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VOL. V. Highest Prices For Your Farm Produce Free Hitching Room in my Stable to all Customers. £ THE sfe BUSIEST gTOEE *&* Lawrenccville IS THAT OF TOM AMBRO * THE ONLY GENUINE CUT PRICE MAN IN LAWRENCE Vli 1 ... IT--- ' ~~ -z—z z ' From Now Till Jan. 3j GOOD - OHBAfI THAN EVER. THE LAWRENCEVILLE NEWS. ALWAYS LEADING. HE IS BUSY 1 Because he sells goods cheap er than any other merchant in town; or, for that mat ter, cheaper than any oth er merchant in the county. Just a Few Sample Prices: Granulated Sugar 18 pounds for sl. Arbnckle’s Cotree 11c. per pound. Good Green Coffee 10 to 15 pounds for sl. A good line of Shoes cheap. A full line of fine Dress Goods. A. big lot of Jeans at from 10c to BOc per yard. “A. C. A.’’ Bed Ticking at lie. per yard. Best Calico going at sc. per yard. 1 yard wide-sheeting at 4ic. by the bolt. Nails at 2c. per pound or 50 pounds for sl. 1 also carry a first-class line of Millinery goods at Low Prices. Call and see me and be convinced. Watch This Space sh:«K -4-:::::; Remember the Place IN)R l-OW CKlt lIS f necessity of having to I together, but as we do ft to part in love. We wish fnt the most abundant suc lise no question as to his , and personally he is dear J. O. Hawthorn, L. F. Jackson, V. H. Cooper, J. S. Pate, J. H. Hutchins, Wm. P. Cosby, Trustees. land is pastor of the Au lohuroh and will continue ministerial. capacity• Because he don’t try to fool the people. HE Hr IiUSY LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 5, 1897. MARRIAGE. ! Written for Inn News. “Marriage is honorable in all,” says j the great, inspired apostle. It is an j honorable state and it is honorable to ! marry. Being a divine institution co eval with tiie creation of man when placed in the paradisacai garden, it not only becomes honorable in man’s estate but harmonizes with his whole nature. Into this sacred bond —tiie closest between two living beings—at the proper age it is right for every man and woman free front impedi ments to enter, and instead of dimin ishing any of the pleasures and ad vantages of life, it augments them. A man to be called a man proper, and perform every duty as he should, re alizing full success, cannot do so fully and maintain a celibate life. The same is true of woman . Man needs a help meet and is wanting without one. For this reason “woman was made for man”asit is likewise told in the in spired Book; and 1 may here add that a young widow, writing upon the sub ject of marriage says: “Woman was tnadefor man and man was made for Chamberlain’s Cough Keineriy. It afforded almost instant relief, — F . A, Thornton. This celebrated remedy is for sale by all medicine dealers. GARNER. Special to The News. Fielding M. Pierce was ceremonial ly united in marriage to Miss Higgins last Sabbath, and thereby the twain is made happy in one. It is now authoritatively said that rhe nuptials y*- Wry Holland, a their marriage vows, There is no ob ligation assumed, more restraining and at the same time more solemn in its complete observation than the con nubial. For any man (the cause may be the same with the woman) after marriage, to tire of home and seek paramours and pleasurable places of resort when the evening shades darken the landscape, what else can be x pected only discomfort and misery at home? what else can be expected only an unhappy married state? Said the lion. Milton A. Candler: “Tell me where a man spends his evenings and I will tell you what kind of a man he is.’’ The church of Christ, in which ere believers and his chosen elect, is :iot by any means a failure, notwith standing there may be on the church rolls hundreds of hypocrites aud de ceitfully wicked persons; no more is Ihe marriage institution a failure be cause of persons who have assumed it live regardless of their own solemn vows. In life there are no few per sons in everything which is good and ennobling that may be said to be fail ures, notwithstanding they may pre sent to the world a very glossy outside appearance —amass riches and gain a few worldly honors. Strictly speak ing every man’s life is a failure who neglects the service of his Creator. Not long since in conversation with a young man he made free to disclose to me what he called “some troubles of mind.” “My matrimonial hopes,” said he “are almost blasted, and that by tattlers and liars who are doing and saying everything imaginable to break me up with my girl, and I believe they have about succeeded.” Disgraceful aud as belittling as such may be in the sight of social refinement, and sinful as it may be in the sight ot God, how common are such practices through the country! Only let it be publicly suspected that a gentleman is making his addresses to a lady and it is not infrequently the case that there are a large number of assumed guardians for one or both the parties who take a delight in pointing out the numerous spots and blemishes in their charac ters which they discover . All this is perfidious and suameful. Christ says : “ VVhat therefore God hath joined to gether let not man put asunder.” If God joins together two hearts in mu tual affection, whether there has been a ceremony said or not, it differs little, let not the unhallowed designs of man interpose to disjoin. It is sinful. The best pian, it is sai J , is “not to make matches nor break them;” in other words, try to wed to please yourself and let others do the same. Marriage, as has been said, is a di vine institution. In it there is no de filement. Families are thus propaga gated upon the earth and through faith transformed into one in heaven. Of the hundred forty and four thousand redeemed of the Lamb which .John the divine saw in his Apocalyptic vision he expressly mentions one attribute: “These are they which were not defiled with women.” Collateral with this, St. Paul appears to emphasize the ex pression: “Be not deceived; neither fornicators, idolators nor adulterers,” etc.,“shall inherit thekingdom of God.” In common parlance there are, as it is said, many “fast men”and “fast wo men” at the present day; moreover we are living in what is known as a “fast age” when events crowd with celerity upon one another. People are inclined to drift with pride in currents of their own conventionalism, regardless of what is right and proper. There are many who, if they have not received the mark of the beast, they have of their own depravity entailed such upon their offspring. They present themselves as the flowers of society. Let them, however, make what preten tions they may, let them profess to be what they may, let their standing in society be what it may, according to the sure word of prophecy they can never enter the Celestial City without purity of heart. In conclusion, there is one more thought that may be expressed regard ing marriage. God forbade the Israel ites from intermarriage with the Ca liaanites. The latter were idolatrous. They that be of faith are the true Is rael of God today, and it is still wrong to mingle and form affinity with the Cauaanites —those who are idolatrous in their practices and notoriously wicked. St. Paul says: “Be ye not un equally yoked together with unbeliev ers; for what fellowship hath righte ousness w ith unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light withdark ness? And what concord hath Christy with Belial?” Therefore we see it is wrong to form affinity in such in stances, Mr. Moody has said he never knew any good to emanate from mar riages of this kind or for mere merce- WAR’S HORRORS. A Ghastly Picture of the Battle of the Wilderness. From the New York Post. “I have no time to bury my dead, and can give you none,” was Grant’s famous reply to Lee, when, under a flag of truce, a ces sation of hostilities was requested long enough to bury the dead, Thus one great and awful feature of the battle of the Wilderness was the un buried dead, that lay for days and weeks all over the blood-stain ed field, one of the most horrible and ghastly sights ever exposed to human vision. Probably no bat tlefield of the civil war afforded such an opportunity for inspec tion as this. Ordinarily, after a fight, bury ing parties were detailed, and the Jong, deep trench, a common grave, speciai to f dug, and the dead were at least MondtJered, but not so here. Grant This set Id not stop, and the long It seei utch of country, overrun with lias stru sby’s guerillas, that intervened John tween the Rappahannock river Miss L>u I the nearest union lines, pre iugyouijited aid from that direction in ried Sun rying the thousands that were We wi hi in the Wilderness and in after Su ht of Spottsylvania court house. I sat on my horse looking over ’ the portiou of the field where the fierce and deadly fighting of May 4 and 5, 1864, occurred. It was four or five days after the fight, about the 9th or 10th of May. A small detachment of our regiment had been sent as an escort to a train of ambulances to gather in the wounded, who were being tem porarily cared for in barns and farm houses wear the battlefield, and 1 thus had the opportunity to view this historic scene. During the thirty-three years since, it has been an open question whether to be glad or sorry that I visited this battlefield. It has been a night mare and a horrid day dream all these years. Often have I prayed that visions of those upturned faces, blackened and distorted, or the staring, glazed eyeballs, of the stiffened, outstretched hands, seemingly still grasping for sup port, those rigid forms wrapped in Wim and gray, that had fought their last battle and now lay side by side in that great charnel field, might bo blotted forever from my recollection. Then, again, I have been glad that I knew so well how that battlefield appeared, and how barbarous, brutal and inhuman it made war seem; glad that I knew how 10,000 dead heroes looked, who had faced and met death amid the wild frenzied scenes of one of the greatest battles of the world. Oiig of the most striking fea tures to us that day, and the one most thoroughly fixed in our mem ories, was that ail over the battle field, or at least that part we vis ited, there lay three boys in blue to one in gray. It will be remem bered that all through the Wilder ness fight the confederates were protected by a system of earth works and hastily constructed fortifications and abatises, while the union troops were compelled to fight largely in the open, aud assail the confederates in their strongholds. From these it was utterly impossible to dislodge the enemy except by the masterly se ries of flank movements, so suc cessfully planned by Gen. Graut. We saw in one place where the men in line of battle had taken off their knapsacks and laid them in a long row evidently to be pre pared to make a charge upon one of these earthworks of the con federates, some little distance in front. These knapsacks remained almost undisturbed, while the men lay, some iu heaps, some here and there in front of the fortifications they had charged upon. At this point the union dead lay thick est. I believe I could have dis mounted and w'alked a distance as great as two ordinary city blocks and never once have stepped upon the ground-walking on dead bodies all the way, Indeed, had I under taken the ghastly journey, I would have been compelled in some places to climb over heaps of the dead. There was a slight growth of underbrush at this point with a few trees remaining. I made a careful examination and could not see a limb or twig or bush, but was marked by a bullet, and some of them in several places. The wonder seemed, not that there were so many dead, but that any lived. Officers and privates all made a common cause here, and rank was forever obliterated, for among the dead was noticed the shining shoulderstraps of commissioned officers mingled with the blue uni form of the common soldier. The trees were torn and shattered, the fearful work of shot aud shell be- shown on every side. Muskets, eauteens, haversacks, knapsacks— any act of ghoulish vandalism; though, as I saw a letter extend ing front the pocket of a dead con federate soldier, and, some of the boys gathering around, we looked it over. It was worn and partly illegible, but we made out that it was from the town of Hamlet in the state of North Carolina. It was in a lady’s handwriting, and the portion that we were able to read was as follows: “My dear Jack; We hope that you can soon return and help us with the tobacco crop; but if not, we do hope and pray to God that our dear Jack will not be harmed by those terrible yankees.” As we looked at the letter and then at the upturned face of poor Jack, turning black from expos ure to the sun, and then thought of that poor wife, or mother, or sister who was waiting and watch ing for the retu n of the dead and mangled soldier at our feet, and, of the other ten thousand homes from which dear one ones had gone who were now among that host of dead around us, we began to com prehend something of the brutal, barbarous nature of war. And, personally, I would have had a keener comprehension still had I known then what I learn ed a few days later, that on that very battle-field, and not far from the spot where poor Jack lay, my brother had been killed a few days before. He was on the skirmishing line, early in morning of May 4, at the very beginning of the fight. He was struck in the thigh with a minnie bullet, carried to the rear, his leg hastily amputated, and he died a few davs later in a hospital. We had ample time to inspect the field while our ambulances were visiting tlie houses, barns and huts to which the wounded had been carried, or to which they had been able to walk or crawl. In some few places an apparent effort had been made to bury the slain. But this only added to the horror of tiie scene, for portionsof the bodies were exposed. We could trace the movements of the union line by the appear ance of the field. In a space where evidently the line of battle had been before the forward move ments, the dead lay as if some one had measured an acaurate line, aud then placed them in order upon it. Then, apparently,came the forward dash, and here and there they lay as they had plunged head formost in the rush for the confederate lines. So far all were clad in blue, but where the clash had come and the opposing lines had met, they lay side by side or one athwart the other. Some faces had a smile upon them, others had a surprised and startled look, while others expressed agony and despair, and still others had a look of hate and defiance, as if they had fought to the very death. Looking over the portion of the field where we were, we saw broken limbs hanging from trees where shot and shell struck, trees cut down with solid shot or split and shattered, the ground torn up aud plowed, as the death messenger sped along, bro ken wheels of artillery wagons and ambulances scattered about; those with the dead that lay amid them all, made a picture so in fernal, so barbarous and inhuman, that the thirty years that have intervened have utterly failed to diminish its horrors. We loaded every ambulance we had with the wounded and dying, and started on the long march to wards Alexandria, Va., where the nearest help and hospital service could be secured. Iu fording the Rappahannock river at the United States ford, one ambulance was driven into deep water and two poor fellows were drowned. It was a sad ending to their brief dream of help and home, and one of the ten thousand cruel, bitter scenes of that cruel and bitter war, —Cyrus G. Shephard, Com pany F, Sixteenth New York Volunteer Cavalry. A POWERFUL SERMON, Preached By Elder James T. Jordan at Friendship Prim itive Baptist Church. Writte i for The News. The writer of this was blessed with the privilege ot listening to an old-time gospel sermon deliv ered at Friendship Primitive Bap tist Church of Christ, near \ellow River postoffice by Elder James I. Jordan, who (if this scribe be al lowed to judge) is surely one among the best church and soul feeders (“Feed the church of God”) now iu this laud, amoug the living children of <*od, born of compassiou toward thorn and saved them from their sins and from perishing in the laud of Assyria, the lovely and well-behaved audi ence assembled at the church house. The text was read: “Behold, how good and how pleasant for brethren to dwell together in uni ty,” etc.; 188 Ps. The messenger began by telling and explaining how they were made brethren, and who made them so, and what for - also who made them to dwell together in unity, and how made so to dwell, and what for, and while telling these glorious things there was a witness-bearing Spirit of the household of faith, that it is truth, Lord. And apparently the whole household was fed, and every cup or vessel was filled to the brim, and almost overflowing with much joy. It was a glorious feast day at Friendship. It was a Sabbath day’s rest indeed —a sweet day of rest to the poor little weary chil dren of the kingdom of God. The message was full of the precious, sweet wine of the full cluster. Such sweet bread and wine (gos pel truth) from above, and fresh, does surely feed and clothe and cherish the souls of the feeblest children of God, “born of an ill corruptible seed by the word of God,” etc. It strengthens, builds them up in a most holy faith. It was surely pleasant, dwelling to gether in unity in Christ, in the true doctrine of Christ and His apostles, in experience, in faith, love, joy and peace and also prac tice; yea dwelling in a new heaven (happiness) and a new earth (dwelling place) where those thus dwelling are blessed with all spir itual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, with a feast of fat things from the Lord’s own house. The sermon was, at were, waterpots full of new wine on the day of the wedding feast, poured out and borne to the governor of the feast, then to the guests, and all weary ones there tasted its vir tue and made to rejoice in Christ, the Saviour of poor sinners. It was a precious balm to the souls of every child of grace in spirit. It was full ot comforting words of truth, bringing healing, peace, joy, love and rest to the weary travel er Even those enquiring, and asking, Tell me, “oh thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon.” The sermon w r as a sweet, refreshing cordial, to the chosen and manifested people of God. It was an opened box of very precious ointment, poured out upon the head, yielding the sweetest perfume. How beau tiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things, good things, that Jesus has “al ready done to save poor lost sin ners from their sins, not what good things the preacher or crea ture can do, and must do, in order to be saved, and to save others; Jesus is the only saviour, and God’s children know this experimentally. “By grace” alone “are they saved.” A Visitor. KILLIAN HILL. Special to The News. Wm. Nash, Jr., of Atlanta, was out Sunday. Jack Boozer, of Snellville, the manufacturer of the celebrated “Boozer Hats,” was in our burg Sunday. Mrs. Nancy Davis and daughter, of Sweetwater Park, visited Thos. K. Jones and wife Sunday, J. 0. Moore and family, of Sweetwater Park, visited relatives here Sunday. Several from our ville attended the exhibition at Luxomni Saturday night. L. M. Phillips and family vis ited relatiyes at Braden Sunday. T. H. Nichols and family vis ited relatives at Cruse Sunday. John Black, of Braden, visited kinspeople Sunday. Mrs. Cinda Cole & Son, of near Snellville, visited her daughter, Mrs. Lula Nash, Sunday. Wonder when the next ten cents exhibition is going to be ? Some kind of a roving varmint has been arousing the feelings of some of our inhabitants here for the last two weeks. It makes its rounds soon after dark. Let’s all pull with brother Mc- Nelley for the fair organization for the future. Bogin in time and “let er go.” Last Thursday being a pretty day, we decided to take in the fair and Midway Heights of Lawrenceville to see the fruits of Old Gwinnett, the banner county of Georgia. We complete was the “Coocnee-coo chee,” and the “chutes,” but nev ertheless we dreamed of the Gwin nett “Kloudikes” that night. In deed we saw enough until the fair next year. LILBURN. Special to the News T. L. and J. D Cain have com pleted their new warehouse. Wood hauliug is now the order of the day. The corn husking at Mr. Bill Smith’s Friday night was enjoyed by several of the citizens. The owl has lit and it is now rumored that there will be a wed ding in our midst some time sts|p. Several of our young people at tended prayer meeting at Beaver Ruin Sunday night. Miss Velma Garner, of ’Possum Corner, passed through our town Sunday. Miss Callie Pharr, one of Da cula’s charming young ladies, vis ited Miss Morgue Pharr Saturday and Sunday. Prof. Gober, of Braden, passed through town Saturday evening. Mr. Wash Mills, of Norcross, was in town Monday. One of our young men recently stated that he had found the girl for him at Braden, Ga. We wish to congratulate the young man on his success. We had the pleasure of attend ing a novel entertainment given at Bradwell Academy, Luxomni, Oct. 28rd, and must say that it was the nicest of its kind we ever witnessed. Supper was served from six to soven, and after all had enjoyed a hearty meal, the regular exercises were taken up, of which a dialogue, “The Haunted House,” was the first on the pro gram, and was so nicely acted, that the hair would rise on any one’s head, while they would im agine that the “haunt” was near. Several other pieces were acted nicely and then the exercises closed with “A Professor’s Visitor” that was highly welcomed by the spec tators, When the curtains closed every one took a hearty laugh and went away praising Prof. Dußose for his nice entertainment. Leonard Pharr, one of Dacula’s business young men visited our town Saturday. TE^GLE. SpeciHl to The News. Rev. Fleming, of Elberton, filled his regular appointment at the Methodist church Sunday. Miss Della Braswell i# quite sick at this writing. Mr. Rowe Duncan, of Atlanta, visited home folks at this place Friday. We have heard it repeated fre quently by several who didn’t take any part in the fair that it was 100 per cent, better ex pected. These are fellows that don’t take any newspaper, either. Wm. Harrison and family were the guests of Mr. Pool Sunday. The “brothers in black” held their annual campmeeting near this place last week, with a good supply of “licker” on hand. The colored brethren have had a“high faluting time. We do not wish to worry the patience of the readers of this pa per nor to be partial in naming candidates, but what about put ting Joseph T. Forrester in the field for sheriff ? We do not know that Mr. Forrester would agree to make the race, but what we want is a hearing from the people. Mr. John Maddox, a handsome young man of Grapevine, and Miss Lizzie Sizemore, of this place, were united in the holy bonds of Wedlock Sunday. We wish for them a long life and may their happiness forever “flow like water down a ’tater row.” TUCKER. Special to The News. Cotton is nearly all out. Cool nights and warm days are do ing their work. What promised to be the heav iest cotton crop in the history of this community has turned out to be only an average one, all of the late crop drying up, while the bolls of the middle crop matured before they were grown. The debating society is still booming. The “Dish Rag or the Broom-?” was the question last Friday night. The dish rag won. The meeting of the Crescent So ciety at the home of the Misses Kimbrell was highly enjoyed by all present. Misses Owens, Davis Kimbrell and Brown recited well. The finishing touches are being put upon the academy. Mr. Earn- work? We have a cotton picker —a sho’ ’uough thing— a cotton picker as what runs on two wheels and looks like Venable Brother’s dinkey at Stone Mountain 1 We’s the stuff! We’re goin’ t«r keep it here. The fat ole feller as what’s with it says he’s just tryin’ it to see if it’ll work, and that he’s goin’ ter take 'er away when he gits ready. We’ll see about it! That ole feller is mighty officious every way about our cotton picker. He won’t talk to a feller about it—he won't tell us whose't was ’fore it cum here, nor where it cum from nor nuthin’. But we found out just ’is much —his name is Moody and he’s been living. 4n Chercago and he’s just trying to sell it to Mr. Wash Houston, what lives in Atlanta. De ole fat feller put two hosses ter it Monday evenin’ an’ driv out ter Mr. Ambrose’s farm, an what der yer think ? It wouldn’t work! He’s workin’ on it yit, and’s goin’ ter try it ergin ’fore long. MEADOW. Special to The New». The fair is over, and everybody enjoyed it. The entertainment given by Mrs. V. F. CogginsSatV* ' was enjoyed by all. i A. J. Dob 1 ' l^y father’s farm. 10 Ea < Our village was c*» last Sunday. Nearly everybody went to ant Hill last Sunday. Quarterly meeting was hei* last Friday at Trinity. A nicS time is reported. Rev. Sam Braswell preached farewell sermon at Trinity lasl Sunday. His sermon was unexfl celled. w D. P. Langley ate his Jfcrge wa* termelon Saturday. |. Miss Flora Adams will close hJ music class Friday. ? The new rocking chair was va cant last Sunday. j Bird hunters are cleaning un their guns for Monday. We cer-J tainly havo some experts. j Messrs. Will Brannan and Doll phus Langley are hunting, posl sums for the market. right, boys; you will get some day. ZION hill. '-“'■'■SB Special to The News. 1 No sickness to note at this wjf I ing. | Several from here atte» I meeting-at Friendship last £ 1 daj '- JU The singing at Rev. A, J. Weblfl last Sunday night was enjoyed J all present. ■ Jim Waddell, of near Lawrenifl ville, attended Sunday ecj|B here last Sunday. * ' B Prof. J. B. Gresham, of SnS ville, will teach school here nS year. B Sandy Roads was well reiß seated at Sunday School 4 IBS Sunday.’ * 11 * You can’t afford to risk yfoBH by allowing a cold to pneumonia or stunt relief and and a are afforded by One Minute JB9I (Jure. Bagwell Bros. 888 Disfigurement for life or scalds may bo avoided ■Bo.foo: l)“Witt’s Witch Hazel great remedy for pilgs kinds of sore4.#hn skin ’ .. j p-o ifnnr —. 4 1 TAX COI.LECTOR’S XOtß|| SKCONI) ROUND. I will be at the following plaoßH the dates given for the purpose 088 looting state and county taxes f(BB year 18U7: SH| l.awreneet file Tuesday Noveftlbißß Martins, Wednesday Nov. 3. ffijH I.iiximiiii. Thursday, a. m., earlyßß n| Berkshire, Thursday Nov. 4. BB Pinkney ville, Friday Nov. 5. BB| Duluth, Saturday Nov. 6. HH Pucketts, Monday Nov. 8. §Bfß| Sugar Hill, ’Tuesday .Nov, tt. BBS i iiiuilu iii'. W ednesday Nov. 10. ■pSjj Hog Mt., Thursday Nov. 11. Cains. Monday Nov. 15. • las, W l ll lams sin late, Nov. 15 '■arl^H B- i -mi! 1 - Tin-, lay Nov. 10 B ilarhms, Wednesd-v Nov. i 7. VBBj Daeula, Wednesday, p. ni. Jfl o’clock ) Nov. 17. JBHSB Bay I I eek, I liiir-'iai Not. 1 B 1 rip i hursday . p. in. , late, nBBHB Cates, l'rnlay, Nov. 18. BBHB Bw. kl.lodge, >al urday Not, -'BBB W. A. Wright, • omptrolleßßn al requires that the lax hooks lfi|||||| and Ii tils issued tij Deerinber B|||||| C. A. Tax Collector liwinnett LH Bucklen’s Arnica SB The Best Salve in I be worß Bruises, Sores, 1 leers M|M keter Sores, Tidier, CD- ,Mains, < 'urns, Dee and posi! 'Veit mt NO. 3