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At the suggestion of Black Watt, we decided
to escape the nation. A gentleman by the
name of Hargrove, then prospecting with refer
ence to settling in the nation, was on this very
night stopping with Black Watt. He was called
np from nis bed to advise with us as to the best
plan of escape, and kindly loaned ns $25 for the
trip. Taking with ns a ham of meat and as
much cold bread as happened to be on hand,
with a blanket each, and onr guns, we took a i
trail leading a little south of west to the Etowah
river, which we reached before day, and pro- j
cured from a settler by the name of Murchison
a canoe. We also obtained additional supplies, [
entered the river in the canoe, struck down the :
current, and pushed vigorously onward. As
daylight approached, we ran our canoe under a
dense cluster of willows, and kept closely con
cealed during the entire day.
We were then only about twelve miles in a di- j
rect line from the cave where the Indians were ;
still in counsel upon the proposition for our 1
ransom, and were wrangling and almost fighting
over the matter up to 2 o’clock the following day,
when their conference was terminated by a re
port of an outside party who had accidentally
discovered the place of onr wonderful escape.
During all this time we lay snugly concealed,
and when night came, again moved down the
stream; and so we traveled, hiding at day and
boating all night, until we reached a point on the
Coosa river in Alabama nearly opposite Jackson
ville. We then left the river and sojourned for
several months in that section, supporting our
selves by working as day laborers. We at length
entered the State of Georgia and fell in with
some friendly Creeks in Carroll county. From
them we learned that Leathers and his gang had
grown unpopular with the Cherokees soon after
our departure, and had been driven from the na
tion, and that the Indians had at one of their
councils, acquitted us of all blame. Thereupon
Sequoyah returned to his people, and I to the
home of my nativity in the State of North Caro
lina.
[For The Sunny Sonth.l
OLD MAIDS.
BY H. E. SHIPLEY.
Heaven bless the old maids ! This benediction
is pronounced neither pityingly nor patroniz
ingly, but is an emanation of a thorough appre
ciation of the many virtues and excellencies of
that much-abused and misunderstood class. Of
course, we refer only to those who are old maids
indeed; who have voluntarily abjured the estate
matrimonial. Though the masculine mind is
very sceptical on the point of there being any
such, we beg leave to assure those doubting
Thomases that we have actually seen with our
own eyes, real live, voluntary old maids. There
are without doubt many Sister Annas on the
housetop of expection anxiously looking for
" the man coming,” but who will assert that her
position is not preferable to that of the terror-
stricken wife below ?
Men collectively and individually believe that
no woman enters or remains in the estate of old
maidenhood except from sheer necessity. They
have an idea that all women go through life with
an eye single to matrimony, which outlook is
only relinquished when death closes the vista.
They do not understand that a woman may pre
fer a life of independence and freedom to that
of being their most obedient slave. We use the
term advisedly. Hackneyed though it be, it has
yet sufficient force to express the state of servi
tude in which the majority of married women
drag out their lives. Not in the servitude of
menial labor, though that is often thrown in for
good measure, but in that subservience to every
whim and caprice of these lords of creation—
the anxious watching of the august eye; the lit
eral wearing out of soul and body in an ineffec
tual and unappreciated effort to please. This
case is not invariable; there are extremes of
better and worse, but if any one doubts this to
be the average state of wives, let a convention of
inquiry be held, and each member compare
notes of what he knows about his most intimate
friend’s. If the result doesn’t bear us out in the
use of the word, we will cheerfully retract, and
substitute any which this friend of humanity
may suggest.
Dear old maids ! ye are the salt of the earth,
though you sometimes lose your savor of discre
tion and desert your ranks—for this ye are justly
punished by being trodden under the feet of
men and given over to weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth. Pray do not let any one,
even the poet Laureate, persuade you of the
principle that “it is better to have loved and
lost, than never to have loved at all.” Don’t be
lieve it, unless you are emulous of martyrdom.
Your boat now glides placidly down the stream
of life, its current bearing you away from the
Charybdis of legal masculine tyranny, and the
Scylla of infantile exactions. There may be in
equalities of surface which appear greater to
you because you rise and fall with its un
dulations. Be not deceived by the delusive
calmness on the matrimonial side. Behold
sunken reefs beneath ! The roar of the breakers
ahead is turned to a murmur ere it reaches you,
and the general aspect of the stream so softened
by the rose-colored mist which divides it that its
real character does not appear to you.
There is good, wholesome truth underlying
the thrust at at one of the unpleasant phases of
married life. That statement of the Indiana
woman, who, being divorced from her husband,
and afterwards hiring herself to him as a cook,
was delighted with the change, inasmuch as she
could in the latter case have a little money to
spend without begging for it until she felt as
mean as a sneak-thief.
So be warned in time. “May you remain in
statu quo.' May your numbers never grow less!”
Fearful Ride.
The Ogdcnsburg Journal tells of a tramp who
was attempting to steal a ride from that city to
Rouse’s Point, recently, during which he had an
experience that he will not soon forget: The
splendid pair of tigers and zebra which formed
a part of the Hippodrome Menagerie, which has
spent most of the summer here, were shipped
that night for New Y'ork by way of Rouse’s
Point. The tigers were removed from their cage,
placed in temporary boxes, and put into a box
car. The door of the car was left partly open to
allow a free circulation of air. The tramp, in
looking for a good place to stow himself away,
came across this open car and crawled in. After
the train started, the tigers became uneasy from
the rumbling of the cars, having remained in a
quiet state here for two months, and tried to get
out of the boxes.
The tigress succeeded, and as she emerged from
her coop, the tramp shrunk back into a comer
and remained the rest of the trip as rigid as a
statue. The tigress, after making an examina
tion of the car, in which she even lapped the
face of the tramp, laid down at the door with
her paws hanging out the rest of the journey.
In the morning, when Herr Lingall came to look
after his pets, he discovered the tigress occupy
ing the same position, and ordered her back
into the box. and she obeyed. He then discov
ered the tramp who still occupied his crouch
ing position, with his clothes wet through with
perspiration, and speechless from his night ride
with the tigers. It was a fortunate thing for him
that it was the female that got out of the box, for
she is as kind and tractable as a kitten, while
the male would have killed him before reaching
the end of the journey.
That which moveth the heart most is the best
poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of
all power.
[For The Sunny South.;
GOOD-BYE.
THE E.VD OF A SIMMER LOVE-DREAM.
FBOM THE MSS. OF W. W. HENDBEE.
And so we part with light adieux,
And wander down diverging ways;
The love that served us to amuse
The dreamy, listless summer days.
Begins to grow too great and strong,—
We trifled with our hearts too long.
The pleasant summer-time is gone.
No more is heard the hum of bees;
The verdure that the Spring put on
Is sadly falling from the trees;
The flowers are dead, the birds have flown—
November moans her monotone.
But stiE our parting we delay—
Tho’ why we wait we cannot tell;
We linger sadly, loth to say
The saddest word of all—FareweU;
And 3trive to frame some faint excuse
That may retard our last adieux.
But aU in vain, for we must part,
And love grows stronger as we wait;
So let us go. A lover’s heart
Weighs Uttle in the scales of Fate;
Between us Fate has placed a bar
And said, “Tour love may go so far.”
For we have other parts to play
Pertaining to our worldly state:
You—in the circles of the gay,
A queen among the rich and great;
And I—obscure in name and birth,
A wanderer upon the earth.
Our Uttle comedy is played—
The actors bow and pass away,
The epilogue must now be said;
Our love has lived its little day,
And here the sweet delusion ends,—
We never can be more than friends.
No more we’U wander down the sands,
To watch the sunset o’er the sea;
Nor see the moon shed o’er the lands
Her loveliness and mystery;
Nor spend the hot and sultry noon
Among the leafy woods of June.
For other scenes wiU charm our sight,
And other thoughts engross the mind;
We may no longer dare to slight
Society and human kind.
This Summer idyl then wiU be
Nought but a pleasant memory.
But in our hearts wiU linger yet
The recollection of its bliss;
A tender thought, a vain reget,
In all the Summers after this.
Will make us sigh whene’er the breeze
Comes sweeping thro’ the leafy trees.
Thro’ aU the future, we will keep
A fond remembrance of each other;
And tho’ we strive to soothe to sleep
The feelings that we cannot smother,
We oft wiU sigh, with secret pain,
To Eve this Summer o’er again.
If when I sit among my friends,
While wine and laughter pass around,
Tour name amid their converse blends,
My heart wiU waken at the sound,
And aU my pulses throb and thriU,
Although my Ups be mute and still.
And when as all alone I sit,
While night and darkness round me faU,
And watch the fitful firelight flit
In eerie shapes along the waU,
I call to mind my life's romances,
And summon from the land of fancies
The phantoms of the women fair
That I have loved and lost and missed,
One face will ever mingle there,
With lips that I have never kissed—
One form more dear than aU the rest
That never in my arms was prest.
And when the others fade away,
And vanish into empty air,
That face and form alone wiU stay
And hover o’er my easy chair,
And with its dark and searching eyes
Bead thro' my deepest heart disguise.
And you, as thro’ the world you move,
WiE ne’er again be “fancy free,”
For from your heart a sigh of love
WiU some time wander back to me;
Time wiU not banish that regret,
Nor teach you wholly to forget.
Whatever fate the years may bring—
Or joy or woe, or peace or strife—
One note through aU its chords wiU sing,
And mingle in your song of life;
Whate’er you lose, whate’er you win,
Nought wiE destroy the “might-have-been.”
So fare-thee-well! Whate’er betide—
Of joy or grief, of weal or woe—
Our paths in Ufe must here divide,
And each a separate way must go;
One pressure of the hand—a sigh
Is aU that I may ask. Good-bye!
TEMPERANCE.
How Jesus Draws Men.
Dr. Payson, once in the process of a revival at
Portland, gave notice that he would be glad to
see any young person who did not intend to
seek religion. Any one would be suprised to
hear that about thirty or forty came. He spent
a very pleasent interview with them, saying
nothing about religion till, just as they were
about to leave, he closed a few very plain remarks
thus: “Suppose you should see coming down
from heaven a very fine thread, so fine as to be
almost invisible, and it should come and gently
attach itself to you. You knew, we suppose, it
came from God. Should you dare to put out
your hand and thrust it away? Now such a
thread has come from God to you this afternoon.
You do not feel, you say, any interest in religion.
But you are coming here this afternoon. God
has fastened one little thread upon you all. It
is very weak and frail, and you can easily brush
it a way. But will you do so ? No; welcome it,
and it will enlarge and strengthen itself untill it
becomes a golden thread, to bind you forever to a
God of love. ”
Sawdust Brandy.
We are sorry to learn a German chemist has
succeeded in making a first-rate brandy out of
sawdust. We are a friend of the temperance
movement, and we want it to succed, but what
chance will it have when a man can take a rip
saw and go out and get drunk with a fence rail?
What is the use of a prohibitory liquor law if a
man is able to make brandy smashes out of the
shingles on his roof, or if ’he can get delirium
tremens by drinking the legs of his kitchen
chairs? You may shut an inebriate out of a gin
shop, and keep him away from the tavern, but
if he can become uproarious on boiled sawdust
and dessicated window-sills, an effort at reform
must necessarily be a failure.
Now, will somebody gently kill that German
chemist before he gets any farther in this busi
ness?— Exchange.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE I. O. G. T.
TEMPERANCE STATISTICS.
BY SAMVEL C. EOBINSON.
NO. I PROHIBITORY LAWS.
The following laws were enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly in January and February, 1875:
An act to prohibit the sale of liquors within
three miles of Bethal church, in the county of
Baldwin.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within ;
three miles of the lunatic asylum.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within
one mile of the churches in the town of C&ss-
vllle, Bartow county.
An act to prevent the sale of liquors within j
two miles of the depot in the town of Kingston.
Bartow county.
An act placing the license at three hundred
THE EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE.
A. SERMON BY BEY. E. W. YTAF.KEX,
Pastor First Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. Preached on the
Eighth Anniversary Atlanta Lodge -Vo. 1,1.O.G.T., Oct, 31.
Having considered the three popular argu
ments in favor of the use of wine, I propose
briefly to present some scriptural facts which
stand out in the history of the past to warn us
of the evils that lie imbedded in the wine-cup.
1. When Noah became a husbandman, he
planted a vineyard, and “he drank of the wine
and was drunken.” The sad results which fol
lowed his debauch are matters of history in God’s
revelation. A son with his posterity were cursed
with servitude, infirmity and vassalage, for gen
erations upon generations, if not in perpetuity.
Inferiority, mentally, morally and socially, was
stamped upon them forever. The efforts to rid
them of this divine curse, made by themselves
and their mistaken friends, have entailed upon
the world wars, deaths, widowhood, orphanage,
bankruptcy, and evils of untold magnitude and
dollars in all incorporated towns, and one hun- I panarupicj,
dred dollars outside of anv incorporation in theKfc?™ 1116 ^ 1 ?' /°r thlr ‘- v - fiv ® , centuries have
incorporation
counties of Burke, Jefferson and Washington;
and the consent of two-thirds of the grown men
and women must accompany the application
within a given area whan liquors are to be sold,
the area to be surveyed at the cost of the person
applying for license. This act was, so amended
as to include the counties of Baldwin, Jasper, j
Laurens. Heard, Sumter, Harris, Talbot, Doug
las, Chattahoochee, Troup, Mitchell, Crawford,
Johnson, Echols, Pulaski, Dodge, Terrell, Eman
uel, Lee, Houston, Pike, Monroe, Thomas, De
catur, Lowndes, Butts, Milton and Camden, and
the law is now in force in all the above-named
counties. In order to obtain a license, the ap
plicant must have the consent of two-thirds of
the freeholders within three miles of the place
where he proposes to sell.
An act to submit the question to the legal
voters of each corporation or militia district in
Butts county for a license to sell less than one
gallon.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within
three miles of Indian Creek church, Bersheba
church, and the Methodist church near Locust
Grove, in Henry county, and to apply to Shiloh
Camp Ground, in Carroll county.
1 An act prohibiting the sale of liquors in the
llu4 district of Chattahoochee county.
An act prohibitihg the sale of liquors within
two miles of Harmony Grove, in Jackson county.
Also, the town of Canton and Woodstock Acad
emy, in Cherokee county.
An act prohibiting the sale of any kind of
liquors within two miles of the town of Acworth,
in Cobb county.
An act prohibiting the sale of all intoxicants
within three miles of the town of Powder Springs,
in Cobb county.
An act prohibiting the sale of all liquors within
three miles of Trion Factory’, in Chattooga
county, was so amended as to apply to Roswell
Factory, the Empire Cotton Mills, and the Willeo
Cotton Mills, in Cobb county, and the Laurel
Hill Mills, of Milton county. Also Bethel church
and the Kaolin pottery and mills, in Baldwin
county.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within
three-fourths of a mile of Elam church or Turin i into an abode for the
Academy, in Coweta county.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within
three miles of the Rising Fawn Iron Company’s
works, in Dade county.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within
one mile of the court-house in Dawsonville, Daw
son county.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within
two miles of Burney’s Mills, in Clay county.
Also, Panola church, in DeKalb county.
An act giving the commissioners 6f*£manuel
county the exclusive power in reference to the
granting of license to sell within two miles of
the court-house.
An act to regulate the sale of liquors in the
counties of Floyd, Dade, Polk, Chattooga, Whit
field, Walker, Hall, Bartow, Gordon, Coweta,
Harralson, Carroll, Murray and Paulding, and
also the town of Palmetto, in the county of Camp
bell.
[This act is known as the local option act, and
gives the residents of each militia district or in
corporation the right to vote, under the law,
against the retail of liquors, or rather in favor of
restricting the sale in quantities less than one
gallon. There has been several elections under
this law for or against “restrictions.” In an
other issue, the result of every election held will
be published, and the vote given. Also, the
number of bar-rooms closed by such elections.]
An act to suppress and prohibit the sale of
liquors within two miles of the town of Franklin,
in Heard county.
An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors,
alcoholic bitters or medicated liquors within two
miles of East Point, in Fulton county.
An act to prohibit the retail of spirituous
liquors within the corporate limits of the town
of Lawrenceville, in Gwinnett county, or within
a radius of three miles of the court-house of said
county.
An act to prohibit the sale of liquors within
two miles of Shiloh church, in Gwinnett county.
An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors
or intoxicating bitters within a radius of three
The dreadful calamities of Noah’s wine-drinking
scourged our world, and it will continue to do
so till the glorious millenium day shall lift us
above the curse of sin.
2. The revolting scenes that occurred from
the wine-drinking of Lot, entailed upon the
world two of the most wicked, idolatrous na
tions that ever lived—making war with peaceful
peoples and tribes and precipitating untold evils
upon humanity.
that, too, at a time when the whole State was al
most in a condition of bankruptcy.
There are in Atlanta seventy-two licensed re
tail liquor shops, besides several in operation
without legal permission. These seventy-two
pay into the city treasury the sum of twenty-one
thousand six hundred dollars for permission to
sell ardent spirits to our citizens. Suppose each
one of these bar-rooms to take in at its counters
daily the moderate sum of fifteen dollars for
drinks. That Would be one thousand and eighty
dollars a day paid by the people of Atlanta for
ardent spirits. This would amount to three
hundred and thirty-eight thousand and forty
dollars. The city pays out thirty-three thou
sand dollars annually for its police force. Under
present circumstances, a less force would not
secure the safety of the city. But suppose no
liquor was sold or drank in Atlanta, would not
half the police force now demanded be suffi
cient? In that event, seventeen thousand five
hundred dollars would be saved to the city,
which it now costs us to keep up the liquor
traffic.
I am unable to present further figures as to
the cost to our city of this injurious trade, but
these are sufficiently startling. Hear! the peo
ple of Atlanta pay out annually, at the very low
est calculation, three hundred and thirty-eight
thousand and forty dollars for that which gives
nothing in return but poverty, sorrow, crime
and death ! And yet there is no protest against
this mammoth evil, no common effort to arrest
this tide of ruin, but, on the contrary, there is
strong opposition to the common schools, where
3. When Absalom made a feast and invited all i more than three thousand children are being
his brethren, the one who drank to intoxication
was slain. It may have been his habit to become
drunken on wine, for Absolom said to his ser
vants: “Mark ye, now, when Ammon’s heart is
merry with wine.” At that period he was to
give the signal, and his brother was to be slain.
Oh, what ruin followed! Peace never came to
the king’s heart again. Long was the nation
lashed by the wildest political commotion, and
once plunged into a dreadful and sanguinary
civil war, which resulted in the death of the
fratricide, the bereavement of the king and in
great national distress. “Behold what a great
matter a little fire kindleth.”
If it brings woe, and sorrow, and contentions,
and babbling, and wounds without cause, and
redness of eyes to those who tarry long at the
wine and who go to seek mixed wine, would it
not be wise in us to heed the inspired warning,
“Look not upon the wine when it is red, and
when it giveth in its color in the cup, when it
moveth itself aright, for at the last it biteth like
a serpent and stingeth like an adder ?”
II.—Strong drink is raging.
If we could impersonate strong drink, we
would describe him in the forcible language di
vinely applied to the arch fiend and say: “Be
sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, Stroiuj
educated at a cost of only forty thousand dollars.
We will pay out three hundred and thirty-eight
thousand and forty dollars as a curse and blight
upon our population without a word of com
plaint, but are unwilling, for the intellectual el
evation of our own children, to pay the amount
necessary to sustain our teachers in their inval
uable labor.
What Ugly Toes Women Hare.
Canova chose five hundred beautiful women,
from whom he made his Venus, and among
them all could not find a decent set of toes. If
he lived nowadays what luck would he have
under the dainty little buttoned boots, with
their sharp pointed heels ?
As soon as the helpless baby can put its foot
on the ground, and before it can complain in
words, shoes are put on it by which the width of
the toes is contracted fully half an inch; and
usually a stiff counter is ordered in the heel,
with some vague idea of “strengthening the
ankle.” From that time, no matter how watch
ful or sensible its parents may be in other re
spects, these instruments of torture always con
stitute a part of its dress. The toes are forced
into a narrower space, year by vear, “to giveaf
bouer, i>e vigiium, ueuause yuurauversury, oitutuj i , , , . y» , •/ .V ’ , ° ,
Drink, as a raging lion goeth about seeking whom i S ood B^pe to the foot until they overlap and
- a -- s. - • - • ° ■ •• knot and knob themselves over with incipient
corns and bunions. Then the heel is lifted from
he may destroy.” “Strong drink is raging.”
Raging ! What an expression to use in describ- , ,, , , ,. „ . , , ,, ,,
ing the influence of ardent spirits ! Is it true ? be g r °" nd by artificial means and thus the ac-
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Does it madden the brain l Does it destroy rea
son? Does it rob manhood of whatever is noble,
great, good and kind ? Has the soul in which
might dwell an angel of peace been converted
pirits of discord, strife,
j envy, hate and death ? Has the fair Eden of the
heart been transformed into a pandemonium ?
Has the calm reign of peace been supplanted by
the storms of passion, and the throne of reason
been usurped by a legion of demons ? Has he
who was created in the likeness of his Maker
been degraded into the similitude of a beast.
Let us look calmly at a few facts and under
stand the manner of government of this mighty
Moloch. He has five hundred and sixty thou
sand persons engaged in the manufacture and
sale of ardent spirits in the United States.
These receive in one year the enormous amount
of two hundred and seventy million dollars, or
about three-fourths of a million per day. Such
is the amount of money the American people
pay directly for the gratification of an appetite,
the indulgence of which leads to woe and death
and hell. Strong drink commands an army of
five millions six hundred thousand, who wor
ship and pay tribute at his altars. Five millions
of these are moderate drinkers—men of means
and influence, and many of them gentlemen of
moral character and habits. These in the main
furnish the revenue which supports the vast ma
chinery of death and desolation which rests like
a pall upon our national virtue and prosperity.
If these moderate drinkers could be induced to
deny themselves the luxury of drinking, the
bar-rooms would soon be closed, and the poor
drunkards would be sobered and returned to
their homes to bless their happy wives and chil
dren. Six hundred thousand of this mighty
army are drunkards, one hundred and fifty
thousand of whom die annually, and, according
to the word of God, are sent to the place pre
pared for the devil and his angels, for “no
drunkard can inherit the kingdom of heaven.”
The places of these one hundred and fifty thou
sand must be supplied from the ranks of moder
ate drinkers. So that one hundred and fifty
thousand citizens of the United States are made
drunkards every year. Would an enemy in any
other form be permitted to destroy so many
noble men every year, as this does? Would
tion of the caif muscles is hindered and the elas
tic carriage of the whole foot is stiffened at the
earliest and most tender period of its growth.
The results are a total lack of elasticity in the
step and carriage, and a foot inevitably distorted.
American women are noted for their cramped
and mincing walk. Southern children are more
fortunate in this matter than those in the North,
as it is customary, even in the wealthiest classes,
to let their feet go uncovered until the age of six.
Mothers in the North are not wholly to blame,
however, as the climate requires that the feet
shall be covered, and it is almost impossible,
even in New York, to find shoes properly made
for children unless a last is ordered for the foot.
As a hew last would be required every month
or so, very few parents are able to give the watch
fulness and money required; but if the proper
shape were insisted upon by those buying shoes,
dealers would quickly furnish them.
miles from the Methodist church in Powillton. ! there not a cry go up all over this land for na-
Also, of Reynold’s Chapel, all in Hancock j tional protection against the invader, and for
county. | revenge for the depredations of the past? But
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within j this is not all. Here is a procession of thirty-
the corporate limits of the town of Hampton, in ; five thousand poor, heart-broken, disconsolate
Henry County. ! widows, who have followed to the drunkard’s
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within | graves the fallen men, who once, in the bright
three miles of the churches and academy near I days of young manhood, won their hearts and
Stockbridge, in Henry county.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within
two miles of Harmony Grove, in Jackson county.
Look Out, Young Men.
When it is said of a man, “He drinks,” and it
can be proven, what store wants him for a clerk?
What church wants him for a member? Who
will trust him ? What dying man will appoint
him his executor ? He may have been forty years
in building his reputation—it goes down. Let
ters of recommendation, the backing of business
firms, a brilliant ancestry cannot save him. The
world shies off. Why? It is whispered all
through the community, “Hedrinks, hedrinks!”
When a young man loses his reputation for sobri
ety, he might as well be at the bottom of the sea.
There are young men here who have their good
name as their only capital. Your father has
started you out in city life. He could only give
you an education. He started you, however, un
der Christian influences. You have come to the
city. You are now achieving your own fortune,
under God, by your own right arm. Now look
out, young man, that there is no doubt of your
sobriety. Do not create any suspicion by going
in and out of liquor establishments, or by any
odor of your breath, or by any glare of your eyes,
or by any unnatural flush of your cheek. You
cannot afford to do it, for your’good name is your
only capital, and when that is blasted with the
reputation of taking strong drink, all is gone.—
Brick Pomeroy's Democrat.
United Friends of Temperance.
We clip the following from the Daily News,
Griffin Georgia:
The Grand Council of United Friends of Tem
perance, for Georgia, met at Fort Talley last
Tuesday and Wednesday, and after transacting
the usual order of business, elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year:
W. E. H. Searcy, Griffin, G. W. P.; H. W. J.
hands, and pledged their honors to their protec
tion and sustentation. Now, in helpless poverty,
with the shadow of hopeless indigence resting
An act to prevent the sale, or barter, or exchange j upon the future part of their lives, they are cast j jj am Warrenton, G. W. A.; M. J. Cofer, Griffin,
of any intoxicating liquors within the corporate j upon the uncertain charities of the public as the : q an q q g_. j> ev< j> yy’ Hubert, Warrenton',
limits of the town of Jefferson, in Jackson unfortunate relicts of husbands who have died j q q . yj rs j yy yf a tbews, Fort Talley, A. g!
county. ; “unwept, unhonored and unsung.” And yet | g\ yy T. Christopher, Fort Valiev, G. T.; E. 6.
An act prescribing the method of obtaining a ; more. There are a hundred thousand poor or- ; g u iij van Sandersville G. C.; U. S. Weston
license for the sale of liquors in Jefferson county, phans thrown upon the world, whose only pater- p awson ’ jy q q. j.’ H. Bartlett, G. G.; m'.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within I nal heritage is the degrading example of a | yiatooTi ’ \miodoAvillA ft S
" ~ ' ' ' drunken father and familiarity with scenes of CqLM.' I Cofer, of this city, was re-elected
debauchery and vileness and a burning appetite ( - -------
which makes their ruin almost certain,
three miles of Johnson County Academy,
Johnson county.
An act prohibiting the sale of liquors within
one mile of Salem church, in Monroe county.
An act to prevent the sale of liquors within
one mile of South River Academy, in Henry
county.
An act to regulate the granting of license in
the counties of Newton, Stewart and Jasper.
Am act prohibiting the sale of liquors within
two miles of Woodstock, in the county of Ogle-
and
which fits them to follow in the steps of their
unfortunate fathers.
How appalling are the facts presented us by
these statistics of the liquor traffic.' The cost of
crime to the government from drunkenness in
this country is forty million dollars. The loss !
of productive industry to the country by drunk
enness is two hundred and twentv-five million
Grand Lecturer and Scribe of the Order, and
igable industry and zeal, will doubtless win an
army of recruits during ’76.
The council adjourned to meet another year in
session, at Milledgeville.
Tlie Lodges are Responding.
We give below the names of the lodges which
have responded in behalf of their official organ,
thorpe. ’ . dollars. The waste of grain, fruit, etc., fifty All of them will respond. None are too poor
An act prescribing the mode of obtaining million dollars, making an aggregate of three to take two copies, and some will take many
; license to sell liquors by retail in the county of hundred and fifteen million dollars. The an- more than two. We shall publish all that re-
Futnam. nual revenue to the county is fifty million dol- gpond, and keep them standing in type. Social
| An act to prevent the sale or barter of either lars, while the cost to the government above j Lodge, located at Jewells’, sends up $10 for four
malt or spirituous liquors within two miles of the revenue is two hundred and seventy million copies. Let us hear from all at once.
| Sharon church, in Randolph county. dollars. The aggregate cost of all the preachers j Lodge 174, at Jewells’ Mills, four copies, $10.
An act to regulate the sale of liquors within and teachers in the United States is only thirty- I
i one mile of Ward's Station, in Randolph county, five million dollars. The cost of crime from the j
An act to prescribe the mode of granting liquor traffic is forty million dollars. There are
license to sell liquors in the counties of Schley, twelve times as many liquor dealers as there are t
i Talbot and Greene. preachers of every* denomination. There are |
An act to prohibit the sale of liquois within four times as many as there are teachers, and
one mile of Providence church, in the county of nearly twice as many as there are lawyers, phy- j
Stewart. , sicians, teachers and ministers in the United ;
An act to regulate the granting of retail liquor States. There are five million six hundred thou- j and pumice stones cast foth from Tesuvius, A.
licenses in Washington county. sand moderate drinkers in our country—one in D. 79, and first discovered in 1848, and now a
An act to regulate the sale of liquors in the seven of the entire population. Of these, one
hundred thousand are annually imprisoned for
crimes, at an expense of ninety million dollars.
It is said that in 1873 the liquor trade in Georgia
amounted to twenty-six million dollars, while the
cotton trade for the same year amounted to only
twenty-five million dollars. The people of Geor-
counties of Wilkes and Polk.
In addition to the above recited acts, there
were many amendatory acts passed, giving
strength and vitality to laws already in exist
ence.
The next article will show what corporations
Lodge No. 225, two copies, $5.
Lodge 257, at Bartow, two copies, S6.
Lodge 387, at Jonesboro, two copies, So.
James Lodge, No. 355, six copies, $15.
Lodge No. 254, Waynesboro, two copies, $5.
Western Star Lodge, three copies, $7.50.
Pompeii, buried beneath the shower of ashes
ruin of world-wide interest, is said to have de
rived its name from the word “pomp,” with re
ference to the pomp with which Hercules, its
founder, celebrated his victories. The frescoes
which have outlived 6,699 years’ concealment are
brilliant yet in the forum and temples.
or militia districts have held elections under the j gia paid out for ardent spirits one million dol- Men who never make mistakes are men
. local option act, with the result of the ballot. lars more than the cotton crop brought in, and never learn to avoid them.