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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1885
Page
2
Subscription rates listed for six months three months and single copy with advance payment urged. Editorial page run by Ressell and Jno M Brown editors and proprietors and Joseph M Brown mentioned as business manager.
Georgia’s population over 1.5 million with about ten thousand foreign-born residents. Bacon likely Georgia governor. Montezuma Record notes tax tariff revision reducing whiskey licenses. Macon Telegraph reports a deadly restaurant shooting between Sam W. Jemison and Ed Strohecker. Strohecker killed, Jemison wounded. Health note urges thick-soled shoes for women to prevent colds from damp feet. Forty-ninth Congress convenes with Sherman president pro tempore and Carlisle Speaker. Reed in House leadership race. Randall praised by Democrats. long session ahead and campaign talk brewing for 1886.
Mortuary ceremonies in Indianapolis honor the late Thomas A. Hendricks, fifth U S vice president. Cabinet members, justices, senators, governors, and notable figures attend as the nation mourns. The procession moves from St Paul’s Church to Crown Hill Cemetery.
Incendiaries destroyed the N and A F Tift & Co brick mills in Albany, with the fire spreading to the attic and cellar. Five hundred bushels of corn and 300 bushels of meal burned. insurance absent. The Commercial hotel was later set ablaze, with multiple insured losses in nearby stores and furniture. Several officials observed two men fleeing toward the river.
The Atlanta Journal presents a county by county status of prohibition in Georgia listing dry counties and west counties. It notes 100 counties with prohibition elements including 25 with partial prohibition and updates Talliaferro and Fulton as dry. It mentions local items from Quitman and Americus with brief regional notes on elections, lynching, artisen wells, and other society items.
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