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CARTERSVILLE AMERICAN.
VOLUME 11.
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DIRECTORY.
COURT CALENDER—CHEROKEE CIR
CUIT.
j, c. Fain, Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr., Solici
or General. , „ . . _
Bartow County—Second Monday in January
ar CafooVa County—Second Monday In February
and August . , _ .
Murray County—Third Monday in February
and August. _ .
Gordon County—Fourth Monday in February
and August. „ . .
L ade County—Third Monday in March and
September. , . . ..
Whitfield County First Monday in April
and October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. A. Howard, Ordinary.
F. M. Durham, Clerk Superior Court.
11. W. Cobb, Treasurer.
John A. Gladdeu,sheriff. A. M. Franklin
Deputy Sheriff.
Hailey A. Barton, Tax Collector.
W. W. Ginn, Tax Receiver.
A. M. Willingham. Coroner.
I>. V, . K. Peacock, Surveyor.
Commissioners —S. C. Prichard, T. C. Moore,
A. Vincent, John H. Wike, T. 8. Hawkins.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. P. Wofford, Mayor.
James D. Wilkerson, Marshal.
Geo. 8. Cobb, Clerk.
B. R. Mountcttstle, Treasurer. „
Aldermen —First Ward, J. O. Wofford, A. R.
Iludgins; Second Ward. G. Harwell, YV. H.
Barron; Third Ward, John , . Stover, Elihu
Hall; Fourth Ward, W\ C. Edwards, Aaron
Collins.
STANDING OOMMITTEK3.
Street.—Collins, Hudgins, Barron.
Finance.—Stover, Edwards, Wofford.
Cemetery.—Hudgins, Collins, Edwards.
Hall.— Hall, Wofford, Barron.
Relief.—Edwards, Barr in, Harwell.
Professional Cards.
W. T. MILNE It. J. V, HAKKIS, JR.
3IIJLXKK A HARRIS,
Attorneys-At-Law.
OlHce on West Main Street,
mayfi-tf Cartersville, Ga,
JOHN n. WIKLK. DOUGLAS WIKI.K.
WlUI.r, <V WIKLK,
Attorncvs-at-Law & Real Estate Agents
Office up stairs North East Corner West
Main and Erwin Streets.
may9-if Cartersville, Ga.
XIIA*:o. in. S.IISTSI,
Attorney-A t-JLaw.
Office with T. W. Baxter Main Street.
may9-tf Cartersviila
GEORGE H. JOIISSON,
A t torney-at-lia w,
Office, West side Public Square,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts.
A. M. FOUTK. WALTER M. RYALS
FOUTE A RYAXS,
Attorneys-At-I^aw.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Prompt and taithlul at
tention given to all business entrusted to us.
Office, corner Main and Erwin Streets, up
stairs. Cartersv'lle, Ga.
J. M. NEEL. j. j. CONNER. W. J. NEEL.
HFJEIa, CONMER A SEEL,
Atterneys-At-laaw.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of this state. Litigated cases made a
specialty. Prompt attention given to all bus
iness entrusted to us.
Office over Stokely A Williams’ store.
Cartersville, Ga.
R. E. CASON,
dentist,
CARTE RSVILLE, QA.
Office, over Curry’s Drug Store.
BR. J. T. HHITIftERB,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office at Curry’s Drug Store,
JDK* IV, R. LKAKE,
Physician au<l Surgeon,
Curt st*ville, Ga.
ter Office at Word's drug store.
I>K. W. fI.UEIAKJE,
Praeilcing Physician,
Cartersville, Ga.
Special attention given to dr-cases of women
and children, and all Chronic affections.
Office up stair-way between bank and post
office. May he found at office or Word’s drug
More.
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WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
The following time card in effect Sunday,
Dec. 30, Ibfcd;
NORTH BOUND
NO. S—WLSI>RN EX PICE'S— 1*;.,; ■ .
Leave Atlanta .. 73D m.
Arrive Marietta t u
•* (;arterville.... .. u ->r>
“ Kingston........ 9 f>->
“ Dalton i:
“ Chattanooga ', ; <np. m.
NO. I—FAST EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Atlanta ...... .. 2 r i . n
Arrive Marietta 3 21
*• CaVtersviile . i v'i
“ Dalton r, 2i
“ Chattanooga -■
NO. 11—LIMITED EXPRESS—O
Leave Atlanta i
Arrive Marietta . „
“ Cartersville • i
*• Dalton HI
“ Chattanooga 515
Rome Express—Nort/i—Daily, except Sunday.
Leave Atlanta 4 05 p. m.
Arrive Marietta 3 no
“ Cartersville ti 03
“ Rome 7 20
No. 1 carries Pullman cars from Atlanta to
Louisville, Jacksonville to Cincinnati, New
Orleans to Washington.
No. 11 carries Pullman cars from Savannah
to Chicago and Atlanta to Nashville.
SOUTH BOUND.
NO. 4-FAST EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 8 00 a. m.
Arrive Dalton 9 33
*• Kingston 1J ]
“ Cartersville .1142
“ Marietta 12 46 p.m.
Arrive Atlanta 1 45
NO. 2—SOUTHERN EXPRESS.
Leave Chattanooga 2 55 p, m.
Arrive Dalton 4 30
“ Kingston . .. 6 i>2
“ Cartersville 6 31
“ Marietta 7 47
Arrive Atlanta 840
NO. 12—LIMITED EXPRESS—DaiIy.
Leave Chattanooga ...10 15 p. m.
Arrive Dalton 1149
Cartersville 1 47 a. m.
“ Marietta 2 50
“ Atlanta 340
Rome Express—South—Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave R0m0... 8 30 a. in.
Arrive Cartersville. 9 45
“ Marietta 10-9
“ Atlanta 11 45
No. 4 carries Pullman cars from Cincinnati
to Atlanta, Washington, New Orleans, Louis
ville to Atlanta.
No. 12 carries Pullman cars from Chicago to
Savannah and Louisville to \tlanta.
B YV. WRKNN, Gen’l. Pass. Agt.
R. A. ANDERSON, Superintendent.
EAST & WEST R. R. OF ALA.
ON and after Sandav, Nov. 14, 1883, trains
on this road will run as follows:
GOING WEST—Daily, Except Sunday.
no. 1. NO. 3.
Leave Cartersville 950 a. m. 4 :;0 p. m.
“ Stiles boro ...102 4 42
“ Tiivloisville 10 37 517
“ Rockmart 11 10 5 50
Arrive Oedartown 12 00 0 40
GOING EAST—Daily, Except Sunday.
NO. 2. no. 4.
Leave Cedartown 205 p. m. 7ir a. in.
“ Rockmart. 3(H) 8 07
li Taylorsville 3 35 8 39
“ BCi eshoro ... 3 55 8 55
Arrive Cartersville 125 9 25
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION— Going-Best.
Leave Cedartown 8 00 a. m.
“ Stiles boro B.’>2
“ Taylorsville ‘ 924
“ Rockmart 9 40
Arrive Cartersville. 10 10
SUNDAY ACCOMMODATION—Going West.
Leave Cartersville . . . 2 R 0 p. m.‘
“ Stileshoro 3 2i
“ Taylorsville 3 37
“ Rockmart 4 10
Arrive Cedartown 5 00
ALABAMA DIVISION.
Daily, Except Sunday.
Leave East ft West Junction. . ..... 2 55 p. m.
Arrive B 1 oken Arrow (i 1 0
Leave Broken Arrow 9 v a. m.
Arrive East & West Junction 1 l.> p. m,
HOME RAILFOAD.
The following is the pic-ent .-v> > r
schedule:
no. 1 n6, 3.
Leave Rome 6id a m. 4 ' ■ , m
A 1 rive K tugstoa 855 5 o
no. 2 no. 4.
Leave Kingston ..9 tt m * .:•> p. n:
Arrive Rome .0 ar>... .... t>
NO. 5.*
Leave Rome 8 ’ a. . .
Arrive Kingston 9 00
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston 9 29 a. m.
Arrive Romo JO 10
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos.s and 6 will run Sundays only.
Nolwill not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Ch ittanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T.
Va. & Ga. U R.. for points south.
EKES H I LI.Y KR, President.
J. A. SMITH, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
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\V. L. DAJfLWI,
Gen. l’as & Tkt. Agent,
* Nashville, Tean,
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1884.
The Cartersville American.
Entered at (he, fasf Om* at Cart*rnilUi,
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1884.
Sifted Shimmsrings ' *
CULLED FROM
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SPREAD CtfT
Before our Eeaders.
Doctor Mary Walker is lost, stray
ed or stolen.
The reformer is apt to be the chim
ney sweep of politic^.
Washington city is the paradise
of knaves, fools and bores.
Pigs don’t break out of the pen so
long as there is swill for them.
It is time John Sherman is sick of
hi3 outrage Danville investigation.
General Grant’s crutches may send
him to the white house in March,
1885.
The Ohio and Indiana presidential
booms were ail washed away by the
floods. *
Several Arctic explorers arrived in
New York last week. They came in
coffins.
Mrs. Logan has made up her mind
that John shall be president. That
settles it.
Candidates for the republican pres
idential nomination seem to he on
the decline.
The tornado Sield an election in six
states last week, and carried every
thing before it.
Education is a great thing. Even
the boat racers depend on the power
cf the skull to win.
A great deal more architecture and
fewer architectural pretenders is one
thing the country needs.
The whisky ring is very efficiently
drilled and can assume all forms but
the square on instant notice.
John Sherman will not get enough
heat out of the Danville riot to save
the expense of buying a spring ovei
eoat.
*" No matter how close a horse race
may >.lie mail who wagers money
on the beaten horse always loses bs,
forfeit.
Cincinnati used to be called the
Paris of America. It is now chris
tened the Venice of the United
States.
Doctor Mary Walker desires it dis
tinctly understood that s ie was neith
er lost nor led astray during her re
cent absence.
Boynton is providing the music
and Keifer the variations in their
veracity investigation now going on
at the capitol.
The mild weather continued suffi
ciently long to cause the Thomas
cat’s fancy “to lightly turn to
thoughts of love.”
The eyes are described as the “win
dows of the soul.” When the eyes
are black and blue, however, the sen
timent does not have application.
Over a ton of valentines went
through the Chicago post-office on
the fourteenth. It is said that the
mail bags and letter boxes were all
gummed up with taffy.
The New York Sun should request
its presidential, candidate, Flower, to
dt fine himself. The country wants
to know whether ha is a Marshal
Nt*il rose dr a hollyhock.
The burglar who was shot and
wounded by a girl named Gable, in
a New England town, came near
meeting a Gable end. She “got her
Dutch np to a high pitch.”
“Hopesprings eternal in the hu
man breast,” but it never realizes
much on the inves.merit unless a
fellow gets square down to business
auo earns what h< hopes for.
People who are constantly talking
i about “what is due to society,'’ often
! forget altogether what F due to
j themselves, to say nothing of what is
| due to the butcher and the baker.
I J aim Sherman’s contribution for
j the relief of the II >od sufferers was
. larger this year than that he gave
last. Last, year lie gave nothing,?his
j year nothing multiplied by two. He
tloins to be a great sufferer by the
flood in Ohio list October.
Folger and Brewster are the twin
MKiwhers of this administration.
While they are waiting for some
thing to turn up. the people are wait
ing to see thorn turn down—and oat.
A bill for taxing “bnehelors, law
yers, and other Animals.” is pending
In the Wytovii: r Territory legisla
ture. It is -u-..*i ! ted that the -‘other
etimals” in the bill refers to wUdw-
Qiieea Victoria’s life is not a hap
py one. Hundreds of amateur poets
ve [Kirii fi: ii \i poetry at her on ihe
death, of J n Crown. The queen
o: now ryn.p* h ae with the edi
tors.
Asa humorous work, the book by
Queen Victoria surpasses anything
that has. as yet been, published in
the English language. It is funnier
than an old patent medicine alma
nac joke.
It is said that several presidential
aspirants look with envy on the
booming Ohio river. “Oh for a
boom like thail” is the burden of
their song, but ttiey don’t boom
worth a darn,
Suliivan, the Boston aesthete, is
making a bad impression cut west.
There is considerable delicacy dis
played m alluding to the matter, hut
it is hinted that iie may get shot un
less he goes home pretty soon.
With all their money, when the
millionaires come to cross the Styx
they will have to ride in the same
lidle old row boat with the rest of us.
They don’t have steam yachts or
silver-plated first cabin3 on Charon’s
ferry.
The vigil in tea out in Arizona hung
a man the other day hecau ehe was
a confirmed liar. Good graciou-J If
it gets to be the rule to hang liars,
none of us—that is to say, fhere are
a great many men who will be in
danger.
There are about fifty postmasters in
this country who receive a sHary of
one dollar a year. It’s worth that to
a man who has nothing"else to do but
to study human nature and chew to
bacco, to say nothing of the fun he’d
have in putting 1 alts in the wrong
bOX.
It takes money and scissors and
years of hatuand anxious shearing to
establish a newspaper, uud build
thereon a town. The man , who is
willing to take advantage of these
efforts without even furnishing a
whetstone to advance progress, is a
hog.
President Arthur with the aid of
a liver pad, a chest protector, severs!
porous piasters aid two magnetic
elect tie appliances, manages to keep
jYotn being'prostrated by the strain
of his candidacy for the republican
presi denti and nomination.
About a month ago, Tom K>ene
performed in Austin as Richard the
Third. Among the audience were
several members of the Texas legis
lature. When Richard exclaimed:
‘ A horse! a hoist! My kingdom for
a horsel’The Scions nudged each oth
er and whispered, “That’s an old
joke. I’ve heard that one before.”
The grand jury of Essex county,
New Jersey, recommends the use or
the whipping post for wife-beaters.
The man who whips his wife where
divorces areso easily obtained as in
New Jeisey, is a perfect brute. This
is saying a great deal, when it is
borne in mind that authorities on
natural history tell us that the brute
is an imperfect animal.
It is reported that General Ben
Butler was lately troubled with a
sort of boil on the top of his head—
occasioned, probably, by the mental
incalescerice evolved during the elec
tions. Heconsulted a physician,who
said: “It won’t signify, I think, gen
eral; but you’d better keep your eye
on it.” The general has been taking
the prescription ever since.
The forever lost beauty and vigor
of the legs of the late John Brown
continues to be the cause of poignant
grief to England’s queen. Lord Ten
nyson, hoping to assuage her sorrow,
lias changed one of his beautiful poei
ioal expressions to read as follows:
"Oh, for a sight of Brown’d vanish
ed legs, and the sound of his hoofs
that are still.”
Miles Hall, a bold Kentuckian,
over whose amative head nineteen
summers have not yet roiled, has
been lodged in jail at Citiettshurg,
in that state, on the charge of being
the simultaneous husband of four
wives. He was escaping on horse
back from his latest matrimonial al
liance when captured by Marshal!
Punch. In- the absence of a jury of
his peers, that bold, bail boy should
by tried oy his widows. The tact
du-tt his tirst marriage was contracted
! last September shows that he is
; eham-iighiniug i the bah room.
Fur th American.]
A SCHOOL LULL ROHMSCEME.
Sitting on a rustic seat ’nenth the
wide-spreading limbs of an aged oak
ft! a lovely grove in the seminary
campus of a busy, bustling town on
the Air Line railroad, was 1; thought
less -'ohnol -ori. It was the first d.i>
of April, 18S0. N 1 doubt many of
hf r schoolmates remember it, as.
> erh p-, it was indelibly impressed
on th< r minds as on hers. It was a
is-oiiiful -prog day, and she had
taken her (ext book and s(r< lied out
mere alone to study. We can Net
her now as she sits there, half reclin
ing, leaning on <*ne elbow, ner head
r sling in one hand, the book lying
open careies-ly by her side, her eyes
riveted on the ground a *h'*rt distance
from her, as 1 hough she was trying
to get her geology lesson out of the
ground instead of the book. She
seemed to be ruminating, perhaps
she was, but can’t say wnether it
was over her books or not.
In the midst of her reverie, she w as
by the hum of familiar voic
es, nearer and nearer the sound ap
proaches Suddenly turning her
head in the direction of the seminary,
her eyes meet with a merry group of
her schof lmates Coming as swiftly as
on eagle’s w’ings. She stares and
wonders, not less than a dozen differ
ent suppositions pervade her mind
ina moment’s time. Before she has
time to decide what she does think,
tliev are at her side.
“Get up from there; put away that
book; come and go with us,” rang
out a chorus of voices.
She hesitates, not fully compre
hending their intentions.
“We’re going to April Fool the
professors. Come on quickly. G*t
no time to lose. It’s nearly one
o’clock, time for the bell to ring
Come on! C/me on!” were the va
rious cries that met her ears.
Hesitating no longer, thinking on
ly of the fun they would doubtlessly
have, she ran by the cottage where
she boarded, left her book, snatched
her bonnet from its nail, and joins
her schoolmates, never giving a
thought as to what the consequences I
of such a wild goose chase might
possibly be.
Entertaining great fears of being
found out and pursued, they traveled
quite rapidly, and as noiselessly as.
possible, until they were out of ali
danger on that score. After running
until almost breathless, jumping
ditches, climbing, or rather failing
over fences and logs, they came to a
large sink-hole, some of them termed
it cave. Here they paused a lew
moments, pitching rocks and sticks
into it. Some of the braver ones
ventured to near the edge and
p* ep ov. r. Suddenly the alarm,
‘.snake- ! ” was echoed and re-echoed
iM one who wasn’t l x king would
have thought the ground was made
of the dreaded repi l j s. Such run
ning, scrambling and yelling as they
went ringing through the old forests.
In the flurry and confusion, some of
them left bonnets, others tore their
pinafores completely off and left pie
ctsof their Shepard plaid calicos on
the bu-hes, iti remembrance, we sup
pose (?).
At length they And themselves in
an unknown road, unknown to them.
While standing there debating which
end of the road to take, they saw a
queer looking object at some distance
ahead of them. As they approached,
it proved to be a rusty old cart drawn
by au old brokr n-horned, one-eyed
steer. The driver was lying extend
ed his full length on the cart, appar
ently asleep. However, he was des
tined not to remain in that condition
any longer. The girls gave such
shouts and outbursts of laughter that
the frightened man gathered his lines
and yelled, “Whoa! whoa!” to the
now ungovernable animal, and look
ed all the whi’e as though he thought
“Surely I have been transported to
another world.”
Leaving him to realize tbe true
state of affairs, they move onward
till they see at some distance, in an
old broom-3edge field, a dilapidated
looking old house. Delighted at be
ing once more in sight of a house,
with quickeued pace they move on.
Slopping at the fence theycal ed out:
“Granny, will your dog bite?” On
being as-ured by the good old dame
that the dogs were not at ihe house,
they advanced to the do<>r and asked
fur water. Toe blue bucket and the
crooked neck gourd were produced,
and their thirsts were quenched.
Their benefactress eyed them rather
curiously over her spectacles, and
ventured to ask where they were
from, and where they were going.
One of the girls answered that they
were al! the way from Georgia, but
hardly knew where they going, and
added, giving the girls a wink not to
laugh, that they were hungry and if
she would give them something to
eat that she would tell her fortune.
The old lady smiled and remarked
that they didn’t much resemble Gyp
sies, and besides-she thought that
crowd cot-11 about eat up ail she had.
No doubt sin tecoguisj and tne uniform
' 1! the sernin :ry girls, which was
Shepherd plaid calico, and remem-
I bering fhe fact Shut it was the fir-U
day of April, **touk in the whole
! thing” at a glance.
I
From thence they proceeded until
hey came to a beautiful little brook.
Here they paused to rest. One of
* :*m mounted a stump and amused
ihe.others by giving them what she
culled a “stump speech,” anyway
-he was on a stump when it was de
livered. Suddenly ail eyes were
turned in thu direction from whence
came a low rumbling sound. A dark
threatening cloud rolling direct
y toward them. A few questioning
glances were cast, and in less lime
than it takes to tell it, they w’ere
making tracks as fad as their feel
could carry them in the direction
they thought was home. The thun
der rolled, the lightniug flasned, the
w ind raged furiously, and the decay
ed limbs of the old trees were flying
in every direction and fulling on ev
ery side. The rain now’ poured in
torrents. For the first lime they
now perceived their imminent dan
ger. Fortunately nobody was hurt,
except getting a thorough drenching.
A worse frightened crowd, we guess,
never were seen. VVe’U venture the
old president himself, <*ould he have
s j en them, would have felt a little
bad for them. Doub'less he would
have taken them, some of tbetn at
least, to be walking representations
of “Before Taking.” The wind and
rain ceased, and ail w T as calm again.
The truants now had ab ut five
miles to walk before reaching tfn
campus, so they put off at full speed,
as if they thought a catamount or
some wild animal was on track of
them. The girls who knew the roads
took the lead, the rest followed. At
length, very much fatigued, they ar
rived at the house of one of the pro
fessors, where a number of the girls
boarded. Here they stopped to rust,
get some refreshments, and see what
time it was. The landlady was very
muen surprised at seeing them, and,
after finding out the state of things,
sent a runner to the seminary to
inform the president of their where
abouts. As it was vet, some time be
fore chapel exercises, the girls look
ed rather puzzled, but one of their
not-tn-be-outed-kind remarked :
“Girls, it would be advisable for
11s to pull for another shore.”
Henceforth they left for parts un
known—to the landlady. Taking a
circuitous route, the wended their
way along a pig-trail, which led to a
woodland in rear of the seminary
campus. Here they seated them
selves on a raft of legs to await the
ringing of the beil which denoted
the time for chapel exercises. They
talked and chatted, wondering what
would be done with them for their
late transgression. In a few minutes
they start, at the S ;Und of the bell,
for the seminary. Marching direct
ly up stairs, they took their re
spective places, as though nothing
had occurred. The president came
up looking rather surly, and evident
ly as if something unusual hac hap
pened to rnffla his temper. He call
ed the roll, omitting all the names of
all the runaways.
The girls began to look like they
were “sent for and couldn’t go.” Af
ter singing and prayer, professor
roared out: “All those girls who ran
away this afternoon, will remain af
terdismission, asl wish tosee t hem.”
Of course, all that passed need not be
repeated. Suffice it to say that he
had to attend prayer-meeting that
evening, but he thought it best for
them to remain in the chapel until
his return What better did they
want? They proceeded to amuse
themselves in various ways—talking,
ptaying. singing and dancing, taking
an occasional loos out of the window
to make sure that none of the profes
sors were in sight. After some time
they see him waddling aloug, with
hat in hand, looking furious.
He came on, walked up stairs, and
straightway demanded an explana
tion as to where they had been, and
what they meant by such conduct,
but first told them that he had been
informed that they had previously
made arrangements v\iih the boys to
meet them and go to ride.
They all opened wide their mouths
and eyes in blank astonishment. Of
course it was no such thing. It was
all the makeup of somebody. So
one of the girls took the floor and
made a masterly effort to “expi tin
things and deny any such false accu
sations.” She told him that they
only meant to have a little fun, nev
er thought of the boys, but if they
had, of course they aJi knew that
under the penalty of suspension iu
tJefiuin lv, if not expulsion, they weer
riot allowed to have any communica
tion whatever with young m *u # tio not
even to look sideways at otteof them.
At the close of tier speech, the old
professor was laughiutr in spite of all
efforts to 1 <-k sour. It was now his
turn to take ttie floor. lie gave
them a good lecture, but added that
be Would pardon them, and hoped
! that tie w uld never have occasion
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t>do so again, and that they must
stay in next day and recite all les
sons that had been missed that eve
ning, and also that they had forfeit
ed all right to compete for the prizes
that had been offered. It waa now
dark and they were glad to be dis
missed, and went home, ate their
suppers, studied till ten o’clock, and
retired to dream oftheday’s proceed
ings. Thus passed the first day of
April, ISBO.
One op the Runaways,
METHODIST CENTENNIAL.
How the 31. E. Church, South, Proposes to
Celebrate the Great Event.
This year, 1884, is a great and not
able one in the annals of American
Methodism. It will witness the cele
bration of the one hundredth anniver
sary of the Methodist Episcopal
Church ou this continent, and is cer
tain to prove a year of unusual activ
ity and profound interest throughout
the wide-extended borders of that
powerful denomination of Christians.
The grand historic facts relating to
the beneficent character and wonder
ful achievements of Christianity
through the organized plans and the
doc’rines of Methodism during its
pathway through this century of its
existence in America, are truly phe
nomenal, as acknowledged by the
world’s leading minds, and is one of
the grandest problems of the ages.
With more communicants than any
other religious body in America, it is
a matter of interest to briefly review
some of the facta of general interest
connected with the history of the
Methodist Church, beginning in ob
scurity and feebleness, it has achiev
ed for itself every where a most won
derful success. This great religious
movement has, immediately or re
motely, so given an impulse to Chris
tian feeling and profession, on all
sides, that it has come to present.itself
as the starting-point of our modern
religious history.
In 1774, the year when the Metho
dist church was organized in Balti
more, when C >ke and Asbury were
acknowledged and set apart as Super
intendents, or Bishops, there were
only 14.958 members, 83 preachers, 64
church-buildings, no missionaries,
and no institution of learning within
the bounds of the denomination. But
from that time until the present the
growth of Methodism has been almost
incalculable. This result was achiev
ed by the men who can well be de
nominated heroes in the loftiest sense
of the word. Accepting the motto of
John Wesley—their Church’s found
er —“The World is my Parish,” these
• nen of God traversedj every state
and territory of our great country,
preaching the gospel with power and
in demonstration of the spirit—build
ing up the chu ch. Their entire sin
gleness of purpose in spreading the
gospel has been their prominent char
acteristic, and to-day American
Methodism numbers within her va
rious branches 3,993 724 members;
25,836 traveling preachers, and 34,-
714 local preachers; 32,000 church ed
ifices valued at $100,090,000; 258 in
stitutions of learning, embracing
universities, colleges, seminaries and
high school-; in 1882 had 433 mission
aries in foreign fields sent from
America, besides 1,906 native help
ers; and during that year contribu
ted for the cause of foreign missions
the surn of $551,448.44.
The M. E. church, south, has pre
pared to join in the celebration of
“the Centennial Anniversary of the
Organization of the Methodist Epis
copal Church in America,” which
will occur in Bal.imore on Decem
ber 27, aud proposes to commemo
rate the great event throughout its
entire bounds with suitable services
aud by raising fuuds for educational
purposes, church extension, and mis
sions—three uoble objects to which
the liberality of the church will cer
tainly respond. Two millions of dol
lars is the amount proposed to be
raised for these objects, and that this
purpose can be accomplished there
should be nodoub ;it will certainly
not exhaust the treasury of this
strong church with its nearly nine
hundred thousand members.
Able and competent committees
have this work in hand, and will
spare no effort to successfully con
summate it. The Central Centenary
committee, with headquarters at
Nashville, Tenn., is composed as fol
lows: E. R. Hendrix, D. D., of Mis
souri, chairman; W. P. Harrison,
D. D., secretary; Wils. Williams, as
sistant secretary; Judge James Whit
worth, treasurer; Bishop H, N. Mc-
Tyeire, L. D Palmer, esq., of Nash
ville, and James G. Carter, esq., cf
Louis vide, Ky. The following is
the centenary committee of the
Rome district. T. F. Pierce, P. E.,
Rev. J. W. Lee, Hamilton Yancy.
Tommy(wbos9 papa bad just
bought him a log)—‘‘Mama, is baby
thoroughbred?” Fond mama-” What
an extraordinary question; why?”
Tommy— ‘‘Then please hold her up
by tue ears and see if she’ll howl.”