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Ballard & Atkinson, Proprietors. Harlem Happenings WHAT IS BEING PONE IN AND AROUND HARLEM. gQUIBS CAUGHT ON THE FLY BY SENTINEL BEPORTERS —NEWS OF THE COUNTY CON DENSED. Bead in this issue our Gainesville letter. A cold wave seems to have passed this way- Remember your subscription is due. —The peach and apple crop, are failures. Due —Bills against the Sentinel that must be paid. Ask your neighbor to subscribe for the county paper. Dr. Peephs’ new quarters are fast approaching completion. _We regret to learn of the illness of Mrs. W. S. Lazenby, —There u nothing definite as yet in regard to the recent primary. Buy your goods from those who advertise in your county paper. When you go to Augusta take a copy of the Sentinel along as a Maggie Bonner is back home with her many friends, after an extended visit to Athens. —Friend Walter Curtis, of Thom son, spent several hours here on Tuesday of this week. —Charlie Benton was in town on Tuesday last shaking hands with his many friends. Messrs D C. Moore and Frank D. Gray, were in our town on Satur day of last week. Annual cue at the bridge below Pearre’s mill, thanks to C. B. A. for an invitation, Alf Bailey, formerly of this county, is visiting his mother about five miles in the country this week. Bev. B. F. Farris is expected to visit Harlem in a few days. He will be the guest of Mr. N- Hicks. —Cotton small, but growing and fruiting nicely, and should it continue favorable, we will make a fine crop. I —Judge Josiah Stovall, of Thomson, is on a visit to hie grand son, W. S. Lazenby, corner of Trippe and Bowdre streets —Our friend, Chas. Tice, who has been quite sick for the past two week, we are glad to state is improv ing. —Sarah Burney byway of atone ment for some of her many sins spent several days in the “lock up last week. —ML Moriah Campmeeting com mences to-morrow. Several contem plate attending from Harlem, ye editor among the rest —Col. Marion McDaniel and his daughters Misses Kate and Minnie, from Slate Rock, attended the Cul verton campmeeting. —The Bee Martins are very destruc tive to bees in our town, so much so, that war to the hilt has been waged upon the birds. —Messrs. Hardy, Phillips and Branch left on Monday last to repre sent Columbia county in the State Agricultural Convention now in ses sion at Cartersville. —John Bradshaw on accomplished gentleman and one of Jefferson’s most successful farmers spent Tuesday last in Harlem the guest of his brother on *‘Rozehaven Avenue.” —Henry C. Brannan, formerly of Harlem, was killed by a local freight train at Lithonia on Monday morning of this week. It is a great shock to his many friends here. —ls we mistake not to-morrow, Friday, 13th, is the day set apart to meet and put the grounds at “White Oak” in order, preparatory to the meeting which begins on the Friday following. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL The quickest time r>n record! Neural gia of the worst type, cured by one dose of SMITH S BILE BEANS in from one to four hours, ns many who have tried itcan testify. Itdoesseem strange that sensible people will sutler witli this terrible disen e when speedy relief can surely lie found in this simple safe and inexpensive remedy. 25 cents. For sale by all druggists and dealers in medi cine. orsentauywhereon receipt of price in stamps. —White Oak campmeeting em braces the 4th Sunday in this month, commencing Friday night before. We hear nothing favorable from it, but judge all the tents will be occupied and as usual a large crowd in attend ance. Au old maid said “I never was courted but once in my life, I never shall forget it. It made me feel so comfortable.” Similar - are the feel ings of the man who suffered with Piles and was made comfortable by the use of Tables’s Buckeye Pile Ointment, a simple and never failing cure for Piles. A hint to such suffer ers is sufficient. —The following are the names of the Harlem delegation at Culverton campmeeting: Mr. and Airs. C C. Clark and children, Misses Zena and Fannie Cook, Zemmie Conner, and Leola Dooly. Messrs. Oslin, Conner, Arnold, Hussey, Hatcher, Collins, Sturgis and the writer. Louise Michel the French Anar chist, would do the poor a real ser vice if she would distribute among them the far famed remedy known as Whites Cream Vermifuge, the best preparation in the world for worms. It moves them speedily, a*.d there is no other remedy which possesses its virtues of purify promptness and effiacy i Use Whites Cream Ver mifuge and no other. During winter the blood gets thick Mid slug gish, now in the time to purity it, to build up your si stem and fit yonrself tor hard work, by using Dr. J. H. McLean’s StrengtheningiCor dial and Blond Purifier. For Bale by all druggist 0. IS- Stone. We call your attention to, and ask a special favor, a careful perusal of the new advertisement in this issue of O. M. Stone of Augusta, an extensive dealer in everything in the line of plantation machinery of the most im proved makes. Mr. Stone solicits your patronage through your county paper, and you should give him a call before making your purchases. Mr. S , is a polite, affable gentleman and you will find it a real pleasure to deal with him. He guarantees satisfac tion in every particular. IN THE DIAMOND. AUGUSTA VS. GROVETOWN. On Thursday of last week, the “Tigers” of Augusta and Grovetown met in the diamond. The game was called at 3.30 by Umpire Mays of . Bel-Air, with the Tigers to the bat. Excitement ran high and the contest was spirited throughout. In conse quence of some costly errors on the part of Grovetown in the beginning, caused the boys to go to pieces to some extent, but soon they rallied and with renewed determination caught on and pounded Walton heavily, making it necessary for the visitors to put a new man in the box. The battery work on both sides was very good, especially did Averett do I his part well. The visiting club was royally entertained by the home team and every thing passed off as pleasant ly as a May morning. Score 18 to 15 iin favor of the visitors. We learn the same teams will meet again very soon and we would suggest Harlem as a I suitable place. “Wisdom, Justice and Moderation.** HARLEM, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1886. ON THE FLY. OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT VIEWING GOTHAM. New York, August 4th, 188 G. Editors Sentinel: We left Washington at 10 p. m. and at 5 in the morning the towers of Brooklyn Bridge loomed up in the distance. A run of 50 miles brought us to the great city just as the clocks were striking six. This last 50 miles was like riding through one con tinuous city. As the center of our town is passed and into the suburbs we reach the limits of another and so on through the State of New Jersey. We are almost led to believe that the inspired writer did not look close into the winding up of the nineteenth century when he wrote, “Here we have no continuing city.” O, is it possible that all this work of human hands and minds must one day crumble into dust or burn as stubble If the human mind could grasp or take in the whole of God’s vast uni verse, how insignificant would this little planet appear, and bow like a bubble all this work of man. We would wonder why God is mindful of us, and why He condecends to visit us and tells us that each one is dear as the apple of His eye, and that He expects each to perform bis allotted part in the machinery of this His earthly kingdom. I wonder if we are performing that part according to His divine directions. Are we look ing to Him at all times for guidance, if so all will be well. If not, let us hasten to get in a position where His smiles will reach us and shine across and light our pathway. It is so nice to live in a Heavenly atmosphere all the time and conscious that some day in the near future we will be called up higher. At the Jersey City depot which is separated from New York by the Hudson River, v,e were met by friends who escorted us to their home where we were soon doing justice to a regular old fashioned Jersey breakfast, which was enjoyed about as much as hand shaking and kissing. Jersey heights, the place where many of the wealthy have their homes is in full view and seems but a short distance but this high bluff lies back from the water about two miles and rises abruptly to a height of four hundred feet above the city which covers the plain below. The top of this hill or bluff is reached by an elevated railroad which starts at the river or ferry and rises by a regular grade of some two hundred feet to the mile until it reaches the top. The cars are pulled by a cable or large wire rope which passes just under the track out of sight and held in position by grooved wheels about fifty feet apart. This cable at the lower end passes around a horizontal wheel whose diameter extends from the centre of one trac ; to the other about twenty feet and goes back un der the other track, and the cars go up on one track and down on the other. At the upper end of the road an immense engine of one thousand horse power is running night and day and keeps this endless cable in mo tion. The cars are started by a fric tion grip that extends down from the car und clasps the cable. The break man controls this and by a turn on the break closes the grip. This road passes directly by the house at which I spent the first few days after ray arrival. At this point it is about sixty feet from the ground. Walking back one block to the ferry we enter and the iron gates of the platform are closed by a faithful conductor. I suppose this is done to keep cranks from jumping ofi and being convert ed into strawberry jam. As the gates closed the man gave the wheel a turn which tightened the grip and wit h his foot he moved a lever which lifted the grip and rope a little so as to clear the wheels and we are off like drifting up in a balloon. The tallest buildings were soon left far beneath us and we were swinging three or four hundred feet iu the air. The sensation is pe culiar and exciting but of short dura tion. The top is soon reached, we step out and look down on the city below and the Hudson, and beyond ; the great city of New York is spread I out like a vast picture. We have here a magnificent view, ocean steamships like great black monsters steaming 1 slowly up the channel. Others just I weighing anchor and taking leave, ’ with flags proudly waving from their J mast head. The ferry boats loaded to the waters edge with their thousands pf human souls flitting hither and thither in every conceivable direction, all combine to make a picture that feasts the eyes and fills the initi I with wonder. The ground on which we stand is honey combed with tunnels. Nearly every railroad that leaves Jersey City or New York has a tunnel under these heights to pass out. Standing where I was I could moo the cal's from a dozen depots making di rectly for the bluff and disappearing in the side of the hill like so many huge snakes darting into their holes. After an hour spent in feasting my lungs on this cool fresh air as it drift ed from the ocean, I aimed my um brella at another car and jumped in to take an eight mile ride on the top of this bluff up the river. The whole distance is lined with the most elegant residences. The flower gardens and fountains with the lovely walks must be seen to be appreciated, I will not attempt to describe them. We had gone but a few blocks when a young lady stepper! aboard, her feet were very small, but that bouquet of nice flowers in her bosom was very large. She had a small woolly dog in her arms, I think she culled it a poodle She made for my end of the car I moved along and gave her ample room. She was very proud of those little golden slippers with heels in the middle, and that diamond ring how it sparkled, ami those delicate flowers in her bosom whoso lovely hues were only equaled by the dimpled face just above them. When she looked at me and smiled. I instinctively moved a little nearer to give the old gentleman on my right more room, she did look s> happy it made me happy and when the old lady on the other side of the car looked at t:s she smiled and was happy. I do think there was happiness enough iu that car to cure a whole square of malaria. About this time a corpulent woman that reminded me of the tat woman in the musieuin, hailed the driver and wedged in, after sidling along to where I was sitting in my boon of bliss, she looked bard at the little space between me and the owner of the poodle; she turned around and commenced backing up, she evident ly intended to squat between this fair girl and myself. But, oh, thought I to myself, in a low tone of voice, how I'll fool thee,—so I moved my person along and occupied that space my self. Heaving a sigh of relief and as sisted by the motion of the car which turned a corner just then, she sat down in my lap and nestled in my bosom like a tired baby elephant. When rescued from my perilous posi tion I first thought of my new watch which, with only the loss of the crys tal, was still beating on. Concluding I had rode far enough for five cents, I got off, and after taking a few whifs of fresh air I went to the ferry at the Hoboken water works and took a sail back and diagonally across to New York. What I saw there and on my trip to Glen Island will appear in my next. H. A. C. GAINESVILLE. A NEWSY LETTER FROM A HARLEM BOY IN GAINESVILLE HOW HE IS PLEASED WITH THE CITY IN THE SKY GAINESVILLE AS A HUMMER RESORT, Etc. Editors Sentinel: Ah you have no correspondent at this place, I thought that perhaps you would be glad to hear from an old friend. I left Harlem, as you know, on the 16th day of July, 1886. I came up to Social Circe on the Ga. Road, and then took the G. J. &S. the “little baby road,” and came here. 1 bad a very pleasant trip indeed. I find Gainesville a very pretty place indeed, much larger and prettier than I had anticipated. It has about 4000 in habitants in the summer months, and about three thousand five hundred in winter. If I had hunted the whole State over, I dont think I could have found a more healthy place than the one in which I have made my home. The climate is just delightful. There has been unusually hot weather here for the last few days, but no matter how warm and oppressive the days are, the nights are always cool and lileasant. Gainesville is also a very fine business centre. It is no uncom mon thing to see from fifty to seventy five country wagons at one time on the “Public square. ’ And it is not only Saturday, but every day in the week. I was very sorry to find, in such a pretty little city, whiskey sold in abundance, there being six large bars in the central portion of town. But the prohibitionists say they will vote it out al the next election. Gainesville has three fine hotels, mid one of the finest Court Houses in the State, for a town of its size. It has a very high steeple, or tower, in the top of which is a very fine clock, having four faces, each eight feet in diameter. Itcosts thirteen hundred dollars, mid can be seen and heard all over town. A splendid view of the “Blue Ridge’’ can be had from the Court House steeple. I went out in the country Sunday to a new Sunday school, about seven miles, over the Narrow Gauge R. R. in n small town called Candler, spent a very pleasant day indeed. The crops are looking very well in this section now, corn is looking splendid, and cot ton is looking pretty well too. The farmers made a large crop of apples and grapes this year, but they say that their peaches are very poor. Gainesville is very bountifully supplied with mineral water, there being five fine springs near town. But I will toll you more about the springs and mountain in my next. With best wishes for the future welfare of the Sentinel, I remain yours very truly. Al-pha. AUGUSTA* LETTER. INTERESTING GLEANINGS FROM THE FOUNTAIN CITY. The Knights of Labor have their annual picnic and barbecue at the Platz next Thursday the 12th. The cue will bo fit for a King and will be enjoyed by a large crowd, probably the largest crowd that has ever at tended n barbecue from this city. The strike still stands at its original point. Nothing has been done or is expected to be done. Both sides are determined and will make no conces sions. The operatives, I learn after talking with several of them, are not faring half as well as they were before the strike. The reason for this is, when the strike occurred, the ojiera tives understood that they were to bo backed by the K. of L. that is, given a certain sum of money every week. In this they were disappointed, and having spent all their surplus money and in many cases run up large grocery bills, some of them are on the point of starvation. Various plans and offers have been made and refus ed by the factory. It is hoped some thing of a decisive nature will be done nt once, or wo will soon have a large part of our population starving. The strikers have returned to work nt the Sibley Mills according to order. The Knights say they will never authorize a strike at that Factory until it is in better condition to stand the advance asked. This is the proper way to act in the matter and now they should follow by lifting the Augusta strike. It has been rumored all over the city that the K. of L. would enter candidates for the Legislature in opposition to the nominees of the Democratic party. Investigation has failed to substantiate the rumor. They say they do not intend to go into politics, but will stand by the princi ples of the Democratic party. Even if they did put candidates in the field, they are not strong enough in num bers to deieat the regular nominees The Fire Alarm works all right, but now and then a box gets out of order and Chief Platt perspires and uses lan guage 1 Irave never observed in the Bible. But, as a general rule, the system works well ami gives satisfac tion so far as it goes, but it is worth nothing without a paid department. At present they are just mere or naments on the streets. Uncle Robin has an eye to beauty, so has the Council, about all. There is some talk and the press has taken hold of the idea, of build ing a new park in the West Side as a companion to the down town, or East Side park. It is proposed to build on the plat owned by the Augusta Laud Company just in front of the “Platz,” on the line of the Street Railway Com pany. Arranged like May Park and about five times as large, with a good band and electric lights, it would almost be a paradise to the weary citizen. Some Augusta man with city pride, and capital to back it, should come up and take hold of the idea. Pretty near all of the Society of the city have departed for the summer I resorts to enjoy musquitaes aud heat Terms, $1 A Year, In Advance. at. 97 and will soon come back iu droves to recite, to admiring crowds, “what a splendid time we have had, the bathing was just splendid.” Your correspondent is a lucky or an unlucky member as some may term it, of the Cant-get-away-Club. The balance of the Club will agree with me when I say we have as good times ns those who have gone to summer leeorta There are very few of the girls left and they are right skittish, because there are so many fellows. The girls in town at present have about six beaus each. “Dublin Beat” is krown by every boy in Augusta Ask one of them where it is, and a smile as long aa Vanderbilts pocket book will illumine his face while he jerks his finger in that direction. The boys in the “Beat" are on it. They allow no P. G. fellows within their limits, and if one bo caught, woo be unto him I His fate is settled with a brick. The other night a rustler from P. G by jingo, was treated to a shower of bricks, old tomato cans, over fresh eggs and such other exbiliarating iu tides. He had been out to see his girl and as the clocks tolled out the solemn hour of midnight he came out, the boys of the Beat went for liiiu. When the first brick struck, it startled him, the second, he begun to have a feeling ns if a snake was crawling up and down his buck, the third ho had the cold shivers, and when the fourth brick whizzed past his head, he took wings and flow as it were. He "sailed home as straight as an arrow” and informed the boys of P. G. jingo about it. The P. G.’s are mad, very mad. They threaten to annihilate the whole of Dublin beat The Dubliuites say “stand off, stand off, I'll settle the fate.” At present mat ters are nt a stand still. The P. G. are afraid to go the Dublin and the Dubliuites are afraid to go to P. G. by jingo. War will be declared it is feared. Later. The President of the P. (Is has issued his manifesto. War has been declared. Blood will flow. A family row in West End caused a lot of excitement in that part of the city. Henry Nelson a colored boy about nineteen years old went homo and commenced to quarel with his mother. His sister interfered and then his brother “sasshayed in” and requested a hand which he got. The row had become general and at the end of the excitement it was found that the old woman had received several severe blows, the sister a rap on the head that may result fatally and the brother escaped unhurt. Henry escaped but the police are on the watchout for him. Rev. E. (1. Weed last Bunday preached his farewell sermon to his congregation at the Church of Good Shepherd in Summerville. The sermon was replete with beautiful passages, and I deem it the effort of Lis life. His congregation love him and are sorry to see him go. He goes to of Florida as Bishop of that Diocese. Mr. F. Thom as,Bookeeper of Thomas, Barton A Key took his departure last Friday via. Savannah for Canada, on a visit to relatives. His employers and fellow-clerks presented him with a gold headed silk umbrella suitably engraved as a token of their love and esteem, His friends wish for him on his journey, God speed aud a safe return. The Augusta Gun Club met at the office of Salem Dutcher Esq. for the purpose of agreeing ujKin some laws for the protection of game in Rich mond and adjoining counties. Your county was represented by Capt. E. Evo. A special committee appointed at a former meeting made report recommending the passage of such laws as are in force in Worth and other counties. They invited the Anglers to meet them on the 15th, to determine and formulate laws for the protection of fish. The legislators and Senator John S Davidsou were pres ent by invitation. Oliver Doolittle is one of the best known men in the city. He is jolly ai.d the very pink of politeness. He runs a picture frame factory and manufactures anything from a five cent frame to a $l5O one. He also deals in oil and water color paintings, chronics, and in fact anything con nected with frames and pictures. The people of Columbia and adjoining counties would do well to call on him when in need of anything in his line. He can be found on Jackson street, opposite the Libraiy Building. Davis. VOL IV, NO. 45.