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THIS COLUMBIA SENTINEL
Ballard & Atkinson, Proprietors.
The Residents
OF
*
Columbia County
MAY NOT
SUFFER
FROM
Chills and Fever
But the Livers of
all of us will some
time get out of order.
As cotton is king in
commerce, so the Liv
er is king in the human
system. We cannot
live in any peace with
this great organ dis
eased. To keep it in
condition to perform
its functions use
DR. GILDER’S
UVtt mi-3.
They invigorate the
system, give tone to
the stomach, relieve
torpid liver, and re
move all excessive bile
from the system and
impurities from the
blood. Has been tried
by thousands in the
past twenty years, and
found worthy the com
mendation of all.
Sold by all Drug
gists and Merchants.
G. Barrett & Co.,
AUGUSTA, GA,
Du, D. L.
Harlem, Ga.
OWING to my many patr > ns, and a still
broader field before me, 1 have d< termin
ed to offer my servicea as a General I’ructi
tioner at most liberal terms.
D. L. PEEPT.ES, M. D.
Dental Notice.
T AMILIES desiring my scrviecs nt their
homea, either in Columbia or McDuffie coun
ties can secure them by addressing me at Lin
colnton.
GEORGE PATERSON,
Surgeon Dentist.
OFT IN THE
flfl
STILLY NIGHT
WHEX TOUR
CHILD IS TEETHING,
Are you awakened with the piteous cries of the little
one, who is so gradually wasting away by the drain
age upon its system from the effects of teething, j
1 THE BUSINESS MAN, ■
Wearied from the labors of the day, on going home
finds that he cannot have the desired and necessary
rest, for the little darling is still suffering, and
slowly and pitifully wasting away by the drainage
upon its system from the effects of teething. If he
would think to use Dr. EIOOED3' EUCZLEEEBBT
COEDIAL, the Great Southern Remedy, loss of sleep
and bowel complaints would be unknown in that
home. It will cure Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and all
Bowel Disorders. For sale by all Druggists. 50c.
a bottle.
WALTER A. TAYLOR,
A/tlanta, Oa.
Don’t Buy Until you
find out the new
Improve-
HlWi ments.
S ave the ”m gL
middleman’s
PROFITS.
WSEND FOR CATALOGUES. o»
J. P. Stevens & Bro
47 Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, GA.
FOR SALE and RENT
My property in I lari cm, Ga.
Address meat Tunnel Hill, Ga.
J. W. KEENER.
OUR WORKS
Are Running
BY STEAM,
And Heady To
SERVETHEPUBLIC
Will Cast every day, as usual, and
give best attention to Orders.
Geo. R. Lombard &.Co.,
Foundry, Machine and Boiler
Works. Also Mill, Engine
and Gin Supply House.
THIS PAPER ES
Kewspawr bur»«a f 10 Hpruee «t.),
where adverting All” Iff VfiDlf
ntw i unit.
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(SUM I-WEEKLY)
HARLEM, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1887
Harlem Happenings
WHAT IS BIJXG DONE IN AND
ABOUND HARLEM.
SQUIDS CAUGHT ON THE FLY BY SENTINEL
REPORTERS NEWS OF THE COUN’I'Y CON-
DENSED.
—Dusty.
—Very dry.
—Festival to night.
—Ram very much needed.
—Cotton coming in freely.
—The boiling well is still a won
der.
—The cotton crop is estimated at
two-thirds.
—Our friend across the way is
turning out some fine work.
—Nearly every vestige of the old
academy has been removed.
—The ladies in charge of the festi
val will make it a success.
—Five bales of fodder were ship
ped from here to Athens this week.
—Rev. Mr. Allen, of Augusta,
spent Wednesday of this week here.
IF Von Want n Good Article
Os Plug Tobacco, ask your dealer for
“Old Rip"
•—lnteresting meetings have been
going on at Old Union Church and
Hall s school house this week.
—A large number of subscriptions
are now duo us. Please come up at
once.
—Messrs. J. F. Hatcher & Co. gin
ned a bale of cotton before sun up
yesterday morning.
—Lend us a helping hand now.—
The hundreds of dollars duo us would
makes us so comfortable.
Our cemetery needs attention, a
email expenditure of money would
add materially to its appearance.
—Mr. M. 11. Blackstone, of the
Grovetown neighborhood, paid us a
visit on Monday evening.
The Georgia Railroad is doing
■an immense business in both the
passenger and freight departments.
So far as our observation extends
! the public roads arc it: fine condition
I and are really a credit to the county.
—Hon. S. C. Lamkin is at home
j this week looking after his private in
terests.
—Don’t impose upon your neigh
bor, have your name entered upon
the subscription list of the Sentinel.
—Willie Hundley, formerly of
Thomson, stopped over to see his
friends here on Wednesday, fie is
representing an Atlanta firm.
Home merchants, if you have
any appreciation for your home pa
i per show it by placing your f ill ad-
I vertisements in its columns.
—Our senior editor baptized seven
persons into the fellowship of Mt.
Horeb Church, Jefferson county, last
Sabbath morring.
—We will give a year’s subscrip
tion to any one who is absolutely too
poor to pay $1 25 for a semi-weekly
paper.
R. Y. Harris, Esq., of Augusta, is
with us again and will remain several
days. W e hope he will protract his
stay. He is as genial and pleasant as
of yore.
—The thinning out and trim-1
tning up of the trees on both sides
of the street in front of the Institute
adds greatly to the appearance of.
things in that part of our beautiful
town.
Mr. C. E Atkinson left yesterday
morning for Washington, Ga., to take
a position on the Gazette. He is an
excellent printer and the Gazette is
to be congratulated on securing bis
services.
—Augusta Gazette: Mr. J. T. Boh-,
ler, of Grovetown, Ga., hitched his
horse at a church door in that town
i last Monday night, and has not seen
1 it since.
Our Country Cousins
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED BY
OUR CORRESPONDENTS-
GROVETim SPIRkS.
BY ZIP.
Dear Editors, as your iron spring
correspondent has become tired and
wan, 1 thought that 1 would give you
a few dots and continue in the fu
ture, provided it meets with your
generous approval
The city fathers came very near
clearing the docket on Monday last.
Messrs. John Little, R. H. Huffman,
| Alex. Roberts, W. W. Huffman, Ed.
Koger and Albert Stanford were lin
ed for violating the Bth section.—
Messrs. A. M. Little, G. C. Gilpin and
Hillie Koger were acquitted.
Otis Olley, colored, was arraigned
before his Honor Mayor Hutton, for
bugging another man's wife, the pen
alty was five day’s imprisonment and
a fine of $5. A certain young lady
has remonstrated the doctor, telling
him that such actions were embar
rassing to the young men, but
whether or not. ho made any promise
to repeal the action, I don’t know.
Judge S T Florence has an
nounced himself as the Grovetown
attorney. Ho made several very
fluent speeches during Council
Court, ami I can truly say bo is the
next best attorney in Columbia.
Our esteemed Cull, of Number
Two, was out n’few days since, meeting
and greeting his many friends with
smiles of contentment, While hero
be was heard to remark that ho loved
music so well that he could follow a
cow bell a week.
Miss Fannie Norvel has returned
from Petkius' Junction ns bright mid
beautiful ns ever. Her trip we are
glad to learn, was one of much pleas
ure and enjoyment.
We are pained, indeed, to learn of
the accident that befell our young
friend Bennie Norvel: while ’possum
hunting on Tuesday night ho fell out
of a tree, breaking his thigh and
otherwise bruising him consideiably.
At this writing ho is unconscious.
Misses Pallie Walton and Carrie
Bailey, two of Columbia’s fairest flow
ers, visited Grovetown on Wednes
day last.
The lovely Violet, of Uchec honored
Grovetown with her smiles of love
and sunshine on Sunday last. I
would remark that winter never gets
too cold for mo to look for violets.
Mr. Billy Walton, .Jr., of Clanton
Heights, gave us a pleasant cull on
Wednesday lust and told us that if
the surnitites could get to cat some of
the Grovetown watermelons that
they would have no more use for
quinine as a chill preventive.
Mrs. W. J. Heggie is spending a
few days at Union Point at this writ
ing. Cnpt. W. J. H. keeps bach,
during her absence.
The protracted meeting i“ still in
progress Revs. Bonner, Blosser,
Delph and Oslin are the ministers
present. Rev. Lovejoy, the Presiding
Ehler, is expected before the meeting
closes. Much interest is manifested.
Mr. James Stanford and wife, of
Kiokee, spent Sunday last in Grove
town.
i The iron spring is being covered
over By a beautiful octagon shaped
house. Messrs. J. F. Hatcher At Co.
of Harlem, have the contract.
Miss Nora Stains, tho belle of
Grovetown, who has been wrestling
with a very severe case of fevrn-of the.
typhoid order, contracted near the
rock spring, we are glad to stale, m
j convalescent.
Mr. Alex. Roberts produces some
of the finest corn seen this year. He
,says that he will guarantee 70 ears to
make a bushel.
TTci’ihh, S.'S a,Yenr in Advnno
aitlim; lotus.
UY DULCIE.
The weather is quite cool.
Appling is still on a big boom, nn
i other new house has been erected on
■ MuinTstreeL
We sympathize with W. in the loss
| of his pet fox.
Uncle Brad has another boarder in
his rock hotel.
“Somebody" was down from Me-
I Duffin, riding his girl around in his
|new buggy Sunday.
Frank, John and Bailey carried
■ their girls to Fountain Sunday. Now
the girls have gone homo and they are
I left with sad hearts.
The protracted meeting at Ap
pling is in session this week. Mr.
Farris is assisting Mr. Rorio. We
hope much good will bo occomplish
ed.
Campmeeting is over with now and
j everybody is at homo again ns busy
ns over with their washing ami iroil
| ing, as it was so dry and dusty, no
one could scmcely keep themselves
decent. The preachers were good
and preaching better, and I think it
wns a good meeting; a great many
professed conversion and several
joined the church.
It was the writer's pleasure to visit
the home of Mr. J. T. Smith one day
last. week.
Mrs. Henry Hatcher, mid her sis
ter, Miss Pallie, from Number Three,
visited us last week. Come again.
Charming Miss Fannie Roose, from
White Oak, and her accomplished,
amiable friend, Miss Eloise Byrd,
from Augusta, was the guest, of Hie
writer this week. Wo hope they will
repeat their visit soon.
All h-fliiiT Justices’ Opinion.
Judge O. A. Lochranc, of Georgia,
in a letter to Dr. Biggers, stales Hint
he never suffers himself to bo wit mint
n bottle of Dr. Biggers' Huckleberry
Cordial for tho relief of all bowel
troubles.
NEWSY ITEMS
GATHERED FROM EXCHANGES
Dlini-l-ICD DEAD.
A dispatch from Charleston, S.
says, Robt. Cann, engineer of tho
Commercial cotton press, dropped
dead about 9 o'clock Wednesday
morning from heart disease.
AlllllHTKD.
Augusta Chronicle of Thursday: A
negro man, wanted in Edgefield for
an attempted outrage on a young
white girl, about two weeks ago, was I
arrested at Port Royal yesterday and
brought up on tho noon train by an
officer. Ho was taken to Edgefield
on tho Charlotte, Columbia und Au
gusta train nt half past five, where ha
will be given trial.
sin', is men.
Atlanta Journal: The joint legisla
tive committee of three from the
House, and two from the Senate, ap
pointed to examine tho condition of
the State's property in Chattanooga,
returned last night. Senator Roberts
says the committee found that a good
<le.nl of the land could be sold without
injuring the terminal facilities of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad. The
freight depot, he says, could be mov
ed awiiy from the central part of tho
city to a more suitable place, on Jess'
valuable ground. '1 he State would
then bo in position to dispose of
some very valuable property, esti- ■
mated by the Chattanooga real estate
agents to be worth from $1,000,000
to $1,400,000
MIXING THE RACES.
Cincinnati, Sept. 7.- The law abol
ishing separate schools for colored
pupils in Ohio has been obeyed in
some | laces by keeping colored i
schools open as before, but deeignat
VOL V NO. 7
i ing them ns brunches or
schools At Lebanon, Ohio, upon
opening of the schools, a
teacher found himself practically
soi led, his pupils having gone to
white schools for enrollment.
sumo thing happened at
Ohio, where tho white pupils have
come displeased with the inviisionM
and some have left tho schools untifl
(he matter is settled. ||
AN KSCAI'I D MI'UDKIIEII ARIIESTKIX B
Augusta Gazette of Thursday: Tblfl
principal rcnrrest.iunoiig th' numeral
ous ouch recorded ns being
by the police lately in this city,
made yesterday by Lieutenant Hoodfl
Thomas Stoniker, the murderer ofl
Henry Chance, who escaped nboutfl
live years ago from the camp of W. fl
B. Lowe & Co., situated in Dodgofl
county, was yi'sterdny recaptured by fl
tho lieutenant. The murder wasfl
committed about twelve years ago iufl
Wiiyncaboro. Stoniker was convicbfl
ed in tho Burke county Superiorfl
Court nnd sentenced to tho peniton-H
tiiiry tor life. Ho worked in tbe>H
camp for several years. Seeing uH
clinneo of escaping, ho fled. A largo ■
reward was offered and tho county ■
scoured, but up to yesterday thoß
murderer was nt largo. »|
MYHTI Itlolis MURDKIL 1
Snvnim ih special to the Augusta ■
Chronicle: Meagre details of a myste- I
rious murder have just readied the ■
city, seven miles out A man named I
Curt or, n farmer, in the woods hunt
ing pine straw, came across the body
of n young girl. Her skull was
smashed in and her jaws broken. By
her side wns an old musket broken nt
tho breech. Tim only thing found
about her was a pocket book with
two keys in it. No one is missing
from tho neighborhood and no fur
ther particulars can be obtained.
A <lll I I. FATHI 11.
Milledgeville, special to tho Augus
ta Chronicle: A grievous story comes
from the eastern | ortion of Baldwin
county. An old man wns tho happy
possessor of two diiughters—young
Indies. During n rovivnl tho girls
became moved, and against tho
father's coinniH'id joined the church..
The old num would hour no
no palliation of the offence, but im
mediately ordered them from home.
No reconciliation is reported, and tho
two girls remain in tho snin > neigh
borhood earning ti livelihood ns bout
they can.
Tlit Fhyxieian of the Home
is the mother or tho wife, upon her
rests the safety and health of tho
houholiold. The wise ov.ss to relieve
sudden attacks of tho bowels ulwaya
Ims Dr. Biggars' Huckleberry Cor
dial.
A Hot t'lww.
Wo learn that in tho Reeves’
neighborhood, on Wednesday even
ing n lively chase was given to a ne
gro by I ho name of Press Hobos, who
is an escaped convict. Several shots
were fired nt him ns ho rrimle his es
cape, lint without effect. At lust ac
counts ho was still nt large.
Cotton is coining in nt u lively rate
ami our people arc beginning to look
more cheerful.
Pitts’Carminative has been use
during the summer mouths for flatu
lent colic, cholera morbus, cholera in
fantum and t< ( thing children for more
than thirty years. During that time
it has not resulted in a single failure
when the case was begun in time.
Moreover babies who have taken
Pitt’s Carminative are always fat and
healthy. Why; is this? Ist Because
it is pleasant to the taste ’and the
children will not refuse it. 2nd. I
promotes digestion and the child ia
not weakened by drain from stomach
and bowels. 3rd. It corrects all acids
and keeps the stomach healthy.