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Volume LXVT
foe*™** i87t. Milledgeville, Ga., October 22, 1895.
Number 17
Do You Wear Glasses?
Are Your Eyes Weak? 3 *^^
IF SO —
IDIXOIsT WILLIAMS
Invites jou to call, next door to
Hotel and examine his line of
Spectacles and Eye Glasses. He
has them to suit all eyes. He
makes a Specialty of the
CELEBR ATED ALLUMINM
FRAMES. These frames are
warrented not io rust. They are
set with the purest and best qual
ity of Lenses. He guarantees to
Remember he gave much care in the selection of the
‘LATEST DESIGNS IN SILVERWARE
fit your eyes.
Which he sells cheap.
CLOCKS WATCHES. RINGS, &C.
At the very lowest prices.
pySpecial attention given to repairing.
Oct. 6.1895, 3ms. DIXON WILLIAMS.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE SHOE STOBE
Are you taking Simmons Liver Reg
ulator, the “Kino of Liver Medi
cines?” That is what our readers
want, and nothing but that. It is the
same old friend to which the old folks
pinned their faith and were never dis
appointed. But another good recom
mendation for it is, that it io better
Than Pills, never gripes, never weak
ens, but works in such an easy and
natural way, just like nature itself, that
relief comes quick and sure, and one
feels new all over. It never fails.
Everybody needs take a liver remedy,
and everyone should take only Sim
mons Liver Regulator.
Be sure you get it. The Bed Z
is on the wrapper. J. H. Zeilin &
Co., Philadelphia.
For sale by Culver & Kidd,
Milledgeville, Ga.
March 12, 1895, 37 1 y. ow
Has just opeued a large, new stock of shoes iu all the latest shapes
for men, women aud children. This stock was bought with great
care aud before the rise in leather which enables me to sell cheap.
We can sell you the best school shoe that was ever brought to this,
market. We have just received a fine selection of Hannan’s shoes
and the world famous Douglas’ shoes for men, while our stock of
Zeigler’s fine shoes foi ladies excel in selection and style any pre
vious season and cannot be duplicated in any other factory. e
have taken special pains iu selecting a stock of shoes that will give
satisfaction in style, price and wear.
The Latest in a “Stetson flaf
Or a soft, or slouch hat, can be found at onr store.
TRUNKS, HATS, VALISES AND SHOE FINDINGS.
Give us a trial and you will be convinced that our goods are the
best and cheapest. Everybody conrteously treated.
KILL-GERM
CURES ITCH
IN 30 MINUTES.
Cures Mange on Dogs.
Cures Scratches quicker than
any other known remedy.
Cures all skin diseases.
For sale by
WHILDEN & CARRINGTON.
YOURS TRULY
FRED HAUG.
Alliance Warehouse,
Milledgeville, - - Georgia.
Liheral aBrantes made on Canon Stored.
Bagging and ties at lowest cash prices. All business will receive
prompt attention. Consignments of cotton solicited.. Agents for
---McCormick Mowers and Brown Cotton Bin.—*—
W. H. JEWELL, Manager.
Milledgeville. Ga.. Sept, 1, 1895. ly. .
E. B. HARRIS 4 COMPANY,
THE SHOE BROKERS,
Now located corner CHERRY and THIRD STREETS (Dannenberg’s old Stand.
MACO.V, GEORGIA,
Where we are serving our customers as of old, with the best and
cheapest shoes ever brought to this State. In fact, we retail shoes
at wholesale prices.
Shoes at Half Price.
Editorial Glimpses and Clippings.
It Is said that the negro exhibit at
the exposition is one of the features
of the great show.
It is poor patriotism that seeks to
find out theonlv weak spots io your
government.—Rome Tribune.
President Cleveland and his cabinet
■e expected to arrive in Atlanta to
day (Tuesday) at 4 o'clock, p. in.
Bartow and Gwinnett counties are
strong contestants for the first prize
offered by the exposition for the best
county exhibit.
There are now twenty-five women
in Chicago who are practising law
yers, aud fifteen more will soon be
admitted to the bar.
The Union Recorder gives its read
ers much valuable information about
fanning, furnished by the commis
sioner of agriculture.
After all it is said that Tom Wats
son is going to contest the election
in the tenth. Tom is after the con
test money now.—Darien Gazette.
Peonle are too busy jus' now to
theorize and dispute on assertions
of public finance, and are engaged
in applying practical finauceering to
their own business affairs.
Owing to the low price of horses
incident to (he general use of bicy
cles and elec ric power, large ship
ments of horses are being made from
Baltimore to European markets.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) the 231
inst., the president of the United
States will be Atlanta’s honored
guest, and that da> will be set apart
by the Exposition as the nation’s
day.
Sample
Thousands of
Watch the other dealers instate aud talk about us and against
us, but they dont’t get there. See us before buying your Shoes.
Sept.16, 1806.
12 Has.
lodgings.
COMFORTABLE BEDS
Polite, attentive servants, can be had at
liw East Alabama Stieet. These rooms
are run -in connection with one of the best
restaurants in Atlanta, Ga.
Oct, 1, 1890. lm
Notice!
CITY REGISTRATION.
T HE books for the registration of the
qualified voters of ttecity of Milledge-
villo will oe opened on the 7th dai of Octo
ber, 1895, und close on the 13th day of No
vember 1MI5,
P. L. FAIR, Clerk.
Milledgeville. Ga., Sept. 30. ’95. 14 cts.
Coroner Frank Knight, while sit
ting in front of Kiug & Toole’s fur
niture store in Mucon, dropped ilead
from a stmkeof apoplexy on onday
night, 14th. He was honored and
beloved all over Bibb county and
had served as Coroner for several
years.
Mr. Burweh, of Hancock, will in
troduce a bill to estanli di a Refor
matory for convi its >t im.nature age.
Such a bill is needed, and the best
eletuen r of tt ft people of Georgia
are strong'y in favor of some snch
measure. Mr. Bin well -hould push
this bill for all it is wor'b, audit be
succeeds iu pass ug it lie *ih deserve
a monument. The pr. sent custom of
working weak and ignorant cbildreu
side bv side with hardened M ieves
and criminals of every grade should
be chaug-d. Crime will increase if
It is not stopped. Crnue Is plentiful,
mid any step seeking 'o decrease i<
should be encouraged.—Americus
Herald.
HON. IVERS0N_L. HARRIS. j
[“W. A. l-.,”of Macon, 1“ furnishing
to the Sunday issue of the Macon i
Telegraph, some highly interesting;
reminiscenses of distinguished Geor« :
gians whose natues have made our ]
great State illustrious. Milledgeville, !
tiie historic old cap'tal of tde Empire \
State ot the South, was peculiarly !
the place where our great men wrote j
their names high on the roll of fame in |
ante helium days. As the political
and social center of the State, nat
urally enough,many noted men made
their homes in Milledgeville. Among
the latter, Judge Iverson L. Harris
was pre-eminently a prominent fig
ure, and left a lasting impress on the
times in which he lived, which em
braced the most prosperous as well
ae the most trying periods in the
history of the State.
The Union Recorder rejoioes that
Col. L. has been Induced to recall
and perpetuate the high achievements
and unique characteristics of some of
the most noted Georgians of this
section of the S.ate. Col. L. is a
charming writer and the pen pic
tures he has undertaken of men
with whom be associated in his
younger days, is well calculated to
Inspire his best efforts. His sketch
of Col. L. N. Whittle, which ap
peared io the Telegraph a few weeks
ago, was true to life and was greatly
appreciated by the surviving friends
of that lovable man.
In the Telegraph of Sunday, Oat.
18th, appeared the first part of an
article on our late distinguished
fellow-citizen, Judge Iverson L.
Harris, which we take great pleas
ure in reproducing as follows:
“Hon. Iverson L. Harris was born
in Watklnsville. Clarke (now Oco
nee) county, G&., on Jan. 7, 1805,
auu died Marcti 11, 1876.
His father removed to Miiledgevdle
when his son was a mere lad, and
there the latter spent the remainder
of his long life. He entered Frank
lin College,now the 8tate University,
in 1819 and graduated with distinc
tion in 1823. One of his classmates
was Hou. Gita-. J Jenkins, witli
whom t he most cordial friendship ex
isted unt'l severed by tbe death of
Judge Harris. After ins graduation
he commenced tbe study of law, anil
was admitted to the oar in 1825, be
fore reaching his majoiity. He
opened an office in Milledgeville,
which at that time was the capital ot
the state, and very naturally offered
an inviting field to young men of am
bition and promise. This was a Utile
over seventy years ago. When I
knew hlui he was one of the survi
vors ot a race of able and distin
guished lawyers who belonged to a
former generation, and after having
filled tbe full measure of active anil
useful lives had passed aud were
rapidly passing away. He whs a
connecting link between those of the
olden and later times, and in many
respects represented both iu pecus
Rarities of habit and opinion. vVheu
he commenced his professional oa«
reer our penal code bad not beeu
adopted, and the common law pre
vailed in Georgia—it iiad been of
force since 1787. I remember to have
beard him sav that when a boy he
saw a woman who had been Indicted
aud convicted as a “comm7n scold,”
ducked in the Oconee river at Mil-
ledneville, whicn was the punish
ment for that offense under tbe
English law, of force in Georgia at
that time. He further stated that
some of her descendants were people
of prominence and that they were
llviag as late as 1810. The harshness
of the common law, so far as the
women are concerned, has been, of
course, greatly modified, and iu the
main wuolly abolished, but it will
startle some of our readers to kuow
that in Georgia up to less tnau fifty
years ago a husband could, without
violating the luw, whip his wife, if
the correctiou was moderate. Our
legislature, as well as our judiciary,
have, however, loug since made
atonement for the w.ougs upon wo
men, and if the warning of two of
our most distinguished judges.to-wit;
Judge Harris and Judge Lumpkin,
of the supreme bench, are not heeded
we may go to the other extreme.
Judge Lumpkin, in i9;h Ga., says:
“At the same time we are unwilling
to subject ourselves to the criticism
as made by that great judge, Hon.
Iverson L. Harris upon ills distin
guished brethren, in Cleumeos ts.
Bostick, 33th Georgia, page 1, in
which he tfiougbt they stretched a
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
woman is 'he patty or a woman’s
claims are involved. I fear that Is
an incurable in-nnity, as thus far it
has exhibited no obedienoe to law
and is deaf to reason and even insen
sible to ridicule.” The words of
these two able uien, distinguished
as much for their g&llantrv as their
Judicial wisdom, are commended to
tbe people of this progressive and
fast age.
Young Harris entered the profes
sion iu an era of great men in the
state. William H. Crawford, recog
nized as the greatest of her great
men, was already a commanding fig
ure iu national politics, ana having
filled positions in the cabinet and
represented his government at the
court of St. Cloud, had been prom
inently spoken of for the presidency,
Forsyth, the most brilliant debater
iu the United States senate,and who
afterwards was seore'arv of state
under Van Bureu, was io ills merid
ian glory. Berrien, who was called
the “utoero of the Senate” and was
regarded as one of the most finished
lawyeis in the country, was in a few
years thereafter the attoi uey-generai
in Jackson’s oahinet, and Troup,
the heroic ohauipion of states’ rights
and state soverignty, was the idol of
his party. He was an eduoated man,
and while not distinaqished as a
speaker, as a writer Ik- bad but few
eqtialg. He wrote with great ele
gance and force, and every paper
that came from his peu scintillated
with the fire of genius. His contest
with Gen. Clark tor Governor as re
lated by Judge Harris, was perhaps
the most bitter and acrimonious ever
waged tn the state This great man
made a la-ting impression upon the
people of his day, aud especially
upon a large number of the most
brilliant aud promising young men
iu the state, who subsequently at
tained distinction. Among these was
the subject of this sketch, who af
terwards wh l« ou the bench oi our
suprume court enunciated iu learned
opinions these great principles of
states’rights which he had learned
at t tin feet ot liis political Gamaliel.
It may be stated that this great
Georgian, when a little past ttftv,
resigned bis seat iu ttieUnited States
Senate and retired to his plantation
in Laureus county, where far from
ttie maddening crowd and the igno
ble strife of politics he passed tbe
remnant of his long life. When
youug Harris commenced the prac
tice of his profession he had to con
tend with formidable competitors in
his own and the adjoining circuit^.
Seaborn Jones, wnom I have heard
Judge Harris say was the finest nisi
prius lawyer he had ever met, was
young in the profession >.ud just
starting ou a career which culuii
uated in great eminence. W. H.
Torrance, although considerably ad
vanced in life when he eume to tbe
bar, was recognized as oue of its
leaders in Greensboro: W. C. Daw
son, afterwards a United States sen
ator, Francis ,H. Coue was a native
of Connec'icut, aud in a few years
rose to great distinction. He served
but a short time iu a judicial office,
but 1 once heard Gen. Toombs say
he was the abjest judge he had ever
seen in this country or iu Euglaud.
Such were only a few of the men
with whom our youug professional
athlete had to contend when he en
tered the professional arena. Ihere
were many others. Some of them
were highly educated, having grad
uated at Princeton, Yale soil other
Northern institutions of learning-
some at Franklin College, and others
were uneducated academically but
were “giants of the soil” and had
received that highest aud best of
all education, acquired by contact
witli the plain, practical, thoughtful
people, a school iu which Henry
Clay, Audrew Jackson und hundreds (
of onr great men were edecated.
With the elements which formed the
character of Iverson L. Harris, fat -
ure was impossible. He was ambi
tious, hopeful, self reliant, studious,
well prepared by previous training,
honorable to a punctilio, devoted to
his profession and attentive to bus
iness. 1 have heard said that from
the commencement he bent, alibis
energies to the mastery of his pro
fession and to the business and stud
ies of bis office—while ho would oc
casionally ilirt wi'h other favorites,
recognized the wisdom of the admo
nition that “the law is a jealous mis
tress” and demands, if not the exclu
de, the ueet devotions of tuose who
happened that a large professional
income was depleted by unsuccess—-
ful attempts at planting—a fine law
yer and a poor farmer was not an»
unusual combination. I once hearcB
Judge Harris admit with great hu*-
mor, in the midst of a most eloquent'
harangue to a crowd of farmers who *
had collected to hear his elegant
discourse, that his agricultural en
terprises had not been a success, and*
that he bad ahared the fate of the -
buoolic brethren generally;' To say-*
that he was not eminently a sneoesa*-
ful lawyer would be to deny what :
was usually aooorded to him bv hie*
coo temporaries. His praetlee ex
tended over a large territory—It was-
at a time when lawyers “rode the—
circuit” traveling usually in solklM*—
they would go together front court
to coart, traveling uuob of the lone*
stretch ot country from Maoon and*.
Milledgeville to Bainbrtdge anM
Thomasvllle. Tbev were a merry-
hearted set aod enjoyed life on the-*
circuit with'tbe heartiness end a-~
bandon af school boys; They joked!
each other freely. In these encoun
ters Judge Harris, or, as he was then*-
called. Major Harris, a title he ac
quired, perhaps, in the Indian wars,,
was not spared. He was a fine, am.
eloquent talker, spoke with great -
volubility. Involving bis sentences ah'
times with repeated parentheses—
with rare colloquial gifts and vast
accumulations ot knowledge,,he was
not backward in leading in conver
sation and was generally the hero -
ot tbe oocasioa. Ou oue occasion he
was attending a court in the “piney ■
woods” and one of the guests of tbe
hotel at wnich the lawyers “put up. ,r
While seated at supper, the major., aw-
usual, by common cousent had ino**-
nopolized the couversatiou, iu which*
he was most earnestly,engaged. Io
a fit of ab-eut-mindedness, instead
ol sugar he nucousciously mixed salt
with hie coffee, while the good na«
lured hostess, afraid to interrupt the-
flow of his conversation, us he cone-
tinned to dip epoonfnl after s toouful'
of salt, never for a moment relaxing:
the stream of liits talk; - only sat.
and wondered at the peculiarity ot
his taste or smiled at tlie probable-
mistake he was unwittingly making..
About the time the entire crowd had!
begun to enjoy the major’s blunder.,
he discovered something wrong..
With bis native impulsiveness, but aa
complacently as possible under tho-
circuinstauces, be turned to bis auit-
uble Boniface an said: “Madam, in
the name of Heaven what is the-
■natter with this coffee?” Her reply
aod the discomfiture of Maj. Hama
set the table iu a roar and saved
him perhaps thereafter from making'
similar mistakes iu his •‘sweetenin.’’^'
W. A. L._
To.be concluded next week. .
Look Oat
tor breakers ahead when pimples, .
boils, carbuncles and like manifes
tations of Impure blood appear..
They wouldn’t appea if your blood
were pure and your system in the-
right condition. Tuey show you what
you nee I—a good blood-pnriflei“'-
that’s what you get wueu you take-
Dr. Fierce’s Golden Medical Discov
ery.
It carries health with it. All Blood, ..
Skin and Scalp diseases, from a com- -
mon blotch or eruption to the worst"
Scrofula, are cured by it. It invigo—
rates the liver, purifies aod earlobes
the blood, and roise- every organ'
into healthful action. In the most
stubborn forms of Skiu Diseases,such
as Salt-rheum, Ecxema, Tetter, Ery-~
sipelas, Carbuncles, and kindred all- -
inents, and with Scrofula in eyeryi*’
shape, and all blood-taiuts, it effecte--
perfect and permanent cures of the- -
worst cases.
It is said that the sweeping of the -*
streets in Paris costs about $1,340,000'*
a year. The pay of the sweeper is ■*
about seven cents an hour. The an- -
nual cost of watering the streets is -
said to be about $400,000.
r.v urut.-u
rtighfesfc KcncTs—World'a Faint*
piinciple very far in sustaining a wid* j ^ ehrlne _ io those days
. 1 ... 4 .. aI/IOO a I flits
Which were Hotted
the w:t vindicating the poet by sav- j
iu_: •There was no stretching a met
apbor. too ftir wtaeu » lady wrb io i
the case.’ We fear courts and juries
are becoming too apt to stretch dam*
II M |1 V 11 1 W **•-»»* —
ill tiie rich agricultural districts of
the State. Much litigation grew out
ot and large fees were paid in cases
involving contests over wills aud
oo ap.. io those arising, from the admimstra-
rftirgenU^ sex^^JuTge^Hams I tfa" da^f ofliUgaTion which grew
d sr:sr("vs i
oGsm wh1oh i tbe U be e ach i di8 P 1 ii?s when'j roSywWt** 11 not frequently
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