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Volume LVIIL rjjaDjBAL Union < |8ouTHirRff ItE<|pn sUtj M. 9f r ,1111 im. 1919. | Cos 3p iii * 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 BKinxcMnceM* • rnncrkv MSkTkSM VAMIkl MCMttMC I **S5SSi*^' BACON, SA. ana PHILADELPHIA. - Prict. ONE Dollar A; ion v*!u* healpurhxpa lift, ixamin* »*JrH 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. I * * * * Delicate diseases of eith- i ersex, however induced, speedily and | permanently cured. Hook 10 cents ! in stamps. World’s Dispensary Med- i ical Association, Main Street,' Huffa- 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.