Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE ELM JA Y C OIIRIE R, L. B. WREER, Editor* and ) T. B.KIRBY, Publishers. \ ELLIJAY COURIER. Pulished Every Thursday , —by— GREER & KIRBY, Office in the Court-house. |CB~The following rates amt r. les are universal anil imperative, and admit of no exception RATES oV SUBSCTII’TIOX ONE YEAR, CASH §1.50 SIX MONTHS, 75 THREE MONTHS 40 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square one insertion - - - - SI.OO Each subsequent insertion - - - .30 One square one year ------ 10.00 Two squares one year ----- 20.00 Quarter coin 1 none year - - - - 25.00 Half column one year ----- 45.00 One column one year* ----- so.oo Ten lines one ineh,< oiutitu'era square. Notices 111110112 local reading matter.2o cents per line for first insertion, and 15 cents lor each subsequent insertyin. Local notices following reading matter, 10 cents per line for the first insertion, and 5 cents per line for each suhequeut insertion. Cards written in the interest of individ uals will he charged for at the rate of b cents per line. Yearly advertisers will he allowed one change without extra charge. GENERAL DIRECTORY TJWN COUNCIL. M. O. Bates, J. W. Ilipp, G. 11. Ban dell. M. J. Mears, T. J. Long. M. G. Bates, President; J. W. Ilipp, Secreta ry ;‘M. J. Means, Treasurer: G. 11. llan- Uelf, Marshal. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. ('. Allen. Ordinary. L. M. Greer, Clerk Superior Court. 11. M. Brannett, Sheriff. Ji. L. Co.';. Deputy Sheriff. T. W. Cruigo, Tax Uiceiver. G. W. Gates, Tax Collector. •lames A. Cai nes. Surveyor. G. F. Smith, Coroner, \V. F. Hill, School Commissioner. O RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Baptist Oilmen --Every second Satur day and Sunday, by Rev. W. A. Eilis. Methodist Exiscopai. Ciickoh —Eveiy first Sunday and Saturday before, by Rev. S. I*. Brokaw. Methodist Episcopal Chcroh, Sopth Every fourth Sunday and Saturday before, liy Rev. EngLud V O FRATERNAL RECORD. Oak Bowxiiv Lodge,No. 81, F.'. A.;. M, -—Meets first Friday in each mouth. N L. Os' orn, W M. J. F. t hastain, S. A. A. Brndlev, J. W. J P. Gold), Trea-urer. \V. W. Roberts, I ylor. D. Garrcn, Secretary. J. C. ALLEN, Attorney at Law , ELLIJAY, UA. WILL practice in the Superior Courts of the Blue Ridge Circuit. Prompt at tention given to all business entrusted to his care. THOMAS F- GREER. Attorney at Law, ELLIJAY, GA. W ILL practice in the Superior Courts of the Blue Ridge and Cherokee Circuits, and in the Supreme Coat tof Georgia. Also, in the United States Couits in Atlanta. Will give special attention to the purchase and sale of-all kinds of real estate and and litigation. EDFE WALDO TSORHTOH, D. D. S. !!;> CALHOUN, GEORGIA. WILL visit fillijay ami Morganton at Imth the Spring and Fall term ot the Su perior Court and oftener by special con tract when sufficient*work is guaranteed to justify me iu making the visit. Ad dress us above. niay 21-ly. Jno S, Young, WIIH SOFORD, CHAMBERLAIN S ALBERS, WHOLESALE AND MANUFACTUItIXO I>32UG GISTS, Knoxville, Tenn. July 21-3 in. EXCHANGE HOTEL. G- W. RADCLIFF, Propr'etor. Rates of Board *2.00 per day: single lmul, 50 eent. I aide always supplied with the Lest the market affords. Could We Tel!. Could we tell wliat’s best, my neighbor, In the world we’re passing through— How to manage well and wisely All the tasiis e have to do— Could we see life’s snares ami pitfalls, Could we count its many snares, Should we happier he than meeting, As we do, Fate unawares ? Could we tell, my friend and neighbor, Wlmt there was for 11s in store— W hether riches and abundance, Or the lean olf at the door— Could we foresee hours of anguish, Every ache and every pain. Would not life loose half its sweetne s ? Would not pleasure be in vain ? Walking blindly through the shadows. Now and then a cheering ray, Hope and Faith our shield and buckler, Is for us the better way. By and by the mist will vanish, By and by the shadows glide, Letting in the light of wisdom When we reach the other side. —Star Spangled Banner. BILL ARP’S LETTER, In Which He Considers Things in Atlanta Constitution. Chrislmas is at liancf, ami ho winter to speak of yet ; no cold rains or howling Winds ; no heavy drains upon the farmer’s small slote of corn and provender. Providence is kind, not withstand ing the short crops, and our peo pie are hopeful of getting through the winter and starling anew at planting time. Poor people saw a hard stuuggle ahead, and the good man was gloomy and sad when he thought of the lack of means to keep wife and children from want and the wolf from the door. The poor get more sympathy than help, and have long since learned to. do without when they cannot Tv r Merchants and guano. men don’t know what contending forces have worked noon the farmer’s mind and what sacri (ice of comfort he has had to make to pay for advances —how he has got to pinch himself and his family, and even his stock, to struggle through the winter that is yet to come. But after all there seems lo he a deliverance not counted on, for here are the iron works and manganeese works and the car factory and Uie saw mills and the new rail roads that want-labor and teams and pay good prices, and otir people are going to them from all directions. The car factory at Cartersville has one hundred and fifty hands and turns out thirty cars a week. Th& manga neese mines gives employment to as in .any* rtiore and there are hundreds at the furpaces. The thirty-four steam :,S£M§| mills in the county of Polk not less than five hundred hands. Mr. West’s railroad increYsqs its force all the time as it increases its business, and from ray observa tion is (he best paying road in the slate ann about the best man aged. Then there are the copper mines near Eockmart that help out amazingly, for they employ lots pf men and sixty mules, and havejust built the biggest sta ble I ever saw. Bu t. the biggest thing of all is Mr. Cole’s railroad from Rome to Atlanta, which feeds and pay's directly and indi recliy at least two thousand peo pie. Besides the grading that is going on there are scores of countrymen getting crossties and timber lor bridges and trestles and stone for culberts. All along the line I see the natives at work cutting stocks and hauling them. I hear the sound of a thousand axes cutting and hewing cross ties. I set* the humble farmers hauling them down steep hills and mountain sides where a wag on couidentgo. I asked Loomis, who is one of the contractors on the line, how those people were going lo get those ties up out of the wilderness, and he 6aid they was going to snig ’em down on a ‘‘A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.” 'IvLUJAY, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1881. blizzard. Loomis is a buckeye, and when 1 told him 1 reckon it was a lizzard lie said well it was a lizzard or a blizzard or a giz zard or some such contrivance. There is a power of money paid out every week by this company and it all comes from abroad, and all helps onr people. It will save their families from want and their stock from sale. I here never seen as much industry in this region as is now going on. and it comes in (he best time in the world, and 1 think we wrtl all be able to pull through better than wo anticipated. Cherokee Georgia is being checkered all over with manu facturing indu sides —developing her mineral £ \ires and her timber. These/Sttigs mixed up with successful farming will make this region the garden spot ot life slate —no fences, and less cotton and more grass and hav is bound to come. I don’t know anything about t lie tariff or what we aught lo about it. We are all gelling along pretty well as it stands, but somehow I can’t help thinking that the advalorem tax is the best. That is what the stale has got, and I doh’l see why the United Stales slioiildent have it too., I don’t believe in protecting or favoring any class for the consumers have lo suffer for it. I don’t want to hurt Mr. West. lie makes pig iron and gives employment to a great manp oeople but if I can buy a plow or a keg of nails or an ax n little cheaper from an English man than an American it looks like I ought to be allowed to do it. Our wagon makers used to charge us $125.00 for a pretty good wagon but Ihe yankees commenced selling us a better one for $lOO.OO, and we bought ’em and dried up our own ine-j chanicks and they went at some ot her business. Now, if tariff J&’ right in piineiule we ought to have put a tax 0f'525.00 on every yankee wagon that was brought here. Just so wilh western meat and corn. Now, if an English man will sell us as good a wagon for $75.00 and as good a ax for hall the price it looks like we ought lo be allowed to buy ’em. One time there was an old man who had and lots of grandchildren, and one of his boys was a shoe maker, and the old man said that all the other children should buy their shoes from Bob at two dollars a-'pair just to encourage him ami keep the money in the family. Every day there was some outsiders come knocking at the outside gate with just as good shoes at a dollar a pair, but still they all had lo buy from Bob and Bob gol rich off of his own kinfolks, and that’s ihe wav with the tariff. * *■ It is a good thing for Bob but mighty hard oti the rest of the family. In this portion' of the vineyard there are fifty consum ers to one manufacturer, and it seems to me the majority ought lo have the most consideration. Mr Young and Mr. Cogin, who run the Augusta and Columbus fScfories, say that the south can make cotton goods eight dollars a bale cheaper than the north, but the tariff enables the north to make ten per cent, interest, while tbe south makes twenty. Now, if they will reduce the tariff the south can still make ten per cent and the north wonldent make anything, and so they would pull up stakes and come down here with their machinery, arid every steam and water povv er in this region would be dot ted with their factories, and that I is just what we wank We want more industry and more opportunities far our boys and our girls, and we want our ! co(loii worked up at home and t hat will give us cheaper goods (or ws wont liave to pay freight both'ways. They talk a great deal About a tariff lor revenue only. u I have never seen one yet that (.latentfcmve to l>e a tariff for protection ami I fever w 11. It is all a complicated piece of machinery fixed up by politicians to get|<> congress and they stay there and the p4r consumers don’t know anything about It. Jesso. In the good old honest days vHien masses of the poo pie made nearljfeveiytiiing at home it did’nt matter so mi, but it dot's now. I was a think ing WwfenPkys when we used to wear cull#}®! and liome-maue shoes and and dn>nk water out of a clean gdtml'instead of a 6ilver dipper, and sat in thJ.plU*bottom chairs—the best chair in tUt^woild —and lived in houses we were not afraid of. I do hate to be afraid of a hotisoyrvhen I go in it. I was thinking of the tidies wheu the boys went to mill and chopped t!ie fire-aood and wore home made galluses and made halls out of old ruhba shoes and played marbles without fudging and called up doodle hugs out of their teand holes. The boys now are too smart for the like of that. They know more than we know, and by the time they are grown they know it all and.quit. Jess so. But still 1 am hopeful. There is always some good seed in the basket, and may be the old slock wont run out entire ly- 4 And now, Air. Kditor, let me say adien to you and your readers. Adieu for a sea son. f 1 don’t know how long, but I linvc long suspected I was writing too much— keeping my pen before the people too long-f-Wearying them with vagaries that were crude and ill digested with thoughts that j’ere not new and advice that was not needed, all of which smacks of varie ty anti concert, from which may the good Lortf deliver me. Id parting with you, let EH t say thanks for your patience, your court sy to me and to my pen, and to say, besides, that if 1 have ever iecn unkindly personal to any one in my > r ndom letters, and he is aggrieved, I him for not forgiving me. Yours, Bim. A bp. , 4 - THE PRESS^ _ Chr|ktinn Index.] flp. Tnlinage, a few days ago, detihrered one of liis unique dis courses, taking for his subject ilie modern newspaper press. Lie seems to liave studied the suject to some purpose, lie gives vent lo several peculiar atul a few original opinions concerning the press, (one of Ihe most powerful literary and moral agencies of modern times,) which will not by many; still the discourse is quite interesting and entertaining. Qne of the lexis taken for his discourse was: ‘‘And the wheels were full of eyes.’ 5 lie said : but the printing presses have ail their wheels full of eyes? All-other wheels are blind. The manufacture’s wheel sometimes over the operative fatigued in every nerve and muscle and bone, and sees nothing. But the newspaper press has sharp eyes, keen eyes, eyes that look up and dmvn, far sighted and near sight edyithat lake in the next street antfthe next hemisphere; eyes of criticism, eyes of investigation, eyes that sparkle with health, eyes glaring with indignation, eyes tender and loving, eyes frowning and suspicious, eyes of hope, blue eyes, black eyes,green eyes, sore eyes, historical eyes, literary eyes, ecclesiastical eyes> eyes of all sorts.” Ur. Talmage’s second text was, “For all the Athenians and siraii gers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or hear some new thing.” Thw speaker said : “That text gives cry to the world for a news paper. In proportion as men be come wise they become inquisi tive, not about small tilings, but about greater things. The great question thunders, ‘What is the news?’ There is a newspaper in I’ekiu, China, that has been pub Jisled every week for a thousand year*, printed on silk. Koino an* swered the question with the Ac ta Diurna, France answered it when her physicians wrote out the news for patients. England answered it by publishing an ac count of the Spanish Armada, and its newspaper press went on increasing until the battle of Wa terloo, which decided the desti nits of nations, of Europe, was chronicled in a description of a third of a column ! America an swered Ihe question when Ben jamin Harris published the first weekly newspaper,entitled “Pub lic Occurrences,’' in Boston, in 1690. The first American daily newspaper was published in Phil adelphia, in 1784, entitled “The American Daiiy Advertiser.” I wjll give you the genealogical tree of the newspaper: The Ad am was the circular : the circular 'begat the pamphlet; the pam phlet. begat the quarterly ; ihe quarterly begat the monthly ; the monthly begat ihe semi monthly; the sc mi monthly b°- gat the weekly ; the weekly be gat the semi weekly; the semi weekly begat the daily. Alas, through what a struggle it came to its present development! As soon as it began to demonstrate its power, superstition and tyran ny shackeled it. There is nothing that despotism so much fears aB the printing press. It lias too many eyes, liussia, which, con sidering all the circumstances, is the meanest and most cruel des pot ism on earth lo day, keeps ihe printing press under severe espi onage. A great writer in the south of Europe declared that the King of Naples had made it unsafe for him to write on any subject but natural history. Au stria could nol bear Kossuth’s journalistic pen plied lor the re demption of Hungray. Napoleon L, wanting to keep his iron heel on the neck of the nations, said that a newspaper was a regent of kings, and that the only safe place lo keep an editor in was a prison. “But the great battles of free dom of Hie press were f'ouelit in the court rooms of England and the United St ite. One was when Ershine made his great speech on behalf of the freedom to publish ‘Paine’s Rights of Man’ in England. These battles were the Marathon and Thermopylae of the fight which determined that the printing press was not to be given over to handcuffs and hobbles of political despotism. Thomas Jefferson said : ‘lf I had to ciioose between a Government without newspaper and newspa pers without Governments, I would employ the latter.’ “Slung by some fabrication in print, we talk of the unbridled press. Onr new book is ground up by unjust criticism, and we talk of the unfair press. Through some indistinctness of our utter ance we are reported as saying just the opposite of what we did say, and we talk of the blunder ing press. We take up a news paper with social scandall or a case of divorce, and we talk of the filthy and scurrilous press. But this morning I address you on a subject yon have never heard presented—the immeasur able blessing ot a good news paper. Thank God that their wheels are full of eyes! [ give you this overwhelming statistic: that in the year 1870 the number of copies ot literary and political newspapers published in this couulry was 1,500,000,000! What church, what reformers, what Christian man,can disregard these things? I tell you, my friends, that a good newspaper is the grandest blessing that God has given to the people of this cen tury—lhe grandest temporal , blessing. The theory is abroad . VOL. VI. NO. 46. that everybody can make a new#, paper, with the aid of a capitaliat. Ihe lac t is that fortunes are swallowed up every year in the vain effort to establish newspa peis. The large papers swallow up ihe small ones The big whale eats about fifty minnows. We have 1 000 dailies and weeklies m the United States and Canadas, and only thirty-six are a half century old. The average life of a newspaper is about five years. Most of them die of cholera i fan turn, It i 8 high time t j lat - fc was understood that the success ful way to sink a fortune, and keep it sunk, is to start a news paper A man with an idea starts the “Universal Gazette” or “Mil lennium Advocate.” Finally the money is all spent, and the sub scribers wonder why their papers do not come. Lei me tell you 1 hat ii \ou have an idea, either moral, social, political, or reli gious, you had better charge on t e world through the colums already established. If you can’t climb your own back yard fence, don’t try the Matterhorn. If you can t sail a sioop, don’t try to navigate the Great Eastern. To publish a newspaper requires the skill, precision, vigilance, strate gy, and boldness of a connnander in-chief. lo edit a newspaper one needs to be a statesman, a geographer, a statistician, and so far as all acquisitions are con cerned, encyclopedic! ‘Our newspapers arc repositories of knowledge and are constantly lifting the people into the sun light. Newspaper k noledge makes up the structure of the world’s heart and brain, and decides the fate of our churches and of nations. Ad.- nms, Jefferson, Franklin. Clinton, all had their hands 00 tlie printing press. Most of the good books of the day have come out in periodicals. Macaulay’s essays Carlyle’s essays, Buskin’s, Talfourd’s, and others have first appeared in periodicals. It one should sec iu a life nothing in the way of literature but Ihe Bible, Shakes pcave, a dictionary, and a good newspaper be would be fitted for all the duties of this life and for the opening of the next. A good newspaper is a mirror of life as it is. Complaints nre made because the evil ia as well as the good. But a news paper that merely pvesen's the fair and beautiful side of society is a misrepresen tation. If children come into the world’s active life and find it different front what they had believed, they will be incompe tent for the struggle. Complaint is some" times made that sin is set np in great primor type and righteousness in nonpareil. Silt is loathsome ; make it so. A great improvement in newspapers would be to drop their impersonality. It would add potency to articles to see articles signed. It seems to me that no honorable man would write an article that he would be ashamed to put bis name to. What is a private citizen to do when a misrepresen tation is multiplied 20,000 orJSO,OOO times? A wrong done a man’s character in a newspaper is more virulent then one done m private life. It seems to me that it would be a great advantage to the litera lure of this couulry, if men could get the credit for the good they write, aad be held responsible for the evil they write Another improvemena would be a univer sity education for journalists, as for other ptofessions. No profession requires more culture aud education than that of jour nalism. There must be editorial profes sorates in our colleges. “The newspapers serve an important function as the chronicless of passing events. They describe for the benefit of future historians all events-ecclesiastical, literary, social, political, international, hemispherical. They are the leservoirs of hsitory. They are also a blessing in ibeir evangelizing influences. The Christian newspaper will be the right wing of the apocalyptic angel. She cylinders of the Christian printing press, will be the front wheels of the Lord’s chariot. The music that it makes I mark not in diminuendo but iu crescendo 1” - A story conies from the Pacific coast that a woman, wlu-n setting a ben, broke one of the eggs but mended it with court piaster. At the appropriate time a little chicken eaiuc from that identical egg, but it was cross eyed.