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VOLUME IV. NOW 18 THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE. a * ± TH E SUMMERVILLE GAZETTE \VILL UK FURNISHED TO SUBSCRIBERS, postahe prepaid, AT TIIE ] OLLOWISG RATES : ONE Y EAR $1.75 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS ------ 50 These rates, considering the amount of matter furnished, make TI!E 0 A/.l:TT>l The Cheapest Weekly Paper In Norm Aieor^r, . In order to enable every one to become a subscriber ami ,sup porter of a g Mid, substantial home |taper, the price lias been reduced to these low figures. Therefore, yon are exj ee; Ito give us your aid Take it yourscii, a. i ,-e that all your neighbors take it. u.i<t Yon not'd . t ! Voui- Uamily iNt't'ds !(. * Your IVoighbors .Net*<l 111 THE GAZETTE has endeavored to keep all the j-mmi'us uiado Ly its proprie tors upon it* introduction to the public. This is a guarantee of ,uood faith on their < t, when they a sort that it will hereafter not only maintain the high standard of ii j career, but will be constantly iinjrov and, as rxj < i <-mand abiliiy enables. 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The Manufacturing Interests of Northwest Georgia and Surrounding country, will receive constant attention, and every measure calculated to promote them, especially the development of the various industries of this region, will find in The Gazette hearty support Thanking the public for the favor shown the papr in the pa,st, we invite renewed and enlarged support for the future, of our efforts in assisting to make the South the peer, in industrial prosperity, educational facilities and political liberality, of any other section of the American Union. Address all communications to CLI'IMhLN r i vV S )N, Sts rit erville, liattuog;i S 0., Cic.irsia. 'JNEOJALLEDtN LOW PRICES! L* t p J CARLA. HAL I l NILS I Z 3 "Tjrm* MII v \ C iir < ;. I- -L |9 ®~ oi C\ rz 3! = g I /t / f vr ~ s- r\ v Ilcpairing 1 Store, \ i |>s*. Bryant’ii Office, next it nor in Jcghos*iiS ocl'j-lui SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. SUMMERVILLE, OEOR6IA. Al’Rlb II 1877. In Early Spring. Tlu* tiny Miiow drifts, molting fast. The Invath of mouth wind 1 1 outing past. Tin* crimson ill tho limplo shoots, l'h,' guidon oroouH nt the roots; Tiio yt'llow on tlu* willow wands, Th,' of groan oloiitf the ponds; Tin* -wnlllnfrbuds, tin* blue'-bird’s not.<*, Tin' dandt lion on th** moat; Tin* cart lily color of tin* hi roam, Tho w.trnwr flush of sunrise Tho dampness of the upland mould, The new life in the open wold; \ . son, f 1 rd, the hum of bee. The dawn of woodside melody; The brighter flitter on the hills, The rapid rush of little rills; The morning hoar frost on the hedge, The noonday drops upon the Sedge; The changing color on tin* vine. The fresher hue of mountain pine, Are things that tell to eye and ear That summer flays ace drawing near. A Young Girl s Strange Career. Miss Cora Dickson, a younir girl of twenty-two, arrived in I’aris the other day from South America- 11 or life has thus far been a checkered one. At. lin age ol fifteen, tired of the monotony of home, she ran away from her father’s house with a large sum of money. Slur cut her hair short and donned a boy’s garb Alter becoming in succession a cabin-boy, a clerk and a horse dealer, she turned up in Ruenos Ayers, where she entered lie army, still disguised. She distinguished herself in the service and became a colonel. Some months ago at a meeting of officers, she quarreled with one of tho e present. A duel followed, and slie killed h r adversary. On exam iuiiig the dead mans papers she found slie had killed her eldest brother, who had left home when she was two years of age. llorrnr stricken, she threw hersell Ac t .hop's f ei. who prolu -ml n. ill --•* ♦ Wilt. re Honey Halls from Heaven. In conver-ation with A. J Dufur, not long since, he informed me that he had come across a strip of e mnlry three miles wide, stretelling southeast from the \Vil liameite river, near Oregon City, to tho Cascade mountains which is a natural honey production distriot. In the foot hills of the mountains the honey th w which is peculiar to this district, within the boundaries it cover., falls so heavily as to me,u*t the folia go Throughout, this belt <if eouiiti. bees are better ell than bees in .. for they liter, lly scrape up the ready made honey, and. after filling their hives, build and fill comb on Mr. Duftir says that he saw eighty p Hilda of honey taken from the underside of a pole stretched across a fence. It would be a very inter e-iine region for naturalists to investigale, especially as no sati-laetory solution of the phenomenon lias ever yet,been rein li ed, and this especial locality seems to develop the so-called honey dew, year abler year, in remarkable quantity.— Socntmanto Uncord ( mini. -*i ♦ *- The influence of man upon climate has been a favorite subject of late wars, and it is now well known that, by cutting down forests an I draining the soil man can materially changetheclimateofa country. .Some recent experiments conducted in Germany confirm this belief by showing the extent to which woods will affect the rair.f 11. Two observatories were esiab lisheti for the purpose of comparison —one over a clump offline trees forty feet high, and the other over a bare sandy plain about three hundred and thirty yards from the wood. Roth observatories were built at the same height from the ground. Twelve mouths observation showed that of the total rainfall within that period ten per cent more rain fell overtho trees than over the bare land, distant 330 yards from them. Further, the air over the wood was found during the whole year of ob servation to he charged with aqueous vapor to the extent of ten per cent, in excess of I he air over t he barren open soil, The ground, to i. under the trees retained far more water than the exposed earth, the evaporation from the surface, thunks to its shade of trees and moss, being only one-sixth of that outside their friendly shelter. These results are valuable in that they point out a possible means of improving the condition of sterile tracts, i. e... by the planting of trees. —Toronto (ilobtr. A Stuly of St Paul. S/ai esin te the minister of a certain church adopted a plan to interest the members of his flock in the study ol the Bible. It was hi-. At the Wednesday evening meeting h" vould give out a topic to be discussed in toe ensuing week, t bus giving a week for them to study u Olio week the subject v i S tie- pi "ii hi j, irv dev al exerei-.-s, liiemmi ie .-ahui epm his dea. eu- .o “speak to tlie que-tiou. ’ One immediately rose and began to describe' the personal appcuiniiec of tic great 1 apostie f o lie Grutiui- IF: said 0. I'aul was a. tail, rather spare man, with black hair and ey. . dark <■ . ,p!eri .n, Lilli.ms temperament, etc. Ills- picture of St. I’aul was a b.ittifoi p olr-tit of hiiii-eit/’ He sat down, and an .tin r pillar of the . "ii :' • ■ 1 ! I ' link the brother pn ; the ' ■rip lure to ii 1! ,: nil.'pii 1 1 1 i- •i- eription of ' . I’a'ii i- a ini;, 1 n: • .■ hlu-ai knowl edge. St. i’aul wa . h ! n , let. land it, a short, thick "t man, with sandy hair, grey eyes, florid complexion, and a' nervous sanguine temperament," giving, like his predecessor, an accurate picture of himself. He was followed by another, who had a keen sense of the ludicrous, and who was w lha 11 an inveterate s'tnm merer. He spoke about as follows: "My hre-bre- bn tnren, I have no-no-never fo font and much ab-abnut tho pe-po-personal i pc |e- pearaiice of St. l’a'paul; Imt one i clearly established, and that hut Fa i‘ had an inip-pe-pediment in cedi. " I'hi elleet call be iuiagiii id. Ail il wave’ of audible smiles swept - .. ,o cm gregation, tho good clergy iui inking his lull quota. He immedi ately arose and dismissed the as. embly.— Vlirlsliun Intelligencer. Mark Twain’s Hotel Having lately opened a haslicry, I send you these, my rules and regulations: This house will he considered strictly intemperate. None but the brave deserve the fu"o. Persons owing bills for board will be bored for bills, Hoarders who do not wish to pay in advance are requested to advance and pay. Hoarders arc expected to wait on the colored cook —for meals. Sheets will be nightly changed, once in six months, or more if necessary. I 'mihie hoarder ■ can have two beds with a room in it, us they choose. Hoarders are requested to puli off their boots il they can conveniently do so. Hods with or without bugs. All moneys or oilier valuables arc to be left in care of the proprietor. This is in sisted upon, as lie will be hold responsible for no other losses. Inside matter will not, be furnished to editin'.-, under any consideration. Relatives coming to make a six months visit will be welcomed, but when (hoy bring half of their household furniture, virtue will cease to he a f rbeurunce. .'ingle men with their families will not. be neardc 1. Dreams will be charged for by the dozen. Nightmares hired out at reasonable rates. .Stone vaults wiil he furnished to snor ing 1... ndci s, and the proprietor will in no ui -be rc,sponsible for the broken tin pan uni ol oilier days. ♦ **- The Bible. How comes it that this little volume, composed of humble men in a rude age, when art and science were but in their childhood, has exerted more influence on tlm human mind and on the social system than all other books put together. Whence comes it that this book lias achieved such marvelous changes in the opinion of mankind bus banished i. I,>l worship, exalted ilie condition of women, raised the standard of public morality, created for families that blessed thing, a Clirisiinn home and caused its triumph by causing benevolent institutions, open and expansive to spring upas with the wand of enchantment. What sort of a book is this that even the winds and waves of human passion obey it? What other en gine of -ocial improvement has operated so long and lost none of its virtue? Since it appeared many boasted plans ofamolio rat ohi have been tried, and failed many cod. -ol jurisprudence have arisen and run their course and expired. Hut this book is still going about doing good, leavening society with ils Italy principles, cheering the soifoWiul with conso lation strengthening the tempted, en couraging the penitent, calming the troubled spirit; and smoothing the pil low of death. Gan such a hook be the offspring of human genius? Does not I lie va.- 1 of its cl) 'i i- deiuonstrate the exoolb I, y if the power to he of God? A Now Constitution A now constitution i necessary, because the old constitution wa- n.l called into existence by the free wi.l of tho poople.. It bad its origin tn a corrupt fountain, and its waters have he. n ever impregnated with bitterness and political corrupts an. A now constitution is necessary been use, it becomes a free people on taking a proud position to vindicate their right to such position, which they can never do so long as the fact continually stares them in the face upon every sentence of their organic law, that they owe their exi; to nee as a State to an unholy nlliuric. between mili tary power and civil prostitution. Anew constitution is necessary because the old one neither represents the will, voice, | olitics or sentiments of the people, and, for that reason, can never be re pe.cted as the organic law of the State. If. pie amble is a lie and a fraud, dis honoring the dead and disgracing the living; and finally, on this bead, anew constitution is necessary, because it is now of the utmost importance that the great State of Georgia should so protect its life that for all time to come its exis tence as i State, governed by equal laws, su-i.lined and /iippfnted by hone.-t, ecu non bail in l prut) ait legislators, protected and defended by the intelligence of its e'liz-ii-. maybe e tuhli-hed on the im chaik I 1 1’roiv.L'utive of a Free I’co pi.-. upon v. h.eh hi deep characters, may be read: "Wisdom, •/ustiee and Modera ti m.'’— S'lni.iui’ili AV'.r.i. ' Father, did you ever have another wife besidoji mother!” "No, my boy, what pos-esshd you to ask such a question?" IF ■ i-e I saw in the old family bibio that you married Anna Domini 1830; and that i-m i mother, lor Iter name was Sally Smith. ” "Mother." It is the cry of the infant, just from the cradle; it is the only bald that will heal the wounded heart in youthful days. "Mother, Fat hurt,” "mother, I’m tired," "mother, sing to me, vock me, tell me stories.” It. is always “mother” with the i-liild and tho lad. No one like mother. No hand that falls on the fevered brow n- softly as hers, no words so sympathetic ns those that pass her lips. The house would be a grave without her. Life would be a dreary, thorny road without her warning voice and guiding band. A father may be kind, may love not less, but the wearied child wants the mother’s anus, hersoft lullaby songs, the caresses of her gentle hand. All childhood is a mixture of tears and jovs. A kind word brings aso ile, a harsh word a sigh, a fall a pain, a toss a joy. The first footsteps, weak ami trembling, grow stronger by the guidance of a mother's love. The little words, the torn clothes, the headaches, the heartaches, the trials, all vanish at the words of a mother, and there is Imilt up in the heart of every man an edifice of love an 1 respect that no crime and his can topple down —no dungeon cell affect \ud a lad grows to boa man only to find that "mother" is the same. If lie ens, she weeps, if lie is good and manly, she rejoices, ilers is the only love that lasts—endures forever. flic wolf of starvation may enter the door, but her love is only tried to shine the brighter. All the world may call her son a criminal, but the mother only be lieves it. not. Trials may beset you, storms gather over you vexation come, ruin drag you down, but there is one who ever stands firm in your cause, who will never leave you, The criminal on the scaffold has suffered a feeling because bis bad deeds would cause a pang in a mother's heart. The low and wretched, dying in some dark abode of sin, have died with that name upon their lips. There is no praise like her praise, there are no sad tears that pain us so much as hers. ! Why the Ocean is Salt. The inquiry of a correspondent moves the New York ./iminl of Comimro to present an interesting paragraph as to the causes of the s,illness of the waters of the ocean: Some have aseribc-d the salt to the dissolution by the water of primitive b.i. ks of salt existing at the bottom of I lie sea, hut tlieiv; are many weighty objec tions In this, and it is far lii'M■■ likely that the hanks of salt found beneath lie-earth's surface are the deposits of dried up oceans I ban that the -aline waters came from the deposits. The saltncss does not change for centuries, and although it varies in different localities, the differ nice is not great, the extremes being only 3.77 and 3 18 narts of salt to the I Hi), and this neither increases nor diminishes with (he progress of time. The extreme saltness of the Re t sea, and one or two other bodies of water, is not taken into account in this average. It is evident that the ocean contains the residue of a primitive fluid, which deposited other elements now, formerly soluls, and lelaiiitd its pre.-nnt composition. lln fresh water is eoaipo.M'd entirely of evaporations from the ocean, which ali flow back to it, and are re iii.,lr!buted by the rising vapors once more over tho land. The sun is the great eliemi .t; he distils the ri ing volume; l lie winds .-Weep it over Ihe earl h th inoimiains and fo ests Caleb it anil it fulls in refreshing showers, or lurious storms, to return one a more to the sea. Hurry: u ;ta the Store. Western Retail Grocer: During the In-t dull o!i->oil a well-known dm -ir- ■< iiieivhant was observed taking giant steps in the dli tetioti of his place of bu-ines at save i o’clock in the morning. A rival 111 h'.- onl 11, who Wa - Well a- riel that large sales was noL the motive Mini, in due I this rapid transit, hailed tho sw.ft 4 ‘,-iiiii:ii' irial traveler." am'. Interviewed him as follows: "What's broke loose, Chari. . V, h. re an; y >u going in such a hurry?" ‘T in going to the store. “Trade must be active with you." "It's not trade tiist calls me on ." “It's not a woman, is it?" “No; of course it ;t. But Fit ,x,,.1n n the thing to you tn keep and nvo your in fo: mil suspicion. ’J here are three part ners in our store, an 1 we have only two chairs. The last unto that e imes in the morning has to ! lanil up all day. It is very important for me to get. to the store curly this iiiuruing—good day. An 1 Chaleo, "lit out" like a reporter for a morning newspaper c/i roulu to a fire. A correspondent of the Southern Fnrnvr tells how an old poultry miser distinguishes sex in eggs. It is related as follows; " Eggs with the air bladder on the sides will produce pullets. The old man was so certain of tho truth of his dogma, and the poultry yard so far con firmed it, that 1 determined to make ex periments upon it this year. I have done so, caroliijly registerin < every ‘bladder vertiele’ or bladder on the side, rejecting evety one in which it was not decidedly one way or the other, as in some il was only slightly out of tile center; The fol lowing is the result: .78 chickens hutched; 3 are deal; 11 too young yet to dce’.do upon their sex; of the remaining 11 every one has turned out true to the old man’s theory. I tried it myself and found it to be correct, and I think it to be of great practical advantage. lam pleased to give il my full endorsement." NUMBER la. A South Africa traveler stopped one night at Boor's house, lie found the children playing with a pebble t hat looked like a diamond. He bought it for a trifle the Boor saying it was a diamond, they could get plenty more, and took it away, ile sold it at the Gape for $30,000. Ho bought another front a negro, which lie sold for $.7(1,000, and then the natives be began to search for these stones where they had previously seen them, the white men heard of their success, and then the rush began. One mine after another, ull in tho same neighborhood, was found, and round each mine a city sprang up. The last, and that which is the centre of tho diamond trade, is Kimberly. This city lias 1 1,0.10 inhabitants, fire churches, two theatres, banks, hotels and many other buildings, "Sally, if You Love me. Slide Off" The eloping couple in this instance were over taken by tho girl’s father at t.'.i.-cj .’tation, Trull, lie pulled her nit of Iter lover's wagon, put hot in front ■■( himself on a mule's back, an I stut'te 1 fir lioui". The lover give chase, hut liis wagon broke and two. Did his pro-cm • f mind desert him in that emergency? N.> lie shouted, "Sally, if you love me, slide oil !" She wriggled out ol' her parent's grip, and slid offtlio smooth back of the mule. Before the patent could iret her remounted the lover came up afoot, and In a hand t i-han I encounter, triumphed over the old man. Then the young ones mounted I ho male and fled. Respiration by the mouth is much easier llnlil by the nose, but not so safe. The nose, to a certain extent, fits the air for entering the lungs. This . ense of smell prevents our breathing an air loaded with poisonous vapors. The moisture of the nasal cavities, to some extent, saturates air and makes it less irritating to the throat and larynx. The inequalities of (he nasal passage and the hairs catch the dust before it goes far enough to harm. ()n the other hand, breathing through the mouth dries the throat, and in children, may cause false croup, catarrh, and it may so affect the Eustachian tube as to cause injury to the ear and deafness. There is a woman in Brooklyn, a Mrs. Sprait, who applies for a divorce, appar ently with good ground. It seems that only four years after the wedding, Mr. ■Spratt hit her in the left eye with a pumpkin pie. Inter in their married life lie flung a pitcher at her, hit iter with a lighted kerosene lamp, threw gla-s bottles at Iter, drew a knife across her neck ami threatened to out her throat, stuck a fork in her log, poured hot tea over her, and finally hit her in the back wit Ii a boot jack. Believing this thing had gone far enough, Mrs. Spratt then left him. I’l.itn, when at the point of death, blessed and thanked God for three things: that he had been endowed with a rational soul, that lie had been born a Greek and not a barbarian, and that his birth had taken place in the time of Socrates. Per haps no higher tribute has been paid by one man to another than this, the two first blessings being necessary to the ap preciation of the last. Tidies are going out of fashion, says an exchange, and if it ho true —if we are to sink into a rocking-chair after this with out tearing a lace dog from the back of it, or .settle down oil a sofa and not feel a yellow woisted farm-house humping up against the end of our spinal column, then an evening's tete-a-tete will seem is odd a> a man with Id- mustache shaved off. The politest man in England seems to be the Mayor of Coventry, of whom May fair tells this story: He had the honor to take the hostess in to ditto.'r. "I don't, know, Mr. Mayor," said rhe lady, “whether you are at all afraid of the measles, but my little children have them and I myself have Lad a slight attack." "Mailani,” he said, "I should be only too delighted to take anything from so charm ing a source.' ’ A woman in Rock port, .Mass., who supports her children by hard work, was asked, several days ago, by a fellow work man hi rim mill to aid in making up a purse for a “poor woman.’’ She had only sixty cents left to carry her through the month, but she t ave twenty-five cents. A little later the person returned and told the woman tho purse was meant for her, and handed her twenty-five dollars. If ever houseitoll affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor, file ties that bind the wealthy and tho proud to home may he forged on earth, but those that link the poor man to his humble hearth ant of the pure metal and bear the stamp of heaven. -• ♦ •♦- The Columbus Times says: "One of our doctors recently gave the following prusurigtiun to a sick iady: 'A new bon net, a cashuicro shawl and a ,-ilk dress. The lady, it is needless to say, entirely rectverd." A Frenchman has discovered that hu man hair can be transplanted, an 1 bald headed men can become rcaionahly hir sute by that process,