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x EXE UAL DIRECTORY.
PLAY OP CLEVELAND CIRCUIT-1880.
First Sunday. Eleven o’clock, Zion Church,
seven o’clock at night, Quillian’s Chapel;
Seeuud Sunday, Eleven o clock, Mossy Creek ;
Afternoon, Unit), 0'Kelly’s Chapel; Friday
before the Third Sunday, Eleven o’clock,
lilne Ridge; Saturday before the Third
Sunday. Eleven o'clock, Mt. Pleasant.
Third Sunday, Eleven o’clock, Mt. Pleasant;
Afternoon. 3;3U, L iudsvtlle ; Saturday be
,ut jFourvk attudajr. i;iev*u o clock,
Chattahoochee.
f ourth Sunday, Kleve.y ^/clofck and seven at
night, Cleveland. Pastor.
llev. W. <i. Bt-TLETt,
MAGISTRATES’ OURTS.
Mount Yonah—861 Dist.,—Third Fridays—
W. F. Sears, N. ,C. C. Blalock, J. 1’.
Mossy Creek... 12(1 Dist.,.. Third Saturday...
IViIlium Furgcrsou, N. P-, J. M. Dorsey, J. P
Nacoueliec...427 pist., ...First Saturday...
1>. M. Horton, J. P ,A N- P.
Shoal Creek...862 Dist.,...Fourth Saturday—
II. C. Hunt, N 1’., J. W. Blackwell, J. P,
Blue Creek...721 Dist.,...Second Saturday...
A. II. Henderson, N. P., J. H. Freeman, J. P.
Tesentee...S58 Dist.,,. Fourth Saturday...E.
M. Castleberry, N. P. Augustus Allison, J. P.
Town Creek...866 Dist.....Third J.' Saturday...
\V. 11. Hawkins, N. P., K. McAfee. > P.
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Leaves Wednesday and Saturday at 8 o’¬
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Leaves Tuesday and Friday at 8 o’clock
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W. B. BELL, Contractor.
HENRY D. KIM6EY P. M.
W. K. WILLIAMS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cleveland White County Ga. ly.
FRANK L HARALSON.
A TTORNEY AT LAW,
. A Atlanta Georgia.
Will practice in all the Counties ombraclng
‘he Western an Blue Ridge Circuits. Also
in the Federal Supremo Couris of the State.
All business entrusted to my eare wi 1 re¬
ceive prompt attention.
Jan. 01th 1880 wl’y. Iy.
GEO. K. LOOPER,
A TTORNEY AT LAW. Gaioosville Ga.
Will praorice in any of the Courts
of the Western Circuit. The collection of
claimspromptly attended to.
J. J. KIMSEY,
A TTORNEY AT LAW. Cleveland Ga.
r\ Office, room No. 4, Basement Court
House. Jan. 10th 1880. wl’y.ly
M. G. BOYD,
A TTORNEY and COUNSELOR AT LAW
-AI/L. Cleveland Georgia.
Will pactice in the Superior Court* of
White, Hall, Dawson, Habersham Lumpkin,
and the Supreme Court of the State,
Jan. 10th 1880. wkl’y ly.
THE CLEVELAND ADVERTESER.
OUR OWN SECTION—WE LABOR BOR ITS ADVANCEMENT.
GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2?, 1880.
Poetry.
Thoughts on My Twenty third Birthday.
For the Advertiser.]
As I awake from sleep this morning,
And up to heaven my hear; is soaring
To the bountiful giver of all light, night.
For proteoiion through the dark
My soul breaks out in songs of joy and prayer
As light oomes forth andilluroiues the air.
But, in this world weeannot have alljoy
In heaven alone is peace without alloy.
When down deep into my own heart I look,
I find something there which is like a book;
And as I look its leaves come into view,
While they pass Isie there are twenty two.
Forty-two pages of life & book are made.
And oneacb page the errors sh'-w the grade.
To-day which my twenty-third birth day is,
I give my life to God;—and now I’m his.
I want to consecrate tuyself afresh,
And with God’s help io crucify the flesh,
With every mean desire, to God of right,
For fear that I be lost in endless night.
But as I look o’er joys and soriowspast,
And see th t time is fleeting;—0 so fast;
Memory loves to dwell on scenes gone by;
I love to think I have a mate on h 'gh.
In this world with me, he his life began
Together we pla) ed, together we ran— slept;
Together we walked, together we
Together we laughed together we wept. had—
Each other’s love and confidence we
Was be ever angry? 0 never mad;
Patiently, lovingly, he bore his port;
Only one knew the sorrows of his heart.
This morn,ng his form flits before my eyes
As a bright, happy angel of the skies;
Thus, together we lived, till eighteen years
Of our natural lives of joys and fears
Were passed. And then, to store the miod
lore,
For use amid life’s tempestuous roar.
Till twenty bad wcl -nigh gone—
But be .eft me and I’m alone, alone;
And nm I thus alone to spend my days?
0 t ou blest Lamb, to whom the poor man
If prays; unlawful reduest,
it is not an
Make him to me a messenger of rest
But why do I think only of the past;
Awake my heart, time is fleeting so fast;
Two and a score past; twenty-two to day,
1 must be ready when I’m called away
Then thanks to God whose love gave me
being,
Love to be: by whom I this am seeing.
By her instruction, 1 was led to see
That outside of God there could never be
Peace to tue human soul. Now by her
prayers soktained-by these i’ll the stairs
x am mount
And by prayer and effort, I keep climbing,
Till I reach the top of Christian shining.
And tl en with happy spirits gone bet. re
I’ll sing and shout in peace forevermore.
0. B. Quilliax.
Clayton Ga.,
RACHEL PLYMIRE S MURDER.
A Strange Dream Story.
There is an inexplicable story—which,
I bel eve. has never been published —
.among the traditions of the fat. fertile
hill country of Western Pennsylvania,
the most unlikely quarter in tbe world
to serve $8 a breeding-place of mystery.
It was settled almost wholly by well to
do farmers from tbe North of Ireland,
economical, bard working folk—God
fearing, too, after the exact manner de
described by Jobn Knox,and having lit¬
tle patience with any other manner.
Not a likely people. Bunely, to give
credence to any fanciful superstitions,
and still less to originate them. Tbe
story, indeed, has a bold, matter-of fact
character in every detail which quite
sets it apart from relations of tbe super¬
natural. I have never heard it explain¬
ed, &Dd it is tbe best authenticated
mystery in my knowledge.
Here it is in brief: Among the
Sootcb-Irish settlers In Washington
county in 1812 was a family by the name
of P ymire, who occupied a comfortable
farm and bouse. Racnel, the daughter,
was engaged to a young farmer of tbe
neighborhood. On a Saturday evening
in July, having finished her week's work,
she dressed besself tidily and started to
visit her married sister, who lived on a
farm about five miles distant, intending
to return on Monday morning. She
tied up her Sunday gown and bat in a
checkered handkerchief, and carried
her shoes and stockings in the other
band, meanmg to walk in her bare feet
aDd to put them on when she came in
sight of her destination, after the can¬
ny Scotch fashion. She left home about
? o'clock, in order to have the cool even¬
ing for her walk. Tbe road to the farm
was lonely and unfrequented.
The girl did not return home on Mon¬
day, but no alarm was felt, as tbe fami*
ly thought her sister would probably
wish to detain her for a few days: and
it was Dot until tbe latter part of tbe
week that it was found she had never
been at her sister’s, The country was
scoured, but in vaio; the alarm spread,
and excited a degree of terror in the
peaceable, domestic community which
would seem inexplicable to city people,
to whom the newspaper has brought a
budget of crime every morning siDce
their childhood To children raised in
those lonely hamlets and hill-farms mnr
der was a far off unreal horror; usually
all they knew of it was from tbe doings
of Coin and Jael, set off with hideous
wond cutR in the family Bible.
The girl had left home on Saturday
at 7 o'clock. That night, long before
10 o'clock (farmers go to bed with the
chickens), a woman living iu Green
county, about forty miles from the Ply
mire farm, awoke her husband in a
great terror, declaring that s te bad just
seen a murder doue. and went ou to de
scribe a place she bad never seen before
—a bill country with a wagon-road run¬
ning through it, and a girl with a bun
die tied in a checkered handkerchief,
Lei shoes and white stockings iu the
other hand, walking briskly down the
grassy side of the road. She was met
by a young man—the woman judged
from their mauner the meetiug was by
appointment—they Bat down on a log
and talked for some time.
The man at last rose, stepped behind
her, and drawing out a hatchet, struck
her twice on tbe bead. She fell back¬
ward on the wet, rotten leaves, dead.
Presently the man was joined by anoth¬
er, also young, who asked, ‘Is is it done?'
He nodded, and together they lifted the
body and carried it away out of her
sight. After awhile they came back,
found the bundle of Sunday finery and
tbe shoes aDd stockings, all of wbioh
were stained with blood. There was
a luined old mill near the road: they
went into it, lifted a loose board in the
flooring, put the bundle, shoes, e c >
with the batebet, underneath and re
placed tbe board. Tbeu they separated
and went through the woods in different
directions.
The farmer.s wife told ber dream to
her husband that oighc. The next day
(Sunday), going to a little country
church, she remained during the inter¬
mission between the morning and after¬
noon services. The neighbors, who had
come fr< m a circn t of twenty miles to
church, githered, according to their
homely habit, in the churchyard to eat
their lunch and exchange the news
Our dreamer told her story again and
again, for she was impressed by it as if
it had been reality.
After the afternoon service the con¬
gregation separated, going to tfleir
widely-scattered homes. There were
thus many witnesses teady to’certify to
the fact that,the women jo'.d the
dream the iroming after the murder was
committed at a distance of forty miles,
when it was absolutely impossible that
the news should have reached ber.
There were no telegraphs, we must re¬
member, and no railways, in those days
—not even mail-carriers in those seclu
ded districts.
When the story of the girl’s disap¬
pearance was told over tbe couatr.y at
the end of the next week, the people to
whom the dream bid been repeated re¬
called it.
Nowadays the matter would only
serve as good material for reporters, but
the men of those days still believed that
God took an oversight even of their
dreams Might not this be a hint from
Him I, The Rev. Charles Wheeler, a
Baptist clergyman of Washington, well
known in Western Pennsylvania and
Virginia a generation ago, and Ephraim
Blaine, Etq., a magistrate, the father of
the present Senator from Maine, aud as
popular a man in bis narrow circle,
drove over to see the woman who had
told the dream. Without stating their
purpose, they took her and ber husband
on pretense of business, to the Piymire
farm, It was the first time in her life
that she had left her own c uuty, and
she was greatly amused and interested
They drove over tbe whole of the road
down which Rachel Piymire had gone.
“Have you ever seen thla neighbor¬
hood I” one of them asked.
’Never,’ was tbe reply. and they
That ended the matter,
turned back, taking a little used cross
road tosavetime. Prpseptly ibe woman
started up in great agitation, cryiQg;
‘This is the place I dreamed of!’
They assured her that Rachel Piy¬
mire had not been upon that road at
all, said,
‘I know nothing about her/ sbe
‘but the girl I saw in my dream came
aloDg here; there is tbe path through
which the man came, and beyond that
turning you will find the log on which
he killed her.’
They did find the log, and on the
ground tbe stains of blood The wo
man walking swiftly, led them to the
old mill and to the board under which
lay the stainad clothes and tbe hatchet.
The girl's body was found afterward,
hurried by a creek near at band. Ra¬
chel's lover had already been arrested
on suspicion. Jt was hinted that be
had grown tired of the girl, and for
many reasons found her hard to shake
off. The woman recognized him in a
crowd of other men, aud startled her
companions still more by pointing out
another young fellow from the West as
bis companion in ber dream. the
young man was tried, In the town of
Washington, for murder. Tbe dreamer
was brought into court, and an effort
was actually made to put her on the
witness-stand; but even then men could
not be bung on the evidence of a drea m
Wiihr-ut \f. thore whs not enough proof
for conviction, and the jury. nnwi/i >gly
eroigh.wemay bo sure, allowed ihe
pr s -nm' to e.-eape. It was held as
positive proof of his guilt that tin im¬
mediately arried the sisterof theother
accused man. and removed to Ohio,
'hen the wilderness of the West.-—R
H. D., in Lipincott s Magazine,
A TEXAS JUSTICE.
How he Calicd Ills first Case.
A jolly fellow somewhere in Texas,
having been appointed Justice of ihe
Peace, was called upon to perform a
marriage cerraony, and thus relates
how he managed it;
‘Having been appointed to tbe de¬
sirable ‘posish’ of Justice of the Peace,
I was accosted, on the 5th day of Jn ! y,
by a sleek looking young man, who in
silvery tones requested me to proceed
to a neighboring hotel as ha wished to
enter into the holy bouda cf matrimo¬
ny
‘Htra was a ‘squelcher.’ 1 bad Dever
do;.o anything of the kind—had do
books or forms; yet I was determined
to do thiugs up strong and iu a legal
manner, so proceeded to the bote!,
beaiing in my arms one copy of the Re¬
vised Statutes, one ditto Webster’s Un¬
abridged Dictionary, one copy !ai go
sized Bible, a small copy of tbe creeds
aDd articles of faith oftbeCocgregation
al Church, one copy of Pope’s Essay on
Man, ....___, and _ a seotl -i___,____ nal map of tbe par.
where the victim lived.
Having placed a MS. in lb. middle
of the room, and seated myself behind
it, I, in trumpet tones, called the case.
With that the yourg man and woman,
with great alacrity, stepped up to me.
‘Having sworn them on the diction¬
ary to answer well and truly all the
questions I was about to ask, I proceed
od, 1 told the young man that, beiDg
an entire stranger, l should have to ask
him to give bail, for the costs. Having
heard this so frequently in court, I
thought it indispensable. He answered
if I meant the fees for performing the
ceremony, he would deposit it there
and then.
‘As I did not exactly know what I
did mean, I magnanimously waived that
portion of the ceremony. I then told
him it would be necessary to give bail
to keep the peace. This he said he was
willing to do when he arrived homo,
and then I waived that point also,
•Having established to my satisfac¬
tion that they wanted to get married
and that they were old enough to enter
that blessed state, I proceeded to tie
the knot. I asked him if he was will¬
ing to take this woman to be bis wife
He said he was. I told him that I did
not require a hasty answer—that he
miyht reflect a few minutes if he wished.
] told him she looked like a fine girl,
and I had no doubt she wa 1 , bur, if the
sequal proved that ho had been taken
in, 1 did not want to be held reeporsible.
I said he must love, honor and obey her
just as long a3 she lived. He must not
bo ‘snappy’ around the house, nor spit
tobacco juice on the floor, all of which
he promised faithfully to heed. ‘Now,'
said L ‘Georgians’ (her name was Geor
giaon), ’you hear what Humphrey says,
and so you accept the invitation to be¬
come his wife- Will you ba lenient
toward his faults, and cherish his vir¬
tues—will you never be guilty of throw¬
ing furniture at his head for
offenses, and will you got three meals
a day without grumbling T She said
said she would. I asked them if they
believed in the commandments, and
they , said ,, they , did. j • j tv Having * read j tbe
creed and articles of faith, as aforesaid, I
exclaimed, ‘Humphey. take her; she is
yours: I cannot withhold my consent.
Georgians, .be. ear, la the «• of
your Humphrey, you can defy tbe scoffs
and jeers of the world/ I then read a
little from the 'Essay on Man,’ including
that passage, ‘Man wants but little
here below, hut wants that little long,'
As a finale to the ecene I delivered tbe
following exodium: ‘Go in peace and
sin no more! uj./ivi The . uu generous Humphrey uiv 1
having placed a 50 cent check in my
unwilling palm, I bid the happy pair a
final adieu.
3>1 A : l 1 i
NO. 12.
U3€L4.3L*
IcttiT’s of Dismission
GEORGIA While County
WHEREAS, Milton Moore Executor of
Hugh Ferguson deceased, represents in his
petition to the court duly filed and entered
on record, that he has fully Oderni.-lered
Hugh Fergus in’s estate. 'Ibis i* ilnefote,
to cite ail perrons concerned kinuieu and
creditors to show cause if any they <an why
sain Exeoutor -boulfl not he discharged from
his rail trust r.-d receive letters, oi ouiuission
on the first Monday ; n Jure next. Given
under my hand ami official sigraturr. This
March 4th I860. ISAAC OAKh. Ordinary.
March 6th 6 - .
GEORGIA, White County.
TO ALL whom-? It may concern. liuldah
Nix and James A. Nix, having in proper form
applied to uie for permanent Leto-s of - tisaic
iatratiou on the enure of Bcnj. t’. Nix, late
of raid county. This is to cito all and sin¬
gular crcditore, and ccjtt of hind of Bevj. F.
Nix ro ho and appear at my office wit, in thh
time allowed aud show cause, if • *y they can
why ponnaaent .udniiniotraiion should uot
ho granted to liuldah Nix BDd Jurocs A. Nix.
on Benj. F. Nix’s estate. Witness ray hand
uad official signature.
I-iAAC OaKS , Ordirarr.
Feb. 21st 1880. v :y30ds.
Letters cf BieimsMow.
GEORGIA, Wh te County.
WHEREAS Milton Moore, Administrator,
aud Sarah Ferguson, Ad inietratrix on th'
estate of Jacob V. Ferguson, represents to tie
cot rt in their .petition duly filt<_ AdminisUred aud entered
on record, that trey bnve lull"
Jacob V. Fergusons' estate, l.ris is therefore
to cite all pert on s concerned kisdred and
creditors to show cause if any they can why
said Adininittrators should n t he di.-oburged
i rcm their Administration, and receive letters
I of dismission on th first M- nday in Juno
TLis March 4th, 1S&0.
March 6th Sm.
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
GEORGIA, Whita County.
By virtue of an order of the Ordinary of
said county, will bo sold, on the first Tuesday
in April 1880, q,tihe rourt house dur-r in the
Town of CleveLaticl in said county, witlhu the
legul hours of galcjh# proper ty to
Part of lot of land No, 8£ containing 120
acres more v.r less, hounded on the North by
the land of J. T- Latner; on the Fast by lot
No. 98: also part of lot No. 97 containing
abrut 75 aeref; being the North-East end of
said.lot; bounded on the North by lot No.
98; (the pr. party of Jaoob V. Ferguson,
Jec’d) on the East by tho;and6 of W, L. Fer.
guson, Also 75 acres mo. e or less, of the sail
Tot 97. bounded on tbo North and East by the
lauds af W. L. Ferguson, the fame being the
South end of said lot; also part oi lot No. 98
oottaining 200 acres more or less, bounded on
tbo North and East by the lance of Joese
Hulsey, all tbo above described laDds being
in the 2nd diatrict of said county; fold as the
property of the estate of Jacob V. Ferguson
deceased, for the distribution among the heirs
and for tbe benefit of creditors. Termsca.-L,
MILTO MOORE. Admlnistratoa, and
SARAH FERGUSON, Administratrix,
March 5th 1880. tds.
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WHITE SHERIFF SALES.
07ILL be sold before toe Court hoDfe door
It in the Town of Cleveland, White coun¬
ty county Georgia, ou the first Tueiday iu
April next, within the legal hours of tale the
following described property to wit;
Part of lot of laud No. 166, in the 3rd dis
triet of originally Habersham now White
county, known as the Lewis Arthur hcmestcau
place, containing eighty acre more or less,
levied ,-n as the uroperty of J. <’ ■ Merritt and
C. C. Blalock, to satisfy n fi fa issued from
the Justices court of the 861 st district, G- M.,
n favor of J. P. Osborn Administrator of
M. K. Palmer dec'll., for the purchase money
cf said land.
Also at the same time and place lots of lr.nd
No. 91. 71. 99, 37, 33, aud 34, all of said '■ aDda
in iho 3rd district of orgimtily Habers ram,
now Whiro county containing 250 aero each,
mere or less, and very valuable for gold min¬
ing purposes. Levied on as tbe property cf
tbo Nacoocbeo Gold Mining Company, by
virtue of a ti fa issued fretn the Just ccs
court of the 661st district. G. M., otj an at
l&chmert agains’ said lands iu favor of
M. V, IVilcox against the Nacoochee Gold
Mining Company, said lands all in the pos¬
sess iou of the : aid Nacoocbeo Go;d m ining
Company. Levies made and returned ly n.9
MeAfea, L. C.
T C. HAMILTON. Sh'ff.
Maroh 5ih. 188I 1 tds.
Notice.
This is to notify all persons not to cut
wood or stock, or in any other wavin'
trade upon Sot, of laud number 43 in
tbe 836 district G. M., of White county,
known as the W H. M'lton lot* T, ere
been stock cat ou the above named
will be prosecuted to the extent of tbe
aw. THOS. MCAFEE, Agent.
January 31 1880
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Notice!
ALL Pcrsoi s indebted to the estate of F. H.
Bradley deceased are bertby notified to come
forward and make immediate paymeu* at d p.11
persons having dem-.nds agaiost the jarne will
present them to me with'" 'he time recruited
b 7 ] lW . tv. K, will hams, adm’r. of
” F. H rT Brad ey *• .Sec/ ‘
January 3rd., 18S0. 3 jb.