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A. DAK’I, Editor. l OLUME I. !) .. Si COUNTY OAKETTJE jpUP.I ISMKI> AT R|: f G FAWN, GEORGIA. (Every 'Thursdny) DA I! It * COLLEY. L d.:m,;cuj.ley~ ],* |>lt- . Maxaokf. * '■* l '■ ll *miTWiini*jnwr - ' *■ .Subscr ption Rates. | Year in ndvr.nee I x Mon r i . “ '• . I;; K K MoM’JIS, L*' , . , •*, rpy.o.wtwr Jtt '.jct aynarYaatw^jgM— / t \ < nil if i T l 1c y . 44t crti.'cmcnts inserted athsl.oo per inch fro r < rfeton, for any time le?., tb .n tnree mo nnd Dus’ .e.-s N■ i, cos 10 cents ■ r line l<>r firvt insertion ._u 5 cents nor line i ;i?ch snh.-ctjuent insertion. Ann >iuicin;j candidates'foiy fc <ffice!]2s-5.00 ritulv in advance. All] advertising accounts s lier the iiist inseition. BT o-iuer than one month. Rutc&puailcknovrn on j.plwtion, lenera! Directory. LODGES, Tr.lnton Lodge; No. 170, F. A. M.— .T. t. ussl'l, \Y. M.; J. A. Bennett, Sec. Meets • J ;t W ednesday night in each month at 7|. in. lliling Fawn Lodge, No. 203, F. A. M.—S- I. Tlunuan, W.M.j It. P. Tatum, Sec. Meets ••iiyjn.i third Friday nights in each month. I.Fo. Ci. C.— ]>. M. Gulley N. C.; itm Meets every Saturday night. CHURCHES. 34. E. Church, South.—Services at Rising inn- f.rst Sunday in each month at II o’clock ; |,l|h tli School at 9 o’clock a. in., every Sun (H At Trenton, second Sunday in each ■ itih at 11 o'clock ; Sabbath School at 9 S§k a. m., every Sunday. Prayer meeting i ry \\ euucsday at ti:3o, j>. in. -OiN TV COU KT. Gomi‘v Giurt meets first H in eac inih J. A. Bennett,.Ordinary. su PEBIOK’COUjIT. lion C. D.’McGutchen, Jnd‘e> A. T. ITack jHF Homey-General ; N. \\ .. Cole, Clerk. joU iud* S iptember. 'COUNTY OFFICIALS. J. W. IS levin -, Sheritt: J. A. Bennett, .Ordi rv ; V> .s. Ta.', ior, County Surveyor : John >ik|Tx Asu.-ssor ; John Moreland, Tax Col *,j • ( ' 3- 1 aI, 'J mji surer ;J. Taylor, unty Superintendent. m TOWN DIRECTORY. iSf.'Halc, P. M., T. J. Park, Agent] and srrJjor ; G. W. Stewart, J. P. LEGAL. Lunqkln, Attorney at Law.—Cfhee on Slot Church and Alabama streets. Hale, Attorney at I.aw.— rca A. 3 . 1.; It's 1 uriiusej i me. PHYSICIANS. l<r. 3'iieks. —Cffcc at residence, on Alabama i-*. II. RY GOODS, GROCERIES AC. . Ctilley, dealer in staple and Fancy Dry south side public square, herside A'Biown/clealers in' < ds '*oeac ? and General Merchandise; fronting U'uitti. i. M. lisle,Vicaler in Family Groeciies; at Stotfl( !. • T renter.. LEGAL. ■ U. *: J. P. Jaeoway, Attorneysat Law.— cc ih east side public stjuaie. PHYSICIANS. r. f\ F. Brock. —Office at residence, in there part of the village. B Sessional Cards. T. J. UHPKLK, TIjoRNEY AT LAW, TLiakiiy proirq.t attention to the collection iis ajift all husiiKvi intrusted to his cave, ‘ vela I courts for the counties of Da .9. S*. Aft Alois', Itfii'y & CounmrUor at Lai) |:ngfawn,dade c cimy, a ii-<! :n the SuperiorCourts’oF Dade '<mr a‘l i Catoosa. Strict given to j®itec< ■ii ot claims, or other business in- W. V. JACOWAY, TTjOFNEY Ad LAW, , !‘4fr rsl(,ti<n ' ll counties ~f ran i Catoosa. Coilcciin ,u s.icci tl O A Report on the Spiritual €©si (lKiosi oT the Oiiirch. Below we publish the report ns made to the preachers’ meeting on the Spirit ual condition of the church : The committee on the State of Relig ion hog leave to report : That from observation and the limited information we have been able to procure the religions interests are not in as flour ishing condition as would he best for the groat future of man and for the glory of (lod. It is true, however, lit at in some localities its glorious influence has not lost its effect; we slid hear in some pla ces of the kindling and burning powers of atoning merits of Calvary’s sacrifice. The church being warmed and strength ened and sinners being converted. \Y e can readily see the languishing condition of the earthly zion, hut to ap ply the remedy is lurch more difficult, hut there are many evils and great neg lect of religious duty by I lie professors. Men and women belonging to the church or who have their names on the church rolls, and prominently among these are the many evil examples of parents and church in embers within their own house hold, and before each other and the world; such as the neglect of pious duties on the Sabbath, or of thee.minion atten tion to world y business on the same; the indulging in vane conversation, and sometimes not avoiding the precincts of sin; sometimes indulging too far in that fluid which dethrones reason, debases man, and is the foundation of the gieater part of the evil.of our race; the habitual staying away from the house of God; tiie failing or refusing to suppoit the minister and church enterprises, such as foreign and domestic missions, publica tions; failing to provide for tlie poor,and especially the aged and infirm ministers of i heir destitute widows and orphans ; and again the great want of Christian consecration, such as the neglect of the c’oset, an l the willful permission of the destruction of the family altars; failing to read the Scripture in the family cir cle. We regret to know that the official members of the great church family are tailing, refusing and neglegting their of ficii; 1 obligations to the church. The preachers are not consecrated as they should be; they fail in many of their of ficial obligations, such as visiting the sick and the poor; visiting and praying with a .and for the people, and holding so cial religious meetings. The other sub- i ordinate officers are equally nog ectful of their religious duties; they have sol emnly agreed to a] point mee i :gs, ex hort the people on Christianity, to hold praver and class and sociable or experi ence mretings, all of which they have promised Clod and the church to do. Therefore it is the opinion of your committee that to correct the evils herein mentioned that all the preachers, officers and numbers of the church should pray more, read the Scripture more, and by all me ms to erect the blessed lamily al tar, to go with their children to the Sab bath school, in other words to make the glory of God and the salvation of man kind their theme. Resolved, That your lieves that it would he for the sparftua] interest of the church that all the mem-., hers of the church, hoi h officers and lay, should be called upon by the proper tri bunal to account for the willful neglect of these, their solemn obiigatiens, ami that they should he dealt with for such neglocv in brotherly love and Christian kindness, and that in this way we may get hack to better days, yes, to the relig ion of our fathers and mothers. Alll of which is respectfully submit ted. ,1. G. J A COWAY, j H. L. W. Ali nso\,r Committee. Isaac Doyle. ) A duel between tin editor and publish er, iiv which both were wounded, was recently fought in the editorial rooms of a newspaper, at Death. A terrible storm at Milledgeville Ga., the 22nd swept away the bridge over the Oconee river and demolished several houses an l si ore s. RISING FAWN, DADE @OUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1879. “Faithful to the Right, Fear leas Against the Wton#.” ; Departments of Agriculture and Geology. Mr. Editor: —My friend, Mr. Brad. Tatum, felt called upon to reply to my views upon the continuance of the agri cultural and geological departments of onr state service, and made a call for “the facts and figures” sustaining those j views. I will proceed to furnish them j in quantity and quality sufficient to con vince the most sceptical of the practical utility of both departments in question. During the session of the Convention of the Georgia State Agricultural Socie ty, held in Atlanta, August 1870, after a full and free expression of the superior claims of agriculture to the fostering care of the state, passed among other strong and wise resolutions one icquesting the legislature “to establish an agricultural department upon such a basis as will largely and liberally provide for all pur poses of information, improvement and guidance of the agricultural and mechan ical interests of the state.” Again, the same State Agricultural Convention that assembled in Columbus, Feb. 12, 1874, passed among other resolutions one “that the prompt establishment of such a department of state, with a well in formed, competent and sagacious farmer at its head, and with a just, moderate and decent appropriation for the mainte nance of the same, is a just, wise and prudent necessity.” Gov. Smith, in his message to the general assembly,Jan. i 14, 1874, recommended the establish ment of an agricultural department for the state. The resolutions and recom mendations resulted in the passage by the general assembly of the act establish ing the department as it now exists. Thus it will he seen that the depart ment was established by the earnest and unroiit o! the Tanners of the state, conveyed to the general as sembly hv the representatives of these farmers assembled in state convention and state grange, it has met the yearly endorsement of these societies, and it is owing To the opposition of some mem bers of the last general assembly, that the state agricultural society that lately assembled at Hawkinsville, appointed a committee of three of its ablest members to issue an address to the people, giving the benefits already derived from the de partment in question, and asking for Jits continuance. Thi; c minittee, among other good and wise assertions, uses the following language : “We claim that the enactments of the laws establishing the department of agriculture, and re quiring a geological survey of the state, were the outgrowth of the necessity of the times and in compliance with the expressed wishes of the people oft repeat* Cvl; tli at the laws themselves were con ceived in wisdom, justice and modera tion, and that the fruits of the work of both departments have far exceed uie most sanguine expectations of their friends.” What do we see? The de partment that was established through the zealous efforts of the representatives of the farmers, now enthusiastically sus tained hv the same. What does Gov. Colquitt say ? *‘l personally know that - there has not been established in Geor gia an enterprise that has made us so well and favorably kno-wn to the outside hybrid as that \Vhi(dv“s&tnbiaces the agri cultural and geological departments.” Mr. Tatum asserts that the inspection of commercial fertilizers is a great bur den to the people, because they have to L a\ the inspection fee, which is 50 cents. It has been ascertained by examination that these fetilizers sell no higher in states where there is no inspection. The late agriculteral convention that aiscmbled at Hawkinsville, passed reso lutions endorsing the action of (he State inspectors, and among others adopted • this? “Resolved, That we respectfully urge upon the legislature not to repeal the law, as we regard it as of tlie high est importance to the consumer that lie j should ho protected by a proper inspec tion of all fertilizers offered for sale in the state, and we regard it as immateri al whether the expense of inspection is paid hv the producer or consumer.” These inspection fees.go into the state treasury, and the comptroller general’s icport for ’77-8 show a net balance of i $19,385.47 in favor of the state after deducting the entire annual expense of the department, and the total cost of the inspection and analysis of fertilizers. Mr. Tatum calls this department, inclu ding the inspection, “a luxury;” mean ing that it is a useless expense to the state. Do the “facts and figures*’giv en above sustain his assertion ? In ad dition to the net' profit in the way of money flowing into the treasury from this department, there is a general and progw s.dvc benefit to the state from the annual reports and manuals issued and widely circulated bv Dr. Jones, which falling into the hands of residents of other states, creates a spirit of enquiry and leads to a movement of immigration into mir borders. This tide of course creates a development of our resources and enhances the taxable property of our state. Dr. Jones is not on’y a progressive, scientific “book” farmer, in is al?>o a practical and successful tiller of .the soil, and his annual publications have been highly lauded by the agricultural de partments of other states, and alluded to as “models.” They have and will iu fiuenee citizens of other states to move in and buy man,) of our lauds, improve and settle. Now, as to the department of geology, all who have investigated the subject -failly will admit that our Commissioner, Dr. Little, is both a scientific and prac tical officer. That he has made a care ful and useful survey of a portion of our state, and by the exhibition of specimens from the counties surveyed and the pub lication of maps, has influenced capital from other states to come in and invest in our valuable lands. Mr. Tatum asks “if I can point to such a lot in Dade sold on ccount of Dr. Little’s survey.” I Caa’l. j Lit tv/ <t lt/t. lu I Dill in other counties I can. 'Xjp of benefit must not be apuJrcable to one or two counties but to the state t at large, both present and prospective. The lands of the other companies in the county, were brought to tue liotico of noitkcrn capi talists by incansAf reports sent them by scientific such as Dr. Li ttle has published officially and authoii tatively. m Mr. Tatum ®)caks loudly of economy! I am for economy, retrenchment ami re form when and where wi eiy needed for the good of our trea m.y. Lb.i just as our coimnouweaitii enters upon an era of progress and prosperity, .... lo ; uff two of tiie best armo oi our service, .;uks like suicide. W ould my iiic.id Mr. T. am putate an arm because tiie patient had a pain somewhere in his toes ? He re minds nit! oi an o: i. acquaintance in mid dle Georgia who as urged by a church committee to subscribe for the erection # of anew church. He replied that he had nochildien, and that lie did not at tend church himself. “Well,” answered the committee, “posterity will call you blessed if you subscribe ” “Humph!” rejoined the old Shvlock, “what did pos terity ever do for me?” So if Mr. T. or myself never sells a lot of land or reali zes a dollar from the effects of the two departments, thousands of otlieis in the state will. As these departments ad vance the productive industiies of tlse state should they not he fostered and en c m.a_ed ? Would it not bj within the scope ot “wisdom, justice and modera tion” for our general assembly to appro priate funds sufficient to establish them on a firm foundation ? Does not the progressive spirit of an advancing civili zation demand this tribute from “ the empire state of the South” ? How can we march in the front rank of the best states, unless we exhibit that wise liber ality which will render us their peers ? Very truly yours, *J. W. A. Mr, Thompson, See> t\ Navy has decided >„ t r•; . ; -u --A. fci jLJtAi ■ S . C lit. i 0 i.■ v -L * lished a iCctiwi o.i * > u.i . o ! Southern schools. Archbishop Pun oil officiated i:i -on* cumoli Sunday, lit was look!.i 0 remark ably well. D ror fiend A c tvs. ! Fruit is about all killed. Wheat looks promising, hut we can not toll what the harvest will he. W e are most all done planting corn. Mr. Coleman is plowing corn A. J. Austin took his mule to Sand Mountain, where he will remain until it gits fat. 1 think lie will stay for some time. Sometimes I think James Austin will many, and then again 1 think ho will wait until be gets a chance. Smith Adkins has bought h : m a vio 1 iii. He thinks that he is improving fast. His only tunes are Sugar Gal and Shoo Fly. W. H. Adkins is blessed with a fine daughter, it being the only heir, lie is somewhat excited about it. There will he meeting the first Sun day in May by the Baptists, at Mt. Dar ren, Ala. Come over and eat chicken. John Slaughter will leave our cove pretty soon for a more desirable home in Tenn. John is a nice young man and we are sorry he is going away. Cob Tinker looks spiciulid since he bought anew suit of clothes. Brethren, subscribe for the Gazette; it is woith the monev, you bet. . Deter Flanigan. From Turnip sa!ad ISencl. Mr. Editor: —Not •seeing anything published in the Gazette from Turnip Salad, I consulted with my friend John athan, and we come to the conclusion that you would be mighty glad to hear front 11s. Well, the spring season for turnip salad is getting sorter but we he< ~ some on hand yet- —boiftn't to have some all the time—so when you come round we will’havc something to give you to strengthen the inner man. The first thing of importance is the great agricultural interests of the Bend, which is in a ti mrishing condition —I suppose sc, for 1 learned a day or so ago that Cam Taylor thought winter had broke and he was going to begin plant ing corn this week. 1 have not told you yet about me and my friend Johnathan’s prospects. W e are all right. Johnathan caught a ground hog the other day and I caught some fish, and to-day I am planting my sorghum patch and Johnathan is fixing him a ‘obacca patch, and O, what a good time is coming; we will have plenty ol “lasses” and “backer” of 0111 own. We did think we would launch out a little tin’s summer, but we have been so over whelmingly awe-struck with t-hc ponder ous ness of the iron ore and tan bark bus iness, we have concluded to fall back to our legitimate business and Aick close to our patches for awliJfe, jflffeast. And now Mr. Editor, as I am about done my letter from Turnip Salad Bend, the trouble comes up: w ill me and John athan ever realize the great joy and pleasure of seeing this in the paper. We know that you are naturally lenient and kind hearted, and have read much in that big book which teaches us not to despise little things. So we hope. You know that some of them great men Ten nyson, or somebody else lias said that “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” Perhaps by dressing thin up a little vcu c:m stick it in somewhere—say be tween the Possum Trot and Deer Head letters. \Yc will be sure to see it any where, for we both read all of the paper as soon as we can. AVe have thought that if y u would accommodate us a little we would try to make you lip a club when we get our patches fixed up a little ; provided the moon is not right for fishing an l catch ing ground hogs. Pan-Handle. P. S.—lf we cannot get the [kale seed ;vj re* • along will you tike turnip seed? j9> t Mr. Belmont says that New York lias had enough of Tilden. (treat depression in labor circles exist in England, and strikes without number i ; lo occurring. I). M. f TLLEY, Business Man &n?ing In The Family. Cultivate singing in the family. Begin when the child is not three years old. The songs and hymns your mother sang —bring all back to your memory, and teach them to your little ones; mix them all tog ther to meet the similar mood-, as m after life they come over us so mys terious sometimes. Many a time, and oft in the very whirl of business, in the sun shine and gayctv o t’*e streets, and amid the splendor of the drives in a park, some little thing wakes up the memories of early youth—the old mill, the cool spring the shady tree by the little school-house —-and me next instant we almost see aga n the ruddy cheeks, the smiling faces and the merry eyes of school-mates, some gray-headed now, most “lie ni< u dering in the grave.” And “the song your moth er sang” spring unbidden to your lips and soothes and sweetens all these memories. At other times, amid the crushing mis haps of business a merry ditty of the oldes times pops up its little head, breaks in upon the ugly train of thought, throws the mind into another chanel light breaks m from behind the cloud in the sky and new courage is given to us. The honest man goes singing to his work, and when the day’s labor is done his tools laid aside, and he is on his way home, whe:c wife and child, and tidy table, and cheerful fireside await him, he cannot but whistle or sing. O Heins’ A Boy. It is rather a fine thing to be a boy, and free indulgence in the healthful sports of youth, rather than the more harmful pastimes of after years. The pure spirit of the hoy turns instinctively to those recreations which appeal to the ;iiul ('niifi/i ntiinv alilw f.v look yawningly back to the days of their youth. See with what beaming tender ness the small boy seeks to win the con fidence of the poor, friendless, cowering dog that he finds roaming sadly through the street. The boy's face glows with compassion, and his voice is low and sweet as he murmers pet names to the forlorn animal, slowly approaching it with outstretched hand, ready to tender* ly pat its shaggy coat. Gradually the Auspicious of the dog are overcome, and the hand of the hoy lovingly caresses the harmless brute with a kindness that only a boy can show. With his arm soothing ly around the dog’s neck, the boy cries in a hoarse whisper to bis friends hither to behind the fence: “I’ve got him boys,” and they appear cautiously on the sceno while the first boy occupies the dog’s at tention with endearing epithets. To a practical yongslerit is only thd work of a nioinen t > affix the ancient tin pail to the reluctant tail of the deg, and with a wild shout of joy the boys jump hack while the terrified dog with this rattling unknown horror in close pursuit; tears mnddly down the street rending the air with howls. f l his is one of the most hal lowed and unalloyed pleasures that brightens a boy’s life, and yet there are heartless men who would rob our youth of such harmless pastimes as the foregoing. What use are stray dogs and old tin pans if not to bo united f y our boys in the closest ot ties? NO MOKE BALDHEADS. The Race to Entirely Disappear. The announcement that the race of bald heads is soon to disappear entirety from the face of the earth may startle the timid, and grate harshly upon the ears of those who are accustomed to regard the shining pates of their friends with a sort of sacred rever ence; but no harm is to come to those un fortunates,who, like poor Uncle Ned,' 1 have no wool on the top of the head, the place where the wool ought to grow.” They are not to be extirpated, and not a hair of their heads is to be injured. Their bald ness is to be covered over, not by art, but by a natural growth of hair, stimulated to development by the application of that most wonderful discovery, Carboline, a de odorized extract of petroleum- In many cases it will almost destroy the identity of the individual for a time ; but the change will be such a delightful and agreeable one, that all must eventually lejoice over it- It will be very curious, doubtless, to miss all the baldheads from the churches, the lecture rooms, the theaters, and otper public assemblies, but the transformation is bound to come. No matter how smooth or shining the orb —no matter how barren it has been —when tickled o’er a few' times with Carboline it is bound to bring forth an abundant crop, and enable the possessor of the bare head to shake his locks as proudly as did ever Samson or Absalom. Sold by druggists. NUlv.riEß 26