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The Norcross Advance.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1873.
JAS. P. SIMMONS, ) p ... ro
JAS. U. VINCENT. ( Edltors -
TOWN MEETING.
The citizens of Norcross are re
quested to meet at the old acade
dy on the night of the 17th inst.,
for the purpose of nominating
eouncilfnen for the ensuing year.
This will be an important meet
ing, and all who are interested in
the welfare of our town should be
present and aid in selecting men
who will Watch and work for the
interest ofit. Every citizen should
feel an interest in our municipal
government for 1874. There are
several important regulations that
must be established, and many
important enterprises that must
be begun and consummated, if
we would have our town continue
its moral and material growth.
Bring forward your candidates.
«— ... t
SUWANNEE ITEMS.
We are indebted to our Suwan
nee correspondent for the follow
ing news items:
Mrs. Scales, wife of W. T. Scales,
died near that place on the sth
instant.
A Mr. Chapman was, by some
accident, caught in the gearing of
a cotton gin and instantly killed,
on the same day arid in the same
neighborhood.
Suwannee is looking up. Some
live or six lots have been purchas
ed there within the last two or
three weeks, and the owners are
preparing to put good buildings
on them at once. One of them has
a good store house already near
completion, convenient to the
depot. A mineral spring has re
cently been discovered near the
town, the water of which is said
to have been thoroughly tested
and found equal to that of the
celebrated Ponce DeLeon Spring,
near Atlanta.
That town is certainly located
in one of the best sections of
country through which the Air-
Line runs from Atlanta to Char
lotte.
The lands are very productive,
the water is unsurpassed by any,
and a better population than that
which surrounds .Suwannee depot
cannot be found in any country
neighborhood on this road.
Thon why should not the town
prosper ?
CHARITY.
On last Saturday we noticed sov
eral members of the Presbyterian
and Baptist Church giving liber
ally for the support of our popular
Methodist Minister. On Monday
morning wo saw a leading mem
ber of the Methodist Church walk
up to our aged Presbyterian Min
ister and hand him a bill of green
backs. He was not asked for it.
It was not expected by the grate
ful recipient. We can but admire
such catholic spirit in the mem
bers of different denominations.
It is a hopeful sign for the reli
gious prosperity of Norcross. Let
such a spirit be cultured and dif
fused throughout the churches,
and no longer will the cry of
“Church Deterioration” be heard.
A CANDIDATE FOR MATRIMONY.
Editors :
There is a widow lady in our
town who says she would marry a
man that has a self-sustaining
occupation; but does not want a
man who is a well digger, or dit
cher, low-legged or cross-eyed.
She wants a man who can hold
his end of the rope as well as she
can hers—who will keep her in
bread and meat, while she will
keep everything clean and neat.
She is an honorable Christian
lady, and is in deep earnest about
this matter. So gentlemen here
is, at least, one chance. Shave up
and come forward. Don’t wait for
your high beaver.
Respectfully, A.
The Franking Privilege.—Have
we not had enough of the effects
of abolishing the franking priv
ilege# Has any good resulted
from its abolition ? If so, what ?
We think the press of the govern
ment is responsible for its aboli
tion. We now ask eui bono f
Os all the agonies in life, that
which is the most poignant and
harrowing- that which tor the
time annihilates reason,and leaves
our whole organization one lace
viction that we have been de
ceived where we placed all the
trurt of love.
RELIGIOUS.
We commend to our readers the
following editorial article, which
we find in the Christian Union, of
last week.
That paper is edited by one of
the most learned theologians, able
and eloquent writers, and who is
also one of the most liberal mind
ed men of the age.
His remarks of the present con
dition and past history of the
Catholic Church, and of her mon
asteries and various orders, as well
as his suggestions of duty on the
part of Protestants, are well worth
careful thought of all Christians:
THE SUPPRESSION OF THE ROMAN
MONASTERIES.
The Church of Rome, sitting to
day in the shadows, echoes the
wail of the mourning Mother and
Poet:
When you want a great song for your
Italy, free,
Let none look at me, let none look at me.
For twenty years, every move
ment which has enlarged the lib
erties of the people has involved
a corresponding restriction of the
scope of the Church. And the
halting attempt of the Sardinian
parliament, in 1854, to curtail the
excessive power of the priesthood,
has grown at last into the sup
pression and sequestration of even
the Roman Monasteries, and the
dispersion of the Orders. More
than this, (he conventual property
is either to be sold at auction or
retained by government for pur
poses of charity, public business,
or public instruction.
The propriety of these sweeping
reforms is vindicated by the state
ment that while, as late as 1870,
there were seven priests to every
thousand inhabitants throughout
the kingdom, not one in five of
the entire population could read
and write. And while the reve
nues of the Brotherhoods were
enormous, the scanty school-fund
was raised with difficulty. The
change in public opinion which
they denote is seen in the fact
that the property is readily salea
ble. Any possession of the Church
is, in theory, inalienable, unless
the Church voluntarily parts with
it. The Pope has laid all seques
trated property under ban. But
daring Catholics have bought such
monastic buildings and land as
government has offered for sale in
other parts of Italy, during the
last few years, and have found
that the stones did not tumble
about their ears nor their fields
yield only thistles. So, despite
the papal curse, not Jews and un
believers only, but faithful sons
of the church attend the Roman
auction sales, and offset their pain
ful scruples, if they have any,with
the comfortable sense of a good
bargain.
No doubt the time had come
when the monasteries and the Or
ders were cumberers of the ground
and nurseries of evil. No doubt it
was a wise statesmanship which
has uprooted them. No doubt that
reformer, political economist, and
philanthropist have just cause of
gratulation in this new departure.
Yet the staunchest advocate of
progress, the stoutest Protestant,
the most unsentimental of utilita
rians can afford to remember the
conventual system tenderly for
its dead usefulness. Every one of
the monastic Brotherhoods had
its beginning in a passionate ex
altation of spirit, a fervid devo
tion to the worship of God, a pro
found and utter longing to live in
Christ and to reveal him to the
world, such as our age can hardly
conceive. Those early monks were
so sincere believers that they
never dreamed of explaining the
words of Jesus. He had incul
cated poverty, chastity, and obe
dience, both in his words and by
his walk. They vowed themselves
to poverty, chastity, and obedi
ence. Their life was to meditate
on him, and do his work.
Lest they should know anything
save Christ ami him crucified,they
forswore every human bond. They
fasted and scourged themselves
that the body might be wholly
subjected to the spirit. They an
nihilated the individual in order
to be altogether possessed by God.
They enjoined celibacy that they
might be untempted of earthly
affections. They sought obscurity
and hardship that they might not
seek for worldly advancement.
They gave up manhood with its
infinite riches, that they might
attain sainthood, with its blood
less nonentity, not for its heaven
ly rewards, but because it was
God’s own will. The monasteries
them elves, were fragrant with
purity. 1 hey were the spare abode
of men who had overcome the
world. But their bareness was
fairer than luxury, since it was the
expression oi holiness.
By and by corruption crept in.
as was inevitable. The monks
were overcome of evil. The mon
asteries became the home of
nameless vices. But, by-and-by,
■ again, a great revival swept over
them. The impluse of the first
■ centuries of the Church awoke
once more. If the monks had out
grown the earlier mysticism, their
spirit of worship but put on an
other form. If their faith had
ceased in a measure to be con
templative, it had become opera
tive. They taught the ignorant.
They succored the starving They
interferred between the oppressor
and his victim. They braved pes
tilence and famine, asking no re
ward. They went as missionaries
to the ends of the known world.
They counted martyrdom but joy
for His name’s sake. Their walls
sheltered the debtor, the criminal,
the outcast. Whom these houses
of God protected the powers of
this world dared not touch. All
the arts combined to make them
beautiful. It was the debt they
owed to the only sanctuary which
learning and the arts could find
throughout the Dark Ages.
Again the light of the monas
teries went out in darkness, not
again to be rekindled. The idea
which gave them birth, that emas
culation and not consecration of
man’s powers is holiness,the world
outgrows. The work they did has
been taken up by more efficient
hands. Civilization is learning
that education is not a charity but
a right. It is coming to perceive
that the only real help for the
poor is the teaching them to help
themselves. It begins to under
stand that the Religious Orders
are not composed of ascetics bound
by vows to renounce the world,
but of those unvowed, unfrocked,
■ stout-bodied saints, who, living in
the world, labor to make it better
through wholesome, hearty, lov
ing humanity.
But if, with our broader light,
we nineteenth century Christians
bring less earnestness to our dif
ferent task,then the zeal of the
monks shame us. Especially if we
bring not insight to see that the
Romanist idea, (like the ideas of
all past faiths), was not a lie but
a partial truth, and humility to
be grateful that, through the Cath
olic attainment of that moiety,we
Brotestants have been able, as we
believe,to reach almost the whole,
then the lowly spirit of the Bro
therhoods is our reproach.
“There is more day to dawn,”
wrote Thoreau. Perhaps when the
millennial glory smites our dull
eyes we may discern our present
selves and our present dogmas to
have been as fanatical, as foolish,
and as far removed from the true
communion with Christ, as the
common judgment carelessly as
serts the monastics to have been.
A teacher is troubled with what
he calls a Sunday School flirt, a
young, giddy girl, who never pays
attention to what is going on in
her class, but has her eyes glanc
ing over to John Soft or Charlie
. Simple, and he wants to know
how to manage her. Reraon
, strances do no good, and her ex
ample is bad. He has a remedy,
but his superintendent objects to
his applying it as springing from
a low motive. It is, to bring John
. and Charlie into the same class
with Miss Flirt, which would take
away the illusions that disturb
her mind, and would reveal to
them that she was the most back
ward of all the girls in the class.
This would bring her to her-senses
if anything could. Now that
teacher, and he is not far from
right, claims that any method
that will overcome the girl’s flir-
I tation ought to be used, because
I it is not worse than the flirtation
■ itself, and might accomplish its
object. Incorrigible cases can be
' shamed into propriety oftentimes,
and why should this not be done
in the Sabbath School, when eve
r? thing else fails t
[Christian Union.
An American pilgrimage to
Rome is not after aR such a vis
| ion ary sceme. From the tone of
: many of the Catholic papers, we
pudge that next summer will, in
J all probability, see an emigration
■of pilgrims from this country to
i the Holy City. To be sure it will
I cost each of the devout travelers
; the sum of three hundied dollars,
' but what is that to a special bene
diction from the Pope ? Arch-
• bishop Manning hopes the pil
grimage will be made byway of
I London, so that he can open h.s
1 | cathredal to the faithful from the
New World, and speed them on
their mission. A writer in the
s Catholic Review suggests that
the dress worn on the occasion
be of :;avj blue, so that al! the
world may know that the pilgrims
I are Americans.
[Christian Union.
.A. oricul Liivstl,
KEEPING OUT OF DEBT.
RAISING PROVISIONS AT HOME.
[From the Southern Cultivator.]
Much has been written and said
on this subject, not only in agri
cultural journals but newspapers,
and the cry has been caught up
and resounded by the farmer’s
great friends, the politician (?)
We believe it to be sound policy
to raise needed provisions at home,
but with some of the arguments
presented in its favor, we are by
no means satisfied. One of the
most universally urged is, a smal
ler amount of cotton raised, will
bring just as much money as a
large crop. Now it is conceded
that when a cotton crop is small,
from disaster of any kind, drought,
caterpillar, etc., the price is there
by generally improved. But sup
posing it practicable to bring
about a co-operation of farmers to
produce small crops of cotton, (a
thing absolutely impracticable)
as soon as this is known in other
cotton producing countries, the
prospect of high prices would
stimulate them at once to in
creased production, involving
again a lowering of prices. A
practical illustration of this is
furnished by the history of cotton
during and since the late •war.
Although foreign cotton raisers
knew that the war might be stop
ped at any moment and the South
ern cotton raisers be again brought
in competition with them, still the
high price of cotton during the
war, so stimulated them that they
now furnish from one-third to one
half the cotton that is consumed
in Europe and the United States.
It is only by raising a good article
of cotton cheaper than other coun
tries can, that we can control the
market. During three years of
the late war, the world managed
to get along without our cotton,
and it is useless to deceive our
selves with the idea that we have
a monopoly of that article.
Again. Discussions about rais
ing provisions at home are gene
rally limited to all cotton versus
corn and cotton. This is by no
means a fair presentation of the
case; for in some, perhaps in many
cases, it may be cheaper to make
cotton to buy corn than to raise
the corn. The true statement is :
all cotton versus corn, oats, bar
ley, rye, wheat, millet, peas, clo
ver, lucerne, grass, potatoes, tur
nips, beets, etc. Selecting some
or all of these, according to his
climate and soil, the farmer can
raise his provisions at home much
cheaper than he can buy them
with cotton money. One for in
stance who has valley lands can
raise corn very cheaply, especial
ly if enough manure is applied to
make the yield fifty to seventy
five bushels per acre—but one
owning no land of that character
would find it a losing business to
raise corn on old, badly worn up
lands. The latter, however, would
experience no difficulty in raising
small grain or clover or grass, etc.
Corn (maize) is not raised in Nor
thern Europe, and yet dense pop
ulations and vast quantities of
domestic animals are maintained
in those countries. Why cannot
the same be done at the South?
Our mild winters and abundant
rains, in contrast with our hot
summers and excessive droughts,
clearly indicate winter and spring
crops as those upon which chief
reliance should be placed for stock
feed. To these belong all those
named above except corn, peas,
millet, sweet potatoes and tur
nips. As often urged before, the
oat ought to be the leading grain
crop of the South. We do not ap
preciate it properly because we
have always made it a secondary
or side crop, and have never given
it a fair chance. The land for it
is rarely broken up, the poorest is
assigned to it, and scarcely any
one ever thinks of giving it the
assistance of manure. Is it any
wonder that under such treatment
the crop often fails ? Suppose corn
and cotton were treated in that
way, would they do any better?
Peas also receive much the same
treatment —planted as a side crop
in corn, shaded and starved by it
in the early stages of growth, and
so belated as to be often cut off
by frost. Before the war it was
customary on the seaboard of this
State to plant a regular crop of
peas apart from that planted in
the corn, and few farmers failed
to raise enough to feed their hor
ses and mules the entire season—
corn was rarely fed to stock. With
out farther specification,we assert
boldly that the same quantity and
quality of land, the same labor
and the same manuring, applied
to several of the crops named
above, selected for their adapta
tion to each localitv. as is now
applied to corn or that part of the
cotton which supplants it—would
produce an abundance of provi
sions on every farm at the South.
Finally We urge upon ourfriends
after they have gotten out of debt,
and arranged to work within their
means, the firm and inexorable
resolve to live within their means
Buy nothing you cannot pay the
cash for. Could a majority oi the
farmers of the South be induced
to pursue such a course, our cot
ton crop could be held whenever
circumstances rendered it desir
able. The farmer from time to
time, as he needed money, could
bring a bale or two to market —
the latter would never be glut
ted —the speculator would thus
be driven out of the field, and all
the legitimate profits would pass
into the farmer’s pocket.
Attention Buyers !
We arc offering for cash the following
lines or goods very low :
DRY GOODS.
Staple and Fancy.
SHOES.
Ladies’, Mens’ and Boys’.
IT ATS.
Mens’, Boys’ and Ladies’.
GROCERIES.
Heavy and Light.
TINWARE,
HARDWARE,
CROCKERY, ETC., ETC.
We have on hand a consignment of
Virginia Salt, which we are offering very
1< w
Give us a call before purchasing else
where, and do net hesitate to call for what
you want to see.
■‘Quick sales and small profits” is our
motto.
oct22 ts ALLEN * JONES.
Alpharetta Hotel.
COLONEL ROBERTS, Proprietor
AND ATTORNEY AT LAW.
■>ct29tf
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w hich can be trusted, and is always full
of interest, is a necessity of the times.—
Such an one is the
CHRISTIAN INION,
An Unsectarian,
Literary Eamily Newspaper.
HENRY WARD BEECHER,
E D I T O It .
Something for every member of the
household, in Religion, Morals, Politics,
Literature, Art, Science, Agriculture,
Poetry, News, wholesome fiction for young
and old, and truth for everybody,
Mr. Beecher’s brilliant arid characteris
tic pen in his editorials and Star papers,
and the verbatim reports of his Lecture
Room Talks in the Plymouth Church
Prayer Meetings, are great attractionSj—
There is also a large and able editorial
staff.
A SPLENDID LIST OF CON
TRIBUTORS
AVrite for the Christian Union, includ
ing many famous authors of England and
America.
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A new and exquisite French Oleograph.
(A name given only to the highest and
choicest class of French and Italian Art
printing in oils, the perfection of Oil
Chromo ) The picture is a sac-simile of
the latest and most brilliant work of the
French painter Lot riehon, a charming sub
ject, charmingly portrayed, a beautiful
creation of art, entitled ‘‘Little Runaway
and her Pets.”
This picture is priuted in Paris, and is
the largest and handsomest French Oil
( bromo ever offered by any periodical.
The size is 144x21 J inches, and gives a
very elegant picture, which was publi hed,
and" is for sale in the picture stores at sl2.
Tris picture, while beautifully complete
in itself, is the most charming centre piece
to “Wide Awake and Fast Asleep,” those
two pretty French Oil Chromos, now fam
ous the continent over. We shall continue
to present this pair to every’ annual sub
scriber who prefers them to the Oleograph.
Subjects life-size, and cannot fail to please
all who love art and children.
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ARE AS FOLLOWS C
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Every subscriber for Three Dollars,
shall receive the Christian Union for one
year and the choice between two picture
premiums, viz.: the pair and the oleo
graph.
State plainly which premium pic
ture is desired, or better yet, send $5.75
for both, and the price for mounting and
the price for mouoitg and mailing; also
state whether it is a renewal or a new
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All work warranted. Office at Cousin i
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fourth week in every month.
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MALE AND FEMALE
hi on school.,
NORCROSS, GEORGIA.
Was founded at Cumming, Ga., on the first Monday in January, 1871; was removed
and opened at Norcross on the first Monday in January, 1873; is the first and the only
HIGH SCHOOL (PROPER)
in this section of the State; is unsupported by endowment of trustees funds, being sus
tained alone by the energy, ability and tact of its teachers; claims to be Christian, but
is not in any sense denominational; Stands solely upon its own merits, and asks the
patronage of no man, nor set of men, except so far as it is to his or their own interest.
for 1874.
N. F. Cooledge, President and Professor of Mathematics, German and Natural Sciences
James U. Vincent, Professor of Latin, Greek, and Mental and Moral Science.
Julian A. Pollard, Proses or of Belle Letters and French, and Director of Primary
Department.
Mrs. J. H. Cooledge, Teacher in Primary Department.
Mrs. L. A. Norryce, Teacher of Music, Drawing, Painting, etc.
Addresses.
The following named gentlemen have been elected, one of whom will address the
Literary .Societies of the Institution on the evening of the fourth Friday of each
scholastic month in 1874:
Colonel Samuel J. Winn, Lawrenceville. Hon. Hiram P. Bell, Cumming.
Co'onel John B. Estes, Gainesville. Hon. William P. Price, Dahlonega.
Colonel E. Y. Clarke, Atlanta. General Wil iam Phillips, Marietta.
Hon. James P. Simmons, Norcross. Hon. J. R. Brown, Canton.
lion. Garnet McMillan, Clarksville. Colonel A. B. Simms, Covington.
The Curriculum and Expenses.
Primary Department.
Tuition Quarterly in Advance, or notes for the same at 10 per cent
interest.
First Class—Tuition $1.50 per Month.
FIRST SESSION. SECOND SESSION.
Orthography, (Webster’s Spelling Book,) Orthography, (Webster’s Spelling Book,)
Reading, (Sanders No. 1,) Reading, (Sanders Nos. 2,8,)
Penmanship, (Spencerian Nos. 1,2,) Penmanship, (Spencerian Nos. 3,4,)
Arithmetic, (Rob. Piimary,) Arithmetic, (Rob. Intellectual,)
Second Class—Tuition $2.00 per Month.
FIRST SESSION. SECOND SESSION.
Orthography, (Swinton’s Word Book and Orthography, (Patterson’s Speller and
Analysis,) Exercises,)
Reading, (Sanders, Nos. 4,5,) Geography, (Cornell’s Inter.)
P Penmanship, (Nos. 5 and 6, Spencerian,) English Grammar, (Kerl s Com. Sch.)
English Grammar, (Smith,) Arithmetic, (Rob. Practical,)
Arithmetic, (Rob. Practical,) Physiology, (Jarvis’ Primary,)
■ Geoprapby, (Cornell’s Primary,) Imp. Mind, (Em. Watt’s.)
Advanced Department-Collegiate Course.
First Class—Tuition $2.50 per Month.
FIRST SESSION. SECOND SESSION.
• Latin Grammar, (Waddell,) Greek Grammar, (Waddell,)
Latin Reader, Greek Ollendorf, (Kendrick,)
Arithmetic, (Rob. Higher,) Cossar,
Algebra, (Bob. El.) Algebra, (Rob. Univ.)
Geography, (Cornell’s Physical,) Nat. Philosophy, (Steele’s 14 weeks,)
Rhetoric, (Bonnell,) Meteorology, (Loomis.)
Second Class —Tuition $3.50 per Month.
FIRST SESSION. SECOND SESSION.
Virgil, (Searing,) Sallust Jugurthrine War,
Greek Reader, (Crosby,) Zenophon’s Anab. (Crosby,)
Geometry and Trigonometiy, (Rob.) Surveying and Navigate®, (Rob.)
Physiology, (Dalton,) Chemistry, (Steele’s 14 weeks,)
Botany, (Gray,) Geology, (Dana.) ’
Third Class--Tuition per Month.
Horace, Livy, [Lincoln,]
Homer, [Anthon’s] Cyropedia,
Conic Sect, and Ana. Geom, [Rob.] Calculus, [Rob.]
Logic, [Whately,] Metaphysics, [Mahan.]
Fo u rth Class— Tuition $4.5 O per Mo nth.
Tacitus Histories, [Tyler,] Ars Oratoria, [M. Kellogg,}.
Zen. Memorabilia, Demosthenes de Corona,
Mechanics, [Bartlett,] Astronomy, [Rob ]
U. S.- History, [Alexander 11. Stephens.] Civil Government, [Townsend.]
PRACTICAL COURSE.
FIRST CLASS-TUITION $3.00 PER MONTH.
r Arithmetic, [Rob Higher,] Geom. and Trigonometry, [Robinson,]
Albegra, [Rob. Univ.] Chemistry, [Steele’s 14 weeks,]
’ Nat. Philosophy, [Steele’s 14 weeks, Physiology, ] Dalton,]
j Rhetoric, [Bonnell,] American Debater, [McElligott,J
‘ SECOND CLASS-TUITION $5.00 PER MONTH.
Surveying and Navigation, [Rob.] Book Keeping, [Bryant and Srtatton’a
Geology, [Steele’s 14 weeks,] School Ed.
Astronomy, “ “ Commercial Law, [Townsend, j
Botany, [Gray,] Civil Government, “
U. 8. History, [Alexander H. Stephens,] Treatise on Business, [Freedley.]
Lectures.
Normal Department, tuition $5.00 per session; German and French, tuition $3 00 per
[ month; Music Department, vocal and instrumental, tuition $4.00 per month; Art De
l partment, drawing, painting end embroidery, tuition $3.00 per month.
Board from SIO,OO to $12.50 per month.
The young ladies of the Advanced Department are taught a practical knowledge of
Letter Writing, Business Forms and Correspondence, and Book Keeping.
CJo-EdLucfitioii.
1 We believe in the co-education of the sexes; we limit their association; they meet
’ only io the recitation room, except in passing to and from the academy, and during the
' suspension of regulations pertaining thereto. Their association to this extent makes
them more attentive to p< rsonal appearance, and more refined in speech. It gives boys
higher feelings of honor, for they dread the opinion of girls why scoff at meanness
J littleness and profanity. It stimulates girls to greater mental effort, and makes them
‘ more capable of thinking for themselves. It gives boys better ideas of true womanhood.
It gives girls better ideas of true manhood. It elevates both, morally and intellectually.
CJliapol Koo in Tallcs,
The Literary Addresses mentioned above and “Chapel Room Talks” delivered each
week by the Principal, will be published in the Norcross Advance— the adopted organ
of the Institution.
Enwolieitcd. Compliments.
From Atlanta Constitution, March 11, ’73.
I’rof. Vincent, the Principal, is one of
the leading educators of the State, and
the High School is rapidly taking its posi
tion in the front rank of educational in
stitutions,
From the Atlanta Sun, March, 1873.
This is an independent enteprise.*****
Prof. Vincent is well known as a teacher
of splendid attainments, having devoted
his entire time and energies to that busi
ness. Norcross is a healthy place, pure
i air, good water and immediately on the
i Air-Line Railroad, about twenty miles
I front Atlanta.
I From Gainesvilla Eagle, March 8, 1873.
There is nothing of more importance to
! the youth of our country, than a sound
I practical education. Indeed it is a mat-
I ter of first consideration, and in order
. that the foundation for an education may
be laid in the shortest time and at the
leastexpense it is necessary to have teach
era—those who, from experience, have
shown an aptness for imparting instruc
tion. Such a teacher is the Principal of
the Norcross High School.
From the Gwinnett Herald.
J. U. Vincent, Principal, is a ripe schol
ar and experienced teacher.
: From the Cartersville Standard.
AVe again say to our people that no bet-
I ter school can be had than this. Here
’ 1 sound practical teaching, and
i will be by the student thoroughly learned.
N. F. COOLEDGE, or J. U. VINCENT,
NORCROSS. GEORGIA.
M e have many private letters from pat
rons and former students, strongly endors
ing the institution. We take the liberty
to refer to the following patrons:
Hon II I* Bell, Cumming, Georgia.
Hon. A C Kellogg, “ “
Mai tin Groham, “ “
K A Eakes, “ “
J T Brown, “ “
W I) Bently, “ w
F A Moor, ’ “ u
Col. .1 B Estes, Gainesville, “
“ J. F. Langston, “
G. I’. Boone, “ “
Hon. J. B. Richards, Ophir, Georgia.
Jabez Galt, Canton, “
Hon. J. A. Greene, Danielsville.
Col. E. P. Howell, Atlanta,
N. G. Collior, “
8. H. Donaldson, “
A-B. Gradv, “
James 11. Wasson, Big Creek.
G. H. Hopkins. Goshen.
Hon. Abda Johnson, Cartersville
Gen. W.T. Wofford, Cartersville',
Dr. Thos, H. Baker. “
Martin Maxwell, Pine Log.
Gen. S. M. McConnell, Cherokee Mills,
Rev. E, McClure, Albany,
Niddleton Patrick. Drayton,
Ur Sutton, Rockford, Alabama,
AV m. Erwin, Godsden, “
Mrs. Middlebrooks, Athens, Georgia-
AV . A. Cain. Cains, P. o.
•L E. McElroy, Decatur,
J. B. Brown, Tilton,
Col. H. F. Price, Cassvile,
G. K. Looper, Dixon.
Hon. W H Nesbit, Alpharetta,
Newton Harrell, Cumming,
J. L. Hudson, “ «
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