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ELLIJAY COURIER. FOBU3HEB EYEBT SATURDAY, At TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. j. c. ALLEN - Editor and PBonunoit. C. F. COCHRAN - - - PtmusHßß. mj-; —i - THU PAPER IS OK Fii WITH %3T Tks fcllowlaf rates and rules rim? naive***! and luperaUv*, and admit of • exooption; MATES OF ADVERTISING. One aqua re on* insertion •••!!* Each subsequent insertion - - - , Ona square one ya*r Two aqturea one year j® ™ Quarter column one year * • - - Half oolamn one year .... 45 00 Uaa column one year * - - * .*' 0L Local notices 10 cnU 4 Mne each ineer *^T#nlines.one inch,constitute* a square. Tearlr advertisers will be allowed one ahaage without aottra cbatgc. legal ADVERTISING. Sheriff sates, each levy, - - 44 00 C'itatioO for letter* of administration and ruardinnsblp, - - -4 00 Application tor dlsmiaeion from ad ministration, guardianship and akin* uto nib in. - ft 00 A ppMoation tor leave to eeil land, aqe square, - - - - - * Each additional square, - - 200 Lead males, one square. - * 4 * Each additional square. * On Application for homestead, - - 200 Notice to debtors and creditors, t 400 for *ll legal advertisements, the cash MOST be paid in advance. Advertisements not marked for a certain Uumbar'of Insertions will be published till forbid, and charged accordingly. ■g—■SßSftl" M’-J 'IUL ißMß3Bgggg GIHCIXI DIRECTORY. "(ienrge N. Lester, Judge Blue Ridge Circuit^ Thomas F. Greer, Solicitor. $ TOWN COUNCIL. J. R. Johnson, President: J. X. Wt kino. H. Wilson, J, E.F. Smith, G, B. Han* dull, Secretarr. o —. board of education. J. F, Pettit, President: E. W. Wat kine, Secretary; W. C. Woodard, Wil liam Simmon#, W. t. Kackley. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. C. Allen, Ordinary. I„ M. Greer, Clerk Superior Court. Wm. Jones, Sheriff. P. H. Milton, Tax Bee eivir, Colleetor and Treasurer. James A. Carnes, Surveyor. J. R. Johnson, Coroner. E W. Watkins, School Commissioner. and RELKttOUB BESVRS)*. - ItAPTisT CiiunCß—Every second Satur dsv and Sunday, hy N. L. Osborit. M bthodir r Episcopal Chi kch—Every first Sunday, by Kev. A.F. Ellington MKTnontsTEpiscopal Church, south Rrery third Sabbath, by Rev. T. J. Ed wards, FRATERNAL RECORD Oak Bowkuy Lodok. No. 81, F. anti a. M.—Meets first Friday in each month. X. Jj. Osiiork, tv. M. David Clahhvn. secretary. MAIL-ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE. Leave Morganton. Tuesday • - 6 am Arrive at Ellijay, Tu-sday - - 4 pm Leave Kllijav. Wednesday • S am Arrive at Cartersville. Thursday 0 p m Leave Cartersville, Friday - - 6 am Arrive at Ellijay. Saturday - - I‘l m Leave Ellijay, Monday ... 6 am Arrive at Morganton, Monday - 6 pm Leave Dahl.mega, Friday - - 6 ain Arrive at Ellijay, Friday . . 6 pm Leave Ellijay, Saturday ... 6 am Arrive at Dnhlonega, Saturday - 6 pm Leave Ellijay, Wednesday - - - am Arrive at Duektown, Wednesday t> pin Leave Ducktown,Thursday - -<* am Arrive at KUijay, Thursday - - 6 pin David Garrkn, Postmaster. J. C. ALLEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA., Will practice in the Superior Courts of the Blue Ridge Circuit. Proqtnd attention given to all business entrusted to his care. Collections a specialty. THOMAS F.GREER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA. As Solicitor General will attend regu larly all the Courts of the Blue Itidge Cir cuit; also, Supretnc Court of Georgia and L'.S. District and Circuit Courts. Land litigation a specialty. H. R.FOOT ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA. PRACTICES IN THE BLUE RIDGE A y*iT.°uit. Gives attention to claims against the United States Government. Land Agent. .Parties wishing to buy or sell land in any of the Cherokee Counties oan address er oall on him at Kliiiay. 1-tf E. W. WATKINS. M. D. Physician and Surgeon, ELLIJAY, GA. DR. JOHN M. WATKINS, Physician and Surgeon, ELLIJAY, GA. dV Office South side of Public Square juiio-dm. J. R. JOHNSON, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, ELLIJAY, GA. Teed#H hi* professional servioes to the ettlacM of Ellijay and vicinity. Will promptly aagwer all calls, when ttol pro (MiioMny jun2l-Iy. THE EUJJ vrjfilßfili. VOL. 11. “GOD KNOWS.” Oh! wild and dark was the Winter night, When the emigrant sMp went down, But just outside of the harbor bar, In the sight of the startled town I The w inds how led, and the sea roared, And never a soul crold sleep, Rave the little ones an their mothers’ breasts Too young to watch and weep. No boat could live in the angry surf, No rope could reach the laud ; There were bold, brayc hearts upon the shore, There was many a ready hand ; Wamen who prayed, aud men who strove W hen prayers and work were vain— For the sun rose over the awful void Aud the silence of the main ! All day the watchers paced the sands— Ail day they scanned the deep; Alt night the booming minute guns Echoed from steep to steep, “Give up thy dead, O cruel sea I” They cried athwarth the space; But only a baby’s fragile form Escaped from its stern embrace! Only one little child of all Who with the ship went down, That night when the happy babies slept Bo warm in the sheltered town! Wrapt In the glow of the morning light, It lay on the shifting esnd, As fair as a sculptor’s marble dream, With A shell hi its dimpled hand. There wre none to tell of race or kin. “God knowetb,” the pastor said, W hen the sobbing children crowded to ask The name’ of the baby dead. And So when they laid it away at last, In the churchyard s hushed repose, 't hey raised a stone at the baby’s head With the carven words—“ God Knows.” W ritten for The Courier.] The Drunkard’s Career—What he Deposits and What he Lose^ No doubt there great many men in the world well, acquainted with the evils of intemperance, but perhaps there are a great who have dever gummed up what it costs a man to be a drunkard—what lie deposits and what he loses. I will proceed at once to sum it up: Ist. He deposits his money and loses it. 2d. He deposits his time and loses it. 3d. He deposits his character and loses it. • . 4th. He deposits his health of body and loses it. sth. He deposits his strength of mind and loses it. 6th. He deposits his many in dependences and loses them. 7th. He deposits his self-re spect and loses it. Bth. He deposits his sense of right and wrong and loses it. 9lh. He deposits his self-con trol and loses it. 10th. He deposits his home comforts and loses them. 11th. He deposits his wife’s happiness and loses it. 12th. He deposits his childrens’ rights and loses them. 13lh. He deposits his country’s honor and loses-it. 14th. He deposits his own soul and loses it. I hope the eyes of some young man may fall upon the heading oi this article; if so, let his soul drink in what his eyes perceive. Let him think before he takes the first glass, and raise it not to his lips lest he there and then makes the first deposit. Let him turn and flee from it as he would from a wild beast, holding forth the good cause and influencing his comrades to follow him that the rising generation may be a sober and God-fearing people. T. H. L. Morganton, Ga., April, 1877. ■ I have a delight of my own, and it comforts me, that by de siring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is, and cannot do what we would, we are part of a di vine power against evil, widen ing the skirts of light, and mak ing the struggle with darkness narrower- “ Error Ceases to Be Dangerous When Season in Left Free it/*—Jefferson. The Spurious Belle Boyd. Editors of the Baltimorean: — Your paper of Saturday, April 14th, contained an article copied from the Houston (Texas) A f, headed, “Belle Boyd—An Inter view with the Famous Spy.’ : i>ow, I certainly am not übiquitous, and feel tempted to exclaim, like Rip Van Winkle, “Well,theft, if she is Belle Boyd, who ara I V For the past two or three yean person styling herself “Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy,” claiming Virginia as her birth-place, has been traveling through the South ern States, regaling the public with incidents ©f her exploits in the Shenandoah Valley, iu con nection with the armies of Stone wall Jackson, Banks, Frettient, McDowell and others. While I have been queqtly en gaged with my domestic dnties, my husband and children,the part nine years, this woman has beetn roaming over the country, using my name, lame and reputation, taking incidents from an autobi ography published ten or twelve years ago, embelislnngand alter ing it to suit herself, and impos ing upon the people and public at large. To the Masonic lodges she has represented herself as my father’s daughter, viz: B. R. Boyd, of Virginia, a Knight Templar of good standing, and from *them has obtained assistance. , The lodge of which my father Was a member, Equality Lodge No. 44, of Marti ns burg, West Virginia, issued circula\syome months ago ty throughout the country regarding this impostor, and 1 had hoped she would not be enabled again to impose upon the order. 1 have forborne taking any no lle* of the matter, as JUwiLd • notoriety. With me the past is in the eternal past, and 1 have no wish to drag it from the grave in which it lies buried; but duty to my sell, family and friends com pels me to remove from the pub lic mind the impression that the vile imposter, to whom I have re ferred, is or has any claims to the name of Belle Boyd, Late of Virginia. Baltimore, April 19,1877. Put Life into Your Work- A young man's interest and duty both dictate that he should make himself indispensable to lus employers. He should be so in dustrious, prompt and careful that the accident of his temporary ab sence should be noticed by his being missed. A young man should make his employer his friend by doing faithfully and minutely all that is entrusted to him. It’s a great mistake to be over-nice or fastidious about work. Pitch in readily and your willingness will be appreciated, while the “high toned’’ young man who quibbles about what it is and what it is not his place to do, will get the cold shoulder. There is a story that George Washington once helped roll a log that one of his Corporals would not handle, and the great est Emperor of Russia worked as a shipwright in England—to learn the business. That’s just what you want to do. Be energetic, look and act with alactrity, take an interest in your employer’s success, work as though the busi ness was your own, and then let •your employer know that he may place absolute reliance in your work and on your act. Be mind ful; have your mind on your bus iness; because it is that which is going to help you, not those out side attractions which some of the "boys” are thinking about. Take a pleasure in work; do ndl go about it in a listless, formal manner, but with alacrity and cheerfulness, and remember that while working thus for others, you are laying the foundation of yourowu success in life. J| ELLIJAY, <JA„ MAY 12, 18fcfc y Male Flirtations. - A man has no right to sport with the feelings of a young wo man,' though he stops short of positive prhmise{Jp Vanity is gen erally the tempter in this case; a desire to be regarded as being adijjjiij’ed by the wonlfcn—a very despicable species of Vanity, but frequently greatly mischievous, notwithstanding. You do not, indeed* actually, in so many worfcp, promise to marry ; but the general tenor of your language and has that mean ing. You know ing js so and if you hay|f no such meanuig—if you be fixed, by qome previous engage ment will), or greater liking for a.,QtoSer—if you know you are here thekeed of disap- ppifUfuent—and if you, keeping yotif. previous engagement or greater liking a secret, persevere, in *fijte of the admouitions of Conscience, you are guilty of iflf* liberate deception, injustice and cru3ty; you make to God an un grateful return endow m *#*. which have enabled you to achieve this inglorious and mi maftjy triumph ; and if, as is fre quently the case, you glory in suoi triumph, yoiMuayLave per son,pches, talents.to excite envy, bufcißvery just and qumaue man wi|fiMt or yoijr heart. ■Hup Demiekt, a wealthy nvnbfacturer of Flushing ave nu| Brooklyn, who had daughters. Mary, Anne' Phf-lipetie, arrested lor graflu lar ceily ih going from hie house wJu-ing their clotting, hjs prop erty, without his consent, was on WftlHfesday himself arrested on ill# charge of assault aniMiatlery. : Hf. rharried Miss Katritp. Phyfe, .scautifjul young girl I who had been engaged to Phillip Deli hart, Jr., Ins son. In December, just before Mrs.‘Dtpliert’s death, she called Miss Phyfe and her son to her bedside atjd had their promise to marry each other. In February Phillip’s father surpris ed him and his sisters by intro ducing to them as hi? own wife and their step-mother the lady Phillip was to marrg. The child ren quit the house and went to their aunt’s. Learning that their mother had a separate estate, in which they were entitled to share, they consulted a lawyer. The father hearing of it had them arrested on a charge of larceny. His arrest followed and he was bailed. Mr. Denhert, in a card to a German newspaper, declares that his wile did not love his son, although the marriage was in tended, and that she chose him in preference. A young man who lives on a farm near Bophara, Australia, lately went to sleep on a sofa after a hard day’s work, and had been lying there some time when he got up and went outside. His companions observed that he walked with a staggaring gate, but little notice was taken of the matter, as they expected him to rejoin them immediately. The somnambulist, for such he was, passed through three or four gales, untying the fastenings, which are made of rope, and made his way to tire woolshed. There he hung his coat upon a nail, took down a p;<ir of shears he had been using in the day time, and preceded to sharpen them. He next caught a sheep, and had just finisheoshearing it, when he by the sudden arriva-jgMHMffidw. who had t'omo a:vh Mm. & ■g . i Sow Mrs. Hayes Looks. [Cincinnati Commercial.l Mrs. Bayes is of medium height and squarely built. Her head and features are large. So is her waist, and her hands and fed ati in proportion. She has a magnif icent. suit of hair. It is so heavy and black, and is dressed sO smoothly, that in the day tune it looks dark and precise in con trast with her clear olive com plexion. The most prominent feature of her face is the mouth, which is large (the jaw is as broad as a man's) and conspicuously filled with strong white teeth ; lips are particularly firm and full, with the jaw indicating decision of character and an ardent tem per a men l. The forehead is broad i r. and smooth, and eyebrows are regular. The eyes are largd but deeply set, and are of that pecu liar gray which does not mean a twilight depth of bine, or an azure light of gray. They are a decided admitting of all the steel tints from that of cold metal to the gleam and glitter of the polished ore. In the glow of in tense feeling such as animated her on Inauguration Day and at her first public reception, her eyes looked as black as night, and they had such a lustre at is rarely seen. She made no effort to conceal her delight. ik.- A Towj Without Winter, Penn., where have had no fcinler this I yea* It is on the Bruce Itog&gp’ flpn. In drilling a well theystruck a vein of gas at a dfptli of 300 feet. The flow was so powerful that work had to be stopped. The gas was lighted and from October until February it illuminated thecountry around. The jieiju were from, |>rejv(y r flX#. to forty feet high, and were seen twenty miles away 1 . The heat generated bv Hie burning gas so affected the temperature of the locality that flowers, berries and all kinds of vegetation natural to the soil flourished up to the day that the gas was shut off. Cows browsed around the burning well and “garden truck” was raised. The gas is now being brought in pipes to Bradford to furnish fuel for machine shops and founderies and it will be eventually used to light the town. The roar of the well can be heard at night at Bradford. Here is another ghost story from England, this time from Al dershot. For some time past the sentries on two outlying posts have been frightened to death by the appearance at night of two spectral looking figures. These figures, glowing with phospho rus and otherwise alarming to the superstitious, are in the habit of suddenly manifesting themselves making tremendous springs of ten or twelve yards at a time, and upsetting the wretched sentry before he has been able to collect himself sufficiently to oppose earthly arms to his ghostly visi tants. The latter do him no bod ily injury, contenting themselves with upsetting the poor man, after which they misteriously dis appear. So great has beer, the panic that it has been found nec essary to post double sentries, and these have lately taken to loading with ball. Whether the rifles have been tired ornotisnot known, but the posts are still haunted. Neither have such pre cautions as sending out pickets to explore the neighborhoocbbeen of any avail. It is supposed that the alarm has been caused by two practical jokers provided with powerful springs to the heels of their boots. , At a printers’ festival, recent the following toast was offer ill.: “Woman, second only to the Qhffifciuatiou of news.” JLfw Wadi Won lh> Heiretf. | X sw Yack Herat*.} • Miss Clara Taysr, £*gbt©v>f the late William Taylam* wealthy tinsmith, 4ho fYtidefr at No. 804 Bedford .avenue, and qa hair©— in her sightof sloo,oo<M* caused * Outlet of ofteitemiaat in frtit a lawyer of this city, ber !me an lmotiwr.irrid marrying a youqg man ntama/1 VVQI lar WaJLa. •aamaa iiiauivu won id ff AUO The day school and a manufacturer of flavoring extracts, made Him Taylor's acquaintance through a sidewalk flirtatiou,fcd lie beirtg of fine pretence and gifted with attractive manners, won the af fections of tile lady, and persua de<l her to marry birt. Wbe ac companied him to the house Of one of his relatives, the ceremony was performed and they departed no. 22. for Philadelphia, hot caused ' a notice of the wedding to bw ad vertised in a Brooklyn paper a day or two ago. On this clew the family lawyer, Mr. T. Jackson, N. 45 Broadway, WiUiamsbmp, visited Fliiladelphia,and oa Fri day obtained, from the newly wedded couple a stipulation that the principal of lior fortune Should remain intact for the ben efit of her children, retaining to themselves only the ' interest* Mrs. Taylor has been snshoched by the elopement of ha*daugh ter that she ha* decided-to Jteave Williamsburg, and for that puN pose the elegant mansion hud all its contents will be sold-at auc tion on Tuesday next. Mr. Rene iff also suffering deeply at the treats ment he thus received from the fair, but to him false young lady: Bom Tweed Confesses. New York is profoundly agita ted by the confessioh ef Boss 1 ' Tweed, disclosing the tacts ofeft-' nected with ffie enortndns specu lations of the so-called Tammany Ring on the city treasury. Tweed has given tire names Of his part ners in guilt, and declares that the fugitive ex-Mayor was an ac tive participant in the thefts, and received ten per cent, of the steal ings. This is the reason why lie’' left, but if he remains in England lie is liable to extradition. The operations of the ring con sisted; in the main; of corrupting all public contractors by induc ing them to Or three prices for their labor and sup plies, and then dividing the ex cess among themselves. The common idea is that the city, in this way, was plundered out Of five or six million dollars at least. Tweed’s confession lias doubtless stirred up the ring politicians in a lively way. Gen. Grant has been visiting his Missouri homestead.* which is about five miles out of St. Louis. It was the home of tire Dent fam ily, and it was there that Lieut- Grant, when on duty at Jefferson barracks, not many miles distant, wooed and won Julia B. Dent, who hag made him such a devo ted wife. After he resigned bis commission Mr. Dent gave the young couple Sffacresof timber land, and the future General and President used to chop wood, pile it up in cords and haul it to St. Louis, where he would drive about the streets until he *dould find a customer. He found it hard, however, to make both ends meet, and endeavored iii 1855 to get appointed county-sur veyor, but the justices of the Su perior Court preferred another candidate. —Charleston Newe and Couriir. A lady on Washington street, who is enthusiastically Republi can, named her canary bird Jkn Blaine. He did not sing mticb, but she loved him' tenderly until last,Saturday she discovered that Jim Blaioe had laid an egg. Now she declares that no dependence can be placed on a politician.— Rome Sentinel. 1m carving a turkey in the pres ence of strangers, it is a breach of etiquette to stop more than twice to spit on your hands and. get a uew hold.