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m, -r—' — -J B*—* * * 1 »*- if r-r ■ , ' t ' '' H VOL. I. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, MARCHiSf 1884. NO, 17. CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED EVEEY FRIDAY. Printed in the Fit EE Press by Special Arrangement with the Author. SEALED UNTO HIM. EDWIN R. SHARPE, Publisher. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: A STORY OF THE EARLY DAYS OF MORMONISM, One copy one year. One copy six months, One copy three months, CLUB KATES: Pen copies one year, Twenty copies one year, >Sl .20 65 40 BAT TO-A-QATIl-T MILLER,. $10.00 820.00 CHAPTER I. THE FOUNDATION OK TH OF DANITES. OHDKIi PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS DR. I. 1ST. CliEnsrE^r 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. iosei’ii i.. conn. felix n. coho. COBB A COBB, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. C A K HO LLTON, G EORGI A. Prompt attention given to all bus iness intrusted to us. Collections a spe cialty. Office in court bouse. Du. J. \Y. H ALBUM, CAKKOI.LTOX Has bis office, - - GEORGIA, number 2, Mamle- v i 1 It? brick building. He makes a speeialty of OSTETRTCS and DISEASES OF WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call on him. Consultation free. DR. J. F. COLE, CARROLLTON, GA. It subsequently appeared, how ever, that she had not told quite the truth. There really had been seri- .... , , , • , ... „ f iOus trouble between her fatlier and ‘•Dan shall ludge bis people as one of > , r „„ • e 1 the Mormons nearly a year before. And this was the nature of it. The the tribes of Israel. “Dan shall be a serpent by the. way, an adder in the path, that bitetli the Mormons had grown up m the set- ( horse heels, so that his rider shall fall!tlement where the girl’s people I backward.”—Gex. 41): 10, 17. ; lived, and were all mixed up among j Planted down in the heart of the| the neighbors. It was not easy to say who was a Mormon and who continent, and “by the way,” “in the path,” of the weary pilgrims journeying to the remote West, you can well see how Jhe Mormon elders put their fingers on this text Is devoting most of bis 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. Rates : 82,00 PeuDay. M. T.. HARNETT. Land for Sale. and told their ignorant following that they were the chosen people referred to here; that they were the children of Dan; that they, should judge the people who came that way; that they, the Mormons, as the children of Dan, were “the serpent by the way,” “an adder in the path.” In the large reading of the text, and a liberal view and look of it all, it seems plausible almost, even to us. How certain then did it seem to these ignorant and merciless followers of the dread order of the Danites, established there “by the way,” “in the path,” that they were, as they sat in the heart of the des ert, to be the “judges” of those who passed by! Back of this Bible text lay much bitterness, induced by a sad history^ much suffering and persecution.— The Mormons firmly believed that the order of the Danites was neces sary, not only for the purpose of “judging” the earth, but for their own preservation. More than thirty years ago I first encountered these people. My was not. Converts were new and numerous. A man might he a “Gentile” to-day and a Mormon to morrow. One Jut of bind, number 200, seventh district. Carroll county, joining several , , , . ..... plantations, very heavily timbered, well father and his little > u . y * watered, lays well, public road running j that is, a train that would not travel through it, and some good land upon it. : Qn Sunday in crossing the plain? If any one. wishes to correspond with own er they will direct to Post Office, Box- 17;!, Griffin, Ga. February 18th, 1884. One of the busy women—one of the meddlesome and mischievous kind found in all camps—who knew this poor girl’s history better per haps than she suspected, told the secret of her marriage to one of the new Mormon elders. It was a for bidden marriage too—a marriage on discovery of which her father had become furious, and loud with threats to all Mormons. It was true, this busy and meddlesome woman said, as she gadded about, as such busy women will when idle in camp, that the Mormon elder to whom she was “sealed” had never quite got possession of her; that her father even did not know his daughter’s pretended husband, had never seen him in fact. But tor all that, the girl had been married or “sealed” to a Mormon elder; and trouble was going to come of it. That was why her father was tak ing her out of the country and away to California, hissed this garrulous and meddlesome woman; that was why she looked so saJ and seemed so frightened all the time, con tinued the gadding and garrulous woman, mysteriously. Now all in the world that my father did on hearing the story of along the tawny sand in the sun, or crept stealthily along in our track as the moon rose, that great, gaunt, hollow-eyed, and silent giant push ing, plodding on after it, was the most weird, ghostly, and fascinat ing sight that ever froze young blood. One night it was noticed that this great, gaunt, leaning creature could hardly reach camp. He was seen to push his barrow with effort to the bank of the stream a quarter of a mile away from us, as was his custom, then to stand a stick under an end of it. Then A h rolled his heavy bag of books afijjprovisions 1 out of his singular bod, and with great effort got in and lay down. He was evidently very ill, and my father took me by the hand and went to see him at once. As we came up he reached out ltis great bony hand, and as it fell into fath er’s two hands, he said, “I made my barrow-bed like a coffin, sir } because—because I have had a gre- vious disappointment, and fear it may be that I have done wrong in my day. The monks of Rome sleep in their coffins for penance, sir. I am doing penance. And then, you see, it keeps idlers.away, and gives me time to think and to read books, Books are bread—bread for body and soul, sir. (*>{t down, and when I have a little strength I will read you from the holy book of Mormon, sir.” • (TO UK CONTINUED.) JOHN B. STEWART Wishes to say to the public that he is still prepared to do all kinds of PH0T0GEAHING and FEEE0TYPING in the latest style and at reasonable pri ces. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc. Copying and enlarging a specialty— can make all size? from locket to 8x10 inches. Remember that two dollars will buy a fine, large picture framed ready for your [larlor. at my street, ( arrollton. Ga. jallerv, Newnan this beautiful and terrified girl, was the banks of the* AIis-j to £° to ll<?r P e °pl e > "’ho were en- Council Bluffs, right in camped close by out te.it, and ad vise, even protest, that they should take some other route to the re mote West than this one that lay l»v Salt Lake. Sure this was not because of religious scruples—pitch ed tent on souri at their trails. We saw there thous ands of caves, little mud huts, hovels, all sorts of miserable little habitations, where the whole mass , , , of Mormons had wintered a few. »•»<*• ™ * wan enough to pu seasons before, in their exodus 1-ttle ha,ulay tra.n m perpe ual from the United States to what terror of “judgment” from the l)an- was then supposed to he Mexico.— ites as When our train crossed the Mis- b <l ll ‘ souri and pushed west to reach the Pacific, we still were in following the marks tlieir &reat .... ,.| , .. . moving caravan made as it drew!™-, » mure htcly, found . mottled length like a shining impossible then to turn aside and we pushed on across the We did not see this Miss jane, the Mormon elder’s “wife,” their trails? 1 a c ii m for months. Her father either did not see fit to be advised, its Satisfaction Guaranteed. MBS. E. A. HENDON’S Perfect Fitting Chart. Fannie Fullilove, of Athens ]YL-ieorgia,wlio is temporarily sojourn 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 Chari, with instruc tions how to use it. This Chart together with the lessons given, will enable, any one to he their own mantua-maker. Per fect satisfaction guaranteed. Apply at the residence of Rev.M. A. Perdue, Ce dar street, Carrollton, Georgia. , j, ( i uuur t u c,. seek another route, and so crossed serpent across the great deseits to, . . ’ , , ,! T . the Missouri, as it it were a sort of Salt Lake. „ .. ! . . , , v 1 was hut a small lad at tl,at time, Hulueun, and pushed on ahead. As . . . i t i .,,».* .... he had horses aud we only oxen, not big enough to bear aims, oi () j and then, too, as he traveled on in itch I Tinder- j Sundays, his party had soon left our we ll that'little Sunday train a long way be- that anything. But thi? stood, and understood so 'it became a part of my lilt*: that 11111 ' we were in peril. It was not Lull- And oh! what a motly mass of ans we feared. My father was a weary people went stretching Quaker, and ho feared no man away, helpless, dazed, dying, across whom he could look in the face.— j the sands toward the setting sun! But he did fear the Danites, whom , There were some men with but a no man might see till they]single horse to carry their food and did their bloody work. Not that he or his had ever had Evans, The Jeweler, Is now in the southeast corner of the public square, where he will he 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. 8^*-All kinds of repaii iiig^in his line, done promptly and in good style. I blankets. Some men were on foot Jand alone. There was a man and , , . . his wife with a single ox between n„y part nr hand in their pt-Bet-n-, ^ g|mftg , jfn car , Milny ,„ w , hiu , little haml-carts which they pushed or drew along, sad and silent, as some one of their number fell dead by the way. Some men had wheel- tion; but this terror of them was in the air, it was over all things — We knew that our road lay through or by Salt Lake. There was no es- u st i< for sale. A second hand top buggy. A bouble barrel breech loading shot caping that. We must follow on ■ in their track till we came in our j journey to where Dan, who judged j his people, lay like a “serpent by the way,” “an adder in the path.” I forgot to mention that my fath er had done a little something in • his quiet Quaker-like way to help, or try to help, a beautiful young woman who had come in great dis tress to our camp one evening, while tented in the old Mormon winter quarters on the banks of the Missouri. But surely he had no cause to fear evil for good. The facts were simply these. This beautiful, black-eyed little lady was one of the ten thousand emigrants starting out in a long, jveary line toward the remotest West. She was with her people— her parents, brothers and sisters, ^ and some other relatives, if I re barrows. Every day we passed dead cattle, deserted wagons, car riages, by the road-side. Every night by some little stream we camped amid new-made graves. But there was one conveyance, and one traveler, too, in all this mass of moving, struggling, dying humanity, that was indescribable. This vehicle was not a carriage, not a hand-cart, not a barrow. It was a long, narrow, thin, black coffin set on two wheels and pushed al ways by a tall, gaunt, and silent giant. And if there was anything more terrible to us children than the mention of the Danites, it was the sight of that coffin on wheels, and the great bony face and hollow eyes of the man who, silent and sullen, pfished it along. By and by, and by what meins or gradual gllll. An iron revolvin member correctly. This young .steps 1 know not, we began to asso- Untie the Strings. Haul one of the most successful merchants of Cleveland, Ohio, to a lad who was opening a parcel: ,‘Young man, untie the strings; do not cut them.” It was the first remark that he had made to a new employe. It was the first lesson the lad had to learn, and it involved the princi ples of success or failure in his bus iness career. Pointing to a well dressed man behind the counter he said: “There is a man who always wliipsout his scissors and cuts the strings of the packages in three or four places. He is a good salesman but he will never be anything more. I presume he lives from hand to mouth, and is more or less in debt. The trouble with him is that he was never taught to save. “I told the boy just now to untie the strings, not so much for the value of the string as to teach him that exery thing is to be saved and nothing wasted. If the idea can be firmly impressed upon the mind of a beginner in life that nothing was made to be wasted, you have laid the foundation on of success.” From the New York World. No Dress Parades. Our highly esteemed but erratic contemporary of the Sun suggests that the Democratic convention will “nominate Mr. Tilden and wait for his reply before proceeding any further.” Brother Dana has been devoting much of his valuable time and force to the work of impressing upon the Democracy the impor tance of acting with directness and courage in the national convention. Persistently he told us that there must be no tampering with the tariff question, and “no dodging.” Imagine Samuel J. Tilden, the great, serious statesman, waiting for the nomination of the Demo cratic convention as a surprise, and to decline it as an unexpected honor!Imagine a great Democrat ic convention running its nomina tions ofi the “block” system of the Pennsylvania Central trains, and not starting No. 2 until a telegram had brought the information that No. 1 was out of the way! Mr. Tilden has once been elected President, and the opportunity to elect him again. Nothing but his infirm health and his own wishes prevent it. The able Democratic, statesman and earnest practical reformer does not need the show of a nomination lie could command if he were in a position to accept. The Democracy is now putting on its armor for real battle. It is not in a humor for sham fights or dress parades! From the Youth's Companion. Members of Parliament. The members of the. English House of Commons receive no payment for their public services. On the other hand, many of them spend large sums of money in or der to be chosen. In past times, so large a sum as two hundred and fifty thousand dollars has been paid by a candidate to secure his elec tion to the House ; but now that the law severely punishes bribery, such enormous sums are rarely spent. The result of their being no sal ary attached to the office of mem ber of Parliment is, that the House of Commons is almost entirely com posed of wealthy men. Very many members are the sons of peers.— There are numerous baronets and great landed* proprietors in the House; and on its benches you may also find a large number of rich manufacturers, and bankers. The members of the Biritish Cab inet must always sit either in the House of Commons or the House of Lords. If, when a man is appoin ted to a Cabinet office he is sitting in the House of Commons, he thereby vacates his seat. A new election is held in the borough or county he has been representing, in which election he is a candidate; and if he is again chosen, he en ters the Cabinet. The reason of this rule is, that when his constituents first elected him, they chose him to serve them, not to serve the Crown. Therefore he again submits to the test of elec tion that his constituents may ap prove or disapprove of their mem ber sitting in the Cabinet. It is a theory of the English Con- titution, that no member of the House of Commons can resign his seat, unless he has accepted office But a way by which a member can retire has been ingeniously devised. A fictitious fcffiee, called the “Stewardship of the Chiltern Hun dreds,” was created; and now when a member wishes to leave the House, he applies for and is appoin ted to this office, and so becomes incapable of sitting as member. In the House of Commons the members sit according to their par ly relations. Long rows of benches run on either side of 4he great ta ble which stands in "the centre of the apartment. The members be longing to the party in power sit on the benches at the Speaker’s rigid, and the opposition on those at his left. On the front lieacli on the right, sit the members of the Ministry, the Prime Minister being usually in the center. The opposition leaders sit facing the Ministers, on the corresponding bench oppo site. ■The members of the Commons, from ancient times, have always been used to wearing their hats during the session of the House; and this is still the general custom. When a member arises to speak, he Fakes off his hat and holds it in his hand. As soon as he lias finished, he claps it on his head again and sits down. The method of voting in the House of Commoes is one that seems' peculiar to us. Y\ hen a vote is taken, it is called a “division’ of the House. Then a scene of bus tle and confusion takes place. The members huddled out into two oppositite lobbies, passing between two “tellers.” These tellers are chosen from among the partisans and the opponents of the measure which is being voted upon, two on each side. When the “division” is ended, the tellers advance to the table in front of the Speaker; aud one of them holds a paper in his hand, from which he reads the result.— This is always done by one of the tellers of the side which has got the majority; so that when he ad vances, the' House always knows whether the vote is in the affirma tive or negative. What is Love. One hundred letters were writ ten to as many well known think ers, requesting answers to the ques tion: “What is love ?” The result of the inquiry indicate a confusing variety of opinions as to what love is. The following are answers from sixteen different persons: The most interesting and pardon able of human weaknesses. A mere delusion that has ruined many men. A feeling of such exquisite ten derness that it is too sweet for comparison. I don’t know anything about it; don’t think it amounts to much. The sweetest and most passion ate excitement known to men-bind- ing together by the strongest cords of sex, kindred and nations. Don’t know anything about it; I never was there. It is something that no man can find out; yet we feel its power more or less. A sweet and delusive imagina tion only. A dormant passion of the mind, aroused by beauty and intellectual qualities of some one woman. An undefinahle principle which all beings possess, and which lies at the foundation of all happiness. A noble passion which envelopes our whole being and shows itself in every thought, word and action. True bliss—void of fancy—happi est of happiness. An egotism of two. A feeling that takes root in the heart, and is only made perfect when it enters the soul. A latent faculty of the mind that when aroused glows with a radi ance that illuminates the gloomiest mind and wields a power of influ ence that is unequaled. On of the worst diseases of the heart. COUNTY CHUE0H DFRECTOBY. METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Corinth, 1st Sunday and Sunday night; Mt. Zion, 2nd Sunday and Saturday be fore ; Bethel, 3d Sunday and Saturday before—W E Tarpley, pastor. ciate him with that dreaded order.' ■ book ease. ! lady, a girl of eighteen, gifted, ! graceful, good to her parents, full Maybe it was because the Mormons Big giant corn mill—grind* corn and' of affection, was suffering from an Uid made their great journey by cob all together. A good pump Will sell cheap for change for cattle. Apply to EDWIN R. SHARPE. easli will ex- Subscirbe for the Free Press. • ' U ■ ' - - uncontrolablefnarof the Mormons.:the adroit use of barrows of all Her people, she told my father in j kinds; maybe it was because be terrified whispers, were from tlie j looked, in liis stern and severe same settlement the Mormons ori-'silence, as we thought a Danite ginally started from, and she knew ,should look, that we came to sus- not as fornia. 'that long, slim, black coffin crawled i i ' • ' A * •- * " J — Bro. Pendleton of the Valdosta Times says that he bad been an ad vocate of a dog law for years, un til, during the session of the last legislature, it was ascertained that every single man representing a sheep county was opposed to the dog tax. The. Times gave up the fight then and joined the boys. There is only one thing that will cure the evils of the country—that will punish the office holder as quickly for a big steal of money as a poor man for stealing a hog— and'that thing is, when our rulers “become lovers of justice, or the lovers of justice become rulers.” Man Always the Same Animal. The most splendid specimen of the Caucasian race that the civiliz ed world can show to-day has no more organs, bones, muscles, arte ries, veins or nerves than those which are found in the lowest sav age. He makes a different use of them, and that use has changed their development,- and to some ex tent has modified stature, physical, intellectual and moral, and many other attributes, as climate and habits of life have modified com plexion, the disease to which the human frame is liable, and many other peculiarities. But if we take historic man, wo find that in all the physical features of his animal con struction that constitue him a spe cies, he has been esentially the same animal in all states of civili zation or barbarism. And unless we boldly assume that the prehis toric man was animal born with a coat of hair all over his body, and that clothing was resorted to as the hair in successive generations dis appeared,^!^ can have no very strong reason for believing that the human body has been at any time an essentially different structure from what it is now. Even in re gard to longevity or i>ower of con tinued life, if we set aside the ex ceptional cases of what is related of the patriarch in the biblical re- cords, we do not find that the aver age duration of human life has been much greater or much less than the three score and ten or the four score years that are said to have been the divinely appointed term. As to what have been the average duration of life among the prehistoric men, we are altogether in the dark.—George Ticknor Cur tis, in The Manhattan for Febru ary. METHODIST El’lSC’OPAL, SOUTH. Carrollton, first and third Sundays'- in each month—J. W. Heidt, pastor. New Hope, 1st Sunday and Sntudray bo- fore, 11 a. in.; Paul's church 2nd Sunday and Saturday before 11 a. in. Wliitesburg, 3d Sunday aiid Saturday before, 11 a. m. Alt. Carmel, 4th Sunday aud Saturday before, 11 a. in. Pierce's (Impel, 1st Sun day, 3 p. in., and 5th Sunday ll'a. m. and 3 1 p. in.: County Farm, Coweta county, 1st Sunday, 7 b. in.; Hutchinson's, 4th Sunday, 4 p. m.; Wliitesburg, every sun- day 7 L p . m. except the 1st sundav.—T. G. Morgan, pastor. Smyrna 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore; Stripling's Chapel, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before; Roopville 3rd Sunday and Saturday; Camp Ground,4th Sunday and Saturday before.-Jerre Reese, pastor Midway 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore: Shiloh 2nd Sunday and Saturday before; Bowdon, 3d Sunday and Satur day before; Paynes' chapel.' 4th Sunday and Saturday before—J. N. Myers, pastor. PRIMITIVE BAPTIST. Tallapoosa, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before; Poplar Springs, 3d Sunday and Saturday before—E Phillips, pastor. Bethel, 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore; Hopewell, 2nd Sunday and Satur day before; County Line, 4th Sunday anil Saturday before—.J I> Hamrick, pastor. MISSIONARY BAPTIST. New Lebanon, 3rd Suyday and Satur day before.—J. W. Hood, pastor. Oak Grove, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before—William Daniel, pastor. Carrollton, 1st and 3d Sundays—E B Barrett, pastor. Wliitesburg, 1st Sunday ami Saturday before; Betbesda, 2nd Sunday and Sat urday before; Eden, 3d Sunday and Sat urday before; Beulah, 4th Sunday and Saturday before—W Yv Roop, pastor. Aberleen, 1st Sunday and Saturday tie- fore : Bethel, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before—J M D Stallings, pastor. Mt. Olive, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before; Providence, 4th Sunday and Sat urday before—S B Little, pastor. Bowdon, 1st Sunday and Saturday t** fore—Ino. A. Scott, pastor. Bowdon 1st Sunday; Pleasant View, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before—T A lligdon, pastor. Carrollton—Second Baptist. Fourth Sunday and Sat unlay licfore. J. B. S. Davis, pastor. METHODIST PROTESTANT. Carrollton, 2nd Sunday in each month at the Presbyterian ehureh—Dr, F M M Henderson, pastor. Antioch, 1st Sunday anil Saturday be fore: New Hope, 2nd Sunday and Satur day before: Smith's Chapei, 3d Sunday and Saturday before; Bowdon, 4tht*ai*- day and Saturday before—.Juo Thurman, J M M'Cahnan, pastors. PRESBYTERIAN. Carrollton, 4th Sunday, Dr das. Stacy, pastor. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. New Bethel, 1st Sunday and Saturday before, supplied by .T A Perdue, district evangelist. Bethany, 4th Sunday and Saturday before, supplied by d A Perdue, dis trict evangelist. Elion, 3d Sunday, Z Hardegree, pa!*- tor. Beersheba, 3d Sunday—R d Miller, pastor. C0UET CALENDAB. Carroll superior court, 1st Monday in April and October—S. W. Harris, judge, d M B Kelly, clerk, .T M. Hewitt, sheriff. Court of ordinary, 1st Monday in each month: For county purjKises, 1 st Tuesday in each mouth—R. L. Richards, ordinary. JUSTICE COURTS. ginally started from, and sne Knev, .should look, that we came to huh that her people would be-“judged” p ec t him to be a Danite. I do no by the Danites when they came to | T i i . Salt Lake, on their journey to Cali-jknow uow. I only know that, a An Irish Judge said to a con demned prisoner: “You are to be hanged, and 1 hope it will be a warning to y T ou.” The girl who less than a year ago ! married a man to reform him has sublet her contract to the peniten- j tiary authorities. If they don’t do ! better than she did there is little hope for him.—Exchange. Yes, there is many a poor girl who has gone through just such a sad ex- I perience. Marriage seldom re forms a dissipated young man. Reason is our soul’s left hand, faith her right.—John Doling, A Boy Born Mad. , There is a clever, worthy family living in Guilford county, Gibson- ville, N. who is afflicted with a son mad from birth. And yet, as if the most beautiful creature with which the God parent endows bis creature man, the family are devo ted to that unfortunate boy. They keep him shut up, but treat him as kindly’ and tenderly as if he was a blessing in their midst. The lad is now twelve y r ears old, well grown and developed, and nearly as strong as a man. If he sees a stranger he stretches out his neck and approaches, wringing his hands and running his tongue out like a snake. He will shine his eye at you and take it off as quick as a: bird. He has got a great desire to | play with horses. His rage is al- j most unmanageable, but the home I people seem to have control of him. i Anything pretty shaken before bis eyes will cheek him in bis wildest rage. And the boy is strengthen ing into manhood, and the dark | cloud before bis eyes is getting ; blacker aud blacker, % CARROLLTON. 714tli District, G. M., 2nd Wednesday in each month—E. B. Morrell, X. p* G S Sharp, J P. I.AIRDSBOKO. 713tli District. G M, 2nd Friday in each month—W J, Craven, N P., John K Roop, .1 P. BOWDON. Illtli District, G M, 3d Friday in each month—W JI Barrow. N 1\. Jabcz Miles, J P. WHITESBCRO. 682nd District, G M, 3d Friday in each month—Richard Benton, N P.', Thomas •J. Strickland J P. WADDELL. 64!)tlt District, G M, 3d Saturday iu each month—.1 M Cobb, X P., G T Bow don, .1 P. VILLA RICA. 642nd District, GM;2i»d Saturday in each mouth—Marcus A Turner, X P., J D Stone, J P. MOUNT CARMEL. 72t)tli District, G M; 1st Saturday in each month—R B Jones, X 1\, J T Xor- inan, J P. COUNTY LINE. 12!»7th District, (J M: 2nd Saturday m each month—L Holland. X P., Yv B Richards, J P. TURKEY CREEK. 1240th District, G M; 2nd Saturday iu each month—J M Ellison. J P. KANSAS. 1152ml District. G M: 1st Saturday in each month—P H Chandler, X P., Hiram Spence, J P. SMITIIFIELD. 1006th District, G M:lst Saturday in each month—Ransom Smith, J P.. J M Thurman, X' P. NEW MEXICO. 1310th District, G M: 1st Friday , in each month—J P Yates, X P M J W Jones. J P. LOWELL. 1163rd District, G M: 3d Saturday in each month—W A Timmons, X P. O M. Todd,J P. FAIR I’LAY. 1122ml District, G M: 4th Friday in each month—1 W Carroll, X P., jl £ Williamson, J P. e . j. <; • 4