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(JOTHAM (iOSSJI‘.
Special <’om>|HMMlCD'r iijmUit
New Voik, < >ct. .’*th, 1882.
Such a shock as the sporting world
and the lashiouable? received at the
opening of the fill meeting of the
American Jockey Club last Satur-
Racing and no betting? Anom
Tins was tlie general verdict
who was present at
JHLic'l’ark. For six teen year* the
has been carried on here. In
ABlus i harming race course is the
■ktudinaik of tlie revival of the inter-
Btirig sports of peace after the war.
*’orsome reason or other about four
| years ago the authorities began to
“nag” tlieclub about betting. First
dkat distinctively American system
jjjß turf speculation, the auction pools
■But. Nkt the Paris .Mutuals had
W, fro, and uoiv the English system
Ktbook-making has to go. The sin
’gnlar fact is that betting is allowed
to go on in any and every other shape
on every other race course in the
The gossips say that the first
HirHmcnt the Jerome Park
Boplu was caused by the failure of
Re authorities to make the Club put
Rip.” Now, however, the present
" District Attorney, McKeon, with the
proverbial obstinacy of the donkey
bred on his own Emerald Isle, seems
to think that the more lie annoys
and spoils the sporl of the people,
tlie better he does his dntio Jt {is
needless to say that umlerßiccv cir
cumstances nobody, oi"at least very
few, will attend the remaining four
days of the meeting. In fact, lam
pretty reliably informed that this
will be the last race meeting held at
Jerome Park. Tlieclub has land in
view on Doug Island, and the pres
ent difficulties will have the effect of
considerably hastening matters, and
next Spring the racing season wdl be
opened somewhere in the vicinity ol
kAstoria. The historic grounds of
Heroine Park willßien probably be
[cut up into building lots.
and stuuiy weather
h last set in "asJgiven a
to the fall and
■ft Sunday the avenue was a perfect
Kaleidoscope with all the display ol
kali finery .Shopkeepers unite in
living that mnaMtbeforeßas there
■jtoingly hcflßfo m in# moil A
the people as at present. If#
jßftg pleases them the prices no
fKju.l. Jewelry, brie a-brac,Birni-
interior decorations, tffesscs,
everything comes under tlie
free and easy consideration. In
B houses the Queen Anne anil East
■re furniture which two years ago
small fortunes is being removed
|Bhakc way for the heavy carved
■Stations of the productions of the
Rlenuissunce period. They are inlaid
■with flowers or scones from the
Runling field, and at luncheon no tu
be cloth is used. Stained glass ad
■ its and breaks up iifß prismat
■ divisions the light of day. The
Rig chandelier of the parlor is being
■removed, together with the “rose” in
Ithe centre of the ceiling from which
lit descended. The ceiling is made
of inlaid wood, and in some instance J
bcovored with mirror glass, and in-
Rteatl of Iho garish effects of the
Chandelier, candelabra shed and
sconced reflect a mild subdued light
The pre V engraved glassware
which we once thought looked so
pretty at tlie table has been declared
vulgar, and now nothing save cut
glass is deemed good enough to touch
the lips of the fashionables.
Iu dresses the prevailing color
seems to bogrcen-Russian or hunters
green, enlivened by fine threads in
plaid shape. One of the most recent
combinations is an amber sha<m
with Russian green checks and light/
blue threads to form the plaids. The
richest material for outer garments
is satin with velvet flowers in relief.
Faille or satin toilets have overskirts
of this velvet. They are short, Hat
and round with the borders cut out.
Fong velvet or cloth redingotes are
worn over faille flounced skirts in the
color of the dress. They open bath
in front and iu the hack fromgthe
waist down, to give full freed
the tlouiK-cd skirt Garnet, seal,wine
and navy blue are the favorite colors
for these redingotes.
It will tlni** be scon that there is a
general, and in truth a wholesome,
departure from the .esthetic mania.
Even in children's dresses this is no
tieeable. The quaint little Greena
way frocks which were regarded so
’ picturesque when they first came out
are being retired to make way for
French styles, and some of these are
so gorgeous as to rival those of adult
The manager of a leading house
flowed me a charming little dress of
velvet. The skirt is box-pleat
ed. with a plain princess effect at the
tavaist and hips, and a wide sasli of
lurah sitin where the upper part of
Ithe dress joins the kilted skirt. An
iother dress was made of dark bine
L’elvet, finished with a deep pointed
of fancy plaid velvet, reachiug
down either side of tee front and out
lining a vest. The eutfs and pocket
flaps are made of this same kind of
velvet. The skirt of this dress is
kilted, and a handsome sash of dark
blue aud plaid velvet joius it to the
upper part. School dresses aie made
mainly of cheviot wool m subdued
tanixtures, aud of dark green and
Ijkie flannels. They are nearly all
Bade in one or other variation of the
■riucess style. For small boys who
■till wear the kilt aud jacket, the
'Turkish fez is very popular as a cov
ering for the head. It is generally
made of pale blue or red woolen stuff
and Inis a tassel on the top. Egyp
tian styles are likewise all the rage
for jewelry, though a likiug for early
Indiau designs, made iu imitation of
the rudejj jewelry taken from the
mounds iu North America is making
itself felt.
Mr. Wallack has at last done the
sensible thing which he ought to
have done weeks ago, removed ••Ta
ken from Life” from tlie boards of
theatre, aud-substituted “Tlie
Hkrvenu.” capital comedy of
modern school, and, although it
no striking originality, yet
|Bdialogue is so bright and crisp,
IK situations so interesting aud the
Baracter painting so clever, that it
Ks refreshing to witness it after the
prolonged dietiugof melodrama jtot
we have been subjected to. The v i
car of Bray*, under D’Oyley Carte’s
management was presented for the
first time at the Fifth Avenue last
night and made an iustantaiteous bit.
It is a better opera than ‘‘Billee Tay
lor,” by the author, Mr. Solo
mon, and although the clergymen
may not like being made fun of* that
is all the more reason why their
flocks will be anxious to see it. Era-
Ma Thursby likewise opened her sea-
Kn in coucert, and it must be con
■essed that her style, her voice aud
fcer appearance make hag the superi-
Hwif Patti and
Kt room. tliou£^||^H^^^Bh|a|
joined the staff of that high toned
critical weekly, The Hour, has been
sounding her praises to such an ex
tent in the musical column of that
paper that many believed that Thnrs
by’s performance would be disap
pointing. But it was not. Chick
en ng Hall was thronged with the
elite of the social, literary and musi
cal world and applause literally
showered upon her. Her manager,
Maurice Strukosch, recently severely
sprained his leg while getting off a
street car. Although yet a cripple
he managed to hobble out of his sick
run and to congratulate the diva
the excellent impression she made.
TALMA GES USER VOX.
Brooklyn, October I.—The
throngs of people this autumn con
tinue to crowd the Brooklyn Taber
uadffcs in former years, audiences
of people occupying
the place every Sabbath morning and
evening. After explaining a por
tion of the Scriptures this msmiug,
Dr. Talmage gaye out the following
opening hymn:
“My sou 1, be on thy guard,
Ten thousand foes arise!
The hosts of sin are pressing hard
To draw thee from the skies.”
After this hymn had been sung
by the congregation Dr. Talinage be
gan his sermon on the Subject.
••Shall the gamblers be triumphant?’
The text was 11, Kings, xix, 37: ‘'Be
cause thy rage against me and thy
tulmult is come up into mine ears,
therefore I will put my bridle in thy
lips, and I will turn thee bacß” The
following is the termon : "
Sennacharib, the infamous, had
taxed and ontiaged the people until
it for hi n tVbe stopped. Go 1
through tiic He
will stop him. and tlratiu no smooth
or style. lie
not coax back, lie will not
argue or persuade him back; but as
a butcher thrusts au iron hook into
the nose of au ox to lead him to the
slaughter, so God will turn this foul|
into and I will turn thee
back.”
Tlie gambling evil has of late tak
en on imperial airs. Having for cen
turies in secret taxed multitifue3 to
fumuchn and moral death, it now be
cOTies blatant and defiant as I lumk
never before seen or heard it.
cent eventsale astounding. Shall
the gamblers be triurajmant in these
cities, or shall our authorities be suf
ficiently backed up by the public
opinion to rout and extirpate them,
is one of absorbing questions for ev
ery good citizen. Sir Garnet Wol
sley promised that lie would over*
throw Arabi dtasha by September 15th
and he kept "is promise to the day
You know how the Egyptians
have been spoiled. The gamblers of
these citws, for a time squelched,
promisetßfiat would open their
places again
ber, and thev have kept their prom
ise to the day, their
the bad an example foe promptness
in the good. Kefresjßd with the
summer recreations of Saratoga and
other watering places these gamsterg
open their poM-rooms at Hunter’s
L'oint, and tnepolieecan do noth
ing, and u Coroner suggestively al
lows Ins premises#)be used as an
entrance to one of cuese pandemon
iums, Coroner, no doubt, having an
"ye to business, as tlfe way of the
gambler is so often tl#way of
dcu death. On last Thursday about
sixty of these miscreants were ar
raigned in New York aud pleaded not
guilty. While tli€pßre by talented
counsel struggling for rescue, the
# strict Attorney is solemnly warn
I>y private letter and in other
ways that he had better look out.
Politicians are told that if they take
any part in the smjpression of pool
rooms or of saloons they
shallbe neither Sheriffs, nor .Coroners,
nor District Attonmys, nor Mayors,
nor Judges. WIR now all good
men and women, aud all churches,
and all need to
do is vehement sen
timent against all these villainous
practices.® 1 was in Cincinnati las
week, and passing to the depot. 1
heard the chuter of dice, an.l a ay
out in the at an agricultur
al fair a group of men gathered in—
Mt'isX, of the hotel and all day long
Rambled, while their honest neigli
liors the products of
blessing God for
great prosi^^B
Fromtliisatyle of iniqui
ty has Jpis erfme is on
the advance, so thadß is well not on
!y that fathers aud brothers and sons
be interested iu such a discussion,
but thatgvives and mothers and sis
ters and Riughters lookout lest their
present home be sacrificed,• or their
intended home be blasted. No man
no woman, can stand aloof from such
a subject as §ay: “It has
no practical my life,”
for there may bem a time
in your history and Exper
ience in which will
find that the discussion involved
three words —earth, heaven, hell.
There are in this cluster of cities
hundreds of gambling establish
ments. Tlqjre are about thirty-five
hundred professional gamblers. Outof
the establishments how many of them
lo you suppose profess to be honest?
Ter.- These ten professing to be hou
est because they are merely the an
te-chamlßfcto those that are ac
knowledgfu fraudulent. There are
first-class gambl.ng establishments,
You step a little way out of Broad
way. You go up the marble stairs. You
ring the bell. The liveried* servant
introduces you. The lav
ender tinted- The mantels Rvre of
Vermont marble. The picturea are
“Jephtha’s Daughter,” aud IJore’s
“Dante,” and of
Hell’'—a most selectiou
this last, for the is
tlie roulette table, cost'
iiest.most exquisite p!B of furniture
iu the United States. There is the
banquetting-room, where, free of
charge to the guests, you may llud
the plate and viands and wines aud
cigars sumptuous beyond parallel
: Then you come to the second class
| gambling establishment. To it you
are introduced by a card lo som
; roper iu, HMiug entered, you mus
either gamble or fight. Sanded
cardsdice loaded # with quicksilver,
mixed with more poor drinks, will
soon help to get rid of all your
money* to a tuue iu short meter,
without staccato passages. You
wanted to see. You saw. The low
villains of that place watch you as
yvm come in. Does not the panther
squat iu the grass, know a calf
when he sees it? W'rangle not for
I your rights in that place, or vour
body will be thrown bloody into the
street, or dead into the East River.
You go along a little further, and
find the policy establishment. In
| that place you bet on numbers. Bet
ting on the numbers is called a sad
dle;” betting ou three n i abers is
called a “gig;’Lbettiug on i ur num
bers is calla#Bßmul tli re are
t ho U !.
most appropriate title, for there in
that room a man exchanges health
and peace and heaven for loss of
home’ loss of family, loss of immor
tal soul Exchange sure enough and
infinite enough!
There is in mauy a disposition to
hazaid. They feel a delight in walk
ing near a precipice because of the
sense of danger- There are people
who go upou Jungfrau not for the
largeness of the prospect, but for the
feeling that they have of thinking
“What would happen if I should fall
off?” There are persons who
their blood filliped and accelerated
skating very Dear au air-hole, There
are men who find a poajt ; ve delight
in driving within two inches of the
edge of a bridge. It is this disposi
tion to hazard that finds develop
ment in gaming practices. Here are
SSOO. I may stake them. If I stake
I may lose them; but I may win $5,-
000. Whichever way ic turns I have
the excitement. Shuffle the
cards. Lost! Heart thumps. Head
dizzy. At it again just to gratify
this desire for hazzard.
Then tuere are others who go into
this sin through sheer desire for
gain. It is especially so with pro
fessional gamblers. They always
keep cool. They never drink enough
to unbalance their judgemeut. They
do not see the dice,so much as they
see the dollar I beyond the
dice, aud for that they watch
the spider in tlie web, iookiug ae
if dead until the fly passes, Thous
ands of men iu the hope of
gain, go these pratices. They
sty: Well my salary is not enough
to allow this luxuriance. I don’t
get enough from my store, ofiiß or
si.op. I ought to have finer a"art-
ought to have better wines.
I ouglßto have more richl v flavor
ed cigars. I ought to be able to en
tertain ray friends more expensively.
I won’t stand this any longer. I can
with one brilliant stroke make a for
tune. B
# Now heregoes, principle or no
Iprinciple, heaven or hell, who car-,
es?” When a young man makes up
his mind to live beyond his income
satiß has bought him out, and it is
only a question of time when the
goods are to be delivered, The thing
is done. You may pT*nt
the way all the batt cries oL
truth and righteousness, that maw
is bound to go on. V#en a man
makes SI,OOO a year and spkuls sl,-
200, when a young makes $1,500 and
and spends $1,790, all the harpies of
darkness cry out; “Ha! ha! we
haye him,” and they have. llow to
g< t tne extra S2OO is the question.
He says: t ‘Here is my friend start
ed out the other day with but little
money, and in one night, so great
w*s his luck, he hundreds
and thousands of
it, why not I? It is such dull work,
this adding up of long lines of fig
\yes in the counting-house; this
pulling down of a hundred yards of
aud selling a remnant; this al
wMs] waiting upon somebody
when I could put S2OO on the
aud pick up $1000.”
This sin works Very insidiously.
Other si us sound the drum, and
flaunt the flag, and re
cruits with wild huzzajßbnt this
marches it procession of pale victims
in dead of night, in silence, anil
when they the grave
there it not so nnich souni
clidßof a dice. Oh, how
co# down under it! Look
men who were once highly
ed. Now their forehead
a tongue of flame that
out. In their souls are
beaks that will never be liftol
Swing open the door of that maidll
heart aud you see a coil of adders
wriggling their indejcribaM<yßrror
until you turn away and
face and ask God to t >
forget it. The most of is
unadvertised. The communiWdoes
not hear qf it. Men defrauded in
giyßßfcwtablishmenis are not fools
it. Once iif a while.
is exposure,
police swooped up n
gaming establishment and found in it
die of all
of citizens the first merchants
on State strUßto the low Ann street
gambler; as wmen Bullock, the cash
,iev of the Central Railroad of Geoi
gia, was found to have stolen
00b for the purpose of gaming prail
as-when a young man in oB
of lift Savings banks of BrookUH
many years ago. was found tuß#S|
(Stolen $4-0,000 to carry on
practices; as a man cgaß
with a Wall-sin# InsuraiißEßß
puny was found to have
000 to carry on his gaining
tice. But that is exceptional.
orally the silently
the inercliaht’s till into the
ster’s I believe that
the main pipes leading to thissnKr
of iniquity is the excitement
ness life. Is it
that the majority of the day gamb
ling-houses of New York are in prox
imity to Wall.street? Men go into
the excitement of stock gambling,
and from that the}* plunge into the
gambling-houses as when men are in
toxicated they go into liquor ealoons
to get mof drink. The howling
screaming, stamping, Bedlamitisli
crew in the old fashioned Gold room
dropped into to
keep up their Rfnzy, The agita
tion that in the stock
market whR the Chair
the word ‘Bprth-western oPFort
Wayne,”
York Central,” and the rat, tat tat
of the auctioneer’s hammer, and the
excitement of-makiug # cohiers, and
getting up “pools,” and ca-rying
stock,” aud a “break,” from 80 to
70, and the excitement of rushing a
bout in curbstone brokerage aud
Hidden cries of “Buyer 3,” “Take
Pm,”/ ‘Howi£l*ny?” and the making
or losing oM< 10.000 by one operation
unfits a mR home, he
goes up thotflight of stairs amid
the darkly-cur
tained, BHhhuttered room, gay
ly furnished iside, and takes ’his
place at the roulette or the faro ta
ble. But I can.not tell all pro
eesscsby which roenget evil
One man came to%ur New
York. He was a
He went into a on
Park Place. Before morning he had
losUall his moneysl, and tie
moved around abouTwith that dol
lar in his hand, and after awhile,
caught still more powerfully under
thejinfernal infatuation, he came
uApd put down the dollar and
crieffout until they heard him
through the saloou, “One thousand
miles from home ai*d my last dollar
on the garniug-table!”
I nrraign before God the gift en
t“i'p:isesyof our cities, which have a
tondeney to make this nation
gamblers. Whatever you getßn
such a place as that without
a proper equivalent is a robbery W
your own soul and a robbery of the
community, we are ap
palled to see men who have
other enterprises go into
certs, where the chief attracßHß
book, but the package that goes
with the book. Tobacco dealers ad
vertise that on a certain day they
will put money into their papers; so
that the purchaser of this tobacco in
Cincinnatti or New York may unex— ;
pectedly come upon *a magnificient
gratuity. Boys hawking throughjthe
car* packages containing nobody
knows what until you open them
and ’find they contain nothing.
Christian men with pictures on their
wall, gotton in a lottery, and the
brain of the community taxed to
H n new way of getting
things without paying for tuem.
When a young man consents to these
practices he is being bound hand and
foot by a habit which has already des
troyed “a great multitude that no
mau can number." Sometimes gift
enterprisesare carried on in the name
of charity aud yon remember at the
close of the late war how many gifts
enterprise foot, the proceeds
to go to the orphans and widows of
the soldiers and sailors. What did
the men who had charge of those
gift enterprises care for the orphans
and he widows? Why, they would
hye allowed them to freeze to death
their steps. I have no faith
in a charity which for the sake of
relieving pressnt suffering opens a
gaping jaw that has swallowed down
*o much of the virtue and good prin
ple of Young man,
have nothing to do with these
things. sharpen your ap
peti le for gamw of chance. Do one
i of two thiugs—be honest or die.
I haye accomplished my object if I
put the men in my audience on the
lookout. It is a great deal e isier to
fall than it to get up again. The
trouble is that when men begin to
go a3truy from the path of duty they
are apt to s&y: “There’s no use
of my get back, I’ve sacri
ficed my resectability, re
turn:” and they g#on until they
ajfr utterly destroyed. I tell you, my
Irreuds, that God this moment by
His Holy Spirit can change your en
tire nature so that you will go out of
this Tabernacle a far different man
from what you were when you came
in. Your great w^it —what is it?
More Hitler social
I will tell you the^preat
it.
the Grae^PHjUP|^||j|^^^^^V
sins that I have been
You are in a prisons You rush
against the wall of tin® prison and
try to get out, and you mil, and you.
turn around and dash ■gainst the
otheßwall u#til there i* blood on
the and blcod om your soul
You will never get oufifin this way
There is only one getting out
There is a key thtaj^^Rinlock that
of the
of ke% that
Christ
will allow to put
to
hack
and
r u t
Bisincss this is
when your FathersEHp in
door, •straining His eye
sight to catch the first glimpse of
your return,and the calf isas’fat as it
will be, and the harps of heaven are
all strung and the feet free. There
are converted gamblers in heaven.
The light of .eternity flashed
|upon the greeu baize of their billiard
■pJoon. In of God’s for
giveness they washed off sin.
■They quit trying for earth
R’hey tried for heaven and they®won
Pit. There stretches
t heaven toward the the worst
*man in all this audienee. It is not
a hand clenched as if to smite, but 4
outspread as if to drop abenedictiou.
Other seas have a shore, and may
be fathomed but the sea of God’s
loßßflßernity—has no plummet to
bottom, and immensity no
ron-bound shore to confine it. Its
tides are lifted.by the heart of uifinite
compassion. Its waves are tIR psan
uas of the redeemed. The
that sail on it drop anchor at las/
amid the thundering salvos of eter
nal victory. *But, alas! for that man
who sits down to the final game ot
life aud puts his immortal soul on
the ace, while the angels ot God keep
tally board, aud after the kings and
queens aud knaves aud spades are
“shuffled” and “cut” game
is ended, hovering aj^^B#nding
lost it.
£, air.
Jack Boxer gave a chirrup held the
lines taut that his horses would plan
ce impressively through Marietta’s
court house square and then reined
the span out on the road,
along which lie sent thei^"scurry
ing The old guide was a thing to
look at. With a stovepipe hat no
less shinny than his eyes, and a swal
low-tail coat of cloth he seemed just
to have sprung from the bandbox of
polite plantation days. “I’se much a
bleege, sail,” he said, as when we
had got into the country I held out
a cigar; “I’se much a-bleege, but I
uebber smokes befoah gemmen; no,
sah. praise de Lawd I diden fotch
up in a place like dat yo’ see, sah,
ober dere.”
“That nice old lWftse, with the
man sitting under the oaks?”
“Yessah; dat man dare had
mo’an six hundreds slabes, but de
Yankees eotched ‘im on one ob dem
oaks. He passed frude Red Sea, he
did.”
While Jack dwelt upon the war
trials of the planter, who seemed to
be a typical baron of the south's past
we moved along the grove of oaks
and trotting a- mile beyond, drew
sharply up at the base of the battle,
scarred mountain for the summit of
which we had set out.
A CLIMB UP KEXNFwhr
• Kennesaw rises from the leyel
land like an uneven dome. Its cap
of stone touches the lower folds of
the clouds aud every side t.f the ac-
has a garb of green. So
steeinlid the slope appear that I
thought our ascent would be difficult
but flic ride half way up was easy
aud in the climb that followed we
stopped once only to catch our wind.
The entrance to the summit roadjis
through a farm, which a darkey has
bhzetLout near the foot of the eas
'•kriTwpe, the thrifty owner having
paijJfi - his land from the sale of
timberTcut at the crest and hurled
down the mountain side. Even
among the stripped stalks of corn
that stand in tliis little patch tlnfs
stolen from the wilds we struck hea
vy earthworks, rifle pits and a con
tinous parapet that reaches up and
over the Kenuesaw and along the
crest of Little Kennesaw, encircling
Marrietta on the west As we rode
mpward it was at the edge or tlr's
we to great plies
the summit.
HHHHfcauuyNKS\<r^ii
us when
mountain's tip topmost boulder ought
to have been a sight to brighten ev
en the eye of the eagle which we hap
pened to* discover perched in the
crotch of a dead tree within a stones
throw of our rocky outlook. Bat
that bird of patriotic song seemed
to be using the long range spyglass
es, affixed by nature above hi 9 beak,
rather in mousing out small crea
tures to pounce upon than in draw
ing thrills of delight from the grand
panorama down on level earth —the
livers shiniDg in the sun, the net
work of red road-beds, the tops of
trees swaying its waves of a sea,
brown fields in the sedgy skirts of
which one fancied he could see the
rabbit coax his young to a frolic,
the many objects given strange beau
tv because thus looked upon in un
accustomed view. Nor were these
marked parts of the landscape long
in our eyes. All the stretch of land
from the rocks at our feet to the
far sky line iu the west was the
field ofa whole months combat where
in a score of men lell between every
two strokes of the clock —a place of
hot manoeuvres with constant clash
of arms of continuous skirmish, of
ceaseless crack of rifle and scream of
9hell, Each acre of ground between
us and New Hope's forests, indistin
guishable at their distance oftwenty
miles belongs to the battle-field
Dim iu the south rise the spires of
of Atlanta, as they appeared io Sher
man when he stood here gazing at
the goal of his three grand armies,
while just at the edge of Marietta,so
near that, we can count tombstones
uutil I tire, is a green hillside dot
ted with the graves of more tliau ten
thousand dead.
TWENTY MILES OF BATTLE GROUND.
It was not long after sunrise the
next day that we started on a long
drive through this famous stretch of
battle fields. At Culp’s Place we
found such evidences of the hot
fight there as earthworks and chip
ped trees. Near towns as populous
as Marietta, war relics quickly disap
pear,and even iu timbered sections the
darkeys have scraped up most of the
lead. At a debating society in Geor
gia not long ago a question before
the members was’ “Am fire most
useful dan iron?’’ It is said that the
champions of fire were about to car
ry the day wheu?an old Solomon scat
tered them as though with a bomb
shell by the remark: “Hole*on dar‘
Ef hit hadeu‘ been
fokes would’er
been lickin’ nigger’s yit!’’ And
the old,fellow|miglit have added t at
If it had not oeen for the iron agkl
lead left on the battle-fields maßy
persons, white as well as black, uv
mg in their impoverished vicinities
kayo fared worse than Ij^ey
ENDLESS LINES OF EARTHWORKS.
While such uncanny things as the
skull and cross-bones no longer
bleach at Culp’s nor by the side of
the Dallas road to new Hope chureli
whither we drove that day, they are
sometimes in ravines, as well as in
untilled fields. lines of
earthworks extend for about twenty
five miles, from Kennesaw to Dallas
and beyond. When Sherman would
strategist would settle
down behind anew line. A witty
girl once said that all men are like
lobsters—break a lobster's claw and
another will sprout; break a man’s
heart on the the hack piazza at night
wliem the romantic *ar looks down,
and it heals again for breakfast. So
too, Johnston could mend his
his claw and his eathworks.
These fortifications were seen
their undiminished strength when
r after passing the foothills of Lost
Mountain, which seeing that it has
such a name, mast be the Charlie
Ross of rocks, left the Dallas road
and came out of the woods at New
HopAchureh.
sad havoc at new hope.
It is likely that belweeu 75,000
and 100,000 men, who were minute
parts of tht vast armie* that con
fronted each other at tnis famous
church, are yet living, and if they
can recall country
around looked like then,
they have in mind a clear idea of
what the place looks like new. Few
changes about. After the Baptists
who had been accustomed to gather
at the meeting house looked in vain
for their church Even the founda
tion stones had been torn up for use
in the earrhworks that still stand a*
high as one’s neck within ten feet of
the new building. Every plank had
been as though by Satan
himself, clear away. But the Chris
tian fights a great fight- The New
Hope congregation met one Sunday
on the spot where their church had
stood. They kneltamid ashes,and shal
say that the prayer then sent up by
the good preacher did not go higher
than the stars? Getting up from
their kness they built a house with
oak limbs and cedar branches
and under the arbor they met for
years. Now a small frame building,
paid for this very year, is the church
of New Hope. It hrs takeu the con
gregation just eighteen years to re
coyer from the blow the myriad
blackimps, riding in Sherman’s sul
phur gave it.
QUEER THINGS FOR A CHURCn YARD
It would be easy to dwell to the
length of a column in the Times up
on the battle field objects that are
within sound of the signing and the
hallelujahs. Around the church are
oak, pme and black-jack trees cut
by bullets. A few paces from the
church door are rifle pits, now paw
ed deeper by the horses that bring
their masters hither on Sundays,and
just across the road is a fort of
white clay soil and overgrown with
smart-weed. Not less notable is the
graveyard with some of the mounds
housed iu‘ through which runs the
ever present line of earthworks. The
occupants of this graveyerd were by
no means as jolly as three boys whom
I met a little later. While Boxer
slept in the buggy the boys took me
to the slope now covered with
bushes, where Hooker made his
fierce charges, as well as to the place
where the countercharges of the en
emy occurred. We picked up bul
lets, fouud a shell, examined a lusty
carteen,|and visited a dark corner of
a black-jack woods where the skele
ton toes of a soldier sticks from thw
soi. Similar sights came lip at a
Pickett’s mill at the other end of the
battle field, and having seen them
Boxer whipped his horses iuto Dal
las _
In passing over the same ground
on the following day being then
bound back to Kennesaw. and Mar~
ietta, by way ofGilgal church, I no
ticed that the armies left Egyptian
elovor at New Hope, as they did at
Rosacea. The New Hope farmer
prizes the plant also, and he regard*
it is a sort of recompense made
bv Providence for the destruction of
the church. The retu n ride by
Gllgal had in it little of interest, ex
pt a good view of Pine Jnountain.
up the northern side of
which we drove. If Boxer could
have pointed out the spot where fell
General his
church and a brother of a president
of the United States, I should have
gone to it, but Boxer was honest e
nough to eonfess that he did not
know where to find the place. One
of the cannon balls sent by Thomas
killed the fighting bishop as he
stood talking with Hardee near th e
mountain top. So, too, when further
along we would have visited the
place where General llarker an
Dan McCook got their death wounds
but none save comrades may indicate
where they lost their lives.
RED FLOWERS ON KENNESAw’s OREST.
Our second ascent of Kennesa w
wasmade toget a good bye glimpse|of
the ground across which we hadcome
On the road Boxer passed the time
in telling me how Mr. W. J. Haines
had cleared a tract of sixteen acies
at elevation ot I,SOO feet and had
succeeded m bringing np a thous
and peach trees in the way they
should grow. Ho showed, me more
over, after we had passed the orchard
millions of cypres yines,. which
plantjwas not known on the moun
tain before Johnston’s men occupied
it, and said that in July the whole
crest is in crimson with thejlittle red
cypress flower. In fact, I was so in
terested in this duplicate wonder of
the clover story that not until we
had gained the summit did I notice
a thunder-sloi m swiftly approaching
from the west. The sky had been
dark clouds all day, but the new
cloud bearing so close down upon us
that it looked as though it would en
velop our heads, was like an im
mousestrip torn from the smutty cur
tains of Pluto’s darkest chamber.
HEAVEN'S ARTILLERY ON KENNESAW.
ear-spliting crack of God’s
own gieat guns came, fast and hard
upon auother, 1 couul not help let
ting lancy fly to the days when the
mock thunder of Sherman’s cannon
roared against this same stro igliold.
Then, throughout the hot time when
Sherman had his hand on Jouston’s
throat here, the parapets flashed in
lines of red, the earth shook under
close recoil and battle-clouds in sul
phurous folds swathed the green.
But now forks and streaks and zig
zags of white fire dance among the
the rocks or fall in belts to the low
lands. whence roll deafening booms
reverberating up and down the sky.
“See. heah, honey/’ protested old
Jack, edging up and pointing to the
western slope, where the rain had be
gun to roar like the rush of a cata
ract, “ain’t we gwiue to git out-en
dis?'’
“Oh, it’ll pass over. You said
there were mauy things yet to see up
here.” j .
“Bress yer soul, Jioley, dar ain’t
nuffin rnflali up hm—wo, sMd|bit
all,” continued the old man, had
changed his tune from that of an
rour before.
In spite of storm about to
burst I thouait of one Jiin Duke, a
scapegrace dkey, known in wes.
tern as the biggest ras
cal out of jail,once likewise
changed his tune in a manner entire
ly worthy ot Falstaff Duke, being
a rogue himself, thought everyone
else a rogue. Going into a store one
day fo buy a plug of tobacco Duke
pniletMrom his pocket a purse which
contaiimd a handful of dimes.. As
the purijp* upside down the
clasp gave way and outldropped the.
coin in a silyer shower, scattering
from one end of the room to the o th
er, Duke stood aghast for a second
and then, fearing that the
present the money up,
shouted: “God a mitey. gentlemen,
diet’s all be honest!” So my guide
1 Boxer, lest his beaver
would be ruined by the rain
or lest his of a head
would be split by one of the thun
derbolts waltzing around, had chan
ged his tu^.
CHASED DOWN THE MOUNTAIN.
But Inker’s plea really was not
needed- The storm was on and it
was lime for our heels to do quick
work. We left the crest, struck
dowu the mountain and with rocks
rolling after us made two forty time
for the halt-way place where the
horses were hitched. Boxer led the
way. Neither Phipps nor Arabi
could have made matter time iu their
fi§jM than we did wlown Kenfteaaw.
AwP particularly near crack of the
storm’s whip Boxer would redouble
liis wild leaps, as though hit in thm
back by a full grown thunderbolt
His stove pipe stuck on the back of
his head like a tin cup on a cucum
ber, his long coat ;ails flapped at
half mast horizontally Vt| the breeze
and his whirling legs seeme<|t ev
ery stride to measure off enough
earth for a circus ring. At last we
got to the buggy and as Boxe| thrust
Ins stove pipe and his cloth coat un
der the scat’ taking the storm bare
lieadod and iu his shirt sleeves,
while he unhitched he said: “Bress
de Lavd, honey dat was wuss ’em a
hornet’s nest or a fight at a co'n
shuckin’ down on de ole Ocheccobee,
G. M.
Administrators Sale-
By virtue of an orjfcr from the court of Ordi
nary of Pike countywill be sold before the “>urt
house door in the town of Zebulon on the first
Tuesday in November next, one hundred acres of
land In the Second Dist- Pike county being the
East Half Lot No. 165. Sold for payment of
debts iinddlstrlbution among heirs at Jaw of M.D
Shockley Deceased.
JAMES M SHOCKLEY.
J. N. SHOCKLEY-
Admr. J. N. Shockley,
Administrators Sale-
Will be sold beforefte court bouse door In tbe
town of Zebulon by virtue of an order from tbe
court of Ordinary of said county on the first
Tuesday In November next all tbe lands belong
ing to the estate of Henry Jones deceased con
sisting of 360 Acres more or less In tbe first dis
trict of hike county. Terms of sale made known
on the day.
J. M. PHILLIPS.
Admr. Henry Jones.
Kun Away-
MY SON Henry Zellner ran off from my premi
ses Tuesday night last. I forbid any one
hiring him under penalty of the Aw. He Is six
teen years old, light ginger cake color and has
on a blue shirt, box toed new shoes and short
black coat. Any information of bis whereabouts
will be thankfully received.
HENRY ZELLNER.
Bainesville, Ga.
GEORGIA—Pike County—Whereas James L
Allen, administrator of Thomas J Allen, repre
sents to the Court In his petltim, duly filed and
entered on record that the estate of the said
Thomas J. Allen had been, prior to tbe death of
said Thomas J ‘lien, Incumbered by a homestead
and that the youngest child will not arrive
majority until tue year 1890, and that nothing
has passed into his hands as administrator, and
that he desires to be dismissed from the admin
istrator of said estate. This U toe refore to cite
all persons concerned, heirs and creditors to
show- cause, ir any tl®kcan,why saidadministra
tor should not be from his adminis
tration and receive nR-g of dismission, on the
first Monday in JanJßry, 1883. m
WELLS, Ordinary.
G EORGlA—Pike—County—c t Trice Admin
istrator of Benjamin Trice applies to me for
leave to sell all the land of said estate for purpo
ses of distribution. This Is therefore to cite all
concerned to show cause If any they can why an
order should not be granted applicant, on the
first Monday In November next. Witness my
official signature Sept, 2tst, 1882.
HARRY' vVELLU, Ordinary,
Sheriff’s Salesfor November.
Will be sold before the Court House door In the
town of Zebulun on the first Tuesday in Novem
ber next between the legal hours of sale the fol
lowing described property to wit:
Forty-nine (49) acres of land a part of lot No.
One hundred and ninety-live lying in the Second
or Flat Rock distrlc t of Pike county, bounded
North by lands of W C Hood, East by lands be
longing to estate of Mrs. Pomella Lyle deceased,
South by lands of E F Martin and West by lands
of Jacob Wadsworth. .Levied on by virtue of and
to satisfy two Justice court fl fas Issued from 592
district levied aft in favor of Maddox & Rucker
vs, W I and SiH&uel Tate, the other In faTur of
Hugh I Inman & Cos., vs. VV I and Samuel Tate,
Property levlfghan as the property of Samuel
coastc^^^L,
E. TAN WINKLE k CO.'
MANUFACTURERS
ATLANTA, - - - GA
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ATLANTA, GA., ISRI.
Saw Gin and Self Feede--,
Exhibited by E. Van WINKLE A CO., awarded
lor Best Sample, Best General Results In Uln
nlu”-, and Best Const meted Machine, the First
Prize, SIOO or Gold Medal.
18.IB. S. RICKS. Miss.
judges: jt. w. swedes, miss.
(W. E. BARROWS,conn.
H. 1. KIMBALL, Director-General.
Al o. First Premium at the south Carolina
State Fairs and Georgia Fairs.
Said to be the best Power Press in the world.
Suitable for Horse, Steam or Water, simple and
strong.
large public Ginners.
Send for prices.
E. Van Winkle & Cos.,
mayll (Box 83) ATLANTA, Gy.
9 Hendrix, ' Rockhill & Willingliam,
IN CONNECTION WITH TIIE DIXIE WORKS, HAVE OPENED A
GENERAL BUILDERS’ SUPPLY STORE,
At No. 40 Cotton Avenue, Opposite Dixie Works,
Where they will keep a full stock ot all kinds ot Building Material, such as
Sash, Doors,* Blinds, Shingles, Lathes, Lime, Hair, Cement,
Plaster, Weights, Cords, Hinges, Hocks, Glass, Oils, Putty, aixd
• BUILf)ERS c ZE-T .A. IR, ID W ARE.
Estimates on all kinds of Building Material promptly furnishlfc & mar23-6m
/T EORGIA— Pike County— Application will be
V J made to tbe court of Ordinary Pike County
Oe/rrgia °n tike first Monday In October next
thirty days after sale of this notice for leave to
sell all the lauds belonging to the estate of Hen
ry Jones of said county deceased, consisting of
the power of the late M. E. Jones Deceased con
sisting of 360 Acres more less In First District of
said County for tlie benefit of lieirs and Creditors
of said Deceased. August 29th 1882.
JOHN M. PHILIPS. Admr, Henry Jones.
GEORGIA- Pike County —J. F. Cauthen and
Mrs J F Bush having applied to me for perma
nent letters of Administration on the estate of
Thomas J Bush, late of said county deceased.
This is to cite all and singular the creditors and
next of kin of T J Bush to be and appear at my
office onthe first Monday in October next, and
show cause if any they can, why permanent ad
ministration shall not be granted to J F Cauthen
an Mrs J F Bush. Witness my hand and official
signature August 30th, 1882.
HARRY WELLS, Ordinary.
Universityof G-eorgia
P. H. MELL. D.D.. LL.D., Chancellor.
THE 82nd session of the departments at Ath
ens Ga., Viz: Franklin College, Si ate college
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and Law school
will open Wednesday, 4th October next. Full
courses of Instruction in Literature, Science,
Engineering, Agriculture and Law. TUITION
FREE in Franklin and State Corif ge.s. For cat
alogues antßn formation, address the Chancellor.
. X.. L. CHAR BONNIER, Secretary,
aug3-!m Atlanta. Ga.
GEORGIA— Pike county— September sth, i®32
Those Indebted to the estate oi Mrs c. E.
smith, late of Pike county, deceased, wiil make
immediate payment, and those having claims
acainst the sqae wiil present them in terms of
the law. R. J. POWELL,
septit-f Administrator.
TO LET
On Saturday the seventh day of October next,
before the court House door In the town of Zebu
lon, Pike county, the contract to build a jail
house for Said countv will be given to the lowest
bidder. Said Jail bouse is to be built of wood Um
bers 12 inches square; to be forty two feet bv
twenty feet the walls to be twenty teet high
making a two story building. The timbers are
to be sawed logs 12 Inches square and the walls
are to be weatnerboarded.
ATOie same time a*d place a Contract will be
given by tbe county Commissioners to the
lowest bidder for building cells for
said jail and doing all the Iron work thereon. The
two cqatracts wit! be separate, but the same par
ty may be awarded one or both.
The building will be required to have an 8 foot
hall running through it For plans and specifi
cations apply at county Commissioners office In
Zebulon.
Oonfacts will be let on Saturday October the
7th next.
GEORGIA—Pike County—Notice Is hereby
vt given that unless objections be filed In thf
office by tbe first Tuesday In October next an
order will be past making public a road leading
from near \v. M. Hartleys passing Bluff spngs
camp gvound Intersecting tbe Zebulon and Bar
nesviiie road near the residence of j. F. Cauthen
A iso a road leading from near ;ilie residence o
C. C. Parker ami passing through lands of Mrs'
Smith, C. W. Sullivan, intersecting the
■Pa and Zebulon road near the restdM&
Bu^HSm
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Respectfully tenders his h
nsurtng prompt and immedfl
business Intrusted to his i-:u|
al courts, larcoliectlon unfl
chillies. S
T. A. AtkS
A T T O R N E rl
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JKT Will use Magneto
sm when desired.
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OPERATE AND MECHAffiM
(Office Up-Stairs in
Baruesville, - -’HBI
Jol in AJ oy ol*
Having returned to
found up stairs, near the P'.aH§
warranted. Perfect s:ttiMa.i'i:oii^B|
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KOBtRT F. MILLER and n.flH
having consolidated 1 lie iuillh
the convenience of customers .H|
wish to announce to the public
ter prepared t hau ever to prosi c
art. Every, thing will bo pop. -ju
no pains will he spared to
i/.e them. ■■
Wesleyan Female Infl
STAUNTON, VIKGINI^H
Opens Sept ember 20t,1i, jftsij.
schools koh Young Ladies
States. Surroundings beautiful. V
surpassed. Pupils from eighteij
TERMS AMONG THE BEsT JN !'■
Board, Washing, English Course, LiS
German, Instrumental Music, Ac,, iol
year, from Sept, to June, $238. For J
write to
Rev. WM. A. lIA Rltl S, D. D., Pie*
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f |YHE undersigned has located in Bawl
J_ with a view to conducting a
lerctafeiloriißiisifi
Is prepared to the demand for
JuM ai Fimi Cass ifl
I )oe,skins, M
aml j such goods. Old clothing repaired,
and
m.vj >i: rsr-i^M
In .-.hurt everything in tin- taicringß^*.'
Promptly Siipp^pt
A TEST OF
SKILL AND ¥ORKIH[
is respectfully asked an<^B||i
Satisfaction Gi'MianhE..-.
call at the room opposite
r ok building. Respectfully, Sst?
jans-ly c - H
HAMILTON FEMALE Oml
Weli selected course of study. Sj>eel.®r s |
meat for all the ornamental branches. Tb. 39
large, able and experienced. Extensive gro>Efl
for recreation. Excellent buildings, icoxss 9
four stories, containing 125 apartments.
rnoctious chapel, Nice Recitation. Ornamedß
Play and Bath rooms. Warmed by steam
lighted with gas. Only two young ladlesoccuH
a room, Charges lower than any school offerlH
equal advantages in the United states. Sessloß
begins Sept., li, ISS2. For terms, catalog®;*
and further particulars address J TANARUS, PATEL Hi
SON. President, nexington Ky.
valnaUlfi Tariiliij
SALE.
By virtue of an order from the court of Ordln|
ry for L’pson county will be soul before the oourl
house door in the town of Thomas ton in gqfl
county on the first Tuesday in October nextJß
the real estate belonging to the estate of >aH
T. Rose late of said county deceased, that I <■
said county consisting or lots of laud numbtS
67, 6.-S 63 and 70 and half of lot number 7f
the tenth district of said county also a
of lot number 101 and 177;.; acres of
102 in the same district the wnol|- Ml
2431 acres more or 1 ss in s.dd dlsnlctw
one o: ;he most valuable and -.arable
land in middle Georgia It is situated
line of the Upson county iai.i tad s mUefl-
Bamt-svilie end s miles from Thouiastou.Mi
ls on the place one eight room frame (Mr-.-.
good, gin house, barn, stabics and alt
out houses In good repair, also a good .
run by water power, and quite a
tenant houses. There Is also <>u the iihißMK
er settlement consisting of a six
dvvcdmg fpiendidnew Darn gnu i
other necessary out building - in
a splendid orchard or select fri.it J :
The lands wiil be sold in parcel
chasers. The terms of sale will 1/
and one half due in 12 months so - MRBI
the laud. Parties desiring to purchase
munlcate with me at The Rock, Ga. K<H|y
parties can also make easy terms as to
meat. All of said lands to he sold for thlM??
of the heirs and creditors of said
> Banos. k.jK);
Adm. EaHßgj)CjjU ■§>-
August 15 th, isse. -
EORGIA- PIKE
Application will be
nary of Pike county *
term sftci vxpiratb 11 ojj^i
date notice, foi :‘*‘
to the estate ot -
ty deceased for