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FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER
S. DORTCH VOL, V.
THE BAPTIST
MINISTERS and^deacons will
prcgkamwe of exercises.
To be held with Red Hollow
-church, Martin, Ga., January 27
28, and 29, 1888.
Friday V a- “• Introductory
sermon by Rev H F Stovall.
2,p. »>. Object of Ministers and
Deacons meeting, by v Rev. W. M.
Rampley and B. J. Cleveland.
QUERIES TO RE DISCU-SED AND
SPEAKERS.
Query No 1. Should one church
m cmlar eue another at law? Iiev
T J Stonecypher rnd W S White.
Query No 2. What is the duty
oi churches toward drunken rnem
bers? Rev. W J Purcell and T A
Stovall. apostolic
Query No 3. Were the
churches missionary in faith and
practice? liev P F Crawford and
T A McFarland.
Query No 4. What are the du
ties of Deacons? Rev T G Under¬
wood.
Query No 5. Do tho scriptures
furnish authority for Sunday school
work? Rev W 31 Rainpley and 31
E Porter.
Query No G. How can a church
best develop the usefulness of her
laity? Rev W W Stow 3 and James
Porter.
Querry No. 7. Is it tho duty of
all church members to give of
their substance to the
support of the gospel? If so
what should te dene with those who
refuse to contribute? Rev I’ F
Cftwfold and G F FuLer.
It is hoped that the speakers ap
) oiuted wi/1 prepare themselves und
carry cut the programme and that
the churches see that the meeting is
well attended, ar.d let ns pray and
labor tbat it may be both -interest¬
ing and beneficial. Those who aG
lend will be amply provided for.
CoAUlITTFE OF ARBAXGEUJ -N'T.
----:—
the OLDEST W 031 AN IN N.-E.
GEORGIA.
Mrs farah Sparks, living ne-u
Avahn, of whom we have made
mention oefore, celebrated her 101st
birthday on vbe 7ih of December
last. She was non* in South Caro
lina n the 7th of Decunler 178 j.
0 named Edward
/llei father was married to
Carnj, i.ad rhe was
Alixandtr Calaham about £4 years
ago They moved to this county
soon after marriage aud settled on
the waters of Toms creek. Mr.
Calakam was a tgather of some note
and was long remembered, and often
spoken of thirty or 40 years ago. He
died more than seventy years ago
leaving his widow, the subject of th.s
skeicb, aud six children. Some
years after his death 31 rs Calaham
married Thomas Sparks aud was
was again left a widow with six«oth
cr children, nearly sixty years ago.
She has resided on the place where
she now lives seventy years. 3Iost
her children arc dead, but she bat
cf tl county
three daugbtecs living m is
to-wii: Mis. Robert A. J. Wright,
j^i Wilham Hays and Mis Harriet
-9 sbe
Wilbanks with whom now
lives. Her daughters were very
handsome women *.n their younger
days,,, aud two ot them, Mr«. Cooper
Fuller long since dead, and 31 rs.
B. noted beauties when
Wright were old lady retains
young. The good physical fa
ber mental and power* of _
a remarkable degreoJor and attends one church
yeare She visits consUntly
oecasi >nally, -nd periomancoof is pretty light
engaged in the
household duties. %
_
jggi-Seeretary Mauuing died ©n
tbs 2UU of December,
CARNESVILLE, GA., JANUARY 3 1888.
THE CHLOROFORM HABIT.
A Mun Driven to It by Stock Gambling
Is Cured by Hurd Rowing.
“If you wore not a personal friend of
mine,” tlio dentist went on to say, “I
shouldn't do this; it's horribly unprofes¬
sional , you know.” Then he took a
small bottle, and with a small glass meas¬
ures ho carefully meted out the dose.
“There are thirty drops of pure chloro¬
form here,” he said; “when you go to
bed pour tho chloroform upon the center
of a folded handkerchief, lie upon your
■ido on tho edgo of your pillow, and in¬
hale the drug, carefully keeping your
mouth closed. Sniff away at it just as if
it were smelling salts; tlio pain will dis¬
appear, and you will sleep like a top.”
Now I longed for night. When it ar¬
rived I jumped into bed, thirsting for
sleep, and carefully carried out my in¬
structions. Having lowered tho gas I
took tho folded handkerchief, emptied
the contents of tho little bottlo upon its
center, laid my head upon the edgo of
tho pillow, closed my eyes and mouth,
and proceeded to iuhale as directed.
Gradually, yet rapidly, a feeling of drow¬
siness crept upon mo. First I seemed to
be looking upon darkness a black seemed and inky softly dark¬ il¬
ness; then the
luminated by mihj.ito points of light, like
distant stars. Presently tho light of
these stars became more intense, and I
noticed that they were arranged in innu¬
merable parallel rows. It gave me a
strange pleasure to gaze upon them.
Now tho pain in my faoo disappeared,
the stars seemed to grow brighter and to
increase in size. Then suddenly they
all began to revolve at the same
instant. I gazed at them (this,
at any rate, wa3 the sensation)
with a sort of pleased astonishment and
curiosity. As I gazed they revolved still
moro rapidly; then I heard a puffing
noise, which increased in rapidity, ex¬
actly resembling the sound made by a
distant engine leaving a station, and then
I saxk into a deep, tranquil, dreamless
sleep, whish lasted all the night. In the
morning I woke groatly refreshed and
the pain in my face had gone. The one
sound night’s rest lmd done mo an im¬
mense amount of good. My mind no
longer dwelt painfully upon my miser¬ list
able trouble. I could face tho share
with calmness. Onoe more I was a com¬
paratively happy man, and I went on
with my ordinary a - r ocation s ft* gTaffl
jubilant state.
But again that night sleep avoided me.
I counted 1,000, I repeated the multipli¬
cation table, I tried to picture in my of
mind’s eye an innumerable succession
sheep jumping over a hurdle, I tried to
recall the last Sunday’s sermon; all to no
avail. Morning came to find me still
weary and wakeful, and so I resolved to
call again upon my friend tho dentist. I
did so, but my "learning visit was not altogether a
success. On what I wanted my
friend sternly refused fresh supplies.
Chloroform, he said, was a dangerou
drug; to use it once was all well enough;
the habit of taking it was worse than
dram drinking. When I began to entreat
he bowed mo out of the room.
I indignantly marched to the nearest
chemist’s and asked for an ounce of
chloroform as calmly as if I had been de¬
manding a black draught. The chemist
inquired if I were a chemical man, and
upon rnv replying in tho negative de¬
clined to" supply me. Afterward I went
to four other chemists with the like re¬
sult. How I obtained tho drug at last is
neither here or there; but by tho exercise
of some ingenuity I became possessed of
a pound bottlo of chloroform and a tvyo
drachm glass measure graduated in
drops. And now I found myself in than pos¬
session of a panacea more potent
“poppy or mandragora, or all the drowsy
syrups of tho world.” Every night I
used to procure sound and comfortable
sleep, and I went on doing so unconscious
of my danger: For three whole months
I continued in this course. The habit had
mastered mo from the first. This i3 an
honest confession and not a sermon, and
I am bound to state that the only incon¬
venience I ever experienced was. a slight
feeling of nausea in tho morning. Two
distinct desires irresistibly prompted mo— and
tlie one an intense longing for sleep
a refuge from mental worry, tho other a
hankering after tho pleasurable sensations
which the inhalation of tho drag invari¬
ably produced. tlio habit had • taken such
By tiiis time daytime
a hold upon mo that during the
I could think of little else but of my
pleasure to come. To produce the desired
effect the dose had been slowly increased.
I was now inhaling regularly sixty drops
Probabl v I should not bo hero to tell the
tale if I had not become engaged to be
married. My two future brothers-m-law
invited me to accompany them in a boat¬
ing party on the upper Thames. I ac¬
cepted; and then it suddenly struck me
that I should be deprived for one whole
week at least of my favorite drug. De¬
tection in such indulgences would cer¬
tainly break off tho marriage. It "would
not do to bo found out; so I started with
cut a single drop of my divine elixir. I
wa 3 quite out of practice in sculling and
it night time I lay down to rest tired as a
i<yr and dead beat. Tliat was my salva¬
tion. I slept like a top, and I have never
mhaled a single drop of chloroform since.
I know a good dad more about it now
than I did then. I know now that had I
shifted in my sleep on to my face!
unMit 1 mve been suffocated,-and pift
bahly would bav.o beefl. I know now
that had vomiting taken place—and of tho it in¬ is
one of the commonest results
halation of tho drug—there teas I know, every
likelilK of a similar result.
too, t U
dead in my lied.—Cor. fit, James
'Jarntto,
INGERSOLL’S
ELOQUENCE AT THE BURIAL OF
A FRIEND.
Mrs Ida Knowls of Peoria N. Y.
died ou the 15th of Decern iw. li. G.
Ingersol, a friend of the family w. s
called upon to say a few words over
the flower eo vererl coffin.. He spoke as
follows.
My friends: Again we staud in
the on .now of the great mystery—a
shadow as deep an t d.u\; as when the
tears of tne first mother fell upon the
pallid face of li.r lifeicss oaoe—a nea¬
ter/ uial mu never yet uuen solved.
We nave .net in tho presence of the
saoraa dead, to speak a word of praise
of hope, ox coeso.ation. Aaouiur life
of love u now a i.iessod memory— a
lingering strata of music, .lie loving
duugnier, a pure and conseerated wife
the siurore meud, wlu wi.u tender
faithfu no.** uncharged me dunes ot a
life, uai reae.iod her journey’s end.
A braver, a nuie serene, a" more
chivalr.e spirit—.'.aspug tlu toyed ana
by them clasped—never passed front
life to enrun Uie realm or death. iNo
field of war ever Wuuessod greater
fortiluae, more perruot, smiling courage
than tnis poor, weak, and helpless wo¬
man u.splayed upon the beu of pain
and d.nth. rrer me wu gentle and
her tloa.li su'j.um. bho loveu Uio good
and .m .he good loved her, ao.n mere
is tn.o consolation: bhe can novel
sutler more; she car never fee. again
the chid of death; never purt again
from those she ores. Her heart can
creak no more. IS ho has shed nor iasi
tear and upon her slaimess brow has
neon set tiie wondrous seal of everlast
ing peace.
When the Angel ot x-ta.h—the
of nomc, there come with her all .he
daugliters of compassion, ami oi. ihcse
Love and Hope ie.iwin forever.
You are about .u taxe tms dear dust
noine—to the hotiu ot her girlhood,
au.l io fie placs ilia- was once my
home. You will Jay bir with neigh¬
bors that I have loved* that uro now
al rest. Yon Will lay her where my
j&ther sleeps.
Ail I can say is:
Lay h*.r in t..e earth
Ana .iotn ner lair ana unpoilu't-d flaih
Let v c lets spring.
I never knew, I never met, a braver
spirit than the o.m that once inhabit¬
ed this silent form of dreamless
clay.
Oliver neudtll Holmes was cor¬
rect when he said, that the training
of a child should begin a hundred
years before it is born.
A wooden case containing a com*
plote set of surgical instruments wa»
recently found at Pompei- 3Iany of
the mstruments arc similar *o those
used at the present day.
If a section of th; earth could be
found that is perfectly R>V e l» an(1 a
straight line was drawn u mile long
the curviturc Js such, that each end
of the line would be 2,04 inches
from the surface.
In a lailroad curve two miles long
the out side wheel cf a car would
travel 150 feet further than the m
side wheel, yet both wheels are of the
same size and make a» equal number
of revolutions, Tho feat is accom
plishep by the slipping of the inside
wheel, so a inachinest says. We
doubt if that is a correct explanation.
K>g» of whiskey have washed
ashore at Toledo that are supposed vessel to
have {aid in a ship vrecked on
the bottom of the lake for thirty
vear8 .
National convention in Jnaiailkp
polis on June 6tb>
A STAND FOR PRINCIPLE.
Tho Democratic parly, through ills
traditions, its platforms and its Presi¬
dent, i3 committed to these principles;
1. The government has no constitu¬
tional or moral right to collect a rev¬
enue in excess of the needs of its
eeenomical administration. Unneces¬
sary taxation is unjust taxation. Un¬
just taxation is tyranny, whether im¬
posed in a monarchy or a republic.
2. A surplus in the treasury is a na¬
tional evil, and may become a national
peril. It is a standing temptation to
cxL’Eyagance. It may perpetuate high
taxes for a long period by leading to
the inauguration cf expenditures that
will he continuous. Tho way to deal
with a surplus is to stop its collection.
3. Tho taxes to be first abated arc
those which bear heaviest on the
greatest numbeY of people; namely,
taxes upon universal necessities and
tho eiientiiiD of manufactures. Hence
the food, fuel, tho shelter and the
clothing of the people, and tho raw
materials of manufacture should be
first relieved in any reduction of taxa¬
tion.
These are Democratic principle.
They should constitute tho Democratic
policy. Whatever compromise may bo
required to secure the best attainable
result, it is the busiuess cf statesman¬
ship to make. Statesmanship has
been defined to be “the science of the
and the practical duty be¬
fore Congress is the provonlteu of the
But the President is entitled to tho
thanks of the country arid, to",the unit
support of his party in ids coura
stand for sound principles.—New
world.
Tho Gallery Front Row.
When I go to tho theatro with a party
}f gentlemen I always prefer to take scats
(n tho front row of the first gallery. they Of
course, when peoplo seo you there
imaginoyou aro trying thing—that to savo money, you’ro
and all that sort of
really stingy, as it were. Of courso no
ono wants to appear in that light, and
.v'hen ono takes a lady ho cannot afford
bo placed in that position. But when
only gentlemen are concerned, I tell you,
they can all take tho drcs3 circle and
parquet for mo. I’ll tako tho front row
in the first gallery, and I know what I’m
talking about, for I’vo studied the matter.
No ono will doubt that you can see llet¬
ter from that elevation. There’s no big
hats in front of you, no heads dodging
from ono side to tho other to geo around
3 cmo other body’s big hat, no nothing of
that sort. If that ain’t an advantage, I
don’t know what is. Then there’s another
thing. You can hear better in the front of
die lower gallery. There's no other part
of the house that equals it, and if the
escape from tlio big hat nuisance is not
enough this surely is.—Globe-Democrat,
A stnmgo custom*is'stfil Triced the in
Seville—that of boys dancing before
sacrament. It is said to bo a tradition
nnd^lwTremnan/of David’s dance^be- be
fore the ark. Spain is considered to
in Seguntum in 1408 A. B., with this in
scription in Hebrew; ‘‘This is the tomb
which camTto coUect.Living Chmcffi
’ Effects ot Electrle Eight.
Electric light peoplo are indignant at
tho remark of Professor IViesner, of Vi¬
enna, that that light damages books by
discoloring tho paper and is not fit to uso
in libraries. They say that sunlight does
the same thing, and that it is only tho
arc light that discolors paper any way.
The incandescent light, they claim, is per
Icctly harmless to books.—Chicago News,
Bidding Roads of Snow.
A recent English invention is a ma¬
chine for ridding roads of enow. It is
constructed on the principle that snow fit
cities can bo dealt with on the spot light on
which it falls, and while it is in a
and fleecy condition. Tho apparatus about
consists of a wrought iron tube
thirty-five feet long, having a furnace at
- ne end, and a short length of vertical
->ipe for a chimney at the other; the tube
is made in lengths of six feet, and each
1 »ngth is tapered, so that they all fit into
each other, and are closely packed fall for of
’ ransport on wheels. "When a
: now occurs the apparatus is to be laid
S^fto7»h i 'S.ir 1 oS,?S‘£
ing about four feet; a fire is now to be
2£a lighted in the furnace, the heat from
ately takes place, the rcwdtmg water
flow r away into tho nearest gully.
merits made with this maddne
twenty-one yards of consolidated
now, weighing teu m one-half tmm,
m ten Itours, witH a consumption of
forty cents’ worth of coke.—Frank Les¬
lie's.
BURN THE DEAD
DR HOWE LECTURES ON
MAT I ON.
Dr. IIowo lectured Monday
before tho Polytechnic society
the subject “Cremation,” In
ing his lecture he spoke o£ tho
that it was a subject to which
little thought iwi been given by
tho public, but one which is
theless worthy of most serious
ti m, not only from the fact that
graduaily gaining gtouud, but also
because it is thy only reasonable
method of disposing of the remains
of tne dead. It is a subject which
at cnee impels the opposition of a>
mast every one, but rapidly gains
adherents as it becomes studied.
The history oi cremation was then
traced, with the exception of Egypt,
where bodies were embalmed. «/iidia
and China, where they were buried,
all tbe early nations practiced cre¬
mation. Iu fell into disuse in the
fourth century at Home, and tho
subject: has been but liiflo thought of
until less than twenty years ego,
.-hen the Italians introduced the
jraotioe, and it has rapidly spread
over Europe and this country. Tho
first cremation in a cremation fur¬
nace in this country was Doc. Gth.
1880, at Washington, Pa., it* tho Lc.
moyno furnace.
Tho principal argument for cre¬
is hygienic one. After death
body bjgins to decompose,and in
process poisonous substances
ovolveil which contiminete the
this deconiposMorf'is
completed for upwards of twenty
and as about one million per.
die every j ear m this country,
can estimate <hat, al the present
Bomo twenty million bodies arc
various stages of decomposition,
Evidence of the contamination of
air is shown by the unpleasant
m the vicinity^ of graveyards.
water which flows into wells
cemeteries has often caused
disease aud epidemic, of which
instances ware cited by
lecturer. That the soil is cons
Laminated is aiso shown by epidem¬
having frequent',y broken out
where graveyards have been dug
which not infrequently occur
with to rapid growth of American
Disease germs are burned with the
and when the tsoil is disturboil
Lee nre ge p f rec to work their evil.
suee instances were also
For all this, cremation
f.roteuUon, th- bod,
being in an hour or two convertec
mto p ts harmlsss elements, and all
of disease annihilated.
CITATION.
eorgxa Franklin County.
To ail whom it may concern: A. J.
Xcal, administrator of A. R. Thomason
dac’d has ia due form applied to un¬
dersigned for leave to sell the lands be¬
longing ta the, estate of said dec’d and
said application will be heard on the
first Monday m January next. This
December 5tli 1887.
L. N. Tribble Ord.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS.
—4
DeHOsW havin' dr.u mis agxins
Ute osUte o* Q O Jordan late of Fi.al£
in county dec d arc h^rsby notified to
ren dcr iu tqeir demands to the under
T'ssts&sr-'Z
men t. West BowersviUo Ga. Nov.
„ , lgg7 lS0 ’‘
Msiion cheek, J. A. Bowers. Adm
Chnstmas wu a bloody day if*
Charleston. Seteral warder* oocured
NO. 1
CHRISTMAS.
Human nature is full of itiuoasis
tancos, and in nothing are Christian
nations more moonsistant than in
their methods of celebrating Christ¬
ina i. When wo celebrate the fourth
cf July, p itriotio speeches are made
the oy»nta of the stiuiig times of
177G are recalled and tho fires that
burned in the bosoms cf of the revo»
luUonary heroes arc kiudied a new
in the bosoms of their dooendants.
When wo celebrate Washington’s
birthday, we think and talk of the
great chieftain, and our veneration
for the “Father of Ids country” it
intensefied, af least, for tho time be
iug. On memorial day, when wo
scatter flowers ovei tho graves- of
“the blue and the gray” our thoughts
go back to tho dans days of the in¬
ternecine war, tho dead heroes Walk
iu solemn procession through halls
of memory, which on that day are
festooned with mourning, and with
throbbing hearts and tear dinruod
eyes,tho old and youug,strew flowers
over the silent dust of tho immoital
sleepers. But how different is the
Bj irit with which wo celebrate the
recognized anniversary of tho birth
of the Savior. IIo was the founder
of tho Christian religion
and taught the doctrine
of forbearance, sclfsacrfice, forgive
ness, temperance chatity, love and
rightiousness, but throughout tho
world, the doctrines he
are less heeded, and more
sjt at defiance on Christ¬
day than any other day in tho
There is no such carnival of
neweef
burs unbend more, and go a little
into wondy amusements of
morality, oud many of them
a little moro freely than at any
time. The hilarity over a jug
whiskey, or btoatniug Btew ov
eggnog, is a strange way of
tho birth day of tbe
Christmas, however is a day agreed
not tho real adversary of tbe
of the .Savior. It is univer¬
admitted that He was not born
the 25th of December. It is sup¬
that Mie grSat event oceured
the warm season of the year, but
day of tho month, the month or
the*ear of His birth is not
known The facr that we
celebrating tho amversary of an
that is not its real auiversary,
nav have something to do with the
and lack of reverence on the •
casion.
-ADMINISTRATORS SALE
Agreeable to an cider of the
Ordinary of Franklin ecunty will
>e rold at auetion at the court house
Jjor of said county on ihe first
J uesday in Janruary next, within
ihe legal hours of sale tbe iollow
mg proper ty toswit:
One fract o.i parcel .of land lying
n 211 diet. 6 Mof on the waters
Leatherwood creek adjoining
lands of H F Andrews, M W
i/emphill, J M Ac due vs aud other
wi ng the place vHjcre m T B Hig
pus late of said cote tty,* deceased,
.tved at tne time of h s’ th and
a hereon his widow x ow Kv and
aud containing 175 &crcs n or
less. Sold as the property of the
estatj ofTB Higgins ^ceased, for
the benefit of heirs and creditors.
It w ill Lordd tub ,nt to tie wid.
„„ Dower wh ich has been laid £o &
made the judgement of the Su
_ TeimsCash. This
The amount of drunknesa and di*
•rder in Atlanta since the opening ot
the barroom* bae increased greatly.