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v. #t»: • ■m . ^ 1 to.wstki x cicuia i • .1 ii ; t) ! i89g.6edO ^dj*8Vi i-;: ' * NO. 18. CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED EVEEY FRIDAY. by Special Arrangement with the Author. 4 SEALED UNTO HIM. EDWIN R. SHARPE, Publisher. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: A STORY OF THE EARLY DAYS OF MORMONISM, Om* copy otic year, Owe copy six mouths, One copy three months^ CLUB KATES: fen copies one 1 year, Twenty copies one year, 81.2(3 BY $10.00 .•520.00 father, with pale lips, silentlyjftook my hand and returned to camp.— lie knew what that awful sentence PROFESSIONAL it BUSINESS CAl.’DS JDFt.. X. 3ST. GHEISTEY Would In form his frieifdS'.-ind the public ffirn-ptftk generally tliat he is still -in the practice’ of medicine. Special attention given to chronic diseases. Office Carrollton Ho tel. iosKJ’n 1.. conn. ; kki.ix x. conn. COBB&GOBB 4 Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. c.\ k 1:0 i.i.Tt »x, t; Kora; r a . Jjgp' Prompt attention given to all bus iness intrusted tons. ('ollectioiis a spe cialty. Office in court house. Dn.J. \V. 1TALLU3I, cakkolltox - - - OKOIIO f A. lias his office, in number 2, Maritle- yille. brick building, lie makesa specialty of OSTETEICS and DISEASES OF WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call on him. Consultation free. 13EL. J_ IF. COLE, caukojjLTon,<;a. Is devoting most of bis time and atten tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and is prepared for most any operation. liis charges are reasonable. The Harnett House, S A VA N X A H, G E( JULIA. Is conceded to be the most comforta ble and by far tin- best, c^idtjcted hotel in Savannah. jQp- Paths : '82,(to Phi: Day. itgg M. r.. it ARNETT, Land for Sale. One lot of laird, number -200, seventh disu-jet, Carroll •■county, joining several plantations, very heavily limbered, well watered, lays well, ptibiie road running through it, and some good land upon it. If any one wishes to correspond with own er they will direct to Post Offit-e, Box 172, Griffin. Ga. February I St li. 1SS I. JOflN B. STKWART :j. CHAPTER II. 15V TILK 1>17A I) SKA. It was called the dead sea in the old-days by those who passed that'meant very well, wfiy. The River Jordan still holds ! But thobeuutiful, black-eyed girl, its biblical nanie y as do many of the!so full of youth, health, affection, passes^ springs, valleys, and immn-jdevotion—what monstrous cfeat- urrounding Salt Lake, 'ure in all this world could be found M t v father was more pusuded as | miserable enough in murder her? to who this strange man might be !Surely her purity, hot sweetness, after taking his hand and hearing should be as ten thousand swords him talk in his quiet,.unselfish, and: to defend iter. Her beatify should learned fashion, titan .ever before.— I have been as an army with- ban- Was he indeed a Danite, or only tiers. What had happened? We some poor Mormon, a sort of insane j shall see. man, doing, penance as he profess'-! One morhing before Sunrise, two ed? long-haired men on horseback, It is great mistake to .say that j bearing long rifles; .before them, only dishonest, ignorant, and im-; dashed up to the grim black shape pure men are fanatics in religion.—! half-hidden in the Link rye, grass I frequently recall, when thinking there by the bank of the little trout of tboso-t-iuugs, the.gaunt, lefin fig-1 stream; and the bony giant was ure fifth e-obi learned Caliph who! seen to sit suddenly bob upright in •sat on his red camel outside t he this cofFin. gates of Jerusalem, demanding the 1 The conference did not last long, keys of the (loomed city. 1 see him lOniy a few words passed—orders dine, as he sits there, on two dried mainly—brief, short,: sharp,. and tigs and a drink of water from the’mostly made up of mqnOsj'naiircs leather bottle at his belt. I see;and gestures; and then the long- lbm die at last, after all the wealth ’haired men on horseback, with of the East Inis passed tin touched j their b mg ,fi files' before them, through liis hands, with face lifted wheeled suddenly and disappeared radiant in hope to the gates of hefiv-j in and behind a grove of the cool, en. That liis followers were igiio-| leaning ‘willows up the stream, rant, bad at heart, is true. They Then it was that the certain coif could not even plead redeeming in-A ietion settled down upon all as to dustry. who tins monster was. Men Hanlon this digression. One is women too^ in the many camp; tempted into noting parallels of scattered here and there, up and religious fanaticism, folly,and mad- down the willow-lined stream, be- noss by the singular similar simil-!g«tn' to question themselves with arity of the physical characteristics pale lips if they had aught to of the two latyfe—Syria and this swer for, to these sudden, swift, and Mori non ygglw now known as. merciless “judges” to the tribe of ‘Ofrrrfir JO ' It was a tired, dusty, dis- The terror that now possessed us 'heartened little party that touched and lay steadily and still over all From the Youth's Companion. Tht National Conventions. COUNTY CHURCH DIRECTORY. er visible.— are at least ] • J . • i mktiioiust .ki’iscobal. old white line But was Blessed with Surprising Good, \\'i(hin a few weeks active pre- Corinth..1st Sunday and Sunday niglit; ot tlitrt*' Yea#s <1g0. And that island j Luck or Has Highly Imaginative partitions will begin for the elec- 3It. Zion. 2nd Sunday and m$ of «... fttait! , tion of delegate/1„ the National | black sea of death are hidden en- Moxticello, X. \., March A—j Conventions* of the two great par-. tirely. The ploughed lands have j Frank Kent lives in the SacketCs Im washed .into {he Jakitj and Pond neighborhood, this county.— its pores autT outlets lmve been The region D a wild one. Resi- elutked up. A\v ; ay to the south side dents of the neighborhood coming ofthe lake last-year I rowed my | in town during the past week lloat over miles andaniles offences ; have had much to relate about a ties of the country—the Republi- ; cans and the Democrats. As is well known, such Conventions are held once in four years for the nomina tion of candidates for President and Vice-Presidents, and to put MKTHomsT Kl’ISf Ol’AI., SOUTH. Carrollton, first anil third theik had been swallowed up by the rising waters. The Pacific Rail road Company attempted to build tdy.se .to the boldlygS tipis lake on the north side, at first. The grad ually rising water yrovp it to Die hills. j ' t As ear little train- began to i: 'Hlllli’i • train-be stretch mtf : and . start.- -with its creaking wagons on dmvri’ and fir- other animal, oulid the white ripi of . Uie great hike do the west, 411 the gorgeous moonlight, wfc felt that we should not he followed IjE thirt haunting Yimi' horrid ^qjribtrc that had so long pushed its black sfitipo silently after us. We drew tuft up on the broad, tvhite salt border, and; began to strike away toward the west. He was not with us, not fol lowing us. thank Heaven! Every one there took a long ftfeatli, and felt better, freer than for weeks, months. Other trains had not broken camp. And so it began to he hop ed, that wc .w(add her midspi 1 by the sudden amt swiff ' horseman who claimed jiirisdietidii here, and as serted and maintained the right of their elders to sit hi judgement on the world. Word was passed up and down tht?* line to hasten on as fast as possible, to put as much dis tance between them and us, be tween that hideous black box tliat h$d haunted us so loiig and presist- entIy,As pVtstfible before dawn. We had inade two miles, perhaps, before taking breath. We had climbed a little hill. Here we an ‘ paused; and looking back, there Wishes to say to the public that he is “till prepared to do allkituls of PHOTOGRAHING and EERROTYPING in the latest style and at reasonable pri ces. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc. ^Copying and enlaagirtg a kjiecialtj— can make ;dl sizes from locket to 8x10 inches. Remember that t wo dollars will buy a finer large picture framed ready for-your parjoiv at niy gallery. Xewnuu 'stm;t, Carrollton, (hi. Satisfaction Guaranteed. M US. K. A. HEN DON'S Perfect Fitting Chart. M iss Fainfic Fnllilove. of Athens,- Georgia,who is temporarily.sojourn ing in Carrollton, announces to the ladies of Carrollton, tliat she is prepared to give iossonp in cutting and li t tin _ Ladies and MisseS dresses.; atef to inniish Airs. Hen don's Perfect Fitting Chart, with instruc tions how to use if. This Chart together with the lesions given, will enable any one to he their own mantiia-maker. Per fect satisfaction gicrrafifeed. Apply at the residence Af Rev, .1. A. 1’endue, Ce dar street, < armllton, GMorgia. * k*-—<6—,/S-i : - - TTOTT mi - Evans, The Jeweler. . Ls-uW'tn the it»«t heast. corner -of the public square, where -lie will lie glad to ■- see Itte Wioods ;>iel fU<t public generally keejis on hand a full fine of gooiL^ He eonsistitig of [dated w arrof nil kinds. . Watches,- Clocks,^Jewelry. I CHRISTMAS PRESENTS miaaari, • Ail kinds of repan ingj in his fine, „done prompily and ill good, styje. £3x531-^01 1 c3 was*painful, pitiful.* No one dared the salt--white shove ofthe dead sea in the heart of the great desert and wilderness of 'this continent/ knew who his neighbor was. There more .than thirty years ago. was somewhat of tliat awful still- The silent and mebuteholy man ness and sad pity over the face of in the long black barrow w;us : quite-miture which is to obe>uu-.ved when well enough, after.the night’s rest;an earthquake is about to break which followed my father’s, visit, to j heart of our mother, eartli. creep on after his coftin the next < )n the'noxt day four other mem morning; and lie kept up, hovering similarly mounted, equally abrupt, on our border, keeping only a little!.sudden, and swift, swept up came creeping across the gleaming white road of salt, right on Our track as before, that frightful lead er of the Danites. He was push ing, with all his show of humiliiy and penance as before, the long recent hunting exploit, or series of . ti, t » principles of the party into a xploits, of Frank Kent, who, they declare, is no hunter fit that, A few days ago, while lie be Was at work in bis yard, lie saw bis dog suddenly make for the woods as fast as it could run. In a few min utes he heard the sounds of a struggle between the dog and some series of resolutions, or “plattorm.” The membership of each Conven tion is based upon the representa- o j tion of the States in Congress. Each State sends twq delegates for each Representative. The Republican party also allows two delegates to each > f,- to speak to his neighbor. No one , black coffin, across the broad white way in the rear, camping (inly a little oif, living bisi singular life ail hv himself, as befofe, till we reached the chores of the inland sea tt is to be eoni'essc/L, t hat there little stream from the shores-of th whEg-lined sea, and Looked uj> and down and right and left, as if for some one who was lost.or had es caped. They did not speak to any ■'w&i. not one oT our UltJ> train tliat . one,Or even come'hear to the silent did not hope, expect, almost pray, man up the stream, above our that here thfo m:u.i would leave j cani]>. But they beekoiied.li.ini, imd tts-this, nightmare, shadow, and'he ttusweretl hack. They, then cloudD-h** bird.Of evil outen, rise] dashed on up the .mountain-side to at his t a ml tlyav.ay.' Not so. the stream, and, elimlflng at’a stea- The ootiin took -up position notifiy gallop to the high gray summit, truly great that is little in tup j'Jiim^elf, and tltfit. maketh no ae- fhr Lmfit of of honors.— Tomas a-Kenipis. Gold that buys health can ever beJUspent. Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. Choose always that see in the best, however sought it nniy.be Custom -will render it easy agreeable.—Fythagoras. False friends are like our shad ows, keeping c.lose to :1 live hundred years away on the^at there 'in a groifp a. long time bank.of the brawling little stream i looking . to the east, to the west, wlrich svjept into the great blaek j (-very where, long and eagerly^, lake, with its gleaming border, of Then they rode 011 down thy gra$- erVsJal-white salt. Tlie grass was Long and strong here. Some wil- sy hill toward the head of the itream, and we saw them no more. lows cast a cooling shade. Ilere |But a dafkeVshadow than ever was the tall and hideous glhnt with the over us how; a Shadow Jay behind hollow eyes sat and read all day them like fhe'slradow of death, alone. But where was lie at night ? Yve couM tint (uulure the strain We children did not flsh in tliat- a-ny longer.- And then; in fact, we stream once-during the whole week we're almost re’fidy t(); set out once of »opt fiere, while purdutsing more 011.th.^Tohg, journey freshVuppliesrt'dni "Salt Lake Citv,:fore us, Father made dxcti; ■only "a,- *.fe\v 4uiUy a.way to" the wfinted to cuteh thb cool south. We stepperi high and bur- evening. And this gave hit till be- Father made excuse that cool of the stepped nign atm nui-jevening. auu mis ga>ir him some nod in thev-tall grass if by ehtmcei pretencU 1 of reason to haste. And atiy-oJ- t-Ue;C.attl,e went too close to ;so.lie set out, that ltutiiytrous shape, ami we had to go.there: to drive thenr buck and nearer camp. , ji( 1 AIv father had been as tHE sun. went down, to nmvtt hisi little train on, on, oil, omvtird oyer the _ great white border of tliis black sea of very aitx- death—anywiiere, indeed, to get hear from| v |fl 0 f this night mare that hoveled, had made a boat here out of an old ' wagon-bed. By tJie.lieliJ of a friendly Iiulian Ull ^ . ... they'’Inwl-rowed far out to a 3 1 ict 1 e island with three green trec^oTPft: There was a rock j ust visible above the blat-lc, heavy- waters here close to this idand - . One of tlie l H-A-XjB. ^ A seeVuici liii.ml toj> buggy. • A bffitble barrel bvt>(H-li loading . shot ggn. . . ... - • An jr-on revolving l.»ook case. .. Bi< r «-iiint corn inili—^grinds- Aim and •bl> all together. • ' A good pump Will sell cheap for .change for c-.ittie. rash ‘or will ex- ious all the journey to the Lanes. He often asked men who ^ over, sutfocated us. had slow;teams' like our own if' Ktnne of-our men they had seen this party pass. They had been seen oftej}.' At tlie settlement of Salt Lake he asked fortneln TTf 4aim Qne.dayiie ventuipd to. approach the watch Aik and silent giant who rested by his coffin as he read in the shade oLtlm willuyys, and asked if he naU luul about the Lanes. • ^Jiejnfin billy lifted tlie ; lids of ms'htflToW eyes, looked a moment at liiy father, let them fall, 1 and ’agaitt went on readi 11 g- But. smc- iiigthat my fattier still stood re spectfully by, , and was. dispos'd neither to ask again uor even to grow jingj-y a-iul pass on 'in silence,- he again lifted his eyes for a second and'looking at my futherv said, in a deep, solemn, and never-to-be-for gotten tone: border of salt in the matchless, moonlight. (to be COXTIXCKU.):, -Bulwer Lytton He is and us while we walk iii tlie sunshine, but leaving 118' flic instant we w alk in thy sluide, Bovee. : HeniuHt • is essentially creative5 it lauirs the character of the individu al .who possesses it.—Madame dp Stael. Better not be tit all. j . -■ m Than not be noble.., . —Tentiysop The idol of to-day pushes, tjic hprn of yesterday out of recollection, and will in turn be supplanted by liis successor of to morrow.—Wash ington Irving. liiq/. , J He that will lose his friend-fth* a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.—Fuller. q « It is better to believe that a maq. does possess good qualitiestlia^i to assert that he does not.—John Francis Davis. g There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sinceri examination,—Meneious. Who (l(j<V ^li»fft(‘st l^.-t circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly: angels could do. t a nee st owvince aver any information j ng - 0 n the edge toward this rock. th^_actioiis^ not w ords, are tli true, ei erro« -of the attachment^ and that the most professions of good will ai surest ieorge \N ashingtom^ pi[es«fHl4HMii, be tliai fhe'jiaVfl And neither fear nor. wish the apj of Ur- last. •' ’ , .. v —< 'rot ^ .. of it.—GeorgeAN ashing The'Indian was horrified, and with wild yells-j oiled him,back. But the man was already turning back through the black, heavy waiter, ami making for the island and tb.e' boittyvn^i afL | w^^SHs-^lnioT^ a"Mf difficult his’plight. Tie lifiil seen aw lead' ho 1 ^ success^ we are :apt to ovofift dy there with log chains about it—; ^ha.t hgsttbr us lies the W'ork oftheDanites. Anu'ydr, within our reach, though no man dared .siiy so, or lAph ki'caii,, overlocikcd.—rLmigfellow. rythiilg liyes^flourisli^^ivipj of it. You must know thfiT the v Salt Luke is so .dense and heavy Kent 1 got his gun and rail to the spot. He found his dog and a large red fox fighting.— The fox w hippeil the dug and the latter ’sneaked hack hornd. The fox ran into its burrow, at the mbuth -i of’which tlie fight occurred. Kent dug the fox cut find started home with it alive. He had taken a few steps Only when a ; Srrtall animal flashed across an opening in front of hiiii, immediately followed by another. Close behind the two bounded a large animal. The. first two were raceoohs. They \vere be-, ing pursued bv a wildcat. The edons scrambled into fi hollow log. The wildcat, seeing’ Kent, ’did. not stop until it had gond a hundred yards further on. Then it f<>ok a position in a Chestnut tree. Kent hast ily took off one Of his suspen ders and tetheixSl the fox.to a chestnut'sapling’hy btmi'hind logs. He then rah to the hollow log where the coons had taken refuge, arid closed up both ends with chlink's of'wood. The Wildtml still, remained In the ehesnttt tree in plain sight. Kent wfitlked toward it but it shdSved no inclination to es cape. Keiit stood tinde'r the branch on which the wildcat crouched, not more than twenty-five feet above him. The animal prepared itself tri spring upon him, but be fore it could do so Kent sent n rifle ball into its heart, and it fell to tlie ground and died almost instantly*. Before the report of the gun had died away Kent heard a noise off to his right in the underbrush, and he thought it was a cow that had wandered in the woods. He went into tlie brush toward the spot where the noise came from, and to., hjs surprise discovered a large bear dragging itself along with .both of its hind feet in a heavy steel trap, to which was attached a. long cliain. Kent was obliged to shoot tlie bear twice before be killed it. After waiting a few,minutes to see whether lie would be called tipon to kill or cap ture anything more, Kent went buck after bis fox. He got there just in time, for by its .struggles tlie Ti organised Territory and Wie District of Columbia. The Territo ries are not represented in the Deinoeraticc Convention. The United States Senate con sists of severity-six members, and 'the House of Representatives of three hundred and twenty-five members. The Republican Con vention will be made up of eight hundred and twenty delegates. Delegates are chosen, except in a very few eases, by Conventions, one or more in each State. They -will all be so chosen for the Repub lican Convention this year for the first time. But it lias not fully decided that each congressional dis trict may Igdd its own convention and choose its own .delegates. It has been common in some States tor a single Convention to choose all the delegates to which the State was entitled. The system had the advantage of making the influence of a State in the Convention as great as it could lie, since it resulted in the election of iiien who all represent ed one wing—if there were two wings—of the party. The same ob ject was -frequently accomplished by giving tlie delegation instruc tions to “vote as a unit on all ques tions.’’ Thus, iii each ofthe National Con ventions this year, there will he ,seveuty-tw,o delegates from the SJate of Now York. The “unit rule,” would give thirty-seven mem- Sundays in each month—J. W. lleidt, pastor. New Hope. 1st Sunday and Satudray be fore, 11 a. m.; Caul's church 2nd Sunday and Saturday before 11 a. in. W hitesbiirg, 2d Sunday arid Saturday before. 11 a. 111. Mt. Carmel, 4tli Sunday ami Saturday before, 11 a. m. Pierce's CliajH’k 1st Sun day,,J p- in., and 5th Sunday 11a. m. and :C.‘. p. m.: County Farm. Coweta county, lsf sundav, 7 b. "111.; Hutchinson's, 4th Sundav, 4 p. m. AVhitesburg. every Sun day 7L p . m. except tin- 1st Sunday.—T. (J."Morgan, pastor. Smyrna 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore; Stripling's Chapel, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before: Roopville 3rd Sunday and Saturday: Camp Ground', till Sunday and Saturday 1 belore.-Jerre Reese, pastor Midway 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore: Shiloh 2nd Sunday and Saturday before; Bp,wdoll, 3d Sunday and Satur day before: Cavues* chapel. 4th sundav anil Saturday before—I. X. Myers, pastor. fox had freptl-.one of its logs, and would soon have gained,its liberty, Kent carried the fox home and placed , it in his smokp house,— Then.he went out and brought .the wildcat in. He next took a bag and went to the hollow log, iii which the coons were imprisoned. He romqved the pieces of woo’d from one-end, drew the. mouth, of the bag over the hoie. He shoved a stick in. the other, end of the log, and tfit} coons ran out and ifiitp the bag, Kent drew the bag."off the Trig and carHed the coons home alive; and turned . them into the woodshed. Then.he went put and dragged in the carcass of the hear. He has not found.-otit yet .wjiy-re. tlie.bear and the trap- joined, com pany. Kent’s exploit vpnsumed fifteen, minutes only. But, his nei ghbors insist that-he is no hunter. Iioecliw iu lib.Jjew lecture sjud he yds glad to see the increa.s- ing.pluek and energy of Southern uul he did not riierif was noT'giad n abolished, that a vote t;iken,one (Southerner in a liuh- wouki«a»jt his ballot for the Fips^jration pf j^tovery. Mr. Beecii- **i” beeftiueu eMthusiastie on the uently asserted that ye to see tlie day tve.the privilege Southern man for a statron-iii jiontana, tlie oth a Bb^tpri girl stuck her 1i #Ut of a Northern Pacific IN R. SIIAIIPE. bubscirbc for tlie Feee Puk.ss, . -x . v WL “.Maybe they have been judged;: with salt that you cannot possibly and are not!” sink in it, unless great’weights are YYhd again he went ami said no word more, while attached to your body. I may mention that this rock arid the destruction of is the verification Good. car ex«k«uied: “Mle bewildering exymens this twan* tal ^•(•ftett*yw\'ith such inde- binration and tinges its PVewy featiih-Avith such overpow ering Interest quite Vwcaks me uj).” And a number of menil.ierS of the local vigilance committee standing one gem ration ()U tlie platform looked grimly into of the?: next. each other’s faces and muttered, “Oil I if it was only a man!” VKiMITIVK tIAITIST. 'rallapoosn, 2nd Smkbiy ami Saturday before: Pojdar Springs, 3d Sunday and Saturday before—E Phillips, pastor. Bethel, 1st Sunday and Saturday lie- fore: Hopewell.-2nd" Sunday and Satur day before; County Line. 4th Sunday anil Saturday before—.1 D Hamrick, pastor. MISSIONARY BAPTIST. New Lebanon, 3rd Sunday and Satur day before.—J. W. HoofI, pastor. Oak Grove, -2nd Sunday .-mil Saturday before—William Daniel, pastor. Carrollton, 1st. and 3d Sundays—E B Barrett, pastor.• , Whiteslxug, 1st Sunday and Satunlay before; Betliesda, 2nd Sunday and Sat urday before J Eden. 3d Sunday and Sat urday liefore: Beulah. 4thr Sunday and Saturday before—W VV Roop, jiastor. Aberleeti. 1st Sunday and Satunlay l»e- fore: Bethel, 2nd Sunday and Satunlay before—1 M I) Stallings, pastor. Mt. Olive, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before: Providence, 4th Sunday and Sat urday before—S B Little, pastor. Bowdon, 1st Sunday and Satunlay be fore—J110. A. ScoM, pastor. Bowdon 1st Sunday: Pleasant View, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before—T A Higdon, pastor. Carroilton—Second Baptist. Fourth Sunday and Saturday ij^ore. J. B. S. Davis, pastor. muoPw MKTIK)|>1ST l*K<»TKSJ>XT. Carrollton, 2nd Sunday in each month at tie* Presbyterian olmreli—Dr. F II M Henderson, pastor. Antioch, 1st Sunday and Saturday lie- fore: New Hope. 2nd Sunday and Satur day before: Smith's (.1mi»ei,,3d Sunday LtM’.s -—it majority of the delegation—-J and Saturday before; Bowdon, 4th Sun day an l Saturday before—J110 llT.’.rman, J M M'< 'ahnan, pastors. the rigjtt to.east the whole .seven ty-two votes on one side or the oth er of every question brought before .the Conventions, or tor one candi date when noptinations are mak- ()f late years the tendency has hern particularly: in the Republi can party to'allow district Conven tions to choose district delegates, arid to leave to the State Conven- tibtr only the choice of the four del egates who represent tin* State at Large. Sometimes, however, the practice is to Irreak up the State Conventioli 'into-district Conven tions,—the members for'each dis trict forming,a separate body, this way all the delegates are eho's- en ikt.the wfific time and by one set of men;.but tlie pr actiee gives a fairer chance to the nntiority, if there is-a division. It has' been decided in Republican Conventions that the “unit rule” is not binding. Each,delegate has the right to east liis vote and to have it recorded in dependently. A majority, makes a nomination in a Republican Convention; but ■in a Democratic.Convention a can didate for President or Vice-Presi dent must receive two-thirds of all the v;diets. This rule—known as the two-thirds rule—rhas been adopted by successive Conventions. It has made impossibhi the nomination of the candidates who started out withia majority in l«S8l and led to tlie nomination of Polk and Pierce, who .were* when nominated, Com paratively unknown mbit. This •rule also caused the split in the Democratic party in lS(jn. Bnt the Democrats find it useful and Will not abandon it. National Conventions were tin known in the early history ,of the country. Down to the end of .tir Monroe’s administration candi date s \ V ore. proposed by a caucus of their party friends in Congry.s . T11 1824, the Democratic caucus pre sented the name of Air. W. IT. Crawford fqr ;: President, but tlu friends of other candidates bad not attended ih* caucus, and refused to he hound by its action. 1‘KESBVTF.KlAX. < arnilltou, 4th Suaday, Dv Jas. Stacy, pastor. cnmsTiAX ruuKCU. New Bethel, 1st Sunday and Satunlay before, supplied by J A Perdue, distriet evangelist. Bethany, 4th Sunday, and Saturday before, sujqilied by J A Penhie, dis trict evangelist. Euon, 3d Sunday and Saturday liefore supplied by J A Perdue. Beetsheba, to lie supplied. COURT CALENDAR. ( ai roll superior court. 1st Monday in 1 n tTjTrlT Miid Oetoribi'—S. \\. Harris, judge, J M B Kelly, clerk, ,J M. Hewitt, sjieritl'. < ourt of ordinary, 1st Monday in.T.A m.Mith : For county [iurjioses, 1st Tuesday in each month—^R. I,. Rieliards, ordinary. JUSTICE COURTS. pAunou/rox.. 714th District, G. M., 2nd W(*dnesdav iii Pal-li month—E. B. Merrell, X. P* G S Sharp, J P. LA^wnsBoiio. ' 7J3tli District, G M, 2nd Friday fn each mouth—W L (Vaveti. X I’., .loiin K Hoop,' J P. BowtKiX. 111th District. G3I. 3d Friday in each month—W II Barrow, X P.,Ja»iez Miles. J P. AVMITF.S1H' R(ri (IS2nd Distriet, C M; 3(1 Friday in each month— Richard Benton, N P* ’llionias J. Strickland J P t| AVADUKU.. (>4Dth Digp'jct. G M, 3d Saturday in each month—J M ( obh, X P.. G T ilow- don, J P. vit.i.A lflriA. <»42nd District, GM; 2nd Saturday in each month—Marcus A Turner, X P„ J I) Stone, .J P. MOL'XT CAKMKI.. 720th District, G M; 1st Satunlay in each month—R R Jones, X P., .1 T \*or- iinm, J P. There were four other candidates, and no one of the fivehaA ing a ma jority of electoral votes", air. Adams was elected !>y the House of Kep- resentatives. Tliat Avas the' end of caucus noniinalioits for President. Gen. Jackson was nominated in J A 28 .by some of (lie Elate Legi.-ia- .tures. But tb.e Convention system Avris introduced before his sueessor, Mr.'Van Buien, was cho.sc 1;, and has been in use to the present time* it : ’ • COI'XTT I.INK. 1297th District, (i 31: 2nd Saturday in each month—L Holland. X P.. <V B Richards,.! P. tcrkey cbkek. 1240th District. G 31: 2nd Saturday in each month—J 3i Ellison, J p. KANSAS. 1152nd District, G M; 1st Saturday in each month—P II Chandler, X I’., liinun Spence, .J P. s.Ai ITimEU). 1<KJOtli District, G 31; 1st Saturday in each month—Ransom Smith. J P., J M Thurman, X P. NEAV MEXICO. 1310tli District, G 31; 1st Friday iu each month—J P Yates, X P., J IV Jones. J .P. /"T* . l.OWEt.L. / inch'd District, G M; 3d Sat endi month—W A T immous. X Todd, J I*. * FAIR 1*LAY. 1122nd District, !; 3f: 4t ea< h month—.1 W C»rrof Williamson, J P.