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Newspaper Page TextCartersville Sentinel p. u. BREWSTER. EDITOR. CaRTERSVILLE, G.\ , APRIL I, 18.74. “No Man Liveth to Himself.” Every one in a community exerts an influence, either for good or evil, and is responsible not only for the evil that he does, but also for the evil that he has the power to prevent. No one can occupy a mutual position. Every one of us is on one side or the other of every question that involves the common weal or woe of society; and we should be careful so to act in everything as to have “consciences void of offense towards God and towards man.” It is true that differ ences of opinion often ari e as to what is right or wrong in some cases, and under some circumstances; but an enlightened conscience is almost always an unerring guide to those who are disposed to give it fair play. “I)o unto all men as yon would have them do unto you,” like all other di vine injunctions, commends itself to our S'-nse of justice and right; and is so plain and reasonable as to be easi ly understood by all who are capable of reflection, or whose mental endow ments are sufficient to render them accountable for their conduct. Yet our interests in the world as individ uals arc often so diversified as to cause collisions, conflicts, misunder standings and variances; and these things separate ns in our feelings, and often in our intercourse with each other; and we often think that we do well if our opposition to those who are in the way of the accom plishment of our selfish schemes is confined alone to our feelings. It frequently happens that the spirit of antagonism indulged in the heart finds expression in word and deed, which afford abundant evidence of the depravity of out nature. It is generally supposed to be hard for us to love our enemies; but, in re alty, is it hard in lite sense in which it is to he understood? No more so, we think, than it is for us to “love our neighbor as ourselves.” We can so far love our neighbor and our enemy, too, as to do them justice, so far as to be as careful not to injure them in their persons, property or characters, as we would Ik? not to injure our own. That much ought to be ex pected of every honest and magnani mous man, atid more especially of every one who has the least claim to the name of Christian. How true it is that “ManV inhumanity to man Mitke* countless thousand's mourn!” And how unfortunate it is, that there is so little charity in the world! Almost every one seems bent on fitt-ki ng his own, not caring a farthing for others. But, after all, we are all d< pendent at some time and under some circumstances. We cannot live to ourselves, neither can we die to ourselves. We came into the world helpless and dependent, and so we must leave it. The love of kind ni thers protected our frail lives in infancy; and when the end of our earthly existence is drawing nigh, and our limbs, though active now, have lost their power, we shall need kind hands to minister to our dying wants, to close our sightless eyes, and, when all is over, to consign our lifeless bodies to the house of silence. Let us be Thankful! Pomeroy's Democrat says: “The good old State of Georgia has been under Democratic government long enough now to begin to realize the beneficence of such a thing. Recent ly it negotiated a loan of a million and a quarter dollars at par, and the cost of negotiating was less than one per cent. This put the Empire State of the South on a footing as good as the best, and is something different from the situation at the time Bul lock ran away, Blodgett escaped to South Carolina, and the Kimballs were forced into court. There is not one of the Southhrn States that has c ontinued under negro and carpet bag domination that is not now stif f* ring from partial or total loss of credit; while those that have been placed under white and intelligent adminisration aro rapidly resuming their position among the safest and best.” Rev. Mr. Burkhead closed his meet ings at this place last Sunday night. Although it rained incessantly dur ing most of the time he was here he but few limes failed to preach to large congregations. On Sunday morning lie preached a lengthy anil, ini rating sermon on “Baptism,” and also a splendid sermon in the af ternoon on ‘ Infant Baptism.” He is pronounced by all an able divine.— At the close of his sermons an effort was made to organize a Presbyterian Church. A small membership was obtained, and a committee appointed to solicit subscriptions for the pur pose of erecting a house of worship. We hope the experiment may prove successful.— Calhoun Times 25 1n vlt. Dr. Wilts perpetrated a better tiling than he was aware of in his temperance speech *at the Atlanta meeting, wh -u lie stilted that “agen tleman who had been a constant drinker for thirty years informed him that there was not a particle of good liquor in Atlanta.” Those visi tors to the capital, whom sudden illness has compelled to patronize the saloons, will not question the accura cy of the statement. But it speaks volumes against the doctrines of the auti-alcoholisUj that a man may drink poisoned liquor constantly for .50 years, and still live to tell the tale. [Special Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sen tinel.] The gAolfca Clay of Georgia—A Fortune in It. Macon, March 23, 1874. It is remarkable that the kaolii clay beds of Georgia, forming a wel defined strata from the Savanna) river al ove Augusta, and from thenc in a southwest direction through th< county of Baldwin and on to the Chattahoochee river, have not been more utilised by man. It now al most quietly slumbers .underneath the earth’s surface, where it has laii since first placed there by the hand of the Creator. Ages have elapsed, generations without number passed away without any one considering ii of sufficient importance to invest cap ital to transform the crude material so well and so perfectly formed for a thousand uses it, might be p*t A correspondent says it would make excellent fire-proof brick for the con struction of houses. He is right, fui we have been using the brick around grates in Macon ever since we com menced burning coal, and there is no such thing as wear out or burn out in them. These brick are made by Mr. Henry Stevens, who has a small factory for their manufacture and that of water pipes on the Eaton ton Branch of the Central Railroad, neat Millcdgeville. If there is any om else making anything from this clav he is not known to the writer. In 1800 we saw in the business office ol Bragdon, Ford & Cos,, the extensive engine builders of New Albany, In diana, a beautiful white porcelain water pitcher and obtained the histo ry of it from Captain Ford. The ka olin clay from which it was math was obtained in Georgia tlmriug tin war by W. N. Haldeman, the wel I known proprietor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who, after the war ceased, had it made into the ware then upon the water-stand. Never did a whiter, or a purer pitcher grace a lady’s chamber or table, or was ev er fashioned by the cunning hand of a Chinaman. “Had I not my hands full of business,’’ said Captain Ford, •‘I would have a factory under way upon those beds in six months. Any one can make an overwhelming and an independent fortune out of them, and it is marvelous to me that your people do not see it.” The only re ply which could be made to this was that our people never could see any thing but white cotton and a black nigger. As your city has the water jk)Wv r, and is one of factories, per haps the discussion of this clay, through your columns, will not eventually be in vain. A Bit of Advice to Correspond ents., There are a few things that we would like to impress upon the minds of those whose fortune, or misfortune, necessitate their sending correspond ence to a newspaper. Here they are: Write plainly. Not to do so is to make an item almost valueless, and sometimes worse than useless. If you write a “back” hand, learn to do it with the left hand, that the compositor may not have to stretch his neck to the left to a dangerous extent to get the run of a word. Don’t underline every adjective in the sentence after the style of a law yer’s brief. If von have ever studied punctua tion at all, punctuate; but if you have not, let it slide. If you have occasion to make a capital J, write it below, and not on the line. If John Smith or William Me Fad; den has purchased a piece of proper ty of Hezekiah llobbletop, for #I,OOO, say so if you desire to see the notice in print. There is no occasion to say: “Our highly respected and honorable citizen, John Smith, who for the last ten years has been selling milk at ten cents a quart, thereby realizing a munificent profit, has purchased from his neighbor, Mr. Hezekiah llobbletop, a most estima ble citizen, and honorable vender of garden sass and sieh, that beautifully located piece of property known as ‘Fools’ Folly Pol*,’ and in that most salubrious location* and intends erecting a house thereon.” Self praise is no recommendation, neither does it pay the printer, but it doth disgust him. Dot your i’s, cross your t’s point your ids, and make them distinct from the rounded n. Use ink. Load pencil writing over-strains the eye of the composi tor when deciphering it, and also causes him to indulge in “cuss words. ” Crowd as many facts into as lew words as possible, so that your neigh bor may find room to advertise his tortoise shell cat, which has strayed from its bed and board. Be sure to spell names correctly. A man wants his name given riuhtlv or not at all. Never write Sabbath for Sunday. Assassination in Arkansas. A special telegram to the Little Rock Gazette , from Forest City, states that Hon, John W. Fox, Judge of the eleventh judicial circuit, was shot with n double barreled shot gun on the morning of the 21st ult., by J. li. P. Aldridge, a lawyer, and died from the effects a few hours af terwards. The dispatch says Judge Fox was on his way to the post office Iroiu the hotel and had not gone much more than thirty paces when Mr. Aldridge stepped out from Mr. R G. Dyes drug store and said: "Now, Judge Fox,” at the same time tiring on him. The first shot, took elieet in his stomach, lie sank on the ground, exclaiming, “Oh! Lord, I am a dead man,” and after he had iallen, Aldridge, to make sure of his work, emptied the other barrel at him, it taking effect in his bowels. He was taken back to the hotel, when upon examination, it was found that his wounds were fatal. Aldridge then went and delivered himself to the sheriff, A jury of inquest re turned a yerdict in accordance with the above facts. The origin of the difficulty is not definitely known, though it is thought it grew out of some remarks to Aldridge by Judge Fox while the latter was on the bench. Aldridge is now in the cus tody of the sheriff. Usury Laws* The Legislature of Virginia has just passed a bill revipisg the usury laws of that State. The legal rate of interest is fixed at six percent, and ill contracts in excess of that amount are declared illegal, and subject the lender to the loss of the entire sum charged for the use of hia money. The banks are allowed to discount paper, running not longer than six months, at the rate of one-half of one per cent, per month, but may not take more than this from the face of the bill. We do not believe that the Legisla ture of a State has the right to regu late the price of money any more than it has the right to enact the ; wice of calico and sugar. Money, like other commodities, is worth just what it will bring, no more and no less, and it is manifestly unjust to say that a man may charge what lie pleases for merchandise or land, but must take what the law thinks his money is Wurth. But if usury laws were right upon principle, which we deny, tliere are no means by which they can be made operative. L'lie Legislature is powerless to frame an act which cannot be successfully and easily evaded. Let us suppose a •ase with the Virginia law. Suppose t approved by the Governor and placed upon the statute books. A gentleman in Richmond wishes money, and money in Richmond is worth ten per cent. What does he do? He makes a negotiable note, payable to order, and carries it to a money lender or broker. The broker hears his application and replies that he is not allowed to charge more than six per cent, interest, and as money is worth ten per cent, he can not make a loan. “But,” he will say, “if you offer to sell me your pa per for oue hundred dollars I will give you ninety dollars for it, as that is ali I think it worth.” What law can prevent such a transaction? What law can regulate the price of negotiable paper. It is something which ex necessitate rei the law can not handley It is something which the buyer and the seller must ar range between themselves. For in stance, the bonds -f the city of Rich mond, which are only negotiable notes, may be worth ninety cents on the dollar, while John Smith’s note is only worth seventy-five. Can the Lesgislature, then, declare that both must be taken at par ? Assuredly not. But what is the difference to John Smith, who wishes to borrow money, between giving his note for one hundred dollars with interest at the rate of ten per eent. per annum and getting one hundred dol lars for it, and getting ninety dollars for the same note without interest ? Very little, and that little against the borrower. It is folly to attempt to regulate the price of money. It must regulate itself. Under certain cir cumstances its price will be high. Under others it will be low. But it cannot be affected by legislation.— Avgusta Chronicle d? Sentinel. Archbishop Fnrelt on Tem perance. New York, March 21. Dr. J. G. Holland has published a reply to the recent circular ol Archbishop Purcell on the present temperance movement among the woKsen. He gays: “What, in God’s dear name, was there left them to do but just what they are doing, and what you condemn ? The whole business has been left to God and the women, and the latter are praying in the churches and in the streets, and pushing on their divine and peaceful crusade, because the men of America have failed to do their duty. Shall a a Christian man, in high station or low, lift his voice against them ? The Scripture quotations of the Archbishop are answered by oth er quotations, and witli the ivma l k that when no account is taken of the circumstances tinder which each sep arate passage was written, it is easy to sustain almost any proposition by it. In the concluding paragraph of his reply, Dr. Holland says to the Archbishop: “I tremble to think ol the stumbling-block which yon, in your circular have placed before the tempted and deceived. There is not a whisky-mill in the Union which does not stand firmer on its founda tion in consequence of it. There is not a wli’sky-seller in the country who does not approve of it, and feel easier in his business for it. There is no clergyman who indulges in wine to the destruction of his influ ence as a temperance man who does not see in it his justification. There is no young man, just beginning a course of dissipation, who does not find his downward steps the easiest for it. All those who respect ami re vere the temperate practices of your life, are grieved by it. You have made a mistake which you can hard ly rectify in a life-time. You have given strength to the forces organized against the national pn *iy and mor ality.” 1 i The Prostrate State. Washington, March 27. —The committee from the South Carolina Tax Payers’ Convention had an in terview with the President this morn ing. After being personally present ed by Secretary Fish, the grievances of the Sopth Carolinians were briefly and pathetically set forth by Hon. W. D. Porter, Chairman of the Commit tee, /L'he President listened at tentjmjr, und replied at some length, lie said that he felt sympathy with any people who are badly governed and over-taxed, as in Louisiana, and as South Carolina seemed also to be; yet he could not see how anything could be done, either by the executive he legislative branch of the Na ni Government for their relief, inasmuch as South Carolina had now a complete existence as a sovereign State, und must enact her own laws. The President referred, with some feeling, to some personally offensive utterances which bad been made by a member of the Tax Pavers’ Con vention in regard to himself. The delegates explained that those expres sions bad met with the marked dis approval of the whole convention. In parting, the President expressed the hope that when their east? was laid before Congress some means might be afforded of legitimately af fording the desired relief. State School Commissioner. Prof. Orr will in a few days issue his instructions to County School Commissioners. There will be no material change in his administra tion this year. He expresses some regret at the passage of the bill to pay school claims for 1870. He be lieves it is a law calculated to benefit speculators in these claims rather than the teachers. A New Executive Mansion. A movement is said to be on foot in Washington for the purchase of Meridian Hall, so as to build thereon anew executive mansion and sur round it with a park. Forty or fifty speculators have bought up the “Stone larm,” which includes the height referred to, and their plan is to sell it to Congress. It cost about two hundred thousand dollars, and the price asked is a half million dol lars. Two Innocent men Hung. Cincinnati, March 25.—1n June, 1872, Belle Secor, a young gil l agetj thirteen years, was outraged and murdered in Mercer county, Ohio, and two men, named Me Lead and Kemmell, suspected of the crime, were lynched by infuriated citizens. A few days ago Thomas B. Douglass, of Fort Wayne, Ind., on his apa.th bed confessed that he committed “the outrage, and afterwards participated in the hanging of the two innocent men. How the Money Goes. 1 The Southern Churchman, in its last issue, is showing up the doings of the Virginia Bible Society. It ap pears that the society received last year from the churches #10,500, and that it paid out for salaries and other exjienses #7,000, and only #2, ( J00 was appropriated for Bibles. The general agent of he society received #3,3t0. From the above showing it appears that each Bible given away cost about #3,00, when the tact is that the same Bible can be purchased in any book store for about fifty cents. Direct Tracte—Death of a Soldier of the war of 1812. Atlanta, March 25.-The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to-day, en dorsed the establishment of a direct line of steamers between Charleston and Liverpool, pledging Resolutions urging the speedy con struction of the Southern Pacific Railroad and an increased appropria tion to the Atlanta Customhouse were adopted. M. C. Brown, father of Governor Brown, a soldier of 1812, died last night, in Cherokee, aged 87. Terrible Explosion. - Memphis, March 25.—The tow boat Crescent City, from New Or leans for .St. Louis, with five sugar and cotton barges, exploded. The barges were burned. Eleven persons were killed and several hurt. The Crescent City was valued at #70,000. The Crescent City, at the time of the explosion, had 140 pounds of steam, with water flush five minutes before the explosion. The" engineer in 1 charge at the time was aft welding a firehook and cannot account for the explosion. The barges in tow had five hundred tons of coal, six hundred ton 8 of sugar and two hundred tons of queensware, all of which was lost. Four adirional persons are dead. None of the bodies of the killed have been recovered. Planting. This is an amusing game for a quick-witted company. Each in torn proposes to plant something; and the rest are to guess what will come up. For instance, one says: If I plant a dandy what will come up ?—A cockscomb. If I plant a watch-maker what will come up?—A four o’clock. A tailor?— Cabbage. A seamstress?— thimble-berry. A spider?— Catch-fly. A Maryland girl ? Baltimore Belle. A member of a brass band ?-Trum pet Flower. A shoe-maker?— Lady’s Slipper. These are only a few examples, which an ingenious person can im prove upon indefinitely.— Advance. Heavy Robbery on the Western & Atlantic Railroad. The Herald quotes the following from the Knoxville Press of Thurs day. Mr. Warren Johnson, of Marys ville, was a passenger on the Western and Atlantic railroad train which arrived at Dalton, from Atlanta, at an early hour yesterday morning. Mr. Job iißon had been asleep on his seat, and being awakened- in order to change cars, hurriedly left the car in which he was in and entered a 1 ear on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad. Soon after wards he discovered that the pAtfcef of his pantaloons had been cut from the outside, and bis pocketbook,con taining $2,200, stolen. There was, of course, no trace of the thief, who had doubtless made good his escape. The Bankrupt Bill. The Committee on the Judiciary have determined to non-concur in the Senate amendment to the bank nipt bill. The members want to un derstand fully the effeots of the amendments and to discuss them, and will therefore not permit undue haste. The Senate amended the ex isting law by providing that in all voluntary cases of bankruptcy, a payment of 33 per cent shall act "as a final release. The present law re quires 50 per cent. The House Com mittee have struck this amendment ot, and adopted another treating voluntary and involuntary bankrupts alike, by providing that all the prop erty shall be taken and paid out pro rata to the creditors, and the person or persous shall then be adjudged bankrupts, no matter whethen 1 per cent or 50 has boon paid. The Acreage in Cotton. A gentleman who has traveled ex tensively throughout the State in forms us that the acreage in cotton will be about twenty-five per cent, less than last year. A larger area of land will ba devoted to corn and small grain- The State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry recom mended one-tliird cotton and ttyo thirds in corn, and other cereals, and such products as are needful for the support of man and beast If the programme laid down by the Grang ers be adhered to and faithfully car ried out the planters of Georgia will find their financial condition vastly improved at the close of this present year* The mania for all cotton has well nigh ruined the South. If ex perience is worth anything our plant ers have had it bitter enough to de ter them from trying to make money by planting cotton exclusively.—Au gusta Chronicle. The Comptroller-General express es the belief that the recent action of the Legislature in repealing the law exempting from taxation S2OO worth of property of every tax-payer will increase the revenue of the State SIOO,OOO. It was ascertained that, in many instances, certain planters with a large amount of live stock would distribute them all among their tenants, upon the pretext of a sh.idowy ‘‘promise to pay,” and there by excuse themselves from including them in their own return. The tenant of course, seldom having over S2OO worth, would pay no tax what ever on the property thus concealed from the unwary tax receiver. Evading the Liquor Law. It was some celebrated English lawyer, we believe, who inserted tha& Parliament could not frame a statute through which a coach-and-six could not be driven. The monil of which being that no law could be made absolutely free from flaw or defect. Hut experience has shown that laws may be as easily evaded as success fully resisted- A case in point i3 the policy resorted to by the New York liquor dealers in order to avoid the penalties prescribed by whatis known as the “civil damage act.” Thftr law gave damages to the wives of parties who came to any harm while under the influence of liquor, recoverable from the party who furnished the liquor. The saloon men now give their customers the following little instrument, which they require to be signed, witnessed and returned : I, , of , wife of , do hereby permit and allow that my said husband shall purchase such liquor as he desires, and shall drink the same to the extent that he desires, and 1 hereby agree to relinquish all claims to damages under tiie civil damage law that the furnishing of such liquor would ]>ermit me to bring suit for. Witness, , Signed, , Of course the average drunkard will find no difficulty in having this document properly signed and at tested. If he is a wife-beater, as is not unfrequently the case, the work is rendered still more easy of ac complishment. Such legislation as liquor damage acts will never do any good to the cause of temperance. They can always be successfully evad ed, and perhaps do great mischief in the end. The Penitentiary Convicts; Last Thursday Governor Smith closed uj> the bUs for the penitentia ry convicts, as follows: George D. Harris, of Bartow coun ty, took 50 at S2O per head per an num, to work on Iron Works near Cartersville. The Dade County Coal Company took 100 at sll per head per annum, to work on coal mines, live years. The Northeastern Rail Road took 50 at sll per head, for 21 months. Wallace, Ilaley & Cos., contractors for the North Georgia Rail Road, of Marietta, took 200 for two years, at sll yer head per annum. Henry Stephens took 50 for one year, at S2O per head per annum. Smith, Riddle & Taylor, of Wash ington county, took 100 for five years at sll per head per annum, for farm ing purposes. Each one of these gen tlemen took 33 convicts. John T. & W. I). Grant took 180 for five years, at sll per head. This makes a total of 030—all the convicts now on hand. Grant. Al exander & Cos. paid under their con tract, which expires on the Ist Apii), SSO per head. This yielded the State a revenue of $51,500. Under present arrangements they will yield about sl2 per capita per annum. The Governor rejected a hid made by one party to take the whole force and support it for its la bor, paying the State nothing. The Governor found only enough convicts to satisfy a small portion of the bids made. In awarding them he has has had an eye to scattering them ju diciously through the different sec tions of the State, and to putting them at a diversity of pursuits, thus testing the question of their adapta bility to work, and giving them the power to “run out” no especial class of laborers, but only to work experi ments in several diiections. Paying Fanning. We find an article in one of our exchanges, copied from the Rural Carolinian , showing what has been done in the way of farming in North Carolina: In 1806, many members of the Society of Friends in North Carolina were preparing to move Northwest. Francis 1\ King, and other Friends of the city of Baltimore, Md., assured them that their own section of the old North Carolina was by far the better country for them. And, to demonstrate the fact that improved and paying farming could be done in North Carolina, Mr. Kingand his associates purchased a small farm of red and gray moderately rolling lands, and secured the services of Win. A. Sampson, a brother of the same faith, as manager to run the same for a period of seven years. The owners stocked the farm with thoroughbred Alderney cattle, South Down sheep, Essex and Chester hogs, erecting proper buildings, as farm house, barns, eto., at a cost of over $6,000. About 125 acres are in cul tivation, mostly in the various grass es and small grain ; among the grass es the most valued are timothy, orchard grass and red clover. By proper tillage and fertilization the 1 wheat and grain crops have been satisfactory and, at least, doubled the average yield of the surrounding country. The hay and grain crops have been ample to sustain, inside of the 125 acres, under fence, abont six head of horses, twenty head of eattle, thisty fcead of sheep and twenty-five hogs; none of which are ever allow ed to run at large outside of the farm enclosure. And at this time the farm has on hand an extensive lot of as fine clover, timothy and orchard grass hay as can be purchased North or Soirth. The farmers in this section, who plant all cotton, would do well to try farming on the above plan. We know a gentleman who, strange as it may appear;, devotes his farm near this city exclusively to the culture of hay. He has done this for over a quarter of a century, and with very satisfactory results. Farming will pay. Exclusive cotton planting will continue to impoverish our people.— Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel. THE NEWS IN GENERAL. A reading room and library asso ciation is to be established at Grtfin. Governor Z. B. Vance will deliver his lecture on the “Wandering Race” 4n Atlanta at an early day. Mr. John Huff, of Laurenceville, committed suicide on the morning of the 24th ult. by cutting his throat. The Grange agricultural imple ment factory, in Plattsmouth, Neb,, is turning out fifty cultivators a day. The Eaton ton Messenger estimates that the people of that county pay $105,037 for corn and bacon during the year. The late rains damaged Stewart county three or four thousand dollars in the matter of bridges, levees, crops, and other ways. The Havana banks refuse to dis count paper, and currency continues to depreciate. A recent decree makes stamped paper payable in gold. Those who have a gnage report that six inches of water fell in Co lumbus last week. In Macon the fall was five inches, and in Selma and Mobile eight. No Rum-Shops Allowed.—Rice county, Arkansas, which about two years ago was a fertile desert, has nearly 5,000 inhabitants,, refuses to vote bonds, and won’t allow a rum seller within its borders. The Atlanta Board of Trade want to build three roads from that city on the narrow gnage plan—one to Green ville, Meriwether county; another to Jefferson, Jackson county; and a third to Monticello, Jasper county. City of Mexico, March 15, via Havana.—A Catholic mob, on the night of March 7, attacked the Prot estant Chapel in Puebla and smashed the windows and furniture, destroyed the Bibles, and stoned the pastor, the Rev. Antonio Carrol. Columbia, S. C., March 27.—Two colored men were hung in Sumter to-day, and a white man in Abbeville, for murder. Since reconstruction murders have become as common as larceny was before. Several other murderers are to pay the penalty in a few weeks. John Hay, of the New York Tri bune, and John C. Nicolay, the pres ent Marshal of the Supreme Court, are writing a life of Abraham Lin coln. Both of these gentlemen were formerly private secretaries of Presi dent Lincoln, and will prepare their biography with great care. The Young Men’s Christian Asso ciation of Atlanta are trying to bring Ilenry Ward Beecher South on a lec turing tour. May the good Lord de liver the South from such an inflic tion and speedily clothe these young men of Atlanta in their right mind, is our earnest prayer.— Dalton Citizen. Amen!—[Sentinel. New York, March 22.—The will of the late John Clark,of New Bruns wick, N. J., gives SIO,OOO to the American Bible Society, $20,000 to the Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Protestant (Dutch) Church, SIO,OOO to the widows and disabled ministers of the Reformed Protestant (Dutch) Church. The Treasury Department last year sjient $2,500 tor soap and $1,488 85 for crash towels. One would sup pose, from the quantity of soap and towels purchased, that the Secretary and his assistants spend the greater part of their time in washing and wiping their hands, and from the condition of their hands they ought to spend it all that way. What Next.—The labor problem seems to have reached its last analy sis in Mobile, where a negro labor union rampages round the streets enforcing its edicts, under penalty of “licking to death” any darkey who undertakes a job below “de rates ob de society.” No people are so devot ed to liberty, equal rights and all that sort of thing as the Americans, black and white; but none are so ready to sell their personal liberty and responsibility for the blessed privilege of paying weekly dues, and submitting to the domination of committees. Judge Cox, who was assassinated in Arkansas the other day, is the se cond Circuit Judge wlu lias been killed in that State within the last six months. Aldridge, who killed him, was a member of the last Legis lature of Arkansas. He is a lawyer, and was lately imprisoned by order of Judge Cox for contempt of Court, and this constituted the motive of the murder. It is stated that his conduct in Court, for which he was imprisoned, was outrageously im proper and disorderly. The Savannah Morning News savs: “Learning that a horse-tamer smoth ered a horse to death in Bartow coun ty the other day, a Cartersville editor rises to say that he could tame a horse that way. This is merely the mad pride of intellectuality. We ven ture to assert that no such original plan would have crossed the editor’s brain.” Now, don’t yon venture to make any such assertion. We object to having any “liedtop” productions measured by our half busheL—■•[Ed. Sentinel. Support- Your Local Paper. — There never was a truer sentiment expressed, than the following from the Chicago Inter- Ocean: “The best indication of the thrift, intelligence,, and public spirit of any community, is evidenced to the oat side world by a well supported, neat ly printed, sprightly, and carefully edited local paper. In no way, through no other conceivable chan nel, can the wants, aspirations or consequent's of any locality or com munity be so well known to the out side world as through its local paper. Such papers deserve the highest re wards, and the roost appreciation, at the hands of the people for whom they are performing so noble and useful a mission.” o Washington, D. C., March 27. - In the Senate, bills to relieve the po litical disabilities of Win. L. Cabell, of Texas, and Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia, were passed. This is in the face of an adverse report from the Judiciary Committee. In the Senate, finance occupied the day, with no action. Gen. Gordon introduced a bill to authorize the settlement of accounts between the Western and Atlantic Railroad of Georgia and the United States upon the same basis that similar claims were settled with Tennessee railroads. Adjourned to Monday. The Ilonse discussed the currency bill all day and will continue the discussion to-night and to-morrow* o A few weeks ago a number of un known persons called at the residence of Mr. E. Kelly, in Jasper county, with the intention of killing him on sight. Mr. Kelly’a little boy came to the door, and as lie opened, it sev eral shots were fired at him, one tak ing effect in his leg. For some time the affair was shrouded in mystery and the guilty parties were not even suspicioned. Last week three ne groes surrendered themselves to the authorities in Jasper county and plead guilty to the crime. They were immediately imprisoned in the Monticello jail, where they now lie awaiting a trial. They assign as a reason for the attempted murder, that they intended to kill Mr. Kelly in order to be released from a con tract to build a fence. o Brownlow.—A Washington let ter speakb pitifully of I'arson Brown low, of Tennessee. He is taken to his seat in the Senate at twelve, and carried back to bis solitary bouse at five. There is no color in the tall, pale, dark-haired man except in his eyes, which grow restless when any thing in the debate excites him. He never speaks, nor moves, nor smiles, nor calls a page, nor talks to a neigh bor. He is afflicted with a terrible palsy, which makes him quiver and tremble continually, but the old man means to die with his harness on, and sits there by the door on the left of the President’s seat, biding his time. To find the number of bushels in a crib or bin, multiply the number of cubic feet in the same by 45, and di vide by 50. The quotient will be bushels. One solid foot is 1728 cubic inches or 45-56 of a bushels. A bushel is 2,150 2-5 cubic inches. In a box 8 feet long, 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep—multiply 8, 4 and 2 to gether, and we have the contents of the box, 51 3-7 bushels. A Wx 13 by 13 inches and 12$ inches deep, inside measure, will contain 1 bushel. A bin 4 feet square and 1 foot 11.1 inches deep, will hold 25 bushels. o Crop Prospect in California. The California farmers, it is reported, could not have wished for more fa vorable weather than has lately been prevailing. The grain is already at an advanced stage, and the wheat yield especially promises to be enor mous. In Montery county alone, the yield is estimated a 60,000 tons. Californians are in the habit of pre dicting that that wonderful State ere lon * will be the granary of the world, and every year the prophecy looks more and more like fact. (o> The Rising Star.—The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the snn. The brightness of our life is gone, shadows of the evening fall behind us, and the world seems but a dim reflection itself—a broader shadow. We look forward into the coining lonely night; the soul with draws itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.— Longfellow. o The New York Almanack says: “Poor, but dishonest young boys fasten wrought nails to the ends of strings, and harpoon sweet potatoes and apples from their hiding place's in front of the stores. This may be* considered sport, but it is the first step to the downward road to Con gress.- There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it, while the other closes itself, and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack t hem it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them. A Child’s Faith.—A woman said one day to her child, “We have lost dear father, what shall we do?” “Why, praise God, mother, for what he has left.” It is not enough that we swallow truth ; we must, feed upon it as insects do on the leaf, till the whole heart be colored by its qualities, and shows its food in every fibre.— Coleridge. A French paper joints ont how the passion for gambling is shown in this country, so that even in wedding notices it is necessary to state that there were “no cards., Mrs. Green, a Kansas widow, wants to marry again, and, as a recommem dation, she says she has used one broom for fourteen years. There are over ten million women in America, and yet Tom Hutton, of Georgia, hung himself on account of a girl fifteen years old. llon. A. 11. Stkphrn‘B. —Tho la test news from Washington informs us that Mr. Stephens is still confined to his room, but is improving. n £ he i ami, y should n, ty- lo make it , a con^ JV u f , be interest 7 8o - & that houec-hold where , V ness, mother’s social! sports and pleasures arTV* 1 by each other ru . n "t proportion to the 18 , companions and (Iren are evil, u,™ Sof the whern tiu . cares and/’ 1 ' 1 *!; vided that the form!?" *K J pressive and the latter nr! n °* a w-here the hearts grnwVi years r„,| by.sofi^alj which most Co,* ton n ?'S on y hod,l, and lh,.r,f„J 3 >'S —Christian Weekly A Curious Case._ a . is reported from near Exeter, En s |a„d years ago the son of .. j. assaulted a policeman % ed. lie was fined l, v th, \f m his absence, the seven days’ * years ago, he came to 1 S mother s funeral, and an ah,!!' ' k ' then made to arrest |, > eluded the police. f,J ’ father died, and the man L*** to attend his funeral ‘iv* e ftii police arrested him i n .i 1 ' ,l H yard and lie is now umul Cl% ‘ imprisonment. r 8 olll g San Francisco, . dispatch from Portland o! day. says the Indians on tJ'ln’ I '- reservation have grown in. i w serious tn.ul.lr i,f,, nd T ment of troops hare h*,„ V" 8 a " d , 1,18 hill,, „7 discovert and n conspiracy Indians to in.n R nrt e considerable numlier of hnli. \ A left the reservation. J^k't Dr. Harrison, who was with robbing a Mr. B]*nm‘ gima, in Atlanta, was since arrested in Memphis*, £? and is now in confinement i f lauta. 1 WHO AREffiI Cff? fj The nrnnwiih g „„d, firm Mi) So is the man with a clear*, science. So is the parent of vigorous, k py childien. So is the editor of a good m t . with a good subscription lwt r _ So ,. i I lhe whi# the little children of the p ar; , pluck, us he passes them in th-• phiy. So is the wife who has the tlv, heart of a good husband. So is thy maiden whose horison j not bounded by the “coming mC but who has a purpose in life -y. er she ever meets him or not. So is the young man who, k, ; his hand on his heart, can ssv, ' have treated every woman 1!- ever met as I should wish my treated by other men.” So is the little child who get;i, sleep with a kiss on its lips,ami h whose waking a blessing waits, *♦♦♦ The Bald Mountain Volcano As the threatened volcano in Bill Mountain, North Carolina, is, k now, attracting public attention,k it being situated in that purtiund the old North State lying rot v far from onr own birders, we the following article upon the in ject from that staunch and rdia? old journal, the Hillsboro’ (N.C.i Recorder, believing that it will W interest to our readers: “Within the last few weeks repori of commotions among the mount® of McDowell conn tv have boom ■ ed abroad, by the voice of minor, ft occasionally were noticed ins tie the papers. It was hard to]kts> the world that the causes of ata existed except in imagination or: the exaggeration of perhaps nntim noises. North Carolina in her |W ical features very much nstnillej. character ascribed to her people.® et, equable, and placid, hard tor? into excitement and reluctant s move from the even tenor of i' way. Her mountains are genera, smoothly rounded off by thei - hand of Nature, teaming with ve able wealth to their very sun lll and giving not the slightestevidr*- of hidden forces beneath. I There is no sign o! volcanicnw in their formation, and they never to have been disturM w* that grand general convulsion t threw them into existence. , But now, Old Ki}> is shaking his slumbers, and showing !0 ■ world that lie can do sotmtlarp well as other folks. , . Bald Mountain is situated Dowell county, not far from H |l 'U Nut Gap, and at a point in tains where the South Mounj*' unite with the Blue Ridg* 1 - about twenty miles South A&hville. Since February 14th, stran? ,n J es have been heard in the menu ' accompanied with trembling 01 earth. The noises are com|wf the (iving of cannon, or the '*■ thunder, and the concussions ar U ficient to jar the houses, ratu> ery, and it is said, such is tlm i"" . of the earth, that trees an 1 rock to and fro at each dejen The people in the m ighbofh'*" in constant terror, religion ß 0 ' have been awakened, and in stances families have abandonee • homes. kJ* homes. ~j,( As yet there has been of volcanic action, except 111 . sue of steam from fissures 1 ‘ rocks, and the unniistakem 1 ' 1 once of heat, evidenced by tho 1 diate melting of snow when on the mountain. .•..it It is all wonderful and exd the half that is told be true, a" b pares the mind for the H l'j’ r ! > | ‘ rr jbk some grand, startling and 1 phenomenon, here, at home. never have beem inflicted "I and from which geological ar ment. had promised to spare gion. , I Scientific men appear to h HY ' r ed with indifference upon (he n as if doubting tlmt practice * be so inconsistent with theory hope they will throw off their dulity and investigate the su ! We are half tempted to >’ p „ r risks of Empedocles to satis.. curiosity in prying into the w) 6

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cartersville sentinel. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1874-187?, April 01, 1874, Image 2