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DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 9 1877.
Communicated.
A Visit lo Ellaville.
Dawson, Ga , July 31, 1&77.
iiessrs Editors', Having just return
ed from the District Meeting heid at
Ellaville, in Schley cuhnty, I will com
ply with yottr fequesl, and give your
'nailers, an account of at least a part
of what 1 saw and heard, from n.y
'departure until my arrival at home.
In anticipation ol a ploaßaht visit
and a good knotting, the delegates
from Dawson— Bro. Dozier and my
self—left town on the 25th iunt., for
Americu®. V\ e found on board the
cars several delegates from the Terrell
and Randolph circuits, aud at -Smith
vitle the number was increased by
others, Here also we were pleased
to find Dr. Hinton and Bro. Austin on
their way to Ellaville. The Stars were
much ctowded, the weather hot aud
dry, aud traveling consequently un
pleasant. But Oiipt. Bass with char
acteristic urbanity and efficiency
did all he could to make his passen
gers oomfoi table. Upon inquiry wheth
er he could take us to El avil e, he
said he would gladly do so if he cbuld,
hut thought If he afempted it, he
Would he behind time iu reaching
Macon.
At A/nericus we found the delegates
and ministers ftoiu that section, and
from the upper part of the District
V\ e also found here conveyances io
take ils tu Ellaville, thirteen miles
distant. It any of us had imagined
any difficulty in getting up there from
Americus, all uncertainty vani hed
wlteu abuut thirty-five carnages and
buggies, unler the control of Bibs.
Wilhuu.son and Baldwin, were fou. and
waiting to take us to Ellaville. Many
til the expected delegates having
faiied to borne, about half the cartin
g's n turned with only their drivers.—
Staring about three o’ch ck P. M. we
Wen- .*,<*ot rut ol the dut and heat of
he (;> y; and ei joying the refreshing
t ieeSte- ml invigorating atmosphere
ot Ie ci un'iy Over hill and and le
nt oss dear rippling streams we rode
evety .nile travelled only increasing
the pleasures • f the ride; and especia -
ly so to the writer, when on a high
hill tinder a cool shade we hahed and
partook of rice watermelons Ft cm
Brown’s Station to near the line of
Schley county, by the route we tra*,
elled, the crop prospect is perhaps the
most unfavorable I < ver saw over so
large an Stfekof country, in the
eastern portit u of Sumpter, however
as I was informed 'he crops are very
good, having had plenty of rain. In
Sch>fey, they fir& tolerably good or at
least in that portion which I saw, not
having suffered much for rain; but
ihey at, not an good 89 the yearly
general . Verage ot that section. One
brothel siad the Lord had sent rain
upon Enevi le and surrounding sec
tion, mote abundantly than upon other
sections, because He knew that tha
people ib&re had asked fot the District
Conferenfce, and that tl ey wauted to
provide liberally for all who came.—
Aud just here I wish to sny in the
tuOguage of a distinguished minister
who *BB present. “I have never
known a Conference more handsomely
entertained.”
Among the many delegates with
whom I cbfiversed, there was one uni
versal expression of gratitude for the
kind hospitality extended t 6 all It
seems that the liberality of all the citi
zens was expressed or indicated by
the invitation of the hospitable, Scotch
proprietor of the Ellaviiifi Hot6i, with
whom I dined by invitation on Sat
urday, when he said, “Stretch forth
vour hands and he p yourselves.” But
I uow come to the leadiug feature of
this letter, the District Meeting. —
Reaching Ehaville about sunset, the
wrffer was invited to stbw for e'upper
fit Capt. Burtons, as it was too late to
■ eacn the pleasaut houe ol Maj Bal
dwin, to which we had been assigned
With Bro. Dozier. After a pleasant
lion, at Capt. B's. tho church bell
sot) tided, and the congregation assem
bled to hear the opening 6ermon by
Dr. Hinton As usual, hifiseifhon was
a ; ond one, and much appreciated.
As no fostaftce of the tendency ot
cm. -r to t ■ fsposi't.in on the pait of
•he p. Ople o manage their ‘emporal
afifait- without askiftg the aid of In
finite W'ed. to, be refeired to the case
of •> prominent repiesentati ve in t'o
State Couv- n ion, who opposed the
employment ot a Chaplain in the mo
mentous Woik -f making a Constitu
tion for tbe people of Georgia. \\ ith
chara, teristio eloqu* nee, Di. Hinton
earnestly besought the people to
clcavo steadfastly unto tbo Lord.
I would like if I Could to giv? a syn
opsis of each of the several excellent
serine ns delivered duiingthe progress
of the meeting by Bros. Payne, Mc-
GeW, Dixon, Christie, Dr. Bass and
our own beloved p&stdr at Dawson
this year. I would also lika to notice
particularly the splendid effort of Dr.
Hinton on Sunday, at eleven o’clock;
but want of space precludes any ex
tended notice of so many. Tiro preaeh
ihg of the word, in every instance was
attended with the power and presence
of the Holy Ghost, to the joy of all
who art - trying to serve the JLiord, and
to the disquietude of many who have
not giveu themselves to His service.—
Alter the Services werenver Wednes
day night, we soon four and our selves
at Bro. Baldwin’s, cur home, The
Conference was opened Thursdny
morning at 9 o’clock. The presiding
elder of this District Dr. J. W. Hirr
ton presitled over the deliberations of
thb Conference, in an t.hle aud digni
fied manner. The order of the four
days exercises was, conference session
from to 10J o’clock am., and from
2.} to 5J p. m. Pleaching at II o’clock
p, M
About 60 lay delegates were pres
ent. The teports fiorn the varit us
charges showed the spiritual condi
tion of the churches to he, iu the main,
good—financial condition prosperous,
with some excrp'ions. The business
of the Conference was finished on
evening. CuTibert was se
lected as tit, place for the nest Distrit
Conference. On Friday afternoon, Dr.
Bass, the President of Weslbyan Fe
maie Cos lege, delivered an interesting
address in the interest of that honored
Institution, the fit.,i of the kind estab
lished in America. He also presen
ted the claims o' Emory College, by
request ot Dr Haygood, who was not
present. He showed th rap.d pro
gress being made hy the Catholics in
this country, and utged the people to
rally to trie support ot their own insti*
tut ion of learning. His address was
well received. Let me here notice an
incident of th meeting. After a soul
stiii’g sermon on Saturday Ly Rev.
T. Christiun, upon the subject of
family religion and the necessity of
the proper exercise of parenGl au
thotiiy, in which ho encouraged thoee
who were honestly endeavoring to
train their child.en aright, by telling
them that so long as they persevered in
the gcod work, they had ihe “hack
lock” on Satan, parents hy his
invitation brought their children to
the alter for special prayer. Among
them I noticed a father with four lit
tle boys, between the ages of four and
ten years. The little fellows could not
fully comprehend all the meaning of
what was taking place, but their
bright eyes wete dimmed with teare
as the father led them to the alter,
and, kn. eiing, gathered them ieto his
arms. Over this boautiful scence, the
angels rejoiced.
The meeting closed Sunday night
after (he sacrament of the Lord’s Sup
per, an ost imp essive occasion
Monday morning, we bade our kind
friends adieu, aud returned to Aineri
cus in the care of the brethren who
took us out to Ellaville, and who did
so much to muke cur stay with them
pleasant. Our visit will ever be Re
membered -is a green spot iu the pil
gi image of life.
The writer had the pleasure of meet
ing and renewing his acquantanoe
with some of his old comrade?, who
were side by side with him on the
bloody fields of Virginia, battling for
the Lost Cuusb, and whom he had
not 66en since the sad pnrting at Ap
pomatox. Schley coun'j i in many
respects one of the best In the Slate.
The lands, already productive, are
susceptible of a high b'.ate of cutiva
tion. Legislative enactment prohib
its the fiale of whiskey throughout
the County, and there are but a few of
its citizens whe drink it. In tWo years
past thera had been only one prisoner
in jail. What other county can make
such a showing ?
The p-ople who came mainly from
M iddie Georgia aie industrious, edu
cated and refined. Ellavibe with its
shady groves, an l ' white lovely roads,
saiubiiotts air and pure water, neat
Churches and hospitable citizens is
indeed des'irab e place In
Conclusion, I wish to bear testimony
t.i the good mo-a! character of many
of the young men of that place.—
Meeting and passing them often,souu
titries when they supposed their cor
veraation was heard only by them
selves, not one woid did I hear tha:
would wound the sense of propriety,
or bring a blilah to the cheek of uibd
esty. Would that it were so eVeiy
where. Long will I remember ray
association with those interesting
young men ; and especially will memo
ry often fondly Iscdll the time we
spent with Bro. Baldwin and his love
ly and kind family. H. S. B.
SOLDI Clt* or PLACE.
The following are the iast three
stanzas of Bayard Taylor’s poem, de
livered at the re-ttniou of the At my
of the Potbmac:
It is the brave that first forget,
And noble foes that first unite;
Not they who strife and passion whet,
Then slink wheu comes the need to
smile.
’Tie natural courage that forgives,
Aud answei iug honor that outlives
The onset’s hour- the battle’s day;
The hearts that dare are quick to
feel;
The bauds that wound are soft to
heel;
The blood that dims a hero’s steel
His proud tears wash away.
, One holier suu awakes at last
For North and South, the blithe,
bright hours;
No more upon our dead are cast
The once divided gilts of flofrbrs;
But where the live-ouk hides in moss,
And where the | lutny arches toss
Their arms above the Mayflower’s
bed,
And where wide waves of prairie
crawl
To meet, far-west, their mountain
wall,
The people’s voice says, “Peace, be
still—
We honor equal dead ”
Oh, never from our elm-tree shades,
So sweetly piped the thrush, as now;
Nor, ’raid the lonely Evetglade*,
The mo'king-bird on cypress hough!
Nor wild grass wove by meadow rill,
Nor clover on the happy hills,
So soft a carpet for the spring!
Bound he each hand that fain would
spoil;
The -race ol God upon oi.r soil
Descends; like Sabbath alter toil,
His hen iso n to brinij!
Soldiers ol peace —in war began
Your service, and it must not cease
Until the soldier through the man
Has cotvqtired an ennobled peace!
Frank eyes of youth grow brighter to
trace
A spell on each hist <ric space
That sets your lives their own above;
And woman’s homage, sweet and shy,
Not woman’s pride shall an d deny,
Since be who readiest is to die
In truest in his love!
Cine loyal habi' summons all
From out the dust of old desires ;
Cue spark of deoda let fall
Shall fill the laud with fresher
fires!
Though youth’s belief be manhood’s
diffibt,
And generous hopes he trampled out
Ijy cyhic scorn ors u ifßh will,
Yet honor stays, devotion burns,
And ptide that mean concession
spurns;
No man his early I Ith unlearns,
And keejrs lis manhood still!
This, soldiers, lie your chosen fate,
Your lame that longest shall entitle'
’Tie noble thus to save t State
But nobler yet to make it pure.
For all those H’ords were bravely
crossed,
There is no true caiish that was lost!
Defeat unites with victory
To win for each a giander aim—
One Father bird, redeemed ffotn
blafhf l ';
One Fast, of sadder, prouder fame;
Ou<_- Future just aud fret''.
llicil p Girls.
A gtr! who makes herself too cheap
is 16 be avoided. Yotrng ffteti care not
to have anything to do with a cheap
girl cnlj for amusement, and nev e
for a wife. Ohe.iir girld are nothing
hut the lefusp, and the youug meu
know if; and (hey will look in every
other direction for a 1 fe-!6ng fiiend
and companion before they vfiif give
a glance at the pineiibaeli stuff that
tinkles at every turn for fascinating
th 6 eje of any that will loedt. You
think it quite the “iorreef thing” to
talk Ludly arid coarsely, be boistei-
OU3 and heydeuish in all public plac
es, to make yourself so bold and for
ward and commonplace, everywhere,
that people wonder if you over had a
mother or home, or anything to do. —
So be it. You wi 1 ! probably be tak
en for what you are worth, and one
of these years, if you don’t make
worse than a shipwreck of youi6elf,
you will hegiu to wonder Where the
ctiarins are that oh6e you thought
yourself possessed Of, and whell evil
spiiit could have so befooled you.—
Qo on, but len'smber, cheap girls at
tract nobody but simpletons.
Fifteen years ago a Washington
gentleman scratched his name on a
gold dollar and set it on its travels.—
Ho baa never seen it since.
• H hat’s Ihe [Halter With
You ?”
When that cultivated miadle aged
person, Mias Mary Ann Moxen, of
Cambridge, Mass , hail the collar of
her offensive little poodle insciibed
“I’m Mary Ann Mozon’s dog; whose
dog alb she thought it was
rather a clvoer joke cn the casual citi-
Sen who m ight encounter the pup
and investigate his reason for being.
She was. ol that mind for several days
But one tiiorning the poodle, howling
as though he was carrying all the
parts for Sirius in the chorus of the
morning ettß-s, and sudden, as it fir and
aut of a gun, snot into the Moxen
presence, with his tail tucked very
close, end a business card tied on to
his collar Divining that someone
had set the poodle up in the carrier
dove business, Miss Moxen seized the
missive and read: “Turpentine is
what ails me; what’s the maitu*- with
you?’’ Mies Moxen may not have
changed her mind as to the clever
ness of the original inscription, but
she did make some remarks, while ap
plying lotions to the pup, concerning
the utter incapacity ol the average
man to take a joke, which showed
that turpentine had illumiha'ed her
understanding to an unusual degree.
—New York Tribune.
SuiutitlliiiG in (lie tied.
Judge Pitmau has a habit of slip
ping Iris watch undsr his pillow when
lie gees to bed. The other night
somehow it slipped down, and as the
Judge was ros loss, it gradually work
ed its way downward toward the foot
ot the hed. After it bit, while he
was lying awafie, his foot touched it,
and it felt very cold; he was surpris
ed and scared, and jumping from bed’
he saiti;
“By gracious, Maritl! thoro’s a t ad
or snuko or something u..der tHe cov
er. 1 touched it with my foot.”
Mrs. Pitman gave a louutl scream,
and wits out on the floor in au instant.
“Now don’t go to hollering and
waking up the neighh.rs,” said lira
Judge. “Fou go and get me the
hrootu or something, and we’ll fix the
thiog frrighty quick.”
Mrs. Pitman got the broom and
gave it to the Judge with the remark
that she felt as if snakes were creep
ing all up aud down her legs and
back.
“0, nonsense, Mafia! Noto you
turn down the covers slowly, while 1
hold the hrootu and bung it. Put a
bucket of water alongside the bed,
too, set’s we can shove it iu ru drown
Mis Pitman fixed the buckr t and
gently rehiovod the covers. The
Judge held the broom uplifted, and
as soon as the black ribbon of the
watch was revea’ed, be cracked away
three or lour tin.es with bis broem,
then he pushed the tlongoff into the
bucket. Then thfey took the bucket
to the light to investige the inattei
When the Judge saw what it was, he
said :
“I might have kfiown that. Just
like you women, to go scheeching and
fussisg ahdiit nothing. Who’s going
to pay uie for that watch Y It is utterly
ruitied.”
!< lt was you that made the fuss, not
me,” said Mrs. P. “You t eed not try
to put the blame off on rrfo.”
“0, hush up and go to bed. lam
tired of hearing your blather. Frame
me if I ain’t going to get a divorce
and emigrate.”
Aud the Jiidgo turned in and
growled at Maria until lie feel asleep
—Max A dltt.
Trot it Slow.
Duiing the singing of a hymn at
tho Corner Congtegatioutfl Chuieh,
West Meridien, Cuuu., Nundaj, quite
a sensation was caused by a crazy
woman, while the organist was play
ing the interlude, screaming out in a
shrill voice, aid addressing llie organ
ist; “I adjure you in the namo of the
Lord God Almigh'y to trot that hymn
slow!” About the mo>l astonished
person present was f!:‘e 116 V. J. H.
Twitchell, of the Asylum street
Church, Hartford, who wastemporan
lv tilling the pulpit. No attention
was paid to the v.(Allan, ar.d the ser
vices were continued without any fur
ther interruption.
A young woman from the iurai dis
trict entered a dry goods store the
oilier day and asked for a pair of
stockings. The clerk ; olitely asked
her what number she woie. “Why,
two you fool. Do you think 1 am a
centif ede, or that 1 have a Woodou
VOL. III.—KO. 26.
R. M. Bishop is the Democrniil'nmi
didate for governor of Ohio.
Lobbying has been declared a crime
by the constitutional convention.
Micajah Tucker, of Berrien county
got druuK and ran his hone against a
tree. He was speechless at last ac
counts.
Somebody poisoned two fine mule*
and stabbed a m ire belonging to Johti
D. Wynn, of Telfair county.
i A of W. S. Holleman, of
Ha wld vibe, died from a dos® of mor
phine, administered by mistake foe
biimuth.
A young man, near Milledgevilie,
shot and killed a negro,for an attempt
ed outrage on his sister.
It is srid that they bung a man in
Eliijah, a few days ago in ordfef to
start a graveyard.
Josh Billings in his new book,
“Trump Cards,” say: Etiny man who
kan swop horses or ketch fish and not
lie about it, iz jest abont as pius 89
men ever get to be in this v^rirld.
An old man named Peirce, of Har
alson county, was shot and killed by
a young man named Golden, while
his (Pierce’s) family wore at church.
Pierce had accused Golden of shaving
the iiianb and tail of a horse.
A reporter, in describing the turn*
ing of a dog out of Court, says: “The
ejected cnniiu-, dragged from the room
cast a glance at the Judge, for tire
purpose of being aide to indentify
him at some future time!”
A young lady who came out in
Goose Pond socioty, ate a hate of on
ion's the meal previous, and was spok
en of as the “scepter of altiaction”
during the.everting.
Haberdasher (to nssistnnl); “Why
has that lady gone wi'hout buying ?”
Assistant, “We haven’t got what she!
w ants.” Hal erdasher, ‘l’ll soon let
y< u know, Miss, that I keep you to
sell what I’ve got and not what people
want.” —Punch.
The late Charles H. Briggs loved
an argument and would concede noth
ing. A fLend of his once touched up
this peculiarity with, “Charley, I wane
to bet with you that two and two
make four.” “Nothing of the sort.’”
responded Mr. Biiggs, “2 and 2 mako
22.”
Fend more missjbnar.esjto Mesioo.
In the very capital of that beuigffted
coiintry dogs are trained to go to
cathedrals arid steal handkerchiefs
from the kneeling worshipers. —Think
what must be the cbhditioii of a coiiii*
try when men are not sufficiently civ
ilized to steal tor tli rnstfS much
better than dogs can do it.
A lady friend of ours says that tha
beautiful vistas of bersoul-tife become
blurred w hen slio sends her bflsband
to the corner grocery with four bits
for a loaf of bread, and becomes back
chewing cloves, and tells how gener*
ousiy he gave away the change to a
blind man with only one hind leg.
It makes a farmqr ns mad nsa wet
lien to see a potato bug, will a pick
on its shouldeis, crawling over the top
rail to ask why in the name of Julius
C’eo-ar he didn’t pistil eariler, only a
mortal fear ol the pick preveuts him
from ordeiing it oft the premises.
It is said that “the moon has gain
ed about an inch in rapidity of mo
tion” within the last huiidrod years. —
This is no doubt true, foi young men
will tell you that when talking at the
gate with their sweethearts the moon
goes down much quicker now than it
did whan they were beys waiting to
rcb a Watermelon patch in the dark.
The following is said to be a pick
ure of life in Mexico: Two gentle
men meet in the street of the capital.
“What o’clock is it, senor?” politely
asks the first. The other stops, draws
hi* revolver, and coders his Interlocu
tor, then taks out his watch and gives
the desiied information. Number
one thanks ifember tw->, without the
least surprise or remonstrance at the
measure of precaution.
“But I must pase,” said a minister
a few Sundays ago, in dismissing one
theme to take up another. “Then I
make it spades ?” yelled a man from
the gallery who was dreaming the
happy hours away in a game of eu
chre It ?s needless to say that he
went out ou the next deal, being, as
sisted, by one of the deacons with a
handful of clubs.
Can any one tell why it is that the
soal of a young and pretty woman is
more dear to the averagedeacon thau
that of a squint-eyed woman with a
wa ton her tioi-e? When we have
Seen a young and pretty woman
go up to the alter, wo liavej noticed
hall a dozen deacons knock their
heads together ic their eagerness to
Whisper consolation toiler bruised spir
it. llct when the quint-eyed woman
knelt down only one d-acan went,
near her, and he merely tt nched her,
: on the shoulder and said, "Pray ler
vcntly, sister, mid all will bi well.’