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I/. B. (IHHEII, Editors and I T. 15. Kilt BY, Publishers.) ellijay courier. Pullnhcd Every Tliuns'.lag, —liV— GREER&EIRBY-, Office in (lie Court-house. EiirTlie following rates nn-i r iles are universal .m.l imperative, and admit of no exception : jvjj UATKS OI- SL’BSCTII’TIOX OXEYE.VK, CASH, $1.50 SIX .MONTHS, ' 75 TUtM’IK MONTHS 40 I;AJUis of. All v!■;i; risi ,Nu . <*ne siniiifiM.iio insertion . - j op Kaeli shliseiinent insertion - . . .51 One sijinire one rear pi.ii'.i Two squares one year ----- -ii.p j (Quarter coin in one year - - _ . •jv.no Hall'column one year ----- as.ii) One column one year ----- so.oo Ten lines one incli.coiulitii'er a square. Notices ainone local reading nuitteivJ.i cents per line fir lirsr insertion, and 15 cents lor each snlise fuent inrertoin. I.ocal notices fallowin'. l rea linir in ittcr, 10cents per line for ilte lirst insertion, nmi 5 cents per-liiie for eaeli* suite fueut insertion. Cards written in the interest of individ uals will lie charged for at the rale of b cents per line. Yearly advertisers will lie allowed one change without extra charge. J. C. ALLEN, Attorney at Lair, ELLIJAY, CiA. WILL practice in the Superior Courts of the Blue Bulge Circuit Prompt at tention given to all business entrusted to liis care. THOMAS F- GREER. Attorney at Lena, ELLIJAY, CIA. W 11.1. practice in tjic Superior ('nurts of the llltte indge and ('ll rokee Circuits, and in tlic Supreme Coiutof Georgia. Also, in the I'nitisl Stales Com is in Atlanta. Will give special allcnlion to the purchase mid sale of all hinds of real estate and and litigation. tfflFE WALDO TJOBHTON, D. D< S. CALH3UN, GEORGIA. w 11.1 j visit Kllijav and Morjrniilon at lioth tli * Spring ami Fall torm <*l tip* Su jicrior Court and oltener by rn. in ft when srHifient work is to justify me in making the visit. Ad dress ;is above. may 21-ly. Ell gay Sr in in ary Mala and Feu tad COLUSE OFSTUDY: .Ci.assh.ai., Scientific and Piiactical - Students prepared for I lie higher Ui>i' versify classes or for busuie s life. >' For further particulars * M G Bates. . july 9 tf. Principal. Jno S ; Yoimg, SANFORD. CHAMBEfiLAIN & iLßpjj, WHOLESALE AND MANTFACTUIiIStF I>li lT(i G I V JT&. , Knoxville, Term. .Jiffy 21-Biii. exchang^TiotEl / • G W. KADCLIFF, Proprietor, Kates of Board $2.00 per day; single meal, 50 cent. 'I able always supplied with the best the market affords. XB. 1?. O’JVoill, I)ALTOX, - ~ GEORGIA, j Wholesale and Retail Dealer in WHISKIES, WINES, Brandies, Gins, Ales, Beer, Ac., all of the purest and best make and suitable for me dicinal, sacramental and other purposes. BROWN AND RUSHTON, DALTON, GA. Jbwelers. Auctions Cein'cii Mortals. Watches, Clocks. Jewelry, Silver-plated Ware, Spectacles, Ac. Great bargains in Crockery, Glassware, Clothing and No tions. Inducements offered country mer chants to fitly their Clocks, Spectacles, Notions, Ac., ol us. oct. 0-ly. THE ELLIJAY COURIER I JjQ BROWS ILOI-I BITTERS' ara a coetain cure for ali diseases requiring a complete tonic; espe cially Indigestion, lly vpcpsia. Inter mittent Fevers, Want of Appetite, Loss of Strength, Lack of Energy, etc. Iduriclres the blood, fitrcngtii ens tlie muscles, and gives new life to the nerves. Acts like a char in on the digestive organs, removing all dyspeptic nymptornr, such as tasting the food. Belcliingj Heat in the Stomach, Heartburn, etc. The only Iron Preparation that will not blacken the teeth or give headache. Sold by all Drug- t gists at SI.OO a bottle. BROWN CHEMICAL CO. Baltimore, Md. , F-oo that all Iron Bitter* nr-s tutidc liv Bhowj* Chemical Cos. uni l.uvo crossed nil lint -; : • tra-1; i.tnrk on wrapper. BEV/ARS OF P.IITATIONS. UAND & POWER is Dorn Spellers It For MILL, FARM, OB PLANTATION, For FARM, MSU,, jJ9Bii4C, OR WAREHOUSE. . HOfiSf POWERS, JACKS, Etc, WRITE FOI? ILLUSTRATED CATV LOCUS PRICES. (•Sandwich ffo C& 1 SANDWICH, '(ILLINOIS 0 'JiREEN BUSTLE Has a continuous FORCE FEED •* mhher. cannot bunch tho grain, sow# grain otrwmjr, * rubber springs, -and wilt clear ail ordinary obstacles. It !• built with Detachable Grass Sosdor, front or rear, FERTILIZER ATTACHMENT, Which sows ail kinds of phos phates, or fertilizers in general use, in same furrow with tho wheat A Patent Cut-off pre vents waste of Fertilizers equal to 20 per cent, of cost of Drill each year. Circulars sent free upon appli cation. J, B, CROWELL & GO. CREEHCASTUE, PENN’A." SSO to 8125 a IVlontli. ENCYCLOPEDIA howto be YOUR OWMF- I -LAWYER | I ■. .* ■jj&'.Sjg ©tb?r 7" *r 13 rinv:-. Farm t lie h its c . 1 €v rylxsly wants it. F, ■-.A for ci , ;inr-cai r. V,\ ZlKUiXll l: L l : < v; A. a; - ..n.r.:, j-ft. ‘‘A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuatis'.*f§and its Vast Concerns.” • a* EI.LI.IAV, GA, THURSDAY, WCEMISKIt 8, 1881. Christmas Is Coming, llaltomorc Sen. "Christmas is coming!” the children cry, Counting the weeks that are hurrying by. Dear little children, who live at home. And do not guess what it is to room From morn till night, when slockittgless feet Up and down, through the ice and sleet. “Christmas is comining!” thinks little Tim, lint what can the Christinas do f< r him; His home is a cellar, his Daily bread The crumbs that remain when the rich are fed. No mother Uf kiss him when day is goue; No place to he glad in under the sun. Thai wonderful fellow, old Santa Glaus, Who never is Idle a moment, because lie is kept too busy with piling the toys Into tiie stockings of the gi.ls and hoys, No wonder lie sometimes forget a, you know, Into flic’homes of the poor to go ! But. dear little children, you understand That the rich and poor all over the land Have one dear Father, who watches you, And grieves or smiles at the thing you do. And some of His children are poor and sad, And some are always merry and glad. Christmas will bring to you many joys— Food and plenty, frolic and toys; Christmas to sonic will bring nothing at all; In place of laughter the tears will fall; Poor little Tim to youi door may come— A'our hisssing are many; spare him some. The Christmas bells will sweetly ring The song the angels love to sing, The song that came with the Savior’s birth, .‘•Peace, and good will,and love on earth!” Dear little children, ring, I pray, Sweet bells in some lonely heart that day. AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS A Divorced Husband and Wife Reunited. Mr Jolm Walrave,a, the lieaijfc' binder t>f Hie* Ti inefpißW fttfun/p yesterday received Hie I itlmgft n< the reconciliation of Ids mother and I'alher, which affords one of the strangest stories that has ev er come under onr observation. The following are lh facts about as related by Mr. Walraven to our reporter: His lalher, Mr. Elijah Walra ven, enlisted in tlie Confederate army in 1863, as a private, at Ma rietta, Gu. 11 is family then con sisted of a beautiful young wife and three children. When lie returned home at the close of the war his wife and Ihree children were not to be found. J 1 e learned that she had been persuaded,* when the Federals occupied that country, that her safety was in going North. For some time no tilings came of her wherabouts, when at last he heard that they were living in Kentucky. He was such an ardent rebel that lie could not go to them with any degree of safety, and his wife re fused to return to her deserted and devastated home, and from this disagreement ha instituted proceedings for divorce, which; was granted. Mr. Walraven short ly afterwards married a worthy; lady of Marietta, and his divoro-, ed wife, about the same time,was', joined iii marriage to a gentle-4 man residing near her Kentucky’ home, and a child resulted front both marriages. By some strange coincidence, both second hue band and wife died during the month of November,lß7B. During Ihe period elapsing between suit for divorce, 1805, and T&7S7 neither party had heard a word Irom the other. About the of tlie dealt) of bis sepfallier, Mr. Walraven left for Marietta to search for his father, not kti(j|- ing then that he had rsa t rieuja J second time, and after consideaa ble difficulty found him, although greatly changed during the tiiir teen years’ separation, but still strongin his altaclimept for his first family. From this visjt a corresponence sprung up between himself and his divorced kife, and in response to an invil;slon, Ii willed them lasi February. Jlis fiw.Mlove ret in nett with ri-ju- Vomjjß vigor, and lie sued again for vtjf’s ltanii, and as a rcsull i hoy J> on ine re-engaged. Mr WaLtfe'i shortly afiei wauls re lnra<¥N> his home it Kennesa.v. near Marietta, and according: le ugreAeiit his intended arrived lasi ijiur.-.day. She was met the ai dc polyy Mr. AValiavoiiv who hail the 1 lease ready, and fhurlli wrl h (lie |-p cmiple were reunited, afle/Lu separation of eighteen yeavhfr Ch,illanooga Times. Equal and Uniform Taxation of Railroads CliuteVille Tobacco Leaf. TlUiieeenl decision of the Stt in regard to railway a***# aeiii* will increase the ! reVMe <>< cities and eounlies 1 ihrorirh which they pass. There ■is nt .-vnsible reatou why rail ) J nuuU'iojc-rty should not he as | ! like oilier realty. The j detsaion ol the courts is an .evi ' deice of liie truth that hut few , of tie members of the Tennessee Leslatre are conversant with ihcfL'onslitulion of their State. ThA'ona-litulion sets forth that ••iAthop iM.v shall be taxed ac coiwng l<> i*s value, that value to ttt ascertained in such manner a# ate Legislature shall direct, sojliat taxes shall be equal and un|oim throughout the State.’’ It |> not equal or nnilorm when lh*<sty is required to valuo (he property of railroads within ils limits upon a basis of the value of tl|e entire road. It is to be .i-Lj od coiinly and city an X will niakgfean effort to *c*es Melliem by the railroad com panics for several yJus past up on ilie„siiine basis they have adopted in assessing other real esiaSc. ' . NEWS ITEMS. ■ A number of Cincinnatiu'.is will settle in Rome. II;ilf of the business porlion ol was destroyed hv lire. A lodge of Knights of Honor is being instituted at Lumpkin. An election lias been ordered oii the fence question in Pike 'e|uly. tsl thirty.years the farmers in Georgia have about trebled in eiimber. It is rumored that the Atlanta rolling mill will be moved to feartei'sville. , Three little children were re cently poisoned in Savannah by eating china berries, ■* Jackson county farmers can (afford to. rai&e Shockley apples [for thirty cents per bushel. Georgia pines is taking the lead in woods for office furniture, hook cases and kindred purposes A prominent preacher of Han cock county tells the Sparta Times man that he had been able to collect only sixty-eight dollars of liis salary this year, up to dale. W. G. Braddy, of Glascock, haR a gourd-vine on liis place that has twenty or thirty gourds that will hold, each, an average of one-half bushel of grain. Solicitor General Womack, of the Flint Circuit, tells the Hen ry County Weekly that he lias issued over five hundred true bills in that circuit since January first. The New England visitors to (he Atlanta Colton Exposition are of the opinion that cotton manufacture botli North and South, will be greatly benefited by tho unparalleled display made. J Ih® Oglelhrope Echo reports ; that almost every cotton field in 1 hat section stilt has quite a quantity ol the staple m it, and it thinks that Oglelhrope will make considerably more than was counted on It also lives in hope that next year Oglelhrope will raise al least very near all iliecorn, meat and small grain iiei’cssiU'X to do her. On liie subject ol killing’ pmc" limber by the turpentine indus iry, the WorlUKlar says: ‘‘lt is eir .neous to suppose that the process of extracting t input tine from the trees will not eventual ly kill them. A few days since in passing Tills old lurptntine farm, we noticed that nearly il not quite hall of the trees were dead, while those yet alive bore a sickly appearance. The old turpentine farms on the dull road are, in many instances, for esls of dead limber, and only fil for agricultural purposes- With some the belief obtains that box ing trees does not injure them. As well might it be said that drawing blood trout a man does not weaken him. Twenty years lienee the pine forests of the wiregrass belt will either be con verted into lumber or into one vast “deadning.’ 1 lien, as here tofore, our prosperity as a peo pie vvill depend upon the culliva tion of the soil, This is an im port ant subject, and one which our people should not lose sight of in the rush for the ‘big money’ to be made in the timber and turpentine business.” OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT Of Guiteau an/the Imbecility of 1 ' the Court. Washington special to the Cincinnati Gazette. A friend <-f President G.nfi Id. who watched with him in that terrible period from July 2 to September 19, said today, with a great deal of Pino tion : “The scandals cf the Guiteau trial almost iquul the horror of the crime.” It is difficult to witness or read the daily proceed ngs of the trial without a shudd r. The scenes in the court room are without pr-ccdei.ce in the history of jurisprudence. The Amer ican peopl--, w-.io watched the bulletin boards for three painful summer moths, doubiless presumed that the trial of the assassin who committed the dia bolical crime would be attended with great solemnity. There is a vast au dience that visits a circus, in which Gtiiti-au is a distinguished clown. The President’s assassin is the central fig ure of a grinning assemb'y. lie takes people, court and prosecu tion into his confidence, and mak.s gritn jests about his alliance with the Deity. 11-has protested that he intended to be leading counsel in his own case. Hu is ui re than that. He usurps the func tion of judge. JI-- corrects and rebukes the wb uess s. He calls the lawyers to order Il gv. s directions to tbe court officials, lie patronizes the judge. He Constantly interrupts the proc* eding* to give h s owo views as to the sulfi cit ncy of the testimony w hich is pre seiited w ilh a view to prove his own in sanity. He is permitted to make twen ty speeches a jay to the court and jury for the purpose of scckiog to shield himself Irom to const quences of his own or.me. M> anwliile, the proscculion, of the emiuece of whose criminal lawyers we have beard so much, sit there, and fre quent y remonstrate, it is true, but the rem .nstrances arc made in a nerveless sort of way. The prosecution may be learned and able, but it lacks en.rgy, Guit.au c<,uld teach ;hem zeal, as he altempis to 'each the court and jury law. It is difficult to understand why the judge does not insist that Guiteau shall behave. Much is heard about the respect due to the law, and the duty that a great government owes to itse.f to protect the worthless life of the ma licious villain, Guiteau, when in transit from the jail to the court room. Yet the orderly souse of producedure in a court ot justice is each day disre carded and the dignity and authority of the court itself is defied hy tbo turbu lent insolence of this assassin. Scenes are periui'teii at the trial of the l’resi- VOL. VI. Ml 44. dent s murdt rer which would not be allowed in the justice's court at the trial of a c hicken thief. Judge Cox is an alio and just judge, but ought not 'o be powerless to enforce order, and ought not to acknowledge his inability tocninpol the iniseiabie er minal in the dock t- respect the dignity of the court. "guiteau. The trial of ih is insolent mnr- IVbTrf Kf itiglon. It is to be honed, for de cency sake, that the forih of trial will bs conducted fairlyy quietly and speedily to a close and the red handed assassin given a week or two in which to prepare his mind for a tight rope performance, and that then lie will be taken out and decently hanged; his body hid in the potter’s field forever away from the sight of honorable men nnd women. A just Clod will do the rast. RAILROAD NEWS. Gainesville, Cartersville and Rome Railroad. Gainesville Southron.} A few yeurs ago u survey Was made' f r this ro-d Undor the direction of Col. IV Y. Sage, then superintendent of the Air line road, That gentleman was then auriguino of the success of this most important auxiliary to his roud, but tho financial embarrassment;, of ihe company prevented active op erations nnd the work was posiponed l unlit u moro favorabte time; and we' are glad to announoe that the time haw at lasto /me when it can be tnd will be const imt and. Tho Richmond and 1 D./nviJfe company are not only power ful but progressive, and are not sleep ing over a single opp riunlty to open up und develop every section th* n cuyabLuf sufcikJiinga branch from the matii,ilunk. Already they are pusn- iog $ gorousiy two lines through wes tern North Carolina to Tennessee one to Paint Rock and the other to Murphy and Ducklown, also the North western from Lula junction via Rabun Gap to Knoxville. All theso roads peuetratr a oountry of grand pos sibilities, but none of them arc as im portant a facte r in contributing freight and pus-age us the road from this city to Cartersville and Rome. But it was not ol the importance of lb 8 road that we propose to speak so much as the gratify ng fact that the road is a cer tainty in the near future. We have authority for making this statement,- but the friends of the enterprise should by no means relax their off.rts in se curing ail the aid and encouragement in their power, as it will be justly e peeled that those who are most bene fitted will contribute of their means tc secure those be: efi s. The country penetrated is richest in mineral re sources in the state, and oan’f be ex celled anywhere in agricultural pro ductions. We believe the statistics ; show that Cartervillc and Rome combined, ship as mch cotton and! other produce as Atlanta. The ter minal points are therefore by no means 1 less enviable than th- country trarers ed by tbe grandest enterprise yet con ceived lor the.future of our already prosperous city and c mimn.ify. Shot and Killed- Constitution, Nov., 2~>. Avery shocking and sad scene occurred at Capt. F. W. Hall’s store about three o’clock Ibis af ternoon. John Bell shot and in stantly killed John Blackstock, berth young men. The parents of Blackstock five in Dawson county, and those of Bell have recently moved here from Duck town A fight had occurred be tween Bell and a yonng man hy the name of Weaver during the day. After this Bell obtained a pistol and made threats, and al ternated lo shoot Weaver. Black stock was using his influence to keep him from doing the act, and bad been successful for a time, but finally Bell became offended with him and shot him without provocation, the ball passing near the heart, from which he expired in twenty minutes, seeing the ex citement at the time Bell made his escape to the woods. Whisky is the cause.