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PALMETTO SHIELD OSCAR A. CANTHELL, fDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. PALjUgTTO, FEBRUARY 28, 1873. 1 urn agent for tlie best Lints now jl: use, lor [riots ai.ii firms, call at |be jSJiiel i (jriiou and see me. 0. A. 3ANTRELL. N. 15. \V. A. McCurry is Agent ft tin* same Liters in Fairburn. ,rn. ii.ii Judge Short says ; That sines he j.i.s 1 '('on or gaged in agricultural pur suits that 1c failed tv.o year to realize any |'oik fit from his labor. Que year jus whole crop consisted of gourds, and the diy weather ruined them. The n> si year he rented a small piece of ground from a neighbor to be sowed in oits on shares, said neighbor fur i 'shing the seed. The oat > looked fin ly nntii they were about two weeks old, when sea!! briars, began to shoot up all over the patch, and when harvest game, he carried his neighbor down to look at tlio crop and npoq teaching the j atoh he proposed to his neighbor, if i e would furnish him one hand to help pick dewberries—that he would take the dewberries for his share. The (fudge being feeble was not able to gather the ctop of berries, and the fail ure of his neighbor to furnish the hand, caused him to lose his entire crop, lie hopes to have better luck In the j'u tu re. Why Jacob Wept. “Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up Lis voice and wept.”— Scripture. If Rachel was a pretty girl, and kept iter face clean, we can’t sec that Jacob had much to cry about.— N. Y. Globe. How do you know but that she tlup. ped him in the face.— N. 0. Della. Gentlemen, hold your tongues. The cause of Jacob’s weeping was the re fusal to allow him to kiss her again.— Flag. It is our* opinion that Jacob wept because he hadn’t kissed Rachel before pndjregretted the timeiJlio had lost.— Age. Green-verdant,j one'and all of ye. The fellow boohooed because she didii’j jtiss him in return.— Manchester Adv. Pshaw ! none of you are judges of human nature. Rachel was the first girl that Jacob kissed, and he got so pci red j that his i 'voice trembled, and fgarsjcame tremblitigjjdowujhis cheeks.. — Auburn^Adv. Jacob was a man that labored in the field. When he kissed Rachel, he had just returned front his labors, and had not washed' his lips. After he had aoiledjtßachel’s cheek, lie wept for fear she would: think he was one of the “free soile-rs.”— Detroit Free Press. No, gentlemen, not one of you are correct. the reason Jacob wept was he was afraid Rachel would tell his mamma.—Jem/ Tdegaph. The reason Jacob wept was because Rachel woi\'d not let him stop kissing tier, when he once begun.— -Penn Reg ister. May be she bit him.— Yazoo Whig. May it not lie that it was his first at tempt at kissing 1 If so, she ought to have’bit Wun.—Nansemond Eng. What a long list of innocents ? We know, for we have tried it on. There w,-i\u jio teals shed, and the good book Joes not say there were. It was only his mouth that watered, and the lifting of his voice forced it out of his eyes. —Peoples Paper. How philosophical ! Jacob a “froc soiler !” In my opinion the reasom why Jacob cried was bec.-jii.se he was soft . Soft, Jabe.. Nation Eemocrat. Jacob wept ! Yea tears of joy ! For well he knew he might ; while Ra chel s beauty all confessed, stood ’fore his ravished eight.— Louisville Demo , prat. VS rong, wrong, one and all of ye- Rachel was preserved by the Lord ex pressly for Jacob, and the taste of a good pickle always fetched the biinc jo Jacob’s eyes.— Land and Law Ad visor. Gentlemen we join issue with you. Jacob set the example for Alexander the Great. He wept because in that djiy, there were no more Rachels to kiss. Jiie J’rßpkiin News boasts of a hen belonging Jo the Ferryman of that place which lays boiled eggs. VS e think Mr. Cleckler living near fairburn pa;; beat that. lie bus a lien ibat lays powder gourds. Quits a large number of persons 1 ?! f V and <-■ Ac left Atlanta laj ptiUnday night, for New Oilcans tu gitep.f} the Mat'di Gras Carnival. Godi.y SiMPicrry.— Simplicity is too often underrate, both as an attribute of character and as a quality of work When the Master was sent and his disciples came unto him, he did not “preface his remarks” at all, but struck directly and immediately at the nearest truth. His illustrations were remark able fur their simplicity. Unlearnt and and ignorant men could understand them. Fhry were ibawn from the •vu tj-day life of his hearers. Nothing, was too homely or too c unmon, e>.i re pent, or too near for his ; urp sc. He taught shepherds by their sheep, fish ermen by their nets, farmers by their crops and animals, lathers by their dealings with sons, mothers by their love, and skeptics by their own weath er-prophecies. There are not many teachers, we fear, who would be con tent with such unpretending illustra. tions as those of our Lotd Jesus Christ. But how cultivate this simplicity ? Fiist, by intentness of aim. If one fix the will resolutely ou the main ob ject, we shall insensibly conform to those methods necessary to reach it. A marksman who fastens his eye upon the centre of the target unconsciously assumes most of the requited positions, and is more likely to hit than he who thinks so much of himself that he is constantly mending his posture up to the instant of the shot. The teacher should never ask himself. llow will this sound ? llis sole absorbing pur pose is to impress truth upon the mind, llis thought is the soul before him, not the critics on either side. oitEAt Questions. — There are only two worlds, heaven and bell. There are only two societies. To which of them shall I be united ? These are questions of infinite and eveilusting importance ; and yet bow many there lire who never put them to themselves, wlio refuse to consider their spiritual prospects, and who satisfy themselves with the flatteiing hope, “Perhaps I am in the way to heaven ; perhaps I may go there when I die.” Is it a matter which it is safe or rational to leave upon a peradventme ? “Per haps God is my friend, perhaps my foe : perhaps I may be saved, perhaps be lost ; perhaps I may sing with the Redeemer, or perhaps howl with the lost.” You would not take an earthly journey without knowledge of the way, if not a inap to direct you. The Bible is our map. Ask yourselves, have you a title to glory ? Have you a meetness for glory ? Have you any thing in taste, or temper, or deport ment congenial with heaven or any thing that would render you unhappy there ? Do not put this question away from you ; do not give this question a hasty or superficial consideration ; but never rest satisfied until you are able to “read your title clear to mansions in the skies,” and to appropriate the apostolic doxology to yourselves.— Sermons by the late Rev. Patrick Thom son, M. A. A Father's Advice to a Bride. —Said a young husband whose business spec ulations were unsuccessful :—“My wife’s silver tea-set, the the bridal gift of a rich uncle, doomed me to financial ruin. It. involved a hundred unexpect ed expenses, which, in trying to meet have made me the bankrupt I am.’’ His experience is the expend ce of many others, who, less wise, do not know what is the goblin of the house, working its destruction. A sagacious father, of great wealth, exceedingly mortified his daughter by ordering it to be printed on her wedding cards “No presents, except those adapted to an income of $1,000.” Said he, “You must not expect to begin life in the style I am able, by many years of la bor, to indulge ; and I know of nothing which will tempt yon to try more than the well-intentioned but pernicious gifts of rich friends.” Such advice is timely. If other parents would follow the same plan, many young men would be spared years of incessant toil and anxiety : they would not find them selves on the downward road, because their w ives had worn all of their sala ry, or expended it on (he appoint ments of the house. The fate of the poor man who round a liuch-pin, and felt obliged to make a carnage to fit it, is the fate of the husband who finds his bride in possession of gold and silver valuables, and no large income to support the owner’s gold and silver style, A Subscriber wants to know if Judge Short is the man who emigrated to Randolph Cos., Ala., and remained 3 years, came back asked the citizens of Georgia fo pardon him, as he thought lie ought to be pardoned, and after be ing portioned fold the citizens that he thought he ought to have a land war rant extra. Tlie Price of Type; Messrs. Goe. P. Rowell & Go. announce that they have at their warehouse in New York an assortment of type from one ot the most celebrated foundries Sif tbs world that of Figgins, Loudon, England, which they vvl'l sell at 20 per cent, di-count from the Amarican scale, when ordered n fonts of 100 pounds and upwards. They oiler to import large fonts an special ordcr at a’greater i'i c c'ant from the Amerivi scale, and profess to be able to tii! the lar gi st order in eight weeks from date of its receipt in New York. They supply sorts in large or small quantities from their stock ou hand ih New York at the Ameri can scale rate. They assert that if the present duty on type shaii he removed,the price of the article, both of home and foreign manufacture, will immediately fall 40 per cent, below the present scale Messers, Geo. P. Rowell & Cos., are known as conducting the largest advertising business ever secured by one house, and are also extensive dealers in printing material. They are compelled to import foreign goods because American founders, by a close corporation or ring keep the price vastly too high, and at the same time make it an exception to every other species of merchandise by recogniz ing no wholesale price; the same amount per pound being charged to tlie purchaser of five thousand pouniU as would he paid by him who wants but fifty. Some twenty-five years ago, when I was a pastor of a church in , I took occasion one evening to visit a social meeting, in the church occa sions. One after another gave in his or her experience. After a time a man in bumble circumstances, small in stature, and effeminate, squeaking voice, rose to give a piece of his experience, which was dune in the 1-1- lowing manner: “Brethren, I have been a member of this church many years. I have seen hard times. My family have been much afflicted, but I have, for the first time in iny life, to see my pas tor or the trustees of this church cross the threshold of my door.’’ No sooi er had ho uttered this part of his experience than he was interrupt ed by one of the trustees an aged man who rose up and said in a firm, loud voice : “My dear brother, you must put the devil behind you.” On taking his seat, the pastor in charge arose and replied to the little man as folows: “My dear brother you must remem ber that we shepherds are sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Whereupon the little man arose again, and, in answer, said in a very loud tone of voice : “Yes, and if Fd been a fat one you’d have found me long ago.” The effect upon the aud!• nee can better be imagined than described. [For the Palmetto Shield. Fairburn, Ga., Feb., 27th., 1873. llon. JACK SU\)RT, Dbab gni:—Youriyiews upon the everlast ing bond business,jkro much cov. ted by the undersigned. Come to the rescue Jack, and hit her a ‘’smasher ” We are aware of the tact, that the Constitution lias seemed to slight you,and called out Mr. Toombs,Steph ens and others. We want your ideas because you are a plain, homespun sort of a man, and well a quainted in this country, We can understand what you write. Most of the fellows that have written ort this ques tion. don’t e ire a -‘red” whether the folks about Punkiu Town, Dark Corner, and Lick Skillet, understand them or not. We want a letter apropos. Don’t cite authori ties Jack, but if nothing else will do, quote slightly from Joe Gault, it you can find any thing in his Reports to the “pint ” The only point in the case is simply this. Will the holders of those spurious bonds, by “g easing” and otherwise “monipulating” the law makers; succeed in causing the honest tax payers of the State to foot the Mil. Give us an honest Legislature and we have nothing t > ft ar in the premises. But when we think of these L ings, we wont to exclaim 0 te.mfora! O .mores! Yours, Fondly, SIDNEY -NIKES,) STRINGER BTRAHAN, > Committee. DOLAN BINKS. j There is nothing like a good Bill-of Fare, and comfortable Lodgings', but it realy seems that our friend Thos Hoop’s Hotel, is deficient of both, for our in vincible Shoe-Maker, Benj. Franklin Mullennix sojourned with him but one night—next morning he swore by blood, “that he was tired of Palmetto, and the Hood hotel, and made his final exit. Now Thomas, you must not pull, aid drag, and work in the shafts like we saw you doing the other day. Have you a free Cab, fine livery, and -ac comrnodating driver—have them con ducted in this style, to your Hotel de Calaboose, and we will bet a Ihrip that you will get more customers than you want. Some of our readers to ked for the Grand Jury Presentments in last week’s issue. The reason of the daisy in publication, was they did not reach our office until after we had goije to press. The Hon. A. 11. Stephens was elect ed to Congress from the Bth District, without opposition. Grassd Jury Presentments. G ■ ini) Jcrv Room Fairbcrn Ga. 1873. VYe the Grand Jurors drawn summon)nod and sworn tor the February Term ol Campbell Superior Court, beg leave to sub mit the following presentments: Through our various committees we have examini and the books and rec >rds of the Ordinary, Clerk, Tax Collector and Receiver and find them kept in a bu-iuess like manner, and fu’.iy up to the re quire menu of their offices. We find the Court House kept in about the usual way, and would advise tie- Ordi nary to prohibit the occupancy of the same by any p> r( n or society, except for county purposes and a.!so to col lect all the money now due the county for rent of the same. We advise the Ordinary to require the Commissioners of tiie sever al districts to have the roads put in travel ing condition, and the necessary bridges built and repaired. We have examined the dockets ef th- Justices of the lb zee, and Notaries Public except c and Town and Union who did not report ) ot the several districts and find but few of them kept in accordance to law, being virtually malpractice in office. We find our Sheriffs and other County Officers, in the faithful discharge of their several duties, reflecting honor on them selves and county. We earnestly ri quest our representative T. W. Latham to have a special act, passed by the Legislature to make all jury tickets and county orders to bear interest at the rate ol ten per cent per annum from date of i—ue; also we recommend the Ordinary and Tax Collector to receive all county ordersand jury tic-;ets in lieu of county tax, We recommend also, that the Jurors and Bailiffs receive two dollars per diem for the year 1873. The financial status will he found as follows: Tax Collectors Books. Money recotved on 1,14?, ST, 03 taxable property 9, 150,43 ies3 the insolvent list valued at ...$40,27 Executions now in hands of T. C 47.73 Commissions 4F 5.50 £43,50 Balance, 8,606,95 Paid over to Treasurer as per Touchers, 8,606.95, Treasurer’s Books. Received from Tax Collector on taxes, 1871 41,25 Received from Tax Collector on 1572, 8,606,50 Received from Ordinary License etc, 1872, 192.50 Received from T. W. Latham , Jury fees 5,40 8, e 50,65 Money paid out as per Voucher, 8,190,45 Commission for Treasury 5 per cent 432,80 Balance on hind of Treasury 287,40 8,850,63 The money bas been appropriated . as follows : Paid Bands No. 1 to 35 to Smith & Bro., 3 597,3” Paid out to paupers 2,600," 0 Raid to Judge Gresham and Court 700,00 Paid for carrying six Lunatics to Asylum 230,20 Paid to Sheriff, and Deputy, Ordinary and Clerk, for extra service 872,50 Paid J. M. Brooks,Tax Receiver. 188,68 Paid Commission to Treasury, 5 percent. 432 77 Miscellaneous 44174 Money in hands of Treasurer, 28‘,40 8,650.65 Ordinary's Hiimul. The Ordinary reports the foliO'Vinar oat- . standing indebtedness of 'he County : Due Judge Gresham for 1872, 130,50 Amount due, or orders Ac., 1572, 471,41 Due Smith & Bro., 1872, 150,'0 Due D. P. White by Grand Jury, 1872, 50,00 804,90 Orders cut for 1873 to the amount of 381,95 Due Smith & Bro.,for Bond,with in terest from July last 3,500 00 3,861.95 Total, 4,686 S5 Money due the County,not collected on notes etc., 295 75 Town lots 166,25 By Austin with interest, 208,24 Amount in hands of J. W. Carter for rent collected 15/0 Money in the Treasury, 287,40 972,64 Total indebtedness of the County 3,714 21 We find from the general presentments of the Grand Jury, for the February term of the Superior Court (or 1872, that commutation has been granted for'the year 1872, and up to this term of Court for extra services, rendered by the Sheriff, Ordinary and Clerk S. C., and believing that under the require ments of the law, that it is impossible for said officers to make out, aud prove their accounts f r 1573; tie refore, we decline tak ing any action iu the matter. We find on examination that One Hun dred and Forty-seven Dollars has been paid out lor extra services performed either by Ordinary, Clerk S. C , or Sheriff'. Which sums was not ordered by this nor any pre vious Grand Jury. We leave it for the proper officer to explain. In taking leave of his Honor, Judge Hugh Buchanan, we do it, feeling that vve have an able, competent and efficient Judge—a goo 1 citizen, and an honest man. Nor do we say otherwise of our Solicitor-General. We recommend that these Presentments be published in the Palmetto Shield. Levi Eallard, Foreman S. S. Langston ffm, M. Walthall John T. Beckman Henry 11. Ilopkius John W. Phillips Augustus U, Williams Floyd S. Williams John W. Thaxton John L. Duke David J. Evans Rob’t S. Barnes Win. G. Roberts R. B Hogan Rob’t D. Harper Henry S. Rivers John Fowler Mathew E. Jackson John 0. Byrd Rob’t O. Watkins PROSPECTUS OF THE PALMETTO SHIELD, A WEEKLY NLWSPAPEP, Published at PALMETTO GEORGIA Devoted to Temperance, Asricult/ire, Politics, Xj it ©r o, t&j©, SUBSCRIPTION, IN ADVANCE, TWO LOLLME, PER ANNUM. SECIES SHIELD Being published in an enterprising town on the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, in a good section of country and having a large circulation in Campbell aud surrounding counties,the public will find it a good medium for their advertisements, PATRONAGE SOLICITED. No pains will be spared to make THE SHIELD A FIRST-CLASS PAPER. Our motto is, INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY COMB ONE, COME ALL, AND SUPPORT YOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER WITH A WILL, mr A VERY LIBERAL DE DUCTION MADE ON YEARLY AD VES TISEMENIS. BOOKISEFOBE YOU LEAP! THORNTON AND HOLLEMAN qtill ;haye in store an ample [J Stock of DRV HODS, BCC-T?, SHOE*, HIT", HARD WARE, Etc.. Which they propose to sell on as satisfactory terms as can 1c offered anywhere. Their stock is cotnplc at all times, and they are now receiving large lots of Meat, Lot n, Molasses, Flour Lartl etc,. Which wre h-ought tor Cash in the best markets, and wifi be fold fort ash or on Time. Farmers wishing to buy Provisions of any discription, cr Fertilizers are respectfully so licited to give them a call, jan. 17-3 m. S. P. CHKISTOPIIEK, FAIRBURN,‘GA , Manufacturer of and dealer in all kinds of Furniture. Also Wagons and Buggies made to order, or oid ones repaired. Blacksmilbing done by experienced work men, and charges reasonable. All work ior farmers done ciikai’. Call on him and get good bargains and cheap work, on Pumpkintown Street about three hundred raids west ot the depot, jan 17—1873--'Jm "WATCH STOLEN. ON Saturday, the 25th January, some per son siole from the residence of Mrs Matilda Nortbcutt, about six miles from Fair bur, a single case, ciliuder escapement gulu watch. The ring of said watch was considera bly worn, and the minute hand was off. The chain was a small brass one. Any one finding said watch will lie lineraily rewarded by returning it to the owner. C V. NORTIICUTT. fcb7-lm THE “VJCIOSI” S. 35. GO new sewing machine “V I U T 0 11” Runs very Easy, Runs very F...H, Runs vriy Still His Xi v," Shuttle Superior h> all others. DEFIES COMPETITION. Great Improvements in Needle, Cat no I be Set Wiling. Agents Wan led. Addess TIIE “VICTOR” S. M CO. 862 Bn ml! way N. Y A GOOD £ DANCE FOR A HOME FOR RENT OR SALE. A FINE FARM, KNOWN AS MRS, ■ V CiiAßli's plantation, three miles east ot Fairburn, containing 105 acres, of which 20 acres are ot the best Bottom Lands —85 acres very good Up Land:, anil •'0 acres in Woods. It is also very convenient to Schools, Churches aud Railroad, Terms very liberal. And for further par ticulars enquire at "heir Clothii g, and Dry Goods House, or. the corner ol Whitehall aud Alabama 8 trietsAtlanta. Ga, COHEN & SELIG. j in. 31 tf. L. B LANGFORD* WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Stoves, II olio w \\ ts re , Block Tii, Tin Plate, Sfcect iron & Triumei D Findings, SLite Mantels aiul ( intcs, House-Fillnishing Goods ol every description. Georgia Slathle Stoaes. 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