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fOLUME LV1I. Federal Union I'Ltribibhed In 1820. -w.w.ououm io«v. LHOOTUEHN RCOORDEB “ *“ Jgigj [CONSOLIDATED 1872, Milledgeville, Ga., AritiL 12. 1887 =*= Numbeb 40. Again a Loud Note Is Hearc|i -FROM THE GREAT— Dry Goods Emporium of Fashion! ; “ IPneqwalled Novelties” —IN— )ress Goods, White Goods, Laces, Notions and Clothing or Men. Youths and Boys; Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods; Hats; Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Shoes id Slippers, Matting, lire. EVERYTHING IN THE LINE OF Spring and Summer Wear cl all that is Novel and Beautiful. The same being marked at prices- that is consistent with all. Our large cash capital is the all-powerful Agent that Bpeeds our business on to success, and a keen i ('sight as to the wants of all classes. We are devoted to the low price system. Willing at all times exchange goods or refund the money when goods are not as represented or do not suit. If you o on the look round we extend you a cordial invitation and will endeavor to please you while in our ore whether you pur chase or not. T. L. McCOMB&CO., We have concluded to establish the Bargain Counter System nd will commence on Monday, the 11th of this month, (Apr h) to lake our spread and continue to do so on each Monday to make a ew display, and will sell you goods from this counter at one- alf their real value. So come early each Monday morning, those ho are in search of real bargains. For instance we will sell you welve yards of beautiful Lawn at 40c, or 10 yards at 35c. So ome along with your cash, as we w 11 not charge any article on the argain Counter. O OUT! Compare this with pour purchase i National Congressional Representa tives will not be guilty in tne fnturte of the Imbecility, or’ legislative de lays, that caused the failure of so im portant a bill and forced them to fre- sort to an artifice to accomplish a part of the work essential to the public' interests. Tha Wonderful Hailing Pit for Rheumatism, Ac. The following statement of a distin guished citizen of Atlanta, concern ing the above strange and now oele- brated medicinal pit, for the cure of certain painful ailments, situated not far from Washington, Wilkes County, Ga., is the most interesting and satis factory description of it and we think the most reliable, which we bavs seen in print. Being founded largely on personal experience and observation and also the testimony of others on the ground, w'e deem it entitled to the belief of all who desire to know the truth concerning tbiH phenowinal gift of nature. We copy from the At lanta Journal as follows: < THJt ANTI RHKUMATIO WBl.Ii OB tauafbrro county. r , Judge J. D. Cunningham, who has been a severe sufferer nearly all wln- tfrj from the effects of inflammatory A* yeu vain* hetltk, package and be lure tha red Z X on- Croat of the aeal and Co., aa in the above: if no ether genidao Mareh 29, 1887. . MW, eaaariM each the Counts e. See aad the full title AYtilKS i. RtuemUr than liver Regulator* 28 cw ly THE UNION & RECORDER,, Published Weekly In Mlllndgevltlc, Go BY BARNES & MOORE. Trkua.—One dollar anil nftr cent* a rear In advance. Hlx momlm for aevemv-llveceats.— Two ilollum a year If not paid In advance. The services of Col.. Jambs M. Hhythb, are en sured as General Assistant. The "FKI1ERAL UNION” and the' ‘SOUTHERN I'KOORDEK” were consolidated, August. 1st, 1872, the Union being la it* Forty-Third Volume and :he Recordcrln Its Fifty-Third Volume. The Next Congress. explained. It cannot be attrl- utsd to eleotricity alone, for elec tricity is incapable of producing tho beneficial results which have been accomplished. “As n matter of course I have given you my unprejudiced opinions, as far as I have been able to form any. For the benefit of the afflicted who eon- template trying it I would say that the experiment is attended with con siderable inconvenience and more ex- S ense than one would anticipate. No eslrable board can be obtained, at present, nearer than one and one- half to three miles from the well, and at a cost of $ 10 per week; necessary- carriage hire, for conveyance to anil from the well, $10 more, and incident als according to taste and capacity. A hotel is soon to be ready, however, conveniently located, capable of ac commodating two hundred- guests; the pit is also to be enlarged, and other emproveinents made." “Do you expect to return and give the treatment farther trial?’’ “I think so. It will entirely depend upon the tone of letters which I re ceive from tome of the gentlemen whom I mentioned, who are giving it a thorough test. If it benefits them, I will feel confident that it will aid me. and I shall return as soon as good weather prevails.” Light Without Hatches. In order to obtain light without the toe of uiatcim —AT- T. L. McCOMB & GO’S., No. 8 and 10 Wayne Street,. Apil 12th, 1887. The Emporium of Fashion. MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. 40 tf. The Old Hardware Store IS STILL ALIVE! And will sell you Goods CHEAPER than Ever! All kinds of . , FAMING IMPLEMENTS, very low figures. Plows of all kinds. I keep the Boy, Dixie '0newn.ll, Boss, Haiman, Southern aud Athens Plows; m ac erything a farmer needs. Cotton Planters! The Best and Cheapest in the Market. BELTI TsT Or l Bobber and Leather Belting, Rubber, Soap Stone and Hemp icking. Lace Leather! E fact everything a Farmer needs at the very Lowest Prices. Barb Wire! Lst received a large lot—eall and get prices. i-GT keep everything in tho Hardware line as low as tho lowest wl anil see for yourselves. JOS. ST-A-LESTT- Milledgeville, April 12th, 1887. 29 ly EDITORIAL GLIMPSES. Mr. W. A. Cook, a well-known form er contributor to The Cultivator, ha* purchased the “Oconee PoultryjYard, of Milledgeville, Ga., from Mr. C. G. Wilson.—Southern Cultivator. P T. Barnum, the great showman, who for years has been an earnest prohibitionist, comes out for high license against prohibition. He .is satisfied that this is the solutiou of the question. The Montgomery military compa nies and the Atlanta company have nil withdrawn from the Inter-State drill in Washington in June. This was on account of severalnegro compa nies participating. It is to be regretted that bad roan- agementhas turned the national drill into a sectional affair. If the admis sion of negro companies was contem plated at first, nothing was said, to put the white military upon notice. Advices from Washington, Ga., are to the effect that Col. John A. Stephens, ex-adjutant-general of Georgia, who has been so seriously ill, is no iv convalescing, having been able to sit up for several hours on Monday. This intelligence will be extremely gratifying to lus many friends in Atlanta.—Atlanta Journal. So great has been the success of the Wilson Champion Spark Arrester, ad vertised in our columns, that it has passed into the hands of the Milledge ville (Ga.)Iron and Machinery Co., of which J. W. McMillan is President, C. G. Wilson is superintendent, and T. T. Windsor Treasurer. This company is chartered, has a capital of $80,000 and can fill all orders promptly and in tho most satisfactory manner.—Southern Cultivator. SIXTIETH YEAR. 1C0NEE LIVERY STABLE, Milledgeville, Ga. H. BLAND & CO., Proprietors. r tS CCeS80rs t0 G ‘ T> Whilden.) rl JSJiSS " leeu a 'l Trains piomytly. W un wit. in ?F y Y> ®eet Irammoi* at any st ill man ■V' “ ,cct urummcis at any sta- , , ° r Milledgcville, at a lew lisa, win b™ °, ri * erH , written or otherwise, ■uiiiig i u ,!?E for ' l,re - Carriages, Rubles and tirtisln>,l 4jf leasonable rates, lirayage I’utro’nael nfth y ani ' fa b>i f Qlly attended T<‘b the Pdtlic solicited. 30 3m : & > 1 pen»li° i 0 antl P inn U f r aud , not ? psl P° r CnlonlA’ Recorder^offlce. 811 ° Cheap at Miss M. G. LAMPLEY, CRAYON ARTIST! Studio in the M. G. M. & A. College. LIFE SIZE CRAYON PORTRAITS from photographs. CtTLessons given in Crayon, painting, Kensington painting velvet and satin. . C-iTOrders and pupils sohcitea.jB Milledgeville, Jan. 4, ’87. 50,000 Shingles Wanted. a Pl’LY to L & perreLI MiUedgeviUe, Ga., March29, 1887., 88 tt The Youtli’s Companion celebrates this year its sixtieth anniversary. It might well be named the “Univer sal Companion ’’ so widely is it reud and so wisely adapted to all ages.— Its contributors are the most noted writers of this country and of Europe. Among them are W. D. HowellB, J. T. Trowbridge, Prof. Huxley, the Duke of Argyle, The Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise, Archdeacon Farrar, C. A. Stephens, Admiral David Porter, Lieut. Schwatka, and many others. We do not wonder that the Compan ion, with such contributors, lias 400, ooo’sbuscribers. It costs but $1.75 a year. The forty-ninth Congress exhibited, Perhaps, more dilitoriness in the per- predee«issors’‘^iTf«H*W‘-*Vw»’'» , »“ the government. It was really dis creditable to that body, that, within four or five days of its adjournment, most of the measures of absolute ne cessity to carry on the government were either not passed, or were turn ed over to conference committees who failed to agree almost up to the last moment; and the hands of the clock were several times turned back, prac ticing n, ridiculous fraud, to gain a few more minutes to effect the pass age of some of the most important and necessary bills to keep the wheels of government in motion. House bills were strangled in the Senate and Senate bills were strangled in the House, and in some cases two setts of conferees were appointed, and, final ly, bills were hastily fmssed from ne cessity and then, as we have before intimated, were not adopted within the legal constitutional limits as to time. This state of legislative affairs is really revolutionary and unconsti tutional. Perhaps all the bills so passed, lacked in some respect the completeness which should always at tend the appropriation of the peoples’ money for the public good. Such legislation bv Congress is not unpre cedented. But little has been said about it in the public press. We made a brief allusion to it in our closing reports of the Congressional proceedings, intending to refer to it more at large, but have passed it by, from time to time, owing to ill health and the call upon us to furnish to our readers the constantly pressing news of the day. The President has been abused for not signing the River aud Harbor bill. That bill appropriated several millions of dollars, and proba bly, pretty large sums for some rivers, or’ creeks, that would have been a waste of the public money. Repre sentatives may have taken advantage of the peculiar exigency, lack of time, to urge unnecessary appropriations inch as, with full time and delibera tion, would have been so repulsive to tlie good sense and integrity of the majority of the members of either House. Under the'circuuistances, we do not think the President is justly censurable for withholding his signa ture to a bill that appropriated something more than three millions of dollars. Whatever may be said of President Cleveland no one can justly charge him with the character istics of the demagogue, nor can any one doubt his integrity, and we be lieve lie desires in all his acts the ap probation of his own conscience. With all the other matters placed be fore him, we doubt if he had time to read the bill, much lesB examine its details, and, if we do not mistake Ills character, he is not the man to sign away three millions of dollars of the people’s money {without due exami nation. If any evil results from it the fault is with the Congress. Sure ly in four months time Congress ought to be able to present to the President an act, disposing of to large ft sum, in time for him not only to read it but to carefully investigate A Journal representative met him yesterday aad asked him to give a little of his experience for the benefit of the publio. In reply, he said: “The exaot location of the well is twelve miles south of Washington, Wilkes county, and four mile* north of Sharon post-office, known as Ray-, town station, on the Washington branch of the Georgia railroad. I believe a description of the well has recently been published in the Jour, nal. It is merely a shaft or pit, about six feet square and twelve feet daqp; in one corner of the bottom, a spring bubbles up, the waters of which are pumped out as fast as they run in, in order to keep the pit dry. The pa tients to be treated for rheumatism go to the bottom, where they remain seated five hours every day; eight people frequently occupy the well at a time, but only Bix can be seated comfortably; I understand that it is soon to be enlarged. I tried it for five days, and then waB obliged to re- benefit’and a.n inclincl to’tlfink tWat there is merit in the treatment, but, in almost every case, much time will be required for a permanent cure, if such can be attained. “I have talked with men who claim to have been cured of the most severe cases of rhematisui in a few hours, but 1 am of the opinion that as much credit must be given to the “faith cure’’ as to the properties of the well. In one instance, a helpless cripple, who was inclined to the belief that there could be supernatural effects m healing waters just as wellnow as in Bible times, remained all night in tne bottom of the pit in prayer. He came oat in the morning without assistance and walked with ease, for the.first time for years, and was no doubt im bued with the same spirit of awe and reverence as lie whom Christ com manded to take up liis bed and walk, over eighteen hundred years ago. Those who doubt that miracles will be wrought in these modern days, of course, cannot receive efficient aiil from the “faith” process, and are obliged to depend entirely upon the merits of the tangible elements found in tho well. That there are merits is an unquestionable fact, but they prove more efficacious in some cases than in others, perhaps being govern ed bv the amount of faith in the pa tient. I drank freely of the water and can attest to its valuable medi cinal qualities, not only, in easing rheinatic pains, but in curing dys ^ “My associates at the well were the following: Mrs, Cunningham; Dr. McKenna, president of Davidson Col lege, Nortli Carolina; Mr. Swift, a prominent cotton merchant of Colum bus, andhisjwife; Win.|C. Sibley, pres ident of the Sibley cotton factory, of Augusta; Francis Coggins, a retired capitalist, of Augusta, and two brothers by tho name of Chaffee, of Lancaster, South Carolina, ihere were also many others there from all parts of the country, whose names 1 did not learn, eager to try the efficacy of this unique mode of treatment, some of them coining hundreds of miles in wagons and hving m tents. You cannot imagine how silly t ap pears to people of intelligence; sitting at the bottom of that pit, for five hours at a time, waiting for some half demonstration, and just matches and without dangor of j things on fire, take an oblong phial of the clearest glass, put into it a piece of phosphous about the size of a common pea, upon which pour some olive oil, heated to the boiling point, filling the phial ubout one- third full, then cork the bottle tight ly. To use it{ remove the cork and.' allow the air to enter the bottle and then re-oork it. The whole empty space in. the bot tle will then beooine luminous, and the light thus obtained will be equal to a small lamp. As soon as the light grows weak, its pow er can be increased by opening the bottle and allowing a fresh supply of air to enter. In the winter it Is some times necessary to heat the phial be tween the hauds to increase the fluidi ty of the oil. Thus prepared, the bot tle inay be used for six months. This contrivance is used by the watchmen of Paris and in all magazines where ex plosive or inflammable materials are stored. The “Barren Viotory” of Chicka- Fruin HFn: rrASpra* the battle of ChickoL - ; " , April Century we taktf’Vrrto sion: ‘ But whatever blunders each of us in authority committed before the battles of the 19th and 20th (Chickumauga,) and during their pro gress, the greut blunder of all was that of not pursuing the enemy on the 21st. The day was spent in burying the dead and gathering up captured stores. Forrest, with his usual prompt ness, was early in the saddle, and. saw that the retreat was a rout. Dis organized masses of men were hurry ing to the rear; batteries of artillery were inextricably mixed with trains of wagons; disorder and confusion pervaded the broken ranks struggling to get on. ’ Forrest sent word back to Bragg that ‘every hour was worth a thousand men.’ But the commander- in-chief did not know of the victory until the morning of the 21st, and then he did not order a pursuit. Rosecrans spent the day and the night of the 21st in hurrying his trains out of town. A breathing space was allowed him; the panic among his troops subsided, and Chattanooga— the objective point of the campaign— was held. There was no more splen did fighting in ’01, when the flower of Southern youth was in the field, than was displayed in those bloody days of September, ’08. But it seems to me that the elan of the Southern soldier was never seen after Chickainauga— that brilliant dasli which had distin guished him on a hundred fields was gone forever. He was too intelligent not to know that tho cutting in two of Georgia meant death to all his hopes. He knew that Longstreet s absence was imperilling Lee's safety and that what had to be done must bo done quickly. The delay to strike was exasperating to him; the failure to strike after the success was crush ing to all his longings for an indepen dent South. He fought stoutly to the last, but, afterChickaniauga, with the sullenness of despair and without the enthusiasm of hope. That ‘bar ren victory’ sealed the fate of the Southern Confederacy.” 2‘l!7r.!«b7;i'ri7.owY.'"'Th» reaU» tion of the ridiculousness of the afiair is very apt to soon eliminate any faith one might be inclined to have. The ladies (being more susceptible probably,) are the first todedare that they have ‘got it;’ presently one of the y gentlemen will confess that he feels something ‘peculiar, and will ask the victim next to him t° take his hand and see if lie does not expe rience something like a faint electric shock. As far as I am concerned, 1 cannot say that I ever felt the senwi- tions, unless very slightly, which others have* spoken of. 1 noticed that when the water was being agitated by the pumps these sensations weie the most marked. What the peculiar elememt is has not yet been satisfac Distance For Cotton. I have fresh land that will produce 800 po inds seed cotton per acre. Want to plant in cotton, three and a half feet rows and three feet apart, in mils, putting fifty pounds guano at plant ing in with seed and 150 pounds per acre at second plowing in siding fur row near each hill. Will mix guano used at planting with woodsmould. Do you think distance too great for the land, one stalk in a hill? J. H B., Orchard Hill, Spalding county, Ga., Answkr.—No; the distance men tioned will not bo too great if the land produces good weed. If weed is disposed to be small the distance might be made 3x3. The proper rule is to have limbs very nearly meet iR every direction,—-Southern Cultiva , tor.