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4 Volume LVITI. FedKRAti Union Estabflsh SurTHKKN SecOBSEB' “ d tn id2!), | • • i^xt). (Consolidated 1872. Milledgeville, Ga., Seetemueu 20, 1887. Number 11 -r SUMMONS - £ if v'i w PURELY VEGETABLE. it acts with extraordinary efficacy on the tiver, ki DNE ys, ANO Bowels. AN EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR Malaria, Rowel Complaints, Dyspopsia. Sick Headache, Constipation, Biliousness, Kidney Affections, Jaundice, Mental Depression, Colic. BEST FAMILY MEDICINE No Household Should he Without It, laid, by la-iUKkcpt ready for ImmedtnteUHo, will save many an hour of suffering and many a dollar tn time and doctors’ bills. THERE IS BUT ONE SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR See that you get the genuine with red 11 Z" cn front of Wrepper. Prepared only by i. H. ZEILIN & CO. , Sole Proprietor*, Philadelphia, Pa. MUCE, «1.<J0. Mar ell 29, 1887. 28 cw ly EDITORIAL GLIMPSES The Governor sinned the Felton wine bill just before he left for Phila delphia last Tuesday. Gen. Boulanger j K i lo t the full-blood ed Frenchman his name would imply. His mother was an Englishwoman, and lie thus derives his stubbornness of purpose. The Chicago News says ministers are so scarce in Idaho that they have to be imported in many cases inhere people wish to get married. Trains are stopped that they may be search ed for ministers. Mexico, which reported only about 500 miles of railroad in 1890 now has about seven times that extent, mostly owned and operated by Amer icans, and meanwhile the public rev enues have more than doubled. The Macon papers speak in terms of high eulogy of the marriage of Mr. E. A. Nisbetand his beautiful bride Miss Hattie N. Bolliill, in Macon on the 12tli. Dr. Battle was the officiat ing clergyman. The gross earnings on sixty-seven railroads during the half year showed an increase of 15 per cent., while the net earnings of the same roads for the same period showed an increase of 24 per cent. The gain was well dis tributed, too, for only eiglit roads showed decreases in.tlieir net returns for the same period. It is hard to please everybody when the weather is the common topic, but whoever else may complain the as tronomers will not. Never were the heavens less unclouded or more stud ded with beautiful stars than they have been all tin* nights for the last three weeks, at least in this latitude, j and portion of Uncle Sam’s farm. Carter Harrison was one day talk ing about the boys of Chicago whom he knew. After naming scores of them, and dwelling on the character istics of each, he said: “And then there’s my boy Cato.” Fora moment he paused, and then added: “Well, Cato Harrison’s the only boy in Chi cago whom I don’t know.” The white citizens of Rathburn, Tenn., are excited because two white men have been “converted” by the preaching of a negro minister, and have joined a colored church, which they regularly attend. Their aeeew* sion probably adds nothing to the standing of the church in any way. It may be the negroes are the ones who ought to object. Assemblyman Charles Smith, of New York city, is decorating his new saloon in a peculiar manner. The floor is covered with small mar ble blocks. On each slab a hole has been bored, into which a silver dollar has been firmly cemented. Seven hundred dollars were required to com plete this decoration. Besides this, the beer pumps, gas fixtures, etc., are ornamented with silver dollars. The Contest is Kept Up. How can it be stopped until there is a remedy? The same difficulty, ex isting in this country, lias existed in others, and in England almost -pre cisely as with us., An English writer more than forty yeftrs,agO said: “fiMfeh is the disjointed and unnatural mate of England, that it is not easy to foresee a remedy for this alternation of misery between the manufacturer and the' agriculturist, one of which classes can only be relieved at the ex pense of the other, thus keeping both, as an illiterate friend of mine express es it, in a round robin of ruin, and successive see saw of starvation.” We quote this merely to show that a similar contest existed in England to that existing in our own country. The manufacturers insisted upon be ing protected and the laud-holders objected. Tile trouble was in some way removed by tlie power and bless ings which England enjoyed from the inexhaustibility of her financial re sources. Tile exact method of settle ment is not clear, but it was, doubt less. effected by appropriations satis factory . to the opposing classes. Our constitution contains no provision that authorizes a settlement of that character between opposing interests in this country. But we sec that they existed in England. In this country our Congress has passed taritr laws that benefit the manufacturers at the expense of the agriculturists. The ag riculturists iti England objected to such laws and in some way the parties were reconciled. In this country the manufacturers deny that the agriculturists are in any way injured, and even go so far as to say that the high tariff protects them and protects, also, the manu facturers. We have often shown that this statement is untrue; that it makes our people pay from twenty-live to thirty dollars for a coat which, with out the tariff, tliev could get for fif teen or t wenty dollars, and pay prices upon many other things in the same unjust proportion. We refer to this matter, now, to show that the same causes for discontent have also exist- isted in England at earlier periods in that country. If any writer in the United States has disputed the truth of the great differences In prices caused by our high tariff, we have never seen it in high tariff speeches or high tariff papers. We say now, as we have said before, if any high tariff papers, in Georgia, can prove that we can get clothing, blankets, and hun dreds of other articles too tedious to mention ns cheap under our tariff as the English, after pnying low du ties, will furnish them to us, we will cease to oppose it and give it our warm support. The Next Presidential Election. Pennsylvania Democrats on the Tariff. Savannah lias been deeply concern ed over the dead body of a woman found in the woods near that city about three weeks ago, who Appa rently had been foully murdered at least a month before discovered. Clue after clue has failed to establish an identity and the mystery is still unsolved. Strange, indeed, is it that no female 1ms yet been found, to fix the terrible uncertainty on some one. vffhe woman certainly must have been n stranger i® the neighborhood where • she was murdered. Envelopes for sale at this office at $1 .00 per thousand. It is not too early to look into and organize our Democratic forces for the great contest. We have relied upon a solid southern vote for Cleve land’s re-election and certainly upon New York anil Indiana. While the probability is that Ohio will go Re publican, there still is a chance for ttie Democrats to carry that State. As we have heretofore shown that the Democracy of Ohio, in their re cent convention, adopted in their platform a thorough revisipn and reduction of the high protec tive tariff duties, we inferred a great change in the sentiments of the people of that State on that question. The great old democratic statesman, Thurman, and others of similar stamp, believed that the time bad come to take strong ground against the pres ent tariff law. There has undoubt edly been a great change in the senti ments of the farmers in .that state. They have been gradually learning how they were imposed upon, and this knowledge lms been gradually spreading among the agriculturists of the great West. They grow immense quantities of corn, wheat, oats, hogs and cattle, which receive no protec tion, while the tariff imposes heavy taxes upon clothing, liouse and farm ing utensils, and every article they need for necessary use, for comfort or utility, and, jin addition to this, it makes the cost far heavier upon ar ticles used by the poor than those used by the rich. The tariff puts a tux of 57 per cent, on woolhats.it puts 100 per cent, on the poor man’s blanket, it puts on the laces of the rich only 35 per cent., the tax on a farmers’ woollen clothes makes them cost him twice as much as they would if wool were free. We have given, heretofore, and could give them a- gain, a long list *o show how farmers and the poor are excessively taxed while the rich are taxed lightly. There is not an instance in the whole schedule of taxation in which the farmer is favored. The scales are falling from the eyes of the farmers in all sections of tne country. Their eyes are being opened. Many of them are being shocked, puzzled and per* E lexed to find out now long they have een bamboozled by the tariff trick sters, and have been stripped of the profit of Lliair labors. It will not be very long; before tl tricksters that their hour is come for the punishment they so richly de serve. Some States in the great West will, in all probability, unite with tlie true democrats at the next na tional election. Here's to the kind old Democratic party! they will shout ami rush dp tlir',. polls for victorious ay it Tlie Pennsylvania Democrats adopt ed tlie Democratic Platform of tlie Party of 1884. This is claimed ns a victory for Samuel J. Randall, and his friends in the party, are claiming it to be a great victory and declaring that bis action in the matter will force tlie party to yield all opposition to the doctrine of protection. These Randall Democrats say that the par ty must yield, or be defeated upon any free trade platform. The persis tent declarations, that tlie majority of the Democratic party are free traders and are seeking to force that doctrine upon the party, is discredita ble jockevisiii on tlie part of those professed democrats who favor a pro tective tariff. There may be a few democrats, north and south, who be lieve that free trade would add great ly to the prosperity of our country, but we do not know of a democrat, in the Fritted States, who advocates it adoption, for revenu policies. The Democratic party favors a tar iff for revenue to obtain money for the support of the government, but oppose a high tariff to afford a large bonus for the special benefit of tlie man ufacturers at tlie expense,mainly of t he agriculturists. Millions of people are made to contribute to the “infants,” (nearly a hundred years old,) but tlie farmers carry tlie greater part of the iniquitous load. The Pennsylvania Democrats adopt ed the Chicago platform of 1884, mi ller which Mr. Cleveland was elected President. They claim that that platform favored a protective tariff. Mr. Hendricks, whose active and powerful efforts during the campaign, did more than anybody else to secure our democratic triumph, took a dif ferent view, and throughout the whole campaign denounced the un wise and evil results of imposing such heavy taxes upon the people. But let us examine the platform and see what it says. We copy as follows from tlie Democratic Platform, adopt ed at Chicago in 1884. Speaking of the Republican party and its platform the Democratic Platform says: “It, the Republican Party, professes to protect all American industries; it has impoverished many to subsidize a few. It professes tlie protection of American labor; it has depleted the returns of American agriculture and industry followed by half our people.” “It prefers a pledge to correct the ir regularities of our tariff; it created and lias continued them. Its own tariff Commission confessed the need of more than 20 per cent, reduction, its congress gave a reduction of less than 4 per cent. It professes protec tion of American manufactures: it lias subjected them to an increasing Hood of manufactured goods and hopeless competition with manufacturing na tions not one of which taxes raw ma terials. It professes to protect all American industries; it lias impover ished many to subsidize a few. It professes tlie protection of American labor; it lias depleted the returns of American agriculture, an industry followed by half our people.” “That a change is necessary is proved by an existing surplus of more than 100,000,- 00# of dollars which lias yearly been collected from the suffering people. Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxa tion. We denounce tlie Republican party for having failed to relieve the peo- from the crushing war taxes which have paralyzed the business, rippled the industry and deprived labor of employment, and of just re ward" “knowing full well, however, that legislation affecting the occupa tions of tlie people should be cautious and conservative in method, not in the advance of public opinion, but responsive to its demands, the Demo cratic party is pledged to revise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all in terests, but in making reductions in taxes it is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth. From tlie foundation of this government the taxes collected at the custom liouse, have been the chief Source of Federal revenue. Such they must continue to be. Moreover, many for public purposes, and shall not ex ceed the needs of tlie government economically administered. Tlie sys tem of direct taxation known as “in ternal revenue” is a war tax, and as tlie tnx continues the money derived therefrom should be sacredly devoted to the relief of tlie people from the remaining burdens of the war, and be made a fund to defray the expen ses of the care and comfort of worthy soldiers, disabled in the line of duty in the wars of the Republic, and for tlie payment of sucli pensions as con gress may from time to time grant, to such soldiers, a like fund for sailors having been already provided, and any surplus should be paid into tlie Treasury.” This is a part of the Chi- e.ftgo Democratic platform which the Randall Democrats in Pennsylvania have adopted and they claim that it favors a protective tariff. in what and bow does it favor it? Does it favor it when it says; “That a change is necessary as is proved by an existing surplus of more than $100,000,000 which Inis yearly been celloeted from the suffering people?’’ When it says; "We denounce the Free trade and aTariff I Uepnbfcan party for having failed to essentially different relieve the people from the crushing war taxes, winch have paralyzed the business, crippled the industry and deprived labor of employment and of just reward?” When it says: “The Democratic party is pledged to revise tiie tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests” and kindly adds “but in making reductions in taxes, it is not proposed to injure any domestic in terests but rather to’ promote their healthy growth” and how? by impos ing heavier duties “on articles of lux ury” and lighter duties “on articles of necessity.” By restoring our com mercial Marine. Tlie Chicago Dem ocratic platform says: “Unaera long period of Democratic rule and policy, our commercial marine was fast over taking and on tlie point of outstrip ping that of Great Britain. Under twenty years of Republican rule and policy, our commerce has been left to British bottoms, and almost, lias the American flag been swept off tlie high seas.” “We demand that Federal taxation shall be exclusively for pub lic purposes and sliull not exceed the needs of the government economical ly administered.” We might multi ply extracts to show that tne Demo cratic Chicago Platform favored re duction of the Protective tariff as shown in these extracts, and when the Democrats in congress sought to make them, Mr. Randall and his ad herents defeated tlie measure and the expressed wilt of the party by voting with the Republicans to sustain the Republican nigh tariff. Mr. Randall and his adherents are determined to stand by the Protectionists, and en deavor to sustain themselves by false ly stating that they are sustained by the Democratic Platform of 1884. The Centennial of the Constitution of the United States. Written for the Union-Recorder. . The Hermit of lhe“ Oconee, BY .). H. NISBKT. justice, tlo uii be. Distress after eating, heartburn, sick headache, and indigestion are cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It also 1 creates a good appetite. dustrles have come to rely upon tab ulation for successful continuance, so that any change of law must lie at every step’ regardful of the labor and capital thus involved; the process of reform must be subject in the execu tion to this plain dictate, of justice. All taxation should be limited to the requirements of an economical gov ernment. The necessary reduction in taxation can and must be effected, without depriving Amerioan labor of the ability to compete successfully with foreign labor and without im posing lower rates of duty than will be ample to cover any increased cost of production which may exist in tlie consequence of a higher rate of wages prevailing in this country. A sufficient revenue to pay all the expenses of the Federal government, economically administered, including pensions, the ' interest^ arid 4 principal of the public debt, can be got under our present system of taxation from tlie custom liouse taxes on fewer im ported articles, bearing the heaviest on articles of luxury and bearing the lightest on articles Of necessity. Wd therefore denounce the abrises of tiie existing tariff and subject to preced ing limitation. We demand that Federal taxation shall be exclusively A hundred years ago, September 17, the Constitution was adopted by the (’(invention sitting tn Carpenters’ Hall, Philadelphia. The September WiDK Awakk cele brates the event with a paper by An nie Sawyer Downs setting forth in brief the situation out of which the Constitution came; with engravings and portraits. This paper is so important as a very short and easy statement of one of t-lie greatest achievements in history that we should bo glad to print it en tire. For contrast, skipping some bits of poetry, Lucy's High Tea. by Sophia May. comes next -r. Ijttie story for very little girls, which every reader of whatever age will find more than delight in. There are the usual eighty pages: Charles Egbert Craddock’s story, and a great deal more. The publisher, (D. Lotbrop Com pany, Boston,) offer to send -a speci men copy (back number of course)for five cents. A subject more discussed than almost any other in Atlanta re lates to the department of Agri culture, tlie removal of the Col lege of Agriculture and Mechani cal Arts from Athens to Milledge ville; the abolishment of the blanch .Affrifipltnml GoIWok ex cept ono in North and one in South Georgia; the establishment of an experimental station and an experimental farm at Milledge ville in connection with the State College; the repeal of all fertilizer inspection laws; the appointment of a chemist who shall have charge of the experiment station, and whose duty it shall be to analyze fertilizers for farmers, make soil tests, etc., the election of a Commissioner of Agriculture who shall have an office at the Capitol and be charged with the duty of collating facts touching the farming interests of this State and, for comparison, those touching tho same gjroat Interest mother States; distributing seeds and circulating reports of experi mentation made at tho farm at Milledgeville, etc., the Commis sioner to have a clerk.—Atlanta Cor. Augusta Chronicle. In this sketch I do not propose to create a myth of the. imagination, a knight of the forest and stream, a Fitz Janies and his Ellen, “the daugh ter of Douglas,” or an outlaw of the mind, like Rhoderic, or Robin Hood the robber and hero, and paint a pic ture where “Nature scattered, free ami wild, Each planter flower the mountain child, Here eglinttoe embalmed the sir, Hawthorne aud hazel mingled there; Aloft the nali and warrior oak Cast anchor In the rifted rock"— Or by profuse coloring mar the pro bability of tiie tale ; but to give the reader the plain unvarnished truth about the daily life and habits of a man who spent all his years from youth to a moderately fair old age in the pine thickets and deep forests and cane brakes t lint three 'decades ago lined the west eVn. banks’of the, old Oconee, from the month of Tobrer’s oreek 'two mites north; of the court house, to the month of-Gampereek three miles below. ' t \‘ ' t Our hero's name \yas GiCORtiK Bot;'r- wkll. He was the son of worthy pa rents who lived a long and good life in this city where George was born, about sixty years ago, and almost in sight of which he died, about three years ago. The writer and George were boys together over forty years ago, and fished and hunted in the streuins within nnd skirting the city’s boundary lines, which then as now extend several miles to the north-east and'south-east shore of the Oconee. At tlie time 1 speak of there were no houses north of Tan-yard branch and where now Wilson A Go’s Iron and Machinery works stand there was a thick pine forest, anil through it ran as olear and pretty a little stream as ever sang its quiet song to the woods all night. It. was full of perch, lior- ny-head and cat-fish, and it was no hard matter to catch a long string in an liom or two between - tiie two bridges that now span Wayne aud Jefferson streets on tne North. George had no love for tiie confined air of the school room. He was almost born on the banks of Tanyard, and lived in a few rods of it, until his old haunts had got to be intruded upon by the inarch of civilization, when lie be came disgusted witli tlie ways of men, and panting for more retiracy and the gratification of his-natural desires and habits, sought a home in a deep thicket of pines, where today the fields are white with cotton or full of ripening corn. One day, about thirty years ago, while hunting in a dense pine thicket on the north-east city common, I came suddenly on a white woman, apparently young in years, coarsely dressed, and carrying an axe on her shoulder. She was small in statue, and not very bad-looking—her coun tenance displaying marks of pleas antness if not of facial beauty. 1 was as much startled, perhaps, as Hag gard’s hero was when he met the sav age girl in the jungles of Africa who loved him not wisely blit too well.— Having to say something to this lone creature, I inquired if she could point me to a spring whfcre I could get a drink of water. She beckoned me to follow her, which 1 did, .and in a short walk came to a hrush-beap, which proved to be her liouse. Go iug to the rear she lifted a piece of faded carpet that hung from a per simmon limb above, and served as a door to her habitation, entered and returned with a gourd full of water which she said had just been brought from tlie spring. It did not take me many minutes to get a perfect pic ture of this rustic, bouse burned into tlie plate of an excited brain, arid without another word between us I took my departure in search of game. The house, or hut, in which this woman lived, was composed of rough pine saplings, about six by eight feet in lie glit and length, and was covered over and on the sides with pine boughs, with here and there a few planks and fence rails, which had no doubt been gathered from tlie drift wood left by a freshet in tlie Oconee hard by. 1 did not see the in side of tlie hut, but 1 was told after wards that thvre was not a piece of bed clothing in it, but pine straw served that purpose; and a frying pan, coffee pot and tin (bucket constituted the entire furniture. This, I was in formed by some negroes I met after wards, was the residence of George Boutwell and Ids wife. Here, and in tliU manner of life, Hontwell and his companion lived a Crusoe sort of existence, for many years, subsisting on the game of the dense woods and river islands, during the winter, and on the cat-ihih catch in the spaing and summer, which was ever ready and abundant to supply their physical necessities, and from the sale of whicli to people in the city they were enabled to buy heavy cloth ing for the winter’s blasts, and a few luxuries such as sugar and coffee.— Pine-knots and the moon supplied all the light the few waking hours of night required. But this was not to last. The river bottoms and fertile lands of the city’s commons attracted the’attention of amateur city farm ers, and the far-seeing arid smelling cl ml along >vitb him, and together they transported their scant arid primitive furniture, perhaps by boat down the river, for nAone ever seemed to know just when theypre-empted the Fort Wilkinson territory or how they came. Here the Hermit improved his style of house-keeping, knd added petty agriculture to the pursuits of hunter and fisherman. He dug a cave in the side of the steep hill on which Fort Wilkinson once stood, noted for a his toric incident in the early history of the government of the United States, (which I may refer toat another time,) and in this cave he and his wife lived for many years, following their old pursuits on the river and in the swamp, molesting nobody aud with out intrusion except from some old city acquaintance or neighbor in the white settlements, some distance a- way, fishing or hunting. His cave was weather-boarded with pine sap lings, and an old coffee sack served our Hermit for a protection ngainst uninvited scrutiny and prowling var mints. II is a locality famous for rat tlesnakes, yet neither tlie Hermit nor Iris wife were ever bitten by one tho’ they killed a great many. He said to those lie met that he was most hap py tlie further lie got away from hu man habitations, and the less he saw of human folks. There were times when tiie weather compelled our Hermit to stay in his cave. Then he got on his hobbys and rode them, one after another,’ until lie got tired or dispirited. One of these was to discover perpetual mo tion—this was his favorite brain child. Another was to invent a churn to bo worked with iris perpetual motion— another to invent a “hydrant” (mean ing lever 1 suppose), that would raise any amount of water from its level to any height he pleased; and this was to be used to lift all tlie water out of tlie river and enable him to catch millions of fish with liis hands. l)o you ask, was lie crazy? Not a hit of it no more crazy than you or I to-day. He had a plenty of good natural sense, and knew right from wrong as well as Dr, Hawthorne or any other close reader of brainy men’s books. He honestly believed lie would accom plish all the great conceptions I have alluded to, and he kept working on them till lie died, and left no sign. He was fond of children and would ramble with them through the forest and the briers in search of musca dines, wild grapes, black liuws, black berries, and wild strawberries, but he didn't want any grown folks company at these timeH. He was as honorable as lie was harmless. No one feared him, or cared to molest him. Tlie land lie preempted was of doubtful ownership, but I believe was claimed ns a part of a reservation attached to tiie lands belonging to the Lunatic Asylum. But that institution never sought to drive tlie Hermit away, so lie grew to believe it was Iris own property by right of first purchase— that is, “squatter sovereignty.” He had no boat, for he had neither tools nor lumber to make one, and lie was too honest to steal pne. He always swam tlie river when he had to cross it for any purpose, and when he did so he took Iris wife along. He would tie her to iris own body with his trot line and swim her across the Oconee with all her clothes on. One day she wore a big hoop skirt that she lmd found or that had been given toiler, when tlie Hermit took his usual swim. The idea occurred to him while cross ing to make an experiment. He want ed to find out whether a lioop skirt was effectual as a life preserver in deep water. So about the middle of the stream lie untied the line that bound her to him, and let her loose. He soon saw the experiment was a failure, and lie had hard work to res cue her. Our Hermit’s neighbors would some times see trim pass their houses by a path lie alone seemed to tread, and talking earnestly to himself. They said the Hermit was mad about some- tiring, perhaps the quiet of the her- mittage had been interrupted by an’ intruder, or the mistress of the cave was “out of sorts,” or the tisli didn’t “bite,” but he never displayed any belligerent action however wrought up Ills passions might have been. If lie or Iris wife got sick he would not hesitate to go to the settlements and report his distress, and lie never failed to get assistance and attention in such extremities. His wife died several years before the Hermit handed in his checks, which was some time during the year 1884. When lie died he was about sixty years of age, having lived the life of a recluse on the bankg of the Oconee, three or four miles distant from this city, for forty years almost continuously. This singular man only lived out a nature which no combination of cir cumstances or place oould have changed. evllle, Ga., Sep. 15th, 1887. aldermen, year by year, encroaohet on Boutwell’s reservation. Tlie sound of the axe and human voices broke harshly on tlie Hermit’s ear, and quietly he pulled up stakes, aud emi grated to “pastures new,’Mir the deep still forests about “Old Fort Wilkin son,” four miles south of his pine thicket home. His wife and dog trudg- A Polite New York Bank Cashier. A dispatch was received that tick et No. 50,255 had drawn tlie $150,000 prize in the August drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery Company, on the.8th inst., at New Orleans and that one-tenth of the ticket, repre senting $15,000 to the lucky holder, had been collected through the Na tional Park Hank of this city. A News reporter asked Assistant Cash ier DeBauu and lie-had tlie books ex amined and replied that the tenth part of ticket 50,255, whicli drew the $15,000, had been received by them from Crane’s Bunk at Horne’llsville, N. Y.— New York Daily News, Aug. 30.