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THE FRANKLIN COUNTY RESIST m
by ELLEN j. DORTCH VOL. XVI. NO. 23
OLD FRANKLIN.
Onr County as it was Before and
Soon after the Beginning of
Nineteenth Century.
piominent Men who Controlled Af
fairs in Old Times.
Thomas Peter Cames for whom
the village of Carnesvllle was named
and upon whose land the county site
was located was perhaps the most
noted man among the early settlers
of the county. As Judge of the Su
perior court, member of Congress
and one of the firs# Board of Trus
tees of the State University at
Athens, he stood high in the estima-
tion of his fellow citizens. He was
one of the commissioners appointed
by the Legislature, of the State in
1877 to confer with a similar com
mission appointed by the Legislature
of South Ccrolma to review and de
termine whether the Seneca or tbe
Tuga/o was the mam branch of the
Savannah river, and the ti ne divict
ing line between the states, I have
no means of learning who were the
ether commissioner on the part of
Georgia. On the 28th day of April
1787 at Beaufort, S. C. the joint
commissioners made and signed their
decision that the Tugalo was the
main branch uf the Savannah river.
and therefore the true dividing line
between the Slates, Their decision
was confirmed by the Legislatue by
the passage of the following act on
February Jst 1788: “Whereas, by
an ordinance passed by the Lcgis.
laiure of tnis Stafe, commissioners
were appointed and authorized to
meet other commissioners, similarly
appointed by the state of South Ca
rolina; and whereas the 6aid com
tmssioners, or a majority of them
from each State, were vested with
fall power to settle all differences,
controvereitieS. disputes and claims,
which subsisted between the States,
relative to boundary; and whereas,
they, conformably to those powers,
did on the 28th day of April, 1 < 87,
in convention at Braufnrf, in the
&#ate of South Carolina, by certain
instruments of writing to which the
said commissioners, intercbangablv
set their hand and affixed their seals
make mutual concess’ons and agree
ments for the purpose aforesaid:
Be it there r ore enacted, etc: That
whatever wa 3 done by said commiss
ioners, or majority of them asafore
I, is hereby ratified, and shall be
considered as binding upon the peo
of this State, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.” Judge
was the leading and influen
tial member from Georgia, and as
by tbe decision Georgia and Frank
lin county lost valuable lands and
it used to be llie fashion in
Georgia to assert that tbe Sojth
dined and wined Carnes
he was jolly drunk, and ready
sign away the rights of his State
and county. Probably the charge is
not trad. Carolinians maintain that
commissioners guaged the rivers
theii junction and ascertained
tbe Tugalo contained <hc most
water. B it judging with my own
I think the Scuec* i* the larger
stream. AuJ upon putting dm
question to others, I have sometimes
received tbe answer. “I know the
Seneca is tits larger stream;" and at
“I l"«*
the Tugato is tbe main stream.
Hence l think that nothing bss
fbon »scientific aud oeenrato survey
and gosghqf #f the tiro streams wdl
•tor settle the question beyond dls.
pute. While on this subject I may
mention the fact that in the dark
days of reconstruction, after Georgia
had gained her freedom from carpel
bag and negro rule, and while Caro
lina was still suffering all the horror
of such rule, a plan was concerted
to deliver the people of the for!
country in South Carolina from the
radical dominion. Accordingly a
simple resolution was adopted by
the Georgia Legislature to refer all
matters in dispute between the two
States in reference to the dividing
line to a joiut commission. Bui when
a similar resolution was offered in the
Legislature of South Carolina, some
radical better informed than the
carpet bag knights and lhe negro
members, warned them of what was
in intended by the simple and
harmless tookiug resolution,an 1 they
voted it down by a laigc majority.
Since that time Carolina hag again
become a free Stafe, and the fork
people were content to remain in
their own State.
Of Judge Carnes descendants I
know but little. Charles Doughtry,
afterwards Judge of the Superior
Court, studied law with Judge
Carnes, and then married his daugh
ter. Judge Dougherty left at least
one married daughter, who died a
few yeais ago, and I suppose her
her children still live in Athens, al
though I know nothing of them. If
Judge Carnes had other children be.
sides Mrs. Judge Dougherty I have
never heard of them. The late
James II. Chappelear long Sheriff of
the county, was a nephew of Judge
Carnes, and was said to resemble his
uncle very much, both in personal
appearance and ready wit,
Thirty years ago there resided in
Hai t county two men named Carnes.
They were rather peculiar, and one
of them an old bachelor was quite a
reeluse:
G. H. Cakti.kdgf.
(To be Continued.)
WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
1 r. Penning!in, of Palmetto, Ga.
a well kno^n and prominent phy
cc-ian says. During niv career iu
the practice of medicine, I used .a
great deal of the preptiation kno wn
as Mother’s Friend, sod want fo re
commend it to every woman and
to my brother physicians. It makes
labor easy, hastens delivery and re
covery, end iusjres safety to both,
mother and child. No woman can
be induced to go througn the ordeal
without it after once using it. I have
also sold it as a druggist, with the
best of salisfacticm - It is certainly
north its weight ill jjold.”
All druggist sell it. For particu
lars and full directions address.
Bradfield Regnlatoi Co., Atlanta Ga.
LADIES OF THE WHITE
HOUSE.
have found iLal tto-ir ft mttin.tr ex
cessivc duties j roducc a low. weak
tired and ticmnlons state of the sys
tem, and that iron restores richness
and color to the blood, ca'.isaya bark
a natural healthful tone to the diges
tive organ, and phosphorous mildly
stimulates the brain,—all t « ml ined
Harter’s iion Tonic.
ALL MEN ABE.XDT BAD.
————
Ki-nber »I 0 ,11 iw|wwl M~ll«
8nrt) |i„bfe, This is proven by the
r<w /ta following ib« J ,r
tfnrtora Iron tome fur dyspepsia,
HiemeStirtu, seroiuln, jsuwitee, tor
^ fiver »nd general weakness.
CARNESVILLE. GA..TUESDAY JUNE 5 , I 337 .
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Soil, Health, Water Power, Schools,
Churches, Railroads, etc,
SCHOOLS AND EDUC ITION.
Our people relied ma<nly on pub
lic schools for more than ten years
and the consequences became pain
fully apparent. Professional teach
ers had almost disappeared, educa
tion was on the back ground, aod
excepting a very few senoois; it was
necessary to send children abroad to
have them well taught. Now we
have increasing numbers of profess
ional teachers and long term schools.
Among ‘.be professional teachers of
experience and worth, are Rev. P F
Crawford, J F Tabor, J U Dennis,
Daniel McKenzie, M S Stribbling,
N A Fricks, S M Bobo, Rev. Marion
Chee£, and others, whose names I do
not recall. Besides having more
and better schools, a sonnkling of
young men are iu annual attendance
upon the North Georgia College,and
as we have before stated in these col
umns, ten young ladies from the
county ate in tbe Georgia Seminary
and others will probably join them.
So it is readily seen, that education
is on the first swelling walls of a
boom that we hope, may never sub
side.
One trouble with our teachers here
tofore, and it is still a partial
barrier to the success of
most them, is, a lack of speci
al training for the business. Special
training is as necessary for the
teacher as for the preacher, lawyer
physician or machinist. A great
many persons labor under the mis
taken idea, that the only qualifica
tion for a teacher is a good general
education. This is a mistake. A
man may be % fine scholar in the
general acceptation of tbe term, aud
know but littfe of law, medicine,
teaching or printing. His education
if accompanied by fair mental abili
ty may enable him to become a
j awyer, physician, teacher or prin
ter, but special education and train
ing for the busiuess, is essential to
success in either. There may be
teachers,who have had little or no
training, but do have great lact fo r
teaching, who are rockoned success
ful, but their usefulness would be
increased a hu ndred per cent, by
proper training.
Teachers ire o'ten thought suc
cessful because we fail to know what
first rate success.is.. We have seen
uien who were called fine teacher*
and who thought themselves fine
teachers, who were really, though
uuconciously the grossest humbugs.
They had read and thought and
knew so little .about the duties*
responsibilities and qoalifications of
a teachei, to little about the tre*.
meudous conseqnencesand far reach
ing influence of early training,
so little about human nature and
the best means of quickening
developing the childish intellect 3 #d
drawing outthe feelers of mind and
sml,,and so little about the tost
msthoda of imparting tbe informa
tion they did command, that they
were utterly unconscious of theii deS
cjcucies and lack of ability to teach.
The deficiency in our methods cf
teaching are painfully apparent
There i* hardly a county in North
east Georgia, but contains scoies or
hundreds ot children of fair aver
age capacity, who have been in
school loug enough to have
from a b c to * dip'-oma in the
Geoigia University; yet they are
far from being qualified to entei
the freshman’s class. We all know
of such cases. Wbjf i* it hif R
tbt ,i r p(trt , m os*t of us bars tori a
conception of our duties
*„,} |,uw they ougtUU»b* disebar*
rd, The teacher sbouhl be W well
qualified for his work, that he can
instruct parents as well «s children,
he should have the power to interest
both, and arouse them to activity.*
There is au impression abroad that
anybody can teach beuiane**. This is
a mistake. 7o le-ch the juvenile claw
properly, requires a tosher order of in •
tellect and greater queH4catio„r $g a
teac' er, than are req'ired to teaching
modern lauruagee aa< the e'neeiet. It
is all important that chiHren should
start right, and union they ctm to rent
to a teacher who knows hta business,
they should be taught at hen* until
they are ten or twelve rears eld. We
have known many prodigies at 5 and I
years cf age, who were the drones tf
their desses later oni Tt.ey were push,
ed 'too tapidly, too mush Study, too
much cotument and itnpropei methods
muddled the btain, clouded the Intel
ectand did irreparable injury.
USURY ON LAND LOANS.
Important Decision by Judge Emory
Speer Against the Mort
gage Company.
Its Probable Effect upon Similar
Casas.
A special from Macon of tbe 25th
■ays; Iu (he United States circuit
court, to-day, in the case of J K O
Sherwood against Reb< cca Rountree
Judge Speer rendered a decision in
his charge to the jury which is re
garded by leading members of the
bar, as one of the most far reach
ing and important in its consqaeuecs
which has been made in thi i circuit
for years. The pendancy of a,* im
mense number of suits against land
owners in Georgia in which tbe prim
cipal decided is applicable, gives it
this importance.
The testimony in tbe ease War
that tbe agents ot the money lenders
deducted twenty-five per cent, by
way of commissions, and counsel
in argument stated that in all, the
borrower bad paid forty-three per
cent interest. This, of course, under
the Georgia law, would be usurious,
and usury would render void any
deed or mortgage made to secure
such a debt, provided that tht true
lender of ih> money had notice of
tbe usury.
It was in evidence that Sherwood
through the Corbin Banking Com
pany, of New York, had made many
of these loans, and Judge Speer,
charged the jury that if from ' the
nature of the transaction; the great
number of the loans of this char*
actet made where the deeds and
mortgages were executed to the
plaintiff in the case; the continuous
nature of the transaction mid impor
tance of the amounts involved, it
was reasonable to be inferred that
a man of ordinary prudence in his
business transactions woukl under
stand ar.d know it, in the abscence
of proof to tne contrary, and that
preStimption not rebutted by proof
wodhl f harge him with all the con
sequences of hi* usurious agents;
and that if this be true, the plaintiff
can only recover the legal rateot in
terest.
The moat widespread effect of the
decision will be that such won
wojld render void the deeds and
mortgages executed to these tiMin
done loans. **
' W.C.fil will toll
• ; ru the very hot at a
vdry low priet.
McCo*mH Ik#
W«
SPEED OK A FAST TRAIN.
Spued is hard 'to luvrage. The
60 and 75 miles an hour train is gsn
erally a myth. Au average of 48
8-10 per hour is the fastest tune in
the United Stadcs," This is made on
the Pcnsylvauta.limited” in its run
fiom Jersey City to Philadelphia,
90 miles, in lest, than two hours.
The “Flying .Dutchman” train is
supposed to make the fastest time
in the TO or]d between Loudon and
Bristol, 118 1-4 miles, in less than
two hours. Tbe average, the ugh, of
even this fast train is only 58 1-8
miles pur hour. There are several
other trains noted for remarkably
fast time on short distances. Some
times a straight and ove.i grade for
a distance of 20 miles will permit a
train to run at the rate of more than
a mile a minute.- One train on the
Canadian Pacific road, from Cotan.,
eftu to Ottawa, averages 50 miles on
hour for a distance of 78 miles. On
the Central road the late Mr Vander
bilt traveled at the rate of 90 miles
an hour. An average of 80 1-2 miles
an hour is considered fast traveling
Many of the limited, lightning ex
presses do n A go at a faster rate.
The value of railroads in the United
States^excecds 18,000,000,000.—Ne s
York Mail and Express Interview.
THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN
THE WORLD.
1 Tho oldest newspaper in the whole
wide world is the King Pan, “Capi
tal Sheet,” published in Pekin. It
first appear 3 d A. J?. 911, but cavr.c
out at irregular intervals. Since the
year 1851, however it has been pub
lished weekly and of uniforn J Bize.
Now it appears in three editions
daily. Tbe first cdi'ion early in the
morning, an? 1 printed on yellow pa
per, is called Using Pau (business
sheet), aod contains trade prices and
all manner of commercial intrligencc.
The second edition which conies out
during the afternoon, also printed
upon yellow paper, is devoted official
announcements £and general news.
The third edition appears late in the
afternoon. It is printed on red pa
per, and bears the name of Titani
Pau (country sheet) It consists of
extracts from earlier editions, and is
largely subscribed for in the provinc
es. The number ot copies printed
daily varies between 1 3,800 and 14,-
GUITEAU’S HEAD ON EXHI
BITION.
Lovers of the sensational will be
interested in learning that Mr G O
Starr has secured the head of Guiteau,
♦he assassin of President Garfield,
and proposes to place it on rzliibi
tion. At tbe time of tlm execution
of Guiteau be made Dr Iliiks prom
•ae that bis remains should not be
disturbed after bis death, a» l lhe
doctor supjtosetl that by having them
burned i. the ; ri»ou yard they
would be protected from s|»oi|ation.
Manager Starr says that Professor
EMWoilh, the well-known collec
tor of curiosities, two y»ars ago
discovered the head ooncea’ed in tbe
cellar of a Washington residence apd
secured it, and it is now in bis pos
iton_M Y Star.
‘
A uioe Hn« of ladies ami gent*
ttowr fthoe* at W C It J W Me-
$ .00 "•( ,-/ PKIt VEU If
1 < ADVA
NAFOLEAN AFTER WA
TERLOO.
--
1IU Personal Appearance After his
Overthrow and Capture.
Whether any course was open to
Nupoienn after the dUnster of Wa
terloo, other thru that wnieh he
adopted, a second abdication is cer
tainly very doubtlul. Had he tak
en the precaution to diss lye the
chamber tofore setting out on the
campaign, he probably could have
rallied the nation and protracted the
struggle. But the chambers w'ere
unfriendly, any parliamentary body
is natura'ly unfriendly to mililtary
despotism, and, at that juncture,
nothing less than a military despot
ism could possibly have saved France
from the calamity of the restora
tion of the Bourbons by foreign
bayonets. Hence, unless Napolean
should execute a new coup d'etat,
there wus nothing for him bnt ab
dication.
Du tbe 15th of July,1815, Napo
leon surrendered himself on board
the British man of war Belle Oj lion.
Of his appearance and bodily condi
tion during tbe two montns of his
Hay on * his vessel, wo have an inter
esting account in tbe imrrativu of
Captain Maitland, who command
the ship. Maitland describes him
as “a remarkable strong, well built
man, about five feet seven inches
high, his limbs particularly well
formed, with a fine ankle and very
small foot, of which he seemed rather
vain, as he al ways wore, while on
board the ship, silk stockings an:
«hocs. lljs hands wore also wry
small, and had the plumpness of a
woman’s rather than the robustness
ot a ranuV. His «*ye 8 light gray,
teeth good, and when he smiled the
expression of his countenance wn*
highly pleasing; when under the in
fluence of disappointment, however,
it assumed a dark, gloomy cost,
llis hair wav of a very dark brown,
nearly approaching black, and
though a little tbin on the top and
front had not a gray bair among it.
His complexion was a very uncom
mon one, being of light, sallow color,
from other I ever met
with. From his having become
corpulent, he had lost much of his
personal activity, and, if we arc to
give credit to those who attended
him, a very considerable portion of
his mental eneigy was also gone. It
is certain his habits were very leth
argic while he was on 6oard (hz
Belieroption; for, though be went to
bed at 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening
and did not rise until about the same
hour in the mornbg, be frequently
fell asleep on the sofa in the cabin
iu the course of the day. Ilis gen
appearance was that of a man
rather older than he was.” •
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Ladies aud gents fine suinrmr
shoes at McEnrire’s.
Syrup at McConuell A Bro. 25cts
per gallon.
When you want the beat article
of tobacco, don't forget to csll on
W. C. k J, li. MnEwtirr.
j W. C. A J. B. McKidire cannot be
WOMAN' TIIEWOKU)oy«R
J | t J*t ■m tl
:
The most graceful tribute to ill#
Queen of England during thm jubi
lee cornea from Austria. Tho journal
of Viomm gi\es this ltcautiful .
ing: 1
*•»
* Millions of voices throughout her.
world wide empire will wrtbt the
queenly and womanly virtues of Vie- *'
toria. Tho day marks a long epoefc
pi the political w uifare of her rank**
The whole world syinpaihlaes 4ttlf
the festival, for the fame of the
Queen’s blessed rule nnuhet evm
of tho globe. This sympetl ;
quarter
is moV be. m lily shared in by jfusttta
sovereign. The viunes of Victoria
throughout Iho whole of her life re
call those of our own great Kmpteso, 4
Maria Theresa. Both were endowed
with rich gifts, mental and physical. ,
Both ascended tho throne In tb*
Both m enjoy tilt
prime of youth.
richest and purest domestic hapjd*
ness, which both fully deserved.
Tho joy of each was clouded by tho
death of the beloved husband, (tor
whom each never ceased to
Both went /h rough * life
blessings arowud, and both were be#
loved by their people. I he *°7
of Victoria, like tnat of
♦
Theresa will be blessed as long
history lives,—Km, ft '
A HOUSE FOIt HIS TWELTH
CHILD. I
Promises are serious things,
ciaily so in Germany. A wealthy
citizen of Bahrcnfeld took a lively
interest iu the welfare ot a railroad
official of that town, whose family
wus rapidly increasing, and a few
years ago on the birth ot the man’s
ninth child, went so far as to promife
him a house on tb« birthday o
twelth addition to his family, b«
child male or female. Rep cate
the gouerous would-be donor, in
p»e«ence of witnesses, bad reiterated
promise to the happy patter fauistioa
whose ’“expectation” became the
town talk ns it were. One fine day
“No 12,” made his appearance, bud
the magnificent Dives ou being I
peal 3 d to refused to make g«ol j
word, pretending that the whole
matter was only a “joke." A suit in
optima forma was the consequent
of the refusal, ami the court decide!
in favor ot the plaintiff—a result ■
against w hich the respondent appeal
ed, but in vain. The Supreme Coart
of Kiel decided to look upon the *e»t
bal offer ns perfectly bin ting, and
went so far m #> protect the appeal
not only, but also to authoriae the
plaintiff fhoose tbe f- •
to one ot respon
dent’s houses,—Paris Ameifcon
Register.
GOOD RESULTS
Ik A. Bradford, wholesale paj e?
ilctrier ot Chattanooga, Tenh., write* "
licit lie wn* seriously afflicled with $
severe cold that settled on bis lung*
had tried many remeJk** without
iKiiefit.Being induced 10 try Dt
Kings New Discovery for Cunsump.
tion, did to and w«« entirely cured
hy tbe use of a few bottle*. Stoe«
which lime he aus kepi it in bb btotfifc.;
for all cough* and colds wRb tw*l
results. Thi* is the #xperfene« of 1
thousand* whosu lives have been
raved by this wonderful dl
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