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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 28, 1877.
A Young Girl's Bedfellow.
The good people among the hills of
Morris county, N. J., have I. und excite
ment, in the ease of a young girl said to bo
“grievously vexed of the devil,” and
whose condition is as unaccountable as it
is deplorable. The girl, according to the
Homf* informant, is daughter of Elijah
Nichols, blacksmith of the Glendon Iron
Company at llurdtown.. She predicted
evil against her fifteenth birthbay, which
befel on the loth of October last; and
since that date she has been bedridden
and paralyzed. At times there appears
under the counterpane of her bed a
presence as of a rat, a rabbit or a eat
swiftly moving from place to place and
eluding detection. Iri vain is the bod
stripped, or the patient removed to an
other place; the 1 ‘presence” is only power
less to act when the mother sleeps with
the child. The physicians, no less than
the clergy, and the common folks of all
the country side arc baffled. Crowds come
daily to see the mystery. On one recent
occasion, Mr Richards, Mayor of Dover
held his stiff hat above the "presence,”
and the hat received a blow that crushed
it. Violent blows have been given to the
hand, to a cane and ot her objects beldo.it
over the place where the ‘ presence” w as,
and needless to say, attempts to grab the
presence have failed. All the. while the
girl lies mourning us if in terror or pain,
and her position in the bed would bo
plainly such us to show that the mysterious
movements were not caused by her. The
girl has been known to abstain from all
food for the space of fifteen days, and for
some weeks past she has only received a
little milk daily, yet her face is fair, ami,
when the visitation is not nigh, her sleep
is apparently healthful. Her parents are
plain and honest people, who view this
as an affliction not to be turned to account
for notoriety or money. The neighbors,
unable to account for it in any other way,
have solemnly decreed witchcraft against
an old woman living among them, and
charms are in active demand. — .Yew Yuri:
II ’arid.
A Vermont Humorist.
Young Mr. Blow, of Bennington, Ver
mont, is a humorist. His sense of the
ludicrous is excessively acute, and nothing
it appears amuses him more than a
frightened woman.
Voun : Mr. Blow walked out in the field
last Sunday in company with two women,
bis cousins. Humorist as lie is, be took
a gun with huh, although we bo!ie ,r o the
use of dial sporting implement on Sunday
is strictly forbidden both by the law and
by the public sentiment of \ ermont.
Mr. Blow wanted to make a joke, and
be made it. He neglected to blow into
bis gun, and rested confident in the belief
that it was not loaded, wherefore ho be
lieved it to be perfectly safe to point the
weapon at hiscmisins, merely to frighten
them into an exquisitely ludicrous condi
tion of terror. Unluckily the gun was
loaded: as empty guns are pretty sure to
be vvlii'ii humorists of Mr. Blow’s kind
undi rtuke to perpetrate the entirely origi
nal joke of pointing them at other persons.
The gun went off, wounding btftti women,
one of them, it is feared, fatally. It would
be an excellent thing now to lock this
humorist up, say for ton years or so, jit t
to give him time to laugli over his ex
quisite jest.
A Touch of Nature.
A young titan who called on a South B
street lady a few nights ago was informed
by tlio matron of the bouse that her
daughter was putting the children to bed,
but would be in presently, and . he left the
young man alone in the parlor, dust then
three little things came rushing into Hie
room clad in the costume goner illy notice
able in the cherubs and enpids that, 'lance
along the corners of valentines arid mar
riage certificates. They rushed right in
arid began climbing up on the young man’s
knees. They had evidently just come
from the bath, and their white skins were
slippery with soap-suds.
“Oh, Charley! I. id oo turn to see sister
Lucy?”
“Say—tan’t we stay up and watch you
play tards and domidoe ?”
While these damp divinities of the
nursery were drying themselves on bis
lavender pants, sister Lucy came in, and
tha way she snatched those three young
ones out into an adjoining room and laid
down the household law with the hack of
a hair brush, m de the young man’s blood
run cold. — Virginia Ohronude.
How it Is.
“There’s where a man has the advan
tage. He can undress in a cool room and
have his bed warm before a woman has
got her hair-pins out or her shoos un
tied.” There’s how it, looks in print,
and this is how it is in reality: “I’m go
ing to bed, my dear; it’s half-past ten.”
No reply. “Now, John, you know you’re
always late in the morning. Do get to
bed!” “Yes, in a minute,” he replies,
as he turns the paper wrong side out and
begins a lengthy article, headed, “llie
Fclioolboard Difficulty.” Fifteen minute
later she calls out from the bedroom
“ John; come to be 1, and don t keep the
gas burning here all night!” arid mur
muring something about the bill being
big enough now. she creeps between tie
cold sheets, while John sits reading on,
his feet across the piano -tool, and ,
cigar in his mouth. By nd-by be n-es.
yawns, stretches himself, throws the
paper on the floor, and seizing the poker
proceeds to that vigorous exorci ■■ tab
bing the coals: in th r grate. Just at thi
| stage a not altogether pleasant’ voi-.-a in
quires: “For pity’s sake, ain’t you ready
I>r bed v t?” “Vos, yes; I’m coming.
Why don’t you go to sleep and let a fel
low alone?’' Then ho discovers (here a
coal needed. When that is supplied and
rattled into the grate, ho sits down to
warm his feet. Next ho slowly begins to
undress, and as be stands scratching him
attd absently gazing at the last garment,
as it dangles over the back of a chair, lie
remembers that the clock is not wound
tip. When that is attend to ho want’s a
drink of water, and away he promenades
to the kitchen. Of course when ho re
turns hi - shin resembles that of a picked
chicken, and onco more ho sits himself
for a last “warm up.”
As the clock strikes twelve ho turns
out the gas, and with a flop of the bed
clothes and a few .spasmodic shivers, lie
t üb. ides—no, nor. yet, ho forgot to see if
the front door was looked, and another
door was locked. Another flop of the
bed-covers bring forth the remark:
“Goodness gracious! if that nun ain’t
enough to try the patience of Job!” Bet
ting her teeth hard, she awaits the final
flop, with its accompanying blast of cold
air, and then quietly inquires if he is set
tled for the night, to which he replies by
muttering: "If you aiu’t the provuking
est woman!"
Integrity of character and truth in the
inner man are prerequisites of success in
any calling, and especially so in that of the
merchant. These arj attributes which
newr fail to command respect and win ad
miration. No one fails to appreciate them
and if they "do not pay” in the vulgar
sense of the phrase, they bring an amount
ofsatislaotion and peace to the owner that
all the wealth id Urtcms could not yield.
There, is no bettor stock in trade than
these principles; no capital goes so far or
pays so well, or is so exempt from bank
ruptcy and loss. When known, they gi c
credit and confidence, and in tire hardest
of titin-s will lionm'ymr paper in bank.
They give you an unlimited capital to do
business upon, and everybody will endorse
your paper, and the general faith of man
kind will be you will not fail. Lot every
young man upon commencing business,
look well to these indispensable elements
of success, and defend them as be would
the apple of his eye. If inattentive and
reckless here, lie will imperil ever) thing.
Bankruptcy in character is seldom repair
ed in an ordinary lifetime. A man may
suffer iu reputation a:id recover; not so
the man who suffers in character.
Be just and truthful. Let these bo the
ruling and predominating principle s of
your life and the reward will be certain,
either in the happiness they In lug to your
own bosom, or the success which will at
tend upon all your business operations in
life, or both. American Manufacturer.
Seven Fools.
I. The envious man who tends away
hi • mutton, because the person next, to
him is eating venison.
“. The jealous man—who spreads his
bed with sting nettles, and then sleeps
in it.,
;i. The proud man—who gets wet
through, sooner than ride in the carriage
ol an inferior.
t The Litigua man—who goes to law
in the hope of ruining his opponent, and
gets ruined himself.
!i. The extravagant, man—who buys a
herring, and takes it home in a cab.
f>. The angry man —who learns the
oidiielcide hi cause lie is annoyed by the
playing of his neighbor’s piano.
7' The ostentatious man -who illumi
nates the outside of bis house most bril
liantly, and sits in darkness within.
■What He was Yelling at.
“What is that man yelling at,” asked
an I linoi s farm ml lii.s boy, as lie pointed
to a person in the field one day last week.
“What is he yelling at?” repeated the
lad.
“Yes,” replied the father, inquiringly.
“I know,*’ said the boy.
“Then what is it, you young rascal?”
demanded the paternal.
“Why,” chuckled the urchin, “he’s—
he’s —he s —yelling at the top of In
voice.”
Then the cold-blooded husbandman put
violent bands on Ids irreverent offspring
and laid him over a gang plow while he
dailed him vrilh a for a fork stale.
Little f ur-ycar-old Lula was very much
afraid in the dark, and fur that reason had
greutdread of bed time. Complaining ol
(bis to u friend one day, she was told that
if,-ho would remember always that “dark
ness and light are alike to God’ she would
no longer be afraid. The next, morning,
upon entering the breakfast room the lit
tlo one exclaimed: “Well, Mrs. -, I
wars ’fraid ..gin last night!” “Why, how
was that?” asked the lady, ‘ did you not
remember what. I told you? ' “Oh, yes,
replied Lulu ; “L membered it, hut the!
’Laid i in me, an l can't be got out
o.' me.”
A gentleman having an appointment
with another who was habitually un
punctual, to his great surprise found Jiiui
waiting, lie thu- a hire- od him: “Why,
1 see you are here first at he c. Yon were
always be ind before; but 1 aui glad to
see you have become early of late. ’
“Lot mo see,” says the nuivc of a sick
man, “the doctor said one teaspoonful j
every ton minutes; that makes six every j
hour, say twenty two during the nig! '
I .-ludl give sever.ty'two spoonfuls right j
away, mid bio' ■ a chance to get a little i
sleep myself.”
Woman’s Curiosity.
A man was yesterday pushing an iron
i lawn-roller around a yard on Woodward
i avenue, when an old lady came along,
leaned up against the fence and watched
him awhile, and then called out:
“Say, mister, what are yqp pushing
that around for?”
“To roll the lawn,” he answered.
“What do you want to roll the lawn
fot?”
“To make it level. ”
“What do you want to make it level
for?” she continued.
“That’s what 1 was ordered to do,” ho
answered as lie wiped away the perspira
tion.
“But what did they order you to do it
for?”
“Why, they think a smooth lawn looks
the best, I suppose."
“Why do they think a smooth lawn
looks the best?” she persisted.
“I haven’t time to talk,” he said as he
started up again.
“Why haven’t you time to talk,” she
shouted.
“Go’ll ask the boss!" ho yelled.
“Why shall l go’u ask the boss?" she
screamed,
lie disappeared behind the house to
get rid of her, and after waiting live min
utes for him to reappear, she slowly saun
tered off, muttering:
“Some folks are so smart and stuck up
that you can’t get wiriiin a mile of ’em
onlessyou blaze all over with diamonds.”
-Detroit Free Press.
Mistaken Identity.
Mrs Margaret Alenisly of No. 14 Gay
street was arrested recently by officer
Vallely of the Eighth product police, in
front, of No. 477 Broome street, while
quarrelling with a man who she said was
her Im band and who had abandoned her.
Both were taken to Jefferson Market
Police Court, when Mrs. Alenisly told
J ustice Wandeil that the man was Edward
Alenisly, her husband, whom she had
mameil in February, ISlir>, at Charleston,
S. (h, and had lived with him until about
two years ago, when lie abandoned her.
She knew him by bis peculiar teeth, hair
and board, and was positive it was her
husband, and a! -o brought in two wit
ii'.- i's who also identiii and him as Mr.
Alenisly. One of die witnesses, a little
girl named Alary Edgerton, wo- brought
into court alter the ease bad been begun,
and picked the man out ol a crowd ol
spectators, reporters, ole. The man de
clined positively .1 lint ho was not the
woman’s husband, tli.it bis name was not
Edward AUmsly, but. August Jansen,
and instead of being a Scotchman, lie was
n German, and born in Prussia. He
produced one of bis employers, a highly
respectable firm doing bu; incss at No. 477
Broome street, and proved that he had
been in their employ us janitor lor seven
years and that be was a married man and
bad a family of live children. It was
evident from his speech that lie was a
German, and the Justice decided that it
was a singular case of mistaken identity,
and dismissed the complaint. Mrs.
Alenisly left the court in a highly excited
condition, evidently dissatisiii: I wuh the
di iihm of the Justice. — V. Y. Bowiiny
Post.
Saturday Night.
flow many a ki.-s Ins been given; how
many a curse; how many a caress; how
many a kind word; how many a promise
has been broken; how many a heart has
been wrecked; how many loved ones have
been lowered into the narrow chamber;
how many a babe has gone Irom eartfi to
heaven: bow many a cradle or crib stands
silent, which last Saturday night held the
rarest of all the treasures of the heart.
A week is a life; a week is a history; a
week makes sorrow or gludoe s.
Go home to thy family, man of business;
go borne you heart-tearing wanderer; go
to cheer what awaits you, wronged
waif of life’t breaker; go home to those
you love, and gi ve one night, to th.: joj 3
and comforts fst flying by. !/ ave your
books with complex figures, your dirty
work shop, your busy store: r. st with
(lio-e y iii love, for G ,: ! only knows what
till! next 's i turd ay nig t. may bring you.
Forge l the world of care and the battle
of life, which have furrowed the week,
and draw close around the family hearth.
Saturday night lias awaited your coming
with the bitterest tears and silence.
Go borne to those whom you love: and
as you busk in the loved presence and
meet, to return the loved embrace of your
heart’s pets, strive t.i be a better man.
and to bless God for giving bis .weary
children so dear a stepping-stone in the
river to the eternal Saturday night. —
Home and Farm.
A superior tramp made his appearance
in Noiwieh, Uonneetieut, the other day.
He asked for breakfast, and having re
ceived And eaten it, he wu requested to
cut tfic /.iri ■in (lie, front y;n<l. Ho mI .
once; wont cheerfully to work •jn , l labored .
three hours in the hot sun. The neigh
bors were called in to look ar tliis unpre- j
codcnted phenomena, and such was the
admiration which the spectacle excited ,
that the indu orious tramp received a good j
ill niis r, twenty Jive cents in cash and a i
tolerable pair of pantaloons.
An ingenious girl up on North Hill, :
who l. i-: never a “teller” in the world, j
muds the other girls in that neighbor- j
bond to madness by lighting up the pal
lor brilliantly and then setting her fathci s
hat whme its shadow will he boldly
ii. .k. .‘. against the curtain.
NUMBER 26.
The New London Telegram tells the
following marvelous story: “A little son
of .Limes Chapman, aged live years, had
a very narrow escape from death lately,
lie was playing on the embankment at
tlm ho ii end of Brigg’s pond when lie
slipped ; ml tell into the fluuie of the old
oakum mid, and was curried rapidly down
the .-livam, boilo tossed about by the rush
| ii:g w.-uoi like a chip. It was thought
that when he n ached the old wheel his
bic.in would hi dashed out against it, as
the .- pace beneath was not large enough
to iniiiiit of his passing safely through.
But lie shot under it like a fish, und went
under the bridge at Cedar street, and into
the trough through which the water is
conducted into Smith's organ factory.
Here be succeeded in clutching a joist fas
tened across t lie trough where he clung till
he was rescued, liis first words, after
lie had been put in a place of safety were:
“W here's my top?”
Home Influence.
Do parents consider the great responsi
bility resting upon them, and that they
will be called upon to give ah account of
tin ir stewardship for the examples and
I ri'cepts placed before their children?
1 Bov many men and women of the nine
teenth century, il their parents had raal
iz 1 ilie importance of the trust com
mitted to their keeping for awhile, and
bad implanted in their children’s minds
of ail that is useful and good, that would
noi lie useful and valued members of
S'U'ii t; instead n! mere votaries of fashion
and pleasure. Barents, the present will
b tin- parent of the future; therefore the
res, .on ibility placed upon you is great.
Dm it not behoove you to watch with
uiiil.o l ing perseverance the dispositions
ol’ yo : children in order to form their
character.-? As their minds develop, and
they grow in strength and knowledge,
surround tin m with everything in your
power that is calculated to improve them;
make your home a place of social enjoy
ment for them; let them feel their parents
are interested in anything they do, in
their v.ork, in their plays, in their studies
in their troubles. Teach them that
parents arc the best friends they have,
and can sympathize with them in all their
afflictions, friends that will use the’r in
fluence to advance them in everything
pertaining to their welfare. Let home
lie free from everything that has the
le t tendency to destroy tl e harmony
and p ,nv that should be found in that
i. ,1 place, for it is a sacred place to
tho that realize the responsibilities
resting upon them, for it is here the
family circle assemble around the altar
nd h i I communion with Him who lias
said, “Those things I command you, that
ye love one another.” — Homea.ml Farm.
Marivi;.' is the mother of the world,
and pro ave- kin" loins, and tills cities
and churches, and heaven itself. An un
married man, like a fly in the heart of an
apple, dwells m a perpetual sweetness,
but dwells alone, and is confined and dies
in singularity. But marriage, like the
useful bee, builds a house, and gathers
| sweetness from every flower, and labors
and unites into societies, and republics,
arid sends out colonies, and feeds the
world with delicacies, and exercises many
v irtno', and promo* '- the lriierest ol man
kind, and is the state of good things to
whh b God hath designed the constitution
I of tlio world.
Laziness prevents a man from getting
oil In ■ 100 e in put on the lir.-t rail that
gets off tile fence, and through this
lazy neglect a whole lield of corn is seri
ously damaged. Laziness keeps a man
from driving one nail, when one would
do, and finafl.v cost a carpenter's bill for
extensive repairs. Laziness allows a gate
I to be off the hinges, to lie in the mud, or
to stand propped by rails—a stable or
barn to leak and damage hundreds of
dollars worth ol provender. Laziness, in
si oil, is the proper excuse for ninu-tuiitlis
of the excuses for bad farming.
A mamma who succeeded in getting her
si an daughters off her hands, hits deter
mined to open a class for the instruction
of young ladies in the art of husband
eatehio; . It is to be called “ilie School
of Design.
There is an office in Baris where articles
found are taken to be restored to their
owners. They are daily legistered by
clerks, one of whom was lately heard to
call oil three umbrellas, one watch, two
rings, one pair of boots, and five babies.
Brnf- Swing says that common sense is
the hi . i guardian angel any young woman
. iii have around. But lacking this, a
wait on her nose, a twist in the eyes, and
.-hurt red iiair, affords a very good Sub
stitute in the way of a protector.
“Rose, my dear,” said a mother to her
daughter, “ifyou are so stiff and reserved
you will never get a husband.” “Ala,”
replied the young lady, ‘'unless the poets
tell fibs, a primrose i > not without attrac
tion.”
In a dilemma—The bachelor who re
marked that “he never would marry any
woman lie didn’t respect, und he certain
ly couldn’t respect any woman was willing
to marry him.”
An obituary notice of’a much respee'ed
lady conclude.- with: “In her life sho
~.i a pattern worthy to be followed; and
lie; ih atli oli, how consoling to her
friend