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HANCOCK WEEKLY JflUlHAl II ii
VOL II.
The Hancock Journal
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William II. Itoyal,
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P. L. L I T T L E ,
A5?S®SSflE?? MMW,
Sparta, Ga ,
Office in Law Building, west of thoC. II.
GEORGE P. PIERCE, Jr.
Spar/a, Ga.
Office in I.nw Building, west of the C.II
PROFESSIONAL CARD
TVR, Ip A. F. DURHAM, thankful for past
patronage, takes pler.suro in announcing
that he still continue* the practice of Medicine
and 8nrgery in the town of Sparta.
Having associated with himself his brother
f>r- 0. W- Durham in practice, one or the other
ef them may be found at their office nt all times
•f the day.
8pccinl attentioa is given to the treat-,
went, of (,'hrouic Diseases and diseases peculiar
Is Females. Feb 12—ly
“tiUORUR II. JONES,”
WITH
M II YAMS A CO
,384 Broad Street.
1’iider Central Hotel, Augusta, Georgia.
Dealers In
FI.\E IwKOCERlES,
W ines, Liquors and Cigars ;
ALSO,
GKN fl L VOMMlS'N MA R CHANTS
April 30 18ffi). ly.
' ('liarlcs A. Mledge,
Trimmer & Upholsterer,
Harness Maker and Repairer,
Sparta, Ga.
TaT AY be found in the upper story of J A,
JJX Scuddny’s Carriage the Shop, in whore he is
prepared to servo public his line of
work, on terms to suit the times. may7-ly
JEWFX’S MILLS.
{FORMERLY ROCK FACTORY.)
Post Office at t'ULVKUTON, Ga.
"W CU8TOMEHS K WILL MANUFAHTUKR this tho WOOL following FOB
senson, ou
lerms :
Wool Manufactured in JEANS (col’d warp) nt
80 cents per yard ;
Manufactured into Kerseys at 20cts per j-nrd;
or Carded into 1U)LLS at 12£ cents per D>.
Sheetings, flirtings, (iHtiaburgs and Yarns
constantly on hand.
Wool W anted,
In Exchange for Good*, nt maiket rnluc, or
for CASH.
Coimignmcnti by llaifroa.l should be direct¬
ed to Culvert on, Ga. D. A. JKwBL,
may 14 tint Proprietor.
Carriage,Buggy & wagon
REPOSITORY
«| I ^MRS A. 8CUDDAY has re opened his he
Carriage Shop, at Iiis old stand, whore
it prepared to werve bin old friends and patrons
and the public generally, in every branch of
hie buiincM, cither with New Work, Repairing
or Renovating of Cnrringea, Buggies, Wagons, fa
&«., at the moat reasonable prices. He has
hU employ the well known frecdmnn Tom
Colo*. *lin« Tom Thompson, and will warrant
•11 work to stand the test. Tom is a thorough
vsmoernt*
Mr. 8. Will also do all manner of Black
•with Work pertaining to his business, and
'Saln.it* n share of th« public patronage.
Sparta, April 28-*-8m
New Cabinet Shop.
JOHN FRIESE,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE,
E8PECTFULLY iuforms the citixens of
bperl* and vicinity that, he has re
aantly opened in this place an establishment
•er the
Manufltdurc and Repairing
OF FURNITURE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
lead will keep on hand a full assortment of
Bedsteads, Tables, Chairs, he.
or aake to order any article in the cabinet
line at the lowest prices and at short notice,
tail and see him.
VTIll also Reapply Collins at
>rt notice,
fan. 16.
Jffirpult 5 * Hotel —Petersburg, Va.
T>HU, depot. F a! , located at the
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INDEPENDENT IN ALL THING8-NEUTRAL IN NOTHING.
SPARTA, HANCOCK COUNTY, GA., JULY 9, 1869.
Poetry.
The Progress of Love.
In early day e’er thoughtful care,
My brew had furrowed o’er,
I revel’d with the young and fair,
Who beauty’s ensigns bore.
Of wand’ring tired, I vowed with care
At Hymen’s shrine to bend—
Could I but find among the fair,
A wife—and bosom friend.
On Celia first my eyes I east,
The maid was fair and gay,
I knew her witty, thsnght her chaste—
But Celia went astray.
Florella next put in her claim,
FloreUa young and gay ;
And had she fixed a constant aim,
Had stel’n my heart away:
But she was lighter ikan the down
That sails upon the air,
The fickle toast of ht lf the Iowa,
.
Could not my heart ensnare.
Miranda, solemn, lesrn'd and wise.
A crowd of folke admire,
Miranda’s all forbieding eyos,
.Could ne’er light Cupid’s fire.
Emma had a graceful mien,
Charms natire; Charms of art—
She look’d and mov’d like beauty's queen,
She wanted—but a heart*
Then Hymen I began to slight,
When on a destined hour,
The lovely Juliet met my sight,
I sigh’d—and owned her pow'r.
No arts she used, no aid she takes,
Of feature, shape, or air,
In forms like hor’s ’tis virtue makes
The fairest of the fair.
Now of each ruffling wind the spoit,
My bark is lost no more.
With her ’ve made the happy pert
And all my cares are o’er.
Miscellany.
Current Events.
Very destructive hail storms have re¬
cently occutred io Southern Georgia.
Buildings to the value ot 1200,000 are
said to be under contract in Macon.
Mr. Stephcus is now able to work on
the second volume of his great work:
The Planters of Putnam county have
formed a joint stock Fair Company.
An Agricultural Fair is to be held in
Rome in November.
The Augustans are luxuriating on 25
cent watermelons.
The Central and South-Western rail¬
roads are about to be consolidated.
The Gate City Foundry was burned in
Atlanta last week.
Savannah continues very healthy for
the season.
The Georgia Ruilro&d is about to erect
a round house in Augusta.
Major Moses, of Columbus, made 57
bushels of oats on an acre.
Ex Gov. Jenkins and fhmily bare gone
to Europe.
New Wheat opened in Rome at 61 671
cents. It has since declined.
Flour is quoted in the Atlanta papers
at 66 50 to 610.
Eleven briok buildings are going up in
Americus.
Hall county voted a 6100,000 subscrip¬
tion to the Air Line Road.
The Augusta Polioe are to be uniform
ed.
A. Atkinson has bought the old Masonic
Hall corner, io Madison, aod will rebuild
it.
The Madison Journal denies the report
that Hon. Joshua Hill is going to Stoae
Mountain.
Blodgett has failod io his attempt to be
restored to the Augusta Post Office, and
Biyaothas been commissioned^
It is now stated that Grant novar asked
Hoar’s opinion about the status of Geor>
gia.
The people of Elbert county have sub¬
scribed 675,000 to the Augusta and Hart¬
well railroad.
Ten thousand dollars of ten per cent.
Griffin oity bonds sold at par in Baltimore.
The Scientific American informs the la¬
dies that if they would have oorned beef
juiey after it is cold, and not as dry as a
chip, they should put it into boiling water
when they should not take it out of the
pot when done, until cold.
A western editor in response to a sob
•onher, who grumbles that his paper was
intolerably damp, says, “ That is because
there is so much due ou it”
Cora, the Spaniel..
BY GRACE GREENWOOD.
The pet which took little Carlo’s place
in our home and hearts was a pretty chest¬
nut colored spaniel, named Cora. She was
a good affectionate creature, and deserved
all our love. The summer that we had
her for our playmate, my brother Albert,
my sister Carrie and I spent a good deal of
time down about the pond, in watching,
her swimming, and all her merry gambols
in the water. There grew, out beyond the
reeds and flags of that pond, a few beauti.
ful, white water-lillie8, which we taught
her to bite off and bring to us on shore.
Cora seemed to love us very much, but
there was one whom she loved even more.
This was little Charley Allen, a pretty boy
of about four or five years of age, the only
son of a widow, whom was a tenant of my
father, and lived in a small house on our
place. There grew up a great and ten¬
der friendship between this child and our
Cora, who was always with him while we
were at school. The two would play and
run about for hours, and when they were
tired, lie down and sleep together in the
shade. It was a pretty sight, I assure yon,
for both were beautiful.
It happened that my father, one mor**
ning, took Cora with him to the village,
and was gone nearly all day; so that little
Charley was without bis playmate aod pro¬
tector. But after school, my sister, broth¬
er and I, called Cora and ran do#n to the
pond. We were to bare a little company
that night, lilies and wanted some of those, fra¬
Larked grant for our flower vase. Cora
round and leaped upon us, and ran
and round us all the way. Soon as
she reached the p'nd, she sprang in and
swam out where the lillics grew, and
where she was hid from our sight by the
flags and other water plants. Presently
we heard her barking and whining as
though in great distress. We called to
her again and again, but she did not come
out for some minutes. At last, she came
through the flags swimming slowly along,
dragging something by her teeth. As she
swam near, we saw it was a child—little
Charlie Allen! We then waded out as
far as we dcared, met Cora, took her bur¬
den from her, and drew it to the shore
As soon as we took little Charlie in our
arms, wc knew that he was dead. He
was as cold as ice, his eyes were fixed in
his bead and had no light in them. His
hand was stiff and still held tightly three
water-lilies, which he had plucked. We
supposed the poor child had slipped from
a flowers, log, on which he bad gone out for the
and whieh was half under water.
Of course we children were dreadfully
frightened. My brrnW was half beside
himafelf, and ran screamiug up home while
ray sister almost flew for Mrs. Allen.
Oh, I never shall forget the grief of that
poor woman, when she came to the spot
where her little dead boy lay—how she
threw herself on the ground beside him,
aod folded him close in her arms, and
tried to warm him with her tears and kiss¬
es, and tried to breathe her own breath
into his still, cold lips and tried to make
him hear by calling, Charlie, Charlie,
speak mamma! to mamma! speak to y«ur poor
By IhiB time my parents and a number
of the neighbors had reached the spot,
and they carried Mrs. Allen and her
drouured hoy home togrther tbrongh the
twilight. Poor Cora followed p5to»>usly close all to the the
body of Charlie, whining could her
way. That night, w# not get
out of the >•<•*>“* where it was placed, but
sb<? watched there until morning.
Ah how sweetly little Charlie looked
when he was laid out the next day 1 His
beautiful face had lost the daik look that
it wore when it was first taken from the
water ! his pretty brown hair lay in close
ringlets all around his white forehead.—
One hand was stretched at his side, the
other was laid across his breast, still hold¬
ing the water-lillics. He was not dressed
in a shroud but in white trowsers, and a
pretty little spencer of pink gingham.—
He did not look dead, but sleeping, and
he seemed to smile softly, as though he
had a dream in his heart.
Widow Allen had one other child, a
year younger than Charlie, whose name
W%3 Mary, Mary.” but who Oh, always called herself
‘•Little it wofild inade you
cry to have seen her when she was brought
to look on her dead brother. She laugh¬
ed at first, and put her small fingers on his
shut eyes trying Charlie! to open them, and said,
“Wake up, wake up, and come
play out doors, with little Mary 1” But
when she found those eyes would not un¬
close, and when she felt how cold that
face was, she was grieved and frightened,
and run to hide her lace in her mother’s
though lap where she cried and trembled, for
she could not know what death
was, she felt that something awful had
happened in the house.
But Cora’s sorrow was also sad to
see. When the body of Charlie was
carried to the grave, she followed close
to the coffin, and when it was let down
into the grave, she leaped io and laid
down upon it, and struggled when the
men took her out. Every day after that
she would go to the grave, never missing
the spot, though there were many other
little mounds in the old church-yard —
She would lie beside it for hours, patient
tiently waiting, it seemed, for her young
friend to awake and come out into
the sunshine, and run about to play with
her as he used to do. Sometimes she would
dig a little into the mound, and bark or
whine, and then listen for the voice of
though the f , ithful Cora liiU)ned> wait ea
and pined for it through many days —
She ate scarcely anything; she would not
play with us now, nor could wo persuade
her to go into the pond. child, pale and
Alas I that fair sweet
dripping from the water, was the last lily
she ever brought ashore. She grew so
thin, and weak, and siok, at last she could
hardly dfrag herself to the grave. But
still she went there every day. One even¬
ing she did not come home, and my broth¬
er and I went down for her. When we
reached thje churchyard, we passed along
very carefully, for fear of treading on some
grave, and spoke soft and low, as children
should do in such places. Sometimes we
stopped to read the long inscriptions, and
to wonder why so many great and good
people were taken away. Sometimes we
pitied the poor people who had no tomb¬
stones at all, because their friends could
not afford to raise them, or because they
had been too wicked themselves to have
their praises printed in great letters, cut
in white marble, and put up in the solemn
dare burying-ground, where nobody would ever
to write or say anything but the truth.
When we came in sight of Charlie’s grave
we talked about him We wondered if
he was drowning. We thought that he
must have grown very weary with strug¬
gling in the water, and we wondered if
he with was resting now, sleeping down there
his lilies. We said that perhaps his
soul was awake all the time; and that
when he was drowned, it did not fly right
away hymns, to Heaven, with the angels, to sing
while hispoor mother was weeping,
but staid about the place, and made heY
think of God and Heaven, even when she
lay awake in the night, to mourn for her
lost boy.
So talking we Cahte up to the grave.
Cora Was lying on the mound, where the
grass had now grown green and long. She
seemed to be a sleep, and not to hear our
steps pleasantly, or voices. and My brother spoke to her
But did patted her on the bead.—
she not move. I bent down and
looked into her face. She was quite dead!
Useful Recipes.
Tart Rhubarb Puddisq vs. Applx
Dumplings.— Peal and cut up the Rhu¬
barb in the usual manner, roll out wheat
dough mixed with a piece of suet about
the size of a piece of chalk, or an apple —
cover the Rhubarb with it, from the pud¬
ding oval, and wrap around it a cloth—se¬
cure it by strings at either.end and a few
stifcches in the centre—boil a full
hour Send it to the table on a hot dish.—
Cut in half inch slices and season with
butter and sugar a sauce of the same; or,
if you have an eye to economy, use a sauce
made of sugar-house syrup aod batter, or
sweet lard; talking about economy, feed
the little boys and girls on bonny-claber
and molasses—and the pigs on the for
mer.
Poultry. —If your poultry are disposed
to scratch or bask on seed beds or hills,
strew over them about half an Inch of
white sand, plaster or anything white will
do; sand is best because it does not be
come dissolved by rain. Try it—’tis no
humbug q\, prevent a hen from setting,
confine her ia *. coop without food about
three days. I suppose the reason is, it al¬
ways increased fever, best thing to
be done with a hen that is of favor
with the cockerel, or refuses her quo* of
eggs, is to convert her into a pot of soup.
Tomato Figs.—C ollect a lot of ripe
tomatoes about one inch in diameter, skin
and stew them in the usual manner, when
done lay them ou dishes, flatten them
and spread over them a light layer of pul¬
verized white or best brown sugar; expose
them to a summers sun, or place them
a drying house ; when as dry as fresh figs,
pack in old fig or small boxes, with sugar
between each layer. If properly managed
the difference cannot be detected from the
veritable article.
Crout.—I f hot toafCr is at hand plunge
the childs feet in it and administer a dose
of castor oil; rub his feet dry, draw on a
pair of woolen stockings, and pot him to
bed. A cravat of mashed ice, and a lump
to suck is a relief, as at last but a filthy
retsort let Pap expectorate tobacco juice
down the child’s throat—“any port in a
storm.”
A live frog w*s received at the Dead
Letter office in Washington last week, for¬
warded from a Texas PoStoffice. The
Southern postmaster said it came to him
through the mails, hut the address had
dropped off aod be sent it to Washington
to be opened and returned to the sender.
Protect your melon, squash and cucum¬
ber vines thus: Take sticks four inches
long and one-half inch in diameter; -pine
is best. Wrap one inch of the end io a
piece of cotton or linen. Dip this in tur¬
pentine, and stick one or two in each hill,
leaving the wrapped part above tho ground.
The odor of the turpentine does the busi¬
ness.
Do the best you can, whatever you un¬
dertake. If you are ooly street sweeper,
sweep your very best.
Be honest in all of your dealings.
Called tt Preach.
The papers tell a story of a member of
the persuasion who, ambitious of
ministerial honors, was praying in the
woods for some divine manifestations of a
call to preach. While so engaged a John
Donkey-Ass set up one of those ories for
which his race is peculiar, whieh Walker
mistook for an affirmative reply to his ap¬
peal, and whereupon he applied for license,
when the following coloquy oocurred be¬
tween him and the interrogating preacher:
Pastor—“Do you believe, Brother Walk¬
er, that you are called of God to preaoh,
as was Aaron f”
Walker—“Most sartainly I does’"
P-—“Give the Church, that is the breth¬
ren, the proof.”
W.—“I was mightily diffikilted, and I
was determined to go in the woods and
wrastle it out.”
P —That is it, Brother Walker.”
W.—“And while thar wrastlia’, Jacob
like, I hern one of the curiousest voices I
ever hearn in my born days.”
P. you are in the right track, Brother
Walker. Go on with the narration.”
W.—“I couldn’t tell for the life o’me,
whether the voice was up in the air or
down in the skye, it sounded ao curious.”
P.—“Poor "creetur ! how he was diffi
kulted. Go on to narrate, Brother Walker.
How did it appear to sound unto you ?”
W.—“Why, this way: ‘Waw-waw-ker!
Wawwaw-ker! Go preach, go preach, go
preach, go preaoh-ah, go preaeh-ah-ee-uh
ah-ee-ah!”
P.—“Bruthering and sisters, that’s the
right sort of a call. Enough said, Broth
Walker. That’s uoue of your college
calls, nor money calls. No doctor of divin¬
ity ever got such a call as that. Brother
Walker must have a license fur sartie
and for sure”
The license was granted, the story g 06 *’
aod Walker is now, doubtless. *»** ,n S *he
mountains ring with his stentorian voice
lungs.
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How to itertfc Drowued Per¬
son*.
As tbo bathing season has now begun
sod accidents by drowning are likely to
sometimes happen, we reprint from a
high scientific authority the following di¬
rections for the resuscitation of persons
rescued from drowning before life is whol¬
ly extinct. They may possibly prove use¬
ful in saving valuable lives, and should be
preserved or remembered.
1. —Lay the drowned man at once flat
on his stomach, with his face to the ground,
and folded coat or bundle under his chest.
2. Place your hands flat between his
shoulder blades and make a firm pressure,
so as to squeeze the air out of his chest;
tbeu turn the body slowly on to one side
and a little beyond. Replace him quick¬
ly on his face. Count four, to mark four
seconds of time,.and then repeat the pro
Ces3, commencing by squeezing the air
out of the che8t a g ain .
3. Wet clothes should be removed and
«nes substituted, each bystander con¬
tributing. ipkQ body t 0 be rubbed dry
briskly, and face kept from contact
with the ground by « Q assistant.
4. Do not squeeze the a j r out of the pa
tient’g chest if he is breathy. but
and watch, merely drying the body a nd
changing the clothing
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A German writer in Detroit writes to
the Abend Post of that city about Ameri¬
ca, in this strain u “Everything is upside
down here; wheat is cheap and bread is
dear; harvests are good and farmers are
dissatisfied. Knowledge is free acid stu¬
pidity and bigotry abound. Political free¬
dom exists by the side of party slavery;
and, last of all, railroad humbugs and gol¬
den spikes. This last swindle caps the
climax. A laurel wood tie with silver ****
golden spikes and a silver hamm'** Mon •
strous humbug. Humbtu **
America, whose suh^ * re ric ^
andthepoov, -*e groat and the humble.
Even r-aure is a humbug, for It Is now the
la^ of May and the trees are not green,
flowers are not in bloom ; It is oold, and
larks and nightingales have not been heard
from. Humbug l The whole thing is a
humbug.
It is expected that the Thomasville and
Albany rood will be done to Camilla in
November,
The Dahlonegs Signal refers in compli¬
mentary terms to Col. N. H. Hand and
lady, who recently left that place for Boa
ton. Col. H. was Superintendent of the
Yahoola Mining Company.
The pastor of the Colored Methodist
Church in Columbus receives per contri¬
butions a salary of 61200 or 1300 per
| year. He is said to be a good man and
j has nothiog to do with polities.
NO. 11
Beecher on JEarly Marriage.
At DO period, perhaps, in the life, do
young men need the inspiration of virtu
ous love and the sympathy of a companion
in their own support. Early marriages
are permanent moralities, and deferred
marriages are temptations to wickedncs —
Aod yet every year it becomes more and
more difficult, concurrent with reigning
ideas of society, for young men to enter
upon that mntrimonia! state which is the
proper guard of their virtue, as well as
the courage and enterprise. The battle of
life is almost at the beginning. There it
is that a man needs wedlock. But a
wicked and ridiculous public sentiment
puts a man who is in society, or out of so¬
ciety for that matter, largely on the ground
and not of disposition and character. The
man that bath means wherewith he can
visibly live amply is in good society, as a
general rule. The man that has virtuo
and stern manliness, but has nothing with¬
al external to show, is not usually consid¬
ered in good society. Ambitious young
men will not therefore marry until they
can meet their expenses; but that is de¬
ferring for years the indispensable virtue.
Society is bad where two cannot live cheap¬
er than oneJ and young n en are under
bad influences who when in the very raor
ning of life, and better fitted than at any
later poriod to grow together with one who
is their equal and mate, are debarred from
marrying through scores of yens, from
mere prudential considerations; ant * *he
life are sacrificed to the pocket. 1 hey arc
tempted to substitute ambition for love,.
when at last over tbe sshes and expiring
embers of their early romance, they select
their wife- It fc said that men who wait
till they forty or forty-five years of age
select prudently. Alas for the wife who
was not first a sweetheart! Prudence is
good ; but is prudence servant or queen ?•
Prudenoe is good ; but what is prudence?
It is the dry calculation of the head leagu¬
ed with the pocket. Is there no prudence
in taste, nor prudence in the inspiration
of a generous love ? Ts there no prudence
in the faith by which, banded, two young
persons go down into the struggle of life,
saying: ‘Come weal, come Woe, como
storm, come calm, love is a match for cir¬
cumstances, and we will be all to each oth- ,
er ?’ Woe be unto that city in which the
customs and the manners of the times put
beyond the period of romance and affi¬
ancing the wedding. You have adjourn¬
ed the most important seoular act of ban’s
life. You have adjourned it out of Eden
into the wilderness!
The Political Schedule for 1863.
We extract from tho. New York World
the following list of State elections which
are to be held during the remainder of the
year 1869:
July (6. Virginia elects State officers
and Congressmen.
Aug. 2. Kentucky elects a State Treas¬
urer and Legislature.
Aug. 2. Alabama elects Member.* of
Congress. ■ m
Aug. 5. Tennessee elects State officers
and Legislature.
Aug. 10. Montana Territory elects Del¬
egates to Congress.
Sept. 7. Vermont elects State officers
and Legislature.
Sept. IS. Maine elects State officers
-and Legislature.
Oct. 5. Colorado elects Delegates to
Congress.
Oct. 12. Pennsylvania elects State offi¬
cers and Legislature. and
Oct. 12. Ohio elects Sta^
Legislature. elects State officers and
Oct. IS. T ' ...
California elects Judges of
Supreme Court.
Nov. 2 k New York elects Secretary of
State Legislature, &o.
Nov. 2. New Jersy elects Legislature.
Nov. 2. Massachusetts elects State offi¬
cers and Legislature.
Nov. 2. Minnesota elects State officers
and Legislature.
Nov. 2- Wisconsin elects State officers
and Legislature.
In the above list, Mississippi and Tex¬
as are not included, as the President has
not yet fixed the time for their elections,
under the authority conferred upon him
by the Reconstruction law. He has in¬
dicated, however that the elections will be
called for the latter part of August, or be¬
ginning of September next
W. J. Yason Esq., is seeking to state
the running of engines through the city
of Augusta, as a nuisance. The question
promises to be one of importance, and a
city paper thinks it will go to the Supreme
Court.