The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, May 04, 1880, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text.11 WLIK. illalxMAl' Inc I...K i'** nI m. i SANDERSVILLE, GA, TUESDAY, May 4, 1080. No 5 directory. so GTE TIES. Hamilton Lodge No. 58 F. A. M. Mds on the Second and Fourth Mon- iays gf each month. SandtrsviUe Lodge, No. 8 A. 0. U. y m cetson the First and Third Mon- j» nights of every month. Newman Lodge No 1551, Knights of Ionov meets on the First and Third kursday nights of every month. Harris Council No. — Legion of \lonor meets on the Second and Fourth Monday nights of each month. Washington County Agricultural So- meets on the first Tuesdays in each ]nonth. The County Grange meets on the Sec ond Saturday in April. The Library Association meets at the call of the Directors. E ,1. NOTARY PUBLIC, Sandersville, - - Georgia. Special Attention given to the Collection of Claims. OFFCE IN THE COURT HOUSE. B. 1). EVANS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. S \NUERSYILLE, GEORGIA. April 3d. 1880. il® | _ SANDERSVILLE, GA. Office next, door to Mrs. Bayne’s Millinery Storoon Harris street. 9~ m PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DELICIOUS. Baptist Church.—Re.v. T. J. Adams, [Pastor, regular services every Second Sunday and Saturday before. Prayer |meeting Tuesd iy nights. Methodist Church.—Dev. Geo. C. 1 Clarke, Pashm, services every Sunday \norning except the Second when In holds services at Tennille. Prayer meting every Thursday night. Christian Church.—Dev. J. M. Am Pastor, services every Fourth building from 0. A. M. to 1 1\ i. Frauer meeting even/ Wed- and from 8 to 51*. M.; during Tabernacle Sermons. DISCOURSE OF REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE, ON SUNDAY MORN ING, APRIL 18, 1880. MISTAKES ABOUT THE SOUTH CORRECTED. 'rsville. Sunday. Pray a fcesefay night. May bo consulted at bis office on Haynes SL. iu tbo Masonic Lodge ..... ' - M otb- MUNICIPA L. Mayor.—J. N. Gilmore. Cirri' and Treasurer,— Wm. Galla- I er. City Council.—S. J. Smith, J. C. \ace,l)r, d. D. Roberts, J. T. Tapper, t. Newman. City Marshal.—J. E. Wed don. COUNTY OFFICE US. Ordinary.—Hon. C. C. Drown. [Slwrif.—A. M. Mayo. \ Clerk Sup. Court.—S. M. Northing- h • Tax Receiver.—I. Hermann. Tax Collector.— TP. A. Thigpen. j Treasurer.—O. 11. Rogers. tSurrcyor.—Morgan L. Jackson. I Coroner.—John Layton. SUPERIOR COURT, ICbiiUf’RUS on the Fourth Monday in ft_y and September. Hon. Jl. P. Jnhn- Judge. Hon. J. K. Hines, Solic- |r General, S. M. Norlhinglou, Ch'.k. count OF ORDINARY. Hon. C. (J. Brown, dodge, sits on Hirst Monday in every month. erhoursat bis residence on Church |St, when not professionally engag ed. | April 3rd ly 1880 Dr. Wm. Rawlinns, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Sandersville, Georgia, Office at Sandersville Hotel. apy 10, 1880—ly NOTICE TO TIIESPASSERS. SaNUEitsNii.i.r, Ga.,Juii. 20t)],1880. All p irsons .are hereby forbidden under penalty of the law, from hunt ing and fishing or trespassing in any manner on the lands of the un dersigned: II. N. HOLLIFIELD, W. II. PARSONS, WM. RAWLINGS, WM. MAR PIN. upr 3,1880—Oni “Givo mr n blessing; for thou has given me n sOuth land; give me also springs o( wat<r. M —.Judges Caleb’s daughter had been married to Gen. Otlmeil, and she had receiv ed from her father as a wedding gift a farm at the South, iu a sunshiny and warm region. She asked the further gift of some springs of water near by, so that lior farm might be properly irrigated, flic water brought down through tunnels and aqueducts. “Give me a blessing, for thou hast given mo a south laud; give mo also springs of water.” This nnt’ou can say that God has given us a south laud, and it is a magnificent reach of country; but it especially needs to be irrigated from the fountains of divine mercy, and this nation ought to offer tlio prayer most devoutly, “Give us a blessing; for thou hast given us a south land, give us also springs of water.” To meet engagements in nine of lie Southern States, and to catch a glimpse of the Southern springtime, and to sea how those regions are re covering from f he desolations of war, I started a few weeks ago southward, equipped with my mind full of ques tions, and hungry for information on all serial and political, moral and re- iigiou i subjects. Among other things, I had a grave iu Georgia to visit, the grave of my uncle, Rev. Samuel K. T.ilmage, for twenty years the Presi dent of Oglethorpe University. Af- t ;r walking among the ruins of th it .ustituti.m, from which many men went forth to bless the earth, which institution was slain by the war, 1 vv.mt. to see his last resting place ^jC]il3C;0 Wiser Ifetl Jurors. For the information of parties in terested we give the names of the Grand and Traverse Jurors, who were regularly drawn for the next term of our Superior Court, which commences its spring session on the fourth Monday in May r is, that the Southern people want to get back and have reinstated negro slavery. Why, all the people are lad to get rid of it. The planters told me tlmt they could culture their land now at less expense under the new system of labor than under the old. A Planter who had a hundred and twenty slaves before the war said thcro was so much care necessa ry in looking after so many slaves, and iu looking after the aged who could not work and helpless colored childhood, that thcro was constant anxiety and vast expenso and exhaus tion. Now they havo nothing to do but pay tho wages when they are due, and each family looks after its own invalids and minors, Submit to the ballot box of tho Southern people to day the question, ‘Shall negro slavery be reinstated?’ and all the wards, and all tho cities, and all tho counties, and all tho States would give thundering negative. They fought for the insti tution eighteen years ago, but now they congratulate themselves at tin overthrow of the institution. God bo thanked that North and South at oast wo have one sentiment on that subject, and those Northern pplili ciaus who keep the subject of Amer ican slavery rolling on and rolling on are doing a thing as useless and in apt as it would bo to make the Dorr rebellion of Rhode Island, or Aaron Burr’s attempt at the overthrow of the United States Government a test for our fall elections. The whole subject of American slavery is dead an l damned. I said to the planters: ‘How do these men work now under the now system?” and they replied, They work well; we havo no troublo thcro was a great deal of trouble jusi ft'T war closed,and a demoralization and disorganization consequent up on a change of things, but now they work most admirably, and they work South shall put his valise death-rate in Michigan. Thedcath- ^ hen tho War opened his heart!far better than the Northern nun who broke, and lie lay clown to rest near {come hero, because the climato seems (tor adupted to the colored people, §§|§|3gg§jg|| jaBANO FOB THE WHS LNDERSVILLE & TENNILLE IF M Cox, John IT Wa’keig If L RAIL ROAD. Brown, IVm d Hitchcock, II IF Carr |0,i and after to-day the Passenger -dark Newman, W E Gof, Jno T Veal, \ain on this road will run as follows: Raburn Hall, James M J’ahner, ltd day passenger train, Moiye, 1 ,S St range, Jesse Rraswe/I, II lares Sandersville. daily 9.15 a. m.' H Chi vers, S R kelly, II M English laws Tennille daily 0:41 a. m. i h A Gain, II P Smith, II Jifhjnin, aces Sandersville, daily 3:30 p. m. •'/ C Pace, Sr., Thus 1 Wells, L .I Sul- aves Tennille daily 4:10 p. m. |Uvun, Ellis Johnson, Lawson Kelley, T< insure dispatch all articles destin- dohn 1) Tanner, dames Ray, Da font for this point should be marked to Hartley, dames Harrison W R Ray, II ndersville instead of No. ] I] as here- H Hines. J. I. IRWIN, Supt. 1 1880. GRAND JURY FOR 2d WEEK. i era. [apr tS OF TRAINS AT NO. ' S ' ;/ ... „ . ... .... . 13 C. R. R. \ Human, II 1 Harrison, IF,,, Webster, day Passenger train arrives 3:5ip.m LoAwLV, j J? Nnrlhington, un day “ “ “ 9;4(5a.m. Ch eatham, M h War then, WE Night “ « « 441 m Marlin, d L Garner, Joseph Ji Smith, um Ninht “ “ « 1043 «'Chas 1 lhiggan, W J Henderson, Hope- ■ 1 n - ll welt Adams, R F Murphy, T 0 Wick er, Shade Dukes, James W Smith, A J Bar wick, Rufus A Cochran, Sylvanus Prince, J U Floyd, IF C Riddle, J F Rogers, Geo. li II Whitaker, Abe Youngblood, T J Gilmore, T J Pearson, C R Pringle. the scene of liis eminent usefulness, his grave covered with a monument adorned by his own name, and the suggestive Scripture passage, ‘llow beautiful upon the mountains aro the feet of him that briugeth good ti- dings, that published! peace.’ He was one of those contemporary min isters of tho South who, after elo quent words lor God, an 1 earnest, service, are resting from their labors: Dr. James 11. Thornwell—his biogra phy by Dr. Palmer a holy enchant ment—and Dr. Smythound Dr. Dun can, and Dr. Pierce, and qjnny oth ers. But my mission was not with die dead, but with the living. I went southward with no partisan predilec tions. I hud no prejudices. I was resolved on coming back to report what I sawg whether it might meet with general favor or the condeinna- B Massey, Josiah Jones, S S tion of onc or both scions. I had no political record to guard or look who will on n summer day, at theii nooning, go out and lie down to en joy the sun.’ My friends, all thi- talk about the dragging of the rivers and the lakes of the South to haul ashore negroes murdered and flung in, while it may be believed by many it tho North, is a falsehood so nb- urd it is hardly tit to mention in a religious assemblage. Tho white people of the South feel their depen dence on tho dark people for the cnl turn of their lands; the dark pcoph feel their dependence on the whit, people for the payment of their wa POST OFFICE HOURS. 7 to 11:30 A. M. 1:30 to G P. M. E. A. SULLIVAN, P. M. O BERT L. RODGERS, FTOltNEY AT LAW, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA. WILL r.lvr. SFECIAL ATTENTION TO ILBCTWO ccounls, R. Notes, Is. Checks 'ds. Liens, ld Kments, locutions, engages. Re*? t? ^ KI,n L. or Attorney to Rent, Huy, or Ls" i,,Jff. rArE > examine Recobdk of Deeds, ' ouno.MENTs, Inventories and Returns. Hcnsonable Fee for Every Service. l 'ce in nil tho Courts of the State of GEORGIA, also in tho Federal Courta. fc la L L L L L L CONVE7AHCISO. T ransfor’gTitles by Deeds, Bonds, Mortgages, Leases, Wills, Assignments, Partition Writs, Ti ust Deeds. Settling Estates For Heirs, Legatees, Creditors. Administrators, Executors, Guardians, Trustees. g ATTORNEY at law. ‘ practice in tlie State and Courts. I dice in Court House. [0 • VV. It. Whitaker, 3DBasrTxs*r- SANDEIiSYILLE, GA. Terms Cash. ? a *' ^is residence ou Harris St. 1 ^rd, tf 1880. TRAVERSE JURY FOR THE FIRST WEEK. Jas M Veal, Jas L Cowart, Joseph Tanner, Andrew J Garter, L D Led- dingfield, J R Sumner, Jno R Hatha way, Alex WSteward, Nathaniel J Ren- froe, Albert Jones, G F Orr, Jr, A d Veal, B F Harris, II F Deal, Alex IF| Roberson, E D Forbes, Wylley Harris WE Shurting, II A Morgan, Rich It Smith, Jno liood, Elbert. Tanner, Jo- seph Joiner, Harris M Usher, II L Adams, John King, G IF Kelley, Sr., Ben) S Jordan. J P Henderson, Thus Marshall, IF IF Ruck, John Huff, Isaac Hermann, Eenoch lierfroe, Silas McIntyre, Geo Gilmore. TRAVERSE JURY 2d WEEK. Wm Marlin, IF It Hall Gordon IF Smith, Sherod Hood, L L Adams, G W Mills, Henry T Downs, James 1 Norlhinglou, Rich F Drake, Geo J Mo- Mitten, 'Geo R Doolittle, A R Hatha way, John U Morgan, Geo C Lacy, A Webster, A IIAinsworth, RII Rras- ■wdl, A R Adams, Bennett R Smith, M M Cook, Geo W Newsome, G C Walk er, Morgan L Jackson, Joel 1 luinp- Icins, A P Heath, Henry M Smith, C W Joyner, W W L Underwood, Lew- some fantum, H A Renfroe, II L Me- Mitten, Javier, P Jordan, Jno R Hall, Weo Waller, Jno Redfearn, Jno Q Amcrson. at tho depot, then go up on tho near est plantation and say, by bis man ner or by words, ‘We have come down bore to show yon Southern peo ple bow lo farm; wo whipped you in tb.) war, now wo arc going to whip you in agriculture; I am from Boston, I am; that’s the ‘Hub;’ how much you look liko a man I shot at South Mountain; I believe it was your brother; I marched right through hero in the Fourteenth regiment of volunteers; I killed and quartered n heifer on your front stoop; what a poor, miserable race of people you Southerners; didn’t we give it to you? ha! lul”—-such a man as that, to say tho least.'will not make a favorable imp:e;sion! And lie will not be very soon elected as elder of onc of tl.c r churches, and if lie should open a store lie would not get many customers, and if such a man as that should get a free and rapid ride on that part of a fence which is most easily removed, and bo set down without much reference to the desirability of the landing place, you and 1 would not be protestants, If a moral mail go South, and lie exercises just ordinary common sense, lie will be made welcome; lie will be made at home; and, com ing from Brooklyn, lie will be just as well treated as though he came from Mobile. [A southern gentle man in the audience nods his head as much as to say, “That’s so.” could give you many illustra tions, I give one: There went from this church, seven or eight years ago, a member to reside in Charleston, S. C. He took no for tune. By mercantile ’ assiduity lie toiled on up. Was he received well? Was lie treated well? Judge for yourselves, when I tell you that a few days ago, when his lifeless body was carried into the F.pisco pal Church- of Charleston, where lie was a vestryman, the members of the Board of Trade assembled iu the church, tnc children and pat i ons ot the orphan asylun of which hi was a director, and a great throng of the best citizens amk wealth of floral and musical tribute that the Charleston Courier des ci ibes as making an occasion al most unparalleled in the history of private obsequies. Why, this side of heaven there is not a more hos pitable people than the people of the South, and I bring you from those states which I had the pleas urc of visiting, I bring you to-day an invitation for immigration that way. The south is to rival th West as an opening liclcl for Amer ican enterprise. Horace Greeley's advice of “Go West” is to have its 'laddonda in “Go South.” The first ges. From what I have scon of the avalanche of population that way after, since most of my ministry has been passed since tho war closed. My admiration for the Democratic and Republican parties as mere parties is so small that it would take McAllis ter’s most powerful magnifying glass to see anything: American politics are rotten, and that party steals the most which has the most chance! At the South all the doors of informa- don seemed to bo open. I talked with high and low, with Governors of States and water-carriers, lawyers, clergymen, doctors, judges of courts, and 1 found that there had been a persistent and, in some cases, most outrageous misrepresentation of the feeling at tho South by some corres pondents of some of our Northern secular and religious newspapers, and by overbearing and dishonest men who, going from the. North to the South, behaved there in a way that excited my friendliness. I found out that if a man behaves well at the South he will be treated well. There is no more need of a severe govern mental espionage in Charleston and Atlanta and Augusta than in New York and Brooklyn. The feeling at the South to-day has been so misrep resented that I shall devote this morning’s sermon to the correction of the misapprehensions, and to the over throw, so far as I may bo able, of some of the slanders. The first misrepresentation in rc- oppression of female clerks in some of the dry goods stores of tho North and from what I have seen of tho op pression of some young men at the North on small salaries, which thc\ must take or get nothing at all, J havo come to the conclusion that there aro more consideration and sympathy for colored labor fit the South to-day than there fire consid eration and sympathy for some of the employes in somo of tho dry goods stores on Fulton avenue, Brooklyn; Broadway, New York; Washington street, Boston; Chestnut street, Phil adelphia. In till the land and in all the earth there tiro tyranieal employ ers, and their maltreatment of sub ordinates, white or black, deserves execration. But in the work of re formation let us begin fit homo. Another impression in regard to the South that I wish to correct is, that they are antagonistic to having Northerners come down there and settle. Tho whole impression giv en here at the North has been that if Northerners go down South they are kukluxed, kept out of society, or get ting into society thrown out again, and in every way made uncomforta ble. From the States where I visi ted the cry comes, and I bring it to day in their name, ‘Send down your capitalists, send down your Northern farming machines, come and buy our plantations, open stores, build cotton factories and rice mills—come by the hundreds, by the thousands, by the millions, and come right away.” I declare here that that is the senti ment of the South. Of course there is no more admiration at the South for Northern fools and Northern ganl to the South I wish to correct braggarts than there is here. If a will make their fortunes. It isn national absurdity that siudi a large proportion of the cot ton of the South, at great expense, should he sent North in order to )e transferred into useful fabricks Tho few factories at the South are the pioneers of innumerable spin dles which are soon to begin the hum of the grand’ march on the hanks of the Savannah and the Appalaeliicola,and the Tombigboe There is Georgia, with its 58,000 square miles; there is Alabama, with its 50,722 square miles; there is South Carolina, with its 34,000 square miles; there is North Caro lina, with its 50,706 square miles, and other Slides, not ten percent, of their reeources yet developed. When will our overcrowded pop ulation in these Northern cities take the wings of the morning and lly to those regions where they may have room to turn arouiu and plenty of place to take a full >reath and expand, and be masters of their own corn-fields, their own rice swamps, their own cotton plantations, their umber forests? Land to he had there from $1 to §20 an acre. Trav el from here to that region $15. If you are not too particular about the way you go. Afraid T of the neat ? Why the thermometer in New York*every summer rises to a higher point than in Georgia or North Carolina, although in those States the heat is more protracted. Afraid of the fever ? The death- rate in Georgia just equals the rate in Georgia, according to the number of population, is less than the death-rate in Connecticut and Maine. Going either West or South you will probably have one icclimating attack. It will only be a different, style of shake! There is no more need that En* gland, Ireland, and Scotland want room or want bread. I rejdTeo that there is such a vast population coming from foreign lands here— 11,508 people arriving in New York last month, March, tomako their residence in this country. And, let me tell you, many of them tho very best, people of Eu rope. What do I mean" by tbo “best?” I mean industrious and moral. Five thousand people last Tuesday in and around Castle Garden waiting for transportation Wliileyi put on extra trains to carry tic a West over the Penn sylvania ; id the Erie and the New York C Oral, put on extra trains on tin 1 Baltimore and Ohio, and all the great routes to Charleston, Atlanta and Chattanooga, that they may go South. Vast oppor tunities are opening. Stop curs ing the South, and stop lying about the South, am] go South and test the cordiality of their welcome, and their resources of mine, plantation and forest. Why my friends, that is tho way this national difficulty is to ho settled Tens of thousands of young men from North, moral young men, intelligent young men from tho North, aro to go South and mako their residence there, and they will invite tho daughters ot tho South to help them build houses amid the magnolias and orange groves, and their children will be half North and half /?outh, half south Carolina and half Vermont, liall’Georgia and half New York, and then to divide the country you will have to divide tho childien with some such sword as Solomon sarcartically proposed for tho di vision of a contested child, and the Northern father will say to the Southern mother: “Come, on dear, let us put our political fued to sleep in this cradle The state ments so long rampart at tho North that Southern® peoplo do not want moral and industrious icople to come from the North to the South—I brand that statement as a falsehood gotten and kept up for base political purposes. Another wrong impression in regard to the South that I want to correct is that tho people there aro antagonistic to the United States Government Those peo ple submitted to the settlement of the sword certain questions, and now they are submissive to the decision. There is no fight in them. We talk about the “fire- eaters of llie South. If they eat lire, they have u private platter of coals in a private room. I sat at many of their tables, and I saw no such style of diet. Neither could I find a spoon or a fork or a knife that seemed to have been used in eating fire. Why, airs, they are the the most placid peo ple you ever saw. Some of them their property all gone, at forty-or sixty years of age, starting life, with one arm and one foot and one eye, the missing members sacrifi ced in battle. It is simply mirac ulous, and the work of the Lord Almighty, that those people are as amiable and as cheerful as they are, and it is dastardly mean in us to keep speaking of them as wasp ish, and acrid, and' saturnine, and malevolent. I have traveled as much as most people have Jin this and other lands, and \ am yet to find a more affable,more delicately sympathetic, more whole souled people than the people of the South. The people of the South (concluded on fourth page.)

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The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, May 04, 1880, Image 1