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Volume LVIII. j"Federal Onion Established In 1829, ^Southern Recorder “ “1819. Consolidated 1872, , Milledgeville, Ga., August 23, 1887 Number 7- THE UNION & RECORDER, Published Weekly In AllllediceVllle.Oa. BY BARNES * MOORE. Tuans.—One ilolltr *n<l fifty cent* » year In Advance. Six montliB for seventy-fivecents.— Two dullars a year If not paid In advance. The services of Col. JammM. BnYTHa.areen cased as General AsslKtant. The •'FEDERAL UNION"and thc"SOLTHERN RECORDER’'were consolidated, August 1st, 18* the Union being In Its Forty-Third Volume and the Recorderln Its Fifty-Third Volume. mouth; tongue coated white or covered with a brown lur; pain in the back, sides, or Joints—often mistaken for Hhcumatism ; sour stomach; loss of appetite; sometimes nausea and water- brush, or indigestion ; flatulency and acid eructations; bowels alternately costive and lax ; headache; loss of muinory, with a painful sensation of having failed to de something which ought to have been done; debility; low spirits; a thick, yellow ap pearance of the skin and eyes; a dry oough; fever; restlessness: the urine la aoanty and high colored, and, If allowed to stand, deposits a sediment. SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR (PURELY VCftCTARLC) la generally used In the South to arouse the Torpid Liver to a healthy action. II sets with extrsordiaary sfllssey ea the TlVEfl J -+ and AN tFFtCTUAl •PECIFiC FOR MalAria, Bowel Complaint*, Ujrapepnia, Sick Headache, Constipation, BUlonsneM, Kidney Affhrtions, Jaundice, Mental UepreMlon, Colic. Endorsed by the use of 1 Millions of Bottles, u THE BEST FAMILY MEDICINE for Children, for Adulta, and for the Affld, ONLY GENUINE huf our Z Stamp in red on front of Wrapper. lym, kidneys, Bowels. J. H. Zell in A Co., Philadelphia, Pa., rKOPtlBTOHS. Driest Ol.OS. Mareli 29, 1887. 28 cw ly The Accumulation in The Treasury, It is stated that the accumula tion in the Treasury before the close of the fiscal year will proba bly reach $100,000,000. There are no appropriations to consume it. All the wants of the Government are fully supplied without touch ing a dollar of it and this immense sum lies idle with a heavy loss to the Government, and besides, the Secretary -is embarrassed to find room for its storage. That mon ey if left to the people would af ford them great relief. They are heavily taxed to raise it and de rive no benefit from its use. How is it raised? In part by the In ternal revenue and in part by the tariff taxation. Tho great farm ing interests of the country are oppressed to raise it by a heavy taxation upon all tho implements of industry, and all the goods they need to clothe themselves and those dependent upon them. Secretary Fairchild is propos ing to make quarterly payments of interest on the public debt to get rid, in part, of this useless ac cumulation but such relief is de pendent, upon the willingness of the bondholders to accept the interest in advance. It is likely the bondholders would prefer to let it stand due than accept pay ment in advance. Some few who tion. There is a statement to the effect that tlia Government will propose a plnn for partial amdlio- ration at the next session of Con gress. The idea put forth is, it will make a partial reduction with the hope that the protective dem ocrats will support it. We hope they will, and will see so much benefit in it that they will be in duced to come back to the old time principles of the Party. ♦ ♦ —- The Prolongation of Life. We present a few facts on this in teresting subject culled from an arti cle which we find in an old Retrospec tive Review published more than half a century ago in London. The subject is nn interesting one; the arti cle is of considerable length and we present some of the pithy facts in the language of the author and occasion ally in our own for the sake of brevi ty. with a strict adherence, however, to the meaning of the writer. It will take two moderately long articles to complete it. not giving it all in full but only parts of its interesting fea tures. We do uot know how it may be with our readers, but for our own part, we confess that we are very willing to be—that is, to remain to exist, as long as circumstances and the fates will permit. We should have no objection to bargain for some five hundred years (we don’t like to be unreasonable) provided we might during that time write—and be read. This exhibits something of a common infirmity, which we, of editorial na ture, should not be too forward to al low. For an editor as he is in numer als more than a man, so ought he to be superior in a freedom from the ordinary infirmities—prejudice, igno rance, haste, death, and the like. The excuse we offer for contesting this is—It is true. Like other people of great preten tions, kings, poets, warriors, philoso phers, popular preachers, inventors of ’patent’ medicines—so editors of magazines and other papers die off and decay. The “brief candles” (from a farthing upwards) after shedding a little light, and showing a due amount of vaporing—puff and struggle and at last go out, leaving the world in darkness. Readily admitting our frailty we may lay claim to some qua! ities which readers may throw’ into the opposite scale. If our readers oan forgive omissions we are content. Let them not deny to our wish of five hundred years its possible accomplish ment. Much no doubt may be done for our inveterate lovers of life, by air, exercise and diet. There is no know ing what to do with the rebels against their own immortality. Some insist upon the incompetency of all possible elixirs. This is uot fair dealing. Pro verbs, as well as facts should teach us better. “Senior may you live a thousaud yeafts.” Such used to be a Spaniard’s wish; nay it is even so now. It has grown into a proverb. “May you live a thousand years.” It sounds like a magnificent blessing, full and musical. We talk of a fine old age of three score years and ten, It is con teuiptible. What can wo do that is worth doing, in so poor a fragment of time? Once our fathers were a mighty people. The men before the flood and after. Tho patriarchs saw through the long file of their genera tious, blessing and blessed. It is true the taint of the first murder was upon them; all were not free from error, yet unlike us not sickly and degener ate they did not fall like us before our time and die like us in the morning of our wisdom. They read the stars and “commerced with the skies." Heavens bright gates were opened to them, disclosing to their seers its wondrous secrets. Dumb nature obeyed them and spoke. The rock burst and gave forth its waters. The great sea bared its heart and lot them pass. They had visions radiant as day, gorgeous as the rainbow—they hail angels for their companions; they want looney may be willing to ! heard the word of God and lived. The omplv with his terms but we | long lives ofAhe patriarchs is attested think he will fail to reduce the accumulation to any serious ex tent in that way. Former Secre taries, even Republicans, recom mended to Congress to lower tax ation upon materials and articles of necessity to prevent these heavy accumulations. But the Republicans aided by protective democrats kept up the high tariff rates. They would not even con sider the propositions of the main body of the Democrats. The government becomes a loser indi rectly, but the loss falls upon tho people. ue doubt if Mr. Fairchild will succeed to any serious extent, but he deserves credit for tho effort. At best it can save but little for the Government, and tho people will derive scarcely any benefit by the Chaldean, Egyptian and Chi nese authors who speak of the great ages of those who lived in early times, and Pliny and Xenophon admit their testimony without hesitation. Wheth er longevity is tQ be ascribed to some peculiar providence is another ques tion. The Chaldeans and perhaps, others, believed that life depended on tbe stars. Whether nature has so fashioned the orazy tenement of man, that it will endure the storms of a thousand winters, we cannot pretend to say. Here our experience rails us, and the ory supplies little but conjecture. But that life may be improved and prolonged and death retarded, we conscientiously believe. In the year 1497 in a fish in Suabia, a carp, of pro digious size, was found, which had in its ear a ring of copper with these words in Latin: “1 am the first fish that was put in this pond by the hands of Frederick the Second, Gov ernor of the World, the 5th of Octo ber, 1380.” So that this carp must have lived two hundred and sixty- n years. Coming down later w Florida) there died an Indian Prince 200 years old who was known to have lived that long, and it was authori tatively stated, that three Hungarians lived, respectively, to tiie ages of 172, 185 and 187 years. Old Parr, au Eng lishman died in 1685, aged one hun dred and fifty-two years. Lawrence Hutland died in the Orkneys when lie was one hundred and seventy, and the famous countess of Desmond was known to be more than one hundred and forty at the time of her death. Almost all of these extremely aged persons seem to have used a great deal of exercise. Home lived in cold, some in warm climates. The old pa triarchs lived beneath a burning sky, and tilled an arid soil. It is clear then that man is constructed of sucli durable materials as to be able to live and light up against all the adversi ties of circumstance, and to withstand tile rigors of all seasons, whether at tile tropics or the poles. Old age is said to lie “the only nat ural disease” inflicted upon human nature. The curries of the East, the (Sauces of France, the grapes of Spain and Portugal huvebeen the oneuiiosof man. The sins of Roman banquets tire visited on the heads of their imbecile generation. Modern appoplexies may be traced to the enormous barons of beef and roasted oxen, upon which our forefathers fed to satiety. In the first place moderation must be carved upon every plate and should stand out in bright relief on every wine cup. Many of our wits showed plethora rather than strength. The older men are rosy, but not healthy, huge but not robust. The cold evening winds which meet them (like the scythe of time,) after the city ceremonials, would pass them harm less, were they temperate at table. The “sous of Belial” may never as pire to be long livers. The student who studies in excess, who sits long by day, and trims the midnight lamp pays the penalty at last, and ear ly too. Even excess of thought is bad, made more so by sitting long, wasting strength both of body and mind. The sedet eturnumquu sede- bet has been often quoted; yet he who sits much may breakfast with the Houris, and drink nectar with Jove at noon, but in the evening he must sup with Pluto. He must part with all, even his darling books, perhaps, in the summer of life. Roger Bacon was an extraordinary man. His wis dom obtained for him the hate of his contemporaries and the reputation of dealing with the Devil. He was, in truth, a great light in a dark age—a fiery pillar, that withered the green follies and dwarf superstitions around him. But he wrapped up much of his wisdom in a cloth of mystery. His book on the “cure of old age” is curious enough. In the midst of great accuracy of thinking, he be trayed certain small superstitions of science. He believed in dragons' blood (and of course iu dragons,) in tiie bones of stags' hearts, and the aurum potabile. He gave various re cipes for tlie>,ure of human ailments, but added however, “1 have not tried these things.” We admire his cau tion. Among his recipes was the use of wine mixed with water, which, he saiil, cheered the heart, and he inno cently added, “I think it is to be im puted to the wine, not the water." We think so too. Bacon considerate ly added, “If it be overmuch guzzled, it will do a great deal of harm.” We have heard as much ourselves, and we accordingly join in Hacon’s coun sel of temperance, with respect to this perilous though pleasant liquor . Oornaro, a Venitian, by excess in eating and drinking, had destroyed his health and lost all pleasure in ex istence. Possessing a strong brain and stout heart, he resolved to ab stain from excess in both and contin ued in excellent health up to his sev enty-eight year. In that year his friends and relations, actuated by warm and laudable affection, urged him to add something to the scanti ness of his daily food, insisting that it was required to sustain him in his growing years. Ho yielded at last, but insisted upon adding only two ounces of food to the 12 ounces he took daily, and two ounces of wine to the 14 he drank during the same pe riod of time. This was a very small addition. In eight days time it mude him peevisli and melancholy and on the 12tii day he was attacked with a dreadful fever which continued thir ty-five days aud nights and came near consigning him to the grave. He for tunately recovered and lived to be over one hundred years old. We make the brief statement from his own written and published account. So we see the astonishing benefit of curtailing his food and wine only two ounces each. After the change he said, “I sleep everywhere soundly and quietly, without experiencing tbe least disturbance, and all my dreams are pleasant and delightful.” (Concluded next week.) at all* The whole country seesjfind Hippocrates, tho most famous (1 vil e.imnlninefl of Wo linvo i physician of his time, living to the the eul complained ol. _ >Y « ha\e , of 104< AgoIepiadeB the Persian to often exposed the intolerant * 150, Halen to 104. Besides these it is wrong. and tho only melioration j recorded that a certain peasant reach- 7 ,, /kl.fnhm.l iii divill" mine. the age of 335 years. In America vnll be obtained m tariff reduc-> (beyoml B the Jlri £ ish 8ett iements in Facts About Farmer Armstrong. Mr. Frank Armstrong, of Dodge Township, was the winner of $5,000 in The Louisiana State Lottery. The cash was received by Mr. Truman, banker, here in full. It was one- twentieth part of the second capital prize ($100,000) which was drawn by ticket No. 21,058, for which twentieth part Mr. Armstrong had paid one dollar about a month ago. He is a substantial farmer of about 55 years, lias raised a family in Union county, and as he lost his wife a few years ago, he is unmarried.—Afton, (Iowa) Tribune, July 0. Written for the Union-Recorder. Pencillings From My Perch. BV MR. PICKLH. One of the saddest sights in this life, is a sullen, sour, fretful old man who seems to live only to mar the happiness of others. He lives, as Christopher North says : •'Like a tree long after rottenness Hat ti eat away Itsheart ; tiie sap of life Moves through its withered rind and lives on, 'Mid the green woods a rueful spectacle of mockery and decay.’’ •*» If an illustration wasneeded to show what daily exercise by walking, will do to develope the muscles, and give health aud a perfect physique to a man or woman, take the lamplighter in a small city like Milledgeville, who walks ten or twelve miles every day to light and extinguish his lamps— there you will find a splendid speci men of manhood. In the city where 1 live, a young negro man does this duty, and a more muscular, healthy, powerful man of his inches and pouuds cannot be picked out in Georgia, or any other State. The Fayette county, Ga., man who bought a dozen guinea hens ip Jones boro’ and they all turned out roosters, and then got an Atlauta man to buy him another dozen and they all turn ed out to be roosters, ought to go to farming with the Boston woman who tried to raise horse apples by planting “Colt’s Seedlings.” .** He who cultivates here on Earth closest to the sentiment of Heaven, is the one who will most enjoy the re fined society of the better world. It is well enough here, when the costly though just sentiment of rightful war is exchanged for lasting peace, to beat the swords into pruning hooks; hut in heaven we are told, there is no end to sentiment—indeed, there all is peace and endless sentiment. *** It is a very mistaken notion that prevails witli laboring men—men who labor chiefly with their hands—that rich men must be treated as enemies. The laboring men, especially those who follow a trade, are in a great measure dependent on the prosperity of their neighbors who are rich for employment aud the means of living. The rich man may not help the labor ing man as a matter of choice, but of necessity; yet the laboring man gets the benefit the same as though tiie help was of free will and not compul sory. If men did not get rich there would be no costly residences, or churches, or public buildings erected, no improvements in city or country, and in various other ways by which the rich are induced to spend large sums of money from year to year for personal comfort or pleasure. The poor laboring man who sits down and curses his lot and his rich neigh bor because he is rich and lives easy, stands in his own light, so to speak. When men are rich the country is prosperous, and without such pros perity the laboring man, however worthy and willing to work, will get no hire. The queen bee has a sting and the power to use it, which she does only when a rival queen invades her abode to usurp her authority and disturb the peace of her family. Her exam ple is commended to the Queen of Beauty who rules a higher hive than hers. A young man puts this question to i, “Would it be a benefit or injury to my lungs, which are weak, and my chest which is narrow, to blow a bass horn in a brass band?” Don’t do it. Go out to a field where the strong fellows work every day. Work iu the plow handles or with a hoe, mod erately at the start, and gradually increasing the duration of labor as strength increases. Do this regularly, and cheerfully, and 1 promise that you will soon he able to blow the din- uer horn to your heart's content, and great benefit to your lungs and chest yes, blow this horn, tiie only horn of plenty and health and music that worth’ blowing or hearing at any time or in any plane. One hand in the dough is worth two feet in the dance. Slow courting makes many happy marriages and many grandfathers. * * * The young man who never laughs, never allows his dimples to come out and take a sun bath in a silvery smile, will bear close watching. A deteo- tive would be essential to the securi ty of valuables when he was about, if the sad youth didn’t always carry his sign with him. *** The fellow who is a standing leader of Germans and other society fads, seldom marries. The girls find out that he is fit for nothing else, and don t bite at such bait however well scented. Now and then will do, but heiulforemostjat all times would butt out a ram’s brains, if he had any. •** If tho broken down constitutions and matrimonial failures of the old young women who put on long dress es at fifteen or sixteen summers could be strung on a wire and closely in spected, not one in a thousand would fail to bare the tell-tale “too much haste makes waste.” hung Tom Cluverius entirely on cir- oumstautial evidence not so strong by a hundred links as that now faBtenea about the bloody hands of Torn Wool- folk. Short shrift and a long fell, is what the violated law demands. Grand Old Virginia had twelve A Library for the Asylum Without Cost. Among the large number unfortu nately confined in the Asylum there are necessarily a great many to whom books would not only be a service of great pleasure but undoubtedly valu able aids in ameliorating their unhap py condition. There is no appropria tion by the Legislature for that pur pose, and perhaps may never be. A suitable library would cost ut least several thousand dollars, and yet it is quite practicable for the Asylum to obtain n library at absolutely no cost to the State, and comparatively none to any one else. There are thousands of families in the State who have either members of their families or at least friends in tho Asylum, and there are thousands of families too who have books in their houses which they could, without the least sacrifice, spare to tho Asylum. Now if each of a thousaud- fauiiliea in the State would give one book, no matter if it is a second band one (the reading In it is just as good,) the Asylum iu this way ooula very easily secure a really valuable library. The authorities have had in the new convalescent male building, a reading room and library neatly fitted up with tables, desks, pens and Ink for writing, where most of the daily papers, (as donations,) come, are put on file, read and enjoyed very lhuoli by the patients. The Atlanta, Maoon, Savannah, Augusta, and Columbus dailies come every day. Neat book cases have been provided but the in stitution has as yet no books. Every family in the State is, or ought to be, friends to the Asylum, for they know not how soon the hand of misfortune may be heavily laid upon some one dear to them. Then do let the writer urge that every family In the State take this matter to heart. Don’t simply say “Oh, yos, it is a good idea, ,r and then let it pass from your mind, but act upon it at once. There caunot be, and indeed there is no need of any concert of action in It. All the books need not be sent at once but let every paper in the State call attention to this matter and as Boon as anyone reads it, let him look at once among his books and he will certainly find one, If not more, that he oan spare at once. Without further de lay, put a wrapper around it and a few cents postage on it and send it through the mail, directed, as this writer would suggest, either to Dr. T. O. Powell, or Mr. L. J. Lamar, and marked “for Asylum Library.” It will in due time reach the Asylum, and in a very short time the institu tion will have a very valuable library at absolutely no cost to the State, and virtually none to the donors, and when the Asylum is able to boast of a good library, each donor will feel a happy satisfaction in the reflection that, even though in a small degree, he has helped to secure such a bless ing to the unfortunates. Then let it be done at once and the many who now long so for something to read will bless those who had been so thoughtful of their comfort. Think how little the unfortunate creatures have to interest them and keep their minds from their own sad condition. Apply the golden rule, or mentally put yourselves in their places and im agine how grateful you would feel; consider how much it is to them and how little to you and act at once. The writer will start the contribution with several volumes himself, and let all do likewise. “C. Sharp.” Milledgeville, Aug. 19th. Boys Should'nt Smoke. From the Chicago Journal. “There goes a boy,” remarked my profound aud philosophical friend, tho doctor, pointing his finger at a lad of about sixteen, who was puffing away at a cigar - etto with his might, “there is a boy who, if he doesn’t stop smok ing those things before he is six mouths older, will be hopelessly ruined in body and mind. 1 have watched these young smok ing chaps for some years, and the result is always the same. They get the habit fixed, and then they might as well be dead at once. The boy who smokes retards the growth of his body, impedes his mental development, becomes a stunted, stupid man, and is fit for nothing but a common Baloon or billiard hall loafer as long as he lives. Smoking cigarettes, which are an abominable com pound of filth and poison, de stroys a boy’s health, weakens his mind, and gradually makes a mor al wreck of him. There arc few exceptions to tho rulo. If that boy would stop right off', now, there woilld still be some hope, but if ho koops on puffing those things six mouths longer lie is a .Washington Letter. From Our Regular Correspoudeak Washington, Aug. 15, 188T. Editors Unioh-Rkcohdkr: Ex-Congressman Brady, one of tbe - Republican leaders of Virginia, was mt. the Capital a day or two since, anal, being at sixes and sevens with little Billy Mahone, tho Republican boss of that State, Mr. Brady gently submit ted to an interview in which he givoa- some interesting information regard ing the political situation in the Old \ Dominion. He says that Maliowa in > his mad desire to make every otiiwr iulereHt subservient toll is ambition to return to the United States Senate, lias alienated all of his old lieuten ants, including such men us Senator Riddleberger, Ex-Governor Cameron and two of tho Republican Congress- mon-oleot-so, that only listless apathy and egregious blunders on the part of the Democrats can eeouro Mahone 7 * • return to power from the Mother of Presidents. Secretary Fairchild, a few days since, dismissed a pair of Republican clerks for consuming a portion of their valuable time during offer hours in abusing the Democratic- par ty, one of them being a brother of the brass-throated G. A. R. howler,. Gen. Grosvenor, Congressman from Ohio. The Secretary well says that lie thinks it too good in the Ad ministration to keep Republicans in their places, bat, that indecent criti cism of the Democracy should not be permitted. The sentiment of the able and popular young Secretary of the Treasury will find a ready echo in the hearts of thousands of Democrats, with the wish that there were more Fairchilds iu tho Cabinet. Secretary Wliitnev is pushing for ward with the earnestness and enthn- siasin characteristic of him, his efforts- to re-hubilitate the American Navy, having just awarded the contract foe the building of two gunboats and three cruisers, after the most ap proved designs, and with sucli iron clad test as to speed and capacity tlixt full compliance with these condition* is guaranteed. Another commendable action of the Secretary is bis contin ued refusal to furnish any funds fut the repair of rotten hulks like tbe Monocracy that were Inherited front the late Republican regime. Two Republican chief olerks of fit* Interior Department have resigned: during the present Administration — the successor of the last one not yet having been chosen. I trust Secre tary Lamar will be able to find souse good and worthy Democrat for th* position. It is a fact, perhaps net generally known, that with a single exception, every chief clerk of a De partment under President Cleveland’* Administration, is a hold-over Kepub Mean, although those places are not under civil service rules. Why this is- thus, I have, as yet, been unable tc> discover, but it “overcomes tue likte a summer cloud.” In the Washington Police Court the preliminary trial of the Crawfcvs? fornication case, which I have heuefco fore mentioned, still drags its slow length along like a slimy serpent, ow ing to tiie fact that it must give way each day to the regular routine of cases. There was a most exertrnp B-ene in this scandalous case; one at the defendant’s counsel told the Judgit*- tliat the United Htate.s District Attor ney had said to the two associate- counsel for the defense, that tbe Judge would decide the case in Che Government’s favor, regardless alike of argument and evidence- that, m fact, he had pre judged the case. Tide statement tiie Judge had reduced to writing, and as the venerable Jurist read the charge iu open Court, his nxi ger and passion were so overpowering that he shook like an aspen leaf, he denounced the arraignment “as a false aspersion upon my character.** Then, the District Attorney and tbe opposing counsel had an unseemly wrangle—the former afiirming aud the- latter denying. I fully agree with one of the defendant’s lawyers, who. In a towering rage, declared that thf way the case was being tried was “at disgrace anil au outrage on all con cerned in it.” A warning to boys who smoke- cigarettos is contained in the- death of one of their number in this 'city, recently. Whatever ground there may bo for tho opin ion that moderate smoking does not injure adults, there can be no question about its* effects upon boys. It is seen in pinched faces, stunted bodies and dwarf ed intellects. Paste this axiom in your hats, boys who are under sixteen years of age. None of you who are inveterate smokers will ever make a conspicuous suc cess of life.—Syracuse Standard. brave, conscientious jurymen,! and a r 8urc . And what a pity.” firm and courageous Governor, who 1B ’ r J A Strong Endowment is conferred upon that magnificent institution, the human system, by Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discov ery” that fortifies it against the en croachments of disease. It is tbe great blood purifier and alterative, and ns a remedy for consumption, bronchitis, and all diseases of a wast ing nature, its influence is rapid, effi cacious and permanent. Sold every where.