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EI.LI.IAV, GA, THURSDAY, WCEMISKIt 8, 1881.
Christmas Is Coming,
llaltomorc Sen.
"Christmas is coming!” the children cry,
Counting the weeks that are hurrying by.
Dear little children, who live at home.
And do not guess what it is to room
From morn till night, when slockittgless
feet
Up and down, through the ice and sleet.
“Christmas is comining!” thinks little Tim,
lint what can the Christinas do f< r him;
His home is a cellar, his Daily bread
The crumbs that remain when the rich are
fed.
No mother Uf kiss him when day is goue;
No place to he glad in under the sun.
Thai wonderful fellow, old Santa Glaus,
Who never is Idle a moment, because
lie is kept too busy with piling the toys
Into tiie stockings of the gi.ls and hoys,
No wonder lie sometimes forget a, you know,
Into flic’homes of the poor to go !
But. dear little children, you understand
That the rich and poor all over the land
Have one dear Father, who watches you,
And grieves or smiles at the thing you do.
And some of His children are poor and sad,
And some are always merry and glad.
Christmas will bring to you many joys—
Food and plenty, frolic and toys;
Christmas to sonic will bring nothing at all;
In place of laughter the tears will fall;
Poor little Tim to youi door may come—
A'our hisssing are many; spare him some.
The Christmas bells will sweetly ring
The song the angels love to sing,
The song that came with the Savior’s birth,
.‘•Peace, and good will,and love on earth!”
Dear little children, ring, I pray,
Sweet bells in some lonely heart that day.
AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS
A Divorced Husband and Wife
Reunited.
Mr Jolm Walrave,a, the lieaijfc'
binder t>f Hie* Ti inefpißW fttfun/p
yesterday received Hie I itlmgft n<
the reconciliation of Ids mother
and I'alher, which affords one of
the strangest stories that has ev
er come under onr observation.
The following are lh facts about
as related by Mr. Walraven to
our reporter:
His lalher, Mr. Elijah Walra
ven, enlisted in tlie Confederate
army in 1863, as a private, at Ma
rietta, Gu. 11 is family then con
sisted of a beautiful young wife
and three children. When lie
returned home at the close of the
war his wife and Ihree children
were not to be found. J 1 e learned
that she had been persuaded,*
when the Federals occupied that
country, that her safety was in
going North. For some time no
tilings came of her wherabouts,
when at last he heard that they
were living in Kentucky. He
was such an ardent rebel that lie
could not go to them with any
degree of safety, and his wife re
fused to return to her deserted
and devastated home, and from
this disagreement ha instituted
proceedings for divorce, which;
was granted. Mr. Walraven short
ly afterwards married a worthy;
lady of Marietta, and his divoro-,
ed wife, about the same time,was',
joined iii marriage to a gentle-4
man residing near her Kentucky’
home, and a child resulted front
both marriages. By some strange
coincidence, both second hue
band and wife died during the
month of November,lß7B. During
Ihe period elapsing between
suit for divorce, 1805, and T&7S7
neither party had heard a word
Irom the other. About the
of tlie dealt) of bis sepfallier, Mr.
Walraven left for Marietta to
search for his father, not kti(j|-
ing then that he had rsa t rieuja J
second time, and after consideaa
ble difficulty found him, although
greatly changed during the tiiir
teen years’ separation, but still
strongin his altaclimept for his
first family. From this visjt a
corresponence sprung up between
himself and his divorced kife,
and in response to an invil;slon,
Ii willed them lasi February.
Jlis fiw.Mlove ret in nett with ri-ju-
Vomjjß vigor, and lie sued again
for vtjf’s ltanii, and as a rcsull
i hoy J> on ine re-engaged. Mr
WaLtfe'i shortly afiei wauls re
lnra<¥N> his home it Kennesa.v.
near Marietta, and according: le
ugreAeiit his intended arrived
lasi ijiur.-.day. She was met the ai
dc polyy Mr. AValiavoiiv who hail
the 1 lease ready, and fhurlli wrl h
(lie |-p cmiple were reunited,
afle/Lu separation of eighteen
yeavhfr Ch,illanooga Times.
Equal and Uniform Taxation of
Railroads
CliuteVille Tobacco Leaf.
TlUiieeenl decision of the Stt
in regard to railway
a***# aeiii* will increase the
! reVMe <>< cities and eounlies
1 ihrorirh which they pass. There
■is nt .-vnsible reatou why rail )
J nuuU'iojc-rty should not he as |
! like oilier realty. The j
detsaion ol the courts is an .evi
' deice of liie truth that hut few
, of tie members of the Tennessee
Leslatre are conversant with
ihcfL'onslitulion of their State.
ThA'ona-litulion sets forth that
••iAthop iM.v shall be taxed ac
coiwng l<> i*s value, that value
to ttt ascertained in such manner
a# ate Legislature shall direct,
sojliat taxes shall be equal and
un|oim throughout the State.’’
It |> not equal or nnilorm when
lh*<sty is required to valuo (he
property of railroads within ils
limits upon a basis of the value
of tl|e entire road. It is to be
.i-Lj od coiinly and city an
X will niakgfean effort to
*c*es
Melliem by the railroad com
panics for several yJus past up
on ilie„siiine basis they have
adopted in assessing other real
esiaSc.
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NEWS ITEMS.
■ A number of Cincinnatiu'.is will
settle in Rome.
II;ilf of the business porlion ol
was destroyed hv lire.
A lodge of Knights of Honor
is being instituted at Lumpkin.
An election lias been ordered
oii the fence question in Pike
'e|uly.
tsl thirty.years the farmers in
Georgia have about trebled in
eiimber.
It is rumored that the Atlanta
rolling mill will be moved to
feartei'sville.
, Three little children were re
cently poisoned in Savannah by
eating china berries,
■*
Jackson county farmers can
(afford to. rai&e Shockley apples
[for thirty cents per bushel.
Georgia pines is taking the
lead in woods for office furniture,
hook cases and kindred purposes
A prominent preacher of Han
cock county tells the Sparta
Times man that he had been able
to collect only sixty-eight dollars
of liis salary this year, up to dale.
W. G. Braddy, of Glascock, haR
a gourd-vine on liis place that
has twenty or thirty gourds that
will hold, each, an average of
one-half bushel of grain.
Solicitor General Womack, of
the Flint Circuit, tells the Hen
ry County Weekly that he lias
issued over five hundred true
bills in that circuit since January
first.
The New England visitors to
(he Atlanta Colton Exposition
are of the opinion that cotton
manufacture botli North and
South, will be greatly benefited
by tho unparalleled display
made.
J Ih® Oglelhrope Echo reports
; that almost every cotton field in
1 hat section stilt has quite a
quantity ol the staple m it, and
it thinks that Oglelhrope will
make considerably more than
was counted on It also lives in
hope that next year Oglelhrope
will raise al least very near all
iliecorn, meat and small grain
iiei’cssiU'X to do her.
On liie subject ol killing’ pmc"
limber by the turpentine indus
iry, the WorlUKlar says: ‘‘lt is
eir .neous to suppose that the
process of extracting t input tine
from the trees will not eventual
ly kill them. A few days since
in passing Tills old lurptntine
farm, we noticed that nearly il
not quite hall of the trees were
dead, while those yet alive bore
a sickly appearance. The old
turpentine farms on the dull
road are, in many instances, for
esls of dead limber, and only fil
for agricultural purposes- With
some the belief obtains that box
ing trees does not injure them.
As well might it be said that
drawing blood trout a man does
not weaken him. Twenty years
lienee the pine forests of the
wiregrass belt will either be con
verted into lumber or into one
vast “deadning.’ 1 lien, as here
tofore, our prosperity as a peo
pie vvill depend upon the culliva
tion of the soil, This is an im
port ant subject, and one which
our people should not lose sight
of in the rush for the ‘big money’
to be made in the timber and
turpentine business.”
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT
Of Guiteau an/the Imbecility of 1 '
the Court.
Washington special to the Cincinnati
Gazette.
A friend <-f President G.nfi Id.
who watched with him in that terrible
period from July 2 to September 19,
said today, with a great deal of Pino
tion : “The scandals cf the Guiteau
trial almost iquul the horror of the
crime.”
It is difficult to witness or read the
daily proceed ngs of the trial without a
shudd r. The scenes in the court
room are without pr-ccdei.ce in the
history of jurisprudence. The Amer
ican peopl--, w-.io watched the bulletin
boards for three painful summer moths,
doubiless presumed that the trial of
the assassin who committed the dia
bolical crime would be attended with
great solemnity. There is a vast au
dience that visits a circus, in which
Gtiiti-au is a distinguished clown. The
President’s assassin is the central fig
ure of a grinning assemb'y.
lie takes people, court and prosecu
tion into his confidence, and mak.s
gritn jests about his alliance with the
Deity.
11-has protested that he intended to
be leading counsel in his own case. Hu
is ui re than that. He usurps the func
tion of judge. JI-- corrects and rebukes
the wb uess s. He calls the lawyers to
order Il gv. s directions to tbe court
officials, lie patronizes the judge. He
Constantly interrupts the proc* eding*
to give h s owo views as to the sulfi
cit ncy of the testimony w hich is pre
seiited w ilh a view to prove his own in
sanity. He is permitted to make twen
ty speeches a jay to the court and jury
for the purpose of scckiog to shield
himself Irom to const quences of his
own or.me.
M> anwliile, the proscculion, of the
emiuece of whose criminal lawyers we
have beard so much, sit there, and fre
quent y remonstrate, it is true, but the
rem .nstrances arc made in a nerveless
sort of way. The prosecution may be
learned and able, but it lacks en.rgy,
Guit.au c<,uld teach ;hem zeal, as he
altempis to 'each the court and jury
law. It is difficult to understand why
the judge does not insist that Guiteau
shall behave. Much is heard about the
respect due to the law, and the duty
that a great government owes to itse.f
to protect the worthless life of the ma
licious villain, Guiteau, when in transit
from the jail to the court room.
Yet the orderly souse of producedure
in a court ot justice is each day disre
carded and the dignity and authority of
the court itself is defied hy tbo turbu
lent insolence of this assassin. Scenes
are periui'teii at the trial of the l’resi-
VOL. VI. Ml 44.
dent s murdt rer which would not be
allowed in the justice's court at the
trial of a c hicken thief. Judge Cox is
an alio and just judge, but ought not
'o be powerless to enforce order, and
ought not to acknowledge his inability
tocninpol the iniseiabie er minal in
the dock t- respect the dignity of the
court.
"guiteau.
The trial of ih is insolent mnr-
IVbTrf Kf
itiglon. It is to be honed, for de
cency sake, that the forih of
trial will bs conducted fairlyy
quietly and speedily to a close
and the red handed assassin
given a week or two in which to
prepare his mind for a tight rope
performance, and that then lie
will be taken out and decently
hanged; his body hid in the
potter’s field forever away from
the sight of honorable men nnd
women. A just Clod will do the
rast.
RAILROAD NEWS.
Gainesville, Cartersville and Rome
Railroad.
Gainesville Southron.}
A few yeurs ago u survey Was made'
f r this ro-d Undor the direction of
Col. IV Y. Sage, then superintendent
of the Air line road, That gentleman
was then auriguino of the success of
this most important auxiliary to his
roud, but tho financial embarrassment;,
of ihe company prevented active op
erations nnd the work was posiponed l
unlit u moro favorabte time; and we'
are glad to announoe that the time haw
at lasto /me when it can be tnd will be
const imt and. Tho Richmond and 1
D./nviJfe company are not only power
ful but progressive, and are not sleep
ing over a single opp riunlty to open
up und develop every section th* n
cuyabLuf sufcikJiinga branch from the
matii,ilunk. Already they are pusn-
iog $ gorousiy two lines through wes
tern North Carolina to Tennessee
one to Paint Rock and the other to
Murphy and Ducklown, also the
North western from Lula junction via
Rabun Gap to Knoxville. All theso
roads peuetratr a oountry of grand pos
sibilities, but none of them arc as im
portant a facte r in contributing freight
and pus-age us the road from this city
to Cartersville and Rome. But it was
not ol the importance of lb 8 road that
we propose to speak so much as the
gratify ng fact that the road is a cer
tainty in the near future. We have
authority for making this statement,-
but the friends of the enterprise should
by no means relax their off.rts in se
curing ail the aid and encouragement
in their power, as it will be justly e
peeled that those who are most bene
fitted will contribute of their means tc
secure those be: efi s. The country
penetrated is richest in mineral re
sources in the state, and oan’f be ex
celled anywhere in agricultural pro
ductions. We believe the statistics
; show that Cartervillc and Rome
combined, ship as mch cotton and!
other produce as Atlanta. The ter
minal points are therefore by no means 1
less enviable than th- country trarers
ed by tbe grandest enterprise yet con
ceived lor the.future of our already
prosperous city and c mimn.ify.
Shot and Killed-
Constitution, Nov., 2~>.
Avery shocking and sad scene
occurred at Capt. F. W. Hall’s
store about three o’clock Ibis af
ternoon. John Bell shot and in
stantly killed John Blackstock,
berth young men. The parents
of Blackstock five in Dawson
county, and those of Bell have
recently moved here from Duck
town A fight had occurred be
tween Bell and a yonng man hy
the name of Weaver during the
day. After this Bell obtained a
pistol and made threats, and al
ternated lo shoot Weaver. Black
stock was using his influence to
keep him from doing the act, and
bad been successful for a time,
but finally Bell became offended
with him and shot him without
provocation, the ball passing near
the heart, from which he expired
in twenty minutes, seeing the ex
citement at the time Bell made
his escape to the woods. Whisky
is the cause.