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4 , RISING i’AWS, GEORGIA.
"r*IJJRSAY,FEB.iS7, EB7O.
PUBLIC CORRUPTION.
“But we must pause,” said Mr. Fox,
the celebrated English statesman relative
to the war between England and France.
So say we, but not about wars or ru
mors of wars, but pause as a nation, and
consider the burden that we are now try
ing to bear which is tenfold worse than
a war, the public corruption that is hov
ering over our nation’s peace like a dark
pall of death. 1 n order to say just what
we want to say on this subject wc must
necessarily begin at the head and draw
some comparison.
The foundation of our government was
laid by men who loved liberty, fought
for freedom and esteemed honesty —men
of powerful talents, of great learning and
pre-eminent wisdom, of decision of char
acter and of most inflexible integrity.
They had the good of their country at
heai t, worked for a reasonable saiary
and boarded at SI.OO per day. Those
were the halcyon days of our country's
prosperity,. W c cherish those days
with a bright veneration, and hold in
grateful recollection the memory of our
fathers. But they have been treated by
the modern statesman as if they bad no
virtues, while their sins and follies have
been sedulously immortalized in satirical
anecdotes. T 1 'ere were no drunken,hide,
or money seeking Congressmen or Sena
tors among them. No pleasure seeking
President, receiving for his salary $50,-
000, but whose lives were spent in estab
ling independence, the glory and durable
prosperity of their country; who suc
ceeded in all that they undertook; and
whose sucesses were never at the expense
of honor, justice, integrity, or by the sac
rifice of a single principle, hut
“To guard the banner of the free,”
was their watchword. But the scene is
changed; for the Washingtons, Jeffer
sons and Adams’s are all dead, and we
have dissipated 1 ; statesmen and the cor
rupt or bloated bondholder at the na
tion’s helm. When a conscientious man
does go to Congress, the press begins to
lie, and the old shylocks begin to pull at
him,'and be wonders that be has escaped
the penitentiary so long.
From the president down to the coun
ty bailiff there is corruption, and in order
to be elected in tins fast age,a man mtis
sidle up along the rum-soaked popula
tion. He must “treat,” lie must go into
the low saloon which is marked by a
mug of beer for a sign; they must
chuckle over low, filthy jokes. We sec
a man lacking neatness, his eyes swoleu.
an unnatural flush on his cheek and
wearing a rowdy s hat, \c know in a
minute that lie has joined tue model 11
politicians.
We used to pray for the prisoners in
the stockade at Cole City,and think they
might be converted to the christum re
ligion, but wc never bad any faith to
pray for an old politician, Men m our
political offices have become so corrupt
in a race for money and dishonesty, un
til wc arc unable to tell which are the
worst, those in the “ring” or those out
of it. .
Our fathers sang of liberty, but that
pleasant lyre is changed to heavy notes
■ uf woe by these money loving, whiskey
muzzling, hide statesmen so much so that
the Hori. A . H. Stephens is published in
the newspapers as being the best “whist”
player hi Congress. Shame on our coun
try’s record; her statesmen have poison
ed her breath, and wickedness is seen in
high places.
iPFPsssh Tih!
It becomes eminently necessary that
our fanning friends push their work. It
i ; time now for the garden to be made
1 vjid the farm put in order for the crop.
v\,-y is a conceded fact that when land
is well prepared that the crop is half
made, and when it is not well prepared
it takes almost double the labor to culti
vate the < r>p. The orchards.also . noeu
'attention just at this time, an.: it is to
the'*interest of tabs country to see to it
that the Av.it cron be as large as pwsi-
From the Hac kwoeda.
Feb. 22,1879.
Ed. Gazette: —As this is the birth
day of that great man who did so much
for the liberties of the American people,
I didn’t know any better employment
than reading the Bible and writing to
the Gazette.
First I will say that I have written a
few articles—say half dozen —and 1 got
snubbed every time. Once 1 wrote bow
to raise turnips in the month of January,
and I received a volume of answers offer
ing to bet ten to one that I never raised
a turnip in my life unless it was in some
other man’s patch in the night time.
That was an awful hard hit but I bad
to take it. Then I wrote to anothei ed
itor and in my say-off, I politely asked
him to correct any grammatical errors;
and be apologized by saying that be was
unable, after diligent search, to find any
grammar in the whole thing. That
sorter raised the Dutch in me, and I give
him a pice of my mind; and don’t you
think be apologized once more and said,
oil, never mind; fools will talk anyhow.
Now Mr. Editor I want you tell me
which be meant, himself or me. So you
see I got the worst of it eveiy time. 1
would got it put on me as bad as Webb
Tatum did when he swapped Blindy for
Snorter.
Well, then, I writes to another editor
on politics. 1 asked him what was the
difference between a black Republican
North, and a colored Republican South.
He says, you don’t know anything
about politics. He said lie was a Dem
ocrat but bo wanted the Northern Dem
ocrats to hold all the important offices
in Congress—Speaker and Chairman of
committees Ac. I then asked what was
the difference between a Northern and
Southern Democrat. He went and put
in bis paper that I was a sorehead.
What could I do then? 1 was at a loss.
But at once a happy thought struck me;
when I received a copy of a country
newspaper I guess I thought like “A
Subscriber” did: that country editors
didn’t know much anyhow; so I selects
an ably written article from G. D. Pren
tice or Horace G reefy, 1 have forgotten
which, titled, Advice to Young Editors,
as I imagine A Subscriber did. I chuck
led ami laughed in my sleeve after I had
punctuated just as I found it in the pa
per. I bid defiance to a snub thia time
He thanked me when lie wanted
Greely’s oi Ik entice’ advice, be would
write to them cn the subject. I thought
I would f ry my band on the Bill Arp
style, and the editor set me back so fai
that time that 1 have never fairly recov
ered. He said that lie bad neyer
studied my language, and as lie tried to
-read it it put him in mind of the grunt
of a hog. Detioop.
[So far as the rhetoric and grammar
is concerned, it is pretty difficult to de
cide the question you propound, but we
have no hesitancy in saying that he
meant the writer, as that is the most
sen ible view of the tubje it. Ed. j
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i are Springs,
Ed. Gazette:— For the first time i;i
life I attempt to write an article for the
p rests.
The Sabbath school here is gaining
ground. Some changes in office is : Ih
A. Gooper is no\V|secretaiy. Good at
tendance to-day, fiie 23d.
There will he [| .-.aching next Sunday
at 11 o’clock and tV2d'.fCih sc hoe. 1 lecture
at 3 p. m. by Rev. T. and. Morgan.
r j’he every day school is looking up.
Things are all on a level !n this neigh
borhood—all go to school and church
alike. There is no big 1 and little you
here.
We are all tlying to farm, but the
weather is so bad we progress slowlv.
The farmers • are nearly done sowing
v O
oats and repairing fences, end now for
the corn crop.
Ter fear I disgust you, 1 will close
for this time. II 1). BrimiExs.
FA' a sisum Iss g’y
To. (1 azettk: —A How me to stale that
it was Mr. \Y. *J. Econo who was mar
ried at Sulphur Springs, on Sunday the
16th List., instead of “Mr. \Ym.Eeam/’
as staled in your last issue. Tire cere
mony was performed by thy. Lea, of this
county, at the young ladies’ home.
An election was hold here on Satur
day 15th inst. Ihe tpiestion i.|M>ro tiie
people was, restriction or no rewTiclion.
The result was, ail Iff restriction.
The editor had a raw day f his last
visit to the Springs, hut it is h pwl feat
the 3rd Sunday in March may he such as
to cause the snnf.es {•* or wham’ -we
don’t mean bite the editor, nor tempi
him as Eve was tempted-—but that fie
may have a nice day,a fine congregation,
and feel happy on his return to the Great
Watering Place.
If this little communication finds its
way safely into that much dreaded waste
basket I can’t help it—that’s all.
1 *>
More in the future, if acceptable.
Yours, Micali.
FroiaeiUy.
Is there any one who will defend the
practice of profane swearing ? Who
thinks it an accomplishment? And yet
but few vices are so general, and so sel
dom rebuked. Boys think it brave, and
young men regard it as an expression of
their independence, and older men find
the habit fixed upon them, and hard to
overcome. Thus the class of profane
swearers is year by year multiplied. If
there were any solid comfort or amuse
ment in it, we should not wonder so
much at the habit; but who says there
is? What intelligent man finds amuse
ment in listening to a conversation load
ed down with oaths ? Who thinks it
makes the language stronger in expres
sion? Are you, intelligent reader, any
less likely to be impressed with the cor
rectness cr earnestness of the answer, “I
do not know,” if the man cays “Damned
if I know?” And yet you walk the
streets, you encounter men in trade, boys
in their teens, young men in their prime,
and old men with gray heads, all alike
addicted to this senseless as well as wick
ed habit. But we are assured that most
men are ashamed of the habit,and regard
it as ungentlemanly, from the fac t that
they attempt to refrain from it in the
parlor, and in the presence of mother,
wife and daughter. If it were an accom
plishment, and male the language stron
ger, and added to the expression, cer
tainly the profane man should be anxious
to teach bis wife and bis daughters these
choice trams. Show us the man who
will do it, and wo will show yon one
whom the devil honors above aII Ins fel
lows. Profanity, in any farm you may
take it, is a most unnatural vice, and
pays the poorest of any in the long list.
The man who is a Effete I to it, without
regard to any other^onsi terat > on than
that of being a gentleman, m g‘it well
afford to correct the bn’ it. V, mm mor
a’ity and reli Em are ooEk-r h in ad
dition, 1 lie obligation is imperative.
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A pictu 'o of Socr.-rSb’ would he incom
plete that did not include a glimpse of
his domestic relations. The cisno and;
•
puling the fact that Xantinpc,the |pfe of
Socrates, tried the temper oi the sage m
every way. She railed and ?stormed
against him;* she trampled n Touts that
were sent to him nu.lcr Her fort; she
knocked the tables over *v, hen
lie expected a friend to supper, out the
sage was never ruffle 1. He showed great
g• u in selec in; the toughest trial
possible to the soul of man, and that he
endured it heroicaffy is beyond question;
yet there is something to be said for the
much berated wife.
Wh a t was So e: alesa sal l n shawl? i e
was so poor, by his own confession, iHat
all the property under bis roof would not
have brough forvy dollars at auction. All
the morning lie would have a glorious
philosophical lounge in Simon's shop;
and then go home to dinner, forgetting
that Xantippe had not been furnished
with a sixpence to trade with the fish
man at the door. His soul was reveling,
no doubt, in great ideas, but bis wife all
this while was living among empty stew
pans and rickety chairs, and feeling the
infinite distinction between mutton and
hunger, penury and household comfort.
It was a divine call, we know, that
made Socrates a bn 1 providier ' for. bis
family; but v. e must aho remember that,
to Lave domestic tranquility in bis cir
cumstances, he sh< uld have bad a female
Socrates for a wife, and that only super
natural grace could have kept any ordi
nary woman from being a termaguaut
and a trial.
r;f g' fN
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La.t Tf.,.idf*v <m I •>>• tUw
a number oi cattle m toe cut just a cove
town, when the freight tram came in
sight, an 1 aho practiced eve oi. the engi
neer euug.n sight oi mem as tuev iazuy
browse lon the hunks. Ihe train was
hard to manage, and the Lovines were
confraiy, bui the whistle Lightened the
cattle an 1 they ran in front of the engine
for a little ways and then took the dirt
roml ami in the stampede they ran
through a Hock of geese,and one of these
c >ws placed her large foot on the t p
part of a state!}' old gander’s headc?us-
instant death. Notv Mr. Ay:
Frowon is (ryrng to find out whom c. w
did it—that’s ul!.
' Tfaissrs ftoolk Better.
The carpenter’s hammer is heard ear
ly and late in our little village, and there
are signs of enterprise and thrift on all
corners. \i si tors from afar could out
note the growth of this burg, for at this
writing there are a number of mechanics
busy at work on D.M. Calley’s new store
house, ami just here we would say that
it is a building of no mean proportions,
being in length 80 feet, and widtn 22. it
wili, no doiiot, be a structure oi beauty
and strength.
Mi. J. G. Hale’s law oflice is rapidly
approaching completion, and the h licks
Brothers are at work on the Marsh house
which they purchased, and are fitting it
up for the purpose of ft'ling it with dry
goods, drugs and groceries.
The lumber to complete the new brick
church will be here in a few days, so oe
fore the sweet warblers of the sunny
hours come, like pleasant memories with
their gushing melodies, and with music
rich and rare, faultless in r/ihni and
rhyme,our new building,in the mam,will
be complete, and the polite clerk will be
making rapid strides from counter to
goods. I toll on, thou spirit of enter
prise. roll.
A T ria 22 gn 1 a 2* e imte.
The Clionian Debating Society se
lected at its last meeting rather a singu-t
lav question, though there seems to be
more interest elicited than in any form
er discussion. It is singular because
there are three sides to it. “Y\ Inch ex
erts the greatest influence over man for
good or evil, worn on, wine or money.”
Hope the citizens wiu turn out cn masse
and hear the discussion, as there will hi
able debaters on all .sides, and to say tha‘
eloquence sublime will steal gently ovei
the soul, and enforced by gestures wil'
flash through the mmd, and that there
will be a charm of delivery—a magica.
art —a thrill—well chosen words—a
magh depth of spirit —soul-startliim
pauses and met ling* pathos, would hi
tamo. Come and see.
A woman quailing with her husbv.i 1
told him she believe! if she should di
he would marry the devil’s daughter
The tender husband replied, “The law
doe; not. allow a man to marry two sis
mz
Ala t.Saivl’rtS.R.Sche-ilnis .
Took Effect Sunday, November *7.
rrains South) (Trains North
Maid Daily-, \ ( Mail Daily.
9FO a.m.Lv.Cbattanoooga Ar 5.35p.ir
9.2S “ “ Wauliatehie 5.05 “
9.4-7 “ “ M< rganville 4.d5 “
10.06 “ “ Trenton 4.20 “
10 2 ) “ “ Bising Fawn 4.02 “
10.44 “ g Sulphur Sp'dtgs 0.47 “
11.03 “ “ Valley Head 8.24 “
11.80 “ “ Fort Payne 2.57“
11.51 “ “ Brandon 2.42 ,‘
12.01 p.m. “ Porteniville 2.20 “
12.17 “ Collinsville 2.10 “
12.42 “ “ Greenwood 1.>2
1.02 “ “ Beeseville 138 “
1.00 “ 2 .-vitalla 1.19 “
1.57 “ “• Steele 12.40 “
2.23 “ “ Whitney 12.14 “
B.Od h “ vSpiinuviile 11.24a.m
Pi “ “ Truss villa 10.56 “
4.04 “ “ Irondale 10.83 “
4.82 “ “ Birmingham 10.07 “
5.01) “ “ Jonesboro 9.80 “
5/24 “ “ McCalla 9.15 “
5.42 “ “ Tanuehill 8.57 “
0.17 “ “ Wood m ock 8.40 “
5.40 “ “ Vance’s 8.00 “
7.00 “ (dialing 7.33 “
7.80 g “ (b>l ton dale 7.08 “
i .50 “ “ bhiscaloos.i 0.4-) “
8.84 “ “ Hull C.Od “
8.5] “ “ Carthage 5.40 “
9.14 “ “ Stewart 5.26 “
10,0 1 “ “ kuiaw 4.48 “
10.27 “ Payesvil’e 4*5
10 80 “ “ Poh gee 4.03 “
1t 93 << “ j ’.pes 306
11 “ “ Livim/stod 8.04
12.0 fa.m. “ York ‘2-35 “
12 81 “ “ Guba 2.11 “
!SI “ ‘Toemwda 141 •
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jOO “ “ Sum; vin 1 --1
1.48 “ “ Meridian 1-00
lh .4- Ills daily. G. B. BA ID,
(Jen era 1 Sup evi 111 cud e n t
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State cf Georgia—Diidc County,
The undurßigtied citizou of r.i,< niig ias i w"*
apjily t tlio.'iij rvioi - court > ! sai r ‘ ! .'■ 'n t
2-fh da vof Maroh next, tor aa oi<> v in'. i , .
tiii 2T the folio .king ho ani i rie.' as tue t nu ;
Rjfiug . the lam! lines ’ •tw ct u •’t.cwft t
and Allison, and Johnson ('rook Ko.a! < n tho
north; the land line between Solomon cr ss and
,r. n. i.> a l l and it. n. ratum on the S'. u.h; r.nd a
line at right angles oue-fourth of r. n;i'.o , ast of
ihe d(*s-ot, as the east bonodaiv : and one fourth
of a mi 1c west of thr and }a.t os the ttes, L undo
rv. Tin; (j’taliflVd voters of sai l bounds v will
meet and vote on ‘die question of inc ra it n on
lw 7 .'it day of ...i .! cl;, ISTVh rob. 10, If 79.
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D.M.CULLEF
Koepswonstnntly on hand a full lino of STAPLE AND t AXCY
13SY COODS AND NOTIOSN
n JA biff ’2S2TIL <Gr*
Hats, Boots and Shoes
kb Alto's of
CiE'Qceris,hardware,. Tin
! Q EN WARE, RJP.N 7URE, STOVES h SEWING MACHINES.
All of w ich I propose to sell i.
CHEAI Ell THAN ANY OTHKR IIOUSK IN THE COUNTY l
Headquarter* for Barter and country prod nee /for which J alwnys'pny?blg!ie?t arketjp fee.
Hawkins, utt, Smith & Cos.,
I —Manufactureis.of an<l*lealer.-£in SLA—
> m 1 /'-w. /y n gana
3l y 'v. wif £■■
Tin and Sheet iron... War e
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TANARUS."" A. (S3 jMT O "PIT
an l"relai;glealer’in J -
Stoves of all kinds Tinware
£o - j Vj tW ; i iii 4 and lei +& "J L* fc*i 8 uJI
anufaolurcr'of Calvan el and -beet Iron Goods,’Cornices,*Steambont*ar.d"Diatill*r/
CHATTANOOGA. - TENN.
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MANUFACTURERSOF
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Dealers of Fancy C oceries, Cigars, Tobacco, Foreign an l ! om os tie Fruita.
S.ilesrretn — 2'U''3l r a tet Etra U Factory opposite A. AC. Depot Chattan -
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Improvement' September, 18781
Earing regard for the demand of tv
gosresaira ago. we now offer to tie Wc
\% t |i mm KctT*itlA6*anding tlio VICTOR haa Ion;: l>?y.
|1 a M 11 Ihopcer cf any nr.cliino in. (to market- a f
|| Jjf f.i & supported It .a of volunteer vitnesv . .
/ils SfiSST XtCT/ confidently claim for it > v .A'i
simplicity, a \rondrfal reduction cf
’ friction, r.nd altogether a i2c*v Cow-
' 1 Indian cfEtslrablc Qualiiits. Tci r. ha
by Merchants and others.
Dt n’t buy until you have seen the lightest running machir in
the World, —the Ever Reliable “ VICTOR M
VICTOR SEWING MACHINE COMPANY W
KIDDW'TOO, C3XX., and I7o*. 129 and 201 Wabash Avenue, CHIC A ’^■7
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