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~~ ■ * 7 -**-**.—s~- a "rg* -r* . ■.v^ ' ' -• 3 "'../; .. S ’ *1? ■ •V /rf> '.k 7 : - ^ VOL. I. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, APRIL 18, 1884. NO. KOSHUt^ Printed in the Free Press by Special Arrangement with the Author. SEALED UNTO HIM. A STORY OF THE EARLY DAYS OF MORMONISM. BIT CT0-A.QTJI3ST MILLEB. -:0:- The kidneys act as purifiers 0* the blood, and whan their functions are interfered with through weakness, they need toning. They become healthfully active by the use of uostetter's Stomach Bitters, when falling short of relief from other sources. This superb stimulating tonio also prevents and arrests fever and ague, constipation, liver complaint, dyspepsia, rheumatism and other ailments. L se it with regularity. . for sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. CHAPTER VI. BURIED IX THE LAKE. The Ranite leader now beckoned our party to move on, bidding us leave the heaviest log-chain behind. The horsemen merely glanced at each other. They knew what was to be done, and swung into the sad- Xo Cromwell ev-t obedient as were and desperate fol-i false religion in NEW BUGGY To be Given Away. I am offering to those buying guanoes or acids of me the present season, free draws at a new $60 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. H. 0. POOP, Carroltou, Georgia. ft: IRON TONIC FACTS RECARDIRC Or. Barter’s Iron Tonic. It will purify and enrich the BLOOD, regulate i LIVER and KIDNEYS, and KBgTl the LIVER and KIDNEYS, andltESTORk the HIALIH and VIGOR of YOUTH! In all those dleeaees requiring a certain and efficien-IONIC, especially Dyspepsia, Want of Appetlte.Indlgc- tlon, Lack of Strength, etc.. Its use is marked with immediate and wonderful results. Bones, muscles and nerves receive new rerce. Enlivens the mind and supplies Brain Power, u m a* Buffering from all complaints |L A DI b5 peculiar to their sex will find In DR. 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 Inox Toxic Is that frequent attempts at counterfeiting have only added to thepopnlar- itr of the original. If you earnestly desire health do not experiment—get the Obigix u, axd Best. £ Band jonr addreaa So The pr. Hart-jr MjAOo.. V ■ St. Loula, Mo., for oar “DREAR BOOR. B \Fan of strange and aaefnt information, Dr. Harter'* Iron Tonic is fcr 8ale by all Druoqists and Dealers Everywhere. TURNER and CHAMBERS, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA —Dealers in— General Merchandise, Are still at their old stand on Pome street, ready to sell you goods as cheap or cheaper than anybody If you want anything in their line, give them a trial and they think you will trade. We would say to those owing us that WE MUST HAVE What is due us. We have indulged you as long as we can and we now want our money. Bring your job work to the Free Press office. Blanks for sale at this office. / - U .U. die as one man or had troopers these ignorant lowers of the America. If you who have this question to settle, sooner or later, will only stop to consider a moment, you will observe that all such monstrosities that poor human nature has brought forth on the earth have two elements for their establish ment: one, the father of them, a learned man,a superficially learned man, a “crank;” qnd the other ele ment, a densely ignorant mass of mankind to sow his doctrines among, to mature and maintain them when they take root. And these two elements are never wanting in recruits. They never will be while ignorance is so gen eral upon the earth. Of course you cannot destroy the leaders, the “cranks,” men crazy over their books and about religion. But you can utterly destroy their following Plow up the field, cultivate it, and the tares will perish in them.— This is. the remedy. Cultivation, intelligence, education, association with others, have already done much, broken off the hard corners of this rock in the sea. But let ig norance prevail there as it did thir ty years ago, and you will see re newed all the ferocity, cruelty, and crime in the name of the ne\v re ligion which we knew then. Destroy these people by war! Xo, you cannot destroy them by 'war, even thought you pour in a million of men with guns and all the treas ure of this universe. You might kill them every one and confiscate their homes. And yet in Europe— anywhere, everywhere there is ignorance to follow 7 and fanaticism to lead—you might see a Mormon Church. Our train moved on. The horse men galloped along-side for a little way after having had some silent orders from their giant and iron- hearted leader. Then they rode back. Then they galloped up the hill alongside again, and so remain ed until w e had reached the top of the steep hill. Here w r e were or dered to stop and wait, till w r e w’ere permitted again to move on. Xo one had spoke to the girl to say good-by. Hope had been kin dled in her heart. She had even taken a step forward to fall in with the moving train and follow us as we started. A heavy hand fell on her shoulder. She lifted her eyes to the missionary’s, let them fall, and stopped as still as the dead. / When w r e turned about in the full white moonlight on the hill, and looked after the horsemen while they dashed down the hill in a cloud of dust, w r e could see but dimly.— But a man who professed to see clearly, said the giant was leading the girl down tow'ard his own camp, and the ugly coffin hiding aw'ay there in the shadow's. One of the horsemen rode dow r n to the mouth of the little stream where it fell into the lake, and drew 7 a boat that w r as hidden there up into a little cove formed by the waters of the brook. We could not see the girl now'. What was being done ? As said before, we could see but indistinctly now. By and by some one saw the monstrous giant once more pushing his long black box before him down tow’ard the lake, and pointed out the dark object to others. The horsemen rode some distance leisurely behind, with their hats in their ha nds. The girl still could not be seen. At length a dreadful suspicion crept over us, and a cry burst from one of the women. She wrung her hands and cried hyster ically that the girl w as in the coffin and they W'ere going te bnry her in the lake. The woman w r as silenced with effort, and all stood still as death, waiting, waiting. The moon seemed only a little way above us, only a little higher on the hill, and oh, so pale and pitiful and sorrowing she seemed! The far white mountains of snow 7 shone like silver in this whitest and brightest of silver moons this side of Arabia. Why w r ere we compelled to stand here and see all this? Surely they meant to murder this girl and make us witness it in order to spread terror and the fear of their power to “judge” and to execute judgment through the land.— Here was a murder to which the murderers demanded witnesses and |compelled the presence of wit- | nesses. But still, as I said before, jwe could see but dimly. The moon was sinking fast now. How 7 slow 7 and deliberate they w'ere! The barrow 7 evidently had a heavi er load than ever before. The heavy chained girl?! It moved heavily, slowly, through the great white gridle of gleaming salt; slow ly and sadly, like a funeral march. At last it touched the edge of the dark waters. All was still, as si lent as death. It seemed that some one of those men—two of them, three of them, all of them—must disobey this giant and monster, kill him if necessary, and save this beautiful girl, Even if they had no sense of chivalry or virtue or valor in them to help the helpless, it did seem as if some one, any one, all, might do almost anything to protect her, save her. Two men rode up, dismounted, held their horses by the long teth ers as they stood there fretful and knee-deep in the gleaming girdle of salt, and so hastily lifted the long black coffin into the boat. The giant solemnly and silently took his place at the oar and began down to rest in the far-off Sierras, and I never saw 7 the place again for twenty years or more. And when I did return I came from London to w'rite up the trial of Brigham Young, who w'as then being tried for his life for complici ty in murders like this. By good fortune I found an old friend of mine w r as then Govrenor of the Territory. We searched thLs spot for the skeletons ;but, as before observed, the lake had so filled that, while we found the buried rock and little island, we found nothing more. I told a Mormon elder this story, and he earnestly assured me that all we hadseen of the end was the mirage—a delusion; that the miss ionary did not drown the girl, but had taken thiss-cQurse* to save her from tlie Danites; that he had left the girl in the willows, to fall in with the next train that came by, while he had thrown only his bag of bread or somethihg of that sort with the chain about it into the black waters of the great lake.— Let us hope so at least. From the Macon Telegraph and Messen ger. Political Judges. The Albany Xew'S and Advertis er makes the following statement: The constitution of Alabama for bids the resignation of a judge of the Superior Court to enter the po litical arena, and thus prevents ambitious men from dragging the judicial ermine through? the dirty cesspool of politics. There may be wisdom in such a provision, but Georgia has not been favored w T ith it. We have not a copy of the Ala bama constitution before us, but assuming that our contemporary is correct in his statement, w 7 e disire to express our deep regret that the Constitution of Georgia does not contain a provision similar to that to be found in the organic law of Alabama. It seems that when a man ac- , , , , . , , cepts a judicial position in Alaba- to move slowly and certainly to-; am not resign it “to enter ward the dark and desolate.rock in the deepest of the lake. The horsemen remounted, drew 7 back, hats in hand, and so sat w ith the others looking out at the colos sal and silent boatman with his sin gular freight. Was he rowing to reach this rock where the corps had been seen loaded dow n in the water with chains ? Would he not go no, no, no, anywhere, and escape these brutal and blind followers, w ho believed him a saint engaged in maintaining the Church of Jesus Christ? But the men did not doubt for a moment. They sat their horses in a crescent about the head of the lake and looked on, tranquil, silent reverential, waiting with certainty the signal of death. Xever fell there such a silence.— Never was there such a murder as this. Far away abov^ s gleaming towers of snow th^j 0 ^rs stood trembling. The ro^ n |. av ^gan to hasten aw 7 ay and ^ to swiftly down in the west bt^.nd the hill on which w 7 e stood, as if terrified and refusing to be a witness. The man .saw that the moon w as going aw’ay, and he dipped his oars with rapid and heavy stroke. The w ater shone sparkled, flashed in tne moon. The oars dug into the heavy w'ater as if dip ping into a sea of molten sil ver. The boat struck the rock! You could hear it grate and grind, all was so still. The giant stood up in the boat a second, then with his broad right hand slowly drew back the cover ing and looked down as if into a face in the coffin. He was so tall, his form seemed like a tree. He casta black and frightful shadow far out over the sea of silver in the fading moonlight. The mounted Danites loomed up in the mirage larger than heroic statues. At last the colossal figure in the boat lean ed over, caught up something long and heavy from the coffin, stood up tall and terrible with it poised in the air, high above his head in his two mighty hands. He poised it there a moment, dallied with it heaved his great heavy shoulders, arched his long strong back, surg ed to and fro in the failing silver moonlight, and then with vehem ent force threw it forward into the depths of the dark water w 7 ith all the tremendous power that was in him. The waters dashed up, gleamed like a sunrise, closed over, and all was still again in the heart of the great dark waters of death. A hand was lifted to ns from the nearest horseman, and we passed on over the hill right injthe face of the political arena.” In Georgia on the contrary, our judges may abandon the bench for the express purpose of engaging in politics, or they may retain their seats and embark in politics from the bench, using their judicial position for the advantanges it gives them to pros ecute their political designs. This disreputable practice pre vails at this time in more than one judicial district in Georgia. Indeed, it is feared that many of our more ambitious lawyers seek positions on the bench, not for the small salaries attached to the same, nor yet for the honers of the office, but for the facilities afforded them to push their political schemes. A man who would thus prostitute the high office of judge is unfit to retain his seat on the bench, or to hold any political position; and we trust that necessary steps w'ill be taken by the next Legislature to render all judicial officers ineligible as candi dates for positions of honor or pro fit which are political in character. Until the judiciary shall be di vorced from politics, the country will look in vain for a thoroughly independent and upright admins- tration of the law. Judges do not make very satisfactory politicians, while politicians make very sorry judges. No sensible man would be willing to have his life or his pro perty passed upon by a judge who had sought a place on the bench as a step to political preferment. When judicial officers desire to enter upon a political career, it is their duty to retire from the bench; and the sooner they do it, the bet ter will it be for themselves and the country. A man whose time is divided between politics and the law, is not likely a good lawyer, nor a good judge nor even a good politician. Storm Pits Again. Editor Free Press.—Your Shi loh district correspondent is rath er presumptions I think, in saying this month, April, will be a wet month, and that the storms for 18- 84 are not over yet. Now the ques tion arises in my mind how does he know'it ? After making the above positive assertion, he proceeds to give advice to all to dig a place in the ground, and after giving its di mensions, says, “be careful,dont call it a cyclone pit, but a milk house, and when you see a bad looking cloud, say to wife and children, lets go in the milk house and get some milk.” Says if you call it a cyclone pit, the braves will laugh at you.— Now 7 this kind of deception may do very w 7 ell so far as it concerns the braves,but how T is it with God?— It is written, “he not deceived, God is not ISocked ?” King Ahab thought to elude death through disguise, but a certain man “drew’ a how at a venture, and smote him between the joints of the harness, so the king died.” Now if to believe that God directs and controls the clouds and that they accomplish the pur pose for w hich he sends them, and that our life is as much in his hand in time of storm, as in the calm, and of doubting the propriety of digging storm pits, constitutes a brave, then I am one. And for the encouragement of all of like faith I will quote some scripture: God says, “if my people, which are call ed by my name, shall humble them selves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then w ill I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land;” “As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her W’ings, so the Lord did lead Israel.” God says, “even to your old age I am He; and even to hoary hairs will I carry you.” David said, “God is our refuge and strength a very presentfhelp in.time of trouble;”— “Trust in Him at all times ye peo ple, pour out your heart before him;” God is a refuge for us, far as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him, and like as a Father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.” Our Saviour said, “are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground with out your Father, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered, fear ye not therefore ye are of more value than many sparrow’s.” “Why are ye so fearful, how is it that ye have no faith?” said the Saviour to his storm frightened disciples.— “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the w’hole duty of man. J. O. E. Word. Henry Watterson is portrayed in a recont Waehington letter as a grave-looking man of 44, with a bold, fierce face and a rich growth, of verry light brow’n hair, which hangs down over his forehead.— It is wonderful what an amount of work he does, considering that his eyesight is so poor that all of his reading is done to him by his sec retary; nevertheless he is intimate ly acquainted with the methods of every department of his paper. A poultry farm.of 6,000 Plymouth Rocks is owned, and carried on by A. C. Hawkins at Lauchester, Mass., says the Boston Cultivator.— He calculates to have about 8,000 fowls every fall, and carries over about 2,500 laying hens through winter. His farm contains twenty- five acres, and his poultry buildings occupy an acre and a half. They are situated on the slope of a hill and comprises six or seven sheds 200 feet in length. Each shd is de- vided into apartment of 12x20 feet, and about twenty-five hens are kept in each division. A yard is made in front fof each apartments, so that the members of each are by themselves. 'A convention of barbers was brok en 1 up because one man said he had ttyi great round moon now settling a razorlution be desired to offer. w xfM.c Another Large Marble Investment. Mr. P. C. Clements, of Chicago with his association, paid $25,000 for the upper. Tate quarry, in Pickens county, and has leased the lower Tate quarry and the Allred quarry of Long Swamp Creek for $4,000 a year. They have the min eral interest in 4,000 acres of land, of which they have bought 800.— This will give them a very large marble privilige, probably twenty- five times greater than any other in Georgia. Mr. Clements has been subjecting the Georgia mar ble to every kind of test and pro nounces it first-class stone in dura- rability and finish. His company has a cash capital of $100,000, and will begin operations with all the improved machinery. Mr. Clem ents has given intimation that his company will furnish marble for our new captal at cost. This would be a double benefit to the State and and to him—to the State in giving it the advantage of good home marble at low prices, and to his company as advertising his marble at the very start and plac ing it permanently in the most conspicuous place possible for inspection. Mr. Clements is a stockholder in the Rutland marble works in Vermont, and he claims our Geor gia marble to be fully up to the Vermont stone. He is a million aire and t|te leading member of an immense manufactory of clothing , i in Chicago, From the LaGrange Reporter. Death of Col. Charles W. Mabry. Though not unexpected, the death of Col. Charles W. Mabry, yesterday, at 8:25 a. m., at Brown- wood, following so closely upon the tragic end of another highly es teemed citizen, leaves an oppressive gloom on our city. Verily, we move iu the shadow of the black angel’s wing, who seems ever to hover over our homes. Col. Mabry had a reputation as a lawyer, civilian and soldier almost State-wide. Born in Greene coun ty, sixty-five years ago, he moved with his father to Carroll in early life. He was educated at Mary ville College, Tennessee, where he became the intimate friend of his law partner, Col. John E. Toole.— Col. II. B. T. Montgomery, whose widow and sons still live in La- Grange, was also one of his college- mates. For many years, Col. Mabry was a prominent member of the bar at Franklin, Heard county, en joying a lucrative practice and ac quiring popularity and influence.— When the war came on, he renounc ed the forum for the tented field, and bravely fought for the cause of the Southern States. From the captaincy of the Heard county com pany he rose to be Lieutenant-Col onel of the Nineteent h Georgia regi ment, participating in many bat tles, notably, the glorious one of Ocean Pond, Florida, where, un der the leadership of Colquitt, a complete victory was gained over a greatly superior force of the en emy. In civil life, he was judge of Heard county court and, also, once represented Troup, Heard and Car- roll counties in the Georgia Senate, with honor to himself and benefit to his constituents. In 1867, he re moved to LaGrange and formed a partnership with Col. J. E. Toole & Son in the practice of his profes sion. Devoting himself thereto and interesting himself in agricultural matters, he passed the last years of his life in comparative quiet. Col. Mabry was very active in agitating the stock law, which has been of such great advantage to this coun ty, visiting, with other citizens, the State of South Carolina, to assure himself of its beneficial operation, and publishing in the Reporter an account of his observations. That article probably secured the vote of the county for the abolishment of fences. A frequent attendant upon agricultural conventions—an officer, we believe, of the Western Georgia Fair Association—he labor ed constantly to advance the inter est of the farming community and thus promote the independence of the South. He was a useful and public-spirited citizen, as well as an able and upright lawyer. The disease which terminated his life and from whichhe suffered ma. ny weeks, had its seat in the liver He leaves a wife—a most estimable lady—four sons and two daughters, to whom we offer such poor conso lation a* friendship can bring, but whom it is our privilege to point to a Divine source for strength to meet their sore bereavment. Only a few days since, Gen. H. P. Mabry, a brother of our deceased fellow-citizen, was accidentally shot and killed near Fort Worth, Texas. The sad news was never communicated to the sick man— his family fearing the results of the shock. Only one brother and one sister, we believe, survive him. The funeral will take place this afternoon, at 5 o’clock, and the re mains will be interred in the city cemetery. CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. EDWIN R. SHARPE, Publish*! TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION t One copy one year, One copy six months, One copy three months, CLUB bates i Ten copies one year, Twenty copies one year, $10.00 $».« PROFESSIONAL A BUSINESS CARDS TDK,. I. 2KT. CHENET Would inform his friends and the pobHe generally that he is still in the practice of medicine. Special attention given to chronic diseases. Office Carrollton H<^ tel. lOSEril L. COBB. FELIX S. COB* COBB A COBB, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA. Prompt attention given to all bae iness intrusted to us. Collections a sp^ jialty. Office in court house. Dr.J. W. HALLUM, CARROLLTON - * - - GEORGIA. Has his office, in number 3, Mande- ville brick building. He makes a specialty of OSTETRICS and DISEASES Of WOMEN and CHILDREN. 1 Call M him. Consultation free. 3DR. T. r. COLB f CARROLLTON, GA. Is devoting most of his 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 hotffi in Savannah. Rates : $2,00 Per DaL.;i4PV t M. L. HARNETT. /! Land for Sale. One lot of land, number 290, seventh district, Carroll county, joining several plantations, very heavily timbered, well watered, lays well, pubhc road running through it, and some good land upon IN if any one wishes to correspond with ow^ er they will direct to Post Office, Bex 173, Griffin, Ga. February 18th, 1884. JOHN B. STEWART Wishes to say to the public that he fit still prepared to do all lands of PHOTOGBAHUTO and pebbotyfuo in the latest style and at reasonable pri ces. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of Frames, Gases, Albums, Etc. Copying and enlarging a specialty- can make all sizes from locket to 8x1$ inches. Remember that two dollars will buy a fine, large picture framed ready for your parlor, at my gallery; New nan street, Carrollton, Ga. Satisfaction Guaranteed. MRS. E. A. HENDON'S Perfect Fitting Chart M iss Fannie Fullilove, of Athens, Georgia, who is temporarilyS&ojown ing in Carrollton, announces to tne ladles 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 be their own mantua-maker. Per fect satisfaction guaranteed. Apply at the residence of Rev, J. A. Perdue, (V dar street, Carrollton, Georgia. Expectance of Life. Insurance companies are aware of the credulous weakness of those whose lives they assure, and have therefore, compiled numerous ta bles of expectation of life for their own guidance, which are carefully referred to before a policy is gran ted. These tables have been the result of careful calculation, and seldom prove misleading. Of course, sudden and premature deaths, as well as lives unusually extended, occasionally occur; but the average expectancy of life of an ordinary man or women is as follows: A person 1 year old may expect to live 39 years longer; of 10 years, 51; of 20 years, 41; of 30 years, 34; of 40 years, 28; of 50 years, 21; of 60 years, 14; of 70 years, 9; of 80 years, 4,—Scientific American. BROWN <3e BROWN, WHITESBURG, GA. Drs. J. C. A. 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 tinuance of the same. Whitesburg, Ga., Jan. 30th, 1884. &F" Dr. J. G. Brown can be found at Banning and Dr. W. 1. Brown at Whiteshorg. Seven thousand dollars—the amount of the policies of the late Rev. Dr. Hardin in the Knights of Honor and the American Legion of Honor—await an application in pro per form by his heirs. The money is in the hands of the proper offi-j cers in LaGrange. The a FOR SALE. A second hand top boggy. Abouble barrel breech loading gun. An iron revolving book case. Big giant eom mill—grinds ewi i cob all together. A good pump. Will sell i change fori