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* Milledgeville, Ga., August 1<>, 1887
Number 6.
THE UNION & RECORDER,
I'ubllslied Weekly In Mllleils«vllle,Oh.
BY BARNES & MOORE.
Terms.—Oneiloll»r and fllty cants a year In
advance. His montha for serenty-flve cents.—
Two dollars a year If not paid in advance.
The services of Col. JaMMlE.HHYTHK, arran
ged as General Assistant.
LOOK OTJT!
Compare tl»U with your purchape t
Slow Work in Repairing Railroads. I THE A8YLUM MANAGEMENT.
Tlie Macon Hoard of Trade instruct
ed Mr. E. 13. (trace, chairman of their
Transportation Committee, to prepare
a communication to* Major Grdffc,
Manager of the Georgia Railroad,
“asking that the break in that Mil-
roafl bOT^Ben wJVrsntbn iTlnaj f
gaged as General Assistant. . v..w..
The “FKiiEHAl.UNION*’*niUhe“80fTiiEnw -be repaired as early as possible, for
recorder”wereconsoUdated. August 1st,1871, the reason that it was now working
a: asagfiftaater*!?? i ° th ' ?**?#• »<
The long delay in getting that'road
in its regular running condition is no
doubt doing our merchants much inju
ry to also, to say nothing of tlieiuter-
ference with the speedy receipt of our
mails by that route and the customa
ry use of the road for travel of our citi
zens generally. Would it not be well
for our business men to back, up their
Macon frieu(i6 in tlie action taken by
the latter? It does seem that the long
delay in getting that important route
in working condition might have been j yj e merits
shortened, if it ,h$xl not'been neglect-! J 01 ''.,
ed in behalf <>F repairs on other por-‘| jy H ' w '“ j 1 ,'*
tions of the road, it is proper to sav ^ u l*t. C. 1. Cl
proper to say
fin this oonueotioiii tJmt t he only break
in the road now’ 1 k at the "brotfeifi
bridge across the Oconee a little
above this city.
The Augusta Chronicle- Gordon and
Cleveland.
We are pleased to copy the follow
ing from the Augusta Chronicle, and
fully concnr with it in what it says of
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PHILADELPHIA.
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pLLKWge a.ni *urt yoti g*-t the (iontUnc. bet
the ret! & Triattto-Miurk. %nd th« full title
on f ror> t of IVrMppor, and OB Aho llde
ibf* teal and oiifiiHture of J. IX. Zellin A
Co.. n» in the above f*c- simile. R«ncmb«r there
other gonuino Simxaoxs Irivtr Regulator-
Mar eh 29,1887.
28 cw ly
Death of Col. T. D. Caswell.
Augusta loses another prominent
citizen and business man in the death
of Col. Theodore D. Caswell. Re
cently he went with his family to Ash
ville, North Carolina, to spend some
time in that mountainous region. He
was prostrated with fever as soon as
he arrived and died at the Battery
Park Hotel on the night of the first
of August. Col. Caswell filled high
business positions, in Augusta, where
he had gone into business when
a youth and was holding various ele
vated positions at the time of his la
mented death. He was a brave sol
dier in the war, and came out with
the rank of Colonel. He will be miss
ed in the business and social circles of
Augusta.
The Macon Telegraph has the fol
lowing statement of Capt. Jno. A.
West concerning the new railroad
from Savannah, by way of Dublin to
Macon:
“There nre now 700 hands grading
between Macon and Savannah, and
this does not include a large force
getting out trestling timber, cross
ties, etc. The sixty miles of the old
grade required but little work to
bring it up to the standard, and there
are forty miles of new grade finished,
leaving sixty miles yet to grade. Tipi
route has been located from Savan
nah to Birmingham, with the excep
tion of some thirty-five miles between
Macon and LaGrange.”
Superintendent Whitaker Replies to
Dr, Ken&n’i Card.
MilledoeVILLe, August 8, 1887.—
Editor Telegraph: 1 see in this
morning's issue a card from I^r. Ken
an, in answer to my article, concern-
ipga bill before the Legislature:
“Editors Telegraph: In your is
sue of the 7th instant appears an ar-
riele signed J. M. Whitaker, superin
tendent, etc., pro tein. At present I
have time only to say if his state
ments were true why does lie hasten
to object to an investigation, and
why do 1 press it? We know that
the Rev. Sam Jones says “the dog
that is hit yelps.” His article bears
falsehood upon its face. His con
eern about the ten trustee bill makes
him indulge in blackguardism, which
is ineffectual in diverting attention
from the merits of the bill or injuring
lood about “Tobesof-
oticed by the writer,
rawford, who is well
known throughout the State, and is
able to attend'to his matters, I pre
sume. The public Will bdar in mind
that there is soon to be an investiga
tion of the management of tlie asy-
lnm, and I shall dismiss the sub
ject for the
present. Respeotfully,
Thob. H. Kenan.”
A Generous and Extensive Loan.
An earnest Christian lady makes the
following offer to our readers:—“I
will loan, free of postal and all
charges to such of your readers as
will promise a carefui reading and to
pay return postage after reading it, a
book which in interesting style shows
the Bible to be a self-interpreter, and
its teachings grandly harmonious,
viewed in the light of' sanctified rea
son and common sense.
“1 want to put this book iuto the
hands of all the skeptically inclined,
as an aid and guard against the grow
ing scientific skepticism. It is not
dry, musty reading, but truly ‘meat
indue season' to the truth-hungry.
The light of this precious little vol
ume has made the Bible a new book,
a treasure, a mine of wealth, to
many as well as to myself. And I
feel that I cannot better use my means
than in circulating this work by the
thousand.” Adress Postal Card to
Mrs. C. B. Lemuels,
/• Allegheny, Pa.
A Prise in the Lottery
Of life which is usually unappreciated
until it is lost, perhaps never to re
turn, is health. Wlmt a priceless
boon it is, and how we ought to cher
ish it, that life may not be a worthless
blank to us. Many of the diseases
that flesh is heir to, and which make
life burdensome, such as consump
tion (scrofula of the lungs,) and other
scrofulous and blood diseases, are
completely cured by Dr. K. V. Pierce’s
“Golden Medical Discovery,’’ after all
other remedies have failed. Dr.
Pierce’s treatise on consumption mail
ed for 10 cents in stamps. Address,
World's Dispensary Medical Associa
tion. 003 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y,
T Pj
from tlie Augusta
V*
our distinguished Governor and Pres
ident. Georgia is fortunate in having
one to rule over her, who, fulfilling
the duties of a hero, covered at once
himself and his State witii glory in
war, and as a statesman and chosen
ruler .leads to the consummation of
brilliant triumphs in peace.
Our country is fortunate in the po
litical drama which, as President; Mr.
Cleveland has opened in a career of
honor on the strength of his entre-
pid virtue, potent and enlightened
judgment, and devotion to the gen
eral welfare. Botlj, with inteliectual
and physical power,*,free from criminal
ambition, are devoted to the sover
eignty^ Democratic Republican prin
ciples,'constitute a duality of strength
to bind the North and South in a
bond of political friendship that
would bridge over the bloody chasm,
and make us, again, one people as we
were when the red shaft of the revo
lutionary tempest had vanished from
our country and left us the freest and
the greatest people on the habitable
globe. A magnanimous people have,
now, in these too great and noble cit
izens the power to bridge forever the
bloody chasm, and make us one peo
ple in perpetual concord and unri
valled glory.
Georgia lias never had a Governor
who was more punctilious in observ
ing the lines fixed by the genius of our
government between the Legislative,
Executive and Judicial departments
than hie excellency Gov. John B.
Gordon. This is eminently proper
and it results in the most hearty co
operation in administering the affairs
of State. Thus far Gov. Gordon has
made a magnificent record as the
the Chief Executive of the Common
wealth. His administration grows in
popularity and in strength daily.
From observation, the writer be
lieves that there are not two men In
high official positions in the . Union
who work so long, so painstaking and
so industriously in their respective
offices as President Cleveland and
Governor Gordon.
’ For the rifreti iMoider,
There are no three words in the
English language, so commonly used,
that are so commonly mis-spelled as
lose, spelled loose, separately, spelled
seperatolv, and exhilarating, spelled
frequently exliilirating and exhilera-
ting.
I heard a good one the other day
through a gentleman of l’utnam coun
ty, illustrating the intense rivalry, (to
use a very mild word for a very bad
state of feeling among people who
pretend to be good Christians,) be
tween the colored members of the
Baptist and Methodist churches. A
gentleman who was selling books in
that county, sold an old-fashioned
spelling book to a negro boy, whose
mother was u red hot Baptist. On it
was printed, as was on all copies of
that edition, the word “Method.” On
carrying the book home and showing
it to.liis mother, who could read, the
first thing she saw was the word
“Method” in big letters. She flew in
to a passion instantly, and sent the
boy and book back to the agent with
the message, that “he could keep his
mean old Methodis books, they
shouldn’t cum in her house.”
It is left for the 19th century, and
the last quarter of it, in the most eu-
lightened country on the earth, in the
empire State of the Southern half, in
the most prosperous and central
county in it, to furnish the most un
paralleled crime that ever blackened
the pages of history. Does progres
sion progress?
A Boston paper says the best way
to eat a watermelon is with a spoon,
and the Savannah News, sly old coon
as it is, insists that it is best to eat
one with the fingers. What will the
mouth have to say about all this in
novation? and can the stomach re
main quiet with such disregard for Us
patient endurance of “man's inhu
manity-to umnyu N.
His maliciousness in trying to pass
said bill, which would affect materi
ally the general management of the
lunatic asylum is evident. He need
not be dodging behind “Tobesofkee”
or any other person. I said nothing
about au investigation in my article,
and lie knows it. At the time I wrote
the article I knew nothing of the com
mittee being appointed to investigate.
We do not object to an investigation.
We demand it. I was only showing
Kenan's animus and iiis reasons for
having animus; nothing in the world
about an investigation to be made.
All we want is an impartial committee,
one composed of gentlemen. There
is no code of justice, but what would
allow the humblest citizen in either a
civil or criminal case a fair and un
prejudiced jury. He says that my
article bears falsehood upon its face,
but does not say why it U false. I
only quote the charges or resolutions
passed upon by the legislative com
mittee and several on our board of
trustees. The only trouble was I did
not tell all. Anyone wishing to as
certain the truth, 1 refer them to the
report of the joint committee on the
lunatic asylum during the summer
session of the Legislature, 1888. Bee
page 10 of said report, under head of
medical department; from the latter
part I quote; “From all the evidence
that was submitted to us, we are of
the opinion that the principal blame
for this state of affairs rests upon the
first assistant physician, but, under
the circumstances, we think the trus
tees have not performed thefullmeas
ure of their duty in this matter, for
though they did not re-elect him at
their last election of officers but con
tinued him temporarily in office, and
have since our visit filled his place by
the election of another officer, We
think earlier action should have been
taken.”
It is but just, however, to say that
neither the trustees nor the superin
tendent had ever obtained, nor could
they perhaps have obtained, as much
information upon this matter ns was
communicated to the committee.
The other members of the medical
staff we found to be capable, efficient
and faithful in the performance of
their duties. Especially is this true of
Dr. Dowell, the superintendaut and
principal physician." These are the
exact words of the report of the com
mittee, ' still this Is only part of their
report, based upon evidence that is
really too black to publish.
Let the committee coiue; We want
them to come, investigate, examine,
look not only into every department
of the lunatic asylum, its manage
ment and workings, but look into the
conductor Dr. Kenan while an officer,
and find out why he has animus
against the trustees, superintendent
and sub-officers.
He lias an oily tongue, pleasant in
manner, but a more deceitful, mali
cious, cowardly man never lived; if so,
I never chanced to form his acquaint
ance. As to my blackguardism in the
article, I simply refer the public
to my article in the Sunday's
issue, August 7. All the black
guardism in fhe article was that
he, Dr. Kenan, was guilty of a want
of veracity and too much intimacy
with female attendants. This was
the verdict of the legislative commit
tee, not mine. I simply quoted from
the resolutions passed by them, which
are now on record. I regret having to
use such forcible language, but from
reading the above card, proves its ne
cessity. Respectfully,
J. M. Whitaker,
Superintendent Fro Tern.
A LETTER FROM HANCOCK.
Oulvkkton, Hancock Cp., Ga. >
1 Aug. 8th, 1877.)'
EditoUb Union-Recorder:
Thinking you would like to have a
few dots from this county, 1 will en
deavor to couple up a few:
The people of this section of the
county are in great sympathy with
your section, especially those in
Hancock and Baldwin and on
the Oconee River. We have been
badly injured but then when we
survey the neighboring country we
are thankful that we are in no worse
condition than we really are. The
crops throughout this county though
are about as good ns could be asked
for. Notwithstanding the storms &c.
Hancock’s enterprising farmers have
taken stock in and are pushing to com
pletion one of the most handsome
fair grounds in the Btato and it bids
fair to be one that will cause her to be
proud of it. We ask that all the ad
joining comities may come over this
fall and sec the headway we are mak
ing and our farming, stock, &e.
We eftn now boast of some of the
finest stock in the State and you are
also aware of the fact that we have
one of the beet campgrounds in the
state, and by the way onr Sunday
school convention, managed by the
Hancock B. S. Association, including
every denomination in the county,
meets on the 12th of this month ana
our campmeeting begining the night
of the same day, which bias fair to be
one of the largest ever had and we
Ex-Attorney General Colt, of Rhode
Island, says it is impossible to enforce
the prohibition law in that State, be
cause juries will not convict offenders.
Rhode Island ought to import jurors
from Georgia. There are certuin vio
lators of the prohibition law in At
lanta who have reason to know that
| juries in this State do their whole du
ty.—Sav. News.
that time the trains will be running
througti; if not, arrangements we hear
will be made to transfer at the Oco
nee.
Come yourself to the meeting and
tell all your friends and while over
here take in the campmeeting; you
will findplenty to eat &c.
We have heard some of our iner-
chunts suy they begin to want to see
soip<^ of the Milledgeville drummer
boys come out again, lsawamanat
Culvertou today that wauted to give
W. T. Conn & Co. an order but could
not get goods to the Hancock side,
but I guess he will reserve his order.
1 say that some of the Hancock
boyft and young ladies are looking
forward to mass meeting and camp-
meeting with much pleasure, expect
ing all of the people from your city to
attend and one or two large souls in
our little village will be made happy
when they have the pleasure of the
hand shake and the smack Ac.
Biding you adieu I am yours Ac.
Farmer.
Worthy of Trial.
The following simple preventive of
the sickness which threatens our com
munity, is so easily prepared and
taken that we trust it will receive a
fair trial by some, if not many, of our
citizens. It certainly seems worthy of
having its merits fairly tested. The
Macon Telegraph of the 9thinst.,has
tlie following editorial:
THE LEMON AND MALARIA.
The Medical Record for August Otli,
just at hand, contains an interesting
editorial upon defense against malaria,
and lays considerable stress upon the
formula advocated by the celebrated
Dr. Touimasi-Crudeli, which is a de
coction of lemon. “This domestic
remedy, far advocating which Orude-
li has suffered much ridicule, has been
found by many observers to be of sin
gular, arid us yet unexplained, effica
cy. Possibly its effects may be due,
in a measure at least, to its mauifest
tonic properties. It certainly in
creases the appetite and aids diges
tion.”
The directions for preparing this
decoction are so simple as to place it
within the reach of almost every
household. “A fresh lemon is cut
into thin slices, rind as well as pulp,
and is boiled in three cupfuls of wa
ter in an earthen vessel which has
served no other uses. This amount
is boiled down to one cupful, is then
strained witii pressure through linen
and set aside over night. It is drank
in tlie morning before breakfast.”
Says tlie editor, the liquid lias a
slightly bitter, but not disagreeable,
taste and is readily taken even by
children. Bueh a simple and inexpen
sive remedy, recommended as it is by
as high au authority as Toiriassf-
Crudeli, is well worthy of a more ex
tended trial than it has received in
this country.”
A distinguished physician of this
city recommends the adoption here of
the lemon remedy as a substitute for
more violent ones. He calls our at
tention to the fact that if the high
waters receding are supplemented
with a hot, dry spell, that certain dis
tricts will be fruitful of malaria,
which, indeed, has been well learned
by experience. The lemon is exten
sively used in Florida and other send
tropical regions in its raw state as a
preventive of malaria, and highly
indorsed as such. It is there called
nature’s remedy and u ;ed as an early
morning drink. The use of the lem
on, however, in such manner is not
confined to hot climates, but extends
in a limited degree all over the North.
We would be glad to have some of our
readers give the crudeli formula a
fair trial for thirty days and report
results.
WHAT MRS. W00IF0LKS SAYS.
Her Husband Threatened a Month
Ago to Burn His father's Family.
The Letter.
The young wife of Thomas <&.
Wool folk, now in jail charged
with the murder of nine mem
bers of his father’s family, came
into the city yesterday with hor
mother and father on a shopping
errand. Her father is Thomas
Bird, a well-to-do farmer living in
Jones county, across the rivor
from Holton. Mrs. Woolfolk is
about seventeen years old, come
ly in appearance and is a perfect
type of the country lass. Sho is
bright and intelligent and posses
ses beauty. She met Tom Wool-
folk a few months ago, and ho
S ictured to hor in truo Claude
lelnotto fashion a luxurious
home in Maoon where sho w<jpld
not want for anything. Both par
ents opposed the match but sho
liked Tom so well that she de
ceived tho good souls, and when
Tom arranged for the marriage on
the train she consented andslin-
ped away from home. She met him
on the train as agreed upon and
on Sunday afternoon, June 12,
they were married while the
train was speeding fast through
the cemetery, in which the groom’s
nine victims were buried last Sun
day. Ai’riving in Macon, they
went at once to the residenco of
Mrs. Edwards, Tom’s own sister.
In an interview yesterday with
Mrs. Woolfolk she did not hesi
tate to speak of her husband, and
among other things said: “We
married on Sunday, and next day
I began to repent of my hasty ac
tion. I had been told that I had
married a trifling sort of man, but
while the second day of my mar
ried life was not one of pleasure,
and I had begun to get an insight
into his character, I did not be
lieve what was said of him. I
found that instead having a fine
home for me and being able to
support a wife, he had no
home and was unable to support
himself. On Tuesday, I be
came tired of his mean ways and
told him I was going home to my
mother and father. Ho went with
me, and we remained there until
Tuesday, when he said he would
go to Macon and get work. He
went away aud wrote me a letter
beggiug me to come to him, that
ho was all fixed. Believing him,
I came to Macon and was again
taken to his sister’s. He said he
could not find work, and I know
that instead of hunting work ho
tramped all over the city. He
was cross and fault finding, and
did not have any money. I could
not stand liis brutal treatment; so
when my parents came on tlie
next Saturday, I told him I would
not live with him and left him. I
have not seen him since.”
“When did you hear the news
of tho killing'?’
“Saturday at 12 o’clock. The
crime was committed on Friday
I believe, and when my uncle
Pleas heard of it he sent one of
tlie hands to our house to tell
“Only two. The first was when
ho wrote to mo to come back
to Macoh shortly after wo were
married and the other last week.
I read in the paper that he lmd
written to me and I sent for the
letter! Tt teas written in a curi
ous sort of way as if in two or
three different kinds of languages,
and there were three ofr four
blank pages of paper in the en
velope which caused it to look as
though it was a bulky letter. As
far as I could read there was
nothing in it referring to the
crime, though thero might be.
Tho letter is now at home.”
“What is your idea about Tom
- -do yon think he is crazy?”
“No, lie is not crazy. It is
simple monnhess. He is the
meanest man I ever saw and
there is nothin" too mean for him
to do. I could not have lived
with him even if he had been a-
ble to support a wife."
Mr. Bird said that Woolfork
wont to his house one day last
week to see his daughter but she
declined to see him.—Macon Tel
egraph, 10th Inst.
THX THIRD GEORGIA REUNION.
From The Augusta Chronicle.
We are authorized to state by
Col. Claiborne Snead, that tlie re
union of the survivors of the
Third Georgia Regiment, which
was to have taken place on the 3d
and 4tli of August at Eaton ton,
has been postponed until August
31st. This postponement was
mode necessary by the floods
throughout the State.
The following letter was receiv
ed from ex-President Jefferson
Davis, which would have been
read at the reunion:
Beauvoir, Miss., July 25, 1887;
Col. Claiborne Snead: *
My Dear Sir—Please accept
my thanks for your gratifying
letter of the 22d inst., with in
vitation to attend the reunion of
‘the survivors of the Third Geor
gia Regiment.”
I regret that it w ill not bo in
my power to be present as invit
ed; it would give me sincere
pleasure aemin to meet the heroes
of that galnnit regiment and to
exchange with them the confiden
ces and consolations pertaining to
men wlio “still love the cause for
which they fought.” You will
leave to your children the legacy
of honorable service in the cause
of constitutionl liberty and the
defense of inherited rights be
queathed to ns as an inalienable
endowment by our fathers upon-
their posterity forever. Keeping
sacred tho memories of tho past,
let it be yours, with firm resolve,
to strive to make the future
worthy of tlie record to which yon
can proudly refer.
With cordial wishes for the
welfare and happiness of each
and all of your associates,
I am, faithfully yours,
Jeefersox Davis.
AlT AUGUSTA HERO
“I cannot praise Hood’s Sarsaparil
la half enough,” says a mother whose
son, almost blind with scrofula, was
cured by this medicine.
We Have Tried It.
"And would have It if tho cost was ten
times what It Is.” says raanv ladles who
have used The Mother's Friend before con
finement. Write The Bradlleld Regulator
Co., Atlanta, Gra., for lull particulars.
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i lo, N. Y.
“Did it shock you?”
“It shocked but did not sur
prise mo.”
Why?"
“Because two days before I
loft him he told me he would burn
up the family. He came into tho
room and said, ‘Georgia, father
has not fixed me up, and I’m go
ing to burn tlie family; father’s
rich and got plenty; if I can’t get
any of it none of the others shall
got it.’ Up to about a week be
fore that he had spoken well of
his father because he thought
he would be given some
thing at his marriage. His fath
er had fixed him up lots of times
and ho made way with it. I
wanted to tell sister (Mrs. Ed
wards) about tho threat, but
something prevented me. After I
left him ho went to Athens.”
“His father gave you somo land,
did ho not?”
“Yes, ho deeded mo 490 acres
of land in Coffee county.”
“Did you receive any letters
from Tom?”
The Rescuer of Three Persons From
a Watery Grave.
A quiet and unassuming boy,
Bishop Alexander, of this city,
is now tho hero among all clasps
at that popular resort, Moreliead
City. His latest act of heroism
is the rescuing of one of the
Bearden boys, who spent last
winter in this city. Their baud
are engaged there this season.
Tho young man rescued was
seized with cramps while in bath
ing and was rapidly succumbing
to the dread results of the seiz
ure when Alexander sprang into
the water and dived to his rescue.
This is the third life that he lias
saved from a watery grave. His
first brave act was the rescuing
of a boy off the docks at New
York, and two years ago lie went
to the assistance of Mr. John Co
hen who had been seized by the
undertow off’ tlie beach of Sulli
van’s Island. His last act has
drawn to him all the eyes of all
Moreliead and he is the recipient
of congratulations that are shared
by his host of friends here.-Even-
ing Nows.