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THE GEORGIA CRACKER.
Rill Arp Tells How He Came
Into Existence.
A Freeman of the Woods, the Georgia
Cracker Brooked Neither Restraint
of Fashion Nor of Law, But
Grew Up Uutrammeled.
Written for The Constitution.
Not to go back into history further than
my own time and recollections, let me ven
ture upon some unoccupied territory and tell
how Cherokee, Georgia, became the home of
that much-maligned and misunderstood in
dividual known as the Georgia cracker. I
have lived long in his region and am close
akin to him.
There is really but litfSe difference between
the Georgia cracker and the Alabama or
Tennessee cracker. They all have or had the
same origin, and until the Appalachian
range was opened up to the rest of mankind
by railroads and the schoolhouse these crack
ers had ways and usages and a language pe
culiarly their own.
It will be remembered that until 1835 tho
Cherokee Indians owned and occupied this
region of Georgia—the portion lying west of
the Chattahoochee and north of the Talla
poosa rivors. They were the most peaceable
and civilized of all the trines, but they were
not subject to Georgia laws, and had many
conflicts and disturoances with their white
nabors. It seemed to be manifest destiny
that they should go. “Go west, red man,”
was the white man’s flat. They went at the
point of the bayonet, and all their beautiful
country was suddenly opened to the ingress
of whomsoever might come. Georgia bad it
surveyed and divided into lots of forty and
160 acres, and then made a lottery and gave
every man and widow and orphan child a
dident chance in the drawing. drawing. But the cracker
wait for the The rude, un¬
tamed and restless people from the mountain
borders of Georgia and the Carolines flocked
hither to pursue their wild and fascinating
occupation of hunting and fishing for a live¬
lihood. similated They came shared separtely, but interest. soo > as¬
and a common
There are such spirits in every community.
There are some right here now who would
rather go up to Cohutta mountains on a bear
hunt; than to go to New York or Paris for
pleasure. I almost would mvsel". and 1 re¬
call the earnest cravings of my you to to go
west and find a wilderness, and" with my
companions live in a hut and kill deer and
turkeys, and sometimes a bear and a pan¬
ther.
But for my town raising and old field
school education I too would have made a
very respectable c> acker. This was the class
of young n en and middle-aged that first
settled among these historic hills and valleys
and dinned these mountains and fished in
these streams. By and by the their fortunate
owners of these lands received certifi¬
cates and many of them came from all parts
of the state to look up their lots and see how
much gold or how much bottom land there
was upon them, Indians but gold was found the principal gold and
attraction. The had
washed it out of the creeks and branches and
traded it in small parcels to the white man,
and it was believed that every stream was
lined with golden sand. This proved an il¬
lusion, and so the squatters were not disturb¬
ed or else they bought their titles for a song
and then sang “sweet home” of their own.
They built their cabins and cleared their
lands and raised their scrub cattle, and with
their old fashioned rifles kept the family in
game. Many of these settlers could read
and write, but in their day there was but
little to rrad. No newspapers and but few
books were found by the hunter s friends.
Their children grew up the same way, but
what they lacked in culture hair-breadth they supplied in
rough experiences and escapes
and fireside talk, and in the sports that were
either improvised or inherited. Pony reces,
gander pulling, quiltings shooting matches, coon
hunting and had more attractions
than book--. How they got to using such
twisted language as you’uns and we’uns and
and Injuns and niout and gwine and all
sich is not known, nor was such talk univer¬
sal. When such idioms began in a family
they descended and spread out among the
kindred, but it was not contagious. I know
one family now of very extensive connections
who have a folk-lore of their own, and it can
be traced back to the old ancestor who died
half a century ago. But these corruptions
of languages are by no means peculiar to the
cracker, for the English cockneys, quite and the
genuine ynnkee l ave an idiom as ec¬
centric, though they do not realize it and
would not admit it.
The Georgia cracker was a merry-hearted,
unconcerned, independent creature, laws and all
he asked was to be Jet alone by the and
the outside world.
The justice court of bi him. < beat He was had quite
enough limitation for far
more respect for the old spectacled ’squire
than for the highest court tribunal in he the nation.
Prom this home-made never ap¬
pealed until the young lawyers began to fig¬
ure in it, and seduced him into the mysteries
of the law and the wond.rful perform¬
ances of the writ of “Sashor ry.” Never¬
theless, they looked upon lawyers as su pects
and parasites, and their descendants have
the same opinion still. The old ’squire was
specially “forwent’' them,and looked upon the
sasherary as an insult to his judicial capac
ity. Sometimes he would let two young
limb3 of the law argue a case before him for
half an hour, and then quietly icmark,
“Gentleman, I judgmenticated and would proceed this case with last his
night at home,” old ’squire and the preacher
docket. That
were quite enough to pnot vuese people
througa life aud across the dark river.
A few years after they had settled down as
the successors to the Indians a class of more
subs antial citizens began to look in upon
this beautiful country. They purchased the
valley lands and the river bottoms and soon
the forests began to fall before the axe of f he
pioneers. Some of them sawmills brought and framed slaves
with them and erected
houses with glass windows to live in, and the
school master came along, but the crackers
were in the majority and lived along in the
same old primitive wav. As late as 1817
they had ga> uer puinngs ana one tnat l
witnessed that summer lasted for two hours
and the original Bill Arp was the victor. I
could have seen more of them, but I did not
care to just for the same reason that a kind
hearted man does not wish to see but one
hanging. Satu> day morning when arrived
One we clans had
at Blue Gizzard courtground, the
gath red in unusual force. As preliminary
to the more important contest that was soon
to come off, some of the boys were that shooting
at a small piece of white paper was
pinned to a distant tree. Some were gatoer
ed around the spring. Some were trying old
mother Tutten’s fresh cider and ginger cakes
that she offered from the hindgate of her lit¬
tle wagon, and some were sampling the corn
whiskey that was kept in a jug in tbelittle log the
courthouse hard by. We soon perceived be small
central and roost forking attrave about spot ten to feet a from
tree with a limb
its base. A long, slender, springy pole was
resting in the fork with the large end pressed
to the ground and fastened with st-obs cross¬
ed on either side and driven firmly in the the
clay. This incline raised the long, end of
j pole quite high in the air, and to that end
was looped a plow line, and to the lower end
of feet the line another loop gander was slipped and left ov.-r him the
of a venerable
swinging, head downward, just high enough
for a horseman to reach it e sily as he rode
underneath. The doomed bird gave an oc¬
casional squawk, and, with wings half open
and neck half bent, looked with unquestioned The
alarm upon the proceedings. teathers
had been stripped from its neck and a thick
coat of grease put on instead. The under¬
growth had been removed and a running
path for tho horseman carefully cleared of
ell obstructions. The tournament began at
It o'clock. Twenty sovereigns, mounted on
their plow nags, ranged themselves at one
end of the path ami awaited the call of their
names by the old ’squire, who had them writ¬
ten on a fly-leaf in the back of his docket.
No man was allowed to ride until he had
, planked up a dollar. The old ’squire will had
contributed the gander just out of good
to the boys, he said, and he carried was nominated
as treasurer his and umpire whole and the bag,
and on decision the sum was to be
. awarded the victor. He had adjourned his
court for two hours to see the fun and keep
down any disturbance of the peace. Eight
side “whippers’'were of the mustered in, They four on each all
running course. mcKorys, were
armetr witn gooa long gwttcues or
atl d their willing duty was to see to it that
no man’s nag moved towards the gander
with less alacrity than a gallop. would “Now,
boys,” a-lopin’ said he, “not a lope that in the shade keep of a
nag half an hour a
tree, but aright lively ga lop, and if the crit
ter slows up any, you must peartin him up a
httle-espec ally as he s a mghin’ towards the
8 a "der
The hoys were true sovereigns. They were
not knightR. They were arrayed in their
home made pants and home-made shirts and
home-knit galluses. Their shoes were
made at the tannery and their hats at the
battery. Coats and vests were not on their
regalia. All the naborhood were their spec¬
tators includ ng many women, some with in¬
fants at the breast and some with sons in the
tournament.
The gathering people exchanged saluta¬
tions and smiles and gave the family news
and gradually struggle drew near impending. the place where the
anserian was
The old squire hid participated in some
old-fashioned musters in his day, and so,
when everything was ready he stood on a
log, and, raising his right hand, exclaimed:
“ ’Tention company! In the proceedings
that we are about to proceed with it are ex¬
pected that every man will conduct his be¬
havior accordin' to whaCs far and honest—
no man are to take any advantage of ary
other roan nor of the eander. Thar he are
bangin’ without a friend. Tote fair, boys,
tote fair: and put him out of misery as quick
as you ken, in reason. Jack Pulliim—three
paces to the front—now ready—aim—charge
As Jack stuck his heels in his pony's flank
the crowd shouted: "Charge ’em Jack!
Charge ’em 1” But Jack’s critter waseni, used
to charging. He rebelled at the his go and the
“whippers in” bad to come to support.
He dashed in and out of the p?th wildly, but
finally took the bit in his teeth and started
down the line on a desperate run for freedom
amid the shouts and cheers of t he multitude.
He steered well until he suddenly eyed th?
great white bird just ahead of him. He
stopped as if on the brink of a prec’pice, but
Jack went on. That capped the climax of
tumultuous hilarity. The like of that was
what they came for. Jack caught on his
hands and feet, and was soon remounted and
took another st^rt, and his nag behaved bet
ter, but stil' did not come m reach of the
gander, and Jack lost his chance until the
second grand round. “We’uns liain’t got no
nevmr* eed one afor'eTs^knows on”’^ a
“Samuel Swillin, to the front, called the
’tTwas buTthe m ‘orX y A C and ge -Sam sTck S S t ato
grab was too him
and m 1he slipped his hold the poor bird swang
to and fro and flapped his wings and squawk
ed loud and long at the terrible squeeze and
the more terrible elongation of his oesopha
guR. Sam was congratulated on his effort,
He wiiied his fingers on a pine top, and said:
“Yes I’ll be dadburned if I wouldent have
got him, hut tho dingd Ihing was so allfired
sliekery. I was in hones that Jack Pullum
would have got the i?.st grab and sleeked
offen some of it.”
“Rube Underwood”—to the front—ready
—aim—charge. Rube had a big mouth and
was freckle faced and red headed, and rode a
flee-bitten gray that had been taught to
dance and prance around and to go sideways
—“j-sttoshow smart," as the boys said—
and it took the animal some time to be con¬
vinced that dancing and prancing wasn t in
order at this particular time. A walloping
lick just fearful as he neared the under goal caused him to
make a leap right the hold bird, and
Rube had to use both hands to his seat
the gander’s head collided in squara his mouth in Rube’s
face and some swore got and
“effen he h id jest shet it he wou’d have had
the priz ’.” He retired in good order and
awaited his second turn. One bv One one the
riders came as they were called. after
at other got some of the grease and w iped it
on their horses’ manes, but the muscles of the
gander we-e old and tough, and every one
of the twenty had gone his round and failed,
when the squire called a halt aod ordered
another greasing. It was evident, however,
that some damage had been done the bird,
for his wings hung droopy and his voice was
fatirng bl n. There was a laceration of sin¬
ews sport going on. ould and have but for ended. the fresh “ greasing 'Tention
the « soon
company,” said the ’squire. “The proceed
inses will now take a little recess. Boys, ' ou
can light and look at your saddles,' and ef
you want water you can go to th? spring
and git it, but don’t wait long for my old
gander sufferin’.” are hangin’ there without a mend
and
The tournament wai soon resumed. Bill
Arp was the tenth man of the second round.
He was the tenth of the first, and many pre¬
dicted that gander’s neck or the plow line or
the pole, for his grip was liko a vise and his
agility notorious, but somehow the gander
ducked at the critical mom'-rtt and Bill
grabbed his head iuscead of his neck and
made Bill’s a miscarriage.
As turn came again the crowd ejacu¬
lated: “Now, watch him boys.” “Can’t, he
ride, though?” “Blamed “See how he sots on his crit¬
ter.” if he ain’t tarred to bis nag.”
“Look at his eye.” “No whippers for him.”
“He’s gwine to carry that gander's head half
a mile before he stops.” “Fa--ewell, goose,
I’ll preach your funeral.” “Good-bye, gan
And sure enough Bill got the right grip
this time and in a trice h»d given the neck a
double and something had to break as the
Dole and the line swif.ly followed his motion.
For a moment it seemed uncertain what
would break or what bad broken for the
strained tendons popped like a whip as Bill’s
nag went on at full speed. For a little while
the quivering, and forwards headless and body swung then back¬
wards was at rest.
Then came the shouts and the wild hurrah.
Bill was gime and so was his critter, and as
they came round to the front the crowd gath¬
ered round to see the gander’s head that he
held high in h s hand—the warm blood trick¬
ling from the arteries. After the jubilee was
over Bill invited the nineteen and the squire
to old Mother Tutt n’s wagon, and having
purchased the jog in her the stock courthouse of cakes he “gin and cider and
’em all a
treac.” There was not a fight nor a fuss in
all the “proceedinses.” In a few minutes
thereafter the voice of the bailiff was heard
crying, »“Oh yes, oh yes—the honorable
court of the 825 th doest) i?t are now met
kordin’ to adjournment. God save the state
and the honorable court.”
These rough, rude people constituted were the o iginal
Georgia crackers. They a large
proportion of tho population of Cherokee
half a century enjoyed ago. Iky were gener-t'ly
l>Oor, but they life more than theydid
money. They were sociable and they were
kind. When one ol' their number was sick
they nursed him—when ho (lied they dug
a grave and buried There him, and th >t was tho
end of the chapter. wrs no tombstone,
no epitaph no obituary. Their class is fast
disappearing from our midet. Civilization
has encroach d upon them, and now their
children and their children's children have
assimilatvd a higher grade of humanity.
Bill Arp.
TEE NATIONAL GAME.
) Duffy, of Boston, leads the Association in
■acrifiee bitting.
Among the League batters, Browning, of
Cincinnati, is second.
The American Association has had three
Presidents within a year.
Philadelphia has beaten the Pittsburgs
in five games by one run.
Griffin was the first Brooklyn man to
make one hundred safe hits.
odds, Reilly, of Pittsburg, is playing by all
the worst first base in the League.
Long now leads the Boston League team
in batting, run-getting and base-stealing.
Curved balls have been used less this
season than any time sinoe their discovery.
‘‘Glass Arm” ball players is the term now
used on a man drawing salary on a past
reputation.
Foreman is the only one of the Washing¬
ton to his pitchers credit. with more victories than defeats
has Myers, Philadelphia’s second basemen,
never been know to make a safe hit ou
the Cincinnati grounds.
Pitcher McUill has been effective for
St. Louis, winning sixteen and losing six
games up to a recent date.
When Hutchinson is in the box for the
feet Chicagos the players move about with per
confidence of winning.
Brooklyn seems to have gone all to pieces
in the pitching department. Not one of the
club’s four high-salaried pitchers is doing
good work.
The Cincinnati Leaguers are the best paid
lot of ball players Cincinnati ever harbored
and they are playing the worst ball ever
seen on the League grounds.
have Cleveland, hit Rusie, Pittsburg and Philadelphia
of New i ork, hardest this
season. More recently, however, he has
been roughly handled by all opposing teams.
Hamilton, of the Philadelphias, is leading
the League in batting with a percentage of
.340. He has stolen seventy-six bases in
109 games. Latham, of Cincinnati, is eight
behind him.
Manager Mctrie, of the New Yorks,
says more glass armed and maimed baseball
players are being carried along on the pay
rolls of the different Association and League
teams this year than has ever been the case
s * nce he has figured in the baseball arena,
The Boston Association team can fairly
claim to be a model organization. The men
have all been sobriety itself, and not a player
■ has conducted himself in an improper or un
seemingly the manner. This will also apply to
Athletic, New York aud Chicago teams
j John Ewing, of wonT the New Yorks, Ru has a
j 2 w” wontwenty-^ 68 , f e -
three «*<* Kusie
° Ut of fort >"- five - Chicago’s reliable Hutch
five five ont^f oufc ot ^rty-seveu for^ S -« reC ° rd games, ' tmVi “ S W ° a thirty -
Catcher Harrington thinks Crane, oi
Cincinnati, one of the best pitchers he ever
supported. “It’s a pleasure to catch his
pitching,” bail where says he Jerry, wants “for it. he From can his put the
movements wouldn’t think he easy
to send the bails you with speed, was but going
over any I’ll
promise you they come sailing in like a
rocket.”
THE LABOR WORLD.
Bohemia miners average $132 a year.
St. Louis has a working girls’ library.
Edgeworth (Penn.) has a girl carpenter.
12.75 New York union plasterers’ laborers get
a day.
Chicago furniture workers struck for
eight hours.
Union The Kebrew-Ameriean label. Typographical
has adopted a union
At Fall River, Mass., 20,030 textile work¬
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A New York,Central stockholder wants
the road to allow its hands to organize.
The confectioners of San Francisco are
moving to have a six-day working week.
Grand Master Powoerly, of the K. of
L., wants work prohibited on election day.
At a conference of labor delegates recent¬
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sented.
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners will send lecturers all over the
country.
Over 1500 women have joined the New
York Cloak makers’ Union during tho last
six months.
The Danvers (Mass.) electric road hasbaen
turned over to the employes, plan. who are run¬
ning it on the co-operative
The employes ia the Elgin (Ill.) Watch
Factory are being organized. There are
3000 employes, two-thirds of them women.
It is stated that there are 72,000 pianos
made annually in America, and that three
pounds of steel wire are used for each instru¬
ment.
An electric drill in an Idaho mine recently
performed the feat of boring a two-inch hole
through twenty feet of solid granite ia four
hours.
A movement is on foot atFnirport, N. Y. t
looking to the establishment of a new shoe
factory, the stock of which is to be owned
almost exclusively by the workers.
Out of 1145 strikes in England last 470 year,
in which 344,840 people took part, were
successful, 207 were failures and ninety
four were undecided. The average duration
of strikes was eighteen days.
The railroads of the country lose emplov their 700,
000 men. Eaoh year they 2000 of
number in killed, and 20,000 of them are in¬
jured annually. It is estimated that 3,000,
000 people depend on these employes for a
living.
The Trades’ Union Congress was held at
Newcastle with 500 unskilled delegates representing
1,500,000 skilled and British work¬
men. The Congress adopted a resolution in
favor Eight-hour of making law permissive the proposed in certain international
cases.
The Workingwotnen’s dissolved Union, of Halle, police
Germany, has been by the
and its funds were confiscated, because at
several meetings the suffrage question and
women’s political rights were discussed. In
Germany it is agaiust the law for women to
discuss oolitics.
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Liver Complaint,
Chrome Diarrhoea,
Delicate and Scrofulous Children,
Summer of Inruits,
Mr. Solomon Bond, a member Ind., of the "I Society have
of Friends, of Darlington, says:
used twelve bottles of The Great South Atnerf*
can Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure,
and I consider that every bottle did for me one
hundred dollars worth of good, because I have
not had a good night's sleep for twenty year*
on account of irritation, pain, horrible dreams,
and generai nervous prostration, which hat
been caused by chronic Indigestion broken and dovn* dys¬
pepsia of the stomach and by a
condition of my nervous system. But now I can
lie down and sleep nil night as sweetly as a think baby,
and I feel like a sound man. 1 do not
there baa evor been a medicine introduced into
this country which will at all compare with
this Nervine Tonic as a euro for the stomach.”
C*awfordsviixe, Ind., June 22,1SS7.
ity daughter, eleven years old, was severely
afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. W*
gave her three and one-half bottles of South
American Nervine and she is completely re¬
stored. I believe it will euro every case of St,
Vitus's Dance. and I have kept it the in my family for
two years, am sure it is greatest rem¬
edy sia. all in forms tho world of Nervous for Indigestion Disorders and and Dyspep¬ Failing
Health from whatever cause.
Subscribed and sworn to beforo me thie Juna
22,1887. Chas. W. Wright,
Notary Fuolla.