttoned, will not pull off. Patent pockets in, or from which stiff
stays may be placed or removed at pleasure.
Ladies be sure and see these goods before you buy.
JEANS, DOMESTICS, &c.
be
is
In this line we can astonish you with inducements. It would
useless to attempt to quote brands, prices, &c. All that we wish
for you to call and be convinced. We will give you Bleaching one
yard wide for 8c., as good as the “Fruit of the Loom.”
IN GENTS’ UNDERWEAR
We can “Ring the Bell” on any competitor. Suits from $1.00 to
$20.00. Gentlemen call and see them. Our stock of Gents’ Furnish
ing Goods is complete in every respect.
CLOTHING! CLOTHING!
Words would fail should we essay to give you any description
our magnificent stock in this line. One specialty and novelty
desire to call your attention to, is gentlemen’s
of
we
READY FOR THE BATTLE!
My Fall Stock of Millinery, is now arriving and will be the largest m the
city. All the latest novelties in the Millinery line will be on exhibition at my
store by the 15th inst. comprising _ - ,
Hats, Bonnets, Feathers, Velvets, Flushes,
And all other trimmings. My Dry Goods department, while not so exten
sive, is as nice and cheap as any in the city. A splendid line of J ERSE \
JACKETS and SHAWLS. Also , i n xr m
moves, Hosiery, Corsets, Haitaliiefs, Collars and Cuffs, Etc.,
Beautiful Rushing from 15c. to 75c. per yard. A full line of Gossamers.
The best line of Bustles in the city. . , r . , fo+ ,. v , .
My Millinery department will be presided over by Miss Mattie Reel, assist
ed by Miss Addie Haas and Miss Minnie Harrell, who will be glad to see all
their old friends and as many new ones as will honor them with a, call.
^Courteous and polite attention guaranteed to all. Come and see me be
fore buying.
Mrs. S. D. Wootten,
Milledgevilie, Oct. 5th, 1886.
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the latest thing out.
H-Al-TSI HATS!
Call on us for the celebrated Stetson goods. We have bought
these goods cheap, and offer you prices that we defy any competi
tor to duplicate.
SHOES! SHOES! SHOES!
We carry the celebrated Pittsburg Penitentiary made Shoes.
Every pair guaranteed. Ask for our “Oblinger” Shoes for the child
ren. We can give you the best Shoe for $1.50, ever offered to the
trade.
Call and examine the cheapest line of Trunks you ever saw. If
you need one we can surely suit you. But we cannot go into further
details. We welcome all, whether purchasers or not.
Come! Come!
We have the nobbiest and most complete line of Dry Goods ever
brought to Milledgeville. We have competent and attentive sales
men. We have prices to suit the times.
T.
L. McCOMB &
Milledgeville, Ga., Sept 21st, 1886.
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