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ITHE FINANGES
OF GEORGIA-
Next Attraction Ig At
0.4 D. HANDLE'S Sloe Parlor,
NEXT DOOR TO CASE S DRUG STORE.
ATTRACTION NO. I.
Men’s Fine Satin, Calf, Lace or Congress
Shoes $1.25.
ATTRACTION NO. II.
Men’s Kip and Oil Grain Brogans and
Creoles, $1.00, $1.25, and $1.35.
ATTRACTION NO. III.
Men’s Fine Calf, Kangaroo and Yici Kid,
Tan or Black, Lace or Congress, any price,
$1.50 to $4.00.
ATTRACTION NO. IV.
Ladies’ Fine Calf and Oil Grain, Lace
Shoes, Light or Heavy, for $1.00 and $1.25.
ATTRACTION NO. 5.
Ladies Fine Kid Shoes, Black or Tan, Lace
or Bntton, any Price, $1.25 to $4.00.
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Anything in the Shoe Line at Wholesale prices.
Don’t forget we are next door to Case’s Drag Store on Hancock
Street.
A Housekeeper's Delight
Is in pretty things for the table and dining room. Have
you seen the new patterns of DINNER SETS on display only at
CONN’S JEWELRY AND CHINA STORE.
Here you will tind more patterns to select from than at any two
so-called china and crockery stores in Milledgeville.
These are Facts:
100 Pieces Dinner Sets at $12.50 upwards. You will also find
anything in this line from a 5 cents Tooth Pick Stand to a $50.00
Haviland Dinner Set. If you are thinking of purchasing you can’t
afford to miss seeing my stock.
lours to please,
W. T. Conn, Jr.
Trading Stamps with all cash purchases.
A Conversation Between Two Farmers at the New
Post Office.
Two farmers, one from Wilkinson county and the other from
Hancock, met the other day in front of the new Post Office, and
the following conversation occurred: I declare “Jones,” this is a
big improvement, and Milledgeville should be proud of her Post y
Master and new office and fixtures. Yes, “Smith,” and I tell you
Milledgeville is on the up grade and don’t you forget it. Why
have you been down to see Barrett’s new offices at his warehouse?
It is really better than the Post Office, and it is simply “out of
sight.” In the first place, it is so convenient for the Farmers; and
I tell yon, Smith, Barrett made a “ten stroke” when he engaged
such a good, reliable country iellow, right out of Hancock county
for his weigher. You see John L. Harper is a country boy and we
farmers like to see our “Farmer Boys” looking after our business;
and another thing, “Smith,” Barrett has got an eye for business,
and his kind attention to his customers will bring him plenty of
trade. Come, ‘•Smith,” let us go down with this load of cotton and
try him. His arrangements down there and the men he has with
him kinder makes me want to give him a trial, and from what they
all say, when you once start with him you can’t feel right any where
else. Well, “Jones,” you seem so “stuck” on Barrett’s warehouse I
believe I will go with you this time, and let you know the result
later on. And by the way, do you take the Union Recorder? Yes.
Well I will tell you through that how I came out. Good bye, and
be good to yourself and interest, and we will meet again at Barrett’s
Warehouse.
A TEXAS WONDER.
UNION-RECORDER.
Mn.LKDOEViLLE.GA., Nov. 15,1898*
ttttaria! Glimpses and Clippiags.
Tax reform and ballot reform are the
watchwords in Georgia.
Gov. Candler has appointed 39 aids
in different parts of the state, with the
sank of Colonel.
In the foot ball game between teams
at tbe University of North Carolina
•nd Georgia, the tar-heel won easily,
the score bring 44 to 0.
The Atlanta Constitution is being
highly commended by the leading
Democrats in North Carolina for its
aid in the last election. Mr. Frank
Welden’e letters were timely and vigor
ous.
TheSeeond Georgia regiment will
try to organise on a basis of 800. It
is claimed that 300 will come from
tbe First regiment. So far the 500
from the Second Georgia are not in
evidence.
Gen. Wilson is in Macon, and the
six regiments under his command will
be located about 2 miles north of that
city as soon as the camping ground can
be prepared. There will be four
regiments of negroes and two white
regiments.
The legislature now in session should
enact an election law that will ensure
the continuance of good government to
this state. If, on account of the cost,
the bill to call a constitutional conven
tion is defeated, then the matter should
be submitted to the people in the shape
of a constitutional amendment. There
ebould be no further delay in this im
portant matter.
Spain counts on Europ’s support in
her refuseal to surrender sovereignty
over the Philippines. It is stated that
tbe Spanisli government has unofficially
taken the opinion of several govern
ments concerning the American de
mands, and thinks she can depend upon
the moral support of at least three
Powers. The Paris commission may
conclude their work this week with
out coming to any conclusion in regard
to tbe Philippines.
The Supreme Council of War and
Marine of Spain is conducting an ex
haustive examination into the causes
of the destruction of the fleets of Mon-
tojo and Cervera, with a view to plac
ing the blame. The inquiry, it is un
derstood, will occupy some ten months.
The dons are giving themselves a great
deal of needless trouble and expense.
The Yankees are to blame, and Dewey
and Schley could tell how it happened
in thirty minutes each.
France has agreed to yield Faslioda,
but tbe controversy is not ended by a
great deal, and war preparations con
tinue. But the gravest crisis seems to
be approaching between England and
Russia in tbe China seas. Every avail
able ship in tbe British Navy has been
put in commission. Russia has con
centrated an army of over 20,000 men
at Port Arthur, and the friction be
tween the two powers has become so
great that it would seem that the most
delicate diplomacy alone can avert
war.
The time may come when the whites
and negroes w ill be able to get along
harmoniously in political matters, but
the outlook tor such a condition of af
fairs at this time is not promising. Be
fore there is harmony the negroes will
have to occupy a much higher moral
and intellectual plane than they do now.
They will have to learn to conduct
themselves decently in ofliae, and their
race will have to cease making itself
offensive to the whites in communities
where it is in the majority and has
control of the otfices and public affairs.
-—Savannah News.
At the request of the Standard Oil
Company, Col. O. B. Stevens, State
Commissioner of Agriculture, has made
Cedartown a distributing point for that
company, and a large oil tank will soon
be erected there. The establishing of
a distributing point there necessitated
the appointment of an oil inspector and
Commissioner Stevens tendered that
position to Mr. W. S. Coleman last
Saturday, the district also embracing
the city of Rome. He accepted the
office, was commissioned and has filed
hie bond with the department.
The LaGrange Graphic says that
farming has reached that stage in Geor
gia, as it has long ago elsewhere, ' that
a profit can be made only by making
the farm self-sustaining—what is known
as the “bog and hominy” plan. No
crop can be grown cheaper than wheat,
and there is not a farm in Troup
county but will make wheat enough to
supply bread if only the effort is made.
Every farm should liaye its wheat
patches or its fields, lor home made
bread is now a necessity—cotton is not
profitable enough to buy it, so that it
will have to be raised.JJ
Second (Jeorgia to Quit Service.
Sunday’s Constitution says:
The fate of the Second Georgia re
giment was decided yesterday, and the
regiment will be mustered out. Col
onel Brown lias wired lor a muster of
fice, and as soon as he arrives the men
will be examined and will be given
honorable discharges.
For a while it was thought that the
regiment would remain in the service,
but recently it has been known that
there would not be a sufficient number
who desired to remain to make a full
regiment.
Yesterday the time limit for securing
volunteers for re-inlistment expired. It
was then ascertained that in the com
panies stationed at Camp Atkinson
there were only ninety-five men and
eighteen officers who desired to remain
in the service. News was received from
the First battalion, stationed at Savan
nah, that twenty-six men and six of
ficers of that command desire to re-en-
list, and it was learned that thirteen
men of companies C and E, stationed
at Augusta, had signed the re-enlist
ment roll.
As soon as these facts were ascer
tained, Colonel Oscar Brown, the com
mander of the regiment, telegraphed to
the mustering officers that it would be
impossible to secure the number of re-
inlistments required. Colonel Brown
asked that the mustering officer pro
ceed to give the men their discharges
as soon as possible.
The Thorn well Orphanage.
The Thornwell Orphanage, under
the care of the Southern Presbyterians,
is located in Clinton, South Carolina.
It is itself u little village of family cot
tages, in which reside one hundred and
seventy-five fatherless children, with
their leachers and matrons. Here too
are the buildings for school and trade
work, for both boys and girls are
thoroughly fitted to care for them
selves before being sent out into the
world.
These orphans are received from any
State, and without regard to denomina
tional affinities. The orphans of Presby
terian parentage are in tbe minority.
No indenturing or binding in or out as
in most homes, is required of the or
phans. Love and advantage are the
all-powerful means of discipline.
The support of these children is
provided by “whosover will.” It is
wholly voluntary. If any reader of
these lines is led to help them, he can
send big gift to “Thornwell Orphanage,
Clinton, S. C.” Provisions are a6 use
ful as money, where they can more
easily be spared.
At these thankgiving times, our
hearts are all alive with gratitude to
God. How can we better show it than
by pitying the fatherless?
Dr. Jacobs, the head of the Orpan-
age, will gladly give information to any
desiring to know more of this remark
able and in some respects, pioneer
work for the orphans.
Spain Must Cede All Philippines.
Washington, November 12.—The
cabinet held a special session tonight,
at which instructions of a positive
character, bearing on the Philippine
question, were drafted for dispatch to
the American commissioners in Paris.
These instructions were the outcome
of the conference held earlier in the
day and instruct the American repre
sentatives to admit of no further dis
cussion as to the right to consider the
disposition ol the islands and state that
on that point the instructions already
sent must stand, the only matters for
discussion from the American view be
ing the manner of giving over the is
lands.
Maria Teresa is Mile off Shore,
Nassau, N. P., November 12 The
tug Potomac, from Santiago, which has
been visiting the stranded cruiser In
fanta Maria Teresa,off Cat igland, has
arrived here in order to obtain a permit
to work on the ship. She will return
to Cat Island.
The cruiser is lying one mile off
shore, and is in two fathoms of water.
The natives have destroyed the tem
porary decks and have carried away
everything movable.
From Now Zealand.
Reelton, New Zealand, Nov. 23,’9G.
I am very pleased to state that since
I took the agency of Chamberlain’s
medicines the sale has been very large,
more especially of the Cough Remedy.
In two years ( have sold more of this
particular remedy than of all other
makes for the previous five years. As
to its efficacy, I have been informed by
scores of persons of the good results
they have receiyed from it, and know
its value from the use of it in my own
household. It is so pleasant to taka
that we have to place the bottle beyond
the reach of our children.
E.J. SCANTLEBLRY
For sale by Geo. D. Case.
One hundred thousand crossties are
being advertised for to be used in Cuba
and Porto Rico, shipment to he made
from Port Tampa, Ha.*
THE PRISON SITE.
The prison commission has
the long agony by selecting tbe Newell
property as the site for the new prison.
Everything considered, this selection
is a wise one and will give general sat
isfaction to the people of Macon and
middle and south Georgia generally.
On many accounts tbe people of this
city would have preferred to see the
Juliette site selected. It, in all proba
bility, would have been but for an im
pression in the minds of many of our
citizens and of the prison commission
ers as well, that the location of the
prison at that point might have dan-
geronsly contaminated Macon’s water
supply. """"
The Baldwin county site has the ad
vantage of being centrally located and
is, in addition, in close proximity to
the state asylum for the insane. By
this proximity much expense can be
saved the state, the convicts making
supplies of a perishable nature for the
insane. Taken all together there can
be no just criticism of the action of the
commissioners, so far as location is
concerned—Macon Telegraph.
PARIS PRESS OPINIONS.
The Paris press is pro-Spanish in
feeling, and consequently in howling
with rage over the Philippine proposi
tion. The Soliel of November 2 says
no monarchical government would dare
do as the Americans are doing, “who
are forever talking so much of right
and liberty.” The Soliel forgets that
a monarchy takes steps in opposition to
public sentiment, while a republic's
acts are the acts ot the people them
selves.
It bitterly declares the American
plan is “to take all of Spain’s colonies
and leave Spain all their dobts.” Then,
with a fine scorn, it cries: “This is the
result of the ‘holy war’ undertaken to
insure the independence of the Cubans!
What base hypocrisy do these liberals,
these Democrats, these Republicans
show!”
The Soliel should calm itself. Spain
brought on the war, and has only her
self to blame for the outcome. Blinded
by living in past centuries old, puffed
up with arrogance, she invoked the ar
bitrament of the sword and perished by
it. France did the same thing twenty
odds years ago, and suffered a similar
humiliation. And were it France in
stead of the United States in the pres
ent case, who can doubt but she would
demand terms still more exacting upon
Spain as the price of peace?—Toledo
Blade.
New Route to Health.
Little, fragrant, palatable tablets, in
a dainty enameled metal box, just
right for the vest pocket or lady’s
purse. On the ablets are stamped the
letters, “C. C. C.,” Cascaret, Candy
Cathartic. Eat one like candy and
the little tablet at once purifies and
destroys disease germs in the mouth
and throat, stops souring of undigested
food in the stomach, stirs up the liver,
tones and strengthens the bowels, mak
ing them act healthy and naturally.
They are well and widely advertised in
the press, but the best advertisement
for Cascarets is their wonderfully mild
yet positive action, which makes a cas
caret convert of everyone who tries
them. We recommend them to all
our readers. \
Russia is said to be “disenchanted with
the Americans.” That is to say, our
disposition to go over into Europe’s
back yard to play is in danger of losing
us our old-time friend who admired us
at a distance.—Savannah News.
How to Find Out.,
Fill a bottle or common glass with
your water and let it stand twenty-four
hours: a sediment or settling indicates
an unhealthy condition of the kidneys;
if it stains your linen it is evidence ot
kidney trouble; too frequent desire to
pass it or pain in the back is also con
vincing proof that the kidneys and blad
der are out of order.
i. WHAT TO DO.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often ' expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’s
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy,
fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism,
pain in the back, kidneys,liver, bladder
and every part of the urinary passages.
It corrects inability to hold water and
scalding pain in passing it, or bad ef
fects following use of liquor, wine or
beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity ot being compelled to go often
durjng the day, and to get up many
times during the night. Tiie mild and
the extraordinary effect of Swamp-
Root is soon realized. It stands the
highest for its wonderful cures of the
most distressing cases. If you need a
medicine you should have the best.
At druggists fifty cents or one dollar.
You may have a sample bottle and a
book that tells more about it, both sent
absolutely free by mail, it you send your
address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
ton, N. Y. When writing be sure and
mention that you read this generous ot-
|fer in the Union Recorder.
Gov- Candler Sends a Special Message
to the Legislature Urging Reduc
tion in Appropriations.
Governor Candler sent a message to
the general assembly last Thursday on
the condition of the state’s finances.
The message goes fully into the ques
tion ofa deficit, and emphasises the
necessity of the legislature’s solving
the problem which confronts it without
increasing the tax rate. The message
is as follows:
STATE OF GEORGIA.
Executive Office, Atlanta, Nov. 9.
To the Senate and House of Represen
tatives:
It is by the constitution made tl\e
duty ot the governor to give to the
general assembly, from time to time
“information of the state of the com
monwealth,” and in the discharge of
this duty it is incumbent on me, at the
very threshhold of your official duties,
to advise you of a serious deficiency in
the public revenues.
For several years past a spirit of
liberality in the appropriation of money
from the public treasury, not warranted
by the stringency ol the times and the
ability of the people to pay taxes, lias
been apparent, and frequent large sup
plemental appropriations have been
made at the second session of each
legislature lor the payment ot which
no adequate provision has been
made.
We have, in our anxiety to provide
for the necessities of the institutions,
and objects for which it is the duty ot
the state to provide, lost sight of the
constantly growing inability of the peo
ple to bear the ever-increasing bur
den of taxation. Our annual appro
priations from tbe treasury and the
annual rate ot taxation have increased,
year by year, while all values have
shrunken and the prices of our annual
crops and of labor and of alt the pro
ducts of labor have gone continually
lower and lower, and the ability to pay
of all those who have to bear the bur
thens of taxation has grown constantly
less.
Owing to the continued increase in
the shrinkage of values and the dispo
sition of men to evade in hard times
the demands of the tax gatherer, and
to conceal from him such property as
can be concealed, the annual resources
of the state have from year to year,
fallen short of the estimates. From
these causes and the additional fact
that, in some instances, appropriations
have been made without adequate pro
vision for their payment, there will not
be in the treasury on the first of July
money enough to meet the demands on
it; and this, too, in the face ot the fact
that the rate of taxation and tbe ag
gregate amount «.f taxes collected from
the people is the largest in the history
of the state. It is to advise you of this
grave situation that this communica
tion is sent you, in order that you in
your wisdom may provide by proper
legislation to meet the emergency and
prevent a recurrence of the condition
that now confronts us.
In order to be fully advised ’ of the
real condition ot the treasury, as it now
is, and as it will be on the first of July,
I, on the 7th instant, addressed to the
state treasurer a communication calling
for a statement of the actual available
cash balance in the treasury on the
first day of the present month, the pro
bable receipts at the treasury from all
sources between that date and the first
day of July next, inclusive, and the
probable disbursements on all accounts
on and prior to the last named date, so
as to show the condition of the treas
ury on the first day of July,1899. This
date lias been selected because at that
time the cash balance in the treasury
is usually at its lowest. The state
ment asked for was promptly sent to this
department by the treasurer.
Here follows the figures given by the
state treasurer.
From it it will be seen that there
will be a probable deficit of nearly
eiglity-five thousand dollars on the first
day of July.
In other words the money now in
the treasury and to be paid into the
treasury between now and the last
named data will lack about eighty-five
thousand dollars of being sufficient to
meet the legitimate domands on the
treasury for the same period of time.
In this estimate is not included four
hundred thousand dollars which will
be due the teachers of the public
schools on the 20th day of July, 1899,
for their second quarter’s work, for the
payment of which no provision has been
made.
In this connection it is perhaps my
duty to add that there remains approv
ed by the pension commissioner and
unpaid for the want of funds pension
claims to the aggregate amount of
about sixty thousand dollars. It must
be borne in mind that these deficits are
all for the present year. If the same
appropriations are made for the next
year, and the state rate ot taxation
remains the same as tor this year, the
aggregate amount of deficit on July 1st,
1900, will be at least twice as great as
it will be in July, 1899.
Thus the condition that confronts us
is this;
We must either reduce appropria
tions or largely increase the rate of
taxation, when it is already greater
than it ever has been in the history of
the state, and when our people, es
pecially our farmers upon whom the
burden of taxation largely falls, are,
owing to the unprecedentedly low
prices of their products, less able to pay
taxes than they have ever been in the
past.
This is a grave situation and it be
hooves us to meet it with due regard
alike for the taxpayers of the state and
the persons and institutions for which
the state is both legally and morally
bound to provide.
1 submit these facts to the represen
tatives ot the people for their con
sideration and prompt action, feeling,
assured that they, in their wisdom, will
solve the problem presented without
any increase in the present rate of tax
ation, which, under existing circum
stances, is already onerous and all that
our people should for any purpose
whatsover be required to hear.
A. D. CANDLER, Governor.
In the congressional elections held
last Tuesday the republican majority
was reduced fo ten.
hall’s great discovery.
One small bottle of Hall’s Great
Discovery cures all kidney and blad
der troubles, removes gravel, cures
diabetes, seminal emissions, weak and
lame backs, rheumatism and all irregu
larities of the kidneys and bladder in
both men and women, regulates blad
der troubles in children. ^ If not sold
by your druggists, will be sent by mail
on receipt of $1. One small bottle is
two months treatment and will cure any
case above mentioned. E. W. Hall,
sole manufacturer, P. O. Box 218,
Wuco, Texas.
Sold by Culver & Kidd, illedee-
ville, Ga.
READ THIS.
Cuthbert, Ga., April 2, 1898, This
is to certify that I was affected with
gravel and that I took 60 drops of
Hall’s Great Diseoverv, and it com
pletely cured me. It is worth $1,000
per bottle to any one needing it
Signed, J. T. Stevens.
To artificially bleach the hair will
destroy its growth; but if the hair in
clines to grayness, assist nature to ar
rest it with Hall’s Hair Renewer.
Good health is worth more than any
thing else to you, and every bottle of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla contains good
health.