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ELLIJAY COURIER. PDBUSHED mi UfOiDAT, B-% TWO DOLLARS PEA ANNUM. 4. C. ALLE!W Rom* in PaonocrM. CX t. - - Htauu***. nut rim ■ A rt. < with TTfimi (| iiiiiiUim Com tract* ms W turn Am, rr Tk roltewhkf rmtM ad rmles are ,1 hirer. 1 aad li>r*tiT, and admit of KATSB OF ADVERTISING OM „, u *re one iiwertion ■ • . I I on Rack #uboequnt insertion > • * JJ (M Bqttare on* year to 00 Two Mum on* year 20 oo iuartar eolnmu one year • - - - *no HaK column one year - • J" One column on* year . • 1 • - so* Local aoueea N cent* a Uae each inser tlon. Ten linen, one inch, constitutes a square. Yearly advertisers one change without extra enatge. LEGAL ADVERfISINk. Sheriff sales, each levy. - - $4 00 Citation for letters of administration and guardianship. - jr -4 00 Application for dismission mmi ad ministration, guardianship and executorship, - - - -5 00 Application ft>r leave to sell land, one square, “ - Kach additional square, - - 200 Land sales, one square, - * 4 < ■ Rach additional square. * •10' Application for homesteadi - - 200 Notice to debtors and creditors, - 400 For all legal advertisements, Mie cash must be paid in advan *. Ad vertisements not marked for a cqrtal n number of insertions will be pniiUabed till forbid, and charged accordingly. 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. ——o- ... 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. ——— ——— <>—*- 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.