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C O AUA7 I 7 Tl O V/ TI U T X Ti IT . JOHN R MADDOX. Editor. ~ SATURDAY - - DEC. 5, 1885. HISTORIC SMYRNA. FROM IRELAND TO ROCKDALE THE PILGRIM FATHERS STREAM. Emyrna's Birth Stamps a new Civilization Full History of Smyrna church, Rock¬ dale county, Ga, From its Birth to the Present Time, BY REV. IIEMK Y QUIGG, D. If. I’AKT I-IKST. Here is a church crowded for di vine worship. There is a spacious board arbor in the midst of tents of superior structure, Here too is a commodious schoolhouse hard by the church. These buildings are well painted, neat and comfortable. Yonder too is God’s half acre where the fathers sleep. Who are these people and whence came they? These questions lead us right back into the misty past. About the mid¬ dle ofthe 15th century proofs were accumulating that the world was round, not flat. If round|the East Indies can be reached by sailing west. The manner’s compass lias been discovered. Three ships are fitted out and after sailing 71 days Columbus lands on the island of San Salvador in the year 1402. ye died in ignorance of his grand dis¬ covery-. Six years later Americus Vespucci disembarks on the main¬ land and gives his name to a new world. Colony after colony of hardv Europeans braving the dangers of the deep, find a home in this wes¬ tern world. The first colony settled in North Carolina. In 1820 the May Flower lands her band of exiles in the depth of winter on a bleak and barren coast. A tide of emigration , set now in which has continued to swell up till the present hour. Among the con tnbuttng streams to American pop illation, Ulster one ot the tour prov inces of Ireland, has ever sent out its full share. I he lands of tins prov ince being confiscated in 1610 to the British Crown after an unsuccessful rebellion and the original inhab. tants being put to he sword or es caping toi'ianco, >°ng ) a ei l e territory were now lett a howling waste. Ihe Eng is i ing a us t.me encouraged the Scotts by .and bounties to go over and possess the sod As a result in if (--ouise o years Ulster was owned and occu pied by Scotch emigiants. a j'3 ing with them their customs lan gunge and religion a new Scotland sprang up on Enn s northern shore. In Ireland the descendants of these emigrants are still called Scotch. On this continent, and especially in the south, they are very appropriate- distinguish ly called Scotch Irish to them alike fiom the aboriginal Irish and the name . cod a \\ ith this type of humanity mark ed everywhere for intelligence its industry in tegnty, energy and pi ety, th. se southern states have been largely peopled. I be ins emigrants nearly al setibHl m northern states. In 1730 the Scotch and Scotch Irish had taken almost exclusive posses siou Of the Cumberland valley m Pennsylvania. disturbed Some 20 years later the state of things in Pennsylvania l'« gan to push the inhabitants out ot their homes. 1 he Ind.ans were din ly wreaking their vengeance out the whites "t the forest lhetuiyot culminated these in ^'<1 Ire.. men ,n what has been ever since known as l.rad,lock s deteat. Ins disas trouaeveni leaving the whites a prey to their savage iocs in l ennsylvania forced then, to quit their cultivated seats and seek new homes tn Virgin ia I>M Ihe l0rl ^ Scotch Uni i !50U and i Scotch Irish T . . streams of emigration now flowed through the port ot Charleston to mingle with their tnends southern and homes kins meu in their now But the title of empire still west ward flows, and the Scotch Irish have ever been in the front. Travel where you will on either hemisphere they are found plying their pursuits amid polar snows, temperate zones and torrid dimes. M lien the fat.h ers setttled in the Carolinas the Red man proudly roamed through these forests wild. Just in tha spot w here that beautiful church nestles in the grove, perhaps, he threaded with his dusky bride the ffiazes of the green corn dance and over there by the eo zy echoolhouse sat round the couu cil fue, smoking the pipe of peace, or with painted visage and nodding plume, raising the w-arcry, he sallied forth to meet the foe. In 1821 these children ofthe forest being pushed by the government beyond the Chat tahoochee, their lands were surveyed and marked off into lots Soon the white man steps in. Family family and youth after youth fremi the Carolinas find their way to Indian hunting grounds. As early as 1826 we find that Moses Hollings worth and others have reached this place, yet almost as wild as when the Cherokee prddled South river in ,,is Itebt Canoe and chased the bear from I)jH wigwam . Then the ginger weed, the fern and the tall grass eon coaled the deer, the turkey, the wild cat and the wolf. These lands that now smile with rich harvests around this church were on the market at 50ets an acre. The inhabitants as yet were few and some not the most orderly. Those, however, who ear l ied their religion witli them to their new homes sought and obtained oe casional supplies of the preached word. The Scotch stream wherever it flowed fertilized the soil with the dews of Heaven. Like the ancient patriarchs in their wanderings, they not only dug their well, and pitched their tent, but raised their altar. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so they thirsted for the re¬ freshing ordinances of God’s house. Their yearnings for the waters of life found an articulate voice in a petition to Presbytery to organize a church here in the wilderness. Ah! faith can do what others only dream of and can triumph where others fail. The petition is granted. And at the appointed day a little band of prayerful, hopeful spirits cemented in ihe bonds of Christian love, with one heart and soul, meet to enter into solemn compact and rear a tabernacle in the wilderness to the mighty God of Jacob, singing in tliefiilness of heart: “O, God of Bethel, by whose band thy people still are fed, Who through this weary pilgrimage, hast all our fathers led. Our vows, our prayers, we now present before thy throne of grace God of our fathers be tlie God of their succeeding race.” This auspicious meeting was held on Sabbath morning the lltli of Feb¬ ruary in the year 1827 at the dwell¬ ing house of Messrs'. Samuel and Alexander Stewart, two young men, who, with their sisters, resided about 100 yards from the bouse where Ei¬ der J. G. McNair uow lives. Surely this worthy brother lives on hallowed ground, occupying and possessing as he does tbe site of the germ of Smyr¬ na church. As the hour for service drew on two Presbyterian clergymen ap¬ proached. One young, tall, erect and vigorous, f the other of middle 8tatur( and of middle age . T he man in the dew of his youth was D| . j T W ilson, of South Caro (i a inan who Ktood „p for 50 Ruthin „ the dauntles3 champion of Georgia. The other was tbe Rev Win. Kirkpatrick, of Ire |fin(] who had n)it ,istered to some of these ut at Liberty Spring cluirch . South Carolina, and whose name in some families here is still sweet ointment Yr. poured forth, Aftei . sennon by Wilson, the c ] imc h was organized—the § tender yine wag \ , ante wbich being water ^ , tbe k . WS of prayer and tears () ,,,-Achos f penitence has now extended its far and wide. The organi zation consisted of 15 members, only ont . morc than th e whole number of tliea ‘ lk . 9 . Their names, however, are ecions and will bc be]d in ever . la! . tjn 1Tn10UlbraDce . This is the hpri(llgc ofti „. righteous. Let them a ain ',, e stored as they sounded in hoU9e ofthe Messrs. Stewart 58 „ a Archibald Gilmer, Jo - Hollingsworth, h jr„ Margaret Gilmer, Marv jj Gilmer, James Russell, Alex! Ma Rna>e Samud Stewart, and( , r su>wart E i izabclh Hollings worth Moses Hollingsworth, Eliza - bot|| 1Io]ling8 g wortb, David M. Stew aj . Nanuy tewart Elizabeth Calla hnn and Khzabeth Gilespie. Only onfidollbk , uanu , it will be observed, ig jn Uie wllC)le list . How customs t . hn , 0 f these 15 every one has fallen asleep. Mrs. Elizabeth Holi ingswo ,th, relict of Mr. Moses Hell ingswol ” , th and mother of our late , a entcd Newton Hollingsworth, D wag , |k . ]flst survivol , sbe Hved to sc , e that little church, of whose be ^ ginning slu-formed a part, ‘ growing, | andi] ^nyers and 8cndin ollt its col on es t0 and Salem and Li¬ thonja and P o,,tnhuting to the up huil(iil r (> f churches by individual mombers in m . ni lv every southern ' and solltl ,western state. Ave! and on Uip flna , d it will besaidof many whose names never appeared on churoh ,. olls this man and that ma n was born in her. (to v be continued.) ’ jt will be remembered by many that Elder J. S. Lamar, now of At ] a nta, preached at the Christian church in this places few Sundays ag0> A large crowd turned ont to bear the learned divine. He made a favorable and lasting impression on b [ 8 audience. Members of other churches at this place suggested and insisted that Air. Lamar be chosen pastor of the Christian church. Out aiders grew so earnest in their ap peals as to aw-aken action in the Christian church. So last Sunday the members elected M. Lamar as their pastor for next year. This gentleman is a scholar, and Mr. A. II. Stephens is reported tohavepass ed a heavy compliment on him by saying he was “the best theologian tbe south.” As outsiders we would, in common with all our peo pleased to have Mr. Lamar preach at this place. The people here admire him and he will suit t bern '----- Miss Annie Davidson & Co. will be pleased examine to have their friends call and their goods, two doors below old poatoftice, in Dr Xravits building, on Commerce street. Most Excellent. J. J. Atkins, Chief of Police, Knox v ilie, Tenn., writes: “My family and I are beneficiaries of your most ex¬ cellent medicine, Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption; having found i*. to be all that yon claim for it, de.sire to testify to its virtu re. My friends to whom I have recom mended it praise it at every oppor¬ tunity.” Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption is guaranteed to cure Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Croup and every affection of Throat, Chest and Lungs. Trial Bottles Free at Dr. W. II. Lee’s Drug Store. Large Size one dollar. An Old Citizen Speaks, Mr. J. M. Norris, an o d reri lent of Rome, Ga., says, that he had been badly troubled with Kidney Com plaint for a great many years and with Eczema for three years; at times could scarcely walk and had tried many remedies without benefit, until he bod began taking Electric Bitters and annointing his hands and feet with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. T his treatment afforded him great relief and he strongly recom mended Electric Bitters to all who suffer with Kidney Complaints, or need a Blood Purifier. Sold by Dr. W. II. Lee. "What shall we do with our Daughters?” This question is asked by a well known lecturer. Well, we can do a great many things with them; one thing, we must take good, care of their health, and not let them run down and become enfeebled. For the feminine ailments, which may be summed up in one word— debility, wc have a sovereign reme¬ dy- in Brown’s Iron Bitters, which lias done much good. Miss Mary Greenfield, of Galatia, Ill., writes, “Brown’s Iron Bitters cured me of nervousness, indigestion and gener poor health.” Let the other young ladiis take the hint. LETTFRS OF DISMISSIONS. Georgia, Rockdale Joseph county— Plunkett, admin¬ Whereas, A. istrator of Robert Plunkett, represents to the court in his petition duly filed Plun¬ that lie lias fully administered Robert kett’s estate, this is therefore to cite ali person concerned, heirs and creditors to show cause, if any they can, discharged why said administrator should not be from ids administration and receive let¬ ters of dismission on the first Monday in March, 1886. This December 2d, 1885. {5.04 O. Seamans, Ordinary. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, The Best Salve in the world for Outs, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum, Fe¬ ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil¬ blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay re¬ quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect Price satisfaction, or money refunded. 25 cets per box. For sale by Dr. YV. H. Lee. Dr. *T. G. Westmoreland Cures Piles without the knife, ligature in or hot iron, without pain, and less than a week, perfectly and permanently. ulcers Female diseases, Cancer and other treated his special application, and Con¬ sumption, Asthma, Nasal Catarrh, and Bronchitis is by- his special model of In¬ halation. 55 % S. Broad st., Atlant , Ga, Dissolution Notice is hereby given that the partnerships heretofore existing he tween Granade <fe Tucker, and the firm of Granade, Tucker & Co. have been this day dissolved by Mr. B. C. Granade selling out to YV. B. Reagan and B. C. Granade has no further in terest or connection with said firm. Nov. 26th 1885. B. C. Granade, P. G. Tucker, J. I. Coleman. IT WILL PAY You if you propose going West or North-West, to write me. I represent the Short Dine. F. D. BUSH, D. P. A., Atlanta, Ga CLINGMAN’S T OBACC REMEDIES O Thu Grated Undies] Discover‘nof the use. No fumlg ought to without en. TBE CLINGMAB TOBACCO OINTMENT for Ron Ilrliing ZSSZJSq&TS Pile**. Bu nevrr s?li failed p AVF: to give prompt relief. Will Rbenni cure Anal Berber’s Ulcers. Itch. Ahsces*, Ring ristma. Pimplee. Tetter. Salt and Foils. Price oO worms. Soree eta. THE CLINGMAN TOBACCO CAKE Wcrands NAT1RF.»S OWN HKMRUY, fares Beils, all Cut*. Bruises. Sprains, Erysipelas, Carbuncles. Bene Felons. Corns, Ulcere, Neuralgia. Sores. Rheumatism, Sore Eyes, Sore Throat J3 an ions Orchitis. Gout, Rheumatic Gout. Colds, Concha, Stings Bronchitis. Milk Leg Snake and all Dog Irritation Bites. and ol Insects, Ac. In fact allays local Inflamm ation from whatever cause. Price 25 its. T ur “HKME ri (WOMAN JHK2J-SK T-V* TflRAPPn PI »CTPR tUmIco. »nd'i» mxTOmendSi tor vadn«i«(orth«»r™«ru«wth« CLINGMAN TOBACCO CORE CO. DtiRHAM, N. C., U. S. A, PH 1 YJ nu nude Illuld of the loot Won derful Cum on word. J. S. 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