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THE ELLIJAY COURIER. 1.. 11. OltKKIt, Kit Hurt and) T. .KIUHV v KnWWtert.l ELLIJAY COURIER. Puliahed JSVery Thursday, —ll v GREER & KIRBY Ollio hi (lie Conrl-hniisu. | B'Ttu> fiilWwhiir rti’ ami mlo* nro uuivfimil mill lno.©rtlv*, uU iidnilt <>t no t>*csl>ttim iiatks ifr sniscTirniiN ■ONE YR.VIt, CASH I.W SIX MONTHS. Tf TIIItSK MONTHS, 40 MATES UK AOVKIiI'ISISIi. Oho squNrsoMslitsertloii • ... * 1.00 Kih'li ul*tM|neiit tusertlon - * • .’*U Oue outs .roiir hJ-00 Two ntjutirtik otto .v*ur •••• - uo.oo uuurtvr ewlu t a one year .... 2.VUO ilwiro>)niiiii mio your - - ■ • • W.OO om> column imo your • - - - • w.uo Ton llnon imo liioh.oon*tltiitern n|iinro. Notice* umnin; Inoiil romlliii.’ iiiutior.Sii oontii |>cr lino An - firitt lunortltii. mill lf> touts lor oitoh •ul.uetiusnt Inoortiiln. 1,00111 not loo* following resiling mu I ter, ttuonU nor lino lor ilio flint Insertion, suit Scsnu per Une for vuoli Niii<oi|iint liuio't.nu written In the Interest of Individ net* will lie cliurges for ul the rnte of s cents tier line. .... , Toarlv advertisers will he allowed one tu it go Without uxirn olnirgo. GKNEIIAL DIUKCrOItV ~t7\VN t pl’Ni H.. ’ M, 0. Wuti *. a \V. mini, II • lists dell. M, .1. Mourn, T. J. hottfe M. O. llntet, president| J. HIM*. - S , ec 'VJ ,t “- ryi-jT. J. Jlmiiis Troueuror: U. 11. Uun tie if. Murehnl. couxiiY ortttifcns. J.Cj Alien, Ordinary. . . 4 L. Clerk superior Court. M. M.llrum.ett. sucrlff. 11, Cox, Peiiuty Xliorlß. T. W. Crl*o, T* Htwlvfr. ti. W. Oat**, ‘l'll* Collector. Jaute A.caruen, Surveyor. U. r. Smith, Coroner, ' W. K. 11111, Coramloloiirr. * w.O— -yjMLIUiOLS teKHVII K*. 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' n, 'S, - *GEOR Gi A. perlor Court nml onener bv apodal eon. tract when auffldent work la gimrunteetl mi JtiMtiry me In making tbo visit- Ad- above. may 81-lf. Jno. S, Young, WIIH SANFORD, CHAMBERUW l ALBERS, WIOLIUMI AND MAMtirAOTOniNU drug gists, Knoxville, Tenn. July Mm. EXCHANGE" HOTEf, <4,. . _,,*..** _■ •. W. BADOidT .to. .MZrUs&t. \ fitb tit* bert the market ttfard*. im n n |L 111111 I H mum’iluiui rviwf.cumewo* yI3HB 111 ’f lo " •UUKtuif In 1 M I'l B l.ml irrdinorT nuo intdi^i. J HHMMI *£Lff2a NEW RICH BLOOD! I'd mo nit’ Purgalito rillt mnltc New lllcli Jllirml, nml will completely change the Wood In tliocutlrosvtom In throe iroutlm. Anrpcrxon who will InUo 1 pill enclmlglit from Ito 13 weeks tuny lie l-eitorod toiinmul lieultti, if inch is tiring bo jiomhlo. Sent In' mull for 8 letter elnnipi. J, H. J (111 \ SOS as CO., Hutton, Matt., form, rh, lltmtjor, JT., AGENTS WANTED tin If Mu clt Inc ever Invented Will kimapnltof •tucking*. witli Hi:Kla ami TOE complete, in aOmuiHtr* It will nifto knit a (treat variety 01 fancy work fr which there It always a ready market Sen t lor circular ami term* toAhe Twombly Hulttiuft Machine <'o.. 400 WAManawn St Mu ;. gRWK' S IRON OTTERS im OWN’S IRON BITTERS ere e certain onro tor all dlaoaaea requiring a complete tonic; espe cially Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Inter* mittent Povora, Want of Appetite, hoes of Strength, Imok. of Energy, etc. BariolicH the blood, atrength * ens the muscles, Mid gives new Uto to the nerves. Acts like a charm on the dlgesUvo organs, removing all dyspeptic symptoms, .•/ such os tasting the tood, Belching, Beat in the Stomach, lleartbnrn, oto. The- only Iron Preparation that will pot blacken tbe teeth or give headache. Sold by all Drug gists at SI,OO a bottle. • BROWN CHEMICAL 00. Baltimore, Md. *M tfcftt 4)1 I’M imur, *r, Mri, U Cmon Cos. ut U„ vwri rM U>„ ,o<l •*, ™i on „rpw. BEWARE OK IMITATION*. ’ ' * ' ‘ 'fv >jgPjpWKL V-’v ■ v ~\ ■ ■ r |-’fe- - ■ - -■ TO FARMERS , r *5, and THRESHERMEN. - irnhl If. you .fast to toy nrulm. ■BfiC. ('lot-cr l/n(l<r,. floret foKer, or M|Wt ('Ulior I’orUhla orlr.o- to uh tor thiMnj[. *BRBHKbH* Bl'lVie lht°Cktlpi,f:’ For Prli, .mTsWsI .Jht' will Illtrtd_Pmphl,tri. . tIEMgH, twmt free) write to The At-i rwjS EaoMMIMII favao* Courrijrr, Menefleld. a - ABBOZetTTXXeT AXD ImnnrsJßWrarb Beds is of a •tightly dirly White color. II nay F£sssh®ft',f jSri'n wlu Nso *ht vonr Woktng Seda Is m— # .- THE CIANT g SAW MACHINE. • c ”*r ASSweftSitfrtpUlirAlTMlHM!! ***“ •it tsrewenPwps, cfsetomn. % “A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its ’YeiSt Concerns/* ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1882. Passing—Pawing, [The following pretty little poem, which wc llnd in the ltnleigb Farmer mid Me chanic, is from the pen of General Itohert M. Vance, and was written on a postal card aboard of the last mail train going south.] Our life is like a mountain si roam Whose surging waters know no rest, Hv hill uud plait) they flash aud gleam Till gather’d on the oceans breast. Sometimes in culm, sometimes in storm, Now white with wrath, now fleck’d With foam, Then, imag'd in the rainbow's form, Tney onward move to find a home. Sometimes tlieii song in sweet and low, SomelintVn'lis sail like funeral dirge; And tlien they scarcely seem to go, Hut steal along the woodland verge. lint oil! at length they shout with glee ! Old ocean’s roar break ou each ear ; With joy they cry “the sea, the scu”— Our rest will be forever here. When In! the sunlieaiu, swift nnd true, .Shall kiss them from old Neptune's rod, And fogs and mist, o'er fields of blue, Shull hear them buck through clouds, to Clod. Much is our life, asleep; awake, Sometimes in smiles, sometimes iu fears ; Sometimes sweet hope its flight shall take, And leave ns pain and grief, aiid tears. Sometimes the heart beats low and faint, As troubles round our path increase, And sin, and care, and earthly taint Hide from our view the bow of ia*ace. We look ahead and joyful greet Some “spot of green,” just on before, And fondly dream our tired feet Wilt nestle there forevermore, Alas 1 when near the close of day, We reach wlmt seem’d the spot so fair, We find it farther still away— Mi rag'd upon the evening air. This much we know—each pulse that bents. EncL step we take beside the shore ; Each day, each hour, the Irav’ler greets Shalt leave him less than were before. So, when, with us, the day is done, Wlien sight is dim, when life Is pa it, May ‘dial, through his beloved Sou, flring us to rest with Him at last. FLANK ’EM I Quarreling over the protecto rate of the proposed Darien can al is like fighting over an ab> slractibn. Yet both sides to the controversy show signs ot stub bornees—two or three Eupopean oowers insisting-on a joint Amer ican ami European protectorate, and the United States contend ing for an exclusive American protectorate. It is dilficult to tell how the question will be set tled, but it would be curious in deed, if European capital, super intendence and energy should accomplish the great work and then surrender the entire control of it to I lie United States. The bill inlrodu ed by senator Vest, of Missouri, proposes aid lo another gigantic enterprise, which, if successful, would make the United States entirely inde pendent of the Panama canal, nnd give it, in connection with Mexico alone, a control in which noEuropoan power could claim any right of participation. It would be a flanking movement no less effect than sagacious. We allude to the bill to afford govornment aid to Capt. Eads’ proposed ship railroad across the isthmus of Teliuautepec. This isthmus is in Mexico, and is at lea6t nine hundred miles north of Darien. Fully eighteen hundred miles of navigation would be saved by crossing the continent a t that point, by vessels sailing from our Atlantic ports for any Pacific port north of the 16th de gree of latitude, or for Asiatic ports. The dangers of naviga CHEMICALLY TUBE. tiou near Cuba and the Floaida straits would be avoided, as well as lit* perils to health in going as far south as the equator. In case of trouble, either domestic or with-a foreign power, our gov ernment eould send troops and supplies to the Pacific coast in ihuch Iras time than it could by way of Panama. Then it would not ouly have the exclnaived pro tectorate, but it would have means of anticipating or repell ing European possession, which it could not well possess as to the Panama canal—the approaches by sea to I lie Tehuantepec isllimu being narrow and easily guarded by a nation as proximate as the United Stales. We say liiuf these advantages would be secured if I lie project should be successful. If propos ed by a visionary or untried man, we might well distrust it on ac count of its novelty. But Capt. Kads hasdemoiistiated his sagac ity and his scientific judgment in regad to kindred works by the snesess of ins jetty sysisin. The late message of tile preident bear*- testimony to his skill and capaci iy in lhat great achievement, lie is not a man whose porjects in ty ho laughed at as impracticable because they are novel. Besides, be only asks for aid when he shall demonstrate the feasibility of bis enterprise, just as lie did in regard to the jetties. lie pro poses a work that would do more lo solve in a satisfactory manner the problem how lo restore the prosperity of the .American ship ping interests than any aid that can be given lo it in any other shape. It would be far wiser and more profitable lo aid (Japt. Eads in testing the practicability of bis ship railroad Ilian lo quartet with and perhaps fight Europen powers about the protectorate ol the Panama canal.— Home Cou rier. Writing for the Press. There are thousands of young folks who long to write lor the papers and get well paid for it. From the first they think they ought to receive three or four dollars a column, valuing tlieii attempts by tbe labor expended upon them rather than by their capacity for pleasing the public. Now to get handsomely paid one must write handsomely ; to write handsomely one must know what the public knows,or would like to anil be able to tell il in such a style that the public will be pager lo bear it. There are 'hou samls who long to write, but have no special aptitude or prepara tion or resource for writing, just as there are thousimis who long to bo rich, bill cannot compass their desires in lhat direction, nnd thousands who long to be beautiful, and vainly exhaust fashion, cosmetics, corsets, and all that in the attempt. Mean time, Uto,-a who are bound to succeed at writing and “have it in them” to succeed, will keep on steadily and quietly at their books and pens, climbing tip slowly, it mav be, but steadily, to place and pay, first deserving success and than attaining it— just as men grow rich by small accreations at first and larger ac creations afterward. There is an immense reading public, and there must be an immense army of writers to supply the demand. As education and intelligence advance, the demands on writers for higher and higher grades of literary work and newspaper work, will advance, and the more difficult it will be to fill the high est place of honor and emolument in the world whereof the pen is the power. But the lists areopen to, and sniuo must surely suc ceed. Why not you as, well as another? -- ....... Clean Newspapers. Boston Herald. 1 There is a growing feeling In every healthy community against the journals who make it their special object to minister t* per verted; taste by seeking out and serving up in seductive form dis gusting scandal and licentious revelations. There is good rea son to believe that the clean newspaper is more highly prised to day than it was four or live ye*rs ago. It is also safe to pre dict that, as the people in ail ranks of life, who wish' to pio tect their own families from eon- j tnwinatiftn, become more con scious of the permcioss influence of a certain class of journals eall- ed “enterprising,” because they are ambitious to serve ‘up dirly scandals, they will be careful to see that the journals they per mit to be read in the family cir cle are of Ibe class that never forget the proprieties of life. Already men and women of re finement and healthy morals have had their attention called lo the pernicious influence of bid literature, and have made commendable efforts to counter act the same by causing the sound literature lo be published and sold at popular prices. These efforts are working a silent but sure revolution. The sickly sen timental story paper, and wild ranger and pirate story book, are slowly yielding the field to wor thier claimants. To the piaise of the decent pa per it may be said that where it has a place in the family, and has been read for years by the young and old, it has developed such a healthy tone and such a discrimi nating taste that the literature of the slums has no admirers. For tunately the number of such families is increasing in the land and as they increase the journal that devotes itself to sickning revelations of immorality will be compelled to find its supporters solely among those classes that practice vice or are ambitious lo learn to follow such wavs. Westminister Abbey. The vastbeamsof tlie day were faintly streaming through the painted windows above me; the lower part of the abbey are wrapped in the obscurity of the twilight. The chapels and aisles grew darker and darker. The ef figies of the kings faded into shadows?; the marble figures of the monuments assumed strange shapes in the uncertain light; the evening breeze crept through the aisles like breath of the cold grave; and even the distant foot fall of a verger, traversing the Poet's Corner, had something strange and dreary in its sound. I slowly relraced mv morning’s walk, and as 1 passed out at the postals of the cloisters, the door,, closing with a jarting noise be hind me, filled the whole build ing with echoes. I endeavored to form some arrangement in my mind of the objects I had been contemplating, but found they were already fallen into indis tinctness and confusion. Karnes, inscriptions, trophies, had all be come confounded, in tuy recol lection, though 1 had scarcely taken my foot Iroin off the thresh old. What, thought I, is this vast assemblage of sepulchres but a treifsury of humiliation ; a huge pile of reiterated humifies on the emptiness of renown and the eer tainty of oblivion l * # is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engross eJ by the story of the present to think of the characters and anec dotes that give interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily' for gotten. The idle of to day push es the heroe of yesterday, out of our recollection: and win, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to morrow. What is the secu rity of a tomb, or the perpetuity of an embalmment f The remains of Alexander the Great have been scattered to the wind, and his empty sarcophagus is now the mere edriosity of the muesura. *lhe Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time bath spared,; avarice now consunvetlr, Mez r aim ! cures wounds, and Phoraoh is J sold for balsams.'’ What theu i$ to insure this pile which now lowers above me from sharing the fate of mightier mausoleums? The time must come when its gilded vaults, which now spring VOL VI. NO. 48. so loftily, shall lie in rubbish be neath the feel ; when, instead of the sound of melody and praise, the wind shall whistle through the proken arches, and the owl hoot from the shattered tower J when the gairish stimbeam shall brake into these gloomy maiicioiio of the ivy twine around the fallen column, and the fox glove hang its blossoms about the nameless urn, as if in mock erv of the dead. Thus man pass es away ; his name perishes from record and recollection; his his tory is as a tale that is told and his very monument becomes a ruin. JTi ishiuyton Irving. The Painted Caveiof Teias. Mr. J. Van Wie informs tire re porter of tbe San Antonio Ex press that his grading fore's on the Mexican extension of Sunset railway are now a. Paint ed Cave, on Devil’s rive.-, or about two miles beyound. There are three caves at this locality, all ol which are painted, the fig ures being buffaloes, bears, Indi ans with bows and arr-ws in warlike attiudes, Indians mount ed on the chase, squaws, ect. I’lie caves have boen tattooed entirely within, and many of these figures are still in a good state of preservation. This work was done by the red men in years long gone by, as the oldest white citizens remember tiiese paintings, and say tjiey look very much now as they appeared thir ty and forty years ago. indicn' : - the great age cf the pair.'. : . -. ... Mr. Van \\ ie has occupied one of these caves for kitchen and diningroom purposes, it is about forty feet long and ten feet wide. Jt is approached by climbing a hill, when the cave is entered from Hie side hill. Its mouth ie covered by clusters of vines pendent from the branches and boughs of a clump of blackberry trees. In the top of the cavcris a hole extending to the surface, through winch Mr. Van Wie has ; run two stove pipes. Abiotlier | cave still, its shape being round, a capacity to hold seventy or ■ eishty people, is used for storage ’ purposes. The third cave opens in a solhl rock bluff, being about six feet in diameter at the mouth, and extends backward a distance of about one hundred, and fifty feet. The London Telegraph- of a recent date, says : Thirty human bones hav just beer. landed at Bristol irom Turkey. Picked up in the immediate neighborhood of Plevna, carted thence to Kodosto, they rrow go lo enrich English soit To those who do not give to snch a matter much consideration,- it miry be 1 well lo mention that thirty tons of bones mean the skeletons of 30,000 men. They do not include, probably, many stones or pieces of wood, but in all likelihood are the actaal bones of the .llant men who, from the inside aud the outside of the wonderful earthworks which Osman Pasha made, ’ fought as hard as they could for the nations to which they belonged. The battles of September 1877, alone contribu ted nearly all Ibis number of skeletons; but there wero other terrible fights in July and August,- and. again, when the dace sur rendered. Each contest flourished its quota of bones, and of these a lavge proportion now comes to England. It is appalling lo think what was the actual loss of hu man life in the space between the Dauube and the -Efean. t : u: one thing is certain ; the thirty tons of skeletons landed at Bristol do root at all adequately repre sent the slaughter tfi<* toqk place