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VOL. I. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 29,1884. NO. 15. CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED EVEBY FRIDAY. RDWIN B. SHARPE, PrBi.ismj:. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy one year, *1.25 One copy six months, G5 One copy three months, 40 CLUB KATES: f«i copies one year, $10.00 Twenty copies one year, $20.00 PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS -if' 11 ■ 3DH. X. 3ST. CHENEY Would inform his friends and the public generally that he is still in the practice of medicine. Special attention given to chronic diseases. Office Carrollton Ho tel. JOSEPH L. COB15. FELIX X. COBB. COBB & COBB, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA. Prompt attention given to all bus iness intrusted to us. Collections a spe cialty. Office in court house. Dr. J. w7 11 ALBUM, CARROLLTON - - - - GEORGIA. Has his office, in number 2, Mande- ville brick building. He makes a specialty of OSTETKICS and DISEASES OF WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call on him. Consultation free. DR. J- F. COLE, CARROLLTON, GA. Is devoting most of liis time and atten tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and is prepared for most any operation. His charges are reasonable. The Harnett House, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Is conceded to be the most comforta ble and by far the best conducted hotel in Savannah. 8^ Rates : $2,00 Per Day. M. L. HARNETT. Land for Sale. One lot of land, number 200, seventh district, Carroll county, joining several plantations, very heavily timbered, well watered, lays well, public road running through it, and some good land upon it. if any one wishes to correspond with own er they will direct to Post Office, Box 173, Griffin, Ga. February 18th, 1SS4. JOHN B. STEWART Wishes to say to the public that lie is still prepared to do all kinds of PH0T0GEAPHIN6 and FEER0TYPING in the latest style and at reasonable pri ces. Also keeps on hand n fair stock of Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc. Copying and enlarging a special?}'— can make all sizes from locket to SxlO inches. Remember that two dollars will buy a fine, large picture framed ready for your parlor, at my gallery, Newnan street, Carrollton, Ga. Satisfaction Guaranteed. MRS. E. A. HENDON’S Perfect Fitting Chart. M iss Fannie Fullilovc, of Athens, Georgia,who is temporarilyTsojouni- ing in Carrollton, announces to the ladies of Carrollton, that she is prepared to give lessons in cutting and fitting Ladies and Misses dresses, and to furnish Mrs. Hen don's Perfect Fitting Chart, with instruc tions how to use it. This Chart together with the lessons given, will enable any one to b® their own mantua-maker. Per fect satisfaction guaranteed. Apply at the residence of Rev. J. A. Perdue, Ce dar street, Carrollton, Georgia. Evans, The Jeweler, Is now in the southeast corner of the public square, where he will be glad to see his friends and the public generally. He keeps on hand a full line of goods, consisting of plated ware of all kinds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS * a specialty. All kinds of repairing?in his line, done promptly and in good style. IPOIR, S-A-LIE- A second hand top buggy. A bouble barrel breech loading shot gun. An iron revolving book case. Big giant corn mill—grinds corn and cob all together. A good pump Will sell cheap for easli or will e»- cltange for cattle. Apply to EDWIN R. SHARPE. Subscirbe for the Free Press. -A.LT essay. Read by Miss Carrie Langford at Bow- don College and Published by Re quest of a Friend. Had I the truly practical genius of a Byron, a Moore, or a Shelley, or could I wield the literary stiletta of a Dickens, or Scott or a George Eliot would invite you all to roam with me for a short time far over the sounding billows of Neptune’s mighty domain; together we would seek some region, deep hidden in the shining Orient, where there are “Larger constellations burning mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. Where droops the heavy blossomed bow er, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark pur ple slieres of sea." Together we would wander along the banks of the classic Tiber, where it rolls its yellow waves beneath the walls of Rome, that city which was once the proud mist-res of the world, but now stands the “Niobe of Nations childless and crownless in her voiceless woe.” Or we would visit the birthplace of learning, the home of the white armed goddess Athene, the fair walled city of which she was once tutelar divini ty. Any one, or all of these and many more scenes equally as at tractive we would seek. But since I am not gifted with the rhetorical grace and literary skill essential to the treatment of such a subject, I have chosen for my theme a much humbler topic, a much less attrac tive scene. In that far away land of “scor ching sands and cloudless burned out blue, on the coast of a dreary waste of waters, there grows a tree, or rather a shrub, for in that bar ren and desolate land scarcely any may be said to attain the dimen sions of a tree; that waste of waters is called the Dead Sea, or Sea of Lot. To describe it would be an unnecessary expenditure of time, as you are all familiar with its char acter; its very name conjures up a picture of dreariness and utter deso lation. But with the sea itself we have at present nothing to do.— The tree or shrub growing along its coast, in form and appearance bears a slight resemblance to the dwarf oak. The only attraction it possesses is the fruit which it bears. This fruit, the solanum, or Apple of Sodom— the golden Osher—it is a very curi ous species. It is exceedingly beautiful, richly liued with purple and gold, and must necessarily stand out in strong contrast to its surroundings, which are certainly of a very unprepossessing appear ance, a land of stagnation and of death. But even here amid these crags and cliffs, and amid this ever drifting sand, is growing something beautiful and pleasing; even here are birds singing as sweetly as Europe’s Nightingale, or Ameri ca’s Mocking bird. What a pleas ant surprise must this be to the wearied traveller who for days has journeyed over the arid waste* without having one single oasis smile upon his aching eyes; noth ing but “Sand, ever sand, not a gleam from ths 1 fountain; Sun, over sun, not a shade from the mountain.'’ Forgotten is the oft repeated war ning of his guide, who so many times has bidden him beware of the golden Osher. Not a thousand war nings, were they uttered in voices of thunder, could now prevent him from grasping this delightful fair apple. Hears he not the sweet songs of Nature’s minstrels? Is not this the luscious fruit of which he has dreamed all these past weary days ? Eagerly does he pluck it and with exultant joy carries it to his lips. But ah! what a sudden change from the exultant flush of joy to the paleness of keen disappointment. Instead of the cooling and delicious fruit which his parched lips antici pated, he finds it to be only a beau tiful shell containing nothing but bitter dust and ashes, all fair with out all repulsion within. How re gretfully does he now remember the gentle, earnest warning of his guide, who would have spared him this painful disappointment. What a striking resemblence does this picture bear to our lives in many instances: How often do we unheeding the still small voice that gently breathes a timely war ning wearied out with the cares and trials of life, pluck our bright fruit joy from the tree of selfish pleas ure, which to our disordered vision appears so like the fair tree of hap piness. We fail to notice the dwarfed and unsightly appearance of the tree that bears our beautiful fruit. Beholding, we rush forward with wild ectasic joy, and hastily gather the tempting spoils. Thoughts of the past wearisome days only make us more eager and impetuous in our attempts to reach it.’ All unheeded falis the warning that in vain bids us beware and draws the contrast between pleas ure and happiness. We have caught the gleam of the golden Osh er and an irresistible impulse urges us on to partake of it. But oh! it is the same sad story. Only one taste and we find how sorrowfully true was the timely, though un heeded warning. The bright fruits of joy that grow on the tree of selfish pleasure, are after all, but as “huge mellow golden Osher, that mock ingly sitfs its bitter dust upon our eager lips.” Or perchance we stretch forth our longing to grasp the golden fruitage of Fame; but when we think to satisfy our ardent desires, our so long unsatisfied appetite, we find it ‘dike to the apples on the Dead sea shore,—all ashes to the taste. Yet there is one other thing about this solanum, or Apple of So dom, yet unmentioned, Natural ists assert that it contains neither dust, nor ashes, till punctured by a certain little insect called Tenthre- de, which eating away its heart, leaves only a shell. Even thus it is with us. This life, given to us of God, was all brightness, beauty, and purity, fair as the fruit of Ain Jidy, till stung and poisoned by the ten- threde of sin. Envy, malice, ha tred, avarice, these with all their attendant evils, creeping into our hearts rob^ffbf our purity and dar ken our lives, and though we may preserve a fair exterior yet tis “But as ivy leaves around the ruined tur ret wreath: All green and wildly fresh without, hut worn and grey beneath.” Oh then let us beware of the dreadul Tenthrede, lest in an un guarded moment, it enter our hearts and mar our lives. Let our motto be “Onward and Upward, and this the prayer of each one, “Purer yet and purer, be this heart of mine; Dearer yet and dearer every duty find." Domestic—V ery. It takes all sorts of people to make a world. Many will encour age a young lrdy to devote three or four years to music, ‘because she may, have to teach some day for a living, but neglect to teach her how to cook or do anything of house work, never dreaming that she is liable to become a wife some day. It is very touching to see a moth er in the kitchen bending over a wash tub, every bone in her body aching, that she may enable her daughter to sit in the parlor and and paw ivory, and sing ‘who will care for mother now’ through her nose, when the girl is a great deal better adapted to the melody of the wash board, and would under stand the notes better. Raise your girls to be useful as well as orna mental, and there will be less prem aturely broken down mothers in the country. From the New Era. The Mormon Beasts in Paulding. We learn that there are two Mormon elders preaching their doctrines through this county, and are succeeding in making some converts. The constitution of the United States contains a clause which gives every man the priv ilege of worshiping God acording to the decrees of his own con science; but we do not believe that the sprit of the law can be exten ded so far as to allow anybody, under the name of the church to antagonize all the social, moral and religious institutions of the people of the community, as the Mormon church, certainly does.— We would not counsel any outrage against these elders, but believe that the people should give them emphatic notice to cease their la bors and leave the country, and see that they obey. They are generally shrewd and cunning men, and succeed by plausibility and artifice, in deluding many suscep tible people, most of their victims being females. Henry Grady, in the Atlanta Constitution, says that despite the prediction of the croakers, that the truck growers of Georgia, will add 10 per cent to their acreage over last year, and he predicts that the truck yield will be 25 per cent over last year. Old papers for sale at this office at 50 cents per hundred. THE CYCLONE’S TRACK. Synopsis of the Devastation by the Whirling Winds. IN ALABAMA. Montgomery, February 21.—No loss of life here. Great damage was done to roofs, shade frees, fences, etc. The steamer blown ashore has been floated and has gone down the river. At Marion considerable pro perty was injured and one person fatally injured. At Cross Plains eight persons were killed and a number wounded. In other parts of the State, in the cyclone’s track, a large amount of property was destroyed, but as to the casualties the reports are indefinite. At Leeds, fifteen miles from Birming ham, the devastation was terrible. The cyclone blew away the houses and trees of that part of the town east of the depot. The ruin was complete. Tiie loss of life around Leeds was fearful. Thus far it has been ascertained that eleven peo ple were killed outright and thirty wounded, some of whom will die from their injuries. Twenty-seven residences and many barns and other buildings are in ruins. At Breck’s Gap nine houses were des troyed and fifteen persons injured. At Ladiga and vicinity, it is report ed, fourteen persons were killed. IN GEORGIA. In Heard county many houses were blown down. Advices from Franklin state that one negro was killed, and several persons, white and black, wounded. A tremendous bail fell in Newnan. The cyclone passed over the western portion of the county, doing much harm, but no lives were lost as far as heard from. Near Mount Airy a number of bouses were unroofed. Mrs. Cash and her daughter were seri ously hurt and a number of people injured. In Madison county Mr. Nix and his son was badly hurt and his residence swept away. In the mountain counties the fury of the cyclone was especially wild. In Pickens county the path of the storm was from one to three miles wide, covering fifteen miles. A vast amount of property was destroyed. Up to the latest accounts the num ber of tbe killed amounts to twenty. The details given by correspondents are frightful. At Indian Spring hail stones fell measuring in some instances nine inches in circumference. The dam age done was of course very great. Near Montieello a number of dwel lings were demolished. The des truction in Jones county was fear ful. Near Blountsville twelve per sons were killed. Dwelling houses were torn to atoms. Along the Macon and Augusta road the havoc was immense. One man was killed and a number badly hurt. In Butts county several persons were killed. Milledgeville escaped damage. The plantation of Col. Humber was badly injured. A Mrs. Paschal was killed while seeking safety in Col. Humber’s house, and three negroes on the plantation were killed- Some thirty people in all were killed and wounded in Putnam county. A store and two dwelling houses are all that remains of Davisboro. One man was killed and several were wounded. At Maddtck’s sta tion, on the Macon and Brunswick railroad, eleven persons are report ed to have been killed, and two at Norwood. A large number were injured and much property des troyed. A mile from Warrenton the Kin sey place was destroyed and Mrs. K. was seriously hurt. NearCamak houses were blowii away and a child Mas killed. Near Lincolnton the destruction of life and property was unprecedented. Five negroes M ere killed and thirteen injured. At Cave Spring the loss of life and propei ty M as fearful. Mrs. B. C. Yancy was badly hurt. Mr. Gilliard and a negro boy M ere blown tM'o hundred yards, and M’erc found under a log dead. Arthur Ford’s family u’ere all injured; he and his wife and daughter seriously. Miss Holt, M'lio m as staying u itli Mrs. Lapsley, Mas badly injured. Mr. Lapsley’s beautiful residence u*as destroyed. D. H. Copeland and Mife M-ere injured; the latter, it is feared, fatally. Mrs. Tilly received severe injuries. In the rest of the storm-swept portion of the county no lives are reported lost. Five negroes M’ere killed, at Jackson’s station, on the Port Royal road, and in Hancock county eleven persons lost their lives. IN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA the cyclone was one of the most de structive ever known. At Chester, S. C., forty houses and two churches M T ere destroyed and many persons injured. The toM-n of C'happels M’as SM'ept away and two men killed. In North Carolina the destruction was equally great, and a large number of people M ere killed and u’ounded. At Rockingham alone twenty persons Mere killed and many others injured. The Mires are down in all directions and it is very difficult to get particulars. THE CYCLONE AT CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Col. Hamilton Harris, M'ho owns one of the finest farms in BartoM' county, is loser to the amount of about one thousand dollars. His barn, stable and his fences M'ere scattered to the four M'inds. Col. Charles Parrott, a former resident of your city, susatained very heavy loss. All of the outbuildings on his plantation M'ere more or less damaged. His loss amounts to about the same as Col. Harris.’ Messrs. Rogers andMumford, two of our wealthiest countymen, sus tained a much heavier loss than any that we have yet heard of. Mr. Rogers, M ho resides at Rog ers station, I am told, lost every building on his place. His mill M as completely demolished. His resi dence M*as also badly damaged; the roof of the building was blown completely away. Mrs. Rogers came verry hear being killed. Air. Hunnicut, who lives on the Spencer farm M r as more for tunate than any of the rest of the sufferers. Mr. H. says that hogs weighing from 150 to 200 pounds were blown into his yard. Where did they come from ? Mr. L. S. Munsford, M’ho resides about four miles from this place, sustained a very heavy loss; three of his most valuable mules M r ere killed, and every work ani mal which he possesses M as more or less injured. Several of his finest milch cows terribly mangled. The residence in M'hich Mr. Mum- ford lives M T as also seriously dam aged—the roof Mas blown com pletely away. Paulding, Polk, Cobb, Cherokee, Gilmer, Floyd and Chattooga counties met Mith the same fate as did the grand old county of Bartow. Haralson not yet heard from. She will be in after awhile. While M'e admit that the majority of the above named gentlemen, M'ho have sus tained such heavy losses, are among the wealthiest in our county, yet those of our people M’ho were more fortunate, both rich and poor, extend a helping hand to them, and as it is custom with our good people to offer their sympathies to those in distress, your correspon dent has no hesitancy in saying that the sufferers will receive the sympathy and the hearty good will of everyone. Weather fair and pleasant. ITEMS FROM ROME. Rome, Febuary 21.—The storm, which at intervals became a cy clone, was the most severe that has visited North Georgia for years. The residence of Mr. W. S. Crane, in East Rome, was blown down and almost demolished. It is rumored that the residence of J. H. DoM'dle’s father, a short dis tance in the country, was blown down. A man M’ho came in Cross Plains as the up-train arrived said that everbody M as killed at and around Koloma, Ala. A large number of chimneys were blown over in all parts of tbe city and suburbs, and it is learned that trees in many places M’ere torn from their base and flung ar ound like reeds before the storm. An Interesting Story. The “Man About Town” the Atlanta Constitution has the following. “I have I dlJ with the business of their fel- i a letter before me from Mr. S. E. low-man and to neglect their own. Keller of Baltimore, in Mhich t lere I They are most of their time on the ! is an interesting story. Mr. Keller alert for something new, some lit- : " rites that he lived during the Mar . Written for the Carrflll Free Press Scandal Mongers. It is funny to see the disposition 111 of some people in the M’orld to med- jSavannah News. Congressman Hammond. Representative Hammond is at his home in Atlanta on a short visit to recuperate his health. He has taken very little part in the pro ceedings ol Congress this winter on account of serious illness. There appears to be an impression that he Mill not secure a renomination without a struggle. It may be that this impression is created by those M’ho are seeking the position which he occupies*. Mr. Hammond is recognized in Washington as one of the ablest men in Congress. It is certain that he is a conscientious worker, and that there are few, if any, M'ho have a better acquaint ance with the leading measures be fore Congress. His retirement from public life M ould be a loss to Geor gia. As capable a man might be chosen to succeed him, but it M ould take a neM T man a good M’hile to be come as M'ell equipped for legisla tive work in Congress as Mr. Ham mond is. A-vfaithful and capable representative ought to be kept in Congress as long as he will consent to remain there. If an infidel could only kompre- hend that he can prove more bi hiz faith than he can bi hiz reason hiz impudence M ould be much less offensive.—Josh Billings. and fr° n t of his home. While the fight M as raging, a wounded Confeder ate officer M’as brought into theVard and lain on the pavement. He M*as from day to day hunt- horribly wounded in the stomach, shortcomings of their and the entrails were protruding- death M as considered certain estimation of the public, brighten M ith delight M’lien they are able to indulge their slanderous propensity. They are ing up the neighbors, and smearing the details from man to man, from crowd to crowd, and from house to house in as vivid language as possible. The idea of attending to their own busi ness never strikes them. They of course are without follies and frail ties. They are pure, holy and good. But let another, even through a mistake, make a mistep, or through levity commit a trivial act, and he, the scandal monger, M ill take it up and magnify it into a grave and serious affair. The successful in life are those M'ho attend to their, bu n business. The unsuccessful are- the back biters, the scandal mongers and mischief makers of the day. How can it be otherwise? IIom’ can a man attend to his ou*n busi ness M’hen be is nine-tenths of his time engaged Mith the affairs of other people ? If the good old sys tem of minding ones ou’n business M’as practiced throughout the coun try there M ould be less ill-u ill in the M’orkl; there u'ould be more social enjoyment, comfort and hap piness. The udieels of social bliss M ould roll as smoothe as the undis turbed M ater of some tranquil lake. Doubtless every one who reads this can point out such characters as M’e have alluded to in their neighborhood. And as for our part, we had as soon have the seven year itch as to know and have the con sciousness that some idle and mali cious person is continually Match ing our acts, only to misrepresent and distort. To be brief, and to draw the final and complete picture of the scandal monger, we M ill state that his dis position is to make bad *M'orse, to carry discord into families, and among friends that M’ere before tranquil and happy. To become a pest, a nuisance, and a curse to social life. He will be avoided by the buoyant of spirit and cheerful of heart. His name will be a song. His presence M’ill be avoided as a moral pestilence. Such characters are to be found throughout the M’orld. In politics, in commercial business, in the church, in the pul pit, in fact everyM'here M’hcre man breathes the breath of life. But “Give me the heart that fain would hide— Would fain another's fault efface; How can it pleasure human pride To prove humanity hut base? No: let us reach a higher mood, A nobler estimate of man; Be earnest in the search for good, And speak of all the best we can." E. W. II. Josh Billings on Infidelity. Did you ever hear ov a man ren ouncing Christianity on hiz death bed,and turning infidel? No atheist, Mith all his boasted bravery, haz ever yet kared to ad vertise his unbeleaf on hiz tnme- stun. Unbeleavers are alhvaze so red- dy and anxious to prove their be- leaf that I thought they mite be just a leetle doubtful about it them selves. The infidel, in hiz impudence, will ask'you to prove that the flood did occur, when the poor idot | twenty-five men. hisself can’t tell what makes one apple sweet and one sour, or tel! why a hen’s egg iz M'hite and a ctuck’s egg blue. When i hear a nizy infidel pro- klaiming hiz unbeleaf, I M ould il Hh and this fact M as announced to him. He replied deliberately: “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori—I am in the hands of my Maker, and a Southern soldier knoM's how to die.” Mr. Keller adds that the scene made a profound impression on him, and he had often M’ondered M’hat became of the brave Confed erate, M’ho shortly aftenvard mov ed from his house. He says, “his name was McDaniel, he was Major of a Georgia regiment and had an impediment in his speech. I have seen that a man named McDaniel has been elected Governor of your State, and I thought he might knoM* something of the matter of M’hich I have M’ritten.” Governor MeDaniel M as himself the Georgia Major alluded to, and Dr. Roach, of this city, was the Con federate surgeon M'hose prompt and skillfull treatment saved the Governor from death ashy miracle. The Governor still suffers from the effects of the wound, and day and night wears a plate over the spot at M’hich the bullet entered. If this plate M ere displaced by accident, fatal certainly serious, results might folloM’. How Bananas are Raised. As everybody knoM’s M’ho has eaten a banana, the luscious fruit is seedless. The plants are .'propaga ted from other plants, so that the stock is not likely to run out. The plant requires for vigorous groM’th a deep, rich soil, abundantly M’ater- ed. With these conditions present there is said to be no risk for a crop in hot regions, M’here alone the fruit is produced. Nine months after a cutting has been planted a purple bud appears in the cenver of the unfolding leaves that shoots out from the head of the parent stem. The stem on M’hich the bud appears groM’s rapidly above the main stalk. As the bud increases in weight the stem bends doM r n- ward by a graceful curve, on the extremity of M’hich this bud con tinues to groM’ still: the purple blossoms falling off, little shoots appear as the embryo fruit. Each fruit has a yellow blossom at its outward extremity. At the end of three or four months the fruit has groM'n to maturity, and is picked long enough before it is “dead ripe” to preserve it in marketable condi tion. From the roots of the parent stock other roots appear, M’hich are trimmed out or left to groM’, as the cultivator may deem best. A single stalk, therefore, bears only one bunch or crop as its life’s M’ork. Spaniards have a religious rever ence for the banana, believing it to be the fruit of M’hich Adam par took. The fruit has long been regarded as extremely nutritious. It is re commended above all others for in valids Mho are unable to swallow harder food. An estimate by Hum boldt claims that 44,000 pounds of bananas can be produced on the soil that Mould be required for 1,000 pounds of potatoes, and that the area that would be required to raise M’heat enough for one man would produce .enough bananas to feed del to cum and see him die. i guess not. He Mill be more like’v to send for the orthodox man M’ho The Cure for Gossip. “What is cure for gossip? Simply culture. There is a great deal of gossip that lias no malignity in it. God natured people talk about their neighbors because, and' only ~ | because, they have nothing else to talk about. The confirmed gossip is either malicious or igno- . ,.. ... , . ,rant. The one variety need engineers the letle brick church | a change of heart, and the just around the korner. j other a change of pasture. Gossip I never hav met a free-thinker is alu ays a personal confession ei- yet who didn’t beleave a hundred ther offmalice or imbecility, and the times more nonsense than he kan young should not only shun it, but, find in the Bible ennyM'here. by the most thorough culture, re- It iz olwuss safe to follow the re- lj eve themselves from all tempta- ligious beleaf that our mother j *° indulge in it. It is a low taught us—there never waz a I frivolous and too often dirty busi- mother yet M ho taught her child to j ness - Ther o are country neiglibor- be an infidel. j ^ 100< ^ in which it rages like a pest. , . _ , „ ■ Churches are spilt in pieces by it.— A may learn infidelity from Xeighbors are made enemies by it. books, and from his associates, but i n many: persons it degenerates‘into he cant earn ri from a c hronic disease M’hich is pratical- hiz mother’nor the works ov God j.ly incurable. Let the young cure that surround him, j it M’hile they mav.”