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@ljc (Ojcwhcc BI BREWSTER & CO. DIRECTORY- STATE GOVERNMENT. James M. Smith, Governor. N. C. Barnet, Secretary of State. J. W. Goldsmith, Comptroller General. - John Jones, Treasurer. Joel Branham, Librarian. John T. Brown, Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary. Gustavus J. Orr, Etate School Commis ssoner. . . i J. N. Janes, Commissioner of Agricul ture. Thomas D. Little, State Geologist. JUDICIAL. BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT. Noel B. Knight, Judge. C. D. Phillips, Solicitor General. * lime of Holding Court. tOfURDKEE — Fourth Monday in Febru ary, and first Monday in August. Cobb— Second Monday in March and November. Dawson— Third Monday m April and second Monday in September. Fannin— Third Monday in May and Oc tober. Forsyth —First Monday in April and fourth Monday in August. Gilmer —Second Monday in May and October. Lumpkin —Second Monday in April and first Monday in September. Milton —Fourth Monday in March and third Monday in August. Pickens— Fourth Monday in April and fieptember.j Towns— Monday after fourth Monday in May and October. Union —Fourth Monday in May and Oc tober. COUNTY OFFICERS. C. M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court first Monday in each month. J. W. Hudson, Ckrk Superior Court. M. P. Morris, Sheriff. E. G. Gramling, Deputy Sheriff. John G. Evans, Treasurer. Wm. N. Wilson, Tax Receiver. Joseph G. Dupree, Tax Collector. Wm. W. Hawkins, Surveyor. Wm. Rampley, Coroner. JUSTICE COURT—CANTON DIS. Joseph E. Hutson, J. P. IL F. Daniel, N. P. K. G. Daniel, L. C TOWN GOVERNMENT. v7. A. Teaseley, Mayor. j. W. Hudson, Recorder. James 11. Kilby,'.Tabes Galt, J. M. II »r --dio, J. M. McAfee, Theodore Turk, Alder «aen. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. James O. Dowda, President. James W. Hudson, County School Com missioner. Prof. James U. Vincent, Examiner. Joseph M. McAfee, Allen Keith, Joseph J, Maddox, John R. Moore. Meeting* quarterly, in the court-house. CHEROKEE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIA TION. James O. Dowd*, President. M. B. Tuggle, Vice-President. C. M. McClure, Secretary. J. W. Attaway, Treasurer. John D Attaway, Censor Morum. Prof. James U. Vincent, Association Cor respondent. Regular meetings every second Saturday *■ each month, at 10 a. in. religious. Baptist Church, Canton Ga., time of •arvice fourth Sunday in each month. Rev. M. B. Tuggle, Pastor. M. E. Church, time of service, preachers in charge. Kov. R. 11. Johnson, first Sunday. Rov. B. E. Ledbetter, second. Rev. J, M. Hardin, third. MASONIC. Canton Lodge, No. 77, meets first and third Monday nights in each month. Joseph M. McAfee, W. M. B. E. Ledbetter, Secretary. fiixns Lodgk, No. 283, meets first and -third Saturdays, 2 p. in. 41 S. Steele, W. M O. W. Putman, Secretary. GOOD TEMPLARS. Canton Lodgk, No. 119, meets every fblurday, 8 p. m. Jaber. Galt. W. C. T. W. H. Coppage, Secretary. GRANGE. Centon Grange No. 225, Canton Ga. Jnbes Gall, Master. Joseph M. MeAfee, Secretary. Livery Stable! N, J. GARRISON Has opened a Livery Stable in Canton, and is prepared to furnish Horses, Buggies, and Wagon* to the public for reasonable compensation. He will also do Hauling to and from the railroad and elsewhere for those desiring such service. The starting ot a livery stable in Canton h only an experiment, but Mr. Garrison hop** by attention to business and satlsfac «ary chargee to make his experiment a suc cceaful undertaking. 23 JAMES o. DOWDA, Attorney at Law, CANTON, - . . GEORGIA. WILL practice in the Superior Canns ot Cherokee and adjotoiag oountie*. Wil! fidtbfiiHy and promptly attend to the coherition of all c'aims put in hi* hand*. Office Lu ih« evurt-bouse. Canton, Ga. <, Uy BLANCHE AND NELL. BY PAUL H. HAYNE. O Blanche is a city lady, Bedecked in her silks and lace; She walks with the mien of a stately queen And a queen’s imperious grace. But N&l is a country maiden, Her dress from the farmstead loom ; Her step is free as a breeze at sea, And her face is a rose in bloom. The house of Blanche is a marvel Os marble from base to dome; It hath all things fair, and costly, and rare, But, alas! it is not —home! Nell lives in a lonely cottage, On the shores of a wave-washed isle; And the life she leads, with its living deeds, The angels behold and smile. Blanche finds her palace a prison, And oft, through the dreary years, In her burdened breast there is sad unrest, And her eyes are dimmed with tears. But to Nell her toils are pastime, (Though never till night they cease,) And her soul’s afloat like a buoyant boat On the crystal tides of peace. Ah ! Blanche hath many a lover, But she broodeth o’er old regret; And the shy, sweet red on her cheek is dead, For the day-star of hope is set. Fair Nell! but a single lover Huth she in the wide, wide world ; Yet warmly apart in her glowing heart Love bides, with his pinions furled. To Blanche all life seems shadowed, And she but a ghost therein ; Through the misty gray of her autumn day Steal voices of grief and sin. To Nell all life is sunshine. All earth like a fairy sod, Where the roses grow, and the violets blow In the softest breath of God. What mcaneth this mighty contrast Os lives that we meet ami mark ? One bright as the flowers from May-tide showers, One i ay less, somber, and dark. O, folly ©f mortal wisdom That neither will break nor bow ; That riddle hath vexed the thought per plexed Os millions of souls ere now 1 0, folly of mortal wj«*om ’ From your guesses what good can come ? We can learn no more than the wise of yore: ’Tis better to trust, and—be dumb ! —aH- THE OAK CLOSET. Margaret Gray was in some soit an up per servant in the household of Judge Wallace. The Judge lived in a handsome house in the suburbs of the little country village of Thorndale. Margaret was left an orphan at an early age, and the Judge and bis wife had taken her into their house to save her from being thrown upon the charity of the town. They bad done their part well for her. They had two children ot their own—Alice and Algernon, twins—and Margaret had enjoyed every advantage of education in common with the brother and sister. As she grew older and began to realize bow much she owed the Judge and his wife, she fait a desire to be able in some way to make them a return for their kind ness, end, as she was a strong, active girl, she soon became very useful about the do mestic affairs of the household. Mrs. Wal lace was a feeble woman, and very willingly resigned some of the cares and burdens to Margaret, and in due course of time the young girl came to be trusted and depend ed upon, untilf by the time she was twenty, she was really the head cf the establish ment, though Mrs. Wallace still did the honors in her quiet, lady-like way, and poured the tea and coffee at the head of the table. Alice had married early and gone west with her husband ; Algernon was finishing his medical studies at the German univer sity ; and only the Judge and his wife and Margaret, besides the tnau and woman ser vants, who had been with them for years, remained at home. Some unfortunate speculations indulged in, when the Judge was quite a young man, had encumbered the old estate with a mort gage, and thia it was the Judge’s ambition to discharge. He wanted to leave the place, totally free from debt, to his son Al gernon. The strictest economy had been prac ticed for years in the household with this end in view, and at last the Judge held in his hand the money with which to liquidate the claim. It was late on Saturday night when he brought it home, and said to his wife, as he swung before her eyes the little black leather trunk containing it: “Well, Annie, at last we are to be free from debt ’ There are SB,OOO in that trunk, snd on Monday i shall pay Jone* in full, and we shall burn the abominable mort gage together, you and I. Annie It will be the happiest day in my life.” “But if anything should happen, Will iam,” said Mrs. Wallace, nervously. “Do put the money in some safe place. It has coal ns dear enough to scrape it together.’’ Tue Judice hent down and patted the anxious little woman on the bead. , ‘‘l ahi going to pul it iu the little oak Virtue and Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty. CANTON, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1876. closet, Annie. It has a spring-lock, and, if by chance a burglar should errter'the house, h'j would never dream of finding anything of value in a little, stifled-up closet at the head of the garret stairs.” And with a light heart the Judge went off to deposit his treasure. Margaret was sitting in the room, darn ing the Judge’s stockings, when this com versation took place, and of course she heard where the money was to be placed, though she gave little heed to it. The next day, John and Su«an, the two servants, had a holiday, to visit a married d i ugh ter of theirs, who resided fifteen or twenty miles away, and, as it was Novem ber, and the days were short, they would not return until Monday night. Some time after the servants set out, there came an imperative message for the Judge from his sister, saying that she was very ill and desired to see him without de lay. Her home was in Shelby, eight or ten miles off, and of course the Judge lost no time in obeying the summons. He took his wife with him, leaving Margaret alone in the house. “It is barely possible, Margaret, we may remain all night. It looks very much like a storm, and in that case we shall certainly stay ; and. if so, you had better get Salite Turner to stay with you for conipany.” But though Margaret would have liked Sallie’s company well enough, she at once decided not to ask for it Sallie’s brother would be sure Io come along, and the less -he saw of Willie Turner the better she was pleased. Willie was an honest, indus trious sort of a fellow, and hi* was Marga ret’s most devoted admirer but with thc« usual inconsistency of her sex she utterly refused to see what was best for her. The afternoon wire slowly away. Mar garet read a little, ami driimnud a f’ w tunes listlessly on the old fashioned jViano, played with the black and white kittens, anil held the old cat curled up in her lap like a sleepy caterpillar, and at last it was sunset —time to milk the cows and shut the barn doors for the night. It was evident enough that there was go ing to be a storm, for the north and west were dark and gloomy clouds, and the west winds sighed drearily in the pine woods back of the house. And, indeed, before Margaret had done up her jobs at the barn, the first gnat drops of froz n rain began to fall, and by the time she had strained her milk and eaten her supper, t! e st- rin had s< t in in good earnest. She closed and barred the d* or, the win dows being already fastened, drew the shutters, and piled the kitchen fire full of dry hickory. The kittens had gone to sleep in a cor er, and the old black cat sat on the hearth, blinking her eyes at the cheerful blaze. Mwuaret read a little and dreamed a trreat deal, as girls of her age are prone to do when left to themselves. She made a very pretty picture, if only there had been some one to see her. Her soft brown hair was unbound and fell rippling to her waist; her fair, round features were tinted as d< licately pink as the inside of a sea-sin 11; her brown eyes were dreamy and full of languor, and her red lips were sweet and womanly enough for any true lover to find his rarest delight in kissing. Slowly, at length, the old coflin-shaped clock in the corner struck 10. Margaret started up. She had no thought it was so late. The evening had gone off so much quicker than she had expected it would. It was not so dreadful to stay alone, after all, sh« said to herseJ. She opened a shutter and peered out into 'ln* night. It was dark as Erebus, and the wind and rain beat against the pane in a perfect torrent. The Judge would not think of returning on such a night. “Well, Tommy,” she said to the cat, “I guess you and I and the kitties will go to bed. W- must be up betimes in the morn in », you know, since there’ll be none but us lo do the chores.” As she spoke she stooped to stroke old Tommy, but, to her infininitc surprise, she saw that the animal’s hair and tail were erect, his eyes had tinned to a glassy green of rage and terror, and with slow, panther like tread he whs making his way toward the door which opened upon the cellar stairway. And while she gazed, Margaret saw with horror that the latch was slowly rising, and the next moment the door swung open with an ominous creak, and a man stepped into the room. He was a short, thick-set fellow, with sandy hair and whiskers, and a pale, ferocious-looking blue eye, set far ' back in bis bead. ' So, my dear,” said the intruder, “you ; are sole proprieti r, it appears ?” Fur a moment Margaret’s heart stood ' still, but she was naturally brave, and she I i was proud as well, and she would not al i low this man to see that she feared him. ‘I have that honor,” she said, coolly. , “ Who are you, and what do you want ?" “I trust you will excuse me if I neglect; to introduce myse’l,’’ said the man, with much courtesy. “As to my business. lam i quit-* happy tv Inform you about that; I want the $8,060 the Judge brought home from the Ridgby bank last night, and I will depend on you to point it out to me.” The indignant blood rushed to Margaret’s face, and she answered him sharply : “J will die before 1 de as you ask “You shall have your choice!” JJe presented a pistol, which he cocked dJsiherately, and pointed it at her head. ’‘Show me the place where the tin is hid den, or I will blow your brains out!” Like lightning a veiled train-of thoughts passed through the head nf the girl; in that one instant of time she thought of a score of plans to evade the rascal, and as soon as entertained discarded them as im practicable. There she was, alone and helpless, a weak girl, almost a mile from any human habitation, and in St storm. It was by no means likely that any one would be pass ing by from whom she could claim any assistance. For a moment she thought of risking every thing to escape by the outer door, and, trusting to the darkness and her knowledge o£ the way, to attempt to reach Mr. Tur ner’s and seek protection. But the man seemed to divine her thoughts, for he step ped between her and the door. “No, my beauty, you can’t play that game on met” he said, with a sardonic smile “And now I’ll give you just three minutes to decide what you’ll do. If you’ll show me where the money is, I swear not to harm you ; if you refuse, I swear to kill you, and trust to luek for finding it without your help” He took out his watch and stood regard ing it. and Margaret alternately. As she tfiiood there faint and giddy with fear, a new wtf*a penetrated Margaret’s brain, and she w>.s in a state of desperation which stops at no sacrifice, however great. Come life or death, she must save the money for wliich her friend had toiled so long and earnestly, and the loss of which would in volve him in ruin. As she thought, she saw away to it, though it would compass J;7r destruction. •Y'ou may put up your pistol,” she said, c '.inly ; “I will show yon where the money is concealed.” “That’s sensible, my dear,” said the man. bot often t-iat sense and a pretty face go together; but you are an exception. Come, be lively, now.” She took a candle from the table, selected of a bunch of keys from a basket hang ing from the wall, and badc him follow ht\-. She led him upstairs to the door of the oak closet, applied the key, and opening the door, pointed to a black box in the fur ther corner of the closet. “You will find what you seek there.” She stepped back for him to enter, but he seized her by the wrist and puiled her along with him. “I know your game,” unid he; “you want to get me into that cussed hole, and then lock the door on me. Take out the key and fling it down stairs, and then in with me. 1 sha’n’t cat you.” She obeyed him literally, and, as they stood together in the stifling place, which was scarcely large enough to contain them, Margaret, with the hand the man had left free, seized the door and pulled it to. It shut with a sharp click-shut and locked at tnc same time. A fierce oath burst from the lips of the burglar. “What do you mean?” he cried “Hell and furies! I shall suffocate here! Open the door, or I’ll shoot you!” “Do as you please,” said Margaret, defi antly ; “the door has a spring-lock, and can on’y be opened on the outside, and, unless some one comes io our relief, ws shall re maia here until we die, which will only b® a tew hours at the most!” “You she-devil! Why did you do this ?” he demanded, hoarse with rage. “Don’t you know that you’ll die too ?” “Certainly: but I prefer death to the ruin of my best friends. If we die here— which we shall without a doubt—the mon ey will be saved.” The oaths, and threats, and curses, of the man were dreadful, but Margaret felt no fear. The close torpid air weighed upon her like lead ; already had the wretch who was her companion sunk stupefied to the floor. All her past Hie came up before her —ahe remembered some things long forgotten— she saw faces dead and buried —she heard voices mute beneath the grave-clod, and the life and sense faded out, and sh® knew no more. Judge Wallace found bis sister better, but the storm coming on, it was dsetned best to remain all night, and early next morning set nut for home, aicompanied by his wife. Arriving in sight of the bouse, he was surprised to see the abuturs still closed and the chimney giving out no smoke of wel come. Al the gate a young man was tying his horse, and the Judge exclaimed to hi* wife: “Bieas my life, Ancle i that’s Algernon 1 There is no mistaking him! He’s horn® a month earlier than we expected him But 1 greatly fear something is amis® with Mag. She’s an early riser, and the shutters are vet clveed.” He whipped up his horse' and soon Lad his son by the hand. The first warm greet ing over, the Judge wrapped at the fast ened door, but, eliciting no response, his alarm increased, and, after shouting at the top of his voice for Margaret and receiving no reply, with Algernon’s help he burst open the door and entered the kitchen. All was as he had left it the night before. The black brands covered the hearth ; the chamber door stood suggestively opei. Father and son ascended the stairs, and, half way up, the Judge stumbled over the key of the oak closet. “Good heavens 1” he exclaimed, “the k< y of the closet where I left the money I I greatly fear something has befallen Mar garet I” He found the closet-door locked, and to their repeated knocking there came no re sponse from within. Algernon applied the key, and the open door revealed a most fearful sight. With frightfully distorted, purple face, the robber lay on the floor, stone dead, and near him, pale and quiet, lay Margaret. Algernon bore her down stairs and into the open air, but it was long before she gave any sign of life; and it was a week before she was able to give a detailed ac count of what happened during that night of horror in the oak closet. But she had saved the money, and the son undertook to pay the debt of gratitude owed by the father. Before the winter was over, Algernon married Margaret, and to gether they live in the old homestead, and on stormy nights they tell the children the story of the Oak Closet. Iron-Making in the South. If some statements on the subject of iron making; presented in a letter published by Mr. George T. Lewis, of Tennessee, be cor rect, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee ar destined to become, if not the future center of iron making, in the United States, the seat of large and important furnace Jntercsts at least. Mr Lewis has been engaged in making iron in Tennessee for forty years, and lias studied and experimented until he professes to know all about it. ll® states iron not only ean made, but has been and is made in three Southern States for less than sl6 per ton, a price far below the cost of making it in the iron dis tricts of the North and East. The cost of producing iron in Pennsylvania is put down $26 60 a ton ; at Youngstown, O ,'ut S3O 60 a ton, and i®, Indiana at $2850 a ton, vrhile in the South it ranges from sl4 43 a ton in Tennessee to sl6 in Georgia and Alabama. The explanation of this greater cheapness is found in the abundance of charcoal and good stone coal in these States, both to be had, with limestone, near the iron beds; the mildness of the climate which makes winter expenditures nearly as light as those of summer, and the cheapness of colored la bor. The Alabama and Tennessee ore is said to be of a superior quality and a favor ite in the market. When it is considered that the Pennsylvania furnaces are now forced to send to Missouri and Lake Supe rior for orc to mix with the indifferent orcs of that State, there would seem to be noth ing needed but capital to transfer a large portion of the iron manufacture of Penn sylvania to these favored States of the South.—[St. Louis Republican. Self Conceit. —He isn’t much above the medium height and he isn’t much be low the average intellect. But he consid ers himself a giant among men, and he hasn’t the slightest doubt that his brain power is several notches above what is us ually styled genius. He owes something to nature in the way es good looks, and considerable more to his tailor and grocer in the way of good clothes and eatables. He calls himself a lawyer, and is really a meddler. He attaches himself to a man with money, in the guise of a disinterested adviser: and, when a good chance comes, he makes a dive for bis superior’s pocket, in the hope of making enough, at one grab, to enable him to be lazy for the rest of the year. And then, when his mask is pulled off, and he is dismissed iu disgrace, he bus ies himself in misrepresenting and abusing his former patron. A cow-hide is too good to be worn out on the back of such a thing; cremation without waiting for th® usual preliminary of death, might be the least cumbrous mode of d isposing of h im. Living or dead, he de serves the contempt and reprobation ol all right-minded men.—[Exchange. One hundred Georgia newspapers and seven Georgia grand juries want a short ening of criminal trials on the score of econ omy ; good wagon roads; & dog law, as a protection to sheep raising; and consolida tion of county offices, for the purpose of ef fecting economy in public expenditures. H Ik latter proposition is cae seriously to be considered by statesmen, eb is aho an addi j tlonal one to consolidate weak counties ter ritorially.—[N. Y. Herald. IGivit the Pope credit for a good thing done quietly. He has caused to be built ( in Rome at his own expense several house) • for poor people and operatives. VOLUME I.—NUMBER 24- i mi. ' I! iI’MBW General Intelligence. The pig iron product of 1874 was 2,589# 412 tons. The aggregate relied iron product in 1874 was 1,989,560. Chicago handles 90,000,000 bushels of grain annually. The exportation of live cattle to England has proved a success. At Dundee, Scotland, 100,000 tons of jut®' are worked up annually. Less than one-fourth of the lauds of Lott idana are under cultivation. Cuba in a single year exported beeswax to the amount of fifty thousand dollars; The Pittsburg belt works which cost $400,- 000 have been sold for SIOO,OOO. France has 123,000 industrial establish ments giving work to about 1,800,000 tnen. A Masonic Congress, with delegates from all parts of the world, will be held iu Lon don, in 1877. T he Minnesota log cut, which last year amounted to 155,000,000, promises to go up* to 200,000,000 this year. The trade in New York oysters is <X pected to reach 4,000,000 bushels this year. The bivalves are of a superior quality. The aggregate imports of silk la it year fell off $50,000,000, but the imports of the. silks classed as broad goods increased $3,- 000,000. The Louisiana sugar crop for 1874-75 is estimated at 116,867 hogsheads, against 89'.- 498 last year. The molasses crop is esti mated at 11 616,828 gallons. The following is the list of Vice Presi dents who have died while in office; Georg® Clinton died April, 1812; Eldridge Gerry died November, 1814; W. R. King in 1853;; Henry Wilson, December, 1875. The best gutta percha comes from th® banks ofthe Amazon river. Brazil produ ces annually about 14,000,000 pounds, and the Central American Slates, Africa and the East Indies together about 15,000,000/ pounds. Judge Hill, of the United States District court for Mississippi, has literally changed the complexion of the juries in that court by adopting a rule which excludes from th® panel all who cannot read, write and com pute interest. Chicago, the largest grain market in the: world, handles about 90,000,000 bushels an nually, and has now in operation eighteen steam elevators, with a capacity of 15,000,- 000 bushels, or more than the average pro duct of 1,000,000 acres. The amount of business in glass works annually in this country is about $25,000,- 000. The capital employed by the man ufactures and merchants is $12,000,000. The production of the entire United States is set down at $22,000,000. Tax-payers in Chicago are perfectly fran**- tic over their rates, which are six per cent, on a full valuation for city and State. Every thing of a taxable nature is taxed in Chicago, and a man who does business there is kept chronically on the ragged edge. An amendment to the German penal code is pending, intended to check emigration to America. It is already penal to entice Ger mans to emigrate by means of false repre sentations. Now it is proposed to punish even true representations, when accompa nied by any sort of encouragement. A frog catcher of Troy, New York caught in one month last year, 1,600 pounds of dressed frogs, for which he got 30 cents per pound, making S4BO for his month’s work. In one week, recently, near th® Hudson, he caught upwards of five hundred pounds, and sold them for $l6O, or an &ier« age of thirty-two cents a pound. The annual statement of the business of Richmond, Virginia, for the year 1875 shows an increase in the products of its manufactures of $6,042,514 as compared with 1874. Its commerce has also increased, and it boasts of both a large number of ves sels and of a greater amount of tonnage— the latter by about thirty per cent. There are now five cables connecting Europe with America, three running from Newfoundland to Ireland, one from Brest (France) to Duxbury (Mass.) by way ot St. Pierre, and the direct cables recently laid. The cables from Newfoundland Me about 3,000 miles long, the direct cable 3,060 miles long, and the French cable 3,330 miles in length. Some genius has been writing to the newspapers to show that if the centennial commissioners are going to consult leligious ideas we can have no exhibition at all, “for while most of th® Christiana observe Sun day as a Sabbath, and would have the gates shut against the public on that day, the Grecians observe Monday, the Persians ob serve Tuesday, the Assyrians observe Wed nesday, the Egyptians observe Thursday, all the Mohammedan nations ob»erv® Fri day, and th® Jews and Seventh Day Baptist observe Saturday. It h well known that Grecians, Persians, Assyriana, Egyptians and such constitute a large proportion of the population of Philadelphia, and that their customs prevail extensively among us.—[Philadelphia Times.