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THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL j & VOLUME I. Rev. Sam Jones. Below are given some some extracts from a sermon recently preached in Nashville by Rev. Sam Jones. Mr. Jones announced his-text Jer. xxxii from which he preached a - sermon from which the following paragraphs are taken : I would want no better text than this fron -which to preach a sermon on Christian unity, but I shall take a- different and possibly a more practical view of the text. God teaches us he will give us one heart. What kind of a heart will it'be 7 About the hardest undertaking in this world is for a man- to be good when he has a bad heart. Many a man. tries to clean up his life just like the man who was trying,to clear the spring branch to get a drink. He was told to drive the hog out of the spring above him and the-water would get clear. The man who loves leeks and onions don’t cars much for giapes and tigs. About the best evidence of a-mau’s con¬ version is bis anxiety to have others con¬ verted. Lbelieve a preacher can backslide right in the midst of a revival. If you don’t be¬ lieve it you don’t know us very well.. You go and talk with his wife. We preachers in Georgia backslide. The meanest people in the wsrld is that church that packs its pastor in an ice box and then cussss him all the year beoause he don’t sweat. These little spelling-book criticoare like these little red ants-that'Sometimes get after you—they don’t hur‘, but they make you itch. God says “I will give my people one way,” and the people here in Nashville have struck out forty or fifty different ways to glory. Some go by way of the theatre, some the ball room, some the race course, some the baseball, and. that’s not a respect¬ able way to hell. The difference between the barrooms and ballrooms is this; the barrooms are after our boys and the ballrooms are after our girls. If I was an average of tbe Fencing young men—.and I think I was—no pure young girl can afford to go on the floor of the ball room. Now, some of you peripatetic dudes back there protend that you are outraged by-that, and that I have reflected upon your honor. You have no more honor than the devil. There is not a pure girl in Nashvill whose virture would- be safe in .your care if you were not afraid of a doub¬ le-barrelled shotgun. Show me a pious man that belongs to tbe Hermitage club and I’ll eat the whole business, brick and all. Club life is in¬ compatible with the Christian life. If Jones is not a liar or a maniac there are some leading men here of the church in Nashvill who had bettor call a halt. I never ask a man if he agrees with ore. If he understands what I say that’s enough for me. If playing cards don’t make you better Christians let us scy down with the cards and up with the Bible. A cross is not something for a Christian to take around with him all the time. A cross is fora sinner to die on. God never gave a commandment that he did not know would be for the good of his children. Boo Kinyon, an old negro man living at Dalton, has what may be caHed a mug wurnp fowl, It is half duck and half chicken—its father being a duck and its mother a hen... KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., OCT. 19, 1888 Items from Ceres. Sugar cane grinding has become com¬ mon in these parts; Mr. J. H. Ray of' Macon was in town' last Friday The brave and' the gay express them selves as having had a very nice time at" a musical given at the residence of Mr. J. M. Webb’ on Thursday night of last week. Messrs. Homer Wright and Jack Ool bert, of the Empire store at Macon, were in town Sunday, The gentlemen returned Sunday night, each boasting of his treas¬ ure. Mr. Wright with his jug of-and Mr. Colbert wih a buckeye which a young lady gave him. Quits a number of our citizens went td the station Tuesday morning to meet Supt. T. 0. Troy for the purpose of locatiug a side track. They staid until noon, when a negro informed them that Mr. Trov came down the road to the Harris place early in the morning and returned on the north bound train at 7:59, a. m. Not long since a native of the sandy region attempted to invade our-town, but Quarantine officer, Master TommieJackson, was at his post of duty and demanded an account of him. The poor fellow was to¬ tally dumb, hut from form, peculiar only to his tribe, it was evident that be was from the yellow 1 fever district, whereupon he was consigned to jail where he seems to be very contented. BattettCake Bill. A Rejected Suitci-’s Gruel Jet. Columbia, S. O., Oct. 12,—.Lawrence Harris is a young white man of high so¬ cial standing in Piercetown, Anderson county, this state: "Miss Minnie Hammond is the only daughter of D. II. Hammond, one of the wealthiest planters of the county and is the acknowedge belle of the village. For some time past young Harris has- been an ardent surtdr for Miss Hammond's -heart and hand. The young lady, however, did not reciprocate his love, and received his attentions with the coldest indfference. Harris was not in the least discouraged, but visited Alins -Hammond’s home daily for the past week* On each visit-she treated him moie cold thau ever, aud when he called on Wednes¬ day she declinei-to see him. Last night mounted on spirited horse,-he again -called at the- Hammond residence and asked for Miss Wihnie. He was told that she had just left the houso with several friends and was-on her way to church, about lrnie and a half distant. Harris started off in pursuit and overtook the party about three-quarters of a mile away, When he spied Mies Hammond, he put spurs to liis horse, yelling the others to get ont of 1 the way, madly ran over the young lady, knock ing har clown and trampling, her beneath the horse’s feet. When Alisa Hon.mond was picked up by her friends she was in¬ sensible and apprently dead. She was ten dealy carried to her home, where it was found that she terrilily cut aBd bruised in various parts of her body, several bones broken,and that she had received serious internal injuries, Thepysioians say she cannot recover. Harris escaped on- his fleet-footed horse. Armed men are scour¬ ing the country for him, and if he is found he will be Inched. Out in California they wrap fruit trees "ith cloth to keep them from being sun .burned. Next thing we know they will he putting veils over oranges to keep them itom beiu S freckled. - Items of Interest. Mr. J. H. Brown, cf Bornellsvill N. Y. says: “For three years I suffered with blood poison, but S. S. Secured me complerely. Marriages between whites and Indians are prohibited in Arizona ;and North Car olina. In 1775 there were only 27* newspapers published in the United States. In 1885- 6 the Swift Speefic Co. advertised their great remedj' in over 5,000' weeklies and 612 daily papers. The metropolitan underground railroad in London-carried, during 1887, over 82, 000,000 passengers. S. S. S. enred me of an epithelioma can cer on my right check. I know this cure was effected entirely by S. is. S. —-W : . M. Stanftfdd, Hampton, Ga. Paris was known as Lutctia until 1184, when the great French capital was chang¬ ed to that which it has borne evev since. We have used Swift’s Specific in our family for years, as an*antidot for malari¬ al poison, and bava never known it to ail in a single instance.—W. C. Furlow, Americus, Ga. Many people want to bny S. S-S. by the gallon. The company never sell it that way. They sell only in bottles and pack ages.__ CnghirKf. The Swift Specific Co, Atlanta Ga., Gentlemen:—For over two years I have been suffering from disfsguriug and chronic affection of the skin, which has been a source of great annoyance and rendered me very miserable indeed. ‘I have tried every method, including visits to a skin hospital, where I was treated as’ an ont door patient for three months, and many remedies, with out beirtg rcleived in the slighest. Seeing one of year advertisements, I begau'to give the Swift’s Specific a thorough trial, in hopes it would at least benefit'-' my general health, if it did not cure |the skiu disease. I jjeontinned its for four months, and for several weeks I cc ukl not notice any im¬ provement, though I seemed to feel better In myself. This was only encouiagement I had, I continued it, and am now delight¬ ed to inform you that a short time after¬ wards the skin cieard up, the blotches dis¬ appeared, and at the Jrime of tt.is writing there is no trace whatever; I have not only got rid of the skin affection, but gain¬ ed in flesh, and am altogether pleased with the result. I shall he pleased to answer any letters that I may receive respecting this, :f anyone has -any trouble o similar character and donbts the statement. I am gentlemen, gratefully • yours, L. Watts, 1, Westminster Chambers. Victoria Street, Westminster; S. W. Oct. 27th 1887. Treatise on-Blood and Skin Diseases mail¬ ed free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga-. Lawyer Snap(ot counsel for defendent, whose case looks doubtful because the jury don’t seem enthused when his witnesses'tes tify)—Are you acquainted jwith any of the jury? honest man)—Yes, sir;. I Witness(an know more than half of them. Lawyer S.—I should think it strange, very strange, if you didn’t know more than all o! themput together .—Jndge - A Northern paper is bragging about an electric girl who can hold a 300-pound man in a chair with all ease. Almost any pretty girl can hold a man of any jize in a chair, or even on a piano stool, whether she’s electric or not, and she need not even so much as put her hands on him, NUMEER 30. ■ List of (iraml Jurorx Drawr for Oct. 'E'en*! of Crawford Superior Court. John T Andrews Wins Rutherford J F Hartley W vV Johnson H N Britt B F Lee T A Kendrick Z T Anltman J F Duke Jno S B'.asingamo R V Nickols B J LeSueur J VV Jack VV R Thames A J Schofiil Van B Ilorne Jno M Sanders J C Fincher Wm Carswell W 0 Vinson C H Smith E E Dent- J VV Dickey Jas M ' Sanders J W Blaslngame Jeff Davis VV P Carr R K Webb L T Jones. J L Sanders. 3,1*t ofTraverse .furors W M Boss Frank Hortman W £ Davis - Thos I, Stembndge W C Huimicutt O C ’ Wilson W E Rowell Fit Wright Albert L Mathews T J Long J W Brown J E ■ Jordan M B Mathews Q II Hutto Joel Bankston, Jr J L Harrison E S Lee Jno, ■ D Sanders M W Pearson A J Johnson J C Bond J R Joyner J T Visage G E Reeves A II Clark Monroe Taylor J C Hicks II P Moran L T Lee W H Mathews - J Z Smith II F Sanders Wm Hamlin J T Cochran B T Parham J W Flowers, Fit LENDS: Oh, give me friends! ■ Though'other f wants may wear my life ' away, Though all the days seem cold and dark* and gray, J. shall not question that which fortune sends If round me press a host of kindly friends, I ask not wealth, Nor from the ever open hand of Fate I crave no robe of grace, nor place of state. .For in the hope whichffickle longing lends I seek no gift of fate, but countless friends, And thus through life, Though round me falls the shadow s.nd the care Of bitter sorrows that I scarce can bearj I shall not heed them if my faith but rends - The mist that shrouds me from my host ' of friends. —Madden Grantly Lawton Collins and Leonad Williamson, Young farmers of Montgomery county, loved the same young lady, and were rival* for her hand. Wi liamsou, it seem was the more successful aud won her heart. He heard, however, that Collins had come it. between them by telling something that broke off the match. Williamson went out with a horse and buggy cm Sunday, Oct. 7, and finding Collins at home, asked him to get in the buggy and takeja ride over to the young lady’s house. Collins accepted the invitation, "and while passing through a piece of woods Williamsou directed Collins - to look upward at some object, so it is the ried,and while his attention was thus at¬ tracted Williamson cut bis throat and : threw him out of the buggy. He stopped the horse stabbed his victim all over the >• body, The friends ' some thirty cuts. of f Collins made up a reward of $300. While John Miller, the mail carrier be¬ tween Sparta and Oconee, was returning:' to Sparta on Saturday, an artery in bis- left leg burst, and he would have bled l«. death in a few minutes had it not been feu Joe Boyer and his sun, who came up, and bound the leg with a twine string,-which * stopped the flow until they could get hvv-i to' town and ton physician. ■
