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\Tr\T mvTi^ i VTTT fFederal Union Established In 1829.
VOLUME JLj V 111. [southern Recorder
1819. f Consolidated 1872.
Milledgeville Ga ., November 8. 1887-
Number 18.
Beef Contract.
Georgia Lunatic Asylum.
Office Steward, )
Near Milledgeville, (ia.,
Nov. 3rd, 1887.)
S EALED PROPOSALS, will be re
ceived at this office until the 3rd
day of December next, at 13 o’clock,
M., to furnish this Institution with,
from700to 8001bs. GOOD MERCHAN
TABLE BEEF, each day, at such
time of day, as may be required, in
equal proportion of fore and hind
quarters. The delivery to commence
on the first day of January, 1888, and
continue until the first day of Janua
ry, 1889. The money to be paid for
the same monthly. Fifteen percent,
of the amount due to be retained from
each monthly payment as security for
faithful performance of contract. The l
right reserved to reject any and all
bids. Bids should be marked “To ;
Furnish Beef," and addressed to the
undersigned.
LUCIUS J. LAMAR,
18 lin. Steward. ;
LOOK OTUi'T !
• Compare thin with your purchase:
BALDWIN COUNTY.
Petition For Letters of Dismission.
Georgia, Baldwin County,
Court of Ordinary, Oct. Term, 1887.
W HEREAS, L. Carrington, Execu
tor upon the estate of Emmie
DeLaunay Nisbet, deceased, has tiled
his petition in said court for letters of
dismission from his trust ns such Exec
utor.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
January term next of said court, to
be held on the first Monday in Jan
uary, 1888, why letters of dismission
from said trust should not be granted
to said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this October the 3rd, 1887.
DANIEL B. SANFORD,
13 3m.] Ordinary.
Tax Notice.
M Y BOOKS are now open for the
collection of the State and Coun
ty Tax for the year 1887. The books
will be closed 20th December next, as
the law directs. Office at the Court
House. Office hours from 9 a. in., to
4 p. m. I will be at my office at the
Coort House on Tuesdays and Satur
days. T. W. TURK,
Tax Collector Baldwin County.
Sept. 20th. 1887,11 3m.
FOR SALE
T HE residence of Alfred Hall; 3
rooms; front and back porches and
kitchen attached; good well of water;
one-half acre of ground; 100 yards
south-east of College, on Elbert
street; house new. For terms apply
to ALFRED HALL.
Milledgeville, Oct. 11. 14 1m.
FOR SALE.
T HE residence of Mr. O. H. Fox on
North Wayne Street. Large lot.
House and out houses in good repair.
Terms $1,700. Apply to
O. H. FOX.
Milledgeville, Ga., Sep. 27, 1887. 12 tf.
Valuable Property
FOR SALE.
F OUR well improved, valuable lots,
three on East Green Street, oppo
site the Methodist church, tile other
on East Hancock Street adjoining the
Baptist Parsonage. This property is
without doubt the most desirable,
for sale in the city, being central
ly located, convenient to business,
churches and college. Buildings all
new and of modern design. Property
sold subject to present lease. 1 will
at any time, take pleasure in showing
the property to any who may desire
to purchase. For terms, &c., apply to
S. BARRETT.
Milledgeville, Ga., Aug. 29, ’87. 8 tf
JSf% mrr^T
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Restlessness,
a *ttctctly vco7TAat.e
vaultlhs family medicine.
l>**«r«dcmiy b>
& 1&IL13 &'
mksm, sa.
» you value health, perhaps life, examine each
k*.*!e und hr sure you get the Genuine. See
r«*d Z Trade-Mark and the full title
of Wrapper, and on the aide
*c*i»i and signature of J. 11. Zcilln Jk
,, in the above Lc- simile Remember there
'Other genuine Simmons Liver Re.'ulatJf.
Mareh 29, 1887.
28 cw ly
House for Rent.
GOOD seven room house for rent
on reasonable terms, located on
Jefferson street. Apply to
C. L. CASE.
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 4, ’87. 13 tf
A
To Rent.
R ESIDENCE on Jefferson street,
formerly occupied by T. J. Barks
dale. For terms, apply to
P. J. CLINE.
Milledgeville, Ga., Aug. 0th, ’87. 5 tf
Ri'FUS W. Roberts. Albert cummino.
ROBERTS & CUMMING,
Attorneys-At-Iiaw,
Milledgeville, Ga.
P ROMPT attention given to all tmulnesa en
trusted to tlicir care. Office In room formerly
occupied by Judge D. B. Sanford.
May 10, 1887. 19 ly.
DR. W. R. ROBISON,’
SPENDERS his Professional Ser-
1 vices to the citizens of Milledge
ville and surrounding country. Office
and residence on Green Street, oppo
site Presbyterian church.
Milledgeville, Ga., March 1, '87. 34 3m
G. T. WLEDENMAN,
MERCHANDISE BROKER,
Milledgeville, Ga.
Office in Bank Building.
Jan. 11, 1887.
27 tf
DR. W. H. HALL
H AS removed Ids office to tbo room
formerly occupied by Mr. Walter
Paine, Clerk of Superior Court. is tf
Marat, Groceries, Etc.
— :o:—
1 have now fitted up a RESTAURANT wiNi all
the appointments of a business of this character,
where
THE HUNGRY 2MEAN
—and the—
Lover of Good Eating
Can be accommodated at all hours wltli the
choicest substantiate anil
Favorite Delicacies
Of the season. The best attention will be given
to all who patronize my restaurant, and satis
faction given to a full measure. Come and see
what u good meal you can have served up at
short notice. In connection with my Restaurant
I have In store a large stock of
Fresh Groceries
Of every description, which must be sold. Call
in, see and be satlslled that here Is the place to
put your money to the best advantage.
C. W, ENNIS,
Oct. 4. 13 tf, Milledgeville, Gu.
Dentistry.
DR. H MTcLARKE:
W ORK of any kind performed In ac
cordance with the latest ana most Im
proved methods.
«i.Offlceln Callaway’s Now Building.
Milledgeville, Ga., May 15th, 1883. 14
Dr. W. A. MOORE,
O FFERS his professional services to the poo-
ple of Milledgeville, Baldwin county and sur
rounding country. When not professionally
engaged, he will be found during the day at, his
office and residence next door east of Masonic
nail
Milledgeville, Ga.. Apr. 2f>. 1880. 41 tf
HOLMES’ SURE CURE
MOUTH-WASH and DENTIFRICE.
Cures Bleeding (’.khih. Ulcers, Sore Mouth. Sore
Throat, Cleanses the. Teeth and Purines the
Breath: used and recommended by leading den-
tisis. Prepared by l)rs. J. p. ,fc \V. It. Holmes,
Dentists, Macon, (la. For sale by all druggists
and dentists.
Aug. 5th, 1887. i iy.
(Ti | nn Tft (DOnn A MONTH can be made
UMuU III vPuUU working for us. Agents
preferred who can furnish their own horses and
give their whole time to the business. Spare
moments may be profitably employed also. A
few vacancies in towns and cities. B. !•’. JOHN
SON A CO., 1073Main st., Richmond, Va. [8 3m
Land for Sale.
T OT OF FIFTY ACRES, more
I i less, on Sheffield Ferry road, just
outside city limits. For terms, apply
to BETHUNE & MOORE.
Nov. 1st, 1887. . 17 tf.
WHELESS STAMP
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Agents Wanted! Catalogue FREE!
RUBBER STAMPS, SEALS,
BADGES, CHECKS, STENCILS,
STEEL STAMPS, &c.
Sole Manufacturers of
The Wheless Self-Inking Rubber
Stamp Printing Press.
Aug. 30, 1887 8 ly
YOU
an live at home, and make more
money at work for us, than at any-
thing else In tills world. Capital not
needed; you are started free. Both
sexes; all ages. Any one can do the work. Large
earnings sure from llrst start. Costly ontllt and
terms free. Better not delay. Costs ypu noth
ing to send us your address and llnil out; if you
are wise youwilldosoatoucc. II. llALLBTTA Co.
Portland, Maine.
February 15th, 1887 . ly,
AGRICULTURAL AND POLITICAL.
Will our farmers, we mean the great
body of them, have any money to
spare at Christmas, after paying
their obligations? There is notfiing
added to trie wealth of a country, a
county, or a community, that is not
dug out of the mother Enrtb. She is
a good kind mother, when you treat
her *rlght. The gems that deck a
(Queen’s brow, and the slap-jacks and
biscuits, and hominy and liog-meat,
that make a poor man’s table smile,
all come out of the Earth. If Vou
don’t tickle the good old mother,
you will go to bed supperless, and
get up without refreshing rest,or hope
for the future, Will it be so? Will
farmers, planters, and cultivators of
the soil, generally, large and small,
let their advantage slip through their
lingers as many of them have done
in the past. The idea is current that
a merchant will not respect a planter
who provides for his own household,
first. ()ur experience for years past,
is that the best merchants respect,
most, the man who raises all his own
provisions. If there is a guilt-edge
credit in any of our cities, towns and
villages, it is the man’s who raises
everything necessary for home sup
plies. We will not suy that a man
should abandon cotton, by no means.
But the idea thfe writer would im
press on the people is—to be inde
pendent of an obligation for home
supplies that lie can make for himself.
Do this and the merchant will respect
him—the doctor, editor, preacher and
mechanic will respect him, aye, they
will take him kindly by the hand and
make him feel honored in his industry
and vocation. If possible, when an
other year rolls round with its trials,
its trouble and tribulations, let it iind
you better off than you are now.
Many cultivatorsof the soiljdo not, per
haps, trust as much to their own
stout arms as to luck and chance.
We know full well wlmt burdens an
unjust tariff puts upon you. You
are taxed heavily for nearly every
thing you itppd> So much, greater "is
the necessity for'berculenn efforts to
bear thfeui, and yet triiimph over the
injustice of your government. The
people, every where .in our extended
country, are awakening more than
ever to the wrongs inflicted upon
them, and the time is approaching
for relief. Powerful efforts are being
made for relief. That relief must
come from the people. Work on with
might, and at the polls assert your
rights. Relief must come from the
people themselves. Long habit and
an immense money power is weigh
ing tiie people down, but they can be
kept down only by their own inac
tion. Take the taxes off, and you
will be free indeed, as well as in theo
ry, and will be gloriously prosperous.
The people have suffered until/pa
tience is exhausted, and they are be
coming rapidly united everywhere in
resistance to the schemes of the mo
nopolists to defraud them by uncon
stitutional and oppressive laws.
From the President down to the
humblest citizen in the democratic
ranks the effort will he made to re
store right—primordial right which
is abstract justice, to the throne from
which it has been long exiled. We
are contending for justice not for the
South alone, but for all sections of
our Union. The designation of our
Union now is an “Indissoluble Union
of Iiulestructable States.’’ How can
it be maintained unless its principles
are laid in the deep foundations of
justice and equal rights. These must
perpetrate the very heart Of the
Union, it is our duty at this very
time to sift the just claims of the op
pressed from the false pretention of
others. To oppress one portion of tin-
people for another portion, under
the forms of law, is the very essence
of tyranny. Is this the way to main
tain an Indissoluble Union of Inde
structible States. If a modern Crom
well should be plotting the destruc
tion of the Union, he would gloat
over the law that forces one part of
the people to give a portion of his
hard earnings to another part with
out an equivalence. This is the
very essence of political tyranny.
Cromwell fooled the people of
England by constantly crying out
"That he was seeking the Lord. He was
a superior “take in’’ an Arch hypocrite.
Our Cromwell will come sooner or later
when the people have been sufficiently
fooled and puzzled to be prepared
for bis advent. Rigid, which is ab
stract. ju-tice, placed upon a rock and
Supposed to be guarded against
the tyranny of one man, or a set of
men, is condemned by power, and is
lost sight of by many of the people in
the delusive principles of leaders, who,
like Cromwell, are leading them to the
loss of both liberty and justice.
That man who attempts to un
dermine the foundations upon which
the patriots of the old revolu
tion built the noblest structure of
liberty that the world ever saw, is
an enemy to the people for whom it
was erected. It became at once the
temple of liberty and the temple of
justice. The Great Eternal permitted
it to go up for the American people
and it was put under their sovereign
protection for tiieir happiness and a
model for the world. It is time for
them to take charge of their own in
terests. The fountain of evil change
should attract the attention of every
citizen of the Union. Silently and
surely lins this evil been extending its
pestilential influence and like a lazy
stream lifts been pouring its stagnant
waters over the land, scattering po
litical malaria, pestilence and moral
death, misleading the people, baffling
; the efforts of patriots, soiling and
tho busiest men in Washing-
’resjjent Cleveland, who is
, .• : a.: . ai. ....
rendering shapeless our once beauti
fully proportioned State and Federal
f ’overnments. Is the spirit of the age
lostile to that of the Revolutionary
Fathers? Where are the healthful
owners of the ancient honesty anil
faith? Where the sublime pageants
of our victorious freedom? All that
is left to cheer patriotic sentiment is
found in the Democratic party. Let
the supporters of that organization
cling to it as the hope and mainten
ance of what, is left of the principles
of the Fathers. With Cleveland as
our leader we may have health restor
ing reforms that would delight again
in the music of “Hail Columbia, Hap
py Land,” and renew enthusiasm in
gazing upon the star spangled Banner
floating over our Indissoluble Union
of Indestructible States.
Washingion Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent
Washington, Oct. 31, iss7.
Editors Union Recorder:
One of.the
ton is 1
now-absorlij^ in investigating the re
ports of gff’ernient bureau officers
ami statistical works for the purpose
of preparing his annual message to
Congress. Most of the large libraries
in the Capital have contributed some
thing to the end in view, and I doubt
whether even the encyclopedia is an
exception.
The President is not the only one pre
paring for the longsession of Congress,
now so near at band, as tho Congress
men themselves are arriving in the
city every day, so as to have plenty
of time to settle themselves down
before beginning the long and labo
rious task of next session'^ work,
which will probably extend far into
the summer. It is likely that the
skirmish line of the Presidential con
test. of 188N will lie fought in the
Fiftieth Congress, so it is highly prob
able that many exciting and sensa
tional scenes will be enacted in the
effort to manufacture political capital
for use in the pending campaign.
The tariff will be the question of all
others that will occupy the attention
of that body, while the disposition of
the Treasury surplus will perhaps be
considered a collateral subject.
Tiie Interstate Commerce law will
be amended, and in new legislation,
efforts will be made for tiie better
protection cf railroad passengers from
being roasted to death by heating
stoves and kerosene lamps. Those
who advocate goverment control of
the Telegraph expect to move in be
half of their favorite measure. A
perfect shower of pension bills may
be expected, but I am of the opinion
that most of them will gracefully
repose on the table until unceremo
niously committed to the Congression
al or Presidential waste-baskets, for
reform and retrenchment will lie the
watchwords with Democrats, while
the Republicans will chiefly figure ns
malcontents and obstructionists.
The Fisheries Commission, of which
you have heard so much, has engaged
thirty-two roomsat one of the lead-
ding hotels and will begin its deliber
ations tiie latter part of next woek, at,
which time the arrival of the British
Commissioners is expected; tiieir
American co lleagues are now here in
consultation with Secretary Bayard
ns to their duties and the extent of
tiieir authority.
The differences of opinion between
tiie Civil Service Commissioners in
regard to tin* scope and operations of
the law which they are called upon to
enforce, have become so acrimonious
that their personal relations are
strained and the controversy has be
come a public scandal. 'These once
dignified officials have fallen to fight
ing i.mmig themselves like u trio of
unruly school-boys, and it is not at all
improbable that the President will
feel it his duty to play the role of
of teacher and give them a sample of
his discipline.
For a long time the Postofflce De
partment was greatly puzzled at the
wholesale reduction in the salaries of
those postmasters whose pay depends
upon the amount of postage stamps
cancelled by them—a steady decrease
being noted in every ease where a
Democrat has succeeded a Republi
can. But an investigation shows
that the Republican postmasters had
been making false returns and charg
ing for stamps sold hut not cancelled,
while, on the other hand, their Demo
cratic successors have kept honest
accounts with the governiueut. The
result is that tiie old Republican
postmasters have been compelled to
refund half a million dollars wrong
fully withheld from the United States.
Turn the rascals out.
Third and fourth class postmasters
are dissatisfied with their salaries,
and purpose holding a national con
vention in this city in December, with
the object of calling upon Congress
to provide some way for an increase
of their compensation.
Secretary Whitney lias temporarily
retired from the Cabinet, on account
of illness brought on by overwork
last summer, it is hoped that the
genial and popular New Yorker may
soon be restored to health and return
tojduty at the headof the Navy Depart
ment, where he has rendered the
country such distinguished and sub
stantial public service.
I am glad to see that hundreds of
good Democrats in the departments
here are showing a truly commenda
ble po.rtv devotion by making
arrangements to return to their old
homes in the doubtful States and
vote for the Democratic candidates in
the fall elections.
BUFFALO BILL ABROAD!
A Little Love Affair—What the Cow
boys Think of It.
The success of “our own” Buffalo
Bill—W. F. Cody- in England is very
gratifying to his thousands of ndmlr
ers on this side.
There was more truth than many
imagined in his reply to the inquiry:
“What are you doing in England?”
“Chiefly playing poker with Duch
esses.”
The English nobility quickly “cot
toned to” Buffalo Bill because they
recognized that he belonged to a high
er order than their own—Nature’s
nobility. Despite Ids wild life he ear
ly managed to acquire an education
and the polish which makes him easy
even in royal society.
His polish is the bitter fruit, it is
said, of a young love experience.
When a young man on the plains,
wild, woolly and unkempt in appear
ance and character, he fell ix love
with a dashing little school teacher.
Full of pluck and faith in himself, he
proposed to her. She laughed at him
and he—collapsed.
After a time he braced up, bought
some book#, and began to study.
His defeat proved his victory. The
girl was his mascot, and his successes
are due to her.
Magnificent specimen’s of manhood
though they be “Bill’s boys” are not
perfection. Under date: “Buffalo
Bill’s Wild West Co., London, Sept.
19, 1887,” D. W. Shoemaker of tho
Cowboy Band, writes: “Some weeks
ago I was suffering from great disor
der of the liver and kidneys and gen
eral prostration. 1 was forced to quit
work and take my bed. I called in a
physician, who only afforded tempor
ary relief. A friend induced me to
take Warner’s safe cure, which afford
ed almost instant relief, and after tak
ing three bottles, I find myself in as
good health as at any time in my
life."
Two other members of the Wild
West show. Mawe Beardsley, pony
express rider, und Jim Mitchell, a
cowboy, add to this statement of
Shoemaker’s, that in their long expe
rience on the plains, from change of
water, climate, and.mode of life, and
severe riding, they became subject to
liver and kidney diseases, and they
have found a sure remedy for these
troubles in Warner’s safe cure. Mawe
Beardsley says: “I constantly recom
mend It to my friends.”
Buffalo Bill has pluck and courage
and hard sense, and not only controls
all the wild elements that makeup the
Wild West show, but controls himself.
His experience as a scout makes
him wary, discreet and shrewd. He
quickly learns the best way to secure
results, aud, like a true man, has no
prejudices against anything that
proves its merits.
Buffalo Bill is so popular in England
he may come home u “Sir William.”
But if not he will probably enjoy
himself quite as well, liuving secured
a fortune ample enough for all his
wants, title or no title.
AN INTERESTING CHARACTER.
A Classmate of Mr. Davis—An Inci
dent of his Visit to Macon.
“Yes, sir; 1 was a classmate at West
Point with Jefferson Davis.”
Seuted in one of the arcade chairs
at tiie Hotel Lanier, on Saturday,
was an old man, neatly dressed in a
brown suit, and having the appear
ance of a man who had retired from
business on a competency and was
taking life easily. He was quite a
small man,his ruddy face ornamented
with thinnisli grey Burnsides and a
crop under his pointed chin.. He sat
in the chair as if enjoying the view of
tiie many people stirring about in
the arcade, his small sharp twinkling
eyes of grey resting upon every face
as if he was looking for some familiar
features.
You would never suspect that he
was 82 years old, for lie had been
treated much better by Time than
the illustrious man he claimed for his
classmate. True his hair and heard
were almost as white, but he had a
firmer step, and there was a glow of
health in his face that Mr. Davis does
not possess.
“When was that?” asked a Tele
graph man who overheard the remark.
“That was in 1824. We were in the
Hame class at West Point, and he was
one of tiie brightest boys that ever
went away from Mississippi. He was
an exceedingly handsome boy, with
hair us blacLtas a coal, of handsome
form und mischievous and full of
life like all Southern boys. He grad
uated in ’25 und in tiie same class was
Hugh Mercer, father of George Mer
cer, and who was at the head of the
class. I had a difficulty with the com
mandant and had to go, leaving
Mr. Davis there.”
“Where did you next see Mr. Da
vis?”
“I kept up wltli hiscareor, but did
not see him until 1848, while he was
United States senator. He was
among the passengers on board a
steamboat on the Alabama river.
We had traveled from New Orleans
together, and lie was on his way to
Washington. One day on the trip I
was in conversation with Governor
McWillis of Alabama, who was also a
passenger, and he spoke of Colonel
Davis. While we were thus engaged,
Colonel Davis, whom I had failed to
recognize, was walking up and
down tiie deck talking with James
Calhoun, brother of Patrick Calhoun.
I asked the Governor what gentle
man it was who was talking to Mr.
Calhoun. He replied that it was Col
onel Davis. Jeff Davis? I asked. It
was Jeff Davis, he replied. When he
had finished with Mr. Calhoun I went
up and spoko to him, but he said
nothing until we had reached the
head of the boat, and then he said,
'I’m trying to locate you.’ I then told
him who I was and he seemed
delighted to see me. I saw him
after that at Montgomery, and serer-
al'tiuies during the war.”
“Have you seen him while here?”
“Oh, yes. I went up to Coi. John
ston’s house and he made Governor
Watts make room for me that lie
might talk to me.”
“Tell mo something of yourself,”
“Well, after I was forced to leave
West Point, an uncle of mine, with
influence, secured me a midshipman’s
berth on the Brandywine, the vessel
that carried General LaFayette back
to France. The vessel was built at
Washington, hut he sailed from the
mouth of the Potomac on the,10th of
September, and landed at Havre on
th(> 7th of October. The night, we
left, there wa« a, f,earful storm, , we
were in great danger of being
wrecked. The next morning we
found that there was four feet of
water in the hold from a leak that
was not discovered until we returned
home. We throw overboard a thou
sand pounds of 821b. shot and sever
al tons of pig iron, and thus light
ened, the vessel sailed well. When
we left Havre there was another, and
we hoisted signals. A vessel came t»
our relief and we landed on the Isle
of Wight, where I saw a big parade
of soldiers. We remained fourteen
days at Cowes, and then passing
Gibraltar, set sail on the Meditera-
neaii. 1 should have said that it was
on this voyage that 1 had th^ pleas
ure of meeting tiie wife of Lord
Byron at Cowes.”
"How old are you?”
“I am eighty-two years of age.
Here is a letter from my uncle written
in 1774, and here is a deed drawn in
the same year. Y'ou will notice that
the handwriting is equal to any .you
see nowadays.”
And so it was. The deed was
splendidly written, the chirography
being uniform and unique, yet plain
ly legible. The letter was of another
kind, but in every respect as legible
as that of the deed. *
“Let me tell you of a little incident
of my visit here, and you must re
member that I came here expressly
to see Mr. Davis. I moved from
Milledgeville in 1839. That year an
Irish servant stole the oil portrait of
my wife’s father. Since my arrival
here, I have received a letter from
Miss Joe Varner, M(ho lives at Indian
Spring, saying that about fifteen
years ago she happened to stop at a
country house not far from Indian
Spriug, and was struck with a por
trait hung on the wall. It seemed so
out of plane that she usked about it
aud finally secured it, but could learn
nothing of its history except that on
the back of it was my father-in-law's
name. When Miss Joe read in tiie
Telegraph of my presence here she
remembered the name and resolved
to put it in my hands, and 1 am wait
ing right here now for her us she came
in town last night. You see I will
get a portrait stolen from me forty-
six years ago.”
This remarkably well-preserved
man is Mr. 8. I). Betton. He lives in
Cuthbert, where lie has two daugh
ters, one of whom is tiie wife of Mr.
Daniel Phelps, the well-known rail
road agent at tlmtnlace. Mr. Betton
lives with liis your^st daughter.
He has an active and retentive
memory, and tells many interesting
things about the early days of Mil
ledgeville and Macon.'
THE GOLDEN ARGOSY.
Horatio Alger, Jr., is now in Chica
go, gathering material for a new sto
ry, shortly to be added to the attrac
tions of the Golden Argosy. Mean
while another new serial has recently
been begun in this excellent weekly,
“Walter Griffith; or, Tiie Adventures
of a Young Street Salesman.” It is
written by Arthur Lee Putnam, whose
other tales of city life, contributed to
the Argosy, have been so uniformly
popular. Then Mr. Converse’s'won
derland stoiy, “Van,” has readied a
breathlessly interesting stage and lav
ishly fulfills all the promises of its
earlier chapters.
Besides its serials, of which there
are six, the Argosy devotes a page
every week to sucli matters as the
use of dumb bells, general gymnas
tics, training, etc., which together
with its short stories, editorials and
portraits and life sketches of men who
have made their way in the world, go
to make up a model publication for
young people and the family.
One Fact
Is worth a column of rhetoric, said an
American statesman. It is a fact, es
tablished by the testimony of thou
sands of people, that Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla does cure scrofula, salt rheum,
and other diseases or affections aris
ing from impure state or low condi
tion of the blood. It also overcomes
that tired feeling, creates a good ap
petite, and gives strength to every
part of the system. Try it.
Our old friend, Mr. Otis Childs, of
Newton, Mass., lias our thanks for a
copy of the Boston Herald, the ablest
paper in the New England States.
Mr, Childs takes great interest in all
things touching the affairs of his old
Georgia home.