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The Cherokee Georgian B. F. TAYLOR, Local Editor. OcXiitozi r Ga. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1875. MAIL’ TIME-TABLE. The mail leaves Canton for Marietta on Monday and Friday of each week, at 8 a. m. Arrives in Canton Tuesdays and Sat urdays, at 4 p. m. Canton line to Dawsonville leaves every Wednesday morning at 7 o’clock, and re tarns Thursday, 4 p. m. The doctors think the good health pre vailing in this section at the present time is intolerable. Sweet potatoes can now be bought in Canton for thirty cents a bushel —the low est figure since the war. G. W. Hendrix, Esq., paid us a short visit this week. He bid a final adieu to Canton, which we regret. The circulation of The Georgian is five hundred, its readers about twenty-five hundred—the “largest of any paper in the county !” Advertisers, take notice ! A Gentle Hint. —Ail those who sub scribed for The Georgian with the under standing that they would pay for it in the faU, arc reminded that Fall has come. The preacher to be assigned to this cir cuit yf the M. E. Church South for the next conference year will preach -his first sermon in this place on the first Sunday in Jan ua ry. When accidents, or incidents, or rob beries, or murders, or discoveries, don t occur, Ye Local has hard scratching and pumping to do in order to make a respect able showing. Mr. .Leobktter preached on Sunday, with bis usual earnestness and vigor. It was announced that Professor Attaway will preach in the Methodist church, next Sun day, on the subject of Education. Thank God for rain : though the snn be hid in cloud, and all nature lie clothed in mourning, yet we know the' earth rejoices when the rain drops fa 1 ! into the months of its hungry progeny, giving them health and strength : and our appreciation of the sun shine which comes after the rain, the beau ty which succeeds the gloom, is heightened by tWe striking contrast. PqOF. Attaway’s school closed on Fri day. ; Tn the evening quite a number of the patrons and friends of the school attended the closing exercises, which were of the usual’ character. At night a jolly party as sembled in the academy, social conversa tion was entered into with zest, and parlor games were and participated in by the young folks, afforling pleasant en tertainment until a htc hour. To see an able-bodied man trampingin search o' work, is not an unusual not a painful sight ; but when one sees a poor man, with his tn.nilw who has trudged along on foot over the rough roads, for many n weary mib*, every heart goes out in sympathy —as was the case on Friday, when ft man loaded with bundles, and ac companied by his wife bearing a child, passed through town a foot, having walked froth South Carolina. , dABRAGES can be made a very profitable crop in this neighborhood, they grow so large and like. Colonel Brown has raised a large quantity this year, making several barrels of cront for different parties. He brought n specimen cabbage-head to town, Sntnrdav, which weighed seventeen pounds. Dr. Turk don’t take kimlly to the culture of this vegetable, having been unfortunate the past season, but he offers to furnish the (norms to any one embarking in the cab bage business 1 I A Marvel of Patient Skill.—The other day we were permitted to see a bed quilt, which, though unfinished, already contained eight thousand five hundred and twelve distinct pieces, and when completed will contain over nine thousand I It is made up of squares and diamonds, beauti fully variegated, and is the handiwork of Miss Virginia, daughter of John B. Garri son, Esq. We also saw some needle-work, representing fruit and flowers, by the Mime lady, which we thought finely executed. ♦ — -- - The G lit farm, near town, is very valu able property. The crops raised on it nearly •equal those on the rich Western prairie lands, and would fully come up to them if the system of drainage and tillage were the same, Mr. Jnbez Galt, executor of the estate, rents most of the land, receiving one halt of the corn nnd one third of the cotton raised, which, though seemingly a high rent, is cheerfully paid by the refers in view of the rich returns. Levi Grisham, a thrifty, hard-working colored man, rents about twenty acres of the land, from which he gathered nearly a thousand bushels of corn this year, and the whole farm will av erage over forty bushels to the acre. Ovr citizens continue to make improve ments in their property. notwithstanding the hard times. Judge Dowd* has built a good cellar, and is fixing up bis place gen erally ; the new cottages of Colonel Teasly and Mr. Me Alee are nearly ready lor occu pancy; Mr. Barton has built a barn, and will soon begin his proposed new residence; the finishing touches are being put on the hotel; and Dr. Turk is making ready to remodi' and beautify his residence. We d« not know of any projected building op erations other than we have mentionci. aavc that Mr. Ellis is talking of putting up a bouse on the corner where bis stable now stands; but w« hope in the spring there will be livclv thin- .imon ■ the mechanics. Covering too Much Ground. With all the advancement in knowledgej with all the progress in the arts and sci* cnCCS, of which this age can justly boast, there is one element lacking to its stability: thoroughness. The tendency to cover too much ground pervades all classes, and vv<‘ see its pernicious effects manifested every where. 7 The stu lent skips over the rudimentary branches of education that he may the more quickly grasp the higher, but in so doing he fails to ’.earn anything well, and becomes a vulgar sinattcrer. The professional num undertakes to ac- • quire a knowledge of the various branches -of his calling, where only one can be mas t tered, and he becomes an empiric. The religious man attempts to preach be fore he understands his mother tongue, to 1 say notfii.ig of the mysteric sos the Bible, and thus belittles the holy office The farmer Ties to cultivate twice as t much land as he has ability to do well, and ( incessant labor, short crops, and pinching economy are the result. The mechanic, while serving his appreh- > ticeship, thinks only of eking out his time, : and, with the few details of the business ! he necessarily though imperfectly acquires, he starts out as a journeyman, does botch work, and lives in poverty. Towns st aggling into existence, bol stered up by visionary schemes, attempt to build up on inflated values, and conse quently sink into their original obscurity, when the firail foundations decay. The whole country is now flooded with mechanics, farmers, and, professional men; but nbw many of them make a de cent living? how many deserve it? There is always room in the upper story, as Web ster once remaike 1; and talent, skill an 1 application are the only means to attain that height. There arc numerous villages striving to swell into cities; but how many begin on the right line to ac ornplish the object? Positive advantages, aided by en terprise, and accompanied I y moderate de mands, can only build up and sustain them. To “make haste slowly” is the only sure way to success, and that is to be done by covering less ground, and cultivating it thoroughly. Pay Your Pastor. ■ As the vear is drawing to a closg, and as you are making arrangement to pay your teachers, physicians, merchants and others, do not forget your obligations to pay him who, during the year, “has ministered to ypu in spiritual things” This debt is equal ly binding with others, an 1 you can‘not, with a clear conscience, neglect or refuse tot discharge It. You say “the tim- s are. hard, and I cannot pxy only what I am ob liged to.” Your obligations, then, are le gally, an 1 not morally, bin ling, are they ? Suppose the times are hard with you, who have been blessed with good crops, how muchhvler are they wi.b your r.i*..Js. ” ~’v) rel’?s catir ly for a support upon tie honor of those for whom ho has labored? And if you do not pay him, how is he to pny thos • who have furnished him and hi» family w'th supplies during the year? Perhaps you ary rcidy to say, “Let those who are able, pay the preacher, but have mo excused, for it is all that I c m do to sup port mys •If.” Why not offer the same ex cuse m regard to your teacher, physician, and others? When you joined the church, did you not take upon yours-1!' the obliga tion to do your du’y ? And is it not your duty to do your part in supporting the gos pel ? Have you ami your family b'*en ben efited by the man whom you have received as your pastor, nnd who has labored for your good through heat and through cold, nnd are you sat’sfiel to give no equivalent for the benefit received? Is it right, is it just, to pay him nothing; and can you be a Christian, ami hope to get to heaven, while living in willful neglect of a plain, positive and reasonable duty ? Call your wife nnd children arn’ind you, nfid sc tile these ques tions and this matter before yonr preacher leaves his work. If you honestly think that the gospel should be furnished yon for nothing, you are in the wrong pew—the Hard-shell is the church for you. Consolidation of Couny Offices. We have often thought that there are more county offices than arc necessary, and that the taxes of the people are much • greater than necessity requires,. Foi'justancc. , what use is there for a County treasurer, > when the Ordinary could perform the du ties of that office just as well as not, and with very little cost to the county ? And ' what use is there for a T.ix receiver and a Tax collector to ride over the county from 3 time to time, and lor months, at so much f cost to the tax payers, when one man might 3 have his office at Canton and receive and 5 collect the taxes for a less per cent than ' either of those officers can afford to do un -8 der the present law ? And would it not be ' easier and less expensive tor every tax-payer 3 in the county to go or send to Canton twice ♦ a year to “give in" and pay his tuxes, than s for two men to visit every precinct in the 1 county six tinus during the year? We put f these questions plainly and squarely to the ' tax payers ot the county, without circumlo cution or labored argument, and ask them to consider them well and determine w hether or not retrenchment is not ncces- ’ sary and practicable.. If, however, any 4 man thinks the law us it now stands is bet ter, let him speak through The Georgian, and give the people his reasons. 1 Read the advertisement of the “City * Drugstore." in this paper. We have known e Dr. Williams long and intimately, and take a pleasure in recommending him to our t? I friends as a perfect gentleman in every >- J sense of the word, and one who will sent- I. ■ pulously do everything that ho premises, pl He is one of the tew “whose word is his v , bond,” and those who wish to buy anything e j in bis line may rely upon him with implicit t.: fence. An American’s Birth-right. Lt used to be flic case that lands and herds were considered the children’s prop erty by right of birth and succession ; the ■ laws were shaped to promote that end, and parents directed their efforts to the a'cu- . mutation of wealth fi r posterity’s sake. ! The custom has greatly changed since the “Old Thirteen” declared for Independ- { ence—an independence not simply of phy sical domination, but'of mental thralldoin. ■ Education has become the birth-right of an Ameiican. Ignorance is an unmitigated evil; when it is voluntary, it is a grave crime. It de bases humanity, brutalizes the features, and is the parent of nine-tenths, of the stnt against society and religion. AV hat, then, can be thought of tho-e who, in this age of eid ghtenment and diffused free education,, will willfully and needlessly deprive their children, of their inestimable birth-right ? What is wealth, which can at any moment disappear on the wings of disaster, when compared with the indestructible riches ob tained through education ? There are forty-one hundred children of school nge in Cherokee county, and not fourteen hundred of them have attended school during flic past year. What a sad spectacle is presented to the mind by this disgraceful exhibit! Twenty-seven hun dred children shut Out from the light of knowledge, destined, may be, to go through life blind to all the advantages, all the bless ings, which this progres.-ive age has placed within their reach I—living, like snails m shells, and coming forth into the world only to be cheated, scbfftd at, laughed at, for their ignorance and stupidity I Is there any excuse for this state of af fairs ? We know there are some whom misfortune has smitten,'and compelled them to kc p their children tit home to assist in making a living; we know there are others who are straining every nerve to provide for their children’s education, but de not feel able to spare them now ; but wc also know that there are others and by far the larger class, who, though abundantly able, will not, for one reason or another, send their ch ldren to school. One is indifferent., an 1 don’t sec what good there is in “book learning he never hftd any, and got along in life—why can’t his children dp the same? Another don’t like the teacher; or the text books, or a neighbor whose children at tend, and a hundred other excuses, to light en the condemnation he feels he deserves for failing to do his children justice. If there is anything that would cause us to advocate compulsory education, it would be the continuance of the educational apathy watch at present cxis.s in Cherokee. - W«'»trongly hope for better things. • We can not believe the people will stultify their intelligence by allowing the' shameful fact we have stated to exist much longer. Our Ix st efforts, weak though they be, will be persistently directed toward securing for 'Viry child in Cherokee the enjoyment of his birth-right—more precious than rubies —the nghl’of an td icatloh. The subject of a new academy building is again being broached among our citizens. Such a building is a necessity to the place; for if students from abroad are expected to come here to school in any numbers, ample accommodations and comfortable surround ings must be provided ; and as every new comer will bring money and spend it here, it is to the interest of all of our citizens to encourage and assist in the erection of such a building. Mr. McAfee offers to subscribe five hundred dollars toward an academy costing four thousand dollars; Judge Dow da will give two hundred and fifty dollars; and there are others, no doubt, of whom wr* have not learned, who will contribute according to their means. Let us hear from you, gentlemen ! No better time than the present could be chosen for carrying out this object, because material and labor can now be obtained twgntv-five or fifty per cent, lower than a year hence, and the construction of the building would give employment to resident mechanics who might otherwise be forced to go elsewhere to make a living. Constant dripping wears away the stones; persistent agitation will ultimately produce results; and wc intend to agitate the schnol-l uilding and educa tional questions until Canton has as good a school-building and as flourishing a school as any of her sister towns can boast of. Having hoard considerable talk regard ing Fort Buffington, we went out there re cently to see it. After traveling through a dreary wood wc at last passed into a cleared space, and in the distance was the old fort's site. Nothing is now left of it, and no one would think the site was once filled with soldiers and red-skins, and surrounded by the grim instruments of war. But though the fort has disappeared, we found a good Garnson, with whom we spent several pleasant and profitable hours. No man in , this section knows more about old times | in Cherokee than Mr. Garrison ; he was j one of the three first settlers in the county; ids daughter was the second white child i bwrn in the county, and his life is proin ; inently connected with the county’s his- I tory. From him we have gathered many ; fiets regarding the early days, which will be furnished to our readers from time to time. Rdsiitno work on the farm being over ( people have embraced the opportunity to come to town and make their purchases A good many were in town, the past week, and consequently the melancholy counte nances which our merchants were begin ning to carry about with them have per | ceptibly worn off. The Marietta Journal says: “Ben | ; Payne is inflicting “pain” upon susceptible i hearts. He is too clever a fellow to run loose. We hope some worthy girl will ' ■ capture him, so he can cr.j >y Vincent's | company.” OVER THE COUNTY. Good fins were in demand last week. Many of the roads are muddy and hilly. The farmers are generally through with cotton picking. ! How to raise large turnips: Take hold of the tops and pull. { We hear a great deni of complaint of the potato rot in the county. We want to know who has found an otlwr gold mine, coni mine, copper mine, or other mineral discovery. We want to know what i« going on over the county every week. Those who know anything about it will please inform us. We want to know who has made the biggest crop of corn, turnips, potatoes, cot ton, or anything else, on the smallest amount of land. Remember that next Saturday is the day for the picnic at the city of Walesca. Gen. Colquitt is expected to be present, and we •ihink we will be present too. Now is the time to subscribe for The Georgwin. “Sketches of Early Times in Cherokee” will shortly appear, nnd all who are “native here, and »o the manner born,” should get and preserve them. We have raised, and can show, as large turnips as any we have seen in a long time. If any of our brother farmers think they can beat us in that line, we challenge them to the front. Our specialties are turnips, cows, and Berkshire pigs. Another old and respected citizen has passed away. Mr. Lemuel Johnson of Trickinn died on Sunday, November 7, af ter an illness of but eighteen hours dura lion. the result of an epileptic attack, in the seventieth year of his age. Mr. John son was a Mason, a member of the M. E. Church South for forty years, and a good man. The funeral took place on the Mon day following, the Masonic fraternity con ducting the ceremonies, and Rev. C. M. McClure preaching the sermon. Walesca Notes. Married, on the 24th of October, by J. M. Sharp, Esq., Mr. D. P. Cline to Miss Florida J. Corneilson. Walesca Lodge of Good Templars will give a picnic at Reinhart’s chapel on Satur day, the 20th instant. Sister lodges and the public generally are invited. General Colquitt, 8. U. Robinson, and others, are expected to deliver addresses on the occa sion. Wheat sowing was pretty thoroughly checked by the rainy weather last week. Our farmers are housing their corn, and complain that they are making good crops. One of our neighbors has made about eight hundred bushels with one horse. Send us word if you want any good sor ghum syrup, and wc will sell it to you cheap. One of our friends asked us, the other day, if it was against the law for a man to stem and twist tobacco for his own use. Can any ot you tell ? W. M. Ellis wants all the furs and hides he can get, for which he will pay the high est market price in cash and barter. CANTON PRICE CURRENT. corrected weekly. Cotton 12 Corn » bu 50@60 Corn Meal bu Gs(<s7s Wheatl 10@l 15 Flour—Fancy Ip bbl 8 50 Extra Family... 8 00 Family 7 50 Fine 6 00 Bacon—Sides 16% Shoulders 13 Hams, sugar cured 18 Bulk Meat 14@ 15 Lard 20 Coffee —Rio 25(& 28 Sugar—Crushed 15 Coffee A 12% Brown 12% Salt—Virginia 2 50 Liverpool 2 55 Tea—lmperiall 00@l 20 Black 75@1 05 Crackers —Soda 10@10 Cream 15®20 Candy 25@60 Pkpper 35@4q Tallow 8 Beeswax 25 Rags 2% Hobby 12%@15 Eggs 20 Chickens ’12%@25 Country Butter 25 Hides—Green 6% Dry 12% Lime $ Bu 50 Syrup 75@1 00 Molasses 55@65 Brown Shirting B@lo Iron—Tire 6%@7% Rod B@lo Nails 5%@8 Leather —Sole 3U@33 Harness.! 40@ Upper 50 Manilla Bags p 1,000 1 Wrapping Paper lb 5%@6% The above retail cash prices—in quantities lower. Don’t Go Away TO BUY YOUR STOVES AND TINWARE, When your wants can be supplied at home. JOHN A. WEBB Has opened a Tin-sbop in Canton, where he will keep in stock STOVES and TIN WARE of ail kinds, and will manufacture i tin and sheet-iron work to order, iu work ! manlike manner, al prices as low as can be It affonleit REPAIRING made a specialty. 10 TF YOU WANT PRINTING DONE. 1 with neatness and dispatch, call al this jeffire LEGAL 4 DVERTISEMENTB. Sheriff’s Sale? YYTILL be sold before the court-house V V in Canton, Cherokee county, Georgia, during the legal hours of sale on the tiist Tuesday in December next, the following i described properly, viz.: 1 L<>t of land No 1197, in the third district and second section of Cherokee county, Ga. Levied on as the property of James .(’.Bnfo r, to satisfy a justice court Ufa of the 1174th district G. M., in favor of I. L. Hughs. Levied on and returned to me by Wm. Beck, L. C., and tenant in possession notified. E G GRAMLING, Deputy Sheriff. Printer’s fee, $2.50. Administrator’s Sale. "0 Y VIRTUE of an order from the Court IO of Ordinary of Cherokee county, will be sold, on the first Tuesday in December, 1875, at the court-house door in said county, between the legal hours, the following lots of land belonging to the estate of Thos. Lipsey, deceased, lafp of said county: Lots of land Nos. 1,271, 1,272 and 1,273, all in the 15th District and 2nd Section of Cherokee county, all lying in one body, and on which there is a good dwelling-house, kkchen and out-houses; besides there is a good orchard of fruit trees. All sold re serving halt interest in the mineral. Terms : one third cash, one third by note due the Ist of December, 1876, and one third due the Ist of December 1877, with interest at 7 per cent, from date Bond mad‘B for titles. W.R.McVAY, . 14 4t Aministrator. EORGIA, CHEROKEE* COUNTY.— Thomas O Tedder has applied to me tor exemption of personalty, and setting apart and valuation of homestead, and I will pass upon the same at 11 o’clock on the 19th day of November, 1875, at my office in Canton. C. M. McCLURE, Ordinary. Printer's fee, $2. 15 2t Georgia cherokee county Whereas J. F. Sims, guardian of Mary C. Sims, represents to the court in his peti tion, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully settled with his said ward. This is, therefore, to cite all person con cerned kindred and* creditors, to shows cause, if any they can, why said guardian should not be discharged from his guardi anship, and receive letters of dismission, on the first Monday in February 1876. C M. McCLURE, 14-3 m Ordinary. EORGIA, CHEROKEE COUNTY.— Whereas W. W. Hawkins, adminis trator of liobcrt Hawkins, represents to the court in his petition, duly filed and en tered on record, that he has fully adminis tered Robert Hawkins’s estate: This is therefore to cite all persons con cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said adminis trator should not lie discharged from his administration, and receive lett -rs of dis mission, on the first Monday in January, 1876. 9-3 in C; M. McCLURE, Ordinary. Georgia, ciierokeecounty.— Ordinary’s office, Nov. ’B, 1875. —All persons interested are hereby notified that VY. D. Lacy of the 1010th distiict, G. M., tolled before Thomas Mcßea ami Uriah Wilson, freeholders of said county, one white cow, with a spotted and neck, marked with a swallow fork in the left ear and a smooth crop and hole in the right ear, and cut or tore from the hole to the smooth crop. Said animal is ten years old, and of the value of ten dollars, and it is worth twenty cents per day to feed the suno. The owner of said estray is required to come forward, pay charges and take said cow away, or it will be sold on the freehold of the' said W. D. Lacy, on the 19lh of November. C. M. McCLURE, Ordinary. Printei’s fee, s2.ls—it pEORGIA, CHEROKEE COUNTY— * T In Superior Court. Present: the Hon. N. B. Knight. Stephen Kilby ) Mortgage, etc. vs. '- August term, 1875. James N. Sullivan. ) It appearing to the court by the petition of Stephen Kilby (accompanied by the note and mortgage deed) that on the twenty ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the defendant made and delivered to the plaintiff his promissory note bearing date the day and year afore said, wherebj" the defendant promised, five months after the dale thereof, to pay the plaintiff or bearer one hundred and fifty dollars, with five pet cent, interest per month until paid, for value received ; and that afterwards on the day and year afore said, the defendant, to better secure the payment of- said note, executed and deliv ered to the plaintiff his deed of mortgage whereby the said defendant mortgaged to the plaintiff parts of lots of land number forty-two and forty-three (43 and 43), in the fourteenth district and second section of said county, said land so mortgaged being one hundred and ninety acres, more or less. And it further appearing that said note re mains unpaid: It is therefore ordered that the said de fendant do pay into court, on or before the first day ot the next term thereof the prin cipal, interest, and cost due on said note, or show cause to the contrary, if any be can; and that on the failure ol the defendant so to do, the equity of redemption in and to said mortgaged premhes be forever there after barred and foreclosed. And it is further ordered that this rule be published in The Cherokee Georgian once a month for three months previous to the next; term ot this court, or served on the defendant, or his special agent or attor ney, at least three months previous to the next term of this court. • 11-3 m N. B. KNIGHT, J. S. C. I hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of the Superior Court of Cherokee county. J. W. Hudson, Clerk. ~~ J. 11. CLAY, Brick and Stone Mason, Brick Maker and Plasterer, CANTON, - - - GEORGIA ■yXTTLL do all kinds of work in his line, VV such as budding Brick nnd Stone H<Mi.ses, Pillars and Chimneys, Plastering Houses, etc. All work done in the best style. Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices rea sonable and just. Best of relerences can be given when desired. aug 11 2-ly JOHN L. MOON. GEO. F. WOOTEN. ■fyJOON & WOOTEN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Atlanta, _ _ _ Georgia, Office, Opposite National HoteL It Will Pay You, ■ § TO EXAMINE, 2 , TO EXAMINE, B £ 7. AND PURCHASE, ft £ AND PURCHASE, H o or B. F. CRISLER, vm nwi A FULL VARIETY < MMb •wtl Bi MB ißrt k» a Dry Goods | Grocery Store Also prepared to put up Boots StLoea in the beet style, end on short notion. Will furnish LKATHIR fas any quanti ties to suit purchasers. tar Will take COUNTRY PRODUCR at the beat prices, and pay cash or goods for HIDES. aug 4 1-ts SHARP <& CO., WALESCA, GEORGIA, Dealers in General Merchandise, At LOW-DOWN FIGURES. WlUglT. Extra Bargains FOR CASH OR BARTER, Being anxious to make room for the FaD trade. If you need anything in our line, call and see us, SHARP * CO. >qg2s, Dr. J. M. Turk. WILL COmmMUB THE FRACTICB OF Medicine and Surgery. Diseases of women and obstet rics made a SPECIALTY. Office on Main street, ireet end. Aug 4 I-ts