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VOLUME IV. ROME STOVE AND HOLLOW-WARE WORKS !! A WHITTEN GUARANTEE WITH EVERY STOVE SOLD. IE ANY PIECE BREAKS FROM HEAT, OR ANYTHING IS THE MAT TER WITH YOUR STOVE, BRING IT RACK AND WE WILL FIX IT IN TWO HOURS OR GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE. EVERY ARTICLE WARRANED. POTS, OVENS, SKILLETS AND LIDS OF ALL SORTS, .JOHN’ .1. SEAY, Proprietor. Ollier and Salewroem Hit Oread Sit., Koine, ttcorgi . FOUNDRY CORNER FRANKLIN STREET ANI) RAILROAD. Coppar, Tin and Shee'.-lron Ware. TIN HOOFING, GUTTERING AM) JOI* WOKlv PROMPTLY ATTKfc I>Kl> TO TIN WARE SOLII VERY CHEAP. aprs ini. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE! THE S U M M E R V r L L E G A Z e'* T E WILL RE FURNISHED TO. SUBSCRIBERS, costauk ritKi’.uii, AT THE FOLLOWING RATES: ONE YEAR ----- *1.75 SIX MONTHS ----- - 1.00 THREE MONTHS -- 50 These rates, considering the amount of matter furnished, make Tut: Gazette The Cheapest Weekly Paper Iu Norih Georgia. In order to enable every one to become a subscriber and sup porter of a g iod, substantial home paper, the price has been reduced to these low figures. Therefore, you are expected to give us your aid- Take it yourself, and sec that all your neighbors take it.'"®® •You need H I Your Family Needs It I Your TVeiglibors Nfeed 11 I THE GAZETTE lias 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, but will be constantly improved, as experience suggests and ability enables. The wisli and purpose 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 PAPISII F’OU TIIE FAMIIaY It will he welcomed for'.the purity and variety of its miscellany carefully selected from the best foreign and American literature and for its educational influence in urnishing the current News of the Day in Brief. THE GAZETTE being of True Democratic 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 S(Around!rig 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 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 .JAM a. clement, flditor and Proprietor, stu crville Chattooga Cos., Keorgia. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 16, 1877. Bloodless War To the K<t it or of The dinette: In reply to your note of inquiry, “what has become of Charlie?” I have to say, 1 am here yet, but some hew or other, I am growing older and older every day 1 live, and melting away l>y tho August heat. Still, 1 would have written you ere this, had l not been so very much en gaged with spy glass in hand, and with a sad heart, watching the skirmishing all along the lino between Generals \\ bite and Hamilton, of Subligna, which you know is a good long one, and extending over very rough and rugged ground, reaching away back, its right wing resting in South Carolina, and its left iu the frontier of Texas, and over tho mounds and sacred dust of those who have long since “gone to that country from whose bourne no traveler returns.” I regret to see that they now and then strengthen their respective foices by new recruits, who perchance had seen, hoard or done something away back yonder in and beyond ante-bellum times; thereby making tho war more desperate and for midabhi, extending its baneful influences from ftuiily to family, that have hitherto been as one family. Oh! that i could but drop a tear here that would blot it out. They were exceedingly unfortunate in tho selection of the weapons with which to prosecute their war. Had they en trusted that matter to their neighbors, they would have selected very diferent ones, these loss expensive, less destructive and by far more effective; but instead of t hat, and without regard to cost or results, they selected not only breach loaders , hut breach dischargers which invariably do as much, if not more, harm in tho rear than in front. ’Tis human to err. Is it not strange tnat men of their calibre and good sense, have not dis covered this before now, unless it is their deliberate purpose to commit suicide? Why have you not spoken to them about this? Please do so for me, and if they still persist in their use, 1 hereby deputise and command you and Sheriff Kellett, to go at once and arrest the helligerants, and take them to the big spring near Sum merville, and duck them, and keep duck ing them until they agree to shake hands over the “bloodless chasm. ” But before commencing, be sure to have .Jeter Law rence there to boss the ducking: A word of caution here may not be amiss. Hamil ton will not relish the dueling as well as White, and Lawrence knows it, and will, if you will allow him, hold Hamilton un der too k tig. He is none too good to do this. If you can’t get them to the spring, try and got them to the Chattooga river, li you fail in this, then in that instance, throw a few buckets of cold water on them. Hamilton will no doubt prefer tins to the ducking, but White will not, and ch irgc it to me, for 1 would do it my self if I wore there; for we cannot afford to stand by and sec two such good and useful citizens besmear each other, and destroy their usefulness to the society in which they live. It is bad enough fm had men and bad women to do this. “Lot us have peace, if it takes all summer.” If the means suggested fail to secure it, I hereby constitute and appoint yeti and Kellett, and such other good and di creet persons, as iri your sound judgment, may select as commissioners of peace to go and sec them, taking with you a flag of truce unfurled, as in a battle, and tell them lor me that they must surrender, and ground their arms of rebellion, and quit their foolishness at once, and forever bury tho hatchet; and then cause one to dig a deep hole in mother earth, and then you gen tlemen of the peace commission, gather up all their implements of warfare, and put them in the hale, arid then make the the other one cover them up good and deep, tramping in the dirt, and then draw some drj dirt and old leaves over it, so as the place can never be found again, not even by them or either ol you; and see that they agree henceforth to boas good friends and neighbors as heretofore, and right then and there make them agree upon the honor ol men that each one will go home and send me a 100 pounds sack of good flour, and a good and large ham of country bacon by old man Davidson, freight paid, arid that soon. These things I give you Mi icily in charge to do and perform, us the most sacred part of your duty, for it is all I charge for writing this. I don't want to draw ori your county for it if I can help it. You see I have issued no order for any compensation for yours and Kellett’s service. For I know each of you know how to take care of yourselves. lam not uneasy about that. But I will say ibis much, you must keep within the bounds l of the “fee bill.” But should you by accident or otherwise go beyond it, send the overplus (low n to me, which will make it all right, and nothing more will ho said about it —at least 1 will not. Kinehcn R. Foster, r.no of your good citizens, was down last week, and made arrangements to send two of his daughters to the Cherokee llaptist Female College. We hope many others will go and do like ' wise. The work on the new college building has commenced, and will be the pride of Cherokee Georgia when completed. Rev. David E. Battle, Grand Master of the 1 1 rand Lodge ofGeorgia, has been invited to come up and lay the corner stone at an early day, which he will no doubt do. dhe government is at work on the Coosa river, and the blasting of rock in the shoals reminds us ol war times. The railroad fever is favorable, and will l think, warm its friends up to activity. I don’t know your “Aunt Emory” nor anything about her size, but 1 take it for granted, she is one of those little, lovely creatures, as she thinks we should all love “little things.” She is a good writes however, and is calculated and will do much good. Oh! that those two helligerants would turn their attention to writing about their corn, cotton, wheat, stock, fruit, farm products, our mineral resources, etc. They are good writers, and could do much good in that way. Will they do it? Charlie. Rome, Ga., Aug. oth. Jackson County Giant. It was near three weeks ago wo first hoard of this wonderful being, or rather of the wonderful track; for up to that time the track only had boon seen. Our information in regard to the monster was from our fellow citizen and neighbor, Clopton, who has just returned from a visit to Lnrkinsvillc. Wo observed at the time that he told the story with a good deal of surprise and wonder depicted in his countenance; hut still we p id little heed to it, taking it for granted that some good natiired friend had been trying to hoax the doctor. Nor did we think much move ol the story when we saw it reported in the Fcottsboro Herald, thinking that our facetious friend Col. Snodgrass had submitted to tho hoax himself willingly, so that he could enjoy the big eyed wonder that it. might excite in others. In fact, we paid no attenlton to it at all, merely glancing at the head, and handing the paper over to a trend to read, which friend slipped it into his pocket and slipped off with it —a thing that often happens. The story or reports as we first got it, was about this: Col. John Snodgrass and Dr. Payne had been off on a fishing ex cursion somewhere near Bellefonte, and on their return homo discovered some immense human tracks —so very large that they almost doubted the truth of their own natural eyesight. Those tracks they traced through a largo cotton field belonging to Gen. Add. White, where tho tracks wore deeply imprinted in the soft earth. Upon reaching Scottsboro they reported what they had seen, but the story seemed so incredible that hundreds of people went to see for themselves; and some who could not, deputised Rev. R, 1). Shook, editor of the Philanthropist, to go and see for them, knowing that he would make a report that all could believe. He also took a tapeline to make accurate measure ment, and, upon his return, his report fully corroborated ; hat of Messrs. Snod grass and Payne. * Later we have met with some reliable parties from Jackson county, and have learned a great deal more about the giant. Wc find that the half had not bei n told us, and that there was rio hoax about it, but a stern and fearful reality. It is in deed a fearful tiling to know that such a monster is at large in any community. When it became known to everybody, the fear and anxiety became intense, and each day increased until it was finally reso'ved that a general hunt shou.d he made, and a desperate effort to capture tho horrid monster. Men (eared to go abroad lest they should be gobbled up, for it was evident that the creature, if he was dis posed to feed upon man, could easily take one in at a single meal. They could j dgo of his size only by the size of his foot, and the length of If is stride. By accurate measurement the trace was thirty-four inches long, fourteen inches wide, and he stepped across seven cotton rows at every stride. — J/iintsville, (Ala ) Advocate. Af.er having inspected a pile of calico in one of the Woodward avenue stores yesterday, a somewhat rusty looking man blandly remarked to tbo clerk before him: “Credit must bo given me " “No, sir-—we don't trust,” was the reply. "1 was going to remark that credit must be given mo for- —-” ‘We couldn’t do it, sir. The rule ap p.ios to every one.” “Couldn't do what?” asked tho man. “Couldn’t give you credit.” “You are very uncivil, sir, very; hut yet 1 will say before I go out of here that credit must be given me tor being honest arid impartial, when I say that I never saw three bitching po.-ts look nicer than them out there. That’s all, sir, and 1 wish I hadn’t s id that much.” A Little Every Day. The longest life is made up of simple days—few or many; but the days grow into years, and give the measure of our lives at the last. The life is at tho last what the days have been. Let the children, therefore, look after the days—one day at a time— and put into each one something that will last —something worth doing, some thing _ worth remembering, something worth imitating by those who follow us. 1. Every day a little knowledge. One fact in a day. How small a thing is one fact! Only one! Ten years pass by. Three thousand, six hundred fifty facts are not a small thing. 2 Every day a little self-denial. The thing that is difficult to do to-day will b< an easy thing to do three hundred aim sixty live days hence, if each day it shah have been repeated. What power ot self mastery shall he enjoy, who, looking to God for His grace, seeks every day to practice the grace he prays tor. 3. Every day a little hopefulness We live few the good ol others, if our living ho iu ans .sense true living. It is not iu the great dteds of philantlyopy that the only blessingHs Ibund. In •‘Little deeds of kinduess,” repeated overy day, we find true happi ness. At huiie, at school, in the street, in the neighbor’s house, on tlu play ground—we shall find opportunity every day for usefulness. 4. Every day # a little look into tho Bible, line eh’liijter a day. What a treasure of Uil lo one ac quire in ten years. Every day aArsc canimitted to .memory.' What a gJnii.e in the mind, at Uio'jpnd of twenty-five years. •* 7 v MbsCorisandc was born only two years earlier than her brother Tom. W+ren Tom was ten years old she gloried berfSuee she was twelve. When Tom was known to he fourteen she confes-ed to sweet sixteen. When Ti m proudly boasted of eighteen she timidly acknowledged her self past nineteen. When he came home from college, with a mustache and a vote, and had a party in honor of his twenty first birthday, she said to her friends, “What a boyish follow he is; who would think ho is only a j ear yongjr than I?” And when Tom declared ho was twenty five, and old enough to get married, she said: “Do you know I feel savagely jeal ous to think of Tour getting marrie 1. But then I suppose twins are always more at tached lo each other than other brothers and sisters.” And two years later, at Tom’s wedding, she said with girlish vivacity to the wedding guests, “Dear old Tom: to see him married to-night, arid then to think how, when he was only five years old, they brought him to see me, his baby sister. I wonder if he thinks of if to night.” A woman will take the smallest drawer in a bureau for her own private use, and will pack away in it bright hits of boxes, of all shades and sizes, dainty fragments of ribbon, and scraps of lace, foamy ruffles, velvet things for the neck, bundles of old love-letters, pieces of jewelry, hand kerchiefs, fans, things that no man knows the name of. All sorts of fresh looking, bright little traps that you couldn’t cata logue in a column, and any hour iu the day or night she can go to that drawer and pick any article she wants without disturbing anything else. Whereas, a man, having the biggest, deepest, and widest drawer assigned to him will chuck into it three socks, a collar box, an old neck tie, two handkerchiefs, a pipe, and a pair of suspenders, and to save his soul he can’t shut that drawer without leaving more things sticking out than there are in it, and it always looks as though it had been packed by a hydraulic press. A worthy German d-ed iu Franklin re oenlly, and his next friend, also a worthy German, was appointed administrator to settle up affairs of hi i estate. The ad ministrator called at a printing office the other day to have posters printed an nouncing that the goods of the deceased would I e sold at putdic auction. “I vant you to write up dose hills in some kind of sthyle,” said the adminis trator, whose mind runs much to busi ness; “I vant someding dut vill attract der public eye, and | l ing in der beople from der kouudry.” The printer as*ed for a suggestion or two “Mrs. Brown anil mineself huf dalkcd it ofer,” continued the business man, “und we vant you to head dose bills tome-dings dis vay,” and marked on the wall with his cane to show that he wanted in big letters, “floor raw! boor raw! Jake Brown is dead!” “I apologize for saying you could not open your mouth without putting'your loot in it,” said the editor, sternly re garding the hors- whip she held over Tns head. “I solemnly assure you that when 1 said it I had no idea of the size of your foot.” “Good day, Moses. Yy—s’help me! my tear, how you vasshainged. Vouldn’t nufer huf known you!” “But my name is not Moses, sir ” “Kreat hefens, who would think it —your namoshaingod too?” A crusty old bachelor says that love is aw re led business, consisting ot u .itlle sighing, a little crying, ahu;u dying, and a ileal of lying. In the sweet summer-time there is nothing that will stick closer to a mull than, a smaller brother’s undeisuirt. NUMBER 33. Facts and Fancies. | Death cannot be an evil, for it is uni- J versal. Frowns blight young children as frosty nights blight young plants. A man’s temper is most valuable to himself and he should keep it. A cheerful face is nearly ns good for an invalid as healthy weather. Young man, you can go up hill as fast as you please, hut go down hill slow. To have ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands. If there is a man whothinks that it is an easy job to be honest, just let him try it once, k • Those who blow the coals of others strife,-may chance to have the sparks fly iu their own faces. The man whose sole ambition is to win applause ef the world, is sure to be disap pointed, whether bo wins or loses. “Why didn’t you insert my article?” asked a contributor. “Wasittoo long?" “No,” replied the editor, “it was too narrow.” Through woe we are taught to reflect, and we gather the honey of worldly wis dom not from flowers, hut from thorns. We toueJi not a wire but it vibrates in eternijy v ai d.there is not a voice that re ports nut at the throne of heaven. Truth never need be in a hurry, hut a Jie all the time on the jump; a lazy lie mu® tires itself out, ends in con fusion. * The highest point outward thing can bxrng us to is the contentment of tho annul, with which no estate can he poor, without which a 1 estates will he miser able. The blessing of a house is piety. Tho honor of a house is hospitality. The or nament of a house is clean mess. The happiness ot a house is contentment. Most persons are particularly spiteful against those foibles in others which they themselves have. They remind us of a monkey scratching and grinning at the mimic monkey in the glass. The papers relate an anecdote of a beautiful young lady, who had become blind, having recovered her sight after marriage. It is no uncommon thing for people’s eyes to be opened by matrimony. Never seek to be entrusted with your friend’s secret; for no matter how faith fully you may keep it, you may be liablo in a thousand contingencies to the sus picion of having betrayed it. “How many children have you?” asked one triend of an old acquaintance" “Well, 1 have live, but they were eating cucum bers when 1 left and they may be all doubled up now.” An envious paragrapher remarks: “It lias been observed that the lady with a diamond ring will scratch her nose, in a given period, four times as often as any other woman.” A Bad Fire. “Jones, have you lion rd of the fire that buried up the man’s bouse and lot?” “No, Smith; where was it?” “Here in the city.” “What a misfortune to him. Wasita good house?” “Yes, a nice house and lot—a good home for any family.” “What a pity! llow did tho firo take?” “The man played with fire and thought lessly set it himself. ” “How silly! Did you say the lot was burned, to?” “Yes, lot and all; all gone, slick and eleai .” “That is singular. It must have been a terrible hot fire —and then 1 don’t seo Low it tould have burned the lot.” “Nt, it was r.ot a very hot fire. In deed it was small that it attracted but little attention, a,.d did not alarm any body.” “But how could such a little fire burn up a house and lot? Yi u haven’t told me.” “It burned a long time—more than twenty years. And though it seemed to consume very slowly, yet it wore away about one hundred and fifty dollars worth every year, till it was all gone.” “i can’t understand you yet. Tell mo where the fire was kindled, and all about it.” “Well, then, it was kindled in I lie end of a cigar. The cigar cost him, ho him self told mo, twelve and a half dollars per month, or one hundred and fifty dollars a year, and that in twenty-one years would euiount to $3,150, besides all the interest. Not tho money was worth at least ten per cent, and at that rate it would double once in about every seven years. So that the whole sum wouid ho more than $20,000. That woulu buy a fine hou.-e and lot in any city. It would pay for a large farm in the country. Don’t you pity the family of the man who has slowly burned up their home? ’ “Whew! I guess you mean me, for 1 nave smoked more than twenty years. But it didn’t eOsL so much as that, and 1 haven’t any house of my own. Have al ways rented —thought 1 was too poor to own a house. And all because 1 liave been burning it up! What a fool I bavo been!” 'I he boys had better never sot a fire which costs so much, and which, though so easily put out, is yet so likely, if once kindled, to keep burning all their lives.