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rOLUME LXVII
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jSonTHRRN ‘{KOORDEIt ‘ ' ' '1819. I
COKSOLirATID 187* Milledgeville. Ua., July 14, 189G.
ditorial Glimpses and Clippings.
Quarrels would never lie lasting
.re the fault all on one side.
A BACKWARD GLANCE.
j l’>y reference to the files of the Fed-
| oral Union, published by Park & Bog-
— — — i ors, we find that the grand jury at duly
By a majority of e^kt Podge court-j Urm, 1839, of Baldwin Superior
r ha? voted in favor of prohihition.
How Mirabeau B. Lamar was Named.
Number 3-
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The municipal ownership of electric
rhts is proving to be <juitc successful
Athens.
Clark Howell lias been re-elected
e Georgia member of tlie national
omniittee.
The financial question is not one of
irinciple, but one of judgment as to
hat is bast.
The majority hy which Daniel dil
ated llill for temporary chairman was
1 the ratio of 1 (* to 1.
Mrs. Ella Teggs, of Bibb county,
ommitted suicide lust Monday night,
y blowing her brains out with a pistol.
Four women had seats as alternates
the Chicago convention. They
were from Utah and favored free silver
oinage.
Gov. Atkinson has appointed Hon.
W. R. Moore as solicitor of the county
ourt to succeed Hon. R. II. Lewis,
esigned.
Friendship is “the brightest gift sent
down to earth,” the sweetest p.ensure
life affords, and the chief source of com*
ort in distress.
(imposed /of the following
h'tij. A. White, foreman,
Court was
! gentlemen :
R. M. Orme, S. Bivins, Thos.B.Stubh
W. F. Scott, 1). B. Hill, B. II. Rey
nolds, James II. Shehan, George
Beeves, Abner Hammond, J. W. L.
Daniel. Isaac Newell, Otis Childs,
; Alex. Jarratt, John S. Stephens, Ben
Bower, Wm. Steele and II. R. Smith.
The only survivor in the list is Mr.
1 Otis Childs, now a citizen of Massa-
chu-ett
li.'rnm O nr Jtrjjuliir Cori enpoudriit.
AVas;ii>otox, July 8th, 1890.
Prominent democrats are scarce
i To the Editor of the Union Recorder:
Sir—In your last issue you gave an
i interesting account of when and how
! Valdosta, the capital of Cowhides coun-
ty, took its name from Governor Troup's
river home in Laurens county. Mention ( Washington this week. Those who
was also made in that article of how on ; ], uve no t, gone to the Chicago conven
tion have gone to some quieter place
than Washington to await the nows of
the convention’s action on the ticket;
everybody lias about made up their
minds what the platform will be.
Secretary Carlisle is the only member
of the cabinet in town, and, although
deeply interested in the
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Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report j
one occasion Mirabeau Lamar was vis
iting Governor Troup in his Valdosta
(Tale d’Osta) home, and Troup their
suggested to Lamar to go to Texas and
capture Santa Anna, and the intrepid
young Georgian acted cn the advice.
Perhaps it would be as interesting to
s, and who visited this city last siiOW (< ? th « T circle , of y° ur Tf* 8 ™ the ' he must be
w ; ll(cr , * j original ot Lamar s name (Mirabeau ; convention, he will not talk about it for
Buonaparte,) and also at the same time | publication. Secretary Morton stood
to show the common origin of many of the temp tation as long as he could, and
the classical given-names ot the mem- „i m n«t „t the. last minute remembered
The sponsor and her six maids, rep
resenting Georgia at the recent Con
federate reunion in Richmond, are all
graduates of Lucy Cobb.
Capt. L. Q. Stubbs lias been elected
mayor of Dublin. He ran ns an in
dependent candidate. Captain Stubbs
held the office several years ago.
Hon. Tomlinson F. Johnson of Sa
vannah is the prospective nominee of
he Republicans for Governor. The
onvention will be held about July 20.
A Northern exchange asks the ques-
ion, why it is the bicycle devoters do
not trot out a candidate for president
of the republic oil the platform of good
oads.
Thought and sympathy are often
more valuable than anything money
an procure. Both need continual cir
culation to keep them wholesome and
irong.
There is nothing in the world to
prevent Speaker Reed from wearing a
lue surcingle and riding a bicycle this
summer as he did last. It is always
better to be happy than it is to be glo
rious New York World.
The friends of the University- of
Georgia throughout the state are pre-
paring to make a grand effort this fall
to convince the legislature of the abso
lute necessity of making a sufficient
appropriation to erect a large Building
on the university campus.
There is talk of inviting ex-Con-
gressmaa Breckinridge, of Kentucky,
to deliver on address at the conclusion
of the trial of Ewalt in Milledgeville.
Co). Breckinridge is one of the most
brilliant orators in the south, and if he
speaks in Macon he will be greeted by
a large audience.—Macon News.
It is more apparent than ever that
a state reformatory for youthful crim
inals is needed. The legislature neg
lected a very important matter at its
last session when it failed to provide an
institution for the reformation of youth
ful criminals. We trust the next leg
islature will inaugurate the reforma
tory—Marietta Journal.
A burglar attempted to force an en
trance into the residence of Rev. Ed
ward F. Cook, of Brunswick, at a late
hour Monday night, but was met by
the. minister, who displayed courage
and after endeavoring to persuade him
to leave without violence, tired his pis
tol, causing his hasty departure. Fur
ther search for the man failed to dis
close him.
^
It is the testimony of the New York
steamship agents that the travel to
Europe this season exceeds all previous
records. The depression in business
appears to make no difference this
year in tire number of tourists; if any
thing it increases it. Many moder
ately wealthy people no doubt find it
cheaper to go to Europe than to me
in their accustomed style at the high-
priced American summer resorts, and
a trip abroad may be an expedient Un
hiding tlierr reduced income?.
In 1839, Hill was Judge of the
Superior Court, N. G. Foster solicitor
general, and W. S. Mitchell clerk—
George R. Gilmer was Governor. Ab
ner Hammond was mayor of Milledge
ville and Robert Micklejohn clerk.—
Advertisements of six hotels appeared
in the papers, viz: Globe Hotel, Eagle
Hotel, Huson Hotel, Jackson Hall,
Temperance Hall and LaFayette Hal).
Then there were four newspapers in
this city: Federal Union, Southern
Recorder, The Standard and the Journ
al. At that time Baldwin county was
entitled to a senator and two represen
tatives and at the election in October
that year P. J. Williams was elected
senator and A. II. Kenan and S. T.
Beecher representatives.
Charlfes J. McDonald was elected
Governor. John Forsyth visited Mil
ledgeville soon after the legislature con
vened and was tendered a public din
ner which he declined owing to a pres
sure of public and private business.
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Absolutely pure
trains. The attention of the officials ( «reiu onin. fr»m i.iiti* Arora*
SALMAGUNDI BY UNCLE BOB.
The common sentiment seems to he
anything for change.
Mutual forbearance is the one great
secret of domestic happiness.
There is music in the air, all the, time
and everywhere, to the heart attuned fo
love.
In a government by the people the
majority must rule, or the system is a
failure.
Snatches of song that thrilled tBn
heart in boyhood makes melody in the
soul all the life long,
The things we want are many, but
the. things we don’t want are more. Be
thankful for exemption from evils.
The inability of a friend to respond
to your latest request does not cancel
past obligation, and don’t you forget it.
Constant complaining by old people
will deprive them of the sweet com
panionship of the young who love the
bright side of life.
Any sort of kindness rendered, or
even intended, should receive heartfelt
appreciation. A man or woman with
out gratitude is a sad blot on social life.
The honey of persuasion has no more
effect on a stubborn, dissatisfied man
than it would have on a Texas pony.
When folks get to kicking, the higher
they kick the more the fun to those not
directly interested.
Last Friday morning a gentleman
remarked, “it looks like Bryan is going
to get the nomination!” An innocent-
looking young man standing hy,queried,
“He don’t mean Mr. Bryan, our Meth
odist preacher, does lie?”
Passengers by rail don’t see the en
gineer who moves the train, but they
know they are getting along. So in
life's journey, lots of folks never think
of the workers and thinkers who en
gineer business and pull along scores of
deadbeats.
A, simple illustration of Faith:—
A'ears ago, talking to my little four
year old girl who sat upon my knee, I
said, “My little girl don't know much;
she don’t know how to sew; she don’t
know how to cook; she don’t know
how to play on the piano; but—there
is one thing she does know 1 .” and hold
ing her little hands in mine and look
ing in her eyes, I asked, “Now, what
do you know?” The response was, “I
know papa- loves me!” and she threw
her arms around my neck.
There is much said these days of
new methods in business, of not being
a back unrober and of keeping up with
the times, but there are some sterling
qualities which know no fashion and
which are hampered by no changed
method. Integrity is one of these.
It i
, almost at the last minute
hers of the*’Lamar family. Many years t | u , t he owed his son, who lives in Clii-
ago there lived in Warren county, but 1 cag0j a v ; 3 it. He is now in Chicago,
later in Putnam, eight or ten miles i Qf C0UV5e the convention did not carry
south o; Eatonton, a thrifty planter of him there.
the name of John Lamar. John was. j t WO uld be a waste of both time and
the grandfather ot Mr. Justice L, Q. space to write of the rumors now cur-
C. Lamar. There, about the year 1810, rent in Washington about what the
John established what is still locally i convention will and will not do. The
known ns the ‘old Lamar homestead,’ i convent ion will speak for itself this
how the property of Dr. Mark John- week? a0(1 w hen it speaks it will also
ston. 1 he house is. said to stand to speak f 0 r the democratic party. It has
this day in good condition—a fine, old- 1 j, een thirty-six years since there was a
fashioned, two-story, frame building, f rom t | ie national convention of
constructed after the strong and endur-1 the democratic party, but there are
ing models of that period. With John p ] en t y Q f men now living who can tes-
and his wife lived a bachelor brother, tify t0 the disastrous result of that bolt.
Zachariab, who, as some of your read- , It 18 nol in the natU re of things that
ers may remember, is buried in the every body can be pleased with what
Milledgeville cemetery not far from the the convention does, but the majority
old well. Zachariah was a self-taught mugt and the watc hwrrd of every
man, who, like many of the men in good democrat, should be, “let there be
the old plantation times, gave himself ao bolting.”
up to the ideal world of literature and Mr< g. E. Leach, a well known cit-
history, without any further purpose ixen of Raleigh, N. C., is now in Wash-
than the enjoyments of that fairyland. i ngton . He says of the political out-
These honest, happy, and (as some i ook in hig gtate; «f don’t think there
might consider them) useless members ig any doubt that North Carolina will
of society belong to an extinct fauna. * return t0 its old love and give a round
They were loved, revered, and honored n , a j or ity for the national and state dem-
in their day and little circles. Zacha- ocratic tickets. The coalition between
riah Lamar was one of this sort -per- (| 1( . republicans and populists has about
haps its most striking example. Over g0 ne to pieces, and the nomination of a
all his more immediate surroundings f ree silver ticket at Chicago means the
was cast the glamour of that realm of return 0 f thousands of populists
letters in which lie lived. When he
led in prayer-—good Methodists that
they were—he did not think it inapt
to thank God for the heroic examples
of Roman or English or American his
tory, for the march of science, and for
the exemption from the crimes and
miseries of less favored lands into
of all railroads has consequently hr
called to that clause of the U. S. Re
vised Statutes which forbids regular
post route roads carrying mail in any
other than regular mail cars, except
when letters are enclosed in stamped
envelopes. If that doesn’t stop the
scheme some arrests will be made.
Death of Gen. P. M. B. Young.
Gen. P. M. B. Young, United Stales
Minister to Guatemala,died of Bright’s
disease at the Presbyterian Hospital
in New York, at noon, Monday, July
Gth. He reached New York from
Guatemala about two weeks before bis
death, and went into the hospital for
treatment. His remains were carried
to his old home in Cartersville, Gu.,
and the funeral services took place
I 1 la a lino from the trite old v, rso we user)
to recite in our school hoy day a. It has' a
forcible application -o those small ailments,
wnleh we are apt to disregard until they
retch formidable proportions. A fit of
indigestion, a ‘‘slight” attack of constipa
tion, It Is assumed, will soon pass ofl, tmt
Is very apt to get worse, »n«l In the mean
time is neglected until thaaiiorentbeoomes-
chronic, and than, if not entirely eradi
cated, Is a constant annoyance and menace
or worse consequences, for diseases, recol
lect. Iieget one another. How much wiser
to re-ort to a course of Hosiotter’s Stom
ach Bitters at the outset of the malady
tlien to temporize with it at the start, or
treat It with violent remedies In ils matu
rity. Be on time with disease, or It may
“llooi” you. Malarious, rheumatic and
kidney complaints, dyspepsia, constipa
tion. billion-moss and nervousneas are all
disorders of rapid growth, and should be
"nipped In the bud” by a timely resort to
the Hitters.
Satisfied.
! There is an old song whose busdhn
* is this: “1 shall he satisfied.” To
Friday" and were atVended by many j
prominent Georgians.
to the
democratic ranks. The state is over
whelmingly for free silver, and ihe gold
plank in the St. Louis platform will
lose Mokiiilcy thousands of rep iblican
votes in the state.”
ES’-Congressmnn Brookshire, ol Ind.,
practices law in Washington, but he
bis
keeps tub on things political
which his geographical studies had led , gtate aiK l takes an active part in every
him. So, when a son was born to the campaign. He says of the present
head ol the house, this bookish enthu- campaign; “I think that Indiana will
sin-d claimed the privilege of naming stand by the democratic party this fall
his infant nephews after his favorite of, 5n i, ot h state an d national elections,
the moment, and the amiable and doubt- j n Hon. p. p t Shively, our guberna-
less amused parents consented. Thus tiona i candidate, we are especially for-
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus (not Cur- tunate, as he is one of the ablest and
tius,) Mirabeau Bounaparte (with the
‘u’,) Jefferson Jackson, Lavoisier Le-
grand,nnd Thomas Randolph (a grand
child) indicates how his interest shift
ed from history to politics and from
politics to chemistry.
Mirabeau Lamar was already distin
beet liked men in the State. He is un
der forty years of age, and while in
Congress made a most excellent record.”
The annual report of Hon. W. T.
Harris, U. S. Commissioner of educa
tion, just issued, contains some very
interesting figures concerning educa-
south. For in-
“In the past
, .. twenty years the South has increased
and is said to have been the first to de- 54 per cent ; n population, but its school
guislied for eloquence, when, at the j tiona i p ^ gress in the s*
suggestion of Governor Troup, he went 1 stan ce, the report says:
to Texas to aid in (he country’s cause,! twen ty years the South
clare publicly for independence. After
the annexation of Texas, lie served ef
ficiently in the Mexican war. In 1857
he was appointed Minister of the Uni
ted Ntutes to' the Argentine republic,
and in 1858 to Costa Rica and Nicar
agua. He died in 1859.
Slbsoribkr.
attendance has increased 130 per cent
—more than twice as fast as the popu
lation. In the twenty years from 1874
to 1894, the value of school property in
the South increased from $10,000,000,
to $50,000,000—an addition of $40,-
i 000,000. or $2,000,000 a year.”
I There is quite a commotion in gov-
j ernment circles on account of the arrest
In a recent letter to the manufac- ! by U. S. Secret Service officers of
Hirers Mr. W. F. Benjamin, editor of j Francis Whitely, a wealthy manufac-
the Spectator, Rusbford, N. Y., says: turer of engraved steel plates, for hav-
“II may be a pleasure to you to known j ing attempted to bribe Gen. W. W.
the high esteem in which Chamber-1 Duflield, Chief of the U. S. Coast and
Iain’s medicines are held by the people ! Geodetic Survey by offering him a sum
of your own state, where they must be j of money to award the contract for sup
best known. An aunt of mine, who | plying the steel engraved plates for the
resides tit Dexter, Iowa, was about to maps and charts issued by the Coast
visit me a few years since, and before j and Geodetic Survey. Gen. Duflield
[eaving home wrote me, asking if they
were sold here, stating it' they were not
is naturally very indignant at having
been offered a bribe, and his indigna-
she would bring u quantity with her, tion is shared by other officials who
as she did not like to be without them. 1
The medicines referred to are Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, famous for its
cures of colds and croup; Chamberlain’s
l’ain Balm for rheumatism, lame back,
pains in the side and chest, and Cham
berlain’s Cough, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy for bowel complaints. These
medicines have been in constant use in
Iowa 'or almost a quarter of a century.
The people have learned that they
consider the offer to have been a re
flection on every official’s integrity.
Gen. Duflield said on the subject: “This
is the first time in iny experience that
I have been insulted in this way, and I
wonder that a man of Mr. AV hitely’s
prominence and wealth should have
done such n thing. I never saw him
until after I received the letter offering
me a bribe to award him this contract,
although he has had several contracts
ire
article# of great worth and merit, and I from the bureau. Mr. Whitely does
- , unequaled bv any other. They are j business in New York City but resides
the basis ot every busmen# trans-1 )or s;dc here by Culver & Kidd, drug- in Newark, N. J.
action. Its word is as good as 1 rs gists, Milledgeville, Ga. 1 Railroads are sometimes very tricky.
bond—it is its bond—and whatever : Postmaster General Wilson has discov-
tends to lessen or in any way destroy | Alonzo A\ ailing, one of the murder- j ered that a number of them have been
that integrity is a harm. It \\u? ti i.e | ,. rs 0 i Pearl Bryan, has been sentenced ! beating Uncle Sam out of postage by a
in the old and slow days—it is true . to die, his execution being fixed for { plan of sending all letters for railroad
now * A u 3 ust officials "by baggage master? on mail
Pierce Manning Butler Young was
born at Spartenburg, 8. C., Nov. 15,
1839. His father, Dr. B. M. Young,
was the son of Capt. William Young,
a gallant revolutionary soldier, who
lived and died at the Rock House,
near Greenville, S. C. His mother
Elisabeth Caroline, was the daughter
of George Jones, of Spartanburg, a
wealthy planter and merchant. Pierce,
at 13 years of age entered the Georgia
Military Institute at Marietta, and in
1857 was appointed to the United
States Military Academy at West
Point, where he remained four years
and was about to graduate when the
war broke out. lie wus appointed
first lieutenant in the First Georgia
regimenting Gov. B.iown, hut declined,
preferring the appointment of second
lieutenant ot artillery. lie was at
tached to Gen. Bragg’s staff at Pen
sacola, on engineer duty, and was aide
at the same time on Gen. W. II. T.
Walker’s staff. He was appointed ad
jutant of Cobb’s Georgia Legion, and
in the fall of 18(31 was elected lieuten
ant colonel of the seventeenth Geor
gia infantry, but declined when ap
pointed major in the confederate states
army. By frequent promotion he be
came brigadier general of cavalry in
1803, and major general of cavalry in
1804. lie wus a particularly dashing
cavalry officer, as he must have been
to win the warm friendship and esteem
of that gallant cavalryman,.!. E. IS.
Stuart, in whose command lift was.
It is told of Gen. Young by his friends,
by way of illustrating his spirit and
fire, that on one occasion when there
was a desperate charge to be made, lie
prefaced his order to his men with the
utterance: “Now boys for I)—. or pro
motion!”
After the war he returned t<> his
plantation in Bartow county, this state
and took up agriculture, llis spirit of
leadership draw him into politics, and
lie was elected to the Fortieth, Forty-
first, Forty-second and Forty-third
congresses, serving principally on the
military committee. He was a dele
gate to the national democratic con
ventions which nominated Seymour in
1808, Tilden in 1870, and Hancock in
1880, and a member of the Georgia
state democratic committee in 1880-82,
and delegate to the state democratic
conventions of 1870 and 1880. lie
was a stancli party man, and worked
hard for the success of the democracy.
In 1878 lie was appointed a commis
sioner of the United States to the
Paris international exposition. In
1885 President Cleveland appointed
him counsel general to St. Petersburg,
which lie resigned two years later. In
1893 President Cleveland again culled
him into the public service, appointing
him minister to Honduras and Guate
mala, which important office he was
filling at the time of his death.
A correspondent asks: “How big is
the German empire? Please compare
it to something at home.” B is a lit
tle larger than the states of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida. The empire contains in
round numbers 211,000 square miles.
It is not nearly as big as Texu \ which
contains 265,780 square miles, '{'be
population of the German empire is
about 50,000,000.
The Atlanta Journal claims 21,500
persons are riding bicycles in that city.
glorious and divine thought, that
some day we shall be satisfied. H^ien<
we look all about Os, into the feces of
the bright surging throng of humanity*.,
when we hear the many, many univer
sal words of discontent which* break,
from the troubled hearts all about us
that not to be satisfied is the common
destiny.
We have often been impressed with
the great resemblance which this jost
ling, surging life of ours bears to the
ever restless tossing of the sea, which
is never, never still, never satisfied,
always moaning for a quiet which
never comes.
What a world of sorrows, of heart
burnings, of ungratitied ambitions and
unfilled hopes make up the sura total of
this poor life of ours. No man, unless
he is a fool—is ever satisfied with him
self. Way down in Bis heart there are
hopes of which nobody ever dreams,
there are lovers which lie cannot tell,
there are disappointments of which
none know, there mv. ungratitied aspi
rations and longings which till him
with a wild and ceaseless unrest.
This dissatisfaction with one’s owu
condition finds expression in many
ways. In envious gossip of others
seemingly more successful; in dissipa
tion sometimes, to hide it even from
one’s self for a moment; in hermitnge
and seclusion from a world which
proves unsatisfactory, sometimes in
recklessness, sometimes in seclusion,
sometimes in the suicide’s leap into the
insanely conjured hone for oblivlonU
“I shall he satified” appeals to every
element of humanity LaGrange-.
Graphic.
Repeated efforts have been made tc»
annul the law in England which pro
hibit? a mini from marrying his dead
wife’s sister. The-proposition to annul
has been repeated, it seems, annually
for the last eleven years, and though it
lias had royal support, lias eacli time
been voted down in the upper house.
The law is sometimes ignored, but in
all such cases the social mid legal disa
bilities are visited on tlte wives and chil
dren of such marriages.
A peculiar incident of the Fourth
of July in New York was a strike of
seventeen men on Mr. W. K. Vander
bilt's yacht. They refused to work on
the ground that it was Independence-
Day, and they wished to celebrate it-
There was not an American in the-
erowd. Every striker was English*
Italian or Swede.
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