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- AffCOCK WEEKLY JOURNAL
VOL. II.
The Hancock Journal
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*F\It, A. F. DURHAM, thankful for past
loathe ,1 J patronage, takes plensuro in announcing
mill continues the practice of Mcdicins
aWii Surgery in the towa of Sparta. «
Dr Having G. If* Associated with himself his brother
Durham in practioo. one or the other
of them may bo found at their office lit all times
'oftha day.
fteg" Special attention is given to the treat¬
ment of Uhrouic Diseases and diseases peculiar
4# Females. Feb 12'—ly
4»i:OK<»l. II, JONES,” i
"WITH
M HYAMS & CO
234 ^ilroad Street
CW«* Central Hotel, Au<ju*la, Georgia
Dealers In
V I NtS U ttOCB RlES,
Wines, Liquors and Cigars ;
, ALSrt,
VES’ItL V0MM1&N MA RIIIANTS
April 30 1800. ly.
Charles A. Pledge,
Trimmer & Upholsterer,
Harness Maker and Repairer,
Sparta, Ga.
TtST IyJL AY l»e found ia the upper story of J A,
Scudduy’s Carriago the public Shop, whore lie is
•prepn ared to serve in liis line of
work, «n terms to suit the times. raay7-ly
JEWEL’S MILLS.
(FORMERLY ROOK FACTORY.)
Pott Office at Culverton, Ga.
W E WILL MANUFAGTUUK WOOL FOR
CU8TOV1UK8 this season, on tho following
'terms *.
"Wool Manufactured hi JEANS (col’d warp) at
80 cents per yard ;
Manufactured into Kerseys at20cts per yard;
or Carded into ROLLS at 12} cents |cr lb.
Sheetings, Hhirflngs, Osnaburgs and Yarns
•constantly on hand.
Wool W auled,
In Exchange for Goods, at market value, or
Tor CASH.
Consignments by Raifrond should be direct¬
ed to Culverton, Ga. D. A. JEWEL,
may 14 Cm Prop
Carriage,Buggy & wagon
REPOSITORY
.1 AMES A. SCUDDAY has re-opened hfe,
Carriage Shop, at hit* old stand, where he
is and prepared to serve his old friends and patrons
hie the public either generally, with New in every branch of
business, Work, Repairing
or Kenoyating of Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
&o., at the most reasonable prices. He has in
his employ the well known freeditian Totb
‘Coles, alias Tom Thompson, and will warrant
all work to stand the test. Tom is a thorough
•Democrat*
Mr. S. will also do all manner of Black
smith work pertaining to his business, and
•solicits a share of the public patronage.
Sparta, April 23—8m
Mew Cabinet Shop.
JOHN FRIESE,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
....... i TURK,
1 £ ■or
^ BSPECTIULLY informs tlio cititens of
Sparta and vicinity (hat he lias re
-- 1 ‘ ikl --*— — •sfablishraent
\
•for the
Manufiteture and Repairing
OF FURNITURE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
and will keep on hand a full assortment 0 f
Vables, Ctaalrs, Ate.
^make -it the to lowest order prioee any article and at in ehort the cabinet notice,
/
tod see him.
pt ill also Supply CoMns at
kotlrc.
Hold— Petersburg, Fa.
A Tropristor, located at tho
rN~DEPENDENT X1ST ALL TH XNGS-NEUTRAL IUST IsrOTHJJSrG.
HANCOCK COUNTY, GA., JULY 2, 18C4Y
Poetry,
The Doomed NIau.
BY THE KEY. J. A. ALEXANDER, D. D.
’ There is a time, we not when,
A point, we know not where,
That markes the destiny of man,
To glory or. despair.
There is a line by us unseen, ^
That crosses every path ;
The hidden boundary between
God’s patience and hie wrath.
To pass that limit, is to die,
To die as if by stealth—
It does not quench the beaming eye,
Or pale the glow of health.
The conscience may be still at ease,
The spirits light and gay,
That which is pleasing still may please,
And care be thrust away,
Dat on the forehead, God has set
Indelibly a mark—
Unseen by man for man as yet
Is blind and in the dark.
And the doomed man’s path below
May bloom as Eden bloomed—
He did not, does not, wil not know
Or feel that he is doomed.
He knows, he feels, that all is well,
And every fear is calmed;
He KVes, he dies, he wakes in hell!
H ot only doomed but damned.
O ! where is this mysterious bourne,
By which our path is crossed?
Beyond which God himself hath sworn
That he who goes is lost?
How far may we go on in sin ?
How long will God forbear ?
Where does hope end, and where begins
The confines of despair ?
An answer from the skies is sent
Ye that from God depart,
While it is called To Day, repent,
And harden not your heart.
A Lady’s Foot.
There’s magic in a lady’s foot
And all the ladies know it—
And she who has a pretty one
Is pretty sure to show it.
Aft times, too, you are martyred hy
Tbo nicest liai 0 ankle,
That shoots an arrow thro’ the eye,
Within your heart to rankle.
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And when it trips along the street,
Thro’ wind and mud, and vapor, •
By sheerest accidont you sec
How beautiful it tapers.
And as she steps upon the walk,
Amid the crowd to ming’e,
Two roguish eyes look up and say,
“ I wonder if Bhe’s single ?” \
Miscellany,
When 0 . man takes more pleasure in
oarning money than in spending it, he has
taken tho first step towards wealth.
Married men live longer than single
one*. In 100 persona sixty five marry,
and more mairiagcs occur in June and
Dclembcr thau in any other months of the
yew.
A firm faith is tho best divinity; a
good life is the best philosophy ; a clean
constiencc the best law ^ honesty the best
polief.
If thy brother is in danger, haste thou
to his assistance and hesitate net to endan¬
ger tly own life for him.
A lebrew law says,- “Striko not thy
wile even with a blossom, though she be
guilty (>f a thousand faults?’
We have heard some women complain
of theit husband’s neglect of home. A
spoonful of hooey will keep more bees in
a hive than will ten of vinegar*
The Wheat ctbps in Franklin and Lin
ooln counties, Tdnn., arc much finer than
was anticipated—^the prombe heads fillingout well,
and giving of an abundant harvest.
The same may ic said said of of North North Alabama Alabama
wheat; while tl^ torn, in both sections
since the rains wd warm weather have
set in, is growing finely, having come “out
of the kinks," aid the prospect of plenty
of bread is checrilg to the hearts of all.
Every JLittlc Helps
By the Aulhor of “Ten Nights in a Bar Room."
“I’m for temperance,” said a brown
eyed little fellow and he shut his lips firm¬
ly, looking the very picture of resolution.
“Indeed ! Then it’s all over with King
Alcohol,” answered his older brother,
laughing.
“Oh, you may laugh ! It doesn’t hurt
anything said John, not in the least
dashed by his brother’s poor opinion of his
influence. If I’m not as old nor as big
as you are, I count one on the right side :
and every little helps, mother says.—
So I’m for temporance, and I don’t care
who knows it.”
“Don’t you, indeed ? “S’posc all the
world knew it—what then ?”
“Why, the world would know that when
I grow up, thcre’d be one man who didn't
spend his money nor idle his time in bar¬
rooms ; who didn't make his wife sit up
half the night for him, cry her eyes out;
and who didn’t neglect or abuse his chib*
dreu .That’s what the world would know,
and I guess it would help tho cause a lit¬
tle.”
“Don’t talk so loud, John.” His broth¬
er spoke iu a low voice. “Uncle Phil
might bear yog, He’s in the next room.”
“Is he ? Well, I’m not ashamed to let
him know I’m for temperance. I ouly wish
he was. Maybe Aunt Susy wouldn’t cry
as much as slio does; maybe they’d have
a house of their own to live iu 1”
“Hush, John ! He’ll be angry if he
hears you.”
“Getting angry wouldn’t make it any
better, Ned,” firmly answered John. I m
a temperance boy ; and if Uucle Phil gets
angry because I just say that 1 wbish he
was a temperance man, he’ll have to
get angry tha’t all. I love Aunt Susy.*
She’s as good as she can be) and U*ele
Phil makes her cry with his drinking and
getting tipsy. It’s a great deal worse for
him to do it than for me to say it, and he’d
a great deal better get angry at himself
and not me.”
It was aa Ned had feard. Uncle Phil,
who was in the treat 500 m, hoard every
word of this conversation. Was he
he very angry at the little apostle of tem¬
perance ? We shall sec. At the mcn
tidb o€ Wm name, he pricked up his ears
to listen. As John said, not asham¬
ed 10 let him know that I’m for temper¬
ance—I only wish he was,” two red spots
burned on hi3 checks, and lie looked an¬
noyed. But when John added, “Xaybo
Aunt Susy wouldn’t cry as much as sho
does; and maybe they’d have a house of
their own to live in,” the spots went off iff
his cheeks and he gr w pale.
What John said after this didn’t briog
the blood back to his face, but made it, if
nothing, paler. He got up iu -^-cOtyed
sort of a way, and left tfe- room so quietly
that the two b<v* not hear him go out*
No*v> Gncle Phil, aboat whom John
nad spoken so plainly, deserved all that
was said of him, and a great deal more.—
Intemperance had almost destroyed his
manhood. He was tho slave of strong
driuk. Appetite, indulged for years had
gained a fearful power over him, and to
gratify his burning thirst, he speut nearly
every dollar that he earned, and lived with
his family meanly dependent upon his
brother. Once ho bad been in good busi¬
ness ; now he was a clerk on small pay,
in the store of a friend, named Mr. Os¬
borne, who kept him more out J!’ pity
thau the service he gave. Sometimes he
would be absent from his post for days,
and often for hours in each day. The
friend after scolding him, pleading with
bim, threatening him, but all to no pur¬
pose, had about made up his utiud to turn
him adrift.
“I can’t have him here any longer,”
said Mr. Osborne, speaking to his head
cleak. “I’ve tried my best to help him,
but it’s no use. As he drinks up every¬
thing he curns<it will be better for him to
earn nothing.”
“I’ve long thought that,” answered the
clerk. "The fact is, you’ve bora with
him to a degree that surprises everyone
in the store.”
‘•1 shall do it no longer,” was the reso¬
lute reply.
“There he comes now,” said the head
clerk.
Mr. Osborne turned with a hard look
in his Lee, intending to stop Uuale Phil
; before he reached his desk and tell him
that his duties there were at an end But
something in Uncle Phil’s manner kept
him from spe.king what was in his
, thoughts. The poor man came in with a
quicker step, »nd an air of earnestness
: about him not s*en for a long time,
“I’ll not be late again, Mr. Osborne,”
, he said, iu an humble way. “It’s all
i wrong; but it shan’t happen again.”
“I hope not," replied Mr. Osborn, in a
tone that gave Uncle Phil a start.
“You’ve a right to be displeased,' the
wretched man said. “I only wonder
you’ve born with me so long. But have
patience with me a little while longer.—
I've made up my mind to lead a new
life, God helping me !”
Uncle Phil’s voice trempled, and pity
came back into Mr. Osborne’s heart. *
“God alone can help you,” answered
his kiud friend. “Unless you get strength
from him, your case is hopeless.”
“I am resolved never to drink one drop
of liquor again so long as I live,” said
Unole Phil, speaking solemly.
“All good resolutions are from heaven,
my friend,’ answer Mr. Osborne, “and from
heaven comes the power to keep them.—
Trust not in your own poor strength—it has
failed you a thousand times—but look up
ward, and while you pray for help, keep
yourself out of the old ways wherein your
feet have stumbled. This is your part of
the work, and must not fail for an instant.
If you go where liquor is sold, you go out
ofthe circle of safety; if you touch or
taste it, you fall. God cannot help you,
unless you try to help yourself; and the
only way you can help yourself is to keep
far off from danger. While you do this
no strong desire for liquor will be felt ;
but if you taste it, you are lost.”
Uncle Phil stood with a bent head
while Mr. Osborne was talking.
“I will never taste it again,” ho answer
ed—“never so long as I live 1”
A thing happened that evening which
had not happened for months. Uncle
Phil made one of the family circle at tea
timtf? Htftame in with a sober face and
quiet air, giving a pleased surprise. Jobn,
who had spoken his mind so freely in the
morning, and who had been thinking
about him all day—for he was pretty sure
Uncle Phil had heard his plain talk-could
not loop hi. eyes from hi. free. Uncle
Phil soon became aware that John wan
observing him with keen interest.
All * „ at . once, t breaking *. the ,1 embarrassed , .
silence-vf •i J,. the I tea-table, .i, . he asked , , looking ,
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.. w , ia ;' aic \ou , or, - 00 ,
hor a moment John hesitated, wane
his check grew red. Then he answered
thinly : “I am for temperance.”
Ttijre «es an uneasy stir .round the
table,and a surprised lookingfrom faee („
f acc
-So am I, John, and that tnaks two on
the ....... light side; and , dont who
we care
knows it!" spoke out Uncle Phil in a
clear V0 i ce<
Oh, what a v.orful, h timc camo
then ! Aunt Susy cn, a for < ’ and JoWa
muther cried end hugged \, e r litt i e son>
when Uucle Phil ’
repeated tw brave
strong words he had heard him say In vhg
morning—words that went like arrows tq
his heart.
Uncle Phil, neverjdrank again. Beforo
a year had passed he aod Aunt Susy
were in a small house of their own, inde«*
pendent and happy.
So you see how much may be done by
a little hoy who stands up for temperance,
and is not afraid to speak strong words in
a ffood cause.
Do You Take the Responsibility.
The moral of the following anecdote is
not bounded by its temperance applica
tion. Who cares to take the responsibili¬
ty of leading any one into any wrong do¬
ing?
A young man had been sadly intemper¬
ate. He was a man of great capacity, fas*
cination and power, but he had a passion
for brandy which nothing could control.—
Often in his Walks, a friend remonstrated
with him, but in vain ; as often, in turn,
would he in vain urge his friend to take a
social glass. On one occasion the latter
agreed to yield to bim, and as they walk¬
ed up to the bar together, the bar keeper
said,—
“Gentlemen, what will you have ?”
“Wine sir,” was the reply.
The glasses were filled, and the two
friends stood ready to pledge each other
in renewed and eternal friendship, when
he paused and said to his intemperate
friend—
“Now, If I drink this glass of wine and
become a drunkard, will you take the re¬
sponsibility ?
The drunkard looked at him with se*
i verity and said—
“Set down that glass.”
! It was set down and the two walked
away without saying a word.
0, the drunkard knows the awful con¬
sequences of the first glass! Even in his
madness for liquor, he is not willing to ae
j sume the responsibility of another becom*
iug a druukard.
The fpllowink good story Was handed
in by otfr Mend Mr. J, I,- Sawyer, which
we publish with pleasure i
A Xevr Fashioned Fan.
Some years ago in batches, Miss., Prof,
Maffit was announced to preach in that
oity on a certain day, The fame of the
gifted orator had preeeeded him, and eve
ry person in the city of Bluffs was anx
ious to hear him. By aome means the
news happened to reach the hovel of an
old womau, who perhaps had not heard
a sermon for a quarter of a century, and
seldom ’
very went out in the world. She
determined to hear the stranger. It be
ing exceedingly warm and having no fan,
she started to purchase one. She got to
a store, where they happened to know her,
and aware of her ignorance, they determin
ed to have some fun.
They told her they had just received a
new fashioned fan, a very beautiful article,
and handed her a common gilt bellows,
She tried its power to raise a breeze,
and was perfectly delighted with it. To
church she went, the house being crowd
ed, she took her seat near the pulpit._
The debt was selected, and the speaker
progressed and was warmed with his sub
ject and so did the old woman, who now
brught her fan to her faee and eommenc
ed blowing away as if her salvation de
pended on her keeping cool. This attract.
ed the attention of the audienee, and the
speaker looked down to see what was the
matter. His eye caught a glymps of the
old woman—he stopped and smiled at the
ridiculaus figure she cut. The old womau
observed bim looking at her and cried,
“Go it my Magnolia, bress God, I’m all
attention.”
The audience fainted, the curtain drop
ped and wc left, but the imago of the old
woman with her now fan is yet before us.
----— m m » —--—
Daniel Webst® 1, 8 Fright-
1,0 T p “ rfee, ' y ^T.
for the Wj bugh at the end, than
tl ’“ t TT!* *° b *
er and m mutual terror of each 1 other.—
Nothing ..... caabe , more comically . „ uncom
fortable than a couple of houest / men
eye*
ing eaeh other askance as hour or two,
when all the time “one is afraid and the
other daresn t „
-
U f 0 ° OTe < Webster was
“ h “ *° “ 10 at
Wnsbmgton. He was compelled to pro.
ceed at night by stage from Baltimore.—
? e h “ d ‘ravelingcompanionsand the
driver had a sort of felon-look whioh pro- r
duCed , , 00 inC0M . ^ ..... bie •. .
Senator.
“I .
endeavored to tranquilize myself,’
said Mr. Webster, “and had partially suc
ceeded, when we reached the Woods be
tween Bladenshurg and (a proper scene for
murder or outrage,) here I confess, my
courage again deserted me.’ 1
“Just then the driver, turning to tan,
a voice asked my name. I gaVe
*
( ere are you going ?” said he.
‘ H ° yV sbin u I
* S » 1 -
& a ‘
. ...
° ^ r * ver sc * ied me fer
theband ' and «°>»imea, “Ho.
8 ad 1 am , ; 1 feave been treiu Wing in my
seat for the last hour, for when I looked
at you I took you to ho a highwayman.”
Of course, both parties were relieved.
“Ally Gator,” the correspondent of the
Knoxville Press & Herald, has had a cons
versation with Bro wnlow since his return
from Washington. He says :
I asked what he thought of Washing¬
ton, and matters and things generally in
that section.
“Ally," said he, “that Washington *'
the worst place in all creation, *nA ^ or
Grant, he is a bigger fod "* rtD Thomp¬
son’s colt. Didn't l be" bim on the Pen *
sion agent appoinJ» ,e V though ?”
“He is nevertheless, isn't he?”
said I.
“Loyal,” repeated the old man dream
jngly, “well yes, he’s loyal, I suppose, but
do you think I would let a Senate rule
me as they do him ?”
In reply aa to whether he thought
Grant was at the bottom of the Imperial
movement, and what he thought of the
movement, be said:
“The movement, Ally, is all right. It
is the only cause to perpetrate loyalty, as
you can readily appreciate by a survey of
my career as Governor, but as for Grant
being the ’ Emperor—”
“Well,—” said I.
“Alley, he is the greatest failure of the
age. He an Emperor!”
.md in the depth cf his disgust be
made a remark, which sounded like a lit¬
eral translation of what (according to Vic
tor Hugo) Cambroone said at the battle
Waterloo.
NO. 10
“Sambo, what your opinion oh’ dat
bankrupt law ?” ..
“2M him fust rate Fompey. I imply
for de application myself.”
“Just explain him principles.”
“Why you see here nows just lend me
dat' half a dollar yon got for Whitewash¬
ing.” (Pompey hands him the money,
and Sambo deliberately pats it down bis
pocket.) Here, den now l ows de shoe¬
maker tree shilling, and yon a half a dol
lar, beside de grocer’s bill; now, dis half
a dollar is ajl do property I got; I
divides him according to debts."
Pompy. “I takes dat half dollar back/’
Sambo (with amazement.) Bo yo^ tink \
dis chile green ? X am a bankrupt; you
get your share from de oder creditors/’
The barber who dressed the head of a
barrell has been engaged to curt the looka
ot a canal.
The law way be the “perfection of wis¬
dom, but it does not follow that lawyers
are the perfection of wise men. ‘
Gold is an idol worshipped in all ell
mates, without a single hypocrite.
Why is a fine specimen of handwriting
like a dead pig ? Because it is done with
the pen.
Eleven hundred persons in BogHni
pay tax for keeping in their household
more than ten male servants
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The ability of the female tongue to keep
a secret is,proved by the conduct of a St #
John’s giri, who did not tell her lover
that abe was worth four millions in her
own right until after their marriage.
The handsome daughter of a wealthy
of Brooklyn Heights eloped %
days ago with her fathers coachman,
A Chicago paper advises Elisha Sprague,
if he wants a rich wife, to pay the verdict
and marry Amanda. %
The Union Pacific Railroad takes pas¬
sengers from Omaha to Fromintory Point,
1,000 miles, in sixty hours. The fare
across the continent is $165.
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A Case for Butler. —The Augusta
Constitutionalist says :
When the Georgia case is disposed of,
the Attorney General of the United States
will probably consider the cases of fifty
Utile girls of Fredericksburg, Va., whq
lately strewed flowers in the path of Get,
Lee.
A friend writing from Atlanta, express^
es the Opinion that if the Governor calls
an extra session of the Legislature at all,
it will not be before November, so as to
give Congress the light of theit action ttip*
on the eligibility decision of tho Supretfto
Oonrt.
Ice in June. —At Marquette, Michi¬
gan, last Week, there was a remarkable
sight. With the thermometer at eighty
five degrees in the shade, the bay nod
harbor were so full of ice that it Waft With
difficulty vessels could make their way
through it. At night the Wind changed
to the west, and moved the large body of
ice out into the lake. The bergs are still
so solid that i’t jg dangerous for a vessel to
strike them when tinder headway.
The colored man is now raising a muss
in the Navy Yard at Washington. IW
Cr three negroes have been employed fh
as bricklayer’s. The Briefed r U ” 0P
refused them cards.
wbo Work8 Wlth them ,
every white -..... *
The P* wVa k*d a secret and stormy meet
,-..g Friday night, and after some discus*
sion adopted a resolution asking the white
workmen to strike unless the colored meA
were dismissed. A committee to urge
this course is visiting the men. The
bricklayers get $4 50 a daj. There art
about a dozen white workmen in the yariU
The Evansville (Indiana) Journal gives
the following account of the supposed stoi*
cide of a Georgia printer:
H. II. Parks, a printer, who has lately
woiked at the Courier office, disappeared
on last Tuesday evening, and has not
been heard of since. It is supposed that
he committed suicide, and some deck
hands belonging to the steamer Norman,
says that a man jumped into the river on
Tuesday evening from one of the wharf
boats. He had been drinking very hard
for the last week or two, and at time*
seemed to be out of bis mind. Parks ia
a native of Georgia.
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An Irishman, recommending a cow,
said she would give good milk year after
year, without having calves, because it ran
iu the breed, as she came from a cow that
never had a ealf.