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CHEROKEE ADVANCE.
VOLUME V.
We lind rather he riirht than to b3 Presi dent. "
CANTON, GEORGIA SATURDAY, MORNING. OCTOBER li. 1883.
NUMBER 42.
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Offloe in store of J. M. Me i FEE.
W. ». & G. I. TEASLY,
ATTOlINKYSat LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will g v> rrlmpt attention to all bus-
I if** iniiuited to them. Wi 1 practice
II a'l (lie courts o' the crunty, aid in
the Supeilnr emits o’ the R'ue Ridge
circuit. Cj •* 7 1y
JOHN II. BELT.
Carpenter,
Havlnv permanently located in Cur-
tor—He L now prepared to do a'l kinds
o' carpenter’* work Building and re
pairing nrnmply done at satisfactory
p ice*. Parties contemplating building,
will find it to their intereat to get my
prioea before closing contact* with oth
er workmm. J. H. BELL.
TIN SHOP.
J. H. STEADMAN,
Manuhcturer ol all Tinware, roofiog,
guttering, stove pipea, gas pipes, steam
pipes and anything made of tin, etc.
Repairing.—Will repair any and ev
erything tram a tin cup to a forty horse
engine at short notice. All charges low
■ua work warranted. Marietta street,
Canton, Oa. [mar25 ’82 ly
MEDICAL CARD
DR. N. SEWELL return* thank* to the
oltUen* ct Caotoa and rlcielty, for their lib
eral patronage.
Being permanently located, will eontinna
to practice medicine, anrgery aad midwifery.
Hoping by lndaitry, energy and atriot ap
plication to bQeinem, to merit an increaaed
patronage end eonfldenoe.
Office in Dr. W. A. Green’s Drag Store.
Reeidenoe adjoining W. II. Warliok.[nov9
J. M. BfJRTZ,
ATTOKIEY All COTMLLOk IT LIW
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Office in the Court Houae. [mat25 ly
CEO. R. BROWN,
Attorney at Law,
Will practice in the Superior Courts
< 1 Cobb, Milton, Forsyth, Pickene and
Diwson counties, and in the Superior
• ml Ju tics Courts of Dherokce.
( fli e ever j « M. McAfee’s store.
S|* cial attention given to the coilec-
i'"in oi claims.
Business rrspect’uily solicited.
J n 18, 1883
TAINTING!
BRIDGES & FORRISTEB,
Boise aid fip Faioten,
Will paint wagons, buggiea, fnrnitnre,
mid ail other plain an<i fancy painting.
S e or address J. W. BRIDGES cr J. B.
FOli E' SI ER Canton, Ga. [feblO ’88
G. W. EVANS,
Gainesville Street, : CANTON, GA
ear the Railroad Depot
Home and Buggies ni reaeonable
prices.
Carriages and Hones always raady.
Will eend to any pan of the country,
with careful driven and gantle teams.
All kind* of stock fed and wall cared
for.
HAULING AND DRIVING
done nt low retea.
Gustomen will be politely waited on
at all houn, day or night
G. W. EVANS,
nov26 81 til - Proprietor.
THE
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FOR 1882-3.
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Atlanta, Ga.
J. M. HARDIN,
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND —
Ornanental Fainter.
FRESCO & SCENIC ARiiST ALSO.
Oriental and Grecian painting. Mr/. >
Tinting, Cardo-Tiutinp, painting Sepei
and India Ink.
Twenty-five per cent saved by apply
ing to me before contracting witholberr.
Material furnished at bottom pricer.
Satisfaction given or no charges made.
See or add rear,
J. M. HARDIN,
Mdr.l0-’83. Canton, Georgia,
O. D. MADDOX,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
COME.
Refers by Permission to John Silvey A
Co., Tboe. M. Clarke A Co., James R.
Wylie and (Gambling A Spalding, all
A tlanta, Ga. Mar.10 83
AND
SEE ME.
I HAVE joat opened a Complete Stock
direct from the manufactory of Fancy
Candies, Mixed Candies, Plain Candies,
Crackers of all sorts, Also Freeh Raisins,
Nuts, Oysters, Canned Goods, and every
thing wanted in this line. I respectful
ly ask patronage of my friends, both in
the store and job work. Blanks, Deeds,
Ac. always on hand.
CLAUDE F. EDGE.
Nov IS, 1882.
R. E. CASON.
DENTIST,
i Us now located in Oartervvill*. He
•. cits patronage from his old friends
Md '•{**?? !*** "^{ffirrMr
H. H. McENTYRE,
Brick* Ploa'pring;,
AND STONE WORKMAN,
OANJON, G ROUGH A.
I ini fullv prepared to <*0 any kind of
Masonry or "P ast'ring at (lie lowest possible
iates, and solicit the patfon*ge of th***e de
siring work in inv line. M. If. McEnty^k.
A NEW WORK SHOP.
D W. Bridges has opened a shop one
dnor 11) v« Geo Latbem’s store. He
build - nou>e(, mills. Bridges makes and
repair* all kinds of furniture, and does
-ny thing that can be done with wood.
CiU and see him. [janl883tf
J. W. JTiRVIS,
JEWELER AND PHOTOGRAPHER,
CANTON, GEORGIA,
Can be found at his G tilery, at any
time where he is always ready to do good
work at a lew price. [JulylGtf
U. TV V' VN .(SO T *TT TV %Y
N) Vv'MAN & VI TAWAY,
AUorrjeya at Law,
O N O t : : GEORGIA.
V i ,.*• c re in the S iperor Court of
C. t k r < • sdjnining counties. Prompt
g i i.i i.m i u t > it 11 'losiiis-h place.iiii
fj.c,. mu t GtiiceitiOs CrniG Rou(i,
SHE DIED OF MORTGAGE,
Ws worked through spring and winter, through
summer and through fall.
But the mortgage worked the hardest and the
steadiest of them all;
It worked on nights and Sundays; it worked
each holiday;
It settled down among us, and it never went
away.
Whatever we kept from it teemed almost as
bad as theft;
It wetched us every minute, and It ruled ui
right end left.
The rust end blight were with ua sometimes,
and sometimes not;
Tlie dark-hrnwne 1 scowling mortgage wee for
ever on the spot.
Die weevil and the cut-worm, they went as well
as came;
The mortgage stayed forever, eating hearty all
the same.
It nailed up every window, stood guard at every
door,
And happiness and snnshine made their home
with ns no more,
Till with failing oropa and sickness wa got
stalled upon the grade.
And there came a dark day on ue when the in
terest wasn’t paid;
And there came a sharp foreclosure aad I kind
o’ lost my hold,
And grew weary and disoonraged, and the farm
wns cheaply sold.
The children left and eeattered, when they
hardly yet were grown;
My wife she pined and periahed, an’ I found
my self alone.
What she died of wee “a mystery” an’ the doc
tor's never knew; •
But I knew she died of mortgage—just aa well
ea I wanted to.
If to .race a hidden sorrow were within the
doctor's art,
They’d ha' found a mortgage lying on that
woman's broken heart.
Worm or boetle, drought or tempest, on a farm
er’s land may fall,
Bnt for first claaa ruination truat a mortgage
’gainst them alL
—Will M. Oultos.
Finding a Trail.
Here In the shadow of thia grim
mountain ie a camp of cavalry—200 men
in faded and ragged blue uniforms,
overy face sunburned and broused,
every sabre and carbine showing long
iiBo, every home lifting ita head from the
grass nt short intervals for a swift glanoe
up and down the valley.
Here, at the foot of the mountain, the
\pache trail, which has been followed
for three days, has grown cold. Aye, it
lias been lost. It is as if the white men
lind followed a path which suddenly
ended at a precipice. From this point
the red demons took wings, and the old
est trailer is nt fault.
The men on picket looked up and
down the narrow valley with anxious
faces. Down the valley, a mile away, a
solitary wild home pawn and prances and
utters shrill neighs of wonderment and
alarm. Up the valley is a long stretch
of green grass, the earth os level aa a
Moor, and no visible signs of life. The
pines and shrubs and rocks on the moun
tain side might hido ten thousand In
diana, but there is not the slightest
movement to arouse suspicion. It is a
still, hot day. Not a bird chirps, not a
branch waves. The eye of a lynx oonld
deteot nothing beyond the erratio move
ments of the lone white horse sdown the
valley, and the circular flight of an eagle
bo high in the air that the proud bird
seemed no larger than a sparrow.
For an hour every man and home has
looked for "signs,” bnt nothing has
•>ecn discovered beyond what has been
described. It is a lost trail There is
something in it to aronse suspicion as
well as annoyance. Ten miles away the
trail was as plain as a country highway,
and the Indians had no suspicion of pur
suit. Five miles bock there were signs
of commotion. Here, in the centre of
the valley, every footprint suddenly dis
appears.
Look, now I A sergeant witli grizzly
locks and fighting jaw rides down the
valley followed by five troopers. They
are to ocout for the lost trail. Every
man has unslnng his carbine, every sad
dle-girth has been tightened, and every
man of the six looks over the camp as
he rides ont as If he had been told that
ho wns bidding n lost farewell to com
rades. They ride at a slow gallop. Each
man casts swift glanceB along the moun
tain side to his right—along the monn-
tain side to his left—at the green grass
nnder liis home’s feet.
What’s that! Afar np the slope to the
right something waves to and fro for a
moment. Higher up the algnnl is
answered. Across the valley on the
other slope it is answered again. Down
the valley, a full two miles beyond where
i he w ild home now stands like a figurt
of stone, and where the valley sweep
to the right like the sudden turn of the
river, the signal is caught up and 200
Apaches, eager, excited and mounted,
draw back into the fringe at the base of
the mountain and wait.
The little band gallop straight down
upon the lone homo. Now they art
half a mile away, and his breath comes
quick and his nostrils quiver as lie stands
uid stares nt Ihe strange spectacle. A
1 iutlu nearer and his muscles twitch und
<44lY*r and his Inarp-pointed ftn wwfc
faster. Only eighty rods now, and with
.» fierce snort of alarm and defiance he
ream np whirls about like a top, and is
off down the valley liko an arrow sent
by a strong hand. The sight may thrill,
bnt it does not increase tho pace of
those who follow. The men see tho
wild horse fleeing beforo them, but the
sight does not hold their eyes more than
a second. To the right—to the left—
| above them—down the valley—they are
' looking for a hoof-print, for a trampled
spot, for a broken twig—fora sign how
ever insignificant to prove that men have
passed that way. Thoy find nothing.
The- signals np the mountain side were
visible only for seconds.
After tlie first wild burnt of si>eed
tho lone homo looks back. He sees thnt
ho is not being pushed, and he recovers
courage. He no longer runs in a straight
line, but ho sweeps away to tho left—
swerves away to the right, and changes
his gait to a trot. When he heftrs the
shonts of pnmuit and the lender thump
of the hoof-beats he will straighten away
and show the pursuers a gait which noth
ing but a whirl wind can equal.
Look t It ia only a quarter of a mile
now to the turn In the valley. Tho lone
horse had suddenly stopped to sniff tho
air. His earn are pointed straight ahead,
his eyes grow larger and take on a
frightened look and ho half wheels os if
he would gallop back to those who have
seemingly pursued. Five, eight, ton
seconds, and with a snort of alarm he
breaks into a terrific ran, takes tho ex
treme left of the valley, and goes tearing
out of sight as if followed bv lions.
"Ittltt’’
The grim sergeant sees "signs” in the
actions of the home. Every trooper is
looking ahead and to the right The
green valley runs Into tlie fringe, tlie
the fringe into dense thicket, the thicket
into fock and pine nml mountain slope.
No eye can penetrate that fringe. The
Indians may lie in ambnsh there, or tli
home may have scented wolf or grizzly.
"Fbrwsrd 1”
No man knows what danger lurks in
the fringe, bnt the order waa to semi
beyond the bend. To disobey is igno
miny'and disgrace ; to ride forward is—
apjt V f’i’herc is no air stirring in the val
ley. Every limb and bongh is an still no
if made of iron. There is a silence which
weighs like a heavy burden, and the
harsh note of hawk or buzzard would be
a relief.
Here is flio bend. The valley con
tinues os before—no wider—no narrower
—level and unbroken. The wild horse
wns ont of sight long ago, aud the six
troopers see nothing but tho grass nr
their eyes sweep the valley from side
to sido.
"Turn the bend and ride down tin
valley for a mile or so and keep you.'
eyes open to discover any pnss lending
out.”
"Halt!”
It is more than a mile beyond Un
bend. No pass has beeu discovered
No signs of a trail have been picked
up. The sergeant lias raised himself it)
for a long and careful scrutiny, when ai
exclamation causes him to turn his fat-
up the valley. Out from the fringe rid
the demons who have been lurking to
drink blood. Five—ten—twenty—fifty
—the line has no end. It stretches clear
across the valley before a word has been
spoken. Then it faoes to the right and
200 Indians in war paint face the grim
old sergeant and his five troopers.
"Into line—right dress.”
It is the sergeant who whispers the
order. Six to 200; but he will face the
danger. To retreat down the valley is
to be overtaken one by one and shot
from the saddle or reserved for torture.
Down the valley there is no hope; npthe
valley is the camp and rescue. The two
lines face each other for a moment with-
mt a movement.
"Now, men, one volley—sling carbines
—draw sabers and charge I”
A sheet of flame—a roar—a cloud ol
-moke, and the six horses spring for
ward. Then there is a general yell, a
rush by every horse and rider, and a
whirlpool begins to circle. Sabers fuisli
and clang—arrows whistle—revolvers
pop—voices shout and scream, and then
the whirlpool ceases. It is not three
minutes since the first carbinowas fired,
but tho tragedy has ended. Every
trooper is down and scalped, half a
dozen redskins are dead or dying, u
ilozon horses are struggling or stagger
ing, aud turning the bend at a marl gal
lop is the sergeant’s riderless horse. He
carries an arrow in bis shoulder, and
there is blood on the saddle. In five
minutes he will be in camp, and tlie
notes of the bngle will prove that the
lost trail has been fonnd.—Detroit Fret
Press.
Nothing makes a bald-headed man
feel sick sooner than to read a paragraph
announcing that Mohair can be pur
chased for twenty cents a yard.
A MIDNIGHT RIDE.
A MTSTRRinrs AOVKNTtTRR IN Tin
MOUTH IV KMT.
A I’fcyslrlan In Arlnnnn la Arnuurri nt MM-
nlaht, Hllniflohlrit nnri ( omprllt-4 tn At-
rnmnnnjr Two Mirnngrra on t Jonrnor to
AanUt n Wnnndral Mm.
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice
sud Bhame, that nobody ever bad the
confidence to own it,
[From the Albuquerque Journal]
Williams, Arizona, is on the line of
tho Atlantio and Pacific Railroad, at the
foot of Bill Williams's Mountain. Near
ly opposite tho depot is Dr. Bishop’s
office. It was in that offioo that a strange
adventure began.
"About tho middloof last November,”
said Dr. Bishop, "on a very dark and
hilly night, after reading until quite
late, I turned down the light and was
soon nalocp. It must have been 11
o'clock when 1 wns awakened by a knock
at my front office door. I asked what
was wanted. Tho answer eamo that a
man had been badly hurt and required
my presence at once. After lighting a
candle the door was opened, and In
stepped two gentlemen, both well
dressed, and l>oth indicating by thoir
faces that their education had boon in no
wise neglected. In fact, they wore East
ern born and Eastern bred.
"Tlie spokesman, who was the tallest
of tho two, aud who, by tho way, was a
splendid typo of manhood, urged upon
mo tlie necessity of being somewhat in a
hurry about making my preparation;
•for,’ said he, 'yon must go with os, and
we have a long ride to toko beforo morn
ing.’ ” Tho Doctor demurred at going
at all, and said that it was certainly a
very strange proceeding to ask a man of
fifty years of age to go out on such a
night, and especially with two men of
whom he knew nothing whatever,
"It doesn’t midte a particlo of differ
ence who we are, what we are, or where
wo are from,” remarked the tall stronger.
"Yon have got to go with os, and the
quicker you make np your mind to do
so the pleasanter it will be for all eon-
oerned,"
"How was (jhe man hurt ?” inquired
ibe doctor. -fat.'
"He wns shot,” was the answer.
Argnments based ou the age ahd
liculth of physicians were of no avail,
.md so it oame that hurried preparations
were made, and the purty were ont in
the oool, dump air of the night. It took
but a few momouts for tlie strangers to
lind their homes nml to point out a
splendid big chestnut, whose every
motion proved him to bo a thorough
bred, os the animal upon which our
friend, tlie Doctor, was to make the un
known journey.
"That is your horse, Doctor, ’said the
stranger. "Ho 1h a good one, and as
sure footed as any man In Arizona. Yon
need never be afraid of him for a mo
ment; lie’s ns gentle nA a kitten.”
Into the saddle went the now thor
oughly mystified man of medicine, and
I lie two strangers mounted two hones
nearly, if not quite, tlie equals of the
chestnut stallion. Tlie party lind hardly
got clear of the few midnight iuinpB at
Williams when a halt wns called, and
our M. D., was informed that it would
lie necessary to blindfold him, as his
companion hod no idea of allowing him
the faintest conception of the direolioQ
in which the trio were traveling.
Tho Doctor, of course objected to this
kind of treatment, bnt ho was quiokly
voted down and compelled to submit
himself to the inevitable. A sack,
which one of the party oarried, waa
quickly drawn over his head, and then
they were again ready to advance.
Tho horses were given the spur with the
admonition to the Doctor to "give a free
rein,” and away the band dashed. On
they rode hour after hour, up hill and
down hill,now crossing a narrow stream,
now a broader one, into and across ar<
royas, through what seemed to be dense
forests, and ont again on the sandy
plains, never once stopping, not even
speaking a loud word, the whole idea
being bent on the early arrival at some
specified point. Night began to break
into morning and morning into broader
day, the sun came up in all its Western
splendor, and' yet our travelers never
once Rpoke of stopping. It must have
been eight o’clock when all at once the
rein of the chestnut stallion was grasped
and a halt called. And now, for the
first time since midnight, Dr. Bishop
was allowed to look around him, his
forced blindness having been removed
by bis guides.
They had halted immediately in front
of a small but neat appearing log house,
the door of which stood open. Only
three persons were in sight, the two
strangers, companions in the night’s
ride, and another man whom the Doctor
had not Been before, "Go down to the
brook, Doctor, take a drink of water and
refreshing bath, and by that time break
fast will be ready.”
"I did as directed,” said the Doctor,
"infd J don’t believe there ja toother
sneh stream of water in Ariaona. I mb
assure yon it waa to me the grandest
bath I ever took.”
As yot the snrgoou had not seen his
patient, but breakfast waa soon disposed
of, the bacon aad the beans being de
voured with a relish, and then the
patient was disolosed lying upon e pile
of Navajo blankets in one earner of the
log building.
"He mnst have been • man 80 years
of age, bleok hair, Week eyaa, aad tally
six feet tall and heavy aet In proportion,
but overy pound of weight aeemed to
lie musole,” said Doctor Bishop, "1
knelt down beside him and fonnd that
the wound was immediately over the
heart, and that it had been made by e
largo-sized revolver.”
The preliminary examaintion and a
few queationa elicited the faot that al
though a 45-oolibre ball waa still Inside,
yet it waa by no means dangerous. The
ball waa probed for and extracted, the
patient never uttering n complaint The
wonnd was bandaged np, an applies Hoc
prepared for ita dressing, and the aw-
goon's mission waa ended. All dqy and
the first part of the evening was spent
at the oamp, and then the hones wen
again saddled, and the fide homeward
was only a repetition of the night be
fore, inoluding the blindfolding ol the
Doctor.
"We arrived et Williams at 4 a. m.,
before anybody wae moving," said Dr.
Bishop, "and I waa landed in my little
home here none the won# for my thirty-
six hoars’ experience. The tall stranger,
without asking me ae to my charges,
immediately counted owl ISO, and,
handing it to me, remarked that they
were a little hard np just now, but would
pay mo fully in a short time.”
The Doctor went on to state thet the
strangest part of the whole affair hap
pened only a few days ego. "The
wounded man came over to my office
just before the train pulled out, and lay
ing |100 on my desk, remarked that I
ought to consider myself paid. Bush
ing ont, he just caught the train, and
that is the last l have avmheard of any
taM«- f
CIVIL SERVICE REFOKI.
Few •! Ik* U*mlM* *f ih« ApflleuSa
l*r tk* l.aw«r Ura*« af OScm.
The following questions warn aaked
of the lower or (900 grade applicants
for positions under the United States
Government:
Fill out blank form of application
for position, stating age, place of birth,
legnl residence, poatoffloe address, and
experionoo in business and Government
service.
Then followed wveral examples in
addition, multiplication, and division of
simple numbers, and others’ involving
(he use of decimals.
Qne-flfth of a barrel of flour contain
ing 19Hf pounds waa loat, one-third waa
given away, and two-thirds of remain
der was sold for $7.59. What did if
bring per pound f
A clerk in an offioe ha* his salary
raised 20 per cent., but in n short time
is reduced 20 per cent., which fixes
bis salary at $648. What waa the origi
nal salary ?
A man holding a note of fMO has it
easbed for 8800. What rate par cent,
discount did lio pay ?
Reduce £468 17s. fid. to United States
ourrency, pound sterling being 4.8B06.
Dictation of section 11 from civil-ser
vice rales and regulations, to write and
punctuate.
Copy section 5 of the same^
Write two sentences of not lasa than
ten words, one to contain a transative
and one an intranBative verb.
Write a letter to the Governor of your
State informing him of your education
and about the town in which you reside.
Name fifteen States and fifteen cities
of the United States.
Name fifteen principal riven aad the
cities on each.
Name three principal ranges of moun
tains and the principal States and Terri
tories in whioh they lie.
Name six principal American generals
in the Revolutionary War and as many
popular statesmen at the time.
What Presidents have been generals
in time of war and in what wan were
V^lmtdoes "confederation” mean and
what States constituted it?
When was the Constitution of the Uni
ted States signed?
Name particulars of territory added to
the United States since the Revolution
ary War?
In what manner are the Supreme
Judges chosen?
A man purchases 8625 worth of goods,
giving his note on Deoember 28,1882,
interest 7 per cent., payable m fifteen
days; paid the same on second day of
grace. What amount did be pay, and Ofi
what day ?