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Newspaper Page TextTHE ELLIJAY fctiJJRIBU. 1. K. OBKXB. | . * .KIKBY ELLIJAY, GA., AUGUST 7 1, 1882. o#lCi4L< OltGAf Of Fabkw Cos. OFFICIAL (>koai of Gilmer Cos Official Obsa* or ficKns Cos s m • flniit Hm There are mom mho me abore their fellovrs hi mental rigor and feree of character, and when we speak of them an great it mast be done in a very qualified sense. Absolute greatness does not exist in human character, for that can be predicated only of g*4; bat there are some who are se far su perior to their fellows, in mental -rigor and moral grandeur that, by contrast, they appear exceed ingly great. Such men challenge our admiration and compel oar homage just as the vapor rises towards the sun when the earth feels the full power of that grand luminary. They, like Saul, the sen of Kish, tower above their fellow men, and are acknowledge ed at kings, because they possess the kingly power, which men everywhere respeet and refer ence. There may be about them infirmities which remind one of the dead flies in precious oint ment, bat still they remain great, and are reeoguized as leaders from their inherent force of char acter. Such was Frederick the Great, the renowned king of Prussia who, at one time found almost the whole of Europe combinec against him with the avowed purpose of crushing him and his little kingdom. Indeed, nothing ean be more ludicrous than Maculay’s account of the daily life of this distin guished man, daring the ieree conflict which he was compelled to maintain for hie very ess ence. He 'had, during those stormy days, Voltaire, the greatest Hteg ary man of the times, residing at his court, and so infatuated hat he become with the profession of letters that, according to Mccau lay, he went into desperate bat tles with a bottle of prison in one pocket and a copy of bad verses in the other. Here were greatness and weak ness combined, in the same per son, forming a character which, while it changes our admiration, just barely escapes exciting our contempt. But this great man is nos a ex ceptional ease, for the annals of history furnish other instancies, quite as striking. Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great English was confessedly one of the most intellectual men of any age of country, and yet he had come weaknesses which one would bo more likely to look for in an African Chief thaw in an enlightened English philoso- Lerd Bacon has left a name which marks him as a star of the %t magnitude ip the galaxy of great men, and yet upon his own confession, he was the prince of bribe-takers, and indeed differed little of any from a vulgar thief. In fact, no sadder picture can be presented than when this distin guished man, whb had laid the whole world under obligation bv hit new philosophy, with tears and sobs confessed to the Eng lish parliament that was a corrup tionist of the bassest sort. The practical inference from •ueh examples seems 4e he that no man is truly great, and that hero-worship is as degrading as ft is unreasonable and foolish. To be down and lick the du&t in the presence of power, may be the attribute of e tlave bst not of a man, and whenever we see snob examples, the salami de sire is for a scourge of small eords and a steady and vigorous bapd to wield it.—H. C. H. in Southern Cultivator . , OUR NEW RAILROAD. The contemplated building of Uie “Gainesville and Daiton Short-Cut Railroad” has now (he apperance of something selid and at which season can easily grap ple. The association is composed of men of capital, who have filed application for a charter, and they are backed by money at any lime to carry the desired pro jbct through, asking nothing ex cept the right of way. Profs. Hall and Bowie, the engineers ol the survey, followed by Messrs. Williams, Imboden and Sum merour having gone over the contemplated line, and having, as we understand, been satisfied with the feasibility and practica bility of the route, now say, if the right of way is secured, the sur vey will commence in a few weeks, and work to begin imme diately thereafter. Hall, Daw son, Gilmer, Murray and Whit field are the real beneficiaries in the matter. The line is Bfi miles —the right of way as we conceive is already or can be almost at once given. Whitfield and Mur ray are enthusiastic, so we learn, in the interest of this road. There is no idle time to waste, so as to make secure road of vast im portance which without aetion might drift belew ear village. We make these suggestions that onr own people may get tw gather and have a friendly con ference on the subject. We shall give other and further informa tion as we gather it, to the public, and hope we are not amiss in earnestly asking attention to the foregoing hurried suggestions. Public Schools. FOURTH WEEK. Monday, August the 7th, I called at Prof. S. P. Brokaw’s school at Owltown, and found a good attendance. 43 pupils pres ent and all moving on smoothly. In the evening I found Miss Hat tie Tabor at Oakland Academy with a nice little school. Miss Hattie showed me the copy books of her little students that are on ly 7 and 8 years old. lam shure that the specimens exhibited could not be excelled by any class of that age in the county. Tuesday morning 1 arrived at the Kennemur school house, in Car lecay district. Mr. J. W. Lawing had 45 scholars present. After talking to the children at this place, the teacher followed in a lenture that was interesting and instructive. From there I went to Ebanezar. B. S. Holden is teaching at that place, and had 48 pupils present—a good turnout for a rainy morning. In the eve ning of the same day, at the Ayer’s school bouse, I found Mr. James F. Hagin with 37 pu pile present, and his school seem ed to be progressing in a very > satisfactory manner. Wednes day morning at Salem, in Tieka netley district I found W. S. Clayton with a very large school. 1 wont from there to Bocktown, where 1 found Miss Laura Kirby with a very good attendance al though n great many children were out of school on account of a thresher being run in that vicin ity oa that day. Thursday I fownd, in Diamond district, Mr Jaoaaa A. Kimroons with 62 pu pils in attendance, and at Pisga W. N. Cochran * with 50. They were getting on very well consid ering they were haying to con tend with the whooping cough. Friday morning, in company with i E. P. Clayton, I visited the sehoo! taught by W. F. Slagle at Poplar Spring. We found 70 pupils in this school. We heard the reci tations of three classes \ one in Smith’s grammar, one in Har vey’s rad one in Ortbofaraphy, ail of which proved that they had been properly taught. This makes fifty one schools that 1 have now visited inside of Gilmer county. Counting the one on the Pickens county line where about 30 children from this county are attending, the No. n 53, besides the colored school in Ball Ground district, which was not in session when I passed through that settlement, but I am informed that it is now in op eration, which makes ■ e nun. her 53, white and colored. 1 now wish to return my thanks to the worthy young men who Ellijay Courier , for the space that they have given ray communications in their valuable paper. At the close of this arti cle permit me to express mahy thanks to the many good citizens on whom 1 have called, for their kill'd hospitalities extended to ward me in my travels. 1 wish for them a happy and prosperous life, and I hope that their chit dren, In whose interest 1 have ia bored, will be trained up in such a manner that they may be a blessing to their parents and an honor to our country. W. F. Hill. A Railrod Controversy, Initial steps toward legal pro ceedings have been taken by the Richmond and Danville Corpora tion as represented by Colonel Andrews President of the Wes tern N. C. railroad, who last week made complaint to the judge of the Superior Court of Wake County that the Geogia and North Carolina railroid Company had taken possession of Marble Gap and thereby trespas’d on the rights of the complainant, and m terfered with the progress of the Ducklown branch road. The re port that an injnnction stopping work at that place had been served upon Colohel Fain quickly spread through the country, aud created great astonishment, and no little sorrow, for the G. & N. C. road is a pet measure, indeed it may be called the child of our people. Its history briefly stated in this. One Company in Geor gia, called the Marietta and North Georgia railroad was building north to the State line. The G. & N. C. road was buiding from Murphy south under a character granted by this State. Some years ago the two Companies consolidated and determined to extend their line to Knoxville. The general management of this enterprise was put in the hands of Gen. William Phillips of Mari etta who secured the pledge of ample caoitkl, and set work with great push and energy. This company is now in possession of Red Marble Gap under deed from the former owner of lands, and it also owns the right of way over most of its route from thence to Murphy. This section was lo cated by Fred M. Hersey Chief Engineer, platted, staked off and decriptions filed in the office of the Register of Deed in compli ance with law. When the injunc tion came work was nnder way. The right of way bad been clear ed at various points, the cut in the Gap was started by a party under Mr. A. Headen, and bosses with forces of workmen had been engaged to commence work ou other portions of the line.' The Richmond and Danville Compa ny, for some oceuHg reason thought that this prooedure was in coflict with its interest in the Western Exteation road, and caused the filing of a bill of in duction. A restraining order was granted for twenty days, and the G. N. 0. Oompany was requied to show cause at Raleigh on the 21st inst, why the injunction should not be made permanent. The R. &D. Oompany claim the line ud Valley river and owner ship of the gap, and charge that the G. & N. C. is annoying it and intending to obstruct its work by building a road on its right of wajr. This iea mistake. Neither the R. & D. nor any other Com pany which it represents ever had a single deed to right of way through any piece of laud in this county recorded on its official register, nor has it condemned any land, or in any other way ac- quired any title to the “right of way” it claims, except such quasi and feeble shadow of a title as a preliminary line run some thir teen years ogo will give. Not a map or even a stake shows where that preliminary line was run. The Marietta and North Georgia is advancing toward Murphy with great rapidity, no distant day rails will be laid over the line al ready graded between here and Fannin couuty Georgia. The the rich and beatitiiul lauds of the Yallay river, through Red Marble and Taluia Gaps, thence through the meadows prod uctive Valley of the Cliena river to Tennessee ami Knoxville is but the consummation of ■* plan perfected long before the R. dc D. Company had any connection with the Western Extension en terprise. The Marietta and North Geor gia Company is building a nar row guage road of the first class. The management is wide awake to every interest and has secured ‘by deed every right necessary to the absolute holding of the line. As already started work on the Valley River section of twenty five miles had begun, bosses aud hands been engaged, and a full equipment of tools and othor ad juncts for speedy and Economical work purchased and delivered here. The citizens of Cherokee Clay and Graham counties, three of the richest of Western North Carolina in miueralsand agricult ural products, claim Atlanta and the Gulf States as their market. The Marietta and North Georgia and its Simese twin the Georgia aud North Carolina road is their road, for it will, carry their pro duce to the nearest, the largest, and the only profitable market for their sale. These roads, which upder the consolidation will be one m fact, are owned and con trolled by the men of pluck, abil ity, and ample means, who are able to do whatever they unde take, and they have won the confidence and friendship of our people. There is no such thing therefore as ousting this company from these three counties, for it owns and coutrols the lowgap on the Georgia line leading to Mari etta and Atlanta, and as sure as water seeks itslevel the produc tions of this vastly rich country will flow to the natural and best markets, Atlanta south and Knox ville north. Our people have do quarrel wilhthe. R& D. Company. They wish it well and are ready to aid it in every reasonable way. We want both roads here and* as many mere as capitalists ar wil ling to build. But no corporation however powerful shall have ex clusive control of the carrying trades of his section if the popu lar will can prevent it. The com petition of roads for the carrying of our produce will insure better transportation facilities and more moderate rates for freights and passangers, than if but a single road controlled the whole. The act of the R. & D, in securing the injuction was impolitic and inde fensible. We cannot believe that it will be approved by the astute managers at Richmond but that rather they will order what ever over-zealous subaltern insti tuted these proceedings to end them at once. Elsewhere will be found reports of our meetings held by our citizens, at which public seutiment was plainly ex pressed. —The Murphy (If. C.) Independent. Communicated\ I was at Ball Ground yesterday and find the progress of the rail road rather tardy, owing to the delay of the iron altogether. The company claims that it will be on hand in a very short time, and when it arrives the tract laying will pnsh on at the rate of one mile per day. Already the cross ties are placed on tbe road bed to Cool Spring, in Pickens county, and the tressels will be fininshed to Jasper this week. Our people are want to realize the fact of a road in our midst, for which we have looked and hoped so long, but it is reduced to a cer tainty that it will be in town be fofe we are ready for it. The time is close at band when we will be prepared to ship our cotton from our fields to head quarters m soon as parked, and all other produce which has never paid our wagons to run to other railroad markets. These advantages will make known our rich section, never ac knowledged nor looked after be fore, by capitalists who are com ing amongst us now. City property is being contract ed for at Jasper. The grading on the road bed west of our place is being done a# rapidly as possible, and will be finished to Talona Creek by the first of September next, and to Gilmer line early this fall. Yours truly, W. R. Coleman. Courting is a luxury, it is sallad, it is ise water, it is a beveridge, it is a pla sp. II of the aool. the man who has nevercour! and has lived in vain; h. has biu a b:.qd loan aiming ai d scape- and wa erscapes h- has bin a ! deff man in the land of band organs,, by the side ov murmuring canals. | Courting is like 2 little springs ov soft water tba> steal fr m under a rock at the fut ova mountain, and run and wn the hill, side by side, singing and daus iog and spattering each ulher, eddiog and frothing and kaskading, now hiding under bank, now full of shudder, till bimeby’tha jine and then tha go slow I am in favor ov long courting ; it gives, the-parties a chance to find out each others trump cards, is good exercize, and is jist as innersent as 2 merino lambs. Courting is like strawberries and cream, wants to be did slow, then yu git the flavor. 1 bar saw folks git aokuainted, rail in luv, git married, settle down, and git tew wurk in three weeks from date. This just the wa sum folks tarn a trade, and akounts fur the great Dumber or almightey mean me chanics we hev, and the poor jobs tha turnout. Kissing Doga- We fear the article we publised in regard to girls who kiss dogs has been taken wrong, by some. We have a delicately scented note—not scented like dog, however—from a Chicago girl, who is indignant. She aays she had rather kiss a dog than a man. That is all right. It is only a matter of taste. If the man she refers to smells like a dog, and has fleas, and his eyes run, and he licks himself instead of washing, we don’t blame her. Of course she knows more about him than we do. But if a nice, elaen man should come her way, a man ' with the modern improvements, who could kiss back, w ich a dog can’t we will bet she would drop a dog like a hot potato and freeze to the man like the ivy to the oak, and she would forget all about her dog. Try it oone, sis, and you will sell youi dog to the first butcher that Domes along Peek’s Sum. The Beyond. Asked from this world’s stand-point if there is no life beyond the grave, if there is no immortality, if all spiritual calculation is to end here why, then, the mighty work of God is to cod in nothing less. But if this is only a state of infancy, only the education foe eternity, iu which the soul is to gain its wisdom sod experience for higher work, then to ask why such a mind is taken from us is just as absurd as to question why the tree of the forest has its training in the nursery garden. This is but the nur sery ground from which we are to be transplanted into the greet forest of Gods eternal universe. Eighty-Five Dollars Lost. “You do not tell me that your husband is up and entirely cured by so simple a medicine as Bark ery Ginger Tonic?” “Yes, in deed, i do." said Mrs. Benjamin to her neighbor,” and after we had lost eighty-five dollars in doctor’s bills and prescriptions. Now hay husband feels a well as ever. ROBT. E. PARKER * WITH ATKINS, MCKELDIN & CO-, Wholesale dealers in Hats, Caps and Ladies Trimmed Hats, 55 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga. GEO. R. STREET WITH 2R. Y. STREET ft CO., JOBBERS IN Coffees and Tobaccos! New York and Lynchburg. E. H. MATTHEWS WITH OEANE, BOYLSTON & 00. JOBBERS IN Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Shoes, 6 & $ Pryor Street, Atlanta, Ga. 20 DOLLARS SWILL BUY THE FAVORITE (WNGER STYLE) sewing machine Equal to any Forty five t 45) Dollar Machine sold by Agents Hand so m e in appearance 1 Faultless in Execution I We make it as easy and as safe for you to buy of us, as of any Merchant in your town. No money asked until the Machine has been tested. Address, Co-operative Sewing Maohine Co.-, sag. IT—m. Philadelphia, Pa. + and THRESHERMEN. BytU tht Cktaput." ForPri. ■ iV-r List and Illustrated Pamphlets. - lIHgW .. (ssnt Ires) -write to The ArtTKijl wrunnmanfVMa & TiTioa Coarsvr, Xintfltld. 9 lllli iUttlll MIUII FOR 1882. EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTIONS, I CLUBS OF THREE AT. $2,001 The Sunny South has long been rec. ognized by the American people as • grand suooess, and everybody is de lighted. But each year adds to its in terest and importance, and during the ensuing twelve months it will be far 80- perior to its former self in] every par ticular. MRS. MARY E. BRYAN will be chief assistant in the edtoria management, with L. L. Veazy, Esq. and Richard Penfieid to help. She will run some of her best stories dur ng the year. FATHER A. J. BRYAN, known and loved all over tha south as our sweetest poet, and as the author of “Furl that Banner,” will be a regular contributor of prose and poetry. He will also write a story. betsy Hamilton will oontione to edify and convulse the publio with her quaint ideas aud inim itable style from the Backwoods. SLIM JIM will begin anew series of “Off Hand Talks” upon the popular questions of the day. *BILL ARP’S PEN will not be allowed to rest long. His sage advice and sensible suggestions are too popular. TALMAGE’S SERMONS from the great Brooklyn Tabernacle, will continue to appear regularly. BENCH AND BAR OF GEO. Under this head will appear original sketches and anecdotes of prominent living and dead members of the bench and bar of Georgia. THE SOUTHERN HOUSEHOLD. TUa s one of the most popular de partments with all Southern and Nor thern women, and all are urged to con tribute to it. CORPORATE MONOPOLIES. The brilliant series of articles upon this subject, by the Hon. Stephen D. Dallaye, of Washington City, will be continued. STORIES 1 STORIES! Continued and short stories by the best writer* of the day will appear in every issue. New stories* will be com menced every few weeks doling the year. BIOGRAPHIES and PORTRAITS' “Our Portrait Gallery,” with sketch es of the prominent men and women of the hour, will be kept up with a new interest. Society gossip, farm and home, con densed news of the States, answers to correspondents, letters from all points, landom notes, etc., will continue to be prominent features of (he paper. jpflT'Clnbs of three or more will re ceive it at |2 a year. week in your own town. $5 V|(Hh|Oiufit free. No risk. Everj mMM’ hing new. Capital not required s(rWwWe will furnish you every thing. Many are making for tunes. Ladies make as much as men, and boys and gifls make great pay. Reader, if you want a business at which you can make great pay all the time you work, write for particulars to H. Hallett ii Cos., Portland Maine, v jan. 19—ly. A Vigorous Growth. Of the hair is often promoted by using Parker's -hair Balsam, it always restores the youthful color and luster to gray hair, gives it new life and removes all irritation and dandruff. FEMALfc StMiNARY, GEORGETOWN, KY. |artcr of a Century in Existence* Recognized :is one of the best institutions for -ducatiny young Indies. Full course Thorough •ducation. Jiculthiest part of the Sure. Fall term •'cwins September 6th, 1880. For catalogue %wA ?ull infortti:iton. address J. J. RUCKKiI, Principal, Georgetown, Kjr. HAMILTON FEMALE COLLEGE. Well sefee** ! course of study. Special departments f or all fbe ornament*l branches. Faculty large, •* •gf l txo.rlenced. Ext • nslva #.i">iunl * for recre~ Flee Recitation, Ornament*?. \ Rath Rooms, twinned D7 f .••am and iiglito. with Mas, Onl two young ladle* occupy a room f.!hantes loWer than any Acbool offe ring: equal ad a:u in the Uni ed State*. Session begins eptembi r ’ u, 1880. For t- rms, cat* slogur* and further pirtv - !sr, ■‘iresg J. '} . 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