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ELLIJAY, OA., DECEMBER 8, fl.
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To The Public.
As has been announced, m.'
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l liHve fell dial it was necessarv
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and liberally supported by ll
good people of Ibe tnoinilaii
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that l have been nimble, from
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forts have been bestowed wliicl
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dress, J. 11. Kstill, Savannah, Ga.
Tha Gainesville Southron ol
November the 29 says : A serious
calamity has happened to the
people of Habersham county.
During court, last, week, some
bad citizen went into the Ordi
nary's office and purloined all of
the valuable papers belonging to
the office. What the result may
be, it is difficult to tellj it is quite
certain that much contusion will
result to estates and oilier mat
ters pertaining lo (lie interests o:
the people of Habersham How
long will it yet be until -very
Cos. in the Slate will be provided
with pro Der vails or safes lor the
preservation of the articles of the
local governments. Perhaps the
pecuniary losses and expense to
the people in this case will
amount to the yalue of filteen oi
twenty safes.
M. & N ’ Qa, E. R.
Messrs. Editors : Having made
a trio recently to Atlanta, eu
loute I spent a day at the Camp
ol the M. &. N. Ga. R. R., and
have thought vour readers would
be pleased lo know sumo thing
of tue progress ol the enterprise
Tnrougu the courtesy of Capl.
W. W. Phillips we were permit
led to ride over the works and
are enabled lo report as follows :
We have never seen a pretlirr
grade than that from Canton to
where the force is now at work. 1
Trams have not yet crossed the
river North ol Canton, but w.llas
soon as it is determined that i* is I
sale In d<> no. and then tra.-k 1• y I
mg in the direction of B.il j
(■round will begin in earnest .
Capt. I’iullips informed ns ilia’
the convict force would be kepi
on the grade aipl dial die track
laying would be done by an ex
! ra force, which would ho em
ployed for dial especial purpose.
I’lie grading is now complete to
Mr. Cowart’s, three miles North
and Ball (■round, and Major Wai
ace. die < flicieul, engineer, lias a
force of axemen nearer Jasper,
.dealing oil* the light ol way.
Altogether the prospects for the
•arlv completion ol the road h
origlit in lend, and ere another
.ar passes signs will be erected
it every point s here our public
hoioughliires will cross Ihe rail
T-natvflileTi will read —"Lookout
or Ilia engine when die whistle
■lows.” w. f. v
Henley's Eeply.
Jasper, G a Nov. 11.
(Published l y request.)
Mr. fugle begins to crawfish. Still we
a* a old him, clothed in bis ministerial robe
silting i,stride the fence holding n govern*
.nent distillery on his distoitcd lines with
me hand, while with the other he puts
ihe head of his private secretary and says,
“go write the things which I speak unto
thee and place a revenue stump theneon.
And hark I fail thou not te write that
Henley lias retracted, in as much as be lias
produced some of my nrgunicut and lias
clearly provcu Ids first statement. ” Then
tho scribe bent the knee of obeisance to
his master and said, yea lord 1 and seized
ids stenographicnl stylus mid wrote the
IMindcnuiH pastoral wools which fell from
tlic amazon connatural confabulating lips
ot him that set upon the fence with his
legs distended so as to cover many degrees
of latitude; and now, under the heading
“retract,” bearing dote Oct., 22, the lead
ers of the Cociubu arc permitted to pur*
sue, without price, the wonderful revelc*
lutionr of this great high priest unto his
woiidc fill admirable private secretary.
We hardly think it neefssary to Kay any
thing in reply to Mr. oagio’s fallacious
argument of the 10th tilt., as a retraction.
We will breriefly review the grounds on
wldck he does to. The gentleman ac
i now lodges to saying; Altai a man could
•JjM.jh ot fanning, of,
mj&ney, ami eveaoT the gospel— -and linn
g4c on to say. *‘l would now a*k, docs
iby obc infer yom tbe #<vc that I said it
was no barm f.w acbim.h member to still?"
I Mere we would again state Hint we never
| i nve accused Mr. Cagle of saying this in
so many words, but we slated that be pro
duced some argument to that effect.
Now, Wliat did Mr. Cagle intend "for ns
to understand from these remarks? lie
surely intended them to mean something.
In liis last article, be failed to tell us bow
lie proposed to apply these rtmaiks The it
are only two ways in which lie can apply
them, lie mast either apply them to the
stilling question, or tho expulsion of John
McMahan for these wore the subjects that
were under consideration on t but oeea*
sion. Now, suppose we make the latter
application and see bow it then reads.
A man can make idn of anything, there
fore the oxclue > u oi McMahan was right.
A man cau become 60 anxious to make
money that lie will place his whole affec
tions on it, and go into sinful practices (1
dlou t mean to say that he wi 1 run a gov
ernment distillery to get money of course)
and thus make a sin of mouey, and there
fore, the clinch did right in exirelling Mc-
Mahan. A man ran shelter himself behind
tiie gospel, and so use it as to make a sm
of it, therefore McMahan ought to haye
lieen excluded from tiie church.
31 r. Cagle further says: “Mr. Hen ley as
serts that I said I did not believe that the
wickedness of the people bad anything to
do with tbe drouth. I said it because I
believed and argued that God rules tbe
weather. Does that argue that it is no
harm for a church member to still ? Is
Mr. Henley so dull of comprehension as
all that? Now that Mr. Cagle has bright
ened Up our comprobenaioo, U comprc
bensibility of his a>y weather argument is
brought before ua in unmistakable terms.
He means to say that Betheny church ex
pelled Johu McMahan because theie was a
diouth last summer. Poor sinful 31c.
These nre grave charges that Mr. Cagle ar
gues against you.
Now, if we misrepresented.Mr. Cagle in
our first statement the n the above is his
argument, ottiPrwise he argues tiiat it is no
harm for a member of the church to engag
ed in stilling and be can take that horn of
tbe dilleinma lie prefers.
Again Mr. Cat-le says: “If I had no
better foundation for argument than he”
(refering to myself) “hs i would close
my mouth m silence.” Well, we think
the gentleman may begin to pull the
puckeriug string, ami when he succeeds,
he will have stopped one of tbe biggest
hog botes he ever tackled ia his life.
\\ c did think that we would bring in
some other argument in Mr. Cagle's case
tbis time and had gotten up more proof for
this article, hut as he seems to he satisfied
witli what he calls our retraction, and as 1
iie ratlor begged the question in M
artic e, we will withhold the pr '4ft *h’uit
we have mi ntanuMtripl fi* tkc future. V
Ah Mr. fugle act nted to ilrink Mwfcdf
**• Itltli) 111 MVprfM'hlcil Wi! OmIcoi) UflKitt
a foim r article, to announce his fUttl&p,
I lli.it i*. win th<-i or not h<* Uioujiit
lei a nieinlMT of tl,*.* cl.urrti to
has fade.! to do so. Wiiy so
| Mlbj-C’f A' V cioct lie tcftl*' to
j lo the readers where be stand*T
| clings to tin- fence top, and w.icn til?
I it generally umlcrsloud, that he wilt ’■t
on the wet side.
Mr. C.imbs, former editor of llie C'<*'
I nnving seen proper to change his
amt to cast l.is lot in more pleasant
il now Inc- me* ..nr duly to aiinoMUiyoi
the readers of the Courier that oor >Ai*
necti.ui ns editor of the Picaens Conijj
Depart meat Ceases with this number o
paper. Jolts 'V. HtNllfr;
Dec. 3rd, 1881*
Willi ibis issue of tin; Con at eu, as “ill
be seen from the above, the coi>nectU*td
Prof. J no. VV. lJcnlcy, the
dustrious ami worth y Editor of (lie pit*
entt County Department, ceases. sj.,-
reviewing the files of the CornißK, k||
that ivc can truly say he has done hi At
as Editor and has faithfully
Ihc department, and in departinj tlid--
fioni, docs so with all due respect to
self. He is a man of education and A
finomeut, whose thoughts arc elevafij.
His communication were well
interesting and full of common gen* l .
The columns of the Cockikii will alwu]
be open to tbe reception of articles
bis pen. \
Atlanta Letter- '
Atlanta , Ga ., Nov. 30i!i,
Dkaii Comma :—Our mountain friend
do- not seem to he a .mke to the great ini
portance of the Exposition. It was opesej
Oct. 6*li, and ill close Dec. 31st.; it M s
World’s Fair and deserves the special studs'
of every farmer in Gilmer county and w
other comities. A visit to this “big sbvwk
(as it is frequently called) will give a
son more Ideas and information at one
than can be obtained by any amount <4
reading or study that any person lias tin.e
•to spnie that may lie thus used.
What will bo see ? The list is too lorg
lo enumerate— just Learn few of tht-i
without any other comment than
see the articles or displays in the most per
fect form.
■
Cotton from all over the world; ci ttoa
thread made fiwu the seed cotton, friiagv
Ibrouglrevery process until it is IkivcA^^
cotton machinery,guiK, presses, dye
tfec., A.—a comp!- te exposition of eu.fi n
and its manufacture.
Wool and silk are shown up in ovary
form just us (be cotton is. Hopes, cosct
age, bagging, belting, wire fences, sewing
machines, scales, saws, plows, wagons,
him! ware of all kinds, steam engines, fire
engines, guns and pistole, paints iwid .oils,,
dye stuffs and flags of all nations—would
all Stick out conspicuously if a |K-:-tou
could look into a man’s dreiun of the main
Building.
In the Railroud Building you will
beautifully arranged, tiie products of tln
field, mine and forest, as fouud aloiijVviic
line of the several roads—
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe It. !(<
St. l<ouis, Iron Mountain ami Soutbarn LUI
H; Cincinnati Southern Ify; Western *SE
Atlantic R. R; hast Tenn., Virginia
Ga. R. R; Alabama and Great SoatlieAi
Ry; Richmond and Danville U. It; yuf*
nandoab Valley R. R; Georgia Pacific Ut*
It; Savauaab, Florida and Wertem R. R;
Louisville and Nashville Ry; Nashville,
t.battanooga and St. Louis Ity. They
show to any articles that are curious, w
that exhibit special ingenuity iu the maker
of tbe article. Thus you will have before
you any article of interest that you could
see in mouths of travel over these railroad*
and you can see them without the tumult
and expcuscs of going over the roads—re*'
member in g that these twelve railroad*,
cover most of the territory south of Mason
and Dixou’s Line and west of the Rocky
Mountains. .
In the Art and Industrial Building you
will fiud by tho wholesale, aud every ex
hibit tastefully arranged, almost every ar
ticle in American commerce—excluding,of
course, the products in tbe other building.
Monuments, manufactured tobaccos, books,
bed steads, pianos,.organs, organinas he-no
tea, coffees, chocolate, canned fruits and
meats, halting powders, soaps, shoes,misce
meats, needles, buttons, soda fountains,'
artificial limbs, clothing aud hats, cologne,
stoves, window curtains, billiard tables,
dentist’s articles, jewelry and. silver ware,
aud plated ware aud a pair of $10,000.00
diamonds, pearliue, china and 'decorated
.porcelain and china, chairs, trunks, pii©*.
tographs aud oil paintings and steel .en
gravings—and ten thousand other things te
a sort of bash of what is to be seen in that
building.
The Department of Public Comfort is
perfect in its arrangements and does come
jU so well for a person to rest in while be
is in tbis whirl and erase of sight-seeing:
If tbe people will come down from tbe
! mountains aud open their heads, eyes and
hearts and take iu this Exposition of solid
facts and tangible substances they will re*,
turu to their homes better, wiser and hap
pier person.-; ami a power will rise out of
it that will t-MtM farms to be better tided,
(tsl I di of slmy snd ratlle to feed
wfcri.' now 11m n- arc coinimrutivi-Iy BOSH*,
i awl i <ls lr> Ik- k.-pl in IK-lt*-r rt-|ir, and
i {ri|nii.K.!< to It miiisli, and church.- to lie
! be better atl< mb d.an.l make “still* 1 homes
rfatl i . decay and r> I from want of u*r, or
(tot** preserved rejoicing in a d.ff.lent
Tdtn. in fine, the wauls of a happy and
'contented ftcople wilt Ik- in t and Um- im
peluser energy to do till] duty will lie given
here that cannot lie done elsewhere.
With kindest remembrance,
Kxabf.
CHRISTMAS TREE.
(Comiulinicated.)
Christinas is llie day on whicli
tin* nativiiy of llie Savior is ob
served. Tiie institution of this
lesliva! is attributed by llie spu
rious Decretals of Telespiiorus.
I .vlio flourished in Ibe reign of
Anloniiis Pius (138-161, A. L>).
but llie firsl certain traces of ii
are found about the time of the
Emperor Coniinodtis. (ISO-192, A.
1).). while ibal ruler was k- ep.ng
conyt at Nicoineilia, lie learned
ilisil a multitude of Christians
bad aSFembled lo c It brute the
birlliday of Jesus, ordered the
church doors lo Ire closed and
sol lire lo the buildings, and llie
worshipers perished in tho fliuics.
I’fieie was no iiiiiformity in llie
period of observing ll.e nativity
of Christ among I lie early church
es; some held it in May or April,
others in January. Il is altnosl
f certain that, the 25dt of Decem
ber cannot be llie nativity ol
Ulirisl, for then il is tiie Light ol
the rainy season in Jmleu, and
shepherds could hardly be
watching their Hoc! s by night in
the plains.
Curiitmas became tbe parent
rof a A>real many let i vals, such as
those of tbe Virgin, an t irom llie
5 ii lo the Blh century, gariherod
round it many lestiv Is, then
called a Christinas Cycle.
The great reason ol the cele
britlion of tiie 25tli of December,
is that tbe heathen nations re
garded the winter solstice as the
most inporlaul point in the year,
j when everything had n renewed
Uife. A great many of the Ger-
1 beliefs reinfiiiig t<.
Shis passed over from
heathenism to Christianity and
have partly survived to the pres
out day. lienee also originated,
at a latter period, the Christmas
Trees, adorned with lights and
gilts. Thus, Christinas became a
universal festival for young and
old, liigli and low, as no other
Christian festival could have be
come.
So as it is-naturally a Christian
Hlolliday of merriment and joy.
there can be no harm in still ob
serving- it. As Christmas is i early
.on hand, and the people goi eral
ally want a Christmas Tree, here
vibll be no trouble in gelling it
ftp. So let’s arrange by next is
sue of the CoiJRiKR, have all the
committees appointed and'go lo
work. We shall want everybody
r to help. J l wont be much expense,
but the source of much joy and
good feeling.
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No. S.
THBOUGH TIIE YEAR. By Miss R J
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Elijah Bathurst's expiation ; or, the
End of a Dream Life. By Miss Eau
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