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VOLUME I.
Tssc Sews from Zebtilon.
Zfeulox, April 9.—Work was begun
to-day on the A. & F. depot at this place.
The work of track laying is hindered by
ilie trestle work, arid the trestle work lty
the lumbar men. The track is within four
miles of Potato creek, but it is probable
that it will not reach there tn two weeks,
as there are two trestles to build and some
of the lend er has not yet been hauled
One of the boxes became detached front
a train of cars last week in Zchulon and
ran into a train at Meausvilie. No serious
damage was done.
Mr. Ladsen, a conductor, had his arm
severely mashed and torn last Thursday
whileCoujding the cars.
The election which was held 30ih ult,
“for the $ffc or against the sale” of whisky
has not yet been declared.
An entertainment was given by the
Academy. ^liool Friday Every night for the pronounced benefit of it the
one a
■big success Zip.
‘I’ajctteTille's £S<>©m.
The Atlanta* and Florida raTroad has
brought into prominence the nicest, cosiest,
prettiest little town iu Georgia, Fayette¬
ville, the county seat of Fayette county, a
town that has existed for sixty years with,
out a railroad. Now that the steam whis¬
tle has 3'.irrod its ambition, where hardly a
tipple of forthwith exciten*8j)t .if broke its quiet poace
fulnesg, is new 'Fayetteville,
bo'ii of tluif Atlanta anil- Florida railroad,
gets up a boom aud begins to put ou city
airs.
The Atlanta and" .Florida- rahroad has
made wonderful progress since the grading
first began early in 1887. The subscrip¬
tion books were opened in the spring of
188G. Th“y worked rapidly, and by the
29.h of December, 1887, the handsome
new coaches rolled into Fayetteville, a dis
, lance of 24 miles. To-day they go as far
as Zj’ouIou, which is 52 miles from Atlan¬
ta. By the middle of Nay or the first of
■'June at the fartherest, the new road will
reach Fort Valley, from which point it will
connect at'some point in the Florida Rail
wav and Navigation, in Florida.
The Atlanta aud Florida is well con*
strricted and well equipped. The road be.!
is firm and compact and laid with the finest
steel rails. It passes through the richest
agricultural lands in Georgia and is des¬
tined to become one of the most p opuhiv
roads in the South. Two heautilul pas¬
senger coaches arc already on. The sclmd
ule is arranged for the convenience of the
people living along the line, with two
daily trains, arriving in Atlanta at 8 o’clock
a. m , and leaving the city at 3 p. in.
Now I want to tell you about Faycttc
ville. The village has population of
three bunclrecd. The town was organized
m 1823. The present court house is 58
years old. A handsome appropriation has
been recently made, of eight or ten
thousand dollars, to repair and improve
the building, with bell tower, clock, new
tence, etc.
Fayetteville has about a dozen business
houses, three physicians, two lawyers and
a most excellent school, under charge of
Professor Parker, with seventp-five pupils.
Professor Parker is assisted by an able corps
of teachers, aud is muah liked. There are
arruad Fsetteville about a dozen saw, grist
mills and gins.—Atlanta Journal.
Come and have O’Neal to take your
p eture. He will please your. He will
he here only a iew days,
GEORGIA., APRIL 13, 1838
Siiutly i®oJ3it Siftiarpfts.
Dr. Mosc Yarbrough was at the Pcint
on professional business last Tuesday.
Dr. Yarbrough lias just graduated at the
Southern Medical College, of Atlanta. Ve
predict fur him all the success that energy
and ability can gain.
The farmers are very Ira ay now prepar¬
ing for “King Cotton.” We have, riot
heard uf any, as yet, who have planted.
We were visited by' a very hard wind
with much rainfall, on the 10th inst.
Misses Lizzie Long and Mamie Dent
were the guests of Misses Alice Williams
and Alpha McManus last Sunday evening.
Would mention the young men, but they
are so timid we wsll spare their blushes.
Miss Long is from Fort Valley, and has
charge of the lluck Spring school. She
has gained the love and esteem of all who
have met her. Success to you Miss Lizzie,
Miss Lee Ellis is visiting Mr. A. J. Ellis,
of near Ceres.
Some of our young people were much
disappointed by not getting off to the
candy pulling at the school house of Prof.
II. F. Sanders. They were expecting a
sweet time. Dave.
An itislorical Triakct.
Judge Williams, of Thomaaton, has ,a
singular tiiuket attached to his watch
chain. It is a miniature brass quiver, full
of arrow’s. It was recently-found in the
old camp of the Indians, Jim and Tom.
near the river. When the Indians were
moved from Upson county, long years ago,
Jim mid Tom refused to go with the
others. It was never known why, but it
was supposed to be because they’ bad coni
niitted some offense against the Indian law
and were afraid to risk themselves with
their copper-colored brethren away from
the protection which the laws of civilize
tion offered. They made a camping place
under an overhanging rock on the banks
of Flint river. They would nut live in a
house, but ah de iu their savage' dwelling
place until death removed th-m to the
happy- hunting grounds. One died during
the war and the other soon after. Recent¬
ly the brass trinket before mentioned was
found and given to Judge Williams.
Antcricus’ 1.Gjasov Trade.
Amcncns Republican A firm iu this
city sold to a turpentine company- yesterday
tlvrty-one empty whisky- barrels, which
tad been emptied in the retail trade in
three months. Estimatieg each barrel to
hold fifty gallons, we have 1,550 as a total,
which at $4 per gallon amount's to the
neat little sum of $8,200. But this is for
three months only: add the other nine
months iu the same proportion and we
have the enormous sum of $24,890. This
is the retail trade ot one house onlyj and
one which also does a large wholesale bus¬
iness in liquors. Now there are twenty
houses in Americus toat handle whisky,
and this number, multiplied by §2-4,800—
but hold there; we did not intend to expose
the amount of business done' when we
started this article, so desist.
(Suddenly Speechless.
Leouard Braswell, a prominent and
wealthy farmer, who resides a few miles
front Monroe, was standing on the street,
and in conversation, when he became sud¬
denly speechless and fell down, and is
now thought to be beyond recovery. He
is unmarried, and had willed his property
to hie sister and two nephews.
Hie Wouldn't Swear,
Atlanta Journal:
Mr. W. E. Lively, a well known young
man, was sent to jail this morning by
Judge Marshall Clarke, for contempt of
court Deputy Clerk Walter Venable had
just called the twelve jurors to the book to
be sworn, when Mr. Lively, in a vorv em¬
phatic manner exclaimed: “I can’t swear;
I can’t swear.”
“Well, then, affirm,” said Mr. Venable.
“I can’t do that, either ; it’s the same us
swearing."
Mr. Venable then called Judge Clarke’s
attention to the fact that Mr. Lively re
lused to swear or affirm. Judge Clarke
turned in his seat and asked what flic
trouble was.
Mr. Lively replied: “It is against the
teachings of the Bible and ol the Lord
Jesus Christ. He says sweat not by the
heavens, neither by the earth.”
“Don t you believe iu government, Mr.
Lively ?” asked the judge.
“Yes, sir, but I can’t swear. I am a
preacher of the wotd. 1 edit a paper and
I don’t want to he in contempt of court,
but. 1 just won’t swear.”
“Then I’ll have tq send you to jail,” said
the judge in his firmest maimer.
Altai s ad right, sir, the saints were all
P er fep'iteJ, and I exjioot the sa-me, Man
ca - n mid c | l;ir he S e walked of my body, with but not ofiny
out a bailiff on
I'' ' 8 lS ''''Y '"‘’J to 11 j ? a 'h <,ec " L 1 eie 'd he ®h. was put Ha into S.un
’ ‘- lll c was seen
afterwards by a Journal reporter.
Amml him looking out upon the mot
Uy crowd gathered iimnud the door to
know why he had been put in there,
" hy would.yum not take the oath ?”
the,reporter.
* "'h Fell you. The devil, J believe,
. i*i!'it.
R on money-. I serve that with
m Y body, but with my mind I servo the
Uud. 1 hat judge sets in the court- room
for the salary he is paid. He gives judg¬
body ment aud under if money. he Ho has charge of nTy
didn’t I wouldn’t be here.
He wants me to go into that jury room aud
put my mind on men’s trials and diffiren
ees, and how can T do that and serve God ?”
“Wi'l you employ a lawyer to se;-ure
your relesse .fit becomes necessary ?”
“No. sir,” exclaimed Mr. Lively ri-ing
up with a smile on his tace, and stretching
out his hand in a solemn manner he said j
’ Jesus Christ had no lawyer; Paul had no
huvyer, neither did Peter, and I care for
uone. They were sent to jail and were
brought out, and so will I be brought out.
1 will say this, however, if a la wve r cans
to take up my case without charge, I
would consent to it, I am confined here
illegally, for the constitution says every¬
body shall worship God according to the
dictates of his own conscience. It- is m/
belief that I would be disobeying God’s
commands by taking an oath, and I have
a perf- ct riggt, under the constitution, of
refusing to swear. I will stay in jail until
God sees fit to set me at liberty, and not
one minute longer. It is not pleasant lor
me to be here, I can assure you, but I ant
happy, for I am but following in the foot¬
steps of the apostles of Jesus.”
Mr. Lively has quite a remarkablo his¬
tory. He has been known for a number
of years as a merchant on Capitol avenue,
at the oorncr of Richardson. He became
impressed with the belief that he was called
of God to preach to the people through the
columns of a paper, and he invested a por¬
tion of his money in printing oatfit. He
established the paper “Last Days," and
NUMBER 12.
fell, he says, as if ao was serving God with
his means in publishing it, while he served
the devil in running the grocery store.
He says Jesus was a carpenter and Paul
wai a tent maker, and his occupation was
that of a merchant.
In speaking of the different sects Air
Lively said:
‘•Jesus Says, ‘If t be lifted up I will
draw a!| men unto inc.’ The sects have
never iitted Jesus up. for all men have nut
been drawn unto ltim. .They are hence
from the devd an 1 bur a lie on their face
When this proclaim! ion goes forth that
I lie earth is the Lord’s then will Jesus have
been lifted up.”
Mr. Lively says ho will stay tn jail for¬
ever before making an oath.
Judge Clarke passed the following order:
Wiliiiam E. Lively having been regular¬
ly summoned to serve in this court during
the present week ns o petit juror, and ltav
■fig this day, in obedience to such sum -
minis, come into court, and having, when
called upon to be sworn in as a juror re¬
fused to take dm oath and serve, he having
shown no legal reason for such refusal, t
is ordered that he be confined in the jail of
this county for five days on account of
such contempt.. ____M. .T. CtAKKE.
Kiiiii-oad .icciOent.
Saturday while (billing cars at Wadlcy,
'a loeal freight train Savapnali-bound ran
overall killed a,train hand named J. S.
Cannon. He endeavored to uncouple cars
while they were moving slowly, and in
going between the cars stumbled ami fell
actors the vail, “and one cat of lumber
passed over his body above his hips, nearly
cutting him in two. Wadlcy being his
home, his body was taken in charge by
relatives.
AtAtlanta Monday a wild steer, the
property of H. C. Saw tell, the butcher,
created quite a stampede among the citi¬
zens of Peters street. The steer escaped
from a stock pen on that street, and as
soon ns he became convinced that lie had
the freedom of the city before hint he com¬
menced to charge about in every direction
.
Several people were knoked down, by the
animal, A small boy Was horned very
painfully, and a negro man who had taken
refuge behind a telegraph pole was charged
upon by the wild steer. One of his hands
was caught between the steer's horns and
the telegraph pole and badly mashed. The
animal \v;i. finally killed.
Frank Willis, of Richmond, Va., is at
Washington on a vis t to his half brother,
Col. Samuel Barnett. Tuesday he donated
to the town of Washington $25,000. Five
thousand dollars of this amount will be
u.-ed to build a public library building.
$10,000 to furnish it with books and $10
000 will boused as an endowment fund tor
library work.
E. J. Croaeh, of Chicngo, who is con*
nected with the large pork packing firm of
P. D. Armour & Co., has just purchased
800 acres of cultivated land just back of
Thompson. The pvice paid is unknown,
and what use Mr- Croaeh will make of it is
also Kept a secret. It is understood, how¬
ever, that Mr. Croaeh purchased the land
for Armour & Co.
Near Wrightsville a day or two ago a
young son of Dr. W. J. Ilicks was ridiug
his father’s horse, and when just outside ot
the city limits the animal suddenly com¬
menced to rear on his hind feet and otlu r
wise act in a peculiar maimer. The boy
proceeded to dismount No sooner had he
struck the grouud than the horse piling -d
forward, and pawing the sir wildly, (ell
dead.
