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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
George N. Lester, Judge Blue Ridge
Circuit.
Thomas F. Greer. Solicitor.
TOWN QOUNCIU
J. it. Johnson. President: J. M. Wat
kins, It. Wilson, J. K I*. Smith, G, 11. Itau
dail, Secretarr.
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BOARD OF EDUCATION.
J. F. Fcttlt. President; E. W. Wat
kins. Secretary! W. C. Woodard, Wil
liam Simmons, W. it. Kackley. .
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Alten, ordinary.
),. M. Greer, Clerk Superior Court.
Wm. Jones, Sheriff. * .
T. 11. Milton, Tax Receiver, Collector
and Treasurer.
James A. Carnes, Surveyor.
J. It. Johnson. Coroner.
K W. Watkins, School Cbintniseioner.
religious' services.
Baptist Church--Every second Satnr
dav and Sunday, by N. L. Unborn.
MKTHomsr RpiacopALCHU rcii— Every
first Sunday, bv Rev. A.F. Ellinsloii
M unionist Episcopai.Ciilhcii. South
Kverv third Sabbath, by Rev. T. J. Ed
wards.
•FRATERNAL RECORD
Oak Bowehy l.ntmts, No. 81, F. ano A'.
M.—Meets first Friday in each month.
N. I>. OsmißS, W. M.
T>avii> G aukkx. Secretai v.
MAIL-ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE.
Leave Moriranton, Tuesday -- r> a m
Arrive at Ellijrt.V, Tuesday - - 4 pm
Leave Ellljav, Wednesday - - S ain
Arrive at Cartersville. Thursday 0 pin
Leave Cartersville, Friday - -ti ain
Arrive at Eilijay, -Saturday - -12 m
Leave Eilijay, Monday - - - 6 ain
Arrive at Mdrganton. Monday -(i pm
l.eavc Dahlaneira, Frldity • -0 am
Arrive at Eilijay. Friday - - 0 pm
Leave Eilijay.’ Saturday - - - 6 am
Arrive at Dahlonegn, Saturday -(> pm.
Leave Eilijay, Wednesday - - - 0 ain
Arrive at Puokiown, Wednesday fi p ill
Leave Puektown, Thursday • H ain
Arrive at Eilijay, Thursday - - 6 pm
PaVii* Oarhkn, Postmaster.
J. C. ALLEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELLIJAY, GA.,
Wn.i. practice in the Superior Courts of
the Blue Ridge Circuit. Prompt attention
given to all business entrusted to his care.
Collections a special ty.
THOMAS F. GREER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELLIJAY, GA.
As Solicitor General will attend regu
larly all the Cottfts of the Blue Ridge Cir
cuit; also. Supreme Court of Georgia and
li. S, District and Circuit Courts. Land
litigation a specialty.
H. R. FBOT
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELLIJAY, GA.
PRACTICES IN THE BLUE RIDGE
1 Circuit. Gives attention to claims
against the United States Government.
Also,
Land Agent.
Parties wishing to buy or sell land in
any of the Cherokee Counties can address
or call on him at Etlliay. 1-tf
E. W. WATKINS. M D.
Physician and Surgeon,
ELLIJAY, GA.
DR. JOHN M. WATKINS,
Physician and Surgeon,
ELLIJAY, GA.
if V Office South side of Public Square
jull9-6m.
J.R. JOHNSON, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon,
ELLIJAY, GA.
Tenders bis professional services to the
citizens of Eilijay and vicinity. Will
promptly answer all calls, when not pro
fessionally juu2l-Iy.
THE ELLIJAV COURIER.
VOL. 11,
New despin ; tbe darkest cloud
Thai ever loomed will paaa away,
11m darkest night will jriekl to dawn—
The dawn will kindle into day.
What if around thy lonely bark
Rage fierce and high tbe waves of sorrow
Work eTery oar! there’s land ahead,
And thou y ilt gain the shore to-morrow.
When fortune lrowna us, and Summer
friends.
Like birds tin** fear a storm *' ‘
Some, if thy breath hath tropic • armth,
Will stay and nestle 'round thy heart.
—Gainesville (Texas) Hcsirerian.
Wife end X.
She who- sleeps upon my heart
Was the first to win it;
She who dreams upon my breast
Ever reigns within it;
She who kisses oft my lips
Wakes the warmest blessing;
She who lest* within my arms
Feels their closest pressing.
Other days than these shall oome,
Days that may be dreary;
Other hours filial! greet us yet.
Hours that may be weary;
Still this heart shall be thy home,
Still this breast thy pillow,
Still these lips meet thine as soft
Billow meeleth billow.
Sleep, then, on my happy heart,
Since thy lore hath won it;
Dream, then, on my loyal breast—
None but thou hath done it;
And when age our bloom shall change,
* With its wintry weather,
May we in the self-same grave
Sleep and dream together.
The Shining Hosts.
1 have heard, says-Spurgeon, of
one who dreamed a dream, when
in great distress of mind, about,
religion. He thought he stood in
the out court of heaven, and he
saw a glorious host marching up,
singing sweet bearing
tbe banners of victoryand they
passed oyttni "through the gate,
and when they vanished he heard
in the distance sweet strains of
music.
“Who are they ?” he asked.
“They are the goodly fellowship
of the prophets, who hav.e gone
to be with God.”
And he heaved a deep sigh-as
he said :
“Alas! lam not. one of them,
and never shall be, and I cannot
enter there.”
By and-by there came another
band, equally lovely in appear
ahee, and equally triumphant,
and robed in .white. They passed
within the portals, and again were
shouts of welcome heard within.
“Who are they V'
“They are the goodly fellowship
of the apostles.”
“Alas!” he said, “I belong.not
to that fellowship, and I cannot
enter there.”
He still waited and lingered, in
the hope that he might yet go in;
but the next multitude did not
encourage him, for they were the
noble army of martyrs. lie could
not go with them, nor wave their
palm branches. He waited still
and saw that the next was a com
pany of godly minislei’s and offi
cers ol Christian churches; but he
could not go with them. At last,
as he walked, he saw a larger host
than all the rest put together,
marching and singing most melo
diously; and in front walked the
woman that was a sinner; the
thief that diet! upon the cross,
hard by the Saviour; and he look'
ed long, and saw there such as
Manasseh and the like, ami when
they entered he could see who
they were, and he thought:
“There will be no shouting
about them.”
But, to his astonishment, it
seemed as if heaven was rent
with sevenfold shouts as they
passed. And the angel said to
him:
“These are they that are mighty
sinners, saved by mighty grace.”
And then he said :
“Bless be God! I can go in
with them.”
And so he awoke.
“ Error Oeuoa to Be Dangerous Whon Reaaou is Left free to Combat It. "--Jefferson.
A Boy’s Composition on Hrents.-
*
Parents are hern to be a great
trouble to their offspring. They
upset all a fellow’s plan|V It
would he jolly not to
When I was little, I. remember,*
I tried to hang up the kitten by
my whip lash, and Brother-look
the kitty, boxed niy efi-ra, -and
went and drtwned*it heretfli Ithci
'dayiTTiio she had aH the fim to
herself; and father is worse than
mother. He told me t-o lake care
uf the pennies, ahd - the dollars
would take care of themselves;
so I and Den Smith formed an
Anti-Swearing Club.
We had a rule that for every
profane Word Used we should pay
a cent in the treasury. We had
seventy-five cents in the first day,
but when we divided, and I
fetched thirty seven and a half
cents homejathel' said it was bad
business, whipped ine and broke
up the club. How is a fellow to
know when he is doing right ? If
I had no parents to hound me
around I’d beat George Washing
ton all holler, for I’d cut down
every cherry tree in the garden,
and own it too. If I was an or
phan, I know what I’d do to mor
row.
Ben Smith and me would go
straight to a desolate South Sea
Island and stir up the goasts and
monkeys and other things, cracs
cocanuts, fry toadstools, eat oran
ge§ a spell, then we’d make a ship
and sail around the world. What’s
the use of dying up in one place?
I told mother one day when she
wouldn’t give me ten cents, that I
meant to go a whalin’, and I
hoped a whale would swallow me,
as one did Jonah, and then Hie
would never see me again, for I
can’t swim. She said I wouldn’t
be 1 1 1-y te- m a v hrrt,
for I would turn the whale’s
stomach mighty quick after I got
there. bully ?
If a parent I know what
I’d dm, /i’ 1 ktern still, and mind
my own busojin ss, and let my
children have some fun. There’s
Tom cults lives witli his aunt, and
has a bully time. He goes wood
chucking and elling Sunday, has
no best clothes, and no pocket
handkerchiefs to bother him,
crawls under the canvass of circus
tents, earns money at the theatre,
sleeps in the stable when he likes,
and always has his pockets full of
peanuts. He says he wouldn’t be
bothered with parents, if he could
have ’em for nothing, and he
thinks if I hadn’t any it would be
money in my pocket. Them’s my
sentiments.
To Drive Away Rats,
A lady writer, in a recent ntim
ber of a New York Journal , dis
courses in the following style con
cerning her treatment of rats and
mice: “We cleaned our premises
of these detestable vermin by
making a while wash yellow with
copperas, and scatered the same
in the corners of the floor. The
result was a perfect stampede of
the rats and mice. Since that
time not a footfall of either rat or
mouse has Deen beard about the
house. Every spring a coat of
the yellow wash is given to the
cellar, as a purifier as well as a
rat exterminator, and no typhoid,
dysentery, or lever attacks the
family. Many persons deliber
ately attract all the rats in the
neighboi hood by leaving fruits
and vegetables uncovered in the
cellar; and sometimes even the
soap scraps are left open for their
regalement. Cover up everything
eatable in the cellar and pantry,
and you will soon starve them
out. These precautions, joined to
the service of a good cat, will
prove as good a rat exterminator
as the chemist caii provide. We
never would allow rats to be pois
oned in our dwelling; they are
so liable to die in the wall, and
produce much annoyance.
ELLIJAY, GA..J' NE a, 1877.
‘.A
lii(|u3triea of the United States,
There is a number of extremely
Tm-mrtant industries which the
States is filled, by. the
nafu - /resources of the couutry
iW4 the peculiar talent of the
Vpei'ple, to carry on a much larger
scale than at present. Colton
rn^wfarttiring is one, and the
acture of all sorts of tools
is another. There are still others,
anU one of the most important to
tlie country is that of iron ship
building. The experience of the
p;J lias not been favorable to
ire* shipbuilding iti the United
St A-i*s, and little or none has been
dotij up within a few years. It
lias, however, long been apparent
to r.'.e observer that the time must
corns eventually, at some period
or other, when the country
wo#hi go into the business on a
larr-v scale. The land is Supplied
wil'd an extraordinary abundance
of ad the materials which compose
iron ships, in the first place, and
in the second place there has
never been any doubt at all but
that the vigor and talent, and
other causes which have enabled
coti&i and other manufacturers
to tt-hieve suuoess in their acts,
in rompetition with the world,
wait’d also in the end enable the
iron shipbuilders to do the same
in tfe-eirs. It would appear from
the .statements of an article on
this oubject that iron shipbuilding
lias already become successful in
the,United States. At any rate,
it has had a most interesting
growth and development, and the
builders now claim to be able to
serv. the country as well as they
can be served in any country in
the world. An industry which
spends such enormus sums of
money annually and so benefits a
i-i 40 v. J 'icjU
ed, deserves the good will of the
public. —Nmo York Tribune.
The Final Parting of two Lovers.
[San Francisco Chronicle.]
An affecting death-bed scene
occurred in Oakland, Cal., on
Friday evening, in the Sunnyside
House. A young man named
George Elward Murray, who died
recently Irom the effects of an ac
cident, had been engaged to mar
ry an interesting young lady at
the same hotel; but just two
weeks before the fatal accident
the lovers had a disagreement
about a trilling matter and Mr.
Murray released her from the en
gagement. Although exceedingly
nettled, her love for him had not
diminished, yet she encouraged
the attentions of a rival suitor, a
worthy young man of Berkley,
who pushed liis suit and engaged
the young lady to mary him, the
wedding being arranged to take
place last Thursday. That morn*
ing, just as the expectant bride
began to- robe herself for the al
ter, her former lover was brought
into the house in a dying condi
tion. The moment she heard of
it she rushed to the bedside of
tlie dying man, and, with eyes
streaming with tears and voice
tremulous witii emotion, she
brushed aside physicians and at
tendants, and clashing her arms
about the neck of the former
sweetheart, pressed his pale lips
to her own and kissed him repeat
edly, all the while calling him by
his first name in tones the most
tender and pathetic. A faint
smile of recognition beamerl over
the pale face of the wounded man,
and the lovers parted forever, she
to finish her dressing for the altar
and, he to pas,s over the river of
death.
He held the old shirt up by the
neck before discarding it forever
—but he wasn’t mourning for the
garment. He only said. “I wish
I had all the drinks again that
have gone through that old neck
band!”
Miss CoZZKNsis making a Phai
bal effort to get a post office.
Stonewall Jackson and His Sister.
Stonewall Jackson and his sis
ter were orphan children, and
were brought up together until
lie went to West Point. Like most
orphan children they were unusu
ally attached to each other. She
married and settled in Beverly,
West Virginia, where her hus
band carried on a large farm or
plantation. lier brother, the Gen
eral, frequently visiied her, and
during these visits he would
frequently go to the quarters of
the slaves for the purpose of ex
horting them on*the subject of re
ligion. Frequently the soldier
would be seen upon his knees in
the midst of the children of Afri
ca,offering earnest prayers for
their salvation. When the war
broke but the brother espoused
thecause of the South and became
the greatest pf all Contederate
Generals, with a world wide repu
tatioir for consummate military
ability, and laid down his life on
the bloody field of Chancellors
ville. The sister, jn spite of the
opposition ot her brother, uninflu
enced by Ins brilliant achieve
ments and the opposition of her
husband and her relatives, sided
with the cause of the Union and
remained tiue to that cause to
the end of the war. So great was
the feeling engendered against
her that she eventually separated
from lier husband and moved to
Springfield, Ohio, and resided
vvitli a daughter who had married
a Union officer.
The Local Paper.
The New York Tmes , speaking
of local papers, says : “You might
nearly as well forget your chucli
es, y-rui academies and school
a* to iofgei ytmf ioca) jm
per. It speaks to ten times the
audience that your local minister
does. It is read eagerly each day
and each week from beginning to
end. It readies you all, and, if it
lias a lower spirit and less wisdom
than a sermon, it has a thousand
times belter chance at you. Lay
ing, as it does, on every table in
almost every house, you owe it to
yourselves to rally liberally to its
support, and exact from it as able,
heightened a character as you do
from and educator in your midst
It is in no sense beneath notice
and care—unless yon yourself aie
beneath notice and care —for it is
your representative. Indeed, in
its' character, it is the summation
of the importance, interest and
welfare of you all. It is the ag
gregate of your own conscience,
and you cannot, ignore it without
miserably deureciating your
selves.’’
Nevada Lizards.
[Maysvillo Appeal.]
A gentleman ot this.city recent
ly related to us a story in regard
to the lizards of Nevada, which
seems to confirm the possibilty of
their enduring intense heat ioi*
a short time, at least. The black
lizards of that sagebrush State
are very easily domesticated,
harmless, sociable, and intelli
gent. This gentleman has sever
al pet lizards, one of which lived
near a furnace where he burned
retorts or molds for silver bullion.
This work requires a very hot lire;
which he had made open at each
end. The lizard would set on a
tree near by watching him, and
his dog would frequently chase it
if it ventured to the ground and
compel it to take to the tree
again. Frequently, however,the
lizard appearantly for the sport of
the thing alone, would dash down
from the tree and induce the dog
to give it a sharp race, when it
would iun right through the fur
nace, coining out of the other end
like a flash, unscathed, while the
dog in his eagerness would be
burnt at the fire before he could
stop.
Cigar Smugglers.
|New York Tribune.)
Havana cigars of (he kind usu
ally shipped to this port are worth
about ten dollars a hundred in
Cuba. The duty is nearly as much,
being eight dollars a hundred, so
that Havana cigars costing ten
cents in Cuba, really cost eigh
teen cents, plus the freight and
commissions, before reaching this
city. Here they fume competition
with cigars manufactured in this
country, but represented to bo
Havana cigars, which can bo
profitably sold at twenty ceuU.
Of course t here is no profit Oil S
genuine Havana cigar at twenty
cents. In order to get a ten cent
cigar into this port at a price
which will justify its sale at
twenty cents, the Havana mer
chant sends a large quantity, say
ten thousand, by a steamer, with
out naming the consignee for
whom they are intended. In fact,
they are shipped to nobody in
particular, and the steamship
company is left in ignorance as to
where they are to be delivered.
In the meantime the exporter at
Havana has given notice to his
agent in this city of the fact of the
shipment. The agent gties to a
special agent of the government
and promises to lodge with him
information of u smugling oppera
lion in cigars, provided he is
given his share of the fifty pci*
cent, moiety to which the' ihfor
mer is entitled. The special agent
agrees, ahd the cigars are seized.
They are thus landed in this port
at a cost of five cents, plus the
freight charges, but Rre in the
hands of the government, and
must be sold to pay the duties.
They are sent to an auction store
and sold, and bought in, when
the amount bid is-sufficient to pay
the duties of eight dollars a htin=*
tired, by the man who gave the
information, and thus reached the
hands of the person for Whom they
were intended ut a cost of only
thirteen cents and freight charge
es, It is said by persons alluded
to as familiar with the cigar trade
that numerous shipments of this'
character have been smuggled
into port within the last
three or four months.
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NG. 25.
Useful and Cheap.
The unpleasant odor produced
by persperation is Irequently the
source of vexation to persons who
are subject io it. Nothing is sim
pler to remove this odor much
more effectually than by the ap*
plication of such unguents and.
perfumes as are in use. It is only
necessary to procure some of the
compound spirits of ammonia, and
place about two tablespoonfuls ill
a basin of water. Wash the face,
hand and arms with this leaves
the skin as clean, sweet and fl-esh
as one could wish. The wash is
perfectly harmless and very
cheap. It is reccommended oil
the authority of an experienced
physician. A bottle of ammonia
is only one ol the most necessary
things to have always on hand.
It will remove grease or soiled
spots from almost any goods with
out injury, in valuable in clean
ing all woolen goods, and one of
the very best washing fluids, is
made of equal putts of ammonia
and turpentine. It makes rubbing
the clothes almost unnecessary,
anti also makes them very White
without making, them tender.
House plants are stimulated in
their growth and blooming by
watering them with warm water,
to which is added a tittle ammo
nia. Two spoonfuls to a quart of
water is sufficient,
■ . —.a., a.
In the cell of a prison, on the
stone wall, was recently found a
picture, drawn by a miserable
man who went from that spot to
be hung. It was that of a scaffold
with five steps leading to it.
Each of the steps was named.
The first was, “Disobedience to
Parents ;” the second, “Sabbath
breaking;” the third,‘‘Gambling
and Drunkness; 1 ” the fourth,
“Murder;” -the fifth was eallee,
“The Fatal Platform,” and just
above it was the scaffold wher
he was to end his wretched life.
Boys, if you would avoid the last
step, don’t set your foot upon the
first. Beware of tbe beginning of
evil.
