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Tins VAPETI T 9 ON WT.F. orTTH Poweil & >x_ Advertlsinu Agents, THIRD & CHEoTriUT GTS., ST. LOU!3, MO. (SlScvtou ffiaub. J. A. WREN, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST Has located fora short time at DR. EDMUNDS’ GALLERY, ELBERTON. GA, \\J HERE he is prepaied to execute every class V V of work in his line to the satisfac tion of all who bestow their patronage Confi dent of his ability to pleaie. he cordially invites a test of his skill, with the guarantee that it he does net pass a critical inspection it need not be taken. mc!i24.tf. MAKES A SPECIALTY OF Copying & Enlarging Old Pictures Jo 51. BARFIELD) •? •• a. f v-v ‘ \ iJ'ir&t-il*! H: Fashionable Tailor, Gp-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. SOOTS fc SHOES. rpilE UNDSftSIGXED RESPECTFULLY AX- X noutides to the people of Elberton and surrounding country that he has opened a first- Boot and Shoe SHOP XH ELBERTON Where he is prepared to rnake any style of Root or Shoe desired, at short noticeand with prompt ness. REPAIRING NEATLY EXECUTED. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. a.>.29-tf ii. W. GAKREC'IBT. H. K. CAiRDNER, ELBERTON, GA„ DEALER IN 11! ill, IFJCMIt IIA RDWA RE, C ROC Iv E II Y, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &o T. M S'VU'T. MACK ARNOLD SWIFT & ARNOLD, (Successors to T~. M. Swift,) dealers in 1) R\ 7 GOODS, GROG ERIKS. CROCKERY. BOOTS AND SHOES, HARDWARE, &e., Public Square, E 1,55211 BS’E'ON <>IA. LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. jdllifirl j- c i:i" J. 1\ A U IYI ) (Carriage ffIi.AMiFACT'R ELIIEILTOX, GEOiLGIL. REST WORKMEN! BEST WORK ! LOWEST PRICES! Good Buggies, warranted, $125 to $l6O Common Buggies - SIOO. REPAIRING AND BEACKS.MITIITNG Work done in this line in the very best style. The Best Harness ilv22-lv ffIRSBSSJSSKEfiY. l\ .1. SI I A>. NON. Saddler & Harness Maker Is tally prepared to manufacture HARNESS, -i)i)pi'll piQ BRIDLES, SADDLES, At the shortest notice in the best manner, and on reasonable terms." Shop at John S, Brown’s Old Stand. ORDERS SOLICITED. “S\ A. F. KOBLETT, ffiAlOi, ELBERTON, GA. Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK anywhere in Elbert county [je 16 6m J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBEftTQN, GA. J. F. STEWART, FAINTER & G&AZXER 'E EH E 11TON, O A tt T jfx (JIVE PERSONAL ATTL.VTT'N* TO W any work in his line. Satisfuc.;'.. j-uar auteed Rates reasonable. Rb.if>m THE GAZETTE. JSTew Series. 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
