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4 Pi 'A /' n ;4 1 1 te*5l25E£ VOL. I, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, MAY 2, 1884. NO. 24. U0$HR*|v ^IffERS Begeneratlon lbr Enfeebled Syitemi, Suffering from a general want of tone, and its usual concomitants, dyspepsia and nervousness, is seldom derivable from the use of a nourishing diet and stimuli of appetite, unaided. A medicine that will effect a removal ol the specific obstacle to renewed health and vigor, that is a genuine corrective, is the real need. It is the pos session of this grand requirement which makes Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters so effective as an invigorant. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. Te b»»o COOT) ItEALTII lie MV ah nut be kept In erdea 71 fhp IiTTER not be kept In NFOPJ IMVIGORATOF DR. SANFORD'S.LIVER INyiCORATOR Juet what its name implies; a Vegetable liiver Medicine.and for diseases resulting from a deranged or torpid condition of the Liver; such asBilioosness, Costiveness. 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Harter's Iron Tonic is that frequent attempts at counterfeiting have only added to the popular ity of the original. If you earnestly desire health do not experiment—get the Original and Best. rSend your address to The Dr. Harter Med.Co. V I Ol T Ant. Via f a. An. AM If ** ( 8 8 I :> I St. Louis, Mo., for our “DREAM BOOK.’ ^Full of strange and useful information, froe.j Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic is for 8ale by all DRUQGIST8 AND DEALERS EVERYWHERE. TURNER and CHAMBERS, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA —Dealers in— General Merchandise, Are still at their old stand on Rome 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. A Ye have indulged you as long as we can and we now want our money. IF YOU ARE GOING WEST, northwest, -OR- SOUTHWEST, BE STTIE^jEJ Your Tickets Read via the N. C. & St. L. R’Y The Mackenzie Route. The First-class and Emigrant Passengers jr.A.’V’ OIE&I'-L 1 J±1! Albert B. Wrenn, Pas. Agent, ^ Atlanta,Ga. Chattanooga, Tenn W. L. DANLEY, Gen. Pas. & Tkt. Agent, Nashville, Tenu. W. I. Rogers, Pas. Agent, THE CYCLONE PIT DISCUSSION. Editor Free Press.—By your permission I will reply to Mr. E. A. Ragan, in your issue of April 11. It seems to me he thinks it presump tions in those, who differ with him in reference to digging storm pits, and condemns alike the press, pul pit and forum and even the fireside, for calling in question,the proprie ty of digging storm pits, and rath er sarcastically condemns one an onymous writer in the Times, for being so bold as to rally an ar ticle to the front, ironically calling him a “bravado,” “gifted writer,” “profound scholar.” As to what he thinks about the writer bumping the bottom out of the first pit he could get to, in case of a cyclone, re minds me of the old adage af put ting two in a sack, and shaking it to see which would fall out first. I leave it with the gifted defender of pits to make the application. He says but when it came to signing his name to his sweep- stake article he faltered, I have thought that an article sometimes loses some of its force, by the ap pendage of a name. Think if I come out as well as Thomas and Pe ter I will do well. I am no Anti- nomian, neither am I a Pharisee.— Far be it from me to think that those upon whom the tire, floods and cyclones have fallen are sin ners above all men. AVlio told you that I was puffed up with the idea that I was too dignified, and too good to creep into a cave or pit ? Now you should not put words in my mouth, and then say there is not a word of it so. I am a creature subject to circumstances, and know not what I may do. Altho’ I have as little idea of going into a pit as Jonah had of going to Nineveh, yet circumstances may change my mind, as it did his. I set out With the proposition, that from observa tion and Scripture, I had come to the conclusion that there was a Su preme power, which rules and gov erns all things and that our lives are in his hands in time of storm as in the calm. I do not condemn all laudable efforts for the preser vation of our life and property, hut I do question the propriety of dig ging storm pits and would impress upon all the importance of heed ing the warning of the Savior to watch and he always ready, for we know not whether he will come in the cyclone or in the calm. Now instead of these calamities God is sending upon us having a tendency to humble us and cause repentance, they seem to have prompted a spir it of defiance in the form of cy clone pits. Now I think the dig ging had better commence about our hearts. I can not see any ap propriateness in the Scriptures quo ted in justificatien of digging storm pits. Noah was commanded by God to build an ark for the preser vation of himself and iamllyT God gaye him the dimensions to build it by, and when it was finished God shut him in. How safe he must have felt, where is the similarity ? Echo answers where. The curing of Naaman of leprosy was a case of special divine providence, and is on my side of the question. The Very thing I hfive been contending, that God exercises a special providence or care over all his creatures, so minutely that even a sparrow, five of which gre worth only two farth ings, can not fall to the ground withont his permission. Many le pers were in Israel in time of Elise- us the prophet, and none of them were cleansed, saving Naaman, the Syrian, said the Savior, and for preaching this special providential doctrine, the people were filled with wrath and led him unto the brow of tfie hill, that they might throw, him down headlong. This doctrine has ever been opposed.— As for Lot, David, Elijah and hun dreds of others, dwelling in caves for protection, all that is very true, but they were seeking protection from the wicked and not from God, of whom Paul says the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes of the earth. We are agreed there were other ways by which the walls of Jericho could haive been dashed down. Yes they could have been dashed down by a whirlwind, as was Job’s oldest son’s house, but it was not God’s purpose to do so. If Paul had any reference to provi ding storm pits for those of our household, the neglect of which is denying the faith, and is worse than an infidel, then the world has been full of infidels until recently, for I suppose, there has been more of them dug in the lasf month than in all the ages past. And by the way I tbinkjfche application of the above quotation by my friend Ragan, is what Peter would call wresting the Scriptures. But I have said enough so I forbear. J* O. R. Word. From the Cincinnati News-Journal. Henry Clay’s Heroic Son. “Do you know what killed Henry Clay ?” my genial Kentucky story teller asked me the other day. “If not. I will tell you. He died of a broken heart, not because he lost the Presidency, hut his son. Henry Clay, Jr.,.was his father’s idol. He was sent to West Point where he graduated second in his class. Af ter four months in the army he re signed, and began practising law in ■Lexington, living with his father at Ashland. Not a young man in Kentucky promised better things than he did. When the Mexican war broke out he was determined to go. His father made no objec tion, and ho went out as- Lieuten ant-Colonel of the first Kentucky regiment. At the battle of Buena ■Vista, Santa Anna, with 32,000 Troops, nearly overwhelmed Gener al Taylor, with about one-eighth that number. Clay fought hard, hut, as his regiment was falling back, a shot went through both legs. He was not mortally woun ded, and three men picked him up to convey him off the field. It soon became evident that the Mex icans would overtake them. “Save yourselves, hoys,’’ he said, and taking tire pistol. whiAh his father had given him, he handed it to one of the men with the words. “Take this, and return it to my father; Tell him I have no further use for it.” With that they dropped him and ran after the retreating troops. The last they saw of Clay he was lying on his hack, fielding a squad of Mexicans with his sword. Next morning his body was found, hacked to pieces and mutilated by the cow ards who had killed liiur. The pis tol came to his father then, a Sena tor, and, though he lived several years after, I am convinced that he died from the blow. ' : / v . From the Wrightsville Recorder. The Arcadian Programme. The public good ought never to be lost sight of ’ i nil omrn at ip n s< ami elections. And we hold that no ifo\u shonlcKeyer claim office of the people as a right, but in all cases every person shquld be willing to let the office seek the man, and the man not the office. We- think no man has the right to demand elec tion or reelection to office for any real or supposed valuable services he may think he has rendered his country. The people should always have no other motive in view in electing a man to office than to se cure for themselves the services of an honest and competent officer, oner who is in every respect well qualified for a faithful/ and intelli gent discharge of every duty per taining to his office 1 ; Our offices are well and ably filled, but we again repeat that the man Should never seek the office, but the office should always seek the man. From the Savannah News. Th- Tariff Speech of Representative Blount. " Nearly a hundred members of the House have given notice that they intend to take part in the tariff discussion. Only a small part of this,number, however will deliver their speeches. The.majority will be satisfied with permission tetptint their remarks in the Congressional Record. Representative Blount’s speech was among the first deliv ered, and his constituents are' grat ified, doubtless, that he Stands squarely in favor of tariff reform. He is in harmony with the senti ment of the people of Georgia and the policy of the Democratic party with respect to the tariff. No man understands better than he does that it would be the extreme of fol ly for the party to listen for a mo ment to the teaching of Randall.— He is: not a free trader, and no such a thing as free trade is advocated by the Democratic party. What that party does advocate, however, is tariff reform. It has advocated this for years and the people gave it a majority in the present House for the purpose of effecting a reform of that kind. Mr. Blount says, very truly, that the Morrison bill does not do: all that the .tariffreformer's pro pose to do, hut it is a very good be- gining It may take a quartet of a century to get the tariff in to the shape that the tariff reform ers want it, but they are certain to succeed in their reform' work. Mr, Blount knows what is best for his constituents,,arid, as he is an earn est ann conscientious re presentative, there is no reason to doubt that he will be continued at his present post of duty unless, in deed, he should be called to a more important post. Athens B a n n e r-W a t c h na a n: Whilst visiting the law dffiCe of Hon. H. IL Carlton Saturday we observed a Striking engraving over the mantal-piece. It is a representa tion of tfie first trial by jury* es tablished by King Alfred II of En gland. The body of the murdered man is extended upon a stretcher in front of the twelve jurymen.— Leaning over the dead body is the wife in tears. The witness kneel ing on the opposite side of the de ceased details to the court the his tory of the murder. Th.e two bail iffs holdfast to the acciised, the ex pression of whose face shows his savage temper. Upon the left sitg carried ,the boat out of sight towi the dignified judge, and by his side Sandy HoOk. Ten days Inter a c are the counselors. The law -at that time required the body ^»f the murder eel man to be produced in court The trial was speedy and the verdict of the jury was final. Be it understood I say nothing disparaging of the noblest,most de pendent class of woman that liye— the ones that bear the euphonious title of old maids—too brave to mar ry a map that is not their. ideal of what a man should be, just to have* the name of being married. They choose rather to “paddle their bwn canoe” clown the river of time, re gardless of the shafts of sarcasm and envy hurled at them by brain less men, disappointed wives, and giggling girls.—Dade County Times. We are opposed to a tariff which taxes one man more than another. If any man can show how a high tariff can bear equally on the rais er of corn, wheat, and cotton, and on tjie owner of a cotton factory or Iron foundry, we should be glad to hear from him. Charles Reade was lead to become a Christian and unite with the church by the death of a dear friend, Mrs. Seymour, “who acte dreligion more than she talked it.” From the Boston Herald. The Old Man of the Sea. We give it up. There is no use in resisting the conclusion that the Democratic party is-to-ruivtbe deftd-aaid-*dive,Mr. Til- den'for Rresiclent. If thC delega tion of visiting -f alforniaas, to whom tlxe whispering- Sphinx'of Gramercy Park said, that he could not and would npt accept the-nomi- nation, nor qualify if elected, caine away with the impression—as they say they did—that the head of the old ticket is not only available but inevitable, nothing but Mr. Tilden’s written refusal, backed up by a certificate of inability from the col lege of physicians, and indorsed by the affidavits of a council of friends, presided over by Mr. Dana, will shake v the conviction ^hat the Old Man .of the Sea is astride of £hje shoulders of the Democratic party, and is bound tahave his ride out.— The Campaign majvas well begin.— It will fee time enotrgfAo talk of-otti- er candidates when the present one is set aside. If he is not only will ing, but quietly determined,and the party mistakesithe Old Mff© .for a Moses, there is n&fteipjfor it. The Republican party appears to have been born under a lucky star. It re-stole the stolen Presidency from him once, and cAn honestly beat Dungenness. I Mr. Carnagie, a wealthy iron manufacturer Pittsburg, purchas ed about two ; ars ago the estate which formerly belonged to Gener al Nathaniel Greene, on Cuberland Island. Cumberland Island, which is some ten miles from Fernandina, is embraced in the geographical limits of the state of Georgia. Be fore the revolution it belonged to the Duke of Cumberland, from whom it derived its name. It was confisca ted by Georgia and presented by the legislature of that state to General Greene for his services in the Caro- linasand Georgia. After the death of General Greene his wife married a Boston gentleman by the name of Miller, and they lived for a number of years on this magnificent estate in a style of baronial splendor. By the invitation of Mrs. Carnagie, who is spending the winter on the island with her children, we paid a visit to the estate and were carried over from Fernandina in the steam yacht belonging to Mr. Carnagie.— The island is a perfect earthly para disc, Wildly luxuriant in every species of semi-tropical tree and plant, and with great avenues lined with sturdy, giant live-oaks. Deer roam at will through the capacious shade and fast recesses of its forests. Lord Huntington said he did not know of a gentleman’s park in all Great Britain t^at was superior to it in natural beauty. Mrs. Carna gie took us to the old family ceme-. tery, where we read the inscription op the tombstone of Light-Horse Harry Lee, who died and was bu ried on theestate while on a visit to its owner in 1818. A few feet from the restingplace of the brilliant and daring partisan of the revolution is a stone which marks the grave of a young gentleman from Boston, named Jackson, who died in 1803, while the guest of his friend, Mil ler. The recordon the stone detail? only the virtues of the deceased, and makes no mention of the man ner of 'his death. Tradition ha# it that the young Bostonian and fiery youth of South Carolina quar relled at the dinner table of their host, the cau^e a fair lady; that hot words ledr to a challenge, and that at early dawn of the next day, in sight of the murmuring billows of the Atlantic, ihe South Carolinian buried a bullet in the bosom of his gallant but unfortunate adversary. The old family mansion was almost destroyed by. fire some yejars since, and the walls were left in such a crumbling condition as to be un safe. ! &r. Carnagie reluctantly had them battered' down. He is now erecting a very commodious resi dence of granite, the stone for whieh is brought from New England. He is determined to enhance the lovli- nes£ of a spot yffiich i?iay already be described as incomparable;— [Cor. jBaltlmpre^SuiL^^^ Sleep as a Medicine. The cry for rest has always bpeii louder than the cry for food. Not that it is more, butdfat it is often harder to obtain. The best rest .comes:from sound sleep. Of two men or women, otherwise equal, It is a wise man wno knows the proper time to shed his flannels. The reason why so many young men are fresh is because they can not earn their stilt. Gen. Gordon announces his inten tion to raise 000,000 for the Con federate Home in Richmond. It is estimated thet Southern Georgia will this season produce crop of watermelons douclle that of last year. him now with a live,’ godd' candl-the one w h 0 s i ee pe the , best will date, ten Island, on February 29, they took a cat for sport, tossed it into a skiff, and pushed the skiff from nd and tide ard cod smack anchored off Eltingville with The captain ©f the smack had no ticed a drifting skiff when about 70 hiiles southeast Of Sandy Hook, and on drawing close to the small boat the crew of the smack were sur prised to see a . cat perched on its bow. When near enough the cat sprang on to* the deck of the smack without assistance, and ^ebnied pFeased at itsjrescue. It had been nine hays drifting about on the open sea. It had eaten-some flounders that had beerh left in the boat, and during three storms, which mupt have buffeted the frail craft about, some ram had fallen into a bailing pan that had been left in the boat. $2. We have made arrangments with the proprietors of the Southern Cul tivator,by which we arer enabled to club our paper ,and, that excellent agricultural journal at $2.00 per an num. Every farmer ought to take the Cultivator. Two white men, cousins, named John A. Cathcart and Nathan L. Thomas, got into a fight Saturday night near Newnan, when Thomas was killed* - ' No man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. No mutter how dat rich man blow, An* hole his head above de po’; Chile some dese days he's got to go An* stall de tes’, Close up ag'in de King's elbow, Like all de res'. Michigan raised nearly one half the world’s crop of pepperment. The annual yield of oil varies from 10,000 to 70,000 pounds. The mother who is at at all times ready to defend her boy, right or wrong, will some day have a lawyer to help her. A man and his wife were the op posing Candidates for school com mittee at the late election in Lon donderry, N. H., and the wife came out victorious by six majority. be the most moral, healthy and effi cient. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of temper, peevishness Afloat in an Open Boat. While some children were play- ;apd,yne asines^ r It willQrc^tore to ing on the beach at Eltingville, Sta- vigor an overworked brain. It will build up and make strong a weary body. It will cure sorrow. Indeed we might make a long list of nerv ous and other maladies' that sleep cure of sleeplefcs- a clean, good bed, snf- e to prddttqe.^ear- occupation, good, air, arara roOng a blear d4jrbidance of-stimu- cotics • $Qr A tiose who d, haggard and ner- sleepless nights we ipbW*fch hab- "otherwise, life will be short, ai is of it sadly imperfect. there Decided to be Monkeys. Athens, Tenn., April 22.—This town is in a ferment of excitement over the faculty of the East Ten nessee Wesleyan Univerisity and a number of students, who, a few days ago, distributed circulars an nouncing that nine of them would give a riiinstrel performance at Ma sonic hall. When the faculty heard of it, they notified the proposed minstrels that if they carried out their purpose and took part in the performance they would be expel!*- ed from the school. They could either be men or monkeys. The students decided, and the perform ance was given as announed. It now remains for the faculty to carry out their threat. Congider- ble interest is feliin the matter, as it is believed the faculty will not back down firom the position taken. Six days on the roads or three chrllars in cash, is the way the road Question is to be settled in Floyd county for all males befwen 16 and 50 liable to road duty. The balls of sight are so formed that one man’s eyes are spectacles to another to read his heart with. A wide, rich heaven hangs above you, but it hangs high; a wide, rough world is around you, and it lies very fo!W, Fastidiousness is only another form of egotism, and all men who know not where to look for truth, save in the.narrow well of self,will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking- Dr Hammond thinks that great harm results from sending children to school at too early an age. The best way to* do is to send them out to worry the neighbors. It will help the children and give the schoolma’am a rest. It is gratifying to know that the people all over the State are wak ing up to the importance of send ing the best available men to the Legislature. Men may be clever and admirable without any special qualifications for the duties of law givers. Special gifts are requisite to the make-up of a successful leg. islator.—Macon Telegraph. Tom Corwin undertook, when a member of the .Ohio legislature, to have a law enacted abolishing pub lic whipping for crime. He spoke at length in support of his measure, and an elderly gentleman who rep resented & rural district answered as follows: “Mr. Speaker, the gen tleman is not as old as I am and has not seen as much of the practical operations of thesystem of punish ment which he desires to abolish. When I lived in Connecticut if a fel low stole a horse or cut up other antics, we used to tie him up and give him a good thrashing, and he always clears right out and we nev er saw anything more of him. It’s the best way of getting rid of the rogues that ever was tried, and without expense to the State.” Cor win rose to reply: Mr. Speaker, I have often been puzzled to account for the vast immigration from Con necticut to the West, but the gen tleman last up has explained it to my satisfaction.” It costs $1,000 per week to pr.y off the hands working on the Ximball House. CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. EDWIN R. SHARPE, Publisher. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy one year, 91.28 One copy six months, 65 One copy three months, 40 CLUB BATJB8: Ten copies one year, SIOJW Twenty copies one year, $20.60 PROFESSIONAL A BUSINESS CARDS DR. I. 2ST. CHENET Would inform his friends and the public generally that he is still in the practice of medicine. Special attention given to chronic diseases. Oflice Carrollton Ho tel. JOSEPH L. COBB. FELIX X. COBB. COBB & COBB, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. CARROLL.TOX, GEORGIA. Jgjf— Prompt attention given to all bus iness intrusted to us. Collections a spe cialty. Oflice in court house. Dr. J. W. HALLUM, CARROLLTON - - - - GEORGIA. Has his oflice, in number 2, Mande- ville brick building. He makes a specialty of OSTETRICS and DISEASES OF WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call on him. Consultation free. DIR,. J. IF. COLE, CARROLLTON, GA. Is devoting most of his time and atten tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and is prepared for most any operation. Hto charges are reasonable. The Harnett House, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Is conceded to be the most comforta ble and by far the best conducted hotel in Savannah. fcsP* Rates : $2,00 Per Day. M. L. HARNETT. Land for Sah. One lot of laud, number 290, seventh district, Carroll countjr, joining several plantations, very heavily timbered, Well watered, lays well, public road running through it, and some good land upon it. If any one wishes to correspond with own er they will direct to Post Office, Box 173, Griffin, Ga. February 18th, 1884. JOHN B. STEWART Wishes to say to the public that he is still prepared to do all kinds of PHOTOGRAHUra and ITHROTIPUG in the latest style and at reasonable pri ces. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of Frames, Gases, Albir^, Etc. Copying and enlarging t specialty- can make ail sizes from locket to 8x10 inches. Remember that two dollars will buy a fine, large picture framed ready for your parlor, at my gallery, Newaan street, Carrollton, Ga. Satisfaction Guaranteed. MRS. E. A. HENDON’S Perfect Fitting Chart. iss Fannie Fullfiove, of Athens* .i.Georgia,who is teiuporarilyLojcnm- ing in Carrollton, announces to U p lauiaa of Carrollton, that she is prepareu to give lessons in cutting and fitting Lr.diee and Misses dresses, and to furnish Mrs. Hen don's Perfect Fitting Chart, with instruc tions how to use it. This Ch..rt together with the lessons given, will enable any one to be their own njantua-maker. Per fect satisfaction guaranteed. Apply a> the residence of Rev. J. A. Perdue, CV dar street, Carrollton, Georgia. An exchange wisely remarks: “Standing advertisements in * pa per command confidence. The man who a year resides in a community and lives a reputable K'6, even though he be of moderate abUty, will glow in the confidence and es teem of his fellows. On the fame principle a newspaper advertise ment becomes familiar, and its pres ence in the columns of a paper in spires confidence in the stability of the adertiser.” Blanks of all kinds for sale at shis office. BROWN Sc BROWN, WHITESBURG, 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 tinuance of the same. Whiteshurg, Ga n Jan. 30th, 1884. r*** Hr- J* O. Brown can be fouud at Banning and Dr. W. T. Brown at Whitesburg. ZETOK* SALE. A second hand top buggy. Abcuble barrel breech loading shot gun. An iron revolving book case. Big giant com mill—grinds com and cob all together. A good pump Will Bell cheap for cash or will ex change for cattle. Apply to EDWIN E> SHARP!.