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THE CARTERS VILLE COURANT.
VOLUME 1.
A SSI VBRSA RYU YMS.
BY If AH! A I.CM'HI EVE.
Sung by the members of the Baptist
Convention in Augusta, written by one of
Augusta’s fair daughters:
Come, let us take sor;t counsel.
As we pitch our tents this year,
Pilifrims through a world sorrow,
Tarry now tar strength and cheer;
Come, tage* her let us roasoa,
Heart to heart in sweet commune—
Laborers in our Father’s vineyard,
Heating to; j *' hour at neon.
Come, and Ist us take sweet counsel.
Learning, yearning for the Land
Where, no longer blind and tearful,
Kye and heart shall anderstaud;
Come, together let us reason
Of the fairer dwelling place
Where, unhindered, we shall ever
See each other, face to facs.
Come, and let us take sweet counsel
Of our elder brother’*
And the place He is prepor,
In His Father’s house above;
Coma, together let us reason
Of the world, where sorrows cease.
Lest our fact should faint aad falter
lire we reach its shores of peace.
Far lilt CoiBANT.
Reminiscences of the Cherokees,
By HO*. J. W. 11. UNDERWOOD, of Rome,
Georgia.
CHAPTER X.
Copyrighted 1885. All rights reserved, j
Tii ten counties originally made out
of the Cherokee country, within the
chartered limits of Georgia, have been
divided and subdivided until now there
are twenty-one.
The county of Chattooga was named
after the Chattooga river, and was formed
out of parts of Floyd and Walker.
The county of Polk waß made by di
viding the county ot Paulding and was
named in honor of James K. Polk, the
twelfth President of the United States.
Haralson county was formed out of
parts of Paulding, Polk and Carroll, and
was named in honor of Hugh A. Haralson,
of Troup county, long a representative
In Congress.
Fannin county was formed from Un
ion and Gilmer, and named to perpetuate
the memory of the brave and intrepid
Fannin, who fell in Texas at the battle
of the Alamo, with Travis and Crockett.
Towns county was formed out out of
the territory of Union and Rabun, and
named for Geo. W. Towns, twice Gov
ernor of Georgia.
Pickens county was formed out of
parts of Gilmer and Cherokee, and
named in honor of General Andrew
Pickens of revolutionary memory.
Whitfield county was formed out of
parts of Murray and Walker, and named
in honor of George Whitfield, one of the
cotemporaries of Ashury and Coke.
Catoosa county was formed from parts
of Walker and Whitfield, and named to
perpetuate the memory of the famed
mineral springs in the county, then and
now the property of Mr. ij. H. Hick
man, of Augusta, Georgia. m
Dade county was made out of part ot
the territory of Walker county west of
the Lookout mountain, and was named
for the gallant Major Dade who, with
his whole command was massacred in
Florida by the Seminole Indians.
Dawson county was formed from parts
of Gilmer, Lumpkin and Forsyth and
named to honor the memory of William
Crosby Dawson, long a representative
and senator in Congress.
Milton county was formed of part of
t|ie territory of CJierojiee and po{)b, and
in honor of John Milton, a dis
tinguished son of Georgia.
Gumming, the county site of Forsyth,
was named in honor of Gen. Alfred
Cuinming.
lbihlonega, which means ((old, in th
ludUn tongue, is the county aite of
Lumpkin.
plairsrule, named tor Tol. Raines
jjlair, a revolutionary soldier, of whom
WP have told you, is the copnty site of
Union.
liiwaseie, named for the moat beauti
ful little river lliwassie, and was named
by the writer of these reminiscences.
Morgan ton, the county site of Fannin,
yua named by the parojiniaps who
•allied it, in honor of Morganton, N. C.
Klijay, situated on the Eli Jay river, is
named for the river, and is the county
site of Gilmer.
Spring Place, the county site of Mur
ray, was named thus because of the
(lib numerous boiling, refreshing springs
louud there,
Dawsonvllle is the county town of
Dawson.
Jasper the courthouse town of Pick
ens, was named for Sergeant Jasper, the
companion of Newton, two soldiers |nd
patriots who rescued the husband of
sorrowing Mrs. Jones from the British
army ucar Savannah during the revolu
tionary war.
Canton is the county silt f,r /* < berokee
county, named in honor Canton, in
China. Certain persons calculated to i
raise large quantities of tea hoping to I
supply the American market. Accord
ing to my information the tea plant was
first grown successfully there, so far as
{he itate of Georgia is concerned.
Aiphi v ' r a is the county site oi Milton, j
named to perpetuate the memory of an
Indian girl.
Marietta, the county site of Cobb, was
named to perpetuate somebody’s “little
Mary.”
The county site of Cass, was Oassville,
but when the name of the county was
changed to Bartow, the town changed
itsef to Manasses. It has returned to its
qld love again and Manasses is no more.
partersvUle Is now the county site of
Bartow, named in honor of Farish Car
ter, Esq., of Baldwin county, Georgia.
When the Western aud Atlantic rail
road was projected, W. W. Gordon, of
Savannah, was one of the leading mem
bers of the Legislature, and Gordon
county was named in his honor.
Calhoun, the county site* was called
for Hon. J. C. Calhoun, of S. C., a great
and honored statesman and leader.
Dallas, the county town of Paulding,
is called for Hon. George Mifflin Dallas,
Vice-President of the United States from
1545 to 1849.
Buchanan, the county site of Haralson,
was named to honor Hon. James Buch
anan, the fifteenth President of the
United States.
Cedartown, the county site of Polk,
took its name from the multitudinous
growth of cedars in and around the
town.
Except MeLemore’s cove, Cedar Val
ley is the most fertile in the State of
Georgia.
Home, the county site of Floyd, is
named for old imperial Rome, built on
seven hills at Ihe confluence of the
Oostanaula and Etowah riven, at the
head of Coosa, which is the principal
branch of the Alabama river.
Rome has great natural advantages,
enjoys considerable trade, and will be
noticed more fully hereafter.
Dalton, the county site of Whitfield,
is named alter Mr. Dalton, of New York,
a railroad magnate of distinction in the
early days of railroad travel and trans
portation. Dalton will be a city of im
portance at some future time.
Ringgold, the county town of Catoosa,
iscalled in memory of gallant Major
Ringgold,of the United States army, who
organized the first battery of “Flying
Artillery.”
Summerville, In Chattooga, was sup
posed to be the spot where summer
tourists would congregate for the sake of
health and pleasure.
LaFayette, in Walker county,was nam
ed in honor of gallant Marquis De La-
Fayette, the French nobleman who left
bis vine-clad hills, in la ville France,
crossed the stormy ocean, endured the
privations anci dangers of the revolu
tionary war to aid the American people
in their struggle for liberty. He was the
friend of Washington.
Trenton, the county site of Dade, was
a namesake of Trenton, New Jersey,
Haralson, Paulding, Milton, Cobb,
Cherokee, Forsyth, Dawson, Pickens,
Lumpkin, Union, Towns, Fannin and
Gilmer, are what is called free-stone
lands—secondary formation, abounding
in minerals, gold, marble, iron, etc.
Precious stones are found in all of them.
The country is billy and mountainous,
lying on both sides of the g*-eat Blue
Ridge chain of mountains. This region
is exceedingly well watered, with the
finest springs and wells of water.
Creeks and small rivers are met with
frequently.
The valleys of land, even where they
are small, are exceedingly fertile and
healthy. They are fluely timbered with
oak, hickory and pine.
Water power for mills and manufacto
ries is found in great abundance. The
scenery in places is very grand, the
mountains and hills affording landscapes
of exceeding beauty, perhaps unsur
passed on the globe.
The counties of Polk, Floyd, Bartow,
Gordon, Chattooga, Whitfield, Murray,
Catoosa, Walker and Dade, are all on
the limestone foundation. The soil is
more fertile, the valleys wider and richer,
the creeks and rivers larger, and while
the springs and branches are less nu
merous, they are much larger, making it
a well watered section and very produc
tive. Perhaps there is no section on the
glofip ipqr? ifcsjralfie $s habitation and
a homo.
The productions are diversified, corn,
wheat, rye, oats, and all the cereals are
cultivated in great abundance. Pota
toes, peas, pumpkins, cabbages, etc., are
made in abundant profusion. The apple,
the plum, peach, nectarine, apricot and
qherry groVys in great perfection.
vyild grapes are indigenous to the soil,
and the pqltirated grape is as prolife as
in the South of prance.
Iron is found in immense quantities.
There is no part of Pennsylvania supe
rior to a section one hundred miles in
diameter, of which Rome is the center,
for iron pre^.
Here maYbe found the hematite, mag
netic and fosstiiferous ores in apparently
inexhaustible quantities.
Coal is found in the Raccoon and Look
out ranges of mountains. Down the
Coosa river from Rome it is found in
large yelp;, also near Gadsden and
Qreensport, in Alabama, now navigable
for steamboats of considerable size.
Cotton grows finely in the Southern
portion of this region. The valleys teem
with a healthy, industrious, enterprising
population, who produce in great abun
dance tpe nectaries of life and some of
its luxuries, phurches, schools and col
leges abound. The most numerous re
ligious denomination is the Baptist, the
next in point of numbers is the Metho
dist, next the Presbyterian and then the
Episcopalian. There is but little bigotry
or spirit of intolerance, and the few
Catholics hepe arg as free to worship
after their faith as any other religious
sect. Everybody can worship God after
the dictates of their own conscience with
pone to molest or make them afraid.
Wnen the white people first settled in
this country among the Indians, the pro
ductions of the virgin soil were wonder
ful to behold. The produce sold very
low, as there were no railroads and no
navigable streams qearer than two hun
dred miles. Corn sold in some places at
25 cents a bushel, pork 2 to cents per
pound, and the best and thriftiest farm
ers hauled their produce in wagons hun
dreds of miles to find a market. The
dry goods were brought from Charleston,
Savannah, Augusta and Columbus, Ga.
| Salt was purchased at four dollars a
| bushel, and all heavy goods eost two dol-
I lars per hundred pounds to get them
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1885.
from the market. The people spun and
wove their own clothes, and bought only
salt, sugar and coffee, making the rest of
their provisions themselves.
In due course of time, Cherokee Geor
gia had better means of transportation
and more “store clothes.” But the rail
road excitement did not agitate the
! county of Rabun to any serious extent
until some time about the year 1854.
There lived near Clayton, a tanner,
who fancied himself an orator, and who
arrived at the conclusion that his “spe
cialty” was speaking on railroads. Like
many of the sons of Adam he was vain
of his attainments, and he believed he
was able to elucidate the entire system
of American internal improvements.
His education was limited. Lindley
Murray and himself had a very slight
acquaintance, or indeed any other au
thor on English grammar. Horne Tooke
might have thought lie murdered the
King’s English and general literature.
But he generally made up in sound what
he lacked in sense. To a cultivated au
dience, the ringing of a six-shilling bell
would have been equally satisfactory.
He might be considered a fair illustra
tion of vox et preteria nihil. When there
was nothing else on hand to amuse,
during pourt Sessions, we often inveigled
him into speech-making on railroads.
We trained the boys to applaud until
they became perfect in the art. Some
times, it is true, it came in at the wrong
place, and a time or so it lasted longer
than tha circumstances justified. Asa
result, his vanity became almost intol
erable. We consulted at last as to how
we should let him down to his level. A6
he was always ready to spout, we allured
him to collect a crowd and begin. So
soon as he got started one of the foremost
in the audiance rose up and left. He was
followed by another, and another, until
the last man, who was by agreement, to
sit it out with solemn cast of counte
nance, rose up and interrupted the
speaker, who, nothing daunted by the
departures, was gesticulating wildly, his
voice elevated to its highest pitch. The
Solitary auditor at last gained his at
tention and brought the speaker’s eyes
down to his level.
Holding his watch In his hand, he re
marked : “I believe your time is about
out,” and turned to leave.
The orator, at last understanding the
situation, replied: “Well, l believe
it is.”
The railroads lost their champion in
this wise, and it is said he never at
tempted another address on that or any
other subject.
There resided in Rabun county a very
extraoruinat > man, who like the fore
going had very little education. lie had
considerable property, accumulated by
his parents before him, but that was all
he had in the way of advantages. He
had never heard of any salt but Liver
pool salt, but he had not the remotest idea
in the world where Liverpool was situa
ted, whether it was a town,a manufactory,
or a government, he was totally unin
formed. He had no conception of the
ocean. If there was any larger sheet of
water than Horace Cannon’s mill-pond,
which covered about an acre of land, he
was not aware of it. But he had good
practical sense, so far as his information
extended, and lie studied all questions
that concerned him in a business way
with a great deal of zeal and earnest
ness.
One day he inquired of me very se
riously, “If there was more than one
road to Liverpool ?” I|e explained that
that the subject gave him concern, that
he did not think there was more than one,
but he decided to ask me for information.
I promptly replied “there was not,”
He then went on to unburden himself.
He thought we would be in a very bad
way should this country ct into a war
with jpiverpooi. Should that ong road
get blockaded we would certainly perish
for salt.
It requircaj au to getp my face,
but I did so, and remarked “that the idea
had never occurred to me before. I had
associated a good deal with Judge Hill—
yer, llowell Cobb and Judge Dougherty,
and not one of them haq eyes discussed
this important subject.’* Reflecting a mo
ment, I requested him not to say any
thing more on the subject until I ex
amined into it, concluding with the sage
remark: “Now won’t it be a feather in
the cap of little Rabun if this jde& of
making anothef roacj to Liverpool shall
be, as "it ought to he, credited to one of
her people here?” We agreed to con
sult Judge Dougherty.
In my judgment, and in the judgment
of Rabun county also, Judge Dougherty
was the greatest man who ever set foot
in Rabun county. i|y pvoYinpial friend
became excited and insisted that I should
arrange that he might interview Judge
Dougherty as early as possible, I ad
vised him to see the Judge directly after
supper.
When I 6aw the Judge and told him
the circumstances, he laughed heartily
but copld hardly credit it. We agreed
to humor the joke.
When the anxious inquirer about
Liverpool came in he was very self-im
portant. Judge Dougherty explained
that he was surprised, that the idea
was a novel one to himself, for it had
sutely never occurred to him before.
Certainly, if we went to war with
Liverpool the salt made there would be
cut o$ from us. The Judge remarked
that tbi9 sectiou of country had beeu
represented in Congress by Wiley
Thompson and Judge Clayton when he
was young, and afterward by Howell
Cobb and Judge Hillyer. Turning to me
he remarked; “These great men never
contemplated such a contingency. If it
is flashed upon Congress that these great
statesmen failed to contemplate such an
idea, and the startling fact becomes
I known that Rabun originated it, there is
no telling what may happen. Fulton
was made immortal by the fact that a
boiling tea-kettle opened up the power
of steam.”
It was decided that a meetiug in the
courthouse should be held the next night,
when Mr. should present his views
and flush the idea on the assembled mul
: titude. The originator of tho Liverpool
dtlemna grew more excited. I whis
pered that he keep “mum” on the sub
ject until the speaking opened on the
: next night.
The humor of the thing made Judge
Dougherty put on extra dignity with a
| look of mischievous mystery. To make
j the affair more complete, I informed an
other son of the mountains, Mr. Jordan
Gaines, that Mr.— was about to make
a speech in the courthouse that would j
astonish the world. *1 hinted that it ;
might make him so well known as to get
him into the legislature,
“Jord” Gaines replied, “I say make a
speech! He can’t speak 1 I can beat
him myself, and if he tries to do it, I’ll
reply to him; see if I don’t?”
I was pleased to see Jordan enter into
the matter. It promised to be enter
taining. Jordan was a trump card, play
him where you would. He was six feet
five inches in height, with large bones,
weighing two fiqndrgd and twenty-five
pounds, and no surplus flesh on him.
His shoulders were broad, and his legs
and arms were long and brawny. His
fingers were nine inches long, and hfe
shoes were number thirteen. I had seen
him drink nearly a pint of corn whisky
at a draught without taking the flask
from his mouth. He could put a quart
flask of whisky in his breeches pocket
apd you would not have suspected if you
had not known it, that it was there,
He was, or had been, a hard-shell
Baptist preacher, and was a good man,
full of eccentricities. He generally got
excited while preaching. Once he
leaped over the breast-board of the pul
pit while loam ran out of his mouth,
which so amazed his brethren and sisters
that they fled the pjaqe immediately.
He was eager to meet our Liverpool
orator, and ready for the onset. After
court was over it was announced, that
there would be speaking in the court
house and a number of country people
remained to hear it, Sam Beck, E Jward
Coffee, Cols. Mosely, Cannon and Bleck
ly. Jack Martin, Bill Gillespie, Bailey
Dance and many others were there. We
prevailed on Esquire A. M. Norris, (as
good a man as ever lived) to preside over
the meeting. The Liverpool orator took
a seat between Judge Dougherty and
myself. When the chairman announced
the meeting ready for business, he rose
with great apparent confidence, and
made about the following speech, as near
as I can recall it:
Mr. Chairman, anAtjcllow-oifjEoWs; t
have never before troubled you with any
of my views. I was born amongst you,
and I have stayed at home and minded
my own business; working to make a
living for my wife and children. I have
never asked you for any office. I have
always been willing for Cols. Bleckley or
Coffee, or Cannon, or Jack Martin, to go
to the Legislature. Whether (shall ever
go, depends on you and not me.” Jor
dan Gaines raised his head and grunted
“humph!” in a very audible way. “I
am now’ forty years old; have thought a
great deal about the present and future
of our great country. I think I love ray
country as much as any of you,*’ turning
and looking at the former representatives.
“Rut no one man can think of every
thing. We have had smart men in Con
gress. Mr. Howell Cobb and Judge
Ilillyer is great men. Judge Dougherty
is greater than any of them, and he don’t
know everything. ‘The weak things of
this world shah confound the mighty!’
Here he pitched his voice to the roof apd
squealed with all his might- sup
pose yoq wm to, £0 io war with th© goy
•rnment of Liverpool. There ain’t but
one road there, and suppose an army was
placed on that road so that waggins and
carts can’t travel, hotc would we get any
salt? That’s what I want fo know. I
am trow for opening anew road to Liver
pool!” Just here some of ua showed
our interest in the subject: “That’s so!”
“Did you ever think of it before!”
“Here’s a statesman for you!” “Hur
rah for Rabun!” could b all
around.
Th* orator was deeply moved himself,
and proceeded: “If you think my mer
its demand my promotion, why that’s
with you!” There was a varied impres
siou made on the listeners. Some were
evidently pleased, but Gaines was not
one of them. “Jord” looked at me and
I nodded encouragement. He arose and
shook his mane. He flung down his hat
and stamped one of his No. 13’s on the
floor, which went off like a small-sized
Christmas gun.
“Mr. Chairman, I understand this
game. It is plain to me what he is after.
Why didn’t he go to our member of Con
gress and ask his advice ? No, he comes
here, gets up this meeting for his own
use, and without warning he thrusts in
his views about salt, and anew road to
Liverpool. Now, I am in favor of salt
myself. It’s a useful thing in a family,
but what’s the use of making all thi.-
fuss about it! Ah ! I understand all this
fuss about salt and anew road to Liver
pool! I say, reaching out his long,
bony fingers to his opponent, yelling in k
stentorian voice which could be heard a
j aa lt a mile,) lam disgusted; yes sir, dis
■ gusted.” Squatting down so that hi
coat-skirts swept the floor, he stretched
| over a space of about seven feet, bis
; knotty Hagers scratching on the floor,
j he roared, “Mr. Chairman, I alius did
i despise to see a man side-wiping around
j and about, trying to get into the orthog
raphy of a little office!” The appiau- .
j was so furious, that the chaU?
man was obliged to adjourn the meeting.
So ended the road to Liverpool, which
was to go by way of the Legislature, and
perhaps by Congress, and perhaps by
the Presidency.
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.)
ECHOES FROM NEW MEXICO.
Dear Couraxt : As we said in our
last, the religion of our population, Mex
icans and Indians, is a mixture. It is
nearly always a low form of Romanism
with some of the ancient customs of the
Indians mixed in. Some of their observ
ances are of the most barbarous kind.
One way they have of sell torture is by
running barefoot over cactuses strewn
thickly on the ground, while they are
beaten over their naked backs by a spe-
O es of limbed ca tus in tho hands of their
friends. The worst form of your prickly
pear is tame when compared to the cac-
tuses used in this self-punishment. These
poor, deluded souls, seem to deem it a
very great privilege to be the “peuiten
tials” on such occasions, though they
sometimes die in the greatest agony be
fore the performance is over. It is hard
to conceive of the suffering they undergo.
Now that American civilization is grow
ing so strong these revolting practices
are observed more secretly and are con
demned by the priests, but the civil law
and the influence of the priesthood are
powerless In some sections.
The face ot the country is marked by
long ranges of mountains and foothills,
the most of which are barren wastes of
rocks, w’hile some produce tine timber,
and intervening valleys and wide reach
ing plains. In the mountains almost ev
erywhere valuable stores of minerals are
found. Gold, silver, iron and copper are
the leading kinds. Extensive mining
operations are carried on in many parts,
but to a skeptical looker-on, like myself,
these do not seem to promise fabulous
wealth, either to capitalists or laborers.
Still many hundreds stake their capital
and many thousands toil and suffer. Oh,
for such faith in oi.r religious work!
The valleys and plains always afford
some kind of growth, such as the mes
quite, or sage brush, or at least a yearly
crop of grass, which springs up during
the rainy season. In the South the mes
quite roots, which are enormous compar
ed to the bushes they sustain, are our
main dependence for fuel. The grass
crop is always sufficient to carry the
stock through from year to year. The
soil is good, and where irrigation is pos
sible, fine crops of wheat, oats, corn,
etc., can be raised. Excellent fruits are
grow r n, and as fine grapes as America
affords. The Rio Grande passing through
the whole length of the Territory, from
North to South, affords w’ater for the ir
rigation of thousands of acres of land.
There are other streams of minor impor
tance. Artesian water is being sought in
several places. The sound of our large
"drill., run by steam power, reaches my
ear just ncw, ami the result of its strokes
is aw r aited with interest. In this imme
diate section sufficient water for all ordi
nary purposes, and even for watering
cattle and vegetable gardens, can be se
cured by digging from forty to seventy
five feet. For raising this water to the
surface windmill power is the kind com
monly used. Cattle, sheep and goats do
well here without being fed at any sea
son.
In some parts considerable game—d*er,
elk, bear—is found. Many “Jack rab
bits,” prairie dogs and coyotes (small
wolves) inhabit the plains.
From the fact that the air is so trans
parent, strangers are liable to be greatly
decieved in estimating distances. Many
ridiculous and some serious mistakes
have been made. The rairage is very in
teresting. fountains are apparently
lifted up and inverted, and great inland
seas and beautiful lakes look so refresh
ing that it is hard to think them a delus
ion.
Geologically' the whole face of the
country is of the greatest interest. That
much of it is of volcanic origin is plainly
evident. Seoriae in great abundance is
found in many places. Extinct volcanoes
are found, and rocks bear signs of great
heat. Petrified specimens of wood and
water animals in great variety are found,
among which a*e specimens of bark indi
cating that forests of large trees once
grew where not a tree stands to-day.
The strangest seeming contradictions oc
! cur all around us. Very truly,
P. L. Stanton.
Where the Money Went.
The United States war steamer Florida,
which has been rotting for several years
at the grass-grown Leathean docks of
the New London yards, is being broken
up and carted away by a junk dealer,
who paid less than $50,000 for the hulk.
The Florida cost the government $1,800,-
000. She was a swift vessel, but her
machinery was so powerful that she
oould not carry coal enough to run her
across the ocean. She never made but
one little trip. After this exploit she
was tied up at the Brooklyn yard and the
rotting process began. The first cost
and expenses of this ship represent an
outlay of at least $2,200,000. For this
the government has less than $50,000 to
show.
“This,” remarks the Manchester
ion, “was one of the eftoits of the re
publican administratien to furnish the
country with a navy, and yet as the sto
ry is told to-day the wicked democratic
party is responsible because of the fee
bleness of our naval defenses.”
Celebrated Monarch Shirt “ has on
equal. For sale by Jones Bros. & Cos.
Beautiful line Gent’s Neckwear at
Jones Bros. & Cos.
♦ ♦
150 pairs Ladies arid Misses Cloth
Shoes from 50c to $1.50, worth $1 and
$2.25. Jones Bros. & Cos.
All-Wool Nuns Veiling at lSe, worth
30c. Jones Bros. & Cos.
■JUDIES’ COL EKK-f
THE SMALLEST WOMAN ALIVE.
The parlors of the Ashland House, on
Fourth Avenue, near twenty-third street,
were crowded yesterday with friends of
Miss Lucia Zarate, “ the human doll,”
who was holding a reception. Miss Lucia
is the smallest woman in the world, weigh
ing but 4J pounds. Her clothing would
fit anew born infant, it taking but one
yard of cloth to make her a costume.
Standing on the centre marble table in the
parlor she received her guests, accepting
tlieir tributes of flowers with gracious ease,
and in each case returning thanks in bro
ken English for their kindness. Her
height is but 26| inches ; her chest meas
ures 15( inches ; waist 144 ; arms eight
inches in length ; middle finger 14 inches,
and little finger £of an inch. She has
over 300 costumes, and every morning she
selects the dresses she desires to wear.—
New York Times.
Miss Cleveland’s Temperance Opinions.
From the Living Issue. 1
The following appeal to girls was
written by Elizabeth Cleveland, the
present mistress of the White House,
and was published in the Youth’s Tem
perance Banner, Feb. 18, 1882 •
J. G. Holland wrote in Mrs. Hayes al
bum these words: “Women only can
make wine drinking unfashiouablo and
heal the nation of this curse.”
What did Dr. Holland mean by women
only ? Is it true that only women can
make wine drinking unfashionable and
heal the nation of this curse? You and
I want to know this first, because if
only we women can do this thing, why,
it is an awful responsibility upon us,
each one of us. And if somebody else
can do it, we, like all the others, would
like to give that somebody else the job.
Five years ago, at Washington, Mrs.
Hayes became mistress of the White
House, and it was for her, and no one
else, to say what the social atmosphere
should be which surrounded her guests
and how they should be entertained at
her house. Well, she did an unheard
of thing. She banished wine fror. all
her entertainments, with jus* one ex
ception. Secretary Evarts made a fuss.
He was mortified. He could not endure
to have lord and lady English, count and
countess French, oaron and baroness
German come tj the White House din
ners and hav> nothing fit for them to
drink—not a drop of poison ! It was ut
erlyquee.l So Mrs. Ilayes made one
exception in favor of those great foreign
highnesses, and allowed wine upon her
table in their presence. But only for
once. Her conscience—high-souled wo
man that she is—smote her for that on*
little cowardly compromise with rqpor_~
Slift cCald-better endure to have secretary
Evarts and the Smith’s ashamed of her
than to be ashamed of herself. So she
quietly and foiever after prohibited wine
from her table, and cheerfully endured
the lifted eye-broWs and shrugged
shoulders of the diploma s, British,
French, Russian—all, and the little
short-lived hiss of “fashionable” society
until that hiss turned to a cheer, and
fashionable society turned around, like
the spaniel it is, and trotted on behind
i its mistress. It became unfashionable
to serve win® and to otter wine in fash
ionable society while Mrs. Hayes was in
the White House.
What Mrs. Ilayes did in the White
House every woman can do in her own
borne if she will. If the girls who read
; these words will each of them, all togeth
er, use their influence on the side of tem
perance, they can make temperance
fashionable where they are. Will yen
do it?
Gen. Grant does a manly thing in re
fusing to drink wine everywhere and in
all society. It is only a strong man who
can keep his wine glass upside down—in
this oase right side up too—while all the
grand people around him are sipping
champagne and toasting each other in
sparkling drinks. No one can tell how
“far this little candle sheds Its light.”
But no man can do for a fashion in so
ciety what a woman can. It is women
only, as Dr. Holland said.
I wish some strong, bright angel stood
before you just now, while you read,
girls, to flash before you, as no words of
mine can, the power you possess to help
or to hinder the cause of temperance, to
make you feel your responsibility, be
cause you are girls in the matter; to
shudder at its weight, and to never cease
trying to fulfill it. Doubtless you have
beard a great deal about the value of your
amiles: but do you know the value of
your frowns? I wish I could make you
feel the value of your frowns, and the
importance of knowing just what to
frown upon. What a man must do by a
blow a woman can do by a frown. When
the time comes that the young man who
now shares his time in your society and
the saloon, who jokes about temperance
in your presence, and takes a glass social
ly now and then, is made to feel that
these things cannot be if you are to be
his companion at party, ride, or church;
that good society cannot tolerate these
things in its members; in short, that this
kind of man is unfashionable and unpop
ular—then alcohol will tremble on its
throne, and the liquor traffic will hide its
cancerous face.
All scientists know the proneness of in
sects to deposit their eggs in decayed fruit.
What creates worms in the human body?
Think of this and give Shriner’s Indian
Vermifuge occasionally to your children.
Augusta News : “It is said that a negro
has been sentenced to the penitentiary for
five years, from Warren county, for selling
a quart of whisky in that county, in viola
tion of the prohibition law. He ought to
have stolen a hundred thousand dollars,
and then he could go the legislature.”
NUMBER 15.
Should we Laugh or Cry?
It is not the correct thing at all to
laugh at the misfortunes of people; but
what can one do when placed in the po
sition narrated in the following by a wel
come Connecticut correspondent;
In the procession that followed good
Deacon Jones to the grave, last summer,
Itev. Mr. the new minister of East
i’ewn, found himself in the carriage
with an elderly man whom he hud never
before met. They rode in grave silence
for a few moments, when the clergyman
endeavored to improve the occasion by
serious conversation.
“This is a solemn duty in which we
are engaged, my friend,” he said.
“Hey? what did you say, sir?” the
old man returned. “Can’t ye speak
louder? I’m hard of he&rin’.”
“I was remarking,” shouted the minis
ter, “that this is a solemn road we are
travelling to-day.”
“Sandy road! You don’t call this ere
sandy, do ye? I guess you ain’t been
down to the South Deestriet. Ther’s a
stretch of road on the old pike that beats
all 1 ever see for hard traveliu’. Only a
week afore Deacon Jones was tuck sick
I met him driviu’ his ox-team along
there, and the sand was pretty nigh up
to the hubs of the wheels. The deacon
used to get dretful riled ’bout that piece
of road, and East Town does go ahead
of all creation for sand.”
The young miuister looked blank at the
unexpected turn given to his remark;
but quickly recovering himself, and rais
ing his voice to its highest pitch, he re
sumed the conversation.
“Our friend has done with all the dis
comforts of earth,” he said, solemnly.
“A small spot of ground will soon cover
his poor senseless clay.” “Did you say
clay, air,” said the old man eagerly.
“Tain’t nigh so good to cover sand with
as tneedder loam. Sez 1 to Mr. Brewer,
last town-meetin’ day, ‘lf you’d cart on
a few' dozen loads—and there’s acres of
it on the river ba>Y,'se/ I, ‘you’d make
as pretty piece of road as there is in
Har’fniu county. But we are slow folks
K East Town Sir.”
It waS perhaps fortunate for the minis
ter at that moment that the smell of new
made hay from a neighboring field
suggested a fresh train of thought.
“Look,” said he, with a graceful wave
of the hand, “what an emblem of the
brevity of human life! As the grass of
the field so man flourisheth, and to-mor
row he is cut down !”
“I dou’t calculate to cut mine till next
week,” said his companion. “You
musn’t cut grass too arly; and then,
agin, you musn’t cut it too late.”
“My friend!”, shacked the minister,
in a last desperate attempt to make liir
_self_ |inderstood,J.Uiiiß no place for vain
conversation. We are
narrow house appointed for all the lh
ing.”
They w r ere entering the graveyard, but
the old man stretched his neck from the
carriage-window in the opposite direc
tion :
“Do you mean ’Squire Hubbard’s over
yonder? ’Tis rather narrev. They
build all them new-fangled houses now
a-day3. To my notion they ain’t nigh
so harnseme, nor so handy to do chores
in, as the old-fashiotled square ones, with
a broad entry runnin’ clear through to
the back-door. Well, this is the gittin’
out place, ain’t it? Much obleeged to
ye, parson, for your entertainin’ re
marks.”
Plain Questions.
Mythical ideas are fanning the public brow
with the breath of prejudice, ignorance and
humbuggery. Have you the remotest idea that
your scrofula was created by the use of potash
and mercury? No matter what the eause, B. B.
B. is the peer of all other remedies. Do you
presume that your troublesome catarrh is the re
sult of mineral poisoning? B. 8.8. is the quick
est remedy. Are your chronic ulcers and boils
and sores the result of potash and mercury ?
Medical gentlemen will not tell you so, but B.
B. B. is the only sovereign remedy. Were your
terrible kidney troubles created by mineral
poisoning ? Not a bit of it, but B. B. B. has
proven to be a reliable remedy, Are your skin
diseases, your eczema, dry tetter, etc., the effect
of too much potash and mercury ? The medical
profession are the best judges, and they say nay,
but B. B. B. makes more pronounced cures than
all other preparations combined.
Gen. Grant at Work on Appomattox.
Gen. Grant’s improved condition con
tinues, and Tuesday was able to dictate for
about an hour and twenty minutes to his
steuographer. He has now nearly com
pleted his account of the Appomattox cam
paign, giving the hour and miuute of the
various movements, and of the orders
which characterized that most interesting
epoch in the war. His throat gives him
little trouble, the only sore spot being at
the base of the tongue. This interferes
slightly with his swallowing but he nev
ertheless partook freely of food during the
day. He does not yep occupy his bed for
fear of the recurrence of coughing fits, but
rests quietly in his fwo easy chairs. The
second volume of his book will be in the
hands of the publishers as soon as all the
maps are finished, which will be in a short
. time. '
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