The Sandersville herald. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1872-1909, January 25, 1877, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text«V OiiiSkubm Von. XXXI. Series—Vol. V. SANDERSYILLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 2;>. 1877. NO. 30. 1U 'VM. PA UK & CO. T Hi;iiu.i) .V Ukoikuan is published ‘er.vTUu.Kaay in Haaderavillo. U*. Oflici'in Mssoino biuldniKH went corner ot public Square. ItiiicN ol Ciiilmcriplion : One copy ono year • ^.OO ,, •* sixmouthH .. .* ].im» ,i throe months 60 T n copies or more will he furnished to ,,„1 IS one yeur ut $1.30 for eueh copy Tonus of AilvcrtlsuiK aro those tixeil by i r niMfiii Pn ss Assocmtion. b TibomVaiHt uunt will L*' allowed on ftilver- iJnients rnnnin# Ihreu month* or jointer, Tin* yen lui't'e elreuhiti.m of tlds pitper •onstitut. ■ it u ileslrnblu indium for those (isliinit to ndvrttlhi. , • All lulls for iiilverlwniK lire due niter Aral nsertion nnloss otherwise urmtiKO.l hv eon. ;r*ct». business cards. B. T>. KVA NR BACON, AT PRINGLE’S. 00 FLOUR 3 AT PKfNGUK'H. V# of the common beverage of coffee without which few persons iu any half or wholly civilized country in the world now make breakfast. At the time that Columbus discovered I The Potter’s Field or public bur-r. ne . , , , . 'ini place of King’s county, covets ttU [America, ll T hftd . boe ? ^own t oauiy towards mays sister of about threo and otie-halfi^ 8 rew in Arabia or deserved the thrashing. It avros of the Poor farm at Flatbush.j u l|f r discoverv of its (1 seem then that the wounding ^ fronts on Clarkson street, at the . bev- LANGMADE & EVA NS, Attorneys at Law, j|Hiit!ei'NVfiHe« * ■ " Ocor^iii* deu 7, 1870—ly BOBHUT L. H01K4EKH, attohnky at mv, Sandei\svillo<) Gu. Hueruvtic unit cnrrfnl uthuition «iveil to i ,.t,ons, nnd prompt returns made in nil . , lutes of fees furnished on npplion- JOHN C. HARMAN, attorney at law, tlAMl.lX, <«%. All IiukIliens promptly attended to, deo7.18W l.v J0SIAI1 HOLLAND, At toi’iioy n i I iiiw Swainsboro, Ga. ALL business intrusted to him will receive | prompt ftttent ion l 1 i * ‘ ‘ 7i J. L. WHATLEY, Attorney atLaw, i Kiiriier Vk liitnltcr A Blryuu Sis., Havuimuli, Gu. | Bankruptcy Practice a Specialty. I dee 7. 1876 Cm CHAS. B. KELLEY, [ATTORNEY AT LAW. HwuiiiMboro, Ihitunm-I (iiiiul.v, firni'siii. ITtflLL prnotioe iu the Superior Court ot I Vl the oountles of Emanuel, Johnson, | Bull,.el. mi l L’attnnli. Special uttention ^ivon to the .'.olioetion of llkims, dee 7, 1S76 H JOSEPHUS CAMP, Attorney at Law, Swainesboro, Ga. Will practice iu the Supreme Court Ol iGeoruiii, in the U. S. Uietriut Court of Geor- Igia, and in tlio Superior Courts of the follow- Ih counties: Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, 11:: i v. Tatnall, and Bullook. A,r Spe- I dal attention given to collections, jjec 7, 1«7G -tf |WM. HENRY WYLLY, |Attorney & Counselor at Law, Sumlersv illc, <■». iDnU. pmetieoin the Courts of I ho Middle I it Circuit nnd bankrupt Courts. I sii'l’urticulnr attention given to tlio do- |*M« of criminal cases . dec. 7, 1876 tf •1. It. B3 3 A 80S, Attorney & Counselor at Law, Sandersville, Ga. I pttACTIUE in the IJ. S. Courts for the I A Southern District of Georgia, dec 7,1876- tf JESSE. A. ROBSON, ATTOItNKY AT LAW, Sandersville, Georgia. |will practice in the counties'oft/ie MIDDLE OIltOUIT. E. A. SULLIVAN, Notary Public & Ex. Officio J. P Sundcrsviflle, Ga., HU.VL iittentiun given to the Colleetioi J of Claims. ,le c 7, 1878 ly Midi ) (t ' A I.! 5««tio N. fiolliliclii,111.0 |‘SkivU.rsvi Ile, Cl corgis.. OFFICE AT Ills RESIDENCE, iA llflr ? ' 10 may at nil times ho found vvhei f 1 ‘Professionally engaged. deo 7 Om *• W. H. Whitaker, G E 1ST T I S T Sandersville, Ga. dii resumed the pruotica of liis l’rofes siou. om . eASii. dec 0 ? nP residence,on Harris Street. •»—Lll. Jofft — tf CrrsYn ’nnce. 1 ''j'' 1111 'Dwelling Houses in friiiix... l i ’ii'(i Insurance PDrnmCtV'^ 0 Xthons, Gn. It pays ils loss- ptc« Ltl.V. iind lakes risks at the lowest At Pringle's Syrup, At Primjlf^h. 00 At Phi milk’s GO- Molasses, ()0- i\T I* Rl NG I.k’h Gem. I). II. liil! on Dueling. POTTER'S FIELD. How (,’oifeo came to be tfsefl. r n ^ ll i, I „ ,, “ \r ! It is somewhat singular to traco James Gordon Bennett Prppne-| lhc PmiKrBnmmijrumdut AV.ie the lnallIier in which arose the — tor ot the Now York Herald, fought Jor/cViltf—JiuilinrousAliHle a duel last week at Havre-do-Gmce.l of Jin rial— A Sirk- Maryland, with Fred. May, who had j eninn Recital. cowhided him. May was slightlyi Wounded nnd the honor of both gen tlemen was abundantly satisfied. Bennett, by his own confession, had acted badly towards May’s sister| ,u ' 0ft And would seem then that tit e wounding ■■■■ A'"'," ’ ,'u.d^"j' 'orage is assetibed to the superior of of May has but added to the wrong f PfVl °* tne Bunatic asylum, and 1H i ft ,,f onj . H . nP v in Amhi.i wlin d«nir 1 roadv done This brines un th.. baielv a stones throw distant froml a luollftt,ter y Atabia, wlio, desir Slfcu oW«3l "f codo «>« Aim. liousc, Charity hospital'™ ,m " |of honor. The objections to it mav! n1ld other public institutions. It bo briefly stated thus : First, It f s | was selected as a pauper burying- nn uncertain mode of righting a.grouud when tho old Poor house, • wrong. The injured man is just as, wlllol » f 110011 “ear what is now the ’tikulv to be killed or wounded as,corner of Flushing mid North Port, the aggressor. Iu fact, the chancesjLud avenues, was abandoned near- iare against the innocent man. Forlb’ thirty years ago, when its present 'tlio professed duelist and the export I location, which is now thickly popu- with deadly weapons are more aptl^od, was only sparsely settled, to be offensive than other persons.! sill0e lll cn thousands of deceased They give insults, accept tho ohnl-il" jrBon8 . lnnn .y °f whom have died lenge and select the weapons with | of small-pox and other contagious t which they are most familiar and then kill or maiiu those they have I wantonly ])rovolccd. Second. The discuses, have been buried in its trenches, which, in warm weather, emit exhalations alike dangerous and At Piu milk's. duel settles nothing. Suppose Aj'^'W^nblo to persons who have detects B in some mean or wickediunwittingly purchased and occupied action and charges him with it. Is j Bouses in its vicinity BAGGING. At Pi-ii i £>*] ( 15 made less guilty, because he kills A or is killed himself? Is the of- I fence against morality or decency I checked or encouraged by tlio duel in tho enso supposed ? Would A have spoken of it, if ho had known that ho did it at the risk of his life ? There have boon duelists at tho South, who were licensed ruffians, Trenches about sixteen feet deep and twenty feet square, dug by able- bodied paupers, constitute tlio com mon graves of men, women and chil dren in Potter’s field. The bodies arc crowded into rough pine boxes which cost about two dollars each and which arc piled indiscriminate ly ono above another in the trenoh- the terror of communities and eveuics. A thin layer of earth which is -00- TIES, AT,Humic* NAILS, AT PRINGLE'S. soon washed away by tlio rain it sprinkled over them, and when one trench is tilled another is dug close beside it. Small boxes containing tlio remains of infants aro wedged into tho interstices between the lar ger ones, and when the earth is 00- LARD, Lard, LARD, ;States. We could readily name half a dozen notable cases, familiar | to nil our readers. Pcoplo let these monsters do almost what the}’ plens- • ed; for to meddle with them was death. Third. The duel is no test of courage. Every military man knows that duelists, ns a general j washed away from the tops they J rule, arc not ns brave in battle, as | warp nnd crack in the sun until the .other men. Tho reason of it is ob- surrounding atmosphere is tilled jvious. The duelist trusts in his with nauseous and pestilential odors, skill, his tact and his address. On' From 600 to 700 bodies are an- the battlefield, these advantages are uunlly interred iu this barbarous taken away and he is just like other way, though efforts have been made AT PRINGLE'S. men. Hence the things iu which he trusted being removed, his confi dence and his courage go with them. Let a man habitually carry a doad- -00- FOR SALE UY C. R. PRINGLE. II Wholvsnlc ami Retail J)RUGGISTS, Corner of Congress nml Whitaker sts., SAVANNAH, GEORGIA J Offer ft lull and well-selected stock of Drugs, | j ■■■—»! Medicines, Seeds, Paints. Oils, Toilet Articles, i Perfumery, BASE BALL GOODS. Etc. Prompt ija.vlnK cash customers Invited. All Mrs. McKinnon’s New Variety Store, on the Corner, under the Sandersville Hotel. A nice assortment of MILLINERY, fancy goods, TRIMMINGS, NOTIONS, CHOICE GROCERIES, CANNED FRUITS, VEGETABLES, CHEESE, CRACKERS, etc. etc. etc. i C0NFECT10ERJES & FRUITS : and everything suitable for the hol iday trade, dec. 27—if (.oods iu our -line auitutile for luvruliauls ami Families. Our iomitry friumis will,pleuse call ou uf wliim vioitlut; tile city, iki at’, 1870 tf OuTTON ACTOR Commissi! trcliajit, Groceries, &c LOUTS GREENWOOD Kcqia ou hand a well-selected stock, einbruc- j everything In Southern Uroci ry inurkeLs, and can su|i|il) Ids customers with everything they may want in tho GROCERY LINE}. Also Shirting and Factory clothes. 4 * a good stock of GOOD CONFECTIONERIES. 1 All of which lie will fell at the lowest prices, jail 4. 1877-tf li(o BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA. Liberal advance l to life. ]C. R. Wood! cotton cOnsiuTicd dec (i, 1878-tf april 1st* Agents o!!,? 4 " per day at home. Samples ii le 1 ’’’I *!"■ • Siinuon A Co., Portland 'march 'J, 1876- till «'. Woods & Co., Cotton Factors —AND— Commission IMIerchants, And General Agents for REESES' SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO, SAVANNAH, GA. Liberal lulviuieci made on cotton consigned dee. 6. 1870 tl The undersigned keep constantly on hand a well-selected stock of DRY GOODS, IIE A D Y - M A DE C LO T 111N G, SHEETING and SHI RTI NG, and almost i-ffiytliliig kept in a Variety Store, ail of which they of fer to sell at ‘‘haul time prices.” , 1‘. IIA VP ,<(• SON. jail 4, lS77-lf I ly weapon, he will bo cowardly when die does not have it with him. So u | duelist may have the average cour age of mankind, but tho advantages that he has over other men on the | dueling field, will make him coward ly in the battlefield. The greatest |warrior of modern times, the 1st Napoleon understood tho demoral izing influence of the duel upon the coinage of his officers and ho pun ished it with death. So did Fred erick the Great, and so does the Emperor William. If these great warriors had believed that the duel imparted a higher sense of honor and chivalry, they would have en couraged it instead of repressing it. Every soldier knows that old field bullies and Court House bullies were, as a general r'rtlo, cowardly on the battlefield. Tho philosophy of it hus just been given. In list and skull encounters, they had superior strength or superior skill. Losing those advantages in battle, they be came more easily ('tightened than other men. Precisely so with the duelist, when placed where liis skill and address avail him nothing, the loss of these advantages puts him below the average scale in courage. Our attention was first called to this at Contreras iu Mexico, where a Captain who had killed three men in duels took to liis heels at the first tire and a grey-hound could scarce ly have caught him. It is our de liberate opinion that a nation of du elists will become a nation of cow ards. Fourth. The code as we have seen, gives birth to a class of bullies, who are little better than assassins and in some cases have to be killed like mad-dogs to bo got rid of. A few years ago, one of this class was shot in a most cowardly manner in Richmond, Va.; but the jury ac quitted the murderer after a few mo ments' deliberation and the. audi ence ehoeTed their vrraict. The tree must be judged by its fruits; a system that begets ruffians and as sassins must be' a vicious system. Fifth. Dueling is expressly forbid den by the law of God. The com mand “Tlion slialt not kill,” prohib its the taking of the life of another in u duel and equally Drohibibs us from exposing our own lives in that way. No casuistry can make that right which God has pronounced to be wrong. —An up-town man and liis wife agreed recently to learn a verse of scripture every evening and repeat it to each*other, for mutual iL'firuvi- ment. Tho first night, however, her quotation happened to be, "Am 1 not thy ruler?” and his was t > the effect that he’d bo hanged if siie was ; and the only result of the plan so far has been that he has taken to'lasts from May 21st, to July drink, aud exhibits a w sleep in the woodshed ^ _ XoAeicIi Bulletin. la half months. by philanthropic citizens at several different times to have a bttter und more humane method adopted and a more suitable place established. More tlmu half of tho area has been already filled with the remains of tho old aud young of both sexes huddled together in trenches, which virtually form a single pit crowded with human bodies in every stage of decay. Bodies can not bo recovered by relatives or friends of the deceased unless application bo made prompt ly after burial and under favorable circumstances. The boxes were for morly numbered only with chalk, but latterly black paint has been used for that purpose so that the numbers which are the principal and almost the only means for iden tification are less easily obliterated In most eases those who seek the remains of lost relatives or friends in this mammoth death-pit, are doomed to disappointment. In hot weather tho search is especially dif ficult, for then the interments are so frequent that several tiers of coffins are made in a few days, and the task of removing them while search ing, is so dangerous and unpleasant at that season that even the hard ened keeper shrinks from it with disgust. Buell, in brief, is an imperfect de scription oi tlio public burial place of King's county, with its more than half a million of inhabitants, whose philanthropy, liberality and culture as displayed in all other directions is proverbially great. Millions of dollars are annually raised by taxa tion for various public purposes, and half a million dollars are annually set aside for cearity, but none to provide a decent resting plaoe for tlio remains of the pauper or strao gor. The voices of the living have been raised without avail, but the mute appeal still conies from the thousands of tho departed whose bodies lie rotting and neglected in tho horrible trenches of Potter’s Field. The Length of Days. At London and Bremen, tho long est day has sixteen hours. At Stockholm, iu Sweden, the longest day has eighteen aud half hours. At Hamburg Germany, and Dunt- zig, Prussia, tho lougest day has seventeen hours, aud shortest seven hours. At St. Petersburg in Russia, and Tobolsk, Siberia, tho longest day has nineteen hours, aud the short est five hours. At Tornea, in Finland, tho long est day has twenty-one aud a half hours, and the shortest two and a half hours. At Wardnuys, in Norway, the day - - ■ ■ 24th, monks from sleeping at their nooturnal services made them drink tiie infusion of cof fee, on the reports of shepherds, who observed tlmt their flocks were more lively after browsing on the fruit of that plant. Its reputation spread through the adjacent coun tries, aud in about two hundred years it had reached Paris. A single plant brought there in 1814, became tho parent stock of all the French coffee plantations iu the West Indies, and tho French and Spanish ull over South America and the West Indies. Tho extent of the constitution now cun hardly be re alized. The United States alone annually consumes it at a cost, ou its lauding, of from fifteen to sixteen millions of dollars. —•• • •• — A River of Ink.—Among the won ders of nnturo in Algeria there is a river of genuine ink. It is formed by tho junotiou of two streams, one flowing from a region of ferriginous soil and the other draining a peat swamp. Tho waters of the former are, of course, strongly impregnated with iron ; those of the latter with gallic acid. On meeting, the acid of the one stream is united with tho iron of the other, ans a true ink is the result. Tho banks of tho united stream would bo, of all places in the world, the one for a colony of au thors. Fields of esparto grass, for paper-making, might be sown in the neighborhood ; the paper mills might bo turned by tlio inky flood, and geese might be.reared to supply quill pons. The members of the repub lic of letters would there do nothing all day long but sit • dangling their feet iu tho water, and occasionally dipping in their pous—a peaceable crew, except perhaps when they would plague each other by reading, long extracts from their unpublished works.— (JohscH'h Moijazme. Telegraphic Stations in Mid- Ocean.—Tho idea seems perfectly practicable—unless unforeseen diffi culties present themselves—of es tablishing telegraphic stations in mid-ocean, by which messages may be sent from Any part of the Heu along tho line of cable to the term! nal points ou shore, und vice versu, so that communication with iron clad mail steamers and other vessels, when out at sea, may be established. Tho plan consists iu having a hol low sectional column, with a base plate attached by a ball and socket joint, the column being lowered into tho water and anchored rigidly to the ground; the branch cable is coupled to tho main cable, and cur ried along the surface of the water, to be there connected with instru ments on board the vessels. By this arrangement it is proposed to control naval and strategical movements ; while a ship in distress could conimuuicate her exact posi tion nnd the nature of her disaster Mr. and Mrs. Yarborough were married in Hickuian, Tenn., eight years ago. They were very young, and their engagement and wedding, managed by their parents, was de void of sentiment. They were di vorced a year afterward. This fall they met iu Nashville. Mrs. Yar borough was yet only twenty-four years old, and had grown handsome. Mr. Yarborough had also improved in appearance. They fell iu love, but this time her parents forbid the intimacy, and locked her in her room. He got her out through a window, they eloped, were chased by her father, were remarried, and now seem much better satisfied than when they were united without any row. —The proprietor of a Front street saloon had a live turtle, which he was going to make into soup for his guests. It was under the ice box, waiting for his time to come. On Wednesday night Mr. Turtle mean dered out into the bar-room, and waddled along up to where two soak ers were sitting by a table taking in sustenance of a liquid nature. The turtle moved quietly under the table aud found an obstruction in the shape of a schooner, made out of | leather with a man’s foot in the “hold.” The turllo hadu’t time to go round tho foot so he started to climb over it. The man who owned tho foot felt something and looked down. Tho man turned pale and jllingness to j without interruption; and at Spitz-1 said,: “Boys take me home and send at nights.-—Ibeigeri, tho longost day is three andjlo r tbe ^ octor ) I ve g°* em * ■ lml I* lii/intliu | (. I OUdC Stilt. Hebrew Wo Perhaps one of the moat nignifieant facts concerning the women of the Bible, is that they were not debarred from the prophetic office. “Women as well as men were seised with the gift,” says Stanly, and he instaricea “ Mariam, Deborah, Huldah, Afina, and the four daughters of Philjp. Mariam seems to nave been inspir ed by the first breath of freedom which she drew upon the shores of the Red sea, whilst Deborah burst forth iu her jubilant song after the victory bad been guinea over the oppressors of her people. We read also of prophetesses of a late date. Huldah, who lived within the eol* lege of Jerusalem, and to whom King Hilkiah and the high priest himself repaired when they Bought counsel upon weighty matters.— There is mention made also in the Old Testament of false prophetesses as well as false prophets; for Eseki- el, in denouncing the false prophets who deceived the people by lying words, said: “Thou son of man, set thy face against the ‘daughters' of thy people, whieh prophesy out of their hearts” (Ezekiel, xlli, 171. An other peculiarity of the women of the Bible is, that neither prophetess, teachers, nor heroines were severed from the ordinary domestic ties of life. Deborah was the wife of LiAp- cdoth; Judith was the widow of Ma- nasses, whom she hud mourned for three yours; Hannah was the devot ed mother of Samuel; Ruth, the lov ing daughter-in-law of Naomi; and the Mseeaboan woman is only known as the mother of seven sods. Monk ish celibacy, with its train of atten dant evils, never—except partially among the Essenea—had anv plaoe iu the etheca of Judaism. Number less are the traits of tender domes tic affection to be fonnd, like wild flowers in the wilderness, inexpress ibly cheering in the midst of those sandy wastes, which we come serosa iu some of the historical books of the Old Testament. Who does not recall that exquisite little touch of pathos relating how Isaac refused to be comforted after his mother's death, till the young wife Rebekuh comes to live in that mother’s tent? What can surpass among other Greek aud Roman idyls the story of Jucob aud Rachel? Jeffeuson and Grant.—Ulysses in hie lust Message compares himself with Washington. But we think there is some differences between these illustiroua men. Washington would accept of uo pay for his seven years’ service in tUe war. Grant said that his four yeare* service pas badly paid for with two terms of the Presidency. Washington would ac cept of no presents. Grant has ta ken all that was offered him, houses, lauds, horses, watches, jewelry Ac., declining ouly a bull-pup because the freight ou him was not paid.— We think thut in one particular Jef ferson and Grant could better be compared. Jefferson requested this inscription to be placed on his mon ument : “Author of the Declaration of Independence, Framer of the Hill of Civil Rights of Virginia and Fa ther of the UniveBity of Virginia.” Grant also cun have three inscrip - tions on his monument: Taker of Bribes, Patron of Rogues and Fa ther of Returning Boards. —Madame Susanne Legter, a good actress, but extremely stout, was one evening enacting a part in a melodrama with Taillade, the origi nal Pierre of “The Two Orphans,” who had at one portion to carry her fuintiug off' the stage. He tried with all his might to lift the fat heroine, but although she helped her little comrade by standing on tiptoe, in the usual manner, he was unable to move her an inch. At this juncture a boy in the gallery called out, “Take what you can aud come back for the rest. ’ —A boy, aged ten years, was sent to school for the first time. The teacher, to test his information, asked him, “Who made you ?" The boy could not answer. The teacher told him the proper answer, and de sired the boy to remember it. Soma hours after the teacher repeated the question. The boy rubbed his head in great agony, and at length an swered, “I swow! I’ve forgot the gentleman’s name !” —A little fellow, some four or five years old, and who had never seep a negro, was greatly perplexed one day when one came to where he and juft father were. The youngster eyed the stranger suspiciously till he had and then asked his father: “Pa, who painted that man black so?” “God, my son,” replied the‘ father. “Well,” said the little one, “I shouldn’t thought he’d a held still.” He is the happiest, be be king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.— Goethe, Subscribe to the Hbuald and Georgian.

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The Sandersville herald. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1872-1909, January 25, 1877, Image 1