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SUBSCRIPTION. The CoruANT -American is Pcblished Weekly in the Interest ok Baktow (!ocnty, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it has a Right to Lx pect an Undivided County Patron age'. mC Ufl 11 Carte<?syili.k Cr.r*AN r , Bstabllsbf and j toJgol>n)lT , D Iggr , O—HU.0 —HU. IJ Cawe skyillb Amsbican. • * DRUGS! DRUGS! J. n. WIKLE & CO., (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) Hava bow iu store lh bi t i Meted, racrtoomi.iets *n<l varied stock ol Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Perfumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. (o. U. ... *l. ."•! >' Fb,.klan. l. *"• lU > ll “ *'“*?• i ur day ftiid night by a I jjtuiriiMM ist. Ch.as. A. Wikle, Manager. —:GO TO:- RICHARD L. JONES TOR Fresh Groceries, An I eveprthing gKtl for the table. FHRBII KOGS and OHK KKVS, HI ri F.U, i lti;a M C’lflCKsK, ""in IIIy V'riu ’y i; mj loie stock of FAMILY GHIR'KIUKS snd OEN KIIAE MEU-JII AS I<l SE, I have i.-ntc 1 a storug i l.oaso j ist iiliove m ; wliei-j I k<‘i> a w iys on liana a y joU supply oi Hay, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Bran and Meal, Ilia* |am furni h you at th LOWEST FIGITRBsL I deliver goods to any part of Iho city free ol <li .mu. Sc.ln iun ' lour imtionnge anil promi-ing to treat \ou well, lam jours truly, RICHARD X.. JONES. feb‘M ly Went Main Street, Curterevllle, G*. E. H. JONES & SONS’ MANUFACTURING COMPANY, CAKTERSVILLE. ROME AND STAMP CREEK, GA. —Manufacturers of and Dealers in— BUGGIES, CARRIAGES WAGONS & MATERIAL ESiS2S2S£SHSHSHSHSHSiiSESHSSSESHSZSHS2S2LSSS2SESaiiiHHSiiS2LS2SiSSHSPSHS all work fully guaranteed. We can duplicate the work of any first-class manu factory in the country in Price, duality and Finish. We acknowledge no superior in the Carriage Business. Can build any style of vehicle desired; only the very best material used. feb3-i y 4 ft*- About twenty ye*r* fo I discortred a little sore on my cheek, and the doctor* pre moan red it cancer. I have tried a number of physician*, out without receiving any perma nent benefit. Among the number were one or two ipeclaliata. The medicine tuey applied wa* like fire to the sore, causing intense pain. I taw a statement in the papers telling what 8. S. 8. had done for others similarly afflicted.' I procured some at once. Before I had used the second bottle the neighbors could notice that my cancer waa healing up. My general health had been bad for two or three years—l had a hacking eougn and spit blood contin nally. I had a severs pam mmy breast. After taking six bottles of S. S. S. my cough left ms pjid I grew stouter than I had been for several years. My cancer haa healed over all but a little spot alxmt the sUe of a half dime, and it is repldly disappearing. I would advise every one with cancer to give S. S. S. a fair trial. Miu. NANCY J. McCONAUUUKT, Ashe Grove, Tippecanoe Cos., Ind. FeV 1, 1988. Swift's S|>ccifle is entirely vegetable, and seems to curs cancers by forcing out the imps M Hies from the blood. Treat iso on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. • THK SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawers, Atlanta, Ga. sl. sl. sl. $l - gldbe-democrsi (T IE 3ST PAGES.) IT E DOLLAE A, TEA The following comparative statement of a number of the most nroiuinent Weeklies published in the United States shows c< nclu sivelv that the WEEKLY (JLOUE-DEMOCKAT is from 25 to 50 iEU CENT THE CHEAPEST. Weekly Globe Democrat, St. Louis, Mo 10 Pages. |7O Columns. $1 Per Year. W i;k K r.Y UK IT BI.ICA N. Sk. Lonto, Mo 8 l’agaa i s*l Column* 100 Per Year WEEKLY TH!BI'NE, Chicago. 11l 8 Pagt* j 5 (’ohwins 1 !u! v‘^ WEEKLY’ TIMES, Chicago, 111 s },*" 1 22 WEEKLY I NT KU-OCEAN, Chicago. 11l s 1 Ke o to umiis WEEKLY RNQI’IKEH. 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AN EFFECT!)AL SPECIFIC FOR lUUHs, Rural Complaints, Dy.pMU, Nick Hesdacfe*. Constipation, Biliousness. Kidney Affections, Jaundice, MAntal Depression. Cotts.’ CEST FAMILY MEDICINE lo Household Should he Without It, and, by being kept ready for Immediate usst Will save many an liour of suffering and many a dollar la time and doctors’ bills. THERE IS BUT ONE BIMMONB LIVER REGULATOR Ess that you §st tils tsaaias with red "2" •n front #f W ripper. Prepared only by J.H.ZEILIN & CO., Sols Proprietors, Philadelphia. Ps. FKICJC, •1.00. u" RE ?K t TOwnsfm7o CAPITAL PRIZE. $300,000 LS.L. Loaisiana Slate Lottery Compy. Incorporated by the I.celHlnture in 1863, for IMnmrional ami Chari tali l pirponcH, ami its rc-anchise made a part of the present State Con stitution, in U7U, by an overwhelming popular \ ote. Its Grand Single Number Drawings take place monthly, and the Grand Semi-Annual Drawings regularly ev ery six months (June and December). “We do hereby certify that we supervise the arrangements for all the Monthly and Sera-A n i,dal Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery Cdmpany, and in person manage and control t he Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with honesty, fairness, ami in good faith toward all parties, and we authorize the Company to use this certificate, with fac-sindles of our signature attached, in its advertisements.” Commissioners. We the undersigned Banks ami Bankers will pay all l’rizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lotteries which maybe presented at our coun ters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisana Nat. Bk P. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O. Nat’l Bk. CARL ROHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank. Grand Semi-Annual Drawing In the Academy of Music, New Or leans, Tuesday, June 14, 1887, CAPITAL PRIZE, $300,000. 100,000 Tickets at Twenty Dollars each. Halves $10; Quarters $3; Tenths $2; Twentieths sl. LIST OF PHIZES. 1 PRIZE OF $300,000 is $300,000 f l PRIZE OF 100,000 is 100,000 1 PRIZE OF 50,000 is 50,000 1 PRIZE OF 25,000 is 25,000 2 PRIZES OF 10,000 are 20,000 5 PRIZES OF 5,000 are 25,000 25 PRIZES OF 1,000 are 25,000 100 PRIZES OF 500 are: 50,000 200 PRIZES OF 300 are 60,000 500 PRIZES OF 200 are 100,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 100 Prizes of SSOO approximating to $.100,000 Prize are 50,000 100 Prizes of S3OO approximating to SIOO,OOO Prize are 30,000 100 Prizes of S2OO approximating to $50,000 Prize are 20,000 TERMINAL PRIZES. 1,000 Prizes of SIOO decided by $300,000 I’rize are 100,000 1,000 Prizes of SIOO decided by SIOO,OOO Prize are - lOO,OOO 3,136 Prizes amounting to..’. $1,055,000 For Club Rates, or any other information ap ply to the undersigned. Your handwriting must l,e distinct and Signature plain. More rapid re turn mail delivery will be assured by your enclos ing an Envelope bearing your full address. Send POSTAL NOTES, Express Money Or ders, or New York Exchange iu ordinary letter. Currency by Express (at our expense) addressed to Bf. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, Ln„ or 51. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D. C. Address Registered Letters to HEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleuua, La. REMEMBER enee of Ocnrruls lieaureaa.d and Early, wh * are In charge of the diawii g-, is a guarantee ol absolute fairness and int< gii y. that ihe chances are all equal, and that no one c m pcssib'y Bivins what number will draw a prize. RKMK.viiiKR that tho payment of all Prizes is guakamkei* m kouk Na tional HANKS of New Orleans, and the Ticket* are signed by the President of an In stitution. w hose chartered rights are recog nized in ihe highest* ourts; tli re-fore, beware of any imitations or anonymous schemes. Dr. Cliipman’s Pills arc a Certain Cure for t?ICK HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, COSTIVENESS, DYSPEPSIA, DIARRHOEA, DYSENTERY, MALARIA • anil various diseases arising from a Torpid Action op thk Liver and Impurity or the Blood. They do not weaken you, nor do they produce inconvenience or imitation in their action. LADIES troubled with General Debility, Cold Feet, and Loss of Appetite, will iind these Pills highly useful. F. D. LONG, Agent, No. 1304 Filbert Street, PHILADELPHIA. For Sale "by Wikle & Cos., nn h 3-iJro $25,000.00 IN GOLD! WILL BE PaID FOB ARBUCKLES' COFFEE WRAPPERS 1 Premium, • 51.000.00 2 Premium*, * 8500.00 each 6 Premiums, • $250 00 “ 25 Premiums, • SIOO.OO “ 100 Premiums, • $50.00 “ 200 Premiums, • $20.00 “ 1,000 Premiums, SIO.OO “ For full particulars ami directions see Circa tor io every pound of Aubcckles' Coitol CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY,JUNE 2, 1887. AS ABLE SEKRD^i, I On the Death of Dr. J. B. Merer Hu, of >MkvilU, by Hlibi* MeTtere, I ’far: “For David after he had aarved his own weanratk.a hy the will of God, fett on dee*. I Aci# xiii, 3ti. i More than sixty year* ago (' *1 ffave I to this church ami to this jieopl* a yer ' rant to wrrr you in jour Bent and high wt interest*. Aft*r proving hinßwlfgood aud faithful be has fallen on sleep, and we nisei to mourn ami U* bury him. Forget not to be thankful for tiu* gift, and that Ot>d endued him ffith such grace and spared him to you so loug. Few of this vast congregation had been born when lie whom body lies before us, liegau his active ministry. He received the parent* of many of rAt into the church, baptized your household*, and buried your dead An the power of the wftfrit or la.-T preached lWpßßtrtnce and pointed to the *-rotyi of He has promoted good and restrained evfl; re claim td the erring, eomiiorted the Bumm er, and instructed the ignorant. In every form, by wise precept and sjiotlews ex ample, ne has shown unto you the way ot'MiUvation. In perjilexity you sought him for counsel; iu trouble, for sympathy; iu want, for help. His exceeding common sense aud great kindness of heart never tailed you. While, he has gone to give his account to the Master, we may well take account of our loss in such a servant. He laid himself out for the benefit of “his own generation;” and this ami the way he did it, we may well believe, was according to the will of (iod. He lived not for himself, neither did he project his beuevpleoce so far into the uncertain future as to die a debtor to the age he lived in. That manliest serves the gen eration following—starts it off upon a higher plane—who serves well his own. Providence indicates, herein, where duty lies. The gifts that suit one age may not suit another. The peculiar talents with which his Maker endowed our deceased brother he used, aud none other*, lb* was always himself, and not. another man—unique, original, strong aud fresh to the last. Thus he made exactly the contribution to the welfare of five world that was needed —a contribution that other generations may not need in the same form or degree, but of which -they will ever be the beneficiaries. John Berry McFerrin was born iußoth ford comity, Tenn., June 15, IHO7, and “fell on sleep” at his home in Nashville, in the bosom of a loved and loving fam ily, at 12:55 o’clock a. m., May 10, 1887, lie was of Scotcli-Irish descent. His grand father was a Revolutionary soldier, aud his father, James McFerrin, served well under Hen. J ackson iu the war of 1812. Converted about the same time with his son, James McFerrin became a minister and a member of the Tennessee Annilot Conference two years before him; and after efficient service died in the prime of life. His mother, to whom he owed, aud delighted to acknowledge much, died a few years ago at the ad vanced age of ninety-three. By request of the Confemce, Dr. Mc- Ferrin preached, October, 1875, a semi centenial sermon during the session at Shellmville, where, in 1825, he had been admitted on trial. The beginning of his spiritual life, and its principal stages of activity were tlms stated by himself in that discourse: Oil tlie 20th of August, 1320, I was converted at a Methodist prayer- ineetingin Rutherford county, Tenn. Two weeks afterwards in company with piy i.Ltjnn- and mother. 1 united with the Metho dist. Ttiis was a surprise to our neighbors, for they regarded the family as Presbyterian. Soon after we connected ourselves with the Methodist l was called upon to pray in public, When about sixteen years of age l was appointed class leader. My father having removed to Alabama, and erected a meeting house and camp ground on his land, a large society was soon raised up, and I was put in charge as the principle leader. Aug. 2, 1324 I was licensed to exhort by William Mc- Mahon, presiding elder of the Huntsville District, my father being the preacher iu charge of the circuit. On October 8, 1325’ I was licensed to preach. The next month I was received on pro bation into the Tennessee Conference, which con. veiled in Shelby vHle, Bishops Roberts and .Soule presiding. I was appointed, with Fish P, Scruggs, to a circuit embracing Tuseumbiu. Rus selville, aud the counties adjacent. (The Tennes see Conference then txoended into North Ala bama.) My second year was to the Lawrence Cir cuit , embracing Courtland, Moulton Decatur, .Somersville and the counties around—Alexander Sale being my senior. At the end of this year 1 was ordained deacon by Bishop Souie, My third and fourtli years was devoted to mis sionery work in the Cherokee Nation. At theeud of my fourth year 1 was ordained elder by liishop Roberts, and appointed, with \V. L.McAlister, to the Limestone Circuit, embracing the country west of Huntsville, in Madison county, and the whole of Limestone county, Ala. My sixth year I was appointed to the Huntsville station; my seventh yetr (1831) I labored in ttie Nashville station,"as the colleague of L. I). Overall. My eighth year I was agent for LaGrange College, In 1333 1 was sent to Pulaski station, where I re mained two years. I was then returned to Nash ville; then to the Florence district, then two years to the Cumberland district, embracing Galatia and Clarksville; back agaiu to Nashville; and in the autumn of 1340 I was elected editor of the Christian Ad rotate. In that oltice 1 was contin ued May. 1853, when I was elected Rook agent. Tills oltice, with the appointment of missiouery to the army of Tennessee, I held eight years, .Since 1866 1 had been secretary of the Board of Missions. Thus three years on circuits, two years among the Indians, six years iu stations, ihree years presiding elder, nearly eight*>eu years editor, eight years Hook agent and missionary to the army, ami nearly nine years secretary, make out my lifty years. The General Minutes for 1825 show, in other Annual Conferences oi the Connec tion, such beginners for that year as Geo. C. Cooknian, Levi Scott, Charles M. Holliday, Eugene V. Levert, George M. Roberts, Edgerton Ryersbn, and others who, after obtaining a good report through faith, hav e been so long dead that they seem to belong to another generation. Bishop Soule, who submit ted the name of the unknown young man to the Conference for acceptance, was then on his second Episcopal round. This semi-centennial sermon takes us a little further back. When I united with the Methodists they had not a denominational school In operation in the United States. In 181!) the first missionary so ciety was organized in the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. The next year, 1820, the year 1 joined the Church, the receipts were *822,- 24. In 1874 the two divisions collected nearly SOOO,OOO, besides the hundreds of thousands col lected in other bodies of.Methodism in America. In 1820 there were in North America 004 travel ing preachers, 256,881 white and colored members, This included Canada. 1 have lived to see the time when the same Church, in her two grand di visions .leaving off Canada, numbers: traveling preachers, 14,330; local preachers, 18,0*52; mem bers, 2,2(52,285. These items help us to realize the im portant historic space covered by this man's life and ministry. He was no idle spectator of what was passing, but had a hand in making up the record of those eventful years. Beginning with that held in Cincinnati, in 1863, he was a member of thirteen General Conferences conse cutively; also, a member of the Conven tion of 1845. On his first coming - to Nashville (1831) the church here had 40<J white members and 305 colored. At the same time F, A. Owen was stationed in the village of Memphis, oil the Chickasaw Bluffs; Robert Paine was for the second year “Superintendent of LaGrange College;’’ David O. Shattuck was at Brownsville, A. L. P. Green at Franklin, ainl Foun tain E. Pitts on the Nashville Circuit — the two last named having entered Con ference a year before him. Refering to contemporary events, Andrew Jackson was in the stormy period of his first Presidential administration; James K. Polk was a rising young Congressman, and Andrew Johnson, the great com moner, having learned to read and ci pher on the tailor’s boad. had just been elected mayor of the village of Green ville. The waters of Cumberland River were occasionally stirred by a steamboat affording rapid transportation to New Orleans within ten days. Not a mile of meadamized turnpike existed in the State, while railroads and tunnels were not dreamed of. That John B. McFerrin was an impor tant factor in the moral and material development of his native State none w ill question. In three potent way* he j wrought, for sixty years—by the pulpit, I the press, and the platform—most jo -t tent of ail ways; and he was foroefn! in 1 each. Such a ministry, it is readily seen, must directly and jiermaueiitly iutiuence the moral character of the public. Its material development is also pro motive indirectly, but none theless powerfnlly, by the same agency. Where public opin ion is right; where honesty, truth, aud social purity dwell, there life aud prop erty are safe; there the rewards of indus try are rare; there commerce is nour ished, and population gathers. It i iiu posihile for such a inau to leave the world no better, no richer, and on no higher plan#, than he found it. He ha* not merely lived, but acted through two generation* of rapid trans formation*—inheriting t4e sturdy strength, the simple manners, the energy and sagacity of the first and ta king oa ao email degree of the breath and culture of the second. To the end he waa employed in great tru*t*. There had been no intennissiou, no super annuation. Such was hi* dilligenee that he was always gaining influence: aud so steady and prudent was he, he never loet any. No Tennessean Was more loved, revered, at home or abroad. The people ©burned him a* one of themselvee. Hi* style, address and mode of thought were to their liking. He impressed them a* an honest man: they believed what he said, they felt bis sympathy: and they followed where be led. If a pol itician, he would have ben unequaled as a stump speaker; if a demagogue, he would have beeu dangerous: in either character; invincible, if a inui of worldly business, be would have been thrifty. But, by the graee of God, he was none of tb****. All his seal, hopes, labors, and aspiration* were in the church and for the church. H# turned not aside, to the eight hand nor to the left. He waa simply a Methodist preacher, drawiug all I lie cares and studies this way. Of large frame, heavy features, and standing *quarelv upon his feet, John B. McFerrin was the typical Western man, by Christianity. His edu cation began in the old-field schools of boyhood, aud was continued by books and object-lessons through life. Hi* cast was practical, not poetical or rhetorical —unlike his eloquent contemporary, Titts. He saw things as a whole, not in their component part*, and judged of their relation*a* byintuitiou. Abstract thought was a weariness, if not an im possibility, to him. Tho power was not his of considering, the single properties a:ul qualities of tilings apart, of analyz ing and then combining them in new forms, thus leading to invention. He was, therefore, slow to admit changes of any sort. In these respects he wai un like bis groat contemporary, Green. He was against all “new-fangled notions,” and constitutionally conservative — perhaps to excess. He preferred to work the old plaus and to get the best result* out of them. An innovation must be 'dearly safe and very clearly an improve ment, before be eouhl accept it. He could hardly conceive of it until he saw it In operation. Woe to the antagonist wbort he encountered when defending “Old Methodism.” His attitude toward every material modification of church economy among us has been, first, that of suspicion if not of downright opposition at its intro duction. When adopted, he put it on trial arid watched its working; then, if it worked well, he espoused it, and became a w all of defense against any who would disturb it, That caution of Solomon he habitually observed —“Meddle not with them that are given to change.” Who will say that such a contribution to ecclesiastical legislation was not val uable, iu this nineteenth century? The confidence of his brethren in his honesty, his intutive sagacity and the safety born of bis conservatism, wfis well illustrated in this city during the general confereDoo of 1808. Anew de liarture was inaugurated in Publishing louse matters, by the committee in chargo of that interests. The member who led in the proposed scheme was bold and inventive, but slightly doctrin aire. Various depositories were to be established, and agencies here and there, to enlarge and expand the circulation of religious literature for the benefit and on the credit of the church. The measure passed and it was generally understood that the author of it was to tie book agent to carry it out, and that certain others were to occupy subordinate places. But, as they thought over what they had doue, members became afraid of their plan; and when the election came on, and ballots were counted, the whole slate w;is broken by the majority of votes being cast for J. B. McFerrin a* book agent. On adjournment I ex changed view* with a venerable member on the unexpected result, and his re mark may be taken as representative: “Well I voted for tbut plan, but the moro I thought on it the less I liked it— too complicated. It may do finely, and then again it may ruin every thing But McFerrin, we know him. He can pull, and if it’s necessary he cau hold baek powerfully, and he will hold baek if there's danger.” A strange sight that was—the General Conference correcting, modifying, and almost nullifying its dubious legislation by putting one man in charge of the business for the four years following. It was much the same case at Atlanta in 1878. We had lay delegates then to help us—a help we had not twenty years before. But after fullest investigation of liabilities and assets, and the best legis -1 alive contrivance, there was paiuftil sus pense as to the fate of the Publishing House. Again, McFerrin to the front. Nat that Up wa* fertile ip invention, but lie could be relied on to carry out what ever an able Book Committee, with en larged powers, devised. When Mr. Na- Jr., of that commitee, took me aside and opened the 4 per cent, bond plan, on longtime, I first saw light, The United States Government had al ready adopted the plan and made it popular and familiar to the people. But —how to place the bonds for $850,000! Creditors were clamorous, and the sheriff was at the door. The Church could not repudiate just debts. Her voice, ever after, in preaching justice, honesty, and truth, wonld be like a cracked bell. To sacrifice pru*eut assets, and leave liabili ties unprovided for, was to entail wory ing collections throughout the Connec tion for years, und so to disgust and drive away the public from our churches. The prospect was gloomy enough. With a well-matured plan Dr. McFerrin went forth, Now was hi? power with the people seen, lie opeued the campaign at the Western Virginia Conference, then one of the smallest aud weakest. I heard him state his case and present his plea, and watched the effect with an interest I cannot describe. It was soon evident that he had the jury. But did the jury have the money? He ran g the changes on c Methodism and what it lmd done for them and for their fathers/ touched up their patriotism by allusions to losses ancj damages through the war, his client being a sufferer iu common with themselves; showed the refief pof sible, and failure would be shameful. Heenliveueed the discussion with anon* data, ami clutched it with argument, and at tho opportune moment offered his bonds. Two generous farmers (brothers) on the south side of the Ohio took a thousand dollars’ worth at par. Others followed with less sums; and the preachers, as they always do, came up promptly with twenty and fifty and a hundred. When the handshaking was over, the preacher looked like a victor-, and so he was. From that day I never doubtied that the bouds would go and the ljons be*aveJ. He pui-sued,the cam paign. going through the conference until the work was doue. Who that saw and heard cau never forget that dra matic scene, in which represented the bishops and superannuated aud other preachers and their wives, and the official insmbers, all assembled on the public square of Nashville, and the crier, with “one two three —l-a-*-t call," swing ing down the hammer upon the Southern Methodist Publishing House? Those who heard and laughed and wept said, “No, that must never be ’—aud they took the bonds. Under his administration as Mission ary Secretary a debt was paid that was heavy aud depressing for those time*. And yet, the least sueces of his life was during the years he was at the head of the Missionary Bureau. The position was not suited to him. Enterprising new fields and selecting, from untried men, proper agents for opening aud oc cupying those fields involved experiment and adventure; and he was not adven turous. The changing asjiect* of times and places, in those unsteady years and places, from 186 Gto 1878, required new measures and expedients to meek axigencies: and a* he lacked the analytic faculty, invention was not his forte. True, he was strong on the platform; hii* speeches at missionary anniversaries were popular; he lifted large collections. But imitation is the homage unconsci ously paid to genius, aud the imitators of Dr. MeFerriu’s speeches though nu merous, were not successful or edifying. A broad and sheady missionary move ment iu the Church must be based on u quickening of the public conscience; on information, rather than on entertain ment. Not one worker that crowds a house upon announcement is wauted, but thousands of earnest men and wom en must be put to work systematically for the cause, where no applauding au diences greet the advocate of niisssions. When a plan was devised to apportion the old war debt among the several Annual Conferences, according to an ac cepted ratio, he took the field and w orked it so well that the missionary debt was paid. Asa public speaker you know how ready and affective he was. The sub stance of discourse was sometime* pre meditated iu paragraphs, but not the words or style. Stimulus rather than preparation was what he required for success. Resources were at command. He took hints from tho occasion, and tho suggestion of circumstances was his main reliance. Who over saw him when pressed in debate, at a loss for a reply? The more he was interrupted, the more h* was at himself. Those who injected questions at him on the floor made noth ing by it, *o easily could he turn every thing that happened, and everything that was said, to his own advantage, whether in social discussion or in deliber ative assemblies, hi* power of repartee formidable. Cicero's famous treatise, De Oratore, puts this among the “pecu liar gift* of nature,”—“a talent,” says the master of Roman eloquence, “which appears to be incapable of being com municated by teaching.’’ Cicero, after discoursing on this rare, quick aud ter rible weapon of the orator through several chapters, and making on the reader the impression that he coverted the gift for himself, adds: “It is one of the things iu which, unless the orator has a full supply from nature, he cannot be much assisted by a master.” If John B. McFerrin could not meet an argument, he parried it so skillfully that the crowd felt that he had met it, aud cheered ac cordingly. A look, an attitude, an in flection of the voice, did the work ef fectually. A facetious remark, or pathetic play on collateral issues, was unanswerable. Sharp wit, overwhelm ing drollery, unfailing humor, cheapened the adversary or broke the force of a logical lance. While he could see and ap preciate the strong points of his cause, and could strongly urge them, he did uot always resist the temptation to win victory by lighter and natural auxil iaries. But he never used that danger ous weapon maliciously. Often his own hand was first to pour iu oil where it had made a wound. He was naturally cau tious and modest, and yet a conscious ness of this gift made him bold. 11 is ministry of the gospel was faith ful and fruitful. The mission umomg the Indians was like a golden thread of poetry worked into his early life. At Chickamauga and Ross’ Landing, where Chattanooga now stands; at the junc tion of Etowah and Ooetanaula rivers, where Rome, Ga., now is; and at Gunter’s landing, wpre his principal appoint ments. I remember that once we as seuded Lookout mountain together, and he pointed out, with vivid reminiscences, some scenes of his mission life among the Cherokees. The chief, John Ross, he baptized and received into the church, doubtless with the same simplicity that he performed the like offices for ex-Pres ident Polk, a quarter of a century later. We traveled together through the Indian Nation some years ago, visiting the missions west of the Mississippi. A night was si>ent 4n a Cherokee homo. Th<* mother, who was also a grand mother, of the family was drawn into conversation. Her maiden naino was Gunter, born on the Tennessee river. The names of her father and brothers were given, and of the missionaries who had pi etched to them before they left the “old nation” for the Western reservation. The conversation drew on to the climax or mutual recognition. “Katie Gunter?” said the missionery secretary, “don’t you know me?” “No sir.” “My name is John B. McFerrin.” The Indian woman rested her hand on his knee for a moment, gazed intently into his face, and then in au abandon of joy fell upon his neck, and wept aloud. She was one of Iris converts, and still maintained her integrity. As chaplain in the army he was very usefjl. A stump or a wagon served as his ready pulpit, wherever the soldiers halted to l ost or camp. In the hospital, or on the march, he was pastor, friend, nurse. Many seals to his ministry bear the date of thoso sad years. He intro duced me at one, session of an Annual Conference to two ministers, efficient aud promising men, saying: “These are two of my boys, converted while Confederate soldiers; aud there are a heap more of ’em. Hallelujah!” His final ministerial service was at the funeral of the late Rev. Wm. Burr, whom he had licensed to preach forty-odd years ago. It was a rape between them, like that of Peter and John, which should first reach the sep ulcher. They lay op their death-beds, sending message* of love and Christian confidence to each other by telephone. The saintly Burr reached the grave first, land his aged companion rallied to bury him. “There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body,’ saith St. Paul. 1 entertain myself with thinking of the great hand-shaking that lias been going ‘on in paradise since Brother McFerrin left us, as he greets on the other shore the thousands who have been awakened, converted, reclaimed, edified, by his min istry, and helped on their way to that lietter country where no w he has joined them. His old companions ami his spir itual children are there tq welcome him into everlasting habitations. White people, Negroes, Indians—the small and the great are there—enjoying with him their release and “full felicity.” He was one of the few men whose preaching improved with time. Borne up with a wonderful constitution and power, he went around attending the Annual Conferences, at the rate often or twenty a year, scattering books, making collections, and throwing off these inimi table speeches on various church interests of which the brethren never could get enough. There was an increasing unction. fcveu an ordinary business notice, in his litter days, often left the Conference in fears and raptures, because oftlie spirit ■aJ jterorat iou that uurousciously at fached itself to a talk about plain dollar and-cent accounts. Men observed tli.it he was ripen ini? for heaven. Some of his sermons at the Conferences. these last dozen years, were extraordinarily melt ing. He kept up the habit of the fathers —mixing experience with the exposition. His stock themes were sin. faith, regeneration, and salvation for all. through Jesus. They were good enough for him; and his exactness of definition and distinction on these divine topics wax, to the last, n grateful surprise to those Mho crowded to hear him. Intlieology he held that what was new was not true, and what was true was uot new; it was a revelation rather than a science. With out relaxing diligence in earthly things, he wuseonungdaily moreaiui more under the influence of things invisible and etern al. The attraction of the world to come grew evidently stronger; his speed quick ened as he drew near the end. The per sonal Saviour, the love of the Spirit, uud his own deejier experience of grace, were themes he most readily fell into converse tion abont. I have spokeu of him as a Tennessean, because his native State, I awe fyapert, ha*s not produced a man bet ter known, more beloved, and for rare combination of moral and mental power and wealth of 'character, his superior. But, far beyond his State and conference he was esteemed. In the great synods of the chin eh he was watchful aud eminent. He represented American Methodism in the Ecumenical conference which met in London, 1881. At the centennial in Baltimore, 1884. Southern Methodism had in him her most eminent representative. No figure iu that body of 500 holy aud picked men was more honorably conspicuous, no voice more eagerly heard and no pres ets* more respectfully greeted than I>r. MeFerrins. He was selected to respond" to the address of welcome, and met, that aud every occasion, whether counsel, discussion, banquet, devotion or farewell greeting with prompt and felicitous ad dress. To him it was a joyous occasion, his soul overflowed with its bountiful fel lowship. We mourn not alone. In the North as iu the South, in Canada and beyond the sea#, in the foreign mission stations and along the wide frontiers, they weep with us to-day. He grew old gracefully; a hard test. It has been well said that old age is, it self, a kind of day of judgment. Now begins the reapiug of what has been sown; now begins the harvest of youth and middle life. The selfish an* leff without friends; the penurious are devoured with full-grown avarice; theineanly-ambitious are embittered by disappointment; and all evil passions and habits consume their victim in a helpless old age. Pitiable sight! But not so with one who has not lived in himself. “At evening time there shall be light. The tcnqter mellows; peace flows ns a river; 1 children and friends crown the hoary head with love and reverence; temperate habits, chasten ed passions, and Christiau hops smooth the present aud throw their light on the future. Even those alienations enused by conflicting interests and honest differ ences of opinion with our fellow-men, find an end in the vindication of time, for “when a man’s ways please the Lord, he muketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” Our deceased brother had a happy old ago. “I will not, the Lord helping me, becopie sour and sore-headed," he once said to me, on observing the age of a friend who acidulated as he aged. Then bending half down, removing his hat, and showing the full crown of his bald head — “Do you see any sore place there?” Ifhe spent a few days as the Conference guest with a family, it was an era with that household —including children and ser vants. The Lord blessed his servant in his home-life. In 1838-he was married to Miss Probart. Their married life was blessed with six children, three of whom survive. Mrs. McFerrin died while her husband was attending the session oi the General Conference in Columbus, Ga., May 1854. He was again married to Miss McGav ock, a member of the family ofMcGavocks so well known in Virginia and Middle Tennessee. Of this marriage was born two daughters. These fivechildren, with nineteen grandchildren, made his do mestic life complete. In 1880 the oldest sou, James W., was suddenly killed in a railroad accident. He whs a noble young man. The father was visiting a Confer ence in Texas when the sad news reached him. The “stroke was heavier than his complaint.” Tu the last few delirious days lie was overhoard talking with “Jimmy.” All his children and grand children of 12 years and upward are members of the Methodist Church. Wife and children, sons-in-law and danghters in-law within the fold; all his business wound up and papers signed; the new church under roof where his family wor ship; the Publishing House safe; and 75,- 000 members added to the Church this year—he was ready to say with Simeon: “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant de part in peace.” Over a year ago ho was sick, as was thought, unto death. When doctors and nurses gave him up, he persisted that though it might bo so that he was going to die he did not feel as he had supposed a dying man would. His work was not yet done. He strangely recovered. But when this last sickness came he held a different language, “My work seems to be donm; my eyes aud my hearing fail; the old tabernacle is giving away.” The master was closing the doors and shut ting the windows, thus saying to his ser vant: “Arise aud depart, for this is not your rest.” He took the warning kindly. The prospect was unclouded. Indeed, he remarked to me that his trouble now was to keep from being impatient to go. The language of his soul was: “Now Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.” I found him one day rejoicing over a portion of Holy Scripture that had been read to him by a preceding visitor (4th nnd sth chapters of Second Corinthians.) “I understand it better than ever. Portions of the Bible come back to me that I had forgotten.” And he fed on that word. At another time I found his son read ing hymns to him out of the Una bridged Hyiun-book. and he would have me read a few that he iinlieuted by sub ject or title. Among them:— “Lo on a narrow neck of Land, Twix* two unbounded sens I stand.” Aud this: "l-ise, in.y soul, and stretch thy whig*, , Thy better portion trace." Then, gathering in the family, he asked that — "And let tills feeble body fall. Ami let it droop or die,” be sung to a familiar tune. It was done, Ills nephew leading. At the conclusion of the irtarza, “Give joy or prlef, (dvo ease or pain, Take life or friends away— I come to find them ail again In that eternal day. be praised God and exulted. “Nothing like our old hymns,” he exclaimed. “I hope the committee [on Revision of the Hymn-book, then in session] will spare these dear ohl hymns on doctrine and experience that the Wesleys gave us. This change he gave me, with emphasis: “Those little songs about ‘Sweet by and by,’ and‘Shall we know each other there* and tho like, may all be very nice, but don’t you let any of them be sung at my funeral.” ', *, , . , His hurt sermon was preached in Arkan sas, near his mother’s grave, to which, with filial piety, be bad made pilgrimage. ADVERTISEMENTS. The Coe rant-American is tor only Paper Published in one ok the Best Counties in North Georgia. Its Cir culation IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITS CI.AM Reasonaii lk Kates oh Aj’plicatior , $1.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. ! (Text, I Cor, xv. 58.) He Ims helped to | build, and pay out of debt, many churches, j for others. His last begging speech was j inode in this pulpit, for help to build the I church in which he aud his family worship.* His last contribution to the press was an j article in the Christian Advocate, in . sistiug on the valneof a systematic state of theology and vindicating creeds. He has been as an anchor to many wl*o were re*dy to drift before every wind of doctrine Eminent service he rendered his genera tion at this j>oiot. May there be no nets! of such serve* m the future ! I have spoken of him as a Methodist. In a high sense, he belonged to aUChrint’s people. With Charles Wesley he would say: ——~ ~ - -- ‘•Ami Mo*fhip with all we hold. Who hold It- with our Bmd. n Beloved Methodism, her creed and polity; but he loved, aud wax beloved by, mem bers of other churches as lew men lurs beeu. . May 2, he called his sou-in-law, th# Presiding Elder of Murfhwvdvoro District, to hiH bedside to receive a last message to the Tennessee Conference: “Tell then| to hold fast to our articles •of belief, justification by faith, the witness of the Hpirit, and holiness of heart and life. "Tell them I forgive all who may have ►injured me at any time, and I ask for giveness if at any time 1 have wounded a brother. Evil may have followed where evil was not intended; if so, I ask for giveness. "I love the Tennessee conference. I die in [mace with them and all men. and in faith with them and the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the love oftlod, and in expectation of eternal life. "Again : tell the brethren I love every one off them.*’ His words, two weeks ago, to his sou who had charge of a circuit twenty miles away, and had been summoned .to see him die, tin* mostexpressiveof character; “My son, 1 feel a little stronger, and you had better return and till your appoint ment to-morrow. If while you an* away, John, I should happen to slip off, yon know where to find me.” He hits gone, my friends and brethren; we shall behold him no moreinthis world. He has gone; we ne’er shall see his like again. John B. McFerrin has gone—but YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND HIM. Amen. BRIEF BITS. Both of Jennie Bowman’s lunrdeTerg have been couvicted uud sentenced to be hung July Ist. • * • It takes two months to count IJncJe Barn's hoarded cash. When opftortnnity presents itself we’ll count ours. • * * It is reported that Rev. Sum Jones has given deep offense iu Minneapolis by preaching from texts of St. Paul. * • A proci ssion of the unemployed of Dublin, carried a black flag with skull and cross hones ou it, wrs < Aspersed Fri day by the police. • The New York Sun wants the South to recede again and take Mr. Cleveland Math it.. No, no, we’ll keep Mr. Cleveland and take the North with him. • • • Rev. G. A. Nunnael.v, a Georgian, but now at Eufaula, Ala., has been called to. the pastorate of the Gainesville Baptist, church, lb* is an able divine and Oaines ville is lucky. * • * A Dakota organization hss on its letter heads these words: "Office of the Bru'e County Horse Racing Association, Successor to the Young Men’s Christian Association.” * • * Atlanta is feeling good over the pros pect of fovr new roads centering there in the near future. The good old town should have something to reimburse her in the loss of her base bull team. * * • Sol Smith Russel has retired from the stage, where be made a pile of money, and hus gone into the plumbing business. You might sav that Sol is onto the public and don’t you forget it. * * • New, Jersey is in favor of the strict en forcement of the New York blue laws. A neighboring editor says: "It would not do to take the census of New York on Sunday while it is over in New Jersey ‘getting a drink.’ ” * Editor O’Brien, of Ireland, is haviug a warm time speaking in the interest, of home rule and against Lord Lansdowne in Canada. Since his arrival on this side he has experienced oi e centime and St. Patrick’s Day, and yet he is not happy. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, the sister of our President, has beoome as sociated with Mrs. Martha J. Lamb iu the editorial work on the Magazine of American History, Miss Cleveland will write over her owu signature in this magazine. • * One of the leading Boston papers is charged with committing an error in ka Latin. When Boston pa{>ers get tho dead languages distorted' it is of little use for other publications to attempt unvthing bovond the common living English.—Louisville Courier-Journal. • # A Wisconsin man was so angry on re turning home to find that during his absence his wife had had the shade trees in front trimmed so that their beauty was ruined that he refused to sleep in the bourn 1 , spent the night in the barn, caught cold and died. And yet they say that women have no rights. * * • A special from Grady, Ga., which by the way is near Roc km art, to the Con stitution, soys: One of tli® most fiendish outrage® ever peiqietrated has just bea reported. Mrs. Wilson and her several small children were at their home, which is ait jilted in a secluded and out-of-th>- wsy piece. The husband was absent. A terrific storm seemed to be ready to burst forth in all its fury. The wife and little ones hovered about the door of their home. A black fiend rushed upon the poor frightened ad unprotected woman, seising her around the waist and throwing her violently to the ground. To prevent her screams Ims seized her by the throat, and with the most horrid oaths threatened to kill her and her children. Tho juior woman finally sue ceeoed in freeing herself from the grasp or the fiend, aud ran to the house of her nearest neighbor, where she now i*. The woods are full of people searching for the villain. If caught, there will be no jail fees to pay. w —- WiS can find no fault with Mary Ander son either as*aJ/roiUah or actress, and delight to^give TiOHrir to whom honor is due. For that rf&son we bless the name of the manufacturers , of*€'eews’ Honey of tar, the purest, simplest and most ai fectual cure for coughs, colds and disease* of throat and lungs. A trial will veneeyou. Cousseus'Honey of T&i/Jiy the cough cure - ‘ v -:4*^^Sr