The Cherokee advance. (Canton, Ga.) 1880-19??, February 24, 1881, Image 3
* titye <£l)ttoktt 2Vbiwncc. OffleiA Or gas Cherokee County. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 1881. OUR TERMS: Single copy r l year, - - . $1.20 *' “ nix month*, • • .00, “ Uum month*, .80 To any one getting us ten subscribers at$l .20 each, we will furnish the paper LOCAL JOT1INOS. Come to the Advance office for Jnl>- wjrk. Only four reporta for onr Magistrate's Court Directory yet. We wait for them. Blank* for aale at the Advance of fice. Our Spring poet apouta thualy : “Hinks, pinka,” ' ■ . - H Onano stink* I" If it don’t I,m a liar. Another horse die! in Canton last week. Dr. A. M. Parker is the unfortu nate 1< aer thi* time, and hia is the fifth one that lifts died in about one month. Mr* W. T. McC. Hum, our Fuller stand blacksmith, carries a broad smile this weak They say it is accounted for, in the prospect of a striker, as it is u boy 12 pounds high. Whet you Come to town c«me in to sec OS, aod'OOtU^MtHrfbr the Advance Wiuburn, the celebrated travelling Photographer, i» in Canton, with the fii • eat instruments, and make* the best and chcipeat pictures of any .nan that ever visit**! North Georgia. 4 full card pic- tures fi r AO Opts. 12 yea s experience. Man it like a musical instrument-lie is worthless unle>a iu tune. At times the ayatem needs the strength) ning effects of a tonic ; the blood t teds re.agreement, and the vital energies a stimulant. Iron in various form* has been in use for many years, and no better combination of it with other vitalisers than I)r. HaiiiekV I Ml* Tonic, la known in this country. It is a safe and reliable ri medy in Dys pepsia, General Debility, Want of Vital ity. anil the usual disorders attendant upon a proelhtUd system.—Burlington, ((••wa) Gazette. Waited.—The |eoplu^all to know that the idea that has obtained, s« know not how, that we are n t prepared to do Jolt work at tUh Advance office is an er. rot)cot* one. Wu will d"j b workjas •heap as any cne. Standard ot tmk English Language. — Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary U commended the English World over for its *xo llmw, Wberexei you find Eng lish s|H-akiug pea| le there you find Web ster. England has produce)! nothing tcjual to it, and in America it is the stun dard, The illustrati)>ns are a ntariel tor accuracy aud number, aad it is a treat just to be able to lo"k through it. The near edition has 1.028 p»g< s, 11,000 engra vings ami four pages colored plates. Its able aud couipriheusive definitions are a library in themselves—a thesaurus of un bounded treasures.— Our Church Papers Arte Market, Va. On last Tuesday between 11 and 12 a m ., the atteutiou of the ('auton people, w is attracted by the strange conduct of a gentleman on the street. Going out wo found him sitting oa a mult-, with his hat off. ant) a peculiar t xpression on lus face, and another gentleman holding the mule, upon which ho sat. Wo soon foun 1 that he was deranged, and that his name was Robert Abercrombie. We were inhumed that on last Friday be told bis father wuo lives m ar t antou that he had ju t been cojverted, and since that time he has been almost con stantly reading, and talking about the Scriptures, aud singing rclgous songs. All attempts to get Inm to return home without force, were fruitless, as he insis ted upon standing at one particular place in the street, as a matter of duty by Dive itie command. His friends, as a last re sort, put him tc the debtors room of the jail.where lie is comfoat-ildy situated, to await further consideration, and develop ments. His friends who were here try ing to take care of him, wire, we think wisely advised to arrange at once for l,is rei .val to the asylum. A false n 4ioP. or at least wo think it is such,' prevails with many about the propriety of such a st< p in such cases. They seem to think it savors of unkind, ness to commit friends to the asylum. But in as much as that is the surest course to their restoration, and there are ample provision for their com fort there. Hnd many are do btleas never restored Jlial might be if sent there priinptly.it is certainly the kindest treat ment possible, to get the unfortunate* to this refuge as speedily as practice ble. _ Union, Stewart County, Ga. I tried Neurotic with good effect for nervousness, wakefulness and dys pepsia, and cordially icccoinnieud it to all who suffer from tlio.e tumbles Yours respsctiully, L. F. HUMBER. Cramp Headache Jackson Ct. Ga, Jan. 15,1880. My wife has suffered greatly for years with cramp in the lower limbs, which lat terly had exteuded up the body. She us ed a little of your Neurotic, which gave her speedy relief, and she lias not had any r< turn of the pain since. It has giv en cqtsal satisfaction when U3cd for head ache. We think it the greatest remedy for pain in the world. Tours truly, W. 8. WHITEHEAD. Last Thursday morning we boarded the “narow guagr,*’ as our boys cnll it, paid our /are uu.i took a seat for Mariet ta. The monotony of the trip was reliev ed by onr fellow travelled "Jenkins," who seemed to have takeu a monopoly contract in grumbling, to he prosecuted while he fills the role of a N. Y- commor- •Mai traveller, lie promised never to come this way again, and until he can dispense with someofhis profanity, we are altogether willing to do without liis company. Thu train is on fire, said some one, as we unexpectedly came to a stand-still just below the tank six miles this side of Marietta. We all rushed out to find sev eral bales of the cotton on the flats well on fire. Fortunately "t here was much water there," and buckets were brought into requisition, and a few bales rolled off into creek beside the road, und back ing to the tank they turned it loose on the burning cotton; so by watching and working, and u variety of baptisms, the cotton wag saved from very great dam age, yet it was “as by fire." After some delay we were forwarded on to Murielta with but feft’ minutes to transfer Co tl e State road. Here we bought one full. ticket, board) d the train and in comfort sped to Aii.amta. llvre we witnessed the f everi.h rush of alt sorts of the genua homy for winch At lanta is celebrated. We repaired to the Wilson House, of which Mr. J. L Kcitln formerly »l our county, is proprietor, and were well fed. Daring our stuy in Atlun ti wc visited several of her business peo pie. We found Mr. 11. W. 7hoinas the genial spirit ol the Atlanta Thomases at •0 Wtiiteli ill street surrounded with a prolusion and variety of fuuiturc. Joins Keelv was f>c<.u in the dignity oi a coin mamier surroundi-d by a crowd of busy derks and wailing on customers. Ed. Chapmau was in 118 Whitehall with good things to eat all around him, of which he is selling u great ileal. While tin re we took a stroll with “cousin Jcu ny" (Mr*, chapman), in her green lions* which is stocked with a fine variety of floral wealth. Well we can’t name everybody in At' lauta, hut sonic of them promised to write to us, und if they do, we will b e sure to nuinc them. We took a almrt run up the Air line, leaving Atlautu at 8 o'clock p. in., and toon memory was busy witli the mis ;y past, for we were nearing scenes that were familiar in the days gone by. " • OHCKObS," says the train uiau. Here live some of our kith, but, as Inis alwuys been tl e case, wc have no time to stop with tlum, so on we go to Duluth. Here are many we have known, and to whom we, in our bumble way, lmve tried to preach ; but some have “crossed the river with the boatuwn pale." Suwannee is the next station, und is surrounded by a neighborhood of tile cleverest |>caple wc ever knew. Just over yonder is one who was a friend and stay in oneof our greatest trials in young manhood. Since wo last eict she has passed under the sbuiiow of a great sorrow. We would i practicable, gladly turn aside to speak words of cheer’ and help her ben. the burden, but an iron baud forces us on. Buford We approach next; and looking out on onr lett we arc reminded of the rapid flight of time, for there is the building in which wedelivtrud an address eight years ago, nnd the day of its delivery was the eighth anniversary of our release by parole from the army; so sixteen jears have com* und gone since our arms were laid aside, nnd we can hardly realize that our boyhood is gone. Here we stop, and greet many old friends. We spent the night with <>ur kinsman, Mr. J.A. Putit- lo, of the leading Buford firm of Tliomp son «fc Patillo, and talked of other friends and ether years. We found our old friend R. H. Alhn still a t the head of bis saddle and harness business which is a monument in honor of industry and square dealing. He bus built up a bus iness that reacbe* from the Carolina’s to Texas, though lie bus never been able to walk a step since be began the business. He took a cash subscriptions to the Ad vance, and promised a communication for our Ad. columns. From here we run up lo Flowery Branch, visited the school ol the justly celebrated Prof. N. A. Moss wtiom we found busily engaged with his clussts; so after a few moments of that converse so sweet to old friends after a separation, we enrolled bis name on our stibsci iption hoi k, and bid him a reluc taut adieu. Aftir a busty round, greet ing old friends, wc turned for home and on an Airline train found the most cour tcous and curcful conductor wc ever met. Wo did not learn bis name, which wc regrot, fot ho ought to have honorable mention, aa the heart must bo sorely bur ileucd that does not feel cheerful on his traiu. He is rather low of stature, with rparkling eye und dark nobby mustache and goatee--let some one who knows him name him, and “name liim but to praise." In charge of this model con- ductor wc reached Atlanta in a good hu mor, to wait the departure of the W. A A train. When the time for departure ar rived we boarded with a fuVfare ticket and sped to the busy town of Marietta, run around and drummed a few of her business men—got tlio promise of some conununitinus from some of them, nnd then set nut tor home, again on a full fare ticket. This time we thought ft lit tle hard of our lot as a traveller when wc saw one of our subscribers who sat next m us, present a hardware bill to tlio sub-conductor, und saw tint he was al lowed to pass on it, hut rause for jealousy wi<- soon removed as wo saw him carry up a regular ticket for bis faro. Weil* little conductors, with little punches, on little cabs, must have tim^to letrn us well as little editors of little papers; and lie got us home all right any way. TO OUR LOCAL CORRESPOND ENTS We have, in general terms, already invited correspondents, from the dil • |. rent sections of the county. Those enrolled as cot respondents Inst year, or ut least some of them ,if not gll, (we do not know) are still reoeiving the usual courtesies extended lo cor respondents, and ure perhaps at a loss, since the change in the man agement of the Advance, as to their relationship to the paper. We want an arrangement with some oue in each postal neighborhood, by which we cun be sure of the news. Our space will not allow of long com ment, warmed over okes, or repeal ed and extended logomachies between correspondents. We want facts with out c nnim-nt in the main, but of course will tolerate* "a little nonsense now und then,*’ but it must be, like the water from a mountain spring, fresh and sparkling. We must re serve to ouiselves the right to elim inate, inadify, or consign to the waste ut this place, nnd is doing a great deil of work at his trade—he is a good bluckemith—and by the »uy, a right nice fellow, Ji tn is. (Had to see you have enlarged your paper, and hope that you will meet with gnat success in your business. Cherokee nieds a good newspaper* and it is just nsyou say, if the people will send in the news of the county we cau then have a good paper. * Hi'It A I.. GEORGIA NEWS. The North Qoorgia Citizen says that a Murray county youth 10 years old was in Dalton, on Friday last, who is donut- less the largest specimen of humanity in North Georgia tor his age. lie is six feet •wo inches high, weighs 175 pounds, and wears No 11 brogan boot* split on top, w ith a piece of leather inserted, to make them fit. I uat paper says: "It there is a com ity in this neck of tho woods that can bent Muiraj’s boy we would like K) bear from it." IlritoN, February 15.—Mr. Adner B. Parrott, who Iras hud churgc of a school in this vicinity for sonic years, was found this morning about 9 o’clock in att insensible condition about a mile from town, and wits speedily conveyed to comfortable quaiters. He du-d in about twenty minutes ulterlvtyds. He was in the senior class Ol 1857 of the universi ty Georgia. Thus a life has been cut off which might have dune no lily in t le higher spheres of existence but I)is worst enemy was intempers ance. He had been drinking for three months past. The bouyitnt hopes ol his youth had been buried, und he seemed to strive to drown the recollections of them in the wine cup. We know that the troubles and dis appointments of life are over and hope (or him in it peaceful home in the vast forever.—Constitution. A piominent citizen of our county was recently fined ten dollars by the postal authorities for writing a mes sage oil a circular which it only took one cent to carry. That same man doesn’t tuke a single one ot his coun We hear it rumored that a mur der was committed in Lee county on the 10th, under the following circum stances: A Mr. Ledbetter went out fishing with unolher white man nnd a negro at a mill pond about fifteen miles front Leesburg. All returned ou time except Ledbetter. Foul pluy was suspected and search was instituted without delay. Nothing could be heard of the niissiug man. Finally the pond was drained when he was found with his throat cut. We learned no further particulars.— Albany .News and Advertiser. Gov. Brown has been re-elected president of the Western & Atlantic ruilroad. The girls in the LuGrange college have a debating society. Tho last question discussed was whether young ladies in school should receive com pany? As the young men hnd to decide the question, they said yes. The Georgia Suptcme Court is mo* ved to say in a weent decision: In taking a wife a man does not put him* self under un overseer. A husband left free to govern in his own family is the most useful to all concerned. A subjugated husband is «less pleas ing nnd less energetic member oi soc- ciety than one who keeps his true pluce, yet knows how to temper au thority with nffeciton.” Three years ugo, n young couple, of Sumter county, were engaged to be married. The day wus set, license bought, the guests invited, nnd u jus lice of the peace on hand to tie knot —but true love sometimes has ketch es and kinks that mars the smooth ness of its course. It was so in this case. The bride elect smelt liquor in the breallt of her lover and broke with hint then nnd there. To pro pitiate the assembled friends two oth er lovers arose and wero married. The young man rejected left the country and the Stute. A short while back lie returned, found hia loved one true to her old love, awuit- ing his return in a sober and manly condition, renewed his proposals, and the two were united at the Barlow barrel, (we use a barrel) if ip our t , ius.wjould have known iiiilrvnw.irf si ti I a* iloniannu tl judgment duty ‘de'man&sTt ‘•Rural,” of Hickory Flut, corned out of his wiliter quarters this week, and enrolls for another year’s wuik Let others lollow, and all hands be prompt and regular us practicable, VVe go t<» work on the local depart* ment ou (Saturday afternoon, nnd would be glad, except,in very spioal inatauoee, to have correspondents send in their items by Suturday, or at farthest, by Monday, for the fol lowing issue. Of course anything of epeci. I interest, if not too long, can be provided for if Jt reaches us by Tuesday night. Fall into line, gen tlemen at once, or procure a substi tute to represent you in the Ad vance. Does a man ever go into a grocery store and suy “I will give you Hi* cents lor a pound of sugar/’ and ex pect to be treated with respect? Not at all. He asks what is the price of sugar and pays whut is asked or goea wi.hout. But the same will offer u price 20 per cent, below rather for a given space in the advertising col utnns of a newspaper and leel offend because it is not taken? HICKORY FLAl SHOTS. Mk. Editou: If you give my shotB admittance to your colums I will write yon the news of Hickory Flut as often as possible. Farmers have set in to work at a lively rate; so much rain and bad weather of late lias made e.garnst them, and all are behind with their work, hut it is hoped thut we will gather in the fall u full harvest. On Sunday the 6th, Mr. Hutson Wiley had the misfortune to lose his house snd the contents by fire, Sav ing only bed and bed clothing. The settlement is engaged in rearing a new fine in its ste«d. Mr. Wiley inis the sympathy of the entire c mimitni ty. The hog cholera is doing great damage in this vicinity. Maj Fuck ett and A Ison Worley have lost be tween th’rty and forty in the last week or so. If you know of any cure lor this disease phase publish as soon as posible. Webb & Worley, our clever and obliging merchants, are carrying on a good business in their line at ibis place. Mr. Jas. R. Breedlove still remains OUR NEW YORK LETTER. ; (From cur regular correapondent.) New York, N. Y., Feb., 18th 1881.— An organized effort is at last to be mad* * to supply New York with » zoological garden which befits a great capita’., a col lection to rival the “Zoo" in Loudon and excel tlio Jardin des Plant** in Paris and the Berlin collection. Three mill ions of dollars are named at tie sum to be raised for purchase of land, buildings wild beasts, otc., and to ostabUsh a fund to secure fresh animals aa they are need ed. England is famous lor her elephants tigers, zebras, and lions, having the right of way in those countries where they most abound, bat the supply ia prac tically unlimited if enough money is raised to make expense no object The land on 159th street which It now under examination contains a deserted stone quarry, which it is proposed to utilise es a bear pit, it l*eing intended that Bruin *hall be exhibited iu all bis variety of ’ form and color. The present Central Park meungerio is rather a mangy con cern mainly useful to circus to board out their animals during.the winter flroe of ohargo. ) Peter Cooper celebrated his ninetieth birthday last Friday, haying outlived ail iis business contemporaries. The last of bis personal friends was William OuW len Bryant, and the aged philanthropist felt the poet's death deeply. Mr. Cooper lias not been without hia political aspira tions, hut they never bora fruit. Bryant, too, had tho same weakuesa, and was dis appointed in not getting a first-class for eign mission under Grant. Mr. Cooper always lalioroil under the delusion that lie was a very popular man, on account of his gifts to public science and educa tion, aud lie has been at any time ready to run for olfleo. It was an amiablo weakness in his case, and Ids Mends have often scored him for making himself ri diculous by nccopting nominations on absurd pin* forms. Tliurlow Weed is half a dozen years younger than Mr Coopor, hut the two have never boen In timate. Their ways and ideas were nev er alike. As all the World knows, Mr. Weod has had abundant opportunities to fill elective or'sppotuttvn offleen, hut he hss always doftlinad. He has foapd it more profitable to be the power behind the ttirone Contracts have been his host hold, and at Albany, la this city, sheriff of Fulton is rubbing liis hands with glee and whispers softly to him self that it won’t be bug before he will have a good job. It is said to be u fact thut that sheriff cuts a notch in a stick whenever lie stdls out a u. wspuper in that city. He has hud to splice his stick so muny times that lie is thinking of selling it to a circus for u teat pole.—Curlersvilie Express. The femule minstrel troupe ia not likely to come to Canton, but never theless, we want to endorse such men as Bro. Willingham, who, loca ted where these she devils visir, speak out their minds. God pity the town with authorities that allow such. The following is clipped from the Express: "For the first time a female minstrel truope is to appear in Cur- tersville. As many of our readers uie unfamiliar with the churucter- of these entertainments wo will state that they ure of the lowest and most obscene order. • In the larger cities they are frtquen*ed by only the de praved. No ludy is ever seen in the audience and ol course an entertain ment can be nothing but disgrace- iul where pure womauhood does not smile in upproval. The (.erlOrffi- mice given by the troupe billed to iippear ut the opera house on to night, the 17li>, was so outrages in N shville that the city authorities put ustop to.it before the programme au8 half over. We hope that it will receive a welcome here that will never jnstily its return. It is cuss tomnry lor newspapers lo rasp these vile shows alter they have come and gone, but we take this occasion to pay our respects in advunce in the I,ope thut what we have said will be the means of keeping some pure minded und pure-hearted boy lrom attending ail exhibition that wnl do more ilia; disgust him and ap peal to his buser passions. We are surprised that our town authorities should allow our opera to be so dis graced.” We stated, upon the authority of a Cointitution correspondent, u short time since, that Mr. EO. Willtauif, of Nacoocbee, Ga., hud committed sui cide. We are now informed that the statement was not corrfct, and that Mr. Williams is still living, having made no attempt to commit suicide. better. -Curtersville Express. They suy uuother paper is to start in Atlsntu, this time to be un out and out radical sheet, und that Bry ant is up north now trying to get up the money. Well, we suppose the | concerning tlio colored wo man, Hannah Johnston, aged 110 years, whose death we gave an nc count of in our last issue. Mr. John ston says there is no doubt that the woman was fully as old as stated and furnishes us the following: She came lrom North Carolina to Geor gia ia 1820 and then belonged to Mr. Reuben Lamb, ot Twiggs coun ty. In about the year 1855 she be came the property of Mr. Daniel Johnston, of Twiggs, who owned her until the emancipation. From thut time until her death she lived on the place of Mr. F. A. Johnston, of the same county. The old sro- 'nan stated to Mr. J. that she thought she wus about 50 years of age* when she left North Carolina, us she then had grown grandchildren. The day before she died she seemed to be in perfect health, and talk.d considera bly of her past. To all appearances, she w^0 then good for many years to come, Some of the oldest citizens of the county say that as fur back as their memories dute, when they were small children, she wus then called ‘Aunt Hannah,’ and that even then she was considered well advanced iu life.” The Dalton Citizen tells the fol lowing good legal story: “Two Whit field-lawyers were driving along a quiet country lane in a top buggy— the luwyers were in tho buggy, not the lane—when they met a hardy til ler of the soil ’driving a load of the ‘fleecy’ to the market. Attached to the wagon were three fiorses, the len der fat and glossy, while the ones following were looking the worse on account of hard work aad little prov ender. Lawyers are naturally in quisitive, and our heroes in the t. b were no exception, so they reined in their mettled charger, accosted the agricultural gentleman with ‘good morning,’ aud then inquired why one of his horses was to much fatter than the others. Perhaps the man guessed us lo their profession, for lie jocosely icmarked that ‘the fat one was a lawyer and the others his cli ents.’ The disciples of Blackstone hurried on.” • y ■ I ami at Washington ho has been the si* lent parttuw In-son* of the fastest job* that over passed official hands* Says the Oedartown Advertiser “We were pleased to mee£ Mr. F. M Johnston, who called at our offloe on Wednesday last to furnish us with Ia the desiccated meat and vegetable contracts fur the army during 1883 to 1865, Mr. Weed had an interest that yielded him over a quarter ot million dollars as his share of the profits, It was one of those cases whero patriotism paid. Claims have been made and strenously urged that tho time for the preparation of the Woiid's Fair in 1888 <s too short, and in support ot this claim I am told that a score or moro of the states and territories which now bold bienniel ses sions will not meet again till next win ter, and that after that it will be too late to rnako appropriations. 1 do not know how many of the commonwealths have already prepared for this financial contingency but I do know that the secro tary of the commission teid me the other day that all talk of the necessity for post ponement wus absurd, because everything in connection with the flair of *83 is a year in nilvanco of preparations for tho fair of '70 at tho length of time from tho opening. Eleven foreign governments have thus early given notice of an intention to par ticipate— England, Franco, Spain, Nor way, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Turkey Greece, Venezuela, Gautemaula, Germa ny and France, in particular, not to men tion other nations, will certainly make a far riiore creditable showing hare thsn that which hardly dic( more than mis represented them at the centennial. As far as regards popular approval*^ that will influence the President-elect iu ti Is choice of a Cabinet, no name has been received with such unanimous favor as that Colonel 71iofnas L. James, New York’s postmaster, for Postmaster Gener. al. It lias been welcomed by the World and tho .Republican journals as the best that could be made, and the warring re publican factions, however they may dif fer over the late Senatorial election, ad mit tnatugaiust that appointment noth ing can be said. More than that, Colo nel James commands the respect and confidence of the business men of New York. Tho commercial interest believes in him, und, although its indifference to politics is a proverb, there is but one voice among railroad men, shippers, bank ers, merchants, brokers, aad even clergy men and actors, who rarely agree, when the postmaster is represented as New York’s representative in the Ckblnet. He is a business man himself of unusual ability, urbane, quick, intelligent, and with a record which has never been : m- peachcd by the most bitter opponent of tho republican party in New York, of which he has been for many yean a prominent member. AuoosT. Subscibe for the Adyangb