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The Cartersville Express. VOL. XX.—NO. 45. SUNDAY’S SERMONS. Electric Sparks from Brooklyn’s Great Preachers. Mr. Beecher concludes a discourse in which he makes the point that “there is no religion in the Bible,” and says “it is the work of the heart,” as follows: “To follow Christ is not so easy a thing that it can be put off or post poned. It includes the whole of a man’s life and disposition. Secondly, there is an idea that religion is re strictive; that it is a limitation in stead of an enlargement, and that, therefore, it is to beput off as long as long as it is safe. If a man has youth, he wants to enjoy youth, and if one could be insured that could live until he was eighty and could have religion when he chose, he would request that he might not be converted until he was seventy-nine years and nine months old, and then he would like religion just to shoot him through the gap. [Laughter.] What a total misapprehension is this, for religion is declared to be a liberty; Christ has declared that he came to open the prison doors, to bring out of captivi ty. It is a larger life and a better life* The beginnings of religion are like the beginnings of all other re* quirements of knowledge—painful, hut once possessed, all knowledge is pleasant. The work of obtaining re ligion is progressive, but entered up on heartily it is the sweetest life in which a man can engage—the most ennobling and the best. BROTHER TALMAGE ' compares it to Isaac Watts, who went to see Sir Thomas and Lady Abney at their place at Theobald, intending to stay a week, but stayed thirty-five years. If religion gets in to your house for a day or night, she will probably stay there forever. •Religion in the talmage family There was in my ancestral line something so strongly impressive that it sounds more like a romance than a reality. I have seen the facts so inaccurately put that I now give the true incidents. My grandfather and grandmother, living at Somer ville, N. J., went to Basking B-idge to witness a great revival in the days of Dr. Finley* They returned so im pressed that they resolved on the sals vation of their own family. The young people were about to start for an evening party. My grandmother said: “When you get ready to go, come to my room, for 1 have some thing to say to you.” Ready for de parture, they came to my grand mother’s room. She said: “While you are gone to the party, I want you to know that I am in this room all the time praying for your salva tion. I shall continue praying till you get back.” The young people departed, but did not enjoy the even ing, because they could not forget, amid the hilarities, that their mother was all the time engaged with God imploring their conversion. The evening passed, and the young peo ple returned. The next morning my grandparents heard a loud weeping in another room, the room of their daughter. Going there, they found her crying to God for pardoning mercy. The daughter told them that her brothers were at the barn and the wagon-house, under deep conviction. My grandparents went to the barn ! and found my uncle Jehiel, who af totward became a minister of the Gospel, crying to God for mercy. They went to the wagon-house and found their son David, afterward my father, crying for mercy. They all hepame Christians. David went d' fnto tell the story to a young W £an to whom he was affianced, she, as a consequence, became a Christian, aid from her, my mother, I got the incident. The story of this family saved, reached the village of Somerville, and the influence spread from family to family until all the neighborhood were whelmed with religious awakening and two hun dred souls stood up in the village church on Sabbath, professing the faith of the Gospel. My mother, impressed with the scene of her early womanhood, tried in after years to see if she might not bring all her family of children into the kingdom of God. For many years she, every week, met these Christian mothers in private prayers for the salvation of their families. I think all their fam~ ilies were brought into the kingdom of God, myself the youngest and the last. There were twelve of us—seven now in heaven and five of us trying in various ways to serve God. I trace this line of mercy back to the time when my Christian grandmoth er spent that evening in prayer for her children. Nine of her descend ants have preached the Gospel, and many of them are already safe in heaven, while some of us are still in the Christian struggle. Did it pay for that Christian woman to spend a whole evening iu agonizing prayer for her children? Ask her before the throne of God, all her own chil dren already with her in heaven. I put on record to-day for the first time this full story of ancestral piety. Oh, what a beautiful, touching and sub lime thing is family religion! THE OLD FAMILY BIBLE. Mr. Talmage said further in this same discourse. “Do you see anything peculiar about this Bible? I have never preached out of it before. This is my father’s and mother’s Bible. You see the binding is old. There is not a page in it that is not discolored, either with time or with tears. Twice a day, as long as I can remember, this book was opened and road to us children. When my brother Van Wirt died far from home, in the West Indies,gone there for his health, the night after the news father read out of this book to us. When my brother David died in this city, a young man just starting in business life, this was the book that comforted the old people. There came a long sickness of fifteen years to my lather, and it was a struggle for bread; and out of this book he read of the ravens that fed Elijah. When my mother went through the dark valley this was the lamp that lighted her path way, and out of this book father read of their reunion which two years af terward took place in heaven. There are but four or five pictures in it, but Dore never bo vividly illustrated the Bible as this is illustrated to my eye. I look through it into mournings and burials, joys and sorrowt, meet ings and partings, thanksgiving days and Christmas festivals, cradles and death-beds. Speak out, O blessed book, and tell me of the praters of fered, of the sorrows comforted, of the dying hours irradiated. The hands that handled it are ashes; the eyes that perused these leaves are closed. Old, old book! What a pil low thou wouldst make for a dying head. Oh, my hearers, get a family Bible. The New Testament in fine print is not worthy being called that. Get a Bible with large type, and have in it a family record of marriages, births and deaths. What If some curious person does turn it over to find how old you are. You are youn ger now than you will ever be again. The curious will find out anyhow from someone who knew you when a child and told the truth about your age. Have a family Bible, Let it go down from generation to genera tion, all suggestive of holy memories. A hundred years after you are dead it will be a benediction upon those who come after. Other books worn out and fallen apart will be flung in to garret or cellar, but that will re main inviolate, and will be your pro test for centuries against all iniquity, iu behalf of ail righteousness. Paying Old Debts. [Nashville Christian Advocate.] A distinguished clergyman just from Texas says the people of that State are in the humor of debt-pay ing. They are paying up old debts like honest men, sometimes to the agreeable surprise of despairing cred itors. There is no better sign of moral soundness in a community than this. Let debt-paying be a characteristic of the better times, but let creditors be merciful with honest men. J. J. Howard & Son. With a view of insuring absolute security for nil deposits left with U 6, we have purchased a large safe with Hall’s double time lock attach ment, which is absolutely impossible to open, except during the hours when it is desirable to open it. The safe is fire-proof and burglar proof. Merchants and others who desire a safe place for their accounts and money, in cited. J. J. HOWARD & SON. CARTERSVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1879. SAM H. HILL. The Prisoner Visited by an Atlanta Party—What a Lady said. Sunday was a bright, pleasant day in the gate city. A small party of elegant ladies and gentlemen visited the Fulton county prison. They called at the cell of Mr. S. H. Hill. His wife, her sister and the writer were with him when the party men tioned entered his apartment. The ladies were all seated on box, chair and narrow mattrass; the gentlemen present stood on the of the lit tle room, while the prisoner endeav*. ored to act the host. How well he succeeded, those present will not soon forget. Naturally, his case, the prospect for anew trial, came up. He referred to it modestly, and in the most chaste manner recited how he, impressed with his responsibili ties as a husband, had been driven to the deed and how he regretted having had it to perform. His sen timents had been portrayed in a thrilling manner by patient artistic work on the walls and ceiling of his cell. These scenes he described with sufficient minuteness, while his au ditors followed with amazing inter est. Not a word was spoken until he closed the last reference—being to an American eagle flying from a court house, in the picture, with the scales of Justice in his beak—when a spontaneous expression evidenced the hearty sympathy of those present with the speaker. Prison life had been experienced before by Mr. Hill. He remarked that he was a very young confeder ate soldier and was at Camp Douglas during the war for eight months. Here a lady of the party uttered these words: *‘ Nothing has shown moreful~ ly how the south has deteriorated in morals , since the war , than has your conviction Then, as the party re** tired, this same noble lady taking him by the hand for a cordial good bye, said : “JT trust you t mil gel anew trial and be acquitted , as you should have been at first*” WEALTHY GEORGIA NEGROES. The Colored People Continuing to Buy Land. Some days ago the Constitution published the returns to the comp troller general’s office, giving the to tal of property held subject to tax in the state. It will be remembered that the total of taxable values had fallen off about $1,000,000 in the state. We now have a showing to make that is the reverse of that. The negroes in the state, instead of seeing their property decrease, have snugly added to it, and their total goes up to $5,182,398 this year, against $5,124,875 last year, giving a net increase of $57,523. This does not represent the actual increase of negro property, but much less than that. The bulk of negro property has decreased in value at least 10 per cent, so that to merely hold their own, they would have had to add about $60,000, They have not only done this but have gone $57,523 over their old figures. In the one item of land alone, the negroes have added 39,309 acres to their possessions during the last year, making a total of 341,199 acres owned by negroes in Georgia. This record is a good one, and shows that whatever may be said elsewhere, we have the best of proof at home that the negroes are prospering. There are only four ne groes in the state worth over SIO,OOO —so that the property of $5,183,398 is divided in small lots among the negroes of all classes and all sections. —We were exposed last week to a pitiless storm, that wet our feet and stockings, and in deed our person all over. In fact we took a cracking cold, which brought sore throat and severe symptoms of fever. The good wife as serted her authority, plunged our feet into hot water, wrapped us iu hot blankets, and sent our faithful son for a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. It is a splendid medicine —pleasant to take, and did the job. We slept soundly through the night and awoke well the next morning. We know we owe our quick recov ery to the Pectoral, and shall not hesitate to recommend it to all who need such a medi cine.—Tehuacana (Texas) Presbyterian. —The merits of Dr, Bull’s Baby Syrup are acknowledged by all who have ever used it lor the diseases of Infancy, Price only 25 cents a bottle. AKERMAN. Comments Upon the Issue —Character of the Gentleman. The article in last week’s Express, headed “Akerman for Congress,” has elicited much comment in this sec tion of the district. It was like a great bomb-shell in the camp of the howlers, and they have stood in breathless suspense, as it were, not knowing what to do about it. It creates a peculiar test with the disaf fected element in the party. They fear to denounce the article or the gentleman in question, since through him they have been hoping for streugth with republicans, and as it is the pivot upon which their only hope hangs of perpetuating power at the expense of just principles. We acknowledge peculiar pleasure in the fact that while this class dare not say anything in opposition, the conservative element is of one mind in favor of letting Mr: Akerman run. They concur in the sentiment that it would greatly facilitate a return to peace in our bounds, to restore the national party divisions, and let ar gument be on principles rather than in personal acrimony. They are well assured that Hon. Amos T. Akerman is a gentleman who would not mis represent his section intentionally, that he would seek to do all the good in his power, that he is one of the most capable men in the land, and that he is rigidly honest. A better illustration of his integrity and honor could not be had than by his conduct in connection with the administra tion of President Grant. His convic tions were such that he could not act in accord with that administration, therefore he promptly resigned a cabinet position, yet he was so hon orable as never to divulge the causes of disagreement; It would have given him great popularity, doubt less, to make public these differences. Still he, to this day, has said nought against that household, (he is a per sonal admirer of Grant.) The plan suggested, we mention for the benefit of those who may not have seen the article In question pub lished last week, is for the organized democracy to stand aloof, and let Mr. Akerman’s personal friends and party support him, while others vote for Dr. Felton. Now, there may be those who think this suggestion is out of enmity to the present able representative of the district. If so, they are mistaken. It is simply a plan by which bitterness in our so ciety may be obliterated—by which men may appear under their chosen banners, and a creditable consistency in our politics. ROBBING GRAVES^ Is there not sufficient intelligence and benevolence in the land by which bodies can be procured for medical students, without this disgraceful kind of providing ? Is the profession not of sufficient dignity to authorize publication of its necessities ? There are many persons who would cheer fully grant, in life, the use of their dead bodies for the benefit of others. Arrangements could very well be perfected,that they be remov ed to proper apartments before de composition sets in, and without the formality of burial. Poor parents, in some instances, would, for the bene fit of their children, engage their bodies at an expense no greater than that of burial, while many would volunteer gratuitous use in cases of peculiar illness, in the hope that oth ers, similarly afflicted, would avoid a like fate. Then crematists certainly would not object. There is nothing connected with this matter to justify stealing from the grave at night, and the utterance of falsehood to hide the theft. Let new methods be adopted to gain knowledge in this important, department. Feeble Ladies. i Those languid, tiresome sensations, causing you to feel scarcely able to be on your feet; that constant drain that is taking from your system all its elasticity; driving the bloom from your cheeks; that continual strain upon your vital forces, rendering you irritable and fretful, can easily be removed by the use of that marvelous remedy, Hop Bitters. Irregu larities and obstructions of your system are relieved at once, while the special cause of periodical pain i* parr'"? r.-' " • Uii-wsS. TPK 1 | you heed this ? S. A. CUNNINGHAM RISING FAWN FURNACE. Its Final Sale to Mr. J. C. Warner. After years of litigation and bitter personal controversy, at times threat ening serious riot, the Rising Fawn furnace and lauds, in Dade county, were sold in Atlanta, Tuesday, by order of the court, and purchased by Mr. J. C. Warner, of Nashville. Mr. Warner had been practically in pos session for some time, he and Dr W- Morrow, also of Tennessee, having purchased the greater portion of the first mortgage bonds, from which consideration the property was in the hands of a receiver satisfactory to them. Some months ago Mr. War ner purchased Dr. Morrow’s interests so that his claims amounted to about one hundred and fifteen thonsand dollars. He and a Mr. Shafer, of New York, were the bidders. The bids were first one hundred thousand dollars, raised ten, then five thousand dollars each bid, until Mr. Warner’s was $130,000, when his competitor suddenly became nervous and would not make another advance, although the außtioneer waited half an hour. His conduct was quite singular, for* we understand, he had examined the property and had expressed the opin ion that it would pay the amount bid in a single year, while he was largely interested in the second mortgage bonds and had the ready cash with him to advance largely upon Mr. Warner’s bid. We congratulate the purchaser upon his good fortune. The property can hardly be worth less than a half million—that is less than cost. Besides being one of the best furnaces in the *State or south, there are seven thousand acres terri tory surrounding, with a vein of ore which could hardly be exhausted in a thousand years. Remedy for Diphtheria. [Correspondence New York Herald.] In view of the increase of diphthe ria in several places of the State of New York, I hasten to communicate to yon for publicity a very simple remedy, which, having been used in Russia and Germany, may prove effective here. Out of several others, Dr. Letzerich has used it in twenty seven cases, eight of which were of a very serious nature, all of which had a favorable result except in one case, when the child died from a compli cation of diseases. For children of one year he prescribes the remedy, for internal use every one or two hours, as follows: Natr. benzoic, pur. 5.0 solv. in aq. distiliat aq. month, piper, ana 40.0 syr. cort. aur. 10.0. For children from one to three years old he prescribed it from seven to eight grammes for 100 grammes of distilled Water, with some syrup; for children from three to seven years old he prescribed ten to fifteen grammes, and for grown persons from fifteen to twenty-five grammes for each 100 grammes. Besides this he uses also,with great success, the insufflation on the diph therial membrane through a glass tube in serious cases every three hours, in light cases three times a day of the natr. benzoic pulver. For grown people he prescribes for gargling a dilution of ten grammes of this pulver, for 200 grammes of water. The effect of the remedy is rapid. After twenty-four or thirty-six hours the feverish symptoms disappear completely and the temperature and pulse become normal. This remedy was used also with the same success by Dr. Braham, Braun and Prof. Klebs, in Prag; Dr, Senator, in Cas sel, and several others in Russia and Germany. N. Shishkin, Minister of Russia to the United States. ■ i. ■ Day’s Ague Tonic. It contains no quinine, arsenic, mercury, or other deleterious drugs. It does not produce headache, roaring or buzzing in the head, deafness, dimness of vision, or any of those Unpleasant symptoms that so frequently fol low the use of quinine. Day’s Ague Tonic cleanses the stomach, unlocks the liver, opens the bowers, and tones the system without the use of any other article, hence its are prompt and permanent. One bottlcTfrcquent ly cures a whole family. Children iud those -f • ic’ieete stomachs can LAc It with ear.?- All j who sell it say it is superior to any othe.*. -