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UNION & RECORDER.
Ttf TT.T.TtnflKViLLEt December 7, 1886.
The Hon. C. R. Pringle, President
of the Southern Forestry Association
A * g extended invitations to the fxov-
nors of all the States to attend its
xt meeting to be held on the 15th
of next February. The recent meet
ing was at DeFuniak Spring, Fla.,
we presume the next assemblage will
be at the same place. By active co
operation "an immense amount of all
the most valuable kinds of forest
trees will cover the waste places de
nuded by timber cutting for market
able woods and opened for the pur
pose of cultivating the variety of
crops. Branch Associations should
"be formed in all sections of the Uuion
where timber has been, we may say
wastefully destroyed. We trust a
number of representatives will attend
the next meting of the Association,
at DeFuniak and a lively co-opera
tion in this great and much needed
enterprise will be created in every
State in the Union. Its vigorous pros
ecution will add hundreds of millions
of dollars to the wealth of the coun
try.
•‘Law and Order League.”
Two thousand persons met in Asso
ciation Hall, at Newark, New Jersey,
recently, for the purpose of forming a
law and order league. Thos. M. Mc
Carter a lawyer acted as Chairman.
It is a lamentable condition of society
that in many parts of our country a
necessity exists for the formation of
of sucn associations to maintain law
and order against wilful and violent
disturbers of the public peace. In
some cases this lawless power finds its
origin in a spirit of revenge for real
or supposed injustice or wrong but
in an overwhelming degree for the
gratification of hellish passion and
the acquisition of money at any risk
or cost. If intimidation fails, torture
is resorted to and if that fails, also,
cold blooded \purder seals the lips of
the party and parties and robbery is
effected trampling in the blood of the
demon's victims. The habitation is
searched, all that fills the wants of
the villian or his accomplices is taken,
and in many instances houses are set
on fire and it, with the bodies of the
victims are consumed to charred
bones and ashes. The journals of the
country are filled with accounts of
such murderous villianies, and every
other crime that gives to human
guilt the most fiendish gleams of de
moniac villiany. Every one, who
reads the journals of the times is see
ing these pictures of deviltry painted
upon American society in colors as
dark and bloody, as humiliating and
frightful as were ever in pagan or
heathen lands. True, they are not
so numerous, but such as they are,
equally as revoting and atrocious.
Nothing can exceed them in the his
tory of the world for blood-stained
atrocity and cruelty. The same things
occur in all the nations of the world
but the true spirit of American life
with boundless freedom and social
amenities revolts at these pictures,
fit for display in pandemonium. We
hope the Law and Order League will
meet with general approbation
throughout the country and diminish
crime and protect the peace and mo
rality of Cvery State in the Union.
The Legislature.
The Senate had a short session of an
hour and a quarter on the 2d owing
to the absence of several committees
and some Senators on leave, lhe
bills for 2d and 3rd readings were
taken up, new bills were read and the
Senate adjourned.
The session in the House was taken
up with reading new bills. Mr.. Har
rell of Decatur, obtained unanimous
consent, and had the bill to repeal an
act creating a criminal. court in that
county read the third time and pass
ed. Also a bill providing for the reg
istration of voters in Decatur county.
The House adjourned until 10 o’clock
a. m., Friday.
The Senate was Occupied, mainly,
on the 5th with reading bills and the
introduction of new bills. A sealed
message from the Governor to be con
sidered in Executive session was re
ceived. It contained the following
nominations which were confirmed.
Dr. G. J. Orr, to be State School
Commissioner for two years, from
January, 1887.
J. T. Anderson, to be County Solici
tor of Oconee county for four years,
from Dec. 6, 1886.
L. J. Blalock, to be county Solici
tor of Sumter county for four years,
from September 27, 1887.
The bill by Mr. Wright of the First
District, governing the recording of
mortgages in certain cases was read
third time and passed by substitute.
The bill by Mr. Wright providing
for the withdrawal of the original fi
fa by the plaintiff in claim cases un
der certain conditions was read third
time and passed by vote 28 to 0.
Among the other bills the one in
troduced in the House on Monday last
by Mr. McCord, was read the second
time. This is an important measure
and will be urged by Mr. McCord.
The bill was printed and ordered re
committed to the Committee on Fi
nance.
By Mr. Kenan, of Balwin—A bill to
create a Board of Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues for Baldwin
county.
BILLS TASSED.
Creating Board of Commmissioners
of Roads and Revenue for DeKalb.
Providing for market house in Ma
con.
Incorporating
Augusta Letter.
Augusta, Ga. i
Dec. 2nd, 1886)'
Editors Union-Rkcorder:
The Joneses and the Smiths.
The iist of registered voters of the thriv
ing city of Albany, Ga., comprises 479
names, and oT these the name of Jones oc-
cure 12 times, and that of Smith 6 tiroes.
That is, the Joneses are 2 1 /, per cont. and
the Smiths per cent, of pop
ulation. The members of the Smith fami
ly have gone so far ahead of all others in
number for many years past that they
have no doubt become somewhat puffed up
with pride and self conceit. Even over a
halfcenturv ago Lord Byron in his famous
poem of “Don Juan,” in -speaking of the
English volunteers in the Russian General
Suwarrow’s array, who were lighting fhe
Turks, described them as
“ * * all men of pith;
Sixteen named Thompson, and Nineteen Smith.”
So we see that the Smiths predominated
then and even the Thompsons held a
highly honorable position, while the Jones
es were not even mentioned.
Very well. In theee days of Drogress
and public spirit we rejoice to’see the
Jones family coming to the front and as
suming that position of prominences and
honor to which the prolific streak which
runs through the various branches bear
ing that name so justly entitle them.
Hurrah for the Jones family say we.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Central railroad will
be held in Savannah December 22.
Stockholders and their families will
be passed over*the road from Decem
ber 19 to P2 inclusive, and, returned,
from December 22 to 25.
A dispatch states that there was a
fall of snow at Memphis, on the 3rd,
four inches d* ep and at the time the
dispatch was sent it was still falling.
Atlanta, Mississippi
and Atlantic Railroad Company.
Providing for record of executions
and judgments issued by courts, not
Courts of Records.
Amending act touching modes of
proceedure in certain cases so far
as relates to towns and cities of more
than ten thousand inhabitants.
Dr. Felton’s wine room bill will be
made the special order for next Tues-
dav.
A POWERFUL ALLIANCE.
The Petit Journal dwells strongly
on the value of an alliance between
Russia aud France. Against such an
alliance England would be impotent
and Germany afraid.
NEW JERSEY'S ROCK-RIBBED DEMO
CRACY.
William Walter Phelps, the well-
known Republican Congressman, thus
accounts for the stability of the rock-
ribbed Democracy of New Jersey.
He says: “It is one of the things that
I have been unable to find out my
self. It does seem remarkable that it
is impossible to change any number of
Democratic votes in our State. Ithas
been my custom for years to remain
at the polls on election day and to
talk with men, friends and neighbors,
especially the Democrats, with a view
to influencing their votes by argu
ment They are friendly with m*
and will talk by the hour, and some
times I find a man who will agree
with me but when it comes to voting
they vote the straight ticket. There
is certainly something heroic m the
way they stand together.
Some of our subscribers have not
sold their cotton yet.
The Centennial Programme.
At the session of the convention to
arrange for the great convention of
all the States, the delegates of the
State of Pennsylvahia issued the fol
lowing programme:
Section 1. That there be an oration
and poem in commemoration of the
signing of the constitution.
Section 2. That there be a military
display, in which the United States
shall be invited to be represented by
each branch of its military and naval
servioe, and the several States and
Territories, and the District of Colum
bia by their militia and volunteer ser
vice, and that the President be re
quested to designate officers to com
mand the same.
Section 3. That there be an indus
trial proceatfon display.
Section 4. That invitations to par
ticipate in the celebration be extend
ed to the President of the United
States and his Cabinet, the Federal
Judiciary, Congress and the represen
tatives of all the departments of the
national Government; to the Govern
ors of each State and Territory; to the
judiciary and Legislatures of the
same, and to the representatives of
the several departments thereof; to
the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia and to the various civic or
ganizations and associations of the
Union, and that the resident repre
sentatives of foreign governments
having friendly relations with the
United States, be invited to be pres
ent.
Section 5. The erection of a suita
ble memorial in the city of Philadel
phia, commemorative of the signing
and adoption of the Constitution, and
of the progress of the nation since
that period. •
An address to the people prepared
by Mr. Lodge, was adopted, and will
be issued with the program.
Resolutions were adopted request
ing the aid and co-operation of Con
gress in the celebration, calling upon
those States and Territories not yet
represented to send delegates to the
Commission as early as possible.
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Address, Holiday Publishing Co.,
BUFFALO, N. Y.
November 19th. 1886.
A letter addressed to Milledgeville
and dropped in one of the mail boxes
of Augusta at 10:30 o’clock on Fiiday
should certainly be delivered at the
former place early the next morning.
If it does not reach its destination un
til Monday there must be something
wrong with the mails. I know not
where the fault lies, but the delay has
occurred several times with my letters
to the Union-Recorder.
The great attraction in Augusta
this week is the Methodist Conference
now in session at St. John Church
The Conference is composed of min
isters and laymen, and is an exceed
ingly intelligent and handsome body
of men. Among them are many faces
familiar to Augustans. Sweeping
rapidly over the great throng the
eyes of a mother will rest lovingly
upon some godly man, who years
ago was the means of reclaiming her
only son from vice to virtue—from
Satan to Christ. With joyous coun
tenance the young wife will tell how
yon gray haired minister won her
loved husband to the Saviour of men,
while in every part of the great com
pany will be recognized some who of
ficiated at the bridal, and some at the
tomb. Oh! what memories the pres
ence of these great and good men
awaken* in the hearts of many of our
people. Welcome, thrice welcome ye
servants of the Living God to our
homes and our hearts. Presiding over
this August body is the venerable
Bishop McTyeire. His snowy hair
and beard give him the appearance of
a patriarch, and he is indeed looked
up to as a father in Israel. The Bish
op is well preserved, and presides over
the Conference with much ease and
with great ability. Rev. J. H. Baxter
has been elected Secretary, and Revs.
J. B. Johnson, F. A. Seals, M. H. Dil
lard, C. C. Carey, and B. F. Paine
designated as his assistants. The
\york of the Conference so far lias been
the appointment of the usual commit
tees, the reading of communications
and reports, and the consideration of
preacher’s characters each of which
appeals in full in the columns of our
daily papers.
Tomorrow night Rev. Sam Jones,
the great evangelist, will lecture in
St. John Church on “Character and
Characters.” This lecture will be de
livered for the benefit of the Metho
dist. Mission on upper Broad street,
and the price of admission is fixed at
one dollar. The lecturer will no doubt
have a large audience, but if the com
mittee would reduce the price of ad
mission to fifty cents their profits
would be much greater. Thousands
of working people are anxious to hear
Mr. Jones, but are not able to pay one
dollar for the privilege.
A gentleman was asked this day to
name the greatest man in attendance
upon the Conference. He promptly
replied: “There are two; one is Sena
tor Colquitt, and the other is Miller
Willis. The former great in the af
fairs of Church, and great in the af
fairs of State; the latter great in his
consecration to the will and service of
his Master.”
Miller Willis is known and loved
throughout Georgia. There are many
who condemn him for want of judg
ment, but there are thousands who
would like to have some of his spirit
of consecration. I know the man’s
heart’s history. I have seen him
stand over the bier of every earthly
hope and sing praises unto God. He
has given up everything for Christ.
A Crown, a Heavenly Crown, awaits
him.
Our city has just passed through
the throes of another election. Yes
terday Councilmen were elected in all
the wards for a term of three years.
In only the 4th Ward was there any
opposition to the present administra
tion. Hon. W. E. Keener was oppos
ed by Mr. Hayes, the candidate of the
Knights of Labor. Why the work
men should oppose Mr. Keener
man for his wife. In the afternoon
of the same day Dr. Lansing Bur
rows performed the ceremony that
made Capt. Dick Wilson and Miss
Pinkie ’Bachelor man and wife.
Capt. Wilson is Door keeper for the
House of Representatives. His bride
is a lady of many excellent qualities.
The students of the Houghton In
stitute have recently organized two
literary societies. The aim of the So
cieties is to cultivate a taste for litera
ture, science, music, etc., and they
propose alternating with each other
in monthly entertainments. This
school is noted for its number of well
trained elocutionists, and whenever
the Societies come before the public
they will be well patronized. The
first entertainment will be given in
the course of a few weeks.
Houghton.
-from the Courier Journal.
farmers and
TAXATION.
A good and true man will do
even if he loses money thereby.
20 4t.
right
ing
cannot be understood, as he has al
ways been just to them, and has be
friended them in many ways. At
any rate they brought out their full
strength to defeat him, and came very
near so doing. But after a hard
fought battle, it was announced that
Mr. Keener had been elected over his
opponent by a majority of 89. The
majority would have been much great
er, but many gentlemen preferred re
maining from the polls to being
crowded and pushed about by the
voters. The City is to be congratu
lated on again securing the services
of such an able and wide-awake pub
lic servant as Mr. Keener. He has
the interests of the people at heart,
and is always found on their side.
His conscientious discharge of duty
has brought him opposition in a par
ticular locality, but in the city at
large, and in the county too, no man
is more popular than Wm. E. Keener.
In the 3rd Messrs. J. H. Rooney and
Albert Austin are elected respective
ly for the long and short terms. Ihe>
are both young men, and wili serve
their city ably and well. Messr*. Bred-
enburg of the 1st Ward, O’Donnel, of
the 2nd, and O’Conner of the oth,
have already been tried a * 1(1
found wanting. This day at noon
the new Councilmen took the oatn.
Last night a man by the name of
Paris Hill was found on lower Broad
Street with a vial of laudanum which
he had taken with suicidal intent
He had been recently discharged from
a clothing store, since *ie
been drinking freely. The P
was pumped from his stomach,
is thought he will recover. He claims
that he took the laudanum to ease an
aching tooth. . . ... „ n
Augusta was again visited by an
earthquake shock at 7.4o this
ing. It was very slight and pe P
ble only to those indoors.
•laim to have felt one at 5 a. i •
Uninteresting ceremony occurred
at Curtis Baptist Church last lues
day evening when Mr. Lee W
ward was united in marriage to jHiss
Jennie Hair, the eldest daughter of
our townsman, Mr. H. M. Hair. The
groom is a deserving young man ol
Augusta, and has won a gem of a wo*
wages according as the price of his pro
duct is high or low, but according as
Dioflt is great or small. Gi\e him rree
trade and his profit will be gieater while
hl L P t i o e a-“rt be oiTto subject, with par-
ticular reference to America, read Robert
J. Walker’s celebrated re P°ft white he was
Secretary of the Treasury under Piesldent
Polk.
Another Conspirator’s Plot.
Soft A Nov. 25.—Another conspiracy
against the government has been dtecover-
pd Two officers, one of them a Russian,
o?gaiteSl a plot to kill Col Nicolaieff,
Major Popoff and the regents. The crime
was to have been Jcommitted at 5 o clock
1 ilatei n pop'off discovered the plot, and
caused the arrest of the two officers, and
of two otners, who are also implicated.
They will be tried in a few days. The
officers of the garrison here bitterly cem-
plain of the result of leniency shown in the
case of the other conspirators at the in-
stance of General Kaulbars.
Legal blanks for sale at this office.
by Savoyard:
“Wisdom is ofttimefl nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”— Wordsworth.
Partly because the author lives in a dis
trict of the South that Is somewhat tinctur
ed with the protection heresy, and partly
because he is a teacher of Southern youth,
1 choose the following among a great
bulk of letters before me to comment
upon:
University of the South, Sewanee*
Tennessee, Oct. 30, 1886.—My Dear Sir:
Since you are in receipt ot many tetters of
inquiry in regard to the tariff, in which all
are interested, I take the liberty of writing
you a letter that I may be confirmed in
the opinion that a “low” tariff would be
better for this country and every other
than a protective tariff.
All of us have a common interest in put
ting down the “robber barons,” who live
off the unrewarded labor of the poor and
are fortified behind their millions, yet, I
desire to ask, why is the laborer in free-
trade England paid less wages, has less
food, fewer necessaries than the laborer in
protected America? Why is it that the
laborer in the North, where there are num
erous manufactures, which are protected,
live better and is happier, as a general
thing, than the laborer in the Southern
States? Does it not stand to reason that
the South in her impoveiished condition
needs protection? Is it not true that the
manufacturer pays wages accoiding as the
price of his product is high or low. Can
you tell me where I can linda work on the
subject or the tariff that refers particularly
to America. Very truly yours.
J. W. Young.
To Savoyard, Louisville, Ky.
I would say to Mr. Young that I am not
an expert in political economy, not an
elder in Israel, and not a teacher, but I do
claim to know robbery and dishonesty
when I meet it in the big road, arid that
is the occasion of these papers in the
Weekly Courier-Journal.
Concerning his first question, I have to
say that I do not believe the laboring man
is worse paid in free-trade England than
in protected America. Nominally his
wages mav be less, but unless he is ad
dicted to such luxuries as spirituons
liquors and tobacco, or has an income of
£500 he pays no taxes, as the laboring
man in America does. Besides his wages
will buy more of the necessaries of life in
free-trade England that In protected
America. As an instance I will state that
a railroad-car manufacturing company of
Detroit imported 500 workingmen from
England and gave them employment in
the company’s shops in protected America.
At the end of six months they
struck for higher wages, and their de
mands not being complied with they re
turned to their free-ttade home.
But let us compare free-trade England
with protected Germany, and we will and
that the laboring man is paid much Jess in
protected Germany than In free-trade Eng
land. The reason why wages are nominal
ly greater In protected America Is because
we have a vast teritorry of fertile lands
that are unoccupied, and when a fellow is
not satisfied with the wages his employer
gives him ho goes West and pre-empts a
homestead, and that would be *£
we had absolute free trade, and be the
case until we have a population of 150,000,-
ooo nentile I firmly believe that absolute
free^trade, ifadopted by the UnitedStates
to-morrow would enhance the wages of
every workingman in America and do- <
create the cost of living, and
solve the labor problem, dissolve the laboi
party and prevent strikes in the futute.
Does Mr. Young know that England has
the butt-end and the upper crust or the
world’s trade? She has had it m ha gtt.sp
since the idea of Robert J. Walkoi ceased
to prevail in our country, and she would
gladly pay us millions ever/ year to in
duce us to continue our policy of closing
our ports to the world s trade. More than
that, while she is trading with all nations,
supplying them with manufactured pie-
duets in exchange for what she wants,
many of her manufacturers have come to
this country, set up their Plants, ai ^ J^ e
supplying our people with goods, and get
ting the benefit of our protection craze.
Clark’s spool cotton and Coats spool cot
ton and hundreds of kindred concerns are
British importations^ and our
people pay them go to swell M?® i°n
English manufacturers. Still we go on in
our blind fanaticism because .the word
“protection” is made to cover the biggest
lie that greed has yet invented to deceive
women and fools? T . „
As to the second question Ido not under
stand it exactly. Our tariff tews ^fect all
sections, and if protection
high In one section and tew in another
protection ought to be abandoned.
Tt flops not “stand to reason that the
South In her poverty needs protection ”
The South can make cheaper iron and
cheaper cotton fabrics
ponntrv on the globe, and if she had the
whole worldto trade ’with instead of our
own country aloDe, the South would soon
b™h“rich<lt country in Christendom.
It is not true that the manufacturer pays
his
Jefferson Davis is surviving not on
ly the men who held prominent plac
es during the war, but many who
have risen to eminence since. He
maintains the dignity of the position
to which his people called him in the
hour of trial, and never did he appear
to more advantage than when virit-
ing the home of his father, in Ken
tucky.
The Legislature has commenced to
talk about a summer session. We will
have it, and the people may as well
make up their minds to have two ses
sions of the Legislature every time
until the constitution is changed.—
Albany News.
In his Thanksgiving sermon Mr.
Beecher said: “I have no sympathy
with eight-hour men who have four-
teen-hour wives.
paradoxical that the best
rj kee p a young lady’s affections
is not to return them?
,, L*'Hresdent Arthur, it is said, was
the first member of a New York thir
teen club to die.
,4 c< £f ee urn exploded in the Kim
ball House Atlanta, on Monday
morning, with force enough to break
the glasses in some of the windows
but no one was hurt It was caused
by the bursting out of pent-up steam.
A “wine doggery” recently establish
ed just outside the limits at Carters-
ville was visited Monday night by
vigilants and completely demolished.
Dr. Felton has introduced a bill in
to the Georgia Legislature requiring
all wine rooms to pay a licence of $10,
000 to the State.
Druggist,
Has on hand his usual supply of Christmas Goods, consisting of
Plush Dressing Cases,
Plush Work Boxes,
Books,
Card Cases,
Cigar Cases,
Cigar Holders,
Writing Desks,
Toilet Sets,
Vases,
Whisk Holders,
Fine Lamps,
Perfumery,
Express Wagons,
Wheelbarrows,
A selected assortment of Toys, of good quality, and other Christ
mas goods. Call early aud get the pick of them.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 7th, 1886.
12 ly
Toys I Toys !
Headquarters for Santa Claus.
I have now in stock and to arrive, everything you want for the
little folks. Come and make your selections before they are picked
over.
Fire Works of all Kinds,
for the boys, at wholesale and retail.
Mrs. S. D. W00TTEN.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 7th, 1886.
12 ly.
WE ABE GOING TO MOVE TO
No. 30 South Wayne Street,
On the first of January, 1887, but in the meantime, will be found
at our old stand with a first-class stock of
Groceries and Confectionery,
Raisins, Nuts, Crackers, Candy,
Apples, Bananas, Oranges,
&c., &c., for the
n
L. H. WOOD & 00.,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers.
No. 18, S. Wayne Street, Milledgetole, Ga.
Nov. 30th, 1886.
At the Drug and Medicine Store
OF
TOTT-NT
The subscriber having been established in the
DRUG BU
IN MILLEDGEVILLE,
For Nearly a Third oj a Century, is Prepared to
FURNISH ANY ARTICLE
In that line, used in the family, on the plantation or anywhere else. He has
facilities for buying
Goods Cheap, of the Best Quality,
And will sell at LOWEST PRICES. ^ He
keeps constantly on hand Patent Medicines, i
Paints, Paint Oils, Machinery Oils, White
Lead, Window Glass, School Books, Writing
Papers and Pads, Ink, all sizes and colors,
Varnishes, Brashes, Lamps, Kerosene Oil,
Soaps, Perfumes, Pictures, Seeds, Fishing Tackle,
Cigars, Tobacco, White Wash Brushes, Putty, Baseball
oilet
Blank Books,
Goods, &c., &c.
Milledgeville, Ga., Sept. 28th, 1886.
JOHN M. CLARK-
12 ly.