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UNION & RECORDER.
Kuoin Our Traveling Correspondent.
We soon reached Augusta where,
•ijna.rtered at tlie Adkins House, the
reflection forced itself upon us that in
tHhe se selfish times—these “piping
times of peace”—when the traveler
fendslittle else than hard beds, harder
fare and high prices, it is refreshing to
&nd occasionally a new, neat, clean
place, good fare and withal a genial,
ciever host, ever anxious to make his
jgwests comfortable without wanting
kll they have to pay for it, for we only
paid a dollar and half a day—fifty
e«nts less than we paid at poorly
Jcept houses in smaller neighboring
towns. This is no gratuitous adver
tising, but is said only in self gratula-
taon and in that spirit of justice that
prompts us to give due credit to those
who try to perform a conscientious
duty, and are not entirely swallow
ed up in self-aggrandizement.
Situated so pleasantly and so cheap
ly- that, even with a pocket book
which Jumbo might have just trod
■upon, we could afford to spend sev
eral days in that fine, old time city, and
we sauntered forth in search of items
of interest.
Among others, we made the ac
quaintance of Mr. Geo. A. Oates, a
prominent music dealer and publish
er, who is quite an Antiquarian in his
way. He seems happy in collecting
ail kinds of old relics which have any
historical interest attached to them.
Se showed us an artistic, life size bust
portrait of Geo. Washington and en
tirely different from those seen in al
most every shop window, painted
from life just after the battle of Prince-
£gu—showing the old college building
in the back ground; painted by
Charles Polk, a brother-in-law to
Rembrandt Peale, the celebrated ar-
tistr, also, an old engraving of New
"STork city made in 1740; one also of
fche coronation of Queen Victoria
in. 1838, and likewise a fine paint-
iug in oil of the naval battle on Lake
Erie, painted in 1822 by Gamary, ar
tist to the Admiral of France. A
very valued relic he showed us was
the identical private medicine chest,
carried by Washington through the
Revolutionary war. He told us that
he also had had one of Gen. Wash
ington's own autograph letters, but
that he had sold it to some relic hun
ter for twenty do.lars. Mr. Oates has
also a large collection of old, rare
books—one of which is Henry C.
Bohn's English Catalogue—thicker
than the largest Webster's Unabridg
ed Dictionary, in which were the ti
tles, and some whole title pages, of
twenty three thousand three hundred
and eight old, rare books, many of
them over a hundred years old. He
took great pleasure in exhibiting a
Greek Testament, printed A. D. 1020,
and a Hebrew Bible printed in 1625,
both of which had been bound togeth
er in one volume. He showed us like
wise one of the very few copies now
extant of that fine French book the
“Musee Royale par Laurent” in two
£arge Atlas Folio Volumes, containing
one hundred and sixty fine large steel
engravings, published at a cost of
1020 Francs— equal to about $400 of
our money.
Another relic exceedingly interest
ing to any musician was “an Album
of Autographs collected by Guiseppe
De Begnis, (pronounced Debeeny,)
containing the autographs and, in
some instances, the sentiments of over
four hundred of the most celebrated
singers and musicians of the world, in
their own handwriting; among whom
were Jenny Lind, Mario, Strakosch,
Ole Bull, Paganini and many others
and a portrait of Paganini, the cham
pion violinist of the world, drawn
with pen and ink by his (Paganini’s)
own hand. The title page of this
book was so beautifully written in old
.English, German text and Roman
letters, that one would have imagin
ed it engraved.
But the relic that interested us
most was a Register—in two volumes
—that was kept at the tomb of Lord
Byron fioin 1824 to 1847, in which vis
itors to the spot recorded their names,
dates, and any sentiment they chose
to express. Here are a few of them.
The first entry in the book is
“The Duke of Sussex visited Lord
.Byron’s tomb Oct. 1824.”
Another is simply
“Count Pietro Garnbra, Jan. 21st
1825. Washington Irving and Martin
and John Van Buren wrote their
names in the register at the same time.
In July 1825, some one who signed
no name but simply the date wrote:
“At this period, no monument, not
even a slab, such as records the death
of the humblest villager, has been
erected to mark the spot where all
tliat is mortal of the greatest man of
our day reposes: and he has been dead
more than twelve months.”
On another page occurred these
lines; Nov. 18th, 1847,
and
imbued with the Yankee’s notorious
penchant for “Strictly Business” and
use the register for advertising—See
this for instance—“Chas. Freeman,
the American Giant, 7ft 3— weight 24
stone, and Benjamin Caumb, champ
ion of England, March 13th, 1842.”
But we cannot give more although
it is touching and at the same time
amusing to read first a sad, sentimen
tal tribute and then suddenly drop
from the sublime to the ridiculous, as
for instance:
“Here we drop a tear of respect
over the greatest English Poet. After
life’s fitful fever he sleeps well,
here let him R. I. P.
Jas. Spencer.
July 21st, 1844.”
Not meaning in the modern slang
phrase “let him rip” but the R. I. P.
being simply an economical way of
writing “let him Rest In Peace.”
But ere I make this too long I will
desist and let my readers R. I. P.
UQ STTAT^.P t ^
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 18th, 1886.
Among our Exchanges.
Erast as Brooks, the veteran editor
of New York, died last Thursday.
The estate of the late ex-President
Arthur is valued at between $300,000
and $400,000.
It seems to be easier for a paper to
support a candidate than for the can
didate to support the paper.
Jay Gould believes, as the result of
his own experience, that “men appre
ciate their own earnings more than a
gift.”
A cheek for one cent was .drawn in
New York recently by the Govern
ment in favor of an importer who had
paid excess of duty to that extent.
Now that the mince pie season has
opened and the sausage is thorough
ly ripe, it is better to have faith than
lose your appetite.—Philadelphia Her
ald.
Poverty will never be banished
from the world. More virtue springs
from poverty than wealth. If there
were no poverty many virtues would
cease for need of a field for exercise.
Massacred.—Aden, Nov. 22.—Na
tives of Ambadu have massacred the
captain and seven of the crew of the
French man-ol-war Penguin. The
captain and his men had landed to
get water for his ship.
Mr. Brandenburg, of Philadelphia,
owns the largest dog in America. Ko
loss is a Danish hound of noble ances
try, is 9 feet long and 5 feet high. He
has an immense head, and a huge
body of a tawny color, streaked with
dark gray.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 23.—Asbury
McCorrnic, a boy 11 years of age,
while handling a pistol in the village
of Buford, to-day, accidentally shot
through the heart his sister Lizzie,
aged 16. Death was almost instanta
neous.
A demand of the future will proba
bly be the holding of the divorce
courts in secret session. Litigants of
the upper crust do not like to have
their family skeletons aired in public,
although their neighbors actually en
joy the thing.—Savannah News.
It does run in families they say.
Rev. Sam Jones’ brother, joe, ’is
preaching up in North Georgia in a
dialect that will almost take the
bark off a hickory tree. It is stated
that he calls things by their correct
names right oat in meeting.—Sa van]
nah News.
When Rev. Sam Jones, in Omaha,
Neb., asked any man present who had
never spoken a cross word to his wife
to stand up, a round-faced, good na-
tured individual, with a beard, stood
up. “Thank God, there’s one man
who never said a cross word to his
wife,” said Rev. Sam. “I’m a bache
lor,” shouted the round faced man.
The question as to what constitutes
a lawful fence has many phases, and
has never yet been definitely settled.
It is generally agreed that such a
fence ought to be “horse high, bull
strong and pig tight,” but Vermont
has a law restricting fences to six feet
in height, when they are so situated
as to shut out the view from a neigh
bor’s house.—Savannah News.
Capital Prize- $150,000.
“We do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and Quar
terly Drawings of The Louisiana state Lotte
ry Company, and in person manage and control
the Drawings themselves, and that the same are
conducted with honesty, fairness, and in good
faith toward all parties, and we authorize the
Company to use this certificate, with fac-similes
of oar signatures attached, in its advertise
ments.”
We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will
pay all prizes drawn in the LcnlBiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at oar coun
ters.
J. H. OGLESBY, Fres. Louisiana Nat’IBk.
J. W. KILBRETH, Pres. State Nat’] Bank.
A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat’IBk.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION!
w Over Half a Million Distributed.
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
Incorporated in 1868 for 26 years by the Legist
latnre for Educational and Charitable purposes
—with a capital of $1,000,000—to which a re
serve fnnd of over $550,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
was made a part of the present State Constitu
tion adopted December 2d, A. D., 1870.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings will
take place monthly. It never scales or post
pones. Look at the following Distribution:
199th Grand Monthly
AXDTHK
EXTRAORDINARY QUARTERLY DRAWING
In the Academy of Music, New Orleans,
Tuesday, December 14, 1886.
Under the personal supervision and manage
ment of
Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD, of Lonisiaoa and
Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Virginia.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000.
^•Notice.—Tickets are Ten Dollars only.
Halves, ®5. Fifths, S>2. Tenths, 81.
LIST OF PHIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150,000.... $150,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF
1 GRAND PRIZE OF
2 LARGE PRIZES OF
4 LARGE PRIZES OF
20 PRIZES OF
60
W. H. CARR’S
MILLINERY
—AND—
Dry Goods
Emporium I
Always in the Lead!
Our Milliners the Best!
Our Stock the Largest!
Our Prices the Lowest!
50.000.
20,000
10.000. ...
5,000
1,000....
5co.;..
100 “ 300
200 “ 200
600 “ 100....
1,000 “ 50
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes of $200
100 “ “ 100....
100 “ “ 75....
50.000
20.000
20,000
20,000
20,000
25.000
30.000
40.000
60.000
50.000
$20,000
10.000
7,500
2,2'G Prizes, amounting to $522,500
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only to the otllce of the Company in New Orleans.
For further inlormatlon write clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express Mon
ey Orders or New York Exchange in ordinary
letter. Currency by Express (at our expense,)
addressed
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.,
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D. C.
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 city.
All the Latest
Novelties!
Cooking and Heating Stoves at Cost!
As I am greatly in need of more room I hive , ,, , .
sell out all my STOVES AT COST to make to , the conclusion to
will sell Stoves at actual cost. Come and see fo^ f ° r ot j ie f goods. I
not satisfied you need not buy. I will sell you a good & lves and lf y° u are
Cook Stove and Furniture for $8.00.
A nice Parlor Stove for $3.25. Come soon before the choice is T
not have any more at these prices. I have only a few 8 ’ as 1
shall
Left. I will close them out at less than cost, all for strictly cash don’t ask fn*
credit on these prices. ’ SK Ior
I have just received a large lot of 10c. Tinware, and can now fit you nn
with Tinware as cheap as any one. J F
Tin Cups, 2 for a nickle.
12 quart Dish Pans, 20c.
Largest Size Wash Basin, 10c.
Pie Plates, 35c. per dozen.
2 quart Covered Buckets, 10c.
10 quart Milk Buckets, 20c.
2 quart Coffee Pots, 10c.
Milledgeville, Nov. 30th. 1886.
4 quart Coffee Pots, 20c.
Bowls and Pitchers, 75c.
Chamber Tin Set, $1.65 set
6 quart Milk Pans, 10c.
10 gal. Lard Cans, 65c.
Lamps from 20c. to $10.00
Fvie Lamps with Shade, $1.00.
JOS. STALEY.
12 tf
Make P.O.Money Orders payable
and aiflress Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
NOV. 9tii, 1886 18 5t
“The Hueknell bells were just ringing a peal
Mf friends were then taking their grog,;
1 can hardly express how indignant I feel
riia: Lord Byron fares worse than his dog.
Some day his remains will be honored, I trust,
And a far nobler shrine be erected;
Time soon will render more precious his dust
And he be, like Shakespeare, respected.
J. J. Faulkner, Oxford.”
The allusion to Byron’s dog refers
to the fact that Bryon had him
self put a monument over his dog
‘Boatswain.’
Another odd entry in the register
reads: “Joseph Carr, Engraver,
Hounds gate, Nottingham, visited this
place for the first time to witness the
funeral of Lady Bryon, mother of
the mnch lamented late Lord Bryon,
Ang. 9th, 1811, whose coffin plate 3
inches by 5, I engraved, and now I
once more re-visit the spot to drop a
tear as a tribute of unfeigned respect
to-the mortal remains of that noble
"British Bard; “Though lost to sight to
memory dear.”
Right under this, some wag who
signed not his name wrote—
“Did Joseph Carr get paid for the
coffin plate? If so why mention it
again?”
All sorts of persons seem to have
visited the tomb, some simply sign
ing their names, some giving expres
sion to delicate and touching marks
of respect, some ludicious in the ex
treme, while others seem to have been
Amkricus, Ga., Nov. 23.—A. C.
Bivins and Miss Mattie Hawkins
were married at the residence of the
bride's father, Judge Willis A. Hawk
ins, at 4 o’clock this afternoon, Rev.
J. O. A. Clark, officiating. The mar
riage was very quiet, on account of
Judge Hawkins’ illness. Only rela
tives of the family were invited.
Governor McDaniel never uttered
a wiser thing than when he said: “The
penitentiary is not a place for recrea
tion, and that violators of the law
have forfeited their right to either
liberty or ease. Society has rights as
well as individuals and maudlin sen
timentality should not interpose be
tween the convict and punishment.”
A Startling Rumor.
The Chicago anarchists plotting to
burn Chicago.
Chicago, Nov. 21.—A local German pa
per asserts in its issue to-day that the An
archists of this city have renewed their agi
tation, and calls for meetings of “groups”
only are circulated. “On Monday evening”
the paper says “in a hall on Clybourn ave
nue a meeting of the Northside group of
International Working People’s Associa
tion was held, at which various ‘plans’
were discussed. Some of the persons pre
sent thought that on a stormy night,
with a few pounds of dynamite, the water
tower could be blown up and fires started
at some dozen different places. The wa
ter works being destroyed, the lire depart
ment oould have no water; half the city
would go up in a blaze, and in the confu
sion thus caused the reorganized groups
and companies of the Lehr Und Wehrver-
Nn could easily capture the city.” Police
Capt. Shook *saye he has no fear of any
thing happening at present, and his men
are keeping close watch on the groups.
He could not tell what he was going to do
in this particular case, not having any au
thentic information yet and if he had he
did not think it best to make his intentions
public iu advance.
Ex-President Chester;A. Arthur died
on last Thursday morning in New
York from a stroke of cerebral apo
plexy: a small blood vessel in the
brain had burst and paralysis of the
right side had ensued. Mr. Arthur
made a fair, honest and conservative
President, and his death will be
mourned by the nation at large.
Eatonton’s New. Commodious Hotel
—Work on this building is progressing and
is watched with great interest by our peo
ple. Fifteen thousand dollar hotels are
not built every day in towns the size of
ours, and the people feel that Eatonton has
shown in this matters spirit of enterprise
and determination worthy to be noticed
and that will redound to the good of the
town. We shall soon have a handsome
commodious and well kept hotel.—Eaton-
ton Messenger.
Atlanta, November 24—Two scenes
were enacted on the thirdjfloor of theKimball
House last night which shocked the sensi-
bili ty of many people and are the talk of the
town to-day.
While the form of James S. Iverson was
lying cold in death, surrounded by the sil
ent watchers, a gay german was being
danced in the brilliantly iighted ball room.
The dead man had been a great popular
favorite and many pretended friends now
danced in the immediate vicinity of his
corpse. The ticking of the death watch
mingled with the music of the orchestra,
and the glitter of the ballroom stood over
against the gleam of the chamber of death.
Macon Telegraph.
New York Journal: The item was
written, “London has a society to
promote window gardening,” but it
appeared in a paper, “London has a
society to promote widow gathering.”
Whereupon a rival editor wrote a
scathing article headed, “The Mor
mons Must Go.”
Cloaks, Shawls
AND
Wiraps.
Corsets,
Gloves,
Handkerchiefs,
Hosiery.
Unparalleled Stock!
Unprecedented Sales!
Fall Goods arriving daily, and onr 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 Ropier OoffpA
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 buy
of us, but just let us price you our goods and we will surely put
you on our long list of customers.
CONN & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers.
w.
T.
22 & 24 S. Wayne Street, Milledgeyille, Ga.
Sept. 21st, 1886. 29 ly
HALL’S
HOW’S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Howard
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by taking HaU’s|Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Prop’rs.
Toledo, Ohio.
P. S—Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucus surfaces of the system. Price, 75
cents per bottle. Sold by|all|drugglst8.
CATARRH CURE.
Nov. 23, 1886.
20 cm ly.*
Notions! Notions!
Everything in this line usually
kept in a first-class Notion house.
JVo. 17 South Wayne St.\
T. E. WHITE & CO.
We invite all our Patrons and Friends to come and examine our
new goods, which we are daily receiving. We can suit any man’s
Docket book, both in quality and price of goods. We do not pro-
Dose 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
call
H
From week to week, It will be
to your interest.
W. H. CARR.
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 5th, 1886.11 3m
often. By this means, we can always sell fresh goods. We
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,” “Mobs Rose,” and “Odd
Trump.” H 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. y *
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
one. Tobacco by the plug or box. Remember the place.
as any
GREEN STORE!
No. 17 South Wayne Street, Milledgeyille, CrA.
Aug. 31st, 1886.
T. E. WHITE & CO s
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