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THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER
1SV ELLEN J. DORTCH VOL, VI. NO. 33
OLD FRANKLIN’.
Our County as it was Before and
Scon after the Beginning of
Nineteenth Century.
prominent Men who Controlled Af-t
fairs in old Times.
As vas rekt d ip a former article,
the Creek" an l the Cherokee Indians
often made predatory raids in Frank¬
lin couuty for several years after its
first sell lenient. lienee every set¬
tlement of wmle people built a stock¬
ade fort for their pi ot.etion in the
following insurei. Selecting an ele¬
vated location not overlooked, by any
higher ground near at hand, and lay¬
ing off a square ef one er two acres
they dug trenches around the square
three or four feet deep. Logs were
then cat and split in the middle
about, twenty or twenty-five feet ior.g
and set upright and doubled in the
benches so as to h.eak the joints.
Two or tbiee tiers eit poles a cre then
ilistened With woddeii pm, horizont¬
ally on (l;c inside. Resting on the
lop of each corner of the stockade
and jutting otter the. walls about four
leetiud supported by a post inside
a blockhouse was .built wifh port
holes through which the guaids
could fire their guns at the savage
lees. Inside ot Uu stockade .the
peop’e l)Miet their cabins. -When
danger from the Indians was appre¬
hended ail the people Lctuok them¬
selves to the fort; us long us danger
web lctued the women and children
with a few men to guard them by
clay, remained in the prince ot safety,
while by day most of tne men went
forth with their lilies upon their
shoulders to their little farms to
work the crops. In so doing, they
usually went all together to one faun
and blackleg their arms, they worked
over that crop), and then another,
and so ou round until all were worii
■ed. But when the danger was sup¬
posed to be over, all the minifies re¬
moved to their respective homes and
ihue remained until the next raid
Was iiii.de cr apprehended, But
there was always a standing ngree
Dii-nt between tin m iliat whosoever
first learned that hostile Indians were
in the country the aid hasten to give
warning to tfheis, and to others still,
until aii were duly' warned There
w as a line of these stockade lorts
extending from the Savannah river
to tlie Appalacbee.' Robert McAipin
usually called McCoppin, was one ot
the earliest settlers in the eastern
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of the county on the Savannah, and
there was a fort ou—his land called
Me Cop pi it’s fuit. Can anyone give
me the exact, location of that fort,
and who, now. owns the land. Ah 1
know about it I learned from *Ui
people a long time ago. McAIpiu
did not.kmg remain m the county,
but toon ;tit.oved to Gietpie cauiny
and il.tiicc about the beginning tu
aL«// resent century to East T<‘iin&
see Join his mother Alexander
who had previously moved-tiler,
i from cue of t Ip; older states.
IJtUttwiort-Aood just above tin;
'pment lmdutcc of \S. V. Hot
brook# Bu»h's fort iv;U located near
llte homo of the Into Dan F.
grandson ot Darnel Bush the first act
tier. 1 have never leurped way
for thu the fort which stood near the
II Ulrica vr ) Sims!# ou the North
CfcMttNt, One of the U ihuUrl n *
Idlt/o's creek i* ii sNittli sit emu whie)
u>w* by ihe name of t 'fucltet'i, { ho
first ,(.-rth inuit made utr this e, i t
w l » lit! d# hy a Suit i
name of Crocket. The cabin stood
between the creek and the
residence of Airs Coker, formerly
known as the Mangum place and
later as the Sliockly place. fhe
Crocket family had a cabin in Little’s
fort, and at the time of which I write
tne family consisted ol the widow
Crocket and eight children, mostly
daughters but the oldest was a son,
William Crocket, a young man about
twenty-five years of age. One day
the late James H. Little, esq,, then
a young man, rode up to Crocket’s
m great haste and told William to
take the family to the fort immedi¬
ately; for the Indians were m the
neighborhood. William Crocket was
sitting in the doer making a pair of
sloes to wear to his own
wedding the next week, and replied
to little. “We have had one or two
tals j alarms lately and went to tlie
fori, when (here was really no dam
ger; and I am very busy now, a.id
have no time to lose, and therefore
I will stay at home this time, and
risk the consequences. Al
though Little assured dim tha< he
himself had seen Hie trail of a con¬
siderable force ot .’admits, he could
not shake Crockets determination of
remaining at home and risking the
consequences; and therefore he has¬
tened away to gu'e warning to oth
ers. IJuring that day ail the famines
in tne settlement except Crocket’s
reached the fort in safety. Next
morning leaving a sufficient guard
to protect the fort and its precious
inmate ymfst of the men shoulde.ed
their gun and mounting their horses,
went in pursuit of the Cherokee
savages. Findiug tne trail they
followed it to the Widow Crocdsets,
where a horrible spectacle met their
views. In lire v aid in one ghastly
pile lay the widow Crocket and her
eight sons ana daughters butchered
and scalped, .Stcek, bedding,
dollies ricking utensils and every
thing else valuable, was either tar¬
ried off or destroyed. Leaving the
dead unhurried, they white men
pursued the murderous savages until
they reached the line of the Indian
nation. Their fence being small
they were afraid to go further, and
returning to Crockets, they placed
the nine murdered persons in one
grave in the bluff overlooking the
iittle stream still bear.ng the Crock¬
et flame, a ill raised a mound
or monument of stones to mark the
spot. But alas for the weakness
and selfishness of human ua'ure.
The man info whose hands the
Crocket place aft awards fell, wish¬
ing to build unite fctone chimney
to hi's dwelling, tcok away the
Crotchet mouuineut put tine
stones in his chimney where they
modi’, have been seen, until the
" • since late
iiOusc was torn down our
war; white the dot of the nine
Crockets was left to reel in an un¬
marked "rave B-t the good Lord
U. * teW -l- (he K
and the life,” known wheie
dust reposes, and will d< u'riiess find
it^ud bring it forth, when lie
(fonie to raise the dead and judge the
world. He mote it be. In
ear iy daj# n>*>#t d ti e p'Ratt
idencei h tli># comifjf h«d porthole#
and burticadr# for defense a g au,,,i
the attack* of the savage#, and were
i tii 4 a vigorous defei.se ol
the liuniis »t the brave *eeuj ant A,
forth e women it* well u# the men
z. I’ijU 14 mold bullet*
and h and shoot jfle*. The
,
w oim ti i >f Ftsuklin rouiify a bun
i died J*»t* eg". (OU id not play the
and otgan nor d#»i<o the
CARNESVILLE, GA„ TUESDAY JULY 2 6, 1887 . '
German; but they could wield the
av, and shoot the rifle, and kill a
boar, a-hawk or a red-skin when the
I occasion demanded.
GUOVKB 11. CAliTl.EDCil;.
[To be Continued.]
VITRIOL CAUSES A PERILOUS
FILE.
-V Gunpowder-Laden Steamer lias a
Narrow Escape.
The schooner Minnie Irwin, Cupt
Thompson, which was on the point
of leaving for Porto Rico yesterday,
besides falling in wiili the squall
had an exclusive little accident of
her own which came very near being
a serious matter for tivs'e on botrd.
The vessel was lying at anchor out
in the bay, loaded with an assorted
eargo, among which wen 150 kegs
of gunpowder anl" a carboy of ail
vitriol. A t ten a. m. the vitroii
exploded on the deck and leaked into
(lie hold, where it ignited a bale of
strarv. The flames instamly leaped
up, and some one shrieked out
“Fire!” which so frightened the
crew that they nearly all rushed >‘u
n body for the small boat. Two of
them jumped into the yawl and
pushed off. The colored cook pa
ralized with fear when he saw the
tire and heard the Captain say,
this is getting pretty hot,and a good
place to pet out of." tried to catch
the boat but missed it. He then
quickly caught up The mam hatch,
which lie flung aboard and jumped
after it. As he did so lie saw his
companions in flight upset the email
boat and fell into the water.
In the meantime the captain and
the remainder of the crew who bad
been cut off from ihe escape we.it
to work to bade' n ith the flames,
and succeeded in quenching them in
a short time. The German bark
Robert, which was anchored near
by, succeeded in saving the two men
who had ■ been upset, and Captai
Coiigdon,of the revenue cutter Wart
iugtou, hove alongside and Iran sla¬
ved them to the.schooner. On baud
of the vessel was a man working his
way to the West Indies, and who
pit eon ly begged Captain Congdon
to land him in New Y.ork. lie was
not willing to continue the passage
with all t-'.cse combustible .on board,
he said but’ was compe'led to go. Tlie
Injury to the Irwin*was very light.
N. F. World.
GOOD RESULTS
D. A. Bradford,’ wLoicsi'e payer
dealer of Chattai oopiyTenn., writes
that he was serkwsly afflicted witfl a
eevcrc cold that settled on his Jungs
had tried many icmelies without
>R’» c »it. Being induced lo try Dr
K "W K «
lion, did so und wo# entirely curl)
by the., use of a few bottles.
winch lime l.e mwkcptlt mid# hoiuve
for all engirt bimI cold. ,, «Uk , t ** t ,
results. This is the exj crictfce oi
thousand# Whose lives have been
by this womlefful discovery,
TrW j or H Dr; II. M.
drug store,
When you go to w c k
Lot 1 re's prices, you will id way# >^ot
l ( ort» wi
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McConnell A Um a« selling
l/Aceo for hs# money thou the (,
I'Hti he i ought risen here
A BLOODLESS MAX.
A Soldier Has Daggers and
ltuu Through Ilitn With ¬
out Injury,
A dispatch from Berlin (o the
Philadelphia News says: Physicians
and scientists are a! it loss co nectuint
for u strange freak of nature which
lives but a lew miles from here.
The man, whose name is Olto Sckrei
bar, apparently lias no blood. This
fact was discovered less than a month
ago, when Sclireiber, who is a sol
die: corporal, had a duel with a fel¬
low soldier. His opponent ran him
through with a sword, but no blood
flowod, and he di 1 not appear to be
harmed injhe least. The man was
so astonished that Otto had no cliffi
cufty in killing him. Since that time
he has let Ins comrades amuse them
selves by sticking knives and daggers
through his body with no injury
whatever, not even a drop of blood
flowing., lie visited a medical col
in Berlin, and in the presence of
the whole college, had a sharp knife
run through Ifis mouth, coining out
at the back of his head. No mark
whatever was left. He was (hen
examined by a committee of oi»
tinguishe! surgeons, who confessed
themselves totally unable to explain
the miracle. Otto Schreibor is a
Corporal in lire German army, and
next year when his time is up, be
will exhibit, himself in Berlin, Paris,
London and Amivnor
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WOMEN NOT LEGAL JURORS.
A legal case of a very peculiar na¬
ture has been reported from \\ mb
mgton Terri tom, Frank Payne, so.
perinterklcnt of the peunitentiary,
received an order from Judge Allen
to discharge J .1 llarlaiid, comicted
a year ago for swindling, and senten¬
ced to several years in tho« penitenti¬
ary. The jury which convicted Ilar
land was composed oE WvHion. An
appeal was taken from the decision
of Judge Iloyt, before whom the
,
case was tried, to the Supreme Court.
The higher court in its finding de¬
clared that women were not leg.il
jurors, and that Ilorland was llle
gal/y held a prisoner. The case was
sent back to the lower, court, ami
the prisoner was ordered dischar¬
ged.
WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
Dr. Pen run Run of Palmetto, Ga.
a well kno»n and prominent phy
ocian says. During nu carter m
the practice of medicine, I used^a
great deal of the preparation known
as Mother's Friend, and want to re
comm end it to cvei y woman and
to lay brother physicians. It makes
labor easy, hastens delivery and re
end insures safety to both
mother and child- No woman can
be induced to g < tfirough the oicital
w ; illonl ,t after once using it. I l ave
^mUnmu *«• U.
best ol satnd.-.ciie u. it is certainly
worth its weight in gold.”
All drucgis> sdl it. For particu
Jars ,„,J and full directions address,
R d ltcB „|,A,l«nW <M
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BUCK LENS AHXiC’A SALVE j
The bi#i sal'e iu tie world lot
cuts, bmi#e#. sore#, ulcurs, naif rheum
eon #■ Mori* , tttttp, elm pi od
cut bla'n#, and all skin mip
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limist ami |' (fr
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vd. Price 'J<>* t# • t OK I*ol sal*
R M him man
CO XU E KX1 NO SUNST ROK KS.
An eminent Chickgo physician has
been discussing the cause's and lire na
ture of sunstrokes.
The mortality in cases of sunstroke is
twenty per cent, and when death does
not ensue the patient is never able af¬
terwards to stand any heat, and some¬
times the approach of tlie hot seasons
drives them insane or kills them.
A man may be sun struck in the
shade, and at night, "Ileatslrttek”
would be : better word for such cases.
I’rostrati vi is brought about by disor¬
dered health, dissipation, fatigue, or
anything that depresses the nerve pow¬
er. The victim may be affected in diff¬
erent wavs. There may he complete
failure of the heart’s action, resulting
in a dead faint. The nerve centers
may receive a shock causing a rapid
failing of respiration anti circulation.
Sometimes the nerves of circulation are
completely paralyzed.
Methods of treatment must be accor¬
ding to the condition of the patient,
(if course in ail caws the patient should
be placed in the shade with bis cloth¬
ing loosened. If lie has hectic fever
the ice-treatment should be resorted to,
with camphor internally and ammonia
in hypodermic injections. If he can
stand it a dose of a tcaspoonful of aro¬
matic spirits of ammonia should lie ad¬
ministered in a half tumbler of water
every few minutes. In the other ex¬
treme, where the fatal faintness is
present, with alow temperature and a
very depressed condition of the heart,
an immersion in tepip wot or containing
mustard is a, good tiling. The dose of
ammonia should not he forgotten.
When people are in good health and
spirits and perspiring freely they need
iiot.be much afraid of beat. But when
they are a little out of gear they cannot
be too careful. All extremes of beat
are dangerous, but damp boat is much
worse than dry heat. The thing to do
at. this season is to be temperate in .ev¬
ery sense of the word. Keep in the
shade if possible, and in a well valid¬
ated place.
THE SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN
Possibly the best picture that
has yet been drawn of the Southern
gentleman is (hat of Basil Ransom
In the “Bostonians,” and it is per*
baps because James looks at bis sub*’
ject rather from the English (ban tne
Northern point of view that this is
tine. The young man who at the
close of the war surrendered Ins
battered musket, lea re* his poor,
ruined Mississippi plantation to liis
mother and sister and goe* north to
fight a still harder battle with
poverty and want, i* a figmc
true alike to nature and art. His
poverty and pride, his humble opin¬
ion of hie own ability and energy,
bis determination never to lose sight
of ihe code of manners andmoials to
which he had betn bred, and all
sketched in with a sympathetic
baud, and if we win, know bis hero
a little better than James doc*, fill
in the picture a little more, and
know what memories of off er South¬
ern gentleman—In- forefathers kept
Basil *o true a:uf‘good, we are still
grateful for the pier tie as it stands.
X. 0. Picayune.
LADIES OF 'J 1!E Mil HE
HOUSE.
have hi.id ll tl then m nnriiincKX
duties pixducca low.
tired and tiumdot # state <4 ti e #ys
tem, and that iron restore# richness
and color to the blood, cnlisaya bark
ft nntural healthful tone to the ilige#
tiro organ, And phosphorous mildly
*t»uml»fc»i thu brain, a'! i < ini ined
l!iir,or‘# iion T m i c.
Don’t forget/o ca II m \V t'k J 11
IMcKnilrefor ihotmai tolmero ever
j m|i| In Chi'ihsv illo'
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$ 1.00 •’Hit Year in advance
.
MITCH IN A HOUSE'S NAME.
Men Are Influenced to Bet Against
Their Better Judgement.
“I often bet against my judgement,”
said a prominent better on horse races
to a Mail and Express reporter yester¬
day at the Hoffman House. Ho mused
awhile an t then added; “I know it
seems a paradox, but betting on horses
is very queer. T went out to Die races
the other day fully resolved to stake my
money on the horse that. won. A
friend of mine who lost #13,009 during
(he last few weeks happened along and
asked me wliat horse 1 intended to bet
on. 1 replied Sea Foam. ‘That name
diesu't sound well, and a derrick
couldn’t pull me to back that horse,’ he
said emphatically, and he strolled cm.
That put me to thinkirig aml I changed
my mind arid selected a loosing horse.
There is no.t one man in a hundred
that goes to the races to bet who has a
mind of his own. A straw will change
the ninety-nine. Names have a great
deal to do with betting on horses. Sea
Foam is not a good name; it sounds
shoddy. Hut Hindoo, Hildebrand,
Hogarth, and names of that kind in¬
fluence betting. I will not bet on a
shoddy-named horse. I pretend that I
am never influenced by tips, so called,
but I am: I can’t help it. Now the
judgment of that man who said he
would not bet on Sea Foam I had the
greatest confidence in, although he has
lost a great deal of money trusting his
own opinion. You see, men who bet
catch at straws and are as variable as
tlie wind. The successful plungers are
men who trust solely on their own
judgment and bet that way through
thick and thin. It is all stuff to s.iy
that betting on horses is luck. Some¬
times it may he pure luck with the man
who doesn’t know anything about
horses, but the majority of those who
bet think they know all about the
equine race, although, as I spill, they
can be influenced easily,”
KAPIOLAN1 INSULTED IN
ENGLAND.
This is from London Vanity Fair;
The Queen of Hawaii undoubtedly
intended to pay oar Queen and our
nation ay cat national cumphm nt
by coming to he present at the jubi¬
lee, and wash mid be obliged to her
accordingly; hut, undoubtedly, also
the court officials found Her Majesty
onmvhat of n white elephant—if J
may he pardoned foi such a mis¬
statement of color—on their hands,
for instance at Buekiuyhim Palace
the King of Sa.vony was blandly in¬
formed by a court official that he was
requested to take tijo Queen of Ha¬
waii in to supper. “The devil J
am!” brusquely replied His Majesty;
“I’ll see everybody damned first, be¬
fore 1 take a black woman into supr
pe !” The King was accordingly
assigned to the Qnccn of the Bel¬
gians, *nd Duke of Edinburg had to
sacrifice lumseK or. the altar of pa¬
triotism.
A WONDERFUL INVENTION
The Cosby attachment for the
sewing unchiae is now bang offer¬
ed for sale in this county oy Mr*
II B Higginbotham. It h highly
rmonimc ideit by persons who have
have used if, and a purchaser is
found at almost every house wlmse
there is a sewing machine. It’ sim¬
plicity ."take* its use earily acquired
and its cheapr.efr places it within
tl e reach of all.
ALL ALEX ABE NOT BAD,
Neither ai c all prep wed. remedies
unreliable, 'ibis is proven by the
result# following the use of Dr
Harter# Iron (mite for dyspepsia
r'oeuniUbm, leroiula, jrumhee, toj
, pel liyer and general weakness.
Any person daiiritrg to buy a first
elvsn orgnti w ill save money by buys
mg ah elugnnt Chiengo C’otfag* or*
I gnu. Apply it) this otthc
Vott eau gut straw huts at W C h
J II &t< EidiivV at cost,
NO SECOND WIFE;' *
So the First Wife Said as Sim Flourish¬
ed Her Hatchet.
A case of decided interest to men
generally, and to married men particu
lariy, comes from Montana territory.
It gives the details of an attempt to
settle the second wife problem. The
victim in the ease was a Mr. Griswold
His wife was on her death bed. One
day she made a peculiar request of one
of the. attendants, she asked for ajhatclv
et. In order to humor her whim the
hatchet was pkoeured for bar, an l Hhe
threw it carelessly on the bed. Two
days before she died she summoned her
husband. II.e knelt in tears, and, like
(lie de voted mail that he was, poured
fourth his sorrow and sympathy. The
dying wife bade him farewell and con¬
jured him ne ver to marry again. On
this point, however, Griswold was not
positive, for he expected to live a long
time; and lie probably felt that the
most effectual way to drown old grief
was to submerge it in new love. Con¬
sequently lie was not prompt in giving
a promise, and when he hesitated so
long Mrs. Griswold suddenly drew the
hatchet from under the covering and
dealt the unsuspecting man a blow in
one eye, destroying its vision and dis¬
figuring him for life. Forty-eight hours
afterward the wounded man was a
widower.
We cannot, of course, indorse, the
savage methods of Mrs. Griswold; but
it can be said in .mitigation of her as
sauid ou her belovce husband that she
was ill, and, furthermore, that If there
is any one question that woman feels
more deeply upon than auythig else, it
is this terrible problem of a second wife.
To think that she, dead, buried, and
witli a beautiful epitaph upon her tomb¬
stone, should be supplanted in the hus¬
band’s affections by some unknown
woman, and that her portrait should be
taken out of the parlor and carried up
into the garret, is rather too much for
any woman to bear with equanimity.
Probably this question has caused more
heart-burnings, has given rise to more
little quarrels, and has been a bigger
bugbear generally than all the spring
bonnets and silk dresses of a life time.
Mrs Griswold staggered, under the
weight of it, and when her husband
hesitated to come, to time with a prom¬
ise to sign a prohibition marriage pledge,
she swiftly dealt the blow that, destroy¬
ed bis facial beauty forevermore. We
can only hope that tlie recording angel
did not judge the poor wife too harshly
and we can give the damaged widower
the full measure of our syindathy.
tint wait. Perhaps we need not
waste that sympathy. Griswold ac¬
quired a shining glass eye, and a year
ago he was married to his second wife.
Nothing but death can keep a man out
of matrimony when his heart is turned/
that way.— From til; Baltimore Ameri¬
can
DEATH OF HON. H. M. T. HUX
ETR.
Brief Sketch of His Services to State
and County. ,
\ .Special From Richmond July 19
says: Hon. B- M. T. Hunter died at
Ins home. Fount Hill, Essex eounty,
yesterday, Mr. Hunter was one of
Virginia’s most eminent citlkeus for
many years before and during the late
war. He was born in ISO.). Ho
served several terms in the national
house of representatives, being elected
speaker of that body iu 1 *:{!!.
quently he was dented Uni ed States
senator and made eluiivinan of the sen
ate finance committee, in 1*19, w hieii
position he held till the opening of tlie
lie gave Douglas a close run for
war. the
the psesidentul nomination at ua
tonal democratic convention at Charles
on, in 1 Mi). Du rill {tib war he served
eoitfederase secretary of stale and
as a
confederate Hftuator. U« was as>
member of the peace eoHimUsi m wlue.i
met Abrsduun Lincoln in Hampton
Roods. After the war he was elected
of Virginia, imtdiog Brat orttee
treasurer which he r,<tiu.<
for several terms,after
lo privam life.
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