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TAKE THE PAPERS.
ET S. P. WILLIS.
Why don’t, you take the papers?
They’re the light of my delight;
Except about election time,
And then I read lor spite.
Subscribe! you cannot lose a cent;
Why should you be afraid?
For cash thus paid is money lent
Ac interest four fold paid.
Go, then, and take the papers,
And pay to-day, nor pay delay,
And my word for it is inferred,
You'll live Until you’re gray.
An old neighbor of mine,
While dying of a cough,
Desired to hear the latest news
While he was going off.
I took the paper and I read
Of some new pills in force ;
He bought a box—and is he dead ?
No—hearty as a horse.
I knew two men, as much ali.se
As e’.r you saw two slumps ;
And r.o phrenologist could find
A difference in their bumps
One takes .he papers, and his life
Is happier than a king’s;
His children all can real and write,
And talk of men and things.
The other lock no paper, and,
While strolling through the wood,
A tree fell down and broke his crown,
And killed him—‘‘very good.”
Had he been reading of the news,
At home like neighbor Jim,
I’ll bet a cent that accident
Would not have happened him.
Why don’t you take the papers ?
Nor from the printer*sneak,
Because you borrow from his boy
A paper every week.
For he who takes the paper,
And pays his bills when due,
Gan live in peace with God and man,
And with the printer too.
♦ <?**■
SOME HISTOBIOAL PACES.
From the GulucsriUe Eagle*]
Editors Eagle : In your issue of July
2d, under the head of “Some Things,"
your correspondent ‘‘Hall” has made
several erroneous statements, which
should not remain uncorrected. If
“Hall” had consulted Prince’s digest, he
would have learned that Franklin county
was not made ‘out of the counties of
Wilkes, Jackson, and new territory,’’
and that his statement is not true that
“at the cloce of the Revolutionary War,
perhaps, the government acquired of the
Cherokee Indians a slip of their land as
indemnity, and which was made, extend
ing from Cherokee Corner westward to
the Hioiith of the Appalaehee river, and
up said river to the falls, and thence to
Tugalo river, which was organised as
Jackson county.”
Now for the truth of history : Jackson
county was not organized at the close of
the Revolutionary War, but in 17%.
thirteen years after King George had
acknowledged the independence of the
United States ; and Franklin county was
not oiganized out of the counties of
Wilkes and Jackson and new territory,
but ..holly out of new territory, and
Jackson county w r as afterward made
wholly out of Franklin in 1796.
Without pretending to perfect accu
racy in- regard to the lines—many of
which were never very accurately defined
—I will give you a few facts in reference
to tuese counties: Wilkes was an or
ganized county during the war of the
Revolution, and was the most northerly
county then in the State. Its northern
limit was a line running from the month
of Lightwood Log creek on the Savan
nah river, just above where the villages
of Hartwell and Danielsville now are,
bending southward to Cherokee Corner,
now in Oglethorpe county, about eight
miles above Lexington, on the road to
Athens. Cherokee Coiner was probably
the point where the lands of the Chero
kees cornered with the lands of the
Creeks, on the land occupied by the
whites At the close of the Revolution,
Georgia acquired new territory from
both these tribes. The lands acquired
from the Creeks were situated between
the western limits of Wilkes and Rich
mond. counties and the Oconee river,
and was organized as Washington county
in 1784. Subsequently Washington was
out into several parts, and Hancock and
Green were made from it. The northern
limit of Washington, as first founded in
1784, was probably a line running west
ward from Cherokee Corner to the
mouth of the Appalaehee river. The
territory acquired by Georgia from the
Cberokees at the close of the Revolution
ary War, was bounded soutuward by the
northern line of Wilkes, from the Savan
nah river to Cherokee Corner, thence by
Washington county to the mouth of the
Appalaehee river, thence by said river to
the high shoals, or falls, thence a straight
line to the foot of Hog mountain, thence
a right line to Currahee and across the
Tugalo to some point on the Seneca
river, thence down the Seneca and Sa
vannah rivers to the beginning. And
all this territory was organized into
Franklin county by act of the Legisla
ture in 1784, at the same time that
Washington county was organized.
in 1796 Jackson was formed out of
the western part of Franklin, and the
Court House was located ?-t Olarkesboro,
ESTABLISHED 1859.
ELBERTON GEORGIA, AUGUST 11. 1875.
on South Oconee, twelve miles front
Jefferson, aftd a mile from the Athens
road. Previous to the organization of
Jackson out of Franklin county, in 1796;
and the organization of Greene county
out of Washington in 1786, the two
counties of Franklin and Washington
cornered together at Cherokee Corner,
and thence were Cotenninus to the
Oconee river, at the mouth of the Appa
lachee. Greene was made off of Wash
ington in 1785, and Hancock was made
out of Washington and Greene in 1793,
Clarke was made from Jackson in 1801,
and the northern hue of Clarke was near
Claraesboro', the old county site of Jack
son.
Habersham, Hall, Gwinnett and Wal
ton were laid out by act of the Lr-gisla
ture in 1818, from new territory lately
acquired, and with some slips of old
territory taken from Franklin and Jack
son. After the organization of the
county of Jackson, in 1796, Georgia ac
quired from the Cherokees a narrow
strip of territory four miles wide, ex
tending from the TugaJo river to Hog
mountain, north of Franklin aid Jack
son, called the “four-mile purchase,”
which was added to Franklin and Jack
son, but was afterward added to Haber
sham and Hall, when they were organized.
The neighborhood about Buffington's
ford, on North Oconee, was included in
the “four-mile purchase,” and was in
Franklin county long after the organiza
tion of Jackson. All the first surveys of
lands made between the Tugalo and
Seneca rivers, now in South Carolina,
were recorded in Franklin county, be
cause at the first settlement of the
county, that “Fork” country was a part
of Franklin county in the State of Geor
gia. But a dispute having subsequently
arisen between tiie two States in refer
ence to their respective boundries, com
missioners were appointed to adjudicate
the matter, and the commissioners de
cided that the Tugalo (and not the
Seneca) was* the true dividing, line be
tween the States. A tradition, for the
truth of which I cannot vouch, says that
Judge Tnomas Peter Carnes, of Franklin
county, was the commissioner on the
part of Georgia, and that the commis
sioner on the part of South Carolina, at
Beaufort, in that State, feasted and
treated Judge Carnes until he became
jolly and drunk, and then pn \ ..
should be the dividing line. At any
rate, many people, well acquainted with
both streams, still believe that the Sen
eca is the main branch of the Savannah
river.
Elbert county was formed from Wilkes
in 1790, and the same year Columbia
was formed from Richmond. In 1783
Warren and Oglethorpe were formed
from “Wilkes and several other counties
contiguous.” In 1811 Madison was
formed from Fibert and Franklin. About
1854 Hart was formed from Elbert and
Franklin In 1859 Banks was formed
from Franklin and Habersham, and sub
frequently portions of Hall and Jackson
were added.
Persons curious in such matters, if
they will go to lie place, can yet find
houses on the north side of the Appa
lachee, built of logs, with port holes still
remaining. These were built when the
Appalaehee river was the dividing line
between the whites and Indians, and
when that river was the southern lice of
Franklin county. If any one has doubt
about the facts above given in regard to
counties and lines, and will call on me,
I will show him the old records and
laws in the Court House in Jefferson.
G. H. Cartledge.
INTERESTING FACTS,
The organ of vision is considered the
most delicate organization of the human
frame, yet many who have been born
blind have been enabled to see by surgi
cal operations, and the following is an
interesting fact concerning one of that
class:
A youth had become thirteen years of
age when his eyes were touched by a
surgeon. He thought scarlet the most
beautiful color ; black was painful. He
fancied every object touched him, and
he could not distinguish by sight what
he perfectly well knew by feeling : for
instance, the eat and dog. When the
second eye was touched, he remarked
that the objects ware not so large in ap
pearance to this as- the one opened at
first. Pictures he considered only partly
colored surfaces, and a miniature abso
lutely astonished him, seeming to him
like putting a bushel into a pint.
Stanly, the organist, and many blind
musicians, have been the best performers
of their time, and a school mistress in
England could discover that the boys
were playing in a distant corner of the
room, instead of studying, although a
person usiug liis eyes could not detect
the slightest sound. Prof. Sanderson,
who was blind, could, in a few’ moments,
tell how many persons were ill a mixed
company, and of each sex. A blind
French lad}' could dance in figure dances,
sew and thread her own needle. A blind
•man in Derbyshire, England, has actually
been a surveyor and planner of roads,
his ear guiding him as to distance as
accurately an the eye to others. The late
Justice Fielding, who was blind, on
walking into a room for the first time
after speaking a few words, said, “This
room is twenty-two feet long, eighteen
wide, and twelve high,” all of which was
revealed- to him with accuracy through
the medium of his ear. Yer’ly, “we are
fearfully and wonderfully made.”
Vy dond yon dake der babers ?-
THE EQUAL RIGHTS OF INDUSTRY.
While the politicians are rubbing hay
seed into their hair, pretending to be
Grangers, ana the candidates for office
are all trembling before the retributive
mysteries of the Patrons of Husbandry,
it will be well for sensible people to con
sider the singularly just resolution pass
by the Maryland Democrats in their con
vention at Baltimore. “Agriculture,
manufactures and commerce should be
the equal care of all well regulated gov
ermnents,” say the Maryland Democracy
“and the obstructions to day of them
should be removed but no favoritism
should be extended to either at the ex
pense of the other.”
The burdens under which the fanners
are laboring are sufficiently palpable to
arrest the attention of every one who in
terests himself in the material develop
ment of the country; but the farmers are
not the only sufferers oy the burdens of
’'•bich they complain. The farmer
counts up the cost to him of his pro
ducts and when he cornek to send his
products to mai'ket he finds that the
cost of transportation eats up most of
his profits. The farm hand or the me
chanic know’s exactly what he has receiv
ed for his labor, but when he comes to
purchase his clothes and other necessary
articles of life, he also finds that he has
little left. The farmer says transgorta
tion charges off his products, but the
man who works for wages pays like
heavy transportation charges on the
clothes he wears, and in addition pays
enormously to the manufacturer under
the disguise of a tariff for protection.
The workingman pays for his clothes in a
lump ; if be paid the actual value of his
coal and then had to hand over to the
manufacturer the percentage tacked on
under the tariff protection, he would
soon raise a noise in which the growls of
the Grangers would sink to a gentle
murmur. It is only because we can
not so readily calculate the exact amount
of the imposition put upon us that we
are not ali complaining like the Gran
gers.
The farmers need relief, and we all
need relief, from some of the many bur
dens that now rest upon us, but there is
no clearer truth than that agriculture,
maMtjtt,cture and commerce should be j
a ed gov j
it. .. Cvft All (;>MII- :.i 11J 1 . i.i,
transportation, which is the great means \
of commerce; and a government that:
should fail to give equal care to mann- j
factures as well as to the interests of
consumers ; to railroads as well as to
farmers, would certainly be far from
being well regulated. To legislate now
in the interests of the men who wear the
coats to the men
whose capital furnishes them, or to legis
late for the farmer and against the rail
road, would only be to reverse the evil
against whic we are now al’ complaining.
Labor and capit 1, and every kind of
industry are entitled to equal care. The
Grangers are but one class of sufferers,
and the most intelligent and reasonable
among them recognize that fact, and hold
to their organization as an instrument, not
devised to secure special privileges for
themselves, but to assist in securing re
lief that all classes are groaning for. It
is only the politicians who see in the or
ganization an instrument that may be
perverted to political use., who are exalt
ing the special industry represented by
the Grangers anove all others, and are
claiming, for their own temporary and
selfish purposes, that the farmers are en
titled to consideration above all other
classes. The Maryland Democrats have
rejected this species of demagoging,
and, while protesting against the pro
tection tariff that makes a few men un
duly rich at the expense of many others,
have declared that the farmer, the man
ufacturer, and the merchant, all stand
upon the same level, and are all necessa
ry to the wants of the country and to
each other.
[Louisville Courier Journal.
Rapid Transit and no Mistake. —The
legion of “doubting Thomases” wagged
their heads scornfully at the possibilities
of the Keely motor. A certain Dr. Frye,
of New York,- has invited the'Rapid
Transit Commissioners to inspect a de
vice of his invention, which, if practica
ble, will make steam too slow for modern
demands, and even displace all other
methods now in projection. A
spondent of that enterprising journal,
the News and Courier, states that Dr.
Frye “proposes to convey passengers by
rail, with comfort, economy and safety,
at a maximum speed, - including stop
pages, of one hundred and forty miles
an hour. Ke wants to build a railroad
on his system from New York to San
Francisco, and will guarantee that it
■will take but fifteen hours to perform
the journey. At the same rate of transit
travelers can be taken from Charleston
to New York in three hours and a half.
You can start from the Northeastern
depot after breakfast, dine at Delraoni
co’s, attend the matinee at Booth’s, and
get home comfortably before bed time.
Think of it r
♦
On dit, says the Atlanta Constiutior,
that Messrs McCay and Trippe tendered
their resignation at the same time. They
propose forming a partnership for the
practice of the law, aud, we learn have
already been engaged in a suit where
their fee is $12,000.
Wise men, if this be true says the Ma
con Telegraph and Messenger, and a
capital comment upon the niggardly
course pursued by Georgia in half starv
in her highest officials.
Vol. IY.-No. 15.
THE MAN WITH AN ITEM.
It was t’t right, and future genera
tions will say that it wasn’t. He came
tramping up stairs, tossed his hat on to a
table, and tts he sat down in a chair he
carelessly remarked:
“Suppose you’d like a big item ?"
“Yes, of course,” replied the lone re
porter.
“I haven’t been to any other paper
wiffi it,” he continued, as he leaned for
ward : “I’ve taken the Free Press for
twenty nine years, and I've walked four
miles to give you this item.”
“Well. I'm very much obliged indeed.
What is the item ?”
“Well, you know the Grand Trunk
Junction?”
“Yes out here about three miles from
the City Hall.”
“Well, it was about a mile beyond
th t. Me an’ another fellow was coming
in on the track. He was a stranger, and
seemed down hearted and gloomy ; said
he didn't care two cents whether he lived
or died.”
“Poor fellow ! Can you describe him ?”
“Yes ; hs was about five feet six; had
red hair; big feet; coarse clothes; blue
eyes and no whiskers.”
“Well, go on.”
“We’d got within a mile of the Junc
tion when the express train from the
east came thundering along ”
“Yes.”
“And of course we stepped off the
track.”
“Yes.”
“I wasn’t looking for nor expecting any
such thing, you know for the man didn’t
let on nor betray himself by worn nor
look. If I’d only suspected it why, J
could have grabbed him.”
“Yes, I see.”
“Well, we stood facing the train. I
w’as a ieetle ahead of him, and what did
he do, as the train got within 800 feet of
us ?”
“Rushed on the track ?”
“No, not that. He made a jump for
the rail, kneeled down, and—”
“Great blazes, but it was awful!” in
terrupted the reporter.
“Awful ? I guess it was! I was never
so weak in my lifo. He deliberately laid
bis necK on th® rail, shut his eyes,
and—”
“And the locomotive took his head
vR-ii off," Fuouted the r-porter, spring
ing up.
“No. As I was saying, ho deliberate
ly placed his neck on* the rail, held it
there—”
“And was mashed!”
“No sir—held it there for a moment
and then—”
“And was then struck by the pilot!”
“No, sir—and then deliberately took
it off again, and is now in a saloon
around the corner inquiring for a job.”
[Detroit Free Press.
SfEECH BY GEN, GORDON, OF GEORGIA.
General Gordon, of Georgia, made a
speech in Alabama a few days since, in
the course of which, seeing many colored
men present, he turned to them and
asked: “Who is it that for the sake of
retaining their hold on power poison the
minds of the colored men against their
former masters and friends, and with
false promises control their votes and
keep up contentions and strife between
the races? Who is it that in the guise
of ku klux murder the colored man in the
darkness of midnight and herald abroad
the infamous crime as the deed of law
less Democrats and true Southern men,
in order to keep alive the fires of ani
mosity, knowing their lease of office
depends upon the continuance of un
friendly feelings between the sections?
The Radicals.” He then told the col
ored men no longer to be deceived. You
have had Democratic rule here in Ala
bama, and they have robbed you of none
of your rights. Here the interests of
the white man and the colored man are
identical; a good government for the
one is a good government for the other;
the same sun shines above the black man
and the white man, and the genial
showers water alike the soil of the one
and the other; the same God rules
above them both, and they could live
together in peace but for the Radicals,
who antagonize the races. He called
upon them to pause, consider, and be
free men, and to suffer themselves to be
no longer marched to the polls as dumb
driven cattle to the slaughter ; for the
time ignorance and vice may hold swa)’,
but as certainly as that God reigns and
rules the earth truth will ultimately tri
umph and intelligence reign—not to the
injury of the colored man, but for the
common weal of all, and here alone is
safety for the colored man. Ho said
that as an excuse for the perpetration of
many of the outrages which had been
heaped upon the people of the South
the Radicals gave out that we were dis
loyal—and, pray, disloyal to what ? To
the Radical party—to wrong and op
pression—to corruption hi high places—
to robbery and plunder! Aye, to be
loyal now one must not only believe
Grant to be a statesman and Beast But
ler an honest man, but that Henry Ward
Beecher is an innocent, persecuted saint.
The First Georgia Bale.— The Macon
Telegraph, of the 28th, says: We re
ceived a dispatch frem Albany last night
stating that “Welch, Cook & Bacon re
ceived the first bale of new cotton to day
irom Primus Jones, of Baker county.”
Tins is the first Georgia bale received
this year, and much earlier than the
earliest of last year.
RECORD OF EVENTS.
Senators Bayard, of Delaware, and
Thurman, of Ohio, have accepted invita
tions to attend the State Fair at Mai on,
Ga., in November.
Mayor Huff has presented the editor
of the Te'egraph and Messenger with
several ripe and lueious '-•'•ananas, grown'
in Cenff.il City Park
Tiie Rev. J. W. Tunstall, a Methodist
clergyman in England, has been cxpelkH
from his conference for promising marri
age lo four different young ladies.
Tiie Lynchburg Virginia i publishes a
letter from a grandson of the “Johnny
Hook” whom Patrick Henry made fa
mous, in which the grandson handles
William Wirt, Patrick Henry and others
without g]o“e3.
The attempt of the Republican party
to destroy the value of the currency of
the country, is merely an effort to en -
hance the price of gold, and to depreci
ate all forms of government paper. And
thus it is that they trifle witli tiie welfare
of the people.
The North whipped the South by is
suing greenbacks; and now when tiie
South has accepted tiie situation and
asks for more curency of the same sort,
the men who issued it turn around anff
abuse us for favoring “rag money. We
do not see where the consistency comes
in.—[Nashville Union.
The first newspaper had its birth in
Italy. It was a monthly, published in
Venice by order of the government;. in
manuscript;' as printing had not then
been invented. It was called a Gazette,
which world is a derivative of Gazztra,
the name of a magpie or chatterer. Ac
cording to the Philadelphia American
journalist, the epoch of the Spanish Ar
mada in England was the epoch of of
first English newspaper. In the British
Museum are preserved severalnewspaj era
which were printed 1588, while the Span
ish lay in the Cha Vnol. The earliest of
these is entitled the English Mercury,
which by authority, was imprinted at
London, by her highness’s printer 1588.
The Committed on information and.
Statistics of the Nashville Cotton Ex
change submitted their July cotton re
port to the Exchange. The territory
assigned to the district is composed of
the counties of Lauderdale Franklin,
Colbert, Lawrence, Morgan, limestone,
YI admin, Marshall, Jackson, DeKalb,
and Cherokee, in Alabama and Middle
Tennessee, east of Tennessee river and
west of the Cumberland moilntains. The
Committee received over one hundred
and thirty replies to circulars sent out.
the replies bearing averages of data of
21. In Alabama good rains with but few
exceptions have prevailed, altogether
more favorable than last year up to this
time. Stand of cotton is generally re
ported good andis forming, blooming and
boiling very well, fully up to average and
compare quite favorably with the crops
of last year. The .laborers . continue to
work well. . *. . • •
A bashful and not over educated fel
low went to see his girl the other night,
and as lie started away he put his arm
around her and whispered in her ear:
“Dearest, I love you,” and she whispered,
‘Ditto,’ meaning of course a reciprocation
of his tender passion. The young man
could not find “ditto” in his dictionary,,
and asked his father next day, as they
were hoeing cabbage, what it meant.
The old gent rested a moment on his
hoe-liandle, and pointed to the cabbage
m front of him, with the remark, “You
see that cabbage?" “Yes,” responded
the youth. “And you see the next one
there?” “Yes.” “Well, that is called
•ditto.’” “Damn her,” exclaimed the
youth, “she called me a cabbage head !’’
THOUGHTS FOR THE MONTH.
At this late period of the year, little'
can be done to increase the money crops
of the farm. The turnip crop, it is true,
may bo increased largely, as sowings
may be made through this month and
to the first of September, and a good
deal of hay may be saved from crab and
swamp grasses; but perhaps the best
plan now for realizing money in the
shortest time, is to prepare at once to
sow a large crop of fall oats. They can’
bo put upon- the market in June next,
several months in advance of the cotton
crop, or which would lie better still,
might be fed to stock, and corn sold in
stead. We know a number of farmers
who are realizing handsome incomes the
resent year from their oat crop. A
good many are beginning to realize the
great value of this crop, but numbers
still doubt and hesitate,’greatly to their
loss?
Sowings may be made either in corn
or cotton. In the former begin to sow
the latter part of August—the latter in
September. Bar off from the corn or
cotton, then sow seed [l£ to 2’ bushels
per acre, according to kind—less of the
small seeded—of the red rust proof 2
bushels is not too much,] and then cover
with a harrow—having little coulters in
place of ordinary teetk Three furrows
in all to a cotton and four to a'corn row
will complete the work. If peas are
broadcasted in corn, cover seed with
turn plough, burying- pea vines at same
time. Under the old plantation system,
the habit of sowing oats in the spri g
was well nigh universal, and it is hard
to break up that habit now. But in nine
seasons out of ten, fall oats will be found
incomparably superior to spring sown
Southern Cultivator.
Elections.— Elections occur this year
in the following order:
California. Wednesday, Sept. 1
Arkansas Monday, * Sept. (!
Maine Monday, Sept. 13
lows Tuesday, Oct. 12
Ohio Tuesday, Oct. 12
Virginia Tuesday, Nov. 2
Kansas Tuesday, Nov. 2
Maryland Tuesday. Nov 2
Massachusetts Tuesday, Nov. 2
Mississippi Tuesday. Nov. 2
Minnesota Tuesday, N<>v. a
Missouri Tuesday, Nov. 2
New York Tuesday, Nov. 2
New Jersey Tuesday, Nov. 2
Pennsylvania Tuesday, Nov. 2
* skims Tuesday, Dec. 2
