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VOL. I.
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, MARCH 28, 1884.
NO. 19.
CARROLL FREE IRE8R
PUBLISHED EVSEY FEIDAY.
EDWIN It. SHARPE, ri'm.isjinu.
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PROFESSIONAL A BUSINESS CARDS
A STORY OF THE EARLY DAYS OF MORMONISM.
BIT UO.A.Q.TTnsr IMIXILLBIR-.
way to know where they would
strike her with their long knives as
they leaned from their saddle^
She seemed choking, and could
hardly breathe. The world was
passing away. Her head sank on
her breast. She was siltmily wait-
! ing to die.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
3DR. I. 1ST. CIPTiEINTENT
Would infora.il his friends and the public
generally that he is still in the practice
of medicine. Special attention given to
chronic diseases. Office Carrollton IIo-
te/.
A LOST WOMAN.
As day began to blosson
ly on tlie [teaks, as if they
mighty flowers in a garden kissing
heaven, we came to another little
willow-lined stream, crossed it,{and
silently drew the wagons in a little
»f the large
! leaning willows, and unvoted the
patient and weary cattle.
It had been nearly datjk a long
j time. That darkest hour which
always precedes day had covered
till tilings for the last few miles.—
It was only by the aid of the friend
ly Indian, who led the oxen at the
head of the advance team, that we
CARROLLTON
Ibis Ids 'office,
villu brick huildht;
of (dSTETRICS
- - GEORGIA,
number 2, Manile-
lle makes a specialty
and DISEASES OK
WOMEN and CHILDREN. Cal
him. ('onsultation free.
IDT?,. <T. IF. COLE,
CA UROfiLTON, GA.
I - devoting most of his time and atten
tion to surgery and surgical diseases,and
is [trepan'll for most any operation. JI is
charges are reasonable.
The Harnett House,
SA VANN A 11, GEORGIA.
Is conceded to be the
hie and by far the best
in Savannah.
Rates : 82.00 Per Day.
Land for Sale.
One lot of land, number 200, seventh
district,.Carroll county, joining several
plantations, very heavily timbered, well
watered, lays well, publ! .road running
through it, and some goon land upon it.
If an v one wishes to correspond with own
er they wiil direct to Post Office, Rox
172. Griffin. Ga. February 18th, 188-1.
.JOHN B. STEWART
say to the public that he b
to do all kinds of
Wishes to
'till prepare,
PHOTOGRAHIHG and FEEEOTYPING
in the" latest style and at reasonable pri
ces. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of
Frames, Oases, Albums, Etc,
Copying and enlarging :t specialty—
caii make -sill sizes from locket to 8x10
inches. Remember that two dollars will
buy a fine, large picture framed ready
for your parlor, at my gallery, Newnau
street, Carrollton. Ga.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
MRS. E. A. HENDON’S
Perfect Fitting Chart.
M iss Fannie Fullilove.
Georgia,who is tet
of Athens,
?mporariIy sojourn
ing in (tarroliton. announces to tiie 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 he their own mantua-maker. Per
fect satisfaction guaranteed. Apply at
1 he residence of Rev. J. A. Perdue, Ce
llin’ st reet, Carrollton, Georgia.
BROWN Sc BSOWNT ,
WIIITESBURG, GA.
Drs. J. C. &. W. T. Brown having
formed a copartnership for the
purpose of practicing medicine and
surgery, offer their services to the
public: We are thankful for past . , .
patronage and hope to merit a con- 18 inore than life to women,
tinuance of the same.
Whitesburg, Ga., Jan. 80th, 1881.
gj0~ Dr. J. C. Brown can be
found at Banning and Dr. W. T.
Brown at AYliitesburg.
judged, and were not.” Their pro
perly was confiscated to the Church,
dim- How Hu* girl hud escaped she
were hardly knew herself. And indeed
no one asked directly. You do not
understand?
Well, whom you reflect that no
one could trust His neighbor, you
will comprehend why no one spoke
above a whisper now; and you will
not be surprised that she was not
[tressed to tell l;cr tale. Words are
not the most eloquent tilings to tell
a story with any way! Even the
children huddled together in
groups as they crept out of the wa
gons, and understood, and were si
lent as Indians.
had been able to find our way to The girl sat down by the water,
this camp. r l lie women and cliil- well concealed, and ate some
dren of course were asleep in t lie bread. .Then after a while, with
wagons. The men plodded along;the help of some .pitying women,
patiently, anu kept very still. she combed out her long splendid
r l lie long, black, haunting box, black hair and tied it up with a rib-
that had crept down from out the bon. She was even then strangely
long, strong grass, and had drawn ■ beautiful.
on and over the white shore of salt, 1 The men kept looking up and
following stealthily, silently, cor- down the stream as if half expeet-
tainly as a shadow, bad not been ing the Danites to dash in upon
seen for hours. And even then it;them from almost any quarter at
was far in the roar. The salt and | almost any moment. A steep
the sand were heavy and deep.— high hill rose abruptly before us.—
The man at last, even giant as lie; To move on with the girl and so
was, must have had hard work to escape by sudden flight before dis-
move Ills barrow here. iSurely lie i covered—this was a doubtful ex-
had broken down, sickened maybe;iperiment, and yet some wanted to
—“died, let us hope,” whispered j try it at all hazards. It seemed
one to another of the terrified littlea that if we could climb that ridge
band as they unyoked the tired j that rose steeply before us that we
cattle and turned them up the;might escape. Anyway we were
banks of the willow-stream, watch-'too terrified to remain here.—
eil them, and kept them close to Things were packed up, the weary
the willows so that they might not oxen again yoked, and all was rea-
be seen by the Danites. dy for an advance.
The members of the little party, “One tiling to our advantage, the
as light descended upon the dark;old spy is off the track anyhow,”
waters, found t-hrmselves still close!.said a women to her husband as
to the banks of the glittering lake, she handed him his ox-whip.
They had travelled in a sort of; The man looked at her, crooked
crescent around an arm on the his thumb just a little down the
north end .of the sea. The camp was stream toward the lake, and said
a pleasant one. The little'island: nothing. There sat the singular
with the three trees not so far away, man composedly by the side of his
It lay almost between this camp coffin, quietly reading a book as
and tiie one they had left the night, usual, and munching a morsel of
before. The solitary rock, with dry bread.
its horrid association of a dead .Just when he had come no one
body in chains, was suggestively i knew. Perhaps he had passed the
near—too near. No one spoke of little party in the night by a shor
tins as the light came down and ; ter path, known only to himself
revealed it. Yet all thought of it.— and his Danites.
The willows broadened and the However, it was all-important
valley widened up this little riv- that no one should seem alarmed
ulet, and the grass was rank and j at his presence.; and then what
abundant. Quail were heard here j else can be done? All was now
piping in the dewy grass. A flock ready for moving on. We could
of prarie-hens flew overhead and j not stop now .without showing fear,
settled down within near gunshot. At the last moment the girl, bo-
Bu t no man thought of raising his I tween two women and quite con
coaled by their shawls, crept into
gun. The report would possibly
bring the unwelcome guest, the
ghostly shadow, whom all were
hoping, as they prepared their
breakfast, keeping the smoke sub
dued, bad gone down to the sea of
salt.
One of the men who. were watch
ing tin 1 cattle declared that he saw
a wild creature in the willows.—
Suddenly, and before it was yet
quite dawn, Nettie Bane, now a
terrified and half-naked woman,
crept into camp. What a sight!
a wagon with a party of children.—
The little train stretched itself out
and began to start bravely up
the hill toward the west. The lea
der stopped, threw up a hand!—
And there on this hill, right across
the dim road, a party of horseman
suddenly drew rein.
“Danites !”
It was whispered—this one word,
and that only by the women. The
train, which had not fairly started,
was stopped, the children came
out of the wagons. The girl even
Woods were not abundant here
These willows were the' only kind eanie ullt ’ a,u * " as nu conc eal-
of protection in which any fugitive meat of any kind. This was best
might find shelter the whole region and lmne * t T ! ,ese I >e0 P le ' vere
around. And here she had h( , en i not prepared or disposed to fight.-
hiding, living on berries, sleeping
in the willows, in the tall grass,
waiting, praying for some one to
come that way with whom she | when hunted down, awed into sub-
could trust her life and that which nhssion
The first impulse of an American is
to fight when wronged or in peril,
no matter what the odds. But
by this semi-religious lot
of madmen—these Guiteaus—it
was quite another matter. Even a
° an " larger party, 1 am sure, had stood
, still and waited the approaching
coTnimmmis mta» ,lown by tho JtonitK . „ tWsp , irty dW .
There was but one question. Had
No need of questions or
wars now. The dead body and its!
-hot
FOB SALE.
A second hand top buggy.
Aboublc barrel breech loading
gun.
An iron revolving book case.
Big giant corn mill—grinds corn and
cob all'together.
A good pump
AWll sell cheap for cash or. will ex
change for cattle.
Apply to EDWIN R. SHARPE,
black rock which rose from the
lake by the little island, how silent
ly told the whole terrible story.—
The two muteand sullen Danites
that had galloped past, spoke to
the man by the coffin and disap
peared; the silent men that fol
lowed and searched and searched
the rank grass and willows, and
looked in every direction for some
one, need not open their lips now.—
All understood the whole terrible
tale.
“They had been judged, and
were not.”
The tragedy had taken place, or
rather tlie murders had been com
mitted, on this very stream, and
her now?
too much
and long-
down the
the girl’s beauty saved her, or had
she escaped by chance and skill ?
Would her beauty save
Not likely. She knew
now to live.
The party of armed
haired horsemen rode
hill toward the camp, against the
rising sun, very leisurely now.—
Their long desparate search was
They knew at a glance from
lii 11 that the fugitive
with this party; that
were trying . to set
out with all speed at this unnatural
hour to save her by flight.
The girl’s first impulse was to
over.
the
was
we
Subscifbe for the Free Press.
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not far from this very spot; asjdash into the thicket again. But
some blood stains a little way up she was very weak and wretched,
tho stream still bore testimony. ! Better to die where she stood. She
Everything of course, of value;out her hands to her throat, her
had been taken; “they had been j breast, as if feeling about in a wild
From the Savannah News.
Losing Patience.
It looks as if the leaders of the
Democratic party at Washington
had about lost patience with (lie
little faction of protection Demo
crats in the House. This faction,
led by Mr. Randall,are determined,
it seems, to aid the Republicans in
defeating the Morrison tariff bill.—
Concession after concession has
been made to them in order to se
cure harmony in the party. They
are not satisfied, and refuse to be
satisfied with anything less than
the abandonment of the bill. If
they cannot have their way they
propose to defeat the policy of the
party. That appears to be about
their programme. Are they sin
cere? Are they doing what they
believe to be for the best interests
of their party ? There is certainly
room for grave doubt. What is
there in the Morrison bill that they
can possibly object to? It is noth
ing more than a measure to reduce
the tarilf a very little—not by any
means as much as it ought to be
reduced. Do these Randall follow
ers think that tiie tariff ought not
to be reduced ? Why, even the Re
publicans admit that tariff reduc
tion is necessary. The Secretary
of the Treasury, in his last report,
favored reduction. The National
Democratic platforms of 1870 and
1880 contained planks favoring a
tariff only for revenue, and yet Ai r.
Randall and his followers uttered
no protest. What, then, do they
mean now by opposing the first
step in carrying out a policy which
their party, with their consent, lias
been advocating for years? It is
said that they favor what is known
as the Ohio platform. That plat
form is “a tariff for revenue with in
ciilental protection, so as to protect
American labor but not to foster
monopolies.” Well, does not the
present tariff foster monopoleis ? L
it not a war tariff, and is it not in
the interest of monopolies? If the
protection Democrats are sincere
why do they object to reducing it
to a point where it will be more in
harmony with the Ohio platform?
It is denied that the proposed Mor
rison tariff is more in harmony with
the Ohio platforn than the present
tariff is? No one would make such
a denial. The truth is, the Randall
Democrats'stand squarely with the
Republicans in favor of a monopo
listic tariff. They are opposed to
tariff reform and to the kind of tar
iff described in the Ohio platform.
They are beginning to show them
selve in their true colors.
The Declaration of Independence.
Few people know that the origi
nal Declaration of Independence is
kepi in the library of the State De
partment. It is in a cherry case
and under glass. Blit the doors
are thrown open all day long and
strong rays of light are eating up
its ink day by day. The Constitu
tion is written on parchment. The
text of it is in a hand as fine as cop
per plate and the ink of this part
can still be plainly read. The sig
natures, however, are written in a
different ink, and they are very
fast disappearing under the action
of the light. The bold signature
of John A. Hancock is faded almost
entirely out. Only a J. o, ii and an
II remain. Two lines of names are
entirely removed from the paper;
not a vestige of ink remains to
show that names were ever there.
Ben Franklin’s name is gone. Rog
er Sherman’s name is fast fading, I
could not find the name of Thomas
Jefferson, and Gerry has lost
its last syllable .Robert Carroll and
John Adams have been scoured off
by the light, and only eleven names
out of the fifty odd can be read
without a microscope. Just bleow
the constitution lies the original of
it in Jefferson’s hafidwriting. It is
on foolscap paper, yellow with age
and worn through where the man
uscript lias been folded. The writ
ing is fine and close, and the whole
Constitution occupies but two pag
es. Tho ink is good, and it remains
as fresh as when it left the quill of
Jefferson over 100 years ago. It is
full of erasures and interlineations,
some of which are in Franklin’s
handwriting and others in the
strong script of John Adams.
From the Meriwether Vindicator.
Anent Senatorial Clerks.
The action of the United States
Senate in voting themselves a secre
tary write their letters, said secre-
ries to be paid from the United
States Treasury, is not eliciting
much commendation from the peo
ple. In many instances, wives,
sons, daughters, or other kinsmen
have been appointed to this posi
tion of private secretary and thus
the salary is kept in the family.—
During the loth Congress the writ
er noticed closely the number of let
ters received by both the Senate
and House. If either branch need
ed clerks, the representative cer
tainly requirni y?uoii asrintura.c
much more than the senator.—
While senators would receive from
one to half a dozen letters of all
kinds daily, leading members of
the House would got from six to a
dozen. We remember Fernando
Wood receiving forty postal cards,
circulars and letters by one morn
ing’s mail. Air. Stephens received
a greater number of letters daily
than any other Congressman.—
Garfield, Fernando Wood, Judge
Kelly, Sunset Cox, Joe Blackburn
aiul'Col. Harris came next in order
of their names. Air. Stephens and
Col. Harris attended promptly to
all their correspondence, as we hap
pen to know, and that, too, without
help frm the public treasury. The
average congressman lias no more
need of a private secretary to at
tend to his correspondence than he
has for an assistant to write
his speeches. Though only
a member of Congress below stairs,
we were in position to know as
much about the amount of business
transacted by mail as any member
of the upper body. Only in mail
ing public documents was any spec
ial assistance necessary, and an ex
pert pensman and the folding room
could dispatch this part of a Con
gressman’s duty in a week. Now
and then some honorable M. C.
would fire off a big campaign
speech, five, six or ten thous
and copies of which would be print
ed for circulation in his and adjoin
ing districts Hut some Congressional
employe or needy Washington lady
would be glad to direct these at
two or three dollars a thousand.
If Senators insist on having
secretaries, the cheapest
plan would be to let
the job out by contract. For fifty
or one hundred dollars per head,
we think each senator could have
all his writing done. We would
like to secure the job at these fig
ures.
For nearly one hundred
IN CRUCE SPES.
Weary with my load of sin,
All diseased and faint within,
See me Lord, Thv grace entreat,
See me prostrate at thy feet:
Here before Thy Cross I lie,
Here I live or here I die.
I have tried and tried in vain,
Mail}’ ways to ease my pain;
Now all other hope is past.
Only this is left at last:
Here before Thy Cross I
Here I live or here I die.
If I perish, be it here,
With tho PrKuii or suuiers
Lord, it is enough—I kmv
Never sinner perished so:
Here before Thy Cross I lie,
Here I cannot, cannot die.
—Wade Robinson.
“I don’t like a philosophical wo
man. I don’t like a woman that is
always reaching out after the infi
nite” said Jones. “Ah!” returned
his companion, “if my wife wouldn’t
reach out after anything but the
infinite I might be happy.” And
the unfortunate man rubbed the
bald spot on his head, and his coun
tenance fell beneath the
weight of his memories.
A Jackson girl kicked a man on
the shin and jabbed him in the
stomach with an umbrella, simply
because he kissed her. If she had
rammed the umberella down his
throat and opened it inside of him
the consequences might have been
serious.
President Arthur is an Episcopa
lian as is also the Secretary of State
and the Attorney General. Secre
tary Folger is a broadguage Pres
byterian. Secretary Chandler is
a Unitarian. Secretary Lincoln at
tends the Presbyterian Church, as
does also Postmaster General Gres
ham, who, it is said, is of the Ortho
dox stamp, while Secretary Teller
is a Alethodist of the Rocky Aloun-
tain quality.
, . . ^ ears “Money does everything
senators have been carrying on n ian,” said an old gentleman
theil* own correspondence, and we
think it is rather too late in the
century to demand help in this line.
If, however, they cannot do this
work themselves, they might do
the country and the treasury good
service by resigning and allowing
some one to take the office who can
perform all the labor of a senator
unaided. Instead of creating new
offices at Washington, our congress
man should abolish hundreds al
ready established. Reform in this
direction is greatly needed. The
senatorial clerkships could go by
the hoard first very properly.
Gubernatoral salaries are not par
ticularly attractive or tempting to
successful business or professional
men. New York and Pensylvania
pay their Governors the fargest
salaries—$10,000—and the amount
in other States ranges from that
figure down to $1,500. Illinois and
California pay $0,000; Colorado,
Kentucky, Nevada and New Jersey
$5,000; Alaryland, $1,500; Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Alississippi, Tennes
see and Texas, $4,000; North Caro
lina, Kansas, Iowa, Georgia and Ar
kansas, $3,000; Connecticut, Dela
ware and Alaine, $2,000; New Hamp
shire, Michigan and Vermont, $4,
000; Oregon, $1,500.
It is a glorious thing to have
been born a man. One doesen’t
have to bother himself for a month
over the plans and specifications of
a new spring bonnet. He simply
has to foot the bill when the thing
is brought home.
It is stated that Jay Gould last
year lost $10,000,000 by shrinkage in
his stocks. There is hardly an edi
tor in Georgia who could stand
such losses without serious embar
rassment.
pously.
lor a
pom-
Yes,” replied the othe one,
“blit money won’t do as much for a
man as some men will do for mon
ey.”
One asked his friend why
married so little a wife? Why,
lie, I thought you had known
of all evils we should choose
least.
he
said
that
the
If you wont to make your place
uncomfortable for loafers hang out
a sign: Wanted—One more loafer
to hang around this place.
Georgia is a very productive
state. It appears among her stat
istics tirat there is an average of
lf)L babies born daily throughout
the year, including Sundays.
Herbert Spencer’s works have
been translated into Japanese. The
Japs have long been in need of
’ for their tea la
in a large edifice of the church
of England, the sleepy clerk, a
somewhat old and not over-intelli-
g nt man, sat directly beneath the
the big pulpit of the rector, and
responded the amens to his read
ing, as was his custom.
Now the clerk very often fell
asleep during the service, and the
rector invented the plan of drop
ping a pea (unnoted by the congre
gation) upon his bald pate with the
mutual understanding that this was
to be the signal for an “Amen.”
This worked fairly for a while
when one day the rector in Ills
gestures knocked the whole box of
peas over the pulpit upon the
clerk’s head; and he being sound
asleep, jumped up wildly and yel
led:
“Amen! amen! ameu!a!aenl ,?
“I alius feels sorry fur de young
fellow what is smart befo’ his
time,” says Uncle Arose. “De flow
er what blooms de soones’ is the
soones’ ter die.”
One of the. editors uf the Louis
ville Courier-Journal went to Hick
man, where he got himself adjudg
ed a lunatic and sent to the Hop
kinsville Asylum, which he desired
to “write up” from an inmate’s
vantage ground. The thin part of
the story is that the superinten
dent easily detected the editor was
not a lunatic.
The'Want
the
these
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purpose
resorted
kindred
For
NEW BUGGY
To be Given Away.
I am offering to those buying guanoe*
or acids of me the present season, free
draws at a new 800 buggy. Each thous
and pounds bought entitles the buyer to
one draw. Drawing to take place when
settlement is made in-full of all demands,
which must he on or before the 15th of
November, 1884. I am handling good_
standard brands of guanoes and acids.
II. O. ROOP,
Carrotton. Georgia.
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The Calhoun County Courier has
this item: “A gentlemen was tel
ling Dr. Ferguson the other day
of a bee pine tree he cut down not
long ago. He got about three and
a half gallons of fine honey and
then had 12,000 boards chopped out
of the tree and out of what remain
ed lie got enough plank to build a
bridge across Fishing creek at the
old Mathews mill site. From the
boughs, limbs, etc., he made twelve
gallons of tar.”
It is said that Jay Gould is pre
paring his tomb, as death is some
thing he can neither bear nor bull.
It is our impression that lie will
have to bear it.
TTJENEE and CHAMBERS,
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA
—Dealers in—
General Merchandise,
Are still at their old stand -on Rome
street, ready to sell you goods as (heap
or cheaper than anybody If you want
anything in their line, give them a trial
and they thiuK you will trade.
We would say to those owing us that
WE MUST HAVE
What is due us. We have indulge
you as long as we can and we now want
our money. >
Follow after holinsss; it will re
pay your pursuit.
Old papers for sale
50 cents a hundred,'
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