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BY ALEX- VOL. 1. Ste «lmtad Dflmtfew. BY ALEX. CHURCH. Published Every Salurday Morning. Ofliec— Id the Masonic Building, South side Public Square. Tip Stairs, Clevel and, Oa. ~ TERMS: One copy, one year, - $t.Q “ six mouths, ... 60 “ three months, - * SO ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements inserted at the rate of .$100 per inch (or less) first insertion, and 60 cents for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements not baviug the number of insertions marked on them, will be published until forbid, and charged accordingly. Contracts made for three, six, or twelve months on liberal terms. Local Notices 10 cents per line. '^^.Every'comuiuuication for publication iu the AUTKttfisnK must bear the name of theHu thor, not necessarily for publication, but as gu¬ aranty of good faith. We will not be responsible for the opinions of correspondents; and no communication, will be admitted into ils col urns, having for its end the defamation of private character, or in any other way scur¬ rilous in its import. Correspondence upon subject* of general importance solicited—though it mus' be brief amd to the point. and All communications, business letters, money remittances roust he addressed to ALEX. CHURCH, Publisher. THIS PAPER may bn found on file at Geo. P. Rowed & Go's Newspaper Advertising: Bureau (10 Spruce St.) where advertising: contracts may be made for it in New York. 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. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAIL*. Gainesville Mail—-Tri-Weekly. Leaves Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o’clock, a.tn,; Arrives Monday, Wednes¬ day and Friday at 4 o’clock, p. m. Blairsville Mail—Tri-Weekly. The same schedule as Gainesville route. Hayesville, N. C.—Semi-Weekly. Leaves Wednesday and Saturday at 8 o’¬ clock, a. m., and arrive the same days at 8 o’clock, p. m. bahlonega Mail—Semi-Weekly. Leaves Tuesday and Friday at 8 o’clock a. m., and arrive ihe same day at 6 o’clock p. m. 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. __ 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 ___ 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.