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Volume LVII.
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Ii 1829. I
“ 1819. (Consolidated 1872.
Milledgeville, Ga., November 30, 1886
Number 21.
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, 188G, 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 lrn] Ordinary.
Petition for
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, November Term,
1886.
W HEREAS, Walter Paine lias 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, 1888, 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.
17 lrn.] D. B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
Petition for
Letters o! Administration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinarv, Nov. Term 1886.
W HEREAS, C. W. Ennis has filed
his 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 Nov ember 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
eity 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:
All that tract or parcel of land, in
the 321st District, G. M., of ssid coun
ty bounded north by 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.
of M. J. Davis, deceased.
Nov. 1st, 1886. IT tds.
A QUESTION ABOUT t
Browns Iron%
[win Sheriff’s Sale Postponed.
ILL be sold before the Court
House door, i.i the city of Mil-
jville, during legal sale hours, on
irst Tuesday in December, 1886,
ollowing property, to wit:
[ that tract or parcel of land, lying
e 321st District, of said county,
aining sixty-two acres, more or
known as the Bass or old Ham*
I place, bounded by land of the
urn on the west and the River
on the east. Also four acres,
. or less, known as the Jackson
. bounded north by Ben Brax-
Lnd Wilburn Scott, south by the
e described Bass place. Lev led
5 the property of T. H Kenan, to
fy one Superior Court fi fa in fa-
>f Mrs. Elizabeth F. Stembridge
\ H. Kenan, and one in favor of
srs Turk & Byington vs. 1. H
an. Also at the same time and
e, one house and lot in the city' of
>dgeville, known in the plan of
city as lot No, 3, in square 58,
aining one acre, more or less,
ided north by lot of Mrs. H. G.
an east by L. N. Callaway, south
state of R. M. Orme^ Levied on
he property of T. H. Kenan to
fy one Conty Court fi fa in favcr
,e Milledgeville Banking Co., vs.
Kenan and W. T. Conn. Also
ie same time and place, the drug
» on Wayne street, of Dr. l. ±1.
an the entire stock of goods, con
ag of drugs, fixtures, cigars, tobac-
J? Levied on by virtue of a Dis-
; warrant for rent, in favor of W.
L nn Agent; also three County
fas in favor of Thnrber, Why-
* Co., vs. T. H. Kenan: one
a tv Court fi fa in favor of Bycke
fig vs. T. H. Kenan; one County
A fa in favor of Lamar, Rankin
onar vs. T. H. Kenan and other
hi hand. Sold as the property
’ H. Kenan to satisfy said fi fas-
C. W. ENNIS, Sheriff.
g, 1st, 1886.
rsA blanks for sale at this office.
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Petition fop.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court ot Ordinary, November Term, 1886.
W HEREAS, W. H.Stembridge has filed
his petition in said Court for letters
of Administration upon the estate of Mrs.
Martha F. Robinson, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
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 December, 1886, why per
manent Letters of Administration upon the
estate o! said deceased, should not be
granted to said petitioner, as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signature,
this November the 1st, 1886.
DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
17 lrn.l
Fair Notice.
A LL persons who are indebted to me
will please call and settle, and all ac
counts and notes made previous to this
year if not paid or satisfactorily arranged
by December the 1st, 1886, will be placed
in the bands of an officer for collection.
Very Respectfully,
„ M. HINES.
Milledgeville, Nov. 9, ’8G. 18 lm.
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EDITORIAL GLIMPSES.
It is only when the law gets hold of
a man that he is willing to confess
himself a lunatic.—Philadelphia North
American.
Hon. Charles Francis Adams, of
Boston, died on the 21st at his resi
dence in that city. He had suffered
for several years from brain troubles
arising from overtaxing his brain in
literary work. Charles Francis Ad
ams was the third son of John Quin-
cey Adams, and the only child that
survived him. He was born in Bos
ton, August 18, 1807. Mr. Adams was
one of the founders of the Republican
party. He served two terms in Con
gress with great distinction and was
Minister to England from 1861 to 1868,
displaying great ability in that re
sponsible position.
A Truthful Man.
Hon. David Davis used to tell the
frozen truth when he said:
“Each year every local paper gives
from $100* to $5,000 in free lines for the
benefit of the community in which it
is located. No other agency can or
will do this. Tlie local editor, in pro
portion to his means, does more for
his town than any ten men, and in all
fairness, man with man, ought he not
to be supported, not because you hap
pened to like him or admire his writ
ings, but because a local paper is the
best investment a community can
make. It may not be brilliant or
crowded with thoughts, but financial
ly it is of more benefit to a community
than a preacher or teacher. Under
stand us now, we do not mean moral
ly or intellectually, but financially,
and yet on the moral question you
will find a majority of the local papers
on the right side of the question. To
day the editors of the local papers do
the most work for the least money of
any men on earth. Subscribe for
your local paper, not as a charity but
as an investment.”
The Iriqnois Club.
The fourth annual banquet of this
celebrated tariff reform club, took
place at the Palmer House, Chicago,
on the night of the 17th, inst. Ad
dresses were made by Speaker Car
lisle, Senator Beck, Hons. W. J.
Sparks, M. W. Faller, Edward S.
Bragg, J. Sterling Moran, James R.
Doolittle, L. J. Kinnie and F. N.
Lehman. Mr. Carlisle devoted his
time to American Industries, and
showed that their growth and pros
perity cannot be promoted by unnec
essary or unequal taxation. He plain
ly demonstrated that the government
cannot make its citizens rich and pros
perous by taxing them, and demon
strated the absurdity of the protec
tive tariffites who attempted to make
the public believe that the farmer
can be made more prosperous by in
creasing the tax on his land, or that
the manufacturer could be benefitted
by compelling him to pay a high rate
of taxation on his machinery, or his
income. Yet such a proposition
would be no more unreasonable than
to say that the prosperity of the peo
ple is promoted by imposing taxes up
on their food, their clothing, their
building material, their means of
transportation and tools and all the
implements used in their industries.
Taxes do not create wealth they de
stroy it. These taxes are imposed up
on one class of the people to increase
the profits of another. Taxes should
be equal and uniform. It is evident
if taxes are not equal somebody is
cheated. If a tax is put upon foreign
blankets, which makes a farmer pay
four dollars a piece for blankets that
he could get at three dollars without
the tax, he is cheated and the maker
of the blanket is the gainer. Why
don’t the advocates of the tariff tax
show that this is not so if it is not.
The friends of the high tariff say, this
tax is paid by the foreigner. They
ought to know that is not true, for
the foreigner ceases to bring his cheap
blankets to this country on account
of the tax and the American maker
pockets the extra dollar. There
would be some sense in imposing the
tax if the foreigner would pay it, but
he won’t, and sends bis goods to other
markets. The people ought to be
free from this unjust tax, and many
others imposed upon them by the
tariff. The democratic party is op
posed to this policy; the republican
party favors it and this is one of the
leading distinctions between the two
parties. In these few remarks we are
not exhibiting at length the great ar
gument of Mr Carlisle, for want of
space. The object of a tariff is to
produce revenue for the government,
and it is wrong to make an unneces
sary tax to the amount of nearly a
million of dollars for the benefit of the
tariff monopolists.
Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Nov. 23, 1886.
Editor Union-Recorder:
Yesterday was the day of ex-Presi-
dent Arthur’s funeral, and all of the
Executive Departments were closed
and the clerks had holiday. The Uni
ted States Supreme Court adjourned
from Friday until Tuesday for the
same reason. All of the public build
ings in Washington are draped in
black for the dead ex-President and
flags are displayed at half mast. Pres
ident Cleveland and several members
of his cabinet attended the funeral
and Congress was represented by a
committee of Senators and Represen
tatives.
Since tlie black draperies have been
hung on the front portico of the
White House, the President and Mrs.
Cleveland take their carriage at the
south entrance when they go out for
a drive, and all the projected gayeties
at the Executive Mansion will be post
poned for the thirty days of mourn
ing. Then, the black bunting will be
taken down and folded up and laid
away to do service again at the death
of the next high official or ex-official
of the Government, and the gay so
cial season will begin.
The custom of shutting down
on public work, and turning fif
teen thousand employes loose when
ever a President or ex-President,
a Cabinet officer or ex-Cabinet officer
happens to die, is a quest onable way
of showing respect to the distinguish
ed dead. It is a pic-nic for the clerks
and a time for congratulation and
they would be glad to multiply by a
hundred fold the occasions of public
sorrow that give them a day off and
out. There is no doubt that the cus
tom would be more honored in the
breach than in the observance, but it
is one of those things that a long line
of precedent has established and it
would be difficult to decide where or
with whose demise it should end.
President Cleveland has been much
displeased at efforts to get him to in
terfere in the now widely discussed
Washington Police scandal. He does
not feel, in the present condition of
affairs, that he would be warranted
in taking hold of the matter, although
the time may come when he may be
called upon to take some action. The
President is still deeply absorbed with
the preparation of his message, and
although he is subjected to some un
avoidable interruptions, the approach
es to him are closely guarded.
The President’s appointment of Mr.
Fulton as Paymaster-General of the
Navy was very gratifying to naval
officers, and his appointment of Col.
Moore as Surgeon General of the Ar
my was received with satisfaction
among officers of the Army.
The regular army officers who have
been examining the militia of the States
and Territories have reported com
mending the efficiency ol the respec
tive organizations. They think, how
ever, that the armed militia of the
country would be doubled if Congress
would appropriate annually a much
larger sum to be distributed among
the States for improved arms and ac
coutrements. In the latter case it
is estimated that the militia would
consist of 300,000 well drilled men,
who could be called into active ser
vice at a moment’s notice, and who
would be almost as effective at the
outset of a war, as the regular Army.
Many conventions and associations
—more than ever before—want to
come to Washington during the next
year. The National Grange has de
cided to hold all further meetings of
that order in Washington, and a com
mittee has been appointed to take
measures for the erection of a suitable
building here for its officers and its
sessions.
Soon after Congress meets there
will be a large gathering of notabili
ties here to discuss the proposed Ex
position at Washington in 1889 and
and ’92. And later there is to be a
convention of an educational charac
ter which will attract a good many
people. It will be in the interest of
Federal aid to common schools and
will be composed of school superln
tendents from the various States and
Territories.
It has been proposed that each
State of the Union shall erect in this
city a handsome building to be used
as a State headquarters, and perhaps
as a residence for the Senators of the
respective States. The plan, which is
likely to be carried out some time,
would prove a great convenience to
each State, and would add much to
the grandeur of the National Capital.
‘1 Love You.
To My Wife on Our Wedding Anniversary.
“I love you!” Swift have sped the years
Since, like the south-wind, breathing low,
That soft voice on my raptnred ears
Fell like the gentle sighs one hears
When dew drops fall like happy tears
Beneath the sunset’s dying glow.
“I love you!” This sweet, simple phrase,
The purest gem of life, contains—
Not all the great world’s meed of praise
Such wealth of happiness conveys,
Nor lingers long in after days
When little else of life remains.
“I love you!” Oh, the blessed thought,
That one true heart is all my own;
And nearer earth to heaven is brought
While in the soul what wonders wrought!
A thousand glories new are tanght,
And hope 8 unfold before unknown.
“I love you!” As the sunbeams burst
Through clouds that shroud the sullen skies;
A star when storms are raging worst—
Soft rain to burning lips that thirst—
So comes this holiest bliss uncursed,
A sacred joy that never dies.
“I love you!” All that grieves and harms
Is driven from out the throbbing heart.
Abides a soothiug peace that charms
All cares and sorrows’ wild alarms,
And in those close entwining arms
Content is found, and perfect rest.
Montgomery M. Folsom.
Macon, Ga.
The Trial of Queen Elvira.
Ex-Vice President Wm. A. Wheeler
is lying forgotten at his home in Ma
lone, New York, a slave to opium and
a chronic invalid, and has dropped
completely out of the public mind.
The Augusta Evening News, says,
“Seeing chief Platt and Mayor May,
in conversation this morning, (19th,)
enquired when the new paid fire de
partment woilld be organized. The
Chief replied about the middle of next
month.”
The Jews are talking of transfer
ring their Sabbath to our Sunday, be
ginning with the year of 1900. The
matter is exciting much attention in
England.
Powderly always orders the Knights
of Labor to return to work whenever
he sees that a strike is a failure,, but
if there is a prospect of the Knights
winning he keeps as silent as a clam
in a mud bank.
In looking over some portion of
Spanish history during what is called
the Dark Ages, we came across the
celebrated trial of Queen Elvira, the
wife of Sancho the Great as he was
termed who succeeded his father,
Garcia, in 1034. We make up a brief
account of the trial which we think
will be as interesting to our readers
as a story. He was styled the great
for his achievements in fighting the
Moors who for a long time by the
force of arms maintained their su
premacy in a large portion of Spain.
At the death his of father he succeeded
to the crown of Aragon, Navarre and
Sobrabe and added to them in right
of his wife, the earldom of Castile
and made the river Pisuarga the
boundary between his possessions and
the kingdom of Leon. His wife Elvi
ra was the daughter of another San-
eho, Earl of Castile. She gave him
three sons, Garcia, Gonzalo and Fer
nando. By his first wife he had a
son whom he named Ramiro. Sancho,
the Great, upon setting out on anoth
er expedition against the Moors, left
his favorite horse to the care of the
Queen with the express injunction
that no one should ride him in his ab
sence. Urged however by the en
treaties of her eldest son Garcia,
Elvira would have consented to his
using the horse, but for the remon
strances of Sesi a conscientious and
faithful knight who urged her to. obey
the instructions of the King.
Incensed by her refusal, Garcia pre
vailed on his two younger brothers to
enter into a conspiracy to accuse
their mother of faithlessness to the
royal bed. They vowed revenge, pro
fessing to believe that Sesi and the
Queen were both faithless to the
King. This they believed was the
most obvious means of involving both
in the some ruin. Don Rodrigo, Arch*
Bishop of Toledo, in alluding to El
vira’s case thought it necessary about
the middle of the 13th century, upon
relating the story of Elvira and her
sons, to set a great value upon an ex
cellent horse and have it always in
readiness in case of a sudden invasion
of the Moors and it was the custom
for kings and noblemen to build
the stables close by their ladies’
chambers that in the absence of their
husbands and protectors, they could
seek safety by flight. Few historical
readers need being reminded that
Andromache is represented by Homer
as in the habit of feeding her hus
band’s horses.
Influenced and distracted by the ex
traordinary fact that her own sons
were her accusers, the calm and de
liberate denial of criminality by the
Queen had no weight with the King,
and Sesi’s vehement advocacy of her
innocence only added to the firmness
of the King in insisting upon her trial.
The day being come, the lists for the
combat were opened before the castle
of Naxera, where she was kept as a
prisoner. It was feared by those who
knew the courage, power and re
vengeful spirit of Prince Garcia that
the unfortunate accused would hardly
find a champion among the nobility
of her kingdom. But the herald had
scarcely proclaimed the trial by bat
tle, when a knight armed at all points,
rode boldly toward the high scaffold
on which the king and the judges
were seated and fiercely flung his
gauntlet almost in the accuser’s face.
It was Ramiro, his half brother, who
swore he would either wash out the
stain fixed upon the Queen in the blood
of her recreant sons or seal with his own
tue high opinion he had of her virtue
and innocence. . ,, , , ,
The Master of the Field had al
ready exemined the armour and wea *
pons of the combatants and placed
them so as to prevent either of tnem
being dazzled by the sun in the en
counter, when a holy Ia an, in *
habited a solitary cell m the fastnesses
of the neighbouring mountains, broke
through the surrounding multitude,
and rushing fearlessly between the
levelled lances, loudly called upon the
king to stop the combat. A wild sur
prise startled the multitude. The au
thority of austere sanctity was never
disowned among the warlike Span
iards. At the monarch s command
the Master of the Field, who had
backed his horse towards the barrier,
darted at one leap, between the com
batants; their lances were raised and
all hung breathless on the emaciated
lips of the Hermit. “Lady,” cried he
to the Queen, who veiled from head
to foot in a black scarf, sat on a low
stool below the platform, “Lady,
look up to Heaven and fear not that
He who sits far higher than that throne
from which thou dreadest the blind
award of man, bath left thee to per
ish in thine innocence. And thou,
credulous king, cans’t thou thus cast
thy best jewell to be trampled upon,
because the foul breath of calumny
dare for a moment to dim its lustre!
The wrath of Heaven fall—but God
forgive me, for thus forgetting the
meekness of him whose minister I am.
Look not, O, King, for satisfaction to
your doubts, from human blood. By
that which was shed, on the cross, I
swear, thy Queen is innocent. The
villainy of her accusers was but last
night avowed to me by one of them,
under the sacred seal of sacramental
confession. I cannot, Heaven itself,
cannot save from the shame which is
due to their felony. But no other
punishment may be inflicted upon
them. The word of a priest has been
pledged to the repentant sinner, when
kneeling at my feet in voluntary con
fession of his crime. I cannot reveal
the name of him who now saves his
mother’s life and honor, and it would
be unjust that he suffered with the
obdurate and impenitent. Beware,
therefore, O, King, of a fresh error,
worse and more impious than thy first.
Beware of sealing up the lips of sin
ners by thy severity, and stopping
their only access to the seat of mercy.
Pardon thy sons, O, King, I charge
thee, pardon them as thou wilt have
forgiveness.”
“I will pardon them, holy man,”
said the King, half choked with con
tending feelings, “but can you, you
my injured wife, pardon either them
or me?” “I have already done it. I
forgave them before I left my prison,
when I implored forgiveness and pro
tection for myself,” answered Elvira,
raising the corner of her black veil,
exhibiting a soft animation in her
beautiful dark eyes as s ie looked-
with a peaceful and composed coun
tenance upon her husband. A shout
of enraptured admiration rang round
the lists. The sound of popular ac
clamation seemed to breathe an air of
dignity over the mild and serene fea
tures of the Queen. She flung the
scarf at once upon her shoulders, and
turning first to the people, then slight
ly inclining her majestic figure to
wards the King, “Sir,” she said, “my
forgiveness would be as full and un
conditional as that which I desire
from Heaven, if I alone were concern
ed. My sons, yes, they shall bear
that name. My sons have been ap
pointed heirs to your vast dominions,
each to wear an independent crown^
Let this your will remain unaltered.
Yet I owe a sacred duty to my sub
jects of Castile. The proud inheri
tance which Providence has placed in
my hands must not have reason to ac
cuse me of having neglected its hon
or. One alone of my sons has evinced
a true sense of his guilt. Who it ia
must forever remain sealed up in tho
bosom of the holy priest who heard
his confession. But certain it is that
the disclosure, which has saved me
from dishonor, could not come from
the author of the conspiracy. No,
my Castilian subjects shall never da
honor to Garcia. Wculd that I had.
the power to reward with that crown,
my noble, my generous champion!
But I will not involve these kingdoms
in a destructive quarrel, merely ta
gratify my private feelings. All I
demaud is that the portions of the in
heritance b • different-y allotted. Since
one of the three must have Castile,
let it be given to my son Fernando. A
mother, next to God, can see into the-
hearts of her children. I will remem
ber when last he hung upon my neck.
I feel his last kiss, and it tells me he
could not have joined his mother’s
enemies but in the hope to save her!
At these words, one of the knights,
lifting both his hands and pressing;
them against his close helmet, was ob
served to lose his balance in the sad
dle and drop helpless on the horse’s
neck. A look of inexpressible tender
ness was directed by the Queen to the
spot; but beckoning with her hand to
hush the disturbance which the-
Prince’s attendents had occasioned to
prevent his falling to the ground.—
“My last and most sacred duty,” she
continued, “the acknowledgement of
my gratitude, remains to be perform
ed. Thou Ramiro, shall hencefor
ward be my adopted son. The states,
of Aragon, which upon my marriage,
the King settled upon me, shall be
thy own inheritance. It is not in my
power to do more. Heaven I trust
will crown thee with blessings, as man
cannot ensure even with the gift of a
throne strong, however, as is the im
pulse of my gratitude and ardent as
my prayers are for thy prosperity.
I still more fervently implore mercy
upon the unrepentent. But my pray
er is, sooner heard when asking bless
ings’ than when it attempts to stand
between a hardened offender and the
uplifted arm of divine vengeance.”
Fernando inherited the states of
Castile raising them to the rank of a
kingdom, from that of an independ
ent Earldom. By his marriage with
Sancha, the only child of Borwudo,
King of Leon, he ascended the throne
of that kingdom. In his wars, Garcia,
the author of the conspiracy was
slain in battle, so also, was Gonzalo,
the other conspirator. Fernando rose
eventually to become the Emperor of
Spain.
Mr. L. D. Vinson, Cashier D. & I.
R. R., has tried and endorses Red
Star Cough Cure.
