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,11013 Bf W. Radley. 71 <\v:t: x um Official Org M1 0 f Polk ancl-Haralson Counties. —4.-Hi -i.-.- ’ ' ' v « VOLUME IV. OEDARTOWN, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. Subscription $2 Per Aruvc. NUMBER 4;>. •P H O-F.ES'S ION A h M. TIDNfTEtL. ATTOEKEY AT LAW; CBDARTOWN, GA, Often In the Oonrt Moose, with Jud^o Brower.) 111 practice In the Superior Court* of Polk, Rthllnvc, Hsrslson and Doagla«, and In any other county in the State, by apodal contract; alto In the Federal Geart at Atlanta and In the Bnprome Court of Ga, June *0 •JyJURDOOK MoBRIDE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BUCHANAN, GA. pr" WIU practice In all the Court* of the Rom# Okronlt and adjoining conntlo*. may 98-78-tf 1. A. ■ iMCB. JHO. M. KINO. JjJI.ANOE & KING ATTORNEYS AT LAW, •BDARTOWN, GA. pTWin praetlce In all the Court* of the Rom# Olrcnlt, la the Snprerae C#nrt of the State, and In the H. 8. Diatrlct Coart for the Nerthern District of Geergia. Not, 11,1874. T. W. MlLNtflt. J. W. HAUUIS, Ju jy£ILNER> dc HARRIS ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OARTKRSVILLE, GA. |W m Omoa on Main Street, next door te Gil* oath A Son. Mr. Mllnor will attend the Superior Oonrt of Polk county rogalarly. March 3.1877-tf ■y^ILLIAM M. SPARKS, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, CRDARTOWN, GA. tw Will praetlce In all the court* of tho Rome Olrcnlt and adjoining countie*. novll, 1874 W. Iff. STRANGE, N. P. & Ex. Off. J. P. Hooltmart, Oa. 13g~ Collections solioited, «ud money paid over punctually. , JAS. D. ENLOW, J. P. OEDARTOWN, OA. E3T~ Office lit the Court House. All business entrusted in his bunds will receive prompt uttentiou. March 9, 1870-3m ESTABLISHED IN 1850. UIoCLURE’S Temple of Music. W IIOLESALEand Retail Ageu- cy for thu Reuowned Plano Makers, STEINWAY, KNABE, DUNIIAM, BACON & KATIE and J. & C. FISHER. Celebrated Organ of MASON <fc IIAMLIN, Bur dett. New limrland Organ Co., and G A Prince A Co.’* Music Publisher*, Oliver Dltann, Win. A Pond & Co., Smith & Co., F A Morth A Co. BEST GUITARS. M / 0 r X Brneno *" d Also foil line of Small Musical Good*, String*, etc. T he proprietor respectfully announce* to the clt- lxeii* ol Cedartown and vicinity, that hi* facia* ties enable him to offer extra inducement* to pur chaser* of Musical Good*, guaranteeing everything represented hy him to give entire patlstactlon. Correspondence BollcItciL^CaUloj'ue^ ninUcd free 85, Union Street, Nashville Tenn. Janl71v John Lagomarsi.no, WHOLESALE OONNPOTIONHR, AND DEALBH IN Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CYRUS HALL. TONSITORIAL PARLORS. (West end J. 8. Noyos' Ware Honse.) OBDARTOWir, a^.. IF*Shaving, Shampooing and Hair Cutting dono neatly, cheaply and expeditiously. Give me a call. Jan 31 tf JOE LA8TER. THOMPSON'S RESTAURANT LADIES’ CAFE, JAMES’BANK BLOGK, ATX.ANTA, CIA. 0X0—— OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. . * f 0X0— gsy Accommodations for Families, aiid Meals at all Hours. March 14-6m TOTT- A: Practical Joke. I did love her! Oh, how I did Iqvo :ar»f 4!iRaAua;they'i»y All is fair in loveUiml war, and perhaps thilt is Borne exousc for me. I hail liked her a long while, and I knew that she liked me. I' was as big a fellow as she could see anywhere about. I had a farm cf my owu, and, when I was married, father had promised to bnild me a, f)rst-rate|hsuse and stock the plup for me, ^ Andwh.nl went to church on Sunday, or to town, I hud goad clothes, and was never told'.d looked ill in them. _ / On the whole, I felt tpvsjj^f a good, fair matoli for Mnggwii’rnuv though she was so nice a girl. thor and mother thujighl too, and she never refold# m-fCittontions. I had settled, slow quiet sort of way ii^ jjTiiclfcountrymen do settle those tlgfcJSj^thut we’d make a match of The otlie. young fellow knew it, and if we were not fushionublo we wern^jar.gentlemen that we had oiy coifc of houor. None of tliera et’er interfered or tried to cut me out. Rut then “ho” oaine, you see—dap per and pretty, and dressed like a tailor’s faehionplate, and talked of things I knew very little about, and his handsjwcro white, and lie hud graceful, gallant ways that I had never leurned. Mr. Zaooheus, that was his name. And in that summer holiduy of his, while wo were working over the hay and wets tail lied, dirty and worn, and so tired, that sleep was about all we wanted when work wus ovor, why then he, soft, sweet and smiling, made himself agreeable to tho girls and crept into Maggie Frans’s heart —myMaggie. She scarcely looked at me. She did not care whether she met me or not; and on Sunday, there he was making me feel somehow so course, rough, aDd vulgar, and when I wan ted her to go with me into the park, where we used to sit in the great, green shadows, and listen to the birds sing, she hud Borne excuse for staying at homo, and when, on the road from church. 1 took her hand ill mine, she snatched it away, and said, quite crossly: “Don’t. Frank, don’t do such Bil ly, rustic things, while folks are here. Thoy never do it themselves, and they laugh so.” “Mr. Znccheus laughs, you mean, I suppose,” said 1. “That's geutle- manly, too.” “You are criticising Mr. Zucchena’ manners, are you?” After that there was a coolness between us; but, though it made my heart ache, I could not think that it mattered much to her. I stayed away from her father’s house, and did not walk homo with her from church on Sunday; indeed. I did not go to church at all. And I know the youug folks—aye, and the old folks, too—were saying that we had fallen out with each other, and I suppose everyone guessed why; but I would never answer any qnes. tions—not even when my own moth er asked me—not I. So the Bummer came and the au tumn passed on, and the town peo ple stayed and stayed. I saw that fellow’s silk hat and twill umbrella, and exquisitely fitting garment wherever I went. Further than I could see other people, I used to sec him and her—Mr. Zaooheus and Maggie. They had never made Maggie work much at heme, and she hud plenty of time to enjoy herself—an only daughter, you see, I mean, and her people what is oalled fore handed- l never intended the she drudge after we were married. When I had hopid for that, I did not mind work myself, bat I’d never never have made slave a of my wife. This Mr. Zacchena could not make of her a more precious treasure than I would; I knew that. .‘J I was think ing this all over one evening in the meadows, when suddenly I heard some one say: “Ah— Mr. Wollmer- at(i!” I looked gp, and there was Mr. Zaooheus, nattier than ever, with a cig. r in his mouth. Tfholiiid llnowii jiiBt.Jiow I felt toWarlls him, l’ill not suj'i 1 that he’d liars borne to IliPwne ■ Tunfta' the great meadow,tsiuLs^ijjntfilit of. thilt just at l jumped up frfljh the grass and looked at Jml? But ho wus smiling us paHtely us possible, ami there is Borne tiling in u man’s heart that-makes i^ljyd to do the first rude thipg^D one who is civil. ' 'SlHtTwis not polite to him. * “£hut’a my name.” said I to him. “pB you want mo?' 1 ^“1 want something of y«n,” said jj^.—‘‘There is a little excursion to night from our house. We’re going to take a lady.—Have you any little light trup and a horse, of course, that you could let me hire for the even* iug? I’d rather go alone with her than in the big wagonette. You know, I’m sure, how it is—that a fel low had rather ride alone with a pretty girl, and, if you will help me out, I will be ever so much obliged to you.” So he had come to ask me to help him to have a nico time with my girl—ho who had out rae out! I look ed at him, just holding my hands still by force, fend I thought of him riding along* the moon-lit road with Maggie close to him. I asked -myself wehther his arms would not he around her waist, and whether in the shadow, as they fell a little behind the others, he would not kiss her. “And you want me to help you?” I said; ? oiit loud. “Mo!” . rff Y«s,&he said. “Please.” “Come/along,” I said. “I’ll show you what I have got.” On the farm that was mine tlur. was one building, a little cow-shed Wo put the tools in (Heresometimes, and I had a padlock for the door; the key was in my pocket. Dannie into »ny head-that I could spoil this evening for him, and spite Maggie, too, by locking him in it And if he had spirit enough to fight me for it afterwards so much tho bet ter. I led tho way down iut# the mead ow whore it stood, and unlocked tho door. “Just look in,” said I, “and see if that will suit you.” “Can't see anything,” said lie. “If8 pitch dark. Wait, I have a match.” lie took one from his pocket and stooped to strike it on the sole of his boot, and then I gave him a push and over he went, flat on the floor, and I had the key in my pocket. “You’ll not make any one hear very soou, my lad, ’’said I, “and you’ll not kiss Maggie Franz going over the bridge this evening.” Then I went away and laid my self flat upon the porch in front of our house,- and felt happier thaw- j T had felt before for a long time. Revenge is sweet now and then. I do not pretend to have none of- the old Adam in me. I’d been there about half an hour, and the chirp; chirp, chirp of tho crickets was lulling me off to sleep, when suddenly I heard a little light step close by mo, and saw a woman’s white dress fluttering, and, jumping up stood before me, Maggio Franz. r The first thought that came ' injio my mind wa? that she was looking for her beau, and it made me fien- dish. w A “Is that you, Miss Franz?” said ‘ I. f‘Yea. Mr, . W.ollrnerath,” said she—-and, though I- had said Miss Ft’auz, how.it hurt me not to be cal led Frank. “I came over to see' your mother. Is she iu?” “No.”^ said I. A “Then I’tllieliter go home,’, said she. Bqt.&he lingered. “Not looking for' Sfiy^tirie else?” said I. “Noj’ she said very -sad ly.- ‘ Good- night? “ ! , But I could nbtlether'go without a cut. “I thought you’d be on this won derful moonlight drive,’ said I. “There you were mistaken,’ said she. “Did he forget to come for you,’ said I, “Mr. Zacchena, you know.’ “I haven’t been asked to drive,’ said she. “I donff ;j^u speak so; Mr. Zacoheus, I suppose, is with the lady he’s engaged to. She caine down last week with her mother.’ , “9Wkflaid I, aiuflt began to wish I’d nskeil ^ fyw more questions be fore I locked young!Zaooheus up in the cow-"hous *. Wo stood still,\^part from each p quiver. Was other. I saw her -hr it for him? Had hQji^d her? That was tit for tat, anyhow. But she was so pjjetty, iud so sad, aud so winning that I felt niy heart give .one great throt I took k step nearer, she took a 4)other. “Oh, Frank,’ crie.1 she, “I can’t stand it, if you keep angry with me. I always have liked you best, but you’ve been so awfjilly cross.’ And then she was crying on my shouldei'. Did yon ever make up with some one you’d quarreled with, loving her all the time? Did you ever ftkl, holding the dear face between yiur two palms, pressing sweet kisses on the dear, soft mouth, that it had all come back, all tho old lo?*j aud trust, and sweetness, and hop6 that you thought dead? If you have, you must kuow what I felt bhpt inipte. I founu myseB again. I was Frank Wollmeruth ince more. How strange it was! Out of all my litol’d like to have that ope moment bu|uk; it wus the sweetest I ever lived through. Up in the midst cf the far meadow rose a column of flame. The cow- lions* was on fire, and I had locked poor innocent you-up Zacoheus up in it, there to be.roadtel alive. “Oh, Maggie,* I*cried, glaring at tlie horrible sight, “j’m a murderer—- a murderer—don’t touch me.* And away I flew to undo my mis chief, if there was Une. There be, perhaps. Never wuAauch a run as I took across that meadow. When I reached the door, plunged my hand in my pocket rorlWfi ltcy. I ooulU not find it. I had dropped it some where. It was not about me. ‘ZacchcusY I cried; ‘Zaccho^s, are you there? 1 am #11 the outside. Courage!’ There was no answer. ‘For heaven’s sake, if you can speak, do,’ I shrieked, hut silence answered me. Doubtless the smeke had already smothered tho poor fallow, but I sot to work and tore awiy the burning boards. I was acorlhed—my hair, face, my eyebrows. 7wice my clothes were ou fire, but I rolled on the dew- wet grass, and wa up at the flames again. Oh, it wa horrible! If he had been ly rival it would have been bad enmgh, but an inno cent young felloil; his sweetheart waiting for him sjmewherel What a monsteil was! ‘IJeayen have! mercy on him!’ cried T. ‘Let me \save him, don’t punish me by making me a murder er!’and’I tore aod 1 wrenched the boards with my biirut hands. And iu a moment more*—well—it was the roof that fell, I think—1 don’t know. ****** * ‘lie’ll do very nicely now,’ said some one—’very nbely; plenty of nourishing food, ani the wine as directed. No dangir, though his escape is wonderful.’ It was the family doctor, and I was on the spare bedin the bedroom, with bandages ahoulmy hands. Mother sat there: so did Maggie. Father looked over the bed foot. Maggie Wermeskirchen, Lizzie Rhu, Frida Uensel; Angelica Hen eel, and yet one whose fi^t name is not known by me also visible. ‘And Why he was © set on saving that old shell, I can’t tell,’ said mother.’ He must Jnve hid some thing precious tHore. Thoy did not know, then. I sat up in bed andlookedat them all. ‘It wasn’t the ihed,* ‘Mother, father, Maggie, it wiIpMr. Zancheus. I had looked him lip there. I’ve murdered him.’ -j ‘No, you havop’tj’ said another voioe, aud some pdefame around the bed. 1 ‘I’m alive, you. sek. You didn’t tWnk I’d stay locked up in a cow sh^d .when I had an engagement with a lady, did you? I : just burned the look off wijfch mj. cifcar, and came away. I intended t;a g^ve you a fright in return for your trick. I suppose it’s what you call a practical joke in jthe country—but l didn’t think , of anything serious, Tm rea Hy sorry I don’t know what I gaid. I know I felt very foolish; hut that was not half as bad as feeling like a murder- I had a pretty pair of hands for tin* next four weeks, but I didn’t mind it us much as if Maggie had not fed me with hers. She petted me as if I were a hero instead of an idiot. I believe she thought I had done something noble and grand. And she’s been my wife, now— how long, Maggie? Not so long as to have forgotten to be lovers, though my hoy’s head is on a level w.itli his mother’s shoulders, and my own to turning gray. TIIF. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Dr. Felton Arraigned and Condemned. Ills Position Tested hy Fact mul Argu ment, and Shown to he Utterly JJntonn- ble. The Very Cround Taken From Un». der Him. S/iVHNTii Dist. Sept. G, 187$.... Editors Constitution: It will be seen by reference to tho several com munications which you have done me the honor to publish— 1. That Dr. Felton has sought to justify his candidacy in opposition to the democracy by assailing an imag inary “ring,” which he alleges has possessed itself of the party machin ery iu this congressional district, and will not let the peopto bfe heard. 2. That he, took none of thef usual steps to correct the evils of which he complained, such us attending the. meetings and conventions of the par ty, and trying to purify and elevate it—nor did he, as far as is known, cull public attention to these evils through the press or on the hustings, prior to his sudden and iiYiexpeoted proclamation of his own candidacy. 3. That ho has nevertheless an nounced hiniselfan independent can didate at three successive elections, each time in advance of any nominu • tion by the party to which ho claims allegiance, and before he could have known that an objectionable candi date would he presented. 4. That he relies almost exclusive ly on the republicans for his elec tion—that he has not been heard at any time or on any occasion, for the last four years, to say one word for the democratic party—that his fi nancial sBccess must eventuate in the overthrow of the democratic party in this district, and that his course is already creating confusion elsewhere in the state to the injury of the dem ocracy and the benefit of radicalism— and that in view of these facts and deductions he is logically and really the candidate, not of “independent democrats, but of the republicans, who expect and are receiving the co operation of a few misguided “inde pendent” democrats so-called. If further proof is required on this point, I now proceed to supply it, and to show that Dr. Felton is to day exerting all his admitted powers, unconsciously, 1 hope, to break up the democratic party in this district and state. As was stated in my last commu nication, Dr. Feltou has chaugcd h' 8 ground. The gravamen of hi* com* plaint heretofore has been /Uiquities of the “riug.” He has «ken a step forward, however, and now d* rec t' ing his battery against “the conven tion system” a*d “the organized democracy.” Now, as the “ORGANIZED” DEMOCRACY is the only democracy recognized in this country, and especially in the southern states, does it not follow as truly as the needle points to the pole, that Dr. Felton is fighting the dem ocratic party? Can any party or polit ical association exist for any length of time, or accomplish any good with out organization? Is there any evil in organization? Gan a government, a state, a county or a city have ex to’ tence without organization? An ar my or navy, a railway, steamship, banking, manufacturing or other company or association—what could they do in the absence of organiza tion and rules and methods of pro cedure. Neither Dr. Felton nor his followers can name any party which has had an existence since the world begun that was not an organized party. Every living creature, wheth er of the earth, the air, or the water, is an organized being. And the great globe ou which wo live, and the wide universe itself is one vasto*. gantoin with fixed principles and laws and conditions. Even the church of God has its organization, and could not ex tot here on’earth without it. What, then, docs Dr. Kellon mean when he attacks tho “organized” de mocracy? Is it not plain, since there is no other democracy in tho south, that he means to assail, and does not assuil and oppose the democratic par ty in all its parts, aid iu all its hopes and objects? True, ho claims to be a democrat; but so djd Gen. Butler, who voted in the national democrat ic convention in Charleston iu 18G0 for Jefferson Davis'to the very last. And Stanton—did he not set up sim ilar claims, and even encourugo the south to resort to secession and to arms? These men, like Dr. Felton, were once organized democrats. Wo fga next heard of them, however, , as a war” democrats—in other words, ^“Independent” democrats—and next, as “organized” republicans. And qo with Grant and Longstreot, Thomas tljLfljjlfcjeftnd Andrew Johnson and others. As democrats they were too “independent” to stay in the “or ganized” party; and where did they go? And where will Dr. Felton be al tera while? It is the first step that, tells. The doctor has taken the first Step, and every subsequent step Ime taken him, as it has done in aU li[ke, co*es, further and further Ti Evil fHhy* crbt»p into tli^PWPJmrfcv organization, atfthe worm may eat its way into tho frnitof the choicest tree; but as we would not cut the tree down in order t.6 catch tho worm, so one would not break up the party for t ho purpose of curing the evil. Dr. Fel ton to, himself, a perfeot organism physically, but when his organism gets out ot order—in other words, when I10 booomes sick—it is presumed that he takes medicine and goes to work generally to remove the evil and re-establish his health. As a good physician ho knows very well that it would not do to go outside of himself, so to speak, aud set up an other “independent” Dr. Felton, aud belabor his old self with sticks and stones, in order to etlect a cure. As with individuals, so with parties. Destruction— overthrow—confusion —they euro nothing. There is rea son in all things, as there is a time for all things. But the doctor is also opposed to tho CONVENTION SYSTEM. And yot he cannot point to any free democratic country, or indeed to any civilized government., in which repre sentative institutions obtuin. that the convention system, or its equivalent, does not prevail. In church and state, in matters sacred and profane, every where and in all countries where thero is freedom, and where the peo ple are allowed to select their own ageuts and representatives, this much-abused convention system, or sometMug equal to it, is universally retorted to by all classes of people. In tho United States the practice is universal. At all elections, national, State, county and city, in >i1l mrt.tos and in every state, district, county aud city, whenever and wherover an office is to be filled by -election, the universal rule is to call a convention and appoint delegates to make the nomination. Churches have their conventions, councils, synods, con., ferencea and associations, in which their members and congregations are represented. Scientists h&ve their conventions, and so do the learned professions. Merchants, railway men, bankers, teachers, farmers, fruit growers, all have their meetings and associations. Indeed, there is no other means or device which is at the same time so convenient and expedi tious, so inexpensive aud satisfactory as the convention. There is no other way of getting at the wishes of the people. In the seventh district, which extends from the Chattahoo chee to the Alabama and Tennessee lines, it would be impracticable to call all the democrats together in one vast and unwieldy body to seleot its candidate for Congress; and if they could be brought together, the con course would he top large and.onm- bersome to transact any business. Still more impracticable would it be to bring the party together from all parts of the state to choose a candi date for Governor; ;»ml iu. ’u i'l’i sibloyot. wmild ii b wlu- for 1’residoiu and Viu • l*r; • < ■ ;it had to ho elected. It. is ouri ”»:• nicnt against conventions that to" 1 men sometimes get into them. Bil l men get into Congress and the Leg islature, and even into the clin-c >, but. shall wc therefore abolish tho- bodies? Everything human may be cleansed. But further: we have nine dem •. crnt.io representatives in Ooiigre-*' from Georgia. They are sM demo cral.s, rtiuV were honulnit. d hy V .: volitions” called by the ‘‘org.’pi:: democracy of their se except Dr. Felton. N< doctor claim that lie is ocrut than his eight that he repres* i.ts more 1 wishes and interests «*f hto cncy than the others do thei tive constituencies? D...1 ! < that they are in anywise it him us representative? And manner of his cl clioit g 0 lab ns to consideration « a novo them?' • • Again: Did Dr. F. lh for Xildeu and Horn!rich dates nominated for P Vice-President by the o guniz-d democrats in convention uwembi'jd? -}.)id he not vote for James M. Smi'h and Alfred II. Colquitt, the regular nominees of thedemocrilfic p.irty lor governor? And did he not sup; *r General Young, the clio ien standard bearer in this district? if ho did, then lie is Cstopped by hi: ..wii a ninst his p.iriy ’.111 dl-bl-K r. dot's 1 . !letter'ie lolleugini, 1 not , tlm ndent If Ju * query: If D»*. Felton ;it demoo,m glit »•; 1 U, from all compla and its long selecting its not, then of c crat at all. One more, q proper for 11 “indepeiid in this district, would 1 ly right ami proper fo democratic cuudidatca ery congressional di-.ir ted Stales, and if • soon find ourselv democratic represun tat. \ 0 greets? Would not a aimi lose us the President, am ernor and legislature in 1 in the union? In conclusion, the reader is reques ted to weigh THE FACTS AND AliOUMKN'IS here presented, and to answer for hiuiself, whether Dr. Felton can lon ger pursue liis present course with out being justly chargeable with a desire to destroy the democrat- c party in this district. And f such is pis desire, whether ho cun be a democrat at all, ami wheth er lie is entitled to the vote oLany democrat in the district, or to the sympathy of any without it? Cato. without a Hin the Go ery stu An old story used to go the rounds with “S” as the initial letter of each word. Here is an extract that will carry terror to an Englishman's heart: Humphrey Hubbard had heard Hephzibali Hnggiiisbiiminingliyni’ •» iitmitouoij ... r *ivp:< ball homeward. Humphrey ban her ed hugely, harboring hm.ctomnu Hcphziban heartwisp. He had high hawthorn hedges hiding bis lunul- souie house, harnessed nurses, haul ing harrows, he hoeing liiK, helping herdsmen, hewing hemlooK^ buck ling hemp, harvesting Imps, hunting hawks hurting hatching lions. Ifeplf- zibah, helpful housekeeper, beiiuied handkerchiefs, hoarded honey luUi- erto hived, heeled hose having i'oiL, handled harpsichord hurmouioiisf; happy hephzibali! Her homvu homi ly happiness hit Humphrey henvilV He hovered, handsomely habited; hinting humbly how luphziUdi nml harried his heart. Hephzibuh hon ored liis hearty homage. Hating, however, haphazard hasten i». pUzi- ball hung her head, hutting!'hem ming, hawing, hoping Humpluvy had harmless habits, hypocritical, hesitating* Hepziball! He hold i- r hand hopefully, hungrily humming her. Happily, HeplmbUtf heeded her hirsute hero. Hym i hitched Humphrey TJublmrd-Hephj!:h f - gins, ho hugging her. happily hy : terical! Henceforth liuBbuinl helped housewife hop hornpipes,* holdiiig honeymoon holiday, hardly IfWihg harlequins howling hallelujahs, k£il- ing* houseiwurmiug. Ifa! Ha! Ho! Ho!