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* : THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER .• BY ELLEN J. FORTGH VOL. XI. NO. 22 —* '"'I FRANKLIN COUUTY. , t i 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. ____ A LL MEN ABE NOT BAD. __ 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, * If you want a hard bargain mt it gly hat, don’t buy from SallU Raudnll. EXCHANGING SYMPATHY. ■ 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. * ■“ ■ 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. ,, , . .. ” ’ 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. ° 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 • 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. • ; Hi 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. >■ 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. * -vA 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# " ' *■ •' * , 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* -• M