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’[consolidated 1872. Milledgeville, Ga., November 16. 1886
Number 19.
BALDWIN COUNTY.
Petition for
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary. November Term, 1886.
W HEREAS, Charles Ferrell, c., has
filed his petition in said Court for
letters of Administration upon the es
tate of Dilsey Ferrell, c., deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all parties interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
December Term, next of said Court to
be held on the first Monday in De
cember, 1886, why permanent letters
of Administration upon the estate of
said deceased, should not be granted
to said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this November the 1st, 1886.
DANIEL B. SANFORD.
17 lm] . Ordinary.
Petition for
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, November Term,
1886.
W HEREAS, Walter Paine has filed
his petition in said court for let
ters of administration upon the es
tates of Mrs. E. C. Sanford and Mrs.
E. D. Sretson, late of said county, de
ceased. *
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all parties interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
December term next, of said court, to
be held on the first Monday in Decem
ber, 1886, why permanent letters of
administration upon the estate of said
deceased, should not be granted to
said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture, this November the 1st, 1886.
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Petition for
Lsiters of Administration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, Nov. Term 1886
W HEREAS, C. W. Ennis has filed
bis petition in said court for let
ters of Administration upon the es
tate of W. T. Ethridge, late of said
countv, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all parties interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
December Term next of said court to
be held on the first Monday in Decem
ber, 1886, why letters of administra
tion upon the estate of said deceased
should not be granted to said petition
er as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this November the 1st, 1886.
Daniel B. Sanford,
17 lm.] Ordinary.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
B Y VIRTUE of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of said county,
granted at the December Term,
1885, of said court, will be sold
before the Court House door, in the
city of Milledgeville, on the first
Tuesday in December, next, between
the legal hours of sale, the following
property belonging to the estate of
Martha J. Davis, to-wit:
Ail that tract or parcel of land, in
the 321st District, G. M., of ssid coun
ty, bounded north bv lands of Mrs. F.
C. Furman, east by the Irwinton
road, south by lands of Mrs. W. J.
Brake and west by Mrs. Furman,
containing 120 acres, more or less.
Sold for the purpose of paying debts
of said estate. Terms of sale cash.
WALTER PAINE, Adm’r.
M. J. Davis, deceased.
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Nov. 1st, 1886.
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C. F. STADICER, Proprietor,
MO SO. FRONT ST., Philadelphia, P*
April 20, 1886. 41 lv.
Baldwin Sheriff’s Sale Postponed.
W ILL be sold before the Court
House door, i.i the city of Mil
ledgeville, during legal sale hours, on
the first Tuesday in December, 1886,
the following property, to wit:
All that tract or parcel of land, lying
in the 321st District, of said county,
containing sixty-two acres, more or
less, known as the Bass or old Ham
mond place, bounded by land of the
Asylum on the west and the River
road on the east. Also four acres,
more or less, known as the Jackson
place, bounded north by Ben Brax
ton and Wilburn Scott, south by the
above described Bass place. Levied
on as the property of T. H. Kenan, to
satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in fa
vor of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Stembridge
vs. T. H. Kenan, and one in favor of
Messrs Turk & Byington vs. T. H
Kenan. Also at the same time and
place, one house and lot in the city of
Milledgeville, known in the plan of
said city as lot No. 3, in square 58,
containing one acre, more or less,
bounded north by lot of Mrs. H. G.
Kenan, east by L. N. Callaway, south
by estate of R. M. Orme'J Levied on
as the property of T. H. Kenan to
satisfy one Conty Court li fa in faver
of the Milledgeville Banking Co., vs.
T. H- Kenan and W. T. Conn. Also
at the same time and place, the drug
store on Wayne street, of Dr. T. H.
Kenan, the entire stock of goods, con
sisting of drugs, fixtures, cigars, tobac
co &c. Levied on by virtue of a Dis
tress warrant for rent, in favor of W.
T Conn, Agent; also three County
Court fi fas in favor of Thurber, Why-
land & Co., vs. T. H. Kenan; one
Countv Court fi fa in favor of By eke
& Seligvs. T. H. Kenan; one County
Court fi fa in favor of Lamar, Rankin
& Lamar vs. T. H. Kenan, and other
fi fas in hand. Sold as the property
T-i Kenan to satisfy said fi fas.
ot l. xx. ^ c w ENNIS, Sheriff.
Nov. 1st. 1886- 11*^
Legal blanks for sale at this office.
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Valuable Farm for Sale.
O N TUESDAY, 16th of November,
next, will be offered for sale, on
easy terms, the tract of land known
as the Patsy Smith place, now the
property of Jesse A. Roberts, situated
at Merriwether Station, on the Ea-
tonton railroad eight miles from Mil
ledgeville. Said farm contains 405
acres, more or less, in good state of
cultivation, with convenient and de
sirable dwelling house and other im
provements.
Will sell privately if desired. For
information, terms, &c., apply to
owner, at Merri wether, or
Rufus W. Roberts,
Milledgeville, Ga.
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GOVERNOR GORDON’S INAUGU
RAL ADDRESS.
Gentlemen of the General Assembly,
Friends and Fellow-Citizens: The
constitution of Georgia rightfully de
clares that “public officers are the
trustees and servants of the people.”
Custom, which has ripened into un
written law, requires a brief address
from me, as one of these servants at
the” inauguration of this new adminis
tration. Called by the people to act
as chief executive of this State for the
two ensuing years, I submit some
thoughts which seem to me worthy of
the most serious consideration.
The discussion will be confined
mainly to one consideration, both be
cause of its pertinence and its com
manding importance. That sugges
tion is this: The time has come in
our progress as a nation when great
er interest should be felt in public af
fairs, and when the larger share of
that interest should be centered in
the State governments. My belief is
that in the not remote future there
are grave problems confronting us
which will subject to the severest test
our American system. My object will
be to point out some of these dangers
and to suggest that our greatest safe
ty lies in the earnest support and up
building of our State governments.
In the early history of the repub
lic, Federal and not State govern
ment was necessarily the object of
supreme popular concern. At that
period the question was one of na
tional existence. The Federal govern
ment at that time Required the best
services which the combined states
manship of the country could furnish
in order to insure our stability as an
independent nation. At that time
the Federal government needed to be
strengthened in the affections and
esteem of the American people as
the confidence and respect of other
nations. At that time the country re
quired the command of the country’
resources—its mind and muscle, its
commerce and its revenues. At that
time a liberal construction of all dele
gated powers was essential in order
to make the Federal government
what Jefferson termed it, “The sheet
anchor of our peace at home and safe
ty abroad.” But happily, there is no
longer any room for concern as
to
Notice to Contractors & Builders.
Milledgeville, Ga., Nov. 5th, *86.
SEALED proposals will be received at
O the Sheriffs office, in the Court House,
“iis city, until ISrVciock, m., on Saturday
the 20th day of Kovember, 1886, for the
building of a house of worship for the
Mdledgeville Baptist Church. Plan and
specifications for said house of worship can
be seen at the store of s. Barrett, in this
city, or at the office of P. p. Dennis, archi
tect, Macon, Ga. I he house to bo of brick
covered with slate. Bond will be remiired
of the successful bidder. The ?igS?Td re
ject any aud all bids is hereby reserved
1>. B. SANFORD.'
A. J. BECK
VTM, For the Building Committee.
MilledgeYille, Nov. 9, 86. 18 2 t
the stability and power of that gov
ernment. Our independence as a na
tiou has become so permanently es
tablished that with a permanent un
ion between the States and a general
concord among the people, all the
combined powers of the earth could
scarcely compass our national destruc
tion. There is not upon this globe
civilized people among whom the
American republic is not known and
esteemed. There is not a civilized na
tion where her power and influence
are not felt and respected. There is
not a corner of the earth on land or
sea where the Hag of this mighty na
tion is not potential to protect the
rights and redress the wrongs of it
humblest citizen. The Federal gov
ernment has, therefore, long since
become the “sheet anchor of our safe
ty abroad.”
But its power to preserve its integ
rity at home has been equally demon
strated. In the last quarter of our
national life a guiding Providence has
over-ruled for the nation’s good, as
we trust, those sectional dissensions
which were inevitable from dissimi
lar and conflicting institutions Prov
identially established on this conti
nent. From political confusion, an
gry controversies and bloody conflicts
have come a national life more robust
a national peace more real and a na
tional union more enduring. Every
thoughtful citizen in all this country
must realize that the Federal govern
ment has not only been preserved in
all its constitutional vigor as the
“sheet anchor of our peace at homo
and safety abroad,” but has been ac
corded powers not originally designed
in the structure of the government
So that the essentials of national safe
ty as avowed by Jefferson have been
more than realized.
But I invoke you to remember that
Mr. Jefferson proclaimed at the same
time another truth no less essential to
free government in this country.
That truth was, that “the surest bul
wark against anti-republican tenden
cies is the support of the State gov
ernments in all their rights.” This
support of the States involves no dis
loyalty to the general government or
to any of its rights. There is nowhere
in this republic either disloyal citi
zens or disloyal sentiments. But ev
erywhere all hearts, voices and arms
are ready for the preservation of the
general government in all its consti
tutional vigor, as the pledge of our
peace and safety. But the time has
come when all patriotic hearts and
voices should also unite to support
the States in all their rights. The ne
cessity has arisen for creating some
“bulwark against anti-republican ten
dencies.” This foundation doctrine
i proclaimed by Jefferson calls now,
and calls imperatively, for renewed
interest in all the State governments.
As long as national existence was a
question; as long as civil war threat
ened dismemberment; as long as the
status of a newly emancipated race
was undetermined; so long might ne
cessity be pleaded as reason for abate
ment of special interest in the States,
and for increasing solicitude for the
Federal government, and possibly for
supporting it, if need be, by action
“outside the constitution.” But, as
has already been shown, these consid
erations have no longer weight or
pertinence and cannot be used as
plausible arguments for still further
increase of Federal power. I repeat
that, for defense against the outside
world, our nation is simply omnipo
tent; that our union is to be as lasting
as time, and that race freedom among
us is everywhere established and de
fended. Therejs no room for appre
hension, therefore, that the general
government will ever lose its consti
tutional vigor or power of self-preser
vation. The danger is that the States
may lose theirs—not by speedy, sud
den or violent revolution and usurpa
tion, but by. gradual accretions to
Federal power and imperceptible ab
sorption of State functions.
An illustration of this danger is fur
nished in the fact that under the “gen
eral welfare” clause of the Federal
constitution, legislation has been at
tempted and a construction given
which was never contemplated by
the framers of that sacred instru
ment.
Another illustration is found in the
historical fact that the momentous
events of our recent history have
served to dwarf, in the estimation of
the people, the importance of the
States, which originally ordained the
government.
Still another illustration may be
seen in the transparent purpose of
certain leaders of public opinion to
curtail the legitimate Congressional
representation of some of the States
upon the unjust and untruthful as
sumption that large bodies of citizens
are debarred the right and freedom
of the elective franchise.
But an infinitely greater danger to
our future is yet to be mentioned.
The greatest of all dangers lurks in
the silent but certain growth of a sen
timent for stronger central govern
ment. It is a sentiment which not
only acquiesces in the diminution of
State powers, but demands a stronger
and yet stronger government at
Washington in proportion to our ma
terial advancement, the multiplica
tion of States, the increase of popu
lation, and the birth of new and per
plexing problems.
The danger from this sentiment is
increased by the very plausibility of
the demand. The conviction that the
most serious issues confront us will be
fixed and deepened by a thoughtful
contemplation of the future.
There are those who hear me whose
children will see this great country
with perhaps half a hundred States
and two hundred millions of people.
Upon the vast domain, densely popu
lated, will spring multiplied industries
with diverse claims and conflicting
interests.. The Pacific States, the At
lantic States, the Gulf States, the
Middle States, the Eastern States
and the great West will demand
through their respective represen
tatives, and with increased earnest
ness, legislation at Washington friend
ly to their respective interests and
consonant with their varied theories.
Great social, economic and class prob
lems, wh:ch even now fill with an
anxious foreboding the patriotic and
thoughtful mind of the country, will
press for solution with resistless urg
ency.
These dangers I repeat, are not re
mote. Already moving in the womb
of our immediate future are giant
problems struggling for birth and
throbbing with a life and vigor pro
phetic of impending peril. Already
has this young republic, stretching
her maternal arms to welcome the
oppressed of every nation, found
clasped to her bosom that socialistic
spirit which has cursed other nations
with discord, bloodshed and fire. Al
ready can we lay our fingers upon the
pulse of the coming century and feel
the swelling current rushing through
its distended veins and gathering a
momentum with each passing decade.
Into that century’s life is to be gath
ered the mingled blood of the two
hundred millions of people, represent
ing all the races, all the colors, all the
zones, all the counter currents of
thought and conflicting creeds, inter
ests, purposes and theories of govern
ment.
It is neither patriotic nor prudent
to ignore the future dangers and trust
to temporary defense when the emer
gencies are upon us. The wise man
seeth the evil and provideth against
it. Prescience and prudence are po
tent factors in securing success in the
ordinary affairs of life. They are ru-
dimental in that most difficult of hu
man undertakings—the* science of
free government.
It is but natural therefore, that
thoughtful men should be profoundly
concerned about the future of this
republic. Perhaps it is also natural
that some minds should turn to the
strong arm of federal power for pro
tection against these contemplated
dangers. And if the problem was
narrowed to the simplest duty of en
forcing the public peace, protecting
private property and preserving the
national life—the ready solution
would be found in a vigorous, consoli
dated central administration. It
would, perhaps, be a task of easy p.c-
complisknient, should the people con
sent thereto, to govern this country
for one hundred years to come as
England governs Ireland or Russia
governs Poland.
But that is not the problem before
us. In our effort to preserve peace,
property, and national life, are also
involved the integrity of States, the
life of the republic and the existen
ce of citizen freedom. The work
before us in the future is the
most stupendous task ever im
posed upon the statesmanship of the
age. It is to save liberty and yet
govern a country with two hundred
millions of people, with its vast area;
with its varied needs and conflicting
demands; with its capital to protect
and its labor to encourage; with its
socialistic problem to solve, and yet to
leave its citizens free; with its gigantic
corporations and mammoth monopo
lies measuring arms with the people
themselves; in a word, it is to
survive the certain perils of the
future and still to live after them at
once a united nation and yet a repub
lic of States, soveriegn in their spheres,
independent, equal and free.
This, I repeat, is the great problem
of our future—to secure stability
amidst new and great perils, and yet
save liberty. Two roads are open;
one toward centralization, the other
toward local adjustments. Which
will you take? The one or the other
will be chosen by the people, and must
be chosen quickly.
Let it be again admitted in the ar
gument that the plan of increased
central power at Washington would
give stable government, vigorous so-
cial'instittuionsand public order. But
let it also be remembered that these
are less than half the blessings prom
ised by the founders of this republic.
Stability is essential; but stability
through progressive accretions to
Federal power, as exigencies arise,
must end at last in absolutism or cen
tralization. Stability thus secured is
the death of our duplex system. It is
the doom of free government in
America. There is one way and one
way only, to secure fa our momentous
future both stability and liberty. That
way is to depend, as perils increase,
more and more upon the States and
to trust to local adjustment. What
ever may have been the wisest policy
in the past, it is certain, 1 think, that
in the future our greatest safety, pro
gress, permanence and freedom lie in
the direction of enlarged local admin
istration. Th’e freest government is
that which is most controlled by hom
ogenius communities; and the strong
est government for a country like ours
is that which devolves upon States
the largest responsibilities. As popula
tion becomes dense, as industries mul
tiply, as interests conflict, as creeds
clash and the discord of jarring theo
ries increases over this widely extend
ed country, the more and more diffi
cult will become the problem of gov
ernment through central administra
tion at Washington; and the greater
will be the necessity for intrusting to
the States all questions witn which
they may constitutionally deal.
Such a policy as I have sought to
indicate would make stronger instead
of weaker the general government in
the confidence and affections of the
people. It w'ould aid the solution of
problems, which the general govern
ment can never solve to the satisfac
tion of communities with conflicting
interests. It would make secure for
ever the rights of the smaller and
weaker States. It would make Rhode
Island as secure as Texas, Connecti
cut as Ohio, Florida as New York.
Nor do the increased duties, which
would thus devolve upon the local
government, transcend in any meas
ure the magnitude, dignity and im
portance of those already intrusted to
the States. There is scarcely a right
of person or of property; scarcely a
relationship to family, church or so
ciety that is not now defined or pro
tected by State laws and State courts.
There is scarcely a barrier against
crime or a law for the defense of home,
of reputation, of life or of freedom
that is not erected or enacted by our
State governments. There is scarcely
one of that great body of rights ex
torted at Runnymede, or in the
“petition of rights” by Parliament, or
one for which Hampden died or Crom
well conquered, that are not now se
cured to the American people by their
local governments.
To aid, then, in preparing the State
for the still broader and more general
duties of the future becomes a com
manding obligation upon all patriotic
citizens. Yielding to the Federal gov
ernment the most loyal devotioD, |
earnestly supporting it in all its con
stitutional vigor as the “sheet anchor”
of peace and safety, let Georgia re
solve that this State at least shall be
prepared for whatever the future may
have in store for it. Let the broadest
and most practical education of her
children be an object of universal
concern. Let her rich mental capa
bilities, her varied mineral and manu
facturing resources and all her trans
portation facilities be assiduously de
veloped. Let her agriculture* which
is the foundation of her prosperity
and upon which depends her progress,
in every direction, be an object of pe
culiar and absorbing interest and be
encouraged and promoted by every
legitimate support. Let her credit be
sustained at its present honorable and
enviable standard. Let the most ca
pable of her sons realize that in the
service of their State, in making her
laws, shaping her policies and advanc
ing her material interests, are great
honors and fertile fields for useful
ness. Let the wise care of her Chris
tian charities, the reformation of her
prisons and the still higher elevation
of public morals enhance the just
pride and augment the self-respect
of her people and add new glories to
the already splendid history of our
beloved State.
BARNARD’S NEW COMET.
Coming Towards .the Earth at the
Rate of 2,000,000 Miles a Day.
The result of the calculation on the
orbit of the comet recently discovered
by Professor Barnard was announced
from the Dudley observatory last
week. It should be remembered that
this celestial wanderer is not the one
whose identity with Davis’ comet was
pointed out several days ago; but it is
a brighter one, visible just before sun
rise. It is believed to be making its
first visit to our system, as no comet
like it has been recorded for centuries
past.
The heavenly visitor is now on the
south side of the ecliptic or plane of
the earths's orbit. In a few days it
will pass above that orbit, and' will
go on day after day nearing the sun
until the middle of December, when it
will only be 60,000,000 miles away, ac
cording to calculations. The comet
is at present 200,000,000 miles from
the earth and is growing rapidly
brighter. It is already half as bright
again as it w r as at discovery, six days
ago, and by the middle of December
will be twenty-two times as bright as
it is now. It will remain so faint,
however, as to be hardly visible to
the naked eye, even at its brightest.
Its movement toward the earth is
2,000,000 miles a day.
Speaking of comets in general Pro
fessor Barnard recently said that
they are among the most interesting
and mysterious of the celestial bodies.
A curious fact is that the tails of com
ets always point from the sun. If the
comet is approaching the sun its tail
follows it, and if it is leaving the sun
its tail precedes it. This known fact
has greatly puzzled astronomers, who
have never yet b$en satisfied witii any
theory that has been advanced as to
the cause of this queer freak on the
part of comets. The most accepted*, is
that when a comet approaches tho-
sun it exerts a double force, attracting
particles of the nebulus and acting on
certain matter in the nebulus so as to
cause such a disturbing- influence as
to force the nebulus matter out of tha
sun.
As to the origin of comets, the old
theory that they are bodies wandering
in infinite space is most generally ac
cepted. According to the theory'the
comet passing within the influence of
the sun, or Jupiter or Saturn, or
other great planets, is drawn within
our planetary system. If its velocity
is so great as to pass round the sun in
a parabolical orbit it may pass off
again into space, but if it is weaker
the sun or some of the planets may
draw it back so as to cause it to des
cribe an elliptical orbit, and so fix it—
in our system.
Comets are hard things to calcul ate
on; there is so much to influence them
and influence their course, and some
times astronomers will predict that
one will show itself with great brilian-
cy,. when, on the contrary it may turn
off so as to be scarcely visible.
The Chinese have records of obser
vations of comets for Ceveral hundred
years before Christ, but most of these
are so vague as to be almost value
less. Some are sufficiently exact,
however, as to enable the star gazer *
to roughly foretell a comet’s reappear
ance.
As to the causes of the different de
grees of brilliancy, Prof. Barnard
said that little is known, but it is
thought that some of them, being
composed of more sensitive matter,
when approached close to the sun
throw out the nebula that forms the
bright tail; while the other, having a
hard headea nueleus, rushes close by.
the sun without being affected.
Healing Disease by Physical
Contact.
There is no question but that there
are numerous persons so generously
endowed with vitalizing fluid, as to be-
capable of alleviating pain and heal
ing disease, by physical contact* who-
have no conception of it themselves..
We have been made acquainted with
a number of instances of cure by such
healers without contiguity or manipu
lation of any sort, their mere presence
being sufficient to effect that object.
This is particularly the case in re
spect to the lighter forms of nervous
troubles. The presence of such per
sons in the sick chamber is of itself a
healing balm to the afflicted, who is
able to feel the vitalizing force though
ignorant of its source. On the other
hand there are persons whose pres
ence at the bed-side’of a sufferer only
adds to his suffering. Hence it is that
the family physician, of all others,
should be naturally refined and sym
pathetic, at once capable of compre
hending not alone the physical, but
also the mental or spiritual wants of
his patients, and in a manner, minis
tering to them out of his abundant
sympathy and good cheer.—Hall’s
Journal of Health.
Mr. F. Rentschler, San Francisco,
Cal., contracted a severe cold, and be
came so hoarse he could not speak.
He tried a number of remedies with
out benefit, and even the efforts of
two physicians failed to. give* the
slightest relief. He was induced to
try Red Star Cough Cure, one bottle
of which entirely cured him.
