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Gazette. T-'¥ y : ?!5-?TrXT~' " 1 '' " ,ur 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 —s> 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. - - y - **- • ’iT id -I—. • 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 x±. iii.. vfv %:■ <2 w * h. • % 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 • . ' „ . . • . 1 t}( !( 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 !*, * ■?"'■' / > I •* w t. v.' 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. r. j. i.nirj k i, vr, i\ cilberf, ,r n. to - J. w. Cowart, . , r. i> k.>, a. t Ft icks, vr.n. v r, W, •; ue <• os, r. >1 ..calo-y, s. ■ r. iv. Jtar.h, -w. *M". ritt, w. u. >f au a. t, t . w s'--, art, 5 a* US stve-'t. ( On; '• X, ai tii •* :> co t ( •' M-. cL-nd; .J A Darr 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 023LO.ttSVVQ.O>OggO, - ®2?©3a33.„ TANARUS."" A. 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