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- AffCOCK WEEKLY JOURNAL VOL. II. The Hancock Journal IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, ■ VI fOSlei, OM Masonic Hall-Court House.) William II. Royal, Ejmtok & Proprietor. Rates of Subscription: tine eopy 12 months $8 00—8 months $2 00 ttoo oopy 6 months, 1 50—4 months, 1 00 JMF*Two copies to one addren, 1 year, 6 00 No numo will be taken unless the cash ac¬ company the order. Rates for Advertising: charged • Transient Advertisements will be at the rate of one dollar per square for the Irst and seventy five Cents for each subsequent 'insertion, for one month or less. - “ A liberal discount will bo made to persons ’advertising exteusively, both as to time and kyace. Business Cards, for throe months or longer, will be charged six dollars per quarter for "each square. Twelve lihos of this type fill onesquare. I^rofessionals: F. L. L IT T L E , tfia« MWf. fiparta, Ga. Offioe in Law Building, west of the C. H. GEORGE P. PIERCE, Jr. p Sparta, Ga. Office in Law Building, went of the C.H PROFESSIONAL CARD ♦ • _ *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. •*» * V 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 , 7 .. 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 -- -- -- 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. .......... — ■’ " 1 ♦ ♦ « 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. -1 — 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.