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Miss Sallio Pace is sick.
Miss Lulu Hale is visiting the
family of J. R. Rornls.
Miss Fannie Thomas, of Chatta
nooga, is the guest of Miss Ida
Pierce.
Eddie, Cole who. has been sick
for several days is improving
slowly.
Mr. Mac A cuff, has returned
from across the mountain after
several days absence.
Dr. Jas. R. Brock, of Rising!
Rawn, spent Wednesday and a por- j
tion of Wednesday night with us. 1
Marion Tatum and Dr. Peakins i
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left yesterday to attend the reunion j
of their old regiment at Dalton, to
he held to-day.
Mr. I. Y. Willi’s genial eouiyten
oncfi will he missed from behind
the counters of I’. K. B. Coie’s
store, but is succeeded by one fully
as genial and accommodating, in
the person of J. H. Corput.
We are sorry, wo are compelled to
leave out a very interesting com
munication which reached us too:
late, and hope the correspondent
will send us like letters even week,
but mail thorn on Wednosday.
Miss Fannie Beese, who has been
yisiting Miss Lizzh McLean, bps
returned home to the regret of a
good many. Miss Fannie is a very
pleasant 'and captivating young
lady,, and has made many warm
friends in Trenton
The book entitled ‘*What the
World Relieves,” now. being sold by
Mr. J,. W Hamic, i 3 a work of great
worth .and shows ability in prepar
ation, the unprecedented.sale which
Mr. Hamic is having, with this book
is well merited. The origin of
every religious denomination of
the world is given in detail, to
which is added the articles of fatih
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of each.
There is great, excitement at Car
rollton over the discovery of de
posits of tine coal in the soutft
dastern portion of the county. Cm
the Perkins plantation and the
Marian- place, which lie, on the
opposite sides of the Tallapoosa
fiver and about seven miles from
Carrollton, extensive beds are said
Coexist. The samples brought to
town are satisfactory as to the
quality
Dr. Ketcherside is confined to
his bed, This leaves our commu
nity in a very awkward position.
We are without an attending phy
sician,, and it a person should take
suddenly ill it would, in all proba
bility be a day or two before a doc
tor could be secured. We don’t
think Doctor Ketcherside had any
right to get sick, and hope he will
soon be up and out among his pa
tients again.
The week’s meeting held by El
der Floyd has come to a close, and
a great deal of good accomplished
Large congregations day nighjt at
tended the preaching, and Elder
Floyd regreted to close the meet
ing so early as did the people, but
was unable to remain any longer.
He is a brilliant theological ex
pounder, and a smooth and earn
est speaker, and will always be re
membered, and whenever occassion
admits, greeted warmly by the peo
ple of Dade.
Everybody that comes to Tren
ton and spends a day, strongly ad
vocates the fencing in of the court--
house*md the sotting out of shade
trees. The w hole county and town
are in favor of it, and the citizens
oi Trenton have offered to make
donations toward the public im
provement. Will somebody tell
us why our Ordinary remains deaf
to the appeals and groans of a
sweltering public. Take hold of
the matter Mr. Bennett, and we'll,
guarantee that the public will hear
you out in the matter, and t hat you
will perform an act that will not
only prove a public convenience
and benefit, but will greatly en
hance the beauty and value of tin
square, and in a measure preserve
the court-house from rude assaults
Be sure and attend Sunday
school next Sob bath
Go to prayr-mootingevwy Sun
day night.
Every body attend tin meeting
of the Baptist Association at Mt.
Zion next Sunday.
SANFORD C, SMITH is jq town
—chain vour dogs.
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Walter Robert no made a f! dug
trip to Chat-ana, --ga Wedno* day.
Dr. F. IT. Field, Rt>. . ■ vill la
in Trenton court-week Those wish
ing; his services will please call
early.
There are crops in Georgia that
pay better than cotton. See what
is being done in potatoes and mel
ons :
Mr. F. A. Morse, of Mil-on
county, dug his Irish potato? crop
last week, and gathered 800 bushels
oft of one acre. Re shipped them
to AHanta, where he realized one
dollar per bushel for thepo.
Brooks, county will ship this sea
son 1,000. carloads of 1,000 melons
each, making a grand to to! of 1,000.
■OOO which represents $2,000.
IN MEMORY OF. J. C. SMITH.
In this busy world men die and
are soon forgotten-. They leave no va
f ancy in the great machinery of a
business, world Tlieir acts in life
are but naught in every day trans
action, and in tha minds of those
who i-r.rvtvo them no pleasant
memories dwell by which to. re
mind on" of a life of usefulness.
The subject of this sketch was
born Sept. Bth, 1813, in Tennessee,
but in early boyhood removed, to
this county, which has been his
Lome ever since-. His early years
were spent;in honest toil, and noth
ing but an indominable will and
.his characteristic energy marked
the future carreer of a useful man.
In 1881 the tocsin, of war was
sounded between the North and
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South. J. C. Smith wa: then but
sixteen years of age, but its echoes
touch eda responsive chord in hir.
young heart, and ho watt- forth to
battle for his country’s cause Those,
who knew him then, and saw Him
on many a hard f< ught field can
say how weli he preform,od his du
ties to his comrades and to his
country. The last year of the war
he spent in,a Federal- dragoon, at
Elmira.N,Y.. and by Lis own Inufis
worked his existence In 1884
lie was married to Miss Fannie
Prickctt, of this county-, and their
union is blessed with three daugh
ers and two sons who are to make
the journey through life without
the firm guidiug hand of a father.
May the impressions made, and
the resolutions formed, while gath
er; >d. around, his deathbed, la: t un
til tßey themselves are gathered
home with him. By an honest, en
ergetic course, J. C. Smith became
one of the leadingjcitizens of Dade
county,, aud heritage to his
surviving children Raves a spotless
name and a character worthy their
emulation through a life to be
fraught with temptations and trial
intermixed with blessings.
M-r- Smith had been a sufferer
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for two years, and for tne past two
months his death Avas expected,
therefore did not startle, and the
great loss wag not fully realized
until the last breath of life had.
sped and all hope Avas gone, then
minds recurred to the many acts of
kindness, and the aid rendered by
a hand now cold in death, and “we
long for touch of a vanished 1 and;
and the sound of a voice that is
still.”.
A Avife is bereft of a loving-bus
hand, and children, too young to
realize their great loss, will in after
v cars, seek the tenderness nowhere
on earth to be found, Avhile a bright
and happy home, is made desolate
1 The church looses an important
I pillar, and the whole community
feels the loss of a staid and up
right citizen, and oner whos< life was
devoted to public good.
FOR ORDINARY.
Through an urged soiieitationof
friends throughout the county 1
Lave consented to withdraw from
jr.be race for Tax Collector and al
low my name annoum -‘d as a can
diate for Ordinary J- R Acuff.
Oiiil M ATA!A t’tlLT
W ILL GRAZE ANOTHER TERM
IN THE PASTE RE.
Last Wednesday proceedings at
the convention noted the most en
thusiastic and exciting -political
■ g.- iherings in.history of Dade, not
j v ithstiindiirg the existence of per
j ‘‘ci: harmony and good humor be
| tween the two op; using parlies. It
.‘{erves to illustrate the ebb and
flow of surging political tide.
The commeucment of the balloting
(convinced the Cl r>; mt:-crowd that
ithev had a ma.j-.n-i tv. Yet the
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[“winks and blink.- ’oi the Shumate
| following serve-! c •- :ouse some
Isuspicion which v• cleared away
i bv the arrival of the Shumate puss
longer train frem Rising FaAvn.
[Nothing would suffice to depict the
horror as appeared in the 'count
enance pf the Clements leaders,
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Avhile joy and ecstacy avo.s running
wild on the apposite party. Ninety
two strong Avas the number brought
by the Rising FaAvn train, but
about one-third that number wore
for Clements. W hat Avas catered a
Shumate- passenger train Avas -on
verted into a Clements aceommad:- i
tion,
The Shumate men were a little
misled as to what the result Avould
he, and counted on at least fifty
majority; but when the counting
began it Avas plain that somebody
had been deceived, for Clements
was holding his own even with the
train vote, and here the Clements
crowd realized +fiat they had oonr
verted defeat into a most glorious
victory, but with much deference
to the feelings of the other party
kept their joy well pent up. Be
fore a count out it Avas plain what
the result Avould be, and the Shu -
mate crowd began to assume their
stonciesi looks as a shield against
the inevitable. One hundred and
sixty eight against one hundred
and twenty one is no mean victory
waged against such oclds as the
Shumate organazation, and the re
sult is simply a Clements endorse
ment at the hands of the honest,
Unorganized yeomanry of Dade
county, and no statesman nepd
wan tno higher reward from his
constituency.
The convention Avas called to or
der by Chairman Blevins of the
Democratic Executive Committee,
M. A. B. Tatum Avas chosen perma
nent Chairman, and Ed. C.Griscom
secretary.
The following resolutions were
introduced by J. A, Case and
adopted.
1. Resolved that this mass
meeting proceed to v ote by ballot
for the candidate of tneu jboice to
represent them in the fifty-first
Congress, and that J. A. Bennett
and J. M. Cantrell,friendslof Hon.
J. C. Clements, and Wm. Cross and
J. A. Cureton, friends of Col. I. F-.
Shumate, be appointed to hold said
election, and declare the result to
this mass meeting by 4 o’clock p.
va. inst.
2. Resolved that the}' alloAv
all person! to vote, who, Avould be
by laAV. entitled to- Arnte for
members of Congress Nov. next,
and no others.
3. Resolved that the candi
date receiving the highest number
of \ T ctes cast, shall be declared tin
choice of this convention for mem
ber of. Congress.
4. Resolved that the tAyo
judges appointed as the friends of
the candidate receiving the highest
number of votes, shall name two
good men for delegates, and two
for alternates.
5. Resolved that the dele
gates named by the judges shall be
confirmed by a majority of this
convention, and instructed by the
same to attend the Congressional
convention to be held at Cedar
town, Ga., on the Oth of Sept, next,
and cast Dados'two votes as a unit
for the candidate receiving the
\ highest number of votes as long as
he is a candidate before the con
vention
Convention then adjourned, and
convened in the a iternoon, to wait
the report of the managers of :he
Auction. 'I ii*.» nruil-Oi :ho fit • i it.))
was 4 .then innounocii bv ike ;••<»(• rc
tary. uv’t the mimes of J. A Case
and B. ’V. Brock aa and
Dr. Kri'-k' and S. ,J. Hale, a- •-:tc-r
--* nates, a.--- rm->v;deu by Messrs Ben
nett and Cantrell,to attend the eon
, vent ion.
After the renting of the report
the following regulation wa anani
rnon dy adopted :
Rev ive, that \v>* the people of
"Dade"'county,"’ in mo'eting, da
expre-• omviven tally. lied
wit!', the couive pursued by i.ur
yorthy Congressman, jlqn J, ('.
Clement;;, during his seven years
in Congress, and- congratulate the
people o! tl 'vent’n district for
having a representative fully
<jualifi"d as to h * nla.eed on >c ’< ril
very important commit-.- c.s, and at
.the hidof n so important., lv .*-
form in Ciyd R ryice.
We also commend him totlyye
holding high place's, in truest,
for distribution, as one. morally and
: mon.ta.lly qualified to fill a
exalted position.
NOTES.
There were fully fiOO people in
town.
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The absence of mountain dew
was notiicable, and regreted by
the “anti prohibit*.”
It took the crowd about two min
utes and five seconds to g< t on the
'outside of two wagon loads of wa
ter melons.
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AN ACROSTIC.
G one from earth, gone from
ns, oh we regret tliee;
Ever feeling thou hi blest, yet
we’ll never forget thee.
One sweet hope is .‘left us—ere
long we’ll meet thee
Raidiant it: glory—where we
will greet thee,
0 iving no thought then, to pangs
that called us iiei.ee;
* Eor wi.tli Christ united will
more than nmomponse.
We mourn thy loss though—and '
still, we must weep;
it is selfish sorrow, we know,
■ " yet we will keep
. Long in mem’ry’s hail, the dear
image of one
Loved of God and of men—of
thpe, whose life’s sun
I n morning went down—sank.
* while yet ye stood
A t mandoods’ bright portal, and |
hopeful W viewed
Mellowed m hope-light thy
sweet Canaan-r-manood.
’T was hard, so hard, to see the
drift from our shore;
Hard to realize we’d see the
never more,
U ntil death showed us thee, be
yond the river
Rejoicing—thy harp in a trium
phant quiver,
M aking sweet music to welcome ’
us over
A mong dear, dear ones, long !
since gone before.
N e’er then—oh.happy thought— j
will we weep more,
Aunt Pollie.
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