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About Upson enterprise. (Thomaston, Ga.) 1878-1879 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1878)
“TEE NOBLEST MOTIVE IS THE PUBLIC GOOD."---Virgil. JNO. F MEANS, Editor and Proprietor. WALL STREETS SENS. THE UPSON EN TERPRISE CONCERNING CONVENTIONS, the attack is over.) But, young man, BY REV. JOHN HALL, D. D., N. Y. do not orate, as a habit, anywhere.- The Convention is an Ameries in- Never try it at a convention. If you ** , Tf imiltaa AA1 • esure you have anything to say, say it in Y BISHOP CLARK, a time to advan |hard task for E But it is a very INSTRELST. ADVERTISING RATES SQUARES 8M.|6M. 12 M. $1 00 [ $2 50 $7 00 1000 I $1500 1Square, 200 500 10 00 1500 2500 9 Squares, 300 7 00 1500 2000 30 00 3 Squares, 400 10 00 2000 3000 40 00 4 Squares, 500 12 00 3000 39.00 50 00 iColumn, 10 00 20 00 3600 6500 8000 Column, 1 Column, 15 00 2500 40 00 7000 130 00 stitution. It implies several thin which are well developed in the lat and without which convention be difficult if not impossible THOMASTON, GA practice in the various courts. FedeR Ethe Webb House.. Norte 01 00 State and Office first door mch12-1y W. X. BEALL straightforward, business-like ju paper with certain characters in tways, but oh! do not orate. In the onid days of Demosthenese, before rail when find ou their attention exclusively to One! It is a very common-place affair : thing for any length of time, and this st to take up a book or a piece of is the reason that they accomplish so iscrib-[little. Watch threm when they are He who know s of the minstrelsy of A cashier of a bank, in announcing lie negro through the medium of | his ow n “financial disgrace and ruin," burnt cork and the boards, cannot takes occasion to inform his father- be difficult if not impossible. Among rosdy tatoongila ., : these are free speech, power of ready I aph aud paper utterance, felicity of locomotion, cahilosophers touted in the groves, orn- pacity of arrangement, prompt inter- do T zone veil en ugh: bu , plea i( • i communication, an eager-press, and a thoIK try the 1 A merican conven- generous hospitality. These quake If you wish to be of real power in ihaccorivention @POW ex 01 the Arber- conventions, do something : not there T. 41.2 . , ,. , necessarily ; Rut where your WOTK 18. Toft is tattering to our national self- It will, some time speak for you and love that our British cousins are im- by you, and get a hearing. The in- itst a is in this popular parliament- dividual may be selfish and unfair; ary method, and that in some of its but the mass of your countrymen will Vest useful forms, as in the Sunday : be generous and just sooner or later. School. If is not quite so gratifying | Do something. Beof use, silently, per- that they irave taken into St. Stephen’s haps obscurely; not for men’s eyes. but for God’s. And if it be good for| ed upon it glance of t what 0eye been thinking ther people have lit or doing. It is so familiar that the marvel of it all never seems to occur to our minds.— pretending to read—not a fly can light upon the table without their s pression best in song, reaches its high- seeing it—not a noise can be made in |est development on the plantation, at the street without their hearing it. the gin-house, in the tobacco factory. They remember nothing which they | Every cockcrowsloudest and bust al- beast of any great or accurate degree | in-law that Wall street did it." That of knowledge. The poetic faculty in highly respectable thoroughfare, with the African race, which finds its ex- its banks, its Custom House and it The story is told of a missionary, read, nor do they actually know what who, while engaged in building his it is they are reading. - Some little,! house, having occasion to se certain tools, took up a shingle, and but where your work is.I after writing upon it a messa nd for thin film of thought may be deposited on the surface of their minds, but to his wife with a pencil, directed one of |his heathen assistants to carry it to |the party to whom it was addressed. |The man obeyed the order without very soon wears off. The mode in which one reads is in great measure determined by the irpose for which he reads. He nay Sub-Treasury over whose decorum inhabitants Trinity’s stately pile stands in perpetual watchfulness. one of our exceptionable pecuMariti .... and acknowledged unconciously the you, He—the source of the innovation in the name might very properly protest against being held responsible for offences The colloquial language of the po- really chargeable to Broad street. If gro is symbolical—that is, the lan- to any street at all. But by what rule gusge of poetry : It is extravagant of justice do these people who gam- and imaginative in high measure. Al- ble away their own or other people’s lied to this characteristic of the race money in stock speculations hold is another even more strongly mark- | Wall ° street or any other street to ed, a passionate devotion to euphony, blame? It has grown the custom The negro woman at the spinning- now whenever some new knave or ard. - | do it simply for amusement, or emo- any comprehension of the meaning tional excitement, or to kill time. II of the orfand: Ju when the onim, does not care for anything that makes after glancing anfho writing, landed a severe draught upon his foultie him the tools that were required, he Neither must it be dull or prosy asked her, as a special favor, to give common-place. Even in works him "the talking shingle: which fation there 912 some thinio Iwheel or at the loom, or even over the fool becomes a defaulter or a bank- kitchen fire, croons hen ng to the rupt, through reckless stock trausac- |rhythmic hum of the wheel, or to the tions, to abuse "the street" as the great All-seeing, All- lightening.—will turn the light of His approving eye on it, and then men al- ___2.3 The king is the man| |they give it—our own "filibustering. In hardly anything does the power so will see it. ! of acting together find more vivid il- | who can. lustration than in the make-up of a In conclusion, the writer notes with will practice in the various Courts of Convention. . Multitudinous minor pleasure a convention he lately attend- the State of Georgia. 00 Office in the | bodies "organize" and deteri line on |ed. It represented andincluded wom- Court-house—downstairs. hchb-ly |delegates. Newspapers spread the de- :en and men from ocean to ocean, and — - — — : tails. Railroad com panics are mov d | from the mouth of the great river, the on the question of carrying. Hospi- Mississippi, to the ends of the (31th Attorney and Counsellor at Late, THOMASTON, GA. or marked beat of the shuttle. Her hus- cause. A man who has sufficient in- f band in the tobacco field, or at the telligence and character to fill the fiction there are some things which - X continued to be regarded with an | he is sure to skip idolatrous awe by the barbarous - people, until they found out what reading and writing meant. trees of the hero uch as the pedi- and heroines, de- riptions of places and scene ry—un- S3 they are very striking—disquisi- corn shuching, shouts his aloud with position of a bank cashier ought to be the stroke of his hoe for ictus, or the sensible enough to take care of his rattle of falling corn. There may bo own money and enough not to make lacking to the negro’s minstrelsy both free with money belonging to other JULIUS E. F. MATTHEWS, ATTORNEY L AW, Thomaston, Ga. Office up-sairs Cheney Building. COTTE a tality is arranged. Programmes, re- ports, resolutions, speeches are mean- while getting themselves ready in most widely separated regions; and when the day comes, 2 stranger in the place might suppose, from the wel- coms, the greetings, the hand-shak- Mississippi, to the ends of the earth toward the North pole. It had several remarkable features. In the midst tions on matters and things in general, | - . : and all protracted moral reflections.| who never had any written language. | If th The only way in which they kept their accounts was by means of what ilized nations, like the old Peruvians,| |they called the Quipus,—a rope, some- times one foot, and sometimes six W it and wisdom, at times; but it nev- people. Ninety-nine times out of A fails in melopious cadence: hundred such speculators are avail: The characteristic features of the cious and unprincipled. They have ATTORNEY LAW, ings, the vivacity, introductions, and the interminable a certain family Thomaston, Ga. will practice in all courts in the State. Prompt attention given to all business en- trusted to him. — meho,-y GREENE ATTORNEY AT LAW THOMASTON, GEORGIA, Collections a specialty. Office in Johnson’s Building, meh5,-ly J. S. POPE, ATTORNEY AT LAW likeness among the animated throng, that the great tribe of the Smiths was holding a family re-union, or that the| clan of the Jonses was coining togeth- er for a regular Welsh festivity. But one has only to reflect a little to| see the good in these gatherings, in themselves. How much mutual per- sonal knowledge and the consequent sympathy, how much local knowledge | how much broadening and de-sec-| tionalizing influence, what diffusion of ideas and of feelings do they repre- sent! Unless you are radically mean or bad, my reader, you can never be indifferent to a man whose salt you have eaten, whose little children you have kissed, even whose hand you have grasped. And if some day you| and he should differ, there would be |less’ irulence in in the feud, and more| joy at the ending of it, from the re- of a tobaceo-growing region, he saw no smoking. There was 10 drinking: | feet long, with a number of different no profanity. He did not hear an un- colored string’s attached to it, each kind, rude word. The "orators" and color representing some particular other exceptional features were con- thing, and tied with single or double spicious by their absence. Yet there or triple knots, and so on upward, was splendid speaking, from the Gov-ind eating numbers. The census. EBULON, Prompt attention given to busidess. It is true, there are always elements in a Convention that carry the mind along other lines than that of the Con- vention’s object. There will be the JOHN F. REDDING. ATTORNEY AT L A W Barnesville, martinet, an incarnation of the " liamentary Rules," whose batflo-c "order," whose conscience will permit the slightest deviation f their letter. There will be the e man, who "is nothing if not critic He respectfully submits that"per t Will practice in all the courts ate. mc 15. HUNT & TAYLOR ATTORNEY S L A W BARNESVILLE, GEORG Will practice in the counties comprising e Flint Judicial Circuit, and in the Su- reme Court of the State. Office over rug Store of J. W. Hightower, meh-ly Wm. S. Whitaker, ATTORNEY AT LAW Will practice in the counties ofthe Flint Circuit and the Supreme Court of the State. JOSEPH J. ROGERS, L AW, Barnesville, Ga Allbusiness promptly attended to. CABANISS & PEEPLES, ATTORNEYS AT L Forsythe, Georgia. Will practice in all the counties of The Flint Circuit. mch5,-ly B. I., BERNER. TURNER BERNER & TURNER, Attorneys At Law FORSYTH, : GA. lot of novel is so involved and negro mind are bouyancy of spirits the passion to acquire wealth rapidly eatecas to require a special and plentiful gladness. “Sufficient and the unscrupulousness not to bo aorder to unrave it andcarry unto the day is the evil thereof," is particular as to the means by which threads comfortably, just so the maxim of his daily life : and he it is done. Their transastions are complicated as to effort in order to uni all the th just so far forth it fails of its object and be- comes wearisome. There are condi- tions of the system when to read for ernor of the State in the chair, all registry or taxes, air — • - through. No one was called to order. supplies, and other public record Most votes were unanimous. There were kept by an officer who was and then he expects to buckle down was no North, no South, no section of known as the Quipa-carungoo, or to more substantial work. He may any kind. Canada was annexed with- "keeper of the Quipus. It is quite a be amused at the same time that he is cent thing for the people at large edified, for truth is often exciting know how to read and write |than fiction; but he is content toread out a murmur, and the British Queen was cheered enthusiastically. It 1 as a most remarkable, sunny, hearty, mighty convention, rich in money, and| in hope; and its influence is sure to| be felt for years and to the ends of the earth. It was a gathering of Sunday School| workers away down in Atlanta, Geor- gia. May its tribe increase I—N. Y. SPURGEON. Pen NP tlae hre Baptist Minister. ae a man still on the morning| forty-five, a little below the ordinary height, solidly built, with a large and, as the phrenologist would| say, round and well balanced head. |who favor" should be substituted for "men who favor," in the ninth resolu- tion, because "men" might be held to |exclude women, and so mislead. There |is the funny man, who will have his| little joke, and with whom, or at whom, the good-natured allways laugh. There is the musical man, who breaks out incontinently with a verse,: and represents the enthusiasm of the| Imeeting. There is the orator, who is| always eloxuent or going to be. There is the manager, who fits about like a| shadow and fixes things ;tells the cm-1 iment and distinguished Somebody when a word from him would do. good, has names ready for a commit- fee, and resolutions cut and dry. And| there is the figure-head, like that of a| ship, stately, striking, often wooden happy under the delusion that he is leading the movement ; and he is, just as the carved and highly painted lady with enormous shoulders and impos- in any hair, closely cut, and a face more homely than handsome, yet impress his soul is stirred with sympathy for his fellowmen —and they will have a tolerably correct idea of the man as Metropolitan Tab His chief bodily t rheumatism; and 1 from the pain of v these trying malac happens, frequently out and t] pulpit when it would had better be in bed. I is in th the maxim of his daily life; and he it is done, takes little heed to provide for the morrow. If the sun shines and he has Their transastions are very different from the legitimate business of a stock exchange and |ought not to be regarded as bringing discredit upon that business. "W all street did it?" Stuft and nonsensel If there existed no stock board the .. , plenty to eat, he sings ceaslessly and amusement is a good tonic; but nev- joyfully, Ifit rains, and there is only er to read for any other purpose is as a crust of bread, his song is briefer unwholesome to the mind asit would |with a more solemn and sad cadence: out of smv be to the body if we always dined on |but he never fails to sing. His reli- faro bank, the draw poker table, the 0ad|confectionery. : . . gious hymns and his songs and bal- pool room, the race track or some Or one may read for information, lads are part and parcel of his exis-other place where the passion for gambling can be indulged, would have been to blame for the "financial part of the world. Many a priest in the middle ages had to repeat the feass memoriter, and many a stately baron signed state papers with his mark, because he did not know how to write his name. At the on, whether his fancy is stimulated or not. It is well, in this case, to read pen in hand,—making a careful anal- |ysis of the subject, and storing away |the points of information attained in present tinie, even in our own and other Christian lands, there is a con- siderable proportion of persons who have never acquired these accom- plishments. Still it is the fact that, in our country, the great majority of people know how to read, and some the pigeon-holes of mind. For every well-disciplined mind has its pigeon- holes—its special receptacles for spe- cial truths—never allowing what has been picked up here and there to lie round loose, like the rubbish in a f them a large part of thei There are various ways in which pe ple read. Some are obliged to work out every sentence, line by line and word, by word with their finger on page and their lips keeping time, which may be called "the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties." Oth- ulus,—not the excitement of the sen sibilities, but of pure inteligect.- |There TTC some few writers who en a1 a like fast as they turn tract from the author all that they care to know. Ordinary people, however, who get in the habit of just |skiming the surface, rarely retain fit from the exerc They read em that he does not happen to attract them, and >whimonee whenever they come to a passage enter the Tabernacle from the rear of that demands the exercise of thought, the platform on which he preaches- they make a jump and let it go. One (he has no inclosed pulpit, but a plat- I may fancy that he is giving his mind m surronndelby a railing, extend- to the act of reading, and go on in quite out into the audience room upon which are his chair and table, with his Bible and hymn book) so weak in body that he could hardly stand. Advancing to the front, and |mechanical sort of way, chapter af ter chapter, while he is all the time partly reclining upon the railing, |one foot supported by the chair sible, unwinking eyes, leads the Cu narder across the Atlantic. All these and many more of the like individu- al kind give interest and variety to a properly constituted convention. And to give numbers, there are the entire Nobody family, who never move, nor |second, nor object, nor amend, nor |simply suggest ; but each of whom can |say afterwards, "We arranged that |the tremendous moral influence," &c. |Happy, uncriticised Nobody! We would not presume to give ad- :vice to experienced frequenters of |conventions, old stagers who "know the ropes," and have served on com- !mittees and other august bodies. We |would willingly sit at their feet and Will practice in all the Courts, and give| lal attedtion to the collection of Forsyul Refer to Wm. II. Head, Banker| Factors: Forsyth, a, mch5,-tf learn conventional ways. But we would venture—after repeated ob- servations made from the safe seats occupied by the Nobody family—a word of counsel to any young men who have not yet "served." Remember, young men, silence is golden. Be slow to speak. There with . he "Blessed Master, we are very weak this morning! Our poor limbs have thinking of something entirely for- eign to the subject before him. Al- most all of us know what it is to run the eve down a column of items ina hardly been able to bear us hither; yet, dear Lord, we have so longed for| Thee, aspilgrims in a dry and thirsty land, that we could not stay away from Thy courts, and the place where Thine honor dwelleth. Now, in our weakness, be Thou our strength.— Without Thine aid we shall utterly fail in all our attempts to serve the to-day." And then it seemed there came an instantaneous answer to his prayer, and out of his weakness he triumph- ed gloriously. He has a suberb voice. newspaper, without being able, five minutes afterward, to recall a single fact contained in the list. The power of retaining what we read—without which we might about as well not read at all—depends part- ly upon our natural endowments. Some minds are constitutionally much more retentive others. I have known persons who, after reading over a long poem once ortwice, could |repeat the whole of it word for word,| |and not only so, but could reproduce |the whole poem years afterward.—! |Some people forget nothing, and oth- |ers remember nothing. It is a great the old war-steed. They may not be what is called eloquent—they may deal with matters where eloquence would be impertin nt—they may go down into the depths of the soul, where the darkest things with which tence. He isaccording to his locality, high- ly individual; there is a much strong- er and more noticeable difference be-| tween the Georgia negro and the ne- gro from Virginia, than between the| average white men from these locali- ties of the Union. Into he wild and untutored fancies| disgrace and ruin."—New York Her- ald. Farewell to "Cold Steel." General Benet, Chief of the United States Ordinance Bureau, has writ- of the negro enter always a strong (ten a letter to the Secretary of War religious element. There is no one containing this interesting and im- of them, however ignorant, illiterate, portant suggestion : or even barbarous, but entertains a wIn my mind there exists not a belief, albeit shadowy and definable, doubt that the days of the sabre and in a Great Give of life, and a yearn- |bayonet are numbered, and that the !ing. albeit vague, after the infinite.— | only question to be decided is wheth- |This feeling finds vent in his religious |er the time is not songs. These, brief and oft-repeated, - ". are monotonous, weird, and full of a already at hand |when they should be discarded." Cen. Sherman indorses Gen. Benet, |soletmat mysticism, but passionate and tender, and appeal with a touching supplication and pathos from the bur- dens of life on earth to the material and spiritual—but especially the ma- terial—glories of a life to come. |"Golden slippers on mv feet, |Slippin’and slidin’on degolden street’ and so does Gen. Sheridan. The lat- |ter says that "all a cavalryman wants is a good horse, a good revolving pis- |tol and knife." That these experi- Fenced officers know what they are I talking about is proved by the medi- |cal records of our civil yar. Out of |253,142 wounds received on the Fed- ide during the four years’ fight- For called to 5 spile 14 eon- |are lines in a hymn which forecasts |ing, only 906 were given by sabre. In reading what they have some of the blisses of the hereafter. sword or bayonet, and out of these The pathee side of the negro char- only 52 produced death. The medi- actor: Heightened in no small de- cal statistics in Germany in the late A gree by his humorous sense. This war with France are quite as convince- humorous element appears most un-ing. Out of 66,1C0 killed and wound- mes and even in his |ed, only 212 were wounded by sabre nose ciaicry anu solemn hymns. Note or bayonet, and only 6 killed. In the nonalspeed the strange blending of the grave and It is a singular fact that a substance | ludricrous in the song: which rouses and stimulates one man, | . ., may be only a soothing narcotic to "Methods’, Methodis’ another. It is so with books. That, Methodist gwine ter die. , ,. ... | I’se gwine ter run in de Method s faith we expect to have our facul-| d to the utmost, and this is thoro the glow comes from. -bred animali never SO 1 he is putting forth | expectedly at times ‘S and outstripping his most stately and sol which stirs all the intellectual activi- ties of one person, will put hisneigh- bor to sleep. It is the fear of inducing the latter result that leads me to close at the present point.—N. Y. Ledger. CAPT. EADS is not inclined to rest from his labors, even after spening the mouth of the Father of Waters so| cavalry service the killed and Wound- ted amounted to 2,236, and only 138 of was I born |these were touched by sabre or bayo- .Vnet An’ eat o’ the Methodis’ pie! Great tribulations! Ain’t dat hard? Trials ! * Climbin’ up Zion’s hill THE Washington correspondent of Thus "cold steel" in military opera- tions, of which we used to hear so much, is completely played out, and cold lead and iron in the shape of bullets and shells taken in its place:- What willbe the next advance in the service of slaughter ?—Missouri Re- publican. KNOXTILLE Tribune: Will the fraud never stop? At a meeting of !that it is not likely to close again. , 21 ; - -, |He proposes to put the whole body of the Baltimore San says ‘the state- the patient under treatment by his ment of Dennis that Gov. Noyes, of . . new method—the application ofjet- Ohio, knew of everymovement made Society," of Washington City, last Qt ite recently he expounded | in Florida is undoubtedly correct.— Friday night, the fell wing resolu- this plan before a large audience at When the nomination of Gov. Noves tion was adopted: "Resolved, That Memphis. The essential feature of for Minister to France was before the the Society discard the name of Mrs. Senate it was stated in Executiveses- R. B. Hayes, and denounce her cs sion that by all the rules of honesty | complete a fraud as her husband." — and propriety he should be rejected. | This action was based upon the fr et on account of the gross criminality of that in conversation, while at Phila- his proceedings in Florida. It is delphia the other day, Mrs. Hayes stated by a gentleman of the highest said she does not use strong.drink the plan is very simple; it is to nar- row the wide and shallow places of the river, so as to confine its current to a uniform cha The 1 take care of itself, for the river, will then proceed to excavate its channel to the required depth. No scheme yet offered for the improvement of the "M R. B. Hayes Temperance |blessing to have a good memory,| although, if this is the only faculty full of strength and melody. Take that one possesses, what he remem- him for all in all, I never knew a bet- bers may be of no special use to him. The power of retaining what we |ter reader. When he is well, he dea- !cons out his hymns, one verse at a time. A brother stands by his side who gives the pitch to the tune, when the whole congregation, rising, unite |in singing, producing at timesa wave |of harmony inspiring and grand in the extreme. I would willingly are seventeen sides to that proposal| Dumas & Allen, Cotton Mr. Noall is making. That on which AN. | T. R. MILLS, JR MARTIN & MILL, TORNEYS AT LAW your experienced eye is glaring in- |dignantly is only one of them. Wait a little. If you jump up it would soon appear that you know little about it. |By sitting still a d looking wise, you |will become wi er, and at length you practice in all the State Courts of th and the United States Courts. lee, front room, up-stairs, in hhthambuilding mch5,-6m DR.G W.T. M ANNA#, THOMASTON, GA. Offers his services to the public and ever be pleased to• 3.", d D. character, who wasin Florida during herself, but has no objections to oth- the whole time of the canvass of the | ers using it, and because she counten- vote, that Gov. Noyes, came there anced the use of claret punches at openly as the personal friend of Mr. | dinner, on board the excursion steam- Hayes , that it was he who was main- er on the Delaware river. The mcm- ly instrumental in stiffening up the bers of the Society probably remem- backbone of the Republican canvass- bered that it was claret punches, in ers through his proposed promises of over-doses, that caused that Christian |what Mr. Hayes would do when he | philosopher, Mr. Pickwick, to take a became President and that it would | pleasure drive in a wheel-barrow, be proved that Mr. Hayes was cog- without his knowledge or consent. nizant of everything that took place. W Then the investigation commences the Prerident will be requested to re- 1.1 r 1 2 call Mr. Noyes from France, so that venerable Thurlow Weed says that he ean testify ‘ should a young man in whose welfare . he took an interest consult him about — officeholding, he should reply that it ne - . is one of the worst ways of beginning THOMAS JEFFERSON isto have a mon- life. And this view is held by a large |ument. His grand children and great- | proportion of experienced publicmen. PROBABLY the biggest real estate |gradchildren are better off now than The desire for office, which amounts bubble for the amount of financial : they have been for year, and Yet their to a craze in some cases, is a sort of suds it contained has just been prick- means are very small. A friend be- mani € which has no justification in ed by a sheriff’s sale of the Dimmock queathee them last year a small sum reason or experience. The same of money with which they purchased amount of time, care, labor, and in- a small cottage. Miss Meikleham genuity spent in trying to get offices peculation ran high in New York holds a nine hundred dollar clerk-and keep them, would make a man ship in the Interior Department, to of average ability rich and usefuland Lots were sold, elegant houses which she was appointed during respected, as no politician can be.—N. ° - President Grant’s administration, | Y. Evangelist, when her family was wellnigh starv- ing. Last summer, Shadwell, Jeffer- g for son’s id home, was sold because the: AN investigating genius in N. Y., ? Mississippi promises since th of new prospect is that th SO match, e expense levees may thus be saved. floods will be less frequent and de- structive, snags and "sawyers" will disappear, the channel will be deep- ened and made less tortuous, and while navigation is thus simplified, the adjoining lands—the most fertile _., , in the country—will be permanently |subject. Whatever presents itself secure vividly to to the mind, leaves behind it a correspondent impression. There , are words which burn themselves in-| read depends also upon the degree| of interest that we take in the SCO for agriculture. The oppo- nents of the project have not yet been DON’T BE AN OFFICE-SEEKER.—The walk a mile at any time to hear him| read "Jesus, lover of my soul," or "Rock of ages, cleft for me." or "All| hail the power of Jesus’ name." These master-pieces of Christian pslamody fairly glow and burn under his mag- to the soul lil The treatment able to show any substantial object- ions to it, though the prominence of subject which has some direct bearing upon our personal interest | and pursuits we are likely to grasp and retain with peculiar tenacity.— The firmer remembers what he has with which it is brought before !the, public gives every opportunity for discussion. cad in the agricultural column long ical and almost inspired rendering of after every thing else in the journal | has faded from his mind. The physi-| cian retains in full distinctness the | them. Ie is said to be growing more mel-| low as he grows in years; and he does not take so much pleasure as : would not make the he did in his early ministry in using his sharp and well polished w - -- of defense and attack. While, there- painful clearness every word of the built and occupied by people who tore, he isi 1 less faithful in declar- abusive article written by his oppon- squandered, money right royally. A. Besides, it is dangerous to speak and |ing the whole truth, make a hit. One often sees an un-not array themselve can give an intelligent vote. If the thing is as outrageous as you deem it, depend on it, it will be seen. One man may be silly, but the general sense of the crowd will detect it. details of a medical which| Hill property at Elizabeth, N. J.— Along back early in the 70‘s, when htest impres-| sion upon the memory of a casual capons reader. The politician recalls with this. suburbs, no spot promised more than the lord of this mush it’s enemies do ent. The theologian will absorb and W : against him as retain an essay in the Bibliotheca Sa-room city, lavished no less than 8150,-1 heirs were too poorto keep it any has discovered that by turning the formerly. Indeed are but few cra, which most persons might read 000 on nis own private residence, and longer in the family. Miss Sarah new silver dollar topside down, and sober-minded people who do not now a dozen times without being much the property altogether carried most Randolph, a great-granddaughter,-cover the base of the neck with the . S I has taught a school there ever sincefingers. allowing the chin and lips of :and commendation.—London Cor • of | Then again there are writers who Iv $500,000. At last week’s sale #3.- |the war. She is a highly educated the Goddess of Liberty to show, it :the W atchman. have the gift of putting things in such 479 was 1ealized to balance 8500 ast lady, and compiled a most interest- makes a complete old English King, a way that we cannot help remember- inlebtecthess, and cling volume entitled "The Domestic crown and all. The hair at the back ing what they have told us. There this was swallowed byte Costs otthe Life of Thomas Jefferson." The pub- of the neck forms a lion’s head if held are others whose style is so dry, or sole; and as for the stovooDimock lishers of the work reaped great profit whose thoughts are so muddled, that palace that wasknocked dow at a re- while Miss Randolph received only it is impossible to recall anything |cent sale for $58,000. two hundred dollars, which they have written. | The power of retaining what we Iris now stated that Beecher has read depends mainly upon the degree | been consulting his lawyer with a of mental concentration that we give view of prosecuting Tilton and the fledged youth ruined by one happy applauded speech. The tiger has tast 1 . . . ed blood. Now he springs to his feet speak of him in ter ms of high respect the wiser for it. on the slightest provocation. The wait on his patrons, sound of his own voice has a fascina- —|tion for himself, and he indulges free-! D. ly, while the rest are informally vot- | FRANCIS C. BARLOW, a brave officer |ing him a bore.|in our civil war, and late Attorney |Young men beware ofmaking"ora- General of the State of New York, tions.” If your class chooses you, or makes a very strong point against |the town calls you out on the Fourth A. M.’P GGS & PATTERSON, THOMASTON, GA. Tender the public their professio ces. . mch6,-y to orate, why, you may, just once, like having the measles or the whooping cough. (Indeed, an interesting par- Pecan - make money faster at work for us 6 (2 at anything else. Capital not re- : 2:1 fired: we will start you. $12 per day| eNell, made by the industrious. Mien |uou, are y 2 nu Irun: on Is the time. Coste ing deeply moved, while the on look CO terms free * - 3° Augusta, Maine. Mr. Hayes in connection with the Florida frauds. Gen. Barlow’s point| is that Mr. Hayes was bound to in- form himself of the facts of the Flori- da case, which were easily accessible; under the fingers in the same position. The first time one of the novelties finds its way into this office we will test that dis covery. allel might be drawn between the in _ fectious, spasmotic irrepressible, that as a lawyer Mr. Hayes was bound noisy whooping-cough, and the ora- to know that the electoral vote be- tion ; the principal actors in both be- longed to Mr. Tilden; and that though j.,= •‘- the office was given to him under the Address TRUE regard them with mingled pity forms of law, he was in honor and mch12-1y and wonder, and are very glad when conscience bound to reject it. to the subject. Sir Isaac Newton tells Moultons on a charge of conspiracy us that this was the whole secret of to extort hash money from him. Such his eminence and success. This is a a prosecution would stir up the faculty which ought to be carefully Beecher-Tilton moral cess-pool afresh, cultivated. It is the most important and no doubt add to the popularity of factorin the education of the young.|both Beecher and Tilton as public can No one can think of two things at lecturers. THE French exhibition, a Paris dis- patch says, will not be in smooth run- ning order until about the first of June, although it will be formally opened May first. The buildings are well advanced, but the exhibitors are tardy with their goods. The Ameri- and English departments are among those nearest complete. House and Sign Painter Thomaston, Georgia. ENDERS the public his services and will, on reasonable terms, doall kinds of painting. Furniture, House or Sign.
