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Irdiana. are required by
k or ,, n “ n t!ie first Tuesday in the
k !l ' 1 the hours of ten in the
*‘7 th rce in the afternoon, at
in the county id which
thii'tte must be given in
gazette 40 days previous to the
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will be made
•ourt of 'Ordinary for leaui to
rast be published for four weeks.
71 letters of administration,
t 1,. must be published 30
dlsin&iM from administration,
lhrt ,. months; for di-mission
Jilnsliip. 40 days.
.Miie foreclosure of mortgages
limed monthly, four months; ,
1,;!,., tost papers, for the full j
• ir ,'r months; lor compelling j
executors or administrators, j
1 has been eiver. by the de
qpace of three months.
..;dcs must he published for .
oflccs, two weeks.
lons will always be continued |
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AXILS XL Y AT LAW,
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hactieos in tlu> enmities of Gwiiiucit,
i Jackson and Milton.
pui'H claims promptly attended to
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class of work, with all ;
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T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR,]
Vol. 11.
For the Gwinnett Herald.
PRIDE OF BIRTH.
Of fill the notable things on earth
The querest one is pride of birth,
Among our prince democracie.
A bridge across a hundred years,
Without a prop to save it from sheer?;
Not even a couple of rottcu peers,
A thing of laughter fleers and jeers,
Is American aristocracy.
English and Irish, French and Spanish,
German, Italian, Dutch and Danish,
Crossing their veins until they vanish,
In one';congloiueration.
So subtle a tar.gle of blood indeed,
No heraldry Ilarvey will ever succeed
In finding the circulation.
Depend upon it, my snobbish friend.
Your family thread you can't ascend
Without good reason to apprehend,
You may find it waxed flt the other end,
By some plebeian vocation;
Or worse than that your boasted line
May end in a loop of stronger twine
That plagued some worthy relation.
The School Fund.
The following circular has just
been sent to the various county treas
urers by the State School Commis
sioner :
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, [
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 22, 1872, j
To the County Treasurer of C'o:
I >KAi; Sty,:.l take pleasure in an-
t<?you that *e is .now
rearfy for distribution 8100,90 dof th e
fund raised from the tax authorized
by “An Act to provide tor the pay
ment of the debt due to touchers and
school ofli.-ers who did si nice under
the I’ublL: School L'W in the war
1071, ’approved August 19, 1«72.
i be distributive part of vom county
ts , tor wbic.ii a warrant will be
diawn in year invar bv the (Voverui-r,
unless lit, re ex.sts one ol tne tliree
follow mg legal bats to immediate
disiiibu'ion : ■
1. If there has been no return ot
the enumeration of the school p puia
-1 jpu of your county, there can be no
distribution under live law.
2. If the amount of the school
debt in the county lias not been re
ported to this office, there can be no
distiilnition till that report is made
by the proper officer.
3 If the debt proposed is less than
the, pro rata going to tlfe county,
only the flebt.can be drawn.
In the first two cases the whole pro
rata, and in the last excess of it. over
the debt will remain in the Treasury
ofthe State to the credit of the county.
In all other cases the whole amount
may be drawn.
For the distribution of the fund
afterdt reaches the county, I give the
two following rules as, in mv onin
i ion, deducible from tbe provisions of
the law :
■ 1. Each County Commissioner will
be entitled to receive, from the conn
tv’s pro rata, an amount which shall
bear bear the same ratio to the en
tire pro rata that bis claim bears to
the entire school debt of the county.
2. The aemainder must be appor
tioned among the sub districts in tbe
proportion of tlm number of children
in each between the ages of six and
twenty-one years and must then be
paid out to lawful claimants in pro
portion to the amounts of the several
claims.
When any County Treasurer can
hot attend in person to receive his
warrant and draw the money thereon,
the same may be done by executing
to some one a power of attorney to
represent him.
Whether the warrant is applied for
in person or by an attorney in fact,
the County Treasurer must be identi
fied, as such, l>£ a certificate over the
signature and bearing the seal of the
Ordinary of his county'.
Gustaves J, Orr,
State School Commissioner.
A man who bought a thousand j
Havana cigars yesterday, on being j
asked what lie had, replied they were
tickets to a course of lectures to be J
given by bis wife.
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Columbus boys have been skating ;
iu Broad street.
L&wrenceville, &a., Wednesday, Jaiuary 8, 1878.
Berthe Gwinnett Herald.
Reply to ‘‘Milton.”
Fayette County, Ga., )
Doc. 20th, IS7-. ’ [
Mr Editor • In your issue of the
11th instant, your correspondent,
“Milton,” in urging* the benefits of
small farms, used arguments which,
were they adopted and enforced by
the Legislature as he recommends,
j would absolutely*entail poverty and
| suffering upon a large class of those
j who do most to support the govern
| Tent would reduce the present
taxable property of Georgia to less
than one-filtli of its present value.
4 Small fanning” is commendable, if
adopted for the purpose of making
one acre produce as much as three
or lour, under the common method,
or, as it is sometimes expressed,
“piling four acres upon one.” But,
to secure tins plan’s being adopted,
you must address yourself to the
intelligence, prove its probability,
win the judgment, and the convert
to reason will follow it from interest.
Passionate appeals or invocations for
legislative compulsory enactments
vviil do nothing but harm.
For the 58,QU0 square miles in
Georgia, there are 69,956 farms. Of
these 32,17(1 are under fifty acres, and
37,786 over that amount. Ido not
deny that, small farms would 'pay
mo.-t if properly used, hut let us see
which docs. The greatest*number
and .smallest farms are .‘‘onrid in tlm
conn!i s of Oanoll, Gilmer,'" Liberty,
and \\ asliiiigton ; the fe-.vest number
and largest bums in the counties of
I taker, Coweta, Columbia, Douche ty,
Houston, Hancock, Jvfleison, Jones,
Laurens, Lee, Macmi, Ft wart, Sum
ter am! Twie'-rs.. it is a well known
fact that more money is made bom
one acre in the latter named counties
Limn in the first named.
Thtg69,936 harms c(*ntn’.iij23.t> 17.-
941 .acres, Of tliis*2B 9 percent, is
improve'! —say 6 831,856 acres—less
than 100 acres to the farm, and this
includes the amount covered with
briers and btooin sedge. In Georgia
there are 2i0,U00 voters. For each
voter we have 31 improved acres.
Over one-jburth of this amount is
resting or thrown out\ leaving
acres for cadi voter, there are
tv, ice as many laiys aloe to '!<> me.» >
work as voters. Now, allowing gme
tldrd of ilvo..#raen an 1 boys in the
Stale,,to be employed in the variiyiis
trades, we have 111- ac.rfs tor each
farm band Tor ail this, corn, wheat,
oats, potatoes; rice, cotton, Ai* Is
not this small farming already j
But Milton would exempt 100
acres for each man and tax what he
may own over that exorbitantly
Such a law would be in violation o*
the Constitution of U. S., and* also'ot
that of Georgia, Cons. Art. I >
Sec. XXVI and XXVII.) Stlch a
law, bad tbe Legislature the power,
would be most pernicious in its
eft’edls. Over one half of Middle,
two-thirds of South, and one third of
North Georgia, would be tor sale,
from the fact the ownertcould not
pay the taxes. There would Re more
acres of land thrown upon thev mar
ket than there are dollars in Georgia
to-day.
There are plenty of che:i|> lands in
Georgia, and no one need go West p,
find cheaper; for there are 13,4.2,-
872 acres of “wild land” iu Georgia, !
which upon ao avmago could be
bought Jot less thsfr Vveffty fife ;
cents per acre. I,ooo*ooo ' acres oi
this amount belongs to the 'Hiatt*,
which, with about oih?-third of the
remainder for will be sold iu
’73, provided the Legislature do upt
i-epeal the Wild Land hill ’passed iu
Au». last, when it meets in January.
This will make lamb cheap en ugh. ;
If Milton lives in Milton county, l.e
can buy 10,000 acre’s of “wild lauu’
in thiity miles of his house* it he
will only .find the owners, who will
take one dollar an ucte, and that
gladly. Go ,to tbe wild land ufiL-e,
capitol buildthg, Atlanta, rind the
owners, bnyTlOO acres for,each ul
“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!”
I your sons, and keep them at home-
Miltons proposition to “exempt
entirely from taxation the little farms*
j eceupied by the owners, say of one
I hundred acres” and tax *fl lie may
; uft <‘ abovo that, if it be “bundled.-,”
and “tlfousands,” “let it be spasmodic
upon the i erves of the pocket”—
that is, first year empty the pocket,
next lake his land for the tax and
send the poor dog howling for bread,
is the wickedest stab that ever the
tights of man received. In Milton,
Forsyth and other counties 6f Clioro
j hee, Ga, the lots of land contain 40
acres, Echols, Clinch, Cofh-e, Ber
| rein, Irwin, Ac., contain 190 acres.
A lot in the former, upon an average,
is worth more than one in the latter,
100 acres in the former would-be
equal to 1 225 in the latter. The
owner of the latter must spasmodically
be taxed, while that of the former, to
enable him to be buried in “Old
j Georgia,” must not be taxed !
Many young men in the professions
I invest their little savings in the cberp
| “wild lands,” hoping some day to
1 dispose of them and settle themselves
comfortably. But Milton would take
it from them with “spasmodic” taxes
and leave them destitute.
Tart* dL Gwinnett.
Pipe Stem* Mountain.
In' the southwestern portion of
V Lmesota, about eighty miles
| from the imui'lt of To, re ' BU n
! River, wheic it empties into Ft.
Fetor’s, or in tlio-pai lain q of the
old traders uigl Indians, tluve
| day h journey is Bipe Sftoue M.< un
! tain. This mountain, ..about one
: mile in leim'lh, and varying from
fifty to one hundred lost in height
is composed ot layers i,t oii.ua it*
soft stone of a brick-red color-
Alujii freshly taken from its nn
tivo bed it i.-, soft, and easily cit
and moulded with a knife, but
SoOtl hardens.
This is the pipe clay or stone,
the deposit Irom which all of the
Indian tribes, for Inn,died of mile-.
| around, procured their supplies f i
j the mauulucture of their pipes
As the pipe is the constant co u-
I panioii of the Indian when assent
! bled in their huts, a part of the
ecu taonial leasts, and always req
I uisitc in their councils, this mom.*-'
| tain to have an importance little
| short of adoration. To them it
i was holy grontul—a gift front the
j great Spirit—and as it furnished
the material which composod their
etnbh tn. ol peace, no stilfo was
ever cage tillered or permitted in
stlie vicinity of this lfieuiilain
Ilcie tribes between whom lends
had existed lor a hundred years,
met and stroked together the cal a
met or pipe of peace. For litis
time all dilleivnces were forgotten.
I It was the Ai cognition of a divine
right to enjoy one of nature’s free
| gifts unmolested.
JHis mountain was the only one
j of its kind known, and n<» one
tribe ventured to monopolize it.
i The country of tlitf Sioux lay to
the North of it, the Chippewa to
| east; and the,Sties and the Foxes
I south, all hostile to each other,
but their journeys to Fipe Slope
1 Mountain were never molested
j Nature seems to ha~e made some
extraordinary -effort to produce
I this in untaiu, and for a specific
| purpose, as it vises iu the midst of
a prairie country with no sister
mountain or rocky ledge to 'bear it
company.
Fashioning the pipe bowls with
a knife or sharp stone, they affixed
Ito it a long Wooden stem. They
' smoked a kind of sweet scented
• bark, known in their language as
liuncte/cnic, mixed with a little
j tobacco. -An Indian would deem
it-extremely uncivil to sit down
and sriipke a pipeful! by himself,
but takes a few whiffs and then
passes it to his neighbor, lie re
, peats the same ’ cermony, and
patJsds it to the next, and so on
j turtH all have srnbked in the fireie.
j At a dogToust. with the chiefs in
i counsel, thfc'pipe is passed in this'
I m naer after the meal, and the
repeated until it is
Biimked out.
llow the pipe came to be a gym
bol Of peace, or what ancient
legend 'began the reverence for
I'tpe Stone Mountain, is among
the uystcries of the past, and will
■go down with much of the unwrit
ten history of this peculiar people
noiwmr'f m.aaranuan l
General Wright.
Ihe Now York World has the
following obituary notice of the
death of General A li. Wright:
In the death of General A. R‘
Wright, who expired at Angi sta,
Ga., on tl 10 morning of the 21st
instant, the South sustains a very
groat loss. There was no man in
that country whose promise of use
fulness was brighter, and fond
anticipations were entertained,
not alone in his native Georgia
but in other of the ill treated com
monwealths of the South, that
when his voice was heard in the
Forty third Congress, to which lie
had just been c eded, the people
of the United States would learn
that all the traditional fire, energy,
and eloquence of the South of hap
pier days survived. Gem Wright
had been a go at and valiant sol
dier of the Confederacy; as a
lawyer he was that rare but admi
rable compound of the advocate
and the judge, with all the dlWjfk is- j
sinuate acumeu’and # fhe ornateJ
and glowing oratory of the other ;
as a politician! he was true as steel i
to the principles of constitutional I
liberty. In every ppint of view he i
w.-s a truly representative South
erner, and his utterances in Con
gress, had he been spared to de
liver them, w it'd have fai hfdliy |
d lineated bis | e qde. The true, i
long-slid-- I voice of the outraged [
and bidding South would have
been at last heard. The fulfilment i
of this high d stiny by one so well
fit eel for its accomplishment has
not, however, been vouchsafed
The obi leaders of the South a fie
sib iit: the new genetaiioii, who
poured but me t ioou oi nren <-•
lier manhood in the Confederate
armies, and in their middle age
were m during and ripening every
day into vigor and excellence,have
just lost in tins death a chieftain
aao.'.g them, and it is not surpris
ing that at such a 1 >ss, so sudden
and so great, Georgia and her sis
ter S ates are mournfully con
,-cious of still tdi >ther great be
reavement, and trial.
General Wright was born in
182(3 in Jefferson county, Georgia,
and was consequently et tlie lime
of his death in the lull prime of
life. In person lu: was tall and
stately, "f digt ilied demeanor and
bearing, with a sense of power and
nuftily vigor ever present in thu
Hash of a steady and determined
eye. Personally ho was a noble
specimen of the Saxon type of
manhood .and intellectuality, had
the hardy good sense and the im
posing self-equipoise which are the
mental characteristics of the same
blood Early in life lie came to
the bar and had won a distinguish
ed position before the war. When
this broke out he instantly offered
his services, and rose rapidly till i
he obtained tbe rank of major- J
| general, participating in all tiie .
more sanguinary and desperate i
! coidlifcis of Lee’s army, and more
; than once pouring out his blood ;
upon the field, fjince the war
i ,
there has been perhaps no man in
Gaorgia, unquestionably now the
leading State South, who has been
so often honored with important
and delicate public trusts. Every
thing the punitive legislation of
Congress permitted was given him
by liie people, and as soon as the
Amnesty act rendered him eligible
be was chosen 10 Congress by a
handsome majority over the Ad
ministration candidate and an
independent Democrat, the son-in
law of ex Senator Toombs. In
the moment of victory, however,
! so well won and so well deserved,
he was taken away. The suit
which had just lifted, as it were,
the clouds from his future, only
lighted the pathway to his tomb.
A saucy editor gets off tho follow
ing definition of a widow; “One
who knows what’s what, atnj is de
sirous of further information on the;
same subject.”
[s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Semes aisiof-.jf tlie Suffering
in Nov. York,
The inconvenience and roai sufler
ing which even the woll'to do Has
sox underwent yesterday must have
brought homo to all cf them a faint
realization of the misery to which the
storm subject d the poor. Did it
fail to do so, a walk with the writer
through C lurry street and cootigu
1 ous localities last evenin'' would have
not. In his wanderings ho fell in
with an old man whose clothing *>(
rags hardly covered Iris nakedness,
his shoes had no soles, ho was with
out a hat, and was evidently on'y
pnevented from realizing .his condi
tion by stupefaction produced l»y Ii*j -*
nor. After some
i nation ho was induced hr tell 'tee
j writer that he vvas-yn,hi.s way to the
! “all night hoys# }, j of “The Black !
Hen.” R, was ii# street
near Cherry, in j\ basement lower
tlfan the wretched street, and leach
ed by four stops, which were !:neo
deep in snow. Tito house itself was
*kc many of its class, two-story and j
attic, built of brick, with a huge
basement. The first and second slo
-1 iea are “private,” ns it is called—that
is, they are occupied by one family,
each. The attic is kept as the poor
est sort of “boarding bouse,” while
the basement is arranged at the
I Black Hen’s in this fashion: In fron
of it hangs a tumble-down, three.
cornered arrangement suspending a
kerosene lamp, mid hearing upon it
the inscription, in rude letters, “Oys
ters.” 'I he basement, or what could
be seen of it through the snow, was
painted blue, and on it was painted
in white letters the words, ‘‘Open all
| night.” The place smell ahomina
i ’dv of human filth and stale fish and
! oysters and oau ucpnn. un tmj ivrti
hand of the (loot as you entered ex
tended a small ‘"bar,” and scattered
around were five or six tables
Without a word the old man handed
i u few cents to an old hag who came
’
| forward to collect them, and then,
| shaking the snow from his head,
throwing himself on an apology for
a chair, lie drew near to one of the
tables, laid his head on his arm—and
that was all. According to a police
officer some thirty or forty men “go
to bed” iii this way every night, and
last night many found lodging on
the bare, hard boards of the floor, riot
being lucky enough even to get. a
chair. The only warmth is supplied
in this “home” by a small sugar-loaf
stove, which "could not hold at its
best over a pailful of coal, and is
never more tlfan half full—-gn fact the
only warmth given by it is simply
negative* Leaving the Black Den
the writer visited several lodging
houses jn (merry street, near James
-lip, and in James street,neat Cherry.
In one of'these places lie found four
women, or rather four female ciea'
lures who hal been women .once,
occupying one wretched truckle bed,
lying down on it with their diity
( lotlies on, and without any pretence
at covering at all. This quartette of
hags paid 20 cents among them for
the “accommodation,” and evidently
considered thunselves people ol con
biddable fortune and consequence.
One of them was soothing herself to
slumber by occasional draughts at a
big bottle which, from its peculiar
odor, evidently contained gin* and
gin th»t was very bad. One of the
women bad her bonnet on, or what
passed for a bonnet, and another was
fast asleep in the oblivion of drunk
enness. Four nastier brings or a
nastier place for four beings to bo in
cannot realiy be conceived of, for, ,
as if to show that in the lowest
depths there could be a lower still,
there were some fifteen or twenty
men and women huddled together
on the floor, some cuddled up in
corners on straw, and others trying
to roll as near as possible to the
scanty file in the rickety stove, lu
an old rockery in Oak street there
were found some fi'teen or twenty
men, women, and children sittiug
on lha tlvor arouui a little stove
1 BATES OF ADVERT IS
spack 3 mo’s. 6mo s. ] 2
1-", lire is 4 00 $ <; 1)0 i;.|
r B, i <><> Jo 00 1,
■"V 1 8 ‘ I <>o 20 Ms *
I 4 CO J- I I - t'O 2(1 00 1 30 S O
col 20 0(1 35 bo go 00
on:* col. I 40 00 <,o | y, ,
Ihe money fur advertisements is due
on the first insertion.
A Square is the space of one inch in
depth of the column. irrespective of the
number of linos.
Marriages and deaths, not exceediiV
six lines published free. For a man ad
vertising his wife, and all other persona!
limiter, double rn’es will tie charged.
No. 42,
j that had hardly the slightest symp.
(torn of heat about it; but there they
( were, shivciing round it in tLeir filth
j H, "l lil .d 8 < K'jme smoking tiie worst
1 possible tobacco in the cheapest
possible clay pipes; ethers drinking
mm, gin, Ac, from bottles which
iiad originally contained sarsaparilla;)
one hungry old woman 1, nneing a
bone and vainly trying to, eviaet
*°me nutriment therefreifi; and all
ulk : ng, some Irish the original,
others Berman, aiJl other* a lan
guage of low f slang which -was ,-u
•foreign” Jrjtfhe rest. The scene
w u?yitTuini iinted by a few tallow e-ui
(fit;* which were put in old bottles,
and which were never studied.
# In the Twenty asevemh Precinct—
Mong Washington street, between
Battery place and Morris street, and
Morris and Hector sireets, tlioi** are
a numtner of low “groceries,” where
tliey sell candles, can lies, kindling
wood, and every thing save soap, atid
where, to the rear of the store, there
is a little “bar,” to the rear of which
agsin tliero are “accouunodaiious'
on the floor or on the straw for
twenty or thirty people. These
places last night were ail filled to re
1 .letion. SBino paid 15 cents for
their lodging, and thereby secured
places nearest the “store,” and the
'love and tlm light, while those poor
devils who only paid 5 cents were
shoved into the rear d uk corners.
J apscott s emigrant lodging house
in Washington sheet, near Rector,
where the hods are arranged like
hunks or births, one above ihu other,
for 25 cents pet night, was likewise*
overthrowing with wretched human,
itv. Iho dens in the Fourteenth
Ward were ‘crowded, and the sia
tion-houses in the Fourth, Sixth, and
Eighth wards were tilled beyond
were treated but litile better than
the beasts that perish.
Mu Oiucuu’v'a Epitaph.— A'gieat
journal, among the greatest in the
world, in some features it will live to
l>o Mr. Greeley's best monument,
whoever may he its future conduc
tor. In the vigor of his intellectual
life, Mr. Greeley once wrote this
beautiful passage, employ ing an*cp
itaph, to be found in bis aulobiog
iapby, than which nothing mite
fitting could be placed upon his
t?mb;
“Fame is a vapor; popularity an
accident; rh lies take wings; 11.*»
only earthly certainty is oblivion.--
No man can foresee what a day niav
bring forth, and those who cheered
to day will ofien curse to-morrows
and yet I cherish the hope that the
journal l projected and established
will live and flourish long after I
shall have mouldered into forgotten
dust, being guided by a larger wi*.
dour, a more unerring sagacity to
discern the right, though out by a
more unfaltering readiness to em
brace and defend it at whatever per
sonal cost, and that the stone which
covered my ashes may bear to future
eves the siill intelligible inscription,
‘Founder of the N«-vv Yoi k Tribuuo.’ ?
A "correspondent of the GrillEi
Cultivator has a.cjy met with a
philosopher, by name, Joe M :to»,
living in Meriwether county, vyhosc
manner of life fully 1 nliiles him.
in our judgment, to the name. The
COi respondent says :
lie saws his own lumber, builds
his houses, makes all his furniture
from a chair to a bureau. lU
makes bis wagons, and irous them
with It s owu hands, catches bea
vers and makes lbs hat—ten of
these fury gents ho lias caught
within the past year. lie raises
corn, meat and wl.e.tt for sale.—
lie has the largest apiary in tho
count!y, from which lie lias taken
over one thousand pounds of bogey
tlte present season. Joe, by hav
ing several encounter* with Prince
Alcohol, in all of which the Prince
got the better of him, has loug
since abandoned hiru. Joe, when
his day’s labor is finished, « iter
tains bis family with music front
the violin, on which instrument
uone can excel him.