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•\.HC*Sb VOL. 1. , / 4 CABBOLLTOW, GEOBQIA, PBIDAY, UOVEMBEB 30,1883. CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. EDWIN R. HIIABl’E, Publishkk. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy one year, *1.25 One copy six months, 65 One copy three months, 40 GLI B rates; Ten copies one year, *10.00 Twenty copies one year, *20.00 PROFESSIONAL* BUSINESS CARDS. JOMPII I.. COBB. FELIX X. COBB. COBB A COBB, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. CARROLLTON^ GEORGIA, fry Prompt attention given to all bus iness intrusted to us. Collections a spe cialty. Office in cotirt house. J. W. 1IALLU3I, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON CARKOLLTOX, GEORGIA. Office, at Turner am'j Cliamber's store. rm,. j. if. cole, CARROLLTON, ga. Is devoting most of his time and atten tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and 1* prepared for most any operation. llis charges are reasonable. O. W. GUTHREY, Boot and Shoe Maker, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA. Thanking the nubile for the liberal pat ronage which they have, bestowed upon Jilin m the past, would Solicit a continu ance of the same. Home made shoes for women and children always on band. jtp—Shop iti the back room of the post- office building. Home and Farm. BILL ARP’S LETTER. I was ruminating about snakes. If there is any one thing that gets up more excitement iti a country family than another, it is a snake. Snakes are the great horror of wo men and children, and the men are not far behind, though they don’t take on quite so much about ’em. earth, with all his angels. Well, they are here yet, T reckon, keep ing up a commotion, and maybe their souls are in the snakes, as Cube says. One thing is certaiu, the seed of the woman don’t like snakes, and whether they are poi son or not, they slip around so sly ly, and always take us unawares, that we hunch the whole breed to- 3Iy little girl wrote her first compo-j gether, and declare war, and we sition on snakes, and the first sen- j love to kill ’em, souls or no souls, tenee was: “A snake is a very long The snake that beguiled old moth- insect.” The other day, when the children were all standing up in the er Eve must have been a very sty lish creature, and could walk about school-room to spell, my little hoy, ;im i strut and talk sweetly, and had who is always looking about for n spite against the Creator, and so something, saw a snake crawling i K , <r 0 t transmogrified into a craw- upon the beam over their heads, | ji n g reptile, and has to hide out in and just such a racket as it created ] ln ] es and rocks, and every time he never was heard in a school-house, pokes his head out we mash it. for the teacher is a young lady, and most of the scholars are girls. They Some folks say that all this account the creation, and the serpent, fled like a ynller-jaeket’s nest had a nd the fall of man that was writ- broke loose, but the little hoys armed themselves with rocks, and sticks, and thrash-poles, and sacri ficed him. My wife, Mrs. Arp, found a snake in the basement one day, where the cooking is done, and and she liked to have run clean off the plantation. It was only a chick en-snake, that was hunting mice and roaches, but it didn’t matter. One snake is as bad as another to a woman, and sometimes 1 get to ru minating about the serpent that fooled mother Eve so bad, and I ten by Moses is an allegory, and some don’t believe anything they cant account for on natural laws, and they make sport of miracles; hut all creation is a miracle right now, and no man can tell why one little seed will make a tree and an other a flower. It is just as much a miracle for a man to have come from an ape as to have been made from dust and a woman from Ad am’s rib. The Jews have preserved history better than any people, and | breathless eager for an their hook gives us pretty much The reply, deliberately: JOHN B. STEWAltT wonder if that very sad cireum-j^], e same accounts of the creation and the part that a fallen angel named Satan played in the form of a serpent that stood erect and could walk and had the gift of speech before Adam was made. It wasent so far back from Moses to stance don’t have something to do with it. It looks so, considering their natural hostility to the pesky things. One day a town hoy came <mt to my house and brought one of these artificial snakes in his pocket, and slyly put it down on Adam no how, that is by genera- the carpet, and my women folks a set up a scream vhen they saw it, and that young man had to retire ... .... prematurelv to keep the broom off Wishes to say to the public that lie is j ' * 1 •till prepared to do all kinds of of him, and I think it broke up his PHOTOGRAPHING and PERROTYPING ! < nances for matrimony in my fam- in the latest style and at reasonable pri- il>\ if he ever had any. cen. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of Cube come over the other day ind told me that he had killed an- reckon Moses had it pretty straight, *r rattlesnake, a whopper, and he would have brought me the rat- Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc.! ^ Copying and enlarging a specialty— ran make all sizes from locket to Sn1(» Inches. Remember that two dollars will buy a fine, large picture, framed ready for your parlor, at my gallery, Xewnan street, Carrollton. Ga. tions, for Adam lived sixty-six years after Noah’s father was born, and Noah lived sixty years after Abraham was horn, and Abraham lived to tell Jacob all about it, and Jacob lived to tell his great grand son Antrum all about it, and Am- ram was the father of Moses. >So I considering it came through only five generations, and they hadent ties hut they was powerfully \ learned howto lie and exaggerate smashed up with rocks that he i then like they do now. throwed at him. He says the chi I- One thing is certain, the world dren found him and clum a tree and hollered, and he ran there, and the snake looked so venmous he was afeerd to attack him with a stick, and so he rocked him untell he was peopled from over there in Asia somewhere, and mankind had a start and it was a miracle that started him, and they were the same sort of people we are—that is "Piratic TH-ip .TpYUpIpF eouldent travel, and tlnm got a rail they had their failings, even the U V d/LLo, liJ-C UCVYC ’ j a nd killed him. “I tell you,” said | best of cm, for Jacob cheated Esau, In now in the southeast corner of the j i, e> “that snake was a whopper, and, public sqinre, where he will he glad to ! to my opinion, lie has something to . tl . do with tne old devil. I believe see lii* friends and the public generally. | <,nkes h i' 11c keeps on hand a full line of goods, consisting of plated ware of all kinds. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS a specialty. jsy* All kinds ofrepairing* in his line, done promptly and in good style. To Those Interested. You have been indulged twelve months, and surely can pay what yon owe the old Ann of Stewart & Soil. The estate must be settled. I greatly prefer settling j the snakes. I never rend so much mV own business, hut will have to put that snakes has souls, and they used to he folks. I heart) an old preacher tel! as how the first snake stood up and walked about, and talked and was an enemy to the Lord, and the Lord ' cursed the whole breed, and put ’em to crawl ing, and there is something in it its sure as you are born. The preacher said that if it hade’nt been for a snake we woulden’t have had to work nary lick, and everything would have just growed right along and one man would have been just as rich as another man, and richer too, I reckon. I helive in my soul them snakes I’ve been a killin’ brought all this dry drouth on my land and ruined my crop.” Well, there is something very pe culiar about snakes, and mankind are full of superstition about ’em. There are some folks can charm ’em, and handle ’em, and put ’em in their bosoms, and I don’t like them sort of folks much better than I do the. cliiims belonging to the estate of J. W. Stewart A Son, in the hands of an at torney, If not settled soon. W. J. STEWART. | about snakes as we do this year. Every paper is full of them. I read yesterday that there was a whole lot of snakes got in somehow among two thousand people ata campmeet- ing in North Carolina, last week, and hit several persons, and nobody knew how they got there, or where they come from. Some of the folks said the old devij got scared be cause so many were getting relig ion, and took that way of break ing up the meeting. Maybe our preachers are not sanctified enough, i They say that the good St. Patrick ■ whipped out all the snakes in Ire land, more than a thousand years itgo. I reckon he thought the poor I Irish had trouble enough without j snakes, ft may be all a supersti- ti<.'», hut snakes have played a cu rious part in the world ever since 1 we have had any history. Moses I made a serpent of brass that cured ! th ; rod .. . . . .. trv.i lowed all the serpent-rods of the luiytlitng in their ime, then. «trial | • _ * Egyptians. A serpent came out of :tinl they think you "ill ttade.. Hie rtn( | fastened onto Paul’s \\V would say to those owing wS that hand, and the people who saw it ; said “This man is a murderer, who ! has escaped the sea, hut vengeance will not suffer him to live.” The scriptures say that there was war in heaven, and that old serpent TURNER and CHAMBERS, CAKIIOLLTON, G KOIMJIA — Dealers in— General Merchandise, Arc still at iheir old stand oil Rom*’ street, ready to sell you goods as cheap or rhcjqwr than anybody. If von want WE MUST HAVE t . / •» • I due us. We have indulged and Aaron set up a calf, and David fell from grace, and Solomon turned fool in his old age. They all sinned and repented and sinned again, just like we do, and I’m not pre pared to say that the doctrine of sanctification lots ever yet been es tablished on any very satisfactory basis. The old primmer says that u ln Adam's fall We sinned all," and I reckon we did, for it looks like the old hoy is in us from our childhood and we live on it strain to keep from doing wrong all the time. I don’t feel much responsi bility for original sin, for my own account is piled up so high I never think about Adam’s. Something devclish must have broke loose away hack yonder or we would till have been good and kind and truthful, which would have been a heap better for us I know. The world is getting a heap smarter, but I (lout believe it is getting any better than it was 4,000 years ago. Human nature is about the same. Knowledge is power hut it aint vir tue. Pope says that Lord Bacon Boston Post. Valuable Newspaper Items. There never have been more than three men who have cared a snap what the paper said about them. We recall to mind a New Hamp shire man who said he hadn’t the least interest in anything of the sort. And when he heard that a certain weekly had spoken of him as a prominent citizen, lie drove seventeen miles, in * pouring rain and over a muddy road to get a copy of that paper, because he wanted to see the market reports in it. We have had that little transaction in mind for some time, and it suggested to us a racket which we have worked with great success. We select as a victim some man, ambitious of fame out who never lias had the privilege of gazing upon his name in print more than two or three times in his life. We goto him and say: “Did you see that item about you in the paper the other day. Great skid, wasn’t it?” Immediately his face lights up. He is all interest. There is an eager look in his eye. “No” he says, “I didn’t see it! Didn’t know of it! When was it? What paper was it in ? What did it say?” And we reply: “Oh! hold on! One question at a time.” “Well, what paper was it in?” he asks. He is Answer. “What paper ? Well, we don’t exactly re member. Think it was one of the city papers, but wouldn’t he cer tain. It may have been a.suburban paper. Possibly it was a western exchange.” He looks gloomy, hut hope springs eternal in the human breast. “You think it was a city paper,” he asks. “Yes.” “How long ago did it appear?” “Don’t know exactly. Saw it only two or three days ago, hut it might have been an old paper.” “Well, what did it say?” he asks in desperation. ‘Oh, it was a very pleasant little item.” “Yes, hut what did it say?” “Oh, we don’t remember what it said. Just remember seeing it.” “Why didn’t you save it forme?” “Why, thought, of course, you’d see it.” “Well, I’ll go and look over the files of the city papers and set if I can find it.” “Dear boy,” wc say, “you’ll find it much easier to find it needle in a bundle of hay. Think of the interminable task of examining the files of seven or eight daily papers for a month back.” The utter hopelessness of his ever seeing the paragraph dawns upon him. I Iis face assumes a look of abject misery, despair and baf fled curiosity. When we meet him three days later, he is just getting over the feelings of gloom, and set tling down to solid hatred of us for not saving the item for him. The Teeth. At birth, the germs of both sets of teeth—the temporary and the per manent—are already in the jaw.— The permanent teeth lie in a line under the temporary ones, and, when the permanent ones begin to move forward to make their ap- pearence, they push the milk teeth out. This is the natural order. To secure a good start for the permanent teeth, the first or tem porary ones must receive good care, and he kept in their places until the permanent ones push them out. Man has thirty-two teeth. They are of three sorts—the Jincisors, canine and molars. The inscisors are the front or cutting teeth, four in each jaw. The canine or eye teeth are two in each jaw. The molar or grinding teeth are ten in eaeli jaw. The back teeth in both jaws are known as the wisdom teeth. They are called wisdom teeth because they appear at a period when man is possessed of the largest and ripest wisdom—or when he thinks so. Good teeth constitute the finest ornament of the face; they are necessary to good articulation; they are indispensable to good digestion and sweeth breath. On the whole, their importance justifies the advertisement of the South Carolina gentleman, which appeared in the New York Herald, as follows :• “Wanted, by a planter in South Carolina, a wife. She must he un der thirty years of age, must have a good disposition and good teeth.” I really dont blame the girls for talking in the streets with their mouth wide open, for although sometimes they may not speak quite so plain they do show their teeth to good advantage; and es pecially when they give one of those little, short open mouth laughs now so common among girls, in which they open the mouth so wide that you can see the entire thirty-two teeth—I do not blame them, for a. mouthful of pearls is so very beautiful. I don’t care what the nose or eyes may be, if the mouth shows complete rows of the brilliant gems, that face is a fine one—a sweet, wholesome one. While no matter how fine the eyes and nose if the mouth shows de cayed and blackened teeth, or arti ficial ones, that face can’t be a fine one—it is not sweet and wholesome. The better class of Americans are now exhibiting perfect teeth.— Fashion demands it. They keep them clean which never fails to preserve them.—Dio Lewis, in Gol den Rule. Words of Wisdom. Chance usually favors the dent. Iron chain or silken cord, are bonds. To know how to wait is the great secret of success. Those who can command them selves command others. Honesty provides the most cer tain conditions for safety. Sadness is a disease; the best remedy for it is occupation. The poor are kept poor to supply the demands of paradise. It is better that we are not in formed than to he misinformed. Patience is the panascea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it. Time once passed never returns ; the moment wnich is lost is lost forever. A man may talk continually and not be eloquent ; sound and sub stance are not twins. Thou must not he lord and mas ter to thine own actions ; not a ser vant or a heirling. Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt and give it the apperance of truth. A Positive Cure for Warts. If you want to get rid of your warts, get a little chromic acid and a camel’s hair brush, dip the brush in the acid, n ot too deep—as you withdraw the brush from the acid wipe it gently on the edge of the bottle, rinse it off in some warm wa ter and wipe dry bn a clean towel. Be careful to replace the cork in the bottle with the dark side of the cork to the north. Should the bot tle he stopped with a glass stopper, take the stopper between the thumb and forefinger, being careful that none of the other fingers touch it, and put the stopper gently in place so as not to disturb the liqued, which should on no account he al lowed to become agitated, as fric tion with the inner circumference of tin* vessel would he sure to follow. This is written for the special in formation of thr chemist onCotton- woolandiron. Acid is a certainty, warts to prevent a cure? 2sTO. 2. A Mistake, There are numerous ways in which young folks can make 1 them selves unpleasant to society, and one of the most successful In this direction is an attempt to be origi- inal. They imagine they can turn the world round by some eccentric ity of dress or behavior, or by some method or speech. In general, they offend their friends, and delight their enemies. As a matter of fact, people had better let well enough alone, take up the customs of those about them, and rest assured that what the collective wisdom of the world agrees to do, is on the whole best. Here and there may be room for change, and possibly for im provement. It might he better, for instance, that engagements only lasted six months; that drawing rooms should be abolished as use less, or nearly so; that wedding- breakfasts were improved off the face of the earth, and that a dozen other alterations were made in our social customs. It is very noble, possibly very heroic, to pose as a regenerator of society. All the same, people who are content to taKe things as they are, will find the world wag more easily with them than if they themselves troubled to try to regulate the laws of gravitation. In nine eases out of ten, young people will find the path of safety in following customs which are the rule. Originality may he exciting, hut in the majori ty of cases where it is tried, it will he found to entail a good deal of trouble, and not a little personal \\orry. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Artemus Ward’s Programme. We have before us a relie of Art- emus Witnl. It is one of the pro grammes of his “Among the Mor mons” entertainment, dated San dusky, May S (probably 1 S<>4). We copy a few specimens: “The music on the grand piano will comprise, ‘Dear mother I have come home to die by request,” etc. “Washoe, the Land of Silver—Good quarters to he found there. Playful popula tion, fond of high-low-jack and homicide.” “Heber C. Kimball’s Harem—Mr. Kimball is a kind husband and numerous father.” “Selections from the Grand Piano with Gottsehalk. The man who kept the hoarding-house rement Mr. Forrester—Mr. Forrester was the “wisest, brightest, meanest j once hoarded in the same street of mankind.” Boh Ingersol seems to think he has found a new faith that will make everybody good, and Boh is mighty smart, hut they say he loves money awfully and charges his clients such big fees that when they settle with him they don’t know whether they have gained their ease or lost it. Bob knows bow to pull down the old temples of our fathers, but he hasent built up a new one yet that will stand, and I reckon he never will. Bill Arp. An ex-Confederate* surgeon re- Lcader. once during the war, While a ter- "b hers it.” ‘‘Those of the audience who do not feel offended with Arte mus Ward are cordially invited to call upon him often, at his fine new house in Chicago. His house is on the right hand side as you cross the ferry, and may be easily distin guished from the other houses by its having a cupola and mortgage on it.” Answers to correspondents Laura Matilda—‘I have an unfor tunate tendency, even on trivial oc casions, to shed tears. How can I , , „ , , . , ,. ., prevent it ?’ ‘Lock up the shed.’ ” !■>*«• 111 ( , ' 0 " d< ‘ n ,,mt ! *Troveler—‘How long »•«, Arte- | niUM Ward in California?’ ‘Five feet ten and a half.’” “Citizen—‘I rilHe thunder storm Was raging, “Stonewall” Jackson orderded Gen. Mahone to take bis men and charge the Union forces. Then, tired out, Jackson lay down under a tree and feel asleep. Soon he was aroused e Jews who were bitten. AaronV,Shy one of Mahone’s aids, who said : Rules of the house: Dadic* d turned into a serpent and swal- •‘•General, I am sent by Gen, .'La- gentlemen will, pi ease report Whit you oar n long :ts we cum and we now want called Satan, was cast out upon the tun getting bald. What will make my hair come out?’ ‘Oil of vitriol will make all of your hair come out/” Ladies or any negligence or disobedience on the has wet the ammun ition of his part of the lecturer. Artemus troops, and wants to know whctli- Ward will not he responsible for er lie shall return.” Replied Jack- money,jewelry or valuables, unless ion: Ask Gen. Mahone if tiie same left with him—to be returned in a rain which God sends to wet his | week or iu Persons who think aminunltioniwill not also wet that they enjoy themselves more by of the enemy ? Tell him to charge j leaving the hull early in the eve- tliem with col-1 Icel." Id • lion ■ ning, are requested to do o with made the charge. j as little poise as possible.” hone for orders, h lie says the rain ot Josh Billings’ Guide to Health. Never run into debt if you can find anything else to run into. Be honest if you can; if you kan’t bo honest, pray for help. Marry yung, and if you make a hit, keep cool and don’t brag about it. Be kind to your mother-in-law, and, if necessary, pay her hoard at some good hotel. Bathe thoroly once a week in soft water and kasteel soap and avoid tite butes. Exercise in open air, hut don’t saw wood until you are obliged to. Laff every time you feel tickled, and laff once in a while ennyhow. Eat hasli washing days, and he thankful, if you have to shut your eyes to do it. Hold the baby half the time, and always start the fire in the morn ing and put on the teakettle. Don’t jaw back—it proves tnat you are as big a pliool as the other phello. Never borrow what you are able to buy, and always have something vou^yon’t lend. Never git in a hurry; you kan walk a good deal further in a day than you kan run. Don’t swear; it may convince you, but it is sure not to convince others. If you have dawters, let your wife bring them up; if she has com- monsense she kan beat all of your theories. Don’t drink too much new eider, and however mean you may be, don’t abuse a kow. Luv and respect your wife enny- way; it i.- a good deal cheaper than to he all the time wishing she was someho'w different. Every day is a little life, and our whole is hut a day repeated.— Therefore five every day as if it would be the last. Despise* not any man, ami do not spurn anything; for there is no man that hath not his hour, nor is there ot Wall Street Daily News. The Laws of Trade. “Twenty-three dollars for that ’ere stove!” she exclaimed before a Wall Street News man, as she held up her hands in horror. Yes’m—twenty- three.” “But iron is down.” “Yes.” “I’ve seen in the papers during the last month where as many as six big iron companies have fail ed.” “Well?” That ought to make stoves chea per, and I know it.” “Madame in the last two months death has laid his hand upon as many as twenty-five youg ’un? this town.” “Yes, poor things.” “But are nursing bottles any cheaper than three months ago?” “N-o,” she slowly addmitt(*d N “Of course not, madame. The laws of trade are immutable. The best I can do is to throw in a horse radish grater, if you take the stove at $23.” anything that A German savant named Grusel- bach, professor of Chemical science in the University of Upsala, has been devoting a considerable time to perfecting an apparatus to freeze living people, and keep them in a torpid state for a year or two. In any case he announces that he will'undertake by his pro cess to freeze any lady or gentlman willing to submit to the experi ment, and benumb them, deprive them to all appearances of vitality, pledging his word to bring them round again at the expiration of a couple of years, with no prejudi cial effects to mind or body. As no adventurous person has come forward to supply the savant with the desired opportunity, lie has sub mitted his invention to the Swe dish goverment, with the request that a criminal condemned to deatli shall be provided to enable him to ttemonVtate the efficacy of . his discovery. Those who give are wise both for : time and eternity. Joaquim Mil- I ler’s poem on Peter Cooper carries jdeei^truth in its finest stanzas : I reckon him greater than any man That ever drew sword in war; I reckon him nobler than king or khan, j Braver and better by far. And wisest he in this whole wide land | Of hoarding till bent and gray ; For all you can hold in your cold dead hand In his first lecture in this country Matthew Arnold asserted that the majority is always wrong. In a public address last Wednesday, Mr. Charles A. Dana, the editor of the New York Sun took issue with Mr. Arnold. The doctrine of Mr. Ar nold, he said, “is a very deploraale doctrine. It raises in my mind the question as to whether there is such a thing as progress, or whether there is to be a perpetual recur ring of mistakes. I believe in pro gress, hut is it to he Ik* found ? What is the force that makes pro gress ? It is the acquistion of con trol over the forces of nature.— The lecomotive is progres, the tele graph is progress. If we consider all these conquests made by man in the province of nature we see that there is the condition of pro gress. This is a work going on in dependent of poets and essayists like 31 r. Arnold. It is a condition of progress that no Iwxly of men can work each for his own selfish ends. •Such an occasion as this shows there is good in numbers. It contradicts Mr. Arnold’s theory.” 3Ir. Dana appears to have the best of the argument thus far. 3Ir. Arnold ought to reply for two rea sons : First, to sustain himself if he can, second, because a controver- in sv with Mr. Dana will l»e a good | advertising card for him, and help to give him an audience when he lectures. Hon. J. T. Henderson Commis sioner of Agriculture for the State of Georgia, who was in Augusta Wednesday, in an interview with the Chronicle, said he thought from present appearances that cotton might turn out about WO jht cent, of an average crop in this State.— Our crop would probably Ik* in Georgia 530,000 hales or alxiut 2U0,- 000 short. He said if the present fine weather continues there will be little increase by the second crop’s maturing. In some localities new bolls are forming and if frost is delayed two weeKs those bolls may open. In regard to the fall sowing of grain he thought the prospect decidedly promising. The demand for seed oats is heavy, and the same is true of wheat and small grain generally. Spring sowings are less satisfactory, but the fall grain planting is almost a certainty. The oat yield this year was re duced on account of the. smaller acreage. In answer to the question as to as to the condition of the Georgia farmer this yesir, he remar Red: From the long and disastrous drought, the hill and upland crop i* a failure. This has cut of the yield to the farmer. The hog crop * this year is larger than ever lH*fore.— There will he no scarcity of meat in the country. Com is in good quantity ; the potato crop is fair ; the sugar cane yield is good, anil husbandry is more diversified, showing a more healthy tone in the planting worlil. <>*' trucK he would shortly l>e able to report fully and accurately. Re port.- of profitableness of it so far conflict. The fertilizer season ” said Judge Henderson, “is a little backward. Last season’s tota', 120,000 tons, sold iu Georgia, show* a falling off from ’*2, wden theiu- spection indicated J 27,linn Ions. 'I he heaviest season was in ’M, when were distributed in
