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AND
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( AKTESVILI.K, : : : : Georgia.
(Office: Bank block, up-stairs.)
\\riLL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF
> V the Cherokee and adjoining circuits.
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lections made a specialty. june29-ly
R. U. TKIFPK. J. M. NEEL.
TRIPPE & NEEL,
A M' T O R NEYS-AT-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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\ V both State ami Federal, except Bartow
•■minty criminal court. .1. M. Neel alone will
practice in said last mentioned court. Office in
northeast comer of court bouse building. feb27
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—AND—
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CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
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CARTERS VILLE, GA.
OFFICE (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor
ner of Main A Erwin streets. july!B.
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Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the
Supreme Courts at Atlanta.
Office west side public Square, up-stairs over
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Postofflce. julylS.
T. W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR.
MILNER & HARRIS,
ATTO 14 NEYS-AT-LA W,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office on West Main Street. julylS
F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over Stokely & Williams store.)
Caktersville, Georgia.
I WILL VIL j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH,
and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suit the times.
Work al. warranted. Refer to my pat
rons all over the county.
angls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
(At Sayre A Co.’s Drug Store,)
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
ti TILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
YV Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated
Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can
be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as
represented. All work done by me warranted
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julylS.
Traveler’s Cfruide.
< < h IS A IM VF.lt N AVIGATION.
On and after December 16th, 1878, the following
schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO
LIA or ETOWAH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday
Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday . , . . 6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday . . . . .7pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday . • • • “spm
Leave Rome Friday . 8 a m
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday Tam
Arrives at Greensport 1 1 a m
Arrive at Rome Saturday 6 P m
j. M. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’ 1 Sup t.
BOMB RAILBQAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
Leave Romo
Arrive at Rome , , l2:uom
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION.
Leave Rome , , s;oopm
Arrive at Rome p m
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted): „
Leave Cartersville am
Arrive at Stilesbora 8:30 am
Arrive at Taylorsville . . . . . 8:52 am
Arrive at Rockmart 10:00 a m
Arrrive at terminus 10:50 am
RETURNING.
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Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:13 pm
Aarrive at Cartersville . . . . . • 6:00 p m
WEST LUX AND ATLANTIC R. R.
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ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 3:00 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:53 pm
Leave Kingston p m
Leave Dalton I p m
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Leave Dalton 7:10 p m
Leave Kingston 8:39 pm
Leave Cartersville 9:05 p m
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Leave Kingston 7:49 am
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Leave Dalton 8:10 am
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Books. STATIONERV, Music.
We beg leave to announce to our friends and
patrons that we have a complete and varied as
sortment of the alK>ve goods in stock, bought be
fore the advance in prices. We hove a.flue sc
-1 action of other goods not properly m this line,
but incident to the book and stationery trade.
We have also made ample preparations to meet
the demands of the holiday trade: and will be in
c„at.i.trwlp | tol M Mw o ..irt^ant^rt. co
SSTOVlhiiTto TINWARE.
JOHN ANDERSON,
(Opposite Curry’s Drug Store.)
T TAS IN STORE AND FOR SALE A
large lot of Tinware, Stoves and Cutlery.
Also, the celebrated Fly Fans, Tubs and Buck
ets which lie will sell In exchange for Rags,
Beeswax, Feathers, Butter, Eggs and Chickens.
He sells goods cheaper than ever. J ltneia
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Rome, Ga.,
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Care J. W. Burke & CQ„ Macon, Georgia.
U. O. ROBERTSON, M, I).,
Hygienic Physician and Electro-
Therapeutist,
Begs leave to announce to the
citizens of Bartow, Gordon, Cobb, Cherokee,
and other counties of North Georgia, that for tlie
sake of rendering his mode of treatment more
universal and a v ailable, and the Health Institute
equally easy of access to patients in all parts of
the state, has removed from Rowland Springs to
Atlanta where he has permanently established a
Health Institute,
Tlie .Atlanta, Health. Institute
is the only institute south superintended by reg
ularly qualified Hygienic Bhyeiciaus, and the
only place where all kinds of curable diseases
are scientifically treated without a particle of
medical drug in any form, and with success un
paralelled by any other known process of treat
ing diseases.'
Parties who are, because of continued dosing
and drugging, considered incurable, are re
spectfully requested to visit or correspond with
us. Thousands of chronic invalids, after having
patiently tried the “deadly virtues of the (ilrug
ophatic) healing art” and with no other change
than that of growing continually worse and
worse, have under the Hygienic system of medi
cation. been speedily and permanedtly restored
to health.
For particulars, call at ATLANTA HEALTH
INSTITUTE, No. 178 W. Peters street, or address
DR. U. O. ROBERTSON,
feh2o Atlanta, Ga’
J. C. & S. F. MILAM,
Commission Merchants,
COTTON BUYERS,
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MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW'COUN
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IT' QUAL to the best imported Portland Ce
'j meut. Send for circular. Try this before
buying elsewhere.
Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West, Presi
dent Cherokee Iron Company, Cedftrtown, Ga.,
w ho has built a splendid dam, (cost $7,000.) using
this cement and pronouncing it the best he ever
used. Also refer to Gen. Wm. Mcßae, Superin
tendent W. & A. Railroad Company, who has
been using it for piers of bridges and culverts on
his railroad, for two years; also to Capt. John
Pastel 1, C. E. Also to John Stone, Superinten
dent of Bartow Iron Company, Bartow, Ga., w ho
has built several large reservoirs with it, which
are perfect; to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., of
Rome, who have made a splendid pavement
with it) to Capt. M. B. Grant, or Mr. Gilbert
Butler, of Savannah, who have used it with
great success in stucco work, or Major Bryan,
of Savannah, Mr. J. J. Cohen, of Rome, to
Messrs. Grant, Jacksonville, Ala., w'ho have
used it for fountains, pavements, fish ponds, cel
lar floors, etc T. C. Douglass, Superintendent
East ltivur Bridge, New York, who pronounces
it equal to the best Imported Portland Cement.
Address G. H. WARING, Kingston, Ga.
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OUR “ATTACHMENT.”
An Open Letter of Information about
Westminster and its Mill.
Atlanta, Ga., November 7. —Since the
publication of my letter on the Clement
attachment and its operation, I have re
ceived a large number of letters asking
for further information concerning it. It
is impossible for me to answer these let
ters by private mail, and I take this
method ot answering all the questions at
once. If in} r correspondents do not see
the answers it will he because they do
not take the Constitution —surely, no
fault of mine. I shall answer the ques
tions in order, and believe that I cover
every inquiry made, except that of one
writer, who asked more questions than
will ever be permitted any man to an
swer.
First. Tiie facts in my letter were de
rived from the most careful investigation,
and may he relied on as correct. There
are six Clement mills in operation, and
each one of the six arrives at the same
conclusion, by the actual logic of its
spindles. Every published account
agrees with the facts stated in all. There
is no room to doubt the correctness of
any of the facts as given to me and con
tained in my letters.
Second. Every man should examine
one of these mills in actual operation be
fore investing in it. An hour of
actual examination is worth a week of
written or verbal explanation. It may
he that one expert may find some defect
or difficulty that would not appear to the
casual eyes. While the newspaper wri
ters have been careful and elaborate they
may have been deceived. Not a day has
passed for a week that 1 have not given
one or more persons letters of introduc
tion to Westminster. Every one who has
returned has come back more than satis
fied. Still the next man who goes might
find something ill-adapted to his own
special case. lam satisfied that the mill
will argue its own case. I therefore ad
vise every one thinking of investing to
go and examine ic by personal inspection.
Third. The mill most convenient to
reach is situated at Westminster, S. C.
This is a small station on the Air-Line
road. It is 110 miles from Atlanta. A
person can leave Atlanta op the 4 o’clock
morning train of the Air Line, and reach
Westminster by 9 o’clock. The mill is
two miles out on Clioestoe creek. Messrs.
Varner & Stribling, merchants at Win
chester, can furnish hacks or buggies at
reasonable figures. The mill can he
reached by 10 o’clock, and it is in con
stant operation, The visitor can leave
the mill at 5 o’clock in the evening, take
the down train of the Air-Line at about
6 o’clock, and reach Atlanta at 11 at
night—having given hut one day to the
trip. The total cost of the trip should
not reach $lO.
Fourth, Mr. J. V. Stribling, one of the
proprietors of the Westminster mill, is
interested in the sale of new mills. He
is the agent oi the mill for several states,
including Georgia. He is, however, an
unusually intelligent practical mechanic,
and thoroughly understands the whole
theory of the attachment. 1 do not
think he would deceive any one, but on
the contrary I find him frank, careful and
cautious of his opinions, lie built his
own mill before he ever thought of being
an agent for the heirs of Clement, and
built it after a thorough examination of
the mill at work at Anderson. Indeed
his enthusiasm on the subject, after try
ing his own mill, first suggested to Mr.
Whitfield to otter him the general agen
cy.
Fifth. While I feel perfectly assured
that Mr. Stribling would not mislead any
visitor, and while the very simplicity of
the mill in operation would tell its own
story, stiil there may be persons who
wish to visit a mill owned by one who
has no interest in building neVv mills.
These can find a mill double the size of
the Westminster at Windsor, North Car
olina, owned and managed by Mr. C. F.
Harden, a most excellent and reliable
gentleman, whose interest in the matter
begins and ends with his own mill. This
point can be reached by the Air-Line
road, but is further from Atlanta than
Westminster. Air. Harden’s experience
has already been published in the Consti
tution, and his mill is a fine one.
Sixth. As to the amount of the capital
needed it is hard to estimate that. The
total outfit for a mill that will use 500
pounds of seed cotton and make $5 a day
profit is $3,500. This includes every
thing. A mill double this size will cost
about $4,(500. Of course, these figures
will vary. If a man has a 10-horse pow
er engine, he will need no more motive
power for a 500 pounds a day mill. If
he has a 15-horse power engine he can
run one double this size. If he has the
power this can be deducted from the cost.
If he has a house large enough this will
also save him the cost of building a house,
especially for the mill. It will be safe
to say, though, that he will need $3,000
anyhow. He can get time on much of
this if he desires it. lie will then need
some capital to accumulate a stock of seed
cotton. If a half dozen farmers contri
bute their own crop of seed cotton, and
thus save this outlay. A mill like the
Westminstei will use 150,000 pounds of
seed cotton or one hundred bales of lint
cotton a year. One-fourth of this may
be had from the fields as it is picked—
but about 126,000 pounds of seed cotton
would have to be bought and stored. This
would require about $3,500 of capital pro
vided it all had to be paid for in cash.
But this capital would come right back in
the sale of yarns. In six months it
might all be paid pack. The Westmin
ster men are three farmers who raise
about 30 bales of cotton each a year.
They spin their own crop which about
takes the capacity of the mill. I should
say that $5,000 in cash would build and
operate a mill which would spin 100 bales
a year and give a clear profit of $2,000
per annum.
Seventh. As to the profits that is a hard
thing to set. I think it is perfectly safe
to say that a $3,500 mill will pay $5 a day
or $i,825 a year, and that a $4,500 mill
will pay double this amount. Let us
take two examples. Mr. Stribling says
that his work for the year foots up as fol
lows:
LIABILITIES.
150,000 pounds seed cotton
at cents, .... $4,125 00
Operations and contingent
expenses - - - - - 1,500 00— $5,625 00
RESOURCES.
46,000 pounds yarn at locts. 6,900 00
3,600 pounds wasted - - 144 00
3,000 bushels cotton seed - 450 00 — 7,494 00
Net profit $1,869 00
It will he noticed that the yarns are put
down here as bringing 15 ets. per pound.
The usual price Mr. Stribling says is 16
to 17 cents, hut he proposed to put the
figures low rather than high.
Mr. C. F. Hardin of Westminster, says:
“We use 1,000 pounds of seed cotton per
day—cost $27.50. Our running expen
ses are: engineer sl, foreman $2.20, four
girls at 50 cents each $2, four girls at 40
cents each $1.60, wood for engine $1;
total, $7 80—add the cost of seed cotton
($27.50) and we have $35.50 as our total
daily expenses. With this we make
each day 300 pounds of yarn, which we
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1879.
! sell at 16 and 17 cents. At 16 cents we
would have as our daily income S4B,
which would give them a net daily profit
of about $12 —at 17 cents it would be
over $15.” Mr. Harden, however, puts
his profit at $8 to $lO a day, or over 3,000
a year. This lam satisfied is at the very
lowest mark.
Eighth. There is 120 difficulty in get
tingallthe seed cotton that is needed.
The farmers can letter afford to sell their
cotton to the mills in seed than to wait
and have it ginned, packed and market
ed. The Clement gin strips the seed so
carefully that it saves a large per cent,
of lint wasted in other gins. Its owners,
therefore, can afford to give the farmer
just as much in cash for his seed cotton
as it would yield him in lint from the or
dinary gin and save him the trouble, de
lay and expense of marketing it. Of
course the farmers are only too glad to
sell on these terms.
Ninth. The yarn finds a ready and in
exhaustible market. It is the best yarn
made, and all the mills report that they
cannot supply the demand of their regu
lar customers. There will never be any
difficulty over selling the yarns.
Tenth. As to where,the machinery can
he purchased, Air. J. V. StiiUHng-,
minstei, S. C., must be consulted, as to
the Clement attachment part. This is a
very simple and cheap part of the ma
chinery—costing only ahout S3OO. It
has been manufactured in Memphis,
though where it is being made now I do
not know. This is the only part of the
machinery covered by patent. The gin
ning and spinning machinery, and mo
tive power, can bo purchased wherever
the purchaser can get the best terms.
Eleventh. Only one skilled hand is re
quired in the management of the mill,
and he can be had of any factory. This
man, the foreman, must be secured, and
costs about $2 to $2.50 a day. lie can
very soon train any intelligent young
fellow to take his place and superintend
the whole thing* Outside of this hand
and the engineer al] the rest of the opera
tives may be girls, who can he had at
from 30 to 50 cents a day. It requires
eight to ten to run a 500-pound mill, and
ten to run a 1,000-pound mill.
Twelfth. Of course the Constitution
has no interest whatever in the introduc
tion ot the mills further than its general
interest in seeing the state developed and
the cotton crop spun at home. A value
of S4O is added to every bale of cotton
spun at home, and of course the Consti
tution will feel the increased prosperity.
Thirteenth. The address of all the
persons now running these refills is as fol
lows: Westminster Manufacturing Com
pany, Westminster, S. C.; Harrison es
tate, Anderson, S. C.; C. F. Hardin,
Windsor, N. C.; Grier & Son, Mathews’
depot, N. C.; F. E. Whitfield, Corinth,
Miss. Mr. J. V. Stribling, Westminster,
S. C., is agent for North and South Cato
lina and Georgia.
Fourteenth. I don’t know of any man
in Atlanta who is thoroughly posted from
personal examination, except Mr. Lyons,
who has been to Westminster to see the
mill at work, and whq is now engaged in
building a mill of his own, about two
miles from Atlanta. A large party of
gentlemen from Atlanta will visit the
mill on next Monday and spend a day
seeing it at w ork.
I have thus given answers to all that I
think it is suggested in the letters that
have befen written/ At any rate, I have
absolutely written all that I know about
it. After next Tuesday there will be
more to add. 11. W. G.
THE NEW LAW.
The new law passed by the general as
sembly is more strict and comprehensive
than the old act and adds to the list of in
dictable offenses. Formerly, it was not
penal to vote without paying all taxes
due, hut now such a vote would make it
liable to prosecution. The new law r re
cently passed in reference to illegal vo
ting, buying and selling votes, etc., is as
follows:
Sec. 1, Be it enacted by the general as
sembly of the state of Georgia, that sec
tion 4569 of the code of 1873, which pro
vides a punishment for buying or selling,
or offering to buy or sell,* or being con
cerned in buying or selling a vote, and
for voting unlawfully at any election in
this state, be and the same is hereby
amended so that the said section shall
read as follows: Any person who shall
hereafter vote at any such election, who
has not resided six month next preceding
said election in the county in which he
so voted, or who has not paid all taxes
which, since the adoption of the present
constitution of this state have been re
quired of him, previous to the year in
which said election occurs, and which he
has had an opportunity of paying agree
ably to law'; or who has been convicted
in any court of competent jurisdiction, of
treason against the state or embezzlement
of public funds, malpractice in office,
bribery or larceny, or of any crime in
volving moral turpitude, punishable by
the laws of this state with imprisonment
in the penitentiary, unless such person
shall have been pardoned, shall be in
dicted, and on conviction, shall be pun
ished as prescribed in section 4310 of the
code.
Sec. 2. Repeals conflicting laws.
Hon. ex-United States Senator Spen
cer and C. P. Hall, of Denver, Col., once
fought a duel with hatchets is told in the
current number of the Boulder (Col.)
Courier. The difficulty occurred at a so
cial gathering. Hall sent the challenge,
and Spencer named the hatchet as the
weapon, because when a boy he had
practiced how to hurl a tomahawk.—
George Bressler, a Denver blacksmith,
made two hatchets for the duelists. On
the field neither would apologise, but be
fore either had been hurt the seconds
prevailed upon them to shake hands and
quit.
San Francisco is probably the most
cosmopolitan city in the United States.
An English traveler lately visiting there
writes: “I had my hoots blacked by an
African, my chin shaved by a European,
and my bed made by an Asiatic; a
Frenchman cooked my dinner, an En
glishman show'ed me my seat, an Irish
man changed my plate, a Chinaman
washed my table napkin, and a German
handed me my bill.”
The Central Pacific railroad paid $220,-
000 into the national treasury the other
day. This is the first pajwient made by
the Pacific railroads under what is known
as the Thurman law. Both of the Geor
gia senators voted against the measure,
and Mr. Hill took a fee to argue against
its constitutionality in the supreme court
of the United States.
The English government went into the
life insurance business in 1865. The ex
perience of fourteen years shows the ex
periment to be an utter failure. In 1865,
547 policies, amounting to $203,000, were
issued. This year the policies number
229 and the amount of them is only
$98,000.
IR. L. PIERCE.
Sketches his of Life—The Closing Scene—
The Funeral.
Sparta Times and Plautor.]
At half past three o’clock last Sunday
afternoon, Dr. Pierce, after complaining
of unusual pain, suddenly ceased breath
ing, and was thought to be dead—as it
was expected by the physicians that this
would be the manner of his death. But
in some three minutes he gasped again,
and Dr. Alfriend began to apply restora
tives, and soon there was labored breath
ing again. He remained in an uncon
scious state until half past six, when he
quietly died.
Thus ended the life of one of the grand
est men of the age. Thus is broken an
other of the golden links that hind the
generations together.
Dr. Pierce was the second son of his
parents, and bom in Halifax county,
North Carolina, in March, 1785. Soon af
ter his birth his parents moved to Barn
well District, S. C., where, almost with
out any educational advantages, he
grow to manhood. lie had n brother
Reddick, two years his senior, but like
the youthful Lovick, he was full of that
individuality which stamped them men
of character. Lovick possessed, howev
er, the grander mind. In early life both
were converted, and prepared themselves
for the ministry. At the conference in
Charleston, held January Ist, 1805, at
which Bishop Asbury presided, the two
brothers w ere admitted on trial, and re
ceived appointments.
Reddick was sent to Columbia, while
Lovick was appointed to his first charge
on the Great I’edee river—where he re
mained one year. In 1806 he was trans
ferred to Georgia, and placed on the
Apalachee circuit, which included a part
of the eastern and central portion of the
state. Georgia at this time was embrac
ed in the South Carolina conference.—
Ilis labors at the start were blessed and
bore abundant fruit. In 1808, W'hen he
was hut twenty-three years of age, so
rapidly had he grown in reputation and
influence, that he w r as appointed _to the
charge of the Oconee District, and was
the youngest presiding elder in the his-
tory of the church.
In this section of the state, where the
tenets of the gospel found but slight toot
hold, in a sparsely settled country, the
powers of the young man were severely
tested, and in the school of severe expe
rience many of the most trying lessons,
valuable in his after life, were learned.
In 18]2 he was drafted as a soldier in
the war with Great Britain, the ministry
not being exempt, and he became not on
ly a soldier of the cross, but a soldier in
defense of his native land.
About the year 1812 he married Miss
Foster, of Greene county —a lafiy known
for her nob]e Christian qualifies, and a
member of one of the first families of the
state. Eight children blessed the union :
Bishop George F. Pierce, Rev. James
L. Pie c:, Rev. Thom is F. Pierce, ap l
Dr. Hamilton Pierce, now deceased, and
four daughters, all of whom grew to no
ble womanhood, married and died be
fore their venerable parent.
111 1850, while Dr. Pierce was qhsent
in St. Louis, attending the general con
ference, Mrs. Pierce, his beloved wife,
passed away at Columbus, where he was
then residing, and is buried in that city.
He knew nothing of her death until his
return to Georgia, when the sad pews
was broken to him at Kingston, where
lie was met by Rev. J. E. Evans, one of
his warmest friends.
From the time of liis marriage to 1823,
he was located at various points in mid
dle Geoigia. During this time studied
medicine, entered this profession and
rose rapidly. 111 1823 lie again became
an itinerant, and was again sent to Au
gusta —where he had once been in less
lavorable days. It is related that when
he first went to that city he was clad in
plain homespun clothes, with rabbit skin
trimmings, and the young people, of a
rollicking nature, made much sport of the
new preacher. He preached in such
plain and terrible terms against the fash
ionable iniquities of those days to make
him the object of their ire and the target
of their jeers. The preacher in home
spun finally triumphed, and left behind
him an impression and influence that was
feltfor years following.
Ilis great influence in the church is
one of its traditions in Georgia. He has
held every effice in the ministry except
that of bishop. He gave to the church,
howeyer, a bishop, in the person of his
son, George F. Pierce, who is to-day
one of its most powerful leaders. He was
admitted at the first Georgia conference
held in Macon, January Ist, 1831.
Dr. Pierce lias been a delegate to every
general conference of the Methodist
church, south, and in ’4B was the frater
nal messenger sent to the northern gen
eral conference, but was refused admis
sion and recognition. In 1874 he was
one of the three sent in response to those
who came to the southern general con
ference at Louisville. He was unable
to go, but wrote a memorable letter upon
the fraternal relations of the church.
He has done more tor female education
than perhaps any man in Geargia, who
has died in the last decade. Under his
fostering care the Wesleyan college, the
oldest institution devoted exclusively to
the higher education of the females, in
the world, grew from small beginnings
in to one of the proudest institutions of
the south. He was a trustee of the col
lege at its inauguration in 1838, and held
that position to the day of Ins death.—
During that time, a space of forty-one
years, he has been present at every com
mencement, with two exceptions. In his
death this institution loses a lifelong and
devoted friend.
Last winter he attended the session of
the North Georgia Conference at Mariet
ta. At the urgent solicitation of the min
isters assembled he addressed the confer
ence and spoke in his usual fatherly man
ner, concluding by saying that he would
speak to them. The afternoon was ex
tremely inclement, and to keep the ap
pointment, the aged men of God was com
pelled to go through a pouring
rain to the church. A severe
cold was contracted and was fol
lowed by a severe spell of sickness. He
started on his journey to his home in
Sparta, but could proceed no mrther than
Macon. On his arrival he was taken to
the female college, and here, in the arms
of the institution he had labored so hard
to establish, now in the hour of suffering
and distress, fie received the tenderest
care that loving hearts could suggest or
gratitude prompt. For six weeks he re
mained, but under the skillful care of
Dr. C. H. Hall recovered sufficiently to
be taken to Sparta, where lie was con
veyed by a special train on the first day
of last January. Since then “the taber
nacle of earth” has been crumbling away,
and for months life has been trembling in
the balances.
Ills last sermon was preached during
the north Georgia conference, on the first
Sunday in December last. It was a raw
and blustery day and affected him in
health. His sermon was one of great
power, but it exhausted him. He com
plained afterwards and en route home was
prostrated in Macon. He lay in bed there
critically ill for six weeks, and was then
moved to Sparta to the home of the bish
op, his son, where he has since remain
ed.
Though the physical man was almost
worn out, the great mtnd of the glorious
old man was clear and strong. He long
ed to stand in the pulpit again, and call
the world to repentance and the accep
tance of free salvation. Whenever his
strength admitted, his ready pen was
busy for the cause he loved and had spent
so many years of labor for.
Soon after his arrival in Sparta, he
said to the writer, “My active work is
done. I may be able to write a little more.
But when I leave this room they will
carry me out dead. But it will be an
right.” His words have proven true,
and his glorified spirit looks back over
the long pathway of his life, and exult
antly repeats, “It was all right!”
The closing scene was solemnly im
pressive. There stood around his dying
bed grand-children, great-grand-children
and other relatives. Kev. W. A. Dodge,
who had watched with him so much, and
became so much endeared to him, and of
whom he enquired just before becoming
unconscious, held his hand and watched
every variation of the failing pulse. Mrs.
Mollie ATfriend, his noble grand-daugh
ter, who had made herself his especial
nurse during his last illness, and who had
made his wants her constant study, bath
ed his lips and stroked his silvery locks,
ever and anon gazing into his fading eyes,
and sobbfngly calling upon “dear grand
father” for a word or look of recognition.
But the end had come. Hope of longer
life for him vanished from most sanguine
hearts; and while the church bells were
calling to the Sabbath evening service, all
struggle ceased, and as quietly as a wave
let dies upon a sandy shore, his spirit took
its flight.
When we remember the sweet, child
like tenderness that existed between the
bishop and his sainted father, we are sad
dened by the fact that duty in a fiir dis
tant field deprived him of the very last
loving look of the fading eye, and the
last gentle pressure given by the hand.
After the first outburst of grid at part
ing, sadness is turned into joy at the
thought of the glorious welcome he re
ceived, when the pearly gates flew open,
and the archways of heaven rang with
and re-echoed the shouts of welcome and
the songs of deliverance, as the faithful
old hero was escorted by angel bands to
the mansions of bliss.
Dr. Pierce remains lett here for Colum
bus, Monday night. They were attend
ed by Kevs. James L. and Thomas F.
Pierce, sons of the lamented dead; Hon.
George F. Pierce; two other of his grand
children; Mrs. Bishop Pierce; Rev.
George H. jpatillo, of Hancock county;
Rev. W. A. Dodge, Rev. J. E. Evans,
Rev. Dr. Hay good, and others. At Ma
con they were joined by Rev. G. G. N.
McDonald, Revs. Dr, Clark, Dr. Bass,
and Rev. 8, N. Tucker.
The funeral sermon was preached by
Dr. Haygood, president ot Emory eoi
lege, after which the honored remains
were laid to rest beside those of his wife
in the Cahimhua cemetery.
THE LETTERS TO GRANT.
Washington, D. C., November 11.—
Your telegram of November 8, to me at
Atlanta, Ga., has just been received here.
In reply I can only say if I could be in
Chicago on the occasion of General
Grant’s reception there, referred to in
your telegram, I would certainly pay my
respects to him in person, and evince my
kind regards by tendering him, with
thousands of others, irrespective of party,
a hearty congratulation on his safe re
turn from his extensive travels, and for
the high honors he received wherever he
went on his tour around the world. His
generous, magnanimous and patriotic
sentiments expressed to the ex-Confeder
ates at San Francisco, met a warm re
sponse from the breast of millions in this
country without regard to- sections or
those political differences of opinion
which led to the late lamentable conflict
in arms. That no such difference may
ever rise again should be the earnest de
sire of every patriot.
Alexander 11. Stephens.
Gainesville, Ga., November 11.—I
beg leave to congratulate you and the
good people of Chicago upon the return
of General Grant to your city. Atten
tions received during liis tour around the
world were just tributes to the great
American soldier-statesman, and should
be remembered with pride, and all should
express appreciation to the great man safe
ly returned to his native land. We have
many excellent men who most naturally
and properly aspire to the highest ollice
of the people, but it seems deeply set in
their hearts to ennoble the nation by
again honoring Grant. Most respectful
ly, James Longstreet.
Atlanta, Ga., November 12.—Your
telegram received. I decline to answer,
except to say: Present my personal con
gratulations to General Grant on his safe
arrival to his country. He fought for
his country honorably, and won. I fought
for mite and lost. lam ready to try it
over again. Death to the Union.
R. Toombs.
Columbia, S. C., November 11.—
Thanks for your politeness, but I must
decline the invitation.
Wade Hampton.
Washington, November 15.—The di
rector of the mint in his annual report
states that the silver bullion purchased
for the New Orleans mint consisted prin
cipally of Mexican dollars and old plate.
When the mint was re-opened for coin
age it was expected that a considerable
amount of silver bullion would be sup
plied from Mexico, but so far these ex
pectations have not been realized. Not
withstanding the fact that the department
has offered to pay bankers and bullion
dealers in New Orleans the highest
market price for silver deliverable at the
mint in that city, only two or three of
fers for the sale of silver have been made
to the department bj r them, and in each
case at a price above the market rate.
The mint has not been worked to its full
capacity for the reason that a like difficul
ty has been experienced as at San Fran
cisco and Carson in procuring supplies of
silver bullion.
The Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist says: “That Mr. Stephens pre
fers Grant to Tilden, as a possible choice
of evils beyond his remedy, we are firm
ly convinced, and, indeed, he makes no
secret of it. His preference is Hancock,
but he admits that that general would
stand no chance against Grant on the
oiher side. In a word, he considers
Grant ten per cent, stronger than any
other man in the country, lepublican or
democratic, and is at a loss to see how
his record can be successfully assailed, in
or out of public office.”
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There is a strong tendency on the part
of the Turkish cabinet to enter into an
active alliance with Russia.
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NUMBER 19'
MONEY AND ITS OFFICE.
Let the Productive Interest Hold the
Vantage Ground.
j Editors Dispatch —The murmurings
! against the new law regulating the rates
of interest arise from selfish impulse or a
| misconception of the true design of mon
ey, regarding it more as an article of
| merchandise than a medium of com
! meree.
The system which best insures the con
stant circulation of this medium in its
proper channels, facilitating the exchange
of real values, best subserves the general
welfare.
When money is left free, to be barter
ed and sold as merchandise, it is monop
olized as such, and disposed of mostly to
adventurers and the more necessitous,
who bid highest for what becomes an en
gine of destruction to them. Fifteen,
twenty, thirty per cent., more or less, is
exacted and obtained; therefore, mer
chants and business men even in good
standing are consoled with the assurance
that thoy, us regular customers, can get
money at the price of ten per cent.
Money, thus made merchandise, is to
day the greatest commercial evil that af
flicts the general prosperity. It thwarts
the true purpose of money, by aggregat
ing the circulating medium in the hands
of the money dealers, absorbing directly
and indirectly, the main protits of the
productive industries, meanwhile, heap
ing onerous burdens upon the laboring
classes by affording employment and
high living to millions of non-produders.
These crying evils can only be remov
ed by low rates of interest enforced by ef
fective sanctions of law.
The argument, that supply and de
mand regulate the value of money, the
same as commodities in general, is as fal
lacious as it is specious. There is scarce
ly any similarity between money and
real commodities, under the operations of
what is called the law of supply and de
mand. The supply has no influence
whatever affecting the ruling rates of free
money; its price as a merchandise, in the
hand of the few, being rated by the
stern necessities of the purchasers. His
tory and sad experience verify tins tru
ism. Left free, money will always take
the vantage ground and hold it until it
becomes the master of the situation.
Contrary views emanate from the gild
ed throne of the monied power, and os
tensibly enforced by those who consider
themselves more nearly allied therewith
in interest, and therefore should be receiv
ed with distrust.
The real truth is, the abundance in the
hands of monopolies tends to increase
rather than diminish the price of free
money. Want of surplus products, to
command and control, is what causes the
gathering of money into vaults of the
banks, there to be kept and used as a
means to encroach upon the capital of the
citizens in a shape of mortgages and oth
er devices, until abundance of products
re-assert dominion in the commercial
world.
The Supply might be so great as to glut
the bank; still, the mere ability to pay
would be the general rule governing free
money in its exactions. Money is de
signed for no such purposes. In politi
cal economy it must be regarded as a
medium and representative of values. As
a standard, it should be fixed and per
manent; and let the rate of interest be a
little below the average income from the
general pursuits, and the productive in
dustries would very seldom language for
want of the proper stimulant.
The scarcity of products prompts to
renewed efforts, increasing the supply,
restoring a normal condition. Free mon
el), on the contrary, while it aggregates
capital in the hand* of the few, is still a
*■ oarren breed.” Two million dollars in
the hands of the bankers of Atlanta, loan
ed out for one year at ten per cent.,
would draw from the industrial pursuits
two hundred thousand dollars of interest.
At the end of the year the bankers would
have two million and two hundred thous
and dollars, less their living; but there
would be no increase in the volume of
the circulating medium, if the ten per
cent, charge upon the industries repre
sented by the borrowers should exceed
their profits.
Money is not the great need of the
world, but products; these are the vital
wants of mankind and constitute the real
wealth of the nations; hence as a medium
and representative of the real values, it
should be made subordinate thereto. We
will never have a true, healthy com
merce and business thrift until effectual
laws shall prohibit the loan or use of
money at a higher rate of interest than
five per cent, per annum.
It is stated by some that the reduction
of the rate to eight per cent, will drive
large amounts of money out of the state.
If so, the people at large would be bene
fitted. Eight per cent, is entirely too
high ; it will absorb most of the profits of
any legitimate business; and only such
business good policy approves. I will il
lustrate by a short controversy I had
with a gentleman from New York city.
He argued in favor of free money, con
tending that less than ten per cent, would
cause foreign capital here to be with
diawn. During the conversation, how
ever, he frankly admitted that ten per
cent was ruinous charge upon any legiti
mate business. Then, said I, if ten per
cent, is a ruinous charge, and foreign
capital will flow into our state only for
rates of interest that w ill impoverish our
people and crush out our industries, it is
far better fot us that it should not come
at all; and all that is now here sucking
the life blood out of our people, I would
rejoice to see withdrawn as soon as pos
sible. Marcus A. Bell.
A “man who knows Grant” writes to
the New York Sun as follows: “I have
known Grant ever since he hauled w r ood
to St. Louis,” before he dreamed of being
president, when his wagon was put in
Arnot’s livery stable many years ago.
He was then, and now is, ambitious, and
while he pretends he wants nothing, has
ahvays been willing to ‘accept’ and is
good ‘on the take.’ He will take or ac
cept the third time, and will seek and
keep all other terms, but will always,
like another friend of mine, prefer a gold
mine. He would like to be at the head
of an empire, even if it drenched the
United States in blood.”
The Warrenton Clipper has not “the
slight doubt that Mr. Cummiug is the cut
and dried candidate (for congress) pros
pectively,” and that “Washington coun
ty will be for him on Renfroe’s account.”
06t contemporary of the Clipper need
not be alarmed. Mr. Stephens seems
good for many years of service, and Maj.
Gumming does not aspire to a seat in
Congress. As to the Renfroe case, he
did what he believed w r as his duty, and
did it fearlessly, and is fully prepared to
take the responsibility of his act.—Au
(justa\Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
ABloomington, Ind., mail has for sever
al years believed he was a dog. The peo
ple did not object, as long as he confined
his demonstrations to barking at those
who passed his house, but when he began
to bite them, they locked him up.