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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. ‘‘FOR CHRISTMAS.” This work contains nearly 300 handsome illustrations with instructions lor making hundreds of beautiful things, either for auorniiig your home or presents for your friends, at most trifling expense, including all kinds of Fancy Work, Artistic Embroid ery, Lace Work, Knitting, Tatting and Net Work; contains designs for Monograms. Initials, Tidies, Lambrequins, Ottomans, Counterpains. Rugs, Carriage Robes, Brackets, Wail Pockets, Waste Papar Bas kets, Work Boxes. Work Baskets, Work Bags, Pen W T ipers, Hanging Baskets, Catch alls, Pin Cushions, Footstools, Handker chief Boxes, Glove Boxes, Card Baskets, Sola Pillows, Table Covers, Table Scarf Screens, Scrap Bags, Hand Bags, Table Mats, Toilet Mats, Lamp Mats, Lamp Shades, Pillow Shams, Pillow Sham Hol ders Curtains-Toilet Stands, Slipper JCases, Letter Cases, Picture Frames, Toilet Sets, Clothes Brush Holders, Hassocks, Cigar Boxes, Sachets, Fancy Purses, Slippers Dressing Gowns, Music Portfolios, Knife Case9, Fans, Flower Baskets, Plant Stands, Flower Pot Covers, Shawl Dress Trim mings, Window Shades, Feather' Work, Spatter Work, Leaf Photographs, and many other things. It is handsomely bound, containing 64 large 3-column pages, and will be sett postpaid for 35c., or four copies for $1.00. ORDERS FILLED SAME DAY RE CEIVED. By getting three of your friends, you secure your own free. 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.