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The Express By Jno. W. Radley. VOLUME [V. Official Organ of Polk and Haralson Counties. CEDARTOWN, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1878, Subscription $2 Per Annum. NUMBER 50, P II ./ FUSS I ON AL JyJURDOOK MoBRIDB. \ T T 0 II N E Y AT I. AW KUCHA NAN, OA. jJT.ANOBi A-iW A V T '• H K ¥ ,S AT LAW, 3K - UPTOWN, OA 3 * 8. niitrlcl i all 1 i r.» uih n of tlio Kottte • Stole, mid In T. W. M'L lrb'. J. W. 11 AltUIS, JM ILNlli, ft IIARRl&i U'TllliN'liVS AT LAW, CA ItTISRSVILLB, tt V. ok?i«* *ii Main titroet, next door to OH- cm!, ,k Sju. Mr. Milner will alteatl the Superior ‘■•eurt of Polk county rc<ttlarljr. March 1.1877-if W. Iff. STRANGE, N. P. A Kx. Oil! J. I*. Ilooltmart, Gta. 1ST" Collections nuliuitod, and money paid over jmncUmlly. ~KSTAB LISIIlil> IX 1850. McCKiURFS Temple of Music. W, HOLKSALKnnd Retail A;rn* cy ter the Houowae.I Plano Maker*, STUN WAY, _JLNA.BE, jttm DUN LIAM, BACON & KARR unci .f. & C. FISHER. iWlMted Uwn or MASON A HAMLIN, Hurt ddcL Now !{u!raii<l lir'itu (Jo.. i»ud G A Prince A Oa.’e ttuMtf Pultllebur*. Oliver OIihoii. \\ tu. A Pond* Co., Smith & (Jo.. P A Mortli X (Jo. BUST GUITARS.““'n*" d nd 4 , Striuga, etc. „ w> um-e» to the clt- Dodxrtftivn and vicinity, Hint III** raclll- him to lifter extra induce , -ruaponduucu Hollcltcd. Catiihwn Al>fl fall line or SiiihII Mnylcnl •JVxu |ir«|iriutor riinpoCrfiljl^ IM8HU - wl ay hi in jNbmtlor^ iiiilud true iULUUK. RIU3 HALL. TOXSITOIUA.L PARLORS. OBDA.X1.TOWN rlfShavinj;, Shunpoolujjii neatly, cheaply mid expedltloi jauSItf GrA.. d Hair Cutllnudouu |y. Uiv« in* u call. Ill US HALL THOIPEOK’S RESTAURANT AND LADIES’ CAFE, JAM US' IIA XK ULO'tIK, ATLANTA, ( OPEN DAY 3rSPAcci>imuoiluti'Mis fbr Families, and Meals at all Hours. March 14-ftm Home Railroad. CHANGE OK SCHEDULE. On ui after SUNDAY. JUNK 0, lff.S. 111. rain* will ran on the Home flallruud a* follow*: EVENING TRAIN. leave Rome daily at t * . n Return to Rome at »*•*> ** M made u sign, and answered m Uer SATURDAY ACCOMMODATION. Leave Rome (Saturday only) at ft00PM Return to Rome at 8 -°° p M C. M. PENNINGTON, Gcn’l Bup’t. uptnr .TNO. E. STILLWELL. Ticket AgH "V alley House, Jf. D. ENLOW, Proprietor, CEDARTOWN, GA. Terms: County Custom, 25 cents perineal. Transient,50 cents ft meal. pyOnoSMbBlnmlnl rm.nml clean tied, will al «ny§ be ftwnd at my honso. Give ir-■ aep tt*tf A Man of Nerve. While Mu rut was in Madrid, he was anxious to ouuiminicate with Junotiu Portugal; hut all the roads r the Route to London swarmed with guerrillas, hntin*. maySiM tr and with the troops composing Gus- tunos’ army. Murat mentioned his embarrass ment to Baron Strogonoff, the Rub elan embassador to Spam. Russia, it is well known, w.s at nutrict that time not only the ally, but the friend of PrAlice. M. De Strognoff told Murat that it was the easiest tiling in the world. “The Russian Admiral Slnhivin,” said he, “is in the port at Lisbon; give me the most intelligent of your Polish lancers; I will dress him up in a Russian uni form, and intrust him with the dis patches for the Admiral—all will go well, even if he should be taken pris oner a dozen times between this and Lisbon, .for the insurgent army is so anxious to obtain our neutrality that it will he careful not to furnish a pretext for rupture.'* Murat was delighted with this in- genius scheme. lie asked Kransin- ski, the commandant of the Lancers, to find him a brave and intelligent young man. Two days afterward the commandant brought the prince a young man of his corps, for whom he pledged his life; his mini: was Leckiuski, and In* was but eighteen yea. 8 old. Mu rut wus moved ut siring so yen hr u limn court sc imminent; u (lllllRer; fur it lie were delected, his doom wns sealed. Murat could nut help remarking tu tile l’ule the risk lie was ubuul to run, The youth smiled. “Let your imperial high ness give me my instructions,” an swered lie, ivspicifully, “and 1 will give agouti account of I lie mission I have hewn honored .with, I thank his highness for Imving chosen me i,uninoaVrV'oi.Nn-iu.n!-Todh. from my comrades, for iillufihetii would have courted this di-tiiictiou. The prince argued favorably from the young' linn’s modest resolution. The Rii8si;ul embassador gave him his dispatches, he put oil a Russian uniform, and set out for Portugal. The first two days passed ov r. quietly, bat on'lie afternoon ol the third, Leokinski was surrounded by a hotly of Spaniards, who disarmed him, mill dragged him before the commanding ulfioer. Luckily lor lie gallant youth, it was (Ja-lam s himself. Leckiuski wns aware that he was lost, if he were discovered to he a Fn nohimin, consequently he deter mined. on the instant, not to let a single word of French escape him uud to. speak Russian and German, which lie did with equal fluency. AND NIGHT. Theoriesof rage of his captors an nounced the fate which awaited him, and the Horrible murder of General Rene, who laid perished in the most dreadful lortures but a few weeks before, as ho was goiug to Juuot, was sufficient to freeze the very blood, “Who.are you?” said Oustanos, in French, which language he spoke perfectly well, having been educated in France. Leckiuski looked at the questioner, MARRIED life IDR. BUTTS 1 No. 13 N. Eighth St. i I St. Lout., Mo. SyEsi sea Tho PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE The PRIVATE MEDICAL ADVISER Books thatsrs nadir Gslfco sad ►•IMwIrwtsislnsn Mt> Set psrtsininf to luM amt W«*Mhood. and supply 5§8gaBSBBgSSg ®iiS£KK5i?i o 8aS If yon want Bill H tTMda.OUMiblll Poatww, •T5 man: “I do not understand ypu.” Castanos. sppke German,, but In* did iWWito appear personally in the mutteivand summoned biii* of the officers of his rtaff, whowehtxm with tho examination. The young Pole aip3>y,eredjin Russian or German, but never Jeta, ay liable oi' ^ren«h escape him. He might, however, eas ly have forgotten himseif, surrounded as he was by a crowd eager for his blood, and who waited with savage impatience to have him declared guilty, tliat is, a Frenchman, to full upon him and murder him. But their fury was raised to a 'height which the general- hims-lf could npt control, by an incident which seemed to cutoff the unhappy prisoner from, eyei^ hope pf escape. One-o( Casianos’s aid-de-camps, one of tha fanatical patriots, who were so humerpus in, th|8 ; yfar, and who from the first had. denounced Lvqkinski as a French spy burst into the room dragging with him h man waering the browu 1 jacket,tall ih'iit, tfnd : ivd B r Heads, oircuiari p| um e of a Spanish pMkhhti' ,P; J? ‘““f. 1 **** 1 The officer confronted him wit: ibbrttotts* W»gyowr order* to the * the pole, and said; Look at this man, and then say, if it is true that he is n German or Russian. He is a spy, I swear by my soul.** The peasant, meanwhile, was eye ing the prisoner closely. Presently his dark eyes lighted up with the tire of hatred. “Air Frances, he is a Frenchman!” xcluinrtd lie, clapping his hands. And he stated that, iiaving been in Madrid a lew weeks before, lie had been put in requisition to carry for age to the French barrack; “and,” said he, “I recollect that this man took my load of forage, and he gave me a receipt. I was near him an hour, and recollect him. When we caught him, 1 told my comrade, this is the Fernch officer I delivered my forage to.” This was correct. Castanos prob ably discerned the true state oft lie case, but he was a generous foe. lie proposed to let him pursue his jour ney, fol' Leckiuski still insisted he whs a Russian, and lie could not be made to understand a word of French* But the moment he ventured a hint o( that kind, a thousand threatenin ' voices were ruised against him, and he saw that clemency was impossi ble. “Bui,” said he, “will you then risk a quarrel with Russia, whose neutral ity we are so anxiously asking for?” No,” said the officer, “but let us try this man.” Leckiuski understood all, for he was acquainted with Spanish. He was removed and thrown into a room thy to have been one of the dun geons of tile inqusitiou in its worst days. When the Spaniards took him prisoner lie had eulen nothing since ilie previous t veniiigf and when his dungeon door was closed on him he had fasted eighteen hours; no won- Jer; then, wlmt with exhaustion, fa tigue anxiety, and the agony of his dreadful situation, that tile unhuppy prisonor fell almost senseless on his hard couch. Night soon closed in and left him to realize,in his gloom, the full horror of his hopeless situa tion. He was brave,of course; but to die at eighteen—so suddenly! But youth and fatigue finally yielded to the approach of sleep, and lie was soon buried in profound slumber. He had slept perhaps two hours, when the door of his dungeon open 'd slowly, and someone entered with inntiops steps, hiding with his hand the light of a lump; the visitor bent >ver the prisoner's couch, the hand hut-shaded the lump touched him on tlie shoulder, and a sweet and silvery voice, a woman’s voice, asked him: “Do you want to eat?* The young Pole, awakened sud denly by the glare of the lamp, by the touch and words of the female, rose up on his couch ami, with his •yes on I v half opened, said in Gor man, “What do you wair?’ ,’Give the man something to eat at once,* said Castanos, when he heard the result of the first exper iment, ‘and let him go. He is not a Frenchman. How could he have far master of hinisell? The thing is impossible.’ But though Leckiuski was sup plied with food he was detained a prisoner. The next morning he was taken to a spot where ho could see the mutilated corpse of the Frenchman, who had been cruelly massacred by the pesmitry ofTruxil- lo, and he was threatened with the same death. But the noble youth had promised not to fail, and not a word, not an accent, not a gesture or look betrayed him. Leckinski, when taken back to the prison, hailed it with a shout of joy; for twelve hours he had nothing but. gibbets and death, in its most horried forms, before his eyes, exhibi ted to him by men with the looks and the passions of demons. He slept, however after the, harassing excitement of the day, and soundly, too; when in the midst of his deep and death-like slumbers, the door opened gently, some one drew near his conch, and the same voice whis pered in his ear: “Arise and come with me. We wish to save your life. Your horse is ready.’ And tho brave young man hastily awakened by the words, ‘We wish to suve your life, come,’ answered stijl in German, ‘Wlmt do you Want?’ Castanos, when he l^eard of this experiment and its result, said the Russian was a nobfc young man; he 8iiw the true state of the case. The next morning* early, four men catne to take him before a sort of court-martinf comjiosed of officers of Castanos’s staff. .During the walk, they uttered :inost horrible threats against him; Wit true to his determination, he pretended not to understand them. When he came before his judges, he seemed to gather what was going on from the arrangements of the tribunal, and not from wlmt he heard said around him he asked in Ger man where his interpreter was. He was sent for, and the examination commenced. It turned at fi st upon the motive of his journey from Madrid to Lis bon. He answered by showing his dispatches of Admiral Siniuvin and his passport. Spite of the presence and vehement assertions of the pea sant, he persisted in the .same story, and did not contradict himself once. “Ask him,’ said the presiding of ficer, at lust, ‘if he loves the Span iards, as he is not a Frenchman?’ Thu interpeter put the question. ‘Certainly,’ said Leckiuski, ‘I like the Spanish nation; I esteem it for its noble character; l wish our two nations were friends.’ ‘Colonel,’said the^ interpreter to the president, ‘the prisoner says he hates us hecuuse we make war like a .(lit ti, that he de ji s us anil j lmt his only regret is that lie cannot un ite the whole nation as one mail to end this odious war at a single blow.’ While he was saying.this, the eves of the whole tribunal were attentive ly watching the slightest movement of the prisoner's countenance, in or der to see what effect the interpre ter’s treachery would have upon him But Leckiuski had expected to ho put to tho test in some way, uud lie was determined to buffie all their at- tem ts. ‘Gentlemen,’ said Castanos, ‘it seems to me that this young man can not be suspected, the peasant must be deceived. The prisoner may pur sue hia journey, and when he reflects on the peril ol onr position, he will find the sevei it. we have been obli ged to use excusable.’ Leckinski’sarms and dispatches were re»nrned, he received a tree pass, and thus this noble youth came victorious out of the severest triul that the human spirit could be put A Drill Which l!«m Square Holes. One of the novelties of the Paris Exposition is a drill which bores square holed, the invention of Mr. Julius Hall, of London. The work is done, too, says a correspondent of the Scientific News, in a way so sim ple and so easy, that any one may prove the fact for himself. The in vention bus excited genuine astonish ment among the mechanics gather ed at the Exposition. There is a constant crowd surrounding the in ventor, watching him bore hole after hole square, aud puzzling over the provokingly simple solution of tho problem. All that is required is an odinary hand-drill stock. A station, ary one with a chuck below for hold ing the work is used by inventor; but he says a common brace will answer —“auy thing, in fact, will do that will probably hold the drill.” The tool itself is, the usual form of three., square drill, so that no special appa ratus is required. dump or chuck this drill in its holder so that “it will wobble.” that is the whole secret. Insteud of making a round hole, as it will if tightly grasped, when loosely held it produces a square one; aud, according to the inventor, it is im material whether the drill wobbles in the work or the work under the drill. A wt‘11 known local combination of black sheep, blackleg and black guard was ■ recently reported to the government committee of his club cheating at cards. He was very much. astonished at so frivolous a charge)<> .“Great heavens!” he ex- claimed, indignantly,; “what do .you suppose I joined your, infernal old club for?” #*- CURREffCT, “Slap dab” isn’t half as good as slap-jack. Mellow days, you know—mellow with mud. Have yon heard from—let’s see, where is it? It is better to hug a delusion than to let a bear htig you. ,# Tra-la—come again,” whispers the Hubbard to thu departing mel on. This is the season of the year to cut your initials on the back of a mud turtle. How would these “champion ours- men” look earning their living by honest work? The young man who goes around pointing louded pistols for fun is now helping the undertaker. “October means business,” says a New York paper. Yes, and you put in mustard seed to keep it sweet. “Our Hoarding House” may be a very thin play, but then its founded on very thin diet, you must remem ber. Hurry up that electric light. The man who drops a penny in a street ear wants to buy fourteen yards of it. The New York Nows has deter mined to spell it ••Sary” after this, and have no nonsense about it. It believes in contraction. “Snow is less than twenty days,” says the Chicago Journal. That's nothing. Wv’ve seen it snow in less that five minutes. If the sun does not move why these useless expressions about the rising and setting sun Brother Jas per, hang right to the root! Kansas is filling up ut the rate of 150,000 iinmigrunts uyenr, uud not a place in the Slate 1ms even offered a lunch as an inducement. New Jersey has been disappointed in her cranberry crop, but law sakes! wait till she begins to grind out her French champagne!” Those Eastern statesmen who are familiar with the Eastern question predict war and plenty of it. That is high for American wheat! Even bets are being made in Lon don that England and Russia will he engaged in war in less tliun one year. War always follows a bet. When a Nebrasku man calls ano ther a liar tiiere is no tine! over it. The lur gulps it down and waits his chance to shoot the other man’s hogs. Sergeant Hates will carry no more flags around country uiit.il he can make it pay better than to carry a hod up and down a ladder. Five men were unvsted in Cincin nati the other day for voting foil) times apiece. Can no margin be al low nl for American enthusiasm? No Opium! No Morphia or other dangerous drug is contained in Dr. Hull’s Baby Syrup, for the relief of Colic, Teething, etc. Price 25 cents. “The man who says I got drunk in Chicago lies like a hore-thieP.” There you have the seutiinents of the King of the Sandwich Islands. The Turkish Government owes Gen. Baker $5,000 back pay, and he will lake $2)000 for the account. Fine chance for Peter Cooper to make $2,000. It was an Ohio man who painted his matches white, so as to enable him to find the box in a dark night. It never occoured to him to paint the box. London has 4G0,000 dwelling hou ses. If you arc going over there to find Smith, and don’t know the number of his street, you’d better postpone the visit. Eight or ten different humorous books are promised this fall, each one containing as many as two pa ges of oiiginal matter—probably ad vertisements. Several English clergyman have come to the conclusion that perdi tion is the center of the earth. Are people going there via coal-shafts and oil wells? A healthy bridegroom, an army mu8ketandan ounce of bird-shot, all working harmoniously together, will discourage a serenade quicker than a thunder shower. Several German cities have odi< nances forbidding boys under, 16 years of age smoking, but they can stiII chew fine-cut <an£ i^mgioe that they run the house. n—An ol f maid’s man ALL SORTS, A tiny thing—A fork. The heat trine on record—Lunch time. A lone us club. It is monnifnl to see more’ll full. Paradoxical—A woman being a mail robber. “How to manage a wife”—Remain single. The washerwoman’s motto is “soap on, soap ever.” A rough answer turneth away a bore. If criminals are to be believed, none of them ever had an honest conviction. According to the Utica Observer “a murderer’s knife is always guilt- edged.” Venice isBVerrmi with blind men, although she is mistress of the sea. “All the world’s a stage,” but til- fare does not suit everybody. Argument of the wine-bibber-—“A little liquor for the stomach’s ache.” House your plants, and this will keep people from yelling some frost) morning: “How's yonr plants?” A Kentucky woman 1ms married a Mr. Calico—lias wedded a prints, us it were. We would rather meet “a horny- handed farmer than u handy-horned cow.” Talk about the whipping-post in Maryland! Why, man, there are luiii post, all over the city. The New York Graphic has trans lated the expression “pool your is sues.” It means “submerge your idiosyncrasies.” Itls the season of fairs, and then 1 is a young man in town who Inlds one every Sunday night. The man who sold a valuable claim in the Nevada mining regions for a paper of tobuco “didn’t know it was loded.” He saw a negro smoking a new meerschaum. “Thunder!” he ex claimed; “why the pipe’s coloring him!” When you wake up at night and hear the baby crying, look out for danger—for there’s a rock ahead. The divorced wife of a Boston bowling-saloon keeper is suing to get some alley-money from her for mer husband. There are two comforts in owning a saw-horse. You can either bor row yonr neighbor’s saw or loan him the horse. These trapeze performers are des perate persons. They are bound to make a living if they have to swing for it “What’s the use of trying to lie about it so clumsily?’ says tho mag istrate, benevolently: ‘haven't you a lawyer?’ One of the Ciinard steamers boasts among its domestic unimuls a lieu that weighs fourteen pounds. Is this the hatch-weigh? A bite from a rattlesnake is some times not more dangerous than a se vere cough or cold. A well merited reputation has Dr. Bull’s Gough Syr up, and this remedy is sold by all druggist. Price 25 cents. The Vox Humana says of the writer of a new seiitimentuul song that the words show him to have a soft hear*, and the nr.nsic proves the same fact for his head. A fellow says: Home with a scold ing wife aud npsut bee-hive are one and the same to him, as in either case he gets tongue more than he. wants. An agricultural paper tells “How to Dress a Hog.” But what’s thei use ot dressing a hog? It would ruin its clothes before it litid them on two hours. They are talking of abolishing funerals in Ohio. Not that people will cease to die, bu t the fuueral is expensive, and the medical colleges get the bodies anyhow. The Burlington nhwkeye has no ticed that from the time a boy is 8 years old until be is 13 he devotes two solid hours of every day pf his, busy life to learning htw to piake a new kind of noise. The last reported temperance speech rebukes those who “drink to success’and eustains “the exercise law.’ This is a fact; nor was it from! a colored orator. HUH AS DRAIN FOOD, There are many met: of many minds and nwu.y fish of many kinds,, therefore there mi>et be a fish adapt ed to each pnriiculnF mind. For instance; For thcsdiooim.is- ter we should prescribe* whale, and- for his pupils blubber. For the critic—Carp. For the soldier—Sword-fish ®n«l pile. For the office-seeker— Plaice. For t» shoemaker—Sole. For u carpenter—Saw-fish, Fora smokrr—Pipe-fish ami whiff. For the idiots who cross Iheoeeiiw in a small boat— lX»ree, For a blacksmith —Bellows fish. For lean persons—U'liub. For a sculptor—Hcnl pin’, of eon rsc. Fora Limbnrger chreso manufur hirer—Hinell. For the basso smger in a vn M'reli tnw|>c— Black bass. For a sou-captain— Skipper. For a bricklayer—Salmon. For persons who patronize lotter ies—(»ndgeoos. For dwarfs—Minnows, For old topers—Suckers, Then there is the archer fish for archers, the drum-fish for drummers, the pilot-fish for pilots, the skate fish for skaters, and t he horrnd-trdi tor hunters. If a diet of either of these fislies docs not increase the qnantity of “gray matter,” a hole might, he drilled in the skull and a fish ealh-d the “whit ing” inserted,—Nnrriduwn Herald. The fabled “Fountain of Youth” once sought in America, by Ponce De Leon, has now become in some measure a reality to those who seek healtlr and n juvenation, in the rem edies which I>r. Harter has wrung from nuture, by patient and scientific inquiry. 2t A Queer Language.—A fast man on n fast, day took his fast horse and went to the end of the fast hind, and there tied him fast, and as fast as he could he broke his fast. Then he rose nml took off his hose and went with his hoes along the rows, and puts the rose on the end of his hose—which, us eieryone knows, is a sort of horse, though 1 lieur some noes—and, like a fisherman, rows fof the 8liad with noes, or u hunter goes for the forest rose. So his hoes wa* ters every rose iu all the rows. Now tell me who knows how a foreign weight (I do not mean white) could learn very fust the meaning of hoes and rows or nose and nose, or.to perform any rite right or even to write weight right, if his living de pended on getting some right which, involved the right writing of wright, right, write and rite v —Camden Post. Ladies should remember that the saiiow and despondeut invalid al ways gains relief from the use of Dr, llartur’a Iron Tonic. It purities aud enriches the blood, aud thus in sures the vital euergy of youth. 2l Nothing Like Being in Style. In San Augustine Co., Tex., when a gentleman desires to escort a lady to church, lie writes her as foil ;vrs: “Compliments of Mr. to Miss -: I respectfully solicit the pleas ure of escorting your Corporal sys tem across the alluvial landscape thht liek between your father’s hospi table domicile and the sanctuary of God, there tb hear the expounding of the Scriptures.” The maiden replies: “I will with* pleasure allow you the exquisite be atitude of escorting my corporeal system over the space of ground in ti rvening b iw eu my | a ••ntul dom icile and the edifice Of divine wor ship when the diurnal orb of day shall Have sought bis lust resting place beh ind the occiiU-nlal Hills.” Mighty' Pleasant M usie.-^Th'e ! dinner horn iz‘tlie oldest aiid most* sakred horn ttiure iz. It iz set t<^- musik and plays “Home, Sweet Home,” about nbdti. It h «z biti : lis tened tew with-mfirt) rapturous 1 dclite than ever 1 any band liaz. ’' Yn kdii 1 hear it further tiiitn yu kaii oitfbf Rodman’s guns. It will nrresr irinuii aud brifig Irini quinker than ii’sher iff’s'"Warrant. It knn out-loot fcnny other* tabiai : ‘It kaUkOs the deat tli hear And ihn dumb td shod t far jdy.' 1 Glorious 1 CliHrtsti'b'merit 1 ! ! 1 'lotig 1 1 youre luugs last.—Josh Billings.