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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 2. 1577.
My Mother's Voice.
1 often think there is a link,
’Tween thiswoild and the other,
Ami Bootn to hear afar and rear,
A tone death could not smother;
That eomes tome from o’er the sea,
Where saints in bliss rejoice;
The sweetest, sound my hwart has found,
My own dear mother’s voice.
In dreams of bliss I feel her kiss,
Her hand upon my head,
And see her there so pure and fair,
beside my lonely bed:
Flushed is her cheek iff-ho should speak,
In accents lowatul mild.
While from above with deathless lovo,
She looks on mo her child.
In mid-day sheen or serene.
Or morning’s mellow *;low,
By lamp’s dim Ilamo ’tis e'er the same,
I hear its music How;
And seen, to feel time cannot heal
That tie, so early broke .
But brings again in grief and pain.
The words fond love has spoken.
1 do not know, it may be so.
That in my heart's deep cells,
This long loved tone remained alone,
And there, in sweetness dwells
And thence, at will, when all is still,
It comes, a living w ole,
And in my dreams an angel seems,
That; whispers to iny soul.
In wilds unknown, on mount ain-dome,
Or oceans deep and tiro and,
Oil deser plain mid storm and rain,
I‘ve on its music fed;
And here, at home, no me re to roam,
It makes my lmurt rejoice.
The sweetest sound it ever found,
My own dear mother's voice.
DUTY OF PARENTS
IN SUSTAINING
l>ln i li P^’liools.
BY 11BV. JAMES A. CLEMENT.
PART VI.
How groat th“n is the responsibility
resting upon parents to teach their little
ones, even from their birth the great
principles of religious truth! Parental
responsibility, liow great! how fearful!!
Have we fully realized our relation to our
children? Do wo say, we are unable to
perfom these duties? That wo are not
prepared for the emergency? Then why
did you place yourself in the position,
where there was the greatest, and almost
sure pos.-ability and the greater probabil
ity that such responsibility would devolve
upon you? Did you not know before
hand that the marriage relation was a
sacred and responsible one, not merely
with the twain, hut with the results of
such relation? We hold that no man, no
woman, should assume such a relation
until they are properly prepared to dis
charge the duties and responsibilities
growing out of that relation. And il
men and women would not look upon the
as. liming of the said marriage relation in
so frolicsome light as it is so generally
done, but follow the Divine dictation,
“marry only in the Lord,” then our
children would be oftencr “brought up
in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord,” and he found walking in the paths
of holiness and r.ot so frequently bringing
our gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Recurring again to the duties of pa
rental instruction, no one, wo presume,
will deny that parental obligation properly
to train up the children committed to
their charge, exists, and men and women
formerly and solemnly pledged themselves
to discharge this obligation, when assum l
ing the marital relation. “This obliga
tion implies a godly life or example.
The patents arc to walk in the
same holy path they would have their
children I ursue. A godly example is a
silent monitor, more powerful than the
mo.-t affecting appeals, or urgent en
treaties, or prudent counsels. The parent
is under obligation to submit to the au
thority of God, in keeping all his com
mandments, not only for his own sake,
hut for the sake of his children. All this
is implied in the expression with respect
to pious Abraham; ‘He will command his
children and his household after him.’
“This obligation implies also faithful
and tame, t prayer for the children. Job
prayed for his children. Prayer is inter
course with Go !, and it strengthens ull
the social principles, and enlivens in the
highest degree every parental emotion
and impulse, and so qualifies the parent
the better to train up the children in the
fear of God. Parental prayer avails with
God, and the children are blessed in a
thousand ways by the answers he gives.
Frequent and solemn prayer sets the ex
ample, anil excites the impulse, in the
ease of the children. But parental ex
ample and prayer are notonough. Faith
ful, religious instruction, from the child’s
entrance into life, is required. Consider
s.nic of the results of pious parental in
struction. 11, insensibly blends intellectual
and moral instruction iri the same process.
This it does at an age when moral im
pressions are easily made upon eveiy
mental faculty, and moral principles are
incorporated in the very texture of
mind.
“Now, the conscience possesses the
tenderesc sensibility, the will is submis
sive, the heart is confiding—there is no
prejudice to combat- -no prido of opinion
to encounter —r.o artful sophistry to ro
futo—no deep-laid policy to oppose—the
evil propensities are yet dormant—evil
passions are as yet asleep—the cares of
the world, its business, its excitements,
its pleasures, its ambition, its examples,
make as yet no appeal to the attention—
and released from the responsibilities and
solicitudes of life, the young and opening
mind may press its whole energies upon
moral subjects.
Besides, childhood is the Lest time in
which to inculcate the principles of moral
responsibility. The foundation of moral
character is now laid in the a priori fac
ulties of mind. Moral being, moral life,
moral history, now begin it: their primary
elements—doctrines, conduct, enterprises
tastes, pleasures, associations, originate
in the moral character now formed. The
mind now receives the elements of its
subsequent indefinite expansion, as a citi
zen of time, and a candidate for eternity,
flow he is to think, to act, to (eel, as a
subject of God’s moral government —what
are to he his moral sensibilities and ten
dencies -what are to bo the elements of
his whole moral being—is now to he de
termined. A more solemn or important
duty cannot be conceived of than this
which is devolved upon parents.
1 The elements of future strength are
wrapped up in the organized elements
contained within the limits of the unsight
ly coil of the acorn, and in their early
evolution a child may snap the tender
twig; hut in the maturity of their devel
opment, tho oak spreads its strong
branches towards the heavens, and sur
vives tho shock of a thousand storms.
The streamlet down the slope of the
mountain may be diverted in its early
progros from its original course by a tiny
obstructing pebble, and so be lost in the
depths of some murky, doleful cavern;
but had it flowed on in the proper direc
tion, it would have received the aid ot
countless streams in its progress, and
rolled its congregated Waters into the dis
tant ocean—a noble river, tin boundary
of empires, and bearing upon its broad,
deep bosom, the navies and tho commerce
of the world.
“One of the results of pious parental in
struction is, the mind at an early age is
brought under tho convicting and con
verting grace of God. Children so in
structed, know more of the precepts, in
vitations, promises, doctrines, warnings,
threatening!! of the Bible, and hence have
a livelier sense of sin and clearer views of
pardon than many old persons who never
enjoy and the privilege. The exalted pity
and distinguished usefulness of Samuel,
Timothy, Augustine, Hooker, Wesley,
Dwight, Gardener, Doddridge, and a
page of the noblest names among men,
are to be ascribed to tho early education
of pious parents. From tho same source
the State has been furnished with some
of its most illustrious champions and
strongest pillars; the halls of learning,
legislation, and jurisprudence, have been
adorned with some of their brightest or
naments; and the no less honorable and
respectable pursuits and toils of daily
lile are dignified with industry, morality
and integrity.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
There is probably more genius devel
oped in newspaper offices titan anywhere
else on earth. A San Francisco editor
has recently invented a process by which
a far. simile of a whole newspa per page
can Let legraphed at once. But this is
nothing compared with the feat of the
editor of the: Dallas (Texas) Herald , who
has invented a “builplione” for searing
cattle from tho railroad track. The twenty
years of constant thought necessary to
complete this wonderful invention has of
course left the editor bald-headed, but
he has his reward. The “Lullphono"
would scare the very dickens to death
and Lack again, and as for the poor bull,
let him hut hear it once, and he is a rav
ing maniac for the rest of his life.—
Courier-Journal.
An application was made to Sir John
lies Muntell, at Salford police court,
England, for a summons to stop a cock
from crowing so early as three o’clock in
the morning. The applicant said a cock
began to crow at that unreasonable hour
every morning, to the great annoyance of
himself and others, and ho wanted the
magistrate to assist him in abating the
nuisance. Sir John refused to accede to
Die request, observing that ho did not
know that the crowing of a cock consti
tuted an offense which could be brought
under the cognizance of‘4he law.
A .-tidden draught of hot air is reported
| to have passed through a cotton field and
peach orchard in YV extern Texas a few
days ago, scorching and killing every
thing it touched for a space ol one hun
dred and forty yards wide and four hun
-1 dred yards long.
Four South Carolina Widows.
At Prosperity, a station on the Green
ville A Columbus railroad, says the New
berry (S. C.) Herald, there dwells in
reach of tho sound of the whistle four
widows whoso names and deeds should be
printed in letters of gold- \\"e shall tell
of them—to spare blushes - first as
No. I. This lady—as, in fact, ull the
others—lost her husband during the war,
and was left in straightened circum
stances. Did she sit down and grieve at
at her fate? By no means. She has
raised four children, besides tine crops,
and to-day she has much of last year’s cot
ton and flour on hand, is free from debt,
and is able to pay cash down for what she
wants.
No. 2 looks complacently on all of her
last crop of cotton and with a scene of
perfect rest and absolute fullness of 15,000
pounds of flour, neither of which she has
sold because she had no use for the money
here’s a widow for you. The only thing
which disturbs her rest now is what to do
with her new fodder, every place being
occupied with the old. She, toe, like a
true woman, has raised children end set
them up under their own vine and fig
tree.
No. 3slruggL and through the years which
have rolled on since the late unpleasant
ness, raised six children; given each at
majority sf>(K) in cash. Last year she
bought a tract of land for which, $1,400
in good money was paid. Has corn, fod
der and other things in abundance.
No. 4, like unto the others, has made a
splendid fight and brought, up a large
family in the way they should go, has of
last year’s crop abundance, pays cash in
trade and loans her earnings out on
interest.
What is Moderate Drinking?
Tho advocate of total abstinence from
intoxicating liquors are wont to condemn
even a moderate use of stimulating drinks
on the ground teat “moderate drinking
is the parent of excessive drinking.” The
London Lumet questions the correctness
of tins proposition, but. in its negative
definition of what is meant by “moderate
drinking the votaries ot Bacchus wiil find
very little comfort. “The man,” says
tho Lancet , “who begins (he day with a
‘soda and brandy’ has very little respect
for his constitution, and, if he does not
alter bis habits, they will alter his heal ill.
t hid glasses o! beer and glasses of spirits
in a forenoon do not come within range of
moderate drinking. That is not moderate
drinking whi h adds fifteen or twenty
heats to the pulse, or which flushes the
face. Finally, all casual drinking is bad,
presumably, and not moderate drinking.
Tho system will not receive food merely
as a m-tter of conviviality at all sorts of
hours. Still less will it receive with im
punity drink in this way. Drinking which
disturbs sleep, either by making it. heavy
or driving it away, is not moderate.
Moderate drinking is that which consists
with a clean tongue, a good appetite, a
slow pulse, a cool skin, a clear head, a
steady hand, good walking power and
lie lit, refreshing sleep. It is associated
with meals, and is entirely subordinated
to more convenient and less objectionable
forms of food. That such drinking pro
duces drunkenness has yet to be proved,
as it has yet to be proved essential to
health.”
The Stonewall Brigade.
Col. Kyd Douglas writing to the Phila
delphia Times refines the following inci
dent of the battle of Manassas:
Tho General formed his brigade along
the crest of the hill hear the Henry house,
the iiuui lyiuc down behind tlm brow of
it, in support of the two pieces ol artillery
placed in position to play upon the ad
vancing foe.
Gen. Bee, his brigade being crushed
and scattered, rode up to Gen. Jackson,
and with the excitement and mortification
of an untried but honorable soldier, re
ported that the enemy were beating him
him hack.
“Very wcdl, general, it can’t he belli
ed.” replied Jackson.
“But how do you expect to stop them?”
“We'll give them the bayonet!” was
the answer briefly.
(Jen. flue wheeled his horse and gallop
ed back to liis command. As he did so,
General Jackson said to Lieut. L ie, of
his staff:
“Tull the colonel of this brigade that
the enemy are advancing; that when their
heads are seen above the hill, let. the
whole line rise, move toward with a shout,
and trust to the bayonet. I am tired of
this long range work. ”
do the storm which followed Bee’s re
turn to his command, he was smut on foot,
Iris horse shot from under him. Wilt) the
fury of despair, he strode among his men,
tried to rally and to hold them against
the torrent which boat upon them; and
finally, in a voice which rivaled the roar
of battle, he cried out: “Oh, men, there
are Jackson and his Virginians standing
behind you like a stone wali!” Uttering
these word.’of martial baptism, Bee fell
dead upon the field, and loft behind him
a faiiie which will follow that of Jackson
as a shadow.
in Cedarvalo, Kansas, a wile pro. anted
her husband with a line hoy and it affect
ed liis peace of mind to such art extent
that he turned liis hogs loosi , left liis calf
with the cow ull night, tied an ox up
where the diictor’s horse should have
been, and did many other excited things.
Brigham Young has buried 27 mothers
in-law, mid lie wants the United Flutes to
understand that lie’s not afraid of a moun
tain howitzer loaded t j the muzzle.
NUMBER 31.
Wo were struck the other day by tho
reply of a musician to a friend who had
asked him to play on a piano which was
out of tuno. Someone was present who
had not before heard the pianist. “Do
play for us,” said tho musician’s friend,
“Dir. Blank will make allowances for the
condition of the piano.” “Make allow
ances!” replied the pianist, “I have heard
that all my life, and it never was and
never will be true. Nobody ‘makes al
lowances.’ If a pianist plays on a bad
piano, or a tenor sings when ho has a sore
throat, or an orator gets out of his death
bed to make a speech, the audience is
disappointed because ho does not do his
best work, and it carries away an impres
sion of the performance which is likely to
last for a ILe-timc. It's the same in
house keeping, and dressing, and busi
ness, and everything else. People expect
the best under ull circumstances. There
is no such thing as ‘making allowance.’ "
Persons who know something of tho
thrift of corns may possibly believe this
siory >.f a man who lives at Itidgevillo,
Indiana: “He was afflicted with erysipe
las in the face seme years ago. Gradually
it settled in his nosu, which became har
dened at the point. At first it felt like a
hard pimple. Gradually it developed into
a horny substance like a roaster’s spur,
and finally projected itself into a well
defined horn. As it grew it became an
noying from its length, and, to curtail its
dimensions, he began to whittle it down
with a sharp knife, and finding it publ
ic -, ho continued the whittling process,
keeping tho cornuary development down
to perhaps a half inch in length. Tho
ni i. says he presumes that, if lie had not
whittled it down, this singular formation
would i.o'v have been about five inches
long.”
A-
California is about two and live eighth
times as large as the State of Now York.
From its climate its configuration, audits
variety of natural resources, it is capable
of supporting.! much larger population to
the square mile than the State of Now
York. New York, yet far from being
over-populated, has a population of 4,-
500,()iJ0. 1 n (stlifornia, at the same rate,
there is room lor 12,000,000 people. Y r et
when a few thou-and people come here,
we heein to wonder what they wiil do.
7 hen; is a fair amount of capital in Cali
fornia, and with the immigration that is
coming in, there will he an abundance of
labor. I! the two elements be brought
together and work in unison, the State
will receive anew impetus, and attain a
condition of greater prosperity than ever
before.
The Glorious Fourth.
“Oh, I'll have :i blazing time on the
Fourth!" yolled a boy from the City Hall
steps ye -torday at another in the yard.
“Going to shoot off your mouth?”
sneered the other.
“No, I liain’t going to she ont off my
mouth, hut I've got a firecracker as big
as your leg, two hundred torpedoes, six
old muskets and a sky-rocket. Mam sold
the stove biler yesterday Cor lemons and
sugar, dad is around trying to nick
gooseberries for a pie, we’ve got the dead
thing on a yearling chicken, and it you
want to see the goddess of liberty turn
handsprings over the clothes line, you
come around and look through the alley
fence.” — Philaddplun /iuUi'l lit.
Self llcspcct.
Always remember no one can debase
you but yourself. Slander, satire, false
hood, injustice—they can never rob you
of'your mandood. Men may lie about
you, they may denounce you, they may
cherish snspioioiia manifold, they may
make your Cad ngs the target of their wit
and cruelty; never he alarmed; never
swerve an inch It uu the lino your judg
ment and conscience have marked out for
you. '1 hey cannot, by all their efforts,
take away your knowledge of yourself’, Urn
purity of your motives, the integrity of
your character, arid the generosity of your
nature. While these are left, you are,
in point of fact, unharmed.
The Trwinton Southerner tells the fol
lowing joke on a man who was endeavor
ing to obtain license to teach a school in
Wilkcrson county : “lie was asked by
Judge Chambers to bound Georgia. Af
ter scratching his head violent .y for some
time ho said, ‘Gooigia is bounded on the
east |,y .Savannah mid Dublin; on the
south by the Okctcnokoe swamp; on the
north by Atlanta, and on the west by
Tolbotton.’ lie didn’t get a license. Hut
the man tells u different story. _ Ho says
the board of School Commissioners of
Wilkotv.on refused to let him have a
school because he spelt 'tutors’ with a p.”
A Texas newspaper informs its readers
wliat kind of people thuy want in that
State. They have twice too many doctors,
and nine times too many lawyers. In fact
they propose to “swap off” lawyers at tho
rate of forty lawyers for one Northern
fanner. They would like a few more
good preachers, and a great many less
poor ones. But the great want is farmers;
“live million good farmers” will receive a
welcome within the borders of Texas.
But they want ‘•early-rising, hard work
ing, sober, goo 1-managing men.”
A C:w fl.-'v ; c- ' n very handsome la !y
enk::vtl t dry goods house aid enquire 1
for a “beau*’’ The po itc clerk threw
himself’back and remarked that he was
at le‘ service. I ‘.Yoh, hut L want a buff’
not a green one,” was the reply. Tho
\ ;ur,2 man went on liicasurinu goods im
med lately. /