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THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER
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BY ELLEN J. FORTGH VOL. XI. NO. 22
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FRANKLIN COUUTY. ,
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Its Soil, Health, WaterPower,
Schools, Churches, Railroads, etc.
SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION.
At the time of which I speak there
was but little system in the manage
nieut of die school exercises. The
. pupils recited one and two at a
time, not in classes, and it was a
sort of a snatch game as to who
should recite lii-St. We Sat On the
end of bench near the teacher when
reciting, and it was not nuusual to
sec a half dozen or Acre ^pys on thi.
bench ready to slide into position
one after the other. When the
the round of lessons had been made,
and the teacher pseetthined the fact
by inquiry, the seco|id|i round com¬
menced and those who recited last,
in the, first round were frequently
among the first to recite on the sec¬
ond, and-tbe fQienoon of afferprtou
lessons were recited in five or. ten
minutes of each other. —
sired All spelled aud read aloiu|Vhq de¬
to do so, and often by a pre
conceited arrangenunt forty or fifty
icholars would ,break forth at the
.ame in,taut at the top of their
andteontd . have b distinct- .
voices, een
/lj heard for half a mile. Such thing
'as a bell in a country achool was un
known, antT I when * it was time to
I ,-S.
take in School, the teacher steod at
tiie door and cried iristentorian tongs
“comifc fijdyiQks.”
Schofil fchilcfrqjo at that time and
inueh later, we're, greatly iijCei.sed vnt
it * •' ggXy l' t tyNyT'Tgtl^tCA**"
Ducking-was the OrtlioddY.njcthod'
of punishing the offender if caught,
but iu the absence of sufficient watei
we resorted to bumping. The cul¬
prit was seized by the arms and legs
by aloice sufficient to manage him,
and was swung against, a stump oi
tre#until tbe supposed outrage was
theught^ to have been sufficiently
punished. There was mo tun in be¬
ing bumped by a crowd of angry boys.
Offenders were generally on horse¬
back, or had so tar the start, that it
Was a rare thing to capture the».
The last offenders that I remember
seeing punished at mount Zion, were
Ike auQ Andy Johnson. They were
old offenders, it was early in the
morning and before the teachei ar
rived. They misjudged our force
and did hot attempt to escape, and
for once they reckoned without
their host. They were unable to
get away from those preseut until
reinforcements arrived, when they
Were buulped till they beggeu for
mercy, It was a Three struggle for
a time, but we wore rapidly reinfor¬
c'd by fresh arrivals aud soon had
them under control anri a detachment
held one down while the other wa 3
being punished. The strife was so
Jong and noisy that Mr. Johnson
who lined nearly a half mile away
heard it; and guessing at the cause
came to the rescue jtfst in time io
see her batteaed, dirty, panting sons
released. Jeramiah Cleveland of
Martin doubtless remembers an en¬
counter he once had with the Mouut
Zion boys. — *
1 wait to school to Mr. Sfonecy
pherregain in 1841 and by that ti»«e
a letter hou-e had been built, with
plank floor and I believe a stone
chimney. It had one door and a
window ou ihc opositc of the house
and one at the back end, each about
1®or 18 inches square. The cracks
were lined with boards on the inside
and several years afterwards they
were daubed with mud ou the out
side.
Hr. ^Stonecypher taught leveraj
years alter tbe new house was built
sod I know not bow many year# be*
1ere I was largo enough to attend
**hool. School boy# at that time
ware very anxious to taro the teach
•r oat on or about the last day of the
2'hw plan wa# to reach the
\ p-.
h6«se early in the morning and
the door and keep tbe teacher out
until he promised a treat. In
the large boys intended,to turn Mr.
Slonecypher out on the last day of
the school, but they made a mistake
in the time and the sch ool was out
a week earlier than they thought.
On the evening of the last day, he
rapped on his little table and stood
up as Aas his custom when lie inten
dedtogiveus a lecture, and said
“^ ow give me your profound
attention.” This was the way he
perfaeed all his lectures, but he did
not lecture that day. His emotions
were getting the mastery, he hesita
ted a mom^nt, broke out into a laugh
and said it was the last day of the
school. While he laughed aud H*ed
toJbe merry, I remember that his
voice qaavered aud his eyes anil
were wet with tears.
As|J have statecUfoe was a very
stout, hale old I 1 hav never
maul e
seen any one who coilld throw a
stone Higher in the air than lie. lie
did not throw by slinging his arms
behind him and aoove his head as we
did, bu£ jerked as the boys called it,
th at is, threw the rock underhanded
bringing i Hie arm to a sudden stop
at the hip... The boys would^ffen
select nice shio^th- stones, tend he
at the rpTtr of school
jerk them over the topsof
tall white oa^.and poplar that
the branch bank fiear tire
l >rm -' He jerked so well and so far
we were anxious to see him
as we did, but ;ould never get
to do so. He would promise
throw and would drawn back and
ri^n forward and make a great floui
is*h ju^t as the boys did,' but would
always briiig Ins arm down by Ins
side throw up hio right leg and jerk
the rock under it. The toys would
remonstrate and he eXPla ’H(d tried by
ra mrsTsvay s when Tie to
thrown like a boy his right leg wouiu
liy up and the rock woHd go under
it. 1 understand now why lie did
not throw Jike a boy.
Every body cabled him Uncle Ben
and he was * favorite with all, He
was a membei of the Baptist church
at Eastanualle at a time whereof Hie
memory of nia.i ran not to the con¬
trary. In his old age he requester!
to be rebaptized, offer ing cs a rea’
that there was no one living
who had seen him baptized and
some might doubt whether he had
been baptized a; all. lie was a
Baptist and the main pillar of
Eastanualle church, but totally free
from sectarian bir.s. I knew him
intimately from my eailiest re¬
collection till the day of his death,
and never heard him censured for
but one act of his life, and that
was I think a creditable and and a
worthy thuig. IK took the love
feast with tne .Methodists at Jreunt
Zion and gave umbrage lo si me ot
his Baptist brethren thereby.
There were unruly and turbulent
members in Eastanualle church
many years ago and they had some
quarrels and stormy times,
but Uncle Ben was never a partisan
ha was always peace maker; I wed
lus sorrowiul face and the
tones of his voice when he
to speak on su c h occasions.
was th® son of John Stoneey
a revolutionary soldier, who
and died on EastannaHee, and
the father of Charles and Garnett
Stonecypher. He died in extreme
old age a few years ago universally
beloved and respected. By common
consent, be was reckoned the best
man in th it part of the county.
The purity of his life aud his 8 l ’ eat
moral worth has been so indellibly
stamped upon my memory, that
whenever 1 hear a mau spoken of - s
being extra pure and good, t o im
age of the old school “**''.*«
55 LTi^ST-S
Ben.
Gontitel.
[•Vico President A. WbeeL
er 4 ou June Ult>
CARNESVILLE, GA., TUESDAY JUNE, 14,
T1IE JURY S i’STEM.
When the Jacob Sharp trial
in New York it was very generally
agreed that it would lie highly sensa
tlona’. he javy has not yet been
obtained, though more than two
weeks have elapsed and over
juiors have been summoned. There
has been one vert decided sensation,
however. Attempts have been made
to “fix” some of the jurors for Mr.
Sharp, although the prosecution has
not been able to trace any of the at
tempts to either Mr. Sharp or his
lawyers. It will be bard to make
the public believe, however, that the
attempts were not instigated by par¬
ties Interested in having Mr. Sharp
acquitted.
Trials Uke this of Sharp’s are cal¬
culated to briug the jury system into
disrepute. They create a doubt in
the public mind of the possibility ot
getting a perfectly fair jury in any
great case. A defendant w ith plenty
of money can make it very difficult
thing for the State to get a thorough¬
ly honest jury, aud he can prolong a
trial for weeks that ought to be dis¬
posed of in two or three days.
There is auother objection to the
jury system which is emphasized in
this case of Sharp's. It is <he num¬
ber of men who are forced away
from their business, in many in¬
stances at eonsideiable loss to lliom-
seleee, aud the length of lime those
who finally compose the jury are kept
from their homes and their business
affairs. In me Shaip trial some of
the eleven men wLo, up to the pres
out, haveVfie t .|j accepted jurors*
have already been detained from
their business over two weeks, au“
the outlook is that they will not be at
liberty inside of three weeks or a
month more They arc justified in
com plaining, a Ltl, that too, loud/y.
While the jury system has advan¬
tages over all others for the adminis¬
tration of justice, the drawbacks to
it are ceruindy assuming ver y serious
proportions. Sbaip’s trial is not the
first great one iu this country, but,
it has already distanced all others in
the matter of getting a jury.—Consti
lution.
Flint Hamilton, a yonng man resi¬
ding near Dalton, happened to an
accident on Tuesday afternoon last,
which may result in his death. A
large hawk flew into the yard and
Hamilton got out Lh douWe-barrell
ed ohofgun, as the bird was circling
overhead he shot both bar^ls at it.
The gun was heavily charged, and as
a natural consequence, rebounded
with terrific force, one of the ham¬
mers striking Hamilton in the fore¬
head, causing a terible fracture of
the skuH A physician was called in
who dressed the wound and removed
several particles of the fractured skull
but it is doubtful* considering its na¬
ture, if the unfortunate man survives
the injury.
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A LL MEN ABE NOT BAD.
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Neither are all r rt ‘P aml rCmed,cs
unre |i a b/e. This is proven by the
r )SU ; ls f 0 l] 0 wiin' the use of Dr
|j nrtei h Iron tonic for
„ erolula , jaundice,
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If you want a hard bargain
mt it gly hat, don’t buy from
SallU Raudnll.
EXCHANGING SYMPATHY.
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Mrs. Ex-Presi«]ent Tyler Writes
Sympathetic Letter to Mrs.
Beecher.
A special from Richmond, Ya.,
of June 3id: Tlio Secretary ot the
Beecher Memorial Association of
Brooklyn, in a letter to Mrs. Ex
President Tyler, of this city, says
that a short time before the death of
the great preacher, he “in a sermon
of rare exee'leuee,” delivered before
an iramense au aicnc«, about the
training of children, paid a tender
tribute to her husband, whose deep
interest in the moral and ir.tclieetnal
welfare of his children is sweetly and
beautifully portrayed in his publish¬
ed letters. The affecting illustration
of Mr. Tyler’s virtues before a
Northern audieuce by one who was
politically opposed to him, brought
tears to the eyes of his hearers. To¬
day Mrs Tyler sent » reply in the
form of a memorial letter to Mrs.
Peechor, in which she referred iu
touching terms, t o the dead preacher
and c> pressed her most lender sym¬
pathy. Mrs Tyler’s lettei will
published iu the Beecher memorial.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF JO¬
HANNA.
The Island of Johanna, Comoro
Islands, has some very peculiar
toms. The natives are jet black,
ueai and Mean. The girls
marriagc arc iw t allowed out on the
streets at *11 and can see no Olio lint
their husbauffx. Rich men are allow
ed four wives’ poor men o ne. When
a poor man yets poorer ho cau sell
half share in his wife for so much
m ouey, regulated bylaw. A native
belle, before hei marriage, makes a
fine display on the fashionable streets
of Johanna iu this rig—a red calico
Mother Hubbard gown, priuted with
a pattern of banana leaves, reaching
to her hi tees—no shoes or stockings
and for hcaffyear, a wide nuimerf,
blue china teacup, worn with the
handle on one side for convenience
in taking off. Friends of the temper¬
ance cause might find a realization
their tondest hopes aud dreams in
Johanna, one of the Comoro Islands.
The vice of drunkenness is wholly
unknown there. In all Johanna no
one but the consul is allowed to
have any alcoholic liquors. Auy
one else, no matter who, found w ith
any in his possession is immediately
with all his family aud all his r e
lati.es, thrown into jail and lus
house burnt to the ground. And
this is an isiauJ where t here is not a
single missionary, uu d the inhabitants
are all M oh simuedaiis.—From the
Boston Joarnal.
WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
Dr.Pennmzton, of Palmetto, Ga.
a well known and prominent phy
ccian says . During my caretr in
prac tice of medicine, I umd .a
great deal of the prep* t a tion known
as Mother’s Friend, and trent lo re
commend it to t very woman and
to my b ro ther physicians. It makes
la Yx> r easy, hastens delivery and re
,, Mt ] insares safety to both,
mother ami child- No woman cun
^ induced to g 4 through the ordeal
bestof salisfaetku. H is certainly
worth iu Weight iu gold.”
Alldrutfgt» !fc *11 **• Forpurticu
lars and full directions address.
Bradfield UcgnbUM Co-, Atlanta Ga.
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LONGEVITY.
4i*.
m U,
When mankind receives the wise
. . ,n„l , . . , .. , ,
r,u 8 ,„ g
on horses and catth, the sculptural
, limit of . three f . score a.ri .. ten will ... . be
reiuoved . to at least , , five It .
Y score.
lias , . been estimated , that , the , normal ,
longevity .( mm*, i, Bye ti,„ M ,t,
period of growth. This rule gives
a „ liou twenty, a dog ten, . a can el i
, forty, . and . . i horse twenty-five . . „
a years:
.Man's tvrenly yc»re of growth by
enloulntion entitle, bim to one bun.
Brody cars. Tbe lVnch chemist,Chcv
roel, ot Pan,, bar reached hi. ban
dredth rear, will, a vigor and a
clearness of iatelle :l andiaimed, and
,n a word con,,,arauvely ignorant «I
the highest law. oi life, and wl.i In it
he , . ... .
is at present , ail extreme, it is in
dicative ... of , what , . is possible ,
to all, „ und . er . better . training . and ... a
greater degree , ol . enlightenment. ,, , . ..
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Other , extremes , lave gone many
ycars beyond , ... tins. Noah , Raby, ,, , of ,
I-laiaBald, New Jersey, is 114, had
sunporis lumsc . f by his work i m • ,i the
1
summer, and looks like a man of t
eighty. °
Longevity ....... has itsbasis m the high- .
faculties. Women,having ..... feebler
ir
bodies, but strong moral , natures,
er
rank higher in longemly ... than men.
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Of suddou deaths there are seven
times than , women. The
more men
life force organizes a body in ac¬
cordance with its owu character,and
hl8 v „ nl forcu ib affet)t ed by its m
vironnivntf> in t lic> nature of cduea
tion, aw, food and motives, The
human body is a tenement, of which
life is the builder, We shall not
easily be released from tlio influence
of any false opinion into which we
have been educated, but we ean con¬
tinue to make heroic and noble
struggles, and thereby enjoy increas¬
ing hope.
GOOD RESULTS.
1). A. Bradford, wholesale pa] er
dealer of Chattanooga, Teiin., writes
that he was seriowsly afflicted with a
severe cold that settled on his lungs
had tried many remedies without
benefit.Being induced to try Dr
Kings New Discovery for Consump¬
tion, did so and was entirely cured
by the use of a few bottles. Since
which time lie mis kept it in his house
for all coughs m.d tolds with best
results. Tins is tl,c experience oi
thousands whose lives Lave been
sav«d by this wonderful discovery.
Trial bottles free at Di. II. 31.
Freeman’s drug store.
Four persons escaped from the
Gainesvilleyatl ou the night of the
3rd inst. They were Ayers the
Harmony Grove burglar, Jt/iiicc the
Towns county murderer and tsrone¬
groes. They eut their way through
the wall.
LADIES OF THE WHITE
HOUSE.
h aye fcui.d that u.cir si uu times ex
ceM i V c dutu s produce a low. weak
tired and tieinalous state of the sys
t«>u, aud that iron restores richness
#nJ ^ ^ ^ ctt!iaaya bark
tive organ, and phosphorous mildly
stimulate# Ike brain,—all combined.
Harter’s non Tonic,
$ 1 .00 I’KR VfiXU IS’ ADVANCE
PREMATURE WRINKLES.
.... Wrinklts natural , . to old .. age
are as
,o
They , duo, , mainly, . , ...... certain
J are to
shrinkage of the muscles—u sin ink- . ,
which cliaraeteri7.es, Jess the .
more or
™ ,i "’ **•? #" , ”" r W*f
11 e ‘
It is in consequence 1 of this geiK’i
at shrinkage ° tint m advanced life
U»' heigbt» ..one. In,t lovrereB, tbM
<*«*—— 4 "* 1*"
,ll ” s 0,tc " **’*« ri “' W in essnre
»» U» ne,v 88 that r .,«..lrongh the
ll “ bony canal* to «evere and d.lB
enlt aenr.lgia; and that ll,„ brain
snhstanoa boecne, redoond to ball,
M atcr M""* ll >« vacant 8 l’ a ce.
Were it not for the fixed habits and
accumulated of life ... time,
resources a
an old mail’s braui would rot be
equal to the work wlneli he still per-
1
forms easy.
There is, , of course, much . differ
bciween old pea,de . tin.
»nee „ re
spent, 1 which is duo largely to tem
pernment, 1 habits #f thought and ,
feeling, and modes of life- The pa
tors lately toid , of „ a min one nuiv
old,whose , face , was wholly ...
J years
without wrinkles, fins was a very
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For _ the , body .
case. great
us, if we attain length of days*
take . them . with ... the addition .
must or
physical ... decay. Even „ the proitl -
belle mast make up her mind to
wrinkles;but if, us she grows
she grows in good seuse,
and kindly sympathies, her
«Wm|4w wilt Uavu an
far beyond beauty ot face.
Gov. Ames has pardoned Frank¬
lin J Most- E^-Govcnor of South
Carolina, and lie has been released
from the Massachusetts Htsle prison
Tlio strange career of Moses culmi¬
nated iu the forgery of the n» .. e of
Thomas Wentworth Hlggiuson,
author, early in 1885. In Octo¬
of that year he was sentenced to
a term of three years in the
prison. He was pardoned be„
it was represented that h w
in bad health aud could not live
The fate of Moses, ami some
the other carpet-baggers, prove
justice is not ulways tong
Bl’CKLEN ARNICA !*AL\ h.
The best salve in the world for
cuts, bruises, sores,ulcers, salt’ rheum
fevers, corns, sores, tetter, chapped
hands, cut bla’iis, and all skin ei up¬
time.; and positively cures piles, or
no pay reqwred. It is guaranteed
to give sati.dactior. or money rofund
ed. Price 25cts a box. Foi sale
by II M Freeman.
John Jlerryman & Go Ammoui
ed dissolved bone is the most reliable
guano on the market. For sale at
Avalon and Martin by It D Tow
ACo.,
Our stork of ledics mid goat»
(hoes i# ) < 1*1 >1 i lill»etime,wheu
you wont fine shoe look at our#
McConnell A Bre.
A nice lino of ladies and gents
shoes at W C & J . .j B Af ^
sinnier
Entire.
1
MiY. jiindl & Bro have tbe best
flour in town for tbe same money.
rri v/v.'L
MR. CORCORAN STJtJCKI
WITH PARALYSIS.
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A, special from lUtshiu gton «iy«:,
W. W. Corcoran, the aged million-,
sire philanthropist was suddenly
stricken with paralysis in the left
atin and leg this nftcrnooa, while at
dining table. Physicians were called
in and administered an anodyne, and
lie was put to bed. where he U now
resting quietly. An intimate friend
Mr.G.'reorau’s said that ho did
what /■'j nscrilie X, ' ' •
not known to to the
except that Mr. Corcoran whs
old man, who won Id celelbrate
his eighty-ninth birthday on the 117tli
December next.
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AGE OF KINGS IS OVER.
Tbo age of kings is over. It deep¬
ened into its twilight when George
Washington took the sword of Lord
Cornwallis fn the field of York town
This twilight of the kings las been
growing denser ever since. The
nineteenth century will probably bo
then- last. When the twentieth
cent ary rounds «•* to its close a 1 ! in#
govt rumen)s of th* world will be
republics in name, as many of them
now are republics in reality. The
world will hate the name of king
with the old Roman hatred.—-From
the Boston Globe tDcm.)
NEW ORGANIZATION
There is now .being organized by
the Knights of Labor a new national
trade district nnsetnbly of farmer#
throughout the country. Mr Pot
derly said in the Labor convent!
at Harrisburg that the farmers are as
much workingmen as the miners' and
he prescnt«d a resolution disigned
to induce the Grangers to form iheir
lodges into assemblies of tbe Knight#
of Labor.—Wa {e Worker.
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It 11 II CA-\ ju£.
li) try lug ag..ii .,uu k.up.ng *p
courage m.u.j uuugs »cwjj»ng*y 1 M‘
poooiute may ire uetompiisneu. iiuu
arena oi nopcjoss cuacs ot kiancy
and hver couiphtiul have been cured
by Electric Billers, after every thing
else hav. laired. So don’t think there
u no e'aic lo» you, but try Electro
Billers. There is no medicine so
sate, so pure and so perfect a blood
purihci. Electric Bitters will cur#
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Diabetes and ah diseases
the kidneys. Invaluable iu uffec
of stomach and liver, and over¬
come all umary difficulties—Large
only fifty cents at H. M
As rain drops foretells a storm,
so do pimples upon the human body
indicate health destroying vi ru# in
tbe blood, which can be neutralized
and expelled only by Dr Harters
Iron Tonic. -ri- i
If yon want a goad ikw of to
bacco call on W C. <fc J. B. McHn
tire for Bjh Frank liu.
Alias Sallie Rand ill lias just re -
received a lo*. of nice Ladies hats,
riblioiis. flower#, etc.
£
—- am if^ -—
Fresh meal at AIcGosueH k Jros
kept all the time.
s
Fresh country w"* meal id way
on haul at W.C. Jk J. U. McEntire*
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