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ANDREW
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Cuthbert, Ga.
REV. A. L. HAMILTON would respect
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that this old and popular Institution will be
re opened under bis immediate supervision ou
MONDAY, October 1, 1877.
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r Flie Terms
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Brothers! come and let us ponder
What we Masons vowed to do ;
When, prepared, at yonder altar,
We assumed the solemn vow ;
Foot and knee, breast and cheek,
Let them now their duties speak.
Foot to foot on Mercy's errand
When we hear a brother’s cry,
Hungry, thirsty, barefoot, naked,
With God’s mercy let us fly ;
This of all our thoughts the chief,
How we best may bring relief.
Knee to knee in earnest prayer,
None but God to hear and heed,
All our woes and sins confessing,
Let us for each other plead ;
Let the spirit ot our call
Be to pray for brothers all.
Breast to breast; is sacred casket,
At life’s centre let us seal
Every truth to us entrusting,
Nor one wholly thing reveal ;
What a Mason vowed to shield
Let him die but never yield!
Hand to back ; a brother falling—
See, his burdens are too great!
Stretch the generous hand and hold him
L'p before it is too Ute ;
Each right hand's a Mason's prop,
Made to hold another up.
Cheek to cheek ; iu timely warning,
When the tempter strives to win,
Urge a brother’s botiden duty,
Warn him of approaching sin—
Warn him of the deadly snare,
Win him with a brother's c.re.
Brothers! often let us ponder
What we Masons vowed to do,
When prepared at yonder altar,
We assumed the solemn vow ;
Foot and knee, breast, hand aud cheek,
Let them oft our duties speak.
Foailracfiiiff and Expand
ing*.
The Danbury News says, John
Henry was with Julia the other
evening, when she said :
“John, what is all this talk about
contracting and expanding tlie cur
rency, and which do you believe iu
anyhow ?”
“ Well, ray sweet, that depends
on circumstances. In some cases I
should advocate contraction, and in
others, expansion. It is according
to circumstances.”
“ But what is the difference be
tween the two, and how do circum
stances affect them ? That’s what
I wan’t to know, John.”
“ Oh, that’s easily explained. For ;
instance, when we are alone we sit
on one chair, don’t we
“ Yes.”
“ Well, that’s contraction. But
when we hear your pa and raa com
ing we get or. two chairs, don’t we?”
“ I should say we did.”
“ Well, my love that is expansion.
So you see, it’s according to circum
stances.”
“John,” said she softly, burrow
ing under his ear, “ we are con
tracting now, ain’t we ?”
“Just so,” said John with in
creased cheerfulness.
A circuit rider one day met a man
praying in the road. Tins exhibi
tion of piety was not only gratify
ing, but aroused curiosity and be
got inquiry.
“ What are you doing?” asked
the preacher.
“ Praying for my enemy,” said
the man.
“ Praying for your enemy !” the
astonished divine replied ; “ what
are you doing that for ?”
“Don’t the bible say if you pray
for your enemy, you can heap coals
of fire on his head ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Then,” said the man, “ I want
to burn this d—n rascal up.”
Tableaux.
Among the novelties of the com
ing Paris Exhibition will be a youth
of fourteen, with feet shaped pre
cisely 7 like his hands. lie can use
them for the same purposes, and
plays upon the piano with both
hands and fee f , having a peculiar
chair which enables him to curl his
body into the necessary position.—
He is a very good performer, and
speaks both English and German.
As the Dutchman said, “ Mine cot!
vat will de Frenchman make next?”
One good word is due tobacco.
An Ohio couple quarreled, and in
the heat of the moment the man
packed his carpetbag and left her
forever. A short distance from the
house he discovered that he had
forgotten his tobacco-box. To go
back for it was the work of a mo
ment. Then, having filled his
mouth with the weed, he looked
upon his wife with molified eyes,
and iu another moment both were
protesting that they had only been
in fun anyhow.
Don’t call the young mao “cabbage
head;” he is offiy high oollared. i
CUTHBERT, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1877.
T'he Deallt Warrant.
The raist of the morning still
hung heavily on the mountain top,
and above the village of Redcliff,
but the roads which led towards it
were crowded with the varied popu
lation of the surrounding country,
from far and near. At Alesbury
the shops were closed, the hammer
of the blacksmith lay upon its anvil,
not a wagon was to be seen in the
streets, anti even the bar of the tav
ern was locked, and the key gone
with the proprietor toward the cliff,
as a token of an important era which
was to be without a parallel in the
annals of the place. .And save
here and there a solitary head look
ing through a broken pane, in some
closed up house, with an air of sad
disappointment, or the cries of a
nursling was beard, betokening
that in the general flight it had
been left in unskillful hands,or may
hap here and there a solitary, rag
ged and ill-naturd dog, either seem
ing or half appeased by the privi
lege of a holiday grauted on a con.
dition ot staying at home, the whole
village presented a picture of deser
tion and silence, that had forever
been unknown before.
But in proportion as you drew
near the ponaervu* cliff-’, ; n the
midst of which the little town of
RedclifFe was situated, you mingled
again in the thick bustle and mo
tion of the world of men, and wo
men, and boys and horses, and dogs,
and all living, moving and creeping
things that inhabit the wild district
of Pennsylvania.
The village was crowded to over
flowing long before the sun had
gained a sufficient altitude to throw
its rays upon the deep valley io
which it lay. There the bar of the
inn was crowded and the fumes of
tobacco and whiskey, the jingling
of small change, and the perpetual
clamor of the throng, was sufficient
to rack a brain of common flexibili
ty. In the streets there was the
greeting of old and long parted Jac
quainlances; the bartering of horses;
the settling of old accounts; the
buffoonery of half-intoxicated men;
the clatter of women; the crying
and hallooing of children and the
barking and quarrlelling ot stran
gers’ dogs. To look upon the
scene, to mingle with the crowd, to
listen to the conversation, or to sur
vey the counternauoes of the as
sembled multitude, would scarcely
lead to a satisfactory solution of the
cause for which this mass of hete
rogenious existence was congrega
ted.
Within the walls of the old stone
jail, at the foot of the mountain, a
different scene had been that morn
ing witnessed. There chained to a
stake in tho miserable dungeon,
damp and scarcely 7 illuminated by
one ray of light, now lay the ema
ciated form of one whose final doom
seemed near at hand. A few hours
before his wife and little daughter
had travelled one hundred miles to
meet him on the threshold of the
grave—they met, and from
that gloomy vault the song of
praise ascended with the ascending
sun and the jailor, as he listened to
the melodious voices of the three
persons whom he looked upon as the
most desolate of all ia the wide
world, blended sweetly together,
and chanting the beautiful hymn—
'•lt is the Lord, should I distrust,
Or contradict his will ?”
almost doubted the evidence of his
senses, and stood fixed in astonish
ment, at the massive door. Could
these he the voices of a murderer,
and a murderer’s wife and child.
The brief and to be final inters
view had passed, however—these
unfortunate ones had loudly com
mended each other to the keeping
of their heavenly parent—he, to
face the assembled multitude on the
scaffold, and they, as they 7 said, to
return by journeys to their sorrow
ful home; the convict worn out with
sickness and watching now slept.
llis name was John Creel, his
place of residence said to be in
ginia. He had been taken up whilj
travelling from the
home, and tried and cor A
the country town somefl
t tut, for the
traveller, who
puny 1 !'■ iin the
r! ai i ie> i J—jgtigfßKSHMH
i i , "n- g dra
<•
throat cu^AHUwg|
U■-ted llis nnHfjr'
the deed
ol:e whilejMr '
to be hung, and was removed to the
old stone jail at Redcliff for security,
the county prison being deemed
unsafe. This was the day the exe
cution was to take place—the scaf
fold was already erected—the crowd
pressed round the building, and
frequently the cries of “bring out
the murderer,” were beard.
The sun at last told tho hour of
eleveu, and there could bo no more
delay—the convict’s cell was enter
ed by the officers in attendance,
who roused him with the infoma
tion that all was ready without, and
bid him hasten to his execution
they laid hands upon him and pin
ioned him tight, while he looked up
toward heaven in astonishment, as
one new borne, and only said, “the
dream, the dream.” “And what of
the dream, prisoner ? ” said the
sheriff. “You would do me a great
kindness if you would dream your
self and me out of this accursed
scrape.” “I dreamed,” replied
the convict, “that while you read
the death warrant to me ou the
scaffold, a man cam# through tho
crowd, and stood before us in a
gray dress, with a white hat and
whiskers, and that a bird fluttered
over him, and sung distinctly—
‘this is Lowis, the murderer of the
traveller.’ ”
The officers and jailor held a
short consultation which ended in a
determination to look sharp after
the man in gray, with the white
hat —accompanied with many hints
ot resignation by the prisoner, and
the possibility of his innocence be
ing asserted by 7 a supernatural agen
cy—the prison-doors were cleared,
and Creel, pale and feeble, with a
hymn hook in his hand, and a mien
of all meekness aud humility, was
seen tottering from the prison to the
scaffold. lie had no sooner ascen
ded it than his eyes began to wan
der over tho vast concourse of people
around him, with a scrutiny that
seemed like faith in dreams—and
while the sheriff read the warrant,
the convict’s anxiety appeared to
increase—he looked and then raised
his hands arid eyes a moment to
wards the clear sky, as if breathing
a last ejaculation, when, lo ! as he
resumes his first position, the very
person lie described, stood within
six feet of the ladder ! The priso
ner’s eye caught the sight, and
flashed with fire while he called
out, “there is Lewis, the murderer
of the traveller,” and the jailor at
the samo moment seized the stran
ger by the collar. At first he at
tempted, to escape, but being, se
cured, and takeu before the magis
trates, he confessed the deed, de
tailed all the particulars, delivered
up part of of the money, informed
where another part was hidden,
and was fully committed for trial
—while Creel was turned loose,
aud hastened like a man out of his
senses, from the scaffold.
Three days had elapsed—Creel
had vanished immediately after his
liberation when the pretended
Lewis astonished and confounded
the magistrates by declaring Creol
to be her husband ; that she had
assumed the disguise, and per
formed the whole part by his direc
tion ; that he had given her the
money which he had till then suc
cessfully concealed about his per
son ; and that the whole, from the
prison to the scaffbl I scene, was a
contrivance to effect his escape,
which having been effeetd she was
regardless of consequences. Noth
ing could be done with her ; she
was again set at liberty, and nei
ther she nor her husband were
heard of again.
Two little girls were heard dis
cussing the war in the East, one
contending that Turkey would win,
and the other asserting that Russia
would be the victor. At last one
settled the question. “Iknow,” said
she, “tlj .t Turkey will win. My pa
is a Jlii my ma a Turk.—
'Uggstea. JFraßpfc’ night, and ma
garment appears
Mkk soilin'* than do
Tlie Capitol Question.
There can be hut little doubt but
what the Constitution will he rati
fied or ought to be. But the Cap
itol question will be the important
question—Atlanta or Milledgeville.
Mow r if Georgia was out of debt, and
the people in a prosjlserous condition,
and the taxes were light, it would
then be merely a choice w’ith tlie
people whether Atlanta, Milledge*
ville or Macon should be the seat
of Government. But when Geor
gia owes a debt of twelve million of
dollars, and new bonds have been
issued to pay the interest on that
debt, now' mark it, people of Geor
gia, that not one cent of the monies
arising from the enormous taxes
you are now paying every year has
been paid toward that debt, or to
the interest accruing on that debt;
it shows plainly that the high taxes
that you are called on annually to
pay is not paying tho indebtedness
of Georgia, hut the debt is increas
ing on you day by day, aud year by
year, and you will yet bo compelled
to pay r every dollar of it. The
heavy taxes you are now paying is
only paying the current expenses of
the State aud your counties—that’s
pretty heavy on the tax payers who
earn their living by the sweat of
their brow. Well, if that be true
and it is said to be so by those who
ought to know, would it not be the
bight of folly, nav, reckless extravi
gance on the part of the people,tax
ed and in debt as they are, to vote
for the capital to be located at At
lanta, when it would cost the Stale
one million of dollars to build the
capitol there, and especially when
we have a capitol, and Governor’s
mansion, and all other necessary
buildings to carry on the govern
ment of Georgia in Milledgeville
already 7 paid for. Now, if Atlanta
wants tho capital, let her citizens
do as the people of Montgomery,
Ala., did when the removal of the
capital from Tuscaloosa was agi
tated, build a capitol suited to the
purposes needed, and donate it to
the State, and that settles the ques
tion forver. But for Georgia to
build anew capitol at Atlanta at a
cost of one million of dollars, when
there is one at Milledgeville, is a
thing too preposterous to think of.
What would he thought of a man
owning a comfortable house that
answered all tho wants and conven
iences of liis family, and was large
ly in debt, and took all his income
to pay the interest on what he was
owing, and for pride’s sake conclude
to build anew house ou a more
beautiful site, at an expense of some
ten or twelve thousand dollars ?
Why, aP sensible and reflecting
men would think he was acting
very unwisely; and if it did not
break him, it would cause him to
work harder for many more years
to pay his debts. And it is just so
with the people of Georgia, who are
oppressively taxed every year,
and the enormous taxes they are
paying do not even pay the inter
est on the State debt. Well, under
such circumstances would it not be
unwise for the people to vote for a
new capitol, which would be voting
themselves an additional debt of
one million of dollars they now owe,
and are horn down with taxation,
and will he for years to come. Far
users, we say, look to your interests
—this debt comes out of your pock
ets. Atlanta will not help you or
your children to pay one cent of it,
so if you are prudent and wise you
will vote for our old capitol at Mil
ledgeville, and save an additional
debt for us of one million of dollars;
and as good laws can he made at
Milledgeville, and more economy in
legislation, as will be done at Atlan
ta. At any rate let us go hack to
Milledgeville until our debts are
paid, and when paid, should the
people see proper to build anew
capital, why, let it be done, when it
will not oppress us by heavy taxa
tion, as it will now do: and, like a
wise man, when his debts are paid,
he can afford to .build anew and
handsome mansion for show, con
venience and comfort, but whilst in
debt, he wise, stick to the old dwell-
long sheltered him
P i ... njieat, cold and
. ’ .'i 1 - : .;Wirse shows wi-
prejudices
the capi-
Bille. I feel
R were I in
friends
Krger debt
Fare tlie wants
extravigant
hrough for the
late convention
ll as set the people a good example
in lopping off in the Constitution
they have made. So let the people
follow their example, and begin re
trenching by going hack and occu
pying the capitol at Milledgeville
that we already have, and save the
State un additional debt of one mil
lion of dollars.— Rome Courier.
Occasional Correspond*
dice.
Quitman Cos., Oct., 1877.
Mr. Editor :
My long silence may be miscon
strued and a full explanation may
he necessary. It was not a matter
of choice, at all, on my part, that I
stopped writing, hut you see Bitlie
(my wife) just laid the law down to
me that it had to he done, aud when
she puts her foot on anything, noth
ing, short of a cyclone, can upset
hor. She attributes all our dry
weather this year to my 7 writing
these letters for the Appeal. She
says she was looking for something
to happen as soon as she found it
out, and you might as well try to
convince her that the earth is round
or that there isu’t a sure enough
man in the moon, as that the dry
weather wasn't a direct providential
punishment ou me for telling folks
all about her and the children. She
firmly 7 believes that all our bad luck
comes of my bad management, aud
you can’t convince her hut that I
was the cause of the few negroes
we had being set free. I went down
to Georgetown one day for the pur
pose of writing to you, and went in
to see Eugene about it, but he sent
me back to the office, where he said
Gibson would give me writing ma
terial, but when I told all the cir
cumstances to John, he said, “Scrog
gins you’re a fool. Why don’t you
assert your natural rights and he
boss of your own premises? that’s
the way I do—l do as I pleaso at
home and none dare to molest, or
make me afraid.” Said I “Gip, if I
wasn’t a married man and didn’t
know how it was myself I might
believe it; but the only time you,
or any other married man does as
he pleases, is when his wife is from
home, or he is somewhere else him
self.” Now, Mr. Editor, aint I right?
Well, I went to town not long
ago, and got a copy of the new
constitution. When I got home
I quietly took a scat to study the
thing, hut I hadn’t got through the
bill of rights, when Bithe (my wife)
wanted to know what it was. Said
I “Bithe its the new constitution for
the people of Georgia.” “The peo
pie of Georgia!” said she; “you
had better a thundring sight he a
having something done for my poor
broke down constitution. But no,
that’s just tlie way; you’ll do and
do for other folks, but poor me, I
can go on with my same old broke
down constitution til! I can’t go,
and there is nothing done for me.”
Said I, “Bithe you don’t compre
hend the situation. Momentous is
sues are involved in the present cri
sis. The liberties, and to some ex
tent, the ultimate destinies of the
people of the grand old empire
State of tho South hinge upon the
adoption or rejection of this instru
ment that I hold in my hand. The
barbarous hands of vampires have
prayed upon our substance uutil we
may ho likened to the lean kine of
Pharaoh’s dream. The peace, hap
pineas and future welfare of these
little Scrogginses’ that I nightly
fondle upon my parental knee do
pend upon the decision of the citi
zens of our noble old commonwealth
in regard to this magnificent and in
comparable hill of rights, ho recently
spread before them by the purest,
noblest and greatest band of patri
ots that ever devised fundamental
law for a free people ! and shall I,
one of the masterpieces of God’s
creations, made only a little lower
than the angels, endowed with wit.
dom from on High—l say shall I
sit quiet and not lift lip my voice to
plead with the common rabble to
stand up to the lick log, salt or no
salt ?
“Tlie lark is up to meet the sun,
Tbe bee is ou the wing ;
The ant, its labors has begun.”
And must I be a drone in this
busy hive of human beings? Shall
not my roaring be heard from the
mountain to the seaboard, entreat
ing the learned and instructing the
unlearned to come square up to the
rack, fodder or no fodder?” “Hold
up Scroggins,” said Bithe (my
wife). “I believe the old fool has
gone crazy—what in thunderation
ails you ? are you drunk ? are you
gwine to the sylum ? have you lost
the little sense j 7 ou did have ?go
bathe your feet iu some warm mus-
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tard water and go to bed, this min
ute, or you’ll get acquainted witji
tbe fire tongs iu less than a minute.**
Mr. Editor I retired is disgust,
and, and havn’t felt lika making an
other speech on the subject from
that day to this.
••Oh ! ever thus from childhoods hour
I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay ;
I never loved a tree or flower,
But ’twss the first to fade away.
I never had a piece ol toast
All buttered over, broad and wide,
But fell upon tbe sanded floor,
And always ou the buttered ride.” *
Yours truly,
Epimanondas Sckoggiws.
How tlie Apostles Died.
1. Peter was crucified in Rente,
and at his own request head down
ward.
2‘ Andrew was crucified by being
hound to a cross by cords, on w Inch
lie hung two days, exhorting the
people till he expired.
4. St. James the Less was thrown
from a high pinnacle, and then
stoned, and finally 7 killed with a ful
ler’s club.
3. St. James tha Qrnat wag bag
beaded by ordor of Herod, at JAS
salem.
5. St. Phillips was bound ifl
hanged against a pillar.
0. St. Bartholomew was flavifl
death ly command of a bar I
king.
7. St. Mathew was killed 0H
halbert.
8. St. Thomas, while at prajlWl
was shot with a shower of
aud afterward run through the bodV
with a lance.
9. St. Thomas was crucified. J
10. Mathias—the manner ofjjiis
death is somewhat doubtfulone
says stoned then beheaded, another
says he was crucified.
12. Judas Iscariot fell and his
bowells crushed out.
13. John died a natural death.
14. St. Paul was beheaded by or
der of Nero.
The happiest moment in a young
man’s life, is with one exception,
when he sends his sweetheart up
stairs to ask her papa to come down
to the parlor a little while, and her
papa sends her back With the intel
ligence that he has the rheumatism
too bad to come down, but to ,4ell
Charles that it is all right.
Nature doesn’t know much.—
If she had made a man’s head out
of cork see how nicely he could
have floated about in water, and
kept himself from drowning in &aso
of shipwreck. yWr
During a thunder storm twodogß
that howled dismally at night wereJ
struck by lightning, Howling
should cut this out and
their hats.
A Philadelphia dancing mlLster is
said to he about introducing & new
dance expressly for fat people]
the performers have to do is 1,0 ait
and kick.
It is said that the vacant rfeat on'*
the Supremo Bench will be filied by
a person from the South nef ove:
sixty years of age.
Death is but a kind and veleOme
servant who unlocks with it noise
less hand lire’s flower encircled
door to show us those we love.
A building has been erected oear
Brigham Young’s grave for the
shelter of a party of men who keen
a continual guard over it, day nd
nisl,t -
The mind is like a
well packed it will hold
crything; if ill-packed, nafcft W
nothing. 1
Young ladies should he carefß
and not get chaps on their lips,—.
They have been known to leajU fit
an effection of the heart.
An experienced old
says all that is necessary for the
joyment of love or sausages is oon*>
fidence. I
“Pat, what makes you start after
that rabbit when your gun has m,
lock on it ” “Hush, my darlint
rabbit don’t know that.”
If you think you are too tall, m .
ry an extravagant woman aud you
will soon find yourself short
enough.
People learn wisdom by e: pe r ,
ence. A man never wakes up b s
second baby to see it laugh.
“You’re a smart fellow," sneer e*l
a lawyer to a witness th*other djM
“I’cLreturn tbe coraplimenfc>3|
not under oath/’ replied fb/' V