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Executrix’ Sale.
4 G REE ABLE to an order of the Court of
A Ordinary of Bartow county, will be sold
before the Court-house door in Cartersville, in
said county, on the first Tuesday in December
next within the legal hours of sale, the follow
i“K™lS'& S t V V La»dNos.(m»ml 9"8, io the
17th district and 3rd section ot said counts com
mencing at the Southwest corner ot Lot N0..»
then running East thirteen rods, then Nona
thirty-five rods, then West fifty rods, Lien south
thirty-five rods, to tire line bounding the souta
side of Lot No. 978, and then East thirty-seven
roils to the beginning point, the same contain
ing Ten Acres, more or less. Sold as the pro
perty of John Patterson, late of said county,
deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and credit
ors of said deceased. Terms cash. Sept 15, 70.
LUCY PATTERSON,
Executrix of John Patterson, deo'd.
<V IM I KSV M.I.C. BABTOW COIStT, OLOKOIA, SOV. 29. IS7<>.
WHEEL,
Mill Gearing,Shafting Pulleys
FORA CIRCULAR.,
sepi. U, 1870. wly
FURNITURE.
THE UNDERSIGNED
IS OFFERING DECI
DED BARGAINS IN FURNI
TURE. CALL
AND SEE.
ROBERT BRI CE.
July 1 4th, 1870— ts.
Administrator’s Sale,
/GEORGIA BARTOW COUNTY.—By virtue
\ j of an order from the Court of Ordinary of
said county, will be sold on the first Tuesday in
December next, at the court house door in (Jar
tersville in said county, between the legal sale
hours the tract of land in said county whereon
Hartwell Drake resided at the time ot his death
containing 120 acres more or less, and composed
of fraction No. 9 in the 15th dis. 3rd sec., and the
east half of lot No. 9 in 6th dis. 3rd sec. of said
county. On the fraction is about 25 acres c.leard
land, the ballance well timbered, with good
dwelling house and good out buildings. On lot
No. 9'there is about 15 acres clean! land, the
ballance finely timbered with good dwelling
house on the place hut no out buildings. Rim
ing water on this lot. Each tract will be sold
seperate, sold as the property of Hartwell Drake
deceased, for the bene tit of the heirs and cred
itors of said deceased. Terms of sale cash.
B. T. DTAKE, Adni’r.
Hartwell Drake, dee’d.
Oct. sth, 1870.-40d.
Proclamation.
GEORG IA:
151 aUTS 25. KILLOCa,
Govenior of Said State.
Whereas, An Act to provide for an election
and to alter and amend the laws in relation to
holding elections, has been approved; and
Whereas, By Section 1 of said act, an election
shall be held in this State, beginning on the 20th
day of December, 1870, and ending on the 22d
day of said month of December, 1870, for certain
officers therein named, to-wit: Members of Con
gress, to serve during the unexpired term of the
41st Congress oftlie United States, and for mem
bers of the 42d Congress of the United States;
for Senators in the State Senate from each dis
trict numbered in the Constitution with an odd
number; for members oftlie House of Repre
sentatives of the General Assembly; for Sher
iffs;; Clerks of the Superior Court; Tax Receiv
ers; Tax Collectors; County Treasurers; Coro
ners, and County Surveyors of the several
counties in this State; and
Whereas, By Section 4 of said Act, it is provi
ded that five fit and proper persons of intelli
gence and moral w orth shall be appointed by
and Avith the ad\ icc and consent of the Senate
for each election precinct established at the
county Court House, or in any city or incorpor
ated toAvn in this State, two of which said five
>ersoim are to fie appointed by the Ordinary and
three of said live persons by tlie Governor; and
said five persons, or any three or more of them
may, and shall hold, the said election at the said
county Court House and precincts in such said
city or town on the said 20tli, 21, and 22d days oi
December, 1870;
And, Whereas, The Honorable, the
has adopted the following preamble and resolu
tions, to-wit:
“Whereas, It is of importance that nothing
dioiild occur, or in any manner interlere with
the validity, or with the holding of an election
as provided in an Act to provide for an election
and to alter and amend the laws in relation to
the holding of elections, approved October 3d,
1870: and .
Whereas, 11 is Excellency, the Governor, has
invited the opinion of the Senate in regard to
the construction of a certain section of said act;
now, therefore, he it
“Resolved, By the Senate that the names of
the persons appointed as Commissioners by the
Ordinaries of the several counties should he
submitted through his Excellency, the Govern
or, to, and confirmed bv, the Senate;
“Resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor,
be especially requested to notify the Ordinaries
of the several counties of his approval of the
Act aforesaid, and request them to send their
nominations to the Senate through the Execu
tive Department, with as little delay as possi
ble.”
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Na
vy of this State, and of the Militia thereof, do
hereby issue this my proclamation, calling upon
the Ordinaries of the several counties of this
State to transmit to this department without de
lay, the names of two fit and proper persons of
intelligence and moral worth, as prescribed by
law, for each election precinct established at the
county Court-House, or in any city or incorpo
rated town in this State, to the end that the ad
vice and consent of the Senate may be obtained to
the appointment of the said two persons afore
said.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the
state at the capitol, in the city of Atlanta, this
11th day of October, in the year of our Lord
Eighteen Hundred and Seventy, and of the
Independence of the United States of America
the Ninety-fifth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
By the Governor:
Davld G. Cotting, Secretary of State.
Oct. 21,1870-w3t.
a. i (n £
FROM
To V;tu Wert.
We WILL RUN A DAILY HACK LINE from
STILKSBOItO to VaN WERT in connection
with the Cartersville .£ Van Wert Railroad,
from September 20th, 1870, until the cars reach
the latter point. Passengers will rind my ac
commodations ample to go from the Stilesboro
end of said Railroad, to Van Wert, and return
the same dav, in time to make connection with
Carters ville & Van Wert Railroad trains.
Sept. 23, ’7O-BWU’. LOGAN & CAMPBELL.
8E >II-WEEKIjY.
Dr. §€IIE.\CK A<tvi«e§ Consump
tives to go to Florida, in Winter.
Having for the last thirty-five years devoted
; iny whole time and a;centum to the study of
j lung diseases and consumption, I feel that 1 un
-1 demand fully the course that ought to be pur
i sued to restore a tolerably bad case of diseased
j luugs to healthy soundness. The first and most
j important step is lor the patient to avoid taking
I cold, and the best of all places on this continent
for this purpose in winter, is Florida, well down
in the .State, w here the temperature is regular,
and not subject to such variations as in more
Northern latitudes. Palatka is a point I can re
commend. A good hotel is kept there by Petef
man. Last w inter I saw several persons there
whose lungs had been badly diseased, but who,
under the healing influence of the climate and
my medicines, were getting well.
One hundred miles further down the river is a
point w hich I would prefer to Palatka, as the
temperature is more even and the air dry and
bracing. Mellonville and Enterprise are loca
ted there. I should give a decided preference to
Mellonville. It is two miles from river or lake,
and it seems almost impossible to take cold there.
'l'he tables in Florida might he better, and pa
tients complain at times hut that is a good sign,
as u indicates a return of appetite, and when
this is the case they generally increase in flesh,
and then the lungs must heal.
Jacksonville, Hibernia, Green Cove, and many
other places in various parts of Florida, can be
safely recommended to consumptives in winter.
My reasons for saying so are that patients are
less liable to take cold there than where there is
a less even temperature, and it is not necessary
to say that where a consumptive person exposes
himself to frequent colds lie is certain to die
shortly. Therefore my advice is, go well down
into tlie State out of reach ol the prevailing cast
winds and fogs. Jacksonville, or almost any
other oftlie localities I have named, will benefit
those w ho are troubled with a torpid liver, a dis
ordered stomach, deranged bowels, sore throat
or cough, but for those whose lungs are diseased
a more southern point is earnestly recommend
ed.
For fifteen years prior to 1869, I was profes
sionally in New' York, Boston, Baltimore and
Philadelphia every week, where 1 saw' and ex
amined on an average five hundred patients a
week. A practice so extensive, embracing ev
ery possible phase of lung disease, has enabled
me to understand the disease fully, and
hence, my caution in regard to taking cold. A
person mav take vast quantities of “Sehenck’s
Pulmonic Syrup, Seaweed Tonic and Mandrake
Pills,” and vet die if he does not avoid taking
cold.
111 Florida, nearly every body is using
Schenck’s Mandrake* Pills, for the climate is
more likely to produce billious habits than more
northern latitudes. It is a well established fact
tliat natives of Florida rarely die of consump
tion, especially those of the southern part. On
the other hand, in New' England, one third, at
least, of the population die of this terrible dis
ease. in the Middle States it does not prevail
so largely, still there are many thousands of ca
ses there. What a vast percentage ol life vvoud
be saved if consumptives were as easily alarm
ed in regard to taking fresh cold as they are
about scarlet fever, small pox, Ac. But thev
are not. They take w hat they' term a little cold,
w hich they are credulous enough to believe w ill
wear off iii a few'days. They pay no attention
to it, and hence it lays the foundation for anoth
er and another still, until the lungs are diseased
beyond all hope lor cure.
My advice to persons whose lungs are affected
even slightly is. to lay in a stock of Schenck’s
Pulmonic Syrup, Schenck’s Seaweed Tonic and
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills and go to Florida. I
recommend these particular medicines becaue I
am thoroughly acquainted Avith their action. I
know that where they are used in strict accord
ance with my directions they will do the work
that is required. This accomplished, nature will
do the rest. The physician Avho prescribes for
cold, cough or night-sweats, and then advises
the patient to w alk or ride out every day, will
be sure to have a corpse on his hands before long.
My plan is to give my three medicines’ in ac
cordance Avith the printed directions, exeeot in
some cases where a freer use of ;ho Mandrake
Pills is necessary. My object is to give tone to
the stomach—to get up a good appetite. It is al
w avs a good sign w hen a patient begins to grow'
hungry. I have hopes of such. With a relish
for food and the gratification of that relish comes
good blood, and with it more flesh, which isclose
ly followed by a healing of the lungs. Then the
cough loosens and abates, the creeping chills
and clammy night-SAveats 110 longer prostrate
and annoy, and the patient gets w ell, provided
he avoids taking cold.
Now there are many consumptive Avho havo
net the means to go to Florida. The question
mav he asked, is there no hope for such? Cer
tainly there is. My advice to such is, and ever
has been, to stay in a w arm room during winter,
with a temperature of about seventy degrees,
Avhich should be kept regularly at that point,
In- means of a thermometer. Let such a patient
take his exercise w ithin the limits of tlie room
by walking up ami down as much as his strength
Avili permit, in order to keep up a healthy circu
lation of the blood. I have cured thousands by
this system, and can do so again. Consumption
is as easily cured as any other disease if it is ta
ken in time, and the proper kind of treatment is
pursued. The fact stands undisputed on record
that Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup. Mandrake Pills,
wild Seaweed Tonic have cured very many of
what seemed to be hopeless cases ol consump
tion. Go w hero you will, you will be almost cer
tain to find some poor consumptive w ho has been
rescured from the very jaws of death by their
use.
So far as tlie Mandrake Pills are concerned,
every boky should keep a supply of them on hand.
They act on the liver better than calomel, ami
leave none of its hurtful effects behind. In fact
thev are excellent in all cases where a purgative
medicine is required. If you have partaken too
freely of fruit and diarrhu-a ensues, adoseol the
Mandrakes av ill cure you. If you are subject to
sick headache, take a dose of the Mandrakes
and they will relieve you in two hours. If you
would obviate the eflect of a change of water, or
the too free indulgence in fruit, take one of the
Mandrakes every light or every other night, and
you may then drink Avater anil cat Avatermel
lons, pears, apples, plums, peeches or corn, with
out the risk of being made sick by them. They
will protect those who live in damp situations
against chills and levers. Try them. They are
perfectly harmless. They can do you good only.
I have abandoned my professional visits to
Boston and New York, but continue to see pa
tients at my ollice, No. 15 N. SIXTH street, Phil
adelphia, every Saturday, from 9 a. m. to 2 r. m.
Those w'ho wish a thorough examination Avitli
the Respirometer will he charged live dollars.—
The Respironictor declares the exact condition
of the lungs, and patients can readily learn
whether they are curable or not. But I desire it
distinctly understood that the medicines de
pends upon their being taken strictly-according
to directions.
In conclusion, I will say that when persons
take my medicines and * their systems are
brought into a healthy condition thereby, they
are not so liable to take cold, yet no one with
diseased lungs can hoar a sudden change of at
mosphere without the liability of greater or less
irritation of the bronchial tubes.
Full directions in all languages accompany
my medicines, so explicit and clear that any one
can use them without consulting me, and can
be bought from any druggist.
J. 11. SCIIENCK, M. D.
No. 15 N. SIXTH Street, Philadelphia.
Nov. 3, 1870-wly.
fN EORGTA, BARTOW COUNTY.-r. M. Ilall
has applied for exemption of Personalty,
and I will pass upon the same at niy office, on
the 17tli dav of November, 1870.
J. A. HOWARD, Ord’y B. C
T BIT’S
VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS !
Cures Diseases of the Liver & Stomach.
TUTT’S
~FrSC P’SCTORA’NT:!
A pleasant cure for Coul u, Colds, etc
TUTT’S
Sarsaparilla and Queen * Delight !
The Great Alternative and Blood Purifier
IMPROVED HA Hi DYE!
Warranted the best Dy e in use.
These standard Preparations nre for
ale by BEST '& KIRKPATRICK
nov 29. 12m. Oartevsviile, Gu ,
/'i EORGTA, BARTOW COUNTY.—E. J. Mnr-
VjT able has applied for exemption of peson
alty, and I will pass upon the same at my ofiiee
on the 17th dav of November, 1870. This Nov.
7th, 1870. ' J. A. HOW AltO, Ord'v. B. C.
Sale.—i iLiioit! r Lor, i».
the most pleasant part of town. Apply at this
place.
Editor and Proprietor.
\othinj,' (aOo<l Miull Ever lVri*li
Nothing good shall ever pol ish,
Only thp corrupt shall die;
Truth, which mon and angels cherish,
Flourishes eternally.
None arc wboly God-forsaken ;
All Ilis sacred image wear ;
None so lost but should awaken
In our hearts a brother’s care.
Not a mind but has its mission—
Power of working woe or weal;
So degraded none’s condition,
But the world his weight may fee
Words of kindness, words of warning,
Deem not thou may’st speak in vain;
Even those thy counsel scorning,
Oft shall they return again.
Though the mind, absorbed in pleasure,
Holds the voice of counsel light,
Yet doth faithful memory treasure
What at first it seemed to slight.
Words of kindness we have spoken,
May, when we have passed away,
Heal, perhaps, some spirit broken,
Guide a brother led astray.
Thus our very thoughts are living,
Even when we arc not here ;
Joy and consolation giving
To the friends who hold us dear.
Not an act but is recorded,
Not a word but has its weight;
Every virtue is rewarded,
Outrage punished, soon or late.
Let no being, then, be rated
Asa thing of little worth ;
Every soul that is created
Has its part to play on earth.
Beautiful Extract.
The influence of Christianity on so
ciety is net exerted through the cannon
of the warror, and the dispatches of
the statesman, but in «.he sweet breath
ings of truth that come on the opening
petals of the breast of infancy, like
spice-laden zephyrs from the land of
the blest —in the gentle words of love
that full indewey freshness on the won
dering ear of childhood, from gray-hair
ed sweet-voiced matrons —in the name
less tellings of high and holy things,
wrapped in the deep, unutterable voices
of the ancient eternities that come to
the silent ear of youth, before the din
and strife of the babbling world have
stunned these inner senses of the soul
—in the longing and wistful thoughts
of things of deep, abytsmal mystery
that steal into the soul in its lonely
musings in the solitary chamber —in
the deep hush of the moaning forest —
in the awful silence if the hollow mid
night— in the seasons of the gloomy
doubt and frantic effort to scale the
prison wall of mystery and darkness
that rises and closes in encircling si
lence around all— in times of heart
sickness and disapointment, when
reaching forth the hand of warm, con
fiding trust, it grasps the cold and
slipery skin of the adder —it is then
that Christianity, with its wonderful
tellings of intinite things, comes with
apocalyptic splendor and power, and
‘revealing itself to the soul, creates
those martyr spirits that stamp their
lineaments on the enduring rock.
Tim Fully of Pki je. “After all,”
says the late Sidney Smith “take some
quiet, sober moment of life, and add
together the two ideas of pride, and ol
man: behold him creature of a spau
high, stalking through infinite space
m all the grandeur of littleness. —
Perched on a speck of the universe,
every wind of Heaven st likes into his
blood the coldness of death —his soul
floats from ids body like melody from
the string; day and night, as dust on
the wheel, he is rolled along on the
heavens, through a labarv nth of
worlds, and all the creations of God
are flaming above and beneath. Is
this a creature to make himself a
crown of glory; to deny his owu flesh,
to m.-ck at his fellow, sprung from the
dust, to wnich both will soon return!”
BgU The >:eat Trees of California,
—a California correspondent of the
charleston Courier Ins the following:
One of our big trees has been cut
down, and is to be forwarded Fast for
exhibition. Barnum, I believe, is tlie
projector of the scheme, the difficulties
which would certainly deter a less en
terprising man. The one selected is in
Fresno county, and although by no
means a giant amongst giants it willi
give those who see it a good idea of |
tii • mammoth proportions sometimes
attained by our forest kings.
After being foiled it took three saws
fastened together (making in length
twenty-four feet) with two men at each
handle, four days to saw off the butt
cut. The diameter of the stump is
twenty-three feet six inches, without
bark, aud the anual rings show an age
of 1500 years. Three men accomplish
ed the felling in five and a half days,
; by cutting at the roots, which were in
terlaid like the muscles in the human
system.
One of its neighbors measured one
hundred and twenty-two feet and four
inches in circumference and was near
ly one hundred feet in height.
XO. 26.
Acorns ass ood.
The ivetor of a parish on th bor
ders of the New Forest wrote a letter
in the newspapers, this last Septem
ber, saying his poor parishioners gath
ered acorns; and that ho would Bend,
on their behalf, a sack of acorns to
any address for five shillings. I my
self saw a woman busily employed,
With her children, picking up acorns.
She told me that she took them to a
pig-feeder in the neighboring town,
who gave her five pence for each peck
of acorns. Ido not kuow if this par
ticular pig-feeder followed out Evelyn’s
recommendation, which was, *‘a peck
of acorns a day, w itb a little bruu, will
make a hog increase a pound weight
per diem for two months together.”—
Paulus, a Danish physician, says “a
handful or two of small oak buttons,
mingled with oats, and given to hors
es, w hich are black, will, in a few days’
eating, alter their color to a fine dap
ple gray; and this because of the vit
rol abounding in the tree.” A very
questionable statement; though the
astringent properties of oak bark are
well-known; and this aslringency also,
belongs to the acorn.
Squirrels are fond of acorns, as wells
as beech-nuts, and, as no acorn will
grow to a tree beneath the shade of
the parent tree, it is impassible that
we may owe to the equine s the bury
ing of many an acorn that has sprung
up and grown to be a lord of the for
est. Deer are also very fond of acorns.
There is a large deer paik near to me;
and many of my cottage neighbors,
gain several shillings wherewith tu
help in paying their Michaelmas rent,
by gathering acorns and selling them
to the keeper for the deer. Not that
the deer have to depend upon the cot
tagers for the supply of the baby oaks,
for they are able to pick up acorns for
themselves, as fine oak trees surround
and stud their park. It was only the
other day that I witnessed a sight in
this deer park which I greatly desired
could have been seen by Mr. Harrison
Weir, w hose skillful pencil would have
admirably portray’d the pretty group of
deer gathered under a wide-spreading
oak. A fine stag had reared on his
hind legs, and, standing in this herald
ic position, had reached with his anU
lers he gave a vigorous shake; as he
did so, the acorns showered down
among the deer and their hinds, who
were awaiting the result of the antler
ed stag’s labors of love. It was a
pleasing picture; and both deer and
fawns seemed to enjoy their sylvan
desert of baby-oaks. — Once a Week.
Raleigh, November 22.—The Legia-*
lature organized yesterday. Hon. TANARUS«
J. Jarvis of Tyrell was elected Speaker.
All offices are filled by Democrats.
Special to the New Era ]
Savannah November 21.—The prose
cution of the Hon. Foster Blodgett in
the United States District Court, Judge
Erskine presiding, ended to-day in his
acquittal by the jury. Judge Locbrane
made the speech.
young man hnnting in the
woods near Warrenton, North Caroli
n>, one day last w eek, discovered a
cave in a ledge of rocks, and in the
cave a pile of bones, apparently hu*
man, near waicli lay the barrel of a
pistol, of the old flint and steel pat
tern.
annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Bartow County Agricul
tural Association convened in this place
on Friday lust, and elected officers for
another year, viz:
Aada Johnson, President.
D. W. K. Peacock, Sec. A Treas,
Dr. S. W. Leland,
J. J. How ard,
W. H. Stiles,
Executive Committee for 1871.
The shares were reduced to ten dol
lars each, and the name of the associa
tion was changed to that of “Central
Cherokee Georgia Agricultural Associ
ation.”
On motion the Executive Committee
were empowered to increase their
number to Eleven instead of five.
The following resolution was adopt
ed :
Besotved, That the Secretary be au
thorized to correspond with parties m
different counties, and solicit them to
come forward and take stock and unite
with us in making this association
what it purports to be, viz: “The Ceu
tral Cherokee Geoigia Agricultural As
sociation.”