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■Sheriff sales, per levy $2 50
Mortgage Cfa sales, per square... 500
■s Collector’s “ , “ “.,. 600
Betters of administration 3 00
|B>tice to debtors and creditors... 5 00
Brave to sell land 5 00
Bale of land, per square 5 00
Betters of dismission 4 50
for homestead. 2 00
jfcEstray notices 3 00
fisa?* Sales of land, by administrators,
executors or guardians, are required by
gkiw to be held on the first Tuesday in the
Rnonth, between the hours of ten in the
forenoon and three in the afternoon, at
the Court-house in the county in which
the property is situated.
Notice of these sales must be given in
' a public gazette 40 days previous to the
iday of sale.
Notice to debtors and creditors of an
f estate must also be published 40 days.
for the sale of personal proper-
be given in like manner, 10 days
to sale day.
BLnb-e that application will be made
" IB Court of Ordinary for leave to
■P must be published for four weeks.
|Bvjtations on letters of administration,
wu>m'diansl)ip, &c., must be published 30
HctL: for dismission from administration,
TpAilhly, three months; for dismission
guardianship, 40 days.
nUPßulos for the foreclosure of mortgages
fjftiAt be published monthly, four mouths ;
stablishing lost papers, for the full
|£< :ee of three months; for compelling
Biles from executors or administrators,
Bfcȣre bond has been given by the de-
Blfced.tlic full space of three months.
Bier iff ‘s salt s must be published for
weeks.
HBfstray notices, two weeks.
will always be continued
'According to these, the legal requirements,
‘unless otherwise ordered.
I • PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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■Tam. J. WINN. WM. B. SIMMONS.
I WINN & SIMMONS.
I , . ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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B&wkknceville Georgia.'
•‘■Practice in Gwinnett and the adjoining
Bauntiee. marl 5-1 y
■Bthan r. HUTCHINS, jarnbtt m’mii.lan,
HLiwreneeville, Ga. Clarksville, Ga.
WkuTCHiNs 4* McMillan,
* ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Offices at Lawrenceville and Clarksville.
Practice in the counties of the Western
Cjguit, and in Milton and Forsyth of the
BCe Ridge. mar 15-ly
J X. GLENN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
I.IVRKNCKVILLK, HA.
Vdl promptly attend to all business
eul«)*ed to his cere*and also lo Land,
li.tffl) and Pension claims mar 15-6 m
’PEEPLES,
Attorney at law,
MAWptCEVILLE,.. GA.
trices in the counties of Gwinnett,
HutiKkson and Milton.
, *pon claims promptly attended to
,
JF TANDY K. MITCHELL,
** KWRENCEVILLE, GA.,
Tactfully tenders a continuation'of
{.is pfessional services to the citizens
gpuerty Keeps constantly on hand a
good of drugs and chemicals.
PrsJVjfnons carefully prepared.
inaJF-ly
A. .SHAFFER,M.D.,
PHYICIAN AND SURGEON,
iawrenceville, ga.
nxr-ft>-6m
” LK. T. G. JACOBS,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Being prepared to practice his profes
sion in all ils branches, informs the citi
zens of laT <renceville and vicinity that he
will be at nis office in Lawrenceville from
the stb to tbe lath of each month. By
prompt attention to business, and reason
able prices; he hopes to secure a liberal
patronage..
All work warranted. ruar22‘ly
„p, f 7 ro 1 be rt s,
Attorney at Law,
ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA,
Will attend to aM business entrusted to’
his cure if die Blue Ridge circuit; also
in the counties of llall and Gwinnett of
the Western circuit
Connected with £ol. IIMI. Walker
in Pension, Land Warrant « and
Claiii cases (ujainst the United States
Oavetnmnt. v june 14-f>m
IV. Ilotlund Co.,
AUCTIONEERS and
produce brokers
W 8 Bay'tStreet,.Savannah, Ga.
SpeeUl attention given to sale of Wild
Tends, Seals, Flour, Dry Goods, House
! hold Furniture, Carpets,
Cash *1 vonoes made wbuii required.
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Weekly Gwinnett Herald.
T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ]
Vol. I.
LONG INGS.
BY MATTHIAS BARK.
I may long for the quiet of the lonely
brake,
And Ihe hedgerows white with may;
For the beauty that grows on the dim
pled lake,
When kissed by the dying day:
I may yearn lor Jhc music that haunts
thc # woods
Leafy, and grand, and old;
For the thunder that roars in the moun
tain floods,
And the fields with their sheaves of
gold:
I may sigh for a sight of the gentle
iiowers,
And the butterfly’s tinted wing;
For the glorious vision in twilight,hours
Of love at the wayside spring:
But the sounds, oh! the sounds I am
doomed to hear
Are the sotlnds of the busy street;
And tbe sights that my spirit is racked
to bear
Are the footprinfs’of naked fcet.J
And my heart it grows heavy from hour
to hour
Withjookingjon man's distress;
With looking and longing, andjicver the
power
ToJigliten or make it less.
Oh, breezy moan tains! Ob, glowing skies!
Oh, meadows and rippling streams,
Though ye come not to gladden my
. waking eye 3,
I Slave ye all in my dreams.
Female Jealousy. —Men may bo
come rivals, and even go to the ex
treme, occasionally, of meeting in
mortal combat, because some woman
has not discrimination enougli to
know her own mind, or firmness and
decision enough to declare her opin
ion or preference. In such eases the
men are sillier, if possible, than the
woman they quaarrel about ; for no
woman of so little sense and deter
mination of character is worth any
man’s serious consideration. These
tilings, however, are but the freaks
of a season, and limited to a small
portion of the masculine gender. As
a general tiling, whatever rivalry
there is between man, for tbe affec
tions of the opposite sex, is good
natured, and the vanquished suitor
quietly retires from the field, to find
one who has a higher and, perhaps,
juster appreciation of his qualities.
_llis intercourse with his fellows, in
the meantime, remains undisturbed,
and to the outward world there is
littlo, if any change observable in
bis manners. But between woman
and woman thore is a constant “irre
pressible conflict,” if not an eternal
one. No woman ever forgives a
successful rival, and in her heart she
cherishes undying jealously of her
own sex. She is constantly watching,
perhaps unsuccessfully', for an oppor
to gratify her spleen, and give vent
to her feelings of universal jealously
and seern. She shows no mercy
toward one who has lapsed in the
slightest degree, and loathes the very
ground she treads on. In short, she
lias no faith in one of her own sex,
and seems to expect that every one
she meets is desirous of supplanting
her in the affections of man.
This is strange and sad, but it is
true ; and through the lion and the
lamb many lie down peacefully to.
gether, there is little hope of perfect
reconciliation between woman and
woman, so long as, sexual love sur
vives to fire their hearts with the
fires of jealousy.
J£W To save meat about to spoil
wash it, in a quart of water with two
tablespoonfuls of Darby’s Prophylac
tic Fluid in it, and then rinse in pure
water. .You will find your meat
sweat and firm.
One of the most popular prepara
tions wiiich we advertise it Darby’s
Prophylactic Fluid. It is selling very
rapidly.
A man is said to be absent-minded
when he thinks he has left his watch
at home, and takes it out to see if he
has get time to return home aud get
it.
Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, December 13, 1871.
Written for the Gwinnett Herald.
A BRIEF REVIEW
Of tlieC'liurcli Articles, Signed
“\V. I>. R.” and the “Pen
and Ink Sketches,” Signed
“W.”~by the Writer.”
During the year which is now
nearly' gone, and soon to be num
bered with the years beyond the
Flood, I have beguiled an hour
now and then in penning the arti.
cles above referred to, and make
life pleasant for a spell in calling
up old scenes, and in communing
with old friends who have—most
ly—lived out their brief Pilgrim
age, and have passed to “That
undiscovered country from whose
bourn no traveller returns.”
llow the task lias been performed
is not for me to say\ It has been
—in the main—satisfactory to me;
but how to my readers, generally,
I do not know.
Some of them have thought—
no doubt—that I omitted some
things that ought to have been
said in some cases, and probably
said some things that ought to
have been left out. I could not
say all that might have been said
in a brief sketch, when I feared,
all the time, that I might be tres
dassing on the space and on the
time of the Editor to the exclusion
of other matter, that in his opin
ion might be more interesting to
the readers of the Journal. This,
if not true as to the former Editor,
may have been so ol the present
one.
Since my article of the 14th ol
May 7 , some of the Fairview people
look shy at me—probably, be
cause 1 said, that old church uas
not what it was in the days of
Wilson, Patterson and
Irvin. I did not intend to reflect
upon any gentleman, by saying
this. It is a lamentable truth which
none can deny. Others have —
and still give me “the cold shoul
der” because they think I intima
ted that they were not as capable
as Alexander Liddell, Montgome
ry, Sage, Smith and Gresham. —
I did not intend to reflect upon
the present official members, or
any one, by that statement. In
iny 7 opinion, it is no discredit to
these gentlemen, if I was to say
they were not their equal. They
were men—all of them—far above
mediocrity, and we have but few
such amongst ns now.
Of that article, in its totality as
well as in its specific's, 1 Would not
modify, or “take back,” the excep
tions “to the contrary nowith
standing.”
The Bethesda Church article—
though imperfect in its details—
is. in the main, satisfactory to
me. First impressions thouyh are
not always correct, as I afterwards
found out. Not alway's. Verbum
Sat. “A word to the wise is suffi
cient.”
“Sweet Water” was right as far
as it went. Some errors it may
lie, but none of importance.
The Sweet Water folks, though
much derided on account of their
religious faith, are a clever people.
“They pay' their debts — fewer ex
ecutions against them unsatisfied
—and fewer “homesteads taken
by them and their brethren, than
any other people,” (as was ex
pressed to me by a good Presby
terian not long since, and in
which I fully concur.) They
obey the Scripture injunction—
“ Love the Brethren”—aud are as
faithful and true to each other as
“Free Masons,” and more so, in
tiie present day.
.“Liberty” had an important omia
sion as to one of her pastors. An
oversight—with me, inexcusable.
Rev. James Davis served her one
year, aud acceptably. I did not
omit his name from the list from
any waut ot respect. It was—in
the hurry—an oversight—a lapsus
linyuat —so to speak. I hope my
good brother will be satisfied with
‘‘COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!”
ihy explanation. I would not
wilfully do him injustice to the
value of one cent, nor be unmind
ful of the lesson taught by the
Cabalistic B. R. T !
My sketches of individual char
acter, have probably pleased some
—satisfied others, and to others
still, were wholly unsatisfactory—
it may be. I know they were im
perfect and lame, and too meager
in most cases, and many incidents
left out for want of space, and
many omissions which would not
have been, had I been the Pro
prietor of the newspaper in which
they were published. *
Some rW these were forgotten by
lne from the long lapse of years,
while of others I never know, which
some of my readers remembered.
I did not know that W. M. paid
off the execution for his friend
Crum]} 7 , when his property was
under the sheriff’s hammer, and
then gave him his own time to
pay back the money! The old
man remembers it, and will ’till
his dying day. By leaving that
out, my old friend—of course—
considers that an unpardonable
omission; and that sketch, there
fore, in liis opinion, is a poor
thing and a failure!
In another—palliating the im
perfections and foibles of the
subject—and speaking of the im
perfections of mortal man univer
sally, I referred to the Patriarch
Abraham as guilty of falsehood
in representing his wife as his
sister, designing, thereby, (o make
a false impression. For this a
churchman considers me a “revi
lcr of religiontherefore, of
wise, he lias no charity for me,
and no interest in what I have
written
Is that brother free from short
comings—free from sin? immacu
late? Does he worship after the
letter or after the Spirit ? lie may
be of that, class—“l am more holy
than thou;” and lie may be, but we
are not to be the judge ourselves!
Pray, pluck the beam out of thine
own eye—if one is in it—and
then you can see better to take
the tnote out of mine!
Others may have had objections
“too tedious to mention,” for
ought I know ; if so, I only wish
they iiad performed the task, and
performed it better. I know how
difficult it i 3 to please all the rea
ders of a newspaper—with their
varied tastes, partialities and pre
judices- I make hut small pre
tensions as a writer; I never wrote
a book—never expect to. I have
written but little for the press in
my day and time, and the same—
no doubt—may be said of me
when I shall have passed away.
Finally, therefore, I will say,
there are many other names I have
not included in my sketches of
the old fathers as worthy as those
I have —were as good men —as
useful citizens —of whom I ought
to speak (as I had commenced it,)
if I could be assured it was the
desire of the readers of the Herald
and the Editor.
If I‘ had tiiese assurances, 1
might renew them at the coming
of the spring-time of the new
year, when life puts on its new
livery, and man his new hopes—if
life be spared.
But a truce to them for the
present, if not forever.
To my good friends who have
read my “pen points” with inter
est during the old year, I extend
my thanks and my hand. Their
approbation is my highest reward,
and a sufficieut compensation to
me for the little trouble I have
had in fixing them up. I love to
please my friends.
If my writings have offended
any one, it is time they had got
in good humor. It is an unchris
tian spirit to harbor nialieu. They
on friendly terms with all—ex
cept scoundrels. But I would
not give a flip for any man’s friend
ship, unless it is “of his own free
will,” And according to his con
science!
What 1 have written I have
written, and am responsible for it.
W.
Exciting ? lU idents of a Rail
road Trip.
Binghamton, Lately. — A Fir!t«n
Market man found out “what 1 know
about Fanning" this wine;
Said he, “John, do yoff know the
best way to raise potatoes’”
Says’ I, “I do.”
Sajß lie, “How?”
“Why,” eays f,“ grab hold of the
tops witli both hands and pull ’em
up.”
Says he, “Go to grass.”
So 1 started to grass, and I’m now
on my a trip over the Erie Railway,
It’s a good time to go on a railroad.
The trees are all disrobed, and the
leaves are through blushing and
turning ullcollors’ What last spring
was a lamblet is now a muttonlet.
Gr«en peas have turned to shot, and
so forth.
Mistaken in his man.
The first thing I did after getting
into the cars was to try and make
myself agreeable. The attempt
proved a failure. I saw a fellow
w ith a package in his hand, And I
said to him, “Hare a game?”
“Game of what?” said he.
“Seveu-up.” said I.
Thero isn’t ro much bittorness in
a toil of boiled aloes as these was in
the expresion of that fellow’s faee.
Intense acorn and malignity struggled
ffir the mastery as he yield out. “No.
sir; I’m a minister.”
“Well,” said f, “ you needn’t get
mad. N"body ever would believe it
unless you I "Id ’em so.”
Then 1 told him on closer inapec.
lion he did look like a minister —a
minister penitentiary—and I askodi
him what he was doing with those
cards.
lie said thoy were not cards, they
woro blank tickets for the Sunday
school library.
Then I said, “What might your
name bet”
He said, “Barnes.”
Then I slid, with a smile, “There
are lots of barns all over the country,
aint there?"
To this day he has never answered
that ( querlion. lie moved into
another car.
A POOR LITLE BOY’S TIClitT.
Back of me *at a little boy. He
had a half ticket. The conductor
punched it. I said to hiiu, “Is that
boy obliged to have a whole ticket to
travel on this train?”
He said “No.”
“Well,” said I’ lie’s got ono.”
lie han’t,” said lie.
“I’ll bet you,” said I, ”It was a
half ticket until you punched it; that
made it a hole one.”
lie intimated he would “punch me;”
so we didn’t contiue to converse.
TALK WITH A MILI.LU.
I moved over next to a fellow who
was dev'oid of nose. “Ahem,” said I,
•V ase of mayhem?”
‘•No,’’ lie said, “my dorg chewed
it off last July."
* t Ah!’’ said I‘ “not mayhem, bet
Julyhem, eh?”
Be you from York?” said be.
“I am,” said I.
“Do you know Smith?" said he?
Smith,” said I, “what Smith?”
“No not Watt Smit, but Mister
Smith; he keeps a store down there.”
He was suprised when I told him,
“I never heard of him.”
“Hewer of water and chopper of
grass,” I exclaimed, “what is your
biz?”
He said be was a miller.
“Gin iniHer?” said I,
"No sir,” said be, “I conduct a well
regulated, Christian saw miil.”
"All.’’ Bald I, **\ ou_ol*—i—mi—k—
[s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
remarks. I observed, ‘‘the countiy
looked fine. ,f I didn’t exact!}- know
how the country ought. It** look to
look fine, but I hit it right, for he
mid, “Yes,” and he said wo were
passing through a dtnry country.
“Do they run trains night* though
a dairy country?” I asked, sweetly.
He said yes, and said they made
mighty good cheese it' that section.
I related to him how “1 didn’t like
niite-v good cheese;” then I told him
“Truth was mighty and would pre
vail* and cheese was niite-y, and that
was prevailing to considerable extent,
too.”
SUCKS FROM A Cl.tJlt.
Then we slopped for grub, and I
can swear that I saw a man sell slices
sawed oil’ a policeman's club for
Bologna sausage, sandwiches, and] I
w-a? Served with a piece of the steak
old John Rogers was burnod at, and
it was burnod ten per cent, worse
than lie was, and tougher than a
parboiled pump handle on toast.
This proprietor asked me if I had
been served? I told him yes, I had
been served darned meanly.
When I got into the cars* again
the Millerite observed, “the pen i 8
mightier than the sword.” I told
him that wasn’t the case with a hug
peii. Then wo communed about the
grass crop. lie said he was} much
troubled witli proud hogs. “So am
I,” said T; “where I board we are
annoyed todoath with ’email winter.”
“Why,” said ho. “ do you have
groun I hogs in York?”
“Yes,” said I, “lots of ’em; wo cab
'em sassages."
For the space of tiro minutes he
bowed his head and wept.
MISTAKE FOR GSOUGE WASINGTOX.
As soon ns lie got tlirough weep
ing I told him I had recently visited
New England, and how prolific
everything was uplhere, and I eb
served to him how for miles along
side of the railroad the telegraph
poles had sprouted and were bearing
apples, ipiiuces, imiekmolons, huckle
berries’ and bananas.
“No!’’ ss : d ho.
“Yes,” said I.
Then he rose and said, “Wash, I
thought yomwore dead.”
“My name isn’t Wash,” said I
“Excite me, sir,” said he I cal!
you Wash because you remind me
so strongly of George Washington
who did it with his hatchet—the
man who never told a lie.”
Says F, ‘ Sir it’s lucky vnu Hint a
nigger; if you were 1 would kill you,
sir, and let your family go a black
burrying in October.”
Then he went in the next car
where the minister went, then the
cars stopped five minutes, and I had
a slight altercation with a saloon
chap. lie sold awful smal piece, and
I asked him if he would sell three
pieces for a quarter. lie said no.
Says I, “By gosh, you do do it.”
He swore he didn’t. Then I told
him he did— that there three pieces
to every quarter of a pie on his coun
ter, and that was three pieces for a
quarter.
He seta pure white black-and tan
terrier at me, but ho was ao cvreed
lazy before ho could opeu his mouth
to bite, I was on board the cars again,
ix UtXOII AHTON
But heie we arc at Binghamton,
lat which place I will rest for the
time being. Before leaving you I
will propound a conundrum. Why
is a railroad travelicrlike a music
teacher! Because he is al ways
dealing with fiats and sharps. Rulloff
wae hanged in Binghamton. “While
there is life thero is hope.” Still
watchless but on time.
Your*, John.
£-C~ The champion dog resides
in Lowell, Mass., and belong to a
prominent grocer. When this Intel*
ligent hruto (the dog) sees half a
barrel of fiour weighed out on the
scales be goes and puts one foot on
the platform, carelessly lookum^i^
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
spa/tk 3 mo’s. 6 mo’s. 12 mo’s:
I square 2TT(TITg 00 I<> Oft
1 sq'rs C 00 10 00 15 00
3 sqr s H 00 14 00 20 00
y A col. 12 00 30 00 30 00
\ col. 20 00 36 00 60 00
one cnJ. 40 75 00 lot' 00
The money for advertisements is dot!
on the first msertioh.
A Aqnitrtt is the space of one inch in
depth of the column, irrespective of the
, number of lines.
Marriages and deaths, not exceeding
six lines, published free. For a man ad
vertising his wife, and all other personal
matter, double rntes will lie charged.
No. 40.
A Dctciiman AnorsßD—A gentle
man who was taking a glass of wine
at Louis’s, corner of Freeman and
II -pkins streets in Cincinatta, about
three weeks ago, observed, at another
table, sitting with several others, a
German who seemed uneasy and
anxious, as if 1 there might he a Fran
co Teutonic disagreementhetween his
boor and himself. Presently in ran
a I ttle girl, her face radiant with
smiles, who exclaimed, “O, we’ve got
a little hoy at home ” “Dat ish
goot,’ said the Dutchman; ns the
anxiety disappeared from his enuute
enance ; “till up dor glasses.” Not
many minutss elapsed before in rush
ed tbo little girl again with the an
nouncement, “0, we’re got two little
boy at home ” The Dutchman look
ed a great deal astonished and not
altogether gratified at this little fami
ly redundancy, but rising at length
to the magnitude of the occasion, re
maiked, “Wei! don, das is g ot; fill
up tie: glasses.” In a few minutes
again appeared the radiant messenger
with the astounding proclamation,
“O, we’ve got three little boy a|
homo." This was too much for even
Toutonie impassibility. There was
no fuither calls fur glasses. “Well
den,” says he "I goes up dare, and,
by Got, I sthops der whole dam bus
iness.”
iNfII'KKCE OF a N KWSPAI'F.Ri— ■» A
school teacher, who has been engaged
a long time in his profession, and
witnessed the influence of newspapers
on the minds of a family of children
writes as follows ;
“I have found it to be the univer
sal fact, without exception, that those
scholars of both sexes, and of all ages,
who have had access to new-spapers
at home, when compared with those
who have not, are better readers, ex
celling in pronunciation, and conse
quently read more understanding^.
They »re better spellors, and define
words with case and accuracy.
“They obtain a practical knowledge
of geography in almost half the time
it requires others, as the newspaper
has made them familliar with the
location of the mostiinportant places,
nations, their governments, and do
ings c-n the globe.
“They are better grammarians \
for having become so familliar with
every variety of the newspaper, from
the common-place advertisement to
the finished and classical oration of
tiie statesman, they more readily
comprehend the meaning of his text,
and consequently analyze its con*
struction with accuracy."
A Queer Blunder.— A suburban
friend, blest with eleven children, and
being a very domestic man, and very
fond of them, told this story :
One afternoon, business being very
dull took the early .rain out to his
happy home, and went up stairs to
j put the children to bed. Being miss*
1 ed from the dressingroom, his wife
went un stairs to see what was going
j on. Upon opening the door, she
exclaimed; “Why dear, what for
mercy’s sake are you doing!” “Why,”
says ho, “wifey, f am putting the
children to bed, and hearing them
sav their little prayers.’’ “Yes, but
this is not on* of ours,” says wifey.—
Sure enough, he had one of the
neighbor’s children all undressed, anil
he had to redress it and send it home.
After that lie calls the toll every
morning and night.
fiT Au unreasonable and tome
what misauthropic individual remarks
ibat he has often heard the proved*,
“A fifend in need is a friond indeed,”
but ho says he cannot see whoro the
laugh comes »n. lie lias a friend in
ueed who is always borrowing in*m*
oy of him.
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gone in as partuers into the law hue
| inees. They propose to be sisters in
law.
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