----- Original Message ----- From: "Crilley" <crilley@eramp.net> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 3:30 PM Subject: [GEORGIA] GA Journal and Messenger #37-38 > Georgia Journal and Messenger (transcribed from microfilm) > > December 13, 1848 Vol XXVI No 37 > > > MARRIED. On the 28th in Hawkinsville, by Judge J.G. Polhill, Maj Henry WOOD > of > Macon to Mrs. Casander POLLOCK of the former place. "That come what may, > while > life's gay pulses roll, Indissolubly thus should soul be knit to soul". > > On the 23rd November by Dr. W.S. Lightfoot (JIC) Mr. Abraham JOHNSON to > Mrs. Sarah > G. EATON all of Jones Co. > > OBITUARY. Mrs. Sarah A. F. WILLIFORD, wife of Mr. Williams S. Williford, of > the > city of Macon, and daughter of Joseph FELT, Esq of the City of Savanhha, > aged about > 27 years. > A brief notice fo the departed is justly due to the memory of Mrs. Williford. > As a daughter, she supllied an example of confiding and cheerful obeience > to the > instructions and guidance of her Father--preserving undimished, after her > marriage, > the strong and tender Attachment ot her only surviving parent, which she > cherished > in her earlier years. As a wife, and a mother, she fulfilled her various > duties > under a sense of her accountability to her Creator, and Redeemer--with a > constant > regard to the comfort and happiness of those around her. Free from all love > of > display, she manifested a spirit of benevolence, which was felt beyond the > limits > of her own domestic circle. Amidst prospects of long continued felicity, > she was > suddenly removed from her spere of active usefulness; leaving a bereaved > husband, > and two small children and other realitves, to lament the loss which they > have > sustained, in her descent to an early grave. The record of her worth is "on > high", > where it is hoped she may meet all who were endeared to her on earth--and > enoy with > them the promised blessedness and glory of the "saints in light". > DIED in Macon, on the 18th ult, Miss Emily CARTER. Such was the violence of > the > disease with which she was seized, that in two short hours she was rendered > insensilbe, and so continued till her death. But though thus disabled from > having > such testimoney in death, in regard to her eternal prospects, as might afford > consolation to here friends suddenly bereaved, yet a period of twenty > years, about > one half of her eathly term of professed devotion to her Saviour, and a > life during > that time of consistent piety, afford them a still better evidence that she > has > entered into that rest that remaineth for the people of God. "Many fall as > sudden, > few as safe". > > ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. UPSON COUNTY. Inferior Court. Thomaston. Sale: three > negroes: > Alfred a man, Ned a man and Mtilda a woman, also three hundred and seven > and 1/2 > acres of land more or less, the dower of Mrs. Mary Sanders, taken off. Two > hundred > and 57 and 1/2 acres of said land being in a body and consisting of parts > of lots > 261 and 250 in 11st Dist, and 12 in 10th district of formerly Monroe, now > Upson Co. > and the other 50 acres consistingof part of lot no. 135 in 16th district of > formerly Houseton, now Upson Co. Sold as property belonging to the estate of > Nathaniel Sanders deceased for benefit of the heirs and creidtors of said > deceased. > Isaac Sanders, Richmond Sanders, Admr. > > > December 20 1848 Vol XXVI No 38 > > A WORK OF SUPER-EROGATION. Governor Towns has issued his proclamtion > appointing > Christmas Day as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer. This we regard as "a > work of > supererrogation". The day had already been set apart by a higher power and > for > higher and more special purposed and his Excellency in selecting it as a > day of > solemn Thanksgiving and prayer for state blessings has encroached upon the > right of > Providence as well as upons thos of St. Nicholad and of all the little boys > and > girls in the Commonwealth. > CALIFORNIA GOLD. Washington Correspondent. The engrossing subject of > conversation here is the California God. Hundres of persons have visited the > President's House to see the specimens of gold sent from California by Col > Mason, > our military commander there to the Sec of War. The specimens are very > richg and > are worth about four thousand dollrs. They are mostly in small scales, but > some are > in grains and in dust.....Lieut. Loser, of the Navy, brought over the > specimens > with Col Mason's despatches. He says he had to take a small craft to the > Isthmus > and pay nine hundred dollars for her use". Mr. Carter, merchant of Boston, > came > with him. He had taken goods out to California and at exorbitant prices had > sold > them for gold, taking the gold at eight dollars an ounce, which is worth > seventeen > dollars. > The quick silver mines are believed to be even more profitable than the gold > mines....14th of August, "in the spring, Messr. Marshall and Bennet, in > opening a > ditch for a tailrace for a saw mill which had been built on the American > fork of > the Sacramento, found some gold which the current had collected in the > bottom of > the race,"....persons left their homes and went to work in the > mines...there are > now more than 4,000 white persons, besides a number of Indians, engaged at > the > mines and from the fact that no capital is required, they are wokring in > companies > on equal shares, or alone with their baskets....The epidemic was universal. > The > crews of whale ships and other vessels had deserteed for the enchanted > region, as > well as the enlisted men in the United States Service. > > CAUTION. All persons are forewarned against trading for a certain promissory > note made by the undersigned, dated about 15th of April last, and payable > on 1st > Jan (1849) to A.H. Hansell, administrator, and Ellen Bryan, Administratrix > on the > estate of Blackshear Bryan, deceased for $350. J.H. R. Washington > > CHRISTMAS TOYS. A large assortment of German and Sugar Toys of all kinds > will > be received from New York per Steamer Cherokee, also candies, raisins, > currants, > grapes, prunes, cranberries, etc. which will be sold at prices to suit the > times > and customers. W. Freeman > CENTRAL RACE COURSE. The members of the Central Club are requested to meet at > the Club Room, Floyd House, Macon on the 1st day of Jan next at 8 o'clock > to attend > to business of importance connected with the April Races. > UPSON COUNTY. Thomas W. Goode appleis to me for letters of administration > on the > estate of Mrs. Mary E. Beall, late of said county deceased. > BIBB COUNTY. All person indebted to Josiah F. Askew, late of Bibb Co, > deceased, > are hereby notified to make payment at once. Green B. Haygood, Exec > TO SELL. Six Negroes, cheap for cash. A first rate young man 25 years old, > his > wife, a fine mulatto woman about 22, accustomed to the house and field; 4 > mulatto > boys from 10 to 1 years, all the children of the woman and the fellow, > except the > oldest. I will sell the family together, and the older boy separate. E.A. > Nisbet > LAURENS COUNTY. Rule Nisi. Andrew Y. Hampton, Exe on the estate of John G. > Coates, late of said county, deceased, is missmanaging said estate and has > removed > out of the limits of said County. Ordered that said Hampton appear at next > regular > term of court to show cause...so Court may expedite securing better > management for > estate and the education and maintenance of the orphans of said John G. > Coates. > TO SELL. 100 acres of timbered land lying 3 miles above Macon on the Forsyteh > road, next to river. E.A. Nisbet. > > > Virginia > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > > >