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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1886)
From Spring Hill. hi'iuxii Hu i. C«a March 23iil IHSfi. i>n my ■ •'turn homo yesterday, after ft considerable ftbsonoe, 1 foiiiul n speci men copy of No. I of tin Monitor. 1 mini! *»y thftt 1 am pleased with the copy, amt fed no hraitation in |»rotu>ouciug it a guaranty of a racy, opiey amt welcome weekly visitor to all vonr autweribera, '•whom' name, I hope, may bo legion.” In thoHi' ilaya of atrani and electricity, anv roiintv without iv weekly newapajipr iacertainly left hi'himl in the race for moral, intellectual amt (material improvement. Montgomery comity haa a large area «f u» flue ngr u ultural lamia a« can bethninl in iiiiilillo or lower floor gia. Tlicre arc no better timbered lamia tn the June belt of Hie South. Our climate la more healthy ami ilcairalilc than the luoiintainou* belt north, or the morn aoutherly jvortian of Georgia anil Floriila, being comparatively tree from the revere eolil of the one, atul the ex treme ami i vhauntivr heat of the other. We have brain ami llltiaelo, the mu' to lie educated ami ilevelojHtl, ami the oilier to he wmelynsi'd in the development ofonr resource* ami the weal of our race. Yon, on the margin of the rumple copy •out, wrote, m *he interrogative n.rui, the word "correnpomlcnt?” 1 have been urged bv many eateeint •! friendr who oeoupv the editorial chair, to become a correspondent for their ronjww'tive j vapors. Hut piora of ilutier in my life work the miiiirtry together with thore that devolve ujiou me ar the head of a larg* family, have ho far prevented my compliance. Hut, air, I cannot ray "no” to you. You are here in our county. Yon are lo re to help nr build up and develop the interval* of our coun tv. We are eoutidcut that it is the duty of every man. woman atul child in the county, to dune to year aid. Our business uicii should all give you a good sired advertisement, and thereby increase their hnrines* ami help to put our comity jat/xr on it* feet. Kvcry family tu the county should at once anbseribe. and jiay the ruhreription |vrice in advance, and tlmrvln insure moves* in your onterprire. 1 will vviitc von .s.-iouonalh often if |>ossi lde May, if etrentustone* * permit, give you Home chapters vis mv "Hook of Memory of Amusing Incident* and Anecdote*." NYliai aav you? Very r,*p. cl fully, .1 D. Anthony. (What we ray i*. rend them .n, by all m. ... -Kn.J I'ranv Ite.t ItlulT The lied bluff dots at. - arce this week, bllj the improvement iu the Monitni w ill overvwuit all that in the future. Spring is gradually juitting on her r. he. of •pi -odor, and the growling old bachelora anti whining old maid* alone can sav "the sprmjt haw no charma for nu\” The vvarm weather of the last few ilayr is bringing up th* corn, ami the war between the farmer mi the jw-a-lark will now commence, aud the old rmvty shot-gun will Ive put in order. , loud and Beugnot't tramway is about com pleted The fKiTweeft around the Hint? arc rathe laic with their gardens this spring. Hoad working is the order of ’he day up here row. The road* ah.wild be well looked after. **ther. ia aothihg that a Ids inoreto lb. Inaii «.•••?*. >-:ll'rv than *..■„* I'.ad* asst 1; el: • I . Mil' tiling mi ry man should tok < a ml .n- j I tcre.t 111 H We think Irom wiiat we eon hear ilia! there ■ will lie a wedding around lied lihifT autno tnr.c ■ arm. At anv rote, some of the hovr ray that ■ tilings are wearing that appearance. ■ a run-off is now a j.retty eommon thing on 1 1he tram road, hut as nobody gets hurt, it' I don't amount to much • xe.pt a pretty lively ■ jump for the hrak'-man. ■ .Mr. Wat'rman »«> at lied HhifT Friday vtilli I a fin* drove of mult*. I Hawing timber is the order of the day at ■ Bad Ihnff. Why is it that Col Ir.ud jint* in ■ hi* appear.net seldom rt tin mill. Hay, ■ Col., where are v ou keeping yourself? I Rf.x. I (We can suawer the ah ive question of our ■ correspondent by the statement that Col. 1.. ■ has bean spending his time recently at the ■ bedside of his sink and suffering w.fe-as a. ■ good and kind husband should. Km rou J I Him Buirr O* fMareh ilfltli IHHC. I F.n Monitoii: We have hren very much m- I terested in Ilex'* letters, but last week he I said tliat Mr Burner is < lit it led to the blue belt I for the first mess of cat-fish caught at the lliiitf. ■ Mr. Burner savs lie is not entitled to all of the I eredit as H< x helped to eate.il the fish. How, . I what we want to know is. What 'lny of lln irn k i I were those tl<h emight. ns Hex worked six days ; lof the week at the mill! If Ilex will answer I this ipiestion lie will hear from us again, as w. | ■ think this plane is laige enough fi r two eor- I respondents. I, on: mi.. I A Cowboy Preacher. ■ They have a cowboy revivalist ont. in | ■ New Mexico, known a* Lunipaaiis J.ikc, ■ who has luvil r wonderful run of success | Ins a preacher. He is u ‘Tough nalilnr,” j I on the alylo of Sum Jones, only more ho. , ■ iln never saw u Chureli in his life, mid ■ never heard of any other revivalist, and ■ baldly knows lie is one himself. lie is I without edueatiiin aud with an imperfect ■ knowledge of the llihle, but ia never Itheless in deiul eiiriiesl. Ho heard a' ■ inan preach ou the Santa Fe pints.i tlf- I lei’ll VI'IIIH ligu, lllid nt first thought lie I would ''bust up the meetin” hut after Is little wbile concluded to listen. He j ■ hceame seriously impreHsed, and years H afterwards this led to his conversion. ■ IleearrieH his arms with him wherever I ho goes and sometnne i brings men to re Kpontanco by main strength. I Whenever ho finds three or four eow | boys, rustlers, gamblers or mlventurers I together he begins his set Tices: I “I’m going to speak to you ft Her* ■ about your ovolustiiig souls," he will ■ Hay, ''and while l am at it 1 want yon ■to keep quiet. This is a free country ■ and every man has got a right to h ive ■ his say. I'm going to have inineiiow.” I If anybody manifests a disposition to m deny litis right Juke becomes militant I ut once, and as he Inis the reputation of I being one of the quickest men in thy ter ■ rilory he nsti.alty carries his point. doing into one of the lmnlcvt of the numerous hard saloons in his place the other night, Jake mounted a chair and , , commanded silence. The games and the drinking came to nil end, aud about i twenty men, young and old, looked | up. One fellow undertook to edge out, v but Juke stopped hitu. 1 “No you den t, mister," lie said puin , ting his linger at him. "No you don't. ' ' When you get *..» hell you’ll have chances ' enough to come h sneak on somebody, v but you can’t do it here." Then straight 1 i citing himself up, he yelled in n voiei I that made things creak: ‘‘ j “How many of yeu’s ready te die now i 1 I with your boots on? Where'll yon be to ! breakfast? don’t any of yon drunken, . swearing, lighting, blaspheming, garni) i ling, thieving tin horn, coflin-paint ex- ! terminating galoots look at me ugly, be , cause I know ye. I've been through the diive. You’re all in your sius. Yon know a fat, well-fed, well enred-for, thor oughly branded steer when you soo one, i and you can tell whose it is and where it > 1 belongs. There's a man that owns it. ! Tilde's a place for it to go. There's a law to protect it. llut the Maverick— who's is that? You'eral! Mavericks and ' worse. The Maverick has no br.aud on him. lie goes hollering about until somebody takes him iu and claps the) branding iron on him. But you whelps you've gel the devils brand on you ( You'vo got bis lariat about you. He lets yon have rope now, but he’ll haul you j iu when lu» wants firewood.” "There ain’t noaitccp herders on these ranges that can come around me putting ou any airs. I’ve been oil the drive in i Texis. I've herded from the panhandle! to the North Platte and from Kansas, City to lets Animas, and I never yet see a bunch of cuttle that wnn't of more ac count thau you. You brand your sheep w ith a brush Mt.d a kettle of red or black point. How w ill you feel when the devil iu hell daubs you with red paint from top to toe, aud then changes hia mind and paints you black? Oh, you'll get there. Seme of you can feel the lariat how, and all von old whiskey-tubs bore can smell the tire. I'll bet you live ' dollars you're soared. I’ll bet yon ten dollars you would give something now to knew that voo wouldn't get coo Yeti. I'll bet you a liiitnlere.l dollars 1 can tell yen bow to escape. ■•Jiiftt you get down on yonr knees here now aud veil. That's right; all of you I get down. Won't do it. ell? Well, you will get down. That's right. Now you veil. Cry out for help like a Texas steer in »now belly drop. That ain't a marker! More out! More ont! That's some thing like it! There's the devil’s drive and Ihe I. nil's dt ive. 1 hen'„ the devil | trail and the I.ord’a trail. There a the 1 range of hell, where the grass ia brim stone and the water is tire; mid the range of heaven, w here the gruas is knee high and sweet with ponies, aud the water is as clear as the sky. There’s the Lord for thc’boM, and the everlasting arms reaching out for all us poor Mavericks, for tin? hungry and tb.rsty, tor the beef critter theta only a shudder, for the wee lamb and the crippled old buck. But you've got to bleat. There a the devil with his yoko and lariat, with hi* fork and his spit, with his cruel laugh, and his legions of hellions anxious to come a aneek on you. \\ hich is it, you miserhle sinners? I* it devils or angels. “Keep down there, every one of you- j till I get through. I know what you’ll •ay when you go out of here. Yon 11 say Jake i* teched. You dasneiit sav it now. You'll say that the good Lord ; don’t care for us. You dassent say it now. Y'ou’ll yelp ont something nbout religion lx;ing till right in the States. You dassent yelp now. Y'ou’re a nice I lot of ru(liana, ain’t you? You’d look j nice gallivanting orotind in heaven, wouldn’t you? Wouldn’t hell itself turn pale if it saw you coming? Y'ou know i', i would. But, bless the Lord, thero is a ! way for you to put on rightousness. You i can get yourself iu condition. You can \ make your hides slick. There i* the 1 grass of salvation that ia green nil the! I year round. Y’ou cun cut of it, nud ; I you’ll make flesh from the word go. Yon | 1 can refuse it, and you’ll grow poor and i , miserable till your old hides will flap on your botie* like it bed quilt on a ridge pole." (orurt ai.kmjak—■ueosHKt mMiT The following is tiie court calender of Oconee circuit, according to the act passed by the last Legislature, and i which went into effect on Ist of January: Laurens, fourth Mondays in January and July. Dodge. Ill) Monday* tn FeUrnury and August, continuing two weeks. 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