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Which, ' kidneys, was Ion Stomach VOL. I. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, MARCH 28, 1884. NO. 19. CARROLL FREE IRE8R PUBLISHED EVSEY FEIDAY. EDWIN It. SHARPE, ri'm.isjinu. Printed in the Fukk L’in;>s |»y Special Arrangement with the Author. SEALED UNTO HIM. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: (>nocopy one year. (inn copy six months, ()ne copy thrpe months, club ratios: i’on copies.one year, Twenty copies one year, 10.00 20.00 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. _ 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 anil is, 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. i >1 IRON TONIC FACTS RECARmU Dr, W: Ini To, It will purify and enrich the BLOOD* rejralate /ER and KIDNEYS, and Rmtoki tiw •• thoee >NIC, the LIVE HEALTH and VTOOK of YOUTH! In ail thoee ‘ " ‘ i. TOXIC. diseases requiring a certain *nd efflclen. especially dyspepsia, Wantof Appetite, Indigei lion. Lack of Strength, etc., it* use Is mark** with immediate and wonderful result*. Bone*, muscles and nerves receive new force. Enliven* the mind and supplies Brain Power. ■ n m 11? O suffering from all complaint* L. A III Ei Opeculiar to tlielr sex will Had In DE. HARTER’S IRON TONIC a safe and speedy cure. It gives a clear and healthy complexion. The strongest testimony to the value of I>n. Harter's Iron Tonic is that frequent attempts at counterfeiting have only added to tbepopnlai*. itv of the original. Jfyou earnestly desire health do not experiment—get the ORIGIN ALAND JMst. rSend your address to The Dr. Harter MwLOe. V St. Louis, Mo., for our "DKIAM BOOK." 1 kFoll of strange and useful information, Dr. harter’3 iron Tonio is for 8mm mr Druggists and Dealers Cvehywmw. ( s 8 I 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,' . . : g