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' * George N. Lester, Judge Bluo Ridge
Circuit.
• Thomas F, Greer, Solicitor.
TOWN COUNCIL.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Ailea, Ordinary.
1.. It. Oreer, Clerk Superior Court.
Ur. J. R. Johnson, Sheriff.
P. H. miton. Tax Receiver, Coilectoi
and Treasurer.
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first Sunday, by Rev. A. F. Ellington
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J. C. ALLEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELLIJAY, GA.,
Wirt, practice In the Superior'*!lotirts of
the Blue Ridge Circuit. Prompt attention
given to all business entrusted to his care.
Collections a specialty.
THOMAS F. GREER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
jPLLIJAY, GA.
As .Solicitor General will attend regu
larly all the Courts of the Blue Ridge Cir
cuit; also, Supreme Court of Georgia and
U. 8. District And Circuit Courts. Land
litigation a specialty.
L. J. GARTRELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATLANTA,GEORGIA.
PHAOTIOICS IX TTTK UNITED STATES CIRCUIT
and District Courts at Atlanta, and
the Supreme and Superior Courts of the
State. l-tf
* H. R. FOOT.
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ELLIJAY, GA.
PRACTICES IN THE BLUE RIDGE
X Circuit. Gives ntteution to claims
against the United States Government.
Also,
Land Agent.
Parties wishing to buy or sell land In
any of the Cherokee Counties can address
or call on him at Ellijay. l-tf
E. WATKINS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
ELLIJAY, GA.
jTrTJOH KSQN, M D
Physician and Surgeon,
ELLIJAY, GA.
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citizens of Ellijay and vicinity. Will
promptly answer all calls, wh en uot pro
fessionally/ . jun2l-Iy.
THE ELLIJAY COUTIIEII,
VOL. 11.
Banal of Moses.
si O,
By Nebn’s lonely mountaiß,
On this side Jordan’* wave,
In a vale in the land oi Moah, ,
There lies a lonely grave,
And no man knows that sepulcher,
Aud no man saw it e’er;
For the angels of God upturned the and,
And laid the dead man there.
That was the grandest funeral
That ever passed on earth.
But no man heart 1 the tramping,
Or saw-the train go forth
Noiselessly as the daylight
Comes back when the night is done,
Aud the crimson streak on the ocean’s
cheek
Grows into the great sun.
Noiselessly as the springtime
Her crown of verdure weave*,
And all the trees on all the bills
Open their thousand leaves;
So, without sound of music,
Or voice of them that wept,
Silently down from the mountain’s crown
The great procession swept.
Perchance the bald old eagle,
On gray BethsPeor’s height,
Out of his lonely eyrie.
Looked on the wondrous sight;
Perchance the Uon stalking
Still shuns that hallowed spot,
For beasts and bird have seen and heard
That which man knoweth not,
Bat wlicn the warrior dfotli,
His comrades in the war,
With arms reversed and muffled dram,
Follow his funeral can
They show the banners taken,
They tell his battles won,
And after hint lead his masteries* steed,
White peals the minute gun.
Amid the noblest of the land
We lay the sage to rest,
And give the bard an lmnored place,
W Ith costly marble dressed,
In the great minster transept,
Where lights like glories fall,
And the organ rings, and tlu. sweet ctmtr'
sings,
Along tlie emblazoned walls.
Tills was truest warrior
That ever buckled sword;
This tlie most gifted poet
Tiiat ever breathed a word ;
And never earth’s philosopher
Traced witli his golden pen,
On the deathless jiage, trutiics half so sage
As he wrote down for men.
And had he not high honor
The lii!!-ide for a pall,
To lie in state while angels wait
With stars for tapors tall,
And the dark rockspines, like towing
plumes
Over his bier lo wave,
And God’s own hand, in that lonely land,
To lay him in the grave I
In that strange grave without a name,
Whence his uncnfHned clay
Shall break again, O wonderous thought I
Before the Judgment day,
And stand with glory wrapt around
On tlie hills lie never trod,
And speak of the strife that won our life,
With the incarnate Son of God.
O lonely grave in Moab’s laud 1
O dark BetlivPeor’s hill I
Speak to these curious hearts of ours,
And teach them to be still.
God hath bis mysteries of grace,
Ways tlirtt we cannot tell;
He hides them deep, like the hidden sleep
Of him he loved so well.
Governor Tom Young, in his congratu
latory addressed to the Slate troops oo their
return to private life, say* that Ohio has
reason to be proud of her National Guard.
We feel disposed to go further,and say that
the National Guard has reason to be proud
of Governor Tom. He didn't scare worth
a cent, and went on minding his own husis
ness, as if there wasn’t a United Stales
troop within a inilliou miles of Columbus.
—Cincinnati Enquirer. %
A youngster being required to writo
a composition upon some portion of the
human body, selected that which unites
the head to the body; “A throat is con
venient to have, especially to .roosters
and ministers. The former eats the
corn and crows with it; the latter
preaches through his’n, and then ties
it up. This is pretty much all I think
of about necks.”
Early to bed and early to rise, makes
a man healthy, wealthy and wise; but
early to ryes and tardy to bed, makes a
man’s nose turn cardinal red.
“Error Ceases to Be Dangerous When Reason is Left Free to Combat It.”-Jefferson.
ELLIJAY, GA., SEPTEMBER 7, 1877.
War Notes
The Daily News’ correspondent
telgraphed from the Russian
headquarters one Wednesday as
follows; “The defenders of Schip
ka Pass consist of but twenty
companies. Tho second division
has therefore been diverted from
its intended destination before
Plevna and is marching on Schip
ka Pass. In a recent visit to the
front before Plevna 1 was sur
prised to find that so few rein
forcements had reached the Rtfifc-'
sian troops holding that pas*.
They are unquestionably inferier
in number toOsman Pasha's army.
To-day eight thousand reserve*
are crossing the Danube to fill iU>
the gaps in the Ninth corps. Ofl
the other hand, Prince Schackos
kog has marched his brigade of
the Thirty-second infantry di
vision back to his original poai
tion, confronting Osman Pasha.
Accordingly on the Plevna front,
when the Ninth corps gets itf.
complement, the Russians will
have two army corps, the Fourth
and Ninth, including the forces at
Watchers, Lovats and Selvi. I
roughly estimate the whole Rus
sian force confronting Plevna at
from sixty-five to seventy-five
thousand men. The bulk of the
reinforcements are somewhat de
layed on the way from the Rus
sian base, but tlie cavalry division
of guards is expeeted to cross the
Danube in a fortnight, and a brig*
ade per day to follow in a steady
stream. The water is bad here.
The Ntnperor has been slightly
indisposed, but is now quite re
covered."
The Times’ dispatch from Trea
rapea reports that the Porte bar
officially informed tho British!
Embassy that Mehemet Ali has
gained a great victory between
Osman Bazar and Eski d’Juma,
capturing several guns and inflict
ing great loss on the Russians,
who were the attacking party.
Several special dispatches re
mark the hostile tone of the Ger
man semi-official press toward
Turkey. The Turkish Embassy
at Berlin having, through a Ber
lin telegraph agency,contradicted
the report that the perpetrators
of the Salonica massacre have
been released, the ministerial
organ, Nord Deutsche, expressly
begs to observe that the state
ments put forward by the Turk
ish foreign department are noto
riously unworthy.
The Daily Nows’ correspondent
at Russian headquarters explains
the mystification concerning the
reported capture of llainkoi Pass
by tlie Turks. On the 16th in
stant a column of Suleiman
Pasha’s force attempted strenu
ously to force the pas 6. It is re
ported that they were successful,
but though the column did, in
deed, force its way into the defile,
it was there so roughly handled
by the Russian artillery and by
the regiment holding the pass
that it was compelled to retire.
The Times’ Vienna correspond
ent remarks relative to the attack
of the Shipka Pass that all along
the Tunja valley, the face of the
mountains is precipitous rock,
through which a road leads up in
steep curves. However much the
bulk of Suleiman Pasha’s force
may have been used to mountain
warfare, and however heroic the
efforts made within the last two
days may have been, it will be
little short of a miracle if they
should ultimately succeed in car
rying the pass.
Suleiman Pasha has been rein
forced by two divisions, under
Rossini Pasha,from Phillippololis.
A Bucharest dispatch to the
Times says: “On account of nu
merous accidents on the over
worked Roumanian railways, an
agreement has been made by
which the railways will pay four
thousand francs for every soldier
hereafter killed,and twelve thou
sands francs for every officer
killed.”
The Street of Hell.
In 18T0 there were in the
United States 440,000 licensed
liquor saloons, it formed into n
street wit h saloons on each side,
allowing twenty foot to each sa->!
loon, they would make a street
two hundred ahd sixty-five miles
long. Let tis imagine them
brought together in such a street
ktid let us suppose the moderate
drinkers and thoir families are
marching into ft kt (he upper end.
Go with me if you have the nerve
and patience and stand at the
lower end and let us see what
lb at street turns out in one year.
What army is this that comes
marching down the street in solid
column, five abreast extending
five hundred and seventy miles?
It is the army of 6,000,000 men
and women who go daily and
constantly to the saloons for in
toxicating drinks as a beverage.
Marching twenty miles a day,
and it will take them more than
twenty-eight days to go by.
Now they are gone, and close
in their rear comes another
army marching five abreast and
sixty miles in length. In it there
are 530,000 confirmed drunkards.
There are men and women who
have lost control of their appe
tites, and who are in the regular
habit of getting drunk and mak
ing beasts of themselves. Marclv
ing two abreast the army is 150
miles long. Scan them closely.
There are gray-haired men and
fair-haired boys. There are, alasl
many women in the army sunk to
depths than tho men, be
cause of the greater heights from
which they fell. It will take them
£eyen days to go by-
It is a sad and sickening sight,
but turn not away yet, for there
comes another army—loo,ooo
criminals. From jails and pris
ons and penitentiaries they come.
At the head of the column along
line of persons whose hands are
smeared with human blood.
With ropes around their necks
they are on their way to the gal
lows. Others are going to prison for
life. Every crime known to our laws
has been committed by the persons
while under the influence of Btrong
drink. But hark! whence comes
those yells, and those who bound with
strong chains and guarded by armed
men ? They are raving maniacs, made
so by strong drink. Their eyes are
tormented by awful sights, and their
ears ring with horrid sounds. Slimy
reptiles crawl slowly down their bscks,
and fiends from hell torment them be
fore their time. They are gone now,
and we breathe freely.
But what gloom is this that pervades
the air, and what long tide of black
ooming down the street 7 It is the
line of funeral professions. One hun
dred thousand who have died the
drunkard’s death are being carried to
their graves. Drunkards do not have
many friends to nionrn their loes, and
we put thirty of their funeral processions
into n mile. We thus have a procession
3,833 mites long. It will take a good
part of the year for them to go by, for
funeral processions move slowly, yes,
most of them do, but once in a while
an uncofiined corpse is driven rabidly
by and we hear the brutal driver sing,
Kjuick, rattle bis bones, rattle his bones,.
Over the stones 1
lie’s only a pauper whom nobody owns.’
Look into the coffins as they go by.
Seethe dead drunkards! Some died
of delirium tremens, and the lines of
terror are still marked on their faces.
Some' 1 froze to death by the roadside,
too drunk to reach their homes, some
stumbled from the wharf and were
drowned; some wandered into the
woods and died, and rotted on the sur
face of the earth ; some blew their
own brains out; some were feat fully
stabbed in drunken brawls; some wore
roasted in burning buildings; others
were crushed in shapeless masses un
der the cars. They died in various
ways, but strong drink killed them all,
and on their tombstones, if they have
any, may be fitly inscribed, “lie died
a drunkard’s death.” Close behind
them comes another long line of funeral
processions, but they are numerously
attended by mourning friend*. They
oontain the remains of those who have
met death through the
cruelty of drunken men. Some died f
broken hearts ; some were foully mur
dered by drunken husbands and fathers;
some were burned to death in build
ings set on fire by drunken men ; some
were mang’ed on railroads be
cause of driißt—. ■■ ■ —*-j,
some were blown up on a steamboat be.
cause a drunken eaptain ran a race
with a tival boat.
But here comes another army the
children— innocent ones, upon whom
has been visited the iniquities of their
father. llow many are there? Two
hundred thousand 7 Marching taro
abreast they extended upon the street
thirty miles. Each one must bear
through life the stigma of being n drunk
ard’s child. They are reduced to pov
erty, want end beggary. They live in
ignorance and vice,
Home of the children are mourning
with hunger and some are shivering
with cold. A large number of them
are idiots, made such before they were
born by brutal, drunken fathers. And,
worse than all the rest, many of them
have inherited a love for liquor, and
are growing up to take the places and
do the deeds of their fathers. They
will fill up the ranks of the awful army
of drunkards that moves in unbroken
oolumns down to death.
It has taken nearly a year for the
strsat to empty Itself of its year'a work.
And close in the rear oomes the van
guard of the next year’s supply. And
if this is wbat liquor has dune one year
in our great country, what must be its
results in all the world through the long
centuries.
Thus for we hav* Kittened to the
story that the figures tell. They give
the outline alone of the terrible tragedy
that is going on around us.
They cannot picture to us the wrotch
ed squalor of s drunkard’s home. They
cannot tell us how many unkind and
cruel words strong drink has caused,
otherwise, kind and tender-hearted hus
bands and fathers to utter to their dear
ones. They cannot tell how many
heavy blows have fallen from the
drunkard's hand upon those whom it is
a duty to love, chnrish and protect.
They cannot tell us how many fond
oxpeetationa and bright hopes which
the young bride had of the future have
been blasted and turned to bitterest
gall. They canhot number the long,
weary hours of night, during whieh ahe
anxiously dreaded the heavy foot fall
at the door. Figures cannot tell us
how many scalding tears the wives of
drunkards have shed, nor how many
prayers of bitter anguish and cries of
agony God has heard them utter. They
cannot tell how many mothers have
worn out body and soul iu providing
for children whom a drunken father
has left destitute. They cannot tell us
how many mothers’ hearts have broken
with grief as they saw a darling son
bcootriing a drunkard. They cannot
tell us how many gray hairs have gone
down in sorrow to the grave, mourning
over drunken children. They cannot
tell us how many hard fought battles
the drunkard, in sober moments, has
with the terrible appetite; how many
times he has walked his room in des
pair, tempted to commit suicide because
he could not conquer the demon. And
ficslly we cannot search the records ot
the other world, and see how many
souls have been shutout from that holy
place where no drunkard ever enters,
and banished to the regions of eternal
death by the fiery demon of drink.
What man, what woman, what child,
would not vote to have that whole
street, with its awful traffic in the in
fernal stuff, sunk to the lowest depths
of perdition, and covered ten thousand
fathoms deep under the curses of the
universe 7
The negotiations between Gen. Ter
ry and Sitting Bull will be Terry-Bull.
Governor Jenkins denies having used
the language attributed to him by the
reporter of the Augusta Chronicle in
reference to the work of the Conven
tion.
Robert Toombs.
ftSuon Conaiitution: Fprljr-fi vo
years hare 1 known the man
whone name stands at the !ffad of
this article. I have heard him in
college halls in boyhood days; in
the legislature of his nadre state,
in the true development of her
great interest, not in enterprises
of the adventurer to plunder and
rob. I have heard him, in the
pride and glory of a perfect man
hood, in the senate of the United
Slates, when assembled senators
gathered around him to banjMbon
his eloquent words. I havesecn
him in trampling columns, fn tlie
full uniform ot a Confederate gen
eral; but no where, on no occa
sion, under no pomp and circum
stance of display have I seen him
greater or truer to his sublime in
-I---*- •-- 1.. -I^l—v -' w
man rights than yesterday in the
convention. Unexpected to every
one and evidently even to him
self, under the inspiration of tho
hour and subject, he arose in the
convention on the homesteads,
lie plead for the mothers, wives,
daughters aud children of Geor
gia as no man ever plead before.
When lie arose above the little
hucksters of merchandise and the
dollars and cents of the Shylocks,
and talked about the rights of so
ciety, the puritf of our wives and
daughters, tho roads from tho
poor house to the brothel, the sa
credness of a home for tho poor,
lie rose to tho morally sublime
and moved tears from the stern
est men of tho house. Gray heads
aud young men alike bowed, sub
dued like children, before tho
great son and champion <jf tlie
common people. There is room
in heaven for Toombs. Salvation
don’t come in prayers, and ritu
als, and groans, and creeds but
of great sympathies for human
woe. “Come ye blessed,etc., for
I was hungry and ye fed me, na
ked and ye clothed me,” God
bless the great commoner.
Hard-Surll*
Jfiak Billing's Guide to keahb.
Never run in debt if you can find any
thing else tn ran Into.
Go to bed arly, and git up ariy, and be
kareful wliat you dream nbotit.
Eat fish twice a week, if you <cant git
fish cat herring,
Aiwa* be purlitc. It koste nothing ami
will convince more thad loglk will.
Never say No, if you can help U; am)
grease your boots regularly Saturday nights.
Eat rhi bread and onions, aud don’t
fail to chew them well.
Be kind to your mother-in-law, and if
konvenient par her boon) at some good ho
tel.
NO. 38.
Bathe tlmrely once a week in soft water
and kas tell soap, and always titc boots.
Exercise in the open air, but don’t saw
wood till youjare oblige to.
Avoid hot bread and tarrapins for sup
per*
Don’t fret and wurry; karo have been
known to kill a large size tomaaket
Laff every time yure tickled, and lafl
once in a while any how.
Don’t philosophise tu much, philoacfe la
one of the luxuries of life.
Eat hash washing dam and be thankful
if you have to shut your eyes to do k.
Don’t jaw back, It only proves that you
are as big n phule as the other fello.
Never gossip nor krilisize your nabors.
The chances are they arc fully as good an
you are.
Eat no biled lobetc, nor biled owl juat
before goin to bed, unless you waul to see
how your graudinother likes yu.
Be kind to everything. Better thro a
bone to a strange dog than a paving stone,
Don’t swear; it may konvince you, but
It is sure not to konvince others.
When you grease your boots use mot*
ton taller, Injun rubber, and roshi biled
together.
Stay at borne at uite. If you han’t And
anything else to do, play leap frag with
your young uns.
Keep your head kool and your feel dry
and breath through yonr nozc as much M
possible.
#
We acknowledge tbe receipt of a very
powerful, splendid-written article against
the practice of Ghristiau ministers luting _
mid-summer vacations, but haring since
learned that tho author is a man who
hasn’t once been inside of church, summer
or winter, during the pant seven yean, we
decline to publish it—not became tbe arti*
cle may not lie good enough, but from a
feeling of respect for the eternal fitness of
things.—Burlington Uawkeye,
It is confidently predieted that Jim
Blaine’s candidate for Governor of
Maine will eomeont of the contest with
the smallest Republican majority ever
known in the Fine Tree State,
