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ELLAVILLE, (IA., JANUARY, 14,1880.
A. J. Harp, Editor and Proprietor.
The Cold.
The cold weather throughout III.,
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota
and Minnesota, Is fearful; the mer-
cury ranging from 16 to 24 degrees
below zero. The accounts of suffer¬
ing are frightful. Chattanooga Tenn.
7 to 9 below zero; Birmingham, at
zero. Atlanta, Ga., at zero and «
little above; Augusta, Ga., the cold¬
est weather in fifty years, 6 degrees
below zero with the river nearly fro-
zen over; ice at Jacksonville, Fla.,
one inch thick, with mercury at 32
above zero; considerable damage to
orange crop, At New Orleans, the
mercury stood 19** above zero; snow
from 2 inches to 2 feet deep reported
nil over Texas. The sufferings of
the cattle men are very great, from
trom frozen stock. A number of per-
sons at different points lroze to
death. Trains snowed in* and in¬
dustries effectually stopped, lhe
floods, are now very great, following
them, tlie extreme cold, entailed suf¬
fering beyond description. People
in places having to go in their hous¬
es through the windows, the base¬
ments being overflown with water
We will give a more detailed ac¬
count next week. Give to me my
Sunny South.
Fifty Years Ago To-Night.
CONCLUDE I).
Such were our surroundings that
we failed to conclude this article in
ur last issue.
Few parents perhaps can say more
in regards to the successful training
of their children. Not one of the
“Hue sons who lived to he grown
“Rs thus far dissipated, nine out of
a Velve children Joined the church.
drJi joined before they reached their
kfftli year. The youngest that joined
a Vas 11 years old, the oldest It); but
■one is living that has not united
Lvith the church—he being 20. As
t,ve are separated by many miles
’from four of our brothers we are
not prepared to give the status of
their religious standing but trust it
is as they received it from tlie lips
of those who tried to teach us in
our tender years to say “Our Father
In Heaven.” We can prayerfully
say give back to us just a little
while those years tor ever fled, that
we may live them again and drink
in once more child hoods sunny
hours; we go straying back to the
spot not more than ten miles from
Ellaville and see the place we loved
so well where we played, the school
house, the old church of sacred
memories and the road to school
and that to church. Why will
memory of those by gone days.
those by gone years keep pursu¬
ing us? but still we love to remem-
her them, We love to think of that
time, no language can be borrowed
that we love better than that which
accurately describes our youthful
years.
We think, we think, we think,
Of the pleasures of childhood sweetly
drink,
Oft they sweeten advancing age,
In life’s history is the best ptge,
The dear treasures of our heart,
From which we never want to part,
Is the memory of childhood’s hours,
When we gathered the sweetest flowers,
When sweet innocence was on our brew,
When we with reverence were taught to
bow, again,
'chose days will never come
B it still thev linger with sweet retrain,
’1 hose forms to us now most dear,
May not live another year.
Their footsteps are feeble, their
heads are whitening for the harvest
of eternity. If there is one ambi¬
tion that we covet above another,
it is that we may have the blest
privilege of making their last days
their best days. To-uigluour father
gave us the worn Testament and
Psalms as he ofteu did, before we
left the parental roof. We read a
Psalm and bowed with them as we
had often done in other years, Wo
tried to thank God from a full heart
for sparing them so long to us and
to continue his unsparing blessings
upon their gray beads what little
time they may yet live, it was one
of the happiest hours o our i e.
Gur feelings were better imagined
than told. Thanks and boundless
gratitude to our God for all his good¬
ness cannot be told. When we hear
the profane swearer giving forth
from the fountain of the deepest and
darkest corruption just such words
as the wicked one delights to hear
we are glad to-night that we
have been taught bett^ and to
K-t-rd .11 such » no«»lit «°P«-
rents who have passed away, also
as no sure sign of intelligence. We
niay class with the profane swearer
those given to vulgar talk and it
makes us in inexpressibly sad when
we are forced to acknowledge that
a“St Tu-tinivinv b under * bu.hel. Such Christian L nut
Li keeping w with a * correct
life. But we must Close, vv we , Dm . ,
yon . „11 all good niirVit night. We we turn turn our our
Thought* now to fifty years hence.
When we ^h~k.u will be as we humbly
au>, »» circle «ruuud
throne of the Majesty on high. God
g ra „t us this prayer.
To-night, to-night, to-night,
We feel called upon to write,
That those of us on earth are seven,
The other five are gone to Heaven.
< >nr father guide our weary feet,
With them to walk tile golden street,
Safely load ns down life's stream,
At last w ith bright beautiful gleam.
Open to us that world so bright,
I'liat world where there is no night,
I’ogethor may we sweetly sing,
Eternal praises to God our King.
<) leailjne, lead me, lead me there,
With my loved ones Heaven to share,
(livo ne our father witli time live,
Freely all our sins forgive.
Fit us to live in that blest .clime,
When taken from the shores of time,
Fit us to live on that blest shore,
Where weeping shall lie known no more.
This is our closing our fervent prayer,
That all the good may Heaven share.
More About Editors.
Adistiguished author has said “A
minister of the Gospel occupies an
on which it is exceeding¬
ly diflicult to stand, and from which
it is ruinous to fall.” The first
clause of this sentenc, at least, is
t rue of ed i tors. They occupy an em -
inencel Who can dispute It? It is
true, also, that it is exceedingly dtti-
cult to stand creditably upon that
But he, who stands
there successfully, wins an honor of
which any man may he proud, lie
speaks weekly, daily, it may he, to
hundreds, perhaps thousands, mak¬
ing his impress upon their minds,
and puts in motion a current that
will move on through the ages.
jKiwer of the press has shaken
from their thrones and rais¬
ed Liberty from her grave of obliv¬
ion. Never, ’till the editor’s quill
to contend witli the tyrant’s
did the sweet song of Free¬
salute the ears of downtrodden
but once heard, it was
forgotten.
But this is not the only theme
that engages the editor’s mind.
the freedom of the press has
acknowledged, the popular
lias been a leading factor
developing every noble enterprse
a strong advocate of ovei v good
Time and space could not be
In an ordinary contribution to a
to enumerate and illustrate
examples, the pare in work and
in honor that editors are enti¬
to in the great achievements of
past. One instance, alone, will
for the present article. I re¬
to Dr. Benjamin Franklin. As
editor, he espoused every good
and never failed to be it pow¬
in the accomplishment of the
proposed. Whether the theme
was “Popular education.” “The in¬
of the Colonies.” The Liberty
the People.” “The Agriculture
and Commerce of the country .’’“The
of the arts ami scien¬
it was ail one to him. He
and his paper belonged to the peo¬
ple and the people never failed to
look to them in the hour of need.
is the power and honor of the
editor. Scribbler.
5 m,
Hales of leaf tobacco in Danville,
Va., for the last yaar, amount to
2 , 650,000 pound*.
A divorced wife in Pittsburg, Pa.,
shot at her husband, grazing his
head, and shot herself fatally.
Loss by fire of $60,000at Montrose
Mo., of $90,000 at Opelika, Ala., and
of $1,500,(8)0 at Detroit, Mich.
Dodge county, Ga., goes for prohi¬
bition by a majority of 76, in a vote
of 1,086.
The Pope has given $100,000, the
proceeds of personal presents for
many years, to the College of the
Society for the Propagandation
of the Faith.
The 171 Havings Banks of Mass,
have in charge $2 7 4,998,412 beiong-
lnp to 896,000 depositor.
Mexico desperadoes are congre¬
gating at different points on the
American frontiers, threatening to
attack Mexican towns.
A gentleman fell, going down
stairs, and broke his neck,
Four Iliembers 0 f a family in
gi rea to r> jjj <( h aV c died of trichino-
sis and a fifth lies at the point of
death
Since 1880 there has been an in-
crease of $25,’42,865in the real and
personal property ol South Carolina,
Rurinah was annexed to the Brit-
j«h Dominion, by proclamation, a
f ew days ago.
An $80,000 cotton warehouse fire
Macon,Ga. ’
The Gainesville, Ga., council, de-
cides to issue no liquor licenses this
year.
A noted N Y . gambler dies, and
} eave8 his wife $225,000 dull ars.
Al *• »'«»
« ~»<l refuses "f to grunt
£ ee oou,,r N’>
any * retail liquor £ licenses outside of
C1 Q’ Ot uotumous.
The wealthiest farmer in , Central _ . ,
Illinois and his wife were burned
„ dcu.h Christ,„„ eve, while
drunk.
A man beating Itis wife at Mt.
Pleasant, 8. C. shot fatally, one of
the two men who attempted to res¬
cue tier, and blew out his own
brains.
A lieutenant of the U. 8. army
committed suicide by shooting, at
Fort Adams, K. I. fearing trial by
court martial because he had been
absent a fortnight on a week’s
leave.
Mmall pox at Peoria and near Ea¬
ton, 111.
The volcano of Coalima, Mexico,
isj pouring lava over its sides.
Queen Christina was crowned re¬
gent of Spain, in Madrid.
Loss by tire at Jersey City of $17,
50(1, and at Biloxi, Miss., $35,(HMl.
The census of Charleston, 8 C.
shows a population of 60,245—an in¬
crease since 1880 of over 20 percent.
A capsizing boat near Nicholas-
ville, Ky., drowned the w ife and 3
children while toe husband and fa-
ther escaped to the shore.
A Gloucester, Mass., schooner
sinks; four men drowned and five
wounded in tlie gale.
Two brothers drowned while
skating near Spirit Lake 1
At Savannah, Ga., Monday, three
divorces were granted for desertion
and five for adultery.
One of the Faroe Islands has sunk
in tlie sea.
A $12,000 fire in Chattanooga, Ten.
and a $300,000 cotton fire at Greene-
ville, Miss.
Our national debt has been re¬
duced to less than $1,500,000,000.
The deposit in the Mass. Savings
Banks has been increased last year
$ 12 , 000 , 000 .
An Indian murderer was caught
evading arrest for 3 years.
A Negro at Hou.ersville Ga.
all night Christmas eve and
Saturday, of meningetfs.
The Chinese send $15,000,000 year¬
from California to China.
Dr. A. H. Best, of Savannah, and
Ilon. D. \V . Lewis, President oi the
North Georgia Agricultural College
are dead.
The Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C., stimates the
corn crop of 1885 at 1,936,000,000—
the oat. at 620,000,000—the wheat, at
357,000,000.
Earthquake shocks Monday night
at Hartford, Conn., and Blooming¬
ton, III.
Six men killed and another fatal¬
ly wounded by the explosion of a I
boiler of an oil mill, Mobile, Ala.,'
Monday night.
The Childrens Christinas Club,
Washington, yesterday gave 1,400
poor children each a dinner, box of
candy and a card.
A Negro rapist and murderer was
chained to a tree and roasted to
death, near Gainestovvn, Ala.
A Washington, D. (k, court grant¬
ed $12,000 damages, to a boy struck
by a railroad car and made a crip¬
ple for life.
Saturday’s storm wrecked many
vessels on the North Atlantic coast.
Tha decrease of the national debt
for Dec. was $9,089,937.84.
A man, who murdered his wife
and a woman witli whom he held
unlawful relations, in Chicago, have
been condemned to 40 years in the
penitentiary.
A prominent physician of Bir¬
mingham, Ala., dropped dead ot
heart disease.
A lad 16 years old, of Cleveland,
Ohio, drank so much anti-prohibi¬
tion whisky, on New Year’s day,
that he died Saturday night.
Thirty deaths from small pox in
Montreal and suburbs last week;
37 the week before.
A woman was killed by lightning
New Year’s nght.
A man at City f’oint, Va. cut a
'r-’eep gash across his wrist and bled
to death.
A young negro near Reynolds,
Ga., accused his brother of taking a
drink from his bottle of whisky,
and was fatally shot by him.
There is a Mormon church w T itb
several hundred aembers at Fall
Rivers, Mass., and others in New
Bedford and Boston.
A $75,000 fire at Newark, N. J.
and a $50,000 fire at Sanford, Fla.
A Reformed Presbyterian minis¬
ter at Harrisburg, Pa., has been re¬
quested to resign for preaching one
of Talmage’s sermons.
A * A IlAi I 1 CL’ OL, Send six cents for post-
.'4 age, and received free, a
costly box of goo right oils which will help you
to more money away of than anything
else in tins world. A11 either sex. suc¬
ceed from first hour. The broad road to
fortune opens before tlie workers, abso¬
lutely sure. At Maine. once address. True*
Co., Augusta,
$200.000SSrr^isy5K STiiSWfnKS tiff»
vouin work that will at once bring you
m money. All about the $200,000 in pres-
ents work that with eaol\ box. Agents
wanted everywhere, of either sex, of all
ages, for all the time, or spare time only.
to work for us at their own homes. For-
L°„ r ,f^® 0 L U t “ lv ,® ss u red ;
IK,I."* 1 ' U H ^ / , r
Wliat Investigation mid Agilii
lion have (lone in I lie Arts.
Srirm rs and in Medianfes,
• lief are doing in l.ile
Insurance.
-
THE NEW IS TAKING THE
Place of the Old.
A HA VINO o) FIFTY percent. and an
INCjIKABE insecurity of ONE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
per cent.* s effected by tak¬
ing a policy In the
Fidelity Mutual Lite Association,
OF PIIICAI>FI.PII14,
in place of a policy on the old level
premium system.
Twelve millions of insurance;
Five thousand members; Plight
years’experience; Guaranteed and
incontestable policies; Cash assets
and indemnity reserve of $250,000;
Expenses limited by contract; Mor-
tality funds handled exclusively by
Trust Co.; Four fixed payments a
year—one for expenses and three for
mortality; The lowest death rate of
any Life Company in America;
Cash surrender values or policies
rendered self-sustaining at end of
life expectation; Saving of 50 per
cent in cost of insurance and abso-
lute security, are points to which
we call special attention.
The business of the Fidelty is twice
as much as it was in 1884, and the
death rate is not any larger now, in
proportion to the amount at risk,than
it w as five years ago. Ex-Governor
Hartrant, of Pennsy vania, is organ¬
izing a Mutual Company in Phila¬
delphia, and is consulting L. G.
Fouse, President of the Fidelty, as
to the best practicable methods, in
to conform to the advanced
of assessment insurance, as
by him to tlie National
Notn hone:
If the recent expulsion of the At¬
Home Fire Insurance Com¬
by the foreign companies from
the Association of Fire Under-w rit-
remits in a cutting of rates nnd
lng to At ( a»ta of $125,000. I can
demonstrate that I can save even
more per annum to the overburden-
policy holders in the Fidelity,
and give them better security. Send
your age and address for estimate to
P. W. DOUGLAS, Manager,
21 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga.
or S. M. McCRORY, Agent.
Oglothorpe, Ga.
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The Ellaville DRUG STORE is
the place to get pure
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CREAM TARTAR AND
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NOTIONS,
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TOILET ARTICLES,
STATIONERY,
LAMP GOODS
or any other article usually kept in
a drug store.
Dr. C. H. Smith,
Ellaville, Ga.
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