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TH v A NEWS
Voi. ii.
Letter From Jesus Crist.
The following was clipped from
the f Athens Banner several' years
ago and was handed us bv a friend
with a request that we publish it.
The letter is certainly a curiosity.
High Shoals. Ha*. May 28th
Editor Banner Watchman: There
is an old min at-this pUce who has
in his possession a letter* which he
claims to have been written by
thinking ‘ that it
sus Christ and
might bo of interest to some of your
readers, 1 will give it to you in full.
This letter, which was written by
Jesus Christ, was found under a
very large round stone at the foot
of the cross, i 3 miles from Icon
ium, near a village called Messopo
toutfit. 65 years after the Savior’s
crucifixion, and wua transmitted
from the heR city fey a converted
SS: Je>v, who faithful^ Jransfated it
on the stone under which the letter
was found was engraved, “Blessed
is he who shall turn me over.” All
the people who saw it, prayed to
(iod earnestly that he should make
know n to them the meaning of this
writing, tluit they might not in
vain attempt to ttyn over so large
a rock. ! In the meantime there
came a little child, about 6 or 7
years old, uad turned it over with
out help, to the astonishment and
admiration of all who saw it, and
under it was found this letter, sign¬
ed by the ungcl Gabriel, 28 years
after our Saviour’s birth. 1 he
above is a correct history, and ,be¬
low is a correct copy of the letter :
\ . -rilK l.ETTKIt.
.^VbWvcr worketh on
Sabbat day shall be cursed. I com
maml vm.to go to church and keep
the laird's day holy, without
ingauv manner of work. Yon
shall not idlv misspend your time in
' with
liedecking yourselves super
fluities of cosily apiwrel and dress
es for I have ordained it a day of
relt Iwilihav* that day 'kepi
holy, that your sins may be tVirgiv
en you. You shall not break my
commandments, but observe and
keejr tirenr, written with my own
hand. Write .hem in your hear.,
and steadfastly observe. This was
written with my own hand and
spoken by my own mouth. You
shatl not only go to church your
selves, but also your manservants
and your maidservants, observe my
words and learn my
ments You shall finish your la
lmrvvcrvSi.lur.Uv in the after
noon noon by u> six >ix o’clock, ei k. , at which hour
preparations for (lie Sabbath be
gins I advise you to fast five Fri
■ritining with (iood Feidity uml to
S eontinue until the four Friday's i,n
?d Hawing, it, remetowr
ance he'fivc bloodv wound, I
shall diligently and peaceably labor
jn your vocations where it has
pleased God to call vou. You
ri. all love one another will, broth
eriv no’baptised love and cause them .that are
to come toehnrch and
Inrar the holy sacrament, via: Bap*
tism and the land', Snpprr, and
be made members thereof. In so
’doing Ooing. I Will give g vou long f life and
. , „
many > essings. an your .ttu.. .
replenish and bring forth abun
ri!.gs dance. I will give vou nianv bles
and couffort j.m in thegreaf
esl * temptation,, 1 * and surelv he that
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doeth to the , contrary rinu . *be .
cnrxeff and unprofitable. I will al
so send liar tines- of heart upon
them till ! have drstmved them,
hut especially upon the hardened
and impenitent unbelievers.- He
that bath given to tbc poor shall
BOSART, OCONEE COUNTY, GEOR GIA; FRIDAY IULY 30th. 1897.
not be unprofitable. Remember to
keep holy the Sabbath day, for the
7 ‘h day I have to myself. He that
hath a copy of this letter
"ith my own hand and spoken
with my own mouth, and keep it
without publishing it to others
shall not prosper, but he that pub
lisheth it to others shall be blessed
me, and though his . sins . Lie in
number as the stars in the sky, am.
i,e tIiat Shoves in this shall be par
toned. and lie believes not this
writing and my commandments, 1
will send my plague upon him
consume both him and his children
and his cattle ; and whosoever shall
have a copy of this letter, written
with my own hand .and keep m
tlieir houses, nothing shall hurt
them, neither pestilence, lightning
nor thunder shall do them any hurt,
and if a woman be with child in
labor, a copy of this letter be about
her and she firmly puts her trust in
me, she shall be safely delivered of
her birth. You shall have no news
of me but by the Holy Spirit till
tlic day of Judgment. All good¬
ness and,prosperity shall be in the
house where a copy ot this letter is
found.”
Told by a Mountain Preacher.
A preacher of this section, since
deceased, used fo tell the following,
says the Hazel Glenn Herald. He
said he was in Letcher count j
preaching on one occasion*, when
lie stopped at a farmhouse to get
his dinner. While bating, the lady
of the house inquired' his business,
and lie replied: “1 lim hurtling thp
lost sheep of Israel.” *
She left the room, and in a lew
" ,HH ' K ' : •"*”'** tlm
«»g some stray sheep, and I il Let
old long wool cum tlmt s been
wound here i* hudn.”
No Si>u u d- n’t ^ under
“ * r V! ‘
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stand me. I uin hunting sinner*,
‘ l,osc ,( >r " !l o;n Christ died. ; '
“And t is he dead? she queried.
“Vcs.” replied the man of God,
astonished at her ignorance.
“And buried, too, 1 reckon.
“Oil, yes; long, long ago.’
"There now. okl men i tolrl you
«. d J- ... 'Knoraneo for no, «ak
>«ig a newspaper
:
A Wife Charges Hei* Hus
baud With Murder.
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Last Saturday morning the
neighbors of Mr. D. II. Dumford.
of Columbia. S. C,, were attracted
|, v |,j s cries. The, hastened to the
»pm, v where they y found Mr». D.i.n
f ord pinned to-the ground by sev
cra i heavy l<»gs which had fallen
, id , „f , te bnBding tint the’ log
fell oh her. which eeesed her death
u few hour,, before her death
die charged’her hesbnnd with the
^ there and then pushed thu logs
n . W( her .
Ddmford deMcif the charge, and
c Uin.i that a, nisei, ietyu. ' goat did
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.
J. M. Kampley ha, a imn . .l.a
ha, broken he reeorr, A fe.
days ago she laved an egg that b^,
puzzled all who saw if. or heard
. vr»,. .jtf-.llv i.vs 1-r-Ve
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bnt th.s one wa> u a ..... .. .
egg
small, and the shell was not as hard
a. egg .Indl. generaily. The,.range
pert * ah nit it. tl.angh, is that the
egg eontamed . - a well e..;i icnne.i^ch frtrtn.* S chick- ck
en. i ne egg was broken e
minutes after it was laved and tit
chicken na- alive, it lhad s .me
time, and was mjcO by several, but
none could explain the strange pbe
nonunion.—Camesville Tribune.
A PISML SHOT
the Life 0 f Ji m DavisOU.
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^ THE CAUSE,
JEALOUSY
] 0 f, n Vaughn fired the Fatal
but g ays he S0 jp
Self DsfeilS 0
f
^ Sunday afternoon at 4
O » clock m that section of Clarke
county known af> Chaunceys, John
Vaughn shot and killed Jim Davi
son at the ho.uf.* of Ann White
head. .
The news oflhe killing reached
herc Mond-y naming, and a News
repor(er wa8 sou „ „„ his way to the
scene 0 f t h e njnrder accompanied
by-Mr. Joe Griffeth. who piloted us
through the wilderness of the see
lion, which to us seemed in need of
missionaries to enlighten the inhab
itants.
We learned! from eye witnesses
that the causiof the killing pvus
jealousy and tjhut Genie Whitehead
played an important part in the
affair. ■
Jolin Vaughn, who fired the
tal sl.ot clainw that he did so in self
defense, and went immediately and
gave htinsdUrup to the Sheriff. ,,
Davison leaves a wife and two
children. Vaughn had no family,
and wits an .employe at Princeton
Factory. ■i
MlU'pliy HaS Bad Cloudburst.
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• M vr phy, C., July 26.—A
cioudbur*£ Occurred in this section
yi-steferfitj*. -Ailos, extending o\er an area
of flooding Jlar.ging
t i 0 j,', reel! *nd valley anti liiawas
-ren- mm
out of their banks and were, in a
f eu hours, higher than h . ever
been known. The grist.milis 011
jjangingdog: creek belonging to
p 8tt0 n. Gentry’, Fricks and others
were washetl completely away. The
st()rc |, out;e and dwelling occupied
by p McDonald, on this creek,
were wu.l.«! .««. ilc cume
rear lo.i V g hi. life in.rvi..* to «ave
li;a fernilv. lie rli.In’l «v« uny r.f
Irii pm.!.'o, ' imnmlmhl eiTeC.s
„, c „a.er rmc ». r,„,.dly.
At Farmer s saw, grist and flour
ing mill, three miles troni here, the
damage will reach over one thous
and dollars. 1 lie county bridge
across Hangingdog creek was wash
ed away, and it will be impossible
for travelers from that section of
country to get to Murphy in weeks,
The river funm, «ill, One KrmviitK
cn.ps. 1 are washed entirely
Trees over a hundred feet long
came down the stream in great
^..
river of the Cherokee Lumber Co,,.
puny broke, and hundrefls of line
poplar log- passed by Murphy,
Tin. damage cannot he approxitna
Several trestles on the Southern
railway <rc gone, and trams will
be lied up here several days, fhc
roads and farms are da.........
Tl.ot.sand, of dollars damageaalong
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W Al TgleerSph TOUT
nameilt.
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The oiierators 1 of the Seaboard
Air Line arc , Ml , d a telegraph f* 1
toenrarneot Angea. wind, .1
tn inciod. all the operators be.ween
Charlotte Ctor. and Portsmouth. II. K
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m oS u , v .
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graph, and Tram . . ,
BUcKwmi and Jo«.ns.;:i a. » U*
- and Mr. J. M. I c ner,
master of trains, is to be timckcep-
. A Model Young Man.
Does not play cards.
Does not idle away his time.
Does not lounge on the streets.
Does not associate with bad boys,
Does not use profane or obscene
language.
Does not meddle with other peo
pie’s business.
Does not drink whiskey, beer or
anything else that will intoxicate,
Does not feel himself better than
other folks—is not stuck up.
Does not lie around for bis father
and mother to support.
j Does-not make love to young la
dies with impure motives,
But lie is temperate in all things;
tells the truth; has regular habits
0 f eating, sleeping, reading and
working; has some honorable way
of making his living; goes to
church and joins in the worship; is
kind to all; attentive to his moth
er and sisters; polite, courteous
. md respectful to young ladies, and
fefchaves himself as becomes a gen
at home and abroad, every
day i:i the week, every hour in the
day, at all times, at all places', and
under ail circumstances.
Yoyng men, be manly, honest t
brave and true, for “it is not all of
life to live,” and the very few mo¬
mentary pleasures, so called, you
get out of anything else except
right living may lie sweet at first,
but. will be bitter in the end.—Ex.
New Uses for Eggs.
The Medical Record says eggs
are useful in the following appli¬
cations :
' A mustard fTtlwrermnde with the
white of an egg will not leave a
blister.. A raw egg. taken, imme¬
diately \\ ill carry down a fishbone
that cannot lie extracted. The
skin that, lines the shell is a
useful application to a boil. White
of egg. beaten lip with loaf sugar
»"<' relieve, l,r,ur«ine«., .
>e.,I»»nful lake,, or.ee every Irorrr
A " c »-' c “l>
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Will Mayfield’s Escape
from the Chaingang.
\V. J. Mayfield, of Elbert county,
who was convicted in May of us
«nu vvuh intent to murder, , am .
Ual.oway s dmm ■
Wilkes county for twelve months,
has by seme means been spirited
away from the chaingang. Mr.
n.hn.gtm,
one night .ast ueek, intending
go tatheeamp next morntngne
u« Wb.ie..n V be
go"*-’- I ^ hurried to the camp and
«-*ke<l v V .ked Mr. Mr Callowav ay uo- up who who m
formed lam tlut a part) o kfn o
and took the young nan ^ off. ““j Mr.
;W •n.er.arow.veralthe
ones about it: One is, that Iris
had taken - ■ and .
enemies mm op .
dealt with lniu foully- Another, is,
that his friends were instrumental
in his release, and still another is
th». tbcongntal . . d.mcnl,y,wr«i
.n.ered by tan.- who d.d fed} un
derstand i* as being pOhtuMl and
that the po,K»lLts of Wilke, and
M \l c ne(T -•-nt.es ntie- re*! rvdeased - lxI him him.
- ^ .l^nto
- ;n.t ,;nov. a. but :t
is said tln-re ,vno doiAt about Ins
being
No. 15.
Words of Wisdom.
Reason- always walks, but love
runs.
The sou^fld upon, husks, never
gets fat.
The best men are mother-made
men.
Fear of offending, enslaves us to
other’s evils.
A poor free lunch costs more
than a good dinner.
The cause of our not being es
teemed i^in ourselves., .
God pity the man who murders
his own innocence.
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life is the life live .
Thftrue we
within ourselves.
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Forty-Four Burglars in Jail,
There has been a perfect carni¬
val of burglaries in Chattanooga,
Tenn. , during the past week.
On the 10th instant there weni
only ten prisoners in the county
jail. %o\v there are forty-four,
and every one for burglary and lar¬
ceny, anc^ all but half a dozen are
negroes. •
In nearly all the cases there has
been a confession, and all of these
will be a conviction,- making fotty
convicts sure from this next
term of the circuit court, most ’of
whom will go to the penitentiary.
The like has never been known
before, for the same beriod.of time.
The Lesson of the Lynching.
The lynching of Dr. W. I— Rv
der near Talbotton, Ga., is the di¬
rect rein It of the law’s delay. Ry¬
^
der was a red-handed murderer of
of the deepest dye. In ii fit of jt-al
lie deJiberalely shot * young
ou Sy ;i
woman with whom he was desjier
utcly in.love. lie was tried, convict
ami sentenced to hang. On appeal
he was granted a new trial ujion a
technicality. When his case wuV.
called it was,continued because of
the illness of one of his lawyers.
The murder occurred more than a
year ago, yet by means of the flaws
and delays of the law, Ryder had
been allowed to live unpunished.
It is such cases as this that encour¬
age lynch law.
ft eA( j 8 Like a Fairy Tale. .
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The accounts of the enormous
discoveric* of gold in Alaska read
like the story of ARiddin, but it
went. to la, hwts .n.tead of hetam. .
One man lias only worked i.m feet
bis and has taken out
anii n <U sc for the remaih
t j cr I Ic has gotten #21 2 from one
up ,6,000 from one duy . wuslnn,;.
Ml . n are gomg tliere by thousand,,
which is no. to,* wondered a, after
reading such aeeonnts as the .U„
continlJ e*, it will be hard on tJ
gold ..... standard crowd who wa:
scarce money so that they can co,
trol its eirenk.lion.
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$50 Reward
wm l>e paid to any person who
w ill present at my place of bumness,
Yo. 252 Lumpkin Street, Athens,
Ga.. one bottle of medicine made
according to Dr. Frank Jackson^
fAnnll| , roeeip. for smne. Or
|or a ,,, formula for making a med
i cmc that is better, lor Diarrhoea,
Dv^iterj. Dys^pia. Indigestion
or aiiv diseases ot the stomach or
^ ^ ,, ackM>n , Ncu .
tra!i *i tl g Cordial. The genuine is
sold and^guaraftteed at the Bogart
News office.
J. P. Jackson. Man’g’r.