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THE GAZETTE
BUMMEKVUXK, GA.
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Summerville, Ga , Juno 7th, 1876.
Public Speaking.
Hon. Thomas Hardeman will address
the citizens of Ohattoogo county at Sum
merville mi Wednesday June 14ih. Let
the people rally to hear the di-tiiifpiished
speaker. Come one! come all!!
Turkey.
The rumbling and heaving of a political
volcano, that is likely to burst forth al an
early moment, is heard in the eastern
world, (hat will involve the entire Euro
pean nations. For sometime Turkey has
been tottering to its fall, and now that
The Grand Vicier, Abdul Aziz Kahn, has
abdicated tbu thrown, and the heir ap
parent, Murad Elfeiiili, enthrowned, “if
it should turn out,” says the Atlanta
'Common wealth, “(hut the abdication of
Abdul Aziz was forced by the policy of
the great powers, whoso civilization has
been at war with Mohammedanism for
centuries, the continent is on verge of the
most stupendous clash of anus that ever
afflicted the nations.” Is this to be the
slaying of him who sat upon the “black
horse,” which all writers on prophecy,
have applied to Mohammedanism? Vide
Rev. vi;s.
Armuehee Academy.
Having received a special invitation
from Prof. Marshall, Principal of Ar
miuibee Academy, in Hirttown district,
to Is' present at the examination and en
tertainment to bo given last Thursday
and Friday, we wended our way thither
on Friday.
Upon our arrival, we found the exami
nation progressing, with the classes in
Geometry, Latin, Physical Geography,
Geology, Greek and spelling by the
school in the dictionary, all of which ac
quitted themselves in a very creditable
manner, and showed that the Professor
had spared neither pains nor labor to
import a knowledge of these various
branches of science.
Wo discovered but one thing against
which we feel bound to enter our solemn
protest; and that was one which is usual,
and too common in nearly all the schools
and colleges of the land. It is the teach
ings of an infidel Geology, ignoring the
Mosaic doctrine, and Bible testimony of
the are of our world. This system of
geology teaches that the world has existed
“countless ages” in the past. We have
no more sense than to believe what our
Bible says and (caches upon this subject,
that the world is only about six thousand
years old, and christiau geologists have
examined the matter as carefully as oth
ers, and presented an array of facts
amounting as near to a rlemoustration of
the truth of the Bible cosmogony, as in
fidel writers to overturn the same.
But thi:. only as a demurrer to the sys
tem of geology adopted so generally
throughout the country, and not ns a
criticism upon Professor Marshall.
After these exercises an adjournment
was taken to a hearty repast of the good
things of this life prepared fur the outtcr
man, by the very hospitable and clever
denizens of Diryt wo valley. Hard times
were not thought of. So much good
things to cat. IVe couldn't nigh place
-ourselves outside of all to which we were
invited. Had we yielded tc the zolicita
tions of our many friends, we certainly
would have hurt ourself. Thanks to our
many and kind friends thereabouts for
their kind attentions to us.
In the afternoon, a mass meeting was
hold in the interest of education, during
which addresses were made by Captain
Irvine, Mr. Lee, Prof. Cheney, Ilev.
It. P. Hass, Ilev. Prof. Rodgers, Presi
dent. of the Dalton Female College, and
a certain editor, who contended, if we
would move the world, we should edu
cate the fernule portion thereof.
After those exercises Rev. D. B. Ham
ilton, of Floyd, was introduced as the
orator of the day, who gave us an elo
quent, chaste and powerful address on the j
influence of woman, and tho necessity of i
her high education. To all of which and j
singula!, we unhesitatingly agreed, and
wish his expressed opinions could he in
delibly impressed upon all men.
About 7 o'clock the grand exhibition
begun which lasted until near 12 o’clock-
The compositions of the young ladies did
them credit, a din also the declamations
of tho young gentlemen. The perform
ances of the little girls and bovs were
well executed and well received by the
audience.
Miss Clarissa Kendrick, assistant in
the literary department has deserved
great credit for the attention bestowed
upon the classes committed to her charge
and won for herself an enviable reputa
tion as an instructress.
Of Miss Ada Rogers, teacher of music,
we cannot speak too highly, if the per
formances of her pupils are to bo the cri
terion by w hich judgment is to be formed.
Hhe would Jo credit and Ihj an ornament
to any institution. Huiull in size, but
wondrously adapted to the department in
which she i, engaged.
The closing exercises were an add re- •
by Mr. I*. W. Proctor, a young lawyer of
Rome, who delivert and an eloquent address,
and then presented prizes to the follow
ing persons:
The first prize to Mi-s Mattie Selman,
for the best read composition.
The second to Mr. Robert Jones for
tho best written Latin examination. The
third, to Mr. John T. Kendrick, for the
best effort in declamation.
The exorcises wore all highly enter
taining and gratifying to all present. The
number present was estimated to he
about six hundred. The occasion will
long he remember and, and Prof. Marshall
and his assistants have won lor themselves
reputations of which they may well he
proud.
Obituary.
Died, May the I si, 1576, at hi- n--i
--tlcuee, in (.'hattooga county, Georgia,
Mr. Kiihu Ilenley, aged fifty-three years
and eight months. I'he deceased, was
born in Roan county, \. C., October Ist,
is””, and has been a citizen of Chattooga
county about twenty three years.
Ho was one of the most enterpiisiug
men in the county. It can be truly said,
that Chattooga county lias lost one of her
best citizens, and his family a kind and
affectionate husband und father. He bore
his afflictions with fortitude, though
racked with pain and scorched with fever,
he never uttered one word of complaint-
The writer has known him personally for
several yeas, and never knew him to turn
a deaf ear to the calls of the distressed; '■
always ready and willing to render any
assistance in his power to relieve them.
Asa neighbor there were none more
obliging, nor any that seemed to take a
greater pleasure in helpfcg his friends.
But ha is gone. The grave's dark eclipse
rests upon that beaming face, and that
venerable form that moved among us but
a little while ago, shrouded, coffined,
buried, sleeps in death, awaiting the de
scent of the judgment angel and the rev
elation of the Son of Man. It is true,
hero we die while we live; tho cradle
rocks us to the tomb.
Honor is but a dew drop, glittering in
the morning ray, exhaled by the very I
beam that makes it shine. Love and j
friendship, the heart's blest affections
wounded, pine, or, bereaved they dwell
among the dead, like Mary weeping there.
Oh! where is tho bloom without the
blight? the sun without the cloud?
“Oh! silent grave to thee we trust,
This precious part of worldy dust;
Quard it safe, oh’ sacred tomb.
Until his family asks for room.’’
lie leaves an affectionate companion, i
and a large family of children to mourn
his loss. May Godin His infinite good
ness and mercy watch over them through
life, and house them all on the banks of
sweet deliverance, where sick ties a and
sorrow, pain and death are felt and feared
no more.
June 2d, 1576. R. J. L.
Let a full crowd be in attendance in
Summerville on the 14th inst,, to bear
j Col- Thos. Hardeman, of Macon. Ladies
and gentlemen, make your arrangements
to bo here. He is a gifted and eloquent
| speaker, and all may look forward for a
tine literary entertainment. It will be a
busy time, but let our country friends rise :
a little earlier and work a little harder
and the time w ill not bo missed.
Speaking at 11 o'clock A. M. Come
one, come all! and bring your families.
Advertise in The Gazette
Our Washington Correspondent.
Wabhi.voto.v, D. C., May 27, 1876.
We have just had an amusing fllu-tru
tion of that old maxim, “The course of
true love never runs smooth.” A young
man has for some time past been paying
his attentions to a young lady, who gave
him every reason to think that she return
ed his love. At last be screwed up his
courage to tho sticking point, proposed,
and was refused. As soon as ho roe- vered
from his surprise, he began uprniding the
fickle, fair one, and ended by saying that
he was going to jump in the river und
drown himself. Suiting action to the
word, he started on a run for the river,
which was hut a short distant away, fol
lowed by the young lady, who vainly im
plored him to “Come rest in this bosom,
my own stricken dear,” and tocorne tack
to his “own chickabiddy.” Arriving at
the bridge, which crosses the river, he
sprang nimbly over tho railing into the
dark, rushing stream below, but which
proved to be only knee deep. Net to be
thwarted by any such trifle as that, foj
struck boldly out for deep water, brandish*
ing his two arms like the flaps of a wind
mill as he went. Tho lady accingjhutlm
was determined to commit suicide, ami
and that her entreaties had no effect upon
him, let her back hair, gave a piercing
scream, and fainted. Just then a man
canto along who seeing lmw things were,
gathered up a lot of stones and began to
pelt the young fool, who was fa.-t getting
out towards deep water. As the stories
began to splash around the afore aid
young tool, lie lirst glanced around in sur
prise, then stopped and began to sweat,
then to remonstrate, and finally finding
that tho stones were raining faster than
ever, forgot all about his intention to com
mit suicide, caj itulatcd and told the man
if he would ston throwing that he would
cotue out at once. He could drown for
love, but to be stoned was more than hi
nature coifld bear. Ho came nit, took
tho lady home, and tile two uro now
engaged to be married. “Thus endeth
that lesson.”
Much to the surplies of every one who
has watched similar Congressional Inves
tigation*, the committee appointed to in
vestigate the Freedman’s Bank, have
brought in one of the most scathing re
ports ever presented to Congress. The
report says if the very idea of the Bank
\va: not conceived in fraud, the Rank
itself settled down into one of the most
gigantic of modern swindles. Its charter
was gotten up by J. \V. Alvord, who had
proved a failure in both lay and clerical
pursuits, and who drew the charter that
tho officers had the. right to du Tii they
pleased, while the depositors were left
aim .-t entirely defenceless. Tho whole
institution was simply a “confidence
game 1 ’ under the new i*une of the
“Freedman's Having and Trust Com
pany.'' When the committee attempted
to examiner the books, leaves were found
torn out in places, new ones inserted in
others, and in some places the leaves, wyre
so pasted and sealed tagether as to defy
all attempts to get them apart, while the
accounts wore one mass of false entries,
that defied all attempts to make anything
out of them. Hundreds of thousands of
dollars were advanced on certificates and
stock that was not worth four cents a
bushel; immense sums were loaned with
out any security whatever; in fact the
depositors had their money divided up
among a set of thieves as fast as received.
Tho officers went so far as to send out a
number of men to travel through the
South under the preten.-z of teaching the
negroes, but really to get them to .-end
their earnings to tho bank as fast as pos
sible.
Tho committee advise that Henry It
Cooke, Lewis Clephane, Ilallet Kilbuurn,
and John O. F.vans be itidieti I and
punished to the full extent of the law.
Gen. 0. 0. Howard was among thcchief
of this set of robbers. He was a poor
man until ho became connected winh this
bank and the Freedman’s Bureau, and
then he suddenly became rich- The more
he got mixed up with this precious set,
the longer ami louder he prayed in public,
and God only kn -ws what be done in
private. liis getting sent to Alaska,
until this storm should blow over, can now
ho understood. If he anil a polar bear
should ever meet, and the meeting for
Howard prove to lie like the memorable
meeting between Jonah and tho whale,
the cause of true religion will be advanced,
and scoffers have less to jeer at.
The House committee appoineed to in
vestigate the doorkeeper, Fitzhugh, have
decided to dismiss him. Thus the man
who was “bagger than old man Grant”
one day, is the object of scorn and ridicule
tho next, but then Republics were
ever ungrateful.
The Senatorial committee, of which O.
P. Morton is the chairman, has just
handed in their report in regard to the
election of Senator Spencer, of Alabama.
The most infamous charges were made
against this gentleman, and every effort
made to prevent his taking his .'-eat as
Senator, but the committee say that the
charges arc not sustained by the evidence,
so declare him legally elected. There
will always be two very decided opinions
in regard to Spencer, and it may be safely
said that had ha been of a different faith,
politically, he and Piiiehbaek would now
| he shedding their “briny sobs” together.
For the first time this session, fbo
President’s veto has been over ruled by
! Congress. A hill passed both houses to
pay a certain party a until of about $164
and the President, acting under the advice
of two of his Cabinet officers, refused to
-ign it. Roth Houses then passid it over
! his head.
The Senate an t entire country were
i taken wholly by urprise at the change
made by the President in his Cabinet,
i Judge Taft, who is a lawyer and entirely
! unfitted for the Secretary of War, now
becomes Attorney General; Pierrepunt
goes to England as Minister Plcnipoten
; tiary; and Don Cameron, son of Senator
| Camerm/, of Pennsylvania, becomes See
| rutary Jf War. Messrs. Taft and Cam
eron /re unanimously confirmed, but a
i nnuifcr of votes were cast against Pierre-
I pore Jupon the ground thalhe abused his
office in helping Babcock to e-cape, at
iHj 1/iuis. Don Cameron is a wealthy
■ gentleman who knows probably more
about raihoaws than anything else, but
Jis said to be a fine business man. These
Tchanges are almost universally thought
* by Politicians to be a move bv the I’resi
j dent in favor of Senator Gonkling.
The committee appointed to investigate
; the troubles in Louisiana, have made ap
plication to the Attorney General for the
reports of the committees which investi
l gated similar troubles heretofore, ami lie
has refused to allow them even to see
i them, upon the grounds of public ex
i pediency. These r ports threw all the
! blame of the bloodshed and riots upon
I Gov. Kellogg, who has been here in the
I City so earnestly imploring the help of
Federal troop . Kollovg thus far has
j found only .Senator Morton to give him
! the slightest encouragement.
| A bill has just been introduced into
i Congress to give the bodies of all who
| may die in jails, ho. pital- and a-ylun s
! in this District, to the Medical Colleges,
j with the view of protecting the grave
j yards. As this, if the bill becomes a law,
j will effectually do away with giving some
: of us one m we resurrection than we want,
| the bill finds great favor all through the
| District, Most of us live in hopes that
| Gabriel will some night go out on a little
| “toot” on his own account, and lose his
| horn, and thus wo escape even the final
! resurrection let alone the one wo are pretty
| apt to get at the hands of the Student®.
, We have several medical colleges here
I that are very largely attended, and
| “cadavers” are always in great demand.
The Sermt ■, or as no reverently term it
here, the “Fog Bank,” is still engaged ill
its wrangle over the jurisdiction in tho
Ilb Iknap case. The debate* are carried
i on with closed doors, so with the excep
tion of the big guns that are fired off to
i let us outsiders know that they tire s ill
| alive and “blowing" away, we know
1 nothing, and care still less for what is
i said. Every hone -’, man in the country
1 knows that u rascal who has brought
j -hanie aud dig race upon the nation, has
; been caught, aud if there is any punish
: merit for him, we want him to ect it.
W hetln-r it is worth while that so much
; time should be taken up in “chin music '
;is a matter of drubt. New rumors aro
I started each day in regard to Belknap.
, It is now said thabhe is beginning to show
| his teeth, and says that if they do decide
| to try him, he will keep the whose body
, here all summer, as he has a large number
| of witnesses.* to examine.
The committee appointed to investigate
; Minister Hchemk s connection with the
Emma Mine swindle have had their re
port ready for several days, and would
| have presented it to the House before
now, but have been holding it back at
I Schetick s tequest in order to allow him
to send them his reply to the Chceso
j borough letter. Ilis reply has been re
, ceived, and it only places him in a worse
light than before. The report will be
made to-day, censuring Schenck severely,
! but exonerating him from all intentional
fraud. \\ hen professional politicians of
his age and experience allow themselves
j to l so egregiously “deceived,” then
■ Congress should seud wet nurses abroad
with them to keep the wool from grow
! ing over their eyes.
A pedestrian passing through our town
1 some months since, became so much in
| fatuated with the place that he coeluded
j to stop with us a few weeks, and finding
: a place to board he whiled away the time
| very pleasantly. There was nothing
astoni.Miing about the man's appearance,
jor bis sojourn here; but there was some
astonishment when on the day of his
! departure he was found t j -be minus of
| “scads. ’ Ho the deposit of a pair of
• saddle hags, with the promise of a regis
tered letter in the future served to ex
tricate him from the dilemma. This in
sinuation that a registered letter would
! be sent, caused a eeataiu person to fre
quent the postoffice moie than common,
and to his great expectation, he received
a registered letter a few evenings since,
I in which was enclosed the following
receipt, with request to sign the same,
and returned to Bristol, Tennessee:
SvMMEKviuue, Ga., May 29, 1x76.
This is to certify that even as Moses
lifted up tiie serpent in the wilderness,
j even so did one Giliam lift me out of:
j three weeks board, miuus one pair of
; .-addle lags. * * * (.Seal.)
NEW STORE! NEW STORE!!
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HAVE JUST RECEIVED A IT’LL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
General Merchandise, consisting of
DRY GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES,
LADIES’ AND GENTS HATS, NOTIONS, Klc.
Ladies f)t s* Goods a SPECIALTY. A general and complete Stock of
lire.eerie., liaoiwat . Saddlery, Quei nsware, Crockery, Iron, Nails, Drugs and
Mi dicine-. Paint-. Oil-, an i in fa.-t everything usually kept by Country Merchants.
tkij All of which, we intend to sell as low as the fewest."tn#
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We tak-- iti Exchange for (roods, I! Country Produce, at the highest cash prices.
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two ait on them in the most agreeable manner.
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