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I v - r VTTT fFbdxbal Dhion Establli VOLUME L V 111. [SOUTHERN KEOORDEH “ rFhdhbaIi Union Established In 1839.1 1819. J Consolidated 1872 Millkdgeville, Ga., July 12. 1887. Number 1. THE ONION & RECOBDEH. '' bybar'nES& moo re .’ °** _one dollar and fifty oent* a y«ar in T**!, six months for seventy-five canta.— * ,1T ^t<fiiar«a year If not paid in advance. r xa.«rvi5aVofCoL. Jam** m. Si»TTii»,araan. ’ and the* ‘SOUTHERN ^%on^m7[rr 0 Kony C ^fA‘v"olimi" T i % SMI?»■ Fifty-Third Yoluma. Mailing Specific for Li?ef Disease. .ullBTnlll ■ Bitter or bad taste In 5Tmr IUlnO , mouth; tongue coated appetite; sometimes jy i raah, or iadlaeatlo" • ™ t rn 0 1* W loss of ■ f.^alnfuieenaaUm of having failed to do something which ought to have been done; Jwrancd oT® akin and ayes; a dry wugh; fever; reaUaaaneaa: the urine 6 SIIIONS LIVER REGULATOR (rURELV VCa*TA*LX) IS generally uaed in the South to arouM lie Torpid Liver to a healthy action. II arts with extraordinary effleaey aa the tiver, kidneys, I ^ and Bowels. i* EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR Malaria, Bowel Complaint*, ' pvapepaia, Hick Headache, Constipation, llUlouaneaa, Kidney Affection., Jaundice, Mental Depression, Colic, L: r<cd by the use of 7 Millions cf Bottles, as TUI SEST FAMILY MEDICINE Lr Children, for Adults, and for the Aged, ONLY GENUINE his our Z Sump in red on front of Wrapper. J. H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., Li le PRor&irroRs. Price* B 1.0Ob Mareh 29, 1887. . EDITORIAL GLIMPSES. A woman in Savannah, was fined $5.00 for wearing a "Mother Hub bard" dress on the streets. Jeff Davis says, “we are neither I rebels nor traitors. - ’ If this be trea son, then make the most of it. More than 0,000 people visited the 1’ark in Macon 4th of July. The Li- Ibraryinadea thousand dollars clear. Hill Arp says the girls make him |i“fe lemonade, when he comes in af ter work, looking tired: and now he jean look very tired and not half try. The sale of Gen. Grunt’s memoirs I-' 1 ' reached the gross amount of 1$ . '00,(100; the most successful venture p authorship ever made in this conn- ry. A pet deer jumped through a large ’.rulow glass in Yannucki's store in paeon, on Tuesday, and was ■ badly f 'Jtiip. It was a dear jump on both k iue«. All disagreements having been re poved, the Macon and Covington R. Li' 1 "j*'* ft t once begin work on portion between Madison and lAtaens, . *°. w phi that Mr. Blaine’s ob- l, m visiting England was to get P Uladst° ne to visit America, and Pait buiida great Blaine boom for ■President. ■i he negro who killed another ne- f ° ln . Columbia, S. C., by butting r, u Wlt ‘i his head, has been disobarg- "'“ “appose, because it was not a faputal offense. .V,'- Eugene Granberry, editor of ■"n JUS Enquirer-Sun, died on Ik u' - consumption of the bow- v..,,. e " as only 40 years of age, and OTilliant writer. Thief I^Stfsl&ture will have to elect a Vti, . ,V ce of the Supreme Court t wil1 f ful1 term. As Judge Bleckley k ‘ n g to serve, there will probably ■ no opposition. the bachelor edi- £ (r ‘ the Augusta Evening News has P r ®tty and sentimental things women, than all the I *5 a editors lumped together! rfLlnot^l 100 I‘ e e, a Chinaman who fencerr, e<1 . at ^ a,e college last com- aS ent ’ with high honors, was hade T n the oth hist., to Miss E. r Jerome, a New Haven heiress. Ptcfvilri? * ,9 levelan<1 has determin- |ont EYn^-!" nta ; Coring the Pied- |th jfPpsition; he says, about Oct. lithhimn ( )P es not bring Mrs. C. I'toe. * n u wdl not be half as wel Howell of the Constitu te ius/+ lec froiu Europe with his left n 10 a tla y h e fixed upon when l e Pre?l°/ g , la - s Heisa member of fW^nV^islature, and reached le onVm„ tuue . to taka bis seat at |i’h Business ia business f Ua«u5£ P - er *W‘ They are used Tlme in their work. Democratic Unity and Exertion. At a time, now, less than a year nence, the two great parties of our country will meet in their respective conventions and issue their respective declarations of principles to the peo- P le ‘ We were pleased to see, recent ly, that some leading Democrats would soon meet in Washington to confer upon some means of bringing the whole strength of the party to- Kf^her upon the tariff question and others, upon which there may be any difference of sentiment. We can call to mind no question but the tariff that seriously disturbs the harmony of the democracy. A few rather thoughtless and passionate members of the party may feel disposed to find fault with President Cleveland’s poli cy on the civil service question, but in the sober spirit of compromise, it seems to us that only a very few will find a stumbling block in that. It should be remembered that a civil service law is on the statute book, and the President and everybody else, owes obedience to the laws of the land, and, of all men In our country [be Pretjifiriii is expected to obey tyifc la*l xvaui the strictest scru pulosity. liv-nhe appointment of Cabinet officers, Foreign Ministers, afid, indeed, u£ officers of, all kiuds, the President has shown his true democratic proclivities with unmis- (Wkable spirit, so, that by’any fair Standard of opinion he MioAld escape all distrust and apprehension. All ob jections founded upon his acts taken in mass, dwindle into Insignificance especially when we consider his scru pulous honesty and public virtues: so that we doubt not he will be sustain ed by the party with a universality not exceeded in former selections for his high position. If character is made an issue as it should be, the democracy will rally universally for President Cleveland in preference to Sherman, who is trying to fly again the bloody shirt, or Blaine tainted so strong with the Mulligan letters in- iquitv. Taking everythihg into eonsidera tion, especially, the disposition of some democratic members of Congress and publishers of a few influential democratic papers to sustain the high protective tariff, there never was more necessity for the strict organization of the demoetatic party: This is render ed necssarv because of the apparent equality or the voters of the two par ties. A few hundred votes would have changed the result at the last election, and from a close inspection of passing events, neither party can confidentially hope for success. The course pursued by democratic protec tionists will inevitably cause the loss of many democratic votes to the dem ocratic candidate, not that they will vote for the republican candidate but will be lukewarm, and either not vote at all or not exert themselves to secure votes for the democratic can didate. Just so far as Democratic congressmen, leaders and workers in the party may succeed in influ encing democrats’ to believe that the protective tariff is a good thing, just to that extent will the party suffer in the great contest for the victory. We remember that a Washington corres pondent for some paper said when a reduction on iron was before the House there were enough democrats absent from their seats to have carri ed the measure had they been present and voted, and, finally on the tariff reduction bill of Mr. Morrison enough democrats voted with the republicans to defeat it. As the democrats, in their conven tion, will declare for a reduction of the high tariff, every one can see at a glance the injury that will be done by the declaration of the democratic high tariff men who advocate protection. Onv hope of success consists in tlie changes that are going on in the pub lic mind in the New England States and in the great West. Protection is weakning in the former and giving way in the latter. While that is the case it is increasing to some extent in the Southern States. But anti-pro tection will be strong enough to carry every Southern State for the demo cratic candidate and carry enough votes in the North and West, added to them, to secure the election of the democratic candidate. Under all the circumstances the probabilities are favorable to Democratic success. So that, in our opinion, Southern demo cratic support of protection will not be strong enough to bewitch the democrats out of their rights. We don’t object to free inquiry, and the private right of opinion. Our main regret is that democrats should fall into the - traps set for them by their old enemies. They may have sincere convictions, now, but other convic tions will be stronger in the future, that they nullified and destroyed themselves by following the “inarch of ideas,” “the new light of the times and other influences that the devil, In politics, misled them with. A Big Farmer on Cotton. Col. J. M. Smith, of Oglethorpe county, the man who makes more bales of cotton than any other plant er in Georgia, says: . . “That there is no money in raising cotton now, no matter what kind of labor you work, that every bale of cotton raised last year cost twice as much as it brought. Like too many other farmers, I am|in debt and am obliged to have something that wlP bring money in the fall. The fanners in this section, one and all, are in a deplorable condition, and no amount of finely written articles within the newspapers can change it. A GOOD “OLD WAY. It is one of the “bad signs of the times” to see men and wo men grow in sentiment and con duct with the spirit of this “New Age”—which is more distinctive ly denominated an “Iron Age”— an age of hard work, hard ideas, and hard money. The man of fifty to sixty years is disappoint ed, when he looks about mm for companions and pleasant associa tions—what the knightly Chris topher North would call “hearts ease;” or sweet Spenser desig nate, “the daintie lineaments of beautie” to find all these linea ments lost in the surging waters of a raalestrom—an age of Dot- and-carry-One. We do not pro- noso an essay or a sermon today, had we the hardihood to expect Washington Letter. From Our Regular Correspondent. Washington, July 4,1887. Editor Union-Rkcordkr: Controller of the Treasury Tren- holm in the matter of the suspension of the Fidelity National Bank of Cin- catastrophe is not without its lessons and uses, as it shows the unquestion ed superiority of our National bank ing system over all others in the world, for ours is being rapidly recog nized as the model for most civilised nations. • When, for instance, this bank suspended, what man in the United States stopped for a moment to examine whether or not he had one of its bills? realizing the fact that if all the banks of the country were to break in a tlay, the Government would be fully, responsible as long ns a United States bond is good for its face value and most of them are worth a great deal more. There is qnit« a ripple ln the great to find readers for it, or it prove There is (put* a ripple In the great little else tlmu a »ODK-tA on# present purpose is to ; pidk out one of the old ways, dust it, dress it' for the cold, critical 6ye of the modern man or worffdn who appropriates to his or her use properties that do not belong to them, and turn them to profit in a metalic way. When it was our good fortune to enter the rough journey of journalism, nearly forty years ago, we found it a hard road to travel. Politics were so intensely per sonal that all the way along one had to encounter stumps, and rough places, and dangerous pit- falls on either side the rugged road—but with all these obstacles and ugly environments, there was honesty among the men you trav eled with on the same road. They would have thought it no less a crime to steal the products of a brother editor’s brain than to steal liis purse. When they borrowed his brains they were as particular about tell ing the readers of their own pa pers that this and that were not their own property, as they were to keep their fingers away from a forged paper. All this sensi tiveness has disappeared, or at least is fast disappearing. And to-day the great majority of pro gressive newspaper men seize, appropriate and claim, as their own, the brain-work of fellow- travelers, with as little scrupulos ity, as to the sin of the cliptoma- nia, (so to speak,) as a train rob ber would a lady’s watch. This is a mortifying confession, but a true and honest one. Would a decent lawyer, doctor or a divine do this thing? Not willingly, or knowingly. We would suggest to our press conventions an expres sion of disapproval of this rude warfare on personal and proprie tary rights, and by a solemn cov enant agree to amend the present practice of petty literature larce ny, and re-establish, even in this Dot-and-carry-One age, the cus toms and courtesies that main tained, when Ritchie, and Gales and Seaton, and Noah, and Gree- ly and their contemporaries illus trated the dignity, honest}', and power of the Press. N. What I Know About Farming. It is customary for countrymen to smile at an editor who presumes to say anything about farming. Wliat does he know about it? says one.— Well, he knows the A, B. G’., about it and no man can be a successful farm er who doesn’t know that and prac tice it to the letter. What is it? Go •to bed by, or shortly after, dark ; get out of it before, or by, daylight; and eat breakfast by or before sunrise. The would-be farmer who losses two hours of sleep before midnight, and two hours of work after sunrise, may have some qualifications for a farmer, but lacking this A, B, C, he will nev er be a successful or prosperous one. I know that; and it is more than some farmers know who make pre tensions to know all about it. N. The Price County. Atlanta, July 5.—Baldwin county is entitled to some kind of recognition as being the first to forward to the Comptroller-General its tax digest for the year 1887. The digest arrived yes terday and in a marvel of neatness, the work of Mr. J. H. MeComb, the popular tax receiver. The returns show a total of taxable property amounting to $1,027,418, as against $1,584,033 last year, an increase of $93,385. The returns in 1885, were $1,359,111.—Macon correspondent At lanta Constitution. ment aboyt the question of paying the expenses or the dml service boards while on their -re4w%0 junketing visit to this city, bu& 1 ^hardly think the controversy will be qe important as the proverbial reiApeSt Jfi a tea pot. How sad to see that even this august body is subject to the same infirmi ties of temper as are ordinary people 1 The changes In the different Depart ments incident to the beginning of the new fiscal year were not numerous or important. Twenty Treasury clerks were dismissed, also seven in the Quarter Master General’s Office and forty employed in the Govern ment Printing Office—most of the dis charges being made on account of the appropriation bill failing to provide for tlie continuance of the incum bents. The order consolidating rev enue districts went into effect at the same time and also tlie 20 per cent re duction in salaries of Assistant Dis trict Attorneys; there were a few mi nor clerical changes, iu nearly all the Departments. Under the beneficent methods of our honest and upright Democratic Administration :the reduction of the public debt continues steadily—the amount for the morith of June being $15,000,000 which ,1s a pretty good showing. Of 57 clerk* in the Quarter Master General’s '“.'■fire, who were examined under the new Civil Service rules, six men and two women failed to attain the minimum of 75 out of a possible 100. The following fact is regarded of much significance by tlie Commis sion. Before the examination, the Quarter Master General had made markings for efficiency and kept them ft secret, for comparison with those of the examiners and it turned out that botli markings were substantially the same—a result highly satisfactory to the Commission, as it tends to dis prove the charge of favoritism in the ratings. During the last fiscal year the Pen sion Office issued 111,840, certificates, which is said to be the best showing ever made by the bureau. It is also said that there is not a case in the Pension Office that has not been ex amined in that time and the proper action taken to prepare it for final settlement—a record that is exceed ingly gratifying to the officials of that bureau. If a dynamite bomb had exploded in the corridors of the Patent Office the other day, there could not have been much greater commotion among the army of Republican clerks than when it was made public, that, after a patient investigation, the accounts of Levi Bacon, a protege of Each Chandler’s, who died a few days since, after having been many years finan cial clerk of the Patent Office—dying in the position—were short over $33,- 000. Who can blame these Republi can clerks for holding a eulogistic meeting ovor the dead defaulter, for they knew he held their due bills for thousand of dollars unlawfully ad vanced to them out of the public funds? Many of the clerks will not have any salary in three months, as Secretary Lamar will deduct there from their dues. The bondsmen will have to pay the full amount for which they are responsible, $10,000, yet it is thought there will be a considerable shortage after the clerks are made to refund, as most of the sum is in pa per on Bacon's outside friends. It appears that his accounts have been crooked eight years. The Democrats can afford to raise a gTeat deal of such unsavory “Bacon out of office.” “Turn the rascals out.” In the words of the noble lamented Hendricks, “Open the books.” Mr. John L. Nor ris, of this city, one of Bacon’s bonds men, now expresses his emphatic con viction, to use the language of the great and honored Tilden, that “Re form is necessary,” and says he be lieves that.' the accounts of other dis bursing officers of the Government, will, if fully investigated, be found in as bad a condition as those of the es teemed Republican Bacon. A statement prepared by the Treas ury Department shows that in the month of June, there was an increase of $2,004,840, in the circulation and a decrease of $3,152,981 of the cash in the Treasury. The principal increase in circulation was in silver certificates and United States notes and the prin cipal decrease in the Treasury cash was in gold and silver certificates, United States notes and national bank note*. Among our Xt*chan0e$. Tlie expanse* of the Kimball House, Atlanta, are $800 per tlay. .Tjw« over 100 employee* connected with if. If Hancock ooonty I* not stocked with hbme-raleed hweec and nthMi It won't be the fault of tee MKor of We Ishmaffit*. • , r _i:_s The Augnsta Hew* aay*. when the thermometer rtunde at 108 ln the shade, as it recently did fn that city, the orb of day may well be called the prodigal sun. Mr. Prime* Jon** of Baker oounty, Ga., sent the first bale of new ootton to Brunswick^ July 5th. It was for warded to New York. It was sold at auction in Albany, and brought $3 cts. per pound. , The first regular shipment over the Georgia Midland waa received At Grif fin Monday, and consisted of 186 bales of cotton from Columbus, and con signed to parties in Knoxville, Tenn. These “Mother Hubbards” worn in the streets ore just awful. Ln the ped room v ot about thelroum 7 they are perfiiieftible; but htpublto-pklccs they are “most totaafclfi'^AndngtM be en dured,”. a? tb9 great ^ramatwt re- Tlie Morning News, Savannah,’lias, d&ilyvthe most, complete and bOMi Ar ranged epitome of CNtoryta news In paragraphs* of,any paperin the State. Indeed; tWNww* make* this depart ment ft specialty: ’ Doctor Willi* Hahimond, Hernkndo county, Fla., Who ha* been doing some bad thing* in that State, and in Savannah, Ga., was captured at Way- cross on Tuesday. He called himself Doctor, and was a druggist and land agent in Hernando, Fla.. Rack Bombs.—'The largest sale of race horses ever held In the world was that of Lord Falmouth’s in Knglahd, Twenty-four head realised $182,000 an average of $7,591. The highest priced horses at the sale were t Busybody, $44,000 amt Harvester $43,000. The recent 4th Of July* notable for accidents, fatal antr otherwise, by cannon; roof-falling,' raitgoads, toy pistols, fire-csapkfig, .the knife, explo sions and the artilleiry of 'heaven. Such a bfiapter, of such variety,*' was seldom, if ever before^ heard bf. A young man named'Frank Allen, a former book-keeper fof B. and O. G, Sparks, Mawt),' Ga., died sud- a in his room on the 6th Inst. It knowmbewhi# death occurred, whether by iffilcMe or congestion of the brain. He wms to have been mar ried that night. Some spiteful bachelor editor said this: “We left our sanctum at midnight last night, and on our way home we saw a young lady and’ gentleman holding a gate on its hinges. They were evidently indignant at being kept out so late, as we saw them Lite each other several times. A spicy correspondence is going on between Dr. Westmoreland of Atlan ta, and Hon. James M. Smith, of Oglethorpe, about some personal mat ters touching the State convicts. Col. Smith appears quite cool about it, and prefers at present to attend to his immense planting interests, rath er than engago in belligerant, affairs. The Rev. Dr. Bacon 1ms stirred up his congregation a little in Savannah bv saying that the north was right in the late struggle. This is a free coun try, and the doctor has the right to express his opinions.—Constitution. Yes, just so. And the people have the right to choose their preachers, also. Jacob Haas, of Atlanta, received a letter from Germany addressed 347 Whitehall street. Having at one time resided on Whitehall street, and not thinking that he had a namesake in the city, he opened the letter and found it was intended for some one else by that name. Tha writer ad dresses tlie person as “My son,” and by ft strange coincident signs himself Jacob Haas. It was equally strange that the letter was postmarked at Obrigheim, Bavaria, a town situated only about fifteen miles from where Mr. Jacob Haas was born. Mr. Haas is quite anxious to turn the letter over to his namesake. There used to be In Milledgevllle, a man named Jacob Haas. Some people don’t care any thing at all about the old Confed erate flags. We’d cheerfully give a month’s living for tlie battle- scarred flag of the old 6 th Geor gia Regiment. What memoriea the sight of its tattered folds would invoke! Those who did not follow the Confederate flag when it floated over heroes, can not be expected to honor it now when covered with the dust and humiliation of defeat. The Sparta Ishmaelite says this, and we warmly sympathize with its sentiments. Our view is that either side should have their lost flags, if they want them. If this view is denied, the profession of restored friendly feeling beween the sections is a mere sham. 1000 Envelopes for $1.00 at Unios- Rrcordrr office. Fishing Tackle, a large assortment, at Joseph Staley’s. 42 it He Swear* no More. Mifeaeapolii Journal. There is a young married wan liv ing on Hennepin avenue who ia a very good fellow, but he has fallen into the habit or using? profanity al- moat eoaatantly. Hi*' charming wife tried a dozen way* tobreak 1dm of the habit, without auocess. Finally «he deeided upon a plan. He eaine home the other evening and remark ed: It’s been a li of an uncomforta ble day, hasn’t it?” “What in h lias been th* mat ter with ltt” asked the wife coolly. He looked as if he had been struck by a cyclone. Then he expressed hit- wonder with an oath. His wife fe peated It. It required just two days to break the young man of the habit, for the wife repeated every “swear word” ho used m her presence. Now he doesen’t swear when he misses a nail and strides his finger with a ham mer. j A Sad Propheoy. There is one stylo of bore worse than-all others combined. H(s feet are on our desk as we write. We t>c- oasionaliy lodkaap th*, gloomy Waste of hi* pantaloons leg,a# we think of a hard word. He is redding the Detroit Free Press. ' He has learned wlticH is th* Free Press when our mail * is brought In, and he team off the wrap per and read* it for houre, and ta)ks to u* between whiles. Re also reads aloud to us. He can’t read very well, but then that don’t make any differ ence. He i* proud of his elocution and entertains us half a day at a time while we try to write and forget all about him. Now he haB his feet on the ink bottle and isreadlngjus apathetic thiugfroui the said Press. The funniest thing iu the world becomes tame and pointless when it Is read by a man you hate. This man oomes in like an assassin and murders the best things ip the newspaper world. He robs us of the joy of opening the wrappers of our choicest exchanges and casts liis bale ful influence over the brightest of current literature by reading it to us. • We hate to kill this man and thas be brought before the public in an unpleasant way. It would be self-de fense, and any jury in the world woald say It was justifiable homicide, but human life should not be taken if It can be avoided, so we sufler on. He has just made an unsuccessful effort to spit through the transparent door of the stove. He ought to know by this time that he can’t do that. He has been experimenting on it all win ter. Some men are not observing in their nature. They stumble through life, making the same awkward er rors day after day. Tlie first two weeks he came, he tried to go out the wrong door and found himself in a dark closet. Sometimes he gets tired of reading and looks at us as though he yearned to converse. At such times we are always taciturn and reserved. We know then that he is aching to tell us about his indigestion and what he is doing for it. Men who sit around all winter and wear out the bustle of their panta loons, always have a good deal of in digestion on hand and they love to tell industrious people alt about it. This man will come up here some day and he will go out again. There will be a short, sharp struggle, and a groan, and a gurgle or two, and then the soiled hands will bo still. The flush on tlie rosy snoot will die away and the overworked jaws will be at rest. He will drop out of our lives like the memory of a minstrel show. People will find fragments of a hu man being around the office and jam med into corners of the hail, but there will be no excitement and no investi gation, fora blessed rest will steal in on the town and peace will be as a river, and joy like the waves of the sea. Bill Nyk. Mr. S. E. Whitaker. This well known and much be loved gentleman dit*d at his resi dence iu Baldwin county on Wed nesday last. Mr. Whitaker was ti native of this oounty, and pass ed his long life of throe score und ten years, near tho home of his birth. II o was a successful far mer, a public spirited citizen, and a Christian gentleman. His ge nial, kindly, warmhearted nature, naturally gave him prominence in all enterprises and agencies, that look to the good of his fellow man, or the interest of the church* His death was quite unexpected as he was in usual health until Friday ‘24th, when he was taken with a congestive chill. Earth is made poorer by the loss of such men, but it is of such jewels that Heaven is composed.—Sanders- ville Herald. It is a Pleasure, writes Mrs. Eliza Ann Smith, of Ver million, Erie co., Ohio, to tell the la dies everywhere that nothing suriiass- es Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic for all ir regularities. “It cured me when the physicians and all other remedies fail ed.”