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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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• 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
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