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VttTT rFederal Union Established In 1829. V 11. 1 Southern Recorder 1819. (Consolidated 1872. Milledgeville, Gta..,May 3, 18&7 .... I...... F"* —U-. Number 43. ^gain a Loud Note Is Heard —FROM THE GREAT- THI ONION & RECORDER, Prtbtisbert Weekly In MlUe«l(etllle, On BTBARNES^MOORE. Terms,-kOneilolUr ami fifty oenta a year In AivsAsel^fcix- — fj* *k- Dry Goods Emporium of Fashion! “ Unequalled Novelties” —IN— ess Goods, White Goods, Laces, Notions and Clothing , youths anti Boys; Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods; Hats; Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Shoes month* for »*Tcnty-nv«c«nta.— Twr> ituMMA nyeur If not paid In advance. TlieMBflce* or Ool.. Jambs M. SUTTHK.are en- iratetl alltneral Aamatant. fhe , 'P5nKRAblTNlON’'«ncHhe“80rTnRRN NEOORHB”wcracnnioildate<1. Anffuntlst, 1K?2, tti» UniaAtteing in it* Forty-Third Volume anil lie Reowjtilerln ItaFltty-Thlrd Volume. Men, Youth _ Slippers, Matting, Ac The Interstate Commerce Bill. 4 ! EVERYTHING IN THE LINE OE Spring and Summer Wear ,, j s Xovel and Beautiful. The same being marked at prices that is consistent with all. r krce cash capital’is the all-powerful Agent that speeds our business on to success, and a keen l ‘ r I. as to" the wants of all classes. We are devoted to the low price system. Willing at all times sl jj g0 goods or rofund the money when goods are not as represented or do not suit. Ilf you look round we extend you a cordial invitation and will endeavor to please you while in our ' whether you purchase or not, T. L. McCOMB&CO. No. s and 10 Wayne Street,. .MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. We have concluded to establish the Bargain Counter System will commence on Monday, the lltli of this month, (April,) to - e our spread and continue to do so on each Monday to make a r display, and will sell you goods from this counter at one- [f their real value. So come early each Monday morning, those o are in search of real bargains. For instance we will sell reive yards of beautiful Lawn at 40c, or 10 yards at 35c. ae along with your cash, as we w‘11 not charge any article min Counter. you So on the —AT- T. L. McCOMB & CO'S., The Emporium of Fashion. No. S and 10 Wayne Street, MILLEDGEVILLE, 12th 18ST. GA. 40 tf. Farmers 1, Supplies! ' stock of Farmers’ Supplies is not surpassed by any firm ! market, and we carry the best and largest assorted stock Farming Implements, you will find on this market. We also, sell the )rt Royal Cotton Fertilizer, Port Royal Acid Phosphate and Chesapeake Guano. S "e can meet the prices of any wholesale house in the State on TOBACCO. f Ye us a call and examine our stock and get our prices before P8 elsewhere. Respectfully, ' M. &J. R. HINES, 23 Hancock Street, Milledgeville, Ga. *>. 8th, 1887. 31 ly. LOOK OUT! Compare this with your-pur chmae t IN, IRON AND METAL WORK. i,' 1 ?T* u l OVei G ;o Milledgeville and opened a shop at No. 25 S. Wayne | i door to Post Office, where I am prepared to do all kinds of Metal Work, Tin Roofing, Iron Roofing, Rotters & Conductors. rIiV ,ll n e< * ft , n , 11 Painted. Smoke stacks for portable engines made and i re ‘ f repairing of all kinds in Tin and Iron done promptly at low rates, r me public patronage is respectfully solicited. W. H. plg-ville, (i tli Miirch 1st, 1890. Hargraves. ally. If ly R<- SCHNBIDBB, —IMPORTER!— Wholesale and Retail Dealer In— tues, Cigars, Brandies, Tobacco, Mineral tiers, Whiskies, Gin, Porter, Ale, Etc. Street, AUGUSTA, GA. J 1 ut " J ’ 23 ly. A* you value health, perhape life, examine each package and be sure yon get the Genuine. See the red Z Trade-Mark and the full title on- front of Wrapper, and on the side the seal and signature of J. U. Zeilin to Co., aa in the above fac- simile Remember there la no other genuine Simmons Liver Regulator. 28 cw ly Mareh 20, 1587. The May number of The Southern Cultivator is handsomely illustrated and full to the brim of fresh, crisp and instructive articles on fanning in all its varied branches. The Poultry department is unusually attractive, while the Horticultural, Live Stock, Inquiry, Grange, Young Farmers’ Club and the Women and Children’s departments are rich in goood things. Dr. Wm. L. Jones’ always popular “Thoughts for the Month” occupy nearly two pages, and will be eagerly read by farmers before entering act ively upon the preparation of their crops for the year. Don't fail to get a copy of the May Cultivator, if you are not already a subscriber, as it is without a rival in the South as a standard authority cn agricultural uiattees. When this bill was being discussed in Congress, we foresaw great diffi culty and unending complaints to arise from it should it become a law, and during the discussion we express ed the hope that its advocates would fail to have it placed upon the Nation al statute books. The water-ways and great number of railroads in our immense country, permeating it in i'.all directions, become the great high ways of trade and commerce for short distances and long distances, conveying every conceivable article that can be grown in the soil, or fabri cated in factories and work-sliops. It is impossible for any committee ap pointed by Congress to do justice to railroad companies, to the proprie tors of Workshops and factories, and to the great agricultural Interests by any time-proof rates upon the con veyance of hundreds of articles of every conceivable character, to bo moved by water or steam throughout the immense limits of the Union. Our country had, for a time, what may be called a revolutionary Na tional government, but at a later period, March 1st, 1789, was adopted, the Confederated style of Union. In the Constitution, adopted March 4th, 1789, it is stated in the 8th sec tion of the 1st Article, “Congress shall have power to regulate com merce with foreign nations, and a- mong the several States and with the Indian Tribes.” The advocates, of this Interstate Commerce bill, refer to this clause as sustaining the pres ent law under consideration. In our reading of Constitutional history there is nothing to justify the enact ment of such a law as this Interstate Commerce law. As the States were Independent Sovereignties, the ques tion naturally arose that one State might hold that another State should not have free commercial egress into its limits. This was the point, anil I the power was granted to Congress to | regulate commerce between the States; the whole object being to open the States to freedom of com merce between themselves. That was all, anil it was not intended to give Congress the power to say what a a carrier should charge for taking goods or products of unv kind from one State to another. This Interstate Commerce law is not justified by the Constitution as it was originally understood; hut the war overthrew the confederation, as the North asserts, and many at the South also assert, and if they are right we will not aspire to be the hero of a political humbug by contending that the law violates the Constitution, but as a friend to the States and the people, we are opposed to the Inter state Commerce law as mischievous, even imbued with the spirit of centralism or imperialism beyond the limits of the old federalists Idea. The prevailing definition of our country, now, is “An indestructible Union of indestructible States.” Laying aside the idea formerly entertained that a State was a sovereign and independ ent power, what is left of a State when ulmost its whole commercial and business interests are placed at the mercy of an imperial Congress? It was perhaps well enough to open commerce between the States but the appointment by Congress ofacommit- tee to sit over the States and dictate what prices shall be adopted to gov ern them in their commercial relations with each other, is subjecting them to the lowest state of sovereignty. What a picture is^presented.to freemen to see them appealing to a committee to grant them the favor of a little low er, or higher price on lumber, cotton, live stock or any other article or thing from one State to another. The whole thing seems to us to be an au thoritative absurdity: the gentlemen of the committee if they do not be come wavering weathercocks, are still the heroes of a humbug. We take it that the manugers, of so great and useful a work as a railroad, know how to arrange prices for their own interest anil the Interest of the people better than a committee of gentle men, however honest anil intelligent they may be, who know but little of the cost and expenses of railroading. Railroad men are familiar with all the cost and expenses In building tin- roads and the daily expenses attend ing them. They desire and ought to receive & fair per cent on their labor and toil for the public advantage. We never took a seat in a railroad car without feeling a grateful appre ciation of its wonderful convenience. Business men and others make long trips in a brief space of time, and with comfort and delight, for a pitiful sum compared with the cost in a pri vate way in a carriage or on horse back. These roads are great bless ings to the world. They relieve the people from the thraldom of travel anil it is unjust and despotic to ham per them with troubles and difficul ties by reducing their per cents un justly, when they save thousands, yea, millions of dollars to the people. This Interstate Commerce law is a re- veying an idea of unfair dealing on the part of the roads and those who use them. It will create difficulties instead of removing them. It Is al ready a troublesome quandary, crea ting difficulties where none existed before. The committee is already impressed with the idea, though they keep it to themselves, that the busi ness before them is a little harder work than turning somersets up hill, or holding live eels by their tails. This law strikes at the last remnants of States-rights, putting all the States at the mercy of a ooumilttee of five gentlemen who cannot possibly know as much about the roads and the reasonableness of railroad prices as the President of the shortest railroad line in the United States. The best, cheapest anil fairest policy is to leave the whole matter of prices to the senders anil movers of products. The competition for freights between the roads wil 1 do more to cheapen rates than a dozen committees appointed by Congress. Lastly, wo would suggest to the people of every section of the Union who care a groat about States- rights, that this law will do more to destroy and abolish them than any measure that could be adopted. It leaves them weak anil ghastly, pos sessing only a gasping apparition of Statehood. Are freemen willing to submit to it! Time will show. DECORATION DAY 1887. “Our noble women” are words so oft’ repeated that when uttered one hardly realizes their true import—how fully and justly they are entitled to that appellation. But for them the probability is that, our sacred, revered and time-honored custom of decorating our soldiers’ graves would long since have passed into oblivion. Not that the men love their dead, nor cherish tlieir memories less, but per haps from business cares and respon sibilities, they are less able to give that time, care and labor necessary to the perpetuation of these sacred rites. To a woman, Mrs. Williams, wife of one of our heroes, Col. Charles J. Williams of Columbus, we are in debted for the inauguration of the custom, and thousands of women, and men too, with loving hearts and willing hands all over tlie South, la bor hard, simultaneously every 20th of April, neither knowing nor caring nor perhaps even thinking who it was that first tempered the spring that put them all so industriously into ac tion. But w« did not start out to dis cuss the origin nor the sacredness of the anniversary, but to let those who were unable to attend know with what a unanimous sentiment of pa triotism and aifeotlon it was observed at our beautiful little cemetery at Milledgeville. For (lays before hand the “noble women” and some of the men were busy with preparations in making banners and emblems neces sary for floral ornamentation to ex press the general sentiments, and at 3 p. in. on Monday the 25th, a very large concourse of willing workers gathered at the cemetery to complete the work—all except the formal deco rating services, which were to take placefat 8£ p. in. on Tuesday the SOth. At the appointed hour the gate was beautifully decorated with twining smilax interspersed with bright roses. From the central arch of the triple arotaed gate hung an escutcheon of a blue Held on which in silver letters was tlie one word “Resting,” beneath which was suspended a single large star of red roses and in each pilaster a crescent of white roses. Above floated a Confederate flag. The gate presented a handsome picture, but only to be greatly enhanced in beau ty later. When the Asylum Cornet Brass Band, that headed the proces sion of Military,both local and visiting, including the M. G. M. and A. Col lege Cadets, the confederate veterans and citizens generally, was heard to start the march from down town, a long file of some forty beautiful girls, twenty of whom wore sashes of the national “Red, White and Blue” and some with banners formed open ranks through whioh to receive the proces sion. Then indeed the gate, handsomely decorated with smilax and roses, and still more beautifully ornamented by the long lines of gaily dressed, beauti ful girls, with two sweet little chil dren standing each with a hand upon one half the double gate ready to open it for the procession, made picture that must surely, from its touching grandeur, be indelibly stamped upon the minds of all who beheld it. Standing thus, the exciting notes of the brass band, the glitter of the instruments in the sunlight, the tramp of feet approaching, tne sweet little children gracefully throwing open tlie gates, and Col. Miller Grieve standing stately and erect, holding, furled and draped in crape, the old faded, wounded and battle-scarred flag of the Baldwin Blues, to whioh each involuntarily raised his hat as he passed, oaused an indescribable thrill to flash through every heart and start the tears of sad remem brance in the eyes^of not a few. As the military passed reverently through the gate under the Confederate flag, this body of girls headed by three In red, white and blue, fell in in twos behind them and marched to a rostrum erec ted for them on the monument square, where the services were to be held. The monument itself was wreathed around with garlands of evergreen with appropriate emblems, clustered around the base. The rostrum hold ing the girls on the west, and the mil- Confederate Veterans on the north and citizens generally on the south, all made a hollow square facing the Confederate Monument in the centre. As soon as all were in position and the band had played “Glory to God in the Highest, the services began *Jth prayer by the Jtev. R. W. An- derson of the Episcopal church. The choir on the rostrum led by nn organ and Prof. Marston on the cornet, sang “Rest, Spirit Rest." Then, lean ing on a large floral anchor, Miss Bir die Moore recited very beautifully, “Our Soldiers’ Graves,” and with her concluding lines gracefully stepped down from the rostrum and’deposited the anchor at the base of the monu ment. After music by the band. Miss Hattie Hendrix holding to the staff of that prized and sacred Baldwin Blues’^ flag, all draped In mourning, stood under it and recited the “March of the Deathless dead,” and in con eluding was assisted by Col. Grieve in depositing that sacred relic of stormy times and many a hard fought field also against the monument, to silently tell its own sad tale. 'The choir then sang “Red, White and Blue,” after which with a keen and glittering sickle lie’ll gracefully in ner hands. Miss Hattie Wright recited a beautiful poem to “Our Unknown Dead.” Just before finishing she left the rostrum and with very nppronri ate concluding lines, inserted anil left the sickle in a sheaf of wheat at the base of the monument. One of the most interesting ceremo nies of the occasion was performed b\ ten pretty young girls. Mrs. Craw ford nad Ingeniously wrought a beau tiful word acrostic of a poem, the initial words of which formed the sen tence, “We give them the Laurels they lost with their life,” each giri representing one of the words of tlie sentence carrying the word, in large gilt letters in ner hands and one bear nig the Laurel Crown. The girl rep resenting the first word “We,” step ped forward anil handed her word to Mr. Bethune who attached it to an evergreen arch that spanned the ros trum over their heads, anil pointing to it recited a couplet beginning with that word, then the next girl bearing the words “give them,” did likewise, and each one so on till when the last one was done the decorated arch, which until now seemed to have been a decoration in itsc-lf, showed now to have been only the ground work on which to nut that full sentence in gilt letters. When the last word was up, the last girl had repeated her couplet. th'“ poetty and sprightly little Mis.- Belle,Compton, appeared bearing a crowd‘of Laurels. Stepping down and approaching the base of tlie mon ument she pointed to the sentence on the arch and repeating it, “We give them the Laurels they lost with their life,” hung the laurel crown on one arm of a large floral cross at the mon ument. Numbers of sweet little chil dren with floral offerings in their bands, children and grandchildren of our fallen heroes now came forward and laid their tributes on the base of the monument. The girls on the rostrum now deliv ered their banners to Dr. Bellamy, who arranged them appropriate^ around the monument, when they re tired. As soon as tlie rostrum and monu ment square were cleared of tin- girls, the Bftttallion under command of Brevet Major K. G. Mathesou, was called to attention and being com inanded to load with blank cartridge* fired the usualsalute. They proceeded then to Are sulutes over tne graves of General George Doles and ('apt. B. R. Herty, when the military were dismissed and all proceeded then in formally to decorate the graves not only of soldiers buried elsewhere in the cemetery but all tlieir own as their Inclination prompted. A description of the banner, or at least of tlieir mottoes, emblems and sentiments, will not be amiss. They were appropriately in Red, White- and Blue, anil one a dark purple, mournful color. This one bore “Our Heroes” on one side, on tlie other “At Rest," embellished with guns and swords, crossed and reversed in fun eral style. The White Banner bore on one said, “Honored and Best," on tho other “Let them Rest.” Tin- Red—one side, “Dead for the Right,”' on the other tho simple and expres sive word “Over.” On the Blue was “’Tis done and Bravely done," on the other side in large letters diagonally the one expressive word, “Cherished. , ’ with one circle of eleven stars for the eleven confederate states, encircling tho name of “Lee,” and a similar cir cle below around the name of “Jack- son.” A light rain on Monday forenoot. that laid the dust and made every thing fresh and clean, seemed actual ly to have been sent by the Almighty to encourage and make the exercise* enjoyable. The day passed off well, and not an incident occurred to mar the pleasure—the sad yet pleasing duty that all 60 heartily entered into and performed with so much alacrity. u C 3harp^ Milledgeville, April 27th, 1887. Despise Not the Day of Small Things Little things may help a man to rise —a bent'pin In ari easy chair for Ln stance. Dr. Pierce’s “PleasantPurga tive Pellets,” are small things, pleas ant to take, and tlipy cure sick head aches, relieve torpid livers anil do wonders. Being purely vegetable they cannot harm any one. All drug gists. , , ... , —o o --- . .. . Envelopes for sale at this oftie flection upon roads and citizens, con - j ftary ranged on tho opposite side* the i >£1.00 p er thousand.