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HANCOCK WEEKLY JflUlHAl II ii VOL II. The Hancock Journal IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, (Office, Old Masonic Hall—Court House.) William II. Itoyal, Editor & PkoTriktor. Rates of Subscription: Owe copy 12 months $3 00—8 months $2 00 iQe* copy 6 months, 1 60—4 months, 1 00 " 'Two oopies to one address, I year, 6 00 Ne name will be. taken unless the cash ac¬ company the order. Rates for Advertising: Transient Advertisements will be charged hi the rate of one dollar per square for ilie ferst and seventy five cents for each subsequent insertion, for one mouth or less. A liberal discount, will be made to persons advertising extensively, both as to time and •pass. Cards, for three months longer, Business or will be eharged six dollars per quarter for •ash square. Twslve lines of tjiis type fill onesquare. Professionals: 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 X v 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. ~ - - 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 - —.— 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.