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One sqnar* one Insertion $1 00; each snb- sequent insertion 60 Cents. Oh MMmmnk jut. • • •.. i'i •. v One column, six mouths T 00 00 One oolumn, three months .36 00 Half oolumn, one year 80 00 Half oolumn, six months 30 00 Half oolumn, three months 20 00 Quarter column, one year 30 00 Quarter oolumn.six months. 20 00 Quarter oolumn, throe months 12 00 Oommunioatiqns of a political character, ol artioles written in nltooncy or defense of toe claims of aspirants for office, 15 cents per line. j^pnonnoement «f Candidates 18 00. A Brave Boy. A MTOBY WITH A MORAL A few year* ago a lad who was left without father or mather,weat to New York, aloae and friend- leu, to get a position in a more as errond boy, until he eould com mand a higher position; bnt this iboy had got into the habit of call Legal Advertisement* Will be inserted .1 the follo.li* rates i* n 8 “bittera aod cheap cigars. Sheriff «les, per iqasra M 50 Sheriff's mortgage ealee - • ■ • *0 Application for letters of administration 4 00 Application for letters of gUardisnahip. .4 00 HismissioU from administration.. , 5 00 Dismission from guardianship. ..**•••.. .6 00 , Fsr leave to sell land.........•• •.##• • .4 00 Application lor homestead 4 00 Notioe to debtors utid creditors 4 00 hale of real ewte by administrators, execn* t.rs and guanSlans, per square3 00 All bills far advertising in this paper are ins on the 6nt appearance of the advertise- I on the Unit appearance of the 4£<mt»will bf presented when the money is THE BUTLER HERALD. W. N. UENN9. Editor uml PtllHI»h*r. BtUkiOlUFTIOR rates 51.00. Ps» ASRUM. TUESDAY DECEMBEU Iftll IM». SAIFOED HOUSE I OOLUMBUS, CA Lately horpuyhly Renovated. SIGHT NEW AND WEU-FURNISNED ROOMS ADDED to the Hotel find ready lor visitors. Table as good as auy in the city. Charges very moderate. Persons visiting the citj are solicited to give Os a call. E. U. KAIFORD, Pop’r. Oet-15-if- NATIONAL HOTEL, C. C. CORBETT. Pro. Nxarlx Oprosrrn Passenger Depot MACON, GEORGIA. y-gT Hoard per Day $2. 00 Single Meals 75 cents. LANIER HOUSE,' B. DUB, Proprieto MACON, — — GA -o— THIS HOU8E is now provided with every ueccssarpconvenience for theaocommodation nnd comfort of its putrous. The location ie devinvble and convenient to the business por tion of the city. The Tables Have the best the market uffd*. Omni bus to and troin depot free of charge, bng- gage handled free of charge. The liar is supplied wnh, the best winer and liquors. The National Weekly, A Journal for the Fireside. A’lurge 16 pnge, 64 column paper, sire of Harper. Weekly, Ailed with the choicest reading for every member ol the family. ,.tones by the beet writers, Sketches, Poems. Humorous, Youths' Column, Domestic and Agriailtua! Columns, Bduntiflc, News in Brief, etc. Just the paper for the Home Circle, and gives more for the money than any otker. The subscription price la On looking over the papers, he noticed that a merchant wanted a lad of hie age, and called there and made his buiinesa known. , "Walk into the office, my lad,’ said the merchant; “I'll attend to you soon When he had waited upon his customer he took a seat near the lad, and espied a cigar in hie hand. This was enough. “My boy,’’ said he, “1 want a smart, honest, faithful lad, but I see you smoke cigars, and, in my experi ence of many years, I have ever liiiinil cigar smoking lads to be ciiniM-cti'd with various other evil habits, ami, it 1 am not tnistuked, you are not an exceptioa. Yon can leave; you will not suit me.’’ John held down Ilia head and left the store; and, as lie walked along I lie street, a stranger nnd t'riend It 1 .s, the conn -el of his poor mother came forcibly to bis Blind, who, u; on her death-lied, called him to iier side, and, placin ' her emaciated hand upnu his head, said : “Johnny, my denr buy, I’m going to leave you. You well know wliut disgrace and misery your lather brought upon us be fore his death, and I want you to promise me, before I die, that yon will never taste odc drop ol the accursed poison that' killed your father—nor tobacco. Promise me this and be a good boy, Johnny, and I shall die ia peace. The scalding teai ■ trickled down Johnny’s cheek. He weut to his lodgings, aod, throwing himself upon his bed,gav6 vent to his feel ings in sobs that were heard all over the house. But John had moral courage. He had energy and determination, and ere an hour had passed he made up his mind never to taste another drop of liquor nor smoke another cigar. He went straight back to the merchant. Said he : ‘ Sir, you very properly sent me away this morning for habits that I have baen guilty of: but sir, 1 have nei ther father nor mother,aud though I have occasionally done what I ought not to do, and have oot fol lowed the good advice of my poor mother on her death-bed, yet 1 have now hade a solemu vow nev er to drink another drop ol liquor nor smoke another cigar; and if you sir,will try me,it is all I ask." The merchant was struck with the decision and energy of the boy, aod at once employed him At the expiration of five years ONLY $2-00 <1 YEAR. THE NATIONAL WEEKLY, Canseur” knows that He will deserve and win the thanks of ail managing editors if he can but im press these few simple rules upon the minds of those who wtite occa- asionally for the Press: * Write upon one side of the leif only, Why? Because it-is often necessary to cut the pages into “takes" for the compositprs, and this cannot be dona wheu both sides are written upon. Write clearly and ^istinotlv, being particularly oarefnl in the matter of proper names aqd words from foreign languages. Why ? Because you have no right to ask either editor or oompositor.to waste time puzzling out the results of your selfish carelessness.. Don’t write in microscopic hand, Why ? Because tne oompositor has to read it across his case at a distance of nearly two feet. Also, because the editor often wants to make additions aod other changes. Don’t begin at the very top of the Srst page. Why? Because, it you have written a head for your article, the editor will probably want to change it and if you have oot—which is the better way—he must write one. Because, he wants room in which to write his in struclioDS to the printer as to the type to be used, when and where the proof is to be peDt.tssAi, Never roil your manuscript Why? Because it maddens and exasperutes every one who tenches it—editor, compositor and proof reader. * Be brief. Why ? Because people don't read long stories. The num ber of readers which auy two ar tides have is inversely proportion ed to the square of their respective lengths.' That is, a half column article is read by four times as many people as one of double that length. Have the (ear of waste-basket constantly and readily before you eyes. Why? Because it will save you a vest amount of useless labor to say nothing of paper and pos tage. Always write your full name and address plainly at the end of your letter. Why ? Because it will often happen that the editor will want to communicate with you and because he needs to know the writer's name as a guarantee of good faith. Ifyou use a pseudonym or initials, write your own name and address below it. It will nev er be divulged. “The precepts in thy memory keep” and for fear you might for get them, cut them out and put them where you can readily run through them when tembted to spill innocent ink. pathy, to the beieaved mother in England. In dne course of time the letter was returned to the United States dead letter office as undelivered, the mother not being at her former address. It was then opened, and after examma- tion, returned in its open condi- Two thousand persons will pur. a pollar each into a scheme nffeu ing a prize ol $1,000. though only one can get It, and 1.999 must lose hie dollar. A publisher puts *2,000 elm collecting and preparing useful Infoi mation, and offers to every one t 2,000 persons who contribtes only tion,with the suggestion that the dollar of so, a printed duplicate • . . ... tllH mail' fa on that Iinnb nnn .... L the results, so that each one may hfil’l the entire benefit ef what has actui ly cost $2,000 or more. Is not this b< ter than any uncertain chance schei full of blank tickets! This applies all good journals and all good books. Here i« a good special illustration. Tha letter was then turned over to I AhJrtraMwwit Mpend$25,3oa jSft oontedts would enable the English post officials to discover the per son it was intended to reach; but in due course of time it came bach the second time as undeliverable. one of the lady clerks in the dead letter office, who, on reading the contents, with a woman's instinct divined that the “Ollie” who wrote the one letter, and the Miss L , spoken of in the mother’s letter, were identical. What is technically termed a “letter of discovery” was addressed to the supposticioua lady at the address in Scotland, post-marked on her letter. TJus letter, on reachiug that office, was forwared to London whither the young lady had gone- and the dead letter office here re ceived a reply from her, with thanks for the diligence displayed in endeavoring to 3ecure the deliv ery of the letter, Rtating that it in gathering plain, practical, reliably to every fcniilv, in country,. villto^, or city. There are 700 to 800 original engravings in each volume, which bring right to the eye and understand-, ing a multitude of labor-saving and labor-helping contrivances, and im plements, tor out-door and in-door 1 work,—very many of rhem home-pro* duced. This •'real number ol useful, instructive ana pleasant engravings, is a most valuabl feature of the Amer ican Agriculturist,making it great ly superior to any other source ofite similar information. This Jocrftaffil This J. constantly publishes caustic expos- of Humbugs' nnd Swindelers, which save its readers many times its cost. Over $25,(KK)a year are expend ed in collecting and preparing infor-. mation, engravings,etc.,giving thous ands of useful hints nnd suggestions*. Yet each and everv reader gets tlifr full benefit of $25,000 outlay. The was the first they had heard of tha! C08t to single subscribers is only !1^0, soldier’s death, and giving the j JAW* fl ’ e ® l0 ” r 91,25* B ./ ■? ac h : anil to clubs of ten or more on-* % l present address of ‘he mmher the soldier, te whom the original. each, post free.) It will pay every \ package has been forwardad, ma-!one to have this Journal. Try it.’ king its fifth trip across the Allan-1 Marshall's magnificent Steel-Plate 1 tic ocean Eiigravinir. eutliled "The Farmer*. Too-Hntttrr Him. As Confederate war reminis- ** r °5dway, Few \. cences are always id Order, bere is one too good to be buried. The hero of the joke was one Jim. He was attached to Rosser's Cavalry, in Stewart'e command. Jim was | noted tor his strong antiputhy to shot and shell, and a peculiar way he had ol avoiding too close com munion with the same, hut at lust all his plans failed to ketp him out of the “row/' and he, with his companions, under a lieuten ant, was detailed to support a bat tery that composed a portion of the rear guard. The enemy kept pressing so close, in fact, as to en- dauger the rutreating forces, and the troops covering the retreat had orders to keep the enemy in check for a given perion at all hazards, and the order was obeyed to the letter under a gailing fire. Jim grew pesperate, He stuck behind trees that appeared to his excited vision no larger than ram-rods. He then tried to lie down, In fact he placed himself in every position that his geuious could invent, but the “hiss” of the bul let haunted him still. At last, in despair, he called to the com manding officer: “Lieutenant! let’s fall back I” “I can’t do it, Engraving, eutiilod "The Farmer•» Frida,'* Ts presented to each subecrl- bSE.A6jid‘WtSl-JSeH.'s extra to cover cost of packing and postage.) Oa- axoe Judd 1 Co,, Publishers, 245** SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN THIRTY-FOntTH TEAR. * The Most Popular Scientific Paper fo , the World* Only Sib 2D a Year, including Postafre, Weekly. 52 Numbers ff Year# 1,000 book pages. The Scientific American i large Fitef* Class Weekly Newspaper of Sixteen Pages/ primed in the most betmtiful style, profusely 1 J iiliintrated with splendid engravings, repw- * Hunting the newest Inventions and the sutmf* recent Advances in the Alls and Seta riculmre, Horticulture, the Home, otauo# Medical Frog rear, Social Science, Natural- History, Geology, Astronomy. The most- jortmeuts of .Science, will be* found in tbe Scientific American. Terms S3 20 per year. $1.60 half year/ which includes postage. Discount to agent*- Single copies, ten cents. Sold by all News-- dealers, ltemit bv postal order to MUNPf k CO., Publishers, 37 Park Row, New Yortv PATENTSa In towRection with the* Scientific Amehican, Messrs. Munn & Co., are Solicitors of American uwd Foreign Pat ents, have hud 34 years experience, and now have tbe largest establishment in the world. Patents are obtained on the best terms. A special notice is made in tbe M ciENTintf A mei'.ican of all Inventions patented tl rough this Agency, with the name and rertdenoe of the Patentee. By the immense cweulntion thus given, public attention is directed to the merits ol tbe new patent, end sales or introduction often easily affected. Any person who Aus made a new discov ery or invention, com ascertain free of ctmige, whether a patent can proboNy be obtained * T . ... *. j , m ttvrr n wuwuct “ piueu* m*u proi*»riy ue odu JtTO ! vepneu the officer.—‘Weil, J by writing to the nudersigned. We send free our Haud Book about the Paten! History ot a Dead Letter. Some time in 1877 a soldier sta tinned with the cavalry in Texas, died very suddenly, and was bur ried with military honors by his cleeneu out it we stay here 1 My: costs, and how procured, with hints tor pro orders, Jim, are to-hold this placer' uriag udvanr.es on inventions. Address for . the Paper, or t-oncermug Patents, and support that batteiy of guns, M MUNN & CO.,87 Park Row, New York* this lad was .partner in the husi-(cuinrades ami the spot carefully ness, and is now worth R10,000. marked. On his person was disoharge which he had received "Prisoner at the bar/'said the i the day before lor physical disa- Judge, “is there anything you; bility, and a letter from his moth- wish to say before sentence is pas sed upon you? The prisoner look ed wistfully towards the door, and remarked that he would like to say “good evening,”if that would er in England, and one evidently from his sweetheart, bnt signed only by her first name. These were carefully preserved by the p. ft. *»t 854 WASHINGTON, D. C, they wouldn't lot him. be agreeable to the company. But j lieutenant of tho company .aa lforwarded, with a letter of sym- pointing to the artillery close by. \^0,0®°°’ F ' 4 m S|S " If we fall back the enemy wilt i - TAYLOR COUNTY SHERIFF SALES. FOR JANUARY. rush in and capture the guns."! Just at that instant a well direct ed bullet impressed Jim with the fact that a change of base became j necessary. Jim louud another ap-, _ narently protected spot, and as | e* “ah-to ihe higheet bidder, the follswiug soon as he recovered his mind he sang out: “Oh, lieutenant I whatL^IS^' SfS do thiDk them 'ere cannons coss ?' r i No. -2.V7, botu in the first District,_ nil ofwid •,I dont know, Jim. I suppose i 801,1 ! ho P;°l about $1000.” “Well,” said Jim,! “ - “- y - ■ Will be sold Oefore the Court House* dow the town of Butler, on the First Tuesday .January uex», between the legal hour* , 2JPiflfi Dfetnet, ► 27y and 60 acres of lot ■ , - StetAon,.. let’s take Up a collection and pay iUgaiust H. A. A Lucy Pari*. Property fnr darned minii and let the I properly pointed out by plniniifTs nttoruojv Tor tne aarnu» guns, ana iet uie | i) erem ber uth 187b C. A. J. pope. Yankees have eiu. dcaio-td* sbnitL