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The Cartersville Semi-Weekly Express.
Published on every Tuesday and Friday Mornings
VOLUME X.
The Cflirtersville Express
I* Somi-Weekly on every TUBS-
D.vY AMD FRIDAY, by
S. H. SMITH & Cos., Editors and Prop’rs.
In the town ot < artersville, Bartow County, G*.
Ton of Subscription:
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ISVAR'ARIjY IN ADVANCE. •
Thursday M iruin# Kdtfcion, one year) 1.30
Thi'i latter proposition is confined to citizens
. 0 f Bartow county only.
Terms of Advertising:
Transient (On Month or Less.) per square often
soliil Nonparicl or Brevier lines or less, One
Dollar for the first, and Fifty Gents for each sub
sequent, Insertion.
Xnnu/U or Contract, One Hundred and Twenty
Dollars per column, or in that proportion.
Ifyofcssional (sai|ds.
John W. Wofford,
MTORHEY M LAW.
CARTKRSVILLE «- GBORGT A.
Office over Pinkerton’s Drug Store. Oct. 17.
W. T. WOFFORO, A. P. WOFFORD.
Woflord «& Wofford, *
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTEK9VIIJ.H, GEORGIA.
June 23,1870.
11. W. Hiirphcy,
ATTTORNEY AT LAW,
CAETF.RBVILLE .. GEORGI A.
Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee
'Circuit. Particular attention given to the col
lection of Claims. Office with Col. Abtta John
son. ° ct - *•
John J. Jones,
ATTORNEY AT LAW & REAL ESTATE AGENT.
CARTEfISVILLE GEORGIA.
Will attend promptly to all proffessional busi
ness entrusted to hfs care; also, to the buying
and selling of Real Estate. dan 1.
Jcre. A. Howard,
Ordinary of liartow County.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jan 1,1870.
A. 91. Foute,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ARTERSVILLE GEORGIA.
(With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad
joining counties. March 30.
T. W. MILNER, O. n. MILNEII.
Milner «fc Milner,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
vV nl attend promptly to business entrusted to
their care. Jan. 15.
Warren Akin,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTKRBVI LE GEORGIA.
Will practice in ail the courts of the State.
Nam. 11. Patillo,
Fashionable Tailor and Agent
fob, Sewing Machines,
WILL attend promptly to the Cutting, Re
pairing, and Making Bovs’ and Mens’
Clothing; also, Agent for the sale of the cele
brated Grover St Baker Sewing Machines. Of
fice over Stokely & Williams Store. Entrance
from the rear. fel> 17.
W. R. 9lountca§ths
Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
0 ARTERSVI LI E, GEO RGI A.
Office in front of A. A. Skinner & Co’s Store.
Kennegaw House,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
IS still open to the traveling public as well as
summer visitors. Parties desiring to make
arrangements for the season can be accommo
dated. Rooms neat and clean and especially
adapted for families. A line large piazza has
been recently added to the comforts of the estab
lishment. FLETCHER & FREY ER,
junelß\vtf Proprietors.
S. O'SII IELDS,
Fashionable Tailor ,
Cartersville, Georgia.
HAVE just received the latest European and
American styles of Mens’ and Boys’ Cloth
lug, and is prepared to Cut and Making to or
der. Office upstairs in Liebman’s store. East
side of the Railroad. sept. 29.
Hr. J. A. Jackson,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
OFFICE IN THE HE W DR UG STORE.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jan 4th, 1871.
O.BOWLER, ;
MANUFACTURER OF,
AND DEALER lIST,
SINGLE AND DOUBLE
HARNESS,
' •
Saddles,
COLLARS, LEATHER, &C.
KEI'AIRIirCi BOSE
With neatness and dispateh.
gfeV-Shop cn West Main Street, near the old
Market House, CARTERSVIMJE, GA.
feb 21-wly WM.O HOWLER.
~“GEAR SHOP,” by w
w. Cos xiwaim,
CARTARSVILLE, GA.
Manufacturer of Harness, Bri
rp»lb Alt 8, Gear, etc*, and Dkalkr in
Saddles, Leather.
Repairing done on short notice. Work war
ranted to stand the test. Hides Wanted,
jan. 24,1871.-swly
I3l *‘ M *
= J ohntson,
' DEATIST.
Teeth drawn without pain, by the use oi nar
cotic spray. nich 9.
J. T. OWEN,
JEWELER,
Main Street, Cartersville, Ga..
M ill furnish anything in bis line as cheap as
11 **an he bought anywhere.
He is always at his post, -ready to serve his
customers.
Everything warantod to give suliaiaetioii.
R EA D
XT is well known to
I Doctors and to Ladies .JY
that Women an subject L
to numeriHisdieeasee pe- y
culiar to their sex—such „
as s>ii|*pre>.ion of the dAf '
MensFs, Whites, Painful ‘‘'if. N/
M’nthly ‘Periods,’ Rhcu- ' ' vPL.gL
inatism of the Back and y¥m •#
Womb, Irregular Men- KfeT
struation. Hemorrhage, x
or Excessive ‘FlowPaiul
Prolapsus Uterior Fall- If
ing ot the Womb.
These diseases have sel
dorn been treated successfully. The profession
has sought dilligently for some remedy that we’ld
enable them to treat those diseases with success.
At last, that remedy has been discovered by
one of the most skilful physicians iu the State of
Georgia. The remedy is
Bradfield’s Female Regulator.
It Is mirelv vegetable, and is put up in Atlan
ta, bv BRADFIELD ft CO.
11 will purify the blood and strengthen the
system, relieve irritation of the kidneys, and is
a perfect specific for all the above diseases; as
certain a cure as Quinine is in Chills and Fevers.
For a history of diseases, and certificates of its
worderful cores, the reader is referred to the
wrapper around the lmttle. Every bottle war
ranted to give satisfaction or moßey refunded.
LaGranoe, fiA., March 23,1870.
BRADFIELD A CO., ATLANTA, GA.:
Qpar Sirs: I take pleasure in stating that 1
have used, for the last'twenty years, the medi
cine you are putting up, known as DR. J. BRAD
FIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR, and con
sider it the host combination-ever gotten to
gether for the diseases for which it is recom
mended. I have been familiar with the pre
scription both as a practitioner of medicine and
in domestic practice, and can honestly say that
I Qonsiderit a boon to suffering females, and
can but hope that every lady in our whole land,
who may be suffering in any way peculiar to
their sex, may be able to procure a bottle, that
their sufferings may not only be relieved, but
that they may be restored to health & strength.
With my kindest regards, T am, respectfully,
W. B. FERRELL, M. D."
We, the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure
in commending to the trade. Dr. .T. Bradfleld’s
Female Regulator—believing it to be a good and
reliable remedy for the diseases for which he
recommends it. W. A. LAXSDELL,
PEMBERTON. WILSON, TAYLOR & CO.
BED WINE & FOX,
W. C. LAWSHE, Atlanta, Ga.
W. ROOT & SON, Marietta, Ga.
ACTS with gentleness and thoroughness
upon the Liver and General Circula-
Gon-keeps the Dowels in Natural Motion
ami Cleanses the System from all impurl
£**• I =T| | Never
fails t< i "'to Cure Li-
l ® v r | |L)r. 0. S. Prophitt’sj |{? i i r s^ ase T( J r n
|)idi- ~ , Fiiilarg
mentrilyspepsia, Indigestion, Loss of Ap
petite, Nausea, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn.
Debility, Low Spirits, Cold Feet and Hands,
Costiveness, Listlessness, Colic, Clironic
Diarrhea, and Clironic Chills and Fever.
in strict accordance with
skillful chemistry and scientific pharmacy, this
purely veg- i “ —rr -i . üble
Oompo un and I | Jhas. after
the severe- II CELEBRATED | jest test of
t w e n t y| I | bears i n
ccssant use,| I” ~33lfbeen styl
ed the Great Restorative and Rkcupkrant
by the enlightened testimony of thousands us
ing it; so harmoniously adjusted that it keeps
the Liver in healthful action; and when the
directions are observed the process of waste
and replenishment in the human system con
tinues uninterruptedly to a ripe old age, and
man, like the patriarchs of old, drops into the
grave full of years, and without a strusnrle.
whenever]» ID kaih
claims his l T . I’preroga
tive. Ada-i i Liver Medicme.iipt cato
the most! I I (delicate
tempo ra-" I—"**T*..im-Tit 1 —"**T*..im-Tit &
robust constitution, it can be given with equal
safety and success to the young child, invalid
ladv or strong man.
jiine 2, 1871.
Oil. O. S. PnOPIIITT’S
A.iio<lyue Pain Kill It.
NEVER FAILING!
KILLS PAIN I’V every form.
CURES Pains in the Puck. Chest, Hips or
Limits, Rheumatism, Neuralgia,' Goughs,
Colds, Bronchial Affections. Kidney Diseases. Dys
pepsia. Liver Complaint ; Colic, Cholera , Cholera
Morbus. Pleurisy , Asthma,, Heart Burn. Tooth
Ache, Jarc Ache, Ear Ache, Head, Ache. Sprains,
Bruises, Cuts. Contusions. Sores, Lacerated
Wounds, Scalds. Burns? Chill Blains, Frost Bites.
Poisons, of all kinds, vegetable or animal. Os ali
[|pain kill it:||
the Remedies ever discovered for the relief of
Suffering humanity, this is the best Pain Medica
tor known to Medical Science. The cunj is speedy
and permanent in the most inveterate diseases.
This is no humbug, but a grand'medicaldiscovery.
A P ain Kili.kb containing no poison to inflame,
paralize or drive the inflammation upon an in
ternal organ. Its efficiency is truly wonderful
—Belief is Instantaneous. It is destined to
banish pains and aches, wounds and bruises,
from tlie face of the earth,
may 6, 1871.
CERTIFICATES:
We, the undersigned, haved used Dr. Proph
itt’s Prepaartipns, aud take pleasure in recom
mending them to the public, as being all he
claims for them:
Col. R J Henderson, Covington, Ga.; O T Rog
ers, Covington, Ga.; O S Porter, Covington, Ga.;
Prof. J L .Tones, Covington, Ga.; Rev. M W Ar
nold. Georgia Conference; ltev. W W Oslin, Ga.
Conference; F M Swanson, Monticello, Ga.; Ro
bert Barnes, Jasper County, Ga.; AM Robinson,
Monticello, Ga.; James Wright, Putnam county,
Ga.; A Westbrook, Putnam county, Ga.; Judge
.T J Floycl, Covington, Ga.: W L Bebee, “Cov
ington Enterprise,”; A II Zaohrv, Convers, Ga;
George Wallace, Atlanta, Ga.; Dick'Lockett,
Davis county, Texas; W Hawk Whatley, Cus
set-a, Texas; W C Roberts, Linden countv, Tex
as; Tommy & Stewart, Atlanta, Ga; W A I.ans
dell, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga; R F Maddox & Cos.;
Atlanta, Ga.; Uriah Stephens, Cartersville, Ga.;
A N Louis, Lowndes county, Ga.; Joseph Land,
Lowndes county, Ga.; Jas. Jefferson. Carters
ville, Ga.; W L Ellis, Dooly county, Ga.; W A
Forehand, Dooly county, Ga.; John B. Davis
Newton Factory, Ga.; B F Bass, Low mines co.
GOWER, JONES & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
And Dealers in
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,
Axn ..
1, 2 & 4 Horse Wagons.
MATERIALS, &C.
REP AIRING, of all binds, DONE
WITH NEATNESS ami DURABILI
TY.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
feb. 7, 1871.w1y
______________ m
Suits of Clothes from $2,00 to
SI,OO at
Satterfold, Pylon k Co’s.
Bridles,
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA, JULY *l, 1871.
S<*l»t;<lnlf! ol‘ llio
CARTERSVILLE & VAN-WERT R. R.
ON and after January 20th, 1331, the trains 1
will |
Leave T AYLORSVILLE, at 9.30, A. M. i
“ .STILESROIio’, at 10, A. M.
“ FOR REST HILL at 10.2.>, A. M !
Arriving at CARTERSVILLE, at 10.50. A M
Leave CARTERSVILLE. at 1, P. M.
Arrive at TAYLORSVILLE, at 3, F. M.
A Hack will soon be running from Cedartown
to Taylorsville via. Van Wert, connecting with
the trains.
An Extra train will be run to Cartersville and
Return to Taylorsville, every Friday evening.
By order of the President.
1). W. K. PEACOCK, Sec’y.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE,
WESTERN it ATLANTIC R. R. CO.
ON and after 28th instant, trains will run on
this Itoad as follows :
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAlN—Outward.
Leaves Atlanta, 6 30, P. m.
Arrives at Chattanooga, ~l 43, a. m.
DaY PASSENGER TRAlN—Outward.
Leaves Atlanta, 8 15, a. m.
Arrives at Chattanooga 4 25, p. m.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAlN—lnward.
Leaves Chattanooga 5 10, p. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 1 42, A. M.
day" passenger train—inward.
Leaves Chattanooga.... 5 00, A. m.
Arrives at Atlanta ......l 38, P. m.
DALTON ACCOMMODATION.
Leaves Atlanta 340, p. m.
Arrives at Dalton 11 58, p. m.
Leaves Dalton 3 25, a. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 10 20, a. m.
E. B. WALKER,
may 25,1871. Master of Transportation.
Lawshe & Haynes,
Have on hand and are receiving
the finest stock of the
Very Latest Styles
of IHamond and Hold
JEWELRY,
in upper Georgia, selected, with eat care for
the
Fall and Winter Trade,
Watches,
ol the BEST MAKERS, of both Europe aud A
merioa;
American an<l French Clocks;
sterling and Coin Silver Ware;
and the best quality of
Silver Plated Goods,
at prices to suit the times;
Gold, Silver and Steel
Spectacles,
to suit all ages.
Watches and Jewelry
Rkpairsd by Competent Workmen;
Also Clock and Watch Makers
Tools and Materials.
sept 13.-swly ATLANTA, GA.
W. H. GILBERT. A. BAXTER, T. W. BAXTER, Jr.
gilbert"&baxter,
(SUCCESSORS TO W. H. GILBERT & C 0.,)
Dealers In
HAKDWYRE,
IltOy, STEFX, MILS,
CLOVER & GRASS SEED.
AGENTS FOR SALE OF
COAL CREEKCOAL.
Peruvian Guano.
And other Fertilizers.
Agricultural Implements,
Agricultural and Mill Machinery,
ALSO
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS
For sale and Purchase of
COTTON, WHEAT, CORN.
And all other
Country Produce, Cotton, Hav
AND OTHER PRODUCE SHIPPED ON
LIBERAL TERMS
GILBERT & BAXTER,
Cartersville Ga.
Jan. 19, 1871—ly.
jas. wTstrange,
Dealer In, and Manufacturer k of
TOT WARE, AID
Hoiise-FiiriiiHliiiij; Goods,
ALSO DEALER IN
First-Class Stoves At
The Lowest Cash Prices .
WILL BARTER
FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE, RAGS,&C.
Cartersville, Jan. 20th, ’7l-ly.
8. H. PATTI 1.1.0, Agent
GROVER & BAKER’S CELEBRATED
ffifM MMSiHS.
BOTH THE
FXASTIU AID SHUTTLE
OR
LOCKSTITCH.
SUITABLE FOR ANY KIND OF FAMI
LY SEWING- JIONE BETTER
Hen and Boys 9 Clothing
Made on the Most Reasonable Terms.
In fact, almost any description of
SEWING done
Ah Cheap ass the Cheapest!
AND
II TIIF, BEST STYLE.
Lyman Chapman,
Brick and Stone
Mason,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
prepared to do any of the above work
upon short notice and at low figuers
(N EOTUM A, BARTOWCOryrr.—' T. M.Stew-
I art has applied for exemption of personalty,
and I will pass upon the same at 10 o’clock A. m.,
on the Brd day of July, 1871, at my office.
June 21st, 1871.
J. A. HOWARD, Ord’y B. C.
“Onward and Upward /’
SHARP &FLOYD,
Successors to Geo. SHARP, Jr.,
ATLANTA? GLA„
Wholesale And Retail Jewelers,
We Keep a Large and Varied Assortment of
FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS,
DIAHOXUS, JEWELRY,
AND
SPECTACLES.
so mi mm,
A SPECIALTY.,
We MaiuiCaetuae Tea Sets, Forks, Spoons,
Goblets, Caps, Knives, etc.
#
#tjcmiums 3foij Apicultunal Sfairjs.
We arc prepared to fill any order for Fairs at
short notice; also to give any information in
regard to Premiums.
Orders by mail or -in person, will receive
prompt and careful attention. We ask a com
parison of Stock, Prices and Workmanship with
any house in the State.
Watches and Jewelry carefully Repaired
and Warranted. Masonic Badges and Sunday
School Badges made to order.
Stiff* All Work Guaranteed.
ENGRAVING FREE OF CHARGE.
SHARP & FLOYD.
May 23, swly.
CONSUMPTION,
Its Cure and Its Preventive
BY J. H. SCHENCK, M. D
MANY a human being has passed away,
for whose death there was no other reason
than the neglect of known and indisputably
proven means of cure. Those near and dear to
family and friends are sleeping the dreamless
slumber into which, had they calmly adopted
DR. JOSEPH H. SCHENCK’S SIMPLE
TREATMENT.
and availed themselves of his wonderful effica
cious medicines, they would not have fallen.
Dr. Schenck has in his own case proved that
wherever sufficient vitality remains, that vital
ity, by his medicines and his directions for
their use, is quickened into healthful vigor.
In this statement there is nothing presump
tuous. To the faith of the invalid is made no
representation that is not a thousand times
substantiated by living and visible works. The
theory of the cure by Dr. Schenck’s medicines
is as simple as it is unfailing. Its philosophy
requires uo argument. It is self-assuring, self
convincing.
The Seaweed Tonic and Mandrake Pills are
the first two weapons with which the citadel
of the malady is assailed. Two-thirds of the
cases of consumption originate in dvspepsia
and a functionally disordered livoi. With this
condition the bronchial tubes “sympathize”
with the stomach. Thev respond to the morbific
action of the liver. Here then comes the cul
minating result, and the setting in, with all its
distressing symptoms, of
CONSUMPTION.
The Mandrake Pills are esmposed of one of
Nature’s noblest gifts—the Podophillnra Pelta
tum. They possess all the blood-searching,
alterative properties of calomel.
But unlike calomel, they
“LEAVE NO STING BEHIND,”
The work of cure is now beginning. The
vitiated and mucous deposits in the bowels and
in the alimentary canal are ejected. The liver,
like a clock, is wound up. It arouses from its
torpidity. The stomach acts Responsively, and
the patient begins to feel that he is getting, at
last,
A SUPPLY OF GOOD BLOOD.
The Seaweed Tonic, in conjunction with the
Pills, permeates and assimilates with the food.
Chylincation is now progressing without its
previous tortures. Digestion becomes painless,
and the cure is seen to be at hand. There is no
more flatulence, no exacerbation of the stomach
An appetite sets in.
Now comes the greatest Blood Purifier ever
yet given by an indulgent father to suffering
man. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup comes in to
perform its functions and to hasten and com
plete the cure. It enters at once upon its w r ork.
Nature cannot be cheated. It collects and
ripens the impaired portions of the lungs. In
the form of gatherings, it prepares them for
expectoration, and lo ! in a very short time the
malady is vanquished, the rotten throne that
it occupied is renovated and made new, and the
patient, in all the dignity of regained vigor,
steps forth to enjoy the manhood or the woman
hood that was
GIVEN UP AS LOST.
The second thing is, the patients must stay in
a warm room until they get well ; it is almost
impossible to prevent taking cold when the
lungs are diseased, but it must be prevented or
a cure cannot be effected. Fresh air and riding
out, especially in this section of the ceuntry in
the winter season, are all wrong. Physicians
who recommend that course lose patients, if
their lungs are badly diseased, and yet because
they are in the house they must not sit down
quiet ; they must walk about the room as much
and as fast as the strength will bear, to get up a
good circulation of blood. The patients must
keep in good spirits—be determined to get well.
This has a great deal to do with the appetite,
and is the great point to gain.
To despair of cure after such evidence of its
possibility in the worst cases, and moral cer
tainty in all others, is sinful. Dr. Schenck’s
personal statement to the Faculty of his own
cure was in these modest words :
Many years ago I was in the last stages of
consumption ; confined to my bed, and at one
time my physicians thought that I could not
live a week; then, like a drowning man catch
ing at straw's, I heard of and obtained the pre
parations which I now offer to the public, and
they made a perfect cure of me. It seemed to
me that I could feel them penetrate my whole
system. They soon ripened the matter in my
lungs, and I would spit up more than a pint of
offensive yellow matter every morning for a
long time.
As soon as that began to subside mv cough,
fevei, pain and night sweats all began'to leave
my appetite became so great that it
was with difficulty that 1 could keep from
eating too much. I soon gained mv strength,
and have grown in flesh ever since.”'
“I was weighed shortly after mv recovery.”
added the Doctor, “then looking'like a mere
skeleton; my weight was only ninety-sewn
pounds ; my present weight is two hundred and
twentv-flvc pounds, and for rears I have
“ ENJOYED GOOD HEALTH.”
Dr. Schenck has discontinued his professional
visit to New York and Boston. He or his son,
Dr. J H. Schenck. Jr., still continue to see
patients at their office, No. 15 North Sixth street,
Philadelphia, every Saturday from 9 a. m., to 3
p. m. Those who wish a thorough examination
with the Respirometer will be charged five
dollars. The Respirometer declares the exact
condition of the lungs, and patients can readily
learn whether they are curable or not.
Tho directions for taking the medicine are
adapted to the intelligence even of a child
Follow these directons, and kind nature will do
the rest, excepting that in some cases the Man
drake Pills are to be taken in increased doses ;
the three medicines need no other accompani
ments than the ample instructions that do
accompany them. First create appetite. Os
returning’health hunger is the most welcome
symptom. When it conies, as it will come, let
the despairing be of good cheer. Good blood at
once follows, the cough loosens, the night sweat
is abated. In a short time both of these morbid
symptoms are gone forever.
Dr. Schenck’s medicines are constantly kept
in tens of thousands of families. Asa laxative,
or purgative, the Mandrake Pills are a standard
preparation; while the Pulmonic Syrup, as a
curer of coughs and colds, may he regarded as a
prophylaoteric against consumption in any of
its forms.
Price of the Pulmonic Syrup and Seaweed
Tonic, $1,50 a bottle, or $7,30 a half dozen. Man
drake Pills, 25 cents a box. For sale by alf
druggists and dealers
.TOßN F. HENRY,
EIGHT College Place, New York,
WHOLESALE AGENT.
NOTICE
ALT. PERSONS who remained Loyal to the
United States Government during the late
war, arid who furnished to, or had army supplies
taken, by the Federal soldiers, cun learn some
thing to their interest by calling upon me by
theSKth instant my office in Cartersville.
W. L. GQODWIN,
. Claim agent.
Cartersville, June 22, 7871.
POET n Y.
HER LETTER.
BY BRET HART.
I’m sitting alone by the window,
Dressed just as I came from the dance,
In robes even you would admire—
It cost a cool thousand in France ;
I’m be-diamoned out of all reason,
My hair is done up in a cue;
In short, sir, the “belle of the season”
Is waiting an hour on you.
A’ dozen engagements I have broken ;
I left in the midst of a set.;
Likewise a proposal, half spoken,
That waits—on the stairs—for me yet.
They say he’ll be rich when he grows up—
And then he adores me indeed,
And you, sir, are turning your nose up,
Three thousand miles off, as you read.
“And how do I like my position ?”
“And what do I think of New York ?”
“And now, in my higher ambition,
With whom do I waits, flirt or talk ?”
“And isn’t it nice to have riches,
And diamonds, and silks, and all that?”
“And aren’t it a change to the ditches
And tunnels of Poverty Flat ?”
Well, yes—if yon saw us out driving
Each day in the park, four in hand—
If you saw poor dear mamma contriving
To look supernaturally grand—
If you saw papa’s picture, as taken
By Brady, and tinted at that,
You’d never suspect he sold bacon
And flour at Poverty Flat.
And yet, just this moment while sitting
In the glare of the grand chandelier—
In the bustle fnd glitter befitting
The “finest soiree of the year,”
In the mists of a gaze de Cbamberry,
And the hum of the smallest of talk—
Somehow, Joe, I thought of the “Ferry,”
And the dance we had on “The Fo^k.”
Os Harrison’s barn ami its muster
Os flags festooned over the wall;
Os the candles that shed their soft lustre
And tallow on head-dress and shawl;
Os the steps that we took to one fiddle,
Os the dress of my queer vis-a-vis ;
And how I once went down the middle
With the man that shot Sandy McGee.
Os the moon that was quietly sleeping
On the hill, when the time came to go ;
Os the few baby peaks that were peeping
From under th»ir bed clothes of snow ;
Os that ride—that to me was the rarest;
Or—the something you said at the gate ,
Ah, Joe, then I wasn’t an heiress
To “the best paying lead in the State.”
Well, well, it’s all past; yet it’s funny
To think, as I stood in the glare
Os fashion and beauty and money,
That I should be thinking right there,
Os someone who breasted high water,
And swam the North Fork, aud all that,
Just to dance with old Folinsbee’s daughter.
The Lilly of Poverty Flat.
But goodness! what nonsense I’m writing 1
(Mamma says that my taste is still low.)
Instead of my triumphs reciting,
I’m spooning on Joseph—heigh-ho !
And I’m to be “finished” by travel
Whatever’s the meaning of that—
O, why did papa strike pay gravel
In drifting about on Poverty Flat ?
Good night—here’s the end of my paper;
Good Night—if the longitude please—
For maybe, while wasting roy taper,
Your sun’s climbing over the trees.
But know, if you haven’t got riches,
And are poor, dearest Joe, and all that,
That my heart’s Bomewhere there in the
ditches,
And you have struck it—on Poverty Flat.
The Right Spirit.
Should yon feel inclined to censure
Faults you may in other view,
Ask your own life, ere you venture,
If that has not failings, too.
Let not friendly vows be broken;
Rather strive a friend to gaiu;
Many a word in anger spoken,
Finds its passage back again.
Do not, then, in idle pleasure,
Trifle with a brother’s fame;
Guard it as a valued treasure—
Sacred as your owu good name.
Do not form opinions blindly—
Hastiness to trouble tends;
Those of whom we thought unkindly,
Oft become our warmest friends
9cß~ A Macon artist has photograph
ed a night-blooming cereus. It was
done by the aid of a calcium light.
An Indiana county clerk has
found in his house a certificate which
reads: “This is to certify that I, Wil
liam Sands, is agreed that Jim Rrown
shall hev mi Daughter Patsey to w ife
this 17th of genewerry, 1871.
B©,„ A inau who has a genius for
statistics asserts that there are only
thirteen happy married couples in
England. ' ‘ '•>
The Bain bridge Sun has this:
We learn that there is a shop keeper
in town who draws molasses, kerosene,
oil, and busthead whiskey all from the
same barrel.
An Ago orskoptieDm.
Holy Writ assures 11s in the latter
days false Christs and false teachers
shall arise, who will deceive if possible,
the very elect. We live in an age of
such diverse beliefs and latitudinous
creeds, that the best of nu n may well
afford to pause and examine the ground
work of their faith, to assertain, if they
may, whether they are building upon
the Rock or upou the sand. Perhaps
in uo other age has Infidelity put on a
bolder frout, or assumed more plausi
ble phases, than iu the one iu w r hich
we live. Bad men, prompted by their
father, the Devil, have taken advan
tage of the demoralization caused by
our late internecine war, to attack
Christianity in its most impregnable
strongholds, aud to shake, if possible,
the popular credulity in a system of
religion, which for more than eighteen
hundred years, has given the brightest
rays of hope to an otherwise dark and
miserable world We opine that Sci
ence and Reason, which have been ap
pealed to for the subversion of Reve
lation, will finally constitute its strong
est bulwarks; and that the numerous
depraved and corrupting isms, the off
spring of base and sensual minds, will,
before the ascending sun of Christiani
ty, be dissipated like morning mists.
The Bible—that compendium of our
glorious religion—stands firm amid
the numberless though futile attacks
of its enemies, repelling them as high
mountain rocks repel the hghtnings of
heaven. Its divine wisdom shines
transcendently above the dark laby
rinths of error, and will continue thus
to shine long after all mere human
theories have perished from the mem
ory of man. No where else do we
find a system of truth so well suited
to the every day wants of life, or so
well calculated to inspire hopes for the
future. Like our central sun it reflects
its glorious light in all the dark habi
tations of earth, making our way plain
before us, and leaving no necessity for
doubting or stumbling. It offers a
balm to every wounded heart, and
brings comfort even in the darkest
night of -despondency. It lays the
foundation for all human laws, in the
observance of which our highest destiny
as finite creatures will be subserved.—
Its code of pure morals rise infinitely
above the highest conceptions of the
most gigantic intellect. It brings
health and happiness to the living,
light and comfort to the straying, for
giveness to the penitent, and eternal
life and bliss to those who- accept and
live up to its teachings. Theu give us
the Bibie and the glorious system it
teaches, above all the theories and
speculations of men. In its light alone
can we discern the pathway that leads
to Heaven.— Col. Enq.
W&* When a young lady takes up a
paper she glances first at the marriag
es and ‘personals;’ au old lady at the
deaths; a boy at the stories; the aver
age man at the news. It is only the
young business man, remembering the
adage.
‘Business before pleasure,’ who com
mences in the right way, by reading
the advertisements first. This indeed
is putting a newspaper to its best use.
A man who uses it is sure to keep
‘posted’—to know wbat is going on in
the busy world around—to know
where he can make the best bargains,
and where and to whom he can dis
pose* of what he has to sell. And there
is no fear but what he will get ah that
is valuable in the paper besides.
[ Exchange.
Laws Relating to Newspapers.
We have been asked to give the law,
as it stands, relating to newspapers
and subscribers:
1. Subscribers who do not give ex
press notice to the contrary are con
sidered wishing to coutinue their sub
scription.
2. If subscribers order the discon
tinuance of their papers, the pub
lishers may continue to send them un
till all arrearages are paid.
3 If subscribers neglect or refuse to
take their papers from the office to
which they are directed, they are held
resposible till they have settled their
bill, and ordered them discontinued.
4. If subscribers move to other pla
ces without informing the publishers,
and the papers are sent to the former
direction, they are held reponsible.
5. The courts have decided that re
fusing to take papers from the of
fice, or removing and leaving them un
called for, isj prima facia evidence of in
tentional fraud.
G. Any person who receives a news
paper and makes use of it, whether he
has ordered it or not, is held in law' to
be a subscriber. •• -
Vg*k»An exchange, wanting to com-,
plitneut a “live stock journal,” says it
is edited by a mau whose bead is chock
full of live stock. Doubtful compli
ment.
faT* A good newspaper does more
towards building up a town aud coun
ty than any other public institutkm,
and gets less for it.
“Clara, I love but thee alone!”
—thus sighed the tender youth. “Oh,
hear mo, then, my passion own with
trembling lips and earnest tone. In
deed, I speak the truth.” He paused
—the blush o’erspread her check; she
let him draw, her near; scarce for emo
tion could she speak, yet did she ask in
accents meek, “How much have you a
year?”
S. If. Smith <s' Cos., Proprietors,
Close Communion n !Ho<Urn
l’racifcec.
Important light has jfi?t been shod
upon the controversy in the Baptist
denomination, on tin* question of opeu
communion. It bus been the oom
mnnlv received opinion in thiscountry
that the strict eonimnnion principle
was tbo ohl time doctrine, and that
the open communists were the liber 1-
iaers, innovating upon the early prac
tice of the churches of that order.
It is not so.
Rev, William Broch, D. D., an em
inent Baptist minister of England, has
written a letter to the Baptist Union
of this city, in which he communicates
the following highly gratifying and
most valuable information:
“In one of the most elaborate judg
ments which our courts of equity have
ever pronounced, after a course of
pleadings which no court, of equity has
ever heard surpassed, Lord Ilomillv
pronounced it to be “irresistible that
the principle of free or mixed commu
nion was not a fundamental point of
faith, but a practice subject to the reg
ulation of each church or congregation.
In my opinion, said his lordship, it is
established that each congregation was
from the earlist time at liberty to reg
ulate its practice, either according to
the strict communion or the mixed
communion, as it might seem best to
such congregation.” “The doctrine of
communion, as I have stated, is nos
an essential or fundamental doctrine
of the faith of Particular Baptists.
The illustrious Judge referred express
ly to the several Baptist confessions of
which were published in the seven
teenth century’ and he psononuoed
that they give no reason for the be
lief that baptism by immersion was
held to be indispensible to the com
munion. He also referred to the dis
cussion on the subject which were car
ried on between different ministers far
1645, and again afterwards; and thus
he sums up the result of an examina
tion of those discussions on strict com
munion- “It must, therefore, be ebiY
sidered that by those persons, even
when heated with the warmth of con
troversy, it was not held to be a doc
trine of a fundamental character, or so
esfendal as to constitute one of the
necessary elements of a true and sin
cere Particular Baptist,” [Far enough,
obviously, in our open communion
from being an invention or a bersy of
Robert Hall’s.] Ever since the Euglisb
Baptits have been gathord in to church;
es, they have more or less open com
munionists, sometimes more, some
times less.
“The published account of the Nor
wich case, heard before Sir John [now
Lord] also, is the account of the Rams
gate case, heard bjfore Vice-Chancel
lor Kindersley.
“We open communiocists, I assure
you, haves had to struggle for our po
sition, not only in the Scriptural ar
gument and discussion with our breth
ren, but before the judges of the kind,.
Holding possession of certain meeting,
houses or Chapels on the ground of
agreement with their trust deeds, \yo
have been told that we were violating,
those deeds, and the effort has been,
made by an appeal to Chancery to,
turn us out. In every case the ap
peal, to the best of my knowledge, has
failed.
“The process has confessedly been -
most painful; but seeing how thorough
ly and impartially the appeal has been
dealt with, we are happy in the results.
Some of the greatest living English
lawyers have been engaged upon the -
question, and their decision is that of
the historical testimony to the preval
ence of open communion among the-
English Baptists, there can be no
doubt.
“May you be guided by divine wis
dom in your effort to bring the minds,
of our American Baptist brethern to.
a calm, intelligent, and devout consid
eration of this great question ! I heard
euough when I was in the Unitert
States to convince me that, before very
long the consideration of it must come
up, aud I hear euough from your hon
ored brethern whom I meet when they
visit us to feel assured that the consid
eration is becoming urgent.
“There is no body of Christians more
desirous of adhering closely to the us
ages of the church than the intelligent
Baptists. And we have no doubt that
this decision will have a powerful ef
feet upon their minds. In England* it
is conclusive. If it is equally so in*
this country, a mighty step will have
been taken toward church union.”
Miijd What You are About. —The
world is made up of differently shaped
persons—as, for instance, round men
and square mau; and half the trouble
in life is caused by the round men get
ting into the squares holes. • If the .
people would not be everlastingly inix-i
ing things—the sand and the sugar, :*
the flies aud the milk, etc. Better to,
succeed as a blacksmith than to fail as
a poet; to measure'ribbon well th n to
bungle in trying to be a statesman.
“%iaWhat means of Conveyance by
land and what by sea, are ladies fond
est of? Busses and smacks.
JOT* That is a long fence the Bur
lington and Missouri Railroad Compa-j
uy is building. It will put up not less
than two hundred miles of board fence
Jdiis year, at a cost of $175,000 or
$200,000. , -
Miss Annie R. Bloubt, of August*,
was married on the 9th, to Mr. John
T. Par due.
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