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THE CHATTOOGA NEWS.
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[ BAPTIST - REV. D. T. ESPY.
Summerville -First Sunday and even
ing and Saturday before; also third Sun-
I day evening. Sardis Second Sunday
! and Saturday before. Pleasant Grove
-Third Sunday and Saturday before
Mount Harmony Fourth Sunday and
Saturday before.
BAPTIST—REV. J. M. SMITH.
Raccoon Mill First Subbath in each
i month at 11 o’clock . Perennial Springs
—Third Sabbath and Saturday before. .
Melville-Fourth Sabbath and Saturday
before at 2:30 p. ni. *
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METHODIST REV. T. 11. TIMMONS.
Oak Hill First Saturday and Sunday.
..Ami Second Saturday and Sunday;
also Fifth Sunday evening. . .Broom
town Second Sunday evening, and
Fifth Sunday morning. South Caro
lina Third Satur lay and Sunday.
I .Summerville—Fourth Sunday and night.
PRESBYTERI AN -REV. W. A. MILNER.
I Trion—Every first and fifth Sabbath.
. .Summerville Every second Sab
bath Alpine Every third and fourth
Sabbath.
PRESBYTERIAN'- REV. T. S. JOHNSTON.
Walnut Grove First Sabbath Sil
ver (’reek, Floyd County—Second Sab
bath .Beersheba Third Sabbath
LaFayette—Fourth Sabbath.
Court Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
■ First Mondav in March and Septem
ber. John W.‘ Maddox, Judge; G. D.
| Hollis, Clerk ; C. C. Clements, Solicitor
| General; J. N. Kiker, Stenographer.
cwt.wrr court.
Monthly terms, second Mondav;
Quarterly terms, lirst Monday in Ja.i
uarv, April, July, and October. J. M.
Bellah, Judge; Hollis, Clerk.
justices’ court.
Summerville (925th district),John Tay
lor, N. P., and J. .1. P. Henry, J. V.
I Court 3rd Friday. Lawful Constables:!
I I). A. Cruinly and E. C. Smith.
■
! Trion (870th district), T. J. Simmons.
N. P., and N. H. Coker, J. P. Court 3rd
Saturday. Last return day Friday be-
! fore the’first Saturday. Lawful Consta
bles: 11. P. Williams.
Teloga (927th district), W. F. Tapp, N.
P., and A. Johnston, J. P. Court Ist
Friday. Lawful Constables: George
W. Carroll.
Alpine 968th district), J. E. Burns, N.
P. Court 4th Saturday. Lawful Consta
bles: S.M. Baker.
I Dirtsellar (1216th district), J. L. Huie,
I N. P.,and Hugh Richardson. J. P. Court
I 4th Saturday. Lawful Constables: John
. M. Rose.
Seminole (961st district,) A. J. Hender
son, N. P., and E. Adams, J. P. Court
’ 3rd Saturday. Lawful Constables: Jos. i
, Glenn and F. P. Ragland.
’ Coldwater (10S3vd district), D. B.
; Franklin, N. P., ami W. T. Herndon, J.
■ P. Cour; Ist Saturday. Lawful Consta
• bles: N. J. Edwards and M. W. Bryant.
Dirttown (,M()th district),M. M. Wright
N. P., and J. P. Johnson, J. P. Court
2nd Saturday. Lawful Constables: C.
M. XL Herndon.
Ila rood (FA-’nd district), N. A. J: k- j
son, S'. I’., and L. S. Scogin. J. P. Court •
4th S.:turcii.y. Lawful C<;: dablcs: R.
C. Sam lers and J. J. Barbour.
■ Sub’igna (962’id district), <I. R. Fonder, '
> ; N. P., and J. P. Jackson, J. P. Court
Ist Saturday. Lawful Constables: J.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 30, 1888.
BAPTISTS.
The concession of “Observer”
does “a good Presbyterian brother”
slight injustice. If, by “Christs
laws ai they relate to His churches
and kingdom,” reference is had to
the Scriptural doctrine of the
church, he candidly acknowledges
tho justice of the c(harge) oncessiou.
But if that phraseology refers to
to any denominational tenets, he
disclaims ever having attempted to
make his “kno.vledge” thereof evi
dent, through th • press or otherwise.
This last remark will apply, to
som: extent, to the concession
■about “ecclesiastical history as it
relates to Baptists;” but not so
much so; for, claiming—though
disclaim?d an 1 disowned by—them
as ecclesiastical kinfolks I frefpient
ly speak and sometimes write about
their history. Would you believe
it? Your Presbyterian brother has
read an I studied, and with a great
deal of pleasure too, the characters
of many illustrious Baptists as
portrayed by Baptist skill and in
tellect. Carey, and Fuller and
Robert Hall among tho English;
- the Haldanes of Scotland; and
John Clark, Roger Williams, and
Isaac Backus—l greatly admire
them all. Thomas Hollis and Na
thaniel B. Cobb—well! I wish there
were more Baptists of their sort,
and I wish I had the time and space
I to tell “Observer” all I know about
the history of these and such as
these. That Baptist, through whose
influence, “the false and scurrilous
pamphlet, entitled Baxter Bap
tized in Blood,” was examined and
condemned; that Baptist, who,
when England was dominated bj'
Presbyterian sentiment, declared
“that while Old England is becom
ing New, New England is becoming
Old ;” that “strict” Baptist, through
whom, within one month, the Scotch”
Presbyterians contributed nearly
SIO,OOO or S3OO a day for the pros
ecution of Baptist Missions; and
that Baptist, strict or slack, who in
1766, sent across the Atlantic the
message: “More books, especially
on government are going for New
England. Should those go safe, it
is hoped that no principal books on
that first subject will be wanting in
Harvard College, from the days of
Moses to these times. Men of New
England, brethren, use them for
yourselves, and for others ; and God
bless you”—and this to the sons of
those very Congregationalists who
had wiped the blood out of a Bap
tist’s back—these, and such as
these, “liberal-souled,” in one sense;
but not in a bad sense, might be
imitated as well as admired, by the
whole household of faith, and espe
cially by such as boast of their de-
; scent from Smithfield men without
■ displaying the Smithfield spirit. Did
. time and space permit, I might tell
: of some Baptists, who so far from
j “speaking against” their persecu
! tors, prayed for them ; but I pre
! sume that “Observer” is “posted,”
I I 1
and that not many readers of our
county paper are anxious to hear
what “a good Presbyterian brother”
has to say; and that our clever edi
tors might object to too much Bap
tist history.
“A witnessing church” against
which “the gates of hell” did not
“prevail,” even in the “dark ages;”
yea, and composed of “those who
were organized, believed, and taught
as Baptists now are organized, do,
believe and teach,” will hardly be
denied even by Romanists; but that
j is something radically different from
j the assertion that “Baptists have
. lived and flourished * * over 1800
! years.” You see, brother “Observ
: er,” there are Baptists and Baptists
as well as Anabaptists and Ana
baptists. Rome’s immersion and
her congregational organizations—
yea, her triple immersion does not
entitle her to the honor of being the
“witnessing” church. On the con
trary, if we are to believe the Bible,
the “witnessing” members “came
out of her.” They heaYd and heed
ed the King’s command: “Come
out of her, my people, and be not
partakers of her sins.” In obedi
ence to the Divine injunction:
“Have no fellowship with unbeliev
ers.” they withdrew from Rome and
i her “baptisteries,” some of which,
;:s I gather from a scholarly Amcr-
I ican Baptist, “had been natural riv
ulets before the buildings were
I erected over tliein, and the pool was
contrived to retain water sufficient
for dipping, and to discharge the
rest.” In this connection it deserves
to be noticed, that if Baptists may
justly claim all orthodox witnesses
for the truth who rejected the Bap
tism of Rome, they arc entitled and
welcome to our Thornwell whose
abhorence of Romish Baptism is
far more evident than that of Ber
engarious’ or Peter de Bruys’. Be
sides, if “Observer” can, or oannot,
accept it. There are no “conscienti
ous Christians who are not Baptists.”
In the best sense, Coddington was
as trulj' a Baptist as Dr. John
Clark, through whose “great influ
ence” “he retired from public busi
ness.” For, there is but “one bap
tism” that transforms character,
and that baptism is no symbolical
rite, whether of human or Divine
institution. Now, honor bright!
Isn’t that the truth; and oughtn’t
Baptist to respond to the sentiment:
“Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates,
sed magis arnica veritas.”
As neither his church, nor anv
other church, is responsible for
what John Clark, Roger Williams,
John Calvin, Martin Luther, Zwin
gle, or the “fanatical Anabaptists
of Munster,” did, “a good Presbyte
rian” does not deem it necessary to
vindicate these characters, nor to
apologize for their mistakes. Take
into consideration that they were
men and that their environments ;
were altogether different from ours,
and the wonder is that their mis
takes and sins were not more num
erous than are alleged, not to say
proven.
> It goes with the saying of it, that
our King, who is “the way and the
truth and the life,” and whose de
claration, pledge, and promise is, '
and for ages has been, “Ye shall
know the truth and the truth shall
, make you free,” is the real giver of
“soul liberty,” and of liberty, civil
and religious; but how does that '
detract from the honor of his in- 1
strunients ?
Pardon one more remark. Are
the Baptists “open to conviction?” '
Instead of demanding of any “good
Presbyterian brother,” or of any 1
Baptist brother: “Prove to them,” ‘
etc, let me remind you, that your ’
King and mine commands you and :
me and all our brethren to “prove !
all things and hold fast that which '
is good.” “Buy the truth, and sell
it not.”
“Tear the thick veils God’s trutli that 1
folds, ,
And let t he truth of God shine through;
The lignt is new the truth is old—
Old as Himself, and always new.”
Let me remind you, that Paul
says: “Now I beseech you, that by .
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1
that ye all speak the same thing,
° I
and that there be no divisions
among you ; but that ye be perfect
ly joined together in the same mind
and in the same judgment.” And
if any ask : “What agreement hath j'
the temple of God with idols?”!
“Can two walk together except they j
be agreed ?” They are reminded that |
the only real Prophet, Priest, and;
King has said: “Agree with thine |
adversary quickly.” But let me
also remind my that the
same King says: “Be nbt unequal
ly yoked together w’ith unbelievers.” I
With the charity that is consist-1
ent with, and born of the truth, as;
I humbly insist and sincerely be-j
lieve, lam, one whom you know
and yet whom you know not.
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The Patriotic Maiden.
Gen. Horace Porter told a good 1 .
story at a recent dinner in New |
York at the expense of a Yankee. (
This Yankee was an inveterate nov- j
el reader, and he delighted to talk j i
of the books he read. It happened i ‘
that Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables” I
which had just been published, was i
being read by him while in Virgin- :
ia serving under Grant. One day i
he met a Virginia lass under cir- :
eumstances which warranted him I
in commencing a conversation. They ’
had not been talking long before s
the Yankee said : ;
“Miss , have you seen ‘Lees (
Miserables?’,” using the French :
pronunciation. <
The blood of the Cavaliers glow- i
ed in the cheeks and the fire of her 1
revolutionary ancestors flashed from <
the eye.: ; ,f the maiden as she in- <
dignant; replied: i
“No, I haven’t, but I had much <
rather see Lee’s miserables than; 1
Grant’s miserables.” i;
Three Miles from Town.
i It is quite amusing to think about
old Uncle Wilson Wheeler, at the
i age of eighty, gray-headed, bent
double, and decrepit, playing “leap
frog,” “chickerj' me crany crow,”
etc, with the children. But the-old
gentleman has been a very useful
and industrious man in life, and it
| seems from present indications that
he has got his stakes set for many
[ more days of usefulness. I see—
like Bill Arp says—nearly every
body, whether posted or not, is
making a whack at the tariff; and
now comes Uncle Wilson making
i sharp thrusts at it, and pitching in
generally into politics. Well, the
I old fellow’s head’s level on the G.
!A. R., internal revenue, and the
tariff. He is not altogether like
Bill Arp in that respect; he is out
[ spoken in his denunciation of the
i old war measures, and B. A. is
standing square-footed upon Uncle
Wilson’s platform ; but just now be
is feeling along mighty careful lest
he treads on his right hand man’s j
toes. (The Constitution).
If Bill Arp has any aspiration to 1
go to Washington he will have to;
put his foot on the abolition of the |
internal revenue system and in I
favor of tariff reform, or else he !
won’t get to breakfast around here. !
Such talk as letting a high tariff
remain upon the necessaries of life
and abolishing the internal reve- ;
nue is purely nonsensical. It is
only a dodge of the high protection- 1
ists to reduce the surplus and yet
retain the present obnoxious tariff.
The Atlanta Constitution generally
makes a point and cairies it, but in '
this instance she and her truly belov-!
ed—Joseph Brown—will certainly
“round up” in the “small minority.”
I see the Rome Tribune puts the
question : “Will the smart decline
in cotton lie the means of causing
the farmers to the acreage
in cotton for the jiresem yeijjjt” I
think I can answctTafely no. What
will be the means of causing them
to reduce the acreage is yet a ques
tion unsolved. They have the thing
reversed. Instead of planting small
crops with remunerative prices, they
plant more extensively to meet
small prices, consequently I would
not be surprised if the acreage was
increased on account of the decline.
For this folly the farmers are to
some extent excusable. They are
almost compelled to plant largely in
order to meet back dues as well as
present demands. Neither is a
merchant willing to run a farmer
for much unless he plants largely
in cotton, for ’tis the only product
on which the farmer can rely for
the ready cash. They are not par
ticularly fond of raising the fleecy 1
staple, as ’tis very tedious to work, I
and a back breaking business to
gather, and generally takes about
12 months pretty industrious work
to get it on the market. They tell
us to diversity our crops, and when
we do and go to market with our
diversified products there are no
“diversified” prices awaiting us,
consequently' have to fall back on
king cotton for the money. Guess i
the only relief lies in the intensive I
system. Is this correct philosophy?
For instance: If I raise one-half
bale cotton per acre and my neigh
bor one bale, can he afford to take
eight cents per pound for his as well
as I could sixteen for mine, less the
difference in fertilizing and cost of
gathering? J. V. W.
Flowers, Farmer’s Clubs, and
Tobacco.
Winter has about abdicated his I
throne in favor of gentle spring, j
How glad we are to see him with
his stormy' days and cold bleak
nights taking his departure and
see spring clothed in flowers of the
richest hue and the sweetest fra
grance seated once more on the
throne. My heart is always filled
with admiration at the return of
spring. She never forgets to re
place the beautiful flowers that cru
el winter has torn from our homes
and always makes everything- put
on a lovely appearance. Home, it
is true, is an admired spot, it mat
ters not how humble, but Oh ! what
charms are added when it is well
decorated with flowers. It is a la
ment able fact that the majority
of us are not trying as we should
to make our homes attractive. We
are overlooking qne thing in this
line, though some consider it too
I small for their attention, that is
flowers. There is nothing which
costs so little money and labor and
J which will make our homes more
’ attractive than flowers. Take the
j flowers and the women from our
' : homes and you take its life, its
' j beauty, and its attractive powers.
' i Show me a country where flowers
'j are extensively cultivated and I
I will show you an intelligent people
’; and a beautiful country—a land
' | loved by' all.
'! lam glad to see the farmers
' forming clubs for their benefit.
; They are right. For their rights
have been trampled upon by almost
every other class of men. They
’ have had less protection of the law
than any one. Other enterprises
must be protected by the law but
farming never receives such aid. It
lis beneath the notice of the big
'| philanthropic politician. He never
I tries to legislate in favor of the
■ farmer. I say let the farmers or
‘l ganize themselves into clubs or any j
I other combination that will afford
I them protection. Some say' let
them keep out of politics, but I say
t let them, if they' choose, launch
i their barque on the political waters,
; and I wish them success: for I had
rather see the country in the hands
|of the honest farmer than where it
is. But Mr. Coker seems to think
! that this is not the way' for the
! farmer to get his rights. Well, if
i this is not the way I would like to
i know why. Other men, when they
wish to carry a point, can form
themselves succesfully into clubs.
Then why can’t the farmers? They
can if they will only try . They
• should be careful never to let any I
one join them except those who
actually employed in farming or
working as mechanics and when
ever they cease to work as such, let
their membership expire.
Probably the generality of the
people are not aware of the fact
that the tobacco used in the United
States costs more than the bread
we use, yet this is true according
to statistics. Neither do I suppose
many of us stop to consider its evil
effects, but chew or smoke or prob
ably bothpvith all the avidity that
we can command, not taking any
thought of its effect upon our minds
or bodies. Dear reader if you in
dulge in this useless habit, stop,
consider its advantages and disad
vantages, and I am sure you will
give your decision as many physi
cians have: “It injures humanity.”
It may be you think that tobacco
is doing you good, but I dare say
yon are mistaken. Just quit it for
awhile and you will be astonished,
i If you decide that it is injurious to
I you, will you not abandon its hab
itual use at once, and will you not
do all in your power to prevent oth
c-v'sll- ■ ing enslaved to such a
haWt ? “oh ! I have often
tiJfd to quit its use, but never have
succeeded yet." But try again.
Take a common sense vh-vv of it.
Is it possible for a man to ■ insunic
as much poison, as a toba■■■••» user;
; does, without its injuring him me'.i
--: tally or physically. Now if it does
not injure you this way you can’t
say that it does not hurt your purse,
lhere is not an old man m this
country who lias used tobacco from
his youth but what has spit away
a good fortune. <)! you say, “that i
its habitual use is a personal priv-1
liege and you don’t consider it to be !
I any-one,s business to vilify its use.” j
That may be true but it doesn’t!
I show wisdom in any one to exercise '
! such privileges that cost so much
| and in addition ruin their health.
Bill Lief.
If we were to struggle half as
firmly for joy as we do for woe this
world would be a paradise—Com
mercial Traveller.
Don’t know so well about that,
Traveller. It appears to us that at j
times woe is ours without a strug-1
gle, while joy is as hard to catch
and hold as greased lightning. How
ever, people will differ about these
things.
“How- nice it must be to feel a
mustache on one’s lips,” she mur
mured as he sat stroking his in
cipient excuse for one.
“Ah, yes, indeed,” he answered,
bending toward her, and then she
realized just how it was,
NO. 9.
Wilson Wheeler.
I sigh for the joys that arc vanished and
gone,
And tlie pleasure I once use to know,
When I lived and was fat on homo made
meat and corn
Tn the beautiful days long ago.
Yes, how I sigh for dem days,
dem beautiful days, dem good old
days long ago. It does seem like
men were more honest in dem good
old days dan da is now. De farmer
was de boss dog in de boneyard. He
had corn and meat and flour and
home made jeans and good lard
widout cotton seed oil or stcerine in
it at home, and his land wasn’t
mortgaged to none of dese loan as
sociations, and he was independent.
Yes, he was de boss dog. He was
er nabob. When he went to town
and went in one of de stoes de sto
keeper would bow and scrape and
be polite and say Mister Jones to
him, and he would look on de sto
keeper wid pitty and call him Smith
and strut round large Isaac; amide
sto keeper was awful anxious for
ide farmer to trade, and da treated
him right, kase da had to. Yes, de
farmer was de big man dem days.
Counted his wheat, and corn by de
thousand bushels, and his hogs and
sheep by de hundred, and had fried
ham and red gravy oil his table
three times er day all de year round,
and he had fine horses and fat cows
and lived at. home and was happy.
But times am changed and you
don’t hardly ever see er farmer data
out of debt and got meat in his
smoke house and corn in his crib
and wheat m his garner and hogs
ami sheep and cows in derange, and
home made jeans, Ac. Yes. d< m
days am gone, and farmer
to nowa.jmM f ;
iiiu and srtd and his stiqi ■
and faltering and he don’t even re 1
semble the ghost of de old time far 1
mer; and he creaps in to de sto wid \
his hat off and under his arm, and '
calls de sto keeper Mister Smith,
and if de sto keeper deigns to no
tice him he says howdy Jones, and
don’t ax him what he will have,
but des waits, kase he knows its
got to come, tell Jones can choke
down dat big lump what comes up
in his throat and wipe de tears out
ob his eyes wid his ragged coat
sleeve, and say, “Mr. Smith, I come
up to day to see if I could get you
to run me dis year.” And Jones
stands and trembles while Mr.
Smith or Col. -Smith, dat was only
Smith in de good old days, puts his
thumbs in de arm holes of his jack
et and sets back on his pastern
joints, and says, “Well, Jones, times
are mighty hard, money’s mighty
scarce and hard to get and it takes
er gilt edge paper to get things
nowadays. Can put what I've got
into other things and beat letin it
out to farmers. How can you se
cure me, Jones?” And Jones dat
use to be Mr. Jones signs er iron
clad note and mortgage—gets er
piece of white meat and some flour MW
and tobacco, etc., and er calico
dress for his wife and er pare of 1
hrogans for hisself and boy and 1
.jai - home, and goes to work to try I
m ( Olton to pay for em. And 4
iiis wife is sad and sorrowful, and B
children ain’t happy and playful,
and his farm dat use to bring him
large yields seems tired and indo
lent and blushes in pittv at its
owner’s fallen condition. (I reckon
idem big red spots am blushes.)
But dere is always er sweet for the
bitter and er silver lining to dark
| clouds so da say. And we’ve got
, railroads and telegraph lines and
telephones and iron works, etc., dat
takes de place of de corn and hogs
and wheat dat we use to have, and
if we am half naked and hungry
and poor and in debt, we won't
know our nakedness or feel our
debts I reckon when de railroad
comes. Mr. Kinchin Foster says de
good times is comin and old Chat
tooga is but in her infancy now,and
she will grow and everybody will be
; rich and flourish like er green bay
tree. Well I hope so. But if old
Chattooga grows like she has for de
last fifteen years I don’t want to
see her when she’s grown. Er jay
bid will have to carry his rations
when he starts cross it, and de blush
will have spread over de entire face
of de county. Wilson Wheeler.
A scientist asks: “Will die com
ing man use both arms.” Yes: just
before leaving his best girl the com
ing mau will use both arms. Ask
something that’s hard to -pswer.