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Baptist (’Hi nt n--Kev E 8 V Briant.
Pastor. Pre;o hint everv third Saturday
and Sunday. Pra.\ <r meeting Fr’dnv n»«J)t
in every week. Sunday- < hoof at 9 a'in
< very Sunday.
Methodist ('in it. h I’. v I P Winter.
Pastor. Prenehim ev< r\ fourth S.r •r.iav
and Sunday. Prayer im rGiij every Tbnrs
<lay Simda\->< hool :it 2. p m everv
Sunday.
Re\ E SV Bria n t’s Aithixtmen -
1 irst Saturday and Sunday in e:odi mouth
at Oconee, in Jaclc.m county. Second
SaJurda^ - a nd.-Sumi, v 'Uy. Banks
<<»unty. Thind Sa:'.rd v and Surtax in
Belli* 111. Fl Hit fit urd: its dnd Shinhu at
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Third Sat urday and Sundax ■ !!
Flat. Fourth Saturday and Sunday at
Bellton.
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Beliton J.odtic No SI 1 < > < > F nvots first
and fourth WcdiiPsca■. n J.t< in everv
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
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B. F. Si i.pi: i n. Sh- riff.
1L J. I>vAlt, Clerk Superior Court.
1’ A. Waters, 'fax Coll- ■ tor
W.C. II aflkkook. Tax Be. river.
G. It. Bow i»l x. Surveyor.
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ItELIGIOIS.
pRESDYTEUI AX (.‘HI 1.11 Bev. G. 11
<’artledye. Pastor. Pn aching every 2nd
Sunday at 11 o’clock a. ni., in each mouth.
Methodist (’tri m n It- v .1. T. Curtis.
Pastor. Preaehinc every In st Sunday ami
Saturday before, at 11 o’clock a. tn., in
each month.
Baptist Chiikh Hey. E. S. V. Briant,
Pastor. Prearhin.. cv a y fourth Sunday
mid Saturday before, «t 11 o'clock a. m..
in each month.
FRATEKNAL IIECOED.
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on the first Frida.' i-vunii: ; in <•.:«•!» nmntli
at 7 o’clock. \V. A. Watm.x, W. M.
Homer Lod.uc N - 32 I. o. ( >. F.. m< ir
on the second and fourth Wednesday
e.veuings in ra< h month, at 7 o’clock.
HALL COI NTV 011ICERS~
John L Gaines, sheriff
.1 B M WiNuritN, Ordinary
»l J Mayne. Civil s uj>. rior Court
M B Sewell. Ta> I‘>•< ■ ■
Be NJ II \WK INS, Tax Collector
B <‘ Y.h ng. Treasurer
M P Calhwell. Surveyor
Robert Lowekv. Coroner
W A Brown. School Commissioner
TABLE OF A~LTFTVI >ES
ON THE AIR LINE.
Atlanta feet
Sibley 1040 “
/roodwin’s K 1 ’5 “
Doraville less “
Norcross 1072 “
Duluth DOG ‘
Suwanee 1027
Buford 11P<; •’
Flowery Brain h IP-? ••
Gainesville 1228 ‘
Lula i: T “
Bellton... LM “
Momit Airy iSKS i ‘
T0cc0a..... 102,2 “
NEAR THE AIR LINE.
IJahloupga 2237 feet
Porter Springs 2000 “
Clarkesville liioo “
Yonah Mountain Mi>B “
Tray Mountain 45.35 “
Black Mountain 11 <1 “
Blood Mountain 4070 “
Rabun Bald Mountain 4718 “
Euota or Jh assto.w:i Mountain.. .4790 “
Tallulah Falls 2.382 “
OTHER POINTS IN GEf»i{GIA.
Savannah 32 feet
Augusta 147 “
Fort Gaines I<>3 11
Columbus 200 “
Milledgeville 2<4 ‘ 4
Macon 332 “
Americus .300 u
Marietta 1132 “
Dalton 77.3 “
Griftin 975 “
Newnan 955 “
LaGrange 778 “
West Point 020 “
Brunswick 10 “
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ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE AIR LINE
RAILROAD.
KO. I—MAIL TRAIN—EASTWARD.
L-’avi- Atlanta p m
Arrive at Bellton. <>.27 pm
NO. 2—MAIL TRAIN—WESTWARD.
Leave Charlotte 12.10 a ni
Arrive at Bellton 8.45 a in
NO. •’—DAY PASSENGER —EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta 1.00 a m
Arrive at Bellton 6.50 a m
NO. 4—DAV PASSENGER—WESTWARD.
Leave Charlotte 10.42 a in
Arrive at Bellton 7.37 p m
NO. S—LOCAL 1-HEIGHT —EASTWARD.
Leave Atlanta 7.05 a m
Arrive at Beliton 12.30 p in
NO. 6—LOCAL FREIGHT—WESTWARD.
Leave Central 6.50 p m
Arrive at Bellton 12.36 a in
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W. .L Hoi ston.
General Passenger ami Ti- ket Agent.
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Volume 2.
LUTTI'R FROM LOVICK PIERCE.
Beloved Brethren : This is perhaps
tny lust salutation, but my love of you
compels me to make it. I.do it with
out St. Paul’s iuspiratioti, but with
his sam mmisti-rial atlection: "Final
ly, bia'thram, farewell. Be perfect,
Ina of good caimforf, be of o,ue mind,
■live in peirw. p.i.al the God of love
hind pa'uce shall be with von." .My
| reiLsoii for ndopting this text in not to
I explain all of these terms. b|t( tii.urge
1 upon you the necessity of being of one
mind. I do this because the result of
- my experience for seventy-live years
I is. that tin- want, of this one mind lias
been a desideratum in the Church. It
is evident that in all corporate bodies
di'. isinn works not. only damage, but
destruction. The Christian miinl is
tin' Christ-lika' mind, for it is said:
"Let this mind be in you which was.
also in Christ Jesus.” This mind was
tin* procurement and conferment of
tha> greatest goml upon all mankind.
11. is. therefore, evident that the Chris
tian religion cannot exist ami be rim
on a lower plane.
I make this < xhortatjqji to you be
cause I believe, from the signs, that
the ‘’time to favor Zion” has come.
There is now a more general interest
taken in this glorious, higher-life idea
than has been for the last fifty years.
The proof of it is found in the fact,
that in the language of (he Psalmist:
"God's people take pleasure in Zion
and favor the dust thereof”; that is,
they take pleasure in everything that
adds to the glory of the ('hureh. I
here call your attention to the consid
eration of the chosen language of the
Holy Ghost in regard to a revival of
religion, namely, that the Clmreli
never "brings forth” until the Church
is "in travail’’and this travail is what
I understand to be the status of the
(’hureh now. I. therefore, in these
last hours of my life, exhort amt on
join you as the Church, to negative
every motion and word that opposes
the “perfecting of holiness” in the
fear of the Lord. 1 am sorry to have
to give you this advice, but you know,
and I know, that every member of
•he (.’hureh that f ills in this respect,
fails to prmnoti religion. The < hureh
as the ( hureh. is a failure by defeat,
unless its ministers and members be
emphatically of one mind, and, as we
have already said, that must be “the
miml that was in Uhrist J-sus.’’
Our deticieiicv in the need of this
mind is apparent on many occasions,
but in none, perhaps, more than in
reference, to our great missionary
work. As for instance, in reference
to the salvation of all mankind. To
secure this Christ gave himself, but
we, for the want of the same mind
that was in Him in reference to this
-rreat issue, the salvation of all man
kind, sometimes refuse, and often fail
to make even the contributions which
the Church assesses as our portion of
the funds reipiisite for sending the
Gospel to all mankind. Hereby the
(.hureh must be crippled and (be will
of God fail to be done, because we are
not of the same mind.
Finally, on this first division, I
make this declaration : that as Christ
commanded his disciples to “go into
all the world and preach the gospel
to ( very creature,” he virtual]}' com
manded the (..'hureh to prepare, the
ways ami means necessary to the ac
complishment of this purpose.
And now, this second division, I
devote particularly to my own histo
ry. Ido this because in a case like
mine, and in reference to a man like
me, there are many reports alloat;
some of them, of course, are exagger
ations. To correct this 1 make this
communication. T was born in North
Carolina, raised in South Carolina,
and married and settled in Georgia.
IMy principal vocation through life,
as you all know, has been to preach
; the gospel. In this blessed work I
have been engaged seventy-four years.
i Os these years, Georgia has received
seventy. My effectual general work
is now done, laid by, not so much as
a broken vessel, but as one worn out.
In this blessed work I tried to do my
best; but, like all other men, with
limited minds, failed as I believe only
in actual perfection.
As to my present condition, I have
been closely confined for nine months,
have suffered much, prayed much, and
enjoyed much. As to my personal
hoNhe.ss, I think my friends have
Tll V TH. JVST IC E, (L IBE R T 1’
BELLTOX, BANKS (AU NTY, GA.. OCTOBER 23, 18?.).
crowned me above my experience. 1
hope, in every heavenly sense, that .1
am as good as my friends have re
garded me Io be. 1 am satisfied in
my ease that my failures are the re
sult of my infirmities, ami not of mv
, heresies. -My every purpose, princi
ple and aim has been in the Scripture
sense, perfeet. As to death ami its
eternal hereafter. T derive my eom
' fort more from what I call insuraiii-e
i than assurance. Me salvation is in
sured if. lam faithful till death. Tl
lias been mv habit never to consider
, my salvation safe until it cannot be
1 lost. Therefore, following the direc
; lion of the apostle St. James, 1 am
I passing Hie time of my sojourn here
jin fear. I may at some time have
I yielded too much to this fear; 1 feel
indeed satisfied that 1 have done so;
| but in my experience this fear has
arisen from the true fear of the Lord,
ft iswritten: “Without holiness no
man shall see the Lord.” Os holiness
1 can have no just, conception, except
that imputation of spiritual -jpiiritv
which may be known always by its
abhorrence of evil, and love of all
that, God requires. Without the posi
tive love and desire of holiness, no
man can have religion. Therefore, I
hold and believe that there never can
be. and never will he an earnest seek
ing after a revival of religion until
the desire of holiness prompts it. I
regret to learn that there is a theory
1 upon this subject going the rounds,
j which will greatly embarrass the
j present very general effort to resume
our original profession, that we were
i called of God “to spread scriptural
holiness over these lands.” This
theory is. that holiness is imh llnite,
| and cannot, like e6un|.ies and States,
be. known by boundary lines. Scrip
tural holiness is a divine reality, for
whatever in any sulistantial sense is a.
c.-n 1 hy. huvo tiLonl. 16 boumbiry
lines. In this case, the great boundary
line is the holiness of God, and we are
comnquided to be holy like He is holy,
and because He is holy. The question
I in control ersy is, whether this is a
j state into which we grow as a matter
of course, or an instantaneous act of
faith in the sufliciencv of the atone
ment to cleanse ns from all sin here
and now. My opinion is. and long
has been, that we are made holy
through the, sufficiency of this atone
ment for sanctification the same as
for justification. As all must see
from Ist John, chapter Ist, and 9th
verse, that it was the express purpose
of the Holy Ghost to assure us of
pardon if we. confess our sins, it was
no less His purpose to assure, us of
the sufficiency of this redemption to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Redemption was intended to save
us from all these sins, from which, if
we are saved, it must be through faith
in this sufliciencv in the blood of Christ
which eleanseth us from all sin. Sanc
tification, or holiness in Christian ex
perience is Christ in us the hope of
glory, and if Christ be in us, He is in
us with his eternal holiness. The
philosophy of this matter is, that if
we must be saved from any sin for
moral reasons, ive must be saved
from rill sin for the same reasons.
Most people look for and expect to
■ obtain the evidence of this entire
sanctification or holiness by the rap
turous joys which usually accompany
it, and these indeed are pertinent to
it, but the best evidence of the pos
session of it is found in the following
experience: the hatred of sin on ac
count of its opposition to God’s gov
ernment. Therefore, the growth in
grace required in the word of God Is
found in our growing hatred to sin,
and love and desire for true holiness.
With these remarks I finish this
sacred farewell to my friends, by de
claring that with David, I can say:
“Thy word is very pure, therefore
thy servant loveth it!” Amen.
L. Pierce.
Sow not wishes in other people’s
gardens, wish not for that which you
arc not, but earnestly desire to be the
very best of what you are. Endeavor
your best to perfect yourself where
you are and bear manfully all the
crosses you may encounter. This is
the leading principle and the least
understood, in a good life.
Men’s muscles move better when
their souls are making merry music.
EDUCATION.
Every boy should have his head,
bis heart, and his hand educated. Let
this trutli never he forgotten. By the
proper education of the head he will
,be laughf»what is good and" what is
evil, what is wjse and what, is foolish, j
f what sis right and whal is wrong. By
. the proper education of the heart he
j will be taught to love what is good.
■ wise,.and right, and to hate what is
■ | evil,? foolish and wrong. And by
, proper education of the band he wiil
be enabled to supply bis wants, to
add to his comforts, and to assist those
■ around him. The highest objects of
a good education are. to reverence
and obey God, and to love ami serve
| mankind. Everything that helps us
| in attaining those objects is of great
■| value, and everything that hinders is
jeonq nratively worthless. When wis
dom reigns in the head, and love in
the heart, the man is ever ready to do
good( order and peace reign around,
and sin and sorrow arc almost un
known.
FAst Young Men.—A young man
. of fortune, pleasure, fashion, folly
and dissipation, not }e( thirty years
of age, killed himself last, week in
this city. His boon companions were
with him when he did the deed. li.
would be less deplorable, such a trag
edy, were it not painfully true that
hundreds of young men iti this city
are pursuing the same career of idle
ness, debauchery, drunkenness and
gambling, wasting their lives in a
j’otuid of vice, and plunging swiftly
into the grave and a miserable eter
nity of deserved woe. Religion, phi
lanthropy, and every motive that in
spires a benevolent heart, would im
pel to effort for (he, rescue of this class
. of nuu, but they are the farthest from
hope of any for whom we work or
pisif. .T.lined to their idols, am| (hose
the, worst, of till gods, they arc let
alone and seem to be doomed. Yet
how great the misery they make.
How many hearts they break. How
many heads hang down in shame
. when these fast young men blow out.
’ their few brains and perish in their
. many sins!—New York Observer.
Many a girl has had her whole, hap
piness for life destroyed beeattse. she
obstinately chose to form her estimate
of the character of a suitor exclusively
from his behavior towards her and his
professions of love, rather than from
liis conduct, towards others. It, is a
. pretty safe rule that a man whose,
whole life is but. an exemplification
, of selfishness will not long continue
generous in relation to his wife.
We all complain of the shortness
of time, and yet have much more
• than we know what to do with. Our
lives are spent either In doing noth
ing at all, or in doing nothing to the
. purpose, or in doing nothing that we.
. ought to do. We arc always com
’ plaining our days arc few, and acting
as though there would be no end of
them.
,
It would do you immense good to
have a quiet talk, once in awhile,with
the man who does not, like you. He
would probably open your opens to a
side of your character which, excus
ing friendship, does not allow you to
look upon, and which your own self
conceit lias kept covered up.
Sin always begins with pleasure
and ends with bitterness. • It is like
the colt which the little boy said was
very tame in front and very wild
behind.
Men and women make sad mis
sakes about their own symptoms,
taking their vague, uneasy longings
sometimes for genius, sometimes for
religion and oftener still for a mighty
love.
A man’s fortune is frequently de
cided by his first address. If pleasing,
others at once conclude he has merit;
but if ungraceful they decide against
him.
Let an independent thinker show a
fearless fidelity tn his convictions,
and the shafts of bigotry and envy
fall helpless and harmless at his feet.
It is not difficult to do good, for the
means are constantly clustering about
every man’s lips and hands.
A Christian’s robes will become
soiled if he wears them too flowiugly.
MIXED MATTEILS.
Seine people say that the onion bed
is the scenter of lhe garden.
It is so be hoped that cool weather i
i has actual!y begun this time.
Now is the time to subscribe for the i
North Georgian—only Si a vear.
she New York Gubernatorial elec
tion comes off on X’ovember 4th.
An old man with a brilliant red j
nose should not be held up as a. shin
j ing example for young men.
Ex-Attorney General Akerman. of
Georgia, would like to go to Con
gress, says the New York Herald.
Fifty emigrants for Utah left. Chat
j tanooga a few days ago. They were
from North Georgia and Alabama.
The attempt to organize a general
strike among the workingmen of lhe
country is, fortunately, not a success.
Up to last Wednesday, the 15th,
the total number of deaths in Mem
phis from yellow fever this year is
581.
The Boston Herald alludes to some,
ol Gen. Gordon’s ringing sentiments
in Savannah as “eloquent and Web
sterian.”
The country is still ruled by farm
ers, after all. Os the 9,01)0,000 voters
in the United States, (>,000,000 of them
are tillers of the soil.
11 is estimated (hat the liepublican
majority in lowa is 35,000. There
were, large gains all over the State.
One of the largest wool growers in
Pennsylvania, says that the red hills
of the Carolinas and Georgia are vast
ly better for raising sheep than any
part of Pennsylvania.
Many a man who has become a
. bankrupt and a moral wreck, can
look back and see. that his downward
course commenced about the time
that he got afraid to meet the editor,
on account of that unpaid bill.
If you wish to do a losing business,
advertise on a fence. If you wish to
get rich, advertise in a respectable
■ newspaper that has a good circula
tion among people who buy your
goods.
We learn that arrangements are
| being made in South Carolina for the
i erect ion of a monument to her distin
guished son, John (’. Calhoun, at his
j country residence, on Seneca river, in
sight of the Air Line Kailroad.
j Judah P. Benjamin, the remarkable,
man. who has made name and fortune
over again since the end of the war,
recently sent a poor country editor in
Louisiana a check for £SOO. Would
that there were more Judah P. Ben
jamins and fewer poor editors in the
world.
Thirty thousand men are just now
pegging away behind the State prison
bars of the United States, and the
Detroit Free Press says the number
would increase largely if every one
was there that ought to be. Very
true; but in that case what would be
left of the Radical party?
Seventeen counties, cities and towns
in Illinois have refused to pay interest
on eight and a half millions of debts.
Kansas has repudiated five and a half
millions, and sixteen comities and
cities have suspended on three and a
half millions more. These are Re
publican States.
Bill, did you hear that fellow make
that speech in the court house? Yes.
■ ‘What did you think of it?’ ‘Well, 1
tell you what’s a fact, he can bring
an argument down to a pint as quick
as any feller I ever saw.’ ‘Yes. re
plied the other, but he can bring a
quart of whisky down to a pint a
heap quicker’n that.
‘John, take this slate, you rascal,
. and work out this sum: If a cat falls
1 in a well, sixty feet deep and crawls
out six feet each day, falling back
eight evyry night, how much time
I would the cat require to get out of
: the well ?’
John set to ciphering, and covered
both sides of the slate with figures;
then placing the edge of the slate on
his knees, and resting his chin on the
other, he gazed into vacancy.
‘Well, John, how about the cat?’
‘Father, I aint got any room on the
slate, but if I had another square
inch, I would have that cat in fire
and brimstone in just three minutes.’'
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THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS.
The dying never weep.
Immensity is made up of atoms.
Is it impious in a good ihan to be
' sad ?
Cant is useful to provoke common
sense.
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters
I and stops itself.
I
To-morrow is the day on which idle
men work and fools'reform.
The truly wise man should have no
keeper of his secret but himself.
Nature is content with little, grace
with less, but lust with nothing.
He who can at all times sacrifice
pleasure to duty approaches sublimity
There is no friend to man so true,
so kind, so real and so good as woman
There is not a property in nature
but a miml is born to seek and find it
out.
The way to gain a good reputation
is to endeavor to be what you desire
to appear.
The. essence of knowledge is having
it to apply it, not having it to confess
your ignorance.
When desperate ills demand a
speedy cure, distrust is cowardice and
prudence folly.
When people’s feelings have, got a
deadly wound they can't be cured by
favors.
It is with life as with coffee—he
vho drinks it pure must iibt drain it
<) the dregs.
Man has to go out and seek his
1 >ath; woman’s path usually lies close
' inder her feet.
1
Envy makes us sec what will serVe
lo accuse others and not perceive what
may justify.
The pungency of pleasure is as tran
, sient as the foam that mantles round
. its brimming cup.
Generosity does not consist in giv
ing, but in making sacrifices that you
may be able to give.
Every man has some, secret, which,
were it revealed, would tend to make
him hated or despised.
Call to mind the heavier sufferings
of others, so you may better bear
your own small troubles.
The maid that loves goes out to sea
on a shattered plank, and puts her
trust in miracles for safety.
Talents arc best nurtured in soli
tude; character is best formed in lhe
stormy billows of the world.
It requires as much reflection and
wisdom to know what is not to be
put into a sermon as what is.
Have nothing to do with any man
in a passion, for men arc not like
iron, to be wrought upon when hot.
Few attributes of character are
more charming than the faculty of
gracefully acknowledging one’s errors
The great man is he who, in the
■ midst of the crowd, keeps with per
fect sweetness the independence of
solitude.
To love in order to be loved in
return, is man, but to love for the
pure sake of loving, is almost the
character of an angel.
If you would be pungent, be brief;
for it is with words as with sunbeams,
the more they are condensed the
deeper they burn.
Better a wrong will than a waver
ing ; better a steadfast enemy than an
uncertain friend; better a false belief
than no belief at all.
The men who always say a kind
word for their neighbors and turn a
deaf ear to scandal, are not only very
1 blessed but also very scarce.
The blessing of a house is piety.
The honor of a house is hospitality.
The ornament of a house is cleanli
ness. The happiness of a house is
contentment.
There is but one way to be happy,
and that is by hard labor; and the
man who will not pay that price for
distinction had better at once dedicate
' himself to the pursuit of a fox.