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Volume LXII.
IFhdkrai, Union Established! n 1829.
J Southern Reookdkb “ “1819.
| Consolidated 1872. Milledgeville, Ga., January 12. 1892.
Number 28.
REV. DONALD McQUEEN.
Testimonials and Resolutions
Adopted by the Pbksbytk-
rian Church.
At a Congregational meeting, ot i
the Milledgeville Presbyterian Church, !
held Sabbath morning, Jan. 3rd, 1892, I
the following testimonials and reso-
lutiohs were a lopted by a rising I
vote.
On the 9th day of November, 1879,
Rev. Donald McQueen was ordained
by the Presbytery of Augusta and j
duly installed pastor of the Mill- !
edgeville Presbyterian church.
Fresh from the halls of Columbia, j
that venerable school of the Proph
ets. where, lie had sat at the feet of |
Plumer, (Dridaiu, Woodrow and
other Gamaliels equally distinguished t
for their^ learning and piety, the
young pastor entered upou the work
with all the fervor of youthful eir
thusiastn, grounded in the sublimest
principles of the eternal Word, and
tempered with a piety as sincere as
it was earnest.
The Held to be cultivated was for
several reasons a difficult one, giving
slight promise of abundant harvest.
A few facts that sternly confronted
r,,. , . . ., . . .. ! the church at that time will more
The salaries of the Augusta city 1
officials have been cut down and some j clearly reveal the difficulties to he
of the offices consolidated. | met and conquered. In a coinnm
— ♦ — nity of near 5,000 souls, the Presby-
The white Republicens of Augusta j terian church ‘had a membership of
have organized a high protective tar- j on i y 7; or ] e68 than 1} per ceut of the
Cleveland’s
is the
Baking Powder
used in the
U. S, Army,
May 19,1SD1.
Editorial Climpsas and Clippings.
iff' club, which proposes to take an
active interest in politics.
Cowboys expelled a drummer from
a Texas train for wearing a red
necktie. The bull-whacker of the
Southwest may have a rough exte
rior, but bis sense Of esthetic fit
ness is in the right place.—Augusta
News.
MercerUniversity is in luck. John
1). Roekafeller promised $10,000 if
the Baptists would raise $40,900.— | zealous activity most wisely directed,
President Manually has raised this , jjjj g "‘[ e eble folk” could not hope for
amount, and the Mercer College
will thus add a $50,000 endowment an y
population. Other denominations al
ready securely established were vig
orously engnged in “lengthening
their cords and strengthening their
stakes” and with the prestige given
by members, they would naturally
increase in strength and influence.
In this circumscribed field so lack-
ingin material, under ilie most fa
vorable conditions, witl* the most
to its fund.
Mr. Henry L. Harris, son of Judge
Charles J. Harris of Macon, married
Miss L'nnie M. Heti4h, at Haverhill,
.Mass,, on Christmas eve. Mr. Har
ris lias resided in Haverhill, where
be won his lovely and accomplished
bride, for the past, two year*
marked increase in numerical
strength—their chief reliance for
growth necessarily being upon the
ordinary course of generations. In
tlie face of such difficulties aud with
such environments the aastorate be-
ly to the disappoint!* <nt of
prominent southern'ltcpre -
Greatly
many p
sentatives,' Georgia is knot
on the interstate comm ere,
missionship.
ed up
►> com-
Wm. M. Lindsay, of Kentucky,
get -! the place so confidently ^pec-
ted for Judge Clements.
The twb houses of congress con
vened Tuesday with a pretty full
attendance of members. The con
tinued illness of Speaker Crisp ne
cessitated the election of a Speaker
pro tempore, and so Clerk Kerr
presided until, on motion of Mr.
Springer, that honor wfts bestowed
upon Mr. McMillin of Tennessee,
who was warmly applauded on ta
king the chair.
The last legislature passed a bill
making unlawful the sale of liquor
within three miles of a church or
schoolhouse outside of incorpora-
rt-d towns. A person eannot travel
three miles, in anv direction in
Bibb county, without encountering
a church or schoolhouse, hence the
. law makes a prohibition county of
Bibb outside of the city. Hon R.
W. Patterson believes the law to
be unconstitutional, and in behalf
of the liquor men will test the .con
stitutionality of it.
At Creswell, Ga., a small way sta
tion at the junction of the Atlanta
and Florida and Savannah, Griffiu
anil North Alabama railroads, ou
Sunday night, 3d inst., Dr. J. H. M.
Barrett, a man of 80 years, and his
aged wife, were beaten to death by
an unknown assassin, or assassins.
It is the most latrooious murder
known in Georgia since Tom Wool-
folk slew his father’s family. It is
supposed robbery wastlie incentive.
No clew to the perpetrator of the
crime bus been found, bqt an iron
coupling pin, a heavy iron shovel
and a hickory stick show how cruel
was the manner of their death.
At the stockholders convention in
Savannah on the 4th, a new directo
ry of the Georgia Central railroad
was elected. Four new directors
were chosen, two in the place of the
Calhouns and two in the place of
S, M. Inman and E. M. Green, who
resigned some time ago. The new
board is aS follows: lA P. Alexan
der, J. K. Garnett, Abraham Vils-
burg, Joseph E. Hull. Gen. H. B.
Jackson, George J. Mills, Gen. G.
M. Sorrell, of Savannah; H.
Phinizy, Augusta: E. T. Bowman,
E. T. Powell, Atlanta; N. B. Harrold,
Americas; James Swan, J. O. Maher
of New York. The four new direc-
I gan.
Since the pastoral relation Was [
established twelve years have been
added to the ever lengthening past.
The record is made up. Standing to
day upon the threshold of a New
I Year, and contemplating with feelings
of genuine sorrow, the severance of
this tender tie, this church and
congregation are enabled to review
that record of twelve years with at
least grateful acknowledgement of
the courage with which their pastor
has faced difficulty und the faithful
ness with which he has met every du
ty, and fulfilled every obligation
resting upon him, and with sincere
thanksgiving to the great Head of
the church, for whatever, under His
blessings, lias been accomp’ished for
the glory of His name. A brief re
view of the work done is pertinent
here. In these years 141 members
have been received, making nearly
an average of 12 for each year; fifty
or more have been dismissed to other
connections, leaving a total member
ship at this time of 103, more than
double that at the beginning of the
pastorate. Had no members been
dismissed to other churches the
membership would lack only three of
beiug thribbled in the 12 years.
To the support of the Gospel the
Church has contributed in round
numbers, during this period upward
of $25,000.00 (I’wenty-five thousand
dollars). The Ladies’ Missionary So
ciety, which was orgadizeil by the
pastor soon to leave us, lias raised in
the six or seven years of its existence
between $400.00 and $500.00.
The Ladies Aid Society baH col
lected since the beginning of this pas
torate over $1,900.00, thus contrib
uting largely to the success of the
Church’s work.
The SafToril Reapers, a Children’s
Missionary Society of the Church,
though organized so recently as 1887,
has contributed to Foreign and Do
mestic Missious the sum of $92.27,
and is now prepared to maintain 011c
child at the Thornwell Orphanage.
The Sunday school has raised, dur
ing these years, the following
amounts of money:
For itsowu maintenance, $500.00.
For the benevolent schemes
of the Church, $400.00.
$300.00.
total for our little church in the 12
years duration of the pastorate now
closed of $25,920.09, twenty-five thous
and nine hundred and twenty dollars.
Such, in brief summary, is ft part
of the work wrought by this church
under tlie fostering care and guiding
hand of a pastor who ims toiled in
the midst of discouragements that
would brook a le°s courageous spirit, j
and triumphed over difficulties that |
would wellnigh paralize the energies I
of a less devoted servant of the Mas j
ter. I
Of the burden which has rested |
with crushing weight upon his heart,
of the cries which have been wrung
in secret from his soul, of the heart-
yearnings for tli»! spiritual welfare of
bis flock and for the strengthening of
Zion's walls, the Church has not at
all times felt a just appreciation.
These things have been lijd from our
eyes, and they have not rested in our
hearts.
Whatever have been the failures of
J the Church, however, far short of our
j duty we have come as officers and
members, this public testimony is
j freely given to the fidelity and conse-
j cration of our pastor. He has de
clared the “whole counsel of God"
defending the faith once delivered to
the saints, rebuking sin, counseling
the unweary, comforting the sorrow-
stricken, encouraging the weak, cheer
ing the weary and striving to liR all
to a higher plane of Christian living.
By the clearness, vigor and directness
of his preaching he has commended
the Gospel to the learned and the
unlearned; by his conscientious ad
herence to Christian duty he has been
an example to the flock anil magnified
the Cross of Christ in the eyes of the
world; by his - dignified yet modest
demeanor lie has won the esteem of
all classes; by his warm sympathy he
has endeared himself to an entire
community.
The time lias come in the provi
dence of God when tin* sacred union I
wliic.li has existed with unbroken cor
diality has, with the mutual concur-
ance of pastor and people, been dis
solved by the Presbytery. Therefore
Resolved 1st. That in parting with
our pastor this church and congrega
tion deeply feel the great loss they
have sustained.
Resolved 2nd. That in the uniform
ly cordial relations that have existed
so long without any friction, is found
a peculiar pleasure and gratification
in the parting hour.
Resolved 3rd. That in tendering to
our pastor our unfeigned regret at
tiie necessity for his removal from us,
we assure him of our high admiration
for his eminent abilities, our heart
felt appreciation for his consecrated
devotion to this Church and our
kindly affection for himself and for
each member of his household."
Resolved 4th. That we cordially
commend our brother and his family
to the confidence and love of his new
charge, only wishing that the rela
tions there may be as happy anil cor
dial as have been those now severed
here in sorrow.
Resolved 5th. That this minute be
spread upon the record of this Church;
a copy of the same be furnisned Rev.
Donald McQueen, late pastor of this
Church, aud that it be. published in
the city paper, the Southern Presby
terian, anil the papers of Anniston,
Ala. Ged C. Smith, Sec’y.
COLLEGE LIFE CRITICISED.
We clip the following editorial
from the Atlanta Constitution:
“Some very severe criticisms have !
recently beeu made on northern col - j
leges, but none ure severer than ‘
that which Mr. Loyd Garrison
makes on Harvard and some of the
practices that hav-e grown up under 1
its protecting wing. Mr. Garrison's
strictures are directed chiefly to cer- 1
tain outrages committed by a secret
sooiety known04 tlie Delta Kay Ep
silon fraternity. Mr. Garrison has
addressed a letter to the President
anil fellows of Harvard College in
which he says that the society in __
question 1ms long been a source of | ~
s tandal and private Indignation. The
culmination of the corem >nit s of in-j
itiation is branding. In the ease
which has conn* under r. Garrison’s
notice, six deep and savage burns
were inflicted with a lighted cigar,
adding to the pain of branding the
danger oi blood poisoning.
Iu regard to the necessity that a
boy just leaving home £or college
should learn self-reliant e aud test
inherited opinion for himself, Mr. Gar
rison inquires ii Harvard college ful
fills these requirements, and lie de
sires to know If it is quite fair that
in the most important years of life—
the transition from youth to man
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
ABSOLUTELY PWRE
Washington Letter.
Krom Our Rocfulaf Corrcspondon
Washington. D. Jan. 4, D.)
Speaker Crisp lias found such
grip
he submitted to the Ways anil Means
Coimuii tee In a few da vs, probably
this week. it will put wool on tlio
fres list, and place carpels oil about
til--Tuts proposed by tne Miils bill.
L:.■Representative Perkins, of Kan-
sas,’who is to attempt to fill the va-
1US tiei " I,ut to 1,1111 ever si,ice ,,le I eutat chair Of the late Senator Plumb,
lay of the recess adjournment, that it 1
bar
kmaster
fast to
in tin
him ever
w iich
1 is not probable ‘ that he willbe well
| enough to preside over the House
j when it re assembles to morrow. In
1 that case the House is not expected to
I transact anv furthur business than
hood—tile student should be subject
to avoidable and unnecessary temp
tations; that he should be brought
face to face with dissipation anil im
morality bearing the stamp of fash
ion, and the approval of what is
pleased to term itself Society.
‘I know,’ says Mr. Garrison, ‘the
easy philosophy which affirms that
college life is like ttie world, and that
a boy must sooner or later take his
chance and rise or fall according to
character and inheritance. The
statement is conventional and falla
cious. Tiie longer temptations are
deferred the greater the strength
to resist them. Who, familiar
with tiie university life for a
generation, cau‘fail to observe tiie
promising careers blighted and wreck
ed by habits tired in college associa
tion, habits which persisted with
vigor long after (Jreek roots are for
got and the translation of a Latin
phrase into idiomatic, Euglish is a lost
art?’
There has not been a day during
the last twenty years when Mr. Gar
rison’s letter would not have been
timely in its application to Harvard
aud other northern Colleges. Tiie
newspapers are the faithful chroni
clers of their time, despite the
charges of seusationulis^n that are
laid at their doors. It is not the
fault of the editors that tiie current
history of the great 1 terary institu
tions are to he found in the sporting
columns and in the police records in
stead of the educational depart
meats. Rich men *vho send their
sons to college do not, as a general
rule, expect very great results, but
four years of immorality and dissi
pation constitute a very high price
to pay for a physical training which,
at its best, is overdone and superflu
ous. It is a high price for a very
rich uiuii to pay for a vent through
which tiie hard earnings of a life
time are to be poured and dispersed.
the election of a Speaker pro tern, and
the iidoptioii of a resolution authori
ziug the employment of clerks to' the
various committees.
This programme may however be
added to, if Mr. Harrison shall send
in the Chilian correspondence and his
special message, as it has been semi
officially announced that he would
do this week. If the correspondence
and the message shall prove to be as
important as the‘public have been
led to believe, tiie House will proba
bly take it up at once to the tempo
rary exclusion of all other business.
In this confection it may be well to
give tiie views of Representative
McCreary of Kentucky, who bits long
bpen justly regarded as one of tiie
clearest, headed democratic members
of the Mouse committee on Foreign
Affairs, lie says: “I still* think
that the Chilians will not want to go
to war with us. I believe they will
make proper reparation for the af
front that lias beeu given us. They
have uothingBo gain from such an
unequal contest. Peru would be only
too willing to give the United States
permission to laud troops on her soil
and to establish store houses there.
We could land one hundred thousand
troops, and such a step being once
taken, there would be no halt until
our forces had inarched through the
whole country. The intelligent Chil
ians must appreciate this danger, if
they compel hostilities, and upon the
assumption that they do, 1 believe
that they will not permit war. Soon
by right of a gubernatorial appoint
ment, did not make a reputation to
be very proud cf during the four ses
sions lie served 11s a member of the
House. As a statesman lie was a bail
misfit, but ns a tdind, bitter partisan,
losing sight of everything but tiie
momentary success of ins party, he
was a howling success. His career in
the Senate will probably lie but a
repetition of that in the House.
The amount ot sugar bountv so far
pai.1, under tiie McKinley tariff law;
is nearly one million dollars; to be
exact, 902,930.
Although tiie administration esti
mate for tiie payment of pensions for
Hie fiscal year beginning July 1. 1"<92,
is only—mark tiie only—$144,one (>00,
those who have devoted much study
to tlie subject predict that it will re
quire at least $20,000,000, more.
The U. H. Supreme Court has revers
ed the decision of the Nebraska State
Court, and decided that Got’. Boyd is
tiie legal governor of that State.
Too Late.
What is the remedy? We know of I after Congress reconvenes tint presi-
tors are Gen. Henry R. Jackson,
Gen. G. M. Sorrell, Geo. J. Mills of I For Thornwell Orphans
Savannah, anil J. C. Maber of New I
York. Seven of the board are from j .
Savannah, and eleven are Geor-; Making total of $1300.00.
trians. I These srhall amounts make a grand
From the Goldsboro (N. C.) Headlight.
ATTESTED * One of the most
P0PULARI1Y. > honest and reliable
houses we have ever dealt with is
The Swift Specific Company, of At
lanta, Ga., the well known founders
anil manufacturers of the so very
popular blood remedy,S. S. S., which
to our personal knowledge lias cured
many people throughout this section
of terrible blood diseases. One drug
gist informs us that iu the past six
months they have sold more of S.
S. S. than any other preparation for
the blood on their shelves. The suc
cess achived by that firm is mainly
due to their extensive advertising
and to the purity of their medicine,
which does every tiling claimed for it.
We are unable to record a single in
stance where a purchaser has been
deceived or disappointed. A treatise
on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free to all who address
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., At
lanta, Ga.
English capital to the amount of
$5,900,000 will go into the establish
merit of a bank at Columbia, S. <’., of
which the Earl of Dunmore will )re
president.
none save a reiuru to the simplicity
and rigid discipline that formerly
existed. This would restore to the
college faculties the heavy responsb
bilities which formerly rested on
them, and which they have been en
gaged in throwing off gradually. In
short there is no remedy except in
that law of nature which provides
for the survival of the fittest.”
We believe these severe criticisms
to be just. The tendency in our own
college was baneful. The opin
ion of the Presidents of tiie foremost
colleges of this country is that these
societies not only infract tiie minds
of the students from their legiti
mate studies but are powerful en
gines to thwart salutary plans of the
Administrators. Their disposition
to root out this evil is marked and
determined, and when this shall have
been accomplished it will herald an
ere in educational history “devoutly
to be wished for.”
We also quote the following from
President McCosh of Princeton:
Secret Societies.—President, Mc
Cosh of Princeton College adds the
weight of his great authority when
he says of College secret societies:
“They foster in youth, when char
acter is forming, hobits of underhand
aotiou and underground procedure,
It
dent will send the documents to the
two houses and then we cun consider
the situation with a better under
standing. I am sure that the course
of the United States will be dignified,
firm and courageous. Whatever the
the result, 1 do not think we can
be charged will) having rushed into
war, or tiiat we shall suffer any loss
of dignity.” The last sentence is sig
nificant, as there are reasons for the
belief that repeesentative McCreary
lias already read the correspondence.
Were it not for the fact that Frank
Hatton has been known to bear a
bitter personal|grudge against Mr.
Blaine ever Eince just before the meet
ing of the republican national con
vention in 1380, his rather plain intim
ations in the Washington Post, that
Mr. Biaine had, by reasons or a busi-
iness deal with ex-Mavor Grace of
New York, who lias large business
interests in Chili, determined to pre
vent war between the two countries,
even if it becomes necessary to back
down to do it, would tiave created a
sensation. As it is they have only
raised a smile, and recalled the adage
“Give a dog a bad name, etc.”
. . . . , , - 1 j i, Although nothing definite is known
which is apt to go through life. It. , . ,
should be one of the aims of our ! on the subject it seems to be the opm-
liigher educational institutions not h 0 n of the majority of democrats that
only to make scholars, but to rear , the committee on Rules of the House
Perhaps Tennyson ha; written
nothing which appeals to the hearts
of all wiio read Ins poems more than
the lyric of “Too Late.” The burden
of the si.il refrain comes home with
telling force to the hearts ot those
who have lost friends by tiiat dread
disease consumption. They realize,
"too late,” tiie result of neglect.
They feel that the dear one might
have been saved if they had heeded
the warning of the hacking cough,
the pallid cheek, and weakening sys
tem. They feel thisnll the more keen
ly because they see others being res
cued fiom tiie grasp of tiie destroyer,
and they think what is saving others
might have saved their loved one.
\V lien t lie first signal of danger is seen
take steps to avert the castrophe. Be
wise in time. Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery will drive away
consumption. Do not wait until too
late before putting its wonderful effi
cacy to the test. It succeeds where
other remedies fail.
Fayetteville, Ga , was visited by a
terrible cyclone last Tuesday evening.
Three people were killed anil thirty
or forty injured. The damage to
property amounted to$25,010, entirely
unprotected l-.y insurance. Tiie killed
are Mr. Will Travis, fanner, aged 30;
Sadie Graham, daughter of J. W.
Graham, aged 10, anil a negro baby.
California’s wine crop this year will
equal a quart to every man, woman
and child iu tiie United States. As
there urequlteu number of abstainers
in tiiis country, this supply will go
around very comfortably, and the
lovers of good wine need not be
alarmed.
A Little Oirl’s Experience on A
Light House.
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Trcscott are keep,
ers of the Gov. Lighthouse at Sand Beach,
Midi., and are b.esseil with a (laughter,
tour years old. Last April she was taken
down with Measles, followed with a dread-
lid Cough and tinning into a Fever. Doc
tors at home and at Detroit treated her,
but in vain, she grew worse rapidly, until
she wan a mere •‘handful of bones”.—Then
btie tried Dr. King’s Now Discovery and
art er the use of two and a half bottles, was
completely cured. They say Di. King’s
New Discovery is worth its weight in gold,
yet you may get abottle free at The Mill-
edgeville Drug Store.
open and manly character.’
Entertaining the opinions expressed |
above, Col. Lynes, with spirit und
promptness, applied the remedy and :
tiie result has been most satis- j
factory. His administration lias
been if crusade against collegiate |
cliques and rings. The Democratic
principles “free thought and fair
play’’has characterized his course.
When we reflect that so many hu
man beings die of Consnuiption we
must come to the conclusion that
everybody should be: provided with
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, the poor
consumptive’s friend.
will not recommend the restoration
of all the appropriation bills to the
Committee of Appropriations, as
they were some years ago, and as
Representatives Holuian, Sayers,
Dockery and other champions of
economy wish them to be again. It is
possible that tiie committee may con
clude to get the views of a democratic
caucus before acting on this very im
portant matter.
Representative Springer lias prepar
ed the first of the series of tariff bills
with which it is proposed to assault tiie
present class favoring law, and it wilf
In Savannah Judge Falligant, of
Superior Court, sentenced the Ex
press robbers on the Central Rail-
road to the penitentiary. De-
Laughter got ten years and Turner
and Perkins five years each.
You've No Idea
How nicely Hood’s Sarsaparilla hits
the needs of people who feel “all
tired out” or “run down,” from any
t-uuse. It seems to oil up the whole
mechanism of the body so that all
moves smoothly aud work becomes a
-positive delight. Be sure to get
Hood’s.
Mr. George W. Burr, an esteemed
citizen of Macon, died last Wednes
day morning.
