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I Editor —By request of relit
Ll friends, I respee.fullv
Lee in your columns for a
Lif>2rap'.u<‘’il sketch of the life
Josluii Bradford. who was
■ IU Fairfield Diet., S. C. in the
[■1799. of Charles and Aauey
Ifonl. to wham was born welre
|H. children eleven of whom pve
■ the subject ot thissketcli to
Brave, one only (a sister) of
■large family survives him.
■t little is known to the writer
■ bovhooil days. His parents
■ 4 t least—careless as to the
Butal training of their children.
R grew up to man and woman
■ without thj advantages of
■ religious instructions; hence
■ were wild and followed their
■ inclinations without restrain’.
Ir. Bradford was married to
m Kirkland, in IH2O, by whom
■ad six children, three boys and
le girls, one of each having died
lea two of each living.
■ 1829 Mr Bradford came to
■ county, and settled in Ben
Rhs District, so famous at that.
R tor its dissipatio n and VI r. Li
R|made his power felt, and
Red himself the equal of the
Rt reckless. In those days it
Rby him and others of the
Re school, considered that, to
(Ho t( wn and 'cave without a
H>. was wan’iuy; in manhood,and
generally had it. for there
generally the “bullies’ - from
Creek. Haines Creek, Yel-
MRiver, and other piris, vho
always as anxious for the
Has were the -Hen Smith’ boys.
IBing, howev Q r all these years of
fighting, and general
Mr. Bradford was char
by great vivacity of spir
depth of generous feeling,
H- SenHe of worldly honor, and
devution to friends
IB frienilsliip. These character -
s °ffener led him into ditto ul
■ on llccotl| d of his friends,'hiu
|Biis own, for he was not a qiiar
ome 11Jail i hut would espouse
ejuse ol a friend to the fight if
Hi he.
went on with him in this
for about twelve years after
to tii I 011 -y. But it so
on one occasion.
■ permitled hisliitle hoy, Jeffer
■h in accompany him to town,
H 6O soon the usual scenes were
■“g wasted. The little boy was
■farmed at seeing his father in
■o 1 1 bat he became nearly era/
■ which grea-ly exercised the
■*' feelings of his father, and
■“ Vfcl 'lte 'timing point in his life
then and there that he
■uld be a better mun.
y l|Q nly after this, he heard a
jP®w preaehed at old Corinth
y. ,iv ’ ,lle Appalachee, by
■ B ‘Op Capers, which pointed so
B / to 18 f ir «ciouß Saviour, cru
» Mead, buried, and risen for
C, option of j rtßfc 9 uch as he,
Iw*** ' Uul l HUl «enlly
B . 0 B ‘ n - His straggle
B 8 orl however, for
■ sm°Bt,h a ppj| v convened a
B aVS . al,er ’ w Hile working in
B This was in 1835 :
Weekly Gwinnett Herald.
TYLKR M. PKKPLEB, /
■ UTTOK AND PrOPRIKTOR. j
he at once attached himself to the
Methodist Chruch, (before conver
sion was a primitiva Bap ist in ,e
lief,) was scou made a leader, then
an exhorier in which capacity lie
served until the 21st. of Julv.lß4B
when he was licensed to preach by
Rev J\V Glenn, PE. He travel
ed as an Intinerant with Rev Jno
H. Mash'nun, in the years 1840-51
He was ordained Deacon by Bish
op Capers, in 1852, was ordained
Elder in 1861. by Bishop Pierce ;
was assigned work in 1857, in
Lumpkin county, but soon failed
to b«* effective 011 account of ill
health, by reason of which he per
manently located. He male it
the rnie of his life [when his health
would permit] to spare neither
time, labor or expense, [so far as
his means would allow] in doing
good.
He preached almost every Sab
bath. and his preaching wa9 at
tended with usual success; for lie
labored wcstlv among the people
who knew’ him in his worst days,
and the powerful oonir»st togeth
er with at eloquence peculiarly his
own, g re him a great hold up an
their feellings and affections. No’
having enjoyed the advantages of
a thorough education, his language
could not probably have wi'listood
sharp criticism, but it possessed a
powerful pathos, seldom equaled,
and rarely excelled. He was not
idle in the vineyard of hia Lord,
but whatsoever he found to do, he
did it at once, and manfully, too.
His motto was work, and he carri
ed it out to tlie letter—talked, pray
e 1 witli his neighbors; held cla* 8
prayer, or experience meetings
with them almost everywhere he
went. He was poses edof great en
ergy and decision of character was
always ready to give a reason of
the hope that was in him—was
true, kind and faithful, and gen
tle as a woman in all the walks of
life.
He was made a member of the
‘‘Masonic Fraternity,” in 1854, was
raised, exhalted, until he stood the
peer of his brotherhood; and was
said to be a living coinplification
of the principles and tenets of the
order. Was made a member of
the order of Patrons Husbandry,
and worthily did he observe its
precepts —and faithfully carried in
to effect its “aims and purposes.’
He was employed by the Ameri
can Trac Society for about two
yhars, as a Colporteur, and
a poor widow and orphan to-dxy
blesses his name for thh Bible, for
• facts, and for cheering words of
comfort, recei red during his peri •
odical visits. He was thoroughly
consecrated to his Masters service
In conducting protracted meetings
he appeared to be in his proper el
ement, and assistod by Rev. Jor.a
thin Betts, and others, be carried
on|Bome powerful ones.
Of one ODly will we speak which
was held at New Hope, near Law
reneeville. in 1866, in which over
sixty were converted, and joined
the church, a goodly number of
whom remained and ma le useful
members.
Mr. Bradford’s spiritual life was
upon a plane high above the mists,
fogs, and entanglements ot this
world of care and perplexity, al
ways joyous and hopefdl, never
getting intoths Slough ofdispond’
er into ‘Castle Despair.'
In 1874 he was bereft of his wife
(She died as she had lived, a good
woman, leaving the aged pilgrim
solitary and alone, his children
having all married before. ]
In about a year after lie wedded
Mrs. Martha Badenbaugh, a most
es'imablc woman, by whom he 1 ad
oae child, which died at a few
months old.
He had been afflicted for severa]
months with a cancerous i flection
of the face, which caused him some
anxiety lest his should be a slow,
lingering death. He constantly
piayed that he might he spared
Lawrenceville, i3ra. Wednesday Sept, -9 1883
that affliction, his prayer was most
certainly answered, for on ‘Mijbath
the 13th of May. a beau'ifnl, love
ly day, when all nature, with her
rich profusion of sweets and flow
era, seemed to conspire to ohee r ,
and solace the aged veteran, the ti
nal summons came, silently, and
unexp ctedly to his family and
friends, the good man was bidden
to ‘Come up higher.’ and without
a straggle he was translated .from
earth away.
He had lived to nearly four
score years, over half of which was
snent in the work of saving souls
of himself and his race, and ro
doubt many saved through his in
strumentality were at the “Beauti
fill Gate. Waiting and watching”
for him. How great the triumph!
how glorious the eud ! and how
sublime the eestacy ! When the
last battle's fought, and the final
vic'ory won. So lived, and so died
the subject of this sketch. His
funeral sermon was preached at his
burial by Rev. J. R. Parker, P. E.
He was buried by his brethren of
the “Mystic Tie,' who, wiili his
memory embalmed in their hearts,
and trusting that his soul had
gone to Henven, consigned his
body to the grave, in the presence
of a very large assembly of friends.
He is gone, and we may not soon
look upon his like again. May we
meet him, in the Paradise above.
H.
Miwsiuu Work in Japan.
At the Bedford Avenue Re
formed Church. Bedford avenne
and Madison street, Brooklyn , yes
terday; the Rev. Janes L. Airier
man of Japan, said thai Protestant
mission work was stared in Japan
iu 1851) by ill. Presbyterian and
Reformed Churces of the Uniied
States and ibe United Presbyteri
en Church es Scotland, under the
name of the ‘‘United Church of
Christ iu Japan.” The first
Church was organized in Match,
1872, at Yokohama, wi\h eleven
members. Now there are about
one hundred churches and nearly
5.00 converts induing all demo
j minatins, excepting the Romish
and Greek Churhces. Twenty one
churches last year were self sup
porting. They contndtcd last year
$9,000 for there own work. Iu
these mission® the Reformed
Church, the American Pre*byt£
rean Church, and the United Pres
byteriaa Church of Scotland/mill
work together and the dburch
that they support, Presbyterian iu
doctrine is indepandant of eccles
iasdal connection w'tb any church
in other countries, and cohtaines
now about two fifths of all na
tive converts in the empires
Shintoism and Buddhism are the
prevailing forms of religious belief
among the natives.
If ‘nothing is made by farming’
bow did all the personal property
get into 'he world, and most of it
into the hands of people that nev
er produced a cent’e worth direct
ly? Wisre do the merchants,
spectators, manufacturers, law
yers. Ac, &c.. get it? Gold, sil
ver and diamonds, irou, copper,
lead, etc., come from the mines,
but they would not be worth a
cent without meat and bread to
back them. The fact is, the whole
fabiic of wealth, prosperity and
happiness is based on meat and
bread, ami these come only from
the farmer. Reverse the fool apo
tnegm and it will come nearei the
truth. All that is made comes
frern farming. If the farmer fails
to get the benfit of bis labor, that
is his look out, and shows that
there are sharper people in the
world than the farmers.
Tenjy ears ago two loviDg hearts
were separated by a little quarrel
owiug to the miscariage of an ex
planatory letter. He went West
and married; she s'aid Kast and
married, and now both are once
more free. He has eight children
and the jaundice, and she seven
and tie djfpesia, and neither has
any idea of ever marryiug again
Truth may be stranger than fiction
but it is not so roraatic
CORRESPONDENCE.
We aiv not responsible for au> views
held or sentiments expresses by our
i ••rrespom l#> nf «.
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Kuellt ille Kihibitlou.
On last Friday eve the yeoman
ry with llieir helpmetes and off
spring to the very least, together
wi'h all classes, began to poHget
themselves iuto a body, to wii
ness the exercises of the students
of the high s?hool at the promts
ing ville known as Knellville, Gwin
nett county. Proses lor Oscar
Brown, Preceptor, waH well to his
post. The decoration was well
arranged and beautiful, whit 1 !; re
flects great credit to the lovely lit
tie ladies, and they deserve great
praise with their teacher, this be
ing the first and last exhibition in
this placej.which is fast improving
in n orals. And it was made man
ifest during the exercises tkftt the
professor had not failed to f-teach
the young i lea how to shoot,” for
they shot well. Not only tdid the
i little boys and girls shool, bu t
also the larger students shot too
—in a sham b tile. The exereis
es began at 2 p. ni, and they spelt
well. Miss Ara Williams carrying
off the prize as the speller. Then
came the contest in reading, which
was stubbornly contested. At
last Buddie Shell was victorious
and set down at the head of the
list. The speaking by Jlittle boys
and girls and also their recitations,
especially the little girls, were
good for Hie first effort.
Supper time was announced,
in which pretty well all engaged.
At 5 o’clock p. m- the exercises of
a company drill beg .n which was
interesting to many, except the
old soldiers, who will hardly ever
get rested sufficiently to be enter
tained by the thought, nr. b less
the sight of men in rows with mas
kefs to their shoulders. The sham
battle revived feelings which pre
vailed with a goodly number dial
was present, between 1861 and
1864, but can say that the drill
and sham battle and marching by
qhe whole school was excellently
performed. The Professor having
been a smdent at the Military In
stitute, marshaled his forces well,
displaying Bis power in tacics.
T*‘e night exercises opened at
The salutatory address
was gracefully delivered by Dryas
Lanier, best speaker.—Music.
The speeches and compositions by
both little boys aud girls were
much to our surprise. The most
of them were so little they could
not speak loud enough to be heard
by the entire audience, but one ir
onr position could hear ihe/n, and
think, look out next year wbeiy
grow a little more in size nn£
eloquence. The power of elo
quence will then ring down thro’
Bro Harris’ bottom corn hard by
the academy. The next best
speech was the valedictory by
John Moore, and this student de
serves praise.
Tite good part has been told—
now comes the laughing exercises,
which was acted very well, and
pleased the large audience. Above
all the good order of the audience
reflects honor to the entire com
munity round about Suellville,
where we observe vice giving way
and morality taking its place.
There are no better citizens found
than those arouud this ville, and
no better place for a good school.
Professor Brown will reopen his
school on the Ist Monday in Jan.
1884. Take notice;
We will mention that we under
stand there was some misbehav
ior by some party living north of
of this place. L is well known
who they are. We hooe they will
not mar the peace of their friends
by doing so again at another exhi
bition.
We are building a Baptist
church at this place which we hope
will be completed by the Ist of
De'-euher, and narked interest is
being manifested by all the citi
zens with but little exception.
We state that Mr J T Snell will
soon return from Atlanta •><> lis
home here, much improved in cod
dilion, having been under the
treatment of Dr Westmoreland
and others. He suffered the great
er part of tl is year from ahscc- s
of rhe liver. We hail the day of
his final recovery.
A. J W
Canton. Ga., Sept. Bth 1883.
The crop prospect in Cherokee
county since the rains in August,
have greatly improved. Iu fact,
on die North side of the Chatta
hoochee river, as an average, crops
are much be ter than bdow, ex
cepting certain localities in Gwin
uett and a few in DeKalb. On
poor, rooky ridge land in this
comity, comprising those mono
tainons bluffs or acclivities which
rise up on every hand, both c rn
and eetton have a poor appeal
ante aud the yield will doubtless
bt light, but the farmers general
ly don’t, depend much on such
lands. On those immense river
bottoms which skirt the Etowah,
corn has a fine, luxuriant appear
auce. The crop will be below
that of last year, but there will
be an ample sufficiency, it is
thought, with the remain it-g part
of last year's crop, to meet every
necessity of home consumption.
As the river Nile is to Egypt,im
parting moisture and fertility to
the soil, so it may he said the Eto
wah ia to Cherokee county. It is
from the large tracts of bottom
lands bordering this stream that
most all the garnered treasures
and wealth of the county are de
These lands are generally rated
very high in market value. I urn
told nothing less than one hun
dred dollars per acre will buy
them.
Of late years the town of Can
ton, situated upon an elevation
rising rather abruptly on the
South from the river and dep >t,
has made considerable improve
ment. It must he remembered
that during the war this towu t
known as the country * home of
Joseph E Brown, was entirely de
stryed by lire by the invading fore
es, nothing Ireing left of the town
except a few brothels of which tii e
place could then burst. Besides
several large, tasteful business
houses t .at now adorn the place,
it has us large and tine a hoto]
as can be found, perhaps with one
er two exceptions, in North Gear
gia, and also an elegantly erected
ccurt house. There is one news
paper, The Cherokee Advance,
published here, with patent out
side, aad edited by Rev N N E Ige,
Baptist urin’ster of the place.
When the Marietta <fc North Ga
R. R. ( .arrow gauge) is couiplet
ed. it will be a great m*ans of de
veloping the resources of much of
Nort/t Georgia, which has hitherto
been in the back ground. This
part of the State comprises the
counties of Cherokee. Pickens,
Fannin and Gilmer* The train
now runs as fur North as the (til
mer line, and a the road is grad
ed and most of the cross ties down
to Ellijay. I am told the train will
be run there sometime before De
cember.
In Pickens and Gilmer, as is
known, there are vast beds of
white marble. It is saidte abound
in places in as inexhaustible quan
tities as granite at Stone Moun
tain. With ready means of trans
portation this will doubtless add
greatly to the weal h of (he State;
besides those engaged in agricult
uial pursuits in the momitaiu fast
ness will find a more ready mark
et for their products, such a* ap
pies, potatoes, cabbage. grain,
Ac. More anon
P. L. H.
No totter herbage can one pos
•ess than cheerfulness.
jVol. XIII.—No. 26
"KHlln*r IlimbbarUw*' lo Natch
Ihe “Mother Hubbard*.”
• The other day wheu old Maj.
Soiom'n atuounred his readmeas
to pr oceed in the direction of the
< hnroh his wife appeared wearing
a Mo l her Hubbard drpss Tire
old man intently -egarded her for
a few momenta and asked :
‘ Mary, what sort of a coat do
you call that ?’
‘lt's a Mother Hubbard, deems.'
‘Air von gout' to wear it to
church V
‘Why, certainly, Jeonis. The
Motiier Hubbard is all tbu fashion
now
‘Well, I’m ghul to know it," the
old man replied. ‘Just wait until
T get ready, and we'll go.'
The old man went out inv> the
kitchen, took a couple of meal
sacks cut the b rtkrras out, sewed
the tops together! and put them on
in intimation of pantaloons. When
he returned his wife uttered »
!<>ud cry of astonishment and ex
claimed:
‘Great Goodness .Teems, wind's
that ?'
‘Father Hubbard.’ the old man
replied.
•You are not a goiug to wear
them sacks are you V j
‘l've got to be fashionable to
keep up with you. I ve got as
much right to wear these tried
bags as you have to go in that
bran sack.'
‘l'll take it off '*
‘All right; oft" goes the Father
Hubbard,’and turning away, he
added to himself: ‘Only one way
to bea' a woman, and that ia by
agrecin' with her. Es it hadn’t
been fur the daddy Hubbard I’d a
been in a mighty bail fix’
Tbe viewer Arithmetic.
It coats S2OO for a young lady
to learn painting, and alre turns
out two lanHcapes worth forty cts.
apiece, wl at is the net profit’
An Indiana giri trapped eighty
three rabbits and sold them for
thirteen cents each. What wus
tire sum total, and how much did
she have left after buying her fa
tber a $lO overcoat.
A certain shaft nrakos C4f> revolu
tions per minute, and a youug
man is saized by the coat tail and
whirled around for twenty seven
seconds. How many revolutions
does he make?
A man wink-, his eye an average
of 30,000 times per day and awo
mans tongue makes 78.000 mo
tions every twenty four hours.
At this rate how long will ii take
the man to catch up?
The average woman groans 125
times per hour when suffering
with the toothache while the aver
age man utters thirty five ctrss
words evey seventy seconds. At
t/teendof three limns how far
ahead would the womaq be.?
Arrian inliichmond wouml np an
eight day clock every night for
thirteen straight years. How
niu"h time estimating three minti
tea fjr each wind, could he have
pul : n hoeing corn had lie known
what sor t of a clock he had?
Several different mothers inter
ested in the heathens of Africa
have 20 children between them.
Five of tbe children swear, three
have been in the work house, two
have rim awry and the police are
after Olliers. A lmt is tire remain
der, and how much will ii cost to
hire some one to wash their faces
end patch their clothes?
The following anecdote of Al
exander H. Stephens is related in
the Lou : svi!le Courier-Journal:
The wife of a Webern Congress
man was one day ac ting by Mr
Stepens’s bedside, when he whs
so very ill in the winter of 1877,
and lie spoke quite free.y to her
of his mother and early life.
‘Why did you never marry?’ she
asked.
‘That’s mv secret,' he replied
evasively
,But we would all like to know
i',’ was her response.
‘Well,’ said he, grimly and re
lue'nndv. ‘I never saw but one wo
man I wanted to marry, but she
did not want to marry me. That’s
a good reason, isn’t it?"
’I hope she lived to regret her
misbike ’ remarked the kind heart.
•Y-e-s,' responded Mr. Stephens
slowlv, T think she did, and so did
I 1
I .
Henry,’ writes us. asking uow
he can'break his mother from call
ing him. ‘You Hen-ner-ry! He
sayH that he has noticed thn/
whenever she call* him that way
she always gives him a licking
and sends him to lied without
his supper.
—AS (
An Aftrertiaitiff Medium
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i faxon of its i extensive circulation unU
remarkably (ow rates. fitisiness men
should remember this.
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Ciencral Niew*.
The school girls at Lexington
are accused of playing base ball.
Ihe fefice-nc fence contest in
Talbot county will be carved to
tire superior court.
•Judge Haynes had at Alpharetta
last week a cotton boll that meas
ured five {itches in circumference.
It'y such bolls will yield a pound
•f cotton.
A Mormon temple was destroy«el
by tire in tTtnlr last week.
/t is estimated that Ala hone has
t o more than 15.000 whiiesnpport
era in Virginia. Gully.
A young man in Chicago got
mad the other night and chewed
up a SI,OOO U. S. Bond.
It is said that Mrs. A. T. Stew
art has in'iunted that she intends
io make Judge Hil'ow her
heir.
An American lady well known
in society in Paris, lira le a sensa
tiou by appearing at tbe ball of a
foreign youm in a costume of white
kid. irtiing like a glove.
t he Alabama cotton crop is said
to be poor indeed.
d'he French have been abusing
English Missionaries in Madagas
car. i
A white boy in Savannah was
kicked in the head by a mule ami
killed.
Zululand is in a state of anarchy
Oetewayo has asked for British
protection.
A Charleston phosphate bark
vns wrecked and eleven of tlm
crew lost.
\ Vermont railway con
tractor whipped and stamped a
whole gang of Indian strikers.
Two failures in Georgia last
w“ok—J B Dickson, Dawsonvill#
and E. Latizunsky, of Newnun.
The Princess Beatrice had lodis
embark from a French imlway
train in her night clothing during
an accident.
The whipping post has been re
established in Canada.
An apple tree ’OO years old, at.
Muso’s sta‘.ion, is full of apples
this season.
A North Carolina girl died in
twenty-four hours after a hornet s
sting.
A rnuskmelnn was sold in .lack
sonport, Arkansas, that weighed 32
pounds.
Dr. Moffa*, the venerable mis
siouary to South Africa, died on
tbelOdi tilt, in Scotland.
A SLyear old boy has kid
napped in Montgomery.
The Springtown, Texas Poet
boasts of seeing an onion that
weighed twenty two pounds.
The mountains in Western Ar
kan bus are rumbling, and the pen
in thatsecion fear a volcanic dia
turbance.
The members of the Democrat
ie State Committee of Mussa hu
setts have been formerly notified
that Battler will again be a candi
date for Governor.
The astronomers are puzzled
over a new lumiuaay just discover
ed in the west. This mornings
dispatches explain it all-the Pres
identß nose is tamed westward.
Au attempt will he made to
hold the United States response
b 1 e for Ge •rgia’s repudiated
bonds.
A dispatch from Gallitin says
that the jury has returned a vei
dict of acquits) in the Frank James
case.
I he cotton crop of Georgia wifi
not be ruou* than seventy five per
cem of the average yield, with the
uncertainty of the equinox to
make the percentage lower still.
‘•Never change thy Yqu
may not get as good a «ne as yon
now have
The Delewnrs is getting so low
•hat the fish are carrying parasols
to keej) their complexions free
front tan and ‘as freckles, and the
small hoys who swim wear dusters
to keep off the dust they s'ir up
in the eddies. Large numbers of
snntish and black Pass have been
struck during the week, and the
eels are seen to sweat profusely
as they toil up the shoals
A girl has beee arrested while
disguised as an old woman. The
old woman disguised as a girl is
still at large—trying to make a
conquest.