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VOLUME IV. ROME STOVE AND HOLLOW-WARE WORKS !! A WHITTEN GUARANTEE WITH EVERY STOVE SOLD. IF ANY PIECE BREAKS FROM HEAT. OR ANYTHING IS THE MAT TER WITH YOUR STOVE, BRING IT BACK AND WE WILL FIX IT IN TWO HOURS OR GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE. EVERY ARTICLE WARIIANED. POTS, OVENS, SKILLETS AND LIDS OF ALL SORTS, JOHN •. SEAY. I'ropi’ielor. Ollivc and Salesroom ISO l!ro:ul St., Rumr, (Jenrsia, FOI NDRY CORNKR FRANKLIN STHKLT ANI> RAILROAD. Coppa", Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware. TIN ROOFING, Cil'l'l KKIXCJ ANI) JOII WORK rUOMI'TI.Y ATTiy DKD TO TIN \VARF SOLD YFRY CUKAP. apr.V3m. a**, -h-rr -.r -.■bsn>nßiMraw:;aw mr ri*fnHUOMMK<tr-*:n mmnim NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE! THE S U M M E R V I L L E G A Z E T T E WILL BE FURNISHED TO SUBSCRIBERS, poki-ade prepaid, AT TIIE FOLLOWING RATES: ONE YEAR $1.75 SIX MONTHS 1.00 •THREE MONTHS 50 The.se rales, considering<Lc amount of matter furnished, make The Gazette r The Cheapest Weekly Paper In North Georgia. In order to enable every one’to become a .subscriber and suji- Dortcr of a good, substantial home paper, the price has been reduced to these low figures. Therefore, you arc expected to give us your aid. Take it yourself, and see that ai! your neighbors take it. You it! Your L’amily NooHh It! Your Neighbors Need It I THE GAZETTE has endeavored to keep all the promises made by its proprie tors upon its introduction to the public. This is a guarantee of good faith on their part, when they assert that it will hereafter not only maintain the high standard of its past career, hut will be constantly improved, as experience’suggests and ability enables. The wish and juirpo.se of its management is to make the MOST USEFUL AND READABLE JOURNAL That its income will afford, with self-denial, constant effort, available talent and high pride in their calling, upon the part of its publishers and editor. Asa PAPER I’OR THE FAMILY It will he welcomed for the purity and variety of its miscellany carefully selected from the bst foreign and American literature and for its educational influence in urnishing the current News of the Day in Brief. THE GAZETTE being of True Democrafic principles will countenance nothing hut Truth, Justice, and fair dealing to all, and exposing all Rings, Cliques, Frauds, and 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, 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 paper in the past, we invite renewed and erdarged support for the future, of oat efforts in assisting to make the South the j)eer, in industrial prosperity, educational facilities and political liberality, of any other section of the American Union. Address all communications to JAMHiB A. CLKMKN TANARUS, Editor mss<3 Proprietor, sii 3 i5 ervillc Chattooga Cos., Georgia. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. JULY 28, 1877. The Drunkard. Hopelessly wandering through tho cold street— Ills clothes ull iu tatters - no shoes on his fret; With count enanee Moated ami ruin-frenaiod eye Tired ot living, yet fearing to die. How the crowd Je* v rsas he shuttles along, No look of pity, or lov e in the throng; How his heart burns as he looks on the scone, Thinking of what is, and what might have been. Once he was youthful, light-hearted and gay. Life to him then seemed a long sunnner'sdny; Now, he is penniless, friendless and old. And shakes like a reed in the pitiless cold. Once ho had energy, freedom from fear, A bright beaming eye and an intellect dear; Tvvas seldom that, son ow or trouble would come ’Till he gave himself up to the donum of rum. Drink was the serpent that wrought, his first pain And fixed on his record, unsullied, a stain; Drink t hat he hailed as a friend in his glee. Hut, oh! what a friend did that, friend prove to be l Slowly, but surely, with devilish art, It palsied bis frame and ate out bis heart. And placed the black brand of disgrace on Isis brow, And made him that wreck of a man he is row. Oh! ye who are und* r the rum demon’s spell, And pour down yo ir throats his vile poison of hell, Of his subtle arts 1 beseech you beware, Kre you llnd yourselves wrecked on the shoal of despair. Ye may light him awhile, but believe me, at, b n th The strongest will fall and succumb to his strength; If you court him at all you will struggle in vain, To b ink the strong links of tho rum demon’s chain, DUTY OF PARENTS IN SUSTAINING Sabbath Schools. BY KIEV. JAMES A. CLEMENT, PART V. Parents, do you see your duty? Do you understand it? Will you contend against the Almighty? Will you rise uj> and say there is no use in talking or reading the law of the Lord to infants? Will you question the Divine mind in tho premises or bring your short and finite mind’s ap prehension in opposition to the infinite and All-Knowing One? Who has the best right to know whit impressions can be made upon the minds of infanta, the One who wtio made them, or jioor frail mortals? Does ho not enjoin upon us the duties already referred to? Will wo then question the propriety of their ob servance? Or stop to reason with our Maker, asking Dim what good tan it do? Did Abraham stop to reason with the Almighty, when he required him to take his son, Isaac, his only son, and offer him as a sacrifice? Not lie; hut instantly obeyed tho Divine behest. Shall we then because we cannot understand the modus operaudi, or how knowledge is imparted to the little ones, shall our ignorance in this regard restrain us from a performance of a plain and explicit duty? Or, shall wo be exonerated from blame or guilt, if wo refuse or neglect to obey the high be hests of Heaven in reference to our chil dren? Shall our want of understanding upon this point, release us from the obligation to commence their religious ins*ruction from the time of their birth? Is it not presumable the Creator understood the capacity of the intellectual and moral nature lie had implanted in the child at the beginning of its existence? Vial that ho well understood the means by which, and the time in which, it could and should he taught? And does lie not say in no mistakable terms, that as soon as it is born into tho world, the process of train ing of religious education is to commence and be continued until life’s latest labors shall have an end? ’Tis true, we cannot understand how :t is, that the reading of the law, or speaking of religious things are impressed upon the moral natures of the little ones; hut our finite comprehen sion is not to bo the rule to determine the truth or certainty of the fact that it should he done. God says, it is for tho purpose that they may learn, and observe to do all his commandments. That they can learn at this early ago is a settled fact, determined by the All-Knowing One himself, notwithstanding our inabil ity to understand and comprehend how it can he done. For how the words of another jailing upon the tympanum ol the ear of a child, cart produce an effect ujton the mind and heart, we cannot tell; but its truth is daily demonstrated before our eyes. .See that mother, as soon as she receives her new born infant into her arms, she immediately begins to caress it, jtlay with it, and talk —as her liege lord tauntingly tells her—her baby talk to it, and the result is, by this continual caress ing, the child very soon gives forth the pleasing smile, so that wfien the mother is pleasing and caressing, the child will smile and laugh, but let, the mo her change her voice and pretend to scold it., and how soon its little lips begin to quiver and tears gather in its eyes. And yet, for ull this, you tell me the little babe is unconscious, and no use to attempt to try to teach it anything; that it is incapable of understanding anything! Is it not conscious when it can distinguish and understand as easily us a grown up person, the difference between the sweet caresses and ti e frowns of its mother? Upon tho same principle then, that tho mother impresses upon the mind of her child the difference above referred to, j upon that same principle, whatever that may ho, we are to impress upon the in fant mind religious truth. Was it not by this same process adopted and practiced by Lois, the grandmother, and Eunice, the mother of Timothy, that enabled him to understand tho Scriptures from his infant days? And can we believe other wise, that this was tho same principle upon which Elkatmli and Hannah acted that so early enabled their son, Samuel, at the early age of three years to minister before the Lord iu his holy temple? All these parents being Jews, well under stood the Divine law upon the early train ing and instruction of children, and no doubt acted according to the Heavenly mandate and were duly recompensed for their care and toil. Are these things mysterious? 1 will show you a greater mystery in all proba bility th.ru this, even. Read the third chapter of tho book of Numbers, and you will there find where two and twenty thousand children from a month old, and upward, are sail to be ‘ keeping tho charge of the sanctuary.” “And their charge shall he the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of tho sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.” Now, did you ever hoar of such a thing before, as an infant only a month old keeping the charge of the Sanctuary of God? Do you believe it. - '’ I tear not. “J.et God he true, but every man a liar.” How it can he, or was done, I hnow not, l understand not; God says so, and that with me, is an end to till controversy ujton the subject. If 1 discard belief iu the premises, because I understand it not, and will not believe anything because I cannot, understand it, what is there then, that I will or do believe? I will discard Myself ij '•)') vi a. -lire, beerr'e I camiiot understand tho union of my soul, Ami spirit, and body. I cannot cxjtlain or understand, how the same dew whitens in the lily and reddens in tho rose. I cannot toll how by the exercise of my will, I raise my hand to my head, and let! it return to my side. Who can cxj.lain or understand the jihilosophy ol light? The modus oj.crandi, 1 do not, cannot understand or explain. But the facts we all know. God does not require me to explain or understand them, bee-use they are above and beyond the capacity of the finite miud, and are to bo received upon the dictum of the Great I Am; “O ye of little faith, how long will ye doubt?” “Blind unbelief Is mire to err, And HeanhiH work in vain; (od in hi own inlierprotor, And lio will make it plain.” (TO HE CONTINUED.) Gone Out Bumming. A Nevada paper is responsible for tho following: A book agent of this city has just re turned from the Honey Lake country. The agent one day stoj>ped at a cabin, situatedriii the edge of the foothills. Be fore reaching the cabin, half a dozen dogs of assorted sizes arid unrecognizable breeds started up from under stunted pines or came running from sheds about tho place, yelping and barking like a jiaek of coyotes, In the wake of the dogs .‘■warmed forth seven or eight bareheaded, flaxen ! aired children, plainly all of one breed, the forest breed. The juveniles were followed by a gaunt, saffron-eom plexioned woman of about, forty. By cooking for many years before an open fireplace, she had become as effectually smoke-cured as any herring. To th<B woman who thus appeared tho agent made known his business. “Wall, stranger, I’m afeerd ycr come to j the wrong place el yer got nothin hut books to s.. 11. Kf yer had some j> order or caps, or suthiri’ in the umernition line, j yer might sell some to my ole man. As ! ter bodies, stranger, we’re not much on ; the read liyar. ” “Gould l see your husband, mam?” asked the agent. “\\ all, stranger, I reckon yer could cf j yer was whar he was; lie's big enough for j to see. Lord knows.” “lie’s not at, home, then?” “Stranger, he’s not at home.” “Will he likely to return sooti?” “Can’t say, stranger; lie’s a little on sartin,” “Which way has ho gone? 1 may meet him somewhere in the settlement.” “I pepkon not, stranger; he’s gone out bumufin’.” “Gone out humming! Wliat do you mean by that?” “Wall, stranger, he tuck down his gun this taornin,’ and from a wink ho guv me as he started away I calkerlate he’s gone oft soma whar to bum a sheep or two. ” Wliat men are deficient in reason, they usually make up in rage. The Lords of Creation. A correspondent of the Pittsburg Chronicle reads the following lecture to the husband of the day: Why don’t somebody toll tho husband of the day that he must come homo to his wife with a smile instead oftho inevitable sorowl upon his face? That if he will bo about half as polite to his wife after as before marriage, she will he grateful and astonished. That lie must not he too tired to do a little thing for her if she asks him plea-anil,v. Tout it would not hurt, him or his “dignity” to take the baby in his strong anus for a time while his wife rests her weak and weary ones. That he must spend less money in the purchase of cigars and chewing tobacco and something else, so that there may be more saved, or exjiended uj o i home comforts. That if the mutton chops happen to he not quito to his liking, he might consider that his wile was probably so busy with something equally, or more important, as to have been unable to attend to tho chops, and if ho would pleasantly say, “My dear, l supposo you were too busy to look after tho Mijqier -1 know it is all right when you are not,” they will be all right next time, if such a thing is possible. That ho must learn to eject tobacco juice beyond instead of upon lii.s shirt front. That a mustache dripping with cream or coffee is nut tho most artistically beautiful sight hi the world. That ho mu t oneo in a while, say twice a year, or three times — L don’t want to startle all the married men into apojdexy—offer his wife a rea sonable amount of money lor personal expenses. That when an amiable man loses his amiability over a cruet-stand, or a key, or a shirt,, or a t ble-elolli, or a mustard-pot, he ought to be —well there! Who ever saw an “amiable husband?” That Barrel of Salt. One of tho firm who run a commission house on Woodbridge street is a man of muscle. He can lift a barrel of flour as easily us a common man lifts a bag of oats and it. scaicely makes his ears grow red as lie heaves a barrel of salt into a farmer’s wagon. For weeks past he has been boasting of lib strength of muscle, and wanting to see something he couldn’t lift, arid the boys around the store got their heads leg.(her the other day. 'I hey took a salt barrel ami filled it with broken pig iron, old weights and other things, put two inches of .-alt at either end, and rolled it to the curbstone; und at a favorable hour a dray backed up in the most iuno eent m.tnt.or and art tinier from it grocer for a barrel of salt whs handed out. Tho drayman arid two of the boys fooled around the barrel so long that tho strong man got out of his chair in disgust, threw off his coat arid said: “You - fellows Dad better got porous plasters for your bucks. Get out of the wav and give me a chance! lie seized the barrel by tho chimes and lifted away. It didn’t move. Ho gritted his teeth and laid out to pull tho hoops right off. The hoojis stayed right there. So did the barrel “lt takes four good men to lift one o’ them barrels,” said the drayman. “Noncsctisel I've lifted a score of them and I’ll jiiek this up or break my hack. I guess the suit must bo wet.” lie got in position, drew a long breath, and then lifted till his eyes looked like two towels left out mi tho clothes-line in a dark night. The barrel didn’t lift. Dig iron was too much li r muscle, and the liiter sat down on tho walk. His back used to be plumb tip and down, but it hasn’t been since that, lift. His eyes are getting buck to their original positions, and the red is leaving the hack of his neck, and ho sees two men handle a bag of dried aiqiies nr a bu.-hoi of beans without a woid of comment.-- J)ctn>il free J'rcss. “A lover” writes us: “Suppose I see a young lady ho.no from cliuroti, and the night is dark and rainy, ami un n arriv ing at her house she darts through the door without saying as much as ‘good night,’ leaving me standing outside — what would you advise me to do in such a case?” You had better start fur home iiinnediuicly, if you have an umbrella. Under no circumstance should you stand on the steps of the young lady's house ail night. It would he preferable to crawl into the nearest friendly store bov, and await for day-light to appear ir the rain to disappear —Norristown Herald. Gov. Carroll, of Maryland, was married a month ago to Miss Thompson, two of whoso sisters were already married to two brothers of the Governor, and now his only single brother Lengaged to his wile’s only sin.le sister. This way the Carroll boys have of gobbling up all tho Thomp son girls, or t.!;e Thompson girls have of gobbling up ad the Carroll hoys, or both have of gobbling up one another, is a species of matrimonial monopoly that, the rest of the young folks ol the Statu ought t a frown down. A singular accident occurred at Dale Pinto, Texas, the other evening. While a Mrs. Roller was milking a cow her son, a man of Wentyvfive years, was standing near with a stick thru; or (our led long in his left hand, tho hand lusting against the loft groin. While in this pnajiion the cow kicked, striking the end of the stick,' and driving the opposite end against the lower jiart of Mr. Roller’s abdomen, [De ducing inguinal hernia, from the effects of which he died the next evening. “Some woman, hut heap lots of fool,” was the remark of an .ndiau when he saw tin; Omaha females pul on trail;. NUMBER 30. Gems of Thought. No man should ho a judge in his own cause. To a man full of questions, make no answer. Life is a duty, and one ought to desire its preservation. Wilfully to lot it decay would be a sin. I Solon being asked why, among his laws, there was not one against personal affronts answered that lie could not, believe tho world Vo fantaliieal as to regard them. Whoever sincerely endeavors to do all the good he can, will probably do much more than he imagines, or will ever know to the day of judgment, when the secrets ol all hearts shall be made manifest. Honor and justice, reason and equity, go a great way in procuring prosperity to t hose who use them; and, in case of fai.uro they secure the best retreat and tho most honorable consolation. The shill should he, so to order tho time of recreation that it may relax, and refresh tho part that lias been exercised and is tired, and yet do something which, besides the present delight and ease, may jiro duee wliat will afterwards bo jirolitable. A passionate temper renders a man unfit for advice, deprives him cf his rea son, robs him of all that is great and no ble in his nature, makes him unfit for ennu i'- i tiim, destroys friendship, changes justice into cruelty, and turns all order into confusion. Tho fountain of content must sjiring up in tho mind; and ho who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek Imp;dnr-s by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which lie jiroposes to remove. The governor may lie deceived; lie brareth the sword, and may strike with it improperly. But if, to remedy ari occa sional inconvenience of this sort, you dis solve government, what will he the con sequence? More mischief will bo done by the people, thus let loose, in a month, than would be done by the government in half a century. A short time since a merchant of this place bought a lot of genseng from a countryman, and jiaid him for tho same in coffee. Thinking (ho bulk was small in comparison with its weight, he exam ined it closely, and was morally shocked to find that the larger roots had been dri led out and 1< ad run into the onvltjesy We have heard of Connecticut wooden hams and nutmegs, but are incline J to the opinion that the average mountaineer cun take care of himself.— Ashevill: l ’ionccr. A Vermont parson has a profane parrot which is a terrible grief and scandal to his jiarishi.iriers who insist that he shall get rid of his pet or they will get rid of him in a pet. The parson says he will have to do something as the pious people come in pair; to hear the feathered pagan swear, and stay so lone that he hardly gets time to mid or write his sermons, and the worst of it. is, they all expect his wife to ask them to stay co tea. The woman who sat down on a cactus at a picnic last summer, was one of the first on the ground at the picnic to-day; and another female, who got so badly bitten by woodtieks last summer that she took her solemn oath sho would never go toanother picnic t he longest day she livod, nearly fractured her leg in trying to crowd into the first wagon to start for the ground this morning. Time is a great healer. This curious item comes srom Havana, III.; “An empty whisky barrel on the platform at Virginia, a few miles south of this place, exploded at, one, p. m. tu day, with terrible force, sending a messenger hoy who was sitting on the top thirty feet into the air. On his striking the ground both his legs were luoken, and he was badly cut in the head.” “I tell you, sir,” said Dr. one morning, to the village apothecary, “I tell you, sir, the vox pojmli should no 1 , must riot, be disregarded.” “What, Doctor!” exclaimed the apothecary, rub bing his hands, “you don’t say that’s broken out in town, to >, lias it? Lord helji us! what unhealthy times those are!” William Kiel, of Eighth avenue, New ark, was cleaning his finger nails on Wed nesday with a pair of scissors. II is young wife began teasing him to buy some fur niture, and lie became angry' and threw the .scissors at her. The two blades pene trated her eyes just beneath the eyeballs. A physician said that tne woman could not recover her sight. When a woman gets into a crowd she always carries her parasol in the most awkward position possible, and as her wrath rises with every revolution she is oldie and to make, it is a lino study in physiognomy to watch her face when sho reaches the jioriod of greatest doubt as to whom to hit. They toil of a Burlington elder, a very explicit and conscientious man, always given to explain himself very clearly, who began hi,; | ray or last Thursday night, “J'aradogieal as it may appear to Thee, 0 Lord!” Charles O’Conor began lifo as a news boy; but the newsboys have rarely men tioned him since he quit the business.