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A fiTFItCTLY VBGSTAe*,B FAULTLESS FAMILY MEDiCiME. rjpyha Prrvc'waexit, b, vH*' ’/ H O&SQ?}, 'sT’4 PHILADELPHIA. fe Price, OWE Dollar " As you value health, perhaps life, exatr.i' ca. ' package and be sure you g< t the Genuine. See the red Z Trntle-ALtrk and the full title on front of Wrapper, and on tb.- hLIo the seal and signature <>£ J. £5. >’■. Yia& Co., as in the above f«c- simile. Remember there b no Other genuine Simmoi.s Liver R.-jidat.;. A. J. Anderson DEALER ITT Watches, Clocks and Jewelry of Every De scription. I WW A/ /® ALSO REPAIRER OF ALL THE ABOVE ARTICLES. Church Directory. BAPTIST—BEV. D. T. ESPY. Summerville First Sunday and even ing and Saturday before; also third Sun day evening. ’Sardis Second Sunday ami Saturday before. Pleastint ((rove i Third Sunday and Saturday before I Mount Harmony Fourth Sunday and Saturday before. BAPTIST REV. J. M. SMITH. Race ton Mill First Sabbath in each moiuhat ito’chr-k Perennial Springs 'i'h in IS: ’ / tlt ;; nd Sntiirda v bof-iro Melville Fourth Sabbath and Saturday before at 2:30 p. m. M ETHOD I< !• KEy. T. 11. TIMM<)?< S. Oak Hill First Saturday and Sunday. Ami Second Saturday ami Sunday; also Fifth Sumlay evening .Broom town Second Sunday cx’ening, ami Fifth Siiii’ljy morning South (’aro lin:> Third Saturday ;■•»'! Sunday Su •a in ;rvilh -Fourth Simday and night. PRESBYTERIAN -REV. W. A. MILNER. Trion-Hvory first and fifth Sabbath. . .Summerville-Every second Sab bath Alpine Everv third ami fourth Sabbath. PRESBYTERIAN REV. T. S. JOHNSTON. Walnut Grove I’irst Sabbath Sil ver (’reek, Floyd Uounty- Second Sab bath .Beersheba Third Sabbath... Ija Fay et te - Four tl i Sabba 11.. Court Directory. surnnioii cour.T. Eirst Monday in March and Septem ber., .L.Hi AV. ?.Ll<b!..x, .Judge; <l. i>. Hollis.< 'lerk; ('.<’.(Tementu. Solicitor- General; J. N. Kiker, Stenographer. 4'SUNTV COURT. Monihly terms, second Mondav; 'ju.irtcrly terms, first Monday in Ja'n ue.rv, April, .Inly, and October. J. JI. Beiiah, judge; G. D. Hollis, Clerk. justices’ court. Summerville (1125th district),John Tay lor, N. I’., and J. .1. I>. Henry. J. I’. j Court 3rd Friday. Lawful Constables: P. A. Crumly and E. c. Smith. Trion (S7oth district). T. J. Simmons, N. I’., and N. 11. Coker, .L B. Court 3rd Saturday. Last return day Friday be fore the first Saturday. Lawful Consta bles: IL P. Williams.' Telega (927th district), W. F. Tapp, N. P., and Johnston, J. I’. Court Ist Friday. Lawful Constables: George JV. Carroll. Alpine IMSth district), J. E. Burns, N. P. Court 4th S.u nrdav. Lawful Consta bles: S. AL IF.her. Dirtsellar (12111th district), J. L. Huie, >'. B.,and Hi ,h R: •hardson, .1. B. Court 4th Saturday. L. wftil Constables: John M. Rose. ' Seminole (Dfllst d'isil b’t,) A. J. Hender son, X. P., and E. C. .Adams, J. P. Court 3rd Saturday. Lawful Constables: Jos. Glenn and F. P. Ragland. Coldweter G-'l-h'd district), H. B. Franklin, X. I'.,. 1 , id W. T. Herndon, J. P. Court b-t Saturday. Lawful C'.nsta ble*: ?'*. J. Edwards and M. W. Bryant. I'irttown (MOth district),M. M. Wright | X. I’., oid ,1. P. Johnson, J. i*. Court 2nd Sa'day. Lawful Constables: C. M. ?■•!. Herndon. i ! :i- ood (1 2nd district), X. 3 k >■>.:. P., and .S. Scogin. J. P. Court It!.:- ii'd?.. Lawful t'o ;-tables: it. C. Sai nd J. J. Barbo: . Sn' :>ia (.ri'2nd district), R. Ponder, X. i’.. :.1 .1. P. Jaeksoh, J. I'. Court Ist Sa: rdav. '.awful Cdn tables: J. M. Coats. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 13, 1888. Roger Williams—Baptists. Among the “illustrious Baptist characters admired” by our good Presbyterian brother, he mentions again and yet again the name of the bold and heroic yet unstable and visionary abvocate of religious liberty, linger Williams. It is a well known fact that the assertion that “Roger Williams founded the Baptist in jtmeriea” has been re corded in some of our histories and taught even in some of our school books. In 1817 a controversy be tween the church at Providence and the church at Newport as to which was first established caused a thor ough investigation of the matter by both parties. The Colony Records, and writings of Dr. Hogue, Staples, Gammell, Cotton Mather, Callen der, Neale, Backus, Edwards, and Roger Williams were all eSimined and compared ; the church and as sociations.! records and century sermons were brought forward and after several years of persistent, careful ar. l prayerful labor to do justice to all, the proof was estab lished that in four months from the - date of his baptism (March, 103!)) Roger Williams declared that “(lie church is yet in tile wilderness; the organization of churches and ordaining of ministers are inven tions of men to fetter the freedom |of the soul.” That Philip, a dea-1 ■ con, baptized the Ethiopian, and' Paul was baptized by a lav member and preached without ordination.” i This conviction, that “there is no true church organized in the bay I or in the world, and no true minis try ordained by men” was so firmly fixed in his mind that he never! wavered in it during the 43 years of his after life. Some of these facts, before this controversy were ! regarded by some Baptist writers jas “pedobaptist misrepresentn • 1 lions.” Mather, who knew Williams ; well, said the “thing like a chure'i ■! . ’,nded 1 William- came to nois ing, and Williams declared himm-lfi a ‘seeker.’” Neale wrote “hlsi church crumbled away Edwards; says, “Williams did not found a Baptist church in Providence, nor did he ever unite with the live principle church gathered by Olney, or with any church as he declared himself a ‘seeker.’ ” Thomas Olney,' a Congregation alism baptized by 'Williams, March, 1639, gathered the five principal churches at Providence, while Wil liams was in England on his first visit. In 1652 a division in this church resulted in the formation of a sixth principal church of which Wiekenedon was pastor until his death in 1669. Edwards says, “Olney’s church, scattered in 1715 and was never again united.” Roger Williams came to America a Puri tan minister; he preached for the Congregational church at Salem;! he cordially embraced and fearless ly advocated the Baptist doctrine of! religious liberty, he renounced in fant baptism, was baptized by Hol liman, turned seeker and Familist; declared all church organization and ordinances illegal; therefore he is not to be eulogized as the father of the American Baptist. Adlam, of Rhode Island, to whose ; book we arc indebted for these! facts, says of Mr. Williams: “As a statesman, we admire him; as a! bold and a powerful advocate of civil j and religions liberty, and for all he j did in conjunction with Dr. ('lari:' in framing and securing the char-! ! ter of R. 1., we do him homage, but; as a Baptist we owe him nothing.. As a religionist, lie had the courage I to suffer, but lie was uninstructed I on some points, unstable, and vis ionary.” I state these alleged facts, be lieving them to be true; but as Baptists do not believe in Apostolic succession, as does Rome and some of her Protesant daughters, and as j Baptists most emphatically repudi ate the doctrine of “baptismal re generation” which is in a greater or ! less degree taught by all pedobap- ■ list; why docs it matter whether: “the lawgiver of R. 1.,” as Bancroft stvles Roger Williams, was, or was not, a member of the Baptist; church. By the way I have ex :mined Bancroft’s history this '. -ek and have failed to find a s’ g:e declaration in 411 1 pages t! it >'■ illiatn. was a Bapti t; but B i:i-' I crept says in vol. 1, page 44!) “When Clark, the pure and toler ant Baptist of R. 1., one of the hap " py few who succeeded in acquiring 'an estate of bcnificence,and connect ing the glory of their name with ' the liberty and happiness of a com ' monwealth, began* to preach to a ’ small audience in Lynn, he was 1 seized by the civil officers; and 1 Holmes, who refused to pay his : fine, was whipped unmercifully.” This is Presbyterian testimony ' and I accept it as I accept, I the testimony that Williams ’! was never a member of a Baptist ' church. To John Clark, the firm 1 : friend of Roger Williams and co ’ worker with him in the cause of ! civil and religipus liberty, “To John ’ ( lark to whom” the governor said : ’(“You have denied infant baptism: ' ! you deserve death ! I will not have ' such trash brought into mv juris (diction,” to John Clark the “true ' | pioneer of the Baptist cause in the ! new world”—who when about to ‘, pmbark for England with Roger ’' Williams, charged his church. Bar row says: “To steer clear of the ! opinion of those who destroyed the ' | purity of the church by uniting it with civil power and introducing into it unregenerate material by in ! fant baptism ; and to beware of the ! opinions of those on the other hand ( who denied that there were any vis j ible churches. He warned them to I avoid both extremes—the false or ; der of church and state pedobaptist ! and the no order of I Roger Williams and his party— the Seekers; to John ('lark a “full j grown, double breasted lock-stick Baptist,” belongs the honor of rais ing the Baptist banner in America, and “sustaining it in defiance of prisons an I stripes unto blood,” till ( its conquest were carried into the heart of Massachusetts, and a work began by.him and his suffering com panions, which will continue to ! spread and triumph. ■'Till t ; waxes of the bay. Where the Max flower lay Shall f :ia and .; ,’eze no in n' .” No, my friends the fact that the' I oldest apostate church existing to! <lav, the Greek Catholic Church! immerses adults and infants, does! not make her the witnessing church : indeed, as the Greeks surely under-' stood their own language, it is not strange that they immerse as the Greek word baptizo means dipping; but it is strange that they say : “We believe baptism is a sacrament which, except a person receive he has no communion with Christ.” They had just as well sprinkle or pour, as they make their baptismal right, God’s appointed channel by which He conveys the Grace of Salvation to the soul; and it is therefore with them, a sac,renien !■ without which there can bo no salvation. This doctrine | whether taught by Greek Catholics, : Roman Catholics or Protestants, has ! I never been believed, and will never lbe accepted by true Baptists. We I J cling to the old fashioned truth— “saved by grace, through faith in Christ, and not of ourselves; it is the gift of God.” All bcljk'vcrs in Chistare saved, even befoiwmptism and are entitled to water naptism, and none but believers should be i baptized. See Acts, viii-37—“ Here i is water; what doth hinder me?” “If tho;i b.lievest, thou roayest, and : they both '.'ent down into the waler and he (Philip) baptised him.”! j Again, when Jews came to John to be baptiz' d, saying “JVe have | (Abraham for our father. John’s j dcclaratio.—Matt-. 3:7-9, is a i clear denial that any may be bap ( tized on the ground that they are the chiidrcn of pious parents. How! the Calv: nistic .doctrine an abso lute bell'd*.m of wrath, and the the-) ory, inherited church membership ! can “walk togather agreed” is more than I .an comprehend. The truths above stated, upon which true Baptists are united in belief and practice, are not quoted from “sensational news papers,” but from that “reliable I Book” of Books, the word of God, j which well deserves a place in every private or public library. Now in conclusion, I believe that ( all true Christians desire true union ■ with Christ; and that the prayer of ( our King 1 hat all His people may b ' ie, : ■ H( is one with the Fath-, er, will 1-. granti 1 when . '! Chris tians “buy the t th and 11 ' not and hold fast t > that which is good.” But “there can never be 1 - any real union of effort between a - system of religion founded in truth, z and systems of religion founded in - error.” Sham unions are hypocrit li ieal. Our English’Spurgeon says: - “Union with known and vital error a is participation in sin.” Our Atner s ican “Spurgeon” says : “Principles, 1 moral convictions and the revealed s truths of God cannot be denied, yielded or modified to effect a com i prortiise; while opinions, prejudices, t feelings and self interests may be,” s and must be before we may as faith t ful subjects enjoy that union with i all Christians for which our King - prayed. Then will our “Father’s f will be done on earth as it is done i in Heaven.” J. G. Hi nt. Wilson Wheeler. There is Joe Brown up to Wash ington tellen them Northern people what's de matter wid de farmers of de South. He says de farmer has ’ er biger bonanza dan de whisky ring. Now, maybe I don’t under ' ’ stand what de word bonanza means. ilf it means poverty, hard work, | : hunger, rags, hard times, and little ' children, I agree wid de senator dat ’ de farmer has de bulge on all de rest of de businesses. But if it moans big profits, line clothes, 1 wealth, luxury and fried ham and red gravy, I must say dat de farm er am distressingly left. I wonder if “Uncle Joe” thought de farmer had such er big bonanza when he use to plowdat steer. Why did de senator forsake dat big “bo nanza” to enter de political arena? Why didn’t lie stick to farmin if derc was such er “bonanza in it?” But probably I do Senator Brown an injustice. Perhaps he sacrificed his personal interest for de good of country. If dat is de facts in de case it is er great pitty de people ,of Georgia didn’t vote him er vote |of thanks, give him er chromo and I send him back to plowin dat old bull amide injoyment of de farm er's “bonanza.” Oh, my. ain’t it rerdiy refreshin to hear dese soft hand, kid-gloved politicians, preach ers, and newspaper editors talk and wi;ite erbout farmin and what de farmers ought to do. I imagine most of em would be by farmin as old Father Kinchin Rambo was by de big two-horse turn plow what he bought when da fust come in dis country. Father Ram bo put old Sam to plowin wid de new plow, and long toward dinner time Sam come up and he was well wet wid sweat and dirty and mud dy and says he, “mars Kinchin dat plow is no good. I can’t work her.” Dat kinder vexed Father Rambo and he low dat he can “make her june all right: Sam des didn’t have sense enough.” After dinner Father Rambo went down in de bottom and Sam helped him hich up de horses and he started, and de thing would try to run to de left all de time. Well, he thought as it was er new thing and had never been worked any lie had better break it to work as he wanted it, and he des set er gin it wid all his peuver and it wasn’t long tell he was wet wid sweat, and hot and tired and mad but de plow still wanted to go to de left. Den he concluded as it was er new thing maybe lie better hu mor it er while, and probably it would get to see de errow of its wav and do as he wanted. Well dat plow discontinued to run to de left till it got to de fence and den it wanted to get over de fence and he des put it over and says he “Sam go back to your old bull tongue we | dont understand dat critter.” Now I imagine if senator Brown had to “tr.kl?” er farm for his daily bread de “bonanza” wouldin appear near so large, evin as a W. & A. railroad lease, Dade coal mines, or his con vict lease fro say nothing of a sena ip. The people of Georgia' have made’ Joe Brown great and rich and transferred him from plow ing a bull to the senate of the United Siases. And it aint right for him to slander de farmers of de i south, up dare mong dem northern falks where he aint known. WIL SO N WHEELER. Judge Jas. R. Brown is to re sign the judgeship of the Chatta . hoochce circuit, and Governor Gor d i v ! appoint lion. V> ’. J. Winn, 'of Ma ietta, as his success or. Judge Brown will p? ss his candidacy for ' the supreme court. > JOHN GATEWOOD. ! A Reminiscence of the Guer rilla Warfare of North Georgia—Ellijay in the Handsof Murderers. [• The valleys of Gilmer county are smiling with peace, yet there was a I time when they ran witli blood. These were days of war, when men’s minds did not turn to thoughts of love, and when the better part of ■ nature was subject to the dominion . of Mars. Although this county was about . forty miles from the line of march of the invading army, and though a federal soldier was never seen here until after the surrender, yet no people in the state suffered more from the horrors of war than did those within bugle call of Ellijay. Here, as in several surrounding counties was waged a guerrilla war fare of the most bloody character The contending factions were tin “Tories,” “Bushwhackers,”or“Hog backs,” who sympathized with the federals, on one side, and the con- I federate “Scouts,” or “Guerrillas,” on the other. These men usually went in bands of twenty-five or thirty, with some desperately bravi man as their leader. Their deed are yet spoken of with bated breat h as if fearful that even now some i I them might rise up and demand satisfaction. “I knew many of these men.” said an old citizen today, “and was intimately acquainted with soin of the most noted desperadoes of those desperate times. On being asked to continue he said: “There was on the side of the bushwhackers Bill Noblett- and a man named Tray, alias Ringwood. On the other were Con and Bob Jord in.BHh Glenn, I'om i’■ k Freeman, John Gatewood, a*id ny others. “John Gatewood! I have seen the time when the mention of that name would cause the stoutest heart to quail, and blanch the cheek I of men who knew no such thing as fear. He was known far and wide as the bravest of the brave, and he was desperation itself. He had been the hero of some of the bloodiest battles ever fought, and he and his hand had the reputation of having slain “union” men almost without number. I had heard so much of him and his desperate deeds that I had painted him in my fancy as something monstrous iu appearance and almost expected on meeting him to see the cloven foot. But. . how different the reality ! “One day in 18(11 the little town of Ellijay was startled by a series of the most terrible yells that ever fell on human ears. Soon the square aro,im4 the courthouse was filled with a band of men whose conduct would have disgraced a tribe ofi Apaches. Drinking, swearing swag- i gering, yelling, hooting, shooting, they role the streets, plundering houses, insulting women ami slay ing men. “After about an hour of riotous revel the'band disappeared, and the streets were again quiet. But it. was the quiet of desolation and death! The jail had been totally demolished, the cn:irtho:ise was a wreck, and the home of every family who sympathized with the south had been ruthlessly entered and everything destroyed. “My own home was a scene 1 shall never forget. Barrels of syr up and feather-beds were open to gether in the floor; pictures were broken, books torn up, clothing burned or carried off, and nearly everything in the house destroyed. “On the street lay Judge Inlow, dead. He had been shot through the heart without a word of warn ing. A few yards distant lay Jake | Pearcy, another citizen wounded nigh unto death. “This was the work of an hour, and done by beings calling them selves men. They were led by that infamous being with the many alias es, that day calling himself “Tray I” “The next day for the first time I saw John Gatewood. How differ ent he was from what I had imag ined him. He had heard of the out rages committed at Ellijay, and with about thirty of as brave men as ever road with Quantrell he had come for revenge or retalliation. “Gatewood rode a magnificent I NO. 10. large, grey horse, whose high head and spirited carriage seemed to in ” dicate that he was conscious of the fact that he bore a woithy rider. When Gatewooxl and his band had ridden up into the public square e the leader dismounted and, learning 1 from some one that I was a brother • of one who had often ridden by his ’ side almost into the jaws of death f he at once approached me and told f me who he was. 1 “He was about six feet tall, broad shouldered, and as handsome as a f picture. His hands and feet were 1 small, and on his finger flashed a ' diamond ring of dazzling brilliance. 1 He had dark auburn hair, which hung in heavy curls down to his ! shoulders. His eyes were large, 1 dark and lustrous. Add to this a ’ soft, delicately tinted skin, and you ■ have : picture of the handsomest man ever saw. Perhaps to some, hi amity seemed too effeminate. Bu: let his soul be fired by the im pulse of revenge, and the dark eyes ! Hashed fire, the delicate hand held tiie bridle rein with the grip of a I vice. “When I first saw him he was el egantly dressed, and his mild man ners, and soft, low tone of voice i seemed better fitted to a modern j lude than a dashing cavalry rider. Fhe four heavy navy revolvers which were buckled around him, alone, of all his paraphernalia, be spoke the desperate trade he fol lowed. “He asked and received informa tion of the bushwhackers’ raid the day before, inquiring particularly for certain parties whom he seemed anxious to meet. When he was about to leave, he gave me a little pocketbook and the first greenback dollar I ever saw. He then mounted the command “Forward !” set ■hub h* 3 steed, and left in the WaWthe bushwhackers, follow 'OV' fl ’ ,nen as evcr fol ’ o wed I <:■ r “A few day? lai r 'I heard news which proved tb-it the wrongs suf fered by the people had been terri I bly avenged He had followed ‘Tray’s’ band of desperadoes into their mountain retreats, where a terrible encounter took place. The men fought with the knowledge that I their deeds cried aloud for blood, and that Gatewood’s men owed neither mercy nor quarter. The encounter had such a wholesome effect upon ‘Tray's’ partizans that they gradually disappeared after ward. Gatewood was at this time about twenty-two years of age. He was born in East Tennessee. When he was about seventeen his home was visited by a band of murderers who plundered his house, bound him j with ropes, and in his presence grossly insulted his mother and sisters, killing one of them. “When they left and his bonds were loosed, he swore a terrible loath of vengence. He was bound a boy—he was released a man. How well the man carried out the resolu tion of the boy, was proven by the fact that nearly every one of that band of murderers paid for his mis deeds with his life. “A few years ago John Gatewood was following a peaceful vocation in the west. I suppose he is yet.” Such are some of the stories which one may hear told here. In the light of the present day they seem improbable, but as they took place within the memory of living men, they can be verified.—Pea Jay in Atlanta Constitution. Newspapers in 1888. From the edition of Geo. P. Row ell & Co.’s “American Newspaper Directory.” published April 2d (its twentieth year), it appears that the Newspapers and Periodicals of all kinds issued in the United States and Canada, now number 16,310, showing a gain of 890 du ring the last 12 months and of 7,- 136 in ten years. * The publishers of the Directory assert that the impression that when the proprietor of a newspaper undertakes to state what has been his exact circulation, he does not generally tell the truth is an errone ous one: and they conspicuously o era reward of .SIOO for every in stance in their book for this year, where it can be shown that the de tailed report received from a pub- I Usher wt»g untrue. ■ST