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GENERAL D1 RECTOR Y.
PLAN OF CLEVELAND C.IJAC.ITT -JS80
First Sunday, Eleven o’clock, y!ion Church,
seven o’clock at night, Quillian’s Chapel;
Second Sunday, Eleven o’clock, Mossy Cteek ;
Afternoon, 3:3(1, 0’Kelly’s Chapel ; Friday
befute the Third Sunday, J'Uoi’qn o'clock.
Blue Ridge; Saturday before t,he (i'hitd
Sunday. Eleven o’clock, Mt. Pleasant.
Third Sunday, Eleven o’clock, Mt. Pleasant;
Afternoon, 3:30, Loudsville : Saturday be¬
fore the Fourth Sunday, Eleven o’clock,
Chattahoochee.
Fourth Sunday, Eleven o’clock and seven at
night, Cleveland,
Rev. W, 0. Butler, Pastor.
MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.
Mount Yonab—861 Dist.,—Third Fridays—
AV. P. Sears;, N. P., C. C. Hlalock, J. P.
Mossy Creek...120 Dist.....Third Saturday...
William Furgerson, N. P., J. M. Dorsey, J. P
Nacoocboe.i.427 Dist.,...First Saturday...
1). M. Horton, J.P & N. P.
Shoal Creek...S62 Dist.....Fourth Saturday-
H. C. Hunt, hi P., ,1. W. Blackwell, J. P.
11 luo Creek...721 Dist.,...Second Saturday...
A. II. Henderson, N. P., J. H. Freeman, J. P.
■ ttt-e ..558 Dist,,...Fourth Saturday ...E.
M. Catticherry, N. 1 . Au{ tttluf All son, J.
Town Creek,..880 D ..Third Saturday
V/.ii. , ... , f V.
THE M.-auS.
Cleveland to Gainsvills, Daily, except Sun¬
day.
CU volant! to Blairovillo, Daily, except Sun¬
day.
Cleveland to Dahlonoga. Tii-weekly
Cleveland to Jlaysvillo Tri-vvcckly.
Clloveland toBcltuLi once a week.
Cleveland to Tessaatee. once a week.
EDWARD L. STEPHENS, P. M.
W. K. WILLIAMS,
A TTGRNEY AT LA W,
Cleveland White County Ga. 1y.
FRANK L HARALSON.
TTORNEY AT LAW,
*&&• Atlanta Georgia.
./ ill practice in all the Counties < mbraclng
♦Vestcrn an Blue Kidgc Circuits. Also
i 30 BedotaV Suprcire Cout. 8 oi‘ \he State,
il business entrusted to n-y eare will re
o prxinpt attention.
J an. 0! t!\ 1 c SA w V y . I y.
J. J. KIMSEV,
A TTORNEY ’ AT LAW. Cleveland .Ga.
f~\ OS’.oe, room No. 4, Basement Cuuit
louse. .Tan, 10th 1880. wl’y.ly.
GEO. K. LOOPER,
V TTORNEY AT LAW. Gainesville Ga.
\ . Will praciico in any of the Courts
O the Western Cireuil. The collection of
e,laimspromptly attended to.
M. G. l’.OYJ),
A' TTORNEYand COUNSELOR AT LAW
Cleveland Georgia.
Will paetiee in the Superior Courts of
White. Hall, Dawson, Habersham Lumpkin,
an l the Supreme Court of the State.
Jan. 1 Otb 1880. wkl’y ly.
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OUil OWN SECTION—Wl] LA®OR. POE, ITS ADVANCEMENT.
( ! I5YELAND, Si., SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 17,
TABERNACLE SERMON*
By 5£«v. T. Be Witt Talmage, Sunday
Monsing, Jane 13.
SIX RING OP THE NAltAGANSETT
“A night and a day have I been in the deep.
II Coritbians, 14, 25.”
Wb other Pauls ship had been broken
to pieces by a storm or whether it had
collided with another vessel T know
not: bn there we find him floating on
a plank in the Mediterranean sea, and
for twenty-four hours. A night, and a
day have i been in the deep. The per¬
ils of ancient navigation were very
great among other things becanso the
sea was so solitary. If a ship were dis¬
abled it might move over the waters
day after day and week after week
and month after month and not sight, a
sail. Hut I think that in our day,
notwithstanding all our lighthouses and
all our compasses and our sextants
and our ironclads, there is just as much
danger now coming not from the soli¬
tariness of the sea but from multiplicity
of crafts. xYny one who has noticed the
great fleet of ships going iu and out ot
■tho Narrows or up and down Long Is¬
land Sound has been amazed at the
fact there are so few casualties.
The nation is to-day stunned and
staggered with calamity. When those
two floating palaces were plowing
through the waters of Long Island
Sound and nearing each other Friday
night only tho eye of God saw that
they wore co’raing into collision Wo are
at the season of tho year when parts of
families make hegira into the country.
Many of tho schools have c-omo to va¬
cation and the young people aro im¬
patient to bo away. There is nothing
more beautiful than t,he dispnstion of
famlies to send their households to tho
mountains and tho springs and the
farms while the men must stay and
toil in the sweltering city and fight
out the battle for bread. Ilow glad
th«y are if their families can be in a
.cooler and'better atmosphere! God only
saw what was coming. The fog stoop¬
ed upon tho Sound and the steamers
slowed up and the whistles blew and
the bells rang, yet, nevertheless, at a
quarter to twelve o’clock on Friday
night tho Stonington crashed into the
Narragansett, and perhaps fifty, and
perhaps a hundred after struggling
first with .the (fames and then with the
waters, surrendered their immortal
spirits to God who gave them. I will
i not rehearse that scene. There was in
it a pathos and a tragedy all indes¬
cribable, when that aged woman cried
out- “Never mind me save the young
people!" when that mother cried out, j j
“Never mind me, save my boy 1 ” when
those young men. frenzied with the |
Alas! appalling alus!a!a«! scene took their own lives. I
While they are search i
ing the waters for the dead, and while
the telegraph offices are thronged with
tho pale cheeked and iho agonized
waiting for intelligence it is becoming
that we bow our hearts before God
this morning in sympathetic prayer
for all the bereft while wo mourn for
the loss of some of tho most valued of
8cceiry some who to day but for that
calamity would have been preaching
the gospel of Jesus Christ and that we
learn some very practical lessons for
our own souls. In the first place this
calamity of last Friday night on Long
Island Sound impressed me. with the
responsibility of those who hold the
lives the bodies, the property, or the
souls of people in their care. I will
not at this early point m tho history of
that disaster pretend to say who was
to blame. Some say it was the captain
some say it was the company, some
say the blame was on the Stonington
some say the blame was on the Narra
gansett. I will not attempt to decide.
I invoke the law of the laud with se¬
vere scrutiny to find out who was to
blame, and bring eha tisement upon
those who have hurled hundreds of fam¬
ilies into awful bereavement.
The fact is that this whole country
has already been empanelled on the
coroner’s jury, and has rendered a ver¬
dict saying “There is awful blame
somewhere.” Captains of steamships,
conductors of trains, engineers of bail¬
ings, pilots.of steamboats have great re
sponsibilitise. Yet ministers of tho
gsopei and Christain workers, who
have under their cate tho spiritual in¬
terests of the peoplo they also aro to
keep ringing the alarm bells, they are
to stand on the outlook they are to o
bey tho injunction, “What i say unto
jou I say unto all—wach." I tali you
I would rather be captain on a steam¬
ship driving a hundred human lives into
destruction thuu a minister of religion
or a religious worker with a delective
theology driving thousands and tens of
thousands ot immortal souls into ever
lasting shipwreck “When I say unto
the wicked thou sbalt surely die, and
thou givest him not warning, the samo
wicked man shall dio in* Sis iniquity,
but his blood will I requite at thine
hand."
,Tis not a cause of small import
The pastor’s care demands;
But what might fill an angel's heart,
It filled an angel’s hands.
Oh! my friends, wherever be your
responsibility, if you have under your
keeping tho bodies tho mind, the proper
tv, the souls of men beware bow you
discharge the responsibility. Remem¬
ber the Narragansett- j
(To be continued )
THE JURY BOX.
Mr.-Edieor. As there is some dis¬
satisfaction among the peoplo of this
county about tho revision of the jury
box on t he 7th and 8th davs of .June
deem^iV'linth r^-rJraasi 11 ',
deem it both right and proper, as re
spects ray self and the country I should
show the people how that matter stands.
The history of the qualification of
fm n^H^ r h^d^Si^ tear b Tht
Legislature passed!i"e of (i 0 or -ia in H e mo
following ’
thl Acr c’ :
--The r-nrkr „r rrim,tiv/t , ii courts ^
of the ,1,7T°i rMnrrqittn SS M f™!™
j
mlh.Tlut months, a list rf of IrZ persons liable oh Ew and
rnidlifiAil tn oortrn v A on nd—m\ Petit n WV )u- *
rors agreeable to the qualtj cations
to L nnaliM ll |L t tir |! a '° ?• a
petit •tetir jutots kiM N for for the tho tfftl • of f all all civil u
d m ;
sti'Tlf H B U6
no hirv nerson for it t-hl ‘ill m T 1 1 n b r 1 i f
hr ^ me 1 of iVLtlfre ^ T
oi’ 0 freehold^ 1 priinin o^of The rh*'t or'^title^to t
oi freehold, oro, the r.g|.t or title b*'
any lands or tenemdhts* - any court of
bo 'qu n .'°^
members of the Legislature.’
It will be seen that „ the , greatest qual- ,
fication tor jurors m this Act is that
they be allows i to vote for members of
tho Legislature. The Clerk would
make out a list of all the white male
citizens of the county between the ages
of 21 aud (if) years from tho Tax collec¬
tors’ book and these would constitute
the petit jurors.
And it was still further the duty of
tho clerk to correct ,aud regulate said
list annually under the next section
of tho act, specifying in separate col
muns, the persons most able, discreet
and qualified to serve as Grand jurors,
The clerk was the only reviser of the
jury list up to that tirno under the
direction of the court,
In 180b tho mode of revising the
Grand Jury was changed by adding to
the Clerk of the Superior court, the
Justices of the Inferior court and the
Sheriff. The petit jury need no revis¬
ion, all white male citizens between
the ages of 21 and GO were qualified to
serve who were free and not idiots, and
the grand jury was selected from that
number, being the most exparinced
men.
In 185G the General Assembly enacted
that “All free white male citizens who
have arrived to the age of 21 years and
over 60 years, aDd residents in the coun¬
ty where tho trial is to bo had, and not
being idiots or lunatics, shall be quali¬
fied and liable to serve as jurors upon
tho trial of all criminal cases. that'the
We see from this Act quail
lications for jurors in criminal cases are
fewer than heretofore. The qualifica¬
tion of being eligible to voto for mem¬
bers of the Geuer.al Assembly is left off
And every white male citizen 21 years
of age who paid his taxes was allowed
to vote for members of the Legislature
aud other officers. So we see that up
to the late unfortunate war between the
States, every white male.citizen 21 years
of age and upwards residing in the
county who had paid all his taxes for
tho previous year was entitled to parti¬
cipate in the administration of tho law
as jurors.
After tha war, in 18(58 tho convention
of Georgia, held in that year, incorpor¬
ated this paragraph in the Constitution
of tho State;
“The General Assembly shall provide
by law for the selection of upright and
intelligent persons to serve as jurors,
i here shall be no distinction between
the classes of persons who compose
grand and petit jurors.”
This is the first time in all tho history
of Georgia that tho qualifications “up¬
right and intelligent" were ever applied
to jurors.
In 1869 the General Assembly passed
an Act to carry into effect the above
provision of the Constitution of 1868,
and provided a board consisting of the
Ordinary, tho Clerk of Superior Court
and three commissioners to be appinted
by the Judge of the Superior Court to
rivisetbo jnryboi, in accordance with
the Constitution of 1SGS which says that
none but “upright and intelligent” men
shall serve as jdfohi Under the Con
stitntinn (of 1868 there Was no distine
tion between grand and petit jurors,
they ware all drawn from the same box.
Then the convention of 187? placed
the same provision in the Constitution,
and addeu a little to it, aud say that
“the General Assembly shall provide by
law for tho selection of tho most ex
perieneod, intelligent ami upright men
to serve as grand jurors, and intelligent
and upright men to servo as traverse
jurors.”
And in accordance with that provi
sion of the Constitution the General
Assembly of ,1878 provided for tho sc
lection of -jurors by a board consisting
of tho Ordinary, the Clerk Superior
Court, and three commissioners, ^ to bo
peri ?. r CourE th « “ UDdor
the Constitution ot 1808. Those com
missionera went forward and on the first
day of Jan. 1879, revised the jury boxes.
which to’the revision was not they‘complaine.1 at all satisfac
i ^ poopte, for
1 tIuU a S reac man v S°°d men had been
-
i I since tho making of A.f the Constitution ev "
1 i8G8, containing the .qualification
"“P'-E- »n.t intotligoQt' tbat over
county are not permitted to sit on
, ri , 8 an d ■* enjoy ' J their rights ii/fjuwuguco as free men. wcu.
j Ttn S dissatisfaction was not only here,
h nr , itW n H nil over .he State.
U * orl U ) l ;l ' i 'it has come up from all over
lb0 Stal ° tl,at many guocl citiz0ns are
left our , oftLo j ary box , and the peopio
! ; arn We d'^au thought 5 fi P d the about evil it. could be
died b y changing tho board of revisers,
! j and tri 1 P in ut tbo 01,0 count iu each and that Dis- the
y* was
re,uft ^ P r<r P ()Sed 111 bil1 tbat * b >ally
- passed with cbis ohango, tnsteari f
i 0 ono
from each M . D< t0 a board of six Ul
! (!acl1 county, neither of wbosa should
be a county officer, in ortlor as wo
| thought, by increasing the number of
j . the board and scattering them among
people they would be certain to
give satisfaction by putting tbo names
of all tho good male citizens in the
county, above the age of 21 years in the
jury box, This bill passed in the legis¬
lature of 1879, ana the Judge of our
Superior Court appointed six men as
jury revisers, and cm account of sick¬
ness only five of them were sworn in,
and finally on tho 7th and ,8th days of
June last, only four of them met and
revised the jury box by putting into
the boxes only 241 names, of whom
are grand jurors and 14G petit (now
called traverse) jurors. These are the
facts, and in justice to myself, 1 must
say, as you cun see from the facts given
that, tho General Assembly did uot add
a single qualification to jurors, but
changed the board of revisers iu order
to give satisfaction to tho people.
There are 748 poll tax payers in this
county according to the tax book of
1879 and several more by this time,
: id suppose from S">() to 200 mala citi¬
zen.- over 00 years of ago whoso privi
i • go it is to serve on the juries in civil
cases if they desire wheu they can get
the commissioners to pnt tueir names
in the box, and that would make at
least 900 able bodied male citizens in
the county. Tho population of the
county acci-rding to the last census is
somotfiiug over 5,300 and according to
the rule of one poll tax payer for every
five inhabitants, that would gve 1 000.
a 1Uliro than I have put put it. it. 1 1 say say
with all due deference to the four jury
Revisers who met iu June last aud re
vised the jury box, and out ot at least
809 or 900 tax payers in the county,
put only 241 names in tho box after
considering the matter for two days,
tbat the blame (if any) is on them or
claw the fault is in the constitution of
our commou country and not upon the I
General Assembly, who simply changed
tho board of revisers, as they thought ’ i
for the bettor. |
Can it be said with truth that there j
are only 241 ’upright and lntelhgent ’
citizens in the county over 21 years of i
age? 1 think not. If that is uot true, 1
then more names ought to appear j n |
the box. Only 95 names in the grand
jury box, aud you know that the grand j
jury have a great deal to do with coun- (
ty matt* rs. Shall it be said, that that j
number of men shall, with the Ordinary 1
of tho county run the financial interests
of the county, and tax tho people as j
they see proper for county purposes,
and for their own pay, and the 700 or j
800 have no voice in it at all, and yet *
is p-*?.';;. not jtlSt 6 *.'.. tO !.2YiY“i tax huudreds s , ol good men !
in tho county, leave them out Of the
jury in the box. administration not permit them of the to laws partiepate of the |
I
land, and forever brand them with the!
stigma that they aro not “upright and
$1 A
intelligent,” for tho benefit
Mr. Editor, I do this
nf die many readers of the Cleveland
Advertiser, aud that the pe -pie <>t
White county especially, may bu«w
that i ■am in favor of every man who
pays IBs taxes, helps siipfinrt the bay gov
i eminent, works the roads old., n«
the tight and pnviledge of serving mi
the juries ot li.s country when lie de
sires to do so, and have t!a*. strip with
w hich to pay hi ? taxes,
! Hope you will pardon me for tres
passing upon your time and space,
| Respectfully, JOHN J. K.IMSE't
| .
! *—*
j j Y OUTH,
Feu r)IR Ai.veitnsr.i-.)
-
We were a few days ago perusing the
works of one of the most learned men of
modern anwass times, when wo were impressed
.V nutl1 i;l vice - »ro jiratly
condemned to spend their ago in lolly,
This is a statement in which commont
j 8 unnecessary; all that is necessary to
prove this is merely wh^re to look aeeYbat among Those our
we
who were brought up in idleness without
tbe restriction of the parental rod of
are mere forms of men poa
sessing ”wb.a nonejof the component i,I parts of a
a aoutb is passed idleness,
wi.l bo passed in-ein, and eternity wtfh
the iuf nations MUWnrf VJ of the LHC damned- t lUlllUCU ,—it a 3UICt solemn
thought parents, 1 TfZ but nevertheless
true one. If you would have your sous
and daughters “good and gieit” keep
Addison says, when
vice prevails and impious men bear
sway, the post of honor is a private
atation *'
m this time, when men have to earn
their living, success abides only with
the favored few who aro taught from
infancy that laoor is sweet and toil is
j 0 y, and that happiness comes on'y from
Lot us, as parents, im
press upon ou,r children, ■ ” ’ from early
childhood the folly of rambling, and that
iu order to be of worth to their country,
they must settle and identify themselves
with the people. A young man with a
sound mind cau do anything lie wishes,
if physically able—only say 3 can, and I
will, come what may, 1 am resolved.
Invincible dete- mination is unconqu -ra
bio. Id is ilie backbone of fortune. 1c
is a something which, if app ied will
accomplish any thing and every thing.
Young men, don’t conclude that in or¬
der to be great you have got to plunge
so deep into science that the rumbling
of the wheels of tho universe, on their
appointed missions, will grete your ears
and jostle your senses. 1)-u'o believe
that to get a great name you have got
to devise means by which you may fish
worlds out of the va3t expanse if infin¬
ity, and set them whirling on their axis
or any thing of too sort. You can ue
ver do any such thing as this. Only do
right, be humble, grateful, and adore
Teach the doctrine wherever you go
that “Luck is a fool, aDd pluck is a he¬
ro,” Utelli esl il ice re “non putarnur’’
Count the com. aud measure the gain,
and then enlist for life, Select your
il no and adhere thereto: be sure you
are right and go ahead if the stars fall.
May White county bring forth many
sons and (laughters born to wisdom and
wedded tohoinni May a wave of ro
finemeut swcop over tbo highest peak
of her map otic old mountains and de¬
luge tho dwellings of ignorance in the
Hood tide of knowledge, and polish tho
inmates as shining lights in the orb of
society! Heaven bless a land, a glori¬
ous land, where so many bright eyed
rosy-cheeked lads and lassies are wait¬
ing the polishing rays of refinement and
cultivation to dazzle the greatest aud
grandest that tbo world ever saw.
J. W. Q.
Mossy Creek, July 12Hr 1860
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at eleven o’clock on the 2Sth dav of July 18S0
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