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[Professionals:
F, LLITTLE,
iiiffliii attf,
Sparta, Ga.
Office in Law Building, west of thcC. H.
GEORGE F. PIERCE, Jr.
Sparta, Ga.
Office In Low Building, west of the C.II
PROFESSIONAL CARD
TAR, A. F. DURHAM, thankful for past
Jpatronage, takes pleasure the practice iu of announcing Medicine
that he still continue*
and .Surgery in the town of 8parta. brother
Having associated with himself his
Dr O. W- Durham in practice, one or the other
of them may be found at their office nl all times
of the day. attention is given the ireat
, jpjgr? Special and diseases to peculiar
j>cnt of Chronic Diseases
to Females. Feb 12—ly
Li OKta; ii. jones,”
WITH
M II V AMS * CO
‘J34 It road Street.
Under Central Hotel, Augusta, Georgia
Dealers In
rift IS GROCERIES,
W inea, Liquors and Cigars ;
ALSO,
GENRE COM MISS MA R CHANTS
April 30 18051. ly.
(Iiai’li'k A. Sledge,
Trimmer & Upholsterer,
Harness Maker and Repairer,
Sparta, Ga.
Tfi/| AY be found in the upper story of J A,
JjUL (prepared Scmhlny’s to Carriage the public Shop, in where his Hue he ef is
serve
work, '’u terms to suit the times. iuay7~Iy
JEWEL’S MILLS.
(FORMERLY ROCK FACTORY.)
Post Office at CULvfcRToN, Ga.
k will Manufacture wool for
CUSTOMERS this season, oti the following
terms t
Wool Manufactured In JEANS (ool'tl warp) at
Manufactured ,, 30 cents per yard ; 20cts yard;
into Kerseys at per
or Carded into ROLLS at cents per lb.
Sheetings, Shirtings, Oshaburgs and Yarns
constantly ou hand.
la Wool Wanted,
Exchange for Uooils, at market value, or
for CASH.
<\m*i|rninonts by Raifroad should bo direct¬
ed to CulvoHou, Qa. D. A. JEWEL,
may 14 bin Proprietor.
Carriage,Buggy & wagon
REPOSITORY
•J James Carriage A. Shop, SCUDDaY at his old has stand, re-opcned where his he
Is prepared to serve hi* old friends and patrons
and tho public generally, in every branch of
bis business, either with New Work, Repairing
Ur Uttiovating of Carnages, Buggies, Wagons, in
&0., at the most reasonable prices. Ho has
his employ the well known freedman Tom
Coles, alius Tom Thompson, and will warrant
nil work to stand tho test. Torn is a thorough
Democrat
Mr. S. will also do all manner of Black
smith work pertaiuiug to his business, and
solicits a share of the public patronage.
Sparta, April 23—3tu
New Cabinet Shop.
JOHN FRIESE,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE,
1 RESPECTFULLY fpnrla and vicinity informs that the he citizens has re¬
cently opene i in this place an establishment
for the
MMiiulteclurc and Repairing
OF FURNITURE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION'
and will keep on hand a full assortment of
Bedateadn, Tables, Chairs, Jtc.
or make to order any article in the cabinet
Vina at the lowest prices and at short notioe.
Call and see him.
Will also Supply loans at
•bort notice.
U.
INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS- -n eutral inc jvovj&jsfa.
SPARTA, HANCOCK COUNTY, GA., AUGUST 1809.
Poetry,
The Dying Mother.
sr al'ck c*ar.
We were weeping round her pillow,
For we knew that ahe must die ;
It was night within our bosom—
It was night upoa the sky.
There were eevea of us children,
I Ihe oldest one t.f all;
Sol tried to whisper comfort,
But the blindiug tears would fall.
On my knees my little brother
Leaned his aching brow and wept;
And my sister's long black tresses
O’er my heaving bosom swept.
The shadow of an awful fear
Came o’et me aa I trod,
To lap the hardens of our grief
Arouud the throne of God.
“Oh J be kind to one anotl er,”
Was the mothers pieadiug prayer.
As her band lay iikea snow-flake
On the baby's golden hair.
Then glory bouud her forehead
Like the glory of a crown,
And in the sileut sea of death
The star of life went down.
Her latest breath was born away
Upon that loving prayer,
And the baud grew heavier, paler,
On the b^by’e golden hair.
^ V 0m --
Liberty of the Pretw.
Aronnd her waist 1 pot my arm—
II fell as reft aa cake,
‘•Oh, dear," says she, “what liberty
You printer men do take?"
“Why. yea, my, Sal, rny charming gal,
(I tquetzed her some, I guess,)
Can you say aognt against
The freedom of the Press ?’’
I kissed her some—I did, by gum;
£he colored like a beet!
Upon my living soul she looked
Almost loo good to eat.
I give another bu s, and then
Says she, “1 do soufese
1 rather kinder sorter like
I he freedom of the Peas t
Miscellany,
“I Wish 1 Had Capital.”
So wc heard a great strapping young
man oxeluim the other day. Wo conclu¬
ded that he wanted practical advice, and
wc shall give it to him.
You want capital, do you? And sup¬
pose you had what you call capital, what
would you do with it? Haven’t you
hands, feet, muscle, bone, brains, health,
and don’t you call them capital ? What
more capital did God give anybody ?
“Oil! but they are not money,” say you.
But they are moro than money, and no*
body can take them from you. Don’t you
know how to use them ? If you don’t its
time you were learning. Take hold of
the plow, or hoc, or jack plane, or broad
ax, and go to work. Your capital will,
in due tirno, yield you a large interest.—
Ay but there’s the rub; you don’t want
to work; you want money on credit, so
you can play gontlcman and speculate,
and end by playing the vagabond.
C'r you want a farm, with plenty of
hands upon it to do the work, while you
run over the country and dissipate ; or you
want to marry some rich girl who may
be foolish enough to marry you for your
good looks, that she may support you.
Shame on you, young man ! Go to
work with the capital you have, and you'll
soon make interest enough upon it to give
you as much money as you need, and
make you feel like a man. If you cannot
mako money on what capital you have,
you could not if you had a large amount
in cash. If yju do not know how to use
bone, muscle and brains, you would not
know how to use gold. If you let the
capital you have lie idle, tmd waste aud
rust out, it would bo the same with you
you had gold; you would only know how
to wasto it*
I hen don t stand abont idle, a great
helpless boy, waiting for something to turn
up, but go to work. Take the fir.t work
you can find, no matter what it is, so that
you do it well. Yea, whatever you under¬
take do it well; always do your best. If
you manage the capital you already have,
you will aoon have plcuty more to manage;
but if you can not or will not manage the
capital God has giveu you, you will never
have any other to mauage. Do you hear
young man?
A bachelor editor, who had a pretty uu
married aistcr, lately wrote to another edi¬
tor similarly circumstanced, ‘Pleaac ex¬
change !’
Sambo, in speaking of the happiness of
marriedj people said: ‘Dat ar’ ’pends alto
gedder how dey enjoys demseirea.’
Rum’s Doings—A Strange Tale.
Forsyte, July 30th 1869.
I nm eighty four years of age, and nev¬
er, to my knowledge, have I used a pint
of ardent spirits throughout my life; and
yet, no man, has ever drained a deeper or
bitter cup, because of the rum traffic than
L have done
I have been the father of nine children,
seven sons and two daughters. One poor
sickly I girl is all that remains to me now.
was once the owner of two hundred
acres love of land; owed uo man anything, but
and good works—now a little cottage
with a small warden and cow pasture is all
my My earthly wealth.
oldest son became a merchant;
drink was fashionable at the time; he be¬
came the intemperate, failed in business, and
at age of twentys even died of deliri¬
um tremens.
My second son established a distillery,
and at the age of thirty»two, died a chain-,
cd maniac, the inmate of a mad house—
the cause intemperance.
My third son, under the influence of li¬
quor, quarrelled with his friend—sought
revenge, shed blood a nd died on the gal¬
lows.
and My fouith son, after years of reforming
failing, Hnally perished in a snow
storm. He was found a week after, with
a half-emptcd My fifth rum jug by his side.
son—he was greatly beloved—
a preacher of the Gospel, but rum drags
ged him from God’s altar, and laid him
in the grave of a suicide.
My sixth son was for three years a clerk
in the city of New York, came home a
wreck, and in four weeks died of pulmo¬
nary habits. consumption, induced by intemper¬
ate
My seventh and last son, while intoxi¬
cated, fell from his horse and had his
brains dashed out. He died on the spot.
My oldest daughter married a man who
became a aot. She struggled long with
poverty and abuse; but finally, gave way
and died of a broken hart.
My youngest and only remaining child
is the sickly girl I mentioned, the very
last fragiueut of my once promising fami
‘y-. My wife bore
fortitude, poor the weight of long with Christian
her crushiug woes;
but nature gave way at last, and I rejoic¬
ed, for her sake, when she fell asleep in
death. .
I have nothing personally to fear from
the ruin traffice, but four of my sous hav¬
ing left families, I fear for them.
1 am told to love my country. . If mv
country had loved me I might have been
the father of nine living sons and daught¬
ers. Does my country kuow that she is
giving legal life and being- to a system
more ruthless— a murderer more deadly
than the bloodiest sword of a foreign foe ?
or tho most oppressive laws of a foreign
power ‘t She is cherishing a feind that is
gloating upon the best blood of her chil¬
dren aud sendiug them to the judgment
seat berelt of reason and devoid of hope.
1 am told to love my neighbor as my
self. Father of Mercies! how cau 1 love
him, who, for inouey, will rob father
and mother of all that their hearts hold
dear ?
1 will love my country when she guards
my iaterest aud my life.
J will love my neighbor when he proves
human. Till then, 1 have ho love, be¬
cause But no hope.
he pardon me, pardon aa old man if
speaks warmly; let my fearful suffer¬
ing plead my excuse, aud the magnitude
of the evil it would overthrow.— Extract
from Uncle Sam’s Farm Fence.
A Rare Case. —The following ac
count of an occurrence in Nantucket some
twenty years since presents a vivid con¬
trast to certain business transactions of
the present day, and so may be of inter¬
est ; “It was a very severe winter, and the
harbor had been frozen over for weeks.—
The coal in store had long been exhaust¬
ed, and there was much suffering from
lack of fuel. Even fences had been torn
down and burned to eke out the supply
of wood. To the great delight of the
townspeople the ice broke up one flue
morning, and a schooner was seen ap¬
proaching. There was much excitement
and before the croft was moored a coal
dealer boarded her aud eagerly addressed
the Cap’en” Quaqcr skipper, Capt. Gifford. “Wal,
said he, “you’ve about hit it this
cruise. I guess I’ll hev to take y'ur hul
cargo. al §7 Spoae you’ll want more’n the usu¬
a tou. Wal, I like to do the square
thing by a friend, and I’ll give you 812 a
tou for it,” “Friend,” said Capt. Gifford,
“thee can have one ton of my coal if thee
likes for 88, but only one ton ; all must
have a chance.” Just then one of the
richest men ia the place joined them, say
iug : “l want ten tons of your coal at your
own prioe—name it. 1 have mffered
enough for once. He received the same
answer, and so did all—one tone for each
family, and 88 as the price of each ton.—
No love of gain, no solicitation, no regard
for individuals could move honest Capt.
Gifford.” ^
Beecher says that meu confess every¬
thing but their own besetting sins. They
steer clear of these. Who ever heard a
man say, “O Lord, I am as priud as Lu¬
cifer , humble me ;” or “O Lord, I ajuso
mean and siingey that 'tis only
paiu generous.” that I can unloose my-ltrsf^make
me — •
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Negro Eloquence.— Man is is de
first animal in do creation ; he springs up
like de hcoper grasss, hops about like a
poper grass, and dies dc same as a jackass !
Wbat JESrery Young Man Should
Do.
1. Every young mail should make the
most of himself, intellectually, morally,
socially and politically.
2. He should depend upon his own ef
forts to accomplish those results.
3. He should be willing to take advice
from those competent to give it, and to
tollow such advice, until his own judg¬
ment or convictions, properly founded,
should otherwise direct.
4. If he is unfortunate enough to have
a rich and indulgent father, he must do
the best he can under the circumstances,
which will be to cenduct himself very
much as though he had not these obsta¬
cles to overcome.
5. lie should remember that young
men, if they live, grow old and that the
habits of youth are oftener than otherwise
ii ^tasted in the mature man. Know
tis fact, he should “ govern himself
accordingly.”
6. He should never he discouraged by
small beginnings, but remember that
nearly all great results have been wrought
out from apparently slight cause.
7. He should never, under any circum¬
stances, he idle. If he cannot find the
employment ho prefers, let him come as
near his desires as possible—he will thus
reach the object of his ambition.
8. All young men have “ inalienable
rights,” among which none is greater and
more sacred than the privilege to be
‘somebody.”
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Fashionable Women.
Fashions kill more women than toil and
sorrow. Obedience to fashion is a greater
transgression oi the laws of woman’s na¬
ture, a greater injury to her physical and
mental constitution, than the hardships of
poverty and neglect. The slave woman at
h.r task will live and grow old, and see
two or three generations of her mistresses
fade and pass away. The washerwoman
with scarce a ray of hope to cheer her in
her toils, will live to sec her fashionable
sisters all extinct. The kitchen maid is
hearty and strong, wheu her lady has to
be nursed like a sick baby.
It is a sad truth that fashion-pampered
women are,--almost worthless for all the
good ends of life; they have but little
force of character; they have still less of
moral will, and quite as little of physical
energy. They live for no great ends
They are dolls formed in the hands of
milliners and servants, to be dressed aud
fed to order. They dress nobody, they
bless nobody^and save nobody. They write
no books, they get no rich examples of
virtue in womans life. If they rear
children, servants and nurses do all, save
to conceive and give them birth. And
when reared, what are they ? What do
they ever amount to, but weaker scions of
the old stock? Who ever heard of a
fashionable woman’s child exhibiting any
virtue and power of mind, for which it
became eminent ? Read the biographies
of our great aud good men and women.
Not one of them had a fashionable mother.
They nearly all sprung from strong
minded women, who had about as little to
do with fashion as with the changing
clouds.
Manners.
Young folks should be mannerly. How
to he so is the question. Many a good
boy and girl Icel that they can not behave
to suit themselves in the presence of
company. They feel timid, bashful, and
self-distrustful the moment they are ad¬
dressed by a stranger, or appear in com¬
pany. There is but one way to get over
this feeling and acquire graceful aud easy
manners, that is to do the best they can
all the time at home, as well as abroad.—
Good manners are not learned from arbi
trary teachings so much as acquired from
habit. They JS> grow upon Y us by J use. We
must , be courteous, agreeable, civil, . kind, .
gentlemanly and womanly at home, and
then it will soon become a kind of second
nature to he so everywhere. A coarse,
rough , manner at , . home . begets habit of
a
roughness, which we cannot lay off if we
try, when we go among strangers. Be
most agreeable at home Home is the
school for all the best things, especially
io r good manners.
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‘Don’t eare much ’bout the bugs/ said
Mr. Swinks, ‘but the truth is I hav’nt got
the blood to spare.'
newjonj^been discovered. It
w extracted front sausages, anjl called
phate of canine.
‘I won’t pay for steaks as tough as
these '’ aa an o r J boarder ; ‘no law can
com P €l me—they’re not legal tender.'
A Fact.— Courtship is bliss, hut mrtri
mony is blister.
The Farmers Creed.
Wo believe in small farms and thorough
cultivation.
Wo believe the soil loves to eat as well
as the owner, and ought, therefore, to be
well manured.
We believe in going to bottom of things,
and therefore, in deep plowing and enough
of it. All the better if it be a sub-soil
plow.
We believe in large crops, which leave
the ground better than they find it—mak¬
ing both tho farm and farmer rich atonco.
We believe that every farm owns a good
farmer.
We believe that the best fertilizer of
any soil is the spirits of industry,. enter¬
prise and intelligence—without this, lime,
gypsum and guano will be of little use.
We beliove in good fences, good barns,
and good farm-houses, good orchards and
children enough to gather the fruit.
V\ e believe in a clean kitchen, a neat
wife in it, a clean cupboard, a clean dairy
and a clean conscience.— Dixie Farmer.
R medy for the Turnip Fly.
S. Edwards Todd, in the Working
banner, proposes to rid the tnruip crop of
this pest by the use of ashes. He says ;
As soon as the young plants can be
seen, let a light sprinkling of wood ashes
b« sifted over the rows. It .ill not iojure
W ‘, r," t,S T ,08ift
Indian odi meal. Aaltos cannot be applied
entisfnetonly .nh the hand. Then™
should be to simply cover the minute
leaves with fine ashes sufficient to prevent
their being devoured by the turnip fly.—
hen ashes are applied by hand without
a eeive, which should be held close to the
ground; careless operators are very liable
to throw it on so bountifully as to smother
the tender plants.
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Household Receipts.
To Prepare Green Corn. —To one qt.
of green corn grated, add one pint of
cream, salt and one large spoon of butter, two hake. eggs,
pepper to the taste, then
Tomatoes Catsup. —Take one bushel
of tomatoes, boil until soft, then squeeze
through a seive and add one-half gallon of
vinegar, a pint and a half of salt, two oun¬
ces of cloves, the fourth of a pound of all¬
spice, three ounces of cayenne, three table
spoons of black pepper, five heads of gar
lick, mix and boil for three hours.
Corn Oysters.—G rate young sweet corn,
and to each pint add one well beaten egg,
a half teacup of flour, half a gill of cream,
and a salt spoon of salt; mix and fry in
hot lard by the spoonful.
Tomatoes. —Few persons cook tomatoes
long enough—they should be cooked three
hours; peel and put into your stew pan
without water, oook slowly ; when almost
done, add butter, pepper, salt and a little
sugar.
On Monday morning, J. D. Enos, the
negro whom Creswell appointed post tnas
ter-at this place, took possession of the
books, records, &c., of the office.
The iniquity of the transaction on the
part of the authorities of the postal de¬
partment—the acceptance of a bond not
woith a farthing in this community—is
appalling
It only strengthens j n our nri n <l the
long lainy entertained opinion that Radical vil¬
and corruption will hesitate at noth¬
ing in attaining its ends.
That from the highest official to the
lowest, they are a pack of knaves, cormo¬
rants—buzzards !
We counsel forbearance,
11 does not degrade us, but them.
We who hare routed “the world in
mail,” and now have our hands manacled
behind us, cannot be degraded, unless we
do it ourselves.
Let us try this arrangement awhile ;—
We are a law abiding people and will re¬
main so-, for we can but “kick against
the pricks.” They are determined that
we sh dl be brought snb juga, and all our
efforts to flank tho authorities will result
in the loss altogether of our postal conve¬
niences.
There may be uninterested madcaps
who t l»nk differently, and men who are
wise ’ ^ a bu * ine f man wiJ !
.admit j at once that f i we mu-t have a post
office, and must have one at Va/doeta. We
tnay talk of political honor and principle,
! other things, hut when the great
Utilitarian, Interest speaks, we listen,
an d we find that some things are not so
h ar< j to bear after all.
Men and brethtren, what shall we do to
be saved ?
We counsel forbearance—till it ceases
to be c virtue.— Valdosta Times.
“I say, Mister, did you sec a dog come
by here that looked as if he were a year,
or year and half or two years old ?” said a
Yankee to a Countryman, at the roadside.
“Yes,” said the couutryman, thinking
bimsfilfouizzcd. “He passed about an
hourj or ^ our ana a half or tw0 hourj}
ago, and u ^ ss about a mile, or a mile
and a baTffor two miles ahead; and he
had a tail about an inch, or an inch and s-
half, or two inches long.” “That'll do, i
“id the Yankee; you’re into me a feet or
a feet and a half, or two feet.”
NO. 17
Scraps.
i .
YE AGED BACHELOR.
When I remember all
The girls I’ve met togetheet, T’M A
I feel like a rooster in the Fall
Exposed to every weather.
I feel like one who treads alone
Some barnyard all deserted, T
Whose oats are fled whose hens are dead,
And off to market started.
i * ■ ' 1 >;,? * fM r*T Si*L
Will Grant ever get the hang of politics
asks the N. Y. Telegram. Probably trot
like old John Brown got it.
Charles Dickens jr. is playing the Dick¬
ens—he is writing a Novel. il icKiif».:£» box
A spiritualist brings a recommendation
from Abe Lincoln for an office. Grant
thinks it is too far-fetched. :>if, tithinb
The woman’s club ‘says they want prin¬
ciples, not men. They’ll want men and
not so much of the priuciples, after
awhile. I
The Omaha Republican chronicles a
goose race. A frequent occurrence near¬
er home—without the feathers.
It is asked “Is Governor > ,, 'i”wsiiWfn Walker i_
of
Virginia a republican or a Democrat.”—
He belongs to neither of those rotton or¬
ganizations# ~
„ A tioo t0 ^ tU „ k! „ u (mt „ f
* oegroes hair i. no. advertised in the
South.” There uswl lo one to teles
|he kink out of Me bond, but it 1, .MU.
ed now. ti brat afJsh
Some of the Radical doilies arc discuss*
ing the subject of ridding their party of
the corrupt element. If they do that r
there won’t be enough of them left to bu¬
ry their dead. T- i vj.jtrr* teat
‘Attention, men !’ said a corporal to a*
division of recruits. ‘When your Dames
are called you say here, and he who is not
here, say absent.’ has 'oJt*o7
What is the difference between a citifer
ed dinner and a person who subsists at the
North Pole ? One has his fill of bear.
‘Harry, you ought not to throw away
nice bread like that; you may want it some
day.’ ‘Well, mother, would I stand any
better chance of getting it then if I should
eat it now ?’
A notice of a recent steamboat explo¬
sion, in a Western paper, ends us follows :
‘The captain swam ashore. So did the
chambermaid; she was insured for $15,
000 and loaded with iron.
A farmer saw au advertised receipt to
prevent wells and cisterns from freeaing.
He sent his money and received in an¬
swer : ‘Take in your well or cistern on
cold nights, and keep it by the fire.’
Josh Billings says: ‘When a young
man a’n’t good for anything else, I like
tew see him carry a goldheaded cane. If
he can’t borrow money enough to buy a
cane, let him part his hair in the middle.’
“Father/ said a cobbler’s boy, as he
was pegging away at an old sho, ‘they say
that trout bite like every thing now.’—
‘Well, well,’ replied the old gentleman,
‘stick to your work and they won’t bito
you.’
A Frenchman, wishing to speak of the
cream of tho English poets, forgot the
word in his enthusiams, and said : The
butter of poets. 1 An Englishman remark¬
ed that he had fairly churned up the Eng¬
lish language.
What is the difference between an old
married couple who remained at home
and quarrel, and a young mared couple
who go skating and break through the
ice ? The first stay in and fall out, and
the second go out and fall in
Said a Baptist to a metbodist: ‘I don’t
like your ohureh government. It isn’t
simple enough. There’s too much ma¬
chinery about it.’ ‘It is true/ replied the
Methodist, ‘wo have more machinery
than you; hut then, you see, it dost’ take
n£ar so much water to run it.’
An old author quaintly remarks :—
“ Avoid argument with ladies. In spin¬
ning yarns among silks and satins, a man
is sure to be worsted and twisted. And
when a man is worsted and twisted, he
may consider himself wound np.”
“Tain’t de white, nor de black folks,
dat bah do most influence in dis worl’,
hut de yalter boys,” said old aun’t Chloe,
as she jingled a few gold coins that had
come down from a former generation.
v [Exchange.
Prentice says man was the chief consid¬
eration at the creation. Woman was on
ly a ‘side issue.’
A married lady being asked to waltz,
gave the following sensible and appropri¬
ate answer, “No, thank you sir. I have
hugging enough at home/ ? t