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VOLUME IV. Subscribe For The Summerville Gazette. PffILKTUS R CLEMENT; I HOUSE & SIGN PAIKTER i ; - S ROM i:, Ci A. -4- 1 AM NOW PIIKI'ARED TO FILL ORDERS FOR ALL KINDS OF House. Sign and Ornamental Painting, Upholstering, etc., etc lOstiinnte* < lu'erl’nlly ifivcn. Address I. L. (i.HMEAT, Kome. (Jn, N0.7 13 THE TIkIE TJ SUBSCRIBE! THE SUMMERVILLE GAZETTE WILL HE FURNISHED TO SI ~ .i.i.i’.S, pos'i auk i kepaik, AT TilE FOLLOWING RATES: ONE TEAR 11.75 SIX MONTHS . 1.00 THREE MONTHS 50 These rates, considering the amount of matter furnished, make The Gazette The Cheapest Weekly Paper ]n Noriii Georgia. In order to enable every one to become a subscriber ami sup porter of a g oil, u!>>...i. ;a .me paper, the price lias been reduced to these low figures. i l.ereforc, you are expected to give us your aid- 'fake it yourself, and see that all your neighbors take it. "ujia You need 4.1 Yottr Pamily Needs i2 ' -'ll IViig liloi‘s Need 111 THE GAZETTE has endeavored to keep all the promises made by its proprie tors upon its introduction to the public. This is a guarantee ol good faith on their part, when they assert that it will hereafter not only maintain the high standard of its past career, but will he constantly improved, as experience suggests and ability enables. The wish and purpose of its management is to uiake the MOST USEFUL AND BEAD ABLE JOURNAL That its income will afford, with self-denial, constant off ■r*, available talent and high pride in their calling, upon the part of its publisher n 1 editor. Asa I*APKU F r r 1! Ilu D’AMIIA It ~ill be welcomed for the purity au l var . of it- misemlany carefully selected Trow the best foreign and American literature and lor its educational inllueriee in furnishing the current News of the Day in Brief. THE GAZETTE being of True Democr.i’ p.iueiples will countenance nothing hut Truth L.-tice, and fair dealing to all, and expo-lug all Rings, Cliques, Frauds, arid everything that is calculated to injure or defraud the public. The Manufacturing Interests of Northwest Georgia and Surrounding country, will receive constant attention, and every measure calculated to promote them, e.- peeially the development of the various industries of this region, will find in T he Gazette hearty support Thanking the public for the favor sho- \ • . paper in the past, 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 CLEM K X T &SJ X, $u ft! rrville, Chattooga Cos., Georgia. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL IS). 1877. I'll Love No One But Thee. Wlt>n far away from home and frientln, And ull that, s dear to me. There’s one tluvt'B ever in my mind. And that, dear otto, isthtv; And if wc ne'er should meet again Upon life's stormy sea, I s:.v to you these words are true, I'll love no one but thee. *T!■- iha- ■ ~> ejuers love, IT.I mi! i. m • until bo! ]■. .*• win. .. , .. ,-s p’.ss slowly by, M v It • a:. si ill 4iii;:s ft. thee; Yes, c.!in.;s t.> .. t . •wa ! love as strong And pure :.s gold ran be; Until l sleep where willows weep I'll love no one but thee. The mother bird may leave her young To starve within their nest The points of compass change about, The en- t be in the west; The suu shall rule no more the day. The world in chaos lit*. And still, when all these changes come, I'll love no one but thee. Church Etiquette. “Some go to church to take a walk, Some go there t o laugh and talk, Some go there to meet a lover, Some go there a fault to cover, Sonic go there t o doze ami nod. The good go there to worship God.” it is decidedly proper that church going people should know what rules to observe and observe them strictly. In entering church with a lady it is proper to precede her in ascending llio steps, as also in securing a seat, you act i as a sort of shield to her modesty, and I then you save her the emtuToii of select ing a pew. It is proper, if you are a believer to kneel or stand at prayer, according to the eus i.iiii ol the church. To disregard these is vulgar—at least it shows too much false pride, or too little reverence for the re quirements of Christianity. Excessive whispering during service is leeidedly vulgar. It is sometimes necos -ar.v to address an undertoned remark to your companion, but seldom. If you ehew tobacco, do not use it in church. It is annoying to those around you. an 1 tie u the sexton gives you je-s s. >,ev . ■:■ ... luri.i" service un less it i absolute iry—-as ill siek ness, a house :i-iii> i des-ionil call. 1 1 i- vulgar to ... Sometimes it is unavoidable—a i m v,-lies to dis play anew dress a , i .-a chain or per haps a beau. :• will occur sometimes t hat a poor go.i-e :■i■ - to Lie driven Iron! his seat —then u .- proper enough also. These causes and the like excuse late coming and tin: congregation endure them. Any other delay is unendurable. In entering and in leaving dent walk too slow i ke the shod-lie.., nor too last like , the hushfuls. In tho one ease, people ridicule you for allectatiou. in the other there is danger of knocking down the pews or running over somebody. “Hasten slowly.” When you look around too much in church, people hink vou want to show your profile, or that you want to attract attention to yourself, or that you want to marry, or that, like poor wheat, there is not weight enough about your head to keep it still. —a a- Wanted a Bill. A cay Lothario appeared before the grand jury a few days since for the pur- 1 pose, as he stated, of getting a true bill, 1 and that, too, against a woman. The ; foreman looked sympathetic and rather 1 surpri ed that the witness should ho so ungalhint; but complied with his duty to interrogate, and asked him to tell the jury all about it. ‘•Well,’’ said the witness, “it was just ; like this. There i- a snatching lookin gal living in our neighborhood, and I went in lively t-> m irry her. Alter telling her all . the .sweet, things 1 knowed about love, moon: him: and--ueli, 1 popped the ques tion. She said yes, provided i would get her a pair of them pretty shoes she show- 1 ed me when we were in town together. I knoived she would have them after Ihe 1 knot, was tied, so 1 got them for her.” “'That, was right.,"said the foreman. “Yes," rejoined the witness; “all right for th : gal; but sin: got the shoes, and ! she’s backed out. Now, I want to know if 1 can't get. the shoes, tlie gal or a bill j against her for obtaining goods under false ji’.otense.” “You said she was a snatching looking j g i:” raid tbe f• i email. “Yes, sir; and lie is the takingest gal j in lb. settlement.” “Well, then, you ought to have known that sue would have taken tho shoes, arid i as tl.n act doe- noi come within the pur- j view ofthe statute, you cannot get a bill, j but yen might sue her for breach of ! promise, and claim damages amounting to the value of a pair of shoes. An at tor: ey will bring the suit Corah ut j “Well, ’Squire, I believe 1 will try to git the gal, and It t the lawyers, court.-, arid grand juries alone. Women i- mighty I deceitful and uncertain, hut they can do [ more for a mar ’s injured affections and ! tore up mind than any of them.” He departed in disgust —Troy Enquirer' 6ur G p: i i.-.ophy. There is probably n .- n people in which the soupgrape philosophy i- more j marked than in the narrow minded, sill assertive, eminently re.-pent ame portion ol the so-called “religion world. M ith an | exemplary “nose —ii one may he allowed the expression—for speculative heresy, their scent is no less keen for imaginary evils in practice, Readily condemning ail who do not chime in with their rigorous illiberality, they are not disposed to acknowledge the good wherever it is to be met. They look upon a flaw in anything outside their own charmed circle much a- Falstaff regarded the flea that had attack ed Bardolph’s fiery nose—it was a “black soul burning in hell. There are few amusements which they deem permissible --fewer still which they do not nfleet, to despise. Themselves they paint black for purposes of humiliation; hut they have thoir consolation in bestowing upon the world innumerable coats of that dismal color. Their wisdom teaches them to build the walls of separation between themselves and their lellowmen thick and b :h, and their ap mires of outlook nar row. Hut who can set limits to tho at i motive force of a blushing cluster ol for I hidden fruit? Accordingly they have [ produced the most oomplet: and ingenious practical application of this philosophy extant; for, not content with narrowing to he smallest width the dingy stripe of window through which thyy look upon the universe, they stain it with jaundiced hues, lest the contrast between cell and field should overpower him. On the other hand, men ofthe world aro equally disposed to scoff at real goodness and seM'-denial when it does not proceed fro.ii tli ) e with whom they happen to have any points of sympathy. They can not he brought to see anything hut can't and hypocrisy iu revivals, prayermeetings, and such like proceedings. Is it because t hey have air Tag s t| ic on that, if the e be in any way its fruits, then godliness is a plant whose clusters grow for most part beyond thoir reach? Wo can fancy, us lie: been related, Charles 11 guilty of a certain curious sensation ol satisfaction when a hole was picked in good men's reputation. Had the grapes been taken down for examination, and had they really proved sour, with wli.at a superb air Master Reynard would have uttered his “All I told you sut The Spider. Uertio and Lonnie had lived the most of their lives m the city of Savannah. When the terrible yellow fever came there last summer, they left and went to the country. They Ii :d never eaten much corn bread for children the meal (hat the Savannah people get is not good and sweet like that got in the country—but when they bad run around in the woods and played until they were tired and Ii mgry, they thought corn bread was so nice. One day Bertie had been visiting a neighbor, and when he earn : home wo noticed lie seemed very much pleased at something, and while we were at dinner it came cut. He said, “Mamma, I will tell you how to make good corn bread. 1 taw them mi. kin. oa! M'-s Wilke: . Yon put the spider on the fire, then you put in some grease in that, then put the bread in and let, it cook, and it is good, i teil you.” Lonnie, who was sitting at the table also, stopnod eating when Bertie conn nieiioed talking,, and his brown eyes grew larger and larger. Directly ho hurst out: “Well, Bertie, I reckon you have to catch the spider first, before you can put tin: grease in him. This raised a laugh around the table. The little fellow had never known any thing about a cooking spider, and ho supposed, of cauie, Bertie meant the in sect. Acanthus. Not too Short. I’apa was getting ready to go down I own. I I was very warm and pleasant in the cosy sitting room, where the fire burned so cheerful upon the hearth, but it was over so cold out iu the streets, where the wind blew in such stiong, cutting blasts. So papa took his great, coat down from tho rack and cominonced to draw it on. “Let me help, you, papa,” said little Nellie, as she saw him tugging tit the sleeve. “ low/” said papa, raising his eyebrows in such a funny way, and smiling down upon the little mite at his side. "You? Why, you are 100 short, my dear. Vou could never reach halfway up. ’ ‘ <), 1 guess I could, papa, if you would only let me try. I will stand up in the chair. There, sou! I can reach way up now!” Klie had climbed into the chair as -he spoke and was holding out her chubby little hand. “What a dear little monkey, it is!” said papa as the coat was drawn smoothly on. “Give papa a kiss midget, I will never say again that you are too short.” Remember little folks that you are never too short, never too small, to do anything useful. Papa thought Nellie too slim tto help him on with his coat, but there was the chair close by, and mounting into it, the dear little woman helped pupa—oh I ever so much! I wander how many of these brave, helpful little Nellies are reading this? — The Acanthus. Moral education, or the education ■ f :iur youth in the elements of moral ob ligation, is the most essential thing in any system designed for the people at large, whether maintained by 'he Slate or by my other method- History shows, and 3 very day now passing shows, that some if the most noted viliians in society have been “well educated” in the common ac ceptation ofthe phrase. Secular educa :iou will not e irb the bad tendencies of liuiuan nature. Moral training', and that, ;00, from the start, and all the way Trough, must accompany the secular; ind moreover, the moral, to have any proper effect, must he based, at last, on lie broad foundation of religious truth. Men are what their mothers made them Vou may as well ask a loom which weaves luckaback why it does not make cashmere is expect poetry from this engineer or a Tiemical discovery from that jobber. A Yankee Boy. A tourist tells the following story: We recently met our friend, l)r. Lord, form erly of Boston' He has been a resident of this section for about six years. He was extensively outraged iu buying wool, an 1 on one occasion, becoming bewildered in the multi plication of the roads over the broad prairies, lie rode up to a small cabin inclosed in a clump of locust trees, and addressed a white haired hoy perched on the top ofa lieu-coop, with: “Hello, boy!” “1 reckon you’re a stranger,” was tho I response. “Look here, sonny.” “1 ain t your sonny.” “No not my sonny, hut if you will jump down and come hero, 1 will give you a dune.” I'll ■ hoy s| rang as if alighting front a wa p’s nest, and coming to the stranger, exclaimed: “Well, old hosivhat is it?” “I’re lost my way and don't know where I am. Can you toll me?" ‘A cs; on your horse.” Mr. L ud laughed at the boy’s wit and Ijanded him a dune. The boy took the money, and looking up with mingled ieel ings ol wonder and delight, said' "Reckon you must have a power of money.” “Why so, my hoy?” “ ’Cause you slather it away so.” “W hut's your father’s name?" inquired Mr. Lord. “Bill Jenks,” was the reply. “Ah! yes, 1 know him,” exclaimed Mr. Lord. “He grows wool doesn’t he?” “No, but his sheep does.” "If you knew me, my lad, you would he more respectful in your replies. lam a friend of your father’:.:; my name is Lord.” “Oh! yes, exclaimed the astonished lad; “l heard pap rea l about you in the Bible.” And starling off for tho house on a dead run. lie bawled at the top of his lungs: “Mother, mother, the Lord isout here on horseback, and has lost his way” Texas Ef <per. ♦ •*- Wit and Humor. Mother—“ Charlotte, how do you like your new teacher?” Charlotte—“ Oil, she’s a ,splendid loacher. She don’t care whether we know our lessons or not.” If a young lady wishes a young gentle man to ki- her, ivhat paper.-, should she mention? No Spectator, no Observer,' i but as many Times as you please. “1 bale to hear people talking behind one's hack,” as the robber said when the constable iva- chasing him and crying: “Stop thief." “You never saw my hands as dirty as that,” said a petulant mother to her little girl. “No, but your ma did, I'll bet,” was th : reply. “It doesn’t take me long to make up my uiind, 1 can tell you,” said a conceited fop. “It's always so where the stock of material to make up is small,” quietly remarked a young lady. “She must, be crazy to try to sing that,” was remarked of an avenue belle at the piano at, a party the other night. “Ah, yen don’t believe that cracked belles make music, then,” was the response. A witicss in a law office dc bribed the poverty ofa field of corn as follows: The crop was so stunted and sliort that the toads could sit oil their hauaehos and pick bugs off the tassels.” The Secret. “Mother," said a girl of ten years of age, “1 want to know tho secret of your going away alone every night and morn ing.” “VV by, my dear? ’ "Because it must ho to see someone you love very much.” “And what leads you to think so?” “Because 1 have always noticed that when you come back you appear to he more happy than usual.’ "Well, suppose 1 do go to see a friend I love very much, and that, after seeing him and conversing with him, I am move happy than before, why should you wish to know anything about it?” “Because I wish to do as you do that I may be happy al ;o.” “Well, my child, t leave you in the morning and in the evening it is to com mune with my Saviour; I go to pmy to him I ask him for his grace to make me happy and holy, I ask him to asss-d me iii all the duties ofthe day, and especially to keep me from committing any sin against him, and, above all, l a-k him to have mercy on you and save you from the influences of those who sin against him.” “If that is the secret,” said the child, “then 1. must go with you.” ——-- - —<> <• Every year brings something new in the shape ef Yankee invention or enterprise, amt it is with no little interest and curi osity that the development: of one season j after another are awaited. During the last winter and the present, spring tiie manufacture of “home made" molasses candy in plain sight of the public has been the sweet expression of now ideas to take | t lie lead <I as light i.-1 lie time for going | through the candy making process, and a good broad front window is requisite to give it the Hue effect. Attached to a bright nickel hook the saccharine mass is ! passed backward and forward, becoming I whiter and stronger with every motion,' until the tenuous threads fairly gleam in the light, and what began a very dark, murky and uninviting fluid i, transformed into a toothsome ami tempting product. NUMBER 16 Tho hoy who spends an hour each evening lounging idly on the street cor ner.: wastes, in the course of a year, 365 I precious hours, which, if applied to study would familiarize him with the rudiments of almost any of the familiar sciences. If, hi addition to wasting an hour each even ing. ho spends ten cents for a cigar, j which is usually the case, the amount tlnn worse, than wasted would pay for ten of the leading periodicals of those times. Think how much time and money you are wasting, and for what? The gratification afforded by tho lounge on the corner, or the cigar is not only temporary, hut hurt ful- Vou i aniint indulge in them without seriously injuring yourselves. You ac qure idle and wasteful habits which will cling to you with each succeding year. You may in after life shake them off, hut the probabilities are tli.it the habits th is formed in early life will remain with you to your dying day. Be warned, then, in time, and resolve that, as the hour spent in idleness is gone forever, you will im prove each passing one, and thereby fit yourself for usefulness and happiness. - A citizen of Hickory county, Mo., last week met with a singular piece of good fortune. While at Kansas City, in Sep tember, 1 Stiff, lie purchased an old trunk, advertised as “unclaimed property,” by the United States Express Company, which proved to contain only some valu able articles and dirty clothing. On his arrival home the trunk was converted into a receptacle for wood, for which purpose it. was used (ill a week since, when being j partially demolished, it was converted | into kindling wood. Between the wood and zinc bottom was found $3,055. The trunk bore no marks to indicate who the owner might have been, and the most reasonabl: supposition is that it was shipped to some fictitious name, and con tained stolen money, which, either by tho interference of arrest, or from (ear of de tection, remained uncalled for. -♦* ♦ >- The latest triumph of Yankee ingenui ty is sour milk jewelry, made at Mansfield Mass. The milk comes in the shape of curd from the butter and cheese making counties in New York, and looks, upon its arrival, a great deal like popped corn, hut before it leaves their shop it under goes a wonderful change, and receives the name of American coral. The secret iu making it up is carefully guarded, hut it is certain that it has to be heated very hot, during which coloring matter is in troduced, followed by a very heavy pres sure. Some of it is colored black and called jet, while some appears as cellu loid. It makes very handsome jewelry and is made into all kinds and stylos known to the trade. An Augusta editor says: “Wo have taken wood, potatoes, corn, oggs, butter, onions, cabbages, chickens, st me, lumber, labor, sand, calico, sour-krout, second hand clothing, toon skins.ond hug juico on subscription-, in our time, and now a man writes us to know if we would send the paper six mouths for a large owl. There are few tilings an editor would refuse on subscription, and if we come across any fellow who is out of owls, and is in need of one, we’ll do it.” “A little personal experience teaches us,” says a newly wedded rural editor in Illinois, “that the proverb, ‘Gall ii i man happy until be is dead,’ should read, ‘Call no man happy until ho is mariie 1 Very true, mid you needn’t bo in any par ticular hurry about it, even then. It can't he denied that — “There’s not in this wide world a happier life, Than to Hit by the stove pipe and tickle your wlto o ki.HHher warm lips in your moments of glee. And twist the ca ’s tail when she jnmps oh your knee.” Ask no woman her age. Never joku with u policeman. Do not play at chess with a widow. Never contradict a man who stutters. Be Civil to rich uncles an 1 aunts. Your oldest hat, of course for ail evening party. Always sit next the carver, if you can, at dinner. Ke.pyour own secrets. Toll no human being you dye your whiskers. Wind up your con duct, like your wale! , onje every day, minutely examining whether yen are fast or slow. <•.-*.*. At a little gathering the other evening somebody asked a man if he was fond of opera. He said he was, passionately, lie always liked that part where the lady rides around and jumps through the hoops! How small a portion of our lives is that we truly enjoy! In youth wo are looking forward for things that are to come. In old age we look backward to things that are past. Wealth is a weak anchor, and cannot support a man; this is a law of God, that virtue only is firm and cannot he shaken by a tempest. No man is a hotter merchant than 1 e who lays out his time upon God, and his money upon the poor. There are two classes of men generally in the wrong, those who don't knew enough, and those who know too much. Hoyle says: “When you are in doubt, take the trick.” That's just, what tho immortal eight said, with the addition, "doubt or no doubt, take the trick any lioty,”