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UNION & RECORDER. Among our Exchanges. new hotel has been named, by tlie directors, the Hotel Putnam.- Batonton Messenger. Congressman J. C. Clements, of the seventh district of Georgia, was mar ked to a Louisville lady Thursday. ■The South Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South will convene at Cuthbert next Wednesday. Mrs. Dr.S. 6. Hillyer died Thurs- dav morning at 8:30 o’clock at the residence of Wm. M. Sims at Wash ington. ITnn James H. Blount left this morning for Washington City, to be nresent at the opening of Congress, oext Monday.—Macon News *d. Capt : Ed Purcell who arrested Vrn- THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE. i^ard e ofle D red b by the Governor for *he capture. General William Philips is in such a Jui£l condition that the Lobby In- wsUgating Committee cannot take his testimony even at borne. Vr It Toombs DuBose has become connected with . the Washington rihromHe as associate editor. He will be a splendid addition to Georgia journalism. The negro accused of burning Mr. Skelton Napier’s gin house was com mitted to jail to answer at the Spring term of the court.—Eatonton Messen- S* r - Mr. A. J. Eley, of White Plains, was married to Miss Libbie Wardwell, of Eatonton, at the home of the bride Thursday morning, nine o’clock, Rev. A. S. Doak performing the ceremony. —Eatonton Messenger. At a conference of Scotch Liberal Associations lagt week twenty-eight organizations were represented. I he conference adopted a resolution of confidence in Mr. Gladstone and in favor of home rule for Ireland and Scotland. Uncle Sidney Lewis, of the Sparta Ishmaelite, delivers himself of the following: Girls that are “above work are “dear” at any distance “below cost.” People that are ashamed of work are deficient in sense. A stay of execution has been grant ed in the case of W. H. L. Maxwell, Preller’s murderer, and the Chinese High Binders who were under sen tence to be hanged January 1, until February 1, in order that a transcript of the cases be fiuished before an ap peal is taken. When Mr. W. F. Doerfinger, of Brunswick, was thirteen years old he broke off the point of a jeweler's “rat tail” file in one of his finger joints. Last Sunday, twenty-seven years af ters, it pained him for the first time. So, turning surgeon, he split open the finder, <incl witii tliG «iid of^Mr. tid Bingham, took out the file point. A voung lady and gentleman went safelv through the Niagara rapids and whirlpool last Sunday in a torpedo shaped barrel made for that purpose. They were in the tempest of waters three quarters of an hour and were taken out of the eddy on the Cana dian side. Both these young people are at large and the pleading voice of the lunatic asylum calls for them in vain.—Macon News. Hon. Mr. Hunt, who has been on a visit to the asylum, stated to a “Cap itol” reporter this morning that eve ry thing was in apple-pie order, and expressed himself highly delighted with the visit. Mr. Hunt is the rep resentative from Hancock, and his pleasant ways and genial disposition have won for him a host of friends in the House and city.—Atlanta Capi tol Enirnit House, who was handling a gin, about three are four miles from Canton, endeavored to lift the breast of the gin, and in the effort used his knee to assist. The saws of the gin cut his leg very severely, and as it was necessary to have surgical atten tion, he was taken to town where lie was given evei*y attention until his father arrived, who took him in charge and brought him home on Monday. Savs the London Times: “Why do , t . - we always wear wedding and engage- erty along and contiguous to such irn- rnent rings on the fourth finger?” she ! proved highways, asked as they were about to leave the jeweler’s shop. “The reason is, said the smiling jeweler, “that in olden times a nerve was popularly supposed To the Senate and House of Repre sentatives: Your attention is respectfully invit ed to the suggestions herein submit ted; and if your judgment approves, your co-operation is solicited. Both our penitentiary system and agricultural interests demand con sideration by the Legislative and Ex ecutive departments of this State. My reason for referring to both in the same official communication will clearly appear, I trust, in the further reading of this message. In the first place, there ssems to be a serious defect in the law authorizing the leasing of the convicts of this State. There is apparently no pro vision made for retention by the State of the convicts or any portion of them should the lease, or any part of it be declared forfeited. The law seems to provide that in case of for feiture, the convicts, shall not be re tained, but shall be re-let to other lessees, for a period not less than 20 years. I respectfully refer you to sec tions 4 and 9 of the act of February 25, 1876. If the present system of farming out or leasing the convicis to individuals or corporations is to be the perma nent policy of the State, then the pro vision referred to may not be defects; but if the present system is ever to be modified or abandoned I respectfully recommend that the law be so amend ed as to permit the State to retain possession of such convicts as may be recovered from the lessees or any one of them, through forfeiture or other wise—such retention and control be ing necessary to enable the State to test the wisdom and practicability of other systems. There are objections, as the Legis lature is fully aware, urged to the pres ent lease system. These objects in no degree or respect involve personal criticism; hut are lodged wholly against the system itself. It places pecuniary interests in con flict with humanity. It makes possible the infliction of greater punishment than the law and the courts have imposed. It renders impracticable the prop er care by the State of the health of its prisoners, or their requisite separ ation according to classes, sexes and conditions. It reduces to the minimum the chances for reformation. It places conflict labor in many in stances in direct competition with the honest labor of the State. These, briefly stated, are some of the objections urged against the pres ent system. It will be generally ad mitted that they are of so grave a character that the State will not be justified in continuing the system provided it can be changed legally and without the violation of good faith; and provided also that a better system ahould be practicable. After much reflection I venture the opinion that another plan might be adopted legally by the State, and its practicability at least partially tested at an early day without any violation of good faith. I do not allude to the system of confining the convicts within walls and buildings, as formerly existing in this State and still adhered to in some of the other States. To that plan the objections are al most, if not quite as serious; for while it avoids some of the difficulties noted above, it encounters others to which the lease system is less liable, or from which it is entirely free. For instance the death rate is greater under the old plan in most of the States than under the new in our State. Under the old system in Georgia the expense of maintenance was enor mous, and this expense, with the large number of convicts now on hand, would be a burden upon the labor and property of the people too heavy to he incurred. Nor do I refer to the plan which has been suggested of using the convicts in building or improving the public roads of the State. Thei e is no doubt, I think, that such employment of the State prisoners if not too great a pres ent burden, would be an improve ment upon the lease system: and it would surely eventuate in great and lasting benefits to the people. An ex tensive correspondence, conducted for months past, has drawn from cer tain localities in different States a fund of important information as to the cost of Macadamizing roads and the relative advance in value of prop- to run from the fourth finger to the heart.” It used to be called the heal ing finger, and physicians invariably used it when they mix their medi cines. 'Thepeople have unanimously chos en John Tyler Cooper as Mayor of Atlanta. One of the most pleasaut things connected with the election of Mr. Cooper is the fact that he headed a ticket that brought the people of At lanta together, and the prohibition ists and antl-prohibitionists, between whom it was expected that a bitter war would be waged, united upon a man who so thoroughly had the con fidence and respect of all classes that it was thought safe to trust the inter ests of all parties in his hands.-At- lanta Capitol. •f George T. Jackson pardoned out the Penitentiary. Atlanta December 4.—George T. Jaekson, the late president, of the- Enterprise Factory, of Augusta, con victed of embezzlement, was pardon ed to-day by Gov. Gordon. For some months the public sentiment and pub lic pressure for thi* pardon have been very great, and executive clemency has been expected for some weeks. The pardon will generally meet with approval. Jackson has been confin ed at the Oldtown camp, and a dis patch was sent there this afternoon and to his family at Augusta announ cing his pardon. Should the wisdom of the Legisla ture devise a feasible plan for using the State convicts or a portion of them, on such public improvements, it will meet my hearty concurrence. But there are serious obstacles to the practical working of this plan also. The entire force thus employed must be guarded, housed, fed and clothed by direct taxation. The ultimate re sult, I repeat, would be an enormous increase in the value of farms and lands along the lines of the Macada- amized roads; and the roads them selves when built would beyond doubt become potential agencies in develop ing the sections through which they would pass, by furnishing transporta tion facilities scarcely inferior in valne to well-equipped railroads. In dis cussing, however, the practicability of such a plan, it will be necessary to consider the immediate and continued burden of taxation it would impose as well as the inevitable contentions whieh would ensue between the vari ous sections of ths State, and the dif ferent oounties thereof, and between the respective neighborhoods and roads in the several counties as to pri ority of construction, and as to the equitable distribution of this labor supported as it would be by general taxation. But the Legislature may devise or authorize some arrangement with certain counties by which the State should be relieved of this taxa tion and a portion of the convicts em ployed by these counties in improving their important highways. There is, however, a plan for using a portion of the State’s convicts, to which if successful, there can be few if any objections, and which might prove of much benefit tp the agricul tural interests of Georgia. In view of the meagre profits real ized from the cultivation of our soil, and the support which that industry furnishes to every other interest, it becomes the high duty of the State government to foster our agriculture by every legitimate encouragement. Withholding any reccommendation on the subject, I venture the sugges tion that such encouragement may be afforded without taxing other indus tries or interests and that a peniten tiary system free from serious objec tions, may at the same time be per manently established for at least a certain class and number of convicts. In order to attempt the accomplish ment, in one act, of both these objects the Legislature might establish one farm as an experiment, to be worked by convicts, controlled by the State, as these convicts are received from the present lessees either through for feiture, voluntary surrender or other wise. If the Legislature shall author ize the Governor to act in the premi ses, I shall hope to secure for the State a sufficient number of these pris oners to supply one such farm. Such limited experiment could not involve the State in much loss and if unsatis factory could be abandoned and changed by the Legislature which will meet two years hence. If the re sult should prove satisfactory ad ditional farms might be established in different sections of the State; but in no case would I recommend the es tablishment of such additional farms except as and until experience should prove them to be self-sustaining. The attention of the General As sembly is especially invited to the probable results to follow such system if properly organized and success should be secured by the State. To whatever extent profitable employ ment could thus be found for the con- vcits the results from the system would be most important. It would at once eliminate from our penitentiary system the serious objections to the old plan of close con finement, and the equally grave ob jections to the present plan of leas- ing. It would confine the convicts thus employed to such labor as wonld least compete with the honest labor of the State. It would place the State in direct and full control of its prisoners. It wonld restore to the State the full power to enforce the exact pun ishment imposed by the courts. I would place upon the State the just responsibility for guarding the health of the convicts, and would con fine them to the most healthful em ployments. It would enable the State to sepa rate them at all times according to classes, conditions, sexes and fitness for different kinds of labor, and to institute methods for reformation with promise of success. It would make such portion of the penitentiary at least self-sustaining I think, and with proper management might cause it to yield a larger net revenue per capita than that now do- rived from leasing. But important as are these results in themselves considered, they become of still greater value when coupled with the benefits that would proba bly accrue to our agriculture from such experimental farms. With such labor, uniform, certain, constant and under absolute control, with intelligent and practical super intendence, aided by the Agricultu ral society of the State, and by scien tific chemists, the experiments sug gested by the Agricultural Depart ment should be thorough, of great variety and absolutely reliable. The cost of a bushel of grain or bale of hay, or of cotton, measured by days or hours of labor, and produced by different methods of cultivation and manuring could be definitely deter mined and reported. The relative expenses and value of deep and shallow plowing in various soils, at different seasons and for dif ferent crops, should be reliably ascer tained and made known to the farm ers of the Stcte. The comparative profits to be real ized in various localities from various crops, fruits and vegetables could soon be known and made public. The best and most economical fer tilizers for different soils and crops and seasons, and the proper times and methods of their application could be readily determined. But ex perimental farming should not be re sorted to until the iarm has become self-sustaining. The amount of money requisite for inaugurating one farm for thirty or forty convicts, and for testing the practicability of such system, would be small, as the operations could be conducted upon leased lands if the Legislature should so direct; and the amount to be expended for mainten ance and expenses during the year I think, be returned from the farm products. As stated above, the test could be made in the two years to in tervene before the meeting of the next Legislature and the result of the trial made known. I snggest, finally, that it is impos sible for individual farmers to con duct these needful and essential ex periments. They haye neither the time, nor means, nor facilities for such tests. And it seems to me probable that no other kind of labor end no other basis for organization and oper ations will likely furnish so economi cal, so definite, so minute, and at the same time so vast and valuable and requisite information and sueh need ful aid. These views are the outgrowth of a eareful investigation of these im portant subjects, and are presented with a profound sense of my respon sibility to the people. And while I indulge a hope that the plan suggest ed would prove, if tried, both safe and practicable yet I shall be glad to give such aid as the Executive may furnish in carrying to successful exe cution any better system which the General Assembly may devise. If this limited test should be made and should prove unsatisfactory the tax upon the State’s treasury would have been very small. If the test should demonstrate the feasibility of the plan, it would have furnished an im portant contribution to the satisfac tory solution of the penitentiary prob lem on the one hand and to the nec essary encouragement and aid to our agriculture on the other. J. B. Gordon. fell 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-simiies of our signatures attached, in its advertise ments.” We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will pay all Prizes drawn in the Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our coun ters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana Nat’IBk. J. W. EILBRETH, Pres. State Nat’J 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 fund of over $560,000 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.,1879. Its Grand Single Number Drawings will take place monthly. It never scales or post pones. Look at the following Distribution: 199th Grand Monthly AND THK 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 Louisiana and Gsn. JUBAL A. EARLY, of Viigicia. CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000. fiijUNotice.—Tickets are Ten Dollars only. Halves, $5. Fifths, *2. Tenths, SI. ' LIST OF FRIZES. Cooking and Heating Stoves at Cost! ■:o:- As I am greatly m need of more room, I have come to the conclusion to sell out all my bTOVES AT COST to make more room for other goods. I will sell Stoves at actual cost. Come and see for yourselves and if vou arp not satisfied you need not buy. I will sell you a good ook Stove and Furniture for $8.00. nice Parlor Stove for $3.25. Come soon before the choice is gone as I shal not have any more at these prices. I have only a few Left. I will close them out at less than cost, all for strictly cash, don’t ask for credit on these prices. Txisr I have just received a large lot of 10c. Tinware, and can now fit you up with Tinware as cheap as any one. 1 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. Fine Lamps with Shade, $1.00. JOS. STALEY. 12 tf l l 1 2 4 20 50 100 200 600 1,000 CAPITAL PRIZE OF GRAND PRIZE OF GRAND PRIZE OF LARGE PRIZES OF LARGE PRIZES OF PRIZES OF $150,000. 50.000. 20.000. 10,000. 5.000. 1.000. 5C0. 300. 200. 100. 50. APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 100 Approximation Prizes of $200. 100 “ “ 100. 100 “ “ 75. .$150,000 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 2,279 Prizes, amounting to $522,500 Application for rates to clubs should be made only to the office of the Company in New Orleans. For further intormation 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. Make P.O.Money Orta payable and aiflress Reiisterefl Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La. NOV. 9th, 1880 18 5t New Advertisements. S700toS2500&£g&3£ 2 to tbs tinslnn— tears momenta may bo profitably employed also, inv vacancies to towns and dllja Kf. J0&80W * OO. wa IU*» 81* Rkhmoad, Tfc T O ADVERTISERS.—Lowest Rates for ad- vertisingin 1,000 good newspapers sent free. Address GEO- P- ROWELL & CO., 10 Spruce St., N. Y. December 3rd, 1886. 22 3m. Stock Must be Reduced. GOODS- At Your Own Price! We make it a rule to carry no Millinery from one season to an other, and in order to do this, we will have to make big i&les in the next thirty days. New lot just in, but they all go in At and Below Cost! FOR THE CASH. If yon are needing a Hat, don't fail to call on W. H. CARR. Milledgeville, Ga. t Deo. 7, ’87. 11 3m Unparalleled Stock! Unprecedented Sales! Fall Goods arriving daily, and our immense storeroom put to its hardest test. The building is filled from cellar to garret. We have in stock and on road: 1.000 Barrels Flour. 150 Barrels Sugar. 200 Boxes Tobacco. 225 Cases Sardines, bought before the advance. 200 Boxes Soaps. 200 Cases Potash. 50 Sacks Peanuts. 100 Ooffpp 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. W. T. CONN & CO., Wholesale Grocers. 22 & 24 S. Wayne Street, Sept. 21st, 1886. , Milledgeville, Ga. 29 ly Machine Shop. T HAVE REMOVED my Machine 1 Shop from Milledgeville to Scotts- boro, where I am prepared to do any and all kinds of work in iron and metal. Any person having intricate or particular work in repairing would do well to call on me. My p. O. ad dress is Milledgeville, Ga. A. CORMANNI. March 2d, 1886. 34 tf No. 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 pocket book, both in quality and price of goods. We do not pro pose to make any cuts on prices but will sell you what you want and Guarantee Satisfaction on all Goods. We would say, particularly to our regular patrons, that at all times, we will try to fill their orders with the Nicest and Freshest Goods, the market affords. We do not buy in very large lots, but buy often. By this means, we can always sell fresh goods. We call particular attention to Our Stock of Flour, which is complete. We hare on hand “White Swan,” “White Loaf,” “White Satin” and “Jersey.” The above grades are patents. Then we have also “New Constitution;” “Moss Rose,” and “Odd Trump ” If yon want nice white bread, bny good Flour and the best Lard. We have the finest Leaf Lard on hand, which cost very little more than poor stuff. Our stock of Canned Goods, cannot be excelled. Fancy Candy and Crackers of all kinds. Sugar, Coffee, Teas, Spice, &c. In fact, anything you may want. Bran for your cow at lowest price. Mognolia Hams, Breakfast Bacon and White Meat. Jersey Butter, always on hand and on Ice. We invite our country friends to call on us and get prices, we will sell them their goods as cheap as any one. Tobacco by the plug or box. Remember the place. GREEN STORE! No. 17 South Wayne Street, Milledgeville, Ga. Aug. 31st, 1886. T. E. WHITE & CO, 81 ly.