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The Cartersville Semi-Weekly Express.
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VOLUME X.
The Cartersville Express
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Dollars per column, or in that proportion.
If.j.jfessional (^atjds.
John Wl Wofford,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CARTKItSV II,LK GEOROI A.
OflAce over Pinkerton's Drugstore. Oct. 11.
W. T. WOKKOH.I, A. I*. WOFFORD.
Wol' ard «fe Wolfonl,
AITORNEYS AT LAW,
•CARTBBSVIU, C, GEORGIA.
I une 23, lfTTi*.
It. W. MurplieyT
AITTORNEY AT LAW,
'CAITKRSVILI K, GEORGIA.
Will practice In the courts of the Cherokee
‘Circuit. Particular attention given to the col
'lnrtion of claims.. Office with Col. A Ini.a .John
son. * *et. 1.
John >l. J Oil CM.
ATTORNEY AT LAW & REAL ESTATE AGENT,
’CARTERBVILI.E GEORGIA.
Will attend promjitly to all proffessional liusi
niuss entrusted to hi> care; also, to the buying
and selling of Real Estate. Jan 1.
-Jure. A. Howard,
Ordinary of Bartow County.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jan 1,1870.
A. VI. lonic.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A UT E RSVILLR 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. IV. MILNEIt, 0. H. MILNER.
Yliliirr *V Milner,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
Will attend promptly to business entrusted to
their care. Jan. 15.
Warren Akin,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVI LK GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the courts of the State.
Sant. If. Putillo,
Fashionable Tailor and Agent
for Sewing Machines,
WILT, attend promptly to the Cutting, Re
pairing, and Making Boys’ and Mens’
• Clothing; also. Agent for the. sale of the. cele
brated Grover A Baker Sewing Machines. Of
fice over Stokely & Williams Store. Entrance
from the rear. feb 17.
IV. K. JHouiitcastlc,
Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
CARTERS VILI K GEORGIA.
Office in trout of A. A. Skinner Co’s Store.
ItCEincsaw House,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
18 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 dean and especially
adapted for families. A tine large piazza has
been recently added to the comforts of the estab
lishment. * FLETCHER & FREY Ell,
)nnelßwtf Proprietors.
S. O’SHIELDS,
Fash ion a hie TaUor 9
Cartersville, Georgia.
I !A V E just received the latest European and
I l American styles of Mens’ and Boys’ Cloth
ing, and is prepared to Cut and Making to or
der. Office upstairs in Liebman’s store. East
side of the Railroad. sept. 29.
I>r. J. A. Jackson,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
OFFICE IK THE NE 1U DR UG STORE.
•CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jan 4th, 1871.
"wTOowIeST
MANUFACTURER OF,
AND DEALER
SINGLE AND DOUBLE
HARNESS,
Saddles,
COLLARS, LEATHER. &C.
REIMIKING IIOVi:
With neatness and dispat eh.
Bishop < n West Main Street, near the old
Market If mis 3, CAKTERSVIELE, GA.
ftsbSt-wly WM.O BOWLER.
~ T ‘ GEAR SHOP," by
w. c, wmmi
CART SRSVILLE, GA.
AA MyMFAcTimER or Harness, Dri-
s, Hear, etc*, and Dealer ik
. , Saddles, Leather.
Ilepairtng done on short notice. Work war
ranted to stand the test. Hides YV anted,
jan. 24. 1371.-swly
. A-A jfj I>: - >i
ya^';fjjrj&Sn
v_f* iSSj - I»K.\TIST.
ss>
7) JP y Cartersville, Ga.
’ •#>-.<£» •r;-=- =r ' =^ =_
Toeth drawn without pain, by the use oi nar
cotic spray. mch 9.
J. T. OWJENL,
J ISWELEIt,
Main Street, Cartersville, Ga..
Y\ ill furnish anything in his line as cheap as
it can l>e bought anywhere.
ile is always at his post, ready to serve his
customers. ’ J
“Very thing waraut'c.l to give satislaetion.
R EA D
IT is well known to
Doctors and to Ladies .TV
that Women are subject V ®
to numerous disenses pe- y "» df
culiar to their sex—such
as Suppression of the oS.tL.Nw ' na /*//,
Menses, Whites, Painful
M’nthly ‘Periods,’ Rlieu- f GST •'A.
mutism of the Back and \
Womb, Irregular Men- UdßßSjgjN. "jߧr
struation. Hemorrhage, -'lpSßEgakNil 3
or Excessive‘Flow,’and
Prolapsus Cterior Fall- W l j
ing or the Womb.
These diseases havesel
dom lieen treated successfully. The profession
has sought dill i gently for some rented v that wo’ld
enable them to treat these diseases with success.
At last, that remedy has been discovered by
one of the most skilful physicians in the State of
Georgia. The remedy is
Bradfield’s Female Regulator,
It is pnrelv vegetable, and is put up in Atlan
ta, by RR Aft FIELD A CO.
It 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 < 'll ills and Severs.
For a history of diseases, and certificates of its
ivorderftil cures, the reader is referred to the
wrapper around the bottle. Every bottle war
ranted to give satisfaction or money refunded.
T.aGkanuk. Ga.. March 23, 1870.
BR A DFIELD A CO., ATLANTA. G A.:
Dear Sirs: I take pleasure in stating flint I
have used, for the last twenty years, tin* medi
cine von are nutting up, known as DR. J. BRAD
FIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR, and con
sider it the best combination ever gotten to
gether for the diseases for which it is recom
mended. f have been familiar with the pre
scription both as a practitioner of medicine and
in domestic practice, and can honestly say that
1 consider it 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 l,e relieved, but
that they may be restored to health A strength.
With my kindest regards, I am, respectfully,
W. B. FERRELL, M. D.‘
We, the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure
in commending to the trade. Dr. J. Bradfield’s
Female Regulator—believing it to be a good and
reliable remedy for the diseases for which he
recommends it! W. A. LAN*DELL,
PEMBERTON, WILSON, TAYLOR A CO.
REDWIN E A’ FOX,
W.C.LAWSHK, Atlanta, Ga.
W. ROOT & SON, Marietta, Ga.
\f TS xvft.li gentleness and thoroughness
upon the Liver anil General Circula
tion—keeps the Bowels in Natural Motion
ami Cleanses the System from all inipuri-
I | m* Never
»»/i| Dr ’ °’ S. Proptutt’sp.m-a-.n
pii'l-———— tv, Knlarg
ment, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Loss of Ap
petite, Nausea, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn.
Debility, Low Spirits, Cold Feet and Hands,
Costiveness, Llstlessness, Colic, Chronic
Diarrhea, and Chronic Chills and Fever.
* dmpouned in strict accordance with
skill nil chemistry and scientific pharmacy, this
purely veg- CZlli: ~r.’" 1 |e t a b 1 c
Compound r“ |lb is, after
w CELEBRATED I lest tost of
u t n t ■ I I Ivears in
cessant use.f j _i fliooti stvl
od the Great Restorative and I{kcrtekant
bv the enlightened testimony of thousands us
ing it; so harmoniously adjusted that it keeps
I'Wer 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 struggle,
whenever ~—lll> k a t h
claims his ' . ... I 'preroga
the. Ada-i i Liver Medicine.j ii> ted t o
t m’ ™° - ——— Mdclicate
robust cons tit ut ion,"if can 1™ gi"ven~\vTth equal
safety and success to the young- child,, invalid
lady or strong man.
jiinc 2, 1871.
DR. O. S. PROP MUTT'S
Auodyno Pnfn Kill It.
NEVER FAILING!
KILLS PAI\ IV EVERY FORM.
(NURER Pains in the Bask. Chest, ,1/i/ts or
, j Limbs, Rheumatism. Kenrahjia. ' Coughs,
Colds, Bronehial Affections. Kidney Diseases Dys
pepsia, Liver Complaint : Colic. Cholera. Cholera
Morbus. Pleurisy. Asthma, Heart Burn. Tooth
Ache, Jaw Ache. Ear 4<'he, Head Ache, Sprains.
Bruises, Cuts Contusions, Sores, Lacerated
Wounds, Scalds. Burns, Chill Blains. Frost Bites
Poisons, of all kinds, vegetable or animal. Ofali
I — l «—«———“■■■■■■■■■ -wmmm ■■■■■ \mm
||pAIN KILL IT'|j
fwi i ii 111,11 |ni
the Remedies ever discovered for the relief of
Suffering humanity, this is the best Pain Media
tor known to Medical Science. The cure is speedy
and permanent in the most inveterate diseases.
This is no humbug, blit a grand medical discovery.
A Pain Killer containing no poison to iuflame.
paralize or drive the inflammation upon an in
ternal organ. Its efliciency is truly wonderful
—Relief is Instantaneous. It is destined to
banish pains and aches, wounds and bruises,
from the face of the earth,
may 6, 1871.
CERTIFICATES:
We, the undersigned, haved used I)r. Proph
itt’s Prepaartions, and 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 Jones. Covington, Ga.; Rev. M W Ar
nold, Georgia Conference; Rev. W W Oslin, Ga.
Conference; F M Swanson, Monticello, Ga.; Ro
bert Barnes, Jasper County, Ga. ; A M Robinson,
Monticello, Ga.; Janies W right, Putnam county,
Ga.; A Westbrook, Putnam county, Ga.; Judge
J J Floyd, Covington, Ga.; W L ‘Be bee, “Cov
ington Enterprise,”; A H Zachry, Conyers, Ga;
George Wallace, Atlanta, Ga.; Dick Lockett,
Davis county, Texas; W Hawk Whatley, Cus
seta, Texas; W C Roberts, Linden countv. Tex
as; Tommy & Stewart, Atlanta, Ga; W A Lans
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 countv, Ga.; W A
Forehand, Dooly county, Ga.;Joh‘n B. Davis
Newton. Factory, Ga.; B F Bass, Lowndnes co.
Bridles,
GOWER, JONES & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
And Dealers in
CAKRIAGES, BUGGIES,
. AND '
1, 2 & 4 Horse Wagons.
MATERIALS, &C.
HEP AIRING, of all kinds, DONE
WITH NEA TNESS and DURABILI
TY.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
feb. 7, 1871.w1y
(GEORGIA, BARTOW COUNTY.—John T.
J" Johnson, has applied for exemption of per
sonalty, and I will pass upon the same at 10
o’clock A. m., on the 14th dav of August 1871.
J. A. Tlo\\ r A HD,
Ordinary 11. C.
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW'COUNTY,'GEORGIA, AUGUST •>*. 1871.
S<*liedulo of tho
CARTERSVILLE & VAX-WERT R. R.
ON and after January 2l)th, 1871, the trains
will
LeaveTA Y LORSVILLE, at t>.3R, A. M.
“ STII.ESRORO’, at 1(1. A. M.
“ F<*RREST HILL at 1D.25, A. M
Arriving at CARTERSVILLE, at 10.30. A M
Leave CARTERSVILLE, at 1. P. M.
Arrive at TAYLORS VILLE, at ... .3, P. M.
A Hack will soon lie running from Cedar town
to Taylorsville via. Van Wert, connecting with
the trains.
An Extra train will be run to Cartersville and
Return to Tavlorsville. every Friday evening.
By order of the President.’
I>. M'. K. PEACOCK, Sec’y.
CHANGE OF SC HE DU L E~.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. CC
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN—Oi twaud.
Leaves Atlanta, 10 :30. p. m.
Arrives at t hattanooga, 6 10, a. m*
day passenger train—ottward.
Leaves Atlanta, 8 15, A. M.
Arrives at Chattanooga 4 25, p. m.
FAST LINE TO NEW YORK—OUTWARD.
Leaves Atlanta 2 45. p. m.
Arrrives at Dalton 7 53, P. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN—Inw ahd.
Chattanooga 5 20, p. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 1 42, A. m.
day passenger train—inward.
Leaves Chattanooga 5 30, a. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 2 20, p. m.
A CCO MMO DATION TK A IN-1N W A RD.
Leaves Dalton 2 25, a. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 0 10, a. m.
K. B. WALKER;
may .25,1571* Master of Transportation.
Lawshe & Haynes,
HAVE ON H AND and are receiving
the finest stock of the
Very Latest Styles
of IHamond and Gold
♦JEWELRY,
in upper Georgia, selected, with cat care for
the
Fall and Winter Trade.
Watches,
of tho I?EST MAKERS, of both Europe and A
merica;
American and 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
Refairsu bts Competent Workmen;
Also Clock and Watch Makers
Tools and Materials.
sept, 13.-swly ATLANTA, GA.
W. H. GITBEKP., A. BAXTER, T. W. BAXTER, Jr.
GILBERT^ BAXTER,
(SUCCESSORS TO W. H. GILBERT & C 0.,)
Detilcrs t.«
HARDWYRE,
IROX, STEEL, MILS,
CLOVER & GRASS SEED.
AGENTS FOR SALE OF
COAL CUEEKCOAL.
Peruvian Gruano.
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, Hay
AND OTHER PRODUCT SHIPPED ON
LIREUAL TERMS
GILBERT & BAXTER,
Cartersville CJa.
Jan. 19, 1871—ly.
JAS. W. STRANGE,
Dealer In, and Manufacturer .Os
TIN WARE, AND
Houst-Furnishing’ Grooclsss,
ALSO DEALER IN
First-Class Stoves At
The Lowest Cash Prices .
WILL BARTER
FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE, RAGS,&C.
Cartersville, Jan. 20th, ’7l -ly.
S. 11. PATTIILO, Agent
GROVER & BAKER’S CELEBRATED
raw mmm.
BOTH THE
ELASTIC 1 15iD SHUTTLE
OR
iOSKSf ITEH»
SUITABLE FOR ANY KIND OF FAMI
LY SEWING JIONE BETTER-
Hen and Hoys 9 Clothings
Made on tlie Most Reasonable Terms.
In fact, almost any description of
SEWING done
Ah Cheap as the Cheapest!
AND
IN THE BEST STYLE.
Lyman Chapman,
Brick and Stone
Ma s oh,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
I prepared to do any of tlie above work
upon short notice and at low figuers
ATLANTA SACK FACTORY,
WK are prepared, at all seasons, to (ill or
ders for Grain and Flour Sacks, of any
size, qualitv, or quantity at our factory in At
lanta, Ga. ‘ YVA. MITCH ELL & CO*
sept 2*>, lttTO. wly
“Onward and Upward ”
SHARP &FLO YD,
Succ essobs to Geo. SHARP, Jk.,
ATLANTA, GEY„
Wholesale And Retail Jewelers.
We Keep a Large and Varied Assortment of
FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS,
limiOMIS. .1 1’.W F.1.Kl V.
AND
SPECTACLES.
A SPECIALTY.
We Manufactuae Tea Sets, Forks.. Spoons.
Goblets, Cups, Knives, etc.
Ifttcmiums 3foti ; Agricultural Fan’s.
AVe are prepared to fill any order for Farrs
short notice; also to g.we anj’ information in
regard to Prem items.
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 Stats*
Watches and Jewelry carefully Repaired
and Warranted. Masonic Badges and Sunday
School’ Badges made to order.
All Work Guaranteed. ~kpjS
ENGRA VING FREE OF CHARGE..
SHARP & FLOYD,
May 23, swly.
CONSTOIPTION,
Its Cure anti Its Preventive*
BY J. H. SCHENCK, M. D
MANY a human being has passed awnyv.l
for whose death there was no other reason I
than the neglect of known and' ihdlsjiutably '
proven means of cure. Those near atuiiiHear to I
family and friends are steeping the dteanri'ess
slumber into which, had they calmly adopted'
DR. JOSEPH H. SCHKNCK’S SIMPLE
TKICATMLNT.
and availed themselves of his wonderful* «ilu?a
cipus medicines, they would not have fallfen.
Dr. Sclienck basin bis own case proved that
wherever sufficient vitality remains, that vital
ity, by bis - medicines and his directions for
their use,.is quickened into healthful vigor.
In this statement there is nothing presump
tuouv. 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’in failing. Tts philosophy
requires no argument. It is self-assuring, selT
cojjvinciug.
The Seaweed Tonic and Mandrake Pili<t arc
the first two weapons with which the citadel
of the malady is assailed. Two-thirds of the
cases of consumption driginr-fc in dyspepsia
and a functionally disordered live’. With this
condition the bronchial tubes “sympathize”
j with the stomach. They 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
CONSUMPTrO’N.
The Mandrake Pills are rsmposed of one of
Nature’s noblest gifts—the Podopliillunp PeJta
tum. nosst-As ail W l,L ml . SP! uc.lwrrg,
alterative properties of calomel.
But unlike calomel, they 7
“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 responsive!v, and
the patient begins to feel that he is getting, at
last,
A SUPPLY OF GOOD BLOOD.
The Seaweed Tonic, m eotvju nett err 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 af once upon its work.
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, hut it must be prevented or
a cure cannot be effected. Fresh air and riding
out, especially in this section of the ceuntrv in
the winter season, are all wrong; Physicians
who recommend that course lose patients, if
their Tangs 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 I)ear, 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 catcit
ing at straws, 1 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 mv
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 my cough,
fevei, pain and night sweats all began 'to leave
me, and my appetite became so gre-at that it
was with difficulty that I could keep from
eating too much. I soon gained mv strength,
and have grown in flesh ever since. n *
“I was weighed shortly after mv recovery,”
added the Doctor, “then looking like a mere
skeleton; my weight was only ninety-seven
pounds ; my present weight is two hundred and
twentv-five pounds, and for rears 1 have
“ ENJOYED GOOD HEALTH.”
Dr. Schenck has discontinued his professional
visit to New York and Boston. He or bis son.
Dr. J 11. Schenck. Jr., still continue to see
patients at their office, No. 15 North Sixth street,
Philadelphia, every Saturday from 9 a. in., to 3
p. m. Those who wish a thorough examination
with the Resnirometer 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 oases 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. YY’hen it comes, 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
svmptoms are gone forever.
‘Dr. Schenck’s medicines are constantly kept
in tens of thousands of families. Asa laxative,
or purgative, the Mandrake PHIs are a standard
preparation; while the Pulmonic Syrup, as a
curer of coughs and colds, may be regarded as a
prophvlacteric against consumption in any of
its forms.
Price of the Pulmonic Syrup and Seaweed
Tonic, $1,50 a bottle, or $7,50 a half dozen. Man
drake Pills, 25 cents a box. For sale by all
druggists and dealers.
JOHN F. HENRY,
EIGHT College Place, New York,
YVIIOLESALE AGENT.
New Beef Market.
AG. IS. VANDIVERE lias opened anew
. Beef Market, in the house formerly oc
cupied by W. J. Manley as a work shop, on West
Main Street, Cartersville, and two doors YVest
of Mr. Pickren’s Furniture Store, whore he will
supply the public with fresh meats at any time
from daylight to 9 o’clock, P. M. He will also
pay the nest prices for beef Cattle and Hides,
mar 16-wtai
George Whitefield.
BY N. S. DODGE.
‘lt is monstrous,’ wrote the Duchess
of Buckingham, complaining to Lady
Huntingdon of Whitefield’s preaching,
to be told that you have a heart ns
sinful as the common wretches who
crawl on the eaith, and I cannot but
wonder that your ladyship should rel
ish my sentiments so much at variance
with rank and g<>od breeding.” This
burlesque, though less witty and wick
ed than Madame de Sevigne’s upon
the decase of Louis Quiuze, “that God
Almighty thought twice before con
demning a man of that quality to
eternal punishment,” shows the tone
of piety prevalent in the English
Church out* hundred years ago, and
the prejudice against evangelical doc
triues alluded to by Cowper in vindi
cation of Whitefi’eKTs memory,
“Eevconomouti, beneath well-sounding Greek,
I slur a name a poet cannot speak.”
That piety and prejudice, however,
passed away with the eighteenth centu
ry. The great preacher lived long
1 enough to shame the one and conquer
the othen It is not to understand
these that one turns to the genial
“Life and Travels of Whitefield,” re
cently published, but to solve that dif
ficult enigma—the cause of White
field’s marvellous success. There is
! certainly very little in his published
sermons to account for the wonderful
effects produced by his preaching.—
For paucity of thought they have un
questionable pre-eminenej. Even. Mr.
Gladstone, his latest and most sympa
thizing biographer, is constrained to
confess their tameness, feebleness,, and
unpolished. language.
And yet nothing is better attested
than the effects, unparaielled in the
history of eloquence, produced by the
delivery of these sermons. The
preaching tours of Whitefield were
triumphal processions. He was often
escorted by hundreds of enthusiastic
horsemen, and greeted at every halt by
crowds of insatiate hearers. Andien.
ces, sometimes reaching to the number
of thirty thousand, used to hang • for
hours on his lips. Trooping from
farm-house and hovel long, before
daylight, and walking ten, twelve and
and fifteen miles, over heath and
moors—through peLiug rains, and
far into the night, standing around
him as if entranced—the whole coun
try-side was stirred. Wherever he
went it was the same. At his will
the vast multitude were hushed into
silence or melted into tears. His ap
peals drew cries and* groan* from rude
Someretshire colliers, that at times al
most drowned his voice; and the rab
ble of Moorfield’s, arrested in their
coarse sports, were subdued and
charmed by the spell of his fervid ora
tory. It was the same among the
canny Scotchmen. As the clouds af
ter sunset darkened the heavens dur
ing one of his sermons in Dundee, it
is said that he so threw l itnself iuto
the situation that his warnings went
through the congregation Like shot
piercing a regiment of soldiers. It
was the same in Ireland—the same in
all our colonies. His word was like a
hammer, by the grace of God breaking
in pieces flinty hearts. Even opposi
tion only brought out his powers more
strikingly. Men who undertook to
hinder were over-mastered by the ir
resistible spell of his voice, and it not
unfrequently occurred that large
crowds of roughs
“Who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
If the effect of Whftefield’s eloquence
had been confined to the uneducated
masses, it might be more easily ac
counted for. Other men have fired
the hearts of the populace by their
oratory as well as he. But the audi
ences he aroused into enthusiasm iD
the townships of New England-— the
church-goers in Boston and New
York, Philadelphia and Charleston,
whose souls his fervid eloquence stir
red into a blaze of spiritual life—and
the crowds who followed him as he
went from church to chapel, from tab
ernacle to qonventiete in Loudon, aud
catchipg a spark from his glow r ing pi
ety kindled godliness throughout the
kingdom— were largely composed of
the educated and intelligent. Benja
min Franklin listened to his charity
sermon, and against his previously
| formed resolution to refrain from con
tributing,, emptied the contents of his
purse into fehe bag John Adams it
said to have driveu into Boston the
five consecutive nights that he preach
ed there, in order to study the secret
of his wonderful power over his hear
ers. And the cynical Chesterfield,
I carried away by b-s pe. vjnideation of
a siuner stumbling blind-fold along
the narrow pl.iuk that bridgtd tho
tbyss beneath, exclaimed in terror, —
“Heavens! the man is lost!”
These illustrations of iho effects of
iV bite field’s preaching are but speci
mens of many others, mid beiug be
yond doubt, they constrain the
question—where lay the secret of his
power? We answer: First, in his
person, voice and manner. Second,
In his love for every sinful soul to
whom he preached the Gospel. To a
fine person, expressive countenance,
rich, flexible and powerful voice, were
added au emotioual temperament,
which would at one moment break out
iuto passionate weeping and at anoth
er flash into lofty indignation, and a
felicity of gesture which seconded eve
ry phrase and brought before his aud
ience each scene that ho described
almost as vividly as if it had been pres
ent. Even to experts he seems never
to have failed in delineating the most
minute features of their craft. To the
open mouthed miners before whom he
brought the sinner wandering, light in
hand, through the passages under
ground, heedless of the lire damp
creeping around him, the shout,
“Good God! Tho pit’s a-fire!” told
the correctness us well as the vidid
uess of his description. The same was
true of his sailor audiences, which
hauging upon his words as be painted
a ship dismantled in a squall, thrown
on her beam-ends, and going down in
mid-ocean, rose up, shouting iu excite
ment—“ Take to the boats l”
This may be called acting. But it
was more. To the hearers it was re
ality also. The man was transparent
ly sincere and single-hearted. It was
out of a soul at white heat, of emotion,
that the acting came; and the emo
tion that fired and fused it was the
love of souls. There are those living
who in early youth heard old people
describe Whitnfieldls preaching. These
descriptions almost always ended with
the expression—“he is such a dear,
rrrwul man 1” 1 ' 1 *■*■) “ u
preacher ever impressed a congrega
tion with such au over-powering con
viction of his disinterested love for
tiiem. They knew there was uo sel
fish end. His incredible labors among,
the poor and ignorant were for no
earthly gain. The parish parsou, in
return for his tithes, read service and
preached once, or at most, twice a
week; and the city incumbent had,.in
addition, his Thursday evening lecture.
But here was a man who had no pay, *
and asked uo earthly reward. Anu 1
yet his days and nights were spent
between the saddle, on which he hur
ried from one gathering to another,
and the pulpit from which he addiess
ed them. His words of tire were heard
not only iu every part of the kingdom,
but over the ocean as well. Thirty
sermons and one hundred and fifty
miles a weik, he called fair work; but
a single sermon a day and three on
Sunday—sheer laziness.
Now when such a m n as this stood
before the poople, and poured out his
soul in impassioned entreaties and ap
peals, with floods of tears, to turn them
from sin to rightousuess, it was no
wonder that a sympathetic thrill pass
ed from heart to heart; that rugged
natures were subdued; that long-seal
ed eyes began to weep; and that num
bers cried out aloud in uncontrollable
agony of spirit. If his theology were
thought hard, it was steeped in love.
“Aud love,” as Mr. Gladstone well
remarks, “is more than theology, will
both God aud man.”
Why are sheep the least moral
of the animals ? Because they gambol
in their youth, spend much of their
time on the turf, many of them are
blacklegs, and they all get Jleeced at
last.
An old lady from one oT the
rural, districts astonished a clerk in
one of the stores a few days ago by in-,
quiring if they had any “yaller devel
opmeuts, tuck as they did up letters
in.”
Carpets are purchated by the
yard, but worn by the foot.
Courtship is bliss, tut matri
mony is blister.
Bgk, On hearing the report that the
shocking condition of the firemen’s
hose had resulted iu the destruction of
property, a wamau sat up all night
darning her husband’s stockings.
JGKg?"“What brought voil to- prison,'
my colored friend ?” “Two constables,
sah.” “Yes, but I menu bad inteinp
erance anything to do with it?” *‘l\s,
sah, dey was bofe of ’em drunk.”
the Dev.l bis dues” reads
well enough in a proverb, but what
would become of you and me if this
arrangement is carried out.
S. H. Smith A- Cos., Propriety
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
A W oman i«* Found in u o< j U , (J|
j Her Throat Cut Site |) lfH
Shortly A Iter wards —\«
to the PiT|>er»’jrior ofthc Iteed
Last Tuesday night, or rather early
on Wednesday morning, about 3
o'clock, a Mrs. Davis, liviug about
twenty .-eight miles from this city, uear
the line of [hillock and lhyan coun
ties, was found sitting up in bed with
her throat cut. from which she died in
a few moments after she was found in
this condition. From the. best infor
mation that we can obtain, it appears
that Mr. Joseph Davis, living, as be
fore stated, near the line of Bullock
and Bryan counties, had gone fishing,
leaving his wife, her sister and his
family of children at home, suspecting
no ill to bes >ll any of them before his
return.
His wife was a young woman of
about twenty-five or twenty-six vears%
old, and was the third wife. He had
raised families of children by two for
mer wives, und had quite a number of
small children. On the nigut in ques
tion the family had all retired to bed
as usual, the children sleeping on a
bed made on the floor. The sister of
Mrs. Davis was also tho
same room. This sister was a widow,
a Mrs. Drigger.
The evidence adduced at the Coro
ner’s inquest furnishes the best infor
mation, and wo publish it as*related Jto
us:
j Oue of the children by a- farmer <•
marriage, a little girl about twelve
years of age, testifies that after mid
night. saw Mrs. Davis get up from
her bed and walk to where the children,
were lying, giving two of them a slap, as
they were crying and making a noise..
From there she saw her return to her
b.d, and, iu a short time afterwards,
heard her call to her sister, Mrs. Drig
ger, saying she was bleeding to death.
The evidence of the sister, Mrs.
Drigger, is not only different from this,
k.,i -—a < • w • *-
that after Mrs. Davis left the children’s
bed she walked to a cupboard,, against
which the little boys’ pants were hang
ing; that she then walked to the table
in the room, and from, there to her
bed. Ins a few moments Mrs. Davis
called tocher sister, who, together with
the children, ran into her room, find
ing, her. sitting up in bed, complaining
of bleeding very freely. They were
very much (xcited; made considerable
noise, and fin ally,and'old negro woman
came into the house. Mrs. Davis died
in a short time.
In the morning a number of persons
went into the room. The little boy, in
looking for.his pants, found them lying,
.on the table, instead of hanging against
the cupboard where he had put them
the night before. On examining the
the pockets the knife was gone. It
was some time before the knife was
found. Someone took the tub con
taining water to the door, and in pour
ing out the water the knife came out.
Having been iu the water for some
time there was no blood to be seen on
it. The physician in attendance ex
amined the knife, and comparing the
cut on the neck with the blade of the
knife, gave it as his opinion that it was
made with that particular knife.
There was no other evidence before
the Coroner’s jury; Mrs. Drigger made
several contradictory statements. One
time she said it was two hours after
she saw her sister before she died; at
another she said it was one hour. The
verdicl of the jury was, that ‘deceased
came to her death from some sharp in
strument iu tho hands of an unknown
person.* Some are e>f the opinion that
she cut herself with the knife, which
they suppose she was holding open in
her hand cutting tobacco, and in the
effort to brush off mosquitoes she stnt k
the knife blade into her neck. This is
jquite improbable, as the knife could
scarcely have been found iu a tub
some distance off hud this been the
case.
Mrs. Davis was buri and on Thurs
day. None of her own or her hus
b aid’s friends can form any satisfactory
idea of the true murderer, and it aj -
pears that she was unable to give any
information after she called her sister
to the bed. To say. the least, it is a
most horribly in sterious deed,
and if another than herself is the per
petrator, we trust ho, she or they may
■be discovered •>nd brought to justice.
[,Sae. Nac.-i, 12th.
young men were fiqued
out oft he church ih‘ Springfield, Long
Island, for nl tying euchre on a yonng
lad} ’s lap during Hie senium.
W-Pvolhng stoik Rested
in bowling alleys.
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