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Wit and Humor. A blind man’s wife'needs no painting. In seeking the good of others we find our own. Good men are safe when evil ones are at varience. Evil company makes the good bad, and the bad worse. Sloth is an argument of a mean and de generate mind. Recreation should fit us for business, not rob us of time. Renew the time you have misspent; think upon it and lament. He that can do us an injury may at one time or other do us a kindness. Death is before the old man’s face and may be at the young one’s back. In a thousand pounds’ worth of law there is not a shilling’s worth of pleasure. Aquafortis will explode as well as nitro glycerine and grindstones. Out of his re maining eye Mr. Maxtell, of Garnett, Kan., looks a sad assent. A.chap asked his friend why he had mar ried 'a little wife ? “Why, sir, I thought you had known that of all evils we should choose least.” “How hollow it sounds,” exclaimed a patient under the movement cure, as the physician was vigorously pounding his chest. “Oh, that’s nothing,” said the doc tor; “wait until we get to the head.” The Philadelphia Times echoes the plaint of “Col. Sellers:” “It is getting to be more and more a mystery how anybody at Washington manages to preserve his vir tue—though perhaps the majority only go there after they have lost it.” A little girl in Ohio is likely to make her way through life by her ingenuity alone. She tied a string around her little brothers tooth, tied the other end of the string to the stove leg and then stuck a red hot coal to the little victim’s nose. The tooth came out. “If you marry,” said a consul to his son, “let it be a woman who has judgement enough to superintend the getting of a meal of victuals, taste enough to dress herself, pride enough to wash before breakfast and sense to hold her tongue when she has noth ing to say.” “Youmean elastics,” replied a Broadway clerk to an old lady who asked for garters. “I suppose some high-nosed people call ’em lastics,” she said, “but when I git too stuck up to ask for garters, I’ll not box my Susan’s ears for saying hose when she means stockings.” She got her garters. “Wa’al, yes,” said the old man, as he painfully leaned on his cane, “I am kinder aging, and I feel it more an’ more every day. Only last year I used to be able to walk round Onion Pads every morning, and now my rheumatiz is so bad that when I’ve got half way round, all I can do is to turn round and hobble back. ” He came back to his mother looking very forlornly, with a big red swelling under his left eye, and four or five handfuls of torn shirt boilingover his brecches-band. “Why, where on earth have you been ?” she asked. “Me and Johnny’s been playin’. He played he was a pirate, and I played I was a duke. Then he put on airs and I got mad, and”— “Yes, yes,” interrupted his mother, her eyes flashing, “and you didn’t flinch?” “No’m, but the pirate licked.” A young man in Chicago was recently found dead in his room, and the supposi tion was that he had committed suicide by poisoning ; but upon analyzing the contents of his stomach nothing but the following were found in it: Pickles,' pound cake, lemonade, cold turkey, beer, fried oysters, cold punch, ham sandwich, sponge eake, beef tea, mince pies, champagne, lobster, game pie, fruit cake, tea, chicken salad, whisky, coffee, bologna sausage, port, cheese, sardines and sherry. The jury re turned a verdict of “Died through the visi tations of friends. ” A little negro decided to migrate from Columbus, Ky., but haying no means he mounted the pilot of the locomotive at tached to conductor Latimer’s train, after the engineer had oiled round, and rode into J ohnsonville, a distance of forty-one miles. When the train stopped at this point, the urchin was hauled down from his perch and asked what he was doing there: “I’se jes wemigfatin’,” he whimpered. “Sup pose a cow or a horse should have come up there, what would you have done ?” “Thur wuzn’t any hoss or cow gwine to come up dar, day’s too big. A sheep come dar and staid wid me a little while, and den got off agin.” The engineer remembered to have struck two sbeep a short distance back, but supposed both had been knocked off on either side of the locomotive. Here is a sample of actual occurrence in Washington Market, haying been overheard by a friend, whom it pleased so much he took it down at the time: My country friend, George-Edward-Augustus, walked up to the wagon of a fat countryman, and, after peering for some time at his stock, inquired, “Are dese good taters?” “Yes, sir,” responded the countryman. “A la ter,” resumed George-Edward-Augustus, ‘ ‘is inevitably bad unless it is inwaribly good. Dere is no medocracy in de combi nation ob a tater. De exterion may appear remarkably exemplary and beautesome, while de interion is totally negative. But sir, if you wends de article on you? Own ceromendation, knowing you to be a man ob probability In your transactions. I, wid out any furder circumolotion, takes a bushel ob dat superior wegetable. ” WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Bushels. Lbs. Bushels. Lbs. Wheat 60 Blue grass seed...l4 Shelled corn .56 8uckwheat.......52 Com in the ear. ..TO'Dried peaches 88 Peas 60 Dried apples 24 Rye... ...56 Onion 67 0at5:....,.......32 Salt 50 Barley 47 Stone coal 88 Irish potatoes... .68 Malt 40 Sweet potatoes... 55 Bran 20 White beans 58 Turnips 55 Castor beaus 46 Plastering bail.... 8 Clover seed 60 Unslacktd lime.. .80 Timothy seed... .46 Com meal 47 Flax seed. 56 Fine salt 54 sun DAVID W. CURRY, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIST, GARTERSYILLE , GA. v ~ i DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, WINDOW GLASS, TOILET SOAPS, (all grades) POTASH, FINE TEAS, And everything usually found in a first class DRUG STORE. PUKE KEROSENE AND LARD OIL. Best Tea only $1 per pound. Trices furnished upon application. Liberal discount to merchants. 6-flm DAVID GARDEN, ELLIJAY ; a A., DEALER IN DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, i LEATHER, HARDWARE, HATS, CAPS, NOTIONS, ETC. o A GOOD SUPPLY OF GROCERIES xl always on hand. Also DYE-STUFFS, PERFUMEKLES, . And an excellent line of T M e and i<; in es j Including Agencies for Jayne’s, Scovlll’s, McLean’s, Radway’s, Hall’s and Ayer’s PATENT MEDICINES. Also constantly on hand a good supply of IRON AND COTTON YARNS. And in fact everything that is generally found in a Dry Goods and Grocery Store, aud will be sold exceedingly cheap for cash or barter. Call on him at that old and favorable stand formerly kept by W. P. Milton. 5-8 m DEATH-BED OF ANDEEW JOHNSON. A FINE ENGRAVING, JUST PUB XX lislied on heavy plate paper, 14x19 inches in size. It touchingly portrays the last moments of the great statesman, with family, and friends grouped sorrowfully around him. It is a beautiful gem of art, and should hang in every house and cot tage in the land. Sample copy sent by mail, mounted on a roller, and postpaid, on receipt of 25 cents, or 3 for 60 cents. Address BURROW & CO., Publishers, Box 94, Bristol, Teun. 3r Agents wanted everywhere to sell our new popular Pictures of Moody and Sankey, Death-Bed of Andrew Johnson, Centennial, and one hundred other sub jects. No money required until pictures are sold. Send stamp for Catalogue and terms. Address as above. 22-4 t COLONISTS, EMIGRANTS & TRAVELERS WESTWARD. For map circulars, condensed time tables and general information in re-flerd to transportation facilities to all Somts in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, [innesota, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, lowa, New Mexico, Utah and California, apply to or address Albert B. W renn, General Emigrant Agent, Office No. 2 H. I. Kimball House. Atlanta, Ga. No one should go West without first get ting in communication with the General Emigrant Agent, and become informed as to superior advantages, cheap and quick transportation of families, household goods, stock, and farming implements generally. All information cheerfully given. W. L. DANLEY, 4-tf G. P.&T. A. Norcross High School AND-- COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. T OCATED at Norcross, Ga., on the Air lx Line Railway, only tweuty miles from Atlanta. Term begins Tuesday, September 7th, 1875, and continues forty weeks, includ ing one week’s vacation at Christmas. Unsectarian and undenominational. Standard Phonography or Short-hand taught. Board and Tuition reasonable. For circulars and information, address N. F. COOLEDGE. 1-tf PrincipaL DUNLOP & DICKSON, JTo/l* Printers, No. tr Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. We solicit your orders and guarantee satisfiaalioii, Rates low. W. R.GREER, (Successor to Greer & Hogan.) TILTON, OBOmOZA, DEALER IN General Merchandise* Keep constantly on hand a full stock of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, H ARDWA RE, CROCKERY, HATS,CAPS, BOOTS,SHOES,&c. AH of which he wiU sen at the very lowest prices for CASH OR COUNTRY PRODUCE. I buy my goods for cash, at the 1, lowest pncrs, and sell no goods on time, which enables me to SELL AT LOWER FIGURES than any man who sells on time. ALL I ASX IS A TRIAL. 14-3 Boarding House. I CALL THE ATTENTION OF THE 1 public to the fact that my house is now fitted up for the accommodation of all who may favor me with their patron age. Transient customers accommodated upon liberal terms. The house is com fortable, the beds nice and clean, and the table is furnished with good and substan tial food. Persons from a distance wish ing to visit this section would do well to correspond with ms. I have a hack con nected with the house, and can send any one, or a family to Cartersville, Dalton, Morganton, Dahlonega, or anywhere in this section. Terms reasonable. 10-tf J. I. JARRETT. THOMAS F. GREER. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA. will Practice in the superior Tl Courts of the Blue Ridge and Cherokee Circuits, and in the SuDreme Court of Georgia.' Also, intheU.ited States Counts in Atlanta, will give special attention to the purchase and sale of all kinds of real estate and land litigation. l.tf H. R. FOOTE £TT@§tWMr &&Wd; ELLUAY, GA. PRACTICES IN THE BLUE RID(j(E Circuit. Gives attention to claims uaainst the United Statoa Govoruaeitr Also, Land Agent. Parties wishing to buy or sell land in any of the Cherokee Counties can address or call on him at Ellijay. l-tf JOHN HUNNICUTT, Currier and Tanner, ELLIJAY, GEORGIA. PARTIES desiring any work done in my line, will always find me ready to ac commodate them on the most reasonable terms. Highest rates paid foi green or dry hides. l-tf DR. R. E. STEPHENS” 1J AVING LOCATED AT MORGANTON JLL tenders his medical service to the people of Fannin and adjoining counties. When not professionally engaged will be found at the MORRIS HOTEL, front room. 13-6 m SUGAR, COFFEE AND SALT. If you want a bargain in the above ar ticles, call on J. R. DeJOURNETT, Dry Goods and Grocery Merchant, 11-3 m Dalton, Ga. Dr. D. SOUTH WICK, 85 i 87 Ntehll St., Atlanta, Ga., STILL CONTINUES TO CURE ALL cases of OBSTACLES TO MARRIAGE, BLOOD IMPURITIES, OBSTRUCTIONS OF MENSES, from whatever cause—every ailment or sickndss which results from abuse or im prudence, with unparalleled success. Having had large experience in his Spe cialties, he has perfected remedies tint are effectual in all these cases. His pa tients are being treated by mail and ax press everywhere. £3l“ Cali, or address with stamp, in con fidence, as above. 19-ly WITHERS’ IRON FOUNDRY, ONE AND A HALF MILES FROM Marietta, on the Boswell road, is pre pared to make all kinds of Grist Mill Ma chinery, Circular Saw Mills, Running Geer for water or horse power of any size and description as good and as cheap as can be got In Atlanta or elsewhere. Fac tory castings, pulleys, hangers, Bbu'Ung^c. Engine repairs neatly ?xecut id ; plow points cast of any patern. Best market price paid for old castings. Sorghum Mills made to order and old ones repaired. 'Ornamental Fencing of everv descrip tion cast at foundry, good and c'heap 2-t£ WATKINS, JOHNSON & WATKINS, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, ELLUAY, GEORGIA. RESPECTFULLY TENDER THEIR II professional services to the citizens of Gilmer and adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to those favoring them with their patronage. • l-12m TO THE PUBLIC. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE FOR “THE ELLIJAY COURIER.” Issued Every Wednesday Morning ' * - AT ELLIJAY, GILMER COUNTY, GEORGIA, BY H. A, DUMSDEX. In yielding a hearty support to your County Paper, you not only “ help along in life ’’ those who print it, but you contribute to the character and political importance of the county itself. The price of subscription is j Only Two Dollars per Annum, which is cheap enough for everybody. r Advertisements Will be inserted at the rate of One Dollar per square (one inch), for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise for three, six or twelve months. Send in your Subscription and Advertisements. We call the attention of merchants, manufacturers and other business men to the advantages obtained by advertising in the Courier. It is the only paper published in this section—Towns, Union, Fannin, Pickens and Dawson counties, which are in our immediate vicinity—having no paper. Every one interested in the prosperity of North-Georgia should subscribe for this, the only paper pub lished in any of the above counties. Sample copies sent free. ADVERTISERS WILL FIND UNRIVALED INDUCEMENTS Offered by the Courier as a cheap and profitable advertising medium. The paper will be filled with choice leading matter, of interest to all readers, thus making it a useful, instructive and live-spirited paper, and a welcome visitor to every reader in North-Georgia, and throughout the State. Every family should have a copy^ All communications should be addressed to H. A. LUMSDEW, Eilijay, Gilmer county, GJ a. A Grand Georgia Enterprise. the great event or THE coming teas. 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No pains will be spared to make it equal in its respect to any newspaper in the country. In fine, the grave and the gay, the use ful and the entertaining, will be pre sented to its readers. Upon a basis of assnred prosperity, it will be able to fully execute all its undertakings. The Daily Constitution is furnished, postage paid, at $10.60 per annum; $5 30 for six months; $2.65 for three months; SI.OO for one month. The weekly Constitution, made up from the daily, a mammoth sheet of 40 columns; price, including postage, $2.20 per annum; sl.lO for six months. Sample copies sent free on applica tion. Address, -AV-fA. HpirffTLL & Cos.. Atlanta, Ga. COLUMBIA HOTEL, Corner Alabama and Pryor sts., ATLANTA, - - GEORGIA. Beard per day s2—single meals 50c. D, RYAN, Proprietor. AMBRXCA2V WASH BLUE. For Laundry and Household Use, Manufactured at the AMERICAN ULTRAMARINE WORKS, Newark, New Jersey. OUR WASH BLUE is the best in the world. It does not streak; contains nothing injurious to health or fabric, and is used by all the large laundries on ac count of its pleasing effect and cheapness. Superior for whitewashing. Put up in packages convenient for family use. Price 10 cents each. For sale by grocers every where. Always ask for the American Wash Blue, if you want the cheapest and best. ■A meric in Ultramarine Work*, 9-tf Office, 72 William street, N. Y. ONLY ONE DOLLAR! Savannah Weekly Morning News WILL BE SENT TO ANY ADDRESS six months for One Dollar. This is one of the CHEAPEST WEEKLIES PUBLISHED. It Is not a blank sheet in which all sorts of matter is promiscuously thrown. It is a neatly-printed four-page paper, compactly made up, and edited with great care. Nothing of a dull or heavy character Is ad mitted into the columns of the Weekly. It is an elaborately compiled compendium of the best things that appear In-tfceJDA'n.Y News. The telegraphic dispatches of tbe week are re-edited and carefully weeded of everything that is not strictly of a news character. It also contains full reports of the markets; thus, those who have not the advantage of a daily mail, can get all the news, for six months, by sending One Dol lar to the publisher; or for one year by sendiug Two Dollars. The Daily Morning News is the same reliable organ of public opinion that Jt has always been—vigorous, thoughtful and con servative in the discussion of the issues of the day, and lively, sparkling and enter taining in its presentation of the news. In fathering and publishing the latest infor d'serrHsing 20-3 m Ordinal y. • MIMINISTTUTOR'S SALE. _ T %5 fbt o nw.ri.hs. The Tlii- Weekly News has the same features as the Daily News. Price, 18 for 12 months; $8 for 6 months. Money for either paper can be sent by P. O. order, registered letter or Express, at publisher’s-risk. 7 ‘ The Morning News Printing Office Is tbe largest in tbe State. 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