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The Norcross Advance. FVBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY SIMMONS,VINCENT & 00. • - ; fc SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year $2.00 Five coplee “ “ $8.50 Ten A “ »• ...... $15.00 —ADVERTISING RATES:— o Bpnoe 1 w 2 wji tn 2 m 6 m,12 m i i»ch SIOO s!«»'s 25054 50 $6 001 $lO 00 3 “ 150 2 50l 450 72510 00 18 00 8 “ 100 300 500 900 1500 2200 4 “ 250 850 550 1100 18 00 27 00 K CCL 300 425 650 14 00 25 00 86 00 U “ 550 800 12 50 25 00 40 00 50 00 I M 10 00 15 00 15 00 22 00 62 00 100 00 Advertisements less than one-tourth of n column to be charged for by the square •—for first insertion $1 00 and for each sub sequent insertion 50 cents. Special con tracts ct n be made where short advertise ments are inserted for a longer period than thr e months. One inch shall consti tute am iate. Marriage notices and obituaries, ex net ding six lines, will be charged for as advert! eincnts. Personal or abusive communications Will not be inserted at any price. Communications of general or local in terest, under a genuine signature, are respectfully solicited from any source. SIMMONS, VINf ENT & CO., Publishers. . TO A DEAD WIFE. Pale star, that with tby soft, sad light, Came out upon my bridal eve, I have a song to sing to-night, Before thou tak'st thy mournful leave. Since then, so softly time has stirred, That months have almost seemed as hours, And I am like a little bird That riept too long among the flowers, And, waking, sits with waveless wing, Soft singing ’mid the shades of even; But, oh! with sadder hear; I sing— I sing of one who dwells In heaven. The winds are soft, the clouds are few, And tendered thoughts my heart beguiles As floating up through mists and dew The pale youngmoon comes out and smiles And to the green, resounding shore, In silvery troops, the ripples crowd, Till all the ocean, dimpled o'er, lifts up its voice and laughs aloud; ▲ad star on star, all soft and calm, Floats up yon arch serenely blue; ▲nd, lost to earth, and steeped in balm, My spirit floats in ether, too. loved one, though lost to human sight, I feel thy spirit lingering near, ▲nd softly as I feel the light That trembles through the atmosphere, ▲a, in some temple s holy shades, Though mute the hymn and hush’d the ■prayer, ▲ solemn awe the scul pervades, Which tells that worst) ip has been there; ▲ breath of incense left alone Wl«re many a censur swung around, Which thril’s the wanders, like to one Who treads on consecrated ground. I know thy soul, from worlds of bliss, Yet stoops awoile to dwell with me— Oath caught the prayer I breathe in this, That I at last may d*ell with * . I hear a murmer from the seas, Thai thrills me lik. that sp rit’a sighs; I hear a voice on every breese, That makes to mine its lew replies ▲ voice all low and sweet like thine, It gives an answer to my prayer, ▲nd given my soul, from heaven, a sign That I will know and meet thee there. I’ll know than there by that sweet face, ’Hound which a tender halo plays, Still touched with that expressive grace That made thee lovely a.l thy days; By that awoet smile that o’er it shed ▲ beauty like the light of even, Whose soft expression never fled, E’en when its soul had fled to heaven ; I’ll know the by the st wry crown That glitters n thy raven hair; Oh I by these bless<xi signs alone, I’ll know thee there-I’ll know thee there. Bor ah! thine eyes, within whose sphere The sweets of youth and beauty met, That swarm in love and softness here, Must swim in love and softness yet; For ah 1 ha dark anti liquid beams, Though saddened ny a th<'usand sighs, Were holier than the light that streams Down from the gates of paradise, Were bright and radlent like the morn, Yet soft and dewy as the eve— Too sad for eyes where wnilcs ate born, Too sad fur eyes that learn to grieve. I wonder if tMs cool, sweet breese Hath touched thy lips and fanned thy brow; For all my spirit bears and sees Recalls thee to my memory now; For every hour we breathe apart WIU but increee, if that can be, The love that fills this lonely heart, Already filled so full of thee. Yet many a tear th wc eyes must weep, And many a sin must be forgiven, Ere theae pak lids shall sink to sleep, ▲nd you and I shall meet in heaven. Eiaarr Trams Wituout Eatixo.— There is a young woman named Mary Fancher, residing at the corner of Gates avenue and Downing street, Brooklyn, who has, it is amerced by her physician. Dr. S. F. Spier, taken no food lor eight years. She is twenty-five years of age, bright and intelli gent ▲» • girt, she was adore applicant to her studies, and wm wont to abandon her meate to ponder over b< r book*. until the strain upon her inteUcctual and physi cal strength overcame her. She also sus tained injuries by bring thrown from a horse Subsequently she fell off a Fulton avenue tear ami wm dragged along the street finr a dtotoece of forty feet by her mediae catching in the tear. She was then afflicted by absolute tofTMIB proairetkia, ami has since been confined to her bed. Her leg-* ape twisted and brr bands are drawn up be hind her brad. Six- sleeps but little, sad ta said to be endowed by clairvuy ml fbcul tto*. Sbe works emi-reldcry in color* with great faculty, and has m -de dippm> and maohiag-cap* * lU| inlriah worked m them. The doctor to posittoe that tlx re to no <k dereptkm in the rase, and tare raid cvvtv effwrt peosftk to detect any Uyo of imprai tawv uut to no iwrpooc. The rare has baf fled the skill of buodreds of phvdeiara who Y Herd J THE NORCROSS ADVANCE. BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. [communicated. ] THE PANIC AND CROPS IN CHEROKEE. Ophir, Ga., Nov. 9,1873. Prof. J. U. Vincent, Dear Sir: It seems that bankers, mer chants, railroads, mechanics, and everybody else are going into bankruptcy. If men of means would come in and take their place—men of fidelity and ability adequate to the business of the country (there should be at least a reasonable combination of both) and establish business upon a per manent and solid basis, to au ex tent that when a farmer wished to invest money he might never ask the question is there any risk in taking stock in this or that railroad, or depositing money in this or that bank, but make him feel that when he wants to make an investment the only enquiry necessary to be made is, which pays the best dividend ? Then when the farmer sells his cotton, instead of putting the money in his pocket, he could invest or loan it. Hence thousands of dollars that is now worthless to the com mercial world, would be feeding every species of business, which would add at least twenty five per cent, to the currency of the coun try, and there would be no bank rupts in our land, but every lock in commercial circles would be unlocked and prosperity would attend every household. May God speed the time. The weather has been cool and pleasant for the past two weeks. 1 don’t remember that 1 ever saw a more favorable season for gath ering crops. The farmers geni ally are done picking cotton, gath ering corn and sowing wheat. Cotton is turning out finely, but the corn crop is light—at least one third below the crop of last year. Should cotton remain at the pres ent low prices until spring, the crop, in acerage, will be at least one-half below that of the present year. I am glad to learn that the Nor cross High School will be contin tied next year; will take pleasure in representing the interest of this enterprise, as 1 feel it my uuty, and it should be the duty of every one, to further the cause of education. May your labors be crowned with overwhelming suc cess. Rural. DESCRIPTION OF JESUS. The following epistle was taken by Napoleon from the public re cords of Rome when he deprived that city of so many valuable manuscripts. It was written at the time and on the spot where Jesus commenced his ministry, by Publius Sentellus, the Governor of Judea, to the Senate of Rome- Caesar being Emperor. It was the custom in those days for the Governor to write home events of importance that tran spired while he held office. CONSCRIPT FATHERS. “There appeared in these our days a man named Jesus Christ, who is yet living among us, and is by the Gentiles accepted as a prophet of great truth, but his own disciples call him the Son of God. lie hath raised the dead, cured all manner of disease. He is a man of stature somewhat tall and comely, with a very ruddy coun tenance, such as one may both love and fear. His hair is of the color of a filbert when it is fully ripe, plain to his ears, whence downward it is more orient of color and waving about his shoul ders. In the middle of his head is a seam of partition of long hair after the manner ol the Naxarines. His forehead is plain and delicate; his face without spot or wrinkle beautiful wi’h a comely red. His nose and mouth are exactly form ed. His beard is of the color of his hair, and thick, not of any great length but forked In re proving, he is terrible; in admon ishing, courteous ; in speaking, he is very modest and wise: in pro portion of body, well shaped. None have seen him laugh, but many have seen him weep. A man for his surprising beauty ex celling the children of men.” There is said to be a can of nitro glycerine buried in the Capitol square at Raleigh, N. C,, where it was secreted just before the sur render. but the exact place of eon cealment has been lost, and no one dare dig for it, as the blow of a pick might send the digger sky rar! SAD ACCIDENT. Editors Advance: Many readers of your paper will feel sad to learn of the sudden death of old brother Samuel Conn, of Cherokee county, Ga., who was suddenly killed last week by a loft of corn falling upon him, which he had put up in the shuck over head, while helping his little grandson to unload a wagon under the shelter. In him the Baptist Church has lost a useful, prominent member; the community a good and be loved citizen, and his aged com panion—a dear husband, and his children a good father. But no doubt is entertained by any who knew him that he is now at rest with his Jesus, whom he so de lighted to serve on earth. May the Lord console the bereaved family and friends, and raise up more such faithful and belo/ed church members and citizens to fill his place. A. S. Tatum. TWO KINDS OF WOMEN. We once knew a man who had married a spoiled beauty, whose murmurs, exactions and caprices were infinite. He had at last, as a refuge to his wearied nerves settled down into a habit of utter disregard and neglect; he treated her wishes and complaints with equal indifference, and went on with his life as nearly as possible as if she did notex ft. He silently provided for her what he thought proper without troubling himself to notice her requests or listen to her grievances. Sickness came, but the heart of her husband was cold and gone, there was no sym pathy left to warm her. Death came, and he breathed freely as a man released. He married again— a woman with no beauty, but much love and goodness—a wo man who asked little, blamed seldom, and then with all the tact and address which the utmost thoughtfulness could devise; and the passive, negligent husband became the attentive, devoted slave of her will. He was in her hands as clay in the hands of the potter; the least breath or sugges tion of criticism from her lips, who criticised so little and so thought fully, weighed more with him than many outspoken words. So dif ferent is the same human being, according to the touch of the hand which plays upon it 1 Absent-Minded.—The Danbury News says : Here is another sad result of being absent-minded. A citizen of New street has been several times dunned for an amount due his grocer, but has al ways neglected to settle. Tester day he received the bill again with a note sharply reminding him of his backwardness. He at once counted out the money, and, hav ing done so, deliberately enclosed in the bill a sheet of fly-paper, and put the money in his pocket again. Then feeling a trifle irri tated by the tone of the grocer's note, he relieved himself by scrib bling on the back of the bill: “This is all the money you will get out of me,” and sent it. When the merchant read these words and looked at the fly-paper, he took it all in at a glance, and ex plosively shouting,“Stuck, am I ?” put his cap on wrong and dashed out to the nearest law office. The papers were promptly diawn up and immediately served upon the astonished citizen. When notified of the trick on the grocer, he in dignantly repelled the insinua tion ; but upon feeling in his pocket and discovering the money he was forced to admit that his treacherous mind had got the best of him. Explanations followed, good nature was restored, the le gal people refused any compen sation, and the whule party buried all memory of the unpleasantness in exhilrating soda water at the expense of the grocer. After that they had segars all round at the expense of the pleased customer, who, in his delight at the happy result of the threatened trouble, lost sight entirely of the fact that ho never smoked. Fifteen min utes later, when resting over a barrel in the back yard of the store, and trying his best to keep down his stockings, he bitterly regretted that ho hadn’t went to law and “busted’’ that grocer, Horace Greely says; In noth ing else do sensible, moral, intel ligent men act so irrationally as when they persist in the habitual >l«e of alcoholic liquors. NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1873. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE— WHAT OF IT ALL? [From the Springfldd Republican.] And now the question comes— Cui bono? what does it amount to? In the first place, the ques tion can only be answered in part, because the tidal waves of influ ence that this conference started have only begun to roll. They surged against some of the New York pulpits, and some of the Dame Partingtons got out their brooms. One of the excellent things about it is, that it has not attempted to settle anything by votes and resolutions. Its author ity is simply that of the influence that rightly belongs to it through .the light it has disseminated and the convictions it has established. Another good result is, that it has taught good lessons as to the best methods of polemical dis cussion ; one of them, respect to ward the opponents of evangeli cal Christianity, whether on the Romanist or rationalistic side. Some of the ablest minds from European countries came prepar ed with the best results of their profoundest investigations. They showed to us their sort of armor, and their most skillful weapons, and how, in long.and hard en counters, they are won, to use them, and that it is altogether in vain to think of putting down the great superstitions of mighty unbeliefs with superficial asser tions, or old worn out stock argu ments. Our preachers, too, have had abundant homiletical lessons. In the earnestness, simplicity and scripturalness of these foreign preachers and the way to preach expositorily and eloquently and yet effectively, they have been taught some things worth know ing. We know, »lso, very much better, exactly what Christianity has to contend with throughout the world at the present moment —the actual tactics of its opposing ibices, and that the most power iul of them is Unbelief in its va rious forms rather than Roman ism. We have still further learned through this uprising of popular interest, constantly increasing to the tnd of these meetings, that the people are not so indifferent as we might have imagined to the vital themes of Christianity, and that there is a remarkable eager ness of the public mind attending such discussions when carried on with real thoroughness and ability. One of the best of the indirect results has been and will be the great amount of good that has been generated in the meeting together of so many thoughtful and influential men from such di verse parts of the wotld. Perma nent and valuable friendships have been formed, that will tell on a great variety of human in terests. While we Americans have been benefitted in return for no ble hospitalities by all this gen eral intercourse of thought and kindliness, reflex influences will go abroad to France, Germany, Italy, England and other nations represented. But best of all were the human itarian aspects of the meetings, the deep and earnest philanthro pic impulses that pervaded them in the elaborated discussions of social evilsand reformatory meas ures, missions, home and foreign, the labor question, and all the methods by which Christianity seeks to enlighten and uplift man kind. Little Thorns.—The sweetest, the most clinging affection is often shaken by the slightest breath of unkindness, as the delicate rings and tendrils of the vine are agi. tated by the faintest breath of air that blows in summer. An un kind word from one beloved often draws blood from many a heart which would defy the battle axe or the keenest edge of vindictive satire. Nay, the shade, the gloom of the face familiar and dear, awakens grief and pain. These are the little thorns which, though men of rougher form may make their way through them without feeling them much, extremely in commode persons of a more re fined turn in their journey through life and make their travelling irk some and unpleasant. Little Willis Jackson, of Catoosa county, is on exhibition in Atlanta. Ho is six years old, weighs one hundred and ten pounds, and has twelve finger' and twelve locs, ALL SORTS. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience and truth may be drowned. A man tried to sweeten his tea and coffee with his wile’s smiles, but after a short time he fell back on sugar. “Mynheer, do you know for what we call our boy Hans ?” “Do not, really,” “Well, I tell you- Der reason dat we call our boy .Hans, dat ish his name.” A Madison county lad, twelve years old, picked three hundred and three pounds of cotton in one day recently. The Georgia bovs are beating Cuffee even on his own ground. At a hotel one boarder remark ed to his neighbor, “This must be a healthy place for chickens.” “Why ?” asked the other. “Be cause I never see any dead ones hereabouts.” A newspaper philosopher has discovered that when a woman gets a letter she carries it in her hand, but a couple of pounds of sausage she manages to squeeze in her pocket. “Many Christians,” says Beecher, “are like chestnuts—very pleas ant nuts, but enclosed in very prickly burrs, which need various dealings of nature, and her grip of frost, before the kernel is dis closed.” An old fanner said to his sons: don’t you ever wait for something to turn up. You might just as well go and sit down on a stone in the middle of a meadow, with a pail atwixt your legs, an’ wait for a cow to back up to you to be milked.” The famous wit and beauty, Lady Wortley Montague,made the most sarcastic observation ever published about her sex. “It goes far,” she said, “to reconcile me to being a woman when 1 reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.” A young man, who knows all about it, states that his experience has taught him that a flirt is a fool, who delight io |oohng fools, and the 100 l who is fooled by such a fool is the foolishest kind of a fool. He’s been fooled badly, we should judge. “I don’t see anything the mat ter with this plum pudding,” said a fellow at a thanksgiving dinner. “Who said there was ?” growled out his neighbor. “Why” said the first, “I concluded there was, as you all seem to be running it down. A woman in Mississippi inter fered with her brother’s courtship, and begged him to stay at home evenings. He waited untill the evening she expected her own lover, and complied with her re quest, and now she says that ternal affection is a heartless mockery. The Springfield (Mass.) Repub lican states that a Lowell man has just eloped with his own wife. He deserted her for another wo man seven years ago, and she went to California and got rich, and returning a few days ago found him repentant ffliid quite tender toward her and her money, so they met by appointment at the depot and eloped in due form, California being the objective point. At a revival meeting in one the interior towns of Mississippi, the minister observed one ol the con gregation to be sound asleep. Shocked at such a sight, the good man went up to the unconscious person, awoke him and asked him if he was a Christian, “No,” said the man “1 am editor of a news paper.” “Then in the name of God. let us pray!” replied the de voted minister, greatly astonished at such an answer. Bill Arp on the panic: “ Munny to bo healthy must be skatterd around so that ev rybody can git some. When its most all piled up in a lew pyramids the least jostle i will tumble it to the ground. If I was King I’d fix a remedy for! bloated fortunes nrity quick. I'd tax a man nothin on an incum of! 5 thousan dollars and under. I'd j tax 10 per cent, on all between 5 , and 10 thousan ; twenty per cent. | on all between 10 and 20 thousan, and so on.doublin up to 50 thou 1 san. Above that I'd take it all, i every dollor. I tell you that will i get em. That will keep down these ! Wall street rings. It will let a ' man have euuff for all decent and ! respektable purposes, and after i that he must do his sheer for them ■ who sweat and toil and ha vent been as smart or as mean or as lucky as himself. It we put a limit upon a man’s avarice and keep munny in better employment than payin 150,000 for a horse or 100 thnnsan for a diamon pin." VOL. 1.-NO. 21. CHEAP HOMES, AMD ON LONS TIME FOn SALE IX GWINNETT COUNTY. The lands which were advertised for sale in Lawrenceville, on the first Tues day in this month, by the subscriber, were not sold at auction, as was intended, in consequence of the money crisis now pre vailing, and the heavy rain which fell Rul ing sale hours. A minimum price was fixed on each tract, however, and a few were sold at private sale. Those described below were not sold, and are now offered at the price to each annexed, to-wit: The North, ast c irner of lot number 141, and a part of number 148, containing about 75 acres. This p’ace lies one mile south ot the Couit-house, in Lawrenceville, on the Covington road. There is a dwelling house, stable, ft ell of first-rate water, a young orchard, and about lorty acres of pretty level gray land in a good conditio i for a crop next year; the balance is all in the woods. Price $lO per a ire. The Southeast corner of the same lot, and part of number 148, making another tract of about 75 acres. This is all in the woods, and contains a good deal of branch bottom, with a beautiful building spot, on the same road. Price $7 per acre. The Southwest corner of number 141. This is all in the woods, lies well and is well timbered, except some ten to fifteen acres, which is a pine old fine. The soil is good and contains a large proportion of bottom land. Price $7 per acre. The Northeast, Southeast and South west quarters of lot number 140, contain ing, according to original surrey, sixty two and a half acres each. The Cov.ngton road runs nearly on the Northeast line of this lot. and a right of way to the lower side of the lot from the road will be re serve I. These three tracts are all in the woods, well watered, and on each could be opened a nice little farm. Price of each $7 per acre. As many of the above tracts will be sold together as may be desired, or any person applying can have either alone. A tract of acres, adjoining Wm. J. Born, Dr. Mitchell and Colonel N. L. Hut chins’ lands, lying inside of the town cor poration, and good red land, well watered, all ready for the plough. Price sls per acre The Gorden place,with 50 acres of wood land, in the Southeast corner of number 130. On this place there is a good dwelling house, with seven rooms* and a poor crib and stable, one and a fourth miles from the Court-house, on the Jefferson road. There is a first-rate spring, well improved and surrounded b> native forest trees, near the house, and about 75 acres of first rate red land, now all lying out. The houses and fences are in bad condition, but can be made good with but reasonable coat. The two tracts contain 175 acres. Price $1,200. Any competent judge would, on seeing this property, pronounce it very cheap. The Hollinsworth place, on the same road, two ml es from the Court-house. This place contains 250 acres, number 2U7, and has always been considered one of the best farms in the neighborhood. Im provements fair,‘about one-half e'eared, and the other in the woods. If desired, this lot will be divided into two equal parts, by running a line across the road, so as to throw one-half on the side next to K. T. Terrell, and the other next to J. M. Ambros’ farm, and the purchaser can have choice of aides at the price asked, which is $lO per acre. Also, about 75 acres in the Northeast corner of lot number 130, on the same road, and adjoining the lands of J. M. Ambrose and others. Os this tract about 25 acres is old field, and the balance all wood lands. There is an old house place on the road, two and three-fourth miles from town, and several fruit and shade trees around it-—a beautiful place for a residence. Price six dollars per acre. All these lands lie in the fifth district of said county, and within eight or nine miles of the Air-Lane Railroad, and to enable persons of small means to secure homes : for themselves and families, are offered on • the following easy terms, to-wit: One- • fourth cash, one at two years, one at three ! and the other at four years, with interest I at ten per cent. William E. Simmons, Samuel J. Winn, 1 or Dr. T. K. Mitchell, would show the property to strangers wl.hing to see it. For further panic liars, address .TAME' P. SIMMONS, novl’tf . ' JOB WORB OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Promptly and Nkatit Executed at THE ADVANCE JOB OFFICE, At Reasonable Prices, or GIVE US A CALL, PROSPECTUS. - Q-»- * THE NORCROSS ADVANCE —AND— CHRISTIAN UNION, PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNDnDAT At Norcross, Georgia, BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. TE RMS: One copy one year .| 2 00 One copy six months. 1 00 One copy three months, co To clubs of five one year.......... 8 50 To clubs of ten one year 15 00 To Ministers of the gospel half price. 0 THE ADVANCE Is designed to promote all the great interests of our readers especially, and ot our country and race generally. To do that we promise to give them each week the most important news, both Foreign and Domestic ; the Market Re ports and Atlanta Prices Current; the Legal Sales of Gwinnett and a few other counties,etc., and such Literary,Scientific, Educational, Political, Agricultural and Religious rewrttng mntterns we may from time to time think most interesting and profitable. In Politics the ADVANCE will be independent; but it will not be partisan, nor do injustice to any party, oi indi vidual, knowingly. And, as we hon estly believe, that the first and chief care of all Christians should be to defend our holy religion against the wiles of Satan— his hosts and tneir arms, we will discharge this sacred duty, as best wo can, under the guidance of Him who Is able to direct and keep us in the way of truth- We will also studiously avoid giving cause of offense to any professed Christian on account of difference of opinion, and will not, through this medium, attempt to build up any one branch of the Church more than others, nor to injure any ouo ut them, OUR RELIGIOUS PLATFORM. We believe that there i$ a per sonal God—who created and over rules all things—that Jesus Christ is His Son and our Savior, and that the Holy Ghost is His messenger and our instructor. That the Bible was written by inspiration of God—is true—and the only safe foundation for Christian faith and practice. That the soul is immortal—that there will be a resurrection of the dead and final judgment, and that the punishment of the unre deemed will be eternal. And will insist, that all who agree in these fundamental propo sitions,and seek salvation through Christ, constitute his Church, and should all unite and co-operato with Him, and each other, in the sacred work of redemption, as an affectionate family of brothers and listers. Jamfij P. Simmons, I U- VIK’CFNT,