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Georgia Enterprise. *
fc-OL. XX X.
^Fareign Mission Dep’t
| BY MISS SALLIE V. STEWART.
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L-ASSISTED BY MRS. R. P. L.—
Rev. A. R. Backland, ui the Sun
Magazine, says-: •“The first un
v out by the
L r ried woman was sent
Lrch Missionary Society^ in but 1820; by
Ug8 there were only 15;
i I C f 1884 the number had risen to
o. There are now 407. i 4 In
Lty [‘female years, from in 1873, the the number society
teachers same
lereased from 375 to 892.”
The London Missionary Society has
scei ived $30 from half as many boys
f Raratouga. They wrote with the
louey: “We want to help them be
kuse they have done so much for us.
jy ea [l went and picked dried coffee and on sold our
loliday afternoons, and
[, and so we get the money which we
low give, We each give $2 wiili
ur love.”
| The fact that self consecration trhly
Leans a denial of self is given in the
following incidents. Can we who
nave so much give less-?
In South India Rev. Mr. Tracy
fcuikes the computation that one
ft'ii pee (32 cents) a month represents
Ithe average income of the Christian
■community. That means $3.84 for a
■year's subsistence, or $19 20 for a
I family of five, hut with all this pov¬
erty [in the people have given this year
the aggregate of 8.585 rupees.
At a missionary meeting in Paris a
poor blind woman put 27 francs
($5.40) into the plate “You cannot
afford so much,” said one. On being
pressed to explain, she said, “I am
blind; and I said to my fellow straw
workers, ‘How much money do you
I spend in the year for oil for your
lumps?’ They replied, ‘Twenty seven
francs,’ So I found that I save so
much in the year because I am blind,
and do not need a lump, and I give it
to send light to the dark heathen
lands.”
BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL.
HONOR ROLL.
Principal’s Department.—-Porter
Clark, Neiil Corley, Robert Heard,
Luval Higgins, Tom Hollis, Ben
I Hunt Ingram, Wilson Jarman, Tom
Mixon, Ed Stephenson, Bain Terrell,
Clarence Terrell.
Assistant’s Department—Ed Alien,
Hick Berggren, Willie Berggren,
Luy Coleman, Donald Corley, Charlie
IJavis, Paul Greer, Frank Horton,
Henry Huson, Henry .Joe
P unington, Geo. Swords, J no. Smith,
$ini 5Vh$|>ler.
Hie Newton county Sunday school
I association will not hold its annual
cejtljiation during the month of May
I lu Oxford, this ^ w - "
'*“4 tae celebration will come off in
°' Uc or July* at Salem ground,
at ^ Covington camp
le Academy Spring,
p ’ ^ some ver point y cheap on the M. will G. be & A.
’’ rates gtv
a l,v Thomas, the courteous and
- c nnimodating General Manager.
Many T hanks. —The Presbyterian
Church return heartfelt thanks to
^ le citizens Covington
for their
wfe ' Hospitality in entertaining
the ***** recent, y
Hs city. Committee.
BT V U V ' S ^ ^* C Robinson’s
«tor ° Utfail look
ful 10 at the beauti
matoh^v I 600118
and framings to
ticuwiv * '““.'"I w/th the 11)6 goods d elighte<l. iu par
* patterns.
“ J/T COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER BE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY! Jepf’BRSOk.
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1895.
MEMORIAL DAY.
The decoration exercises of the sol¬
diers’ graves came off in Covington
last Friday afternoon. Every grave
in the cemetery was covered with ev¬
ergreens and flowers by the patriotic
members of the Ladies Memorial As¬
sociation, assisted by the young ladies
in the city. About 25 members of the
Confederate Veterans’ Association of
Newton county formed in front of the
court house and marched to the cem¬
etery, followed by about 200 school
children who carried flowers in their
hands, which were placed upon the
graves. The address by Hon. A. H.
H. Cox, of Atlanta, was brief, but
very appropriate and impressive.
It has been well and truly said that
“Memorial Day means just what its
name implies. It is a day of memo¬
ries ; a day on which those who sur¬
vive the conflicts of the past recount
to the new generations the deeds of
those who lay down their lives on the
field of battle; a day on which our
noble women strew flowers on the
graves of their dead, and renew their
testimonials of loyal affection for the
survivors of the conflict; a day on
which chosen orators give voice to the
sentiments of our, and sons are taught
to honor and revere the heroes of the
Lost Cause.”
One of the noblest tributes ever
.paid to southern women was by that
grandest of all great men, Hon. Jef¬
ferson Davis, who, in a speech just
after the war-, said.* “If asked for my
sublimest idea of what women should
be iu times of war, I would point to
the women of my people, as I have
seen them during the recent struggle.
* * All they had was flung into
the conflict—beauty, grace, passion,
refinement, the exquisite frivolities so
dear to the sex were cast aside ; their
songs, if they had any hearts to sing,
were patriotic; their trinkets were
flung into the public crucible; the
carpets from their floors were por¬
tioned out as blankets to the suffer¬
ing soldiers of their dear country.
Women bred to every refinement of
luxury wore homespun made by their
own hands. As nurses of the sick, as
angels of charity, as patient and beau
tiful household deities, accepting any
sacrifice with unconcern, and lighten¬
ing the burden of war by their wit
and blandishment, and labor proper
to their sphere, the dear women or
the south deserve to take rank with
the highest heroes of the grandest
days of the greatest countries.”
The Sentry in reporting an enter
tainment by the Social Circle Juver
nile Missionary Society, has this to
say of an Oxford lady whom all of us
know and love: “Mrs. Dr. Morgan
Calloway, of Oxford, was present and
made a most excellent talk on Mis¬
sion work. The collections of the day
were taken for the benefit of the Scar
rett training school for missionaries.
Mrs. Calloway was made a life mem¬
ber of the Juvernile Society at this
place, wnich intelligence was a pleas¬
ant surprise to her.’’
Eight partridges were seen on Col¬
lege Avenue Friday morning, not 40
yards from our office gate. When
frightened up they flew in Mayor
Pace’s garden. It is supposed that
these birds came from the direction of
the cemetery, as eight or ten were
turned loose there during the match
at live quails, in February, between
Capt. Carr and Major Guinn.
The spring term of our public col
ored schools closed on Monday. 1 he
senior class was composed of 7 mem¬
bers. 3 boys and 4 girls, who “quitu
ated” iu grand style.
SOMEWHAT PERSONAL,
Mrs. Anna Taylor has returned
from a delightful visit to relatives
near Social Circle.
Mrs. S. P. Thompson and sweet lit¬
tle daughter have returned from a de¬
lightful visit to relatives in Clayton
county.
Capt. J. VV. Swords, one of the
solid and substantial men of Rockdale
county, has been visiting friends and
relatives here.
Rev. R. J. Bigham, of Atlanta,
will visit Covington at an early day.
A warm and loving welcome is in
waiting for him.
Miss Anne Laurie Hill, a very at¬
tractive young lady from Atlanta, has
been visiting our city as the guest of
her cousin, Miss Florrie Henderson.
Col. Ralph Wright, of Atlanta, and
Prof. Daves, have been visiting here
as the guests of their brother and sis
ter, Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Daves, Jr.
Miss Bessie Askew, of Atlanta, a
young lady of grace and culture, has
beeu on a visit to Covington as the
guest of her sister, Miss Pauline Hor¬
ton Askew,
Miss Mira Watkins, a very cultured
young lady from Rutledge, has been
spending some time with Hon. and
Mrs. T. J. fcipeer, of Brick Store dis
trict, taking painting lessons under
their charming daughter, Miss Mary.
Mr. Jno. N. Bradshaw, Clerk of
the Superior Court of Orange county,
Florida, came up from Orlando last
week to visit dear ones here, and was
looking as healthy and handsome
as ever.
Mr. H. D. Terrell spent several
days of last week in South Carolina.
He is also visiting his saw mills in
Terrell county this week and will
probably not return home before the
middle of May. May he have a hap¬
py and healthy time.
The Madisonian says: “Rev. Joel
T. Daves, Sr., has been commissioned
to organize a new circuit composed of
Methodist churches of Mongan coun¬
ty. The churches which will form
this new charge will probably be East
End chapel, Dorsey, Sewell’s, Buck
head, Harmony and probably one or
two others.”
Col R. W. Bagby has received a
letter from Col. Iverson A. Jones,
who is prospering at his country home
in Denver, Ark. Iverson has a large
stock farm, containing about 1000
acres, and enjoys the best of health,
His many friends here are anxious to
have him pay them a lengthy visit
this summer.
We get this item from the Rock
dale Banner: “Mr. J. M. Huff visit¬
ed near Newborn last Sunday.
is his old home place—the tramping
ground of his boyhood days. No
doubt but swefet memories of the past
flickered through his mind as he
viewed the scenes of his childhood.
Mr. Huff is one of Conyers’ best citi¬
zens and is respected and loved by the
whole of our people.”
In speaking of a memorial service
which came off recently in Madison,
Florida, the Recorder says: “The
Methodist church was filled to over
flowing last Sunday night to take
nart in the services in memory of the
late Dr. J. N. Bradshaw. Rev T
,, Lang, r pastor, conducted the ser
vices which consisted at songs appro
priate to the occasion, and an
by him on the life, work and charac
ter of the deceased, who was without
doubt, in life, one of the most beloved,
and in death, one of the most lamen
ted ministers it has ever been Madi
son’s lot to claim. The services were
highly interesting as well as being ap
propriate and proper.
THAT PIC NIC AT “THE ROCK.’
For genuine fun and frolic, unad
ultrated pleasure and wholesome en¬
joyment, the pic nic, at what is known
as “The Rock,” just west of Oxford,
on Saturday the 27th inst, broke the
record. Congenialness and adaptabR
ness characterized the individual
members of the party, viz: Miss Flor¬
rie Henderson with Mr, James Neese,
Miss Nellie Womack with Mr. Sidney
DeJarnette, Miss Bessie Askew with
Mr. Rogers Davis, Miss Maud Bomar
with Mr. Troy Bivings, Miss Mattie
Beale with Mr. J. W. Bowden, Miss
Anne Laurie Hill with Mr. Fred A1
len, Miss Pauline Askew with Mr.
Dennis Barrett, Miss Sadie Fowler
with Mr. Walter Evans, Miss Louise
Rogers with Mr. John Echols ; Messrs
Will Thompson and Tom Milner subs,
and Maj and Mrs. Jno. B. Davis.
Imagine, if you are a good hand at
the business, that this writing is being
done at out at The Rock. Dinner is
over; and such » dinner l Culinary
skill exhausted itself in the get up.
Iu quautity, quality and variety, it
was simply great. Placed upon snow
white cloths spread under the trets,
all formality and ceremony relegated,
no dinner was ever so enjoyed. Such
a demolisment was never before seen.
Dinner over, the party in couples,
like mated birds, are scattered around
and located here and there and else¬
where. * * *
The Garden very likely, was a more
pleasant and beautiful spot than is
this Rock ; hut then Adam the great
head of the human family as he was,
fresh formed and fashioned from finest
clay as he was, and emphatically lord
of all he surveyed as he was, stood
six thousand years, in chivalrous dif¬
ference to woman, in knowledge, in
exquisite ness, in delectabliness, behind
the chipper and dapper young men of
this nineteenth century, now present.
And Eve, springing from the side of
the said Adam, into a full blown
flower of such wondrous beauty as to
set the morning stars to singing to¬
gether half crazed with delicious joy,
was only as a fennel blossom compared
with the violet and rose, when placed
side by side with these pic nic girls
She was fresh and susceptable, other¬
wise no serpent could have captured
her. True, she beguiled Adam into
eating an apple that set his teeth for¬
ever on edge, but that was no feather
in her cap. She was the first woman
Adam ever met, he was without ex
perieuce, a soft bueker, easily caught.
Hut experience stands for nothing,
an< l caa s t an( l n °f a moment before
these girls. They can so tangle them¬
selves in a fellow’s heart strings, be
he ever so experienced and knowing,
that all creation can’t undo the tan
gle ; and they can so bewitch and be*
dazzle him, that for the life of him,
he can’t tell whether he is standing on
his heels or on his head. They can
t h r ill his heart with rapture and ec
staey, or send it crushed and shriveled
a thousand fathoms beneath the wa
ters of despair, and they can lilt him
out of the depths of humility and
meekness and send him flying on the
wings of hope and true bliss to such
heights in the blue ether, as to chal
lenge the envy of an arch angel, and
then just as he thinks to perch se¬
renely safe, they can, in the twinkling
of an eve, clip his wings and drop
him completely ‘done for’ lower than
ever in the depths of humility and
meekness. They can so charm and
enchant him< thit he d „ n 't know for
ee rtain whether he is on earth and in
presence of real flesh and blood girls,
or whether by some cunning hocus
pocus he has been spirited away bodi
ly to Paradise and is in the presence
of the angels. Off with ycur hats,
gentlemen, and stand uncovered in
chivalrous homage, in the presence of
such truth and virtue and purity and
beauty and transcendant loveliness. *
NO. 32.
IN AND AROUND THE CITY
Which May or May Not Interest You.
‘Don't run in debt-nevermind, ne’er mind,
If thy clothes are faded and torn,
Fix ’em up, make them do, it is better by
far,
Than to have the heart weary and worn.
Who’ll love you more for the set of your
hat
Or the ruff or the tie of your shoe,
The shape of your vest or your boots or
cravat,
If they know you’re in debt tor the new ?”
An exquisite line of neckwear at
Robinson’s.
The Middle Georgia & Atlantic
railroad will build a nice depot at
Newborn.
Before making your purchase go to
C. C. Robinson’s store, and see his
pretty goods.
It is our rule to charge 5 cents a
line for publishing obituaries and
tributes of respect sent in by individ¬
uals or organizations.
Mr. “Buck” Pitts, of Newborn, has
sent us a 2J lb shoulder from an 18
mouths old hog, and it can be seen at
our office until it is sent to the Atlan¬
ta Exposition.
Little Etta Cowan, the bright and
lovely daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.
H. Cowan, of Oak Hill district, de¬
parted this life on April 23rd. Aged
about 10 years.
Mr. Joseph Baker caught a 5 pound
shad with a cast net at Peach Stone
Shoals, in South River, on Thursday
last. This is the first shad caught at
this point since 1885. These shoals
are 12 miles west of Covington.
It is said that Mr. Bran Anderson
has two pigs that can hide themselves
in hard ground in a half a minute.
Bro. Brown says that these pigs get
along in tough earth like unto a mole
in sandy soil.
NEWS FROM HAYSTON.
Our streets are now nearly all in
good condition.
Mr. J. L Hays has returned from
a business visit to Alabama,
Our Sunday school was well atten¬
ded last Sunday evening.
Mr. B. F. Hays visited friends in
Jasper county Sunday.
Some of our young people will pic
nic at the river next Saturday.
Miss Emma Cofer is spending some
time with relatives in Putnam county.
Miss Cora Williams, an attractive
young lady from Newborn, is visiting
her cousin, Miss Myrtice Harwell.
Mrs. T. H. Greer visited her
daughter, Mrs. Charlie Hinton, of
Covington, last week.
Messrs. Tiuk Harwell, A. S. Hays
and son Harvey, visited Atlanta ‘Me¬
morial Day,’ and had a pleasant time.
Mr. Monroe Phillips attended the
bedside of his aunt, Miss Ann Phil¬
lips, who is quite sick at the Asylum,
in Milledgeville.
Miss Cora Lee Ivy, after spending
two weeks here, has returned to her
home in Jasper county, accompanied
by Miss Irene Hays.
Mr. Wm. J. Morgan died at his
home, near Starrsville, on Sunday
night. Aged about 54 years. He
was a most excellent gentleman, who
leaves a wife, children, relatives and
friends to lament his death and cher¬
ish his sweet and precious memory.
There was a very enjoyable quilting
at the home of Mrs. P. B. Hays’ last
Thursday evening. Avery large num¬
ber of ladies were present and can e
near finishing two nice quilts. Mrs.
Hays served a very nice luncheon,
and made the afternoon a pleasant
one to all her guests.