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The Calhoun Times.
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W. sT JOHNSON,
Allorney 7Vt IjHAV,
c. i u/or.\: ; Georgia.
Office in Southeast corner of the
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II HIN. JOS. mcosnkli,.
fain and McConnell,
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CAM/orX, GEORGIA.
1 v” Office in the Court House.
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W. J. CANTRELL
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('aliiouv: Georgia.
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1* in I .8. District Uourt, Northern Dis
tri •r of (ledrgia. (at Atlanta): and in the Su
fi o'nu' Court of the State of Georgia.
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Calhoun, Ga.
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M ILL practice in the Courts of the
Cherokee Circuit.
firiU Office North side Public Square.
K. -J. Iv I KITH,
Attorneyiat Hcfratr,
c 1 /, I/OU.Y, GEORGIA.
['C " at th r Old Stand of Cantrell A Hiker. J
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M Cuerokeo Circuit; Suprevhe Court of
’"mrgia. and the United States District Court
Ga. augl97oly
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.t rrOHXEY AT LA IU,
DA If I,ON EGA, - GEO.
NovlO 1870 ts
MnOTIEEVES,
Suntcoit <V> Physician,
CAUIIOUN, - . . OEORGIA)
\| V\ be lmind at his office, in the Brick
-U Store of Boaz, Barrett & Cos., day
i d.jj.it when not professionally
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RUFE WALDO THORNTON,
dentist,
Cai.iioun, . . . G.OtOIA.
11'dANKFUL for 'armor patronage, solicits
-a continuance o‘ the same.
___ ’"hee at Residence. seplo
DR. D. G. HUNtr
i'ii.Vsiciiin iind Druggist,
CALIIOLAV, GA.
J. I). TINSLEY
WATCH-MAKER
„ J WELER,
jA IIIOUN, :; ; : GEORGIA.
A styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
x neatly repaired and warranted.
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( F ‘CTA BUSHED IN 1855.)
J.O. MATHEWSON,
PRODUCE
( °NMISSION merchant
ARGCRTA. GEORGIA.
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ANT)
Cooking- Stoves !
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TIT OULD inform the public that they are
TV prepared to fill all orders in the
Tin-Ware Line,
At as LOW PRICES as any similar estab
lishment in Cherokee Georgia.
Our work is put up by experienced work
men. and will compare favorably with any
in the country.
In these days of Freedom, every good
husband should see that the “goot wife”
is supplied with a good
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And we are prepared to furnish any size
or style desired at the Lowest Possible
Priceßi
Give us a call. aull,tf
A. W. BALLEW,
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NOTIONS,
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
FACTORY YARNS, SHIRTINGS,
AND
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
FAMILY GROCERIES,
LIQUORS, «dS3O H
Railroad Street, - - CALIIOVV, GA.
Has just received and constantly receiv
ing, a fresh supply of
BACON, LARD. FLOUR, MEAL,
SUGAR, COFFEE, RICE,
CIGARS, TOBACCO.
CONFECTIONERIES,
Canned Fruits, - Nuts, Oysters,
SARDINES, CHEESE, 4c.
And, in fact, a full and complete assortment
of Staple and Fancy Groceries.
He also keeps one of the best Stocks of
WINES & LIQUORS,
in this part of the country.
If you want good, fresh Groceries, or Fine
Old Whiskies, Brandies, or Wines, give me
a call. febiG'TlGm
J. h. ~arthurT
DEALER IN
STAPLE AVI) F. 1 VCY DRl' GOODS,
Cutlery, Notions &c.
ANo keeps constantly on hand a choice
stock of
FAMILY GROCERIES,
Tn all of which purchasers are offered in
ducements.to buy.
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COBB ! WALKER,
AGENTS FOll
GROVER I OMR’S
- CELEBRATED
SEWING
MACHINE.
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keep in good running order.
ALSO AGENTS FOR GEN. LEE
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
G. 51. HUNT, Calhoun, Georgia, is author
ized to transact all our business during our
absence. marlO-Oin
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MANIWIK CO.,
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Os the best material this country affords,
and very superior in style and workmanship,
which they offer to the public and the gen-'
eral trade, as low as can be afforded.
( hairs & Bedsteads a Speciality.
Blinds, Doors, Sash and Job Work, to or
der, on short notice.
Dr. D. G. Hunt is our Agent at Calhoun,
Ga., and keeps a good Supply of Furniture
on hand. J. W. WALKER. Sup't.
L. D. Palmer, Secretary. aug26’7o-ly
l)ISSI)ITTII)\ NOTICE,
| rjIHE copartnership heretofore existing un
; I der the firm name of l>alle\v A Marshall,
I is this day dissolved by mutual consent—J.
iW. Marshall retiring. The books of the
firm are in the hands of *4. W. Ballew, who
; will close up all the business of the late firm.
A. W. Ballew
J. W. Marshall.
Read Further!
I propose to continue the Business at the
old stand, and am determined at all times to
keep a full and first-class stock.
febl6,lm A. W. BALLEW.
G. H. & A. TV. FORCE,
SIGN OF THE
BIG IRON BOOT,
i Whitehall Street, : : : Atlanta, Ga.
Shoes and Trunks, a complete Stock
) and new Goods arriving daily! Gents’
Boots and Shoes, of the best makes. Ladies’
Shoes of all kiuds. Boys, Misses and Children’s
Shoes of every grade and make.
par* We are prepared to offer inducements to
Wholesale Trade. septa ',’7o-ly
j ANY QUANTITY of “Fine Virginia Leaf “
and Manufactured Tobaccos at
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Co r. Bread & Briogc sts., Rome,
CALHOUN, GEA_., TH CURST) A.Y, JUTISTK 1. 1871.
POETRY.
V Kiss at the. Door.
We were standing in the doorway—
My little wife and I
The golden sun upon her hair
Fell down so silently ;
A small white hand upon my arm
What could I ask for more,
Than the kindly glance of loving eyes,
As she kissed me at the door ?
I know she loves with all her heart
The one who stands beside!
And the years have been so joyous
Since first I called her bride !
We’ve had so much of happiness
Since we met in years before ;
But the happiest time of all was
When slit killed me at the door !
Who cares for wealth of land or gold.
Os fame, or matchless power?
It does not give the happiness
Os just one little hour.
With one who loves me as her life—
She says she “loves me more”—
And I thought she did, this morning,
When she kissed me at the door.
At times it seems that all the world
With all its wealth of gold,
Is very small and poor indeed.
Compared with what l bo>l!
And when the clouds hang grim and dark,
I only think the more
Os “one” who waits the coming step
To kiss me at the door.
If she lives till age shall scatter
The frost upon her head,
I know she'll love me just the same
As the morning we were wed ;
But if the angels call her,
And if she goes to Heaven before.
I shall know her when 1 meet her—
For'she’ll kiss me at (he door.
Speech of General William
Phillips, on Memorial Day,
at Resaca.
LatVes of the Memorial Association
and fellow citizens : I font* that I owe
an apology to you for appearing to-day
without having made any preparation.
I did not so much feel the need of pre
paration until I came upon the ground
and looked at this assembly, and saw
the interest manifested by gray-haired
men, by the ladies, by the young men,
the girls and the boys. It is an apology
also, I fear, that I owe to myself for
consenting to appear before an audience
of this character without having made
the necessary preparation. But, ladies
and gentlemen, as a Georgian, an a
friend of the unknown dead, I stlall
speak from the heart, and I know there
is no one here before me whose heart
does not beat in unison with the ser
vices which are here being carried on.
What are those services? Why are we
here in this beautiful vale, out in the
woods? Upon many of the tablets that
stand at the head of these graves, is
written the inscription, C.
S. A.” In the center a monument is
reared, upon which is placed a cross in
scribed, To the unknown dead.” Who
are they, that Georgians should this
day meet together for the purpose of
paying respect to their memory ? Why
is it, L ask, fellow citizens, that these
ceremonies are being performed over
the graves of the men who sleep here,
and whose names are unknown ? The
heart answers that it is because they
fell for the cause of truth, and every
true Georgian loves and honors and
respects them to-day, and will respect
them the more hereafter.
I want to speak to these boys and
girls, to every Georgian who has the
heart of a true Georgian in his bosom,
and I shall speak freely. I shall not
allude to the war for the purpose of re
crimination against those whom we call
our enemies. I shall not talk about
that. It is enough for them to take
care of their own dead ; it is enough
for them to take care of their own con
sciences ; it is enough for them to take
care of their own peace. 1 shall speak
alone of Georgia, and the cause which
they call the i; Lost Cause.” That is
what has brought us here to-day.
Whether right or whether wrong, the
State of Georgia determined that she
could not remain longer as one of thS
sisterhood of States, and the Statefor
Georgia seceded. Georgians voted for
this measure at the ballot-box, and
Georgians carried it in Convention.—
Georgians carried the State out of the
Union. The North determined, whether
rightfully or whether wrongfully, the
Georgia and the other Southern Statse
had no right to secede from the U nion
nd form themselves into a Confeder
acy. We held* whether rightfully, or
whether wrongfully, that we had the
right. We held that every privilege,
evei‘y right, every principle that was
worth holding or recognizing by every
man, was at stake in that issue. War
was commenced. I need not recount
the experiences of that war. or the re
sults that followed it. They are famil
iar to us all. There were thousands of
Georgians who did not fully and heart
ily endorse the action of the State in
seceding. But when Georgia went ev
ery tvue Georgian said, ‘T am with
Georgia, I am with the South, and I
pledge my honor and my life for this
cause.” What was this principle for
which we fought ? It was. as we under
stand. the principle of constitutional
liberty. And here is a delicate ques
tion—that I am told we dare not touch
upon for fear of those who have power
over us. but I intend to speak here to
day what I believe to be the truth, and
surely nothing has the right to deprive
us of this privilege, or to hinder us in
its exercise; This issue of which 1
have spoken, not only involved the
principle of constitutional liberty, as we
understood it, but it involved every
right which is dear to man. It involved
not only the right of property, but it
involved the right of every man to act
and think as he pleased, and the State
to act for herself. The great State of
Georgia, one of the original thirteen
States, thought she was right in uphold
ing these principles. Mothers said to
their sons, wives said to their husbands,
maidens said to their lovers, “go and
fight for truth and for right, and give
us liberty or give us death.” And they
drove their sons and husbands and
lovers to the front, and remained at
home and prayed God to protect them
and give them strength in the defense
of Southern rights and Southern liberty.
These men that lie around us here
marched to the front. They went
wherever their country called them.—
They went where Lee, where Jackson,
where Johnson, where Price, where
Claiborn, where where Forrest
and the other leaders of the Confeder
acy told them to go, and I quote now
from the langnage of a Federal General
when I say that “Napoleon on his re
turn from his Italian campaign, did not
leave such a record for the French, as
the little army of Joseph E. Johnson
left for itself and the Confederacy, in
the campaign between Dalton and At
lanta.” That is the testimony of a Fed
eral General in speaking of the soldiers
of the Southern army.
Ou account of what was termed our
“peculiar institution,” the North united
in solid phalanx not only for the Uniort,
but against slavery. We were small in
numbers. Our forces were environed,
they were overpowered but they fought
heroically. This Federal officer of
whom I speak, said, “we started out
with 125,000 men, and as fast as one
was killed, another was put in his place,
and as fast as our men died, others were
sent to take their places.” But our
army was small. Our country was over
run and devastated, and we had no re
source or reserve upon which to draw
to recruit our ranks when our men were
slain, and we were finally forced to
yield. ;
We put these garlands, these wreaths
upon the graves of these brave heroes
who died in the defense of this consti
tutional liberty, but where are the thou
sands of others who entered into this
cause? Where are they? Memory
turns back from this hour and I see be
fore me men, who, with me, saw com
rades die where there was not even a
blanket to cover them, and where there
was no stone to mark their resting plaec.
No woman’s hand has fashioned gar
lands to commemorate their heroism, and
no mother, no wife, no sister, no father,
no friend has been to theil* graves to
day to' pay respect to their memory.—
It is jn one sense fortunate to be buried
where your resting place is known, and
where kind friends can strew flowers
upon your grave. But thousands of
our men are sleeping, from Gettysburg
to the Rio Grande, and there is no
stone to mark the spot where their ashes
repose to day. A mother came to me
only last year, and said, “Sir, can yo.u
tell me where my son died?” “ Yes.”
“ And where he was buried ?” “ I re
member that he was buried upon a hill
side in North-western Virginia, but I
had not time to place a mark over his
grave, and cannot now tell the spot
where it is.” Think of my feelings and
the agony of soul when that mother
said, “Oh my only child, my darling;
if I only knew where he lay that I
might go and weep upon his grave, I
could be better satisfied until I meet
him above in the skies.” Thousands of
our men lie buried all over the country,
and those to whom they were near and
dear know not where they sleep.
For what did these men die ? For
what purpose did they sacrifice their
lives ? is it not meet and proper and
just, when the Spring is opening and
leaf and flower blooming, the birds sing
ing praises the earth clothed with beauty
and fragrance, that a day should be set
apart by the ladies of the South to re
pair to the places where sleep the Con
federate dead, and there celebrate their
heroic conduct in the defense of consti
tutional liberty and of right? Is it not
meet? Is it not proper ? Is it not right? The
heart and conscience answer, yes it is.
The women of the South took the first
step in inaugurating these services.—
They were the first to lead the men to
pay respect to the dead of which I have
spoken. When the war was ended, and
when Robert E. Lee, that great chief
tain, and great and noble and good man—
we can scarcely know now how great,
good and noble he was—and Johnston
and others surrendered, and when the
privates marched up and gave their pa
role of honor and returned home, the
cry was for peace, and we thought we
should have peace. The war was ended,
the conflict was over, the cause for which
the South had fought was, in one sense
of the word lost, but so far as our State
rights and our liberties were concerned,
it was not lost.
1 regret to say that there were many in
the South, after the close of the war.
who believed that the cause was not
only lost in ona sense of the word, but
that it was lust in every sense of the
word —that the spirit of liberty had fled
from Georgia, and that the spirit of lib
erty no longer existed at the South; It
was then that a cowardly few, and I
speak it to their shame, said that they
were not with us. that they were not of
us. that they hud no interest in the
cause, and did not belong to it, and were
not to be counted as one of us. If there
is one of that class of men here to-day
I hope he will go out side of this place
into the woods, and hang himself as did
one of old who betrayed his master, and
never disgrace the country again.
How much, my friends, do we owe to
the ladies of our land ? How came this
Cemetery here ? Who placed that mon
ument there, and that cross with the in
scription. “To the unknown dead?
ho placed these unkaown heroes in
these graves, and who, to-day, decks
these graves with tlic tribute of love ?
It was woman that was foremost in do
ing all this, and what a noble work she
has accomplished. It is woman who
has ever been true to truth. The wo
men ot the South, our mothers, our
wives, our sisters, those whom we love
and for whom we fought, came forward
when the war closed and said that honor
was to be paid to those who died in the
defense of our rights and of the great
principle of constitutional liberty. I
do not know whs the ladies were who
were foremost in the work of establish
itfg this cemetery, but I know that it
was woman’s hand that conuneheed the
work and woman’s heart and woman’s
efforts that completed it. In the tow n
where I live", where we, for the first
time, proposed to place a lence around
the graves of soldiers who died there,
it was said that wc could not do it;
that it would be regarded as an act of
rebellion if we came together to nay re
spect to our dead soldiers, and to place
tablets above their graves to mark where
they slept. But when the time drew
near there was not a woman in the town
who was not asking money to build a
fence around tho graves, and who was
not urging her son, orlier husband, oi
lier lover, to aid in that work. The
women, thank God, were true to the
truth, and they have always been. It
was woman that stood beside the cross
when our Saviour hung there in his last
agonies. It was woman who was first at
the sepulchre, and it is woman who has
stood unflinchingly by the cause of truth
and right from that day to this. Wo
man has stood by the truth when man,
with all his boasted strength and wis
dom, has failed to do so
I have no sympathy with the Southern
born man who denies his sympathy with
the Southern cause, who prates of his
Unionism during the war, nor with
those who still engender strife. It is a
libel on Southern character that those
who bared their breasts to every dan
ger, who suffered every privation and
hardship in defense of the truth, and
who surrendered in good faith, however
unwillingly, now covertly and secretly
do that which by their parole of honor
they pledged themselves not to do : that
they would do that covertly which they
would not dare do openly. Having
fought bravely they surrendered and
gaye their parole of honor not to bear
arms against the United States until
exchanged, and to obey the laws in force
where we reside; and this parole we
have ever kept and intend to keep un
sullied, and were it necessary, we again
pledge ourselves to it here in the pres
ence of our honored dead. But while
we obey the laws ii force, we claim, and
shall exercise the right of free men in
voting for such men, such measures, and
such laws as meet our honest approval.
Where laws are odious, hard and unfair
toward us and our section, we shall ever
seek the peaceful constitutional remedy
which is our right, at the ballot box.
Self-protection and self-defense some
times drive men to desperation, but as a
whole, the people of the South have
endured more, borne more, suffered
more in the bitter agony of soul in sub
mitting to wrong and outrage, than du
ring the war. The great body of the
people still ask pence, and would forget
the wrongs of the past ten years for the
privileges and blessings of peace. Peace!
a volume in a word, heaven-born.—
Heaven resounded with joy when it was
proclaimed by angels, “ Peace on earth,
good will to men.” But it is real peace
that we ask ; the substance, not the
shadow. For a while Georgia, one of
the original thirteen States, was left
alone, separate and By herself, but her
star was undimmed, because her honor
was untarnished. When she cast her
moorings along by the sisterhood of
States, her unsullied honor was pledged
She proclaimed peace, and let the anath
ema maranatha of her people be pro
claimed against him who would disturb
this peace to a nation, or to a State?—
It is the right to enjoy to the fullest ex-,
tent the blessings of liberty as guaran
teed by the Constitution framed by
Washington, Jeffefson, Madison, Mon
roe and the Revolutionary fathers, and
as interpreted by Marshall and his wor- j
thy compeers, the right to speak the
truth, to teach the truth to our children, !
to elevate the standard of civilization,
and to do whatever seemeth to us right,
not infringing on the rights of others —
the rights unfolded and inter
preted by the infallible word of
(^ 0 j—the great standard of truth —the
Bible. This is what Georgians ask and
what they want.
Fellow-citizens, it would be a pleasure
if I had the time, to speak of some of
the incidents of the war, but the mind
turns backward over the years of the
past, and you understand the feelings
that memory brings to the heart, espe
cially on an occasion like this. All over
the South our brave heroes lie sleeping,'
and the women of the South have met
to-day for the purpose of paying re
spects to their memory. Many of the
graves, both here and elsewhere, are
marked unknown, and we cannot teil
who sleeps in them. But we know that
they were true men. brave men, men
who died in the support of what they
believed to be constitutional liberty and
right. We know that they were heroes
who were sacrificed for the right.
Women of the Memorial Association,
vou have it in your power to do more
than any one else to keep afresh the
memory of this occasion. Every peo
ple, nation and family have some partic
ular day commemorative of some par
ticular event, which they celebrate
The Passover and other days are reli
giously observed by the Jews. In our
own couutry. in one section, the landing
of the Pilgrims is still observed. The
fourth ot July, the day on which the
Independence of the American Collides
was declared ; the 22d day of February,
Washington’s birthday ; the !<th day of
January, the day on which the battle of
New Orleans was fought; the 25th day
of December, and other days are duly
observed and celebrated in our country ;
these anniversary days are kept to per
petuate the remembrance, and to keep
afresh the recollection of some event.—
This, the 26th t day of April, has been
set apart by the women of the Mouth as
a day in which to do honor to tho mem
ory of the Confederate, dead. The day
is appropriate, the re f et due, the work
peculiarly the province of women.—
Christianity and philanthropy alike
demand the observance of this
day to llicit!cate the £reaf 'principles of
right and truth for which the Confed
erates died. This is not to he done by
crimination or reciimiuatiou, but with
an eye single to the truth which in
spired our soldiers to dare and die
ruth is mighty and must prevail, ami
it is more powerful, guided by the teach
ings and inspiration of women, than by
the bayonet. While the Confederate
armies have been disbanded, the coun
try over run and devastated, tho negro
by force elevated to political equality,
the spirit of liberty has been preserved
and burns as warmly in the Southern
heart as on the day of secession or as
on the day of the battle of Chicka
mauga. This is due to the women of
the South more than to any other in
strumentality.
Ladies, you have more power for good
than you are aware of. You are guided
by tlie truth, and while we follow your
c unsels we are saffi.
You have more power for good than
men. Men are swayed by one motive
and then another. Women, in my judg
ment, are actuated by the highest and
purest motives. Never say then, ladies,
that you have lio power. There is one
little incident that I would like to relate
in this connection to illustrate more
fully my meaning. At the battle of
Altoona many of our men were taken
from the field wounded and made pris
oners. Many women came from the
country, some of them barefooted, to at
tend to their wants. Among them was
a young girl; she came there with her
friends, and wanted the poor privilege
of nursing the Confederate soldiers who
were lying there in agony and distress.
They wanted the privilege of sitting by
these men. and taking care of them,
and ministering to their wants. Twelve
were allowed to remain, and this young
girl was among them. There was
among the Soldiers a man from Missis
sippi, who was suffering the most terri
ble agony. This young girl went to his
side and asked him what she could do
for him. “ Write to my wife in .Missis
sippi and tell her where I was wounded
and where I died. Please mark the
spot where I am buried, and tell my
wife where it is.” He gave her mes
sages to deliver to his children, and as
he screamed out in agony she knelt by
his bedside and prayed for him—that
God would preserve his life and restore
him to his wife and little ones. I ask
any before me to-day if it would not
have required all his courage to pray by
the bedside of that dying man under
such circumstances. But here was a
young girl, only seventeen years of age,
surrounded by enemies who were rejoic
ing in triumph and cursing the rebels,
by the shrieks and groans of dying men,
praying by the side of this wounded sol
dier. And those who heard her prayer
say that it was a simple petition that
God would spare him to his wife and
children. She went to the surgeon arid
beg-ged that he -would come and dress
the man’s wound. She was told that
his wound had been dressed that morn
ing, and she was ordered away. She
went back again and asked Lino to send
someone in his stead, and was again re
fused. <l No, sir; I shall stand here
until you send somebody to dress his
wound.” There was this young girl
surrounded by her enemies, talking to
this surgeon so boldly and fearlessly,
saying that she would not go away until
someone was sent to dress the poor
man’s wounds. The surgeon finally
yielded, and where is that soldier to
day ? He is with his wife and little ones
in Mississippi. I never pa«s the little cab
in, near Altoona, where this girl lived. I
that I do not feel like taking off my hat
and passing by uncovered in honor of
one who has talked with God and re- j
ceived an answer to her prayer. Wo- |
men of Georgia, God will hear your j
prayers and answer them. This is the •
cause of truth, the cause of civilization, I
of Christianity and of right. Work on
and decorate these graves. Teach to
your children the great principles of
truth for which these men died. Look
to him for guidance and for help, and
although to-day the prospect is sad and
dark, and there is no star to cheer us,
the day is not far distant when Georgia
shall put on her garments and be greater
and more glorious than our fond imagi
nations ever pictured her. Trust in
God and in the great and undying prin
ciples of truth, and the dawn of the
brighter day will soon gladden our
eyes.
One word more and I have done.
“ Unknown ” is inscribed upon many
of the simple tablets at the head of
these humble graves. Y\ c cannot tell
where these men lived, who was their fa
ther. who was their mother, or sister
or brother. Some of the inscriptions
state that he who slumbers beneath be
longed to such a regiment, from sucli a
State, but where they lived and who
they wore, none of us can tell. But
there Lone glorious thought, my friends,
connected with this subject. There is a
dav coming when these graves shall be
Nuiiil)er -4*2.
I opened, when aU these unknown hert»es
| a!id those others whose grave* are scat-'
tere.l over the country i'r.»m the I*.>t.»-
ui:;c to the Hio Grande, when this araiv
l of slain-shall appear mid shall be recog
nised and known, and when they shall-
I secure an entrance into a country where
there is pence and quiet and joy, and
where truth and liberty in their highest
i sense—the principles for which these
men fought and died—shall be recog
nised and ncknowldged.
Various Items*
' A t.»lo id ini^i/r—the cocktail.
The father of all corn—Pop corn.
The best revolver out —The world.
“The Pacific mails —Quiet husband?
To memory deaf —Promissory notes.
'fhe latest Paris fashions are—killing.
A soft process—feathering ono’r
ne?t.
The best of friends must part —their
hair.
A time to run—When you arc in a
1 hurry.
To make a Venetian blind—Put out
his eyes.
Ho# to find happiness—look lit tb<*
! dictionary.
Forgers to be encouraged—black
smiths.
A co-operative movement—the tread
mill.
How to get up a blow—cateh cold iu
the head.
What is a stern necessity '( A ship’s
rudder.
A joint affair with but a single party
to it—rheumatism.
A girl need not hang up her fiddle
when she loses her beau.
Some ladies use paint as fiddlers do
rosin, to aid them in drawing a beau.
Why is a balloon like silence ? lJo
cause it gives assent.
What does a grocer do with all his
things before he sells them? Clive**
them a weigh.
Girls, never marry a doctor, or day
and night you will be tied up to .your
filer.
Statistics prove that a handsome wid
ow 7 has three chances to marry to a maid
ens one.
The woman who maketh a good pud
ding in silence, is better than she who
maketh ti tart reply.
A darkey’s instructions for putting
on a coat ivere: “First de right arm, dcu
de left, and den give one general con
vulsion.
An exchange mentions a case beyond
ordinary oculists. It is that of a young
lady who, instead of a pupil, has a col
lege student in her eye.
A wag remarks that he has seen a
couple of sisters who had to be told
everything together, for they were so
much alike they could’nt be told apart.
A little girl at Akron, Ohio, jumped
the rope four hundred and seventy-five
times, and then stopped long enough to
go and be an angel. Her parents have
got a nice jumping rope to sell.
“ What is your consolation in life and
death ?” asked a Sunday school superin
tendent of a young lady in the bible class*
who blushed and said, “ I’d rather bo
excused from speakirg his name.”
The following announcement lately
appeared in a country newspaper:—
“ Kdward Eden, painter, is requested to
communicate with his brother, when he
will hear something to his advantage—
his wife is dead.”
The question, does getting drunk ever
advance one’s happiness ? would seem
to be put to rest by the Irishman who
went a courting when drunk, and was
asked what pleasure he found in whisky.
“Oh, Biddy, it’s a trate intircly. to see
two of your swate purty faces instead of
one.”
Two Irishmen, one sultry night, im
mediately after their arrival in India,
took refuge underneath the bed-clothes
from a skirmishing party of mosquitoes.
At last, one of them, gasping from hcaf *
ventured to peep beyond the bulwarks,
and by chance espied a firefly which
had strayed into the room. Arousing
his companion with a punch, he said.
“ Fergus, Fergus, it’s no use. Yc might
as well come out • Here’s one of the
craythers sarchin’ for us wid a lantern.”
A youitg man recently wrote to
a New York paper, asking whether it
would he advisable for him to marry a
“ young and tender angel who had nev
er done her own washing or dress mak
ing.” In reply, the editor advises him
to do so by all means, and mentioned a
similar case in bis own experience,
where the bride had never doue her
own washing, but after marriage she be
came so fond of the wash tub, as not
only to work for her own family, but for
several families among her acquaintan-
CCS.
A patron of a certain newspaper
onoe said to the publisher :
“ Mr. Printer, how is it you have
never called on iue for pay for the pa
per ?”
“ Oh.” said the man of types, “wc
uevev ask a gentleman fir money.”
“Indeed,” replied the patron, “how
do you manage to get along when they
don’t pay you ?”
“ Why,” said the editor. “ after a cer
tain time we coucludo lie is no geutle
man and ask him.”
“Oh—ah—-yes—l see, Mr. Editor
please give me a receipt,” and hands him
aV. “ Make my name all right on
your books,”