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TOfti m COLffi. o SQUIBS GATHERED HERE AND THERE. o Misft Verda Williams has return ed home from Hill city. I. 8. Kersey and wife, of South Pittsburg, are visiting the family of i. y. wiiiis. Rev. J. 1). Floyd will begin to preach a series of sermons on the 2nd Saturday in August. Don’t complain of failure to re ceive your paper unless you have n otified this office of the fact. There are plenty of peaches this y ear, but experience teaches us that this is also a good year for worms. When Sanford C. Smith visits Trenton something new and won derful always follows—an eclipse of the moon is the latest. The hot July sun is warming the boys up, and little guns are being fired at a distance which will event ually lead to a face to face combat Trenton, at present is enjoying a most unenviable reputation. There are no places where such a contin ual criticism and cutting up of character goes on. Miss Hattie Pace has opened her school at Morrison. Miss Hattie has a very large, attendance which is a clear indication of her suc cess as a teacher. Reuben Haney, an old time citi zen of Dade, but now of Sequachee Valley, was in town this week visi ting friends. Mr. Haney kept hotel hero ten years ago. The candidates are feeling their way cautiously. Just when and where they will open their batteries is not known,but the announcement is awaited with interest. We forgot to say in our last is sue that Mr. Mike Fahey gave us 50 cent s and three cigars to state that he did not attend the perfor mance given by Prof Teal. Payton Hendrex, after a pleas ant visit among friends and rela tives for about two weeks or more, waved all a fond adieu last Monday, and started on his journey to the Lone Star State. Mike, the Magician, has return ed, the Bhow having stranded at Fort Payne, Ala., coinpolling Mike to count the cross ties back home. Mike, although looking a little weather-beaten, was as genial and pleasant as ever. The protracted meeting held at Byrd’s Chapel by Rev. J. L. Prater closed last Tuesday night. While the meeting resulted in a great deal of good, still no conversions were made. Brother Prater will begin a series of meetings in Trenton Sat urday night. Let all who can at tend. Generally speaking, if you are troubled with the“blues”andcannot toll why,you may be sure it springs from physical weakness. Instead of lying on a sofa and courting painful ideas, if you are a despond ing lover, a hypochondriac or a valetudinarian,you should be up and stirihg yourself. We are requested to announce thatG.W. M. Tatum, candidate for Representative, will speak at Clov ordftle on the first Saturday in Au gust,ami at Morganville the 2d Sat urday in August. All other can didates for Representative or Slab' Senate are invited to be present and address the people. It is agreed that joys are sweeter in anticipation than in possession. What happy people country editors must be under t his rule 1 hey al ways anticipate the glad time when some subscriber or patron will pay up. These anticipators joys increase during the whole lite, and it hoped will so encase him in fire-proof arms that the devil will find him to hard a case for his business. Last Saturday night quite a num ber of the young people assembled at the residence ot Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Rodgers and gazed with wonder and admiration at the eclipse of the moon. A very pleasant time was had, and many theories were advaueed as to the cause ot the ecnpsc, *. uich showed that our young people were capable of shoot ing their minds into the distance and solving great problems. Willie Jacoway, son of W. U. Jacoway is quite sick with fever. Miss Delia Fahey, of Rising Fawn, has gone to Gadsden for a few days. Mrs. W. U. Jacoway, who has been sick for several days, is im proving slowly. Johnnie Jacoway has put on war paint and swears eternal vengenee upon the editors of the News. G. M. Orabtreo has purchased the Cole tan-yard and is fitting up an extensive tanning business. Try the Lemonade extract at B. P. Majors, which is the cheapest and quickest way to get vour lemonade. The Dade Normal will open Aug. Gth with a full quoto of competent teachers. Trenton looks more life like when the Institution is in ses sion. Send us the names of four new subscribers for one year and four dollars, and we will send a fifth copy to any address one year free of charge. The senior editor was the recipi tent of a twelve pound cabbage head, donated by N. W. Cole. “The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,” and so does the editor. It took a sheriff’s posse to quell a little disturbance in our office to day, and after all the News force had to succumb to superior forces- Freedom of the press is not what it should be or what it has been. Probably, but few teachers enjoy such great love and esteem of the pupils as Miss Eula Austelle, who recently taught music in the Dade Normal. Every week the lit tle and big ones come running into our office with the exclamation: “I have a letter from Miss Eula.” Bishop Pace: Boys I enjoyed that ride better than any ride I ever took in my life. I just throw that buggy top hack, touched that little horse and she glided to Morgan ville in great shape, I tell you ! The wind just fanned our cheeks. “Get off my sore toe,” won’t you. “Bye-bye, my honey, I gone.” Dr. B» Brock, left last Wednes day fot Rising Fawn to practice medicine with Dr. J. W. Rttssey. His departure is a great loss to our community and will be felt by all. While we envy Rising Fawn in se curing his services still we feel that Trenton has his heart sufficiently Pierced to bring him b.ack again. Cupid got his work last Sunday night. The eclipse was a success draw-card, and from every little knoll and hill could be heard mel low voices “talking velvet” to list ening ears under the inspiring influence of soft moon light, twink ling stars, and bright eyes till about 3 o’clock in the morning, and if the world could all be, and remain as happy as that party of earth’s hap py children were, there would* be no more wars and a little use for a better hereafter. GRAND OFFER. One 98 cents. Five hundred la dies' full suits with velvet and but tons to match for One 98 cents for 20 days. One to a customer. T. C. Ervin & Co, Chattanooga, Tenn. ATTENTION THIRTY-NINTH ! The annual re-union of the 39th Georgia Regiment will take place in Dalton Aug. 17th, 1888. All survivors are urgently requested to be present. It has been thought best to give upon this occasion a regular basket spread in our beau tiful city park, instead ot a barbo- j cue as heretofore. All who live j near enough will be expected to: bring with them their baskets well filled. The ladies of Dalton, to gether with the wives and daugh ters of our survivors, will be pres- ; ent to superintend affairs and see i that none go away uncared for. The survivors of Phillip’s Legion as well as of Cumming’s Brigade, will meet with us. Those of the 39th who intend coming will please confer at once with JOHN BLACK, Sec’y 39th Ga. Regt. li .Will'll SHOW ——o OR BITS OF NOTHING CON TAINING SOMETHING. o When a young man sneers at the back-woods town in which he was born, and the people and their old fashioned ways, he has lost the best part of his man-hood. Let the chil dren of farmers feel that their de scent is from the nobility of our land. In the homes where they were nurtured are the strong-holds of the jjvirtuc and independence of their country. Brilliant talents, graces-of per son, confirmed intrepidity, and a continual habit of displaying these advantages, seem all that is aimed at in the educatiou of girls. The parents first error, in the preference of accomplishments to virtues nat urally leads their misedueated daughters to prefer sentiment to principle and make it the guide of their life. Thus they even become willing to appear to others what in reality the} 7 are not. The love of display is often permitted to enter to much into the tissue of female education. Girls, I wouldn’t do it, it is so eaisly detected. Some of the young ladies did not agree with our hints last week in regard to effects of fashons on health. While in conversation with one of our young local physi cians, he said, few circumstances are more injurious to beauty, then the constrained movement,suffused complexion and labored respira tion that betray tight lacing. The play of intelligence and varied emotions which throw such a charm over the brow of youth, are im peded by whatever obstructs the flow of the blood from the heart. In Greece, where the elements of beauty and grace were earliest com prehended, and most happily illus trated the fine symmetry of the form was left untortured. Protracted meetings are now the forces omployed to stir up some thing likn animation in the super annuated condition of Christian af fairs. Dade has long since been con demned by many as the hardest hole to make conversions known to the ministers of the gospel. Tho cause of this is eaisly discerned. While it would not hold water from a theo logical or Biblical stand-point, it certainly is harbored in human nature, and acts as a soothing an tidote for the conscience. There are many active members of the church, whose religion is merely a matter of words, and used only on meeting house occassions, but rarely illustrated actively on the outside. If one be untrue, and trickey with men, he can not win the confidence of the poor sinner who knows him, by any amountof praying, pasalm-singing or church going. Praying will not cancel cheating, nor attending church, ly ing; and many a soul turns away, because he is to rebellious by na ture, to be lead into the ‘tender Shepherd’s fold” by a man who just last week done him up in a “hoss trade,” The youug people are the souls that the great majority of the churches are endeavoring to con vert. And it is a painful fact that they aJe getting further and further from their reach through the argu ments and illustrations used to picture to them the hideousuess of some sins. The lines are drawn to tight, and the rules of the church to strict for the young people of the present day, and should be altered on the account of the grea f diver sity opinions as to what consti tutes innocent amusements. And we are of the opinion if this was done, there would be a great in crease of young, live and working church members, that, as it is, are held out. To rebuke some sins, under certain circumtsances, sim ply awakens all the combativeness of their nature, and Jmakes them more determined in wrong-doing. OK it. E. CROSS By the Blood-thirsty V w feu l ton. On last Friday morning Charle;. Sutton, colored, stabbed Boh Cros.- in the left side between the third and fourth ribs, leaving a gash 2* inches long. Hearing of the cutting of Robert Cross caused much regret and sur prise to the citizens who know Mr Cross, to be a quiet and orderly young man. But Charley Sutton’s name being given as the principal. actor in the tragedy was no surprise \ whatever, since this is not his first affair of the kind. THE FACTS. Chas. Sutton came into the Mor ganviilu depot Friday morning un der the influence of whisky, making himself at home by laying down upon the benches arranged for passengers. The youngj men, in charge of the oflice requested him to get out of the oflice as some young ladeis would soon be in. Refusing to go out. Charley called for a ticket, and was ordered out of the room until time to get a ticket. This so enraged the negro that he declared he would not go. The agent with an oath again ordered him out, Sut ton still refusing, and all the tim • talking very boisterous and usiny consul e ruble profanity. It was just as Sutton put his hand in his pocket and was ap proaching the agent that Robert Cross seized a chair and ran him out of the house, when he stopped and again put his hand in his pock et, and was ordered by Cross to leave the place; and then the chair was thrown, but missed Sutton> who now drew his knife and pur sued Cross into the house, out of it througn a window, and again in and out,and some distance from the de pot, Cross saying all the time “don’t throw that Charley, now within ten feet of his victim, threw the rock which did not strike Cross, who now turned in defense with a stick, which he made no effort to use, not knowing that Char ley had the knife. The stick being grasped in Charley’s left hand and his victim defencless, the cruel thrust was given in ,the maner and with the result abovej stated. After being cut Cross released him self from Sutton’s grasp and fled followed some distance by the would be murderer who in giving np pur suit threw 7 the stick he had taken from Cross as a parting salute. After cutting Cross the now thoroughly enraged brute returned to the depot with knife in hand and seized the agent by the collar, and in spite of the frightened agents begging, would have kilied him had it not been for the entreaty of Mr. Wm. Tittle. It was not until Tuesday that the authorities succeeded in bringing Sutton to Trenton, where be was lodged in jail, waving examination. The time intervening between the committing of the act and arrest of the criminal alone saved our county the disgrace of a lynching. Cooler thoughts now prevail, and.the good j sense and propriety of the people will not admit of any rash act. A crime has been committed, and be that crime great or small, the law should take its course, and mete out whatever justice to the crimi nal is due. Mr. Cross, although still in a very critical condition, is rapidly improving, and indications point to a speedy recover, which will be ! very gratifying to his many friends,; who watch for every day’s report with manifest interest, One of Trenton’s gayest young men went to sleep last night with some rather pleasant thoughts rack ing his brain —in fact fancy bad held high revel with the young man’s mind, and after dropping off to sleep, he was heard to exclaim in a voice denoting much confi dence in himself: “I’ll bitch up the black mare to my new buggy to morrow and go down and see that one hundred thousand dollar girl.’’ Jim Bond says he will vouch for the above, and see us safe in the matter. Remember Wednesday Aug,. 15. Ms - My ■ Hen FOR 1888! Enlarged and Improved. yj ... . . - CONTAIN MG KANT SPECIAL FEA7UPES. A KONG WHICH WfU Bt I Local Happenings. ■ j, 4 % County and itata News - l ... 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